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Debt Rattle September 19 2024

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 September 19, 2024  Posted by at 8:36 am Finance Tagged with: , , , , , , , , ,  Add comments


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• Deep State Knows It Cannot Cheat Kamela In – Martin Armstrong (USAW)
• “A Better Deterrence”: Hillary Clinton (Turley)
• The Digital Revolution Is the Prime Enabler of Tyranny (Paul Craig Roberts)
• The Real Reason US Wants To Silence RT (Lukyanov)
• India’s Modi ‘Coming To Meet Me’ – Trump (RT)
• Chris Cuomo Tells Trump He’s Ashamed Of The Media (MN)
• ABC’s David Muir Sees Rating Plunge Amid Debate Moderation Backlash (AmG)
• Ex-WSJ Journo Uncovers Migrant Trafficking Network In Springfield, Ohio (ZH)
• Pavel Durov’s ‘Ex-Partner’ Wants A Cut (RT)
• Brazil’s Lula FIres Back After Zelensky Criticism (RT)
• Zelensky Cancels Meeting With Latin American Leaders (RT)
• ‘Superbugs’ To Kill Tens Of Millions By 2050 – Study (RT)
• Top Oncologist Raises Alarm: Every New Cancer Patient Is Under 45 (GR)
• Why Are Britons Forced to Eat Bugs? (Sp.)

 

 

 

 

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Me, I just think the poll numbers make no sense. He has a computer program to prove it.

• Deep State Knows It Cannot Cheat Kamela In – Martin Armstrong (USAW)

Legendary financial and geopolitical cycle analyst Martin Armstrong predicted less than a month ago that there would be another assassination attempt on Donald Trump’s life, and the Deep State was going to do everything possible to start a war with Russia. He was right on both counts. All the chaos, debate fraud and push for World War III comes down to the Deep State knows it cannot cheat enough to put Kamala Harris into the White House in November. Forget the phony polls where they all say Kamala is running neck and neck with Trump. Armstrong says his “Socratees” computer program shows Kamala’s real approval rating is around 10%, and all his computer models say Kamala is going to lose big in November no matter how much they cheat. Armstrong says, “Just about everybody in politics looks at Socratees now because its track record on politics has been phenomenal for 30 years. They know what is going on.”

So, is the Biden Administration panicking with this second clumsy attempt to assassinate Trump while playing golf? Is our own government trying to kill Trump because they know they cannot win? Armstrong says, “I believe so. . . . Look, these people have been warmongers. . . . This is their power. They have gotten so close to destroying Russia, which is their end goal here. Handing long-range missiles to Ukraine, this is like hiring somebody to kill your spouse and then saying, well, he shot, I didn’t. . . . Trump and RFK Jr. are against war. . . . My concern here is they need to create war before January, if not even before the election. I think this is what all this stuff is about with the long-range missiles to shoot into Russia. If Trump does get in, they have to trap him into war. The whole nonsense about Russia Gate and all the rest was because Trump is against war. . . . The neocons called Trump Putin’s puppet because Trump will not engage in war against Russia. This is what this is all about.”

Will the demonic Deep State try yet another assassination of Trump? Armstrong says, “I would not put it past them. Maybe next time they use Monkey Pox or Bird Flu. Look, Trump represents a real threat to their power. If Trump gets in, the neocons are out. Who wrote that recent article for the Washington Post that said Trump would be a “dictator”? It was Victoria Nuland’s husband. Why? Because Victoria Nuland was thrown out of Trump’s Administration. She has been in every administration except Trump’s. . . . This is the neocons against the American people. The computer has been showing that this may be the very last election we have. Just look at the chaos that has been going on at this stage.”

Armstrong is afraid that Putin may be overthrown in Russia because his response has been too timid against NATO. Armstrong says, “Putin knows the neocons want war, and he won’t take the bait.” Armstrong is also afraid that if Putin does get booted out of office, then the people who replace him will be far worse, and brutal war would follow. Armstrong says the evil people in Washington will hide in bunkers when the atomic weapons drop on the rest of America. He thinks a big problem coming will be shortages in everything –including food. If there is bigger war, the economy will plunge, and interest rates will skyrocket. Greatest Depression here we come. In closing, Armstrong says, “The Deep State is scared to death of Trump winning in November because he now knows how to play the game. . . . and Secretary of State Tony Blinken is running the country” because we know Joe Biden is not.

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She’s calling for her own arrest.

• “A Better Deterrence”: Hillary Clinton (Turley)

Clinton’s efforts were so obvious by July 2016 that former CIA Director John Brennan briefed former President Obama on Hillary Clinton’s alleged “plan” to tie then-candidate Donald Trump to Russia as “a means of distracting the public from her use of a private email server.” The Russian investigation was launched days after this briefing. Her general counsel, Marc Elias, his former partner Michael Sussmann, and the campaign were later found involved in not just spreading the false claims from the Steele dossier but other false stories like the Alfa Bank conspiracy claim. It was Elias who managed the legal budget for the campaign. We now know that the campaign hid the funding of the Steele dossier as a legal expense. New York Times reporter Ken Vogel said that Elias denied involvement in the anti-Trump dossier. When Vogel tried to report the story, he said, Elias “pushed back vigorously, saying ‘You (or your sources) are wrong.’”

Times reporter Maggie Haberman declared, “Folks involved in funding this lied about it, and with sanctimony, for a year.” Elias was also seated next to John Podesta, Clinton’s campaign chairman, when he was asked about the role of the campaign, he denied categorically any contractual agreement with Fusion GPS. Even assuming that Podesta was kept in the dark, the Durham Report clearly shows that Elias knew and played an active role in pushing this effort. The Clinton campaign lied to the media, spread false claims of Russian disinformation, and was accused of being a conduit for Russian intelligence. So would the “better deterrence” have been for Clinton herself to be arrest? Sussmann ultimately did stand trial but was acquitted. Notably, John Durham noted that “no one at Fusion GPS … would agree to voluntarily speak with the Office” while both the DNC and Clinton campaign invoked privileges to refuse to answer certain questions.

For a person who is on her fourth memoir, Clinton is remarkably hostile to free speech. Notably, in all of these memoirs, she does not address her prominent role in calling for the censorship and now arrest of those with opposing views. She also does not discuss how her campaign lied to the media and funded the Steele dossier. Perhaps that is coming in the fifth memoir. What is clear is that Clinton herself has no fear that such prosecution would ever await her. She is one of those who may silence others but not be silenced. The public is to be protected from views that she deemed disinformation, misinformation, or malinformation. To that end, as one of the guardians of truth, Clinton chastised the media for not being more consistently anti-Trump, a daunting prospect since the media has been accused of running almost 90 percent negative stories on Trump. Nevertheless, shortly after the second assassination attack on Trump, Clinton called Trump a danger to the world and added that “I don’t understand why it’s so difficult for the press to have a consistent narrative about how dangerous Trump is.”

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“..the digital revolution is the third worst thing that dumbshit humanity has brought upon itself other than nuclear weapons and American biowarfare laboratories..”

• The Digital Revolution Is the Prime Enabler of Tyranny (Paul Craig Roberts)

Sweden and France now ban cell phones in school. Digitalization of youth has had serious adverse effects on physical and cognitive development. Having raised a generation of youth unable to function because they are digitalized-addicted, Sweden, France, and other European countries are eliminating cell phones from the school day. As I have often said, the digital revolution is the third worst thing that dumbshit humanity has brought upon itself other than nuclear weapons and American biowarfare laboratories. Mothers harassed with trying to keep up in a men’s world substituted digitalization for motherhood. The consequences are dire.

Grandparents report that their grandchildren instead of acquiring skills wasted their period of cognitive development playing video games and scrolling cell phones. Consequently, they are incapable of working or comprehending the requirements for their survival. Their world is a world of entertainment. The child-unsafe Tower-of-Babel-Sodom-and-Gomorrah-society that the liberal-left have created for Americans has left parents at the mercy of the Child Protective Services Gestapo. Consequently, mothers have added over-protection to the plague of digitalization, and the consequence is the inability of youth to develop into confident and capable people. It leaves the youth of our time susceptible to tyranny.

In my day, we grew up in fights on the school play yard during recess, with each boy proving by his willingness to fight that he couldn’t be bullied. The teachers who were playground monitors never interfered with the right of passage unless things got out of hand. But by that time another boy had intervened by taking up the fight of the defeated kid. Bullies were short-lived on the playgrounds of my youth. Most of us grew up believing in ourselves. It is this constraint on inappropriate and unacceptable behavior that is missing today. Today Americans lack the confidence to confront the tyranny that is encompassing them. They take refuge in the fake news of their oppressors while their liberty dwindles.

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Monopoly no more.

• The Real Reason US Wants To Silence RT (Lukyanov)

In late 1986 Yegor Ligachev, the secretary of the Soviet Communist Party’s Central Committee, and Viktor Chebrikov, then-head of the KGB, proposed that the country end the practice of jamming foreign radio stations. ‘Enemy voices’ was the popular term used at the time to describe these broadcasts from abroad. Of course, the two prominent officials were not imbued with bourgeois ideas when seeking to end radio jamming. They were actually taking a businesslike approach. The pair explained to the Central Committee that blocking was expensive but not very effective, given the size of the country. So, it was suggested that signal-jamming be abandoned and that funds be diverted to counter-propaganda measures. This meant more active work with foreign audiences to communicate the Soviet Union’s own views on world events.

A few weeks later, at a meeting with US President Ronald Reagan in Iceland, USSR leader Mikhail Gorbachev raised the issue. He said “your radio station Voice of America broadcasts around the clock in many languages from stations you have in different countries in Europe and Asia, and we can’t present our point of view to the American people. So, for the sake of equality, we have to jam the Voice of America broadcasts.” Gorbachev offered to stop blocking ‘VOA’ if his counterpart agreed to let Moscow have a frequency to do the same in the US. Reagan evasively promised to consult when he returned home. In the end, the Soviets stopped jamming foreign radio stations unilaterally, without any deal.

The events of the last few days have echoes of this old story. US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken devoted an entire speech to RT, which is subject to ‘full-blocking’ (that’s a new formula!) sanctions for its supposedly destructive and subversive work around the world. According to Blinken and the American intelligence agencies he references, the threat posed by the Russian company is of the highest order and requires the most decisive measures from all of Washington’s allies. Without irony or exaggeration, it can be said that RT could only dream of the global recognition that Blinken’s appeal has facilitated. The effectiveness of the media group was not so much confirmed as it was certified, and by prominent representatives of its rivals.

We could deplore infringements on freedom of expression and restrictions on pluralism of opinion, but there is little point in doing so. Such notions should only be promoted in relation to the internal information space of individual countries; at a national level, they are an indispensable prerequisite for normal development. As for foreign sources of information, people generally perceive them as instruments of influence. And it hardly depends on the type of socio-political system that exists in a given state. The more comprehensive the information and communication environment, the greater its impact on people’s behavior, and the more acute the desire of governments to tighten control over the flow of ideas and analysis. The international media sphere is deliberately ideological, electrified and conflictual. Hence Blinken’s, shall we say, uncharacteristic remarks that RT should be treated “like an intelligence agency.”

How effective are the tactics of restricting alternative views and jamming radio waves? Comrades Ligachev and Chebrikov rightly pointed out that the costly efforts to jam hostile broadcasters were, to put it mildly, not particularly effective. Worse, as the author well remembers, the very fact that the authorities were fighting foreign radio voices had the opposite effect to that desired – if they were silencing voices, it meant that they were afraid of the truth. And, by the end of the Soviet era this opinion was not only widespread among the frontline intelligentsia, many ‘ordinary people’ also didn’t give a damn about the official channels.

At their meeting in Iceland, Reagan countered Gorbachev’s appeal by saying that, unlike the Soviets, “we recognize freedom of the press and the right of people to listen to any point of view.” The US president had no doubts about the superiority of the American system in all respects. Accordingly, the demands for information pluralism, then and later, reflected the confidence of Washington that it would emerge victorious from any competition. And so, a few years later, the US achieved a de-facto monopoly on the interpretation of everything.

Washington’s current extreme reaction is due to the feeling that it’s losing this monopoly. Alternative interpretations of events now arouse public interest. In fact, the total resources of the Western, mainly English-language media are incomparably greater than what all the carriers of alternative points of view can offer, at this moment. But internal insecurity is growing all by itself, fueling the desire to fence off the information space. From the same playbook comes the US’ attempts to explain its internal strife and accumulated contradictions by pointing to a pernicious external influence. This was also the Soviet experience. However, the USSR didn’t solve its own issues by blaming them on external causes. In fact, as its problems grew, those same outside factors actually began to exacerbate them.

Targeted punitive actions can create obstacles for any organization, there is no doubt about that. Especially when they come from what is still the most powerful country on the planet. But American history teaches us that monopolies do not last forever. Sooner or later, a cartel becomes a brake on development, then it becomes the subject of measures to break it up.

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“And Modi, he’s fantastic. I mean, fantastic man. A lot of these leaders are fantastic..”

• India’s Modi ‘Coming To Meet Me’ – Trump (RT)

Former President and Republican nominee Donald Trump on Monday suggested he will be meeting Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The foreign head of state will be arriving in the US later this week to participate in the United Nations General Assembly in New York as well as a summit of the leaders of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, hosted by US President Joe Biden in Delaware. Speaking at a town hall meeting in Flint, Michigan, Trump described Modi as a “fantastic” leader, but also referred to India as a “very big abuser” of trade ties, suggesting that New Delhi imposes heavy tariffs on imports. “He (Modi) happens to be coming to meet me next week,” Trump stated. “And Modi, he’s fantastic. I mean, fantastic man. A lot of these leaders are fantastic,” he said, referring to leaders of other developing nations such as Brazil and China. Trump said that if elected, he will initiate “reciprocal trade” with the countries that “abuse” tariffs.

“These people are the sharpest people… You know the expression, they’re at the top of their game, and they use it against us. But India is very tough. Brazil is very tough… China is the toughest of all, but we were taking care of China with the tariffs,” the Republican nominee stated. Trump and Modi last met during the former president’s visit to India in February 2020. A year earlier, he had hosted Modi at the highly publicized ‘Howdy Modi’ event in Texas, which was attended by 50,000 people. In July, Modi condemned the assassination attempt against Trump, saying he was “deeply concerned” over the incident. “Violence has no place in politics and democracies,” he wrote on X (formerly Twitter). Notably, the meeting between Modi and Trump hadn’t been announced before the GOP candidate mentioned it, and New Delhi has yet to comment on the matter.

The Indian Foreign Ministry in a statement on Tuesday said Modi will be in the US from September 21-23 to attend the fourth Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad) meeting. The informal group includes Australia, India, Japan, and the US. The summit, which was initially supposed to be hosted by India, was shifted to the US at Washington’s behest. The meeting will be hosted by Biden in his hometown of Wilmington, Delaware on September 21. India has agreed to host the next summit in 2025, according to the Hindustan Times. Modi will address the ‘Summit of the Future’ at the United Nations General Assembly in New York as well as the Indian diaspora at a community event.

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“I just don’t see how we get anywhere better than where we are right now.”

• Chris Cuomo Tells Trump He’s Ashamed Of The Media (MN)

Former CNN anchor Chris Cuomo has spoken out about how ashamed he feels at the media for pushing the narrative that Donald Trump only has himself to blame for deranged lunatics trying to assassinate him. Cuomo, now with News Nation, stated that he called Trump personally after the second assassination attempt to say he’s “really sorry that this is going on and it’s being dealt with this way.” “I called him today because I am ashamed of how we are responding and not responding to the threats on him,” Cuomo said. He continued, “And I feel for his family, and I know you can roll your eyes and say, ‘Oh yeah, he asked for it.’ Listen, that’s your choice, and I think it’s a wrong choice. Okay? We got to get out of the judgment business, unless it’s judging ourselves, and you’ve got to start rewarding things that are better.”

“And I got to tell you, I don’t know how he stays in the race,” Cuomo further noted, adding “I don’t know how he got up after being shot in the head. And you people who try to mitigate that, you need to check yourself. He gets up, pumping his fist, stays in the race, barely even talks about it.” While qualifying that he is not a Trump supporter, Cuomo urged “I am worried about us. I am ashamed of what’s happening around us right now, and the relative lack of concern about it. I just don’t see how we get anywhere better than where we are right now.” Trump “doesn’t deserve this. A guy pointing an AK-47 at him while he’s playing golf?” Cuomo asserted, adding “And we take solace in the fact that the guy didn’t get any rounds off? That does not work for me.”

He continued, “If I had been through what that guy’s been through in the last two months, you would not know where I am. You would never see me on TV again. No way I would do that. I don’t know how he does it.” “He’s got kids, they’re adults, but he’s got grandkids. He’s got a wife. People giving crap to Melania Trump, worrying about whether or not there was a plot around her husband. How could she not?” Cuomo further proclaimed in a clear reference to his former colleague at CNN Don Lemon, who created and later deleted a ‘reaction video’ in which he rolled his eyes and acted exasperated at Melania Trump for sharing concerns about her husband being targeted.

“I don’t think she’s right, but I totally get why she feels that way,” Cuomo stated, adding “People mock her? And then her husband has a guy pointed with an AK-47 where are those people apologizing?” “That’s what it’s time for. ‘I should not have come at you, Melania Trump, for suggesting that maybe there was something more afoot I get your, paranoia, I get your feelings, you have a right to that,’” Cuomo added. “There’s nothing wrong with saying that,” Cuomo further proclaimed, “with being a basic, decent human being, it has gotten too out of control, too far from where we need to be and how we need to be, and I don’t know what to do about it. I don’t know.” He’s got a way to go to make up for the establishment hackery he engaged in for years at CNN, particularly as regards Trump, but this is a start at least. Lets see if he sticks to it.

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He’ll never “moderate” a debate again.

• ABC’s David Muir Sees Rating Plunge Amid Debate Moderation Backlash (AmG)

ABC’s “World News Tonight” has been experiencing a massive decline in ratings following widespread condemnation of host David Muir’s performance as a moderator during the presidential debate between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris (D-Calif.). According to the New York Post, “World News Tonight” averaged about 7.6 million viewers per night throughout most of 2024, prior to the debate on September 10th. In the first three episodes after the debate, the show averaged about 6.7 million viewers, amounting to a roughly 12% drop. Following the debate, President Trump has criticized Muir at campaign rallies, as he and co-moderator Linsey Davis refused to fact-check anything that Harris said but repeatedly pushed back on statements from President Trump. “Every one of them should have been questioned by David Muir, who I’ve lost a lot of respect for. Everyone’s lost respect for him,” said the former president last week. “It was so one-sided. It was one against three.”

Davis attempted to justify her performance, where she incorrectly told President Trump that no states in the country allow for post-birth abortions. She cited the lack of fact-checking in the CNN debate on June 27th between President Trump and Joe Biden, which went so horribly for Biden that he was ultimately forced to withdraw from the race on July 21st. “People were concerned that statements were allowed to just hang and not [be] disputed by the candidate Biden, at the time, or the moderators,” Davis claimed in an interview with the Los Angeles Times. Only after the debate did ABC fact-check anything said by Harris, when Martha Raddatz confirmed that the vice president had lied when she declared that there is “not one member of the United States military who is in active duty in a combat zone in any war zone around the world.” “Our fact-checkers found that to be false,” Raddatz confirmed.

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Busy town. Lots going on there.

• Ex-WSJ Journo Uncovers Migrant Trafficking Network In Springfield, Ohio (ZH)

Wall Street Journal reporter Asra Nomani has published a shocking report that could soon change the national discussion from Haitians and other migrants eating cats or dogs in Springfield, Ohio, to one that is more sinister: The hub of a complex “hidden human trafficking network” in the tiny rust belt town. “The story in this town is not about cats or dogs. It’s about mules. It’s a twin tragedy of migrant workers from Haiti exploited and locals from Springfield marginalized,” Nomani wrote in the Jewish Journal. She said, “Just about every week since 2019, First Diversity Staffing Group Inc. has shuttled vulnerable Haitian migrants in unmarked white Ford and Chevy vans from Florida to Ohio, where they are allegedly exploited for cheap labor by companies like Dole Food Company Inc.,” adding, “It is a secretive and sinister operation that has gone unchecked for more than five years.”

Nomani revealed FBI anti-trafficking agents and Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost are now investigating allegations of human trafficking in Springfield. What began as my efforts to track down a rumor about animal cruelty has turned into an investigation that reveals a malignant system of labor exploitation involving a local businessman, George Ten, whom Haitians and local residents call “King George,” the chief executive at First Diversity Staffing Group Inc., a Springfield company that has been the tip of the spear in the alleged trafficking operation of Haitians to the town. *** This is a story of unchecked greed and cruelty, committed not by the immigrants, but to the immigrants, with local residents of Springfield also a casualty. Nomani provided an image of one of those vans owned by staffing companies that shuttles the migrants to factories. The ex-WSJ journo said ‘George Ten’, the alleged mastermind behind this scheme, lives in a mansion in rural Ohio.

She continued, “His nickname is “King George” because of his opulent lifestyle of luxury cars, cash handouts, and fast talk. For years, he has operated his reign of alleged exploitation.” This is stunning, as Nomani noted: One Haitian man I interviewed asked to be anonymous for fear of retaliation and recalled how he was picked up by a driver for one of Ten’s vans on a street corner near a Winn-Dixie grocery store in Immokalee, Florida. After the long journey to Springfield, he was dropped off at a rundown home on Rice Street, infested with cockroaches. He soon found work through First Diversity at Jefferson Industries Corporation, earning $12.50 an hour; he didn’t know how much George skimmed off his wages. The home he lived in had no working heat, and he bought an electric heater to survive the cold Ohio winter, the heater barely heating his room. What essentially began as an unverified claim by Trump about migrants eating pets has led to the disturbing truth of alleged labor trafficking and modern-day slavery in Springfield. The Haitians, here legally, are being exploited by mega corporations…

What will also blow your mind is that this alleged labor trafficking network has possibly also surfaced in Charleroi, Pennsylvania. We cited a resident of the town, who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retribution. In a video, the resident revealed the complex network of staffing vans in a town that is 50% Haitian. The vans shuttle migrants back and forth to several food packaging plants. What the Trump team is discovering – the story from Springfield and possibly even Charleroi, is not about cats and dogs. It’s about the federal government, and maybe even a shadowy network of NGOs, that dumped the migrants into small towns nationwide. This cheap and exploited labor benefits mega corporations but crushes native blue-collar workers.

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Q: under which country’s law should this be decided? France, Russia, UAE, Switzerland?

• Pavel Durov’s ‘Ex-Partner’ Wants A Cut (RT)

A woman who claims to be the mother of three of Pavel Durov’s children has insisted that she is entitled to own part of Telegram despite never being married to the messaging platform’s billionaire CEO. Irina Bolgar initially announced that the Russian-born entrepreneur is the father of her children in June and provided documents confirming his paternity to Forbes in August. The woman claims to have met Durov in 2012 and had three children with him between 2013 and 2017. She says she lived with her children in St Petersburg and moved to Dubai to be with Durov in 2018. However, since being denied a residence permit in the UAE in 2020, she has been living with her children in Switzerland. Durov himself has not commented on the woman’s claims but has admitted that he became a sperm donor several years ago and has more than 100 biological children.

In a new post on Instagram on Wednesday, Bolgar claimed that although she and Durov were never officially married, Telegram should be considered their jointly-owned property. The woman stated that while all “significant family assets” were registered in Durov’s name, she had access to them “through agreements and powers of attorney, which, while allowing their use, did not fully protect my rights and interests and, as it turned out, could be violated at any time.” Bolgar claims she was “consistently given assurances and promises” that she and her children would always have access to these resources and could use them to purchase “expensive real estate” that could serve as a “suitable” home for the children, but that these promises were never kept.

“All of our verbal and written agreements were violated by him, and his promises went unfulfilled,” the woman wrote. She went on to state that although all of their jointly acquired property, including Telegram, was registered in Durov’s name, in some countries “it is possible to recognize a de facto marriage as official” while in others “you can claim a share of the jointly acquired property under civil law,” Bolgar pointed out. Previously, Bolgar had filed several lawsuits against Durov, accusing the billionaire of failing to pay child support and of “serious acts of violence” against their son. In August, the woman claimed that a Swiss court had stripped Durov of his parental rights.

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“You either support the war, or you don’t support the war. If you don’t support it, then help us stop Russia..”

• Brazil’s Lula FIres Back After Zelensky Criticism (RT)

Ukraine should heed Brazil’s advice about seeking peace in the conflict with Russia, the president of the South American nation, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, has said. Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky previously dismissed a Brazilian-Chinese peace roadmap as “destructive” and “just a political statement.” Speaking at a graduation ceremony at a diplomatic academy in Brasilia on Monday, Lula highlighted Brazil’s peaceful foreign policy and neutrality on the Ukraine conflict. “It is important for Brazil to say that we want peace, that we don’t want war,” the president said. “Those who want to talk to us now could have talked to us before the war had started.” Brazil “excels” at being part of a continent “that likes peace,” Lula stated, adding that “war only brings harm… it only destroys.”

Beijing and Brasilia unveiled their six-point plan in May, suggesting a ceasefire along the current front line and urging Moscow and Kiev not to seek “expansion of the battlefield.” The plan also calls for the resumption of direct dialogue between the parties. “You either support the war, or you don’t support the war. If you don’t support it, then help us stop Russia,” Zelensky told Brazilian online newspaper Metropoles last week. Kiev insists that any settlement must be based on its terms, most importantly the recognition of Ukraine’s 1991 borders by Russia. Moscow has called this demand detached from reality and completely unacceptable.

President Vladimir Putin said last month that negotiations were even more unlikely, after Ukraine launched an incursion into Russia’s Kursk Region, reportedly targeting civilians in the process. Kiev’s forces overran several villages and the border town of Sudzha. The offensive, however, has failed to slow the advance of Russian troops in Donbass. Russia and Ukraine have not held peace talks since the spring of 2022. At the time, the parties pre-agreed a deal under which Ukraine would renounce its aspirations to join NATO in favor of neutrality and restrict the size of its army. However, according to Putin, Kiev’s negotiators abruptly left the talks under orders from the West.

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“..Very few leaders had confirmed that they would attend the event..”

• Zelensky Cancels Meeting With Latin American Leaders (RT)

The Ukrainian government has canceled a planned meeting between Vladimir Zelensky and Latin American leaders out of fear it would become a PR disaster, Brazilian newspaper Folha de S.Paulo reported on Tuesday. Very few leaders had confirmed that they would attend the event, the paper wrote. Kiev initially planned to hold the talks on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly scheduled to convene on September 24. According to Folha, the idea behind the meeting was to demonstrate symbolic support for Kiev’s cause in its conflict with Moscow. Ukrainian officials reportedly said it would be “an appropriate platform” for Zelensky to present what they called “relevant and reliable information” about the conflict.

Kiev also wanted to rally support for the so-called Zelensky ‘peace formula’ – a set of demands put forward by Ukraine as pre-conditions for peace talks. Moscow has rejected the demands, calling them unacceptable. Kiev had to scrap the plans after it received only a “few confirmations of attendance,” Folha reported, adding that the government decided it was “necessary to avoid a situation that could possibly be interpreted as a lack of support.” The paper did not provide the number of confirmations or name the leaders who said they would attend, except for Guatemalan President Bernardo Arevalo. Ukraine has received steady support from the West since the conflict with Russia broke out in February 2022, but has failed to gain much backing in other parts of the world. Many Asian, African, and South American countries, including China, India, and Brazil, have remained neutral and called for a diplomatic resolution.

Most recently, Mexico’s president-elect, Claudia Sheinbaum, told journalists she would pursue a policy of non-intervention on the world stage and has no plans to make a state visit to Ukraine. “Searching for the peaceful resolution of conflicts is the cornerstone of our foreign policy. This is our policy, and it won’t change,” she said on Wednesday. Kiev has dismissed any proposals that did not fall in line with the ‘Zelensky formula’ as playing into Moscow’s hands. Last week, Zelensky rejected a six-point roadmap proposed by China and Brazil. Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva responded by saying he would not allow his country to be dragged into the conflict.

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Antimicrobial resistance (AMR)

• ‘Superbugs’ To Kill Tens Of Millions By 2050 – Study (RT)

Antibiotic-resistant infections could claim the lives of more than 39 million people worldwide over the next 25 years, with another 169 million expected to die of related causes, according to a study published in The Lancet medical journal this week. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) occurs when bacteria, viruses and other types of germs become stronger than the medications used to treat them – creating so-called “superbugs.” As a result, the infections become difficult or impossible to treat, and spread to others. The study forecasts a nearly 70% surge in deaths due to AMR by 2050, compared to the 2022 level, with older people driving the rise in fatalities. By the middle of the century, the annual death toll due to antimicrobial resistance is expected to reach 1.91 million people compared to 1.14 million recorded in 2021. AMR is expected to be a contributing cause of 8.2 million deaths annually, up from 4.71 million, the study noted.

The findings from the Global Research on Antimicrobial Resistance (GRAM) Project presents a comprehensive analysis of mortality data and hospital records from 204 countries and territories, to produce mortality estimates over a 30-year period. The study revealed a “remarkable” decline in AMR fatalities among children under 5 – from 488,000 to 193,000 – between 1990 and 2022, which are set to halve again by the middle of the century. Meanwhile, death tolls in all other age groups are rising, with AMR loss of life among adults above the age of 70 expected to rise 146% by 2050 – from 512,353 to 1.3 million. The report noted that AMR fatalities in 2021 were lower than in 2019, but suggested that the temporary reduction was due to Covid-related restrictions. The researchers noted that South Asian countries such as India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, as well as sub-Saharan Africa will have the highest AMR mortality rates by 2050.

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“..cancer cases spiked dramatically in 2021, shortly after the Covid shots were released for public use. The cases have continued to surge at alarming rates since then.”

• Top Oncologist Raises Alarm: Every New Cancer Patient Is Under 45 (GR)

North Carolina‘s Duke University oncologist Dr. Nicholas DeVito is warning that “every new patient” who now comes to his clinic is under 45 years old. Dr. DeVito says he and his colleagues have experienced a complete demographic switch in recent years. Based on what he’s seeing every day, talking to patients on the ground and analyzing the data, DeVito is now issuing a red alert to warn the public about the phenomenon. However, the doctor is raising concerns that U.S. government officials are refusing to address or even acknowledge the dramatic surge in cancer cases. The physician wrote for STAT News: “The desire to protect Americans from substances that cause cancer and other diseases should transcend party affiliation and political motivation to overcome industrial lobbying efforts.”

In recent years, multiple studies and oncology experts have warned that cancer cases have been skyrocketing in younger people. The U.S. has the sixth highest rate of early-onset cancers – disease in people under 50 – with 87 cases per 100,000 people younger than 50 years old. And studies project diagnoses of early-onset cancers will rise by 31 percent and deaths will rise by 21 percent by 2030. Cancers increasing the fastest include throat and prostate cancers. Early-onset cancers with the highest mortality include breast, tracheal (windpipe), lung, stomach and colon. DeVito wrote: “I hope to have a long career in oncology and eventually practice in an era where the U.S. has turned the tide against early-onset gastrointestinal cancers and few, if any, of my patients are under age 50.”

As Slay News reported earlier, a growing number of experts are demanding answers as aggressive turbo cancers continue to surge to unprecedented levels in young people. Two shocking new reports from the American Cancer Society have revealed that various forms of the deadly disease surging among younger citizens. In response to the reports, the corporate media is promoting several narratives to explain away the rapidly developing and spreading cancers. However, several doctors have spoken out to warn that Covid mRNA shots are causing the recent emergence of aggressive cancers. The disease has been found to form and spread so rapidly among vaccinated people that doctors have dubbed the phenomenon “turbo cancer.” Doctors have revealed that some “turbo cancers” spread so quickly that seemingly healthy patients can die within a week of being diagnosed.

Oncologists are also warning that these aggressive cancers don’t respond to conventional treatments. A study published in the August edition of The Lancet Public Health revealed that the incidence rates for 17 of 34 cancer types were increasing in progressively younger people in the U.S. More recent data from the ACS’s “Cancer Statistics 2024” report shows the trend of cancer rates and related mortality continuing to rise. The data shows cancer cases spiked dramatically in 2021, shortly after the Covid shots were released for public use. The cases have continued to surge at alarming rates since then.

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• Why Are Britons Forced to Eat Bugs? (Sp.)

The UK’s National Alternative Protein Innovation Center (NAPIC) has received £15 million ($19.5 million) in British taxpayer money to bolster the alternative proteins sector in the country. According to the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) website, cultured meat and insect-based proteins could soon be “a sustainable and nutritious part” of Britons’ diets. Over the past few years, the British press has peddled the idea of embracing edible insects as an alternative to meat. They are rich in protein, healthy fats, vitamins, and minerals, and have a lower environmental footprint, the media asserts to Britons.”British firms strive to create a buzz around insect farming,” “Edible insects and lab-grown meat are on the menu,” “Would you eat insects if they were tastier?” and “Why it’s time to embrace edible insects?” UK headlines read, stressing that the global insect protein market is projected to reach $8 billion by 2030.

Entomophagy, or eating insects, has been actively promoted at the World Economic Forum (WEF), which insists that the consumption of insects “can offset climate change in many ways” and prevent the “impending food crisis,” as the world’s population is set to reach 9.7 billion people by 2050, with just 4% of arable land remaining available. In 2013, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations (UN) issued a report stating that around two billion people worldwide eat insects as part of their traditional diets. In 2014, the Belgian food safety agency AFSCA approved 10 worm and cricket species for sale on the Belgian market, exploiting a loose interpretation of a 1997 EU law on “novel food.” The Netherlands, UK, Denmark, and Finland also authorized insects for consumption. In 2017, the EU and UK permitted seven species of insect to be used as feeds in fish farms. In January 2018, a European Parliament regulation concerning “novel foods,” including insects, came into force.

In May 2021, the EU officially approved the first insect, the yellow mealworm, as food for humans. By 2023, four insects had been approved by the EU Commission: the yellow mealworm; the migratory locust); the house cricket; and the lesser mealworm. The EU food safety agency signaled at the time that another eight insects could be authorized soon. The EC claims that “the environmental benefits of rearing insects for food are founded on the high feed conversion efficiency of insects, less greenhouse gas emissions, less use of water and arable lands, and the use of insect-based bioconversion as a marketable solution for reducing food waste.” EnviroFlight (US), Innovafeed (France), HEXAFLY (Ireland), Protix (Netherlands), Global Bugs (Thailand), Entomo Farms (Canada), and Ynsect (France) are named as key players in the market. Europeans are believed to be the first who delved in the insect protein business, with French firm Ynsect, founded in 2011, and the Dutch producer of insect ingredients Protix, established in 2009.

Insect protein firms are attracting hefty investments from global foundations and food giants. In 2017, Protix raised $50.5 million in equity and debt funding, marking the largest investment in the industry at the time. The US rushed to catch on, with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation granting $100,000 to All Things Bugs in 2012 to explore insect food production. Two American food corporations, ADM and Cargill, invested a whopping $250 million in the French insect protein firm Innovafeed in September 2022. In 2023, the US food giant Tyson poured around $58 million into Protix. According to some estimates, the edible insect market reached $3.8 billion in 2024, and is projected to amount to $9.04 billion by 2029. The European market is seen as the largest, while South Asia is the fastest growing. Still, it pales in comparison with the fresh meat market, which amounted to $1.11 trillion as of 2024 and is set to expand further.

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  • September 19, 2024 at 8:36 am #169180
    Raúl Ilargi Meijer
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    M. C. Escher Drawing hands1948   • Deep State Knows It Cannot Cheat Kamela In – Martin Armstrong (USAW) • “A Better Deterrence”: Hillary Clinton
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle September 19 2024]

    September 19, 2024 at 9:00 am #169182
    aspnaz
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    https://www.unz.com/runz/american-pravda-jfk-lbj-and-our-great-national-shame/

    The Jews get what they want and if they want Kamala, she will be crowned first woman POTUS, mostly because the American people live in fear of pointing out that the Jews have taken over their country.

    September 19, 2024 at 9:51 am #169183
    WES
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    Zimbabwe’s gold backed currency, the ZIG:

    This is Zimbabwe’s 6th currency in 15 years.
    After 5 months the ZIG has lost more than 80% of it’s value (despite gold supposedly going up).
    Most Zimbabwians use other currencies for daily life.
    The BoZ would like the government to start accepting ZIGs as payment for it’s taxes!
    9LOL!

    The ZIG is only backed by gold in the same way passing a chicken over a pot of soup allows one to legally call your soup, chicken soup!

    September 19, 2024 at 10:28 am #169184
    tboc
    Participant

    The worst day in a man’s llife is when he sits down
    and starts thinking about how he can get something for nothing. Thomas Jefferson

    A supply side economist – a dumbshit
    ““..the digital revolution is the third worst thing that dumbshit humanity has brought upon itself other than nuclear weapons and American biowarfare laboratories..

    The ability to measure more precisely than is possible with human hands holds the greatest potential for understanding in the history of humanity. The first drafting line i drew with a pencil had only as much information as the person who read the blueprint. The movement to computer aided drafting increased the accuracy but the line still contained no information. The time for drafting was reduced so efficeincy had two rewards. With modeling each line and each component can be given parameters and information can be withdraw about the plan from the drafting itself. A hand written letter had a time cost attached to the information. A document printed to a portable document file and emailed can improve the life and work of a team in hours, not days.
    The person who does not want to improve the lives of his fellow man is the problem not the digitization,

    This morning WTI is $71.62 a barrel and Brent is $74.55. The break even point for crude has hovered around $40.00 a barrel in recent history. A 25% reduction in the cost of energy would be a meaningful target. A 50% reduction in price in the world where the petro-dollar is dying is either deceitful pandering or ignorance on parade.

    The worst day in a man’s llife is when he sits down
    and starts thinking about how he can get something for nothing. Thomas Jefferson

    nothing ain’t worth nothing
    but it’s free – Kristofferson

    September 19, 2024 at 10:41 am #169185
    WES
    Participant

    My Family’s Demographic Implosion::

    Great Grandparents + spouses = 4 people have 6 children during great depression.

    Six Grandparents + sposes = 12 people have 16 children post WW2

    15 Parents (late 50s to over 70 years old now) (my gen -1 died, 2 never married) + 12 spouses (5 divorced) have 24 children (only 3 are grandparents so far – 5 grandkids)

    24 children (mid 20s to 40s years now) + 7 spouses = 5 children so far.

    Sad reality.

    September 19, 2024 at 10:42 am #169186
    oxymoron
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    jb-hb. The Phil collins review was absolutely bang on. Served the song above all else. Big Brain big emotions and critical insight into groove and workmanship.
    You are a bit of a smarty pants methinks.

    September 19, 2024 at 11:04 am #169190
    Celticbiker
    Participant

    The ZIG is backed by ZOG. The full faith and credit of gangster/murderers. No different than that dollar in your pocket, with a fuckin pyramid and novus ordo seclorum on it.

    September 19, 2024 at 11:12 am #169191
    Dr. D
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    New movie: Top of the charts, “Am I Racist?” You exist. Therefore you’re racist. All nouns, verbs, adverbs, articles, and interjections are racist. All animal, vegetable, and mineral objects are racist. All acts, tests, events, and discussion of all human events in racist.

    Racism is God: it is Omnipresent, Omnipotent, part of and creating all things. There is only ONE thing that also fits that description, therefore Racism is God! And we all worship him, daily. Hourly, by the minute, singing with harps in the choir, always the same song from the same hymnal: “Oh Great Racism, hallowed be thy name. Is there ANYTHING we can’t attribute to you, or get from you? Lo, but I think not.”

    A general statement. Aaaaaaaand America is one of the LEAST racist countries on earth. Go anywhere else and check. Peru? China? Oz? Africa? Italy? Ukraine? Sweden? England v. Ireland?

    50bp. There’s an election next month. There is no recession: economy’s never been better! Inflation has doubled, and might be as low as 7% this minute but over 15% this year. Hmmmm…you tell me.

    Next problem, O M G will it ever end? AGAIN I hear “Rate cuts are awesomeest evah! Especially when they occur for no reason at all!” Just heard common-nobody financial blog on this. Jesus o a stick: IF you have a rate cut, it means something bad happened. IF you have a rate cut AFTER the rate inversion, it “starts” (indicates) the crash. Like ’08. The Rate cut is the TRIGGER, in effect. So yay! Have a party. Buy buy buy… from the few remaining insiders. Buffet, Bezos, etc, all selling out.

    “UN General Assembly Passes Resolution Demanding Israel Pull Out Of Palestinian Areas Within 12 Months

    Or else what? You’ll yell “Stop” again? …And So Israel starts a war which will be over in 12 months with everyone dead.

    Not saying they, UN, shouldn’t do it, etc, just saying that words are not actions.

    Btw, the pager thing is several effects: one, just as it’s never-ever-ever “Hamas” or “Yemen” it’s always “IRAN-Backed Yemen” in this case the bombs are “Against Hezbollah”. O Rly? So Mr. reporter has talked to all 90M people in the Middle East and not one of them was a civilian? …Same as bombing Gaza as all 2M ppl there are all Hamas, although several are only a month, week, or a year old.

    Second, yes the PEOPLE being killed/damaged is bad, however 1) they are more used to people dying 2) it didn’t kill most of them, so it’s going to really, really piss them off. Like imagine you’re in a war zone, land in France on a boat, and sure, you’re a patriot, but never really seen the enemy. Then the Nazis take over your brigade, your French town, and break everybody’s pinky finger. That’s it. Like 100 people are shot, but mostly it’s that. Soooo….now you want to give up? Or you really, really, really want to get these maniacs who are clearly unhinged and must be stopped as a public service or die trying? Ummm….probably the latter.

    But last the problem is more, they removed all their communications, or effectively all their communications. Now they work on a base level and Gen. Ripper used bicycles and flashlights, but taking away a modern army’s communications? Yeah. Israel will still lose badly, but that changes the field.

    “Ukrainian Commanders Urged Zelensky Not To Invade Kursk

    However his real masters, the British, said they would collapse in the Aug 1 Ukr default, and therefore lose any ability to send anything, or even advocate for the war. So they invaded. 100:1 odds against, which was better than just 100% fail.

    Aaaaand, as the Duran, Britain has now decided they are going to attack Russia PERSONALLY, alone, with long range everything, and probably did with the weapons depot.

    Alexanders, and probably everyone else on earth, are just sitting, shaking their heads, gobsmacked, stunned, and possibly bemused that they would do this. Like “This can’t really be happening.” Britain, with an army of Brownie Scouts, and no ships, is going to attack, I dunno, the entire galactic federation, the Klingon Empire, AND the Star Wars Galactic Empire BOTH, at the same time.

    I guess as history turns, they are the Irish now, starting battles they can’t win, for reasons nobody can think of.

    “Aurora Police Offer Help To Apartment Complexes Amid Venezuelan Gang Issues

    They then arrested 10 Tren members, because all this is fake and they don’t exist.

    But like the cats n’ stuff although everyone who lives there says so, and there are open, public police calls about it going back years that all that reporters can read. …If only they were literate.

    ““Let me just be very clear. They are trying to kill the man.”

    Who is “They” though? Not much good unless you want to add that part. So you’re telling me this because you — DON’T — want me to act? Without telling me who, I can’t act, right?

    KJP again calls for the end to political violence by calling DJT a “Threat” to “All Democracy” who is “A danger to our country” and will “end the United States” if he takes power…again, having done literally nothing the first time. I mean, if that’s not lowering the rhetoric, I don’t know what is.

    It’s “Incredibly dangerous” and you, sir reporter, are a “Threat” to us and all Democracy, and will “End democracy as we know it” with your question, and somebody should do something about you. “Is there no one who will rid me of this meddlesome priest Reporter?”

    Elon stepping down. You think any judge in Brazil will DGAF about Musk and just stop doing illegal, laughable, things like tying all the unrelated companies to Twitter, through him, just because he resigns? Hahahaha! No! I just MADE IT UP. I’ll MAKE UP MORE STUFF. I want your company, and all power, so I’m just going to TAKE it. That’s what Nazis DO.

    “CAN TRUMP FLIP NY?”

    No, because both they’ll kill him, and there won’t be an election. NY is actually razor-thin all the time, like so many states, the one city outvotes the 95% of other counties. However, this is a complete illusion: like Chicago, it’s MEANT to be razor-thin because then they say “Aw shucks, you’ll get us next time” when really the entire apparatus is run by Tammany Hall, has been for +125 years, and they would just move the level of cheat up to whatever 1% winning margin they need to. Forever. That makes it all plausible and minimizes the exposure of the ten thousand felonies committed each time. Also each cheat county commissioner then thinks they’re the ONLY one, isolated, not that they have leverage and accessories in a crime syndicate. So this all is quite wise. But should Donald win NY, I expect about 1,000 Million votes will be cast there. Then they can all say he didn’t win it, and call for a re-count! That will then take four years while they erase all the machines and shred all the papers, illegally, as a felony, same as 2020. …Because they’re so innocent and honest, ‘natch.

    Elon: gosh that seems like hell itself, why live this way, in white rooms, on cameras, in jets, all that? Yuck. However, it’s pleasant to hear somebody with power discussing anything but…power. Like ideas, purpose, which are essentially religion as he suggests.

    Harris on 60 Min: But Harris isn’t President. Nor a person. She’s just an empty vessel. That’s why she’s okay after Biden: she, and him, will just let the vast state do whatever they feel like without restraint. And so you have Blinken declaring war on China, and Yellen visits a day later ordering china to buy our bonds. That’s the kind of rudderless direction you have when each person and department goes their own way with no leader and no strategy. That’s nirvana for the State, allows them to do whatever they like, instantly, and say, cause worldwide nuclear Armageddon, their long-held dream.

    “Me, I just think the poll numbers make no sense. He has a computer program to prove it.”

    That’s silly, Harris was the lowest, most disliked VP in world history, at like 11% and a minute after nothing happened and she did no nomination, got no votes, then ran a coup on her boss, was 49% popularity the next day. What’s so strange about that? That’s how human “Like” and “dislike” works, right?

    One day I hate your guts and would stab you in the eye for looking at you, next day I want to marry you for 4 years and spend every day with you.

    Armstong’s kind of losing his mind, saying the same thing over and over, but also not sticking to his model, as reporters constantly and only ask him what HE thinks, not his program. So I think he gave up on one, and doesn’t dare say anything new that he knows on the other. They’ll put him BACK in jail for doing nothing – a second time — and then try to murder him in prison by kicking his teeth in into a 5 day coma – a second time. He’s brave to keep going out there, but he’s also trying to stay on the chess board and play his part.

    “The Russian investigation was launched days after this briefing.”

    Yes, but why “Russia”? Why not Stormy or the other stuff they’ve made up? (Daniels signed an affidavit saying their thing never happened). Because they were ALWAYS going to attack and destroy Russia. That’s it, that’s the whole plan. HRC said so, her first act would be to put a no-fly zone which would be an immediate direct war with Russia. Armstrong above had to only pry this out of him sideways, but he says the plan was always to take Russia, or they can’t run the world, has been for 100 years of concerted effort, and then run everything out of the UN world government. As planned as far back as the League of Nations and before. Then, like Europe, you only have to jack-install and bribe ONE Van der Lyin’, not 20 nations and all their sub-ministers. Much more efficient.

    It’s not like they’re hiding, practically every paper they write admits and crows about this. Russia is the land mass large enough they’d choke on it, China is the other. So they are therefore the enemy. You can actually tell the Brits from the other factions on this issue. Blinken, etc, will all act on the British, the NWO plan, as contrasted to the “America First” guys like Vance, who are fine with Russia existing, we all co-existing together, and are therefore at this time anti-war. Or anti WORLD war, let’s not go crazy here. It will track incredibly close and save you a lot of time for what looks sort of confusing otherwise.

    And so, Britain, a nation of 10 blue people carrying spears, is now attacking Russia in its whole. Their entire plan is to get the US and Russia to nuke each other, and the Yanks say NO.

    “Sweden and France now ban cell phones in school.”

    But Sweden and France are obviously backward superstitious hicks and rattle-waving witchdoctors with bones in their nose, and have no scientific evidence that cell phone’s R bad or nothing. Although girls’ suicides rose 20% as they were installed, and it’s like a 20% increase in every category, educational, but also happiness and well being when they are removed for a mere few hours a day when you’re with your friends in class already, and they can bully you with blue notebook paper instead.

    And all that is to say they have like, ZERO effect on adults too. Carry on, sirs!

    “we recognize freedom of the press and the right of people to listen to any point of view.”
    As the Eisenhower quote the day before.
    Washington’s current extreme reaction is due to the feeling that it’s losing this monopoly.

    Or really the feeling that they’re all Nazis, and that’s just what Nazis ARE. It’s what they DO: Lose. You can’t ask a Nazi like Blinken, Nuland, Vindman, Jankowicz, not to Nazi. That’s like asking Voldemort not to be a Death-Eating Death cult. Without that, he would just be Tom Riddle, common boy. (Oops, sorry, spoiler alert) It’s magic, fantasy, repression, and the Will to Power that makes him/them a Nazi death cult.

    ““I just don’t see how we get anywhere better than where we are right now.”
    • Chris Cuomo Tells Trump He’s Ashamed Of The Media (MN)

    But not ashamed of himself. How do we get anywhere better? STOP LYING. Stop lying with every waking breath. As you can see, this is unthinkable to him. There’s just no solution! I mean, if you stopped lying, everyone would just do what they do, instead of being all fooled into giving you stuff you don’t deserve, and doing actions you are lying them into doing. Then we’d have “voluntary exchange” and stuff and not constant violence. …But then I’d have to be Assistant TO the Regional Manager, make only $90k, and who wants that? Much better and more thinkable that the world tears itself apart.

    Actually, on that, New Age people, with Braden and interview, same thing: They are just rapping about how kids used to be taught civics and know the purpose and reason, theory of government, but aren’t now. What can you do? They said. Well, you have to erase all government and it’s inevitable that the United States falls, breaks apart, and goes to endless conflict. Our hands are tied! History is inevitable like that. And these are the good and positive, forward-thinking people. …Orrrrrrrrrrrrrr, you could just start teaching kids the reason and purpose of U.S. government again? Like that? YOU said it got to this point when they removed X, Y, and Z. So put back and re-install X, Y, And Z? Nope. Everyone has to die instead. I feel like I’m taking crazy pills.

    ““If I had been through what [Trump has] been through in the last two months, … You would never see me on TV again.”

    That’s because he’s a coward who thinks only of himself, and this is considered normal. Even for men. While it is the lowest form, not worthy of the name “man” at all. Doing that, as a Man, is the MINIMUM. We would expect that from 14-year-olds at their coming of age ceremony. Any CHILD, boy, would die for his first girlfriend. Yet we’re supposed to even hear 10 words from the air-hole of a worthless man-child like this?

    Some live as a warning to others. Don’t be that guy.

    “She cited the lack of fact-checking in the CNN debate on June 27th between President Trump and Joe Biden, which went so horribly for Biden that he was ultimately forced to withdraw”

    So? Let him withdraw, IDGAF. Or Trump withdraw, I could hardly care either. But we need Mommy swooping in every second about everything, even two 9-year-olds debating “Superfriends” on ABC? Jesus Christ. The whole point is to see THEM (mis)behave. NOT Mommy. And it’s even worse when Mommy is a fecking deranged retard who knows less than the average 9-year-old, as is common here in good American fashion. The fact checkers themselves got everything wrong.

    How wrong? They said the biggest gaffe was that “There were no soldiers in war zones” when we’re in like 20. I was like, No: the biggest gaffe is the “Very Fine People” Hoax, one so obvious that even SNOPES has it. No, the biggest gaffe is…Wait, like there are so many breathtaking lies and gaffes we actually have to argue about WHICH?

    Yeah, that’s pretty wrong. Mommy’s the brains of like Kim Kardashin x Jerri Blank. Trump says dumb s—t all the time, nonstop sometimes. And you jokers actually OUTDID him? You went LIES “To Infinity! And Beyond!”

    Anyway, David Muir: So you believe any of the polls and ratings? Trump just paid them $5k to put out fake ratings, He has a copy of the Epstein files, he can do that, you know. It’s a POLL. It was a word spoken by an Adult American. Therefore it is also a lie. His ratings went down 3% instead, really?

    “exploited for cheap labor by companies like Dole Food Company Inc.,”

    This is the re-creation, re-introduction of Slavery. By the slaveowning slavery party of Jim Crow. These are humans, exploited for labor, who have 2nd class rights and no vote in the nation they are in. They have no means to exit to another nation or their home country. That is: they are literal, definitional SLAVES. Let that sink in for you.

    I think part of the disconnect is that we think of slaves as having NO rights. Like the worst example, the one they point at, but also mostly make up out of bad feelz, the 1850 Plantation slaves. Run by DEMOCRATS, the party of slaves and slavery. If you went to court, I can almost guarantee slaves had SOME rules, same as you can’t shoot a horse in the street in broad daylight “for no good reason.” It’s bad for business. Just that the reason is, “He looked at me funny.” In Rome I’m quite certain there were rules about slaves. It’s just that the rules are VERY VERY VERY small, and the rights of citizens are very, very, very much larger.

    So we say, “They’re not slaves. Maybe they can’t vote, maybe they can’t go to court, maybe have no money so can’t do other stuff so good either, but they’re still…” Still WHAT, sir? Still can lose their job at Dole and be homeless and hungry tomorrow, leaving their wife and kids to die? Yes, that’s EXACTLY what they said on the plantation: “Why didn’t you just jump in the river and run north, live off the land?” Uh-huh. You first. You try it, I’ll watch. It’s not “Because they like it here so much they sing songs”. Yes, that was literally said. Constantly.

    So when they RE-ESTABLISH F—KING, G-D D–NED SLAVERY right in FRONT of you, is that Capitalism when the Corporations pay the GOVERNMENT to break all the rules in a total merger of corporation and state? Or what form of government might we call that?

    Nobody’s much bother’ed by that. Not really a debate issue: dogs n cats. So do Haitians get 3/5th of a vote? Probably, yes. I’ve heard the Democrats have been having a hard time getting all their illegals on the plantation and voting correctly, as 1) They don’t know why they should and 2) don’t really know how under our system. So it probably works out to exactly 3/5th of a person.

    So is Dole packing factory therefore a Concentration Camp? The other Concentration Camps were work operations too. I know some guys who were in one: a Greek and a Pole. Nah: no discussion of Fascist concentration work program camps. Ducks! In the parks!

    I got nothing. And the people trying to STOP SLAVERY and HUMAN TRAFFICKING, by the MILLIONS, are the bad guys. If you really cared about the brown people wouldn’t you put them on the Plantation where they’d be safe? Ugh.

    ““All of our verbal and written agreements were violated by him, and his promises went unfulfilled,” the woman wrote.”

    Use his own money to sue him. Typical. Well, a promise is a promise.

    “• ‘Superbugs’ To Kill Tens Of Millions By 2050 – Study (RT)

    1M per year? How can you know that since it’s probably lower than the number today (worldwide)? They might want to research how to strengthen the immune system instead of being a deranged death cult killing the baddies. Bad bugs, bad! They might want to remove the near-infinite toxins and stressors we encounter every day that weaken us and our health. NOPE! I will die on this hill! It’s killing stuff, or nothing! Health be damned!

    How do I know? That’s what Type II diabetes is, which keeps rising, not falling, and they keep doing nothing to mitigate it, decade after decade, even as it bankrupts the whole system. But is it really good medicine unless we can amputate some kid? I mean, is it really worth going into work otherwise? I got a punch card for feet, cut off 9, get the 10th free!

    From the outside view, and no insult to the good doctors here, you are all embarrassing yourselves. The doctors and also the health system. None of you would do this in a solo practice, probably, but in this system, yet this is all okay and followed, promoted, done? And you don’t go bananas on the system therefore, just as NY Doctors sat around giving each other hand jobs after the NYS Governor ordered them to murder 5,000 grandmas? Not mad? No lawsuits?

    Not good. What do you think the overall reaction of a mass, uneducated public will be to that?

    “Top Oncologist Raises Alarm: Every New Cancer Patient Is Under 45 (GR)

    Like all of this, that’s not the issue. The issue is, “No Curiosity.” None. We’re not curious as to why because we don’t know what it is, but it’s not that One Thing. “What one thing? I didn’t say nothing.” The One Thing that it isn’t that we can’t look at, which is why we’re not curious.

    “I don’t know whatever you might be talking about. I didn’t say, or even imply anything. I’m just saying cancer is up and you might look at it. Have no idea what you’re implying.”

    NO CURIOSITY. Same as all the OTHER no curiosities, and same as Type II, same as NYS Governor. We don’t know, but we know ahead of time not to know, because we don’t know! …Say adult children of alcoholics.

    “• Why Are Britons Forced to Eat Bugs? (Sp.)

    Because bugs and labs are MORE expensive than just pooping a young calf into your lawn. Then letting them wander around, eating grass n stuff without anybody bothering with them. This of course is Waaaaaaaay more expensive and less environmental than making a $100M 100-acre white-room warehouse factory, with diesel trucks driving in and out all day.

    Coo
    https://i.pinimg.com/originals/1d/52/5b/1d525b1836a1cb8aeb12e090d3abe87a.png

    Loch
    https://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/57/750×445/1125152.jpg

    Well, Obviously Britain has no social or cultural history with this, and it’s all a mystery to them.

    Repeating: BUGS WILL KILL YOU. Not just because food factory, they will control and shut off, yes, but because you’re not supposed to eat the shells, duh, which are very bad for you. Do we eat a Lobster shell? No we do not. Because Chitin will cut the f- out of your system, like feeding diatomaceous earth to insects.

    Insects: They have food inputs! Who knew? You need a building run on oil to keep them warm, and you need to feed them grass, oats, etc. Huh.

    Baby-Dog. One of them is smart enough to be paper trained right now.

    September 19, 2024 at 12:16 pm #169192
    Dr D Rich
    Participant

    For dbs on the loose connection between hatred and stupidity::
    The flip side goes like this. Did (((they))) take out Roman Catholics President Jack Kennedy, his brother Robert and his son John Jr. because their faith had something do with it?
    John Podhoretz’s “A

    Conversation in Hell” suggests, nah, demands to be tattooed into the forearms and foreheads of the non-Believers. There still hasn’t been a groundswell of public criticism thrown John’s way by his fellow practitioners despite those same practitioners owning the means of production. By production I mean publishing and broadcasting.

    Once again:
    https://nypost.com/1999/07/21/a-conversation-in-hell/

    If another fringe religious minority, let’s say The Mormons, pulled stunt(s) like the aforementioned AND crowed about it, I suspect Utah would have been surrendered a long time ago. Turn the other cheek has no effect on a narcissist or psychopath . “Atonement for Thee but not for Me.”

    I struggled with the next sentence when thinking about Biden’s White House Press secretary.
    3 thoughts emerged:

    1. Pathognomic…try that one on with next MD or DO who crosses your “path”. John Day gets it.
    2. Somewhere in the long distance between stupidity and hatred lies constructive criticism.
    Or
    3. Somewhere between stupidity and hatred lies
    White House press secretary Jean Marie Pierre, whose performance is, was, and ever shall be “pathognomic” for Narcissistic Personality Disorder….gaslighting, blameshifting, reverse victim and offender while lecturing down to Doocy like a petulant child in adult clown makeup and clothing

    Share it again with your friends and fringe associates.

    https://x.com/WesternLensman/status/1836128893855551540/mediaViewer?currentTweet=1836128893855551540&currentTweetUser=WesternLensman

    Pathognomonic (rare synonym pathognomic[1]) is a term, often used in medicine, that means “characteristic for a particular disease”. A pathognomonic sign is a particular sign whose presence means that a particular disease is present beyond any doubt

    D, if you don’t understand, remember the material is nonsensical. The astute clinician, only the rare psychiatrist take on the Cluster B personality disordered patient (Antisocial, Narcissistic, Borderline etc) because the patient’s crazy-making skills drive ppl crazy. The exercise typically in abject futility make those foolish or brave enough to take on the challenge look foolish, stupid or….(wait for it) like the perpetrator/offender. The audience is essential to the drama with attorneys, judges, physicians and nurses readily and easily beguiled.

    What a mess!
    Here we are.

    September 19, 2024 at 12:29 pm #169193
    aspnaz
    Participant

    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/fbi-reveals-iran-hacked-trump-campaign-materials-and-gave-them-bidenharris

    Stories like this remind me that even the FBI know in their hearts (if they have any) that the vast majority of Americans are complete idiots. Only an American would believe this story, it is so ridiculous as to be laughable in the rest of the world, on a par with the worst of Hollyweird, but obviously the FBI thinks it is worth the effort. How did the leaders of America turn so many in their population into such morons? It has been quite a trick. And ZH reports it as “fact”, if ZH knows what that means.

    September 19, 2024 at 12:45 pm #169194
    aspnaz
    Participant

    Dr D Rich said

    Somewhere between stupidity and hatred lies White House press secretary Jean Marie Pierre, whose performance is, was, and ever shall be “pathognomic” for Narcissistic Personality Disorder….gaslighting, blameshifting, reverse victim and offender while lecturing down to Doocy like a petulant child in adult clown makeup and clothing

    Contempt. She has contempt for the people she is talking to, she thinks they are beneath her and that they are idiots. She lies to them and feels no remorse because – in startling similarity to the Jew – she thinks we are a separate species, like a dog, that exists to be used and abused as she wishes. Once you reach that state of mind, only a lifetime of solitary confinement will fix her problem which she made into our problem. Lock her up.

    September 19, 2024 at 12:52 pm #169195
    aspnaz
    Participant

    Can Mossad hack your EV so that the doors lock, the battery overheats, the battery catches fire and you become yet another battery fire statistic? Of course they can, Musk loves baby killers, he is best mates with genocide Netanyahu, he has already handed the code to the Jews, installed the back door, added a few whatsits to help his mate fry you in your car. Yet one more reason not to buy an EV.

    Yet one more reason not to do home automation or any of that electronics shit. Electronics is getting dangerous, time to get back to petrol, diesel and coal.

    September 19, 2024 at 1:12 pm #169196
    Red
    Participant

    @aspnaz “Yet one more reason not to do home automation or any of that electronics shit. Electronics is getting dangerous, time to get back to petrol, diesel and coal.”

    Amen.

    A world made by hand!

    September 19, 2024 at 1:28 pm #169197
    Dr D Rich
    Participant

    @aspnaz

    She’s on “the spectrum” no doubt.

    A few big brain thinkers surmise a continuum around autism and Narcissistic personality disorder. I don’t see it.
    Maybe schizoid and or schizotypal.
    The problem is letting these personality disordered folk access the reigns of power.
    We, society used to screen for these disorders and exclude. Now we test for the condition then select and promote like affirmative action, affirmative for the criminally insane like our White House press Secretary. Is that her title?

    September 19, 2024 at 1:34 pm #169198
    Red
    Participant

    Dr.D One million per year is what, a rounding error? Or close. https://www.worldometers.info/ tells me that almost 45 million have died so far this year. So three quarters of the way through the year I would expect the total to be around 60 mil +/-. Net growth shows a 50 mil increase in global population so far this year. Still increasing so another mil isn’t enough. It has to rise to an extra seven or eight mil to start the downward trend. One million, hmph, chicken feed I say. Have to speed this up somehow? Running out of time to save what’s left of the natural world for the low quality humans, LQH’s, that think they are more deserving. Exploding electronics, AI, CBDC’s, MSM who ya gonna trust?

    September 19, 2024 at 1:40 pm #169199
    Dr D Rich
    Participant

    Caveat: I think there’s at least an insignificant probability this exploding pager, walkie talkie shit is staged to draw out the anti-semite.
    Having staked this position…here’s 2024’s nominee for the John Podhoretz “A Conversation in Hell” Award.
    I bet the usual suspects staged it obviously with the help of Rep. Hageman itself and Peter Thiel’s Palantir.
    “You got your pagers”. That’s one cocky bitch if the video is genuine.

    https://x.com/thestustustudio/status/1836508163266199558?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1836508163266199558%7Ctwgr%5E4b5b8eed62129b9d74aaaac76528cca4e2b09495%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fxymphora.blogspot.com%2F2024%2F09%2Fdo-you-have-your-pagers-with-you.html

    September 19, 2024 at 2:05 pm #169200
    Dr D Rich
    Participant

    Masters of Deflection are these Usual Suspects.

    Shift blame initially to Taiwan (reasonable huh?) then Hungary and now apparently Bulgaria.

    I’m gonna throw my 2 cents in and declare from my association with Weapons Inspector Ritter that the perpetrators are the coalition of Syria, Iran, Yemen, China, and Zelensky’s Ukrainian bros.

    September 19, 2024 at 2:26 pm #169201
    zerosum
    Participant

    Adapt or perish.

    Grandparents report that their grandchildren instead of acquiring skills wasted their period of cognitive development playing video games and scrolling cell phones.
    Consequently, they are incapable of working or comprehending the requirements for their survival.
    Who needs what survival skills for who?
    ————

    September 19, 2024 at 3:28 pm #169202
    WES
    Participant

    JMP, White House press secretary’s sole purpose is to try and make her kind appear to be the normal ones, while trying to make us appear to be not the normal ones.

    September 19, 2024 at 3:32 pm #169203
    phoenixvoice
    Participant

    Ugh.
    Mealworms are tasty treats for hens, and the hens can’t use their infertile eggs, but I find eggs tasty. Why take the hens out of the equation? Especially when hens are cute and fun to keep around. And their dropping help fertilize the garden.

    September 19, 2024 at 3:43 pm #169204
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    @DrDRich

    Masters of Deflection are these Usual Suspects.

    That’s a good word, deflection, and often overlooked as a key red flag that deception is afoot. When detected it should cause an immediate escalation of one’s personal DefCon alertness by at least one full click.

    September 19, 2024 at 4:07 pm #169205
    kultsommer
    Participant

    ……has shuttled vulnerable Haitian migrants in unmarked white Ford and Chevy vans from Florida to Ohio, where they are allegedly exploited for cheap labor by companies like Dole Food Company Inc.,

    Jimmy Dore talked about that in the video that I linked about a week ago, where the local “businessman” cried that “he can not grow” unless he’s got an access to a cheep labor.
    I do not have an answer as nobody does, but can we at lest agree, that in its very hart, what the “system” is all about? Regular working man was never part of the equation.
    In the years of the “good economy” life “was good” too. However….only in the later years, one realizes that in all the interviews that he/she went through, dressed in best attire and with wide eyed enthusiasm, he/she was measured by the interviewer as some kind of dupe to be acquired for the lowest possible price and disposed at will. Of course they are exceptions We are entering the era of massive disposal.

    September 19, 2024 at 4:13 pm #169206
    my parents said know
    Participant

    For you morbid entertainment….

    blinking in the muted sun- still brighter than their cave-
    the mutant parasites emerged and scanned their crispy realm.
    no folks were left to keep them in what should have been their grave:
    they vomited and died. And so a cockroach took the helm.

    To see the fireworks, go to ZH.

    September 19, 2024 at 4:43 pm #169207
    WES
    Participant

    So the WEF crowd want us to waste billions trying to convert bugs into protein, just like climate change, when we already have a very efficient method, called the chicken!

    Notice everything the WEF crowd comes up with requires us to waste our current resources to obtain less or negative resources than we already have.

    September 19, 2024 at 6:00 pm #169214
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    I think that “convergence” needs to be the watchword of the day, because the individually named crises are becoming too numerous to track separately with any kind of semi-adequate detail (like trying to descend twelve rabbit holes at the same time causes the brain to disintegrate.) I reckon that when all dozen or so collide at some moment in time real soon now that there will be one helluva bang.

    Whaddaya think, will we make to Nov 5 before detonation, or will one of them hit critical mass before the others? Is chaos a variable or an absolute?

    September 19, 2024 at 6:05 pm #169215
    my parents said know
    Participant

    demoralization
    humiliation
    marginalization
    depopulation
    infestation
    regurgitation
    …..

    “-ation” is the most rhymable of all syllable sets.

    September 19, 2024 at 6:36 pm #169216
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    So the practice of rhymating stuff to make it rhyme would be rhymation?

    September 19, 2024 at 6:38 pm #169217
    zerosum
    Participant

    War and hate
    Now, for the pictures of exploding pagers

    https://www.bitchute.com/video/eLRdLWctQ03F

    now multiply that by 3-4,000


    “Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah says pager and walkie-talkie explosions by Israel on Tuesday and Wednesday which killed 37 people and wounded nearly 3,000 in Lebanon are a declaration of war.

    “The enemy has crossed all red lines and all laws in this attack. This is a massive terrorist attack.”

    Peace.

    September 19, 2024 at 7:14 pm #169218
    my parents said know
    Participant

    On “rhymezone” I see no mention of “rhymation”, so you oughta get yerself a tiny c in a circle on that one, DBS.

    Sidenote: it is us or is it comcast? Every day our wired connection goes down 3 or 4 times (that we know of) for a few minutes.

    September 19, 2024 at 7:39 pm #169219
    zerosum
    Participant

    The EU Parliament
    https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20240913IPR23906/meps-ukraine-must-be-able-to-strike-legitimate-military-targets-in-russia

    MEPs: Ukraine must be able to strike legitimate military targets in Russia
    Press Releases Plenary session Today

    Ukraine must have the possibility to defend itself fully
    Parliament deplores the declining volume of bilateral military aid to Ukraine by EU countries
    MEPs demand tougher EU sanctions against Russia and its allies
    Accountability for war crimes and Russian reparations are essential elements of any peaceful solution
    In a resolution, MEPs want EU countries to lift current restrictions hindering Ukraine from using Western weapons systems against legitimate military targets in Russia.

    The text, adopted on Thursday 19 September with 425 votes in favour, 131 against and 63 abstentions, states that without lifting current restrictions, Ukraine cannot fully exercise its right to self-defence and remains exposed to attacks on its population and infrastructure.

    Parliament underlines that insufficient deliveries of ammunition and restrictions on their use risks offsetting the impact of efforts made to date, and deplores the declining volume of bilateral military aid to Ukraine by EU countries. MEPs reiterate their call for member states to fulfil their March 2023 commitment to deliver one million rounds of ammunition to Ukraine, and to accelerate the delivery of weapons, air defence systems and ammunition, including TAURUS missiles. They also restate their position that all EU countries and NATO allies should collectively and individually commit to annual military support for Ukraine militarily of no less than 0.25% of their GDP.

    EU sanctions need to be maintained and expanded

    The resolution calls for EU member states to maintain and extend the Council’s sanctions policy against Russia, Belarus, and non-EU countries and entities providing Russia with military and dual-use technologies. MEPs condemn the recent transfer of ballistic missiles by Iran to Russia and call for strengthened sanctions against both Tehran and North Korea for their involvement in supporting Russia’s war against Ukraine. They also want to see more Chinese individuals and entities added to the EU sanctions list as well as tougher measures to systematically tackle the issue of sanctions circumvention by EU-based companies, third parties, and non-EU countries.

    Confiscate Russian state-owned assets to compensate Ukraine for destruction

    While calling on the EU and its member states to actively work towards achieving the broadest possible international support for Ukraine and identifying a peaceful solution to the war, MEPs say that any resolution must be based on full respect for Ukraine’s independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity. They also view accountability for Russian war crimes and reparations and other payments by Moscow as essential aspects of any solution. To this end, MEPs want the EU and like-minded partners to establish a sound legal regime for the confiscation of Russian state-owned assets frozen by the EU as part of efforts to compensate Ukraine for the massive damage it has suffered.

    September 19, 2024 at 8:02 pm #169220
    SeaBirds
    Participant

    British food
    People are not necessarily convinced as to the benefits of bug eating, and it may not be as wildly successful as hoped. If people are revulsed, you don’t just change that by endlessly parroting the so-called benefits. It may even backfire, if people begin to think that there’s a ploy to kill them or make them ill, or that it will destroy agriculture. Many are disenchanted with their governance.
    Here in Britain, much is made of the large increase in bowel cancer in the young. It may not all be due to that which was ‘dished out’ to them during the pandemic (the cause that must never be mentioned). Poor diet and lifestyle choices play a big part. Good quality/organic food, although available, is too expensive for many to afford. An increase in obesity, even in the younger generation, is obvious and alarming.

    September 19, 2024 at 8:58 pm #169221
    zerosum
    Participant

    War is not #1 concern for most people
    Extreme Weather in 2024

    Copilot
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    Sure! Here’s a list of some notable extreme weather events that have occurred in 2024 so far:

    Tornado Outbreaks: The U.S. experienced several major tornado outbreaks in the spring, with over 786 confirmed tornadoes in April and May alone1. This included three significant outbreaks, each with more than 100 tornadoes1.

    Massive Floods: Heavy rains in April and May caused major flooding in parts of eastern Texas and the Missouri Valley1. Areas near Lake Livingston and along the Trinity River in Texas, as well as parts of South Dakota, Minnesota, and Iowa, were particularly hard hit1.

    Record Heat: The U.S. saw record-breaking heat in February, with all-time highs in five states from Arkansas to Michigan1. This heat wave also set winter records in at least 56 locations1.

    Wildfires: In February, strong winds fanned wildfires in the Texas Panhandle, burning over a million acres1.

    Hurricane Beryl: In July, Hurricane Beryl made landfall in Texas, causing widespread power outages and spawning over 60 tornadoes from Texas to New York2.
    Derechos: Two derechos in July caused significant damage in the Plains and Midwest, with the second derecho spawning over 40 tornadoes2.
    These events highlight the diverse and extreme weather patterns we’ve seen this year. If you need more details on any specific event, feel free to ask!

    Learn more

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    Certainly! Here are some notable extreme weather events that have occurred in Europe in 2024:

    Storm Boris: This storm caused catastrophic flooding across several countries, including Poland, Germany, Slovakia, Austria, and Italy. The heavy rainfall led to significant damage and evacuations1.

    Heatwaves: Europe experienced intense heatwaves, particularly in Greece, where temperatures soared to record highs. These heatwaves also affected other countries like Italy and France2.

    Flooding in Northern Italy: Severe flooding in northern Italy led to the evacuation of at least a thousand people. The flooding also impacted other Central European countries such as Poland, Austria, and the Czech Republic3.

    Heavy Rainfall in Central Europe: Germany, Poland, Austria, and the Czech Republic faced extreme weather warnings due to heavy rainfall. This led to potential flooding, especially in regions like the Bavarian Alps and along the Polish-Czech border4.
    These events highlight the diverse and extreme weather patterns Europe has faced this year. If you need more details on any specific event, feel free to ask!

    From Microsoft Start Partners
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    Hundreds evacuated from northern Italy as extreme weather continues to impact Europe
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    Certainly! Here are some notable extreme weather events that have occurred in Asia in 2024:

    Deadly Heatwaves: Throughout April and May, Asia experienced record-breaking heatwaves, with temperatures soaring above 40°C in many regions, including Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, and the Philippines1.

    Heavy rainfall led to catastrophic flooding in several countries, including India, Bangladesh, and China. These floods caused significant damage and displaced thousands of people2.
    Typhoon Mocha: This powerful typhoon hit Bangladesh and Myanmar, causing widespread destruction and leading to numerous fatalities2.
    Droughts: Parts of Central Asia, including Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Kazakhstan, experienced severe drought conditions, impacting agriculture and water supplies3.
    Extreme Heat in India: During national elections, India faced brutal heatwaves with temperatures reaching as high as 46.3°C, causing heat-related illnesses and fatalities4.
    These events highlight the diverse and extreme weather patterns Asia has faced this year. If you need more details on any specific event, feel free to ask!

    Learn more

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    September 19, 2024 at 10:00 pm #169222
    aspnaz
    Participant

    zerosum said

    Ukraine must have the possibility to defend itself fully

    Long range missiles today, American nukes tomorrow … escalation, we are getting nearer to the “you nuke me or I nuke you” standoff.

    September 19, 2024 at 10:06 pm #169223
    zerosum
    Participant

    @ aspnaz

    zerosum said

    Ukraine must have the possibility to defend itself fully
    I WAS QUOTING The EU Parliament

    https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20240913IPR23906/meps-ukraine-must-be-able-to-strike-legitimate-military-targets-in-russia

    September 19, 2024 at 10:10 pm #169224
    aspnaz
    Participant

    SeaBirds said

    British food … An increase in obesity, even in the younger generation, is obvious and alarming.

    Look at the western world’s – all races – rate of dementure versus the rest of the world – all races – and you realise that something is afoot. Even Asians in America suffer at an elevated rate. Here in China we have a much lower dementure rate yet the life expectancy is longer than in the west.

    An aside issue, even runners in the west – my body is a temple – will eat protein bars, those super processed bars of shit that probably help your dementure develop. People don’t know what food is anymore.

    As another aside, 8 people died in Taiwan from eating a stew made by a lady using wild snails. They actually died from pesticide poisoning. It appears that the snails managed to accumulate so much pesticide that they killed their predators. Yet Taiwan likes to think of itself as being clever with agriculture, cross-breeding (probably not the right word) lots of fruit to procude new varieties etc. Proud to be in the organic group. The USA’s influence over Taiwan and their insistence that Taiwan do things the American way is catching up with them. Good for semiconductors, not so good for agriculture.

    September 19, 2024 at 10:11 pm #169225
    Celticbiker
    Participant

    Chemtrails, right over your head, is this a topic on the campaign trail? No. The vaxxed dead, is this a topic? No. 911, the culprits? No. 32 trillion owed to jewbanks?, No.. Your money, saved, now worth shit? No. These fuckers want you dead and will steal your last nickel., dancing on your grave. Vote harder, vote ZOG. That’ll fix things.

    September 19, 2024 at 10:24 pm #169226
    aspnaz
    Participant

    Celticbiker said

    Vote harder, vote ZOG. That’ll fix things.

    Meanwhile the ZOG is putting explosives into phones and terrorising the planet. Looks like ZOG believes in the effectiveness of violence, yet the American people still believe in the effectiveness of voting. Kind of a disconnect there that has existed for the lives of all existing voters.

    The people are like the lamb to the slaughter, believing in their weakness while not realising that if all the sheep charged the sheep dog and farmer, they could take over the farm. How will they square that circle? They won’t, they will end up in plastic wrap in the shops, provided to feed the ZOG and their slaves.

    September 19, 2024 at 10:32 pm #169227
    aspnaz
    Participant

    https://www.rt.com/russia/604322-chechen-leader-musk-deactivate-cybertruck/

    Probably saved his life. I guess he did this to please his mate genocide Netanyahu and his Jew financiers. Jews and their American slaves are not friends to the Muslims.

    September 19, 2024 at 11:14 pm #169228
    John Day
    Participant

    Decision Trees https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/decision-trees

    Picture yourself as a well-informed owner of the global economy, one of 1000, perhaps, who understands that the global economy, driven mainly by oil, has peaked and is looking at a long decline, The global economic pie will shrink for the rest of your life. A lot of people are entitled to their bits of that pie, and few of them know that it is inexorably shrinking. What do you think you will discuss as an action plan with the other 999 owners at Davos?

    Surplus Energy Economics, Project 2050, part one THE END OF MODERNITY AND A RACE TO THE BOTTOM
    Well before 2050, what we think of as “modernity” will have come to an end. Governments are going to try to counter this process by driving public debt up to stratospheric levels.
    A reasonable interpretation might be that governments know we can’t borrow our way to prosperity, but have no options beyond ‘extend, pretend and distract’.
    As you may know, the time horizon of SEEDS projections has been extended by ten years, to 2050. This, as we shall see, captures the final era of modernity…
    ..There are many versions of the term “modernity”, but we’re going to use an economic definition here.
    For our purposes, modernity is a condition in which individuals and societies can afford to spend large sums on discretionary (non-essential) products and services. On this basis, “pre-modernity” societies were ones in which the vast bulk of economic resources had to be used to ensure the supply of necessities.
    What the SEEDS time extension is revealing is that this version of modernity will very largely be gone by the end of the 2040s…
    ..Our first conclusion can only be that it seems abundantly clear that government expenditures – stated in real terms – are already soaring. Interestingly, transfer payments (including benefits and pensions) seem to be rising markedly more rapidly than spending on public services (such as health care, education and defence).
    This implies that one reason for the rapid expansion of government spending might be to assist households – and thus minimise dissatisfaction – by providing support as the real costs of necessities carry on rising more rapidly than incomes (see Fig. 1A).
    1
    ..A picture may be worth a thousand words, but only two emerge from the graphs in Fig. 1.
    The first is “QE”, implying that central banks will have to finance an increasing proportion of government largesse with newly-created (“printed”) money. To paraphrase Milton Freidman, ‘excess money creation is always and everywhere inflationary’.
    The second word is “crash”. Anticipating what kind of crash, and when, requires a shift of focus from the purely monetary to the material…
    ..The primary purpose of the economy isn’t to move money around, but to supply material products and services to society.
    It does this by using energy to convert raw materials into products, and into those physical artefacts without which services cannot be provided. It cannot be repeated too often that money has no intrinsic worth, but commands value only as a “claim” on these material products and services.
    The factors that determine the performance of the real (material) economy are: the supply of energy; its proportionate cost; the quality of the non-energy natural resource base; and the numbers of people between whom economic prosperity is shared…
    ..The biggest negatives in the “real” economic scene are (a) rising material energy costs, and (b) continuing (though decelerating) growth in the World’s population.
    The Energy Costs of Energy are climbing relentlessly, a process which can barely be moderated, let alone reversed, by the expansion of renewables (see Fig. 2A). These renewables have inferior qualities (most notably, lesser energy densities) than fossil fuels, and are fossil-dependent (making raw material demands that can only be met using legacy energy from oil, natural gas and coal).
    ECoEs from all sources of energy, having risen from 2% in 1980 to 10.6% now, are likely to reach 13% by 2030, 18% by 2040 and 25% by 2050.
    The advanced economies of the West cannot grow their prosperity at ECoEs above 5%, and neither can EM (emerging market) economies carry on expanding when – as is now the case – ECoEs get into double figures.
    As producer costs rise and consumer prosperity decreases, aggregate energy supply is likely to contract. But the really big problem is the fast-growing proportion of energy subject to the “first call” on resources made by ECoE (Fig. 2B).
    Top-line economic output is starting to inflect from growth into contraction, even as population numbers continue to increase (Fig. 2C). If we add population growth, and the relentless rise in ECoEs, into the equation, global average prosperity per person has already turned down, and this rate of decline can be expected to accelerate (Fig. 2D).
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    The critical points here are (a) that the economy of today can’t possibly co-exist with ECoEs of 13%, let alone 25%, and (b) that we have nothing that can prevent this surge in ECoEs from happening.
    In short, we’re going to get successively less prosperous over time. We can certainly try to manage this process, but we can’t stop it from happening…
    ..The impending end of modernity (defined as the age of discretionaries) is illustrated in the next set of charts. From here on, just as material prosperity decreases as the fossil fuels era winds down, so the real costs of essentials will carry on rising, primarily because of the high energy-intensity of so many necessities, including housing, transport, distribution and the supply of food and water.
    In 2023, estimated essentials accounted for 32% of ,material economic prosperity. This number is projected to rise to 38% by 2030, 52% by 2040 and 79% by 2050 (see Fig. 3B). Discretionaries, as a proportion of global economic resources, actually peaked in 2004, at 49%, and are set to fall to just 17% by 2050… But, with population numbers still increasing, the per capita affordability of discretionary purchases has already turned down (Fig. 3C).
    Though global top-line prosperity per capita has long been flat-lining ahead of an unfolding downturn, only now are households starting to experience the ‘pincer effect’ imposed by rises in the real costs of essentials (Fig. 3D).
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    ..For now, though, here are some regional examples of discretionary compression. China can weather this transition better than most, whilst prospects are markedly better for the United States than for the Euro Area. In Britain, the projected costs of essentials actually overtake aggregate material prosperity by the mid-2040s.
    What this really means in practice – in the United Kingdom and elsewhere – is that products and services currently regarded as “essential” will revert to the status of “luxuries”. Not even rampant, highly-dangerous debt expansion will enable governments to maintain current levels of public services whilst simultaneously trying to prop up the ability of all their citizens to meet the rising costs of household necessities.

    #289: Project 2050, part one

    September 19, 2024 at 11:15 pm #169229
    John Day
    Participant

    Oil Man Supremo, Art Berman: The End of Growth: Why Oil Prices are Falling [High oil costs make weak businesses fail, lowering demand. Low oil prices shut down rigs.]
    Paradigms hold on until they can no longer offer believable explanations for what’s happening. Oil markets and the global economy are now in the middle of such a shift…
    ..On Tuesday September 10, Brent futures price fell to its lowest level in three years as prices dropped more than $12 in fourteen days.
    The old paradigm of “inventory deficits” has faded, swiftly replaced by “China weakness.” Ironically, inventory deficits remain as persistent as ever, while serious concerns about China’s economic slowdown have been prevalent for at least the past two years…
    ..The reality is that weak oil demand has been the main force pushing prices down in recent years, but geopolitical factors—including OPEC production cuts—have repeatedly stepped in to prop them up. The longer geopolitics artificially sustains the market, the more severe the price correction will be once the next crisis fades…
    ..Transportation is responsible for 60 percent of global oil consumption, and gasoline and diesel account for 54 percent of total petroleum use. Since 2021, the Energy Information Administration (EIA) has been projecting flattening consumption for these refined products…
    ..It’s difficult to get reliable data on current world consumption by fuel type but the United States is a major exporter and U.S. export data is a good proxy. The amount of crude oil going into U.S refineries has stabilized at more than 1 mmb/d lower than 2018-2019 average levels over the last two years. About half of that decrease is because U.S. consumption is lower, and the rest reflects lower global demand of which the U.S. is a big part—the U.S. uses about 25% of world gasoline and diesel…
    ..Oil traders are more bearish now than at any point in the history of the Brent futures market. That’s not just noise—it’s a signal you can’t ignore…
    ..Low supply urgency is the reason oil prices are dropping today, even as inventory levels decline. This is largely due to the slowdown in global economic growth, which goes beyond post-pandemic inflation or rising interest rates.
    The globalization of trade and manufacturing, which accelerated in the 1980s, gave a major boost to struggling developed economies. China’s rapid rise was a defining feature of this period, but its growth peaked in 2007.
    That was also about the time that U.S. oil, gasoline and diesel consumption reached their maximum levels. U.S oil consumption peaked in 2005 at 20.9 mmb/d. Diesel consumption peaked in 2007 and gasoline in 2017. None have recovered to pre-pandemic levels…
    ..The global economy has matured. While there are regions where growth remains strong and others just beginning their development, the overall patterns are becoming clearer. It seems increasingly unlikely that we will see another China story—a rapid economic rise on the same scale…
    ..While world gasoline and diesel consumption continues to rise, its rate of increase is slowing. In fact, data through July suggests that 2024 consumption is likely to be flat with 2023. As critically, world gasoline & diesel per-capita consumption peaked in 2015. That reflects a fundamental demographic shift…
    ..At its most fundamental level, oil and refined product consumption is directly tied to population growth… In most advanced economies, growth is slowing, and China’s population size has actually declined since 2020…
    ..The global oil market is undergoing a significant transformation driven by a complex interplay of geopolitical events and shifting market fundamentals. While traditional paradigms have heavily focused on supply and demand metrics, it’s becoming increasingly clear that the influence of geopolitical factors has been consistently underestimated… Geopolitical risks to oil supply and concerns about an overextended and slowing global economy have been the dominant factors shaping oil price trends in the 21st century…
    ..Paradigms don’t change easily. They’re entrenched, comfortable, and persist until reality can no longer be ignored. Cracks start to show, anomalies pile up, but no one acts—at least not until the situation becomes critical. Only then, when the old model collapses under its own weight, do we see a shift. It’s not a smooth transition; it’s messy and uncomfortable, but the crisis forces us into a new understanding… Analysts and economists continue to force today’s realities into obsolete models. Oil isn’t just a commodity; it’s the foundation of the global economy. It signals where the future is heading. Right now, oil markets are flashing a clear message: the era of growth is over—not just for oil but for the global economy. https://www.artberman.com/blog/the-end-of-growth-why-oil-prices-are-falling/

    Caitlin Johnstone points out that it’s not “terrorism” when we and our friends kill families. On War Crimes And Western Hypocrisy
    The death toll has risen to 12 from Israel’s terror attack in Lebanon on Tuesday which detonated explosive materials hidden in thousands of pagers. Another 20 people were then killed in another attack on Wednesday with a second wave of explosions, this time using walkie talkies and home solar energy systems.
    The total death toll now sits at 32. Two children and four healthcare workers are among the dead. Thousands have been injured.
    As you would expect, western empire managers are getting really squirmy about this. White House spokesman John Kirby adamantly refused to answer any questions involving Israel’s responsibility for the attacks during a press conference on Wednesday, despite Israel being widely reported as the responsible party, with outlets like The New York Times citing US officials as their source. https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/on-war-crimes-and-western-hypocrisy

    Israel bombed a residential block in Gaza. Then drones shot at anyone trying to rescue the survivors
    On September 17, the Israeli army bombed a block near the al-Bureij refugee camp, completely destroying seven homes and trapping dozens under the rubble. When rescuers arrived at the scene to help, Israeli drones started firing at them as well. https://mondoweiss.net/2024/09/israel-bombed-a-residential-block-in-gaza-then-drones-shot-at-anyone-trying-to-rescue-the-survivors/

    Blind amputees… 22,500 Palestinians Now Have Life-Changing Injuries Due to Israel’s Genocide https://scheerpost.com/2024/09/16/22500-palestinians-now-have-life-changing-injuries-due-to-israels-genocide/

    Israel is joining the first global AI convention, here’s why that’s dangerous
    Over the last year Israel has weaponized AI in its genocide in Gaza, deploying AI-driven surveillance and automated targeting systems which has killed tens of thousands. Israel’s participation in the first global AI treaty raises serious questions. https://mondoweiss.net/2024/09/israel-is-joining-the-first-global-ai-convention-heres-why-thats-dangerous/

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