Menu Icon

Debt Rattle September 6 2024

Sep 062024
 
 September 6, 2024  Posted by at 8:16 am Finance Tagged with: , , , , , , , , , ,  Add comments


Pablo Picasso Two naked figures 1908

 

• Putin Quips That He Prefers Harris To Trump (ZH)
• Trump Reacts To Putin Rooting For Harris (RT)
• Trump Pulling Ahead Of Harris – Nate Silver (RT)
• ABC Debate: ‘I’m Gonna Let Her Talk’ – Trump (ET)
• Trump Will Adopt Elon Musk’s Proposal For Gov’t Efficiency Commission (ZH)
• Ukrainian Army Facing Collapse – Putin (RT)
• Prosecutors Urge Hunter Biden Judge To Reject Plea Deal (ZH)
• Scott Ritter Says Ending Cooperation With RT, Sputnik Due to US Sanctions (Sp.)
• ‘A Unique Kind of Fascism’: US Continues Clampdown on Alt Media (Miles)
• DoJ Clampdown on Russian Media Proving US Empire Has No Clothes (Sp.)
• Whistleblowers Reveal US Secret Service Blunders (Sp.)
• Pavel Durov Warns French Crackdown Will Prompt Serious Tech Setbacks (Sp.)
• Macron Pushes Through PM Pick After 60 Days (Manley)
• Germany Reeling in the Wake of AfD Election Victories (SCF)

 

 

 

 

Trump lead CNN

 

 

RT

 

 

Kamala CNN

 

 

Tulsi

 

 

Benny

 

 

Liz Cheney Kamala

 

 

Tucker

 

 

9 times cheaper

 

 

Chris M Butler
https://twitter.com/i/status/1831722765335806020

 

 

Rogan

 

 

 

 

“Putin said Harris “laughs so contagiously and expressively, it shows she’s doing well.”

• Putin Quips That He Prefers Harris To Trump (ZH)

Russian President Vladimir Putin said during an interview at the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok that Russia now wants Vice President Kamala Harris to win in November since they had previously supported Joe Biden – and Biden has endorsed Harris. “I told you, our favorite, if I may say so, was the current president, Mr. Biden,” said Putin, smirking. “He was removed from the race, but he advised all his supporters to support Ms. Harris. So we will do it as well, we will root for her,” he continued. Putin said Harris “laughs so contagiously and expressively, it shows she’s doing well.” “And if she is doing well, then … Trump introduced so many restrictions and sanctions against Russia, like no other president had ever introduced before him. And if Ms. Harris is doing well, perhaps she will refrain from doing anything like that,” he continued.

As modernity.news continues, Putin’s comments are likely to be dismissed as a joke by the Harris campaign, while Trump will probably use them to deflect long-standing claims by Democrats that his campaign is supported by Russia. According to Sky News’ Moscow correspondent Ivor Bennett, “Vladimir Putin is having a little chuckle himself here. His comments are almost certainly more mischief-making than a statement of fact because, as we know, Russia’s president doesn’t always say what he thinks.” As we highlighted earlier this week, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov was asked by pro-Russia TV reporter Pavel Zarubin, “Then who is our candidate now?” “We have no candidate. But, of course, the Democrats are more predictable. And what Putin said about Biden’s predictability applies to almost all Democrats, including Ms. Harris,” responded Peskov. The Kremlin spokesman was also dismissive towards Trump’s claim that he could end the war with Ukraine within 24 hours.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1831723835101499393

Read more …

” I don’t know exactly what to say about it. I don’t know if I’m insulted or he did me a favor..”

• Trump Reacts To Putin Rooting For Harris (RT)

US Republican candidate Donald Trump said on Thursday that he doesn’t know how to feel about Russian President Vladimir Putin stating that he preferred his Democratic rival, Vice President Kamala Harris. The Russian leader said earlier in the day at the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok that Moscow would rather see Harris win the US presidential election in November. Putin told the audience that he admired the Democratic Party candidate’s “infectious laugh” and that he respected current President Joe Biden’s choice to endorse her as his successor. “He [Putin] endorsed Kamala, and I didn’t know if I was supposed to call him up and say, ‘Thank you very much’ … I don’t know exactly what to say about it. I don’t know if I’m insulted or he did me a favor,” Trump claimed during an event at the Economic Club of New York. US National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby reacted by stating that the Russian president should refrain from discussing the US presidential election.

Putin’s remarks came in response to a question at the forum on whether he had a preferred candidate in the US election now that Joe Biden, for whom he previously expressed a preference, has dropped out. Putin replied by saying that it was not Russia’s job to choose a “favorite” in the election, which is up to American voters. Moscow has repeatedly dismissed Washington’s allegations about attempts to interfere in the US elections. Speaking about Harris, the Russian president suggested that her positive disposition could mean she would refrain from imposing as many sanctions on Russia as Trump did, who Putin said had introduced more restrictions on Moscow than any other president in American history at the time. “In the end, the choice is up to the American people, and we will treat their eventual decision with respect,” Putin said.

Read more …

“..Trump now stands a 58.2% chance of winning the election, compared to Harris’ 41.6%..”

• Trump Pulling Ahead Of Harris – Nate Silver (RT)

Influential American election analyst Nate Silver has put Republican candidate Donald Trump’s chances of defeating Vice President Kamala Harris in this November’s election higher than at any point since Harris announced her candidacy in July. Despite polling consistently showing Harris with a slight lead over Trump, Silver claimed on Wednesday that the Democrat has underperformed in recent surveys, and that Trump now stands a 58.2% chance of winning the election, compared to Harris’ 41.6%. This time last week, Silver’s model gave Trump a 52.4% chance of winning, and put Harris’ chances at 47.3%. Silver’s predictions are regularly cited by American media outlets, and are considered among the more influential election forecasts in the country. His methodology samples polling, economic data, likely turnout, and other factors – including the post-convention “bounce” that typically boosts a candidate for several weeks after the official nomination.

Democrats confirmed Harris as their party’s nominee at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago three weeks ago. However, Harris didn’t receive the “bounce” that most candidates normally do, Silver explained. CNN polls conducted after the convention showed Harris and Trump tied in three out of six battleground states and leading by around five points in three more, while a YouGov survey showed the Democrat leading by two points nationwide. With these polls taken so soon after the convention, Harris should have held a wider lead, Silver argued. Silver’s predictions are contradicted by other pollsters. FiveThirtyEight, an analytics organization founded by Silver, maintains that if the election were held today, Harris stands a 55% chance of winning, with Trump’s likelihood of victory standing at 44%. While FiveThirtyEight and Silver use the same methodology, FiveThirtyEight places more emphasis on polling as election day draws closer.

Individual polls can be misleading, however. A New York Times poll last month showed Harris beating Trump by 50% to 46% in the swing states of Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Michigan. However, the poll oversampled Democrats, and when adjusted showed Harris and Trump in a statistical dead heat in all three states. For both Harris and Trump, winning either Pennsylvania and its 19 electoral votes, or Michigan and Wisconsin’s combined 25 votes, will be essential to winning the election. Silver’s model shows Trump winning in Arizona, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Nevada, and North Carolina, with the two candidates tied in Michigan and Harris with a slight lead in Wisconsin. “Needless to say, stranger things have happened than a candidate who was behind in the polls winning,” Silver cautioned. “And in America’s polarized political climate, most elections are close and a candidate is rarely out of the running.”

Read more …

“Everybody has a plan until they get ‘punched in the face..”

• ABC Debate: ‘I’m Gonna Let Her Talk’ – Trump (ET)

After Hannity asked what the former president was doing to get ready for next week’s debate with Harris, Trump replied: “I think I’ve been practicing all my life for this stuff. It’ll be an interesting evening.” The former president said debates are unpredictable, so a candidate needs to be nimble. Many before him have prepped extensively, only to fail miserably in the heat of debate. “Everybody has a plan until they get ‘punched in the face,’” Trump said, quoting Mike Tyson. “A lot depends on ABC. … I hope they’re going to be fair,” he said, adding that a contract bars the network from providing questions to either candidate in advance of the showdown. The Trump and Harris camps had proposed different ground rules for the debate; they disagreed over whether the candidates should be seated or standing, and over whether microphones should be muted while the opposing candidate is speaking.

Trump’s strategy? “I’m gonna let her talk,” he said. That is what he did on June 27 in Atlanta, where CNN hosted a debate between him and President Joe Biden. The incumbent was widely seen to have struggled during that face-off. Biden withdrew from the race less than a month later and endorsed Harris as his preferred successor. Noting that many thousands of Pennsylvanians depend on fracking for their livelihoods, Trump told the audience, “You have no choice; you’ve gotta vote for me.” Hannity played multiple video clips of Harris making past statements opposing fracking. Trump said he disbelieves her recent statement that she won’t ban the procedure that is used to help extract gas or oil from the ground. He said Democrats’ policies have directly hurt the industry even without an outright ban. “You have to have fracking. … It’s a massive business for Pennsylvania, and you can’t take a chance” that Harris would eliminate it, Trump said.

Hannity noted the town hall came at a time when Trump was trending upward in some of the polls. Those include a Trafalgar Group poll showing Trump ahead of Harris in Pennsylvania by 2 percentage points. The host said the latest numbers seem to suggest that Harris’s “long-lived honeymoon phase now finally, finally appears to be over.” In the RealClearPolitics average of opinion polls, Harris was holding a 1.9 percent national lead against Trump on Sept. 4. But a few very recent polls were detecting a shift in momentum. In Rasmussen Reports’ Daily Presidential Tracking Poll on Sept. 4, Trump opened a six-point lead over Harris nationally. But in Rasmussen’s five-day average, he was only 2 percent ahead of her. Many other polls still show Harris with an edge over Trump nationally, but still within the margin of error, which runs at 3 percent or more for most polls. An online prediction and betting site, Polymarket.com, on Sept. 4 showed Trump with a 52-percent chance of winning the Nov. 5 election; Harris had a 47-percent chance.

Hannity noted that Harris has given no solo news conferences since she became the apparent Democratic nominee 45 days prior to the Fox town hall. She and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, participated in an interview with CNN’s Dana Bash on Aug. 29 but disclosed no new policy specifics. And, as of Sept. 4, no policy platform was yet listed on Harris’s website. Hannity contrasted this with the dozens of news conferences and interviews Trump and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), have given since Biden dropped out of the race. After Trump passed the 16-minute, 30-second mark into the program, Hannity thanked him for going longer than Harris’s CNN interview; the audience laughed.

Read more …

“No pay, no title, no recognition is needed.”

• Trump Will Adopt Elon Musk’s Proposal For Gov’t Efficiency Commission (ZH)

Former President Trump plans to adopt Elon Musk’s proposed new commission, the Department of Government Efficiency abbreviated as ‘DOGE.’ According to The Wall Street Journal, Trump could unveil the new government efficiency commission as early as today. Trump plans to unveil the government efficiency commission before he delivers a speech at the Economic Club of New York. He will tell reporters that the commission would conduct “a complete financial and performance audit of the entire federal government” and make “recommendations for drastic reform.” The commission’s primary goal is to identify ways to eliminate fraud and improper payments, according to portions of the speech viewed by journos at WSJ.

Trump’s upcoming speech and proposed commission to address the failures of Biden-Harris’ Bidenomics, which sparked an inflation storm and financially crushed mid—and low-tier consumers, also aims at deregulation. Trump has actively championed deregulation to make the economy great again. Musk endorsed Trump on X shortly after the failed assassination attempt on July 13. He pledged millions of dollars to a super PAC supporting causes on the right. Speaking with Reuters last week, the former president said he would offer Musk a position if he were seriously interested. ” He’s a very smart guy. I certainly would—if he would do it, I certainly would,” the former president said. “He’s a brilliant guy.” Musk and Trump first publicly discussed a government efficiency commission during a two-hour conversation on X on August 13. The conversation has received 60.4 million views so far.

Musk shared an AI picture last month of himself standing at a platform that read “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) and wrote on X, “I am willing to serve.” Earlier this week, Musk reiterated, “I can’t wait. There is a lot of waste and needless regulation in government that needs to go.” On X this morning, Musk responded to one user’s post about WSJ’s story. He said, “I look forward to serving America if the opportunity arises. No pay, no title, no recognition is needed.” Trump also plans to say, “This election will decide whether we reward Kamala Harris with re-election and four more years of economic calamity—or whether we change direction.” Let’s not forget that the federal government loses between $233 billion and $521 billion to fraud annually, or about $4,000 per American household, as per The Hill.

Read more …

Meanwhile…

• Ukrainian Army Facing Collapse – Putin (RT)

High casualties incurred by the Ukrainian military since Kiev launched its incursion in Russia’s Kursk Region could render its armed forces useless, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said. The Russian leader shared his assessment of the frontline situation on Thursday during a panel discussion at the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok. He said the Ukrainian attempt to disrupt the Russian military with the massive attack across the border last month had backfired. ”Our military has stabilized the situation and is now gradually pushing the opponent from the border territories. More importantly, there is no resistance to our advancement [in Donbass],” he explained. “The opponent has weakened itself on the key axis by moving those relatively strong and well-trained units to the border areas.” Ukrainian officials expected Moscow to redeploy some of its forces from the east to repel the incursion in the north.

However, the gamble has not paid off, Aleksandr Syrsky, Kiev’s top general, acknowledged last week. Putin said Russian troops had been securing more land in Donbass, which is a priority for Moscow, at a pace unseen in a long time. Meanwhile, Ukrainian troops are “suffering very high losses in manpower and hardware.” “Because of that, [Kiev] risks a collapse of the front line on the most important axis. The casualties may result in a loss of fighting capability of the entire armed forces, which is what we are looking to achieve,” the president added. On Wednesday, the Russian Defense Ministry estimated that Ukrainian casualties in the Kursk operation had surpassed 9,700 troops. Kiev also lost 81 tanks, dozens of other armored vehicles, hundreds of cars, and multiple heavy weapons, the military said. Putin confirmed the statistics, telling the audience that the intelligence had been confirmed by multiple sources.

Read more …

Alford plea: you don’t say you did it, but you accept the punishment.

Does there need to be a conviction before he can be pardoned?

• Prosecutors Urge Hunter Biden Judge To Reject Plea Deal (ZH)

It would appear that Hunter Biden doesn’t have a nicely arranged plea deal with the DOJ after all – as prosecutors have urged the judge in the case to reject his proposal to plead guilty. Of note, Hunter is attempting to plead guilty via an “Alford plea,” which would have to be approved by the prosecution and higher-ups at the DOJ. It appears they were caught off guard.

* * *

Hunter Biden’s lawyers announced on Thursday that the first son will plead guilty in his $1.4 million tax evasion case. “Mr. Biden intends to change his plea this morning,” Hunter’s lawyer Abbe Lowell told the judge in a Los Angeles federal courtroom, with the younger Biden facing trial on nine federal charges for failing to pay federal taxes from 2016 – 2019. If convicted, Hunter faced up to 17 years behind bars. He currently faces up to 25 years behind bars when he’s sentenced in November for a conviction on gun charges.

Read more …

“I am deeply grateful for the professionalism of all of my Russian colleagues over the past several years, and am proud to have made their acquaintance..”

• Scott Ritter Says Ending Cooperation With RT, Sputnik Due to US Sanctions (Sp.)

The US Department of the Treasury issued a statement on Wednesday to announce sanctions against the Rossiya Segodnya media group, RIA Novosti, RT, Sputnik and Ruptly. The sanctions affected Rossiya Segodnya and RT Editor-in-Chief Margarita Simonyan and a number of other senior executives. “The actions by the Department of the Treasury in levying new sanctions against RT, Sputnik, and other Russian media organizations has made it impossible for me to continue my work as an outside contributor for RT and Sputnik, as well as participating in interviews and other collaborations with other Russian media,” Ritter said on X. He said his work with Russian media organizations was legitimate journalism.

“I reject the notion that the work I have done over the past years with the newly sanctioned Russian media organizations has been anything other than legitimate journalism, the content of which has been factually correct and analytically sound, and always of my own creation,” Ritter said. However, he said, he is committed to obeying US laws. “Nonetheless, I am fully committed to obeying US law, and as such will be terminating all contractual relationships with both RT and Sputnik effective immediately, as well as suspending my participation in any and all media interaction with sanctioned individuals and organizations until which time it is deemed lawful to do so by US authorities,” Ritter said. He said he will continue to exercise his free speech rights.

“I am deeply grateful for the professionalism of all of my Russian colleagues over the past several years, and am proud to have made their acquaintance. I regret the actions of my government in silencing legitimate journalistic outlets, and look forward to the day when freedom of speech and a free press is not constrained by a dubious ‘Russian exception’ that is violative of Constitutional norms and values,” Ritter said. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, commenting on the US sanctions imposed against the Rossiya Segodnya media group, told Sputnik that attacks on Russian media are the result of operations by Western security services to “sterilize” the information space.

Read more …

“..a recent survey found that almost half of Amercans believe there is “not enough democracy” in the United States while 57% of people polled said the US government only serves a minority of its population..”

• ‘A Unique Kind of Fascism’: US Continues Clampdown on Alt Media (Miles)

The Biden administration signaled that it would continue to clamp down on alternative media Wednesday with the announcement of several measures against figures connected to Russian outlets. “Today, the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated ten individuals and two entities as part of a coordinated US government response to Moscow’s malign influence efforts targeting the 2024 US presidential election,” read a statement released Wednesday morning. US Attorney General Merrick Garland claimed individuals connected to Russian media outlets were involved in a campaign to spread “disinformation” in the months leading up to November’s election, a favored talking point the Biden administration has repeatedly used to justify its heavy-handed tactics in regulating social media.

The account for RT on the video sharing giant YouTube was removed in 2022 and Biden signed legislation earlier this year likely to result in the social media app TikTok becoming unavailable in the United States after this fall’s election.Writer and historian Dr. Gerald Horne joined Sputnik’s The Critical Hour program Wednesday to discuss the surprising development, which he attributed to the United States’ concern over the rise of Russia, China and Iran and the emergence of an increasingly multipolar world. “It’s difficult to judge what you just described without judging simultaneously what’s unfolding in the Tampa, St. Petersburg area of Florida, where Chairman Omali and his comrades and the African People’s Socialist Party and the Uhuru movement are now facing trial in the halls of injustice for reasons eerily similar to these charges,” said Horne, referring to the Biden administration’s ongoing persecution of Black radical groups.

“Certainly, we should not forget what has befallen Scott Ritter, the former arms inspector, now viewed widely as a dissident who has been a frequent guest on numerous platforms including your own, as I understand it, rebuking and reprimanding US foreign policy, particularly as it relates to the escapade in Ukraine,” he continued. “Not to mention the funding and financing an army of the radical regime in Israel. We are also aware of what has befallen Richard Medhurst who is a frequent speaker on issues related to Iran in particular. He was detained in London summarily just a few days ago in a blatant violation of civil rights and civil liberties, causing some commentators to suggest that England, Great Britain is moving towards a unique kind of fascism.” Horne claimed a “hysteria” is gripping the US political class over an emerging counterhegemonic bloc of countries increasingly able to challenge the political and economic might of the United States.

Former US Army officer Gen. Wesley Clark reflected the anxieties of Washington officialdom in an editorial in USA Today recently, casting Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping as enemies of “democracy.” But a recent survey found that almost half of Amercans believe there is “not enough democracy” in the United States while 57% of people polled said the US government only serves a minority of its population. Russia and China ranked higher than the United States on most questions regarding their citizens’ self-perception of their country’s democracy, with Chinese people being among the most likely in the world to consider their country democratic. Clark drew attention to improving relations between Beijing and Moscow, something the United States worked to undermine throughout the Cold War.

Read more …

“$10 million would barely influence a US Senate race. The amount is hardly a drop in the bucket for a presidential race.”

• DoJ Clampdown on Russian Media Proving US Empire Has No Clothes (Sp.)

The US Justice Department’s sweeping crackdown on Russian media on Wednesday to the thunderous applause of the legacy media will leave Americans a little less informed, less safe and a lot less free, observers including long-time Sputnik contributors say. “It looks like the US Department of Justice is producing another election year spectacular. Sixty days before the election we are invited to suspend our disbelief and embrace ‘Russia, Russia, Russia: The Sequel.’ And once again the DOJ is rounding up the usual suspects: Trump, Russia and Democracy,” political commentator and Newsmax columnist Michael Shannon told Sputnik, commenting on the DoJ’s unprecedented crackdown on Russian media Wednesday over alleged “disinformation” and an election-related “malign influence operation.”

“I predict the audience for this lame sequel will be the remaining mask wearers, Clot Shot booster advocates, Trump haters, consonant crusaders and government employees. Anyone else with simple common sense will see it for what it is: The DOJ’s attempt to influence the election,” Shannon stressed. The figures being alleged by the Justice Department are also laughable, according to the observer. “Let’s put alleged Russian influence buying in perspective. The indictment says Tenent Media was given $10 million to ‘influence the election.’ I’ve got news for you. $10 million would barely influence a US Senate race. The amount is hardly a drop in the bucket for a presidential race. Donald Trump and Joe Biden combined spent $1.85 BILLION in 2020,” Shannon emphasized.

“I regret the actions of my government in silencing legitimate journalistic outlets, and look forward to the day when freedom of speech and a free press is not constrained by a dubious ‘Russian exception’ that is violative of Constitutional norms and values,” former US Marine intelligence officer, UN weapons inspector and commentator Scott Ritter wrote in a social media post. Ritter, who has already suffered a campaign of blatant intimidation by the FBI, including a raid on his family home and the confiscation of his passport, announced the termination of his work for Sputnik and other Russian media after the DoJ and Treasury’s new restrictions were announced, fearing he would be further targeted.

Former CIA analyst-turned whistleblower and author Larry Johnson highlighted the DoJ crackdown’s off the charts “hypocrisy that is staggering in its magnitude and its foulness,” telling Sputnik that the claims of Russian media attempts to “meddle” in the upcoming US presidential election are simply laughable when considering that the US government has allocated “almost $4 billion to interfere or meddle in the political affairs of other countries” in 2024 alone. Popular independent media personality Jackson Hinkle says Americans looking for alternative perspectives and sources of information will the most to suffer from the DoJ’s move. “We can topple governments. We can kill sovereign presidents of sovereign countries. But for a media company to be reporting on the facts…about what’s actually going on in the world, and then for the United States to sanction them, it’s absolutely insane,” Hinkle said. “I think millions of Americans want to hear that truth, and that’s why they’re going after companies like Sputnik so hard right now.”

Read more …

“It’s a matter of an intent to expose him to potential assassination..”

• Whistleblowers Reveal US Secret Service Blunders (Sp.)

Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) has claimed that most agents who were present during the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump in July were not US Secret Service (USSS) agents, but were in fact Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) agents. The US politician told Fox News that the only training the agents received was a “2-hour online webinar” training. Citing claims made by whistleblowers, he added that the agents who were protecting the former president that day had no prior experience in security detail. Hawley wrote the whistleblowers’ allegations in a letter to Ronald Rowe, the acting director of the USSS, and attached the letter to an X post. Tyler Nixon, an attorney, media relations specialist and political analyst, joined Rachel Blevins on The Backstory on Wednesday, and presented a rundown of the agency’s long-standing failings.

“Well, there’s no question that the Secret Service (USSS) is a very troubled agency and it has been varyingly for many years,” Nixon said. “…the agency has had serious problems with … racial discrimination. There was a lawsuit that became a class action that dragged on for nearly 17 years of Black agents from the ‘80s and ‘90s who were held back, discriminated against, suppressed in terms of promotions. They won and the Secret Service fought that tooth and nail.” The lawyer disclosed that he represents the first Black Secret Service agent who served on presidential protection, who has threatened to be a whistleblower to the “Warren Commission concerning the laxity, drinking and other things that the agents had perpetrated or done on the President John F. Kennedy detail,” he said, adding that “many argue [the laxity] contributed to their slow reactions [of JFK’s assassination].”

“[USSS] has to, I think, if they were talking about it, it’s well over a billion-dollar budget. I think it might have been $1.4 billion, if I’m not mistaken. But whatever it is, it is absolutely enough that they should have the best equipment, the best agents and the best operations. And I think it’s just proof that, generally speaking, you can throw as much money as you want at a government agency to address a problem if there’s institutional incompetence and institutional issues and just the fact that the government operates the way it does without accountability,” Nixon explained.

“And one of the other things was, which really stands out in the Trump affair was that they were assigning […] based on apparently the status, let’s just say, of the protectee, meaning Trump’s not the president. He’s a candidate, a former president. Versus what [American conservative commentator Dan Bongino] noted should be the criteria for assigning the resources, which is the threat profile,” he added. “In Butler, there was what I would view as it wasn’t simply incompetence. There was actually active security stripping, which is very, very troubling because that’s not just a matter of people not doing their jobs properly. It’s a matter of an intent to expose him to potential assassination or assassination, and that is, that’s corruption that is so – I mean, it would be criminal, obviously, that level of corruption,” he continued. “So, major reforms need to happen with that agency, if not a total reckoning.”

Read more …

“..Telegram has an official representative in the EU that both “accepts and replies to EU requests.”

• Pavel Durov Warns French Crackdown Will Prompt Serious Tech Setbacks (Sp.)

Telegram CEO Pavel Durov spoke out on Thursday against the crackdown against his platform by French authorities, warning that the spate of charges could mark the start of serious setbacks for the tech industry as a whole. In a post shared on Telegram, Durov detailed that he had been questioned by French authorities over a period of four days, and that he had been informed he would be held “personally responsible” for criminal actions that occur on the platform due to past notifications that had gone answered. “This,” Durov went onto emphasis, “was surprising for several reasons.” Not least of which was the fact that Telegram has an official representative in the EU that both “accepts and replies to EU requests.” “Its email address has been publicly available for anyone in the EU who googles ‘Telegram EU address for law enforcement,'” he pointed out, adding that authorities could have easily contacted him via the French consulate in Dubai.

“A while ago, when asked, I personally helped them establish a hotline with Telegram to deal with the threat of terrorism in France.” “Using laws from the pre-smartphone era to charge a CEO with crimes committed by third parties on the platform he manages is a misguided approach,” he said. “Building technology is hard enough as it is. No innovator will ever build new tools if they know they can be personally held responsible for potential abuse of those tools.” Rather than pursuing criminal charges, French authorities should have instead opted for the “established practice” of filing legal action against an internet service to start proceedings. Durov underscored that Telegram would not be abandoning its principles on ensuring users’ privacy and security, but that it was and will continue to hold open lines of communications with country regulators.

However, if no balance can be made in any one nation, the company will opt to “leave.” The CEO further rejected reports that painted Telegram as “some sort of anarchic paradise” and slammed them as “absolutely untrue.” However, while the platform’s user count has soared upwards of 950 million, he acknowledged the spike “made it easier for criminals to abuse our platform.” Durov revealed that new internal measures were being implemented, and that such steps would be made public at a later time. The Russian-born tech entrepreneur was detained at a Paris airport on August 24 on charges related to criminal uses of his messaging app, including terrorism, child pornography, drug trafficking, money laundering and fraud. He was released on August 28 on a 5-million-euro ($5.5 million) bail and is barred from leaving France.

Read more …

Both France and Germany are in deep political trouble.

“It’s like a husband and wife debating over which electrician to hire to redo the wiring in your house not being able to come to an agreement and hiring a plumber..”

• Macron Pushes Through PM Pick After 60 Days (Manley)

President Emmanuel Macron has appointed Michel Barnier, 73, a veteran right-wing politician who served twice as European Commissioner and played a major role in the 2016 Brexit Task Force, as the new prime minister of France as of Thursday. Macron is trying to break through a political impasse that has gripped France following the country’s snap legislative elections held in July. The French presidency said in a statement that Macron is entrusting Barnier with “the task of forming a unity government to serve the country and the French people”, the New York Times reported. Barnier will take over the role from Gabriel Attal, France’s youngest ever prime minister who has held the position for the last eight months. Phil Kelly, a Belfast-based political commentator and socialist activist, joined Sputnik’s Political Misfits Thursday to discuss Macron’s continued rejection of the French public’s desires.

“This is far from democracy. This is an absurdity,” said Kelly. “It’s like a husband and wife debating over which electrician to hire to redo the wiring in your house not being able to come to an agreement and hiring a plumber. It’s an affront, an absolute affront to the democratic will of the people.” “What Macron is doing is he’s investing heavily in creating future problems because France is a powder keg. It is divided. The breakthrough for the left was good to see, but let’s hope it’s not a pyrrhic victory because what acts like this are doing is it just erodes faith that people have in their democratic institutions,” he added. “It’s a further sign that France is in dissent and chaos, that its establishment is flailing, that Macron is just trying to hold the door against change,” the analyst suggested. “But that change will come to France and I hope it’s a positive change, but there’s no guarantee there will be. The country’s in a dark way.”

In March of last year France’s Senate passed a controversial reform bill to raise the retirement age for French citizens by two years. The Senate passed the bill by 195 votes to 112. Macron’s decision to push through a bill that is extremely unpopular among voters for the alleged sake of the economy clearly went unforgiven during July’s election. Business-friendly think tanks such as the pro-Macron Institut Montaigne claim Macron’s pension plan is more cost-effective than other proposals, but a majority of French voters reject the ploy. “A country that is able to send billions of euros to the Kiev regime while its own citizens are offered a diet of, ‘we make you work longer for less’… and it’s a bit like from his gilded palace in Paris. He’s a bit like Macron Antoinette,” Kelly said.

“Macron [is] a guy who’s deeply unpopular, who, at one point, was talking up the advantage of World War III to the French people, now clinging on desperately to power, trying to make the guy who lost who came forth the leader of the country and all, as you say, to cling on to his own power for a little bit longer and to try and push through a policy that is so deeply unpopular.” In January, Macron claimed during a speech at the Swedish Defense Academy that the future security architecture of the continent could no longer be settled simply by the United States and that Europe should determine its own future. In April, the French president said he would be willing to discuss using French nuclear warheads as a “credible European defense” against a supposed Russian threat. The French president previously hinted at the use of France’s nuclear weapons in 2020 and again in 2022. In March the leader alarmed other EU member states when he announced his openness to ground operations in Ukraine, saying it might be required “at some point”.

“It’s not, unfortunately, only France that has this kind of political class,” Kelly added. “[There was] one of the ministers in the German government who’s a member of the Green Party saying — I’m sure you remember this — ‘I don’t care about German voters, I’ll do whatever it takes to support Ukraine.’” “This is why Europe is in decline. Much like your country where the political establishment has [nothing to] offer, it has no vision of how to move things forward, it only has ‘how can we trick the electorate in the next election and then just do the same [thing],’” he explained.

Read more …

“The government in Berlin should ask itself if it can even continue to govern..”

• Germany Reeling in the Wake of AfD Election Victories (SCF)

The German residents of Saxony and Thuringia awoke on Monday to a radical new political landscape as the Alternative for Germany, or Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), received more than double as many votes as the three parties which make up the federal coalition government — the center-left Social Democrats (SPD), environmentalist Greens and neoliberal Free Democrats (FDP) — combined. This marks the first in any German state since Nazi rule. The results represent a major setback to Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s struggling coalition government and demonstrate the increasing breakup of the political landscape and surge in popularity of anti-establishment parties across the continent. Scholz labelled the losses for his government “bitter” and called upon mainstream parties to build governments without “right-wing extremists”.

The AfD, which, as an “extremist” group, falls under the official surveillance of the German domestic intelligence agency, was founded in 2013 as an offshoot of the CDU. It advertises itself as a right-wing movement that is critical of the European Union’s policies but supportive of German membership. Since its founding, the party has moved further to the political right and shifted its attention to immigration and Islam. The party is most powerful in the formerly communist east Germany, which is less wealthy than the country’s west. Björn Höcke, 52, the leader of Thuringia, has been convicted of knowingly using a Nazi slogan at political events, a conviction he is appealing. A court in the eastern city of Halle fined the history teacher turned politician for using the prohibited phrase “Everything for Germany”, or “Alles für Deutschland” in German. The slogan was etched on weapons used by Nazi paramilitary officers. Germany has harsh laws against the use of phrases and symbols linked to the Nazi party.

In the last nationwide election, for the European Parliament in June, the AfD attracted 16 percent of the vote. In other words, not exactly a nationwide nationalist takeover. Moreover, with just over 2 million people out of a national population of more than 80 million, Thuringia ranks as one of the smallest of Germany’s 16 states. At the same time, Saxony’s population stands at just 4 million. Nevertheless, it is rather astonishing, and worrisome, that about one in three voters in these two states cast their vote for a party that the states’ own intelligence agencies have declared to be ‘extremist’. Factors that have led to support for the AfD in eastern Germany include deep dissatisfaction with the national government, anti-immigration sentiment and opposition to any further German military aid for Ukraine. And despite the government’s rapid reaction to the deadly knife attack in Solingen, in western Germany, shortly before the elections failed to result in a change of opinion. Four out of five German voters have expressed discontent with the work of the federal government, a sentiment that has lasted a long time.

The AfD rightly views itself as having established a deep support base. The state elections brought “historic” success for their party, AfD co-leader Alice Weidel said on Sunday, calling for the federal government to stand down. “It is also a punishment for the federal government, it is a requiem for this coalition,” she said. “The government in Berlin should ask itself if it can even continue to govern. This question of fresh elections should be posed at least following the [upcoming] election in Brandenburg, because things cannot carry on like this.” Now the government of Olaf Scholz is attempting to recalibrate its positions, moving further to the right to counter the AfD’s respectable gains. Looking down the road to the immigration debate during the electoral campaigns, the federal government last week announced harsher migration and security policies, and made an unexpected move to deport 28 asylum-seekers who had committed criminal offenses to Afghanistan.

Now, all eyes are now focused on the eastern German state of Brandenburg, where elections are scheduled for September 22. The coalition of the SPD, Greens and FDP are nervously anticipating this vote as the German population is increasingly demanding new blood in the halls of power. If early nationwide elections were to be held today, current polling shows they would no longer get a majority. The victors would be their competitors the AfD and the Conservative Union of the Christian Democrats (CDU) and their Bavarian counterparts, the Christian Social Union (CSU). The Union, which comprises the largest opposition bloc in the Bundestag, has long called for the government to step down. Therefore, the SPD will be campaigning extra hard leading up to election day, because the vote will be crucial for them. The party has led the government in Brandenburg since 1990.

“I expect that everyone will make even more of an effort than ever before,” said SPD co-leader Lars Klingbeil on Sunday evening in Berlin. The party needed to work together to win back votes, he said. “Everyone now needs to play their part so that things improve.” In the event that Brandenburg’s state premier of 11 years, Dietmar Woidke, fails to be reelected, this could set in motion some serious power moves in the country. There is even the possibility that Defense Minister Boris Pistorius, who polls higher than Scholz among Germans, could become the chancellor candidate for the federal election in September 2025. Will the coalition government last that long? That’s a question many Germans are anxiously pondering today amid the rise of far-right ideology, which is beginning to reverberate across the country. Whether that will turn into a political earthquake remains to be seen.

Read more …

 

 

 

 

Putin Nordstream

 

 

Ghostwriting
https://twitter.com/i/status/1831522277705372109

 

 

Fox

 

 

Best job

 

 

Thank you

 

 

Trust

 

 

Antlers

 

 

Moose

 

 

Support the Automatic Earth in wartime with Paypal, Bitcoin and Patreon.

 

 

 

 

 

Home › Forums › Debt Rattle September 6 2024

Viewing 40 posts - 1 through 40 (of 69 total)
1 2
  • Author
    Posts
  • September 6, 2024 at 8:16 am #168347
    Raúl Ilargi Meijer
    Keymaster

    Pablo Picasso Two naked figures 1908   • Putin Quips That He Prefers Harris To Trump (ZH) • Trump Reacts To Putin Rooting For Harris (RT) • Trump
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle September 6 2024]

    September 6, 2024 at 9:29 am #168349
    John Day
    Participant

    Revolutionary Food Security https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/revolutionary-food-security

    Comrades In Agronomy,

    Today, Friday September 6, and tomorrow, Saturday September 7, there is a symposium, free for your own investment of time and attention, with numerous top tier presenters, and also me (after lunch, second day).
    The Attack On Food And Farmers and How to Fight Back (2024)​ https://doortofreedom.org/the-attack-on-food-and-how-to-fight-back-symposium/

    ​All of the presentations will remain available at Door To Freedom and at Children’s Health Defense after they are given live (or canned, as I recorded mine on a nice afternoon in the Austin garden).

    My talk is an introduction to the material presented in these 3 blog posts, recently updated for this current presentation:

    Deciding Where To Grow Vegetables​ https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/deciding-where-to-grow-vegetables

    Preparing Your Kitchen Garden​ https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/preparing-your-kitchen-garden

    Growing Food​ https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/growing-food

    September 6, 2024 at 9:33 am #168350
    John Day
    Participant

    ​Speaker List, brief biographies and topic outlines are here. https://doortofreedom.org/the-attack-on-food-and-farmers-and-how-to-fight-back/
    ​(I seem to follow Bobby Kennedy Jr.)

    presenters

    Down To Earth

    September 6, 2024 at 9:42 am #168351
    John Day
    Participant

    gardeneer

    September 6, 2024 at 10:05 am #168352
    John Day
    Participant

    Toe in the water:
    “In Butler, there was what I would view as it wasn’t simply incompetence. There was actually active security stripping, which is very, very troubling because that’s not just a matter of people not doing their jobs properly. It’s a matter of an intent to expose him to potential assassination or assassination, and that is, that’s corruption that is so – I mean, it would be criminal, obviously, that level of corruption,” he continued. “So, major reforms need to happen with that agency, if not a total reckoning.”

    September 6, 2024 at 10:58 am #168354
    tboc
    Participant

    Mass and Inertia

    Roughly 15% of the US workforce is employed by government, federal, state, local. The number of employees can be rounded up to 24 million. The estimate is that 53% of households are dual income.

    Married couples are 47% of US households. A rough extrapolation would yield 50% of government employees have an employed spouse, 12 million members of dual income families associated with a government employee. Addition of the two groups is 36 million workers benefit from government employment. The US workforce rounds up to 175 million employees.
    36/175=.206 rounded to 20%
    The estimate is that 12% to 15% of the electorate, 122 million, are government workers. Double those numbers for dual income households and average to 27%.Take the average of 20% and 27%, 23.5%

    Between one in every five and every four members of the US workforce has an interest in maintaining the status quo. Every govenmental agency is hierarchical in nature and acts in self interest.

    Mass and Inertia
    You can hope things will change,
    yet the investment and finance communities are not part of these calculations.

    The status quo is profitable. A beggar mounted…..

    September 6, 2024 at 11:37 am #168355
    tboc
    Participant

    Government Efficiency Commission

    those two should really team up and go on the road with a Key and Peele knock off show
    a U tube channel – Musk and Trump Mock the World

    September 6, 2024 at 11:38 am #168356
    Dr. D
    Participant

    This Krainer was different than the others. Someone posted it, but I only got around to looking closely. https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/the-coming-collapse-of-britain

    And a new interview with him is out, but this is a permitted short Clip from Luongo’s paid stuff. https://odysee.com/@cryptorich:e/TLMR20240828:2

    “Macron Names Michel Barnier As New French Prime Minister
    After a two-month deadlock following a snap general election, a united government in France will now be formed under the EU’s former Brexit negotiator.”

    Alexander was right on this, If the Left caved to lock out LePen, it would cave like sissies and f—k the people on the PM-ship. So Macron, WEF, and the Nazis all in charge, and it’s the Left helping them. You know and for a minute there, I thought they had any principles.

    “NY’s Chinese Consul General No Longer In Position After Former Hochul Aide Charged As Spy

    Hochel said expel him and send a “Strong Message”. Wow. Well thank God our border is entirely open and the FBI is busy rounding up Catholics! And also that nothing will happen to Hochel over this because she’s a Democrat that’s only fair!

    It’s really odd and a major coincidence that every Congressman has 5 lobbyists, their own Chinese Agent in the room.

    “Germany’s AfD Party Calls For End To Mail-In Ballots, Launches Probe Into Suspicious Software Error: The AfD raises questions about the election process”

    How dare they? Don’t they know the German FBI is busy investigating migrants voter integrity , AfD instead? For what the refused to warn them about? That is, letting agents in their midst for years?

    “Meta Oversight Board Says ‘River To The Sea’ Not Inherently Hate Speech

    That’s true: Both sides are using it. …However it’s hate speech both times. …I just know that legally “hate speech is protected speech.” This is also against Sec230, pull their license, they’re f—king Congress in the eye and we shouldn’t allow that.

    “[She is a politician, therefore] This is RACKETEERING and organized crime” Fixed it.

    But we have an answer to that: Moar Government! And more fact checkers, now with free home delivery! …They knock on your door, arrest you, and take you away. (In England)

    “The price (paid by the government) for new electricity from offshore wind has risen to £82-£84/MWh in current prices, a significant 58% increase”

    Uhhhh, worse than that. NOT ONLY do they never make power in the first place. NOT ONLY do they break. NOT ONLY do they destroy the economy, NOT ONLY can they not be dismantled and taken down….but wind patterns have changed and the amount of wind…and wind power…continues to go DOWN. That is, more windmills each month, less power each month. Huh?

    Yeah, these are the guys who said “Climate Change 4 evah!!!!” …and then promptly used 100 year wind records to sell and hawk their scam. When I can go out my door, lick my finger and say, “Yup, there’s like 50% less wind every day than when I was a child. Might not want to use that logbook.”

    Did they ASK? Nope. Asking would have interfered with their PROFIT. Because Left hates profit! Damn Profit, you’re keeping me from stealing your stuff!! Getting that new power boat, which they will have on blocks when the whole economy collapses as it has, and their house is foreclosed on. That’s not Capitalism, because it’s fraud and I can prosecute it. …If only they weren’t in a complete merger with government and spending tax dollars against the will of the people in the first place.

    “Bret Weinstein says there is a “cheat margin” in elections,”

    Yes but only since always, and only as everybody knew a second ago in the Kennedy-Nixon election. Then that same generation: “WHAT fraud? That never happened! There’s never been ANY modern election fraud!” …Oh wait, did I say that? I meant to say “The Supreme Court entirely illegally seated the PROVABLY WRONG President in 2000, and then did nothing to unseat him and nullify all his laws ILLEGALLY signed.” Those are only two cases, how many more do you want?

    But I don’t need to make this case! The Democrats SAID the elections are fraudulent and stolen. No they didn’t / yes they did / no they didn’t….at the SAME TIME. Right now this is the safest election ever WHILE it is being stolen by Trump,…by a guy who openly supports Harris and her cheerful, infectious laugh.

    Soooo….wanna tell me what you’re going to do when everyone is this irrational and reality doesn’t exist? Even in the same SENTENCE? ‘Coz I’m fresh out. How about re-establish Cause and Effect? Natural Consequences?

    “• Trump Pulling Ahead Of Harris – Nate Silver (RT)

    Even on their own polls? What’s happening here? What happened to “We just lie”?

    “• Scott Ritter Says Ending Cooperation With RT, Sputnik Due to US Sanctions (Sp.)

    Shutting up critics and whistleblowers, anyone who is antiwar. But we here always cheer when war is promoted and allies are shot. Also since the FBI is up his -ss he must be an FBI plant. They send out an agent and informant, then order him if he talks, they’ll arrest him. That’s just common sense. But the only way to make totally certain is if they murder him like Lira. Then he’s definitely an employee.

    “• ‘A Unique Kind of Fascism’: US Continues Clampdown on Alt Media (Miles)

    I dunno, looks like ordinary textbook fascism to me. Just stop the denials for a second and look. I’m sure Germany gave all these same denials too. Germany is the home of perfectly sane people like Nietzsche. Can’t happen here.

    “Insanity and death (1889–1900)
    On 3 January 1889, Nietzsche suffered a mental breakdown.[71] Two policemen approached him after he caused a public disturbance in the streets” –Wiki     Yup! A total hero and genius to intellectuals! That’s Schmartz! Well with excellent judgment like that, I’ll do anything else they say.

    I guess the better question is, “Are we ahead of the fascists or are they ahead of us?” Fascists will ALWAYS get everybody killed with their ethos, exactly as they have gotten everyone in Ukraine and shortly, Britain killed. Why? It is the “Will to POWER.” Magic!!! You can have anything you want if you just WANT it enough – Physics, reality, army divisions – don’t exist. Only YOU. Your EGO. And your magical power that God himself snaps to attention for. So any time anything happens, they just go out and MAKE it. …And politically, that means FORCE, and force means the ARMY, with guns. And of course they shoot and murder the f—k out of their own people, but those OTHER guys won’t obey everything I think and say either, so I have to shoot them TOO! Why are you making me do this?? …Until like 230M people are then fighting a larger opponent of a BILLION people by 1941, and STILL trying to escalate. …Yup, that’s Nazis for you. Ask London, they know all about it.

    “$10 million would barely influence a US Senate race. The amount is hardly a drop in the bucket for a presidential race.”

    Let me guess: they bought ads again. “Jesus on masturbation: Take my Hand, and we can Beat It Together” — literal 2016 “Russian Interference” ad.

    “$1.4 billion, if I’m not mistaken. But whatever it is, it is absolutely enough that they should have the best equipment, the best agents and the best operations. And I think it’s just proof that, generally speaking, you can throw as much money as you want at a government agency to address a problem if there’s institutional incompetence and institutional issues and just the fact that the government operates the way it does without accountability,”

    Hahahahahaha! Chalk one up for Herr Docktor, that’s A-MAZE-ing! Why not a Trillion? Then they can have an assassination daily. Again, 10 Jimmy Bobs, who just woke up in Alabama with a moonshine hangover would be better agents, and shoot Crooks about 3 hours faster. …But this is a murder case, and we don’t investigate that.

    “one of the ministers in the German government who’s a member of the Green Party saying — I’m sure you remember this — ‘I don’t care about German voters, I’ll do whatever it takes to support Ukraine.’”

    That is, on the “Left” and they are also (different one) who said “Just because you win the German election doesn’t mean you just take power.” Okay, so again, I was greatly heartened at the Old Left appearing and slapping tiny, tiny Jupiter and defending the real Left principles on behalf of the people. You go man! …Well that didn’t last long. They unzipped his pants in like two weeks, thanks. Some “Left”.

    “The AfD, which, as an “extremist” group, falls under the official surveillance of the German domestic intelligence agency, “

    The same GDI that put foreign agents in their midst and refused to tell them? Then released it as if AfD was the threat and the failure?

    “they are perfectly happy with Russian gas being delivered through the Ukrainian and Turkish pipelines.”

    Yes, Europe’s purchase from Russia has now reached former highs, I hear. …Just at 3x the price, with a ton of that going to their allies India, China, Turkey.

    September 6, 2024 at 11:43 am #168357
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Dr. I guess I perceive that time as people fishing for data. You were on the data, but strictly, which is your Role as a Medical doctor. I started with it being bioweapon almost before it was declared – and was prepared to overreact, and did – but as the data came in I jumped directly to the conclusion it was a scam, so probably look out for WHY it was a scam (the vax) before the data. Now that is MY role, as a 30,000 ft view thinker, and not a medical doctor with a license to protect. I can knee jerk, accuse, theorize, and jump to conclusions.

    Doing what I did is able to set the ground and make it safe for people to discuss facts instead of react and hide them, and then start to take that ground back I’ve run ahead on, if the data then supports. That’s my role as a nobody to go ahead without looking and look like a Fool. As in the Tarot card:
    ZeroMyHero
    https://www.buildingbeautifulsouls.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/The-Fool-Tarot-Card-Meanings-Rider-Waite-Tarot-Deck-1280×960-1200×900.jpg

    Because as was said here, the faster we can talk logically and openly about the data, the fewer people will be killed. …Aaaaaaaand we still haven’t gotten there, not perhaps ever will at this point. They’re dead, murdered, their own parents don’t care. Working on a theory about that but it’s complicated.

    Why? Don’t care about ego. Call me an idiot. I don’t care. Been an idiot and wrong before, won’t be the last time. I get shot, oh well.

    September 6, 2024 at 12:11 pm #168358
    poppie
    Participant

    The polls and the cheat margin are related. the cheat margin was expanded in 2020. That made the cheating more visible. It gave us the names and addresses of the cheaters. It exposed the cheating methods. We have seen that the polls are the basis for justifying the cheat. So what happens when the real polls that you hide from public show that the margin in Trumps favor larger this time? And your entire cheating protocol is under a microscope? You could double down like the clueless moron you are. Or some of the adults that propped you up in front could decide to salvage those protocols for another day. If they did, suddenly the polls everywhere would drift in favor of reality. In the background there must be a lot of laundry being done.

    September 6, 2024 at 1:00 pm #168359
    tboc
    Participant

    Blackrock and the food chain.
    Blackrock is an investment management corporation, that is, it is a debt management corporation. All western governments are bankrupt and thus the fiat money is worthless. Corporations in the vein of Blackrock are debt clearing houses. No one seems to ask what percentage of the funds under management are leveraged. Blackrock hypothecates debt, the US government retains possesion and only the illusion of wealth is real and transferred.

    Your breakfast, lunch and supper depend on the investment in the food production and supply chain. Profit taking in the monetized commodities markets has rendered farming a losing proposition. One needs to be terribly naive not to understand that the entities known as national banks are the ones buying land and housing using debt clearing houses as agents. Farming collapses, trucking collapses and the grocery supply chain collapses. simple as that.
    Every piece of real estate currently being bought at pennies on the dollar is an attempt to forestall disaster. In the US the Federal Reserve Bank and The United States Treasury are the bulwark against international western bankruptcy as are all western national banks of similar construction.

    Food and how to fight back
    Yes hunter gatherers are going to be quite pesky.
    When emmigration from metropolitan areas begins the current immigration debacle at the southern border of the US will pale in comparison.

    Everyone better hope the current paradigm is not suddenly broken. All of the smug assholes who rode around in their luxury automobiles and told the the poor they should have planned better should have taken their own advice.The back to the land crowd needs to understand if Blackrock style corporations fail there will be nothing civil about it. The idea that individual garden plots will feed a nation is a class based social antidepressant.

    “What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculties” no atrtibution needed

    “Cheer up things could be worse”, sure enough

    September 6, 2024 at 1:02 pm #168360
    John Day
    Participant

    @Dr. D: You may recall the mask-shortage in spring of 2020, and the 4/13/2020 “Horowitz Proboscoid Viral Interceptor” article https://www.johndayblog.com/2020/04/horowitz-proboscoid-viral-interceptor.html
    interceptor
    Durn, images won’t load.

    September 6, 2024 at 1:10 pm #168361
    oxymoron
    Participant

    tboc – sustainable ethical eating for inner urban affluents/aspirants used to look like this before inflation and before the difficult years ahead.

    September 6, 2024 at 1:16 pm #168362
    John Day
    Participant

    Quoth tboc, and I agree:
    “The back to the land crowd needs to understand if Blackrock style corporations fail there will be nothing civil about it. The idea that individual garden plots will feed a nation is a class based social antidepressant.”

    Fresh vegetables, bags of rice and dry beans do help people survive. You’ll need pure water, salt, Olive Oyl, and other “fixins”. I recommend canned tomatoes, soy sauce and curry, for instance.
    Fuel only goes so far. I hope the natural gas keeps flowing.

    September 6, 2024 at 2:21 pm #168363
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    @JohnDay

    And I would add that food supply, as in Real Estate, is all about just three basic things. Location, location, location.

    September 6, 2024 at 2:30 pm #168364
    poppie
    Participant

    Surviving famine can be like surviving a bear attack. You dont need to do better than the bear. You just need to do better than others. John Day advice can get you there. If you do decide to try to source your own food for longer survival you will see that preserving the food is harder than sourcing it. Practice preserving now with farmers market stock. I have been mixing methods with pretty good success. Pressure canning slightly dehydrated vegetables. A lot of freezing of also canned goods. Obviously freezing is maybe not a long term solution. It might be in that beans and rice window. read up on botulism. Cooking neutralizes botox, so dont taste uncooked. Get a guide on canning time and Ph. Dont guess.

    September 6, 2024 at 2:50 pm #168365
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Project De-Population©

    Keeps on keeping on…..

    What is wrong with the food in America?

    Women says she has a terrible reaction to gluten and dairy but when she goes to Europe she eats mountains of pasta with cream sauce and feels fabulous like a Ninja Warrior

    https://x.com/i/status/1831573749847457938

    September 6, 2024 at 2:56 pm #168366
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Interfering with Elections 101

    Mary Huckaby, who posted the following comment on Larry Johnson’s channel:

    “Our overlords just tried to appoint their own president of Venezuela, again.

    According to reports, they’re interfering in Honduras, again.

    They’re telling Mexico how to run its judicial system, again

    They told Georgia (country near Russia) that they CAN’T pass a foreign influence disclosure law (Georgia passed it anyway; foreign NGOs – i.e., CIA influence groups – will have to disclose their funding).

    They have openly stated that their war in Ukraine is intended to overthrow Russia’s lawful, popular, elected government.

    God knows what they’ve done with bribes or blackmail in Germany to get its leaders to shut up about the U.S. bombing of the Nordstream pipeline.

    They’ve sicced jihadi head-choppers on governments they want to overthrow multiple times this century.

    The laughs just keep coming from “the land of the free/ home of the brave.”

    .

    September 6, 2024 at 2:57 pm #168367
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Not in Duh’merica

    .

    September 6, 2024 at 2:59 pm #168370
    Oroboros
    Participant

    .

    .

    September 6, 2024 at 3:01 pm #168371
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Even Nature Chimes in at Humanity

    .

    September 6, 2024 at 3:02 pm #168372
    Oroboros
    Participant

    .

    September 6, 2024 at 3:03 pm #168373
    Oroboros
    Participant

    .

    September 6, 2024 at 3:06 pm #168374
    Oroboros
    Participant

    “Health Care” in Duh’mercia

    Johnny on the Spot

    .

    September 6, 2024 at 3:07 pm #168375
    John Day
    Participant

    Ball Blue Book Guide to Preserving 38th Edition
    https://www.ballmasonjars.com/products/essentials-accessories/ball%C2%AE-blue-book-guide-to-preserving-38th-edition%2C-recipe-book/SAP_2194619.html

    Get an older edition at a used book store for cheap…

    September 6, 2024 at 3:32 pm #168376
    zerosum
    Participant

    THE AUTOMATIC EARTH SURVIVES BECAUSE ITS IS A RELIEF VALVE

    The truth is known.
    The truth is denied.
    Accept what is, that you cannot change.
    You are not the controller that Controls Inertia.
    Accept the truth.

    Everyone is in denial of the horrors of the truth.
    ————-
    AI can produce any “deep fake” needed for people to keep denying the truth.
    ————
    Pollsters cannot see the truth or are denying the truth.
    ______________

    HAHAHAH
    • ABC Debate: ‘I’m Gonna Let Her Talk’ – Trump (ET)

    ————

    September 6, 2024 at 3:44 pm #168377
    The Markster
    Participant

    Even if one out of every five citizens now works for the government, it is still far from being an ideologically homogeneous group. Vicious corruption, coercive hierarchy and normalcy bias only work at the city and county level, for example, if the citizens are weak, distracted, cowardly and not paying attention. Unfortunately for us all, it is the wealthiest, most entitled, most sociopathic forces and individuals in private industry that collude with to run our government (Mussolini’s Fascism). I have seen the same thing play out in a blue city and a red city first hand, and they only get away with it because the citizenry is disengaged. We get the government we deserve/allow/fund.

    Oroboros posted a funny meme above with Baghwan Shree Rajneesh, of the purple robe cult that overtook my hometown of Portland in the 80’s. While good for a laugh, I personally think the stupidity angle is overplayed. More to the point is hubris, sloth, vanity and living a Luciferian lifestyle of consumption. Just two hours of citizenry a week by 15% of the population (writing letters, testifying in government hearings, calling your representative, etc.) over the course of a year could change everything. But people don’t because reasons. And here we are.

    Insert pithy founding fathers quote of your choice right here, then look within and around and maybe do something useful in your own place to at least let them know you are watching. Bless you all. ☮️

    September 6, 2024 at 3:53 pm #168378
    Oroboros
    Participant

    .

    September 6, 2024 at 3:53 pm #168379
    Oroboros
    Participant

    .

    September 6, 2024 at 3:56 pm #168380
    Oroboros
    Participant

    You’re such a Prince

    Go Machiavelli

    .

    September 6, 2024 at 4:16 pm #168381
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    We are, and have long been, in a global civil war, with the Haves (because they TAKE) on one side and the Have Nots (because they’ve been robbed) on the other. The Haves are aggressing because that’s what such people DO, and what makes them who they are. And the Have Nots are defending because that’s what peaceful people do when subjected to unprovoked attacks.

    You can dig deeply down rabbit holes to discover dark secrets, and you can parse the gory details of the heinous crimes found, and I heartily encourage everyone to do just that with high energy and great enthusiasm and outrage, BUT.

    BUT at the end of the day the civil war is what it is, and the civil war is between evil criminal authoritarians who intend to take EVERYTHING that you’ve got, and the good honest ordinary people who just want to be good honest ordinary people.

    You could say that this civil war has been waged since the very beginning, and in a sense you would be right, but in the recorded history of Earth there has never been a dust-up quite like this one. If you are looking for a strategy with which to face it then I would suggest the following:

    Pick a side and gird up for a long hot war that’s going to go all the way to the finish.

    September 6, 2024 at 4:19 pm #168382
    Oroboros
    Participant

    It’s hard remembering back that far, but memory can play tricks on you ….

    The different levels of public school had distinct flavors

    .

    School kids can sometimes stumble on Big Picture Concepts®

    .

    College was very philosophical and produces it’s own revelations suitable for billboards or sides of buildings…

    .

    But Real Life, well, it can bring flashes of Divine Inspiration……

    .

    September 6, 2024 at 4:32 pm #168383
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Funny map of creatures responsible for the most deaths in each country.

    WTF, German has a Death Beetle? Beetlejuice?

    Snakes, wolves, bears and boars, yeh, I can see that. A Barbarian death, aces

    Finland and Norway nailed by Stags?

    But the funniest is UKtardistan and the Emerald Isles: Cows

    Not a very manly death, suck it up Albion

    .

    September 6, 2024 at 4:34 pm #168384
    kultsommer
    Participant

    Picasso today vs Oro’s yesterday’s visual: “Art appreciation before and after the WWII”.

    Dr. D: “Hmmmm….I wonder……Ooooooops!”

    September 6, 2024 at 4:43 pm #168385
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Beware the Cat

    Many a brave warrior has fallen before it….

    .

    September 6, 2024 at 5:25 pm #168386
    kultsommer
    Participant

    “NORMALIZE OF NOT HAVING AN OPINION ON THE THINGS THAT YOU AREN’T PROPERLY INFORMED ON”.
    Critic of “knowing stuff” is based on wrong take that only formally educated in particular field can discuss issues of that field.
    In my world, say, an Idaho farmer, who in off-season months takes time to learn just about anything about the clarinet and is himself an amateur player has “every right” (read: to be taken seriously) to discuss the instrument.
    One does not wake up one morning just to find that everything about Picasso’s art falls into place or is smitten by the Shostakovitch’s or Mahler’s # ….
    Visitors to the US and aside from the obvious, the next thing that they notice is that “one-particular-segment” population have an opinion on just about anything and passionately defends it. One explanation that I may have is that all comes from the “fake it until you make it” neurosis of highly competitive society.
    Well, I am lectured by “the two”, who, I assume, never visited any soc/comm country lecturing me about the system.

    September 6, 2024 at 5:28 pm #168387
    Dr D Rich
    Participant

    A unique kinda fascism for a unique kinda guy.

    Here’s an example of the not-so-unique bloviating when it comes to everything Ritter.

    Miles writes: “…the video sharing giant YouTube..”
    when ‘YouTube’ suffices.
    :Where “Tampa, St. Petersburg area of Florida” is cited rather than Tampa or St. Petersburg. Choose.
    :where Miles in just 3 paragraphs deliberately conflates or loosely associates The Big Man Ritter with supposed heavy hitters “Attorney General Merrick Garland”, “Dr. Gerald Horne”, “Chairman Omali and comrades”, “Richard Medhurst”, “Former US Army officer Gen. Wesley Clark”, “Russian President Vladimir Putin”, and “Chinese President Xi Jinping”,

    And the whopper of Whoppers, Miles quotes Horne saying “certainly, we should not forget what has befallen Scott Ritter, the former unqualified arms inspector, now widely viewed as a dissident…”

    I bet you don’t understand that one either…as Horne continues to not forget Ritter in the same sentence of his exhortation.
    Who is forgetting Riiter except for me trying to get you to forget or ignore Dissident Ritter?
    Yesterday Scott was Journalist, not a journalist, just Journalist.

    Hahahahahahaha!

    Your gonna love and understand my next post, D.
    Promise ya!

    September 6, 2024 at 5:34 pm #168388
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    Russel Brand at his very best, and Tucker Carlson providing a platform. Don’t miss this one. https://youtu.be/_VnNf0azNTQ?si=O1n_0RVWeEoyzz9q

    September 6, 2024 at 5:42 pm #168389
    zerosum
    Participant

    ignore
    deny
    later
    not now
    not my problem
    I’m okay, not in pain, not uncomfortable, my truth is the right truth.
    It’s irrelevant now, and will be permanently irrelevant when I’m dead.
    Peace.

    September 6, 2024 at 5:46 pm #168390
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    Being lectured to is an excellent opportunity to learn all kinds of interesting useful things about both the topic and the lecturer (as well as about oneself, too, now that I come to think of it.) Such rare and valuable opportunities should never be wasted.

  • Author
    Posts
Viewing 40 posts - 1 through 40 (of 69 total)
1 2
  • You must be logged in to reply to this topic.