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    Pablo Picasso Portrait of Dora Maar pensive 1937   • Western Democracy Is Dead – RT Editor-in-Chief (RT) • Why Trump Needs To Call Putin On Day O
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle December 10 2024]

    #176528
    Germ
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    Good Morning :-))

    Wink* Wink* …

    ‘I don’t remember 20 days’: Jamie Foxx says he had ‘brain bleed which led to a stroke’

    https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/dec/10/i-dont-remember-20-days-jamie-foxx-says-he-had-brain-bleed-which-led-to-a-stroke

    TVASSF

    #176529
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Good Dog

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    Roll Over

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    #176530
    Dr. D
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    You guys will love this.
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    https://sinfest.xyz/btphp/comics/2024-12-10.jpg

    Further proof of how Jewish and captured I am, as I do this weekly, monthly, yearly… But I’m not snatching 6-year old girls off the street and strangling them for the good of humanity, so I just don’t care enough!!

    It’s all “People should only pay for their own behavior” and “Collective punishment is a war crime” Blah Blah Blah. Boooor-ing.

    I mean, you want to be shot for the actions of your collective government, right Western people worldwide? Who’s down for it? I am!

    “Romania’s Constitutional Court annulled Georgescu’s victory, declaring that the entire election would be re-run at a later date.”

    Now that’s the kind of thing I want to be in the Dock for! God’s Work, I say. We’re a democracy, so we will run the elections….someday. After you riot about it a few times, and we shoot you all a few times. Then you topple the army, amass in our castles, hold Pa’s head in a bucket, then he sees the light! No hard feelings, right, all you Good People™? It’s not FAIR to be ”Vindictive.” You wouldn’t want me to say the word “Vindictive” and Mean” with my lie-hole again, right?

    Democracy = No Democracy. Voting = Not Voting. Easy!

    “They claimed that Georgescu’s candidacy was improperly promoted online, including on TikTok, by paid influencers”

    Um, that’s “Electing”. That’s what Kamala just spend a BILLION – Five on. Buying “Influencers” for her “Party”.

    Go on, tell me more!

    “this “death of democracy” is the complete lack of values and scruples”

    Yes, INTERNALLY. As in, when an honest man stands up, everyone runs away and won’t stand by him. Gosh, why are the Amish successful and other (white) guys aren’t? Could it have something to do with no backstabbing everyone you can get next to? Who is your ally in 99% of things, but that ONE PERCENT! Dammit, I totally have to shoot you now. You’re the People Front of Palestine, and NOT the Palestinian People’s Front.

    “• Why Trump Needs To Call Putin On Day One (Dmitry Trenin)

    ….And why Putin should ignore the call.

    “Neither option is ideal. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz faces a tough February election, with polls suggesting he is vulnerable”

    I’m sorry, WTF does this mean? If we do a thing, then one German political party will be replaced with a DIFFERENT German political party, and I should care why? I even have any PREFERENCE which, for why? It’s none of our d—n business, NOR do I have an opinion on it. He’s saying we have to support the most War Party?

    Translation: There is no “Risk” at all. No one is “Vulnerable”. Nothing is happening. They ordered chicken nuggets, not a cheeseburger, both viable options that make no difference to me. Germany can eat whatever they want, I’m not micromanaging it. The only “Thing” is that they opened their lie-hole and made ugly squeaky sounds like “Blah Blah Fluffy’.

    “All will struggle to sustain Western Europe’s commitment”

    Why struggle? What IS the struggle? How about this: “All will struggle mightily and valiantly to STOP Europe’s commitment to total genocidal World War.” Better? Wtf is the “Struggle”? I ain’t struggling. People are doing things, other people don’t want them done and are NOT doing things. Like every hour of every country in all of history, ever. Nothing could be more ordinary.

    ….So what you’re saying is this is a bunch of bulls—t, but said poetically. “Friends, Romans, Countrymen…shut up I got something to tell youse.” Poetry and Bulls—t, vs just telling the Truth. Something happening = Nothing happening. End of the world = Business as usual.

    ““Too many lives are being so needlessly wasted, too many families destroyed, and if it keeps going, it can turn into something much bigger, and far worse.”

    I’m out of words, thanks. Too late. The move in Syria may have pushed out the problem 3 years, but we DEFINITELY just started and IRREVOCABLE World War. Total war. Total planet.

    Really? Yes, you remember how a million men from China come to the Middle East to knock this s—t off? Gog and Magog – Russia and “minor Russia” from the North? Meet in a little valley near a mountain near a military base there? Ring any bells. Fuuuuuuuuuu—-

    Past tense. I cannot possibly imagine a motion to reverse it. So bye guys, nice knowing you.

    ““The Biden-Blinken-Rice-Sullivan-Sherman team has done enough damage. Just get out of the way….”
    • Trump Signals Shift From Unnecessary Military Intervention (JTN)

    Don’t fret yourself: nobody can do s—t. And yes, in that story told, above, there is no U.S. or “Young Lions of Tartus” (England, land of “tin”). They’re isolationist, leaving it to these people.

    “Democrats Vie to Make the Biden Pardon List (Turley)

    Couldn’t care less. Hard to assemble what pieces are in motion I’m worried about instead because they involve “Drinking Water”, but so convoluted it doesn’t even have the grace to be a nice mass starvation or a mass regional murder – that would all be way too simple. A pardon? Wow, your normalcy bias is showing. To have that, there’d have to be “working law” at all. We will only DREAM of that. And we only have the bare illusion of it now.

    ““..they will go after whoever doesn’t have that kind of pardon, and there are plenty of targets who they can assail.”

    “They will go after….Crimes….” The End. Are you against that now? Crimes were committed, but we don’t prosecute them because, “Crimes”? If there are NO crimes, please just say so, that’s normal, called “The Law” and we don’t “Go after” people like that. The whole nation is your ally in that case. Right?

    Right??? Oh, your whole team has NOT been “Going after” people because “committed crimes” but for NOT committing crimes? So you think everyone else behaves as you do? Oh, got it.

    Simple: Crimes. No Crimes. Provable. Unprovable. Bye. Gosh my world is simple! Nothing to worry about and lots of time for tea.

    ““..they will go after whoever doesn’t have that kind of pardon, and there are plenty of targets who they can assail.”

    Can they DO that? Errr…I suspect, yes? Strangely it says there has to BE a court, but they’ve regulated Federal Judges all the time. Huh. Guess who would decide if the Supreme Court does that then? Oh, right, the Supreme Court. Nope.

    You’re going to make your case on WHAT basis, and AFTER RGB is in there for a thousand years? Arguably after she was dead and they covered it up with a Henson hand puppet? I’m glad you brought it up because it makes you look stupid. Please bring it up again.

    “• Trump Names Alina Habba As White House Counselor: ‘Tireless Advocate’ (JTN)

    Why to Democrats hate strong brown women so much? Is it their race? Their gender? Or is it that they won’t let a man tell them what to do?

    “We’re going to drill, baby, drill. We’re going to bring down your energy costs.”

    Great. Except none of it will matter since you screwed the pooch a whole level up. We’re not going to have a country to burn that oil IN, but it will take me some time to organize my thoughts on exactly why, how, and where.

    “• Georgia Has Prevented Maidan-Style Coup – PM (RT)

    This is totally crazy except that 30% of all protesters were flown in. Their leader isn’t Georgian, but Parisian. And that the same was true all over the U.S. but examples in that Police training in Atlanta. Gosh, can’t people just follow the Dead anymore, go to Rainbow Gatherings instead of “ArsonFest 2020: the Burning Tour”?

    The bias meter, which could launch as early as January, will be operated by Artificial Intelligence (AI).”

    Oh, then it’ll just “Make S—t Up”: we have that now. And plenty of bias for and against. Turned up to “Eleven”.

    “The rapidity of Syria’s collapse raises the question whether Washington purchased Syria’s collapse with payments to generals and officials..”

    Is the Pope a pedophile?

    Okay, back to us, Go, Geniuses! You’re Brilliant! You took the money to sell out now DON’T HAVE A COUNTRY to spend it in. Congratulations, you win the booby prize, Darwin writ large. Syrian Generals and Staff, PLUS AMERICANS. That money will fit nicely in your coffin, or the ditch they toss you in.

    “he believes that the entire J6 Committee “should go to jail.”

    20 levels to this: destroying congressional evidence, withholding from active trials, several levels of sedition and treason… Impeached a President thereby, ending Democracy and the vote therein. Pretty sure you could NOT prevent prosecuting them even if you wanted to. But don’t worry: they won’t. Republicans never prosecute any crimes. That would be “mean” and we don’t want Chelsey to say we’re “Mean”. …That’s the truly important part. And when my voter base tells me to go to hell because of it: it’s all worth it! Primaried and removed, but at least I supported the Democrats and their crimes!

    Ah the Republicans, “A Greater Ass since 1865”

    #176531
    Red
    Participant

    “sweeping pardons”
    Nothing screams guilty like being pardoned for a crime you haven’t been charged with, let alone convicted.

    #176532

    Barack Obama. Hillary Clinton. Huma Abedin. Fani Willis. Bruce Ohr. Adam Schiff. Rod Rosenstein. James Comer. Hunter Biden. Anthony Fauci. Ilhan Omar. Peter Strzok. Loretta Lynch. Liz Cheney. Andrew Weissman. Christopher Steele. Letitia James. John Bolton. Lisa Page. Ruby Freeman. Mark Zuckerberg. Marco Rubio. Andrew McCabe. Nancy Pelosi. Jack Smith. Bill Clinton. Jack Smith. Joe Biden. John Podesta. Brad Raffensperger. Arthur Engoron. Eric Holder. John Kerry. Merrick Garland. Alvin Bragg. James Clapper. Joe Scarborough. Robert Mueller. Kamal Harris. John Brennan.

    These names are from the cover of the NYT magazine, Oct 6, 2024, with the headline: “Could He Lock Them Up?”

    #176533
    jb-hb
    Participant

    The point of stupid Biden pardons – the stupider the better – is for them to be in the media for all the blue-squares to see – for once, conclusions omitted, but keep SHOWING them things that are disturbingly not-quite-right. Build that anxiety for the next 30 days or so – discomfort. Can’t quite bear to unleash on their own blue square.

    Then when Trump comes in and does pardons, THEN have a total wall to wall media freakout about tinpot 3rd world dictator favoritism etc etc etc and all that stored up energy gets focused somewhere

    #176534
    jb-hb
    Participant

    UK, Germany, Austria & Others Halt Asylum Bids For Syrians After Assad’s Fall
    https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/uk-germany-austria-others-halt-asylum-bids-syrians-after-assads-fall

    I think I have seen this one before. Unlimited undocumented migration – except Cuba. Cuba, DO NOT COME. JUST you.

    “Uh… are you doing unlimited illegal immigration minus Cubans because uh… they don’t like Communism?

    No-go zones, stabbings, rapings, demands for sharia law etc etc — bring millions more! Keep em coming!

    Can’t you see, you idiots, they are ASYLUM seekers, you morons, can’t you see they were never safe inside their own country from the oppressive regime there, nor safe from that oppressive regime in the 20 countries in between their country and yours? It must be your lack of education. You’re probably an ignorant inbred nazi kkk misogynist homophobe, since you cannot understand the most simple, elementary details. How, logistically, could deportation even be possible?

    Here come Christians fleeing an islamic terrorist state?

    We must stop this illegal migration! Don’t you know we cannot accommodate millions? Where do you expect resources to come from? What about the effects on crime, economy, and so on? Have you no sense of pragmatism? We shall implement the most stringent deportation policies and methods!

    #176535
    Oroboros
    Participant

    If I can’t afford basic groceries because of Bidenflation© do I get a pardon for cutting corners like this:

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    #176536
    Dr D Rich
    Participant

    Turley’s exhortation is fawning and despicable. The word fealty comes to mind, but to whom?

    Perhaps he’s one of the The Innocents.
    I mean in willy-nilly or is it willie nillie or willynilly vengeance Many of ((The Innocents)) will get swept up. I’m for the latter. They don’t exist AND they don’t have power or money or authority.
    Didn’t you know??
    Yes, the ((The Innocents)).

    Once again, the Law professor ((is he?)) and pundit pretends Retributive Justice isn’t a component or form of legitimate justice.
    It seems the only forms of justice not worth protesting are batshit crazy justice, psychopathic justice, narcissistic justice, injustice, lack of justice fabricated justice, and Any And All justice directed at The Innocents, the eternal children.

    Frame Jonathan’s words:

      President-Elect Donald Trump gave President Joe Biden and his critics a major boost this weekend by stating on NBC’s Meet The Press that he believes that the entire J6 Committee “should go to jail.” Despite weeks of saying that he did not plan any campaign of retribution and “success will be my revenge,” Trump undermined those statements with the statement, which the media is now playing up as proof that he is going to unleash a vengeance campaign

    Maybe Trump’s opponents and tormentors ought to try falling on their swords, turn themselves in, finger fellow perps, pull a McDonalds employee on a fugitive of justice, turn state’s evidence, and beg forgiveness. Maybe they’ll find compassionate relief from an unexpected source. Alas, no attorney will recommend that course before Hell freezeth overeth.

    #176537
    those darned kids
    Participant
    #176538
    zerosum
    Participant

    master of illusion.

    The web sees everything.

    Success requires diversion to minimize oppositions.

    ‘Greater Israel need Denials and Lies to hide their actions/objectives from the innocents, gullible.
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    the FBI was using undercover operatives & informants on January 6.

    https://x.com/jimmy_dore/status/1866177545273823690?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1866177545273823690%7Ctwgr%5Eac0dba1db030151f395c719770959e3e9cc8fc5c%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theautomaticearth.com%2F2024%2F12%2Fdebt-rattle-december-10-2024%2F
    “What u need to show is whether or not the FBI was using undercover operatives & informants on January 6.
    If u can show that, then u can defeat the insurrection narrative with the FBI’s own documentation”

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    https://swentr.site/russia/609065-simonyan-west-democracy-death/

    Western democracy is dead and the only thing left is to offer condolences, according to RT Editor-in-Chief Margarita Simonyan.
    She was commenting on the cancelation of the results of the presidential election in Romania,
    “When someone talks about Western democracy, one must immediately understand that the person speaking is either an oligophrenic or a liar and a hypocrite, and it is unclear which is worse,” she stated.
    “I would like to express my sincerest, deepest condolences to the entire Western world in connection with the death of Western democracy.
    It had already been old, sick, and somewhat half-witted, and now it has perished, unnoticed by anyone,” she added.
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    GOOD AND EVIL – Built on the denial and manipulation of the human nature.
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    The only thing worse than not being on a Trump enemies list is not being on a Biden pardon list.
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    It is like telling everyone that you are wearing a tin-foil hat to prevent aliens from snatching you.
    When someone points out that they have not seen any aliens, you can respond, “See, it worked!”.
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    Biden’s show in Africa at Europe’s expense

    the main objective: the domination of the world economy and the continued exploitation of the world’s great sources of wealth.
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    Syria, year 2024, the fall

    What the hell happened?
    How could the Syrian army surrender so much territory in a matter of days?
    How did it happen that years of diplomatic and secret agreements, with the deployment of foreign armed forces and the activation of known and hidden military bases, collapsed in a matter of hours?
    What happened behind the scenes?
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    I have been one of the most vocal critics of the J6 Committee, having written over a dozen columns on their misrepresentation of evidence, false claims, burying of evidence, and political bias.
    I consider the J6 Committee to be not just a colossal failure but a missed opportunity for a bipartisan look at that tragic day.
    I also fully support the effort of the House committees to finish its own investigation into the security failure at the Capitol and the record of the J6 Committee.
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    https://x.com/VigilantFox/status/1865894197183529374?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1865894197183529374%7Ctwgr%5Eac0dba1db030151f395c719770959e3e9cc8fc5c%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theautomaticearth.com%2F2024%2F12%2Fdebt-rattle-december-10-2024%2F
    10 Shocking Stories the Media Buried This Week

    #10 – COVID “Vaccines” Hit By New Bombshell

    First, a court ruled that the COVID shots aren’t vaccines after all.
    Read more ….
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    #176539
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Well Merry X-mas

    My kinda neighborhood….

    Get the Holiday Spirit!

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    #176540
    Oroboros
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    #176541
    Oroboros
    Participant

    A hundred and seventy five…Impressive

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    #176542
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Evolution of Campfire Games

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    Chinese Whispers

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    #176543
    John Day
    Participant

    Dr. Gilbert Doctorow: Russia & the Turmoil in Syria & Georgia

    #176544
    Oroboros
    Participant

    For every 100 likes I’ll make Zelensky shorter

    Power Projection

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    #176545
    Oroboros
    Participant

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    #176546
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Leader of the Free World

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    #176547
    Oroboros
    Participant

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    #176548
    Oroboros
    Participant

    I remember those good old days of Bitcoin’s Youth

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    #176549
    John Day
    Participant

    Did Luigi Mangione Want to Be Caught?
    The young man arrested in Pennsylvania on Monday apparently kept incriminating objects on his person and did not change clothes.

    https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/did-luigi-mangione-want-to-be-caught
    (Different, but similar gun, too?)

    #176550
    Noirette
    Participant

    On the first article at top post, *Western Democracy is Dead*, about the cancellation of elections in Romania (where the first round heavily favored a ‘sovereignist’ who was against aiding URK, anti-NATO etc. – a qualifed Pol btw) because of supposed ‘interference’ via TikTok in the elections.

    So the ‘robust, vibrant, joyful (shades of Camel-a), righteous, ‘Democracy’ as the ultimate Aspiration, is vulnerable to a Chinese Co. that publishes short vids, to grab an audience, cliks, of cooks, pranksters, climbers, jokers, dancers, sneaky sexy etc.?

    Ppl must be waking up…MUST…

    On article at top post, Trump Says Developing Concept to End ‘Ridiculous’ Conflict in Ukraine.

    Trump was very buddy-buddy with Macron at the Notre Dame opening. He was dismissive, hmm, horribly rude, to the pathetic Zelensky. (Note, beyond considerations of world geo-politics, Zel. doesn’t – can’t in fact – follow dress codes, politeness, etc. and is dumb as a rock, has a crappy accent, is no longer even a Pres., etc. These things count …) A more puppet like figure is very hard to dig up in history, or even invent!

    Trump will try to accomplish his aims to end this ‘useless’ war, I believe he is sincere about that, but even setting aside Influence-Kontrol within the US on Trump, Russia will not agree to anything beyond total victory, which includes very stringent criteria (R may want Odessa, and the total de-arming, vassalling of UKR, as in the initial aims of the SMO) and much more, so the concessions will be hard.

    On Zelensky Rules out Lowering Draft Age, top post.

    UKR has ‘few’ men left (the pop. of UKR is a complicated topic, just one aspect here) – sending off 18-24 yr-old to get butchered would leave UKR with no hope for the future as a State, forever. It is a step too far that the ppl of UKR clearly understand, Z. can’t do it, crunch time had come.

    #176551
    those darned kids
    Participant

    i wonder if he’s related to chuck..

    #176552
    those darned kids
    Participant

    “A more puppet like figure is very hard to dig up in history, or even invent!”

    he’s gonna be a noun!

    chauvinism..

    mesmerization..

    gerrymandering..

    and now!

    zelensky [zə•LEN•ski] (noun): an expensive, poorly maintained “partner”

    “looky, look! there goes claudia again with her little zelensky. she’s going broke ’cause of him, and ¿¡for what!?

    #176553
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Ukronazi’s in Donbass collapsing rapidly

    Maintaining a feeble ‘defense line’ around Kiev is now the priority.

    Kursk being crushed, survivors withdrawn to Kiev

    Sacrifice the 18 year olds as cannon fodder to buy a few WEEKS of time before final collapse.

    Nazilensky, Satan walks the Earth

    #176554
    kultsommer
    Participant

    Take A different view on Syria where exiled citizens return into it en masse:

    Take B different view on Syria:
    There is a video (browser history does not show it if clicked from recommended offerings after the end of the previous watch, so I can not find it) where the guy presents a theory that “easy surrender” is actually a trap made by the Russia and Iran to destroy “whomever” by attrition?

    #176555
    Oroboros
    Participant

    From Larry Johnson today:

    Marat Khairullin..

    Syria is important.

    No matter how bitter it is to realize this. But there is such a maxim, “no matter how hard the failure is, if you have learned from it, then it is no longer a failure, but the next step up the mountain.”

    In other words, working on mistakes is more important than the mistakes themselves. Everyone encounters failures in life, but not everyone draws conclusions from this. Let’s try to understand what experience can be drawn from the situation with Syria. . . .

    Assad has shown himself to be a great warrior.

    He stood firm in a hopeless situation and got a chance in 2015 in the form of aid from Iran and Russia.

    But he did not use it, did not learn from his mistakes. In a broader sense, Assad failed to care for his people who suffered in the civil war.

    He has not forgiven those who opposed him and has refused to begin a process of national reconciliation. The people of Syria remain divided. The West imposed harsh sanctions on Syria and did everything in its power to prevent the state from restoring its income from the same oil fields. This killed all attempts to begin economic recovery.

    And Assad, instead of letting go of the reins, increased the tax burden several times over.

    The Middle East is such a big bazaar: trade, small business – the essence of the way of life of the people here.

    Assad, instead of allowing people to survive in hard times, at least due to this, strangled everyone with taxes. Therefore, the society that gave Assad a chance after the first stage of the civil war did not give him a second chance – people simply refused to fight for him. . . .

    Second, it’s not a disaster for us. Somehow, everything here has worked out cunningly.

    Syria was a transit point for Russia on the way to Africa. By losing Syria, we lose transit bases (both air and sea). This is precisely the point that the Western press is now pointing to. However, reading their jubilant articles, one gets the feeling that behind this jubilation, there is obvious annoyance.

    Why? Because, if you look a little deeper, Putin has outplayed everyone here too.

    The fact is that the fall of Syria occurred immediately after the launch of the North-South land corridor at full capacity. From the ports of St. Petersburg along the trans-Caspian land highway through Azerbaijan and Iran to the ports of the Indian Ocean.

    The project began to be implemented back in 2000.

    This will be one of Putin’s great legacies. His major achievement.

    It’s Up and Running at Full Capacity

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    #176556
    those darned kids
    Participant

    “The Golan Heights,” announced Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, “will forever be an inseparable part of the State of Israel.”

    “Despite the claims, the IDF has indicated that it only plans to operate on the ground inside the buffer zone*, and not beyond it.”

    *next year’s inseparable part

    #176557
    those darned kids
    Participant

    azerbaijan sure looks like a nice place for a buffer zone..

    #176558
    Oroboros
    Participant

    The Head Choppers of New Syria

    Some random comments

    “Israel paid and paid a lot to get the very ISIS that hates IsRealHell RIGHT ON THEIR BORDER.

    Brilliant operation! very smart, and there will not be a central Syrian government to fight them either. You thought HAMAS was bad? ….Just wait…….

    “Turkey paid to get Kurdistan going (now with no central government in Damascus that was restricting and limiting it). Another brilliant decision by sultan.

    “Putin has already taken precautions regarding Syrian bases.

    Just yesterday… the Russians have started to build 3 air bases in Libya with General Haftar.

    Large runways are already in place.

    A port for the supply of warships is also likely to follow very soon.

    Yes, that’s Putin, always think much further than the West. ”

    #176559
    zerosum
    Participant

    And the beat goes on ..
    Cuba
    Noth Korea
    Sudan
    Haiti
    Ukraine
    Syria
    Migrant Fleeing from gov oppressions

    #176560
    Red
    Participant

    America’s Hard And Soft Power (Is Running Out)
    Today, imperial spectators are supposed to support Al-Qaeda 3.0 invading Syria, and oppose Hamas defending Palestine. They’re supposed to mourn a genocide from last century and commit one right now. They’re supposed to oppose invasions in general, unless it’s under NATO generals, in which case it’s good somehow. They’re supposed to be defending democracy in places without elections (like Ukraine), and overturning elections in places that have them (Romania, Pakistan, Peru, France, etc). Does any of this make sense? Is it even internally consistent? Western propaganda, along with western empire, is falling apart. They’re forcing it, and the cover-up is a farce.
    The rest:
    https://indi.ca/americas-hard-and-soft-power/

    #176561
    Oroboros
    Participant

    More from Larry Johnson:

    “I am eager to see how the United States will do the about=face and pronounce a certified international terrorist organization — Hay’at Tahrir Al Sham (HTS) — a legitimate government.

    HTS is a descendant of Al Qaeda and ISIS, two terrorist organizations that Republican and Democrat administrations vowed to defeat in the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT).

    This stands as a tawdry example of the US playing fast and loose with terrorism — i.e., when it suits our purposes we ignore terrorism and ally ourselves with them.

    Hypocrisy like this does little to burnish the reputation of the US. We are enablers of terrorism.

    Western jubilation over the fall of Assad will fade.

    Continued sectarian violence in Syria will not abate, but it will not create a threat for Russia or Iran.

    The same cannot be said for the nations that share a border with Syria — i.e., Turkey, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon and Israel. ISIS / HTS are far more radical than the Taliban and will continue with their mission to create a caliphate, not just in Syria.

    While the Western media, following the messaging of the CIA / MI6, is frantically trying to paint HTS as a group of moderates who are tolerant of all ethnic groups and religious communities, the reality is otherwise.

    They chop people’s heads off and post the videos online, check it out….

    Syria will become more of a festering boil on the body of global politics and may be the catalyst for a broader war in the region.”

    #176562
    Red
    Participant

    A link from my above post, long read, this isn’t global production, it’s what’s on the export market. If you’re a net importer it could be problematic. If you’re in a producer country it will be there but much costlier.

    If my calculations in part 2 are correct, we lose 5,3 mbd of
    overall oil exports (not only diesel) this year (2024) and 6,8
    mbd next year. This is almost 500 000 mbd every month. It
    is really difficult to believe (but I have to follow my calculations, wherever they lead).
    It’s important to remember that global oil exports has had a
    steep accelerated rate of decline even when global oil production (both conventional and unconventional) was growing.
    Therefore the decline will be really steep when global oil production plateaus, let alone begins to exponentially decline,
    then we will go over the “Energy Cliff”, and the Great Collapse is here.
    I have done many different calculations, from different angles
    and with different parameters, to try to validate my results, and
    all calculations confirm my results above, more or less, all
    point in the same direction. I have counted them, and it is
    eleven different sets of calculations, all pointing in the same
    direction. Regarding the end of “ANE” (“available net exports”) one say it will happen 2023, four say 2024, seven say
    2025, six say 2026, four say 2027, one say 2028 and one say
    around 2030 (my starting point in the beginning of the book).
    “ANE” means global net oil exports minus the combined net oil
    imports of China and India.
    I have serious trouble believing in my own calculations. They
    feel too radical. Maybe there is something wrong with the data or
    with my calculations (but I cannot calculate otherwise, I’m not an
    expert in math). Therefore I think 2027 is the most likely time for
    the end of “ANE” globally. This is also what the blogger “Crash
    Watcher” ended up with (he has done very detailed research),
    when he calculated the end of the net oil exports of the ten biggest
    oil exporting countries, which is really what counts here.

    https://un-denial.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/lars-larsen-the-end-of-global-net-oil-exports-13th-edition-2024.pdf

    #176563
    Dr D Rich
    Participant

    Anthony Blinken just proved himself to the best, most powerful Statesman the United States ever had on behalf of Israel.

    #176564
    jb-hb
    Participant

    “Turkey paid to get Kurdistan going (now with no central government in Damascus that was restricting and limiting it). Another brilliant decision by sultan.

    Turkey is generally hostile to any prospect of a Kurdistan and has spent many years fighting Kurds internally and externally

    IF they found a way to incorporate “Kurdistan” into Turkey successfully – willingly, obviously – as an integral part of the nation as opposed to a continual problem, that would be super, SUPER impressive. Along the lines of incorporating Armenians as part of the Turkish nation and identity as opposed to the events that unfolded.

    #176565
    Mr. House
    Participant

    This is rich, must be hard to be objective when you’re a george soros mouthpiece:

    Chris Cosmos
    December 10, 2024 at 12:48 pm

    Laws are supposed to be related to social morality are they not? At any rate, there are many instruments of control in the financial community that are networked. Banks, international organization (IMF, WB etc.) who have strong financial desks, major banks the Fed and equivalents around the world do meet often and network to avoid crisis. I’ve seen, since 2008, dire predictions of major financial crises that never happened and were nipped in the bud by, in my view, cooperation among many international players when it was in their interest to do so. Anyway, it would be logical for finance oligarchs to cooperate in this increasingly networked world. I think unofficial (and outside the law) networks and are ultimately going to be the PTB eventually.
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    Yves Smith
    December 10, 2024 at 1:05 pm

    Richard Murphy is speaking of a crisis in the UK. I am extending the notion to the US.

    The IMF and World Bank have absolutely nothing to do with bank rescues in either country.

    I do not recall any “dire predictions of financial crises” post 2008 that yours truly took seriously. I debunked quite a few. I did point out systemic risk in central counterparties, that they were presented as a risk reducer but when a crisis hit, they would be a risk concentrator and contra official claims, would be bailed out. We did cover a bit the repeated Eurobank wobbles and various last minute kick the cans. We do admit to getting a bit excited when Unicredit got sick but never predicted a crisis beyond Italy for that (admittedly that would be very nasty in terms of the Eurozone). We pointed out repeatedly how weak DeutscheBank was but clearly said it would be allowed to fail. We debunked the repo panic [of 2019?].

    The Fed does not network, FFS, save as it always has via getting some (no where near enough) regional real economy intel via its member banks. Jackson Hole is a meeting for economists to present papers. The Fed can get other central banks’ attention when it needs to. It does not need to “network”. Honestly I have no idea where you get these ideas.

    I do not know what you are talking about re finance oligarchs. The systemic actors are top bank execs who may be very powerful and well paid but are NOT oligarchs. The oligarchs are private equity, and they are leveraged owners of businesses, not financial intermediaries.

    #176566
    Dr D Rich
    Participant

    Rewrite:

    Anthony Blinken just proved himself to BE the best, most powerful Statesman the United States ever had on behalf of Israel while pundits, sociologists and geopolitical strategists made him out to be a pathetic, ineffectual loser the past several months. The US Presidential election and the what-appear-to-be faux assassination attempts on Trump ALL provided cover for Blinken’s recent machinations in the Middle East. The capstone of which was The Globalist Victory Lap courtesy of The Roman Catholic Church at Notre-Dame de Paris. The event was noteworthy for Trump’s appearance alongside Volodymyr Zelensky, One of The Innocents, and absent, strategically, Putin, Jinping, Assad, Erdogan, Netanyahu and SoS Blinken

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