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Debt Rattle November 17 2024

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• The Revolution of 2024 (Jeffrey A. Tucker)
• Trump Will Bring Justice, Not Revenge (Jim Rickards)
• Tulsi Gabbard, The New US Intel Chief (SCF)
• RFK Jr. Is Poised To Save The Health And Lives Of Millions Of Americans (Hill)
• What Could Trump 2.0 Mean for US Healthcare? (Sp.)
• Why Voters Trusted The GOP More On Democracy (Turley)
• Rachel Maddow Claims Trump is Trying To “Destroy The US Government” (MN)
• Pentagon Spends $187 Mln on Audit, Fails Seventh Year in a Row (Sp.)
• Trump Team To Write Off ‘Project Ukraine’ as Sunk Cost (Sp.)
• Zelensky Wants To Intensify Military Draft (RT)
• Ex-FM Warns Of Potential ‘Internal Collapse’ In Ukraine (RT)
• Moscow Continues To Warn The West About The Risk Of Nuclear Escalation (SCF)
• War Games Show UK’s Flagship Aircraft Carriers ‘Get Sunk’ Every Time (Sp.)
• The Novichok Attack Was A British Operation, Not A Russian One (Helmer)
• Climate-Change Debate ‘Heats Up’ With Collum, Keen, Fleckenstein (ZH)

 

 

 

 

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“We are barely ten days into the realization of what just transpired and the entire lay of the land seems different, like a tectonic shift in politics, culture, mood, and possibilities..”

• The Revolution of 2024 (Jeffrey A. Tucker)

People are out and about, smiling at each other. It’s been true since the morning after the election, the results of which defied every prediction. Who doesn’t like to see the smug elites who have ruled the world for five awful years taken down a peg? More than that, there are hints of a return to sanity. Mainstream advertisers are suddenly returning to X, putting their economic interest above their tribalist loyalties. The editor of pro-lockdowns Scientific American, which had long blessed totalitarian measures as true science, has resigned. The attempt to pillage InfoWars and give it to The Onion has been reversed by a federal judge. That might be a fluke or might not be: maybe the lawfare is dialing back too. The cabinet of the incoming administration is being filled by voices that were fully censored for years. Employees are reportedly packing their bags at the FDA and other agencies.

Mainstream news commentators are sputtering around with less bravado than they have shown in years. CNN is firing major personalities. Trump is talking about abolishing the income tax and granting $10K in tax credits per homeschooled child, not to mention blowing up college accreditation systems, among other sweeping changes. The American Bastille day is coming, not only freeing the political prisoners of January 6 but also many of the unjustly persecuted including Ross Ulbricht, Roger Ver, and Ian Freeman, among so many others. That will be a day of rejoicing. Oh, and peace seems to have broken out in some contentious areas of the world, for now. What is happening? This is not the usual transfer of the resident of the White House. This is starting to look like an actual transfer of power, not just from Biden to Trump but from the permanent government – ensconced in many sectors – that has been long in hiding to an entirely new form of government responsive to actual voters.

As it turns out, there was no late surge for Kamala Harris. All the polls were wrong, and the rest was media blather. What was correct were the betting odds on Polymarket, and only days later, the FBI raided the 26-year-old founder’s home and confiscated his phone and laptop. There are still many millions of missing voters, people who supposedly showed up for Biden in 2020 but stayed home this time. Meanwhile, there has been a historic shift in all races, ethnicities, and regions, with even the possibility of flipping California from blue to red in the future. After decades of academic slicing and dicing of the population according to ever more eccentric identity buckets involving race, ethnicity, gender, and sexual interest, along with countless thousands of studies documenting deep complexity over intersectionality, the driving force of the election was simple: class, and the few intellectuals and some wealthy entrepreneurs who understand that.

The division was not really left vs right. It was workers vs laptoppers, wage earners vs six-figure stay-at-homers, bottom half vs top 5 percent, people with actual skills vs weaponized resume wielders, and those with affection for old-world values vs those whose educations have beaten it out of them for purposes of career advancement. The silent majority has never been so suddenly loud. It just so happened that the heavily privileged had come to inhabit easily identifiable sectors of American society and, in the end, had no choice but hitch the whole of the overclass wagon to the fortunes of a candidate like themselves (Kamala) but who was unable to pull off a compelling masquerade. Not even a parade of well-paid celebrity endorsements could save her from total rebuke at the polls. Sylvester Stallone called Trump a second George Washington but another reference point might be Andrew Jackson.

The overwhelming victory for Trump is on a scale not seen since 1828 when, four years after the presidency was stolen from Jackson, Old Hickory came back in a wild landslide and cleaned up Washington. Trump arrives in Washington with a mandate for the same, with 81% of the public demanding that the government shrink in size and power. It has all happened so quickly. We are barely ten days into the realization of what just transpired and the entire lay of the land seems different, like a tectonic shift in politics, culture, mood, and possibilities. We are even seeing blunt and open talk about the horrendous Covid response that so utterly demoralized the country and the world, after years of silence on the topic. We have promised hearings coming, and court cases galore now on fast track. The sudden coming together of three great sectors of anti-establishment fury – MAGA, MAHA, and DOGE – in the last two months of the election of 2024 is one for the ages.

It provides the beginnings of an answer to the great question on our minds for decades: how precisely does an authentic revolution take root in an industrialized Western democracy? Are elections capable of delivering real results? For now, the answer seems to be yes. That should thrill any responsible observer of social, cultural, economic, and political affairs. It means that the early architects of the American system were not wrong. The intolerable costs of political upheaval of ages past can be mitigated by planting power firmly in the hands of the people through the plebiscite. This was their view and their gamble. All the evidence of our time points to the wisdom of the idea. In the darkest days of the last year of the first Trump presidency, the bureaucracy was riding high, in full revenge mode against an elected government it hated and sought to overthrow. The agencies were passing strange edicts that felt like laws but no one knew for sure. You are essential, you are not. You must stay home, unless you have an emergency. Your elective surgery needs to wait. The kids cannot go to school. That European vacation cannot happen.

You can eat at a restaurant but only if you are six feet away from other patrons and you must put this China-made cloth on your mouth if you get up to go to the restroom. The flurry of edicts was mind-boggling. It felt like martial law, because it was some form of exactly that. The best research points to the astonishing reality that this was never really a public-health response but a scheme by security and intelligence sectors to enact some kind of global color revolution, which is why the policies were so similar the world over. It was indeed an awesome display of power, one that invaded all our communities, homes, and families. No one knows this better than Team Trump, even if there has been near silence on the topic for all these years. They have had time to put the pieces together and figure out what happened and why. And they carefully, and in seclusion worthy of a Cistercian monastery, plotted their return, leaving nothing to chance.

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“The departments and agencies that have been weaponized will be completely overhauled.”

• Trump Will Bring Justice, Not Revenge (Jim Rickards)

The persecution and prosecution of President Donald Trump is finally winding down. Jack Smith, a primary player in the lawfare campaign against Trump, has filed to dismiss the case involving classified documents at Mar-a-Lago. Rep. Jim Jordan has instructed Special Counsel Smith to preserve all records related to the cases. The Deep State tried everything to make Trump lose. In total, 91 frivolous felony charges were thrown at the former president. All so they could brand him a felon, tie up resources and prevent him from campaigning. Then there was the January 6th “insurrection”, multiple Russian collusion hoaxes and countless media lies. The Deep State even prosecuted his advisers, such as 75-year-old famed economist Peter Navarro, who was the first former White House official ever imprisoned on a contempt-of-court charge. This dignified gentleman was frog-marched into prison as part of a political persecution campaign.

The entire affair was a disgrace to the nation. On Election Day, Americans rejected this vile lawfare. And soon, it will be time for justice. With GOP control over both sides of the Congress and a near-landslide win, Trump has a mandate from the American people to pursue it aggressively. President Trump has not been shy about his intentions, stating, “The departments and agencies that have been weaponized will be completely overhauled.” On day one, he promised to reissue his executive order allowing the President to remove “rogue bureaucrats” from their positions. Trump promised to “wield that power very aggressively” against the Deep State. Our once and future President even promised to establish a “Truth and Reconciliation Commission”, opening the books on issues including the JFK assassination, illicit spying, and government corruption. I can’t wait to see what it uncovers. Trump’s recent speech was packed full of details on how he plans to drain the swamp. He starts strong and keeps going:

“This is how I will shatter the Deep State and restore government that is controlled by the people and for the people… Make every Inspector General’s office independent and physically separated from the departments they oversee so they do not become the protectors of the Deep State… Launch a major crackdown on government leakers who collude with the fake news to deliberately create false narratives and to subvert our government and our democracy… Clean out all of the corrupt actors in our national security and intelligence apparatus… Push a constitutional amendment to oppose term limits on members of Congress. “Shatter the Deep State”. No ambiguity there.

Some will call what is coming revenge. But this will not be revenge. It will be justice. The distinction is important. I would fully support justice here if the shoe was on the other foot, and the GOP were the offending party. This type of behavior simply cannot stand. It undermines and corrupts the entire system. Re-establishing a just and fair government is critical. It will be difficult, but I believe Trump will succeed this time. He has learned from the mistakes of his first term. Trump has the right people around today. He has already rejected the idea of inviting Nikki Haley or Mike Pompeo to join the new administration.

This is an excellent sign of things to come. Given the mandate, the appointment of Attorney General will be particularly important. I have my eye on Mike Davis. He is the exact type of person this position calls for. Tough as nails, fair, and dedicated to cleaning up the system. I’ve met the man, and he’s just the type of person required for this job. The stage is set for a historic draining of the swamp. Of course, there is still the potential for last-minute desperation moves by the Democrats, including their plan to disqualify Trump using the “insurrection clause”. But given my prediction that Congress will be controlled by Republicans, I think we’ll be in the clear in that department.

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“..in The Atlantic, an establishment mouthpiece, Gabbard was denounced as a “threat to the security of the United States.” That’s a staggering charge to levy on the person who is going to be head of national security..”

• Tulsi Gabbard, The New US Intel Chief (SCF)

The nomination of Tulsi Gabbard as the United States intelligence supremo has sent shockwaves through the American and NATO establishments. The Western news media – always a dutiful echo chamber for deep-state policymakers – is reverberating with horror at her nomination by President-elect Donald Trump. That reaction is a good sign that something significant has happened. The potential appointment of Gabbard as Director of National Intelligence (DNI) could be the most consequential decision yet by Trump in forming his cabinet. If one move could signal the foreign policy direction under the 47th president, Gabbard’s nomination is the most salient and potentially the most constructive on the key issue of world peace. Time magazine headlined with the U.S. intelligence community’s response to Gabbard’s selection. “We are reeling,” it was reported. Reuters reported that the Western “spy world is vexed.” Meanwhile, in The Atlantic, an establishment mouthpiece, Gabbard was denounced as a “threat to the security of the United States.”

That’s a staggering charge to levy on the person who is going to be head of national security. It is almost hilarious to see the apoplectic reaction in the U.S. establishment and its servile mainstream media. CNN’s news anchor Jim Sciutto was distraught in sharing his concerns with colleague Richard Quest, remarking that Gabbard’s views “contradict” almost everything about U.S. foreign policies. If we may paraphrase that exchange, the sentiments were: Oh my God, how terrible! Whatever shall we say now about all the lies we have been spinning for years and getting fat salaries for? After all, as far as the U.S. corporate media are concerned, especially those channels and newspapers associated with the Democrats, the establishment, and the deep state intelligence apparatus, Tulsi Gabbard has been smeared as a “Russian asset.” It is indeed profoundly challenging – one might even say, earth-shattering – to the deep state if Gabbard becomes Director of National Intelligence.

As with Trump’s other cabinet picks, the nominations will have to be approved by Senate panels. So there is a while to go before her post is confirmed. A lot can change or be derailed. Trump’s cabinet picks this week have been keenly watched by observers trying to discern the future foreign policies of the next presidency, which begins in January after his inauguration. Trump’s early call-ups this week of hawkish figures Pete Hegseth for defense and Marco Rubio for secretary of state caused dismay among some critics of U.S. foreign policy who wanted a fundamental break from warmongering and hostility toward Russia, China, and Iran, among others. Then came Trump’s selection of Tulsi Gabbard. The former Congresswoman has gained wide popular American and international respect for her outspoken and independent criticism of U.S. militarism in the Middle East and Ukraine.

However, the U.S. political establishment and media have slandered her as a “traitor” and a “Russian asset” for her views criticizing Washington’s regime change wars in Syria and the Middle East. In 2017, Gabbard traveled to Syria and met with President Bashar al-Assad. She spoke out against Washington’s covert policy of sponsoring terrorist militia for regime change in Damascus. For telling the truth, she was vilified as an “apologist” for Assad. More recently, the “apologist” slur was thrown at her again after Gabbard opposed the U.S. and NATO’s arming of the Kiev regime and the proxy war against Russia. She said that the conflict in Ukraine could have been avoided if Russia’s security concerns about NATO’s threatening expansion had been taken into consideration. How refreshing to hear that sanity and objectivity.

In a twisted way, the CNN clapping seals are correct. Her views on the conflict in Ukraine do indeed contradict the U.S. establishment and media’s propaganda about “Russian aggression.” Her views unequivocally debunk the wall-to-wall “news” propaganda as false and serve as a warning to the public that NATO’s lies are dragging the world into a nuclear war. The role of Tulsi Gabbard in the second Trump administration – if she makes it through Senate vetting – cannot be overstated. In her DNI capacity, she is the intel supremo who oversees the CIA and NSA. Through her daily briefings to the president, Gabbard will play a crucial role in President Trump’s foreign policymaking. Given Trump’s freewheeling style, it can be fairly assumed that Gabbard’s input into policymaking will have much greater influence than the secretaries of defense or state. She will call the shots, and Trump will designate Hegseth, Rubio, and others to follow suit on the policies.

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“..the secretary of State, Defense, Treasury or Interior is a very important position. But measurable progress can often be incremental. But imagine being the “Secretary of Saving Human Lives.”

• RFK Jr. Is Poised To Save The Health And Lives Of Millions Of Americans (Hill)

What is the value of someone who has the potential to literally save millions of lives and improve the health of tens of millions of children and adults? We may be on the verge of revolutionizing America’s failing health care system for the better, and two men will be responsible: President-elect Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Trump has long been a fan of Kennedy’s intellect, independence from special interests, passion, empathy and connection with the American people. Trump also no doubt realizes that Kennedy’s value to his incoming administration is immeasurable, as RFK Jr. can wear multiple hats of expertise. Trump has picked him to run the Department of Health and Human Services. And it is from under that HHS hat that Kennedy will transform our “sick-care” industry and literally save millions of lives in the process.

Anyone paying attention to the utter catastrophe that has become America’s “health care” industry knows that this is not political hyperbole or an exaggeration. It is an outright obscenity that we are losing so many Americans to entirely preventable causes. Three days before the election, I wrote about “The 2 decisions that crushed Harris’s momentum.” One was Harris’s selection of Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate. The other, and more important of the two, was Kennedy suspending his campaign and endorsing Trump. “One of the main reasons is the ‘mom vote,’” I wrote. “Kennedy’s endorsement will potentially bring millions of previously ambivalent female voters to the table for Trump. Why? Because they are moms who are worried about the health and wellbeing of their children and have long believed that Kennedy was one of the few people in public life who would protect those children. This is a much bigger deal than the media realizes or will acknowledge. It is a real game changer. Toward that end, these moms want Trump to win so he will bring Kennedy into his cabinet.”

After the column ran, I heard from many mothers confirming that exact point. Said one: “Yep, as one of those ‘mom votes’ who was dying to vote for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. I will now vote for the unity party.” After Kennedy got out of the race and Trump welcomed him with open arms, the two created what future historians may record as the most important health care movement in the history of our nation. It is a grassroots phenomenon spreading like wildfire as more and more parents and adults wake up to the chemicals and poisons being introduced into their bodies against their will. On Nov. 6, Kennedy posted: “President Trump has asked me to do three things: 1. Clean up the corruption in our government health agencies. 2. Return those agencies to their rich tradition of gold-standard, evidence-based science. 3. Make America Healthy Again by ending the chronic disease epidemic.”

In the speech announcing the suspension of his campaign and his unequivocal endorsement of Trump, Kennedy ticked off some truly horrifying statistics. “We spend more on health care than any country on Earth,” he said. “Nobody has a chronic disease burden like we have … Two-thirds of American adults and children suffer from chronic health issues. Fifty years ago, that number was less than 1 percent. So, we’ve gone from 1 percent to 66 percent. In America, 74 percent of Americans are now overweight or obese, and 50 percent of our children… Half of Americans have pre-diabetes or type two diabetes…And this is a crisis that 77 percent of our kids are too disabled to serve in the United States military. What is happening to our country and why isn’t this in the headlines every single day?…

“Cancer rates are skyrocketing in the young and the old. Young adult cancers are up 79 percent … So, what’s causing this suffering? I’ll name two culprits. First and the worst is ultra-processed food. About 70 percent of American children’s diet is ultra-processed. That means industrial manufactured in a factory … The second culprit is toxic chemicals in our food and our medicine, in our environment … The assault on our children’s cells and hormones is unrelenting.” Unfortunately, what is also “unrelenting” is the opposition to Kennedy from Big Pharma, Big Agriculture and special interests that realize hundreds of billions in profits at the direct expense of the health of every man, woman and child in America. In opposing that massive force, Kennedy is in the fight for our lives.

To be sure, being the secretary of State, Defense, Treasury or Interior is a very important position. But measurable progress can often be incremental. But imagine being the “Secretary of Saving Human Lives.” If Kennedy is even halfway successful in his quest to save the American people — and especially our children — from the life-robbing threats of ultra-processed foods and toxic chemicals, he can potentially save or improve tens of millions of lives over the next four years. That “cure” that will transcend every demographic and income level. Under the direction of Trump, Kennedy may turn ignorance to acceptance, acceptance to hope, hope to belief and belief to results. Again, what is the value of someone who literally has the potential to save millions of lives and improve the health of tens of millions of children and adults? I suspect we are about to find out.

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“If we can come up with a plan that’s going to cost our people, our population, less money, and provide better health care than Obamacare, then I would absolutely do it.”

• What Could Trump 2.0 Mean for US Healthcare? (Sp.)

US President-elect Donald Trump has tapped Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be his Department of Health and Human Services Secretary tasked with fixing America’s raging health crisis. Donald Trump has promised to “bring down costs” and increase the quality of US healthcare. What changes can be expected?
• During his first term, Trump tried but failed to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA), aka Obamacare. Trump called Obamacare “lousy health care” and floated replacing it, saying, “If we can come up with a plan that’s going to cost our people, our population, less money, and provide better health care than Obamacare, then I would absolutely do it.”
• Trump has vowed to protect Medicare, the federal health insurance program for people aged 65 or older and younger people with disabilities.
• Cuts to Medicaid, the largest government health-insurance program that covers low-income Americans, may be expected under Trump.
• During his first term, Trump proposed cutting the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and eliminating the Medicaid expansion that was passed as part of the ACA.
• A work requirement might be added for some able-bodied adult beneficiaries, with federal spending on the program capped.
• Trump has promised to veto a federal abortion ban “under any circumstances”, saying, “It is up to the states to decide.”
• Trump didn’t rule out banning certain vaccines, promising to “make a decision” after Robert F. Kennedy Jr. – now tapped to be his HHS chief – hinted at the possibility of ending vaccine mandates. With an estimated 108,000 people dying from drug overdoses in the US last year, Trump blamed it on the migrant crisis. Although he criminalized all fentanyl-related substances in 2018, overdose deaths continued to soar.

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“..there is work to be done as a nation committed to the rule of law. We cannot win at any cost when that cost is the very thing that defines us.”

• Why Voters Trusted The GOP More On Democracy (Turley)

“People violate laws any time they want.” Those words, shrugging off an alleged unlawful move last week, did not come from some Chicago gangbanger or Washington car thief. Those words of wisdom came from Democrat Commissioner Diane Marseglia in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. They came in response to the fact that the Democratic majority on the election commission had decided to ignore a binding state Supreme Court ruling in an attempt to engineer the election of Democratic incumbent Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.). Rather than prompting a degree of introspection, the loss of both houses of Congress and the White House has had a curious effect on many Democrats, dropping any pretense of protecting democracy over partisanship.

Despite polls showing that the public trusted former president Donald Trump more than Vice President Harris in combatting threats to democracy, Democrats made “saving democracy” the thrust of this election. The polls reflected a certain common sense of the public when harangued with predictions from President Biden, Harris and a host of politicians and pundits that this would likely be our last election. Few believed that after over two centuries as the most stable and successful democracy in history, all three branches would collapse in unison and embrace dictatorship. Even fewer believed the predictions of the rounding up of homosexuals, journalists and political critics for camps in what some described as an American Third Reich. American voters are not chumps and what they saw were strikingly anti-democratic positions from those claiming to be the defenders of democracy, including:

• Seeking to strip Trump from ballots under an unfounded theory rejected unanimously by the Supreme Court.
• Fighting to block opponents of Biden from ballots in the primary and general elections.
• Suing to keep Robert F. Kennedy on ballots after his withdrawal in swing states, in order to confuse voters and reduce the vote for Trump.
• Calling for blocking dozens of incumbent GOP officials and legislators from ballots as “insurrectionists.”
• “Protecting democracy” through the most extensive censorship in history and the blacklisting of opponents.
• Engaging in open and raw lawfare in the prosecutions of Trump in places like New York.

Each of these efforts ultimately failed to stop Trump and was opposed by a majority of voters even before the election. So now, Democrats are dropping the pretense of raw partisanship. That was evident in Bucks County, when a motion arose to reject a challenge to count provisional ballots, including undated or invalidly dated mail ballots. It should have been easy. To its credit, the majority-Democratic Pennsylvania Supreme Court had already refused a Democratic push to change the rules shortly before the election and to ignore the plain language of the election laws. In ordering the rejection of ballots without dates, Justice Kevin Doughtery (joined by Chief Justice Debra Todd) wrote a concurrence declaring “‘This Court will neither impose nor countenance substantial alterations to existing laws and procedures during the pendency of an ongoing election.’ We said those carefully chosen words only weeks ago. Yet they apparently were not heard in the Commonwealth Court, the very court where the bulk of election litigation unfolds.”

It is apparently still not being heard. In the Bucks County hearing, Marseglia spoke as she and Democratic Board chairman Robert Harvie, Jr., dismissed the earlier rulings in order to accept ballots without required signatures or mandatory dates. She declared that she would not second the motion to enforce the rulings “mostly because I think we all know that precedent by a court doesn’t matter anymore in this country and people violate laws any time they want. So, for me, if I violate this law, it’s because I want a court to pay attention to it.” That was a lot of words to say that she does not really seem to care if this is lawful. For his part, Casey has shown the same abandon as he clings to his Senate seat at any cost.

That cost, in this case, was an alliance with Marc Elias, the controversial Democratic lawyer at the center of the infamous Steele Dossier scandal. Elias has been sanctioned in court and criticized for his work to flip elections. He is known for baselessly blaming voting machine errors for electing Republicans and pushing gerrymandering plans rejected by the courts as anti-democratic. Casey is unlikely to change the result without counting defective or challenged ballots. Fortunately, law and precedent “does matter in this country.” There are still officials who can transcend their political preferences to maintain the rule of law. After the last presidential election, many Trump appointees ruled against the former president, and many Democratic judges rejected the effort to strip Trump from ballots.

That does not mean that Democrats who value the weaponization of law will not continue to embrace lawfare warriors like New York Attorney General Letitia James (D). Others will use the rage of these times as a license to ignore legal and ethical obligations altogether. They are arguably the saddest manifestation of our political discord. They are people who have not just lost faith in our system but in themselves. They have become untethered from any defining principle for their own conduct. This election has left them adrift in a sea of moral and legal relativism, with only their rage as a following wind. They cling to that rage as reason vanishes like a distant shore. For the rest of us, there is work to be done as a nation committed to the rule of law. We cannot win at any cost when that cost is the very thing that defines us.

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She’s lost it all. But she can’t stop herself.

• Rachel Maddow Claims Trump is Trying To “Destroy The US Government” (MN)

MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow took a break from claiming she’s about to be thrown into a concentration camp to charge that president Trump is attempting to “destroy” the government. Maddow said, “I think the idea of the authoritarian promise is that everything shrivels in government other than the will of the leader, right?” She further claimed “You don’t necessarily put a Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in charge if you’re hoping for great things from HHS.” “Matt Gaetz, he has explicitly proposed abolishing the Justice Department, not specifically abolishing the FBI and the ATF but talking about abolishing the Justice Department,” she added. Maddow continued to blather, “Tulsi Gabbard as the Director of National Intelligence is, I mean, the idea that Tulsi Gabbard, in a normal circumstance, could get a security clearance to be like a Walmart-style greeter at any U.S. intelligence agency, let alone get past the security barriers, is insane.”

“So, you do that because you want the worst for these agencies, because you want the worst for the U.S. government because you think that the U.S. government is worthless,” she asserted. Why would Trump do all this? Well it’s all a big conspiracy to become a dictator… or something. “That’s part of consolidating power, to make the U.S. government nothing other than the leader and people who will do what he says,” Maddow claimed. She continued, “Steve Bannon used to say, it’s a sort of Leninist project, right? Destroy the state. This is the cabinet that you nominate to, not to run the U.S. government, to do anything, but to destroy the U.S. government.” “So that the U.S. government can be fundamentally reimagined as something much more like a unitary authoritarian or autocratic, for lack of a better term, system,” Maddow concluded, ending her paranoid rant. Or maybe, just maybe, people voted for reform and gave Trump a mandate to implement that, meaning putting people outside of the Washington establishment furniture into key positions.

Yeah, probably more likely that, right. As we highlighted earlier, all the right people are big mad at Trump’s appointments. Add to that list the disgraced former CIA Director John Brennan, who parroted absurd claims that Gabbard is some kind of Russian asset. “Clearly, Tulsi Gabbard has taken actions and made statements over the past several years that raise serious questions about her common sense, judgment, and political sympathies,” Brennan proclaimed. “Cozying up to Putin as well as to Bashar al-Assad shows she doesn’t have the type of perspective needed for someone who is going to head up these 18 intelligence agencies,” he further declared, labelling Gabbard “an unserious pick for a serious position.”

This coming from a guy who pushed the Russia hoax for years, and claimed the Hunter Biden laptop was a Russian psy op. He says everything is a Russian plot. His credibility is shot. Meanwhile, AOC ranted about Gabbard, ridiculously claiming she is “pro-war.” Anyone who has listened to Gabbard talk for more than five minutes knows this is the complete opposite of her actual position.

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“It has never passed, and is the only Cabinet-level department of the federal government never to do so.”

• Pentagon Spends $187 Mln on Audit, Fails Seventh Year in a Row (Sp.)

This year’s financial review, carried out by the DoD’s Office of the Inspector General and an independent accounting firm, employed 1,700 auditors and cost $187 million – slightly more than the entire defense budget of the West African nation of Mauritania. The US spent a record $824 billion on defense in 2024, $27 billion more than a year earlier. The US Department of Defense has failed its seventh consecutive audit, with more than half of its departments unable to provide auditors with sufficient data to accurately evaluate the status of hundreds of billions of dollars’ worth of assets under the Pentagon’s domain.

DoD comptroller and Chief Financial Officer Michael McCord – appointed by President Obama in 2014, and under whom the Pentagon failed every one of its independent audits since they began in 2017, assured in a statement that the Pentagon had “turned a corner in its understanding of the depth and breadth of its challenges” and promises to do better in the future. “Momentum is on our side, and throughout the Department there is strong commitment – and belief in our ability -to achieve an unmodified audit opinion,” McCord said. The Pentagon expects to receive a passing grade by 2028, as required in this year’s National Defense Authorization Act (the annual must-pass Congressional legislation approving the defense budget).

The audit’s failing grade was based on financial inspections of 28 subordinated bodies, with 15 receiving disclaimers (which means auditors were unable to obtain sufficient evidence to form an opinion on the financial statements being audited), nine unmodified audit opinions (that is, a reasonable level of assurance that financial statements represented a true and fair reflection of audit results), one a qualified opinion (issued when auditors identify material misstatements in financial statements), and three opinions which remain pending. Agencies that passed included the DoD’s Defense Commissary Agency (responsible for food supplies to servicemen and their families), the Defense Financial and Accounting Service (which oversees payments to servicemembers, employees, vendors and contractors), and the Defense Health Agency (supplying an ensuring the readiness of military medical commands).

The Defense Information Systems Agency, which provides IT and communications support to the services, the Military Retirement Fund, the National Reconnaissance Office (responsible for the operation of space and ground-based intelligence collection systems worldwide), the US Army Corps of Engineers’ Civil Works agency and the Defense Contract Audit Agency (responsible for contract audits and related financial advisory services) also passed. The Defense Threat Reduction Agency, mentioned in a series of damning intelligence briefings by Russia’s Radiological, Chemical and Biological Defense Troops on US illicit military biological activities in Ukraine and across the globe, also got a passing grade. McCord defended the results at a press conference on Friday.

“This was not a surprise and I know that on the surface it doesn’t sound like we are making progress,” he said. “I do not say we failed, as I said, we have about half clean opinions. We have half that our not clean opinions. So if someone had a report card that is half good and half not good, I don’t know that you call the student or the report card a failure,” he said. Passing an audit by the 2028 deadline is “achievable,” he said. Also this week, the DoD Inspector General’s Office calculated that Congress has now appropriated nearly $183 billion in assistance to Ukraine since February 2022, including $131.36 billion for security-related assistance and activities, and $43.84 billion for ‘governance and development’. The Department of Defense carried out its first independent audit in 2017, and has been legally mandated to do so since 2018. It has never passed, and is the only Cabinet-level department of the federal government never to do so.

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“They don’t feel “invested” in propping up Zelensky’s corrupt regime in the same way that the current Biden administration does..”

• Trump Team To Write Off ‘Project Ukraine’ as Sunk Cost (Sp.)

Donald Trump repeated his pledge to end the Ukraine conflagration as he addressed a gala organized by the America First Policy Institute at his Mar-a-Lago resort on November 15, saying that “the conflict has got to stop.” There is a general consensus within President-elect Donald Trump’s team that the failed “Project Ukraine” needs to be shut down, British political analyst Alexander Mercouris speculated on his YouTube channel. “Overall, despite different opinions and nuances among them, they have reached a general consensus that ‘Project Ukraine’ has absorbed a huge amount of energy and resources on the part of the United States, but it has not delivered what it promised. Ukraine has not been successful on the battlefield, there has been no economic collapse in Russia, and President Putin is still very firmly in control of things in Moscow,” the expert said.

In his opinion, these people, who come from the business world in many cases, have taken a simple “cost-benefit view”, and have agreed that “the time has come to close the whole thing down.” They don’t feel “invested” in propping up Zelensky’s corrupt regime in the same way that the current Biden administration does, according to the analyst. “They are resisting falling for the sunk costs fallacy, the one that says that you have already invested so much in terms of funding, weapons and resources that you can’t stop now,” Mercouris noted. Trump repeatedly said on the campaign trail that he could end the fighting “in 24 hours” if reelected; he slammed US aid to Kiev, and vowed not to put US troops on the ground in Ukraine.

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“..numerous Ukrainian officials – as well as their backers in the West – have proposed that Kiev lower the draft age even further..”

• Zelensky Wants To Intensify Military Draft (RT)

The tightening of mobilization rules earlier this year has failed to solve Ukraine’s manpower shortage on the battlefield, Vladimir Zelensky has admitted, adding that the relevant legislation should be adjusted. In an interview with Ukrainskoye Radio on Saturday, Zelensky said that Ukraine “has not mobilized” enough troops under two new laws were passed this spring after significant back-and-forth in parliament. The first lowered the draft age from 27 to 25, while the second cracked down on draft dodgers, forcing all citizens eligible for conscription to report to military authorities for “data clarification.”

At the same time, Zelensky rejected speculation that Ukraine had drafted half a million men while pointing to problems with the available replenishments for frontline units. “The brigades in the East are exhausted, rotation is needed. The guys are getting tired and leaving. They must be replaced with fresh units,” Zelensky said. He also admitted that the frontline situation is “really difficult” and that Russia has indeed managed to accomplish “slow progress.” Before this year’s tightening of the rules, Kiev had announced a general mobilization, barring most men between 18 and 60 from leaving the country. Recruitment has been marred by widespread bribery and draft-dodging, with some Ukrainians trying to flee the country at all costs, even at a serious risk to their lives.

Meanwhile, social media is filled with videos of military patrols trying to catch eligible men in the streets, shopping malls, and gyms, often resulting in clashes. Despite the intensification of the draft, Ukrainian soldiers have consistently complained of the lack of reinforcements and inadequate training for new recruits, leading to long rotations and exhaustion. In light of this, numerous Ukrainian officials – as well as their backers in the West – have proposed that Kiev lower the draft age even further. Some Ukrainian politicians have also argued that all the country’s citizens should dedicate themselves to fighting Russia either directly on the front lines or indirectly by helping the army in the rear.

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“..Trump “cannot afford for Ukraine to become his Afghanistan.”

• Ex-FM Warns Of Potential ‘Internal Collapse’ In Ukraine (RT)

Ukraine could face civil unrest and even a full-blown “collapse” if US President-elect Donald Trump reverses the outgoing administration’s policy of unconditional support for Kiev, former Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba has warned. The election of Trump on November 5 prompted fears in Kiev that Washington would end financial and military aid and would strong-arm the country into an unfavorable settlement with Russia. “If the money were to dry up, a new dynamic would come into play, and not all of it on the battlefield. True, bereft of funding, Ukraine could lose ground completely,” Kuleba wrote in an op-ed published in The Economist on Wednesday. He argued that Ukraine could plunge into a civil conflict if the US forces it to sign a bad peace deal.

“If the Trump administration then imposed unpalatable peace terms on Ukraine, and if Mr. Zelensky agreed (an unlikely scenario), part of Ukrainian society would resist. Domestic unrest would risk the country’s internal collapse,” Kuleba wrote. This would give Russian President Vladimir Putin “the victory he has long desired, painting Ukraine as a failed state,” Kuleba suggested, warning that Trump “cannot afford for Ukraine to become his Afghanistan.” Throughout his election campaign, Trump claimed that he would quickly mediate a peace agreement between Kiev and Moscow, without specifying the terms. During a televised debate with Vice President Kamala Harris, he refused to directly answer a question on whether he wants Ukraine to win. “I want the war to stop,” he said at the time.

In June, Reuters reported that two of Trump’s advisers had drawn up a plan to reach a ceasefire based on the current front lines. The Trump campaign distanced itself from any concrete proposals, however. Kiev has long insisted that a peace deal can only be based on Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky’s ‘peace formula’, which includes the restoration of the country’s 1991 borders. Russia has rejected these terms wholesale, insisting that Ukraine should drop its aspirations to join NATO in favor of becoming a neutral country and renounce its claims on Crimea and other regions which voted in referendums to join Russia. Speaking to German Chancellor Olaf Scholz over the phone on Friday, Putin reiterated that the conflict “was a direct result of NATO’s long-standing aggressive policy” of ignoring Russia’s security concerns.

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“..authorization of the use of long-range missiles against targets deep inside Russia would place Moscow and NATO facing the near inevitability of a nuclear confrontation..”

• Moscow Continues To Warn The West About The Risk Of Nuclear Escalation (SCF)

Tensions over the issue of “deep” strikes continue to escalate. Kiev continues to demand permission to strike targets in the Russian Federation’s demilitarized zone, while Moscow continues to make it clear that it will interpret such maneuvers as a declaration of war by NATO. In a recent statement, Maria Zakharova, the spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, emphasized how Ukrainians and their partners are “playing with fire” with such threats, promising an “immediate and devastating” response in the event of a long-range strike.

The Russian government has repeatedly stated that the long-range weapons systems supplied by the West to Ukraine cannot be operated without the presence of NATO specialists, who would provide the necessary training and logistical support to the Ukrainians. This is because such weapons are not compatible with the Ukrainian military infrastructure, which depends on continuous intelligence support and strategic guidance provided by the Atlantic alliance. Moscow’s position is clear: authorizing the use of these missiles for strikes outside the official conflict zone, in addition to representing an expansion of Western involvement, would constitute direct NATO intervention in the conflict. Russia would regard any use of these weapons in such circumstances as a direct aggression against its sovereignty by the Western countries themselves, which would require an “immediate and devastating” retaliation.

The discussion about the deployment of Storm Shadow missiles and other advanced weapons systems in “deep” Russian territory is a clear demonstration of the dangerous game the West is playing, ignoring all the limits imposed by Russia. NATO’s role in the war in Ukraine has been a sensitive issue since the beginning of the conflict. Although Western powers insist on their position of supporting Ukraine as a legitimate right to defend it against what they call a Russian “invasion”, many analysts and officials point out that the interventions of the powers of the Atlantic alliance, both in terms of weapons and intelligence, have led to an unnecessary prolongation of the conflict, dragging Ukraine into a proxy war that puts the world on the brink of a nuclear confrontation.

By offering more powerful and sophisticated weapons, the West is not only strengthening Kiev’s military capabilities – which seem to have little strategic relevance at the moment – but also risks turning the local conflict into a war of global proportions. Moscow’s concern is legitimate, considering that the absence of limits on Western involvement in Ukraine could lead to a situation of unrestricted aggression against the Russian people, including even demilitarized cities far from the zone disputed by Kiev.

Indeed, the eventual authorization of the use of long-range missiles against targets deep inside Russia would place Moscow and NATO facing the near inevitability of a nuclear confrontation. As spokeswoman Zakharova has made clear, Russia is on high alert for the use of advanced missiles against its territory. Moscow has repeatedly stated that if such attacks occur, Russia’s response will be strong and decisive. This would not only imply a military escalation, but also a redefinition of relations between Russia and the West, with the possibility of unpredictable consequences for international stability.

The recent changes in Russia’s nuclear doctrine, allowing a nuclear response to deep strikes by non-nuclear powers supported by nuclear states (just like in the Ukraine-NATO case), were a clear attempt by Moscow to de-escalate the current situation through rhetoric and indirect deterrence. At first, the measure seemed sufficient to calm public pressure from some NATO figures for the authorization of the strikes. However, it is difficult to predict what the Democratic “administration” plans to do in its final days in power, and it is possible that Biden and his team will go into “suicide mode” and put the entire global security architecture at risk, despite Russian warnings.

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“..large assets like the aircraft carriers are under heightened scrutiny to decide whether they are still a vital staple for modern warfare.”

• War Games Show UK’s Flagship Aircraft Carriers ‘Get Sunk’ Every Time (Sp.)

In a reflection of the UK’s host of internal political and economic problems, its Armed Forces have likewise been grappling with financial and operational woes. In most war games carried out by the UK military, its costly flagship aircraft carriers “get sunk”, The Times cited a source as saying. HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Prince of Wales, commissioned into the Royal Navy in 2017 and 2019, respectively, together cost £6.2 billion. (approx. $7.8 billion) to build but are reportedly vulnerable to missiles. A “whole load of scenarios” was run during war games to test the Royal Navy’s “ability to survive” against an “overwhelming force”, a British military source was quoted as saying, adding: “We stretch everything to the limit. At some point you will get to a scenario where it [the carrier] is sunk.”

The report cited Matthew Savill, director of military sciences at the Royal United Services Institute, as speculating that the great stride made in missile technology development was the ability to “locate and track” aircraft carriers. This comes amid an ongoing Strategic Defence Review commissioned by Britain’s Labor Prime Minister Keir Starmer, and overseen by the Defence Secretary John Healey. The review is due in the first half of 2025. Both ministers and military chiefs have been pressured to implement cost-cutting measures due to financial constraints. Hence, large assets like the aircraft carriers are under heightened scrutiny to decide whether they are still a vital staple for modern warfare.

“There will be casualties,” a source hinted, indicating that the prospect of scrapping at least one of the carriers was raised. Former Minister for Defence Procurement Lord Lee of Trafford told the outlet that the military was struggling to afford the requisite numbers of F-35 aircraft for the carriers, along with escort ships and support vessels. Decades of defense cuts by successive British governments have left the country’s military understaffed and underequipped, resulting in delays in production and upgrades. The HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Prince of Wales have both been plagued by technical malfunctions, with humiliating breakdowns affecting Britain’s ability to participate in large-scale joint NATO drills. Furthermore, the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) is facing a £16.9 billion ($22.17 billion) deficit, the National Audit Office (NAO) revealed in 2023.

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“Hughes has also banned Yulia and Sergei Skripal from testifying at the Inquiry.”

• The Novichok Attack Was A British Operation, Not A Russian One (Helmer)

Yulia Skripal communicated from her bedside at Salisbury District Hospital on March 8, 2018, four days after she and her father Sergei Skripal collapsed from a poison attack, that the attacker used a spray; and that the attack took place when she and her father were eating at a restaurant just minutes before their collapse on a bench outside. The implication of the Skripal evidence, revealed for the first time on Thursday, is that the attack on the Skripals was not perpetrated by Russian military agents who were photographed elsewhere in Salisbury town at the time; that the attacker or attackers were British agents; and that if their weapon was a nerve agent called Novichok, it came, not from Moscow, but from the UK Ministry of Defence chemical warfare laboratory at Porton Down. Porton Down’s subsequent evidence of Novichok contamination in blood samples, clothing, car, and home of the Skripals may therefore be interpreted as British in source, not Russian.

This evidence was revealed by a police witness testifying at the Dawn Sturgess Inquiry in London on November 14. The police officer, retired Detective Inspector Keith Asman was in 2018, and he remains today the chief of forensics for the Counter Terrorism Policing (CTPSE) group which combines the Metropolitan and regional police forces with the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) and the Security Service (MI5). According to Asman’s new disclosure, Yulia Skripal had woken from a coma and confirmed to the doctor at her bedside that she remembered the circumstances of the attack on March 4. What she remembered, she signalled, was not (repeat not) the official British Government narrative that Russian agents had tried to kill them by poisoning the front door-handle of the family home. The new evidence was immediately dismissed by the Sturgess Inquiry lawyer assisting Anthony Hughes (titled Lord Hughes of Ombersley), the judge directing the Inquiry. “We see there,” the lawyer put to Asman as a leading question, “the suggestion, which we now know not to be right, of course”. — page 72.

Hughes then interrupted to tell the witness to disregard what Skripal had communicated. “If the record that you were given there is right, someone suggested to her ‘Had you been sprayed’. She didn’t come up with it herself.” — page 73. Hughes continued to direct the forensics chief to disregard the hearsay of Skripal. “Anyway the suggestion that she had been sprayed in the restaurant didn’t fit with your investigations? A. [Asman] No, sir. LORD HUGHES: Thank you.” So far in in the Inquiry which began public sessions on October 14, this is the first direct sign of suppression of evidence by Hughes. Hearsay, he indicates, should be disregarded if it comes from the target of attack, Yulia Skripal. However, hearsay from British Government officials, policemen, and chemical warfare agents at Porton Down must be accepted instead. Hughes has also banned Yulia and Sergei Skripal from testifying at the Inquiry. The lawyer appointed and paid by the Government to represent the Skripals in the inquiry hearings said nothing to acknowledge the new disclosure nor to challenge Hughes’s efforts to suppress it.

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“Climate change could be roaring but the naked eye can’t see it.”

• Climate-Change Debate ‘Heats Up’ With Collum, Keen, Fleckenstein (ZH)

Steve Keen, while primarily an economist, is well-versed in the research and a firm believer in the danger climate change poses. Dave Collum, chemistry professor at Cornell, believes much of the science to be bogus. Legendary short-seller Bill Fleckenstein was kind enough to shepard them along. We hope you enjoy and that you give both Keen and Collum a fair shake: For those short on time, here were the highlights:

Poking holes in the ‘narrative’. Things heated up when Collum unleashed a flurry of charts documenting trends that run counter to what we hear from most climate alarmists: Today, we actually see fewer hurricanes, tornadoes, heat waves, and forest fires than decades past. Collum: “There’s no obvious change in the frequency of global hurricanes back to 1980… Back to 1990, it actually has a distinct downward trend… Here’s one that goes back to 1960. These are violent tornadoes. Again, downward trend.” “Climate change could be roaring but the naked eye can’t see it.”

“Potentially Suicidal”. Natural disasters aside, Keen brought his own charts showing the recent and rapid ascent of global temperature. If accurate, the rise in temperature in the last 150 years when viewed on an axis of millions of years is staggering. Keen: “That’s the real danger of climate change. We’ve built [civilization] in a stable period of the climate. We’re destroying that stability and thinking we can still have the social system we’ve designed… I just don’t think that’s true.”

Keen’s sources provided below: Judd, E. J., J. E. Tierney, D. J. Lunt, I. P. Montañez, B. T. Huber, S. L. Wing and P. J. Valdes (2024). “A 485-million-year history of Earth’s surface temperature.” Science 385(6715): eadk3705. https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/science.adk3705. Scotese, C. R., H. Song, B. J. W. Mills and D. G. Van Der Meer (2021). “Phanerozoic paleotemperatures: The earth’s changing climate during the last 540 million years.” Earth-Science Reviews 215: 103503. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2021.103503

Green New Deal? Assuming humanity put all its resources and minds together to avert the Earth’s heating… can it be done? Fleckenstein asked our distinguished guests whether they would support a “Green New Deal” (massive public spending effort to combat climate change): Collum: “My dad taught me this: Never ask the government to spend your money. They’ll do a terrible job.” “If we were serious about climate change… They should never put guys like John Kerry in charge as Climate Czar.” “Steve’s enthusiastic about intervening as scientists. But here’s the question I have is who is going to make these tough calls? Who has the right to sign off the informed consent to say we are going to cover the world with a blanket of particles to block the sun?” Keen argued that — while governments are inefficient — we do not have a choice. Keen: “I’ll go on record on saying that if we continue down the trends we’re doing right now… we’re going to destroy civilization before 2050.”

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  • November 17, 2024 at 9:41 am #174590
    Raúl Ilargi Meijer
    Keymaster

    Jerry Bywaters Oil Field Girls 1940   • The Revolution of 2024 (Jeffrey A. Tucker) • Trump Will Bring Justice, Not Revenge (Jim Rickards) • Tulsi
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle November 17 2024]

    November 17, 2024 at 10:19 am #174592
    oxymoron
    Participant

    smart phone versus the one ring

    https://substack.com/@clintavo/note/c-74465102?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=nv8me

    November 17, 2024 at 10:21 am #174593
    oxymoron
    Participant

    My latest track is out.
    Dr D. Let me know if you want a copy paste of the original rant it was drawn from. I’m calling it a collaboration but don’t worry I make no money from music – u are not being robbed just re-purposed.

    https://open.substack.com/pub/thumbnailgreen/p/sleep-tight-sunshine?r=nv8me&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

    November 17, 2024 at 11:30 am #174594
    citizenx
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    The left hate Trump’s honesty.

    Tough choices for Bill.
    Monica in the office with a cigar, or Cankles snoring.
    Or Epstein island with Gates.

    MAHA

    November 17, 2024 at 11:58 am #174595
    tboc
    Participant

    “..numerous Ukrainian officials – as well as their backers in the West – have proposed that Kiev lower the draft age even further..”
    Trump Team To Write Off ‘Project Ukraine’ as Sunk Cost – Analyst (Sp)
    They don’t feel “invested” in propping up Zelensky’s corrupt regime in the same way that the current Biden administration does, according to the analyst.(Sp)

    eventually the cost in human life will be known.

    “We are barely ten days into the realization of what just transpired and the entire lay of the land seems different, like a tectonic shift in politics, culture, mood, and possibilities..”(Jeffrey A. Tucker)

    except for the fear mongering. China, China, China – Iran, Iran, Iran
    the largest terroist organization on the planet complaining they are being targeted. No Shit Sherlock?
    for those not following the UAP theater – The National Security, The National Security, The National Security.
    when the curtain comes down and the brick wall is revealed the blood on the hands of every citizen of The United States over the age of twelve will also be revealed.

    “we’re going to go where evidence leads” – “no matter what”
    wanna bet that those good ole boys personal comfort is not part of the “no matter what”
    Alex Jones and Steve Bannon put their ass on the line. where were the two righteous warriors in the video above for the last three years and ten months? Couldn’t find a alt media outlet?

    Hawking Radiation is part of the understanding of black holes. My experience is that no information leaks out of the eyes of the majority of US citizens eyes.
    America’s Got Talent and they are Dancing With The Stars and they are mass consumers of televised perversion.
    On second thought Hawking Radiation might be involved. Look at our families, the perverse information going into the eyes must be leaking out into the family environment.

    “No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.” ~ Clarence Darrow
    “The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.” ~ Clarence Darrow

    November 17, 2024 at 12:26 pm #174596
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Progress!

    Up from .15% four years ago

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    November 17, 2024 at 12:32 pm #174597
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Gosh, that will be the majority of the entire USSr Officer Corp

    And with 77% of young Duh’mericans incapable of passing a simple physical because of obesity and chronic illness and mental retardation, the Empire of Lies Military Mafia stands NAKED in front of the whole world as a laughing stock Paper Pussy Cat

    So sad. :>(

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    November 17, 2024 at 12:45 pm #174598
    Oroboros
    Participant

    • Climate-Change Debate ‘Heats Up’ With Collum, Keen, Fleckenstein (ZH)

    This is a clip of recent ice core studies in Greenland showing that the PRESENT temps are the LOWEST average global temperature in the last 8-10 thousand years, so yes they are rising but from a VERY low data point

    Give it a watch, it’s short

    https://x.com/i/status/1857746669095243827

    November 17, 2024 at 12:47 pm #174599
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Kick some Blob as Jay

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    November 17, 2024 at 12:52 pm #174600
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Kill the fucking FBI

    Wipe the cross dressing hypocrite’s name off the building

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    November 17, 2024 at 12:54 pm #174601
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Kash Patel says if chosen as FBI director, he’ll shut the J. Edgar Hoover Building on Day 1 and reopen it as a “museum of the deep state.”

    November 17, 2024 at 12:59 pm #174602
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Tulsi Gabbard calls out the US government for funding over 300 bio labs all across the world.

    Shut them DOWN

    https://x.com/i/status/1857495054979588607

    November 17, 2024 at 1:04 pm #174604
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Freak Show Perverts get Stuffed


    Biden Administration Declares Trump Cabinet Picks ‘Unqualified’

    https://babylonbee.com/news/trumps-cabinet-picks-are-unqualified-says-party-of-pete-buttigieg-rachel-levine-kjp-sam-brinton

    U.S. — The party responsible for appointing a Transportation Secretary whose only relevant experience was an apparent love of toy trains has declared Trump’s cabinet picks “unqualified.”

    The Democratic Party, fresh off appointing a dude who wears dresses as a health minister, a guy who steals women’s luggage as nuclear weapons officer, and a Joker-costume-wearing lesbian who can’t answer questions as Press Secretary, felt that Trump’s choices did not have the proper credentials for their jobs.

    “President-Elect Trump has beclowned himself with these appointments,” said Senator Elizabeth Warren, handing her makeup bag to Admiral Levine. “These are serious roles with real responsibilities. We need the absolute best, and — hey, has anyone seen my luggage?”

    Fox News correspondent Peter Doocy asked if the White House had any official statement about Trump’s selections, to which Karine-Jean Pierre screamed, “I’m gay” and ran out of the room sobbing.

    At publishing time, the people responsible for Afghan civilians hanging on to a cargo plane’s wheel well stated that Trump’s choice for Secretary of Defense was incompetent.

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    November 17, 2024 at 1:07 pm #174605
    Mister Roboto
    Participant

    And yet, even though no one has yet been open about precisely what happened in the White House in March 2020 to cause Trump to greenlight the lockdowns, there is a widespread belief that it was never really his choice. It was some kind of coup – egged on even by his closest advisors and the VP – that he either could not stop or lacked the personnel to marshal effective resistance. Regardless, he has been forgiven because, implausibly, the next administration not only owned the worst of it but added even more on top of that, including the wicked combination of mask mandates, forced injections, and continued school closures.

    I think one of Donald Trump’s flaws is that he is too easily influenced by other people sometimes, and this was certainly the case in 2020. Later on, he used his Twitter account to encourage states to undo their lockdown policies.

    Another thing that was so weird about the Covid response, though, was that the left seemed to have a deep psychological need for Covid to be an apocalyptic catastrophe on a par with the Black Plague of the Middle Ages, even though it very clearly wasn’t once you shook off the mainstream media’s hypnotic spell (which, unfortunately, took some of us a while). Why was this? I think that the Myth of Everlasting Progress that is the primary existential motivator of urban liberals was clearly failing, and Covid authoritarianism was a sneaky if not very subtle way of keeping the power of this existential myth propped up. (“And then the people bowed and prayed, to the Covid God they made.”)

    November 17, 2024 at 1:07 pm #174606
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Dave Collum

    Social Awareness Poll:

    Who would you most like to see a case to a grand jury to be dealt with using the highest standards of our jurisprudence system?

    Tony Fauci 60%

    Merrick Garland 19.6%

    Alejandro Mayorkas 15.8%

    November 17, 2024 at 1:09 pm #174608
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Pure Evil Little Fuck

    Head on a Pike

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    November 17, 2024 at 1:10 pm #174609
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Rumors are circulating that Merrick Garland is worried he will be prosecuted along with many others.

    November 17, 2024 at 1:11 pm #174610
    Dr. D
    Participant

    “Doctors Said Her Gangrenous Appendix Was Just Anxiety. She’s Not Alone.
    Joy Spence, 21, says emergency rooms kept sending her home despite crippling pain.” –CBC (Canada)

    Yeah and? …And, that means they know such things are happening with increasing frequency. And they don’t care. That would be having to change not the MEDICAL side, but the BUREAUCRACY side. They can’t hold the Bureaucracy accountable for complete and mass-murdering failure. Then them telling you to literally go kill yourself if you don’t like it. Looking for this high water mark, and the same in the U.S. too.

    “What Happens To Jan. 6 Defendants After Trump’s Election Win?
    Trump’s win gives him pardon power but it’s unclear how he will exercise it…

    I really need them to drop all charges on their own, without Trump’s help because it’s a new administration. …That would best signal how things work in Washington. That’s the best lesson to take away and prevent.

    “Mollie Hemingway just bodied RINO Trey Gowdy over the Matt Gaetz AG nomination:”

    Now I feel like I’m in an echo chamber. That’s our risk now, flipped to us. No, “Everyone” isn’t happy, it isn’t “America wants”, it’s WHO in America. Barely a majority (officially) Let’s say like me, it’s 1/3 v 2/3. So 100 Million people are going to sit around and do nothing? Even their cranks, who thanks to the past, are all ex-CIA Directors, Secretaries of State, and Military contractor billionaires?

    Newsflash: They’re setting up a Parallel Resistance Government. Soup to nuts, an entire 2nd Federal government, and funding it. That’s de facto secession and Civil War.

    Well THOSE Americans aren’t tired of it, they want MOAR violence, MOAR bureaucracy, and that means MOAR poverty and extraction to pay for it. A separation government that can field 50M Americans is still a big problem. Now, Will they get support?

    “BYE! [Jack] We’re not done with him. You cannot resign and hide… You’re running real quick. If you had nothing to hide, where are you going?”

    That’s what I said. At last they have some lawyers who act like reality is real and law exists. IF there was a crime, Jack can’t drop it. It may even be a crime to drop it. If he did, he’s a Trump Puppet. But if there’s NOT a crime, than it’s illegal. That’s illegal use of the Prosecution AND Federal Election-rigging. And EITHER is a crime. The only way he could avoid ADMITTING to a crime, is to choose one (he already did) and continue to prosecute.

    The very ACT of him leaving confirms there is a Federal Crime, Jack. — I – didn’t say that, HE said that. Same as with masks. I don’t NEED to choose which is true. EITHER shows there is no science involved.

    Trump, Taxes:

    So he’s doing something which is literally legal. He’s following the law and paying what’s owed, and not paying what’s not owed. That’s bad. …Well I guess I understand who they are now. Legal = Jail, Illegal = Promotion.

    Note Hillary is not in jail and was never prosecuted in the slightest. Thanks, Trump, who doesn’t keep his word. Since no one was prosecuted, not a single one — that’s how we got here in 2024. All still there! All still billionaires in power! (Officially)

    “People are out and about, smiling at each other. It’s been true since the morning after the election,”

    Again, 1/3 to 2/3 are, but not that remaining 50 Million. They’re in shock, but should do great setting up posts under the separation Confederate Government.

    “The division was not really left vs right. It was workers vs laptoppers, wage earners vs six-figure stay-at-homers, bottom half vs top 5 percent, people with actual skills vs weaponized resume wielders, and those with affection for old-world values vs those whose educations have beaten it out of them for purposes of career advancement.”

    We have the numbers but repeat: Blue is now ONLY the Party of the Wealthy Elite and donor class, ONLY the part of white women PMCs. Everyone else has been kicked out of the Mean Girlz table.

    “how precisely does an authentic revolution take root in an industrialized Western democracy?”

    Ask the Democrats, who are European “Atlanticists”. They are trying to cause a revolution, which is the same as a “Civil War”, and it’s a Socialist one. (Again, just ask them, they are perfectly clear and open on it) Maybe AFTER you set up the Constitution, STOP having revolutions all the time and support only the ORIGINAL revolution, the 1776 one?

    “Are elections capable of delivering real results?”

    No. They kept counting 6 Congressional seats, and possibly two Senate seats, and 100% of all votes at 3am found under a table were Democrat! Total coincidence of course. No one has fixed this and they’re not talking about it. Adding, IF you have the ability to cheat, on tap, and don’t, is that still a rigged election? Yes. Like the Left’s sudden, magic drop in viewer numbers, they take their hand off the scale, then back on, then off, then on, trading and cheating each direction.

    “this was never really a public-health response but a scheme by security and intelligence sectors to enact some kind of global color revolution, which is why the policies were so similar the world over. It was indeed an awesome display of power, one that invaded all our communities, homes, and families. No one knows this better than Team Trump, even if there has been near silence on the topic for all these years.”

    If they don’t already know that, knew that the minute it started happening, then they’re a fool. I think they knew, but knowing and not telling us publicly is nearly as bad. I resent it. “We win by lying” they say.

    ““The departments and agencies that have been weaponized will be completely overhauled.”

    That’s all of them. That’s why they exist at all. That is their SOLE PURPOSE: help friends, kill enemies. If they touch anything, 50M Blue people will say they used the be pure as snow, but NOW are weaponized. They will do this using the Confederate Government they are building. And be happy to shoot us all to defend their Black Haitian slaves.

    “Gabbard was denounced as a “threat to the security of the United States.” That’s a staggering charge to levy on the person who is going to be head of national security..”

    IF you believe this. IF you believed Trump is Hitler x Moosilini (whoops wrong guy) THEN you would have to die in the streets, shooting your own family and friends. Like that HuffPo editor (it wasn’t the Guardian) And you know they’re doing and planning this, because what is DNI really going to do? What’s the urgency? Ignore, defy, and stove pipe her like before, like you’ve been doing for 100 years now. What’s the problem?

    How about this: IF the can’t either 1) Defeat and devour Russia or 2) Collapse the U.S. into Civil War, EUROPE is dead and will stay dead for 200 years. We just say that, UK govt went down Aug 1 and only got an egg timer. GERMANY just went down, head host for the Parasite, and their government fell. Atm, it looks like they get an egg-timer too, but who’s next? Collapses happen from places people don’t expect. Like AUSTRIA? Yeah, um, Austria didn’t pay their gas bill yesterday, they’re broke. So they can 1) Pay gas and live or 2) Not pay gas and die, that is both the People and the Government because the People have no heat this winter and will burn the government down over it. They chose not to pay. What does that tell you?

    So that may be why they’re in a hurry and don’t have time to fool around right now. It’s not on our side of the Ocean; we don’t care. We can keep up this intra-family irritation for decades, only Europe has urgency.

    “You simply should not be allowed to defame somebody like this on cable TV without consequences.”

    Immediate lawsuit or why bother? The lawsuit saps their Confederate Treasury. (That would be BlackRock, Nazi slush fund)

    “• RFK Jr. Is Poised To Save The Health And Lives Of Millions Of Americans (Hill)

    That’s why they hate him. When they were killing ever-increasing Americans, and I’m not talking Covid, I’m talking Type II diabetes, straight up line in costs since 1992, #1 cause of bankruptcy, and straight down line in outcomes, doctors are the 3rd leading cause of death. Straight up in opioids, straight up deaths in properly prescribed pharmaceuticals. As I’ve said, this is what they WANT. If they didn’t WANT it, actively, they would have ACTED on this by now. This makes them happy, so they do more of it. If they didn’t love death, they would do less of it.

    This isn’t genius.

    BTW, backing up the U.S. to merely the expense of gold-plated Swiss health care, with easy live-in nurses on demand, would save us billions overnight and trillions shortly. We have inefficiencies from chronic illness caused by statins for instance, to say nothing of 100 other drugs. That’s beyond straight-cost or death, those people are not in workforce, or limping.

    Why? As Luongo says, EUROPE needs us to cripple our efficiency down to their level. Or they die. They take over our government to kill our industry, that is, that we’re not fools and idiots like they are, and our behaving stupidly has to be enforce at gunpoint from the top.

    “loss of both houses of Congress and the White House has had a curious effect on many Democrats, dropping any pretense of protecting democracy over partisanship.”

    This is what we needed. My whole life – lets take for example the Dibold machines in 2000 – they were OPENLY riggable. I tell people, this is known fact. They ignore it don’t look, won’t read, and install more. Rinse, repeat. Why Won’t It Read???


    Read even the NY TImes? (Candice Owens: “where did you get that crazy conspiracy stuff on Ukraine” NY Times asks. “You,” she says, listing the 15 articles: I got all my information from YOU.)

    So the only way to get anything done is to get them in the position of exposing themselves openly. Admitting it all. Since every other method was tried first, this is what Trump has done every day for 12 years. They fall for it every hour of every day.

    Why? They have to. IF you think you’re totally right – and a narcissist, which is why you’re there – THEN you get sick of having to sneak around and commit crimes for all of God’s Holy Work you’ve been doing. Why not be open about it? You’re doing the right thing! Onward Anti-Christian Soldier. So when they get stressed, like “A Few Good Men” they break and say “Hell YES I did this! And I’d do it again.” “I’d kill every one of you m—-f—kers if it would save even ONE life!!!” (They said during Covid)

    So here we are. Like “A Few Good Men” the court, the jury can decide what they want to do with that information, the important part is to STOP LYING, and admit to ourselves who we are, what we’re doing. A nation is like a single person. As a single person is also an aggregate of radically different cells. And the cells are aggregates of wildly different structures, as proposed they are the merger of animal + bacteria, but now all inside the cell wall, considered “one”. So like a single human, there are many different impulses and voices in a nation. Which voice do we CHOOSE? And like human psychology, we may be doing something we don’t realize or deny we’re doing. Having that extra drink. Getting too close to the coffee girl at work. “Borrowing” that money from the till but never quite giving it back. That if we can make conscious the unconscious – as Jung said – then we wouldn’t allow it, we’d make an open decision about it. But to do that it has to get into the open and the conscious.

    So here. We are or CAN deny we have any election tipping, now election “Rigging”, so it just goes on and on. Only if we admit it openly can and will we make an actual decision about it.

    “She’s lost it all. But she can’t stop herself.
    • Rachel Maddow Claims Trump is Trying To “Destroy The US Government” (MN)

    Keep going! Don’t let me stop you. More. Harder Daddy!

    Okay, WHERE is this all going? Where CAN it go? That is, what’s the story arc? Well their insane lies (I’m not just saying that, like 12 core stories against Trump are now in Snopes) have driven EMOTION. That’s how this particular Bernays Social Engineering works. (There are others). It lives on HATE. When you’ve been beaten and abused and oppressed, disempowered, as they arrange Step 1 in public school, raw, open child abuse, THEN you have a psychological hook where they reach for POWER again. RE-Empower themselves. POWER at all costs.

    But of course they can’t just say they want money and power at all costs, that’s what Republicans say. Like Gordon Gekko. No. They have to be the GOOD people, that’s the narcissistic abused wife hook that’s been hard-installed into them. On purpose. That’s how they sold to themselves to put up with the abuse in the first place, back when they were a 10-year-old girl. So they are the GOOD people and can only do the GOOD things. Flip side: By definition everything they do is GOOD. Because they are ipso facto the GOOD people. Good people only do Good things, obviously, that’s the True Scotsman fallacy.

    But that doesn’t make it all go away. As humans, the are still frustrated and like and dislike things that happen, just like the rest of us unwashed heathen barbarians. They’re just not allowed to SAY so, like good Church Ladies. So they are only allowed to express their psychology, their power, to become ALIVE and not dead, only when they can HATE. So? So we need to find a target of Hate, and pronto, mister. Bernays shows up and points this yummy free-floating HATE at enemy of the day, whoever Democrats are annoyed with Monday afternoon in November. Over and over and over again. “5 Minutes of Hate.” Jesus, were you not paying attention? That s–t is famous.

    Why? Because they can’t ADMIT they hate, they are filled with Hate, because that would break the ego, that they are the GOOD people. Universally, infinitely good. If they admitted that sometime they did bad things, they’d be Republicans. And obviously suicide is the better choice. GSR. Guilt. Shame. …Excommunication. These are all Catholic control mechanisms, stop me if you’ve heard them before.

    Anyway, so WHERE do the Church Ladies go, now that they’ve got themselves in a Satanic Panic and witch-burning? All their friends and children? What? Wake up and ADMIT they were all terribly, catastrophically wrong and have been marching around murdering innocents for 20 years? No, they would kill themselves, and the ego protects against that.

    Here’s the lay of the field right now, though: they’ve said Trump is Hitler. Then Hitler x Putin. Now Hitler x Putin x Mussolini. They’re out of hyperbole and nothing’s changed. No one cared.

    “But I CALLED him a Nazi and racist! I USED the magic-magic WORD!!! That means the rules are you fall down gibbering and gimme everything I waaaaaaaant!!!!”

    Yeah, magic word didn’t work, did it? Because this was your daddy playing a game of let’s pretend with you for amusement, but we’re bored with that now. You’re a Brat Summer. Brats get spanked and sent to bed.

    So they’ve been hijacking the amygdala. We all know. This is the emotional HIT, the emotional HIGH, the drug of raw hatred, of being ALLOWED – even just for a few minutes – to be what you really ARE. Bitter, hateful, violent self-serving, Karen. Get your power back, in a way. But they’ve burned out all their emotion, their amygdala, and then some. They’re still trying the same thing, since this was the only social control mechanism they engineered in. …In one way they didn’t think of it, but in another way, human psychology doesn’t have room to install nine or ten. This is also why they — White Liberal women, or liberals in general — match 99% with the most deeply mentally ill, in every category.

    Okay, they got here, their emotions and hyperbole are burned out, and still nothing’s happening. What next? Can you run a revolution? Well, probably not. You can easily see they needed to have that fresh, high emotion of 2020 in the streets. That optimism. Millennials – the engineered, brainwashed generation – already are past that and were already screwed and not promoted by their ruling masters AFTER doing what they’re told and being used up like cheap whores in the streets. And now? Fight Trump another four years when they’re exhausted from the last eight? And the red meme army are energized and having more fun than ever?

    Gosh I wish they’d just become trad wives and submit to their husbands. Then everyone would be happy. They would be because they could take orders from somebody who is double-checking their judgment, proven flawed. Who loves them too. They could just say “Turns out we are all sinners”. Yeah, that’s not a bad cop-out. That’s true actually. And then do the hard work of being a human in the MIDDLE, not the infinite good fighting the infinite bad in a psychotic delusion. The society at large wants them back. It wants to re-absorb and unify with them, but it can’t if they’re insane. Then they have to act like an immune system and ring them.

    I got nothing, and anyway it will all be tipped by decisions “Socialist”, European Oligarchs are making right now. But the straight-line arc at this moment is, they just run out of steam and de-cult themselves one by one, moving on to other interests. Then it never happened. It was “Those other girls” who were the radical ones. Not me. I had my AOC/Biden tattoo laser removed. I wasn’t a radical like that.

    Meanwhile, the clingers:

    ““Tulsi Gabbard as the Director of National Intelligence is, I mean, the idea that Tulsi Gabbard, in a normal circumstance, could get a security clearance to be like a Walmart-style greeter at any U.S. intelligence agency, let alone get past the security barriers, is insane.”

    Um, Gabbard is a CAPTAIN in the god-damned ARMY. She’s been looked at before now. She was a CONGRESSWOMAN, and had some security cross her desk. She’s ALREADY been looked at by the FBI and they found nothing. The only insane thing here is Maddow.

    That’s true of ALL of them by the way. PS, so what if we flipped it and a WalMart greeter was put in charge of this? And you think Russia and Putin bought up Mary-Sue, WalMart greeter, out of Arkansas in 1999? OBVIOUSLY no. WHO would Russia have bought, if they could? FangFang and Swalwell. McConnell and a BILLION in very-very-lucky trades. Lindsay and his gay escapades. You know: people already INSIDE the FBI, State, Army, etc. They don’t care about random Billy-Bobs who are mayor of Puxatawny, PA. So IF you were going to look for compromise and corruption you would ONLY look in 12 miles of DC.

    OBVIOUSLY. Ms. Maddow. So what I’m saying is, I’d look at YOU. And everyone who has met P Diddy and hangs out with SNL in NYC, a mile from Epstein and Nexium Ranch. YOU.

    “AOCIA nods along with Joy Reid’s McCarthyite, pro-war, pro-regime change case for opposing Tulsi Gabbard, then calls Tulsi “pro-war”

    Yes. AOC is a moron, but she’s a natural psychopath. A born politician, on all sides of the same issue at once.

    ““It has never passed, and is the only Cabinet-level department of the federal government never to do so.”

    That’s okay: I don’t need to know where that $40 Trillion went. I’ll fill in that checkbook, honey.

    “So if someone had a report card that is half good and half not good, I don’t know that you call the student or the report card a failure,”

    Said no Parent ever. Sounds like Liberal Math.

    Having trouble posting, link divide

    November 17, 2024 at 1:11 pm #174611
    Dr. D
    Participant

    ““..Trump “cannot afford for Ukraine to become his Afghanistan.”

    Uh. Why can’t he? And also, how would he stop it? All he has to say is, “It’s the other guy’s fault” and he has.

    “In June, Reuters reported that two of Trump’s advisers had drawn up a plan to reach a ceasefire based on the current front lines.”

    It’s nice they can make up stuff in their heads and play with crayons. Did they ASK the RUSSIANS anything about this? No they did not, Putin told us so this week. They Make S—t Up with no reference to anybody or anything. That is to say, that is the definition of “Psychotic Delusion”.

    “Russia”

    Nothing is happening right now. All things are the same, same trajectory, just further along and faster.

    “• War Games Show UK’s Flagship Aircraft Carriers ‘Get Sunk’ Every Time (Sp.)

    I had not thought of that, that’s awesome. Bad enough with US Carriers sunk, but we have 5+ and would build more because we’re outdated morons. But the UK? Like Russia, they’d lose their only ship, but UNLIKE Russia, they haven’t two pence to build another one. Already the ones the have don’t work AND have no planes on them.

    Sink one: sort of no UK. That is, no projection of power, AND another stair-step drop in prestige, down to the level of Norway, which unlike Britain is a real country. I say do it. That’s the reality already, the sinking just exposes what’s already real.

    Cullom, Climate Change:

    My takeaway is that they’re all getting really old. Two parts to this. That, plus, they didn’t get anything done about it in all that time. Everyone is still here. More polar bears than ever. Wall Street not up an inch at sea level. “We have 10 years to save the earth from irreversible climate” — 1990.

    “SpaceX President & COO Gwynne Shotwell on the company having $22B in government contracts”

    It’s like this chart:
    Connect4
    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GI7YEX8XgAATNro?format=jpg&name=small

    “Musk is making all his money on government contracts!!!”

    Okay, he doesn’t have government contracts and is going into space privately.

    “Musk is a billionaire conquering space for corporations against government!!!”

    See what I mean? Is there ANY correct path or method to use? A: No. Because “Fault-finders”. They have no ideas, alternatives, or, may I add, WORK. Do no work. That’s how we win.

    You win when the maximum number of people on your side are de-morale-ized and give up. Ask Antifa: “What do we want?!” A: “Nothing, what’s the point?” “When do we want it?” “Never! We’ll never win!” That’s how you really get people in the streets and scare the pants off government so they act straight.

    Part Two: Since the Jooooooos run everything, are all powerful in time, space and reality, are omniscient, onmipresent and omnipotent, the only rational thing to do is crawl up from your table to them and say “Please, sir, may I have some MORE?
    TwistEnding
    https://i.imgflip.com/10dv0e.jpg

    That’s it. That’s very helpful. That’s clearly the logical conclusion, brought to you via agent trolls from Mossad.

    All things are bad. No things are good. Now get out there and fight. Maximum effort, though you’ll only lose anyway.

    “Why don’t you just go kill yourself, you pointless waste of life” –AI. Yup. No better motivation for goodness and humanity than that!

    Coconut oil: Love those tires. Very smart. What do you suppose coconut oil costs at that method? two cows + 2 humans + 12 hours $200/gallon? Can you see why we have CapEx now? In fact that’s massive capex even so, I can’t imagine what that stone and log cost. I wonder what debts they ran up having them made and invested?

    Those Scumbag capitalists! How dare they make an ox-driven mortar and pestle?

    November 17, 2024 at 1:11 pm #174612
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Trump to give credentials to podcasters, YouTubers & social media influencers as part of the W.H. briefing room

    Imagine Steve Bannon, Nelk Boys, Joe Rogan & Dan Bongino sitting in the front row, and Fox News, ABC, CNN & CBS sitting in back

    Hahahahahahahahaha

    Podcasters Rule!

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    November 17, 2024 at 1:35 pm #174613
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Breaking News: Donald Trump just appointed Lindsay Graham to a cabinet-level position as Secretary of Gerbils.

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    Has anybody volunteered to stuff a Gerbil up Graham’s ass?

    November 17, 2024 at 1:44 pm #174614
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Tucker Carlson calls for an IMMEDIATE repeal of the 1986 Vaccine Injury Act.

    This would strip Big Pharma of its liability shield, making them accountable for injuries caused by their products.

    https://x.com/i/status/1856848568088244259

    In fact, Carlson called the vaccine enterprise, particularly the COVID vaccine, a “scam.” Here’s why:

    1. “You convince politicians to force the population to buy your product.”

    2. “Anyone who complains gets fired.”

    3. “You can’t be sued.”

    “How is it that there’s this one category that’s exempt from the risk [lawsuits] that all the rest of us who are involved in any kind of business face every single day?” Carlson asked.

    “I have liability insurance on my house in case the UPS guy slips delivering a package from Amazon. But somehow, Albert Bourla [CEO of Pfizer] and all the other creepy, creepy billionaires who run these disgusting pharma companies are in no danger of being sued because their corrupt pals in Congress in 1986 gave them blanket immunity? Let’s tear that down immediately,” Carlson urged.

    To the argument that vaccines “can’t compete” without blanket immunity, Carlson countered, “Well, why don’t you just make a safer vaccine then? How’s that sound? Why don’t you face the same risk [lawsuits] that every other person who conducts any other kind of commerce or lives in this country faces every single day?”

    He demanded, “Let’s see the numbers right now,” highlighting that the government has access to vaccine data that it’s hiding from the public.

    “If somehow you’re being prevented from knowing, then you can be absolutely certain that crimes are being committed,” Carlson concluded, “because why else would they be hiding it from you?”

    November 17, 2024 at 1:58 pm #174615
    Oroboros
    Participant

    A Peek Under the Hood

    Wait for it…..

    GOP Massie says “recess appointments” when asked if GAETZ can get confirmed by the Senate

    “He’s the Attorney General. Suck it up!”

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    November 17, 2024 at 1:58 pm #174616
    Noirette
    Participant

    aspnaz posted, prev. : Austria refuses to pay the negotiated price for Russian gas, so the Russians stop pumping the gas …. but somehow it is Russia’s fault, they are bad. Sad article where they try to portray the Russians as the badies where, in reality, Austria refused to pay, but that is good, according to ZH. Desperate and a little pathetic.

    about this article: https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/gazprom-cuts-gas-austria-just-time-winter

    Yes. … What is set to happen next, which is related to this Austria squabble, is that the agreement between Russia and Ukraine for the transit of the gas to Austria, plus others in Europe, via UKR (the gas has origins and a travel path – UKR cashes in super transit fees) will expire at the end of this year. It was a 5-year contract between UKR and Russia and Russia won’t renew it because UKR does not have a legitimate Gvmt., President.

    Some explanation, etc.:

    https://www.bruegel.org/analysis/end-russian-gas-transit-ukraine-and-options-eu

    🙂 ! link which shows official stats of various EU energy imports which ‘flashes’ so speedily the casual viewer can’t make sense of it:

    https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/documents/4187653/16179938/Trade_of_Energy_GIF_V2.gif/0bfff750-3b4e-f97a-a85b-5fd298de56c3?t=1688125635893

    Of course the info used to make the display is (imho) correct but so partial as to be meaningless.

    November 17, 2024 at 2:01 pm #174617
    Oroboros
    Participant

    https://x.com/i/status/1856806886819205280

    November 17, 2024 at 2:17 pm #174618
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Austria

    Winter is Coming

    You’ll be wishing Santa left so COAL in your stocking

    However, Santa has other plans for Austria this winter…..

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    November 17, 2024 at 2:18 pm #174619
    John Day
    Participant

    Open The Containers https://www.johndayblog.com/2024/11/open-containers.html

    Elizabeth Nickson explains the currency of evil. Thank You, Eleni. A Radical Opening: A Terrible Evil
    Western Civ cannot survive unless we fix it. We have to remove their fuel.
    This past week a video emerged of a girl running across a park in Vancouver, shouting that there were people locked in shipping containers in Vancouver’s vast port. This began a new movement which is called “open the shipping containers”, because, reportedly, one of the reasons for the threatened port strike was that people were locked in said shipping containers and port workers could hear them banging against the walls. There are, apparently, sections of every port where access is barred. But workers can hear the banging and the shouted appeals for rescue.
    Vancouver, Canada, is essentially run by a consortium of Asian criminal cartels, who have purchased the city via its lawyers, politicians and pet corporations. They move a great deal of Chinese fentanyl through the city’s massive port facility, the chemicals assembled into pills in factories outside the city, where white police don’t go (because equity). The cartels launder a great part of the continent’s drug money through the casinos in the city, and buy as many politicians as they can. Last week, the RCMP finally released a report that China was up to its neck funding its puppets in the last federal election, pushing 41 candidates, many of whom won…
    ..Despite that, this week, The Hogue Commission sealed the records of Beijing’s interference in Canadian politics for 99 years. It is just that bad. Sealed, I suspect, because so many of the country’s permanent bureaucracy were bribed. Asian gangs have infiltrated every institution, especially immigration where compromised bureaucrats have eased the entry of the most ferocious cartel members, people who should be in a SuperMax prison…
    ..Vancouver is the second or third most expensive city in the world, because so much drug and trafficking money is washed through its real estate, bidding up prices. Houses that sell for $2 million in Florida and $500K in Cleveland, sell for $10 or even $20 million in Vancouver’s West End… Those politicians not bought are asleep at the switch. They let this happen.
    Are the people from the shipping containers being harvested for their blood, their organs, their value as sex slaves or workers? Are their factories run by immigrants that make the drug, and are considered off-limits because immigrants get legal passes – again equity? I’d put money on it…
    ..Human trafficking is far more lucrative than drugs. People are used as regular slaves, the young as sexual slaves. Once worn out they can be sold for ritual sacrifice, or organ donors. Or ground up and put in the food supply; there are lists of products that contain human remains including fetal remains, which of course are in vaccines. The drug “ambrosia” or “gold juice” or adrenochrome, is made from the blood and essence of terrified people, preferably children and babies. It is thought to be used by celebrities for energy and to reverse aging.
    Here is testimony of a victim put into a shipping container by her pimp to scare her into compliance. She was 14 at the time…
    ..You need a lot of terrified, adrenalin-rich people to make this drug and the demand is sky high. Making and selling it is done by members of the disgusting amalgam of secret societies that have so many names, they would fill this page, so let’s just call them Luciferian.
    Nick Bryant, the most reputable journalist following the wholesale trafficking of children, said that Damian Williams, the same attorney who squelched much of the Epstein case, is about to do the same for Diddy. Combs, like Epstein, was running a blackmail bank for a (who knows what) covert operation and had compromised thousands of powerful people with these parties. The United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Damian Williams, will, if not stopped, cover up the full impact of the Diddy case as he did for Epstein…
    ..(The worst is) the wholesale trafficking of children in Child Protective Services, migrant children, and worst of all children bred to be trafficked. The number of missing migrant children from the four years of Biden’s open borders is thought to be about 325,000. Combs, like Epstein, will go to jail for a long time (if he’s lucky) and his estate will be gutted by the young victims he predated, but the wholesale human trafficking he and Epstein facilitated won’t be touched…
    ..In the private sector, there are dozens of independent organizations, mostly Christian and mostly ex-military, who rescue children all across the States, but Attorneys-General, in general —the Attorney-General, in particular—do nothing. Why?…
    ..The Sean Combs case, if properly aired will do more than put a disreputable character away. It blows the lid off a deep deep shame, a societal cancer, a hidden plague that corrupts us all. And despite official slow walking, evidence accretes, most reliably first from a bodyguard who witnessed a lot of what happened. Names are being named and all Hollywood is engaged in crisis management, first claiming they only went to the nice parts of the parties, not the bad ones…
    ..Courtney Burgess, a hip hop producer, came forward with videos of eight celebrities, all under the influence, three of them minors having sex with Sean Combs. The videos were given him by the supposedly murdered mother of Comb’s children, Kim Porter…
    ..Will Smith’s daughter is publicly accusing him of repeatedly raping his son, her brother, throughout his childhood. Smith was a regular at Diddy’s as was his wife. In fact, think of a star that presents as a thoroughly friendly chappie (Hanks, Will, Cosby) and you find this…
    ..In its most reduced essence, what the celebrities, politicians, sports stars and senior bureaucrats compromised at the Diddy parties were up to was a form of Satanic Ritual Abuse. A procession of rooms greeted participants, each having a different purpose and a different more powerful drug… These acts are supposed to feed the demons, to feed Lucifer, who then confers blessings on the perpetrator. Later, an even more exclusive invitation: deep underground, actual human sacrifice, and eating of the human, usually a child. Aside from the act itself bringing a perverted surge of energy, as does the blood of said child, human sacrifice is meant to confer worldly success beyond imaginings…
    ..All the stars named so far have lost millions of followers, leaving their various industries flattened. The rage, the hunt for justice is not coming from the top, it is coming from the “fans”, their clients, their audience. All the reporting is for the most part, citizen reporting. They know what’s been happening and they feel betrayed and very very angry….
    ..What this indicates is that our cultural product is almost entirely Luciferian and our “stars” and the people working in the so-called arts, abuse children as recreation and fuel. This ‘religion’ is global in its reach…There is an interactive map of SRA (Satanic Ritual Abuse)… Behind each dot lie multiple first hand victim testimonies…
    ..In Hollywood, the head of the snake is said to be Clive Davis. Worldwide, the head of the snake, the Phoenix who rules over the entire world, Lucifer’s agent, is said to be Barack Obama. He is the new Mother of Darkness, taking over from George Soros… The world is divided into quadrants, each quadrant has a Mother of Darkness who confers directly with Satan…
    ..MKUltra or mind control was sourced in Satanic ritual, itself sourced from Sumer and Egypt by the Nazis, imported into the U.S. by Allan Dulles after Nuremberg, and spread throughout the schools from the 60’s onwards, via the ‘gifted’ program…
    ..The second purpose was to create “alters”, unknowing split personalities capable of performing specific tasks — sex operatives, assassins, psychics, political geniuses, math geniuses on command…
    ..This monster we just defeated in the U.S. is not what you think it is. https://elizabethnickson.substack.com/p/a-radical-opening-a-terrible-evil

    Canadian Cancer Patients Pressured into Euthanasia to Avoid Long Wait Lists for Treatment https://slaynews.com/news/canadian-cancer-patients-pressured-euthanasia-avoid-long-wait-lists-treatment/

    November 17, 2024 at 2:19 pm #174620
    John Day
    Participant

    Charles Hugh Smith, The Seeds of Social Revolution: Extreme Wealth Inequality
    The seeds of social revolution have been sown and sprouted. What we harvest is up to us. https://charleshughsmith.substack.com/p/the-seeds-of-social-revolution-extreme

    Consumers Are Drowning In Debt As Hordes Of Businesses Fail All Over The U.S. (The flip side of debt is income-generating-assets. Got any?)
    U.S. consumers have piled up the largest mountain of household debt in the history of the world. If the federal government was not almost 36 trillion dollars in debt, the fact that U.S. households are nearly 18 trillion dollars in debt would be making a lot more headlines. Sadly, our entire society is absolutely saturated with debt. https://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/consumers-are-drowning-in-debt-as-hordes-of-businesses-fail-all-over-the-u-s/

    Got cash under the mattress? Setting-Up a “Crash?” Federal Reserve PULLS more than HALF of Credit Available through Bank Term Funding Program (BTFP) https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/news-selections/national-news/setting-up-a-crash-federal-reserve-pulls-more-than-half-of-credit-available-through-bank-term-funding-program-btfp

    Jim Rickards, Your Trump Investment Guide (He does not mention severe turbulence, but it is implied…)
    Trump will pursue a twenty-first-century version of what was originally known as the American System.
    The American System was invented in 1790 by Alexander Hamilton and supported by a succession of U.S. presidents and leading political figures including George Washington, Henry Clay, John Quincy Adams, Abraham Lincoln, William McKinley, Calvin Coolidge, and Dwight Eisenhower…
    ..The American System relied on the following policies:
    High tariffs to support manufacturing and high-paying jobs
    Infrastructure investment (public and private) to support productivity
    A strong army and navy to protect the U.S. but not to fight foreign wars
    A central bank with limited powers to provide liquidity to commerce
    To the extent there was government spending, it was for productive projects such as canal and road building and later to support railroads. To the extent that early central banks existed, they were for secure lending to sound entities (including the U.S. government) and not for purposes such as printing money, fixing interest rates or “stimulus.” The entire program could be summarized as sound money, smart investment and a strong military in the service of high-paying American jobs.
    The American System prevailed from 1790 to 1962 with occasional periods of agrarian ascendency and some disruptions such as the Civil War…
    ..Foreign companies will be free to sell goods to Americans but only if they are manufactured in the U.S. This will lead to a wave of inbound investment in the U.S., a reduction in U.S. trade deficits, a stronger dollar (as the world demands dollars to invest here), and higher wages for U.S. workers. Higher wages will raise real incomes, stimulate consumption, decrease income inequality and expand the tax base to help reduce deficits without raising tax rates.
    ​ A Trump Portfolio
    Sectors that will benefit from the return of the American System include:
    Oil and natural gas drilling, production, and refining. This sector will benefit from Trump’s “drill, baby, drill” policies​.​..
    Mining (gold, silver, copper, lithium). Industrial metals will be in increased demand related to the expansion of U.S. manufacturing.​..
    Defense and National Security. This will especially benefit defense and intelligence contractors with extensive R&D programs. The U.S. does not need more obsolete weapons​…
    Automobile manufacturing. Foreign manufacturers will face huge tariffs. This will include Mexican manufacturers that are fronts for China.​..
    Cryptocurrency plays. Trump will ease SEC and other regulatory constraints on cryptocurrency mining, distribution and use.
    Banking and finance. As the economy grows, banks profit as intermediaries without the need for high leverage and high risk.
    Trucking and airlines. These sectors will benefit from lower prices for refined products such as diesel and aviation fuel (basically kerosene).
    ​ Sectors that will underperform in a new Trump administration will be Big Pharma and Big Agriculture under the motto of Make America Healthy Again.
    Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. will lead this effort. Elon Musk will also lead an effort at government efficiency, which will hurt the profits of government contractors in sectors such as health care, education, and the Green New Scam (including EVs, and windmill manufacturers). DEI initiatives will wither and die. Portfolios that invest heavily in China or use ESG metrics will underperform.​ https://dailyreckoning.com/your-trump-investment-guide/

    ​First complete the ​Application for Federal Employment​… Musk & Ramaswamy Encourage ‘High-IQ, Small-Government Revolutionaries’ to Apply for DOGE Jobs​ https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/11/14/musk-ramaswamy-encourage-high-iq-small-government-revolutionaries-apply-doge-jobs/

    November 17, 2024 at 2:21 pm #174621
    John Day
    Participant

    Wait; you may not fully understand this… FDA employees are threatening to QUIT if RFK Jr. joins Trump’s administration. https://x.com/iAnonPatriot/status/1857156830046068995

    ​ SCOTT RITTER: Tulsi Gabbard & the Trump Revolution
    Gabbard is well positioned to become the most influential advisor to President Trump regarding the critical foreign policy and national security problems that will be faced by his administration.
    ​ Gabbard, who serves as a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army Reserves and has served in combat in Iraq, is somehow deemed “un-American” for daring to speak out against bad policy.
    ​ It doesn’t matter that history has shown her criticisms to be well-founded.​ Or that the ability to make pragmatic, accurate analysis of complex national security problems free of partisan bias is exactly the trait one seeks in an intelligence officer, especially one entrusted with personally briefing the president of the United States.​ https://consortiumnews.com/2024/11/14/scott-ritter-tulsi-gabbard-the-trump-revolution/

    ​ Tulsi Gabbard Right Pick to Shake-Up US Spy Agiencies – CIA Veteran
    ​ The CIA veteran said much of the dissent comes from inside the ‘intelligence community’, including active officers and former staff of organizations like the CIA and NSA.
    Objections to Gabbard’s nomination have focused on her lack of intelligence experience, claiming she will “be unable to perceive problems among an unruly 18-member intelligence community,” the pundit said.
    ​ But Giraldi countered that she was “smart, experienced and capable enough to gather her own staff around her that will guide her way through the shoals of Washington DC.”​ “To my mind, she is an excellent choice, coming from outside of the intelligence community ‘club,’ and could be an effective and ethical DNI,” he added.
    The former CIA officer noted that Gabbard is viewed as a “peace candidate” for her opposition to endless overseas wars, the US military occupation of parts of Syria and the demonization of China. But she is also known for her support for Israel, currently waging a war against the Palestinian territory of Gaza.
    ​ “It is likely that Trump appointed her to shake up the intel community, which is regarded by many as the black heart of the deep state,” Giraldi said. “She will, of course, be both helped and handicapped by being provided with plenty of ‘direction’ by a president who is fundamentally ignorant of foreign policy and national security issues.”​ https://sputnikglobe.com/20241115/tulsi-gabbard-right-pick-to-shake-up-us-spy-agiencies–cia-veteran-1120898424.html

    Kyle Young argues: There Will Be No Pandemic For Four Years
    ​ Last week I pointed out that Trump’s transition team cochair, Howard Lutnik, was heavily invested in carbon credits through his business Cantor Fitzgerald, and that we could expect a Trump presidency that favors that misguided program. What I didn’t mention was that in an interview with Kiatlan Collins, Lutnik said Trump would not be appointing RFK Jr, to run HHS. Apparently that set off some major grumbling with Trump and RFK Jr. As we all now know, Trump ignored Lutnik and tapped RFK Jr. to head-up HHS…​
    ..If RFK Jr. gets confirmed by the senate, if Trump allows him to do what he wants to do and if he follows through with his promises, he’ll be in a position to put an end to the collusion that has existed between government agencies and Big Pharma, collusion that led to scams like the covid plandemic. This will not be a cakewalk. The hooks the medical and military industrial complexes have into the system are firmly anchored. We can expect a big battle in the Senate for RFK’s confirmation to head up HHS. Even if he does get confirmed, the powers that shouldn’t be will throw everything they have at him while he holds that position…
    ..Trump can be expected to once again discontinue the US role as the largest funder of the WHO. With Bill Gates now facing legal battles from several quarters regarding his medical crimes, his position as the second largest WHO funder comes into question. Given that US taxpayer funding for organizations like the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation, GAVI and other Gates NGO’s comes under the direction of HHS, and given the scathing things RFK Jr had to say about Gates in his book about Fauci, it’s doubtful he’ll authorize any further funding of any Gates affiliated organizations. That might be enough to sufficiently cripple the WHO and prevent it from serving as the headquarters for another world-wide medical pandemic coup d’état over the next four years…
    ..I can’t stress enough the outsized roles these Acts have played in allowing the deep state to function illegally, outside of Constitutional jurisdiction. Covidcon provides the perfect example. Taken as a whole, these Acts paved the way for the medical/military industrial complex to enact a world-wide coup d’état with covid…
    ​..These Acts need to be brought forward into the consciousness of the US public. With RFK Jr. running HHS there may never be a better time discuss how to dismantle them. If they don’t get dismantled, the next president could use them to impose another coup…
    ..The Prep Act played a critically important role in allowing the deep state to enact covidcon. It was signed into law by president Bush Jr. in 2005. The Prep Act gives the head of HHS the authority to bypass congress and make law by declaring a pandemic…
    ​..In April of 2020 Trump signed an update to the PREP Act which provided liability immunity to makers of “covid countermeasures”. As I’ve explained before, there were never any covid “vaccines”, they were countermeasures, which is a military term applied to interventions used in warfare to counteract poisoning from biological weapons.
    ​ The mind warp in which these psychopaths function goes something like this: To understand how to make a countermeasure one needs to make the bioweapon. This is how DARPA, the CDC (a uniformed agency) and other agencies got into the bioweapon business. As the previous links show, this is why in mid 2021 I began calling the covid jabs bioweapons…
    ..As I also pointed out back in 2021, the covid mRNA technology was developed by DARPA, the research wing of the DoD. From the get-go, covid was a military operation, which explains why the military was in charge of distributing the jabs…
    ..A key element the pharma cartels needed to impose their profitable sick-care and eugenics agenda upon the US was the National Childhood Protection Act. In 1986 Ronald Reagan signed this deadly law into effect. Since then this Act has been responsible for the injury and deaths of millions of US children…
    ..Because so very few people understand this history, few understand what’s about to occur. Here’s what it boils down to. If he’s approved by the Senate, RFK Jr. will hold the premier position (head of HHS) that was designed by the deep state to be held by a big pharma industry insider. This is why I think RFK’s Senate confirmation will be an epic battle for the ages.
    ​ If he gets confirmed, it seems certain he’ll not be declaring any pandemics.​ https://secularheretic.substack.com/p/there-will-be-no-pandemics-for-four

    ​ RFK Jr. says Bill Gates, Fauci will both be arrested under Trump
    ​”[Bill Gates] has been indicted in the Netherlands for lying to the public about the COVID-19 vaccine,” Kennedy said last month. “And he’s going to have to go to trial.”​ “You think that he wants to go to trial here in the United States of America? [Do] you think that’s one of the reasons he chose to give $50 million to Kamala Harris?”​ https://www.naturalnews.com/2024-11-13-rfk-jr-bill-gates-fauci-arrested-trump.html

    November 17, 2024 at 2:22 pm #174622
    John Day
    Participant

    ​ Rand Paul Vows to Expose Entire ‘COVID Cover-Up’ in New Chairman Position
    ​ Sen. Rand Paul has promised to uncover the truth about the COVID-19 pandemic as he prepares to take over the chairmanship of the upper chamber’s Homeland Security Committee.​ “I chose to chair this committee over another because I believe that, for the health of our republic, Congress must stand up once again for its constitutional role,” Paul (R-Ky.) said Wednesday.​ “This committee’s mission of oversight and investigations is critical to Congress reasserting itself.”
    ​ “I think we’re on the cusp of, really, the beginning of uncovering what happened with COVID,” he added.​ https://www.dailyfetched.com/rand-paul-vows-to-expose-entire-covid-cover-up-in-new-chairman-position/

    ​ Elon Musk Declares “The Hammer of Justice is Coming” for Fauci
    Criminal referrals, allegations of false testimony, and recent court victories signal a turning tide in the pursuit of justice.
    ​ A few days ago, Elon Musk commented on an X post featuring himself (stating, “My pronouns are still prosecute/Fauci”) alongside the newly nominated U.S. Attorney General, Matt Gaetz. Musk declared, “The Hammer of Justice is coming.”​ https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/elon-musk-declares-the-hammer-of

    ​ Trump Ignores Traditional FBI Background Checks for Some Cabinet Selections
    His team is reportedly using private companies for candidate vetting instead.​ Trump and his allies see the FBI system as slow…
    ​..Bypassing background checks reportedly goes against a long-standing norm in Washington and shows Trump’s distrust of the national security establishment.​..
    ​..Trump suggested some controversial candidates for top government positions. Among them were Matt Gaetz for the role of attorney general and Tulsi Gabbard for director of national intelligence.​.. NBC News reported Republicans in the US Senate are going to scrutinize Gaetz’s nomination as he has been facing a House Ethics Committee investigation over allegations of sexual misconduct, illicit drug use and other allegations.​ https://sputnikglobe.com/20241115/trump-ignores-traditional-fbi-background-checks-for-some-cabinet-selections—reports-1120899885.html

    Muslims who voted for Trump upset by his pro-Israel cabinet picks​ https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20241115-muslims-who-voted-for-trump-upset-by-his-pro-israel-cabinet-picks/

    ​ Putin Tells German Leader That Ukraine Peace Deal Possible
    Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz for the first time in two years on Friday
    .. Putin said that if Ukrainian forces withdrew from all Russian annexed territory, adopted a position of neutrality between NATO and Russia, agreed to denazification and demilitarization of the country, and the lifting of all Western sanctions on Moscow, then Russia would bring the war to an end.
    ​ Scholz’s spokesman said that the German and Russian leaders agreed to remain in contact. The official added that Scholz “condemned the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine and called on President Putin to end it and withdraw his troops.” He also told Putin, Berlin maintains “steadfast determination” to support Ukraine for “as long as is necessary.”​ https://news.antiwar.com/2024/11/15/putin-tells-german-leader-that-ukraine-peace-deal-possible/

    November 17, 2024 at 2:22 pm #174623
    John Day
    Participant

    Russia’s Economy to Grow More Than Expected by Year-End, Even the EU Admits​ https://en.topcor.ru/53616-jekonomika-rossii-po-itogam-goda-vyrastet-bolshe-chem-ozhidalos.html

    ​Ouch! That’s what we use… Russia imposes ‘temporary’ ban on enriched uranium exports to US https://en.topwar.ru/253818-rossija-vvela-vremennyj-zapret-na-jeksport-obogaschennogo-urana-v-soedinennye-shtaty.html

    ​ War Criminal Netanyahu starts GENOCIDE also in Syria. To Give Peace to Trump in Lebanon
    Israel attacks residential building in Damascus, 7 civilians killed: Women and children were among those​ https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2024/11/war-criminal-netanyahu-starts-genocide-also-in-syria-to-give-peace-to-trump-in-lebanon/

    ​ US senator slams Biden administration for not punishing Israel over Gaza aid
    ​ Progressive US Sen. Elizabeth Warren has criticized the Biden administration’s failure to punish Israel after Washington delivered an ultimatum last month on improving aid deliveries to Gaza.
    ​ The Democratic senator endorsed a joint resolution of disapproval in Congress after the State Department said it would not take punitive action against Israel, The Guardian reported.
    ​ Official Israeli figures show that the amount of aid reaching Gaza has dropped to the lowest level in 11 months, despite the White House’s 30-day ultimatum threatening the loss of military support to Israel if aid was not increased.
    ​ The deadline expired on Tuesday as international humanitarian groups warned that Israel had fallen far short of Washington’s stated aid targets.​ https://www.arabnews.com/node/2579417/middle-east

    Report from Nabatieh, Lebanon’s ancient city that Israel has destroyed completely​ https://english.pravda.ru/hotspots/161184-lebanon-israel-war/

    November 17, 2024 at 2:23 pm #174624
    John Day
    Participant

    ​ Why does the West condone and forget Israel’s child abuse?
    ​ The crime of child abuse is considered probably the most heinous and “impossible to forgive” by nearly nine out 10 British adults — more than murder and rape — according to a poll conducted by ComRes in 2019. So, try as I might, I simply cannot understand why the killing of at least 11,000 children is not headline news anywhere in the so-called civilised world with calls for investigations and criminal trials on every news bulletin. Or does the fact that countless babies have been shredded and beheaded by Israel’s rogue “defence” forces using American and British-made bombs not count as child abuse?​ https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20241115-why-does-the-west-condone-and-forget-israels-child-abuse/

    ​ Resistance in Gaza eliminates IOF soldiers, vehicles north of Strip
    On the 406th day of the Al-Aqsa Flood, the Palestinian Resistance scored confirmed hits against Israeli occupation soldiers and tanks in Beit Lahia and Jabalia.​ https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/resistance-in-gaza-eliminates-iof-soldiers–vehicles-north-o

    ​ Israel announces military draft of 7,000 ultra-Orthodox Jews to start this weekend
    Breaking a long-standing controversial taboo in Israeli society, Tel Aviv on Friday announced the gradual enlistment of 7,000 ultra-Orthodox Jews into the military…
    ​..Defence Minister, Israel Katz, plans to hold discussions with relevant parties to seek a compromise that would help integrate ultra-Orthodox Jews (Haredim) into the military, while respecting their religious practices, the statement added.
    ​ Katz emphasized that the army would make every effort to ensure a supportive environment, allowing religious Jews to fulfil their military duties while preserving their religious lifestyle…
    ​..This decision follows a ruling by Israel’s Supreme Court in June, which mandated the inclusion of Haredi Jews in the national draft, alongside other Israeli citizens.​ https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20241115-israel-announces-military-draft-of-7000-ultra-orthodox-jews-to-start-this-weekend/

    Israel approves only quarter of over 21,000 patient evacuation requests from Gaza: UN​ https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20241115-israel-approves-only-quarter-of-over-21000-patient-evacuation-requests-from-gaza-un/

    ​ Who ‘jammed’ the F-35 over Iran? The S-300 or the Pentagon?​
    On October 25 and 26, 2024, Israel conducted a series of airstrikes against key Iranian military sites in retaliation for a large-scale missile escalation initiated by Tehran. The targets of the strikes included missile systems, infrastructure, and command posts, all deemed strategically significant for Iran’s military operations. This action followed the launch of more than 200 ballistic missiles by Iran aimed at Israel, further intensifying the tensions between the two nations and deepening their conflict…​
    ..Despite the scale and intensity of Israel’s airstrikes, the effects were far less impactful than initially anticipated. The damage inflicted on the Iranian military infrastructure was minimal, raising suspicions about the effectiveness of the Israeli attack. Many analysts were puzzled by the relatively restrained outcome of the operation, given that Israeli forces reportedly deployed around 100 advanced fighter jets…
    ​..According to reports from Defense Arabic, Israeli intelligence has pointed to Iran’s air defense capabilities as the key reason for the restricted effect of the airstrikes on October 25 and 26. Specifically, it is suggested that Iran’s air defense systems successfully thwarted the attack launched by Israeli fighter jets, particularly the advanced F-35 Adir aircraft…
    ..According to Defense Arabic, reports suggest that Israeli F-35s were “jammed” by Iranian air defense radars while flying over Iraqi airspace, far from their intended targets in Iran. These sources claim that, at this point, the Israeli jets were still hundreds of kilometers away from the Iranian border. The ability of Iran’s air defense systems to detect the Israeli jets at such a distance was an unexpected development for Israeli military planners.
    ​ Israeli intelligence sources have indicated that Russian and Iranian air defense systems are capable of targeting Israeli jets at long ranges, potentially intercepting them well before they enter Iranian airspace. This would allow Iran to counter Israeli operations far from its own borders.
    ​ Reports from Defense Arabic highlight that the Israeli jets may have been hundreds of miles away from their primary targets in Iran, coming close to the maximum range of the air-launched ballistic missiles [ALBM] such as the “Rock” and “Blue Sparrow.”​ https://bulgarianmilitary.com/2024/11/14/who-jammed-the-f-35-over-iran-the-s-300-or-the-pentagon/

    November 17, 2024 at 2:24 pm #174625
    John Day
    Participant

    Pentagon ‘Shocked’ By Houthi Arsenal, Sophistication Is ‘Getting Scary’
    Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment Bill LaPlante spoke at an event hosted by Axios on Wednesday, where he said that Houthis are displaying and deploying advanced weaponry, especially missiles that “can do things that are just amazing.”
    ​ He described that Houthis “are getting scary” in terms of their capability on display for more than a year in the Red Sea, where they’ve gone to war against Israeli and international shipping.
    ​ “I’m an engineer and a physicist, and I’ve been around missiles my whole career,” LaPlante said before the summit, called the “Future of Defense” in Washington, DC.
    “What I’ve seen of what the Houthis have done in the last six months is something that — I’m just shocked.”​ https://www.zerohedge.com/military/pentagon-shocked-houthi-arsenal-sophistication-getting-scary

    The Carrier USS Abraham Lincoln might be limping to San Diego to get repaired after being hit. Houthis Attack Two U.S. Destroyers Leaving the Red Sea, Pentagon Says
    Houthi forces attacked two American destroyers with drones and missiles as the ships transited the Bab el-Mandeb Strait entering the Gulf of Aden on Monday, a Pentagon spokesman said today.
    The Houthis launched at least eight one-way uncrewed aerial systems, five anti-ship ballistic missiles and three anti-ship cruise missiles at USS Spruance (DDG-111) and USS Stockdale (DDG-106), which engaged all the projectiles, Pentagon Press Secretary Maj. Gen. Patrick Ryder told reporters on Tuesday. U.S. Central Command has not yet issued a statement.
    There were no injuries or damage to the two destroyers…
    ..Houthi spokesman Brig. Gen. Yahya Sare’e claimed the attack on the two destroyers was successful in a post on social media site X. Sare’e also said the Houthis attacked USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) in the Arabian Sea. Ryder said was not aware of any attacks against the aircraft carrier. https://news.usni.org/2024/11/12/houthis-attack-two-u-s-destroyers-leaving-the-red-sea-pentagon-says

    ​ North Korea leader Kim orders mass production of suicide drones
    Also known as loitering munitions, such weapons have been widely used in the war in Ukraine as well as in the Middle East.​ https://endtimeheadlines.org/2024/11/north-korea-leader-kim-orders-mass-production-of-suicide-drones/

    The French have unveiled a new​ (unmanned) tactical vehicle with a combat laser HELMA-P against UAVs​ https://en.topwar.ru/253805-francuzy-predstavili-novyj-takticheskij-avtomobil-s-vysokojeffektivnym-oruzhiem-protiv-bpla.html

    ​ Alastair Crooke, There are no “Easy Wars” left to fight, but do not mistake the longing for one
    ​ Israelis, as a whole, are exhibiting a rosy assurance that they can harness Trump, if not to the full annexation of the Occupied Territories (Trump in his first term did not support such annexation), but rather, to ensnare him into a war on Iran. Many (even most) Israelis are raring for war on Iran and an aggrandisement of their territory (devoid of Arabs). They are believing the puffery that Iran ‘lies naked’, staggeringly vulnerable, before a U.S. and Israeli military strike.
    ​ Trump’s Team nominations, so far, reveal a foreign policy squad of fierce supporters of Israel and of passionate hostility to Iran. The Israeli media term it a ‘dream team’ for Netanyahu. It certainly looks that way.
    ​ The Israel Lobby could not have asked for more. They have got it. And with the new CIA chief, they get a known ultra China hawk as a bonus.
    ​ But in the domestic sphere the tone is precisely the converse: The key nomination for ‘cleaning the stables’ is Matt Gaetz as Attorney General; he is a real “bomb thrower”. And for the Intelligence clean-up, Tulsi Gabbard is appointed as Director of National Intelligence. All intelligence agencies will report to her, and she will be responsible for the President’s Daily briefing. The intel assessments may thus begin to reflect something closer to reality.
    ​ The deep Inter-Agency structure has reason to be very afraid; they are panicking – especially over Gaetz.​..
    ​..The old nemesis that paralysed his first term again faces Trump. Then, during the Ukraine impeachment process, one witness (Vindman), when asked why he would not defer to the President’s explicit instructions, replied that whilst Trump has his view on Ukraine policy, that stance did NOT align with that of the ‘Inter-Agency’ agreed position. In plain language, Vindman denied that a U.S. president has agency in foreign policy formulation.
    ​ In short, the ‘Inter-Agency structure’ was signalling to Trump that military support for Ukraine must continue.
    ​ When the Washington Post published their detailed story of a Trump-Putin phone call – that the Kremlin emphatically states never happened – the deep structures of policy were simply telling Trump that it would be they who determine what the shape of the U.S. ‘solution’ for Ukraine would be.
    ​ Similarly, when Netanyahu boasts to have spoken to Trump and that Trump “shares” his views regarding Iran, Trump was being indirectly instructed what his policy towards Iran needs to be. All the (false) rumours about appointments to his Team too, were but the interagency signalling their choices for his key posts.​..
    ..So, is the packing of his Administration with ‘Israel Firsters’ an indication that Trump is edging toward a ‘Realist’s Faustian pact’ to destroy Iran in order to cripple China’s energy supply source (90% from Iran), and thus weaken China? – Two birds with one stone, so to speak? …
    ..The U.S. public has not internalized the costs of the U.S. losing its position as the world superpower. The U.S. must therefore engage globally with a presence—military, diplomatic, and economic—to preserve influence worldwide.
    ​ Indeed, as one respected commentator has noted, the ‘Empire at all Costs’ cult (i.e. the RAND Organisation zeitgeist) is now “more desperate than ever to find a war it can fight to restore its fortunes and prestige”.
    ​ And China would be altogether a different proposition for a demonstrative act of destruction in order “to preserve U.S. influence worldwide” – for the U.S. is “not prepared” for serious conflict with its peer adversaries: Russia or China, RAND says.​..
    ..The point that the commentator above makes is that there are no ‘easy wars’ left to fight. And that the reality (brutally outlined by RAND) is that the U.S. can choose one – and only one war to fight. Trump may not want any war, but the Lobby grandees – all supporters of Israel, if not active Zionists supporting the displacement of Palestinians – want war. And they believe they can get one.
    ​ Put starkly and plainly: Has Trump thought this through?​ https://strategic-culture.su/news/2024/11/15/there-are-no-easy-wars-left-fight-but-not-mistake-longing-for-one/

    November 17, 2024 at 2:25 pm #174626
    John Day
    Participant

    North Korean Koksan Superheavy Artillery Arrives in Russia: Why 170mm Guns Are Bad News for Ukraine​ https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/nkorean-koksan-170mm-ukraine

    India and Russia to create Asia’s largest oil products hub​ https://en.topcor.ru/53505-indija-i-rossija-sozdadut-krupnejshij-aziatskij-hab-nefteproduktov.html

    ​ Meryl Nass MD, It turns out that the WHO’s International Health Regulations amendments were doomed to failure until an 11th hour intervention
    Here’s another name to add to the list of the very top people employing public health to cement the globalist agenda.
    ​ Now I want to repeat what Gostin said about the WHO’s negotiation of the IHR amendments on June 1, the final day of the World Health Assembly. Recall that the diplomats had been unable to make a deal. Below is as close to verbatim as I could make it, taking notes as fast as possible while Mr. Gostin spoke:
    ​ “The IHR negotiations were collapsing. We thought they would collapse. Then US HHS Secretary Becerra came into the room and said the USA would be walking away from this if we didn’t adopt it now, on the very last day. And then they did.”
    ​ So that’s how it happened. It should have failed. But the big bully came in and said he was taking his toys and going home if everybody didn’t cooperate. Reminds me of VP Biden threatening Ukraine’s former PM that if the prosecutor investigating Burisma (where Hunter was on the Board) wasn’t fired in a couple of hours, Biden would be taking his billion dollar deal home.
    ​ We now have IHR amendments that, while watered down, are still more intrusive than we like. President Trump will be able to reject them, hopefully along with the WHO and Pandemic Treaty negotiations. The January 2022 US proposal on the earlier IHR amendments was to give nations only 6 months to reject new amendments. Had the US been able to get that through (it couldn’t), then by the time Trump took office it would have been too late to reject them.​ https://merylnass.substack.com/p/it-turns-out-that-the-whos-international

    ​ Meryl Nass MD has more on the prominent Mr. Gostin. Super globalist lawyer Lawrence O. Gostin is a name all should know. Yesterday he was on Democracy Now! to tell lies about RFK.
    ​ He was also on a webinar yesterday am (he’s everywhere!) and I discussed his astounding remarks from the WHO in last night’s ​Substack. Also some MPOX info from him, below​. https://merylnass.substack.com/p/super-globalist-lawyer-lawrence-o

    ​Jessica Rose Ph.D. on a new class of gene-therapy shots headed our way: Unexplored biosafety issues with respect to self-amplifying (RdRp) RNA-LNP products
    Is recombination a potential outcome and if so, we could have a very big problem on our hands: Unanswered questions that need to be addressed​. https://jessicar.substack.com/p/unexplored-biosafety-issues-with

    November 17, 2024 at 2:25 pm #174627
    John Day
    Participant

    Making ​DNA measure-lower, but do more harm. More papers on DNA contamination emerge​ https://anandamide.substack.com/p/more-papers-on-dna-contamination

    ​ Even just getting severely depressed might cause some of these neurological changes, right? Health Watch: Does ‘Gender-Affirming’ Care Affect IQ?
    ​ Puberty involves much more than the development of secondary sexual characteristics such as breasts, facial hair, and a deep voice. It also plays a critical role in the maturation of the brain, including the parts responsible for executive functioning/control and attention, learning, memory, and emotional processing.
    ​ If this critical window is missed, there is no evidence that development can catch up later.
    ​ Research on the neurocognitive effect of “gender-affirming” care such as puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones is very sparse. Animal studies show a detrimental effect on learning, the development of social behaviors, and responses to stress.
    ​ One small human study showed a decrease of both performance IQ and full-scale IQ after three years. The average 7-point decline was called “not clinically relevant,” but at least one patient experienced a loss of 15 IQ points or more, from 138 to 123. For comparison, an average loss of 3 points from leaded gasoline was considered extremely significant.​ https://aapsonline.org/health-watch-does-gender-affirming-care-affect-iq/

    Australia’s Digital ID: Using Child Protection as a Trojan Horse for Total Control​ https://basedunderground.com/2024/11/15/australias-digital-id-using-child-protection-as-a-trojan-horse-for-total-control-video/

    ‘Human… Please Die’ — Google AI Chatbot Responds to Grad Student’s Query with Threatening Message​ https://anamihalceamdphd.substack.com/p/human-please-die-google-ai-chatbot

    ​ Onions, garlic and leeks… Wonderful Alliums: Cardiovascular Benefits, Anti-Inflammatory Mechanisms and Cancer Risk Reduction
    A new review published Wednesday shows how these species hold great promise for heath – and prevention of Spike binding.​ https://wmcresearch.substack.com/p/friday-hope-wonderful-alliums-cardiovascular

    November 17, 2024 at 2:28 pm #174628
    zerosum
    Participant

    Warning!
    My AI interfered with the inputs that I was preparing, which were highlighting the key words in RIM’s presentations.

    It even interfered with ” History, recent deleted”

    No help from me. Do your own search and arrive at your own conclusions.

    November 17, 2024 at 2:29 pm #174629
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Merry Christmas EuroTardistan

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    November 17, 2024 at 2:40 pm #174630
    Noirette
    Participant

    From article at top post, J. A. Tucker:

    The division was not really left vs right. It was workers vs laptoppers, wage earners vs six-figure stay-at-homers, bottom half vs top 5 percent, people with actual skills vs weaponized resume wielders..

    Yes.. but US elections are about gathering votes, about how to do that, appeal to this or that demographic, etc. (leaving out payments, fraud, etc.) The electorate is scinded into groups or ‘leanings’ by the analysts, sliced and diced, and how to propagandise / convince / draw in etc. the voters from the various groups is a well-paid! speciality.

    An anecdote, joke? about Obama (heard in CH, re. his first election). The expert comes to the Obiman campaign and says the only segment I can find where O could be boosted at the booth, beyond all we have done so far (recall, he was expected to win handily by those in the know) is Animal Lovers. O should get a dog and a cat and have plenty of pictures taken, specially with the daughters!

    Bo the dog has a wiki entry. 🙂

    November 17, 2024 at 3:39 pm #174641
    Noirette
    Participant

    The belated Inquiry into the death of Dawn Sturgess (link above, by John Helmer) is focussing attention once more on the Skripal Affair. Rightly so. Helmer has written a book about it, which I haven’t read, not a crit. of him, but I fear being influenced by interpretations, I looked into this in depth at the time, and later, and now will do so again. Such mini-events, scandals, are very indicative of how the PTB functions.

    I’m home alone so over-posting.

    November 17, 2024 at 3:59 pm #174642
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Houthi forces attacked two American destroyers with drones

    Houthis attacked USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) in the Arabian Sea

    The Empire of Lies Military Maggots will NEVER admit the truth, like EVER

    Their has-been carrier was hit like Billy Mitchell sunk a battleship in the 1920’s with a plane

    Same moment that an entire class of warship became extinct

    Carrier groups are floating Coffins

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