Debt Rattle April 23 2025
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April 23, 2025 at 9:50 am #186625
Raúl Ilargi Meijer
KeymasterEdward Hopper Sailing 1911 • Trump Makes ‘Final Offer’ To End Ukraine Conflict – Axios (RT) • Trump Signals Step Back On China Tariffs (DC) • ‘
[See the full post at: Debt Rattle April 23 2025]April 23, 2025 at 10:40 am #186627Dr D Rich
ParticipantJudge Dr D Rich here:
So, Donna Barford is saying Gaddafi got The JFK Treatment plus a cackling Hillary bayonet up the ass as an added touch, right?
The implication of Donna’s tweet appears to be a series of proscrptions. “O”
Don’t mess with the Almighty Dollar.
Don’t mess with Nurses.
Don’t mess with the CIA.
Don’t tug on Superman’s cape.
Don’t spit into the wind.
Don’t write the words Jewish, Judaism and Jew or else risk being deported upon edict of SoS Marco Rubio in his gallant, valiant defence of His Our People.
And you don’t mess around with Slim.
‘Coz 6 ways from Sunday.Napolitano and Jeff Satch can’t say ‘Jew’ but they operate with the identical certitude as D und Dbs that Israeli Influence carries the day over desires and interests of The Jewish ~48%~Billionaires. I’m equally certain nothing will ever be done about it any more than Tulsi is up to 37% release of All JFK Assassination Files. All is in there. Right there, All.
I was a ‘Judge’….once like NapNapolitano.
Am I permitted to call myself Judge-CAPT-Dr in these proceedings and all others?
Title X says Doctor or CAPTAIN and Congress said the latter into retirementApril 23, 2025 at 11:29 am #186628EoinW
ParticipantTrump will never get it. Yet I am surprised that some of Trump’s most intelligent supporters don’t see it either.
Trump’s tariff tantrum, his declaring war on everyone at once and his being KO’d by the European Globalists dumping US treasuries has destroyed the man’s credibility. It has also damaged(ended?) the US dollar’s reputation as a safe haven.
Throw in: restarting the Gaza genocide, not getting out of Ukraine, bombing Yemen and threatening war with Iran and Trump has lost most of his base. The 4D chess crowd will continue to project their wishful thinking onto Trump. Plus the MAGA rednecks(the flag waving patriots & Christian fundies) still have his back. Nevertheless, the only curiosity left to be satisfied is how Trump blows the system up.
Thus it starts to make sense why Trump was allowed to be re-elected. Meet the Fall Guy!
April 23, 2025 at 12:05 pm #186631poppie
ParticipantI am sitting on the Ivermectin announcement. Nothing found at FDA yet.
https://www.fda.gov/search?s=approved+covid
https://www.fda.gov/news-events/fda-newsroom/press-announcements
I need to hear it from FDA to rub some peoples noses in it.April 23, 2025 at 12:38 pm #186632Dr. D
ParticipantI should have pointed out in the gold charting yesterday, that any vertical should be sold, not bought. Problem being “How vertical is vertical?” You’d have to already be in it.
https://goldprice.org/charts/history/gold_20_year_o_usd_x.pngBut we have problems with the chart, try Log:
https://investinghaven.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/gold_price_chart_20_years.png.webpA cup-handle like that shouldn’t be satisfied yet. But it could be half-satisfied already, we’re not in a safe zone. Problem being: what is? Sure it’s high, but you want to buy real estate or Nvidia? How about cash dollar in a mattress? This is the problem at tops.
“South Carolina Senate Votes To Oust State Treasurer Over $1.8 Billion ErrorWhat’s a billion between friends? We’re at the point where numbers are so high, and behavior is so lax, this “Just happens.” He’s been Treasurer for 15 years, no one noticed ‘til now. …Because no one cares; that’s “Work”.
“Andrew Cuomo Referred To DOJ For Criminal ProsecutionFor which crime? Killing 5,000 grandmas doesn’t seem to have bothered anyone.
“’Building 7 Controlled Demolition?’: Republican Senator Plans Shock 9/11 Hearings, Says ‘My Eyes Have Been Opened’Spot check for reality: No one who’s ever looked could miss this. 25 years later, someone is allowed to say it.
Oh and btw, I guess the Hitler files too? Yeah, he was in Argentina. Everybody knewd. That was also in the LAST dump of files 5 years ago (with JFK). No one noticed then either, but it was a little less certain: THIS CIA file said they THOUGHT this was true, not that someone knocked and got a personal report. Still: no coverage, because: Reality. I’m so bored I no longer care. It’s just gotten to “I know things, I will never be able to communicate history openly, and that’s how life will always be.”
“4 More Democrats Travel To El Salvador To Push For Alleged Wife Beater’s Release
Never stop. Since no one bothers with facts and details, can someone tell me: I understood we merely deported him. The Prison part is bc he’s a gang member in El Sal. We are not confining him or paying for it (other than following their own law is political hay for Trump). Is this true? “We” are not involved with him being in prison?
“DOJ Announces RICO Charges Against 27 Alleged Venezuelan Gang Members
Pointing out – and quite tired of it – that this shows how viscerally and passionately Democrats despise poor people and want them all dead. Those gangs live in POOR neighborhoods. Preeeeetty sure they want the gang members gone, dealt with. Not the DNC PMCs!!! They WANT them roaming every poor (black) neighborhood killing people.
This was in BLM though milder: if you polled actual people, they wanted MORE police, just of a better quality. The police get wrecked by interacting with the system (DAs) same as the rest of us though.Now apparently next target for Karen PMC “Helpers” is to move past killing every cow, making them extinct, and killing every dog instead. They, like, eat n’ stuff. Real “Blade Runner” stuff. “Of course it’s not a real snake, you think I can afford a real snake?”
“Deficient Handbag Security: DHS Sec’y Noem’s Purse With $3K, Badge Stolen At DC Eatery
GO D.C.! Most excellent. The only city entirely run by Congress.
“The only way to restore rule of the people in America is to impeach judges, activist judges must be removed from the bench or there is no justice.”
Quite so! One question: what’s an “Activist” judge? Can you define it? Judges who do what I don’t like?
Lee Zelden: I see how she is a child. Literally. Maybe not by age but by disposition. He is an adult, by disposition if not age. And what is she thinking? She literally has no idea at all what the Truth is. Like a child. The gears aren’t turning, because there are no gears to turn. That’s WHY she will go back and write the same article, and that’s why they hired her for the job: because she DOESN’T know, can NOT comprehend the very concept of objective reality.
If you want to lean how all this works, there it is.
Just read the same thing, I was optimistic of Maher sitting with Trump, normalizing things? Nope!, they just slippery-slip around as to how that only proves Trump is a unique, special evil. Huh? Well, he’s fooling Maher, who is of course a babe in the woods who’s never seen an actor or bulls—t before. This only PROVES how uniquely evil Trump is that he sits down with a dinner, lets bygones be bygones, thinks nothing of it, doesn’t take it personally. But although he is uniquely smart and talented in his ACTING to fool poor wittle Maher, he is ALSO uniquely stupid and incompetent still. I hate to keep saying this is a female outlook, but we establish the rumor of the person, then all events are spun to substantiate it, like “he’s cheating on you”. I know! He ate carrots yesterday, and he never eats carrots. That’s a sign!
WHEN you are in such a state, HOW can one EVER, ever leave? …Well husbands have been asking themselves that for 10,000 years, so apparently it’s not very apparent.
“• Trump Makes ‘Final Offer’ To End Ukraine Conflict – Axios (RT)
Guess that Russia is playing along with this unacceptable and too generous level because he knows Ukr will reject it anyway. …Same play as the peace treaty, last summer. Last chance.
There are so many lies and diversions I can’t keep track of them all. Frankly, pretty tired of it. Anyway, everyone, Alexander, etc, all miss “Trump actually has come to believe the Neocons, that Russia is losing…” etc Whut? No. What he’s done is set the stage to LEAVE. Somebody else’s blame.
Alexander (and I feel like I have to say this all the time now) A POLITICIAN DIRECTING THE BLAME. Ring any bells? Ever seen stunning 5D chess like this before? Same as Trump-Maher. A Politician…Politicking? Trying a charm offensive to win allies? Who knew? Must be some special magic direct from Satan we’ve never seen before.
He EXPOSED all Europe, Ukraine, said so openly, on National TV, that Ze wasn’t being straight, so long as he thinks he has our back, it CAUSES the war to continue. Right there. You might have noticed, that White House thingie was in the news? The American people caught it instantly? Poll numbers proved?
Not these geniuses. They’ve outsmarted themselves entirely, as smart people do. Luckily I don’t have that problem.
When they give this INCREDIBLE, History-making deal for peace AND THEY REJECT IT, — because they must – the political reality will be clear, and history will write it.
““If it is not possible to end the war in Ukraine, we need to move on,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters last Friday.” Ding!
“• Trump Signals Step Back On China Tariffs (DC)
Walmart, not sure if it’s mine, what, but pulled out +10% of the shelves. There are containers dropped over 10% of the parking lot. This could be a local re-fit, but strikes me as Low Inventory supply, dropping sales and hoarding goods in their JIT supply chain.
“• Ukraine Will Not Recognize Russia’s Crimea – Zelensky (RT)
This is all fine, but Odessa is the point. They are trying to mass in Romania for Article 5 and launch Massive Attack on Crimea. Who? Not us, apparently, UK, France. This is “The Plan” prob going back to the 90s. If UK can keep a toe in Odessa, they will create another Ukraine there, attack Russia forever. Forever? Jesus H Christ, they’ve been attacking Crimea since 1840, yes, “Forever” the definition of “Forever” just like the dictionary says, until one of the two nations ceases to exist.
Therefore, Russia needs to push them out, own the entire coast, but this is complicated bc yes it’s a Russian city (where they burn Russians alive for fun) but also right on the border of Romania, Europe there. No buffer. Remember, they will use the Oriental General of “Time” as well as their other plans. We want a resolution, charge in, take it, get it done. What if they wait 1-3 administrations in Romania where the EU is weak, no leverage, some other Eastern Nations are also independent then? Why today?
“• EU and UK Preparing Naval Blockade of Russia – Patrushev (RT)
Uhhh, with what ships? Should count: does Russia have 2x ships of Europe combined? Even though they don’t have that many? Those would be facts: reporters don’t do that.
“• Zelensky Could Easily Rig Wartime Election – Ex-Campaign Chief (RT
Apparently not, or wouldn’t he do it?
“• Rubio Announces MAJOR State Department Overhaul (PJM)
reversing decades of bloat and bureaucracy at the State Department. These sweeping changes will empower our talented diplomats to put America and Americans first.”Imagine trying to do this. How? And they might be talented, but traitorous. I have no idea how you would do any of this in anything short of a multi-generational timescale. Oh well, too bad, here we are. Have AI read their docs and identify them.
“Their admonitions are purely performative means to curry favor with the media and the establishment at large, which are viciously opposed to Trump’s reforms.”
Gossip and innuendo. And WHY are they opposed? Who sends the Memo? What basis are they opposed on? I think I’m getting closer: the reason there’s no Memo is because there isn’t one. What they do is use LANGUAGE to express Bad Feelz. There IS no logic, there ARE no facts. There IS no argument whatsoever. You merely “Feelz” it into being. And that is a language and communication of its own, invisible. Then as above, no matter what “Fact” occurs it’s a “Bad Fact.” Bad Fact: Sit! Stay! Facts that make me FEELZ bad R Bad.
On that basis the only way to reverse it is to communicate Good Feelz. …Obviously that would not be a Republican strength. By LYING. Just Lie, every minute, every day, non-stop. Tell them all the good Feelz, “No you do not look fat in that dress, of course, what a crazy question!”
“• Woke Blackout in Tinseltown (Ryumshin)Again, what is “Woke”? So everyone was adoring Princess Leia, Sarah Connor, Ripley, etc, no one thought a thing of it. Wesley Snipes, Will Smith, every other, top movies, no comments. Beloved by “INCEL” fanbase for generations. I think you have to go back to “Woke” = “Gay Race Communism”. Well if it’s not the sex and race, what does that leave? A: The Communism. That is what they appear to be reacting to, by process of elimination. Because plots based on it are immediately retarded and make no sense.
But isn’t Next Gen the definition of Automatic Space Communism? Apparently not. Note we don’t vote who is Captain each day. You can’t requisition Riker’s quarters. That is, private property, including his title, is HIS. When they’re in a battle they don’t jump ship and betray them to the Ferengi saying “See the violence inherent in the system!” When the ship needs to be fixed, they fix it. We already know that doesn’t happen, because it doesn’t happen in any of our socialist cities and states.
“Easter Monday, the Dow is down 1,100 points (2.9%) and the Nasdaq is down 3.3%.
You’re seriously kidding, right? The reason there is no volatility is that there’s no markets. Compare, Dow at 10,000 for years. We’re probably POORER since then, 4% inflation, 2% GDP CONTRACTING in a Great Depression for 20 years. Anyway, moves in that era? 100 point days regularly. 300 point days quarterly. There’s your 3% which WAS NORMAL. I look at it, and the unbroken uptrend line and say “We’re above 30,000? What sorcery is this???” There is NO earthly reason we should be valued over 30k.
You can see “What People Want” problem, so Cullom is right: How about we’re still at 30k in 2040? The Dow was at 1k for 20 years. Then 10k for 20 years. Why not? If it just dropped, wouldn’t everyone just get rich? And also buy the dip BTFD? Yeah, no. The market does NOT exist to make the most people wealthy. The opposite in fact.
Arrest someone already, Hegseth, Trump. Hear Hear! They can figure out how to arrest thousands each day for the most ridiculous, fabricated, evidence-free crimes. Like taking out loans in NYC. But nothing for actual…anything. Millions in mass murder, open treason, sedition, top secret pass-outs, losing a billion dollars, nothing. Not a single one. TELL ME how that is POSSIBLE, even on accident? SURELY you would whack Fredo just to make it LOOK like there was some order around here. Instead, every like Laura Loomer, etc gets arrested, every Taibbi gets visited by the IRS, and ZERO anyones are arrested – even charged, ever, when there’s 12 dead hookers and a briefcase of smack in their room, filmed and distributed on national TV.
If intentional, there has never been such an air-tight Mafia in the history of the universe. You bump some guy off just to throw a bone to the cops, take his territory. Not these guys!
…Oh and how can they be? Because they stand together like glue while we stab all allies in the back. Then complain it’s “dis other race” (pick one) that’s harming us. No. WE are harming us, by not all standing together to at least get some pressure on it.
April 23, 2025 at 12:40 pm #186633Topcat
ParticipantNice to finally see someone with Musk’s public presence bring up the global declining birth/replacement rate.
It’s as if all the world’s so called “adults” are flaming retards about the consequences of world wide decline in babies.
Everyone to busy with their fabulous lifestyles to bother reproducing?
Sounds like universal depression couples with unbridled narcissism.
Not like the Olde Days
April 23, 2025 at 1:30 pm #186634Topcat
ParticipantThe war in Ukraine:
April 23, 2025 at 1:33 pm #186635Topcat
ParticipantGarcia the knuckle tattooed MS-13 banger goon sent home…..
Oh the Humanity!
April 23, 2025 at 1:53 pm #186636Topcat
ParticipantBlackrock and Vanguard buying up hundreds of trailer parks across the USSA and doubling the rents over night.
Making the already working poor homeless.
They live in trailer parks because they use to be cheap
April 23, 2025 at 2:00 pm #186637Dr D Rich
ParticipantAsking for a friend.
Since Marco del Rubio Secretary O State announced his plan on these pages to ‘downsize’ The State Department (((DOGE rules!!)), does “little” Marco’s plan include further downsizing of his already diminutive stature that Steve Witkoff, wait (((Witkoff)) eclipses increasingly day by day as the defacto or default Secretary of Business State on the international stage???
I’d think “little” Marco might just feel a little humiliated that the “little” guy just isn’t really trusted by Don’s (((Handlers))) to actually act as Secretary of State of These United States.My theory, Marco is biding time until his run for nomination against the Antichrist guy who just put down the sick Pope.
Wanna bet Witkoff already broke The Law since Steve-O (((Steve right??)) Is neither Secretary of State nor Secretary of Defense nor CIA Director.
It’s okay with Donald, although, you know, Business be the end all and be all. Ppl obsessed with money and profits. Maybe we need Alcoholic Anonymous for The Dollar DevoteesWitkoff the new Hank Kissinger, same religion too….I mean, “mostly likely”
April 23, 2025 at 2:09 pm #186638jb-hb
ParticipantApril 23, 2025 at 2:11 pm #186639Dr D Rich
ParticipantShit…
……more notJews.How does GG know? (((GG Glenn Greenwald))
GG wrote:
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Under new guidelines released by the National Institute of Health, any medical researchers will have all funds terminated if they support a boycott of Israel. They can support a boycott of any other country, or even other US states — just not Israel.
NIH nihilism aligns perfectly with Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s ((do not offend Our People)) policy of summary deportation.
Y’all genuinely believe like ((GG)) that Israel coordinates these policies and actions, right?
April 23, 2025 at 2:12 pm #186640D Benton Smith
ParticipantNapolitano and Jeff Satch can’t say ‘Jew’ but they operate with the identical certitude as D und Dbs that Israeli Influence carries the day over desires and interests of The Jewish ~48%~Billionaires.
Maybe if you took the time to actually read and understand what I write then you would not be so WRONG about what you think my “certitudes” are.
But then again, maybe not. Stupid is as stupid does.
April 23, 2025 at 2:25 pm #186641Dr D Rich
ParticipantChristian Science Monitor says, ((and I paraphrase the CSM)), “the problem with Scott Bessent is this Gothic Christian Revivalist worshiper (sp?) Drips the Gay”.
Ouch!
See for yourself.https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/bessent%203.JPG?itok=rVy_tCqf
Where Scott Bessent Boldly Backtracks:
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According to a copy of Bessent’s prepared remarks, he is set to tell the IIF that “America First does not mean America Alone,” and that the International Monetary Fund must prioritize economic and financial sustainability.
April 23, 2025 at 2:30 pm #186642Just Some Randomer
ParticipantA random thought occurred to me today – bear with me. Many people misunderstand the tale of King Canute and his failure to command the tides – the story having been corrupted over time. The reality, as I understand it, is that Canute’s actions were explicitly to demonstrate to his followers (who were getting dangerously carried away with praising and generally overstating the capabilities of his kingship) that he did not have the untrammeled power they attributed to him.
Is there any parallel, I wonder, with the actions of the great and mighty President Trump in recent days? Seems like a lot back-pedaling and climbing-down from assorted boldly stated positions has been taking place. If he had set out to make the point that the US is not the globe-bestriding indispensable nation that many economic and military warhawks in Washington believe it to be, it’s hard to think of a better way to demonstrate the errors in their thinking.
A President who genuinely believes that the US needs to pull back from the excesses of its unipolar moment, close down some of those hundreds of overseas bases, become more self-reliant and autarkic and generally stop pouring the blood and treasure of the nation into a vain project to control the world and everything in it, could hardly construct a clearer demonstration, via the impact on Wall St, and specifically the USD and Treasuries, of what happens when the mark is overstepped.
As I say – just a random thought.
April 23, 2025 at 2:37 pm #186643zerosum
ParticipantWhat’s next?
Who has control?
What needs to be controlled?
Recognition and Acknowledgement.
Recognizing the “reality on the ground”
———–“I think we’re going to live together very happily and ideally work together.” – Trump
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“A lot of fakes are being published now, including by respected publications..”• ‘Only Trust Primary Sources’ On US-Russia Talks – Kremlin (RT)
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• Tesla Shares Pop 5% After Musk Says He’ll Limit Time With DOGE In May (ZH)—————
• Rubio Announces MAJOR State Department Overhaul (PJM)So what exactly does a “comprehensive reorganization” of the State Department look like?
According to The Free Press, which Rubio says has the “real exclusive,” — by the way, how do we get one of those exclusives here at PJ Media? — internal documents show that the Department “will close 132 agency offices, including those launched to further human rights, advance democracy overseas, counter extremism, and prevent war crimes.” That’s a 17% reduction to start.
Additionally, “under secretaries at the State Department are also being instructed within 30 days to present plans to reduce their U.S. personnel in individual departments by 15 percent,” including “six top offices employing thousands of people.”
https://x.com/gekaminsky/status/1914678213814444428/photo/1
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What’s next?
“..the total collapse which is about to happen, is not “Trump’s fault”. He just happened to be the right person to execute the inevitable downfall of a major monetary era.”• The Big Short and The Bigger Long (Egon von Greyerz)
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What’s next?
The FDA has now endorsed treating COVID with Ivermectin!Content current as of:
04/05/2024
https://www.fda.gov/consumers/consumer-updates/ivermectin-and-covid-19
Ivermectin and COVID-19Current CDC guidance
https://www.cdc.gov/respiratory-viruses/guidance/?CDC_AAref_Val=https://www.cdc.gov/respiratory-viruses/guidance/respiratory-virus-guidance.html———-
April 23, 2025 at 2:44 pm #186644phoenixvoice
ParticipantEvidence isn’t worth reporting on until it has been adjudicated in a court of law to be valid? Wow, that’s a pretty high bar. No jury would ever have to be sequestered. Newspapers would be much shorter. And — wait a minute — then why was “the Russia collusion hoax” ever reported? Or Jan 6 events reported prior to individual trials?
Oh, wait, it is inconvenient evidence that does not happen to well-support the news organization’s bias that isn’t reported unless adjudicated by a court. And maybe not even then, if it can be avoided and swept under the rug.
I was on my high school’s newspaper staff. I received some education specifically geared towards teaching students how to write various types of newspaper articles. I find myself scratching my head trying to figure out what happened to journalism education in the past 30 years.
April 23, 2025 at 2:55 pm #186645jb-hb
ParticipantNo, Hollywood isn’t out of USAID, Soros, and Blackrock money yet
Upcoming on Netflix – a Harry Potter series with a black Snape. Hoorah! By inserting a character of african origin into a medieval European fairy tale environment, we have finally – finally! defeated the racism! (When we had Morgan Freeman in a blockbuster Robin Hood movie in the 80’s it did NOT end racism then because…. er… not, uh…. not black enough??? Wait, what?)
Next Disney Marvel movie is Fantastic Four, which is showing all the hallmarks of woke garbage. Including awful nonsensical ugliness.
…this is ugly on more than one count. They are STILL doing the “wearing the mantle of _____”
A character is a particular person. Not a skinsuit. It’s been awful, ugly, evil skinsuiting for the past 10 years – Ghostbusters 2016 being the first Fort Sumpter shot after awhile of Kansas bleeding.
It’s even more offensive to have this massively ugly “Silver Surfer” that looks like it is probably trans, because the Silver Surfer was created when Galactus, eater of worlds, took the particular wishes, daydreams, of one particular guy, and granted them to him in exchange for him becoming a Herald Of Galactus.
So not only is the character, as always, a unique identity, but his superhero identity was created out of a character’s particular unique private daydreams and wishes. It was HIS inner psyche, not Galactus’ ideas, that made this particular superhero.
WTF did Galactus do with this trans person, just cut-paste someone else’s private daydreams onto them? Yeah, that’ll do. New batwoman created by the batsuit falling out of the sky onto her.
Socialists cannot CONCEIVE of making something new that is good themselves. Some sort of mental retardation that only sees the world like a Homo Erectus wandering the savannah – I come across things, I take them. Things are just sitting there existing when I come across them.
Silver Surfer had a pretty interesting role in the whole Infinity Gauntlet storyline – naw, nevermind, leave him out. And the millions of people living in a city inside one of the gems. Whatevs.
But keep jamming Silver Surfer – a character created for more space-based, otherworldly, cosmic environments and god-level storylines – into Fantastic Four because…. I don’t know the fuck why, actually.
Snow White and “captain (anti) america” 4 bombed so hard, were so obviously awful, there were at least 4 or 5 times in the run-up to release where I was convinced they had already been released and failed. New updates on how even MORE awful they were going to be – wait, no, how can this be? Like they delayed release knowing they were awful just so you could hear ABOUT them being awful for an extended time, a year or two extra, because they knew they would fizzle and be not-news once released????
why the fuck do the graphics from 2007 look so much better than those from 2025? Is it because the new “artists” were chosen for immutable characteristics and political-religious beliefs?
April 23, 2025 at 3:18 pm #186646D Benton Smith
ParticipantDr D Rich displays certain characteristics that remind me of my father (which is a seriously sincere complement, by the way). Dad went by the name G.W. and to listen to him talk you would just have to conclude that he was a straight up, unapologetic racist, and proud of it. He didn’t like Jews, Niggers or Catholics , in that order, and was unreservedly outspoken about all three prejudices.
In real life, however, his wife of 50 years was a church going total Catholic of Irish Catholic lineage (and raised us kids accordingly), and one of his best friends for the last 20 years of his life was this little Professor of Fine Art named Will Barnett who was as Jewish as lox and bagels (complete with the accent). Growing up I never observed him around black people, but I expected the worst because he never used “n” word. No, man. He used the nigger word, loud and clear. Then when I was about 21 Dad and I worked together in the boondocks of Brazil where a third of the people were straight out of Africa and damn if it wasn’t the same story. I learned that one of his drinking buddies was this lady named Johana who was as old as the hills, black as tar, tough as boot leather, and hilariously funny because she would just say whatever truth was on her mind.
I other words, G.W. Smith had two completely different sets of “prejudices”. One for public consumption and one for what he actually believed. I bet Dr D Rich is just like him.
I’m still going to call him out when he talks trash, though.
April 23, 2025 at 3:19 pm #186647those darned kids
Participanti haven’t seen a movie in sixteen years.
one of the best decisions of my life.
yep, i know there are excellent movies – i’ve seen many.
great decision.
April 23, 2025 at 3:52 pm #186648jb-hb
Participant…and I hesitated to mention it. But I may as well explain that however bad you think it is, it is worse.
One additional thing about this new Disney Marvel “fantastic four” that is coming up — which they are spending hundreds of millions of dollars, employing thousands of people to create.
Now, I’ve got nothing against degeneracy per se. I just object to the idea that it could be an acceptable substitute for having an actual personality. Or that language and human society should be totally re-arranged to accommodate and “center” it. Degeneracy should serve humanity, not vice-versa.
I strongly, strongly encourage anyone and everyone NOT to actually check this out for themselves, but I’ll just mention, so it is clear how entrenched degeneracy IS in hollywood and how this gives evidence that things are not turning around.
There are websites with names like deviantart and rule34 (please don’t check) On these websites, there is a sub-sub category with keywords like “feminized male” etc (again, do not bother looking) with a particular look to the artwork – take a tween to teen aged male figure. Certainly underage. Give that figure a weirdly flat yet female-ish chest, give the suggestion of female lower half structure. Now place them in various weird highly sexualized (porn type, obviously) situations. Weird on a number of counts, yes?
The “female silver surfer”… If you gave AI a bunch of examples and told it to “make it more silvery” this would be it. Or as close as they dare to take it. The general public will be unfamiliar, therefore will just respond to it as “bad art”
YES it is “only entertainment” – it’s just being produced on the budget of some countries, employing the work and industry of an entire city for years on end. Again, I don’t condemn degeneracy per se, but what’s with the obsession, the fetish, of sneakily jamming one’s peculiar niche-of-a-niche turn-ons into everyday life?
On a $350 million budget?!?!?? Do you realize how much porn on what quality tailored to your own consumption tastes you could have created for yourself on a 350 million budget?!?!? It matters that much to you to get schoolchildren and housewives to unwittingly look at a close-as-possible to naked image of “twink” with the slider moved a bit more towards female? This is the best use of everyone’s resources, is it? Can’t you look at weird niche porn, shoot up heroin, whatever, in the privacy of a room by yourself (without requiring the involvement of disinterested parties) like a decent person?
April 23, 2025 at 4:32 pm #186649Michael Reid
ParticipantApril 23, 2025 at 4:35 pm #186650April 23, 2025 at 4:54 pm #186651jb-hb
ParticipantApril 23, 2025 at 5:18 pm #186663Michael Reid
ParticipantApril 23, 2025 at 5:24 pm #186664zerosum
ParticipantWhat’s next?
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/23/ukraine-peace-talks-resume-in-london
Ukraine talks downgraded in London as Kyiv rejects Trump’s ‘final offer’April 23, 2025 at 6:14 pm #186665zerosum
ParticipantCheck out this report of what’s next.
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2025/04/setback-for-us-ceasefire-deal-in-ukraine.html#more
April 23, 2025
Setback For U.S. ‘Ceasefire’ Deal In UkraineApril 23, 2025 at 6:17 pm #186666Michael Reid
ParticipantApril 23, 2025 at 9:41 pm #186667aspnaz
ParticipantD Benton Smith said
I other words, G.W. Smith had two completely different sets of “prejudices”. One for public consumption and one for what he actually believed. I bet Dr D Rich is just like him.
Smearing Dr D Rich’s name with your own pretend father’s faults; so Christian, such insincere projection. You used to be such a bad sinner until you found Jewsus? And it is kikes, niggers and catholics.
April 23, 2025 at 9:48 pm #186668aspnaz
Participantjb-hb said
No, Hollywood isn’t out of USAID, Soros, and Blackrock money yet
Upcoming on Netflix – a Harry Potter series with a black Snape.
I like my super heroes white, and my super villains whiter. Everything else is bullshit. Long live the 70’s bond movies. I wouldn’t have said that in the past, but having seen black faux “superheroes”, I realise that it is a white genre, it is cultural appropriation for black people to play such roles. Of course, the people who finance these movies are not from the culture of the superheroes, they are from the genocide culture.
April 23, 2025 at 9:56 pm #186669aspnaz
ParticipantZelensky is controlled by the US government – they put him in that position. Zelensky is pretending to negotiate in order to distract people while Ukraine is sold off to ((them)) at pennies on the dollar. Looks like we finally can see why the USA sent so much money over to Ukraine; so that the USA billionaires could get even richer. Some of us were saying this from day one, that it was another USA theft operation; well, yet more proof is now available; the Ukraine population has zero control over this theft.
April 23, 2025 at 10:06 pm #186674D Benton Smith
ParticipantWow. Who the Hell are you, aspnaz #4 or something? I liked the last guy way better. You come in slingin’ insults like a Woke SkinHead Hybrid. Cool yer jets, Boyo! Plenty of time to rile me up later. What’s the rush? Is your boss all over your ass to show quick results?
Sorry. I know that’s too many questions for your tiny brain to process all at once. Let’s start over. So, which of your manifold insults do you want to pursue first?
April 23, 2025 at 10:21 pm #186675Dr D Rich
ParticipantHe looked in the mirror and found the reflection disgusting, but not confusing.
April 23, 2025 at 10:43 pm #186676John Day
ParticipantAspnaz-II is back from vacation.
April 23, 2025 at 10:45 pm #186677John Day
ParticipantWorld Without Rules https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/world-without-rules
Alex Krainer, Is Trump actually taking on the bankers?
Trump’s agenda is next to impossible to discern; but viewed from 36,000 ft and 200-year context suggests that there may be a method to the madness.
Today we are witnessing a scramble for Ukraine’s resources, which I covered in an earlier report. Presumably, these are coveted by Western banking interests for similar ends, except that since Trump’s inauguration this scramble seems to be at the center of a growing hostility between the United States and her European “allies,” led by Great Britain. These struggles are happening behind the scenes so they are difficult to discern from media reports and the pronouncements and speeches by public leaders.
However, something odd clearly is going on and the result is that the US is drifting away from its postwar alliances and closer to Russia. This could have a massive impact on both US and European economies, but we’ll be obliged to interpret events by reading between the lines…
..I suspect that Trump’s ultimate agenda could be aimed at returning the United States to Alexander Hamilton’s American System of political economy and away from the British free trade system. The difference is that the American System allocates credit for industrialization and productive ends while the British free trade system credits nonproductive uses aimed at inflating, then bursting asset bubbles. Abraham Lincoln’s chief economic advisor Henry C. Carey contrasted the two systems in his 1851 work, “The Harmony of Interests”…
..The American System turned the United States from a patchwork of disjointed British colonies into the world’s most prosperous and most powerful nation. It is possible that in his effort to “Make America Great Again,” Trump wants to return it to that system. However, he obviously can’t come out and state this openly: all eight U.S. presidents who have either been assassinated or “mysteriously died” in office were promoters of Hamilton’s American System. Those presidents were William Henry Harrison (9th, 1841), Zachary Taylor (12th, 1850), Abraham Lincoln (16th, 1865), James Garfield (20th, 1881), William McKinley (25th, 1901), Warren G. Harding (29th, 1923), Franklin D. Roosevelt (32nd, 1945), and John F. Kennedy (35th, 1963).
I know, someone will object: nowaitjustaminute, FDR died of polio, everyone knows that! Sure, but that might have been fake news. In his memoirs, FDR’s son Elliott Roosevelt revealed what he learned when he met with Joseph Stalin in 1946…[Stalin emphatically stated his belief that “Churchill’s gang” had poisoned FDR.] …
..Whatever the case, there have already been two assassination attempts at Trump and understandably, his administration must tread carefully, or advance their agenda in an utterly unpredictable fashion… That’s not positive for the economy, but hopefully… the uncertainty will subside as rapidly as it has exploded, and in the not too distant future we’ll know much more about the future trajectory of global developments. https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/is-trump-actually-taking-on-the-bankers Michael Hudson, Trump’s Tariffs Hurt the US Much More Than China
Trump said, “Well, let’s see, under tariff protection, in the late 19th century, that’s how the United States rose to be a great industrial power. So somehow, tariffs must have nurtured industry. And I want to bring industrialization back to the United States, to make America great again. And I can say tariffs are going to bring back industry”.
And what he means is, un-taxing the wealthy people, especially the finance and real estate sector, and shifting the tax on the consumers is going to make the country great again.
Well, what he’s leaving out is the fact that it wasn’t tariffs as such that made America into an industrial power. What there was a whole large program that was necessary to industrialize America.
All of this was spelled out in the 1820s by Henry Clay, and it was called the American System. And the American System was protective tariffs, with “internal improvements” — that means public investment in infrastructure — and a national banking system to finance industry.
Well, Trump said nothing about these, so it’s worth saying something about them.
By the late 19th century, the United States, said, “How are we going to lower the cost that industry has to pay for its wages, without leading to a huge round of strikes?”
The solution was we can have the public sector pick up many of the costs that labor would otherwise have to pay out of its own paychecks… ..“Socialism” was not a bad word in the late 19th century. Almost everyone across the political spectrum was describing their policies as socialist. There were Christian socialists, and libertarian socialists, and Marxian socialists, and social democracy. Everybody was one kind of socialist for another.
That meant a rising role of government in providing more and more services, or regulating the economy, such as the anti-trust law of 1890, to prevent monopoly pricing, and Teddy Roosevelt’s, trust-busting.
The whole idea was to minimize the cost of production with an act of a government. And they said that, well, if we can have a mixed economy, a public and private economy together, with the government sponsoring industrial credit — not the kind of British credit that was just for trade, or exploitative, or loans to the farmers — but actually to finance capital investment in industry, then we can take off.
It was this context for protective tariffs that enabled the United States to get rich.
Well, what Trump wants to do is the exact opposite of this context. He wants to deregulate the economy, not regulate it. He wants to privatize any public domain that’s left, any public enterprises.
The post office, for instance, can be privatized. It’s going to cut back services to rural areas. It’s going to increase prices...
..So, this is what is really in store for the US: cut, essentially privatize, the government; especially get rid of Social Security, and other social programs, Medicare.
They call it streamlining the economy or making a “free market”, a market without government that interferes by protecting consumers, protecting the population against predatory monopolies and predatory finance…
..China has sort of reinvented the wheel. One of the first books of mine that they translated as a textbook into Chinese was my book on trade, development, and foreign debt, when I described the contrast between free trade and protectionism, and how the United States developed a protectionist argument to counter the free-trade arguments of England, in order to protect industry.
So, China has essentially done the same logical thing that any government would have to do. You have to subsidize your own industry and protect it, insulate it, from lower-cost imports underselling you.
You have to enable industry, if not really to make a profit, to at least make enough money to somehow be able to pay its labor force, and to pay for the raw materials and the machinery that it takes to create industrial production.
The one thing that China has done that other countries did not do — although Germany began to do it in the 19th century — was to keep money and credit as a public utility...
..So China has been able to create money to spend into the economy for purposes intended to serve the public interest, to build housing, to finance high-speed railways, to finance all of the public infrastructure that China has kept in the public domain, to offer at low, subsidized prices to the population at large.
So if you have a private enterprise in China, creating a factory to produce goods for exports to the United States or other countries, they don’t have to pay the workers enough to have to pay for privatized transportation; they have wonderful public transportation, in the subways and railroads.
They they don’t have to take out student loans to get an education; they can get the education from the public sector in China. They can get health care.
They don’t have to pay for all of the things that the United States’ employees and employers have to pay for. That’s what enables China to have low-cost labor...
..With each country, he’s going to treat individually, that they give America something. But the common denominator in all of his demands is that they impose trade sanctions against commerce with China, and against mutual investment with China, and especially any plans they may have to join its Belt and Road Initiative in favor of US plans to interrupt the whole connection system of Belt and Road that China wants to put in place…
..I think the whole mentality of US diplomats is punitive. That’s the only thing they have today. They have little to offer the other country.
They can’t do what President Xi does and say, here’s a win-win situation; we’ll develop our trade with each other, and we’ll both gain from this, from our mutual interdependency that’ll create an efficient, regional trading system.
But the United States doesn’t have that. All it can do is disrupt the trading system. And they can disrupt it for a few months; maybe it’ll take a year. It takes time to replace new means of production, to replace trade, imports and exports, with the United States.
But you can imagine that European countries, Asian, African countries, Latin American countries, are all spending these next three months thinking, how are we going to create a world after August, that is going to enable us to keep on producing what we’re producing and importing what we’re importing, but not from the United States.
They’re all trying to think of realignment. And the United States says, well, this is going to disrupt your economy for a year or so; and the other countries will make a calculation and they’ll say, yes, it’s going to disrupt our economy for a year or so, but then for the next decade or century, we won’t have to deal with US threats anymore…
..So you have two different views of what an alternative world trade system would look like. And of course, this alternative is what everybody expected to be created after World War One.
That was the promise of mutual gain that mutual trade was going to integrate countries, and provide gains from trade, for peaceful, friendly international relations. It hasn’t turned out that way... ..And it goes even further than that. Trump also has said he’s going to punish other countries that try to find an alternative to the dollar. And yet today’s Wall Street Journal [on April 18] had a whole editorial: Trump is now trying to prevent other countries from keeping their international reserves in dollars.
He’s forcing other countries to sell off their dollars by imposing a tax on other countries’ holding of Treasury securities. If you’re a foreign central bank and you’ve done what you’ve done since 1971, when Nixon went off gold, and you kept your foreign exchange reserves in the form of US dollars, in the form of US Treasury securities, or government agency securities, or other US holdings, then all of a sudden you’re going to have to pay a tax on them, and this tax is going to mean that you’re losing money... ..So, other countries are essentially being driven out of the dollar, at the same time that Trump says, don’t join together and create a non-dollar area… ..Trump believes that if you lower the exchange rate of the dollar, that will make American exports more competitive. And of course, it would, if America had something to export.
But how can you make industrial exports more competitive, at a lower price — which lowers the cost of labor, lowers the cost of America — if you don’t have factories to produce these exports? That’s the crazy thing about all this!
How can you increase export competitiveness of industry, if you don’t have an industry?
The United States, ever since, really, Clinton in the 1990s, has offshored American industry — to Asia, to China and other countries — how on Earth can it be competitive?
Basically neoliberalism has undercut the ability of the United States to be competitive in the way that, it and European countries, and now China, had become competitive as a mixed economy.
The essence of neoliberalism is to carve up and privatize governments, basically on credit, borrowing the money to buy things... ..This has gone on for 2500 years. The lead for democracy in Greece occurred already in the 6th, 7th, and 8th centuries BC, when the local mafia-like oligarchies were overthrown by populist leaders who were called “tyrants”.
The Roman oligarchy accused reformers of seeking kingship. The Greek oligarchy called any reformers wanting democracy as being tyrants. And the Americans call any reformers as being socialists — as if socialist today is the same term as seeking kingship to control ambition, being tyrants.
The narrative of history has been turned inside out. And they treat all of these as bad words, not as the ideal that it was during the whole reform movement, in the 19th century. https://scheerpost.com/2025/04/22/trumps-tariffs-hurt-the-us-much-more-than-china-economist-michael-hudson-explains/ But what’s he really mean? Bessent Calls For ‘Reforms’ Among ‘Bretton Woods Institutions’ To Rein In Global Trade Imbalances
According to a copy of Bessent’s prepared remarks, he is set to tell the IIF that “America First does not mean America Alone,” and that the International Monetary Fund must prioritize economic and financial sustainability. He is calling for IMF and World Bank reforms after “mission creep,” i.e. non-economic goals such as climate change and social justice, but that the Trump administration wants to work with them...
..Bessent – who blamed persistent U.S. trade deficits on foreign policy decisions that promote excess saving and low wages abroad, added that “The architects of Bretton Woods recognized that a global economy required global coordination,” and called for “key reforms to ensure the Bretton Woods institutions are serving their stakeholders—not the other way around.”
He also encouraged “security-aligned trade,” suggesting that U.S. security partnerships should influence economic alignment – a strategic counter to China’s Belt and Road. https://www.zerohedge.com/political/watch-live-bessent-discuses-tariffs-global-financial-systemApril 23, 2025 at 10:46 pm #186678John Day
ParticipantIsrael bans protesters from carrying images of Gaza’s dead children
An Israeli police document states that demonstrators cannot display signs or posters that contain the word ‘genocide’ or display ‘hostage signs’. https://www.newarab.com/news/israel-bans-images-gazas-dead-children-anti-war-protests Children in Gaza suffer ‘huge fatality rate,’ amputations
Since Israel resumed its bombardment of Gaza on March 18, children have been struggling to survive in increasingly dire conditions. https://www.dw.com/en/children-in-gaza-suffer-huge-fatality-rate-amputations/video-72273048 Israeli police ban photos of Palestinian children killed in Gaza at anti-war protest, then backtrack
Protest organizer says police rescinded demand after facing public pressure https://www.yenisafak.com/en/world/israeli-police-ban-photos-of-palestinian-children-killed-in-gaza-at-anti-war-protest-then-backtrack-3701205 An excerpt from her documentary: Cannes Selects Film on Gaza Photographer Fatma Hassona; A Day Later, She’s Killed in Israeli Strike
Hassona had joyfully accepted the invitation to Cannes but had emphasized her desire to return to Gaza and remain on her family’s land. https://scheerpost.com/2025/04/19/cannes-selects-film-on-gaza-photographer-fatma-hassona-a-day-later-shes-killed-in-israeli-strike/Gaza patients risk death as medicine shortages worsen under ongoing crossings closure https://www.yenisafak.com/en/news/gaza-patients-risk-death-as-medicine-shortages-worsen-under-ongoing-crossings-closure-3701259
April 23, 2025 at 10:47 pm #186679John Day
Participant‘Worst humanitarian situation’ in Gaza as aid blockade passes 50-day mark, says UN https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/worst-humanitarian-situation-in-gaza-as-aid-blockade-passes-50-day-mark-says-un/3545064
Israeli army stopped designating Gaza ‘safe zones’ after restart of genocide
Nearly 2,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israel in one month, as Gaza remains besieged and deprived of humanitarian aid https://thecradle.co/articles-id/30241Gazans repair water tanks punctured by Israel’s shells https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250422-gazans-repair-water-tanks-punctured-by-israels-shells/
Israeli Strikes Kill 14 in Gaza and Destroy Heavy Equipment Needed to Clear Rubble https://english.aawsat.com/arab-world/5135070-israeli-strikes-kill-14-gaza-and-destroy-heavy-equipment-needed-clear-rubble%C2%A0
Drone combat bulldozers: Israel Deploying Unmanned Bulldozers in Gaza https://libertarianinstitute.org/news/israel-deploying-unmanned-bulldozers-in-gaza/
April 23, 2025 at 10:48 pm #186680John Day
Participant From December 12, 2023, NEW EVIDENCE THAT ISRAEL IS USING A NEW URANIUM WEAPON – MAKE THAT THE NEUTRON BOMB
Since 2003 measurements made by Green Audit in Fallujah, Iraq 2003, Lebanon 2006 and Gaza 2008 have provided unequivocal evidence of Uranium residues which show anomalous Uranium U-238/U235 isotope signature ratios. Results from independent laboratories in Europe and the UK, using different techniques, revealed the presence of enriched Uranium in biological materials and environmental samples including soil, bomb craters and air (as recorded in vehicle air filter dust). More recently, 2021 results published in the journal Nature, show that Uranium enrichment levels in background samples from Gaza have been increasing markedly since 2008. Since enriched Uranium is an anthropogenic substance which does not exist in nature, the question arises as to the source, in the weapons employed by the USA (Fallujah) and Israel (Lebanon, Gaza). It is proposed that the only logical answer is that a Uranium-based weapon exists that produces U-235 by neutron activation and has been deployed. Such a weapon must be some kind of neutron bomb. https://johnhelmer.net/new-evidence-that-israel-is-using-a-new-uranium-weapon-make-that-the-neutron-bomb/#more-89018 Dennis Kucinich, War Dust and Collateral Inhalation: Israel Breathes in Gaza’s Dust: A Forensic Study of the Self-Inflicted Consequences of Modern Warfare https://kucinichreport.substack.com/p/war-dust-and-collateral-inhalation
Israeli army needs additional $2.6 billion to expand Gaza war: Report
Israel has spent 250 billion shekels ($67.57 billion) in 2024 for its military onslaught on Gaza, figures show https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/israeli-army-needs-additional-26-billion-to-expand-gaza-war-report/3545580 Not getting out: Pentagon to ‘relocate’ hundreds of troops to two new bases in Syria: Report
Washington announced plans last week to slash its illegal occupation of Syrian territory by at least half and has redeployed strategic assets to Kurdish-controlled areas https://thecradle.co/articles/pentagon-to-relocate-hundreds-of-troops-to-two-new-bases-in-syria-reportChinese HQ-9B Long Range Air Defence Systems Now Guard Egyptian Skies https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/chinese-hq9b-guard-egyptian-skies
April 23, 2025 at 10:48 pm #186681John Day
Participant Baby Thermobaric Bombs: China’s non-nuclear hydrogen bomb generates fireball to burn targets at 1800°F: Report
The new weapon could be used for area denial or destruction of targets like swarms of drones. https://interestingengineering.com/military/china-non-nuclear-hydrogen-bomb-testedTrump Signals Step Back On China Tariffs, Says They’ll ‘Come Down Substantially’ https://dailycallernewsfoundation.org/2025/04/22/trump-signals-step-back-on-china-tariffs-says-theyll-come-down-substantially/
Stocks Slide After Bessent Confirms “No Unilateral Offer” From Trump To Cut China Tariffs https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/stocks-spike-session-highs-wsj-report-white-house-looking-slash-china-tariffs
Ukraine Not Ready to Discuss US Peace Plan Proposal – Reports https://sputnikglobe.com/20250423/ukraine-not-ready-to-discuss-us-peace-plan-proposal—reports-1121914458.html
High-Level Ukraine Peace Talks Scrapped After Rubio, Witkoff Pull Out Last Minute https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/high-profile-ukraine-peace-talks-scrapped-after-rubio-witkoff-pull-out-last-minute
April 23, 2025 at 10:49 pm #186682John Day
Participant Round Two! Trump Slams Zelensky For Rejecting Crimea Proposal For Peace
President Trump has slammed President Zelensky in a Wednesday post on Truth Social, saying of the Ukrainian leader, “if he wants Crimea, why didn’t they fight for it eleven years ago when it was handed over to Russia without a shot being fired”… and “He can have Peace or, he can fight for another three years before losing the whole Country.” https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/round-two-trump-excoriates-zelensky-rejecting-crimea-proposal-peace Gilbert Doctorow, ‘Judging Freedom’ edition of 23 April: Are Ukraine/Russia Peace Talks Fruitless?
There is the new savvy Kremlin use of Public Relations to influence Washington’s handling of the negotiations. This began with Vladimir Putin’s announcement of a 30-hour Easter cease-fire which caught Zelensky off guard and exposed his reluctance to do anything constructive to lower the violence and enter into negotiations for a peace. Then a day ago there was the cleverly leaked news that Putin is prepared to halt the Russian advance, freeze the border at the present line of engagement in Donbas and not insist on full takeover of the 4 oblasts that were annexed by Russia but are only partly occupied by Russia today. This major concession put pressure on Kiev to respond in kind, as The Financial Times noted in its large front-page report on the subject yesterday evening. But instead of also offering to retreat from his maximalist position, Zelensky responded with a firm refusal to give up claims to Crimea. This intransigence surely is what prompted US Secretary of State Marco Rubio to decide against participating in the ‘peace talks’ between the UK, France and Ukraine in London today. I believe it is the first clear sign of an eventual Trump abandonment of its peace initiative, washing his hands of the whole affair and letting Ukraine and its Western backers sink to defeat while the USA proceeds with its reengagement with Russia. https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2025/04/23/judging-freedom-edition-of-23-april-are-ukraine-russia-peace-talks-fruitless/ Officially skirting the issue of what Putin may have said in private: ‘Only trust primary sources’ on US-Russia talks – Kremlin
‘A lot of fake news’ is being published on the subject, even by respectable outlets, Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov has said https://swentr.site/russia/616126-only-trust-firsthand-sources-on/ Alastair Crooke, “Without a war with Russia, Europe will fall apart”
He added that the only thing that European officials can do today in an attempt to turn the entire world against Russia is to shout that Russia “poses a threat.”
According to the former MI6 employee, the only way for Europe to maintain unity is a direct military conflict with Russia. At the same time, he notes that in reality the coalition of Russia’s opponents includes only three countries – Great Britain, France and Denmark.
We are talking about a European deep state that cooperates with the American one. They have a common goal – to thwart Trump. The main goal is to thwart any normalization of relations with Russia. https://en.topcor.ru/59022-bez-vojny-s-rf-evropa-razvalitsja.html Simplicius, Ukraine Begs 30% of Bundeswehr Stock to Survive
Now as of this writing the Telegraph has reported another kind of ‘leaked’ Trump plan for the cessation of hostilities, which boils down to the same old frosted Kelloggs concoction:
– (Immediate) Ceasefire now
– DIRECT Ukraine-Russia talks
– Kiev DROPS NATO ambitions
– Crimea recognized as RUSSIA
– Ukraine signs mineral deal
– US lifts ALL anti-Russia SANCTIONS
– US-Russia ENERGY cooperation
Specifically, it states that all Russian sanctions would be lifted—at least by the US—and a new era of US-Russian cooperation on energy would begin; i.e. “making a FORTUNE!” as per Trump’s earlier ejaculation. https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/sitrep-42225-ukraine-begs-30-of-bundeswehr -
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