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Debt Rattle October 2 2024

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Francis Tattegrain La ramasseuse d’épaves (The Beachcomber) 1880

 

• Israelis Leave Shelters After Iranian Attack (ZH)
• US Secretly Approved Lebanon Escalation – Politico (RT)
• Biden, Harris Strongly Back Israeli Killing of Nasrallah (Antiwar)
• Kamala’s Katrina Moment? (JTN)
• Biden Upset With Harris – NBC News (RT)
• ‘I’m Free Because I Pled Guilty To Journalism’ – Assange (RT)
• Assange: Plea Deal With US Precludes Appeals to Top European Rights Court (Sp.)
• Elon Musk Warns Of ‘Drone Swarm Battles’ (RT)
• Reporters Without Borders is ‘Media Wing of NATO’ (Sp.)
• Comer Subpoenas DHS For Memos With Info About Tim Walz’s China Connections (JTN)
• Federal Court Rules Against University of NM in Free Speech Case (Turley)
• Putin Is Preparing Russia’s Surrender (Paul Craig Roberts)
• Biden Could Speed Up Ukraine’s NATO Bid – FT (RT)
• Russia Accuses West, Ukraine of Preparing ‘False-Flag’ Chemical Attack (RT)
• Former Dutch PM Rutte Becomes NATO’s Secretary General (TASS)
• Polish President Sued For ‘Insulting’ His Own People (RT)
• Russia, China Settling 95% of Payments in Own Currencies (Sp.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Debate

 

 

Women’s rights

 

 

Watters

 

 

Fulton

 

 

Assange

 

 

Ray McGovern

 

 

 

 

We’ve been through this scenario before (“we’re done unless you retaliate..”). Lots of rockets, little damage. Iran can say they avenged the death of Nasrallah. Israel can say its Iron Dome is strong.

• Israelis Leave Shelters After Iranian Attack (ZH)

Iran says its action is concluded “unless the Israeli regime decides to invite further retaliation.” Prime Minister Netanyahu says Iran made a big mistake tonight and will pay for it. Common estimates show the attack on Israel involved at least 180 ballistic missiles. The Pentagon says about 200, or about twice the size of the prior April attack. The waves of launches constituted the largest missile strike on Israel by Iran in history. IRGC is claiming that 90% of missiles successfully hit their targets in Israel. There were confirmed strikes on the ground, but no official casualties reported. Israel’s emergency authorities have lifted all restrictions, and people in Tel Aviv have emerged from bomb shelters and returned to the streets. White House says Iranian attack on Israel apparently “defeated and ineffective”. Sullivan says there will be consequences for the attack, and US is consulting Israel on next steps or a potential response.

Axios’ Barak Ravid has told CNN that he expects major Israeli retaliation strikes on Iran to come within the next several hours. Iranian state TV says hypersonic Fatah missiles were used in the attack. Iran’s President on X stated he does not seek war but will face any threat from Israel firmly. Iran has said it gave no prior warning to US, but it did consult with Russia. The IDF is vowing to ‘strike powerfully’ at targets in the Middle East. IDF spox: “Iran carried out a serious act tonight and is pushing the Middle East to an escalation. We will act at the place and time of our choosing, in accordance with the guidance of the political echelon.” IDF spox: “Tonight’s event will have consequences.” Iran-backed Iraqi militias say if the US takes part in “any hostile action” then US bases will come under attack.

UN chief condemns ‘broadening Mideast conflict’ without mentioning Iran. Blinken: Iran’s missile attack on Israel ‘unacceptable,’ entire world should condemn. US says it is ready to defend Israel, with Biden ordering US military assets to confront any further inbound projectiles. At least two guided-missile destroyers in Eastern Mediterranean fired interceptors at inbound Iranian missiles. Pentagon says about a dozen interceptor missiles were fired. Pentagon refuses to say whether US will join in on future kinetic strikes against Iran.

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Q: where is the Pentagon?

• US Secretly Approved Lebanon Escalation – Politico (RT)

The US government quietly approved Israel’s military campaign in Lebanon, despite publicly urging the Jewish state and militant group Hezbollah to seek a ceasefire, Politico has reported, citing insider sources. Israel has waged a week-long bombing campaign in Lebanon, assassinating most of the Hezbollah leadership, and is in the process of what it describes as a “limited incursion” into its northern neighbor. Over 1,000 people, including many civilians, have been killed and over one million displaced. Prior to the bombing and invasion, thousands of people in Lebanon were targeted by simultaneously exploding devices, which Israeli intelligence allegedly planted in preparation for an attack on Hezbollah. US President Joe Biden on Monday reiterated his public calls for a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah, telling reporters at the White House: “I’m comfortable with them stopping.”

However, Israel outlined its military strategy to Washington in broad terms in mid-September and received approval via senior US presidential advisers, Amos Hochstein and Brett McGurk, Politico reported on Monday, citing two Israeli and four American officials. The decision faced opposition from within the Pentagon, State Department, and intelligence community, the sources claimed. There are reportedly concerns that the hostilities could escalate into a major war, which would directly draw in the US. Violence on Israel’s northern border surged last October, after the Jewish state besieged the Palestinian enclave of Gaza in retaliation for a deadly incursion by the militant group Hamas. Hezbollah supports the Palestinians and has vowed to stop cross-border rocket attacks only after a ceasefire is reached in Gaza. Israel’s goal is to “eliminate” Hamas completely, and it has repeatedly rejected public calls from Washington for a truce.

The belief in Washington, according to Politico, is that Israel’s conflict with Hamas and Hezbollah can be “decoupled” in some way. Hostility in Lebanon would help curb the regional influence of Iran, which supports both militant movements, US officials reportedly hope. They are said to be unwilling, however, to support the Israeli campaign publicly as the strategy may backfire, meaning Washington continues to call for caution and deescalation. “Both things can be true – the US can want diplomacy and support Israel’s larger goals against Hezbollah,” Politico quoted a senior US official as saying. “There’s clearly a line that the administration is toeing, it’s just not clear what that line is.” The sources claimed that Israel has opted for a “limited” incursion in Lebanon at the request of the US, as opposed to a major ground offensive.

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“..further enhance the defense posture of US military forces in the Middle East region to deter aggression and reduce the risk of a broader regional war..”

• Biden, Harris Strongly Back Israeli Killing of Nasrallah (Antiwar)

On Saturday, both President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris released statements strongly backing the Israeli assassination of Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah, which was carried out using US-provided 2,000-pound bombs. President Biden said in a statement that Nasrallah’s death was “a measure of justice for his many victims, including thousands of Americans, Israelis, and Lebanese civilians.” The president said the US “fully supports Israel’s right to defend itself against Hezbollah, Hamas, the Houthis, and any other Iranian-supported terrorist groups.” Biden said that he ordered Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin to send additional military assets to the region. “I directed my Secretary of Defense to further enhance the defense posture of US military forces in the Middle East region to deter aggression and reduce the risk of a broader regional war,” he said.

Biden claimed that he seeks de-escalation in the region, but his administration has continued to provide military aid and other types of support for Israel since it began its dramatic escalation in Lebanon. Harris, the 2024 Democratic presidential nominee, released a similar statement, saying that “Hezbollah’s victims have a measure of justice.” The vice president said she has an “unwavering commitment to the security of Israel.” “I will always support Israel’s right to defend itself against Iran and Iran-backed terrorist groups such as Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Houthis,” Harris added. Harris also claimed that the administration was working for a diplomatic solution.

But the day before Nasrallah was killed, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected a US-backed ceasefire proposal, and Israel said it secured $8.7 billion in new military aid from the US. An Israeli official told ABC News that Israel decided to kill Nasrallah because he wouldn’t separate the situation at the Israel-Lebanon border from Gaza. Hezbollah had been clear that it would stop its attacks on northern Israel if there was a ceasefire in Gaza. The Israeli airstrikes that killed Nasrallah leveled multiple residential buildings in Beirut. The attack also killed Abbas Nilforoushan, a senior commander from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), and Tehran is vowing his death will not go “unanswered.”

The killing of Nasrallah and other Israeli escalations in Lebanon could lead to direct US intervention since the US has vowed it would defend Israel if it faces a large-scale attack from Iran. US troops in Iraq and Syria could also come under attack from local Shia militias in response to US support for the killing of Nasrallah and the slaughtering of civilians in Lebanon. Israeli airstrikes have continued to pound Beirut and other areas of Lebanon. The Lebanese Health Ministry said at least 33 people were killed and over 190 people were injured by Israeli airstrikes on Saturday. On Sunday, the ministry said at least 21 people were killed and 47 were wounded by Israeli attacks on eastern Lebanon’s Baalbek region.

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100 dead, 600 missing?! And Biden and Harris are no-shows. Strongly backing Israel, but not North Carolina.

• Kamala’s Katrina Moment? (JTN)

Heading into the vice presidential debate, the public absence of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris amid Hurricane Helene and a major labor struggle could undercut Gov. Tim Walz, D-Minn., and put him on defense while running alongside a key player in the current White House. Walz is set to face Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, in the vice presidential debate on CBS News on Tuesday evening. Over the weekend, Hurricane Helene battered western North Carolina and eastern Tennessee, prompting large-scale flooding and killing more than 100 as of Monday. Much of western North Carolina has become inaccessible by road and authorities have begun airlifting supplies to affected areas. Speaking on the “Just the News, No Noise” television show, Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., indicated that, while lawmakers may eventually review the pre-planning for disaster relief, the unexpected nature of the disaster and its scale might have made adequate preparation difficult.

“I think we’ll get to looking at what happened with the pre-planning after we get people stabilized and the amount of flooding is something that is unprecedented, and I don’t know how, how people would have prepared for that,” she said. “It is something that is indeed catastrophic, but every time someone is located, we celebrate that moment, and then we go back to trying to get supplies and get things to those that are in need and help to locate these individuals.” Independent of the weather, the nation faced the prospect of the first coast-wide port strike since 1977 as the International Longshoremen’s Association has announced plans to strike all along the East Coast and Gulf of Mexico, beginning on Tuesday. Such a move comes amid stalled negotiations with the United States Maritime Alliance (USMX). A strike could cost the U.S. economy up to $5 billion per day and affect the import and export of a wide range of goods.

President Joe Biden spent most of the weekend at his beach house in Rehoboth Beach, Del., amid both crises, returning to the White House late Sunday evening. Harris, for her part, continued along her campaign tour of the West Coast, but canceled Monday events in Nevada to be briefed on the impact of the hurricane, CNN reported. The relatively minimal public appearances of either figure amid both crises and the pace of their responses have drawn scrutiny from the political right, as well as comparisons to President George W. Bush’s handling of Hurricane Katrina. Such developments are sure to feature in the Vance-Walz debate on Tuesday and could serve to keep the Democratic participant on defense.

Where is that $42 billion?

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“There wasn’t a real interest in hearing about his [Biden’s] accomplishments when he was running. That’s still the case..”

• Biden Upset With Harris – NBC News (RT)

US President Joe Biden has privately complained that he is no longer being given credit for his service, NBC News claimed on Tuesday, citing insiders. Biden is reportedly upset that the national media’s attention has switched to the Democratic presidential nominee, Kamala Harris. Since Biden ended his campaign in the wake of a disastrous June debate with Republican candidate and former president Donald Trump, Harris has distanced herself from the US president, the report claimed. Biden “was particularly stung” by a moment during Harris’s debate with Trump last month, when she said: “Clearly, I am not Joe Biden, and I am certainly not Donald Trump. And what I do offer is a new generation of leadership for our country.” The remark was in response to Trump equating her with the president on policy. Harris has repeated the same message on other occasions, including a media interview.

“There wasn’t a real interest in hearing about his [Biden’s] accomplishments when he was running. That’s still the case,” a Harris campaign official told NBC News. Another source said the president “understands completely the general lack of mentioning ‘Bidenomics’ and ‘Joe Biden’” politically. But even though he wants Harris to win and offers whatever support he can to make that happen, he remains bitter about what he takes as being left behind, the report said. Prior to his decision to quit the race, the Biden campaign struggled to downplay his moments of frailty and confusion in public, which many voters perceived as signs of decline in the 81-year-old politician. Clips of such moments, used by the Republican party to attack the then-Democratic nominee, were dismissed by officials as “cheap fakes.”

Trump, 78, has had his share of mental slips on the campaign trail, but was universally described as more energetic and coherent than Biden during their June debate. Nevertheless, during an appearance on ‘The View’ program last week, Biden insisted that he could have won the race. He claimed that “the fact of the matter is my polling was about what – you know – always within the range of beating this guy” before musing about his advanced age.

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“It is hard not to draw a line from the US government’s prosecution of me – its crossing the Rubicon by internationally criminalizing journalism – to the chilled climate for freedom of expression that exists now.”

• ‘I’m Free Because I Pled Guilty To Journalism’ – Assange (RT)

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange urged European lawmakers to act against rising “transnational repression” of journalism by great powers during an address to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on Tuesday. It was his first public appearance since being released from prison in late June. Assange spent years locked up at a high-security prison in the UK as he fought extradition to the US, which had accused him of unlawfully obtaining and disclosing classified information relating to national defense. In June, he struck a plea bargain with the US Justice Department, formally acknowledging some guilt and waiving the right to legal recourse through, for example, the European Court of Human Rights, in exchange for freedom. ”I want to be totally clear. I am not free today because the system worked. I am free today, after years of incarceration, because I pled guilty to journalism,” he told members of the PACE Legal Affairs Committee in Strasbourg.

In his testimony, Assange recounted his legal predicament and what he called a “campaign of retribution” by the CIA under Director Mike Pompeo during the Donald Trump presidency. According to media reports and other materials, the agency conducted an extensive surveillance campaign against the publisher, his family, and associates. It allegedly contemplated kidnapping or killing Assange while he was being protected by political asylum at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. Assange said that, while his personal story was harrowing, others in the same situation did not enjoy the same level of publicity and international support. Meanwhile, the world has dramatically changed for the worse since he founded WikiLeaks, he added. ”I see more impunity, more secrecy, more retaliation for telling the truth, and more self-censorship,” he said.

“It is hard not to draw a line from the US government’s prosecution of me – its crossing the Rubicon by internationally criminalizing journalism – to the chilled climate for freedom of expression that exists now.” The US successfully abused European legal proceedings to retaliate against a publisher and has been emboldened to use the same playbook again, as are other countries, Assange claimed. ”When powerful nations feel entitled to target individuals beyond their borders, those individuals do not stand a chance unless there are strong safeguards in place and a state willing to enforce them. Without them, no individual has a hope of defending themselves against the vast resources that a state aggressor can deploy,” he warned. It’s up to European governments to make sure that “the freedom to speak and the freedom to publish the truth are not privileges enjoyed by a few but rights guaranteed to all,” he concluded.

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“The US government asserted a dangerous new global legal position: only US citizens have free speech rights. Europeans and others do not..”

• Assange: Plea Deal With US Precludes Appeals to Top European Rights Court (Sp.)

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said on Tuesday that one of the conditions of his plea deal with the United States was that he would not file a lawsuit with the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) to challenge the verdict. “I eventually chose freedom over unrealizable justice, after being detained for years and facing a 175-year sentence with no effective remedy. Justice for me is now precluded, as the US government insisted in writing into its plea agreement that I cannot file a case at the European Court of Human Rights or even a Freedom of Information Act request over what it did to me as a result of its extradition request,” Assange told a hearing in Strasbourg.

“I pled guilty to journalism… to seeking information from a source… to obtaining information… to informing the public what that information was. I did not plead guilty to anything else,” said Assange while noting that “It is hard not to draw a line from the US government’s prosecution of me… to the chilled climate for freedom of expression that exists now.” The journalist gave testimony before the legal affairs committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE). Assange argued that all legal defense mechanisms turned out to be ineffective and only existed on paper. “The experience of isolation for years in a small cell is difficult to convey. It strips away one’s sense of self, leaving only the raw essence of existence,” he stated, adding that “none of the statements, resolutions, reports, films, articles, events, fundraisers, protests, and letters over the last 14 years should have been necessary.”

“Transnational repression cannot become the norm here… The rights of journalists and publishers within the European space are seriously threatened… The US government asserted a dangerous new global legal position: only US citizens have free speech rights. Europeans and others do not,” he stated. Assange was transferred to London’s high-security Belmarsh prison in April 2019 on bail breach charges. In the US, he faced spying charges for shedding light on war crimes and human rights violations committed by US troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. WikiLeaks was founded on October 4, 2006, but rose to prominence in 2010 when it began to publish large-scale leaks of classified government information, especially from the United States.

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“..future wars are drone wars.” “Drone swarm battles are coming that will boggle the mind..”

• Elon Musk Warns Of ‘Drone Swarm Battles’ (RT)

American tech mogul Elon Musk has warned that battles of the future will be fought between masses of drones. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have already emerged as one of the most prominent weapons in the Ukraine conflict. Musk’s comment came in a discussion on X (formerly Twitter) begun by Bloomberg writer Ashlee Vance on Monday, who wrote that America’s drone manufacturing capacity is dwarfed by that of China. “Drone swarm battles are coming that will boggle the mind,” Musk wrote in a thread, without elaborating further. The CEO of Tesla and SpaceX previously warned on numerous occasions that drones represent the future of warfare. Commenting on X in June on the use of drones by Ukraine, Musk stated that “future wars are drone wars.”

Speaking at the Wall Street Journal’s CEO Council Summit in London last year, Musk said that “any future wars between advanced countries, or at least countries with drone capability, will be very much the drone wars.” During the Ukraine conflict, the Russian military has actively used kamikaze drones on the battlefield to destroy enemy personnel and equipment. Kiev’s forces have also used UAVs to strike targets, including those of a civilian nature, within Russia. Kiev and its Western backers have long claimed that China has been supplying military drone technology to Russia, something that Beijing has denied. According to reports in US media earlier this year, Washington supplied Ukraine with drones during the early days of the conflict, but their high cost compelled Kiev to increasingly turn to Chinese-made UAVs.

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Censors.

• Reporters Without Borders is ‘Media Wing of NATO’ (Sp.)

Reporters Without Borders has published a sensationalist report on Russian media’s work in the Balkans as part of a new project known as ‘The Propaganda Monitor’, accusing Sputnik and RT of spreading “disinformation” and demanding a crackdown by the EU. Balkan affairs expert Stevan Gajic tells Sputnik why such fearmongering doesn’t work on Serbs. Reporters Without Borders’ (French acronym RSF) new ‘Propaganda Monitoring’ multimedia minisite promises to “promote reliable journalism” by exposing “the many faces and tactics behind propaganda worldwide, bolstering the public’s understanding of the information space and helping them navigate it more safely.”

Russian media, including Sputnik and RT, have become the self-anointed Paris-headquartered media watchdog’s first target, with RSF rolling out a series of articles on Russian media’s ability to find evade censorship, custom-tailor content, and in Serbia’s case, transmit so-called “Kremlin propaganda in the Balkans despite EU sanctions.” RSF wants the European Union and its members to “hold Serbia accountable for hosting Vladimir Putin’s factory of lies,” spending much of its investigation complaining about Russian media’s refusal to answer its loaded questions, whining about its successes captivating local audiences, and crying about Serbia’s receptiveness to hosting Russian outlets.

“Reporters Without Borders cannot be regarded as a reliable source because every line in this report is soaked with biased language,” Belgrade-based Balkan affairs expert and Institute of European Studies research associate Stevan Gajic told Sputnik, commenting on RSF’s report. “The motivation” behind RSF’s demands for a crackdown comes down to its status as “a media wing of NATO, a media wing of the collective West. This is a pure Freudian projection. They are accusing others of what they are doing themselves,” Gajic stressed.

“Where were Reporters Without Borders when Radio Television of Serbia was bombed in 1999 and when 16 TV staff were murdered in cold blood?” the observer asked, referencing the 78-day NATO bombing of Yugoslavia in the spring of 1999. There is no credibility from people like this who did not act when they should have,” the observer recalled. Narratives by RSF and others about Sputnik and RT being threats that need to be silenced have a clear end goal: “to nullify any kind of information coming from the other side to hush, to silence everybody who is not playing along NATO’s narrative. And this is especially a problem for NATO and for these puppet organizations, such as journalists with Reporters Without Borders, during times of war,” Gajic said.

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Walz is a doofus. Deer in the headlights.

• Comer Subpoenas DHS For Memos With Info About Tim Walz’s China Connections (JTN)

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer on Monday subpoenaed the Department of Homeland Security seeking records related to Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s China connections after whistleblowers raised concerns. Comer says his committee learned from the whistleblowers there is “serious concern” among DHS personnel “regarding a longstanding connection between the CCP and Minnesota Governor Timothy James Walz,” according to the subpoena cover letter sent Monday. Walz is now the Democratic vice presidential nominee. Comer’s committee has led a probe into the China’s efforts to infiltrate the United States, finding one method favored by the Communist Party is influencing subnational leaders, which include officials like state governors and legislators.

“The Committee’s investigation of the CCP – begun long before Governor Walz was elevated to be the vice-presidential candidate for Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris – seeks to understand the extent of the CCP’s infiltration and influence campaign and to identify legislative reforms to combat CCP political warfare targeting prominent Americans for elite capture,” Comer wrote. “In particular, if a state governor and major political party’s nominee for Vice President of the United States has been a witting or unwitting participant in the CCP’s efforts to weaken our nation, this would strongly suggest that there are alarming weaknesses in the federal government’s effort to defend the United States from the CCP’s political warfare that must be urgently addressed,” he continued. According to the letter, the Oversight Committee learned of two sources that contain information about Walz’s connections to China, which first garnered public scrutiny when he was picked as Vice President Kamala Harris’ running mate.

Walz has a history with China dating back to his stint as an English teacher in 1989 just months after the Chinese government cracked down on pro-democracy protestors in the Tiananmen Square massacre. By the 1990s, Walz began organizing regular trips to China for his high school students and even took his honeymoon in the communist country when he married his wife in 1994. According to the whistleblowers, DHS personnel memorialized concerns about Walz’s connections in a Microsoft Teams group chat and several intelligence reports. “Specifically, through whistleblower disclosures, the Committee has learned of a non-classified, Microsoft Teams group chat among DHS employees – titled ‘NST NFT Bi-Weekly Sync’ – that contains information about Governor Walz that is relevant to the Committee’s investigation,” Comer wrote. “The Committee has also learned that further relevant information regarding Governor Walz has been memorialized in both classified and unclassified documents in the control of DHS.”

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“Gaines has become a national figure in her campaign against biologically male students competing in women’s sports..”

• Federal Court Rules Against University of NM in Free Speech Case (Turley)

We have been discussing how colleges and universities have been using security concerns as a way to bar conservative and libertarian speakers. Another barrier has been the imposition of prohibitive security fees as a condition for such speakers to appear on campus, fees generally not required for liberal speakers. Now, in a significant free speech victory, U.S. District Judge David Urias has enjoined the University of New Mexico from imposing a $5,400 security fee for former collegiate swimmer and activist Riley Gaines after speaking on campus. UNM has a history of cancellation campaigns against conservative and libertarian speakers, as previously discussed on this blog. Gaines has become a national figure in her campaign against biologically male students competing in women’s sports. While it is a position that is supported by an overwhelming majority of Americans, faculty and students have repeatedly targeted Gaines with cancel campaigns and disruptive protests.

In this case, UNM originally demanded over $10,000. The lawsuit brought by the Leadership Institute named UNM President Garnett Stokes and other UNM officials as defendants. Judge Urias was legitimately suspicious of the demand and found that it violated the First Amendment. In his 16-page order in Leadership Institute v. Stokes (D.N.M.), Judge Urias noted that Gaines travels with her own security (itself a sad statement about this Age of Rage). The court noted the rather fluid standard applied to Gaines: [T]he quote of over $10,000 was for every officer UNM employed—thirty-three officers; nearly one for every three attendees the students expected. When TP-UNM asked why Defendant Stump intended to assign every officer to the Gaines event, and whether it was because of the speaker or the inviting organization, he responded that “it’s all based on individual assessments,” that they were looking at the “individual,” and that “there is not a criteria [sic].”

He also told the students that if an organization were to screen the Barbie movie in a venue on campus, he likely would not require even a single officer because the UNM police were “not worried about the Barbie movie.” He then said that security was “consistent” in how it assessed fees “to Turning Point” in the past. He described past TP-UNM events featuring other conservative speakers that generated protests at UNM. A few times during the meeting, he reiterated that UNM assesses security fees on a “case-by-case basis.” … Notably, the court detailed how fewer than 10 protesters actually showed up and demonstrated outside of the room. Nevertheless, UNM hit Turning Point with the fee for twenty-seven officers at the event who charged for a total of 95.25 hours.

The court applied the holding in Forsyth County v. Nationalist Movement (1992) in which the Supreme Court held that the government can impose extra security fees due to the controversial status of speakers or groups. In writing for a 5-4 majority, Justice Henry Blackmun held that “Nothing in the law or its application prevents the official from encouraging some views and discouraging others through the arbitrary application of fees. The First Amendment prohibits the vesting of such unbridled discretion in a government official.” Judge Urias found precisely such a barrier imposed by the UNM:

“When a policy allows “appraisal of facts, the exercise of judgment, and the formation of an opinion by the licensing authority, the danger of censorship and of abridgment of our precious First Amendment freedoms is too great to be permitted[.]” Forsyth County.… Although the question in this case is closer than that in Forsyth, the Court nonetheless finds that Plaintiffs have demonstrated the security fee policy in this case is similar enough to render it overly broad. Although the policy lists criteria for officials to consider when assessing event security, such as venue size and location, the list ultimately leaves the decision of how much to charge for security up to the whim of university officials. For example, the policy does not explain a method for determining how much more security is required for a small venue as compared to a large one, or for a daytime event as compared to a nighttime event.

Significantly, the policy states that the “basic cost of security … will be charged to all groups” based on a schedule of charges that the UNM Police Department has on its website, but despite this, the department does not actually delineate the amount of this “basic cost of security.” Though the security fee policy also states that the police department “regularly” updates the “schedule of charges based on the factors” and that “[t]he basic cost of security according to this schedule will be charged to all groups,” there is no schedule of charges. Additionally, the preamble to the policy indicates that university officials “may” assess security fees but does not provide guidance for when they may or may not assess these fees, which contributes to the problem of allowing university officials overly broad discretion. In sum, Plaintiffs have shown a substantial likelihood of success on the merits of their overbreadth claim because the security fee policy does not contain limiting language that includes “narrowly drawn, reasonable and definite standards[,]” and it does not include anything to prevent UNM administrators from exercising their discretion in a content-based manner….”

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I like PCR. And I like John Helmer. But in this case, I don’t know how PCR draws the conclusion that Putin wants to surrender, from Helmer’s Jan. 28 piece, “Sending A Boy To Do A Man’s Job – Vladimir Medinsky To Negotiate Istanbul-II”. I just don’t see it. Maybe you can help. I know that PDR has called Putin “weak” for a while, but not sure that’s the whole story.

• Putin Is Preparing Russia’s Surrender (Paul Craig Roberts)

From the beginning of the Ukraine conflict I have said that Putin would have to conquer Ukraine or surrender. The latest information from Moscow suggests that Putin has chosen to surrender, with surrender defined by Putin giving up enough of his goals for the Special Military Operation to get a peace agreement. How many and what they would be is not known. At first glance, if Putin has made such a choice, it is an honorable, humane decision that places the life of the planet above Russian national sovereignty. Putin, of course, will not get any credit for it. The official narrative will be a defeated Russia got the best deal it could.` But at second glance, Putin’s surrender to the West merely kicks the can down the road. Putin’s surrender could undermine his support and Russian unity and encourage Washington’s effort to breakup the Russian Federation into several small countries that lack the ability to serve as a constraint on American hegemony.

The Russian military is opposed to trading concessions for peace, and Putin has removed one of his critics. Helmer reports that one month after the Russia-Ukraine conflict began, Putin, who has no taste for war, sent a peacemaker, Vladimir Medinsky, to Instanbul to negotiate peace with Ukraine. Medinsky appears to be an Atlanticist Integrationist, who thinks Russia can build bridges to the West with cultural exhibitions, orchestral and ballet performances, and museum exhibits. Apparently, he believes this despite the Wests’s ban on any semblance of Russian culture, including Olympic athletes. The Russian military rejected the peace terms Medinsky negotiated in Turkey. Fortunately for Putin, Washington made Ukraine reject them, saving Putin from a confrontation with the Russian military.

Now approaching three years of a conflict that a real national leader would have ended in 3 weeks, Putin has his back to the wall. There is no space left to which to retreat. Faced with US/NATO missiles fired into Russia, Putin says it means World War. If Putin backs down again, Russia is finished. As Putin doesn’t want war, he is willing to make concessions for peace and has instructed Medinsky to negotiate a peace agreement. The world should thank Putin, because Russia will pay a price. The Russian military, or at least significant parts of it, are concerned that concessions will play as a defeat and have adverse effects on Russia. Fleet commander, Admiral Sergei Avakyant, removed from command by Putin, and Deputy Chairman Medvedev of the Russian National Security Council view concessions as unacceptable. Helmer speculates whether the military will remove Putin. If so, I would imagine his replacement would be a more hardlined person.

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He’s crazy enough.

• Biden Could Speed Up Ukraine’s NATO Bid – FT (RT)

US President Joe Biden could expedite the status of Ukraine’s bid to join NATO before his term expires in January, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday. Moscow has insisted that Kiev must abandon its plans to join the US-led military bloc before any peace negotiations can start. There are “tentative signs” that Biden “might agree to advance the status of Ukraine’s NATO membership bid” before he leaves office, the FT wrote, citing a Western official briefed on Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky’s talks in Washington last week. Zelensky traveled to the US to present his so-called “victory plan” for the conflict with Russia, which reportedly includes requests for deliveries of advanced weapons and financial aid. American officials were unimpressed with the plan, the FT claimed.

Western security guarantees for Ukraine are said to have been another key clause of the plan that was left unanswered, along with the issue of US permission to use Western-supplied weapons for long-range strikes on Russia. Kiev has long aspired to join NATO, and reiterated its request for membership in September 2022, after four former Ukrainian regions voted to join Russia. Since the escalation of the conflict with Moscow two years ago, NATO leaders have repeatedly claimed that Kiev is on track to becoming a member, but have not announced a specific timeline for accession. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken last month reiterated NATO’s position that Ukraine’s path to membership is “irreversible.”

Some members of the bloc such as Hungary and Slovakia have insisted they would not agree under any circumstances to bringing Ukraine into NATO as it would mean war with Russia. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said earlier this year that promising membership to Ukraine was a “mistake” and “really why this war started.” The Russian leadership has stated that Kiev must drop its aspirations of joining NATO before any peace talks can start. Moscow has long argued that the bloc’s eastward enlargement threatens Russia’s security. When announcing the start of the military operation in February 2022, President Vladimir Putin said Russia deems the expansion of NATO into Ukraine as “unacceptable.”

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In Syria.

• Russia Accuses West, Ukraine of Preparing ‘False-flag’ Chemical Attack (RT)

The secret services of several NATO member states, together with their Ukrainian counterparts, are planning to stage a false-flag chemical weapons attack in Syria, Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) has reported. The spy agency said that the purpose of the alleged provocation is to frame Moscow and the government in Damascus, which Russia has been supporting for years. In a press release on Tuesday, the Foreign Intelligence Service said “precisely such a provocation is currently being prepared by the special services of a number of NATO member states and Ukraine, together with terrorist groups operating in the north of Syria, in Idlib province.” The supposed Western false-flag operation could also involve the ‘White Helmets’ NGO, “which has become famous for doing dirty jobs for the British special services,” the Russian spy agency claimed.

According to the document, “the idea is to stage the use of chemical weapons by the Syrian army and the Russian contingent in Syria, and then launch a campaign to discredit Damascus and Moscow at the UN and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons.” The press release alleges that the presumed operation will likely involve Syrian militants dropping an explosive chlorine-laden canister at a time when the Syrian and Russian militaries are conducting airstrikes against terrorist groups in Idlib province. White Helmets activists on the ground will then allegedly doctor video evidence and eyewitness accounts to frame Damascus and Moscow, the press release suggests. According to the Russian spy agency, these false reports will then be sent to various international organizations.

Since the outbreak of the Syrian Civil War in 2011, the US, UK and several other Western powers have repeatedly accused President Bashar Assad’s government of using chemical weapons against the armed opposition and militant groups. Under this pretext, the US military has been occupying oil-rich areas of northeast Syria since 2014. In 2018, the US, UK and France launched missile strikes against Syrian government targets following allegations peddled by the White Helmets, accusing Assad’s forces of using chemical weapons in Douma, near the Syrian capital.

The Syrian government has vehemently denied any role in the incident. Both Damascus and Moscow, whose military assisted the Assad government in regaining control over much of the territory previously lost to the militants, pointed to evidence that the attack was staged. When the OPCW accused the Syrian government of the attack, last January, Moscow’s permanent representative to the international body, Alexander Shulgin, dismissed the Investigation and Identification Team report as a political hit job riddled with inconsistencies and factual gaps.

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Why would anyone want this job? You’re basically the head of a criminal gang, but you don’t even have anything to say. You just take orders from Washington.

• Former Dutch PM Rutte Becomes NATO’s Secretary General (TASS)

Former Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte became NATO’s 14th secretary general, taking over from Norway’s Jens Stoltenberg who has spent a record 10 years at the helm of the North Atlantic Alliance. The ceremony to mark the transition was held at NATO’s headquarters as the alliance convened a meeting with bloc ambassadors, a TASS reporter said. Stoltenberg said since he took the helm at NATO in 2014 the alliance had gone “from only providing marginal support to Ukraine <…> to now providing massive support” to it. Bidding farewell to Stoltenberg as the bloc’s chief, NATO diplomats praised his dry sense of humor and said the Norwegian was “top for his job.” Rutte pledged to prioritize moves to strengthen the alliance and provide more support to Ukraine. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, outgoing President of the European Council Charles Michel and European Parliament President Roberta Metsola have already sent their greetings to the new NATO chief on X.

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‘Only pigs sit in the cinema’ “..not his words but a quote, originally associated with opposition to Nazi propaganda films shown in Poland during World War II..”

Duda doesn’t see eye to eye with the Tusk government, which is all about the EU and anti-Russia.

• Polish President Sued For ‘Insulting’ His Own People (RT)

A Polish-based NGO has filed a lawsuit against President Andrzej Duda, accusing him of insulting his own people in a comment he made about a 2023 film on migration. In a post on Sunday on X, the Center for Monitoring Racist and Xenophobic Behavior (OMZRIK) said they plan to make Duda “the first president to be brought to court by Poles.” The ‘insult’ in question was made by Duda in 2023 in a comment about the feature film ‘Green Border’ by award-winning director Agnieszka Holland, which depicts the migrant crisis on the Polish border. The film tells the story of refugees from the Middle East and Africa attempting to enter the EU through the Belarus-Poland border. The film was highly criticized in Poland, with the country’s ruling party at the time, the right-wing Law and Justice (PiS), accusing Holland of slandering Polish border guards. In an interview with public broadcaster TVP, Duda apparently called the film’s viewers “pigs.”

“The fact that Ms. Holland portrays Polish officials who are performing their duties for Polish society, for the safety of all of us and the security of Poland, I am not surprised that the Border Guard officers who watched this film used the slogan ‘Only pigs sit in the cinema,’” Duda said at the time. He later clarified that these were not his words but a quote, originally associated with opposition to Nazi propaganda films shown in Poland during World War II. OMZRiK, however, saw Duda’s words as an “insult.” “Andrzej Duda… insulted millions of Poles by calling them pigs. The Polish president called people who are citizens of his own country this… Let’s take Duda to court now,” the NGO said in their post. The NGO announced on Sunday that the District Court in Warsaw has set October 24, 2025 as the date for the first hearing of Duda’s trial. By that time, Duda’s second five-year term as president will have expired – he will hold office until August 2025, and cannot run again.

Experts say the case could result in Duda having to make an official apology or pay compensation for damages. ‘Green Border’ was an international co-production between companies in Poland, the Czech Republic, France, and Belgium. It competed for the Golden Lion at the Venice International Film Festival and won the Special Jury Prize. The migrant crisis on the Poland-Belarus border has been brewing since 2021. Warsaw has accused Minsk of deliberately organizing migrants from Africa and the Middle East and sending them towards the border with the goal of “destabilizing Poland and other EU member states.” Minsk has denied the claims, while accusing the Polish authorities of violent treatment of asylum seekers.

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How’s that reserve currency doing?

• Russia, China Settling 95% of Payments in Own Currencies (Sp.)

Today, 95% of settlements between Russia and China are carried out without the participation of third-country currencies, Russian Ambassador to China Igor Morgulov said in an interview with Sputnik. In March-April of this year, a slight decline was observed in bilateral Russian-Chinese trade. In particular, in March, for the first time since 2022, the total export of goods from China to Russia decreased year-on-year. Many attributed this to the difficulty of mutual settlements. “As for the problem of settlements, let’s not forget that today they are already 95% carried out in rubles and yuan, that is, without the participation of third-country currencies,” Morgulov said.

Trade between China and Russia increased by 26.3% to a record $240.11 billion in 2023. Russian and Chinese leaders, Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping, previously set the goal of doubling trade from $100 billion a year in 2018 to $200 billion by 2024, a figure that was reached in November 2023. Russia and China celebrate the 75th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations on October 2. The Soviet Union became the first country to recognize the People’s Republic of China the day after its proclamation.

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  • October 2, 2024 at 3:31 pm #170281
    Dr D Rich
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    Assange said Obama didn’t prosecute him.

    …neither did Trump or Biden.
    7 years holed up in the Ecuador embassy as the Obama administration hunted him.
    5 years in Belmarsh while reactionary factions pursued his destruction.
    Unless they lied to us…always that caveat with Drd lurking,
    Prison ruins any human being as in loss of brain substance and

    Julian has a long way to go and he won’t likely get there in his lifetime. There’s no shame in that, another foreseen manifestation of Stockholm syndrome. Shame on the persecutors of Julian Assange for time immemorial.
    Obama also didn’t pardon him, absolve Julian of all his supposed sins against the Deep State.

    On to Vance and Walz.

    JD or juvenile delinquent in Vance/Bowman’s hometown and most of Appalachia.

    Watch that video RIM posted on the Veep debate.
    On display are the cardinal manifestations of psychopathy.

    Walz first: he’s the living embodiment of the psychopath, half-wit or mid-wit variety. There’s probably a full helping of hypomania, bipolar or hyperthyroidism thrown in. Striving but barely ready for “the camera” and segue to Vance.

    Vance second: post-ozempic thinned out Marine E-4 (cynical way to attain the bonafides that impress certain people) is the epitome of Psychopath, high functioning and it’s manifested in that cold, empty stare into the camera. Y’all think that psychopath is looking at you, speaking to you.

    Wtf

    October 2, 2024 at 3:45 pm #170282
    John Day
    Participant

    Another Morning After https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/another-morning-after

    ​ Israelis Leave Shelters After Iranian Attack Of 180 Ballistic Missiles; IDF Says Preparing To Hit Back
    Summary:
    ​ Iran says its action is concluded “unless the Israeli regime decides to invite further retaliation.”
    Prime Minister Netanyahu says Iran made a big mistake tonight and will pay for it.
    ​ Common estimates show the attack on Israel involved at least 180 ballistic missiles. The Pentagon says about 200, or about twice the size of the prior April attack.
    The waves of launches constituted the largest missile strike on Israel by Iran in history.
    ​ IRGC is claiming that 90% of missiles successfully hit their targets in Israel.
    There were confirmed strikes on the ground, but no official casualties reported.
    ​ Israel’s emergency authorities have lifted all restrictions, and people in Tel Aviv have emerged from bomb shelters and returned to the streets.
    White House says Iranian attack on Israel apparently “defeated and ineffective”.
    ​ Sullivan says there will be consequences for the attack, and US is consulting Israel on next steps or a potential response
    Axios’ Barak Ravid has told CNN that he expects major Israeli retaliation strikes on Iran to come within the next several hours.
    ​ Iranian state TV says hypersonic Fatah missiles were used in the attack.
    Iran’s President on X stated he does not seek war but will face any threat from Israel firmly.
    ​ Iran has said it gave no prior warning to US, but it did consult with Russia.
    The IDF is vowing to ‘strike powerfully’ at targets in the Middle East.
    ​ IDF spox: “Iran carried out a serious act tonight and is pushing the Middle East to an escalation. We will act at the place and time of our choosing, in accordance with the guidance of the political echelon.”
    ​ IDF spox: “Tonight’s event will have consequences.”
    Iran-backed Iraqi militias say if the US takes part in “any hostile action” then US bases will come under attack.
    ​ UN chief condemns ‘broadening Mideast conflict’ without mentioning Iran.
    Blinken: Iran’s missile attack on Israel ‘unacceptable,’ entire world should condemn.
    ​ US says it is ready to defend Israel, with Biden ordering US military assets to confront any further inbound projectiles.
    At least two guided-missile destroyers in Eastern Mediterranean fired interceptors at inbound Iranian missiles.
    ​ Pentagon says about a dozen interceptor missiles were fired.
    Pentagon refuses to say whether US will join in on future kinetic strikes against Iran.​ https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/white-house-warns-iran-imminently-launch-ballistic-missiles-israel

    ​ Simplicius, Operation True Promise 2: Iran Strikes Again as Missile Barrage Overwhelms Israeli Defenses
    Watch the above videos of hundreds of missiles hitting Israel, then read this deluded tweet by a Netanyahu aide, who with a straight face declared that most missiles were intercepted​…
    ..Video from the Iranian situation room when the order was given to fire an alleged 200 missiles…
    ​ The biggest question that remains is whether the missiles have inflicted any real damage, or if they were merely scattershot ‘psychological’ actions.
    On one hand, we have videos like the following which show missiles hitting random empty fields​…
    ​ On the other hand, we have eyewitness accounts and geolocations that appear to show the areas of sensitive targets being hit.
    This Twitter thread has a bunch of them, including areas hit near Mossad headquarters, Ort Tel Nof airbase, etc.
    ​ These videos in particular claim to be from just outside Nevatim airbase which houses much of Israel’s F-35 fleet​…
    ​..It is currently impossible to find out whether the Air Base was damaged or destroyed, but the approximate range of the targets of Iranian Missiles is quite clear: Air Bases.
    ​ Iranian sources allegedly announced that “over 20 F-35s were destroyed” but of course such statements are usually hyperbolic and not reflective of reality—verification is needed.
    ​ In truth, Iran openly admitted notifying the US—and thereby Israel—of the strikes in advance, which gave Israel forewarning to take all their F-35s to the sky. This is standard procedure for high value assets like that before any strike, regularly carried out by both Ukraine and Russia in the SMO.
    ​ There are allegedly reports that Israel did in fact take its F-35 fleet to the skies as evidenced by a fleet of refueling tankers that were airborne, which suggests the F-35s were kept aloft throughout the duration of the attack​…
    ..Token gestures only: USS Bulkely (DDG-84) and USS Cole (DDG-67) fired a dozen interceptors as part of the U.S. response to Iranian missiles launched at Israel, the Pentagon announced Tuesday.​..
    ​..Iran of course again claimed they hadn’t used their best stuff yet:
    Iran’s Minister of Defense: ‘None of our most advanced Missile capabilities were used in Operation True Promise-2’.
    ​ It doesn’t really matter in the end, because the attack as per usual is mostly theater, a kind of delicate dance between the warring parties, given that it was telegraphed in advance to notify the recipients for the purpose of de-escalating.​..
    ​..Israel, however, claimed they would respond to any attack large or small—but as per usual, Israel barks loudly while relying entirely on its American backing. Biden had recently signaled he was at the end of his rope with supporting Israeli attacks, which could mean Israel will be forced to back down from its threat of “major” response against Iran.​.. Without this backing, Israel would not be able to survive on its own, and would have long ceased to exist.​..
    ​..Hezbollah’s Deputy Secretary General Sheikh Naim Qassem released a statement that Hezbollah is ready to repel the Israeli assault:
    ​”WE’RE READY AND PREPARED TO CONFRONT ISRAEL GROUND OFFENSIVE, WE WILL BE VICTORIOUS​”, declares Hezbollah’s Deputy SG Qassem in first live statement since assassination of party’s chief Nasrallah and other leaders, stressing “Vast majority of Hezbollah’s medium, long range weapons capabilities fully intact, despite Israeli lies”.​..
    ​..Qassem eulogizes​: “Popular, loved leader Nasrallah who dedicated his life to resistance and struggle” in 2nd video, stressing new SG will be chosen in near future, adding “We will fill leadership positions steadily. Be assured choices will be straightforward because they are clear”.
    ​ Even Hezbollah’s greatest detractors and enemies admit that the death of Nasrallah is fairly meaningless vis-a-vis Hezbollah’s military integrity.​..
    ..Israel’s objectives make no logical sense and are not realistically achievable. That is, the chief stated objective of creating a buffer zone such that northern Israel can be secure from Hezbollah rocket attacks in order to facilitate the return of Israeli citizens. But any such settlement cannot possibly last because it would require Israel to devote inordinate forces to occupying all of southern Lebanon indefinitely.​..
    ..Thus, most likely Israel will take a few border villages, then if they cannot suck Iran into a giant regional war, backdoor emergency agreements will be struck by the US to prevent having to go to war against Iran. Israel would then save face by withdrawing under shallow claims of some obscure ‘victory’ with a list of phony Hezbollah assets destroyed, etc. At the same time, Israel will probably get a bunch of secret concessions from the historically weak US administration in exchange for saving the US from having to do heavy lifting against Iran.​..
    ​..For what it’s worth, Jared Kushner wrote a long screed espousing his demented theory that Israel’s ‘destruction’ of Hezbollah is the gateway to effectively burying Iran. He cites Hezbollah as a ‘loaded gun pointed at Israel’ which was the sole bulwark protecting Iran’s nuclear facilities from being taken out. But after Israel finishes off Hezbollah, Kushner appears to imply Iran can be safely dealt with without fear of reprisal. It’s likely he’ll be eating his words in the not too distant future.​.. However, he appears to point to a concerted plan, echoed by Naftali Bennett…
    ..As a last interesting note, around the time of Iran’s attack, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Chernyshenko was heading to Iran…
    All the while, the full-on Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin had landed yesterday to meet with Iranian president Pezeshkian amongst others… Some sources claim Mishustin was there to sign a major gas deal called the ‘contract of the century’, though official Russian outlets are more mum on the trip.​ https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/operation-true-promise-2-iran-strikes

    Netanyahu Says Regime Change in Iran Will Happen ‘A Lot Sooner Than People Think’
    The Israeli leader released a video in English that he said was a message to the Iranian people.
    ​ “When Iran is finally free, and that moment will come a lot sooner than people think — everything will be different,” he said in English. “Our two ancient peoples, the Jewish people and the Persian people, will finally be at peace. Our two countries, Israel and Iran, will be at peace.”​ (Netanyahu is of Polish extraction.)
    ​ Netanyahu said that Iran’s “puppets” were being eliminated and warned that there’s “nowhere in the Middle East” that Israel cannot reach. “With every passing moment, the regime is bringing you — the noble Persian people — closer to the abyss,” he said.​ https://news.antiwar.com/2024/09/30/netanyahu-says-regime-change-in-iran-will-happen-a-lot-sooner-than-people-think/#gsc.tab=0

    ​ Gilbert Doctorow, Washington pushes China into Russia’s arms, pushes Iran into Russia’s arms
    ​ All discussion in the Washington foreign policy establishment on how the Ukrainian war has pushed Russia into China’s arms and made it a ‘junior partner’ is utter nonsense. My contention is that a hubristic U.S. foreign policy that pays no attention to what adversaries are saying because that is ‘disinformation’ has pushed China into Russia’s arms.​…​ The handwriting is on the wall. Beijing must support the new robust nuclear doctrine of Russia to ensure its neighbor’s victory over the U.S.-led coalition supporting Ukraine.​..
    ​..By the same token, unqualified U.S. support, including active participation in Israel’s latest atrocities in Lebanon that resulted in the death of Hezbollah’s high command has pushed Iran into Russia’s arms. ​The liberal-minded new president of Iran has reversed his recently declared readiness for dialogue with the signatories of the now suspended Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action on nuclear arms. We saw the proof of that yesterday when Iran moved from wait-and-see mode into retaliatory mode for the humiliations Israel has inflicted on the Axis of Resistance. One hundred eighty ballistic missiles were fired at Israeli military targets and it would appear that they got through both the Iron Dome and air defenses provided by the U.S. fleet and French anti-aircraft systems.
    ​ I contend that Iran’s missile attack on Israel was approved in advance by Moscow when Vladimir Putin sent his envoy to Teheran a few days earlier. It is unthinkable that Iran would challenge Netanyahu so directly without the certainty that Russian air defense systems give it the best protection known on this planet.
    ​ After serving as a reliable if unacknowledged guarantor of the state of Israel for decades, Russia has clearly changed sides.​ https://gilbertdoctorow.substack.com/p/washington-pushes-china-into-russias

    October 2, 2024 at 3:46 pm #170283
    John Day
    Participant

    ​ US Likely ‘Had a Hand’ in Israel’s Operation to Eliminate Hezbollah’s Leader Nasrallah – Analyst
    Iran has condemned the Israeli attack that killed Hezbollah’s Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah, with President Masoud Pezeshkian claiming that the US greenlit the attack and bears partial responsibility for the “war crime.”​ https://sputnikglobe.com/20240930/us-likely-had-a-hand-in-israels-operation-to-eliminate-hezbollahs-leader-nasrallah—analyst-1120355182.html

    ​ Iran won’t deploy forces to Lebanon – foreign ministry
    Tehran is not afraid of war but stands for a safe and stable Middle East, spokesperson Nasser Kanaani has said
    ​ “There is no need to send extra or volunteer forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran,” Foreign Ministry spokesperson Nasser Kanaani told a weekly news conference. Lebanon and fighters in the Palestinian territories “have the capability and strength to defend themselves against the aggression,” he added.
    ​ Over the past several weeks, Israel has carried out heavy airstrikes targeting Hezbollah in Lebanon and other militant groups in the region, including in Syria, Yemen, and Iraq. The Israeli offensives have raised fears that the conflict could engulf the entire Middle East and draw in Iran and the US, Israel’s main ally.
    ​ “We have not received any request in this regard from any side, on the contrary, we are informed and are sure that they do not need the help of our forces,” Kanaani told reporters.​ https://www.rt.com/news/604961-iran-no-forces-lebanon/

    ​ The most precarious place in the world to be a child: Israel’s year of war on children
    Israel’s onslaught against the Palestinian people has systematically targeted children in both Gaza and the West Bank. The result is a war against an entire generation.​ https://mondoweiss.net/2024/09/the-most-precarious-place-in-the-world-to-be-a-child-israels-year-of-war-on-children/

    1,640 killed by Israel in Lebanon, including 104 children​ https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240930-1640-killed-by-israel-in-lebanon-including-104-children/

    ​ Russia calls on Israel to immediately stop hostilities in Lebanon — ambassador to Israel
    Anatoly Viktorov stressed that Russia condemned the recent killing of Hassan Nasrallah, the secretary general of Lebanon’s Hezbollah Shia movement​ https://tass.com/politics/1849765

    October 2, 2024 at 3:47 pm #170284
    John Day
    Participant

    ​ Israel calls for ethnic cleansing of “Shia enemy population” in southern Lebanon
    ​ In order for Israel and its population to feel safe, Israeli Minister of Diaspora Affairs Amichai Chikli is calling for the southern portion of Lebanon to be ethnically cleansed of its “Shia enemy population.”
    ​ On Twitter / X, Chikli wrote that he would like to see a buffer zone established near Lebanon’s border with Israel – but on Lebanon’s side, not Israel’s, because Chikli believes that Lebanon should not even be considered a real country.​ https://www.naturalnews.com/2024-09-30-israel-ethnic-cleansing-shia-enemy-population-lebanon.html

    ​ 100,000 people flee Lebanon for Syria due to Israeli strikes — UN
    UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi said that staff from the UN High Commissioner for Refugees were present at four checkpoints on the Lebanese-Syrian border along with local authorities and the Syrian Arab Red Crescent to assist the refugees​. https://tass.com/world/1849995

    ​ Israel’s ground operation in Lebanon to entail years of fighting — Russian envoy
    Anatoly Viktorov stressed that the Israeli politicians and military officers are “well aware of this”.​ https://tass.com/politics/1849771

    So Russia will take all of the globalist holdings in ​”Novorussia”? West Seeks to Finalize Using Frozen Russian Funds to Pay for Ukraine War​ https://libertarianinstitute.org/news/west-seeks-to-finalize-using-frozen-russian-funds-to-pay-for-ukraine-war/

    ​ BRICS Bilateral Trade Mechanisms: Russia, China Settling 95% of Payments in Own Currencies – Ambassador to Beijing​ https://sputnikglobe.com/20241001/russia-china-settling-95-of-payments-in-own-currencies—russian-ambassador-in-china-1120368868.html

    October 2, 2024 at 3:48 pm #170285
    John Day
    Participant

    Hurricane Helene death toll rises to 166 with hundreds more still missing​. More than 1 million people remain without power​ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/02/hurricane-helene-death-toll

    ​ Kamala’s Katrina moment? Fed response to hurricane, port strike unsettles Dems before VP debate
    Over the weekend, Hurricane Helene battered western North Carolina and eastern Tennessee, prompting large-scale flooding and killing more than 100 as of Monday. President Biden spent the weekend on the beach in Delaware and Harris was fundraising in California.​ https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/katrina-biden-harris-wh-handling-helene-port-strike-likely-put-walz-defense

    ​Vance-Walz debate notes are neatly detailed here. My impression is that it was polite, and that (attorney) JD Vance had 31 IQ points on anybody else on the screen. His command of legal detail and context was highlighted in his correction of the “fact-checking moderator” about Haitian legal-status laws, before she cut his mic and moved-on.
    ​ CBS Cuts Mics as Vance Challenges Fact Check
    ​ At the beginning of the debate, Brennan said the debate would “provide the candidates with the opportunity to fact-check claims made by each other. CBS News reserves the right to mute microphones to maintain decorum.”
    ​ That policy came under pressure Tuesday night. During an exchange on immigration, Walz raised Vance’s statements about Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio.
    ​ “The people that I’m most worried about in Springfield, Ohio, are the American citizens who have had their lives destroyed by Kamala Harris’s open border,” Vance replied.
    ​ Brennan later clarified, after Walz’s response, that “Springfield, Ohio does have a large number of Haitian migrants who have legal status, temporary protected.”
    Earlier this year, the Biden-Harris administration extended temporary protected status to 300,000 Haitians who were illegally in the United States.
    ​ “The rules were that you guys weren’t going to fact-check, and since you’re fact-checking me, I think it’s important to say what’s actually going on,” Vance rebutted.
    Both moderators talked over Vance and tried to move to the next question as Walz also chimed in. CBS eventually muted both candidates’ microphones as Vance gave an explanation of the asylum process that gave the migrants in Ohio legal status, contrasting it with the green card application process which immigrants are typically expected to comply with.
    ​ “Gentlemen, the audience can’t hear you because your mics are cut,” Brennan said before moving on to a question about the economy.​ https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/post-debate-vance-vanquishes-knucklehead-walz-muting-moderators

    California governor Gavin Newsom has just signed a new law banning local governments from requiring residents to present identification to vote in elections.​ https://www.zerohedge.com/political/newsom-outlaws-voter-id-rules-california

    ​ Alastair Crooke, Will the suffocating cage of Leviathan be avoided?
    Trump is not the ‘right card’, in the view of the U.S. power-élites; the Joker should have been pulled from the pack.
    ​ Every ‘Empire’ needs too, a common substantive culture to make strong decisions of general interest. In the European past there were two: Catholicism and the Enlightenment. They clashed. And both now have been marginalized for the benefit of libertarian arbitrariness, intended to free the individual from all constraints of communal norms.
    ​ Post-modern culture makes people “mad because individual freedom no longer accepts objective truth”. The virtual world kills the sense of the real – to replace it with imagined reality. The art of governing becomes that of administering an imposed pretence; one which people can clearly observe about them is not real, yet they are obliged to pretend that ‘narrative’ is the objective real.
    ​ This tension leads to existential insecurity and exploding reports of people in poor mental health.​..
    ..Fiona Hill, formerly of a member of the U.S. National Security Council, propounds the counter-view: that since U.S. interests, described mostly as ‘threats’ which are long term, “the structures to address those threats must also be long-term, too”…
    ​..Hill is saying ‘the Aristocracy’ will rule long-term, via institutionalised, ‘inter-agency’ world order prescription.
    This then, is the Aristocracy’s solution to the Imperial succession lacuna: Leviathan. “Leviathan – whose promise and project is straight forward – cancel all powers except one, which will be universal and absolute”.
    The implicit aim is to ‘Trump-proof’ policy prescriptions. This implicit objective however, underlines its flaw. There will be no participation. People will not participate; nor do they feel that they participate – because they don’t. The mood amongst the World Order back-room strategists is that selecting political candidates by voting has become ‘a bug’ and is no longer a feature…​ ..It is at such a point in history that a ‘Big Man’ often emerges into the arena; one who challenges the emperor. The ‘Big Man’ is perceived to speak for the people, whose participation in political life has been dulled out, and who are angry.​.. ..What is the way out then, as the homeland slowly implodes? Well, the Washington Post article concludes by advocating a new supra-national global governance Order; likely a Davos- style digital-authoritarian governance designed to preserve a consistent policy and alignment, before the Russo-Chinese-Iranian-BRICS link-up beats them to it.
    ​ If the western states do not take the risk of freedom, then they take the risk of the Leviathan.​.. ​..“What the Ruling Strata have not understood is that postmodern libertarian deregulation cannot be defined by economics and sex alone”.
    “The extraordinary technical power, on which the Leviathan relies is inseparable from economic reality. It is therefore a techno-market reality, a power of technique and money that exercises a form of tyranny. In this context, what is likely to prevent the triumph of the Leviathan is the collapse of technical civilization” – as such that it is.​ https://strategic-culture.su/news/2024/09/30/will-the-suffocating-cage-of-leviathan-be-avoided/

    October 2, 2024 at 3:49 pm #170286
    John Day
    Participant

    ​ G​uilty, C.J. Hopkins is Officially a Hate Speech Criminal in Germany, after a re-trial to fix his not-guilty verdict So, the Berlin Appellate Court overturned my acquittal today. I am now, officially, at least according to the New Normal German authorities, a “hate-speech” criminal. I’m officially a “hate-speech” criminal because I compared New Normal Germany to Nazi Germany, and I challenged the official Covid narrative, and I used the cover art of my book to do it. The New Normal German authorities didn’t like that, and were determined to punish me for doing that, and to make an example of me, in order to discourage other people from doing that. It took them two tries, but they pulled it off. The judge in my original trial screwed up and acquitted me, but the Berlin Public Prosecutor’s office didn’t give up. .​https://consentfactory.org/2024/10/01/guilty/

    ​ ‘I pled guilty to journalism’ – Assange​, The WikiLeaks founder has made his first public appearance since being released from a UK prison
    ​ WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange urged European lawmakers to act against rising “transnational repression” of journalism by great powers during an address to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on Tuesday. It was his first public appearance since being released from prison in late June.
    ​ Assange spent years locked up at a high-security prison in the UK as he fought extradition to the US, which had accused him of unlawfully obtaining and disclosing classified information relating to national defense. In June, he struck a plea bargain with the US Justice Department, formally acknowledging some guilt and waiving the right to legal recourse through, for example, the European Court of Human Rights, in exchange for freedom.
    ​ ”I want to be totally clear. I am not free today because the system worked. I am free today, after years of incarceration, because I pled guilty to journalism,” he told members of the PACE Legal Affairs Committee in Strasbourg.​ https://swentr.site/news/605034-wikileaks-assange-pace-testimony/

    ​ Assange: Plea Deal With US Precludes Appeals to Top European Rights Court
    ​ “I eventually chose freedom over unrealizable justice, after being detained for years and facing a 175-year sentence with no effective remedy. Justice for me is now precluded, as the US government insisted in writing into its plea agreement that I cannot file a case at the European Court of Human Rights or even a Freedom of Information Act request over what it did to me as a result of its extradition request,” Assange told a hearing in Strasbourg.​ https://sputnikglobe.com/20241001/assange-plea-deal-with-us-precludes-appeals-to-top-european-rights-court-1120376441.html

    ​ In 1971 a strike like this lasted half a year. No toilet-paper in Hawaii. Dockworkers at ports from Maine to Texas go on strike, a standoff risking new shortages​ Shipping companies made billions during the pandemic by charging high prices, he said. “Now we want them to pay back. They’re going to pay back,” Butler said.​ He said the union will strike for as long as it needs to get a fair deal, and it has leverage over the companies. https://apnews.com/article/port-strike-ila-dockworkers-begins-e5468e760f46a64e4322d1702beb1f72

    ​ Meryl Nass MD, on one of those bills that “has to pass before we can know what’s in int”: The Pact for the Future, adopted Sept. 22 by Consensus, seems to have many interpretations. Here is a CHD report, quoting many of us. And some brief thoughts of mine. https://merylnass.substack.com/p/the-pact-for-the-future-adopted-sept

    October 2, 2024 at 3:50 pm #170287
    John Day
    Participant

    Meryl Nass MD, Vaccines have a unique place in US law that shields them from liability. This enables manufacturers to take risks they might not otherwise take.
    COVID taught a lot of people that liability shields are dangerous. Now 31 Congress members want to remove that shield​ https://merylnass.substack.com/p/vaccines-have-a-unique-place-in-us

    ​All of the pericarditis and myocarditis cases they found in kids: Covid vaccines associated with ALL cases of heart inflammation in children in a large UK health dataset https://sashalatypova.substack.com/p/covid-vaccines-associated-with-all

    October 2, 2024 at 3:58 pm #170288
    Oroboros
    Participant

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    October 2, 2024 at 4:00 pm #170289
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Channeling his “Inner Karen”

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    October 2, 2024 at 4:03 pm #170290
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Triple Crown Event

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    The ‘debate’s’ High Point

    A Strong Closer

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    October 2, 2024 at 4:06 pm #170291
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Just another whore….

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    October 2, 2024 at 4:07 pm #170292
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Can’t wait for the Dead to Rise for Halloween

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    October 2, 2024 at 4:11 pm #170293
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Was going to go to a concert and this popped up in a feed.

    Food for thought

    An apt metaphor for Duh’merican Sheeple rhythmically pulsing to the Beat of a Different Drummer

    They’re not Dead Heads

    They’re Cotton Heads

    Hahahahahahaha!

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    October 2, 2024 at 4:22 pm #170294
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Hypocrisy Parade

    Nationalism then and now

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    Philly Then

    Philly as a Shithole Duh’merican city now

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    October 2, 2024 at 4:25 pm #170295
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Greta is a Witch

    Burn her for HALLOWEEN

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    October 2, 2024 at 4:33 pm #170296
    jb-hb
    Participant

    Iran claims to have taken out 20 F-35’s. 20!!! That would be significant.

    But surely they fired up and flew those birds out of there before… oh yeah, the 35 probably has a boot-up time longer than Windows 98.

    They also claimed to have hit Mossad in Tel Aviv. And an Israeli natural gas facility.

    I’ve watched a few videos of missiles streaming in and either passing over a range of hills or hitting without exploding. I’ve seen some claims that Israeli antimissile launches are being shown in reverse for propaganda purposes.

    I DID find some videos from Tel Aviv with explosions DEFINITELY visible at the end of the missile’s arc. Definitely not a launch.

    If Iran accomplished all that they claim, that’s breathtaking and there will be hell to pay. Time to buy some oil futures or calls or some other upward-price instrument, I suppose.

    The videos with missiles passing over occupied territory, what must those lights in the sky mean to those people. Someone cares. Someone is capable of resistance.

    But of course Blackrock and other entities that unemployed me, prevented me from owning a home, and vilified me based on immutable characteristics sit somewhere in the background of those targets, just like in The Ukraine. And maybe my heart swells a bit as well.

    It would not take much for Western leadership to avoid this type of intrinsic reaction in their own populace, but apparently, they cannot even lie based on modeling what a normal person WOULD say or think. So it is this.

    Since my introduction to Peak Oil back in 2005, I have heard QUITE a lot about resource depletion, demand destruction, limits to growth, etc. Over the years, I’ve quite a lot of commentary claiming that the elites are purposely working on demand destruction.

    But since 2005, what I see is the elites engaging in massive boondoggles consuming massive quantities of currency and resources. Unworkable, unscalable, inefficient toxic “green” technologies, massive military deployments and wars, hugely expensive migrations, ever-greater spending on various programs that are pointless and wasteful – thus use even more resources.

    If I were to ignore everything I’ve read and look at just what has been DONE in the past 20 years, I’d interpret it as analogous to the 1985 movie Brewster’s Millions, in which Richard Pryor has to spend 30 million in 30 days to inherit 300 million or he gets nothing.

    Who can say if there IS a resource crunch unless you have the actual data. 20 years of behavior seem more in line with Heinlein’s Door Into Summer, where workers build vehicles then immediately send them to the junkyard and have them crushed. Jack London, in his 1908 Steampunk sci-fi novella The Iron Heel, uses dialogue to explain how Capitalists need to rid themselves of “excess capital” that usually ends up being spent to capture the institutions. Just, always excess capital being generated, lying around, piling up, gumming up the works, has to be disposed somehow.

    So you get 800 bases, infinite migration, build-out of new wasteful toxic inferior infrastructure, wars, and so on? Fine. I give up, elites. There is no resource crunch. You finally convinced me. You’re in some sort of Brewster’s Millions scenario – someone told you if you spend 30 Trillion you can get 3 Quadrillion? So you’re just desperately trying to get it spent?

    A few suggestions – try building some Cathedrals. They’re beautiful to look at, have great acoustics, and uplift the people that see them, but are totally useless. (as far as you’re concerned) National Parks are also non-productive. You could spend a few billion and make all the roads in the parks safe for animals with fences and underpasses. And they are deplorably useless!

    What about all those CCC and WPA programs? Employing people to go around documenting all the folk music in the country, building beautiful National Park lodges, making tons of cool posters, sending Guthrie to travel the nation singing to people? Isn’t this just as good of a waste?

    I get that not only do you waste money on bombs, but there’s the destruction of water processing plants, power plants, and homes – but do you realize how many ugly streets there are in the USA? If you can convince people to inject themselves and their children with poison, surely you can brainwash them into being willing to tear down and replace ugly structures?

    And don’t forget the arts. Think of the MASSIVE amount of artwork – from large “modern” monstrosities to abstract hotel and office wall art. How many billions – nay, trillions – of art needs to be destroyed and replaced with competent if not inspired stuff? Surely this would be sufficiently similar to war?

    Guitars and guns are the same – you have to buy it to try it out, which is how people end up with an “arsenal” after a couple decades. There’s 15 Million guitar players in the US – send them each a guitar. I could use a Troy Van Leeuwen Jazzmaster with Kinman Fatmaster pickups. You can slap a compound radius Rubato carbon fibre neck with Grover locking tuners on there while you are about it You already know where I live, my delivery availability time frames, my passwords, when I use my washing machine, my walking gait, presumably which of my eye movements indicates interest or disinterest and the composition of my stool etc so I know you know how to get it to me. I promise to do my part in your excess capital destruction plan and wiggle air molecules in a totally non-productive way.

    Aren’t they? Aren’t they engaging in capital destruction, not demand destruction?

    October 2, 2024 at 4:56 pm #170297
    Oroboros
    Participant

    F-35 Lardbuckets are a perfect example of the Empire of Lies Military MAGGOTS Wonder Weapon.

    I hope Iran humiliated Duh’merica by snuffing them out and their pilots

    October 2, 2024 at 4:59 pm #170298
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Russian s-400s which the Iranians now have can knock out SATELLITES out of orbit.

    F-35 Lardbuckets are no problemo

    October 2, 2024 at 5:00 pm #170299
    Oroboros
    Participant

    F-35s in the hanger raring to go!

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    October 2, 2024 at 7:04 pm #170300
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Dmitry Orlov: Iran HITS Israel – Russia Decimating Ukraine’s Army

    Dmitry’s initial take on Iran phucking IsRealHell in the Wazoo.

    IsRealHell is defenseless

    Let that sink in.

    Defenseless

    Their ‘iron dome’ is the ‘toilet paper dome’.

    Hahahahahaha

    From now on if IsRealHell doesn’t STFU, Iran can totally demolish IsRealHell’s war making machine. Especially all it’s planes and airfields and fuel storage facilities.

    Defenseless, you saw the missiles hitting on all the videos. Just a tiny fraction of what Iran can throw at them.

    Dmitry says that IsRealHell “has become this rabid little animal” resorting to political assassination.

    Iran has class and only targets military systems.

    Watch and enjoy, Orlov reams out IsRealHell with a red-hot wire brush up it’s butthole.

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    October 2, 2024 at 7:23 pm #170301
    Figmund Sreud
    Participant

    Into some propaganda, bunkies? Here you go, a wannabe an Israeli press secretary is being interviewed:

    F.S.

    October 2, 2024 at 7:32 pm #170302
    my parents said know
    Participant

    Keep your brain clean-
    Don’t stain it with facts.
    There’s bleach on your screen:
    It’s that, or the axe.
    😉

    Poor Hopkins- why o why didn’t he pack up and leave after his acquittal? Maybe now they want him to go?

    October 2, 2024 at 8:43 pm #170303
    SeaBirds
    Participant

    PCR

    As is often said here, the Russia is waging a war of attrition against NATO.

    PCR is a top writer but sometimes we wonder who he is actually working for. He never gives credit for the brilliant strategy the Russians have employed to combat their enemy.

    The bastards were so arrogant that they thought they could take on Russia, and had it all game-planned to plunder the country’s riches. And where has it landed them? Circling around the drain.

    October 2, 2024 at 8:55 pm #170304
    Dr D Rich
    Participant

    @Drd

    You went at it.
    You perfectly inverted it.
    That’s a reproduceable talent.

    Beware those who project “hate” as well mislabel others as warmongers.

    Damn and that’s the first I heard anyone call Candace Owens logical or simply the same

    October 2, 2024 at 9:18 pm #170305
    zerosum
    Participant

    Time to empty the freezer, start the smoker and dryer, canner.
    https://www.wyff4.com/article/power-updates-south-carolina-helene/62484172
    Power restoration continues in South Carolina: Here’s the latest updates as we learn more

    October 2, 2024 at 9:29 pm #170306
    citizenx
    Participant

    When you tell a Democrat who supported vaccine passports….

    Never met a Democrat who did not support ‘vaccine’ passports, show me your papers, lockdowns and govern me harder Daddy Gov…

    Nor have I met a single one who does not make excuses for the abuses, they were all a part of.
    They loved it…. which should be a cautionary note in your brain regarding the perils of the love/hate conundrum. Liberals love to hate, particularly hate you, or CJs “hate speech”.
    Democrats Love hating anything not them, but they also hate themselves with loving narcissism.

    EVERYBODY has a right to defend themselves.

    I watched millions of Liberals all around me go full retard glee embracing lockdowns, mandates, tyranny… They literally walked through the door waiving their Vax cards high…they supported segregation with a product that was completely ineffective. They wanted to cut anyone out of their society who did not conform or obey.

    No job, no admission, no health care, no human rights. Trust “the” science that changes at the speed of science was their insanity dropped in your lap. They actively PUNISHED anyone and everyone who did not go along.

    Civil dis-obedience, be ungovernable, kill your t.v.

    Resist, fight back, slay monsters who want you dead.

    October 2, 2024 at 9:36 pm #170307
    citizenx
    Participant

    Israel’s emergency authorities have lifted all restrictions, and people in Tel Aviv have emerged from bomb shelters and returned to the streets.

    Ah yes- “emergency authorities” lifting restrictions, easing conditional lockdowns….one for bombs, one for bio lab viruses.

    Remember those catchy phrases “shelter in place” , “we’re all in this together”, “no one is safe until everyone is safe” ?

    War authorities and CoVid authorities… same protocols, same language, different war?
    They waged war on US in 2020 and have not stopped.

    October 2, 2024 at 9:48 pm #170308
    aspnaz
    Participant

    A Polish-based NGO has filed a lawsuit against President Andrzej Duda, accusing him of insulting his own people in a comment he made about a 2023 film on migration.

    Who is funding this NGO, Soros or the ruling political party? So many people willing to do the dirty work of the oligarchs.

    October 2, 2024 at 9:56 pm #170309
    citizenx
    Participant

    Secretary General of the United Nations, António Guterres, has been banned from entering Israel over his response to Iran’s ballistic missile bombardment. In a statement, Israel’s Foreign Minister Israel Katz called Guterres an “anti-Israel secretary-general who lends support to terrorists”.

    Hahahahhaaha Jews of Israel ban the UN

    Jews of Israel are lesser than and beneath pigs. Jews of Israel are the worms and maggots slithering through mud feeding on pig shit and piss.

    Jews – always lying, whining, always the victim, thieves and murderers = Jew scum of Israel.

    October 2, 2024 at 10:20 pm #170313
    aspnaz
    Participant

    Now approaching three years of a conflict that a real national leader would have ended in 3 weeks, Putin has his back to the wall.

    You may like PCR, but to me he is a typical American, full of bluster with zero analystical skills for situations overseas, where American thinking counts for nothing. Strong when murdering camel herders, no idea what fighting a real war or winning the peace would be like. He wants Putin to turn Ukraine into Iraq or Libya, countries that are still a total mess, controlled by warlords, with very little hope of being fixed by the USA, ever. The USA can destroy these camel herders and steal their oil, but it has zero ability to rebuild the countries they destroyed, they can’t even look after their own infrastructure, let alone that in the middle east. Russia has to live with Ukraine, they are neighbours and a lot of Russians will have relatives in Ukraine. You want Putin to go in there and totally destroy the place and leave it like Iraq? What about all the people who rely on Ukraine food to survive, they can go hang? PCR is an idiot, he wass trying to taunt people into his shock and awe way of thinking, it failed so now he is pushing his stupidity a bit further to see if that gains him some recruits.

    October 2, 2024 at 10:35 pm #170314
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    Middle East on Fire:
    Israel-Hezbollah War Escalates |
    Alastair Crooke Interview
    Counter Currents

    https://rumble. com/v5gqn4t-middle-east-on-fire-israel-hezbollah-war-escalates-alastair-crooke-intervie.html

    October 2, 2024 at 10:43 pm #170315
    zerosum
    Participant

    The situ in western North Carolina is catastrophic.
    Substations are still underwater.
    Duke Energy says they have no idea when they can restore them.
    Problem: No transformers and no chance of getting any.
    I think I saw the figure that up to 320 new transformers will likely be needed. There are none on a shelf somewhere.
    Oh, 59 transformers and other hardware were sent to the Ukraine!!!

    See Grid Apocalypse:
    https://x.com/anyaparampil/status/1841538890848424267

    “Americans are not only seeing their stolen wages go to foreign wars rather than our own country—our government also sent transformers and other electrical equipment that could now save the Carolinas to UKRAINE”

    Who the eff is in charge at FEMA?

    Apologies if OT, but Ukraine and Ziostan wars seem to be joined at the hip . . . Both of them draining off resources needed in the US.

    Posted by: Jane

    October 2, 2024 at 10:49 pm #170316
    Dr D Rich
    Participant

    @aspnaz

    You wrote: “PCR is an idiot, he wass trying to taunt people into his shock and awe way of thinking, it failed so now he is pushing his stupidity a bit further to see if that gains him some recruits”

    I offer this small edit as I think it captures the essence of PCR, Made Man.

    “PCR isn’t considered an idiot by wide swaths of humanity. Yet, he knows he was trying to taunt people into his shock and awe way of thinking, it failed so now he is pushing his feigned ignorance a bit further to see if that gains him some recruits”

    Play dumb in front of the boss never hurts a person’s employment prospects.
    So who is PCR’s boss?

    October 2, 2024 at 10:51 pm #170317
    aspnaz
    Participant

    Jews of Israel are lesser than and beneath pigs. Jews of Israel are the worms and maggots slithering through mud feeding on pig shit and piss.

    As Orlov stated, a lot of jews have flown to Israel to defend their country, these worms and maggots are not just in Israel, their families are still in Russia, the USA, the UK etc.

    October 2, 2024 at 11:05 pm #170318
    Celticbiker
    Participant

    2 things are gonna wake up the West. Young American men coming home in body bags, because of these fucking jews. The money turning to shit, AKA Weimar.

    October 2, 2024 at 11:38 pm #170319
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Orlov said the Putin and the Russian government were treating the Russian jews (20,000+) who went to fight for IsRealHell might not be allowed back into Russia and if they came back might be treated and tried as war criminals.

    Orlov also said between a quarter and a third of Isrealhell’s citizens were Russian jews. A substantial number.

    He also said that the Empire of Lies military supplies were tapped out by Ukronaziland and what’s left will ALL go to Isrealhell. He said the Russians like that because it will hasten the Ukronazi collapse time table.

    Isrealhell going into Southern Lebanon will greatly accelerate the diversion of military supplies away from Ukronaziland to Isrealhell and that is a win for Russia in the SMO strategy.

    Orlov also state their can never be a “two state solution”.

    Isrealhell has acted like a small rabid animals and does not deserve to exist any longer.

    It will be a One State Solution, Palestine

    October 2, 2024 at 11:46 pm #170320
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    War in Inevitable –
    Alastair Crooke,
    Alexander Mercouris & Glenn Diesen

    https://rumble. com/v5axjz1-war-in-inevitable-alastair-crooke-alexander-mercouris-and-glenn-diesen.html

    October 2, 2024 at 11:53 pm #170321
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Orlov also said there is a near Infinite supply of fighters streaming in from all over the Middle East who want to fight and kill the IDF.

    “a near Infinite supply of fighters…”

    Dual passport Isrealhellis are jumping a sinking ship in droves and leaving “The Promised Land” ASAP

    Not surprisingly, there is NOT “a near Infinite supply of jewish fighters” streaming in from the Empire of Lies into Isrealhell.

    I wonder why?

    Is it because Empire of Lies jews are chickenshits and would never volunteer to fight for anything except a cushy life style.

    October 3, 2024 at 12:07 am #170322
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Orlov added that all the Isrealhell tanks rolling into Lebanon now will be destroyed by a huge surplus of shoulder launched missiles. Hezbollah has at least 10-15 shoulder launched missiles for every Isrealhell tank and men who know how to use them.

    All those tanks will never be rolling out. They will be scrape metal.

    “Netanyahu has more important things to worry about like how deep is his bunker” Hahahaha

    October 3, 2024 at 12:10 am #170323
    oxymoron
    Participant

    Dr D. Your thoughts on surviving and thriving all the while being an irritant to a shitty grifting system was superb. I’m being self-aggrandising because you basically described my life. I can’t believe extrapolate being NOT anonymous but it was BANG on!
    Much love n respect homey!

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