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No More Debates – Trump (RT)
No More Debates, No More Mistakes (Quoth the Raven)
What You Don’t Know Might Surprise You (Kunstler)
The Trump-Kamala “Debate” Left Untouched What Is Really At Stake (PCR)
Russia Warns NATO of ‘Direct War’ Over Ukraine (RT)
Putin’s Warning Heard Loud And Clear – Kremlin (RT)
War Is Upon Us or Will Putin Blink Again (Paul Craig Roberts)
Musk Channels Star Wars Over WWIII Threat (RT)
Ukraine a Non-Sovereign State Ruled by ‘Political Frankenstein’ Zelensky (Sp.)
NATO Plans to Send Troops to Ukraine to Force Russia Into Talks – Moscow (Sp.)
‘Negotiation’ Only Way To End Ukraine, Gaza Conflicts – Beijing (RT)
The Big Collapse Awaits (Paul Craig Roberts)
Brazil Seizes Musk’s Money (RT)
The Folly of Criminalizing “Hate” (Njoya)

 

 

 

 

He wants them all to see
https://twitter.com/i/status/1834372286184570982

 

 

Hat

 

 

Overtime

 

 

Bongino
https://twitter.com/i/status/1834350085909741738

 

 

Blumenthal
https://twitter.com/i/status/1834436362046472646

 

 

Jesse

 

 

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She/they sort of seemed to have a lead there for a fleeting second, but handed the baton right back to him. Now it’s his call, not theirs.

NOTE: They should have a debate on X.

No More Debates – Trump (RT)

Former US President Donald Trump has ruled out another debate with Kamala Harris, comparing the vice president to a boxer who lost a fight and wants a rematch. Harris, who rejected two earlier debate offers from Trump, said the two candidates “owe it to the voters” to face off again. Harris was widely regarded as winning Tuesday night’s ABC News debate against Trump, although subsequent polls have shown little change in voter attitudes and several informal surveys found undecided voters backing Trump after the primetime showdown. The vice president’s campaign immediately called for a second debate, and Trump appeared open to the idea, telling Fox News on Wednesday that he would take part, but only if the debate was hosted by “a fair network.” In a post to his Truth Social platform on Thursday, however, the Republican announced that he wouldn’t debate his Democratic rival again.

“When a prizefighter loses a fight, the first words out of his mouth are, ‘I WANT A REMATCH’,” Trump wrote.“Polls clearly show that I won the debate against Comrade Kamala Harris, the Democrats’ radical left candidate, on Tuesday night, and she immediately called for a second debate.” “She was a no-show at the Fox Debate, and refused to do NBC and CBS,” Trump continued, concluding: “KAMALA SHOULD FOCUS ON WHAT SHE SHOULD HAVE DONE DURING THE LAST ALMOST FOUR YEAR PERIOD. “We owe it to the voters to have another debate,” Harris’ campaign wrote on X on Thursday. Trump initially asked Harris to agree to three debates: one hosted by Fox News on September 4, another hosted by ABC on September 10, and a third hosted by NBC News on an unconfirmed date.

Harris’ campaign only agreed to the ABC debate, although Trump wavered about committing to this showdown, accusing the network of “ridiculous and biased” coverage of him. Throughout the debate, Trump was repeatedly interrupted and fact-checked by ABC hosts David Muir and Linsey Davis, the latter of whom was a member of Harris’ sorority in Howard University in Washington. Harris was not subjected to the same fact-checking, despite both candidates making misleading claims. “So many things I said were debunked, like totally debunked,” Trump told Fox News on Wednesday. “But she could say anything she wanted. My stuff was right, but they would correct you,” he continued, calling the debate “totally rigged.”

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“..news networks don’t deserve the ratings of another debate or the trust of the American people..”

No More Debates, No More Mistakes (Quoth the Raven)

Strategically, I think the Trump campaign is making the right decision by saying there will not be a third debate. It could be strategy to get terms he wants for another debate, but I’m hoping it is what it appears to be on its face, closing the book on further debates. Trump didn’t “win” the first debate, but I don’t think that’s why he’s not agreeing to another debate. And I know a lot of people are going to write this off as Trump being scared to debate Kamala Harris again, but I think we all know that’s not the case. I believe this is the right move, likely being made for multiple strategic reasons which I want to explain. First, let’s not forget that Kamala Harris has had ample opportunity to agree to another debate already but has chosen not to do so. She declined offers from networks like NBC and Fox in advance of the first debate and only brought up the idea of another debate after the last one. Her lack of courage and indecision in not agreeing to another debate should rightfully come back to bite her in the ass. Harris wants another bite at the apple because she didn’t do as badly as everybody thought she would, and now she can’t have it because she didn’t believe in herself enough to agree to terms ahead of time. Tough rocks for her.

Second, not doing a debate pigeonholes Harris to the poor policy explanations and reasoning she put forth in the last debate. The entire world watched both candidates this week, and though Harris may have performed better artistically, she came up light on policy prescriptions and details on her plans are for crucial issues like the economy and immigration. This was reflected in several post-debate interviews, including ones from Reuters and CNN, where independent voters were not swayed to her side. She was given a chance to talk policy and thought it would be far more useful to take jabs at Donald Trump instead. As I noted the night of the debate, this may have been a short-term success, but as the hours turn to days after the last debate and independent-minded critical thinkers start looking for more substance, it’s going to backfire.

Third, Harris’s team was asking for provisions and rule changes up to the very last minute of the debate. Putting aside the fact that Trump already did another debate with an entirely different candidate before knocking him out of the race after agreeing to the rules set by the Democratic Party, Harris tried to change the rules of the ABC debate all the way up until the last minute, asking for mics to be live on the day of. As I’ve commented before, Democrats are obsessed with micromanaging every last detail of these debates and their candidate because they lack significant substance on policy. Harris’ appearance was more of a successful public relations event than it was an opportunity to explain her policy positions to the American people. Trump, so far, has done two debates on enemy territory, CNN and ABC, and has not been shy about taking interviews or holding press conferences throughout his entire campaign. Putting policy aside in favor of nitpicky tactics of trying to modify every last detail so the opposing airhead candidate has her best chance to deliver some type of catchphrase or polish on her flip flops is simply not something Republicans need to put up with again.

Fourth, the next debate will be the vice presidential debate, and JD Vance is far more articulate in explaining policy positions than Donald Trump is. If policy is going to rule the day, I’m certain Vance will out-joust Tim Walz. I’m basing this on watching both of their media appearances over the last month or so and common-sense policy prescriptions that I think most Americans in the middle are looking for. Not having another presidential debate shows the Republicans’ confidence in JD Vance, and frankly, I think he’s going to do a significantly better job than Trump did. It’ll make the vice presidential debate the official sendoff for both sides heading into the general election. Tim Walz can brush up on how best to spin his way through sounding like his administration actually has policy ideas, but I’m not sure there’s anything he can do to keep pace with Vance in a debate.

Finally, news networks don’t deserve the ratings of another debate or the trust of the American people, whether Democrats know it or not. The previous debate was so blindingly biased towards Harris, both in the lines of questioning and in how the moderators interjected on her behalf, that network news in general doesn’t deserve to be trusted with another debate. Megyn Kelly said it best in her post-debate analysis when she stated that Republicans should never agree to another debate after what took place this week. As I’ve noted, I think the American public will see the objective truth that this was an ambush on Donald Trump and not an objective forum for two candidates to debate each other on the merits.

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“Prepare to duck-and-cover, or possibly to put your head between your legs and kiss your ass goodbye.”

What You Don’t Know Might Surprise You (Kunstler)

Now, as for the Harris-Trump debate, otherwise, and given the rigged features of the exercise, it’s obvious that Mr. Trump muffed several major scoring opportunities. When Ms. Harris dredged up the notorious hoax about “very fine people on both sides” in Charlottesville, Mr. Trump could have addressed the moderators, David Muir and Linsey Davis and asked them why they did not “fact-check” the utterance, which had been thoroughly debunked by the Left-wing site Snopes.com, advertising itself as “the definitive Internet reference source for researching urban legends, folklore, myths, rumors, and misinformation.” Nor did they fact check the likewise debunked “suckers and losers” hoax about US soldiers supposedly uttered by Mr. Trump at the Normandy D-Day cemetery. Actually, Muir and Davis “fact-checked” Mr. Trump over thirty times and Ms. Harris hardly at all.

In any case, Mr. Trump blew many other chances to pin Ms. Harris with her own lies and hypocrisies — like, failing to state plainly that in nearly four years she never actually visited the Mexican border (whatever her designated title was: “Border Czar,” “Root Causes Detective”) . . . failing to clarify that the president has been removed from the abortion debate altogether and has no role in telling women what to do with their own bodies under current law. . . that Ms. Harris’s voteless selection as nominee was a paradigmatic affront to “our democracy” that even her own fellow party members ought to recognize . . . that the War in Ukraine was actually started in early 2014 by Barack Obama, Victoria Nuland, and the CIA, not by Mr. Putin . . . and omitting to state that all — every last one — of the 2020 election lawsuits across the nation were dismissed on procedural grounds and not on the merits of their arguments, which were never heard in court.

That’s just a short list. It is also rumored that Ms. Harris got the debate questions beforehand, since her husband, Hollywood lawyer Doug Emhoff, is a close friend of Dana Walden, Co-chair of the Disney Corporation board of directors (Disney owns ABC-News.) Anyway, that much-awaited event is over now and we are into the homestretch of this election. Kamala Harris has still shown no disposition to meet the press, to answer any questions impromptu and unscripted. The voting public seems to be losing patience with that. Her poll numbers are sinking, despite her admirable ability to speak in declarative sentences and lead joyful laugh-fests.

What remains for our sore-beset country beyond that vortex of nefarious blobbery and balloting lawfare is the interesting development that our government is now pressing to commence World War Three before the election can happen. “Joe Biden,” of course, is lately as absent from the public consciousness as Rutherford B. Hayes, but whoever acts in the president’s name these days just gave permission for Ukraine to strike targets inside Russia with long-range missiles. So far, the UK and the Netherlands have officially jumped in on that decision. Note that the Ukrainians have no ability to actually do the targeting of said missile themselves, which involves satellite technology, meaning whatever missiles happen to get fired into Russia will be done by NATO personnel. Mr. Putin has made it clear that such action will have consequences. We might infer that means Russia will strike back at some NATO targets. I must imagine his primary target will be NATO headquarters in Brussels. Other targets would probably follow, perhaps even in the USA. Prepare to duck-and-cover, or possibly to put your head between your legs and kiss your ass goodbye.

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“It is about who controls the US government–the people or the ruling elites.”

The Trump-Kamala “Debate” Left Untouched What Is Really At Stake (PCR)

What we need to understand about American presidential elections is that normally the candidates of both parties are chosen by the ruling elites. Therefore, it matters not to them who is elected. Trump is hated by the ruling elites because he took the nomination away from their list of approved Republican candidates in 2016, and they have been trying to get rid of him ever since. Trump is dangerous to the ruling establishment because he says he stands with the people against them. In other words, this is not an election contest between Republicans and Democrats. It is about who controls the US government–the people or the ruling elites.

I can say with complete confidence that for many decades the universities and law schools have undermined Americans’ beliefs in the US Constitution and in the belief system that is the basis of the United States. This undermining has had an effect on the American population. Democrat members of the population are convinced that white Americans, especially if they are southerners, are racists who have oppressed black Americans. They are also convinced that men oppress women. They are also convinced that the concept of sexual perversion is bigotry. The Democrats project all these alleged faults of white people not on their own white selves but onto Republican voters–“Trump deplorables” in Hillary Clinton’s words. So, Trump has two targets on his back. The ideological one of being a white male who oppresses blacks and women and the upstart who challenges the rule of the military/security complex, Wall Street, Big Pharma, and the other interest groups including the Israel Lobby whose money elects the members of the House and Senate.

Very few, including Trump, dare to admit the Israel Lobby’s control of the US government. That control is manifest in Netanyahu, a war criminal with a policy of genocide, being invited to address the House and Senate and being received with 53 standing ovations. The members of the House and Senate understand that they are in office due to the campaign contributions of their donors. Therefore, they are responsive to the donors whose money elects them, not to the people who vote. They understand that if they take issue with official narratives, they will lost office. As Kamala has not challenged the ruling establishment and as she is female and part black, she is immune to the ideological denunciation. Trump is at the disadvantage, because accused of being a racist and a misogynist, he proves the point when he attacks Kamala, who is free to sit there and gaslight the American public.

CNN’s “instant poll” following the Trump-Kamala “debate” assigns victory to Kamala by a 63% to 37% margin. In actual fact, there is no debate. There is a carefully constructed list of questions prepared by a partisan media that representatives of the presstitute media ask the candidates. The questions are artfully constructed to aid the preferred candidate. Sometimes the questioners even jump in and aid the favored candidate in “correcting” the unfavored candidate. It is likely that the favored candidate is provided with the questions in advance. The entire purpose of the “debate” is to aid the theft by boosting the image of the preferred candidate. The reason RINO Republicans such as Republican Senate Leader Mitch McConnell are opposed to Trump is that they prefer a candidate that is as acceptable to the ruling elites as the Democrat candidate. Be sure to understand that what you are seeing in the Trump-Kamala contest is the ruling elite’s determination to have its candidate in office, not the people’s candidate.

Of course, many American voters are too insouciant to understand the process and the stakes, and enough of them vote for the candidate of the ruling elite to keep the ruling elite in power and the people out of power. This is what Trump is up against. Possibly, Trump has gained more realization than voters of how elections are rigged whether or not votes are stolen. What is at stake is not a political party’s platform. What is at stake is who rules–the people or the elites. The answer is seldom the people. Even when the elite’s candidate loses, they continue to rule by filling up the winning candidate’s administration with their people, as they did Trump, and they continue to control majorities in the House and Senate, irrespective of party. Trump is not perfect. My view is that if the people do not support him, never again will a candidate of either party dare speak for the people. If Trump is again denied office, what has been done to Trump for the last eight years will be a lesson for all future political candidates: Get on the wrong side of the elite, and you will be crucified–and the people will not come to your aid.

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“If such a decision is made, that means NATO countries are starting an open war against Russia..”

Russia Warns NATO of ‘Direct War’ Over Ukraine (RT)

Granting Kiev permission to use Western-supplied weapons would constitute direct involvement in the Ukraine conflict by NATO, Russia’s envoy to the UN, Vassily Nebenzia, has said. Moscow will treat any such attack as coming from the US and its allies directly, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday, explaining that long-range weapons rely on Western intelligence and targeting solutions, neither of which Ukraine is capable of. NATO countries would “start an open war” with Russia if they allow Ukraine to use long-range weapons, Nebenzia told the UN Security Council on Friday.

“If such a decision is made, that means NATO countries are starting an open war against Russia,” Moscow’s envoy said. “In that case, we will obviously be forced to make certain decisions, with all the attendant consequences for Western aggressors.” “Our Western colleagues will not be able to dodge responsibility and blame Kiev for everything,” Nebenzia added. “Only NATO troops can program the flight solutions for those missile systems. Ukraine doesn’t have that capability. This is not about allowing Kiev to strike Russia with long-range weapons, but about the West making the targeting decisions.”

Russia considers it irrelevant that Ukrainian nationalists would technically be the ones pulling the trigger, Nebenzia explained. “NATO would become directly involved in military action against a nuclear power. I don’t think I have to explain what consequences that would have,” he said. The US and its allies placed some restrictions on the use of their weapons, so they could claim not to be directly involved in the conflict with Russia, while arming Ukraine to the tune of $200 billion. Multiple Western outlets have reported that the limitations might be lifted this week, as US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and British Foreign Secretary David Lammy visited Kiev. Russia has repeatedly warned the West against such a course of action.

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“..if the West allows Kiev to hit targets deep inside Russia, “this will mean that NATO countries, the US, European countries are fighting against Russia..”

Putin’s Warning Heard Loud And Clear – Kremlin (RT)

The West has received and understood the latest warning by Russian President Vladimir Putin, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said on Friday. Putin stated earlier that allowing Ukraine to use Western-supplied weapons to hit targets deep inside Russia would make these countries directly involved in the conflict. The UK was the first country to announce the shipment of its own long-range missiles to Ukraine in May 2023, followed by France several months later. Washington revealed that it had supplied Kiev with ATACMS missiles this spring. However, Kiev’s backers have publicly prohibited Ukraine from using the weapons against targets located deep inside internationally recognized Russian territory. Kiev has been demanding that these limitations be lifted since at least May. Several media outlets have suggested that Washington and London will soon do so, or secretly have already.

Speaking to reporters on Friday, Peskov described Putin’s latest warning as “very important.” The Russian president’s statement was “clear, unequivocal, and doesn’t lend itself to multiple interpretations,” the spokesman said. He added that “we have no doubt that this statement has reached its recipients.” On Thursday, Putin explained that the Ukrainian military lacks the capabilities to use Western long-range systems and requires intelligence from NATO satellites and Western military personnel to operate them. In light of this, if the West allows Kiev to hit targets deep inside Russia, “this will mean that NATO countries, the US, European countries are fighting against Russia,” he said.

“Their direct participation [in the Ukraine conflict], of course, significantly changes the very essence, the very nature” of the hostilities, the president stressed. Putin added that Russia will “make the appropriate decisions based on the threats facing us.” Ahead of their visit to Kiev earlier this week, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy hinted that their countries could give Ukraine the green light for long-range strikes on Russian territory with British and American missiles.

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“The insane recklessness of Collective Biden..”

https://gilbertdoctorow.substack.com/p/the-insane-recklessness-of-collective

War Is Upon Us or Will Putin Blink Again (Paul Craig Roberts)

Gilbert Doctorow, a cautious commentator, has arrived at a position similar to my own. On September 10, Doctorow wrote in his article, “The insane recklessness of Collective Biden,” that “I cannot say how close we are to midnight on the nuclear war watch. But a Third World War fought at least initially with conventional weapons is now just days, at most weeks away.” What has pushed the cautious Dr. Doctorow to my position “is the near certainty that the United States and Britain have just agreed to give the Zelensky regime permission to use the long-range missiles which have been delivered to Ukraine, certainly including Storm Shadow and likely also the 1500 km range stealth missile known as JASSM to strike deep into the Russian heartland, and so ‘to bring the war to Russia’ as the Zelensky gang put it.” Doctorow reasons that Russia’s destruction of Ukraine’s army has prompted the neoconned Biden regime into one last desperate and reckless act of trying to deprive Russia of its victory “by escalating the conflict to a world war.”

Simultaneously with this US idiocy of underwriting missile attacks deep into Russia, Doctorow believes that “the United States has given Israel the go-ahead to launch a full-blown war on Lebanon.” This despite the fact that Lebanon has Iran’s protection, and Iran has Russia’s protection. So, we have at hand two prospects for the outbreak of major wars that will go nuclear. Extraordinary, isn’t it, that there is no discussion whatsoever of this duel crisis in the Western media or in the “debate” between Trump and Kamala. It is as if the US has no foreign policy experts and no Russian experts, but only supporters of the official narrative. The controlled narrative world in which we live makes us blind to reality. Indeed, it does seem that we do live in The Matrix in which there are no explanations other than the fraudulent ones protected by “fact checkers” in the official narratives.

Doctorow concludes that “a presently localized conflict in the Middle East can in a flash become a regional war that in a further flash becomes a second front to the war between the United States and Russia which I foretold above when speaking about Ukraine.” Doctorow is a person with whom I can agree. But I have a doubt. Just as for eight years Putin was lost in his delusion about the Minsk Agreement and failed to prepare for the coming conflict, and just as Putin seems yet to realize that he is at war with NATO, not conducting a “limited military operation in Donbas,” and just as Putin has refused to realize that by conducting a never-ending war he has permitted the West to become totally involved, thus changing the character of the conflict and vastly expanding it, can it be that Putin is still in denial of reality and does not see the war that is unfolding, partly because of his own inaction?

With the Russian media itself reporting that the Chinese are cooperating with Washington’s sanctions against Russia and refusing to handle Russian/Chinese financial transactions, thus accepting Washington’s wedge into the purported Chinese-Russian alliance, perhaps Washington will prevail over those who challenged the American hegemonic order but were unwilling to move forward with their challenge. Putin’s problem is that he is a mid-20th century American liberal who believes in good will. His Western opponent is operating on the Marxist principle that violence is the only effective force in history.

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“..X account Wall Street Silver, which warned that the US is “expected to launch WW3 this weekend and authorize attacks deep in Russian territory.”

Musk Channels Star Wars Over WWIII Threat (RT)

US entrepreneur Elon Musk has reacted with foreboding to President Vladimir Putin’s warning to NATO about the consequences of potential long-range strikes against Russia with weapons provided by the US-led military bloc. Putin said on Thursday that Ukraine would depend on satellite intelligence and programming by NATO specialists to enable long-range strikes deep into Russia. Any such attacks “will mean that NATO nations, the US and European countries, are at war with Russia,” he stated. Musk shared a video of Putin’s remarks posted by the popular X account Wall Street Silver, which warned that the US is “expected to launch WW3 this weekend and authorize attacks deep in Russian territory.”

“I have a bad feeling about this,” the billionaire commented, using a catchphrase popularized by the Star Wars character Han Solo upon seeing the Death Star space station. Ukraine has been asking for the capability to strike targets deep inside Russia with Western weapons for months, claiming that the lack of permission to do so has undermined its positions on the front line. UK Prime Minister Kier Starmer is meeting with US President Joe Biden in Washington on Friday, where they will discuss relaxing restrictions on Ukraine’s use of long-range Western weapons.

The meeting comes after US Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited Kiev with his British counterpart, David Lammy. Both NATO members have provided long-range weapons to Ukraine, which have been used against targets inside territories that Kiev claims, but not inside internationally-recognized Russian territory. The original post with Putin’s remarks attribute personal responsibility for a possible outbreak of a world war to Biden and US Vice President Kamala Harris, who is also the Democratic Party’s nominee in the upcoming presidential election. Musk is a supporter of Republican candidate Donald Trump. The former president has accused his opponents of putting the world at risk of a nuclear war during his campaign.

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The opposition. What’s left of it.

Ukraine a Non-Sovereign State Ruled by ‘Political Frankenstein’ Zelensky (Sp.)

Chairman of the Council of the Other Ukraine movement Viktor Medvedchuk gave an interview to EADaily on September 12 about the causes of the Ukrainian crisis, Russia’s mission and the destructive influence of the collective West. “For a long time an independent Ukraine has not been existing politically, economically, or legally,” Ukrainian opposition politician and Chairman of the Council of the Other Ukraine movement Viktor Medvedchuk told EA Daily. “The country is ruled by an illegitimate president who has usurped power, becoming a dictator.” The Western-backed Euromaidan coup d’etat of 2014 dealt a heavy blow to Ukrainian sovereignty and legitimate power. For 30 years the West has fuelled anti-Russian sentiment, distorted history and facilitated the rise of Nazism in Ukraine.

The Minsk agreements of 2015 corresponded to EU interests, but the UK and US, who sought to start a war, deliberately disrupted the settlement process. Washington’s plan was “to destabilize the situation on Russia’s borders, and then inside Russia. The first step succeeded, the second did not. The US managed to break Ukraine and Europe, but not Russia.” In 2020 Ukraine got a chance to nullify the adverse consequences of the 2014 regime change through democratic means. “Our party ‘Opposition Platform – For Life’ won local elections in 2020, after we were ranked second in the 2019 parliamentary elections, and began to lead in polls across the country,” Medvedchuk said.

But in February 2021 the Zelensky regime illegally blocked broadcasting of opposition channels, slapped sanctions on Medvedchuk and his wife, groundlessly accused him of treason and arrested him in May 2021. Other Ukrainian opposition politicians were also subjected to persecution. The special military operation in Ukraine would not have begun if Zelensky had abandoned the idea of joining NATO.The situation in Ukraine and in the world will improve after the West stops pouring billions into propping up Zelensky, who is a “political Frankenstein”.

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They mean talks on Zelensky’s “peace plan.” Not going to happen.

But you just wait till the first German and French troops come home in body bags. That’ll change the mood at home.

NATO Plans to Send Troops to Ukraine to Force Russia Into Talks – Moscow (Sp.)

NATO countries are making plans to send their troops to Ukraine in order to ensure conditions to force Russia to hold talks in line with Kiev’s formulas, Russian Deputy Defense Minister Alexander Fomin said at the opening of the 11th Xiangshan Security Forum in Beijing. “In order to ensure conditions for forcibly coercing Russia into negotiations in line with Kiev’s formulas, NATO countries are making plans to send their troops to Ukraine. This is a dangerous game that could lead to a direct military clash between nuclear powers,” Fomin said.

Russian weapons have proven their effectiveness in combat conditions, Alexander Fomin said. “Russian weapons have fully proven their effectiveness in combat conditions, while Western weapons systems, which allegedly have high tactical and technical characteristics… burn perfectly on the battlefield with no chance of recovery,” Fomin said. The United States is actively working on a new version of its nuclear doctrine, in which the threshold for the use of nuclear weapons can be significantly lowered, Fomin said.

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“..nations should “never interfere in other countries’ internal affairs, never violate other countries’ rights and interests.”

‘Negotiation’ Only Way To End Ukraine, Gaza Conflicts – Beijing (RT)

Negotiating is the only solution to the Ukraine and Gaza conflicts, Chinese Defense Minister Dong Jun said at the opening ceremony of the Beijing Xiangshan Forum on defense and security. The annual event is hosting around 20 defense ministers and 700 delegates from around 100 countries this year, including representatives from Moscow and Kiev. The senior official called on world powers to promote peace through facilitating political settlements of conflicts. “To resolve hotspot issues such as the crisis in Ukraine and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, promoting peace and negotiation is the only way out. There is no winner in war and conflict, and confrontation leads nowhere,” Dong said, calling on all countries to promote “peaceful development and inclusive governance.”

The more acute the conflict, the more we cannot give up dialogue and consultation. The end of any conflict is reconciliation. According to Dong, in order to solve regional tensions, neighboring countries should “seek strength through unity,” and on the global scale, nations should “never interfere in other countries’ internal affairs, never violate other countries’ rights and interests.” “Major countries must take the lead in safeguarding global security, abandon a zero-sum mindset, and refrain from bullying the small and the weak,” he stated. China has repeatedly said that the conflict between Russia and Ukraine must be resolved through negotiations.

This May, along with BRICS partner Brazil, it presented a six-point proposal on a diplomatic settlement to the crisis. The plan highlighted diplomacy as the sole means to bring about peace and advocated for an international summit that both Russia and Ukraine would attend. A previous conference in Switzerland this summer was held without Russia and focused solely on Kiev’s demands, which Moscow has outright rejected. Russia, which has often expressed eagerness to resolve the Ukraine conflict diplomatically, had previously signaled that it would welcome the Chinese-Brazilian plan as a foundation for a potential peace settlement. Kiev, however, refused to consider the initiative. Speaking to Metropoles news outlet earlier this week, Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky called the proposal “destructive,” and accused Beijing and Brasilia of “colluding” with Russia.

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“..the Federal Reserve, where there has never been any intelligence. Today there is no sign of intelligence anywhere in the US government..”

The Big Collapse Awaits (Paul Craig Roberts)

In the 1970s when I served in the congressional staff and in the 1980s when I served in the executive branch, there was still some intelligence in the US government, with the exception of the Federal Reserve, where there has never been any intelligence. Today there is no sign of intelligence anywhere in the US government. That fact is documented every day on my website. As I recently reported, about 900,000 new jobs that had been claimed over the preceding year have just disappeared in a revision. A further downward revision could follow. These non-existent jobs were the Federal Reserve’s evidence for a hot inflation-prone economy justifying high interest rates. All the time the Fed was preaching inflation, the Fed was contracting the money supply, a contraction that has been underway for 2.5 years. This in itself is proof that the “inflation” was really higher prices caused by the shortages the senseless Covid lockdowns caused.

In other words, the higher prices were due to mandated shortages, not to inflation. A central bank too stupid to recognize this is too stupid to justify its existence. Whenever the Fed contracts the money supply recession follows. If the contraction is too large and lasts too long, as it was following the 1929 stock market crash, the result is a decade of depression and high unemployment. A contraction in the money supply means that the same level of economic activity and employment cannot be maintained at the same level of prices. Either economic activity and employment fall or prices fall. Historically, it has been economic activity and employment that fall first, and prices follow. Generally, that means profits fall. Now that it has dawned on the dummies at the Fed that they have set a recession in place, the talk is interest rate reductions. Wall Street is salivating over a possible half of one percent beginning.

For Wall Street, a reduction in interest rates means an increase in money, and it is liquidity increases that drive stock prices higher. What usually happens is that stock prices rise in expectation of the Fed loosening, but by the time the Fed loosens the economy is in a recession. So stock prices rise while profits fall, with the market banking on recovery to bring profits up to the level implied by the stock prices that have jumped the gun. Things, however, can go wrong. Expectations of lower interest rates is a signal to start up home building. But if a recession is in place, who is going to be purchasing homes? If the builders’ loans are due before the houses sell, the builder goes bust. In today’s immigrant-invader overrun America, there is a new consideration. According to even presstitute media reports, in blue cities immigrant invader gangs are seizing homes and apartment buildings, and soon, if not already, newly constructed homes.

If you are sufficiently stupid to live in a blue city, you can go to the grocery store and return to find your home occupied by immigrant-invaders. The police will not remove them. If you are stupid enough to live in a blue city, what this means is that you cannot risk going shopping, or to a medical appointment, or to pick up your kids from the school that indoctrinates them unless you hire a security service to occupy your home in your absence. You cannot possibly risk your home by going on a vacation. Builders will have to provide armed security for nearly finished homes, apartments, or any type of structure. No, I am not delusional. This is what is already happening. Keep in mind also my reports on The Great Dispossession. Federal regulators have taken away your ownership of your investments and bank account and given them, in the event that your depository institution enters financial difficulties, to the creditors of your depository institution.

This is what is meant by a “bail-in.” If you thought you didn’t need to read my articles, you made a mistake. Use the search feature and find them. To be clear, we already own nothing if there is another financial difficulty. Given the Federal Reserve’s record, such a difficulty is certain. Will it be this time, or the next time, or the one after?

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“..He also froze Starlink’s assets, calling it part of a “de facto economic group” with X..”

Brazil Seizes Musk’s Money (RT)

The Brazilian Supreme Court has unblocked the bank accounts of X and Starlink, only to withdraw $3.3 million from them in order to enforce a fine levied against Elon Musk’s social media platform. Judge Alexandre de Moraes banned X’s operations in Brazil at the end of August. He also froze Starlink’s assets, calling it part of a “de facto economic group” with X. “With the full payment of the amount due, [de Moraes] considered that there was no longer any need to keep the bank accounts blocked and ordered the immediate unblocking of the bank accounts/financial assets, motor vehicles and real estate of the aforementioned companies,” the court said in a statement on Friday. According to the court, a total of 18.35 million Brazilian reals (around $3.3 million) was withdrawn from both accounts, of which 11 million was from Starlink and the rest from X.

The companies were fined “for not removing content after an order from the [court] in ongoing investigations, in addition to having removed its legal representatives from Brazil,” the court said. Musk has not yet commented on the seizure of the funds. Earlier this month, he said the blocking of Starlink’s accounts was “absolutely illegal” since it was a separate company with different shareholders. The tech magnate also threatened to go after Brazilian state assets in retaliation. “Unless the Brazilian government returns the illegally seized property of X and SpaceX, we will seek reciprocal seizure of government assets too,” Musk wrote at the time. “Hope Lula enjoys flying commercial,” he added, referring to Brazilian President Luis Ignacio Lula da Silva. De Moraes has also threatened a fine of 50,000 Brazilian reals ($8,874) per day against anyone who used a virtual private network (VPN) to access X.

There have been no reports of the fine being enforced, however, and multiple prominent Brazilians – including several political parties – have continued posting on the platform. The dispute between the US entrepreneur and Brazilian authorities began in April, when de Moraes ordered X to delete the accounts of several supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro, accusing them of spreading “disinformation” about himself and the court. Musk refused, saying this would violate Brazilian laws. X’s Global Government Affairs team has said that de Moraes had threatened their Brazilian legal representative with imprisonment and froze all of her bank accounts even after she resigned. The judge then cited lack of counsel as the reason for the fine and the ban on the platform’s operations. “Unlike other social media and technology platforms, we will not comply in secret with illegal orders,” X said in a statement at the time.

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“..the only goal of these types of “hate” laws is to create a special category of crime based entirely on the identity of the victim. Identity politics is now part of criminal law…”

The Folly of Criminalizing “Hate” (Njoya)

Many people were shocked when over 1,000 protesters were arrested in the UK and jailed for various offenses including “violent disorder” and stirring up racial hatred. Most shocking were the cases of those arrested for posting social media comments on the riots, despite not being present at the scene and there being no evidence that anybody who joined in the riots had read any of their comments.

In societies which uphold the value of individual liberty, the only purpose of the criminal law should be to restrain and punish those who commit acts of aggression against other people or their property. The criminal law should not be used to prevent people from “hating” others or to force them to “love” each other. In announcing yet another raft of laws “to expand the list of charges eligible to be prosecuted as hate crimes,” New York Governor Kathy Hochul said that “During these challenging times, we will continue to show up for each other. We are making it clear: love will always have the last word in New York.” To that end, she introduced “legislation to significantly expand eligibility for hate crime prosecution.”

Attempts to promote love between different racial or religious groups in society, for example, by charging people with stirring up “hate” when they protest against immigration, misunderstands the role of the criminal law. Threats to public order entail violating the person or property of others—as happens in a violent riot—not merely the exhibition of “hate” towards others. Yet increasingly, public order offenses are linked to hate speech or hate crimes.

Laws prohibiting hate speech and hate crimes typically define “hate” as hostility based on race, sex, gender, sexual orientation, or religion. Often, hostility is understood simply as words that offend others. For example, in the UK, the Communications Act 2003 prohibits sending “a message or other matter that is grossly offensive or of an indecent, obscene or menacing character.” The Online Safety Act 2023 targets illegal content online including both “inciting violence” and the publication of “racially or religiously aggravated public order offenses.” Conduct online includes writing posts or publishing blogs or articles on websites.

Given that inciting violence is already a crime—“conduct, words, or other means that urge or naturally lead others to riot, violence, or insurrection”—there seems to be no discernible purpose in adding the concept of “hate” to such crimes. To give an example, writing “burn down the store” on social media might be seen as inciting violence, but writing “burn down the Muslim store” in the same circumstances would be categorized as a hate crime. Arson (actually burning down the store) is a crime, but based on the racial or religious identity of the store owner arson is deemed to be a “worse” crime—a hate crime—even though the harm in both cases and the loss suffered by store owners who are victims of arson does not vary based purely on their race or religion.

Therefore, no “hateful conduct” laws are needed to further “criminalize” what is already a crime. The conclusion is inescapable that the only goal of these types of “hate” laws is to create a special category of crime based entirely on the identity of the victim. Identity politics is now part of criminal law. “Hate” based on race or religion is now a priority in criminal law enforcement with resources increasingly diverted towards it. For example, New York has devoted a budget of $60 million to “fight hate.”

Events in the UK over the past week chillingly illustrate the consequences of an identity-based approach to law enforcement. In the ongoing police purge of rioters, those who wrote “hate speech” posts on social media platforms were charged with “inciting racial hatred” and sentenced to prison terms of up to two to three years. Far from fighting against “hate,” this is likely only to further fuel resentment and racial antagonism.

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    Vincent van Gogh Autumn landscape 1885   • No More Debates – Trump (RT) • No More Debates, No More Mistakes (Quoth the Raven) • What You Don’t Kn
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle September 14 2024]

    #168909
    tboc
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    Hey Jake and Tony, Fermi’s Paradox. Go For It!!!!!

    #168910
    Dr. D
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    Van Gogh: that’s really excellent painting. But it’s “not a Van Gogh” so you see why the stylization or “voice” is better? Not better? It doesn’t stand out.

    AI has two-headed geese with no wings? Yup.

    “One debate doesn’t change the issues Americans are facing every day.” — James Rickards

    Or every debate.

    And talk about sleepwalking into war, I think this happens because they’ve been discredited and wrong on everything, yet just…don’t notice, don’t care. Don’t resign, remove themselves, nor anybody else. Anyone else in the system, stop listening to, supporting them. We’ve tried 10 levels of talking, acting, protesting, no effect. So…why bother? from our end. We have no effect, which has been established for lifetimes now. People’s will has no effect, I think that study was like 2005. And naturally life just gets harder every day out here, so we’re also busy, you know, not dying.

    With 20,000 cat-eating immigrants who will clearly therefore work for $1 dollar. The law applies to me, not to the border or to Tyson who hires them.

    Anyway, if that’s this end, then how much more really far, distant, deniable things like the nuclear war. What war? We stopped reporting on that last year when we lost. What President? What assassination? So this week, Britain is doing the war. Already decided. Decided when they swapped PM’s not caring if either was wanted or voted for. It was said at the time: Sunak is not a crackdown, child-jailing, nation-bombing supporter, so they dumped him. Took about an hour.

    I think this is the opening sentence in Alexander, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jbXFJ9-PA4 Britain is sending the last weapons they have – which unless nuclear (and possibly even then) are useless. And they, personally, are riding them down to the ground, like Slim Pickens in Dr. Strangelove. Britain is very proud of this, very open about it. Putin has said the very, very, very obvious: NO Ukrainian has anything to do with such weapons: they are run entirely by British/U.S. personnel, using U.S./British satellites, right from firing to the last inch before detonation.

    So how could anyone, anywhere on earth, possibly feel that this would NOT be Britain declaring war on Russia? It doesn’t matter if they SAY it: they literally took their own men, their own bombs, then attacked the deep inside Russia’s 1994 borders. No one else.

    This is simply not reported in the British press nor anywhere else. So no one knows. Everyone who has a clue – and that’s not many people – are like jaw-dropped. Like, nothing we’ve done so far has any effect, even standing quietly on the sidewalk in Britain is a 6-month offense, posting is 20 months, so I guess it’s going where it’s going? This minute is not the minute to jump in?

    The U.S. is a little different: Blinken and Graham say they’ll do anything Ze wants, definitely doubleplus good war, then go over to Austen, warmonger extraordinaire in Rammmenschtein, and he says, “Excuse me, WTF are any of you talking about? No. ” Apparently Blinken can issue the order to use them, but when it comes on the ground, the Pentagon will merely prevent any of them from being authorized or moved to location because…”reasons”. Oops! We thought that location was unsafe, but really, honest, working on it! Any day now!

    So we’re hanging back as Britain goes forward as they are already bankrupt, past tense. On August 15. They, and their only plan – apparently like EVERY country on this miserable, cursed planet, is that if THEY jump into a volcano, the U.S. will jump in after and save them. We will put the full force of the US Army that we don’t have behind ANYONE who asks. For any dumb, transparently false reason they can make up. WHY they think this I have no earthly idea, as the U.S. has betrayed every ally we’ve ever had since Adams resigned. But Britain is going to bomb them, hope to get nuked back, and thereby drag the U.S. into the war when:

    1) The American people would never do this, and have a Russian Revolution 2.0 instead, shooting anyone who conscripts us. (Neither will the European people)
    2) The Pentagon has already CLEARLY shown we’re not doing this, even on Presidential orders, I don’t know how many examples I’d have to give but sending tanks one by one – and in pieces, to reassemble – is a good one.
    3) We literally CAN’T fight ANY wars, anywhere, at all, with anybody. We have nothing. Except for the American People, Mexico could conquer us right now.

    We have: all our warships decommissioned, just like England, for lack of sailors. Does England even have one sailing ship on the water right now, or are they down to zero? I know their carrier has no pilots, because they have no jets, 15 years after Bird and Fortune made fun of them on national TV over it. No merchant marine. No at-sea lading resupply. No ports with warehouses. No shipyards (mostly).

    No tanks, and England has 40. Probably not working. These tanks worked about as well as a 1994 Jeep Wrangler anyway, so it’s just as well to save the effort.

    No missiles. No air defense, but ALSO no Tomahawks, nor any of the others. A handful of JESSAM’s, maybe a thousand, and how far do they go? 150km? Do they go 12 time zones? Hmmmm: my guess not. They are launched from Jets that Russia can drop at will. The 50 year old F16. No shells it goes without saying, but no other vehicles either, at all, and what few we have are 5,000 miles away and not in theatre.

    No men, nor are the men likely to fight. We have supply ships to cross the ocean? Uniforms for winter? Oil tankers and trucks? No, no, and no. This all runs on satellites Russia can sink in 10 minutes. ALLLLLLL of it.

    Soooo….yeah, our plan is for Britain to nuke Russia and for them to nuke us back. That’s it.

    And why? All because one banker went broke and doesn’t want to restructure in bankruptcy, holding a meeting and writing down his losses. That’s it. And the people know it.

    So there’s your plan: Britain is going to openly declare war on Russia without declaring war, so they can confiscate all the Russian oligarch money in London. Which will float them 10 days. They HOPE to be nuked so the U.S. will be their White Knight and save their psychotic ex-girlfriend, who’s committing suicide and trying to get into fights with bouncers and policemen everywhere she goes.

    The U.S. has no resolve, we can hang back, but ultimately we are seen as complicit, just allowing this behaviour, signing off on it in the hopes that “something happens.”

    All because: Capitalism! Why? THEY REFUSE BANKRUPTCY. That’s it. They’re bankrupt, declare and write it off, restructure. They go to war, world war, nuclear world war, rather than have even one MINUTE of Capitalism. With bankruptcy. Price Discovery. And “Voluntary” exchange. Right, France in Africa? “Voluntary”? Not “While we bomb you at the point of a gun and also the whole world”?

    Is having ONE bankruptcy really that bad? Telling the truth for ONE moment? Once?

    Yup, that’s their plan alright: they have to default on their debts, and it has to be Somebody Else’s Fault.™ So bye: was nice knowing you.

    Haw
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    To me, it’s more: they know all these steps and carefully put them into place. The social engineers. Consolidate power, make a fortress of power, self-defending, so that the people – who have common sense – will be excluded. Then you only have to rig say, 100 people not 100,000. Then as you get closer, start making up stories that makes what you’re doing make sense. –Not that it’s psychotic and bat s–t insane, a suicidal murdering bottomless blood lust. When the stories you make up out of nothing conflict, start rumors and infighting. The infighting lets you arrest and purge anyone NOT a blood, gore, guts, veins-in-my-teeth maniac, using the FBI, etc who are ALSO not entirely captured, but captured ENOUGH that when I have Comey call on an agent, he breaks every law and Constitution unthinkingly on command. Weak men make bad times.

    Then you reach this point the people – nor indeed most of the elites – never wanted to reach, as it will kill most of them and blow up their beautiful third beach house at sea level, and then they’ll be stuck in the bunker with their wives and not girlfriends. Too bad: you wanted to be “In”. The “In” crowd. “In” the bunker, because you’re a Very Important Person, and only the SECOND one we kill and throw out the airlock when the coffee runs out. Once in the Bunker, like “Kingsmen”, then Fuhrer runs the show, and we have The Button, and the Rubes are locked out. Whack’d! That button! Whack it!

    It’s like a Jenga tower. All they need is a few of these blockheads to defect. But they know there’s just a time-window all the stars have to line up with. IN that window you can whack it, get all these “Leaders” killed, then walk away with the money, no one’s the wiser. Back to the Castle basement, same as the last thousand years.

    Luongo followed this this week (sorry, can’t keep track), with Germany, UK, Europe, Italy, U.S. all aligned against Russia. But only for this one window. Like ships, all their directions-of-travel and different, they all just are made to converge at this time and place. But if TIME goes too long: the Eastern General, Time, then they all continue on direction of travel and diverge again. Like Germany keeps looking for any way out and if they are given long enough, will find one. The U.S. is already out barring some astonishing turn (suspend elections forever) which they’ll probably try. Etc. This was the same in Syria, and now as ships have continued travel, Turkey is for, Jordan, Saudi made up. (no reparations yet).

    So Sen. Brumenthal knows, but won’t say anything? Thanks pal. What assassination? So for murder and multiple attempted murder, someone’s gonna get fired and get free health care for life? Oh noes. He fired no one, leaked nothing, no one was arrested after his meeting. That means it’s hot air, ain’t gonna do nothin’.

    If you won and Kamala’s running behind, why are you holding whole stage events talking about how you didn’t lose? If you didn’t lose, there’d be no talk. Next subject. If you talk about it, you lost.

    “Harris campaign raised $74M before debate” (Chyron)

    Yes, and we know how. When you print free infinity money, (in Europe?) then launder it where one lady in an apartment on Social Security donated to the Democratic Party 600 times a year to a total of $20,000. Per person. (this was a real case. No one cared.) OMG news went out to some of these houses and asked. What house? What address?

    Okay, what good is the money? They’re not really buying ads. Ads? We buy the PEOPLE. The vote counters, ballot harvesters, IT guys and vote stuffers. That adds up. Many were arrested for 2020, driving around the city with a car full of (illegal) ballots. No one cared. What vote rigging? Oh you mean the cases where they ware arrested and convicted? What cases? I just denied it so it doesn’t exist anymore.

    “JUST IN: Former top Clinton adviser calls for an internal probe of ABC for rigging the debate against Trump. “

    Everything is illegal or compulsory. WHAT LAW would they like to “Investigate” under? If it’s ABC themselves, then CLEARLY they rigged it on purpose with commands from the very top, so what investigation? That they’ll find themselves guilty and fire every CEO on down to the Moderators? No. “Somebody oughta do something” is his cry. Okay, sold: YOU do it. “This is a job…for somebody else…” The point here is like the USSS/FBI “Investigation” and Firings: nothing happens, as we all break into committee meetings and talk until everyone dies of old age. Apparently Cheney’s still around! Still talking about doing something about his genocide/mass murder! Any day now!

    ““..if the West allows Kiev to hit targets deep inside Russia, “this will mean that NATO countries, the US, European countries are fighting against Russia..”

    The irony is of course, they were ALREADY fighting Russia, ALREADY embargo Russia, ALREADY attacking Russia, ALREADY in Donbas (new annexation) and Kursk (Pre 1994). With Iron Cross tanks HIMARs, and everything. Well, like the American people then Russia will have done every last thing they can think of to forestall and prevent this, God help us. Then when they act, there will be no questions.

    All because: No Capitalism. No bankruptcy. As we said in 2000, 2008. The people shut down the Congressional phone lines telling Congress not to bail them out (“Jump you Fukkkers!”) and they did anyway, setting the stage of “Oh, so THAT’S how it is now” for us.

    And…so what’s Russia going to do? Let’s get to that. LONDON needs them to bomb Poland, Newcastle, something. That’s their super-genus plan, like Ze when the Russian army takes 10 towns a day, like Baghdad Bob it’s all part of the master plan. Why?

    WHY would he do this, that they want? Why? This is what Nazis never can figure, because they’re deeply and chronically mentally ill. Deranged. The other guy has free agency too. As narcissistic sociopaths, they think THEY make up the other person, the “other” person IS them. They TELL them what to do. They think FOR Stalin, the Slavs, Osama, they do whatever is most convenient for us and we think/wish they will do. That’s our magic, Will to Power, Power of Positive (magical) Thinking. The Occult. I Am God. The world exists for me and revolves around me.

    WHY would Putin do what London wants? He already said he WOULDN’T. Duh. WHY would I step into a transparent trap you set, that you went on international TV and bragged about? Jesus F—k you guys are stupid: no. Putin already said: He’s going to arm every enemy of the U.S. and Britain, everywhere on earth, and give them an open trigger.

    Yemen: endless Sunburn missiles. What Yemen? YOU said if it was a third country, we weren’t involved, right? We can’t tell our allies what to do. All Africa purged of Europe. What Russia? We’re not involved. I guess if you were nicer to them this wouldn’t have happened. Iran: what Russia? Iran is an independent state, YOU wanted to get into a war with, what do we have to do with it? They just bought our weapons, same as the F14’s from you they still own.

    WHAT Taiwan? If China wants to arm Taiwan against the West, well…

    Goin’ Worldwide. WHAT Mexico? If Mexico wants to buy Iskanders and they end up in the hands of drug cartels, well, what can ya do? YOU wanted this. YOU said.

    Why would they bomb Poland when the entire Middle East is tired and sore, aching to be free? We have completely unguarded bases everywhere for 2,000 miles, every one of which can be overrun in a fortnight. What if there’s an accident in Georgia or Armenia, completing the transit lines from Archangel to Chabahar? We can’t be responsible for bad election counting in democratic states, right?

    These guys. Have no sense. So Britain would default FASTER when their only base is erased, only carrier is sunk. By “Terrorists” from “ISIS”.

    Again: they think they’re the only player in chess. No one will play with them since they’re such intolerable, weasely, cheating f—ks, so they’ve been playing chess against themselves too long, PRETENDING they’re the other side. That they are all people, thinking of all things. I Am God. But they’re not even the level of one average Billy-Bob from Cleetus, Arkansas. Russia is NOT going to do what they ask. Just because you need it. Duh.

    And I have to waste my time spelling this out for you.

    I say “we’ll be nuked” because it will start an escalation ladder of events, not because it’s this week, and I know that if I say “We’ll be nuked in March” then you’ll say “March? That’s AGES away, we’ll deal with it then.”

    “• NATO Plans to Send Troops to Ukraine to Force Russia Into Talks – Moscow (Sp.)

    They already did that. Thousands and thousands, maybe 20,000, maybe 200k with 20,000 dead already. Generals keep having “climbing accidents” weekly. All SAAB did.

    “As I recently reported, about 900,000 new jobs that had been claimed over the preceding year have just disappeared”

    Meh, what’s a million jobs between friends? What’s the in-workforce? 150 Million? So they’re off by 1%. OR off by 7 states, all of which have fewer than 1M ppl. Not to fear! Tomorrow they’ll be back! Ye, when we need to goose the stock market and NOT have honest price discovery, then we’ll just say they were hired! Maybe 20 million or 200 million hired, who knows? Depends on who needs to get elected. You can’t stop us. Who are you to judge? Are you a biologist? Economist?

    ““..the only goal of these types of “hate” laws is to create a special category of crime based entirely on the identity of the victim. Identity politics is now part of criminal law…”

    Actually it’s much worse than that, and it’s exactly what we said. ANYONE can be jailed, for anything, any time and any place. All they have to do is FEEEEEEEEEEEL that there is hate, out there, somewhere in the universe. For all narcissists (and psychopaths) the crime is to not LOVE THEM ENOUGH. You have to love them more than yourself, indeed more then they love themselves. Love with body, heart, soul, your very life! (and all your sex organs). If you don’t LOVE me, I’ll KILL you. This is the cry from the gay community right through to these jokers: the crime is to not love me adequately, to the level to which I FEEL I should be loved, adored, and coddled over.

    So arrest every person, every minute, every day, because they didn’t GIMME, transfer wealth and power, to me.

    Now: on the ground, how does this work? You, Gay Boi, get nothin’ and you’ll like it. We’ll lock you in a tiny apartment and abuse you daily. No. This works only for PARTY MEMBERS. If you’re IN the party, the mean girlz clique, the Government, we can and will arrest you for ANYTHING, because “somebody said.” Or, in fact, NOBODY said. UK here arrested everyone with no events and no complaints. There is no victim anyone is aware of. A THEORETICAL victim, that might, somewhere sometime, maybe, might have existed, but I can’t find them.

    So it’s full, unlimited power of the STATE, against…Everyone. I’d say “not the state” but the very next thing they’ll do is arrest and purge rival party members in an orgy of raw violence, Stalin or Robespierre style. Occasionally, the man on the street can claim something, and the internal logic of raw violence and mindless fascism will help him, but that’s really just the overflow of generalized violence, smearing out into space. The system and structure exist for US. Against YOU. Gay boi, don’t F– with us or it’s solitary for 6 years while the pipe bomber is on camera, escorted by police. Did the “Blacks for Trump” get off? Nope. He was targeted. Candice Owens, all online? Nope. DGAF if she’s black. You’re only protected if you’re the PARTY. The Party-whos-name-shall-not-be-spoken because it’s definitely not the Socialist Party. They’re the GOOD people.

    In unrelated news: still no Epstein list! Well, I’m sure any time now. So, it weren’t no Democrats who had their daughters stolen from Band Camp to be raped. Nope, they make super-sure it’s only Republican 13-year-olds.

    And here you thought “Surviving the Game” was only a movie. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surviving_the_Game

    Boy good thing no black kids disappear in DC around Halloween time. They might get mad and stop voting for it.

    #168911
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Here Kultsummer, this is up your alley, with making up straw man arguments in favor of both a socialism that never was, and a capitalism that never was.
    https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/our-values-killing-pensioners-to

    “Enjoying certain comforts in Russia is not a fortuitous accident of chance: in its constitution, Russia is explicitly defined as a social welfare state. Welfare of its citizens is the government’s core responsibility. In my book “Grand Deception,” I highlighted two well known examples of the way this works in reality. Here’s one:

    During [Vladimir Putin’s] first winter as President [in 2000], entire towns and villages across the far east of the country counting as many as 400,000 inhabitants, lost heating for the lack of coal. A serious crisis emerged with mines shutting down, workers out in the streets and even hospitals ceasing to function because of the cold. But the coal for heating was available in Russia, only most of it was already allotted for export. Vladimir Putin didn’t think that Russian people should suffer freezing conditions all winter in order for that coal to be exchanged for American dollars. He decreed that export of coal be stopped immediately and that all available quantities be sent back to Siberia to fuel the boiler stations. … in Putin’s world, well-being of the people takes precedence over financial profits of the investor class. This concept may seem exotic and alien to Westerners who for a generation had been brainwashed with neoliberal economics where profits trump any and every other concern, including health and well-being of the people. “

    #168917
    zerosum
    Participant

    No more debates.
    Extraordinary, isn’t it, that there is no discussion whatsoever of this duel crisis in the Western media or in the “debate” between Trump and Kamala.” – Doctorow

    The trouble/problem is, too much gov. spending/borrowing/printing money.
    It’s called “inflation” and its causing misery.

    Policy/rules/regulations are going to rule the day.
    Bankers/lenders/investors/elites made the rules and will get paid first.

    This is not an election contest between Republicans and Democrats. It is about who controls the US government–the people or the ruling elites.

    “It’s going down baby.”
    “Put your head between your legs and kiss your ass goodbye.”

    Harris is proposing/promising to spend $1.7 trillion.
    Trump is going to hire Musk to cut gov. spending and MAGA

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    • Putin’s Warning Heard Loud And Clear – Kremlin (RT)

    Putin explained that the Ukrainian military lacks the capabilities to use Western long-range systems and requires intelligence from NATO satellites and Western military personnel to operate them.

    Nebenzia added. “Only NATO troops can program the flight solutions for those missile systems. Ukraine doesn’t have that capability.
    This is not about allowing Kiev to strike Russia with long-range weapons, but about the West making the targeting decisions.”
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    “The United States has given Israel the go-ahead to launch a full-blown war on Lebanon. This despite the fact that Lebanon has Iran’s protection, and Iran has Russia’s protection. So, we have at hand two prospects for the outbreak of major wars that will go nuclear. Extraordinary, isn’t it, that there is no discussion whatsoever of this duel crisis in the Western media or in the “debate” between Trump and Kamala.” – Doctorow
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    #168918
    zerosum
    Participant

    If Russia wants to respond – here is a list of UK Overseas Military Bases – juicy targets first

    UK Overseas Military Bases

    Cyprus – British Forces Cyprus: (RAF Akrotiri & Dhekelia).
    Ascension Island – RAF Ascension:
    Norway – Camp Viking:
    Belize – British Army Training and Support Unit Belize (BATSUB):
    Falkland Islands – British Forces South Atlantic Islands (BFSAI):
    Gibraltar – British Forces Gibraltar:
    Kenya – British Army Training Unit Kenya (BATUK):

    Bahrain – HMS Jufair:
    British Indian Ocean Territory – British Forces British Indian Ocean Territories (BFBIOT):
    Brunei – British Forces Brunei:
    Canada – British Army Training Unit Suffield (BATUS):
    NATO: Germany, Estonia and Poland
    British Army Germany:
    NATO Enhanced Forward Presence:
    Nepal – British Gurkhas Nepal:
    Oman – UK Joint Logistics Support Base:
    Qatar – RAF Al Udeid:
    Singapore – British Defence Singapore Support Unit (BDSSU):
    United Arab Emirates – Donnelly Lines:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overseas_military_bases_of_the_United_Kingdom

    The key would be to strike British Military bases that are solely British and located in strategically weak countries – and all over the world.

    Cyprus stands out due to its place overlooking the Middle East.
    Gibraltar would receive an interesting response from Spain.
    Norway – Camp Viking would be a warning shot against Norway, Finland & Sweden.
    Ascension Island – what are the British doing there?
    Belize – Somewhere in the Americas.
    Falkland Islands would receive an interesting response from Argentina.
    Kenya – Somewhere in Africa.

    The Cypriot bases do stand out – Russia has plenty of options to respond to the British.

    The point would be to force a backdown on the British and warn off the others.

    There are also other options that could be considered.

    Six British Overseas Territories also maintain their own locally raised units for home defence and security:

    Bermuda The Royal Bermuda Regiment: Formed in 1965.
    Cayman Islands Cayman Islands Regiment: Formed in 2019.
    Falkland Islands – Falkland Islands Defence Force: Traces its origins back to 1847.
    Gibraltar – Royal Gibraltar Regiment: Raised in 1943.
    Montserrat – Royal Montserrat Defence Force: Raised in 1899.
    Turks and Caicos Islands – Turks and Caicos Islands Regiment: Raised in 2020.

    Of course, there are also warships and submarines that could/should be sunk as well.

    Posted by: Julian | Sep 14 2024 5:56 utc

    #168919
    zerosum
    Participant

    Posted by: Tichy | Sep 14 2024 8:44 utc | 441

    Demented Genocide Joe tried to pass this off as ‘Putin’s price hike’. This was just another lie. Energy prices in the UK rocketed in 2020 / 2021. Wholesale gas futures prices increased significantly and many energy suppliers in this privatised market went bust and were taken over by bigger companies who run effective monopolies and give billions in dividends to shareholders. The average energy bill became 4 to 5 times more expensive. UK government introduced an energy cap and provide winter fuel payments for pensioners. Still, in a slightly larger than average old house our monthly energy bill was over £1,100 in January 2021. The tariffs have since gone up. We decided to only use the central heating during the weekend, using coats indoors midweek and using an oil filled radiator to heat one living room. Even with this rationing monthly energy bills in winter of 2022 and 2023 would be around £800 as the tariff had increased. We are professionals with above average income. People with limited incomes must be really suffering and getting into (further) debt. Strangely though few people talk about it, there is a delusional sense that people are too proud to admit that they are struggling on this simultaneously bourgeois and immiserated island. So people continue to post fantasy lifestyles on their instagram and genocide enabler Starmer spends billions on weapons for proxy wars and follows an austerity path of cutting winter fuel payments to pensioners.

    The inflationary effect has made all goods and services way more expensive.

    #168921
    kultsommer
    Participant

    Dr D
    And yet, the real people have to live, or had lived, in the both systems that “newer were” so there is nothing “straw” about the writing. Actually something to contemplate, at least, before one goes too high in his imaginary ideological balloon.

    This concept may seem exotic and alien to Westerners…..

    Tell me. My struggle every time I make a comment as to bring that balloon bit down to normality.

    #168922
    kultsommer
    Participant

    Here:

    #168924
    Dimitri
    Participant

    The West keeps ignoring Russia’s red lines because Russia keeps on redraw them.

    “Russia does not need to start threatening to use nuclear weapons. Firstly, the Russian Federation drew so many red lines that it later crossed itself that no one here in the West believes that the Russian leadership will have the courage to press the button.

    I live in America, served here in the Army, and I had to work in special services, and I saw the reaction to all this:

    If you allow your people to burn with impunity in Odessa, (can you imagine that somewhere in Mexico a gang of degenerates would drive 50 Americans into the building, throw Molotov cocktails, burn them alive, and then would finish off those who tried to escape on the sidewalks? Yes, we would invade the 2nd day and would bomb Mexico City to hell!). But you swallowed it.

    We scratched the backs of our heads [in confusion].

    Then the Turks shot down your plane in Syria. You swallowed it again. We again scratched the back of our head, but some politicians cautiously said that the Turks were great.

    Then you watch a 8 years of murder of your fellow citizens, and did not deliver a single retribution strike even on Kiev. Not to mention hitting Brussels or Los Angeles there.

    But against you in 2014, an Act of War was implemented. Unconventional warfare. A State Coup in the cradle of Russian civilization – is an Act of War.

    After 8 years, you started a war yourself and again gave up by signing Istanbul.

    Having captured the bridgehead near Kiev, you then should have stepped up your efforts, stormed the capital, liquidated Zelensky and the General Staff of the Armed Forces, as [the Americans] did in Iraq. We did not allow Hussein to walk around Baghdad, Tikrit, or Basra and invite politicians from the League of Arab States over.

    The first blow to the Hussein Palace was delivered 2 minutes after the expiration of the Bush ultimatum. It was not possible to kill him immediately, so he was driven into the basement, from where 6 months later [American] special forces took him out.

    An empire must be able to destroy its enemies, otherwise it is not an empire.

    Your cowardly president is whining about how they kill statesmen (Hussein, Gaddafi, Suleimani). (…)

    You started the war as degenerates, suffered the first serious losses and retreated from Kiev.

    Can you imagine if [Americans] entered Iraq and started an assault on Baghdad, suddenly stopped, showed a “great of goodwill” and sent a delegation to Amman to negotiate with Saddam Hussein?

    Throughout the conflict, you have demonstrated cowardice, indecision and weak leadership, zeroing out the results of your infantry, which bravely fights in close contact fights, which we would not have dreamed of in Iraq or Afghanistan.

    After that, your assets were frozen, the flagship cruiser “Moscow” was sunk, the Crimean bridge was blown up and the North Streams were blown up, thereby annulling the multibillion investments of your taxpayers in these projects.

    Instead of drowning the NATO destroyer, blowing up the London or Brooklyn Bridge, nationalizing or seizing our assets by force, or conducting sabotage in NATO countries, you continue to cowardly simply express “concerns” at the UN and to beg for negotiations.

    During this time, [the Americans] sent thousands of MANPADS and ATGM to Ukraine, with which we burned your tankers and shot down dozens of your helicopters.

    Personally, I think that if you had shot down several of our helicopters in the Middle East in revenge, the supply of weapons would have stopped immediately, since no one here wants to fight with Russia, and the political party that would have unleashed such a war would be buried forever. But you probably like to watch your soldiers burn in tanks. We do not understand this.

    As a result, all professionals here got the clear impression that Russians could be killed with impunity. This is already called a”pattern of behavior” – that there will be no reprisal in kind. Therefore, no one here is afraid of your threats about nuclear weapons.

    If you don’t have the character to take a trophy MANPADS, bring down a NATO plane or helicopter in Africa and kill 20 people, then who can believe that you have the character to use nuclear weapons and kill hundreds of thousands, if not millions? ”

    The Russian army is able to win the war in a month, but the Russian army will not be allowed to win.

    1. There is a fairly simple and absolutely true way to win the war. I met a description of the way of victory among dozens of experts and the arguments of their reinforced concrete. They object to them, and even then with absolutely vivoral arguments, only publicists who lubricate their superiors.

    The method of victory is the demolition of all bridges on the Dnieper.

    A millionth enemy group on the left bank thus loses all logistics. Literally in a few weeks, it remains without BC, fuel and lubricants – without everything. And Ukrainian neo-Nazis will be forced to cling to the right bank. And the left bank will be all ours. And this is actually a victory.

    We could stay to take Nikolaev, Odessa, and Ukraine then is nothing. A stub left without access to the sea is not viable.

    There are less than twenty bridge crossings on the Dnieper. Less than ten of them are railway, the most harmful to our army. Russia has for these bridges the means of delivery of the necessary tons of explosives. There needs to be desire and political will.

    Do you remember the long-standing film “Following the Tiger”? During the Second World War, small units of partisans destroyed bridges in dozens. And now, more than an order of magnitude has come up with ways to destroy bridge crossings.

    Sorry, but the tightly guarded Crimean bridge was blown up. Do you really think that in Russia there are no such specialists? And the Dnieper bridges are not so protected. It’s about political will. It is necessary that “Stalin gave the order!” And then in a month – Victory!

    The philosophers of Ancient Greece also deduced the rule: it is impossible to solve private problems without solving a common problem.

    Russia actually belongs to the oligarchs, and power only serves their interests. Therefore, the Russian army is bound by oligarchs and officials on the hands and feet. The influence of the oligarchs on the generals and explains the strangeness of the ongoing war. After all, oligarchs have in their hands a controlling stake in Russian ownership. It was the oligarchs with the help of officials who drew red lines on the map of Ukraine, for which the military was ordered not to enter. We are fighting only here, but here we are not fighting.

    The Russian army is forced to wage a muddy oligarchic war, which was given a fair image of the struggle for the liberation of Donbass and part of New Russia. Do not touch the oil pipelines, do not even approach the gas pipelines, do not approach the bridges, hit the critical infrastructure, but not critically! And how much do you fight like that?

    For Russian oligarchs, victory is unacceptable. A significant part of large Russian officials is not needed either. Some of the governors, generals and major Russian officials are shareholders of the monopolies, so they are also not interested in winning. This is the end of the transit of oil and gas, the end of profits from trade.

    There will be no victory. And victory is not included in the goals of the war. The authorities openly dream of Minsk-3. Yes, the people of Russia do not need any peace treaty, and for the border territories from Belgorod to Crimea Minsk-3 there is only disaster, but you can’t do much against the oligarchs in Russia.

    The oligarchs need a preserved Ukraine. Minsk-3 they need, which will be a defeat of Russia, but which, with the help of patriots on television, can be passed out as a draw, as a obscene but saving peace treaty.

    The twists and turns of the war that we observe are the work of the authorities to protect the interests of the Russian oligarchate.

    So there will be no blows to the bridges. The oligarchs will not allow it.”

    #168926

    once you get a complex
    it’s hard to shake it off
    so many jobs depend on it
    they’ll blow up any cough
    into a great pandemic
    they’ll start a bunch of wars
    and counter each polemic
    with cryptic semaphores
    Wave those little flags, chumps
    take your bitter shots
    for every time a crisis forms
    The Lockstep gets the hots.

    Thanks for that perspective, Dimitri.

    #168927
    citizenx
    Participant

    BREAKING: Democrat Senator Richard Blumenthal says citizens will be shocked, astonished, and appalled when the truth comes out about the Trump assassination attempt

    A Democrat appalled by truth is no longer a Democrat, ask RFK. Real Democrats hate truth, censor truth. deny truth, avoid truth. Majority of American citizens are obese. addicted retards existing at base level chakras- an existence of entertainment and pleasure me, feed me. A lethal combination of bread and circus… the citizens will be shocked with Tay Tay and Kelsey, not reality- for they are incapable of abstract critical thinking skills and ability.

    “Today there is no sign of intelligence anywhere in the US government..”

    Not much in the citizens either, for they are the govt.

    I live in America, served here in the Army, and I had to work in special services, and I saw the reaction to all this: We scratched the backs of our heads [in confusion].

    Case in point. Have you looked around at your own America these days ?
    Then why the fuck are you obsessing with theorizing about what Russia is or is mot maybe doing?
    Fix your own fucked up Nation before telling others what they should be doing.
    Just another retarded American spouting bs about their retarded rainbow American Army.

    Fix your own Retarded America and Ukraine would not be happening thanks to your retarded American politicians. American clown world.

    #168928
    citizenx
    Participant

    This is Russian retribution for Americas and the Wests betrayal, Afghanistan style.

    Bleed the West and American economy dry to the point of collapse. Russia has wisely succeeded while the Western infants argue over what war toys they will ineffectively play with next and who’s lives they will throw into the meat grinder.

    Russia has integrity while the US has none.

    #168930
    jb-hb
    Participant

    For Jay-bee‘s list of “deep thoughts”.
    Socialists were exclusively the only voluntary resistance fighters in the Europe

    haha only we socialists can protect you from socialists!

    Meastsuiting 101

    WE own sole ownsership of Resistance-To-Nazis

    (same in 2020’s as it was then, eh? Cosmic Coincidence)

    Therefore, kneel before zod. Because we are that thing you love. Exclusively.

    So the Socialists were resisting Socialism. And are the only ones who do/can. riiiiight.

    “Lay down your arms filthy Capitalist scum! We promise to punch ourselves in the face for you, but only after you comply. Pinky swear.”

    #168937
    zerosum
    Participant

    You got no more money. Stop spending money you don’t have on war. Make peace.
    https://www.msn.com/en-ca/money/other/draghi-calls-for-new-marshall-plan-to-save-eu-economy/ar-AA1qwEol?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=453dccafa48c4abf918d0cdf10d28d6e&ei=29
    According to the Economist, the former ECB head and former Italian Prime Minister presented a 400-page report prepared at the request of the European Commission, which is looking for ways to break the economic stagnation in the EU.

    https://www.economist.com/by-invitation/2024/09/09/mario-draghi-outlines-his-plan-to-make-europe-more-competitive
    Sep 9th 2024

    GROWTH IN EUROPE has been slowing for decades. Across different measures, a wide gap in GDP has opened up between the European Union and America. Europe’s households have paid the price in forgone living standards. On a per-person basis, real disposable income has grown almost twice as much in America as in the EU since 2000.

    #168938
    zerosum
    Participant

    Biden Admin Decides – For Now – Against Long Range Strikes On Russia
    It seems that Biden administration for once decided to listen to what President Putin of Russia had to say.

    The generals know what Russian weapons could do to their assets should Russia decide to let someone shot back at them.

    ————

    #168939
    zerosum
    Participant

    What if the stockpiles in the inventory are still operational?

    One thing they don’t know is how many missiles and uavs Russia has stockpiled at this point.
    Russia can respond to asymmetrically by supplying tens of thousands of drones and hundreds of missiles to the resistance.

    #168940
    kultsommer
    Participant

    To debate with Jay-bee, there is no other way than to use cheep high school level sarcasm, so I’ll go – give me a second – ah here:
    “What is, again, the name of your Company that you’re founder of?”

    Please don’t call it evasion, gas-lighting and such, since only the answer can and understandably justify over the top and unquestionable love.

    #168941
    kultsommer
    Participant

    When I post I am stating the facts not preferences.
    While countries in Europe were folding one after another soc/comm volunteers emerged in Italy, Yugoslavia, Greece, Poland, Holland, France…. as the only resistance.
    Commander would stand in front of rag-tag echelon that had the only one unifying feature in their attire – the red star on the cap and bluntly told them: “Well…. we decided to fight, didn’t we? So first we have to take the arms from the enemy hands to do that.”
    I will always have a soft spot for those selfless people regardless of what anybody thinks of them, which is mostly – -they are “after my hard earned goodies”!

    #168942
    Michael Reid
    Participant


    begins around 09:30. We discussed:

    the Global Public Private Partnership (Davis, 2021) as a coordinated global web rolling out various systems of oppression against us, with governments as mere implementers of policies formulated at higher levels;

    possibilities for localized resistance;

    World War III, the war for technocracy, and social engineering on a worldwide scale;

    low-intensity operations pre-2020 vs. full-frontal menticidal attack in 2020;

    A.I. and the automation of the kill decision;

    the importance of non-compliance and withdrawing consent to technocratic agendas;

    continuities between 1930s Nazi Germany and the political economy of the West since 2020;

    building a totalitarian state as a gradual process;

    totalitarianism as a response to an acute crisis of capitalism;

    the extreme skewing of global wealth towards the top 0.1%, 0.01%, 0.001%, creating a highly lopsided oligarchical capitalism with finance capital at the top;

    Wall Street bankers, lawyers, and intelligence agencies — one and the same (Courtenay calls it the Military Occult Banking Syndicate);

    Central Bank Digital Currencies as a form of totalitarian control;

    cryptocurrency as potential Trojan horse for the later rollout of CBDC;

    financial censorship as a means of strangling dissident content creators;

    “biodigital convergence,” the “IT/Bio/Nano era,” and the plan to hook human bodies up to the technocratic control grid;

    the Internet of BioNano Things, sold under the pretext of healthcare;

    the brain as the 21st century battlescape;

    Charles Lieber and syringe-injectable neural nets;

    cognitive warfare and the use of smart technologies, which the WEF claims will “go under the skin”;

    uncertainty regarding the “Covid-19 vaccine” contents — what was the real purpose of the “vaccination” campaign?;

    global depopulation and falling birth rates since 1968;

    the UN “replacement migration” document from 2000 and the question of why non-Western immigration into Western countries has spiked transnationally during the Omniwar era;

    the emptiness of bourgeois party politics — Keir Starmer swears allegiance to Davos, not Westminster;

    the tearing up of the centuries-old “social contract” in 2020;

    theosophy, the UN, One World religion, New Age, and the satanist attack on Christianity;

    humiliation and mockery as part of the psychological attack — if you believe in absurdities, then it is on you;

    links between MKULTRA and the “Covid-19” operation;

    the longstanding agenda to manufacture civil war in the United States (see the end of “Covid-19,” Psychological Operations, and the War for Technocracy);

    reasons for optimism/hope, not least the admissions by key figures and the numbers we objectively have on our side;

    the future of the nation-state: if the basis of the social order could be changed from a terminally lopsided capitalism to a system that allows equitable distribution of wealth, we could still have a world in which we could still value local traditions and forms of community;

    the importance of remaining lawful and peaceful while holding the perpetrators of atrocity to account;

    expropriation of the means of production as the key to abundance, leisure, creativity, social justice, joy, meaning, and happiness;

    why we do not need a “Nuremberg 2.0.”

    https://dhughes.substack.com/p/interview-with-courtenay-turner-july

    #168943
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    What Is the Global Public-Private Partnership

    What Is the Global Public-Private Partnership

    #168946
    zerosum
    Participant


    Conflict in Ukraine’s Donbas Region: The Geology Behind the Headlines

    #168947
    zerosum
    Participant
    #168955
    SeaBirds
    Participant

    Citizen X said:

    ‘Case in point. Have you looked around at your own America these days ?
    Then why the fuck are you obsessing with theorizing about what Russia is or is mot maybe doing?
    Fix your own fucked up Nation before telling others what they should be doing.
    Just another retarded American spouting bs about their retarded rainbow American Army.’

    Is it simply the case that Putin and his team employs a strategy that is beyond the comprehension of bull-headed American muscle men.

    Zerosum. I’m sure Putin is well aware of the whereabouts of all UK miliary bases ;>)

    RIM. The Van Gough is beautiful.

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