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The Great Unravelling: ‘For All That Is Ours, We Must Fight’ (Alastair Crooke)
Trump Demands Supreme Court ‘Intercede’ In Legal Battles (ZH)
Can Trump Get an “Impartial Jury” in DC? (Dershowitz)
DOJ Slapped By Judge In Trump Documents Case (ZH)
Trump Pushes Back On Proposed Gag Order (RT)
Trump May Face Racketeering Charges in Fulton County Election Case (Sp.)
Ukraine’s Counteroffensive May ‘Run Its Course in the Next Few Weeks’ (Sp.)
‘No Compromise’ With Moscow, Kiev Vows (RT)
The West Really Believes Russia Is On The Verge Of ‘Collapse’ (Andrey Sushentsov)
Normies Awake! (Kunstler)
The EU Is A ‘Failed Project’ – Right-wing “Alternative For Germany” Party (RT)
Ukraine Leader in Black Market of Human Organ Trafficking – Zakharova (Sp.)
UK’s NHS Raises Age For Government-Funded Transgender Treatments To Seven (ZH)
Museum Bans JK Rowling From Harry Potter Exhibit (RT)

 

 

 

 

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The idea is to drown Trump in litigation. And then at some point, make up something that puts him in jail. No more campaigning.

“This indictment is a naked threat and act of intimidation by the Democratic Party against any and all of their political opponents’”

The Great Unravelling: ‘For All That Is Ours, We Must Fight’ (Alastair Crooke)

“[The DoJ indictment] “is ‘a declaration of war’ against American voters. It is not about Trump per se. It’s about criminalising dissent and punishing the millions who voted for him. [This week the Justice Department] took the unprecedented step of indicting former President Donald Trump — Biden’s chief rival in the upcoming 2024 election — for repeatedly expressing his opinion that the last election was stolen, rigged, and unfair”. It’s an opinion millions of Americans share, and to which they are unquestionably entitled thanks to the First Amendment. And that includes Trump, who has said repeatedly (and recently) that the 2020 election was stolen. He will probably keep saying it until his dying day, and he has every right to do so. The idea that our Justice Department can indict someone, especially the sitting president’s main political rival, over speech that’s protected by the First Amendment is simply insane … Simply put, this indictment is nothing more than a declaration of war against American voters and their constitutional right to free speech.

“Consider what is alleged and what isn’t: The charges against Trump do not include ‘incitement to violence’ on Jan. 6, 2021. Critically, The indictment simply presupposes that there was no election fraud. It then characterizes Trump’s contrary assertions from November 14, 2020 through January 20, 2021 as “false” – as though this were self-evident. “Trump’s claims were false and that he knew they were false”. On this basis, the indictment claims that 6th Jan was a ‘conspiracy’ – based in deceit – to prevent Electors’ votes from being appropriately counted”. Tom Fitton, president of the Conservative legal and election watchdog group, Judicial Watch, believes: “This indictment is a naked threat and act of intimidation by the Democratic Party against any and all of their political opponents’”.

And The Federalist warns: “If the prosecution of Trump succeeds, it means the First Amendment is a dead letter in America. It means you’re not allowed to have opinions that contradict the Justice Department’s official narrative”. For the sake of clarity, what is being expressed here is that this indictment is part and parcel of the ongoing western ‘culture war’ – just as scientists were cancelled, dismissed from their professions and ostracised for expressing a view about mRNA science; just as views on human biology are subject now to official negation; just as ‘misgendering’ has become a potential criminal offence (hate speech), so ideological and institutional capture is being extended to the political sphere. This is the issue, amongst others, that is set to unravel America – and, in unravelling the U.S., will unravel Europe too.

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SCOTUS wants to remain neutral. But with, what is it, 10 indictments and 42 charges(?!) vs Trump, that neutrality is long gone. Better act while Trump is still a free man.

Trump Demands Supreme Court ‘Intercede’ In Legal Battles (ZH)

Former President Donald J. Trump has called on the Supreme Court to step in and ‘intercede’ in his various legal battles.” “My political opponent has hit me with a barrage of weak lawsuits, including D.A., A.G., and others, which require massive amounts of my time & money to adjudicate,” Trump said in a Friday post to Truth Social. “I am leading in all Polls, including against Crooked Joe, but this is not a level playing field,” he continued “It is Election Interference, & the Supreme Court must intercede. MAGA!” The former president is currently President Joe Biden’s #1 political opponent, and has been charged by Biden’s DOJ with conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction of and attempting to obstruct an official proceeding and conspiracy against rights.

He was arraigned on Thursday in a Washington DC courtroom, where he entered a ‘not guilty’ plea on the four charges above. The indictment is the third filed against the former president in the past few months – as opposed to the entire time he’s been out of office. Trump is already facing charges linked to porn-star payoffs and keeping classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago property in Florida, in a locked safe, as opposed to a garage where his crackhead son doing business with the Chinese and the Ukrainians had full access to them. Trump has pleaded not guilty to all charges and maintained that he is being prosecuted for political purposes because of position as the front-runner for the GOP nomination for president in 2024.

All three of Trump’s criminal cases remain in early stages. Although the disputes could eventually end up at the Supreme Court, such an appeal would not take place until further down the road. In his hush money case, Trump has begun the appeal process over a ruling that denied Trump’s attempt to move the case to federal court. That dispute is now in the hands of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. -The Hill Meanwhile, President Biden – who lied about his level of knowledge and involvement in Hunter Biden’s business dealings – says his DOJ is apolitical and makes its own decisions.

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No.

Can Trump Get an “Impartial Jury” in DC? (Dershowitz)

What should happen… when it is virtually impossible for the defendant to get an impartial jury in that state or district? The prosecution of Donald Trump for the events around January 6, 2021 would seem to call for a change of venue. The District of Columbia is the most extreme Democratic district in the country. Approximately 95% of the potential jurors register and vote Democrat. Whereas approximately 5% voted for Trump. Furthermore, the anger against Trump is understandable in light of the fact that the events of January 6th directly involved many citizens of the district. Moreover, the judge randomly selected to preside over this case has a long history of bias against Trump and his supporters, and her law firm has a long history of conflicts and corruption.

It is imperative, therefore, that in a case where the incumbent president has urged his Attorney General to pursue his political opponent aggressively, that all efforts must be made to ensure fairness. Prosecutors must lean over backwards to persuade the public that partisan considerations played absolutely no role in the decision to indict. Agreeing to a change of venue and judge would go a long way toward seeing that justice is done. Change of venue motions are only rarely granted, as are motions to recuse a selected judge. But this is a case where justice demands that these motions be granted, both in the interests of the defendants and in the interests of justice. The government should not oppose such motions, though they generally do if it gives them a tactical advantage.

It is likely therefore that these defense requests will be denied by the trial judge. If an unfair trial results in a conviction, the impact will already be felt, even if it is reversed on appeal after the election, as the prosecution likely anticipates. If the prosecution case is strong, it should have no fear of a jury and judge outside of DC. As the Supreme Court has repeatedly said: the job of a prosecutor is not merely to maximize the chances of winning, but to assure that he wins fairly and justly. In order to achieve that goal, the prosecutors in this case should not oppose defense motions for a change of venue and judge. Nor should it oppose an appeal if the trial judge denies these well-founded defense motions.

In all likelihood, prosecutors will vigorously fight all efforts by the defense to assure an impartial jury and judge, because they want every advantage that will help them secure a victory. They will point to defense efforts to secure advantages for their client and argue that the adversary system of justice requires them to do the same. But that is not the law. The Supreme Court clearly delineated a different role for prosecutors who represent the government: “The United States Attorney is the representative not of an ordinary party to a controversy, but of a sovereignty whose obligation to govern impartially is as compelling as its obligation to govern at all, and whose interest, therefore, in a criminal prosecution is not that it shall win a case, but that justice shall be done.” The prosecutors in the January 6th case should study this opinion before they deny Trump an impartial jury.

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Yeah, he can get a Pyrrhic victory in Florida.

DOJ Slapped By Judge In Trump Documents Case (ZH)

The judge overseeing former President Trump’s classified documents case, Florida District Judge Aileen Cannon, rebuked federal prosecutors on Monday while striking down two of their filings. DOJ special counsel Jack Smith has been directed by the court to unseal two filings and to provide a comprehensive legal rationale for a Washington, D.C. grand jury’s involvement in the investigation. Specifically, Cannon, a Trump appointee, has ordered Smith to explain “the legal propriety” of using a DC Grand Jury in a Florida matter. “The Special Counsel states in conclusory terms that the supplement should be sealed from public view ‘to comport with grand jury secrecy,’ but the motion for leave and the supplement plainly fail to satisfy the burden of establishing a sufficient legal or factual basis to warrant sealing the motion and supplement,” the order reads.

“Among other topics as raised in the Motion, the response shall address the legal propriety of using an out-of-district grand jury proceeding to continue to investigate and/or to seek post-indictment hearings on matters pertinent to the instant indicted matter in this district,” the order adds. Canon was responding to the special counsel’s motion for a “Garcia” hearing, where Smith’s team addressed a potential conflict of interest posed by Stanley Woodward representing defendant Walt Nauta and individuals who could be called to testify in the classified documents case, the Daily Caller reports.

“Trump and Nauta are scheduled to be arraigned Aug. 10 for the classified documents case. Smith issued a superseding indictment July 27 with additional charges for Trump and new charges for Mar-a-Lago employee Carlos De Oliveira who allegedly moved boxes around Trump’s Florida estate. Smith indicted Trump Tuesday for allegedly contesting the 2020 presidential election results and for his alleged role in the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riot. The former president pleaded not guilty at an arraignment in Washington, D.C. Thursday and accused Smith of “persecution” for his latest charges.” -Daily Caller. Separately, a grand jury in Washington DC indicted Trump last week on four counts over alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

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A gag order on a campaignig presidential candidate. What’s next? That’s right: jailtime.

Trump Pushes Back On Proposed Gag Order (RT)

Lawyers for former US President Donald Trump have challenged a protective order requested by prosecutors on his election interference case, insisting that only “genuinely sensitive” material should be kept from the public eye. Trump’s legal team responded to the proposed order in a court filing on Monday night, saying that any attempt to prohibit the defense from publicly discussing material obtained from the government, including “exculpatory documents,” would violate Trump’s constitutional rights. “In a trial about First Amendment rights, the government seeks to restrict First Amendment rights,” the attorneys said.

“Worse, it does so against its administration’s primary political opponent, during an election season in which the administration, prominent party members, and media allies have campaigned on the indictment and proliferated its false allegations.” The filing went on to accuse special counsel Jack Smith, who is leading the election interference case against Trump, of seeking to use the court as a “censor” to impose “content-based regulations” on the former commander in chief, instead calling for a “more measured approach.”The defense lawyers suggested an amended protective order that would “shield only genuinely sensitive materials,” rather than “all documents produced by the government, regardless of sensitivity,” as proposed by the prosecution.

Though the attorneys noted they had reached a deal with prosecutors on a “small number” of revisions to the order, they said the government would be unlikely to agree to their full proposal, citing communications with Smith’s team. That leaves the matter to Judge Tanya Chutkan, who will decide on the order sometime before the next hearing scheduled on August 28. Trump was indicted last week on multiple criminal charges linked to alleged interference in the 2020 election, to which he has pleaded not guilty. The ex-president has slammed the case as politically motivated, claiming he was unfairly targeted to remove him as a contender in the 2024 presidential race.

“How can my corrupt political opponent put me on trial(s) during a campaign that I am winning (by a lot!),” Trump said in an all-caps social media post on Monday, apparently referring to President Joe Biden. He added that the legal proceedings are “forcing me to spend time and money away from the ‘campaign trial’ in order to fight bogus accusations.” In addition to the latest case, Trump also faces two other criminal lawsuits launched earlier this year, including dozens of felony charges related to his alleged mishandling of classified documents after leaving office, as well as another linked to alleged hush-money payments made to porn actress Stormy Daniels during his 2016 campaign. He has pleaded not guilty in those cases as well, insisting the charges are part of a “witch hunt” against him.

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Yes, they love him in Georgia, too.

Trump May Face Racketeering Charges in Fulton County Election Case (Sp.)

To date, former US President Donald Trump has faced down three indictments tied to dealings that took place while in his official capacity as commander-in-chief. The trio of cases are currently linked to hush money payments, the mishandling of classified documents and alleged election interference efforts. A looming fourth indictment against former US President Donald Trump may see Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis invoke Georgia’s RICO Act and hit Trump with racketeering charges over his alleged efforts to interfere in the state’s 2020 election results. The state-level act echos much of the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act of 1970, which has largely been used to take down organized crime entities involving mob connections and cartel groups.

Legal scholars noted Willis may utilize the state’s RICO Act as she has a proven success rate in such cases, and because it would allow her to connect various instances in which Trump associates across the US attempted to keep the one-time president in office. Additionally, officials pointed out that Willis early on in her investigation retained John Floyd, who is known as a leading expert on racketeering offenses. “It [invoking Georgia’s RICO Act] gives prosecutors lots of choices as far as venue goes, and it leads to very long complicated trials that wear down defense attorneys,” said Andrew Fleischman, a defense lawyer in Atlanta, to a US media.

The impending grand jury proceedings, scheduled to convene within the next two weeks, will decide whether criminal charges are warranted against Trump and his GOP allies. Already facing federal charges, the election interference case in Georgia proves the second such investigation into the Trump case over the 2020 presidential election. To date, Trump’s legal battles span multiple states, including New York and Florida, where he pleaded not guilty to all charges.

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“The Russians are now fighting with weapons they didn’t have 18 months ago because they didn’t exist 18 months ago.

And that to me is the most impressive thing..”

Ukraine’s Counteroffensive May ‘Run Its Course in the Next Few Weeks’ (Sp.)

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov earlier said that Kiev’s counteroffensive, which was launched on June 4, has been unsuccessful on all fronts as Russia continues its special military operation in Ukraine. The next few weeks will see the Ukrainian counteroffensive “run its course”, former International Monetary Fund (IMF) economist and Bank of America strategist David Woo has told the Russian media. Woo said that he was “really impressed” with the fact that that “the Russian military technology has literally been going through a revolution every three months” and “the Russians are constantly learning from their mistakes.” “The Russians are now fighting with weapons they didn’t have 18 months ago because they didn’t exist 18 months ago.

And that to me is the most impressive thing, […] whereas the West is still walking around in the same circle, Russia’s getting better and better, and this war is gonna [sic] be won by technology in the end,” the former IMF economist argued. He suggested that even though “the Ukrainians are good fighters,” Russia will eventually “crush them”. According to Woo, “if Russia crushes Ukraine, that will be the end of American hegemony, as we know.” Ukraine’s much-hyped counteroffensive kicked off on June 4 after months of delays over a lack of military supplies from Western donors. Russian President Vladimir Putin underscored last month that Ukraine’s counteroffensive, which he said claimed the lives of “tens of thousands” of Ukrainian servicemen, had yielded no results.

“Neither the colossal resources that were pumped into the Kiev regime, nor the supply of Western weapons, tanks, artillery, armored vehicles and missiles helped. The delivery of thousands of foreign mercenaries and advisers who were most actively used in attempts to break through the front of our army did not help either,” Putin told a Russian Security Council meeting at the time. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, for his part, said that “the Kiev regime has no successes” and “is in a very difficult situation.” “The special military operation continues. It is obvious that the counteroffensive is not working out the way it was intended in Kiev,” Peskov told reporters. He was echoed by the Russian Defense Ministry, which in turn, said that Ukrainian troops kept trying, but were failing to advance as they continue to suffer heavy losses in men and materiel. A number of Western media outlets also pointed to the unimpressive results of Kiev’s counteroffensive, admitting that its progress was “slower than desired.”

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‘No Compromise’ = ‘No Ukraine’.

‘No Compromise’ With Moscow, Kiev Vows (RT)

The government in Kiev has not given up on its “peace formula” and rejects all compromise positions, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky’s adviser Mikhail Podoliak announced on Monday. His comments came after the Wall Street Journal suggested Ukraine had softened its stance during the peace conference in Saudi Arabia. “The only basic ‘foundation for negotiations’ is President Zelensky’s Peace Formula,” Podoliak tweeted. “There can be no compromise positions such as ‘immediate ceasefires’ and ‘negotiations here and now’ that give Russia time to stay in the occupied territories. Only the withdrawal of Russian troops to the 1991 border.”

Ukraine accuses Russia of “occupying” not just Donetsk, Lugansk, Zaporozhye and Kherson – four regions that chose to join Moscow last year – but also Crimea, which voted overwhelmingly to rejoin Russia after the 2014 US-backed coup in Kiev. “Any scenario of a ceasefire and freezing of the war in Ukraine in the current disposition will mean only one thing – Russia’s actual victory and [President Vladimir] Putin’s personal triumph,” Podoliak added several hours later. “This would be a great defeat for the Western world and the end of the current global security order.”

He also claimed that Moscow would use a “Minsk 3” to rearm and prepare for the “next round” of war, which would return “bigger, bloodier, and better prepared” as soon as “political leaders in key Western countries change.” Minsk 1 and Minsk 2 were ceasefires mediated by Paris and Berlin in 2014 and 2015, after Kiev failed to crush the rebellion in Donetsk and Lugansk by force. The German and French leaders involved in the talks admitted last year that they were buying time so NATO could arm Ukraine for a war against Russia. Podoliak did not specify what prompted his tweets. However, a Wall Street Journal article about the weekend’s talks in Jeddah – which suggested Ukraine had given up on its hardline position – circulated widely on Russian-language social media on Monday.

The talks, to which Russia was not invited, did not appear to accomplish anything. However, the Journal quoted “a senior European official” and two diplomats to report that Ukraine “didn’t push again for its peace plan to be accepted” and “didn’t press the point” about the demand for Russian withdrawal. Moscow has rejected Zelensky’s “peace formula,” a set of ten demands amounting to Russia’s unconditional surrender, as “a useless ultimatum” that only serves to prolong the hostilities. “There can be no negotiation process in the current disposition. The status quo must be changed on the battlefield. This means… more weapons, missiles and aircraft,” Podoliak demanded on Monday afternoon. The US and its allies have already supplied Ukraine with over $100 billion worth of weapons, ammunition and equipment, arguing that Russia “must lose” while insisting they are not actually involved in the conflict.

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Hard to believe, but probably true. It’s what you get when all you see is propaganda.

The West Really Believes Russia Is On The Verge Of ‘Collapse’ (Andrey Sushentsov)

The ongoing Western narrative that Russia is constantly on the verge of imminent collapse stems from the persistent perception that the state is vulnerable to internal combustion because of its perceived fragility, vast territory and critical imbalances. The current crisis serves as a serious stress test for Russia. However, in reality, it has already revealed the country’s remarkable adaptability. Moscow’s current strategic foreign-policy objectives have remained unchanged since they were formulated in November-December 2021. Originally intended to be solved through diplomatic channels, they encompass not only Ukraine but also Russia’s broader relations with the US and the West. An agreement could have been reached through negotiations but, unfortunately, the West did not take this route. As a result, Russia has resorted to military means to achieve its vital interests.

Russia’s plans revolve primarily around ensuring the demilitarization of Ukraine and preventing any formal alliance between Kiev and Washington, as well as countering potential military links with the NATO military bloc. Moscow’s determination to get what it wants remains unwavering, and it is prepared to use all available means. If negotiations resume in the future, it is likely that the issues that figured prominently in the November-December 2021 diplomatic contacts will be revisited. Unfortunately, the dominant narrative in Western countries often focuses on Russia’s supposed imminent collapse, ignoring its will to overcome the crisis. This narrative appears to be fueled by Western politicians’ belief in the country’s perceived weaknesses, which encourages the Western establishment not to seek an end to the conflict.

Based on long-term observations of the situation on the ground, especially after the infamous ‘Prigozhin revolt,’ one can conclude that there are still no clear signs of an impending crisis in Russia. On the contrary, the current state of the country has exceeded expectations in many areas – economic, social, demographic and military, given Russia’s ability to stand up to NATO’s formidable military machine. The current crisis situation serves as a serious stress test, assessing Moscow’s ability to make informed decisions, demonstrate social resilience, use resources effectively, adapt its economic model, sustain its political system, manage information strategies and overcome foreign-policy challenges. Undoubtedly, Russia is under enormous pressure and, like any nation state, is subject to factors that reveal both strengths and weaknesses.

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“Businesses that can’t sell anything stop being businesses..”

Normies Awake! (Kunstler)

What news is suppressed? That the USA is worse than dead broke. That the people were poisoned, apparently on-purpose. That the spectral “Joe Biden” sold out our country. That the war we started in Ukraine, on purpose, for no good reason, is about to be lost, and with it our standing around world. That there actually is such a criminal organism as the Blob at large in our government, responsible for the astounding abnormality immersing us. But never mind all that… for now, just go see Barbie. Have a clam roll, a dip in the ocean, another margarita…. September will be here soon enough.

Eventually, the official perversion of money — especially of borrowing an awesome lot of it with no intention of ever repaying — leads to the unhappy circumstance of money disappearing until nobody has any money. And by such, the broke-ness of the government transmogrifies to a whole land full of broke people. Many banks go broke as well. Even the high-fliers who hoarded things that purport to represent money go broke. Then, nobody has the means to buy anything. Businesses that can’t sell anything stop being businesses. After a while, no activity is meaningful except grubbing in the soil to grow some food, or stealing it from those who grubbed and grew it. By then, you can barely even call it a society.

By September, we’ll have some idea where all that is heading. The bond market is wobbling because the government can’t stop increasing its spending. America issues more and more bonds to borrow ever more money, but to the world’s bond-buyers (a.k.a. lenders), what used to be considered virtually risk-free now looks like a bad bet. So, the enticement to buy, which is called the interest rate, has to go up. But as it goes up, the cash value of existing bonds goes down (who wants the older bonds when the newer ones pay more?)

The holders of bonds are mainly big institutions: banks, pension funds, insurance companies, sovereign wealth funds (other countries). They put their large holdings into bonds because in normal times they are safe and dependable investments. But these are abnormal times. When the value of their bonds goes down a lot, the value of their reserves goes down. And when those reserves get reduced too much in relation to the institutions’ liabilities (what they owe), the institutions go bankrupt. When that happens, the people who are vested in those institutions lose their money, too, and end up having to sell stocks and other property to meet their obligations. This ends up looking like what we call “a crash.” It will get Normies’ attention.

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On their way to becoming the no. 1 party.

The EU Is A ‘Failed Project’ – Right-wing “Alternative For Germany” Party (RT)

The European Union’s migration, climate, and monetary policies have “completely failed,” according to a policy document adopted by the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party on Sunday. However, the party aims to change the EU from within rather than withdraw from the bloc. AfD delegates adopted the document at a party conference in the eastern city of Magdeburg on Sunday. The paper describes the EU as a “failed project,” and calls for the bloc to be reformed as a “federation of European nations,” with significant sovereignty ceded back to its member states. “The EU and the globalist elites that support it have strayed from the original idea of the founding fathers of a European community adopted many years ago,” the document states, citing the 2007 Lisbon Treaty – which gave the EU the power to act as a single legal entity and made EU law supersede national law – as the moment when the bloc became “an EU super state.”

Among a lengthy list of reforms, the AfD is proposing that the EU strengthen its external borders, lessen its military reliance on the US by following a policy of “strategic autonomy,” and protect the “diversity of cultures and traditions of the peoples of Europe” from immigration. While a draft version of the document released in June called for the “orderly dissolution of the EU,” this language is absent from the final version. The party also chose 35 candidates to contest next year’s European Parliament elections at the Magdeburg conference. The list is led by Maximilian Krah, who has been an MEP since 2019. The AfD currently holds nine seats in the parliament, and is the third-largest German party in the EU legislature.

At home, the AfD is currently polling at a record high of 21%, according to Politico. This figure puts the party ahead of Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats (SPD) and behind only former chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU). However, Germany’s mainstream parties have repeatedly ruled out entering into coalition with AfD, and a government-funded watchdog group recently called for the party to be banned for its “racist and nationalist” positions. The latest polling figures suggest a doubling in the AfD’s support since 2021, when it garnered 10.3% of votes in the parliamentary elections. This surge in popularity comes as Germany’s economy reels in the wake of Berlin’s decision to impose sanctions on Russia, which was formerly the country’s leading energy supplier. At a rally last year, AfD co-leader Tino Chrupalla accused Scholz’s government of waging an “economic war” on the German people by cutting the country off from Russian energy imports.

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“This is conclusive evidence that the Ukrainian state is covering up and encouraging this bloody business,” Zakharova stated..”

Ukraine Leader in Black Market of Human Organ Trafficking – Zakharova (Sp.)

Rampant corruption and lawlessness in Ukraine have effectively turned the country into a veritable paradise for organ traffickers eager to take advantage of cheap and abundant supply of human tissue. While reports about organs being illegally removed from the bodies of the deceased in Ukraine started emerging as early as in the late 1990s amid the decline of the Ukrainian economy , the illicit organ harvesting and trade in the country started becoming more widespread during the 2000s, noted Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova. In her op-ed in one of the Russian newspapers, Zakharova pointed out that the 2014 coup in Kiev and the armed conflict in Donbass that followed further exacerbated the problem, with OSCE confirming the discovery of the bodies with removed internal organs in mass graves located in the conflict zone.

Things have taken a turn for the worse since the escalation of the Ukrainian conflict in February 2022, while the laws passed by Ukrainian legislators in recent years greatly simplify the work of black market transplant specialists. For example, Zakharova points out, the Law No. 5831 passed by the Ukrainian parliament on December 16, 2021, effectively waives the requirement for a written consent of a living donor or their relatives for organ donation. “There is no need to authenticate signatures, either. In effect, even the removal of organs from children is permitted. The procedure for removing organs from the deceased who did not consent to donation while living has been significantly simplified,” Zakharova surmised.

She added that, under the Ukrainian legislation, the person responsible for the burial of a deceased, such as a head doctor at a hospital or a military unit’s commander, could grant permission for the removal of tissues from the corpse. Furthermore, private clinics in the country have also been granted the right to perform transplantation, while the Law No. 5610 adopted by Ukraine’s parliament on April 14, 2022, made transplantation exempt from VAT. Posthumous organ donations and the sale of human organs abroad have also been legalized in Ukraine. Massive casualties taken by Ukraine’s Armed Forces amid the escalation of the Ukrainian conflict resulted in a steady supply of fresh corpses that could be harvested for organs, leading to the emergence of hearts, livers, kidneys and other body parts of slain Ukrainian soldiers on the darknet marketplaces, Zakharova noted citing media reports.

One black market dealer reportedly claimed that a heart could be procured quickly for €25,000 while kidneys may be obtained for €12,000. The delivery, limited to the EU countries, would be made in a medical box within 48 to 60 hours, either to a predetermined location or directly to the recipient. Zakharova also claimed that people related to the infamous Kosovo Liberation Army – a militant group whose members faced allegations of illegal organ harvesting in the past – may own this illicit organ marketplace or at least have dealings with it. Aside from Ukrainian soldiers, the children of Ukraine also risk falling prey to illicit organ traffickers. For example, in June 2023 a member of a certain charity was detained on the border between Ukraine and Slovakia.

According to Zakharova, the detainee was involved in the trafficking of Ukrainian children abroad, with some of these children trafficked for the purpose of organ transplantation. Despite the severity of the accusations against him, the suspect was released on a 1 million hryvnias (about $27,000) bail and promptly disappeared. “This is conclusive evidence that the Ukrainian state is covering up and encouraging this bloody business,” Zakharova stated, adding that people close to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky may be involved in this sordid trade.

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Sickos.

UK’s NHS Raises Age For Government-Funded Transgender Treatments To Seven (ZH)

Children covered by the services will be offered psychological support and therapy to focus on issues that may have led to feelings concerning their gender, however health experts warn that the new rule could still put children with mental health struggles on a “pathway to medical transition.” The concerns are amplified by the potential consequences of labeling a child’s difficulties as gender-related, potentially pushing them towards a predetermined path of treatment. The decision to implement these changes stems from the NHS’ decision to shutter the Tavistock transgender clinic. Dr. Hilary Cass’ review deemed the clinic as unsafe, raising concerns that young individuals were being rapidly pushed into a medical framework without adequate consideration of alternative factors such as autism and mental health.

“The clinic is being replaced by a set of regional centres that will be led by medical doctors, rather than therapists, and consider the impact of other conditions such as autism and mental health issues. The move came amid growing concern about the impact of gender ideology on children, including in schools where some were being socially transitioned without their parents’ consent. NHS England said that a new service was needed because there was “scarce and inconclusive evidence to support clinical decision-making” at the Tavistock clinic.” -Telegraph

The shift in approach reflects the growing unease around the impact of gender ideology on children. Reports of children undergoing social transitions without parental consent in schools have fueled concerns over the potential consequences of premature interventions. While the move toward evidence-based decision-making is welcomed by many, questions linger about the potential long-term effects of early intervention. Critics argue that more research is needed to fully understand the ramifications of puberty blockers, especially for young patients whose bodies and minds are still developing.

Under the new plans, “Children under seven years of age may not be expected to have sufficiently developed their intellectual understanding of, and comprehension of, sex and gender to be able to understand the reasons for, and potential consequences of, a referral to a specialist gender incongruence service.”” But, according to the UK, by the age of seven, children will “be more established within school, and education professionals and school nurses will be able to contribute to a general observational view as to the appropriateness of a referral.” Right. Previously, children as young as three were being treated by Tavistock, with an average of three children under the age of seven having been referred each month.

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“..scared at times for my safety and, overwhelmingly, for my family’s safety.”

For saying a woman is a woman. Why not try to ban her work outright?

Museum Bans JK Rowling From Harry Potter Exhibit (RT)

The Museum of Pop Culture in Seattle has removed any references to Harry Potter author JK Rowling from an exhibition celebrating the fictional wizard, due to her “super hateful and divisive” comments about the transgender community. “There’s a certain cold, heartless, joy-sucking entity in the world of Harry Potter and, this time, it is not actually a Dementor,” the exhibit’s project manager Chris Moore, who is transgender, wrote in a blog explaining the decision to axe Rowling from the museum. Moore added: “This certain person is a bit too vocal with her super hateful and divisive views to be ignored.” The blog post also explained that the series creator’s absence is a short-term measure to “reduce her impact” while the museum determines its “long-term practices.”

According to the Daily Mail newspaper, the Harry Potter exhibit remains on display but without any mention whatsoever about the creator of the series, which has sold over 500 million books globally since 1997. JK Rowling was inducted into the museum’s hall of fame in 2018. In a statement, the museum said that it is “proud to support our employees and unequivocally stands with the nonbinary and transgender communities.” Rowling initially courted controversy in 2019 when she issued a message on social media in support of a British woman who’d lost her job after she herself tweeted that a woman could not change her biological sex. “I absolutely knew that if I spoke out, many people who love my books would be deeply unhappy with me,” the author said in a podcast interview earlier this year. She added that the backlash against her views has led to her being “scared at times for my safety and, overwhelmingly, for my family’s safety.”

Rowling was absent last year at events to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the release of the first Harry Potter book – with each of the film series’ three stars having expressed their opposition to her statements about transgender people. Daniel Radcliffe, the actor who played Harry Potter in the eight movies that have taken in more than $7.7 billion at the box office globally, said that he was “hurt” by Rowling’s comments. Rupert Grint, who played Ron Weasley, also said, “Trans women are women, trans men are men,” while Emma Watson announced a donation to a transgender charity in the wake of Rowling’s comments. Rowling is one of the world’s most successful authors. In 2008, nine years after the release of the first Harry Potter book, she was named by Forbes magazine as the world’s highest-paid author.

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    Claude Monet Ships in harbor 1873   • The Great Unravelling: ‘For All That Is Ours, We Must Fight’ (Alastair Crooke) • Trump Demands Supreme Cour
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle August 8 2023]

    #140764
    aspnaz
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    “[The DoJ indictment] “is ‘a declaration of war’ against American voters. It is not about Trump per se. It’s about criminalising dissent and punishing the millions who voted for him. [This week the Justice Department] took the unprecedented step of indicting former President Donald Trump — Biden’s chief rival in the upcoming 2024 election — for repeatedly expressing his opinion that the last election was stolen, rigged, and unfair”.

    And the people running this show are Democrat Jews. The DOJ is full of them, they call the shots, whether this is just a coincidence is an interesting question, maybe it is also just a coincidence that the DOJ does not adhere to US morality, their morality is akin to Israeli morality. In any case, the white folks are just going to roll over and let it happen. If you don’t like the term Jew, then use the term lawyer, people who know they are breaking the law but just don’t care because whitey is not going to do anything. Nice that they put a whitey Jack Sprat in the spotlight, I wonder what dirt they have on that idiot, but the people in senior positions, all dual nationality traitors.

    #140765
    aspnaz
    Participant

    Former President Donald J. Trump has called on the Supreme Court to step in and ‘intercede’ in his various legal battles.

    SCOTUS cannot do anything. Even if they ruled, who would enforce their ruling? The FBI and DOJ will just go after Trump in a different way, mostly illegal. They already break the law everywhere, so why would they enforce any ruling from SCOTUS? The DOJ and FBI are the personification of contempt for the law.

    The people at the top have decided that Trump and his followers have to go, so now it is time for the US cultural revolution which, like all revolutions, is an excuse to get rid of people who are a threat to your power while claiming the moral high ground. Same happened in China, they got rid of all the people who could put together an argument against Mao and his CCP. In the USA the same thing is happening, all the people who will not obey are being lined up for the Palesinitan treatment.

    Trump supporters think they can just live out in the country and not be impacted by any of this. Ha, that is what they said in China and that totally did not work, the communists are so hungry for power that they will do anything to get rid of opponents. Same with the Jews in the USA, so hungry for power that they will not stop, they will do the same as they did in the USSR. There are no limits to how miserable they will make you just so that they can get that extra bit of power for themselves. Power hungry vermin who preach equality then kill you for not obeying them.

    As for the guns in the USA, they will be long gone before any whitey starts fighting. What is the country boy going to do when law enforcement arrives, he is going to trust that law enforcement are good and decent people, so he will hand over his gun, only to be shot in the head a few minutes later. The USA has been taken over, the white people are too comfortable to realise the demise of their country. Just look at that train derailment, do you realise that people in China would not recognise that as a train, your country is so far behind in infrastructure and all the stuff that matters to the real people, and it is falling further and further behind as the Fauci, Gensler etc rape the country dry.

    Now your head of the DOJ, Bill Barr, appointed by Trump, is an ex CIA man? You could not make up this shite, yet the story arrives every morning in te press, the USA is defending democracy in Ukraine. Sad.

    #140766
    Dr. D
    Participant

    How it’s going…
    ThotLeader
    https://sinfest.xyz/btphp/comics/2023-08-08.jpg
    I’m sure we can all hope aliens are real now.

    “No government has relinquished power voluntarily” -RFK

    But unlike VP says, the Rich to NOT get richer. If they did, obviously the % compounding on that fact would have made one guy own the universe about 10,000 years ago. It’s cyclical, and the 4th Turning, as Howe is out book-touring, the Rich lose power and the wealthy disparity falls. Like some other cycles though, it happens in one short hit and +3/4 of the time it runs the other way. (Commodity cycles are 1/3rd the time, although it seems as a 200-year cycle end they’ve delayed this slightly) I’d say it’s like 9/10th of the time the rich get richer, but that doesn’t mean you can’t make hay in the 1/10th window where they are savaged, like 1929, or the Asian Tigers.

    If there’s only one pinch point, for the love of God put your prybar there and not in other places.

    “In a segment that looked like something out of Monty Python, PBS NewsHour brought on a therapist to help people suffering from ‘climate anxiety’ on Sunday.

    Man?
    https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/2023-08-07_10-06-41.jpg?itok=Nl2LulUY
    Anchor John Yang announced the “climate psychology therapist,” noting “This summer, millions of Americans are experiencing firsthand the effects of climate change. Triple-digit temperatures for days on end, smoke from record-setting wildfires fouling the air, warming oceans, bleaching coral reefs…”

    The news was, they let a MAN on PBS? I was just there looking for journalists and 100% were women. Of course, I presume he’s Asian (but a 3 generation American? A single drop of yellow blood?) but doesn’t that just make it WORSE?

    In PBS-Land, the only thing that matters is how you FEEL about the news. Not like, I dunno, buying less s—t on Amazon, a [formerly illegal] billionaire monopoly which is a fascist merger against Union rights, Human Rights, and Free Speech.

    Anyway, this platforming of Men must stop! And the endless shopping by PMC PBS watchers must continue.

    “Fact: the climate disaster death rate has *declined* by 98% over the last century,”

    This may be absolute number, or it may be even higher when % of a now 4x population growth. Doesn’t really matter, point is the same. I think it was watching Tom Leher where he mentioned the pop at 4B or something.(1965) So at a minimum, the number of climate deaths should double.

    “The idea is to drown Trump in litigation.”

    I’m not sure they have A Plan anymore and it bugs them. They’re just running around with their hair on fire. It WAS to indict so polling would fall (as everyone of course believes all authority…except Republicans) then it was to indict on an actual charge…but they clearly can’t find any or we would have ended at Meuller. Then it was to hold Twitter and the media so he had no platform, and that ended. Then to end Twitter itself, but Meta is deader than Zuck (he’s an android). Then it was to court case to gag order so Trump can’t be platformed to talk about ANYTHING, ever….but that requires he follow the law, which is what’s in dispute, and he’s already not doing that. They just DID gag order him yesterday, and he ALREADY told them to stick it, which I think they expected.

    Too bad, so sad. We’re all choked up.

    Anyway, Trump’s not the next President, the selectors have already decided it’s RFK, which is fine with me. We need them hounding Trump to reveal themselves, and who they are.

    As I’ve said and will say again, it strikes me that the military swore in Trump, as he was the winner and handed out the “Election Interference” report to all 17 agencies, then they just pretended and let them think this was going on to avoid Podesta’s open shooting war. And it went pretty well. But although the rule is not legal or legally tested, for optics, the President shouldn’t hold more than two terms. That means Cheeto needs to hand off to somebody, and that means any White Hats in the 17 agencies now run interference for RFK instead. This is a good plan as the “Democrats” win this time, and need not fear the “big bad white supremacists, evilly-evil, poor-hating, union-busting, war-loving” Republicans…as they can’t seem to notice even now that’s what THEY are now. So when a DNC gets back in office and Orange Man Bad goes away, they can all go back to sleep and stop burning things and amputating people.

    I’ll never prove it, but it strikes me that way. If the few White Hats that exist want RFK, so do I.

    What they REALLY need is Trump to “win” and RFK to “take it” from him, Trump out there election denying 2024, as the Democrats will be REALLY happy RFK is in and let him do whatever he likes as he’s Not-Trump. Since it’s all made up, all markets, all news, all politics, this is how I’d write it.

    “just as scientists were cancelled, dismissed from their professions and ostracized for expressing a view about mRNA science; just as views on human biology are subject now to official negation; just as ‘misgendering’ has become a potential criminal offense (hate speech)”

    As logical guy, I find this really amazing. I would never think that the game-play requires that hodl-ing one paperclip of lie in one corner must and has to require expanding those lies to every corner, even beyond obedience and plausible reason until it must end as a tyrannical Police State of non-stop death and destruction. Yet it does.

    Moral I guess? There are no “Little White Lies”? Lying to cover the last lie quickly becomes an exponential function?

    “• DOJ Slapped By Judge In Trump Documents Case (ZH)

    If it’s in Florida, they’ll just say judges are all rigging in Florida. The End. Whereas they are of course completely lilly-white and not crooked at all in D.C. Because whatever gives me POWER is True, and whatever limits my power is False. Duh. My Ego is Truth. Because I am God. Humanism in a nut.

    I am Good. Orange Man is Bad. Therefore whatever lets me murder him is Good. In any case, not so long as it is tried in Florida vs D.C. is it unsettled, no one will believe it and it means nothing either way. SO LONG AS DEMOCRATS (or anyone) WILL BELIEVE ONLY IF THEY WIN, then there’s no solution. Because Democracy is the TRANSFER of power. They cannot transfer that power, because if they don’t have the POWER, then they won anyway and were cheated. There is NO condition under which they can EVER give power. Because 1) We are perfectly Good and 2) Everyone else is therefore perfectly Evil.


    (Just the next 30 seconds, the rest is a throwaway)

    “• ‘No Compromise’ With Moscow, Kiev Vows (RT) “

    As in the Cartoon. Left is a cartoon world. Made of one-dimensional paper-people. Paper dolls, NPCs, who have no life or agency of their own, but little mean girls pick them up and make them dance. Like Black People! No power or responsibility of their own, merely puppets of the super-powerful, superior Whites! So. Weird. And so offensive, obviously. Anyway, we all know you never have to compromise in life, that way always works best and fastest. “Do What You’re Told.” PMCs: I TELL you, right here on this excel sheet, YOU OBEY. I don’t Listen to YOU (and learn things), you listen to ME.

    Thus Part II, The NATO PMCs are doing the same thing that didn’t work with even LESS stuff than ever. And losing more than ever, and therefore denying more than ever. But why not when there’re no consequences? Consequence is, I get paid 6-figures from D.C. Clearly that makes me your moral and intellectual superior. It’s in the math…although we don’t care about money or nothin’. Except when WE get it. Then it’s Calvinist proof of God’s right and favor.

    “The West Really Believes Russia Is on the Verge of ‘Collapse’ (Andrey Sushentsov)

    Denial ain’t a river. No, I just heard this out of Ukraine sitrep. Ukie Generals: “We can’t stop NOW…Russia is about to collapse and the Kremlin will be headed by new people!” Uh…whut? What action, what polling, what news, what failure, what Russian-citizens-throwing-a-parade-for-Wagner would EVER make you think that? I got nothin’.

    “Trump May Face Racketeering Charges in Fulton County Election Case (Sp.)

    Trump has said in public he needs the 4th case. Huh? Whut? Yes, he needs GA to bring this case so he can finish discovery on the 2020 election rigging. Apparently by subpoena’ing the server logs from Space Force…you know, the guys monitoring the satellite server traffic to China? Yeah, them. THE INTERNET IS FOREVER, PEOPLE.

    Anyway, complete surprise! Much Wow! ..As he says “Chop chop, what are you waiting for, Jack? Let’s get this show on the road.” In public. Like his cat laser. SMH

    “The EU Is a ‘Failed Project’ – Right-wing “Alternative for Germany” Party (RT)

    Are they really Right Wing though? A: No. They are more progressive – by 1,000x – than anyone in all 10,000 years of human history. They would be the FAR Left wing in only 1959. The only thing that makes them “RIGHT Wing” is that the Left Wing is about 1,000 miles further Left right now. Like, I think the concept of borders and genders was prettymuch normal even for the Left in only 2019? 3 years ago? Now it’s PutinHitler? Summary arrest and reeducation camps? No, literally: there are writers and politicians in both Germany and France (and Britain) who are fined ten-thousands and in jail this minute.

    But that’s not “Far-Right”, that is, the overwhelming power of the State, vs the “Left” power of the Proletariat-PEOPLE. Oh no! I mean in #OppositeLand we seem to all live in now. Where Union-busting, people-crushing is a “Left” value, and being Pro-police, Pro-war is a “Left” value. WTF? When does this end and they say, “Are we the Baddies? This isn’t the Free-speech, free action, race-blind march in the streets party I joined in 1965”.

    “• UK’s NHS Raises Age For Government-Funded Transgender Treatments To Seven (ZH)

    Well! So long as it’s age SEVEN, “The amputations will continue until morale improves.”

    If you wrote a book on this in 2010, would anyone believe you? A: No, because we did. We did tell you.

    due to her “super hateful and divisive” decision to make the most major character in all the modern children’s fiction a total gay.

    THAT’S NOT ENOUGH!!! Ideological Purity is NOT PERFECT ENOUGH! Moar! Not until EVERY character, not just in her book, but ALL books, everywhere, are ONLY gay, transgender, not-whitey, will it be good enough. And then STILL not good enough, because what would I HATE then? We’d have to hate that there WERE genders at all, you bigot. You can’t be TRANSgender when there are no genders! You can’t be “Gay” without a gender to be gay in.

    Solution: “Shut up, I hate you.” Hate is what makes me the Good people.

    Aw, why they picking on France? Now France is all the White people, which is why they never dun no wrong in Africa. Right?

    There is no logic: whatever gives ME power is what’s True.

    #140767
    oxymoron
    Participant

    Since it’s all made up, all markets, all news, all politics, this is how I’d write it.

    Best sentence on the internet for me today

    #140768
    John Day
    Participant

    Ony Non-Solutions https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/only-non-solutions

    Larry Johnson posted this long essay on his site, which is most illuminating, and we have all seen it happening, but this is the whole-elephant (excerpted here).
    WHY IS THE WEST SO WEAK (AND RUSSIA SO STRONG)? THE ROLE OF HUMAN CAPITAL AND WESTERN EDUCATION , Gaius Baltar
    I suggest that the cause of this unfolding disaster is a serious structural problem in the West – which Russia seems to have largely avoided. This structural problem is a necessary condition for the current western system and has been purposely created to bring it about and maintain it. This problem is the subject of this article – as well as the “mechanism” behind it. This is unfortunately a long article, but the subject matter demands it.
    Human capital and its properties
    The current ideologically-based power structure of the West outright requires that certain types of people be in positions of influence and certain types of people be sidelined. This applies to all steps of the social ladder; from kindergarten teachers to university teachers and corporate executives, and all the way up to the leaders of society itself. This has been progressing steadily for the last five decades or so, and has resulted in a major structural problem for the West. That problem is the obvious and massive degradation and misallocation of human capital in the West.
    Human capital can be described as the quality of a company’s or nation’s workforce, or more specifically how competent the employee pool is – how well they are trained, how quickly they can be trained, how they are educated in general, and how they make decisions. In order to understand what competence really means, let’s define it further.
    Competence can be described as specific or general. This distinction is extremely important and must be understood by anyone who attempts to manage human capital on a small or large scale.
    Specific competence is the ability to do a certain type of work. This can be carpentry, coding, chemistry, medicine, piloting an airliner, and so on and so forth. Some of these types of jobs may require a lot of competence, training and intelligence, but what they have in common is that their scope is limited and clearly defined. They exist within clear boundaries, separate from the complexities and vagueness of the world in general. Each type of work requires certain abilities innate in the person, as well as varying degrees of training. People, of course, differ a lot in their level of specific competence within each field.
    General or high-level competence is the ability to do work that is beyond clearly defined boundaries. The subject matter of those types of work exists in a complex “variable universe” and can be exceedingly vague and confusing. It requires the ability to be adaptive and be able to transfer skills between different types of work. This also applies to expertise in one field being applied to a completely different field – such as applying psychology to economics or astrophysics to climate science.
    Examples of positions requiring general or high-level competence people are corporate executives, all kinds of planners and administrators, product developers, inventors, high-level consultants and analysts, military leaders and planners, diplomats, judges, political leaders, and high-level scientists and theoreticians, to name a few.
    Specific and general competence types of work are not two separate things. Types of work or “jobs” can be said to range from almost completely specific up to almost completely general. Almost all types of work have elements of both but in varying proportions. To illustrate this I will take an example from a company I’m personally familiar with. This is a software company with several owners, most of whom work at the company. One of the owners is an exceptionally competent database specialist. However, when he contributes to decision making for the company as a whole, he becomes an outright problem. The management structure of the company had to be “modified” to neutralize him in that role, as well as a few others. This employee has exceptional specific competence but very poor general competence. He cannot “transfer” his specific database competence over to competence in moving the company into the future. He simply cannot operate objectively or sensibly outside his database job.
    So what makes this employee have such poor general competence – or more specifically – what is general competence? General competence requires three necessary conditions: a) High general intelligence or IQ, b) the ability to be objective, even in situations where the result of your conclusions may not be to your liking, and c) the ability to reach conclusions without being influenced by others (i.e. independent thinking). The latter two conditions are a direct result of how the human brain interacts with the environment. The mechanism behind it is too complicated to describe here, but in simplistic terms it can be said that humans range in their relationship with reality from the emotional-outward/subjective to the introspective/objective. This variable, like all evolutionary traits, including IQ, is normally distributed. This has rather disturbing implications which may be difficult for some people to understand.
    Let’s first look at IQ, or general intelligence. In order to be able to deal with seriously complicated work or get through a real university program, an IQ of about 125 is necessary. Only about 5% of the population in the West has this IQ or higher. This means that the pool of potentially high-level competence people is very small to begin with. Even if we use a cut-off of an IQ of 115, which is sufficient for most semi-complicated work, the potential pool only goes up to 16% of the population.
    Now let’s take a look at the other variables, i.e. objectivity and independent thinking. Those two are correlated and we will, for the sale of convenience, handle them as the same variable or trait, even though they aren’t. They are normally distributed, much like IQ, with most in the middle and fewer toward the extremes in both directions. On one side of the distribution are people who, to state it bluntly, are incapable of thinking objectively about any issues that may interact with their personal views about anything at all. They can be competent in a limited field which is “neutral” to them (such as databases), but not involving anything else. They can’t run a company in a competitive environment, except into the ground. They can’t run a city, a country, a military campaign, an economy, or anything requiring general competence, except into the ground, regardless of their intelligence. These people are clearly not suitable for general/high-level competence jobs.
    So, what is the proportion of the population that is objective enough and independent thinkers enough to be suitable for those jobs? That’s difficult to determine but it’s clear that it is maximum 50% of the population. In reality it’s far less but let’s be generous and say it’s 30%. What does that mean?
    IQ and objectivity/independent thinking are somewhat correlated but let’s assume they are not. Let’s say that we have a pool of potentially objective and rational people that is 30% and a pool of people with IQ of 125 that is 5%. That means that the pool of high-level general competence people is 5% of 30%, or 1.5% of the population.
    If we are really generous and assume that 50% of the population is objective and rational and an IQ of 115 is sufficient for those jobs, then we have 16% of 50%, which is a pool of 8% of the population.
    The importance of this cannot be overstated. This group, whether we define it as 1.5% of the population or 8% of the population, is extremely valuable. This is essentially the only group in society that can reliably evaluate complex situations and make subsequent rational decisions. Without it, modern technological society simply cannot be built or maintained – let alone advanced. Let me rephrase this – if we do not identify and utilize this group, we cannot run our complicated societies except into the ground.

    WHY IS THE WEST SO WEAK (AND RUSSIA SO STRONG)? THE ROLE OF HUMAN CAPITAL AND WESTERN EDUCATION

    Meryl Nass MD, Maine Medical License suspended for treating patients effectively for COVID with ivermectin and other antivirals.
    ​ Lots of recent talk about depopulation agendas. What are people saying? Surely this is something we all want to be informed about to draw our own conclusions​ , A collection of recent articles, not authored by Dr. Nass
    https://merylnass.substack.com/p/lots-of-recent-talk-about-depopulation

    ​ Why Is America’s ‘Woke Left’ Silent Over Blockbuster Child Sex-Trafficking Film?
    ​ A new American film that reveals the brutal reality of child sex-trafficking has been greeted with muted enthusiasm from the political left, which begs the question: does the silence equal complicity in the unspeakable crime?
    ​ Tim Ballard is an American anti-human trafficking activist, author and founder of the non-profit organization Operation Underground Railroad, an anti-sex trafficking organization. A former special agent at the Department of Homeland Security who now works independently, Ballard’s life’s work is being immortalized in a Hollywood film, entitled Sound of Freedom.
    ​ The film, which stars Jim Caviezel in the role of Ballard, leads audiences through the harrowing twists and turns of Ballard’s true life experiences where he works to rescue children from the nightmare of sex slavery. Despite receiving mixed reviews from critics, the film has grossed over $140 million in the United States against a $14.5 million budget, while audience reception has been highly positive, scoring 99% on the Rotten Tomatoes film review site, and for apparently good reason.
    ​ According to estimates by the International Labour Organization, there were 24.9 million victims of human trafficking around the world in 2016. Yet for reasons known only to them, the left-leaning media and other institutions appear to be strangely anxious to draw the curtain on the Angel Studios production.

    Why Is America’s ‘Woke Left’ Silent Over Blockbuster Child Sex-Trafficking Film?

    ​ Look, Jim Kunstler read the author excerpted above.
    Normies Awake!
    “The West can’t do diplomacy in general, it can’t run its cities or countries except into the ground, its high-tech projects fail almost as a rule, its infrastructure is crumbling, its economies are crumbling, and all public policies seem to have a civilizational suicide as a final goal.” — Gaius Baltar

    Normies Awake!

    #140769
    WES
    Participant

    Regarding RFK and Trump, they will simply assassinate both. Problems solved.

    #140770
    John Day
    Participant

    “Just the tip…”

    Thomas Knapp on the push to bring back the military draft in the US , Thanks Christine
    “Today,” Lt. Colonel Joe Plenzler (USMC, retired) writes at Military.com, “the military needs only about 160,000 youth from an eligible population of 30 million to meet its recruitment needs. But after two decades of war — both of which ended unsuccessfully — and low unemployment, many experts believe the all-volunteer force has reached a breaking point.”
    Plenzler suggests a “limited” military draft to make up for recruitment quota shortfalls. “We should have our military recruiters sign up new troops for 11 months out of the year,” he writes, “and then have the Selective Service draft the delta between the military’s needs and the total number recruited.”
    As a practical matter, Plenzler’s proposal “solves” an artificial problem that needn’t and shouldn’t exist. The US armed forces are far too large and far too expensive if their purpose is “national defense.” If they were cut by 90%, the risk of a significant foreign attack on the US would remain the same as now — virtually non-existent, and mostly a matter of air and missile defense. Stop trying to rule the world militarily. “Problem” solved.
    As a legal matter, the 13th Amendment to the US Constitution remains the Supreme Law of the Land: “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.” While the government and its courts have a long history of ignoring that unambiguous ban on conscription.

    Tell It to the Marine: No Draft, “Limited” or Otherwise

    History Legends presents a lot of relevant African history in 23 minutes, maybe more quickly and clearly than I could have read it. Masterful. Thanks Eleni.
    How Wagner Kicked OUT France From AFRICA

    ​ Land blockade of Kaliningrad and Belarus begins – Massive military deployment of Latvia, Lithuania, Poland​
    ​ For the first time in modern history, Poland, Lithuania and Latvia are simultaneously moving military forces to the borders with Belarus and Russia.
    All three countries are preparing for a total land blockade of Belarus and by extension the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad.

    Ξεκινούν χερσαίο αποκλεισμό Καλίνινγκραντ και Λευκορωσίας – Μαζική ανάπτυξη στρατιωτικών δυνάμεων Λετονίας, Λιθουανίας, Πολωνίας – Δείτε βίντεο

    ​ West Africa is on the brink of a new war, as 11 days after the overthrow of Niger’s president, Mohamed Bazoum, he issued an ultimatum to a number of African ECOWAS states.
    ​ In light of the threats of African states to intervene, the new authorities of Niger announced that “in the face of the threat of intervention concreted by neighboring countries, Niger’s airspace is closed until further notice”, pointing out that “any attempt to violate the airspace” will lead to in “energetic and immediate reaction”.

    Αλγερία: «Πάμε για γενική ανάφλεξη» – Πανστρατιά στον Νίγηρα – Εξέπνευσε το τελεσίγραφο του ECOWAS & έκλεισε ο ΕΕΧ – Πως θα γίνει η επέμβαση

    #140771
    John Day
    Participant

    ​Steve Kirsch , VAERS data is crystal clear: The COVID vaccines are killing an estimated 1 person per 1,000 doses (676,000 dead Americans)
    https://kirschsubstack.com/p/vaers-data-is-crystal-clear-the-covid

    ​ Infant Vaccines Linked to Increase in All-Cause Mortality, New Research Shows
    ​ A new study finds developed countries requiring the most vaccine doses for infants have higher childhood mortality rates, contradicting assumptions that more vaccines equate to lower deaths.
    ​ “Our findings would be considered moderate correlations which are statistically significant,” Miller said. The correlations are positive, meaning that the more vaccine doses given, the higher the mortality.​..
    ​ Developed nations requiring the most neonatal vaccine doses tend to have the worst childhood mortality rates, according to a peer-reviewed study published July 20 in Cureus Journal of Medical Science.
    ​ “Health authorities emphasize that vaccines save lives,” lead author Neil Miller told The Defender. “Yet our data suggests that when developed nations require two versus zero neonatal vaccine doses, or many versus fewer vaccines during infancy, there may be unintended consequences that increase all-cause mortality.”
    ​ Miller, director of the Institute of Medical and Scientific Inquiry in Santa Fe, New Mexico, has been researching this topic since the early 2000s. In a 2011 paper with the same co-author — Gary S. Goldman, Ph.D., an independent computer scientist — they showed that developed countries requiring the most vaccine doses for infants had the least favorable infant mortality rates…
    ​..“In these circumstances health authorities expect to see negative correlations, that is, a decline in mortality with more vaccine doses. So, any statistically significant positive correlation is a genuine concern,” Miller said.
    ​ Miller calculated a highly significant difference of 1.28 deaths per 1,000 live births in the mean infant mortality rates between nations not giving their neonates any vaccine doses, and those requiring vaccination against both hepatitis B and tuberculosis.
    For each reduction of six vaccine doses administered during infancy, the infant mortality rate improved by approximately one death per 1,000 live births.
    A hallmark of good science is the good-faith openness to test one’s conclusions, a practice Miller and Goldman followed here. To validate their conclusions, the researchers applied 18 different statistical analyses to the data. This is like using several different camera angles to confirm whether a tennis ball hit the line or was out.
    Seventeen of 18 statistical treatments confirmed the original conclusion that the more vaccines given, the higher the infant and early childhood mortality rates.
    In most nations, more than half of all infant deaths (within the first year) occur during the neonatal period (the first 28 days of life), and about 75% of those deaths occur within one week after birth when hepatitis and tuberculosis vaccines are administered.
    Deaths occurring during the neonatal period have a disproportionately high impact on the reporting of infant and under-5 mortality rates, but the longer after vaccination the deaths occur, the less likely physicians are to associate them with vaccines given right after birth.
    “Hepatitis B and tuberculosis vaccines given shortly after birth, when the immune system is immature and the newborn’s weight is low, may increase vulnerability to serious adverse reactions and deaths that ultimately contribute to higher mortality rates moving forward,” Miller said.

    Infant Vaccines Linked to Increase in All-Cause Mortality, New Research Shows

    #140772
    John Day
    Participant

    ​Peter McCullough MD , Cardiac Mortality Up During 28 Days after COVID-19 Vaccination in Self-Controlled Studies from England, Italy, United States
    Cardiac Fatalities Jump up for a Month After the Shot
    https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/cardiac-mortality-up-during-28-days

    Donald Rumsfeld (Reagan) got Nutra-Sweet approved by the FDA over medical objections. It had been tried before. It makes the baby monkeys have seizures.
    ​ Aspartame Linked to Anxiety — And Effects May Span Multiple Generations​ . Joseph Mercola D.O.
    ​ When aspartame is consumed, it’s broken down into aspartic acid, phenylalanine — a precursor of monoamine neurotransmitters — and methanol, which may have “potent” effects on your central nervous system, according to researchers at the Florida State University College of Medicine who also found that those effects may span multiple generations.
    ​ The research involved mice drinking water that contained aspartame at a dosage of approximately 15% of the FDA’s maximum daily intake, equivalent to a human drinking six to eight 8-ounce cans of diet soda daily.
    ​ The study came about after the research team looked at the transgenerational effects of nicotine, revealing epigenetic changes in sperm cells; similar effects may be occurring with aspartame.
    The shocking findings add yet another reason why you should toss any aspartame-containing products from your kitchen cabinets.

    Aspartame Linked to Anxiety — And Effects May Span Multiple Generations

    ​ Meryl Nass MD , How the current version of the WHO’s Pandemic Treaty (aka Bureau Text) encourages rather than prevents pandemics
    ​ Obviously, the best way to spare us from another pandemic is to immediately stop funding “Gain of Function”* research, and get rid of what has already been funded and created. Let all the nations make big bonfires and burn up their evil creations at the same time, while allowing other nations to inspect their biological facilities and records.
    ​ But the WHO in its Bureau Text of the draft Pandemic Treaty has a plan that is the exact opposite of this. In the WHO’s world, which almost all nations’ rulers have bought into, all the governments will share any and all viruses and bacteria they come up with that have “pandemic potential” — share them with all the other governments. They are supposed to sequence them and then put the sequence online. No kidding. Then the WHO and all the Faucis of the world would gain access to every Frankenstein virus, at once. Presumably a bunch of hackers would also gain access to the sequences. Does this make you feel more secure?
    ​ The WHO Treaty draft incentivizes Gain Of Function research
    ​ At least this plan makes clear whose side everyone is on. Fauci, Tedros and their ilk at the WHO, and those managing biodefense and biomedical research for nation states are on one side, the side that gains access to even more biological weapons, and the rest of us are on the other, at their mercy.
    ​ This crazy plan used to be called proliferation of weapons of mass destruction—and it is almost certainly illegal. But it is their plan. Governments will all share the weapons. And they are to put a lot more money into biolabs, and especially into genomic sequencing. Presumably so they can make even better weapons, and maybe they will even get around to cures or antidotes. But who will get the cures? It wasn’t us during the COVID-19 pandemic.
    https://merylnass.substack.com/p/how-the-current-version-of-the-whos

    ​ Below you will find a PDF with 8 pages of the WHO Treaty Draft, with highlights and italicized comments from Dr. Nass. This appears to give all authority for medical emergency determination in the world to the WHO. All countries appear to be required to follow WHO edicts, and to fund WHO, and to keep their populations from spreading divisive (free speech) disinformation about WHO policies and mandates. The WHO will keep all pandemic treatment supplies, and determine their global usage (Is it better or worse to be their friend?) There is a lot of ornate language which appears to insert “Private Partners” like the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation into the decision-making process. There are multiple references to “streamlining”, which means eliminating any resistance from populations, elected officials and national courts. There is absolution from liability for the WHO and all who follow WHO edicts (except vaccine-recipients). https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0?ui=2&ik=089f962730&attid=0.1&permmsgid=msg-a:r683875171107954000&view=att&disp=safe&realattid=f_ll1mqte70

    #140773
    John Day
    Participant

    ​ Museum bans JK Rowling from Harry Potter exhibit​ Thanks Christine.
    ​ World’s most successful author erased from exhibition celebrating her most famous character due to her views on trans community
    ​ ​The Museum of Pop Culture in Seattle has removed any references to Harry Potter author JK Rowling from an exhibition celebrating the fictional wizard, due to her “super hateful and divisive” comments about the transgender community.
    ​ “There’s a certain cold, heartless, joy-sucking entity in the world of Harry Potter and, this time, it is not actually a Dementor,” the exhibit’s project manager Chris Moore, who is transgender, wrote in a blog explaining the decision to axe Rowling from the museum.
    ​ Moore added: “This certain person is a bit too vocal with her super hateful and divisive views to be ignored.” The blog post also explained that the series creator’s absence is a short-term measure to “reduce her impact” while the museum determines its “long-term practices.”
    ​ According to the Daily Mail newspaper, the Harry Potter exhibit remains on display but without any mention whatsoever about the creator of the series, which has sold over 500 million books globally since 1997. JK Rowling was inducted into the museum’s hall of fame in 2018.
    https://www.rt.com/pop-culture/580970-harry-potter-rowling-exhibition/

    [This clearly raises the question of whether J.K. Rowling might be a tree.]
    Scottish government axes 16 million trees to clear the way for ‘greener’ solutions
    ​ A Scottish government official has admitted that almost 16 million trees have been cut down in Scotland to make way for ‘green energy’ farms.
    The trees were growing on public land and were chopped down so the land could be used for wind turbines.
    https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/08/scottish_government_axes_16_million_trees_to_clear_the_way_for_greener_solutions.html

    ​Aurora Borealis was seen and photographed in Flagstaff, Arizona a few nights ago, from a minor geomagnetic storm. This would not happen if Earth’s magnetic fields were at normal strength. There should be little to no aurora and only in the far north, “northern lights”.

    #140774
    John Day
    Participant

    As recently prediicted (use Google translate)
    Ukraine: Attack against Zelensky prevented – A woman who helped the Russians was arrested
    “Arrested ‘on the spot’ giving information to Russian forces”

    Ουκρανία: Απετράπη επίθεση κατά του Ζελένσκι – Συνελήφθη μία γυναίκα που βοήθησε τους Ρώσους

    #140775
    Oroboros
    Participant

    So here’s the Empire of Lies Gangster Nation’s plan with Ukronaziland

    Just gradually stop reporting anything about it.

    No. 1
    Most of the Duh’merican public can’t even point to Ukronaziland on a map

    Most Duh’mericans can’t point to Delaware on a map

    No. 2
    Most Duh’mericans think Russia is collapsing under the Iron Grip of NATO=NAZI

    They aren’t even aware that Russia just passed Germany as the 5th largest economy in the world by purchasing power parity.

    Germany is de-industrializing while Russia is just jacking up their industrial production into Earth Orbit, Germany doesn’t even have a single rocket to go to the space station with.

    No. 3
    Nazilensky’s Press Gangs are strapping the bottom on the barrel as far a quality soldiers

    If you add the Ukronazi KIA with the MIA you are pushing 500,000 men gone, gone, gone

    Plus the staggering expense and resources to take care of at least three times that number in wounded

    In a ‘country’ that had half it’s population flee for their lives and will never return.

    No. 4
    The Empire of Lies Gangster Nation has no ‘staying power, like, in anything anywhere.

    Discarding Ukronaziland like a used condom is typical and totally predictable.

    The if I could see that coming, so did the Russians and they plan accordingly.

    No. 5
    Look, over there, Squirrel!!!

    The Media Whore News Cycle (MWNC) will be TrumpTrumpTrumpTrumpTrumpTrump because him sell product like there is no tomorrow.

    And yes Virginia, there is no tomorrow for the Empire of Lies Gangster Nation.

    It’s a Dead Transgender Walking

    All the prosecutors and judges are Manwhores & Womanwhores, sorry, there’s only two genders.

    All judges in the Empire of Lies Gangster Nation actually have a yellow stripe, like the one in the roads, spray painted down their black dresses to show their cowardice and corruption.

    They are all gutless wonders, the worst of the worst of lawyers who climbed the sleazy greasy Pole of the Law to sit on their asses on the Bench and dispense injustice for all.

    So in summary:

    Ukronaziland? Where?

    TrumpTrumpTrumpTrumpTrumpTrumpTrumpTrumpTrumpTrumpTrumpTrumpTrumpTrump

    Yeh, that’s better, pass the Cheese Balls

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    #140776
    John Day
    Participant

    Nancy Pelosi Declares America Will Cease To Exist If Trump Becomes President Again
    [time relationship?]
    In the comments to New York magazine, Pelosi stated “The indictments against the president are exquisite,” adding “They’re beautiful and intricate, and they probably have a better chance of conviction than anything that I would come up with.”
    When asked about the possibility of another Trump presidency, Pelosi commanded the reporter “Don’t even think of that.”
    “Don’t think of the world being on fire,” she continued, adding “It cannot happen, or we will not be the United States of America.”
    “If he were to be president, it would be a criminal enterprise in the White House,” she added, without a hint of irony.
    https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/nancy-pelosi-declares-america-will-cease-exist-if-trump-becomes-president-again

    #140777
    zerosum
    Participant

    Attributes
    The election were stolen. – Hilary and all democrats bitter losers

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    ” Lawsuits, including D.A., A.G., and others, which require massive amounts of my time & money to adjudicate,” Trump said
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    Who was/should be charged/prosecuted first, – Biden or Trump
    Dozens of felony charges related to his alleged mishandling of classified documents
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    Funding both side of the war
    Former International Monetary Fund (IMF) economist and Bank of America strategist David Woo has told the Russian media. Woo said that he was “really impressed” with the fact that that “the Russian military technology has literally been going through a revolution every three months” and “the Russians are constantly learning from their mistakes.” “The Russians are now fighting with weapons they didn’t have 18 months ago because they didn’t exist 18 months ago.
    ———–
    MSM are Ignoring the truth/facts

    Ukraine accuses Russia of “occupying” not just Donetsk, Lugansk, Zaporozhye and Kherson – four regions that chose, (a democratic vote), to join Moscow last year – but also Crimea, which voted overwhelmingly to rejoin Russia after the 2014 US-backed coup in Kiev. “Any scenario of a ceasefire and freezing of the war in Ukraine in the current disposition will mean only one thing – Russia’s actual victory and [President Vladimir] Putin’s personal triumph,” Podoliak added several hours later. “This would be a great defeat for the Western world and the end of the current global security order.”

    Moscow has rejected Zelensky’s “peace formula,” a set of ten demands amounting to Russia’s unconditional surrender, as “a useless ultimatum” that only serves to prolong the hostilities.
    ———-
    What news is suppressed? That the USA is worse than dead broke. That the people were poisoned, apparently on-purpose. That the spectral “Joe Biden” sold out our country.

    That the war we, (USA), started in Ukraine, on purpose, for no good reason, is about to be lost, and with it our standing around world.
    ————
    Its not enough. The majority of men and woman are left out of the definition.

    The term “ LGBT ” technically stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender. It includes both sexual orientation (LGB) and gender identity (T).

    Most people in our social/economic/political systems, (the Empire of Lies), are turned off, do not engage, and are not sharing their orgasms with someone else. ( Path to Depopulation)
    ———

    #140778
    Oroboros
    Participant

    “VAERS data is crystal clear: The COVID vaccines are killing an estimated 1 person per 1,000 doses”

    Dr D mentioned the other day that the Clotshot wasn’t killing enough people for anyone in Duh’merica to notice.

    I personally even don’t know a thousand people, not even as acquaintances, so you’d have to kill more like 1 in 100 people for me to even notice.

    And at my age, I’m easily losing 1 in a 100 friend/relatives around my age so that doesn’t really get my attention.

    So hey, how about the Clotshot killing 1 in 10

    I honestly don’t think the Selfie Generation would notice if 1 in 10 of their ‘friends’ dropped stone cold dead next to them in the fast food joint.

    They would wonder why their ‘friend’s’ text stream stopped

    They call the phone self portrait photos ‘selfies’ because Narcisstie is too hard to spell.

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    #140779
    Oroboros
    Participant

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    #140780
    Oroboros
    Participant

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    #140781
    Oroboros
    Participant
    #140784
    phoenixvoice
    Participant

    I’m scratching my head trying to figure out the significance of Kunstler’s leading quote to a fictional character from the early 2000s remake of Battlestar Galactica. I’m fairly certain the fictional character never expressed that quote…as there was no “West” in the show to reference, that I can recall. Is there someone on Substack who has adopted the “Gaius Baltar” moniker? He is a problematic, flawed character at best. A kind of antihero.

    #140785
    citizenx
    Participant

    The Museum of Pop Culture in Seattle has removed any references to Harry Potter author JK Rowling from an exhibition celebrating the fictional wizard, due to her “super hateful and divisive” comments about the transgender community.

    Seattle – I’ve livered here for 35 years. Libs have gone full retard.

    All gone biggly full retard cult- TDS, Russia gate, Covid cult, climate change cult- Gender Gay cult

    Chris Moore, who is transgender, wrote in a blog explaining the decision to axe Rowling from the museum.

    Moore added: “This certain person is a bit too vocal with her super hateful and divisive views to be ignored.” The blog post also explained that the series creator’s absence is a short-term measure to “reduce her impact” while the museum determines its “long-term practices.”

    Right, reduce her impact while illuminating her work- f’n retarded Liberals. We’ll just cancel this certain person in the name of democracy, human rights, free-dumb and self righteous virtue retardation.

    Intelligence has never been Liberals or Gays finest ass-set. Pounding butt holes, sucking cock and lying their asses off is all they got. And now they want children to rape.

    Truth is not “hate speech” , but Liberals hate truth- so just cancel truth and call it hate?
    ….

    We’d have to hate that there WERE genders at all, you bigot. You can’t be TRANSgender when there are no genders! You can’t be “Gay” without a gender to be gay in.

    Rock On ! Eloquently simple- well said as usual Dr D

    Because hating hate is hateful hate speech.
    Volksverhetzung, in English “incitement to hatred” (used also in the official English translation of the German Criminal Code), Jawohl Liberals, ban and hate everything and everyone NOT in your cult.
    Inclusive intolerance.

    Which came first, the ejaculation or the gender ?

    Pigs of cocks unite ! Oink

    #140786
    Noirette
    Participant

    Adding some news to, *The EU is a failed project*, from top post.

    https://tinyurl.com/575cv3bd

    Watch Meloni (PM Italy) in action.

    5 mins, eng subs. —> superb drama, shows why she was elected.

    From the African Diaspora News Channel.

    https://tinyurl.com/2r5rv682

    Quite ‘revanchist’ in a way, Italy’s domination of Africa (‘Italian Ethiopia’) included Lybia at one point – note she stresses that Macron, as France joined the attack on Lybia (> was not Macron but Sarkozy) was afraid that Italy would get favorable energy deals with Khadafi. Which Sarkozy was actually seeking. (…)

    At the same time, Meloni is all kissy-kissy with Ursula VD (sic) Leyen.

    All harks back to the Iraq war and Rumsfeld’s “Old Europe,” 2003, France and Germany, Chirac and Shroeder, who resisted and objected to the Iraq invasion.

    Italy —under Berlusconi— supported the invasion of Iraq, sent troops, joined the ‘coalition.’

    Rummy’s ‘NEW Europe’ was Poland, Czech., and Hungary – the Baltics must be added, i.e. all countries that appear ready to *?* ‘fight’ Russia, as aligned with / suborned to / dominated by / corrupted by / etc. / the USuk. In line with the offical position of the EU Commission, Slava Ukrainia!

    Will the EU break apart? All members have much interest in keeping the myth of EU ‘solidarity’ going, and keeping their dissentions and nasty quarrels under wraps at some level, while exploiting them nationally. The EU, as a communal legislative / commercial laws / but not defense etc. body is already dead, imho, since Greece was sacrificed on the altar of German and French Banks. So, that isn’t the right question.

    #140788
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Douglas MacGregor was reiterating that Russia has complete integrated space surveillance that links with their drones and all of their other ground based detection systems.

    This makes it impossible for Ukronaziland to move and more importantly concentrate troops and equipment near the contact line and far behind the contact line.

    If you can’t bring together any significant number of troops and amour without being spotted and attacked in your staging areas, you will never be able to mount an offensive.

    Period.

    This is where Ukronaziland is now, naked beneath Russian reconnaissance assets and sitting ducks for multiple ‘strike systems’

    The devastatingly effective Russian Lancet 3 loitering drones are now being equipped with a variety of new more lethal warheads including thermobaric-fuel air payloads. Before they were going after tanks and artillery and armoured personnel carriers.

    These thermobaric-fuel air warheads are for clearing out huge areas of trenches and troops in one large blast area so the Lancets are now specifically targeting ground troops at the front with great precision which is a new development.

    Russia Launches Another Powerful Recon Satellite From Plesetsk Cosmodrome

    https://www.bitchute.com/video/qWjNgVc7iure/

    #140789
    Oroboros
    Participant

    The media whores are not just, well, whores, they are grossly incompetent whores.

    Quite a job description.

    “Journalism” is a college degree on a par with ‘gender studies’ and ‘modern interpretative congo dancing’

    I would wipe my butt with a contemporary journalism ‘degree’

    The Ministry of Propaganda Endorses This Message:

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    #140790
    Oroboros
    Participant

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    #140791
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Hunter the Manwhore Cokehead answers “Mom” on Dream Hookup App

    Hahahahahahaha

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    #140792
    Oroboros
    Participant

    A first person account from a surrendered Ukro on the ‘big counter offensive’

    Just a regular dude caught in geo-political clusterfuck.

    Likeable guy, I’m glad he saved himself by surrendering.

    What a joke Nazilensky’s hustle has become

    Ukrainian POW Says He Only Heard About The “Counter-Offensive” On TikTok

    #140793
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Polish Merc In AFU Says He’s Fighting To Win Back Polish Land From Ukraine

    Wow, that must be news to the Ukronazis

    When viral big time

    If he is still in Ukronaziland, this guy a dead man

    #140794
    zerosum
    Participant

    https://www.who.int/activities/tracking-SARS-CoV-2-variants
    Tracking SARS-CoV-2 variants
    All viruses, including SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, change over time. Most changes have little to no impact on the virus’s properties. However, some changes may affect the virus’s properties, such as how easily it spreads, the associated disease severity, or the performance of vaccines, therapeutic medicines, diagnostic tools, or other public health and social measures.

    https://www.who.int/news/item/16-03-2023-statement-on-the-update-of-who-s-working-definitions-and-tracking-system-for-sars-cov-2-variants-of-concern-and-variants-of-interest

    Statement on the update of WHO’s working definitions and tracking system for SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern and variants of interest
    16 March 2023
    The Omicron viruses account for over 98% of the publicly available sequences since February 2022 and constitute the genetic background from which new SARS-CoV-2 variants will likely emerge, although the emergence of variants derived from previously circulating VOCs or of completely new variants remains possible. The previous system classified all Omicron sublineages as part of the Omicron VOC and thus did not have the granularity needed to compare new descendent lineages with altered phenotypes to the Omicron parent lineages (BA.1, BA.2, BA.4/BA.5). Therefore, from 15 March 2023, the WHO variant tracking system will consider the classification of Omicron sublineages independently as variants under monitoring (VUMs), VOIs, or VOCs.

    WHO is also updating the working definitions for VOCs and VOIs. The main update consists in making the VOC definition more specific, to include major SARS-CoV-2 evolutionary steps that require major public health interventions. For the updated definitions, please visit the WHO variant tracking website.
    (Too bad that GERM isn’t here to help us catch all the lies)

    https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/a-new-covid-19-variant-has-emerged-here-s-what-we-know-about-eg-5-so-far-1.6509644
    (This needed proof reading before printing)
    The variant is called EG.5 and is a descendant of Omicron.

    The World Health Organization (WHO) added EG.5 to its list of currently circulating variants that are under monitoring on July 19.

    To date, cases associated with the new variant have been reported in the United Kingdom, United States and elsewhere.

    The latest data from the UK Health Security Agency suggests that EG.5 makes up approximately 14.6 per cent — or one in seven — of all COVID-19 cases in the U.K.

    A new COVID-19 variant has emerged, (No. Its an Omicron variant), serving as a reminder that the coronavirus continues to mutate and spread around the world, disproportionately affecting vulnerable populations.

    (Our boogy man), Dr. Isaac Bogoch, an infectious disease specialist at University Health Network in Toronto, said he expects cases of EG.5 to pop up in Canada soon, if they aren’t already.

    “It’s probably everywhere and if it isn’t everywhere, it’ll be everywhere,” he told CTVNews.ca in a phone interview Monday.

    Bogoch said he expects the presence of EG.5 will “very likely” be similar to what was observed with other sublineages of Omicron, with the latest variant gradually becoming the most dominant sublineage around the world.

    “We saw a BA.2, we saw a BA.4 and BA.5, we saw an XBB and now it’s EG.5, so the virus continues to mutate and we’re gonna see waxing and waning of the virus in the community,” he said.

    “Of course, we have measures to detect it, and probably in August or sometime in September, we’ll start to see a corresponding rise of wastewater signals in Canada.”

    The World Health Organization (WHO) added EG.5 to its list of currently circulating variants that are under monitoring on July 19.

    To date, cases associated with the new variant have been reported in the United Kingdom, United States and elsewhere.

    The latest data from the UK Health Security Agency suggests that EG.5 makes up approximately 14.6 per cent — or one in seven — of all COVID-19 cases in the U.K.

    WATCH: Expert says Canada will see rise in cases by late August
    The Center for Disease Control and Prevention estimated that EG.5 accounted for roughly 17.3 per cent — or one in six — of new COVID-19 cases in the U.S. in the past two weeks.

    Dr. Isaac Bogoch, an infectious disease specialist at University Health Network in Toronto, said he expects cases of EG.5 to pop up in Canada soon, if they aren’t already.

    “It’s probably everywhere and if it isn’t everywhere, it’ll be everywhere,” he told CTVNews.ca in a phone interview Monday.

    Bogoch said he expects the presence of EG.5 will “very likely” be similar to what was observed with other sublineages of Omicron, with the latest variant gradually becoming the most dominant sublineage around the world.

    “We saw a BA.2, we saw a BA.4 and BA.5, we saw an XBB and now it’s EG.5, so the virus continues to mutate and we’re gonna see waxing and waning of the virus in the community,” he said.

    “Of course, we have measures to detect it, and probably in August or sometime in September, we’ll start to see a corresponding rise of wastewater signals in Canada.”

    As the past few years have shown, COVID-19 has a disproportionate impact on certain groups, Bogoch said, adding that EG.5 will probably be no different.(than Omicron)

    “Like we’ve seen in the Omicron era and even before the Omicron era, COVID will disproportionately impact certain cohorts,” he said.

    “So sadly, we’re going to see, probably, a corresponding rise in hospitalizations, especially among people who are more susceptible to severe illness — those are older people and people with underlying medical conditions.”

    Some of the best defences against COVID-19 have been and continue to be masks, vaccination and good ventilation or air quality in indoor spaces, Bogoch stressed.

    #140795
    jb-hb
    Participant

    This is a good plan as the “Democrats” win this time, and need not fear the “big bad white supremacists, evilly-evil, poor-hating, union-busting, war-loving” Republicans…as they can’t seem to notice even now that’s what THEY are now.

    To those Democrats whose many thousands of words I listened to for years and years when you wanted to Raise Awareness. I was considerate because I thought at least it was coming from personal conviction, that it therefore, being personal, was relevant to our specific relationship. THAT’s why all that sufferance over the years.

    Only now, saying all the opposite things
    –anti working class
    –anti free speech
    –pro corporation
    –pro war
    –anit environment (for claimed pro environment reasons)
    –anti science
    –anti education (in favor of some sort of non or negative education)

    One wonders:
    A.) Do you even understand the things you are currently saying?

    B.) Did you even (ever!) understand the things you said before – for years, decades?

    C.) Is your moral compass simply to check what other people (“other people” having transformed to social media, regular media, “experts,” people who repeat words from these entities) are saying? Was it ALWAYS?

    D.) Do you just repeat whatever is repeated to you enough times?

    E.) Do you repeat things merely for expediency of the moment, for any petty percieved small advantage of the moment?

    arguments that come up:

    1.) You are mistaken

    2.) You have been misled

    3.) You are not thinking this through clearly

    4.) You hypocrite

    until finally the best response, after sufficient conversation,appears:

    YOU do not believe the things you are saying.

    This, ultimately, is the basis for honest exchange at this point. If one does not openly come to this stance, BOTH sides of the conversation will be willingly dishonest instead of just one.

    #140796
    zerosum
    Participant

    I guess my article also needed proof reading. 🙁

    #140798
    jb-hb
    Participant

    Some of the best defences against COVID-19 have been and continue to be masks, vaccination and good ventilation or air quality in indoor spaces, Bogoch stressed.

    Of what good is “good ventilation” for someone wearing a mask?

    Aside from the obvious heightened CO2 and lowered O2, they are not following the protocols for mask wearing
    –required times for switching to a new mask
    –required disposal protocol of used masks
    –maximum allowed lengths of time wearing a mask
    –required intervals for breathing without a mask
    –required minimum length of time breathing without a mask at each interval
    –proper wearing/usage/fitting of mask

    If we have to obey all orders, obey all protocols, for medical safety – why, when we wear masks, as we must, WHY, do we DISOBEY ALL MASK WEARING PROTOCOLS? Covid is holy, but medical mask usage protocols are not?

    Same people demanding everyone wear masks throw them into the park against the explicit directions that came with the mask. f Same people that think “We are killing the planet” say not a peep about mask disposal.

    Why must businesses and governments verify people are wearing masks but never, ever verify masks are being used properly? Is IMPROPER usage of masks “safe”? “effective”? Didn’t these mask protocols come from the governments?

    #140799
    Celticbiker
    Participant

    You are ruled by people who let their rabbi”s bite their sons dicks off. They transfer all their sins into a chicken, then swing them around and break the neck. And you wonder why the world you are in is fucked up? You are ruled by pedophiles and satanists who just tried to murder you. The NWO is talmudic. Death, slavery or fight.

    #140800
    zerosum
    Participant

    “not following the protocols for mask wearing”
    Yet, people think that he is still helping when he says to wear a mask.
    I got a home made mask that I hang on my car mirror and reuse 🙂

    (Logic: My mask will pick up a few/some dead/weak virus that my immune system will use to train/be able to set up a proper defense. I think that it worked during covid and omicron.
    But, due to shedding, I ended up with “long covid” that is overwhelming my immune system.
    Therefore, I feel that its better to avoid stressing my immune system with “vaccines.)
    Also, when the mask smells, probably due to bad breath, I wash it and let dry in the sun. I have not been using it lately since not even my doctor is using a mask

    #140801
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Mitch the Little Bitch McConnell has a crowd yelling non stop “Retire, Retire, Retire,”

    Hahahahaha

    Maybe he’ll stroke out on camera

    Hurrah

    #140802
    Oroboros
    Participant

    New Ukrainian Flag Design Is A Big Hit Amongst Residents

    Seig Heil Bitchez

    #140803
    WES
    Participant

    With Ukraine’s recent “Total Mobilization”, there are increased warnings from Ukrainian Expats, living in Europe, that Europe may soon start sending military aged Ukrainian males back to the Ukraine. It will be interesting to see if this happens. Maybe after the current 3rd Ukrainian army is destroyed?

    How long will the Ukrainian war last? Until the foreign money being supplied to the Ukrainian government runs out. Right now the Ukrainian Nazis are simply making way too much money from corruption, to stop the war. It is the large flows of money that is causing the big reality disconnect between rulers and their expendable cannon fodder. For Ukrainian Nazis, things have never been more prosperous. Night clubs in Keiv are booming every night!

    The Nazis may be running out of Russian speaking Ukrainian cannon fodder but they still have plenty of untouched Ukrainian speakers left to feed into the meat grinder!

    There is a Russian offensive going on but please don’t tell anyone!

    #140804
    WES
    Participant

    Today’s painting of 2 and 3 masted sailing ships was made at the end of a very long era for sailing ships. I doubt the artist knew this at the time he painted this scene.

    Imagine what it was like for the sailing crews who would soon be unemployed as the new ships required far fewer crew to operate. Their career fate preceeded that of horses and blacksmiths losing out to the automobile. And to think today we are worried about AI !

    Trump finding an unbiased jury in Washington DC is the wrong question to be asking. Finding a unbiased judge in DC 8is more the correct question to ask!

    #140805
    Veracious Poet
    Participant

    When virtue signalling goes wrong (Go Woke, Burn Your Life Down!?!)…

    One reason insurance companies are fleeing Klownifornia, but I betcha that interest rates have devalued underlying reserves to the point that actuaries are predicting/projecting losses that could vaporize profit margins for years to come 😉

    All sauce for the geese…

    Verba cum monstris et stultis loquentes deficient.

    #140806
    Maxwell Quest
    Participant
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