Debt Rattle August 3 2024
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August 3, 2024 at 8:46 am #165421Raúl Ilargi MeijerKeymaster
Pablo Picasso Science and Charity 1897 (he was 16) • Men Beating Women For Medals Is ‘Madness’ – Serbian President Vucic (RT) • Second Olympic
[See the full post at: Debt Rattle August 3 2024]August 3, 2024 at 10:44 am #165423EoinWParticipantAmerica is in big trouble. The fact Americans see Trump as their savior – at best a 50/50 chance the MIGA President isn’t a fake populous – is damning evidence the country is screwed.
In trouble even if nothing significant changes. Like the US gets into a real war and “the greatest military ever” sees that illusion blow up. Or the grand Ponzi scheme, masquerading as an economy, cracks.
BTW what’s Plan B for MAGA after Trump is assassinated? Sit on their guns even harder than they already are?
August 3, 2024 at 10:59 am #165424Dr D RichParticipantMy take on the XX vs XY Olympic boxing controversy is far less nuanced.
My credentials you say?
I took the ring against an XY at least 110 pounds heavier than me. Norm could also bench 400 lbs and dunk a bball off a flatfooted start. 50 of 51 fellow D1 athletes bet against me and smelled blood, death, a knockout. The outlier was a former Golden Gloves boxer from whom I recieved a wink and nod of encouragement.
Never ever humiliate a man and embarrass him publicly before you take the measure of his ability to “handle himself in a fight” if you even had a clue how. Most don’t….have a clue, but those two boxer girls could smell red meat and flop sweat on guys like JD and Scott.Background:
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Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) said that he told his son to “shut the hell up for 30 seconds about Pikachu,” during an appearance on the Full Send Podcast, released Friday. “My son, who is seven, is in the hotel room with me,” Vance told the podcast about the phone call he got from former President Donald Trump on the first day of the RNC to tell him he was his veep pick. “And he is really into Pokemon cards right now, he’s going through a Pokemon phase… I mean he’s really into it, so he is trying to talk to me about Pikachu and I am on the phone with Donald Trump, I’m like ‘son, shut the hell up for 30 seconds about Pikachu,
I’d pay a couple thousand dollars to watch tough guy Marine JD Vance take the ring against either of those female XX Olympic boxers and dispel any delusions readership holds over the mythos of certain American fighting men named Ritter and Vance.
My money is on the girls against either cream puff.
August 3, 2024 at 11:03 am #165425Dr. DParticipant“UK Prime Minister Calls For Crackdown On Angry Brits – Violent Migrants Get A Pass
All they had to do was come out, say “We understand, we’re taking crime seriously and doing something about it. We’re all Brits together.” You know, like technomanager Blair would. THEY DON’T. Aaaaaaand, that’s because they WANT the riots. …Just as I said about High Chancellor Starmer, and the Labour Party in general. THEY WANT THIS. They are MAKING it, doing every. Single. Thing. They can think of to cause and antagonize it. For NO earthly reason.
But it’s not like,
“The Third World War must be fomented by taking advantage of the differences caused by the ‘agentur’ of the ‘Illuminati’ between the political Zionists and the leaders of Islamic World. The war must be conducted in such a way that Islam (the Moslem Arabic World) and political Zionism (the State of Israel) mutually destroy each other. Meanwhile the other nations, once more divided on this issue will be constrained to fight to the point of complete physical, moral, spiritual and economical exhaustion.
(Done)
We shall unleash the Nihilists and the atheists, and we shall provoke a formidable social cataclysm which in all its horror will show clearly to the nations the effect of absolute atheism, origin of savagery and of the most bloody turmoil. Then everywhere, the citizens, obliged to defend themselves against the world minority of revolutionaries, will exterminate those destroyers of civilization, and the multitude, disillusioned with Christianity, whose deistic spirits will from that moment be without compass or direction, anxious for an ideal, but without knowing where to render its adoration, will receive the true light through the universal manifestation of the pure doctrine of Lucifer, brought finally out in the public view. This manifestation will result from the general reactionary movement which will follow the destruction of Christianity and atheism, both conquered and exterminated at the same time.
(Nearly done.) Got it? Too hard to understand? They’re RELIGIOUS. They’re religious extremists, terrorists, they just believe something different from you. As with a few other religions (including Islam) they also believe lying is a moral good and imperative. Anything that converts the other side, regardless of how evil, is an absolute good, and not just permitted but encouraged. And you thought Christianity was bad…
So how do you defeat a religion of raw evil? Like I have to tell you? Be good. Don’t riot. Stand together and follow the rules and squeeze them out. Everything they do is a crime, so enforce them and then repeal all the gray zone laws that are letting them operate. Good overcomes evil. Because evil always self-contradicts and self-destructs. So stand together and shove them out.
“Microsoft’s Electricity Use Has Doubled Between 2020–2023
Save the earth! CO2! 10 years left to live! Bitcoins wastes power!
Olympics:
It’s meant to antagonize you and cause an emotional reaction they can play off of. They don’t actually believe any of this s—t either. Remember, the Olympics is in “The Garden” and run by the “Garden People.” Not like those awful “Jungle People” who don’t give medals for beating women. Pointing out they are ANTI-DEI that is, they are AGAINST Diversity, Equity, Equality, and Inclusion, against the Environment, and for Racism and Segregation, Exclusion. Always have been, and it’s in their every action, every day.
The only difference is, they concretetize, permanently ruin farming fields with condos and solar farms for 1,000 years, when they SAY, with their mouths, they’re doing the Opposites. That is, the only thing they’re adding, is that while they’re punching you, they’re saying “No I’m not. No it isn’t. Why you hitting yourself?” Yeah, um, and that’s supposed to make it BETTER? It makes it worse, obviously.“• The Passage of Time (Jim Kunstler)
The real part is down near the bottom when instead he says “Reality will come in”. That is, a market crash (A bunch of things are cracking), Russia suddenly moves 500k into Ukraine which now has so many fronts moving so far km each day I can’t keep track, or the whole Middle East sinks every Western ship in a fortnight.
As said, here, why pay attention to Harris? She’s not a real candidate, or even a real person, anyway. She’ll be swapped out, they’ll kill Trump too, have no candidates, and no election. …Or delayed very indefinitely, like Ukraine out Capital and the 51st state. Their ancestral homeland. This is all waste of time, and it’s keeping our attention off far more important things.
There’s a lot in the latest Luongo – Lanci interview, but it’s very wandering and lacks highlights, specific events. Yes, the BRIICS are all coordinating through the gold market. That shows a number of things. While we are both in the same arena, China is still more authoritarian than we are and doesn’t have to follow any rules. Therefore it is difficult for them to “collapse” as we keep saying. Regulation is a trap, as all of us, UK, etc, regulate, then deregulate when it blows up, but like Brexit, only pretend to in order to make things worse to justify more regulation. …Because it’s government people making the decisions, and unsurprisingly their outlook is pro-government. They sabotage every halt as much as they can, then double it, like May, like doubling the Migrants after Brexit.
Or they regulate one part of the market while de-regulating others, which insures 1) Free money, corporate welfare queens from certain arbitrage, money with no risk that rapes one part of the market at government direction 2) with half the market regulated and the other not, the two can’t inter-operate as there is no price discovery at their meeting point. This insures certain ruin, which has to be backstopped and filled by government money again, or the certain death of some industry. Ending price discovery with US$ rigging, for example, leads to the certain death of all manufacturing, starting 1971 but let’s say really 1990. This is happily liquidated by Vulture Capitalists like Romney, but it all starts with causing the incorrect pricing to begin with. That’s a crime, I think? Yes, price-fixing AND insider trading? Maybe…enforce the law, which law, any law?
Yellen and Powell theory remains sound, as Lanci discovers that, from being sort of a mild, well-intentioned “Twist” from Yellen, really her action is screwing up every bond rate, therefore every bond signal, therefore every market on earth, because they all are compared to the “base rate” of “safe” USTs. This includes all Europe where Germany has ceased to exist and still has negative real bond rates, by a lot. Anyone in the economic condition of Greece (no offense) should have rates over 10%, no? Germany is near zero.
…Yet it goes on and on forever, NO market, anywhere, has ANY price signal anymore. And while they may WANT to keep them together, not have blowouts to one side, what’s happening is NOTHING makes sense. Nothing. EVERY market is screwed up, and mis-priced, so EVERY market is telling it’s industry to do, make, liquidate, stupid, irrational things. Then the waste that’s involved, or the constant screwing with the levers, leads to it all not working, working randomly, we’re fire-hosing money-printer go brrrr into a blast furnace and wondering why we’re poor. That’s not the overall intent, I think they just want to steal money, or just “adjust” this one thing, but that ALWAYS INEVITABLY must happen. They’ve been way, way better, fabulously better, astonishingly better at it than ever in history, but that only means it took longer to get to the inevitable end: Nothing Works. Nothing.
So we have wages at, I dunno, let’s say $18/hr base. Cars are $30,000. Yet there’s no public transit, trolley, even Uber solution. Rent is $1-2k/mo. We have scrap iron at 17c/lb? The gas to get it to the station cost more than the iron on the truck, yet nothing changes. Iron at the other side, turned into a generator or something, is then worth $5/lb. All physical objects are worthless, unless you go to buy one, then it’s 20x. Who’s in the middle then? Who’s making this unprecedented spread? Same as borrowing at 1% but lending at 29% AND STILL GOING BROKE WITH A BAILOUT. Yeah, um, GOVERNMENT? That is, the spread between $18 wages and rent-car requiring a $60k minimum wage, (<$30/hr) are all MONOPOLY, tollbooths, each and all established by and defended by GOVERNMENT. They’re the cell phone companies, doctors, insurance, EPA and OSHA to make roof shingles, everything. They call it YOU-Flation: everything you make drops, everything you need, rises. But it isn’t classic inflation, where they’re just printing money although that’s a problem too; it’s all government Monopolies with no price discovery. That is, just like the bad Socialism of South America, 99% corruption, all the time, where only insider pay-offs can profit. AND, of course, no help for the people. That is, the type of Socialism called Fascism, with the same military outlook.
Anyway, oddly, as traders do this all day and are perennially hard-boiled, Lanci only realizes this, again thinking, as we all do, “The market isn’t REALLY as rigged as all that, is it?” Yes. It is. Goes to show “the problem with being cynical is you can’t keep up.”
AND? And it never ends. As it should have been reset in 1994, 2000, 2008, and now. But it just goes on forever, a lifetime already. Prices no longer contact reality, ever, for decades. There is no buying cheap stocks like Warren Buffet. There is only manipulation and insider trading, like you see with AMC or in their example, gold manipulation out of China. Morgan then complains to the Fed and asks for manipulation and punishment because the wrong people lost (Just like Roaring Kitty and AMC) because their insider trading market-rigging didn’t work one time. Every day. 20 years at this level at least. Never ends.
…And we’re supposed to discuss that here and trade? HOW? And oil drilling and use are a direct consequence of the same rigging, there is no underlying reality right now, only interventions.
““Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power, than by violent and sudden usurpations.” — Madison **
Yes, they’re called the Fabian Socialists, and their mascot is the turtle. They use incrementalism, slicing the bologna, a ratchet mechanism that can never reverse as we see in Brexit until all humanity forgets over lifetimes there was ever another way. Yes, well also you can’t compound something even at 2% for decades, much less 4% or more which is the spread of Debt or Government to GDP and productivity. They get too far apart and collapse. But we have a solution to the collapse! More government. That’ll fix’er. I mean if you can’t trust Kamala and Starmer with infinite power, who can you really trust?
Prisoner Swap: exactly Trump calling Biden-Harris a Putin puppet. Didn’t resist and why should he? Yet this happens now after being negotiated for 5 years? Why? This puts Biden in the worst light, I would think, again, every day, it’s as if some part of Trump is running Biden and some faction of the internal government.“Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was assassinated in Tehran in an apparent attack by Israel.”
I can be seeing things, and Alexander saw this as part of the Iranian assassination, but to me that fits with setting the bomb because “Iran killed Trump” and this was our first retaliation for it coming after. Then Iran starts a war against the Pompeo-Americans. How could they not? Well Israel got the bomb in there, which is quite a feat and needed to set it off sometime, while Israel killing Iranians is daily news, so changes things only a little. They failed their assassination, so this detonation looks all different now. …Could be I’m seeing things though.
““If they don’t respond, he’s going to continue hitting them. If they respond – this is what he wants – then they have to play in his field. So what is the solution?”
Exactly. I know enough not to jump in their trap, but it can’t go unanswered. That’s why Zero’s embargo plan is so perfect. They could also all stop commerce with the United States (et al) and only trade with each other. That would make the weak man collapse (Germany?), but I don’t think they have enough power yet.
“Biden held a “tough” phone call with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Thursdsay”
Biden is incapable of speech, would you like to try again? You mean Blinken/Jill used the AI voice filter?
“leaving the impression last week that he was attentive to the president’s request to focus on getting a Gaza deal.”
“Netanyahu has prioritized the military fight to eradicate Hamas over the return of the hostages.”Two parts: ONE, Hamas was there to MAKE a peace deal. It’s not said enough that Israel/US(they claim) KILLED THE PEACE NEGOTIATOR BY BOMBING THE PEACE CONFERENCE. Essentially. Ummm, you think that shows their interest in peace? And good faith? Aaaand what do you think Bahrain and MBS are going to say if you act that way? Yeah, back away as there is no point in talking to either nation, or their leaders, ever again, for at least 20 years. All treaties are worthless, all deals are void. And that’s not new and sudden, same as MBS said about confiscating Russia. They’re not “Emotional” they’re not “mad” they’re not making things up, that’s PERFECTLY OBVIOUS you’d have to do that logically, you have no choice.
Okay, second: I only just learned NUTSY DOESN’T WANT ANY HOSTAGES BACK. Now, sure, we knew that by his actions right away. But I figured that was the usual: sacrifice pawns, war ending = jail. Nope. What happened was ALL THE WOMEN on the border were sending him endless personal reports that Hamas was attacking Oct 7. He refused them all and in fact removed resources in several ways, not just moving a whole army to West Bank. Soooo…should any of those women who were taken prisoner reappear, they will have quite a story to tell and a big ol’ media spotlight to tell it in. He needs them all dead and has visibly, actively, been killing them anywhere they’re found. First to kill everyone escaping on the 7th, then leveling every apartment block they are found in. Last, refusing any possible means of them returning home via negotiations.
Think of the alternative: “Oh da womens, da womens, those mean Gazans are hurtin’ da young pretty womens.” All on camera. While HE is tracking them with AI and dropping 2,000lb bombs on the witnesses, his own soldiers. Really over the top. Like we’re so used to seeing evil, it’s really hard to see whole levels of evil attained that are usually untouched. But yawn, no surprise.
““..Croatia has increased the price of oil transit fivefold compared to the average market price..”
But they’re all one unified Europe! The United States of Far West Asia! This gets them every time, and everybody told them. Armstrong had a plan that might actually unify them, and given 100 years of honest order, might mitigate this partisanship of European tribes, but they did the #Opposite instead: lying, cheating each other, and stealing. And since nobody likes being cheated, now murder.
“US Trying to ‘Teach’ Russia, China ‘Proper Behavior’ in Nuclear Sphere – Envoy (Sp.)Let me get this straight: the only nation to use a nuclear weapon – on a civilian target – is the one giving lectures on nukes and morality? Of course they are.
** Full quote: ““Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power, than by violent and sudden usurpations; but, on a candid examination of history, we shall find that turbulence, violence, and abuse of power, by the majority trampling on the rights of the minority, have produced factions and commotions, which, in republics, have, more frequently than any other cause, produced despotism. If we go over the whole history of ancient and modern republics, we shall find their destruction to have generally resulted from those causes.” –Madison
August 3, 2024 at 11:40 am #165426OroborosParticipantBravery, Courage, Checking Accounts, whatever…
August 3, 2024 at 11:45 am #165427OroborosParticipantA Venezuelan illegal migrant left her grocery receipt behind.
The cashier snapped a photo, revealing an EBT Food Stamp balance of $13,401.82
and an EBT Cash balance of $4,498.85.
August 3, 2024 at 11:47 am #165428OroborosParticipantWashington D.C. Protestors are Pushing for Voting Rights for Illegal Immigrants.
August 3, 2024 at 11:53 am #165429OroborosParticipantSatanic Overlord
Sort of…
Not that scary, just sheer hypocrisy
“Susan Rice, former President Barack Obama’s key advisor, is heading up the operation of tasking our federal agencies to actually get votes from illegal immigrants.”Nothing Changes
August 3, 2024 at 12:02 pm #165430OroborosParticipantAugust 3, 2024 at 12:03 pm #165431OroborosParticipantAugust 3, 2024 at 12:10 pm #165432OroborosParticipantDEI
August 3, 2024 at 12:11 pm #165433OroborosParticipantAugust 3, 2024 at 12:40 pm #165434OroborosParticipantRussia is recruiting volunteers at a 1000 per day, 30,000 per month
Ukronaziland has to press gang a fraction of that with commissary goon squads
Latest Russian recruitment video
August 3, 2024 at 12:43 pm #165435OroborosParticipant75% of Duh’merican ‘men’ of military age fail the physical for military service.
The 25% that don’t fail have a high percentage of mental inadequacies
Just sayin’
August 3, 2024 at 12:55 pm #165436John DayParticipantMilitary Summary morning report is time-marked for 3 minutes of Mideast news. Iran will attack Israel today, bigger attack than April. Russia has delivered weapons to Yemen today, which will presumably be used. Russia appears ready to protect Iran, Syria, Yemen and Lebanon. US appears ready to have Aircraft Carrier Roosevelt sunk in Strait of Hormuz. Know where your iodine-pills and fallout shelter are. Battle For Toretsk, Zhelanne, Serhiivka Middle East – The Last Hours Military Summary For 2024.08.3
August 3, 2024 at 1:26 pm #165438OroborosParticipantThe Houthis got Balls
All they need is the next generation of surface to ship missiles.
The Empire of Lies, Lies, Lies Military Industrial Mafia have been using “Aircraft Carriers” as a boondoogle SCAM for too many decades unchecked by real peer to peer warfare.
Time to pop that hemorrhoid with a nice hypersonic missile!
Theodore Roosevelt vs 10 Kh-22 Anti-Ship MissilesAugust 3, 2024 at 1:43 pm #165439zerosumParticipantTruth, Facts
Why would anyone become a politician?Elections are peaceful transfer of power
CREDENTIALS
disgusting, brazen, deceive, liars, denial, character assassinations, personal attacks, stealing, cheating, warmonger, assassination with impunity, scammer, whistleblowing, leaking, traitor, incompetent, manipulation, madness, control,
word salad,
diversity and inclusion, sensitive and inclusive, rejects racism and sexism, carefully scripted, well-managed events. Represent People Power
August 3, 2024 at 2:23 pm #165440NoiretteParticipantEoin posted. BTW what’s Plan B for MAGA after Trump is assassinated? Sit on their guns even harder than they already are?
Imho, there will not be a *public execution of Trump* with smashed head on cam. event or attempt before the election, after the first one, on July 13, failed.
Note CNN and the BBC were present at the Butler Rally, and they don’t follow Trump rallies, afaik, of course I may be wrong in part / wholly about that.
Imho, many were alerted something ‘special’ was coming down…
Those who will go to any lengths to get rid of the Populist Trump (heh not that he is really populist, other discussion), who also provoked this whole mess, by reducing US politics to tribal belongings and social issues (abortions, race, etc.) in order to cover up the real problems, propagandise and brain-wash ppl, will now use more ‘lawfare’ if they can (top ‘law’ institutions can’t afford to loose all power by bowing down to Kontrollers, so are pushing back against that), more smearing, etc. againt Trump.
Then at EElekshion time they will try to steal the election (like last time, imho Trump did win), and then see what happens, pause, to consider other actions.
As for MAGA, if the reference is to the Repub. Party, they will support Trump, they have no choice but to go along with him. For sure, many Repubs. loathe him, that can’t be made public, as it threatens everyone’s positions and might bring down the puppet play-book of TWO parties in opposition – so be it.
If DT dies, they can try to hoist someone else, who will be in a v. weak position, but would be accepted as a ‘successor’ (Vance for ex.) but with far less entusiasm, it might jsut peter out…which is understood by many…
We are witnessing the break-down of the ‘W’ order or Imperium, the political structure that holds it together. Very interesting.
(to be clear, of course DT is no ‘savior’ as Eoin writes.)
August 3, 2024 at 2:38 pm #165444kultsommerParticipantRussians should make next gen of anti-ship missiles named after John McCain.
The entire city, Washington DC, capable of pretending that ‘everything is normal” and providing services for the mulling clowns that we think that represent us.
August 3, 2024 at 2:38 pm #165445zerosumParticipantYou are angry at the wrong people.
The gov. set up the system.
Not just you, Even the illegal migrant learned how to use the system to survive.A Venezuelan illegal migrant left her grocery receipt behind.
The cashier snapped a photo, revealing an EBT Food Stamp balance of $13,401.82
and an EBT Cash balance of $4,498.85.
August 3, 2024 at 2:38 pm #165446my parents said knowParticipantHere is a question to ask an “AI”:
Given the current rate of acceleration of electricity usage to mine Bitcoin, how much power will the last Bitcoin require?August 3, 2024 at 2:49 pm #165447WESParticipantIllegals Voting:
All illegals in the US have been automatically registered by federal agencies to vote in the Nov 5th election.
That would be well over 20 million people, maybe even over 40 million people!How is this possible?
Simple, all federal agencies have been weaponized by Obama to automatically register all illegals to vote.
US border agents automatically register every illegal to vote.
US Post Office automatically register anyone completing a change of address.
Any federal agency contacted by an illegal for benefits, is automatically registered to vote.
In blue states a driver’s license, automatically registers a person to vote.Bottom line all illegals are registered to vote, even if they don’t know it!
These registered voters, even if they don’t vote, will be harvested by the Democrats.This is where Susan Rice comes in.
Her job is to ensure that harvested ballots are in the right place, at the right time.Voters will vote, with Dominion counting the votes.
Once voters have voted, then ballots are used to ensure the politically correct candidates win.That is the reason voters are allowed to vote, because their votes do not count!
If voter’s votes counted, then voters wouldn’t be allowed to vote!So only ballots count!
Once voter’s votes are tabulated by Dominion, then ballots are used to correct the outcome of the election.
Kamala does not need to win the election.
She just needs to pretend to campaign, like basement Joe did.
The msm is creating the required public narrative of a close race like in 2020.
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The November 5th election results are already known.
It won’t be Trump.
This is the democracy they are trying to save.August 3, 2024 at 2:50 pm #165448zerosumParticipantYou know that the USA deals with many dictators
Dictators don’t have “elections”‘ .
Why won’t the USA accept the continuing poooower structures of Venezuela?August 3, 2024 at 2:54 pm #165449D Benton SmithParticipantSometime in late 1941 my Dad was in pilot training around the Presidio in San Francisco and got into boxing to pass the time. In a big match his opponent hit him after the bell, hard, and when Dad moved to hit him back the referee made a big deal out of stopping him, so Dad knocked the referee out with a single punch and then proceeded to catch the guy who had sucker punched him and it did not end well for that guy.
There is play fighting and real fighting, although sometimes it can be confusing at first to tell the difference.
We, the mostly decent general population have up until now just been play fighting within a set of “rules” because we believed our opponent was just play fighting, too. In other words, we’ve been restraining ourselves from REAL fighting, which we’re MUCH better at than our opponents are. We restrain ourselves solely of our own free will and good faith. We don’t HAVE to play by gentlemanly rules. We’re perfectly capable of playing to win and FUCK the “rules”.
Our opponents are chicken-shit thieves who get other people to take the risks and suffer the consequences. And they sucker punched us.
Just sayin’.
August 3, 2024 at 2:55 pm #165450zerosumParticipantWES
registered voters
The winner knows how to use the system and use it if he wants to win.August 3, 2024 at 3:01 pm #165451zerosumParticipantD Benton Smith
In Summary, Israel says,
“We’re perfectly capable of playing to win and FUCK the “rules”.”August 3, 2024 at 3:31 pm #165452John DayParticipantFailing Forward https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/failing-forward
I am opening with the Seymore Hersh tale of how he tracked a lead long, hard and across the country to get the story of the 1968 My Lai Massacre, which helped Americans understand the lies and depravity of the Vietnam War. Thanks Dan.
TRACKING DOWN LIEUTENANT CALLEY, How I learned the story of the My Lai Massacre , Seymour Hersh
I found out about the death of William Calley from his obituary this week on the front page of Washington Post. It was followed by another in the New York Times. Calley passed away months ago in what must have been planned obscurity. I was glad to see the newspapers remind Americans about the Vietnam War and Calley’s role in the US Army’s infamous massacre in March of 1968 of more than 500 men, women, and children in a rural village known as My Lai.
I spent months chasing rumors that led me to Calley’s lawyer and then to an interview with Calley as he was preparing to face a court martial for his role in the horror. He was initially accused by Army lawyers of responsibility for the premeditated deaths of 109 “Oriental” human beings. He was convicted, after trial, of the death of twenty-two. He was the perfect fall guy: an officer who had no business being a leader of men and was presented to the American public as an Army convenience, the rotten apple who spoiled his fellow soldiers. No other member of Calley’s company was convicted of murder or rape, although that was the order of the day at My Lai.
I found my way to Calley after getting a tip in the fall of 1969 about murders in Vietnam that were panicking the US Army, whose chief of staff at the time was General William Westmoreland. He had been commander of all forces in Vietnam when the massacre took place, and My Lai was a stink that he needed to go away…
..I was promoted in 1965 to the AP Washington bureau and did enough good reporting to be assigned as the bureau’s correspondent in the Pentagon. I wrote stories raising questions about the integrity of the men at the top. They were making decisions that raised doubts in the minds of the young officers there who had done combat tours in the war. Inevitably, my stories about their bosses led me to become friendly with them, and they gave me a seminar on what we agreed was the “shitshow” the war had become. I came to believe that the generals were lying about the chances of success, and so were the high-profile civilian stars at the top of the Pentagon, especially Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara, the man President Kennedy chose to run the war. I started getting information from senior generals and admirals who didn’t like official lying about the extent of US bombing of population centers in North Vietnam.
I got in trouble with McNamara for my reporting, and by late 1966 I was pulled off the beat. I resigned. There were no hard feelings because I had learned a great deal at the AP about how to think and write quickly—necessities for an important beat like the Pentagon—and I had gotten to know some generals and admirals who would help me for many years. The anti-war movement was growing in America, and former GIs were speaking out about atrocities they witnessed and, in some cases, participated in…
..Late in the afternoon on October 22, 1969, I jumped to full attention when a young Washington lawyer I didn’t know called me at my office and told me about a terrible massacre in Vietnam that was being covered up by the Pentagon. We had a friend in common, he explained, who told him I was a reporter who might pursue the tip. The immediate problem was that he had no more to say because he couldn’t jeopardize the person, obviously in the government somewhere, who passed him the information…
..I still had Defense Department press credentials to get me in the building for a book I was then researching, and so I began at the beginning. The alleged massacre had taken place eighteen months earlier…
.. There are terrific resources at the Pentagon, and I started by going through all the murder cases that originated in each service. Nothing remotely matched the tip I had…
..One of the most important things I learned in the Army and as a correspondent in the Pentagon was that there was no need to kiss ass with senior officers. Say what you have to say. Amid my hunting for a magical court case or a Hail Mary newspaper clip, I was walking down a Pentagon corridor to grab a sandwich when I saw a bright and unassuming colonel I knew from my AP days. I’d heard he’d made general after being wounded in Vietnam.
And now he was back in the Pentagon. He was limping forward a few yards in front of me. So I strolled up, gave him a little punch in the arm, and told him I’d heard he’d shot himself in the knee to make general. Sounds silly, but making fun is part of Army culture. He told me he’d heard I’d been fired. Touché.
So I asked him what his new assignment was. He said he was working for General Westmoreland. The general had been running the Vietnam War at the time of My Lai, and he had to know about the events there. And so I told the officer that I’d heard there was a terrible massacre in Vietnam the year before. What he did next was a magic moment for a journalist. He wheeled around and in obvious disgust slammed his hand on his bad knee and said something like: “That asshole Calley didn’t kill anyone higher than this. There’s nothing there, Sy.”…
..I knew I was onto something big, maybe very big—and it was time to head to the public library. I did find a three-paragraph clip in the New York Times from September 8—six weeks earlier—about a Lieutenant William Calley who was being held at Fort Benning for the alleged murder of an “unspecified” number of civilians in Vietnam…
..I went back to my original source and told him he was right: something big had gone down. But I needed him to go to his sources and get the name of Calley’s lawyer. He tried, but all he could get was a last name: Latimer. I went to the local phone book and started calling up lawyers with the last name Latimer. I got lucky. One of them told me about a former military judge named George Latimer who had retired and was now practicing law, with a specialty in defending GIs, in Salt Lake City…
..He was a kindly man but very cautious. He didn’t like the fact that a reporter knew about the case, and he assumed, so I thought, that someone in the Nixon administration leaked the story. There was a firefight, Latimer told me, with crossfire between Calley’s platoon and a hardcore Viet Cong battalion. I then blurted out to the judge—was it a bluff or just an instinct I had?—that for reasons having to do with the high level of worry about the case, I had come to believe that as many as 150 civilians had been murdered. All under orders.
With this, Latimer went to a file cabinet, pulled out the Army charge sheet against Calley, and began to read from it. He laid the document down flat on his desk, and put his glasses on. I could see the top of the sheet and the first few paragraphs, and I started to copy them, word for word, very slowly, while pretending to take notes, as we chatted about the plight of his client…
..Now I had some proof, but I needed to find Calley. Latimer told me he couldn’t help, but when I said I was going to fly to Fort Benning, he said nothing… It was the base where Calley was charged and where, I assumed, he would be tried…
..There were no issues back then with getting onto the base in my rental car, and I figured Calley, if he was detained there, would be in one of the various stockades scattered around…
..I went inside in my ratty suit and tie and told a GI clerk I wanted to see Bill Calley, hoping that the clerk would take me for a lawyer. No Bill Calley, I was told. Another stockade, another clerk, and no prisoner named Calley. I’d driven more than 100 miles around the huge base with its firing ranges and training grounds, and I’d wasted hours. It was time to go back to the main to the Post Exchange for a burger and some thinking…
..I recalled from my AP days in the Pentagon that military phone books were updated and published every three months, and one of those months was June. When Calley returned from Vietnam in August, he was yet to be charged. So he might have a new listing in the June phone book. I dashed to a phone booth, called the base operator, and asked for the new listings in the June book. It took some time, but there was a new listing for a William Calley at an Army engineering barracks. Off I went…
..I crawled—literally crawled—past the office connecting the two buildings and renewed my hunt for what I hoped would turn out to be Calley on the other side. And lo and behold on the second floor there was a GI dead asleep on a top bunk in the middle of a workday afternoon. It had to be Calley. But no, on closer look the GI was young and blond, clearly not an officer and clearly not my man. I was dismayed but still curious. I jarred the kid awake and asked what the hell he was doing asleep at this hour. The kid told me the friggin’ dumb Army lost his discharge records and now he was waiting for new papers. He was missing the harvest at the family farm in Ottumwa, Iowa. The crummy Army.
“So what do you do?” I asked.
“Nothing,” he said, “except sorting and handling the mail for the guys in the engineering unit.”
“Ever hear of a Calley?”
“You mean that guy that killed all those people?”
I said yes.
“I forward his mail to battalion headquarters.” …
..I told him that in eight minutes I’d be in a blue Chevy on the street behind the barracks. It was badly needed action for the kid, and he agreed to meet me on the street. He made it, and off we went for half an hour to the battalion headquarters. The kid insisted I drive him back. It was too far to walk, he said. I took him back, and I returned to the battalion headquarters. I really liked the kid, and I wondered for years if he made it home for the harvest…
..It was an old wooden one-story building. An African-American sergeant was leaning back on a chair in front of the office door, enjoying the autumn sun and chewing on a cigar. A cliché in the flesh. I stepped out of the car, and, remembering that the clerk just got busted, I said in a stern voice, “Sergeant, get Smitty’s ass out here now!” The sergeant laughed—Smitty’s done it again—and out came a skinny and very rattled Smitty, with threads from the torn stripes still on his sleeve. “Into the car,” I said. Once he was inside, I told Smitty not to worry. I was here looking for Calley. “Where is he?” I said. “I know his mail comes here.”
“I don’t know,” he said. “All I have is his 201 file.”
“His what?”
“All of his official Army papers.”
“Get them.”
He paused for a minute and said, “OK.” He returned carrying a thick file. I opened it, and the first page I saw was the same charge sheet I’d seen a few days early in Judge Latimer’s office. I quickly copied as much as I could… There was an address in the file, however, showing where Calley was now living: in a condo off the base in the city of Columbus.
It was now closing time, and there was rush-hour traffic getting to the condo. It was a townhouse on a quiet street, and just as I was ready to pull in, I was beaten to the driveway by a car carrying three brand-new 2nd lieutenants who turned out to be fresh out of West Point… I was invited in, and somebody fixed me a drink. We had a long discussion of what Calley had told them about a massive firefight in which some civilians were killed, perhaps by Viet Cong fire. Their story matched what Judge Latimer had told me… We drank and talked. They were nice guys who had no idea what was in store for them in Vietnam. Finally, one of the young officers told me that Calley, while awaiting trial, was stashed in fancy quarters on the base reserved for officers ranked colonel and higher. As a former GI, I was stunned and a little bit fascinated…
..I headed off to the senior officers’ quarters to dig up Calley. I was tired and hungry, but there were still hours of daylight left. Calley, here I come…
There were two, maybe three buildings, each with two wings. I started knocking at one end, saying: “Calley, Calley, you there?” Most doors didn’t open: nobody home. Those who did open the door told me to beat it. Hours later, I was halfway through the buildings with nothing to show for it. It was now dark, and I was ready to check into a cheap motel and come back at dawn.
I walked out past a large parking lot that was mostly empty, but there were two guys working under a car with a long extension cord providing light. I told myself it was late and that everyone knows the rule: “Do not take the last run at a ski resort.” But I did. I walked over to the car, and I hollered my new mantra: “Calley? Bill Calley?”
A guy slid out and asked, very politely: “Who are you?” It was as if he was always getting called out from under a car.
I told him I was a reporter from Washington looking for Lieutenant Calley who was in a lot of trouble. The guy—he turned out to be a chief warrant officer who’d flown hundreds of combat missions in attack helicopters—said: “Follow me.”…
..We got to his place and he told me Calley was living upstairs, but he was out water-skiing today. He would be back late. Water-skiing? …He insisted that he wasn’t kidding. Calley, he said with a shrug, does a lot of water-skiing.
I figured, What the hell? Why not learn all I can from him. The pilot poured me another bourbon, washed up, and went on to fill me in on all the trouble Calley was in and why the fuckin’ Vietnam War sucks. He was at the top of his rank as a chopper pilot and would probably retire as soon as he could. He was terribly bright and a good man, somebody to go into a foxhole with. He was clearly troubled by the war and his role in it. He asked lots of questions about who I was and what I did. I liked talking to him and drinking his booze. He fed me some dinner.
The night went on, and around midnight I’d just about had it. I told him I had to go—I ended up getting Christmas cards from him for years—and he walked me outside. We chatted for a while with mosquitoes buzzing around, and I started hiking to my car.
“Hersh!” he called out. “Rusty is here.”
“It’s too late,” I said.
“No,” he told me, “it’s Calley.”
Rusty turned out to be his nickname. I introduced myself and told him I was a reporter from Washington.
“Yeah,” Calley said. “My lawyer told me you’d be coming around.”
I remember thinking: This guy has no idea how hard I’ve been looking for him.
He invited me to his place. More bourbon was poured, and he started talking: stuff about a firefight and dirty rotten VC all around. A firefight—almost as if he believes it. I didn’t understand why he was being so open with someone he didn’t know. Perhaps Latimer told him to tell me his account of the day at My Lai. But I wasn’t not about to raise that issue. I was taking notes and going, Yeah, yeah, yeah.
He was short and slight with translucent skin. You could almost see his blue veins. He was, of course, terrified, and he seemed to understand that the next time he would see reporters would be just before beginning a long prison sentence at hard labor. At one point he went to the john. There was a large mirror on his side of the door that showed he was vomiting dark red arterial blood—the product of a significant ulcer or two, so I guessed. He was masking a hell of a lot of anxiety, and perhaps terror. But I didn’t allow myself sympathy for his plight. He had a choice to make at My Lai, and he chose to kill innocents and to order his subordinates to do the same.
At three or four in the morning, we drove out in my car to an all-night PX on the base, got a steak and more wine, and then went to a hospital to pick up his girlfriend, an Army nurse who was getting off a late shift. She was horrified to find a reporter in the car but gamely came with us and made dinner. At 6 am or so, Calley told me that his much admired company captain, a guy named Ernest Medina, who was known to his troops, I would later learn, as “Mad Dog Medina,” was also at Fort Benning awaiting legal proceedings. Medina would tell me, Calley said, that all he had done at My Lai came pursuant to Medina’s direct orders. He dialed a number, and Medina—about whom I knew nothing—picked up immediately. Calley explained that a reporter from Washington was on the phone with him.
“Please, Captain,” Calley said, “tell him what I did was under your orders.”
“I don’t know what you are talking about,” Medina said, and he hung up. Calley was stricken.
It was clear that he’d just figured out that he would be the sacrificial lamb. The bad apple. It would all be on him…
..I left, got to the airport, took a plane to Washington, and, exhausted as I was, I began writing the first of what would be five stories over the next months about what happened at My Lai. It was almost impossible to get a serious media company to publish the story. Both Life and Look magazines, who had talked to me earlier in the year about writing for them, rejected my account, with its interview with Calley. I was afraid to go to the New York Times—I’d been writing for its Sunday magazine—because I worried the paper would take over the story and exclude me. But I got the story out. And the ball began unraveling.
After my initial Calley reports were published—the first appeared on November 12, 1969—I continued to chase the story… And so I tracked down other enlisted men who served under Calley. One of them was a farm boy from rural Indiana named Paul Meadlo who, on Calley’s orders, shot many terrified men, women, and children who’d been marched into a ditch…
..It took me a few weeks as I was flying around America in search of My Lai veterans to find a telephone number for Meadlo. I called and got his mother’s permission to come and talk to her son, if he would agree. Paul had stepped on a land mine on the day after My Lai, and part of his foot was blown off. While waiting for a helicopter airlift, to the horror of his army mates, he kept on saying: “God has punished me, and God will punish you, Lieutenant Calley, for what you made me do.”
(I learned years later on a spur-of-the-moment call I made to Meadlo’s older brother—by this time Paul wanted no more to do with me or My Lai—that Paul had never been able to shoot rabbits when the two of them went hunting for dinner until he joined the Army. “Well,” his brother said drily, “the Army did teach him how to kill.”)
When I pulled up to the farm in New Goshen, Indiana, Paul’s mother walked outside to meet me. She told me Paul was waiting for me, and pointed me to a separate wooden shack that was now his home. This dignified woman, who was running a hardscrabble farm essentially by herself, said to me: “I gave them a good boy, and they made him a murderer.”
I went inside and said hello to the waiting ex-GI. The first thing I asked him was to take off his artificial leg and show me the stump. He did so, and he talked about the mechanics of dealing with his injury. I then told him I wanted to hear the story if he was willing to tell it. He started talking, and I started taking notes.
I had a story that made me weep for the dead and weep for their killers. It went boom, and within a day or so Meadlo was telling his tale to the world in an interview with Mike Wallace on the CBS Evening News.
I never saw or spoke to Calley again. I did not want to. https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/tracking-down-lieutenant-calley Moldovan Jornalist, Yuri Roshka writes:
Today, August 2, I was sentenced to 6 years in prison. Thus, my activity as a journalist, editor, and politician was appreciated at the highest level by the globalist circles that control the power in my country, the Republic of Moldova. In particular, the fact that I was among the few and most vocal critics of the fake Covid-19 pandemic, the UN 2030 Agenda, and the digital tyranny of the satanic technocracy. Among the most serious “misdemeanors” I committed in the last seven years was the organization of an international think tank Chisinau Forum, which brought together dozens of leading intellectuals from around the world who are part of the anti-globalist Resistance.
In recent years I have edited a multitude of books by important authors from the international dissidence, along with a number of my own books. I managed to conduct a series of interviews with scholars and academics from several countries. I practice every day my speeches appear in video format.
I had a long political career, 4 mandates as deputy, 2 as deputy president of the Parliament, one as deputy prime minister. I have always been penalized for my public beliefs and attitudes. But this time the globalist occupation regime in Chisinau perfectly executed the role assigned to it.
In 15 days we have the right to appeal the decision of the first instance to the Court of Appeal. After which follows the Supreme Court of Justice. I have no more illusions about what will happen next.
I remain an Orthodox Christian fighter, a patriot of my country and one who does not accept silence and compromise in exchange for my own comfort.
Our fight continues. God bless you all! https://iurierosca.substack.com/p/today-i-was-sentenced-to-6-years/commentsAugust 3, 2024 at 3:32 pm #165453John DayParticipantNew Video Emerges Of Shooter RUNNING Across Roof As Trump Is Speaking Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse, Steve Watson The video has only just come to light because it was filmed by James Copenhaver, one of the victims who was wounded and has been recovering. https://modernity.news/2024/08/01/new-video-emerges-of-shooter-running-across-roof-as-trump-is-speaking/
A Closer Look at Rooftop Video Possibly Shows Assassin Crooks Being Shot While President Trump Still Talking!?!
Then on Wednesday a video was released showing someone walking across the roof towards the spot where the accused shooter Crooks was supposedly located before shooting President Trump.
After analyzing this video further, it may show Crooks getting shot. The problem is, President Trump is still talking.
Apparently, James Copenhaver filmed the rooftop shooter getting killed. Nice..!
Weird part? Trump is still speaking.. So, who shot Trump’s ear?
The shooter inside American Glass. The one in uniform. https://joehoft.com/huge-a-closer-look-at-rooftop-video-shows-assassin-shot-while-president-trump-still-talking/#google_vignetteRussia accuses Israel of ‘gross violation’ of international law, An Israeli strike on Beirut that damaged a hospital is “unacceptable,” the Russian Foreign Ministry has said https://www.rt.com/russia/601931-israel-gross-violation-international-law/
Israeli Attack Kills Hamas Leader in Tehran: F-35 Precision Strike Suspected
The assassination notably follows an Israeli airstrike in April which killed three of Haniyeh’s sons and four of his grandchildren in the Gaza Strip. Iranian sources notably have not confirmed Hamas claims that the assassination was conducted by air strike, which would have serious implications regarding the state of the country’s air defences. Speculation has already grown that if confirmed to be an air strike, the attack would likely have been carried out by F-35 fifth generation fighters, which have advanced radar evading stealth capabilities optimised to penetrating multi-layered air defence networks. https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/israeli-strike-hamas-f35 Haniyeh Killed By Bomb Placed In Tehran Guesthouse 2 Months Ago In Astounding Mossad Penetration Of IRGC Security
New details have emerged in the Israeli covert assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh while he was staying in Tehran to attend the country’s presidential inauguration events.
Iran and Hamas’ backers considered Haniyeh to be essentially akin to a top foreign diplomat or even head of state, and so at times Haniyeh was known to travel openly in places like Qatar, Iran, or other Gulf states. And yet the bombing that took is life is being widely viewed in Iran as an utterly humiliating security failure for the elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), which was hosting the Hamas leader.
The NY Times is reporting Thursday of events the day prior that he was assassinated by “an explosive device covertly smuggled into the Tehran guesthouse where he was staying, according to seven Middle Eastern officials, including two Iranians, and an American official.”…
..The Times mentioned that there are alternative theories, however, such as the possibility of a small missile having struck Haniyeh’s room, which is what Hamas’ initial official statement late in the day Wednesday indicated. Neither Hamas nor the Iranians are likely to confirm these specific aspects of the alleged Mossad intel op, which could go down as the most daring in history...
..Axios has meanwhile issued a follow-up report which has the following additional details via Israeli security sources:
They added that the bomb was a high-tech device that used artificial intelligence.
It was detonated remotely by Mossad operatives who were on Iranian soil after receiving intelligence that Haniyeh was indeed in the room.
The IRGC said it has opened an investigation around the incident. https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/haniyeh-killed-bomb-placed-tehran-house-2-months-ago-astounding-intel-penetration-irgcAugust 3, 2024 at 3:34 pm #165454John DayParticipantIraq Condemns US Airstrike as ‘Heinous Crime and Blatant Aggression’, The US bombing killed four members of the PMF, which is part of Iraq’s security forces https://news.antiwar.com/2024/07/31/iraq-condemns-us-airstrike-as-heinous-crime-and-blatant-aggression/
Hamas military chief was killed in July strike, Israel says
Israel’s military says it has confirmed that Hamas’s military chief Mohammed Deif was killed in an Israeli air strike in the Gaza Strip last month.
Deif was targeted in the strike on a compound in the Khan Younis area on 13 July. Hamas is yet to confirm his death.
Israel says Deif was one of the figures responsible for planning the 7 October attacks in southern Israel in which 1,200 people were killed and 251 taken hostage. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpv3gpy74ydo Professor Anthony Hall, Some Say Israel Did 9/11… and Much More , Matthew Tower presents a Bold and Compelling Account of Recent History
Matthew Tower has come up with a very significant video that explains much about our present dilemmas through the lens of a compelling interpretation of history. A key to his thesis is that beginning in the 1950s, James Jesus Angleton, the Head of the Counterintelligence Division of the CIA, betrayed the United States. Angleton’s treason has crippled the US Republic ever since.
As Tower sees, Angleton was instrumental in the assassination of US President John F. Kennedy. This Israel-instigated execution cleared the way for the installation of Lyndon Baines Johnson. President Johnson took Israel’s side in the Six Day War in 1967. Johnson’s machinations included his sanctioning of the notorious and lethal assault by the Israeli Air Force on the USS Liberty. That ruthless assault by the IDF on the US Armed Forces remains denied by officialdom to this day. https://anthonyjhall.substack.com/p/some-say-israel-did-911-and-much Austin Pledges the US Will Defend Israel If It Faces Attack After Latest Escalations
The Israeli drone strike of Beirut and assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Iran risks a major regional war https://news.antiwar.com/2024/07/31/austin-pledges-the-us-will-defend-israel-if-it-faces-attack-after-latest-escalations/ Biden Pledges New Military Deployments To Defend Israel In Netanyahu Call
“The President reaffirmed his commitment to Israel’s security against all threats from Iran, including its proxy terrorist groups Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis,” the White House call readout stated.
Alarmingly, Biden also informed the Israeli prime minister that he is readying new deployments to the Middle East. This even as the US Commander-in-Chief was essentially forced to bow out his campaign for reelection due to health and mental acuity concerns, including speculation over dementia.
And all of this is happening with basically zero Congressional input, meaning a somewhat senile and elderly President Biden could be taking the nation into yet another war and Middle East quagmire with no additional oversight or Constitutional checks and balances whatsoever. https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/biden-pledges-new-military-deployments-defend-israel-netanyahu-callAugust 3, 2024 at 3:35 pm #165455John DayParticipantUS deploys at least 12 warships to Middle East amid soaring tensions https://endtimeheadlines.org/2024/08/us-deploys-at-least-12-warships-to-middle-east-amid-soaring-tensions/#google_vignette
Try this on for size, my guess at the sequence of discussions during Netanyahu’s recent US trip::
Bibi goes to Washington amid protests, and boycotts of his speech, including by VP Harris, accepts standing ovations from paid-shill-elected Senators and Congressmen,
Bibi meets with “Joe Biden” and smiles for the camera. Bibi meets with Kamala Harris, who disses him again after the meeting by talking about “permanent peace” and “Palestinian suffering” to the press.
Bibi and Sarah go to Mar-a-Lago to visit their very-well-bribed old friend, Donald Trump. I speculate that Trump told Bibi to do whatever he needed and wanted to the Palestinians, but to have it done by mid January. Bibi said, “I can do that”. Biden Angry Over Being Kept In The Dark On Israel’s Operation To Kill Hamas Chief
Fresh reporting by Barak Ravid of Axios has revealed that President Biden held a “tough” phone call with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Thursdsay wherein the Israeli leader was urged to stop stoking tensions in the region which puts any potential hostage deal in extreme jeopardy.
Israel’s Wednesday assassination of Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh has put the whole region on a war footing. But Netanyahu and his government without doubt sees this as justified and necessary revenge for the Oct.7 terror attacks on southern Israel. Biden officials are said to be deeply frustrated at the ripple effects from both the Haniyeh killing and the assassination of Hezbollah’s top military commander in Beirut this week. https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/biden-angry-over-being-kept-dark-israels-operation-kill-hamas-chief Yves Smith, Israel: Armageddon? [What if Iran consulted Russia, China and regional neighbors to devise a concerted moderate reprisal with Russian & Chinese protection?]
By all accounts, Iran has more than enough in the way of conventional missiles very well bunkered (and some claim set to launch on a dead hand basis) to destroy Israel. A strike like the one described above looks primed to trigger an Israel-devastating salvo.
It seems worryingly possible that if Hezbollah or a coordinated Axis of Resistance response were deemed by Israel to be excessive, Israel could respond by striking Hezbollah with a tactical nuke. Since Hezbollah’s operations are all in deep underground tunnels, that would result in disproportionate civilian deaths above ground.
Colonel Macgregor discusses this scenario in a disconcertingly calm manner below, starting at 16:15. He points out that Israel will face its toughest opponent ever in a full-bore conflict with Hezbollah and he therefore thinks Israel is prepared to make a strike with tactical nuclear bombs. He states matter-of-factly that a tactical nuclear weapon could be as small as 5 kilotons. That would be about 1/3 of the blast power of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. https://youtu.be/cLwqqsb4Ff4
Macgregor continues by observing that if Israel were to make a nuclear attack on Hezbollah, that Iran would enter with vehemence and has more than enough conventional weapons to overwhelm Israel defenses and inflict great damage on Israel. He anticipates that Israel would then launch a nuclear attack on Iran.
Macgregor also mentions briefly starting at 6:00 that due to the conflict, Israel’s population has largely left the northern and southern border areas, making it even more concentrated than usual. This creates an incentive for Israel to engage in a pre-emptive attack.
This scenario may seem a bit linear, when the possible outcomes are bushier. Nevertheless, it seems too likely that if Hezbollah and/or Iran engage in anything more that a proportional response (and per above it is Israel and the US that sit in judgement of where a response is excessive), Israel could use that at a pretext to launch a war in Lebanon, or simply skip “Go” and strike a part of Lebanon it contends to a prime target, as it it claims the strike would significantly damage the Hezbollah tunnel network. If that does happen, it seems far too likely that, as Macgregor anticipates, Iran launches no-holds-barred missile attacks and Israel retaliates with a major nuclear attack.
Now if Macgregor and yours truly can work out this risk, so can Iran.
So the next question is: what is Iran’s and the Axis of Resistance’s ability to destroy, in a massive, tightly time-compressed attack, to take out all or nearly all of Israel’s ability to launch a nuclear attack? Remember, nuclear bombs don’t get up and walk to their targets. They are sent by ground or submarine launched missiles or aircraft.
Israel has five nuclear subs and they are believed to carry 200 kiloton nuclear missiles. The innertubes also report that Israel has nuclear weapons buried deep enough to be able to make a second strike even in the face of a nuclear attack. So the Axis of Resistance looks unable to make a successful preemptive strike unless they were also able to interfere with targeting, and they don’t look able to do that. The only option along these lines that could work on the scale needed might be an electomagnetic pulse bomb. But there’s no evidence Iran has developed, let alone tested, one, and it would be too high stakes to try a maiden run now.
So it looks all too likely that Israel not only will use nuclear, but even worse may be trying to set up events to justify deploying them. https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/08/israel-armageddon.htmlSayyed Hassan Nasrallah tells Israelis and their backers that they must await Hezbollah’s inevitable response to the assassination of Sayyed Fouad Shokor. https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/you-will-shed-tears–we-entered-a-new-phase–nasrallah-to-is
August 3, 2024 at 3:36 pm #165456John DayParticipantHezbollah Retaliates Hours After Slain Commander’s Funeral: 60+ Rockets On Northern Israel [I don’t think this is the “retaliation”.] https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/hezbollah-chief-vows-new-phase-war-during-slain-commanders-funeral
Tonight? Iran State TV Suggests Attack On Israel Is Just ‘Hours’ Away https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/tonight-iran-state-tv-suggests-attack-israel-just-hours-away
Graham Pushes Senators To Commit To War On Iran If Israel Attacked
South Carolina Republican Senator… Lindsey Graham is salivating over the prospect of war with Iran at a moment regional tensions are boiling in the wake of Israel assassinating Hamas’ political leader in Tehran and Hezbollah’s senior military commander in Beirut.
Graham on Wednesday introduced a bill that if passed would authorize military action against Iran if Hezbollah attacks Israel. The resolution says that the Senate “asserts that efforts to deter Hezbollah and the Islamic Republic of Iran are most credible when the President keeps all options on the table, including military force.”
It would consider an all-out assault by Hezbollah to have the direct backing of Iran, and would thus authorize direct US counterattack on the Islamic Republic.
The bill further authorizes military action against Iran if the country is deemed on the cusp of achieving a nuclear bomb. Iranian officials have lately signaled a major boost in its nuclear program at key sites. https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/graham-pushes-senators-commit-war-iran-if-israel-attacked Joe Biden’s Lame Duck Presidency Is the Opportunity of a Lifetime for Netanyahu
He sees that Biden is not prepared to use any leverage with Israel to prevent this escalation and to impose repercussions on Israel, either for engaging in regional escalation or to impose consequences for Israel.
The best example of this is the Israeli attack on Damascus [when it bombed the Iranian consulate on April 1, 2024, killing 16 people, including 8 members of the IRGC]. I find it difficult to believe that the U.S. willingly signed off on that and felt that an Israeli air raid on an Iranian diplomatic facility in the center of the Syrian capital somehow promotes U.S. interests in the Middle East. But if we look at how the U.S. responded to that, “Israel has a right to self defense” and then mobilized a regional coalition to blunt the Iranian response.
And so, yes, while Netanyahu may be much more aligned with Trump than with Biden, I think he sees in Biden someone who he can put to much better Israeli use during the remaining period of Biden’s term in office than a potential second Trump or a Harris administration. So I think those are Israel’s calculations now. And I’m sure that people like CIA Director Burns, who knows the region quite well, sees things very differently, but people like him, perhaps even including [Defense Secretary] Austin, are probably looking on in horror at what’s happening. https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/israel-netanyahu-assassinations-bidenMoon of Alabama discusses the appealing Israeli political option to keep doubling down and “Failing Forward”:: Israel Might Well Fall Apart
A somewhat premature comment on the conflict between the Israeli Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant and Minister of National Security (and convicted radical) Itamar Ben-Gvir:
The disintegration of the Zionist society is happening earlier than expected. This will exacerbate the more Israelis become aware that war failure is inevitable. Civil war is very likely, but almost a third of the population (liberals & affiliates) would leave rather than fight.
This is not a clash between two officials, this is an ideological clash between two schools of thought who are at the complete opposite spectrum.
This will not stay between Ben-Gvir & Gallant/Halevi, it will become a conflict between the army and the police/militias.
The current conflict between Gallant and Ben-Gvir comes after the Military Police arrested nine soldiers accused of raping a Palestinian prisoner.
The Israeli investigation of the rape became necessary after reports by CNN, the New York Times (archived) and the Washington Post (archived) about prisoner abuse and murder in Israeli jails. The reports threatened to trigger international investigations. https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/07/israel-might-well-fall-apart.html#moreAugust 3, 2024 at 3:37 pm #165457John DayParticipantNew Testimonies Detail Torture and Abuse of Gazan Detainees in Israeli Jails, Detention Centres
New testimonies received by Euro-Med Human Right Monitor from recently-released Palestinian detainees from the Gaza Strip, including women and children, detail their subjection to torture and ill-treatment by Israeli authorities. The rights organisation cited revelations of crimes such as forced nudity, sexual harassment, and threats of sexual torture, calling for urgent international action to stop these violations. https://www.globalresearch.ca/new-testimonies-detail-torture-and-abuse-of-gazan-detainees-in-israeli-jails-detention-centres/5864104 UN Finds ‘Appalling Acts’ of Torture Against Palestinians
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on Wednesday released a report detailing torture and abuse of Palestinians at Israeli detention centers, including sexual violence, waterboarding, and the use of dogs.
Israeli security forces have also used electric shocks, burned detainees with cigarettes, and deprived them of food, water, sleep, and toilet access, according to the 23-page OHCHR report, based largely on interviews with released detainees.
Some detainees said they were held with their arms suspended from the ceiling; were forced to be naked for prolonged periods, wearing only diapers; and were blindfolded for extended periods.
The OHCHR report comes as a highly controversial case involving detention abuse unfolds in Israel. The Israeli military is investigating nine soldiers for alleged “substantial abuse” of a Palestinian detainee who reportedly had to be hospitalized [after being sodomized] and could not walk after they attacked him. https://consortiumnews.com/2024/08/01/un-finds-appalling-acts-of-torture-against-palestinians/ Israel returns sexually abused Gaza detainee to detention centre where he was tortured
A Gaza detainee allegedly sexually abused by Israeli soldiers at Sde Teiman was returned to the military detention centre after being treated for his injuries in Beersheba.
According to Haaretz, he suffered from “a ruptured bowel, a severe injury to his anus, lung damage and broken ribs” as a result of the immense torture he was subjected to by Israeli occupation soldiers.
The Palestinian detainee was hospitalised immediately after the incident and then released to a field hospital at the Sde Teiman base.
It comes after one of the nine Israeli soldiers arrested for abusing him was released without charge. Deliberations about the other eight are continuing.
The nine men were detained for their role in the alleged abuse, including rape, of Palestinian detainees held at the facility, which has been compared to Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib. https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240801-israel-returns-sexually-abused-gaza-detainee-to-detention-centre-where-he-was-tortured/Two Palestinian prisoners martyred due to torture in Israeli custody https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/two-palestinian-prisoners-martyred-due-to-torture-in-israeli
Military Summary morning report is time-marked for 3 minutes of Mideast news. Iran will attack Israel today, bigger attack than April. Russia has delivered weapons to Iran today, which will presumably be used. Russia appears ready to protect Iran, Syria, Yemen and Lebanon. US appears ready to have Aircraft Carrier Roosevelt sunk in Strait of Hormuz. Know where your iodine-pills and fallout shelter are. Battle For Toretsk, Zhelanne, Serhiivka Middle East – The Last Hours Military Summary For 2024.08.3
August 3, 2024 at 3:40 pm #165458John DayParticipantAre quiet negotiations underway to end the Ukraine war? Is this a little ice-breaker? Americans freed by Russia in major prisoner swap arrive in US https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/8/2/gershkovich-whelan-and-kurmasheva-arrive-in-us-after-prisoner-swap
North Korean Defector Says Kim Is Willing to Talk to Trump
A recent high-level North Korean defector said Pyongyang would be interested in talks with former-US President Donald Trump if he wins the November election. During his first term, Trump engaged Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un in negotiations that nearly secured major agreement.
Senior North Korean diplomat Ri Il Gyum, who recently defected to South Korea, said he believes Kim would be willing to restart talks with Trump if he retakes the Oval Office.
Ri assesses that the negotiations could be more successful during Trump’s second term because Kim would take a different approach. “Kim Jong Un doesn’t know much about international relations and diplomacy, or how to make strategic judgment,” he said. “This time, the foreign ministry would definitely gain power and take charge, and it won’t be so easy for Trump to tie North Korea’s hands and feet again for four years without giving anything.” https://libertarianinstitute.org/news/north-korean-defector-says-kim-is-willing-to-talk-to-trump/ Michael Hudson, Barbarism or Civilization.
Neoliberal trade theory is the most blatant example of today’s junk economics being awarded by Nobel Prizes as if that can somehow legitimize it. The result is the International Monetary Fund’s austerity plan masquerading as “stabilization plans.” Once a country like Argentina or Chile runs up a foreign debt, it is directed to obtain the money to pay this foreign debt by imposing anti-labor policies, dissolving labor unions, lowering wage levels while taxing labor (“consumers”) more, as if pauperized labor will make them competitive enough to earn enough export income to pay their foreign creditors.
When a policy like this has been shown to be destructive for the past century yet is still being imposed, it’s obvious that this is not an innocent error. You might call it a very successful error. It has succeeded in preventing the Global South from earning its way out of debt and from developing is own self-sufficiency in food and other basic needs. It has succeeded in creating domestic client oligarchies whose interests are to become agents of this Western NATO-centered model instead of seeking to develop their own economies.
It is to avoid this destiny that today’s geopolitical breakaway by the global majority in Asia, Africa and Latin America are moving to replace the finance-capitalist model. Their move to reinvent the wheel is following the logic of the original industrial capitalist takeoff that was evolving into socialism. If you look back to the late 19th century’s flowing of classical political economy, not only by Marx but by political parties across the political spectrum, we can see that there was going to be socialism of one kind or another.
What kind of socialism is it going to be? There was Christian socialism, libertarian socialism, Marxian socialism and other kinds of socialism. This classical literature and political debate was rich, but it came to an end with World War I. That was a disastrous turning point in Western civilization. The rentier classes, the landlords, the monopolists and the bankers had been fighting back against the industrial reforms that were happening in the most advanced industrial economies of Europe and the United States. The wealthy elites were terrified that support for these reforms would lead in Europe to a revolution like that created Soviet Russia. The West was even more terrified of what seemed to be happening in Germany that was looking like it was likely to go socialist.
The vested rentier interests, especially the wealthiest classes, feared that this threatened to end the ability of a wealthy financial oligarchy of the One Percent, maybe even five percent of the population. For the past century it has built up its financial wealth by forcing the rest of the economy into debt. The result has been a social malaise as Western populations in the United States and Europe, have come to believe that There Is No Alternative.
The lack of an alternative has enriched the One Percent. The U.S. economy has polarized, and so has Europe’s economies. The wealth of Europe, Italy included, has been sucked up to the very top, to the financial layer that has taken control of economic planning and public policy as if their privatized self-interest is more productive and efficient than an alternative that would raise labor’s living standards and self-reliance.
Financial elites throughout the world are a cosmopolitan class. It’s not only wealthy Italians but wealthy Europeans, wealthy Americans draining money from their own industrial sectors, the agricultural and the commercial sector. This stateless international class has its law of motion in its drive to force the entire global economy into debt so as to use its debt leverage to foreclose, above all on the assets of the public sector by getting governments into debt.
Backed by the IMF, World Banks and U.S. courts, international bondholders (including domestic oligarchies keeping their wealth outside of their own countries) force debtor governments to sell off public infrastructure. In the case of corporate debt, creditors foreclose on companies and break them into parts.
This behavior has de-industrialized the United States and Britain. Yet while the economies of the United States and Europe have gotten poorer and poorer, the wealthiest One Percent have got richer and richer. That’s why the United States and Europe have not joined the Global Majority but are trying to fight against its demonstration that there is a better alternative for civilization.
The NATO West’s ruling elites have overplayed their hand. By treating the rest of the world as an enemy for resisting U.S.-sponsored control, this diplomacy has driven other countries together to create an alternative. That alternative involves creating alternative institutions to the International Monetary Fund in a BRICS central bank to deal with inter-government balance of payments relations. It involves a new Bank for Economic Acceleration as an alternative to the World Bank, a bank to finance their own economic development by creating its own credit system to the global majority increase its infrastructure, agricultural and industrial investment. It also requires a new International Court of Justice to prevent oil companies and mining companies from polluting countries and resist being charged to pay for the cleanup costs that they’ve caused in their drive for quick natural-resource rents.
Ultimately, the Global Majority needs to create an alternative to the United Nations itself. All these institutions – the United Nations, the IMF and the World Bank – are subject to American veto power. The United States has long announced that a central tenet of its foreign policy is that it will not join any institution that it can’t control by vetoing if they do something that does not benefit the United States. https://www.globalresearch.ca/barbarism-or-civilization/5864168 Private Equity Giants Invest More Than $200M in Federal Races to Protect Their Lucrative Tax Loophole
The carried interest tax deduction allows private equity investment managers to pay a lower 23.8% tax rate on the capital gains passed on to them as compensation rather than the top income tax rate of up to 40.8% they would pay on the same amount if it were considered wage or salary income.
“Carried interest is a form of compensation paid to investment executives like private equity, hedge fund and venture capital managers,” CNBC explains. “The managers receive a share of the fund’s profits — typically 20% of the total — which is divided among them proportionally. The profit is called carried interest, and is also known as ‘carry’ or ‘profits interest.’”
The $223-million investment these 11 private equity billionaires are making in campaign contributions in hopes of keeping the loophole intact will save the industry an estimated $14 billion in taxes over 10 years. https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2024/07/31/private-equity-giants-invest-more-than-200m-in-federal-races-to-protect-their-lucrative-tax-loophole/August 3, 2024 at 3:41 pm #165459John DayParticipant Female boxer’s Olympic beatdown sparks transgender outcry [Both of these cases, not well explained, might reflect “Testicular Feminization Syndrome”, which is when a genetic XY male embryo develops female sexual characteristics because of defective testosterone receptor genes. These baby-girls are born with pelvic testes, where ovaries would be, a blind vaginal pouch, not typically discovered until they fail to get menstrual periods, and variable body morphology, which tends to be leaner, more muscular, taller, etc. Jamie Lee Curtis almost certainly has “T-Fem” syndrome from scuttlebutt I heard at med school. Look at pictures.] https://swentr.site/news/602013-womens-boxing-olympics-scandal/
Swiss Government Takes Child Away From Parents Who Refused Puberty Blockers
Swiss parents seeking to remain anonymous have recounted their legal horror story after their 13-year-old daughter proclaimed herself “a boy.” The parents uncovered evidence that their child had been groomed by her teachers, school councilors and even doctors to adopt trans beliefs and began referring to her as a boy with a new male name in the classroom. When her parents discovered this they complained to school officials, only to have the child taken from them at age 16 by the Swiss Government. https://www.zerohedge.com/political/swiss-government-takes-child-away-parents-who-refused-puberty-blockers Meryl Nass MD, WHO (Jeremy and Tedros) tell the world they are ignoring WHO’s member states and moving ahead with the biosecurity agenda laid out in original drafts of the Pandemic Treaty and IHR amendments , The mock-up vaccine approach provides for vaccines in 100 days without safety testing https://merylnass.substack.com/p/who-jeremy-and-tedros-tell-the-world
Even When It Came to Children, German Government Ignored Own Scientists to Impose Strict COVID Vaccine, Mask Mandates
Germany’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic was based on political objectives, and the government implemented countermeasures that often contradicted scientific evidence, according to documents leaked by a former employee of Germany’s public health agency. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/rki-files-german-government-scientists-covid-vaccine-mask-mandates/ German Media Admits Unvaxxed Are ‘Winners,’ Demands Government ‘Apologize’
A major corporate media outlet in Germany has just declared that people who refused to take Covid mRNA shots during and after the pandemic are “the winners.”
During a bombshell segment on German legacy media outlet Welt, the panel argued that the government owes the public an apology for claiming Covid was a “pandemic of the unvaccinated.”
Prominent German reporter Hans-Ulrich Jörges said the unvaccinated were “the winners” because they refused to comply with the government’s mass vaccination agenda. Jörges called for public apologies from key government officials who perpetuated the narrative that the pandemic was solely a “pandemic of the unvaccinated.”…
..He cited the bombshell revelations from the unredacted crisis team protocols from the Robert Koch Institute.
“It was officially determined by them that the statement, ‘the pandemic is a pandemic of the unvaccinated,’ is not correct,” Jörges highlighted. “Literally not correct,” he emphasized. [“Einfach unrichtig” is a very strong statement in German.] https://slaynews.com/news/german-media-admits-unvaxxed-winners-demands-government-apologize/August 3, 2024 at 3:41 pm #165460John DayParticipantI don’t support political-Zionist RFK Jr. but I support this policy:
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Platform for Health Freedom as President of the United States
✓ All vaccines must be subject to pre-license placebo-controlled studies, just as other pharmaceutical products are.
✓ End financial conflicts of interest that plague the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), National Institute of Health (NIH), and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) via executive orders.
✓ Make it illegal for any government agency to financially benefit from any pharmaceutical product regulated or licensed by the government.
✓ Sign and implement a treaty banning all gain-of-function research globally.
✓ Direct the NIH and Federal Communication Commission (FCC) to end the practice of allowing pharmaceutical companies to advertise their products to the public.
✓ Work with Congress to restore Americans’ Seventh Amendment rights to sue in court and complete the liability shield given to pharmaceutical companies by the 1986 Vaccine Injury Compensation Act.
✓ Support prosecution against major medical journals for racketeering with pharmaceutical companies unless they agree to end their fraudulent publication practices (such as retracting valid science, publishing false information, and acting on behalf of pharmaceutical company interests).
✓ Terminate grants to infectious disease specialists and virologists, then redirect those funds to identify the sources of chronic disease epidemics.
✓ Open up NIH databases to produce highly accurate peer-reviewed studies almost instantaneously to benefit the health of all Americans.
✓ Ban any scientist currently on the Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC) or Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) that has allowed medications and vaccines to get to the American public in an unsafe manner and end access to NIH funding for these scientists for at least 8 years as punishment for the harm they have done to the public. https://kennedyforhealth.com/health-freedom-platform/August 3, 2024 at 4:14 pm #165461DarkMatterParticipantIf Josh Shapiro really is the Democrat VP nominee and Harris/Shapiro are elected they can quickly dispose of Harris and Israel will finally have the US president they really want.
August 3, 2024 at 4:44 pm #165462NoiretteParticipantISR – Palestine Aparthheid.
The 8 tiers of Isr. Apartheid explained. by Z. Foster, July 19 2024.
from, Palestine Nexus.
Treats land – voting rights, segmenting of population.
Other aspects, such as right to marry, legitimise chilren, have access to health care, are left off / not treated as specific topics, as not within the scope of this summary.
August 3, 2024 at 5:57 pm #165463Dr D RichParticipantI, however, didn’t volunteer for the IDF like Josh Shapiro. Rather, my service took place in defense of the Constitution culminating at the rank of Captain USN. Taking exception to our military adopting IDF and Israeli tactics in the abuse of enemy combatants and POWs got me labeled as disloyal by one, Bill Roberts, future Admiral.
Future Admiral Roberts couldn’t demonstrate the same discernment by failing to ever recognize one of his own, Navy ER doctor and CAPT Bruce Meneley, was always a pedophile equally worthy of Bill’s and the Navy’s respect and not just the bullets used by police officers to blow Bruce’s Brains out recently at a Seattle hotel.
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His main accomplishment as PA AG was bringing charges against hundreds of RC priests for pedophilia including Cardinal Donald Wuerl.
In retrospect, Shapiro’s legal maneuvers can be seen as Joshua’s cynical ploy to achieve two aims:
1. Further discredit the Catholic church to the benefit of Judaism. (Hooray Josh!)
2. Enrich the vulture law firms that used a window of “grace” to make settlements on behalf of priest abuse victims while claiming poverty on behalf of the unChrist-like monied interests of the same Catholic church.Where’s Josh’s follow up from the bully pulpit of Pennsylvania State Governor’s Office?
What of the child victims?
Well, we were/are not Josh’s priority.Yet the myth Josh Shapiro’s blow against the priest pedophiles of the Catholic Church continues to be foisted on the unsuspecting public.
Me? The Greensburg Diocese offered me $140,000 to shut up after I told my attorney to fuck-off when he recommended accepting the initial offer, $78,000. The problem with Josh Shapiro and the Diocesan offer is the fact they knew the priest they moved to our tiny parish in Westmoreland county was relocated in response to their “discovery” he raped a 10 year old boy at his previous assignment.
So, add criminal conspiracy to coverup child rape and promote child rape by ensuring unsuspecting parishioners at the next church would be assuredly subjected to predations Greenburg Diocese, Bishop Connare, The Vatican and The Holy See already documented.I was 10 years old then.
Vatican documents showed the Holy See knew too.Equally important, Josh Shapiro’s “legal maneuvers” resulted in a payment of $30,000 to another of Father George Pierce’s victims, Clarice. Clarice was 11 or 12 when she became Pierce’s focus of attention.
And I’m witness to Clarice being present in Pierce’s church rectory. One would think that fact could change their entire calculus, AG Shapiro only sought votes.$30,000…..
Another 6 of those 52 years has passed since their ridiculous settlement offer. No one will write those words about The Great Jew Hope, Josh Shapiro.
Go to hell Josh Shapiro
Fuck you, you disloyal son of a bitchAugust 3, 2024 at 7:05 pm #165465D Benton SmithParticipantI understand the point you make, but at the same time I want to point out that Israel isn’t winning. It’s losing, and its losing BECAUSE Israel thinks it can play without self-restraint to do whatever they want , while the rest of us restrain ourselves to do only that which is allowed by certain “rules”. In other words, Israel thinks it can get away with “sucker punching” people and then hiding behind a bunch of bull shit rules to escape being whacked back.
When I say that I am capable of playing to win and FUCK the “rules”, what I mean to say is that I am CAPABLE of doing that, just like you are and everybody else is, too. The fact that you and me (and most other people) choose to NOT do such idiotically stupid things is because we are exercising our own free will to choose between good and bad and thereby do what is right instead of what is wrong. But that doesn’t mean I can’t shoot someone dead if I clearly see that it’s the right thing to do.
We behave this way not just because we want to, and not just because we can, but because it is beneficial. There’s the key word. Beneficial. So it isn’t a “rule” that stays our hand, and it never was. It is our sense of right and wrong. When it comes down to choosing between following a rule or saving a child then I think everyone knows how that’s going to play out.
Slowly at first, and then all at once, that’s how.
Anyone holding stock in Israel better short it now and get out now, because THAT den of murderously depraved thieves is mere months away from not existing any more, and the transition is probably going to be very messy. Similar goes for the United States Government, although that’s bigger and messier situation and will take longer. Same outcome. Note that I said GOVERNMENT, not the whole whole country. That’s much bigger and more complicated and so no one quite knows what the end actually looks like, except that there will be a LOT fewer Nazi’s, Satanists and child killers in it.
Maybe instead of saying FUCK the “rules” I should more ACCURATELY have said, Fuck the bullshit “rules” that are DESIGNED to protect crime & criminals, and which thereby infringe our God Given right to do what is RIGHT to stop something that’s WRONG (even if that wrongness is protected by bullshit “rules” written by bullshit artists FOR bullshit reasons.
Israel is learning the hard way that they, too, are subject to natural justice, regardless of the citadel of “rules” they have built up around their robbers roost to confuse the thought processes of peaceful people. Let them try fucking with THAT rule and see how far they get. Not much farther I reckon.
August 3, 2024 at 7:13 pm #165466citizenxParticipantAmerica is in big trouble. The fact Americans see Trump as their savior – at best a 50/50 chance the MIGA President isn’t a fake populous – is damning evidence the country is screwed.
Trump or not, America IS in big trouble. A Liberalism road block or speedbump is not a savior, why conflate the two? This country has been mighty fucked by Biden/Harris these past 4 years, where the fuck have you been? Open your eyes wider so you can enjoy being raped harder by Liberal;s- is that your plan?
In trouble even if nothing significant changes. Like the US gets into a real war and “the greatest military ever” sees that illusion blow up. Or the grand Ponzi scheme, masquerading as an economy, cracks.
The real genocide in Gaza and the real dictator propped up by Democrats is not REAL enough war for you? Do you need to be sprayed by childrens body parts and bathed in Ukronazi blood to realize these wars are real ?
The MIC controls both parties who then divide and conquer the plebs even further with the help of propaganda MSMedia. Sooner the US MIC collapses the better.
BTW what’s Plan B for MAGA after Trump is assassinated? Sit on their guns even harder than they already are?
hey jackass- the Translib tards are already picking up weapons and murdering children with bullets and gender mutilations. They literally just fired rounds down range and murdered innocents while trying to blow Trumps head off.
Your plan is to ride your rainbow dildo harder ? Did you enjoy groveling on your knees like a retarded bitch with the lockdowns, masks and mandates ? Enjoying the broken economy by Libtards? Can you suck their DEI wokeism harder ? Don’t blame Trump if you’re a fucking coward.
America could use a solid dose of martial Spirit, courage and strength to stop the Empire of Lies, Hate and Wars.
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