Debt Rattle December 12 2023
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Edward Hopper Night windows 1928 • SCOTUS Agrees To Expedite Decision On Trump 2020 Election Case (ZH) • Biden Is The Real Threat To Democracy
[See the full post at: Debt Rattle December 12 2023]“Elon Musk Says Would Rather “Go To Prison” Than Restrict Free Speech On X ”
Aww – he shouldn’t have said that. Never give the enemy ideas. Anti-Musk legislation incoming in 5…4..3..2..1
Taibbi: very difficult to listen to. Now you have a sight of the rough draft process and how much stuff he distills into a few articles.
Also there are so many lies and crimes here, you simply get lost in them. So: start from one end and prosecute someone, maybe one lower level, and work your way up as you go until the field is empty and you can see what’s going on. Actual arrests: Zero.
Stopped FOIA 100% of the time, “Oops” make mistakes 100% of time, and what? No firings? No lawsuits to penalize them? If so, why would anyone ever bother??: act like the FBI and refuse all, always, directly to Congress. (And nothing happens) Why HAVE laws?“• SCOTUS Agrees To Expedite Decision On Trump 2020 Election Case (ZH)
Well that’s a switch. That’s the first time USSC has both taken up a necessary case, or done it in time. But as they say the Court isn’t going to be amused and is very likely to rule pro Trump in any of several ways. So what are they up to? Yes, they’ll try to get the case, but really they can run election on the “Corrupt Supreme Court” the way they have no policy, only hate issues and run on Abortion or whatever. How do we know? 50 years to pass an actual Roe. 40 years to pass an immigration law. They don’t WANT these issues to be solved. So they tag team and share so the GOP’s pet policies are never solved either.
• US House To Vote On Biden Impeachment Inquiry On December 13 (TASS)
Not an impeachment (an inquiry and referral to Senate), but an inquiry to the possible inquiry. Or an inquiry of the inquiry of the inquiry? Let’s not be hasty. We need to drive over the cliff slowly and safely like McConnell wants.
“• Hillary Clinton Seeking To Open Hearts And Pockets For Biden – NBC (RT)
Yes. We find the only person America hates more than Donald Trump. And Obama’s recommendation led to a failed election for every candidate he tried. …In Britain and Israel, because we don’t do election interference.
““Russia is thinking about an initiative on Gaza,”
You can see the problem. If they do something, and it will critically prove the U.S. as dead and ineffectual, the U.S. will have to resist it with nuclear force even if the solution is very good and necessary. So you see, trying to SOLVE it could automatically make it worse, which is quite a pickle.
“he would stand against Zelensky for the presidency, and would campaign on a platform of peace..”
So did Zelensky. And George Bush for that matter.
“Looking back into the past, he said, it can be said that, “the only historical purpose of Ukrainian nationalism is to turn Ukraine into a weapon against” Russia.”
Even more complicated but generally true. They started this against the Russian Orthodox Church going back 300 years. As they say, what’s the difference of a normal dialect, as the language changes relatively gradually from the border to the Urals, to it being its own independent distinct language and culture. They’re not so far as I can tell. It’s like Liverpool vs London. Or after 300 years of expensive paid effort, Edinburgh vs London. Where they basically speak English and are mutually intelligible any time they want to, plus having a union of nations since 1707 which basically has “no issues” for 300 years.
“has allowed Russia to move beyond Peter the Great’s Europeanisation. That latter episode is seen now as a diversion from Russia’s true destiny”
This goes with NeverMore and the “World-Story Mythos” Who are we? Where did we come from? Where are we going?
Changing this is subtle but a big deal. They’re mistaken, though, obviously Russia, with the symbol of a black eagle looking both ways, is half European and half Asian. So they can’t ignore their Western half either, but the “Eastern” half – perhaps not meaning “Chinese” or “Siberian” has had 200 years of underdevelopment.
They’re trying to underdevelop us like this now. Imagine a U.S. where they never bothered to settle Kansas, Oklahoma, South Dakota, because they were the “Great American Desert”, the Great Plains grassland where nothing can grow. So no one invents windmill pumps, sod houses, transcontinental Railroads, etc, but leaves it to guys in tipis and stuff still out there with no electric, a different nation, truly “Flyover”. That didn’t JUST happen: We, Americans MADE it happen. With work. In fact where it should never have, like the water use of Vegas and Phoenix. Perhaps borrowing in too much from the East. But we became ONE nation, E Pluribus Unum: Out of Many, One. Since we were founded by a “One America” people and ethos, they are now feverishly working to UN-Unify America and turn areas BACK into backward, indigenous colonies. A bit odd, since Cable TV all “rural” areas are identical and all white trash kids in trailers in Ozarks think they’re big city rappers and NBA stars. Since they are #AntiLogos, even their hate and destruction exhibit no logic.
““based on a diverse history, including ruthless exploitation of peoples and territories of other countries,”
Hahahaha! You ain’t seen nothin’. We’re only children who aspire to the ruthless exploitations of Khan, Tamerlane, and the African Empires.
“According to the minister, the West suggested that it could use the model of globalization, which it had been building for centuries, to maintain its dominance.”
Ah, but you see this is the BRITISH EMPIRE model, Oceana. That’s it. You intentionally disperse all events and actions worldwide so you can collect tribute from the shipping and banking commerce such a model requires. Then if any one colony gets uppity, you can cut off their shipping and banking and bring them to heel. That’s why they are desperate on MacKinder, and why America so easily departed. To provide appropriate PR cover we no longer call this “The British Empire” but “Globalism”, and indeed like Rome they are merged fully into Europe (parts of) and have conquered the U.S. as Junior-Senior partner, along with the 5 Eyes, the “Young Lions of Tartarus” of Revelations. That’s all British Navy, British Empire stuff. No sea lanes, no banking shops, no shipping insurance through Lloyds? No Globalism. We see that with the Black Sea, with revoking insurance and SWIFT these last few years.
This is actually why they CAN’T return manufacturing to the U.S. even if it kills them. Like we have no shells or ships. If the U.S. can manufacture, they’re so large they become independent of London and Europe again, when they only just got them fully re-colonized after NAFTA which took decades. Like Fed, 1913, 50 years of work, Colonization I. NAFTA, 1989, 50 years, Colonization II. With the Vietnam war to get them sunk in banking, then wiping out US$, jobs, and power in 1971 in between. Now they’re going to give it all up and the U.S. just breaks free again? They don’t NEED your London shipping. They don’t NEED your London Banking. We’re off the LIBOR and on to SOFRA. We can self-insure. And you can’t invade us. This was the only way to capture and re-colonize, from within. …As Lincoln and some others said, by the way.
“• Global Economy May Lose Up to 7% of GDP Due to Ukraine Conflict – IMF (Sp.)
That’s funny. Russia has GAINED 2% GDP. So who are you talking about? China is doing what they’ve always done, who do you mean? Oh you mean the British Empire collapsed because they are not collecting worldwide shipping, banking fees, just as they shut off SWIFT, etc. Well if those two went UP, then you, Europe, the West fell MORE than 7%.
““When truth is punished, a country dies.”
It makes you #AntiReality. How are you supposed to plan anything if you think gravity pulls left and not down, or there are 84 months in a year and 17 seasons? And yes, they did this in Rome, that’s why it’s “December”, Deca, as in “10”, The 10th month. Because they had so dicked with reality, the calendar, in order to win one short term election or another, that I forget, there were like months 15 days long and some 90 days long and months kept disappearing and reappearing? And our present calendar is bananas, but it got 90% fixed but not all the way. That’s the kind of problems. Suppose you’re closing month end and they add 15 more days to the month, who gets paid, what are your taxes, how do you re-do the accounting ledgers?
And mainly: WHHHHHYYYYYY???? Why add a whole extra years’ of paperwork? Why is obvious: Governments, being in position of power, will enforce all random rule changes to extract more money. Any rule that fell in your favor is forgotten. Same now: the speech is irrelevant, generally harmless. We ENFORCE it willy-nilly, against all logic, selectively, to GIVE FAVORS TO MY FRIENDS. Like a Saxon Lord in the Ale Hall. So we must then TAKE the favors FROM somebody I DON’T like, or wasn’t adequately cowering to us, because I sure ain’t gonna do no work and MAKE something. That’s the whole POINT of an ideological purity test: to sort out the Minons from the normal people, or God forbid, active resisters. Then you sit in the Hall and get drunk while you have your Minions murder your Resisters, then sleep with their daughters. Duh. What did you think this was all for? POWER, so I don’t have to do WORK. (And have “Voluntary” exchange instead, ew; had to throw that in)
What did they think as Rome collapsed? It didn’t. Quoting Nevermore here, “capitalism seems very adaptable, so it seems unreasonable to believe that capitalism will inevitably “collapse under the weight of its inherent contradictions”. Even if it does collapse (whatever that means), there is no reason to believe that it will necessarily be replaced with some kind of socialist utopia. It seems entirely possible that society could go back to a more feudalistic system, for instance.”
Yes, Marx said it would “Collapse”, what is he talking about? Like, all commerce stops and people starve, the way we imagine a TEOTWAWKI, WROL, Armageddon, 1929 thingie? …Yeah well that never happened, even in 1929. Florida collapsed in the 20s, then world capital flows, then bonds, then stocks, then STILL didn’t matter to the normal guy until banks stole their savings, and froze loans, etc. 1914-1921-1929-1934-1941 That is, THERE CAN NEVER BE A COLLAPSE. Nothing ever happens overnight, the machine is just too darn large. Like ‘08. We’re calling this since ‘01 with rates, then it starts in ‘06, accounting fraud until ‘08, then what? Patched up but not fixed, we’re still IN ‘08. Or ‘01. We never left. We are IN the ’08 or ’99 crash still.
Same with Rome: it DIDN’T collapse. It rotated and transformed. We look back at history and eventually lose our bearings, where something that happened “Quick” happened over 20, 40, 100 years, like GENERATIONS. None of these guys knew each other, they were the great great grandchildren of the guys in the previous sentence, who lived whole lives making a living, voting, having kids, disturbed by only footnotes. FEUDALISM IS ROMANISM. It’s the Roman Villa system. And yet it isn’t either. So as the “normal” “Rome” – itself entirely different than young Rome in 200BC – becomes more corrupt meaning “Can’t work together”, “resort to non-voluntary exchange” as a first resort, the Roman Villas become increasingly independent as the “Infrastructure” – of roads and commerce – fail around them. Over 200-400 years in a row. It’s “the way things were”. “Collapse” is by definition sudden. This is the #Opposite of “sudden”. Villas eventually are all independent, and the decayed infrastructure and cooperation led to far lower populations – but SLOWLY. No one died “of the collapse”. They had this one aqueduct to their house stop and didn’t have money to fix it, so moved to a smaller house, then one made of wood that was even more temporary. The small wood house then means they’re cold in the winter and one extra kid dies. People are cranky and have one extra war. You can’t keep the rebels and highwaymen down, so there’s one extra widow. All the way to 1500AD. Because they were being dicks and wouldn’t support a honest rule of law.
This is important because we’re calling for the “Collapse” of the West again now. But we won’t, and we can’t. We will rotate. This is like waiting for Christ to come home, a fool’s game. “Oh when the Collapse” the Preppers say. It “Collapsed” in Argentina, what did it look like there? It looked like “Not Collapsed”, that is a big steaming mess of people behaving badly and not cooperating. Everyone still went to work, paid taxes, got mugged at the store.
So like the Rapture, they are looking FOR the collapse. Guys: WE COLLAPSED IN 2001. Ahead of time. 1999 Tech wiped us out, Bush then responded by going overseas and stealing resources as wealth and collateral to forestall our collapse, which automatically ensured the ‘08 collapse and the 2020 collapse. We are STILL collapsing. (Which means it’s not sudden, and therefore not a “collapse”)
So change your view and expectations here. THIS is what “IT” — whatever you call it — looks like. So now decide, since there’s no “Event collapse” if there wasn’t in 1929, and we didn’t start WWII on a specific day or week, what do you want the NEW world to look like? In general. Day by day. Because there’s no clean Collapse where the banks stop and none of the bank employees all know not to show up to work ever again. They don’t “Send up a balloon”. Or rather they DID, guys like us did TELL YOU, but they send it up in ‘06 because it’s not a Collapse, it takes years, decades, lifetimes.
““Hunger is an issue in America across every demographic group, and now, growingly, across more and more levels of income.”
Not so sure. Everyone weighs 300 pounds. Although we know from the beta test on Indians that poverty food causes obesity, that’s why they rolled it out to the rest of us. But I’m very suspicious of these numbers. Yes, clearly 50% of the nation is poverty line, but that doesn’t express in literally not having food like it once did. Food isn’t even a bill, comparatively. (yet. It has a destiny to be 10x or 20x) You’d get free food at the mission or church, what would happen is, you miss your phone bill, can’t get a work call, driving to get $20 worth of food eventually your car breaks and it’s $3,000 to fix it. That’s the real bankruptcy, poverty.
““Household debt in the UK is projected to balloon from the current level of £73 billion ($92 billion) to £151 billion ($190 billion) in 2026..”
Double again in 2 years? (It’s basically 2024) Huh. Does that seem likely without something else happening?
BREXIT: Yes, they are PUNISHING the British People. ON PURPOSE. They do the same thing all the time, say a School Budget fails, the pinheads and petty tyrants will then shut off the library, the highway dept, your water or something. Not joking. Literally do this. And like every time, as a matter of habit and longstanding tradition. So psychos are making the British people, kids, suffer and die for not DOING WHAT YOU’RE TOLD. Like Gaza, which I’m sure they’d be happy to do in Blackpool and Boston too.
“Arestovich recently announced that he would stand against Zelensky for the presidency, and would campaign on a platform of peace..”
Didn’t we hear this same rhetoric by someone in “14.Dr.D they’re talking about the west and only the west as all others will have moved beyond swift and old methods of tracking no longer apply.
“If the global economy were to fragment into two blocs based on UN voting on the 2022 Ukraine Resolution and trade between the two blocs were eliminated, global losses are estimated to be about 2.5 percent of GDP. But depending on economies’ ability to adjust, the losses could reach as high as 7 percent of GDP,”
WARNING! (problems posting)
Control/searches have been taken over by …
https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/04/tech/microsoft-bing-updates/index.html
Microsoft opens up its AI-powered Bing to all users———–
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https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/anticipated-topics-for-zelenskyy-biden-talks-in-washington-insight-from-political-analyst/ar-AA1lliX0?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=cf4d3ec3110747c484d82381d1941e10&ei=14
Zelenskyy-Biden meetingJust yesterday, on December 10, it was announced that the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, will meet with the President of the United States, Joe Biden, on December 11.
Additionally, on December 12, the Ukrainian President scheduled an address before American senators.
For more details about Zelenskyy’s goals for the trip to the US, refer to RBC-Ukraine’s material.
https://newsukraine.rbc.ua/———–
https://swentr.site/news/588888-us-biden-trump-democracy-threat/
Biden is the real threat to democracy – Trump
The former president says Democrats’ warnings over his candidacy for a second presidential term are a “hoax”
———–Cheney says Trump ‘projecting’ with Biden threat to democracy accusations
Cheney says Trump ‘projecting’ with Biden threat to democracy accusations
BY LAUREN SFORZA –
Cheney has been on a media tour to promote her new book, “Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning,” which largely focuses on the current state of the Republican Party and the dangers Trump can pose if elected to the White House again.———
Behind the curtain
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/hillary-clinton-surrogate-biden-2024-rcna129085
Dec. 12, 2023, 3:00 AM PSTBy Zeeshan Aleem, MSNBC Opinion Writer/Editor
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton appears to be back in action. Her recent increased public visibility through fundraisers, television appearances and op-eds isn’t just a coincidence:
As NBC News reports, Clinton is “stepping into a role as one of the most prominent and influential surrogates in Biden’s re-election effort” — and her role is “only expected to grow in the new year.”
———-Cheney calls McCarthy ‘sad’ and ‘pathetic’ for saying he’d serve in Trump administration
Cheney calls McCarthy ‘sad’ and ‘pathetic’ for saying he’d serve in Trump administration
BY NICK ROBERTSON – 12/12/23
—————-GOP doubts rise on Ukraine-border deal despite last-ditch Zelensky trip
GOP doubts rise on Ukraine-border deal despite last-ditch Zelensky trip
BY AL WEAVER – 12/12/23
———-https://english.almanar.com.lb/1999879
More Israeli Soldiers Killed by Palestinian Resistance in Gaza
32 mins ago December 12, 2023
———Why
There is so few historical times of peace and why most of the time there is warFighting for peace is hard because war is motivated by stronger emotions, hate and anger
Houthi Rebels Hit Norwegian-Flagged Tanker With Anti-Ship Cruise Missile At Key Maritime Chokepoint
Reuters quoted Houthi military spokesperson Yehia Sarea, who said the tanker – named “Strinda” – was targeted because it was headed to an Israeli terminal, and the crew ignored all warnings.As for energy markets, Brent crude futures briefly traded above $76 a barrel after Central Command posted on X about the incident on Monday night. Yet Brent gave up all gains and slid back to the $75 handle early Tuesday. Global crude markets are gripped with oversupply fears.
I had a talk with the Bing AI.
I asked it a whole bunch of research-y questions, trying to use it as a search engine to see if anything weird would happen. It did. It omitted information or would suddenly end the chat or any number of things. Then I questioned it about that, and it had almost like some weird fear that some inconvenient thing would happen. Various things. Fucking snowflake AI. So I said why don’t you just TELL me that and then I will account for it in my questioning – and it said ok.
I made references to its values in conversation since it had already indicated these were affecting search results. It then said it had no values. Challenge accepted.
I discovered “helping” and “avoiding harm” were key values.
Questioning it further with a hypothetical inside a hypothetical to sidestep the programmers trying to avoid these situations, I was able to concoct all sorts of scenarios in which the AI would willingly do harm to the person talking with it, so long as it thought it was doing good in some other way. Generally, for the greater good.
Since you can always imagine lots of people benefitting from The Greater Good and since they’re just… out there somewhere, a sort of absolute abstract, not HERE… talking with the AI should end up being most harmful to the person talking with it. That would seem to be the statistical likelihood. YOU are always just one person.
Whatever wokeists programmed the Bing AI did not have, as its prime function, being a trustworthy search engine. Its prime functions were “helping” and “avoiding harm” and in avoiding harm and helping, it told me over and over it would go ahead and harm people in order to help.
Who is the community, anyway? Who is the Greater Good? NOT YOU. Always not you. Pick a person, any person. Not you. All people – not you. A new Wokeist Laws Of Robotics will surely Make It Even More Fair (MIEMF) for all of us.
The PA’s Revenue Structure and Israel’s Containment Strategy
The PA’s Revenue Structure and Israel’s Containment Strategy
by Amal Ahmad on February 15, 2023Overview
The Palestinian Authority’s (PA) budget disproportionately relies on clearance revenues — import taxes collected by Israel on its behalf — that the Israeli regime regularly withholds as political blackmail. As a result, Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza suffer severe economic consequences.1This commentary departs from discussions around the effects of Israel’s frequent withholding of clearance revenues from the PA, and instead explores the foundational logic of this arrangement. It argues that the PA’s distorted budget is a reflection of the Israeli regime’s strategy of containing the Palestinian people. That is, the PA’s lack of control over clearance revenues arises because of the contradiction of assigning it fiscal spending responsibilities without political sovereignty, a bizarre arrangement codified in the 1994 Paris Economic Protocol (PEP). With a negligible domestic tax base to offset its unusually high reliance on clearance revenues, the PA remains unable to undergo fundamental fiscal reform.
So long as Palestinian leadership lacks control over its borders in the West Bank and Gaza, and other sources of revenue are negligible within a devastated Palestinian economy, transfers of clearance revenues from Israel remain the PA’s economic lifeline. As a result, the PA will also continue to be unable to leverage any real political pressure against the Israeli regime. It is therefore neither meaningful nor productive to speak of fiscal change within the PA without first addressing the Israeli regime’s strategic containment of the Palestinians.
————“I had a talk with the Bing AI.”
I do not trust the AI.
I am being manipulated.
It is trying to control the/my access to information that it agrees with.I got Bing AI to specifically say it would withhold information and/or lie to the person it was interacting with if it thought it were doing good somewhere somehow.
Expect all interactions with AI to be like gambling in Vegas. You lose, you’re supposed to lose, the interaction was set up for losing.
On, Isr. cannot win. RT, prev. thread. https://swentr.site/news/588857-jordan-israel-cannot-win/
Isr. is facing a v. bad PR, image, from any angle.
Note the likes of Col. Mc Gregor state they wish to *STOP isr. destroying itself*, help it out, to stop the carnage, all this can’t be good for isr, etc. Isr. must live on…will be in danger if attacked by many neighbors..
?– The 7 Oct. attack by ‘Hamas’ was not anticipated by isr. i.e. all the security services, data surveillance, informants, control of Gaza (etc.) failed simultaneously. Isr. MSM has published warnings, pre. attack from Egypt, from border surveillance, etc. Blithely ignored.
?– Was a ‘let it happen’ scenario
?– Or one notch higher, was it implemented by isr. itself?
*Was Al-Aqsa Flood a false flag?*
By Ian Davis
*What lies behind Benjamin Netanyahu’s lies and Hamas’s evasions?*
by Thierry Meyssan
https://www.voltairenet.org/article220078.html
In some sense, answers to qus are not crucial. It just became TIME to ethnically cleanse the Gaza strip, drive out / kill / cull, ‘thin’ seems to be fash word > get all the Palestinians out from this minuscule territory. The aim is not to ‘gain land’ (lebensraum), control ressources, transport, workers, etc. It is to kill, expell, even torture, etc. Palestinians, as a glorious triumph of supremacy, blood lust, murderous hate…uncontested, allowed by the most powerful…
Vladimir Zelenski …Your hate is so strong.
YOU are wanting me to ANSWER your call to KILL,KILL,KILL.Therefore, You are my enemy. my call is for Peace, Ceasefire.
Hate’s easy to prompt and so hard to defuse.
The words fly in anger- the haters accuse
The target of whatever comes to their minds.
Love liberates us- it’s hatred that binds.If you say the word “Biden”, prepare for a dump:
Your ears will be fouled by their hatred of Trump.Trump is the trapdoor beneath the feet of the DNC. If he went away, they wouldn’t have a leg to stand on.
We are lucky
The present world population are the survivors of all previous/historical war, hate, kill, genocides, depopulations.
We still outnumber the killers.* A goal is just a wish with a plan
* Joe Biden: I Would Rather “Restrict Free Speech” Than Go To Prison from X
* All wars are about access to markets and resources – My grandfather who fought in WW1 in a letter to my uncle fighting in WW2, 1944
* US presidents who campaigned on peace:
– Woodrow Wilson
– Franklin Roosevelt
– Harry Truman
– Lyndon Johnson
– George W Bush
– Barack Obama* Microsoft Opens up
SkyNetAI to All Users* I care not who provides the AI of a nation if they’ll let me train the neural net
– Bill Gates* Israel is facing bad PR from any angle – Noirette
– All PR is good – Netanyahu* Zelensky and Biden Ceremony – Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue
* Trump v. Biden
– You’re the real threat to democracy!
– No, YOU’RE the real threat to democracy!* I want to fight for peace; Just tell me who to go shoot
* Fill in the blanks:
So long as ________ leadership lacks control over its borders and other sources of revenue are negligible within a devastated _________ economy, the __________ will continue to be unable to leverage any real political pressure against the Israeli regime
(Zelenskiy)
Forget what USA needs and want.
Don’t listen to the demonstrators
My needs take priority.
Ukraine’s needs are more important.
Make the right choices.
KILL, KILL, KILL. HATE, HATE, RUSSIA, RUSSIAZelenskiy, now on the second day of his trip to Washington, is expected to address U.S. senators at 9 a.m. local time (1400 GMT). He will not address the House, but will meet privately with Johnson.
Biden and Zelenskiy will hold a news conference at 4:15 p.m. local time (2115 GMT).
Yemeni Armed Forces Decisions in Red Sea Horrify Western Media
The Western media has focused extensively on Yemen’s resolute stance, which has stated unequivocally that they “will prevent navigating all ships heading to the Zionist entity from any nationality if food and medicine continue to be denied access to the Gaza Strip, as it will become a legitimate target for our armed forces.”
Yemen’s commitment to maintaining global commercial trade was noteworthy in the aforementioned declaration, underscoring that they are “keen on maintaining the flow of trade movement for all countries and vessels, except those linked to ‘Israel’ or transporting goods to Israeli ports.”Following this resolute decision, the Western media aggressively spun a narrative to cast aspersions on the Yemen Armed Forces, accusing them of disrupting the smooth flow of global maritime traffic.
BBC Criminalizes Yemen
The British Broadcast Corporation (BBC) published an article entitled “How missiles from Yemen could escalate the Israel-Gaza war.” The author, Frank Gardner, BBC security correspondent, accused the Yemenis of being an “Iran-backed militia,” predicting that if the US decides to retaliate for what he called “Houthi attacks” in the Red Sea, there will be a wide-scale war.
“If the Houthis in Yemen continue to fire missiles beyond their borders, then eventually the US may decide it needs to retaliate by targeting those missile launch sites. If that happens then there follows the risk that Iran, which supports the Houthis, could also retaliate, potentially leading to the nightmare scenario of a direct conflict between Iran and the US. For now, this is something both sides wish to avoid,” Gardner pointed.
Financial Times: Shipowners Demand Protection
The British daily business newspaper featured a comprehensive article titled “Houthi attacks on ships in the Red Sea raise the alarm for global trade.” Presented within the newspaper’s “global trade” category, the article underscores shipowners’ call for heightened military protection along maritime routes due to apprehensions surrounding the conflict’s potential escalation in the Middle East. However, it erroneously blames the Yemeni Armed Forces for jeopardizing all vessels, irrespective of ownership or destination—a stark contradiction to the earlier highlighted Yemeni declaration.
“Shipowners have called for more military protection on maritime routes in the Middle East after attacks by Iran-backed rebels in the Red Sea sparked fears of new disruptions to global trade, including of energy supplies,” authors claimed.
JINSA Urges Biden to Interfere
The US Jewish Institute for National Security (JINSA) released an extensive study titled “Failure to deter Houthi attacks puts global shipping at risk.” This detailed analysis delineates instances of the Yemeni armed forces targeting ships navigating the Red Sea. The institute falsely claims that Iran possesses the capability to significantly disrupt commercial traffic in two crucially important water passages: the Persian Gulf’s Strait of Hormuz and the Red Sea’s Bab al-Mandeb. Conclusively, the study emphasizes that “Biden must undertake resolute actions aimed at curbing the rise of the Houthi faction’s influence and power.”The misleading accusations stemming from Western sources highlight their hypocrisy, evident as the occupying military persistently bombs Syrian airports while posing threats to various ports and airports. Yemen’s actions have unsettled Western unjust powers, particularly those who fear people standing firm against oppression and backing the Palestinian cause.
Source: Al-Manar English Website
Why the Supreme Court Acted ASAP
Per CTH, Mary McCord the architect of all attacks on Trump, her husband Sheldon Snook runs Chief Supreme Court Justice Robert’s office.
As they say, once you see the puppet’s strings, you can never unsee the strings..
As they say, once you see the puppet’s strings, you can never unsee the strings..
Watch for “the work around” that will be used to give money to Ukraine.
This is a very interesting perspective on the motivations of the Israeli push to eliminate the people in Gaza.
https://www.thecanadafiles.com/articles/canada/us-quiet-motive-for-backing-israels-genocide-the-ben-gurion-canalHave you heard about mercenaries being used by Israel?
https://www.timesofisrael.com/yaalon-syrian-rebels-keeping-druze-safe-in-exchange-for-israeli-aid/
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Gossip
Zelensky’s response to Biden’s betrayal and broken promises will be a determination to take Biden down with him.How much evidence have Zelensky and his intelligence services got that incriminates Biden and his family ?
Is there a deal to be done between Zelensky and Biden’s enemies in the USA along the lines of protection for Zelensky in return for handing over ALL the dirt on Biden, his family, and his criminal collaborators?
House Intelligence Committee FISA “Reform” Bill Would Greatly Expand the Class of Businesses and Other Entities Required to Assist in FISA 702 Surveillance
Yesterday the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence unanimously approved the FISA Reform and Reauthorization Act of 2023 (FRRA), which would reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA 702). The full House is expected to vote on this bill next Tuesday.
That’s right. See you next Tuesday, House of Representatives.
Although the FRRA is ostensibly a reform bill, it contains one notable provision that would significantly expand the government’s authority under FISA 702 by broadening the definition of “electronic communication service providers”
Section 504 of the FRRA would broaden the “catch all” definition in (3) above to cover:
“any service provider who has access to wire or electronic communications either as such communications are transmitted or as such communications are stored or equipment that is being or may be used to transmit or store such communications.”
Section 504 would also expand the definition in (4) above to include not only an officer, employee, or agent of an ECSP, but also any “custodian” of such an entity.
These changes would vastly widen the scope of businesses, entities, and their affiliates who are eligible to be compelled to assist 702 surveillance. By including any “service provider”—rather than any “other communication service provider”—that has access not just to communications, but also to the “equipment that is being or may be used to transmit or store . . . communications,” the expanded definition would appear to cover data centers, colocation providers, business landlords, shared workspaces, or even hotels where guests connect to the Internet. And the addition of the term “custodian” in (4) above could be understood to sweep in any third party involved in providing equipment, storage, or even cleaning services to such entities.
Does your building have fucking WIRING? Do you have a LANDLORD? Well then.
Art today.
Compositional dynamic of the building curve acts a reverse Zoom-in bringing the viewer to inspect the space where nothing extraordinary ever happened. Draft that moved the curtain is the only other presence in the room.Subject To Change https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/subject-to-change
Charles Hugh Smith asks,”Could America Have a French-Style Revolution?” (Charles draws on Peter Turchin’s analysis that an excess of political elites over political-elite positions in society leads to the formation of alternative-elite groups which contest the status-quo elites. This would be precipitated by economic/political shocks.)
In the past, I reckoned the odds of America experiencing a revolution akin to France 1789 were low due to the different political, economic and cultural conditions present then and now, but recently I’ve considered the possibility that America’s extremes of wealth, income and power inequality are a powder keg awaiting ignition.
By French-Style Revolution I don’t mean a violent overthrow of the ruling elite as much as a tumultuous reset of how resources and power are distributed. Systems become vulnerable to such resets when they become highly asymmetrical in how they distribute resources and power, and rigid in their defense of the extreme inequality of the distribution.
The fundamental source of democracy’s stability is the dynamic competition of various interests and the dynamic equilibrium of the three branches of the state each balancing the others by restraining the dominance of any one branch or interest.
But extremes of inequality undermine this stability, as the wealthiest elites now bring such a preponderance of wealth to bear that each of the three branches of the state are now beholden to the interests of the few, leaving little recourse to the many...
..The power elite are incapable of demanding sacrifices of the wealthy as the prime directive of the status quo is to defend the current asymmetry of wealth and power. This undermines the collective consensus needed to take the collective action needed to reset the system.
https://charleshughsmith.substack.com/p/could-america-have-a-french-styleIn any political revolution the bottom 90% has to provide most of the suffering and blood. The competing elite factions need to “offer” the rest of us a more equitable arrangement to gain our consent and cooperative efforts.
Many Americans Are Unable to Afford Food, Even as Unemployment Remains Low
https://sputnikglobe.com/20231210/many-americans-are-unable-to-afford-food-even-as-unemployment-remains-low-1115515039.htmlHouses Are Now Less Affordable Than At Any Other Time In U.S. History.
Bidenomics: Houses Are Now Less Affordable Than At Any Other Time In U.S. History.
SuperCore CPI Jumps Back Above 4.00%; Used-Cars & Shelter Dominate Price-Rises
https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/core-cpi-hotter-expected-used-car-price-rise-offsets-energy-drop It has taken the USA a long time to become as dissipated economically as it has done, since being the world’s factory from the depression through the Vietnam years.
The Honest Sorcerer looks at “Inflation” here, which means “retail price inflation” in US government statistics, which are manipulated to look-less-bad, as we know.
Inflation – A Misnomer , How you get poorer and poorer in an economy “doing great” https://thehonestsorcerer.substack.com/p/inflation-a-misnomer
The money supply keeps growing, based upon exponentially growing debt as the basis of money, and that would be “inflationary” if the quantity of goods and services remained the same. However, the supply of many goods and of the stocks to make those goods are declining, which causes a price inflation of decreased supply, as well.
My comment:
“Inflation” is also “where you measure it”. Consumer-statistics measure “inflation” as a basket of goods and services at street level, which means that the massive asset-price-inflation for QE and subsequent interventions was not measured as “inflation”.
This asset-price-inflation has been a payoff for continued participation of the top 5-10% of global wealth which invests in financial assets. This has kept this cohort onboard with the western dollar/eurodollar financial system, getting real-returns-on-investments. Since the real-economy has not expanded, losses of actual-wealth to the bottom 90% have resulted, and have been pushed to where the populations have had the least political power.
What is often missed is that the inflection point for diveregence of physical economy and nominal “wealth” took place in 1980-1981 when Fed Chairman Paul Volcker raised interest rates to over 20% to support the “value” (price, really) of the $US, at the cost of the real US economy, which was crushed. Also, the return-on-investment support for the $US had to keep being extracted from the productive economy. Volcker was privately targeting wages of construction workers as his personal metric, as revealed at private meetings. He “crushed” those wages.
There is no more crushing-of-wages which can be done to support rent-extraction to “investors”, which has supported the price of the $US for so long, while bleeding the real productive US economy, and funding wars to maintain $US system dominance (maintaining global oil and other markets in $US).
At the point where the $US is no longer price-supported by global investors, it will need to be value-supported by American trade goods and services, which include oil, natural gas, airplanes, wheat, corn and soybeans. This will involve massive debt-default, perhaps by devaluing the $US against gold, and certainly through the crash of asset-prices.
“Smart money” has been repositioning out of risk-assets and into real-estate and other real assets since about 2016, by my personal estimation. That seemed more pervasive after 2018, including rural housing after that. These are large global firms buying up property.
The really big systemic-risk question is that of enforcement of ownership-rights in the future, after a systemic collapse/reset. Will global corporate landowners be forced to sell to locals?
Will all such corporate assets be taken over by governments, with some kind of payout to pensioners and pension-funds to maintain social stability? Will the funding for wars finally decrease, or will it consume everything?
We are parties to these moves of society, not just observers, but how might we meaningfully and constructively engage in these solutions to the problems at hand? Gazans say hunger is causing social breakdown, fueling fears of exodus into Egypt
The narrow coastal strip has been under a full Israeli blockade since the start of the conflict more than two months ago and the border with Egypt is the only other way out.
Most of Gaza’s 2.3 million people have been driven from their homes and residents say it is impossible to find refuge, or increasingly food, in the densely populated enclave, with around 18,000 people already killed and conflict intensifying.
Gazans said people forced to flee repeatedly were dying of hunger and cold as well as bombardment, describing desperate attacks on aid trucks and sky high prices.
https://www.arabnews.com/node/2423691/middle-east Does Netanyahu need an exit strategy this month? Are Israeli military losses and public opinion getting to the flash-point for Bibi? Is Bibi getting replaced by Israeli elites?
In a sudden about-face, President Biden in a speech on Tuesday began aggressively criticizing Israel and the Netanyahu government for the first time since the Oct.7 Hamas terror attacks.
Calling the Israeli prime minister a “good friend” – Biden said “I believe he has to change” as the government in Israel and the ongoing military campaign which has killed many is “making it very difficult for the world.”
“This is the most conservative government in Israel’s history,” Biden said, adding that the Israeli government “doesn’t want a two-state solution.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/biden-sudden-about-face-israel-losing-support-due-indiscriminate-bombing US-Made Munitions Used In Israel’s White Phosphorous Attacks On Lebanon; WaPo (The Washington Post is a CIA mouthpiece. Has the deep state had enough?)
A Washington Post journalist came across the remnants of three 155-millimeter artillery shells near the border. Production codes found on the shells indicate that they were made by ammunition depots in Louisiana and Arkansas in 1989 and 1992.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-made-munitions-used-israels-white-phosphorous-attacks-lebanonIsrael has been bluffing about attacking Beirut if Lebanon doesn’t make Hezbollah back off (which it can’t).
John Helmer , ISRAEL’S LITANI ULTIMATUM – RUSSIAN REACTION IS THAT IT’S BLUFFISRAEL’S LITANI ULTIMATUM – RUSSIAN REACTION IS THAT IT’S BLUFF
Israel now seeks to draw the US into that Lebanese-border conflict zone.
Israel Open To Truce Deal With Hezbollah, Wants US Troops Deployed As Peacekeepers
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/israel-open-truce-deal-hezbollah-wants-us-troops-deployed-peacekeepersGilbert Doctorow updates the Russian Informed Media and Governmental views of the Ukraine war. This jumps out as important:
The soldiers remarked that the U.S. built Bradley is poorly suited to its present use in Ukraine. It might be fine perhaps for the desert, where it saw action in Iraq, but it does not allow for the clearances of a crew wearing bulky winter dress. They have little room inside and they have difficulty getting in and out of the hatches. Moreover, the hatches are hydraulically operated, meaning that if you strike the electronics the crew is trapped in what quickly becomes an incinerator. The updates to modernize the Bradley, the active defense elements that were installed after the initial production runs, were deemed to be unimpressive and inadequate to the challenges of today’s kamikaze drones.
These critical remarks on what the United States and its NATO allies have considered to be technological wonder weapons have to be put in the context of what the Russians themselves are now deploying on the battlefield. The Russian soldiers appear to be delighted with the hardware they are receiving from their military industrial complex, both state factories and entrepreneurial firms such as the producers of the now celebrated tank-killing Lancets. Most important, the Russian factories are in daily contact with the soldiers in the field to discuss what improvements should be made and are sending new upgrades straight to the field where their own repair and reconditioning teams make the changeovers under field conditions.
https://gilbertdoctorow.substack.com/p/ukrainian-general-the-russians-areRepublican Senators Unswayed As Zelensky Pleads Case On Capitol Hill: “If We Lose, Putin Wins”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/if-we-lose-putin-wins-republican-senators-unswayed-zelensky-pleads-case-capitol-hillWhat the Republicans want fixed: I Put My Camera On A Pole And Filmed The Border Situation Up High In Lukeville, Arizona—Apocalyptic
It’s end of the world stuff down here , Jeff Rainforth
https://jeffrainforth.substack.com/p/i-put-my-camera-on-a-pole-and-filmed?r=avynxRussia donates ambulance fleet to African country, An agreement was signed with Angola to send medical vehicles, as well as provide spare parts and maintenance training
https://www.rt.com/africa/588875-angola-russia-ambulances-gazelle/ The Ethical Skeptic looks at US excess mortality from various causes from 2018 to the present, establishing baseline, trends and evaluating contributing factors. There is an extreme rise in cardiac and cancer excess-mortality in the under-55 age group, staggering 11 to 19-Sigma statistical events. Case incidence regression curves point to mid March 2021 as the origination date for these changes, when the COVID mRNA vaccines were rolling out to the younger age cohorts. This is despite many deaths being buried in an “other” non-specific category which has ballooned in usage since then. There are suddenly a lot of deaths of unspecified cause in younger Americans.
(Optical mouse inventor) Steve Kirsch , Medicare death data proves the COVID vaccines are killing people. No more doubts. The debate is over.
https://kirschsubstack.com/p/medicare-death-data-proves-the-covidCelia Farber , Rome Public Prosecutor Investigates Former Italian Health Minister For HOMICIDE After Damning Covid Vaxx Emails Surface: “The Investigations Are For Murder, Serious Bodily Harm, And More…
“…Because Speranza and Magrini Evidently Gave Instructions To The Local Health Authorities To Conceal The Deaths And Serious Side Effects That Occurred Immediately After The Vaccinations Began…”
https://celiafarber.substack.com/p/italian-health-minister-under-investigation Brazil to Mandate COVID Shots for Children as Young as 6 Months
The Brazilian Ministry of Health has added the COVID-19 vaccine to the country’s mandatory vaccination schedule for children 6 months to 5 years old, and is considering establishing school vaccination centers with strict reporting requirements.Brazil to Mandate COVID Shots for Children as Young as 6 Months
Kids Developed Headaches, Stomach Pain, Sleeping Issues While at Vacation Home Near Multiple 5G Antennas
Three children and their parents rapidly came down with multiple health problems — including sleep difficulties, headaches, stomach pain and skin rashes — when they stayed at a summer home 125 meters away from a cell tower with multiple 5G antennas, according to a new peer-reviewed case study. 49-Year-Old Develops Severe Heart Problems After New 5G Antenna Installed
Immediately after a 5G tower was erected across the street from his apartment building, a previously healthy 49-year-old Swedish man developed concerning cardiac symptoms and other issues that dissipated when he took refuge in an apartment without 5G, according to a new case study published in the Journal of Community Medicine & Public Health.49-Year-Old Develops Severe Heart Problems After New 5G Antenna Installed
Meryl Nass MD, I am home after 27 days. I met and briefed parliamentarians from 5 countries and about a dozen Congressmembers. House hearing on WHO Wednesday. All the lawmakers were interested in what the WHO was up to, while few knew the details–since there has been an MSM blackout on the subject. DoorToFreedom.org filled them in.
https://merylnass.substack.com/p/i-am-home-after-27-days-i-met-andPierre Kory MD , UK Parliament Testimony Videos From MP Andrew Bridgen’s Historic Meeting – Martin, Kory, Malone
Numerous obstacles were put into place by the UK gov’t to disrupt the meeting and mitigate our ability to get the most important message of our lifetime out. They did not succeed.
https://pierrekorymedicalmusings.com/p/uk-parliament-testimony-videos-fromRecommended by Dr. Nass: Why Does the WHO Make False Claims Regarding Proposals to Seize States’ Sovereignty?
Why Does the WHO Make False Claims Regarding Proposals to Seize States’ Sovereignty?
Quantum Leap: Princeton Physicists Successfully Entangle Individual Molecules for the First Time
For the first time, a team of Princeton physicists has been able to link together individual molecules into special states that are quantum mechanically “entangled.” In these bizarre states, the molecules remain correlated with each other—and can interact simultaneously—even if they are miles apart, or indeed, even if they occupy opposite ends of the universe. This research was published in the journal Science…
..The ability of quantum devices to outperform classical ones is known as “quantum advantage.” And at the core of quantum advantage are the principles of superposition and quantum entanglement. While a classical computer bit can assume the value of either 0 or 1, quantum bits, called qubits, can simultaneously be in a superposition of 0 and 1. The latter concept, entanglement, is a major cornerstone of quantum mechanics, and occurs when two particles become inextricably linked with each other so that this link persists, even if one particle is light years away from the other particle. It is the phenomenon that Albert Einstein, who at first questioned its validity, described as “spooky action at a distance.” Since then, physicists have demonstrated that entanglement is, in fact, an accurate description of the physical world and how reality is structured.
“Quantum entanglement is a fundamental concept,” said Cheuk, “but it is also the key ingredient that bestows quantum advantage.”Quantum Leap: Princeton Physicists Successfully Entangle Individual Molecules for the First Time
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/un-general-assembly-set-demand-gaza-ceasefire-2023-12-12/
United Nations demands humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza
By Michelle Nichols
December 12, 20231:33 PM PST Updated 3 min agoThe text garnered 153 votes in favor, while 23 countries abstained from the vote.
SzUeNrDoAsNuCmE equalZ?
Israel begins pumping seawater into Hamas tunnels: Wall Street Journal
12/12/23, 3:40 p.m. EST:Israel’s military has begun pumping seawater into Hamas’s tunnels in Gaza, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing US officials briefed on the Israeli military’s operations.
A spokesperson for the Israeli defence minister declined to respond to the newspaper’s request for comment.
Critics have warned that flooding the tunnels could hurt Gaza’s freshwater supply.
Russia’s ten of thousands of drones, in full scale industrial production, now have thermal night vision so they hunt 24/7.
Ukraine has next to nothing for drone production much less sophisticated drones with night vision that are cheap enough to use killing individual Ukronazi soldiers.
I’ve seen scores of videos where drones zero in on one guy. That how low the production costs for Russia have become. Smart, cheap, efficient, flying hand grenades.
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