Debt Rattle August 13 2025

 

Home Forums The Automatic Earth Forum Debt Rattle August 13 2025

Viewing 40 posts - 1 through 40 (of 47 total)
  • Author
    Posts
  • #193816

    Joseph Mallord William Turner The Fifth Plague of Egypt 1800   • Trump and Putin To Meet In Anchorage – White House (RT) • White House Teases Tru
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle August 13 2025]

    #193817
    Germ
    Participant

    The fittest among us.
    Another one bites the dust …

    Runner collapses and dies after race in front of partner

    https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/runner-collapses-dies-after-race-35672075

    TVASSF – sub-clinical asymptomatic myocarditis. Tick … tock …

    #193818
    Red
    Participant

    Zerosum from yesterday:”I can read. I prefer to read. I do not like having someone read to me, ( a video).”

    With you there.

    #193819
    zerosum
    Participant

    Listen on 15 August.
    Accept reality. Acknowledge. Admit.

    Overcome the refusal to communicate
    A militarily pointless war provoked by a failed Western strategy of using Ukraine to take Russia
    The Ukrainians have lost the war.
    Russia has won this war.
    Peace.
    Stop the killing.
    ———–

    #193820
    Red
    Participant

    “A terrifying trend is unfolding: Prostate cancer in men as young as 40-50. Colon cancer in children aged 10-12. Explosive, treatment-resistant “turbo cancers” appearing at rates never before seen in medical history.”

    Play the games of the stupid win stupid prizes.

    #193821
    Dr. D
    Participant

    “Yikes: DEI D.C. Police Chief Doesn’t Know What The Term “Chain Of Command” Means

    wow. Breathtaking.

    “Democrats Go Into Meltdown Mode As Trump Launches Washington DC Takeover

    Newsflash: Donald Trump uses long-existing law! And executes his office completely legally! What a fascist!

    “Democrat Whistleblower Says “Unethical” Schiff Leaked Classified Info In “Treasonous” Russiagate Plot

    About f’n time. Don’t blow me with that mortgage fraud stuff.

    “Ether ETFs See Record $1 Billion Inflows As ETH Flashes Bull Signals

    Headed to $4T in crypto. No price increase, as usual. (See gold)

    “Western Europe Wants War In Ukraine To Continue, Even Without The Americans

    Yay, now you can die, as you should, instead of US!

    “Militarizing your own capital is a confession of weakness. And once you’ve crossed that Rubicon, there is no turning back without a political reset.”

    Yes. The question for any political action is: would I want my political enemies to do it? Okay then, WHAT is you resolution? I think we’ve tried NOT doing that for 25 years. No go. D.C. is also ALREADY Federal. Always has been. Nothing’s changing, essentially, except the President is running a few square miles instead of Congress running it. I agree but Don’t overreact.

    The solution – to me – is YOU need to behave yourself. YOU need to WANT that. YOU need to enforce laws, mores, culture. YOU. Constant “Niagara Falls” of THEM. YOU have a neighborhood, a city, where everyone acts like it’s 1952 and it sure is hard to abduct your kids isn’t it? I’m not saying there aren’t problems or a corrupt top isn’t an enormous challenge, but this is a YOU thing. You need to have God and the Law in your HEARTS.

    And this is exactly why the White Hat plan is merely EXPOSING it all, so we can decide. If we decide we WANT corruption, in our cities, in our hearts, well…that’s that. That’s the end, it’s a Democracy. We tried, the American experiment failed. But to stay true to our principles and that experiment, we must let them. But on our side we can still follow the correct legal and moral rules and draw attention to it. And we have.

    Is it working? Epstein was hidden for more than 30 years. It’s now front page daily, with international demand. Everyone I knew said it wasn’t real; now those MOST denying it, are those MOST wanting the files out. (Ultra-Blue radicals) “Everyone knows” there is corruption now, same corruption I’ve pointed at since JFK or I dunno, the Air America and the Sandanistas. I couldn’t get anyone to even SUPPOSE corruption before, so how do you fix it? It all hinged on compartmentalization and secrecy.

    Everyone was down on the Fed, the US$, the Empire, and having no way to get back to free and fair money. Now the 1913 tax structure is going, the Fed is going, Alt money is available, the Empire is crumbling, and the US$ is being re-founded with something real under it. Instead of collapsing all, re-versing all, each step, back into it’s previous and working iteration.

    And you’re all MORE unhappy than ever, not less. What gives?

    John Helmer is an idiot. This interview was very hard to take. Every possible, “I’m smarter than, ackshully” with “I know Trump’s intent perfectly” “I had a mind-meld to his emotional state” so that he knows EVERY piece of information, with perfect clarity, in Donald Trump’s mind. Can Donald recite the recipe for cookies? Helmer knows exactly that he does, but he will forget the chocolate chips, but ONLY that.

    His opinion doesn’t explain how Cheeto has punked and outplayed everyone, including Helmer, for 12 years, if not 50 years in the shark pit of NYC. So Trump is COMPLETELY, breathtakingly illiterate. –He’s never read a book, nope, not once. He listens to zero advisors, yet ALSO believes everything advisors tell him. He’s ALWAYS fooled, never has any moves, he’s entirely complicit and compromised in everything, but somehow his enemies never find out, never once act, have never capitalized on it and used his ten-thousand crimes, felonies and bad actions against him. Probably because he’s a retard and they’re nice like that.

    Now of course he’s more subtle about it, but dissected, that’s the level you have to believe.

    …No wonder Trump can’t stop winning. With people like Helmer NOT EVEN REALIZING they’re the problem.

    He puts on the weakest “Columbo” act of being mildly bemused and they give him the casino. Apparently no other world leaders in known history have used “Deception” and zigged left and then right on an issue. Never, not once.

    Krainer says: 5 min mark THEY WILL SHOOT HIM. Shoot him every day, twice a day, if they think Trump is…up to what he’s up to. Or ANY of us would be up to in that office. So there is no POSSIBLE way to do ANYTHING except by deception. EVERY PERSON, all 30 Million of them, will defy his orders, AND JUST DID. We have the release – again – of Comey’s FBI who “just decided” they don’t want Trump, so they “just decided” to release and help treasonous classified docs out of Schiff’s office, then “Just decided” to surpress actual real events, eg Hillary’s and Hunter’s laptops, just as a tip of the spear. EVERY employee did this EVERY day, for 9 years, WHILE HE WAS THEIR PRESIDENT AND BOSS. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IMABeJuWYCE

    They didn’t care.

    So why don’t you go ahead and tell me how he should be honest: “Actually, I’m collapsing Europe and taking it over, so don’t get mad, fight me, nor make other plans” “I’m ending all Globalists, killing their fortunes, ending their golden goose, and returning that wealth to American citizens, but I’m sure we’ll all be great pals and good sports about it.” Yes. This is your plan.

    I do not foresee that going well.

    Orrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr….he LIES about it, throws up a blizzard of noise, claims it’s about Tariffs, that he’s super-duper mad at Russia, get Israel blown to s—t by Iran ‘cause they started it, Gets globalists wrong-footed on trade (rigging) daily, and exposed to their people, out of time, money, weapons, and collapsing. …Then goes to meet with Putin about how to divide up the remaining players, nothing to do with Ukraine, which is a non-issue, saying he ALREADY promised nothing about Ukraine will be done there.

    “the Ukrainians if they are strong-armed and the Europeans, is to speak about phasing in what is essentially the Russian solution and presenting it in such a way that it would not look like what it is, which is virtual surrender.”

    But, but, but, …that would be LYING! Politicians and governments never LIE in history. It Is Not Done, sir, well I say! Not cricket!

    “Mr. Trump at least with an off-ramp that’s respectable and the Europeans can go to hell. They’ll have to accommodate to whatever the Americans and the Russians agree, because they will have no weapons to supply to the Ukraine and Ukraine will sink…”

    There is never not a moment I don’t believe this is happening, by their actions.

    “we really have to look a little bit further. And I’m not sure that Mr. Trump is, his advisors are blind”

    Don’t worry, Helmer knows EXACTLY what Every. Single. Advisor knows and doesn’t know, what they all think, everything they’ve read, and everything they Intend. Us mere mortals may not, but Helmer does.

    Point out: ALL his and other arguments rest on INTENT. Ask a lawyer how hard it is to prove intent. Might as well not try. He doesn’t know the INTENT, and neither do most of us. Check yourself.

    “.If you take off this five-minute long delivery strike times of missiles within the European theatre, life gets a lot easier.”

    In the background, the Black Hats have AI’d the whole nuclear trigger, carefully, painfully set it up on automatic, over 40 years, one tiny tweak at a time. Then, as in the book, they can get “an Event” then 49 minutes later the world is ash as they want. All automatic. As if by computer program, no Humans involved after the first 15. WWI writ large, all carefully arranged, mathematical escalation.

    This Doomsday Device needs to be dismantled. And that can start anywhere and everywhere at once. You start making time-breaks and air-gaps in the trigger, so any mistakes can be captured and discussed again, and the Black Hats lose. …Remember, they started this war successfully many times, WWI being one, but also failed several times, the Russian Sub off Hawaii being one of many, MANY attempted launches.

    And yes, because TIME is key, then DISTANCE is key, and then Ukraine is key, but you don’t have to admit it.

    Trading Ukraine for $350B is a deal because, Europe already stole it so they literally can’t give it back. –It’s what’s been propping up their markets this last year, mark my words. So since “it’s already gone” (unless Russia wants to occupy and take it out of their hides) then they can use it to mollify everyone. …And note Russia WILL get it out of their hides, via Nordstream, but that can only happen over a very long period of TIME.

    “Ukraine in Shock​ – Russian Forces Have Fully Breached the Defenses!️ ​ Military Summary For 2025.08.12”

    No one is shocked. It was perfectly knowable and inevitable in Feb 2022.

    “While the EU elite focus on Ukraine Denmark is stealing its farmers’ lands out from under them in the name of saving the planet.”

    And Canada just decided – No one can leave their house ever again. $25,000 fine for being SEEN out. One guy is already charged. They claim jurisdiction over EVERYTHING, all human actions, for any reason, at any time, for any penalty. …This is the same as the King’s Forest where they hung farmers daily for 1,000 years for catching a rabbit.

    At the same time, everyone in TORONTO can go out to their heart’s content. That’s where the PMC courtiers live, the Nobility, the rules do not apply to them. ABCDEGHI, because they have no F’s to give to the peasants. Go and die in the manner you think best.

    • White House Teases Trump Visit To Russia (RT)

    This is silly, this was ALREADY arranged. Months ago. Because the media is illiterate and retarded, anything that happened more than 60 seconds ago is gone. Goldfish.

    So IF they already set meetings (somewhere) and then Moscow, THEN if you’re Putin, what would you do? That’s right, set it all up ahead, but not sign anything anywhere else. EXACTLY AS THEY ALL SAY. Right now. Trump promises “We are definitely, totally not signing anything.” Yes, you’re not. Because Putin will want all those (surrender) treaties signed IN MOSCOW.

    WTF would he sign them anywhere else? Make them sit in the Kremlin. Kudos, names, honor, all to Russia.

    Is this not obvious? I guess not. Well, I’m telling you now.

    Again, they set this up the minute T got in office, called Putin, then the Media trashed it all, put it off. To Trump-Putin, this all happened a minute ago, he said “Why don’t you drop by sometime?” They said, “Sure, sounds good”, did a work week, now are calling and taking them up on the offer he made practically yesterday. This happened ASAP, there’s no interruption from their PoV. Only from ours, reading Media Retards all day for weeks.

    Okay we’ve only listed 2-3 “deals” of 100. These (selling Ukr, cutting the hair trigger) are definitively not in the news yet MUST be major. And obvious. And long term. BECAUSE THE MEDIA IS LYING. And they are too retarded at the point to even know what “Words” mean, what’s important. That’s WHY THEY WERE HIRED. If anyone wasn’t a total retard, like Taibbi, pretty soon they get off the ranch and make trouble.

    “Ukrainian troops will not voluntarily leave the territory they currently occupy in Donbass, Vladimir Zelensky has said,”

    Excellent. Couldn’t be happier.

    “European arms factories have been expanding three times faster than they did before the escalation of the Ukraine conflict, with more than 7 million square meters of new industrial development since 2022, the Financial Times has reported.”

    Well it’s the Financial Times, so they’re retards. Haven’t been right in decades. Read elsewhere this is a total statistical sham, all Germany is collapsing, this isn’t really happening, which, when you see they have no energy, no steel, no supporting corporations, is self-evident.

    Until we see them reform as total North Korea – a Nation the NY Times enthusiastically likes – then they’re not anywhere on war footing.

    “The toothless chihuahua European pack, trying to salvage its pitiful Kiev actor, is doing somersaults – complete with possible black swans – to derail the summit even before it happens.”

    Same impression as Europe needs to be nuked yesterday. They are chihuahuas who are no threat, but won’t stand down, so the only thing to do is stomp on them and crush their skulls, and no one wants to. The PsyOp here is if we’re “Mean” to Europe, they’ll then make whoever had to do that the villain and run PR that controls their children’s guilt. …As the last 400 years. F– that.

    Shiff: Oh so it was okay to leak classified information and commit treason that subverts the President and the Voters because You wouldn’t get caught!” Oh, got it now.

    Wait, why does this whistleblower wait ‘til now to speak, the coward? Now? Really? Uhhhh, Docktor, THE FBI WAS RUNNING THE TREASON. Who you GONNA report this crime to? McGruff the Crime Dog?

    Europe Qu’ran. WHY? They have a reason, what’s the reason? I’ve heard dumb conspiracy theory reasons, but none gel for me.

    ““I convict someone of shooting another person with an illegal gun on a public bus in the chest, intent to kill, I convict him. And you know what the judge gives him: Probation. Says, ‘You should go to college.’..

    Owning any part of the system. Like DAs not bringing charges, charging the wrong side, or Prosecutors flubbing the Diddy Case to clear him of double jeopardy. You can’t allow Corruption. At all, Citizen. You can’t allow #AntiLogos. Now why dem Christians so mean? You can’t oppress me.

    “What is Truth”
    anyway? The man said.

    Told you to buy Bitcoin all along, but we’re past the 2/3 ¾ mark probably and it’s pretty late.

    $150-$250, depending. And pretty soon now.

    #193822
    kultsommer
    Participant

    It’s so cold in Alaska…..

    #193823
    those darned kids
    Participant

    SAUtRA!

    sweep america under the rug again..

    #193824
    those darned kids
    Participant

    #193825

    For those who can get it, here‘s Michelle Shocked’s “Anchorage”.
    Why would she be banned?

    I don’t FB, either, but for some reason, it let me view the video.
    I also found a tiktok of that thing we saw last night, but it was shot by a 10 year old and isn’t worth anything other than that it was also seen in Ohio. Someone tried to say it was a rocket launch from Florida but that was at 8:30, and I don’t think it took two hours to get here.
    I don’t know what makes a cloud around itself that travels along with it.

    (Another weird thing: on the 9th, air traffic disappeared for about an hour, then two unmarked, all-white jumbo jets came in low, one right after the other. Traffic resumed ten minutes later.)

    One Perseid.

    Oh- Red: Thanks for that NASA worldview site.

    #193826
    phoenixvoice
    Participant

    Youth crime in DC

    Some people believe that the only way to stop crime is for the perpetrators to suffer punishment. My autistic son has run into this belief endlessly since he was five. Unfortunately for him, the driver of his “misbehavior” is typically anxiety, “fear of punishment” increases his anxiety, and his ability to exert control over his behavior diminishes. The end result: in most cases, punishment results in worsening behavior. I did not enter parenthood with this belief — and I understand that for other kids punishment may exert deterrence to some degree or another (for my other two kids it does) — but after years of trying different approaches with this son, typical approaches failing, and even approaches pushed by behavioral health agencies failing (!), I found what works to shape my son’s behavior. And it is not punishment. (Actually…it is a trust system with rewards. Because he trusts me, he suspends his anxiety enough that I can reach him.)

    The reason why teens should not be tried as adults is because they often have not had sufficient life experience to fully understand the ramifications and consequences of their decisions, and because it is much less costly to society to reform a teen than to lock someone up for life. If yoga and crafts help even some of these teens get to a place where they trust the adults enough to learn why crime is not a life worth pursuing, then these programs have value. If the teens are being released back into the same environments that failed to teach them to avoid committing crime in the first place, then no reform is likely to transpire—such a program is useless. The reason why yoga and crafts have a place in any reform system is that, often, to reform a person, it is necessary to build a trust relationship with the individual. It is necessary to be kind — kinder than the individual may “deserve.” Christians should understand this concept — it is one of the foundational ideas of Jesus as “The Redeemer”—offering salvation to those who have, of course, committed sin. Also, yoga and crafts may help some people connect more fully with their authentic inner self and with their empathy, which are a part of the journey of reform.

    If youth are committing violent crime, this must be speedily addressed, and the malefactors removed off the streets. But locking up youth criminals with adults is probably not the best way to go about this. (Unless…you have a special program where reformed adult criminals are mentoring these kids. But the vetting process on such adults would have to be intense, otherwise unreformed adult criminals would secretly ensnare the teens into worse crime.)

    #193827
    phoenixvoice
    Participant

    Bitcoin proves it is an answer to currency debasement.

    Not really. It requires electricity and internet access to use it. This is fine for internet transactions, but irrelevant to face to face transactions.

    The general populace lacks the technical know-how to use Bitcoin, especially if the user’s privacy is to be maintained. I am coming to the belief that having a technically ignorant populace is by design.

    Currently, only a tiny fraction of the population holds significant Bitcoin. As the Bitcoin value soars, it simply becomes another way for a tiny minority to have a huge claim on the total physical output of the economy, while the claim by the rest of humanity shrinks. Sure, it is a different minority than otherwise would have that claim, and this new minority is very pleased at the outcome. However, how is this a benefit to the masses who hold no Bitcoin?

    #193828

    Here‘s a few more views of the space object.

    #193829
    Topcat
    Participant

    The Absurd News:

    As the World turns

    “Leftists set up an encampment in DC to give whistles to vagrants and criminals so if they get arrested, they can blow them to call for help.”

    #193830
    Topcat
    Participant

    General Life Advice (GLA)

    For Eurotardland

    (Ukraine too, you listening?)

    #193831
    zerosum
    Participant

    Ukraine Holds Final Say on Borders, Macron Says After Trump Talks | APT

    French President Emmanuel Macron says U.S. President Donald Trump has agreed that only Ukraine’s president can decide on matters of territorial control.
    Speaking after a round of high-level calls, Macron stressed there will be no deals, swaps, or concessions without Kyiv’s explicit consent.
    The statement comes amid speculation over possible terms of a peace settlement with Russia.

    #193833
    Topcat
    Participant

    Medical Retrospective News Flash:

    #193834
    Topcat
    Participant

    Trump DC Beer Hall Putsch:

    #193835
    Topcat
    Participant

    Psychiatric Help

    Dr. D is IN

    #193836
    Dr D Rich
    Participant

    capital….some rich guy’s money

    Militarizing his capital

    Militarizing his money

    #193837
    Topcat
    Participant

    #193838
    Topcat
    Participant

    #193839
    Dr D Rich
    Participant

    https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp048346

      A medical degree, Tornberg said, is not a “sacramental vow” — it is a certification of skill. When a doctor participates in interrogation, “he’s not functioning as a physician,” and the Hippocratic ethic of commitment to patient welfare does not apply. According to this view, as long as the military maintains a separation of roles between clinical caregivers and physicians with intelligence-gathering responsibilities, assisting interrogators is legitimate.

      Military physicians point to civilian parallels, including forensic psychiatry and occupational health, in arguing that the medical profession sometimes serves purposes at odds with patient welfare. They argue, persuasively in our view, that the Hippocratic ideal of undivided loyalty to patients fails to capture the breadth of the profession’s social role. This role encompasses the legitimate needs of the criminal and civil justice systems, employers’ concerns about workers’ fitness for duty, allocation of limited medical resources, and protection of the public’s health.

      But the proposition that doctors who serve these social purposes don’t act as physicians is self-contradictory. Their “physicianhood” — encompassing technical skill, scientific understanding, a caring ethos, and cultural authority — is the reason they are called on to assume these roles. The forensic psychiatrist’s judgments about personal responsibility and competence rest on his or her moral sensibility and grasp of mental illness. And the military physician’s contributions to interrogation — to its effectiveness, lawfulness, and social acceptance in a rights-respecting society — arise from his or her psychological insight, clinical knowledge, and perceived humanistic commitment.

      In denying their status as physicians, military doctors divert attention from an urgent moral challenge — the need to manage conflict between the medical profession’s therapeutic and social purposes. The Hippocratic ethical tradition offers no road map for resolving this conflict, but it provides a starting point. The therapeutic mission is the profession’s primary role and the core of physicians’ professional identity. If this mission and identity are to be preserved, there are some things doctors must not do. Consensus holds, for example, that physicians should not administer the death penalty, even in countries where capital punishment is lawful. Similarly, when physicians are involved in war, some simple rules should apply.

    Doctors reduced to “certificates of achievement”, but where does that reduction leave RNs like miker? Ditto for corpsmenpersons? Ditto lawyers n MBAs who run hospitals?
    Elevated?
    Proportionately reduced?
    On par with?

    Did you notice the following phrase embedded within the word salad, nonsense, gobbledygook?
    Here:

      employers’ concerns about workers’ fitness for duty

    Look how far “Employer’s Concerns” about an employee has been elevated on the level with Justice, big J?

    Next time you hear your name in the workplace followed by the words “I, we have concerns about…” run for the closest exit and straight to a lawyer, an outside Union rep and backdate that resignation before they go all Medieval on Your Ass.

    #193840
    WES
    Participant

    Zerosum:

    I am 100% with you, perfering “reading” over videos!

    Reading allows you to quickly go back and re-read previous statements to increase your understanding of what you are reading.

    Try doing that with a video!
    Videos make emotional manipulation much easier than written text.
    Videos distract the message with visuals and sounds.

    At least with reading, you can actually hear yourself think!

    #193841
    Dr D Rich
    Participant

    That whole crew led by Winkerwerder, Tornberg, Don Arthur, William Roberts, Dave Tam, Chris Hunter, Dick Nelson, you know, The CoC, Chain of Command ever once found CAPT Bruce Meneley, (((dead and deceased at the Hands and Guns of Seattle PD)) UNFIT FOR DUTY and in fact found that incredibly evil, malignant and stupid piece of shit QUALIFIED TO COMMAND, I suppose his prior Enlistee service tipped the scales in his favor and informed their collective judgement DECISIVELY.

    How else but to see The Entire Planet and Every Known Logical Process inverted, you know, turned upside down, Dogs Sleeping with Cats kind of psychotic behavior.

    In case you forgot about Bruce, I won’t let you.

    Can you see how Failure To Select becomes both a Badge of Honor and A Noteworthy Achievement when The Case of Bruce Meneley is Considered in All Its Fulminating Pestilence?

    https://www.fox13seattle.com/news/seattle-child-sex-sting-meneley

    #193842
    Topcat
    Participant

    #193843
    Topcat
    Participant

    #193844
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    #193845
    Maxwell Quest
    Participant

    Classic D today. Firing on all cylinders. Spot on.

    #193846
    Celticbiker
    Participant

    The West has a roughly 80% vax rate, all this jew theatre is distraction as your guts rot out from the inside, the $ turns to shit and you’re bankrupted. Don’t worry, D’s White Hats are going to save you at the last minute, just like a kosher movie.

    #193847
    John Day
    Participant

    @MPSK: Noted. Thanks for trying.

    #193848
    John Day
    Participant

    A Fresh Start https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/a-fresh-start

    Breaking the ice by revising and renewing New START would be widely welcomed, a good opening to broadly discussing European security balances, which must include Russia. Top Russia-US diplomats hold phone call before Trump-Putin Alaska meet
    ​ Russia says both sides affirm intention for Putin-Trump meet in Alaska on Friday, where Ukraine war set to be discussed.​ https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/12/top-russia-us-diplomats-hold-phone-call-before-trump-putin-alaska-meet

    ​ Russia-Ukraine updates: Kyiv, EU leaders meet Trump ahead of Putin summit​
    Here’s a brief recap of the day’s main events:
    ​ European leaders held a phone call with Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, discussing a series of issues before Trump meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Friday.
    ​ Zelenksyy expressed his desire to be present for future meetings between Trump and Putin, with several European leaders echoing his insistence that Ukraine should be present during discussions over its future.
    ​ Trump said the call went well, rating it “a 10” and saying there could be a “quick second meeting” with both Putin and Zelenskyy if the initial meeting with Putin “goes OK”.
    ​ The UK, France, and Germany issued a joint statement saying that a deal must include a “robust” security guarantee for Ukraine and that tougher sanctions should be applied against Russia if Putin does not agree to a ceasefire on Friday.​ https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/8/13/live-ukrainian-european-leaders-to-speak-to-trump-before-putin-summit

    ​ Big Serge says that Ukrainian units are down to 30% of their designated manpower, consisting of new recruits or exhausted veterans, and without adequate tanks, armored personnel carriers or artillery. They are stretched very thinly along over 1000 kilometers of front, with gaps left when men are pulled to meet Russian assaults. Russia has exploited such a gap north of Pokrovsk, opening it through unmanned Ukrainian defensive trenches, and now preparing to hold it against Ukrainian counterattack by an Azov battalion, which is already tired and depleted. Scraping the Barrel: Attrition and Cannibalization – Russo-Ukrainian War: Summer, 2025 https://bigserge.substack.com/p/scraping-the-barrel-attrition-and

    ​ Gilbert Doctorow, Sputnik Globe: Putin’s Master-Move: How BRICS Has Become the World’s New Control Room
    ​ This brief commentary on why Vladimir Putin reached out to BRICS leaders following his acceptance of the Alaska summit with Donald Trump underscores the cohesion of BRICS
    ​ I was pleased to be one of the respondents to Sputnik on this issue. To what they have quoted here, I add the point they did not put up: that just as Joe Biden’s sanctions and encirclement policies drove together Russia and China, Russia and Iran, so Donald Trump perversely is strengthening greatly the alliance in BRICS of India, Russia, China and South Africa by his bullying.​ https://gilbertdoctorow.substack.com/p/sputnik-globe-putins-master-move

    #193849
    John Day
    Participant

    Putin’s Master-Move: How BRICS Has Become the World’s New Control Room
    ​ After meeting Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff — and before the much-anticipated summit — President Vladimir Putin called key Global South leaders. India’s Narendra Modi, China’s Xi Jinping, South Africa’s Cyril Ramaphosa, and Brazil’s Lula da Silva were all briefed on the latest Ukraine talks.
    ​ “President Putin has taken a very important step which will into the future set a precedence,” Prof. Fulufhelo Netswera from Durban University of Technology in South Africa tells Sputnik.​ This lets him act confidently with BRICS backing — while equally empowering other members in similar cases.​ https://sputnikglobe.com/20250812/putins-master-move-how-brics-has-become-the-worlds-new-control-room-1122599591.html

    Doomsday​: Pokrovsk Operationally Encircled​ – DRG Spotted Near Dobropillia​, Military Summary 2025.08.12​ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMerm0FSrnY

    Doomsday​: Russians Consolidate New Positions​ – Preparing a New Wave of Offensive​, MS For 2025.08.13​ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVYSNblyxI0

    ​ Nobody else is saying that Zelensky will cede territory. Ukraine ready to give up lost territories to settle conflict
    Ukraine may give up the territories it had already lost in order to end hostilities and receive security guarantees in the form of arms supplies and NATO membership, The Daily Telegraph wrote.
    ​ According to the newspaper, Vladimir Zelensky softened his stance in the run-up to the Russia-US summit.
    ​ It says that the Ukrainian government is ready to freeze the conflict along the current line of combat engagement. At the same time, Kiev is not ready to cede territories that it controls in the people’s Republics of Donetsk and Lugansk (DPR and LPR), and the regions of Zaporozhye and Kherson.
    ​ The report says European officials believe that Zelensky “has leeway with a growing number of voters who would stomach surrendering land to Moscow as the price for the end” of the conflict. The Daily Telegraph writes that Zelensky “would also have to perform a juggling act as he would be blocked by his country’s constitution from ceding territory without a nationwide referendum.”
    ​ According to the publication, Kiev will only agree to a peace settlement that offers “robust security guarantees in the form of weapons deliveries and a path to NATO membership.”​ https://en.mehrnews.com/news/235304/Ukraine-ready-to-give-up-lost-territories-to-settle-conflict

    ​ Russia Accuses Ukraine of Planning Provocation Ahead of Trump–Putin Summit in Alaska
    ​ The Russian Ministry of Defense has issued a warning alleging that Ukrainian authorities are preparing a provocation targeting civilians in the Kharkiv region, aimed at disrupting the upcoming Russia–United States summit between Presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, scheduled for August 15 in Anchorage, Alaska.
    ​ According to the statement, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) allegedly transported a group of foreign journalists to the city of Chuhuiv on August 11 under the pretext of reporting on civilian life near the front lines. Moscow claims these journalists are being positioned to document the aftermath of a planned strike on a densely populated residential area or hospital, which would then be blamed on Russian forces to generate negative media coverage and undermine bilateral cooperation on resolving the war in Ukraine.​ https://www.telesurenglish.net/russia-accuses-ukraine-of-planning-provocation-ahead-of-trump-putin-summit-in-alaska/

    #193850
    John Day
    Participant

    Increasing the danger: Journalist killing in Gaza sends a chilling message​ https://www.arabnews.com/node/2611522/media

    ​ Israeli army places journalists’ names on assassination list
    ​ Sunday, Israeli forces killed five Al Jazeera staff, including Al-Jazeera correspondents Anas Al-Sharif and Mohammed Qareqa, as well as photographers Ibrahim Zaher and Mohammed Nofal, in a targeted strike on their media tent outside Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. This deadly attack highlights the mounting threats against journalists trying to cover the unfolding crisis.​ https://en.mehrnews.com/news/235308/Israel-place-journalists-name-on-army-list-for-assassination

    ​ US defers to Israel on killing of journalists
    ​The United States on Tuesday declined to criticize Israel over the killing of five Al Jazeera journalists in the Gaza Strip, referring questions to its ally.
    ​ The Israeli military alleged that Anas Al-Sharif, a prominent face on the Qatar-based network covering the violence, headed a Hamas “terrorist cell” and was “responsible for advancing rocket attacks” against Israelis.
    ​ “What I will tell you is that we refer you to Israel for information regarding Al-Sharif,” State Department spokeswoman Tammy Bruce told reporters.​ https://www.arabnews.com/node/2611650/world

    Israel faces widespread condemnation after Al Jazeera correspondents killed in Gaza​ https://www.euronews.com/2025/08/11/israel-faces-widespread-condemnation-after-al-jazeera-correspondent-killed-in-gaza

    Three-quarters of UN members support Palestinian statehood​ https://www.arabnews.com/node/2611412/middle-east

    #193851
    John Day
    Participant

    Macron calls Israel’s Gaza offensive ‘a disaster waiting to happen’, proposes UN mission​ https://timeukraineisrael.com/en/news/macron-calls-israels-gaza-offensive-a-disaster-waiting-to-happen-proposes-un-mission/

    Netanyahu: ‘If We Wanted To Commit Genocide, It Would Have Taken Exactly One Afternoon’​ https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/netanyahu-if-we-wanted-commit-genocide-it-would-have-taken-exactly-one-afternoon

    ​ How Netanyahu’s political survival depends on the genocide in Gaza
    ​ Netanyahu may view this war as essential to his survival, but the cost of that survival is becoming increasingly unsustainable for both Israel and the United States. Israel grows more isolated and vulnerable each day; the US is increasingly seen as complicit in war crimes; and Palestinians are being driven deeper into despair and radicalisation. This is the very formula that turned America’s endless wars in Afghanistan and Iraq into disasters: an enemy that multiplies with every bombing, an ever-receding horizon of victory, and a legacy of destruction that will last generations.
    ​ If Washington wants to break this cycle, it must change its policy: end unconditional military aid, apply real pressure for a ceasefire, and initiate a political process centered on Palestinian rights. Without such a shift, Haaretz headlines will keep counting: “Israel at War, Day 700… Day 800…” and the deadly queues for food aid will continue to tell the same truth—that this war continues not for security, but for politics. And as the Afghanistan experience showed, no war designed for domestic politics ever ends with honor.​ https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250811-how-netanyahus-political-survival-depends-on-the-genocide-in-gaza/

    Israel Steps up Gaza City Bombing After Netanyahu Vows to Expand the Offensive​ https://english.aawsat.com/arab-world/5174036-israel-steps-gaza-city-bombing-after-netanyahu-vows-expand-offensive%C2%A0

    Israel intensifies bombardment of eastern Gaza after Netanyahu announces expansion of operation​ https://timeukraineisrael.com/en/news/israel-intensifies-bombardment-of-eastern-gaza-after-netanyahu-announces-expansion-of-operation/

    #193852
    John Day
    Participant

    5-year-old disabled Gaza boy dies from Israel’s forced starvation, weighing less than 7 pounds
    A medical source says Muhammad Zakaria Khudr’s weight dropped from 26 kilograms (26 pounds) to 3 kilograms (6.6 pounds) before his death.​ https://trt.global/world/article/c5f0ab604e6c

    ​ Illegal Israeli settlers’ attacks, army raids force 30 Palestinian families out of West Bank
    Rights group says families from Ain Ayoub near Ramallah fled due to arson attacks, livestock poisoning, and harassment by illegal Israeli settlers under army protection​ https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/illegal-israeli-settlers-attacks-army-raids-force-30-palestinian-families-out-of-west-bank-/3656944

    At least 100 Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza, health ministry says​ https://www.euronews.com/2025/08/12/at-least-100-palestinians-killed-in-israeli-attacks-across-gaza-health-ministry-says

    WHO says 148 Palestinians died from malnutrition in Gaza due to Israeli aid blockade​ https://www.yenisafak.com/en/news/who-says-148-palestinians-died-from-malnutrition-in-gaza-due-to-israeli-aid-blockade-3706323

    ADL CEO: Trump is Implementing Biden and ADL’s ‘National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism’​ https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=65008

    #193853
    John Day
    Participant

    ​ Backing Netanyahu, Trump Suggests Israel Needs To Ramp Up Military Pressure on Hamas
    The president told Axios that it’s up to Israel what to do next​ https://news.antiwar.com/2025/08/11/backing-netanyahu-trump-suggests-israel-needs-to-ramp-up-military-pressure-on-hamas/

    Graham To Israel: ‘Enough Already, Destroy Hamas’ – Just As The US Did To Germany & Japan​ https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/graham-israel-enough-already-destroy-hamas-just-us-did-germany-japan

    Netanyahu floats ‘allowing’ Palestinians out of Gaza as mediators renew truce push​ https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2025/08/netanyahu-floats-allowing-palestinians-out-gaza-mediators-renew-truce-push

    Moving hellholes… Israel in talks with South Sudan to resettle Palestinians from Gaza, sources say​ https://www.euronews.com/2025/08/12/israel-in-talks-with-south-sudan-to-resettle-palestinians-from-gaza-sources-say

    ​Is the ICC also banned for such statements? Grok AI Briefly Suspended On X After Gaza Genocide Posts https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/grok-ai-briefly-suspended-x-after-gaza-genocide-posts

    #193854
    John Day
    Participant

    ​ Escape Key, The Lie About Lies
    ​ There’s a particular type of lie that reveals more about a system than any policy document or mission statement ever could: the lie about lies. This is when pointing out logical contradictions gets labeled as ‘dangerous misinformation’ — when the act of exposing mutually exclusive claims becomes treated as more threatening than making mutually exclusive claims in the first place.​ https://escapekey.substack.com/p/the-lie-about-lies

    ​ New Zealand opposition co-leader ejected from parliament for seeking support for bill to sanction Israel
    ‘If we find six of 68 government MPs with a spine, we can stand on the right side of history,’ Greens co-leader Chloe Swarbrick tells parliament​ https://www.aa.com.tr/en/asia-pacific/new-zealand-opposition-co-leader-ejected-from-parliament-for-seeking-support-for-bill-to-sanction-israel/3657725

    ​ Celia Farber, American MD Returns From Gaza, Gives Detailed, Shocking Account Of Day To Day Life,With Photos, To Theo Von, Including A 30 Year Old Woman Whose 15 Week Fetus Was Shot Through The Neck In The Womb
    ​ Muslims Are Forbidden From Suicide; Some Who Lost Their Whole Family Often Go To GHF Sites In Hopes Of Being Killed. Advanced AI Weapons Being Tested On Palestinians, Palantir Central To Operations​ https://celiafarber.substack.com/p/american-md-returns-from-gaza-gives

    Syria, US to Discuss Suwayda Killings in Amman Talks, But Druze Aren’t Invited​ – US official urges ‘restraint’ in Suwayda​ https://news.antiwar.com/2025/08/11/syria-us-to-discuss-suwayda-killings-in-amman-talks-but-druze-arent-invited/

    ​Hey, that’s Israel’s “Samson Option”: Pakistan’s military chief ‘warns “we’ll take half the world down with us” in nuclear weapon threat’ https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14990011/Pakistans-military-chief-warns-half-world-nuclear-weapon-threat.html

    #193855
    John Day
    Participant

    ​ while trying not to laugh… Philippine military blames China for ships collision in disputed South China Sea
    The Philippine military has blamed China for the collision of two Chinese navy and coast guard ships while trying to drive the Philippine coast guard and fishermen from a disputed shoal in the South China Sea.​ https://www.euronews.com/2025/08/12/philippine-military-blames-china-for-ships-collision-in-disputed-south-china-sea

    But “No” to US Army chasing them in Mexico… Mexico Extradites 26 Alleged Cartel Leaders To US​ https://www.zerohedge.com/political/mexico-extradites-26-alleged-cartel-members-us

    ​ ‘Denied my urgent requests’: Former U.S. Capitol Police chief goes to war with Pelosi as she rips Trump for federal D.C. takeover
    ‘Ma’am, it is long past time to be honest with the American people’​ https://www.wnd.com/2025/08/denied-my-urgent-requests-former-u-s-capitol/

    ​ ‘Immediate Action Is Necessary’: D.C. Police Union Backs Trump’s Capital Takeover
    “The Union agrees that crime is spiraling out of control, and immediate action is necessary to restore public safety.”​ https://www.dailywire.com/news/immediate-action-is-necessary-d-c-police-union-backs-trumps-capital-takeover

    ​ White House says homeless people in DC will be forced into shelters or put in jail. Advocates say ‘that should terrify everyone’
    Trump is criminalizing homelessness while doing ‘nothing’ to make housing more affordable​ https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-homeless-washington-dc-police-b2806411.html

    #193856
    John Day
    Participant

    Appeals Court Rules DOGE Can Access Sensitive Federal Data​ https://www.zerohedge.com/political/appeals-court-rules-doge-can-access-sensitive-federal-data

    ​Escape Key, Test Case for Global Control [Individual “rights” are “selfish” and “immoral” when they oppose what must be done for the good of the earth.]
    I selected what is supposed to be one of the happiest countries on Earth — Denmark.
    ​ Because if you’re a Danish farmer, happiness is in short supply these days.
    While the world focuses on alleged ‘far-right’ movements across Europe, something more sinister is brewing in the home of Lego, Carlsberg and Hans Christian Andersen. Under the cover of environmental protection, the government is planning to confiscate huge chunks of farmland and destroy the agricultural industry that feeds the nation.
    ​ This is not ‘conspiracy theory’. It’s all documented in obscure official government reports — reports that somehow ‘forgot’ to ask the farmers what they think about being put out of business.
    ​ In 2022, world leaders signed the Convention on Biological Diversity Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, an agreement which commits countries to ‘protect’ 30% of all land and sea by 2030. But what ‘protect’ actually means is taking land away from the people who use it productively and placing it in ‘biodiversity reserves’ or similar programmes.
    ​ The Netherlands feels the pain already. Dutch farmers have been protesting for years because their government needs to seize 3.5% land territory to hit their 30% target. But Denmark has a much bigger problem — they need another 15% of the entire country.​ https://escapekey.substack.com/p/danish-land-grab

    ​ Sasha Latypova re-posts this still urgent article, with a petition to sign: PREP Act Brief: “License to Kill” must be repealed.
    A collection of articles for ease of educating your friends, family, doctors and legislators. Please sign the petition to repeal the PREP Act linked in the post.​ https://sashalatypova.substack.com/p/prep-act-brief-license-to-kill-must

    ​A Thanksgiving 2025 heads-up from Jessica Rose, Ph.D. The new pending “plandemic” – is it scheduled for November?
    What it might involve and when it might be ‘declared’​ https://jessicar.substack.com/p/the-new-pending-plandemic-is-it-scheduled

    ​Physicist and longevity researcher, Josh Mitteldorf, Insulin: Keeping your insulin levels down is the most accessible path to longevity https://mitteldorf.substack.com/p/insulin

Viewing 40 posts - 1 through 40 (of 47 total)
  • You must be logged in to reply to this topic.

Sorry, the comment form is closed at this time.