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WaPo Bails On Kamala – Won’t Make Presidential Endorsement (ZH)
Preparing for the Steal (TON)
Hillary Clinton: Trump Is Reenacting 1939 Madison Square Garden Nazi Rally (MN)
Elon Musk Makes Major Donations To Help Republicans Take Back The Senate (JTN)
‘Secret Putin-Musk Calls” Claim By WSJ Dismissed By Kremlin (RT)
Trump Requests Dismissal Of January 6 Case Over Jack Smith’s Appointment (JTN)
Trump Open To Pardoning Hunter Biden (RT)
Projected Trump Victory Driving Demand For Dollars – Standard Chartered (RT)
Arizona Officials: Nearly 2 Weeks to Tabulate 2024 Election in Maricopa (ET)
Judge Rules Bill Gates Must Face Vaccine-Injured in Dutch Court (Nevradakis)
West Has Self-Isolated and Condemned Itself to Irrelevance – Doctorow (Sp.)
BRICS+, What’s Next? (Pacini)
UK Military ‘Not Ready To Fight’ – Defense Secretary (RT)
British Government’s Investigation Of Novichok Is Poisoning Itself (Helmer)
UK Snubs Council of Europe Over Assange Inquiry (DC.UK)
This Is an Extermination’ (Muaddi)
Kill Them All: Israel’s Extermination Of Palestinians In Gaza (Cradle)

 

 


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It’s Bezos of course. Doesn’t want to be on the losing side. “..for the first time in 36 years. “We are returning to our roots of not endorsing presidential candidates..”

WaPo Bails On Kamala – Won’t Make Presidential Endorsement (ZH)

Three weeks ago, the Teamsters Union became the second major union to announce that they would not endorse a presidential candidate after internal polling revealed 58% of its members back Trump vs. 31% for Harris. That was understandable – their own members overwhelmingly rejected Harris. This is different. On Friday, the Washington Post announced that it would not endorse a candidate for president either, for the first time in 36 years. “The Washington Post will not be making an endorsement of a presidential candidate in this election. Nor in any future presidential election. We are returning to our roots of not endorsing presidential candidates,” the outlet said in a statement. Colleagues are said to be ‘shocked’ at the decision, according to NPR.

The editorial page editor, David Shipley, told colleagues that the Post’s publisher, Will Lewis, would publish a note to readers online early Friday afternoon. Shipley told colleagues the editorial board was told yesterday by management that there would not be an endorsement. He added that he “owns” this decision. The reason he cited was to create “independent space” where the newspaper does not tell people for whom to vote. Colleagues were said to be “shocked” and uniformly negative. Post corporate spokespeople have not responded to multiple messages left by NPR on the subject. As NPR’s David Folkenflik notes on X, “It is not clear whether Post owner Jeff Bezos or Publisher/CEO Will Lewis made the call.” The move comes after the Los Angeles Times similarly declined to endorse Harris – leading to the resignation of the paper’s opinion editor, Marzel Garza.

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“..a hand count of all ballots [..] could create chaos and confusion on Election Day..”

Preparing for the Steal (TON)

Georgia, the site of massive election misinformation, questionable results, incomplete audits and a mysterious come-from-behind razor-thin win by Joe Biden in 2020, appears to be at it again. Or perhaps we should say Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger is at it again. Kylie Jane Kremer brought the matter to our attention through a series of posts on X. As Kremer notes, “Raffensperger sent an email, in a private capacity, that went to a list of trial lawyers across Georgia soliciting $5 million by November 1st to help in his effort for a 501(c)4 called “Election Defense Fund”, asking lawyers to donate or contact him via his private gmail account & personal cell phone number.” In the email, Raffensperger claimed that “Election deniers and conspiracy theorists have taken their anger to new levels, employing a variety of tactics including intimidation, legal challenges, and rule changes.

“In Georgia they have threatened, harassed, and sued election officials. And as you know, most recently the Georgia State Election Board was taken over by three individuals who have pledged to put partisanship over sworn duty.” Raffensperger appears to be referring to (and trying to intimidate) the three Republican members of Georgia’s five -person State Election Board, Dr. Janice Johnston, Rick Jeffares and Janelle King. Raffensperger also appears to be attempting to intimidate and silence anyone who might challenge the outcome of Georgia’s 2024 presidential election. On September 20th, Johnston, Jeffares and King voted in favor of requiring a hand count of all ballots to ensure that the number of physical ballots equaled the machine count total at the precinct level. This new rule was opposed by Georgia state elections officials, including Raffensperger, who said it could create chaos and confusion on Election Day.

In advance of the vote by the State Election Board, Raffensperger issued a formal statement, claiming that “Activists seeking to impose last-minute changes in election procedures outside of the legislative process undermine voter confidence and burden election workers… misguided attempts by the State Election Board will delay election results and undermine chain of custody safeguards. Georgia voters reject this 11th hour chaos, and so should the unelected members of the State Election Board.” If you find it odd that Raffensperger would refer to his three fellow Republicans as “activists” while he worked to thwart common-sense changes that would dramatically increase the security of Georgia’s 2024 election, you’re not alone.

Raffensperger was apparently so concerned that he rushed to CNN-affiliate WSB, breathlessly claiming that “the State Election Board wants to take us back in time. I guess what they want is to see elections take until 3 a.m. like in Detroit, Michigan. We don’t want to do that in Georgia. Not on my watch.” Although the move by the three Georgia Republicans had the support of President Trump, lawsuits were immediately filed – and on October 16th a Georgia court blocked the rule changes, inexplicably declaring that they were “illegal, unconstitutional and void.”

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Are they sychronizing these claims?

Hillary Clinton: Trump Is Reenacting 1939 Madison Square Garden Nazi Rally (MN)

Bitter presidential loser Hillary Clinton has claimed that Donald Trump is purposefully reenacting a 1939 Nazi rally at Madison Square Garden. Appearing on CNN, Hillary stated “One other thing that you‘ll see next week is Trump actually re-enacting the Madison Square Garden rally in 1939.” “I write about this in my book,” she added, hawking her turgid scribe. “President Franklin Roosevelt was appalled that neo-Nazi fascists in America were lining up to essentially pledge their support for the kind of government that they were seeing in Germany,” Hillary declared. So basically she’s saying that everyone who goes to Trump rallies is a nazi because she disagrees with their politics.

This stuff doesn’t work on anyone anymore. It actually just helps Trump now. Every time they say this, it exposes them. As we previously highlighted, a New York State Senator attempted to get the event at Madison Square Garden shut down, also equating it to the infamous Nazi rally. Democrats bravely defending democracy again by attempting to shut down the free speech of a major political party’s presidential nominee. The Senator claimed that the Trump event will “incite violence” and demanded (his actual words) that the venue cancel it to “keep our city safe.”

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At Polymarket, the Senate looks in the bag. The House, not so much.

Elon Musk Makes Major Donations To Help Republicans Take Back The Senate (JTN)

Tesla CEO and X owner Elon Musk has made multi-million dollar donations to help Republicans win back the Senate in November, according to a report filed with the Federal Election Commission on Thursday. Musk has emerged as a major voice for conservatives this election cycle, having aligned himself closely with former President Donald Trump. Musk, who purchased X (formerly Twitter) in 2022, gave Trump his social media account back shortly after buying it, and endorsed the former president in August. The multi-billionaire donated $10 million to the Senate Leadership Fund on Oct 1, according to Politico, and $2.4 million to The Sentinel Action Fund, which is a super Political Action Committee (PAC) that has been promoting several GOP Senate candidates. The Senate Leadership Fund is connected to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.

Republicans are hoping to keep control of the House and win back the Senate next month. They only need to flip two Senate seats in order to win the upper chamber. Musk also gave $300,000 to a group connected to the National Republican Congressional Committee in August. The money comes as the tech CEO builds his own super PAC called “America PAC,” which has devoted its resources on canvassing operations for Trump. Musk has poured $75 million into the PAC. Musk is worth an estimated $269 billion as of Thursday, according to Forbes. The bulk of his finances comes from Tesla, where he owns 13% of the shares. But he also owns a good share of SpaceX, which is worth over $200 billion.

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Another weird story.

‘Secret Putin-Musk Calls” Claim By WSJ Dismissed By Kremlin (RT)

A article in the Wall Street Journal alleging that Elon Musk has secretly made contact with Vladimir Putin and other senior Russian officials is untrue and is most likely linked to the entrepreneur’s involvement in the US presidential election, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Friday. The American billionaire and the Russian president had a single phone call before the Ukraine conflict escalated into full-blown hostilities in February 2022, Peskov told journalists, repeating what he had told the WSJ. ”Most likely, it’s just disinformation in the extremely confrontational electoral political fight [in the US]. The race is in its final phase, and the opponents do not shy away from anything,” the official suggested. The WSJ piece published on Thursday, mostly detailed Musk’s role as a private contractor for the US military and national security state, his stance on the Ukraine conflict and support for the Trump reelection campaign.

The newspaper claimed that the billionaire’s public statements about resolving the conflict between Moscow and Kiev, which he has been making since late 2022, “mirrored some aspects of the Kremlin’s” position. The article cites “current and former US, European and Russian officials” who allegedly claim the calls, “a closely held secret in government,” have taken place. Several White House officials also reportedly told the outlet they weren’t aware of such contacts. The only Russian source cited in the text is a “former intelligence officer briefed on the situation,” who claimed that late last year Putin asked Musk not to activate the Starlink satellite system in Taiwan as a favor to Beijing. Musk’s SpaceX has no license to provide internet services in Taiwan, the newspaper noted.

In addition to Putin, the report claims that Musk has also been in contact with former Russian Prime Minister Sergey Kirienko, who currently serves as deputy head of the presidential administration. The billionaire declined to comment on the allegations, the WSJ said. Just weeks ago, there were allegations that Trump had been secretly in touch with Putin, and now it is Musk, Peskov told reporters, referring to a book by US journalist Bob Woodward, in which he claims a source told him that since leaving office, the Republican politician has spoken to the Russian leader on multiple occasions. Trump and Putin have both denied the claim.

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“Trump’s lawyers claimed that Smith was appointed by Garland as a “private citizen.”

Trump Requests Dismissal Of January 6 Case Over Jack Smith’s Appointment (JTN)

Attorneys for former President Donald Trump on Thursday asked a judge to dismiss the January 6 case against him, arguing that special counsel Jack Smith was unconstitutionally appointed, according to The Hill. Smith was not confirmed by the Senate but was appointed by Attorney General Merrick Garland. Smith has been leading two investigations into the former president, including a classified documents case that was dismissed earlier this year. However Smith is appealing the dismissal. The request was made to U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan in Washington, D.C., and centers around the same argument made in the classified documents case. Judge Aileen Cannon ruled that no legal statute gave Garland the authority to give Smith the amount of power he has as special counsel, and that the appointment violated the Appointments Clause of the United States Constitution.

Trump’s lawyers claimed that Smith was appointed by Garland as a “private citizen.” “The proposed motion establishes that this unjust case was dead on arrival — unconstitutional even before its inception,” Trump’s attorneys wrote on Thursday. “Everything that Smith did since Attorney General Garland’s appointment, as President Trump continued his leading campaign against President Biden and then Vice President Harris, was unlawful and unconstitutional.” Trump is currently facing four charges in D.C., related to his alleged efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. He has pleaded not guilty to all charges. Smith has until Oct. 31 to file a response.

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Hunter must hope Trump wins: “[Joe Biden] is “not going to do anything” to help his son and has ruled out exonerating him”.

Trump Open To Pardoning Hunter Biden (RT)

Former US President Donald Trump has stated that he might consider pardoning Hunter Biden if he is reelected in November. Hunter Biden was found guilty in June of three felonies in a federal gun trial, including lying about his use of illicit drugs when applying to purchase a firearm. Biden faces up to 25 years in prison, with his sentencing to be determined in a hearing scheduled for November. Last month, the 53-year-old also pleaded guilty to nine federal tax charges, and potentially faces an additional 17 years in prison. Following the verdict, US President Joe Biden has said that he respected the judicial process and was “satisfied” that his son had received a fair trial. He also noted that he is “not going to do anything” to help his son and has ruled out exonerating him.

Speaking to conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt on Thursday, Trump was asked if he would pardon Hunter Biden. The former president replied by stating that he “wouldn’t take it off the books,” despite the US Justice Department initiating multiple legal challenges against him, which Trump has described as a form of retribution by his political opponents. Earlier this year, a Manhattan jury found the Republican candidate guilty on 34 felony counts related to alleged hush money paid to porn star Stormy Daniels and his role in the January 6, 2021 Capitol Hill riots. The former president recalled that unlike his opponents, he had refrained from prosecuting his rival Hillary Clinton following the 2016 election despite his supporters asking him to. “I could have gone after Hillary,” Trump said, noting that he ultimately decided against doing so because he thought it “would look terrible.”

Trump noted, however, that Hunter Biden has been “a bad boy” and that “all you had to do is see the laptop from hell.” At the same time, he pointed out that the whole story revolving around the US President’s son is “very bad for our country.” In 2020, the contents of Hunter Biden’s personal laptop, which he supposedly misplaced in a Delaware repair shop while high on crack, were leaked online, implicating the Biden family in multiple foreign corruption schemes. US intelligence officials have since tried to denounce the scandal as “Russian disinformation” despite the contents of the laptop having been verified as authentic.

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“The dollar has strengthened along with the rising probability of a Trump win in betting markets..”

Projected Trump Victory Driving Demand For Dollars – Standard Chartered (RT)

Increasing belief on the financial markets that Donald Trump will win the US presidential election next month has been strengthening the dollar, Bloomberg has reported, citing British multinational bank Standard Chartered. Recent polls suggest that the Republican and his Democratic rival, Vice-President Kamala Harris, are tied with less than two weeks to go before the election. According to the bank’s calculations however, 60% of the greenback’s gains in October are linked to growing wagers that the former president will win the November 5 vote, Bloomberg reported on Thursday. “The dollar has strengthened along with the rising probability of a Trump win in betting markets,” the outlet reported, citing a note by Steven Englander, head of global G-10 FX research at British multinational bank Standard Chartered.

Markets are pricing a 70% chance of a Trump win, added Englander. The world’s largest prediction platform, Polymarket, is attributing a near 64% probability that Trump will become the next US president. According to market research project PredictIt, Trump has a 58% chance of winning the election. The US national currency has risen by nearly 3% against the Euro in the past month, with Bloomberg reporting earlier that the greenback was on pace for its best month since 2022. While the election race has reportedly been the main driver for the dollar, other factors include the resilience of the US economy and a strong US jobs report from earlier this month, noted Bloomberg. Before the previous presidential election in 2020, markets expected that Joe Biden, rather than Trump, would win and offer fiscal stimulus. The expectations weakened the dollar in October of that year.

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Before you know it, people think this is normal.

Arizona Officials: Nearly 2 Weeks to Tabulate 2024 Election in Maricopa (ET)

Officials in Arizona’s most populous county warned on Oct. 22 that it may take between 10 and 13 days to tabulate the results of the Nov. 5 election. County officials are asking “for the community’s patience,” Maricopa County Deputy Elections Director Jennifer Liewer said in a press conference on Oct. 22. “This year, we do expect that it will take between 10 and 13 days to complete tabulation of all of the ballots that come in,” she said. “We want to make sure that this is a secure process, but we also want to make sure that it is an accurate process.” Assistant Maricopa County Manager Zach Schira said at the press conference, “If I have one message for voters here today, it is this: that the longer ballots and higher interest in this 2024 general election will create longer lines on Election Day, and that’s okay.” Schira said that if people want to avoid the long lines, they are advised to vote by mail or early in person.

Maricopa County Supervisor Bill Gates said the tabulation may take so long because the ballot is two pages, there are dozens of contests per ballot, and there is heightened interest in the presidential election. He said more than 2.1 million Maricopa voters are expected to cast their ballot for the Nov. 5 contest, noting that 400,000 people so far have voted. The “top message for voters” on Oct. 22 is “if you want to save time and avoid lines, vote early,” the county wrote on social media platform X. Voters have until Oct. 25 to request an early ballot, it noted. Early voting data compiled by the University of Florida show that Republicans have a 38,000-vote advantage in terms of early voting in Arizona. Only mail-in ballots have been returned so far, but the data show that 41.9 percent of early ballots have been submitted by Republicans, compared with 36.3 by Democrats. Independent or third-party voters make up about 21.8 percent of the total.

Arizona, considered a battleground state, is again expected to be a close race during the 2024 election. State election officials in 2020 certified the race in Arizona for Joe Biden over President Donald Trump by a margin of about 11,000 votes. In the aftermath of the 2020 contest, Trump and other Republicans alleged that Arizona’s election was marred by voter fraud, sparking a number of lawsuits against Arizona and Maricopa County officials that were all ultimately dismissed. For that election, county officials certified the results 17 days after Election Day, according to a statement issued on Nov. 20, 2020. A significant number of voters cast ballots early in person or by mail in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic and associated stay-at-home and lockdown orders and rules.

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The case includes Bourla, but not Von der Leyen?!

Judge Rules Bill Gates Must Face Vaccine-Injured in Dutch Court (Nevradakis)

A Netherlands judge last week ruled that Bill Gates must face seven people injured by COVID-19 vaccines in court in the Netherlands. According to Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf, the seven “corona skeptics” sued Gates last year, along with former Dutch prime minister and newly appointed NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, and “several members” of the Dutch government’s COVID-19 “Outbreak Management Team.” Other defendants include Albert Bourla, Ph.D., CEO of Pfizer, and the Dutch state. “Because Bill Gates’ foundation was involved in combating the corona pandemic, he has also been summoned,” De Telegraaf reported. According to Dutch independent news outlet Zebra Inspiratie, the plaintiffs allege that Gates, through his representatives, deliberately misled them about the safety of the COVID-19 shots, despite knowing “that these injections were not safe and effective.”

Dutch independent journalist Erica Krikke told The Defender that the seven plaintiffs — whose names are redacted in the lawsuit’s publicly available documents — “are ordinary Dutch people, and they have been jabbed and after the jabs they got sick.” Krikke said that of the seven original plaintiffs, one has since died, leaving the other six plaintiffs to continue the lawsuit. The lawsuit was filed in the District Court of Leeuwarden. According to De Telegraaf, “Gates had objected because, according to him, the judges did not have jurisdiction.” Accordingly, the court first “had to rule in the so-called incident procedure,” De Andere Krant reported. Zebra Inspiratie reported that the hearing in this “incident procedure” took place on Sept. 18 and that Gates’ representatives disputed jurisdiction, but not the claim. According to De Andere Krant, Gates was represented by the Pels Rijcken law firm, based in The Hague, described as “the largest and the premier litigation law firm in the Netherlands.”

Gates did not appear at the Sept. 18 hearing, but attorneys for Gates argued that the court “had no jurisdiction over him because he lives in the United States.” However, in its Oct. 16 ruling, the Leeuwarden court ruled it does have jurisdiction over Gates. De Andere Krant reported that the court found “sufficient evidence” that the claims against Gates and the other defendants are “connected” and based on the same “complex of facts.” Other defendants who reside outside of the Netherlands, including Bourla, did not challenge the court’s jurisdiction. The court ruled Gates must pay attorneys’ fees and additional legal costs totaling 1,406 euros (approximately $1,520). A hearing is scheduled for Nov. 27. ‘Even if … your name is Bill Gates, you still have to go to court’ In remarks shared with De Andere Krant, Arno van Kessel, one of the plaintiffs’ attorneys, welcomed the ruling. “In its verdict, the court has clearly recorded the basis of our conclusions of claim,” van Kessel said.

Dutch attorney Meike Terhorst told The Defender it is “quite interesting” that the plaintiffs filed the lawsuit in Leeuwarden instead of The Hague, where normally, all cases against the government related to COVID-19 are filed. “In general, COVID-19 court cases have been very unsuccessful in the Netherlands,” Terhorst said. “There is a slim chance it will be successful.” She added: “I think most judges support the COVID-19 vaccination agenda and will find it hard to believe the vaccinations have caused injuries. So, we have a long way to go, regardless of the case.” Krikke shared a more optimistic outlook, saying that the court sent a message that “even if you are rich and your name is Bill Gates, you still have to go to court.” New Zealand-based independent journalist Penny Marie, who has closely followed the proceedings in this case, told The Defender she hopes the Oct. 16 ruling “will hopefully set a precedent and help plaintiffs in similar cases around the world regarding jurisdiction,” in cases “where the defendant does not reside in the country of the plaintiff.”

“For parties who make claims against those involved in the implementation of the Great Reset and other international actions, such as the COVID-19 emergency response initiated by the WEF [World Economic Forum] and imposed on all U.N. member nations, I hope that this ruling provides an opportunity for others to follow suit,” Marie added. At the Sept. 18 hearing, plaintiffs also delivered statements. According to Zebra Inspiratie, “One of the victims, who is very ill, was also given the opportunity to make a plea. She was no longer able to speak and was represented by her father. It was an emotional plea.” Krikke said the plaintiff’s father told the court that his daughter, who was previously healthy, fell ill after getting the COVID-19 vaccine and could no longer speak, telling the judge that he “would really like to speak to Bill Gates directly” to ask him what happened to his daughter. “After that, the judge was really quiet,” Krikke said. The Oct. 18 ruling also addressed the plaintiffs’ claims about Gates’ role in the WEF’s “Great Reset” project.

“The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is also affiliated with the World Economic Forum … an international organization whose statutory objective is to unite ‘leaders from business, governments, academia and society at large into a global community committed to improving the state of the world,’” the ruling states, adding: “This is a project aimed at the total reorganization of societies in all countries that are members of the United Nations … as described by [WEF founder and executive chairman Klaus Schwab] in his book Covid-19: The Great Reset. … “Characteristic of this political ideology is that this forced and planned change is presented as justified by pretending that the world is suffering from major crises that can only be solved by centralized, hard global intervention. One of these pretended major crises concerns the Covid-19 pandemic.” The ruling also states, “The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is affiliated with ‘Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance‘ … an international partnership in the field of vaccinations between various public and private entities.”

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“That day will come very early in 2025 if Trump wins on 5 November; it will come with a slight delay in 2025 if Harris wins..”

West Has Self-Isolated and Condemned Itself to Irrelevance – Doctorow (Sp.)

International relations analyst Gilbert Doctorow, in an interview with Sputnik, praised Russian President Vladimir Putin’s firm stance at the recent BRICS summit, highlighting Russia’s growing influence on the global stage despite Western efforts to isolate the country. Doctorow pointed out that the success of the summit, which brought together nations representing nearly half of the world’s population, demonstrates Russia’s strong global posture and the failure of anti-Russian sanctions. “Because of the important guests, numbering more than 25 heads of government, it has been impossible for major media in the West to ignore BRICS and Russia,” Doctorow said, noting how this undermines the narrative of Russia’s supposed isolation. The analyst further speculated how Russia leveraged its BRICS presidency to advance innovative goals, such as establishing commodity exchanges and a reinsurance pool, positioning the country as a constructive leader.

Doctorow emphasized that these achievements send a clear message: “Russia is not isolated; on the contrary, the Collective West has self-isolated and condemned itself to irrelevance.” “The BRICS message of a multipolar world, of respect for the sovereignty and unique cultures of each nation will surely have an impact on Europeans’ perception of Russia and of themselves,” Doctorow added, stressing the long-term significance of BRICS in shaping global politics. The analyst also predicted the Ukraine crisis will conclude in 2025, regardless of the outcome of the US presidential election. “This will be all the more the case when the United States puts an end to the Ukraine war by withdrawing its financial and military assistance to Kiev. That day will come very early in 2025 if Trump wins on 5 November; it will come with a slight delay in 2025 if Harris wins because Congress will resist any further appropriations to Kiev,” Doctorow speculated.

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“This is waging information warfare.”

BRICS+, What’s Next? (Pacini)

The hype created for BRICS during this year has surpassed that for the U.S. elections, the outcome of which now will not be as binding as before. This is a fact. When 2024 opened, many were concerned about the great risks involved, having as many as 76 countries in the world in election session, with the U.S. dominating. The rhetoric of the hegemon, however, no longer works as it used to. Until a few years ago, everything that happened in the U.S. was of global interest, the press was ready to devote front pages and social media was filled with dedicated content, while financial markets went crazy at the slightest sign of instability or danger. Everyone was hanging on Lady USA’s every word. That is no longer the case today. One of the great successes in the infowarfare undertaken by the BRICS countries under Russia’s presidency is to have ousted America from its media centrality. Or, rather, at the center it has remained only in vassal countries, such as Europe or the Commonwealth.

But the rest of the world is no longer so interested, and the rest of the world is the majority of the world. This is a detail that needs more attention. True, the U.S. alone has a great deal of power, certainly greater than a great many other states; but the geometries of power vary cyclically, as History teaches us, and all empires sooner or later must come to terms with their denouement. The strategy undertaken, hand in hand with the geo-economic strategy, meant that the media attention of the “rest of the world” was tuned to facts and events that concerned the rest of the world, no longer the Hegemon. There’s a rest of the world, indeed, there is the world and the United States, and the West. The world is no longer “the West” to which “the rest” is added. The perspective has changed. In the media language it was a small semantic revolution whose echo will be ever greater.

The primary effect was a kind of disorientation, because people were not used to emphasizing news from certain areas of the planet. Nor was there sufficient training to do so. So it was that the BRICS countries first launched a series of national platforms for analysis and dissemination of information, and then started a BRICS-branded information apparatus, which was already very detailed, widespread and accurate, providing for the technical training of professionals. It was a matter of having to teach how to tell the world without being seduced by the mythological sirens of the Atlantic. The side effect is that a new generation of experts is on the horizon of a world to be described with different eyes, and as is well known, the main power of the mass media is to tell the world, that is, to give an image of it, describe it, create thought forms of what the world is and how to imagine it for the future.

The result we can say has been positive: in the countries of the multipolar world there is no longer the “America first” rule, and come the end of October there is no need to talk about the U.S. elections as the event of the year. On the other hand, one is aware that Harris or Trump, the problem of the U.S. remains the same, and in any case, neither competitor has any intention to dethrone Zionism, nor to participate at the Pax Multipolaris table. Still on infowarfare, Russia has played a master game. We had already talked about this months ago: the repeated announcement of the new BRICS currency with partial gold base, then of BRICS Pay, then of UNIT replacing SWIFT, then of the financial operations of the New Development Bank, repeatedly occurred always and only in conjunction with particular moments when the dollar market was to be destabilized, creating difficulties for the U.S.-U.K. and favoring BRICS investment and the process of de-dollarization.

It was very obvious and almost trivial that these new systems would not be activated as early as this year, because they require millimeter planning and transition times that are not immediate, especially since we are dealing with a large number of states with different currencies, different laws, different trade. The important thing to do was to promote the new system, scare the opponent, destabilize the market, persuading more and more countries to leave the orbit of a Western-centric system that is collapsing. This is waging information warfare.

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“..very skilled and ready to conduct military operations. What we have not been ready to do is to fight..”

UK Military ‘Not Ready To Fight’ – Defense Secretary (RT)

The UK military is unprepared to fight in a major conflict and would not be able to deter the enemy if a war breaks out now, British Defense Secretary John Healey has acknowledged. The British army, navy and air force have been “hollowed out” and “underfunded” during the 14 years of the Conservative Party’s rule, Healey said in his appearance on Politico’s Power Play podcast on Thursday. When the UK Labour Party came to power in July, “we expected things to be in a poor state – but the state of the finances, the state of the forces, was far worse than we thought,” he added. “The UK, in keeping with many other nations, has essentially become very skilled and ready to conduct military operations. What we have not been ready to do is to fight. Unless we are ready to fight, we are not in shape to deter,” the defense secretary stressed.

“This is at the heart of the NATO thinking. We have got to not just be capable of defending our NATO nations, but more importantly we have got to be more effective in the deterrence we provide against any future aggression,” he added. Britain and other members of the US-led military bloc need to “innovate” and “take the new technologies and some of the lessons from Ukraine and make what we do more lethal and therefore a stronger deterrence,” Healey said. When asked to comment on the defense secretary’s statement, a spokesman for the Labour government insisted that “this Government will always do what is required to defend the country. The UK’s Armed Forces are amongst the best in the world and offer a 24/7 defense of the UK, operating alongside our allies and partners to prepare for any event.”

“The Strategic Defense Review [which was launched in July] will look at the threats we face and the capabilities we need so that our Armed Forces are better ready to fight, more integrated and more innovative,” he said. On Thursday, The Telegraph reported, citing a senior defense source, that the new UK budget, which will be announced next week, will “almost certainly” not provide more money to the Defense Ministry. According to the government’s figures, Britain’s army, navy, and air force have entered 2024 with just over 138,000 active-duty personnel, the lowest number since the end of the Napoleonic wars. The army alone had seen its headcount shrink from more than 100,000 in 2010 to 75,110 by the start of this year.

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“The quality of the evidence of Russian Novichok runs from weak to preposterous; the legal presentation from tendentious to inadmissible.”

British Government’s Investigation Of Novichok Is Poisoning Itself (Helmer)

The British Government’s investigation of the alleged Novichok attacks against Sergei and Yulia Skripal, which they survived, and Dawn Sturgess, who died, has now run for six and half years. The public presentation of evidence and witnesses has completed its first week; the second week of hearings will begin next Monday, October 28. The hearings will end in the first week of December. A report of the conclusions will follow months later. The judge presiding is a retired Court of Appeal judge named Anthony Hughes – titled Lord Hughes of Omberseley – is also a consultant lawyer. Hughes advertises that he is available for engagement on private cases at his London office, telephone +44 (0)20 7242 3555. His terms of engagement from the Home Office, his job now, is to manage the Government’s two imperatives. The first is to protect the British government narrative to ensure no one disbelieves the Russians did it, as then-Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson announced on the BBC on March 17, 2018.

Judge Hughes’s website claims he is presiding in “an independent Inquiry into the circumstances of Dawn Sturgess’ death in Salisbury on 8 July 2018.” Independent of Russia is certain. Hughes opened the proceeding on March 25, 2022 by saying: “The issues raised by the terms of reference include those of the utmost gravity, including the allegation which has been publicly made of Russian state responsibility for the killing of Ms Sturgess indirectly.” In fact, the terms of reference make no such allegation. Hughes then announced he had appointed Emilie Pottle, a London lawyer, to represent three Russian military officers whom the British prosecutor has charged with attempted murder. Married to a “freelance writer” who has worked in the Iraqi and Libyan warzones with UK and US forces, Pottle is being paid by the Home Office to appear. Last week as a Crown prosecutor, she fed leading questions to medical and police witnesses.

The judge’s assisting lawyer, Mark O’Connor QC revealed last week that he has concluded what has to be proved, and expects witnesses to do the same. “I want”, O’Connor asked Wayne Darch, deputy director of the regional ambulance service and supervisor of the medics who attended the Skripals and Sturgess, “to start, if I may, with the question of what understanding or training ambulance staff had of or for nerve agent, organophosphate poisoning before the Skripal poisoning in March 2018, and we will work then forward in the chronology, okay?” Working forward in the chronology means, for the British government, that the Hughes proceeding will work backward to prove retrospectively that the Russian government ordered and carried out the Novichok assassination plot of 2018. So far, not a single British newspaper, television or social medium has reported differently.

The second imperative for Hughes is to protect the British Government from the case for negligence which the Sturgess family lawyer, Michael Mansfield KC, is making to support his claim for a multi-million pound payout for compensation of their loss to the Sturgess family, her boyfriend Charles Rowley, and to Mansfield himself and his associated lawyers. The first attempt at Mansfield’s legal strategy of “dosh for Dawn’s death” did not succeed in the High Court in mid-2020. The Hughes proceeding is Mansfield’s last, big chance.to accuse the British secret services of culpable negligence in failing to anticipate the Russian strike against Sergei Skripal on March 4, 2018, and to protect the British public from the Novichok fallout the alleged Russian assassins left behind.

The contradiction between the first and second imperatives grows obvious with every session. The quality of the evidence of Russian Novichok runs from weak to preposterous; the legal presentation from tendentious to inadmissible. But to earn his ransom Mansfield must accept as true what he cannot prove to be lies. He and his money-shot are motivated by the legal principle known as claim of right – you can’t steal from a thief.

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“The UK government is effectively partaking in the cover-up, in a way that only a guilty party would.”

UK Snubs Council of Europe Over Assange Inquiry (DC.UK)

Britain’s Home Office is making a “grave mistake” by ignoring a call from the Council of Europe to review its treatment of Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder’s wife has warned. The Council’s parliamentary assembly, of which the UK is a member, passed a resolution earlier this month designating Assange as a “political prisoner”. Assange endured five years in Belmarsh maximum security prison in London before being released in June, and flying to his native Australia. The UK government had incarcerated him while the US pursued extradition proceedings in the British courts. His treatment has outraged the Council of Europe, which was created in the aftermath of World War Two with strong backing from Winston Churchill. Its resolution urged the UK authorities to conduct a review “with a view to establishing whether he [Assange] has been exposed to torture or inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, pursuant to their international obligations”.

It found the UK authorities “failed to effectively protect Mr Assange’s freedom of expression and right to liberty, exposing him to lengthy detention in a high-security prison despite the political nature of the most severe charges against him.” Declassified asked Britain’s Home Office what its response was to the Council of Europe’s call. The government department deflected the question, replying: “The longstanding extradition request for Julian Assange has been resolved. As is standard practice, all extradition requests are considered on an individual basis by our independent courts and in accordance with UK law.” The demands of the parliamentary assembly are not binding on European governments but they are “obliged to respond”. Stella Assange, Julian’s husband, told Declassified the Home Office is making a “grave mistake” in refusing to heed the Council of Europe’s call.

She said: “We know that the Crown Prosecution Service has disappeared key documents relating to Julian’s imprisonment and refused to provide information, first to a journalist, and now to the court, that might shed a light on the political side of Julian’s persecution in the UK. “It is one thing for rogue elements in the CPS to collude with foreign governments to persecute a publisher and attempt to cover their tracks. It is quite another for the UK government to stonewall in this manner in the wake of an independent report by the Council of Europe and a vote by the overwhelming majority of the chamber calling on the UK to carry out an investigation.” She added: “The UK government is effectively partaking in the cover-up, in a way that only a guilty party would.”

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“..with the aim of forcibly expelling the population in service of the Israeli plan to empty the north. This has now come to be called “the Generals’ Plan.”

This Is an Extermination’ (Muaddi)

Tens of thousands of displaced Palestinians across northern Gaza have been forced on a death march by the Israeli army since Monday, October 21. Northern Gaza is being emptied of its inhabitants, and one of Israel’s strategies in achieving this goal is to take out the area’s few remaining social institutions: hospitals. As part of its ongoing offensive on northern Gaza, the Israeli army has been trying to clear out the entire area north of Gaza City for the past 18 days. At least 200,000 people continue to stay there, many of them fearing, according to local testimonies, that they will be targeted on the way south or in Israeli-designated “safe zones,” which have been consistently bombarded over recent months. The ongoing siege includes a second siege-within-the-siege on the Jabalia refugee camp, accompanied by a massive bombing and shelling campaign that is forcing tens of thousands of people to leave their homes.

Many of them have headed to Beit Lahia, and particularly to Kamal Adwan Hospital. Over the past 18 days, the hospital has been issuing daily calls for help, warning of an imminent humanitarian catastrophe. The Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahia is one of three functioning hospitals in the northern Gaza governorate. The hospital is the only fully functional medical center in the north, with a specialized neonatal section for newborns. The two other hospitals in Gaza are barely functional. The Indonesian Hospital in the town of Sheikh Zayed went out of services last week after Israeli troops besieged it and invaded its surroundings. Al-Awda Hospital in Jabalia, smaller in size, has suspended most of its services and only functions at a limited capacity. On Tuesday, October 22, the al-Awda Hospital’s director, Bakr Abu Safiyeh, told al-Ghad TV that Israeli quadcopter drones were opening fire directly on the hospital.

Dr. Baker said that Israeli quadcopters were also opening fire on anybody moving in the streets, including ambulances. According to the hospital director, an Israeli strike targeted an ambulance carrying a mother who had just given birth. The mother was killed, Dr. Baker said, and the baby was later found alive by rescue teams and was taken to Kamal Adwan Hospital’s neonatal section. Named after Kamal Adwan, a Palestinian resistance leader assassinated by Israel in Beirut in 1973, the hospital has become a central destination for the wounded and the displaced. Like most other hospitals in Gaza over the past year of genocidal war, Kamal Adwan Hospital is the only remaining public space in northern Gaza that offers services and provides shelter, representing the backbone of Gazan civil society and social cohesion. That is why Israel is targeting it, with the aim of forcibly expelling the population in service of the Israeli plan to empty the north. This has now come to be called “the Generals’ Plan.”

Two weeks before Israel began the current siege, Netanyahu told Israeli lawmakers that he was considering the “Generals’ plan,” so named for the proposal put forward by senior Israeli army officials in early September based on the vision of retired Israeli general Giora Eiland, who wrote an Op-Ed a year ago explaining how northern Gaza should be emptied of the entire population through mass starvation and extermination.

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“No toddler gets shot twice by mistake by ‘the world’s best snipers.’ And they’re dead-center shots..”

Kill Them All: Israel’s Extermination Of Palestinians In Gaza (Cradle)

The holocaust engulfing Palestinians in Gaza has reached unimaginable levels of horror, epitomized by a harrowing video that swept across social media of 19-year-old Shaaban al-Dalou, burning to death while still connected to an IV drip. This was no isolated tragedy – it was emblematic of the escalating genocide. On 13 October, an Israeli airstrike ignited the makeshift tents sheltering dozens of displaced Palestinian families in the courtyard of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah. Amidst the inferno, Dalou’s 17-year-old brother Mohammed described his agony: “I can’t describe the feeling. I saw my brother burning in front of me, and my mother was burning.” Mohammed had managed to escape when he heard the strike, but his brother Shaban and their mother did not. His father saved his 10-year-old brother from the flames, only for the child to succumb to his burns days later, according to the New York Times.

The horrifying video was followed a week later by photos showing soldiers expelling Palestinians from half-destroyed residential blocks at gunpoint. Israeli drone footage published by Israel’s public broadcaster Kan captured images of Palestinians rounded up and forced to walk south through Gaza’s post-apocalyptic landscape without any possessions. Many Palestinians who refused to obey evacuation orders, often delivered by announcements made by hovering quadcopter drones, were massacred by Israeli artillery and airstrikes. Rescue workers and civilians attempting to save others have been shot at by Israeli forces or simply rounded up and ‘disappeared.’ There have been reports describing numerous instances where Palestinians were targeted while trying to help injured individuals. This has left the people of Gaza without any medical or emergency services, forcing a complete halt on health and civil defense services.

Even hospitals were not spared. Critically injured patients and the doctors treating them faced the same impossible ultimatum – evacuate or die. After returning home, western doctors who had volunteered in Gaza expressed their shock at how many children arrived at the hospitals, shot not only once but twice, directly in the heart and head. “No toddler gets shot twice by mistake by ‘the world’s best snipers.’ And they’re dead-center shots,” surgeon Mark Perlmutter told CBS News.

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    Joseph Mallord William Turner The Sun Rising over Water 1825-30   • WaPo Bails On Kamala – Won’t Make Presidential Endorsement (ZH) • Preparing f
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle October 26 2024]

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    “WaPo Editor Quits, Staff Has Total Meltdown After Non-Endorsement Of Kamala Harris

    Yay! Bye bye. I believe the LATimes editor did too. Well good, as if we indicate from the owners that we want “Objective” and are leaving “Activist” journalism, then yes, you’re probably no longer a good fit.

    Also, everyone is being turned back on, yesterday, Benjamin, known as “Sargon”. No reason, just the button exists again after 5 years. What happened in the meantime? Thanks to YouTube canceling, he built an entire UK media company. Should have left the Autists alone. Now is that because 1) The White Hats know we’ve won, and are stopping all this badgering that alarmed, alerted, and mobilized everyone 2) YouTube thinks Trump is in and will arrest them all for civil rights abuse in government.

    Either way, we’ve won. We’re just playing it out now. This is like the Black Forest, sure it was terrible, and more people die per day after than before, but at that point everyone knew they won. Germany was impossible to win. That’s it, it’s over.

    Chyron: “Decision2024: The Devastating Impact of Trump’s Abortion Bans.”

    The party of raving lies. Wow, I didn’t know Trump was a Federal Judge now. Who knew? I thought Congress did laws and bans, and not the courts? Didn’t they refuse to pass anything for 50 years including the last four? And it happened when he wasn’t President. And it wasn’t banned. At all. If anything, it was set free to PROMOTE after-birth abortions in several states. And where is the impact? On who? The level is breathtaking.

    “Hillary screams into the mic, “DEPORT THEM!!! THEY’RE GONE!!!” Democrats cheer, media praises”

    Same thing: the level is breathtaking.

    Yesterday: “Are crazy women DESTROYING the west?! | Amy Gallagher VoxPopuli•85K views

    When you have people able to say the thing, and it’s opposite, now not in their career, in a year, in a month, in a day, in the same paper, in the same paragraph, in back to back sentences, and now IN THE SAME SENTENCE, as Kamala did yesterday. For the border, but also against it, Trump’s plan is stupid, and that’s my plan. Don’t know what you’re all mad about, I was perfectly clear, I don’t see any contradictions. What? What are you all looking at?

    So again, “Are crazy women DESTROYING the west?!” –VoxPopuli Well, they’re literally the only voting bloc in favor of it, supporting it, so what can I say? As of this month, they lost black women – maybe not a majority, but the bloc has turned, leaving who? AWFLs: White Liberal Women. That’s it, that the only sub-group left still for murder, war, abuse, child amputation, prison rape, Olympic Woman Beating, and WWIII nuclear exchange. So proud.

    This is not what I was looking for when I started charming girls in high school. This is not where I thought they’d be. I would even think, heck, look at their mothers, women age, gain weight, what will she look like at 50, all that is fine, but not this. She’ll be an unhinged church lady, marching in the streets foaming to send our children to war? What the literal? Did not see that coming. Not a good look. Not a “Honey I’m so Glad You’re Mine”

    ““..a hand count of all ballots [..] could create chaos and confusion on Election Day..”
    • Preparing for the Steal (TON)

    The DoD is running a “Event201” cybersecurity attack scenario there. ON ELECTION NIGHT. Gee, could you pick a different date? Georgia Secretary already said he’s taking out all local election officials. Huh. For what, good sir? So: It’s On.

    “• Hillary Clinton: Trump Is Reenacting 1939 Madison Square Garden Nazi Rally (MN)
    This stuff doesn’t work on anyone anymore.”

    We had to get to this point. I’m deeply resentful it took this long, like 911, as it was obvious in like 10 days. But if this is what it takes for people to be jacketed and inured to this stuff, then it does. Doesn’t seem to be any alternative or helping for it. We tried every other way for years, decades even. Look at Trump saying these same things years ago. He hasn’t changed: the tone of their accusations sound different because WE changed.

    So IF I had Epstein on Hillary, Kamala, etc, THEN I would trot them out to say exactly this. …With the 50-year-old Hillary. And the 5 foot Biden.

    “At Polymarket, the Senate looks in the bag. The House, not so much.”

    I think this is correct. Although I picked 2/3rds Trump, I am seeing a late run of far more Harris yard signs. So good on them, they’re doing work, but I still think they’ll lose. And now we know where they live.

    “Secret Putin-Musk Calls” Claim By WSJ Dismissed By Kremlin (RT)

    How dare you talk to people. We only bomb them. Bombing is peace.

    “Hunter must hope Trump wins: “[Joe Biden] is “not going to do anything” to help his son and has ruled out exonerating him”.

    Huh. And if I was running Hillary, Kamala, Joe, then also this would probably be what happens. He isn’t serving anywhere near hard time for the level of crimes, but does serve some for real. Aaaaaand you think Joe is anything real at all, or Jill, and they neither pardoned him or anything? Really?

    “He said more than 2.1 million Maricopa voters are expected to cast their ballot for the Nov. 5 contest, noting that 400,000 people so far have voted.”

    Maybe I don’t understand something but is he bad at the maths? Runs screaming from the room like holy water? Hits it with a rock like the monkeys in “2001”? Okay, they always could count before, in person, all 2 million, on election night. Every year 1912 until 2020. They now have early voting and nearly one-quarter have already voted, giving them weeks more hours to count in. …Nevertheless, it will take them 8 TIMES more to count the same number of people than it took in 2016? Again, square any of that math.

    Compare to Colorado: They caught a handful of stolen, illegally filled ballots already. The judge looked at them, SAID they were stolen, the signatures didn’t match…then let them through. They then RE-sent ballots to the people involved so the could vote AGAIN. Not only is it a fake vote fake, but prevents the real voter from acting.

    Why do I add this? Colorado then said, “We have the safest and most secure voting…” AFTER this, in RESPONSE to this story. That’s literally the opposite of what happened. For the very reasons everyone is against mail-in drop boxes, etc, even Jimmy Carter. Elsewhere, someone took a neighborhood they didn’t like, and lit the drop box on fire. No more votes.

    “Are crazy women DESTROYING the west?!” –VoxPopuli Well, let’s see, we have the safest, most trusted voting, but ALSO find bad votes, and that can’t be because the election is perfect and we’ll jail you if you say otherwise, but ALSO Russia interfernce and he’s not my President. If Only this were the level of the crazy. This is like a single grain of sand on the pile of crazy.

    “The case includes Bourla, but not Von der Leyen?!”

    Same thing. Epstein provided children, but there were no Johns, and no clients BOUGHT the children. We have a crime, but no victims! Like Trump in NY. What? We make one-sided coins all the time! Who you gonna believe, me or your lying eyes?

    “The British army, navy and air force have been “hollowed out” and “underfunded” during the 14 years of the Conservative Party’s rule, Healey said”

    Uhhhhhhh. I don’t think so. What’s that Bird and Fortune skit FIFTEEN YEARS AGO, where ALREADY they didn’t have carrier, or jets, for FIFTEEN YEARS already that it became a scandal, are we ever going to have a British Navy again. That’s THIRTY years. For starts. Methinks it wasn’t only the “Conservatives” ruling during that time, much though they destroyed Britain, with Johnson being at the forefront.

    “• British Government’s Investigation Of Novichok Is Poisoning Itself (Helmer)

    I don’t know how, but the case is embarrassing itself. Wouldn’t you just shut up, like Kamala Harris? Having no case, no proceedings, no explanations, is far better than this. This is as if it was invented and scripted by the opposition to reveal how exceptionally non-judicial this, and all of Britain worldwide, is. So good: keep talking. Never let this case die.

    “• This Is an Extermination’ (Muaddi)

    As if we didn’t know. In 1990, Or 1940.

    “BART to pay millions for firing employees who refused COVID vaccine”

    You’re kidding, right? Like the doctor yesterday, it doesn’t end until they get millions APIECE for Civil Rights, War Experimentation abuse, AND the people involved go to ail for it. Now they’re like, “Oh. No. Stop. You got us. We’ll give you all $700 apiece and keep our jobs and pensions. Darn it.” No, I’ll convict you to hang by a rope and if you sweat enough have the Governor commute your sentence on execution day. THAT, is more my speed. To me they’re reporting their failure. As judges and Republicans.

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    you are a useless eater and there are only three words you need to understand

    Total Spectrum Dominance

    for a start in that direction –
    Avarice has no logic. There is no reason or rationale underpinning that which is described above. This IS an extermination.
    This Is business as usual, it is The Status Quo.

    Total Spectrum Dominance

    coming to a street in your town. Carried on fiber optic cable.

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    Dr. D
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    https://barsoom.substack.com/p/crumbling-dievory-towers

    “Doin’ a Racism.” Don’t you do one too by reading this!

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    Oroboros
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    #KamalaGropedMe

    Trending at the top of X

    Spectacular backfire on Kamala-la campaign

    “I’m rubber, you’re glue, everything bounces off me and sticks to you”, Donald Trump…

    Hahahahahaha

    What a bunch of Maroons!

    From the Man himself, Lord & Master of San Franshithole Slick Willie Brown

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    Even funnier if that’s possible…..

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    The Golden Age of Wireless-
    She Blinded Me With Science, Thomas Dolby

    Solopsism – it’s contagious! Racism is passe. Check your phone for no details.

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    “The dollar has strengthened along with the rising probability of a Trump win in betting markets..”

    Strengthened? Really? Gold has been rising steadily since August and is now sitting above 2700 USD. Hmm.

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    From his mouth to God’s will…..

    The Vatican: “It takes one to know one…”

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    Not Bad, $1.3 Million each

    At least they won’t have to spend it on medical bills they the Transit workers who got the Clotshot

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    I’m PINK, deal with it!

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    How hard is it to understand that you are just swaying to the beat? c’mon man!!
    Go full Matrix Zion!!!

    He’s The One!!!
    lose yourself in the moment. Not figuratively, literally. You know you want to. Give up even an aerial fornication, go primal. Kevin O’Leary just added an O. he is pushing endorphins as the hallucinogen of the hour. Turn on, Tune in and Drop out.

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    @ John Day

    Any chance you getting fired illegally in Texas results in a $1.3 million dollar payday like the CA transit workers?

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    Oroboros
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    Kamala-lala Pullin a train….

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    Oroboros
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    Destroy a nation by waging war on common sense

    Make Duh’merica Healthy Again

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    The CITIZENS murdered by illegal migrants

    Big crocodile tears for George the Phucking Crackhead Manwhore

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    Unburdened by what has been….

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    Atheists still have no religious freedoms – nor freedom from religion – under Democrat rule.

    My former employer made it clear the reason I couldn’t get a notavax exemption was that I was not submitting documentation of who was giving me orders and what specific orders I was following, signed by the order giver

    I explained that my whole belief system was based on refusing authority and figuring things out for myself – otherwise I would still be going to church – thus, citing an authority figure or order-following would be antithetical to my belief system.

    Fired anyway. “You have not submitted the appropriate documentation” Were the 15 pages of explanation not enough? What specifically do you want me to say to you? Oh, that I am a robot. Gotcha.

    Couldn’t find any atheist societies fighting for my freedoms back then, but then christian ones were pretty thin on the ground too.

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    Michael Reid
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    Larry C. Johnson & Andrei Martyanov:
    Israel Attacks Iran!

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    zerosum
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    the “Generals’ plan,”
    https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/10/16/the-israeli-generals-plan-for-northern-gaza-is-unlikely-to-succeed
    Samer Jaber is a political activist and researcher.
    Published On 16 Oct 2024

    The Israeli ‘General’s Plan’ for northern Gaza is unlikely to succeed
    The Israeli army will find it hard to maintain control over the north due to military, political and logistical challenges.
    The plan was put forward by retired General Giora Eiland and calls for the expulsion of Palestinians from the area and the forced starvation and targeting of whoever stays behind – to be deemed “legitimate military targets”.
    https://www.middleeasteye.net/explainers/israel-gaza-palestine-what-generals-plan
    What is Israel’s ‘Generals’ Plan’ and what does it mean for the war on Gaza?
    Many in the Israeli military and elsewhere are now looking to the “Generals’ Plan”, also known as the Eiland Plan, to secure the defeat of Hamas. At its simplest, this suggestion by a group of senior reservists, involves ethnically cleansing the northern Gaza Strip of people; and then besieging the region, including stopping the entry of humanitarian supplies, to starve out anyone left, including Palestinian fighters.

    Who wrote the Generals’ Plan?
    The plan was published in late September 2024 by the Forum of Commanders and Soldiers in the Reserves, an Israeli NGO which defines itself as a professional body with more than 1,500 army officers.

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    The Forum of Reserve Commanders and Combatants is a professional body with more than 1,500 IDF officers.

    The Forum has three main goals:
    1. Changing the doctrine of war – moving from the concept of deterrence to the concept of decisiveness.

    2. Introduction of more offensive officers to the General Staff.

    3. A clear defeat by the enemy on all fronts in order to remove the threat.
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    It is critical to learn the globalist patois (vernacular) if you want to grasp what they are actually saying.

    Multilateralism means global governance.

    Global governance means global government. (The State Department disagrees, but they are the controllers of the deep state, so who cares what they say?)

    Just (as in justice) means “just for us globalists.”

    Sustainable development means we give you just enough to sustain you while you work for us.

    Agile means we are ditching all the old rules.

    Public-private partnership means most of the costs are borne by the taxpayer and most of the profits are skimmed by private interests.

    Carbon markets means “money for nothing and chicks for free.”

    It seems the BRICS copied the UN’s Pact for the Future and the UN Charter to give obeisance to all the current globalist narratives. (However, one may be changing, as James Corbett has identified a bunch of new nuclear energy efforts as the latest green initiatives besides solar and wind.). Edward Slavsquat gives us the usual sharply sarcastic take on why we can’t expect the BRICS to save us

    https://merylnass.substack.com/p/brics-proclaim-loyalty-to-globalism

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    10 and 13 days to tabulate the results of the Nov. 5 election.

    It’s an odd combination of lie/not lie. It has always taken many days to tabulate final results — because of ballots taking a while to come in from overseas, etc. However, usually we have results that delineate a clear winner that cannot be dislodged by outstanding ballots before the nation turns in for the night.

    When races are tighter, are closer, and being decided by a few thousand ballots, it may be necessary to wait for all of the votes to be counted before declaring a winner. This much is fact.

    However, nefarious actors have figured out that if we jury-rig public perception so that public belief is that candidates are neck-to-neck, then we can halt counting, assess where the establishment candidate is at, and shower in a cascade of ballots that are for the establishment-preferred candidate. That is where we are now, with those in charge of ballot-counting in swing states speaking at length and disingenuously about how long the vote count process may take….

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    jb-hb
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    last week, I accidentally tuned in to Democrat talk radio – accidentally hit the AM/FM button.

    “and wow, hard to imagine, just to think, in a couple weeks, we’re going to have gone through an election and have a new Presi— uh, uh, uh, I mean, we could still be counting. Uh, we could be counting for awhile, uh quite awhile…”

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    John Day
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    @Oroboros: I WAS actually fired illegally in Texas, a week AFTER the Governor said you can’t fire for COVID-vaccine refusal. The agreement with the public health clinic had been to fire me November 1, 2021, but they got worried that it had become illegal, so they fired me 2 weeks early and changed the reason at the last minute to “Fired For Cause”, because I had become very bad suddenly in the 2 months since they gave me the maximum merit raise in August, after 18 years of working there, spearheading the COVID-testing, being the only (embarrassing) COVID-treating MD, and so on.
    I took it. I would never sue the public health clinic.
    “‘Vengeance is mine’, sayeth the Lord.”

    And Also: Archbishop Vigano is legit. The “Pope” is not legit. Archbishop Vigano said so. Archbishop Vigano is openly opposed to globalist-Satanists.
    The “Pope” said Archbishop Vigano is no longer a member of the Catholic Church this year, but most Catholics think he is…

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    @John Day

    Good on you

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    @Ilargi:
    I don’t go to Air B&Bs much these days. I am glad to know how to look for spy cameras, though.

    What about the Ekathimerini Soup Kitchen being charged with 600,000 Euros “embezzlement” in 3 years? It seems like they didn’t keep records of cash food purchases or something and are being made an example of. What say You? https://www.ekathimerini.com/news/1245060/soup-kitchen-founder-and-relatives-charged-with-embezzling-donations/

    Lookee at the night sky above Tehran! Remember the night sky over Israel early this month?
    The difference is that all of the explosions are in the air over Tehran, none on the ground.
    Very impressive little missile-tails shoot up from the ground and take out the big horizontal missile tails in the sky. https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/iranian-media-pundits-mock-nothingburger-israeli-attack-involving-100-warplanes

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