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Debt Rattle September 13 2024

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• How to Steal an Election: GOP Exposes Dems’ Playbook Ahead of 2024 Vote (Sp.)
• Will ‘Insane’ Biden Provoke World War III Before November Election? (Miles)
• Another Season Of Shutdown Theater Is Upon Us (ZH)
• Kamaflage: The Harris Policy Dump (Porter)
• Erdogan Demands Russia Must Return Crimea To Ukraine (ZH)
• Turkiye’s BRICS Bid: Strategic Shift or Diplomatic Leverage? (Delgen)
• 34 Countries Express Desire to Join BRICS in One Form or Another – Putin (Sp.)
• Polish FM Reveals Limits Of Support For Ukraine (RT)
• Roger Waters Prepared To Perform In Russia And Ukraine (RT)
• Everything Is Going To Plan – Zelensky (RT)
• Zelensky Accuses Brazil And China Of Colluding With Russia (RT)
• Zelensky Disappointed After Blinken Visit, Despite Getting $1.5 Billion More (ZH)
• Lavrov Ridicules ‘Divers On Little Boat’ Theory About Nord Stream Sabotage (RT)
• Olaf Scholz Has A Sudden Moment of Clarity About Russia (Amar)
• Ukrainian Diplomat Claims Peace Was Possible In 2022 (RT)

 

 

 

 

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“In order to hold on to power, Democrats have decided to steal the election. This plan requires the orchestration of belief among the voting public that Kamala is a strong candidate leading Trump in the polls. Thus, the polls are rigged for this purpose..”

• How to Steal an Election: GOP Exposes Dems’ Playbook Ahead of 2024 Vote (Sp.)

Republicans are waving a red flag over possible “election theft” ahead of the November vote. They draw attention to efforts to cancel ID checks and ballot verification, the hiring of predominantly Democratic observers in some counties, and apparent attempts to create loopholes allowing illegal aliens to vote. “Election theft has always been present in America,” US economist and former Reagan administration official Dr. Paul Craig Roberts wrote. “In the 19th century, a vote could be bought for 50 cents and a half pint of whiskey. But in the 21st century, organized vote theft is a big business.” The economist pointed out that “normally, it does not matter to the ruling establishment which candidate wins, because the establishment owns both candidates.” However, in 2016, 2020, and 2024, Donald Trump emerged as a player “outside the grip and control of the establishment. Therefore, to keep him out of office, vote fraud has been elevated to the fore,” as per the economist.

Conservatives argue that the Democratic Party has launched full-fledged lawfare against the Republican frontrunner ahead of the election. The former president has been charged with a total of 88 felony counts in four criminal investigations, and found guilty of 34 of them. He is routinely vilified in the US mainstream press, and was most recently subjected to unfair “fact-checking” by ABC News during his September 10 debate with Kamala Harris, Republicans say. Meanwhile, a silent battle over the 2024 election is already underway across the United States. Instead of improving the democratic procedure’s transparency, voting requirements have been loosened in recent decades, the pundit said. “There are many ways to exploit the loose voting requirements in the US,” Dr. Roberts wrote. “[In some states] an ID or proof of citizenship is not required in order to vote. Actual physical presence is not required to vote: it can be done through drop boxes on streets or mail-in ballots.

“Dead people still on voter rolls can be voted. People still on voter rolls who have moved out of the state can be voted. Voter registrations made when driver’s licenses are issued to illegal aliens can be voted.” As of April 2024, 36 states required some form of identification to cast a ballot. Of these states, 21 asked for photo ID, and 15 also accepted non-photo ID. The remaining 14 states and Washington, DC did not require voters to present identification in order to vote at polls on Election Day. For years, Democratic lawmakers have tried to ram “voting rights” legislation through Congress to water down or abolish election restrictions altogether. Democrats argue that strict ID rules and in-person voting, advocated by Republicans, prevent low income people, African Americans, and other minorities from casting their ballots.

What’s worse, the assumption that black Americans are less likely to have proper identification instruments established a protocol leading to the issuance of Federal Identification Papers to illegal aliens. According to Dr. Roberts, “it is still illegal federally for illegal aliens to vote, but some Democrat cities permit them to vote.” “The 3.6 million immigrant-invaders who cross the border into the US from Mexico each year are provided with federal IDs. These IDs allow states to issue them driver’s licenses. Today, the practice is for the states to register the person to whom a license is issued on the voting rolls,” according to the economist.

[..] According to Dr. Roberts, Kamala Harris’ approval rating is deliberately inflated by polls and corporate press by oversampling Democratic voters, especially in swing states. Conservative commentators believe that this is done in order to lay the groundwork for potential election theft and make her victory there look more plausible. “In order to hold on to power, Democrats have decided to steal the election. This plan requires the orchestration of belief among the voting public that Kamala is a strong candidate leading Trump in the polls. Thus, the polls are rigged for this purpose,” Dr. Roberts wrote.

He drew attention to the fact that in 2020, when Kamala Harris campaigned for the Democratic nomination for president, she had zero support and was immediately eliminated from the first round. During her four years as vice president, she is rated as one of the worst and least popular in history. “In less than one month the presstitute media elevated her from a non-entity to the favorite in the US presidential election,” he noted.

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“My fear is that [the United States] will try something really drastic like a false flag attack or maybe even a mini nuke,” said McGovern..”

• Will ‘Insane’ Biden Provoke World War III Before November Election? (Miles)

Lasting from the end of World War II until the early 1990s, the Cold War saw the United States and the USSR locked in a global competition for power and influence. Although the two superpowers never went to war directly, the 45-year period was marked by two proxy conflicts in Vietnam and Korea and a constant fear that a third World War was not far away. Tensions were heightened by the fact that both the United States and the Soviet Union possessed nuclear weapons, dramatically raising the stakes of global conflict. Both countries nearly saw their worst fears realized during the Cuban Missile Crisis, when it appeared the US and USSR were unwilling to back down over the issue of nuclear missiles being placed just miles from each country’s border in Cuba and Turkey. The incident led to the establishment of a special hotline for US and Soviet leaders to communicate directly, and caused US President John F. Kennedy to remark that tensions between nuclear powers must never again rise to such a level.

For decades, Kennedy’s maxim was dutifully observed as both countries worked to improve relations, finally culminating in the end of the Cold War. The prospect for nuclear confrontation was avoided until recent years, claimed former CIA analyst Ray McGovern, when the United States rejected Russian overtures for a new European security architecture and stubbornly insisted Ukraine’s coup regime would be granted entry into NATO. The analyst joined Sputnik’s The Critical Hour program Wednesday to consider whether US President Joe Biden is willing to risk global conflict to reverse Kiev’s flagging fortunes on the battlefield. “They want to provoke Putin [into] doing something really drastic before the election, before the [presidential] election here on November 5th,” suggested McGovern, a critic of neoconservative US foreign policy.

“They’re losing in Kursk [region],” he noted, referring to Ukraine’s stalled incursion into Russian territory. “What were they trying to do? They were trying to get the Russians to react in such a way as to bring the US in with both feet militarily.” [..] “My fear is that [the United States] will try something really drastic like a false flag attack or maybe even a mini nuke,” said McGovern, concerned that the US could fabricate an episode such as the Gulf of Tonkin incident that drew the country into the Vietnam War. “Let’s see what happens the next couple of weeks. I think Putin is right. It’s only the smart thing to see who wins on the 5th of November. Till then, I’m still holding my breath.” But McGovern warned that the consequences of the United States’ strategy in Ukraine could fall not on the US itself, but on its European allies.

“It’s really hard to know what Biden and [National Security Advisor Jake] Sullivan, who are running things, really think,” he claimed. “Some of my best friends and analysts think they’re insane. And it’s really, really hard to predict what they’re going to do if they’re insane.” “The Europeans are being told by the Russians, ‘look, if Biden, Blinken and Sullivan opt for a tactical nuclear weapon, for God’s sake, please, please remember we got them too. And where will we use them? We’ll use them in Europe,’” McGovern said, summarizing Russia’s possible response.

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They refuse to get their voting in order.

• Another Season Of Shutdown Theater Is Upon Us (ZH)

Another season of shutdown malarkey is upon us – this time with a deadline of October 1st before it’s time to fling poo. Republicans want to tie a six-month funding stopgap (Continuing Resolution or CR) to the SAVE Act – which would require proof of citizenship when registering to vote. On Wednesday, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) yanked a funding bill off the House floor hours before an expected vote after a growing number of Republicans vowed to tank the measure which includes the SAVE Act. Democrats want a “clean” funding bill that would keep the government open until December, right after the elections, without (of course) the SAVE Act. Donald Trump wants Johnson and the Republicans to grow a pair of balls and let the government shut down if they can’t preserve the SAVE Act.

On Tuesday, before he yanked the funding bill off the floor, Johnson told reporters “We are going to put the SAVE Act and the CR together, and we’re going to move that through the process. And I am resolved to that; we’re not looking at any other alternative. … I think almost 90% of the American people believe in that principle and that’s why we’re going to stand and fight,” adding “You know how I operate: You do the right thing and you let the chips fall where they may.” Hilarious. After he pulled the bill, Johnson said: “We’re in the consensus-building business here in Congress with small majorities,” adding “We’re having thoughtful conversations, family conversations, within the Republican conference, and I believe we’ll get there.” Of course, going head-to-head with Democrats (and some Republicans) over the SAVE Act means litigating claims of election fraud, which Republicans folded like a wet napkin over after the 2020 US election instead of circling the wagons around Trump.

Meanwhile, at least seven Republicans have said they would vote against a CR, period, as it only kicks the can down the road. Johnson is dealing with a tough math problem. Because of their minuscule majority, House Republicans can only afford four GOP defections if all lawmakers vote. Rep. Joe Wilson, R-S.C., was hospitalized Tuesday night after collapsing at an event. And at least seven other Republicans have publicly stated they will vote against a stopgap measure, known as a continuing resolution or “CR.” Many others said they could join them. Two sources told NBC News that leadership was anticipating as many as 15 GOP no votes if the vote had been held Wednesday. -NBC” Republicans opposing a CR include Reps. Cory Mills of Florida, Jim Banks of Indiana, Matt Rosendale of Montana, Andy Biggs of Arizona and Tim Burchett of Tennessee. “I’ve continuously voted against CRs. I think it is terrible legislating,” said Burchett.

“And the No. 1 threat to this country is fiscal irresponsibility. We are going off a fiscal cliff, and I think that every time we do this, we just kick that can further down the road.” According to Mills, a military veteran and fiscal conservative who serves on the Armed Services and Foreign Affairs Committee, “This CR would weaken our defense capabilities and the readiness of our military, just as global threats are rapidly evolving. It would prevent us from responding effectively to adversarial nations like China, hinder innovation, and delay modernization,” adding “Six months is a long time in politics, but it’s an eternity in geopolitics, where quick responses are critical to countering foreign adversaries threatening to harm U.S. interests. Mills is a ‘yes’ on the SAVE Act, saying: “I’m a firm NO on bankrupting the nation and a YES on election integrity.” Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) explains the charade we’re about to see unfold over the next two weeks:

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“She will cut red tape and build more housing by imposing new red tape in the form of federal rent regulations..”

• Kamaflage: The Harris Policy Dump (Porter)

The Harris-Walz campaign has been vibe-a-licious and content-free; its positions on domestic and foreign policy have (with apologies to Hollywood) essentially consisted of open defiance of any presidential campaign norms: “Policy? We ain’t got no policy. We don’t need no policy. We don’t have to show you any stinkin’ policy.” But the campaign’s policy on policy changed, sort of, the day before the debate, when it went ahead and posted some stinkin’ policy anyway. In a word, Harris’ policy dump should be seen for what it is: Kamaflage. She uses words that score well with Republicans and moderates, but inverts the meaning of those words, creating an unintelligible stinkin’ mess. “Kamala Harris will create an Opportunity Economy where everyone has a chance to compete and a chance to succeed – whether they live in a rural area, small town, or big city.” Really? How is she going to do that?

The campaign also promises that Harris would “make it a top priority to bring down costs and increase economic security for all Americans.” It added, “As President, she will fight to cut taxes for more than 100 million working and middle class Americans while lowering the costs of every day needs like health care, housing and groceries.” How would Harris cut taxes? Not by actually reducing anyone’s taxes, but by increasing spending: “restoring” (i.e. increasing) the amount paid out under two tax credits that provide cash payments to lower income families, most of whom already do not pay federal income taxes. But, as we learned from the ironically named Inflation Reduction Act, pumping more money into the system without increasing the supply of goods and services just devalues the dollar and creates inflation for everyone.

Harris’ campaign calls for both “making our tax system fairer and prioritizing investment and innovation,” while also calling for higher taxes on corporate earnings, quadrupling the tax on corporate distributions through stock buybacks, and increasing the capital gains rate by 40%. With a flourish that would make George Orwell blush, she blithely asserts that tax increases bolster the economy too: “When the government encourages investment, it leads to broad-based economic growth and creates jobs, which makes our economy stronger.” In what alternate reality does raising taxes on investments encourage investments? A lifelong government employee who never worked in the private sector, Harris apparently envisions herself a preternaturally talented real estate developer. Her campaign’s policy paper claims she has a “comprehensive plan” to build three million more rental units and affordable homes “to end the national housing supply crisis in her first term.”

What’s the big plan? She’ll “cut red tape” to build housing faster, while also penalizing companies that “hoard available homes to drive up prices,” and “outlaw new forms of price fixing by corporate landlords.” Did you follow that? She will cut red tape and build more housing by imposing new red tape in the form of federal rent regulations so that landlords make less money. This is merely contradictory nonsense with poll-tested verbiage. She would also give $25,000 to first-time home buyers, “with even more generous support for first-generation homeowners.” Obviously, giving people more money to buy houses means houses will cost more, not less. Note, too, that not all first-time home buyers would be treated equally. Some, such as immigrants (whether here legally or illegally), would get even more than young Americans who are descended from (gasp!) previous homeowners.

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It is easy to demand things you know won’t happen. You can say: well, I tried…

• Erdogan Demands Russia Must Return Crimea To Ukraine (ZH)

While some people think Turkey is an ally to Russia, the reality is that this “friendship” is more often shaky and could perhaps even be seen as a facade ready to collapse at any moment. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday reminded the world that his country firmly reflects NATO’s view of the Ukraine war. He said in video message to 4th Crimea Platform happening in Kiev, a Ukrainian government sponsored event, that the return of Crimea to Ukraine is “a requirement of international law.” “Our support for Ukraine’s territorial integrity, sovereignty, and independence is unwavering. The return of Crimea to Ukraine is a requirement of international law,” Erdogan declared, while also stressing ongoing support for Crimean Tatar rights.

He said of the minority ethnic group commonly viewed as Turkish: “I believe that additional steps will continue to be taken to strengthen the rights of the Crimean Tatar Turks in the upcoming period.” Turkey has long denounced not only historic persecution of the Tatars at the hands of Russians which reaches back to the 18th-19th centuries, but also the alleged persecution following Russia’s 2014 takeover of the peninsula. Erdogan stressed before the conference that Tatars must be able to live “freely, securely, and peacefully in their own homeland.” Erdogan added of the broader conflict, “Our sincere wish is for the war to end with a fair and lasting peace based on Ukraine’s territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence.”

The Kremlin was quick to respond, saying the following within hours after Erdogan’s speech: “Subjects of the Russian Federation are not subject to negotiation,” Zakharova told reporters who asked about Erdogan s remarks during the press briefing at the Foreign Ministry, adding that anyone who wants to address the issue needs to read the Russian constitution first. Residents of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol voted overwhelmingly to rejoin Russia in March 2014, shortly after a US-backed coup in Kiev overthrew the Ukrainian government in favor of militant nationalists. Neither Ukraine nor its Western backers have ever accepted the results of the referendum, declaring it to be an illegal annexation.

This isn’t the first time that the Turkish leader has expressed such a firm position, which has not made Russia happy. Turkey has also since near the start of the conflict supplied Ukraine forces with armed drones. Turkey was central along with UN negotiators in securing the 2022-2023 Black Sea Grain Initiative, and has been a rare open line of communication to the Kremlin within NATO. It has also positioned itself as a potential future mediator of peace. But Erdogan’s Crimea stance is yet another reminder that Turkey in the end is still a powerful NATO member, and with a Washington relationship that’s more impactful for Ankara than its ties with Moscow.

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Demand Crimea and then join Russia’s club. Yeah. Being in NATO and then also join BRICS doesn’t look realistic.

• Turkiye’s BRICS Bid: Strategic Shift or Diplomatic Leverage? (Delgen)

NATO member Turkiye’s formal application to join the BRICS group of emerging economies earlier this month has garnered widespread attention. While the Turkish Foreign Ministry and the Directorate of Communications have yet to officially confirm or deny the news, there have been several indirect confirmations from Turkish and Russian officials. Omer Celik, a member of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), couched his response to reporters carefully: “Our president has stated at various times that we want to be a member [of BRICS] … Our request on this issue is clear. This process is underway in this framework, but there is no concrete development on this.” Further confirmation of Turkiye’s membership bid came from Yuri Ushakov, BRICS chair and Russian President Putin’s foreign policy advisor, who has publicly stated: “Turkiye has applied for full membership. We will consider this application.”

In addition, Sputnik reported that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is expected to attend the BRICS summit in Kazan, scheduled for 22–24 September. This aligns with prior announcements that Erdogan would also attend the next Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) meeting for heads of state. These developments emphasize Ankara’s interest in the multipolar order that BRICS represents, especially following its failed bids to join the EU, though Turkiye’s official stance remains unclear – perhaps deliberately so. The timing of Turkiye’s potential BRICS membership raises important questions, especially given that this development follows an informal meeting with EU foreign ministers, marking Turkiye’s first such invitation since 2019. The BRICS acronym, coined in 2001 by Goldman Sachs economist Jim O’Neill, originally described Brazil, Russia, India, and China. South Africa joined in 2010, transforming it into BRICS. As of 2024, additional countries like Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE have also joined the BRICS+ bloc, further expanding its global reach.

BRICS aims to increase the voice of emerging economies in international affairs and challenge Atlanticist dominance over the global financial system. Though not a formal international organization like the UN or World Bank, BRICS has established the New Development Bank to provide loans for development projects in emerging economies. By the end of 2022, the bank had lent an astounding $32 billion for new roads, bridges, railways, and water projects, although representing only half the $72.8 billion committed by the World Bank in fiscal year 2023. In its expanded form, the number of people living in BRICS countries is a hefty 3.5 billion, or 45 percent of the global population. The combined size of their economies is more than $28.5 trillion, or about 28 per cent of the global economy. Combined, the expanded BRICS membership also produces about 44 percent of the world’s crude oil. What about the west? On the domestic front, Turkiye’s internal politics are in flux. In the 31 March local elections, the ruling AKP lost a significant portion of its support for the first time in 20 years, largely due to ongoing economic crises.

In response, President Erdogan appointed Mehmet Simsek as his new finance minister, a figure known for his strong ties with western financial institutions, which some have interpreted as a shift back towards a pro-EU and pro-NATO foreign policy. In a meeting at British think-tank Chatham House earlier this summer, Simsek reiterated that EU membership remains Turkiye’s strategic goal and that the country would adhere to sanctions on Russia following the Ukraine invasion.Simsek’s rhetoric caused some unease in Moscow. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s expected visit to Turkiye was canceled, and he made his thoughts clear at St Petersburg International Economic Forum on 5 June: “It seems to me that the Turkish government’s economic bloc has recently focused on getting loans, making investments and receiving grants from western financial institutions. This is probably not a bad thing, but if it is connected with the restriction of trade and economic relations with Russia, then the Turkish economy will lose more than it gains. In my opinion, there is such a threat.”

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“Russia pays great attention to security issues within BRICS during its presidency..”

• 34 Countries Express Desire to Join BRICS in One Form or Another – Putin (Sp.)

Today, more than three dozen countries, precisely more than 34 states, have already expressed a desire to join the activities of our association [BRICS] in one form or another,” Putin said during a meeting with high representatives of the BRICS states on security issues. The plan of Russia’s BRICS presidency has already been fulfilled by more than 70%, Vladimir Putin said. “As of now, the chairmanship plan has been fulfilled by more than 70%, about 150 events, meetings, industry forums have been held, most expert and ministerial meetings have been held,” Putin said at a meeting with high representatives of the BRICS and BRICS Plus states in charge of security issues.

Russia’s activity as BRICS 2024 chair focused on the swift integration of new members of the association, Putin added. “As the current chair of BRICS, this year Russia has approached the organization of joint activities within the framework of the association with great responsibility. Our chairmanship has been entrusted with a special mission — to do everything possible to facilitate the fastest and most organic integration of new member countries into all BRICS mechanisms,” Putin explained.

BRICS has accumulated significant experience in responding to security challenges, including in cybercrime and fight against terrorism, Putin said. “We are building on the truly solid experience of interaction accumulated by BRICS in responding to threats of terrorism and extremism, illegal arms and drug trafficking, transnational crime and illegal migration. Among the specific results of the joint work of the BRICS states, I would like to note the creation of a special electronic registry for exchanging data on computer attacks and incidents,” Putin said at a meeting with BRICS security representatives. Russia pays great attention to security issues within BRICS during its presidency, the leader added.

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Vovan and Lexus strike again. They must be good.

• Polish FM Reveals Limits Of Support For Ukraine (RT)

Poland has “zero willingness” to send troops to defend Ukraine, Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski has told a pair of Russian pranksters posing as former Ukrainian President Pyotr Poroshenko. Vovan and Lexus, who typically dupe public figures into talking to them by imitating various officials, released a video on Thursday featuring the top Polish diplomat. At one point, the fake Poroshenko asked whether Poland would be willing to “join the team” and fight Russian troops on territory claimed by Ukraine. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk would be “very reluctant to do so,” Sikorski replied. Even the proposal to shoot down Russian cruise missiles over western Ukraine with Polish interceptors is “very, very controversial,” since this would amount to joining the conflict, the official explained.

“If the front started to collapse, things might change. But at the moment there is zero willingness to do that,” Sikorski said. Poland is concerned that by sending troops to Ukraine, Warsaw would confirm Russian claims that it has designs on territory that Kiev received from Poland as part of a border settlement after World War II, the diplomat noted. Warsaw is willing to train Ukrainian soldiers and facilitate the return of Ukrainian citizens eligible for military service, Sikorsky said. But “Polish soldiers inside Ukraine – not doable. Unless there was a peace agreement, and these were peacekeeping forces, UN or something. Then it’s different, maybe,” he added. Sikorsky suggested that a military intervention by other members of NATO was likewise improbable, as “there is no willingness to have a war with Russia in Western Europe. This is an absolute red line.”

However, the US will keep sending military aid to Ukraine no matter what, the Polish minister argued, claiming that Washington’s credibility among its allies is at stake. He also described as “very unhelpful” public calls by Polish President Andrzej Duda, an ally of the previous conservative government, to station US nuclear weapons on Polish soil. If deployed, such weapons would remain outside of Warsaw’s control and wouldn’t make a difference for Russia, since other European nations already host similar arms, Sikorsky said. “It’s like being a postman who has a million-dollar check, who feels important, as if this million dollars was his,” he explained.

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As 81-year old Joe Biden is all but gone, 81-year old Roger Waters is touring: “We are nearly 170 people on the road. And 30 tractor trailers, trucks carrying all the equipment..”

• Roger Waters Prepared To Perform In Russia And Ukraine (RT)

British rock star Roger Waters has said he would perform in Russia and Ukraine if given the chance, in an interview with a teen literary prodigy from Donbass. The 81-year-old co-founder of the band Pink Floyd, who is also a vocal critic of US imperialism and warmongering, spoke via telelink with Faina Savenkova, a 15-year-old playwright and author from Lugansk, Russia. According to a preview released on Thursday by the organizer of the interview, RIA Novosti, Waters said he would have no reservations about performing in Russia. “There are no ‘buts’ really. Russians were inviting me to go and do a gig in St. Petersburg and Moscow for this summer,” he said. His latest tour, ‘This Is Not a Drill’, traveled around the world until December 2023 and was touted as Waters’ farewell tour.

Some of the events faced threats of cancelation in Germany over elements of anti-Nazi satire and the musician’s criticism of Israel, which detractors claim to be anti-Semitic. This type of production is a massive endeavor that requires a lot of planning, according to Waters. “We are nearly 170 people on the road. And 30 tractor trailers, trucks carrying all the equipment. It’s a huge, huge thing. It’s not like I go around with a balalaika and singing at bars.” “Will I go on the road again? I have no idea. If I do, would I like to play in Russia – and Ukraine? Of course I would,” he said. In the interview, Waters also discussed the Ukraine conflict. He said Ukrainians should keep in mind that US foreign policy is designed with the sole purpose to “feather the nests of American plutocrats.” “The people of Ukraine surely by now must know that the US government couldn’t care less about your lives,” he said.

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“..met with the Ukrainian leadership to discuss “how best to define a Ukrainian victory.”

• Everything Is Going To Plan – Zelensky (RT)

Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky has downplayed the Russian counteroffensive in Kursk Region, claiming that what is taking place is consistent with Kiev’s military planning. The Russian Defense Ministry recently listed ten settlements in Kursk that it said Russian troops had liberated over the two previous days. It also estimated total Ukrainian casualties suffered in the incursion at over 12,500 troops. Zelensky, who recently told the media that Kiev intended to hold on to the captured land for the foreseeable future, claimed on Thursday that he was not bothered by the recent setback there. “The Russians have started counterattack action. Everything goes in accordance with our Ukrainian plan,” he told journalists during a press conference in Kiev. Uncorroborated reports on social media have claimed that Russian airborne troops have successfully pushed Ukrainian soldiers back from the eastern part of a pocket in Kursk that they previously held.

Ukraine sent thousands of troops into the Russian region last month in what was the largest cross-border operation undertaken by Kiev in the ongoing conflict with Russia. Officials in Kiev have offered a number of explanations for the Kursk incursion. The stated aims have included capturing Russian soldiers for prisoner exchanges, instilling fear in Russian society, humiliating President Vladimir Putin, forcing Moscow to redeploy troops from the Donbas front, and seizing Russian territory that could be used as a bargaining chip in eventual peace talks. The operation is supposedly part of a secret “victory plan” that Zelensky has said he would present to US President Joe Biden. Washington is supposed to provide the military capabilities necessary for it to be achieved, he added. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited Kiev on Wednesday. According to the Wall Street Journal, he and his British counterpart David Lammy met with the Ukrainian leadership to discuss “how best to define a Ukrainian victory.”

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“..putting out peace initiatives without first consulting Kiev..”

• Zelensky Accuses Brazil And China Of Colluding With Russia (RT)

Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky has criticized China and Brazil for “taking Russia’s side” and putting out peace initiatives without first consulting Kiev. Back in May, the two nations jointly issued a six-point plan for settling the Ukraine conflict, emphasizing that “dialogue and negotiation” are the only “viable way out of the crisis.” They have also called for a new international conference on Ukraine amenable to both Moscow and Kiev. The previous summit on the conflict was held in Switzerland this summer without representatives from Russia and focused solely on Zelensky’s “peace formula,” which Moscow has vehemently rejected. Speaking to Brazilian news outlet Metropoles on Wednesday, Zelensky called the Chinese-Brazilian proposal aimed at mutual compromise “destructive” and dismissed it as a “political statement.”

He stated that he has since talked to Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and also approached Beijing to discuss resolving the conflict. “Why did you suddenly decide that you should take Russia’s side or be somewhere in the middle? How can you offer ‘here is our initiative’ without asking us anything?” Zelensky asked, suggesting that at the same time, Beijing and Brasilia had discussed the initiative with Russia. “We are not fools,” Zelensky insisted, using the Russian word for “fools” (duraki) despite conducting the interview with the Brazilian journalist in Ukrainian. Meanwhile, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi stated during a meeting with Russian Security Council Secretary Sergey Shoigu on Tuesday that Beijing would continue to promote an imminent ceasefire and political settlement.

“China has always maintained an objective and impartial attitude towards the Ukrainian issue and will continue to work to promote balanced, objective and rational voices in the international community, so as to build more international consensus and accumulate the necessary conditions for an early ceasefire and a political settlement of the crisis,” Wang said. Moscow has welcomed China’s and Brazil’s peace proposals and expressed appreciation that they have received international backing. However, at the same time, Russian officials have repeatedly cast doubt on the sincerity of Ukraine’s willingness to hold such talks. Russian President Vladimir Putin reiterated last week that the West intends to make Kiev “fight to the last Ukrainian” with the goal of inflicting “a strategic defeat” on Moscow.

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Putin says long-range weapons for Ukraine means war with NATO.

• Zelensky Disappointed After Blinken Visit, Despite Getting $1.5 Billion More (ZH)

The end result of US Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s visit to Kiev Wednesday alongside British Foreign Secretary David Lammy was… (big surprise) Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky getting a huge amount of money. During the rare joint trip, the US and UK pledged nearly $1.5 billion in additional aid, though it remains that Ukraine still didn’t get quite what it wanted: authorization to use US-made long-rage missiles against Russian territory. “Speaking for the United States, we have adjusted and adapted as needs have changed, as the battlefield has changed. And I have no doubt that we’ll continue to do that as this evolves,” Blinken told a press briefing, after President Biden earlier said the question of long-rage strikes is being worked out. But there was no big announcement from Kiev on the controversial issue.

Not content with the announcement of $1.5 billion in American and British taxpayer funds, Zelensky said of the long-range weapons issue: “Let’s count on some strong decisions, at least,” adding that “For us, it’s very important.” Blinken additionally said he’ll take the issue “back to Washington to brief the president” and that “no doubt” Biden and UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer will discuss the issue when they meet at the White House Friday. While Kiev might see it as a consolation prize, the US cut of the new pledge to Ukraine comes in at more than $700 million in humanitarian aid, while Lammy pledged another $782 million in assistance and loan guarantees. The West has been seeking to rapidly bolster Ukraine’s energy grid after constant waves of Russian aerial attacks which has left the country subject to rolling emergency blackouts. All of this has happened ahead of what’s expected to be a very tough winter.

Upon wrapping up his visit to Kiev, Blinken made his way over to Warsaw where he is meeting with Polish leadership. The Associated Press says it’s expected that the NATO ‘eastern flank’ member will press the issue of Zelensky’s request to hit Russia hard with long-range missiles. “NATO member Poland, which shares a border with Ukraine, has been supportive of the Ukrainians and Blinken is likely to hear further requests for easing weapons-use restrictions from Polish President Andrzej Duda, Prime Minister Donald Tusk and Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski,” AP reports. But the consensus even among hawkish Washington foreign policy pundits is that long-range strikes into Russia will not change the battle lines in eastern Ukraine, where the fate of the war is being decided. Instead, it will only make escalation between NATO and Moscow much more unpredictable.

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Obviously.

• Lavrov Ridicules ‘Divers On Little Boat’ Theory About Nord Stream Sabotage (RT)

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has laughed off “ridiculous” claims by German media outlets that the Nord Stream pipelines were blown up by a small group of divers on a “little boat.” Commenting on the issue of protecting critical energy infrastructure at a press briefing on Thursday, he said investigations into the sabotage of the Russian natural gas pipelines in 2022 had been turned into a “spectacle.” Despite submitting numerous requests, Lavrov said Russia had still not received any information about the investigation from the German authorities, and claimed their investigation lacked transparency. Meanwhile, Denmark and Sweden, who have also ignored all of Moscow’s requests, have stated that they had closed down their national investigations into the Nord Stream explosions, the minister noted.

“We will not abandon this topic, we will continue to seek a transparent investigation, which is being blocked in every possible way by the US, Britain and their allies,” Lavrov said. He also ridiculed recent reports in the German media featuring theories about how the pipelines were destroyed. “Five people were sitting around drinking, having a laugh, and decided ‘Why don’t we blow up the Nord Stream pipelines?’ They had diving skills, allegedly hired a little boat, sailed to the place where the Nord Streams were passing, went down, planted explosives and detonated them,” the minister said, describing the German reports. “If someone can actually believe this version, then it’s only people who are afraid of the truth and are trying to protect the criminal Kiev regime in any way possible,” he suggested.

The Nord Stream pipelines, which transported Russian natural gas to Germany and other parts of Western Europe via the Baltic Sea, were sabotaged in September 2022 in a series of underwater explosions near the Danish island of Bornholm. Russia has blamed the US for orchestrating the attack, while some Western media outlets have blamed the act on an unaffiliated “pro-Ukrainian group.” Russian President Vladimir Putin has dismissed claims that the pipelines were blown up by activists as “complete nonsense,” and has insisted that the explosions were carried out by professionals supported by “the full might of the state, which has certain technologies.”

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“..a policy of Russophobia and rearming, is stuck like a German truck somewhere west of Moscow in November 1941..”

• Olaf Scholz Has A Sudden Moment of Clarity About Russia (Amar)

Olaf Scholz, the German chancellor, has caused a stir. Not by some kind of success, in, for instance, elections, the economy, or foreign and domestic policy. Scholz does not do that kind of thing. For a man with his ratings, crowd pleasing is not even an option. Even though they may indeed mean Scholz’s days are numbered, as the British Telegraph surmises, the devastating defeats his Social-Democratic party and its ‘traffic-light’ coalition partners – the Greens and the market-liberal Free Democrats – have just suffered in regional elections in Thuringia and Saxony are just the tip of the iceberg, as polls consistently show: A whopping 77% of Germans consider their current leader “führungsschwach” (weak at, well, leading); his personal “popularity” – really, unpopularity – rating has just collapsed from a dismal 14th to a comically catastrophic 18th place. Only 23% want him to even try to run for office again, and even in his own party the majority is against the idea.

And it’s not just him alone but his team as well: 71% of Germans think his government is doing a bad job. A difficult – and foul – 2025 budget compromise achieved in July within Scholz’s fractious coalition did not inspire hope: Only 7% of voters believed that the coalition “partners” would work together more effectively now, 10% thought things would only get worse, and 79% that they’d stay just as dire as they were. While Scholz’s government had promised that the new budget would finally jolt the ailing German economy back to life, 75% of Germans didn’t believe in that promise. And who can blame them? The German economy, hobbled by both self-imposed budgetary constraints that rule out stimulus politics and then the insane abandonment of inexpensive Russian energy, has been stagnating since 2018; as of now it has entered a “technical recession.”

That was the mood at the end of July. By now, it’s bound to be much worse: The coalition’s rickety budget compromise is under heavy fire from, among others, Professor Hanno Kube, “one of the most respected constitutional jurists” of Germany, according to leading news magazine Der Spiegel. Kube, one should recall, has helped bring down Berlin’s shady accounting practices once before, triggering a deep and reverberating political crisis that the traffic-light accomplices have never fully overcome. And Volkswagen, nothing less than a national symbol and by far Germany’s biggest employer in the country’s vital yet badly declining car-making sector, has ended its job guarantee and is preparing the ground for plant closures and mass layoffs in Germany for the first time in the company’s history. It’s hard to convey what a psychological blow that is.

As a German, let me put it like this: Imagine losing World War I and a football world championship at the same time. Exaggeration? Guilty as charged. But not by much. We could prolong the painful litany of Berlin’s failures at home, but the gist should be clear already: Scholz’s profile as a German leader is that of a dourly resolute, unrelenting loser. Even his much touted “Zeitenwende” (‘epochal change’), that is, a policy of Russophobia and rearming, is stuck like a German truck somewhere west of Moscow in November 1941.

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“While there were opportunities for a political settlement at the talks in Istanbul… now, in my personal opinion, there are no such opportunities..”

• Ukrainian Diplomat Claims Peace Was Possible In 2022 (RT)

The Ukraine conflict could have been stopped back in 2022 soon after it started, according to Aleksandr Chaly, former Ukrainian first deputy foreign minister and one of Kiev’s key negotiators at the time. The diplomat said that Moscow and Kiev had a real chance of inking a peace deal at negotiations in Istanbul a mere month after the beginning of hostilities, but that chance has since been lost. “While there were opportunities for a political settlement at the talks in Istanbul… now, in my personal opinion, there are no such opportunities,” Chaly stated at a panel discussion at the Xiangshan defense forum in Beijing on Thursday, as cited by RIA Novosti. Ukraine and Russia held several rounds of peace talks in the spring of 2022, and the Istanbul round was considered the most productive, as the parties managed to develop and pre-approve a draft peace treaty.

The document reportedly included clauses on Kiev formally adopting neutral status, limiting its armed forces and vowing not to discriminate against ethnic Russians. Moscow, in return, was willing to withdraw troops from Ukrainian territories and offer Kiev security guarantees. However, the treaty was never finalized, and Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky later issued a decree banning peace talks with Putin.

Speaking during a panel discussion at the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok earlier this month, Putin accused the West of “ordering” Kiev to drop the treaty due to “the wish of the elites in the US and some European nations to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia.” He stressed, however, that Moscow has “never refused” negotiations and that the Istanbul draft could still serve as the foundation for a peace deal. According to a Wall Street Journal report published earlier this week, an increasing number of Ukrainians want Kiev and Moscow to find a diplomatic solution to the conflict, which has been dragging on for 30 months. A poll published by the Kiev International Institute of Sociology (KIIS) in early August suggested that 57% of Ukrainians wanted dialogue with Russia.

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  • September 13, 2024 at 7:56 am #168840
    Raúl Ilargi Meijer
    Keymaster

    M. C. Escher Relativity Lattice 1953   • How to Steal an Election: GOP Exposes Dems’ Playbook Ahead of 2024 Vote (Sp.) • Will ‘Insane’ Biden Prov
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle September 13 2024]

    September 13, 2024 at 10:25 am #168843
    V. Arnold
    Participant

    M. C. Escher Relativity Lattice 1953

    Todays art perfectly encapsulates todays U.S. IMO…. 😉

    September 13, 2024 at 11:04 am #168844
    WES
    Participant

    Stealing the Election:

    Rino Republicans will fold liie a cheap suit when it comes to voter ID since they support Democrats efforts to steal the election!

    Yeah, a few Republicans will vote to support voter ID but the rest of the Rino Republicans will vote with the Democrats to toss voter ID requirements.
    We tried.

    This is a Republican bait and switch operation against voter ID just like they did in 2020.

    All to help the Deep state steal the 2024 election.

    The only question unanswered is how the deep state will steal the election.

    September 13, 2024 at 11:17 am #168845
    WES
    Participant

    Notice how Kamala cheating at the debate didn’t happen anymore than deep state trying to kill Trump.
    Never happened.

    September 13, 2024 at 11:23 am #168846
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Debate highlights: no wonder I don’t listen to this stuff. Like that guitarist, I think they’re all stupid.

    “Donald Trump spent 9/11 marching into a war zone of fire & ashes with an army of his own men to save Americans”

    Yes but saving and helping Americans is evil and hate because America is an evil country that should be destroyed. Question answered.

    Judge Judy: Whyyyyyy? Oh Why? She hasn’t been a judge since 1990? That’s TV people. Anyway, Don’t care what she says, but also “Trump running on procedure”: classic DNC run, ready-made for goldfish idiots who can’t remember an hour ago. Yes. But like how all history started in 2020 or 2022, WHAT HAPPENED BEFORE? Yes, these cases – heck, even the witnesses – were stopped, forgot, didn’t remember – that the crime happened in 1990! Or in the other cases, 8, 10, years ago? At minimum (records) 4 years ago?? Then! Suddenly remembered! My homework! It’s on the kitchen table! Well, we need to start these legal cases RIGHT AWAY, 35 years after the fact! Biggest hurry-hurry ever! 3 years late, 1 year before the election! Which is illegal!

    But they put it on TV like no one will notice. Because they won’t. It’ll work perfectly and they’ll be mad if you bring it up.

    Talk about the earrings instead. This story is more important and getting around. What does it say? She won’t be President, she’ll be a robot-puppet. Who’s talking in her ear? Who’s really President if she’s elected and what would this shadow person do or want?

    Anyway, none of this matters, only the Shadow People if you can expose and name them, and what is actually DONE. Actions. Reality exists. Time exists.

    “Conservatives argue that the Democratic Party has launched full-fledged lawfare…
    during his September 10 debate with Kamala Harris, Republicans say.”

    See? That’s journalism. Was that so hard? “He said.” We the reporter are not necessarily trying, needing to find out the literal absolute truth, which would make me “Investigative” and take 9 months and a lot more money. Just these are the facts: these facts are what each side SAID, both sides. You need to know this because this is the argument, the contention, you, the American, are in the middle of. Relevance.

    And the later facts of her popularity at each point in her career vs just 4 weeks later, are all literal facts, and facts that have meaning. Now the reporter doesn’t have to SAY that’s all a fabulous, made-up lie that’s only exists because somebody spent $100 million bribing the right people, nor that this is lying is their core business practice, the facts speak for themselves. See, that’s MY ob to be a crank like that and jump to the end.

    See now I don’t do journalism like this, but this is the right class of person to hire. Thousands of them. “She SAID.”

    “and a constant fear that a third World War was not far away.”

    Here’s your problem: Americans and the entire rest of West are now so retarded they no longer fear nuclear war. All things are unreal to them now. “War? I’ve seen that a thousand times on this little blue screen.” Reality itself, when they get up in the morning and go to the Dollar Store, no longer exists. Nor is that a surprise as generally it’s hell on earth by active design, at literally every economic level. Why? It was all created by human-hating, #AntiLogos, beauty-despising, money-chasing mentally ill. Their idea of beauty is when everyone is dead and they’re king of the remaining rubble. So the people, being an the most cruel, destructive, scientific-genius prison ever designed by man, OBVIOUSLY are going to retreat into fantasy and irreality. Or they’d shoot themselves, and that includes everyone at VP corner offices, at Brown University, and the successful car dealership with three power boats.

    However, because of this ceaseless torture and everyone’s retreat into fantasy and delusion, they no longer fear complete nuclear Armageddon and the death of everyone, everything. Death would be a welcome relief.

    So bomb, bomb away I guess. Do what you have to, under our conditions and situation, you’re not going to get much more out of us at this time.

    ““It’s really hard to know what Biden and [National Security Advisor Jake] Sullivan, who are running things, really think,” he claimed. “Some of my best friends and analysts think they’re insane. And it’s really, really hard to predict what they’re going to do if they’re insane.”

    Yes. Exactly as described above, but at a higher level: they have internalized the lies and insanity, and their insanity is to stop looking and taking in information. They are minions, un-self-aware. The Social Programmers set them up, wound their clocks 20 years ago with lies, and they’re still marching. If they weren’t we’d merely have them arrested as “Dissidents.” Cranks. If they’ll march around with funny mustaches, we fund them with billions trillions.

    Who is “We” in that sentence? Ask Kamala. Who’s speaking in your ear?

    “SAVE Act – which would require proof of citizenship when registering to vote.”

    This works because like M4A, the only thing they need is for you to VOTE on it. We want a head count of who thinks it’s intolerable for the law to be followed. Then go explain that to your district.

    “shiny object attached to it will be dropped like a hot potato before passage.”

    Sounds like every other day in Congress. Maybe he’s been there too long so he recognizes all these toys.

    Does any of this matter? Not so far as I can tell: it’s background canvas. So where are real stories happening?

    “• Erdogan Demands Russia Must Return Crimea To Ukraine (ZH)

    A lot on the Turks this week. Ugh! The Turks! WHY do they act this way? They are like 99% their only enemy. He also said he’d go whole hog on saving Gaza, build an islamic head there…before doing nothing. …Again, like career-long in a row, after Turkey ALSO never did anything, ever, since Atta. Rinse, repeat, every hour of every day for centuries. So he says this. Tomorrow it will be the #Opposite and that’s okay with everyone. How does anything get done there? A: It doesn’t. Or not very well. On the base level, they’re in a position to rule the world, in every key area, every transit, every nexus of discussion and diplomacy, smart people, incredibly hard working, tough, with the largest army in Europe. Aaaaaaaand…nothing. They’re a garbage heap like I dunno, Columbia, for centuries.

    Don’t worry, tomorrow’s paper will change all this.

    “Demand Crimea and then join Russia’s club. Yeah. Being in NATO and then also join BRICS doesn’t look realistic.”

    Turks, above. Will take decades when it should take months, and drag along and poke everyone along the way. Erdogon only just poked Putin in the face, because he’s intimidated by him, respect him, and feels small. So he insults him, frustrates Putin to demonstrate Erdogan’s importance. Everyone just watches in shock, not that he’ll DO it, everyone knows for 1,000 years he’ll DO it: but that Erdogan and Turkey ARE important. The only thing he needs to do is CLAIM it and stop acting. Stop acting out and BE the thing. N. O. P. E. Never, clearly.

    “• 34 Countries Express Desire to Join BRICS in One Form or Another – Putin (Sp.)

    It’s been pointed out that, ignore the war. Ignore the West. This is what will crush the West and win. This is the pivot. The West is irrelevant. Go around them, they’ll rot away.

    “• Everything Is Going To Plan – Zelensky (RT)

    The Russians are advancing everywhere, it’s all our master plan.

    “Putin says long-range weapons for Ukraine means war with NATO.”

    Gosh I hope so. I mean, I just have to keep my sanity here.

    “Olaf Scholz Has A Sudden Moment of Clarity About Russia (Amar)

    That’s because he’s dead-losing in the elections and needs to save anything. He can’t. However that may not happen fast.

    “• Ukrainian Diplomat Claims Peace Was Possible In 2022 (RT)

    Said. “Diplomat SAYS Peace was Possible.” See how that is different? For the love of Christ, this isn’t rocket science. If you say “Claim”, you are probably on the Op-Ed page. Your yearly chance for writing that isn’t up yet. So STFU.

    Haiti: We Americans have no trouble at all imagining not being able to get food. Apparently she does if she can think of McDonald’s as a food source. And it IS happening in your community. Get out more.

    Monkeys: Okay following science we all can’t prove, part of the “Energies from space” or even our sun (Birkeland currents) is over-energizing humans? Over charging our brains? Yes, but perhaps also overcharging monkey’s brains? Making us smarter, if also unhinged, but as they are more relaxed, base state merely making them smarter? We’ve seen this with some other creatures lately, some story with whales comes to mind.

    This goes with the Yuga theory, impossibly long eras. As ALL people said in the past, 2,000, 5,000 years ago, they were the IRON age. Before them was the bronze, silver, and Golden age, deep in the past. IN the Golden Age everything was advanced, space-age and perfect. Knowledge and power. It had always been a straight-line DROP in everything. — This is the dead-opposite of the Religion of Progress, which says every day since the cave men we got SMARTER, and we’re, Chad and Chelsea are the Bestest, smartest, most moral people Evah! — Practically perfect in every way.

    Anyway, so what if it’s cyclical but on a really long timeframe? Like 24,000 years? We were once a spacefaring people, with flying cars (Vimanas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vimana ) and lightning sticks like the Ramayana Vedas. We were cross-engineering human hybrids like half-animal people as we see…well everywhere, but let’s say Greek Myth. We’ve been getting dumber every day until, I don’t know, pick a date: 2,500 years ago when we were dumb as a post, finally mere animals, having forgotten everything, and like Idiocracy, don’t even know what a “Book” is and burned them all in a pique of chilly weather. Huh. Ever hear of “Gobekli Tepe”? Or the 50 other “Tepes” in one area alone, to say nothing of the Olmecs? All predating these specific dates? Yeah, well we still have no idea how they did anything they did, so we’re retards, clearly, and Chad is wrong.

    Example: Pyramids were built before Stonehenge and there were still mammoths alive then. Give a sense of how really, really different the world was.

    So here’s the catch: we’re finally on the upswing. Since like 1600, but increasing a lot now and people are both “Their Knowledge shall increase” AND it’s driving us all insane. (The love of man grows cold) We don’t have a social structure for this as it last mattered like 18,000 years ago. Nor any “books’ that make sense of it, although we haven’t bothered to look at the Vedas and keep denying everything we find. Or rather YOU do, you retards in College. The rest of us have no problem with Tepe being 12,000 years old nor humans being in the Americas 30,000 years ago. Because we’re not science deniers. Go look: the evidence is everywhere. They WROTE IT THE F—K DOWN FOR YOU. Too complicated? Too hard? They left a WHOLE CITY, intact, in the desert and Jungle. Too hard? Not big enough?

    Denial is the size of the universe, I guess. A whole city can’t break them from it. Yup, they built the whole city with one shin-bone, official reality of guys like Harvard and Rutgers. Genius.

    Sorry, it isn’t JUST the stupidity of saying something like that. It’s mainly the raw Cowardice. And raw cowardice because they won’t be POPULAR and sit at the cool table at the Vegas Archaeologist’s convention. O.M.G. THAT is the level we’re reduced to and are supposed to respect. And don’t get me started on physics.

    September 13, 2024 at 11:24 am #168847
    V. Arnold
    Participant

    The only question unanswered is how the deep state will steal the election.

    @ Wes
    This is a Republican bait and switch operation against voter ID just like they did in 2020.
    Didn’t you already answer your own question?

    September 13, 2024 at 11:29 am #168848
    oxymoron
    Participant

    Why did Biden put on a Trump hat?!

    As Dr D would say – “explain this to me in tiny words”

    The world of politics is being revealed as what it is I guess? One Party.
    The Party.
    Orwell as reality

    September 13, 2024 at 11:31 am #168849
    tboc
    Participant

    Everything is going to plan – Zelensky

    perspective gained during the venture into the mainstream yesterday:
    Everything is going to plan

    September 13, 2024 at 12:57 pm #168851
    Red
    Participant

    I propose adding a new acronym to the alphabet lexicon to be used in all the places that the flotsam seems to occupy: LQH = low quality human. There is a seemingly endless bunch of them somehow surfacing everywhere just over the past few years.

    September 13, 2024 at 1:29 pm #168852
    those darned kids
    Participant

    don’t forget to tune in tonight’s wet t-shirt contest between donnie “b-cup” trump and kammy “willie loved ’em” harris!

    September 13, 2024 at 1:32 pm #168853
    tboc
    Participant

    Raygun destroyed the Air Traffic Controllers union, however

    AFGE – The American Federation of Government Employees – 750,000 members
    NFFE – The National Federation of Federal Employees – 110,000 members
    State Employment and Unemployment Services
    Re-Employment and Training Services

    firing a large number of federal employees –
    Slashing billions of dollars of spending of federal employees from state’s and national economy
    Incurring litigation and separation costs
    Forcing states that include payroll taxes in general revenue to borrow to provide unemployment compensation
    Stress small business in a inflationary cycle with reduced consumer spending
    Stress credit markets with increased rates of delinquency
    Under the supervision of a non-cabinet federal commisioner who will hire federal employees to supervise the effort.

    Now tell me again how stupid the vice-president is.

    September 13, 2024 at 1:40 pm #168854
    John Day
    Participant

    Erdogan saying Crimea has to go back to Ukraine is a weird stunt, of course. I can’t be sure why he took such an untenable position. It’s cheap grandstanding.
    How many countries have to join before we can get SHITBRICS?
    Important meeting in DC to start WW-3 today…

    September 13, 2024 at 2:08 pm #168855
    zerosum
    Participant

    Were you paying attention? (Hidden in the Word Salad.)

    There is only one problem, money problems.

    Inflation is caused by the gov. overspending, of printing money, of Money that they don’t have.

    A “clean” funding bill that would keep the government open until December, right after the elections, without (of course) the SAVE Act.

    https://abc11.com/politics/speaker-johnson-pulls-vote-on-bill-for-short-term-government-funding/15291451/
    Speaker Mike Johnson pulls vote on stopgap bill for short-term government funding
    https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/6363
    Public Law No: 118-22 (11/16/2023)
    Further Continuing Appropriations and Other Extensions Act, 2024

    There are many ways to exploit the loose voting requirements in the US.
    https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/8281/text#:~:text=Placed%20on%20Calendar%20Senate%20(07%2F23%2F2024),-Calendar%20No.&text=To%20amend%20the%20National%20Voter,office%2C%20and%20for%20other%20purposes.

    A false flag operation is an act committed with the intent of disguising the actual source of responsibility and pinning blame on another party.
    ———–

    “I’m a firm NO on bankrupting the nation and a YES on election integrity.”     Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) explains the charade we’re about to see unfold over the next two weeks:
    ————-
    • 34 Countries Express Desire to Join BRICS in One Form or Another – Putin (Sp.)
    https://sputnikglobe.com/20240912/total-of-34-countries-express-desire-to-join-brics-in-one-form-or-another—putin-1120119592.html
    ————
    Putin says long-range weapons for Ukraine means war with NATO.

    • Zelensky Disappointed After Blinken Visit, Despite Getting $1.5 Billion More (ZH)
    https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/zelensky-disappointed-after-blinken-visit-despite-getting-15-billion-more
    ————

    September 13, 2024 at 2:59 pm #168856
    zerosum
    Participant

    Money Opinion?
    UK and France, like Germany, are in free fall too. France is bankrupt. All public services are going down and down, especially schools and hospitals. The debt is huge. There is no government.

    Posted by: Naive | Sep 13 2024

    September 13, 2024 at 2:59 pm #168857
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    In a free and fair election most people will vote to keep their jobs. Who is the biggest employer? There’s your answer right there.

    September 13, 2024 at 3:00 pm #168858
    John Day
    Participant

    Dude missed the spy-earrings:
    5 Reasons Trump Is Making The Right Strategic Choice To Not Debate Again
    https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/5-reasons-trump-making-right-strategic-choice-not-debate-again

    September 13, 2024 at 3:04 pm #168859
    zerosum
    Participant

    Explanation for dummies
    http://kremlin.ru/events/president/transcripts/75092
    Putin’s full answer to a question from the media about long range western weapons as per the Kremlin transcript.
    Question: Over the past few days, we have seen and heard how the topic is being discussed at a very high level in the United Kingdom and the United States that the Kiev regime will be able to strike deep into Russia with long-range Western weapons. And, apparently, this decision is either about to be made, or, apparently, it has already been made at all. This is, of course, an extraordinary thing. I would like to ask you to comment on what is happening.
    Vladimir Putin: There is an attempt to substitute concepts. Because we are not talking about allowing or prohibiting the Kiev regime to strike at Russian territory. It already does damage with the help of unmanned aerial vehicles and other means. But when it comes to using Western-made long-range precision weapons, it’s a completely different story.

    The fact is that – I have already said this, and any experts will confirm this both here and in the West – the Ukrainian army is not able to strike with modern high-precision long-range systems of Western production. She can’t do that. This is possible only with the use of intelligence from satellites, which Ukraine does not have, it is data only from satellites or the European Union, or the United States – in general, from NATO satellites. This is the first one.

    The second and very important thing, perhaps the key one, is that flight tasks for these missile systems can, in fact, be made only by the military personnel of NATO countries. Ukrainian military personnel cannot do this.

    Therefore, we are not talking about allowing or not allowing the Ukrainian regime to strike Russia with these weapons. It is a question of deciding whether NATO countries are directly involved in a military conflict or not.

    If this decision is made, it will mean nothing more than the direct participation of NATO countries, the United States, and European countries in the war in Ukraine. This is their direct involvement, and this, of course, significantly changes the very essence, the very nature of the conflict.

    This will mean that NATO countries, the United States, and European countries are at war with Russia. And if this is the case, then we will make appropriate decisions based on the threats that will be created in view of changing the very essence of this conflict.

    September 13, 2024 at 3:25 pm #168860
    jb-hb
    Participant

    Kursk 2.0

    The salient shows, for the first time, a decrease in volume. On the west side of the salient, cutting off a major north-south road.

    The Ukrainians seem to have wanted Koronevko QUITE badly – “clashes” in front of it for weeks now. It is the largest urban area within reach. If they took it, that would surely be a huge headache for Russia. That n-s road led right to the point of conflict – now logistics and reinforcements will probably have to go northeast to Sudzha and then northwest on a relatively long trek. I don’t see anything like another major road leading to Koronevko from the Ukrainian side on the satellite imagery.

    The russian saleint into the kursk salient seems to be reaching for the other major road leading to Koronevko, the one coming out of Sudzha. They’re already more than halfway there. Maybe 5km left to go as of the latest map update yesterday? So already not a pleasant road to be on anymore, I would think.

    The promised kessels from like a month or so ago seem to finally be forming

    September 13, 2024 at 3:37 pm #168861
    jb-hb
    Participant

    I’m surprised a wireless-charging bluetooth bone-conduction device implanted via surgery is not just standard practice for politicians at this point.

    Even tiny hearing aids that totally fit in the ear canal are now bluetooth capable. If you have hair over your ears, I don’t see how that would be caught.

    I guess each side needs to be allowed their team of techs with their own EW suite for jamming, to ensure the other side cannot wirelessly communicate? Each candidate stands naked in a faraday cage, submerged in liquid & using a snorkel?

    September 13, 2024 at 4:00 pm #168862
    thomasjkenney
    Participant

    Asymmetric warfare?

    Course Changes Due to Snow – Val di Fassa Enduro World Champs 2024

    It’s been the worst decade in my life re: forest/grass fires here in the west US. If you can’t convince a volcano to do the work, how ’bout a bunch of sequestered carbon?

    Microwave lasers (random non-sequitur, but it keeps bugging me)

    I’ve been digging at disabling that last Scare Message System nag on my phone, the National Alert. That thing will speak any day now, and I don’t want to be within earshot.

    September 13, 2024 at 4:02 pm #168863
    kultsommer
    Participant

    Israel Did 9/11


    Or on today’s Unz report as well.

    Brilliant analysis themed : “Israel did 9-11
    Text and assembly of ugliest mugs that ever came out of woman’s vagina. The same ((characters)) created quite a prosperous “parking lot” for themselves out of the NYC.

    September 13, 2024 at 4:24 pm #168864
    thomasjkenney
    Participant

    re: the earrings

    One really strong burst of radio would break the spell, methinks.

    September 13, 2024 at 4:25 pm #168865
    John Day
    Participant

    Thanks Kultsommer. Dick Cheney helped Israel, too…

    September 13, 2024 at 4:26 pm #168866
    thomasjkenney
    Participant

    OK, I don’t do memes, but the meme is she opens her mouth, and repeats ‘Pairing… Pairing… Pairing… ‘

    September 13, 2024 at 4:30 pm #168867
    Noirette
    Participant

    WES posted: (US elect.)

    The only question unanswered is how the deep state will steal the election.

    Yes. After some % of votes favoring Trump exceeds the ‘cheat’ scheme it becomes difficult. Then what happens, idk. The last election was (imho) won by Trump but manipulated, the Trump margin was not high enough. (Has to be, guessing 60 % or more.) That kind of move will happen again.

    Chart shows voters for XYZ, incl. non voters.

    https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Ft7tvunm1wfhd1.png

    Note, the non-voter % in 2020 was lowered to incredible figures, a clear sign of manipulation. (Imho.)

    US Pres. elections are a big show, and now openly don’t correspond to any ‘political’ preferences, opinions — Dems, Reps, Indies, etc. no longer can count on ‘tribes’ thought they pretend they still can, do.

    For ex. Cheney (who used to be loathed by the Dems) now supports Kakala. Those taking power (Mega Corps) are not bothering any longer with PR moves based on ‘pol. parties.’

    September 13, 2024 at 4:49 pm #168868
    kultsommer
    Participant

    Yes John. Also, Clinton’s ((appointees)) are the ones who did the prep terrain for the planned event.

    September 13, 2024 at 6:56 pm #168874
    WES
    Participant

    Noirette:

    I think the deep state has greatly increased the “cheat” margin for the 2024 November election from the 2020 election to between 20 million and 40 million, and maybe even higher.

    They have achieved this via open borders and weaponizing all federal agencies to automatically register everyone to vote they have encountered since 2020.
    For example, all non-American green card holders are registered to vote.

    The Rino Republicans naturally approved by looking the other way and remaining silent.

    September 13, 2024 at 7:02 pm #168875
    WES
    Participant

    Don’t look now but the fiat US dollar has been making new lows in value.

    Gold has not changed in value in 5,000 plus years.

    September 13, 2024 at 7:26 pm #168876
    John Day
    Participant

    @Kultsommer: Bush-I worked Iran-Contra cocaine smuggling into Arkansas with Governor Bill. They were old “bidness” partners…

    September 13, 2024 at 7:27 pm #168877
    John Day
    Participant

    Awaiting World War https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/awaiting-world-war

    Gilbert Doctorow, Putin to reporter Pavel Zarubin: ‘NATO will be at war with us and our response will be appropriate to the perceived threat’​
    Pavel Zarubin, a journalist who seems to follow Vladimir Vladimirovich everywhere to gather material for his weekly Sunday evening show ‘Moscow, the Kremlin, Putin’ put to him the question that is as much on the minds of Russians as it is on the mind of us here in the West: how will Russia respond to the expected American and British go-ahead to Zelensky for use of their missiles to attack the heartland of Russia. Putin gave his answer speaking in a calm and deliberate tone. What he said has been picked up by global media, many of which have presented it to world audiences as being bellicose. It was not bellicose but it was open to various interpretations because its essence is that Russia’s response will be calibrated to the level of threat to itself that it sees in any coming attacks from Ukraine.
    ​ But before getting to the ‘punch line’ that everyone awaited, President Putin explained Russia’s understanding that what is at issue goes far beyond mere permission for Ukraine to use Western supplied long-range offensive weapons as it sees fit. Per Russian military evaluation, Ukraine by itself does not possess the satellite reconnaissance capability necessary to program the NATO-supplied missiles to target. For this it is totally dependent on NATO countries. More important still, Ukraine does not have the training, the skills to maintain and launch these missiles on its own. Two or three weeks training is utterly inadequate to manage these highly sophisticated weapons systems. Accordingly all of those functions must necessarily be carried out by technical people from the NATO country manufacturers of the weapons. For these reasons, Russia concludes that the missiles effectively represent NATO’s direct involvement in the conflict. The status of the conflict moves on from a proxy war to a full-blown war by NATO countries on Russia. That change in the nature of the war requires a change in the way Russia conducts itself. As Putin said, Russia will calibrate its response to any attack to the level of threat it perceives. Period.​..
    ..The fact is that Russia is mentally prepared for anything that the West can throw at it today via Ukraine, up to and including, for example, a missile attack on the Kursk nuclear power plant. Due to its unprotected outer structure, a strike there could result in a leakage of radioactivity similar to the Chernobyl catastrophe. We should not doubt that a Russian response to such an incident will be memorable if any of us survives it.​ https://gilbertdoctorow.substack.com/p/putin-to-reporter-pavel-zarubin-nato

    ​ Britain and the United States are on the verge of allowing Ukraine to use long-range missiles against targets in Russia after accusing President Putin of “escalating” the conflict by accepting ballistic missiles from Iran.​ https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russian-counteroffensive-kursk-belatedly-full-swing

    ​ Will ‘Insane’ Biden Provoke World War III Before November Election?​ [Now being secretly negotiated in DC.]
    ​ Both countries nearly saw their worst fears realized during the Cuban Missile Crisis, when it appeared the US and USSR were unwilling to back down over the issue of nuclear missiles being placed just miles from each country’s border in Cuba and Turkey. The incident led to the establishment of a special hotline for US and Soviet leaders to communicate directly, and caused US President John F. Kennedy to remark that tensions between nuclear powers must never again rise to such a level.​..
    ​..“My fear is that [the United States] will try something really drastic like a false flag attack or maybe even a mini nuke,” said (former CIA Analyst, Ray) McGovern, concerned that the US could fabricate an episode such as the Gulf of Tonkin incident that drew the country into the Vietnam War. “Let’s see what happens the next couple of weeks. I think Putin is right. It’s only the smart thing to see who wins on the 5th of November. Till then, I’m still holding my breath.”​ https://sputnikglobe.com/20240912/will-insane-biden-provoke-world-war-iii-before-november-election-1120114630.html

    ​Simplicius, Zelensky’s Last Hail Mary Gets Off to Rocky Start
    It seems every news cycle there is now some major new development surrounding Ukraine, which threatens to plunge the war into some elevated state of risk and threat. This is by design because Zelensky and his curators need to constantly drum up a sense of advancement in the narrative, otherwise the increasingly dire situation on the front threatens to swallow the entire war effort whole.
    ​ Today that “shiny new object” meant to give UA supporters some small glint of hope is the information package surrounding permission for deep strikes into Russia.​..
    ​..Zelensky is traveling to the US to present his plan, which some sources have claimed has three points, which I outlined last time, but as reminder:
    ​ 1. Zelensky wants the US to allow long-range strikes into Russia with foreign missiles to destroy all military bases, airfields, ammunition and fuel depots within the European part of Russia.
    ​ 2. The West (US/NATO) must protect Western Ukraine with Polish and Romanian air defense systems from Russian retaliation strikes so Ukraine could transfer own air defense systems closer to the battlefield.
    ​ 3. The West must guarantee to be prepared to get more involved by sending ground troops to certain parts of Ukraine to free up Ukraine’s manpower which could be sent to the front lines. Zelensky believes after this campaign Russia would be forced to retreat, at some point Putin’s leadership would be destabilized and replaced, with the new leadership signing a peace deal.​..
    ..However, we already have some sand to throw on the above via another breaking story, which is that infamous Russian pranksters Vovan & Lexus had just caught Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski in their net. Sikorski directly addresses two of the points above, totally dispelling them. He was under the impression he was speaking to Ukraine’s Petro Poroshenko as part of the gag.​ Here he plainly states that right now there is no chance for Poland, and likely the rest of NATO, in shooting down any Russian assets or joining the war​… In the slightly longer version, at the end he actually states: “We don’t want to confirm what Medvedev, Putin, and Russian propaganda has been accusing us of.” He’s saying that Poland does not want to validate the very reason behind Russia’s war on Ukraine, which is that the West intends to use Ukraine to directly attack Russia.​.. The relief, of course, is that Sikorski confirms: “There is no willingness in Europe to have a war with Russia, this is an absolute red line.”​…
    ..One of the problems is: major transnational conglomerates like BlackRock and the Soros Empire have all signed deals with Zelensky’s regime—and it’s in their great interest to keep those contracts active. Should Zelensky be removed, they know a new leader could annul their deals, causing trillions in future losses. Thus, it serves the cabal’s interests to keep as corrupt a regime in Ukraine in power as long as possible…
    ..The US will likely attempt to “sit on both chairs” by acceding to Ukraine’s demands to give them some more leeway in strikes, but still hoping to not provoke Russia into an uncontrollable or runaway escalatory spiral. This would logically entail Ukraine given conditional permission to strike certain conventional targets, but not anything even remotely sensitive, with a long list of red-line “no-gos” which would of course include things like nuclear plants, but even likely governmental or institutional structures, for instance—at the extreme end of the case—striking the Kremlin…
    ​..You’ll recall a couple reports ago I had detailed how the US itself may only have 1000-1500 total ATACMS in its inventory remaining and Ukraine was said to have received upwards of 200-300 of them… People are underestimating just how expensive the ATACMS is. At upwards of $1.5 to $1.7 million each, the total complement of ~300 would have cost around $500,000,000 dollars. The problem with this is that the US has very little military aid left to Ukraine, and its recent “packages” have been only a couple hundred million each, and that is needed to pay for a vast array of different types of ammunition for all systems​…
    ​..Of course, now there’s talk of JASSM missiles, and the above is merely the underscoring of the point I had made several articles ago where I stated that JASSMs do not represent some “new” wunderwaffe ability but rather the desperate measure of carrying over Ukrainian strike capability from the depleted ATACMS. The JASSMs are much cheaper, at reportedly $700k or so, and on top of that, the US has far more of them in stock—supposedly in the several thousands…
    ​..Lastly, let me state that despite the hubbub surrounding this, with many outlets reporting with near ‘certainty’ that permission is about to be, or has already been, granted, it seems to me like the opposite is the case, and Biden’s fear-stricken administration is flip-flopping as ever. The official statements today still resoundingly said “no policy change” is expected. My read is that they are desperately scrounging for some symbolic targets to allow Ukraine to hit, which can be approved with a secret backdoor handshake between Russia, where all parties can be satisfied.​..
    ​..One of the most significant revelations is that Sikorski states that the Trump team has privately told him Trump’s big “plan” to get Russia to agree to a ceasefire would essentially be to threaten Russia with escalation. This appears to confirm the rumors we’ve heard for a while and means that there’s no chance Trump could get Russia to actually accede because threats would be the last possible thing Russia would care about, particularly because this ‘escalation’ is claimed to be in the form of vastly increasing financial support to Ukraine. That would do nothing whatsoever—and Russia knows this—because you can print funny money but you can’t print arms, and US has little of significance left to really give Ukraine that could in any way affect the calculus of the war.​ https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/zelenskys-last-hail-mary-gets-off

    September 13, 2024 at 7:28 pm #168878
    John Day
    Participant

    ​ UK’s Starmer, Canada’s Trudeau, Pressure Biden To Escalate With Russia Despite Putin Warning Of ‘War’ With NATO
    Update(1450ET): Kirby came out on Friday and told reporters that there’s been no change in US policy regarding Ukraine using Western arms for long-rage strikes inside Russia. But the pressure is quickly ramping up: first Canada’s Trudeau said he supports greenlighting this, despite Putin making clear this would mean ‘direct war’ between Russia and NATO, and now UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer is coming out in support. According to breaking reporting in The Wall Street Journal​. https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russia-informs-un-security-council-direct-war-nato-assured-if-us-approves-long-range

    ​ Lavrov ridicules ‘divers on little boat’ Nord Stream-sabotage theory
    Those who believe such stories are “afraid of truth” and are shielding the Kiev regime, the Russian foreign minister said​ https://swentr.site/russia/603923-lavrov-ridicules-nord-stream-theory/

    ​ Britain saved tens of millions of pounds by sending scrapped equipment to Ukraine – FT
    ​ It is noted that a significant amount of British military equipment provided to Kyiv had little military value. However, sending such cargo to Ukraine, according to the publication, “reduced waste or costs associated with disposal.”​ https://en.topcor.ru/51456-britanija-sjekonomila-desjatki-millionov-funtov-otpraviv-na-ukrainu-podlezhaschuju-utilizacii-tehniku-i-snarjazhenie-ft.html

    South Africa to submit Gaza war crimes evidence to UN court​, The BRICS member accuses Israel of having committed multiple atrocities​ https://www.rt.com/africa/603840-south-africa-israel-genocide-case-evidence-icj/

    ​ ‘Everything around me was getting torn apart’: Israel commits another massacre in Gaza ‘safe zone’
    Israel committed another massacre in an area it has designated as a “safe zone.” The airstrikes buried entire families in the sand.​ https://mondoweiss.net/2024/09/everything-around-me-was-getting-torn-apart-israel-commits-another-massacre-in-gaza-safe-zone/

    September 13, 2024 at 7:29 pm #168879
    John Day
    Participant

    ​ New video, witnesses challenge Israel’s account of U.S. activist’s killing
    The IDF said Aysenur Eygi was shot “unintentionally” during a “violent riot.” A Post analysis shows clashes had subsided and protesters had retreated.
    ​ BEITA, West Bank — It was Aysenur Eygi’s first time at a West Bank demonstration, and she was nervous.
    The 26-year-old Turkish American told fellow activists she hoped to be a “protective presence” for Palestinians at a time of spiraling violence across the Israeli-occupied territory.
    ​ “We had both decided we did not want to be near any action at all,” said Helen, a volunteer from Australia in her early 60s who was with Eygi throughout the day.
    ​ Eygi’s caution did not protect her. She was fatally shot in the head on Friday in the village of Beita, near Nablus, following brief clashes after Friday prayers. The Israel Defense Forces said Tuesday it was “very likely” she had been hit “unintentionally” by one of its soldiers. “The incident took place during a violent riot,” the statement said, and the fire was aimed at “the key instigator.”
    ​ But a Washington Post investigation has found that Eygi was shot more than a half-hour after the height of confrontations in Beita, and some 20 minutes after protesters had moved down the main road — more than 200 yards away from Israeli forces. A Palestinian teenager, who witnesses say was standing about 20 yards from Eygi, was wounded by Israeli fire; the IDF would not say if he was a target.
    ​ Citing an ongoing investigation, the IDF also declined to answer questions from The Post about why its forces fired toward the demonstrators so long after they had retreated, and from a distance where they posed no apparent threat.​..
    ​..On Friday morning, activists said, Eygi and four other volunteers hired a taxi in Ramallah, the de facto Palestinian capital in the West Bank, and drove about 30 miles north to Beita, a familiar flash point.
    ​ Palestinians there have been battling for decades to hold off the steady advance of Israeli settlers.​..
    ​..Helen slipped and fell during “the scary race down the road,” at one point spraining her ankle, she said, but the younger woman stayed with her, “being a protective strength.”
    ​ A video filmed at 1:22 p.m. shows the road next to the olive grove. A shot rings out.
    “They’re shooting with regular guns!” an activist says off-camera in Japanese. Steven Beck, an audio forensic expert who consulted for the FBI and reviewed the footage for The Post, said the pop heard on the video was consistent with a gunshot — a finding corroborated by a second audio expert, Rob Maher.
    ​ A minute later, the British activist called Eygi to check where she was, according to a call log viewed by The Post. Eygi told him she had already made it down the hill to the olive grove.​ “Stay there,” he recalls telling her.
    ​ Helen positioned herself behind a tree, she said, with Eygi to her left…​..“Gunshot!” an unseen woman can be heard screaming in the background. She pleads for an ambulance.
    In the olive grove, Helen saw Eygi drop facedown to the ground beside her. The older woman rolled her over. Blood was pouring from the left side of Eygi’s head, she said, and she was unresponsive…
    ​..During her training with ISM, Eygi had spoken about her fear that she “wouldn’t make a difference,” fellow activists said. Her death has now become a test case for U.S.-Israel relations, after 11 months of growing tensions between the two allies over the war in Gaza and Israeli policy in the West Bank. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/09/11/american-activist-aysenur-eygi-killed-idf-west-bank/
    ​
    It certainly couldn’t have been done without them. Dick Cheney helped, too… Israel Did 9/11, W.M. Peterson https://truthblitzkrieg.com/2024/09/02/1379/

    Migrant Population In Charleroi, Pennsylvania Explodes 2,000% As Crisis Unfolds​ https://www.zerohedge.com/political/migrant-population-charleroi-pennsylvania-explodes-2000-crisis-unfolds

    Missed the special ​radio-coach-earrings at the debate, though… How to Steal an Election: US Conservatives Expose Democrats’ Playbook Ahead of 2024 Vote​ https://sputnikglobe.com/20240912/how-to-steal-an-election-us-conservatives-expose-democrats-playbook-ahead-of-2024-vote-1120119743.html

    ​ Charles Hugh Smith on our new paradoxical subjugation. What’s “Free” About “Free Speech”?
    Without being aware of it, we’ve privatized “free” speech in the form of digital monopolies. https://charleshughsmith.substack.com/p/whats-free-about-free-speech

    September 13, 2024 at 7:29 pm #168880
    John Day
    Participant

    Celia Farber explains Germany’s “Red Queen” court proceedings:
    Analysis By Joseph Molitorisz: Fuellmich Defense Denied Clarification Of What The Charge Against Him Is At This Point—Told To Wait Until Trial’s End?​ https://celiafarber.substack.com/p/analysis-by-joseph-molitorisz-fuellmich

    ​ Another write-up about last week’s “Attack On Food and Farmers and How To Fight Back” symposium:
    ‘Don’t Eat the Bugs’: How to Reclaim Control Over the Food System
    ​ “Attack on Food and Farmers and How to Fight Back,” a two-day symposium featuring 40-plus speakers, brought together doctors, journalists, researchers, farmers and politicians to discuss what’s happened to the global food system — and how to fix it.​ https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/attack-on-food-and-farmers-symposium-chd-door-to-freedom/

    ​ They actually were not stupid, and they had both Polynesian and Native-American genetics, so the Polynesians had gotten to the New World before Columbus. European diseases appear to have killed off the islanders. Genetic Evidence Overrules Ecocide Theory of Easter Island Once And For All https://www.sciencealert.com/genetic-evidence-overrules-ecocide-theory-of-easter-island-once-and-for-all

    September 13, 2024 at 7:35 pm #168881
    zerosum
    Participant

    Don’t talk in your sleep.
    You could be accused of uttering threats against the gov.

    https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/yearlong-criminal-trial-of-freedom-convoy-organizers-comes-to-an-end-1.7036615
    Yearlong criminal trial of ‘Freedom Convoy’ organizers comes to an end

    After 45 days of evidence and legal arguments the criminal trial of “Freedom Convoy” organizers Tamara Lich and Chris Barber is finally at an end.

    A verdict could be as much as six months away.

    September 13, 2024 at 9:34 pm #168886
    jb-hb
    Participant

    Thomas Sowell: “the problem with CO2 driven warming is that the warming occurred prior to CO2 rising. “

    https://www.startpage.com/av/proxy-image?piurl=https%3A%2F%2Fstatic.onepoliticalplaza.com%2Fupload%2F2024%2F6%2F29%2F321571-july_statewide_high_temp.jpg&sp=1726263156Ta3ab2e89da8b7bf1ca983be3b2f53f3c3c747b8ca06e65ca6621c8431352f479

    Fact-Check: United Nations • Climate change refers to long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns. Human activities have been the main driver of climate change, primarily due to the burning of fossil fuels like coal, oil and gas.

    September 13, 2024 at 10:02 pm #168887
    Dr D Rich
    Participant

    What do you prefer, a memorial in Moscow or a prime cut of that $10 million?

    Here’s an oblique letter to Scott “Journalist Dissident” from X.

      US REPORTER AND ZELENSKY CRITIC REMEMBERED IN MOSCOW A memorial for American reporter Gonzalo Lira, who died in a Ukrainian prison on January 12, has been set up near the US Embassy in Moscow. Lira, a critic of NATO, the Biden administration, and Volodymyr Zelensky, reportedly faced torture, extortion, and medical neglect. A memorial poster reads: “Free speech is a threat to American democracy.” Lira, detained by Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) in May 2023, had severe health issues, including pneumonia and edema, which were ignored by authorities, according to a letter to his sister.

    Not all the comments on X are sympathetic to Gonzalo Lira’s saga especially this one:

      Lira is no hero, no journalist. before the war he was a dating guru, posting sleazy videos on youtube. he was married to a russian and lived near the russian border iirr. he was allegedly arrested for posting wartime info about Ukraine useful to russia.

    That sounds like The UN Weapons inspector.
    Is Ritter posting and publishing under a pseudonym now?

    If you get all or part of $10 million dollars, do you also get a monument in lieu of a memorial?

    September 13, 2024 at 10:02 pm #168888
    Dr D Rich
    Participant

    https://x.com/MarioNawfal/status/1834244344557064491

    September 13, 2024 at 10:07 pm #168889
    jb-hb
    Participant

    “Well, the thing is, with Fascism, sure, government and corporations merge, but they aren’t nice like Socialism, instead, they’re big meanies who don’t care about The (deplorable) Poors and….”

    …oh no.

    The National Socialist WELFARE STATE:

    for popout
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qUMnPhR_Hk

    The nazis can’t be socialists because
    1) I am a socialist.
    2) I am a good person.
    3) The nazis were not good persons.
    4.) Therefore the nazis couldn’t possibly share any of my politics. As we all know, the way the world works is ‘the person who shares the most words in common with the nazis loses’. I don’t want to lose, so the nazis were not socialists and I remain a good person

    September 13, 2024 at 10:43 pm #168890
    oxymoron
    Participant

    Jb hb You nailed it. I’m actually glad you joined those obvious dots for my lazy tired brain. (I’ve been playing a lot of music).
    Simple instructions like these are socialism help to destroy arguments that are being espoused waaaaaaaasay too often here in testing bed Australia.
    Our new censorship bill is fucking astonishing.

    September 13, 2024 at 11:27 pm #168892
    Dr D Rich
    Participant

    Where Richard Blumenthal, Roman Catholic D-Senator Conn., sets the table until kingdom come.
    Richard might even fit DeeBS and Drds definition of Liar and he demonstrated the stripes and backbone similar to Ike Eisenhower. Richard The Dick Blumenthal served out The Vietnam War in the rice paddies and exotic Vietnam provinces named Connecticut, and Washington D.C.. USMC reservist, made Man and Future Centimllionaire achieved one rank higher than Sen. JD Hamel Vance, SGT while wrapping himself in the vainglorious Dartos Tunic of combat service while, you know, never ever seving in combat.
    Richard apologized.

    So sorry.
    All’s fair in love and war.
    Catholics are wont to do that.

    Oh yeah, the table set by Richard “Richie Rich” Blumenthal:

      Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn), told reporters that lawmakers “will have a report very, very soon that I think will absolutely shock the American people about the lapses and lags in protection that was afforded that day and the breakdown in communication, failure and responsibility

    Notice, Richard is:
    1. Not naming names.
    2. Passive voice
    3. Carrying the water (Hersh, Colon Powell)
    4. Making the case for a non-apology apology noteworthy only for its emptiness.

    More about Richard Blumenthal’s bonafides for the task at hand and that is a response to Melania Trump’s public demand for a bonafide investigation into the assassination attempt on her husband. After all, the precedent was set in 1963, 1968 and 1999 as TPTB and Deep State murdered a non-Jew President and in succession his brother, 1968, and son, 1999.

    More on Richard The Dickhead Blumenthal

      From 1970 to 1976, Blumenthal served in the United States Marine Corps Reserve, attaining the rank of sergeant. (((Wow! A Yale guy like JD)))

      Dick ONLY received 5 Draft deferments. (((Most of those went to Christian Catholics btw, numbers))

      A Made Man from Mommy’s Money and member of the Democratic Party, he is one of the wealthiest members of the Senate,[3] with a net worth over $100 million. He was Attorney General of Connecticut from 1991 to 2011.

      During his 2010 Senate campaign, news report videos that showed Blumenthal claiming he had served in Vietnam created a controversy. He denied having intentionally misled voters, but acknowledged having occasionally “misspoken” about his service record. He later apologized to voters for remarks about his military service that he said had not been “clear or precise”.

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