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    Olivier Drot Morning in Downtown Athens June 7 2017 • Oil, Gas and Orange Juice (CTH) • President Vladimir Putin Explains Why NATO Wants a War Against
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle September 15 2026]

    #249881
    charles
    Participant

    “The need for control is a reaction to fear. ”
    Thats the second half. the first half:
    Fear is a reaction to lack of merit.

    #249882
    Dr. D
    Participant

    “Court Rejects DOE Order To Delay Michigan Coal Plant Retirement

    The “Make America Use Candles Again” plan that’s so popular in California.

    “Lindsay Clancy Juror Admits To Feminist Motives Behind Trial
    “We knew that this was a turning point and this would be something that could change something to make it better for other women in the future…”

    To make open season on all women? That they can murder whoever they wish, even their own families, for you know, breathing? A Bold Plan! …Hope it works out for your suffrage.

    “NATO Vows More Ukraine Support After Boris Johnson & David Petraeus Train Attack Near-Miss

    They dropped their passport, of course. Every drone gets a passport issued now. As far from “Terrifying” as is possible to be, and also like the 29th false flag in two months? We only see the Lipzig one or whatever, I was too bored to click, but Ze claimed a drone was within 100,000 miles of him, Estonia had one? And so on.

    Only thing it tell me: You guyz is cray-cray. And things no go so well for U.

    “Jeffries Refuses To Rule Out Trump Impeachment If Democrats Win House

    I mean, sure, but, um…you don’t know what for??? No discussion on what actions brought this up? No? “I have no idea what law he broke yet.” Nothing says “Following the law” like that, boy-howdy.

    “Prof. Jeffrey Sachs : Netanyahu Backed Into a Corner : Trump Blind to AI”

    If Sachs is on the AI wagon, now I know it’s a scam. Possibly harmless then, but maybe I can’t count on his lies that far.

    Since — oh heck, I’m me – gas is solidly over $4/gal, probably $4.16-$4.25, a ship was ‘sunk’ in Hormuz, and despite inexplicable reporting to the contrary, the U.S. seems to have bombed the Houthis 300 times. A lot of this is not being reported in the news, which seems to be exhausted and baffled with focusing on nonsense.

    Oddly, the social mood is not that bad about gas prices, which is not something I would have expected. It’s just heads down attitude of getting through. Prices will probably rise because of it, including food prices, but have not yet as we’re mostly still on the savage doubling of Biden’s inflation. That’s not to get complacent about though.

    Everyone agrees that Iran is trying to make things difficult as their only hope is the Midterms – an incredibly bad bet – yet that only confirms Trump’s promise that prices will indeed fall after the midterms. I’m not saying that: it’s a Step One logical conclusion that IRAN is telling us. And Fox News and the UK Telegraph, but I consider them indistinguishable from Iran. Trump is merely agreeing with Iran and repeating to us their strategy.

    It’s like saying “We need to break through in the Black Forest before winter.” Okay then, we know there are YOUR attack, the plan, and the timing. I agree. So at winter the attack will almost certainly end. YOU say so and because that’s a practical reality, I believe you. Same here. Iran has 10 ballistic missiles left and what good will they do after the election? Use them now, right?

    How much gas falls after? Meh. Back under $4 barely? But $5,000 in tariffs returned to the people really erases that fast. That’s 1,200 gallons of gas or 30,000 miles driving. If allowed – or rather forced, with relentless beatings – Congress can also double wages and halve unemployment since there’s actually nothing wrong with America that they didn’t intentionally cause. That’s another $5k over the proposed child credit also proposed, but those are lumpy and harder to define.

    That’s still not how far wages have fallen since Globalism and “The New World Order” started in 1989-1994, but it’s a good start on it, and removing that money from our enemies collapses them soundly. …So they will release smallpox or something as I say. Or rather, “Bird flu” so deadly no one can tell if they have it, and attack the FOOD system yet again. Not with inflation, but with law and medicine again. Mark. Who knows what they’ll come up with but they’ll kill all 6 billion of us tomorrow to make Donald have a sad, so stay tuned. This is how you know they and the Donald are the same.

    I am sorry that California diesel is $10/gal though. That’s what happens when your governor shuts down the sole refinery and tries to kill everyone in the state: only the Rich people live. As planned and laughed at, thanks Liberals, thanks Democrats, you’re genius. “French. Laundry.” But they gotta make that start on killing 100 Million in the 21st century too and are way behind.

    Also note: Technical plumbing, a lot of the oil price is because of the nature of forward-looking oil contracts. Oil is bid out 4 months ahead of time and now the price expectations of the first day of the war are arriving. Note: Trump and Bessant also know that perfectly well yet seem to have done little about it, even by communication. Okay then.

    Copper is extremely cheap by historical standards, if I’m not mistaken. And very cheap compared to oil, a major input. Most of these mines saying “We can’t find” is because 1) No one’s looking when the profit is zero and will be stolen by govt and/or Wall St 2) Price is like a light switch to profitability, one penny difference make “Uneconomical grade” a viable mine for 40 years. Then the “Mines we can’t find” becomes “We have 99 mines too many since every cow pasture is economical” which happens — or rather is ENCOURAGED to happen – every time in commodities, causing a bubble and collapse Wall St can then extract at slave wages for 30 years.

    The one thing it ISN’T is natural, geologic, and organic. For instance, banks have been actively suppressing prices for 40 years and working tirelessly to prevent all mines (and all farms) from existing precisely to CAUSE this problem. The prices have been in the zone off and on for 20 years, yet they refuse to fund them normally, as businesses, and governments agree: every time a new massive mine is found, the U.S. suddenly “Discovers” a national park or military base on top of it. “How did OUR oil get under THEIR sand?” Yes.

    So take it with that understanding. All fake. All rigged. There are no problems, only them, trying to kill you.

    “Colorful Pepe Escobar, Yemen Rocks the Gate of Tears- Ansarallah now has the luxury of installing a toll gate, arguably multi-layered, in the Bab al-Mandab, if they want it.”

    Uhhh, no, they have located themselves in a death trap, and it wouldn’t shock me if that was intentional to let them. Tell me how they are going to support and supply this island with the U.S. Air Force overhead. I don’t know what they are thinking, but I’m also not watching it closely – maybe they have an invisible everything-proof forcefield that covers their boats.

    This is the same mindless triumphalism, that if they did it, it must be genius, and if we did it, it must be dum tho. I mean, maybe; but the fact that they acted does not genius make.

    ““Gate of Tears”​. .​..The intel behind the Ansarallah Rolling Thunder – described as the largest mass-capture operation in modern warfare – was carefully coordinated with the IRGC. — MI6 Satellites.” Fixed it. You can tell by the name, dumb s—t words and PR like this is their hallmark of MI6/London. It’ll be Tears alright, as they’re trapped there.

    “ a military base built by the UAE with Israeli cooperation, crammed with high-tech weapons. All that is now Ansarallah property.

    Property exists when you have the raw savage violence to enforce it. Dumb s—t Reporters have lived in a safe world where law exists are able to have the amazing privilege and illusion of believing otherwise. This has nothing to do with Yemen, or us: Europe is held and controlled with the same raw violence. For example holding down your population while half a million of your daughters are raped before your eyes, while 36,000 people are arrested for speaking about it, and Ireland ceases to exist?

    “Satellite Imagery Shows Heavy Damage to Saudi East–West Oil Pipeline Pumping Stations”

    Undoubtedly: that’s their job. Their only job in war is to make it suck. However, for instance 400,000 people were shipped in to build it. With a thousand cranes operating at once. So how fast do you think they can repair it at $1B a day? Think I could get some Indians in there and some pipes? Yes, this doesn’t occur to us normal folks and the media depends on our not knowing.

    “Supertanker Explodes After Hitting Mine,”

    Maybe. But the IRGC said it, so it’s probably false and the SAS scuba’d up and did it instead. We know the next line isn’t true: The Strait is not closed if officially hundreds of ships got through with more each day. It’s only closed for Iran who has no ships getting through. That matters.

    “At what point does it become the banks that have a problem? Houthis Unleash Major Missile Barrage On Saudi Arabia’s Sprawling King Khalid Air Base

    It’s already a problem since it’s IRAN’S tankers that are sunk, empty, and no longer collateral for London’s black banking system. I mean, who do you THINK is moving the money and insuring? Cleetus’s Crab Shack n’ Bank? Jesus, man.

    I believe we’ve basically SAID we would insure, and/or bank everyone, so Saudi has an unlimited checkbook right now. Bessant says I Am the House and the Treasury auction agrees. This is to CHANGE THE MONEY FLOWS. This is NECESSARY. The money won’t change flows without a REASON, and the Houthis are supplying the REASON. Without them and their bombs, it couldn’t be done.

    “Did Russia sacrifice 20 million people during World War II to get rid of the Nazis? YES

    Well there’s your problem! This is what the present Nazis can never forgive. I mean: literally. All Ukraine, but also most in German politics and decisions, those united with the EU, and for public examples: Canada. And against them only Russia and the United States.

    “UK Government Reserves Two-Thirds Of Elite Jobs By Race; Leaked Doc Exposes
    Sixty-six per cent of the slots are ringfenced for staff who are ethnic minority,

    There you go, there’s your eugenics and race-state. Now all you need is pan-control of media, a police state, and an expansionary war, and you have the pillars of Nazism. Everyone sees but you, dude. You’re in your underwear. You do not look as cool as you think.

    In like mode: removing cancer from vaccines is getting rid of the whole point of having them. Since 1954.

    #249883
    Dr. D
    Participant

    “the EU is presenting an increase in central bank interest rates to try and lower energy prices.”

    Translation: the EU is raising prices in order to lower prices. Again, “Inflation” to them is higher consumer prices. They are lowering prices by “Raising the price of money” – Interest rates – which like oil, are in everything. So literally raising prices to lower prices.

    Ah. But WHICH prices? As Putin implies but didn’t get around to saying, the profits of SPECULATORS are protected and go up, the profits of THE PEOPLE are extracted and go down. This is common sense, and is the kind of winners and losers government exists to create.

    Whenever the Government is involved, then it’s Capitalism and the Free Market. Whenever government is NOT involved and corporations are creating long-term contracts as Putin suggests, that is not Capitalism to have lower, more stable prices, but bad. (Handwave here. This is precisely Putin’s point.)

    “The only guardrails AI needs is a High IQ President”

    Well, we’re screwed then. The Donald has good instincts, but he’s a woefully average intelligence. Which is fine, who cares, but he is the one who set the rules here.

    ““$500 per person to nearly 1 million Americans in 30 states..”
    • President Trump Announces Obamacare Refunds (CTH)

    Since Obamacare – state run health care – may extract as much as $30k year, $500 doesn’t really cut it. We can go back and see what it was in 1992, but I think 5-10x smaller than the 20% of GDP it is now. Again, we are far, FAR above the costs of Switzerland and France, places that actually have health care, and almost 100% of that yearly percentage runaway has been since government got involved in 1992.

    “The Thing That Never Happens Keeps Happening.” —Kyle Becker on X

    No context, but this quote was used for, for example, ANOTHER 6,000 illegals voting in NJ rolls, and 40,000 wrong-voters in Georgia in one category alone. This never happens except every time anyone looks. The DNC’s present lawsuit is based on this. They say the Post Office is not allowed to have barcodes on mail (huh?) because stopping fraud will be too disruptive to their processes. What? If there’s no fraud, there’s no disruption then, am I wrong? Nope! That’s not what the DNC says! They say they’ll find so much fraud it’ll shut the Post Office down!

    Soooo…that’s a bad thing? Please expand on this in headlines from now until the elections, Mr. Eisen. Let us all know.

    …They are also the people who argue women and black people are too stupid and illiterate to vote.

    “• Ukrainians Must Leave Germany – AfD Co-Leader Alice Weidel (RT)

    Weidel said “Anyone who isn’t working, doesn’t follow the law, and is destroying German culture must go.” Everyone else is welcome to stay! Infinity migrants. Given those rules, every migrant immediately packed their bags! Screamed loudly on TV! They’re going home if they have to do this “Work” and “Follow German Law” stuff, they know which way the wind blows! No, I kid you not.

    “ he receives more media support than public support. He trails Kamala Harris by 15 points”

    Kamala Harris is at 2%. And he’s far, far below that. Again: HILLARY purged the party of all talent. 251 of her friends killed themselves after meeting her. SHE is the one who took the Bernie wing, crushed them, and radicalized them into what they are today in her lust for world war and corporate neoliberalism. Okay then. Now all the Democratic talent are on stage for CPUSA: Tulsi, Elon, Rogan, Pool, Cenk, Vance, RFK. Even Ramaswami, and remember Trump is a NY Democrat from way back. All Democrats. Not a real Republican among them. For example, Trump is so far right he’s both gun control and pro-gay-marriage, the first.

    Wherever did the Democratic talent go? Ask Vince Foster. Ask Bernie.

    ““Just over a year has passed, and Charlie’s absence still hurts.”

    Who? Like MLK, people only care and see you as significant after. Before he was just another guy among many. You’re sainted when you’re very pleasantly dead and unable to make trouble. The oligarchs then put you in the news non-stop.

    “In particular, why do they try to convince you Vladimir Putin is your enemy?

    Not the nation, not the policies: one man. That’s their hallmark. From Bernays. Any other “One Man” who’s in the news every day, is the only person, and blamed for everything that’s not his? Hallmark of an Op. That is: They’re LYING. If they weren’t lying, they wouldn’t adhere to this. No one man does everything, not even Lenin, who tried.

    And yes, we are following exactly the Putin plan here in America because after lots of attempts, this is what works against our common enemy, the Globalists. It’s working great here too, thanks, but does take time.

    “Humans make Mistakes” – Insurers.

    Yes, but cars make lots of mistakes, but when they do no one is held responsible!, which is a lot cheaper. I too want that legal status. As a corporation, whoever I kill is an industrial accident no one could see coming! Every gallon of oil I dump in the river no one actually poured. It’s magic!

    …Now I don’t make the rules, I just follow them. Isn’t that right, Senator? I can give you only $10 as a citizen, but $100 Million as a Corporation, that’s free speech!

    #249884
    zerosum
    Participant

    RIM has presented too many things for me to understand.
    This is the one that I’ll focus on,

    This is a really important dynamic to understand.

    The pricing scheme
    Market manipulators
    Government corruption

    As noted by Russian President Putin, allowing hedge funds, financial interests and inorganic market forces to set the prices of an item disconnects that item from the economic principle of supply and demand.
    The prices that people suffer for oil and gas are being driven by the mechanisms set up by western financial interests.
    This is manipulative and creates pain on the consumer and the people who have to pay more.

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    https://www.canada.ca/en/campaign/canada-investment-summit-2026.html
    Canada Investment Summit 2026
    Toronto, Ontario. September 14 and 15, 2026

    Canada has what the world wants.
    Choose Canada. Invest in Canada.

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    https://www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/news-releases/2026/09/15/prime-minister-carney-introduces-new-productivity-mega-deduction
    Prime Minister Carney introduces new Productivity Mega Deduction to boost Canada’s advantage as the most competitive G7 country for new business investment
    Main Content
    September 15, 2026
    Toronto, Ontario
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    #249885
    tboc
    Participant

    • ~10 million tons to orbit per year
    Is there a designed purpose behind the incessant posts concerning Mr. Musk, that of creating a chasm of antipathy to the man? Be that the design it is bearing fruit.
    Mr. Musk could devote time, energy and wealth to reenergizing and buildinng an educational system that would bring success to a wider demographic in The United States. An education system that would erase the insidious and deleterious legacy of John D. Rockefeller. A purpose to address an undeniable necessity.
    Ah, but that would be concrete and altruistic.

    That anyone reports on Zelensky as if he is not a made man makes them a farce. The man would have the fate of Ali Khamenei or any of the other figures assasinated by the western powers over the last seventy five years if he ceased to be a conduit for the rapine pillaging of the citizens of the NATO bloc.

    The perspective that only the ancient civilizations were enslaved by myth is truly a marvel of mental gymnastics. “Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain” aye there’s the rub. Only a deep seated adherance to myth would allow one to ask themself “Is there a man behind the curtain?”

    If you celebrate and give creedence to the current wave of global violence, depraved is to weak a sauce for accurate description.

    charles in a similar vein
    “All forms of violence are quests for identity. When you live on the frontier, you have no identity. You’re a nobody.”
    Marshall McLuhan

    #249886
    zerosum
    Participant

    Ansar Allah advances in Yemen and attacks desperate KSA seeking help from Israel, Gulf States and the MJDA a.k.a. “Paper Pact”
    Plus news and updates from Iran, Lebanon and Syria
    Ismaele
    Sep 14, 2026

    https://geopolitiq.substack.com/p/ansar-allah-advances-in-yemen-and

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    https://x.com/mb_ghalibaf/status/2099186880986202241
    Gas price in California
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    #249894
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    Trump says the Iran war will end right after the November midterms. When Laura Ingraham asked him why the war would end if Republicans LOSE, he answered: “I’ll be much more angry and I’ll just take care of business.” Then he closed with four words that are now everywhere — “Either way they lose.”

    But here’s the part almost nobody is putting next to that clip: his own senior Adviser reportedly told him privately that this war could run until January 2029.

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    WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED

    Recorded in Dallas during the Republican midterm convention week, aired in parts on Fox News’ “The Ingraham Angle” on Thursday and Friday, September 10-11, 2026.

    Fox ran the segment under an on-screen graphic reading: TRUMP: IRAN WAR WILL END AFTER MIDTERMS.

    The exchange began on Canada, not Iran. Ingraham asked whether Canada’s prime minister was trying to wait out the midterms. Trump agreed a lot of people are —then pivoted mid-sentence and said, “by the way, the war will end right after the
    midterms.”

    Ingraham pushed back with the obvious question: if Republicans LOSE, why would the war end? That’s when he said a lot of people think he’d be much more angry and would “just take care of business,” calling it “another way of doing it,” before finishing with “Either way they lose.”

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    WHAT’S VERIFIED VS WHAT’S INTERPRETATION

    VERIFIED — the quotes are real and matched across outlets that agree on almost nothing else. Breitbart ran it. Raw Story ran it. Gateway Pundit ran it. Same audio, same words.

    INTERPRETATION — that this was a hint at ESCALATING the war if Republicans lose.
    That’s a reading, not a quote. “Take care of business” has no target, no
    timeline, no method attached to it. Some outlets read it as resolve. Others read it as a warning that an election loss removes a restraint. This video lays out both and lets you decide.

    He also never said who “they” are. Iran? His domestic opponents? The exchange started on elections. The sentence carries both. That blank is doing a lot of work.

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    THE CONTEXT THE CLIP LEFT OUT

    SAME INTERVIEW: he said he doesn’t believe in the word “regret” and that if he had it to do again, he’d do exactly as he did. Reuters led with this, not the midterm line.

    THE 2029 PROBLEM: the Wall Street Journal reported that senior advisers — including the vice president and secretary of state — privately raised with him that the conflict could drag past Inauguration Day in January 2029. That is the opposite of “ends right after the midterms.”

    GAS AND DIESEL: heading into Dallas he conceded prices likely won’t come down before the midterms. The national average sat around $4.22 a gallon after the biggest one-day jump since May. Diesel hit a record high. Oil topped $100 a barrel with the Strait of Hormuz still disrupted.

    THE POLLING: Republicans’ own internal numbers reportedly show voters blaming the price increases on the war. His approval has been running near record lows.

    SPEAKING IN IRELAND on September 12 he repeated the prediction, saying Iran is holding out to complicate the election.

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    THE TEST

    This is a rare political claim with an actual deadline attached. He said the war ends right after the midterms. There’s a date. There’s a tape. There’s a scoreboard. Come back in November and check it — and if it ends, say so plainly. That standard applies in every direction.

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    CHAPTERS
    00:00 The room before the interview
    00:48 It started as a question about Canada
    01:31 “Either way they lose”
    02:19 The exact exchange, word for word
    03:05 The chyron: what Fox’s graphic left out
    04:02 Same tape, three different headlines
    04:58 Verified quote vs contested reading
    05:51 A war on an election calendar
    06:44 Who is “they”? The missing word
    07:30 The questions nobody asked
    08:15 The half of the tape that didn’t go viral
    09:02 What to check in November

    #249895
    zerosum
    Participant

    CentCom Lost “Hundreds” … – Space Weapons – West Causing Its Own Downfall

    September 15, 2026
    CentCom Lost “Hundreds” … – Space Weapons – West Causing Its Own Downfall

    Today I haven’t found a theme to write about. But I picked up some crumbs while reading around.

    The Inspector General of the U.S. Defense Department published a first report of the war on Iran. The cutoff date is June 30 so there is nothing current in it. However, this fact stands out (pdf):

    USCENTCOM reported that Iranian strikes damaged and destroyed hundreds of buildings and structures at U.S. bases in Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Oman, and Jordan during the conflict. In addition, dozens of U.S. aircraft were destroyed or damaged during OEF.

    https://media.defense.gov/2026/Sep/09/2003993626/-1/-1/1/OEF_Q3_JUN2026_FINAL_508%20SECURE.PDF

    LEAD INSPECTOR GENERAL REPORT TO THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS

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    #249897
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    Norway is advancing a bill that would ban trade with Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.

    If parliament passes it, individuals and companies in Norway could face fines or up to three years in prison for violations. This video breaks down the law, the politics, and what it means for viewers in the United States.

    THIS IS NOT YET LAW.
    The Norwegian government put the proposal out for public consultation. The deadline is 19 September 2026. Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide told public broadcaster NRK he expects the Storting (parliament) to vote this fall. He said the case for the bill got stronger because conditions in the West Bank have worsened, and because other Western countries are moving the same way.

    WHAT THE BILL ACTUALLY COVERS
    • Importing goods from settlements and exporting goods to them
    • Buying property in settlements
    • Construction and real-estate services tied to settlements
    • Buying businesses based in settlements
    • East Jerusalem is included as Norway defines it
    • Legitimate Palestinian trade and humanitarian aid are carved out

    The economic volume with Norway is small. Officials themselves name wine and agricultural products, plus construction-related services. Oslo calls that a political signal, not a trade war.

    WHY NORWAY SAYS IT IS DOING THIS
    The government argues the settlements violate international law, citing UN Security Council resolutions and International Court of Justice opinions. It says settlement growth drives displacement, violence, and kills a two-state outcome. Eide also argued Western countries used to back off when criticism of Israel was called antisemitism, and that this “shield” is weaker now.

    WHY ISRAEL IS ANGRY
    Israel’s embassy in Oslo called the move obsessive anti-Israel activism. Critics say ordinary purchases—a bottle of settlement wine, a service call—could be treated as a crime, and that the bill singles out Jews living across the Green Line. Israel does not accept that East Jerusalem is “occupied.”

    THE WIDER MAP AMERICANS ARE NOT BEING SHOWN
    Last week the United Kingdom announced a sanctions package on West Bank settlements. Norway joined Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Iceland, Ireland, Poland, Portugal, Spain, and Sweden in signaling similar restrictions. That is a G7-adjacent split: Europe tightening settlement trade while the United States remains the main military and diplomatic partner of Israel.

    Eide told NRK that Washington’s reaction so far has been measured — not an endorsement, not a veto. For a US audience, that is the real story under the prison headline: will American policy stay isolated from a European shift, or will Congress and the next aid debate inherit this fight?

    WHAT THIS VIDEO IS — AND IS NOT
    This is a news explainer. It is not legal advice. It does not call for violence. It does not treat an entire people as guilty. Occupation, settlements, October 7, Gaza, and US aid are all part of the same decade. Leaving any of that out is how videos go viral and stay wrong

    #249898
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    Lawrence Wilkerson: Saudi Arabia & Israel Could Disappear Soon

    #249899
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    Seyed M. Marandi: Super Tankers & Drones Hit in Hormuz as Saudi-Yemeni War Burns Bab al-Mandab

    #249900
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    Col. Larry Wilkerson: Treasury Sec. Bessent: U.S. Ending Iran Threat as Hormuz & Bab al-Mandab Burn

    #249908
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    The U.S. and Israel are behaving as criminals and have been for a long time

    #249909
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    LARRY JOHNSON:DIESEL Just HIT $9.999,Trump Is Blaming Wrong WAR,Trump Has 3 Days to Reverse on Iran

    #249910
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    The U.S. is the greatest sponsor of terrorism on the face of the earth

    #249911
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    #249912
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    #249913
    zerosum
    Participant

    Basement digger tools

    NEW: TRUMP ADMINISTRATION PREPARING MULTIBILLION-DOLLAR BOMB SALE TO ISRAEL
    The Trump administration is preparing a new multibillion-dollar arms sale to Israel centered on 2,000-pound bombs, according to U.S. officials.
    If finalized, it would be the LARGEST single sale of the controversial munition to Israel in recent years.
    The proposed package would come on top of enormous previously approved transfers. In 2025, Washington approved a $2.04 billion package containing 35,529 MK-84 or BLU-117 2,000-pound bomb bodies and 4,000 penetrator warheads, with deliveries beginning in 2026.
    The Trump administration is preparing to send Israel another major supply of some of the heaviest conventional bombs in the U.S. arsenal.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/09/15/trump-preparing-send-massive-shipment-2000-pound-bombs-israel/

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    #249915
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    Larry Johnson: BREAKING: Ansarullah Tanks Roll Toward Ta’izz as Missiles Strike Aramco in Jazan

    #249920
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    We’ll destroy Russia in 42 days: Poland made a SHOCKING claim & confirmed the Approach of a BIG WAR
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    It is reported that at that time, Boris Johnson, together with German politicians, was on a train, and all of them were deeply scared by what they saw. By the way, immediately after this incident on the Polish-Ukrainian border, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk officially stated that in the coming months Russia might launch missile strikes against facilities located directly on Polish territory

    #249921
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    #249922
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    #249923
    zerosum
    Participant

    Don’t take MSM seriously we cannot do anything except enjoy … Today … Politics absurdly became obviously entertaining.

    #249924
    tboc
    Participant

    i believe that it would be historically accurate to hold the position that hubris, narcissism and ignorance have proven to be a destructive if not fatal trifecta.The the opening of the currernt mindless excursion into Iran and the greater middle east is a glaring example of the destructive trifecta.

    The pandora’s box of emnity that has been simmering in the cauldron of injustice imposed on the people’s of the middle east has been foolishly opened.The carpicious setting of borders after WWI will prove to be the achille’s heel of western colonialism The true final solution for the Jews, The Modern State of Israel, is going to be remembered in history as the ultimate banquet of unintended consequence.

    At the moment, perhaps the crown jewel, of the irreplaceable, indispenseable mindset is being eulogized as some type of strategic and intellectual giant. The mighty have fallen. The man had all of the qualities of a spoiled onion. Multilayered yet rotten to the core.

    The reins have slipped through tilt heads hands. The situation is beyond control at this moment. The war will not be over after the midterms. In the event that the administration takes the historical path and unleashes a weapon of mass destruction it will be over for tilt head. The war will continue and the front will be expanded.

    Theodore Parker – 1853
    “I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways;
    I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by the experience of sight;
    I can divine it by conscience. And from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice”

    The Trump Cabinet is a body of questionable intellect hallmarked by moral degeneracy.

    #249925
    zerosum
    Participant

    Copilot info concerning your TV advertising.

    **Short answer:**
    Yes — **TELUS TV+ is almost certainly using AI‑driven targeted advertising**, and the probability is **extremely high (≈95%+)** based on publicly confirmed industry practices and TELUS/Bell Media’s own statements.

    Below is the evidence‑grounded breakdown with citations.

    ## **🎯 1. TELUS TV+ *does* use targeted, personalized advertising**
    Multiple sources confirm that TELUS TV+ now supports **addressable advertising**, meaning different households see different ads based on data such as:

    – age group
    – household demographics
    – location
    – viewing behavior
    – device type

    Bell Media’s partnership with TELUS explicitly states:

    – Ads are **“delivered through dynamic ad insertion”**
    – Advertisers can target using **audience and geographic data**
    – TELUS uses **audience segmentation tools** and **privacy‑safe data partnerships**
    [Media in Canada](htt ps://mediaincanada.com/2026/05/22/bell-media-brings-live-ad-replacement-to-telus-tv/)

    This is exactly the mechanism used to target ads by age group.

    ## **🤖 2. TELUS is heavily invested in AI for customer experience**
    TELUS Digital publicly showcases large‑scale AI deployments:

    – Over **2 trillion AI tokens processed in 2025**
    – AI used for **customer experience optimization**
    – AI used for **network and content personalization**
    [ca.marketscreener.com](htt ps://ca.marketscreener.com/news/telus-digital-showcases-ai-transformation-in-telecom-unlocking-value-with-innovative-use-cases-at-m-ce7e5cdad88cf026)

    This confirms TELUS is not just experimenting — they are running **enterprise‑scale AI systems**.

    ## **📺 3. TELUS TV+ uses advanced ad‑tech platforms**
    TELUS partners with Magnite’s SpringServe ad server:

    – Built specifically for **connected TV targeting**
    – Provides **audience consolidation**
    – Enables **more optimal, personalized ad experiences**
    [TELUS](htt ps://www.telus.com/en/about/news-and-events/media-releases/magnite-chosen-as-the-preferred-technology-partner-to-enhance-telus-connected-tv-offering)

    This is the infrastructure required for AI‑driven ad targeting.

    ## **📡 4. Bell Media’s system (used on TELUS TV+) includes AI‑based audience segmentation**
    Bell Media uses:

    – **Bell Audience Manager**
    – **Custom audience creation**
    – **Clean‑room data matching** (privacy‑safe demographic matching)
    [Media in Canada](htt ps://mediaincanada.com/2026/05/22/bell-media-brings-live-ad-replacement-to-telus-tv/)

    These tools rely on machine‑learning models to group viewers into segments — including age cohorts.

    # **📌 Probability estimate**
    Based on all verified information:

    ### **Estimated probability TELUS TV+ uses AI to target ads to your age group:**
    **≈95–99%**

    Why so high?

    – TELUS publicly confirms AI use across its digital ecosystem.
    – TELUS TV+ uses ad‑tech platforms designed for demographic targeting.
    – Bell Media’s addressable advertising system explicitly uses audience segmentation.
    – Connected TV advertising in Canada is now almost entirely data‑driven.

    Unless you are watching through a very old non‑smart set‑top box, you are almost certainly receiving **AI‑selected ads**.

    #249929
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    The world has said: Thank you very much, we have had enough

    #249930
    zerosum
    Participant

    Impunity out the window.
    https://x.com/MenchOsint/status/2099917284760494123
    MenchOsint @MenchOsint

    ⭕️ Yemen’s Ansarallah spokesperson:
    The Saudi Air Force conducted 52 airstrikes over the past 24 hours using F-15 and Typhoon aircraft that took off from Khamis Mushait and Taif airbases, targeting civilian infrastructure including schools, bridges, and roads in Taiz Governorate, along with other civilian infrastructure in: Al-Jawf, Al-Bayda, Saada, and Amran Governorates.

    These barbaric aggressions will not go unanswered, by the permission of Almighty God.”

    Sept 13: 58 saudi airstrikes
    Sept 14: 54 airstrikes
    Sept 15: 52 airstrikes
    ————

    #249931
    zerosum
    Participant

    … undermines the Western self-belief that they are an inherently virtuous civilization.
    https://archive.ph/UDXMR#selection-915.0-930.0
    Kishore Mahbubani: The West has engineered its own downfall
    8th September 2026
    Kishore Mahbubani | Distinguished Fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore.

    No single event has damaged the moral credibility of the West as much as Gaza has. As modern cell phones have become ubiquitous, we have seen with our own eyes how millions of innocent Palestinian civilians have suffered in Gaza. The 88% of the world’s population who live outside the West have also heard the loud silence of the West on Gaza. Pankaj Mishra, the Indian novelist and author of The World After Gaza, said in January 2025, “Gaza has really damaged American institutions, Western institutions, international institutions, to an extent no previous war, no previous conflict has.” The Booker Prize-winning Indian novelist, Arundhati Roy, has said more starkly, “What is under the rubble in Gaza is not just the bodies of Palestinians, but the carcass of Western liberal democracy.”

    #249932
    zerosum
    Participant

    https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/tucker-carlson-rips-trump-planned-largest-transfer-ordinance-modern-history

    Tucker Carlson Sounds Alarm Over Trump’s Planned ‘Largest Transfer Of Ordinance In Modern History’

    Carlson put it in perspective in the following commentary:

    How big is this shipment?
    It amounts to 40,000 tons of bombs.
    For perspective, the largest American air raid of World War Two was the Eighth Air Force’s attack on Berlin in March of 1945.
    Combined, the 2,023 Allied aircraft involved dropped about 3,000 tons of bombs.
    That’s 7.5 percent of what Trump is sending to Israel.
    That same month, March of 1945, the US Army Air Forces began the single most destructive bombing raid in human history, Operation Meetinghouse over Tokyo.
    More than 100,000 Japanese civilians were killed.
    By the end of that operation, the US had dropped 1,600 tons of bombs.
    That’s four percent of what Trump is sending to Israel.
    World War Two ended five months later, when the US dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima.
    The shipment Trump is sending to Israel amounts to more than three times the destructive power of that nuclear explosion.
    There is no precedent for what the Trump administration is doing.
    Nor is there a justification.
    The government of Israel is not fighting World War Two, or even a war.
    It is engaged in periodic skirmishes with a guerrilla force in Lebanon, and it is working to exterminate an unarmed civilian population in Gaza.
    Neither front requires modern 2,000-pound bombs.

    The former Fox host further warned this portends Israel could soon go even more ‘gloves off’ and unleash further hell on Gaza and Lebanon, or possibly even Iran – at a moment the US seems to be trying to find an exit from the hot phase of the conflict.
    ———–

    #249937
    V. Arnold
    Participant

    Interesting; V. Putin warned Israel against using Nukes or Russia would nuke Israel.

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