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Debt Rattle September 16 2024

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• New ‘Assassination Attempt’ Against Trump (RT)
• Would-Be Trump Assassin ‘Obsessed’ With Ukraine (RT)
• Doom Is the West’s Future (Paul Craig Roberts)
• US Has Declared War On Free Speech – Russia (RT)
• Attacks on RT Reveal The Sad Truth About The West (Amar)
• US Journalist on Ukraine, Western Lies, Roots of Russian Invincibility (Sp.)
• PA Supreme Court Rules to Disqualify Undated, Misdated Mail-In Ballots (ET)
• Blinken Brags Over Gershkovich, Pretends Gonzalo Lira Didn’t Exist (Cosgrove)
• The Transition from Democracy to Unaccountable Tyranny (Paul Craig Roberts)
• Ukraine Ready For Ceasefire In Certain Areas – Bild (RT)
• Russian Electronic Warfare Makes GPS Useless for Ukraine’s Guided Missiles (Sp.)
• 9/11: The American Illness Which Still Has No Cure (Jay)
• IRS Whistleblowers Sue Hunter Biden Lawyer Abbe Lowell for Defamation (Turley)
• Hillary Clinton Derides Palestinians, College Students in New Book (Miles)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tucker on Harris

 

 

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Walz wife

 

 

Vivek managerial class

 

 

 

 

Trump is still not properly protected. No perimeter monitoring, because he’s not the president. The guy had an AK-47, right next to the golf track. They swept one hole ahead of where he was playing, and happened to see the gun barrel.

Trump got very lucky, again. But there are still people who want him dead. This is not over.

• New ‘Assassination Attempt’ Against Trump (RT)

The FBI is treating a shooting incident at Trump International Golf Club in Florida as an assassination attempt against former US President and Republican nominee Donald Trump. Federal agents are investigating “what appears to be an attempted assassination of former President Trump,” the FBI confirmed on Sunday. The incident occurred shortly before 2pm local time, when a Secret Service agent spotted a rifle barrel sticking through a fence surrounding the resort. The agent “engaged” with the threat, firing four to six rounds, according to West Palm Beach Sheriff Ric Bradshaw. The suspect fled the scene, but was later arrested.

Senior advisor to Donald Trump’s campaign Dan Scavino Jr. has posted a comment from the Republican presidential candidate on X, thanking the public for their “concern and well wishes.” “It was certainly an interesting day!” he added. Trump thanked the Secret Service, Sheriff Ric Bradshaw and his office for the “incredible job done.” [..] Trump’s running mate, J.D. Vance, has said he is relieved Trump was not injured. “I’m glad President Trump is safe. I spoke to him before the news was public and he was, amazingly, in good spirits. Still much we don’t know, but I’ll be hugging my kids extra tight tonight and saying a prayer of gratitude,” Vance wrote on X. [..] Tech mogul Elon Musk has reacted to the news of yet another attempt on Donald Trump’s life by wondering why “no one is even trying to assassinate Biden/Kamala,” in a post on his social media X.

[..] Federal agents are conducting a search of a North Carolina residence linked to the detained suspect, named by Ryan Routh in media reports, but still not officially identified by authorities. [..] Vice President Kamala Harris has issued a longer statement condemning political violence and praising the Secret Service agents who thwarted the attempted assassination of her rival. “I am deeply disturbed by the possible assassination attempt of former President Trump today. As we gather the facts, I will be clear: I condemn political violence. We all must do our part to ensure that this incident does not lead to more violence,” she said. “I am thankful that former President Trump is safe. I commend the US Secret Service and law enforcement partners for their vigilance. As President Biden said, our Administration will ensure the Secret Service has every resource, capability, and protective measure necessary to carry out its critical mission,” she added.

[..] Donald Trump has praised the Secret Service and other law enforcement agents for doing an “absolutely outstanding” job in keeping him safe. “It was certainly an interesting day! Most importantly, I want to thank the US Secret Service, Sheriff Ric Bradshaw and his Office of brave and dedicated Patriots, and, all of Law Enforcement, for the incredible job done today at Trump International in keeping me, as the 45th President of the United States, and the Republican Nominee in the upcoming Presidential Election, SAFE,” he wrote in a new post on Truth Social. “I would like to thank everyone for your concern and well wishes,” he added, stating that he feels “very proud to be an American.”

[..] The suspect remained silent when he was detained by law enforcement, according to State Attorney for Palm Beach County, Florida, David Aronberg. The state attorney said the suspect had a “rap sheet,” but did not confirm his identity. “He knew enough to stay silent,” Aronberg told CNN. “He did not apparently speak to officers, he was calm. So, it looked like a person who has done this before, not necessarily this crime, but someone who has had repeated interactions with law enforcement.”

Eric Prince

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And yes, they knew him…

“..with the alleged Trump shooter’s personal and public participation in military activity in Ukraine, it is hard to imagine this White House’s agencies can claim zero contact – ’clean hands.’”

• Would-Be Trump Assassin ‘Obsessed’ With Ukraine (RT)

The man behind a botched assassination attempt against Donald Trump at his Florida golf club has been identified as Ryan Wesley Routh by multiple media reports citing anonymous law enforcement sources. Authorities have yet to officially confirm the suspect’s identity. The incident occurred on Sunday afternoon while the former US President and Republican nominee was playing golf at Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach. A Secret Service agent apparently spotted a rifle barrel sticking through the resort’s fence and fired several rounds at the threat. The suspect fled the scene, leaving behind an AK-style rifle with a scope and a GoPro camera, but was later arrested. ”He was not displaying a lot of emotions. He never asked, ‘What is this about?’” Martin County Sheriff William Snyder told a press conference.

The suspect was reportedly “relatively calm” when the authorities detained him. Fox News has obtained a photo of the suspect moments after his arrest, while New York Post columnist Karol Markowicz has shared another photo of him being pulled out of his vehicle. While the man’s identity and motive have not yet been officially confirmed by authorities, law enforcement sources told AP, CNN, and Fox News that the detained man’s name was Ryan Wesley Routh. A man by that name appeared to be a staunch supporter of Ukraine in its conflict with Moscow, according to US media and internet users who analyzed his social media accounts before they were deleted. Routh’s social media profiles were filled with posts highlighting his “self-proclaimed involvement” in the Ukraine conflict and attempts to recruit soldiers to fight against Russia, according to CNN chief law enforcement and intelligence analyst John Miller.

Routh repeatedly voiced staunch support for Kiev in dozens of often nonsensical posts in 2022, saying he was willing to fight and die for Ukraine and that “we need to burn the Kremlin to the ground,” according to CNN. “I would like to buy a rocket from you,” he wrote in a message to Elon Musk, according to NYPost. “I wish to load it with a warhead for Putin’s Black Sea mansion bunker to end him.” Routh spent several months in Kiev in 2022 and told the New York Times about his efforts to recruit former Afghan soldiers to fight in Ukraine. He also spoke with Newsweek about his attempts to enlist volunteers for the International Legion Defense of Ukraine. According to the New York Post, Routh frequently criticized politicians, including Trump and current President Joe Biden, and “touted his do-gooder credentials while championing left-wing causes.”

Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene stated that if the suspect’s identity is confirmed, it is clear he is “obsessed with the Ukraine war, which is funded by the US.” NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has questioned whether US intelligence agencies had any “contact” with the attempted shooter, pointing to his alleged connections to Ukraine and vocal support for Kiev. ”We know little so far, but with the alleged Trump shooter’s personal and public participation in military activity in Ukraine, it is hard to imagine this White House’s agencies can claim zero contact – ’clean hands.’ Something of an Oswald vibe here. Congress should get answers,” Snowden wrote on X. Meanwhile, Trump’s son Donald Trump Jr. labeled the suspected would-be shooter a “psychopath” who probably “spends a lot of time watching leftwing propaganda.”

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“When the election is stolen, what will Americans do about it? Nothing. They will accept tyranny before they will fight.”

• Doom Is the West’s Future (Paul Craig Roberts)

Putin has been at war with NATO since the 2007 Munich Security Conference when Putin announced that a multi-polar world was replacing Washington’s uni-polar order. In other words, he threw down the gauntlet to the neoconservatives and their agenda of Washington’s hegemony. Putin possibly did not comprehend how determined neoconservatives are about hegemony, as a hegemonic agenda undoubtably seems unrealistic to Putin. He did not foresee that his challenge would lead directly to Washington’s overthrow of the Ukrainian government and move to make Ukraine a member of NATO. Once Washington had Ukraine, Washington began building a large Ukrainian army with which to embarrass Putin by suppressing the Donbas Russians. Putin was like a babe in the woods. For eight years while Washington built a Ukrainian army, Putin put his trust in the Minsk Agreement and remained unprepared for the easily predictable war on the horizon.

When Putin was finally forced to intervene, he did so in a foolish way that guaranteed increasing Western involvement, and by never enforcing any of his red lines now has his back to the wall and cannot ignore NATO/US missile strikes into Russia. Finally, he is forced to acknowledge the truth: “the United States and European countries are at war with Russia.” If Putin had been realistic instead of lost in liberal delusions, the war that seems ready to break loose could have been avoided. As the cautious Gilbert Doctorow wrote four days ago, “a Third World War fought at least initially with conventional weapons is now just days, at most weeks away.” And this is just the Ukraine scene. Another major war is brewing in the Middle East. Whether or not war is that close, Doctorow’s point is well taken. War can’t be far off when the US and UK governments are discussing firing missiles at Russia.

As I wrote two or three days ago, “as talk has been forbidden, war is now a certainty.” Unlike during the Cold War, the West no longer has independent foreign policy experts. With very few exceptions, such as Scott Ritter, Mearsheimer, Doctorow, and myself, the Western “foreign policy community” speaks with one voice: “US good, Russia bad.” That’s about it. Those few of us who are independent of think tanks and university faculties funded by the military/security complex and neoconservative foundations are labeled “Russian agents/dupes” and worse. We are gradually being criminalized. Scott Ritter on his way to a conference in Russia was taken off the flight by the Washington Gestapo. His passport was confiscated, and his home was invaded. Currently, charges are being made against Americans accused of cooperating with “Russian disinformation,” by which is meant reporting a fact or expressing an opinion that is inconsistent with the official narratives.

As one thoroughly experienced with the 20th century Cold War, I know that talk between Americans and Russians was the solution, not the problem. When talk is defined as the problem, as Washington defines it today, war is the result. And that is where we are headed. Even the cautious and understated Doctorow sees in Washington an “insane recklessness” that threatens life on earth. What is the point of it? Ukraine’s fraudulent borders while our own go undefended. Americans, Europeans, Russians, indeed the entire world need to understand that in the government in Washington there is not one ounce of intelligence or integrity. The American president is senile. The National Security Council is a collection of morons. Not a single one of them has achieved any distinction other than being a mouthpiece for the military/security complex. The military’s officer ranks have been purged to make room for sexual perverts, women, and “racial minorities.”

The notion among conservatives that the US military is going to save us is laughable. The military is tamed with fangs pulled and has been forced to accept zero promotions for white Americans until the military has achieved in the officer ranks “equity” for sexual perverts, women and “racial minorities.” The ruling establishment is determined to install their puppet Kamala in the White House. She has always prostituted herself to move ahead, and now is her big chance. Unless Democrats get a surprise from Trump winning in blue states, the 2024 election will be stolen in the swing states exactly as it was in 2020. Indeed, as local news reports have made clear, many of the theft mechanisms used in 2020 have been legalized. It is now legal in swing states for the Democrats to steal the election. When the election is stolen, what will Americans do about it? Nothing. They will accept tyranny before they will fight.

Fighting requires belief, but Americans’ beliefs have been destroyed by decades of liberal/left “education” that has undermined Western civilization by presenting it as a racist, misogynist scheme of exploitation of women and “minorities” by white supremacists. White kids go to taxpayer-financed schools funded by their parents to learn that they have been born into the wrong body and that they, their parents and grandparents are racists who owe reparations to “suppressed minorities.” They are being prepared to pay an additional round of taxes to those declared to be their victims. They are being sexualized at an early age and prepared for pedophiles. We must be honest. This is a correct portrayal of America and the entire West today. Every Western government is on the side of immigrant-invaders against the ethnic citizens who comprise the countries. Now, tell me, how can a social, political, belief system this weak go to war with real people such as Russians, Chinese, Iranians? They cannot. The only future the Western world has is Doom.

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“The idea that you can’t achieve results without being part of the intelligence service has exposed them for what they are..”

• US Has Declared War On Free Speech – Russia (RT)

The US crackdown on Russian media amounts to a declaration of war on free speech, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Sunday. She described the new sanctions against RT and other news outlets as “repressions unprecedented in scale.” US Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced new sanctions against RT on Friday, accusing it of engaging in “covert influence activities” and “functioning as a de facto arm of Russian intelligence.” Earlier in September, Washington imposed sanctions on RT Editor-in-Chief Margarita Simonyan and three other senior RT employees over alleged attempts to influence the 2024 US presidential election. “The US has declared war on freedom of speech throughout the world, turning to open threats and blackmail against other states in an effort to set them against the domestic media and establish sole control over the global information space,” Zakharova said, promising that the punitive measures Washington was using to target Russian media would not go unanswered.

She added that accusations of attempts to influence the elections are a mere “witch-hunt” and “spy-o-mania” introduced to manipulate public opinion and bar its citizens from any information that is inconvenient for the state. The head of the State Department’s Global Engagement Center (GEC), James Rubin, told reporters on Friday that the “broad scope and reach” of RT was one of the reasons many countries around the world did not support Ukraine. The GEC has funded propaganda games aimed at children and forced Twitter to censor pro-Russian content. Rubin admitted last year that he wanted to use the GEC to shut down Russian media outlets around the world.

“We are going to be talking… in Latin America, Africa and Asia… to try to show all of those countries that right now broadcast – with no restrictions or control – RT and allow [RT] free access to their countries,” Rubin said, arguing that its presence has “had a deleterious effect on the views of the rest of the world about a war that should be an open and shut case.” Reacting to the new restrictions, Simonyan argued that Washington’s claims about RT collaborating with Russian intelligence are a “classic case of projection.” “The idea that you can’t achieve results without being part of the intelligence service has exposed them for what they are,” she said.

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“It has dawned on some troglodytes in the US State Department that RT is not relying on mechanical typewriters and the telegraph but has a “cyber” capability!”

• Attacks on RT Reveal The Sad Truth About The West (Amar)

The US and its ever-loyal followers Canada and Great Britain have launched a fresh information war offensive. If “fresh” is the word: In a new season of the long-running, apparently never-ever ending Russia Rage show (aka “Russiagate”) that at least the American “elites” simply cannot get enough of, it is again – drum roll – RT that is the target. This time, it stands accused not “merely” of spreading “disinformation” (that is, any information Western governments do not like) but of intelligence work as well. And then some. Such as trying to influence the American elections (yaaawn) and somehow being linked to collecting volunteer contributions for Russia’s war effort in Ukraine – a form of outreach, by the way, which is exactly the same as what Ukrainian organizations do. There also is an even more terrifying revelation. It has dawned on some troglodytes in the US State Department that RT is not relying on mechanical typewriters and the telegraph but has a “cyber” capability!

Or something. That charge really seems to boil down to being internet-literate, a very special skill set that must appear fiendishly futuristic to some in the US administration. And who can blame them? Can you imagine its – official – leader, Joe “Kind-of-Still-President-When-he-Can-Remember” Biden handling even something as almost antediluvian as a laptop? That is better left, as we know, to his son Hunter “The-Naked-and-The-Paid” Biden. And even then, the consequences tend to be dire. Of course, the whole performance comes with more sanctions, too. Because sanctions are to American policy on Russia as popcorn is to a really bad B movie: indispensable yet also not making things any better.

Inevitably, this latest US initiative has attracted ridicule, with very good reason. In essence, it is yet another piece of self-owning, sad cringe from a regime struggling – and never making any progress – to come to terms with its steadily declining power, authority, and relevance. It is also easy to spot that, once again, these self-appointed guardians of the “rules-based order” and its “values” have dialed the hypocrisy up to eleven. Seriously? You want to talk about “disinformation”? While Western media, from American CNN, via British BBC, to German ZDF, have become complicit through silence, bias, and even the spreading of outright Israeli propaganda in the by now almost year-long genocide of the Palestinians in Gaza and increasingly the West Bank, too?

Of course, we could look back and name one example after another of Western flagrant lies with horrific, often mass lethal consequences. Indeed, so many that we can’t, actually, do that here. So, just recall two: the brutal campaign of government lying and media propaganda that the same powers used to “justify” their unjustifiable war of aggression against Iraq in 2003. By March 2023, the Costs of War project, based at the prestigious Brown University in the US, put the losses among Iraqi civilians alone at, as a very conservative minimum estimate, between almost 281,000 and over 315,000 “killed by direct violence since the US invasion.”

Note the word “direct.” If we add, as we realistically have to, those killed “indirectly,” that is by avoidable malnutrition, disease, infrastructure destruction etc., then the real death toll, so the Costs of War project, was “likely much higher” again. Keep in mind also that those who were killed are only the tip of a dark iceberg of the ruined, injured, amputated, displaced, physically and psychologically scarred for life and over generations. Those are the real, countable results of brazen Western lies. And now the US and its accomplices are here to preach about “disinformation.” What’s left to say? Except perhaps that Western “elites” are not only literally mass-murderous but absolutely shameless and tone deaf, too.

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Donbass: “I love how extremely patriotic they are there,” he noted. “The flags [are] everywhere, the patriotism. It’s extremely heartwarming.”

• US Journalist on Ukraine, Western Lies, Roots of Russian Invincibility (Sp.)

On his arrival in Russia’s Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), American journalist Tofurious Maximus Crane, together with other war correspondents, came under Ukrainian fire at a local cafe.”As we were sitting in a restaurant eating, we had mortars incoming, people took cover and then, when the mortars stopped, they just went back to eating lunch. Like, to me, it kind of blew my mind because I thought everybody would just be living in fear,” Crane told Sputnik. According to Crane, that incident showed him how resilient everybody was. He has travelled a lot around the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics and other Russian regions, and what struck him the most was the high morale and patriotism of people living there. “I love how extremely patriotic they are there,” he noted. “The flags [are] everywhere, the patriotism. It’s extremely heartwarming. How would I compare the real situation with Western media? You know, Western media doesn’t report about any of this.”

The US corporate press still keeps on the hush facts about Ukrainian neo-Nazis, downplays or altogether ignores the significance of the Donbass referendums, and claims that the ongoing conflict was “unprovoked” and the Russians have no right to be there, according to the journalist. In the wake of the beginning of the special military operation, Russian media, including Sputnik and RT, were banned in the EU and labeled as “disinformation” on US social media. On September 4, the US stepped up sanctions against the Rossiya Segodnya media group. Crane says he has never seen any falsehoods come out of Russian media. In contrast, the Western press usually quotes anonymous sources that can’t be corroborated. “Western media is just about control and deception,” he said. While in Moscow, Crane attended the Russian Defense Ministry’s exhibition of NATO weapons and equipment captured from the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the special military operation at Poklonnaya Hill.

“When I visited the exhibition, it was ironic, because that hill there is where Napoleon was waiting for the keys to the city,” Crane said. “For me, it was double comical. You know, it was like the last time, I guess you could say, the West tried to take Russia – we saw what happened. And then right below the hill, there’s these vehicles from the West. So it was kind of like a 2.0. And that’s what we’re seeing.” The West has not learned the lessons of the French and Nazi German invasions of Russia in 1812 and 1941, respectively, according to Crane. The French and Nazis also thought that they were invincible and could take on Russia, he said. History is repeating itself, and now NATO-trained Ukrainian troops and Western mercenaries are being obliterated in the special military operation. Vaunted US-made Abrams tanks, destroyed by the Russian military and put on display at Poklonnaya Hill, are a symbol of the West’s arrogance and enormous waste of money, the journalist pointed out.

“I was just laughing. I could hardly even keep a straight face, because in America, they believe that the Abrams is the most powerful tank in the world, and they cannot be destroyed,” the journalist noted. “It was like the greatest troll Russia could have ever done by bringing those vehicles here for all of us just to kind of point and laugh at.” The ongoing conflict hasn’t made the Russian people callous, and they treat Ukrainian prisoners of war (PoW) humanely, Crane said, referring to interviews with Ukrainian captives. The Russians are eager to forgive if one really repents of the malicious things one has done, per the journalist. According to Crane, that attitude stems from the traditional Orthodox Christian values shared by many Russians.

“Russia is the largest country still embracing traditional values. The traditional values work,” he said. “And in the US and Europe – they’ve rejected traditional values. And look at their economies right now, look at their people. Look at the amount of homeless people on the streets, look at the amount of drug addicts, etc. They’re rejecting moral values right now in the West. And now we see a massive decline in Western societies.”

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It’s too f**ked up to straighten out.

• PA Supreme Court Rules to Disqualify Undated, Misdated Mail-In Ballots (ET)

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court issued a decision on Sept. 13 that upholds a requirement in the key battleground state that voters must include accurate dates on the exterior envelopes of their mail-in ballots for the votes to be counted. The split 4–3 ruling vacates a previous Commonwealth Court decision that had halted enforcement of the legal requirement under Pennsylvania law that disqualified mail-in ballots if they were undated or featured incorrect dates. The Commonwealth Court found that the date requirement was unconstitutional when enforced against voters who submit their ballots by deadline. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court found that the Commonwealth Court did not have the authority to review that case because the plaintiffs did not include all 67 county election boards as defendants. Even though they included Al Schmidt, the secretary of the Commonwealth, as a defendant, that alone wasn’t enough to give the Commonwealth Court authority to decide the case.

The high court also declined a request by the plaintiffs to use extraordinary jurisdiction powers (under 42 Pa.C.S. § 726) that allow the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to take over cases from lower courts when there is a significant public interest or an urgent issue needing immediate resolution. In a dissenting statement, Justice David Wecht argued that the court should have ruled on the constitutional question presented in the appeal rather than vacate the lower court’s decision on technical grounds. “A prompt and definitive ruling on the constitutional question presented in this appeal is of paramount public importance inasmuch as it will affect the counting of ballots in the upcoming general election. Therefore, I would exercise this Court’s King Bench authority over the instant dispute and order that the matter be submitted on the briefs,” wrote Wecht in dissent, with Chief Justice Debra Todd and Justice Christine Donohue joining.

King’s Bench authority is a broader and more powerful tool than the plaintiffs’ extraordinary jurisdiction request. It allows the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to step in and rule on urgent matters of public importance at any stage of a case, even if procedural hurdles exist. Wecht and the other dissenting justices also argued that the case should have been decided based on the written legal documents already filed rather than on the basis of potentially newly scheduled oral arguments, highlighting their view that it is important to settle the constitutional question of whether Pennsylvania’s mail-ballot date requirement violates the Free and Equal Elections Clause of the Pennsylvania Constitution, ahead of the fast-approaching Nov. 5 presidential election.

The case was brought by a coalition of nine advocacy groups, including the Black Political Empowerment Project, League of Women Voters of Pennsylvania, and Pittsburgh United, with co-counsel from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Pennsylvania. The groups challenged the legality of enforcing the date requirement for mail-in ballots, arguing that it violated the Pennsylvania Constitution’s provision for “free and equal” elections. The Commonwealth Court initially ruled in favor of the plaintiffs, suspending enforcement of the dating rule in two key counties—Philadelphia and Allegheny. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s decision to reverse this ruling allows enforcement of the rule that mail-in ballots with date errors can be invalidated. The decision could affect thousands of votes in what is expected to be a highly competitive presidential election in Pennsylvania, a key swing state.

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“I ask for justice in this violent world, Gonzalo expressed his political views without violence, never threatening, nor advocating violence. Gonzalo Lira Sr.”

• Blinken Brags Over Gershkovich, Pretends Gonzalo Lira Didn’t Exist (Cosgrove)

While speaking to “journalists” during a Friday press conference, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken patted himself on the back for securing the release of the Wall Street Journal’s Evan Gershkovich – telling them “Maybe the most striking part of spending time with Evan, is simply how wonderful it feels to see him free. Home where he belongs.” “Evan’s freedom is also a reminder of all Americans who are still held hostage or wrongfully detained,” Blinken continued. “We will not forget you, and we will not rest until we get you home.” It’s hard to overstate what an egregious display of sanctimonious hypocrisy this is when Blinken’s department wittingly neglected Gonzalo Lira — the California-born writer for mainstream financial outlets like Business Insider, Seeking Alpha, and even ZeroHedge — as he was tortured in a Ukrainian dungeon for eight months until his eventual death at the start of this year. State Spox Matthew Miller was aware of Lira being tortured for at least five of those months.

Lira’s father has accused Biden administration of greenlighting the arrest of his son, pointing to a video published to Lira’s YouTube days before his arrest in which he was uncharacteristically critical of Biden and Kamala. The video, interestingly enough, is titled “Joe Biden Will Be Removed—Kamala Will Be President.” That such a greenlight was given is not far-fetched considering Ukraine’s massive incentive to curry favor with the American government that had approved more than $100 billion already by this point (now at $175 billion). Would the Ukrainians risk the political backlash of arresting a U.S. citizen unless first given the go-ahead? Regardless, the State Department’s Miller acknowledged to me that he was aware of Lira’s arrest in May of 2023. Three months later, Miller then — after being made aware of allegations that Lira’s prison guards had tortured him with severe beating and having his cornea scraped with a toothpick — said he wanted to investigate the torture claims.

Yet, despite near-constant email correspondence between Lira’s father and State Dept officials, nothing was done and Lira died of pneumonia, an infection commonly treatable with antibiotics. A story that slid under the radar this July: Natsya Umka, a Kyiv-based fashion blogger with 600k followers, made an Instagram post, saying “people want peace” and that Ukraine does not need “the border of 1991” (which would include Crimea). For doing so, she was promptly called in to the offices of the Ukrainian Security Services (SBU) for “talk”. Umka posted videos before and after the meeting, appearing noticeably shaken up in the latter video where she claims to have been unable to eat for three days. Most notably… in the video after her “meeting” with the SBU, Umka suddenly supports the war effort: “Everything is fine and we will definitely win.”

Is this the liberal democracy we are risking nuclear war to maintain? Hundreds of billions of dollars and the possibility to destroy life on Earth so we can pay the pensions of these thugs who intimidate mothers into silence, who imprison and torture Americans to death? From an email Lira’s father sent Friday morning, coincidentally a few hours before the Blinken presser: “I ask for justice in this violent world, Gonzalo expressed his political views without violence, never threatening, nor advocating violence. Gonzalo Lira Sr.”

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“The tyranny that has been created in the West is worse than the tyrannies imagined by writers of dystopian novels.”

• The Transition from Democracy to Unaccountable Tyranny (Paul Craig Roberts)

Former British Ambassador Craig Murray reports that in Britain honest news reporting of Israel’s destruction of Palestine is a felony for which journalists are arrested and face long prison sentences. In the US universities are gearing up to prevent any student protests of Israel’s destruction of Palestine. It is becoming ever more impossible to acknowledge reality. Official narratives have taken reality’s place. Manifestations of moral conscience are to be prohibited. In America the Biden regime has characterized RT’s new reporting as “Russian disinformation” and amounts to espionage. For reporting news that the US presstitutes carefully keep from the people, sanctions designed to shut down RT have been imposed. A September 13 report from a NY Times presstitute, “U.S. Accuses Russian TV Network of Conducting Covert Intelligence Acts,” establishes Washington’s false narrative. Honest information is “Kremlin-friendly content.”

I have long reported that truth was being criminalized throughout the Western world. The process has now been completed. It seems that analysts and commentators of foreign policy developments will have to terminate interviews with Russian journalists. As I previously warned, stopping communication between nuclear powers and limiting the narrative to one side’s version enhances the acceptance and likelihood of nuclear war. Neither truth nor freedom can exist without free speech, and free speech is being everywhere suppressed in the Western world. The “free” media itself has abandoned it. The tyranny that has been created in the West is worse than the tyrannies imagined by writers of dystopian novels. It will take time for the full impact to be felt, but it is on its way. With the US and Russia at the point of war, why is Washington stirring the pot with aggressive steps toward Russian media? The charge that RT and Sputnik are committing espionage by reporting differently from the official US narrative is unsupportable.

Such atrocious judgment by Washington seems to indicate a death wish for humanity. At this critical time we need maximum communication, not a cut-off of communication. It is difficult to avoid the conclusion that Washington is intentionally driving the world to war. As a “free American” I cannot read the Russian Foreign Ministry’s statement on the actions Washington has taken against RT and Sputnik published in Telegram because “this channel can’t be displayed because it violated local laws.” So, we seemed to have reached the point where official statements of the Russian government violate local laws. What is meant by “local laws?” There is certainly no such law in my town or state. Censorship and controlled narratives are tools tyrannies use to protect lies from truth. That Washington uses these tools so extravagantly indicates that Washington’s agenda requires suppression of the truth.

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A useless idea that was promptly denied.

• Ukraine Ready For Ceasefire In Certain Areas – Bild (RT)

Ukraine could be ready to freeze hostilities with Russia on certain parts of the frontline, the German tabloid newspaper Bild has reported, citing what it claims to be Vladimir Zelensky’s revised strategy. The Ukrainian leader’s plan for the conflict also reportedly hinges on Western backers allowing Kiev to use the long-range missiles they have provided, to hit targets deep inside Russia. Back in July, Russian President Vladimir Putin made it clear that Moscow was not interested in a “ceasefire or some kind of pause that the Kiev regime could use to recover losses, regroup, and rearm.” “Russia is in favor of a complete and final end of the conflict,” Putin said at the time. A month earlier, the Russian head of state proposed an immediate ceasefire on the condition that Ukraine give legally binding guarantees that it will not seek to join NATO, and withdraw its troops from all territories claimed by Russia.

Kiev and its Western backers were quick to dismiss the roadmap. sIn an article on Saturday, Bild claimed that Zelensky plans to travel to the US in the coming weeks and present his revised strategy to President Joe Biden as well as Democratic nominee Kamala Harris and her Republican rival, Donald Trump. According to the German media outlet, the main points include a “demand to be allowed to deploy Western long-range weapons deep inside Russia, as well as Ukraine’s readiness to accept local ceasefires along certain portions of the front, and thus a provisional freezing of the situation.” Last month, Zelensky revealed his intention to present his “victory plan” to the US head of state in September. He suggested that the plan likely involved asking the US for more funds and weapons, saying that victory would depend on whether Washington gives Kiev “what is in this plan.”

On Wednesday, the Wall Street Journal, citing unnamed European diplomats, reported that earlier in the day US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and British Foreign Secretary David Lammy had told Ukrainian officials behind closed doors that a “full Ukrainian victory would require the West to provide hundreds of billions of dollars worth of support, something neither Washington nor Europe can realistically do.” Kiev is allegedly being urged to “come up with a more realistic plan.” Since the start of the conflict in February 2022, Zelensky has publicly insisted on the restoration of Ukraine’s 1991 borders, which would include Crimea, either through military or diplomatic means. Moscow says that Kiev must accept the “reality on the ground,” and that the issue of Crimea is “not up for discussion.”

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“Russia believes that arms supplies to Ukraine hinder the settlement, directly involve NATO countries in the conflict and are “playing with fire.”

• Russian Electronic Warfare Makes GPS Useless for Ukraine’s Guided Missiles (Sp.)

Electronic warfare (EW) used by the Russian army has made Ukraine’s attempts to use the GPS system to guide missiles useless, the Times reported on Sunday, citing a British military source. “You could absolutely fire it unilaterally, but it probably wouldn’t survive in the contested, electronically jammed environment that the Russians have,” the source told the newspaper. “Russian electronic warfare has rendered GPS useless. They jam it. So it has to use another type of data set instead, which is American owned.” Russia believes that arms supplies to Ukraine hinder the settlement, directly involve NATO countries in the conflict and are “playing with fire.”

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov noted that any cargo containing weapons for Ukraine would be a legitimate target for Russia. According to Lavrov, the US and NATO are directly involved in the conflict, including not only by supplying weapons, but also by training personnel in the UK, Germany, Italy, and other countries. The Kremlin stated that pumping weapons into Ukraine by the West did not contribute to negotiations and would have a negative effect.

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“..what Americans really need to heal what is probably the most traumatic experience they have had since Pearl Harbor: a second investigation.”

• 9/11: The American Illness Which Still Has No Cure (Jay)

We tend to think of America as a pretty whacky place. The internet is full of mad, stupid, weird and hilarious stunts that Americans carry out every day captured on film. What we haven’t seen though is anyone go to an abandoned steel frame building and flood its upper floors with gasoline and set it alight. If someone were to do that in the name of democracy how would CNN and Fox report that fire when, ultimately it would become apparent that the building was not going to fall down? Steel frame buildings don’t fall down due to fires. The level of heat generated by burning gasoline isn’t anywhere near enough to bend or break the vertical columns which hold them together. This is 3rd grade science class stuff. And despite planes being sent to the 13 graveyards – or ‘boneyards’ as they are called – in the U.S. every day, no one in America has yet to fly one of these planes into an empty steel framed skyscraper as part of an experiment – not the deep state, not private individuals. No one.

If either of these experiments were to be carried out, the American people who hunker down and refuse to be drawn into the conspiracy theory zone would have no choice but to face their most ghoulish demon. Planes did not bring down the Twin towers. Nor the fire which they created. The evidence to prove it is pretty over-whelming as there has never been a single steel framed building before 9/11 to burn down. And not one since. The most extraordinary aspect of 9/11 is the sheer extent of the cover-up. Those who carried it out made sure no genuine investigation could be carried out. Within days of Bush standing on the rubble and posing for photos with firemen, the steel beams which held the building together and which gave it is characteristic unique strength were removed from the site and sent to China on boats. It was critically important that investigators could not take them and examine them as part of an investigation.

The steel beams could not break at the low temperatures that aviation fuel burns at, particularly starved of oxygen. Those beams needs to burn at a much, much higher temperature of around 1300 degrees Celsius before they finally buckle and then break. To get to this temperature and to break the main vertical support beams, thermite is needed which was found on the site in abundance. There was literally tones of it in the dust. And as the hundreds of architects and engineers have all said, to achieve the ‘freefall’ of the building, a certain ‘zero resistance’ from each floor has to be mastered, which can only be done by a controlled demolition on each floor timed perfectly. This is not conspiracy theory. These are facts proven by history, supported by professionals all around the world.

But the mainstream media isn’t going to get anywhere close to acknowledging these points. Nor even for that matter the scores of accounts of firefighters who spoke of hearing explosions shortly before the towers came down. Most Americans believe otherwise and that suits the mainstream press and the elite which controls it. Americans believe in the collapsing pancake theory which is that one floor collapsed onto the other as the support beams buckled and could no longer hold them. And the compounded weight alone made them all fall in perfect succession.

And most Americans chose to believe that an act of terrorism so horrific couldn’t have had the fingerprints of George W Bush and his cronies on it, despite the fact that he secured a second term easily and the ambitions of his father were realized: get into Iraq and Afghanistan where you will loot and plunder everything. Iraq had a lot of oil. Afghanistan was ripe for a 5 trillion dollar gas pipeline deal which had been a blueprint of a Californian energy company which the Bush family was connected to. Who masterminded it though? The Israelis can’t be ruled out as they also stood to gain by using 9/11 as a way of fuelling western hatred against Muslims – something which has worked very well since the U.S. invasion of Iraq lead to the creation of ISIS which then spurned a number of terror attacks in western countries. Indeed, the Israeli genocide of today possibly could not have been carried out if it weren’t for the number of horrific killings in Europe by terrorists their seeking an allegiance to the group. Join up the dots.

But historical context is not on offer by western media on the 9/11 anniversary. Media knows that we are possibly decades away from even being close to exposing the tawdry truth about the twin towers attacks. And possibly even 50 years away from getting what Americans really need to heal what is probably the most traumatic experience they have had since Pearl Harbor: a second investigation.

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“..if allowed significant discovery, the case may shed light on the media reports of a scorched Earth strategy of the Biden team targeting critics and witnesses..”

• IRS Whistleblowers Sue Hunter Biden Lawyer Abbe Lowell for Defamation (Turley)

Last January, I received a letter threatening me with a defamation lawsuit if I continued my criticism of Hunter Biden, including allegations of criminal conduct. It all seemed part of a “Legion of Doom” defense hatched by Biden supporters reportedly to target critics and even potential witnesses. I proceeded to write three more columns repeating the claims, but did not hear again from the Biden team. Now, it is the Biden defense that is being targeted with defamation lawsuits. IRS investigators Gary Shapley and Joe Ziegler are suing attorney Abbe Lowell over public allegations of criminal conduct on their part. Lowell was hit with a $20 million defamation lawsuit that alleges “clear malice” in public allegations of criminally leaking grand jury material and other offenses. Due to their extensive public interviews, Shapley and Ziegler would be considered “public figures” for the purposes of defamation.

That will make the case challenging, particularly because Lowell will argue that he was zealously defending his client. The case will also trigger massive fights over attorney-client privilege and other defenses. However, if allowed significant discovery, the case may shed light on the media reports of a scorched Earth strategy of the Biden team targeting critics and witnesses. The whistleblowers claim, however, that Lowell “falsely and maliciously” accused them of “the illegal disclosure of grand jury materials and taxpayer return information — despite the fact that they never publicly discussed return information that was not already public.” Those constitute per se categories of common law defamation, which include allegations of criminal conduct. The alleged misconduct would constitute federal felonies.

One of the allegations is that Lowell or the team accused them of leaking information to the press revealing that an investigation was taking place, apparently in violation of federal law. However, months earlier, they allege, Hunter himself publicly disclosed that he was the subject of a criminal tax investigation. Lowell will likely argue that he was seeking congressional action on allegations to establish if his client was the subject of unlawful conduct by the government. He will argue that such defamation lawsuits chill communications with government. There is an obvious irony in that defense given the scorched Earth tactics of the Biden team to target those of us who have written on the corruption of the First Family. The suing of Lowell may offer another opportunity to review the standard for public figures, which I have previously questioned.

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• Hillary Clinton Derides Palestinians, College Students in New Book (Miles)

Former US Senator and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sparked controversy this week when leaked excerpts from her upcoming book criticized pro-Palestine campus protesters and Palestinian political leadership. Clinton described a Columbia University campus “tense with shock and grief” after Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel last year. The former first lady has lectured on the Ivy League campus since January 2023 and described seeking advice from the university’s School of International and Public Affairs Dean Keren Yarhi-Milo, who grew up in Israel and served as an intelligence officer in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). Clinton also described a tense environment during classes after the event, claiming she was “troubled” by a student who asked why Hamas is considered a terrorist organization but the IDF is not. The IDF has killed an estimated 41,118 Palestinians amid its military operation in Gaza and traces its roots to self-avowed Zionist terrorist groups such as Lehi, Irgun, and Haganah.

The former secretary of state also claimed campus protesters lacked an understanding of the history of the region, an attack she made earlier this year on liberal cable television channel MSNBC. “A lot of young people… don’t know very much at all about the history of the Middle East, or frankly about history, in many areas of the world, including in our own country,” Clinton chided in comments that provoked significant criticism on social media. A group of students walked out of Clinton’s class at Columbia in November to protest the school’s response to pro-Palestine activism on campus, while earlier this year demonstrators disrupted her appearance at her alma mater Wellesley College. Opinion surveys show a significant age divide on perceptions of the Palestine-Israel conflict in the United States, with younger Americans – increasingly including young Jews – more likely to express sympathy for the Palestinian cause.

Some 48% of people from 18 to 29 years old say Israel is intentionally killing civilians, while 55% oppose further US aid to Israel. There is broad support among the age group for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza. Clinton also took the opportunity in her new book to repeat a common line of attack against former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, whom she blames for the failure of peace talks organized by her husband former President Bill Clinton at Camp David in 2000. But Arafat had warned Clinton that “the two sides were not ready” before finally agreeing to take part in the discussions after the former president assured him he would not be blamed if talks failed. “Clinton put enormous pressure on Arafat to come [to the peace talks],” recalled international relations scholar John Mearsheimer of the discussions.

“Arafat said, ‘I’ll go to Camp David, but I want to be clear that I don’t think this is going to work out, and if it doesn’t work out, I don’t want you to blame me. In other words, I don’t want you to stab me in the back.’” “So they went to Camp David, they negotiated,” he continued. “It was a very dysfunctional negotiating process… And of course, the negotiations failed, right? Camp David broke up and, of course, Bill Clinton stabbed Arafat in the back. He blamed Arafat for the failure. And the story that Hillary is now telling is the story that Bill told after Camp David failed.”

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  • September 16, 2024 at 9:00 am #169033
    Raúl Ilargi Meijer
    Keymaster

    Vincent van Gogh Autumn landscape with four trees 1885   • New ‘Assassination Attempt’ Against Trump (RT) • Would-Be Trump Assassin ‘Obsessed’ Wi
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle September 16 2024]

    September 16, 2024 at 10:10 am #169035
    tboc
    Participant

    “When the election is stolen, what will Americans do about it? Nothing. They will accept tyranny before they will fight.” PCR

    The man may be a stopped clock, at this moment he is accurate.

    September 16, 2024 at 10:28 am #169036
    tboc
    Participant

    “I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.”

    We murdered the man who spoke those words and revelled in his death with abandon

    “Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.”

    We hated the woman who wrote those words for loving the man who spoke the first.

    Do you not think the Puritan society was tyrannical? Did you not understand “Separate but Equal” was tyranny in action? Did you not understand Thoreau’s struggle against the poll tax was a struggle against tyranny?
    Rip Van Winkle is wearing The Emperor’s New Clothes

    September 16, 2024 at 10:50 am #169037
    Oroboros
    Participant

    • US Has Declared War On Free Speech – Russia (RT)

    We Didn’t Need the Russians to Tell Us This

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    September 16, 2024 at 10:50 am #169038
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    September 16, 2024 at 10:51 am #169039
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    September 16, 2024 at 10:52 am #169040
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    September 16, 2024 at 11:15 am #169041
    Dr. D
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    Walz’ wife is like a dead-on Saturday Night Love sketch. Like so over the top, it’s unreal. Right on for Kate McKinnon. And the Meta-meta on that thing, that promo, is that Donald Trump is President right now. If he’s not there now, how can he leave? WTF?

    I stopped counting at like 37 of 43 being Leftists doing mass shootings. This guy was also in Ukraine, like the the (now unconfirmed) Pittsb shooter. Ukraine is the factory floor for the Derp State, while they keep corporate HQ in Langley, etc.

    “Governor Ron DeSantis and other local authorities to TAKEOVER the investigation into the 2nd attempt on Trump’s life from the FBI before they scrub everything”

    Devolution. Returning power to the states. This is perfectly legal.

    “• Would-Be Trump Assassin ‘Obsessed’ With Ukraine (RT)

    If you read the articles deeply, Ukraine didn’t want him. Also recruiting for them is illegal, for some reason? I’m not aware of this part, I mean, yes, maybe good idea, citizens would defacto become parties to wars rogue from the State Dept, but also: Free Speech? Not sure how this has played out over time since the U.S. is at war with everybody.

    Also, oddly for every odd reason, he was both in Hawaii and NC? That’s expensive; how? It was published he’s originally from both places and moved to the other place after. Also listed as 36 when he looks 56. Roofing is hard but maybe not THAT hard.

    ““When the election is stolen, what will Americans do about it? Nothing. They will accept tyranny before they will fight.”

    PCR at work. Guess we should all give up then! Nothing worth saving. Well Bezmanov’s plan worked perfectly on Paul here. He’s the Soviet poster child. Btw, came up that “Demoralization” I think doesn’t mean what it means here with Paul, that you get low morale. Morale vs Moral. The De-MORAL ization was to erase all lines between right and wrong, good and bad, so that they are putty, can’t defend themselves, and will believe/do anything. Well that campaign is so successful it’s over! Maybe I’ve been misunderstanding it all this time, have to look into it.

    “When Putin was finally forced to intervene, he did so in a foolish way that guaranteed increasing Western involvement, and by never enforcing any of his red lines now has his back to the wall and cannot ignore NATO/US missile strikes into Russia.”

    Yup, he bankrupted all Europe without causing WWIII, the fool! I’m using my Putin-telepathy to tell you all just what he thinks! And he’s just sitting there, doing nothing about red lines, while the Houthis shut down all Suez, tank Lloyds, the London-Israeli banks, and bomb Israel at will with … Russian…Hypersonic…missiles…daily…

    Yeah Paul, 11 minutes to cross from Aden to Tel Aviv. No defense. Just a little greeting card from nobody, and certainly not Russia, right? Not communicating to the West that there are consequences about HIMARs, right? Nope. Paul has a Vulcan mind-meld with Putin, and that’s not what he’s thinking, Promise.

    In toooooootally unrelated news, The U.S shut down and pimp-slapped all London senseless yesterday, as Britain said they authorized all strikes on all targets using all Stormshadows. Yup. And this was called on by 100% every OUTGOING minister, who also tucked tail and refused to do the very same thing two weeks ago when they WERE minister. Cameron comes to mind. Only once they’re out, suddenly they would do all the things!!!

    Guess what? Yeah, just like Ukraine is our b-tch and can’t do s—t without us, BRITAIN is our b—ch and can’t shoot s—t without us. This was reported as “practically, but not technically true.” That is, it’s a straight-up, raw, bare-faced lie, to us normal people, or you wouldn’t just a dictionary of weasel words as a prefix.

    Goes like this: Sure, Stormshadows CAN shoot (by only by Britain directly, officially, their officers-in-uniform), BUT THEY WON’T HIT ANYTHING. At all. The SS being like a zillion years old, made to hit Saddam’s 1970 SCUDs in the open desert, it’s hilariously obsolete, like everything we do. IF they should ever take their lives into their hands by shooting one, it runs on GPS. Which the Russians have jammed. And will do literally nothing, and land in an open field. The End.

    So what’s more for this? So the U.S., begin only HALF a land of wankers and nincompoops, we developed a workaround to keep these blunderbusses in action a little longer while we made the replacements. …Which we don’t have. It involves shooting the missiles, with a cadre of diversionary drones, AND having an internal, satellite-mapped, terrain scanner that is aside from the GPS. However, (insert weasel words here) ONLY THE US HAS THAT. You can’t use it without our permission. We ain’t giving permission. GFY. The Stormshadows are useless as a spitball in a slingshot. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttlg1cVGAXA

    Awwwww, London and all Europe are going bankrupt and collapse unless we fight their war for them for free? Bankrupt ourselves in three wars and leave Europe standing? Golly, gee, sounds like a terrible situation you got yourself into, boys. Hope it works out for you.

    But should something bad happen, our NY Banks are ready and able to take all the capital flows from any crisis that arises.

    “• Ukraine Ready For Ceasefire In Certain Areas – Bild (RT)

    All part of Ze’s “Master Plan.” That was part of the American response (to London. Ukraine doesn’t actually exist for anyone) that Ze must present his “Victory Plan” to conquer all of Russia, before we would release the Stormshadows Britain and France fantasize that they hold. Ze seems unable to present a plausible war plan to conquer all of Russia for some reason.

    “The Pennsylvania Supreme Court issued a decision on Sept. 13 that upholds a requirement in the key battleground state that voters must include accurate dates on the exterior envelopes of their mail-in ballots”

    At a minimum? How would we know they’re “accurate”? ‘Coz somebody wrote something? They’d never lie, right?

    September 16, 2024 at 11:22 am #169042
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Wow. Spellign. I have to stop working so hard.

    September 16, 2024 at 12:20 pm #169043
    oxymoron
    Participant

    The dog shooting rubber bands was my peak internet moment.

    I’m now exhausted by the algorithm. It wore me down.

    Back to banging rocks

    September 16, 2024 at 1:12 pm #169044
    zerosum
    Participant

    How do you verify if it was the right voter that wrote that date??
    (voters must include accurate dates on the exterior envelopes of their mail-in ballots”

    At a minimum? How would we know they’re “accurate”? ‘Coz somebody wrote something? )

    September 16, 2024 at 1:13 pm #169045
    zerosum
    Participant

    Out of Control Complexity

    DESTROYERS/MOTIVATORS//FEAR/ANGER/EMOTIONS

    A.I. – “covert influence activities”

    Political interference – Second Assassination Attempt on Trump

    racist, misogynist scheme of exploitation of women and “minorities” by white supremacists.

    NATO/US AND RUSSIA WAR
    US/UK AND MIDDLE EAST WAR
    Electronic warfare (EW)
    EXTREAM WEATHER

    “decline in Western societies.”

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    September 16, 2024 at 1:15 pm #169046
    Raúl Ilargi Meijer
    Keymaster

    The only way to fuck up a system this bad is on purpose.

    September 16, 2024 at 1:26 pm #169048
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    The non-Western countries’ strategic plan against the tyrannical hegemony of the Anglo-Zionist Cabal was like Judo. Use the West’s ultimately suicidal death wish impulses against it, by enticing and encouraging (and in many cases outright designing, financing and directing) its leaders and oligarchs to just do more of the same, only faster. Worked like a charm.

    September 16, 2024 at 1:40 pm #169049
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    “When the election is stolen, what will Americans do about it? Nothing. They will accept tyranny before they will fight.” – PCR

    Is there some other way go about it? It’s not actually tyranny (and therefore not truly intolerable) UNTIL it is accepted. Up until then it is only “threatened”, or “feared” tyranny. There’s nothing quite like REAL tyranny to get people’s attention and convince them that it’s the real thing. That real tyranny happens AFTER it is accepted.

    That’s when the people will fight.

    September 16, 2024 at 1:57 pm #169050
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    I’m sure this fact will soon be plastered all over everywhere (not!) but that joker Ryan Routh is a straight up CIA/Nazi/US State Department asset, well known to such mainstream news apparatchiks as Newsweek.
    Since Routh is not dead ( yet! ) he can still be interrogated in a court room. https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/would-be-trump-assassin-palled-around-neo-nazi-azov-brigade-ukraine-what-did
    This could get interesting.

    September 16, 2024 at 2:50 pm #169051
    zerosum
    Participant

    @ RIM
    Decline in Western societies.

    “The only way to fuck up a system this bad is on purpose.”

    Requires someone/organization to have resources/money with an A.I. doing “covert influence activities”

    September 16, 2024 at 3:35 pm #169052
    John Day
    Participant

    How To Accomplish World War Three https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/how-to-accomplish-world-war-three

    ​ Is the possibility of a World War real?​ by Serge Marchand , Thierry Meyssan​ April 9, 2024 Thanks Eleni.
    ​ Atomic war is possible. World peace hangs on the finger of the United States, blackmailed by Ukrainian “integral nationalists” and Israeli “revisionist Zionists”. If Washington doesn’t deliver weapons to massacre the Russians and Gazans, they won’t hesitate to launch Armageddon.
    ​ The wars in Ukraine and Gaza have led several leading politicians to compare the current period with the 1930s, and to raise the possibility of a World War. Are these fears justified, or are they just fear-mongering? …​
    ..First, let’s distinguish between the conflicts in Eastern Europe and the Middle East. They have only two things in common:
    They represent no significant stakes in themselves, but a defeat for the West, which, after its defeat in Syria, would mark the end of its hegemony over the world.
    ​ They are fueled by a fascist ideology, that of Dmytro Dontsov’s Ukrainian “integral nationalists” [1] and that of Vladimir Ze’ev Jabotinsky’s Israeli “revisionist Zionists” [2]; two groups that have been allies since 1917, but went underground during the Cold War and are unknown to the general public today.
    ​ There is, however, one notable difference between them:
    ​ The same fury is visible on both battlefields, but the “integral nationalists” sacrifice their own fellow citizens (there are hardly any able-bodied men under thirty left in the Ukraine), while the “revisionist Zionists” sacrifice people who are foreign to them, Arab civilians.
    ​ Is there a risk that these wars will become more widespread?
    ​ This is the will of both groups. The “integral nationalists” are constantly attacking Russia inside its territory and in Sudan, while the “revisionist Zionists” are bombing Lebanon, Syria and Iran (more precisely, Iranian territory in Syria, since the Damascus consulate is extra-territorialized). But no one responds: not Russia, Egypt or the Emirates in the first case, nor Hezbollah, the Syrian Arab Army or the Revolutionary Guards in the second.
    ​ All of them, including Russia, anxious to avoid a brutal retaliation from the “collective West” that would lead to a World War, prefer to take the blows and accept their deaths.
    ​ If war were to become widespread, it would no longer be simply conventional, but above all nuclear…
    ​..In addition to the five permanent members of the Security Council, India, Pakistan, North Korea and Israel have strategic atomic bombs. All except Israel see them as a means of deterrence.
    ​ The Western media also present Iran as a nuclear power, which Russia and China officially deny.
    ​ During the Yemen war, Saudi Arabia bought tactical nuclear bombs from Israel and used them, but it does not seem to have them permanently at its disposal, nor to have mastered the technique.
    ​ Only Russia regularly conducts Nuclear War exercises. During last October’s exercises, Russia admitted to losing a third of its population in the space of a few hours, then simulated combat and emerged victorious.
    ​ Ultimately, all the nuclear powers have no intention of firing first, as this would undoubtedly lead to their destruction. The exception is Israel, which seems to have adopted the “Sa​mson doctrine” (“Let me die with the Philistines”). It would thus be the only power to imagine the ultimate sacrifice, the “Twilight of the Gods”, dear to the Nazis…
    ​..Two critical works have been devoted to the Israeli military atom: The Samson Option: Israel’s Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy by Seymour M. Hersh (Random House, 1991) and Israel and the Bomb by Avner Cohen (Columbia University Press, 1998).
    ​ The military atom was never envisaged as a classic form of deterrence, but as an assurance that Israel would not hesitate to commit suicide to kill its enemies rather than be defeated. This is the Masada complex [3]. This way of thinking is in line with the “Hannibal Directive”, according to which the IDF must kill its own soldiers rather than let them become prisoners of the enemy [4].
    ​ During the Six-Day War, the Israeli Prime Minister, the Ukrainian Levi Eshkol, ordered one of the two bombs Israel had at its disposal at the time to be prepared and detonated near an Egyptian military base on Mount Sinai. This plan was not carried out, as the IDF quickly won the conventional war. Had it gone ahead, the fallout would have killed not only Egyptians, but Israelis too [5].
    ​ During the October 1973 war (known in the West as the “Yom Kippur War”), the Defense Minister, the Ukrainian-born Israeli Moshe Dayan, and the Prime Minister, the Ukrainian Golda Meir, again considered the use of 13 atomic bombs…​
    ..In 2009, Martin van Creveld, Israel’s chief strategist, declared: “We have several hundred atomic warheads and rockets and can reach our targets in all directions, even Rome. Most European capitals are potential targets for our air force (…) The Palestinians must all be expelled. The people fighting for this goal are simply waiting for “the right person at the right time” to come along. Only two years ago, 7 or 8% of Israelis thought this would be the best solution, two months ago it was 33%, and now, according to a Gallup Poll, the figure is 44% in favor.​ [early April 2024]
    ​ So it’s reasonable to assume that no nuclear power, except Israel, will dare commit the irreparable…
    ..It is very likely that this is the reason why Washington continues to arm Israel, even though it is calling for an immediate ceasefire: if the United States no longer supplies Tel Aviv with weapons to massacre the Gazans, the latter could use nuclear weapons against all the peoples of the region, including the Israelis…
    ​..On February 19, 2022, Ukrainian President Voloymyr Zelensky announced at the annual Munich Security Conference that he would challenge the Budapest Memorandum in order to rearm his country with nuclear weapons. Five days later, on February 24, 2022, Russia launched its special operation against the Kiev government to implement Resolution 2202. Its top priority was to seize Ukraine’s secret and illegal reserves of enriched uranium. After eight days of fighting, the civilian nuclear power plant at Zaporijjia was occupied by the Russian army.​
    According to Argentina’s Rafael Grossi, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, who spoke three months later on May 25 at the Davos Forum, Ukraine had secretly stored 30 tons of plutonium and 40 tons of uranium at Zaporijjia. At market prices, this stockpile was worth at least $150 billion. Russian President Vladimir Putin declared: “The only thing [Ukraine] lacks is a uranium enrichment system. But that’s a technical question, and for Ukraine it’s not an insoluble problem”. However, his army had already removed a large part of this stock from the plant. Fighting continued for months. If the integral nationalists had still had them, they would have done what the “revisionist Zionists” are doing today: they would have demanded more and more weapons and, if refused, threatened to use them, i.e. to launch Armageddon.​
    Back to today’s battlefields. What are we seeing? In Ukraine and Palestine, the West continues to provide the “integral nationalists” and, to a lesser extent, the “revisionist Zionists” with an impressive arsenal. However, they have no reasonable hope of getting the Russians to back down, or of massacring all the Gazans. At worst, they can lead their allies to empty their arsenals, sacrifice all Ukrainians of fighting age and diplomatically isolate the puppet-state of Israel. As Moshe Dayan once said, “Israel must be like a mad dog, too dangerous to control”.
    ​ Let’s imagine that these apparently catastrophic consequences are in fact their goal.
    ​ The world would then be divided in two, as it was during the Cold War, except that Israel would have become uninviting. In the West, the Anglo-Saxons would still be the masters, especially as they would be the only ones with weapons, their allies having exhausted theirs in Ukraine. Israel, isolated as it was in the late 70s and early 80s when it was only really recognized by the apartheid regime of South Africa, would still be fulfilling the mission it was originally entrusted with: to mobilize the Jewish diaspora in the service of the Empire, fearing a new wave of anti-Semitism.
    ​ This bleak vision is the only one that can keep the Anglo-Saxons from collapsing, and ensure that they will always have vassals, even if this will bear little relation to their power in the days of the “global world”. This is why they have placed themselves in the current inextricable situation. The “integral nationalists” and “revisionist Zionists” are blackmailing them, but they intend to manipulate them to divide the world in two and preserve what they can of their supremacy.​ https://www.voltairenet.org/article220708.html

    ​ Seven Days After Israeli Forces Kill American, Biden and Harris Haven’t Spoken to Victim’s Family
    And any Israeli “investigation” apparently hasn’t even reached out to other eyewitnesses.​ https://zeteo.com/p/seven-days-after-israeli-forces-kill

    Israel releases 9 Palestinian detainees showing signs of abuse​ https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240914-israel-releases-9-palestinian-detainees-showing-signs-of-abuse/

    To stifle truth, Israelis threaten to decapitate Lebanese journalist​ https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/to-stifle-truth—israel–threatens-to-decapitate-lebanese-j

    September 16, 2024 at 3:36 pm #169053
    John Day
    Participant

    UN staffer shot dead by Israeli sniper in occupied West Bank
    Israel has targeted UNRWA workers in the West Bank and Gaza as part of a broader effort to destroy the organization which supports Palestinian refugees
    ​ The Israeli sniper shot Jawwad three times in the chest “while on the roof of his house having a coffee,” Juliette Touma, UNRWA’s communications director, told CNN on Friday.
    Lt. Col. Nadav Shoshani, spokesperson for the Israeli military, confirmed Friday that Israeli troops killed Jawwad in an operation in the West Bank’s Far’a area but claimed he was “hurling explosive devices that posed a threat to the forces operating in the area.”​ https://thecradle.co/articles/un-staffer-shot-dead-by-israeli-sniper-in-occupied-west-bank

    ​ Houthis Hit Israel With “New Hypersonic Ballistic Missile”
    ​ A spokesman for the Iran-backed Houthis claimed in a video announcement on X that rebel forces launched a “new hypersonic ballistic missile” targeting Israel on Sunday morning. He also warned that additional attacks could be expected as the first anniversary of the October 7 Hamas attack approaches.​..
    ​..The Washington Post quoted Israel Defense Forces that said a surface-to-surface missile fired from Yemen hit an escalator in a train station in the central town of Modiin.​..The target appeared to be the ‘Gezer’ power plant, 6 kilometers from Ben Gurion airport.​..
    ​..”A Yemeni missile reached Israel after ’20 missiles failed to intercept’ it,” Nasruddin Amer, a Houthi media official, wrote on X.​..
    ​..The Israeli air defense failed to intercept the Yemeni missile primarily because it is capable of changing its course suddenly – Israeli Channel 12 The US Navy failed to intercept the missile in the Red Sea as well. Great possibility that this was hypersonic.​..
    ​..Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told officials at the start of a cabinet meeting that the Houthis “should have known by now that we charge a heavy price for any attempt to harm us.”​ https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/houthis-hit-israel-new-hypersonic-ballistic-missile

    ​ Houthis launch long-range missile attack against Israel
    ​ The attack, which Houthis said was launched from over 1200 miles away, is a mark of escalation from the Yemen-based militia group.
    ​ Yahya Saree, a Houthis spokesperson, said the group launched “a new hypersonic missile” towards a target in Jaffa, near Tel Aviv.
    The IDF’s missile defense system didn’t intercept the missile before it entered Israel’s airspace and said the missile “exploded” in the air, scattering debris in open areas.
    The IDF said fragments of air defense missiles launched to intercept the missile fell near a rail station and that a fire started near the Ben Gurion Airport…​
    ..An IDF official said in a briefing with reporters that Israel began monitoring the Houthi missile shortly after it was launched.
    ​ Once in Israeli airspace, one of the interceptor missiles detonated near the Houthi missile but didn’t destroy it, the official said.
    The IDF official said the Houthi missile was not a hypersonic missile, as Saree claimed.
    ​..The Houthis have been threatening to retaliate for Israel’s strike on Hodeidah, Yemen’s fourth-largest city.​ https://www.axios.com/2024/09/15/houthis-israel-missile-strike

    ​ Pentagon renovates Israeli air base to make room for refueling tanker aircraft
    The US will send Israel four Boeing KC-46A Pegasus tanker aircraft which could help in a future attack on Iran​ https://thecradle.co/articles/pentagon-renovates-israeli-air-base-to-make-room-for-refueling-tanker-aircraft

    ​ “Nothing Will Slow Me Down” – Trump Reacts After Second Assassination Attempt​ [So we will all forget about investigating the first attempt now?]
    Summary:
    ​ Shots were exchanged between a shooter and Secret Service at Trump International Gold Club as the former President played.
    Trump was 300-500 yards away when the shooting occurred.
    ​ FBI confirmed they are investigating this as an assassination attempt.
    Trump said after: “nothing will slow me down, I will never surrender.”
    ​ The shooter has been detained.
    An AK-47, backpack, and GoPro camera was recovered near the scene.
    ​ The shooter has been identified as Ryan Routh, whose social media suggest was a Trump-hating, Ukraine-war-supporting liberal.
    Trump was NOT given complete perimeter protection, because he is not a sitting president (despite being hit by an assassin’s bullet a couple of months ago)​ https://www.zerohedge.com/political/trump-safe-after-shooter-ak47-reportedly-targeted-former-pres-while-golfing-secret

    September 16, 2024 at 3:37 pm #169054
    John Day
    Participant

    ​ Would-Be Trump Assassin Palled Around With Neo-Nazi Azov Brigade In Ukraine: What Did The Government Know?
    ​ But when he arrived in Ukraine, according to these media reports, the 58-year old Routh himself was considered too old to fight alongside the Ukrainian army. “So plan B,” Routh described to one outlet, “was to come to Kiev and promote the idea of many others coming to join the International Legion. We need thousands of people here to fight alongside Ukrainians.”​ https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/would-be-trump-assassin-palled-around-neo-nazi-azov-brigade-ukraine-what-did

    ​ Democrat ‘October Surprise’ Targeting Russia and Trump May be in the Making – US Psy-Op Veteran
    ​ Washington appears to have played down speculation about allowing Ukraine to expand the use of long-range NATO missiles inside Russia following Moscow’s warning. However, the Democratic Party’s “October surprise” may still be in the works, warns ex-US Army psychological warfare officer and State Department counterterrorism analyst Scott Bennett.​..
    ​..Russian victories don’t play into the hands of the Kamala Harris campaign, backed by the US deep state, according to the psy-op veteran. He referred to the Biden administration switching to full damage control mode by slapping sanctions on the Russian media, “arresting, or shutting down independent bloggers, or news channels by any means necessary.”
    ​ Given that, Bennett doesn’t rule out that the Kiev regime could be encouraged by the US to carry out possible false flags and expand strikes against Russia in October to either force Moscow into overreacting or try to smear it in the eyes of the American public.
    ​ Such measures could be also aimed at “guaranteeing” that Donald Trump wouldn’t be able to immediately shift to negotiations on settling the conflict, if he wins in November, according to Bennett.​ https://sputnikglobe.com/20240914/democrat-october-surprise-targeting-russia-and-trump-may-be-in-the-making–us-psy-op-veteran-1120152764.html

    ​ Sour Note: Taylor Swift Harris Endorsement Backfires As More Voters Turn To Trump
    ​ Taylor Swift’s post-debate endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, appears to have completely backfired. A new post-debate poll from YouGov released Saturday found that while 8% of voters said Swift’s endorsement made them “somewhat” or “much more likely” to support the Democratic ticket, a significant 20% said they are “somewhat” or “much less likely” to vote for former President Donald Trump’s opponent after Swift spoke out.
    ​ The majority of respondents, however – 66% – said Swift’s high-profile endorsement made no difference in how they will vote in the upcoming November election, according to the NY Post.​ https://www.zerohedge.com/political/sour-note-taylor-swift-harris-endorsement-backfires-more-voters-turn-trump

    ‘Two Decades of Development Down the Drain’: Pentagon Fails to Solve GPS Jamming Problem​ https://en.topcor.ru/51543-dva-desjatiletija-razrabotok-kotu-pod-hvost-pentagon-ne-mozhet-reshit-problemu-glushenija-gps-signala.html

    Russian Electronic Warfare Makes GPS Useless for Ukraine’s Guided Missiles​ https://sputnikglobe.com/20240915/russian-electronic-warfare-makes-gps-useless-for-ukraines-guided-missiles—reports-1120158739.html

    September 16, 2024 at 3:37 pm #169055
    John Day
    Participant

    ​ A True Shock? Economist Jeffrey Sachs Reveals Secret at Heart of U.S.-Russian Relations​ [Global finance really wanted to pick that huge corpse clean of meat.]
    The U.S. was advised toward a “Marshall Plan” to help rebuild post-Soviet Russia as a democracy, but a key witness says the Cold War never ended, because ​”we​” didn’t want it to​. https://www.racket.news/p/a-true-shock-economist-jeffrey-sachs

    ​ Russia opens probe on alleged chemical weapons use by Ukraine in Kursk​
    ​ Several residents evacuated from border villages previously reported to Sputnik that they observed acrid yellow smoke and unusual steam following Ukrainian attacks, which caused them to feel unwell. Some also said that their livestock died as a result of these incidents.​ https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/russia-opens-probe-on-alleged-chemical-weapons-use-by-ukrain

    ​”Gotta Get ‘Em All”, Poland backs ending EU benefits for Ukrainian men of fighting age https://www.euractiv.com/section/europe-s-east/news/poland-backs-ending-eu-benefits-for-ukrainian-men-of-fighting-age/

    Around 5% of Haiti’s Entire Population Has Invaded the U.S. Since 2020​ https://basedunderground.com/2024/09/14/around-5-of-haitis-entire-population-has-invaded-the-u-s-since-2020/

    SOVEREIGNTY SUMMIT TO EXPOSE BIDEN-HARRIS’ STEALTH IMPOSITION OF WORLD GOVERNMENT Morphing UN Charter Unacceptable Without Senate Approval
    ​ The plan is to use the “Summit of the Future” on September 22-23 effectively to amend the UN’s Charter in order to fundamentally transform the organization from an entity designed to foster cooperation and – where deemed desirable by member nations – collaborative action into an institution of full-on world government.
    ​ The Summiteers seek to advance “global governance” by securing approval for an effectively irreversible “process” to that end. Guterres laid out the goal of this process in his Policy Brief #2 issued in March 2023: “I propose that the General Assembly provide the Secretary-General and the United Nations system with a standing authority to convene and operationalize automatically an Emergency Platform in the event of a future complex global shock of sufficient scale, severity and reach. “​ ​https://sovereignty.substack.com/p/sovereignty-summit-to-expose-biden

    September 16, 2024 at 3:38 pm #169056
    John Day
    Participant

    ​ “Operation Mockingbird” is the search-term: US media merged with intelligence services long ago – RT editor-in-chief
    Washington only protects its own “freedom of speech,” Margarita Simonyan has said​ https://www.rt.com/russia/604034-us-freedom-speech-hypocrisy-rt/

    ​ COVID-19 Vaccine-associated Mortality in the Southern Hemisphere. Denis Rancourt
    Abstract
    ​ Seventeen equatorial and Southern-Hemisphere countries were studied (Argentina, Australia, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Malaysia, New Zealand, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Singapore, South Africa, Suriname, Thailand, Uruguay), which comprise 9.10 % of worldwide population, 10.3 % of worldwide COVID-19 injections (vaccination rate of 1.91 injections per person, all ages), virtually every COVID-19 vaccine type and manufacturer, and span 4 continents.
    ​ In the 17 countries, there is no evidence in all-cause mortality (ACM) by time data of any beneficial effect of COVID-19 vaccines. There is no association in time between COVID-19 vaccination and any proportionate reduction in ACM. The opposite occurs.
    ​ All 17 countries have transitions to regimes of high ACM, which occur when the COVID-19 vaccines are deployed and administered. Nine of the 17 countries have no detectable excess ACM in the period of approximately one year after a pandemic was declared on 11 March 2020 by the World Health Organization (WHO), until the vaccines are rolled out (Australia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Paraguay, Philippines, Singapore, Suriname, Thailand, Uruguay).
    ​ Unprecedented peaks in ACM occur in the summer (January-February) of 2022 in the Southern Hemisphere, and in equatorial-latitude countries, which are synchronous with or immediately preceded by rapid COVID-19-vaccine-booster-dose rollouts (3rd or 4th doses). This phenomenon is present in every case with sufficient mortality data (15 countries). Two of the countries studied have insufficient mortality data in January-February 2022 (Argentina and Suriname).​ https://www.globalresearch.ca/covid-19-vaccine-associated-mortality-southern-hemisphere/5832806

    1100% Increase in U.S. Military Morbidity and Deaths – US Lawyer Speaks Out​ “…This is Genocide…”​ https://lionessofjudah.substack.com/p/1100-increase-in-us-military-morbidity

    Beyond the injection site: identifying the cellular targets of mRNA vaccines
    Despite an ever-growing number of studies, the biodistribution and interactions of LNPmRNA vaccines in humans are still poorly characterized. Notable examples of “missing data” at time of writing this review are the biodistribution and effects of the mRNA vaccines on liver, spleen and ovarian tissues, known sites of accumulation for these particles from pre-clinical testing. Due to the ability of both LNPs and Sproteins to cross the blood-brain barrier, pharmacokinetics and toxicity of vaccines in brain tissue also warrants further study. Although a good proportion of post-rollout biodistribution studies have focused on the heart due to myocarditis being a notorious adverse event, the exact molecular cascade leading to heart tissue inflammation remains unknown. ​ https://00630063015873398338.googlegroups.com/attach/fcccaf227e26/JoCI_003-Reviews_003_Fertig_mRNa.pdf?part=0.1&view=1&vt=ANaJVrGtPZRni39k8rwluKIqMYLFBr-y8EUAcdDs6YZQrVjHoYvzNoRh2L5kkG7mlPqR1kFWzKgsw9mc1klwAcS_v7xJmeW3NWncKl9wss2o-0cCD16XCj8

    Joseph Mercola D.O. What Does the Science Say About Alcohol Consumption?​ ​ [Nothing good. All bad.]
    ​ Alcohol consumption, even at low levels, can negatively impact brain structure, reducing overall brain volume and affecting gray and white matter integrity
    Ethanol in alcoholic drinks is converted to acetaldehyde, a toxic substance that damages cells indiscriminately, leading to various health issues including increased cancer risk
    ​ Alcohol disrupts gut health by killing beneficial bacteria, potentially causing leaky gut syndrome and triggering inflammatory responses that affect your liver and brain
    Regular alcohol consumption can alter hormonal balance, increasing estrogen levels and potentially raising cancer risk, especially for breast cancer
    ​ While N-acetylcysteine (NAC) supplementation may help mitigate some harmful effects of alcohol, abstaining completely is the safest option for optimal health​ https://www.globalresearch.ca/science-say-alcohol-consumption/5867878

    September 16, 2024 at 3:39 pm #169057
    John Day
    Participant

    Stranded astronauts make first public statement since being left behind on ISS​. They say it was hard to watch their Boeing capsule return to Earth without them​
    ​ It was their first public comments since last week’s return of the Boeing Starliner capsule that took them to the International Space Station in June.
    They remained behind after NASA determined the problem-plagued capsule posed too much risk for them to ride back in.
    ​ “That’s how it goes in this business,” said Williams, adding that “you have to turn the page and look at the next opportunity.”
    Wilmore and Williams are now full-fledged station crew members, chipping in on routine maintenance and experiments. They, along with seven others on board, welcomed a Soyuz spacecraft carrying two Russians and an American earlier this week, temporarily raising the station population to 12, a near record.​ https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/astronauts-boeing-space-1.7323046

    September 16, 2024 at 3:41 pm #169058
    phoenixvoice
    Participant

    DBS

    Is there some other way go about it? It’s not actually tyranny (and therefore not truly intolerable) UNTIL it is accepted. Up until then it is only “threatened”, or “feared” tyranny. There’s nothing quite like REAL tyranny to get people’s attention and convince them that it’s the real thing. That real tyranny happens AFTER it is accepted.

    My hope right now is this observation:
    I am fairly certain that the size of the population that has caught on to the deception and tyranny being pulled over on the American people is a larger percentage, a more vocal percentage, than was in Germany as Nazism arose. It helps that patriotism/nationalism in the US is tied inextricably with freedom of speech, et al., and that these freedoms and rights are inimical to tyranny. I suppose that is why the deep state is trying so hard to redefine “freedom of speech” as too dangerous, too permissive, too cruel to the tender-eyed and why bureaucrats are positing that the US Constitution is an outdated scrap of paper.

    The US Constitution is imperfect, (3/5 of a person!?!) but the intent is clear: it is meant to be a bulwark against tyranny. As long as a sizable chunk of the US population not only thinks favorably of the Constitution and Declaration of Independence, but has some shred of real familiarity with the documents (which should be the case with every person who graduates from a US high school,) it should be very, very difficult for tyranny to take complete hold of the US. Enough of the population will hear what the pols say and think, wait, that doesn’t seem to be in line with what I remember from high school civics and US history classes. I really hate to be relying on run-of-the-mill folks making this realization, but this is not a situation where individuals can stand alone and succeed — look at Gonzalo Lira — and fortunately, there are some people with integrity who are sifting to the top, spreading the rhetoric that will help to jostle the memories of those boring high school classes. (My high school civics teacher had a PhD. Students hated his class. It was a very easy class to get an “A” in. He was very boring. He also knew the material inside and out and was doggedly determined that students were going to absorb the basics of US civics.)

    Unfortunately, I suspect that DBS is correct — the tyranny has to be quite obvious — very close to the “point of no return” — before it is realized. For many of us, the pandemic was the moment that we realized that the ever-present tyrannical elements had been emboldened and making broad moves — the masking, stay-at-home orders, the censorship and jabs. For others, they were jostled by the 2020 election, when mountains of mysterious mail-in ballots flipped the results. For some, it has been their shock when liberal institutions have cracked down on protests on behalf of Palestinians — which has been a medium-intensity left-wing cause for decades.

    September 16, 2024 at 4:42 pm #169059
    kultsommer
    Participant

    “When the election is stolen, what will Americans do about it? Nothing. They will accept tyranny before they will fight.” – PCR

    While I truly understand “inaction” due to US dismal record of supporting the people who stuck their neck out for the collective benefit, I do not understand the pompous bravado of decade ago, where, unlike us, the French (“fries”?) were rather the “quitters”.
    Builder of Levitt homes in the late 40’s had said If everybody owns the home (read: gotta pay the mortgage) there would no “communists” (translate: “unrests”).

    September 16, 2024 at 7:33 pm #169060
    my parents said know
    Participant

    “Routh was reportedly on the golf course for 12 hours….”
    How would they know that?

    September 16, 2024 at 8:35 pm #169061
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    It is the payroll department’s job to know such things.

    September 16, 2024 at 8:49 pm #169062
    SeaBirds
    Participant

    Trump

    We admire Trump’s resilience and strength of character in the face of abject danger. His warmth and humour are endearing. His love for his country shines through the storm he battles. We feel for his family, and the pain they must be suffering, and wish him and his team well in his quest to make America a better country.

    Phoenix said:
    ‘For many of us, the pandemic was the moment that we realised the ever-present tyrannical elements had been emboldened..’

    Yes. People now seem more subdued, the young more paranoid. Listening to snatches of conversation from people in passing, they often appear troubled, untrusting, – even though most seem still attached to the MSM and the thorough brainwashing it entails. Personally we feel adrift from people and family, resorting to banalities, carrying this awful burden of knowledge gleaned over the past few years.

    PCR. ‘Doom is the west’s future’
    Add to that the continued reliance on debt, and you have the world’s future.

    September 16, 2024 at 9:08 pm #169063
    zerosum
    Participant

    “Add to that the continued reliance on debt, and you have the world’s future.”

    https://globalnews.ca/video/10757953/freeland-says-canada-will-expand-30-year-amortization-raise-insured-mortgage-cap-2/
    Freeland says Canada will expand 30-year amortization, raise insured mortgage cap

    September 17, 2024 at 1:07 am #169064
    John Day
    Participant

    @Phoenixvoice: Thank You, Sister.
    I graduated high school in Yokohama, but I learned some civics, anyway.

    September 17, 2024 at 2:32 am #169065
    TAE Summary
    Participant

    * Time Walz needs our support. He’s been married to that for 30 years. Imagine her reaction when he leaves the toilet seat up: “Practice with me Tim, what are we gonna do: We’re gonna put the seat down, put the seat down.”

    * When the election is stolen what will Americans do about it? Nothing. They will accept tyranny before they will fight.
    – Paul Craig Roberts
    * Decadence is a moral and spiritual disease, resulting from too long a period of wealth and power, producing cynicism, decline of religion, pessimism and frivolity. The citizens of such a nation will no longer make an effort to save themselves, because they are not convinced that anything in life is worth saving
    – Jonathan Glubb

    * We have decided to stick it to love. Hate is too great.
    – American Politics

    * It’s censorship when your neighbor loses his freedom of speech; it’s tyranny when you lose yours.

    * Remember when something goes wrong in the rodeo they send in the clowns to rescue the cowboy and distract the bull. Well something has gone very wrong with the rodeo, because the bull and clowns have joined forces to kill the cowboy.

    September 17, 2024 at 2:47 am #169067
    my parents said know
    Participant

    Hate is not a good platform plank.

    DBS- yes, indeed.

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