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    Vincent van Gogh The Rispal Restaurant at Asnieres 1887   • Will Trump End Elections? Anatomy Of A Failed Hoax (Miele) • Olympic Boxer’s “Cyberbu
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle August 15 2024]

    #166420
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Is Britain a Major Short? Is the EU Waging war on Free Speech?

    20 Months prison for Facebook quote. Video of the VERY serious, VERY important Judge having But no Alternative™ for such an unforgivable, violent crime – of a 1st offender who is also pleading guilty. Jean-val-Jean would heartily approve.

    England: where’s the Royal Family lately as this is going on? Speaking up? On the lam?

    “Wall Street Reacts To Today’s CPI Print: “Seals The Deal For A September Rate Cut”

    No crisis. Economy’s never been better. Election in a month. Rate cut. Sounds about right. This happens all the time!

    “Germany Issues First Arrest Warrant In Nord Stream Sabotage Investigation 

    You’re seriously kidding me right now? Was he also the D.C. bomber, where he placed the bomb, used his cell phone the whole way, was on camera, surrounded by 4 policemen, and STILL a member of the public had to point it out to them? Why not? Makes as much sense as every other official story. No doubt he and Gilligan rented a 16’ sunfish for a little light fishing. Gilligan caught it with a coconut and Boom! Gilli-gan!!!

    Okay, to be reasonable here, Germany knows they lost, and that they’re screwed. The German industrialists are still under the Atlanticists (and U.S. blackmail. Via Cisco servers and Merkel’s personal phone). Does this mean they’ve got a long, convoluted exposure planned to bring their people along in the same way our White Hats are trying to bring along and wake up ours?

    First, HOW he was listed: As “Vladimir Z”. Rlly? Really-Really??? Now this guy probably IS related to the event in some sideways fashion, I’m sure the U.S. did everything they could to make sure it was “Officially” “Technically” done by foreigners – at their pay, design, planning, training, and express behest. So then they DON’T release his name, but DO say he “already escaped” into Poland. …So you warned HIM, but not US so we could catch him, and he got away for why? I’m so, so tired of this s—t. Sure, here comes the bin Laden saga of catching up to him, which leads to his accomplices, which will lead…anywhere Germany Secret Service makes up and wants. “We Make S–t Up!” — German Secret service, about AfD, and everything else they’ve ever touched.

    “We just learned that [Harris] left her press pool behind to attend an event at Howard”

    The little people are so annoying! We hates them.

    Kamala quote: it’s really that she’s a moron, and she’s imitating them perfectly, but as she doesn’t actually understand anything that’s going on or why, it sounds like a parody as that’s the best she can do. Those are indeed all the right words to say, and equally, that’s about the amount of meaning communicated by any normal politician, who are equally moronic. But they don’t SOUND moronic when they say it, that’s the part where you have to be clever.

    “not one person has been connected to the internet by any of that money and no projects are underway.”

    That’s actually a success. Usually the steal the $42B and also break everything. They removed the breaking part this time, having no budget for it. Baby Steps. Headed in the right direction. Now only if we could do that in medicine: pay for it all and get nothing, but at least not mass-murder.

    Mike Benz, Twitter,

    Yes, and what he’s describing is fascism. The State Dept works with, sets up, executes, pays, merges, and defends with private corporations to “project” “Soft power” that is, Military power. Fascists are also key on expansionary wars, which forestall their internal bankruptcy. That is, they project military power as a first order.

    I for one do not call this a good thing also point well taken. So aligning the sides, Biden is against his own companies, taxes, and power, but aligns with EUROPE, and the HALTING of American power, taxes, and expression. Well there you go.

    Thinking all day here: What’s with UK? “61-Year-Old Brit Gets 18 Month Prison Sentence For Chanting “Who The F**k Is Allah”

    And dozens of cases are starting here, turning to hundreds. As Starmer arrests everyone according to skin color like any Soweto. Armstrong says get out of all UK, just like get out of all NY. UK is also likely or DEFINITELY in for a honest, real revolution and a Civil War, maybe not even the “war” as it’ll be the shortest conflict in British history. Why? What’s going on? How can you possibly be so bad at your job? Like, all Starmer has to do is LIE. He lies every day, all day, about everything, so this ONE time he doesn’t pretend he gives a s—t about the little people and their stupid stabbing problems? Just LIE about it, that’s all they’re asking, and they’ll pretend to test you and care so they can avoid being arrested. NOPE.

    Gee, now doesn’t that sound familiar? Howso, Herr Docktor? Well isn’t that EXACTLY what I’ve been saying Europe is trying to do to the U.S., has been plotting for decades and executing since Obama? The Anglo countries that give the continent such heartburn all the time. No?

    Okay, try this: EUROPE was going to COLONIZE the U.S., break us up in Civil war, turn into race-baited African Squabbles so they could swoop in and extract the REST of our resources: for example, they already own our critical infrastructure, most utilities, nuke plants, transmission grid…why do you think it’s falling apart like Bolivia? Same people running it. Then they attack our corporations, sinking Disney, Harley, Boeing, those brands all cease to exist, even Americans won’t use them.

    Then who WILL they use? Airbus. Fiat. What happens when the U.S. becomes the clown world they want and pay for?

    Well EUROPE becomes the adult in the room: the Garden. The only reasonable, rational, law-abiding place. So all the capital flows of much larger America go to Europe and save the European Bonds from total bankruptcy and lack of political integration. It’s the only thing that can save them. Right: got it. Money flees the U.S. and Wall Street bc Europe is in a hole they knew was going over the horizon and will collapse. And?

    AND BRITAIN IS THE U.S. IN MINIATURE. Obviously. Europe is apoplectic they can’t get the U.S. to fall. They’ve done everything, clearly, we won’t break, we’re hardly even noticing. They’re going over the horizon ESPECIALLY as we’ve hammered them senseless between Russia and Us. I mean, they will collapse TODAY.

    Unless……..

    Like Us in Libya, Ukraine, we collapse some small nation, steal its gold and feed all ITS resources into our banking system, into our maw. Now WHO is left on earth that they can do that to? They’re all nations already in conflict, won or lost?

    Well, BRITAIN, which we know since Thatcher, since Brexit, ALL BRITISH ELITE ARE PRO-EUROPE. Against EVERYTHING the people want. (Same as always, same as back with Churchill) Britain is at the top, a vassal of EU, WEF, Davos, etc. Not entirely, but like the U.S. they have all the key positions, have Obama, Biden, Blinken, Yellen, Pelosi, all “Atlanticists”, “Globalists” (which really means “European” – I mean, it don’t mean “Kenyan” does it? Doesn’t mean Indonesian, Chilean, does it? It means “London to Monaco”)

    So Europe, about to collapse, sacrifices the queen. They set orders for their minions in British Government, “Do this!!” (it’s good for you, it’s part of our “Plan”) knowing they’re just collapsing UK and all UK money flows will flee London to the Continent, as well they should. Britain is then hollowed, broke, shattered, and Europe survives a couple more months.

    Right? Exact same plan as here, exact same execution. Exact same people. And also, exact same response from their Anglo citizens. You can collapse them, but then they’ll break free and come get you, set up a rational, practical government more along their social and historic norms, like free speech, small government, “Nation of shopkeepers”, all that. Then you’re f—d, they’re not Socialist minions being sapped white for lifetimes, but that will take years to arc through and Europe is collapsing TODAY.

    “As many of you saw, yesterday a NY judge disqualified me from New York ballot access,”

    Truly insane. Note Hillary had never been there and bought a house the day before. No problem, became NY Senator. Remember?

    Also the house she couldn’t afford, since she and Bill were so poor? Yeah, that passed quickly. All us “Poor people” can always walk in and drop cash for mansions in Westchester.

    “David Haigh discusses reports Imane Khelif is to sue Elon Musk and J.K Rowling over harassment about her gender.”

    What is “Harassment”? Also what would be the normal in this case, Libel, that is, published slander? That they have opinions? And again, Europe is trying to gain jurisdiction over the planet, which as the “Garden People,” racially superior, such is merely an obviously, self-evidently correct. You talk about Israelis, Europeans don’t even mention or defend their kingship, it’s so self-evident. The world exists for them. “Theirs is but to do and die.”

    ““You can have countries around the world basically policing social media in other countries. It could be a very, very significant case in free speech,”

    So they are trying to go around the very CONCEPT of national sovereignty and being very clever indeed! Boy, sure glad they’re on our side! This is pure evil genius! Um, One thing: What happens if like Russia, everyone just tells them “No”? That’s it. “I would prefer not to.” Like U.S. pot laws, “You want it, go enforce it yourself, I ain’t helping.” Europe says Mexico should do this, they say no. Europe says Singapore should do this, they say no. Europe says Algeria, Saudi should do this, they say no. Heck, they can’t even get ITALY to do it.

    So IF they don’t, then Europe STEALS EVERYTHING THEY OWN. Hahahaha! Didn’t see that coming! We didn’t just say do it, we’ve got LEVERAGE!

    OMG. If you STEAL everything like good commies, NO ONE WILL TALK TO YOU. They will remove all assets from your jurisdiction instantly. Congratulations, you just invented the Berlin Wall. You ringfenced yourself, and into poverty. The rest of the world ignores you, and is finally happy and at peace.

    For the low, low price of a one-time grab? Ask Russia how that’s working out for them, with all those free McDonald’s and Coke franchises they’re no longer paying for. You steal U.S. companies? What did I just say? The US Utilities are owned by Europe. So? We steal them back.

    Mad genius! Brilliant Minds! …For a 5-year-old. Can’t think even the NEXT move ahead.

    And again, they JUST did this. They JUST learned this lesson with Russia. …Or didn’t learn it, I guess. Okay, you win! Don’t throw me in dat briar patch!

    ““There was a time when a reporter calling for censorship of a political opponent would have been a matter for immediate termination in the media..”

    Yes, but they’re not “The Media”. They’re a PAC, Political Action Committee. For the (Nationalist) Socialist Party. They don’t care if they’re fired or not, that’s not why they’re there: it’s to push their Party Platform. Their religion.

    “The Times Union reported that the law requires individuals and organizations representing foreign interests in the United States”

    What does that mean? I would think, at a minimum, you might get paid? But if I’m the local writer for the UK Guardian, am I a foreign agent? Otherwise saying “I like how the Australian Aborigonies live” is a statement promoting and representing foreign interests. Meanwhile, $1 BILLION dollars later, nothing on Hunter, Biden, or Hillary who when she lost, had all her “Charity” money vanish from Norway, etc. Is taking money from Burisma, from Moscow itself, for speaking, a “Foreign Interest”, Bill? If immediately thereafter you sell of a critical infrastructure of Uranium One? Leaving us helpless to fuel our power plants?
    • Hunter Biden Asked State Department To Aid Burisma Deal While Joe Was VP (ZH) Like that?

    “• The Murder of Others (Scott Ritter)

    This is all consensus reality: The U.S. had zero need to nuke Japan. They did it for lols to threaten Russia, our real enemy (also ally, wish I were joking). Note at the same time, FDR had literally Soviet spies in his upper cabinet for years, also consensus reality, and magic! Instantly all the plans and directions for making the bomb ending up with USSR somehow like a minute later. So compare and add that to this story.

    Outcome: Everyone was nuked and killed. Everyone ALSO got the bomb. #Winning! If you’re the agent of demons and pure K.A.O.S.

    (link bots)

    #166421
    Dr. D
    Participant

    “Alaudinov said. “Most of the equipment has already been destroyed from what was deployed in the Kursk direction,”

    The raw numbers on this are astonishing. Like 100 Bradleys in two days? 30 tanks? So…can’t tell, no one’s talking, but that’s sure not 1,000 men! 1-3,000? 5,000? They were like: “this seems very odd, off the previous numbers.” Well, they have air power inside Russia, can hunter-kill with MIGs and copters. (even as they ALSO found out Ukr brought in new NATO jammers and air missiles) Also, agree, and as they did: don’t care about the men, sure they’re a nuisance who will kill all civilians like good Nazis do. Militarily, shoot their horses they can neither advance nor retreat, trapped deep, deep inside enemy territory. And cars, trucks, things that go, are way easier to see and find.

    “Fitch Ratings has downgraded Ukraine’s credit rating to ‘restricted default’ on Tuesday, citing the expiry of a ten-day grace period for the coupon payment on the country’s $750 million 2026 Eurobond, which was due on August 1.”

    Europe. Collapse. UK. Powell at 5% (Powell pivot!!! We always slash rates with no crash a day before the election!) So anyone worldwide could set their clocks for Aug 11. This happens regularly, and was also a certain type of bond that expired, blew up worldwide, that was the detonator for the Asian Tiger crash. Insiders have these dates, as it’s a bit contextual and esoteric: I mean bonds expire all the time. WHICH bonds are the relevant ones, who’s got the pea? It’s big game of hide the salami.

    I’m saying EUROPE knows this is when it’s off, and they can’t get the Usual, the Idiot minions in U.S. Congress, to give them another $150B for free, circling back through Kiev and out to Euroland banks. Also all Europe’s ENEMIES know this is the date it starts, and usually it’s 30 days after when THOSE guys don’t get paid. Say: Kiev > Santander > next derivatives default worldwide, like Santander now can’t pay HSBC, Citi, Sumitomo. They are ALSO leveraged 300:1 and THEY can’t pay AIG, Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund, and bonds in NYC Metro.

    Right? But WHICH one matters?

    “The Iron Dome, touted as Israel’s most-effective defense shield, was designed to project an image of security and technological superiority.”

    That is amazingly accurate. Yes, it was designed to project an “Image”, a “Lie”, a thing that wasn’t true, it was NOT meant to actually work and defend anything. It’s never worked at all, check every time it’s been tested, and the Patriot missiles didn’t either, even against the 1970s SCUDs it was designed for. The “Iron Dome” is a PR event that happens to have some random hardware on the side. Very typical for the West.

    “The Iron Dome is not just a defense system but a psychological construct”

    Why? To make Israel feel safe. Yes, that wins votes, but you could sell that another way (Iran’s out to get us!!!). WHY would you want to feel safe and untouchable? If you want the People of Israel to pile on your inflammatory wars, nuke Iran, and start Har Mageddo, to bring back the Madhi and Messiah as LITERALLY THEY DO.

    WHY do you lie? Why does anyone lie? Because if I told you the truth, you wouldn’t do what I want you to. And all kill yourselves in a giant fiery pyre. While psychos like us excitedly dance and watch. Ask any arsonist. It gets off their glee heart-jollies, the only emotions they have.

    “• FTC Hints Tech ‘Monopolist’ Google Should Be Broken Up (ZH)

    Again, like several other cases, the Voting-machine CEO, so BIDEN brought these charges? Biden? Uh-huh. Sure he did and there’s nothing going on.

    Cuban: “when you write an algorithm, you set the parameters of what…”

    Oh so now the algos and AIs are NOT real? You don’t say…

    it
    https://i.pinimg.com/originals/fa/d8/04/fad804add5ee3a0b05d23d3863ce8775.png

    “Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own governors, must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives. A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy or perhaps both” ― James Madison

    That is, in a Democracy, clearly the people need to be informed and know what’s going on, as JFK said, “Secrecy is antithetical”.

    The Quotes seem to be running out, so let me tell you what I’m up to.
    https://www.azquotes.com/author/9277-James_Madison

    You see, WE read these quotes and hear, “Oh, that’s how to keep and have a stronger, better, United States, making us all happy and rich.” That’s because you’re you. The OTHER side reads these quotes and says, “Huh, looks like a finely-written insider’s manual on how to take down and destroy the United States. We only need to STOP every item on Madison’s list (or Washington, or Hamilton, or deTocqueville) and the United States will collapse for our pleasure. Fire away.”

    Smithereens
    http://www.quickmeme.com/img/17/172ad179b44e8b9b6bec37d0bef061923bb6ae32fb5c8666c3ad21869ca7f2c1.jpg

    Aaaaaaand so Europe and the Fabian Socialists do it, and re-colonize the U.S, extracting all its yummy wealth while killing very uppity American with food additives and race-lies.

    Got it? Not everyone thinks like you do. Every quote I post, they hear it as the opposite and go to work instantly, being grievously mentally ill.

    #166422
    Dr. D
    Participant
    #166423
    Dr. D
    Participant

    After Two Weeks With Kamala, Tim Walz Announces He Has Signed Back Up With National Guard And Requested Deployment To Iraq” –BBee

    AnyWalzatAll
    https://media.babylonbee.com/articles/66bccaa1c569866bccaa1c5699.jpg

    #166424
    aspnaz
    Participant

    Wow, Kamala’s PR team have really got it dialed in on TAE.

    Yawn.

    Maybe this next six months is just going to be …. yawn.

    #166425
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Kursk is actually a golden oppurtunity for the Russians.

    They are annihilating the last and best units of Ukronazis.

    Since they are terrorists and not soldiers they can kill them all to the last man, no fuss or muss with wounded or prisoners.

    Total meat grinder, the Russians were never going after territory as a primary objective, any turf gained was secondary.

    The ZATO military maggots actually came to the Russian woodchipper in Kursk, they didn’t have to launch an offensive, Duh’merican mercs actually walked into a Death Cauldron, most excellent!

    The violation of Russian sovereign territory and the killing of civilians by the Ukronazis dramatically increased Russian Patriotism and resolve.

    A plus, plus, plus in the end leaving the other parts of the Ukronazis contact line near totol collapse.

    Anyone breathlessly thinking it was some kind of blow to Russia were totally humiliated.

    All in all a big win for Russia.

    AND it helped bankrupt the Empire of Lies and bring it closer to Total Financial Collapse©

    Hahahahahahaaha!

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    #166426
    Oroboros
    Participant

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    #166427
    Dr. D
    Participant

    New interview, I won’t say who to keep the peace, but they start with “R”: So, here we are, Russia has now knocked out a bunch of guys in Kursk, taken prisoners, towed the tanks, etc.

    So, this is NATO. Straight NATO, nothing but NATO. Oh so it was Ukraine, with just a few French, Poles on the side? Hahahaha. No, this is the BEST NATO has to offer. Better than almost all NATO forces, anywhere in the world. These are top, brand new APCs, hundreds, Tanks, hundreds, all run with satellite mapping, with AI predictive for Russian response, protected with NATO local AI drones and short, medium, and “Long” range missiles even ATACMs. Which are using denial-of-theatre, top jamming, air-defense shooting NATO equipment. And how many men? 1,000? 5,000? or 20,000?

    So you see why they thought they could jam in and reach the nuclear plant and base in a totally abandoned, empty front line zone.

    Hold on, back up: What was that with the equipment?

    Yes, EVERY piece of equipment has the LATEST, Top-secret, encrypted communication, radios, which are all coordinating with each other back at base in the supercomputers. WHOSE Supercomputers? Odessa’s? Izmail? Wait a minute: so they’re all using as the key backbone to the whole invasion, UKRAINIAN satellites? Uh, think again, buster.

    So we have NATO equipment, NATO forces, NATO paid, NATO trained, using NATO (U.S.) satellites, with NATO headquarters, on NATO secrets with NATO encryption, with NATO missiles, NATO men, with NATO commanders, who INVADED RUSSIA, to kill all civilians and blow up a nuclear power plant?

    Who INVADED RUSSIA…?

    Yes.

    But NATO ain’t involved! It’s all Ukraine!

    Okay, part two: SINCE you are inbred, mouth-breathing, glue sniffing, butt-raping morons, YOU JUST GAVE ALL THAT TO RUSSIA??? So that they can see it in action, capture it, take it apart, imitate and prevent it, forever? Forever and ever, until a whole new generation of gear is invented?

    Yes.

    I got nothin’. Carry on, I guess. There is nothing I can add to this discussion except: You think Russia won’t and can’t respond to that? A: of course NATO and these religious extremist terrorist fanatics that worship death and want it spread widely WANT them to react, WANT them to nuke everyone. Then they win.

    It’s literally like the devil: choose evil and they win. Grasp the one ring, drop that A-Bomb, and they win. He slips is hand into yours, and Your soul is his.

    …Not that Russia won’t react. But that they HAVEN’T already responded, haven’t already nuked the planet, in response to a full-scale, NATO-only invasion, including setting a no-fly zone and shelling nuke plants on Russian soil, means they are not going to. Or not in that way. They’re going to respond very slowly, specifically, accurately, judiciously, as in “Delivers Justice.”

    So, here we all are, waiting: the world is now run by Russia, not us. Not NATO, not Europe, not the United States, not all of them combined.

    “Good Job, Brownie!”

    Actually, and know this seems impossible, I think this is ideal. If I were the White Hats, I would do only ever this. Outnumbered and out of key positions like Blinken’s, it’s the “Art of what is possible.” and what is POSSIBLE is to hand all Ukraine, all NATO to Russia on a silver platter, let them do what they may. And we’ll stay over there and clean up our own villains, fix our own knitting for a while, trusting that for a short window, Russia is a moral state that will dispense appropriate justice with our full blessing. That’s how I would do it.

    #166428
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    I agree that the scheduled November US Presidential election is, indeed, the (second) most important election in American history, but NOT for the reasons most everybody thinks.

    It’s going to be the (second) most important election because in the same way that the FIRST most important election [which put George Washington in office] proved the concept that IT COULD BE DONE, the upcoming disaster is going to be proof positive that we are no longer able to actually do it any more.

    No fucking way. Literally IMPOSSIBLE. Not only is there NO WAY for it to be held freely and fairly without monumentally gross cheating from start to finish, BUT ALSO there is the guaranteed promise by both sides that they absolutely will not accept the results if their side loses.

    That’s not an election. It’s the opening bell of a civil war.

    #166429
    Oroboros
    Participant

    For FOUR YEARS the Demonrats lied about Pedo Jo-jo’s mental capacity

    Duh’merica has no one in particular making Presidential decisions, no one in charge visibly on the World Stage.

    Worst than a stuffed shirt.

    The World Majority of countries sees Duh’merica as a WEAK, demented, perverse criminal organization.

    Pirates basically, scum of the Earth

    Join BRICS, help KILL the Empire of Lies

    Drive a stake through it’s phucking Satanic Heart.

    You’ll feel better about yourself!

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    #166430
    Oroboros
    Participant

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    #166437
    John Day
    Participant

    @Oroboros: Sorry people won’t look at you in stores. “Social distancing” thingy? Yes, subtly impaired.

    @Dr. D: Do you mean to imply, or perhaps to subtly infer the possibility that “celticbiker” is not completely a real thinking, feeling human-being, but perhaps a trollbot, assigned to this platform with minimal human-minding? If so, I might be minimally offended, or maybe not. I’ll have to monitor the output going forward.

    #166438
    Oroboros
    Participant

    DemonRats

    Everything they touch turns to shit.

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    #166439
    John Day
    Participant

    This just in: Kamala’s First Economic Plan Proposes Price Controls To “Combat Inflation” https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/vp-harris-first-economic-plan-proposes-federal-price-controls-combat-inflation

    #166440
    zerosum
    Participant

    Control, the narrative
    Control, informational/knowledge awareness
    Control Requires Critical Understanding of SCM

    Supply line/chain/networks management/warehousing and logistics.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supply_chain_management

    Supply chain management (SCM) is the coordination of a business’ entire production flow, from sourcing raw materials to delivering a finished item. The global supply chain is a complex network of suppliers, manufacturers, distributors, retailers, wholesalers and customers.

    Supply chain management (SCM) deals with a system of procurement (purchasing raw materials/components), operations management, logistics and marketing channels
    ‎Supply chain resilience · ‎Theories · ‎Supply chain centroids

    SCM encompasses the integrated planning and execution of processes required to optimize the flow of materials, information and capital in functions that broadly include demand planning, sourcing, production, inventory management and logistics—or storage and transportation.
    —————
    Control, informational/knowledge awareness
    Do you think that Iran does not know ..

    • Cracks in the Dome: Israel’s Security Mirage (Raiss)
    https://thecradle.co/articles/cracks-in-the-dome-israels-security-mirage
    Anis Raiss
    AUG 14, 2024
    ———–

    #166441
    John Day
    Participant

    Weird video looks real:
    Kamala’s VP Tim Walz sent his tyrannical agents into Minnesota neighborhoods to shoot citizens with paintball guns during Covid
    Do we really want someone like this running our country?
    https://x.com/hodgetwins/status/1823344758565003622

    #166442
    zerosum
    Participant

    Price Control
    https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/vp-harris-first-economic-plan-proposes-federal-price-controls-combat-inflation

    VP Harris’ campaign argues that lowering Americans’ costs is a function of socialist-style price controls.
    Yet this is the quickest way to understand that Harris’ economic team has no actual understanding of inflation.

    Harris’ economic team has no actual understanding of Supply chain management (SCM)

    #166443
    zerosum
    Participant

    Note:
    Harris’ economic team has no actual understanding of Supply chain management (SCM)
    If they do understand … then they are lying!

    #166444
    jb-hb
    Participant

    61-Year-Old Brit Gets 18 Month Prison Sentence For Chanting “Who The F**k Is Allah

    and everyone knows a non citizen recent migrant chanting “who the fuck is jesus” would get 0 months

    a white christian woman silently praying on public land got a prison sentence. And they know, as surely as the laws of thermodynamics, a non UK citizen muslim praying in public would get 0 months.

    Their faces are being absolutely rubbed in it now. Anarcho terrorism turned up to 11.

    #166445
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    @JohnDay

    About that video of storm troopers in armored vehicles, sent in by the orders of now VP Candidate (and earlier Minnesota Governor) Walz to terrorize a neighborhood by military assault to attain a political governmental objective.

    Kinda says it all, don’t it?

    There is this special aspect to war that’s difficult to appreciate in its fullness until you are actually IN a war, and it is this: it is a war, and you will either successively fight it AS A TRUE WAR, or you will be killed or subjugated by that enemy. Armored vehicles and guns are REAL.

    Let’s roll that tape again, and this time when you watch it imagine that the armored vehicle is a tank, and the cops are carrying machine guns and are covered by overhead drones linked by military grade communications systems and reserve troops held in readiness with bigger weapons systems at their beck and call.
    https://x.com/hodgetwins/status/1823344758565003622

    #166446
    jb-hb
    Participant

    These are top, brand new APCs, hundreds, Tanks, hundreds, all run with satellite mapping, with AI predictive for Russian response, protected with NATO local AI drones and short, medium, and “Long” range missiles even ATACMs. Which are using denial-of-theatre, top jamming, air-defense shooting NATO equipment. And how many men? 1,000? 5,000? or 20,000?

    That’s my surmise from looking at the map and wondering what would even make sense (plus knowing how previous offensives went, it’d have to be something different)

    Real question is – what’s the loss ratio? Have they found the secret recipe that makes for a sustainable war?

    If they were experiencing 10:1 casualty rates before, maybe worse, that’s clearly not sustainable. The war would end soon at this point.

    It doesn’t even have to be a favorable ratio! They just have to prove they can get it down to 3:1 or 2:1. That Ukrainians are lost at an unfavorable ratio is not in and of itself objectionable. The challenge is to acquire, test, and then scaled-up implement something that expends Ukrainians at loss ratios that CAN be sustained.

    And since Ukraine is expected to be part of Russia or at least solidly within the Russian sphere of influence, every lost Ukrainian or other loss to The Ukraine – infrastructure, culture, education, population, industrial base, whatever – is still a win. You’re depleting Russian strength WHILE depleting Russian strength.

    But purely in a pragmatic sense, you can’t have your loss ratio cause the war to end.

    That’d be like if you were an arsonist and your fire burnt itself out by burning everything within reach too quickly. Instead of burning for a long time, spreading, burning up a lot of stuff.

    #166447
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    Sure does look like NATO is going down hard, both militarily, financially and of course politically too (since their political power grew from the barrel of a gun which paid quite handsomely to make and sell).

    Israel is close behind (no pun intended) and is indeed tied to the Ukrainian boondoggle like an anchor chain wrapped around its neck), and the “Iron Sieve” PR stunt ain’t gonna save them neither.

    Things sure are moving fastly.

    #166448
    jb-hb
    Participant

    …2 lingering questions. Okay, Russia will reduce the Kursk salient, but at what cost? 1:1 loss ratio??? Worse?

    And the other question – okay NATO, you proved the secret recipe. Nice job, whichever Colonel or Major did the white paper on it and convinced everyone to try it, I guess. Last remaining competent guy in the room?

    Do you have more of the same STUFF so after Russia chews the Kursk stuff up, you can keep that going? Do you have the industrial base cranking this stuff out or what? WHERE is that industrial base??? Do you have black site factories, or what?

    #166449
    jb-hb
    Participant

    Just to clarify, I haven’t transformed into a Russia-is-doomed troll – 1:1 loss ratio SEEMS unlikely. I’m just saying, I think NATO was trying something new which is not guaranteed to be consequence free.

    #166450
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    Let’s see now, how are the big crises doing?

    There’s the Dollar, Ukraine, Israel, US Presidential Selection, Assassination revelations, and the fact that an army fully paid for and supported by our own government has just crossed our southern border and been deployed nation-wide without a single shot being fired.

    Convergence is right on track for late August, and going full-on kinetic no later than November 5th.

    Did I miss anything?

    #166451
    phoenixvoice
    Participant

    @ jb-hb

    Thank you for the thoughts about avoiding online scammers. My dear 91-year-old friend and client was very nearly scammed a couple of weeks ago, so this is on my mind. It was, of course, the “microsoft” scam, website screaming at her, etc. She was on the phone with them for an hour before they went after her banking information — then she hung up the phone and called me. When I accessed her computer I saw that someone else was remoted in and was in the process of copying the username and password for her bank account out of a passwords file. I had decided not to charge her for computer help any longer, in light of all of the help that she has given me and my kids over the years…but I have found that then she doesn’t feel as free to call me when I don’t charge her. So she and I have decided that I will charge her again (but at the same rate…she doesn’t need to know that I raised my rates for all but 3 of my clients.) It is better that she pay me for helping her with her technology than running the risk of being scammed, although I was happy to help her without remuneration.

    I thought about the protections that you were suggesting, and it occurs to me that there may be some much simpler ways to accomplish nearly the same thing. Are you familiar with OpenDNS? It is a DNS filtering service that has been around for a long time — I was first made aware of it about 16 years ago. It looks like the service is still free for home use. A router can be configured to use it. Another option would be a Firewalla box — although the one that I have is sometimes buggy. (It also may simply be that I haven’t made the time to figure out what was up with it, lol. Firewallas also make use of OpenDNS.)

    I would hesitate greatly to move an elderly client from Windows to any version of GUI Linux — the elderly often struggle greatly with change. Case in point: My friend recently purchased a laptop, and since the Microsoft Office software packaging was lost in the move to the retirement community a few years back, her daughter and I decided to use a seat her daughter’s multi-license Ms Office on the laptop. During this debacle with fake “microsoft” support scammers, the scammer activated the new version of Microsoft Outlook. My friend has used Outlook for probably about 25 years or more, but she is accustomed to how it looks on her PC, using software from 2010, configured to appear roughly the same as it was 25 years ago. The “new” Outlook was bewildering. I toggled Outlook back to the original, and Microsoft wanted to know the reason why…I explained that the owner was a 91-year-old woman who was not interested in changes in how the software looked!

    #166452
    jb-hb
    Participant

    Not missed, but put a different way

    Potential oil crisis caused by near-east war, closing both Red Sea and Straits of Hormuz

    Stock market crash (lock limit down each day for a week after a carrier sinks?)

    Banking crisis results

    Argentina 2001 – you can’t have the money in your bank right now AND the dollar is collapsing but we blame the oil crisis for rising prices

    Oh yeah also on tap, internet goes down, undocumented agents/terrrists go berserk throughout the west, power grid gets borked, maybe another assassination attempt on someone or successful assassination (what good IS Harris to the Dems at this point BUT…)

    Maybe some pretext is found for direct NATO involvement in The Ukraine but why bother, NATO can throw as much stuff in there as it wants already.

    That’s all I can think of for Doom Porn right now.

    #166453
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    @jb-hb

    Don’t sweat it about Russia and Kursk. What it looks like to me is that somehow or other you just accidentally accepted some bad information about how things are actually going in the Kursk cauldron. The Russians aren’t suffering 1:1 losses. They are wiping the FLOOR with those NATO forces in a Russian-Standard-Meat-Grinder that is grinding up the LAST of NATO’s best troops and best equipment.

    I would recommend that you identify that news source and flag that source as unreliable (at best) because bad data is SELDOM accidental.

    #166454
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    Not too incidentally, I bet that less than 1% of the normal population understand why governments declare “Emergencies” in certain places from time to time.

    It is NOT, as most people think, merely an official acknowledgement that something really big and bad has occurred in that place.

    It is a LEGAL action which announces, in a legally binding fashion, that the rules, regulations and procedures which were in place and enforceable prior to the emergency are now SUSPENDED and that a NEW set of rules, regulations and procedures are now in place and fully enforceable under the law.

    Emergency Laws are typically quite draconian and unquestionable, depending upon what sort of emergency was declared. Many variations are possible, but at the end of the day they are LAW, and enforced.

    It’s a big deal and is seldom done lightly, and it is ALSO just one step below full-on Declaration of War.

    #166455
    John Day
    Participant

    We Are All Next https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/we-are-all-next

    ​ ‘Operation al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 311: International condemnations of Israel’s massacre at Gaza school as pressure grows on Netanyahu to reach ceasefire deal
    Hamas demands a plan to implement the original ceasefire deal proposed by the U.S. last July ahead of a new round of negotiations set to start this week.
    ​ Israel kills at least 100 Palestinians in the bombing of the Tabi’in school in Gaza City during dawn prayer. Israeli army claims school used as Hamas command center, while Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor investigation reveals school did not contain any military presence.
    ​ Palestinian Civil Defense says Tabi’in school massacre is “horrifying beyond imagination,” including “tragic scenes similar to the massacre of the Baptist Al-Ahli Hospital back in December, in which families continued to look for the remains of their beloved ones.”
    ​ UN Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in Palestine, Francesca Albanese, says no evidence Hamas fighters were at Tabi’in school, states that provide arms to Israel in breach of genocide convention.​ https://mondoweiss.net/2024/08/operation-al-aqsa-flood-day-311-international-condemnations-of-israels-massacre-at-gaza-school-as-pressure-grows-on-netanyahu-to-reach-ceasefire-deal/

    ​ Ben-Gvir storms Al-Aqsa Mosque with hundreds of settlers
    Coinciding with the occupation’s aggression in Gaza and the West Bank, approximately 2,000 settlers stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque to mark the “destruction of the temple”
    anniversary.
    Hundreds of settlers, including Israeli Police Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, raided the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque on Tuesday under the protection of occupation police forces.​..
    ​..During the storming, occupation forces obstructed Palestinian worshipers from entering the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque, deploying large forces at its gates to facilitate the settlers’ actions.​ https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/ben-gvir-storms-al-aqsa-mosque-with-hundreds-of-settlers

    Israelis make plans to settle Gaza ‘within a year’
    ​ Far-right Israeli settler leader Daniella Weiss held a meeting on a hill overlooking Gaza to draw up plans for new illegal settlements in the besieged Strip ‘within a year’. Weiss later presented her plans on an Israeli news show, as she explained how she was currently in talks with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about the new settlements.​ https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240814-israelis-make-plans-to-settle-gaza-within-a-year/

    ​ US obstructs international recognition of Palestine in every possible way — Abbas
    Since 1947, Mahmoud Abbas noted, a thousand UN resolutions on the Palestinian issue had been adopted. None of the decisions have ever been implemented​ https://tass.com/world/1828929

    #166456
    John Day
    Participant

    ​ Palestine will under no circumstances agree to Russia’s exclusion from the Middle East settlement process, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said in an interview with TASS First Deputy Director-General Mikhail Gusman following his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
    ​ As Abbas emphasized, Russia “has always sought and is seeking ways for a peace solution” and is striving for “a just solution to the Middle East issue in accordance with of international law.”​ https://tass.com/world/1828917

    ​ Israeli PM Netanyahu and his Cabinet unfit to perform duties: Gantz
    Netanyahu and Gallant are disputing over the ongoing genocide in the Gaza Strip, with the security minister accusing the prime minister of obstructing a prisoner swap deal.
    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government are unfit to carry out their duties amid their ongoing genocide in Gaza, former War Cabinet member Benny Gantz said on Tuesday.
    The head of the National Unity party was commenting on the recent personal and political dispute between Netanyahu and his Security Minister Yoav Gallant, asserting that their differences do not serve either of them. https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/israeli-pm-netanyahu-and-his-cabinet-unfit-to-perform-duties

    ​ Turkey won’t let Israel ‘set region on fire’, vows Erdogan
    The Tu​rkish leader also said that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will address the Turkish parliament on Thursday​ https://tass.com/world/1829163

    ​A beginning: Israel sees soaring vegetable, fruit prices amid Turkiye’s boycott over Gaza war https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240814-israel-sees-soaring-vegetable-fruit-prices-amid-turkiyes-boycott-over-gaza-war/

    ​ M. K. BHADRAKUMAR​ Iran finesses its deterrence strategy
    ​ The latest Israeli spin has it that Iran cannot make up its mind whether to retaliate or not for the killing of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh on July 28 while on a visit to Tehran for the inaugural of President Masoud Pezeshkian.
    ​ The hypothesis here is that there must be a standoff between Pezeshkian and hardliners of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) with the new president pushing back against any aggressive strategy against Israel.
    ​ Prima facie, it is a ridiculous spin. But Iran rebutted it, nonetheless, with the Acting Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri Kani stating as recently as on Saturday night that Tehran “will make the aggressor Israeli regime pay the price for its aggression in a legitimate and decisive action.” Those were carefully chosen words.
    ​ But how come Iran didn’t act for a fortnight already? Several factors are in play here. First, Pezeshkian has not yet formed his government. He submitted his list of proposed ministers to the Parliament for approval only yesterday. The executive branch of the government is carrying on with day-to-day functioning.
    ​ Nonetheless, according to Russian media, Pezeshkian did speak about Iran’s retaliatory strike against Israel at a meeting with the visiting Russian Security Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu on ​August 5 in Tehran.
    ​ That said, do not rule out that there could be some calibration in the timing. After all, Israel is in panic and reports say people stay awake at night fearing Iranian attack. According to IRNA, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, for all his bravado, evacuated four of Israel’s important intelligence and security bases in Tel Aviv.
    ​ Second, Iran will not act as “spoiler” when regional states and the US are pulling all stops to pick up the threads of the Gaza ceasefire talks between Hamas and Israel. The fact that Israel agreed to the talks on Thursday suggests that Netanyahu also sees advantages in returning to the negotiating table.
    ​ Of course, Iran will also be carefully weighing the scale of its attack on Israel. After all, Haniyeh was killed in a covert operation in which there was no Iranian casualty.
    ​ However, the clincher is going to be the progress in the upcoming talks. Iran may altogether postpone the operation if the Israeli side gives guarantees at the talks not to invade Lebanon and withdraws troops from the Gaza Strip.
    ​ Tehran could potentially reconsider its position if a radical change occurs in the situation in the region following the conclusion of a truce between Hamas and Israel. Expectations are running high. And, make no mistake, Tehran has a much closer equation with Yahya Sinwar than it had with Haniyeh.
    ​ Therefore, the high-stakes diplomacy this week leading to the talks scheduled for Thursday to secure a hostage and ceasefire deal in Gaza becomes an inflection point.
    ​ Iran’s UN mission in New York said in a statement on Friday, “Our priority is to establish a lasting ceasefire in Gaza. Any agreement accepted by Hamas will also be recognised by us.” The statement reiterated Iran’s right to self-defence against Israel but also added, “However, we hope that our response will be timed and conducted in a manner not to the detriment of the potential ceasefire.”​ …
    ​..Finally, in the range of discourses over Iran’s retaliation, what is overlooked generally is that Iranians invariably have a strategy, unlike Israelis who resort to knee-jerk reactions. Therefore, the ‘big picture’ becomes important here.
    ​ Iran is not looking for war, especially when it has done exceedingly well so far to cut losses and turn the table on Israel in a cost-effective manner. Israel’s international image is in the mud and not all the freshwater in the Sea of Galilee can wash off the filth.
    ​ Iran’s number one priority will be to have the western sanctions removed. Supreme Leader Khamenei’s deal with Pezeshkian quintessentially narrows down to improving the economy by getting rid of sanctions and making it possible for Iran to gain its rightful place in the international order by using its vast resources optimally.​ https://www.indianpunchline.com/iran-finesses-its-deterrence-strategy/

    #166457
    phoenixvoice
    Participant

    @ JB-JB

    It may be that my clients trust me more easily because I am a woman, and not a man. But I don’t think that is it.
    Over the last 15 years I’ve received several phone calls from clients in one stage or another of a scam — usually pretty early on (I am called, rather than the number on the screen.). For some, the fact that I am paid makes it more likely that they call me. For others, it makes it less likely — not wanting to incur the cost — I am called because my fee for a quick phone call is much less than the headache of a scam. With family, the hesitation may just come from “not wanting to create an inconvenience” and “saving face.” Elderly, non-dementia types might spot a door-to-door scam easily, but fall for an online scam because their internal “scam filters” were developed for a different era.

    #166458
    Oroboros
    Participant

    For anyone who even vaguely thinks the Ukronazi Kursk thing was a good idea:

    Auto translated: https://ria-ru.translate.goog/20240814/ukraina-1965955368.html?_x_tr_sl=ru&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp

    by Victoria Nikiforova

    The Russians really want to crush the Empire of Lies and it’s little cowardly Military Maggots and will do so.

    No negotiations. Ukraine simply should not exist

    “The main result of the Ukrainian attack on Russia turned out to be exactly the opposite of what was intended.

    They started this terrorist event in an attempt to “improve their negotiating position.”

    It’s the same today – no one will ever forgive the Ukronazis for the suffering and death of our citizens. We have not forgotten either the torment of the Odessa residents who were burned in May 2014, or the death of civilians in the Donbass . There will be a reckoning for everything – in fact, it is coming now.

    It’s the same today – no one will ever forgive the Ukronazis for the suffering and death of our citizens. We have not forgotten either the torment of the Odessa residents who were burned in May 2014, or the death of civilians in the Donbass . There will be a reckoning for everything – in fact, it is coming now.

    In fact, they have reached the point that there will be no negotiations.

    “Truly revolutionary processes unfold slowly, over decades.

    Now Russia has entered into a leadership role precisely in such a historical revolution.

    We are fighting for our independence and are ready to fight for it for years and decades until we reach Lvov – and if necessary, then further.

    In the end, the answer to the question “who does Russia border with?” says:

    “Russia borders with whomever it wants.”

    “Hence the peace negotiations, the idea of ​​which we sincerely supported.

    Until recently, according to all polls, the majority of the Russian population was in favor of a peaceful resolution of the conflict.

    Events in the Kursk region changed everything.”

    “[NATO and the Empire of Lies] is on our soil for the first time since the Great Patriotic War.

    German infantry fighting vehicles are driving around the Kursk region.

    The collective West supports its cannon fodder with a joyful squeal. Civilized Europe approves of terror against Russians.”

    “What can you talk about with these people?” – asked the Russian President.

    This is a rhetorical question, it does not need an answer.

    The Americans, bleeding from their noses, needed peace negotiations before the elections. Now they can say thank you to Zelensky there will be NO negotiations.

    Oddly enough, we can thank a Jewish Nazi too.

    “His sabotage launched such a powerful national building in Russia that we could not even dream of.

    Against the backdrop of a direct and obvious external threat, all our recent disputes seem like such nonsense.”

    It’s the same today – no one will ever forgive the Ukronazis for the suffering and death of our citizens.

    We have not forgotten either the torment of the Odessa residents who were burned in May 2014, or the death of civilians in the Donbass .

    There will be a reckoning for everything – in fact, it is coming now.

    “Compared to the ever-grimacing Ukrainians, Russians look unemotional.

    However, it is a mistake to mistake our equanimity for weakness. In fact, this is cold determination, multiplied by the legendary Russian patience.

    Over the course of our thousand-year history, this unique weapon has allowed us to dismantle the most terrible armies and kill millions of our enemies.”

    Amen Sister

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    #166459
    John Day
    Participant

    ​ Craig Murray: We Are the Bad Guys
    ​ In Murder in Samarkand I describe how as a British ambassador, when I discovered the full extent of our complicity in torture in the War on Terror, I thought it must be a rogue operation and all I had to do was make ministers and senior officials aware and they would stop it.
    ​ When I was reprimanded and officially told that receipt of intelligence from torture in the “War on Terror” was approved from the prime minister and foreign secretary down, and it became clear to me that there was a deliberate promoting of false intelligence narratives through torture, which exaggerated the Al Qaida threat to justify military policy in Afghanistan and Central Asia, my worldview was severely shaken.
    ​ Somehow I mentally compartmentalised this as an aberration, due to overreaction to 9/11 and the unique narcissism and viciousness of then Prime Minister Tony Blair.​..
    ​..I have however now finally shed the last of my illusions and I am obliged to acknowledge that the system of which I am a part – call it “the West,” “liberal democracy,” “capitalism,” “neo-liberalism,” “neo-conservatism,” “imperialism,” “the New World Order” — call it what you will in fact, it is a force for evil.
    ​ Gaza has been an important catalyst. I am not lacking in empathy, but my knowledge of the horrid butchery by the Western powers in Iraq, Afghanistan or Libya was an intellectual knowledge, not a lived experience.
    ​ Technology has brought us the Gaza genocide – which has so far killed fewer people than any of those earlier NATO- member perpetrated massacres – in gut wrenching detail.​ I have just been looking at 75kg bags of mixed human meat handed over to relatives in lieu of an identifiable corpse, and am in shock.​..
    ..The West are not the good guys. Our so-called “democratic systems” give us no ability to vote for anybody who may get into power who does not support the genocide and imperialist foreign policy​…
    ​..There is no longer any free space for dissent in the media to oppose any of this.
    We are the Bad Guys. We resist our own governing systems, or we are complicit.
    ​ In the United Kingdom it falls to the Celtic nations to try to break up the state which is a subordinate but important imperialist engine. The paths of resistance are various, depending where you are.​ But find one and take one. https://consortiumnews.com/2024/08/13/craig-murray-we-are-the-bad-guys/

    ​ US Says It’s Not Discussing Withdrawing From Iraq
    The State Department says recent talks with the Iraqi government are about transitioning to a ‘bilateral security partnership’​ https://news.antiwar.com/2024/08/14/us-says-its-not-discussing-withdrawing-from-iraq/

    ​ Thomas Crooks joined DHS-infested Clairton Sportsmen’s Club last summer, trained 43 times before aiming at Trump in Butler​ (I think there could be 2 patsies.)
    ​ We now know, thanks to the efforts of Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Ia.), that Thomas Crooks “vigorously trained,” to quote one source, at the Clairton Sportsmen’s Club where federal agents from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and other spook agencies also train.
    ​ This is significant because DHS oversees the U.S. Secret Service, which “dropped the ball,” to give the agency the benefit of the doubt, in keeping Donald Trump safe at his rally in Butler, Penn.
    ​ In the year prior to aiming at Trump and pulling the trigger, Crooks visited Clairton 43 separate times, including on all of the major holidays that occurred during that time.​ https://www.naturalnews.com/2024-08-14-thomas-crooks-dhs-clairton-sportsmens-club-trump-butler.html

    ​Remember how this worked for us under Nixon, or not? Kamala’s First Economic Plan Proposes Price Controls To “Combat Inflation” https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/vp-harris-first-economic-plan-proposes-federal-price-controls-combat-inflation

    ​ RFK Jr Tried To Meet With Harris In Pursuit Of Cabinet Position
    ​ Independent 2024 presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr tried to land a meeting with Vice President Kamala Harris last week, in hopes of trading an endorsement for a top job in her administration, the Washington Post and other outlets reported Wednesday evening.
    ​ So far, Team Harris has ignored RFK Jr’s pitch. “We’ve reached out repeatedly through the highest level intermediaries. We’ve been told that they have no interest in talking with me,” Kennedy told the New York Times.​..
    ..While Harris ignored the invitation, Kennedy did secure a meeting with Donald Trump last month in Milwaukee, and reportedly offered the same deal that he now wants to offer to Harris, with a specific interest in advising Trump on health and medical policy…
    ​..Lis Smith, who advises the Democratic National Committee, scoffed at Kennedy’s dual overtures: “No one has any intention of negotiating with a MAGA-funded fringe candidate who has sought out a job with Donald Trump in exchange for an endorsement.” While Kennedy confirmed his outreach to Harris, he denies having sought conversations with Democratic Party officials. “The only contact I have with the DNC is them suing me through intermediaries,” he told the Post.​ https://www.zerohedge.com/political/rfk-jr-tried-meet-harris-pursuit-cabinet-position

    #166460
    John Day
    Participant

    Andrew Korybko, Analyzing Putin’s Assessment Of Ukraine’s Incursion Into Kursk
    By officially regarding the latest cross-border incursion as an act of terrorism instead of a military invasion, Putin signaled that he’s holding off on diverting forces from the Donbass front, which thus prevents Kiev from achieving its “primary military objective”.
    Ukraine’s sneak attack against Russia’s Kursk Region was the subject of Putin’s meeting with leading government officials and the governors of three western border regions on Monday. His remarks were concise but still conveyed a lot of important information. He began by reminding everyone that “the main objective for the Defence Ministry is to force the adversary to withdraw from our territory and reliably secure our state border by working together with the Border Service.”
    To that end, “The Federal Security Service must work with the National Guard as part of the counter-terrorist regime and effectively counter the enemy’s sabotage and reconnaissance groups. The National Guard has its own combat objectives too.” This aligns with last week’s announcement by the National Antiterrorism Committee of a new counterterrorism operation in Bryansk, Kursk, and Belgorod Regions. Putin thus only considers this attack to be an act of terrorism and not a full-fledged invasion for now.
    ​ Officially recognizing it as an invasion would prompt the question of why a state of war hasn’t been declared in response, which in turn could put pressure upon the authorities to mobilize the population through mandatory conscription, at least in the affected regions. Putin is reluctant to further inconvenience the populace and is also presumably being advised that this isn’t necessary, hence the decision behind describing everything that way that he did.
    ​ He then segued into sharing his well-known view that the West is using Ukraine as its proxy for waging war on Russia, adding that in this particular context the aim is “to strengthen their negotiating position for the future.” This was followed by him ruling out any talks so long as they continue targeting civilians and threatening nuclear power plants. The innuendo is that Ukraine must accept his ceasefire proposal from earlier this summer, or be forced to do so by its patrons, as the basis for resuming negotiations. ​..The next point that Putin made was to draw attention to Kiev’s “primary military objective” in Kursk, which he said is “to halt the advance of our forces” in Donbass, where they’ve increased the pace of their gains by fifty percent along the entire front. This conforms with the assessment of most analysts…
    Left unstated throughout the meeting is what’s being planned once “the main objective” of “forcing the adversary to withdraw” is achieved, which can be interpreted as a sign that they’re not ready to consider that just yet since they might expect it to still be some time before that happens…
    ..Either way, it’s worth wondering what’ll follow Ukraine’s expulsion from Kursk Region…
    ..The least likely scenarios are that another speculative ‘gentleman’s agreement’ with the US over the security of Russia’s western regions will be reached or that Russia will launch a full-fledged offensive into Ukraine’s neighboring Chernigov, Sumy, and/or Kharkov Regions.​..
    ​..By officially regarding the latest cross-border incursion as an act of terrorism instead of a military invasion, Putin signaled that he’s holding off on diverting forces from that front, which thus prevents Kiev from achieving its “primary military objective”.
    ​ For that reason, it can be concluded that he’s intent on staying the course and won’t let events in Kursk distract him from that. He correctly senses that the conflict might soon be approaching an inflection point after which everything could then accelerate if the Ukrainian front lines in Donbass collapse like he hopes will happen. Unless a black swan appears, Russia will therefore keep pursuing its maximum goals in the conflict, which rest in forcing Ukraine to agree to all of its military, political, and strategic demands.​ https://korybko.substack.com/p/analyzing-putins-assessment-of-ukraines

    ​ Simplicius, Zelensky Doubles Down as His Front Collapses
    ​ Thus, once Pokrovsk is captured, all those interior settlements to the southeast would come under immense pressure with dwindling supply routes, and their own collapse would be accelerated greatly.
    ​ This is likely the reason for Zelensky’s desperate urgency in Kursk. His command likely understands the dire nature of what’s soon to come, as the entire front on this region stands to collapse after Pokrovsk falls. Zelensky needed a way to divert Russia’s attention somewhere else, but so far no slow down has been recorded for Russia’s advances in this area.​..
    ​..Russian commander Apti Alaudinov confirmed earlier that based on POW confessions, the Ukrainian forces were meant to capture Kurchatov by August 11th in their operation. If that’s true, it can be seen that they’re way behind schedule and thus must now resort to desperate measures.​ It became known from the captured airmen that the capture of Kurchatov and the Kursk NPP from the enemy was planned for August 11. After that, Kiev wanted to negotiate with Moscow and issue an ultimatum. https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/sitrep-81424-zelensky-doubles-down

    ​ US lining up possible Zelensky replacement: SVR​ The United States is considering replacing him with a more controllable and less corrupt person who will appeal to the majority of the Western world.​ https://english.almayadeen.net/news/Arts&Culture/us-lining-up-possible-zelensky-replacement–svr

    Naomi Wolf Removed From X After Alex Jones Interview​ https://www.infowars.com/posts/breaking-naomi-wolf-removed-from-x-after-alex-jones-interview/

    Israeli contractor claims Israel is behind rigging elections and online bot farms Not China and not Russia​. They claim Israel has rigged more than 30 elections​ https://x.com/Kahlissee/status/1823369063348781214

    #166461
    John Day
    Participant

    “That’s not a bug, it’s a feature​: ‘Help America Vote'” Top Hackers Expose Vulnerabilities in Voting Machines for 2024 Election​
    America’s top hackers have revealed that the voting machines due to be used in the 2024 presidential election have vulnerabilities that allow ballot counts to be manipulated.
    ​ However, despite the discovery, it may be too late to address the vulnerabilities before the critical November elections.
    The vulnerabilities were revealed by hackers at the annual DEF CON conference in Las Vegas.​ https://slaynews.com/news/top-hackers-expose-vulnerabilities-voting-machines-2024-election/

    ​ Advice from DEFCON: Turn off Bluetooth and WiFi​, Yes, stores are using this to track you.
    This weekend, I attended DEFCON, the world’s largest and most notorious hacking conference.​..
    ​..When you walk into a store, your phone might be silently broadcasting information that retailers can use to track your movements, analyze your shopping habits, and even identify you the next time you visit. This kind of location tracking has become commonplace, and it’s happening without most of us even realizing it.​..
    ..This data is then used to analyze foot traffic, understand customer behavior, and send targeted advertisements or offers directly to your phone while you shop. This information can often be linked to your identity, creating a detailed profile of your shopping habits and preferences. This tracking happens invisibly, often without your explicit consent, and it’s becoming a standard practice in many retail environments.​..
    ​ Best Practices for Reducing Location Tracking:
    Airplane Mode: What you can do: Turning on Airplane Mode disables communication with cell towers, which stops your location from being triangulated by them every time you connect to a tower.
    Location Services:​ What you can do: Disabling Location Services controls GPS and other location tracking methods. Review and manage which apps have access to your location, and consider turning it off entirely when not needed. This reduces the amount of location data shared with apps and third parties, helping to protect your privacy…
    WiFi:​ What you can do: Turn off WiFi when not in use to prevent your phone from sending or receiving location data…
    Bluetooth:​ What you can do: Turn it off when not in use, which stops you from being tracked by Bluetooth signals in public spaces.​..
    Faraday Bags:​ What you can do: Consider storing your phone in a Faraday bag when you’re not using it if you’re concerned about location tracking.​ https://nbtv.substack.com/p/advice-from-defcon-turn-off-bluetooth

    ​ Texas sues General Motors, alleging illegal selling of driver data​ (What is your “Driver’s Score”?)
    ​ Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued General Motors Tuesday, alleging the carmaker illegally collected and sold drivers’ data to insurance companies without their consent or knowledge, according to a release from the AG’s office…
    ​..“We’ve been in discussions with the Attorney General’s office and are reviewing the complaint. We share the desire to protect consumers’ privacy,” a GM spokesperson said in a statement.
    ​ In car models from 2015 and later, the Detroit-based car manufacturer allegedly used technology to “collect, record, analyze, and transmit highly detailed driving data about each time a driver used their vehicle,” according to the AG’s statement.
    ​ General Motors sold this information to several other companies, including to at least two companies for the purpose of generating “Driving Scores” about GM’s customers, the AG alleged. The suit said those two companies then sold these scores to insurance companies.​ https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/13/business/texas-sues-general-motors-driver-data/index.html

    ​You can’t watch that! X Conversation Between Musk And Trump Generates Over A Billion Views​ https://www.zerohedge.com/political/x-conversation-between-musk-and-trump-generates-over-billion-views

    ​;-) Tulsi Gabbard Suing Biden/Harris Admin For Placing Her On TERRORIST Watch List​
    ​ The whistleblowers have informed Gabbard that she is being monitored by two Explosive Detection Canine Teams, one Transportation Security Specialist specializing in explosives, one plainclothes TSA Supervisor, and three Federal Air Marshals every time she flies.
    ​ The whistleblowers have stated that Gabbard became marked on the program on July 23, just one day after she openly criticised Kamala Harris, Joe Biden, and the ‘Deep State’ during a Fox News interview with Laura Ingraham. https://modernity.news/2024/08/14/watch-tulsi-gabbard-suing-biden-harris-admin-for-placing-her-on-terrorist-watch-list/

    #166462
    John Day
    Participant

    ​”Sword of Damocles” back in place? ‘Criminalization Of Dissent’ Delayed: German Authorities Postpone CJ Hopkins ‘Swastika Tweet’ Re-Trial At Last Minute
    https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/criminalization-dissent-delayed-german-authorities-postpone-cj-hopkins-swastika-tweet

    ​This is new and completely vague. UK Man Arrested For Social Media Posts Containing “Anti-Establishment Rhetoric”​ https://modernity.news/2024/08/15/uk-man-arrested-for-social-media-posts-containing-anti-establishment-rhetoric/

    ​ White British Cops Win Discrimination Case; Were Not Considered For Promotion Due To Skin-Color​ (“Asian” means Indian/Pakistani in the UK.)
    The Telegraph reports that the tribunal was informed that a superintendent at the police force was tasked with ‘improving diversity’, specifically by seeking to appoint an “Asian” sergeant to the rank of Detective Inspector.​ https://www.zerohedge.com/political/white-british-cops-win-discrimination-case-were-not-considered-promotion-due-skin-color

    ​ UK Police Arrest Woman Who Was ‘Praying In Her Head’ In Public In Breach of Law
    A British woman who was standing on a street corner and “praying in her head” has been arrested by UK police.
    Responding to questioning, the British citizen admitted “I might be praying in my head.” The police officer promptly replied, “Yeah, you can’t be doing that.”​ https://thepeoplesvoice.tv/uk-police-arrest-woman-who-was-praying-in-her-head-in-public-in-breach-of-law/

    ​ Brandon Smith describes a process well-underway, and one preventable. Britain Is Proof: Globalists Plan To Use Migrants As A Mercenary Army Against The West
    ​ Why do western officials insist on gaslighting the public on illegal border crossings? Why do they attempt to destroy anyone that publicly opposes mass immigration from the third world? The laws on the books support the public’s majority position on immigration – Come here legally or don’t come here at all. In Europe, the UK and the US polls show a majority of citizens want reductions in immigration and better border security. Yet, government officials, who often claim to be “protecting democracy,” brazenly ignore these majority concerns. Why?…
    ..The common claim within the Liberty Movement is that this is all part of the “Cloward-Piven Strategy”: A social engineering method which uses large scale relocation of migrants into a society in order to destabilize that nation. The goal is to import people with a incompatible or hostile ideology and, eventually, the target culture will break down and be forced to accept a new system of governance…
    ..My theory goes beyond the Cloward-Piven explanation, though. I think there is a deeper and even more sinister purpose to the introduction of third world migrants to the US and Europe…
    ..“I have mentioned this in previous articles and I continue to believe that one of the main purposes for the establishment to leave borders open and entice illegals to enter is to create a migrant army; a situation in which millions of illegals will be offered easy citizenship in exchange for service. I also believe that this migrant army will be used against the American public (the real citizenry) to impose martial law measures in the wake of a national disaster…”​ https://alt-market.us/britain-is-proof-globalists-plan-to-use-migrants-as-a-mercenary-army-against-the-west/

    #166463
    John Day
    Participant

    ​Farmer and Attorney, John Klar: Vermont Supreme Court Sacrifices Children to Big Pharma
    ​ A controversial Vermont Supreme Court decision reached the rather astonishing conclusion that the government can vaccinate very young children with experimental products without parental consent or legal recourse. The ruling is surreal in a state that claims it prizes individual liberties. If not overturned by sane minds in the US Supreme Court, the consequences of this shortsighted, simplistic opinion may prove profound for American civil rights law.
    ​ Dario Politella and Shujen Politella v. Windham Southeast School District et al. concerned a young child who was administered a Covid-19 vaccination despite his parents’ prior communication to their local public school that he was not to be vaccinated. The boy told workers his parents objected, but they distracted him with a stuffed animal and administered the jab.​ https://brownstone.org/articles/vermont-supreme-court-sacrifices-children-to-big-pharma/

    ​ SARS-CoV-2 mRNA Vaccine-related Myocarditis and Pericarditis: An Analysis of the Japanese Adverse Drug Event Report Database​ (20X ​to 30X ​Increased Risk)
    Methods: Reporting odds ratios (RORs) and 95 % confidence intervals (95 % CIs) for the association between the vaccines and myocarditis/pericarditis were calculated using data from the database (April 2004-December 2023). Age, sex, onset time, and outcomes in symptomatic patients were evaluated.
    ​ Results: The total number of reports was 880,999 (myocarditis: 1846; pericarditis: 761). The adverse events associated with the vaccines included myocarditis (919 cases) and pericarditis (321 cases), with the ROR [95 % CIs] being significant for both (myocarditis: 30.51 [27.82-33.45], pericarditis: 21.99 [19.03-25.40]). Furthermore, the ROR [95 % CIs] of BNT162b2 and mRNA-1273 were 15.64 [14.15-17.28] and 54.23 [48.13-61.10], respectively, for myocarditis, and 15.78 [13.52-18.42] and 27.03 [21.58-33.87], respectively, for pericarditis. Furthermore, most cases were ≤30 years or male. The period from vaccination to onset was ≤8 days, corresponding to early failure type based on analysis using the Weibull distribution. Outcomes were recovery or remission for most cases; however, they were severe or caused death in some cases.
    Conclusion: In the Japanese population, SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccination was significantly associated with the onset of myocarditis/pericarditis.​ https://www.globalresearch.ca/mrna-vaccine-related-myocarditis-pericarditis/5865221

    ​William Makis MD, Canadian Government Admits 48,780 Excess Deaths in 2022 (17% Increase in Mortality). There Is No Evidence COVID-19 Vaccines Saved a Single Life in Canada During 2021-2022 https://www.globalresearch.ca/canadian-government-admits-48780-excess-deaths-2022-17-increase-mortality-no-evidence-covid-19-vaccines-saved-single-life-canada-during-2021-2022/5844539

    ​ Doctors Killed in Plane Crash Vowed To Release Evidence Linking mRNA to Turbo Cancer​ ​ (Certainly you don’t think…)
    ​ The bodies of six world-leading oncologists and two resident medics were found on Friday in the wreckage of a plane that plunged from the sky in Brazil and exploded in a fireball, killing all 62 people on board​…​ The doctors were on their way to an international conference in Sao Paolo where they were set to present their findings that mRNA and the COVID-19 vaccines are responsible for the explosion of turbo cancers and autoimmune disease wreaking havoc around the world today.​..
    ​..Six leading oncologists and two resident medics were on their way to a blockbuster cancer conference in Sao Paulo when the twin-engine turboprop ATR 72-500 VoePass Airline flight plunged from the sky and crashed into a gated community.
    ​ The plane was at an altitude of 16,000 feet when it went into a “death spiral” and plummeted to the ground in fifty seconds.​ Eyewitnesses who caught the crash on video said it appeared to stall before circling to the ground and bursting into flames at around 1.30pm local time
    ​ A total of 15 doctors were scheduled to take the doomed flight but miraculously seven had taken an earlier plane.​..
    ​..The doctors on the doomed flight had concluded that governments and regulators must urgently recall the mRNA vaccines before even more harm is done.​ https://thepeoplesvoice.tv/doctors-killed-in-plane-crash-vowed-to-release-evidence-linking-mrna-to-turbo-cancer/

    Steve Kirsch on the American Board of Internal Medicine. The American Board of Family Medicine did this to me last year, and the American Board of Pediatrics is the same.
    ABIM: “Follow the consensus, not the science. Saving lives is not a priority.”​ ​ [They treated COVID with ivermectin and lost their jobs and hospital appointments.]
    ​ That’s the message ABIM is sending to physicians by revoking the board certifications of Doctors Marik and Kory. “Follow the consensus, not the science.” It’s about compliance, not saving lives.​ https://kirschsubstack.com/p/abim-follow-the-consensus-not-the

    #166464
    John Day
    Participant

    ​ Also ABIM-Decertified Meryl Nass MD, WHO declares $Moneypox a Public Health Emergency of International Concern and plans to roll out two vaccines One is the Jynneos vaccine and the other is an unlicensed vaccine from Japan (Avoid unprotected sexual intercourse and dodge this disease. 1960s Smallpox vaccinations are protective.) https://merylnass.substack.com/p/who-declares-moneypox-a-public-health

    Meryl Nass MD, The hidden CDC trial data for Jynneos vaccine, aka Imvamune, Imvanex and MVA-BN
    Why did they keep changing the name? MVA stands for an old vaccine “Modified Vaccinia Ankara,” used in 2003 for US soldiers at high risk of reactions to other smallpox vaccines.​ https://merylnass.substack.com/p/the-hidden-cdc-trial-data-for-jynneos

    ​ Drink milk with impunity… Meryl Nass MD FDA and USDA: 20.1% of 144 pasteurized dairy products were PCR + for bird flu with no live virus, while NONE of 23 raw milk cheeses were PCR + nor grew live virus Bottom line: You can’t catch bird flu from dairy products or milk, and RAW milk products were the cleanest https://merylnass.substack.com/p/fda-and-usda-201-of-144-pasteurized

    Desertification was supposed to be the ‘greatest environmental challenge of our time.’ Why are experts now worried about greening?​ https://thebulletin.org/2024/08/desertification-was-supposed-to-be-the-greatest-environmental-challenge-of-our-time-why-are-experts-now-worried-about-greening/

    ​The Ethical Skeptic, Climate Activism: Climate Science’s Worst Enemy https://theethicalskeptic.com/2024/08/09/climate-activism-climate-sciences-worst-enemy/

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