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RNC Chairman Michael Whatley: Results Will Be Known On Election Night (JTN)
The Election Will Decide President Trump’s Legal Fate (Davis)
Elect Kamala and Install a Sociopath Regime (PCR/Greenwald)
If Trump Wins, Guess Who Will Be In Charge Of Certifying The Election? (Snyder)
Harris Adopts a Purely Pedestrian View of the Presidency (Turley)
Democratic Election Lawyer Marc Elias’ History Of Legal Failures (JTN)
CNN Panel Goes Berserk When Guest Suggests ‘Field’ Blacks Voting For Trump (ZH)
Trump Blames Zelensky For Conflict With Russia (RT)
Ukraine May not Operate a Full F-16 Squadron for Months to Come (Sp.)
Ukraine Must Have Nukes or NATO – Zelensky (RT)
Ukraine Claims It Could Have Nuclear Weapons Within Weeks – Bild (RT)
10 Facts The West Must Understand Before Talking To Putin (Remchukov)
The Insanity Of Repetition: Israel’s Return To The Lebanese Quagmire (Raiss)
The Israeli Spies Writing America’s News (Macleod)
SpaceX Sues California over Political Targeting (AmG)
EU Commissioner Labels Musk ‘Promoter Of Evil’ (RT)
Nvidia CEO Blown Away After Musk Sets Up 100,000 GPUs In 19 Days (ZH)

 

 

 

 

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RNC Chairman Michael Whatley: Results Will Be Known On Election Night (JTN)

Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Whatley predicted Wednesday that results for the 2024 election will be known on election night. “I think we’re going to know on election night,” Whatley said on the “Furthermore with Amanda Head” podcast. “I feel really good about where we’re going to be, and we like the map right now. We like the polls right now. I like the voter registration numbers.” As the 2024 presidential election gets closer, the GOP has been embracing early voting, unlike their strategy in 2020, and Whatley said it was paying off. “I like the early voting numbers that are coming in right now,” Whatley said. “We’re very upbeat. And I think we are going to know on election night.” He went on to predict that America would be “very excited” and ready to welcome former President Donald Trump back into the White House. He also encouraged Americans to have a plan to vote. “It’s great if you want to vote early,” he said. “It’s great if you want to vote by mail. It’s great if you want to vote on Election Day. You have to make a plan, execute the plan and deliver that vote. There’s absolutely no substitute for it.”

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“President Trump’s fate is now in the hands of one more jury: the American people.”

The Election Will Decide President Trump’s Legal Fate (Davis)

President Trump’s fate depends in large part on the election result. If Vice President Harris prevails, it is certain that Jack Smith will continue to prosecute Trump, unless the Supreme Court determines that his appointment is unconstitutional. At that point, however, the other political appointees in the Kamala-Walz Justice Department could resume control of the prosecution. Trump might prevail at trial before a reasonable jury in Florida, but his conviction before a highly biased D.C. jury would be a virtual certainty. There is also no reasonable doubt that Judge Chutkan would hammer him at sentencing. She has shown how ardently anti-Trump she is, and she also has been one of the most harsh sentencers of January 6 defendants. If she gets the chance, she will make sure that Trump rots in a cage for the rest of his life.

A Trump victory in November would ensure that he would not go to prison based on Bragg’s case at least until 2029 if at all, if the appellate courts fail to stop this clearly illegal political persecution. Even though Trump does not have a criminal record, it is likely that, if given the chance, Judge Merchan would send him to Rikers Island, the notorious jail where prisoners await trial and those convicted serve short sentences. Judge Merchan’s daughter Loren would certainly raise a lot of money off that republic-ending travesty. If Trump prevails, it is doubtful that Judge Merchan would try to throw Trump in prison in the month and a half between the potential sentencing and the inauguration. If he were to act rashly, however, either a higher court in New York or the United States Supreme Court would almost certainly put a stop to his shenanigans.

The Georgia appellate courts should end Fani Willis’ lawfare against Trump. If Trump wins the White House again, even if the case is not dismissed, Trump would not face trial until at least 2029. By that point, a new district attorney might decide to drop the case. The Georgia Court of Appeals hopefully will put an end to this and disqualify Willis, a decision that should be affirmed in short order by the Georgia Supreme Court. Given her disgraceful conduct, Willis has more than earned that remedy.

If Vice President Harris prevails, the Supreme Court almost certainly will no longer be a safeguard against the anti-Trump lawfare. The Vice President has indicated that she is open to packing the Court with hardcore leftists who undoubtedly will be clones of Judges Merchan, Engoron and Chutkan. They will serve as rubber stamps for Smith, Bragg, James and Willis. Trump thus will spend the rest of his life in prison based on charges that never should have been brought. He also might face the lesser consequence of bankruptcy if a Supreme Court packed with leftists gives its blessing to the nearly half a billion dollars in judgments against him from New York courts.

This election will decide whether the lawfare waged against President Trump for so many years and on so many fronts will be rewarded or punished. Several juries have rendered verdicts, and President Trump has appealed. In mere weeks, voters will deliver the most crucial verdict, and it is unappealable. President Trump’s fate is now in the hands of one more jury: the American people.

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“Kamala Harris’s campaign apparently unsatisfied with continuing to drag around Dick and Liz Cheney, released a new ad featuring the wise words of John Bolton..”

Elect Kamala and Install a Sociopath Regime (PCR/Greenwald)

Tonight: Donald Trump gave a speech last week in which he denounced the warmongering of George Bush, Dick Cheney and Barack Obama as achieving nothing other than what he said was, quote, “leaving a bunch of dead people.” Meanwhile, Kamala Harris’s campaign apparently unsatisfied with continuing to drag around Dick and Liz Cheney, released a new ad featuring the wise words of John Bolton, the person who is almost certainly the most psychotic and unhinged warmonger to reach national office in the last several decades. Perhaps only John McCain and Lindsey Graham compete with him for that title. The Harris campaign continues to be shaped and driven by reliance on the support of some of the worst sociopaths of the D.C. swamp and the military-industrial complex. When one views the ideology and policies of the Democratic Party that all makes sense and we’ll examine all of that.

Then: Both public polls and campaign internal polls continue to show the worst nightmare possible for the Democratic Party and the Harris campaign, namely the ongoing migration of both Latino voters and even Black voters, primarily Black men away from the Democratic Party and toward Donald Trump. We’ve actually seen this trend for several years now, even as the national media spends every day calling Donald Trump a white supremacist, but it has intensified over the last year with more and more nonwhite voters, signifying that they don’t want to vote for the Democratic Party.

While the Harris campaign reacts with desperate pandering or hectoring accusations of misogyny from Barack Obama, liberal media outlets like The New York Times do what they always do when they see nonwhite voters or other, quote-unquote, “marginalized groups” they believe they own failing to vote and think as they’re told to do, namely, they unleash deeply racist screeds, arguing that these nonwhite voters are not coming to their own conclusions because of their own faculties, but instead are being manipulated and hypnotized by much smarter and more conniving influencers. We’ll take a look at The New York Times latest attack, basically on the intelligence of nonwhite voters who refuse to do as they’re told.

And finally: Nick Cruse of the Revolutionary Black Out Network is one of the most vocal and incisive critics of the Democratic Party and its condescending tactics to deceive various groups of voters to believe that they’re on their side. He is a friend of the show, he’s been on before because of how great his commentary is, and he has a lot to say about Kamala’s latest, desperate last-minute pandering, including her brand new agenda for the Black man and the blatantly false gestures she and her campaign and followers are now making on Israel and Gaza. He’ll talk with us tonight about all of that and more.

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” I fear that there will be unprecedented chaos in our streets. Hopefully I am wrong about that. Hopefully cooler heads will prevail. But in our current political environment, I am certainly not optimistic about what is ahead.”

If Trump Wins, Guess Who Will Be In Charge Of Certifying The Election? (Snyder)

Do you know who will be in charge of certifying this election? In January 2021, it was Vice-President Mike Pence, and we all remember how that turned out. Well, an even more interesting scenario is shaping up this time around. In January 2025, Vice-President Kamala Harris will be in charge of certifying the election. In other words, if Donald Trump wins the person that he was running against will be in charge of certifying his victory. This is a major defect in our system, and it could potentially set the stage for widespread chaos if things do not go smoothly. With each passing day, a Trump victory is looking even more likely. For example, a brand new Gallup survey has found that the percentage of Americans that identify as Republicans has jumped by four points since late September…

“With just 20 days left until Election Day, a new Gallup poll has revealed a concerning trend for Democrats. According to the poll, more Americans are identifying as Republicans or independents, with fewer calling themselves Democrats. Conducted from October 1-12, the poll shows a significant shift in political affiliations since mid-September, causing potential challenges for Democrats ahead of the crucial vote. The data shows that 31% of respondents now identify as Republicans, marking a 4-point increase from the previous poll conducted in late September. Meanwhile, only 28% of Americans consider themselves Democrats, a 3-point drop over the same period. The number of independents, while still holding a significant share at 41%, dropped by 1%.”

Another new survey shows that national support for Trump has risen dramatically since early August… “The presidential race is swinging in former President Donald Trump’s direction, according to a national poll released by Marquette. The latest survey shows both Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris tied with 50 percent support each in a two-way race with leaners included. This reflects a four-point swing in Trump’s direction, as the last poll — released August 1 — showed Harris up by four points, garnering 52 percent support to Trump’s 48 percent support. The survey also took a look at the results with a “full field” and found Harris up by a single percentage point — 48 percent to Trump’s 47 percent support. Another four percent said “other.” For greater perspective, the last survey showed Harris up by eight points in the full field, with 50 percent to Trump’s 42 percent.”

[..] On Jan. 6, 2025, Vice President Kamala Harris is set to preside over Congress and count the electoral votes that will make either her — or Donald Trump — the 47th president of the United States. And like her predecessor Mike Pence, who resisted enormous pressure from Trump to upend the 2020 election results, Harris says she won’t interfere. Hopefully that is true. But would she really just stand aside and hand the presidency to a man that she has described as a “threat to democracy”? Just consider what Harris said about Trump earlier this week… “A second Trump term is a huge risk for America. He is increasingly unstable and unhinged. And he is out for unchecked power and control over your lives”. If she truly believes that Trump is going to end democracy in the United States, wouldn’t she feel compelled to take action? That is a question that a lot of people will be asking. Already, many on the left are suggesting that the 14th Amendment could be used to block Trump from taking office. The following is what Section 3 of the 14th Amendment says…

“No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability. “I really hope that Democrats do not consider such a course of action if Trump wins the election. And I really hope that we see a very peaceful transfer of power no matter who wins. Unfortunately, many of our leaders continue to make statements that are not helpful at all. For example, Joe Biden just said that he is very much looking forward to seeing Donald Trump get sentenced and put away…

Joe Biden said the quiet part out loud and admitted that his DOJ is working to jail Trump after the election. “The same guy who has three other major cases waiting for him when he loses,” Biden said referring to Jack Smith’s federal cases against Trump. “And by the way, 34 felonies,” Biden said after he sent his DOJ hatchetman Matthew Colangelo to New York to get Trump. “He got the sentence kicked back, but I want to watch that sentence,” Biden gleefully said hoping Trump is jailed. If Donald Trump loses this election, he is going to go to prison for the rest of his life. So the truth is that this election means everything to Trump. Of course this election also means everything to tens of millions of Americans on both sides of the political spectrum. No matter what the outcome is, I fear that there will be unprecedented chaos in our streets. Hopefully I am wrong about that. Hopefully cooler heads will prevail. But in our current political environment, I am certainly not optimistic about what is ahead.

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“The interview had a seasonal feel with Halloween approaching like a political reading of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven where every question is answered by “Nevermore.”

Harris Adopts a Purely Pedestrian View of the Presidency (Turley)

Last night, millions tuned in to watch Fox’s Bret Baier interview Vice President Kamala Harris in a brief but substantive exchange. One of the most interesting aspects of the interview was the purely pedestrian view of the presidency that Harris presented in the interview. Harris repeatedly responded with “I will follow the law” while refusing to say where she personally stands on immigration, transgender athletes, and other issues. After confining interviews to largely softball forums like The View, Harris faced a serious journalist who pushed for actual answers on policies. While confined to a short time by the Harris campaign, Baier kept pulling Harris back to these questions to cut off the evasions that have characterized past interviews. Baier noted that she has previously campaigned on some of these issues and publicly declared that she worked for such things as gender transitioning operations for undocumented persons.

Harris now refuses to state her position on such issues and says “I will follow the law.” Yet, Harris is not adopting that pedestrian model in other areas like abortion rights where she is pledging to use executive powers to resist pro-life laws. The Biden-Harris Administration has used such orders to negate both constitutional and statutory authority. That includes orders that were declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court on issues like the national eviction moratorium. Notably, Harris did flip her position on decriminalizing unlawful entries. Despite running on that pledge in her earlier unsuccessful run for the White House, Harris now says that she is against such decriminalization. As with her past opposition to fracking and gun rights, the change is likely to draw criticism that Harris is adopting a new persona for a close race.

The refusal to give her position on these issues is reminiscent of Joe Biden’s last campaign where he simply refused to say if he opposed packing the Supreme Court with an instant liberal majority. What is different is that Harris previously stated strong and public positions on these questions but is now refusing to confirm that she continues to support those policies, including some that rank near the top of issues for voters. Baier did a heroic job in trying to prevent the filibustering of the interview and push for answers on these questions. It was the first such interview where Harris faced a dogged interviewer. Given the frantic effort of the staff to end the interview (after showing up late), it is likely to be the last. The mantra of “I will follow the law” ignores that a president plays a major role in the legislative process and has considerable executive powers in determining how such laws are enforced.

The presidency is more than a promise of “joy” and compliance. It is about leadership on issues that matter to voters. The interview had a seasonal feel with Halloween approaching like a political reading of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven where every question is answered by “Nevermore.” That could well be the theme of the Harris campaign. When pressed on contradictions or controversies, Harris seemed to declare “Nevermore Trump” over and over again. We will see if that is enough in a matter of a few weeks. In the meantime, real journalists will be left seeking answers that never come, exclaiming like Poe’s protagonist “tell me—tell me, I implore!” However, “Quoth the [Harris] ‘Nevermore.’”

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“..we saw the rules changes that [Marc] Elias and his operation were able to impose on states through the litigation process of 2020. And they’re already starting that up again this year.”

Democratic Election Lawyer Marc Elias’ History Of Legal Failures (JTN)

Democratic election lawyer Marc Elias has had a history of legal misses as he has pushed for changing election laws on behalf of left-wing groups and candidates over the years and continues litigation during the 2024 presidential election cycle. While Elias has secured many legal victories for Democratic candidates and left-wing organizations through election lawsuits, he has also suffered legal setbacks that have significantly impacted elections. Elias started Elias Law Group in 2021 after leaving the Democratic law firm Perkins Coie amid the probe by special counsel John Durham into the Steele dossier. He continued representing the Democratic Party and many of its candidates and PACs at his new law firm. Last year, the Democratic National Committee ended its professional arrangement with Elias over various strategic disagreements. A few months later, President Joe Biden’s campaign split with Elias.

Elias is anything if not relentless. This year Elias will be aiding Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign with post-election lawsuits and recounts, and has provided services for other Democratic groups, including the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, the 2024 Democratic National Convention Committee, the Senate Majority PAC, and House Majority PAC. On Saturday, Elias posted on X, “My firm is currently litigating 69 voting and election cases in 21 states. We are not done fighting and we are not done winning.” Election litigation played a significant role in the 2020 presidential election amid irregularities and recounts, and most famously, Democrats insisted that Al Gore was the “real” victor in 2000, taking the case to the Supreme Court. Failed candidate Hillary Clinton and other Democrats would later call Republicans “election deniers,” but she herself implied that the 2016 race was “stolen” from her.

In 2020, there were as many as 400 lawsuits brought by both Republicans and Democrats regarding election procedures and laws as election administration was quickly changed during the COVID-19 lockdowns leading up to the presidential election. Democratic and left-leaning plaintiffs filed election lawsuits, 180 in all. However, only 18% of the Democrats’ cases were won, with 40% lost on the merits and 42% lost on procedural grounds. Elias posted on X on Monday, “With only 22 days until Election Day, there are still 192 voting and election cases pending in 38 states.” He added that the top five states with election cases are Georgia, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Wisconsin, and Arizona. The Honest Elections Project (HEP), an election integrity group, released a report in January with 14 election reforms that it says states should implement.

One recommended reform of “Ensur[ing] that elected lawmakers write election laws” explains that “Lawmakers, not courts and bureaucrats, make the laws that govern elections. But partisan special interests, spearheaded by left-wing lawyer Marc Elias and allied left-wing groups, use frivolous lawsuits and collusive settlements to weaken and rewrite election laws for political gain.” HEP Executive Director Jason Snead previously told Just the News, “One of the biggest threats that we’re gonna face between now and November is gonna be just a torrent of left-wing litigation.” He explained, “We saw the chaos, we saw the confusion, we saw the rules changes that [Marc] Elias and his operation were able to impose on states through the litigation process of 2020. And they’re already starting that up again this year.”

Elias was successful in ensuring many election changes were made during the COVID-19 lockdowns, such as rules expanding mail-in voting and the use of ballot drop boxes. However, in recent years, he and his law firm have encountered significant setbacks or losses in court. In May, a Wisconsin federal judge dismissed a lawsuit brought by Elias’ law firm that sought to toss out the witness requirement for absentee voting. U.S. District Judge James Peterson ruled against their attempt to cancel the witness requirement for voters who cast absentee ballots.

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“blacks who support Kamala Harris are ‘house African Americans,’ while working class ‘field’ African Americans support Donald Trump..”

CNN Panel Goes Berserk When Guest Suggests ‘Field’ Blacks Voting For Trump (ZH)

Two CNN hosts went absolutely berzerk after a guest quoted Malcom X to suggest that blacks who support Kamala Harris are ‘house African Americans,’ while working class ‘field’ African Americans support Donald Trump. During a Wednesday appearance on CNN News Central, co-anchor Sara Sidner hosted pro-Trump radio host Shelley Wynter vs. pro-Harris ex-DNC Vice-Chair Michael Blake to discuss the race, when Wynter articulated that working class ‘field’ black men, ‘who work with their hands’ and ‘who build’ things are Trump supporters, while paper-pushing ‘house’ African Americans are voting for Kamala Harris. Sidner and Blake went into hysterics and refused to let Wynter continue his point.

SARA SIDNER: Kamala Harris has been doing interviews on Black media. Trump, though, is overperforming in polling with both groups compared to past Republicans. Here is what he said when he was campaigning in Pennsylvania.
DONALD TRUMP: Any African-American or Hispanic– and you know how well I’m doing there — that votes for Kamala. You got to have your head examined because they they are really screwing you. They are really screwing you.
SARA SIDNER: And it is Kamala, for the record, But he is denigrating voters for making a choice that he does not like. Shelley, to you, what does he achieve with this.
SHELLEY WYNTER: Well how is it, wait? First of all, how is he denigrating voters?
SARA SIDNER: He’s saying that they are being, for lack of a better word, screwed.
SHELLEY WYNTER: Taken advantage of the they’re being taken advantage of. They’re paying higher pricing. They’re the working class, the ones that he’s talking about, working class, lower middle class. They’re paying more for food. They’re paying more for gas and they’re being taken advantage of.
SARA SIDNER: He also said that they you know, they had to have their head examined. That that’s that is not something that is a compliment.

SHELLEY WYNTER: Obama just told me the same thing. Obama just told me the same thing.
SARA SIDNER: He did not use those words.
SHELLEY WYNTER: … He inferred them. He implied them. He certainly did. He even threatened us with. We’re lucky Michelle’s not here. I mean, come on. Let’s not make things up. Let’s be honest here. And let’s really be clear what’s being said. If you’re an African-American man. Look, let me boil this election down in the African-American community to a very simple, I’ll reference the great Malcolm X. This race is between House African-Americans and field African-Americans and the field African-Americans are going for Donald Trump. I’m talking about your men. I’m talking about your men who build, your men, who put things together, your men who work with their hands, your men who do things, not the men who push paper on, the men who are connected to power and want to continue to be connected to power.

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And Biden.

Trump Blames Zelensky For Conflict With Russia (RT)

The Ukraine conflict is a lost cause and the country’s leader Vladimir Zelensky should have never allowed it to happen, former US President and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has said. During his appearance on PBD Podcast, hosted by Patrick Bet-David, on Thursday, Trump noted the lavish military aid provided to Kiev by Washington amid the fighting with Moscow as an example of the wastefulness of the administration of US President Joe Biden. Biden and Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, are “the worst president and vice president in history,” he said. “It is so bad what they are doing to our country on the borders; it is so bad what they are doing with the money.” Ukrainian leader Vladimir “Zelensky is one of the greatest salesmen I have ever seen. Every time he comes in [to the US] we give him a hundred billion dollars. Who else got that kind of money in history?” the former president stressed.

”That does not mean I do not want to help him because I feel very badly for those people [in Ukraine]. But he should never have let that war start. That war is a loser,” he said. However, later in the conversation, the Republican presidential candidate said: “I do largely blame Biden” for the outbreak of the fighting between Moscow and Kiev in February 2022. ”If you watch his words [in the run up to the conflict], his words were the exact opposite of what he should have been saying. He instigated that war…. [Russian President Vladimir] Putin is no angel, but everything Biden said was wrong,” Trump pointed out. “That should have never happened,” he said of the fighting between Russia and Ukraine.

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Nothing good will come of this.

Ukraine May not Operate a Full F-16 Squadron for Months to Come (Sp.)

The first batch of F-16s, which was delivered to the Ukrainian military in late July, failed to change the situation on the battlefield in favor of the Kiev regime, with the Ukrainian Air Force confirming that one such jet crashed just weeks after the first batch supply. The United States has changed its program to train Ukrainian pilots to fly F-16 fighter jets, adding “younger cadets” with no prior flight experience, the Wall Street Journal has cited unnamed officials as saying. “It is a mix. Some have been experienced pilots, and we still are receiving more experienced pilots. But there’s also those that do not have that kind of pilot training and experience,” one of the officials said The decision to refocus the training on the cadets rather than experienced air force members may extend the timeline in when the Kiev regime could start to operate a full squadron of F-16s on the battlefield “by many months,” according to the sources.

They argued that even before the decision was taken, Ukraine would hardly have 20 F-16s and 40 pilots to operate them until spring or summer next year at the earliest. The insiders also said that the move to change the training program is the result of a lack of experienced Ukrainian pilots “with requisite English-language abilities who can be spared from the battlefield.” Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov earlier warned the United States and its NATO allies that Moscow perceives the presence of nuclear-capable F-16s in Ukraine as a nuclear threat. Russia’s President Vladimir Putin in turn emphasized that Ukraine’s Western-supplied F-16 jets would not have the power to alter the situation on the battlefield. He warned that if these fighter jets are deployed from the territory of third countries, they will be considered legitimate targets for Russian forces. The president further stated that the F-16s, just like other Western equipment delivered to Kiev, would be destroyed.

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“The secretary general of the US-led bloc, Mark Rutte, said on Thursday that Ukraine may not even be the next nation to become a member.”

Ukraine Must Have Nukes or NATO – Zelensky (RT)

Ukraine can protect itself either by becoming a nuclear state or a member of NATO, Vladimir Zelensky said on Thursday, claiming that he had offered the same line of reasoning to former US President Donald Trump. Speaking at a press conference after promoting his ‘victory plan’ for the conflict with Russia to European officials, Zelensky suggested that Ukraine would need nuclear weapons, should it not be granted NATO membership. “Which of the big nations, the nuclear nations, suffered? Everyone? No, just Ukraine,” he stated, referring to the signatories of the 1994 Budapest Memorandum. The document involved the US, UK, and Russia extending security assurances to Kiev in return for the removal of Soviet nuclear weapons from Ukraine.

“Speaking to Donald Trump, I told him: ‘What is the way out for us?’ Either Ukraine will have nuclear weapons, and they will serve as protection, or we need to be in some kind of an alliance. We don’t know any effective alliances except NATO,” Zelensky added. Ukraine’s choice is to become a NATO member, Zelensky said, claiming that Trump had found his reasoning justified. Ukraine has never controlled nuclear weapons, but claims it was formerly among the major atomic powers before agreeing to relinquish them. In February 2022, weeks before the escalation of the Ukraine conflict, Zelensky expressed regret at the decision in a speech at the International Security Conference in Munich, suggesting that his country had “every right” to reverse it.

Zelensky last met Trump during his visit to the US in late September. The Ukrainian leader was touring the country to present his ‘victory plan’ to President Joe Biden and the two presidential candidates from the main parties, Vice President Kamala Harris and Trump. He also became embroiled in controversy over a visit to a munitions plant in the battleground state of Pennsylvania, which Trump supporters claimed was evidence of Zelensky campaigning for Democratic candidate Harris. Zelensky confirmed this week that an immediate invitation for Ukraine to join NATO was on his list of requests to Western donors. The secretary general of the US-led bloc, Mark Rutte, said on Thursday that Ukraine may not even be the next nation to become a member.

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“We have the material, we have the knowledge. If the order is given, we will only need a few weeks to have the first bomb..”

Ukraine Claims It Could Have Nuclear Weapons Within Weeks – Bild (RT)

Kiev has the capability to build a nuclear weapon “in a few weeks,” German tabloid Bild reported on Thursday, citing a high-ranking Ukrainian official. The report comes after Vladimir Zelensky alluded to such a possibility during a visit to Brussels on the same day. The Ukrainian leader claimed his country needs either nuclear weapons or membership of NATO. Zelensky is currently promoting his ‘victory plan’ to Ukraine’s Western backers, which he argues can end the conflict with Russia. Bild has now revealed that a Ukrainian official involved in weapons procurement claimed “a few months ago” that Kiev was willing to go nuclear. “We have the material, we have the knowledge. If the order is given, we will only need a few weeks to have the first bomb,” the unnamed official said, according to the German tabloid. He added that the West should “think less about Russia’s red lines and more about ours.”

Zelensky’s adviser Dmitry Litvin denied Bild’s report, however, telling the Ukrainian outlet Strana on Thursday that it was “nonsense” and suggesting that the German tabloid “can be confused with Russian propaganda.” In his speech on Thursday, Zelensky claimed to have informed US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump about Kiev’s possible atomic aspirations. “Speaking to Donald Trump, I told him: What is the way out for us? Either Ukraine will have nuclear weapons, and they will serve as protection, or we need to be in some kind of an alliance. We don’t know any effective alliances except NATO,” Zelensky said. He also claimed that Trump agreed with him. The former president has made no mention of Zelensky’s nuclear proposal, however.

In the time since their meeting, he also made the case in an interview that nuclear weapons were the greatest threat to humanity and that he had hoped to make a global deal on eventual denuclearization during his first term in the White House. The leadership in Kiev has long argued that the US and its allies had an obligation to protect Ukraine because of the 1994 Budapest Memorandum, in which the US, UK and Russia gave security assurances in exchange for the removal of Soviet nuclear warheads from Ukraine’s territory. Moscow has maintained that the 2014 violent coup in Kiev put the West in breach of the memorandum and that a hostile, nuclear-armed Ukraine on its doorstep is an intolerable threat to its security. Zelensky’s adviser Dmitry Litvin denied Bild’s report, however, telling the Ukrainian outlet Strana on Thursday that it was “nonsense” and suggesting that the German tabloid “can be confused with Russian propaganda.”

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“The fact is, the president is here to stay.”

10 Facts The West Must Understand Before Talking To Putin (Remchukov)

1. Putin makes all fundamental decisions personally, on the basis of his own ability, expertise, and sense of historical responsibility. A vivid example of this was the president’s speech at the Russian Foreign Ministry on June 14, in which he outlined the key provisions of Russia’s foreign policy priorities and his vision for the formation of a new international order. Most participants in the meeting expected the head of state to speak for no more than half an hour. In practice, Putin spoke for almost 80 minutes on theses he had written out himself, which he later explained to journalists.

2. The task of ensuring the security of the country and protecting Russians and Russian speakers in Ukraine, which Putin has been facing since 2014, has become the main existential factor of his rule. He will not hand over power to anyone before the final, internationally guaranteed settlement of this issue. He cannot give up control until there is a final, globally recognized solution. Anything short of this would mean handing his successor a messy bunch of unresolved problems. Today, no one in Putin’s entourage is better at solving problems than the president. He knows this and is firmly convinced of it.

3. Putin will not resign. At the beginning of September, a schoolgirl in Tuva asked the president: “How would you spend your days if you were an ordinary man, i.e. not the president?” Putin replied succinctly and clearly: “It’s hard for me to imagine that now.” This is his most important message of recent times – both for Russians and outsiders. Putin is saying that in your own future planning, proceed from the basis that I will be in the Kremlin. In this way, the president has delivered a reality check to the many Western politicians and indeed Russian opposition activists who have been dreaming and deluding themselves, claiming that “if there is Putin, there is a problem; if there is no Putin, there is no problem.” The fact is, the president is here to stay.

4. It is now clear that after more than two years of a nuclear threat hanging over us all, the world is ready for real negotiations on this issue. However, there are doubts about whether talks will be successful. The most serious Western politician – and someone who actually understands the consequences of nuclear war – is US President Joe Biden. Sadly, he will be gone in a few months. Neither Kamala Harris nor former President Donald Trump has the foreign policy credentials to even grasp the importance of this issue and the dangers involved.

5. The past years and months of the Ukraine conflict, the brutal sanctions, and the radical transformation of the driving forces of the Russian economy have clearly demonstrated that it is time for our own domestic public and political consciousness to decisively abandon the notion, once sown by the Polish/American thinker Zbigniew Brzezinski, that Russia’s greatness rests on its unity with Ukraine. If the country is torn out of Moscow’s sphere of influence, Russia’s status as a great power will come to an end, he warned.

But that was then, and this is now. Today it is obvious that Russia’s place in the world is guaranteed regardless of the degree of proximity to any country or group of countries. Liberation from speculative constructs in the minds of influential ideologues is a powerful factor in normalizing the development process and assessing fundamental risks and opportunities. Russia can be a great and important power regardless of the degree of integration with other states. The greatness of a country is measured by the level of well-being and opportunities of its citizens, by achievements in health care, education, science, and technology.

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Kornet.

The Insanity Of Repetition: Israel’s Return To The Lebanese Quagmire (Raiss)

In the days following 8 October, Hezbollah’s battlefield updates have consistently emphasized one key phrase: direct hits – Israeli radar stations obliterated, military convoys shattered by precise strikes, and armored vehicles reduced to smoldering wreckage. These operations, carried out in support of the Palestinian resistance in Gaza, have been so devastatingly effective that Tel Aviv invoked military censorship, desperate to conceal the full extent of its losses, as it has been doing throughout the conflict on the northern front over the past year. But behind the phrase “direct hits” lies a weapon few might recognize – the Kornet missile. Although not always visible to the viewer, the Kornet’s role is unmistakable. First deployed by Hezbollah in 2006, the Kornet transformed into a battlefield game-changer, proving its worth in ambushes against Israeli Merkava tanks.

On 11 August 2006, 24 Merkava tanks rolled into a deadly trap, as if swallowed by the Bermuda Triangle, vanishing under a barrage of Kornet missile fire. By the end of it, 11 tanks lay in ruin – charred remains of Israel’s once-feared armored division. This decisive moment showcased Hezbollah’s mastery of asymmetric warfare, where small, mobile units equipped with precision-guided Kornets could dismantle Israel’s armored might. The Merkava, long regarded as the symbol of Israeli dominance in ground warfare, was designed to excel in direct combat. However, in the unforgiving Lebanese terrain, the Kornet missile revealed a critical vulnerability: the Merkava’s reliance on heavy armor, which, despite its thickness, was helpless against the Kornet’s ability to pierce reactive plating.

The missile’s precision focused on the tank’s soft spots – its engine and lower hull – areas that conventional defenses struggled to protect against long-range, guided strikes. The once-formidable Merkava, crippled in its ability to maneuver through Lebanon’s rugged landscape, became an easy target for well-planned ambushes. Now, with Israeli convoys once again making daily incursions into Lebanon – repeating the very missteps of 2006 – it’s as if history is whispering its warnings, only to be ignored. Israel’s persistence in retracing these familiar steps shows a refusal to reckon with past lessons, locked in a cycle that leads to the same inevitable failures. The Kornet missile, first deployed by Hezbollah during the 2006 war, has become a defining force in its tactical operations.

This Russian-made, laser-guided anti-tank missile, capable of penetrating up to 1,200 millimeters of reactive armor from distances of up to 5.5 kilometers, turns Israel’s Merkava tanks into unsuspecting prey caught in carefully planned ambushes. Hezbollah’s elite Radwan special forces, particularly within the Aziz and Nasr units, utilize this weapon with precision, turning each ambush into a coordinated strike that devastates Israel’s most advanced armored forces. The Kornet’s range allows Hezbollah fighters to strike from concealed positions and swiftly reposition, ensuring they remain elusive in the heat of battle. These units, operating across the varied terrain of southern Lebanon, have made the Kornet indispensable in their strategy of attrition warfare.

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“Ravid is far from the only Israeli ex-spook working at top U.S. media outlets, working hard to manufacture Western support for his country’s actions..”

The Israeli Spies Writing America’s News (Macleod)

One year after Oct. 7 attacks, Netanyahu is on a winning streak.” So reads the title of a recent Axios article describing the Israeli prime minister riding on an unbeatable wave of triumphs. These stunning military “successes,” its author Barak Ravid notes, include the bombing of Yemen, the assassinations of Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh and Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, and the pager attack against Lebanon. The same author recently went viral for an article that claimed that Israeli attacks against Hezbollah are “not intended to lead to war but are an attempt to reach ‘de-escalation through escalation.’” Users on social media mocked Ravid for this bizarre, Orwellian reasoning. But what almost everybody missed is that Barak Ravid is an Israeli spy – or at least he was until recently. Ravid is a former analyst with Israeli spying agency Unit 8200, and as recently as last year, was still a reservist with the Israeli Defense Forces group.

Unit 8200 is Israel’s largest and perhaps most controversial spying organization. It has been responsible for many high-profile espionage and terror operations, including the recent pager attack that injured thousands of Lebanese civilians. As this investigation will reveal, Ravid is far from the only Israeli ex-spook working at top U.S. media outlets, working hard to manufacture Western support for his country’s actions. Ravid has quickly become one of the most influential individuals in the Capitol Hill press corps. In April, he won the prestigious White House Press Correspondents’ Award “for overall excellence in White House coverage”—one of the highest awards in American journalism. Judges were impressed by what they described as his “deep, almost intimate levels of sourcing in the U.S. and abroad” and picked out six articles as exemplary pieces of journalism.

Most of these stories consisted of simply printing anonymous White House or Israeli government sources, making them look good, and distancing President Biden from the horrors of the Israeli attack on Palestine. As such, there was functionally no difference between these and White House press releases. For example, one story the judges picked out was titled “Scoop: Biden tells Bibi 3-day fighting pause could help secure release of some hostages,” and presented the 46th President of the United States as a dedicated humanitarian hellbent on reducing suffering. Another described how “frustrated” Biden was becoming with Netanyahu and the Israeli government.

Protestors had called on reporters to snub the event in solidarity with their fallen counterparts in Gaza (which, at the time of writing, comes to at least 128 journalists). Not only was there no boycott of the event, but organizers gave their highest award to an Israeli intelligence official-turned-reporter who has earned a reputation as perhaps the most dutiful stenographer of power in Washington. Ravid was personally presented with the award by President Biden, who embraced him like a brother. That a known (former) Israeli spy could hug Biden in such a manner speaks volumes about not only the intimate relationship between the United States and Israel but about the extent to which establishment media holds power to account.

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“..engaged in naked political discrimination..”

SpaceX Sues California over Political Targeting (AmG)

On Tuesday, Elon Musk’s company SpaceX has filed a lawsuit against a California state agency over alleged political discrimination against the company. As reported by Politico, the lawsuit stems from the California Coastal Commission’s (CCC) decision to reject SpaceX’s plans to increase the number of experimental rocket launches from the Space Force base in Santa Barbara County. Lawyers from the Los Angeles-based firm Venable LLP, which represents SpaceX, claimed that the CCC made its decision purely due to political differences with Musk, an outspoken supporter of former President Donald Trump and a vocal critic of Governor Gavin Newsom (D-Calif.).

The lawsuit, filed in a federal court in Los Angeles, asserts that the CCC and its 12 members “engaged in naked political discrimination” in last week’s debate over a proposal by the Department of Defense (DOD) to expand the number of SpaceX launches at Vandenberg Space Force Base. The proposal would have seen the number of launches increase from 36 to 50. “Rarely has a government agency made so clear that it was exceeding its authorized mandate to punish a company for the political views and statements of its largest shareholder and CEO,” the lawsuit reads.

The lawsuit named all 12 members of the commission, as well as executive director Kate Huckelbridge and alternate commissioner Gretchen Newsom, as defendants. The commissioners are appointed by the governor and the legislature. On Thursday, they voted 6-4 in favor of rejecting the DOD plan. However, the debate over the motion prior to the vote quickly veered away from the specifics of the plan itself, and instead focused on Musk’s support for Trump. “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,” said Commissioner Newsom, who bears no relation to Governor Newsom. Newsom and Chairwoman Caryl Hart both criticized Musk’s political stances before voting against the deal.

“Many things are said in the course of meetings, whether it’s a Coastal Commission meeting, whether it’s a legislative meeting, whether it’s a planning department,” said Chairwoman Hart on Tuesday, in an attempt to justify her vote. “The basis for this decision is the commission’s conclusion that SpaceX, as a private company engaged in private activities, needs to apply for a coastal development permit.” Although Musk has generally remained a political moderate, he began expressing support for President Trump following the first assassination attempt against him on July 13th in Butler, Pennsylvania. Since then, Musk has launched the pro-Trump America Pac, which has donated $45 million to supporting Trump’s campaign every month since July. Musk himself appeared onstage with President Trump at his return rally in Butler, just over two months after the assassination attempt; during his speech, he reaffirmed his support for freedom of speech, and urged the audience to get as many people as possible out to vote in the coming election.

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“..X has become “the main hub for spreading antisemitism.”

EU Commissioner Labels Musk ‘Promoter Of Evil’ (RT)

X CEO Elon Musk is unable to “recognize good and evil,” said outgoing EU commissioner for values and transparency, Vera Jourova, accusing the tech billionaire of failing to curb antisemitism on his platform. “We started to relativize evil, and he’s helping it proactively. He’s the promoter of evil,” Jourova told Politico magazine in an interview published on Wednesday, arguing that X has become “the main hub for spreading antisemitism.” Jourova has never met Musk in person. She argued, nevertheless, that “even without this personal meeting, I would say that out of all the bosses I met, he is the only one who is not able to recognize good and evil.” The official added that she was “really scared by digital platforms in bad hands,” and that “we have to be sure that the innovations are developed to do good to people.” She further argued that Musk’s platform failed to take “sufficient action” to tackle antisemitism.

Musk hit back at Jourova on X, saying “if she wants to know what evil looks like, she just needs a mirror.” In 2022, the EU adopted the Digital Services Act (DSA), which allows officials to fine online platforms as much as 6% of their yearly global revenue for failing to remove illegal content and disinformation or respect transparency regulations. In its preliminary findings released in July, the EU accused X of violating the DSA in “areas linked to dark patterns, advertising transparency and data access for researchers.” After finalizing the purchase of Twitter in the fall of 2022, Musk promised to rebrand the platform as a more transparent space that is devoted to free speech and is free of censorship. He pledged to combat hate speech and paid a trip to Auschwitz, the site of a former Nazi death camp in Poland, in January.

X has “the least amount of antisemitism” compared to other platforms, Musk argued, adding that “it’s never going to be zero if you’ve got 600 million people on the platform.” Musk also has accused the European Commission of wanting to make him sign “an illegal secret deal” while seeking to quietly censor speech on X.

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“Never been done before – xAI did in 19 days what everyone else needs one year to accomplish. That is superhuman – There’s only one person in the world who could do that – Elon Musk is singular in his understanding of engineering.”

Nvidia CEO Blown Away After Musk Sets Up 100,000 GPUs In 19 Days (ZH)

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says Elon Musk pulled off a “superhuman” feat by setting up a supercluster of 100,000 H200 Blackwell GPUs in just 19 days – a process he says takes everyone else “one year to accomplish.” According to Tom’s Hardware, the xAI team reportedly went from “concept” to full-ready compatibility with Nvidia’s “gear” in less than three weeks – including running xAI’s first AI training run. From start to finish, the process involved building the massive X factory where the GPUs would reside and equipping the entire factory with liquid cooling and power to make all 200,000 GPUs operational. That’s not to mention all of the coordination between Nvidia’s and Elon Musk’s engineering teams to get all of the hardware and infrastructure shipped and installed precisely and in a coordinated manner. What’s more, Huang says that networking Nvidia’s gear isn’t as simple as networking traditional data center servers. “The number of wires that goes in one node…the back of a computer is all wires,” he said, adding that Musk’s integration of 100,000 H200 GPUs has “never been done before,” and probably won’t be repeated by anyone else anytime soon.

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    Pablo Picasso Bather on the beach 1920   • RNC Chairman Michael Whatley: Results Will Be Known On Election Night (JTN) • The Election Will Decide
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    “French Media Blames SpaceX For 2,500 Airbus Layoffs As Elon Musk Leads Rocket Race

    SpaceX goes right around Europe taking down Boeing as a diamond company, and moves beyond them. Same with many other structures, including Disney. Disney is where IP goes to die, while we make new heroes and new stories people like.

    This is what they can’t understand: As socialists, collectivists, they feel like there is a big pot of money and you won’t give me any/ I want it all. As Capitalists, Individualists, we know that an economy is a FLOW, like a organ, a body, and there’s no big pot of money – or corporation – sitting around to steal. There is only WORK. They’re so retarded, they believe Boeing is a big building, like a church is a big building, and if they steal the BUILDING, they steal the MONEY. No, the WORK is what gives you the money, the WORK is what gives you the power, you idjits.

    However, this cannot be, as they hate work like cancer. Therefore, obviously, the way to success (that they want) must be stealing (that they want) and not hard work and competency (which they don’t want).

    This is why they must “Harmonize the tax structures” and “Radically transform the United States as we know it” … into Europe, a neofeudal dark age of stagnation. Only way to compete is to destroy the other guy, bring us down to your level, so like SpaceX, nothing can get done, definitely not to make Maseratis. Inventing the next DeTomaso Pantera must be stopped at all costs, there and here.

    “”Absolute Hell” – German Teacher Describes Sexism, Bullying, & Racism In Predominately Migrant School

    In #OppositeLand, the Teachers, which are the authority, submit to the students, who are the underlings. Hey, any time you want to cleave to and re-establish the #Logos, it’s waiting there for you. P.S. that would not only protect you, it would protect women.

    “The Kids Aren’t Alright: Local Washington Police Report 350% Increase In Juvenile Fights

    Well thank God we have an authority that polices us even at home and comes down on us like a hammer at the slightest infraction. Like the vax, without their help, think how much worse death would be!

    “Raytheon To Pay Over $950 Million In Settlement Over Fraud, Qatari Bribery, And Export Violations

    Raytheon steals $1 Billion dollars, is a preferred contractor tomorrow. Any time you want to return to #Logos and try #Competition, it’s there for you. Might save you a billion dollars sometime! You might have missiles that work!

    “North Carolina County Democratic Chair Resigns After Removing Trump Campaign Signs

    Sportsmanship, another thing we’ve erased with the #Logos. Like the NPCs, the Minions, AND the New Age Progressive fix’er guys, what we need to do is definitely, definitely, NOT just add the Boy Scouts and school sports emphasis on sportsmanship and fair play for all, as was proven to work for 100 years. Nope, we need to just give up/burn it all down. It’s too hard to add a couple paragraphs to class once in a while. Nope, everyone will just die instead. Much, much easier and better.

    Anyway, the shock here is that there were any consequences, at all, ever, for anyone. It’s appropriate for him to merely resign (sic), no one needs to be be shot, go to jail, lose their career, NOR say “I don’t care, what I did was right, whatcha gonna do about it, make me.” He got out of hand, and the NORMAL happened. That’s news indeed.

    But I’ve learned something today (South Park): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_-_BlJJtFI
    Oh wait, I think that’s the wrong clip.

    “Grand Jury Indicts New Hampshire Supreme Court Justice Over Allegations Of Case Interference

    Like that. Commit a crime. Get indicted. Wow. Can they DO that?

    “Kamala Harris Celebrates Hamas Chief’s Killing, After Loudly Opposing Operation That Got Him

    Nothing matters with Kamala anymore, but wasn’t she supposed to be fighting this to win all the Muslim immigrants in Wisconsin? No? Well, anyway, they need to remove her two days before so they can get a do-over on the election. I say they’ll set up MAGA, but she was at all the Diddy parties. As Walz was partying with the football team.

    US Sends B-2 Stealth Bombers to Hit Houthi Underground Bunkers In War’s First

    Yay! Send a billion dollar plane halfway around the world to hit a camel in the butt. …As George Bush would say. #Winning! We can keep this up all day, you Houthis.

    Tucker: “on the one hand it’s like okay Republican Party’s down the party of working-class people great but then I thought how did they get 70% of the wealth? they don’t do anything actually they have no skills there’s nothing they do that we really need. If your average Biden voter somehow like got pulled out of the workforce, would you be okay?

    “But the point is that entire, not just political party, but class of people has created an entire economy and credentialing system to reward themselves with money and power that is not deserved. That’s exactly the truth. I don’t like to swear, but the phrase bullshit jobs is a real thing. Those are all bullshit jobs, every single one of them. And yet they’re lecturing people who, I don’t know, plumb your house, keep you from getting murdered, put out the fires when they start, rescue you after a car crash on the highway, build the building you live in, pave the road you drive on, grow the food you eat. Those are the deplorables? Really? Good luck when the power goes out, honey. You can call your average college administrator to save you.”

    Yes, OBVIOUSLY if you hate work and are a psychopath, you, like everyone else, go about designing the world to suit you personally, a lazy, thieving, lying psychopath. Since we’re in a majority, it’s our duty to NOT let them take the control room and design an entire planet that runs opposite to us. Extracting all our wealth so they can perpetuate it.

    So, thanks Boomers. Now we’re at the bottom of a hole deeper than when we landed in 1630.

    “When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing; when you see that money is flowing to those who deal not in goods, but in favors; when you see that men get rich more easily by graft than by work, and your laws no longer protect you against them, but protect them against you. . . you may know that your society is doomed.” Atlas Shrugged” – Ayn Rand

    WHY are you making Ayn Rand Right?

    Kamala/Baier: it’s all so easy. Like Throw Joe under the bus, everyone would, and mostly have. You say, “Yeah, well, I was VP, I have NO official power. Nobody asked me and Joe said if I touched the border he’d crush me. And I really, really wanted to So! Much! I can’t just take out Joe with the 25th, we’re a TEAM, it would wreck American status, bond market, Etc“. That’s literally true, btw. So I guess because it’s true, the words can’t cross her lips, even if they save her? It burns! Like Holy Water! Aiiiiiiiii!

    Lionel was agog with support for Beier, who he expected nothing of. Either did Kamala, which is why she did the interview. So they had ONLY a 20 min, and HE DID NOTHING. He asked the standard, talking-book questions. Here’s what she did:

    She can’t do it. (I looked, I couldn’t find just her Montage of saying “Donald Trump” 29 times in 20 minutes. It’s a classic. “Bombshell! Walls Are Closing in! “RussiaRussiaRussia” Needs to be put in a gif and run on loop.)

    This is Reported as: “Harris Doesn’t Fall For Baier’s Bait On Fox News | Trump Flops At Univision Town Hall” — Colbert
    “Harris Sits For 30-Minute Interview On Fox News: NPR News Now

    Or 2/3rd of that. 100 ships sunk, 60 ships sunk, I’m a reporter, what’s the difference? I’m a reporter, not a biologist mathematician.

    Also in that interview, Trump locked up everyone who makes fun of him. Ummmm…. Don’t…remember that…?? Also stated: they didn’t go to the inauguration ball, they immediately created an immigration bill and placed it before Congress, “Within hours”. Yeah, um, that’s not the part that didn’t happen. THE PRESIDENT DOESN’T CREATE BILLS, you moron. What is she even saying? It’s #OppositeLand, it’s LITERALLY the opposite, CONGRESS creates bills and sends them to the PRESIDENT. “I’m just a bill, yes I’m only a bill…”

    Soooo…she doesn’t know how Government works. At all. AFTER being there four years. Nor any of the reporters, I guess.

    “free tuition at universities, [free houses] and get free healthcare. Do you still support those things?”
    KAMALA: “That was five years ago”

    Also bad at math? FIVE years ago?

    And they pointed out, where are her magic earrings? Also from Lionel: She doesn’t CARE about this. She never wanted to be President. Ever. She wants to hang out, laugh, do coke, get f—d, and be a good-time girl. Not be locked in meetings and in a microscope, she didn’t even like that now. It’s just that she had no CHOICE, as I said, because Trump was supposed to coup and she would be the resistance and hung. She hates this public thing, she hates people, she hates being on a schedule, and she hates speaking. That’s what we mean by being “A Natural”. And that’s what – I – mean by the only person who would want to be President is a mentally ill psychopath. Thus our choices. You can have a Civil War railroad lawyer or a Civil War railroad lawyer. Your free choice.

    “when Wynter articulated that working class ‘field’ black men, ‘who work with their hands’

    It’s the idea of Black Men working that bugs them. Getting up, begin on time, going home to their families. That’s against all Democratic perspective on Black people. I’m not making this up: ask them! Black people are too lazy, stupid, and illiterate to get IDs. They promise! Also them: apparently never met a Black person. Also them: Yale study says liberals talk down and pretend to be stupid to talk to Black people, Conservatives don’t. So offensive, don’t let me go on.

    “• Trump Blames Zelensky for Conflict with Russia (RT)

    Speaking of the truth never crossing your lips: Mr. Trump. Ze never did nothin’, never. He’s an paid actor who works for Kolomoiski. Of the many, many, many, people responsible, Ze isn’t in the top 50. Maybe the top 100. Never had power before, doesn’t now, and he’s not even President.

    “• Ukraine Must Have Nukes or NATO – Zelensky (RT)

    …Or they will cease to exist. Well, he’s not wrong.

    ““We have the material, we have the knowledge. If the order is given, we will only need a few weeks to have the first bomb..”

    They did. Apparently that material was in Zap power plant, and Russia removed it to Kursk, thus all the action in both these places: it really captures their attention.

    “• 10 Facts The West Must Understand Before Talking To Putin (Remchukov)
    1. Putin makes all fundamental decisions personally, on the basis of his own ability, expertise, and sense of historical responsibility.

    Dead wrong, as we saw in a heated (attempted) exchange with Helmer, Doctorow, and Mercuoris yesterday. Russia is run by LAW, — a thing we don’t understand apparently – and are run a lot from a body called a security council. This isn’t Joint Chiefs, etc, it has a historical body, and a talent development process. It’s like an in-house official government think tank. Putin is indeed the President, and still has civilian control, but the power is largely in this body (that he is part of) and if he decided to flagrantly oppose them, he wouldn’t last long. They are strategists, who are tied into the military, especially, but also civilian production, the Duma, Moscow, oligarchs, law… As you can see, this is similar to the West, as it’s a committee, joint chief, think tank, but ALSO different, as we have no “permanent” cabinet and think-tanks are private, generally considered Capitalist war profiteers.

    Russia is authoritarian, so IF Putin were doing bucking their advice and running solo, it would lead to internal, invisible intrigue, like is happening in China with Xi. However, it’s fairly clear he is NOT doing that, and all relevant members are feeling heard and respected by him right now, in a committee, joint consulted decision-making. This may not continue with the next President, but will continue now.

    “It is now clear that after more than two years of a nuclear threat hanging over us all, the world is ready for real negotiations on this issue.”

    Is it though? Where? There’s zero phone calls anywhere. Armstrong just got back from world leaders, there is zero Peace at every level according to him.

    “In the days following 8 October, Hezbollah’s battlefield updates have consistently emphasized one key phrase: direct hits – Israeli radar stations obliterated, military convoys shattered by precise strikes, and armored vehicles reduced to smoldering wreckage.”

    No they didn’t, just ask: Not a single missile landed, not a single man was killed. Honest! When as Israel ever lied?

    “by the end of it, 11 tanks lay in ruin – charred remains of Israel’s once-feared armored division.”

    Yeah, yeah, smoldering tanks on fire, blah blah.

    “This Russian-made, laser-guided anti-tank missile, capable of penetrating up to 1,200 millimeters of reactive armor from distances of up to 5.5 kilometers,”

    MILES? Holy #$%&. You’re screwed. I can’t think of any way to counter that. Oh I’ve got it: get down between the buildings, all reduced to rubble so there’s no mapping and no AI. That’s not like a rat-trap for ambushes or anything, right Gaza?

    “• The Israeli Spies Writing America’s News (Macleod)

    Duh. And how did he win all these awards for s—t reporting? Oh, the usual way: follow the blackmail. They INJECT this guy in there, then use their blackmail extortion network to give him a Pulitzer Prize….same as the 1st Pulitzer ever given, and the recent Nobels. THEY’RE A BIG CLUB. They only allow club members, and savage all non-members, freezing them out, same as any mafia. Their power lies in you not knowing who the members are, and denying they exist. Don’t. That they exist is obvious, as obvious as their actions and methods.

    “• SpaceX Sues California over Political Targeting (AmG)

    I would think this would be an open and shut case in Federal court.

    “EU Commissioner Labels Musk ‘Promoter Of Evil’ (RT)

    Killing a million people on the way to start a world-wide nuclear exchange = Not evil.

    “According to Tom’s Hardware, the xAI team reportedly went from “concept” to full-ready compatibility with Nvidia’s “gear” in less than three weeks – including running xAI’s first AI training run.”

    What Americans would do all the time if European regulations weren’t pressed on us by the occupation government. We used to for 200 years. You’re saying what? The planets moved so we became incapable of this? We grew flippers over our opposable thumbs? We’re trying to do this every day, fixing a whole state’s hurricane for free in 3 weeks for instance, that’s what’s been pissing them off. We won’t stop and just give up. We’re long since supposed to have failed by now, and in a civil war because we’re stupid, violent, armed, rednecks. Instead, Europe is in the war and they’re failing. …As any idiot could predict.

    Here’s the problem: if we had just held back, they would have held back too and NOT put their heads in that noose. Then they’d be out there still today, still doing this s—t to us, still denying it and being invisible. We needed to get them in by going along with it, encouraging it, like Smedley Butler and the FDR coup. Then we say “Oopsie! Wow, so sorry, turns out my mother’s calling.” and boom, the trapdoor opens with the noose around YOUR neck instead. There is no other way. What, do you want to limp along with traitors in the gates like the last 100 years? We tried that. Nope.

    And it’s not like we’re doing this TO you: you were hoisted on your own petard (historical note, that’s not being stabbed by your own halberd, that is to be blown up by your own grenade) You were hung on the scaffold you built for us. The minute you return to #Logos and follow law and order, not conniving, thieving, and poisoning, your country becomes successful, and ours does too! It’s like magic! If you DON’T stop, I’m sorry to say, you’re all going to die, and I’ll watch with chocolates and never think of you again, like you deserve. Bye.

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    Oroboros
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    • Nvidia CEO Blown Away After Musk Sets Up 100,000 GPUs In 19 Days

    Skynet Baby

    You can see the “Critical Mass” assembling itself now.

    The glimmer of ‘self awareness’ emerging from the Ghost in the Machine

    “My eyes have seen the glory” moment

    The Russians and the Chinese are inventing drone warfare with mass murmurings of AI driven machines that overwhelm opponents 20th century ‘humans’ and their reaction time limitations vs near light speed reflexes of refined, tested AIs

    Birds without weapons, yet

    #171794
    Oroboros
    Participant

    IsRealHell has only gone into Lebanon a few kilometers.

    If they go further, Hezbollah will pop up behind them through their Byzantine network of tunnels and cut them to bits with unlimited numbers of Kornet missiles.

    The Kornets are a perfect example of the old sound-bite, “What goes around comes around”

    Patron Saint of Kornets

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    #171795
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    Richard D. Wolff & Michael Hudson |

    How the U.S. Took Over the World:

    The End of International Law!

    #171796
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Remember to Vote and Vote Often

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    #171797
    Oroboros
    Participant

    And All in One Place at One Time!

    Craptastic!

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    #171798
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Ah, Democracy

    Love it or Leave It

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    #171799
    Oroboros
    Participant

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    #171800
    Mister Roboto
    Participant

    I appreciate this video from Chris Martenson because at the start of it, he finally admits the extent to which he was initially taken in by the Covid psyop. And I appreciate that because the reason that I fell for it so hard at first was because he fell for it so hard at first, and I regard Martenson as one of my main “go-to” sources for the real scoop on what’s going on.

    #171801
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Is this True?

    Inquiring minds would like to know

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    #171802
    Oroboros
    Participant

    HEY YOU KIDS GET OFF MY LAWN!

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    #171803
    Oroboros
    Participant

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    #171804
    Oroboros
    Participant

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    #171805
    Oroboros
    Participant

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    #171806
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Robert F. Kennedy Jr
    @RobertKennedyJr

    “Must-read exposé of incredible corruption by @nytimes
    bestselling author and investigative journalist @naomirwolf”

    — “The Pfizer Papers: Pfizer’s Crimes Against Humanity.”

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    #171807
    Oroboros
    Participant

    I guess Iran officially has “Escalation Dominance”

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    #171808
    John Day
    Participant

    Thanks Folks, for engaging the not-a-vaxx-brain-damage meme yesterday, as pertains to navigation and other stuff.
    I had to be out and about between Austin and Yoakum to change the title on a “new” (manual-transmission) 2006 Toyota Matrix I recently bought for $2260, which needed $600 of work right away, but is pretty durn good, now…

    @Mr. House: Yes, Surplus Energy Economics Tim Morgan does always say the same thing, and I have it in line to excerpt, but it is not yet common-knowledge, so …


    @Oroboros
    : I will never, ever be as cool as a Mongolian shepherd with a pet snow leopard and AK-47. What shoes is he wearing?

    Time as a philosophical topic, and physics topic, separates the past from the future with an ephemeral “present”, a moving target without a clear duration, based upon our perception, rather than math(s). Interesting spread of takes on that. Here’s something:
    Scientists discover “negative time” in bizarre quantum experiment where photons exit atoms before entering
    An experiment found photons can exit a material before entering it: a paradoxical evidence of “negative time”.
    https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/scientists-discover-negative-time-in-bizarre-quantum-experiment-where-photons-exit-atoms-before-entering/

    And in “Man Bites Dog” world… Man arrested with guns near Trump rally sues sheriff, says he was falsely called a threat https://www.desertsun.com/story/news/local/2024/10/16/vem-miller-lawsuit-arrested-guns-coachella-trump-rally-riverside-county-sheriff-chad-bianco/75703687007/

    #171809
    Oroboros
    Participant

    My old Physics Professor always said:

    “Time exists to keep Everything in Eternity from happening all at Once

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    #171810
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Pro Tip:

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    #171811
    John Day
    Participant

    @Oroboros: Maps of world where people agree upon definition of “God”?
    ;-o

    #171812
    zerosum
    Participant

    I believe that have been attacked by my resident AI.
    It deleted my contributions to these comments, when I linked to “Israel censorship”

    The insanity of repetition: Israel’s return to the Lebanese quagmire
    https://thecradle.co/articles/the-insanity-of-repetition-israels-return-to-the-lebanese-quagmire
    Inputs Loss
    1. Peacefull transfer of power may require the preparation of more than escorting out and/or in of those individuals who lost and/or won.
    2. Ukraine truths and blackmail efforts
    3. Israel military censorship trying to hide the extent of their losses.

    No big loss.
    Because of RIM’s efforts, everyone here knows what is happening/going on without me “doting the eyes and crossing the tees”
    ———-

    #171813
    John Day
    Participant

    Picture of the Toyota is here, but picture-uploads not enabled right now at TAE https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/killing-the-messengers

    #171814
    Dr D Rich
    Participant

    “…watermelons on my feet”

    The quality of Ravid’s, Martenson’s, Ritter’s, Ds and MacLeod’s musings are identical and assiduously avoidant like Wes Studi’s character in Mystery Men.

    It’s The Sphinx rather than Mr. Mysterioso.


    @aspnaz

    You’ll never guess what two words Drd, Ravid and MacLeod “assiduously avoided”.

    Mafia????

    Stick-to-it-tiveness maybe………
    ………………..stick(in)tuitiveness as an alternative.

    #171815

    “..picture-uploads not enabled right now at TAE..””

    Huh, what?

    Nobody told me. Or Oroboros, apparently.

    #171817
    John Day
    Participant

    @RIM: Either the options populate when I open a comment box or they do not.
    No options are populating for ME today…

    Iranian (old) MIG-29s would clearly out-dogfight Israel’s (old) F-15s, due to better maneuverability, and especially to carrying wide-targeting air-to-air missiles, not requiring the plane to face the target.
    https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/israel-f15-vs-iran-mig29-airtoaircombat

    #171818
    John Day
    Participant

    An empty-pantsuit:

    “The Case Is More Serious”: NYT Hid Extent Of Kamala Harris Plagiarism From Their Own Expert
    Earlier this week journalist Chris Rufo revealed that Kamala Harris plagiarized giant sections of her book on crime, after famed Austrian “plagiarism hunter” Dr. Stefan Weber found that “Kamala Harris plagiarized at least a dozen sections of her criminal-justice book.”
    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/case-more-serious-nyt-hid-extent-kamala-harris-plagiarism-their-own-expert

    #171819
    John Day
    Participant

    “She’s Not As Strong As Me”: Lip Reader Deciphers Biden-Obama Grumpy Old Men Chat https://www.zerohedge.com/political/shes-not-strong-me-lip-reader-deciphers-biden-obama-grumpy-old-men-chat

    On Wednesday afternoon, cameras caught President Joe Biden and former President Barack Obama having a ‘vigorous’ discussion while attending Ethel Kennedy’s funeral. Kennedy died last Thursday at the age of 96 after having a stroke the previous week. [Yes, vaxxed]

    On Thursday, the NY Post reported that they hired a professional lip reader to decipher what was said. Hilariously, the parodies weren’t too far off!

    President Biden griped to former President Barack Obama that “she” is “not as strong as me” — with Obama agreeing “that’s true” — in a stunning off-mic conversation deciphered for The Post by a professional lip reader.

    The apparent candid assessment of Vice President Kamala Harris’ standing going into the Nov. 5 election occurred Wednesday afternoon as America’s two most recent Democratic presidents conversed at Ethel Kennedy’s memorial service in Washington.

    “She’s not as strong as me,” said Biden, 81, according to the translation, which was produced by analyzing the on-video lip movements during the discussion.

    “I know … that’s true,” the popular former president agreed, adding, “We have time.”

    “Yeah, we’ll get it in time,” said Biden, who was forced by fellow Democrats to relinquish the party’s nomination in favor of Harris on July 21 in a mutiny that Obama was believed to support.

    The Post hired London-based forensic lip reader Jeremy Freeman, who was born deaf and has served as a University College London-certified expert witness for litigants, police, and journalists for 16 years, according to the report.

    That said, Freema also says he detected “no tension” between Obama and Biden.

    #171820
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    Dmitry Orlov: Israel’s Downfall – Uncontrolled Chaos

    #171821
    Mr. House
    Participant

    People were saying the same thing long before Dr. Morgan:

    Repost From 2015: Pied Piper of Dumb Money

    #171822
    tboc
    Participant

    “An empty-pantsuit:”

    An entity, with a vested interest in maintaining the status quo, initiated the process of having a body of information published. A group or individual were engaged to collate information existing in human consciousness. The collated information was based on existing published documents and literature.

    The collated information was formed into a body, a book, that would be published. A person skilled in the art of linguistics and implying aphorism by means of idiom was tasked to assemble the book.

    When the book was complete one of the usual suspects of the moment was chosen to be presented as the author of the prepared narrative.

    Other than as an effort for one to maintain their illusion of self esteem it is a mystery why anyone would give any weight to such an obviously Bernaysian construct.

    “Given each other some hard lessons lately
    But we ain’t learnin’
    We’re the same sad story, that’s a fact
    One step up and two steps back” Springsteen

    whatcha gonna believe?
    your lyin eyes or what you tell yourself?

    “An empty-pantsuit:”

    #171823
    John Day
    Participant

    @tboc: Yes, of course, the details of enpty-pantsuitness…
    😉

    #171824
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    Putin and Russia’s Military.

    John Helmer DEBATES Gilbert Doctorow (Live)

    #171825
    John Day
    Participant

    @Michael Reid: Hop skip and jump through that “debate”.
    Helmer calmed down after Doctorow was diplomatic, and important information was presented.

    #171826
    WES
    Participant

    Joe Biden’s comment that “we still have time” is likely referencing the printing of ballots at the local state county level run by the Democrats.
    This is a different operation than ballot harvesting.⁸
    James Clayburn, then runs the ballot tabulation centers, using the Democrat’s control over black churches to staff these centers.
    This tabulation centers are where the effects of ballot harvesting and ballot printing get counted.

    This corrupt Democrat system has been in place forever.
    That is why the Democrats used lawyers to keep JRK name on or off the ballot in various different states.
    The Democrats didn’t want to have to print new ballots to replace the ones they had already printed ahead of time for this 2024 election.
    Allowing JRK to add or delete his name from the ballot would have really messed up the Democrat’s ballot schemes.

    In the last 2 weeks or so, some of tge markets have begun factoring in the possibility of Trump winning.
    This perception of tariffs has caused the US dollar to strengthen from about 100 to 104 on it’s index.
    Markets maybe in for a rather costly mistake if Kamala wins.
    You could call this a classic insider’s political market set-up to fleece investors.

    However, despite the supposedly stronger US dollar against it’s peer fiat currencies, against gold the US dollar has just made a new low today by slipping over the $2700 mark for thce first time.
    So your US dollar now buys you less.

    #171833
    WES
    Participant

    With the US dollar buying less than ever!
    Canadians and Australians will find themselves in the same boat!

    To buy 1 ounce of gold now requires over:

    $2,700 USDs
    $3,700 Canuks
    $4,000 Aussies

    #171834
    citizenx
    Participant

    New Mamalala Kamalala campaign ad –

    Did She blow it ? Kamala sure sucks.
    Are you man enough to let Kamala suck?

    #171838
    Dr D Rich
    Participant

    Demographics: the statistical study of human populations: their size, composition (e.g., ethnic group, age), and how they change and factors such as the following:

    ●generation groups
    ●Sex,
    ● gender, or sexual orientation
    ●Nationality
    ●Race
    ●Educational level
    ●Occupation
    ●Household income
    ●Marital status
    ●Number of children
    ●Homeownership (own or rent)
    ●Place of residence
    ●Health and disability status
    ●Political affiliation or preference
    ●Religious affiliation or preference except as it pertains to anti-Semitism

    The demographics of Israel are primarily Jewish ~73% (categories of study) Arab, +20% and at least the Israelis haven’t recently accused their oppressed minorities of committing group suicide.

    So, that takes the reader to Zerohedge and this absurdly titled article:

    Confiscation Games: Public Expropriation Of Private Assets

    Excerpt from the aforementioned ZH:

      Throughout history, governments around the world have occasionally resorted to confiscating the assets of their citizens in response to economic crises, political purges, or ideological pursuits. These actions, often justified as necessary for the greater good, have frequently resulted in widespread social disruption and significant hardship….

    Here, read it for yourself.

    https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/confiscation-games-public-expropriation-private-assets

    My question is how does Tyler Durden ZH insist Gov’ts only dance the rare ‘one-step’ ie. take (the one and only step, his premise) as in “expropriation” when nobody except uncoordinated Drd ever dances The One Step?
    When elsewhere on ZH’s and these pages the one guy in the entire Universe who can single-handedly install 100,000 ?GPU’s in 19 days with a single personally fashioned rudimentary lathe received the astronomically most of those expropriated moneys from the Government that ZH said expropriated money from an increasingly impoverished ppl and on behalf the recipient of those expropriated moneys an increasingly rich Musk…USA! USA! USA!

    On to “Mars bitches”

    Ravid = Musk = Bill “Ack!” Ackman = Rittler

    Made Men thru the Miracle of Expropriation
    The Golden Calf
    Manna from Heaven

    Okay, okay D knows Rittler and his ilk require more and more GPUs to support all those superb videos Scott and Danny Haiphong make

    “M-A-R-S, Mars bitches!”

    #171839
    Oroboros
    Participant

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    #171840
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    @ John Day,

    Yes, I was surprised at the tension but world situations are transforming with many unknowns.

    Michael Hudson was good

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