Debt Rattle April 18 2024
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Knock,Knock,Knock Is anybody listening?
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/iran-says-it-could-pursue-nuclear-weapons-if-israel-threatens-atomic-sitesIran Says It Could Pursue Nuclear Weapons If Israel Threatens Atomic Sites
The oak and the fir accidentally fall on the same patch. They struggle for centuries over the same square meter of surface. It’s a slow, ugly, brutal struggle that leaves each with half a life. John Q Hiker walks by and sees a loving embrace.
Hupa, Yurok, Modoc – These weren’t militarily defeated. They had to be surrounded and ‘put to siege’ until they were assimilated. But the mountains are still theirs, and they bent all interlopers to live as they do or miss the bus. There are many winners and losers on both sides of that conflict.
“Apple could censor whatever you can read…”
I am working here on an apple desktop computer, now using Brave almost exclusively, because Safari will not load ZH properly. John Ward’s “Slog” comes up empty. At TAE, pictures in comments won’t load, and the 16th of April post was polluted with reverb ghost audio. Rightwing sites like gateway pundit load and stall.
In light of 702, I am now more than ever reluctant to update anything.p.s. Is this going to reach into the medical establishment? Will the government say to doctors “here’s a list of people where “oops” would be greatly appreciated”?
Iran Says It Could Pursue Nuclear Weapons If Israel Threatens Atomic Sites
No one will convince me at this point that states like Iran and Japan do not already have nuclear weapons.
p.s. Is this going to reach into the medical establishment? Will the government say to doctors “here’s a list of people where “oops” would be greatly appreciated”?
If we are to the point where reasonable people have such doubts- and we are – then it is already happening.
Probably should be cautious ordering things you would ingest online. That government program to intercept computer related packages and insert malware or spying devices en route was exposed, what, 10-15 years ago? Can’t do it with other things?
“but probably since 1971 and Nixon”
Getting sloppy Dr. D, that was a default. If you and i agree that you can trade your green pieces of paper for yellow shiny metal, and then i decide that actually no you can’t, that is a default 😉
ahhh talk of the 1971 gold default takes me back
https://www.bullionvault.com/gold-news/users/mogambo-guru
Like an idiot, after DAYS, I realized what an immediate response from Israel entails
Attacks after market close on Friday
So very %&#$%ing obviously. Gah. Idiot!!! (triple self-facepalm)
Mr. House :
Yes, I remember the 1970’s oil embargo and the resultant oil price shock!
I got right to work building coal mining shovels and draglines to help solve the energy crisis!
I worked in Canadian, American, South African, Australian, and Russian coal mines to counter the harm AFKTT was doing!
It must really suck, wasting a lifetime justifying the fake global warming CO2 scam!
And I am still waiting for global warming to show up here in cold Canada!To Force God’s Hand https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/to-force-gods-hand
There is a swell of desire for “The End Times” recently, amongst people who are sure that God is on their side and will slay their enemies, then raise them up to heaven.
I’m really not sure we are thinking about the same “god”. The God I seek to follow works through compassion, love and virtuous-effort on the part of humans.
Do be careful what you wish for, please. It might not “mean what you think it means”.The table has turned in the Mideast power equation, from nuclear-armed Israel exacting “ten eyes for an eye” to hypersonic-missile armed Iran demonstrating capability without “escalating” by killing anybody, and effectively making that same threat to the existence of the “Zionist State”. Iran’s hypersonic missiles were untouched by advanced US, Israeli and UK air-defense systems, and struck their targets, which were not power plants nor the Dimona nuclear reactor.
Now there are rumors, which I held back on yesterday, that Iran has nuclear weapons. Blowing up Dimona would be enough, but I have seen rumors for over 15 years that Iran ended up with the South African nuclear warheads. Who knows? They went somewhere. Middle East redefined: Iran’s retaliatory attack on Israel signaled a major change in the region
Israel hardly needs a direct war with the Islamic Republic, especially with the Hamas issue not settled yet, Gaza still not demilitarized, hostages yet to be rescued, and Western allies offering nothing in terms of support but nice statements and condemnations. In the meanwhile, there are rather serious reasons to believe that Israel may not be able to keep its temper and strike, just for self-consolation. Expecting a response strike from Iran, Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz said, several days prior to the counterattack, that if Iran strikes from its territory, then Israel will attack in response. That means the Israelis could go further and continue their attacks. Yes, Netanyahu has changed his tone somewhat and tries to show now that he doesn’t want a big war. He, however, may be under pressure from the security wing, members of which yearn for revenge and want to blow off steam on Iran, which they think created the situation Israel has been in since October 7, 2023. If Israel does strike back, attacking Iranian territories and killing people, the situation will spin out of control and there will be no stopping the Iranians.
The goal of Iran’s counterattack against Israel was not to unleash a big war. This action can be seen differently: as a PR effort, a propaganda schtick, or muscle-flexing. Some may say that Iran failed to retaliate fully, as its attack didn’t achieve anything equal to the two generals and 11 diplomats that Israel’s strike had killed. The message of the counterstrike, however, was not only to take revenge for Iran’s dead. Tehran deliberately didn’t strike targets in major Israeli cities. Its strikes on Israel were limited, mostly targeting the occupied Golani Heights, which legally belong to Syria, and military installations in Negev desert, in order to avoid escalation and prevent further provocations on Israel’s part. Besides, Iran has proved that it can penetrate Israel’s air defenses and that Israel is not that well protected.
Therefore, Iran’s goal was to change the rules of the game in the region and, by and large, it succeeded. Tehran’s counterattack put paid to any talk of Iran not putting its money where its mouth is and brought the conflict between the two countries to a whole new level. https://swentr.site/news/596091-irans-attack-victory-or-defeat/ UN Security Council To Hold Contentious Vote On Palestinian Statehood [Recognizing Palestine would signal a regime change in global power dynamics. Please do.]
Friday will witness another Gaza-related showdown in a very divided United Nations Security Council, as council member Algeria has prepared a draft resolution for the body recognize a Palestinian state. It would require nine votes and no vetoes on the part of the US, Britain, France, Russia or China in order to pass. https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/un-security-council-hold-contentious-vote-palestinian-statehood Pepe Escobar: Iran’s ‘New Equation’ Reaches Way Beyond West Asia
This game-changer will directly interfere on how the Anglo-American system manages its simultaneous conflagration with Russia, China and Iran – three top BRICS members.
The key problem is escalations are already built in – and will be hard to remove. The Total Cancel War against Russia; the genocide in Gaza – with its explicit policy masterfully decoded by Prof. Michael Hudson; and the decoupling/shaping the terrain against China won’t simply vanish – as all communication bridges with the Global Majority keep being torched. Yet the Iranian message indeed establishes a “New Equation” – as Tehran christened it, and prefigures many other surprises to come from West Asia…
..Later this week Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri Kani – who said Iran will respond “within seconds” to any new Israeli attack – visits Moscow for the Conference on Nonproliferation and will also meet with the top echelons of the Russian Foreign Ministry.
It’s quite remarkable that Iran managed to establish the New Equation without disturbing its own pivot to Eurasia – after the collapse of the 2015 nuclear deal – while protecting the complex framework engaged in the defense of Palestine.
The Hegemon’s options are dire. They run from being eventually expelled from West Asia and the Persian Gulf to an unwinnable existential clash against three civilization-states – Russia, China, Iran.
What’s left as the number one feasible scenario is a carefully calculated retreat to an easily controlled backyard: Latin America, especially South America, manipulating new, convenient, sovereign-deprived asset Argentina. And of course maintaining control over a de-industrialized and sovereignty-deprived Europe.
That does not change the fact that US power projection on the wane, globally, is the way the wind is blowing. The Straussian neocon psycho-dementia is unsustainable. The question is whether they can be progressively purged from the US power structure before they attempt to plunge the Global Majority into their irrational depths of doom. https://sputnikglobe.com/20240417/pepe-escobar-irans-new-equation-reaches-way-beyond-west-asia-1117973782.html Saudi Arabia and UAE refused to open airspace to Israeli and US aircraft during Iran attack
Saudi Arabia and the UAE refused to open their airspace to Israeli and American aircraft as they sought to intercept missiles and drones launched by Iran last Saturday against the occupation state. According to the Wall Street Journal, Arab officials noted that the two Gulf countries did, however, exchange intelligence with the US and Israel, which contributed to their success in repelling the Iranian attack. Riyadh and Abu Dhabi have tried to remain neutral regarding the raging conflict in the Middle East, the newspaper claimed. https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240417-saudi-arabia-and-uae-refused-to-open-airspace-to-israeli-and-us-aircraft-during-iran-attack/According to Kremlin-controlled Russian military media “leak”, Iran has nuclear weapons. This might or might not be true, but it urges “caution”. https://warnews247-gr.translate.goog/purhnika/ektakto-bomba-apo-rwsia-to-iran-exei-purhnikes-kefales-mas-edwse-sugxarhthria-b-poutin-gia-thn-epithesh-sto-israhl-leei-h-texeranh/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp
So how long might such a “pursuit” take? “Seconds”? Iran Says It Could Pursue Nuclear Weapons If Israel Threatens Atomic Sites https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/iran-says-it-could-pursue-nuclear-weapons-if-israel-threatens-atomic-sites
Was this real? Was it a “warning”? If so, a warning to whom? Freeze and zoom in on the very last second. I saw a yellow tag on a cruise missile, which designates a live nuke. VIDEO: United States Loads Nuclear Bombs onto B-52’s https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/component/content/article/video-united-states-loads-nuclear-bombs-onto-b-52s?catid=17&Itemid=220
Secret deal: Iran will attack Israel with Su-35 fighters and S-400 air defense systems
https://avia-pro.net/blog/taynaya-sdelka-iran-udarit-po-izrailyu-istrebitelyami-su-35-i-zrk-s-400I read that the refueling tankers were in the air, ready to go. ‘Israel’ backed out of attacking Iran for operational reasons: Axios
“Israel” backed out of conducting a strike against Iran on Monday night after authorities strongly considered the option, Axios reported, citing five Israeli and US sources. The Israeli regime has vowed to conduct a strike against Iranian assets following Tehran’s retaliatory attack against the occupation on Saturday night. The Biden administration has warned “Israel” that taking such action would not serve the two allied governments’ interests, urging Israelis to “be careful” with any retaliation, unnamed US officials told Axios.
To avoid regional escalation, the White House has told “Israel” to frame the interception of Iranian aerial attack weapons as a victory, to save face value and refrain from escalatory measures.
“We are not sure why and how close it was to an actual attack,” a US official said in reference to the probable option to launch aggression against Iran. Another confirmed that “Israel” told the Biden administration that it had decided to wait rather than take action at the time being. https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/-israel–backed-out-of-attacking-iran-for-operational-reason Majority of Israelis want to de-escalate tensions after Iran strike
The majority of Israelis (52%) believe that an immediate response to Iran’s retaliatory strike is not desired, but rather prefer “to close the current round of hostilities,” a recent poll conducted by the Hebrew University of Occupied al-Quds revealed, as reported by the Financial Times.
“Everyone is on board with the [Gaza war] goals. But we see a very different path here” with Iran, Nimrod Zeldin, who conducted the study, told FT. “Iran is more complicated.”
According to the report, the clear-cut split is reflected in the “tortuous” debate within the war cabinet led by Prime Minister Netanyahu. Experts argue that the window for an immediate response is closing further as time passes. https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/majority-of-israelis-want-to-de-escalate-tensions-after-iran John Helmer, THE LAST BLACKOUT FOR ISRAEL WAS LIFTED BY GOD’S TEMPLE MIRACLE 2,188 YEARS AGO – ISRAEL IS PROVOKING IRAN TO INFLICT A NEW BLACKOUT TO TEST WHICH SIDE GOD IS ON NOW
As of today’s broadcast on Gorilla Radio and writing this, it is 3:30 on Thursday morning in Tehran: the Israeli attack which has been telegraphed through the British foreign minister, Baron Cameron, has not yet materialized.
When it happens – if it happens — the evidence to gather, before the scope of the Iranian response can be calculated, includes what types of targets were struck, military or civil; where the attack was launched from; what role US intelligence and military support played in execution of Israel’s operation; and what role Russia is playing in early warning, missile tracking, electronic countermeasures, and defence on the Iranian side.
When the Iranian counterattack happens, if it happens, there should be no counting by the Israeli and US side on a divine miracle to keep Jerusalem’s lights burning. The last one of those, according to the religion of the Israeli state (and also of presidential candidate Donald Trump), was the Chanukah one. That was in 164 BC. https://johnhelmer.net/the-last-blackout-for-israel-was-lifted-by-gods-temple-miracle-2188-years-ago-israel-is-provoking-iran-to-inflict-a-new-blackout-to-test-which-side-god-is-on-now/#more-89766Iran Navy Escorting Iranian Commercial Ships To Red Sea To Prevent Reprisal https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/iran-navy-escorting-iranian-commercial-ships-red-sea-prevent-reprisal
Gaza detainees ‘urinated on, made to act like animals’ by Israeli forces, UNRWA says , Palestinians released from Israeli custody report widespread ill treatment to UN agency https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/un-warns-mass-ill-treatment-palestinians-israeli-detention
Report: Blinken Sitting On Staff Recommendations to Sanction Israeli Military Units Linked to Killings or Rapes https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=64399
US House Set to Vote on Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan Aid Bills on Saturday – Speaker https://sputnikglobe.com/20240417/us-house-set-to-vote-on-ukraine-israel-taiwan-aid-bills-on-saturday—speaker-1117982278.html
EU leadership must go – member state’s PM , The current bosses in Brussels have failed in all of their major projects, Hungary’s Viktor Orban has said https://swentr.site/news/596099-orban-eu-leadership-hungary/
National Public Radio has solved the problem of the intolerance for opposing views, detailed in an article by award-winning editor Uri Berliner: he is now out of NPR. Berliner resigned after NPR suspended him and various other journalists and the CEO lashed out at his discussing their political bias. https://jonathanturley.org/2024/04/17/npr-editor-resigns-after-suspension-for-exposing-bias-and-intolerance/
FBI Wanted to Install Backdoor to Spy on Users, Telegram Founder Tells Tucker Carlson https://sputnikglobe.com/20240417/fbi-wanted-to-install-backdoor-to-spy-on-users-telegram-founder-tells-tucker-carlson-1117970779.html
How are they not “the government”? Apple and Google more dangerous than governments – Telegram founder , Pavel Durov has slammed the tech giants for their attempts to curtail freedom of speech https://swentr.site/news/596070-telegram-durov-reveals-pressure-us/
Google Quickly Fires 28 Employees Who Protested Dealings With Israel https://www.zerohedge.com/political/google-quickly-fires-28-employees-who-protested-dealings-israel
Excused Juror Reveals Selection Process For Trump’s ‘Hush-Money’ Trial: ‘All Have Prior Opinions’ https://www.zerohedge.com/political/excused-juror-reveals-selection-process-trumps-hush-money-trial-all-have-prior-opinions
The Great Dispossession Part 4 , Paul Craig Roberts
Under the 5th and 14th Amendments to the US Constitution the transformation of our financial property into collateral for secured creditors constitutes a taking. I don’t know whether the taking that exists in the regulations can be taken to court and ruled against prior to a taking actually occurring. Probably not. https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2024/04/17/the-great-dispossession-part-4/The Great Dispossession Part 3 , Paul Craig Roberts
In Part 1, I explained that the next financial crisis will be bailed out not with central bank money creation but with our stocks, bonds and bank balances.
In Part 2, I explained the multi-year quiet regulatory changes that dispossessed us of our property.
In Part 3, I explain David Rogers Webb’s conclusion that a massive financial crisis is pending in which our financial assets are the collateral underwriting the derivative and financial bubble and will result in the loss of our assets but leave us with our debts as happened to those whose banks failed in the 1930s…..You will be supplied with the means of life as long as you have a good social credit score, which means that you are a non-dissenter of official narratives.
Webb believes that this result is the intent of the regulatory changes and corresponds to the World Economic Forum’s agenda: “you will own nothing.” There is much in the regulatory documents that support Webb’s belief. For example, the Single Resolution Board’s 2022 Guidance for Banks to prepare for “solvent wind-down,” is an indication that an event is in the works. The Single Resolution Board’s Work Program 2023 states: “The year 2023 will be the last of a transitional period for the establishment of the main elements of the resolution framework in the Banking Union.” In other words, everything is in place. https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2024/04/16/the-great-dispossession-part-3/The Great Dispossession Part 2 , Paul Craig Roberts
In Part 1 ( https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2024/04/11/the-great-dispossession/ ), I reported that we already do not own anything. The immediate response from readers is: what can we do to avoid dispossession? Offhand, the answer might appear to be debt-free property and gold and silver in personal possession. However, if the goal is that we own nothing and are controlled under a digital currency regime, these assets will be taken as well.
Webb says if the billionaires and large financial institutions can be made aware of the situation, they could make Congress aware of the regulatory changes and force Congress to use its law-making power to undo the regulatory changes…
..The purpose of Part 2 is to outline the regulatory changes that have been made that have turned our property in financial assets into the property of “secured creditors.” Webb terms them legal changes, which they are, but as I read it from regulatory, not legislative, action. Webb says the changes are global, but he only describes how the US and EU effected the changes for themselves. I am unable to imagine that Russia, China, Iran and any parts of the world not captured in the Western financial system are parties to the dispossession, especially under the regime of sanctions. As I read it, the dispossession that awaits is limited to the Western world and its captive countries. By global, perhaps Webb means the global operations of Western world financial organizations.
First some definitions: an “account holder” is you, your IRA, your pension plan, your stock and bond investments held at an “account provider” or “intermediary” or “depository institution”. https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2024/04/15/the-great-dispossession-part-2/The Great Dispossession Part 1 , Paul Craig Roberts
Some definitions: an “account holder” is you, your IRA, your pension plan, your stock and bond investments held at an “account provider” or “intermediary” or “depository institution” such as Merrill Lynch, Schwab, Wells Fargo. An “entitlement holder” is the definition of you whose ownership claim to your financial assets has been subordinated to the claims of “secured creditors” of the institution where you have your accounts. Please do understand that the dispossession of which I write is your dispossession...
..As a result of these changes, which appear to have been made by financial regulatory authorities rather than by elected legislatures, individuals no longer have property rights in “their” securities. “Owners” now have “entitlement rights,” which means that they have pro-rata rights to whatever securities remain in the depository institution after secured creditors’ claims are met. In actual fact, “your” securities and your bank deposits are no longer recognized in law as your personal property if the depository institution–the bank or, for example, Merrill Lynch–becomes financially troubled. Your “ownership” is encumbered as collateral for secured creditors who are the owners in fact. Apparently, this was done by regulatory authorities as underpinning for the derivatives complex, which is many magnitudes greater than world GNP, or perhaps derivative exposure served as an excuse for setting up the Great Reset in which “you will own nothing.” Indeed, individual banks among the world’s largest have derivative exposure the size of world GDP. https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2024/04/11/the-great-dispossession/Mr. House :
Yes, I remember the 1970’s oil embargo and the resultant oil price shock!
I got right to work building coal mining shovels and draglines to help solve the energy crisis!
I worked in Canadian, American, South African, Australian, and Russian coal mines to counter the harm AFKTT was doing!
It must really suck, wasting a lifetime justifying the fake global warming CO2 scam!
And I am still waiting for global warming to show up here in cold Canada!If people haven’t figured out by now that COVID was a total crock of shit, and still refuse to entertain the idea that it was a financial crisis papered over with printed money and mass hysteria that the media had been purposefully generating for the past four years, then they deserve everything that is coming. IE: Naked capitalism and surplus energy economics.
NPR’s CEO Katherine Maher on the truth:
I think, perhaps, that she is confusing “The Truth” with “personal values.”
Maher is ‘rebranding’ truth.
Beliefs and opinions are not objectively true. This is her work as a member of WEF and CFR.
Carrying water for Bernays shifting from public relations to marketing to propaganda, perhaps she is personally not conscious of this, but her handlers are.Bernays touted the idea that the “masses” are driven by factors outside their conscious understanding, and therefore that their minds can and should be manipulated by the capable few. “Intelligent men must realize that propaganda is the modern instrument by which they can fight for productive ends and help to bring order out of chaos.”
Bernays pioneered the public relations industry’s use of mass psychology and other social sciences to design its public persuasion campaigns: “If we understand the mechanism and motives of the group mind, is it not possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will without their knowing about it? The recent practice of propaganda has proved that it is possible, at least up to a certain point and within certain limits.” He later called this scientific technique of opinion-molding the engineering of consent
Bernays referred to this work as “psychological warfare”.
“If you can influence the leaders, either with or without their conscious cooperation, you automatically influence the group which they sway”, he said.
The amazing readiness with which large masses accept this process is probably accounted for by the fact that no attempt is made to convince them that black is white. Instead, their preconceived hazy ideas that a certain gray is almost black or almost white are brought into sharper focus. Their prejudices, notions, and convictions are used as a starting point, with the result that they are drawn by a thread into passionate adherence to a given mental picture.
One way Bernays reconciled manipulation with liberalism was his claim that the human masses would inevitably succumb to manipulation—and therefore the good propagandists could compete with the evil, without incurring any marginal moral cost.
Bernays explained:
“The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of.”
But instead of a mind, universal literacy has given [the common man] a rubber stamp, a rubber stamp inked with advertising slogans, with editorials, with published scientific data, with the trivialities of tabloids and the profundities of history, but quite innocent of original thought. Each man’s rubber stamp is the twin of millions of others, so that when these millions are exposed to the same stimuli, all receive identical imprints.
Of his many books, Crystallizing Public Opinion (1923) and Propaganda (1928) gained special attention as early efforts to define and theorize the field of public relations.
Bernays was named one of the 100 most influential Americans of the twentieth century by Life.
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Dr Phil with told you so !
Safe to say everyone here has experienced others eyes glazing over, their brain literally turning off, and their mind shutting down. They just can’t hear or process the information. These are the brainwashed minds of the propagandized cult masses.
Covid was a massive psychological warfare propagandizing event- using fear and irrational emotions to manipulate the masses. Fortunately there still exist minds that are ‘immune’ to this type of manipulation.
Consider yourself blessed if you are.Bernays used ideas of his uncle Sigmund Freud to help convince the public.
Even though Bernays saw the power of propaganda during war and used it to sell products during peacetime, he couldn’t have imagined that his writings on public relations would become a tool of the Third Reich.
In the 1920s, Joseph Goebbels became an avid admirer of Bernays and his writings – despite the fact that Bernays was a Jew. When Goebbels became the minister of propaganda for the Third Reich, he sought to exploit Bernays’ ideas to the fullest extent possible.
Bernays learned that the Nazis were using his work in 1933, from a foreign correspondent for Hearst newspapers. He later recounted in his 1965 autobiography:
They were using my books as the basis for a destructive campaign against the Jews of Germany. This shocked me, but I knew any human activity can be used for social purposes or misused for antisocial ones.
There is a type of knowledge and understanding that practically everyone sort of gets on a visceral level. Call it “gut reaction” or “common sense” or “intuition”, whatever. Call it what you want, but it is a real. In fact it is the realest things there is, because it is reality itself. It’s called the truth. That which is, IS, and in the final analysis there’s simply no alternative.
For example, the ‘Covid-19, killer vax, masked-up lockdown’ was a purposeful attack on humanity carried out by explicitly collaborating psychopaths. Ditto the attempted conquest of Russia by means of the Ukraine War and the anti-Russia sanctions. Much the same can be said of the inexcusable evil of Zionist Israel’s attempted genocide of the entire Palestinian Arab race, and the weaponization of virtually every official American institution, including Law, Health, Education, Information, and Finance, to name just a few out of many.
Those who reject enormously obvious truths like those just listed, and who dedicate themselves to the opposite positions, can be accurately described, AS A CLASS, as being actually and literally insane. By pursuing the opposite of truth, they also become cognitively and emotionally dedicated to the opposite of truth’s fruits and benefits. They instead suffer the INVERSION (and perversion) of the very concept of true being better than false, good being better than bad, and life being better than death.
This inversion of all that is true and good does not exactly enhance the perpetrators’ ability to think rationally or improve themselves either.
The destructive consequence of this inversion must not be underestimated. It’s totally crippling. More importantly, the SOLUTION to the problem must also not be overlooked because there is only ONE solution, and that solution is to seek, see and voluntarily ACCEPT truth as being both TRUE and as being vitally necessary to survival.
This can become paradoxically difficult to achieve in those who reject truth BECAUSE it is true (and thus “bad”, for the guilty liar), and in those who espouse lies BECAUSE they are lies (and therefore good for those who WANT to lie, cheat, steal and kill more successfully.)
Woe unto the civilization or society that falls into the tar pit of that inversion.
At the risk of sounding redundant (although the statement is NOT redundant in the least) it must also be clearly understood that those who believe in falsehood and oppose belief in truth are ALSO “inverted” on the topic of good and bad. They will, for example, assert that preventing, harming, disabling or killing children is sometimes a GOOD or necessary or beneficial thing. They assert that the removal or prevention of human beings from Earth is a worthy goal, too. Some even claim that the truth itself is sometimes bad or harmful and should therefore be hidden, censored, banned or punished.
All such positions and intentions are of course utterly insane, and that can become a serious problem if and when such positions and intentions, and LIES are accepted.
Unfortunately (but truthfully, I’m sad to say) our government and all of the official institutions enmeshed with it have become insane, to a flamboyantly lunatic degree. But that’s not the worst news. The worst news is that vast swaths of the population have ACCEPTED those things as being “normal” (or even desirable), because they are crazy too.
Hatred is not a good thing to want, and refusing to accept truthful communication about that (or any other fact) is not an effective to cure oneself of the disability. To think that such positions are somehow “good” amounts to wanting to believe a lie and wanting NOT to examine a truth, and that’s a pretty fair description of insane.
I see almost all events as reasons to shovel more money into the pit.
Everything is a rich man’s trick.
Interestingly, a woman called on cspan the other day and told people to go to utube and look up that documentary. She said it would explain a lot. The host didn’t cut her off.How to control the narrative.
1. Call the demonstrations, “anti-Israel” demonstrations
Don’t listen to the shout that call for “Cease fire”2. Call the demonstrations, “Pro Palestinian”
Don’t look at the signs that call for “Peace”3. Ignore “People Power”
@WES — after reading “And I am still waiting for global warming to show up here in cold Canada!”, I must ask, did you venture outside this last winter? I take it you’re probably not into ice-fishing.
WES said
So yes, the Donald has not put up much of a fight!
I was referring to Bolton and Pompeo, not to Trump’s entire political career. Sure, he has been attacked like never before, but the only reason I supported Trump for the 2016 election was – as many others also said – he would bring the rats out of the sewers and show us just how corrupt the system is. He succeeded in that and everything else was a bonus; his ego enabled him to do this, The Donald never being willing to take the blame, always willing to name the people who let him down.
As for your assertion that Trump was actually very good at picking people in his business life; you do know about Michael Cohen, the court case? Doesn’t look like a very good pick to me, but I guess you could argue it is a one-off. I do not know much about his business life so cannot really comment further.
You obviously excuse Trump for his appointments, so how does Trump not being able to control his own appointments make a future Trump administration any better than the last one? You have made it clear that he was not to blame, it was the other bad people, so how will his next admin be any different? What will he be able to do next time that he was not able to do last time? What additional power will he have?
Trump has benefitted massively from this charade that is currently underway. Trump was the Jew supported candidate in 2016, I suspect HRC was also Jew supported, so both were acceptable to the USA’s owners. Trump survived his presidency – no assassination attempts – and came out the other end to what is fairly benign lawfare; unless you were stupid enough to go to J6.
Trump has not been put in jail yet, in fact all this lawfare has done in create news and encouraged his supporters to commit even further to Trump. This is ideal for anyone wanting to destroy the USA; jihadist Trump supporters versus jihadist woke progressive Biden supporters. A match made in heaven. To ensure Trump makes it through, he has moved into a new business line and is an amazing success; Truth Social, the outlet for the mentally daranged Christians is now big business and has more than doubled Trump’s worth within a couple of years. Amazing.
The longer I watch Trump, the more I am convinced that this is all theatre, which is why he plays the game so well, all he has to do is act the righteous being persecuted by the evil ones. It is such a good game – it is the Jews’ chosen game – and the people don’t seem to be able to believe that it is centrally controlled by the people behind the curtain.
In some ways it reminds me of Xi clamping down on corruption prior to his appointment to the top job. Xi used lawfare to remove his opposition. The owners of the USA are using lawfare to align the voting public behind Trump and Biden. They are fighting for the victory of having the people turn against each other rather than turn against the invisible owners.
USA kills two state solution
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/un-security-council-vote-thursday-palestinian-un-membership-2024-04-18/
US stops UN from recognizing a Palestinian state through membershipzerosum said
US stops UN from recognizing a Palestinian state through membership
Is this the event that moves the Overton window to include the solution of disolving Israel. Will people now say that if Palestinians cannot live there then why should the Jews be allowed to live there? We shall see.
Ritter does a very nice explanation of the new present warfare as opposed to even ten years ago.
He also does a great job explaining the difference between a ‘special military operation’ and a war
Aspnaz:
I don’t dispute that persecuting Trump keeps him living in people’s minds rent free.
However, I do not believe he will ever be president again.
Lawfare will finish him off.He will be put in jail.
There is too much money at stake for the owners to allow Trump back in.
Trump is already wealthy.
So it isn’t about the money.
What Trump is doing isn’t rational considering the opposition he faces.
Yet he keeps on fighting.
Why?
To give the American people a better deal from their owners?I think also of Kahn in Pakistan.
A famous cricket player.
Already wealthy.
So it isn’t about the money.
He is in jail.
Why is he still fighting?
To give the people of Pakistan a better deal from their owners?I don’t believe you or I would keep fighting like these guys are.
We would have folded a long time ago.What I see are the DC crooks running the only honest man out of town!
There is simply no room in DC for an honest man.
Because it shows up the crooks in a bad light and they don’t like it.I think of why Hitler?
Why did the Rothchilds support his rise to power?
My theory is his mother was half Jewish, I believe (?).
She was the love child of a German mother and a rich Jewish father.
The father supported the unwed mother.
So Hitler was considered OK.
Good stock.If male testosterone levels have fallen as much as they say, since 1970, then doesn’t it seem logical that rape crimes should have also fallen too over that same period??
The off set to that possible down trend (?) are all the new immigrants with normal testosterone levels.
Look at the Mexican coyotes routinely raping all the pretty girls/women crossing the border.Oroboros:
Yeah, cocoa beans have really shot up in price.
However storing cocoa beans long term is a challenge.
Moisture and mold are problems.
So cocoa beans aren’t really a very good investment vehicle!Love your posts!
This is a developing story.
https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-797866
Alleged Israeli strikes reported in Iran – report
Syrian reports indicated airstrikes targeted sites belonging to the Syrian Army in the As-Suwayda and Daraa Governorates of southern Syria.
By TZVI JOFFRE
APRIL 19, 2024 03:52
Updated: APRIL 19, 2024 04:54Futures Tumble, Oil And Gold Soar On Reports Of “Huge Explosions” In Central Iran, Israeli Airstrikes In Iraq And Syria
The Israeli retaliation has begun.Moments ago futures dumped, oil prices spiked, and treasury yields slumped amid social media reports and Reuters headlines that there have been three “huge explosions” near the central Iran cities of Natanz (location of an Iranian nuclear power plant) and Isfahan (location of the Iranian Nuclear Technology Center which is suspected of being the center of Iran’s nuclear weapons program), as well as simultaneous explosions in Iraq and Syria, where the Israel air force appears to be targeting pro-Iranian militias.
IRANIAN MEDIA: 3 HUGE EXPLOSIONS WERE HEARD IN ISFAHAN, SOUTH OF TEHRAN
JERUSALEM POST: SIMULTANEOUS EXPLOSIONS REPORTED IN IRAN, SYRIA, AND IRAQ ACCORDING TO INITIAL REPORTS
IRAN’S FARS NEWS AGENCY SAYS EXPLOSIONS HEARD IN CENTRAL ISFAHAN AIRPORT, REASON UNKNOWN
ISRAELI MISSILES HIT IRAN SITE, US OFFICIAL SAYS: ABC
BY TYLER DURDEN
THURSDAY, APR 18, 2024 – 06:25 PM
SUMMARY:Three large explosions heard in Isfahan south of Tehran, US officials confirm.
The Natanz nuclear facility is located in Isfahan.
Unconfirmed simultaneous explosions have also been reported in Syria and Iraq (Baghdad and Babil/Babylon province).
Iran has established a no-fly-zone over its western region.
Market reaction very strong: oil & gold soaring; TSY yields, crypto, and stocks tumbling.
And just like that, Israel – having once again ignored Biden’s pleadings not to escalate the already tense situation – is retaliating against Iran’s weekend strike, which was itself a retaliation against Israel bombing Iran’s embassy in Syria on April 1.
Some more reports:
IRANIAN MEDIA CONFIRMS AN ISRAELI ATTACK ON IRANIAN TERRITORYIRANIAN STATE MEDIA IS REPORTING THAT TONIGHT’S AIRSTRIKE BY THE ISRAEL AIR FORCE MAY HAVE TARGETED THE 8TH TACTICAL AIRBASE OF THE IRANIAN AIR FORCE, WITHIN ISFAHAN INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, WHICH CONTAINS MULTIPLE SQUADRONS OF F-14 “TOMCAT” FIGHTER AIRCRAFT.
ABC NEWS REPORTS THAT ISRAELI MISSILES HIT A SITE IN IRAN
IRAN STATE MEDIA SAYS ‘NO FLY ZONE’ ESTABLISHED OVER WESTERN REGION
IRANIAN MEDIA: 3 HUGE EXPLOSIONS WERE HEARD IN ISFAHAN, SOUTH OF TEHRAN
JERUSALEM POST: SIMULTANEOUS EXPLOSIONS REPORTED IN IRAN, SYRIA, AND IRAQ ACCORDING TO INITIAL REPORTS
IRAN’S FARS NEWS AGENCY SAYS EXPLOSIONS HEARD IN CENTRAL ISFAHAN AIRPORT, REASON UNKNOWN
ISRAELI MISSILES HIT IRAN SITE, US OFFICIAL SAYS: ABC
https://twitter.com/jacksonhinklle/status/1781146132124426269
ISRAEL has reportedly BOMBED 7 cities in IRAN.Clearly the United States (or, rather, the complex Cabal…described in detail elsewhere… that the US compliantly serves) does not want to relinquish its grip on the compliant junkyard dog (Israel) that has served it so well for so many years in dividing and preventing Islam from challenging the Cabal’s control over not just all of the region’s fabulous physical resources, but also the all important GATEWAY between East and West that the region has been throughout all of recorded history.
You can control the West without the Levant. And you can control the East without the Levant, but it is IMPOSSIBLE to control both East and West at once without simultaneously controlling that irreplaceable Gateway between East and West at the same time.
For that to happen then the Palestinians cannot be allowed a state of their own any more than they can have a real voice in the exclusively Jewish state of Israel. The US will not willingly allow them to have an actual role in either one. It would totally screw the deal.
And THAT, squeamish reader, is the simple brutal truth, and THAT is why the so-called “West” wants the Palestinians dead and gone forever. THAT is the real reason why the US is providing the weapons and money to erase Gaza and its occupants. They are an obstacle to that Grand Plan of WORLD control that requires control of that ancient and necessary nexus of transportation and CONTROL.
It’s also why China’s captive US Democrat Party is making all of those loud but ineffectual noises in ostensible (but totally non-substantial) public relations “support” for Gazans. China wants to appear to have clean hands, but they need control of that Gateway as much as anyone else, and mean to have it, eventually.
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