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Musk ‘Can’t Wait’ To Be Part Of Trump’s Team (RT)
Robert Reich Calls for Arrest of Elon Musk for Resisting Censorship (Turley)
Musk Threatens To Go After Brazilian Government Assets (RT)
Brazilians to be Fined $9000 a Day for Receiving News from X (Turley)
Why Did Zuckerberg Choose Now to Confess? (Tucker)
Can They Really Reinvent Kamala Harris in 70 Days? (Victor Davis Hanson)
Harris’ So-Called ‘Surge’ Is Thanks To Oversampling: Pollsters (ZH)
Kamala Harris Will Not Bring Prices Down. Her Plan Needs Inflation (Lacalle)
Durov ‘Too Free’ For The West – Lavrov (RT)
‘Developing in All Directions’: Putin Praises Russia-Mongolia Relations (Sp.)
Mongolia Told ICC To Get Lost With Putin Warrant – Medvedev (RT)
Mongolia Explains Why It Didn’t Arrest Putin (RT)
Serious International Crimes to Be Brought to Justice – Moscow (Sp.)
Netanyahu Refuses Surrender to Israeli Protesters Demanding Hostage Deal (Sp.)
Epstein Client List ‘Will Be’ Made Public – Trump (RT)

 

 

 

 

 

 

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“There is a lot of waste and needless regulation in government that needs to go..”

Musk ‘Can’t Wait’ To Be Part Of Trump’s Team (RT)

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has said he is eager to join Donald Trump’s team if he wins the presidential election in November. According to the Washington Post, Trump is planning to establish a special commission to review the work of federal agencies and is considering Musk for a role on this team. The outlet reported on Monday that the former president and his team had been discussing the initiative behind closed doors in recent weeks. The commission would reportedly be led by prominent business executives, whose task would be to “comb through the government books to identify thousands of programs to cut,” according to the Washington Post.

While Trump has previously dismissed the idea of having Musk join his cabinet due to his sprawling business empire, he said the tech tycoon was a “very smart guy” and could be a helpful consultant to the federal government and provide “some very good ideas.” Trump has also praised Musk for the cost-cutting measures that he implemented after acquiring Twitter (now X) in 2022. Following the takeover, Musk infamously laid off some 6,000 workers, or nearly 80% of the platform’s workforce. Responding to the Washington Post’s claims that he is being considered for the auditing commission, Musk wrote on X on Tuesday that he “can’t wait.” “There is a lot of waste and needless regulation in government that needs to go,” the billionaire said.

Previously, Musk has written that he is “fully” endorsing Trump in the upcoming election and that he is “willing to serve” under the former president if he secures a second term in office. In a post on X last month, the billionaire also shared an AI-generated image of himself standing behind a lectern labeled ‘Department of Government Efficiency’ with the acronym DOGE, referring to the meme-based DOGE coin cryptocurrency, which Musk has personally backed in the past. Last week, Musk also warned that the US was on a “fast lane to bankruptcy” due to government overspending, saying that this is causing rampant inflation in the country. The billionaire also shared a forecast suggesting that the US budget deficit could increase from $1.8 trillion to almost $16.3 trillion over the next ten years at the current rate of spending.

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“..despite their critical role in various national security efforts, including the possible rescue of the stranded two astronauts currently in space. None of that matters to Reich..”

Robert Reich Calls for Arrest of Elon Musk for Resisting Censorship (Turley)

We have previously discussed the anti-free speech views of Clinton’s former Labor Secretary, Robert Reich, who has tried to sell citizens on the perfectly Orwellian view that more freedom means tyranny when it comes to the freedom of expression. He also demanded that former president Donald Trump be banned from ballots as a “traitor” — all in the name of protecting democracy from itself. Last week, Reich wrote a column declaring Elon Musk “out of control” in his refusal to censor citizens and appeared to call for his arrest. Reich has long been a prominent voice in the anti-free speech movement discussed in my recent book, The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage. Indeed, he has given a voice to the rage in calling for others to be silenced or arrested. Elon Musk has long been the primary target of Reich and his allies after dismantling the censorship system at Twitter, now X.

Reich called Musk’s purchase of Twitter with a pledge to reduce censorship to be “dangerous nonsense.” Notably, Reich’s friend, Hillary Clinton, was one of the first to call for a crackdown on Musk after his purchase of Twitter. Hillary Clinton and other Democratic figures turned to Europe and called upon them to use their Digital Services Act to force censorship against Americans. Reich has always shown a chilling fluidity in how free speech is protected and argued that public interest should be able to trump the right of any citizens in espousing views that he believes are dangerous. In denouncing Musk, Reich encouraged a campaign to counter his efforts to resist censorship. He wrote that Musk “may be the richest man in the world. He may own one of the world’s most influential social media platforms. But that doesn’t mean we’re powerless to stop him.”

Like Hillary Clinton, Reich is calling on foreign governments and censors to silence American citizens including Musk: “Regulators around the world should threaten Musk with arrest if he doesn’t stop disseminating lies and hate on X.” He even appears willing to undermine national security programs to stop unfettered free speech. He called for the U.S. government to cut off contracts with his companies despite their critical role in various national security efforts, including the possible rescue of the stranded two astronauts currently in space. None of that matters to Reich who appears to view free speech as a greater threat to our nation: “Why is the US government allowing Musk’s satellites and rocket launchers to become crucial to the nation’s security when he’s shown utter disregard for the public interest?

Why give Musk more economic power when he repeatedly abuses it and demonstrates contempt for the public good?” Reich’s call to regulate speech in the public interest is the Siren’s Call of every authoritarian regime in history. He will presumably tell us what speech is no longer tolerable for public policy reasons. Our “Indispensable Right” will, according to Reich, be safely in the hands of the European censors who can protect us from errant and dangerous thoughts. As he explained earlier, “the kinds of things that we do about this is, focus less on thinking about free speech, but thinking about how the times have changed.” In this way, speech regulations can keep us “moving towards how we recommend content and … how we direct people’s attention is leading to a healthy public conversation that is most participatory.” The “healthy public conversation” with Robert Reich increasingly appears to be his talking and the rest of us listening.

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“Unless the Brazilian government returns the illegally seized property of X and SpaceX..”

Musk Threatens To Go After Brazilian Government Assets (RT)

Tech mogul Elon Musk has vowed to seek the seizure Brazilian government assets in the US, if Brazil does not return property belonging to his companies X (formerly Twitter) and Space X. Last week, the Supreme Court of Brazil ordered the operations of X to be “immediately suspended” and threatened a fine of 50,000 Brazilian reals ($8,874) per day against anyone trying to sidestep the ban on accessing the platform using a VPN. The judge gave Google and Apple five days to remove X from their app stores. The ruling was upheld Monday by a panel of federal supreme court justices. The court also froze the accounts of satellite internet provider Starlink, a subsidiary of Musk’s SpaceX, to ensure the payment of fines imposed for failing to appoint a new legal representative for X in Brazil.

“Unless the Brazilian government returns the illegally seized property of X and SpaceX, we will seek reciprocal seizure of government assets too,” Musk wrote on his social media platform. “Hope Lula enjoys flying commercial,” the billionaire added, referring to Brazilian President Luis Ignacio Lula da Silva. Musk was responding to a tweet of a news report about the US government’s confiscation of a jet allegedly used by Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, claiming it violated Washington’s sanctions against Caracas. The fierce dispute between the Brazilian authorities and the US entrepreneur began in April, when Brazilian Supreme Court judge Alexandre de Moraes ordered X to delete the accounts belonging to several supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro, calling them “digital militants” who spread “disinformation” about himself and the court.

The billionaire rejected the demand, highlighting that to comply with the order would violate Brazilian laws. Musk announced plans to suspend operations in the country, citing what he called censorship orders that his company refused to comply with. Commenting on the seizure of Starlink’s accounts, Musk objected to the “absolutely illegal action” taken without any due process, pointing out that X and SpaceX are “two completely different companies with different shareholders.” He also pledged to provide free internet access to the company’s Brazilian customers while the accounts remain blocked. On Monday, Reuters reported a senior state official as saying that Brazilian telecommunications regulator Anatel could introduce sanctions against Starlink, which is currently the only company that refused to comply with the ruling to shut down X. Anatel has warned that the company’s license for operating in the country could be revoked.

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Brazil’s no. 1 news source.

Brazilians to be Fined $9000 a Day for Receiving News from X (Turley)

Brazil has not just banned X (formerly Twitter) from the entire country, but citizens will now be fined $9000 a day (more than the average salary in the country) for using VPNs to access the platform. X is the main source of news for Brazilians, who will now be left with government-approved sources or face financial ruin in seeking unfettered information. The Guardian is reporting that the confiscatory fines are part of a comprehensive crackdown on efforts to get news through X, including ordering all Apple stores to remove X from new phones. The move puts Brazil with China in the effort to create a wall of censorship between citizens and unregulated information. For the anti-free speech movement, Brazil is a key testing ground for where the movement is heading next. European censors are arresting CEOs like Pavel Durov while threatening Elon Musk.

However, it is Brazil that foreshadows the brave new world of censorship where entire nations will block access to sites committed to free speech values or unfettered news. If successful, the Brazilian model is likely to be replicated by other countries. The reason is that censorship is not working. As discussed in my book “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage,” we have never seen the current alliance of government, corporate, academic, and media interest against free speech. Yet, citizens are not buying it. Despite unrelenting attacks and demonizing media coverage, citizens are still using X and resisting censorship. That was certainly the case in Brazil where citizens preferred X to regulated news sources. The solution is now to threaten citizens with utter ruin if they seek unfettered news.

The question is whether Brazil’s leftist government can get away with this. The conflict began with demands to censor supporters of the conservative former president Jair Bolsonaro. When X refused the sweeping demands for censorship, including the demand to name of a legal representative who could be arrested for refusing to censor users, the courts moved toward this national ban. The man behind the effort is Justice Alexandre de Moraes, who has aggressively used censorship to combat anything that he or the government deems “fake news” or disinformation. With socialist president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, they are the dream team of the anti-free speech movement. The question is whether Brazil will become a nightmare for free speech around the world as other nations seek to force citizens to read and hear news from approved, state-monitored sites.

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Because he thinks Trump will win.

Why Did Zuckerberg Choose Now to Confess? (Tucker)

On many subjects important to public life today, vast numbers of people know the truth, and yet the official channels of information sharing are reluctant to admit it. The Fed admits no fault in inflation and neither do most members of Congress. The food companies don’t admit the harm of the mainstream American diet. The pharmaceutical companies are loath to admit any injury. Media companies deny any bias. So on it goes. And yet everyone else does know, already and more and more so. This is why the admission of Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg was so startling. It’s not what he admitted. We already knew what he revealed. What’s new is that he admitted it. We are simply used to living in a world swimming in lies. It rattles us when a major figure tells us what is true or even partially or slightly true. We almost cannot believe it, and we wonder what the motivation might be.

In his letter to Congressional investigators, he flat-out said what everyone else has been saying for years now. “In 2021, senior officials from the Biden Administration, including the White House, repeatedly pressured our teams for months to censor certain COVID-19 content, including humor and satire, and expressed a lot of frustration with our teams when we didn’t agree….I believe the government pressure was wrong, and I regret that we were not more outspoken about it. I also think we made some choices that, with the benefit of hindsight and new information, we wouldn’t make today. Like I said to our teams at the time, I feel strongly that we should not compromise our content standards due to pressure from any Administration in either direction – and we’re ready to push back if something like this happens again.”

A few clarifications. The censorship began much earlier than that, from March 2020 at the very least if not earlier. We all experienced it, almost immediately following lockdowns. After a few weeks, using that platform to get the word out proved impossible. Facebook once made a mistake and let my piece on Woodstock and the 1969 flu go through but they would never make that mistake again. For the most part, every single opponent of the terrible policies was deplatformed at all levels. The implications are far more significant than the bloodless letter of Zuckerberg suggests. People consistently underestimate the power that Facebook has over the public mind. This was especially true in the 2020 and 2022 election cycles. The difference in having an article unthrottled much less amplified by Facebook in these years was in the millionfold. When my article went through, I experienced a level of traffic that I had never seen in my career. It was mind-boggling.

When the article was shut down some two weeks later – after focused troll accounts alerted Facebook that the algorithms had made a mistake – traffic fell to the usual trickle. Again, in my entire career of closely following internet traffic patterns, I had never seen anything like this. Facebook as an information source offers power like we’ve never seen before, especially because so many people, especially among the voting public, believe that the information they are seeing is from their friends and family and sources they trust. The experience of Facebook and other platforms framed the reality that people believed existed outside of themselves. Every dissident, and every normal person who had some sense that something odd was going on, was made to feel like some sort of crazy cretin who held nutty and probably dangerous views that were completely out of touch with the mainstream.

What does it mean that Zuckerberg now openly admits that he excluded from view anything that contradicted government wishes? It means that any opinions on lockdowns, masks, or vaccine mandates – and all that is associated with that including church and school closures plus vaccine harms – were not part of the public debate. We had lived through and were living through the most significant far-reaching attacks on our rights and liberties in our lifetimes, or, arguably, on the history record in terms of scale and reach, and it was not part of any serious public debate. Zuckerberg played an enormous role in this. People like me had come to believe that average people were simply cowards or stupid not to object. Now we know that this might not have been true at all! The people who objected were simply silenced!

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“Harris is not so much a flip-flopper as a padder, who supports anything, without any worry about framing each new position by renouncing her original and opposite one.”

Can They Really Reinvent Kamala Harris in 70 Days? (Victor Davis Hanson)

Harris’s well-funded 2019 campaign quickly blew up early. Indeed, she never entered much less won a single primary–and captured no delegates through voting. In the frenzy following George Floyd’s death, and the mayhem and nationwide rioting and violence of late spring and summer, panicked 2020 nominee Joe Biden announced in advance he would select a diversity candidate as a running mate. And in no time, and under increasing pressure to trump his braggadocious promise, he boxed himself in by assuring his handlers that his running mate would be preselected as a black woman. Given there were then no black female governors and only two black women in the Senate, Kamala Harris was a choice of last resort—even though, as a candidate and competitor of Joe Biden, she had condemned him before a nationwide audience as a veritable racist who had habitually cozied up to segregationists.

When she labels her own running mate a racist it becomes hard to take her charges of racism against Trump seriously. As vice president, Harris predictably proved inept. In a variety of tasks as “border czar” and point woman on space exploration, she proved not merely clueless but embarrassingly so—sappy, cackling, and variously labeled by ex-staff and Democratic insiders as “out of her league” and “way over her head.” Her chief role was to break a sometimes 50/50 deadlocked Senate and therefore, in every one of those votes, owns the passage of hard-left legislation that often turned disastrous. As Biden’s cognitive decline accelerated at a geometric rate, a widely derided Harris was seen by the Bidens as Joe’s Spiro Agnew insurance policy: a vice president so bumbling and unimaginable as a future president that if Biden only breathed, he would be still judged preferable to the travesty of a Harris succession.

Biden utterly imploded on June 13 during a stress-test national debate. His collapse ended the 42-month-long charade that he was “fit as a fiddle.” In 24 hours, Biden was transmogrified by his handlers from an Arnold Schwarzenegger-like health nut to physically and mentally unable to continue as the Democratic nominee. Left unsaid was that his diving polls, not his debility, doomed Biden. Otherwise, he would have survived his latest public humiliation had his approval ratings been respectable. Harris’s race, gender, and status as vice president made it impossible not to anoint her as the new Democratic candidate.

Her machinations to preempt any challengers were achieved almost instantaneously in the same anti-democratic fashion as the removal of Biden himself from the ticket. In the way of the current Democrats, whatever the billionaire donor class and the DEI apparat decide is reified almost instantly by fiat. We now suffer a zombie presidency for the next five months. Biden’s own party insists that he is too enfeebled to campaign as a nominee but not too demented to serve as president. Weirder still, a presidential candidate, who has never in her life won a primary and just days ago was written off by her own party as linguistically challenged, is being reinvented in 70 days as the second coming of Barack Obama.

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Is this how Hillary got that 97% likelihood to win in 2016?

Harris’ So-Called ‘Surge’ Is Thanks To Oversampling: Pollsters (ZH)

As we’ve been highlighting since 2016, polls are not to be trusted thanks to various ‘tricks of the trade’ – most commonly, oversampling. Last month we noted how the founder of the main outside spending group backing Kamala Harris for president says their own internal opinion polling is “much less rosy” than public polls. “Our numbers are much less rosy than what you’re seeing in the public,” said Future Forward super PAC president Chauncey McLean said during a Monday event hosted by the University of Chicago Institute of Politics. Now, the Washington Times reports that some pollsters are even sounding the alarm over Vice President Kamala Harris’ so-called ‘surge’ in the polls – which Harris pulled ahead in after replacing President Joe Biden as the Democratic nominee on July 21.

Since the switch, Harris is leading Trump nationally by nearly 2 percentage points and is either leading or tied with him in all seven battleground states. However, Republican analysts argue that these polling numbers may not accurately reflect voter sentiment due to biased polling methodology. Critics point out that many polls have been sampling a disproportionately smaller share of Republican voters compared to exit poll data from the 2020 presidential election. The result, they say, is a misleading “phantom advantage” for Ms. Harris. According to them, this skewed sampling could be a strategic move to boost enthusiasm and fundraising for Ms. Harris’ campaign. Trump campaign strategist Jim McLaughlin echoed this sentiment, stating, “They undersample Republicans” intentionally “to tamp down support and donations for Trump.” He added that the polls are part of a larger effort to create a narrative that favors Harris.

Trump has openly criticized the poll results. “It’s fake news,” Trump declared during a rally in Michigan. “They can make those polls sing.” Harris’ recent poll numbers have indeed helped fuel excitement among her supporters, as evidenced by her campaign’s announcement of a $540 million fundraising haul in July, more than four times what Mr. Trump raised in the same period. Still, the growing skepticism over the legitimacy of the polls has prompted some to question whether the surge in support is as real as it appears.

Recent polls that show a Harris lead, such as the Suffolk University/USA Today poll, included more respondents identifying as Democrats (37.1%) than Republicans (33.8%). The poll found Ms. Harris leading Trump by 5 percentage points, a significant turnaround from earlier in the year when Trump was ahead by 4 points vs. Biden. Similarly, a Yahoo News/YouGov poll released on August 27 found Ms. Harris ahead of Mr. Trump by 1 percentage point, with Democrats making up 33% of respondents compared to only 29% for Republicans. The discrepancy in party sampling is causing concern among poll watchers. Data from the 2020 exit polls showed a nearly equal split, with 36% identifying as Republican and 37% as Democrat. Yet, recent polls seem to favor Democrats disproportionately, leading to claims of deliberate skewing.

Mr. Trump’s pollster, Tony Fabrizio, has argued that these polls are designed to suppress support for Mr. Trump. In a memo, he stated, “Once again, we see a series of public surveys released with the clear intent and purpose of depressing support for President Trump.” Pollsters like Don Levy of the New York Times/Siena Poll counter that these claims lack substance. They argue that any gaps between recalled 2020 vote and actual 2020 results are not evidence of intentional bias but may reflect the complexity of polling dynamics, including response bias where Democrats are more likely to participate in polls. Despite these excuses, the controversy surrounding these polls has left many wondering about the true state of the race. Polling analysis site FiveThirtyEight shows Ms. Harris’ approval rating ticking up to 42.3%, up from 37.1% in early July. Yet, doubts persist over how she has managed to rise in the polls without significantly improving her historically low job approval ratings.

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“Inflation is the way in which the government tricks citizens into believing that administrations can provide for anything..”

Kamala Harris Will Not Bring Prices Down. Her Plan Needs Inflation (Lacalle)

In a recent interview with CNN, Kamala Harris said that Bidenomics is working and that she is “proud of bringing inflation down.” However, the Bureau of Labor Statistics published the latest CPI at 2.9%, despite annual inflation being 1.4% when she took office. Inflation is a disguised tax and accumulated inflation since January 2021, when the Biden-Harris administration started, has increased more than 20%. Of course, Democrats blame inflation on the war, the pandemic, and the science-fantasy concept of “supply chain disruptions.” No one believed it, because most commodities have declined and supply tensions disappeared back to normality, but prices continued to rise. As a result, Harris invented the concept of greedy grocery stores and evil corporations to blame for inflation and justify price controls.

Is it not ironic? She blames grocery stores and corporations for inflation, but when price inflation drops, she proudly takes credit. The reality is that the Kamala Harris plan, like all interventionist governments, creates and strives for inflation. Inflation is a hidden tax. Governments love it and perpetuate it by printing money through deficit spending and imposing regulations that harm trade, competition, and technological creative destruction. Big government is big inflation. Inflation is the way in which the government tricks citizens into believing that administrations can provide for anything. It disguises the accumulated debt, quietly transfers wealth from the private sector to the government and condemns citizens to being dependent hostages of government subsidies. It is the only way in which they can continue to spend a constantly depreciated currency and present themselves as the solution.

Furthermore, it is the perfect excuse to blame businesses and anyone else who sells in the currency that the government creates. Kamala Harris will do nothing to cut inflation because she wants inflation to disguise the monster deficit and debt accumulation. In the latest figures, the deficit has soared to $1.5 trillion in the first ten months of the fiscal year. Public debt has soared to $35 trillion, and in the administration’s own forecasts, they will add a $16.3 trillion deficit from 2025 to 2034. It is worse. The previously mentioned figure does not include the $2 trillion in additional debt coming from Kamala’s economic plan.

Harris is aware that her proposals to impose an unrealized capital gains tax, an economic aberration, and other tax hikes will not generate the $2 trillion in additional taxes she seeks. So, she needs the Fed to monetize as much as possible, eroding the US dollar’s purchasing power and making all Americans poorer in the process, only to blame corporations and grocery stores later. Furthermore, it is a way to present the government as the solution to the problem they create, promising the lunacy of price controls and enormous subsidies in a constantly depreciated currency.

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“..too slow [to react to] or did not listen at all to Western advice about the so-called moderation of his brainchild..”

Durov ‘Too Free’ For The West – Lavrov (RT)

Telegram CEO Pavel Durov is facing charges in France because he refused to moderate his platform in accordance with Western demands, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has claimed. Durov was arrested after landing in Paris in late August and charged with multiple offenses, including complicity in “administering an online platform” used by criminal groups to conduct illicit activities, and refusing to cooperate with investigators. The Russian tech entrepreneur, who also has citizenship of France, the UAE, and Saint Kitts and Nevis, was released on €5 million ($5.55 million) bail last week. He is banned from leaving the country while the case against him is ongoing. During a meeting with students and educators at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations on Monday, Lavrov suggested that Durov is being persecuted because he “turned out to be too free.”

The Telegram CEO was “too slow [to react to] or did not listen at all to Western advice about the so-called moderation of his brainchild,” he said. Durov is not the only tech entrepreneur to face such pressure from Washington and its allies, the minister stressed, noting how the head of Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, Mark Zuckerberg “had been summoned to the US Senate and agreed to cooperate, as he himself admitted.” “The West does not pull any punches when dealing with other large platforms either,” he added. What the US and the EU are now doing to Durov is “analogous to their actions related to the abuse of globalization,” Lavrov noted. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said over the weekend that Moscow also had issues with the Telegram CEO in the past, but – unlike Paris – never tried to arrest him.

Holding Durov accountable for crimes committed by other people using his app is the same as arresting the heads of French automobile makers Renault or Citroen because “terrorists also use cars,” Peskov argued. Durov, who was born in St. Petersburg, formally left Russia in 2014 after law enforcement agencies accused him of refusing to grant investigators access to the communications of terrorism suspects. The dispute was settled in 2020 when the Russian telecoms regulator announced that it had no further issues with Telegram. In an interview with American journalist Tucker Carlson in April, Durov insisted that he has repeatedly refused to provide user data to any authorities, including US intelligence services, or to install a surveillance “backdoor” in the app, which has almost a billion monthly users.

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“..last year, 90% of gasoline and diesel fuel entered the Mongolian market from Russia..”

‘Developing in All Directions’: Putin Praises Russia-Mongolia Relations (Sp.)

On Monday, Putin arrived in Mongolia for an official visit, during which he is anticipated to participate in celebrations marking the 85th anniversary of the joint victory of Soviet and Mongolian armed forces at the Khalkh River. “Indeed, relations between Russia and Mongolia are developing in all directions,” Putin said at a meeting with Mongolian President Ukhnaagiin Khurelsukh. Putin underscored the effective work in humanitarian areas, in particular in the field of education. “Today, during the course of our work, we will certainly return to the main areas of our cooperation in the economy,” Putin noted. Russia and Mongolia contribute to Asia’s security by cooperating along military-technical lines, as well as countering terrorism, Putin said. “When considering issues of military-technical and anti-terrorist cooperation, it was noted that Russian-Mongolian cooperation in these areas contributes to ensuring security in Asia,” Putin said after talks with Mongolian President Ukhnaagiin Khurelsukh.

Moscow is open to implementing peaceful nuclear energy projects with the East Asian country, Putin said. “We are also open to implementing joint peaceful nuclear energy projects based on the most modern Russian technologies, including the use of small-module reactors,” Putin told reporters following the talks with Mongolian President Ukhnaagiin Khurelsukh. Russia sees prospects for cooperation with Mongolia in the gas sector, President Putin said. “We see good prospects for cooperation in the gas sector,” Putin said after talks with his Mongolian counterpart, adding that the possibility of Russian gas supplies to Mongolian consumers is under consideration. Russia has consistently responded to Mongolia’s requests to meet its growing demand for fuel and lubricants, including on preferential terms, the president said, adding that Russia will also continue to supply Mongolia with electricity.

“Our country has long and reliably provided the Mongolian economy with the energy resources it needs. Thus, last year, 90% of gasoline and diesel fuel entered the Mongolian market from Russia,” he added. Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that he had exchanged views on current international and regional issues at talks with Mongolian President Ukhnaagiin Khurelsukh. Moscow and Ulaanbaatar have paid special attention to advancing trade and investment ties during the talks in the Mongolian capital, Putin added.

“Special attention was paid to building up mutually beneficial trade and investment ties. Russia is one of Mongolia’s main foreign economic partners,” Putin said after talks with Mongolian President Ukhnaagiin Khurelsukh. Commercial settlements between Russia and Mongolia are almost entirely carried out in currencies other than the dollar and euro, the president added. In turn, the President of Mongolia thanked Putin for the visit, which coincides with a year of significant celebrations for both nations. This year marks the 85th anniversary of their joint victory at the Khalkhin Gol River and the 50th anniversary of the founding of Erdenet.

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“..go do to themselves something that Russians and Mongols found a word for together, back in the 13th century” and get lost..”

Mongolia Told ICC To Get Lost With Putin Warrant – Medvedev (RT)

The International Criminal Court’s (ICC) arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin turned out to be a meaningless scrap of paper, his predecessor Dmitry Medvedev has said. His comments came after Putin arrived in Mongolia, an ICC member state, without facing any obstacles. Writing on Telegram on Tuesday, Medvedev, who now serves as Deputy Chairman of Russia’s Security Council, mocked the Western reaction to Putin’s visit to Ulaanbaatar. “The servile European Union has reportedly expressed ‘concern’ to Mongolia over the visit of Russian President Vladimir Putin,” he said. However, the Asian country “has just told the ICC and Eurodegenerates to go do to themselves something that Russians and Mongols found a word for together, back in the 13th century” and get lost, Medvedev suggested.

The ex-president went on to argue that the ICC – which he labeled a “half-baked ‘court’” – should be afraid of “a scenario where some madman tries to carry out their illegal arrest warrant. […] In that case, their lives would be worth no more than the piece of paper on which this shitty statute is written,” he warned. In March 2023, the ICC issued arrest warrants for Putin and Commissioner for Children’s Rights Maria Lvova-Belova for allegedly participating in unlawful deportation of Ukrainian children to Russia. Moscow does not recognize the ICC’s jurisdiction and declared the order null and void. Russia says that Ukrainian children were evacuated for safety reasons, and that they can be returned to their parents or guardians upon request.

Putin’s visit to Mongolia was his first foreign trip to a country that recognizes the ICC statute. Ahead of the trip, the court’s spokesman, Fadi el-Abdallah, said that the country had to cooperate with the ICC on the detention, adding that failure to do so could trigger an “appropriate” response from the body. However, the Rome Statute, under which the ICC operates, provides for exemptions if an arrest would “breach a treaty obligation” with another country or violate the “diplomatic immunity of a person or property of a third state.” Before Putin landed in Ulaanbaatar, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov allayed fears of a potential attempt to arrest the Russian leader. “We have excellent relations with our friends from Mongolia,” he said, noting that Moscow “has no concerns” about the ICC warrant.

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“Mongolia has always maintained a policy of neutrality in all its diplomatic relations..”

Mongolia Explains Why It Didn’t Arrest Putin (RT)

Mongolia is dependent on its neighbors for energy and maintains a policy of neutrality, a government spokesperson has said, responding to demands to detain Russian President Vladimir Putin on a “war crimes warrant.” The International Criminal Court (ICC), Ukraine and the EU have all called on Ulaanbaatar to arrest the Russian leader, citing a 2023 warrant for “forcible deportations” of Ukrainian children. Although Mongolia is a signatory party to the ICC, it did not do so. “Mongolia imports 95% of its petroleum products and over 20% of electricity from our immediate neighborhood, which have previously suffered interruption for technical reasons. This supply is critical to ensure our existence and that of our people,” a government spokesperson told Politico EU via email on Tuesday. “Mongolia has always maintained a policy of neutrality in all its diplomatic relations, as demonstrated in our statements of record to date,” the spokesperson added.

Putin traveled to Mongolia at the invitation of his counterpart, Ukhnaagiin Khurelsukh, and met with top officials in Ulaanbaatar to discuss the two countries’ strategic partnership. The Russian president also attended the ceremony marking the 85th anniversary of the Battle of Khalkhin Gol, a decisive victory of Soviet and Mongolian forces over the Imperial Japanese Army that secured the USSR’s eastern flank for most of WWII. During their meeting Putin invited his Mongolian counterpart, Ukhnaagiin Khurelsukh, to the BRICS summit in the Russian city of Kazan next month. Khurelsukh has accepted the invitation. By refusing to arrest Putin, Mongolia has chosen to share “responsibility for his war crimes,” Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokesman Georgy Tykhy said on social media, adding that Kiev “will work with partners to ensure that this has consequences for Ulaanbaatar.”

Mongolia is landlocked between Russia to the north and China to the south, and has maintained good relations with both Moscow and Beijing. Ulaanbaatar also signed the Rome Statute and joined the ICC in 2002, and one of its judges was appointed to the court earlier this year. While the court could formally condemn Mongolia for failing to enforce its writ, it lacks authority to impose penalties such as fines or sanctions. Russia has said it considers the ICC’s warrant null and void, since it is not a party to the Rome Statute. Moscow has also rejected the accusations as absurd, pointing out that evacuating civilians from a combat zone, where they faced imminent danger from Ukrainian artillery and drone strikes, was not a crime.

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“The reputation of both the Kiev regime and the ICC is well known. Neither of them are independent and have anything to do with law or justice..”

Serious International Crimes to Be Brought to Justice – Moscow (Sp.)

“Ukrainian criminals guilty of serious international crimes against their own and Russian citizens, as well as their henchmen, will be brought to justice and will be punished as they deserve to be,” Zakharova said.
Kiev wants to withdraw its citizens from the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court (ICC), but keep criminal prosecution of foreign citizens, Maria Zakharova said. “In fact, they want to withdraw their citizens from the jurisdiction of even this court, which is as loyal to them as possible, but at the same time reserve the right to criminal prosecution in The Hague of citizens of other countries on charges made up by Kiev itself,” Zakharova said.
Kiev’s words on the ratification of the Rome Statute with conditions shows its true attitude to international humanitarian law, the diplomat added.

“Such a step cannot be regarded otherwise than as an undisguised intention to give their military carte blanche to commit serious war crimes,” Zakharova added. Neither Ukraine nor the International Criminal Court have anything to do with law and justice, Zakharova said. “The reputation of both the Kiev regime and the ICC is well known. Neither of them are independent and have anything to do with law or justice,” Zakharova said. On August 24, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky signed a law to ratify the Rome Statute, the founding treaty of the ICC. Ukraine will not recognize the ICC’s jurisdiction over its citizens for seven years after the adoption of the draft law.

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Netanyahu is not Israel. Trump should learn that too.

Netanyahu Refuses Surrender to Israeli Protesters Demanding Hostage Deal (Sp.)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a defiant late-night speech amid mass protests in Tel Aviv Monday, rejecting pressure from the Israeli public to secure a deal to return hostages and bring about a ceasefire in Gaza. “I will not surrender to the pressure,” said Netanyahu during the unusual press conference one day after a general strike shut down much of the country. “No one is more committed to freeing the hostages than me. But no one will preach to me,” he added, insisting there were “certain things we won’t compromise on” in negotiations with Hamas. Key to the controversy is the question of who will maintain control over the so-called Philadelphi corridor, a narrow strip of land separating the Gaza Strip’s southern portion from Egypt. The corridor has been jointly controlled by Egypt and Palestinian authorities since Israel’s military disengagement from Gaza in 2005, with the terms of 1978’s Camp David Accords granting Egypt control of the Rafah border crossing that falls within the route.

But the IDF has seized control of both the Philadelphi corridor and the Rafah border crossing in recent months, insisting that Israeli authority over both is necessary for security reasons. That stance has proven to be a poison pill in ongoing negotiations with Hamas as Netanyahu refuses to compromise on his establishment of a “buffer zone” along the Gazan side of the route. “This corridor is essential for our existence,” Netanyahu said Monday. “For this reason Hamas is insisting on it. And for the same reason I’m insisting on it.” The Israeli leader claimed weapons are smuggled into Gaza over the 8.7 mile border, allowing Hamas to maintain its armed resistance. Netanyahu has controversially allowed money and resources from Iran and Qatar to reach Hamas in an effort to strengthen the group and maintain Gaza’s political separation from the West Bank, which is overseen by the Fatah-led Palestinian Authority.

“Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support the bolstering of Hamas and transferring money to Hamas,” said Netanyahu during a meeting with members of his Likud party in 2019, making explicit the symbiotic relationship between the armed group and the hardline Israeli prime minister. “This is part of our strategy to isolate the Palestinians in Gaza from the Palestinians in the West Bank.” US President Joe Biden has at times appeared flustered by Netanyahu’s intransigence amid months of unfruitful peace talks between Israel and Hamas, while Israeli military officials have publicly rebuked the prime minister for his effective sabotage of a hostage deal. Critics have claimed Netanyahu is merely stalling for time, working to prolong hostilities in Gaza in an effort to maintain his grip on power. The Israeli leader faces prosecution on corruption charges if he is forced to step down from his position.

Observers have speculated Netanyahu is attempting to “run out the clock” until November elections in the United States, after which Donald Trump’s possible return to the White House would provide him with more latitude in solving the Palestinian question. Provocative attacks on leaders of Hamas and Hezbollah on foreign soil have led to speculation the prime minister is seeking to provoke a regional conflict during which the US would presumably come to Israel’s support. Netanyahu has long attempted to goad the United States into a war against Iran, traditionally Israel’s most powerful and influential critic in the region. About 101 Israeli captives are thought to remain in Gaza after Hamas’ surprise operation on October 7, during which several dozen hostages were taken back to the Palestinian territory. Meanwhile Israel continues to hold more than 3,600 Palestinians, many of them children, in so-called administrative detention without charge. Recent polling reveals Netanyahu enjoys the approval of about 29% of the Israeli public.

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https://twitter.com/i/status/1830799717300871552

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He can give this to Bobby Kennedy, along with the JFK files.

Epstein Client List ‘Will Be’ Made Public – Trump (RT)

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has suggested that the “black book” with deceased sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein’s client list would be made public should he be elected president. Epstein worked as a financier and socialized with the rich and famous for years, introducing them to dozens of young women – some of whom were underage at the time – and flying them to his private island in the Caribbean on the jet dubbed the ‘Lolita Express’. “I never went to his island, fortunately. But a lot of people did,” Trump said in an interview with the Lex Fridman podcast, published on Tuesday. “It’s very interesting, isn’t it? Probably will be, by the way,” Trump told Fridman, after the host said it was “very strange” that the list of people who traveled to Little St. James has never been made public.

Trump compared the Epstein disclosures to declassifying the last remaining documents related to the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy, and said he would “certainly take a look at it” and would “be inclined to” release the client list. Trump has previously said that as president (2017-2021) he tried to release the Kennedy files, only for the US intelligence community to persuade him at the last moment that this would somehow be damaging. He has since made a promise to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to declassify the documents about his uncle’s assassination, after the former Democrat endorsed him last month. Revelations that Epstein lured young women – many below the legal age of consent – and pimped them out to powerful and prominent acquaintances were instrumental in the financier’s arrest in 2019.

FBI searches of his New York residence and Caribbean island reportedly came up with videos potentially containing compromising material on his “guests.” That evidence remained under lock and key even after Epstein died in his Manhattan cell in August 2019, officially due to suicide. Epstein’s sometime girlfriend and accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, was arrested in 2020. She wound up convicted of child sex trafficking and sentenced to 20 years behind bars. While the public found out some of the names of the trafficked teens, the names of people they were trafficked to have remained a secret.

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    René Magritte Memory of a Journey 1955   • Musk ‘Can’t Wait’ To Be Part Of Trump’s Team (RT) • Robert Reich Calls for Arrest of Elon Musk for Res
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle September 4 2024]

    #168176
    tboc
    Participant

    to hell with the “Black Book” tell us who is laundering and managing the money.
    45 wants to appoint the criminal banker to treasury

    Did no one else notice The Sound of Freedom is a cash register?
    you try to do large cash transacations at your bank and see what happens
    The destruction of The Fourth Amendment to the US Constitution was the prelude to the current destruction of The First Amendment.
    Buying and selling human beings for cash dollars and there is no record? Kiss My Ass!

    #168177
    aspnaz
    Participant

    https://x.com/umyaznemo/status/1828407892552138804

    The President of Brazil, Lula da Silva, known for his support of Palestine, was seen at an event wearing a kufiya with the inscriptions “Jerusalem is ours” and “We are coming.”
    #FreePalestine #Solidaritywithoppressedpeople

    Oh, so Musk is not fighting Darth Vader in Brazil because of free speech, the fight is about Musk’s support for genocide by his mate Netanyahu and the Biden admin. What a turncoat, Musk should be hung drawn and quartered, he is on the side of evil. Not only is he censoring for the Jews, he is actively supporting their genocide of the Palestinians. Vote Trump, get Musk and Netanyahu.

    #168178
    Dr. D
    Participant

    ““If no named storms form across the Atlantic waters by Monday, this would mark the first time in 27 years that not a single named tropical storm has developed in the basin from Aug. 21-Sept. 2.”

    NAILED IT! Months out when they predicted worst season evah!!! I said “Meh, probably not. On what basis? They’re always wrong.” Always. They said it, it’s false.

    Okay, this has knock-on effects. Read a lot of comments this month, and the key takeaway is “Nobody has any facts”. That is, there are no longer consensus facts. China is an expansionary country that like an empire will collapse if stopped. …Expand to who? Where? When? They haven’t expanded an inch. Like that.

    Now you COULD say, and I often do: this guy is a moron and has no idea what they’re talking about, but it’s not. They are well measured and thoughtful. They’re seeing SOMETHING. And that something is already a hazy 3rd-iteration idea we are only testing out to see if it holds. Sure, no shade. But the problem is, there are no longer even CONSENSUS facts to work off of. We … lets’ say play I dunno, Dead Milkmen or Zappa rock off a well-known body of “Normal” rock. With no Establishment, there are no rebels, see? The hierarchy is now flat. I guess with no rebels there is no Hierarchy either: this present set wants to populate the entire establishment with non-rule-following individuals, etc, then wonders why their power-structure is unable to express power and control others (it’s designated purpose). Seat of the pants, reactionary flippsters are the same as pocket-protector engineers now, e.g.

    Now this makes sense as everyone has been increasingly lying all my life, or certainly since before ‘63, or maybe as far back as 1920. At some point their ceaseless lies aren’t just an “edge” in social climbing, spin, sales, but systemic and endemic, dispensing with any traffic in the Truth whatsoever. The institutions, worn as a trophy skin-suit, hold up for a long time — decades longer than they rationally should – but eventually are revealed and break, leaving no Appeal to Authority – itself a lying, antiscientific falsehood.

    So WE … all grab a body of facts, a consensus reality that WE … can talk to each other and play with. Like we start the discussion HERE, not anywhere, because we can assume THEY will also accept that is a known, agreed place, and we hash out that moment’s discussion FROM that place. (Overton Window or associated) But what we have now is none, or rather in contrast, 100 Overton Windows. Paradigms.

    They said when they built the Internet, they expected 5 chat rooms with 1 Million people apiece. Instead they got 5 million chat rooms with 10 people apiece.

    Now in some ways this is encouraged: not covered nearly enough is YES, the Left and Derp State is censoring and erasing Conservatives or other voices (anything antiwar) but more deadly, is automatically offering different interpretations of the world, and now spread right down to actual news and FACTS which all contradict the channel and feed of the guy next to you. Nor is it simple: vax vs antivax, binary, but that a spectrum of interpretations with a score of stops in between. Many of which are non-sequitors not really part of a simple spectrum. Like Vax, vax, vax, Aliens, Vax.

    I’m not sure if this has been done before, I can’t think of any corollary. I think it just leap-frogs back into quite early culture, like +100 years ago, where you’d have Poles and Italians and Indians in their subgroups, all distinct and distinct WHY? Different beliefs or emphasis that radiate down into action and location. Then you might have the Catholic Germans and the non-Catholic Germans and the Atheist Germans all as subs of that set. So now more like a Catholic German, but not a Catholic Pole. Crossover but Not crossover. While there are still isolated Indians in islands and isolated cowboys on the ranch. From Sweden.

    How does the Hyper-centralization core think it’s going to deal with a “Post-truth” or non-centralized, authority=truth world?

    This is really going to be the question of our world, maybe next 30 years, because it’s deep as a glacier and alters the whole field. Subtly. Like I had awareness of it, but not up to the surface of having to address it.

    Okay, you leave your door: what medicine do you buy? By visiting who? What do you buy at a the grocery? See? Not only exists, in theory, it is an IMMEDIATE, daily action item, based on your differing, competing Science and Trust.

    “RONALD REAGAN: “The Constitution is a document in which we the people TELL THE GOVERNMENT what it is allowed to do.”

    Well that’s pleasant. Although not revolutionary, this is why people liked Reagan. He at least said, “We’re America, this is it.” There were principles. They could and did name them. Then when it had to be acted out with Tip O’Neal in Congress, they just said, “Well, this is all we can get do, this is what we can agree and compromise on.” Done. Like that’s how The Process was supposed to work, 200 years,and it could all be understood. Now it’s like, “I disagree there IS a process, and we disagree so break every rule” AS WELL AS also lying about what they’re doing, double-crossing campaign promises and selling out to Corporations. Reagan’s GOP only did the first. We’ve now added the second.

    “51 days ago. This will forever be one of the most badass things a president has ever done.”

    Nope, Teddy was shot THROUGH THE LUNG and finished his speech on stage, barely mentioning it. However, “What Assassination?” Surely if that had happened, there’d be even ONE report and people would be talking about it. I mean, we’d want to know where the money came from to buy America’s most expensive lawyer, right?

    “Corporations are gouging families” :

    Sure, except their profit margins are lower than ever and they’re going bankrupt. That seems to be the …#Opposite… of Gouging? They post numbers on this, “They made $10M and now they make $15M…” Yeah, and that’s the same profit margin PERCENTAGE, adjusted for inflation. If they made I dunno, $100k and now make $150k salary, that’s because Inflation has doubled costs. Oh wait, they only got a 50% raise on a 100% rise in expenses, that’s going BACKWARDS. …Now of course it’s offensive because the guy down on the line got a $1.50/hr raise, like 3% not 50% but all these maths are the same.

    …But it works perfectly because Liberals are entirely illiterate and incapable of maths. They see, “Scary Number, Aaaaiiiii!!!” Panic!!!, and no wheels engage.

    “”People are bored by Trump. They’re bored with all of the drama, they’re tired of the insults, they’re tired of the lies”

    Like the empty suit cartoon above, reading comments, I see this repeated instantly. Trump is “tired”, his people are “Bored.” Huh? They don’t look it, I didn’t see that. (picks up paper to double-check) A: Some campaign wonk made this up at the top, and like the “Harris 4 Prez” signs it appears 12 hours after her installation to candidacy. 13 hours later, every Democrat is saying this is true. Why?

    A: Appeal to Authority. An “Authority” said it (e.g. MSNBC) and I trust them, so it’s reflexively true. Not that that isn’t used on the Right either, of course it is, but their personality type is more rebellious and reflexively opposes, saying “Are you lying to me?” so it doesn’t travel as far.

    Point is, DNC Team Kamala said this like Monday, now I read it everywhere in real-life people’s comments a day later. Buuuuuuut…. It’s not real if no one was slowly noticing over the last few months, is it? You don’t get tired one day at 12:01am on Monday, and boom, 0-100% in an hour. Time exists. (No it doesn’t! I just said!)

    Anyway, why are we talking about this? Oh yeah because worldwide nuclear war has never happened before, which means it’s a scam and it can’t happen now. We can’t have a War to End All Wars now, because we’re “Modern” and interconnected and Germany is too advanced in brotherly love for that to happen ‘cause “Science”.

    Carry on! NATO did NOT have a Land-Invasion in Asia. The Donbas line is not collapsing 3 towns a day, whereupon Ukraine will fall, taking all collateral with it, right on schedule. …On schedule for the Election, which was well-planned. And then the market crack a day before we vote, all well-planned.

    “The Dow is 10,000 and we’re in World War Three!!! Vote Democrat!” ….And they will. Clearly.

    I predicted this back years ago. So. Bored.

    ““There is a lot of waste and needless regulation in government that needs to go..”

    They already settled this: The President has zero power, he’s not allowed to fire ANYBODY, for any reason, even for an illegal coup or direct, treasonous insubordination. Change my mind.

    The third rail for the government – which is half our economy now – is that the Federales will circle the wagons against EVERY American to keep each other from getting fired. For incompetence. Even jacking off on a work computer and not cleaning the screen, SEC. Carry on, sir! We don’t mind at all out here.

    Speaking of, from yesterday, yes, the “Socialist” governments of South America barely are, and taken as % of economy run by government vs corporation, they just want slightly more. Usually just a small additional % on the oil or mining resources extracted by foreigners. That’s fine, we agree that’s “Socialism” on that sliding scale. Then America goes in, interferes, shoots people, blockades, funds uprisings, embargos, cripples their economies. Dicks them over for no earthly reason, more expensive than Exxon just paying the additional 2%. And the Americans that do that should be rounded up and shot, in my opinion. What authority do they do that under? I certain they have one, dozens, in Congress (“Clear and Present Danger”, clip often forwarded here) but to me those things are an ACT OF WAR and there’s no declaration of war, nor should there be, so in the clink you go!

    Oh, one other thing, besides arresting and hanging them all: That’s Not Capitalism. And if they, the Government, are interfering on behalf of United Fruit (Smedley Butler) or Exxon (Bush) then they are a FASCIST system. Also illegal and Not Capitalism. If Exxon extracts, they keep it, but if there are Country costs associated, like keeping order, the U.S. GOVERNMENT pays them as a pass-through to Exxon? Yeah, That’s not Capitalism. That’s fascism. I know.

    Then we’d know if they rise or fall on their own merits. But we already know. It has a scaling problem. You can succeed with a limited, (and still only mixed) Socialism only in countries under a certain size, like Iceland, Denmark, etc. And that number is Waaaaaaay down there, like 2 Million people. Above that, it cripples and collapses. Those nations also don’t do their own defense, etc. They’re helpless to their larger structure, same as a Hippie Commune. Which also usually fail. I’m not stopping anyone from making one, go ahead! Show me how it works.

    But all that is their business to fail or succeed on. Best of luck to them, none of my business. Is this not what you expected? This is standard “Conservativeism”, straight-definition. This is standard, definition, Capitalism. You ALLOW competition, from countries as well as corporations.

    “• Robert Reich Calls for Arrest of Elon Musk for Resisting Censorship (Turley)

    Backing up one level: Humans EXPRESS. That’s it. We are driven to expression by some internal impulse and natural order. You could say by our Creator. What Reich and 100% of everybody is doing is AGAINST the natural order. It’s like rubbing water so it won’t be wet. THAT is really what the Enlightenment – now some 300 years past, dear God – was saying. Sure, any King CAN do these Tyrannies, but DO THEY WORK? Machiavelli. This is the same as the “Mandate of Heaven” in the East. No, it doesn’t work. So ALIGN YOUR GOVERNMENT WITH WHAT WORKS, that is to say, with Physics. Or in this case, social physics. You can’t shut people up and you’ll exhaust yourself trying. So don’t. Make other plans.

    But Reich here is too much of a moron and mentally ill to concede that water is wet, and his power has limits, somewhere. Good luck! We’re still talking, and you’re gibbering in a corner flapping your hands dying of old age. Physics won over denial again.

    “• Brazilians to be Fined $9000 a Day for Receiving News from X (Turley)

    Wow. Maybe they should use Spacelink.

    “Because he thinks Trump will win.
    • Why Did Zuckerberg Choose Now to Confess? (Tucker)

    Zuck was waiting on the assassination. (What assassination?) He conceded right after.

    “• Can They Really Reinvent Kamala Harris in 70 Days? (Victor Davis Hanson)

    They reinvent her every day, so 70 more times, I would think. It’s easy when you pay no attention whatsoever to what she said yesterday, nor to any underlying principles. Why not?

    “• Durov ‘Too Free’ For The West – Lavrov (RT)

    Or the east, you bastard. Russia did this before France, thats why he left.

    “• Mongolia Explains Why It Didn’t Arrest Putin (RT)

    Because the ICC is now a completely discredited, political organization, a stooge for anyone who asks, like SWIFT. Good. Appeal to Authority was running the whole thing.

    “Israel is in civil war…”

    Contrary to most arguments here, the Jews are now killing the Jews. Like a dozen tmes before. Explain? Their foremost victim is…themselves?

    “• Epstein Client List ‘Will Be’ Made Public – Trump (RT)

    Suuuuuuure it will. ANY truth would have been our greatest win, but you declassified then released nearly nothing. GFY.

    “If somebody thinks they’re a hedgehog, presumably you just give ’em a mirror and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them to sort it out for themselves.” –The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

    #168179
    Oroboros
    Participant

    “Darryl Cooper his latest project trying to understand World War Two”

    My abbreviated take:

    1913 – Federal Reserve Act puts in place the funding mechanism for Endless War Profits

    1914 – WWI Commences

    1920’s – Wild Speculative Gambling with War Profits because the Fed bankrolled it

    1929 – The Fed Croupier rakes the Table clean

    1933 – The Business Plot, also called the Wall Street Putsch, was a successful coup Roosevelt

    Most major news media dismissed the plot, with a New York Times editorial characterizing it as a “gigantic hoax”.

    Media Whores air brushed it over at the time but the Wall Street Putsch threaten Roosevelt and his family with death unless he began preparing for WWII by lining up the country’s ducks for the Pearl Harbor Project by cutting off Japan’s oil supply.

    1941 – WWII starts for the Empire of Lies.

    Massive arms profits and the foundations of the National Security State are laid down

    1945 – Victory for War Whores Inc.

    1947 – After putting a gun to Truman’s temple the National Security Act of 1947 was passed.

    Truman being a low level second tier hoodlum from Missouri was OK with it.

    The End

    ….of “Democracy”

    #168180
    Oroboros
    Participant

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    #168181
    Oroboros
    Participant

    • Durov ‘Too Free’ For The West – Lavrov

    Durov’s troubles are his own fault.

    He naively trusted the Collective West to leave him alone because he is in that small club of global billionaires.

    Money can’t buy you love Pavel

    Sucker!

    #168182
    Oroboros
    Participant

    The Empire of Lies, Lies, Lies

    Ritual Humiliation No. 69

    I will go on forever until someone with some Balls stops it!

    Hahahahahahahaha!

    None in Sight!

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    #168183
    Dora
    Participant

    Kamala Harris is going to go after Wall Street and the billionaires to protect the middle class is she? That’s not what her record says. Story origninally published in The Intercept.

    Kamala Harris Fails to Explain Why She Didn’t Prosecute Steven Mnuchin’s Bank

    FORMER CALIFORNIA ATTORNEY General Kamala Harris on Wednesday vaguely acknowledged The Intercept’s report about her declining to prosecute Steven Mnuchin’s OneWest Bank for foreclosure violations in 2013, but offered no explanation.

    https://www.populardemocracy.org/news-and-publications/kamala-harris-fails-explain-why-she-didn-t-prosecute-steven-mnuchin-s-bank

    #168184
    John Day
    Participant

    @Dr. D: Point of order. Teddy Roosevelt had a superficial chest wound due to lack of teleprompter in those ancient days: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attempted_assassination_of_Theodore_Roosevelt

    On October 14, 1912, former U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt survived an assassination attempt by John Schrank, a former saloonkeeper, while campaigning for the presidency in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Schrank’s bullet lodged in Roosevelt’s chest after penetrating Roosevelt’s steel eyeglass case and passing through a 50-page-thick (single-folded) copy of his speech titled “Progressive Cause Greater Than Any Individual”, which he was carrying in his jacket pocket.

    Yeah, Teddy still wins. He had already charged up San Juan Hill and had those kinds of martial patterns ingrained. Bold guy.

    #168185
    Oroboros
    Participant

    the vibe that popped into my head after reading Dr D’s daily rant….

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    #168186
    zerosum
    Participant

    My way or the highway.
    • Robert Reich Calls for Arrest of Elon Musk for Resisting Censorship (Turley)

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    Create a wall of censorship between citizens and unregulated information.
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    Will it be easier to control Harris.
    • Can They Really Reinvent Kamala Harris in 70 Days? (Victor Davis Hanson)
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    Is this how Hillary got that 97% likelihood to win in 2016?

    • Harris’ So-Called ‘Surge’ Is Thanks To Oversampling: Pollsters (ZH)

    As we’ve been highlighting since 2016, polls are not to be trusted thanks to various ‘tricks of the trade’ – most commonly, oversampling.
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    Take care of TAE, since it give you joy to bitch.

    #168187
    Oroboros
    Participant

    CRE

    KaBOOM!

    Commerical Real Estate Debt

    Craptastically Fantastic!

    CRE debt refers to mortgages secured by a lien on commercial properties.

    It can also include real estate bonds that are secured by income-producing property

    Roughly $930 billion in CRE debt loans will come due this year.

    $4.7 trillion in outstanding CRE debt.

    Banks hold about $3 trillion in CRE debt.

    70% of that at regional and community banks.

    That’s your little old local bank, suckers!

    The Sky is Falling Chicken Little

    CRE in Big Shities like NYC and Chicago are Toast©

    Imagine if home prices drop this much next year.

    ..

    #168188
    Oroboros
    Participant

    135 W 50th NYC

    Imagine a property last selling for $285,000,000 dropping to $8.5 million

    NYC is losing tax revenue on a hit like that.

    Hey, maybe they can fill it with Illegal Migrants!

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    #168189
    phoenixvoice
    Participant

    Republican Voters Against Trump

    If it barks like astroturf, smells like astroturf, looks like astroturf…

    Spouse and I were driving down a well-used road in Phoenix yesterday, and I noticed that there are now Trump signs sprinkled among all of the signs promoting local politicians. None for Harris…and then I noticed ONE for Harris, by Republican Voters Against Trump. I laughed.

    #168190
    jb-hb
    Participant

    Kursk 2.0 update

    The Kursk salient is STILL expanding!

    The attack started 8/6 and there were new expansions (on southfront – I figure if a pro Russian website is reporting it and it makes Russia look bad, Ukraine is doing at least that much) …expansions show on their maps from 8/29 and 9/3.

    YESTERDAY, new attacks, expanding the Kursk salient at its northernmost extreme with 8 different attacks being launched out of the salient at different points along its perimeter (only the northern one showing any success)

    No news or maps out of Chasov Yar in 5 days. There’s still fighting in front of Ugledar. All the major place names remain in the same hands, it seems.

    If Swedes join a coalition, stupidly, against Russia and then station themselves in Poltava, how do you NOT find some way to smash them as a Russian? How could you possibly resist? Did the Swedish soldiers actually lay in a field and spell out “kick me” with their bodies so the Russians could see it from orbiting spy satellites?

    A weird sub-meme going around in western media is pearl-clutching complaint that the Russian attack on Poltava is overwhelming hospitals.

    What? You’re losing 3,000 a day and wounded must consequently be 6,000-9,000 per day, so what’s this pearl-clutching over 100 swedes? But the pearl-clutching sounds so familiar: “Those Bad People are clogging up the hospitals!!!”

    Yknow how in spy movies, sometimes there is an “asset” that gets activated? Maybe it’s a mkultra deal, they get a key phrase – or maybe it’s just a sleeper that gets a call to activate. Maybe the intelligence communities treat memetics the same way. Hammer away and implant a little idea into the general populace, activate it as pragmatism warrants. The idea OF pearl clutching over “they’re clogging the hospitals” makes no sense ….except that it DOES make sense to SAY it. We know there’s a million Karens who just got retriggered over Ukraine just when they were in mid-yawn.

    (This is a MAJOR part of Frank Herbert’s Dune – various memetics have been implanted in various populaces all over the known worlds – not for a SPECIFIC op, but to just BE there for Benne Gesserit to activate as needed.)

    #168192
    phoenixvoice
    Participant

    Tiger “pups”: https://www.today.com/news/tigers-say-bye-mom-dog-raised-them-wbna31541834

    I sometimes wonder about these “feel good” videos — I suspect that an overly positive narrative is being spun.

    The unusual pairing also solved the small zoo’s financial woes. It sounds like quite a place — reviews talk about tour guides (including the owner) who know the personalities of the animals and a woman who went on her birthday, and was permitted to hold a wolf-pup.

    #168193
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Poltava

    Ukronazis lost a tremendous amount of personnel, especially Merc Maggots. So Sad ;>(

    Biggest missile strike kill of the entire SMO

    September 3, a high-precision strike was carried out on the 179th Joint Training Center of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Poltava, where, under the guidance of foreign instructors, communications and electronic warfare specialists from all formations and military units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were trained , as well as operators of unmanned aerial vehicles involved in strikes against civilian targets on the territory of Russia.

    Numbers have gone even higher

    Given that Ukrainian sources are now reporting 600 to 700 killed and wounded in Poltava, it is highly likely that today we have witnessed the deadliest strike of the war, which will surpass the strikes on the mercenary barracks at the Yavoriv training ground (2022), the barracks of the 79th Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces (2022), and the barracks of the training center in Desna (2023), when in each case there were more than 200 dead.

    The attack on Ukrainian troops in Poltava demoralized Ukraine, writes the American newspaper New York Times.

    “The strike has had a demoralizing effect on Ukraine as its troops retreat in the face of continued Russian advances on the main military front in Donbas,” the newspaper writes.


    From Andrei Martyanov on Kursk

    He still has good contacts in Russia being a former Soviet officer.

    ” [Ukronazi] column gets into 810th Marines Brigade ambush–gets blown up, remnants try to maneuver to the flank and get the rest of column destroyed. It is a safari now in Kursk.”

    #168194
    Oroboros
    Participant

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    #168195
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Grow a pair….

    For the Snowflakes among us:

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    #168196
    Oroboros
    Participant

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    #168197
    Oroboros
    Participant

    When you ask ChatGTP to visualize the next Netflix special ‘blockbuster’ historic film about WWII:

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    #168198
    Dr D Rich
    Participant

    Lavrov on megabrain Lavrov on sexy megabrain Durov the Sire of 100 “childs”:

    “Durov ‘Too Free’ For The West – Lavrov (RT)”

    Lavrov The Megabrain knows the difference between ‘Too Free” and privileged. Lavrov also knows too free for the West must mean exponentially too free for authoritarians like Putin and Lavrov, right? Ritter probably wouldn’t agree with my characterization of the two great Russians but who cares what Ritter thinks

    This problem where smart Lavrovs display the stupid spontaneously IS a sign he’s dealing with malignant Narcissists and psychopaths.
    In other words, the characterlogically disordered leaders TPTB have chosen to lead know far better how to set up ppl for gaslighting, ie. looking and sounding like fools better than Great men like Lavrov can resist….

    …but D knows that too.
    So we’re all gonna die in a nuclear holocaust.

    Loosening associations

    #168199
    Oroboros
    Participant

    The Empire of Lies Buttboys of Disney remake Snow White:

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    #168200
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Believe it or not Both of these are part of Project De-population®

    Connecting the Dots

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    #168201
    Oroboros
    Participant

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    #168202
    Noirette
    Participant

    Dr. D Rich, compliments in a prev. thread, yes, heh 🙂 🙂

    More on Durov. from link at top, RT:

    Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said over the weekend that Moscow also had issues with the Telegram CEO in the past, but – unlike Paris – never tried to arrest him.

    True, Moscow gave him the choice to leave Russia if not complying to R demands, which he did. (See my prev. posts on this matter.)

    However, since about 2 years (or more ?) Durov was making ‘peace’ with Russia again, idk how exactly, but visiting it often, meeting ppl. – He never gave up his R. passport.

    => This case is important as it concerns internet ‘free speech’ / censorship in the world.

    In F, this is what went down, roughly. Dates 2024. Much more could be speculated on.

    — 8 July. A “Judge of Instruction”, that is, a Judge who in F, can open an Enquiry on anyone / any matter, just off his own bat, did so.

    same day. The F PM Attal tendered his resignation to Macron, who did not accept it. (Macron did so 10 days or so later.) Not that the events are directly relaated – but Macron was super busy.

    The ‘complaint’ by the “Juge d’instruction” did not name any victims, any ‘perps’, or any suspects. Merely, ‘nefarious, bad’ actions, were taking place.

    Both from a common-sense pov and legality in F, this isn’t crazy, or contrived, but it is *ODD.*

    — Nefarious acts going on, complaining victims or suspected perps not tracked etc., that nevertheless have to be investigated, is legit. —

    Complaint against Durov from the Proc. (aka Top Judiciary) of the Republic, is here, 26 Aug. Scroll down for Eng.

    https://www.tribunal-de-paris.justice.fr/sites/default/files/2024-08/2024-08-26%20-%20CP%20TELEGRAM%20.pdf?ref=platformer.news

    #168203
    jb-hb
    Participant

    The % sliding scale, with “socialism” only wanting 2% extra gets me thinking… “how much difference is there” is always a good question to pose – and is indeed my POINT in asking socialists what % of state-controlled GDP they will fight to stop or even decrease.

    From the socialist side of things, the %-of-resources is THE concern. That’s the POINT. Where’s the stuff? Who has the stuff? Where should it be and who should have it?

    But is this the proper way of deciding this?

    For instance, what’s a Christian society? Do we count up all the land owned by The Church and calculate its total real estate value, calculate the GDP production of monasteries making beer, cheese, and honey? Then decide some dividing line – 51%? 90%? Surely not.

    A postmodernist deconstructionist comes along and starts asking “was the society TOTALLY Christian? Partially Christian? Slices the society into different bits, then obsesses over grey areas. Defines the discussion in particular ways, then destroys their own distinctions. ha-HA, Who Is To Say! (WiTS)

    Obviously a society is a Christian society when it is culturally christian, when there is a shared set of stories, history, culture within that memeset of allegories and values, observances, rituals. A Christian society would be one that processes reality in those terms. So that even deist humanists might express ideas with reference to “providence” etc – it’s the symbolic language they know to think and communicate in.

    So a capitalist society is not “100% capitalist” or “90% capitalist!” or whatever. The % is a lie anyway, the % of GDP devoted to government does not necessarily mean it is socialist. Like if 10% of GDP is government and 90% is private, the society is not not not 10% socialist. Not even if the 10% goes to feeding the poor and education. And roads.

    RONALD REAGAN: “The Constitution is a document in which we the people TELL THE GOVERNMENT what it is allowed to do.

    The predominant way of understanding and expressing ideas to each other, culturally. Thus infusing all our institutions with that way of thinking and seeing, that sensibility.

    If a society hears that from Reagan and thinks, of course and the sky is blue too – then the american revolution is still alive and breathing. If they think reflexively “Only a NAZI would say that!!!” Then they’ve succumbed to counter-revolutionary continental european “revolution” concepts. (counter to the far superior American Revolution)

    “It’s not happening” is based on what?

    Superficial appearances? Like, to a lazier and more slapdash degree every day, government throws up a potempkin facade of 1950’s US and as long as they make even the vaguest noises like that, then It’s Not Happening?

    Certainly not based on raw % of GDP controlled by The State. Because, as no socialist will publicly admit, we’ve already passed the % needed to qualify as Socialist not Capitalist. That’s precisely why they won’t say.

    So then The State has The Stuff.

    So we hear about “theory.” About how The State should take over The Stuff and then it will be better – they already HAVE the stuff. Right now. Any battle in the real world would be against The State to get it to relinquish its hold on The Stuff.

    Moreover, they have FULLY bought into printing. Let’s not bother quibbling over this. We can see it.
    And if you are willing to print a trillion or two every few months, what does ANYONE own? If you can print with impunity, then you don’t HAVE to declare the State owns everything. De facto, it DOES.

    Oh but it’s fascism? Based on …what money gets spent on, I guess, then?

    Like… a fascist system spending money on improving things and benefitting the common people, the working class never ever happened and is impossible? Want to try again?

    So it isn’t % of GDP and it isn’t control and it isn’t what you spend money ON. None of this would prove/disprove a Christian society either.

    It’s a socialist society when that society culturally believes, understands, and communicates in socialist terms. Makes decisions in socialist terms.

    #168204
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Oroboros. Exactly. I’m probably far too generous in thinking some sort of deal happened where FDR sort of had leverage on them. It’s the same the other way around. In any case, it all got locked away and there was an understanding from then on, they were allies.

    I always ally with people who tried to have a Marine kill me. That’s just common sense.

    JB, yes, there are a bunch of primary factors down there as to how much govt is Socialist, if at all. You could have a Christian, charitable, all-Capitalist society. We may have got 90% there a few times. But there are no pure systems on earth among men, and you could draw the same objections with “The wasn’t real Socialism which has never been tried.” And they do.

    It’s enough to say Peru has oil or something, it’s 40% of revenue, and they want Exxon to pay 5% or 15% instead of 2%. …Which goes to the GOVERNMENT, but let’s actually pretend ANY amount would reach the people. Which it would. A little. At first.

    Exxon set up the project on profitability of 2%. It LITERALLY may need to close at 5%, and DEFINITELY at 15%. They think because they have oil, that it grows on trees, falls out of the sky into boats, and any price is fair. …Because they never worked a day in their life. You got stuff, I want it, why are we still talking?

    AND THEN, Exxon probably COULD figure out a way to pay them 5% and still get oil and everybody profits. …But is it fair to just change the terms all AFTER? AFTER they did all the work? Took all the risk? And then change it in 6 years when the next guy gets in again? So they just call the CIA and have them shoot everyone instead. For free, that goes on the taxpayer bill, so it’s corporate welfare. The CIA now fights a $100M “war” over 10 years that Exxon gets but doesn’t pay for. Direct air-drop of money to the RICHEST, straight from the POOREST taxpayers.

    Hey, not like I need to make the case for you so you can argue against Capitalism, but I guess I do ’cause you won’t: how does that work? That’s evil as f–k. And are you, is anyone, holding the so-called “Capitalist” system to account when it tries this always? No they are not. They handwave and wink so it always happens.

    — Enter Blank Space here, for certain posters to make their case for the ACTUAL well-deserved evils of Capitalism —

    And last, is that Fascism? Yes, because Socialism and Fascism are basically identical. Just one TECHNICALLY the company is owned by the person, and in one TECHNICALLY is owned by the state, although they operate as an indistinguishable merger. And TECHNICALLY one is World-Revolution Socialism and the other is NATIONAL Socialism. Technically, although they behave identically. So technically our system of ever-creeping Socialism is Fascism. Which I say four times a week. But since they somehow hypnotized people to think they’re #Opposites, yes that makes it difficult to talk about.

    #168205
    jb-hb
    Participant

    We all lost our childish idealism over “Our Capitalist System” back with Confessions of an Economic Hitman if not War is a Racket. It’s the air we breathe all over the doom-o-sphere whether it’s TAE or Zerohedge or wherever.

    Who is still arguing that this IS a capitalist system? Who is defending THIS not-capitalist system? Basically everyone is complaining ABOUT the current state of affairs from within this “system” if we can call it a system.

    There’s two separate concerns here

    1. How do the people in a given society understand reality and it what terms do they explain it, communicate with each other?

    2. Does reality – what is happening -conform to their ideas of how things ought to be done.

    You have a capitalist (not Capitalist™) society and a captured government, then, in the case of Exxon sending in the CIA or US military. A capitalist society on its way to dissolution, since once the institutions able to wield physical force are captured, all other institutions will eventually be “leveraged”

    But I’m saying the “pure/not-pure capitalist” “pure/not-pure socialist” is already on false ground. What’s the culture? What’s the language, the ideas behind the language? If you conquer people who speak a different language or have a different religion or culture, have you exterminated all of them? Did a few thousand Normans exterminate the English in 1066? Did each English person become 10% Norman in composition upon conquest? The “pure/not-pure” QUESTION is wrong. “1067 England wasn’t a PURE English society anymore” is headed off into abstraction. Maybe “True” according to Hegel?

    The problem with discussing “actual evils of Capitalism” is that language can be used in a Pragmatic™ way devoid of communication. Marxist language is pragmatic. Their Capitalism™ definition is Pragmatic™ in nature. They are “only against Capitalism™” but always attack capitalism.

    Evil Stepdad draws a picture of a Bad Guy and only ever punches IT… while laying it up against step-son’s face EVERY single time. Oopsie cosmic coincidence. Didn’t do nothing. Capitalism™ is evil and the picture is evil. The purpose of the picture IS to be evil. That’s WHY they draw it. “Trust us. We still only want to fight evil Capitalism™, pinky swear this time.”

    I would LIKE a discussion, but I just don’t see much merit to a conversation in which all my opposite’s energies are to maneuver me into defending Capitalism™ (War is a Racket, Confessions of an Economic Hitman) and they get to be champions against THAT when the conclusion is Kneel To Zod because WE are That Thing You Like now starve and give up on free speech etc – 150 years of track record.

    I’d really like to see some sort of benign evolution of the Marxist/Communist/Socialist space – this would involve a lot of… “we were wrong.” THEN there could be some new awesome, good thing along that Marxist/Communist/Socialist genealogy. But deciding to evolve is a kind of death.

    Not that there aren’t new evolutions of that memeset, they’re just awful and even worse. And it is another test as to whether an actual discussion is taking place or simulacrum of discussion — the old stuff, not only in practice, but in concept, was there something wrong with it? The NEW stuff, is it even more wrong and awful? SILENCE – as if we don’t know what current year marxism is, we just got out of a time capsule from the 1960’s is Barry Goldwater still running for president?

    But “we” always know with GREAT accuracy what to jump in with and when to fight against fighting against current year marxism. WHILE gosh I can’t imagine what you’re talking about. And playing dumb is A Good Thing because… Most-Pragmatic.

    Just as soon as they stop LARPing from within their hermetic gnostic religion – invented by a projective malignant narcissist who was super-exploitative, therefore pointed his finger at the Universe saying “You are exploitative!” – there could be a real discussion. Until then you get to watch someone playing at being Neo – I can see the matrix, you’re just a dumb animal, so I will train you with words.

    As far as Nationalist Socialism vs Internationalist Socialism, seems like the “Internationalist” part is even more important than the “Socialist” part.

    Are you a socialist against unlimited migration? Government should do stuff for the working class of a particular country through border control and tariffs? Stop hurting your country’s working class? So you’re socialist, but with a nationalist component? REAL Nationalist Socialism hasn’t been tried?

    The elites that were indoctrinated in Internationalist Socialism in their elite educational institutions cannot bring themselves to do it. It absolutely breaks them. Thus the unlimited flow no matter how bad it makes them look, how much people start to hate them. Look at the UK right now. Just cannot even cringingly turn to glance at it out of the corner of their eye. “Maybe we could be socialist, but ALSO natio— arrrgghhhh it burns!”

    I’m cringing myself as I say it – a socialism that was nationalist – can anyone allow themselves to conceive of it? (It should go without saying yes of course I hate NAZIs and Hitler etc duh. Nor do I advocate for some other form OF it or something – I’m just challenging socialists to try to conceive of thinking of their own country’s welfare above others for a second or two and pointing out why they cannot) …think it privately, let alone say the WORDS? My suggestion on how the Marxist/Communist/Socialist memeset COULD evolve in a positive way would be to reconsider nation, family, culture, and tradition. Again – instinctive instant cringe, right? But why – isnt to be against these things anti-human? The Ancients were dumb animals for thousands of years, WE are the only smarties?

    #168206
    John Day
    Participant

    @Phoenixvoice: I even smiled a bit while reading this:

    “Spouse and I were driving down a well-used road in Phoenix yesterday, and I noticed that there are now Trump signs sprinkled among all of the signs promoting local politicians. None for Harris…and then I noticed ONE for Harris, by Republican Voters Against Trump. I laughed.”

    #168207
    John Day
    Participant

    Covert Rules Based Order https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/covert-rules-based-order

    Surplus Energy Economics, Without the elixir , OWNING OUR CHALLENGES [Picture yourself at the top, in control, and those beneath you don’t know this.]
    Growth in the economy, we’re told, has made the average citizen successively more prosperous over time.
    Historically, though, growth has had another, perhaps even more important quality – it has rescued us from our own mistakes and misfortunes. Now that growth has ended, we’ll be compelled to ‘own’ these mistakes and misfortunes, and find innovative ways of fixing our problems within the resources that we have…
    ..Mr Starmer has conceded that tough choices have to be made about taxation and public expenditures, but he has also said that things will subsequently get “better” once the economy has been restored to a path of growth.
    Realistically, this isn’t going to happen. Since 2004, British material prosperity has flat-lined, but the population has grown by 14%, leaving the average person poorer by 12%. At the same time, the estimated cost of essentials – defined here as the aggregate of public services and household necessities – has increased by 40%.
    This means that the PXE – the prosperity excluding essentials – of the average British person is 24% lower now than it was back in 2004. At the same time, financial exposure is extreme, and the government’s revenue base can be expected to erode even as demand for public spending rises…
    ..American prosperity per capita inflected into contraction even earlier, back in 2000. The average person in almost all of the Western advanced economies has been getting materially poorer since no later than 2007…
    ..The same process of inflexion is now looming for those EM (emerging market) economies which, for the past decade and more, have been portrayed as carrying the global economy forwards…
    ..The simpler fact is that EM economies tend to be a lot less complex than their Western comparators. Lesser complexity results in lower system upkeep costs, giving EM countries greater resilience in the face of the trend that, across the entire global economy, is pushing prior growth into reverse.
    That trend is the relentless rise in the Energy Cost of Energy. The prosperity of the average Westerner started to decline once trend ECoEs were at or near 5%. Now that global ECoEs have broken the 10% barrier, not even China or India can carry on growing their prosperity much longer… In fact, these countries are now at, or close to, the same inflexion-point in disposable prosperity long since experienced in the West…
    ..The enormous, hyper-complex modern economy is entirely the product of the harnessing of fossil fuel energy. Because we’ve always used lowest-cost energy resources first, and left costlier alternatives for later, we have, over time, depleted the economic value of coal, oil and natural gas. When the coal economy started to succumb to the effects of depletion in the 1920s, oil was waiting in the wings to take over.
    Now, as the economic impetus of petroleum, in its turn, is running down, no such complete successor form of energy exists…
    ..The most important depletion effect of the lot applies to the finite ability of the environment to tolerate the harmful effects of human economic activity.
    One way to look at this is the concept of overshoot. As of 1960, almost all of the World’s potentially productive agricultural land was already under cultivation. Since then, the global population has increased from 3 billion to 8 billion…
    ..Contrary to an almost universal misconception, GDP isn’t a measure of economic output, but of the flow of financial transactions taking place in the system, which is a wholly different concept…
    ..The average American may have enjoyed an increase of $21,000 in his or her share of real GDP since 2000, but his or her share of aggregate public and private debt rose by $102,000 over that same period, whilst the per capita equivalent of broad liabilities increased by about $200,000…
    ..None of this means that our predicament is hopeless, but it does tell us that we need solutions of quality rather than of quantity, and this in turn requires new ideas.
    One example is the concept of the circular economy. We can increase the re-use of resources by factoring ease of recycling in from the very start of the product design process. We can extend the life-expectancies of products, not just by improving their quality but also by making them easier to repair…
    ..The main reason why this doesn’t happen is that incentives are skewed towards the linear economic model of rapid disposal and replacement…
    ..Two obvious priorities are that we strive to improve the lot of the average person, whilst pulling back from the brink of environmental disaster. These objectives require, not just fairer allocation of resources, but also a move towards greater sustainability in the categories of activity that are within our control.
    There are no simple solutions – we cannot, for instance, improve the living conditions of the ‘ordinary’ person by confiscating the assets of ‘the rich’. Most of these assets exist only in paper form, and their prices can be expected to succumb to the forces of economic gravity when the bloated system of assets and credit reaches its point of inflexion. Wealth taxes can’t, in themselves, contribute much to the public purse when the yield on this wealth is at, or close to, historic lows.
    Neither can we wish our way past the constraints imposed by the laws of physics. We can’t, for example, turn wind or solar power into dense energy sources.
    The levers which are within our control include the system of incentives which reinforces the destructive linear economic system and, as things stand, blocks progress towards greater circularity. https://surplusenergyeconomics.wordpress.com/2024/09/02/288-without-the-elixir/

    Israel Sets Up Army Unit To Oversee Control Of Gaza ‘For Years To Come’ https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/israel-sets-army-unit-oversee-control-gaza-years-come#google_vignette

    UK Announces Partial Ban On Arms Exports To Israel
    The United Kingdom has announced it will suspend a portion of its current arms and defense sales to Israel, citing a “clear risk” to civilians and that they could be used to violate international humanitarian law.
    Foreign Secretary David Lammy informed parliament Monday that the suspension will impact of 30 of 350 arms export licenses to Israel. The partial ban covers supplies “which could be used in the current conflict in Gaza” against Hamas. However, parts for F-35 fighter jets are exempt from the ban. He emphasized that the country still backs Israel’s right to self-defense, and thus the UK is not enacting a blanket ban on all items. https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/uk-announces-partial-ban-arms-exports-israel

    Hamas Hints 6 Hostages Killed Because IDF Forces Got ‘Too Close’ Based On New Protocol
    “Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu does not want the hostages back,” wrote former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in Haaretz last week.
    Olmert accused Netanyahu of bowing to the pressures of his extremist cabinet members by seeking an all-out confrontation that includes not only Hamas, Yemen’s Houthis, Lebanon’s Hezbollah and Shia militias in Syria and Iraq, but even Iran. “In the choice between what’s good for Israel and what’s good for Bibi – the result is known.”…
    ..A new poll found that 69% of Israelis think Netanyahu should resign when new elections are held, against just 22% who think he should seek re-election. While she may have been making her statements under coercion, one of the recently discovered dead hostages, Eden Yerushalmi, condemned Netanyahu in a video released by Hamas on Monday:
    “Benjamin Netanyahu and the government of Israel: Do what is necessary to release us now…The bombing here never stops and we are afraid for our lives. We are scared of dying here.
    Benjamin Netanyahu, you freed 1,000 Palestinian prisoners in exchange for [captured IDF soldier] Gilad Shalit [in 2011]. Now they are asking for less than a quarter of that number for each one of us. I am not able to comprehend…am I worth less? … I ask all the people of Israel to take to the streets and demonstrate…Everything that happened to us is because of failure of the State of Israel and its security forces on Oct. 7.” https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/hamas-hints-6-hostages-killed-because-idf-forces-got-too-close-relative-new-protocol

    #168208
    John Day
    Participant

    Record Anti-Netanyahu Protests, Labor Strikes, Bring Israel To A Standstill
    Estimates by journalists said the anti-Netanyahu protest ranged anywhere from 300,000+ to 750,000 people. They accuse the Israeli prime minister of intentionally stalling and thwarting a hostage swap deal with Hamas, instead prioritizing the military operation which could put some 100 remaining captives in harm’s way…
    ..Meanwhile, exacerbating the political divide over Gaza policy is the new announcement by Israel’s largest labor union the Histadrut, which has called a general nationwide strike to begin Monday. This marks an unprecedented first of the Gaza war…
    ..The union said it is striking as it’s become clear that a truce deal is “more important than anything else,” according to the words of Arnon Bar-David, the head of Histadrut. “We are getting body bags instead of a deal.” https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/record-anti-netanyahu-protests-labor-strikes-bring-israel-standstill

    Netanyahu Refuses ‘Surrender’ to Israeli Protesters Demanding Hostage Deal https://sputnikglobe.com/20240903/netanyahu-refuses-surrender-to-israeli-protesters-demanding-hostage-deal-1119991461.html

    Turkish Protesters Swarm Izmir Port Until US Warship Leaves Following Assault On Americans
    The USS Wasp is in regional waters to as part of efforts to “deter potential threats to Israel” amid the Gaza war, and as the potential for escalation with Hezbollah and Iran looms. “Protesters have issued a firm warning to the Izmir Governorship, stating they will remain at the port until the ship departs,” Almayadeen writes. “They also condemned the United States for its role in causing suffering and violence in Iraq, Syria, and the broader West Asia region.” …
    ..American military personnel have been directly targeted, despite Turkey being a NATO ally and playing host to US bases, as was seen with Monday’s dramatic events where on the streets of the southern city of Izmir US Navy and Marine service members were brutally assaulted, though they managed to escape to safety when local police intervened. The US troops had been on weekend liberty after the USS Wasp amphibious ship docked there…
    ..Turkiye Youth Union (TGB), which is the youth branch of the nationalist opposition Vatan Party, declared that the soldiers were attacked because they have “blood” on their hands. “US soldiers who carry the blood of our soldiers and thousands of Palestinians on their hands cannot dirty our country. Every time you step foot in these lands, we will meet you the way you deserve,” TGB said in the aftermath. https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/turkish-protesters-vow-stay-izmir-port-until-us-warship-leaves-following-assault

    U.S. universities spent the summer strategizing to suppress student activism. Here is their plan.
    Schools across the U.S. have altered policies and even landscapes in an attempt to make a repeat of last spring’s Palestine protests impossible. The result is a far-reaching war on free expression and the increased militarization of higher education. https://mondoweiss.net/2024/09/u-s-universities-spent-the-summer-strategizing-to-suppress-student-activism-here-is-their-plan/
    peace

    #168209
    John Day
    Participant

    NOOOO!!! Not PARADOX! Kremlin Spokesman Suggests Moscow Prefers Kamala Harris Over Donald Trump
    After Vladimir Putin said he preferred Biden over Trump, the Kremlin now appears to favor Kamala Harris, saying that, “The Democrats are more predictable.” https://modernity.news/2024/09/02/kremlin-spokesman-suggests-moscow-prefers-kamala-harris-over-donald-trump/

    It really seems to me that now, this time before potential US elections in November, is the critical time for struggles between Globalist and Nationalist elite factions in our world.
    Eric Weinstein: ‘I Don’t Know Whether Trump Will Be Allowed To Become President’
    There is something that I think Mike Benz has just referred to as the rules-based international order. It’s an interlocking series of agreements, tacit understandings, explicit understandings, and clandestine understandings about how the most important structures keep the world free of war and keep markets open. There has been a system in place, whether understood explicitly or behind the scenes or implicitly, that says the purpose of the two American parties is to prune the field of populist candidates so that whatever two candidates exist in a faceoff are both acceptable to that world order.
    From the point of view of, say, the State Department, the intelligence community, the defense department, and major corporations involved in international issues—from arms trade to, oh, I don’t know, food—they have a series of agreements that are fragile and could be overturned if a president entered the Oval Office who didn’t agree with them. And if the mood of the country was, “Why do we pay taxes into these structures? Why are we hamstrung? Why aren’t we a free people?” So what the two parties would do is run primaries with populist candidates and pre-commit the populist candidates to support the candidates who won the primaries. As long as that took place and you had two candidates that were both acceptable to the international order—that is, they aren’t going to rethink NAFTA or NATO or what have you—we called that “democracy”…
    ..Under that structure, everything was going fine until 2016, when the first candidate ever to not hold any position in the military nor any position in government in the history of the Republic, Donald Trump, broke through the primary structure. Then there was a full court press: “Okay, we only have one candidate that’s acceptable to the international order. Donald Trump will be under constant pressure—he’s a loser, he’s a wild man, he’s an idiot, and he’s under control of the Russians.” And then he was going to be, you know, a 20-to-1 underdog, and then he wins. There was no precedent for this. They learned their lesson: you cannot afford to have candidates who are not acceptable to the international order and continue to have these alliances. This is an unsolved problem.
    I don’t have a particular dog in this fight. I believe in democracy; I also believe in international agreements. And it is the job of the State Department, the intelligence community, and the defense department to bring this problem in front of the American people and say, “We have a problem. You don’t know everything that’s going on, and if you start voting in populist candidates, you’re going to end up knocking out load-bearing walls that you don’t understand.” https://www.zerohedge.com/political/eric-weinstein-i-dont-know-whether-trump-will-be-allowed-become-president

    This is the part of the falsification they can admit to. Musk-X got 74% Trump, 26% Harris: Harris’ So-Called ‘Surge’ Is Thanks To Oversampling: Pollsters
    As we’ve been highlighting since 2016, polls are not to be trusted thanks to various ‘tricks of the trade’ – most commonly, oversampling.
    Last month we noted how the founder of the main outside spending group backing Kamala Harris for president says their own internal opinion polling is “much less rosy” than public polls. “Our numbers are much less rosy than what you’re seeing in the public,” said Future Forward super PAC president Chauncey McLean said during a Monday event hosted by the University of Chicago Institute of Politics.
    ..Polling analysis site FiveThirtyEight shows Ms. Harris’ approval rating ticking up to 42.3%, up from 37.1% in early July. Yet, doubts persist over how she has managed to rise in the polls without significantly improving her historically low job approval ratings. https://www.zerohedge.com/political/harris-so-called-surge-thanks-oversampling-pollsters

    “Elite Capture?” Pentagon Stonewalls On Walz’s Frequent Trips To China, Raising National Security Concerns
    The Biden-Harris Pentagon is refusing to answer questions from Congress and the media regarding Democrat vice-presidential nominee Governor Tim Walz’s (D-MN) frequent travel to China. The lack of transparency has raised concerns about potential risks to U.S. military members and whether Walz properly disclosed these trips to the Army National Guard during his service…
    ..Typically, U.S. military members, especially those holding a security clearance, are required to report or request permission from their command before traveling overseas—particularly to countries considered adversarial to U.S. interests, such as China…
    ..Walz has publicly stated he visited China about 30 times, with many of these trips occurring while he was an Army National Guard member. However, it remains unclear if Walz consistently reported his travels to China to his military command, whether he sought proper permission, or whether he possessed a security clearance during these trips. https://www.zerohedge.com/political/elite-capture-pentagon-stonewalls-walzs-frequent-trips-china-raising-national-security

    Not if Trump hangs himself with a sheet first: Epstein client list will be made public – Trump The Republican candidate for US president dropped a hint in a podcast interview https://swentr.site/news/603467-trump-epstein-client-list/

    #168210
    John Day
    Participant

    Eugyppius, State Elections in Thuringen and Saxony deliver another humiliating defeat for the sclerotic and incapable German political establishment.
    After eight months of near-constant media hysteria, desperate Interior Ministry campaigns against the political opposition and unceasing warnings from every last establishment political figure about the crypto-fascist antidemocratic menace of Alternative für Deutschland, Thüringen and Saxony have elected new state parliaments. All of that hue and cry, all of those protests against “the right,” all those false panics and all that disingenuous saccharine moralising was for nothing. The AfD emerged as the strongest party in Thüringen, with 32.8% of the vote; and as the second-strongest party in Saxony, with 30.6% of the vote. The results represent an intensely humiliating defeat for the parties of the coalition government, just months after their earlier humiliation in the EU elections. The SPD, the Greens and the FDP together could claim only 13.3% support in Saxony and 10.4% in Thüringen. It is a repudiation of historic proportions.
    Our betters are very angry about this…
    ..More than 30% of voters in Thuringia and Saxony voted for the far right. The vast majority of them are not neo-Nazis, but – and this is no less shocking – they don’t care about voting for the far right.
    Former SPD Chancellor Gerhard Schröder has called the election results “catastrophic.” The SPD Finance Minister of Brandenburg, Katrin Lange, with an eye towards the upcoming 22 September elections in her own state, has demanded that SPD leaders stop appearing in talk shows, because every time they do, the voters get even more tired of them…
    ..Germany is governed by a political oligarchy that is formally arranged in a system of interlacing establishment parties. Together, the establishment parties function like a cartel, competing with each other for votes and taking carefully coordinated positions on a limited array of issues to limit the options of the electorate. Since Angela Merkel opened the borders in 2015, the cartel system has been bleeding support to the AfD, who are hated and smeared as fascists not because they are evil National Socialists, but because their growing strength threatens the cartel system itself. As the establishment parties grow weaker and the AfD gathers strength, it becomes harder and harder for the oligarchy to achieve the parliamentary majorities that are necessary to control the state apparatus. https://www.eugyppius.com/p/state-elections-in-thuringen-and

    How Lula and Modi drove a splinter through the heart of the BRICS
    Everyone was able to witness president Lula da Silva’s drift, demanding from Bolivarian Venezuela what he doesn’t demand of any other country with elections — that it demonstrate that its institutions work, not in accordance with its respective national law, but in accordance with the Rules-Based Order — it is also true that this behavior startled everyone who, like me, longs and fights for a fairer world. The truth is that the Brazilian president’s slipping into the narrative sphere imposed by the U.S. and its “international” order raises many questions when it comes to BRICS…
    ..India is currently a major exporter of light weapons, essentially. And who is its biggest buyer? The Unite States (France and Israel too). Much of this weaponry consists of ammunition, particularly 155mm ammunition, the ammunition most lacking in Ukraine. It’s good to see that Ukraine is now a destination for Indian ammunition, indirectly, if necessary, transiting from New Delhi to Washington and Paris and, there, replenishing stocks and freeing up others — or the same ones — to be thrown at its “strategic” Russian friend and partner. Do you want a bigger contradiction than that? India, directly and indirectly, buys military technology and supplies weapons that will be used by the army hired by NATO against Russia. India, now one of the world’s largest military exporters, has a direct interest in the Donbass war. A war waged by NATO against one important friend.
    And if India’s “support” for Kiev, in itself, puts everything in very unethical and transparent terms, making hypocrisy and cynicism the main facilitators of bilateral and multilateral relations in the BRICS, what about the supply of Brahmos missiles, as also announced by The Print, to the Philippines? Brahmos missiles are supersonic cruise missiles (Mach 2.8) and were developed in a joint project with Russia. These missiles are also anti-ship and will be used by the Philippines against… China! But it doesn’t stop there: the Philippines is on its way to becoming the “Ukraine” of the South China Sea, used by the U.S. as a monumental naval base for its “containment” project against the Asian giant. Finally, the U.S. now has privileged access to one of Russia’s most advanced missile technologies. The new version of these missiles (the Brahmos II) is hypersonic and has evolved from the first version. https://strategic-culture.su/news/2024/09/01/how-lula-and-modi-drove-a-splinter-through-the-heart-of-the-brics-bloc/

    What really should be the big story today is that Turkey has formally requested admission to BRICS…
    ..As the article makes clear, Turkey realizes that it will never be able to take economic advantage of its strategic location if it allows membership in NATO to dictate opposition to the very countries—Russia, China, Iran—that could transform Turkey into an international crossroads for commerce. By the very terms of that scenario, Turkey’s distancing from NATO will increase, which will have serious consequences for Anglo-Zionist power projection in the entire West Asia region. This is a major setback for the Anglo-Zionists and comes at a time when Turkic Azerbaijan is also pivoting toward Russia and China and Turkey is establishing closer ties with Iran. https://meaninginhistory.substack.com/p/geopolitical-developments-middle

    Turkiye requests BRICS membership
    Ankara “seeks to bolster its global influence and forge new ties beyond its traditional Western allies,” the sources said. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan believes “that the geopolitical center of gravity is shifting away from developed economies” and that the push to join BRICS “reflects its aspirations to cultivate ties with all sides in a multipolar world, while still fulfilling its obligations as a key member of NATO.”
    Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said in early June that BRICS serves as a good alternative to the EU. [Touche’!] https://thecradle.co/articles/turkiye-requests-brics-membership-report

    Israel Wanted Disease and Genocide in Gaza, So Why Is It Agreeing to the Polio Vaccine Being Given?
    The vaccines may be seen by some as a minimal help to Palestinians in Gaza, preventing yet another disaster. And the minimal pauses resulting may be seen as baby steps toward permanent ceasefire, but this seems quite optimistic, especially given Israel’s posture. It is quite possible that the nOPV2 vaccine is largely being done for public relations reasons…
    ..Moreover, this is useful to distract from the failure of the UN to stop Israel’s carnage. Most especially the US-dominated UN Security Council has refused to implement orders from the International Court of Justice and virtually all states — with the notable exceptions of South Africa and Nicaragua — have failed in responsibilities under the Genocide Convention. The General Assembly has failed to take meaningful action using “Uniting for Peace”…
    ..Perhaps most ominously however, it may be problematic to give attenuated oral polio vaccine to a population that is immunocompromised — which most certainly includes the Palestinians in Gaza. They desperately need food and clean water and basic medical care. A host of diseases are ravaging Gaza and reportedly, 100,000 people in Gaza have contracted acute jaundice syndrome, or suspected hepatitis A. From Options for Poliomyelitis Vaccination in the United States: “Those in whom OPV is contraindicated include individuals with immunodeficiency disorders…The risk of VAPP [Vaccine-Associated Paralytic Poliomyelitis] in immunodeficient children is 3,000 times that in normal children.” https://www.globalresearch.ca/israel-wanted-disease-genocide-gaza-agreeing-polio-vaccine/5866944

    #168213
    John Day
    Participant

    RFK Jr: There Has To Be “A Reckoning” For “Immoral, Homicidal” COVID Criminality [Nothing about Israeli genocide of Palestinians, though.]
    He charged that Fauci and others used their positions during COVID to enforce “totalitarian controls that were not science-based.” “It’s a story, really, of people involved in really terrible, immoral, homicidal criminal behavior,” Kennedy urged…
    ..“By depriving people of Ivermectin, many, many people, millions of people around the globe, died, and they didn’t need to,” Kennedy added, charging that Fauci and others pressured the FDA to discourage such treatments in favour of relentlessly pushing unproven and untested vaccines.
    “There were cures for COVID from day one, very effective cures. But they didn’t want that. They wanted the vaccine only,” Kennedy posited, adding “if they admitted that any of [the treatments] were effective, the whole vaccine project would have fallen apart.”
    Kennedy added that after the vaccines, myocarditis cases among young people, particularly athletes, exploded. “On average, it was, I think, 29 a month globally, athletes who died on the field. We’re getting down to hundreds a month now,” Kennedy emphasised.
    He concluded that “the science is out there now, and it’s devastating.”
    After endorsing Donald Trump last month, RFK Jr. declared that he is ready to help “make America healthy again.” https://modernity.news/2024/09/02/rfk-jr-there-has-to-be-a-reckoning-for-immoral-homicidal-covid-criminality/

    Steve Kirsch, COVID vaccinated kids are dying regularly from cardiac arrest
    It’s baffling that they try to normalize this as always happening. It was never a thing before the COVID vaccines rolled out. https://kirschsubstack.com/p/covid-vaccinated-kids-are-dying-regularly

    Australian Government Database Exposes Huge Death Toll from COVID Vaccines https://lionessofjudah.substack.com/p/staggering-australian-government

    Peter McCullough MD, Most Variation in All-Cause Mortality Explained by Mass COVID-19 Vaccination
    Australian Ecological Analysis Points to Vaccine Campaign Causing Rising Death Counts https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/most-variation-in-all-cause-mortality

    FDA Authorizes New COVID-19 Vaccine Without Clinical Data https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/fda-authorizes-new-covid-19-vaccine-without-clinical-data

    #168214
    John Day
    Participant

    Meryl Nass MD, David Bell expands on the confirmed Moneypox numbers and the false emergency
    BTW, It is only an STD if lesions are confined to the genital area. If it is elsewhere it spreads like chicken pox/shingles. This is more likely the type of spread in Africa. https://merylnass.substack.com/p/david-bell-expands-on-the-confirmed

    Nitazoxanide, the “monkeypox ivermectin”?
    “We therefore set out to try to elucidate the mechanism by which the drug inhibits vaccinia virus.”…
    ..This study is the first to demonstrate the ability of NTZ to inhibit a poxvirus, and establishes the potential use of NTZ to control poxviral infections. Although the exact mechanism of action of the broad antiviral effect of NTZ remains unclear, the authors have uncovered a metabolic impact that will be further explored. https://www.fredhutch.org/en/news/spotlight/2018/07/hb_hickson_virology.html

    From Virology, May 2018, Inhibition of vaccinia virus replication by nitazoxanide https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5929478/

    In Leak, Facebook Partner Brags About Listening to Your Phone’s Microphone to Serve Ads for Stuff You Mention “We know what you’re thinking. Is this even legal?” https://futurism.com/the-byte/facebook-partner-phones-listening-microphone

    Dutch prime minister bans wireless devices from meetings to ward off espionage https://intelnews.org/2024/09/02/01-3361/

    #168215
    John Day
    Participant

    A professional-reader couple were listening to the car radio… ‘A tech firm stole our voices – then cloned and sold them’
    In June 2023, Paul and his partner Linnea Sage were driving near their home in New York City, listening to a podcast about the ongoing strikes in Hollywood and how artificial intelligence (AI) could affect the industry.
    The episode was of interest because the couple are voice-over performers and – like many other creatives – fear that human-sounding voice generators could soon be used to replace them.
    This particular podcast had a unique hook – they interviewed an AI-powered chat bot, equipped with text-to-speech software, to ask how it thought the use of AI would affect jobs in Hollywood. But, when it spoke, it sounded just like Mr Lehrman. “We needed to pull the car over,” he said.
    “The irony that AI is coming for the entertainment industry, and here is my voice talking about the potential destruction of the industry, was really quite shocking.”
    That night they spent hours online, searching for clues until they came across the site of text-to-speech platform Lovo. Once there, Ms Sage said she found a copy of her voice as well. “I was stunned,” she said. “I couldn’t believe it.” “A tech company stole our voices, made AI clones of them, and sold them possibly hundreds of thousands of times.”
    They have now filed a lawsuit against Lovo. The firm has not yet responded to that or the BBC’s requests for comment…
    ..Lovo co-founder Tom Lee has previously said its voice-cloning software only needs a user to read about 50 sentences to create a faithful clone.
    “We can capture the tone, the character, the style, the phonemes, and even if you have an accent, we can capture that as well,” he told the Future Visionaries podcast in 2021. In their lawsuit, the couple set out how they say Lovo obtained just such a recording from them. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3d9zv50955o

    ​ David Hughes, Electromagnetic Warfare, History and Dangers (20 min lecture, with transcript, brief excerpt here)

    ​ In his book, Physical Control of the Mind, Delgado predicts that new technology will, quote, provide the essential link from man to computer to man. with a reciprocal feedback between neurons and instruments, which represents a new orientation for the medical control of neurophysiological functions. Fast forward to 2012 and behold the front cover of this book edited by Pentagon neuroscience advisor James Giordano. Here the brain is attached to a joystick as in a video game. There is no medical function, just direct control. The following year, Israeli scientist Edo Bachelet gave a presentation on the syringe injectable nanorobots developed by his team, each one equipped with an antenna and an IP address. Bachelet stated, quote, to make sure we don’t lose control of the nanobots after they’re injected, the controller actually links those nanobots to the network like an Xbox. Given that the so-called PlayStation mentality has been linked to excessive, in inverted commas, collateral damage in drone warfare, it is disturbing that bio-digital technologies capable of connecting human brains and bodies to the internet were immediately conceived of in video game terms. According to retired professor of international political economy Kees van der Peel, the possibility of vaccination as neurological remote control must now be taken seriously for, ​”After achieving access by vaccination to the biomass of the seven to eight billion individuals who have to be controlled, remote controlling them is no longer an absurd fantasy”. Curie and Brodie in a 2022 article recognised that the COVID vaccines could have been intended as, ​”a delivery system for the global hardware necessary to roll out the fourth industrial revolution technologies, such as the internet of bodies, human machine and brain web interfaces​”.​ https://dhughes.substack.com/p/electromagnetic-warfare-history-and

    ​ Professor Anthony Hall, Durov is an Internet Freedom Fighter. Israel is Seeking to Destroy Pavel Durov in France as If He is a Proxy for Hamas.
    The French government’s arrest on 25 Aug. of Telegram’s founder, builder and operating manager, Pavel Durov, is a telling sign of these tumultuous times. It is alleged that France’s problematic President, Emmanuel Macron, lured Durov to Paris with a mafia-style dinner invitation…​
    ..All signs point to the finding that France is one of several players in a case developed at the highest levels by the most aggressive enemies of privacy and free speech on the Internet.
    ​ The sturdiness of Telegram’s encryption system is reflected by the fact that the Armed Forces of both Russia and NATO’s puppet Ukraine, regularly do their secret messaging through Durov’s company. Durov and his brother have built up Telegram’s ramparts against all sorts of spy wear, but especially the invasions on data bases facilitated by so-called backdoors, the digital nuke of Internet integrity.
    ​ One of Durov’s supposed crimes is to have stood up to the security state’s most aggressive thugs in denying them backdoor access to Telegram. All the other major platforms, including that of the Israeli government’s servile puppet, Elon Musk, have by now handed over the security keys to the likes of Mossad-CIA-MI6, the FBI, the US Department of Justice and a host of other Internet predators, public and private. Durov, however, is the main holdout. He hasn’t complied in the past. What will he do now? …
    ​..The duplicitous tactics deployed in the surprise hit on Durov in Paris, reflects the sense of urgency felt by the protagonists of Zionist intrigue. These protagonists are intent on protecting their concocted narratives to misrepresent their vicious war mongering in the Middle East and Eurasia. The desperation to hold onto the force of their fake narratives is giving rise to the explosive symbolic implications of the Durov case in Paris.
    ​ The ongoing false flag event that is taking place in the battle for the minds of the world’s people began on October 7, 2023. In the ongoing false flag that continues yet, Durov’s Telegram has emerged as one of the most strategic resources in the psychological warfare accompanying the unrelenting genocide.
    ​ Macron’s shameful and duplicitous operation was likely done on behalf of Israel and its Zionist network of now-discredited operatives.​ https://anthonyjhall.substack.com/p/durov-is-an-internet-freedom-fighter

    ​ Musk threatens to go after Brazilian government assets​, The country has banned access to X and frozen the accounts of satellite internet operator Starlink​
    ​Elon Musk has vowed to seek the seizure of Brazilian government assets in the US if Brazil does not return property belonging to his companies X (Twitter) and SpaceX.
    ​ Last week, the Supreme Court of Brazil ordered the operations of X to be “immediately suspended” and threatened a fine of 50,000 Brazilian reals ($8,874) per day against anyone trying to sidestep the ban on accessing the platform using a VPN. The judge gave Google and Apple five days to remove X from their app stores.​ https://swentr.site/business/603455-elon-musk-seize-brazil-assets/

    ​Kyle Young chases a bunch of dead ends with dead men and missing papers (part-2): Is “Ripple Technology” the real reason for the Trump/Kennedy alliance? https://secularheretic.substack.com/p/is-ripple-technology-the-real-reason

    #168216
    jb-hb
    Participant

    I was listening to whatifalthist the other day and he pointed out a Collapse Indicator Metric I had not heard of before.

    Anytime the average marriage age in a society reaches 28, there’s a revolution.

    In the West, what’s the average age of marriage now?

    29

    #168217
    jb-hb
    Participant

    I was listening to an interview of Eric Weinstein last night — a lot of the same talking points as in that zerohedge article referenced by John Day

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYRYXhU4kxM

    But he had a lot to say about Physics as well

    It has slowly been dawning on me how serious this is. Bit by bit as I hear more. Alarming.

    Physics has been led on a wild goose chase for 40 years!

    Worse, all the String Theory people apparently did Cancel Culture on any scientists trying to propose and/or research any OTHER avenues than String Theory and String Theory has turned out to be garbage!

    Then I recalled that Stephen Hawking was a big string theory guy.

    THEN I remembered all those conspiracy theories about Stephen Hawking, how he was lasting like 100x longer than anyone else in history with Lou Gehrig’s disease (without any technical/scientific explanation for it) and oh, how convenient he cannot speak and everything comes out of a computer.

    THEN I recalled all the Parallel Civilization conspiracy theories which jibe with Weinstein describing how physics as understood by the public appears to have turned into confusing boring garbage rather suddenly. (he implies, but does not say, that real physics possibly went Top Secret…)

    The interview has markers throughout, so you can just focus on the Physics related sections if desired – weird, scary unbelievable implications. (How could a Mean Girls regime have ruined SCIENCE for 4 decades!!! What REALLY happened with science if not that?) Not sure if Chris Williamson (the interviewer) is that much of a denialist normie or is just playing as a foil to enhance what Weinstein has to say.

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