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Jules Adler Panorama de Paris vu du Sacré Coeur 1935

 

Will Donald Trump Get His Revenge? (Susan Quinn)
Leftists Are Terrified About What Will Happen To Them If Trump Wins (ZH)
Worst. Nazi. Rally. Ever. (Margolis)
Kamala Is Just A Vessel; We Are Running Against Something Far Bigger (MN)
Speaking of Abortion (James Howard Kunstler)
Trump’s 19th-Century Solution to Fiscal Disaster (David Stockman)
Trump Campaign Slams Harris Over Beyonce ‘Lies’ (RT)
Trump To Make Ukraine The EU’s Problem – FT (RT)
I Don’t Want War With Russia – Vance (RT)
University Professors Approaching Near Unanimity as a Democratic Lock (Turley)
Bezos Explains Why WaPo Dropped Presidential Endorsements (RT)
Steve Bannon To Be Released From Prison One Week Ahead Of Election (JTN)
How America Was Destroyed (Paul Craig Roberts)
The Enormous Constraints Faced By Netanyahu (Juan Cole)
BRICS Make History – Can They Keep the Momentum? (Pepe Escobar)
Slovak PM Fico Warns Of Continued Attempts On His Life (RT)
Volkswagen Planning Mass Layoffs – Workers’ Council Chief (RT)

 

 

 

 

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Trump is not looking for revenge. He and his X-men team have bigger fish to fry. Trump’s “revenge” will be that what happened to him since 2015 -lawfare- can never happen again.

“…the changes he will make will be in the way government operates, not mere petty payback to individual miscreants…”

Will Donald Trump Get His Revenge? (Susan Quinn)

There’s almost nothing that Donald Trump likes better than throwing his adversaries off their game; he likes to be unpredictable, confusing and in charge. It gives him an edge in achieving his goals. He’s kept his adversaries guessing to the extent that he will pay them back for their lawfare and deep-state machinations, and not surprisingly, they expect the worst. Yet he has said repeatedly that victory in the election will be his revenge. They don’t know what to make of it. A Trump senior advisor made the following observation: “President Trump has made clear that success will be the best revenge,’ Trump senior adviser Brian Hughes said. ‘When others have weaponized government and legal institutions against him for political interference, he will return these institutions to their constitutional purpose of protecting Americans’ liberty and creating a safe and prosperous nation again.

But since the political Left almost always chooses to see deceit in Trump’s comments, they don’t believe he is sincere. He made it even more unpredictable for them with this: “Look when this election is over, based on what they’ve done, I would have every right to go after them,” Trump said. “And it’s easy because it’s Joe Biden, and you see all the criminality, all of the money that’s going into the family and him, all of this money from China, from Russia, from Ukraine.” And then Trump underscored it again, wanting to be sure there was no doubt in the minds of the Left that he could act against them: When asked during a Fox News interview on Wednesday if he plans to use the justice system to punish his political opponents, Trump said: “When this election is over, based on what they’ve done, I would have every right to go after them.” Note that in both of the previous quotations, Trump commented on what he could do, not on what he would do.

Given the incidents of lawfare that Trump has had to endure, the hyperbole spouted by the mainstream media and the political Left, it’s no wonder that Trump would want to take revenge against those who have relentlessly criticized and attacked him. Jonathan Turley, law professor at Georgetown University, has commented several times on the pathetic and weak lawfare attacks that have been launched against Trump from various attorneys and district attorneys. He made this comment a few months ago about Alvin Bragg, Manhattan District Attorney, who twisted the facts of a Trump misdemeanor to transform them into a felony: Like his predecessor, Bragg previously scoffed at the case. However, two prosecutors, Carey R. Dunne and Mark F. Pomerantz, then resigned and started a public pressure campaign to get New Yorkers to demand prosecution.

Pomerantz shocked many of us by publishing a book on the case against Trump — who was still under investigation and not charged, let alone convicted, of any crime. He did so despite objections from his former colleague that such a book was grossly improper. Nevertheless, it worked. Bragg brought a Rube Goldberg case that is so convoluted and counterintuitive that even liberal legal analysts criticized it. It’s no wonder that Trump is relishing the discomfort and fear that he is eliciting in his opponents. They have spent years trying to ruin his reputation, insulting him, discrediting him and trying to humiliate him. Meanwhile, in reflecting on the 2016 election, Trump said the following about Hillary Clinton:

“I could have gone after Hillary. I could have gotten Hillary Clinton very easily. And when they say lock her up, whenever they said ‘lock her,’ you know, they’d start, 30,000 people, ‘lock her up, lock her up.’ What did I do? I always say take it easy, just relax. We’re winning. Take it easy. Take it easy.” He added: “I could have had her put in jail. And I decided I didn’t want to do that. I thought it would look terrible. You had the wife of the president of the United States going to jail. I thought it would be very bad if we did that. And I made sure that didn’t happen, OK? I thought it would be bad.” But now he has reached the point where striking fear in the hearts of his enemies seems righteous. Yet the changes he will make will be in the way government operates, not mere petty payback to individual miscreants. That will be devastating to the Leftist cause. It will also serve as his retribution.

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“They lament the undeniable shift of global politics to the conservative right while refusing to ask why it’s happening?”

Leftists Are Terrified About What Will Happen To Them If Trump Wins (ZH)

After being indoctrinated for almost a decade to believe that their political opponents are secret Nazis ready to install a fascist regime, it’s not surprising that Democrats are freaking out over recent polls indicating a potential Trump win in the November elections. Convinced that America 2024 is going to be a repeat of Germany 1933, ignorant leftists are scrambling to determine whether or not to leave the US or “start a revolution.” The anxiety is palpable. The New Yorker recently asserted in an arduous and rambling article spanning centuries of political history and every rhetorical cliche imaginable that, essentially, Trump is likely to win. The outlet describes Kamala Harris as “virtuous” (which is laughable), but they suggest this trait is not respected enough within the American political sphere. They lament the undeniable shift of global politics to the conservative right while refusing to ask why it’s happening?

They simply default to the old low-IQ and low effort accusations of “racism” and “xenophobia”. The New Yorker argues: “Even when it is utterly self-destructive – as in Britain, where the xenophobia of Brexit cut the U.K. off from traditional allies while increasing immigration from the Global South—the apprehension that “we” are being flooded by frightening foreigners works its malign magic. It’s an old but persistent delusion that far-right nationalism is not rooted in the emotional needs of far-right nationalists but arises, instead, from the injustices of neoliberalism…” The mass immigration from the third world continues in Britain because the same progressive elitists are still in charge despite the Brexit vote. That’s why the country is spiraling into a pit of criminality, mass stabbings and a rape epidemic. It’s the reason why the British voted for Brexit in the first place.

Brexit and the end of mass immigration is the will of the majority of the people, just as it’s the will of the majority of people in many parts if Europe and the US. Yet, leftists who pontificate endlessly about the virtues of democracy dismiss the majority when it suits them. It is this arrogance of the political left that has led directly to the rise of the right wing movement that so utterly terrifies them. The problem is, leftists never take responsibility because they see this as an expression of weakness, and also because their moral relativism allows them to rationalize any behavior as necessary “for the greater good.” Their main character syndrome spurs them to believe they are the ultimate good in the world, and if they are the ultimate good then anyone who dares oppose them must be the ultimate evil. This is why they have a tendency to demonize their political opposition in extreme ways. The New Yorker describes Trump as singularly dangerous, comparing him to mobsters, tyrants and even cancer:

“Trumpism is a cancerous phenomenon. Treated with surgery once, it now threatens to come back in a more aggressive form, subject neither to the radiation of “guardrails” nor to the chemo of “constraints.” It may well rage out of control and kill its host…” And this kind of rhetoric is exactly why there have been at least two assassination attempts on Trump’s life; attempts which the leftist media then shamelessly blamed on Trump. It’s also gaslighting, considering the level of tyranny Democrats have engaged in under Biden and the contempt they have displayed for American ideals over the past decade. The fantasy world of the left is rife with paranoia built on a foundation of emotional sand rather than evidence. They see a new Trump term as the end of everything:

“Having lost the popular vote, as he surely will, he will not speak up to reconcile “all Americans.” He will insist that he won the popular vote, and by a landslide. He will pardon and then celebrate the January 6th insurrectionists, and thereby guarantee the existence of a paramilitary organization that’s capable of committing violence on his behalf without fear of consequences. He will, with an obedient Attorney General, begin prosecuting his political opponents…” “When he begins to pressure CNN and ABC, and they, with all the vulnerabilities of large corporations, bend to his will, telling themselves that his is now the will of the people, what will we do to fend off the slow degradation of open debate? Trump will certainly abandon Ukraine to Vladimir Putin and realign this country with dictatorships and against NATO and the democratic alliance of Europe. Above all, the spirit of vengeful reprisal is the totality of his beliefs—very much like the fascists of the twentieth century in being a man and a movement without any positive doctrine except revenge against his imagined enemies…”

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Which was worse? 1939 or 2024?

Worst. Nazi. Rally. Ever. (Margolis)

When Donald Trump’s campaign announced plans for a rally at Madison Square Garden, Democrats and their media allies knew they had a problem. Trump was going to pack the house on their turf. So they wasted no time pushing the tired Hitler narrative and claimed that the choice of venue was an homage to a pro-Nazi rally held there in 1939. It wasn’t just liberals in the media pushing this narrative, either. Hillary Clinton accused Trump of “actually re-enacting the Madison Square Garden rally in 1939.” “President Franklin Roosevelt was appalled that neo-Nazis, fascists in America were lining up to essentially pledge their support for the kind of government that they were seeing in Germany. So I don’t think we can ignore it,” Hillary added. Then she doubled down.

“Now, it may be a leap for some people and a lot of others may think, ‘I don’t want to go there. I don’t want to say that.’ “But please open your eyes to the danger that this man poses to our country, because I think it is clear and present for anybody paying attention.” Even the Harris-Walz campaign joined in on the rhetoric. “Donald Trump’s got this big rally going at Madison Square Garden,” Kamala’s running mate Tim Walz said at a campaign event in Henderson, Nevada. “There’s a direct parallel to a big rally that happened in the mid-1930s at Madison Square Garden.” Walz added, “And don’t think that he doesn’t know for one second exactly what they’re doing there.”

Well, the rally took place Sunday night, and boy, talk about the worst Nazi rally ever! In addition to the diverse speakers at the event, a black woman sang the national anthem.

And clearly, Jews didn’t get the memo that this was a “Nazi rally.”

The only Nazi symbols you saw at all came courtesy of the Democrats.

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“I’m asking you to be excited about the future..”

Kamala Is Just A Vessel; We Are Running Against Something Far Bigger (MN)

During a historic rally Sunday at Madison Square Garden, president Trump urged that Kamala Harris is purely “a vessel” and in reality the MAGA movement is fighting against “something far more powerful.” Trump told the crowd, “We are not just running against Kamala — She means nothing. She is purely a vessel — We are running against something far bigger than Joe or Kamala and more powerful than them, which is a massive, vicious, crooked, radical left machine that runs today’s Democrat Party.” Trump further asserted that Biden and Harris are “perfect vessels because they’ll never give them a hard time. They’ll do whatever they want.” He continued, “I know many of them. It’s just an amorphous group of people. But they’re smart and they’re vicious, and we have to defeat them. And when I say the ‘enemy from within,’ the other side go crazy.”

Trump added that these people “are doing such harm to our country with their open border policies, record-setting inflation, ‘Green New Scam,’ and everything else they are doing. But we’re not going to let it happen any longer. We’re going to have the biggest victory in the history of our country on November 5 … We’re going to make America great again.” Elsewhere during his speech, Trump urged that his party is one of real unity and inclusion, while the other side is intent on fomenting hatred and division. “We bleed the same blood. We share the same home and we salute the same great American Flag. We are one people, one family, and one glorious nation under God,” Trump declared.

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Trump vowed to make America stronger than ever before and to bring back the American Dream. Trump told the crowd “I’m asking you to be excited about the future,” further urging “this will be America’s new golden age.” The MSG event was a roaring success, despite deranged leftists demanding it be shut down claiming it was a literal ‘Nazi rally’.

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“You have not seen such a vivid demonstration of slowly-and-then-all-at-once since the implosion of Lehman Brothers as the collapse of the Democratic Party this fateful October..”

Speaking of Abortion (James Howard Kunstler)

What were they thinking after they shoved “Joe Biden” into the abyss, like an old refrigerator over the edge of the landfill, and afterward settled — instantly it appears, with no process at all — on Kamala Harris to lead the party to victory in the fall election? I will tell you: they were not thinking at all. The collective mind of the Democrat elite was a vast vacuum devoid of thought, mass, or light, like a corner of deepest space, lacking even a particle of cosmic debris to evoke the existence of existence. Such mindlessness was the consummate expression of a party that for eight years worked every angle of political mental illness toward the loss of its mind, driven by whatever dark energy seeks escape from truth, life, and God — whatever is opposite of creation and being. What you are witnessing is a colossal act of being un-born. The party put out a call to the universe and the universe ordered. . . an abortion of the Democratic Party! You are reminded again: be careful of what you wish for.

And so do things stand one week before the election. You have not seen such a vivid demonstration of slowly-and-then-all-at-once since the implosion of Lehman Brothers as the collapse of the Democratic Party this fateful October. Poor Kamala is just collateral damage at this point. She goes out before some manufactured audience and seven-minutes onstage delivering a door-dash order of precooked blather is all she can stand before being overwhelmed by the emptiness and futility of her task. . . and then she flees back to the waiting limousine (and the chardonnay bottle). Meanwhile, her allies — that is, the Democratic Party’s allies — play their own roles in this political abortion. The LA Times and the WashPo declined their usual proforma endorsements, two kisses of death. Those actions last week provoked nervous breakdowns in both newsrooms, cries of anguish, resignations, professional suicides.

The news media find themselves in a peculiar position, having gone along for years with the gathering mental illness of the Democratic Party, like incompetent parents in a large dysfunctional family, offering unconditional support for their kids’ intolerable and unacceptable behavior. They are flying to pieces now on the CNN chat panels. James Carville, the party’s shriveled Gollum, has gone to IV infusions of Jim Beam, seems like. Jake Tapper gets Sunday schooled by JD Vance and turns into a mewling cat-lady right before your eyes. Anderson Cooper goes all waxy and mute. Joy Reid surrenders to echolalia as her MSNBC fans are subjected to the guest list of P. Diddy’s “freak-offs,” ranting about Hitler. Lawrence O’Donnell is looking more and more like Vincent Price in Return of the Fly. Reality-optional hardly suffices to describe cable news these days.

You’ve got to ask: can they just let it be? Can they just let go of their insane Jacobin rebellion now and let it fade into history? Then, kick back, recuperate, get their minds right, put their house and family in order, and move on as a legit political faction in a functioning republic? Or, do they burn the asylum down? The signals are troubling. They are chattering about Mr. Trump “using the military” against them in the months to come — as if the Abrams tanks were going to roll up to DNC headquarters and blast away. By now, you know that such thoughts expressed by Democratic pols and news pals are always projections of their own wishes. The New York Times published just such a classic paranoid projection exercise last week “. . . telling Americans that if he [Trump] wins, he plans to bend, if not break, our democracy.”

Surely it is too late, with early voting well underway, to stop any ballot harvesting and other election shenanigans as engineered by master fraudster Marc Elias. In fact, frauds are already being discovered (e.g., Lancaster County, PA.) Not a good look. It is exactly what a conspiracy (to commit election fraud) means in law, and the actual people who cooked the ballots and transported them are going to rat-out those who instructed them to do it. Wait for that, and wait for it to pop up elsewhere around the country. This time, watchers are watching, much more carefully.

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Stockman knows his numbers. Take the following, and then remember (you too, David) that Elon Musk says he can save $2 trillion on spending.

“Trumpian revenue tariffs would generate about $9 trillion over the next decade, or nearly 80% of the $11.5 trillion revenue loss from drastically shrinking the income tax coverage..”

Trump’s 19th-Century Solution to Fiscal Disaster (David Stockman)

In the last weeks of the campaign, Donald Trump is slicing and dicing the Federal income tax nearly as fast as he served up fries at the McDonald’s drive-thru window last weekend. So far, he has proposed to extend the lower rates, family tax credits, and investment incentives of the 2017 Tax Act after they expire in 2025 and to also exempt tips, Social Security benefits, and overtime wages from the Federal income tax. Those items alone would generate a revenue loss of $9 trillion over the next decade, but he has recently proposed to also exempt firefighters, police officers, military personnel, and veterans from the Federal income tax as well. We estimate the latter would cost another $2.5 trillion in revenue loss over 10 years. As it happens, there are 370,000 firemen, 708,000 policemen, 2.86 million uniformed military personnel, and 18.0 million veterans in the US.

These 22 million citizens have an estimated average income of $82,000 per year, which translates to about $60,000 each of AGI (adjusted gross income). At an average income tax rate of 14.7% these exclusions would generate $250 billion per year of reduced income tax payments. In all, Trump has thus tossed out promises to cut income taxes by $11.5 trillion over the next 10-year budget window. In turn, these sweeping reductions would amount to upwards of 34% of CBO’s estimated baseline income tax revenue of $33.7 trillion over the period. Alas, even in the halcyon days of Reagan supply-side tax cutting no one really dreamed of eliminating fully one-third of the so-called crime of 1913 (the 16th Amendment which enabled the income tax).

10-Year Revenue Loss:
Extend the 2017 Trump tax cuts: $5.350 trillion.
Exempt overtime income: $2.000 trillion.
End Taxation of Social Security benefits: $1.300 trillion.
Exempt Tip income: $300 billion.
Exempt Income of Firemen, Policemen, Military and Veterans: $2.500 trillion.
Trump Total Revenue Loss: $11.500 trillion.
CBO Income Tax Baseline Revenue: $33.700 trillion.
Trump Revenue Loss As % of Baseline: 34%.

Then again, Trump may have something virtually epic in mind. To wit, scrapping the income tax entirely in favor of taxing consumption via levies on imported goods and merchandise. “In the old days when we were smart, when we were a smart country, in the 1890s and all, this is when the country was relatively the richest it ever was. It had all tariffs. It didn’t have an income tax,” Trump said at a sit-down with voters in New York on Friday for Fox & Friends. “Now we have income taxes, and we have people that are dying.” The New York Times is deeply alarmed: “The former president has repeatedly praised a period in American history when there was no income tax, and the country relied on tariffs to fund the government.” Actually, however, 19th-century America was even smarter than Trump realizes.

In 1900 total Federal spending amounted to just 3.5% of GDP because back then America was still a peaceful republic and had no Warfare State or even significant standing army at all. And save for the most advanced precincts of Europe, the Welfare State hadn’t yet been invented, either. So, yes, the so-called “revenue tariffs” of the 19th century did meet the income needs of the Federal government to the point of actually balancing the budget year after year between 1870 and 1900. Indeed, the actual annual surpluses were large enough to pay down most of the Civil War debt, to boot. Today, of course, the Warfare State, Welfare State, and the Washington pork barrels account for 25% of GDP. So Trump may be directionally correct in wanting to tax consumption rather than income, but, as usual, he’s off by about seven orders of magnitude when it comes to the size of the Federal budget that needs to be financed.

Still, Trump has stepped up to the plate when it comes to a 21st-century version of the revenue tariff. He has pledged to impose a 20% universal tariff on all imports from all countries with a specific 60% rate for Chinese imports. Based on current US import levels of $3.5 trillion per year from worldwide sources and $450 billion from China, Trump’s tariffs would generate about $900 billion of receipts per annum. To be sure, Trump’s claim that these giant tariffs would be paid for by Chinamen, Mexicans, and European socialists is just more of his standard baloney. Tariffs are paid for by consumers, but that’s actually the hidden virtue of the Tariff Man’s favorite word. The truth is, government should be paid for via taxation on current citizens, not fobbed off in the form of giant debts on future citizens, born and unborn.

So if we are going to have Big Government at 25% of GDP rather than a 19th-century government at 3.5% of GDP, and Trump is a Big Government Man if there ever was one, better that the burden be placed on consumption, not production, income, and investment. After all, today the “makers” get hit good and hard by the current exceedingly lopsided income tax system. Thus, the top 1% pays 46% of income taxes, while the top 5% pays 66% and the top 10% pays 76% of all income taxes. On the other end, by contrast, the bottom 50% pays just 2.3% of individual income taxes, while 40% of all families pay no income tax at all. In any event, the math works out such that the proposed Trumpian revenue tariffs would generate about $9 trillion over the next decade, or nearly 80% of the $11.5 trillion revenue loss from drastically shrinking the income tax coverage and collection rate. So that’s a big step in the direction of fiscal solvency rather than more UniParty free lunches.

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“They have to use people to get people to come, and then they send buses..”

Trump Campaign Slams Harris Over Beyonce ‘Lies’ (RT)

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has accused Democratic rival Kamala Harris of misleading voters by attracting them to a rally in the belief that they would see a performance by pop superstar Beyonce. Over 30,000 people turned up at the Democratic event on Friday in Houston, Texas, with some expecting a free concert after it was announced that Beyonce would be present. MSNBC and the Washington Post reported ahead of the rally that the superstar singer would appear with Harris during the event, while NBC cited a source as saying that Beyonce was “also expected to perform.” Beyonce earlier approved the use of her song ‘Freedom’ as a soundtrack for the Harris campaign. The 43-year-old Houston native did take to the stage at the event with her former Destiny’s Child bandmate Kelly Rowland, before announcing that she was there as a mother and not as an entertainer.

In a speech that lasted less than five minutes, Beyonce urged rallygoers to support abortion rights, after Harris called on voters to “mobilize” on November 5 in support of reproductive freedom. “It’s time for America to sing a new song,” Beyonce added. “Our voices sing a chorus of unity. They sing a song of dignity and opportunity. Are y’all ready to add your voice to the new American song,” the singer said, welcoming Harris onto the stage. Speaking at a Michigan rally on Saturday, Trump hit out at the apparent failure of the Harris campaign to meet supporters’ expectations. “Beyonce went up and spoke for a couple of minutes and then left, and the place went crazy,” Trump stated, adding that “they booed the hell out of everybody.”

“They thought she was going to perform… it’s crazy. They have to use people to get people to come, and then they send buses. We don’t send buses. Everybody comes. We’re just going to make America great again. It’s very simple,” the former president added. Tim Murtaugh, a senior adviser to Trump, claimed that organizers of the Democratic rally had “lied to build a crowd.” While the front rows at the rally appeared supportive as Harris proceeded with her speech after seeing Beyonce off the stage, clips on social media indicated booing and heckling at the back, with some apparently leaving the venue in disappointment. The vice president has been backed by American pop sensation Taylor Swift as well as Usher, Eminem, and Cardi B, while Trump has received endorsements from SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, rapper 50 Cent, and popular journalist Tucker Carlson.

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“Russia gets a guarantee of neutrality from Ukraine,” while Germany and other EU countries foot the bill for Ukraine’s reconstruction..”

Trump To Make Ukraine The EU’s Problem – FT (RT)

Donald Trump will leave the enforcement of any peace deal between Russia and Ukraine to European powers, one of the former US president’s advisers has told the Financial Times. The plan is one of several floated by Trump’s advisers and allies, all of which involve the US refusing to deal with the aftermath of the conflict. Trump has promised to bring a rapid end to the ongoing conflict if he is elected president in November. However, he has offered few specifics as to how he would do this, save for pressing Vladimir Putin and Vladimir Zelensky into peace talks with US aid to Kiev as leverage. In the absence of any concrete peace plan, a host of Trump’s current and former advisers have outlined how they think the former president could achieve this goal.

One unnamed “long-term Trump adviser” told the Financial Times on Monday that the Republican candidate could resolve the conflict with “a reimagining of the failed Minsk agreements of 2014 and 2015,” under which Kiev agreed to grant some autonomy to the majority Russian-speaking regions of Donetsk and Lugansk. This time around, the adviser said, the deal would be enforced by EU peacekeepers. “There are two things America will insist on,” he said. “We will not have any men or women in the enforcement mechanism. We’re not paying for it. Europe is paying for it.” Reviving the Minsk agreements would likely present several major challenges.

After multiple European leaders admitted that they never intended to abide by the 2014 and 2015 agreements, Moscow does not believe that the EU can play the role of honest broker, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said earlier this month. Furthermore, Donetsk and Lugansk – along with Kherson and Zaporozhye – have since joined the Russian Federation, and any peace deal must take into account this “territorial reality,” the Kremlin has said. Fred Fleitz, a former CIA analyst who served in Trump’s White House, told the British newspaper that the US could “freeze the conflict” along the current front line, and negotiate a lasting settlement with Russia at a later date. Ukraine would not give up its territorial claims in the meantime, Fleitz said, explaining that this plan counts on delaying a final agreement until “Putin leaves the stage.”

However, Fleitz conceded that he does not speak for Trump and does not know the former president’s foreign policy plans. The most detailed proposal has been put forward by Trump’s running mate, Ohio Senator J.D. Vance. Speaking to former US Navy SEAL and podcast host Shawn Ryan last month, Vance said that the current frontline could be demilitarized and fortified, ensuring that “Russia doesn’t invade again.” In exchange, “Russia gets a guarantee of neutrality from Ukraine,” while Germany and other EU countries foot the bill for Ukraine’s reconstruction. The current American policy of “throw[ing] money at this problem, [and] hope[ing] the Ukrainians are able to achieve a military victory” is “stupid,” Vance told Ryan.

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“I think that we should try to pursue avenues of peace.”

I Don’t Want War With Russia – Vance (RT)

The US is not at war with Russia and should not seek one, Republican vice-presidential nominee J.D. Vance has said, when asked whether he would brand President Vladimir Putin an “enemy” of America. The senator from Ohio was asked during his appearance on NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday whether he saw the Russian leader “as an ally or an enemy.” Putin is “clearly an adversary, he is a competitor,” but Washington needs to be “smart about diplomacy too,” Vance responded. ”Just because we don’t like somebody doesn’t mean that we can’t occasionally engage in conversations with them,” he suggested. Host Kristen Welker pushed him further on whether he would directly refer to Putin as an enemy. ”We are not at war with him. And I don’t want to be at war with Vladimir Putin’s Russia,” the senator said. “I think that we should try to pursue avenues of peace.”

The same logic applies to China, Vance said, adding that he perceives it as a greater threat to American interests than Russia. The US may not like having to talk to its rivals, but in the case of the Ukraine conflict, resolving it will require negotiations, the senator pointed out. When asked whether former President Donald Trump would take the US out of NATO, Vance assured that he wouldn’t. If his running mate returns to office, the country will honor its commitment to the organization, but the bloc “is not just a welfare client, it should be a real alliance,” he said. Vance was referring to Trump’s criticism of insufficient defense spending by its European members.

Moscow has identified NATO’s enlargement in Europe as a threat to its national security and a key reason for the deterioration of relations with the West. The organization’s increasing involvement in Ukraine since the 2014 armed coup in Kiev and promise to bring Ukraine into the fold have contributed in a major way to setting off the ongoing hostilities, Russian officials have said. The current Democratic administration has pledged to stand by Kiev “for as long as it takes” to defeat Russia and has pushed other nations to do the same. Despite the hundreds of billions of dollars spent on Ukraine aid, Kiev’s troops are currently retreating along many parts of the front. Trump has claimed while campaigning that he would end the hostilities in 24 hours, if elected.

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“..he and others continue to saw feverishly on the branch upon which we all sit in higher education..”

University Professors Approaching Near Unanimity as a Democratic Lock (Turley)

The 2024 presidential election is shaping up to be the single most divisive election in our history. The public is split right down the middle with almost every group splintering between former president Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris. There is, however, one group that seems almost unanimous: professors. A new survey of more than 1,000 professors shows that seventy-eight percent will vote for Harris and only eight percent will vote for Trump. Other than a poll of the Democratic National Committee, there are few groups that are more reliably Democratic or liberal. For anyone in higher education, the result is hardly surprising. The poll tracks what we already know about the gradual purging of departments around the country of conservative, libertarian, and dissenting professors.

Indeed, the lack of political and intellectual diversity may be turning some donors and even applicants from higher education. With failing revenue and applications, universities are starting to re-embrace commitments to neutrality on political issues. Some, however, are doubling down on advocacy and orthodoxy. In an op-ed this week, Wesleyan University President Michael Roth called on universities to reject “institutional neutrality” and officially support Kamala Harris. Calling neutrality “a retreat,” Roth compared Trump’s election to the rise of the Nazis and insisted that schools should “give up the popular pastime of criticizing the woke and call out instead the overt racism.” He added, without a hint of self-awareness or irony, that “we should not be silenced because of fears of appearing partisan.”

In my book “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage,” I discuss the intolerance in higher education and surveys showing that many departments no longer have a single Republican as faculties replicate their own views and values. So not only are professors voting en mass for Harris, Roth would have the schools themselves work openly for her election. That ideological echo chamber is hardly an enticement for many who are facing rising high tuition costs with relatively little hope of being taught by faculty with opposing views. There are obviously many reasons why faculty may reject Trump specifically, but this poll also tracks more generally the self-identification and contributions of faculty. A Georgetown study recently found that only nine percent of law school professors identify as conservative at the top 50 law schools — almost identical to the percentage of Trump voters found in the new poll.

Notably, Roth acknowledged that the current lack of intellectual diversity in higher education had become so extreme that there might be a need for “an affirmative action program for conservatives.” However, he and others continue to saw feverishly on the branch upon which we all sit in higher education in calling for even greater political advocacy. There is little evidence that faculty members have any interest in changing this culture or creating greater diversity at schools. In places like North Carolina State University a study found that Democrats outnumbered Republicans 20 to 1.

Recently, I had a debate at Harvard Law School with Professor Randall Kennedy on whether Harvard protects free speech and intellectual diversity. This year, Harvard found itself in a familiar spot on the annual ranking of Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE): dead last among 251 universities and colleges. Harvard has long dismissed calls for greater free speech protections or intellectual diversity. It shows.

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University professors are not the only group with such an outsized bias. MSM editors and writers have it just as much. And Bezos will not solve that by withholding an endorsement. His hiring practices need to change. Or his paper is toast.

Bezos Explains Why WaPo Dropped Presidential Endorsements (RT)

The Washington Post has abandoned its decades-long tradition of endorsing a US presidential candidate to earn back the trust of the American public, the newspaper’s owner, billionaire Jeff Bezos, has said. He explained his reasoning in an op-ed published by the Post on Monday after facing intense backlash from current and former staff. The newspaper has been endorsing candidates since 1976, but announced the suspension of the practice on Friday, prompting several editors to resign. The Post’s editorial board endorsed Hillary Clinton in 2016 and Joe Biden in 2020. According to CNN, the Post’s staffers had drafted an endorsement of the Democratic candidate, Vice President Kamala Harris, which was ultimately not approved by the management. Bezos began his Monday’s op-ed by citing a recent Gallup poll, which found that nearly 70% of Americans have little or no trust in the media.

“Our profession is now the least trusted of all. Something we are doing is clearly not working,” the entrepreneur wrote, adding that “most people believe the media is biased.” “Presidential endorsements do nothing to tip the scales of an election,” he continued. “What presidential endorsements actually do is create a perception of bias. A perception of non-independence. Ending them is a principled decision, and it’s the right one.” The founder of Amazon and aerospace manufacturer Blue Origin admitted that the decision to drop endorsements so close to Election Day on November 5 was the result of “inadequate planning.” At the same time, he insisted that neither campaign had affected his decision-making, and that the move to abandon endorsements was not connected to last week’s meeting between Republican presidential candidate, former President Donald Trump, and Blue Origin top executives in Austin, Texas.

A total of 21 of the Post’s opinion columnists signed a statement, describing the non-endorsement as “a terrible mistake.” They argued that “this isn’t the right moment, when one candidate is advocating positions that directly threaten freedom of the press and the values of the Constitution.” Three of the newspaper’s 10-person editorial board have since stepped down. More than 200,000 people – or about 8% of the Post’s paid subscribers – had canceled their digital subscription by midday on Monday, according to NPR. The decision to end endorsements was criticized by many prominent journalists, including the Post’s former longtime executive editor Marty Baron.

Last month, Patrick Soon-Shiong, the owner of the Los Angeles Times, announced that the newspaper would also not be making presidential endorsements. The move faced similar backlash, with editorials editor Mariel Garza resigning in protest. Throughout his campaign, Trump has blasted “the lying media” for what he said was a long history of unfair coverage of him and his time in office. The Harris campaign and allies have similarly accused pro-Trump media outlets of amplifying “desinformation.”

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“The Trump ally is expected to hold a press conference on Tuesday afternoon in Manhattan, just hours after his release.”

Steve Bannon To Be Released From Prison One Week Ahead Of Election (JTN)

Former President Donald Trump’s ally Steve Bannon will be released from prison on Tuesday, exactly one week ahead of the 2024 presidential election. Bannon was sentenced to four months in prison at a federal facility in Danbury, Connecticut, in 2022 after he was convicted by a jury on two Contempt of Congress charges for not complying with a congressional subpoena. A judge had allowed Bannon, who was a first-time offender, to delay his sentence while he appealed the convictions but was eventually ordered to report to prison in July. The Trump ally is expected to hold a press conference on Tuesday afternoon in Manhattan, just hours after his release.

Sam Mangel, Bannon’s prison consultant, told ABC News on Monday that Bannon taught U.S. history and government to other inmates while he was behind bars, and that he was respected by other inmates. “I’m sure he’s quite glad to put it behind him and move on with his life,” Mangel said. “From what I’m told, he feels he’s got a lot left to accomplish now.” Although Bannon will be released from the Connecticut prison, he still faces criminal charges related to an alleged scheme to defraud donors over the construction of a border wall on the United States southern border. That trial is scheduled for December, and he has pleaded not guilty to all charges, including conspiracy, fraud, and money laundering.

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“..the US military is there to use lethal force to suppress those who object. If Trump’s win is too lopsided to be subject to theft, there can be a cybersecurity attack that prevents a vote count..”

How America Was Destroyed (Paul Craig Roberts)

Those who control the Democrat Party are concerned about Kamala’s election chances. Little wonder. She represents the most anti-American, anti-Constitution, anti-white, anti-peace regime in US history. Top Democrats are concerned that Trump will not only take the swing states, despite the multiple theft mechanisms Democrats have in place, but also some blue states. Polls are revealing that a majority of men of color see Trump as a leader of America and Kamala as a destroyer of America. Those who control the Democrat party, most certainly not the people, are also disturbed by reports of the heavy early voting by Trump supporters. Trump encouraged early voting, because in 2020 Democrats managed to prevent many Trump supporters from voting on election day.

The downside to early voting by Trump supporters is it gives Democrats an idea how many votes they have to steal in order to “win.” It is a no-win situation for Trump supporters. If you wait until election day, voting machine failure, closed precincts, and other excuses can be used to keep you from voting. But if you vote early, you signal to the Democrats how many votes they have to steal. They are well set up to steal them. The Democrats in two swing states have already said that it will be days before they will have the vote count. These days are the time they need to produce the fraud that wins for them. A Democrat and a free election are mutually exclusionary. Arizona officials, for example, say it will take 2 weeks to tabulate the vote count. The Democrats in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin say they are unable to declare election results for several days after the election.

Until 2020–the Big Steal–the US has not had a problem of producing a vote count on time. Why do Americans accept the election theft implied by a delayed vote count with ballot boxes coming in by the truck loads long after voting is closed? On October 14, I reported on this website that the Biden regime had issued one month before the presidential election a military directive 5240.01. The directive says the US military can be used to come to the aid of civilian police to quell domestic disturbance and can use lethal force against US citizens. I provided a link to the directive. Fourteen days later I have seen no mention of this directive in the presstitute media.

Now ask yourself where the authority comes from for an executive branch cabinet department to overturn an act of Congress. Where did the Biden regime Department of Defense get the authority to overturn American tradition and the Posse Comitatus Act? That there has been no protest against this illegal and unconstitutional Defense Department directive indicates how close the US is to a tyranny. As we learned from the hoax “Jan 6 Insurrection,” it is a simple matter for those in authority to declare “insurrections.” They can do it again. It has now been admitted that 200 federal agents were at work on January 6 trying to orchestrate an insurrection. Next time there will be 2,000. As the Democrats are in power, they can create an “insurrection” prior to the vote count.

[..] So, some of the swing states have said that election results will not be timely reported. When the results are misreported, the US military is there to use lethal force to suppress those who object. If Trump’s win is too lopsided to be subject to theft, there can be a cybersecurity attack that prevents a vote count. Putin and Trump can be blamed for an insurrection orchestrated by the FBI, and the Democrats will be declared by the American whore media as the winner. This sounds far-fetched, but it isn’t.

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“Israel could not gain overflight permissions from Turkey, Iraq or any of the Gulf Cooperation Council states (Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Oman). Sean Matthews at Middle East Eye points out that as a result, the Israelis would have had to fly down the Red Sea, go west across the Gulf of Aden, and approach Iran from the Arabian Sea. It is a long way around.”

The Enormous Constraints Faced By Netanyahu (Juan Cole)

The limited strikes on Iran carried out by Israeli fighter-jets early on Saturday morning Tehran time above all demonstrated the constraints under which even this extremist Israeli government has to operate. The bombings are said to have been limited to military targets, including missile manufacturing facilities.The first constraint Israel faced was logistical. The Netanyahu government could not have its fighter jets fly straight to Iran, which would have allowed a more extensive set of attacks. Israel could not gain overflight permissions from Turkey, Iraq or any of the Gulf Cooperation Council states (Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Oman). Sean Matthews at Middle East Eye points out that as a result, the Israelis would have had to fly down the Red Sea, go west across the Gulf of Aden, and approach Iran from the Arabian Sea. It is a long way around. They would have had to bring along large hulking refueling planes. This long, clumsy flight path limited what the Israelis could accomplish.

Extremist Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had earlier not ruled out hitting Iran’s nuclear facilities or its oil fields. Iran, however, essentially held the GCC countries hostage, warning that if US-backed Israel hit Iranian oil fields, Tehran would retaliate against US-backed Arab oil monarchies in the Gulf such as Saudi Arabia. The Biden administration is trying to woo those countries into recognizing Israel, and having a berserker Israeli government draw them into hostilities with Iran would instead make these Arab countries flee both the US and the possible Israeli embrace. For some diplomatic purposes, as with detente with Iran, Saudi Arabia has already gone to China instead. According to Middle East Eye, Iran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, had announced Tuesday that Iran had been promised by the Gulf Arabs that they would not allow their air space or soil to be used for Israeli attacks on Iran. At the same time, Joe Biden pressured Israel not to attack Iranian nuclear facilities or oil fields.

I view Netanyahu as an adventurer who has been attempting to widen the war so as to force the Biden administration to support him. Although Iran backs Hamas, the CIA assessed that the ayatollahs had no idea Hamas was planning to carry out the October 7 attacks, and, indeed, that the Iranian leadership had declined to support Hamas during the past year precisely because they were furious that Yahya Sinwar had tried to drag them into a war without so much as consulting them. Iran also put pressure on Hezbollah not to provoke a war with Israel. That is, though Iran certainly supports anti-Israel guerrilla groups in the region and enjoys harassing the Israelis through them and their rockets and drones, it doesn’t appear to have acted aggressively given the ferocity of Netanyahu’s genocide in Gaza.

Netanyahu struck the Iranian embassy in Damascus last spring in an obvious attempt to bring Iran into the war, and Iran replied with a missile barrage that the US shot down. Then this summer Netanyahu assassinated Ismail Haniyeh, the civilian head of the Hamas Party politburo (which is not the same as the al-Qassam Brigades paramilitary). The assassination was carried out in Tehran, in a clear attempt to get Iran’s goat. Likewise, Netanyahu’s creepy pager booby trap attack on Hezbollah personnel (and some Iranians, such as the Iranian ambassador to Lebanon) and his assassination of Hassan Nasrallah in September were in part aimed at humiliating Iran. Iran’s October 1 missile barrage at Israel was mostly shot down by the US, but some missiles got through and one hit an Israeli military base. This attack was revenge for the killings of Haniyeh and Nasrallah.

Israel’s riposte was so limited that it might well not elicit any response from Iran, drawing a line under this phase of the Israel-Iran conflict. But Netanyahu was forced into a limited response by the Arab Gulf states (two of which –Bahrain and the Emirates– recognize Israel) and by the Biden administration. The refusal of overflight permissions by the GCC states also limited what Israel could accomplished with its F-35s. I view Iran’s missile program as largely defensive. They have used it against Israel twice this year, and both came in response to Israeli provocations (provocations that I believe to be deliberate on Netanyahu’s part). Israel has made the point that its jets can now reach Iran with extensive refueling. Iran has made the point that a swarm of missile attacks can penetrate Israel’s missile defenses and hit an Israeli military base.

Each side is seeking some form of deterrence against the other, a deterrence that has broken down this year because of Israel’s aggression in Gaza and Lebanon and its anti-missile defenses. I think Iran will be satisfied if it feels that a restoration of deterrence has been achieved. I don’t think Netanyahu is defending; I think he is attacking and attempting to expand his influence in the region. For that reason, it will be difficult to reestablish deterrence between the two countries. For the moment, however, all-out war seems to have been averted.

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“..BRICS China crisscrossing Eurasia from east to west while BRICS Russia/Iran/India crisscross it from north to south..”

BRICS Make History – Can They Keep the Momentum? (Pepe Escobar)

The not so simple twists of fate always allow certain cities to make their mark in History in ineffable ways. Yalta. Bretton Woods. Bandung – a 1955 de-colonization staple. And now Kazan. The BRICS summit in Kazan, capital of Tatarstan, under the Russian presidency was historic in more ways than one – followed with riveting attention by the whole Global Majority and with perplexity by a great deal of the declining Western order. It did not change the world – not yet. But Kazan should be seen as the departing station of a high-speed train journey towards the emerging multi-nodal new order. The metaphor was also spatial: the pavilions at the Kazan Expo center “station” holding the summit simultaneously connected to the airport and to the aero-express train to the city. The rippling effects of BRICS 2024 in Kazan will be perceived for weeks, months and years ahead. Let’s start with the breakthroughs.

The Kazan Manifesto
1.The Kazan Declaration. That is no less than a detailed diplomatic manifesto. Yet because BRICS is not a revolutionary agent – as its members do not share an ideology – arguably the next best strategy is to propose real reform, from the UN Agenda 2030 to the IMF, the World Bank, the WTO, the WHO and the G20 (whose summit is next month in Rio). The kernel of the Kazan Declaration – which had been debated for months – is to move in practice towards in-depth institutional changes and to reject Hegemony. The Declaration will be presented to the UN Security Council. There’s no doubt the Hegemon will reject it. This paragraph sums up the reform drive: “We condemn the attempts to subject development to discriminatory politically motivated practices, including but not limited to unilateral coercive measures that are incompatible with the 5 principles of the UN Charter, explicit or implied political conditionality of development assistance, activities, aiming at compromising the multiplicity of international development assistance providers.”

2. The BRICS Outreach session. That was Bandung 1955 on macro-steroids: a microcosm of how the new, really de-colonized, non-unilateral world is being born. President Putin opened and handed the floor to the leaders and heads of delegations of other 35 nations, most at the highest level, including Palestine, plus the UN Secretary General. Quite a few speeches were nothing short of epic. The session lasted 3h25. It will be circulating all across the Global Majority for years. The session tied up with the announcement of the new 13 BRICS partners: Algeria, Belarus, Bolivia, Cuba, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Nigeria, Thailand, Turkiye, Uganda, Uzbekistan, Vietnam. A strategic tour de force including 4 Southeast Asian powerhouses; the top two Central Asian “stans”; 3 Africans; 2 Latin Americans, and NATO member Turkiye.

3. The Russian BRICS presidency itself. Arguably no other nation would have been able to pull off such a complex and impeccably organized summit, held after over 200 BRICS-related meetings throughout the year across Russia conducted by unnamed sherpas, members of working groups and the BRICs Business Council. Security was massive – for obvious reasons, considering the odds of a false flag/terrorist attack.

4. Connectivity corridors. That is the main geoeconomic theme of Eurasia integration, and Afro-Eurasia integration as well. Putin explicitly named, more than once, the new growth drivers of the near future: Southeast Asia and Africa. Both happen to be key partners of several high-profile Chinese Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) projects. Additionally, Putin named the top two connectivity corridors of the future: the Northern Sea Route – which the Chinese describe as the Arctic Silk Road – and the International North-South Transportation Corridor (INSTC), where the three drivers are BRICS members Russia, Iran and India. So that translates as BRICS China crisscrossing Eurasia from east to west while BRICS Russia/Iran/India crisscross it from north to south, with ramifications in all latitudes. And with all the energy add-ons, with Iran positioning itself as a crucial energy hub, opening the finally feasible possibility of building the Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) pipeline, one of the unfinished sagas of what I described in the early 2000s as Pipelineistan.

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“..because of his “attitudes towards Ukraine.”

Slovak PM Fico Warns Of Continued Attempts On His Life (RT)

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico, who survived an assassination attempt in May, has revealed that he faced a potential second attempt on his life, due to his stance on the Ukraine conflict. Fico was shot at close range by an activist who opposed the PM’s views on relations with Kiev. An armed man was detained at an event commemorating a World War II battle in eastern Slovakia in early October, the prime minister revealed in an interview to Bratislava-based internet outlet Standard on Sunday. Fico said the man “hates” him because of his “attitudes towards Ukraine.” According to the prime minister, “a fully loaded weapon” was found on the suspect when he passed through a metal detector. The event in question was held on October 6 to mark the 80th anniversary of the Battle of the Dukla Pass between German and Soviet forces on the border with Poland. The celebrations were attended by Fico, Slovak President Peter Pellegrini, and members of the government and parliament.

Fico has been an outspoken critic of the EU’s policy of providing lethal aid to Ukraine in its fight with Russia, calling instead for a diplomatic solution to the conflict. In May, Fico was shot four times at close range by a man who, according to Slovakia’s Special Criminal Court, was largely motivated by the decision by the prime minister and his government not to send arms to Ukraine. “I was lucky,” Fico told Standard, commenting on the shooting. He went on to describe the alleged shooter, Juraj Cintula, as a political activist who had attended Fico’s public meetings while “probably” planning the attack. Following the shooting, Fico argued that the assassination attempt emanated from foreign-backed politicians who refuse to accept his government’s policies that prioritize Slovakia’s interests over the agendas of major Western powers.

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“Throughout its almost 90-year history, the carmaker has never closed a plant in its home country..”

Volkswagen Planning Mass Layoffs – Workers’ Council Chief (RT)

Volkswagen is looking to significantly reduce its workforce in Germany and shut down several factories in the country, amid a major overhaul aimed at lowering costs and increasing return on sales, the head of the carmaker’s Works Council has announced. Daniela Cavallo explained to employees in Wolfsburg on Monday that Volkswagen management is “absolutely serious” about the plans and that the move is “not saber-rattling in the collective bargaining round,” Reuters reported. Throughout its almost 90-year history, the carmaker has never closed a plant in its home country. The last time it shut down any of its facilities was in 1988 in the US. “It is a firm intention to let the locations’ regions bleed dry and the clear intention to send tens of thousands of Volkswagen employees into mass unemployment,” Cavallo said.

Her comments come as the automotive giant has been negotiating for several weeks with unions over plans to overhaul its business in order to remain competitive in light of weaker demand from China and Europe. She did not specify which of the ten Volkswagen plants operating in Germany would be shut down or exactly how many of its roughly 300,000 workers in the country would be laid off, but noted that all remaining facilities would be affected by the changes and that “none of them are safe.” Cavallo also stated that Volkswagen management is demanding a 10% pay cut and no pay raises for the next two years. Cavallo stressed, however, that the German government must urgently come up with a plan to ensure that the country’s economy does not “go down the drain.”

She noted that Volkswagen and other European companies are in agreement as to the nature of the problems they are facing, such as slower-than-expected electric transition as well as fierce competition from Chinese automotive brands entering Europe. “We are not far apart when it comes to analyzing the problems. But we are miles apart on the answers to them,” Cavallo said. Earlier this month, the Sueddeutsche Zeitung newspaper reported that the German economy is expected to contract for a second year in a row as it struggles to keep up with soaring energy costs after cutting itself off from Russian gas. Over the past year, the German government has noted a 5.3% drop in the country’s industrial output as orders for domestic-made goods have also plummeted. Experts at the Berlin-based Forum for a New Economy have warned that Germany’s failures are expected to turn the 2020s into a “lost decade” for the country as it suffers “the worst economic downturn since World War II.”

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    Jules Adler Panorama de Paris vu du Sacré Coeur 1935   • Will Donald Trump Get His Revenge? (Susan Quinn) • Leftists Are Terrified About What Wil
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle October 29 2024]

    #172820
    Michael Reid
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    where the truth really lies


    Why is it surprising when academics publish dissident content?

    Global class war,
    misunderstandings of Marxism,
    Omniwar,
    the deep state,
    technocracy,
    psychological torture,
    and Desmet’s failings

    https://dhughes.substack.com/p/interview-with-elze-van-hamelen-may

    #172821
    Dora
    Participant

    AOC is so funny. I noticed she dropped the woke term Latinx in favor of the word Latino in this clip. Is that a clue about the direction the Latino vote is trending?

    #172822
    Just Some Randomer
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    “One unnamed “long-term Trump adviser” told the Financial Times on Monday that the Republican candidate could resolve the conflict with “a reimagining of the failed Minsk agreements of 2014 and 2015,” under which Kiev agreed to grant some autonomy to the majority Russian-speaking regions of Donetsk and Lugansk. This time around, the adviser said, the deal would be enforced by EU peacekeepers.”

    Someone needs to tell this bozo that Donetsk and Lugansk are Russia now. Kiev will not be ‘Granting’ them anything, and Trump has precisely zero leverage over what the final settlement in Ukraine will be (hint: Moscow will dictate terms of surrender). I do not believe that Russia will ever again fall for the Western ‘Let’s all sign a treaty that we will break the moment it suits us’ gambit.

    I appreciate Trump’s position on ending the conflict in Ukraine, but really, all he can do is stop sending weapons and money. Everything thereafter is out of his hands.

    #172823
    V. Arnold
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    Jules Adler Panorama de Paris vu du Sacré Coeur 1935

    The art today is just grand…

    #172824
    V. Arnold
    Participant

    …the world today…

      The Fool on the Hill

    comes to mind…

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    Dr. D
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    Compare Paris with Van Gogh just a few years earlier. It’s difficult to imagine the boom, past anything we have.

    “NATO Chief Says North Korean Troops Are Helping Regain Territory In Russia’s Kursk
    President Biden also slams the “very dangerous” development…

    How dare Russia have Russians in Russia! …Or their guests. Don’t they know they should be invaded peacefully like the other nations?

    No. Words. Go on, keep talking. Never stop.

    “Six Days from Sunday” and the Continuity of Government

    Pretty good article on continuity of government and how they managed to institutionalize it under the Patriot Act. Very short, with the recent USSC limitation/cessation of this (attempted) power. You can look at it another way: having secret, unelected silos that actually decide things and are unremovable, while the democratic representatives still exist but are sidelined, is exactly the EU plan. They election people, but those people are eyewash and no real power rests with them This is the attempted plan in the U.S. as well. Because they are all Nazis, and roughly speaking on the same team.

    The task of the governments is to identify and remove these moles that number in the ten-thousands.

    Elon Secret:

    Okay 1 minute I’ll never get back with him hemming at the beginning, also distill the whole thing: he has the goal in mind and asks the PEOPLE what they’ve done to complete the goal. Without additional paperwork and layers, documents. Why? Because the people are the document to begin with, what’s the add to write down the people into the document, as the document has to be updated by the people, who then read and obey the document, which is created by them, then instantly changed by them. We don’t need document managers, document gatekeepers. Only goals and tasks and achieving them. (ask JB)

    Yeah, it’s called work. We then DO the work. Clearly this has become obscure and unimaginable to everyone.

    “Convinced that America 2024 is going to be a repeat of Germany 1933, ignorant leftists are scrambling to determine whether or not to leave the US or “start a revolution.”

    I wouldn’t worry: they bought no guns, have no preps, did no training. It’s like little girls running away shrieking from imaginary ghosts because it’s fun. No reality required or wanted. Privileged and bored. Despite these and other articles – heard a different interview yesterday, with Krainer I think – the temperature here is mid and still dropping. Like 30% lower than 2020 or 2016. Not sure why, rhetoric remains high, all working elements remain in place, but nobody dgaf. Also as qualitative, can’t compare to 2016, 90%? 2020, 120%? And now, 73%?

    “Don’t believe da hype.” Chuck D.

    Again, with the comments on Rhetoric that causes assassinations, nope. Why? They walked into the heart of the machine in NYC, in the bluest city of the bluest state, had every leader in one place and didn’t care a bit about “Crocus” mass shooting or something. Nor did one happen. Apparently the Pelosis are now sidelined and all powerless. Schumer’s people no longer have “Six ways to Sunday” to get you. Apparently they don’t even have one. As we know, ALSO it wasn’t the rhetoric that cause the random and accidental assassination in Butler, if they ever release a report (still haven’t) we might admit that. Same with Rouche, he got thousands of dollars to fly around the world with “Rhetoric”. Right.

    Again, that wouldn’t be true if what we SEE is all there is. We only barely cleaned up if it’s all public. However, if they already captured most knights, bishops, rooks with various treason and Diddy lists, leaving only the pawns headless on the field, identifying themselves, including the King Biden, then all this would make perfect sense. But I’m crazy while Joe is out campaigning AGAINST Kamala in swing-Pennsylvania.

    ““But please open your eyes to the danger that this man poses to our country, because I think it is clear and present for anybody paying attention.”

    Classic quote: please describe what you mean. There are no facts in this sentence, only emotional implication. WHY is he a danger? At all? He did literally nothing last time, as any pro-gay marriage President probably would.

    “Jews for Trump have arrived at the Madison Square Garden. Are they still calling it a Nazi rally????”

    Of course they are. Don’t you know everyone who is Jewish is Jewish, and everyone who is not Jewish is also Jewish? Therefore all Nazis are Jewish. QED. Well, my work here is done. The Jews were all killing themselves.

    I think this also clears up why Benton is being called Jewish. He’s Jewish in the same way P Diddy, Trump, and Pope are: that is, because All things = Their Opposites. Same with racism of course: “All things are racist”, therefore “Racism is everywhere.” The logic is irrefutable.

    “• Speaking of Abortion (James Howard Kunstler)

    In honor of Halloween, this Abortion in my opinion is really a magic sacrifice. If you believe magic works at all, then the practitioner doesn’t need to be knowledgeable or have intent in it. A “Spell” is just “Spelling”. That is, writing, speaking. That’s it: Words have Power. Now it’s hazy and not specific and pointed like a real wizard’s spell, but both a good quarterback and a bad one can both toss the ball down the field. So what happens with spells, why shouldn’t one do black magic? Oh, you know: the nature of the universe. Good things have good effects, bad things have bad effects, that how we tell them apart.

    So using their own lingo, the law of threes, what you do bounces back on you threefold, then being fascinated, enamored and promoting of death leads to…? What? Yes, bringing thousands of “Death” into the house, feeding and petting it, defending it until it eats you. Which it now is, although took longer than usual. So yes, loving abortion, idolizing it, means idolizing all the premises it’s made of. Now they are the abortion. That’s how the world works. If you loved unity and love, that would also bounce back on you threefold, although of course that’s very hard. “Is the dark side stronger?” (Pause) “No. Quicker. Easier it is.” and more alluring. The whole point of magic is a short cut to NOT do work. NOT create deserving virtue in yourself. So doing MORE work whether in magic or out of it is sort of counterproductive to cheats and frauds, isn’t it?

    Continuing magic, they got this curse of the Nation, but it now rests on the individual states, to prosper or fall as it affects them. Like NY, NJ, MA, compared to FL and TX. Where is prosperity flowing? Freedom, success, safety?

    Yup. If you’re against murder, murder is rising in IL and falling in FL. It doesn’t have to be this way: you can choose the good and right, the #Logos as well. It doesn’t hurt, it actually helps. THey’ll never find out because they’ll die resisting it on general principles.

    “• Trump’s 19th-Century Solution to Fiscal Disaster (David Stockman)

    For this discussion, let’s just post two numbers:
    1. Tariffs will raise prices. But only in imports.
    2. We pay 30% of our income to Income tax.

    No income tax, it’s easy to see where the money comes from to buy now-more-expensive imports. Is this from “The Rich”? Hahahahaha! Heck no! “The Rich” stole the money to begin with. It’s the Income Tax, and the Federal largesse in the Corporate-Government merger that allows them to be “Rich” in the first place. Yes, the Rich pay all the taxes, but this is a left-pocket/right-pocket thing: It’s all money from Government to begin with. The paying of any income taxes is merely eyewash. Say we’re in the Soviet Socialist system, you live in a concrete flat with one pair of shoes, all party members live in their third Dacha on the Black Sea coast, and they “Pay taxes”. This is EXACTLY the same thing. Where does Bezos get his money? Government. Musk? Government. Zuck? Government. The “Taxes” are the government paying money to themselves. If their “Rich” taxes get higher, they’ll just tell government – that is, them – to hand them more to pay it. Note, the IRS is extra-governmental and uses the Income Tax to post these self-funding bonds behind itself. So they say. Erase one, you erase the other and we go back to a Republic. That’s why they’re all the same amendments, same time 1913.

    That goes with Musk here this month: hey, where does he get enough money to hand out $1M every day and not even turn the dial on how much money he has? A: G O V E R N M E N T. That is, government gives just one guy so much money that they could give a whole city $10k/pc and barely dent the graft hidden in the contract. THAT is what you’re seeing with Musk, and how he got rich, or is STILL getting rich. The difference is, he ALSO makes astronauts that can get home. Boeing is taking just as much and NOT getting into orbit.

    Back to tariffs: then we make things here. Which is the point. According to some, making things in one’s own country is bad, stupid, and employs no one. OBVIOUSLY the cheapest place to make things is halfway around the world where all your critical pharmaceuticals can be shut off on a whim: that’s just common sense.

    Excuse me if History does not show that to be true. And wouldn’t it seem self-evident that the cheapest place to make things is right next to you? Where you have not only shipping cost, but control over it?

    …That’s even assuming that zero jobs are created, which is categorically false and always has been. What did the Luddites fight? A: Automation. (the machines were crappy and ruining their quality brand name, not that they were against machines. Historical smear-job) So we’ve had increasing full automation for 250 years and gosh! People are still employed! Huh. And they are more employed and more paid according to their distance from the making machines. Huh. Who knew except all history since that’s always been true but is also self-evident.

    If Manchester has mass-milling machines in 1750, who has profits? Manchester or the Isle of Skye? Huh, boy sure seems like the people NOT halfway ‘round the world, don’t it?

    We’ve always had automation. This is so “Not different this time” it’s like your great-great-great-great-great-great-grandparents had already solved this. What’s a spinning wheel compared to a drop spindle? Automation. And like Malthus, that was going to destroy the world too. Everything we do is stupid. We’re all going to die. Resistance is futile. Give up now and let China rule you as slaves.

    So why not read the article and learn something since all history shows this works and we’re going there. It won’t do China any harm: that’s what they’re doing to us. If it dumb why does China do it? Should I report you to the Chinese authorities for anti-party rhetoric?

    “Republican candidate could resolve the conflict with “a reimagining of the failed Minsk agreements of 2014 and 2015,” under which Kiev agreed to grant some autonomy to the majority Russian-speaking regions of Donetsk and Lugansk.”

    No they didn’t. Because those areas are now Russia. Constitutionally, because “Time Exists”.

    “This time around, the adviser said, the deal would be enforced by EU peacekeepers.”

    They were last time too. Merkel said she was just -ss f–king Russia and never did it and never meant to. So. So why are we talking about fantasies that only exist in a parallel universe?

    “The US is not at war with Russia and should not seek one, Republican vice-presidential nominee J.D. Vance has said”

    If only we’d followed PCR’s stellar advices we’d be in an officially declared war, this couldn’t be said, and we couldn’t cool down. Awwww.

    “The 2024 presidential election is shaping up to be the single most divisive election in our history.”

    No it’s not, as above. First, the temperature is way lower. Second, all the stats he’s calling are wrong. The country is not 45-45%, there are only two classes for Blue: The P Diddy billionaires, and the PMC/Universities. That is: everyone who does no work but rides. Everyone who pulls the free-riders are Red. That’s like 80/20. I know you, Turley, will be totally shocked, but the Media is Lying to you. Who knew? Why has no one mentioned this before?

    “• Bezos Explains Why WaPo Dropped Presidential Endorsements (RT)

    Spinning faster and faster in the toilet, with ever fewer and fewer people involved. They think they’re “The nation” as Turley also says. Really they aren’t even 5% talking to themselves. Why? We would talk to them (and do), but they won’t listen to us. So, why? We don’t, we just shut up, do work, and watch the trainwreck. When they run out of money and crack, they’ll sober up.

    How do we know? Media, papers, are booming, stunning growth industry all over. …Just not THEIRS. Bannon, Shapiro, Benjamin, Jones, Pool, Dore, Brand, go up 10x-100x in just a few years. CNN ceases to exist. So DUUUUUUUUUUUUUH, it’s not “Media”, it’s not that “no one wants to read papers”, it’s not that “There’s a crisis.” YOU’RE LYING TOO MUCH. You’re only talking up each other’s arse-holes. You might have noticed by the smell.

    Easiest business in the world to start right now: red pill site, on anything at all, like Whatifalthist.

    “• How America Was Destroyed (Paul Craig Roberts)

    Was it though?
    Sounds more like it was saved. We were all alerted “The British are coming” and woke up, taking arms.

    “• The Enormous Constraints Faced By Netanyahu (Juan Cole)

    MacGregor (I think) pointed out that they called a huge strike shattering Iran with 100 planes in the air, but ALSO a “Limited strike”. Explain: you had 100 planes in the air, 2-4 bombs a piece, and hit only one abandoned airbase? And four guys? Wouldn’t it have been cheaper to have your embedded agents kill four guys in unexplained muggings? Like about $2B cheaper?

    Translation: Israel was hampered but still tried a pretty solid strike (100 planes). Iranian (Russian) air defense took nearly everything out of the sky (thus next hour, “We meant to do that”). So Iran can bomb Israel all day, and Israel can’t bomb back. Next move?

    Again with media sense, North Korea being 12 time zones away. Russia being 10x the size of Ukraine. In this case, media constantly reports as if Iran borders Tel Aviv, and is also the size of Syria. HOW is Iran in your face when they’re 600 miles away with enormous strong countries of Saudi and Iraq in between? Are they planning on invading or something? That’s like Portugal going on about how Germany is about to invade them. No. They are not: Leave them alone you unhinged, demented maniacs. They’re mentally ill, and clearly all the reporters are illiterate.

    Greece and Germany. Like the U.S. colonies, you just say no. That’s it. In “Yellowstone”, “Why do you do this?” ranch owner says. “No one ever said no before” the bad guys say. Just say no, “Bad Guys” don’t get in the habit of being predators and like, work in a steel mill for a living or something. WHY do they steal things? Because it’s easier. If it were harder, they wouldn’t do it. Thus the low break and entry in TX and FL where you can – and often do – get shot. Amazing how finding out all your friends were shot and dead does wonders for your career choices thereafter. Sorry: criminals don’t understand higher-level arguments, only lower level ones. Do this and I’ll beat you. Not later, right here, right now.

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    Oroboros
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    A Sick Society Can’t Connect Dots

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    oxymoron
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    Probably gunna sound trite but that magpie vid got me. They are such a HUGE part of my life. They wake me in the morning. Are with me all day. Like all day. Family of 6. I have routines developed with feeding them – only intermittent, like 2 or three days on then two weeks off – they get very needy and noisy when they come to rely on on me – like lazy government hand out types.
    They NEVER ever swoop me. They get very exited when the tractor starts and hang around because tractor equals soil disturbance equals bugs/food.
    They get my attempts at literal murder when the grapes begin to ripen and my love turns to blood red hate and I keep a large bowl of rocks at the front door (december to March).
    I have learnt so much from them and occasionally crack into uncontrolled laughter when they fly into something or get a fright or get stung near the eyes while trying to eat the bees from my apiary.
    I could write a small book about those birds and so could many Australians.

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    Dr. D
    Participant

    I had no idea.

    #172831
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Super Heroes

    It’s all Duh’merica has left

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    Oroboros
    Participant

    Super Heroes

    Different Package

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    Oroboros
    Participant

    Art Appreciation Break

    Cost a livin’ is killing us……

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    Oroboros
    Participant

    Let’s Face It

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    Oroboros
    Participant

    Gain the Confidence to Be Great

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    Oroboros
    Participant

    Kamala la-la Staffer Making a Case for Her Candidate

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    Oroboros
    Participant

    Just After the Election Your Commander in Chief has a Public Service Annoucement

    “Listen up Duh’merica, I’m talkin’ to you”

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    #172840
    poppie
    Participant

    aspnaz as usual you provided fractions of information intended to misinform. ability to pay. disposable income is important, If you dont write something complete then no I probably wont try to read it. How about if you compare the spread of tarrifs to the spread of income taxes. Showing only income tax is usless fear mongering, Shitting out your mouth. If you need help, look at canadas VAT. its essentially the same.

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    #172842
    WES
    Participant

    BIS’s mBridge Digital Currency:

    Central banks’ central bank, the Bank of International Settlements (BIS) is considering shutting down it’s digital currency mBridge to try and prevent the BRIC countries from launching their BRIC’s Bridge digital currency.

    The BIS admit it was a big mistake to let China be the backbone of developing the BIS’s digital currency the mBridge.

    The irony of these bastards trying to ram digital currencies down our throats to enslave us all!

    Yelling Democrat Karen Official:

    The Democrat Karen Official who yelled in the face of a child was merely upset that the mother of tge child had not followed Democrat Party’s Official policy for children; abortion!

    US Shoots Down All of Iran’s Missiles:

    Yes, sure the US shot down all of Iran’s missiles.
    Drink some more Kool-Aid!
    You have a serious credibility problem!
    You rank lower than a lying Congress critter!

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    Oroboros
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    #172844
    tboc
    Participant

    Traffic is bumper to bumper on the road to Damascus this morning.

    #172845
    WES
    Participant

    North Koreans in Ukraine:

    This meme is just another attempt by the neocon warmongers to get Nato and the US directly involved in the Ukrainian war before the US elections!

    #172846
    Michael Reid
    Participant


    we will first present our synopsis on the desired end-state for humanity
    as envisioned by the Enlightened neo-Marxist global sycophants.

    This will outline the key players involved,
    as well as the pathway they have forged to socially engineer the world
    into their techno-totalitarian surveillance state.

    https://prussiagate.substack.com/p/when-decades-happen-part-vii

    #172847
    John Day
    Participant

    Difficult Predictions About The Future https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/difficult-predictions-about-the-future

    Martin Armstrong’s “Socrates” computer program has been pretty good at tracking and predicting trends and elections since I became aware of it in early 2008 or so.
    Martin Armstrong Sees Trump “Landslide”; Fears Desperate Deep State Wants War & Martial Law
    Deep State Dems are in panic mode…
    ..Armstrong is still seeing Trump winning in 2024 in a “landslide.” Kamala Harris is going the other way. A few months back, Armstrong said Kamala’s real approval rating was 10.5%. Armstrong says he just ran new Kamala Harris approval ratings with his Socrates computer program… “It’s actually down to 6.5% to 7.5%. It’s really appalling.”…
    ..On the economy, Armstrong says, “We are in this debt Ponzi scheme where they issue new debt every year to pay off the old debt. People say the debt is $34 trillion, but the level of the debt does not matter. It could be a quadrillion dollars…
    China holds 10% of America’s debt. They sold $53 billion at the beginning of the year. This is where the danger comes. If you don’t have someone to take up what China is not buying, guess what? You can’t pay, and when you can’t pay, that’s when a default comes. This is why they want war . . . so they can default on everything…
    They take us to war, and there goes Social Security and everything else.”
    On the 2024 Election, Armstrong says, “The 2024 Election will be the last election. . . . The US will break up into three or four sections. . . .
    We are committing suicide. . . . This is how governments die… https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/martin-armstrong-sees-trump-landslide-fears-desperate-deep-state-wants-war-martial-law

    This sounds like a negotiated bankruptcy, which makes perfect sense: Musk hopes to cut US budget by ‘at least $2 trillion’
    Donald Trump wants the tycoon to lead his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and audit the federal government
    Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has made an appearance at a Donald Trump rally at Madison Square Garden where he promised to save American taxpayers trillions of dollars if the Republican candidate wins…
    ..“I think we can do at least $2 trillion,” Musk replied, eliciting loud cheers from the crowd. “At the end of the day, all government spending is taxation. Whether it’s direct taxation or government spending, it either leads to inflation or becomes direct taxation.” https://swentr.site/news/606594-musk-government-waste-trillions/

    20,000 people inside Madison Square Garden and 75,000 outside in “Blue” New York: Worst. Nazi. Rally. Ever.
    When Donald Trump’s campaign announced plans for a rally at Madison Square Garden, Democrats and their media allies knew they had a problem. Trump was going to pack the house on their turf. So they wasted no time pushing the tired Hitler narrative and claimed that the choice of venue was an homage to a pro-Nazi rally held there in 1939…
    ..(Moloch Priestess) Hillary Clinton accused Trump of “actually re-enacting the Madison Square Garden rally in 1939.” “President Franklin Roosevelt was appalled that neo-Nazis, fascists in America were lining up to essentially pledge their support for the kind of government that they were seeing in Germany. So I don’t think we can ignore it,” Hillary added.
    Then she doubled down. “Now, it may be a leap for some people and a lot of others may think, ‘I don’t want to go there. I don’t want to say that.’ But please open your eyes to the danger that this man poses to our country, because I think it is clear and present for anybody paying attention.” https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2024/10/27/worst-nazi-rally-ever-n4933703

    Former Vatican ambassador to US calls Harris ‘an infernal monster who obeys Satan’ https://nypost.com/2024/10/25/world-news/former-vatican-ambassador-to-us-calls-harris-an-infernal-monster-who-obeys-satan/

    #172848
    John Day
    Participant

    Who is this “enemy within”? Does Archbishop Vigano know about this? During a historic rally Sunday at Madison Square Garden, president Trump urged that Kamala Harris is purely “a vessel” and in reality the MAGA movement is fighting against “something far more powerful.”
    Trump told the crowd, “We are not just running against Kamala — She means nothing. She is purely a vessel — We are running against something far bigger than Joe or Kamala and more powerful than them, which is a massive, vicious, crooked, radical left machine that runs today’s Democrat Party.”
    Trump further asserted that Biden and Harris are “perfect vessels because they’ll never give them a hard time. They’ll do whatever they want.”
    He continued, “I know many of them. It’s just an amorphous group of people. But they’re smart and they’re vicious, and we have to defeat them. And when I say the ‘enemy from within,’ the other side go crazy.” https://modernity.news/2024/10/28/trump-kamala-is-just-a-vessel-we-are-running-against-something-far-more-powerful/

    John Leake notes that Constitutionally, if the President is unfit, the Vice President takes over. Democrats Have Already Suspended Article II of the U.S. Constitution
    Talk of Trump being “threat to democracy” is a textbook case of psychological projection. https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/democrats-have-already-suspended

    ​ Who Is Actually Running The Country?
    John Richardson, via The Gatestone Institute, says some answers include:
    ​ Former President Barack Obama, who, in November 2020, said on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert:
    “People would ask me, knowing what you know now, do you wish you had a third term? And I used to say, “You know what? If I could make an arrangement where I had a stand-in, a front man or front woman, and they had an earpiece in, and I was just in my basement in my sweats looking through the stuff, and then I could sort of deliver the lines, but somebody else was doing all the talking and ceremony, I’d be fine with that.”
    ​ George Soros, of whom the journalist Wayne Allen Root wrote:
    “Obama take his marching orders from George Soros.”
    ​ The Chinese Communist Party, about whom Root wrote:
    “[T]he real power behind the throne. The boss of bosses. The capo di tutti. China and the Chinese Communist Party. Everyone is taking orders from China and the CCP. China bribes all the politicians in America and around the world with billions in offshore bank accounts. China owns Biden and his family. China owns virtually the entire leadership of the Democratic Party — and quite a few establishment RINO Republicans, too…. It’s easy to see China is the top dog. You’d have to be blind, deaf or really dumb to not see that. Everything happening … just happens to weaken and divide America while benefiting China.”
    ​ And of course Jill Biden, who was recently asked by the president to chair a Cabinet meeting.
    More often, it seems, it is a cadre of unelected bureaucrats – a faceless politburo – who uphold the law or not, according to political expediency or whim.
    ​ American author and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy has called this group “a machine.”​ https://www.zerohedge.com/political/who-actually-running-country

    Massive reports of voting machine problems are being reported across the country. All age groups are reporting that the EXPRESS VOTE machines are flipping votes.
    ISSUES FOUND AT POLLS IN PALM BEACH COUNTY FL INCLUDE:
    1. Votes are being changed by the machine
    2. Four or more tries of touching the candidate’s “button” to select them
    3. Printed ballots do not match their selections
    4. One must push the screen area above the candidate’s name/button to select them
    5. Voters have reported that due to the small font on the printed ExpressVote ballots, they have trouble confirming their votes
    6. Waiting extraordinarily long times when requesting paper ballots https://joehoft.com/2024-steal-massive-reports-of-voting-machine-problems-are-being-reported/

    Trump promises not to fight foreign wars
    Former US President Donald Trump promised not to send Americans to fight and die in countries they have never heard of while addressing a crowd in the battleground state of Pennsylvania this weekend.
    Speaking at a campaign rally on Saturday, Trump once again claimed he is the only one capable of preventing an all-out global conflict, arguing that his Democratic rival Kamala Harris “would get us into World War III, guaranteed, because she is too grossly incompetent to do the job.”
    “To make her president would be to gamble with the lives of millions of people. Sons and daughters will end up getting drafted to fight in a war in a country you’ve never heard of,” he said. In his nomination acceptance speech earlier this year, Trump vowed to “end every single international crisis that the current administration has created,” particularly the Ukraine and Gaza conflicts. He never offered specific plans to bring about world peace, but repeatedly warned that by supporting and financing “other people’s wars” under the leadership of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, the US is increasing the likelihood of sliding into WWIII. https://swentr.site/news/606592-trump-us-foreign-wars/

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    John Day
    Participant

    Everybody will hate Trump now! (huh?) Soros-Backed Philadelphia DA Sues To Block Elon Musk’s $1 Million Voter Giveaway https://www.zerohedge.com/political/philadelphia-da-sues-block-elon-musks-1-million-voter-giveaway

    Tommy Robinson Jailed In UK For 18 Months For Contempt Of Court
    On Friday, police confirmed that Robinson had been arrested on “one count of failing to provide the PIN to his mobile phone” Under UK law, police have the right to stop anyone passing through a UK port “to determine whether they may be involved or concerned in the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism.”
    Robinson said the following in response: Your honour, I believe in freedom of speech and freedom of the press. My duty as a journalist is to uncover the truth and I have worked for years to shine light on challenges in society that no one else is willing to speak about. https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/tommy-robinson-jailed-18-months-contempt-court

    The Honest Sorcerer, Geopolitical (Un)realities [The issue, again, is that the Ponzi-finance scheme will collapse soon, and WW-III gives emergency-financial-powers.]
    We are witnessing a massive phase shift in world politics. Despite all the handwaving we are already in a war of the worlds, and we are waging it — yet again — to gain/maintain access to cheap energy and mineral resources…
    ..As usual in the case of civilizational decline, the Western ruling class continues to believe that they are the masters of the universe, even as facts on the ground strongly suggest otherwise. Presuming that a massive financial crisis does not wipe out much of the wealth of Western nations first, they will continue to double then triple down on failed policies, until the inevitable defeat arrives. Will they reach for the ultimate weapon in their arsenal then? Will they nuke Iran? Or launch missile strikes deep into Russia, knowing that a retaliation might hit them directly? Will we be able to stop the rapidly unfolding chain of escalation then, all the way up to strategic level? https://thehonestsorcerer.substack.com/p/geopolitical-unrealities

    Hey, “free-speech-man, Elon!”: Ayatollah Khamenei Creates Hebrew-Language X Account, Which Gets Suspended In A Day
    Elon Musk’s X platform suspended the account for violating the rules of the site. Early Monday, a short message appeared on the suspended account stating, “X suspends accounts which violate the X Rules.”
    It wasn’t immediately clear which rule or rules had been violated, but the account’s first message was a standard Islamic greeting which said, “In the name of God, the most merciful.”
    The second post is translated as follows: “Zionists are making a miscalculation with respect to Iran. They don’t know Iran. They still haven’t been able to correctly understand the power, initiative, and determination of the Iranian people.”
    This statement had also been issued on the English account, and was connected with a speech the Ayatollah gave. The messaging comes in the wake of the overnight Friday Israeli airstrikes on military facilities in Iran, in response to the Oct.1st ballistic missile attack on Israel.
    But the message didn’t seem particularly threatening to Israel or any particular group – though it’s possible that X took issue with the Ayatollah directing a message in Hebrew to “Zionists”… perhaps. https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/ayatollah-khamenei-creates-hebrew-language-x-account-which-gets-suspended-day

    Not the CIA, I hope. “Colossal” Exodus: +200,000 WaPo Subscriber Cancellations After Bezos Blocks Harris-Walz Endorsement https://www.zerohedge.com/political/colossal-mass-exodus-over-200000-wapo-subscriber-cancellations-after-bezos-blocks-harris

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    zerosum
    Participant

    Word Salad

    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/leftists-are-terrified-about-what-will-happen-them-if-trump-wins-election#google_vignette
    Leftists Are Terrified About What Will Happen To Them If Trump Wins The Election

    Everybody is lying/pretending/acting/denying.
    Everybody is doing name calling/insulting/trash talk.
    Everybody is racist/snob/elitists/arrogant/bias.
    ————
    PRESIDENT TRUMP:
    We are running against something far bigger than Joe or Kamala and more powerful than them, which is a massive, vicious, crooked, radical left machine that runs today’s Democrat Party.”
    Trump further asserted that Biden and Harris are “perfect vessels because they’ll never give them a hard time.
    They’ll do whatever they want.” He continued, “I know many of them.
    It’s just an amorphous group of people.
    But they’re smart and they’re vicious, and we have to defeat them.
    And when I say the ‘enemy from within,’ the other side go crazy.”

    Trump added that these people “are doing such harm to our country with their open border policies, record-setting inflation, ‘Green New Scam,’ and everything else they are doing.
    But we’re not going to let it happen any longer. We’re going to have the biggest victory in the history of our country on November 5 …
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    Math problem, fiscal solvency
    Replace income tax with levies, tariffs,
    • Trump’s 19th-Century Solution to Fiscal Disaster (David Stockman)
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    • How America Was Destroyed (Paul Craig Roberts)

    Those who control the Democrat Party are concerned about Kamala’s election chances.
    Little wonder.
    She represents the most anti-American, anti-Constitution, anti-white, anti-peace regime in US history.
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    John Day
    Participant

    Professor Anthony Hall on Thierry Meyssan’s article about successful spies and traitors: Iran-Israel Relations Are Not What They Seem
    Is Iran Implicated in Israel’s Assassination of Hezbollah’s Commanders?
    Meyssan concludes his account with a blockbuster of a comment describing how it was that the Israeli Armed Forces have succeeded in assassinating so many of the high-ranking commanders of Hezbollah. Some of the lethal hits on high-ranking Hezbollah officials have entailed massive bombing assaults on southern Beirut apartment complexes where thousands of civilians are being indiscriminately slaughtered, Gaza-style. Those targeted and killed include Hezbollah’s martyred General-Secretary, Hassan Nasrallah…
    ..The largest part of Meyssan’s brief essay addresses his finding that the assault on Hezbollah’s leadership has been facilitated by a spy working for Israel within Iran’s security and intelligence apparatus.
    Meyssan outlines the dynamics of factionalism within the Iranian side when it comes to the conduct of relations with Israel…
    ..Meyssan explains further the historical background of how it was that an agent of Israel within the Iranian government released information that proved to be instrumental in Israel’s decapitation of a significant portion of Hezbollah’s top leadership…
    ..Right up to the present day, the Iran-Contra episode in the 1980s did much to shape the political culture of Iran-Israel relations. Two former Iranian Presidents, Ali Akbar Rafsanjani and Hassan Rouhani, were deeply involved in the Iran-Contra episode that became the basis of a major scandal that rocked the final years in the late 1980s of Ronald Reagan’s two-term presidency…
    ..The efforts of the Reagan election team to establish relations with the Islamic Republic of Iran would prove to have sweeping implications. The US Executive branch together with the governments of Israel and Iran would become increasingly accustomed to dealing secretly with one another. The flow of weapons and money between the three polities became a key to developing the means for funding the raids of the Contras on Nicaragua. The transactions were structured in this way to escape the financial oversight of Congress.
    On the US side these covert operations comprising the Iran-Contra episode took place under the auspices of Oliver North, a US Marine Corps officer and a member of the National Security Council. North teamed up Elliot Abrams, a Zionist kingpin in the US State Department whose unrelenting Israel First orientation is well known…
    ..Elliot Abrams became a leading neocon who played an instrumental role in the Project for the New American Century. PNAC was a key organization in the genesis of the 9/11 false flag and in the staffing of the post-9/11 war cabinet of US President George W. Bush. Like Antony Blinken, Abrams is a good example of the large array of Jewish Zionists who pursue Israel First objectives in the name of formulating US foreign policy.
    Thierry Meyseen picks up the story of Abrams as a key player in putting together the primary figures in Israel’s current Netanyahu government. Meyssan writes,
    “Elliott Abrams organized Benjamin Netanyahu’s last election campaign, his alliance with the Kahanists (Itamar Ben-Gvir’s Jewish Force and Bezalel Smotrich’s Jewish Home) to reform the revisionist Zionist movement (of the fascist Zeev Jabotinsky [5]) and his transformation of Israeli legal constitutional rules (what the opposition and many commentators have called a “coup d’état”).”…
    ..In Iran those described by the Israeli government as “moderates” derived wealth and influence from the Iran-Contra transactions that continue to define many important alignments of power within the Islamic Republic.
    “Moderates” Ali Rafsanjani and Hassan Rouhani held Iran’s presidency for much of the period between 1997 and 2021. Their approach to governance was quite different from that of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad who held the Office of Iranian President from 2005 to 2013.
    Ahmadinejad persevered in spite of the tsunami of bad media coverage he received in response to the his organization in 2006 of the International Conference to Review the Global Vision of the Holocaust.
    Ahmadinejad’s nationalist and rationalist attitude can be seen in his insistence on drawing attention to a basic problems he sees inside the Iranian government. His observations beg the question: How was it possible for the very individual meant to protect the country from Mossad’s intrusions to actually be an Israeli agent who was able to go undiscovered from 2011 to 2021? https://anthonyjhall.substack.com/p/iran-israel-relations-are-not-what

    That article: Iran and Israel, by Thierry Meyssan
    We are making a serious mistake in thinking that all of Iran is opposed to Israel’s colonization of Palestine. A group of Iranians, albeit a minority, still hopes to revive trade with the West at the cost of an agreement with the genocidal regime of Benyamin Netanyahu. https://www.voltairenet.org/article221335.html

    Oil is thicker than water, as this joint Israeli-Iranian pipeline from the 1960s illustrates. Israel and Iran collaborate to exploit the Eilat-Ashkelon pipeline https://www.voltairenet.org/article199332.html

    Eleni sends this well explained 10 minute perspective of how the independence of the peoples of the “Greater Syria” area was crushed by England and France after WW-1:
    How a British Spy Destroyed Palestine, Syria, and Lebanon [Untold Story] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFXrX1867wA

    Slaughtering everybody in the trap. Entire northern Gaza population at risk of dying – UN
    “The entire population of north Gaza is at risk of dying,” Joyce Msuya, acting Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and UN Emergency Relief Coordinator, warned on Saturday, in a post on X (formerly Twitter).
    Israel has struck hospitals in the region, detained health workers and prevented first responders from rescuing people trapped under the rubble, according to the official. “Shelters have been emptied and burned down…families have been separated, and men and boys taken away by the truckload,” she said, adding that “such blatant disregard for basic humanity and for the laws of war must stop.” https://swentr.site/news/606581-un-northern-gaza-dying-population/

    #172852
    John Day
    Participant

    The UNRWA was formed to take care of Palestinian refugees from the Nakba. It keeps all of the records of what families lived where, to facilitate their Right-of-Return.
    Crippling UNRWA: The Knesset’s Collective Punishment of Palestinians
    The campaign against UNRWA by the Israeli state has been relentless and pathological. Even before last year’s October 7 attacks by Hamas, much was made of the fact that the body seemed intent on keeping the horrors of the 1948 displacements current. Victimhood, complained the amnesiac enforcers of the Israeli state, was being encouraged by treating the descendants of displaced Palestinians as refugees. Nasty memories were being kept alive. https://www.globalresearch.ca/unrwa-knesset-collective-punishment-palestinians/5871178

    Israel wiping out Gaza health sector to ‘kill as many as possible’
    The last two functioning hospitals in the northern Gaza Strip are besieged and under constant Israeli attacks https://thecradle.co/articles/israel-wiping-out-gaza-health-sector-to-kill-as-many-as-possible

    Israel’s Netanyahu rejects Egyptian cease-fire initiative in Gaza
    Egypt’s president suggests two-day truce in Gaza, with aim of extending it to permanent peace https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/israel-s-netanyahu-rejects-egyptian-cease-fire-initiative-in-gaza/3376539

    Israeli Strikes Have Killed 164 Health Workers in Lebanon, Lebanon’s Health Ministry has recorded 58 Israeli attacks on hospitals https://news.antiwar.com/2024/10/27/israeli-strikes-have-killed-164-health-workers-in-lebanon/#gsc.tab=0

    Israeli Airstrikes Kill Nine Civilians, Including Child, in Southern Lebanon Town, Target was not inside evacuation areas in region https://news.antiwar.com/2024/10/27/israeli-airstrikes-kill-eight-civilians-including-child-in-southern-lebanon-town/#gsc.tab=0

    #172853
    John Day
    Participant

    Israel Kills Five Journalists in Sunday Gaza Attacks, Three journalists were among 9 civilians killed in a shelter https://news.antiwar.com/2024/10/27/israel-kills-five-journalists-in-sunday-gaza-attacks/#gsc.tab=0

    Israeli Forces Leave Trail of Destruction at Kamal Adwan Hospital in Northern Gaza
    Israeli troops withdrew from the hospital on Saturday after detaining staff members and killing the director’s son https://news.antiwar.com/2024/10/27/israeli-forces-leave-trail-of-destruction-at-kamal-adwan-hospital-in-northern-gaza/#gsc.tab=0

    Larry Johnson on news of North Korean Troops in Russia: Israel and Ukraine Gaslighting to Cover Up Failures
    Now it has become clear why the North Korea issue is being actively stirred up during the SMO. South Korea is sending its soldiers and officers to fight in Ukraine… Last week, the first 16 pilots from South Korea’s 19th Air Wing arrived at NATO’s Romanian air base near Mihail Kogalniceanu. Apparently, South Korea sent the first squadron of the air wing, the most prepared and combat-ready, to the war in full force. This means they are planning to throw them into battle immediately.
    Currently, the F-16 fighters allocated to Ukraine are also in Romania – at the Fetești air base on the border with Moldova. As soon as the South Korean pilots go there, this will be an indicator of the imminent use of these aircraft in Ukraine. In addition to the F-16 pilots, pilots of South Korean T-50 combat training aircraft, which are used in the southern army as light attack aircraft, have arrived at the air base in the commune of Mikhail Kogalniceanu. https://www.unz.com/article/israel-and-ukraine-gaslighting-to-cover-up-failures/

    But Dude, that’s not “Ukraine” at all… NATO Chief Says North Korean Troops Are Helping Regain Territory In Russia’s Kursk
    At a press conference in Brussels, which reportedly followed a private briefing by South Korean intelligence officials, Rutte claimed that there is intelligence confirming that North Korean military units have been deployed to Russia’s southwest Kursk region. The Kursk region has been subject of a Ukrainian cross-border offensive which began in early August. It shocked Kremlin leadership, given Ukrainian soldiers were able to hold on to hundreds of kilometers of territory. https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/nato-chief-says-north-korean-troops-are-helping-regain-territory-russias-kursk

    ​Simplicius has update on Russian advances and North Korean allies getting trained: Russia Unleashes Lightning Advances in South as ‘Red Scare’ Hits Fever Pitch
    https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/sitrep-102824-russia-unleashes-lightning

    #172854
    John Day
    Participant

    Here is a 32 second video of former Bolivian President Evo Morales as front passenger in a car just shot up through front and rear windows, with the driver’s head bleeding:
    https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/1850529326581649668

    US Approves $2 Billion in New Arms Deals for Taiwan, The sales are for NASAMS air defense systems and radar systems https://news.antiwar.com/2024/10/27/us-approves-2-billion-in-new-arms-deals-for-taiwan/#gsc.tab=0

    Would you like more overkill with that? US Intelligence Says China Leading ‘Rapid Expansion’ Of Nuclear Arsenal
    “Nuclear Challenges 2024”
    The detailed 194-page document includes an overview of chief nuclear-armed powers and rivals of the United States, focusing especially on countries with “mature nuclear weapons programs” which are said to be “increasing stockpiles” or else “modernizing their legacy stockpiles by incorporating advanced technologies to penetrate or avoid missile defense systems” – such as North Korea.
    “Countries are also developing nuclear weapons with smaller yields, improved precision, and increased range for military or coercive use,” the DIA says.
    One nation’s program is gaining the most attention as a result of the DIA report, and that’s China. The intelligence agency assesses the country under President Xi is undergoing a huge and rapid expanse of its nuclear arsenal, which is the biggest in its history, assuming the projection is accurate.
    The “Nuclear Challenges 2024” assesses that China is on track to possess more than 1,000 operational nuclear warheads by 2030. https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-intelligence-says-china-leading-rapid-expansion-nuclear-arsenal

    ​Meryl Nass MD, 40 minutes on the WHO, UN, the development of the environmental movement and its hijacking by globalists, food, and where we got politically and what needs to happen this year, My talk at the Alaskans for Personal Freedom Conference https://merylnass.substack.com/p/40-minutes-on-the-who-un-the-development

    Pfizer knew about the horrific effects in pregnancy and just lied, “safe and effective”. Extra! The Pfizer Papers: Pfizer’s Crimes Against Humanity
    Read this astonishing excerpt of Naomi Wolf and Amy Kelly’s new book that blows apart the big pharma, U.S. government, and big media global cover-up of the crime of the century.​ https://rescue.substack.com/p/extra-the-pfizer-papers-pfizers-crimes

    #172855
    John Day
    Participant

    ​ Choose NO POISON, but… mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines Found to Have Greatest Cardiac Risk, Pfizer and Moderna More Dangerous than Janssen, AstraZeneca, and Novavax https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/mrna-covid-19-vaccines-found-to-have

    The SV40 (Simian Virus 40) sequence accidentally got into some Polio vaccines in the late 1950s and early 1960s and caused a rash of cancers in the children who had received it. Don’t put SV40 in vaccines! Health Canada, SV40 and ATIPs: Part 2 September to October 2023​
    This is a continuation of Part 1 which documents the ATIPs at Health Canada and the presence of SV40 sequences. I’ve been asked to write a brief Executive Summary which I am generally reluctant to do, since you can lose detail and context, and then these statements can be used against the writer…
    ..Scientists at the vaccine division of Health Canada verify the presence of the SV40 promoter/enhancer immediately after finding out about it from Noé Chartier at the Epoch Times who sent them Kevin McKernan’s preprint from April 2023. They then initiate an Issue Analysis Summary (IAS) to investigate with the goal of removing these sequences and possibly restricting or removing the vaccine altogether. Several questions are sent to Pfizer for explanation and justification, but Pfizer tells Health Canada, they feel there is no problem and that no other regulator is asking these questions. Health Canada then takes the next 3 months trying to get the EMA and FDA on board. The EMA is willing but the FDA drag their feet until October (sometime after Dr. Phillip Buckhaults’ presentation to the South Carolina Senate, which went viral). Finally they agree that Pfizer needs to “remedy” the situation.
    Pfizer submits the required documentation on the DNA fragments and role of the SV40 enhancer/promoter to Health Canada and admit they used a multipurpose plasmid (which could also conceivable be used for gene therapy). They also do not appear to present data regarding the risk of the DNA fragments and possible entry into the nucleus. In fact some of the references used as justification that there is no problem, actually show a risk. https://mariagutschi.substack.com/p/health-canada-sv40-and-atips-part-5e7

    Maybe halfway, maybe not at all… You go first, Elon. Would astronauts’ kidneys survive a roundtrip to Mars? https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2024/jun/would-astronauts-kidneys-survive-roundtrip-mars

    #172856
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Steve Bannon threatening Victoria Nuland:

    “Victoria Nulan, preserve your documents. Lawyer up, baby because we are coming for you. You are the fountain head of everything about this Ukraine situation”

    Just another idle threat Steve?

    I’ve heard this ‘tough talk’ before and it was just one more in an endless serving of Nothingburgers

    Tell me you’re going to cut that bitch’s head off and piss down her neck hole.

    I might pay attention Bannon, otherwise you’re just a gas-baguette posing

    Free at last, free at last, thank God Almighty I’m free at last

    .

    #172857
    Oroboros
    Participant

    All Talk No Action on wiping out these Traitors to the Republic

    Four years later, no justice, just pie-holes flapping in the breeze

    Duh’merica you’re such a pathetic excuse, a cesspool of corruption masquerading as a country

    .

    #172858
    tboc
    Participant

    my memory is not what it once was but i seem to remember reading a document that contained Article I and Article III.
    Article II was nestled comfortably between Articles I and III and the three were always seen as checks and balances upon one another. The remaining four articles further define and limit the powers created and distributed within the first three articles.

    There exists within the existing federal departments at least three positions where Mr. Kennedy could pursue a health initiative.

    The secretary of the Treasury cannot, or will not, order an audit of the Federal Reserve Bank. Nothing there to act as an agent of change.
    Under which clause of Article II of the Constitution would an Office of Efficiency be created? What of the Senate and advise and consent? Creating a new Federal Department as an Executive Order?
    Limiting the imperial presidency by expanding the same?
    Please remember the US is funded by continuing resolution. An executive branch attempting an end run around The Congress would find itself attempting an end run ending at the line of scrimmage.
    Are we to have a Secretary of Good Ideas or just a Council of Good Ideas?
    Whatever the mechanism, the oath to assume office will contain the phrase “protect and defend The Constitution of The United States”. Do you think the prime candidate for such an office is going to accept limited authority as a prerequisite for the position?

    “Danger, Will Robinson”

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