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Lawfare is Jihad Against Our Country (James Howard Kunstler)
‘Something Very Wrong’ With Kamala Harris – Trump (RT)
Kamala Harris Has A Major Problem With Male Voters (ZH)
Trump Plans To Expand Border Patrol By 10,000, Reward Existing Agents (JTN)
Liberals Are Losing their Minds over Elon Musk (Turley)
Whoever Wins This Pennsylvania County Is Expected To Win The White House (ET)
Military Intervention in US Domestic Affairs? (Paul Craig Roberts)
Young Men in US Are Shifting Right, as Many Feel ‘Left Behind’ (Manley)
Speaker Johnson Says FEMA Spent Just 2% Of $20 Billion In Disaster Aid (JTN)
US Emergency Workers ‘Hunted By Militia’ – WaPo (RT)
US Sets Stage for Direct Participation in Middle East War (Miles)
Imperial Israel (Miles)
Israel Does What It Does; It Was Always Planned This Way (Alastair Crooke)
Germany Is Committing ‘Economic Suicide’ – Who’s To Blame? (Amar)
UK Police Officers Resigning in Droves as Country Roiled by Protest (Miles)
Ukraine’s Battlefield Situation ‘Critical’ – ex-NATO Official (RT)

 

 

 

 

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Jim in fine form. “It’s a tragic turn of fate for our country that the law, and language with it, have been turned into weapons for national suicide.”

Lawfare is Jihad Against Our Country (James Howard Kunstler)

Marc Elias was the original expeditor of the RussiaGate hoax in 2016 from his perch at Perkins Coie, then Hillary Clinton’s campaign law firm, which laundered payments to Christopher Steele, front-man for Glenn Simpson’s Fusion GPS political PR shop, which concocted the fraudulent “dossier,” and set in motion a train of DC intel blob legal shenanigans aimed at defenestrating Donald Trump from the White House — the Mueller Investigation, impeachment, etc. While all that was going on through the Trump term, and with the Covid-19 Op providing cover, Mr. Elias engineered the 2020 changes in many states’ election laws and bylaws to permit large-scale mail-in voting, organized ballot-harvesting activities, and the use of drop-boxes for receiving bundled votes. He and his George Soros-financed staff lawyers sued states that attempted to require voter-identification, and provided legal protection for Mark Zuckerberg’s $419-million-dollar assault on election precinct staffing in swing states.

When the 2020 election concluded suspiciously, Mr. Elias and his gang joined lawsuits in every case where the balloting was contested and got more than sixty of them dismissed on the basis of “standing,” without the merits of the cases being heard. This is Lawfare. This time around, 2024, Mr. Elias has done everything possible to ensure that millions of illegal aliens stuffed into swing states will have their putative identities attached to harvested mail-in ballots from addresses such as Walmart parking lots and storage units, and has filed lawsuits wherever a state threatens to require proof of citizenship for voting. He has also filed sixty peremptory lawsuits to obstruct attempts to audit any election count after November 5 — as if it is an affront to democracy to even ask questions about official misconduct. A parallel Lawfare scam underway is the Democratic Party-sponsored 65 Project that seeks to disbar Trump-adjacent lawyers who attempt to challenge any voting irregularities in this year’s election. It’s mission statement reads:

“The 65 Project is a bipartisan effort to protect democracy from these once-and-future abuses by holding accountable Big Lie Lawyers who bring fraudulent and malicious lawsuits to overturn legitimate election results, and by working with bar associations to deter future abuses by establishing clear standards for conduct that punish lies about the conduct or results of elections.” Notice the term “Big Lie” to foreclose any inquiry at all into election fraud. That half the people in this country accept such an Orwellian con tells you the vital role played by the perversion of language in the Democratic Party’s war against the citizens of this land. Exactly who is to say, in advance of the event, that any objection to a vote count is fraudulent and malicious? Answer: the people who have maliciously committed fraud. The Democrats have been grooming the public for years with that phrase, the Big Lie, in exactly the same way that pedos groom innocent pubescents who accept the authority of any grown-up, no matter what debauchery they are subjected to.

It’s a tragic turn of fate for our country that the law, and language with it, have been turned into weapons for national suicide. The net result is a nation that can’t think straight anymore and cannot construct any coherent set of rules to live by. So we find ourselves in a society where stealing is no longer a crime, where border-jumping has been downgraded to a clerical error (“undocumented”), where little children are allowed to decide whether they are male or female, where speech that disagrees with the authorities agenda is “misinformation” subject to censorship and prosecution, where candidates for the highest office get selected “democratically” without any votes cast, and where you can be run-over and ruined financially in court by the bottomless legal resources of the Deep State for just speaking your mind.

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Am I allowed to find this funny?

”Joe Biden became mentally impaired. Kamala was born that way..”

‘Something Very Wrong’ With Kamala Harris – Trump (RT)

Former US President Donald Trump has called on Vice President Kamala Harris to take a cognitive test, calling her “slow and lethargic.” Harris urged Trump to release his medical records over the weekend, questioning “whether he is fit to be president of the United States.” In a post on his Truth Social platform on Monday, Trump declared that “it is very important that Kamala Harris pass a test on cognitive stamina and agility.” “Her actions have led many to believe that there could be something very wrong with her,” he continued. “Even 60 Minutes and CBS, in order to protect Lyin’ Kamala, illegally and unscrupulously replaced an answer she had given, which was totally ‘bonkers’, with another answer that had nothing to do with the question asked.” “Also, she is slow and lethargic in answering even the easiest of questions,” Trump continued. “We just went through almost four years of that, we shouldn’t have to do it again!”

Last week, CBS News broadcast an interview with Harris that had been heavily edited, with the vice president’s lengthy and rambling answers – seen in a preview released before the final broadcast – cut and replaced with completely different responses. Trump initially focused his anger on CBS, declaring that the network should be shut down and sold “to the highest bidder.” However, his latest attack on Harris came after the Democratic candidate questioned his physical and mental fitness. After releasing a statement from her doctor describing her health as “excellent,” Harris called on Trump to follow suit, claiming that his unwillingness to do so demonstrates that he does “not want the American people to see what he is doing and whether he is fit to be President of the United States.” At 78, Trump is 19 years Harris’ senior, and is currently the oldest nominee for president by a major party in US history. Trump released a letter from his doctor last November which stated that his “overall health is excellent” and that his “cognitive exams were exceptional.”

Dr. Bruce Aronwald, Trump’s personal physician since 2021, said his cancer screening tests were all negative, cardiovascular tests were normal, and he had reduced his weight through daily physical activity and an “improved diet.” Trump repeatedly attacked President Joe Biden over his mental and physical fortitude until July, when Biden suspended his reelection campaign after appearing confused during a debate with the former president. With Harris replacing Biden atop the Democratic ticket, Trump repurposed his repertoire of insults and jibes to fit his new opponent. ”Joe Biden became mentally impaired. Kamala was born that way,” Trump said at a campaign rally last month. “She was born that way. And if you think about it, only a mentally disabled person could have allowed this to happen to our country,” he continued, going after Harris for her lax border security performance.

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Less popular among men than Trump is among women. Wow.

Kamala Harris Has A Major Problem With Male Voters (ZH)

It’s no secret that men aren’t fans of Kamala Harris – and the Democrat party is in full panic mode over it. Look no further than their recent cringe-fest commercials, Tim Walz awkwardly trying to load a shotgun with his balls, and Barack Obama lecturing black men for their lack of support. They’ve even resorted to oversampling women in polls to achieve the desired result. And who could forget Hillary Clinton suggesting that women who voted for Trump only did so because their husbands pressured them.

This weekend, New York Times opinion podcaster Lulu Garcia-Navarro’s reaction to JD Vance encapsulated the situation. When asked whether expelling illegal immigrants would exacerbate the housing crisis due to a lack of construction labor, Vance suggested that “You could re-engage men to enter the labor market.” Garcia-Navarro was taken aback – clearly unable to grasp the notion that modern men would want to fill those positions.

Breaking it down in a viral post on X is John Konrad, CEO of maritime news website gCaptain. “Listen to her shock—her disbelief. She doesn’t get it. She thinks men wouldn’t want to work in construction, that we’d rather sit in cushy office jobs, sipping $6 lattes in front of Zoom calls,” Konrad says of Garcia-Navarro. He then lays out one of the major problems with men building things in America – red tape, which Democrats apply liberally to anything they can’t directly control. Why not build ships here? Because our shipyards are buried in OSHA regulations, HR policies, union rules—everything moves at a snail’s pace. I don’t want to build slowly with tons of paperwork and red tape—I want to BUILD. They don’t get it. They don’t see how hard it is to build in this country while making progress, earning a decent living, and having freedom. In South Korea, I had all three, but it wasn’t home.

I could get a shipyard job here but I’d make half what I made in South Korea with four times the paperwork and it would take years to build one ship. No thanks. Lulu is shocked I’d give up my “thinking job.” For construction. Sure, I LOVE my job now—but I’d throw it all away to build again. To construct. It’s like the movie Office Space. My wife said it’s a “guy movie,” and she’s right. Most people think it’s just an office comedy – or think the stapler guy “won” because he’s now rich. But to guys – real men- it’s a hero’s story. The main character leaves it all behind… and ends up working construction! That’s the happy ending. Listen to her voice. Hear the contempt: “They’d work construction?” YES, I WOULD, LULU. And I wouldn’t just build condos. Turn us loose, and we’d build grand ships, towering bridges, and homes with character and strength.

American men are the best builders in the world. But we’re shackled by HR, red tape, DEI, lawyers and endless regulations. All the bullshit the NYTimes constantly advocates for. We are sick of it. We are sick of the Times. We are sick of you Lulu. Sick of you telling us what we want. We want to build… and not build for ourselves but build great things for YOU. Yes YOU Lulu. Great things for women and men and children of all colors and religions and backgrounds. Big great things that advance all of us together. That’s why we look up to @elonmusk —he’s out there building rockets and robots. – ROCKETSHIPS AND ROBOTS!

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“..a 10% raise for all agents, and a $10,000 dollar each retention and signing bonus..”

Trump Plans To Expand Border Patrol By 10,000, Reward Existing Agents (JTN)

Visiting an Arizona border front exhausted by the Biden-Harris migrant crisis, former President Donald Trump on Sunday unveiled a plan to expand the U.S. Border Patrol by 10,000 employees and reward existing agents with raises and bonuses if he is elected. “I will always stand with the incredible men and women of Border Patrol,” Trump told a rally in Prescott, Ariz., where he was surrounded by frontline Customs and Border Patrol employees. The union representing the 16,000 border agents also endorsed Trump at the event before he laid out his plan.

The former president said Border Patrol agents were suffering from a morale crisis because of the policies of the Biden-Harris administration had let millions slide across the border, and because false accusations earlier in the administration that agents had mistreated migrants. “They have a tremendous shortage because they haven’t been treated right. They want to do their jobs. You know, they consider it bad treatment when you’re not allowed to do your jobs,” Trump said. “I will be asking Congress to approve immediately a 10% raise for all agents, and a $10,000 dollar each retention and signing bonus,” he added.

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“The intense hatred for Musk is due to the fact that he was the immovable object in the path of their formerly unstoppable force.”

Liberals Are Losing their Minds over Elon Musk (Turley)

This week, Elton John publicly renounced the Rocket Man — no, not the 1972 song, but Elon Musk, whom he called an “a**hole” in an awards ceremony. Sir Elton, 77, is only the latest among celebrities and pundits to denounce Musk for his support of former president Donald Trump and his opposition to censorship. Musk-mania is so overwhelming that some are calling for his arrest, deportation and debarment from federal contracts. This week, the California Coastal Commission rejected a request from the Air Force for additional launches from Vandenberg Air Force Base. It is not because the military agency did not need the launches. It was not because the nation and the community would not benefit from them. Rather, it was reportedly because, according to one commissioner, Musk has “aggressively injected himself into the presidential race.” By a 6-4 vote, the California Coastal Commission rejected the military’s plan to let SpaceX launch up to 50 rockets per year from the base in Santa Barbara County.

Musk’s SpaceX is becoming a critical part of national security programs. It will even be launching a rescue mission for two astronauts stranded in space. The advances of SpaceX under Musk are legendary. The Air Force wanted to waive the requirement for separate permits for SpaceX in carrying out these critical missions. To the disappointment of many, SpaceX is now valued at over $200 billion and just signed a new $1 billion contract with NASA. Yet neither the national security value nor the demands for SpaceX services appear to hold much interest for officials like Commissioner Gretchen Newsom (no relation to California’s governor, Gavin Newsom): “Elon Musk is hopping about the country, spewing and tweeting political falsehoods and attacking FEMA while claiming his desire to help the hurricane victims with free Starlink access to the internet.”

Newsom is the former political director for the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 569. It did not seem to matter to her that increased launches meant more work for electrical workers and others. Rather, it’s all about politics. Commission Chair Caryl Hart added “here we’re dealing with a company, the head of which has aggressively injected himself into the presidential race and he’s managed a company in a way that was just described by Commissioner Newsom that I find to be very disturbing.” In my book “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage,” I discuss how Musk became persona non grata when he bought Twitter and announced that he was dismantling the company’s massive censorship apparatus. He then outraged many on the left by releasing the Twitter Files, showing the extensive coordination of the company with the government in a censorship system described by a federal court as “Orwellian.”

After the purchase, former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton called upon Europeans to force Musk to censor her fellow Americans under the notorious Digital Services Act. Clinton has even suggested the arrest of those responsible for views that she considers disinformation. Silicon Valley investor Roger McNamee called for Musk’s arrest and said that, as a condition of getting government contracts, officials should “require him to moderate his speech in the interest of national security.” Former Clinton Secretary of Labor Robert Reich wants Musk arrested for simply refusing to censor other people. Former MSNBC host Keith Olbermann called for Musk to be deported and all federal contracts cancelled with this company. As with many in the “Save Democracy” movement, Olbermann was unconcerned with the denial of free speech or constitutional protections. “If we can’t do that by conventional means, President Biden, you have presidential immunity. Get Elon Musk the F out of our country and do it now.”

Of course, none of these figures are even slightly bothered about other business leaders with political opinions, so long as, like McNamee, they are supporting Harris or at least denouncing Trump. Musk has failed to yield to a movement infamous for cancel campaigns and coercion. The usual alliance of media, academia, government and corporate forces hit Musk, his companies and even advertisers on X. Other corporate officials collapsed like a house of cards to demands for censorship — see, for example, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg. Musk, in contrast, responded by courageously releasing the Twitter Files and exposing the largest censorship system in our history. That is why I describe Musk as arguably the single most important figure in this generation in defense of free speech. The intense hatred for Musk is due to the fact that he was the immovable object in the path of their formerly unstoppable force.

Turley

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Long article. These are just the juiciest bits.

Whoever Wins This Pennsylvania County Is Expected To Win The White House (ET)

It’s not just the Erie County Republican Party that’s hard at work trying to flip the county back to Trump’s camp. Leo Williard, a small business owner, has set up what he calls “Trump factories” in two auto dealerships owned by his friend and located just outside downtown Erie. While still managing his own business, Williard told The Epoch Times that he spends hours every week talking to and converting Democratic voters to Trump’s side. Williard said he was inspired to do so by the city of Erie’s Democratic leanings: While the rural and suburban areas are more evenly divided, the city itself votes overwhelmingly for Democrats. Many of those who come into the dealership are from the city, he said. “And we started talking to those people, and I have a table set up in the corner of his office up there that I call the ‘Trump corner.’ I call this whole process the ‘Trump factory,’” Williard said, adding that he was bringing as many as five to 15 Democrats a day over to Trump’s side.

“You can’t believe the people we are turning from Democrat to Trump.” For many, financial concerns—particularly inflation—are the most pressing issue, Williard said, agreeing that inflation could be described as “the No. 1 issue” in the county right now. The modest income of many residents makes the hit harder than it might be in more affluent areas, Williard said. Williard said that Democrats’ decision to nominate Vice President Kamala Harris did energize the Democratic base in the city, but he is confident. “I still think that Erie County, based on the work I see being done and the enthusiasm I see, will go red. I think it will turn the state red,” Williard said. Republicans have seen strong signs for optimism—but recent Democratic victories in the county still undercut any sort of certainty.

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The Biden Regime Has Just Issued a Very Suspicious Directive Permitting Military Intervention in US Domestic Affairs

Military Intervention in US Domestic Affairs? (Paul Craig Roberts)

The Department of Homeland Security has flagged individuals questioning COVID-19 origins, vaccine efficacy, and election integrity as potential domestic terrorism threats. Is a coup being set in place? A new Department of Defense directive 5240.01 issued September 27, 2024, just prior to the November presidential election allows the US military to use lethal force against American citizens in assisting police authorities in domestic disturbances. A report on this development lists these civil liberties concerns:

Right to protest: There are fears that expanded authority could suppress legitimate protests. Privacy rights: Increased military involvement in domestic intelligence gathering could infringe on privacy. Due process: The military’s role in law enforcement could bypass standard due process protections. Freedom of speech: The broad definition of “national security threats” could target individuals for their political beliefs. Civilian control: The expanded military role could erode civilian oversight of the military.

Unless Trump cuts a deal with Democrats not to hold them accountable and also a deal with the Ruling Elite not to interfere with their control, I can see no way that either will permit Trump to be President. The Biden regime and the Trump Justice (sic) Department and FBI are criminal operations. I can see indictments and arrests for those who have weaponized law enforcement. The Ruling Elite and leading Democrats such as Hillary Clinton and John Kerry can all be arrested, honestly unlike Trump and his supporters, for insurrection as they have openly called for the overthrow of the United States by demanding the overthrow of the First Amendment of the US Constitution. No fooling, this is treason. The US is the Constitution. Advocating the overthrow of the Constitution is advocating the overthrow of the United States. This is a major issue of our time, and it is not mentioned — which displays the control the elite have over what can be an issue subject to notice and discussion.

That one month prior to the presidential election the corrupt Biden regime issued a directive that permits the US military, purged of its patriotic officers, to use lethal force against American citizens is an indication that something is afoot. Why is such a directive suddenly needed, a directive that goes against all previous policy? Here is a possible scenario: If despite the whore media’s assault on Trump and the in-place legalized election theft procedures in the swing states, the Democrats and Ruling Elite conclude that the election can neither be won nor stolen, an orchestrated false flag insurrection is staged that activates Department of Defense directive 5240.01 issued September 27, 2024. Trump, his supporters, the Republican Party, probably sparing the RINOs as a fake opposition party will be needed to carry on the illusion of democracy under one-party rule, will be arrested as insurrectionists. The courts will be helpless as they have no enforcement powers, and any intervention against the coup will be misrepresented as “siding with insurrectionists.”

Absurd! Extreme! Nutcase! No, I am none of these. Just think of all the violations of US law and international law by Democrat officials. They are subject to arrest nationally and internationally. Trump, unless he cuts the deals I mentioned, is a threat to the Ruling Establishment as he can put most of them in prison. How can the Democrats and the Ruling Elite let a man and a movement this dangerous to them become President? They cannot. Unless Trump sells out, he is in a fight to the death. Elon Musk knows it. Musk wondered on Tucker Carlson how long his prison sentence would be if Trump loses the election. Most Americans, however, are too insouciant to realize that if Trump loses the election, or it is stolen from him, or prevented from happening, there will never again be an election in the United States of America. A Stalin type election, perhaps, where 99.9% of the votes are taken by the ruling personage.

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“..financially dependent on their parents with about 30% of those aged 18 to 25 continuing to live at home with a parent..”

Young Men in US Are Shifting Right, as Many Feel ‘Left Behind’ (Manley)

According to data from the Pew Research Institute, young men in the US without college degrees are making less money than previous generations and are less likely to be working full time. Fearful of inflation, the housing crisis, and poor job prospects, more young men in the US are switching to the Republican party. Less than two decades ago, young men could be seen as solidly Democratic, a report from NBC News explained citing pollsters and social scientists. But due to fear of a poor economy and a lack of investment in social issues, more young men are turning to the right. “The economic and employment picture for younger men without college degrees is significantly worse than previous generations,” said Dan Cox, director of the Survey Center on American Life at the American Enterprise Institute.

“These sort of traditional norms around masculinity and what it means to be a man and a husband are wrapped up in economic success, and that makes it really, really challenging when their economic outlook is not as bright.”
Richard Reeves, the president of the American Institute for Boys and Men, adds that there is a “cultural dislocation among men”. And that they feel as though they don’t really know whether they are going to be “needed” or feel as if they are “failing against the standard that was set 50 years ago about the position of men and women in the labor market.” Overall, a majority of both young men and young women allegedly prefer Vice President Kamala Harris to former President Donald Trump as their next presidential pick. However, 33% of young men identify as being part of the Democratic Party, compared to a previous 42% in 2020, a poll of 18 to 29-year-old by the Harvard Institute of Politics found.

In 2008, for example, former President Barack Obama won the votes of 66% of young men. While Trump has been campaigning on the Biden administration’s “failed” economy, he has also pledged to bring back manufacturing jobs by placing 20% tariffs on imports which economists have warned will trigger widespread inflation and supply chain disruptions. But the economy looks different to young men compared to other Americans, the report adds. Young men are less likely to worry about the costs of prescription drugs, child care or mortgage interest rates. Instead, their income goes rent, dining out and entertainment along with student loan debt.

Rent cost is also the biggest point of economic pain for young people’s wallets. Rent in the US has increased around 20% since 2020, and about two-thirds of young adults said they spend more than 30% of their monthly income on housing while a quarter said more than half of their income goes to housing, the report said citing data from the Bank of America. “You look at what our parents were able to buy for $10,000 back in the day,” said Derek, a focus group participant from Wisconsin who is thinking of voting for Trump. “I just went through trying to buy a house two years ago, and the struggles that you come through. You’ve got to be making $150,000 just to get your standard three-bed, two-bath house nowadays.” As a result, young American men are now more likely to be financially dependent on their parents with about 30% of those aged 18 to 25 continuing to live at home with a parent. As a result, young men are also waiting longer to get married as well as to have children.

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And then they say they’re underfunded.

Speaker Johnson Says FEMA Spent Just 2% Of $20 Billion In Disaster Aid (JTN)

House Speaker Mike Johnson said over the weekend that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has distributed only 2% of the billions of dollars to disaster relief provided by Congress. “FEMA has distributed 2% of the over $20 billion in disaster relief funding Congress provided,” Johnson said Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation.” “They need to do their job and get this assistance to the people in need. Once the total calculations are completed, Congress will address any additional needs,” he continued. Hurricane Helene hit Florida two weeks ago as a Category Four storm, and caused disastrous damage in Georgia, North and South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia. Hurricane Milton also hit Florida this week as a Category Three storm.

FEMA has gotten backlash for not spending money properly in the wake of these storms as Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas told reporters earlier this month that the organization does not have adequate funds to manage disaster relief for the rest of hurricane season. FEMA has previously spent approximately $650 million on grants to nonprofits and local authorities that resettle and aid illegal immigrants, and has sent employees down to the border to help address the increase in unaccompanied minors that began in 2021, Fox News reported. This has been part of an ongoing controversy over whether FEMA being involved in issues related to aid to illegal immigrants at the southern border is affecting their ability, both financially and in terms of manpower, to carry out their emergency work on natural disasters and other emergencies.

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Appalachia.

US Emergency Workers ‘Hunted By Militia’ – WaPo (RT)

Federal employees responding to Hurricane Helene in Rutherford County, North Carolina, were threatened last week by militias and had to temporarily pull out, the Washington Post reported on Sunday. An email sent on Saturday by an official with the US Forest Service, which assists the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), advised federal responders to “stand down and evacuate the county immediately,” the newspaper said. The warning came after members of the National Guard claimed to have come across what they called “trucks of armed militia saying there [sic] were out hunting FEMA.” The Post said two federal officials confirmed to it that the message was authentic. The newspaper stressed that it was not clear how serious the threat was assessed to be.

One of the sources said employees were moved to a “safe area,” which resulted in recovery work being put on hold in the area. Personnel were back in place by Sunday afternoon, the officials, who spoke to the newspaper on condition of anonymity, added. Journalist Brianna Sacks, who bylined the story, later published on her X account a message claiming that a firefighter crew had been instructed to avoid certain areas on the border between North Carolina and Tennessee “due to communities being governed by armed militias” there. The Post described the incident in Rutherford County as the latest example of security issues in western North Carolina. In the two weeks since Hurricane Helene ravaged parts of the state, “misinformation and rumors have made the recovery more difficult,” the reports stated, claiming that some locals were refusing to cooperate with federal officials.

“It’s terrible because a lot of these folks who need assistance are refusing it because they believe the stuff people are saying about FEMA and the government,” Riva Duncan, a former Forest Service official, told the news outlet. “And it’s sad because they are probably the ones who need the help the most.” The Appalachian region of the US, which includes western North Carolina, tends to be less affluent and has come to be seen by many as having been left behind by the coastal political elites. It also has a long history of anti-federal sentiment. On Friday, President Joe Biden denounced “reckless, irresponsible, and relentless disinformation and outright lies” for the death threats allegedly received by emergency response workers in remarks about the government’s hurricane response efforts.

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“The arch Zionist and likely intelligence asset’s approval rating as prime minister now stands at only 26%..”

US Sets Stage for Direct Participation in Middle East War (Miles)

The US and its European client states are doubling down on their support for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the waning days of the Biden administration, setting the stage for Western militaries to directly participate in Israeli atrocities or even a broader regional conflagration. A series of events in recent days has demonstrated NATO countries’ deepening commitment to Israel as new UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer leads the way. “US special forces flights to Israel from a British airbase have doubled in frequency since Keir Starmer took over from Rishi Sunak as prime minister,” reported the website Declassified UK recently. “It has… previously been revealed that the US is using Akrotiri to deliver weapons to Israel,” the investigative reporting outlet continued, referring to the UK’s large airbase in Cyprus. “The UK government has long refused to give any details of US use of British territory to support the Israeli assault on Gaza.”

Starmer has been heavily criticized for alleged weaponization of claims of antisemitism during his tenure as leader of the UK Labour Party. After previously signaling cooperation with former leader Jeremy Corbyn and his supporters, Starmer ultimately expelled Corbyn from Labour and purged pro-Corbyn candidates and party members. A damning report released in 2022 revealed that a manufactured antisemitism crisis within the party was used to undermine Corbyn, who is a prominent anti-imperialist and supporter of the Palestinian cause. The former Czechoslovak government concluded Starmer was a likely Western intelligence asset in an internal report written in the 1980s. Former Central Intelligence Agency director Mike Pompeo suggested in 2019 that the United States would work to prevent Corbyn’s election as British prime minister, paving the way for Starmer to fill the role instead. The arch Zionist and likely intelligence asset’s approval rating as prime minister now stands at only 26% according to recent polling.

“In November 2023, a US military official revealed that American special forces were stationed in Israel and actively helping the Israelis,’” noted journalist Matt Kennard. While US military personnel have assisted Israel’s operation in the Gaza Strip over the last year, the Biden administration signaled an open commitment of US troops in the country today in a statement released by the Pentagon. “At the direction of the President, [US Defense] Secretary [Lloyd] Austin authorized the deployment of a Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) battery and associated crew of U.S. military personnel to Israel to help bolster Israel’s air defenses,” said press secretary Maj. Gen. Patrick S. Ryder, claiming the move was intended to safeguard the country’s military installations after Iran’s retaliatory attack earlier this month. It is thought that some 100 US troops would be dispatched to Israel to operate the THAAD system.

Observers warn the open commitment of personnel could serve as a casus belli to send troops to fight with Israel if a US service member is injured or killed in a strike on an Israeli military target. The official death toll in Gaza stands at almost 43,000, but a study in the respected British medical journal The Lancet claimed it will ultimately approach 200,000 as Palestinians cope with mass hunger, malnutrition and lack of medical care. The International Criminal Court (ICC) has sought the arrest of Netanyahu and Israeli defense minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes, while the International Court of Justice (ICJ) is investigating Israel on claims of a “plausible” genocide in the Gaza Strip. The possibility of accountability for Israel’s conduct in the Palestinian territory raises the prospect of Western leaders like Starmer and US President Joe Biden being held criminally liable for their enthusiastic support for Israel, which has included the provision of arms, assistance in military planning and diplomatic cover in venues such as the United Nations.

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“UNIFIL has opposed the ultimatum, with Irish peacekeepers vocally rejecting Israeli demands to abandon their observation post..”

Imperial Israel (Miles)

Relations between Israel and the United Nations have reached a nadir as Tel Aviv has urged UNIFIL to “relocate” some of its 10,000 peacekeepers in southern Lebanon. Emboldened by the uncritical backing of the United States, Israel is ramping up its military operation in southern Lebanon – bringing it into confrontation with United Nations peacekeeping forces. Tel Aviv once again came into confrontation with the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon, known as UNIFIL, on Friday, striking the organization’s headquarters and injuring two peacekeepers during a morning attack. Israeli forces struck the same installation the day before, also injuring two. “You will have seen that the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) issued a statement this morning saying that two of its peacekeepers were injured after an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Merkava tank fired its weapon toward an observation tower at UNIFIL’s headquarters in Naqoura, directly hitting it and causing them to fall,” stated the spokesperson for UN Secretary General António Guterres after the first attack Thursday.

“The injuries are fortunately – this time – not serious, but the peacekeepers remain in the hospital.” The comments came before a briefing by Representative of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Nestor Owomuhangi on the impact of Israel’s military campaign in Gaza on women and girls. The attacks drew condemnation in the form of a statement released by France, Italy and Spain – which have become increasingly critical of Israeli actions in recent months – as well as unsympathetic coverage in conservative-leaning news outlets like the UK-based Daily Mail. The joint statement expressed “outrage” over Israel’s “unjustified attack,” accusing the country of failure to uphold its obligations under international law by striking UN peacekeeping forces. The three countries called for a ceasefire.

Relations between Israel and the United Nations have reached a nadir as Tel Aviv has urged UNFIL to “relocate” some of its 10,000 peacekeepers in southern Lebanon. UNFIL has opposed the ultimatum, with Irish peacekeepers vocally rejecting Israeli demands to abandon their observation post as Israel attempts to press forward with their invasion. The incident led to violent rhetoric from Israelis and their apologists on social media, with former White House advisor Matthew RJ Brodsky calling on Tel Aviv to “drop napalm” on the nonviolent Irish peacekeeping force. The comments led to a rare suspension of a pro-Israel account on the X social media platform and forced Brodsky to resign his current position advising a Republican congressional candidate. Ireland has long been one of the most stalwart defenders of the Palestinian cause in Europe, with activists and politicians in the country frequently comparing the plight of the displaced people to that of Irish resistance fighters during the country’s occupation by the UK.

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“..every two sentences, Uzi would interrupt: “No, no, we’ve got to kill them all”. And other people, members of the Institute, were also just talking continually about killing Arabs..”

Israel Does What It Does; It Was Always Planned This Way (Alastair Crooke)

With the assassination of Sayed Hassan Nasrallah and a number of the Hizbullah senior leadership in Beirut – expressly without prior warning being given to the Pentagon – Netanyahu fired the start gun on an implicit Israeli widening of war to – using Israel’s term – the ‘octopus’ tentacles’: Hizbullah in Lebanon; Ansarullah in Yemen; the Syrian government and the Iraqi Hash’ad A-Shaabi forces. Well, after the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh and part of Hizbullah’s leadership cadre (including a senior Iranian general), Iran – demonised as the ‘octopus head’ – entered the conflict with a volley of missiles that targeted airfields, military bases and the Mossad HQ – but intentionally caused no deaths. Israel thus made the U.S. (and most of Europe) partners or accomplices to a war now definitively cast as neo-imperialism versus the whole of the non-West. Palestinians – the global icons of the aspiration for national liberation – were to be annihilated from historic Palestine.

Further, the bombing in Beirut, and Iran’s riposte to it, now ranges Israel backed and materially supported by the U.S. vs Iran, backed and materially supported by Russia. Israel, the military correspondent of Yedioth Ahronoth warns, ‘must go crazy and strike Iran – because striking Iran “will end the current war”’. Plainly, it marks the end to ‘playing nice’ – of incrementally escalating, one calculated step after another – as if playing chess with an opponent who calculates similarly. Both now threaten to take a hammer to the chess board. ‘Chess is over’. It seems that Moscow too, understands that ‘chess’ simply cannot be played when the opponent is no ‘adult’, but a reckless sociopath ready to sweep away the board – to gamble all on an ephemeral ‘great victory’ move. Looked at dispassionately, either the Israelis are inviting their own demise by over-extending across seven fronts. Or their hope lies with invoking the threat of their demise as the means to bring in the United States.

As with Zelensky in Ukraine, there is ‘no hope’ unless the U.S. adds its fire-power decisively – both Netanyahu and Zelensky assume. So, in West Asia the U.S. is now supporting, no less, than a war against humanity per se, and against the world. This clearly cannot be in America’s self-interest. Do its power-broker Panjandrums realise the possible consequences for it to stand against the World in an act of gross immorality? Netanyahu is betting his house – and now the West’s – on the outcome of his roulette table ‘bet’. Is there a sense amongst the Panjandrums that the U.S. is betting on the wrong horse? Whilst it seems there are some contrarians placed at a high level in the U.S. military who do have reservations – as in every ‘war game’ the U.S. loses in the Near East – their voices are few. The wider political class clamours for revenge on Iran.

The dilemma of why there are so few opposing voices in Washington has been addressed and explained by Professor Michael Hudson. Hudson explains that matters are not so simple; that context is missing. “Everything that’s happened today was planned out just 50 years ago, back in 1974 and 1973. “I worked at the Hudson Institute for about five years, 1972 to ‘76. I sat in on meetings with Uzi Arad, who became Netanyahu’s chief military advisor after heading Mossad. I worked very closely with Uzi there … I want to describe how the whole strategy that led to the United States today, not wanting peace, but wanting Israel to take over the whole Near East, took shape gradually. “On one occasion, I brought my mentor, Terrence McCarthy, to the Hudson Institute, to talk about the Islamic worldview, and every two sentences, Uzi would interrupt: “No, no, we’ve got to kill them all”. And other people, members of the Institute, were also just talking continually about killing Arabs”.

The strategy of using Israel as the regional battering ram to achieve U.S. (imperial) objectives was worked out essentially in the 1960s by Senator Henry “Scoop” Jackson. Jackson was nicknamed ‘the Senator from Boeing’ for his support for the military-industrial complex. And the military-industrial complex backed him to become chair of the Democratic National Committee. He was too twice an unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic nomination for the 1972 and 1976 Presidential elections. Well, he was backed by Herman Kahn too, who became the key strategist for U.S. hegemony in the Hudson Institute.

Initially, Israel didn’t really play a role in the U.S. plan; Jackson (of Norwegian descent) simply hated communism, he hated the Russians, and had a lot of support within the Democratic Party. But when all of this strategy was being put together, Herman Khan’s great achievement was to convince the U.S. Empire builders that the key to achieving their control in the Middle East was to rely on Israel as its foreign legion. And that arms-length arrangement enabled the U.S. to play the role, Hudson says, of the ‘good cop’, whilst designating Israel to play its role as ruthless proxy. And that’s why the State Department turned over management of U.S. diplomacy to Zionists – to separate and distinguish Israeli behaviour from the claimed probity of U.S. imperialism.

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Germany Is Committing ‘Economic Suicide’ – Who’s To Blame? (Amar)

Robert Habeck, Germany’s Green minister of the economy, has just had to lower his growth prognosis for 2024 as a whole. So much, in fact, that, instead of the minuscule increase of 0.3% – yes, you read that right: that’s what’s considered good news now in Germany, if it happens, which it does not – the country is looking at a minus of 0.2%. Germany’s economy is not merely stagnant, it is shrinking. When Berlin was still dreaming about that lavish 0.3% growth that is not actually happening, government representatives were speaking of a turning point. Well, there has been a turn alright, another one for the worse. What makes this much worse is that it is not an outlier event or a temporary phenomenon but the new, miserable German normal. Or, as German economists put it, their country is stuck in a “deep structural crisis.” Even the staunchly NATO-philic and Russophobic Economist came to the same conclusions last summer already. Asking (rhetorically) if Germany was “the sick man of Europe,” the journal found that, since 2018, Berlin has been presiding over an economic “laggard.” Before that, Germany was doing quite well.

After the mid-2000s, its economy had grown – cumulatively – by 24%, while Britain added 22% and France only 18%. But, as of last year, the IMF predicted German cumulative growth of only 8% for the period of 2019 to 2029, while it forecast 15% for the Netherlands and 17% for the US. And the way things are going, the IMF may well have been too optimistic. Germany’s deep economic crisis has many causes. They include an aging population; weak digitalization; a surfeit of bureaucracy (but then that has always been the case); corporate taxes that some consider too high (but then someone will always complain about taxes); the country’s failure to overcome the Covid shock more quickly; the massively deteriorating relationship with China, a key market for Germany in general and an indispensable factor in the making of the “good times” before 2018; Germany’s dependency on global supply chains and markets beyond China, which means it is hard hit by the current fracturing of the globalized economy; the insane decision to abandon nuclear energy and, linked to that, the failure of a perfectly messed-up “green transition.”

Yet only the lazy assemble a grab-bag of causal factors and end their analysis with a simple “all of the above.” To do better requires, as a minimum, identifying the most crucial factors. There can be no doubt that two of them are geopolitical: the disruption of the relationship with China and the fact that energy is too expensive, that is more expensive than in many competitor economies. As German experts are acknowledging, this makes producing in Germany “persistently less attractive” than other locations. Put simply, it does not pay any longer to make stuff in Germany. And the reason for that economically lethal state of affairs is well known, even if German politicians and mainstream media won’t admit it: Berlin has cut its economy off from inexpensive Russian gas and oil. And we need to stress the word “inexpensive” because Germans do, of course, still use both. Only they buy them from intermediaries, so they are now expensive.

None of this had to happen. As late as at the beginning of 2022, Berlin could have chosen to promote a reasonable compromise between Russia and the West, which was what was really at stake in the crisis over Ukraine. Back then, especially together with France, Germany could still have charted a course sufficiently independent of the hardliners in the US, with their warmongering camp followers in Eastern Europe and Britain. Berlin could have stopped the insane drive to all-out proxy war in the delusional pursuit of a “strategic defeat” for Russia. If Germany had done so, Ukraine would be much better off, and so would the whole of the EU and Germany as well. All that, however, is water under the bridge. The question now is whether things can be repaired again. There is no reason, unfortunately, for optimism, at least not before fundamental changes in German politics. Under the current government, in any case, it is certain that things will only get worse, because its members display zero interest in even understanding, far less in correcting their mistakes.

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“The UK is suffering the worst decline in living standards of any G7 country..”

UK Police Officers Resigning in Droves as Country Roiled by Protest (Miles)

Two months after massive anti-immigrant protests made global headlines, new data reveals UK police officers are leaving the profession in record numbers. The Police Federation of England and Wales, a labor organization representing British public security officers, sounded the alarm Sunday, airing its concerns in The Daily Telegraph. “Labour’s plans to put more bobbies on the beat are set to fail because record numbers of officers are quitting or planning to leave,” the newspaper reported, questioning whether new UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer would be able to fulfill a key plank of his party’s most recent platform. “Home Office figures show that police officers voluntarily leaving the service has hit a record high of more than 5,000, or 3.4 per cent of the workforce,” the broadsheet continued. “This is more than double the rate four years ago. The federation’s survey of its 145,000 members found that one in five said they were planning to leave the service within the next two years or as soon as possible.”

Starmer’s promise to expand policing comes as rates of crime have risen in the country in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. Recent data revealed shoplifting has increased by 30% over the last year, continuing a trend observed after stringent lockdowns in the country in 2020. High-profile incidents of “antisocial behavior” such as harassment and vandalism have also made headlines. In late July and early August, the UK was rocked by major anti-immigration demonstrations, culminating in one instance in rioters setting fire to a hotel believed to be housing migrants. The incident resulted in massive counter-demonstrations soon after, in which some confrontations between protesters on both sides of the issue were observed. UK officials baselessly accused Moscow of fomenting the demonstrations via the propagation of “fake news” online, a claim rejected by Russian officials.

Tiff Lynch, the Police Federation’s deputy national chair, blamed meager pay increases for officers’ decision to leave the profession. Police officers’ pay recently received an increase of only 4.75%, Lynch noted, while other public workers received an increase of 5 to 6 percent. Police have endured a pay cut of almost 20% in real terms since 2010, she claimed. The UK has enforced harsh austerity measures since then, which observers have claimed led to a significant decline in living standards. One study asserted that British citizens have lost a half year in life expectancy as a result of the decrease in social spending.

“The UK is suffering the worst decline in living standards of any G7 country,” the British Trades Union Congress claimed recently. “Contraction in UK household budgets is going to get worse – despite falling inflation. The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) forecasts that real house disposable income per head in Britain will fall by an additional 3.4% by the end of the first quarter of 2024. The UK seems set for ongoing political turmoil as well, despite electing a new leader only three months ago. Recent polling reveals new Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s approval rating stands at only 26%. The new head of state has made military assistance to Israel and Ukraine a priority, despite opposition from growing segments of the British public.

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“If there is no political agreement… there Ukraine will suffer a military defeat..”

Ukraine’s Battlefield Situation ‘Critical’ – ex-NATO Official (RT)

Ukraine will soon have to abandon the key Donbass city of Pokrovsk as its defenses slowly crumble under Russian attacks, General Harald Kujat, a former chief of staff of the German armed forces and chairman of the NATO Military Committee, believes. In an interview with journalist and podcaster Flavio von Witzleben on Sunday, Kujat, who chaired the NATO Military Committee between 2002 and 2005, suggested that Ukraine’s plan to divert Russian units away from Donbass via its Kursk incursion has failed because Russia has not had to curtail its offensive in the region. “Ukraine originally intended… that the Russians would pull combat troops back [to Kursk Region], but this has now turned out to be to its own detriment because the Russians are now tying up the urgently needed Ukrainian reserves that are now missing in Donbass,” he said, describing the Kursk offensive as an “all-in action.”

As a result, Russia is slowly advancing in Donbass at a pace consistent with the desire to minimize losses, Kujat believes. Russia has made gains near Pokrovsk, Kujat noted, describing the city, located some 50km northwest of Donetsk, as “of crucial importance” due to its logistical significance. “Ukraine is still holding its position but it is only a matter of time before this city falls… The situation of the Ukrainian armed forces is critical and it is becoming more and more critical day by day and this is despite the massive material and financial support from the West,” he said. In light of this, the conflict is on a “downward trend” for Ukraine, Kujat said, adding that this trajectory has clearly accelerated. “If there is no political agreement… there Ukraine will suffer a military defeat,” the general projected.

As fighting rages on the outskirts of Pokrovsk, Ukrainian officials have repeatedly described the situation there as “difficult.” Several Western media outlets have also warned that the loss of Pokrovsk will not only hamper the Ukrainian military’s logistics in Donbass, but will also deal a severe blow to the country’s economy, as the area serves as a key source of coal for its steel and iron industries. The Russian military has been making gains in Donbass in recent weeks, liberating dozens of settlements, including the key stronghold of Ugledar in the southern section of the front. Both Donetsk and Lugansk Regions in Donbass overwhelmingly voted to join Russia in referendums in the autumn of 2022, along with two other former Ukrainian territories.

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    Andrea Pozzo Ceiling Fresco, Church of St. Ignazio, Rome (entire ceiling is flat) 1685-94   • Lawfare is Jihad Against Our Country (James Howard
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle October 15 2024]

    #171537
    aspnaz
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    Election theatre for kiddies: Big bad Trump is standing for POTUS, the wealthy people are backing him, so they use their money to get a range of similar popular people to join him, such as RFK Jr, Musk, Vivek etc. These people were all supposed to be competing with him, but instead they gave up and joined Trump right at the start of the race … cool huh. Then wealthy men pay their old team, the Democrats, to put up the most useless candidate possible, with an even worse VP. Then the wealthy men pay their media companies to attack their old team’s bad candidate. Then they bring out Obama to attack black men for not voting for the black candidate, thereby riling up the black men and women, the result being that the wealthy men’s candidate is even more likely to win. America really is for kiddies. Guess who the wealthy men are kiddies.

    #171538
    aspnaz
    Participant

    The truth is that the European Union entered the #RussiaUkraineWar recklessly, based on flawed calculations and with a misguided strategy, and I attribute this to the actions of President @vonderleyen. pic.twitter.com/jaVg629rO2

    — Orbán Viktor

    Don’t be like that Victor, will you be blaming Trump when his owners tell the USA to go fight Iran? Von der Lying was just obeying the boss; you are shooting the messenger.

    #171539
    aspnaz
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    After previously signaling cooperation with former leader Jeremy Corbyn and his supporters, Starmer ultimately expelled Corbyn from Labour and purged pro-Corbyn candidates and party members

    Corbyn was always a bit naive, what with Starmer working for David Rothschild.

    #171540
    aspnaz
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    Donald Trump tells Fox News that he’s made a deal with Elon Musk to have him cut all the useless parts of the US government, and he will get to Mars.

    Replacing one useless part of government with another useless part of government. The amount of money that Trump is promising to people, it will be amazing if the billionaires are not all trillionaires by the time he is booted out. The USA really is just for kiddies.

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    Dr. D
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    Ah America:

    “ Innocent Multi-Billion Dollar Corporation Ruthlessly Attacked by People Not Giving Them Money” –Bbee

    But luckily the Government is here to help! Stupid people: How dare they not give our corporations money!

    Speaking of: “The Affirming, Life-Changing World of Amateur LGBTQ+ Sports:
    Discover the diverse world of amateur LGBTQ+ sports, with Kenrick Ross, executive director of the National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance”

    Literally nobody watches this, man or woman, straight or queer, therefore they have no money. But we’re here to help! We’ll MAKE you pay money then we’ll MAKE you pay the players. There’s nothing government can’t do! Hahahaha! “Misery Spread Widely” that’s what I say! Embroider that on our uniforms! With the rainbow armbands.

    Corporations: WHY did they halt all nuclear when they knew they’d need it, AND keep nuclear down for 30 years during CO2 panic? “Google Agrees To Buy Nuclear Power From Small Modular Reactors To Be Built By Kairos Power

    Because they want the CORPORATIONS to run, own, and regulate it, no government, because governments are all going to be erased and go away. If there’s any remnant of government, there would be a pathway to nationalism, culture, and democracy, that is: restraint. Limits. The Power source is a key, so you can’t have government running it, or they’ll have corporations by the balls.

    They didn’t quite get there, but almost. They’re out of time and need the power for the Killer AI drones and factories.

    “epic desperation by msnbc” Mika cries on TV.

    Um…that’s not “Woman” at all? Stereotypes, expressing her core power? That she’s going to cry, to leverage that into making other people – MEN – do what she says? Do the work FOR her? Obey? Be subservient, slaves?

    Before all this I was NOT on women behaving like this. All equal but different, complimentary approaches, etc. Now I’m like: women want men to be slaves. That’s it. Sub human, non-humans, unthought of. “What can you get me lately?” If you’re not doing my bidding while I sit here on TikTok, you’re worthless. That is not a happy thought for me. The women I grew up with were not like this.

    More, and more deadly, more proven: they clearly are Waaaaaay too easily swayed by media, advertising, whatever this technology is. Not enough fight in them, to always push back for them to keep their own minds. Maybe that works in other situations, (collective unity of community and family) and most probably it does, but if you’re exposed to media 24/7, are 85% taken and captured by it, then go vote, you’re a deadly danger to the whole d–n society. What do I mean? Well they just did Covid, as how many men did you see melting down over the rules? Some, but like 80/20? And we know the men who melted down we identified them as feminine and “Sissies” before all that happened. What is the top issue for all men this election? Economy and stopping world war. Then what is the top issue for women this election, by like 5x multiples over any other issue? The right to murder her(/his) children. That’s the only priority. Right to Murder, is the issue. …When ALSO they HAVE it, already, on the vein of also being illogical. Ugh.

    I’m not making this up, and I’m certainly not trying to exaggerate it. These are the literal facts I see as women get the conference table to become “Equal”. Instantly it’s about getting more. More than equal. Equal, then take that power, and keep going. And laugh ha ha! Tra-la! And when they got the more, all jobs, all college seats, etc? They use it to go Pro war, pro oppression, pro murder, and follow any obvious abusive narcissist they can find. Yes there are women not like this, but they are like 80/20 just as the feminine men are like 20/80 on our side. This is not good, and I’m not sure what to do about it? Go back to the non-suffrage family life society we had before? I mean, yes, it will make them happy and society safe (history says) but what does that say, and how do you get there? How do you stop the bad reasons we LEFT there to begin with?

    And more importantly: what pathway? I see nothing, although a whole generation of women appear to be turning the corner on realizing what MeToo and MGTOW is doing: no one will talk to them. Any of them. Or work with them. Say a thing to them, be normal with them. Because so many of them are now toxic, even the good ones are abandoned and alone. Now not even alone like 1950, safe in their social surroundings, protected by their brothers, cousins, and all society, but truly alone, adrift, and attacked on all sides by men and women alike. By women, I mean, I perceive that if you, woman, are not toxic and gushingly approving of toxic, your own fellow women will cut you out and torch you as a pariah, just as they’ve done to men for the same reason, so it’s an impossible situation for them: be toxic and destroy everything themselves, or be cut out with no women friends and society at all. I mean, if you think the man’s situation in this is terrible, that one is even worse.

    Anyway, election? No way. Why are we still talking, there won’t be an election. At a minimum, they’ll keep counting…and counting…and counting… into March, April, May…

    “This will be an election of the sexes, by the sexes: men dislike Kamala more than women dislike Trump”

    True, but slides by the other issue: this is now men voting against women. The DNC is a woman party, with woman approaches, (Chad is “Weird”, “Brat Summer” , “Yas queen”), woman discussion, woman answers. I’m not sure the GOP is a male party, but it’s certainly more male than that. I’m very sure that isn’t good. The men voting against all the women, and vice versa, like the Rape of the Sabine, Lysistrata? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysistrata

    LYSISTRATA
    There are a lot of things about us women
    That sadden me, considering how men
    See us as rascals.
    CALONICE
    As indeed we are!” — 411B.C.

    How can they act like this, suddenly, out of nowhere, starting 2005? Oh yeah: the first smartphones, same as straight-up chart lines for unhappiness and girl suicide.
    LydiaOhLydia

    Well, don’t know where we’re going, but we’re all going there together on this one. Maybe we’d like to go there as friends and not enemies?

    “Garcia-Navarro was taken aback – clearly unable to grasp the notion that modern men would want [jobs]”

    You were asking? Yes, literally they cannot comprehend this, nor the most simplest things. THEY don’t work, so they only understand strawberries will cost 10c more per pint, not that to buy strawberries you need a job. (Is that Men/Women thinking again?)

    ““The intense hatred for Musk is due to the fact that he was the immovable object in the path of their formerly unstoppable force.”

    This is true but I don’t understand it. I think it’s some sort of feminine thing. He was a minor God to the Left (feminine) because he was doing what they wanted. Now he won’t do what they want, so they need to sniff out his weakness and control him. …’Cause they sure aren’t going to do any work themselves! They need to make him OBEY, “get outta here and get me some money too”, bend that man to your will. That he won’t, that’s like the core function, their only interest, captures 100% of all attention for them. …We’re all sitting here like, “Huh? Why?”

    Why? It’s an evolutionary imperative. Men must Obey. Power. He is Powerful, and I need to CONTROL that power. Nothing else matters. The End. They will work tirelessly, not sleeping or eating or doing anything else until that is settled and they can feel safe again: controlling man’s power.

    So you can tell the boys from the girls here: boys want to build their OWN rocket ship. Girls want to steal and own yours. Howso? Well look at movies: girls don’t want to make their own movies, they steal Star Wars, put a chick I it and make ‘er gay. They steal Daredevil, stick a chick in it and make ‘er gay. They steal Terminator, stick a chick in it and make ‘er gay. They steal the Hulk, stick a chick in it and make ‘er gay. Hey, if men are so bad, MAKE YOUR OWN MOVIE. With your own heroes. In your own fantasy cannon. But all they do is imitate men. Well if it was cool and POWER to use a light saber, then Rey is the best light-saber-er-er-er evah! Better than no man! Can’t you see? I just wrote that here!!! (Yes, you did. Wow.) That’s it. Where’s your own universe you created? Why you taking mine?

    Why? It has POWER, so I stole it and used it to my own…POWER. …And then it becomes hollow and empty, honey. You took the power OUT of it. And of course this is odd, as the minority of women movies in movie book universes are stellar, as with Jane Austen, AND better liked by women, AND sell big, no problem. …Unlike gay Star Wars, gay Terminator, or gay WNBA. Nobody watches that s—t, NOT EVEN WOMEN. If anything, women hate the WNBA more than men do. They hate these gurl action movies more than men do.

    So it’s about the STEALING. It’s about the POWER. Not the story, not the art, not the audience. I’m hollow and feel powerless, so then I acted on it. Psychologically, internally, subconsciously.

    Back to Musk, it’s about POWER. That’s the only thing they think or care about, day or night. Men look at him and go, “Meh”: Cool stuff, probably overrated, could be better. But not them. I mean they’re literally at the point of murdering him in his bed or dragging him out in the streets for not obeying…what? Not obeying what? Give me the directive, WHAT rule, etc am I breaking here?

    NOT OBEYING. That’s it, the only one. Not being a slave. That he can think independently, act, buy stuff, are all secondary to that. Same with Trump, actually. He can hire Bolton, bomb Syria, and support Israel all they want and they don’t care, doesn’t help a bit. Doing what they want, say, isn’t ENOUGH. The only thing that matters is, he can’t be controlled.

    “• Young Men in U.S. Are Shifting Right, as Many Feel ‘Left Behind’ (Manley)

    They will try to Judo-throw these guys to fascism and war as soon as they can. Of course, they’ve already TRIED it, it’s just that they’re so moronic and so feminine, they had zero uptake on their attempt. Still, look out for it, later I’ll have to fight that too.

    Look above, what if the flip is for women to become feminine and have families, husbands, the same time, Kinder Kuchen, as the men are unleashed in a masculine outburst? See the problem?

    This is, of course, the POINT of social engineering and screwing everything up on purpose. Society would be stable, sit nowhere, if you didn’t screw everyone to their limits, then emotionally release them, then direct that release in the direction you want to go. They would be a coconut raft and not a sailing ship, you’re trying to GET somewhere, under power. If I have to destroy every human life and happiness to get there, so be it. That’s why we had galley slaves for 5,000 years, idgaf. (Jean val Jean, we’re not talking Rome here)

    The problem is, if WE have consciousness, or we know/suspect they’re up to something, they can’t ride and trample the herd. We’ll then pick our own direction and solution, not theirs. That’s why there can’t be an Ivermectin, e.g., TINA, there is no alternative. I can ONLY be the Action>Reaction>Solution we pre-planned and pre-front-run in stock buys. All of other solutions, like not-FEMA, we arrest and kill if necessary.

    “FEMA has previously spent approximately $650 million on grants to nonprofits and local authorities that resettle and aid illegal immigrants,”

    A BILLION dollars. A BILLION. And we get….Nothing!!! That’s right, in fact that money was taken FROM us, as well as TO them. This is your UBI: instantly prices will equalize by whatever about UBI adds, THEN if you refuse the UBI, you’ll go under, while the UBI is required to survive and we can merely pick winners and losers on this spreadsheet in my pajamas. Right now, with housing. ALL Millennials: FUCK YOU. All houses: Here sir, good Venezuelan Gang Member, just finished raping some kids we found wandering in WNC, FREE HOUSE!!

    ““It’s terrible because a lot of these folks who need assistance are refusing it”

    Uh, well that’s a lie on its face. So FEMA got down there, with a truck of free stuff, and the farmer living under two sheets of plywood next to an open fire by his missing house is like “Nah. Not if it’s FEMA.” GTFO. My ears: they are contaminated with your s—t. The problem, soup to nuts, from all reporters, was they WEREN’T providing it. Nothing was getting offloaded, and they were arresting everyone who was. That’s the #OPPOSITE of “We are unloading-trucks” so should be real easy to tell who’s lying: YOU are.

    “A series of events in recent days has demonstrated NATO countries’ deepening commitment to Israel as new UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer leads the way.”

    Uhhhh, yes but Starmer may not last the month? Nor Biden? Van der Lyin’ don’t look any better? Wow, I’m backed by an army that can’t get off the mat! Is hospitalized at the barracks. Be very very afraid.

    “Or their hope lies with invoking the threat of their demise as the means to bring in the United States.”

    Hahahahaha! Joke’s on you! What would happen if you got 100% of the United States in Iran on your behalf? WE WOULD LOSE. You ninnies. It’s not 1979, you dopes. For the love of God, can we get a normal human with eyes and ears in here?

    “he strategy of using Israel as the regional battering ram to achieve U.S. (imperial) objectives was worked out essentially in the 1960s by Senator Henry “Scoop” Jackson.”

    No doubt! That was SIXTY years ago. One whole lifetime. So you’re fighting Napoleon when the Franco-Prussian war is going on. How’s that working out for you?

    “Home Office figures show that police officers voluntarily leaving the service has hit a record high of more than 5,000, or 3.4 per cent of the workforce,”

    If all the good officers abandon their posts and leave, that leaves only the bad officers. You may have to, I’m not saying that, but that is categorically a “Bad Thing”. That means the next and only move is High Chancellor “Two-tier” Starmer has a fully-fascist, totalitarian police force with no restraint. Zero, none. And for both reasons, YOU then, will have to fight and SHOOT them, you recently-retired officers. That’s deep in Civil War territory. Why will you have to? Because they are going to behave badly and mistreat you, now part of the public. And because you’re a former officer you won’t be able to sit around and tolerate that. You are organized personalities accustomed to Justice and force.

    From some memes or whatever: where I am, there have been no chemtrails for more than a year, possibly two. Soooo….logic is, that jet engines just create these contrails that cover the sky, it’s just tech, I’m seeing things, but a year later the same jet engines now no longer create lingering contrails, only a short white behind them that vanishes immediately? Like they used to? So according to you, either all jet engines worldwide have been swapped out again, or the weather was never conducive to this, then suddenly was 99% conducive to it, then suddenly all weather, 360 days a year, are suddenly entirely forbidding of contrails, sky-wide again, 15-20 years later? Science!

    #171542
    Mister Roboto
    Participant

    This post on X is apparently too big for the forum-site to reproduce in full, but it concerns the WaPo story about FEMA officials supposedly being hunted by domestic terrorists. I recommend reading it in full.

    https://x.com/DrBMcDH/status/1845922531133607946

    #171543
    Oroboros
    Participant

    “…says Democrats care more about “dudes who wanna become women than dudes who just wanna be men.”

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    #171544
    Oroboros
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    Oroboros
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    #171548
    Oroboros
    Participant

    NOT ‘Photoshopped’

    Predictably in Californicate’s Big Shity of San Franshithole would you see a street sign like this.


    A Sign of the Times

    Emblematic of Demonrats

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    #171549
    poppie
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    Our lawless government has set fruit in Rutherford County. The gov doesnt like it. May hope for more. The response? Disparage them for not understanding how much they need the govs help. Yeah, thats the ticket.

    #171550
    Oroboros
    Participant

    The “election” is going to be entertaining

    DeaDuhcated to the Empire of Lies

    A once sort of functioning nation, but alias no more…..

    Duh’merica the Beautiful

    A “country” masquerading not as a gas station but as:

    A Row of Flaming Porta-Potties

    Here’s to all the Illegal migrants….

    This Bud’s for You

    José say can you see by the dawn’s early light?
    What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming,….

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    #171551
    Celticbiker
    Participant

    Politicians are puppets and muppets, putting on a show. 1913 jewbankers established the real control. Once they murdered Kennedy, they had complete dominance. The seeds were planted for a 2nd bolshevik revolution, which we are witnessing now. 1st one killed 60 million Christians. Those numbers will seem small by the time these demons are done. The whole world is Gaza. Unconfronted Evil, sooner or later, arrives at every doorstep.

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    Oroboros
    Participant

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    #171553
    Oroboros
    Participant

    A Public Service Announcement Dumbed Down Enough to Penetrate the Duh’merican Sheeple Trance

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    #171554
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Ritual Humiliation No. 7568

    Oh no, not that one again……

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    Oroboros
    Participant

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    #171556
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Duh, like Duh again

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    #171557
    oxymoron
    Participant

    I nearly choked on my dinner when I read “Americans are the best builders in the world”.
    No, my poor sweet childish man – Americans are DEFINITELY NOT the best builders in the world.
    They can innovate and create but build the best houses in the world?. No country owns that title.
    Only individual builders.

    #171558
    Oroboros
    Participant

    @oxymoron

    I’ll tell you what they are good at.

    Duh’mericans are good at violence, very good

    Collective and individual

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    Cut n’ Run

    The Empire of Lies is very very good at that.

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    Oroboros
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    #171560
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Boo!

    Halloween is comin’ for ya……

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    Oroboros
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    #171562
    zerosum
    Participant

    SECRETS

    “A national security threats” is a threat to the “Ruling Establishment”

    Young American men are now more likely to be financially dependent on their parents with about 30% of those aged 18 to 25 continuing to live at home with a parent.
    As a result, young men are also waiting longer to get married as well as to have children.

    Germany’s economy is not merely stagnant, it is shrinking.

    “The UK is suffering the worst decline in living standards of any G7 country..”

    Election promises are transparently impossible to come true.

    #171563
    phoenixvoice
    Participant

    Kunstler:
    We have entered a new era of antisemitism

    I’ve been noticing the same thing — although, not in person yet, so far I’ve only seen it online.
    I find this deeply troubling.
    Anti-immigrant rhetoric is more widespread. But that is based upon Biden Admin. policies, and overtly criminal acts in this country.
    The antisemitism is based upon dawning realization that prominent Jews are involved in nefarious plots to control and subdue the rest of us. At the same time, Israel is committing genocide, and it is becoming apparent that the government of Israel has ties to the prominent Jews of whom I spoke.
    I worry that the subterfuge of a few well-connected Jews could turn public sentiment against them all again. I hope not. I have good friends who happen to be Jewish and who have no ties to the “prominent Jews” nor to the Gazan genocide. I know that there are Jews that oppose the genocide in Gaza, who oppose Zionism, who want no part in being involved with plots to “rule the world.” I think that now would be a good time for Jews who want no part in genocide or machinations to speak up and make it clear to the rest of humanity that they are distinct from the Jews involved in these problematic enterprises.

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    Michael Reid
    Participant

    Dr. Gilbert Doctorow |
    Hezbollah’s Game Changer MOVES! –Who Will Dominate?

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    Noirette
    Participant

    This tweet from the top post caught my attention:

    China just stopped building their Massive Car-plants in Mexico because they’re afraid Trump is going to win the election.
    That means… China knows it will own Kamala Harris, while Trump will liberate us from China.

    Looking up Tim Walz … (I didn’t know he existed before being picked as VP)

    He is a China Fan, a China Friend.

    excerpt:

    As of 2016, Walz said he had visited China about 30 times, including for his honeymoon. Walz married his wife, Gwen, a fellow teacher, on June 4, 1994 — the fifth anniversary of China’s brutal repression of Tiananmen Square protests. 

    “He wanted to have a date he’ll always remember,” she told the Star-Herald before they wed. For their honeymoon, the couple led dozens of American students on a tour through China. The couple continued the educational trips for years through their own travel company. 

    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tim-walz-china-views/

    Just the MSM, there is more out there, but as Idk about financial (etc.) ties, so silencio.

    Note > Harris pro-China, Trump anti-China, Biden pro-UKR, anti-Russia, Trump pro-Russia (in his first term, the strategy was clearly to ally w. Russia to prevent a R-Chin alliance..but then, sanctions..) etc.

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    jb-hb
    Participant

    “Miltia groups hunting FEMA”

    here’s how I bet this went down.

    An officious, not particularly polite FEMA person shows up a month late, comes across a pickup truck full of locals working on dealing with the disaster. Of course they are armed, there’s been a total breakdown for how long now?

    Maybe the FEMA person is snotty, superior, threatening about their weapons – what are you doing with those?

    So they contemptuously, sarcastically (there may be a few GenXers in there) say “Aw, we’re hunting for FEMA but we cannot find them anywhere”

    ie you suck, you’re worse than useless. you’re an idiot. fuck you. where have you been all this time?

    FEMA person, outraged at people with the audacity to drive pickup trucks around their neighborhood, possibly distributing their own aid, possibly policing their own hometown, plus they are used to asskissing not open contempt as part of a bureaucracy, fights back like a Mean Girl “Oh pearl clutching disaster, they are HUNTING FEMA!”

    (ie I heard she’s a slut)

    #171568
    jb-hb
    Participant

    “Men dislike Kamela” or “Men dislike Democrats”

    How long have the Democrats hated men, made man-hating an integral part of their platform? The roots trace all the way back to late 60’s.

    Rabid villainization and banishing-from-society of normal men has been full-force for about a decade now. For you retired people, you really have no idea how bad it is.

    Simply having the wrong reproductive organs give me a 1/10 chance of my job application even being responded to AT ALL vs a woman. That’s just the FIRST filter.

    But there are usually 3-5 interviews to get through. Even the first screening interview probably has an unfavorable ratio. I kept getting interviewed by female HR teams, usually in groups of 3-5. (the job I finally got, it was 2 dudes interviewing me)

    HR departments have become extensions of the Democrat party – and of its more radical leftist ideas. They do QUITE a lot of required “trainings” on these ideas, enforce the ideas on pain of termination, hire based on these ideas.

    Please don’t try to tell me that after the initial response to a job application, it becomes a sporting 50/50 chance for men/women in the 3-5 interviews on the way to hiring. Even at my supposedly conservative most-recent job, of 11 inbound care reps, I was the only male and all leadership was female. Just imagine what the ratio is at a NON conservative employer.

    And the Democrats clearly dominate both news and entertainment media and what is being broadcast wall-to-wall? We hate men. In all the ADVERTISEMENTS, how are men portrayed???

    All-Democrat teachers across the country are traumatizing male children, treating them at best like defective females and impressing upon them a collective guit/shame they supposedly carry. Did that 8 year old chew his graham cracker into an L shape, then point it and go “pew-pew”? Have the police show up and arrest him! My responsibility is healthy child development, so naturally, if I see the tiniest pretext to give a male child a permanent psychological scar, jump on it! And make sure to feed any males you can into the pipeline leading to psychoactive drugs. And “therapy” – fortunately there’s a bunch of authority-approved desirable outcomes that can branch out from that. IF this results in bad effects down the line possibly bad for society, well, we can point at those bad effects and say “See? See how toxic?” so it’s all gravy.

    And after a decade of that turned up to 11, the Democrats exclaim: “Men hate our candidate! Men hate our party!”

    #171569
    Oroboros
    Participant

    “Disaster Equailty Bitchz

    https://www.naturalnews.com/2024-10-14-fema-disaster-equity-lgbtq-rescued-others-ignored.html

    FEMA’s “disaster equity” focus means LGBTQ people get rescued while others are ignored

    A virtual meeting held by the agency has recently come to light in which FEMA Emergency Management Specialist Tyler Atkins announced that the agency was prioritizing individuals who consider themselves LGBTQ because he says they are “already disadvantaged.”

    U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Senior Emergency Management Specialist Maggie Jarry then took over the conversation, saying that instead of helping as many people as they can, FEMA should follow a policy of “disaster equity” that sees minority communities being given the priority.

    “The shift that we’re seeing right now is a shift in emergency management from utilitarian principles — where everything is designed for the greatest good, for the greatest amount of people — to disaster equity,” she said.

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    These aren’t just suggestions; FEMA’s own website states that “Goal 1” is to “Instill Equity as a Foundation of Emergency Management.”

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    Oroboros
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    Oroboros
    Participant

    The Demonrats Main Platform

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    #171572
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Not All That Ground Breaking

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    Been goin’ on a long time….
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    But now they’ve gone outright Art Nouveau Insane

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    Oroboros
    Participant

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    #171574
    Oroboros
    Participant

    A Boy and His Dog vs A Girl and Her Cat

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    Oroboros
    Participant

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    #171576
    jb-hb
    Participant

    Kursk 2.0 update

    3-4 days ago, after a couple weeks of no movement, the map finally changed – the road up to Korenevo in the northwest part of the salient got cut from the west.

    The new map from yesterday shows that whole area has collapsed – the “arm” of the salient pointing at Koronevo is just gone entirely. I thought Ukraine would just fall back a bit and that big forested area just southwest of Kremyanoe but they let go of that too.

    Russia is also cutting in from the northeast, looks like they are working on a little kessel on what’s left of the northmost part of the salient

    Zerohedge has an article claiming that Sudzha is being evacuated by Ukraine – latest map on southfront does not reflect this at all. That would be significant, as Sudzha is a hub for roads in the Kursk salient and is the major urban area. Like if, in the Battle of the Bulge, the Germans had successfully took Bagstone with its 7 radiating roads and then we heard they were evacuating that town.

    I think it would be really difficult for Russia to cut in behind Sudzha because to the south and southeast of there, there’s a whole lot of broken terrain, streams, and trees interspersed with towns. I can’t really see Russia cutting them off from the base of the salient unless Ukraine has nothing to put there to stop them and didn’t bother fortifying for the past few months. But maybe the concrete mixer trucks couldn’t make it through, idunno.

    I guess anytime from the US Civil War through WW2, I’d say a Russian buildup on the western base of the salient at Darino would be effective, because they can either strike due east for Sverdlikovo and cut the main road leading from Sudzha to (what’s left of) the western portion of the salient, or they can strike southeast for Baskiva to threaten the road to Sudzha itself. But surely Ukraine expects that and has prepared. But even giving the appearance of a buildup in Darino should force Ukraine to tie down a lot of stuff in multiple places waiting for an attack. Maybe it takes 5 men to take what 1 holds, but it’s the attacker who gets to decide where the concentration of force occurs and it’s the defender that has to spread out.

    My bet is, the Russians opt for the slow grind – these things get exciting, like something big is about to happen – like closing the salient at its base and bagging everything in it – when this is usually just when the map freezes for a month – or a year.

    (if you right-click and open image in new tab, you can see it bigger)
    https://s5.cdnstatic.space/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/14oct2024_Ukraine_Kursk_Map.jpg

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