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    Gustave Dore Dante and The Ninth Circle of Hell (Treachery) 1857   • Europeans Fear Biden Will Push Ukraine To Peace – Bloomberg (RT) • US To Red
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle August 26 2023]

    #141971
    V. Arnold
    Participant

    Gustave Dore Dante and The Ninth Circle of Hell (Treachery) 1857

    Todays art seems especially relevant; Treachery is a most vile act and is a frequent part of todays world…both in the day-to-day; and the world at large…we need to proceed very cautiously in our daily lives….

    #141972
    Red
    Participant

    “President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov on Friday dismissed what he called unfounded speculation by some media in the West that Moscow may have been behind the crash of Wagner head Evgeny Prigozhin’s plane”

    His plane. Was he in it? Could be a disappear?

    #141973
    Red
    Participant

    This article addresses the implications of a controversial statement by NATO to the effect that the Ukraine War “didn’t start in 2022”, “The war started in 2014”

    It’s a Bombshell: NATO’s Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg confirmed (speaking on behalf of NATO) that the “war didn’t start in 2022”.

    In an interview with The Washington Post, Jens Stoltenberg unequivocally confirmed that “the war started in 2014″.

    Jens Stoltenberg’s bold statement (which has barely been the object of media coverage) has opened up a Pandora’s Box, or best described “A Can of Worms” on behalf of the Atlantic Alliance.

    What he bears out is that the beginning of the Ukraine war coincided with a U.S. sponsored Coup d’état, confirmed by Victoria’s Nuland‘s “F**k the EU telephone conversation with U.S. Ambassador Pyatt in February 2014. (see below)

    Part I of this article examines the legal implications of Stoltenberg’s statement on behalf of the Atlantic Alliance.

    Of crucial significance: Having stated that “the war started in 2014”, NATO can no longer claim that Russia’s Special Military Operation (SMO) of February 24, 2022 constitutes, from a legal standpoint, “an invasion”.

    Part I also addresses the issue of The Law of Armed Conflict (LOAC).

    Parti II focuses on Stoltenberg’s twisted statement that Article 5 of the Atlantic Treaty could be invoked as means to declare war against Russia.

    “Article 5 of the Atlantic Treaty – its collective defence clause” declaring that an attack on one member state is “to be an attack against all NATO members.” Article 5 is NATO’s doctrine of Collective Self-Defense.

    “The Parties agree that an armed attack against one or more of them in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack against them all”.

    In regards to the invocation of Article V in relation to Russia, a justification or fake “pretext” was mentioned by Stoltenberg in his interview with the Washington Post.

    Were Article V to be invoked, this would inevitably precipitate the World into a WWIII scenario, consisting of a war whereby all 30 member states of the Atlantic Alliance, most of which are members of the European Union would be involved.

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    Part I
    Legal Implications

    Bombshell: NATO Says “War Started in 2014”. “Fake Pretext” to Wage War against Russia? To Invoke Article 5 of Atlantic Treaty?

    #141974
    EoinW
    Participant

    Legal implications and western society has to be the oxymoron of the century.

    There is no Rule of Law in the West any longer. There’s excessively large governments, with power junkie bureaucrats who will never be satisfied.

    Time to bring back the masks!

    #141975
    oxymoron
    Participant

    Great link Red – thanks. so many Australians accept it as Russia’s completely unjustified invasion of Democratic Ukraine. This article is a great share.

    #141976
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Pichttps://www.barnhardt.biz/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/img_0435-1.jpg

    Sick. RFK says so many things, but one is the level of chronic illness is highest in the U.S. and has been rising directly for decades. Since a certain interesting date. This is met with no curiosity at all and great enthusiasm by the medical industry and government.

    https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/i-just-want-sell-titty-pictures-sex-workers-fked-crypto

    It’s “The Least of Us” argument. Sex workers like even Only Fans are de-banked, yet Crypto refuses to leave them a workaround. Howso? Crypto went to a bunch of online speculators, then cashing out in dollars, instead of last-mile retailers accepting coin. Now the banks rig both price and access. Everyone in Crypto applauds, it seems, while mouthing the “decentralized exchange” Libertarian hymns as usual. Ugh. Who knew Libertarians were the MOST naive and LEAST honest people around? They’ve got strong competition for those bad attributes.

    Point being, if you want to know what’s really going on, ask the undermensch, the fringe. Ask immigrants, criminals, people on the run. If they’re being treated fairly, if they want back into the system, you’re going somewhere. If the system exploits them, and helps, like in this case anyone in porn, and all the Left talking about the innate honor and goodness and equality of women and sex work, and then f—s them.

    Why? Because like always if the system does this to “Them”, whoever “Them” is, the Roma, the Indians, the Jews, the Poor, the Pentacostals, the KKK, the Trans queens in Harlem, they will immediately do it to YOU next.

    Speaking of, is there a better movie for today than “Demolition Man” 1993 Sylvester Stallone, Wesley Snipes, Sandra Bullock, Nigel Hawthorne, Denis Leary, Bob Gunton, Glenn Shadix, Rob Schneider, Jack Black, Jesse Ventura, is there anybody NOT in this movie? And it’s a world of 2030 now owned by mega-franchises, where alien ant farmers want virtual sex, have outlawed babies to a lab, where everything is illegal, and even the police are as children. Every theme of 2023 is in it in the best way, so not only is it one of the big best action movies (No GGI, they ACTUALLY blew up a building to film it), not only it is a silly hootenanny, but also looks prescient like today’s news. I was thinking of getting the script and inserting it in the Apocrypha between Esdras and Maccabees.

    Well, go have a good time, it’s fun to watch and think about, unlike the ACTUAL 2023, which isn’t nearly any fun, but at least we’re not fined for swearing. Yet. Only for THINKING about it. Like CJ Hopkins.

    “See, according to Cocteau’s plan, I’m the enemy. Cause I like to think, I like to read. I’m into freedom of speech and freedom of choice. I’m the kind if guy who wants to sit in a greasy spoon and think, “Gee, should I have the T-bone steak or the jumbo rack of barbecued ribs with the side order of gravy fries?” I want high cholesterol. I want to eat bacon, butter and buckets of cheese, okay? I want to smoke a Cuban cigar the size of Cincinnati in a non-smoking section. I wanna run through the streets naked with green Jello all over my body reading Playboy magazine. Why? Because I suddenly might feel the need to. Okay, pal? I’ve seen the future, you know what it is? It’s a 47-year-old virgin sittin’ around in his beige pajamas, drinking a banana-broccoli shake singing “I’m an Oscar-Meyer Wiener”. You wanna live on top, you gotta live Cocteau’s way. What he wants, when he wants, how he wants. Your other choice: come down here, maybe starve to death.” –Denis Leary, channeling what USED to be the Left.

    Remember: the Least of Us. You’re Next.

    And Denis Leary in that Trump ad. Which I don’t understand at all. Boobs? Hire Trump and that’s what you’ll get?

    • Europeans Fear Biden Will Push Ukraine To Peace – Bloomberg (RT)

    Don’t be ridiculous, next year is election year. There’ll be no peace until at least November. And Covid, the world’s most politically-aware virus, will appear now and disappear about then too.

    “The US is unlikely to give Ukraine “anywhere near the same level” of military aid in 2024 compared to this year, “

    They’re not pro Peace, it’s just election season. They’ll nuke Russia and then “Have to” open the floodgates but aw shucks we meant to cut back!

    Like the last 50 years.

    “• Ukraine Mess Will Cost US $600 Bln More Even If Fighting Stopped Tomorrow (Sp.)

    Yeah, but what’s half a trillion between friends? Thankfully Oliver Anthony doesn’t need that, living in a camper on the side of a mountain. And certainly BALTIMORE doesn’t need it with their 0% graduation rate.

    “• Ukraine Ends With ‘Post-Zelensky Warlord’ – Ramaswamy (RT)

    Inside says Ramaswamy is a hand-picked as-actor of the pharmaceutical industry. As an amateur, his foreign policy is straight NeoCon, or can easily merge and channel it. That doesn’t mean he knows this, but his backers make sure he’s the new…who is that useless, nameless, pointless brown guy in England right now? Yeah, whoever he is, that guy who’s less relevant than Truss. Wow! That’s what they want Ramaswamy to be installed as, where he’ll reverse all these talking points and platforms like every politician ever. So I hear and it seems likely. Thus the swap of DeSantis and him, with NBC talking him up excitedly.

    Uh-huh. If they don’t try to kill you, you’re not qualified. But I’m happy if his backers keep him bringing up all these real, authentic, straightforward points in the election. That’s his purpose to me. THEY have now moved the Overton window. At least accommodating a teeny amount of reality.

    And can any living being tell me WTF Pence, Haley, and Christie are doing in the election? They have the same chance as Navalny and Guido. The act of their very existence is an embarrassment to the Republican party and an affront to all members.

    “Prigozhin’s departure along with his core group of senior commanders will incalculably weaken Wagner.”

    At some point it’s what you know. So they could jail/retire Prigozhen and go ask him on a beach house his advice, because he knows and met everybody. Okay, now multiply that times the 10 other passengers. See why Putin might want Prigozhen but it’s unsensible he would wipe out all Wagner talent AND the Pilot AND over Russia AND the weekend of the BRICS meeting? Just no…too far.

    “Almost half the world’s oil. Now add Venezuela.”

    Venezuela is part of the United States, you have to understand this. With only light gasses coming out of our drilling right now, we literally cannot make oil without Heavies like Orinoco…or the tar sands, but that’s the planet’s biggest CONSUMER of natural gas. That means our and their fields are tied together as one. Our national securities are tied together as one. And we blew it in the biggest way. So sad. Shucks, all broken up about it.

    “the stunned collective West, to fully grasp the enormity of the new strategic stakes.”

    They grasp it, that’s why they’re bombing the s—t out of them all until they ran out of bombs (Obama in Africa). And trying to start WWIII daily. However, the failure to grasp is that they think they’re still a player and in the game and they’re not, they already lost.

    “Trump’s First X Post Gets Over 210 MILLION Views In 24 Hours (DCE)

    Doesn’t that Trump mugshot look like it came from a 2-hour photo shoot? Yeah. I’m sure it’s all real and not WWE at all. Whatever.

    So the world’s biggest billionaire insider, a pro abortion, pro-gun control liberal from NYC is now Che Guevara x Soledad Brothers? You can’t pay for this, neither can you make it up. Whatever, fools, whatever. The only point here is America loves underdogs. You can’t get elected unless you’re the underdog, well known.

    “• The Trump Mugshot Ignites a Tinderbox Nation (Turley)

    Clearly not. And there’s no need to make stuff up. If there were any “tinderbox” and the Right had the slightest inclination to do…anything besides stay home, count their money and read their Bibles wouldn’t you have seen it by now? Not according to Biden. The most dangerous group in America is the group armed with 400 million guns and doing…exactly nothing with them. How dare they make peace! That’s the one thing we can’t (under)Stand!

    BTW they’re all racist and homophobic which is why with 400 million guns and the police missing in Action, exactly NOTHING happens to either group. Ever. Not for 60 years. With 400 million guns if they twitched their pinky finger with approbation toward some group, 10,000 people would get killed. No one is. No one has. Ever. But that’s Ghira: rage against reality. For lifetimes. This was demonstrable bulls—t before I was born and it’s become more so every year. Doesn’t matter a bit.

    No, if it’s a “Tinderbox” who’s the tinder, John? We’ve got enough lies, don’t make up more.

    Back to reality, what this does is SETTLE THIS S—T DOWN. On the LEFT, not the Right. The LEFT is now elated, having gotten what they want and is in no mood to riot for a change. In my opinion, that’s a setup, but since they are incapable of human thought but get their thinking from TikTok, they can’t comprehend how astonishingly infantile their strategy is. They’re winning which is why if I were Donald Trump, I would have paid a billion in cash to arrange for exactly this to happen. Winning means only helping your opponent here in #OppositeLand. Like Ukraine, handed to Russia, ethnically cleansed and everyone LIKES the cleansing.

    “• Elon Musk Says He’s Being Sued For ‘Political Purposes’ (RT)

    This is the whole POINT of government. That’s why it, and regulation, exists at ALL. Starting in 1798 (or 1598) and moving forward from there.

    The POINT of regulation is EXTORTION. You PAY us donations and do whatever we want, or we apply it to you. If that’s good, you pay No Taxes whatsoever, zero, forever, like Amazon, GE, etc. while breaking every Labor, Environmental, and Financial law ever written.

    Poor Elon. As an African American, he thought the U.S. was only as corrupt as South Africa, but we’re much MUCH more corrupt than that.

    Speaking of his African Homeland, South Africa’s grid is about to collapse and probably can’t be stopped. All the surrounding nation’s grids will collapse as well if they do. Pains me to say it, but this is exactly what the White Rulers said would happen in 1990. Every word.

    Speaking of groups, today’s episode of weird things that happened in the past, we have What happened after Joseph-of-the-bad-fashion-choices in Genesis 39. This loose tribe appeared in civilized Egypt during hard economic times because Egypt had an open border. Over time, they did well there, and there were probably more of them in Egypt than in their homeland. However, being a different culture, they refused to integrate with the local pantheistic Egyptian population in religion, language, and culture. This all came to a head when there were SO MANY of this other group AND they were the only ones doing any work while the native Egyptians sat on their butts in luxury. You’ve got clashes that only this group is running the government, therefore accused of plotting, pulling them away from true Egyptian culture, while at the same time, you can’t expel them or the whole national economy would collapse. (And Egyptians would have to do some work again). Therefore, the government has no choice but to make them de-facto “Slaves” although technically they weren’t in any way we understand.

    Thus when a charismatic leader is raised by them in the inner court this isn’t at all unusual, nor that he would get kicked into exile. When he returns, he offers to solve their problem by removing all his nation to somewhere else, while the Pharaoh – who apparently hates them — cannot allow this. In fact, when he’s forced to, he changes his mind and still realizes the nation will economically collapse with their extradition.

    Historically, this is exactly what happened. Egypt collapsed with this event and in fact never recovered the mythical age of pyramids, although apparently there were climate events at the same time compounding the problems. You can see this in archaeology where events occur and one day people just vanish from all sorts of southern towns, leaving the food on the table. Egypt breaks apart and falls into warlordism for +100 years and can’t recover itself.

    Does that make the story – both theirs and ours – more understandable? Don’t create these conditions. No one will survive them. Language, Borders, Culture.

    #141977
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Jim Rickards

    I’m sick of the word “gaffe.” Let’s be clear. Biden is mentally disabled and Kamala is a dunce. What these people do are not mere gaffes. They’re persistent examples of mental deficiency and stupidity.

    Ritual Humiliation of the NAtion

    Two Turds in the Public Punch Bowl

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    #141978
    Oroboros
    Participant

    A mediocre mid level Gangster and his Bimbo Slut

    #141979
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Duh’merica writ LARGE

    #141980
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Perfect Example of Collective West Health Icons

    More Ritual humiliation for the Sheeple to chew on, and on, and on, and on……….

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    #141981
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Do as we say for your own health

    #141982
    Oroboros
    Participant
    #141983
    Oroboros
    Participant

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    #141984
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Clap like trained seals!

    Hurrah!

    #141985
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Apteoronov Alaudin Commander of the Russian Akhmat Special Forces

    In the interview he singles out the UK-tard Challenger tanks and says his force will show the British and the world how well they Burn…….

    Burn Baby Burn down the last scrap of dignity left in Olde Blighty

    #141986
    zerosum
    Participant

    If Russia wins, then Ukraine people win.
    Reflection

    Fact Check, Priority, Not now, Irrelevant, meaningless, immaterial, inapplicable, insignificant,
    extraneous, useless, inappropriate, impertinent, beside the point;

    Media reports … lost upwards of 43,000 men for its efforts, according to the most recent figures from the Russian Defense Ministry.

    House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has suggested that he won’t give the bill his unconditional support. “You don’t get to just throw money [away],” he said earlier this summer. “What about the money we have already spent? What is the money for and what is victory?”

    https://sputnikglobe.com/20230825/ukraine-quagmire-will-cost-us-600-bln-more-even-if-fighting-stopped-tomorrow–analysis-1112886390.html

    That’s the conclusion of an independent economic analysis put out this week by a senior fellow from the Center for Security Policy and the Yorktown Institute, a pair of Washington, DC and Maryland-based think tanks.
    The analysis takes into account the World Bank’s March 2023 estimate that Ukraine will require some $411 billion in reconstruction support over the coming decade, plus whatever additional expenses may have arisen between then and now, with the analysis giving an overall ballpark figure of $600 billion+ in total expenses.

    https://centerforsecuritypolicy.org/factcheck-washington-post-false-claims-about-size-of-us-aid-to-ukraine/
    Factcheck: Washington Post false claims about size of US aid to Ukraine
    Andrei Illarionov August 22, 2023

    https:// centerforsecuritypolicy.org/

    Ukraine to cost half-trillion more if war ends now


    Ukraine to cost half-trillion more if war ends now
    Ukraine war will end up being the most costly and perhaps corrupt foreign operation ever carried out by the United States
    By STEPHEN BRYEN
    AUGUST 23, 2023

    The US and its allies will need to cough up $60 billion annually to support Ukraine, and expect that a lot of it will be stolen. It will have to keep the funding up for 10 years.

    It has long been understood that Ukraine is a corrupt country. Ukrainian politicians, including Zelensky, have offshored some of their wealth (Zelensky has a villa in Tuscany on the seashore in Forte dei Marmi which he bought before he entered politics and now rents to Russian clients at 12,000 euros a month).

    Americans can rightly ask: What are we getting for these huge outlays that will seriously burden US taxpayers? The US policy on Ukraine is a disaster from many angles, but for sure one of them is the huge dollar cost in supporting this endless misadventure.

    Stephen Bryen is a senior fellow at the Center for Security Policy and the Yorktown Institute. This article was originally published on Weapons and Strategy, his Substack. Asia Times is republishing the article with permission.
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    https://www.azerbaycan24.com/en/ukraine-ends-with-post-zelensky-warlord-us-presidential-hopeful/
    Republican Vivek Ramaswamy is opposed to more American funding for the government in Kiev
    Ramaswamy said that sending more money to Kiev “does not advance American interests” and the president’s job is to look out for Americans.

    “You mark my words, the way this war ends right now, without the US actually stepping in and saying we’re not going to fund any more of it, is going to be some post-Zelensky warlord takes over with a couple hundred billion dollars of American military equipment, just like what happened after the Soviets invaded Afghanistan. And you see how far that got,” the 38-year-old tech entrepreneur added.
    Region 25/08/2023 23:13
    Ukraine ends with ‘post-Zelensky warlord’ – US presidential hopeful

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    Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy © Drew Angerer / Getty Images

    Republican Vivek Ramaswamy is opposed to more American funding for the government in Kiev Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy © Drew Angerer / Getty Images

    Continuing to send weapons to Kiev does not serve US interests and is only pushing Russia and China closer together, according to candidate for the Republican presidential nomination Vivek Ramaswamy.

    Ramaswamy was the only candidate on Wednesday’s debate stage in Milwaukee unequivocally against increasing US funding for Ukraine, already at over $100 billion.

    Asked about it by the government-funded Voice of America after the debate, Ramaswamy said that sending more money to Kiev “does not advance American interests” and the president’s job is to look out for Americans.

    “You mark my words, the way this war ends right now, without the US actually stepping in and saying we’re not going to fund any more of it, is going to be some post-Zelensky warlord takes over with a couple hundred billion dollars of American military equipment, just like what happened after the Soviets invaded Afghanistan. And you see how far that got,” the 38-year-old tech entrepreneur added.

    Ramaswamy also said his plan to end the conflict “will actually be probably better for Ukraine. At least it comes out with its sovereignty intact, which is not the plan they’re on right now.”
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    #141987
    zerosum
    Participant

    Sorry, I cannot edit Republican Vivek Ramaswamy article more than once.

    #141988
    zerosum
    Participant

    In your face.
    Viktor Shokin said in an interview with Fox News, when asked if he could give examples of cases of corruption “The fact is that Joe Biden paid $1 billion to get me fired. Isn’t that in itself corruption?”

    #141989
    John Day
    Participant

    @Ilargu: The “beeb” says this about Prigozhin’s plane that crashed (not “out of Africa”)
    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66609273

    The Russian aviation authority said the crashed plane was an Embraer.

    A Legacy 600 model from that maker has long been linked to Prigozhin. It has the registration number RA-02795.

    An unverified video from one of the crash sites shows debris with the last few digits of a registration number painted on – the numbers appear to be 795.

    This aircraft is registered to Autolex Transport which the US government has linked to the Wagner boss.

    It is presumed to have been in Moscow since 18 July as this was its first flight listed since then.

    A spokesperson for FlightRadar24, a popular plane tracking website, said it’s likely the jet was wasn’t used during this period.

    #141990
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Douglas MacGregor

    “I Don’t Think We’ll Make it To 2024”

    Don’t worry about the 2024 “election”

    There won’t be one.

    Off with their Heads

    #141991
    Oroboros
    Participant

    #141992
    phoenixvoice
    Participant

    I was waiting for my pizza to be prepared at a pizza place yesterday around 5 pm. A bright-eyed, white-haired woman joined me in the waiting area and our eyes met. She said something about how Covid was supposed to be bad again soon. “It’s all a bunch of crap,” I said, “ the Biden administration just wants us all to be scared.”

    “I didn’t get vaccinated,” she confided.

    “Me neither,” I replied. “My parents and spouse and I all had Covid in October 2020.”

    And thus went the conversation. My pizza was ready, so I got up and retrieved it. Our eyes met just before I went out the door. “You’re not alone; you are not the only one.”

    And *that* is what it will take to stop the masking, stop the nonsensical “social distancing,” stop the lockdowns. Just people standing up and ignoring it. The emperor has no clothes!

    #141993
    phoenixvoice
    Participant

    @ oroboros
    Sometimes I enjoy your shared memes, sometimes I find them somewhat wonky or wacky. Today’s meme about health icons in US, Canada, Belgium, Britain- that could not be more spot on.

    #141994
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Caution: Wonky Meme up ahead

    Empire of Lies believes in strong family values

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    #141995
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Electric cars suck

    Their whole premise is hypocritical and utterly dishonest, like the rest of the ‘society’ that pimps them.

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    #141996
    Oroboros
    Participant

    OMG hate speech!

    Lucky the cops took care of it

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    #141997
    John Day
    Participant

    Trump campaign ad says “Alpha Male!”
    That’s all it says. Market research must have shown the issue to be that basic.
    It’s not “food for thought”, it’s a Big Mac, as shown.

    #141998
    zerosum
    Participant

    If you don’t want to lose your job then you better make sure that she said that you got permission to kiss her on the lips.

    #141999
    jb-hb
    Participant

    Went to Whole Foods today. Masked/Notavaxed Central for Covid in its heyday. WokeCentral as well, I suppose. But reasonably-well-monied woke.

    People are already wearing masks. Multiple customers, multiple employees. One employee with black hair wearing a slightly weird head-to-toe black dress & a black mask. Like she was trying to scare and/or creep people out.

    Electionocron

    The Election Variant

    BS.24.7

    They’re all here in Denver.

    I keep hearing single engine military jets this month. Yesterday an F-16 made a VERY close pass right above my window – probably staying below the cloud cover. Maybe 100 metres up?

    F-16’s are not usually here. I regularly see F-18’s because the navy has a training route that goes over my bedroom (and would make a stop at the airfield right next to the call center of my old job) but F-16’s were a rarity – maybe 1 in 5 years. Whizzed by too fast to yell a “sLaVa uKrAiNiA!!!” up at it.

    #142000
    John Day
    Participant

    Wagner Is Back , Under General Armageddon https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/wagner-is-back-under-general-armageddon

    From June 30, 2023:
    ‘Russian General Surovikin was secret Wagner VIP member’
    Documents have suggested that Russian General Sergei Surovikin, the deputy commander of Russian military operations in Ukraine whose whereabouts are currently unknown, was a secret VIP member of the Wagner mercenary group, a media report said.
    https://www.dtnext.in/news/world/russian-general-surovikin-was-secret-wagner-vip-member-721388

    ​Ukrainian report from 7/423:
    Surovikin Refuses To Order Air Strike On Wagner Column
    https://charter97.org/en/news/2023/7/4/554452/

    ​From June 23, as Wagner drove towards Moscow:
    General Surovkin to the Leadership of Wagner PMCs: “I urge you to stop”
    https://en.newizv.ru/news/2023-06-24/general-surovikin-to-the-leadership-of-the-wagner-pmcs-i-urge-you-to-stop-411281

    We know Surovkin was placed under house arrest afterJune 24, and that he was officially relieved of command just before Prigozhine’s plane went down, but that he was “retained” by the Russian MoD, without a specification of his new assignment. Military Summary reports that Wagner forces are moving into the area north of Melitopol , which is south of heavy Ukrainian attacks, which intend to break through Russian lines and cut off supply routes to Crimea.
    The statement is made that General Surovkin is the only military leader which Wagner forces would accept as commander, and that he is now the new commanding general of Wagner PMC.
    The Time Has Come. Armageddon And Wagner Are Back. Military Summary

    #142001
    John Day
    Participant

    M.K. Bhadrakumar @ Indian Punchline argues against Putin being responsible for Prigozhin’s assassination, that it was ham-handed, not Putin’s style, and that it is being officially denied. Many others would like the news to be of Prigozhin’s assassination than the BRICS summit being a big success.
    ​ And, above all, the big message coming out of Johannesburg is that with all the king’s horses and all the king’s men, the Biden administration has failed miserably to “isolate” Russia — it is there writ large in the resplendent glow of Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s effulgent smile. Russia is capping its gains in the battlefields of Ukraine with an outstanding diplomatic victory by being on the right side of history alongside the global majority.
    ​ Isn’t it plain common sense that of all days, Putin would never have chosen Wednesday to act as spoiler when Russia’s prestige was soaring high in the international community? Again, the question arises: Who stands to gain?
    ​ The plain truth is, there could be any number of people who wanted to physically eliminate Prigozhin​.

    Who’s afraid of Prigozhin and Wagner?

    ​ Gilbert Doctorow: Who killed Yevgeny Prigozhin? (Doctorow doesn’t know either, but he notes that the west and western media immediately blamed Putin. He then points out the national enemies of Wagner, not just Prigozhin. The command structure of Wagner was hit together and taken out. In the Sahel, currently Niger, it is not just French neocolonial interests which are threatened by Wagner, but also US military & intelligence investments. Doctorow makes the point that Putin is still keeping his word of honor to Boris Yeltsin by not eliminating or jailing numerous of Yeltsin’s team, who Vlad vowed to leave unharmed.)

    Who killed Yevgeny Prigozhin?

    The BBC says the plane the Wagner chiefs flew in had been sitting in Moscow for over a month without use. That is enough time to build a bomb into it.
    ​ The Russian aviation authority said the crashed plane was an Embraer.
    A Legacy 600 model from that maker has long been linked to Prigozhin. It has the registration number RA-02795.
    An unverified video from one of the crash sites shows debris with the last few digits of a registration number painted on – the numbers appear to be 795.
    This aircraft is registered to Autolex Transport which the US government has linked to the Wagner boss.
    It is presumed to have been in Moscow since 18 July as this was its first flight listed since then.
    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66609273

    ​ Simplicius , SITREP 8/26/23: Wagner Denouement and BRICS Rebirth
    ​ BRICS members did verbalize an initiative to begin work on an inter-BRICS settlement payment system and currency. The timetable for it is not immediate, allegedly within 5-10 years they hope to develop one. But even in the meantime, they will increase initiatives towards settling in their own currencies away from the dollar. So the de-dollarization will continue accelerating, especially now that there are new members on board. It’s just that they will convert between their own currencies rather than use a new single inter-BRICS currency in the way the EU uses the Euro…
    …It’s been noted that the new BRICS currency will not be like the Euro in that it won’t be currency to replace daily usage for the average person in the streets. They will continue using their own currencies in their individual countries. The BRICS currency will be more for the countries’ own central banks to settle trade amongst themselves to avoid purchasing USD dollars. So in that respect, it won’t be like the EU where the Euro replaces the Deutsche Mark and all the rest…
    ​..”An important priority for BRICS interaction is the creation of new sustainable and safe transport routes… We believe that the time has come to establish within the framework of BRICS a permanent commission on transport, which would deal not only with the North-South project, but also, in a broader sense, with the development of logistics and transport corridors,” Russian President Vladimir Putin said, addressing the audience of the 15th summit via video link.
    ​ The article explains that in particular, this commission would look toward ensuring the chief BRICS members’ ability to bypass critically strategic corridors and choke points like the Strait of Singapore, Strait of Malacca, Suez Canal, Bosphorus, Strait of Hormuz, etc.​..
    ​ [Specific national interests are discussed, often in some conflict. It was hard for India to accept so many new Muslim state members, for instance. Many members are torn between the need for $US trade and the need to move to a less extractive trade system gradually.] …
    ​..Noteworthy is the fact that Putin did not say the kind of things I personally would have expected, under normal circumstances.
    You expect declarations like: “We will scour the earth, leave no stone unturned until we get whoever was responsible for this. The coward/craven/villain who committed this vile terrorist act will be brought to justice, etc.”
    ​ None of that was said. Instead, a very reserved and mannered eulogy, fraught with symbolism. Prigozhin was a ‘difficult man’ who ‘made mistakes’, etc. Personally, it’s exactly the type of brief, cagey, boilerplate eulogy I’d expect if Prigozhin was in fact “put out to pasture” by security services.
    ​ That said, there’s still no real 100% confirmation or identification of the bodies.​..
    ..For now, what we know is that Putin suddenly issued a new decree obliging all paramilitary style forces like volunteers and PMCs to “swear an oath of allegiance” to Russia​.
    https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/sitrep-82623-wagner-denouement-and

    #142002
    John Day
    Participant

    Watch: Maui Residents Turned Back By Police Barricades Recount Their Brush With Death
    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/watch-maui-residents-turned-back-police-barricades-recount-their-brush-death

    ​ Disobey and Live, Maui Fire Barricades
    ​ Kim Cuevas-Reyes told the Associated Press that she was fleeing the fires with her two sons when the authorities told her to turn right toward Lahaina’s Civic Center. She disobeyed and lived. “The gridlock would have left us there when the firestorm came,” said Cuevas-Reyes. “I would have had to tell my children to jump into the ocean as well and be boiled alive by the flames or we would have just died from smoke inhalation and roasted in the car.”
    ​ Another resident by the name Nate Baird was not aware of the fires until his two young sons said they ​”smelled smores​”. He fled with his family but was told to turn around and go back to Lahaina. He disobeyed and lived. “Nobody realized how little time we really had,” Baird said. “Like even us being from the heart of the fire, we did not comprehend. Like we literally had minutes and one wrong turn. We would all be dead right now.”
    https://www.theburningplatform.com/2023/08/25/disobey-and-live-maui-fire-barricades/

    #142003
    John Day
    Participant

    ​ General Mark Milley, the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, told Jordanian TV on 24 August that US forces illegally occupying oil fields in Syria’s northeast will remain there for the foreseeable future to “fight ISIS.”…
    ​ While the White House claims its troops are present in Syria to confront ISIS, Russian intelligence and Syrian locals say Washington’s forces house and train extremist militants in the 55-kilometer-zone surrounding the Al-Tanf occupation base in southeast Syria.​
    https://new.thecradle.co/articles/us-military-occupation-of-syria-hinges-on-isis-threat-milley

    ​Professor Anthony Hall , If bin Laden Didn’t Do 9/11, Then Who Did?
    Reflections and Original Research on Aspects of the Zionist Role in 9/11
    https://anthonyjhall.substack.com/p/if-bin-laden-didnt-do-911-then-who

    ​ C.J. Hopkins , The Road to Totalitarianism (Part 3) (“Sentence first, then verdict!”)
    ​ So, the Germans are putting me on trial for my thoughtcrimes, and, apparently, I’ve already been found guilty and sentenced. Bear with me and I’ll try to explain.
    ​ The Berlin District Court has issued a so-called “penalty order” or “order of punishment,” in which I am advised that I am now officially a criminal in Germany, for tweeting two Tweets. According to my attorney, a trial will now be scheduled, at which my attorney will argue the case before the judge that just issued the “order of punishment.” At this trial, the judge will listen attentively to the arguments my attorney has already made in writing, consider them carefully, and find me guilty, again. Then the judge will reaffirm the “order of punishment.”
    ​ Go ahead, read that paragraph again.
    ​ After my Kafkaesque trial has concluded, my attorney will file a series of appeals, which will fail, at which point I will have to decide whether to pay a fine of 3,600 Euros or go to German prison for 60 days.
    ​ This process will take months, if not years, and will cost me God knows how much money in attorney’s fees, court costs, and then the €3,600 fine. Yes, I’m going to pay the fine. I am not going to German prison for 60 days. Life is too short, and I am getting older, and it wouldn’t really accomplish anything except making a narcissistic spectacle of myself.
    ​ However, what will accomplish something (I don’t know how much, but something) is if I see the whole process through to the end, and shine as much light on it as I possibly can, because my case is just one of many such cases, and the real story here is not about me, it is about the crackdown on political dissent that is being carried out, not just here in Germany, but also in other countries all throughout the West.

    The Road to Totalitarianism (Part 3)

    ​ Sasha Latypova , Chief of Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological Defense of the Russian Federation Lt General Igor Kirillov speaks about U.S. bioweapons activity , Parsing out facts, fiction, narratives, and reading between the lines.​
    Overall, Kirillov provides some factually correct information, albeit nothing new or earth shattering. He is also omitting and glossing over a lot of information that Russian MOD and government know, because they likely participate in the same activities and likely in coordination with the US. I expect them to, as they are not stupid. While Kirillov talks about US biodefense racket and Permanent Office of Pandemic Preparedness (Biden’s Next Gen) accusingly, his own job title is pretty much equivalent to Paul Friedrichs’s – Chief of CBRN “defense”…
    ​..Kirillov’s speech demonstrates that the Russian and US governments are playing on the same team here – Team Global, Team WHO, Team Fake Pandemics and Biodefense.
    ​ Russian MOD: we must defend ourselves against those American-made GOF threats!
    ​ US DOD: we must defend ourselves against those rogue PhDs in their garages, pangolins in wet markets, “emerging pathogens” and foreign adversaries cooking bugs!
    https://sashalatypova.substack.com/p/chief-of-nuclear-chemical-and-biological

    #142004
    John Day
    Participant

    This, from The Burning Platform, is not posted on my blog. What’chuz think?
    https://www.theburningplatform.com/2023/08/25/the-hawaiian-holocaust-exposes-itself/

    SOTN Editor’s Note: At critical junctures during the implementation of the New World Order agenda, the Khazarian Cabal carries out mass human sacrifices. They do this as a means of propitiating their various satanic idols who they really believe will facilitate the establishment of their long planned totalitarian One World Government.

    The highly organized Maui Massacre on August 8, 2023 was conducted as such a massive human fire sacrifice. There are now volumes of evidence which prove categorically that the arson-triggered Lahaina ‘wildfires’ were deliberate acts of pyroterrorism executed to murder as many Maui residents as possible, as well as efficiently as possible.

    #142005
    John Day
    Participant
    #142006
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Greece will terminate the contract with Russia for the maintenance of anti-aircraft missile systems “Tor-M1” and “Osa-AKM”

    Another signal of Greece’s utter subservience to the NATO=NAZIS

    Good work!

    Greece has alright burned all it’s bridges to Russia and the Eastern Orthodoxy family.

    Their decent into 3rd world status is nearing completion

    A really cold winter will put the final touches on it.

    They can buy Russian gas to keep from freezing from third parties for four times the price.

    And energy being the MAster Resource, food will also go to Infinity and Beyond.

    And any extra capital thaty doesn’t go to food and heating will go to Raytheon/Lockheed because the Greek ‘leadership’ will be forced ‘at gunpoint’ to buy tons of useless ass-wipe Empire of Lies Military Industrial Mafia Crap.

    The Greeks are sending the equipment to the Death Trap of Ukronaziland.

    Actually I take that back. The money for food and heating in Greece will go directly to Raytheon/Lockheed for weapons built for Profit not Performance.

    The Empire of Lies will make the Greeks an offer they can’t refuse.

    The Greeks did after all invent the modern Tragedy

    How ironic.

    https://www.elissos.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/16.jpg

    #142007
    Oroboros
    Participant

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    #142008
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Intel Roundtable Judge Napolitano: Ritter, Johnson, McGovern

    Kicking the Dog-Dew out of the Empire of Lies,

    One lie at a time

    NeoConJobs are blood drinking Satanist

    Russia is going to hand them their own heads.

    #142009

    The Trump ad says “not a pedophile; not gay; not confused”. There’s a pretty big demographic that appreciates that.
    It also slyly hints at this: when a man smooches a woman he’s greeting, he gets visual permission.
    When a “guy” sneaks a snuzzle or a sniff from behind, she is uncomfortable, and everyone can see it is the discomfort the snuzzler desires. He wants the stiffening, the resistance, the drawback. He’s creepy.

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