Oct 102024
 


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Chaos is Coming – John Rubino (USAW)
60 Minutes Under Fire For Deceptively Editing Kamala Harris Interview (ZH)
Harris Attempts To Blame Trump For FEMA Hurricane Relief Failures (MN)
US in Dangerous Hiatus Amid Biden’s Lame Duck Period – Jeffrey Sachs (Sp.)
Trump Is Making A Mistake That Could Cost Him The Presidency (Marsden)
Russian Victory Will Liberate Europe – Emmanuel Todd (RT)
EU Running Out Of Time On Ukraine – Orban (RT)
Refusal to Buy Russian Energy Endangers EU’s Economic Growth – Orban (Sp.)
What Is Russia Deciding For Terms To End The War In The Ukraine (Helmer)
Zelensky Cancels November ‘Peace Summit’ (RT)
Russia Could Seek War Reparations From Ukraine (RT)
US Global Economic Share Dips Below 15% For First Time (Sp.)
US Spending on Mideast Conflict Tops $22 Billion in One Year (Sp.)
Israel Seeks To Fix 2006 Failures, While Hezbollah Lies In Wait (Mehdi)
Israel’s Collective Punishment Turns the World Against It (DeMartino)
Iran ‘Fully Prepared’ For War – FM (RT)
US Navy Was At Scene Of Nord Stream Blasts – Media (RT)
US Antitrust Officials Consider Google Breakup As ‘Trustbusting Era’ May Return (ZH)
Crypto Exchange Sues US Market Regulator (RT)

 

 

 

 

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“There’s no reason to protect speech that everybody agrees on..”

John Rubino is a long time fan of TAE. The idea he uses here of the “shrinking trust horizon” was first defined by Nicole Foss right here at TAE at least ten years ago.

Chaos is Coming – John Rubino (USAW)

Analyst and financial writer John Rubino has long warned of a massive financial crisis. With unstoppable wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, Rubino says one thing is for sure, “Chaos is coming.” Rubino explains, “This does not get fixed easily, and to the extent this gets fixed at all, this gets fixed via chaos. Prepare for a really interesting decade. This is going to be unlike anything we have seen in our lifetimes. Not since the Great Depression, nothing like this has happened.”

This all feeds into what Rubino calls the “shrinking trust horizon.” Rubino points out, “When everybody is lying to you, you reach a point where you only trust your city councilman, or your mayor and your local farmers. . . . So, you just don’t put any stock in what your doctor tells you. You stop taking the vaccinations they tell you to take. . . . You stop doing the . . . statins for high blood pressure and cholesterol. You stop doing that because you don’t trust those people anymore. . . . Starting with the “weapons of mass destruction,” which the government lied to us to get us into a multi-trillion dollar war in Iraq, it’s been one big lie after another.

In 2016, there was Trump/Russia collusion. . . . It turned out to be Hillary Clinton opposition research. With the CV19 pandemic, it was just lie, after lie, after lie. . . . Now, you have what is going on in North Carolina and Tennessee after Hurricane Helene. People are figuring out they are being lied to one issue at a time. . . . You’ve got a whole new set of people watching the government screw up and behave incompetently or corruptly, and they are learning they cannot trust the guys in charge anymore. So, the trust horizon is shrinking everywhere you look.”

There are so many parts of the economy that are quietly facing huge trouble and big losses. Nothing could start a total all-sector market crash faster than an attack by Israel on Iran’s nuclear sites. Rubino says, “There you go. That could be the thing that sets everything off. Bombing nuclear weapons facilities or a nuclear power plants is one of those things that has so many unintended consequences. Iran would have to respond to that in a serious way. It’s possible that China and Russia would step in on the side of Iran. . . . Then you get something much bigger. . . . I think the financial markets would respond to that.

Oil would go to $150 a barrel. That would crash the stock market. Then you get all the other dominos falling: commercial real estate, residential real estate, government bonds, derivatives and everything starts blowing up. That could be the catalyst for a market crash much bigger than 2008 and 2009. This would be something we have not seen since the Great Depression. We are not far from that. I think Trump said he thinks Israel should bomb Iran’s nuclear facility. . . . Biden is the demented figurehead for the neocons who want WWIII because they think they can win it. Chaos is definitely coming, but I am hoping it is survivable chaos, and I am not sure that it will be.”

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Did they think no-one would notice?

60 Minutes Under Fire For Deceptively Editing Kamala Harris Interview (ZH)

CBS has come under fire for deceptively editing Kamala Harris’ “60 Minutes” interview – replacing her word-salad answer from a pre-interview teaser with a completely different answer in the version that aired. When asked by host Bill Whitaker why it seemed like Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wasn’t listening to the United States, Harris originally replied: “Well Bill, the work that we have done has resulted in a number of movements in that region by Israel that were very much prompted by, or a result of, many things, including our advocacy for what needs to happen in the region.” But in the version that aired, Harris’ answer was: “We are not going to stop pursuing what is necessary for the United States to be clear about where we stand on the need for this war to end.” Watch:

The Trump campaign has demanded that the network release the full interview. “On Sunday, 60 Minutes teased Kamala’s highly-anticipated sit-down interview with one of her worst word salads to date, which received significant criticism on social media,” said Karoline Leavitt, the Trump campaign’s national press secretary. “During the full interview on Monday evening, the word salad was deceptively edited to lessen Kamala’s idiotic response.” “Why did 60 Minutes choose not to air Kamala’s full word salad, and what else did they choose not to air?” she asked. “The American people deserve the full, unedited transcript from Kamala’s sit-down interview. We call upon 60 Minutes and CBS to release it.”

Trump also posted about it on Truth Social, writing “I’ve never seen this before, but the producers of 60 Minutes sliced and diced (“cut and pasted”) Lyin’ Kamala’s answers to questions, which were virtually incoherent, over and over again, some by as many as four times in a single sentence or thought…” Trump suggested that the network helping Harris may have been a “major Campaign Finance Violation,” and is a “stain on the reputation of 60 minutes that is not recoverable.” Trump also called for an investigation.

Several have called out the network over the propaganda. Investor Bill Ackman took to X, where he said: “And how could @60Minutes’ manipulation occur without the consent of @KamalaHarris? Let’s not forget she is the Vice President of the United States and she is being asked about our foreign policy in the Middle East and our relationship with the leader of our principal ally in the region. Thinking about this more, the only plausible explanation is that the Vice President herself and/or her administration found that her original answer, which implied that Israel’s actions in the region were a direct result of the Biden/Harris policy, would harm her campaign and would therefore need to be expurgated from the public record.

In order to execute such a violation of journalistic ethics, I would expect that CBS News CEO Wendy McMahon and possibly Shari Redstone herself would have had to approve the manipulated video. This is a story worthy of investigative journalism from real journalists. Where are they? Where are the whistleblowers? Or are all of them so ideologically compromised that they are prepared to sacrifice the truth and their integrity in an effort to elect their favored candidate?”

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“Trump hasn’t been in office since 2020, yet somehow a woeful federal government response to a hurricane that occurred in 2024 is his fault because he said some mean words.”

Harris Attempts To Blame Trump For FEMA Hurricane Relief Failures (MN)

Kamala Harris reverted to her default position when talking to the cackling hags on The View about FEMA’s disastrous hurricane relief efforts. She attempted to blame Donald Trump. “He puts himself before the needs of others. I fear that he really lacks empathy,” Harris said of Trump, also describing his criticism of her as “callousness.” Trump hasn’t been in office since 2020, yet somehow a woeful federal government response to a hurricane that occurred in 2024 is his fault because he said some mean words.

It’s pathetic. She repeated the same script on Colbert’s propaganda parade.

While Harris is on The View, Stern and Colbert, Trump is giving out free accommodation to first responders prepping for the massive storm heading toward Florida, yet he’s the selfish one with no empathy according to her. Harris also claimed that Trump is using the hurricane to play political games, yet she outright lied Monday in claiming that Florida governor Ron DeSantis wouldn’t take her calls. Let’s also not forget that while Americans were begging for help, Kamala was appearing on a sex podcast, laughing about tampons. Her response is always either laugh inanely, talk about her mother, or blame Trump. As we earlier highlighted, in the same appearance Harris admitted that she wouldn’t do anything different to pudding brain Biden given the opportunity.

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“I hope for rationality by the next government, because we need a completely new foreign policy, based on negotiation, mutual respect with other great powers, and peace..”

US in Dangerous Hiatus Amid Biden’s Lame Duck Period – Jeffrey Sachs (Sp.)

The United States is in a dangerous hiatus during outgoing President Joe Biden’s lame duck period, which several US allies are trying to exploit, Jeffrey Sachs, a world-renowned economist and president of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network, told Sputnik. “President Biden is not really in full control anymore, both because of his waning mental status and his lame duck status,” Sachs said. “We are in a dangerous hiatus. [Israel’s Benjamin] Netanyahu is exploiting that hiatus, and [Volodymyr] Zelensky is trying to as well.” The United States backs Israel’s reckless behavior, talks openly about war with China, and continues a delusional policy in Ukraine that is bleeding that country while threatening to provoke more escalation, Sachs explained.

Zelensky has been pushing the Biden administration to allow Kiev to use US-supplied long-range missiles for deep strikes inside Russian territory, which Russia has warned could drag the United States directly into the conflict. To date, Biden has refrained from granting Ukraine its request. Meanwhile, in the Middle East, Netanyahu continues to expand his military operation in the region, shifting its focus from Gaza to Lebanon, which provoked Tehran to conduct its second aerial assault against Israel on Tuesday and left open the possibility for more military action by Iran. Sachs added that there is little chance Biden will steer the United States toward a “good direction” throughout the remainder of his term, but there’s also no guarantee that things will improve after either Republican candidate Donald Trump or Democratic candidate Kamala Harris comes into power on January 20.

“I hope for rationality by the next government, because we need a completely new foreign policy, based on negotiation, mutual respect with other great powers, and peace,” Sachs said. “The US doesn’t seem to have much sound thinking at the top right now.” Many other countries are trying to exploit US military power, including the United Kingdom, Poland, and the Baltic states, which are all urging reckless policies by the United States that could land it quickly in World War III, Sachs noted.

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Netanyahu is not Israel.

Trump Is Making A Mistake That Could Cost Him The Presidency (Marsden)

When Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky recently stood next to Trump in search of support against Russia, looking like a kid being chewed out by the school principal, Trump reminded him that “it takes two to tango.” But, when it comes to Israel, Trump only sees a soloist, minding its own business and inexplicably eliciting the wrath of its neighbors. And Trump just can’t seem to shut up about it. That isn’t what his base signed up for. On the anniversary of the events of October 7, 2023, when Hamas fighters from Gaza attacked Israeli civilians at an adjacent music festival following years of anti-Palestinian oppression, Trump had a variety of options. His base expects him mainly just to butt out and focus on problems that affect the daily lives of Americans – not all of whom live in Israel, contrary to perception.

Trump fancies himself such a peacemaker on Ukraine that he’s said he could resolve that conflict in a jiffy. He has no such ambition for the Middle East, apparently. Instead, he threw on a yarmulke and stood beside some giant tablets with Hebrew inscriptions, and riffed about how he would “remove the Jew haters” if elected in November, and how the “bond between the United States and Israel is strong and enduring” and that he would ensure that it was “closer than it ever was before.” Trump called on Israel to bomb Iran’s nuclear sites. “Isn’t that what you’re supposed to hit? I mean, it’s the biggest risk we have, nuclear weapons,” Trump said at a recent rally, ignoring the fact that nuclear weapons have a magical way of inciting respectful behavior all-around, in the same way that Trump’s beloved second amendment does in the US.

That remark alone places Trump in a more pro-Israel and pro-war posture than the Biden administration, which has explicitly objected to Israel attacking Iranian nuclear facilities. He’s also more aggressively pro-Israel than his Democratic opponent, Vice-President Kamala Harris, who at least routinely pays lip service to the need to protect Palestinian civilians in light of Israeli bombardments and glaringly dodged the question when asked whether Israel is even an ally. Who is Trump even trying to appeal to? The establishment? Why even bother? He has long lost their support on everything else, and this certainly isn’t going to bring them back aboard. Republican neocons? Same thing. Certainly not his “MAGA” base, whose position is non-interventionist and in favor of butting out of tiffs between countries on the other side of the planet. There was no shortage of them who noticed Trump’s October 7 pandering and announced on social media something along the lines of, “that’s it, I’m out.”

Maybe he’s trying to charm American voters, more generally? A new Pew Research survey published this month found that just 31% of them have confidence in Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, with 75% of them now concerned that US forces will somehow end up getting dragged into the melee. A YouGov poll has found that just 33% of Americans sympathize with Israel over Palestinians in the Gaza conflict. A Gallup poll from March also found that a majority of US voters oppose Israel’s actions in Gaza. And that was even before it kicked off similar action against Syria, Lebanon, and “Hezbollah pagers” exploding in the vicinity of civilians.

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“If, as I believe, the US is defeated, NATO will disintegrate and Europe will be left free..”

Russian Victory Will Liberate Europe – Emmanuel Todd (RT)

A Ukrainian defeat would represent a victory for Europe, French anthropologist Emmanuel Todd has claimed, in an interview with the Italian news outlet Corriere di Bologna published on Tuesday. According to Todd, who has stressed that he is not an explicit supporter of Moscow, if Russia were to lose in the Ukraine conflict, this would allow “European submission to the Americans to be prolonged for a century.” The leading intellectual has argued that Europe has effectively delegated the representation of the West to the US and has been paying the consequences ever since. He claims in the interview that nothing can be done to change this fact at the moment due to the ongoing Ukraine conflict, but suggests that its outcome will “decide the fate of Europe.” “If, as I believe, the US is defeated, NATO will disintegrate and Europe will be left free,” Todd told the outlet, noting that it is unlikely that Russia would be compelled to militarily attack Western Europe after establishing itself on the Dnieper River.

“Russia will have neither the means nor the desire to expand once the borders of pre-communist Russia are reconstituted. The Russophobic hysteria of the West, which fantasizes about the desire for Russian expansion in Europe, is simply ridiculous for a serious historian,” he said. A number of Western leaders have in recent months raised concerns that if Russia were allowed to defeat Ukraine it would eventually set its sights on other European and NATO countries. Moscow, however, has repeatedly stressed that it has no intention of attacking any other countries once it accomplishes its goals in Ukraine. Russian President Vladimir Putin has dismissed talk of a ‘Russian threat’ as “nonsense” being peddled by Western governments to scare the European population in order to “extract additional expenses” from them.

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“..he will not wait until the inauguration ceremony … in order to manage a peace” in Ukraine..”

EU Running Out Of Time On Ukraine – Orban (RT)

The European Union must act now to settle the Ukraine conflict or be consigned to irrelevance by the US, the Hungarian prime minister has warned. Viktor Orban predicted that if Republican nominee Donald Trump wins the US presidential election on November 5, he will start to deal with the crisis even before he takes office. The former US president has repeatedly claimed that if elected, he will persuade Kiev and Moscow to reach a diplomatic solution “within 24 hours.” His running mate, J.D. Vance, has suggested that Trump would likely freeze the conflict along the current frontline and offer Russia a guarantee that Ukraine will not join NATO. Speaking at a press conference in Strasbourg on Tuesday, Orban said that should Trump defeat his Democratic rival Kamala Harris, “he will not wait until the inauguration ceremony … in order to manage a peace” in Ukraine.

Trump “will act immediately, so we as European leaders don’t have any time to waste, because there would not be two or three months, as we usually have between the election and the inauguration of the new president,” Orban said. He urged European leaders to “react first intellectually, philosophically, then strategically, and then at the level of action as soon as possible.” The Hungarian prime minister also said he was glad that the EU leaders would convene for an informal summit in Budapest on November 7, describing the event as a good opportunity to discuss potential ways out of the Ukraine conflict. Orban also pointed to foreign policy differences between the current Democratic administration and the Trump team, and admitted that he is rooting for the GOP candidate. Unlike many EU member states, Hungary has long called for a diplomatic resolution to the conflict, and firmly opposed the delivery of weapons to Ukraine.

Last month, the Hungarian prime minister claimed that a growing number of EU nations were leaning toward abandoning their “pro-war” stance and “would like to join the peace camp.” According to the official, it was Hungary that “started this idea, because we stirred up a huge debate in Europe.” “Without the peace mission, such a debate would not have started and everyone would still only talk war,” Orban stressed. After Budapest took over the rotating presidency of the EU in June, the Hungarian prime minister visited Kiev, Moscow, Beijing and Washington as part of his “peace mission.” The initiative drew the ire of EU officials in Brussels at the time. According to Orban, “this war clearly has no solution on the battlefield… An agreement must be sought.” Earlier in September, he argued that Ukraine and Russia should first agree to a ceasefire before drafting a detailed peace plan.

After meeting with Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky late last month, Trump told reporters that he had not “changed from the standpoint that we both want to see this end and we both want to see a fair deal made.” He doubled down on his pledge to “get [the Ukraine conflict] resolved very quickly.” The last peace negotiations between Russia and Ukraine broke down in the spring of 2022, despite the sides pre-approving a proposed peace treaty. According to Russian President Vladimir Putin, as well as both Ukrainian and US officials, the West “ordered” Kiev to withdraw from the talks. He has also claimed that Kiev had initially agreed to transform Ukraine into a neutral country and restrict the size of its military. Moscow has since expressed its readiness to settle the conflict diplomatically on numerous occasions, insisting, however, on Kiev accepting the “territorial reality” of Russia controlling the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics as well as Kherson and Zaporozhye regions and Crimea.

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Very much.

Refusal to Buy Russian Energy Endangers EU’s Economic Growth – Orban (Sp.)

The fact that the European Union is refusing Russian natural gas has significantly endangered the bloc’s economic growth, forcing it to focus on its own energy infrastructure, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Wednesday. He added that this move spurred on an increase of energy prices. “The EU productivity is growing at slower pace of our competitors, and our share of global trade is going down. EU businesses are paying two to three times more in energy prices than in the United States, and this is four to five times when it comes to natural gas. Moving away from Russian energy has endangered EU GDP growth and we now need to focus on energy support and building infrastructure for liquefied natural gas [LNG],” Orban said at the plenary session of the European Parliament.

The West stepped up sanctions pressure on Russia after the start of the special military operation in Ukraine in 2022. Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the West’s long-term strategy of containing Russia was hurting the global economy instead. In June, the EU approved the 14th sanctions package against Russia. For the first time it is targeting gas, banning re-exports of Russian LNG in EU waters and prohibiting new investments and services in LNG production projects in Russia.

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“..the terms of Istanbul-II for the politicians to draft and sign must follow the terms of armistice, unconditional surrender and disarmament to be dictated by the generals.”

What Is Russia Deciding For Terms To End The War In The Ukraine (Helmer)

The Russian history of end-of-war negotiations for the capitulation of Germany and for the World War II peace settlement requires it to be understood now: it was the Red Army’s defeat of the enemy on the battlefield all the way to Berlin which preceded and which was the precondition for the paper promises and pacts offered to Moscow by those allies whom Joseph Stalin understood to be permanent enemies of Russia — the United States, United Kingdom, and France. Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has just spelled this out in an especially timed essay published on October 2. Those lessons are being repeated now because they apply with equal force to the end-of-war negotiations with the US in the process nicknamed Istanbul-II. For Russian decision-makers in Moscow, and for the Russian people across the country, there can be no long-term security for the country without the military defeat of the enemy on the Ukrainian battlefield, capitulation of the Kiev regime, and withdrawal from Ukrainian territory of its US and NATO allies. This is first of all.

The political “guarantees”, “permanent neutrality” of the Ukraine, and treaty promises for the removal of foreign bases, forces, and weapons to continue war against Russia – terms spelled out in the pact of March 2022 known as Istanbul-I — come second. This is because the terms are unreliable and unenforceable, no matter what president of the US is elected next month and promises the day after — unless and until the Russian military has won the unconditional surrender of its enemies, and secured the battlefield against revival of the war in future. This battlefield security extends from the new Russian western border to the old Ukrainian borders with Poland, Hungary, Romania and Moldova. Which must come first now — war or politics?

The Russian answers to this question being debated in Moscow today are turning the old German theory of war and the state upside down, reversing the meaning of the well-known maxim of Carl von Clausewitz, “war is a continuation of politics by other means.” In Europe today — the Russian General Staff and Security Council insist — politics is the continuation of war by other means. Accordingly, the terms of Istanbul-II for the politicians to draft and sign must follow the terms of armistice, unconditional surrender and disarmament to be dictated by the generals.

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“Peace summit”, “victory plan”, f•ck off. Your people are dying.

Zelensky Cancels November ‘Peace Summit’ (RT)

Ukraine is no longer planning to hold a second peace conference on ending hostilities with Russia, a senior aide to Vladimir Zelensky has said. The meeting had been scheduled for November. Zelensky held an ambitiously-named ‘peace summit’ in June at the Swiss resort of Luzerne, where he sought support for his ‘peace formula’ – a ten-point wishlist that Moscow had rejected as delusional. The event, to which Russia was not invited, was widely seen as a failure. ”The Second Peace Summit will not take place in November,” senior presidential aide Darya Zarivna told the media on Tuesday. According to Zarivna, work is continuing on preparations for such a meeting, with “thematic conferences” dedicated to each point so that everything will be ready for an eventual conference. The last of those thematic conferences, dealing with humanitarian concerns, should take place in Canada at the end of October, Zarivna said.

During his visit to the US last month, Zelensky said he presented a “victory plan” to President Joe Biden and both presidential candidates in the upcoming election, Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump. While the exact details have not been made public, the five points leaked to the media amount to the West ramping up financial and economic aid to Kiev, admitting Ukraine to NATO and the EU, and allowing long-range missile strikes into Russian territory. Moscow has described the last point as direct participation of the US and its allies in the conflict, which would require an adequate response. Russia has since updated its nuclear doctrine accordingly.

On Tuesday, the White House announced that Biden would not meet Zelensky in Germany as previously scheduled, since he has canceled all of his travel plans due to Hurricane Milton impacting Florida. According to Ukrainian media, Zelensky and Biden were supposed to discuss the ‘victory plan’ this coming Saturday. Moscow has ruled out participation in Zelensky’s conferences, dismissing any discussion of the purported formula as futile and pointless. Russian President Vladimir Putin laid out a set of terms for a ceasefire with Ukraine in June, which included “denazification” and a legally binding rejection of membership in NATO.

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”Everything… is accounted for in a database for damage incurred to the economy, businesses and individuals..”

Russia Could Seek War Reparations From Ukraine (RT)

Russian officials are keeping track of damage caused by Ukrainian military actions, so that Moscow has accurate figures for potential reparation claims, a senior diplomat has said. Rodion Miroshnik, who is leading Moscow’s special mission to investigate alleged Ukrainian war crimes, discussed this aspect of the conflict with Izvestia newspaper on Wednesday. Much of this work is done on a regional level, but the data collection is coordinated by the central government, he explained. ”Everything… is accounted for in a database for damage incurred to the economy, businesses and individuals,” Miroshnik said. ”Much depends on the battlefield,” he added. “As we progress, an opportunity will arise to formulate our demands regarding those who committed crimes and to discuss realistic mechanisms for damage compensation.”

In February, Oleg Ustenko, who advises Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky on economic issues, estimated the total damages that the country would seek from Russia at $1 trillion. Last year, Prime Minister Denis Shmigal put the figure of prospective reparations at $750 billion, saying that “confiscated accounts of Russia and Russian oligarchs should be the key source.” In May, the US created national financial mechanisms, which can be used to finance Kiev now and to fund its eventual recovery using confiscated Russian assets. Western nations seized some $300 billion of Russian sovereign assets after the outbreak of hostilities in February 2022. Brussels has applied a windfall tax on profits generated by those funds to be spent on Kiev’s needs. Work is underway to create a $50 billion loan against future profits, which would then be transferred to Ukraine.

Russia has denounced those actions as theft of its property. Kiev wants the entire amount transferred to the country. Izvestia cited several estimates by Russian regions in relation to damage that could be claimed from Ukraine, ranging in value from roughly $200 million in the border Belgorod Region to $145 billion in Crimea. This was the biggest figure, set out in June by Vladimir Konstantinov, the parliament speaker of the former Ukrainian region. It included damages relating to Kiev’s economic blockade of the Crimean peninsula. The Ukrainian government cut water and power supplies to Crimea following a decision by its people to join Russia and reject the government that was installed in Kiev after the US-backed armed coup in 2014.

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“..a cumulative decline of 0.58% under Biden to 14.76%..”

US Global Economic Share Dips Below 15% For First Time (Sp.)

The US share of the global economy has tanked below 15% during Joe Biden’s presidency. By the end of his term, it is projected to hit a record low of 14.76%, according to Sputnik calculations based on data from the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. In 1990, the US accounted for 20.16% of the global economy, measured by purchasing power parity (PPP). That share peaked at 21.01% in 1999, with an economic output of $9.6 trillion, compared to a global output of $45.85 trillion. However, the US portion has steadily declined since, with the sharpest drop occurring between 2006 and 2008, when it fell by 0.6% annually. The US share temporarily increased during Barack Obama’s second term, reaching 16.26% in 2014 and 2015, but failed in sustaining the momentum.

By the end of Obama’s presidency, it fell to 16.04%. Subsequently, the US share declined by another 0.7% under Donald Trump. In Biden’s second year, the US share slipped below 15%, reaching 14.82% by the end of 2023. IMF estimates predict the trend will continue, with the US share falling by another 0.06% by the end of 2024, resulting in a cumulative decline of 0.58% under Biden to 14.76%. Meanwhile, China’s share of the global economy has surged to 18.76%, while Japan’s share has dropped by 4.33% over the past 33 years.

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“..it would take about $20 billion to end homelessness in the United States, or about $25 billion to end hunger in the country..”

US Spending on Mideast Conflict Tops $22 Billion in One Year (Sp.)

The Biden administration began the emergency supply of weapons and ammunition to Tel Aviv immediately after the start of the Israel-Hamas War a year ago, further ramping up its involvement in the conflict by deploying carrier battlegroups, aircraft squadrons, air defenses and boots on the ground at bases across the Middle East. The United States has spent $22.76 billion on the conflict in the Middle East between last October and now, $17.9 billion of this for security assistance to Israel, and $4.86 billion on beefed up US deployments throughout the region, including for the flagging campaign against the Houthis, a new report by Brown University’s Cost of War project has revealed. The university says its estimates – accounting for the period from October 7, 2023 through September 30, 2024, are “conservative,” and do “not include any other economic costs” associated with the crisis, such as heightened costs to global shipping resulting from the Houthis’ partial blockade of the Red Sea to Israel-linked maritime traffic.

The report says US weapons deliveries to Israel have included some 57,000 artillery shells, 36,000 rounds of ammunition for cannons, 20,000 M4A1 rifles, nearly 14,000 anti-tank missiles (though Israel’s Hamas, Hezbollah and Houthi adversaries possess no tanks), and 8,700 MK 82 500 pound bombs. Other assistance included $4 billion to replenish Israel’s Iron Dome and David’s Sling air and missile defense systems, $1.2 billion for the Iron Beam laser air defense system, still in development, and $4.4 billion to replenish US armories emptied by the emergency deliveries to Tel Aviv. US aid also included 4,127,000 kg of JP-8 jet fuel, 14,100 MK 84 unguided 2,000 bombs, 3,000 Joint Direct Attack Munition dumb-to-smart bomb conversion kits, 3,000 Hellfire missiles, 2,600 250-pound GBU-39 Small Diameter Bombs, 1,800 M141 bunker buster bombs, 3,500 night vision devices, 200 Switchblade drones, 100+ Skydio X drones, and 75 Joint Light Tactical Vehicles.

Brown’s report noted that the $17.9 billion in direct arms aid to Israel over the past year is “substantially more than in any other year since the US began granting military aid” to the country in 1959. Before 2023-2024, an average year’s-worth of US assistance amounted to approximately $3.3 billion, with total aid between 1946 and early 2024 topping $300 billion, adjusted for inflation. The study also broke down US expenditures related to the Pentagon’s beefed up footprint in the Middle East amid the Gaza conflict, including a $2.4 billion supplemental, another $2.4 billion for costs associated with operating carrier strike groups and other missions against the Houthis, and $50-$70 million for additional combat pay.

Washington’s largesse fueling the conflict in the Middle East contrasts sharply with its economic neoliberalism-driven penny-pinching on social programs at home, with aid organizations calculating, for example, that it would take about $20 billion to end homelessness in the United States, or about $25 billion to end hunger in the country. The crisis in the Middle East is just one of three major security emergencies the US has been actively engaged in over the past year, with others including the ongoing NATO-fueled proxy war against Russia in Ukraine, and the spat with Beijing in Asia amid Washington’s efforts to hem China in along its coasts and prevent the peaceful, negotiated reunification of Taiwan with the People’s Republic.

The Kiel Institute for the World Economy estimates that the United States has sent over $82 billion-worth of support to Ukraine over the past two-and-a-half years, including $56.6 billion in military assistance. Former President Donald Trump believes that figure is much higher, estimating that the actual number is closer to $300 billion. “So, we’re into almost $300 billion for Ukraine, and yet they’re offering people $750 for immediate aid for the worst hurricane than anybody has ever seen,” Trump said in an interview with Fox News on Monday, referring to federal assistance to the victims of Hurricane Helene, which laid a path of flooding and destruction across the US southeast in late September, killing at least 200 people and causing over $38 billion in damage.

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“Anyone dumb enough to push a tank column through Wadi Saluki should not be an armored brigade commander but a cook..”

Israel Seeks To Fix 2006 Failures, While Hezbollah Lies In Wait (Mehdi)

[..] in the wake of the assassinations of Nasrallah and other top Hezbollah commanders and strategists, the occupation state has ramped up its offensive in Lebanon, with devastating consequences. Targeted airstrikes on Hezbollah’s communication infrastructure and leadership compounds have claimed the lives of over 37 Hezbollah fighters, but it is the civilian casualties that have been most staggering. More than 2,000 Lebanese civilians, including women and children, have been killed – almost double the death toll of 2006 – and over 10,000 injured in less than two weeks, leading international organizations to consider these actions potential war crimes. In 2006, during 34 days of Israel’s aggressions, the total death toll was 1,300. The Israeli bombardment of southern Lebanon and Beirut today mirrors the devastation 18 years ago when villages in the Bekaa Valley and the southern suburbs of Beirut were similarly struck.

Despite the enormous setbacks, Hezbollah has continued to launch rocket attacks deep into Israeli territory, demonstrating a resilience that reflects its strategic gains from the 2006 war. In the last few days, the Lebanese resistance appears to have turned the tide further, striking key Israeli port city Haifa with over 200 projectiles in a historically unprecedented attack on the city and its environs. One of the key lessons Tel Aviv appears to have absorbed from its 2006 military campaign is to apply an excessive use of force, regardless of any accompanying international backlash. CSIS report author Daniel Byman points out that Israel’s war on Gaza and its recent assaults on Lebanon “have clearly shown that Israel’s doctrine of using force has also become more destructive.”

In 2008, the head of the Israeli military’s Northern Command, Major General Gadi Eisenkot, warned after the 2006 war that next time, Israel would destroy “every village from which it fires” and make Hezbollah pay a heavy domestic price for its actions. The CSIS report notes that Israel is less concerned about damaging its international reputation than it was in 2006: “After the deaths of tens of thousands of civilians in Gaza, killing more in Lebanon is not likely to make it worse.” Despite its overwhelming firepower, Israel’s ground invasion during the 2006 war exposed significant tactical failures. After two weeks of heavy airstrikes, Israel launched “Operation Change of Direction,” deploying thousands of soldiers into southern Lebanon to eliminate Hezbollah fighters.

However, the ground incursion proved disastrous for the Israeli army. The Lebanese resistance, deeply entrenched in underground tunnels and well-versed in guerrilla warfare, inflicted heavy losses on Israeli forces, most notably in the Saluki Valley ambush, where Hezbollah blocked the southern end of a column of tanks, then fired anti-tank missiles to devastate Israeli units who were helpless without artillery and infantry support. “Anyone dumb enough to push a tank column through Wadi Saluki should not be an armored brigade commander but a cook,” reflected Timur Goksel, a Turkish diplomat, military officer, and former spokesman for the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL).

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“..the enemy at this point, honestly, not just of Lebanon, or of Palestine, or Syria, or Iran. Israel is becoming an enemy of humanity.”

Israel’s Collective Punishment Turns the World Against It (DeMartino)

In 2008, Israel Defense Forces colonel Gabriel Siboni described what would be named the Dahiyeh doctrine. ”In Lebanon, attacks should both aim at [Hezbollah’s] military capabilities and should target economic interests and the centers of civilian power that support the organization… [Israel] will have to respond disproportionately,” he wrote. The collective punishment carried out by the state of Israel on the people of Gaza, the West Bank, and Lebanon has turned the world against it and could be its undoing. The repercussions of Israel’s indiscriminate and murderous campaign can be seen both locally and across the globe. “There will be no electricity, no food, no water, no fuel, everything is closed [in Gaza]. We are fighting human animals and we are acting accordingly,” Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said days after the October 7 attack. Inside Gaza, Hamas was facing a popularity crisis, with only 20% of the population supporting them before October 7 according to James Zogby of the Arab-American Institute.

By launching Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, Hamas hoped to change its image and increase its popularity. “Hamas sought to use October 7th as an attempt to reconfigure its image as an authoritarian militant group into a fighting force protecting Palestinians against Israeli aggression. Hamas believed that by framing October 7th as a revolutionary act of resistance against Israel, Palestinians would see them as protectors of their struggle and see Hamas in a favorable light,” wrote Abdelhalim Abdelrahman in an article for antiwar.com on the anniversary of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood. A recent poll by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research found that 56% of Palestinians in Gaza say that armed resistance is “the best means of achieving Palestinian goals in ending the occupation and building an independent state,” increasing from 50% in September 2023. The same trend is happening in Lebanon with Hezbollah, the editor of The Cradle told Sputnik’s Fault Lines on Tuesday.

“What has been happening in Lebanon I think is actually creating more support for Hezbollah because even among the people who dislike the existence of the Lebanese resistance, they dislike Israel more,” he argued. “You’re not all of a sudden gonna start taking the side of the people who are bombing your city, your capital, your country. So indiscriminately cutting off the land route to Syria, threatening to start bombing from the sea, as well as from the air… this is the Dahiyeh doctrine.” “They were hoping that at some point Palestinians would be like enough is enough, we are going to turn against Hamas, and that never happened. And, it’s never gonna happen here in Lebanon as well,” Carrillo continued. “Even if they spark some sort of color revolution, it’s gonna fizzle out because Israel, at the end of the day, is the enemy at this point, honestly, not just of Lebanon, or of Palestine, or Syria, or Iran. Israel is becoming an enemy of humanity.” In the region, Israel’s actions have erased decades of work that its government and the US put into normalizing relations with its neighbors.

“[October 7] sidelined what appeared to be an upcoming, soon to be realized, entente between Saudi Arabia and Israel. That would have sidelined… the notion of Palestinian self-determination. But, with October 7, the opposite is in play with the Saudi leadership now contending that no normalization with Israel is possible unless the question of Palestinian self-determination and statehood is on the table,” Dr. Gerald Horne, a historian that holds the John J. and Rebecca Moores Chair of History and African American Studies at the University of Houston told Sputnik’s The Critical Hour. “You can also say that October 7, 2023, weakened the Abraham Accords. Those are the accords initiated by US President, Mr. Trump, which called for normalizing of relations between Morocco and Bahrain and Sudan,” continued Horne. “We now know that with Sudan’s leadership inking those ill-fated accords, it was greeted with hostility on the streets of Khartoum, leading to what is now [a] de-facto civil war.” Across the globe, Israel is finding that countries that were previously satisfied with the status quo are no longer supportive of the zionist state.

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“We are ready for any scenario, the armed forces are fully prepared,” Araghchi stressed. He, however, noted that Iran’s policy is to stop the hostilities and reach an “acceptable ceasefire.”

Iran ‘Fully Prepared’ For War – FM (RT)

Iran does not want an escalation of tensions in the Middle East and supports efforts for a ceasefire but is fully prepared for war, the country’s foreign minister, Seyed Abbas Araghchi, has stated. The Islamic Republic launched a barrage of missiles at Israel last Tuesday, striking a number of military bases in what Tehran said was a response to recent Israeli killings of Hamas and Hezbollah leaders. Israel vowed a “serious and significant” strike in reprisal. “We have stated many times that Iran does not want to increase tension, although we are not afraid of war, we are fully prepared…” Araghchi told reporters on Tuesday in Tehran on the sidelines of the ‘Al-Aqsa Storm; The Beginning of Nasrallah’ conference. “We are ready for any scenario, the armed forces are fully prepared,” Araghchi stressed. He, however, noted that Iran’s policy is to stop the hostilities and reach an “acceptable ceasefire.”

According to Mehr News, the top diplomat said at the conference on Tuesday that Israel should not test Tehran’s will. He warned that any attack on Iran would be met with a crushing response. The Iranian military has prepared “at least ten” scenarios for a possible Israeli strike, according to media reports on Monday. The Iranian parliament is reportedly drafting a so-called ‘resistance pact’ to bolster regional security and counter potential external threats, particularly from the US and Israel. According to the Tehran Times, citing the text of the proposal, all member countries will be required to provide comprehensive support – including military, economic, and political assistance – should any member come under attack from Israel or its allies.

Monday marked the one-year anniversary of the raid into southern Israel by Hamas, which claimed some 1,200 lives. The Jewish State responded by declaring war on the Gaza-based militant group and imposing a near-total siege on the enclave. Nearly 42,000 Palestinians have been killed, most of them women and children, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. Tensions have also risen between Israel and neighboring Muslim countries, which have sided with the Palestinians. Earlier this month, Israel launched a ground operation in Lebanon and has targeted the leadership of the Hezbollah organization.

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We know.

US Navy Was At Scene Of Nord Stream Blasts – Media (RT)

US Navy vessels were operating at the scene shortly before the explosions that crippled the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines in the Baltic Sea, Danish newspaper Politiken has reported, citing a local harbormaster. The crucial energy infrastructure, built to deliver Russian gas to Germany and the rest of Europe, was ruptured by underwater blasts in September 2022. The piece by Politiken was published on September 26 but largely went unnoticed. However, it resurfaced on X (formerly Twitter) on Tuesday, with claims being reposted by Glenn Greenwald and other prominent independent journalists. According to the article, American warships had been operating in the area east of the Danish island of Bornholm with their transponders switched off. The paper spoke to John Anker Nielsen, the harbormaster at the Danish port of Christianso, located near Bornholm.

He said he had decided to share details of the events of September 2022, despite initially being “not allowed to say a thing” about them. According to Nielsen, he launched a rescue operation in the area four or five days before the Nord Stream blasts after spotting ships with their transponders switched off and assuming there was an emergency. However, when Danish rescuers approached the scene, they saw that the vessels in question were US Navy ships, Nielsen said. The Naval Command then told Nielsen and his colleagues to turn back, the harbormaster recalled. Politiken said Nielsen does not believe Western media claims that Nord Stream was sabotaged by Ukraine, supposedly using a yacht, named Andromeda, and a small crew to carry out the sophisticated attack. According to the paper, the harbormaster instead has “some faith” in the version of events provided by legendary investigative journalist Seymour Hersh.

In early February 2023, Hersh authored a report claiming that US President Joe Biden had given the order to destroy Nord Stream. According to an informed source who talked to the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, the explosives that were detonated on September 26, 2022 had been planted at the pipelines during the previous June by US Navy divers under the cover of a NATO exercise called ‘Baltops 22’. The White House denied the report, calling it “utterly false and complete fiction.” Senior Russian officials, including President Vladimir Putin, have previously pointed the finger at the US as the possible culprit behind the Nord Stream explosions. They have argued that Washington had the technical means to carry out the operation and stood to gain the most, considering that the attack disrupted Russian energy supplies to the EU and forced a shift to more expensive US-supplied liquefied natural gas.

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“Google will battle this in the courts for years.”

US Antitrust Officials Consider Google Breakup As ‘Trustbusting Era’ May Return (ZH)

The US Department of Justice and a group of states submitted a document detailing a proposed remedy framework in the ongoing antitrust case against big tech giant Google. The case centers around Google’s violations of Section 2 of the Sherman Act for illegally maintaining monopolies, including general search services and text advertising. On Aug. 5, US District Judge Amit Mehta, Washington, DC, ruled that Google violated antitrust law by spending billions of dollars to create an illegal monopoly as the world’s default search engine on smartphones, computers, and tablets. The ruling paved the way for antitrust enforcers to submit a 32-page document on Tuesday that explained the potential remedies for the judge to consider as the case moves into the remedy phase.

On page 9 of the remedy framework document, the DoJ specifies the government has a “full range of tools previously identified such as structural and additional behavioral remedies as well as term extensions” to restore competition in the marketplace that would modify Google’s business from using products such as its Chrome browser or Android operating system to create advantages for the big tech firm’s search engine. “Fully remedying these harms requires not only ending Google’s control of distribution today, but also ensuring Google cannot control the distribution of tomorrow,” DoJ said. Antitrust enforcers said Google colluded with other big tech companies to make its search engine the default option on devices.

Google quickly responded in a blog post titled “DOJ’s radical and sweeping proposals risk hurting consumers, businesses, and developers” to the remedy framework document on Tuesday evening. Google Vice President of Regulatory Affairs Lee-Anne Mulholland wrote in the post that the DoJ’s remedy framework is “radical” and could have “negative unintended consequences for American innovation and America’s consumers.” Google’s market capitalization (as of Tuesday’s close) of just a little over $2 trillion makes it the world’s fourth-largest company. Mounting legal pressure sent shares down around 1% in premarket trading in New York. Antitrust pressure has been building, with multiple cases being pushed against Google. It also faces the threat of breakup in a separate government lawsuit centered around its online advertising business.

Across the Atlantic, European Union watchdogs have voiced similar concerns with antitrust enforcers in the US about the need to break up Google’s businesses. EU competition chief Margrethe Vestager recently said that “divestiture is the only way” to settle these worries with the big tech firm. Daniel Ives, managing director and senior equity analyst at Wedbush Securities, commented on Google’s potential breakup, indicating it’s “unlikely at this point despite the antitrust swirls,” adding, “Google will battle this in the courts for years.” There has been a four-decade lull in the government breaking up major companies. The last major one came with the 1984 breakup of AT&T. Before that, the 20th century was considered the ‘trustbusting era’, with Standard Oil, American Tobacco, and a railroad trust known as Northern Securities forced to spit up by the government.

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The SEC was never fit for the task.

Crypto Exchange Sues US Market Regulator (RT)

The cryptocurrency exchange Crypto.com has filed a lawsuit against the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for what it believes to be an overstepping of legal boundaries in regulating the crypto industry. The decision by Crypto.com to sue the SEC came after it received a so-called Wells Notice from the regulator, according to a statement issued on the company’s website on Tuesday. The company claims to be seeking to protect the future of the industry. A Wells Notice is a formal declaration that the regulator intends to recommend an enforcement action against it. According to Reuters, retail trading platform Robinhood’s crypto business, major US crypto exchange Coinbase, and NFT marketplace OpenSea are among the companies in the digital assets industry that have received such notices.

The SEC’s “unauthorized and unjust” actions towards the crypto industry have left no other choice than to file a suit, Singapore-based Crypto.com stated. “Our lawsuit contends that the SEC has unilaterally expanded its jurisdiction beyond statutory limits and separately that the SEC has established an unlawful rule that trades in nearly all crypto assets are securities transactions no matter how they are sold…” “We seek to stop the SEC’s illegal actions in excess of their authority and in violation of federal law in their tracks,” the statement reads. Separately, the company filed a petition with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and the SEC, seeking a joint interpretation to confirm that certain cryptocurrency derivative products are solely regulated by the CFTC.

The crypto industry has faced a US regulatory crackdown since the 2022 collapse of FTX. The Bahamas-based exchange was exposed as a Ponzi scheme used to siphon investor funds into the pockets of executives and, via donations, to politicians. Crypto companies have since accused the SEC of overreach and of violating its jurisdiction, while the agency has claimed that it has the authority to regulate crypto under existing laws. The SEC’s cryptocurrency-related actions increased by more than 50% in 2023 over the previous year, according to the US law firm Troutman Pepper. The firms expects this trend to continue.

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    Vincent van Gogh Peasant burning weeds 1883   • Chaos is Coming – John Rubino (USAW) • 60 Minutes Under Fire For Deceptively Editing Kamala Harri
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle October 10 2024]

    #171106
    Red
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    Okay so don’t jump on me for calling this one out a bit. I’m not in anyway suggesting that things weren’t/aren’t dangerous in theses storms. I’ve been looking for and unable to find any winds at the surface that are cat 3 intensity.
    From wiki: “To be classified as a hurricane, a tropical cyclone must have one-minute-average maximum sustained winds at 10 m (33 ft) above the surface of at least 74 mph (64 kn, 119 km/h; Category 1).[1] The highest classification in the scale, Category 5, consists of storms with sustained winds of at least 157 mph (137 kn, 252 km/h). The classifications can provide some indication of the potential damage and flooding a hurricane will cause upon landfall.”
    There used to be transponder info from the planes that fly through these things. I don’t see that anymore, even on Levi’s Tropical Tidbits. Where did they go? Searching the wind speeds at ground level I can’t find anything above cat 1. These wind speeds that are being publicized are well above 3 meters. I also see in this mornings live news coverage a much lower surge height. As I alluded too yesterday in order to get these surge heights you need these high wind speeds to be close enough to the ground to build up the sea levels. The surge is more in line with cat 1 style and this has the reporters seemingly baffled. There seems to be more flooding from the intense rain fall. The severe wind damage that I’ve so far been able to find is from the tornados that the storm touched off. Fear porn, fear sells and helps to keep everyone off guard, or should I say on guard for the wrong things. Squirrel gotta go!

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    tboc
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    Red we both know the most damnable lies is a half truth. I completely accept that all televised media is to some extent fear mongering. I apologize to you personally if what i wrote yesterday was taken as an attack.

    Knowing you are being told a half truth requires one to be more diligent not less. When a large population lives in an area that is one to seven feet above sea level every large tropical depression needs to be taken seriously. Selling bullshit to sell bullshit is the media model. A person who lives in the midwest or in Canada can easily discard the fear porn. A person who lives on the coast of Florida would be injudicious to discard every broadcast off hand as fear porn.

    Skin in the game. How has this storm affected you?

    “All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values.”
    Marshall McLuhan

    There is news and there is history.

    #171108
    Germ
    Participant

    Well, well, well …

    TVASSF

    #171109
    Dr. D
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    “Austria Faces Political Deadlock As Federal President Resists Giving Victorious FPÖ A Mandate To Form A Government

    Winning = Losing. Backsies! Now we need to vote again and keep voting until you get you get it right. …That is, until I win, then we stop voting. Right?

    “America’s Homeless Population Reaches Record High Under Biden-Harris Admin

    It’s almost as if someone is coming in and taking all the housing, staying in all the 5-star hotels n stuff.

    “Asked by the show host about which country is America’s “greatest adversary,” [Kamala] responded, “I think there’s an obvious one in mind which is Iran. Iran has American blood on their hands.”

    What American blood? Nothing even comes to mind. Like, what? When? Who? They probably killed fewer people all year than Kamala killed last week in Tennessee. As the article says, she’s now channeling her inner Cheney.

    60 Minutes: Why not? One edit is good as another, right? This is discussed in Newsrooms all the time, or was a generation ago. That goes to: if you have evil intent, no rule is going to work.

    Note this Meme is legal in California, since it doesn’t use AI to deceive.

    “Megyn Kelly: “Here is what actually happened”

    Yes, but nobody cares. They only care if it affects them. It finally has cut through layers of PMC insulation, making them feel teeny-bit-less-safe in their districts, gated communities, and islands, so now it matters. Until then, every American coast to coast could drop dead and they’d not only be happy, they’d consider it a moral good.

    “The media doesn’t want you to see 275 linemen being housed for free by President Trump”

    Remember the scandal? So he can do this as a private citizen, but it was illegal as President?

    “the “shrinking trust horizon” was first defined by Nicole Foss right here at TAE at least ten years ago.”

    Yes and in those exact terms.

    This was my core misunderstanding. Not that banks wouldn’t steal, governments wouldn’t bail, the problem was that the PUBLIC would go “Hey, this is bulls—t”, and respond. But they’re all on Zoloft and microdropping acid, so no. 20 years later, adding 20 more years of non-stop frauds and oppressions, raw open fascism, World War Three, no drop in the Trust Horizon at all, or not that matters, like sell their Tesla and buy gold. They still get up every day and pretend to believe everything. WE are the ones who stop it. Like the gated PMCs, they’re insulated, their card works, so why worry?

    So considering this was well known 20 years ago, was already discussed as imminent or past tense 10 years ago, that timing this is going to be somewhat…challenging. Human capacity for denial is infinite until the Repo man comes. So like how all markets “Live in accounts” (duh) then “All things will crash”…goldbugs have been saying that since 1971, 1979, 1985, 1994, 1999, 2001, 2008, 2020, and everyone who said it died of extreme old age while nothing happened. So be careful. And explain.

    Her response is always either laugh inanely, talk about her mother, or blame Trump.”

    Ackshully…that sounds like every AWFL PMC I know. VP of sales, Window Teller at the DMV, every one of them. Why didn’t you tell me I needed to get Form 811.b LAST time before I stood in this line again? Laugh inanely/ it’s your mother/ Trump’s fault. Yup. And why? Because it works. If you say these magic words you don’t need to assemble Boeing MAX correctly, they’ll let you go. I’d use them too! (Except that I’m a man and we constitutionally are incapable of behaving that way. But I would WANT to. Really hard!)

    “• US in Dangerous Hiatus Amid Biden’s Lame Duck Period – Jeffrey Sachs (Sp.)

    You mean the Biden since 1990?

    ““I hope for rationality by the next government, because we need a completely new foreign policy,”

    Apparently Sachs is a slow learner and needs to die to make room for someone who pays attention. “Next” government? There is no Next government, there is only the UniGovernment, the eternal bureaucracy, WE JUST SAW that the President can do nothing, enact nothing, no one will obey ANY orders, and he can’t fire them. That was YEARS ago, maybe as far back as 1959 when Ike told you? Then we got a nifty public display soon after?

    Not only IS there no “rational government” IT’S IMPOSSIBLE FOR THERE TO BE ONE. How many would you have to fire? 90%? Since when this happened, they all agreed and played along.

    “Netanyahu is not Israel.”

    Great but terribly long interview with Nostradamus expert Hogue https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DI8QlJMKpIc asks a far more interesting question: since Israel as a Nazi apartheid state is about to cease to exist, what happens next? That geographic location will still exist and be governed by someone. (Note of course that my saying that means I’m pro-Israel, right boys? You will now forget I ever said that…and have said that again every week for years, Three…two…one…Poof, I never said it! Because hate! How will I hate if I don’t make things up about other people and my allies? Hate: Feels. Just. So. Good!!!)

    Of course it’s really hard to just…imagine, on a blank sheet of paper what happens next to the Levant. Why don’t we start with some fundamentals then? They are Semitic peoples. Wait: the Palestinians are Semitic peoples, and a very few of the Jews are, but most of the People, and their government, are actually Khazarian, that is Eastern European whites with no Semitic blood or…so it might seem, claim. Why?

    What was the Claim, the whole religious premise for the nation, since Balfour and before? That the “Seed of Abraham” would be as many as the stars and occupy, own this specific geographical location he prayer-walked. Right? Okay, two problems: One: THEY’RE NOT THE SEED OF ABRAHAM. They are the Name-stealers. PRETENDING to be so, wearing the Jews like a skin-suit, to be discarded like a lizard tail, all killed if things go bad. How exactly is Kazakhstan the same as Israel? So wouldn’t the Seed of Abraham and the promise go to Semitic People instead? Who are they?

    Problem two: They are. Let’s just presume you can say such a thing, God can do such a thing, make such an eternal promise, and it matters. I don’t have a witness and notary to that contract so it seems fishy to me, but fine, that’s the basis of the state right? Its founding myth? The Promise was to the Seed of Abraham. Great. Sold!

    …Abraham had TWO sons you dips—ts, Issac (Israel) AND Ishmael. Two. WHY is the promise only relevant for one son and not the other? Okay, now you’re adding that the Seed of Abraham has claim to the land, but ONLY THROUGH SARAH? Where’s that in the Torah? Sara defied God and the angels and collapsed her faith, WHY should Issac be the primary son? If anything, he was second-born AND born out of Sarah’s faithlessness. Certainly the MUSLIM line feels Ishmael is the primary son. Okay, why not BOTH? Call a truce you ninnys, like Jacob and Esau. You’re BOTH the seed of Abraham.

    See the problem? Okay, ALL of Israel was settled improperly, against God’s every law, in so many ways. Thou Shalt not Steal. Thou Shalt not Murder. But it wasn’t the Khazars, since they’re not God’s people by blood in the first place. They’re blood-impostors. Same discussion was had with Paul and the early church: don’t you have to be Jewish in line and circumcised, etc? I think these are dumb arguments, just saying they’re legal, and they’ve been going on for 2000 years and more. They’re not MY arguments: I don’t believe them. THEY do. So follow your own rules, myths, and beliefs.

    What does that tell you about what happens next for Israel? Well, they did bad behavior, that means to God they cannot inherit, and need to atone and make amends. What’s more, we have the equal ownership of ALL Semitic peoples, but possibly NOT outsiders and colonists from NE Europe. So does a “One-State” solution sound more possible now? When Israel ceases to exist, why SHOULDN’T the Semitic brothers take it and live there equally, now that they’re both free from colonist impostors from Europe?

    Yeah, everything would be different, but what KIND of different? As they are now, they’re not going to fit into becoming Turkey, Ottoman again. Not run by Jordan, etc. So it makes cultural sense they would remain their own place and nation. But a nation that rejects the sin they’ve been doing and therefore merges together into one, all having been brought low, and so be aligned together. No criminal leaders from above, just this dusty farm and our work. You and me, Right?

    Repeat: ““Netanyahu is not Israel.” And he’s POLISH. NE European. Not Semitic a bit. Run a DNA test and show.

    For the article, how does that work? You dummies, it’s not 1979, America ain’t doin’ s—t. We can’t. Trump can promise anything he wants since we have no capacity to make anything happen. When this collapses, he’ll have to say “Aw shucks, pal, we’re kind busy over here at home with a US$ at 30c, and no military/manufacturing base. Guess we can’t make you any dem Patriot missiles, durn it.”

    …Or is your thesis that the U.S. right now IS and CAN do this, and ALSO that no collapse or change will happen? Not even when the US$ tanks? Americans won’t stop money flooding to Ukraine and Aviv when they’re dying like rats at home AND the Federales got no money to keep us down no mo’?

    Use your head.

    The whole country is recognizing and is aligned or turning against the Vichy Occupation, colonization. Sending troops to Iran is like boarding U.S. ships and conscripting the men for the King’s Navy; (1780-1812) you might get away with it for a while, but not all that long. In this case, every ship would ALSO be sunk, so it won’t matter.

    ““If, as I believe, the US is defeated, NATO will disintegrate and Europe will be left free..”

    Huh, wrapping my mind around that statement. Well, if you think Europe is occupied by their own AntiDemocratic Vichy Occupation, then yes. But those people are clearly in the WEF and EU Commission with Der Lyin’. Der Lyin’ is by definition not elected, she is appointed. Against the will of every European.

    “• Refusal to Buy Russian Energy Endangers EU’s Economic Growth – Orban (Sp.)

    Yes, but they didn’t refuse: they’ve been buying more than ever, just lying about it, so it’s all okay then. You see, it’s not okay to cheat on my wife, but if I LIE about it and deny it, then it’s all fine.

    BTW if they’re going to do something: crash the market, collapse Ukraine, Nuke or scare the pants off the West, THEY’RE ALREADY VOTING. I mean, the election isn’t next week, thanks to “Election year” the election is ALREADY HAPPENING. Now obviously, most of the votes come in election night, but note this. I feel like the posture is: what WILL happen, out there in the…what? Election is tomorrow, kids. No time for nothin’

    “• Russia Could Seek War Reparations From Ukraine (RT)

    This is actually true. It’s never mentioned but all Eastern Europe was paying reparations to Russia under the Iron Curtain for decades. I think some still are. It’s never said, because, like Russia fighting almost the whole, and winning the war, with one pimple of Brits on the side, it would express and support that Russia was the victim of WWII, they were the ones attacked and suffered. They were the ones who won. So it can’t be mentioned in Cold War Europe where we’re trying to wrest the Eastern Bloc away that Romania, Poland are paying very fair, legal, and large reparations for what they did to Moscow.

    Now consider the article in that context. Yes, Russia can get reparations and probably will.

    “• US Global Economic Share Dips Below 15% For First Time (Sp.)

    Are you kidding? 2/3 of our GDP is bond-kiting.

    “• US Spending on Mideast Conflict Tops $22 Billion in One Year (Sp.)

    Yes but we’re always arming both sides, so it’s fair and logical. Saddam, with our chemical weapons, was fighting Iran, with our F16s. We then armed Kuwait who fought both.

    “• Israel Seeks To Fix 2006 Failures, While Hezbollah Lies In Wait (Mehdi)

    Not sure how they do it or why, but Lebanon always destroys Israel. Every time they try. Don’t mess with the Lebanese, they are very serious people.

    “• Israel’s Collective Punishment Turns the World Against It (DeMartino)

    Great! Glad we’ve gotten to this point and discussion. So we can’t collectively punish people for actions? Like we don’t punish Jews living in Spain for the actions of an elected leader 500 miles away? Sold. Oh wait: we LIKE collective punishment now and it’s a GOOD thing? Make up your mind. If you collective punishment, then Israel can too, right?

    “• Iran ‘Fully Prepared’ For War – FM (RT)

    How does Iran fit into the future and the Cousin-Brother settlement that will eventually happen in Israel? Note, the eschatology of these stories and religions perfectly allows that THIS is not the WWIII, the End Times, the Armageddon. They could perfectly come to peace and do that 100 years from now. In fact, the prophesy is “there will be no walls, it will all be in peace” when that happens.

    “• US Antitrust Officials Consider Google Breakup As ‘Trustbusting Era’ May Return

    Google’s going to sue themselves? They are the fully-merged government.

    “Crypto.com to sue the SEC came after it received a so-called Wells Notice from the regulator, “

    They’re the government, they harass everybody they can to get bribes. It’s called “Extortion” and is a feature of mafias.

    “50%….a totally deficient immune system,”

    Show me. You’ve been saying it, but I don’t see it. Don’t be as fact-free as the other side.

    “Eva Vlaardingerbroek”

    Why do they hate native peoples so much? Why do they hate strong women?

    “Where were you?”

    Same as MLK: only love him when he’s dead. Before then he was an a-hole, a minute later he’s a Saint! Magic! After we’ve stolen all the stuff, suddenly we’re just chock full of caring! Of course the ad doesn’t point out that they’ll all be shot if they get mouthy. Ask NC what happens. Ask the other 49 states about Fentanyl if they vote wrong. That doesn’t let you off the hook, but it DOES mean you can tell your kids, “Hey bucko, if I’d been making a mess like Assange was, you wouldn’t be here: we’d all be dead. I’d be murdered in 100 days.”

    Is this a joke? We all just have the Feelz and no strategy? Never actually lifted a finger so we’d find out? Wow, you really ARE removed from reality! Must be nice.

    #171110
    tboc
    Participant

    HIstory might be compared to a Billy Gibbon’s guitar solo, it is repetitive.

    still, Billy has a lot of fans

    #171111
    Red
    Participant

    TBOC no offence taken mate. I’m merely saying that the criteria for classifying a storm at certain categories isn’t being adhered too. The wind speeds for a cat 3 are between 178mph and 208mph sustained for one minute at 30 feet above sea level. It wasn’t a half truth it was a total lie. At no time in the two days before land fall and right up to and including at landfall it never achieved the necessary criteria to call it anything other than a cat1. The press gets its info from the government environment department. How are they calculating this now as compared to yesteryear?

    #171112
    zerosum
    Participant

    Forecast: Help is coming
    the word salad was deceptively edited to lessen Kamala’s idiotic response

    the catalyst

    this gets fixed via chaos
    “shrinking trust horizon.”
    all the other dominos
    hoping it is survivable chaos

    which fantasy – everything getting better for everyone

    – a “victory plan”: a wish list that is delusional

    1. ramping up financial and economic aid to Kiev,
    2. admitting Ukraine to NATO and the EU, and
    3.allowing long-range missile strikes into Russian territory.

    Moscow has described the last point as direct participation of the US and its allies in the conflict, which would require an adequate response. Russia has since updated its nuclear doctrine accordingly.
    ————-
    No Business Like War Business: US Spending on Mideast Conflict Tops $22 Billion in One Year
    https://sputnikglobe.com/20241008/no-business-like-war-business-us-spending-on-mideast-conflict-tops-22-billion-in-one-year-1120475851.html

    • US Spending on Mideast Conflict Tops $22 Billion in One Year (Sp.)

    “..it would take about $20 billion to end homelessness in the United States, or about $25 billion to end hunger in the country..”

    https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/papers/2024/USspendingIsrael
    Read the full paper > Cost of War

    https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/files/cow/imce/papers/2023/2024/Costs%20of%20War_US%20Support%20Since%20Oct%207%20FINAL%20v2.pdf
    Linda J. Bilmes, William D. Hartung, and Stephen Semler1
    October 7, 2024
    ———-
    “..the enemy at this point, honestly, not just of Lebanon, or of Palestine, or Syria, or Iran. Israel is becoming an enemy of humanity.”

    • Israel’s Collective Punishment Turns the World Against It (DeMartino)
    https://sputnikglobe.com/20241009/israels-collective-punishment-turns-the-world-against-it-1120480953.html
    ———-
    https://x.com/newstart_2024/status/1843870712924135593?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1843870712924135593%7Ctwgr%5E784814703c55f066f0fa49f5358866a21ef80781%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theautomaticearth.com%2F2024%2F10%2Fdebt-rattle-october-10-2024%2F

    the vaccine is doing the exact opposite of anything you would ever wanted to do, which is lowering your immune system to be able to fight anything you’re coming in contact with now in the world.”

    ————

    #171113
    Just Some Randomer
    Participant

    Further to the psychopathic ravings of Matthew Brodsky yesterday, it appears that the IDF have decided to follow his advice and open fire on UN Peacekeepers in Lebanon. It would appear that Netanyahoo has resolved to double-down on his mission to make Israel even more of a global pariah state than it already is. When peacekeepers from Ireland etc. start coming home in bodybags things might get a little ugly.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/10/10/israel-iran-war-hezbollah-lebanon-latest-news1/

    Two United Nations peacekeepers were wounded on Thursday morning when an Israeli tank fired toward an observation tower at their headquarters in Naqoura, reports Ben Farmer from Beirut.

    “The injuries are fortunately, this time, not serious, but they remain in hospital,” a source told the Telegraph.

    The attack has caused diplomatic consternation, with Italy, which leads the UN mission, summoning the Israeli ambassador on Thursday afternoon while Ireland has called the incident ‘intolerable.’

    Israeli soldiers also fired on a UN position in Ras Naqoura, the source said, “hitting the entrance to the bunker where peacekeepers were sheltering, and damaging vehicles and a communications system”.

    The source said the headquarters of the peacekeeping mission, called UNIFIL, and nearby positions have been “repeatedly hit”.

    In a later statement, the UN accused Israel of deliberately firing at security cameras on the perimeter of one of its positions.

    The United Nations has around 10,000 troops in the country from 50 nations, including several hundred soldiers from Ireland, as they monitor the ‘Blue Line’ between Lebanon and Israel.

    #171114
    John Day
    Participant

    Storms Coming https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/storms-coming

    The US Military appears to get pre-justification to kill some crowds of Americans on US soil. Use of lethal force in a reasonably anticipated confrontation
    What exactly qualifies as reasonable in a reasonably anticipated confrontation?​ DOD Directive 5240.01 effective September 27, 2024.
    ​..Secretary of Defense Approval
    ​ (2) The decision to approve requests for these types of permissible assistance described in Paragraph 3.2. to law enforcement agencies and other civil authorities are reserved to the Secretary of Defense:
    ​ (c) Assistance in responding with assets with potential for lethality, or any situation in which it is reasonably foreseeable that providing the requested assistance may involve the use of force that is likely to result in lethal force, including death or serious bodily injury. It also includes all support to civilian law enforcement officials in situations where a confrontation between civilian law enforcement and civilian individuals or groups is reasonably anticipated. Such use of force must be in accordance with DoDD 5210.56, potentially as further restricted based on the specifics of the requested support.​ https://jessica5b3.substack.com/p/use-of-lethal-force-in-a-reasonably

    ​Ugo Bardi, The Age Of Exterminations (II) — How to Exterminate the Young
    ​ The power of propaganda is immense. It is so strong especially because people don’t realize that they are embedded in it and the things that propaganda makes them do look like the most natural and obvious ones. It was Baudelaire who said, “the devil’s best trick is to convince people that he does not exist.”
    ​ So, here is a story of a triumph of propaganda: how it convinced most Italians in 1914-15 that it was a good idea to go to war against their neighbors, the Austrians in one of the greatest follies of history, what our ancestors called, rightly, “The Great War.”
    ​ It all started when, in July 1914, a Serbian madman shot an Austrian Archduke. That caused the Great Powers of the time to attack each other in a sort of large-scale domino game. Austria attacked Serbia, Germany attacked France, Russia attacked Austria, and more.
    ​ And Italy? It is a story poorly known outside Italy, but interesting for many reasons. Italy at that time was a nation of peasants, its economy was weak, and its military power limited. Sometimes, it was called the “proletarian nation,” in contrast with the Northern “plutocracies,” Britain and others. Italy was poor, but secure inside its borders: protected by the sea and by the Alps. No need to go to war against anyone.​ https://www.senecaeffect.com/2021/09/the-age-of-exterminations-ii-how-to.html

    ​ Kyle Young, Waging “Weather Warfare” and “Plunder Capitalism” on the good folk of the US
    ​ “Others are engaging even in an eco-type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves. So there are plenty of ingenious minds out there that are at work finding ways in which they can wreak terror upon other nations. It’s real, and that’s the reason why we have to intensify our efforts, and that’s why this is so important.” Secretary of Defense William Cohen giving the keynote address at the Conference on Terrorism, Weapons of Mass Destruction, and US Strategy at the University of Georgia, Athens April 28, 1997.​..
    ​..Recently we saw all of that converging into a hurricane that Dane Wigington and others have pointed out was steered by Nexrad radar over the most lithium rich deposit in the US, Western North Carolina.​..
    ..Because the local economy may take many years to recover, those that remain will be hard pressed to make a living. Many will be forced to sell what’s left of their homes and farms for a tiny fraction of what they were worth before the flood. This will put ever more pressure on those that remain.
    ​ And who will be buying up all of these properties? That would be those who’ve been lurking in the shadows for years trying to buy-up homes and farms that sit on top of the vast lithium and quartz crystal deposits of this region…
    ..Albemarle’s maneuvering began in 2023 when they applied for a grant from the Department of Defense. Recently the DoD and DoE approved a total of $250 million in grants to Albemarle to gear up for Kings Mountain. Anthony Stasio MCEIP director, said this “… agreement with Albemarle demonstrates the DoD’s ongoing commitment to meeting the needs of our warfighter, today and in the future,” …​ Why the worlds largest lithium mining company needs to be given $250 million of our taxpayer dollars to gear-up for Kings Mountain has not been explained. What can be explained is that this is just another example of the type of corporate socialism that’s rampant in the US.​..
    ..We know there are companies that specialize in weather modification. They work for whoever pays them. One of the largest weather modification companies in the world is Weather Modification Inc (how original). Right now I’m trying to determine if they had a contract over Western NC during Helene. I’m also trying to track some C130 flights above and below Milton as he was out over the gulf of Mexico. There is mounting evidence that Milton was heavily seeded with silver iodide while over the gulf. https://secularheretic.substack.com/p/waging-weather-warfare-and-plunder

    ​ It’s in a different category. FEMA already misspent most of what was in the disaster pot for the year. There would need to be Congressional approval to transfer these funds.
    Watchdog found $7B in untapped FEMA funds — even though DHS Secretary Mayorkas said none available for future disasters
    ​ DHS Inspector General Joseph Cuffari found in his Aug. 14 report that as of October 2022, FEMA had $8.3 billion in unliquidated funds meant to relieve declared disasters from 2012 or earlier.​ https://nypost.com/2024/10/07/us-news/watchdog-found-7b-in-untapped-fema-funds-even-though-dhs-secretary-mayorkas-said-none-available-for-future-disasters/

    #171115
    John Day
    Participant

    ​ 600 Missing, FEMA’s a Slush Fund & Mayorkas Has $8 Billion?
    According to Fox News, budget experts warn that FEMA is now a slush fund for the Biden-Harris administration to use at will.
    ​ Meanwhile, $73 billion in unliquidated funds remain open, and there are 8.3 billion in unliquidated obligations. The money could be returned to help people battling for survival and disasters now. The IG report agrees that seven billion-plus dollars in unliquidated funds could potentially be returned to the Disaster Relief Fund.​ https://www.independentsentinel.com/600-missing-femas-a-slush-fund-mayorkas-has-8-billion/

    ​ An individual who tried to drop off food and other supplies in the devastated mountain region of North Carolina using his private helicopter was arrested by the Biden regime for interfering with “a government operation.”
    ​ After the man landed his craft, authorities immediately cuffed him using the excuse that he was getting in the way of their own rescue efforts – except there were no rescue efforts actually taking place.​ “He landed and got arrested and [they] said he was interfering with a government operation, but there’s no operations going on,” explains the man in the video.​ https://www.naturalnews.com/2024-10-08-kamala-admin-arrests-good-samaritan-hurricane-helene.html

    US Navy is said to have been at the scene shortly before Nord Stream was destroyed, Danish newspaper reports​ https://weltwoche-de.translate.goog/daily/us-marine-soll-kurz-vor-nord-stream-zerstoerung-mit-abgeschaltetem-transponder-am-tatort-gewesen-sein-berichtet-daenische-zeitung/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp

    ​ John Helmer on Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov’s recent clarification:
    ​ The Russian history of end-of-war negotiations for the capitulation of Germany and for the World War II peace settlement requires it to be understood now: it was the Red Army’s defeat of the enemy on the battlefield all the way to Berlin which preceded and which was the precondition for the paper promises and pacts offered to Moscow by those allies whom Joseph Stalin understood to be permanent enemies of Russia — the United States, United Kingdom, and France.
    ​ Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has just spelled this out in an especially timed essay published on October 2.
    ​Those lessons are being repeated now because they apply with equal force to the end-of-war negotiations with the US in the process nicknamed Istanbul-II.
    ​ For Russian decision-makers in Moscow, and for the Russian people across the country, there can be no long-term security for the country without the military defeat of the enemy on the Ukrainian battlefield, capitulation of the Kiev regime, and withdrawal from Ukrainian territory of its US and NATO allies.​ https://johnhelmer.net/what-is-russia-deciding-for-terms-to-end-the-war-in-the-ukraine-gorilla-radio-explains/

    ​ BINGO! Blackrock’s Ukrainian assets in the crosshairs: Russia could seek war reparations from Ukraine – senior diplomat
    Military victory over Kiev may be followed by demands for compensation, Rodion Miroshnik has said​ https://swentr.site/russia/605453-ukraine-conflict-reparations-database/

    #171116
    John Day
    Participant

    ​ Israeli Forces Kill 56 More Palestinians in the Gaza Strip
    The Israeli military continues to escalate in northern Gaza, where it appears to be carrying out an ethnic cleansing plan ​ https://news.antiwar.com/2024/10/08/israeli-forces-kill-56-more-palestinians-in-the-gaza-strip/#gsc.tab=0

    ​ Israeli Strikes Kill 36 in Lebanon as Netanyahu Threatens To Turn the Country Into Gaza
    The Israeli president said Lebanon would face similar destruction if its people didn’t ‘free’ the country from Hezbollah​ https://news.antiwar.com/2024/10/08/israeli-strikes-kill-36-in-lebanon-as-netanyahu-threatens-to-turn-the-country-into-gaza/#gsc.tab=0

    ​ Netanyahu Goes Even More Rogue, Announces Intent to Turn Lebanon into Gaza, Refuses to Inform US of Iran Strike Plans
    ​And the State Department confirmed that the Biden Administration is all in with more war crimes like collective punishment, and the extension of the Gaza genocide plan:
    ​ “So the answer to your question is yes, we do support Israel launching these incursions to degrade Hizballah’s infrastructure so ultimately we can get a diplomatic resolution that allows 1701 to finally be fully implemented​”.
    ​ Needless to say, the assertion that Israel is attacking “Hizbollah’s infrastructure” when it destroys hospitals and apartments is an insult to intelligence.
    While the US and Israel are on the same page regarding the destruction of Lebanon, they appear to be at odds over what exactly Israel will do in its planned counterattack on Iran.​ https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/10/netanyahu-goes-even-more-rogue-announces-intent-to-turn-lebanon-into-gaza-refuses-to-inform-us-of-iran-strike-plans.html

    ​ Biden Holds Phone Call With Netanyahu On Iran Strike Plans After Gallant Trip Blocked
    ​ President Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are holding a crucial phone call Wednesday morning focused on Israel’s plans to strike back at Iran for the Oct.1st ballistic missile attack, which saw some 200 warheads launched, many of which hit targets on the ground including key airbases.
    ​ It marks the first call since Iran’s attack, and also the first between the leaders in two months, and comes as Washington has signaled it is deeply worried that a bigger regional war could break out if Israel’s retaliation goes too far. The call is scheduled for 10:30ET. NBC is reporting that Vice President Kamala Harris will join the call.
    ​ The call comes amid some internal Israeli drama, given the open spat between Netanyahu and his Defense Minister. Netanyahu has forced Gallant to cancel a planned trip to Washington. It was set for Wednesday, and he was to meet with counterparts in the Pentagon about “ongoing Middle East security developments,” a Pentagon statement had indicated.​ https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/biden-holds-phone-call-netanyahu-iran-strike-plans-after-gallant-trip-blocked​

    US Says It Doesn’t Want a Ceasefire in Lebanon, Supports Israeli Offensive​, The State Department voiced strong support for Israeli military operations​ https://news.antiwar.com/2024/10/08/us-says-it-doesnt-want-a-ceasefire-in-lebanon-supports-israeli-offensive/#gsc.tab=0

    #171117
    John Day
    Participant

    Lebanon reports over 400,000 flee to Syria in just two weeks amid escalating conflict​ https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20241008-lebanon-reports-over-400000-flee-to-syria-in-just-two-weeks-amid-escalating-conflict/

    ​I wonder if somebody will assassinate Kamala this month and blame The Donald… Vice President Harris Says Iran Is the US’s ‘Greatest Adversary’
    The vice president also said the US ‘must win the competition for the 21st century with China’​ https://news.antiwar.com/2024/10/08/vice-president-harris-says-iran-is-the-uss-greatest-adversary/#gsc.tab=0

    ​ What might this actually mean? Do bankers want this war to wind down? British PM declares London ‘will never stop selling weapons to Israel’
    The announcement comes a month after the Labour government suspended less than 10 percent of active arms export licenses to Israel​
    ​ His statement came in response to a question by MP Zarah Sultana, who pressed Starmer on whether London would “finally do what’s legally and morally right and end the government’s complicity in Israeli war crimes by banning all arms sales to Israel, including F-35 fighter jets, not just 30 licenses.”
    ​ “No,” Starmer replied bluntly. “But it is a really serious point. Banning all sales would mean none for defensive purposes. None for defensive purposes on the anniversary of 7 October and days after a huge attack by Iran into Israel would be a wrong position for this government and I will not take it,” Starmer said. https://thecradle.co/articles/british-pm-declares-london-will-never-stop-selling-weapons-to-israel

    Has Iran Just Tested a Nuclear Bomb? Rodney Atkinson
    ​ Two disturbing news items out of Iran suggest that Iran may already have a nuclear bomb capacity.
    Firstly, an Armenian station recorded a seismic event measuring 4.4 on the Richter scale in Iran on Saturday 5th October and according to Armenian researchers, its characteristics suggest it was more like an explosion than an earthquake.
    Secondly, a source in the Islamic republic said in a private conversation with an official close to Khamenei that​:
    “Allah has already given us everything, everything is far away from the eyes of the Zionists, and we are ready to release this genie in response to any hint of a real threat to the existence of our state”​ https://www.globalresearch.ca/iran-tested-nuclear-bomb/5869745

    ​From Pravda now… Did Iran conduct an underground nuclear test on October 5? Israel and US to invade Iran not to let it build nuclear bomb
    https://english.pravda.ru/world/160855-iran-nuclear-bomb/

    #171118
    John Day
    Participant

    ​From Tehran Times: Rising call for nukes Unchecked Israeli aggression fuels Iranian public demands for nuclear weapons (sure it does) https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/504740/Rising-call-for-nukes

    US is producing plutonium cores for warheads againhttps://en.topwar.ru/251579-ssha-snova-proizvodjat-plutonievye-jadra-dlja-boezarjadov.html

    Report: US Considers Launching Airstrikes Against Iran To Support Israeli Attack​, US officials say Israel hasn’t briefed the US on its specific plans to attack Iran​ https://news.antiwar.com/2024/10/08/report-us-considers-launching-airstrikes-against-iran-to-support-israeli-attack/#gsc.tab=0

    ​ USN Ret. Admiral Cem Gurdinez, Israel’s Air Defense and the Weakness of the U.S. Navy. “Damage Control Project” of Commander of the U.S. Naval Forces
    ​ In June 2023, the American Congress approved the naval target of 381 ships. In addition, it is aimed to have 397 ships by 2053. However, today, in order to complete the 381 ship target by 2030, a 20% budget increase is needed, which is not possible under today’s debt stock burden.
    ​ Today, the backbone of American naval power is nuclear-powered attack submarines (SSN), other than nuclear aircraft carriers and ballistic missile submarines (SSBN).
    ​ However, today, nearly 40% of submarines are under repair and the delays in repair are enormous. If aircraft carriers operate in waters close to the continent – for example, in the South or East China Sea – they are likely to be hit by hypersonic and ballistic missiles. In short, the US is unprepared for a major power conflict which is developing.
    ​ If a conflict with China were to break out tomorrow, the American Navy would have very little chance of winning because it is not ready. The logistical difficulties of building and sustaining American naval power in the short and medium terms are incredible. If the problem of replenishing existing weapons and ammunition stocks is added to this, the seriousness of the situation becomes apparent.
    ​ According to former American Undersecretary of the Navy Seth Cropsey, if the US does not increase the production of the weapons it will need in the Indo-Pacific, especially hypersonic cruise and ballistic missiles and short-range anti-ship weapons, it will lose a war for Taiwan in weeks. In its current state, the US Navy cannot maintain its bases and allies in the Indo-Pacific Oceans and its transoceanic logistical support line.
    ​ The parameters of the US​SR-USA balance in the Cold War and today’s US-China balance are extremely different. The USSR could not defeat the US because the American Navy’s enormous size of 600 ships confined the Soviets to the continent and weakened them. China, on the other hand, is far more advanced at sea than the US naval power today. China has the advantage in terms of both its geographical location, naval power and number of anti-ship missiles. The conditions are more in its favor than ever to bring this to a dynamic conclusion. The US is weakening its power in the Mediterranean and the Persian Gulf because of Israel. China, on the other hand, will use every opportunity to protect and develop its own geopolitical interests, especially in Taiwan and the South China Sea, as long as the Israel-Iran crisis continues.​ https://www.globalresearch.ca/iran-israel-tension-weakness-american-navy/5869826

    ​It’s OK. I hear China is going to finally build it. Twenty Three Years Ago, the U.S. Invaded Afghanistan Over an Oil Pipeline https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/10/08/twenty-three-years-ago-the-u-s-invaded-afghanistan-over-an-oil-pipeline/

    #171120
    John Day
    Participant

    I’m worried about other things, but this may be true: Elon Musk: Democrat Elites Terrified Epstein List Will Become Public If Trump Wins https://www.dailyfetched.com/elon-musk-democrat-elites-terrified-epstein-client-list-will-become-public-if-trump-wins/

    ​ Whistleblower Imprisoned for Investigating Election Fraud
    ​ Former Colorado country clerk Tina Peters has been sentenced to 9 years imprisonment for conducting an independent investigation regarding election fraud. Prosecutors said Peters was “fixated” on voter fraud after the 2020 US Presidential Election and took it upon herself to investigate the matter. “I’ve never done anything with malice to break the law. I’ve only wanted to serve the people of Mesa County,” she told the court.​ https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/politics/whistleblower-imprisoned-for-investigating-election-fraud/

    AI wants its own, personal nuclear power plant. ​ Google Turns To Nuclear To Power Its Data Centers​ https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/google-turns-nuclear-power-power-its-data-centers

    ​Space weather reports say Solar Storm Today:
    (2 min.) Level 4 Solar Storm Predicted​ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69b_KzivaWA&t=1s
    (3.5 min.) Solar Storm Coming Today, Aurora Watch Tonight​ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYyZdiRGwak
    .

    #171121
    John Day
    Participant

    NOAA: G4 (Severe) Storm Watch for 10-11 October​, published: Wednesday, October 09, 2024 14:44 UTC
    ​ A fast coronal mass ejection (CME) erupted from the Sun the evening of 8 October, 2024, and is likely to arrive at Earth on 10 October. This CME has been analyzed and speed estimates are 1200 to 1300 km/s. This makes for a potential arrival time as early as the morning to midday of 10 October EDT. There is potential to reach G4 (Severe) upon arrival of this CME and throughout its passage.​ https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/news/g4-severe-storm-watch-10-11-october#:~:text=A%20fast%20coronal%20mass%20ejection,midday%20of%2010%20October%20EDT.

    #171122
    John Day
    Participant

    So the question just popped into my mind of whether North Korea provided Iran with the nuclear device to test last Saturday, which would explain the CIA assessment that Iran had not proceeded to making such devices yet. (Though the CIA has confessed to occasionally lying…)
    https://www.unitedagainstnucleariran.com/north-korea-iran

    #171123
    jb-hb
    Participant

    Media aftermath of Milton is a bit weird as well.

    “MASSIVE crane FELL into this ONE BUILDING!!! The CORNER is motherfucking MASSIVELY DAMAGED!!!” Wait, who left a crane fully upright to fall over in a hurricane they knew were coming? Let’s look at the Hurricane Damage which is this one building corner from 1,025 angles.

    “ROOF motherfucking DESTROYED on big arena!!!!” The fabric one? Yes I am shocked as well, truly.

    “MASSIVE STORM SURGE… cars STRUGGLING to get where they are going! WOAAHHHHHHHHH” The cars are struggling – but moving – underneath the 20 foot storm surge you promised? Wait, I can SEE THE SIDEWALK.

    Or they show me a stopsign with the water 3 feet up on it… but I can SEE it is at the bottom of a very substantial hill. Or they show houses that the water came up to …on a river. Yeah, I remember houses having exactly that happen every year on the Fox river in Illinois when it rained.

    National Hurricane Center “5 am EDT – Hurricane #Milton moving off the coast of east-central Florida. Still producing damaging hurricane-force winds and heavy rains. ”

    1. What is it damaging out there on the open ocean?

    2. Can you help me find the announcement you made classifying 56 knot winds as “hurricane-force,” because I’m struggling to find any aircraft or buoy data placing it above the 74 mph to qualify it for a Cat 1 on the Saffir-Simpson scale at that time.

    clicking around, why don’t I see hurricane force winds anywhere at 6am 10/10? Just this one time, a dependable reporting model is off by what, 40 knots?
    https://www.windfinder.com/#10/29.0328/-79.8006/2024-10-10T12:00Z/spot

    The foot-stamping “but it WAS” after the fact by reporting and authorities is weird. Like they are still trying to make Fetch a thing

    #171124
    jb-hb
    Participant

    An individual who tried to drop off food and other supplies in the devastated mountain region of North Carolina using his private helicopter was arrested by the Biden regime for interfering with “a government operation.”

    They still have trial by jury in NC, I think?

    So they arrest with the expectation they cannot ever get a conviction.

    …so they’re arresting him to tie him up and make him unable to bring more rescue aid. They are arresting him purely to imprison him. Summary punishment without due process, in effect.

    Are state-level law enforcement going along with this? #helping just like the Feds? If not, can’t they shoo off, block, obfuscate, delay, distract the feds to help their own people?

    Are local judges approving this? What’s the state governor doing about Fed interdiction?

    #171125
    Just Some Randomer
    Participant

    @ Dr. Day Kyle Young, Waging “Weather Warfare” and “Plunder Capitalism” on the good folk of the US

    As I understand it, the current mass media position on this is that people who believe that the government can control the weather are nut-job conspiraholics, whereas people who believe that the government can control the climate are totally correct and just following ‘The Science’.

    #171127
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Lies Wide Shut

    Conspiracy Version No. 9

    #171128
    zerosum
    Participant

    Use a truth meter from the list that I posted
    Truth/Fact.
    Forecast: Help is coming

    FEMA is now a slush fund for gov. to use at will.

    The assertion that when Israel is attacking Gaza and “Hizbollah’s infrastructure”, when it destroys hospitals, apartments and murders civilians, is an insult to intelligence.

    If/did Iran conduct an underground nuclear test on October 5?
    Does anyone want to verify?
    Will Israel/USA accept this as a deterrent or a bluff?

    In its current state, the US Navy cannot maintain its bases and allies in the Indo-Pacific Oceans and its transoceanic logistical support line.

    Could Iran trade yellow cake to North Korea for a nuclear devise test last Saturday?

    Reports: 3 million people don’t have electricity from Milton. Now, all the electric crews will be able to work until the transformer arrive.

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    #171129
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Walking Corpse Dons His Mask

    World’s Longest Open Air Casket Display

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    #171130
    Noirette
    Participant

    Prev. thread. WES posted:

    One can talk all day about the dollar, the Euro, the pound, the Yen, etc. and how different money/banking systems work.
    But when “TRUST” is finally lost, no paper/digital money/banking system will survive.

    Absolutely. In fact ‘trust’, historically, in many parts of Europe, say 1850 – 1950, approx. used ‘signed chits’ = a piece of paper ripped out of a notebook and stating I OWE X to Y, signed on this day, etc.

    OK in CH it was common, probably less elsewhere, it worked 95% (est.) of the time. One family member I had, b. 1920. was known for signing chits on the paper used to cover tables in restaurants. No problems ever arose. (Of course minor / small loss, distributed around, has to be accepted for that to work.)

    Even today in CH it is possible to get 0% interest loans with a simple promise to pay back, ok, is restricted to particular ppl/situations.

    Remember, the concept of “money” is a creation of the human mind, so it isn’t real. That piece of paper in your hand that you call money, is merely a symbol representing the idea of money. …..Only gold and silver can never lose their “TRUST” factor and are real.

    WES, my friend, I agree with u all the time, so let me argue here. Gold and silver don’t have intrinsic value, only what humans attibute to them. Gold seems like the ‘last rampart’ for store of value. But when ppl don’t have enough to eat, are starving and all the ‘valuables’ have been taken, what happens? Those who do still have some ‘assets’ can’t sell their gold jewels, gold coins (or silver, or antiques, or precious paintings..) in exchange for essential food.

    As happened in Occupied France, Holland, etc. in WW2. The Nazis had no interest in more gold, precious metals, and nor could/would they deliver food in exchange…

    #171131
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Happy Halloween

    #171132
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Last Minute Rally Push

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    #171133
    Oroboros
    Participant

    We call them ‘selfies” because ‘narcissistie’ is too hard to spell

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    #171134
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Big Brother is actually a Bitch

    #171135
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Economy 101

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    #171136
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Duh’merica

    Lapping It Up (LIU)

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    #171137
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Experts

    Ya,ya

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    #171138
    John Day
    Participant

    Solar storm is arriving. https://spaceweather.knmi.nl/viewer/#start=2024-10-07T16:21:50&end=2024-10-13T16:21:50
    I’m going out for a bike ride in it.

    #171139
    zerosum
    Participant

    https://mediaview.aljazeera.com/video/crHgzeyfPL
    Hezbola video of Israel critical infrastructures

    #171140
    Dr D Rich
    Participant

    All hail Jeffrey Sachs!!

    We all except for me should be grateful to Jeffrey Sachs, Prof. Does anyhow know if Scott The Diddler Ritterler is calling himself a Professor yet? Asking for Dr. D.

    From Mark Sleboda

      After Jeffrey Sachs apparently went to bat for & applied pressure to @Youtube to get @Glenn_Diesen’s censored channel restored, within hours @RachBlevins @DD_Geopolitics and then myself found our accounts returned with no explanation.

    Can anyone guess or surmise why Sachs “pulled” such influence with YouTube?
    Aspnaz?
    D?

    #171141
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Even Zion Zucker is kissing ass because he smells a shift in the Winds.

    Trump has made his “deal’ with the saner parts of the Satanic Pentagram Military Industrial Mafia.

    Somethin’ up when the richest man in the world is jumping up and down on the podium at a Trump rally.

    A year ago Jeffery Sachs had no ‘pull’ with U-tube. Even 6 months ago, nothing.

    But the Winds are turning and Sachs knows it.

    Do you?

    Wake up and smell the Java, Kamala-la is toast.

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    #171142
    tboc
    Participant

    The model is complete.

    #171143
    Oroboros
    Participant

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    #171144
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Don’t worry be happy

    The Canazidian’s have your back.

    Hard Core Revolutionaries they are….

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    #171145
    Oroboros
    Participant

    I’ll let you in on another little secret that all the ‘enlightened’ don’t want to deal with cause it makes them ‘uncomfortable’, poor dears….

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    #171146
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Hypocrisy

    Duh’merica at least excels in one tiny area

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