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Debt Rattle May 31 2025

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The year was 2014…

• Angela Merkel Started The EU Migrant Crisis, And She Wants It To Continue (RT)

The former chancellor is back in the news, lecturing her fellow citizens to allow more asylum seekers into their country even as Germany is plagued by rampant crime and dismal economic factors.If it is true that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again but expecting different results, then we can say with some degree of certainty that Angela Merkel is suffering severely on the mental front. The four-term leader of the Christian Democratic Union (2005-2021) has gone down in the history books as the person most responsible for the greatest upheaval of German society in modern times, and she shows no sign of letting up.

Without ever asking the German electorate what they wanted, Merkel in 2015 opened her country’s borders to over one million illegal immigrants, while holding out cash incentives and other handsome benefits for those who made the difficult journey. Merkel was of the opinion that Germany had the economic strength to handle the influx of migrants and reiterated that there was no legal maximum limit on the number of migrants the country could take. Unfortunately, she was seriously mistaken. And her views on the matter – despite serious cultural, societal and political repercussions – have not changed.

During this week’s presentation of her memoir, ‘Freedom,’ Merkel, 70, spoke out on migration, warning that without it “we could see Europe destroyed.” “I do not believe we can decisively combat illegal migration at the German-Austrian or German-Polish border… I have always advocated European solutions,” Merkel said when asked about the latest measures adopted by Chancellor Friedrich Merz, who faces an uphill battle in the Bundestag, the federal parliament, to incorporate more anti-immigration policies. As for Merkel the diehard globalist, who once lamented the failure of multiculturalism, she fails to understand that the German people are desperately holding out hope for a real change of political course. The fact is Germany is no longer a safe place to do simple everyday things, like take a casual stroll down the street or to raise a family, without an unhealthy degree of fear and apprehension.

That is because an entirely new phenomenon of knife attacks is now plaguing the streets of every German city as the migration crisis has spiraled into a crime crisis. Statistics show that such heinous criminal acts, overwhelmingly committed by individuals of foreign origin, are getting worse, with a shocking 79 knife attacks per day on average now recorded, according to some German media. Last year, there were 29,014 cases involving a crime where a knife was used, of which, 15,741 were knife attacks. Physical harm involving a knife surged by 10.8 percent in 2024 compared to 2023.

Here is just a glimpse of the recent violence that has plagued Germany. In January, a two-year-old boy and a 41-year-old man were killed in a stabbing in a park in Aschaffenburg, with several others wounded. One month later, a Spanish tourist was stabbed at Berlin’s Holocaust Memorial. This month, a 35-year-old Syrian asylum seeker stabbed five youths in an unprovoked knife attack outside a popular student bar in Bielefeld, Germany. Not all of the migrant violence was the result of a knife attack. Last December, six people were killed and hundreds were injured after a car plowed into a crowd at a Christmas market in the eastern city of Magdeburg. Such indiscriminate attacks must be taking a heavy toll on the German psyche.

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• On the Trump Front — A Change In The Agenda? (Paul Craig Roberts)

Trump’s original plan was to quickly get rid of foreign wars in order to focus on his presidential campaign’s domestic agenda to Make America Great Again. Trump has discovered that Democrat “judges” and some RINO ones can block and distract him from removing illegal aliens who have no right to remain in the US, and from exercising his legitimate powers as president to reform the corrupt and ideological US civil service. The civil service is responsible to the executive branch, not to the judiciary, but the judiciary, always seeking to expand its power, is seeking to establish control over the Office of the President. On the domestic front the frustrations and delays of an over-reaching judicial system have shifted Trump’s focus abroad as an alternative way of Making America Great Again.

In a recent press conference with Genocide King Netanyahu, President Trump declared America’s possession of Gaza. Questioned by media, Netanyahu seemed to agree, at least for the sake of avoiding conflict with Israel’s American sponsor.Trump has begun to describe a new Middle East. It is no longer one that Washington was creating for Greater Israel. Israel had Washington destroy opposing Arab countries–Iraq, Libya, and Syria–disguised as a “war on terror.” The New Middle East is to be Washington’s colonial empire, in which Washington achieves control over oil flows in a new way.

¿Unlike the old colonialism in which the British and French exploited the region, sending the profits home, Trump is offering Saudi Arabia, the last standing Arab country, a junior partnership. The junior partnership is also being offered to the Iranians. The Saudias and Iranians are tempted to accept junior partnerships as it saves them from US/Israeli attacks. Gaza, Trump suggests, will be the highly developed anchor for making all of the Middle East rich. The new American colonialism, unlike the old, is a profit-sharing empire. And it puts an end to Israeli/Arab wars.It is difficult not to see this as a brilliant settlement. But the world never expected anything of this sort. Perhaps the American Ruling Establishment sat down with Trump and explained the situation to him.

In place of the American neoconservative unipolar world of American hegemony there will be the division of the world between the three powers–Washington, Russia, and China. Will the Zionist neoconservative American policymakers accept this or will they continue their pursuit of hegemony? The path ahead is not clear. President Putin is not interested in merely a negotiated end of the conflict in Ukraine. Putin wants a Great Power Agreement that ends the West’s conflict with Russia. Putin’s agenda goes far beyond merely ending the conflict with Ukraine. Can Trump and Putin renew the effort of Reagan and Gorbachev and end the revival of the Cold War that the neoconservatives launched? If not, war will be upon us.

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“The modern politics of division have become a banally hectoring faux morality play put on by the theater kids for the other theater kids.” —El Gato Malo on X

• Trump’s Parlous Gambit (James Howard Kunstler)


While Jake Tapper leads the Mea Culpa Chorus singing Kumbaya in a minor key, absolutely nobody is fooled that the grotesque psychotic deformities of US politics can be reduced to a few White House factotums lying to the news media about “Joe Biden’s” cognitive abilities. For one thing, the news media was not lied to. The news media (including Jake) lied to the nation, consistently, flagrantly, mendaciously, for years, and most of all they lied about the gigantic racketeering operation that government had become in the age of Anything Goes and Nothing Matters.

Cases-in-point, as reported by Alex Krainer, the $93-billion barfed out of the Department of Energy between the November election and January 20 to scores of hastily-formed NGO gangs with no business model or record of competency. . . and the staggering $375 billion spread around similarly out of the EPA from a slush fund run by John Podesta (as Senior Adviser to the President for International Climate Policy and Clean Energy Innovation).

That was pure grift, you understand, and it was how the Democratic Party kept its activist troops of the so-called “marginalized” paid and happy. As it happened, the “marginalized” who dwell on the edge of society — and also just beyond the set of agreements that define reality — are out-numbered by the rest of us, who voted against the tyranny of the margin and their hallucinations. And so now, the country goes through a convulsion attempting to readjust to reality — for instance, the unhappy fact that all that money was unreal, mere bookkeeping entries by dishonest accountants.

One reality we struggle with is the doleful fact that there is no work-around for the nation’s monumental debt. Since it can’t possibly be paid off, there are two stark paths for it: default and ruinous deflation (that is, money vanishes and the nation goes broke); or a futile attempt to inflate it away with more fake money creation (you’ll have money, but it’s increasingly worthless, so you’re effectively broke). Either way, you’re broke. In the meantime, the remorseless interest that has to be paid on $36.2-trillion squeezes out everything else we’re supposed to care for as relates to the common good.

Every broke-ass family or individual person knows how debilitating money-worries can be. And since unpayable debt is the common denominator across all of Western Civ, this perhaps explains the gross, suicidal mental disorder displayed lately by leadership all across Europe, North America and Anglo-Oceania. Europe, especially, exhibits behavior that is completely cuckoo — inciting war with Russia, inviting in murderous hostiles from foreign lands, and sadistically policing their own citizens.

The exception is Mr. Trump, a businessman-outsider to government trying to pull off an escape from the deadly debt quandary. It’s probably impossible, but he is trying nonetheless. It has three main features: 1) to readjust trade relations that, in theory, would restore industrial production across the land — a bootstrapping operation to kick off “growth.” 2) to engineer a severe re-set of the money system that would effectively amount to defaulting on debt but somehow without the feature of disappearing money. At best, this would induce some kind of fall in living standards, but mostly among the small sector of financial buccaneers who thrive on swindles and the Boomers living on investment accounts (figment wealth), who are now dying off anyway — which is to say, Great Depression Lite. And 3) the least understood feature of Trumpism: to decouple the USA from the resource scarcity in the rest of the world, and the consequent strife it’s inducing, and withdraw into a sort of Fortress North America that can somehow carry-on self-sufficiently while everybody else collapses.

As big pictures go, this is a pretty wild one, stupendously ambitious, risky, and perhaps improbable. But what do Mr. Trump’s domestic opponents have to offer? To go back to their asset-stripping operation with its insane sideshow of race-and-sexual hoaxes and hustles? Let’s face it, the Democratic Party has utterly shot its wad. If it tries to start another civil war, it will have its ass handed to it. Despite all the desperate, rear-guard lawfare underway now, the party is already withdrawing into the political thickets to hide while it considers some drastic reorganization of its purpose and personnel. It may skulk there for many years, just as it did between James Buchanan (1857) and Grover Cleveland (1885).

And despite his daunting agenda, Mr. Trump at least presents a sense of confident determination to get the country righted in some fashion, to recover a sense of purpose and enterprise after years of feckless, dissipative drift into the hallucinatory madness of the Left. You must give him a chance. There is no one else right now with no other way.

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• Kellogg Calls Russia’s NATO Concerns ‘Fair’ – Warns Ukraine It Better Show Up In Istanbul


US presidential envoy Keith Kellogg told ABC News in a Thursday interview that Russia’s concerns over NATO expansion are “fair”. Moscow this week demanded of the West a written commitment to stop further enlargement, especially when it comes to the potential for Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia one day entering the NATO alliance. “It’s a fair concern and we’ve said that repeatedly… that to us Ukraine coming into NATO is not on the table,” Kellogg said. “And they’re not just talking Ukraine – they’re talking the country of Georgia, they’re talking Moldova, they’re talking, obviously, Ukraine,” the top Trump envoy stated.

“We’re saying: okay, comprehensively we can stop the expansion of NATO coming close to your border,” Kellogg added, noting that such a move would ultimately require a presidential-level decision.This appears a clear affirmation that Washington is ready to do this as part of ongoing negotiations – but the big question will be whether other powerful members of the alliance are ready to sign off. After all, there is currently a ‘coalition of the willing’ led by the UK, France, and Germany which has somewhat broken with the US on these matters. This week, the written guarantees and other conditions Moscow has requested have been spelled out in English-language Russian state media as follows:

Ukraine’s permanent neutrality
Partial sanctions relief for Russia
Return of frozen Russian assets
Protections for Ukraine’s Russian-speaking people

And then an or else was offered as part of an ultimatum. While not officially issued by the Kremlin, this appears some very intentional signaling by Putin officials. It was conveyed via a Wednesday Reuters report:The first source said that, if Putin realizes he is unable to reach a peace deal on his own terms, he will seek to show the Ukrainians and the Europeans through military strength that “peace tomorrow will be even more painful.”

The next, or second, round of direct Russia-Ukraine talks are set to happen Monday in Istanbul. Both sides are expected to exchange their versions of draft ceasefire plans. However, Kiev has complained it has not received an advanced draft, which puts the whole meeting into question. Kellogg had some words for the Ukrainian side in the ABC interview, as he said, “I always caution [Kiev’s chief negotiator Rustem Umerov]: don’t say things like that.” He pointed out, “Part of life is showing up, and you need to show you’re serious.” As for Kellogg calling Russia’s demand of no more NATO expansion fair, this is consistent with President Trump’s own stance articulated from the beginning of his presidency:

And of course, history fully supports the notion that the tragic war is rooted in constant NATO expansion right up to Russia’s doorstep, which Putin himself had loudly warned against going back to the mid-2000s.In September of last year, then NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg had a very candid moment wherein he laid out the recent history, admitting at one point that Putin invaded Ukraine to prevent more NATO” expansion.

https://twiyye.com/declassifiedUK/status/1701195071922815058?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1701195071922815058%7Ctwgr%5E2958be4971cb04f198f6f0f41424a4787bb725fa%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fgeopolitical%2Fkellogg-calls-russias-nato-concerns-fair-warns-ukraine-it-better-show-istanbul

But that ‘smoking gun’ public admission didn’t gain much traction in American media, where it was downplayed and even ignored. The majority of Americans still likely don’t even know this was openly said by the head of NATO, or that the clip exists.

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“..we would suggest that you broaden your curriculum, you give both points of view, and just try to hire more conservatives to balance out. And if you don’t want to do that, don’t worry about it. We’ll just give the money to trade school.” This is as simple as that.

• Harvard, You’re Entitled to Nothing (Victor Davis Hanson) In other words, they were, by court order, to stop giving preference in admissions, in hiring, in promotion, in retention on the basis of race, gender, etc., what we would call DEI. Harvard has been skirting that. And I think the data’s pretty clear how they have and no question that they’ve been doing it. Second, they have also been getting a lot of money from foreign governments, not ’always fully accounted for, that is reported to the Department of Education, specifically Communist China and Qatar, over the years. You could make the argument that there have been, in the past, graduations, dorms that have a racial basis, almost a segregation element to them. You can make the argument that they don’t fully honor the First Amendment when you have guest speakers. Sometimes when they want to give a presentation at a formal lecture or even an informal class, students—while they may be officially discouraged from it—they are allowed, de facto, to shout the speaker down or to protest.

I think there’s no question that there is a climate of antisemitism throughout Harvard. Recently, two Harvard students who assaulted a Jewish student—one of whom was kind of rewarded with a $65,000 honorarium through the auspices of the law school, another one was given an honorific title at a graduation at the Divinity School of marshal. That sent the wrong message. What I’m getting at is there was a lot of cause for Donald Trump to suggest, “I don’t need this, the country doesn’t need this.” But in his bill of complaints that were contingent on Harvard making compromises, he also got into elements of instruction, curriculum, and hiring.

He said, “Why are you hiring people from only one point of view?” Which I think is indisputable. Very few conservatives. Or one particular take on the American history, i.e., negative. That prompted the Council on Higher Education and other venues that have published it to solicit letters from people who would be called center-right—some of my colleagues at Hoover. And they objected to what Donald Trump’s add-ons were. And I think that’s reflected in The Wall Street Journal column by Jason Riley. Essentially, they’re saying: We understand when Harvard’s clearly violating laws or charging too much for individual research grants—60% overhead. But now you’re entering the inner domain of the Harvard complex and you’re trying to micromanage and that’s wrong. I’m not a constitutional lawyer, but I don’t know whether my colleagues and friends on the right have characterized it the way in which the argument is coming from the Trump administration.

They are saying, “This is analogous to immigration. When somebody is a guest and applies to come here in a visa, that’s an invitation. And we don’t have to give reasons why we don’t want a particular person to come to the United States. What the federal government does with its money vis-a-vis private education is kind of like an invitation. They invite us to give them money. And sometimes we don’t wanna do it. Maybe we say, ‘We don’t like Harvard. We like Fresno State.’ And we don’t have to give you a reason at all because it’s not a requirement. It’s a privilege. Some colleges like Hillsdale don’t take any money. They don’t want us to give them money.”And so, I think the argument from the administration that maybe our right-wing friends are missing is not that the Trump administration doesn’t have a right to go in and micromanage. They’re just saying, “I don’t really wanna give Harvard any money. They’ve got $53 billion. They’re private. They’re not public institutions. But you know, if they ask us and they want money, then we have to look at why we would give it to them.”

And it’s kind of like Mr. Smith coming from Korea or Mr. Jones coming from Sweden. We look at them and we don’t really think they add to the Americans. So, we don’t have an invitation. It’s kind of like foreign aid. Maybe Denmark wants foreign aid. Maybe Ghana wants foreign aid. And we look at it and then, we’re under no—we can say, “Well, Denmark, you have to give us Greenland—if we want—before we give you foreign aid.” We’re under no requirement to explain every decision we make for an optional gift. So we would apply that logic. I think that’s what the Trump administration is doing: “Harvard, here’s some money. We don’t really care if you want it or not. But if you do want it, we would suggest that you broaden your curriculum, you give both points of view, and just try to hire more conservatives to balance out. And if you don’t want to do that, don’t worry about it. We’ll just give the money to trade school.” This is as simple as that.

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Who’s buyinfsD./p>

President Donald Trump has announced the US will double its current tariff rate on steel and aluminium imports from 25% to 50%, starting on Wednesday. Speaking at a rally in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Trump said the move would help boost the local steel industry and national supply, while reducing reliance on China. Trump also said that $14bn would be invested in the area’s steel production through a partnership between US Steel and Japan’s Nippon Steel, though he later told reporters he had yet to see or approve the final deal. The announcement is the latest turn in Trump’s rollercoaster approach to tariffs since re-entering office in January. “There will be no layoffs and no outsourcing whatsoever, and every US steelworker will soon receive a well deserved $5,000 bonus,” Trump told the crowd, filled with steelworkers, to raucous applause.

One of the major concerns from steelworkers about the US-Japan trade deal was how Japan would honour the workers’ union contract which regulates pay and hiring. Trump began his remarks by saying he had “saved” US Steel, America’s biggest steel manufacturer, located in Pittsburgh, with the 25% tariffs he implemented during his first term as president in 2018. He touted the increase to 50% as a way to ensure US Steel’s survival. “At 50%, they can no longer get over the fence,” he said. “We are once again going to put Pennsylvania steel into the backbone of America, like never before.” US steel manufacturing has been declining in recent years, and China, India and Japan have pulled away as the world’s top producers. Roughly a quarter of all steel used in the US is imported, and the country’s reliance on Mexican and Canadian steel has angered Trump.

The announcement comes amid a court battle over the legality of some of Trump’s global tariffs, which an appeals court has allowed to continue after the Court of International Trade ordered the administration to halt the taxes. His tariffs on steel and aluminium were untouched by the lawsuit. “It is a good day for steelworkers,” JoJo Burgess, a member of the local United Steelworkers union who was at Trump’s rally, told the BBC. Mr Burgess, who is also the city mayor of nearby Washington, Pennsylvania, expressed optimism over the reported details of the partnership with Nippon Steel, saying he hoped it would help breed a new generation of steel workers in the area. He recalled “making a lot of money” in the years after Trump instituted steel tariffs in his first term.

Although Burgess would not label himself a Trump supporter, and says he has only voted for Democratic nominees for president in the last two decades, he said: “I’m never going to disagree with something that’s going to level the playing field for American manufacturing.” But so far the impacts of Trump’s tariffs have largely led to global economic chaos. Global trade and markets have been upended and cracks have formed – or widened – in relations between the US and other countries, including some of its closest partners. The levies have strained relations between China and the US, the world’s two biggest global economies, and launched the countries into a tit-for-tat trade battle. On Friday, without providing details, Trump accused China of violating a truce they had reached over tariffs earlier this month over talks in Geneva.

US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer later clarified that China had not been removing non-tariff barriers as agreed under the deal. China then shot back with its own accusations of US wrongdoing. Beijing’s response on Friday did not address the US claims directly but urged the US to “cease discriminatory restrictions against China”. China is the world’s largest manufacturer of steel, responsible for more than half of global steel production, according to World Steel Association statistics from 2022. “If you don’t have steel, you don’t have a country. You don’t have a country, you can’t make a military. What are we going to do? Say, ‘Let’s go to China to get our steel from the army tanks,'” Trump quipped at the Pittsburgh rally on Friday.

Trump’s roughly hour-long, wide-ranging rally speech hinted at the deal he said he had made with Japan’s Nippon Steel but he did not offer any new details. Both companies have not confirmed any deal was completed. While campaigning for president, Trump had said he would block foreign acquisition of US Steel, the storied 124-year-old American steel company. It is unclear how the reported partnership would operate and who would own the company. White House officials said Trump had convinced Japan’s Nippon Steel to boost its investment in the US and give the government key say over the operations of the US factories. According to US media, Japan plans to invest $14bn over 14 months.

Other reported details include that the companies had said they would maintain ownership of US steel in the US, with US citizens on the board and in leadership positions; pledged not to cut production for 10 years; and agreed to give the government the right to veto potential production cuts after that period.

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“It is absolutely clear that Ukraine isn’t interested in negotiations. They’re simply playing games. For them, it’s not a serious or meaningful negotiation.”

• Zelensky ‘Playing Games’ Instead Of Negotiating – Russian Diplomat (RT)

Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky doesn’t want meaningful negotiations and only seeks to prolong the conflict, Russian first deputy envoy to the UN Dmitry Polyansky has told RT. Russia proposed holding a second round of direct talks in Istanbul on June 2, but Ukraine has yet to formally commit to attending the event.“They are making every effort to convince [US President Donald Trump] that Russia isn’t interested in peace,” Polyansky said in an interview on Friday. “It is absolutely clear that Ukraine isn’t interested in negotiations. They’re simply playing games. For them, it’s not a serious or meaningful negotiation.”

“Everything Kiev now does and says should be analyzed through [the lens] of Ukraine wanting to prolong the war,” the diplomat added. He suggested that Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky is motivated by a desire to stay in power and avoid accountability. Zelensky’s five-year presidential term formally expired in May 2024, but he has refused to call new elections, citing martial law. “It is not in the interest of the Ukrainian president to engage in any meaningful peaceful efforts because they would lead to elections – something he fears the most,” Polyansky said. “He would also be held accountable for the embezzlement of the state budget and Western aid… That’s why he wants to avert this scenario any way he can.”
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has said he no longer considers Zelensky a legitimate leader and argued that his status could potentially undermine the peace process. Trump previously branded Zelensky “a dictator without elections,” but has since toned down his criticism. Russia and Ukraine held their first direct talks in three years in Istanbul on May 16, agreeing to carry out a large prisoner exchange and each present ceasefire terms. The Kremlin has denied accusations of stalling negotiations and said on Wednesday that it was finalizing a memorandum outlining its vision of peace.

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  • May 31, 2025 at 9:59 am #189128
    Raúl Ilargi Meijer
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    Odilon Redon The boat 1900         Prayer https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1928328613369135472 Ron Paul https://twitter.co
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle May 31 2025]

    May 31, 2025 at 11:06 am #189131
    tboc
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    first time it was the Democrats and the Deep State, this time it’s the Judges and the RINO’s

    “Trump has discovered that Democrat “judges” and some RINO ones can block and distract him from removing illegal aliens who have no right to remain in the US, and from exercising his legitimate powers as president to reform the corrupt and ideological US civil service.” – PCR

    “The exception is Mr. Trump, a businessman-outsider to government trying to pull off an escape from the deadly debt quandary” – JHK

    hey boys and girls it’s The Punch and Judy Show

    a business man-outsider has discovered after ten years there is a self-preserving system in place
    you clock someone that slow with a calendar

    May 31, 2025 at 11:16 am #189132
    tboc
    Participant

    one admirable trait Mr. Trumps has is his ability to pick advisers
    my guess is he has perfected implementation of The Peter Principle

    when in our lifetime has keeping the world in turmoil not been the objective of US foreign policy?
    using the means of punishing the most vulnerable and rewarding the most corrupt

    No NATO for Ukraine – NO SHIT SHERLOCK
    where’s my calendar?

    May 31, 2025 at 11:56 am #189133
    Dr. D
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    Kunstler: Well we can try something, under Trump, or try nothing and just collapse without preparing.

    Choice here is: always complain. Always shoot allies. Black Pill Avast! Black pillers always win and live the best lives evah.

    Speaking of, Citizen, you’re losing your mind. I don’t know what you need to restore and center yourself, but this won’t work well. Others too: we’re all under a lot of pressure, over-energized, and stressed. Take a walk not because we should but because it doesn’t make you a good soldier to getting things done. If that takes a walk, do it.

    ““We’re saying: okay, comprehensively we can stop the expansion of NATO coming close to your border,” Kellogg added, noting that such a move would ultimately require a presidential-level decision.”

    Same as the Saudi-Israel decision. This is America. HOW can you assure someone even three years ahead of now? You can’t. Even a treaty wouldn’t mean much. First, we always double-cross them, but also, they aren’t much and can just be un-done by the new Senate. It’s about INTENT, which is deeper, meaning you need buy-in from the (deep) state, real strategic re-positioning. They DO give this, it IS done – I don’t know how it’s done, but it happens and still happens even now (see Trump in office and not assassinated, eg) but that’s a very squishy, oligarchic, hidden reality.

    What can Russia and Saudi GUARANTEE, in real terms, right now, when this is a real hard-border, solid case? Like that Germany won’t send 5k tripwire death troops to Estonia? Oops.

    “Ukraine can forget about NATO”

    Again, these are just WORDS. By one President, out in three years.

    What’s going on out there? I’m still listening, but it remains too complicated to follow up or comment on. Like Cullom’s wild overvaluations. Yes, but if all capital flees Europe, we’ll have a 1920’s stock market. Yet capital has NOT fled Europe. If we have gold, but gold is at $3600, yes, but it should be $30k according to printing, at the same time it’s rumored Trump “Got the gold back” and all our banks are stuffed with gold, same with Russia, China, Turkey, etc, meaning we can “Gold ‘Standard’” if we want to. Bonds are not moving, we remain too low but squeezing others. Housing is on the market, but prices won’t fall. Wages won’t rise. Employment won’t budge. On and on.

    Any one of these is a blowout, a ‘29 Credit Anschalt. Yet with supercomputers, Powell can thread the needle, steer the ship all day and night, and at the same time, Euro supercomputers can too. Nothing will ever happen again. We’re in a world we can’t predict.

    Suppose, pop! Something goes off, or is MADE to go off as one side or the other sees an attack advantage. Bam, whole thing suddenly collapses from being under the pressure, as all prices, all actions are false (due to pricing, eg, a salad is shipped worldwide 3 times and still costs $1 when it arrives, meanwhile a tiny chip worthless in 3 years is worth $2,000) then it all goes random, unglued.

    OR, due to the very same supercomputers, the minute it comes unglued, the rigged markets are used to glue it all up again. Which has no doubt been happening since ‘01, with ever-increasing intervention. Powell may be trying to get of OFF intervention and slowly back TO real-market pricing, BUT.

    But you know how I feel about adding ever-increasing complexity against ever-increasing pressure. We did this IN ‘29, with the “Trusts” with the Portfolio Insurance of ‘87, again with options and shorting in ‘2000, with the Greenspan put, with MBS, etc in ‘08, over and over. Yeah, the insurance and derivatives get more complicated and more powerful. …Exactly at the same scale as the underlying market. Duh. Because same number of zeros, same speed, same tech. So it just reflects the same reality that “Risk is never erased, just transferred.” Or multiplied. It can be multiplied, but not reduced, thanks.

    They’ve now moved that risk to the entire nation, the U.S. the U.S. Bond market, then through the US$ Reserve Currency to the whole world. !! Yay! …DOESN’T MATTER. Risk is still there. And still multiplied by all these jumps and mechanisms.

    As above, what Trump is trying to do is UN-build the machine, or at least convert it while it’s running to something functional. And that’s possible, AND everyone has a high motivation to do it or bomb go boom, everybody dies.

    That doesn’t make it possible, nor that half the bomb doesn’t go off trying.

    Short articles, bad formatting. I hope that isn’t a bad sign. I’ve also been here, almost every morning, for years, decade. Yet things change. What is there to be done? We sit together.

    May 31, 2025 at 12:51 pm #189134
    my parents said know
    Participant

    Give me one of those immigrants so yearning to be free!
    I’ll pay her zero wages, then- that’s how it’s gonna be;
    And in return for cleaning house, I will not rat her out.
    Cheap labor kept through blackmail: what America’s about!

    May 31, 2025 at 12:55 pm #189135
    tboc
    Participant

    “As above, what Trump is trying to do is UN-build the machine, or at least convert it while it’s running to something functional” – Dr Dyslexia
    you are delusional, put on YOUR WHITE HAT and take a walk

    Trump is no more than a chrome rocker box cover on a smoking slant six with worn rod bearings, scored cylinders and leaking valve guides. a cheap cosmetic on a smoking powerless remnant of the past

    May 31, 2025 at 1:05 pm #189136
    zerosum
    Participant

    Solutions —> illusions

    Elitist —> My plan —> Original plan –> Auto pen —> No Variations —> billion options —>irrelevant

    Get rid of wars —> Peace —> Prosperity
    ———–
    • On the Trump Front — A Change In The Agenda? (Paul Craig Roberts)
    a profit-sharing empire
    —————
    • Trump’s Parlous Gambit (James Howard Kunstler)
    Trump, trying to pull off an escape from the deadly debt quandary.

    What do the opponents have to offer?
    NATO expansion?
    ———–

    Conditions on getting taxpayer money
    ————-
    Steel News
    US Steel, partnership with Japan’s Nippon Steel

    CN Investing $3.4 Billion to Build Capacity and Power Sustainable Growth
    https://www.cn.ca/en/news/2025/05/cn-investing-34-billion-to-build-capacity-and-power-sustainable
    (Avoiding tariff by using steel at home)
    ———-
    MY PRIORITIES # 1 —> OPERATION OF MY IMMUNE SYSTEM
    —————

    May 31, 2025 at 1:46 pm #189137
    tboc
    Participant

    Mostly
    A
    Geriatric
    Anomaly

    May 31, 2025 at 2:02 pm #189138
    Dora
    Participant

    Sasha Latypova on the updated CDC vax recommendations.
    https://sashalatypova.substack.com/p/cdc-issued-the-anticipated-update

    May 31, 2025 at 2:04 pm #189139
    Dora
    Participant

    FDA always looking out for your health. Jimmy Dore.

    May 31, 2025 at 2:10 pm #189140
    zerosum
    Participant

    https://www.moonofalabama.org/2025/05/trump-accuses-china-of-violating-agreement-he-did-not-adhere-to.html#more
    May 31, 2025
    a different take on tariffs
    Trump’s tariffs are sanctions against the US, in the sense that foreign Cos. / foreign production etc. facilities are to be ‘punished’, ‘excluded,’ denied trade, kicked out – just as if Russia and China imposed sanctions on the US!

    ————-
    Sanctions explained
    https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/policies/sanctions-against-russia/

    May 31, 2025 at 4:25 pm #189141
    John Day
    Participant

    @tboc: Well, there’s no need to disrespect the Slant-Six…
    😉

    May 31, 2025 at 5:00 pm #189142
    Alexander Carpenter
    Participant

    Ilargi, take a break. Go to the beach or hike up a mountain. Or just sit around the house and take two baths a day. Fast. Stretch. Listen. Spend a lot of time touching other animals. Cook the most nourishing meals. Play empty…

    You need you more than we need you, and we’ll be fine until you get it back together.

    Otherwise, we will sorely miss you and this forum. Then we’ll be pissed at you.

    Love,
    A.

    May 31, 2025 at 5:31 pm #189143
    John Day
    Participant

    Police Arrest Suspects in Murder of InfoWars Journalist (2X 15 y/o + 2X 17 y/o thieves)
    Austin Police Detective Jason Jones said the suspects were tracked through a stolen vehicle they drove to White’s residence… https://headlineusa.com/police-arrest-suspects-in-murder-of-infowars-journalist/

    May 31, 2025 at 5:43 pm #189144
    Topcat
    Participant

    Tricked out Slant Six

    May 31, 2025 at 7:06 pm #189145
    Just Some Randomer
    Participant

    I love how the engine bay in those classic vehicles looks virtually empty – you could almost strip the engine down without removing it. Modern cars have the motor and associated gubbins rammed in there so tight you almost have to drop it out to change a spark plug.

    May 31, 2025 at 7:23 pm #189146
    those darned kids
    Participant

    i hate old cars. the foul burpings that come out of the wretched things..

    May 31, 2025 at 8:03 pm #189147
    WES
    Participant

    Comparing Trump’s 1st & 2nd terms:

    During Trump’s first term, the Uniparty used the Dept of Justice to attack/stop Trump personally.

    In Trump’s second term, the Uniparty has not been able to use the DoJ to attack Trump personally nor his actions either.

    Instead the Uniparty has been reduced to trying to attack/stop Trump’s actions via courts/judges.

    The political playing field is just slightly more level towards the American people.

    Trump likely only has at most 1-1/2 years left to make any changes.

    The coming 2026 mid term elections will show if the American people or the Uniparty controls the country’s political system.

    Trump is very limited in the number of people he can select to help him make changes.
    The Uniparty has publically let it be known that they will go after all those who help Trump.

    Critics of Trump are notable for their unwillingness to volunteer to help Trump make changes they want.
    Instead they condemn Trump for trying!

    May 31, 2025 at 8:08 pm #189148
    Doc Robinson
    Participant

    The UK aircraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales is now in the Red Sea and getting closer to Yemen, with the Carrier Strike Group accompanied by 2 destroyers from the US.


    https://xcancel.com/MT_Anderson/status/1928822008214589540#m

    This article in the UK Telegraph anticipates a showdown —
    You’ve read that aircraft carriers have been rendered obsolete by missiles. Now we find out
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05/29/royal-navy-carrier-strike-houthis-red-sea-drones-missiles/

    The article is optimistic and says what will keep the carrier safe is a “layered defence.”

    Make no mistake, the Prince of Wales is headed into a warzone. She’ll be well within the footprint of hostile missiles, a situation which the critics of aircraft carriers as an idea routinely claim is unsurvivable.

    But all the American firepower does seem to have achieved something. On 6 May the Houthis agreed to “halt attacks on US warships and commercial shipping”. This sort of statement needs to be treated with due caution, but for now the Houthis appear to be mainly targeting Israel and leaving shipping alone, possibly because they have no other option. For now, the US is no longer striking the Houthis, in large part because they were getting worried about the rate at which they were using up munitions.

    The other thing to bear in mind is that British warships have been running the Bab-el-Mandeb gauntlet and the Strait of Hormuz one (at the entrance to the Gulf) for many years…

    In other words, there is nothing in this current transit that will come as a surprise, and the group will have trained for all of it.

    What will keep the group’s High Value Units (HVUs – the carrier and supply ship) safe is layered defence.

    The layers start a long way out and include intelligence gathering and all sorts of information collection, increasingly in the cyber domain…

    May 31, 2025 at 9:20 pm #189153
    John Day
    Participant

    Looking Back To See https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/looking-back-to-see

    I thought it peaked in early 2019: Surplus Energy Economics, Has growth ended? DID THE ECONOMY INFLECT IN 2023?
    Though much further analysis remains to be conducted, it’s starting to look as though the global economy may have peaked in 2023.

    #304: Has growth ended?

    Jim Kunstler, Trump’s Parlous Gambit
    One reality we struggle with is the doleful fact that there is no work-around for the nation’s monumental debt. Since it can’t possibly be paid off, there are two stark paths for it: default and ruinous deflation (that is, money vanishes and the nation goes broke); or a futile attempt to inflate it away with more fake money creation (you’ll have money, but it’s increasingly worthless, so you’re effectively broke). Either way, you’re broke. In the meantime, the remorseless interest that has to be paid on $36.2-trillion squeezes out everything else we’re supposed to care for as relates to the common good.
    Every broke-ass family or individual person knows how debilitating money-worries can be. And since unpayable debt is the common denominator across all of Western Civ, this perhaps explains the gross, suicidal mental disorder displayed lately by leadership all across Europe, North America and Anglo-Oceania. Europe, especially, exhibits behavior that is completely cuckoo — inciting war with Russia, inviting in murderous hostiles from foreign lands, and sadistically policing their own citizens.
    The exception is Mr. Trump, a businessman-outsider to government trying to pull off an escape from the deadly debt quandary. It’s probably impossible, but he is trying nonetheless. It has three main features:
    1) to readjust trade relations that, in theory, would restore industrial production across the land — a bootstrapping operation to kick off “growth.”
    2) to engineer a severe re-set of the money system that would effectively amount to defaulting on debt but somehow without the feature of disappearing money. At best, this would induce some kind of fall in living standards, but mostly among the small sector of financial buccaneers who thrive on swindles and the Boomers living on investment accounts (figment wealth), who are now dying off anyway — which is to say, Great Depression Lite. And
    3) the least understood feature of Trumpism: to decouple the USA from the resource scarcity in the rest of the world, and the consequent strife it’s inducing, and withdraw into a sort of Fortress North America that can somehow carry-on self-sufficiently while everybody else collapses. https://www.zerohedge.com/political/trumps-parlous-gambit

    Watch: American Contractors Throw Stun Grenades At Gazans Outside Aid Site
    https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/watch-american-contractors-throw-stun-grenades-gazans-outside-aid-site

    Israel and Hamas agree to Gaza ceasefire proposal – media
    A 60-day truce for the release of hostages has been proposed by US special envoy Steve Witkoff
    https://swentr.site/news/618331-netanyahu-accepts-witkoff-gaza-ceasefire-proposal/

    May 31, 2025 at 9:26 pm #189154
    John Day
    Participant

    Netanyahu Threatening To Upend US-Iran Talks By Attacking Iran
    The New York Times reported on Wednesday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is threatening to upend negotiations between the US and Iran by potentially attacking Iranian nuclear facilities.
    The report said that the threat from Israel led to a recent tense phone call between Netanyahu and President Trump and a series of meetings between senior US and Israeli officials in recent days.
    Trump was asked by reporters on Wednesday if he warned Netanyahu against attacking Iran during a phone call last week, and said, “Well, I’d like to be honest. Yes, I did.”
    “It’s not a warning. I said I don’t think it’s appropriate. We were having very good discussions with Iran, and I don’t think it’s appropriate right now,” the president said. “If we can settle it with a very strong document, inspections and no trust – I don’t trust anybody – so no trust,” Trump said. He added that he believed the US and Iran are “very close to a solution” but warned that it could “change at any moment.” …
    ..US officials are concerned that Israel could strike Iran with little notice, and a unilateral attack could still get the US involved. The Times report said that Israeli officials “close to Mr. Netanyahu believe the US would have no choice but to assist Israel militarily if Iran counterattacked.”
    There are signs that the US and Israel could be considering a covert attack on Iranian nuclear facilities. CIA Director John Ratcliffe recently visited Israel to discuss covert options, according to the report. Israel has a history of conducting attacks on Iranian soil, including assassinations and sabotage of nuclear facilities. https://scheerpost.com/2025/05/30/netanyahu-threatening-to-upend-us-iran-talks-by-attacking-iran/

    Caitlin Johnstone, Gaza’s Hospitals ARE the Target: https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/gazas-hospitals-are-the-target

    A “Nakba” is a “holocaust”, isn’t it? Israeli foreign minister says arms embargoes will lead to ‘second Holocaust’ and end of Israel
    Gideon Saar tells conference that international calls to stop weapons sales would lead to ‘the destruction of Israel’ https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israels-foreign-minister-says-arms-embargoes-will-lead-second-holocaust

    Ukraine needed Western help to target Putin’s helicopter – Scott Ritter
    Kiev and its foreign backers are “playing with fire,” the former US Marine Corps intelligence officer has told RT https://swentr.site/news/618302-putin-helicopter-ukraine-ritter/

    John Helmer, WHAT DID PRESIDENT TRUMP KNOW WHEN PRESIDENT PUTIN’S HELICOPTER CAME UNDER UKRAINIAN DRONE ATTACK IN KURSK?
    ​ The first report came from RIA-Novosti, the Russian state news agency, on May 25 at 13:24​. “President Vladimir Putin’s helicopter (lead image, top) was in the epicentre of repelling a large-scale attack by Ukrainian Armed Forces drones during a visit to the Kursk region​”, said Yury Dashkin [Major General in command of the 32nd Air Defence Division​…
    ​..The drone attack on Kursk had taken place five days earlier, on May 20. Putin’s visit to the region, his meetings with local officials, the region governor, engineers and scientists at the Kurchatov nuclear power plant, and local medical, rescue and social welfare volunteers was not reported by the Kremlin website until the following morning. The report of the attack on the helicopter was kept secret at the time.​..
    ​..When Trump tweeted on May 27 that Putin is “playing with fire!” had Trump fired first – and missed?​ ​ (​Single-shot-pistol duel analogy)
    ​ Since the Kursk incident, the public White House log records that Trump had received his weekly intelligence briefing at 11 am on May 22, and then again at the same time on May 29. On the afternoon of May 25, Trump told reporters: “I don’t like what Putin is doing, not even a little bit. He’s killing people. And something happened to this guy and I don’t like it.” A reporter then asked him to comment on the report that “a Russian commander reportedly said that, um, Putin was almost caught in the middle of a drone attack from Ukraine. So do you have any –“. Trump answered: “I haven’t heard that. But, ah, maybe that would be a reason, I don’t know. But I’ve not heard that.” ​…

    WHAT DID PRESIDENT TRUMP KNOW WHEN PRESIDENT PUTIN’S HELICOPTER CAME UNDER UKRAINIAN DRONE ATTACK IN KURSK?

    May 31, 2025 at 9:27 pm #189155
    John Day
    Participant

    Gilbert Doctorow, ‘Judging Freedom,’ 29 May edition: How Precarious Is Ukraine?
    Today’s chat examines the very provocative plans of German Chancellor Merz to supply the Taurus missile to Ukraine. I believe he may not properly appreciate the way the Russians distinguish between American, French, British missiles and those the Germans are providing. As I say here, President Putin will have no choice but to respond with missiles destroying German military assets because a large and vocal part of the Russian population will not allow him to sit on his hands.
    Do heads of state determine the will of the people or are they implementers of the will of the people? The question was posed by Leo Tolstoy as the central issue of War and Peace. Here and now my call is that Putin must implement the will of the people and not his own predispositions. Hence. If the Germans do go through with deliveries of Taurus to Kiev, Putin will attack Germany with Oreshnik hypersonic missiles, likely after making his case before the UN Security Council. There is no reason for him to conceal his intentions. There is no need to be surreptitious: the Oreshniks are unstoppable.
    https://gilbertdoctorow.substack.com/p/judging-freedom-29-may-edition-how

    That transcript: Transcript of ‘Judging Freedom,’ 29 May edition
    I don’t think that Mr. Merz takes seriously the Russian threats. After all, he could say, with entire logic, that the Russians never responded to the American shipment of long-range missiles, the HIMARS, the ATACMS, they never responded to the Storm Shadow. However, that is ignoring the Russian view of Germany as opposed to its former allies. Russia is neuralgic, is hypersensitive to what the Germans do. And the recent celebration of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Europe on May 9th, we were all reminded about the 26 million Russians who died in that conflict, largely due to German military efforts. And that is unforgivable, unforgettable.
    So anything that Germany does, is a special case for Russia. And as I said, whatever the personal preferences of Mr. Putin, he cannot go against the popular will. He wouldn’t want to. The popular will in Russia is to differentiate between German missiles and the others, in a way that means the Russians will have to respond in a dramatic way.
    Now, taking out military production facilities, I’m not sure that that would be the first thing that happens, because that particular facility making the Taurus has been idle for more than a year. https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2025/05/29/transcript-of-judging-freedom-29-may-edition/

    Company Gives Russian Servicemen $190K Bounty For Destroying F-16 Jets In Ukraine
    “A Russian company awarded a dozen servicemen a total of 15 million rubles ($190,000) for destroying U.S.-made F-16 fighter jets in Ukraine,” the Amsterdam-based Moscow Times reports. https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/company-gives-russian-servicemen-190k-bounty-destroying-f-16-jets-ukraine

    Russia reveals team for next round of Ukraine peace talks
    The delegation, led by presidential aide Vladimir Medinsky, will be the same as during the opening session https://swentr.site/russia/618334-zakharova-ukraine-talks-delegation-makeup/

    The longer you wait, the more you will lose. US Warns UN: ‘Deal On Offer Now Is Russia’s Best Possible Outcome’
    https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/mertz-teases-taurus-missile-ukraine-russian-sources-warn-berlin-could-become-direct

    May 31, 2025 at 9:28 pm #189156
    John Day
    Participant

    Zelensky wants to be begged to attend peace talks Monday: Zelensky Is ‘Clout-Chasing’ By Pushing Meeting With Trump, Putin At Same Table: Kremlin https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/zelensky-clout-chasing-pushing-meeting-trump-putin-same-table

    Kellogg Calls Russia’s NATO Concerns ‘Fair’ – Warns Ukraine It Better Show Up In Istanbul
    Moscow this week demanded of the West a written commitment to stop further enlargement, especially when it comes to the potential for Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia one day entering the NATO alliance. “It’s a fair concern and we’ve said that repeatedly… that to us Ukraine coming into NATO is not on the table,” Kellogg said. https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/kellogg-calls-russias-nato-concerns-fair-warns-ukraine-it-better-show-istanbul

    The man who took 5 bullets last year will not be silenced: Fico warns EU’s ‘mandatory political opinion’ spells end of common European project
    Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico said sovereignty must be defended against Brussels diktats and warned of a dangerous future for Europe if dissent against the EU’s preferred opinion is punished https://rmx.news/article/fico-warns-eus-mandatory-political-opinion-spells-end-of-common-european-project/

    “I fought the Blob, and the Blob won”: Elon Musk leaves White House but says Doge will continue https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz9y4exj822o

    Chaotic Day In US Stocks As Trump & China Trade Headlines Spark Dump’n’Pump https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/stocks-tumbles-trump-china-trade-talks-comments

    May 31, 2025 at 9:28 pm #189157
    John Day
    Participant

    US Is ‘Major’ Cause Of Ukraine War: Beijing Goes On Attack As Hegseth Tells Asia Allies China Threat Is ‘Imminent’ https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-major-cause-ukraine-war-beijing-goes-attack-hegseth-tells-asia-allies-china-threat

    Court Allows Trump’s Tariffs to Stay in Place https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2025/05/29/court-allows-trumps-tariffs-to-stay-in-place-n4940277

    Trump Says He Will Double US Steel Tariffs To 50% https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/trump-says-he-will-double-us-steel-tariffs-50

    China’s productive economy is largely coal-powered: China Drowning In Soaring Coal Inventories Amid Sinking Power Demand, Crashing Coal Price https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/china-drowing-soaring-coal-inventories-amid-sinking-power-demand-crashing-coal-price

    Hype, but it could get traction: Vance Says Bitcoin Reserve A US Strategic Advantage Over China https://www.zerohedge.com/crypto/vance-says-bitcoin-reserve-us-strategic-advantage-over-china

    May 31, 2025 at 9:30 pm #189158
    John Day
    Participant

    Analysis: Biden Unaware of Executive Orders ‘Signed’ by Autopen https://washingtonstand.com/news/analysis-biden-unaware-of-executive-orders-signed-by-autopen

    Sociopathically-owned AI threatens life on earth, because human agency will be handed to it. Centralized AI threatens a democratic digital future
    The decentralized AI industry has a chance to carve out market share, but it will need to prove its security and usefulness. Centralized AI’s dominance risks privacy, transparency and ethical standards. https://cointelegraph.com/news/centralized-ai-threatens-a-democratic-future

    Inquiring minds… Peter Thiel’s Visions Of Apocalypse: Is AI The Antichrist?
    Every advance AI makes in serving our desires degrades fundamental human capacities and gives it more mastery over human beings… Peak AI, ministering to the inner emptiness and boredom of atomised, directionless selves, will mean peak human debility and enslavement. Aren’t these the goals of the Antichrist — which, whatever form it may take, always seeks to remake human beings in its own image? https://www.theburningplatform.com/2025/05/30/peter-thiels-visions-of-apocalypse-is-ai-the-antichrist/

    Bullshit with sugar on top? Bongino Claims New Video Evidence Will Prove Epstein Suicide, And ‘Bags’ Of Improperly Stored Comey-Era Evidence Found https://www.zerohedge.com/political/bongino-claims-new-video-evidence-will-prove-epstein-suicide-and-bags-improperly-stored

    16 States File Lawsuit Against National Science Foundation For Ending DEI Support https://www.zerohedge.com/political/16-states-file-lawsuit-against-national-science-foundation-ending-dei-support

    May 31, 2025 at 9:31 pm #189159
    John Day
    Participant

    “Grading For Equity”: San Fran Public Schools Trigger Outcry With Plan To Lower Standards For Students
    Superintendent of Schools Maria Su plans to unveil a new Grading for Equity plan on Tuesday that will go into effect this fall at 14 high schools and cover over 10,000 students. The school district is already negotiating with an outside consultant to train teachers in August in a system that awards a passing C grade to as low as a score of 41 on a 100-point exam. https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/grading-equity-san-fran-public-schools-trigger-outcry-plan-lower-standards-students

    HHS Urges Medical Providers, States To Immediately Revise Gender Dysphoria Care Practices
    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/hhs-urges-medical-providers-states-immediately-revise-gender-dysphoria-care-practices

    Overlooked Chemicals In Food May Threaten Your Health A comprehensive review article recently published in Nature Medicine highlights some of the most prevalent types and sources of synthetic chemical contaminants in food: chemicals known as food contact chemicals (FCCs), which may contribute to chronic health conditions, including endocrine disruption, reproductive issues, and increased cancer risks…
    ..All FCCs that migrate into food or drinks are important because people will likely ingest them, the authors wrote.
    The study identified how specific harmful substances migrate through these pathways. Bisphenol A diglycidyl ether—a known endocrine disruptor and potential carcinogen—transfers from coatings of metal food storage containers during transportation and storage.
    Phthalates migrate from polyvinyl chloride tubing into milk during processing and transport. Even cleaning agents used to disinfect storage and transport containers can leave residues that end up in food.
    Fast food products face particularly high contamination levels because they encounter multiple packaging types throughout the production and service chain, including disposable containers, wrappers, and serving material, https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/overlooked-chemicals-food-may-threaten-your-health

    Poisoned Profits: Bayer Considers Bankruptcy for Monsanto as Roundup Cancer Lawsuits Mount
    https://www.globalresearch.ca/bayer-bankruptcy-monsanto-cancer-lawsuits/5888958

    Peter McCullough MD. Desperate Bio-Pharmaceutical Complex Falsely Claims “COVID-19 Vaccines Saved Millions of Lives”
    No More Pushback on Safety, Complex Moves to Justification Narrative for Collateral Damage https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/desperate-bio-pharmaceutical-complex

    May 31, 2025 at 9:32 pm #189160
    John Day
    Participant

    CDC issued the anticipated update to the children’s schedule for covid shots
    CDC deprives parents of decision-making authority for “routine” shots, and only allows “shared” decision-making if you can prove the child is not “immunocompromised”. https://sashalatypova.substack.com/p/cdc-issued-the-anticipated-update

    HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. just sat down with human biologist and biohacker Gary Brecka to outline his bold new plan to shift the medical system from one that serves Big Pharma to one that actually serves the people.
    ​ Twenty years ago, it wasn’t uncommon to see news segments questioning the safety or effectiveness of vaccines. But then it all went quiet. According to Kennedy, that silence was bought with pharmaceutical ad dollars.
    ​ Big Pharma doesn’t just advertise on TV news, he said. They want to “control the content.”​ Kennedy revealed that Fox News founder Roger Ailes once told him 75% of his evening news ad revenue came from pharmaceutical companies. https://www.zerohedge.com/political/rfk-jr-batters-big-pharma-two-devastating-announcements

    Geert Vanden Bosshche Nobody seems to see the drama unfolding right before our eyes
    ​ Some of you have become aware of new COVID-19 (C-19) outbreaks in several Asian countries (Thailand, Taiwan, Singapore, China, Japan). But even in Australia, NB. 1.8.1 is now spreading, and it has already made landfall in the US as well…. After psychotic infection-prevention measures and insane C-19 mass vaccination drove viral escape from anti-SARS-CoV-2 (SC-2) immunity, making the virus more infectious, ongoing vaccine breakthrough infections now appear to be evolving in a way that facilitates immune deficiency against SC-2 altogether, thereby facilitating increased viral virulence of newly emerging, highly transmissible SC-2 lineages.​ https://voiceforscienceandsolidarity.substack.com/p/nobody-seems-to-see-the-drama-unfolding

    A Midwestern Doctor explains “It’s complicated, but support your health first”: What They Don’t Tell You About Autoimmune Disorders and Arthritis
    https://www.globalresearch.ca/autoimmune-disorders-arthritis/5888980

    Metformin extends lifespan among the well; now this: Metformin – A Long COVID, Fibromyalgia and ME/CFS Buster? https://www.healthrising.org/blog/2023/01/02/metformin-long-covid-fibromyalgia-chronic-fatigue-buster/

    May 31, 2025 at 9:32 pm #189161
    those darned kids
    Participant

    i just love humans.

    screw you, whales, dolphins, and sundry cetaceans.
    screw you, squids, octopi, and sundry cephalopods.
    screw you, sharks, rays, and sundry elasmobranchs.
    screw you, seals, dugongs, and sundry sirenians.

    we

    got

    battle

    group

    X-15PLUSBETA!

    and a whole lotta pollution..

    May 31, 2025 at 9:34 pm #189162
    John Day
    Participant

    @Doc Robinson: HMS Prince of Wales is there to be a target, a casus belli?

    May 31, 2025 at 9:38 pm #189163
    John Day
    Participant

    @TopCat: That slant-6 looks like it has a cantrifugal blower and fuel injection, and might reside in a 1965 Dodge Dart, or something similar.
    The exhaust system is down-under the “slant”, of course.

    May 31, 2025 at 10:05 pm #189164
    zerosum
    Participant

    https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/israel-marks-800th-planeload-of-us-guns-bombs-and-ammo-as-war-nears-day-600/

    Israel marks 800th planeload of US guns, bombs and ammo as war nears day 600
    By Emanuel Fabian

    Eight hundred transport planes and 140 ships have delivered more than 90,000 tons of armaments and military equipment from the United States to Israel since the start of the war, the Defense Ministry says.

    This morning, the 800th plane landed, according to the ministry.

    The military equipment delivered to Israel since the beginning of the war includes “armored vehicles, munitions, ammunition, personal protection gear, and medical equipment,” the ministry says.

    What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: Death penalty for terrorists?
    Keep Watching

    It says the deliveries are “a significant component” in ensuring the IDF can continue operations, “both for achieving the war objectives and for improving readiness and stockpiles.”

    The logistical effort has been carried out by the ministry’s Directorate of Production and Procurement, the ministry’s mission to the US, the IDF’s Planning Directorate, and the Israeli Air Force.

    May 31, 2025 at 10:37 pm #189165
    those darned kids
    Participant

    1. Key Emissions Components Compared

    Pollutant 1966 Dodge Dart (Slant-6 or V8) Modern Compact Sedan (e.g., 2024 Toyota Corolla) Notes

    Carbon Monoxide (CO) ~50–100 g/mile (gross) <1 g/mile 1966 engines lacked catalytic converters and precise fuel injection, leading to incomplete combustion.

    Hydrocarbons (HC) ~10–20 g/mile (unburned fuel) <0.1 g/mile Modern cars use closed-loop fuel systems and advanced catalysts.

    Nitrogen Oxides (NOx) ~5–10 g/mile <0.02 g/mile High combustion temps in older engines increase NOx.

    Benzene Significant (from unburned fuel/oil) Near-zero 1966 fuels contained higher aromatics; modern cars minimize evaporative emissions.

    Particulate Matter (PM) Moderate (from oil blow-by/carburetion) Minimal

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    June 1, 2025 at 2:23 am #189176
    Doc Robinson
    Participant

    @ John Day

    A news source in Yemen said today that London sought “permission” from the Houthis for its aircraft carrier to pass through the Red Sea, and permission was granted by the Houthis with conditions.

    The member of the “Supreme Political Council” in Sana’a, Mohammed Ali Al-Houthi, announced that Sana’a received a call regarding the passage of the British aircraft carrier “HMS” in the waters of the Red Sea, confirming that it was allowed to cross as it did not carry out any combat operations…

    Al-Houthi explained in a tweet on the “X” platform that the Yemeni armed forces agreed to the passage of the British carrier on the condition that it adhere to a non-aggressive mission and not pose a threat to the operations of the Yemeni army supporting the Palestinian resistance in Gaza.

    “London is forced to seek permission from Sana’a to pass its carrier in the Red Sea”
    https://alkhabaralyemeni.net/2025/06/01/302452/

    June 1, 2025 at 1:02 pm #189195
    John Day
    Participant

    @Doc Robinson: London asking nicely to let her only carrier pass by Yemen peacefully…

    Maybe there is hope for the world.

    ;-/

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