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Debt Rattle September 17 2024

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Alfred Eisenstaedt Egyptian Fishing Boats. Suez Canal near Port Said 1935

 

• Beep Beep. Woosh. . . ! (James Howard Kunstler)
• Ukrainian Connection in Trump’s Assassination Attempt Cannot Be Ignored (Sp.)
• Would-Be Trump Assassin Palled Around With Neo-Nazi Azov Brigade In Ukraine (ZH)
• Musk Accuses Democrats of Encouraging People to Kill Trump (Sp.)
• With Fact-Checks Like These, How Does Truth Stand a Chance? (Turley)
• An Anatomy of the Post-Debate Detritus (Victor Davis Hanson)
• Putin Orders Increase In Size of Russian Military (RT)
• Russia ‘Militarily Invincible’ – Kazakh President (RT)
• Poland Vows To Pay For Ukraine’s Ammo (RT)
• Trump’s Promises To End Ukraine Conflict ‘Not Real’ – Zelensky (RT)
• Ukrainian Court To Consider Zelensky’s Legitimacy – MP (RT)
• Closing Hatches Before Rains Founder The Western Vessel (Alastair Crooke)
• 50+ US Lawmakers Hold Military Stocks (CD)
• Sunlight and Clouds, Not CO2, Drive Earth’s Climate (ET)

 

 

 

 

ABC debate

 

 

Routh 2022
https://twitter.com/i/status/1835568043273114091

 

 

Maddow Hitler

 

 

DNC Trump
https://twitter.com/i/status/1835451631225151862

 

 

Flynn

 

 

Nuland

 

 

 

 

 

 

“Donald Trump is looking increasingly likely to be the winner of the presidential race. I have long held that the globalists will wrap up an economic collapse or a world war and throw it in Trump’s lap.” — Brandon Smith.

• Beep Beep. Woosh. . . ! (James Howard Kunstler)

This time, the shooter lives to do some ‘splainin’. Do you wonder if he might get around to ‘splainin’ his role with the shady non-governmental orgs (NGOs) supported by the CIA who enabled his travels to Ukraine and his efforts there recruiting global mutts to fight for the Nazi-ish Azov Battalion? Perhaps he might rat-out actual government officials who assisted him in his colorful misadventures? As Ed Snowden remarked on “X”, wannabe Trump assassin Ryan Routh has “something of an Oswald vibe” — meaning, well-groomed by the intel boys, to be used as required.

Perhaps we’ll find out — if nothing fatal happens to befall Mr. Routh while in custody — how exactly he learned Mr. Trump would be on the links that afternoon? The candidate’s round of golf that day was supposedly a snap decision known only amongst his innermost circle. Or how did Mr. Routh figure out the most advantageous fairway to lay at for a clear shot? The FBI is on the case, you may be reassured to know. Things political are speeding up with the autumnal quickening. The blob is truly and deeply a’fright. So many blobsters will be liable to pay for their multitudinous crimes against the people of this country if Mr. Trump squeaks back into power that such a future is unthinkable to them. And yet, nothing has worked to deactivate this. . . this golden golem stalking the land. Nothing to show for the immense catalog of lawfare cases concocted to drain his wealth and stuff him into a prison cell — and astounding how amateurish they all were! Engoron and Merchan, two boobies hatched out of Judicial Error Central. Fani Willis, a walking-talking banana peel! Merrick Garland, saving democracy one abuse of power at a time!

The Butler, PA, head-shot op came awfully close to eliminating their, uh, problem, but no cigar. The Palm Beach golf course ambush had a Peter Sellers vibe, wouldn’t you agree? With the rifle muzzle poking through the shrubbery behind a fence. What next? A pizza with pepperoni, mushrooms, and cyanide? Maybe try to drop an anvil on Mr. Trump’s head from a passing airplane? (Beep-beep. . . woosh!) Somebody do something!!! The blob is shrieking to its minions from the sub-basement bunkers at Langley to the salons of Georgetown, to the US Embassy in Ukraine. Well, there’s always World War Three! And it looks like just such a romp is about to be instigated. You may have seen the photo last week of “Joe Biden” meeting with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer at a big conference table, talking-up a plan to give Ukraine the green light to rain long-range missiles deep into Russia. Meaning, let NATO technicians work the targeting console to send US or British made rockets any old place over there? Like, Red Square? Or the Winter Palace, St. Petersburg? Find an actual Ukrainian to push the launch button.

How is that not a direct attack on Russia by NATO? Well, of course it is exactly that. Russia’s chief executive, Mr. Putin, clarified it for the Globalist Neocon cohort infesting NATO that such an action would bring. . . “consequences.” That is a word the Neocons are no longer acquainted with; it has been such a long time since they’ve crossed its path, like its boon companion, “truth,” also missing-in-action these days. And, to be fair, Mr. Putin did not specify what the consequences might be, not even a simple metaphor like a mushroom cloud, or an ashtray. How did they even get “Joe Biden” off the beach for that photo op? It is understood by everyone over ten-years-old in America that “JB” is not available for duty anymore. The “out-to-lunch” sign hangs permanently on the doorknob of the Oval Office now.

The USA does not have a functioning chief-of-state for the first time in 235 years. After 2021, some sort of unelected, informal Politburu that self-assembled in the White House, like a clot from a Covid vaccine shot, is running our affairs. Maybe Kamala Harris has a clue who is in that outfit. Or somebody in the news media could ask her (if she ever gets around to holding an actual news conference, where the questions are not previewed or scripted.) Anyone dare ask? Kamala Harris is strangely missing from the front page of The New York Times this morning. Is that a little ominous? The debate is behind her. There will not be another, apparently. There is nothing about her schedule on the official campaign website. Has she entered fade-away mode? Is it all over now except for the ballot harvesting and the, uh, little adjustments to the Dominion vote-counting machines? Has the drinking started again?

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“It would not shock me at all that there would be some elements inside the government that would get involved in that kind of plot..”

• Ukrainian Connection in Trump’s Assassination Attempt Cannot Be Ignored (Sp.)

The fact that Ryan Routh was “an ardent supporter of the Ukraine and wants to see Russia attacked, and clearly saw Trump as a threat to Ukraine’s future receipt of US military support,” cannot be hidden, says former US State Department official and retired CIA intelligence officer Larry Johnson. “I’m sure that the Kiev regime is going to distance itself from this. The Kiev regime, along with the apparent support of the CIA, has put together a death list of Americans. A list of Americans who ought to be killed. It’s not a list to send them nasty letters. Scott Ritter’s on it, I think Douglas McGregor’s on it. It is not out of line for them to have done this,” Johnson tells Sputnik. He describes the fact that Routh was apparently privy to Trump’s whereabouts as “puzzling”, given the latter does not make his schedule public.

“Who leaked that to him? How did he know? Was there somebody inside the Trump team that told him? Was there somebody inside the Secret Service who told him? Was it a foreign intelligence service? Was the Ukrainian intelligence that alerted? That has to be investigated,” Johnson remarks. According to him, the assassination attempt is going to have a detrimental effect on the support for Ukraine in the United States, at least among Trump’s supporters. Johnson also suggests that many people in the current US government do not want Trump to become president again and would rather see him dead. “It would not shock me at all that there would be some elements inside the government that would get involved in that kind of plot. The Secret Service, I think it’s on notice and the focus is on it in such a way that they can’t afford to allow sloppiness and poor planning and poor security to go unanswered,” he says.

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“Who was he working with in the US government that was allowing him to do this?”

• Would-Be Trump Assassin Palled Around With Neo-Nazi Azov Brigade In Ukraine (ZH)

Perhaps the most interesting angle to attempted Trump assassin Ryan Routh’s recent history in his Ukraine connection. We documented that when he went to Ukraine to recruit for its International Legion in 2022 he was a Western mainstream media darling for a time, having been quoted on behalf of the cause to get more foreign fighters thrown into the battle against Russia by a who’s who of major media sources from FT to Newsweek to the NY Times. 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.”

“There are about 190 countries on our planet, and if the governments are not officially sending soldiers here, then we civilians should pick up this torch and make it happen,” he described. He had told Newsweek in a video interview from Ukraine that the war with Russia was as simple as “good vs. evil” and essentially the same as good guys and bad guys in the Hollywood movies Americans grew up with. It was not a gray conflict, he described, but “black and white”. In March of 2022, just a month into the Russian invasion, he tweeted that everyone around the globe should be willing to volunteer and “fight and die” in Ukraine. Still, much of his time was reportedly spent in a hotel room in the far western city of Lviv.

Among the more bizarre aspects to his campaigning on behalf of the Ukrainian military’s foreign legion were his efforts to recruit US-trained Afghan special soldiers to go to Ukraine’s front lines. The initiative appeared so large in scale (given Routh was seeking to transfer hundreds, or even thousands, of Afghan fighters – according to his words) – that one commentator questions in light of the attempted assassination of Donald Trump: “Who was he working with in the US government that was allowing him to do this?” In a 2023 interview with the NY Times Routh openly displayed his proclivity toward violent acts by threatening to shoot his critics, and the Times featured the quote almost as if lionizing his commitment to defending Ukraine:

In a telephone interview with The New York Times in 2023, when Mr. Routh was in Washington, he spoke with the self-assuredness of a seasoned diplomat who thought his plans to support Ukraine’s war effort were sure to succeed. But he appeared to have little patience for anyone who got in his way. When an American foreign fighter seemed to talk down to him in a Facebook message he shared with The New York Times, Mr. Routh said, “he needs to be shot.”Surely visibility like this put him on the federal government’s radar… or given Washington’s pro-Ukraine euphoria US officials were possibly even helping him in some way. He had received so much media attention also apparently as head of the International Volunteer Center in Ukraine. Importantly, he has boasted of having “had partners meeting with [Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense] every week and still have not been able to get them to agree to issue one single visa.” This raises the question of the degree of his involvement with US government officials at the time.

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“..[Reid Hoffman] wished Trump to be a “real martyr”, which, in Musk’s opinion, means to be “dead.”

• Musk Accuses Democrats of Encouraging People to Kill Trump (Sp.)

Some high-profile Democrats have actively encouraged people to kill former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, American entrepreneur Elon Musk claimed on Monday. “They [Democrats] have actively encouraged people to kill Trump,” Musk commented on a post on X that called Trump “an evil dictator”. He added that Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn known to be one of the Democratic party’s major donors, told the audience at the Sundance film festival that he wished Trump to be a “real martyr”, which, in Musk’s opinion, means to be “dead.”

The second assassination attempt on Donald Trump occurred on Sunday at the Trump International Golf Club West Palm Beach while the former president was playing golf. Police said Secret Service agents opened fire on the alleged assassin, who was hiding in the bushes. The man fled the scene but was later apprehended. An AK-47-style rifle was found at the scene, along with two backpacks and a GoPro camera. The FBI has joined the investigation, and US authorities are treating it as an assassination attempt.

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“ABC actually disseminated false information under the mantle of fact-checking, and that’s a real problem..”

• With Fact-Checks Like These, How Does Truth Stand a Chance? (Turley)

ABC News has been widely criticized for the bias of the two moderators Linsey Davis and David Muir. Even liberal outlets acknowledged that the two journalists seemed inclined to “fact check” only Trump. In the meantime, they allowed clearly false statements from Harris to go unchallenged. Three of the unchecked claims are being widely disseminated by supporters, including some in the media. Here are three legal “facts” that are being repeated despite being clearly untrue.

“Crime is down under the Biden-Harris administration.“ One of the most notable slap downs by ABC followed Trump commenting that crime rates have drastically risen during the Biden-Harris administration. Muir immediately balked and declared: “As you know, the FBI says overall violent crime is coming down in this country.” Harris and her allies have been repeating the claim by ABC. But the actual statistics show that Trump was right. The Justice Department’s released survey found that, under the Biden administration, there has been a significant increase in crime. Violent crime was up 37 percent from 2020 to 2023, rape is up 42 percent, robbery is up 63 percent and stranger violence is up 61 percent. Other reports had shown startling increases such as a doubling of carjackings in D.C. in 2023.

“Harris has not supported transgender operations for undocumented migrants.” Some of the greatest mocking in the media concerned Trump’s statement that Harris has supported transgender conversion treatment for undocumented persons. New Yorker staff writer Susan Glasser immediately wrote “What the hell was he talking about? No one knows, which was, of course, exactly Harris’s point.” On CNN, Wolf Blitzer declared how “outlandish” it was for Trump to make such a claim. But it’s true. In 2019, Harris told the ACLU that she not only supported such operations but actively worked for at least one such procedure to take place. When it was reported by Andrew Kaczynski on CNN, host Erin Burnett was gobsmacked by the notion of taxpayer-funded gender transition surgeries for detained migrants. “She actually supported that?” Burnett exclaimed. Even the New York Times later admitted that the “wildest sounding attack line” from Trump was “basically true.”

Harris does not support the right to abortion in the final three months of a pregnancy. Trump also hit Harris on her no-limits position on abortion rights, allowing women the right to abort a baby up to the moment of birth. Trump said Harris supports laws allowing abortions in “the seventh month, the eighth month, [and] the ninth month,” to which Harris retorted: “C’mon,” “no,” and “that’s not true.” The hosts again said that Trump was making up his criticism of late-term abortions, including the risk of babies being born but allowed to die. But in fact, many states, including Minnesota under Gov. Tim Walz (D), protect the right of a woman to abort a baby into the ninth month. While it is often said that this is left to the mother and her doctor, the law gives the decision to the mother. Late-term abortions are relatively rare, but they do occur. A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report estimated in 2019 that about 4,882 abortions were performed that year at least 21 weeks or later into pregnancy.

More than a dozen states, in fact, allow on-demand abortions after a baby is viable and can even survive outside of the womb. Nine of those states permit abortions throughout the entirety of pregnancy. Harris has supported these state laws and certainly did not answer the question on what limits she would support, other than saying that she supports Roe v. Wade. Clearly, many late-term abortions occur to protect the life of the mother. However, you can have (as both Trump and Harris support) exceptions to protect the life of the mother without allowing abortions up to the moment of birth. To be sure, Trump did not help himself with his wilder claims. These included debunked accounts of Haitian migrants eating people’s pets in Ohio, which Ohio’s Republican governor, Mike Dewine, has denied.

The issue is not fact-checking, but the failure to do so equally and accurately. ABC actually disseminated false information under the mantle of fact-checking, and that’s a real problem. Moderator Linsey Davis admitted later that ABC did not want a repeat of what had happened in the last debate, wherein Trump was given free rein and the moderators limited themselves to asking questions and enforcing time limits. CNN was praised in that debate across the political spectrum for being even-handed.

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“She pantomimed as if she were prepped by Hollywood actors..” “And in the debate, she presented her nothingness in confident fashion..”

• An Anatomy of the Post-Debate Detritus (Victor Davis Hanson)

When the size of the huge television audience—some 67 million watched the debate—was announced, team Harris naturally assumed her win might bounce her even higher than did her initial July surge after the forced abdication of President Biden from the ticket. But then strange post-debate developments followed. Harris did not receive the anticipated large bounce. In fact, the polls still remain mostly even. She may have arrested Trump’s pre-debate surge a bit, but otherwise, a debate that polled so heavily in her favor oddly still seems to have made little difference in the still up-for-grabs race. Stranger still, Harris, the supposedly clear winner, almost immediately asked for another debate. Her handlers suggested that this demand displayed newfound confidence from her win—as if an assured, second knockout debate would ensure her permanent pull away.

But Trump and others countered that it might have instead indicated the very opposite: that her pre-debate internal polls had shown the race was even or even had Trump leading and thus she still needed a second shot at derailing him, given her own team was not sure her single and transitory debate favorability would translate into any real lead. Then in a day or two, other and far more significant realities emerged, resetting the debate—like a first date’s favorable first impression beginning to sour a day later upon further reflection. As the debate clips were endlessly replayed on television, radio, and the blogosphere over the ensuing week, few, if any, favorable Harris soundbites popped up. Harris, remember, was a veritable political unknown who was running a stealth campaign of media avoidance and running out the clock. She had never really answered any questions addressed to her in the campaign.

And in the debate, she presented her nothingness in confident fashion. But she ignored and snubbed both the toadish moderators and Trump at every turn. Yet the public had tuned in only to receive just three answers from her that she had never previously offered them since her July anointment: Why are you flipping—temporarily or permanently?—on almost every issue from your past positions? If you are the candidate of change, why did you and President Biden as incumbents not make these changes the last three years—or at least promise now to make them in the next four months of your remaining tenures? And what exactly will be your policies as president and the details of their proposed implementation? Every time these questions in the debate were either stumbled upon by the moderators or demanded by Trump, Harris evaded by plugging in her memorized, smiley, and stonewalling non-answers.

Even leftist media outlets could not find video clips that would show a dominant Harris mastering any of these questions. Furthermore, in the recycled visuals of the campaign, when Trump blustered and ranted, viewers now noticed that Harris had deliberately turned to him in scripted posturing. She pantomimed as if she were prepped by Hollywood actors—not just on memorizing canned trivialities but also giving fake moves and poses.

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Nothing dramatic.

• Putin Orders Increase In Size of Russian Military (RT)

President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree that officially increases the number of personnel in Russia’s armed forces to almost 2.4 million people, including 1.5 million servicemen. The latest increase comes after a similar decree in December 2023, when the president boosted the number of employees in the Russian military to just over 2.2 million, including 1.3 million troops. In his order on Monday, Putin also instructed the Russian government to allocate the necessary funds for the Defense Ministry to carry out the increase, which formally takes the number of personnel in the armed forces to 2,389,130. The last time the president expanded the number of Russian troops, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov explained that the move was the result of the “proxy war” being waged against Moscow by the West. “The security of our country must be, of course, ensured,” Peskov stated at the time.

“This is connected with the war that the countries of the collective West are waging. A proxy war, which includes elements of indirect participation in military actions and elements of economic warfare, financial warfare, legal warfare, going beyond the legal framework, and so on.” Russia’s Defense Ministry also stated at the time that the expansion of the army would be done through citizens who voluntarily wish to serve under contract. It also explained that the decision to increase personnel numbers was due to the threat posed by NATO’s continued expansion. Members of the US-led bloc have significantly expanded their military presence along the Russian border, deploying additional air defense systems and strike weapons. “An additional increase in the combat strength and numbers of the armed forces is an adequate response to the aggressive activities of the NATO bloc,” the ministry wrote.

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“Further escalation of the war will lead to irreversible consequences for the entire of mankind..”

• Russia ‘Militarily Invincible’ – Kazakh President (RT)

Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has claimed that Russia is “militarily invincible,” warning against any further escalation of the conflict between Moscow and Kiev. He also suggested that the path to peace is still open, singling out the Sino-Brazilian peace initiative as a viable option. Soon after the outbreak of hostilities in February 2022, Western leaders proclaimed that they hoped to inflict a “strategic defeat on Russia.” Earlier this month, Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed that this was the reason for then-UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson visiting Ukraine in the spring of 2022. This effectively derailed the Istanbul peace deal, which had previously been agreed by representatives of Kiev and Moscow. During a meeting with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Monday, Tokayev said that “it is a fact that in military terms Russia is invincible.”

“Further escalation of the war will lead to irreversible consequences for the entire of mankind, and, first of all, all the countries that are directly involved in the Russo-Ukrainian conflict,” the Kazakh president warned. He claimed that the Istanbul agreement had represented a good opportunity to end the bloodshed at an early stage, but was squandered. However, according to Tokayev, a peaceful settlement can still be achieved. “Various countries’ peace initiatives should be carefully considered and a decision to cease the fighting should be made,” the Kazakh president stated, adding that territorial disputes could be resolved thereafter. “In our opinion, the peace plan [presented by] China and Brazil is worthy of support,” he added. Tokayev described ties between Kazakhstan and Russia as a “strategic partnership,” but added that Astana also maintains friendly relations with Kiev.

Last week, Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky dismissed Beijing and Brasilia’s joint six-point peace roadmap as “destructive,” accusing the two nations of siding with Russia. The plan emphasized “dialogue and negotiation” as the only “viable way out of the crisis.” Meanwhile, last Wednesday, the Wall Street Journal reported that US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and British Foreign Secretary David Lammy had urged the Ukrainian leadership behind closed doors to “come up with a more realistic plan.” According to the media outlet, Kiev’s Western backers are concerned that Ukraine’s maximalist plans to restore its 1991 borders “would require the West to provide hundreds of billions of dollars worth of support, something neither Washington nor Europe can realistically do.” Back in July, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban stated that a “Russian defeat is difficult to imagine,” taking into account the “balance of soldiers, equipment and technology.”

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“..Warsaw has yet to make any payments towards the scheme, citing temporary obstacles..”

• Poland Vows To Pay For Ukraine’s Ammo (RT)

Poland will fulfill its promise to help finance a Czech initiative to buy ammunition for Ukraine from outside the EU, Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski has told the European Truth news outlet. The Polish diplomat was responding to reports that Warsaw was the only country among Kiev’s backers that had yet to contribute to the scheme, despite vowing to do so earlier this year. According to the Polish newspaper Wyborcza, as of August this year, over a dozen countries had provided funds to buy more than half a million artillery shells, sourced from manufacturers outside the European Union, with Germany providing the largest share. Sikorski acknowledged that Warsaw has yet to make any payments towards the scheme, citing temporary obstacles.

“We have made a political decision to allocate €50 million this year and another €50 million next year. But there are some technical, administrative and legal issues related to the state agency for strategic reserves,” the foreign minister said. He noted that the foreign Ministry has already done its part, and he now hopes that “colleagues from other ministries will also do everything,” pledging: “It will definitely be done.” The Czech initiative to procure shells for Kiev from around the world was announced back in February, to fill a void after Western manufacturers failed to supply artillery rounds fast enough to meet Kiev’s battlefield demands. Ukraine’s backers have reportedly only able to collectively produce 1.3 million shells in a year, while Russia has been able to make 4.5 million at a quarter of the cost of European and American equivalents.

A total of 18 countries, including Canada, Denmark, the Netherlands and Portugal, signed up to cover the cost of Prague’s plan. In July, Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavsky stated that 15 countries had made contributions, and that there were enough funds to deliver 500,000 shells to Ukraine by the end of the year. Czech officials have also suggested extending the scheme into 2025. Moscow has repeatedly criticized the West’s continued military support for Kiev, and argued that weapon and ammunition shipments to the country only serve to prolong the fighting and cause more bloodshed, without affecting the eventual outcome.

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“I had a phone call with Donald Trump, and he said that he’s very supportive and we had a good conversation..”

• Trump’s Promises To End Ukraine Conflict ‘Not Real’ – Zelensky (RT)

Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky has dismissed US Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s promise to immediately end the conflict with Russia, calling it typical election rhetoric that is unlikely to materialize. Trump has repeatedly claimed that if he returns to the White House, he would secure a peace deal between Moscow and Kiev “within 24 hours.” “Just get it done. All right. Negotiate a deal,” he said during last week’s presidential debate with his Democratic rival, Vice President Kamala Harris. Harris retorted that Trump was planning to “just give up” on Ukraine, and went on to list her own efforts to secure military support for Kiev. “My position is that election period and election messages are election messages. Sometimes they are not very real,” he said, adding that while Trump’s remarks “can make us, all our people nervous,” a conversation with the former president two months ago left a very different impression.

“I had a phone call with Donald Trump, and he said that he’s very supportive and we had a good conversation,” he told the host. In April 2022, Kiev and Moscow were close to finalizing a peace agreement in Istanbul, but the talks were broken off due to an intervention by Ukraine’s Western backers. Since then, Kiev has repeatedly stated that any talks should be based on Zelensky’s ten-point peace plan, which states that Russia must relinquish territories held by Ukraine prior to 2014. Moscow has rejected the idea as detached from reality. Last week, Republican vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance suggested that Trump’s potential peace proposal would probably involve creating a demilitarized zone around the current line of contact and guaranteeing Ukraine’s neutrality, ideas that align with Russia’s main objectives.

US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan, however, cast doubt on achieving a quick resolution to the conflict, saying that “anyone, who steps forward and says they could solve the Ukraine war in one day from the outside” needs to be questioned as to “whose side are they going to be solving it on.” Moscow has ruled out negotiations while Ukrainian forces remain in Russia’s Kursk Region, citing war crimes committed during the incursion in early August. Previously, Russian President Vladimir Putin said he would order an immediate ceasefire if Ukraine were to abandon its NATO ambitions and territorial claims.

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“A court in Ukraine is to consider a lawsuit by opposition lawmaker Aleksandr Dubinski on Monday [..] Dubinski has been in custody since last November, facing a litany of charges, including high treason..”

• Ukrainian Court To Consider Zelensky’s Legitimacy – MP (RT)

A court in Ukraine is to consider a lawsuit by opposition lawmaker Aleksandr Dubinski on Monday, arguing that Vladimir Zelensky has been illegally holding power since his term expired on May 20. Dubinski has been in custody since last November, facing a litany of charges, including high treason. A presidential election was due to be held in Ukraine on March 31, but Zelensky indefinitely postponed the vote, citing martial law imposed due to the conflict with Russia. Dubinski originally filed his lawsuit in late June, arguing that Zelensky’s actions violated the Ukrainian constitution, and urged parliament to call a presidential election. At a hearing a month later, the court postponed the case until September 16, according to the MP. In a post on his Telegram channel in July, the lawmaker wrote: “I have to state – there is only one citizen and member of parliament in Ukraine that has taken steps to preserve the constitutional order… it is non-attached MP Dubinski.”

Earlier that month, the prosecutor general’s office launched a fourth criminal probe into the politician over his failure to file tax returns while in custody. Last November, the Security Service of Ukraine charged Dubinski with high treason over his alleged “information-subversive activities in the interest of Russia.” The lawmaker has dismissed the accusations, along with two other charges against him, as politically motivated. Earlier this month, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said that “de jure President Zelensky now is not the legitimate president” of Ukraine. His comment echoed those made earlier by Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Speaking at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) in early June, the Russian head of state suggested that presidential powers should have been transferred to the Ukrainian parliament following the expiry of Zelensky’s five-year term in office. By remaining at the helm, the Ukrainian leader appears to be in breach of “Article 109 of Ukraine’s Criminal Code, which says that this should be treated as seizure of power,” the Russian president argued at the time. Putin went on to claim that Ukraine’s Western backers were keeping Zelensky in power with a view to blaming him for upcoming “unpopular decisions,” such as lowering the “mobilization age to 18.” “I think the US administration will force the leadership of Ukraine to make these decisions… and then will get rid of Zelensky,” the Russian president predicted.

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“..terrorising West Bankers to quit their land; the destruction of social infrastructure in the West Bank (as with Gaza); and through a harsh financial squeeze on Palestinian society..”

• Closing Hatches Before Rains Founder The Western Vessel (Alastair Crooke)

Israel is entering the next phase of its war on Palestine by completing its takeover of the Gaza Strip – from the northern border to the Netzarim corridor. It is likely that they intend for this area to then gradually be made available for Jewish settlement and annexation to Israel. In a piece titled, “Annexation, Expulsion and Israeli Settlements: Netanyahu Gears Up for Next Phase of Gaza War”, the Editor of Haaretz, Aluf Benn, writes, were the takeover to proceed, “Palestinian residents who remain in northern Gaza will be expelled, as suggested by Maj. Gen. (res.) Giora Eiland, under threat of starvation and under cover of “protecting their lives””. Netanyahu and his supporters will see this move, Benn suggests, as a lifetime achievement: Expanding Israel’s territory for the first time, after 50 years of Israeli withdrawals. This will be the Israeli Right’s ‘Zionist response’ to 7 October.

This extraordinary shift was actuated – not just through military operations – but by the stroke of a pen: the appointment of Col. Elad Goren as head of the humanitarian-civil effort in Gaza, which effectively, makes him ‘Governor of Gaza’ for years to come. Less noted in the western Mainstream media is the harsh reality that, in the course of the twenty months in which the current Israeli government has been in power, Ben Gvir has armed a 10,000 strong settler vigilante movement that has been terrorising Palestinians in the West Bank. The police in the occupied territories already answer to Ben Gvir’s authority. What is missing from this appreciation is that whilst Ben Gvir has been assembling the ‘State Of Judea’s novel army’, Finance Minister Smotrich, who heads the Administration of the Territories, has revolutionized the situation for Jewish settlers and Palestinians in the West Bank.

Authority in the West Bank has been turned-over to a closed, Right-wing messianic movement that answers only to a single man: Smotrich (the Governor of the West Bank in all but name). In what Nahum Barnea describes as a stealth pincer-movement deployed by Smotrich, one arm of power has lain with his authority as finance minister; the second arm consists in the power delegated to him in his capacity as second minister in the Defence Ministry. Smotrich’s, and the Israeli government’s objective – laid out in Smotrich’s ‘Decisive Plan’ in 2017 – has not changed: to induce the collapse of the Palestinian Authority; to prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state; and to give the seven million Palestinians who live between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea a choice: to die fighting; to immigrate to another country, or to live forever as vassals in a greater Israeli state.

Have no doubt, ‘the Decisive Plan’ for Palestinians is well underway – terrorising West Bankers to quit their land; the destruction of social infrastructure in the West Bank (as with Gaza); and through a harsh financial squeeze on Palestinian society – as in Gaza.

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“It’s abjectly terrifying that the personal benefit of any member of Congress is factored into decisions about how to wield and fund the largest military in the world.”

• 50+ US Lawmakers Hold Military Stocks (CD)

At least 50 U.S. lawmakers or members of their households are financially invested in companies that make military weapons and equipment—even as these firms “receive hundreds of billions of dollars annually from congressionally-crafted Pentagon appropriations legislation,” a report published Thursday revealed. Sludge’s David Moore analyzed 2023 financial disclosures and stock trades disclosed in other reports and found that “the total value of the federal lawmakers’ defense contractors stock holdings could be as much as $10.9 million.” According to the report: “The spouse of Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), the ranking member of the Defense Appropriations subcommittee, holds between $15,000 and $50,000 worth of shares in each of Boeing and RTX, as well as holdings in two other defense manufacturers. Sen. Jerry Moran (R-Kansas), another Defense Appropriations subcommittee member, holds up to $50,000 in the stock of Boeing, which received nearly $33 billion in defense contracts last year.

On the Democratic side of the aisle, Sen. John Hickenlooper (Colo.) holds up to a quarter of a million dollars’ worth of stock in RTX…” The most widely held defense contractor stock among senators and representatives is Honeywell, an American company that makes sensors and guiding devices that are being used by the Israeli military in its airstrikes in Gaza. The second most commonly held defense stock by Congress is RTX, formerly known as Raytheon, the company that makes missiles for Israel’s Iron Dome, among other weapons systems. All 13 senators whose households disclosed military stock holdings voted for the most recent National Defense Authorization Act, which, as Common Dreams reported, allocated a record $886.3 billion for the U.S. military while many lawmakers’ constituents struggled to meet their basic needs.

“It is an obvious conflict of interest when a member of Congress owns significant stock investments in a company and then votes to award the same company lucrative federal contracts,” Craig Holman, government affairs lobbyist at the consumer advocacy group Public Citizen, told Sludge. “Whether or not the official action is taken for actual self-enrichment purposes is beside the point. There is at least an appearance of self-enrichment and that appearance is just as damaging to the integrity of Congress,” Holman added. “This type of conflict of interest is already banned for executive branch officials and so should be for Congress as well. The ETHICS Act would justly avoid that conflict of interest by prohibiting members of Congress and their spouses from owning stock investments altogether.”

Holman was referring to the Ending Trading and Holdings In Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act, introduced earlier this year by Sens. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.), Gary Peters (D-Mich.), and Josh Hawley (R-Mo.). In the House of Representatives—where the 2024 NDAA passed 310-118, with the approval of over two dozen members who own shares in military companies—House Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Michael McCaul’s (R-Texas) household owns up to $2.6 million in General Electric, Oshkosh Corporation, and Woodward shares. Rep. Dave Joyce (R-Ohio), who sits on the Defense Appropriations subcommittee, owns as much as $100,000 worth of Boeing and General Electric stock.

Other House lawmakers with potential conflicts of interest include Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.), a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee, who owns Leidos shares worth as much as $248,000; Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.), who owns up to $100,000 worth of RTX stock; and Rep. Patrick Fallon (R-Texas), a member of the Armed Services Committee who holds Boeing stock worth between $100,000 and $250,000. “Every American should take a long, hard look at these holdings to conceptualize the scope of Congress’ entanglement with defense contractors,” Public Citizen People Over Pentagon advocate Savannah Wooten told Sludge. “It’s abjectly terrifying that the personal benefit of any member of Congress is factored into decisions about how to wield and fund the largest military in the world.” “Requiring elected officials to divest from the military-industrial complex before stepping into public service would create a safer and more secure world from the outset,” she added.

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“..we must stop burning fossil fuel to avoid dangerous climate change. “That is completely wrong.”

“..the warming of the last 24 years was entirely caused by the observed decrease of Earth’s albedo and not by increasing greenhouse gas concentrations..”

• Sunlight and Clouds, Not CO2, Drive Earth’s Climate (ET)

Ned Nikolov, a physical scientist and researcher affiliated with Colorado State University, told The Epoch Times the IPCC is incorrect regarding CO2. “The greenhouse theory claims that atmospheric composition is important,” Nikolov said. “They are arguing that tiny increases of the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere cause global warming and that we must stop burning fossil fuel to avoid dangerous climate change. “That is completely wrong.” On Aug. 20, Nikolov and Karl Zeller, a retired U.S. Forest Service meteorologist, published their study that found that recent warming is not the result of increasing CO2. Instead, after analyzing satellite data, the two researchers concluded that the Earth has warmed because it’s been absorbing more sunlight due to reduced global cloud cover. According to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Earth’s atmosphere is constantly working to balance the planet’s “energy budget”—the amount of energy entering and leaving it.

After the Sun’s shortwave radiation—sunshine—reaches the Earth, the energy flows back into space as thermal radiation. If this balance is disrupted, and more sunlight is absorbed or not enough heat escapes to space, Earth’s temperature will rise. An imbalance in the energy budget is known as radiative forcing, with the incoming radiation being shortwave and the outgoing radiation being longwave (or thermal). Additionally, Earth’s albedo, the fraction of sunlight reflected back into space, impacts the amount of radiation that reaches the surface. In its Sixth Assessment Report, the IPCC states that, due to increased atmospheric CO2 concentration from human greenhouse gas emissions, Earth’s energy budget is out of balance—more thermal energy is being trapped, resulting in elevated temperatures and warmer oceans.

It also notes regarding the Earth’s albedo that, between 1950 and 1980, there was “evidence for a widespread decline of surface solar radiation (or dimming),” followed by “a partial recovery (brightening) at many observational sites thereafter.” As to the cause, the IPCC states, “Multi-decadal variation in anthropogenic [human-caused] aerosol emissions are thought to be a major contributor (medium confidence), but multi-decadal variability in cloudiness may also have played a role.” In addition, the IPCC said some studies show that “cloudiness” can play a role in “dimming” and “brightening.” But the contribution of aerosols and clouds to dimming and brightening is still debated, and “the origin of these trends is not fully understood.”That, according to Nikolov, is where his study comes in.

“Climate is controlled by the amount of sunlight absorbed by Earth and the amount of infrared energy emitted to space. These quantities—together with their differences—define Earth’s radiation budget,” NASA’s Clouds and the Earth’s Radiant Energy System (CERES) website states. Since March of 2000, the NASA team has been collecting satellite data to examine the energy exchange between the Earth and space.Using those measurements and a “novel climate-sensitivity model derived from independent NASA planetary data,” Nikolov and Zeller evaluated how Earth’s decreasing albedo impacted global temperature during the 21st century. “CO2 is an invisible trace gas that does not interfere with sunlight. It’s believed to trap thermal radiation coming from the surface, but that’s a misconception because the absorption of longwave radiation by CO2 and heat-trapping are completely different physical processes.

According to the 2nd law of thermodynamics, heat-trapping is impossible in an open system such as the atmosphere,” Nikolov said. He added that while water vapor is also a greenhouse gas, it becomes visible when it condenses and forms clouds. And because clouds “reflect solar radiation back to space,” their impact on the climate is “measurable and significant.” “Cloud formation is partially controlled by cosmic forces. When clouds decrease, the planetary albedo drops and more radiation reaches the surface, causing warmer temperatures.” “In our paper, we show, using the best available observations from the [Clouds and the Earth’s Radiant Energy System] platform, that the warming of the last 24 years was entirely caused by the observed decrease of Earth’s albedo and not by increasing greenhouse gas concentrations as claimed by the IPCC.”

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  • September 17, 2024 at 8:39 am #169072
    Raúl Ilargi Meijer
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    Alfred Eisenstaedt Egyptian Fishing Boats. Suez Canal near Port Said 1935   • Beep Beep. Woosh. . . ! (James Howard Kunstler) • Ukrainian Connect
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle September 17 2024]

    September 17, 2024 at 10:15 am #169074
    tboc
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    “At least 50 U.S. lawmakers or members of their households are financially invested in companies that make military weapons and equipment—even as these firms “receive hundreds of billions of dollars annually from congressionally-crafted Pentagon appropriations legislation,” (CD)

    allow me to take a moment of your time to remind you of those years in the US when the common opinion was to re-elect corrupt congressional representatives because they were good for jobs in their state.

    “Donald Trump is looking increasingly likely to be the winner of the presidential race. I have long held that the globalists will wrap up an economic collapse or a world war and throw it in Trump’s lap.” — Brandon Smith.

    1. It’s their money if they want to lose it, fine by me. Let them find a place to spend what they have left.
    2. My best Mangalore impression, “If it’s war they want, it’s war they’ll get”.
    The left are doing all the shooting now. That will not always be the case.
    Celebrity hunting will take on a whole new meaning.

    registered voters in prison – “we are all just prisoners here, of our own device”

    September 17, 2024 at 11:06 am #169075
    Dr. D
    Participant

    All sorts this week, History, Metatron,(Italy) was Nazi left or right wing? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4fdZu2vb_I (Like all words the definitions keep evolving. Also there is a Euro/US contrast.) I thought he said yes. You may think he didn’t.

    Whatifalthist on the origins and anthropology of the Left and Right. Left first: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NW_AiXLdsxo He wisely posted left and right same day within hours. He also adds they are mentally ill, cruel vindictive lairs, who care nothing about hypocrisy, reason, or paradigm values in their quest for power. That appears to be the immediate effect of believing neither in soul, nor God, so nothing outside restrains them. This is also why they cannot help to always go too far, even when it’s not strategic to do so. The bloodlust and lack of restraint to express petty power is too alluring. I mean, if you can’t grind the Cons, toss their children in jail for praying and amputate them, what’s really the point anyway? Well, that’s definitely the dark side, on the lighter side they are people who respond to power and react to it, say like courtiers. Or the narcissistically abused.

    So like other things, like pedophilia, if you can abuse the young, like a zombie bite, they grow up to be zombies and bite people themselves. The abused become the abusers, thus the modern fascination with vampires (since 1990?), Interview, Lost Boys, Twilight…and Zombies, Walking Dead, etc. Go down to Philly, look like walking dead on the street, where they can literally bite you? Where if you or your kids interact with them, they might end up like them, in a drug abuse, homelessness, doin’ those 15 black abortions with joy and pride?

    Looking at world news, I am surprised Red Hat Biden says no, or even pops up out of his hole in Putxatawny to meet anyone. I thought they had a schedule here! They need to get whacked by Russia week of election. Well, that’s hampering my theory.

    Well, maybe London and the K-Pop will hijack a free missile from somewhere like Dr. No to get this started.

    Ryan Routh: boy this guy sure was on camera with every major news agency for years, running guns wasn’t he? Good thing the State Dept and FBI, Lettermen, had no idea whatsoever who we was! They seem to be able to manage very simple facts now and he’s 58yo, and I guess we know where an unemployed roofer got the money to move to Hawaii! It was all those totally free interviews he gave!

    Okay: so Mrs. T comes out, says “What assassination, nobody’s looking or cares” then a day later an assassination where the guy is alive, can answer all kinds of questions for Congress, and is neck-deep in the Derp State Ukraine? Yeah, if I were in there, I’d have my double agents activate him, then pick him up, it’s like Overton window, we can discuss this safely, include all the same people, and get America up to speed that this happens in a way they will listen.

    From his side, how did he know Trump was out there that day? We hear Trump himself didn’t know, he decided 30min before, that’s why he felt safe. But this guy knew Trump’s schedule in real time, as he hadn’t been out there with two backpacks, a long arm, a gopro on a stand, and a pack of sandwiches for 6 weeks like a real sniper. Also the gun? Wtf, yes that’ll kill you fine, but that’s no sniper weapon.

    On Hilter: “Democrats Express Relief That Hitler Is OK” –Bbee

    And of course, “Trump rhetoric called for assassination of himself.” ~~Bbee

    Just like all those nuke plants and pipelines in Russia? “We finished the pipeline, what should we do now, Herr Fuehrer Putin?” “Bomb it.” “Aye Comrade!” (Hitler and Putin and Stalin and Ben Shapiro are all the same thing now.) “Oh and comrade? Build me a SECOND $6B pipeline by Wednesday so I can bomb that one too. Thanks.” ‘Merica! ‘Merican logic.

    From details of the postings yesterday, The reason they were so hot for Zaporizhzhia was they had stockpiled all their Uranium and Plutonium there. For bombs. Now it wasn’t bomb-ready, but it wasn’t impossible nor far away either. So you can see why they wanted to send a team of 30,000 men, 3,000 men, 300 men to take it, or have the UN Inspectors there. And why Russia took it, said nothing, and removed the stuff in good Russian fashion. Maybe it was re-sited in Kursk, who knows?

    “Here’s Claire McCaskill in a recent interview on MSNBC, saying President Trump is more dangerous than Mussolini and Hitler
    Ryan Wesley Routh tried to assassinate Trump bc of this type of deranged rhetoric
    Democrats own this attempted assassination”

    Yes, but it gives them power so neither they, nor their people care. Hypocrisy, murder, are always fine and in fact laudable if done for “Our Side” Chelsey’s Mean Girlz Table. If Betty commits suicide from our antics, so much the better. This is all Feminine orientation: all slander, shame, and accusation that lowers your social standing (incel, this Jew like Shapiro is “Literally Hitler”). Because they are way more violent and cruel than men are, and the matriarchy would be far worse. And has been, since 1971 as it’s slowly been installed. Not saying “Patriarchies” are great, in fact, not sure we have one, but their attempt at Matriarchy has made everyone on earth miserable, including all women, all girls are killing themselves, all stats on abuse, children’s health have spiked, and we’re having a nuclear war. Not what I was promised “If only we get a woman PM/President” but “Killing a million children was worth it and made me happy and warm at night” Albright might have been a warning. Oh, and although all the women’s and girls’ career, pay, health, mental health, and happiness have plummeted off a cliff like Thelma and Louise, men are doing even WORSE. But wgaf about them, amitrite? Rapists and spies for the Patriarchy. …Which is merely the Jewish “Elders of Zion” Conspiracy theory ported over to gender, no joke.

    Anyway, done now. Whyyyyyyyy do you do this? And why when it fails and doesn’t make the OTHER girls miserable but you too, do you KEEP doing it? If you’re a prisoner to Chelsea and can’t get out, at least save Betty or your best friends, save Dave and Jose from her deadly clutches.

    Ms. Hageman: If only Congress knew and could do something! …Since 2000. When they had an 11 year old hacker break the voting machines in the hacker’s convention with a Commodore 64 and and 9,600 modem. If only we had caught them on camera running 1,000 ballots through the machine 3 times! Oh well, that’s how it goes.

    ““Who was he working with in the US government that was allowing him to do this?”
    • Would-Be Trump Assassin Palled Around With Neo-Nazi Azov Brigade In Ukraine (ZH)

    Don’t be silly, he’s been there since the beginning but never met anyone, nor was any agency aware of him or had a record. Even though he’s clearly unhinged and I wouldn’t ID him as dangerous, but would immediately start a file for national embarrassment as he’s going to say/do something and we’ll have “an incident.” My point being he DEFINITELY has a file. — I – probably have a file.

    ““..[Reid Hoffman] wished Trump to be a “real martyr”, which, in Musk’s opinion, means to be “dead.”

    Yes but only 10 times a day, every day. That’s the party of peace, love and tolerance, of course.
    My thought yesterday was, “Geez about time!” The DNC was saying he’s Hilter for years but if so 1) They don’t believe a word of what they’re saying and are all liars, or 2) Are all every man and woman an incredible coward. So which is it? If it’s Hilter, your JOB, it’s REQUIRED to shoot him as soon as you meet him, first day, every Democrat, every man, every time. Right? So what’s been the holdup? All cowardice or all liars?

    Anyway, that’s done, they’re finally ACTING as if they believe a word they say. Good, I’d rather the be a real, honest tyrant and murderer than a weaseling liar. Being open allows us all to act.

    ““ABC actually disseminated false information under the mantle of fact-checking, and that’s a real problem..”

    Yes but they don’t care. Hypocrisy is a GOOD thing so long as it’s in service of the Glorious Revolution…Of POWER. Because we dgaf about The Poors, Working men, or women, clearly. So they will LOVE ABC for lying, cheating, and stealing. You have to understand, if it means Power, it’s a GOOD thing. Infinity good, permitting any means to accomplish.

    The article, however, points out their other problem: of always going too far. Right off, first move, every time. They’re so unhinged that they expose themselves as unhinged, lying, and power-mad because they have no shame and no limits to INFORM them that “This is a boundary of decency and normal order” here. The whole POINT is to have no boundaries, no limits, no God, no rules. Just: I WANT. Otherwise what’s the point? And “normal” people, even slightly-less-unhinged, pick up on and notice that.

    “• An Anatomy of the Post-Debate Detritus (Victor Davis Hanson)

    I’ve read they took the short-term win of looking good that night, by sacrificing ANY policy reveals. I don’t know, sure, why not, but how can I tell when every poll and article is a lie? Why would I care? It’s not like we’re either voting or having an election anyway. What with only one candidate alive in November? And no one cares a bit about “Saving Democracy” in that eventuality?

    “New leaks indicate Linsey Davis and David Muir were each paid a million dollars from the Kamala campaign for “moderating the ABC debate. What are your thoughts ?”

    My thoughts? What’s a white guy doing on TV? I thought we were done with the Dark Ages here. How dare they take $1M from a deserving…I dunno, polynesian, trans/gay wheelchair midget? ABC are f’ing bigots is all I can say. Know your place. Do what you’re told. White men have no place anywhere except to give me things. The existence of white men in a panel of all other colors and genders is Anti-diversity, I’m told. It’s when there are FEWER colors that it’s Diversity.™ If only I were kidding, I’ve directly asked good liberal women this, that’s what they directly and proudly told me ANY white people, at ALL is not diversity. My thought: “What about your kids”?? They must be killed to have the diversity of REMOVING colors? …Logic, nevermind.

    “• Putin Orders Increase In Size of Russian Military (RT)

    Well that ain’t good when he’s winning. Sooooo….what happens next with all these men? They just sit around, and all the new uniforms wear out from old age? History says otherwise.

    “• Russia ‘Militarily Invincible’ – Kazakh President (RT)

    By contrast, the US and London are very, very Vincible.

    Hey, uh, I guess we’re decommissioning 17 Navy ships for lack of crew. Anybody looking into that? Maybe NOT KILLING all your Vets in the VA medical and getting them on Food Stamps on the base, so maybe they might want to join?

    “Poland will fulfill its promise to help finance a Czech initiative to buy ammunition for Ukraine from outside the EU, Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski”

    Is this the same one??? Yeah, they told international Arms Dealers they would pay ANY PRICE for ammunition. And these arms dealers, they did them a solid and didn’t raise prices! NOT!!! Not only did the prices suddenly spike worldwide, (meaning 1/3 less rounds are bought) but ALSO gave them all shells that were too old, don’t work, or were already disassembled and the fuses removed. Go Poland! I’m sure your people will be happy to be treated like that! When you’re as rich as Poland is, money’s no object.

    “• Trump’s Promises To End Ukraine Conflict ‘Not Real’ – Zelensky (RT)

    Uhhh, I don’t think that mean what you think it mean. Vance calling a complete surrender seemed pretty real. Remember, we’re Americans. We DGAF about you. If your nation vanished: Or France, or Germany, or Canada, we’d neither notice or care. Sorry.

    “• 50+ US Lawmakers Hold Military Stocks (CD)

    By 50+ they mean ALL of them.

    Dog pilots:     Who are they going to bomb? Ohio?

    Folding clothes: probably great, but who has time? This should be taught in school so that we all know and can do it later for ourselves. They’d have to skip OnlyFans class, grades 6-12.

    September 17, 2024 at 1:29 pm #169077
    oxymoron
    Participant

    Rachael Maddow…. (can someone explain how all this turned into such dumb)
    She earned a degree in public policy at Stanford in 1994.[17] At graduation, she was awarded the John Gardner Fellowship.[18] She was the recipient of a Rhodes Scholarship and began her postgraduate study in 1995 at Lincoln College, Oxford. She had also been awarded a Marshall Scholarship the same year but turned it down in favor of the Rhodes.[19] This made her the first openly lesbian winner of the Rhodes Scholarship.[a][21] In 2001, she earned a Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil)[22] in politics at the University of Oxford.[23] Her thesis was titled “HIV/AIDS and Health Care Reform in British and American Prisons” and was supervised by Lucia Zedner.[24]

    September 17, 2024 at 1:48 pm #169078
    oxymoron
    Participant

    Folding clothes like that if for people with empty souls. Just keep it clean, put it where it goes or wear it. It’s not your girlfriend bro – unless you are married to the state… oh wait

    Hey this was interesting but gave me the heeby jeebies like Eric Weinstein is some creepy smart 5 d Zionist or something
    The start is fluffy but it gets gooood.
    https://substack.com/home/post/p-148557048

    September 17, 2024 at 1:50 pm #169079
    those darned kids
    Participant

    dog too nice to pilot human death machine

    September 17, 2024 at 1:50 pm #169080
    those darned kids
    Participant

    human dumb

    September 17, 2024 at 2:17 pm #169081
    zerosum
    Participant

    facts checking truth and lies

    bizarre

    presented her nothingness in confident fashion

    why did you and President Biden as incumbents not make these changes the last three years

    scripted posturing. She pantomimed as if she were prepped by Hollywood actors—not just on memorizing canned trivialities but also giving fake moves and poses.

    typical election rhetoric that is unlikely to materialize.

    an obvious conflict of interest

    voting for D or R will not remove the debt or prevent the over spending
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    September 17, 2024 at 3:45 pm #169082
    Noirette
    Participant

    On Martin Jay re. 9/11. Prev. thread.

    9/11: The American illness which still has no cure

    9/11, now 23rd anniversary, is a time marker where it became evident to many (others understood it before) that Gvmt./ MSM media narratives, spin / enforced by top figures in Gvmt. – Corps – plus Others at decisionary nodes, information nodes (even out of MSM) dominate effectively, smoothly.

    Scary fanciful narratives can be plugged, enforced, with alramist hype, etc. Groups in cahoots (including a ‘vital’ outpost, Is-ra-el) can just ‘do it’ and the ‘narrative’ is imposed, even for such an strange, extraordinary, event, as 9/11.

    Questioning the story, like the Architects xxx for 9/11 truth do, they are allowed to ‘publish’, ‘have a platform’ (journals, etc.) but remain ‘marginal’..

    Anyone who seeks any position of even minor power has to show allegiance to the story of the Evil Bin Laden and Murderous Muslim Terrorist with box cutters bringing down Huge Buildings etc.

    Like a cult, an imposed ‘fakey’ religion.

    Almost everyone knows it is nonsense.

    What is interesting though is that right aftrer 9/11 Putin supported the US’ anti-terrorist moves (maybe Thchenia happenings played a role)…

    From Chatham house.

    For Vladimir Putin, the atrocity of 9/11 meant that the United States now needed Russia. Putin was reportedly the first foreign leader to call George W. Bush afterwards, and subsequently facilitated US access to bases in Central Asia without a formal quid pro quo.

    The ‘9/11 moment’ in bilateral relations was very short-lived with Russia disappointed that the US did not, even in time, give more in return. The episode is a reminder that, at least at one time, Putin was open to a strong partnership with the US that respected Russia’s ‘cardinal interests’ – Russian pre-eminence in ‘former Soviet space’.

    https://www.chathamhouse.org/events/all/members-event/911-and-us-russia-relations

    September 17, 2024 at 4:37 pm #169083
    thomasjkenney
    Participant

    @oxy and folded underwear

    Folding clothes like that if for people with empty souls.

    It is unfortunate that you cannot see the substance that fills another person’s soul.

    My wife folds my underwear, despite my best efforts to break her of this habit. Keeping a tidy and functional household is a point of pride for her. I can reliably open the drawer in darkness, grab a pair, and know which side is the front…every dang time! I told her not to iron my t-shirts (told, told, told!) but they’re still the shape and shade of an envelope when I open that drawer, too.

    Her soul is filled with light, love, happiness, silliness, good food thoughts. It’s a bleak world where such is disparaged, or cannot be seen due to occlusion or perception.

    September 17, 2024 at 5:24 pm #169084
    zerosum
    Participant

    The Trudeau government’s debt binge has had, and will continue to have, a material impact on Canadians’ lives.
    The federal government’s debt interest charges already cost taxpayers more than $1 billion every week . The government now wastes more money servicing the debt than it sends to the provinces in health transfers. Paying debt interest takes every penny collected from the GST.

    Over the next 15 years, debt interest charges will cost taxpayers $847 billion, according to PBO projections. That’s more than $18,000 for every Canadian.

    Big deficits also make it more likely the government will raise taxes, as evidenced by this year’s capital gains tax hike. “Canada could finance these critical investments by taking on more debt, but that would place an unfair burden on younger generations,” Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland said while introducing her capital gains tax hike, trying to sell Canadians on the idea that tax hikes are necessary to keep the debt from spiralling further. But what the tax hike really illustrates is how the government has a spending problem, not a revenue problem.

    https://budget.canada.ca/2024/report-rapport/budget-2024.pdf
    Budget 2024

    September 17, 2024 at 6:09 pm #169086
    zerosum
    Participant

    https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/17/dozens-of-hezbollah-members-wounded-after-pagers-explode-in-lebanon
    Nine killed, 2,750 wounded across Lebanon as Hezbollah pagers explode

    September 17, 2024 at 7:30 pm #169087
    SeaBirds
    Participant

    Russian ‘military invincible’ – Kazakh President.

    Also interesting that Scholz meets with and listens to this guy.

    Firmly refusing to send long range missiles to Ukraine, Scholz now bellows for peace talks with Russians present, firmly supported by Orban, as expected. Also,

    ‘Members of the French government are concerned about the Ukraine conflict spiralling out of control and are now exercising “great discretion” as reported by Le Monde.

    And,
    Italy wants a ‘serious peace conference’ before the end of the year.
    They slowly line up like sail boats on the Suez canal while Europe collapses, and the killing fields continue. Major players, being given their commands – by whom?

    Nuland.
    Consummate liar nicely stripped down on Rumble. But I think Johnson has her beat. I wonder how much he was paid by the MIC to scupper the deal? Just recalling how he quoted a million bucks (or was it pounds) to talk with Tucker.

    September 17, 2024 at 10:07 pm #169091
    jb-hb
    Participant

    “Hitler is different because he privatized”

    In the sense that the govt bought the companies and then sold the stocks off…

    ….TO THE Nationalist Socialist party!

    And installed party comissars in all those companies, set prices, set who could have access to resources and all the cool stuff we talk about current-year in Sociology classes college!

    The Nationalist Socialists… adopted (nearly) all the policies current year Leftists want today? Yes, yes indeed.

    So why do leftists insist Nationalist Socialists were different? In what SENSE could they have been “private”? In the exact same way current-year marxists wish to destroy the family – because they consider family to be a kind of property ownership.

    Remember when that Saul Alinsky protege declared, published that book, what was it? ….It Takes A Village? Remember those recent statements by Democrats that children belong to EVERYONE they aren’t YOURS? Just foolin, doesn’t mean anything in particular, right? Yet so consistent. All those policies from diagnosing ritalin for ADHD to trans etc that prioritize state ownership of children over parents? FBI “investigating” PTA members who think their children are theirs?

    Current-year Internationalist Socialists differ from Nationalist Socialists at the Macro and Micro — they believe in abolishing property, and that Nationalism and Family are property ownership, thus must be smashed. And sectarian disputes within the same religion are the most vicious.

    Some sort of Zen koan: How do you Privatize, Hitler? I privatize by not privatizing at all…

    September 17, 2024 at 10:16 pm #169092
    Oroboros
    Participant

    The Instrumental Version

    September 17, 2024 at 10:16 pm #169093
    jb-hb
    Participant

    Kursk 2.0

    A few days ago, Russia widened their salient into the west side of the Kursk salient rather than extending it deeper.

    And then they reduced the pseudopod in front of Korenevo. (northwest corner of the Kursk salient) Whatever hopes Ukraine had for taking it are receding in the distance.

    More recently, they pushed in closer to the base of the salient, again, on the west side.

    You would THINK that Ukraine would be winding down Kursk at this point, but I saw reports of new Ukrainian attacks being launched from within the salient a couple days ago. That they can do this now continues to make it all very mysterious.

    September 17, 2024 at 10:26 pm #169094
    jb-hb
    Participant

    although all the women’s and girls’ career, pay, health, mental health, and happiness have plummeted off a cliff like Thelma and Louise, men are doing even WORSE. But wgaf about them, amitrite? Rapists and spies for the Patriarchy

    If feminism is correct, its methods are useless

    September 17, 2024 at 10:48 pm #169095
    John Day
    Participant

    Multiple Perspectives https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/multiple-perspectives

    How do human societies act in concert? Might there be other ways to act in concert? Who decides? How is “their” decision manifested and carried out?

    Whether we are facing a tight-spot in the availability of crude oil, which production has not risen to the level of late 2018 yet, I will put forward that exponential growth of real economy cannot continue forever in a finite universe, let alone on a finite planet, which concept has been clearly laid out in a way pertinent tour modern industrial economy since M. King Hubbert predicted a peak in US oil production around 1971-1972, which came to pass as predicted.
    In 10th grade Sociology class in 1974, I was exposed to the projections of the 1972 computer modeling of The Limits To Growth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Limits_to_Growth This carried the projections of exponential growth of human physical economy into the estimations of natural resource availability, costs of extraction, and consequences of environmental pollution and degradation, all of which were big topics in those days of Arab Oil Embargo and air and water pollution destroying rivers and lungs across the world. I held that to be a likely scenario, as did most people I talked to at the time, though it fell into disfavor under the Reagan administration, as limitless-growth was espoused by that “great communicator”.
    Societies across the planet were invigorated to push economic, and especially financial growth, from that point forward. China’s “Little Helmsman” Deng Xiaopeng, reportedly too The Limits To Growth very seriously, and charted a rise to the top for Chinese industrial economy, within the projections it presented. China has followed that course successfully.
    Presume with me, if you will, that global net oil (and liquids) production did peak at the end of 2018, and that the “Repo-Crisis” of Summer-Fall 2019 was a result of the end of real-economic-growth, which put a crimp in global finance, so that the world’s largest financial institutions KNEW that they could not trust each other on overnight loans, backed by US Treasuries. BlackRock, the largest asset-management company in the world, was enlisted to come up with a plan for economic-continuity, which involved “going direct”, or just pumping money into the large financial institutions from the US and other national treasuries and central banks. This was done under cover-of-COVID-pandemic-lockdowns, which delayed inflation in the real-economy until the real economy opened up again a year and a half later, at which time money-supply had grown, and the quantity of real-goods had decreased, both driving price inflation. Asset inflation had been even greater, and is a Ponzi scheme waiting to collapse, but is not counted in “inflation”.
    So far, the mechanisms of narrative control and continuity of the economic system, which feeds, shelters and protects us, still hold. It is clear that the Ponzi-finance scheme cannot continue much longer, and will have to re-set to something much closer to concordance with real-economy.
    This economic-financial reset is traditionally managed through throwing societies into existential wars, so that one side survives and the other is vanquished, while all of the remaining people are exhausted and traumatized, and become accustomed to just-following-orders. Most of us want to work this some other way this time, and there is enough consciousness of the situation that some of us keep pressing the question. this pointing out of the actual facts is causing problems for the control-narratives of the elites. They are not grabbing and are not getting full traction. Something like 20% of people keep calling out their lies, so even the 70% of followers are a little uneasy, and the 10% of undecided people are leaning towards reality. What are the elites to do? Is there an alternate Plan-B which will get better traction, and help them maintain their ownership?
    (Let me add that I am watching BRICS+ developments and Trump/Kennedy developments, but will vote for Palestinian Human Rights via Jill Stein MD’s candidacy again.)

    Simplicius, Measures Of Control
    What is the greatest fear for the controlling archons of our world?
    The answer is: the plebs discovering how flimsy the substrata of their control, the machinery of it all, really is. The elites have worked tirelessly to establish the illusion of a grand, impermeable monolith—that irreducibly oppressive panopticon of unspoken ‘rules’ and social limits, Overton windows, and statutory ley lines known only to them and meant to deliberately obfuscate us—a towering obelisk emblemizing the totality of their control. They do this through fear, social programming, and mass media hypnosis triggering traumas on our grasping minds wired through perpetual distress and wrapped in agonizing tension. They erect labyrinths of legal codices to browbeat us into submission with the inexhaustible weight of their esoteric jurisprudence. All meant to convey a sense of crushing weight, to endow us with a futility of purpose in the face of such colossal structures…
    ..There is no better proof of Weinstein’s opening thesis than the fact that they now tried to take Trump out again for a second time in as many months. It’s clear that Trump terrifies them for the very reason that he threatens to potentially undo decades of established secret agreements, the filaments of that diaphanous Order feigning essentiality, yet whose delicate fibers are a pluck away from being unseamed before the world’s eyes.
    Such a development would open up an unprecedented Pandora’s box. The elites rely on the omnipresence of their Great Illusion—a show that must be maintained at all times, all costs, and across the entire spectrum. To allow a single crack to form in the facade would entail a spidering outward, a runaway fracture leading to the collapse of their whole foundation. That is because if people in a single country under their control can be allowed to witness the lie for what it is, there would be no turning back—the populations of every other nation would immediately begin to question the rationale of their own systems, since they are all part and parcel to the matrix of the whole.
    Imagine if Trump really did abolish the IRS as he’s threatened to do, long shot that it is. Once Europe sees the US continuing not only to function, but perhaps even thrive like never before—without a single income tax collected—it would spark the end for the regime. Multiply this outward to every other of our modern controlling paradigms. The Central Banks, for instance: abolish one bank in The System, and the rest fall like dominos. The elites’ greatest fear is for humanity to be given glimpse of even a single working example of life outside their prison-like construct—that same Byzantine codex of esoteric multinational agreements. https://darkfutura.substack.com/p/measures-of-control

    Jonathan Turley, With Fact-Checks Like These, How Does Truth Stand a Chance?
    “You are entitled to your opinion. But you are not entitled to your own facts.”
    That famous line from Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-N.Y.) remains a virtual mantra for politicians and pundits. Yet, judging from the presidential debate between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris, we have officially entered the post-truth political era.
    ABC News has been widely criticized for the bias of the two moderators Linsey Davis and David Muir. Even liberal outlets acknowledged that the two journalists seemed inclined to “fact check” only Trump. In the meantime, they allowed clearly false statements from Harris to go unchallenged.
    Three of the unchecked claims are being widely disseminated by supporters, including some in the media:
    “Crime is down under the Biden-Harris administration.“
    “Harris has not supported transgender operations for undocumented migrants.”
    Harris does not support the right to abortion in the final three months of a pregnancy. https://jonathanturley.org/2024/09/16/with-fact-checks-like-these-how-does-truth-stand-a-chance/#more-223489

    Kyle Becker: ABC News whistleblower swears under penalty of perjury that the Kamala Harris campaign dictated the terms of the questions during the presidential debate.
    Furthermore, the Harris campaign insisted upon live “fact checking” of Donald Trump during the debate. ABC News “fact checked” Trump at least five times and did not fact check Harris once, despite the Democratic candidate telling provable lies, such as the “fine people hoax” and the “bloodbath hoax.” The whistleblower signed the affidavit in New York and has sent a copy to Speaker Mike Johnson, the notarized document states. The unnamed individual states that he or she is in possession of secret recordings that will prove that ABC News rigged the presidential debate. ABC News committed election interference. This is a MASSIVE scandal. https://x.com/kylenabecker/status/1835347966586171523?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1835347966586171523%7Ctwgr%5E06c6d73bba0e8e509b9c783f6d2668e6b591c79b%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theautomaticearth.com%2F2024%2F09%2Fdebt-rattle-september-17-2024%2F

    September 17, 2024 at 10:50 pm #169096
    John Day
    Participant

    Jim Kunstler, Beep Beep! Woosh. . . !
    “Donald Trump is looking increasingly likely to be the winner of the presidential race. I have long held that the globalists will wrap up an economic collapse or a world war and throw it in Trump’s lap.” — Brandon Smith
    This time, the shooter lives to do some ‘splainin’. Do you wonder if he might get around to ‘splainin’ his role with the shady non-governmental orgs (NGOs) supported by the CIA who enabled his travels to Ukraine and his efforts there recruiting global mutts to fight for the Nazi-ish Azov Battalion? Perhaps he might rat-out actual government officials who assisted him in his colorful misadventures?…
    ..Perhaps we’ll find out — if nothing fatal happens to befall Mr. Routh while in custody — how exactly he learned Mr. Trump would be on the links that afternoon? The candidate’s round of golf that day was supposedly a snap decision known only amongst his innermost circle. Or how did Mr. Routh figure out the most advantageous fairway to lay at for a clear shot? The FBI is on the case…
    ..Things political are speeding up with the autumnal quickening. The blob is truly and deeply a’fright. So many blobsters will be liable to pay for their multitudinous crimes against the people of this country if Mr. Trump squeaks back into power that such a future is unthinkable to them. And yet, nothing has worked to deactivate this…
    ..The Butler, PA, head-shot op came awfully close to eliminating their, uh, problem, but no cigar. The Palm Beach golf course ambush had a Peter Sellers vibe, wouldn’t you agree? With the rifle muzzle poking through the shrubbery behind a fence. What next? A pizza with pepperoni, mushrooms, and cyanide? Maybe try to drop an anvil on Mr. Trump’s head from a passing airplane? (Beep-beep. . . woosh!)
    Somebody do something!!! The blob is shrieking to its minions from the sub-basement bunkers at Langley to the salons of Georgetown, to the US Embassy in Ukraine. Well, there’s always World War Three! And it looks like just such a romp is about to be instigated…
    ..“JB” is not available for duty anymore. The “out-to-lunch” sign hangs permanently on the doorknob of the Oval Office now. The USA does not have a functioning chief-of-state for the first time in 235 years. After 2021, some sort of unelected, informal Politburu that self-assembled in the White House, like a clot from a Covid vaccine shot, is running our affairs…
    ..Kamala Harris is strangely missing from the front page of The New York Times this morning. Is that a little ominous? The debate is behind her. There will not be another, apparently. There is nothing about her schedule on the official campaign website. Has she entered fade-away mode? … https://jameshowardkunstler.substack.com/p/beep-beep

    The Honest Sorcerer on the coming decline of oil-driven real economy, The End of the Great Stagnation https://thehonestsorcerer.substack.com/p/the-end-of-the-great-stagnation
    stagnation

    Gilbert Doctorow on what may or may not have been a painfully clear back channel ultimatum from Moscow to Washington. Information and disinformation
    Scott Ritter rightly denounced this U.S. government-inspired attack on RT as a war not on the Russian broadcaster but on the American people, whom it seeks to deprive of the right to decide for itself whom it watches, whom it listens to without U.S. government interference. The intent of the latest decision by Meta, which bends to the policy dictated to it by Capitol Hill, is to cancel our freedoms. I said and repeat here: bravo to Scott Ritter for an eloquent and pithy statement.
    So much for the ‘information’ aspect of this brief note. Now let us move to ‘disinformation’ by the very same Scott Ritter within the past 24 hours: namely what he is saying on ‘Judging Freedom’ and other authoritative internet channels about how we all narrowly escaped death this past weekend, because “back channel” communications from top Russian intelligence officials to their counterparts in Washington delivered a threatening and substantive message that scared the receiving party down its socks and led them to impose on Biden and Blinken to end all talk of allowing Kiev to send US and NATO long range missiles into the heartland of Russia…
    ..However, the issue of who made and who received the phone call this time is not the main point in my objection. Rather, what I find incredible is the very notion that Putin, through his subordinates, would, as Scott Ritter is saying, read off a list of targets for immediate destruction by Russian hypersonic missiles like the Mach-20 Avangard and that this demonstration of advanced preparation for the Doomsday scenario and readiness to execute it would shake the Americans down to their socks.
    Vladimir Putin is not given to drastic shifts in tone and intent such as Ritter is describing. And there is absolutely no reason for him to risk everything on one throw of the dice, to risk a U.S. preemptive strike at once now that the scenario against them had been so neatly laid out…
    ..Still more, knowing Putin’s behavior in the past at moments of crisis in the relationship with the United States, I believe his first instinct would be to address the American people directly about his intentions and the reasons for them, rather than to confine the discussion to ‘back channels’ with the likes of Burns or Sullivan…
    ..I have in the past several days freely admitted that my ‘end is nigh’ remarks with respect to the risks of giving unrestricted rights to Kiev on the missiles, were exaggerated. But then I was measuring the countdown to Doomsday in weeks, in the worst scenario, not in hours or minutes as Scott Ritter has done.
    We are not out of the woods yet, to be sure. And the task before all ‘warriors for peace’ is not to celebrate our surviving this past weekend but to continue to spread the word in the broadest possible public arenas that our governments are pursuing utterly ignorant and reckless policies. https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2024/09/17/information-and-disinformation/

    I have written to Dr. Doctorow, asking him to consider the possibility, as he already has done, that the US/UK were arranging a contingent nuclear-decapitation first strike against all of Russia, from every direction, at the moment when it remained still-possible. Consider that Mr. Putin and Russian military leaders would have no more direct choice than to point out on a deconfliction line, exactly how this would not work to decapitate Russia, and the exact coordinates and depths of some number of secret bunkers, where western “decision makers” would be expecting to find their own protection.

    September 17, 2024 at 10:52 pm #169097
    John Day
    Participant

    Simplicius, mostly about Ukraine, but I excerpted this: Ukraine’s Situation Worsens as Allied Weapons Drive Flunks
    One Russian source with more possible details:
    About Yemen’s missile strike on Israel; it’s almost certain that they used their domestic variant of the Iranian Kheybar Shekan-2 hypersonic ballistic missile, revealed a few months ago as ‘Hatem-2’
    Before that, Yemen announced they had started domestic production of Iran’s original Kheybar Shekan under the name ‘Palestine’ (Falasteen). The Kheybar Shekan-2 or ‘Hatem-2’ is simply an upgraded version of this missile with a hypersonic warhead and added range and maneuvers.
    Images: Hatem-2 hypersonic missile released months ago (left image) and Iran’s Kheybar Shekan-2 (right image); as can be seen, the missiles are nearly identical, except that Yemen uses lesser quality materials.
    The Houthis claimed that Israel fired over 20 interceptors which all missed. If a single missile—reportedly not even of Iran’s most advanced class—could bypass all of NATO’s defenses and strike at the heart of Israel, it really does not bode well for a major Iranian attack of hundreds if not thousands of more advanced variants. Nor does it bode well for the Empire if Putin chooses to reciprocate in kind by arming Yemen with even more advanced technology; it goes to illustrate the US’ hesitancy in escalating against Russia. https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/sitrep-91524-ukraines-situation-worsens

    Palestinians warn of imminent famine as Israeli siege forces bakeries in northern Gaza to close​ https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240915-palestinians-warn-of-imminent-famine-as-israeli-siege-forces-bakeries-in-northern-gaza-to-close/

    ​ Lazzarini says the Israeli attempt to shut down UNRWA would have “devastating consequences for the multilateral system, the UN, and the cause of a Palestinian transition to self-determination.”
    ​ A campaign is underway to defund the UN humanitarian agency for Palestinians, UNRWA, its commissioner general stated, days after 18 people were murdered when Israeli warplanes targeted a UNRWA school in Gaza.
    ​ Philippe Lazzarini stated in an interview that the Israeli government was attempting to dismantle the organization after failing to persuade Western donors to cease supporting it due to false claims of the agency cooperating with the Palestinian Resistance, Hamas.​ https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/lazzarini-slams-israeli-attempts-to-close-down-unrwa-as–dev

    ​ Does Iran have deliverable nuclear warheads or not? Russia is out. Will China be “in”? Thanks Eleni. Iran nuclear talks will be in new format, MK Bhadrakumar
    Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has emphasised two missions: “The first mission is to neutralise sanctions, which the whole government should follow. Our first goal is to neutralise the sanctions and its impacts on the people.”
    ​ The foreign minister added, “Our priority is our neighbours. Our second priority is to expand the field of diplomacy to Africa and East Asia. The third priority is the countries that stood by Iran in difficult situations.”​ https://www.indianpunchline.com/iran-nuclear-talks-will-be-in-new-format/

    Alastair Crooke, Closing hatches before rains founder the Western Vessel
    The war is lost, and the struggle to keep the ‘enforced pretending’ going is breaking through, to be seen by all as a false reality.
    Israel is entering the next phase of its war on Palestine by completing its takeover of the Gaza Strip – from the northern border to the Netzarim corridor. It is likely that they intend for this area to then gradually be made available for Jewish settlement and annexation to Israel.
    In a piece titled, “Annexation, Expulsion and Israeli Settlements: Netanyahu Gears Up for Next Phase of Gaza War”, the Editor of Haaretz, Aluf Benn, writes, were the takeover to proceed, “Palestinian residents who remain in northern Gaza will be expelled, as suggested by Maj. Gen. (res.) Giora Eiland, under threat of starvation and under cover of “protecting their lives””. Netanyahu and his supporters will see this move, Benn suggests, as a lifetime achievement: Expanding Israel’s territory for the first time, after 50 years of Israeli withdrawals. This will be the Israeli Right’s ‘Zionist response’ to 7 October.
    This extraordinary shift was actuated – not just through military operations – but by the stroke of a pen: the appointment of Col. Elad Goren as head of the humanitarian-civil effort in Gaza, which effectively, makes him ‘Governor of Gaza’ for years to come.
    Less noted in the western Mainstream media is the harsh reality that, in the course of the twenty months in which the current Israeli government has been in power, Ben Gvir has armed a 10,000 strong settler vigilante movement that has been terrorising Palestinians in the West Bank. The police in the occupied territories already answer to Ben Gvir’s authority.
    What is missing from this appreciation is that whilst Ben Gvir has been assembling the ‘State Of Judea’s novel army’, Finance Minister Smotrich, who heads the Administration of the Territories, has revolutionized the situation for Jewish settlers and Palestinians in the West Bank. Authority in the West Bank has been turned-over to a closed, Right-wing messianic movement that answers only to a single man: Smotrich (the Governor of the West Bank in all but name).
    ​ In what Nahum Barnea describes as a stealth pincer-movement deployed by Smotrich, one arm of power has lain with his authority as finance minister; the second arm consists in the power delegated to him in his capacity as second minister in the Defence Ministry. Smotrich’s, and the Israeli government’s objective – laid out in Smotrich’s ‘Decisive Plan’ in 2017 – has not changed: to induce the collapse of the Palestinian Authority; to prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state; and to give the seven million Palestinians who live between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea a choice: to die fighting; to immigrate to another country, or to live forever as vassals in a greater Israeli state.​..
    ..Netanyahu’s obfuscation about the likely future of Gaza needs little further explanation. The Palestinians in northern Gaza will face the fate of the Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh: They were expelled overnight from the region a year ago, in a rapid move by Azerbaijanis. The world saw this, and simply ‘moved on’ – in the Israeli understanding of history…
    ​..Israel, by force of logic, has but two options: a Gaza ceasefire that might pacify its northern border, or a deliberate escalation in the north, with all its ramifications.​ The notion that Hizballah would be ‘coaxed’ away from Lebanon’s border was always ‘pie-in-the-sky’. The prospects for a Gaza deal, the mediators now say, are ‘next to zero’, so Israel’s attention has turned northwards…
    ​..U.S. General Kurilla, who commands U.S. forces in the region, arrived at the weekend in Israel – his second visit in a week – to complete ‘coordination with the IDF in anticipation of any possible retaliatory Iranian and Hizbullah attack’.
    ​ Washington, though committed to support Israel in any conflict with Iran or Hizbullah, nonetheless is worried. Senior American officials expressed fear in recent days that a full-scale war against Hezbollah will lead to huge damage to the Israeli home front, especially if Iran and others from the Resistance Alliance join in.​..​..Netanyahu’s ‘Great Victory’ plan to clear Greater Israel of Palestinians is unfolding, however crushing Hizbullah remains outstanding. Are all these ‘victories’ remotely feasible? No. They risk rather, the collapse of Israel (as authoritative commentators such as Major-General Brick have made clear). It is however feasible, that Netanyahu will try to execute it. The Kahanist spirit lives on, and is today mainstream in Israel.
    ​ This prospect casts the dark pall of a huge black swan circling overhead the Middle East, for the months until the U.S. election.
    So too, does the Ukraine war contain the seeds of an unexpected unpleasant surprise.​..
    ..President Putin may ‘talk the talk’ of mediation, but Moscow well understands that the power structure in Kiev was drawn from the pool of racist ant-Slavs, precisely to block any accord with Moscow. Mediation is bound to be rebuffed – that was Washington’s purpose in empowering the Stefan Banderista bloc from the outset.
    ​ An unravelling of the Kiev political structures, however, probably renders all the ‘would-be mediators’ unnecessary.
    ​ Put frankly, a new (cleansed) dispensation in Kiev likely would conclude that it has little option other than capitulation on the battlefront, to offer formal neutrality and limits to future militarisation. And Moscow is quite able to discuss ‘that’ with Ukrainians, without ‘help’ from outside.​ https://strategic-culture.su/news/2024/09/16/closing-hatches-before-rains-founder-the-western-vessel/

    September 17, 2024 at 10:54 pm #169098
    John Day
    Participant

    Ukrainian court to consider Zelensky’s legitimacy – MP
    An opposition lawmaker earlier filed a lawsuit claiming the former comedian, whose presidential term expired in May, is usurping power​ https://swentr.site/russia/604113-ukraine-mp-lawsuit-zelensky-legitimacy/

    ​ “He would say that”… Trump’s promises to end Ukraine conflict ‘not real’ – Zelensky
    The Ukrainian leader has downplayed the US Republican candidate’s pledge to secure a peace deal as a typical campaign promise​ https://swentr.site/russia/604101-trumps-vows-to-end-ukrainian/

    ‘Pentagon Will Run Out of GPS Receivers’: US watchdog predicts problems with communications, intelligence and weapons guidance
    ​ As indicated in the report of the US Government Accountability Office, posted on the agency’s website, for 20 years the Pentagon has been trying to switch to a new signal, designated M-code. But the process is progressing extremely slowly, which will soon lead to negative consequences.
    ​ The military has for years pointed to the vulnerability of GPS signals, which have been jammed in Ukraine, allegedly in the Baltic Sea and elsewhere, thanks to Russia’s increasingly sophisticated electronic warfare capabilities.
    ​ That’s a problem the Pentagon hopes M-code will solve. The solution is based on new chips, called ASICs, that are being developed for B-2 bombers, destroyers, Stryker armored personnel carriers, and Marine Corps Light Tactical Vehicles. Smaller versions are also in development for precision-guided munitions and portable equipment. The chips are expected to undergo final testing next year.
    ​ However, after the development is completed, there will be problems with production. Firstly, the demand for equipment has increased sharply ​for military GPS-enabled devices made in the US. Secondly, GlobalFoundries [a US-headquartered TNC], the only company that can manufacture ASIC chips, is phasing out production for commercial reasons.​ https://en.topwar.ru/250133-pentagonu-ne-hvatit-gps-priemnikov-kontrolnyj-organ-ssha-prognoziruet-problemy-so-svjazju-razvedkoj-i-navedeniem-oruzhija.html

    ​ What we can gauge from Intel’s $3B military chip grant
    ​Intel will work under the Defense Department’s Secure Enclave program, which DOD set up to accelerate the manufacturing of chips for defense and intelligence use within highly-secure environments.​ https://www.washingtontechnology.com/companies/2024/09/what-we-can-gauge-intels-3b-military-chip-grant/399591/

    September 17, 2024 at 10:55 pm #169099
    John Day
    Participant

    Jill Stein surges ahead of Kamala Harris among Muslim-American voters in key swing states​ Dr. Stein has earned my “protest” vote again.
    ​ Green Party candidate Jill Stein is gaining ground among Muslim-American voters in three critical swing states: Michigan, Arizona, and Wisconsin, according to a recent poll by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).
    ​ Stein leads Vice President and Democrat candidate Kamala Harris in these states, with 40 per cent support in Michigan, 35 per cent in Arizona, and 44 per cent in Wisconsin. This surge in popularity appears tied to Stein’s vocal criticism of US support for Israel during the ongoing genocide in Gaza.​..
    ..Nationally, Muslim voters are split between Harris and Stein, with Harris holding 29.4 per cent and Stein close behind at 29.1 per cent. Former president Trump lags with 11.2 per cent, while 16.5 per cent of voters remain undecided. Trump’s controversial pledge to reinstate the “Muslim travel ban” may explain his lower support.​ https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240915-jill-stein-surges-ahead-of-kamala-harris-among-muslim-american-voters-in-key-swing-states/

    Trump Proved Right as DOJ Data Shows Crime Surge under Biden-Harris Admin, Contradicting ABC Debate ‘Fact-Check’​ https://slaynews.com/news/trump-proved-right-doj-data-crime-surge-biden-harris-abc-fact-check-debate/

    ​Forbidden words, I thought… Trump Blasts Biden-Harris Regime for Running ‘Largest Pedophile Ring in History’
    ​ “As attorney general, Harris defined child sex trafficking, assault with a deadly weapon, and rape of an unconscious person as nonviolent crimes.” Trump declared, adding “She put them in a new category, as nonviolent.”
    ​ “Now as vice president, she has facilitated the largest wave of sex trafficking and human trafficking in history – the history of our country by far,” he added.
    ​ Modernity.news reports: Trump further addressed the press, “And in case you don’t want to write about it, which you should because there can be no bigger scandal than this, we have, under this administration, 325,000 migrant children are missing. 325,000!”
    ​ “In other words, take your biggest stadium in California and you can fill it up five or six times. Those are all missing children. Many of them are dead. Many of them are sex slaves, and slaves of a different nature,” he continued.
    ​ “But her destruction of the law and order in California did not end there. In 2020, Kamala Harris endorsed ‘defund the police,’” Trump further declared, adding “Anybody that was in favour of defunding the police for one month, let alone her entire career, should never be president of the United States.”​ https://thepeoplesvoice.tv/trump-blasts-biden-harris-regime-for-running-largest-pedophile-ring-in-history/

    ​I think he just means this recent one. Let’s all forget about investigating the one in July, ok? DeSantis: Florida will conduct its own investigation of assassination attempt https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/4881340-desantis-says-fl-will-conduct-its-own-investigation-of-assassination-attempt/

    ​ Ohio Gov. DeWine’s deep connections to Haiti inform response to Springfield controversy
    ​ Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine’s experience with Haiti and Haitians goes far beyond his current efforts to manage issues — ranging from baseless rumors to genuine concerns — related to the recent sudden influx of Haitian immigrants to Springfield.
    ​ The Republican governor has an extensive connection to Haiti. In 1998, DeWine and his wife, Fran, began their support of the Becky DeWine School, named after the DeWines’ daughter who was killed in a 1993 car accident at 22 years old…
    ​ A previous Dayton Daily News report relayed that the school had an enrollment of roughly 5,000 students and served just under 10,000 meals a day and was pivotal in shaping his perspective on Haiti.
    ​ “Our mission is not to save Haiti, because that’s beyond us. But we can affect one child at a time. Our goal is to help that child survive and have a meaningful life. By accident of birth these kids were born in Haiti instead of Beavercreek. Some of the kids don’t make it, and some of them drop out, but we provide an opportunity for success,” DeWine said at the time.​ https://www.daytondailynews.com/local/ohio-gov-dewines-deep-connections-to-haiti-inform-response-to-springfield-controversy/M5HTIUUODNE4FIUPQ2AHDQSIHA/

    September 17, 2024 at 10:56 pm #169100
    John Day
    Participant

    ​ Tony Blair Calls for Global Agreement on Social Media Speech Restrictions
    Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, whose neo-liberal Labour Party government enacted some of the strictest speech laws in modern British history, has joined the chorus of commentators demanding a new crackdown on social media.
    ​ Speaking to LBC Radio this week, Blair said: “The world is going to have to come together and agree on some rules around social media platforms​”.​ “It’s not just how people can provoke hostility and hatred but I think… the impact on young people particularly when they’ve got access to mobile phones very young and they are reading a whole lot of stuff and receiving a whole lot of stuff that I think is really messing with their minds in a big way. “I’m not sure what the answer is but I’m sure we need to find one.”
    ​ Blair was not alone in calling for new restrictions on social media. Earlier this week, the left-wing Speaker of the House Sir Lindsay Hoyle also said that the government should consider new limits against online speech.​ “Misinformation is dangerous,” Hoyle said. “Social media is good but its also bad when people are using it in a way that could cause a riot, threat, intimidation, suggesting that we should attack somebody, it’s not acceptable​”.​ “What we’ve got to do is factually correct what’s up there, if not I think the government has to think long and hard about what they are going to do about social media and what are they going to put through parliament as a bill​”.
    ​ “I believe it should be across, it doesn’t matter what country you are in, the fact is that misinformation is dangerous and no misinformation, or threats, or intimidation should be allowed to be carr​ied out on social media platforms.”​ https://endtimeheadlines.org/2024/09/tony-blair-calls-for-global-agreement-on-social-media-speech-restrictions/

    ​ Don’t accept a “Summons to Parliament”, Elon! British government had ‘constructive’ talks with Musk’s X over disinformation, minister says
    LONDON — The U.K. government has had “constructive” talks with Elon Musk’s social media site X over the spread of misinformation and other harmful content, technology minister Peter Kyle told CNBC Friday…
    ​…“It is a privilege having access to the British economy and society. And I just expect any company that comes to work here and aspires to sell products and services into our country to respect that,” he added.
    ​ Kyle’s comments to CNBC come after misinformation spread online after a knife attack at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in northwest England sparked far-right, anti-immigration riots — with shops and mosques being attacked in towns across the country.
    ​ Multiple social media users at the time spread false information about the alleged perpetrator, who has since been charged with murder and attempted murder, claiming he was an asylum seeker.
    ​ During the riots, Musk, who owns X, made comments about the situation in the U.K., calling Prime Minister Keir Starmer “two-tier Keir” in reference to the conspiracy theory that police were treating white far-right protesters and rioters more harshly than minority groups.
    ​ He also suggested the unrest could end up resulting in a civil war, saying in an X post: “Civil war is inevitable.” Musk’s comments were condemned by the U.K. government.
    ​ Last week, the Financial Times reported that British lawmaker Dawn Butler, a frontrunner to become next chair of the parliamentary committee on science, innovation and technology, wants to summon Musk to face questions from members of parliament, if elected.​ https://www.cnbc.com/2024/09/13/britain-had-constructive-talks-with-elon-musks-x-over-disinformation.html

    ​ Peaceful British protesters jailed for up to 5 years
    ​ LONDON, UK (CNN) – As right-wing rioters attacked communities with racist violence across parts of the UK last month, 22-year-old climate activist Cressie Gethin sat in a prison cell.
    ​ Her crime? Organizing a disruptive protest against new government-granted licenses to drill for oil – a planet-heating fossil fuel – in the North Sea.
    In late July, a London court found Gethin and four other members of the Just Stop Oil activist group guilty of “conspiring intentionally to cause a public nuisance,” after recruiting protesters to climb structures along the M25 – a major ring road around London – bringing traffic to a standstill in parts over four days in November 2022.
    ​ Prosecutors alleged that the protests, organized over a Zoom call, disrupted more than 700,000 drivers, caused economic damage of over £760,000 ($980,000) and racked up £1 million ($1.3m) in policing costs.
    ​ Now Gethin and three others – Louise Lancaster, Daniel Shaw and Lucia Whittaker-De-Abreu, who planned the disruption on the call – are serving four-year jail terms, while Just Stop Oil co-founder Roger Hallam was given five years. All are appealing.
    ​ The sentences are believed to be the longest in the UK’s history for non-violent protest and were delivered under two new controversial laws that supercharged policing powers to crack down on disruptive protests, even when they are peaceful.
    https://www.bignewsnetwork.com/news/274595227/peaceful-british-protesters-jailed-for-up-to-5-years

    ​ In Defense of Free Speech​, Scott Ritter
    As Kennedy pointed out, without the debate, dialogue, and discussion that comes with critical review of policy, the American Republic cannot survive.
    The censoring of any media outlet, including RT, silences the very critical debate America needs to survive…
    ​..In the war of ideas, when faced with defeat, we came up with better ideas.​ Today we fear critical thinking.
    ​ The words and deeds of Secretary of State Antony Blinken and the head of the state Department’s Global Engagement Center, James Rubin, are not those of representatives of a nation confident in its cause, but the rearguard actions of desperate men confronted with the reality of a failing empire at odds with a world that is in the process of rejecting it.
    ​ The only path available to the American people that can lead to our collective survival as a Republic is to do our duty as citizens to push back against the tyranny of censorship and the ignorance it enshrines by using the weapons of free speech and a free press to challenge the dangerous and misguided actions and policies of those who represent us—and ultimately must be held accountable to us—in higher office.
    ​ This is the battle of the ages, one which will be recorded in history as a defining moment for the American Republic.​ https://scottritter.substack.com/p/in-defense-of-free-speech

    ​ They Protested a Military Base Expansion. So the FBI Investigated Them as Terrorism Suspects.​ (a nice, safe assignment, I presume)
    FBI counterterror officials went in person to Michigan to spy on “Stop Camp Grayling” demonstrators, new documents reveal.​ https://theintercept.com/2024/09/13/fbi-protest-terrorism-stop-camp-grayling-michigan/?

    September 17, 2024 at 10:57 pm #169101
    John Day
    Participant

    ​ Meryl Nass MD really encapsulated this well (with transcript): My 3 minute talk at the Sovereignty Coalition Summit on the UN’s Pact for the Future today
    I keep trying to boil it down into smaller and more digestible pieces​. https://merylnass.substack.com/p/my-3-minute-talk-at-the-sovereignty

    ​ Dr. Nass, Is the Pact for the Future a Treaty? The UN has been very cagey about using ordinary terminology to describe it.
    Examining 3 examples of the UN’s linguistic somersaults, and I speculate on the next two weeks at the​ UN General Assembly​ https://merylnass.substack.com/p/is-the-pact-for-the-future-a-treaty

    ​ Dr. Nass, How is the UN framing this meeting and document? It’s a commitment. “This is how we change the world.”
    The UN asks nations to “commit” to bold new solutions. The UN wordsmiths learned from the WHO not to use the word “binding” and to make their document as ambiguous as possible​. https://merylnass.substack.com/p/how-is-the-un-framing-this-meeting

    ​ “Defending Italy Is Not a Crime”: Salvini Reacts to Prosecutors’ Request for Six-Year Sentence
    Matteo Salvini, Italy’s right-wing deputy prime minister, is hitting back after Italian prosecutors requested on Saturday a six-year prison sentence against him for blocking migrants from disembarking at one of the country’s ports in 2019…
    ​.. In a video message on X, the deputy prime minister described in detail the events leading up to his decision to prevent the landing in Italy:
    On July 29, 2019, a Spanish NGO ship, the Open Arms, sets said from Syracuse headed to Lampedusa. It will never reach Lampedusa. Suddenly, it deletes its destination from the logbook and heads towards the Libyan coast.
    ​ On August 1st, it manages to intercept a boat with illegal immigrants on board. From that moment, it begins to sail through the Mediterranean picking up more illegal immigrants and heading towards Italy. On August 20th, it arrives off the coast of Sicily with 164 illegal immigrants on board.
    ​ In the preceding days, it had stubbornly refused every request for help, assistance, or disembarkation at ports other than Italian ones. They said no to Tunisia, they said no to Malta, they even said no to the flag state, namely Spain. More than twenty days of sailing in the Mediterranean while holding all these illegal immigrants on board when it would have taken just 72 hours to reach Spain.
    ​ This Spanish ship refused, not once, but twice to disembark the illegal immigrants at two ports made available by Spain. and even refused the aid of a military ship sent by the Spanish government.
    ​ During the Mediterranean journey of the Open Arms, we always rescued and disembarked sick people, pregnant women, and minors on board.
    ​ Together with my government colleagues, I had signed the ban on entering Italian territorial waters. Thanks to my government’s actions, landings, deaths, and disappearances in the Mediterranean Sea decreased.​ https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news/defending-italy-is-not-a-crime-salvini-reacts-to-prosecutors-request-for-six-year-sentence/

    ​ Meryl Nass MD, Some background on the twisted origins of the climate change narrative.
    Because “climate change” is the central dogma supporting global government, this will become important as we disentangle the narrative over the next few weeks
    ​ The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, 1992, stemming from from the Rio “Earth Summit” in 1992 seems to be the only climate change treaty the US Senate agreed to. While it signed and ratified this convention, it has not ratified the Paris or Kyoto subsequent climate agreements, though President Biden returned the US to the Paris Accord after President Trump removed the US from the Paris Accord…
    ​..Maurice Strong, an oilman friend of David Rockefeller’s, played THE central role in defining and effecting global climate change efforts from about 1970 until 2010, was the Secretary-General of both Stockholm environmental summit in 1972 and the Rio Earth Summit of 1992. I believe he helped found the IPCC and helped create its interesting program of work, assuring that the group would come up with the “right” answers.​ https://merylnass.substack.com/p/some-background-on-the-twisted-origins

    September 17, 2024 at 10:59 pm #169102
    John Day
    Participant

    ​ Revisiting this article you may have missed last Christmas, about some things our elite owners might expect in their own lives. What is a ‘Breakaway Civilization’?
    technologies of the future, here in the present​ , Josh Mitteldorf https://mitteldorf.substack.com/p/what-is-a-breakaway-civilization

    ​ The search for fundamental understanding of the mechanisms of life can lead to… Sex and the Single Paramecium, Evolution wants us to mix up our genes,
    Josh Mitteldorf, The big picture
    ​ If you’re a paramecium, you can clone yourself for awhile, but your clonal lineage is a dead end. Only the community survives long-term, and not the individual.
    For multicelled creatures, we can’t clone ourselves at all. Each of us is destined to be a one-off experiment in combinatorics, never to be repeated. It is the gene pool that has Darwinian staying power, not the particular combination that is you or me.
    ​ This principle has deep consequences for the whole process of evolution. It means that, in the long run, it is the fitness of the community that matters. Individual fitness is fated to be a transitory phenomenon. It is community fitness that can persist, can compete, can flourish in Darwin’s competition.
    ​ This is the opposite of the “selfish gene”. Richard Dawkins (and R. A. Fisher 46 years before him) had it exactly backwards. According to the selfish gene dogma, which dominated evolutionary theory from 1970 onward, Darwinian competition takes place primarily at the individual level. That was the old theory. But sex changes this. The meaning of sex is precisely to lift the level of evolutionary selection from the individual to the community.
    ​ Life is evolved for cooperation, just as much as for competition.​ https://mitteldorf.substack.com/p/sex-and-the-single-paramecium

    ​Even People can do this with Other People if they both do it! Dogs’ Brains Sync With Ours When We Gaze Into Their Eyes, Study Finds https://www.sciencealert.com/dogs-brains-sync-with-ours-when-we-gaze-into-their-eyes-study-finds

    Soul-Gazer (pictured with soul-gazing-partner, Jenny)
    souls

    September 17, 2024 at 11:41 pm #169105
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    If you can remotely detonate a pager then you can remotely detonate a cell phone.

    September 18, 2024 at 12:24 am #169106
    DarkMatter
    Participant

    “If you can remotely detonate a pager then you can remotely detonate a cell phone.”

    And an electric car. Anything with a Lithium Ion battery and a remote connection.

    September 18, 2024 at 12:57 am #169107
    oxymoron
    Participant

    Thomasjkenny, no disrespect. I fold my clothes too and I think it’s a demonstration of love and care and also pride in what you do BUT it’s not an idol to be worshipped like that dude who btw represents an organisation involved in killing humans.
    Sorry to you and your wife if I sounded bitchy. I’m often wrong.

    September 18, 2024 at 12:59 am #169108
    Maxwell Quest
    Participant

    “If you can remotely detonate a pager then you can remotely detonate a cell phone.”

    Nope!

    Lithium batteries do not detonate. In detonation all the energy stored up within a chemical compound is released at the same instant. If lithium batteries were capable of doing this then they would be too dangerous for consumer use.

    High explosives like PETN and Semtex will detonate. It is highly likely that these pagers were doctored by Mosad to contain a small amount of high explosive along with a stimulant (detonator) of some kind that could be triggered by a special command sent to the pager.

    September 18, 2024 at 1:23 am #169109
    zerosum
    Participant

    Impunity
    Israel, Terrorist attack, nine people were killed in the simultaneous pager explosions, including a young girl, and some 2,750 wounded.

    September 18, 2024 at 2:35 am #169114
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    @MaxwellQuest

    Well that’s a relief. I thought I was going to be answering my phone from now on with my eyes squinched shut.

    September 18, 2024 at 2:46 am #169115
    John Day
    Participant

    The Israelis put PETN on the batteries then sent a waste-electricity signal to make the batteries get hot enough to detonate it. https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/hundreds-wounded-dead-beirut-after-israel-remotely-detonates-hezbollah-pagers

    September 18, 2024 at 3:35 am #169116
    zerosum
    Participant

    A side effect of PETN can be a headache.

    https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/pharmacology-toxicology-and-pharmaceutical-science/pentaerythrityl-tetranitrate#:~:text=Pentaerythritol%20tetranitrate%20is%20used%20for,%2C%20erinit%2C%20and%20many%20others.
    ———–

    September 18, 2024 at 3:44 am #169117
    zerosum
    Participant

    — RIA Novosti, citing Lebanese information security expert Khalil Sehnaoui

    About 500 Hezbollah members lost their eyes as a result of today’s pager explosions, since they looked at the pager when it exploded.
    ————-

    September 18, 2024 at 4:00 am #169118
    zerosum
    Participant

    How would the world react if hundreds of explosions went off in unison in New York City, Washington, Paris, or London? Eternal shame upon the news outlets framing this as an attack against combatants. These blasts all occurred in civilian areas. This is terrorism.

    if Hamas, Hezbollah, or any group or person exploded electronic devices in Israel and killed children, it would be described by the entire Western media class as a horrific act of wanton evil sadistic terrorism. Israel does it and it’s seen as an epic based move to be celebrated

    what is the difference between killing children and civilians by intentionally exploding devices meant to kill them, and doing it by shooting or bombing them?

    There is no difference.

    It’s the same act of mass murder, of actual terrorism.

    But because Israel does it with Western arms, funding, weapons and intel it’s epic and based and we all have to celebrate it as such

    September 18, 2024 at 4:29 am #169119
    Dr. D
    Participant

    That’s an indiscriminate attack on everyone. Aka, a “War Crime.” But why waste my breath? They would never attack unless they could do it using a war crime.

    The interview above, I started from the opposite end: Feminism says, “all Men hate women and exploit them, that’s why we’re sure you’ll listen to us nagging and change n’ give us stuff.” …One Eternity…Later (since 1971).

    Aha! She says, that’s just your Run-of-the-mill, watered down Liberal Feminism. Where they think men are exploiting and hate all women, but still want to marry one. I’m talking about RADICAL Feminism, where there are no men at all!!

    “Okay, great, what’s your plan for food and water in this new man-free-land?”

    Men, who hate women, only exploit them, and are our sworn enemies are going to GIVE US a country to be free in! …That’s it. That’s our whole plan. We’ll nag them in public until they do.

    Oh WILL they now? Do sworn enemies, upon hearing they are hated and enemies of someone USUALLY give that enemy nation and people a free country? Out of their own country? WIth their own sweat? From which you could base to attack them, as they are your sworn enemy? — Crickets– “We don’t understand what you mean. — I — am the woman. I TOLD you to give me a country. Now chop-chop, now get outta here and get me some money too.”

    See? Being somewhat of a less feminine, male bent, I started from the opposite end: you want a country without men? Yes. Then you better start murdering men, then. All of them. After you murder them all, you’ll take their country. …Still having the problem that the men will instantly re-appear the minute you give birth. To sons. So murder them all too. QED, problem solved, easy-peasy.

    But it’s NOT easy-peasy because: women. They SAY they want all men dead and somewhere else, because what they REALLY mean is the #Opposite. You stay right here, make everything, fix everything, and give me stuff. Like a country. So both exist and don’t exist, and everything will be fine! Both give me everything i value, and I’ll tell you I don’t value it, it means nothing and doesn’t pay anything off, and it’ll be fine!

    Sooooo….starting from the Opposite end here again, with your own premise: IF men really had even the SLIGHTEST antagonism against you, wouldn’t they beat YOU up and take YOUR stuff? And not, like, say, GIVE you stuff instead? I THINK that’s what “Enemy” means. Right?

    So they’re an enemy that DOESN’T beat you up, DOESN’T take anything, DOESN’T do anything, and sits around patiently listening your your nagging and demands all day because…that’s what enemies — who hate you all, mind, and only attack and abuse you — do.

    I don’t know why I talk because none of this has the slightest effect and illuminates no one. I can say it over and over for weeks and it would never break through.

    “en·e·my (ĕn′ə-mē)
    1. a. One who feels hatred toward, intends injury to, or opposes another; a foe.
    b. One who opposes or is hostile to an idea or cause: an enemy of democracy.
    c. Something destructive or injurious in its effects…

    I intend injury to you by giving you stuff. Yup! That scans. You are MY enemy, “have hatred”, “Intend to cause injury to me” and that’s why I should listen to your every word. Yup, totally makes sense, thanks.

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