Debt Rattle February 27 2025
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February 27, 2025 at 10:57 am #183088
Raúl Ilargi Meijer
KeymasterEl Greco La Pietà c1575 • US Relations With Russia Promise Rollback To Pre-Gorbachev Period (Krutikov) • America as Republic, not as Empire (Al
[See the full post at: Debt Rattle February 27 2025]February 27, 2025 at 12:10 pm #183090Germ
ParticipantGood Morning :-))
I just returned from Thailand – visited a friend (female, 55, vegetarian, yoga teacher) who is recovering from a heart attack. Just had another acquaintance die – 57 female, breast cancer. Dead within 3 months of diagnosis.
Is there anyone not ruined in some way by the death vaxx?
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February 27, 2025 at 1:08 pm #183091John Day
Participant@Germ: I hope you had a good time in Thailand. Nice time of year.
Where did you go? Did you have an adventure?February 27, 2025 at 1:09 pm #183092John Day
ParticipantUnifying Principles https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/unifying-principles
Here we are on a planet with oil, coal and natural gas beneath our feet, and oxygen in the atmosphere, having learned to perform work by combining the two under special circumstances, and we have become the masters of this planet, by doing so. We reached peak industrial economy and peak oil + condensates about the end of 2018. Everything since then, the weirdness, has been a reflection of that change. It is likely to get worse until we all address this fact openly. Industrial output is about to start falling, like it did in COVID lockdowns, but that was based on lies. This situation shapes all of these stories below.
Surplus Energy Economics, Revolutionary times: WHY MONEY AND TECHNOLOGY WILL FAIL
Material economic prosperity took off when the discovery of how to convert heat into work enabled us to access the vast reserves of energy contained in coal, oil and natural gas.
As we extended the geographic reach of the energy industries, as economies of scale were captured, and as the technologies of energy use advanced incrementally, the ECoEs (Energy Costs of Energy) of fossil fuels adopted a downwards trajectory. These were to hit their nadir in the quarter-century after 1945.
Latterly, with the potential benefits of reach and scale maximised, depletion has taken over as the primary driver of ECoEs, pushing these up from 2.0% in 1980, and 4.2% in 2000, to a projected 11.0% this year.
The wholly objective observer could, at this point, give us a solidly rational description of our economic past, present and future. Prosperity soared during roughly 150 years of rising energy use and falling ECoEs. More recently, the impetus initially imparted to the economy by the harnessing of fossil fuel energy has been fading out, a process most readily captured in the trend of ECoEs…
..In reality, of course, money, which commands value only as an exercisable “claim” on the material, cannot drive the arc of the material…
..These failures are already unfolding. Debts and quasi-debts are expanding at super-heated rates, thereby creating a body or stock of monetary “claims” that cannot possibly be ‘honoured for value’ by an inflecting material economy.
With energy companies slashing, rather than expanding, their forward investment plans, technological hopes are already in retreat over transition to renewable forms of energy. https://surplusenergyeconomics.wordpress.com/2025/02/26/300-revolutionary-times/#like-44147Josh Mitteldorf insists on looking at the murderous side of our human reality. Open Letter to Charles Eisenstein
He tells the deep story of our time, but misses the conspiracies.
During Saturday’s conference call, I mentioned military-grade attacks on humanity and on Gaia, using fires, directed energy weapons, chemtrails, and weather warfare. These assaults indicate that, in addition to the epochal historic and spiritual forces coming to a head in the present era, there is also a cabal with a hellish agenda. My purpose in bringing up this topic with you is to ask you to expand your narrative.
You emphasize that we should not judge the behavior of others, that if we were to experience all their upbringing and their circumstances, we would do the same. This is a wise and beautiful message, a message that carries a great truth; but I believe there are exceptions. There are sociopaths in positions of power acting under cover of media darkness, and they are doing unthinkably violent and destructive things that neither you nor I nor billions of ordinary people would do under any circumstances. https://mitteldorf.substack.com/p/open-letter-to-charles-eisensteinWhat exactly does this mean? Washington ‘not providing’ military assistance to Kiev – Trump
The US president has said, however, that the flow of weapons could be sustained “for a while, until we have a deal with Russia” https://www.rt.com/news/613311-trump-ukraine-military-aid/
This allows Zelensky to sign deals and negotiate: Ukrainian parliament affirms Zelenskyy to remain president
With 268 votes in favor, Verkhovna Rada approves resolution declaring president’s powers will continue until end of martial law https://www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/ukrainian-parliament-affirms-zelenskyy-to-remain-president/3492925February 27, 2025 at 1:10 pm #183093John Day
ParticipantKiev agrees to Trump’s minerals deal – media
It reportedly gives the US half the future proceeds from the industry, but says nothing of security guarantees
The final draft, dated Monday and seen by the outlet, would require Kiev to create a fund and set aside 50% of the revenue from the “future monetization” of its state-owned mineral resources, including oil and gas and related logistics. The fund would invest in Ukrainian industries.
According to the FT, this monetization would not cover resources already generating revenue for the Ukrainian government, such as the country’s gas and oil companies Naftogaz or Ukrnafta. However, the document reportedly does not name the size of the stake Washington will hold in the fund. The terms of “joint ownership” deals are to be determined in future agreements. https://www.rt.com/news/613306-kiev-trump-mineral-deal/Zelensky To Visit White House Friday To Sign Minerals Deal
President Trump told reporters in the Oval Office Tuesday that he heard Zelensky was visiting on Friday…
..”I hear Zelensky’s coming on Friday, it’s ok with me… It could be a trillion dollar deal, it could be whatever… Biden was throwing around money like it’s cotton candy.”
From the Oval Office presser:
Reporter: What does Ukraine get in this mineral deal?
Trump: “Military equipment… Without the United States and it’s money… this war would have been over in a very short period of time.”
And… “I’d like to buy minerals on Russian land too.” https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/putin-says-major-deals-discussed-us-while-dangling-russian-rare-earth-mineral-accessZelensky To Visit White House But Minerals Deal Still Up In The Air: ‘Framework, Not A Deal’ https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/zelensky-visit-white-house-minerals-deal-still-air-framework-not-deal
Witkoff had 3.5 hours alone with Putin in Russia before he went to Riyadh. Trump Envoy Witkoff Says He Met With Putin During Trip to Russia
U.S. President Donald Trump’s special envoy to the Middle East confirmed in a video that he met with Russia’s Vladimir Putin during a recent trip to Moscow, where he secured the release of an American prisoner.
“I spent a lot of time with President Putin, talking, developing a friendship, a relationship with him,” Steve Witkoff said…
Earlier, Fox News host Sean Hannity claimed that Witkoff held a three-and-a-half-hour meeting with Putin on Feb. 11 while negotiating the release of imprisoned U.S. teacher Marc Fogel. https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/02/21/trump-envoy-witkoff-says-he-met-with-putin-during-trip-to-russia-a88113Trump’s special envoy: conflict in Ukraine was provoked
US Presidential Special Envoy Steven Witkoff believes that the conflict in Ukraine was not inevitable, but was provoked. He stressed that this does not mean that it was provoked by the Russian side. https://www-kommersant-ru.translate.goog/doc/7532631?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wappFebruary 27, 2025 at 1:11 pm #183094John Day
ParticipantSimplicius, Putin Plays Peacemaker as War Rages On
Putin has earned some raised eyebrows amongst the Russian commentariat for his sudden offer to ‘work with the US’ in exploiting Russian rare earth and mineral resources in both Russia and the Donbass. He was accused of selling Russia out in exchange for sweeping the war under the rug.
But there is strong evidence that Putin is, as always, being the consummate statesman and congenial host, extending a hand of friendship to position Russia as friendly and cooperative…
..Lavrov immediately followed this up during his visit to Turkey, by saying that a ceasefire will only be allowed to happen after the US and Russia agree on all the most fundamental terms, which have been variously articulated as understanding “the root causes of the conflict”… Another way of saying that is Russia wants the US to acknowledge all of the years of iniquities dealt to Russia at the hands of NATO and the West, including expansion, ignoring Russia’s security concerns and strategic interests, et cetera. Until this becomes codified in some kind of newly undersigned framework, Russia does not intend to entertain any ceasefires, which, as Ryabkov said above, will only erupt back into full-on hostilities after a given amount of time like all the previous Minsk charades…
..Russia and the US appear to be at a kind of epistemic loggerheads when it comes to the order with which the conflict must come to an end. You see, Trump, Marco Rubio, and others from their camp hold the position that the conflict must be brought to a ceasefire first, and only then would the higher order normalizations and negotiations between the US and Russia take place… But Russia insists on the opposite order of events: first the US must recognize all the causes of the conflict and fulfill Russia’s demands for long-term security guarantees, and only then will Russia entertain bringing the conflict to an end. How to reconcile these antipodal positions? Easy: Russia must simply continue plowing ahead until the US ‘comes around’ to realizing that it’s not the one in the driver’s seat…
..Trump states that Ukraine essentially gets nothing in return for signing the mineral deal—their payment for it was the money the US had already disbursed over the past several years… But note the interesting point at the end: Trump admits that the conflict may very well continue on “for a while, until we have a deal with Russia.” https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/sitrep-22625-putin-plays-peacemaker Trump says US could lift Russia sanctions
The measures, which Moscow considers illegal, will be addressed “at some point” during talks on a potential Ukraine settlement, according to the president https://swentr.site/news/613317-trump-us-sanctions-russia/Russia & US Holding Next Talks In Turkey, Without Europe: Lavrov
Last week’s Riyadh talks between the United States and Russia have led to another round of face-to-face bilateral negotiations, set for Thursday in Istanbul… The Istanbul meeting is expected to focus on restoring diplomatic staff and full relations at each respective embassy. Both sides went through several rounds of expelling the other’s diplomats under the Biden administration, as relations hit a low-point during the Ukraine war, also amid US/EU-led sanctions on Moscow.
“Such a meeting will take place tomorrow in Istanbul. I think that its results will show how quickly and effectively we can move forward,” Lavrov said Wednesday. https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russia-us-hold-new-talks-turkey-lavrov-saysGilbert Doctorow, United Nations votes yesterday and the widening rift between the U.S. and Europe
Yesterday, on the third anniversary of the Russian incursion into Ukraine, there were two very important votes in the United Nations on ending the war. One vote, in the Security Council, passed a U.S. drafted resolution calling for a quick end to the war without naming Russia as aggressor and without mention of the withdrawal of Russian forces to the Ukrainian boundaries before the start of hostilities. This resolution was approved by Russia and China. The European permanent and temporary members of the Council abstained, allowing the resolution to pass. Thus, for all the world to see, Russia, China and the United States stood together for the first time in decades, while Europe fell silent before this superior power constellation.
On the same day, the United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution put forward by the Europeans which repeated the whole anti-Russian litany of previous resolutions these past three years. It passed though it was vetoed by the United States as well as Russia while 65 member states abstained, itself an unusually large number of abstentions.
From these votes, there can be no doubt of Trump’s sincerity in striking a deal with Russia to end the war and of his readiness to push the divorce with Europe. https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2025/02/25/press-tv-iran-united-nations-votes-yesterday-and-the-widening-rift-between-the-u-s-and-europe/Putin backs Trump’s proposal for US, China and Russia to halve defence spending https://www.scmp.com/news/world/russia-central-asia/article/3299974/putin-backs-trumps-proposal-us-china-and-russia-halve-defence-spending
February 27, 2025 at 1:12 pm #183095John Day
ParticipantFuture of European Nuclear Capabilities Uncertain: France Considers Sending Nuclear-Armed Rafale Fighters to Germany https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/future-european-nuclear-capabilities-uncertain-france-nuke-capable-rafale
Germany: Syrian won’t be deported despite smashing windows of 245 cars, beating an elderly woman, and possessing illegal weapons https://rmx.news/germany/germany-syrian-wont-be-deported-despite-smashing-windows-of-245-cars-beating-an-elderly-woman-and-possessing-illegal-weapons/
“A threat to our democracy…” Romania’s Georgescu Banned From Appearing In Media As State Accuses Him Of ‘Fascism, Attempted Coup’
Prosecutors have revealed that police have raided nearly 50 addresses of people and associations connected with Romanian presidential front-runner Calin Georgescu, who has denied all wrongdoing and said state authorities are trying to block his candidacy.
Georgescu will reportedly be released from a hours-long detention by police for questioning. But emerging reports say he’s been charged with ‘attempted coup’ and advancing ‘false information’. Reuters has summarized the charges against him include forming an antisemitic organization, promoting war criminals and fascist organizations, and communicating false information.
A Romanian Court Press Release cites “attempted incitement against the constitutional order” (coup), “spreading false information,” as well as “false statements on campaign funding,” and links to “fascist, xenophobic, and antisemitic organizations.” https://www.zerohedge.com/political/romanian-police-nab-election-front-runner-calin-georgescu-after-russian-interferenceGilbert Doctorow, The ever-changing Trump: latest new position on Ukraine security guarantees can only lead to failure of his peace initiative
Indeed, and judging from what I heard in the televised press conference of Emmanuel Macron and Donald Trump in Washington earlier today, the road to peace just got that much longer and more problematic due to Trump’s seeming acceptance of the latest French suggestions about a European peace-keeping force to be deployed in Ukraine with unspecified back-up from the Americans.
The underlying assumptions stated clearly by Macron are unworkable because they cannot and will not be accepted by the Russian side. It is precisely the Minsk 3.0 formula that Moscow has denounced. https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2025/02/24/the-ever-changing-trump-latest-new-position-on-ukraine-security-guarantees-can-only-lead-to-failure-of-his-peace-initiative/On Monday the Pentagon sent a US Air Force B-52H Stratofortress strategic bomber and a formation of supporting fighter jets over Estonian airspace, very close to Russia’s doorstep.
Crucially the large bomber is capable of carrying nuclear weapons, and reports say the accompanying F-35A Lightning II fighter jets approached the Russian border during the flight. https://www.zerohedge.com/military/us-flies-stratofortress-nuclear-capable-bomber-f-35-jets-near-russian-borderFebruary 27, 2025 at 1:13 pm #183096John Day
ParticipantThe thing is huge, like a C-130. What’s it carrying? China’s newest KJ-3000 early warning aircraft spotted again
Analysts speculate that Beijing could be secretly integrating artificial intelligence into the aircraft’s radar and command systems, allowing it to process vast amounts of data in real time, identify patterns, and predict enemy movements with uncanny accuracy. https://bulgarianmilitary.com/2025/02/25/chinas-newest-kj-3000-early-warning-aircraft-spotted-again/#google_vignetteA brief history of Israel’s theft and trafficking of Palestinian organs
There are over three decades of evidence that Israeli doctors harvest Palestinian organs in direct violation of international law. These stolen body parts were not just used for transplantation and research but for sale and profit. https://mondoweiss.net/2025/02/a-brief-history-of-israels-theft-and-trafficking-of-palestinian-organs/Situation around Gaza very alarming, must be resolved based of UNSC resolutions — Lavrov
According to the Russian foreign minister, this also applies to the “violation of the sovereignty of the Lebanese Republic” https://tass.com/world/1918865Israel Sends Tanks into West Bank Amid “De Facto Annexation” of Palestinian Lands: Mariam Barghouti https://scheerpost.com/2025/02/25/israel-sends-tanks-into-west-bank-amid-de-facto-annexation-of-palestinian-lands-mariam-barghouti/
Israel says army to stay ‘for next year’ in Palestinian refugee camp in occupied West Bank
Israel’s defense minister says 40,000 Palestinians evacuated from Jenin, Tulkarem, and Nur Shams refugee camps https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/israel-says-army-to-stay-for-next-year-in-palestinian-refugee-camp-in-occupied-west-bank/3490658February 27, 2025 at 1:14 pm #183097John Day
ParticipantGazans say Israeli ceasefire violations are meant to cause mass expulsion
Palestinians in Gaza say that Israel is violating the ceasefire’s humanitarian agreements in order to force them to leave their homeland.
On Monday, the Gaza Government Media Office stated that only 30% of the supplies that were supposed to enter the strip in accordance with the ceasefire agreement have been let in. According to the agreement, Israel is supposed to let in 600 trucks of aid per day, including 50 trucks of fuel, and a total of 200,000 tents and 60,000 prefabricated mobile homes during the first phase of the ceasefire. The Government Media Office said that Israel has only let in 8,500 trucks out of the total 12,000 (in northern Gaza, only 2,916 instead of 6,000), less than half the intended number of tents, and only a handful of mobile homes.
The practical result of this policy is that, without the humanitarian aid stipulated in the ceasefire deal, Gaza remains uninhabitable. https://mondoweiss.net/2025/02/gazans-say-israeli-ceasefire-violations-are-meant-to-cause-mass-expulsion/Six newborns die as cold snap grips Gaza https://www.arabnews.com/node/2591571/middle-east
12,000 Palestinians displaced from West Bank camp amid Israeli assault, 40 residential buildings, 300 shops demolished in Tulkarem https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/12-000-palestinians-displaced-from-west-bank-camp-amid-israeli-assault/3492930
Tel Aviv bus bombings: False flag or Netanyahu’s luck?
On Thursday night, three explosive devices detonated on buses in Tel Aviv, causing chaos and a public frenzy. While the issue has been weaponized by the Israeli government to expand its ongoing assault on the West Bank, no group has claimed responsibility. A senior Hamas official has informed The Cradle of their suspicions that the event could have been a false-flag attack. https://thecradle.co/articles/tel-aviv-bus-bombings-false-flag-or-netanyahus-luckThere is no evidence Hamas killed members of the Bibas family. Israel is using their death to manufacture consent for genocide.
Israel claims Hamas killed two children in the Bibas family but has not offered any evidence. Their death has become another piece of atrocity propaganda Israel is using to justify genocide in Gaza. https://mondoweiss.net/2025/02/there-is-no-evidence-hamas-killed-members-of-the-bibas-family-israel-is-using-their-death-to-manufacture-consent-for-genocide/February 27, 2025 at 1:14 pm #183098John Day
ParticipantNetanyahu says Israeli army to stay in Syria buffer zone ‘indefinitely’
Netanyahu says Israeli army to continue to occupy several outposts in southern Lebanon https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/netanyahu-says-israeli-army-to-stay-in-syria-buffer-zone-indefinitely-/3490981Israeli aircraft launch intense strikes on Syria, amid ground advance
Israeli aerial aggression on Syria targeted multiple provinces as troops draw close to the capital. https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/israeli-aircraft-launch-intense-strikes-on-syria–amid-grounSituation in Syria remains difficult amid dangerous calls for separatism — Lavrov
“Syria’s territorial integrity is crucial and any attempts to push some regions of the country towards separatism, which we have seen in recent years, are absolutely unacceptable and highly dangerous,” the top Russian diplomat said. https://tass.com/politics/1918841Iran rejects talks with US to avoid Ukraine’s situation — Iranian expert
According to Mohammad-Javad Larijani, Iran’s goal is to reduce the influence of sanctions to the point that Washington itself realizes how useless they are Tehran has refused to hold talks with Washington because it does not want the US to enforce its conditions, like what is now happening with Ukraine https://tass.com/world/1918763Iranian Nuke Sites On “High Alert” For Stealth Jet Attacks; Enriched Uranium Stockpiles Near Level For Bomb https://www.zerohedge.com/military/iranian-nuke-sites-high-alert-stealth-jet-attacks-enriched-uranium-stockpiles-near-level
February 27, 2025 at 1:15 pm #183099John Day
ParticipantCampus Police Are Using Israeli Spy Tech to Crack Down on Student Protest
In the early days of his presidency, Donald Trump announced he would be “fighting anti-Semitism” on college campuses by prosecuting and revoking visas for certain students deemed to be “Hamas sympathizers.” … Because participation in pro-Palestine movements is often equated with antisemitism, advocates and journalists like Etan Nechin, a correspondent from Haaretz, were quick to identify this as a move from “a textbook authoritarian playbook meant to stifle any criticism of what’s going on in Israel.”…
..One of the nation’s largest public universities, the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), has taken a particularly aggressive approach to targeting activists. It’s currently pursuing felony mob-action charges against encampment demonstrators, using evidence from license plate readers and monitoring social media posts. https://scheerpost.com/2025/02/25/campus-police-are-using-israeli-spy-tech-to-crack-down-on-student-protest/Trump Revokes Venezuela Oil License After Maduro Failed To Take Enough Migrants Back https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/trump-revokes-venezuela-oil-license-after-failing-receive-enough-migrants-back
Paging Franz Kafka (at least click through it) : Trump Shares Bizarre AI Video Of Future Gaza: ‘No More Tunnels, No More Fear’ https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/trump-shares-bizarre-ai-video-future-gaza-no-more-tunnels-no-more-fear
The Party Is Over, Jeffry Tucker
Something dramatic has hit Washington. It’s about more than Trump.
The party now in control of the US executive branch is a third party built out of the corpses of two existing parties. It goes by the name Republican but this is nearly a historical accident. The GOP was a vessel that was least protected against invasion and occupation. It has now been nearly taken over by outsiders who had little or no influence within the party a decade ago.
Nearly all the top people now in power – including Trump of course but also Musk, Gabbard, Kennedy, Lutnick, and so many more, to say nothing of the voters themselves – are refugees from the Democratic Party. https://www.zerohedge.com/political/party-overAnti-Trump FBI Official Leaked Sensitive Investigative Info, Emailed Nude Photo Of Girlfriend https://www.zerohedge.com/political/anti-trump-fbi-official-leaked-sensitive-investigative-info-emailed-nude-photo-girlfriend
February 27, 2025 at 1:16 pm #183100John Day
ParticipantJim Kunstler, No Way Out
“The job of the president, goes the message from all the insiders, is to PRETEND to be in charge but not actually do anything meaningful.” —Jeffrey Tucker
You’re supposed to go boo-hoo because the Department of Justice is under new management. Now get this: since 2015 the Department of Justice and its step-child, the FBI, have devoted their vast and savage powers to manifold acts of sedition, treason, malicious political prosecution, obstruction of justice, suborning perjuries, and countless other abuses of law in an ever-widening gyre of ass-covering operations as year-by-year their crimes multiplied.
RussiaGate was initially a cover-up op for the Clintons’ many acts of mischief and moneygrubbing when Hillary ran for President, just as the Mueller Special Counsel Investigation was a cover-up for the crimes committed by the DOJ and FBI after Hillary lost to Mr. Trump…
..The Democratic Party was the political enabling partner in all this sedition and treason and it is hard to see how it comes out of this alive. Expect to see a lemming stampede of resignations out of Congress and the Senate. And some of them, like Sen. Adam Schiff, and Rep. Eric Swalwell could end up in prison. You saw the fear in their public antics the past two weeks as the cabinet confirmations mounted. They know what’s coming. They are desperate, but the power they once wielded is now in other hands. There’s no way out. https://www.kunstler.com/p/no-way-out-346Tulsi the prude? 😉 They’re Fired: 100 Intelligence Officials In Sick Chat Group ‘Terminated And Their Security Clearances Revoked’ https://www.zerohedge.com/political/sex-castration-butthole-zapping-nsa-cia-confirm-secret-kink-chat-room-after-chris-rufo
Who Killed Seth Rich and Was He the Source of DNC Emails to WikiLeaks? It’s time to know.
Since 2016, those interested in Seth Rich’s murder have wanted to get the information and evidence behind his murder. The corrupt FBI won’t provide evidence surrounding the case, lies, and takes actions to bury it forever. https://joehoft.com/reminder-its-time-to-uncover-who-killed-seth-rich-the-alleged-source-of-dnc-emails-released-by-wikileaks/USAID Sent Millions To Ukraine In Secret Slush Funds, Investigators Found https://www.zerohedge.com/political/usaid-sent-millions-ukraine-secret-slush-funds-investigators-found
Rep. Jim Jordan: Obama IRS Targeted Conservatives, Biden IRS Leaked Taxpayer Data https://amgreatness.com/2025/02/25/rep-jim-jordan-obama-irs-targeted-conservatives-biden-irs-leaked-taxpayer-data/
February 27, 2025 at 1:16 pm #183101John Day
ParticipantMusk Effect: Real-Time DC Traffic Data Shows “We’ve Returned To Office” https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/musk-effect-real-time-dc-traffic-data-shows-weve-returned-office
We’ll hear a lot more about this: Texas Rancher Killed Near Border In IED Attack By Cartel Terrorist https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/texas-rancher-killed-border-ied-attack-cartel-terrorist
Paul Craig Roberts, President Trump’s idea of replacing the income tax with tariffs is sound and a great advancement in the restoration of freedom https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2025/02/24/president-trumps-idea-of-replacing-the-income-tax-with-tariffs-is-sound-and-a-great-advancement-for-the-restoration-of-freedom/
There is no “happiness” possible, is there? China welcomes its new ‘AI civil servants’, but not everyone is happy
As Chinese local governments jump onto the DeepSeek bandwagon, not all public servants are pleased with their AI colleagues https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3299432/china-welcomes-its-new-ai-civil-servants-not-everyone-happyThousands of Canadians sign petition to revoke Elon Musk’s citizenship
More than 52,100 signatures support petition urging Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to revoke Musk’s dual citizenship, passport https://www.yenisafak.com/en/news/thousands-of-canadians-sign-petition-to-revoke-elon-musks-citizenship-3698839February 27, 2025 at 1:17 pm #183102John Day
ParticipantOops… Republican Congressman and former Navy SEAL Dan Crenshaw was apparently caught on a hot mic threatening to kill former Fox News host Tucker Carlson.
The Texas representative had just finished giving an interview with conservative British news channel GB News when reporter Steven Edginton asked him if he had ever met the former Fox host.
Crenshaw then seemed to admit he had not met Carlson in person, but then said, ‘If I ever meet him, I’ll f***ing kill him.’ https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14432397/Dan-Crenshaw-threaten-kill-Tucker-Carlson-Ukraine.htmlEPSTEIN FILES TOMORROW: AG Pam Bondi Announces Thursday Release As 250 Victim Names Redacted https://www.zerohedge.com/political/epstein-files-tomorrow-ag-pam-bondi-announces-thursday-release-250-victim-names-redacted
Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, and Canada are Euthanizing Patients to Harvest Their Organs https://www.lifenews.com/2025/02/25/netherlands-belgium-spain-and-canada-are-euthanizing-patients-to-harvest-their-organs/
I sure never took ’em before: Ivermectin, Hydroxychloroquine Use Soared During COVID-19 Pandemic, Study Says https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/ivermectin-hydroxychloroquine-use-soared-during-covid-19-pandemic-study-says
Mom-of-two, 34, undergoes a dozen surgeries to replace her dying bones- which doctors link to the Covid vaccine https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-14431857/Mom-surgeries-dying-bones-doctor-links-Covid-vaccine.html
February 27, 2025 at 1:18 pm #183103John Day
ParticipantLatest Measles Outbreaks a Result of Failed Vaccines — Not Failure to Vaccinate
As measles outbreaks continue to surface, the mainstream media is pointing the blame at HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s “anti-vaccine rhetoric.” But measles outbreaks have repeatedly occurred in communities exceeding 95% vaccine coverage, proving the vaccine itself does not provide durable immunity. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/latest-measles-outbreaks-result-failed-vaccines-not-failure-to-vaccinate/BREAKING: HHS Rightfully Halts BARDA-Funded Oral COVID-19 Viral Vector Vaccine Trial
Pausing the trial was a necessary decision given its flawed study design, lack of a placebo group, and dangerous mechanism of action. https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/breaking-hhs-rightfully-halts-barda?r=e3v24How to Address the Autism Epidemic, Two Key Targets: Childhood Hyper-Vaccination and Toxic Pesticide Exposure https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/how-to-address-the-autism-epidemic
RFK Jr.: HHS Will Investigate All Possible Causes of Chronic Disease — Including Vaccines
In his first address to his staff, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pledged to subject potential causes of chronic disease — even the controversial ones — to “unbiased scientific investigation.” https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/rfk-jr-health-secretary-hhs-investigate-chronic-disease-all-causes/Peter McCullough MD, RSV Vaccines Pfizer Abrysvo and GSK Arexvy Slapped with FDA Warning on Guillain-Barré syndrome
Adult Vaccine for Mild Upper Respiratory Infection Becomes Even Less Compelling https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/rsv-vaccines-pfizer-abrysvo-and-gskFebruary 27, 2025 at 1:18 pm #183104John Day
ParticipantPfizer CEO: Vaccine Makers Need Liability Shield to Protect Against People Who Claim ‘Accident in a Car Happened Because of a Vaccine’
Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla defended the law protecting vaccine makers from liability for vaccine injury, telling CNBC in an interview Tuesday that in a system where “litigations flourish, anyone can create a demand that the accident in a car happened because of a vaccine.” (What’s he know?) https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/pfizer-ceo-albert-bourla-big-pharma-liability-shield-false-claims/I think you already knew. I did. First Peer-Reviewed Risk Stratification Protocol for Future Cardiac Arrest after COVID-19 Vaccination
Important step reveals hidden risk of cardiac arrest among vaccinated. https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/breaking-publicationfirst-peer-reviewedSasha Latypova, Open Letter to the HHS Secretary, RFK Jr. PREP Act emergency declaration must be terminated. https://sashalatypova.substack.com/p/open-letter-to-the-hhs-secretary
February 27, 2025 at 1:19 pm #183105Dr. D
Participant“”What The Actual F**k”: WaPo Opinion Editor Resigns, Reporters Melt Down After Jeff Bezos Makes Hard Pivot Towards “Personal Liberties & Free Markets”
Soooo…being an American? Following the law? Well, yes, of course. Because they are all, to a man, communists, and anti-American. They have radically different values. The value of leaving people alone is garlic and holy water to them.
“Putin Says Trump’s Proposal To Halve Military Spending Is A ‘Good Idea’
Just as fascists always cut government from 12,000 to 200, they also always halve their militaries.
“Zelensky To Visit White House But Minerals Deal Still Up In The Air: ‘Framework, Not A Deal’
“This is sweeping enough that it could easily qualify as a Treaty requiring Senate Ratification but don’t hold your breath.” Yeah, that would be the law.Following others, WHY did Starmer et co go nuts when Trump called him an unelected dictator? A: BECAUSE LEGALLY HE COULDN’T SIGN AWAY UKRAINE TO LONDON. Trump is trolling him, and getting equal “collateral” to Starmer’s. That may be why the numbers keep rising. Either Ukr sold to the $500B – half a trillion folks – level, or Trump keeps raising to the point where Europe pukes. Where they have a bank run for loss of collateral.
Apparently among the sieve of no-one-tracking-anything, there’s a couple billion from USAID also gone there.
Now: that “We” own a trillion there, do “We” send soldiers to protect it and what does Russia think of that? Are we on a side agreement to do so? Or is it an affront that they’ll UN veto?
In other news, Sargon points out – as he’s writing whole books ancillary to philosophy on that – that EUROPE, their new plan, people, are TECHNOCRATS. Technocratic Elite. AI people. Right? Starmer isn’t a PM, he’s a middle manager. There ARE no “leaders” there, they are a hive mind, yada ya, we all know. And?
And TRUMP IS NOT. He’s a Human leader He doesn’t follow pre-arranged AI flow logic charts. That’s why they hate him. That’s why he and Putin are “insane”, “unhinged” “maniacs”. That’s why they can’t understand meeting with Kim Jong and having a peace in 3 hours. It can’t be PREDICTED. It’s not in “The Plan”.
They can’t stop it. And it works better. Which is what will happen with AI elsewhere. It took them 4 years, or 40 years to very carefully Jenga-assemble this teetering tower of happenstance. Then Trump walks in and can wreck all their work in four days. Macron, he thinks he’s a Trump, he’s Jupiter, Napoleon, he can ACT, imitate, great men. …But he isn’t. They aren’t. Not one of them. They are LITTLE Men. They aren’t smart or powerful. And they KNOW it. That’s what drives them crazy. That’s why they Hate.
Every morning they get up, exert themselves to the ragged LIMITS to make this utopia of their God of Light, and every day, something happens. Some vote happens in Romania, some Mayor in NY, some leaker in Langley, some MAN in office – and completely ruins everything.
Then every morning, like Sisyphus, they have to get up and do it all over again.
Well, that’s what happens when you work against the Tao, the Way, the #Logos, human nature, and all physics. I hear there are even books in 1860 telling them so in great detail. But if they weren’t insane, didn’t think man were stronger than God himself, they wouldn’t be “Them”, would they?
“Nvidia Blows Away Expectations As It Sells “Billions” Of Blackwell Chips, Stock Goes Nowhere
Bear market: Market now ignores all good news. This is the same in a bull market: market ignores all bad news. As Armstrong says, it’s “Sentiment”. Expectations. Crypto is also “Tech” these days, so “risk on” “Tech” is all it trades on. Way down, at the 200DMA.
“President Trump Vows to Restore Election Integrity, Pushes for Paper Ballots & Voter ID”
Left keeps trying to get traction with “Elon stole the election! He owns the whole internet!” Cool conspiracy theory bro. Show me. If so, why has Kamala done literally nothing, then or ever? Did she file cases in 20 states and try to sue/harangue the USSC into action? Nope.
So that’s what all dictators do, change all the rules to try to have the most honest elections.
Bongino: Just like Sargon’s “Reap the Whirlwind” video. We don’t care what you think. Nothing you do matters to us anymore. There are no “Magic Words” you can say “Racist, racist, racist” on Google and get back “Trump”. The rules are going to be followed whether you resist or obey, whether you speak or are silent.
…Just as they should and must be, actually. That’s what we all said back when this started: What happens if you let Alex go for rape just because “he had a tough childhood.” “Frankly, I don’t care, Margaret.” If we can just make exceptions to rules, there are no rules. That’s just how reality works. To give exceptions and understanding is the female part, and we do that. Maybe we shouldn’t, but we do. But to uphold the letter of the rules, so there ARE rules at all, is the Male part. So now I’m the bad guy.
“it would be the biggest wealth transfer from the middle class to the elites in history.”
That’s only HALF. The other half is the doubling of inflation that sent the Poor to certain ruin, while the rich protect themselves and get that wealth transfer too.
“It’s been a busy first 5 weeks of the Trump team. But every single day it feels again like we are just beginning.”
Yeah, why does Trump move so slowly? What’s he waiting for? We don’t even have any arrests yet that are public.
“Let Europe take care of Europe. Problem is, it can’t. It’s pretty much broke, and it’s hopelessly divided. “
Remember I quoted the Duran on this. Obviously I mention that they don’t wanna PAY, but take 1 month summer vacations with free health care while we die for them. I would too, sounds great! But the OTHER part he said, is that the U.S. “Being under the U.S. control” gives ORDER to Europe. It’s what STRUCTURES them. Worse or as bad as anything is if the U.S. leaves, then what? Germany runs things? No one’s having that. Then what? France-Germany? England? Yeah now it all reappears again.
Suppose they match Russia – which itself isn’t true. Even so, Russia will be United, and Europe divided. That’s why they need to get in there and make 20 Estonias all murdering each other for ethnics hates that don’t exist and would be invented by MI6. …Like Ukraine was. …And Estonia, actually.
“• US Relations With Russia Promise Rollback To Pre-Gorbachev Period (Krutikov)
I don’t know. I don’t see how that tenable. Europe is trying to kill us for generations, we need to withdraw to Greenland and the Arctic Defense line.
Europe Fears U.S. Withdrawl!”Just two seconds ago you all were total victims of the U.S. and occupied territory, Yankee go home. Make up your mind. Two seconds ago you were all total peaceniks against all war except the big bad U.S. made you. A minute later you’re going to invade all Russia.
“Smolenskaya Square negotiations in Riyadh are underway not only around the Ukrainian issue, but also about the normalization or, if you want, reformatting of bilateral relations. This is not a “conference on Ukraine,”
Ding ding ding! Doomberg nails this one. Ze isn’t there because they’re not talking about Ukraine at all. They’re talking about the next 80 years. This is the POST WWII order. The “Post” order is created on a footstool of completely false psychological myths. Holocaust being one of them. Like 60M died, but only 6M important ones, you see. Five Times more Russians, but we all know who the real victim is here. The Slavs deserved it, they’re not real people anyway.
Other myths: That London wasn’t behind the whole thing. As seen with their FAKE support of Poland. “Oh don’t worry Poland, England’s got your back”. …Just like now. That the U.S. was in the war at all. That we didn’t only just start when it looked like Russia would take Europe instead of the EU – oops, I mean the Reich. That we didn’t genocide 500,000 Germans after occupation for the lols. That Churchill would approve as he just got back from genociding millions in India. There are many more.
Here’s the thing I’ve learned: THEY KNOW THIS. When they say Ze is Churchill, they know well that Churchill isn’t Churchill, he’s a P.R. fabrication from the last go-round. So After a war, when you break the last “Story” the “Myth” they then plan, execute, and work diligently to create the NEW Myth. Because they are like background parameters on human consciousness which are Meta-Realities, that telegraph up. Are women good or bad? Are men good or bad? Are borders good or evil? And so on. Living in an environment, like the Middle Ages, everything is ordinary and taken for granted. But if you break enough stuff you can insert new math and programming parameters.
…Mindless Technocrats like Starmer think, building new machine models of humankind. Their Alien Ant Farm.
““That the U.S. would in essence leave Europe to their own delusions would be a calamitous event for the Brussels technocracy.”
• America as Republic, not as Empire (Alastair Crooke)That’s odd, why is everyone, especially the Left, the mostest madest about ending Empire? I thought they hated Empire.
George Bush: bestest friend ever now. Cheney, new Party leader.
“• US To Impose Blanket 25% Tariffs On EU – Trump (RT))
Is he though? Do they want to add he’s only matching tariffs? And I still haven’t investigated where he gets the authority, no one’s mentioned it yet, taking it for granted. My hazy memory is that he can “Negotiate Trade” and they allow a window for that sort of thing, just as like “30 days” (none of this is written law) to do military actions before he needs authorization for war. …Which at this point they don’t do and haven’t done in generations. Point being: sure, but it will need to be passed by Congress sometime, right? …Okay, then if he doesn’t who will stop him? A: Same Congress to impeach him that allowed it to begin with. Oh.
“• US Can No Longer Subsidize NATO – Rubio (RT)The whole PURPOSE was to bankrupt the United States. That’s also why the same set report only bad things, civil war, the U.S. is clown world, we’re going to break up, all that.
“Earlier this week, the EU adopted its 16th package of restrictions, largely targeting Russia’s military-industrial complex and energy projects. It also introduced additional measures against alleged sanctions circumvention,”
So, they’re sanctioning Russia while monthly increasing their gas and oil purchases. Got it. Also “Germany is going independent”, embargoing the U.S. …Which is their only OTHER source of high-priced LNG. Nice! You guys are tactical geniuses.
“The EU is seeking to derail the Ukraine peace process by pushing the country to continue fighting against Russia,”
That’s ridiculous. No one like Boris Johnson would scuttle a signed deal and kill another million men. I’m hearing it reported as 2M, which might be high, but who can know?
“Angelina Jolie is even reported to have been paid 20 million dollars to meet with him..”
• Zelensky Now With Only The Dictatorship In London To Support Him (Jay)Sure! T’ain’t their money! Spend all you want, like Disney, Bud. It was all USAID money from the US Treasury and taxpayers. Not a single Briton was harmed in the making of this collapse.
“in particular the UK, where its leader Sir Keir Starmer declared that he would be ready to send British troops to Ukraine – a suggestion which was quickly shot down by the elites of Germany and France as preposterous.”
That is, even the rest of Europe thinks he’s insane, mentally ill, deranged, deluded maniac. But what’s he going to do? After 400 years, it’s STARMER and these guys personally that collapsed, bankrupt and end Britain. Nothing matters now. There’s no gambit not worth making, ESPECIALLY nuclear war. And their mini-me, Israel.
“• Ukraine Should Get As Much Land ‘As Possible’ – Trump (RT)
All this is side-dressing. There’s no reason Russia would do anything. They’re winning and can take it all, everything they wanted, WHEN they wanted, HOW they want it. …JUST LIKE I AND WE ALL SAID, the day it started, 3 years go. Jimmy Dore, rolling out of bed off a drunk at 12:01pm, high as a kite on reefer could tell and said so. So he’s STILL smarter than Olaf, Ursula, Keir. What the U.S. is arranging, at Russia’s pleasure, is how Trump WON’T solve this problem and why that’s not his fault. I bet.
If Europe takes the bait, there you go. We’re off the hook, it’s all Europe’s fault. We even “Arranged and signed a peace treaty” which Europe ignored. Again.
“It’s the second time a judge has found the Trump administration did not follow a court order.”Oh no! Well I’m sure glad no other administration has ever ignored a court order. Like giving a trillion in Student debt after the Supreme Court said no.
“Europe is full of highly unpopular “leaders”. Who target the few that are actually loved.”
Zelensky curse. See the whole Rogue’s Gallery at Munich? Yes, all of them are sub 30% or aren’t elected at all. Georgescu and Orban are, so they erase their elections, “’cause we feel like it.” Vance reminds them this is not democratic, they censor him.
““risk creating a group of disgruntled former employees who might be motivated to take what they know to a foreign intelligence service.” “I am curious about how they think this is a good tactic to keep their job,” Gabbard said.
They don’t care. There have never been consequences once since they were five, so they have no idea what that’s like and will be super-mad about it. Hitler. Hey, is doing what they suggest “Treason”? And is suggesting it “Extortion”? Asking for a friend.
“a source inside the FBI says the Bureau is destroying evidence.”
The internet is forever. Pretty sure they’ve thought of this before now. What they’re doing – like Bondi, I hope – is to MAKE them shred evidence. That’ll make their conviction in court a slam dunk. “Oh so you were totally innocent of everything and believed it was all legal so then you shredded all the documents in violation of all Federal Law?” “Yes, your honor.” Uh-huh. But since 90% of the government are felons, sadly you probably can’t catch everyone and few their shredding will work.
BTW, check me on everything now, I’m way past my design parameters for taking information. I can only skim things and barely process them, and that’s with half the things out there being dead-false, like the Canada comment and I think the Gaza video was random AI. So I can far too easily make major mistakes right now.
Vax: I think I had another family member go down from it. You can’t really ask and how would you prove it? Now is not the time. They had free will.
February 27, 2025 at 1:48 pm #183106Dr. D
Participant“Who Killed Seth Rich and Was He the Source of DNC Emails to WikiLeaks? It’s time to know.”
Yes. Why? WHY IS THE FBI RUNNING A 3rd RATE D.C. MUGGING? The fact they exist and it’s not a D.C. beat cop proves it to me.
…And then his family was forced to have the DNC’s highest-priced lawyers ever. ‘Cause, 3rd rate assistant to the manager, deskside IT guy everywhere in America always gets that.
“Pfizer CEO: Vaccine Makers Need Liability Shield to Protect Against People Who Claim ‘Accident in a Car Happened Because of a Vaccine’”Huh? Nobody else needs this, not even car companies. So what you’re saying is, again, you’re aware that if you aren’t covered, so much harm has been done it’ll bankrupt you. Go on….Do tell. I’m all ears.
February 27, 2025 at 2:04 pm #183107zerosum
ParticipantSIMPLIFIED COMPLEXITIES
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What is going on?The newly confirmed head of the Office of Budget Management (OBM), Russ Vought, says his Office will become the “on/off switch” for all Executive expenditure under the new Executive Orders.
Elon Musk at the Cabinet meeting:
DOGE helping fix the government computer systems.”
“So this is it’s really there is just a support function, for the president and for the agencies and departments, to help achieve those savings.
And to effect effectively find 15%, in reduction in fraud and waste.
And we bring the receipts.
So people say, like, well, is this real?Just go to http://doge.gov.”
See more
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Tariffs.
He has also directed Howard Lutnick, his nominee for US trade representative and commerce secretary, to propose new levies on a country-by-country basis by April 1 in a bid to rebalance trade.
————Normalise relations with Russia.
NATO expansion have posed a threat to the Russian Federation.
No one feels safe right now, and the source of these worries was and remains NATO as an outdated and decaying system.
Stem from the expansion of NATO to the east.Europeans to “defend themselves on their own” — for example, to increase their own military spending and bring their armies to a combat-ready state.
The United States is preparing to withdraw troops from Europe.
U.S. troops in Europe are not ‘forever’
More precisely, from those bases and positions which appeared there after the expansion of NATO to the east.
“According to our information, we are talking about the Russian president’s demand for 2021, that is, the withdrawal of American troops from all NATO countries that joined the alliance after 1990.,
————• AG Pam Bondi Announces Thursday Release of Epstein Files (ZH)
Watters asked. “What you’re going to see, hopefully tomorrow, is a lot of flight logs, a lot of names, a lot of information… it’s pretty sick what that man did,” Bondi continued.
February 27, 2025 at 2:54 pm #183108jb-hb
ParticipantThe wife is a good barometer of normie-land. I got a reading on the WaPo changes last night
“Did you hear what Jeff Bezos DID?”
“Yeah, he said the paper was going to be positive on Free Markets and Liberty”
“He ended free speech”
“No, he only said the paper was going to be positive about Free Markets and Liberty”
“No, no. It was a thing about the Editorials. People used to be able to speak their minds but now he’s going to control what people say”
“No, he only said the paper was going to be positive about Free Markets and Liberty”
“He said he’s going to only let people say a few, controlled, limited things in the Editorials”
“No, he only said the paper was going to be positive about Free Markets and Liberty everyday – I READ HIS FULL STATEMENT, THE ONE WE ARE DISCUSSING, MYSELF, TODAY”
Does silence at the end of such a discussion mean
A. Oh, Bezos literally, verbatim, only said they’d say something positive about Free Markets and Liberty every day.
B. There’s no talking with these ignorant folk
Unclear.
February 27, 2025 at 2:56 pm #183109kultsommer
ParticipantTrump Gaza VIDEO with bearded belly dancers sparks outcry
Actually, not really!
The thing is that we got hypnotized with the “revolution” and “so much winning” at home that other “stupid countries” can not go without spilling the buckets of blood.
How is it that what was “granite impenetrable wall” that cost a lives of a sitting and aspiring president who tried to touch it is NOW sliced through just “like that” (fingers snap)?Note how we are “somewhat outraged” and not O-U-T-R-A-G-E-D by the Bibi’s smug visit as the first foreign head of the State, scolding of the EU and Zelensky but not Israel while flow of arms and aid to it is unabated and absolutely insane Trump’s proposal for the Gaza!?!?
Strategic “cease of fire”, that apparently “applies” to Gaza only, allows the shits to go-all in for expulsion of Palestinians in the West Bank and expanding the footprint beyond Isr-current border since they sense that that they are shielded by the, again, “so much winning” by the T-admin.February 27, 2025 at 3:12 pm #183110jb-hb
ParticipantPalestinians, scientifically revealed, via genetic mapping to be the original Jews, God’s chosen people, still there living in the land God promised to them. Conversion to Islam just made good business sense back in 800AD. But the whole old testament is a tale of the Jews forsaking God, straying, coming back after suffering.
Why don’t the Jews want to bring back their straying kindred? Could trillions of US dollars have been spent on outreach, bringing these Jews back to the Jewish fold instead of bombing them? Right of return? Millions of ancestral jews right there, waiting for you to return them? Genetically Jewish people have no right to return to the ground they’re standing on?
What could they have done with trillions of dollars over more than half a century if it had been spent on conversion rather than bombs? have they NEVER played a single game of Sid Meir’s Civilization???
You don’t even have to give them a plane ride or work on any kind of force projection to reach them – they’re already RIGHT THERE. Then you get the land AND millions of new citizens. Dumb dumb dumb.
February 27, 2025 at 3:50 pm #183111jb-hb
ParticipantLike, when Moses came down from the mountain with the Ten Commandments and found the Jewish people worshiping a golden calf, first thing God did, of course, was:
Summon a bunch of Scythian converts to Judiasm to get money from Etruscan “aid” to buy Hittite swords and then slaughter all God’s Chosen People so God can start over with a clean slate using Scythians?
Or does God historically grip his head, “Guys. Fuck. He wasn’t even up on the mountain for that long. Do you have ZERO impulse control?!?!” …and then soldier on with these same idiots. God has troubles too, you know – THESE are his stupid assholes.
“Ah fuck. Why did I have to choose THESE specific people? Now I’m stuck with them. Why the hell could I not have gone with everyone is chosen, then I could have mixed, matched, eliminated, replaced with total expediency. But it’s this. THESE morons.” Sigh. Grabs whatever God uses for a Xanex.
February 27, 2025 at 3:58 pm #183112zerosum
ParticipantAccording to CNN, and the Democrats, the path to PEACE involves “selling out to Putin”
February 27, 2025 at 4:20 pm #183113Noirette
ParticipantThanks to Ilargi for posting the relevant shorts of Trumpy and so on.
About the ‘deal’ – some links in prev. thread from zerosum, I read this one:
BILATERAL AGREEMENT ESTABLISHING TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR A RECONSTRUCTION INVESTMENT FUND. Full text, 26 Feb 2025.
https://www.eurointegration.com.ua/eng/articles/2025/02/26/7205922/
Basically a vague, yet to be fleshed out, bi-lateral position paper, it specifies very little. It is not a ‘Memorandum of Understanding’, which has to be more specific, and more binding. Signed only by UKR Econo. Min. and US Scott Bessent.
As moving forward to stop a war, re-build, that is positive, say. Neither party will be constrained by any of the terms, as is to be expected in this situation.
The agreement is not only about ‘minerals’ (I posted previous this focus made no sense) though it seems Trumpy likes to boast about being paid back or some such. It is a partnership agreement between the US – UKR, and the setting up of a **Reconstruction Fund**, controlled by, let’s coin, USukr. (I used to refer to USuk-isr, now outdated..)
An exclusivity clause:
Neither Participant will sell, transfer or otherwise dispose of, directly or indirectly, any portion of its interest in the Fund without the prior written consent of the other Participant.
That doesn’t mean others e.g. Russia can’t join.
The core:
The Government of Ukraine will contribute to the Fund 50 percent of all revenues earned from the future monetization of all relevant Ukrainian Government-owned natural resource assets (whether owned directly or indirectly by the Ukrainian Government), defined as deposits of minerals, hydrocarbons, oil, natural gas, and other extractable materials, and other infrastructure relevant to natural resource assets (such as liquified natural gas terminals and port infrastructure) as agreed by both Participants, as may be further described in the Fund Agreement.
So the Q. is how this Fund works, Post Peace. What will The Fund control, do, use its revenues for, etc. If it holds….
February 27, 2025 at 4:43 pm #183114Dr D Rich
ParticipantDo y’all read what you post?
Simplicius or in other words an apologist that rationalizes on behalf of inept psychopaths but possession is 9/10ths of Hitler.
There’s Hitler again, but no “Jew” again. What’s the implication? Thought (((they))) owned Him until time immemorial.Neither Trump nor Rubio will ever spell or understand epistemic or loggerheads. So why engage in the projection? Becoz that what he do.
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kind of epistemic loggerheads when it comes to the order with which the conflict must come to an end.
Jesus, while ppl die.
Forme fruste antisocial personality disorder.
Tone deaf.
Can’t even pretend empathy to the human cost.And Simpli tries to intellectualize it, them, Trump’s and Rubio’s behavior, two guys who posses brainpower on par with a howling wilderness between both ears. And my white bro Ukrainians will suffer the same fate as Pinoys and Pinays over 100 years ago in the Philippines.
These guy’s acquisitiveness for Spoils of War make Dick deadeye Cheney and Condoleeza cunnilingus Rice look like amateurs by comparison while completely ignoring one of the two parties to the part of the war, Iraq for Rice/Cheney and The Ukraine for Trump/Rubio.
And not a hint of valid public emotions on their mugs as those ghouls divide up another country.
How’s that for associations?
Simpli simply isn’t finished.
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How to reconcile these antipodal positions?……..others from their camp hold the position that the conflict must be brought to a ceasefire first, and only then would the higher order normalizations and negotiations between the US and Russia take place. In short, the Trump administration is putting the cart before the horse in its impatience to put some big win on the scoreboard
Yeah….antipodal.
Christ, when I think of disagreements (((are there?))) amongst Tulsi n Trump n Bessent? n Hegseth n Rubio n The Titan Vance I imagine the first word that enters their mind is antipodalHitler!
February 27, 2025 at 5:08 pm #183115jb-hb
ParticipantAbout the Trump-Gaza concern trolling
What, that would NOT put you in a padded cell in a straight jacket for a dissociative schizophrenic condition, made you EVER think that, after over a half century of being dominated by Israeli interests, that someone could shut off Israeli influence on US foreign policy in the first 5 weeks of a new presidency?
When the elected representatives demonstrably — new information currently showing how MORE horrifyingly completely than we ever imagined, in new detail — NO CONTROL by the people, not only of the government, but a parallel unelected “NGO” government TRILLIONS of dollars in size.
Having just discovered its POSSIBLE extent and still plumbing its depths in the first 5 weeks. Just starting to get an inkling of what it will take to return decision-making to the American people – or at least to more rational, ostensibly accountable actors.
It will be VERY imaginably the work of many years to get to the point where Israeli influence could be purged. It appears to be QUITE possible that a deal was made with Israel to help counterbalance other forces to make all the current reform attempts even POSSIBLE. Without a deal and Mossad help, maybe there is no Trump election, no DOGE, no change in newspapers to occasionally promoting free markets and liberty.
(Of course, to concern trolls, free markets and liberty are a bad development, but anyway)
The real Churchill wasn’t all that nice. The Bad Guys “get away with it” by making a mythical Churchill that was good.
But by making a mythical Churchill or MLK and setting that up as a touchstone for your society, you get stuck. Now your society wants to fulfill all the values of “Churchill” which are opposed to your own current actions, which, in the past, “Churchill” was a cover for. Now you have a whole society against you on a sound moral basis! Because you shot yourself in the foot with your clever, scheming, “Churchill” lie.
So you need damage control, to send out flying monkeys to sidle up, poke holes in “Churchill” that’s causing you so much trouble, making so much resistance. “Actually, Churchill ….” This is totally, absolutely necessary that demoralization be directed at the previous excuses. Obviously. You created some weird monster of virtue that was bigger than you, got away from you.
Hearing, 5 weeks in, that Gaza is still in trouble — YES bad. I write my representatives telling them STOP GIVING ISRAEL FREE SHIT. Loving Jews and Judaism and Israel with all my heart, cut them off from free shit because it is harmful to them, driving them mad. Zero aid starting yesterday.
But this is typical postmodernist, deconstructionist, CRITICAL THEORY stuff here. We must criticize everything, we must continually do it, to corrode, degrade. It wasn’t PERFECT. Trump isn’t PERFECT, aha! We’ve GOT him! He failed to be perfect!
This demonstrates a failure of imagination. The Narcissist depends on a defensive shell of (fake) perfection, so naturally they imagine its shattering as total destruction. Taking away their defense mechanism would totally destroy THEM, so it surely destroys YOU.
I don’t care, Margaret.
February 27, 2025 at 5:40 pm #183116Dr D Rich
ParticipantMads Palsvig……
…… pissing on The Trump “Blindnessly” Follower Parade
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It never fails to follow
Three steps back (Obama+ Biden wrecking everything)
Reaction in the public is “this is too much” + “we need a hero”.
Two steps forward (Trump comes in to undo some of the wrecking) Thus the people lulls back to sleepPlease note Trump doesn’t do anything that really damages the deep state:
– nationalise the privately owned Federal Reserve – tell the truth about Israel’s involvement in 911 and the murder of President John F Kennedy
– Mossad involvement in Epstein island
– that Israel is behind ISIS and Hamas.
– punish the people who have money laundered in Ukraine and Gaza wars
– punish the child traffickers in Ukraine
– reveal Biden blew up Northstream
– reinstate the 1948 Smith Mundt Act that MSM must speak the truth. Obama removed the Smith Mundt Act in 2012 so MSM may lie.
– that 6 mio jews didn’t die in any holocaust
– that there was no German extermination plan for killing jews
– that there are multiple jewish plans for killing all Germans and white people: Coudenhove-Kalergy, Theodore Kaufman, Henry Morganthau, Louis Nizer, Ernest Hooton
– throw out all the illegal immigrants. He may throw out a million, leaving 19 million inside the US
– prosecute the Covid criminalsTrumps job is to pretend to be fixing everything when as a matter or fact he is just reversing a couple of the crimes against humanity Obama and Biden committed. His job is to ensure that no one gets punished for poisoning the wells (covid), opening the gates, clipping coins (Federal Reserve, usury), instigating wars and the mass rape of white women and trafficking children taking place
February 27, 2025 at 5:52 pm #183117jb-hb
ParticipantAnd yet he publicly espouses American values, creating an incredible amount of additional inertia, society-wide, against evil.
“Churchill” gives every new Churchill an uphill, against-the-wind, through 5 feet of snow slog.
How long is Glass-Steagal? 2 pages??? YES bring it back. Obviously, yes.
But look how far we’ve gotten in 5 weeks. I thought that was IMPOSSIBLE, totally unhoped for. What we already got! It took Russia how many decades to claw back from pure awfulness to even where they are NOW?
I totally agree, one VERY big thing would be to overtly, repeatedly, tell Americans that during the Barack Obama administration, propagandizing YOU became legal
I remember watching the progress of that bill in realtime the night it was passed, getting drunk when it went through, posting to the Tickerforum Bar about it – a lot of people not getting how serious this was going to get as a result.
we have a long, long way to go. They’re doing some of the right things first, aren’t they? USAID, fake people funneling “paychecks” somewhere, trillions in unaccountable waterfalls of cash, 2 billion (or was it 20 billion?!!?!??) slush funds for gay race marxism… it appears that there is SO much to do that a progressive, stage-by-stage program will be required to get anywhere at all.
Are they not prioritizing properly AT ALL? Are they, apparently, prioritizing at least somewhat correctly?
February 27, 2025 at 5:56 pm #183118Dora
ParticipantAbout those “bearded” belly dancers: those are dark face veils, not beards. for example:
https://www.bellydance.com/Mesh-Face-Veil-for-Bellydancer-or-Harem-Costume-ASSORTED.htmlFebruary 27, 2025 at 5:58 pm #183119jb-hb
ParticipantI just want to add, you are RIGHT, I want to see all these things too. I went back and re-read it a few times. Right, right, right… yup. I am on board.
But in the first 5 weeks, look at all the wins.
I know we have a long, long way to go, but it cheers me up.
And years happening in days is like, socialists’ favorite thing. They must be super happy right now too.
February 27, 2025 at 6:06 pm #183120Dr D Rich
ParticipantMinder
He’s a Minder.
Elongated Musk is Trump’s Minder……but for whom does Musk perform this Performative Minding?
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1. A Minder is someone whose job it is to look after children when the children’s parents are away or are at work. Minders usually work in their own home
2. A minder is a person whose job is to protect someone, especially someone famous.
and the President of the United States seems to be increasingly irritated by the presence of his Minder. Yet, Biden needed a Minder but didn’t appear to have one as obvious as a 400billionaire.
February 27, 2025 at 6:11 pm #183121jb-hb
ParticipantFor years, anytime I encountered an online Ayn Randist, I would interject “At least Marx was working the problem!!!!!!!”
Capitalism somehow holds the seeds of its own destruction, turning it progressively to Crony Capitalism and client-based Neo-Feudalism.
Engels, having admitted in the 1800’s that Capitalism does the better job of delivering the goods to the working class, and socialists being so very compassionate to the working class, holding their best interests at heart OF COURSE, it naturally follows that if they see someone ROLLING BACK the anti-working-class Conditions™, that Marx predicted would degrade Capitalism that impact the Working Class™ by lessening the delivering of the goods, they’d be super happy!
The socialists must be SO HAPPY at the past few weeks, at so much winning, so much rolling-back of crony capitalism and client-based feudalism that they are so much against. just cheering and cheering, amirite? We fucking LOVE the working class so fucking much and hate crony capitalism and neufeudalism SO FUCKING MUCH!!!!! SO MUCH WINNING!!!!! (say the socialists, amirite? Wait… you NOT happy for us working class schlubs, bro?)
February 27, 2025 at 6:31 pm #183122Michael Reid
ParticipantFebruary 27, 2025 at 6:48 pm #183123kultsommer
ParticipantXXI century “events” did teach me that everything, not that I love to be a party pooper, needs to be taken with the grain of salt. What is going on is maybe “genuine and organic” but, also, it can serve a “purpose” for the time being.
I am still puzzled as how the “impenetrable granite wall” is coming down so fast.
I may calm down a bit after seeing some familiar higher-end faces wearing an orange attire….
All that T-admin/team is dismantling is the only Humpty Dumpty that can be put back again. Not necessarily fast but it can be “in the name of…..whatever”.February 27, 2025 at 6:54 pm #183124kultsommer
ParticipantFebruary 27, 2025 at 7:49 pm #183125citizenx
ParticipantExcellent documentary, well worth the time to explore.
This film is not just about Covid and vax abuse- it covers historical patterns from History that have merged with the “Great Reset” psychological tools of media for mass control.
– Socialism/ Communism/ Wokeism
– WEF/ A.I. dehumanization
– Collective Globalism/ Totalitarianism
– Individual freedom rights vs Collective group think
– Weaponizing human compassion as tools for control and enslavement
– asexualized unisex/ no gender movement
– Democracy vs Constitutional RepublicThe Chinese Cultural Revolution parallels of cultural destruction we have experienced in the U.S. and ‘collective’ West superbly documented.
Mao wanted to create a ‘genderless’ society…
Sound and look familiar to ‘gender neutral’, ‘gender affirming care’ that children are being indoctrinated with in schools, entertainment and corporate marketing?
multiple viewing options-
or Rumble
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JB-
The wife is a good barometer of normie-land.
I discourage the use of ‘normies’- there is nothing productive or healthy dealing with cult members who have been deeply programmed. They are destructive Leftists, immune to reason, logic and truth. Completely unreasonable, nothing normal about that other than it is all too common.
Does silence at the end of such a discussion mean
A. Oh, Bezos literally, verbatim, only said they’d say something positive about Free Markets and Liberty every day.
B. There’s no talking with these ignorant folk
Unclear.Nothing unclear about it other than it’s difficult to accept and sad to see in one’s we care about.
Sooner or later it will become clearer, because its true.
Looking back at my own denial or unacceptance of what was true, just prolonged the suffering of the inevitable. Truth will set you free, arguing about it not so much.Accept truth, accept fate, be free in body, mind and spirit. That’s my goals.
February 27, 2025 at 7:57 pm #183126WES
ParticipantNoirette:
I believe what Trump is doing with the Ukraine minerals thingy, is to try and reverse the “Europe gave loans while Biden gave grants” legal fiasco by overriding their legal claims to Ukrainian collateral.
London can’t be too happy about loosing it’s Ukrainian assets.
I think that is why Macron suddenly blurted out “No” at presser!February 27, 2025 at 8:58 pm #183127Michael Reid
ParticipantFebruary 27, 2025 at 9:01 pm #183128WES
ParticipantAG Bondi – The great Pretender
So AG Bondi is out on tv everyday managing the public’s perception of the DoJ doing their job.
Controlled limited release of nothingburger on Epstein today.
Expect another controlled nothingburger Friday evening where the news goes to die!
Then nothing will happen.Just don’t expect anybody to be charged or arrested.
Bondi’s job is to pretend to be doing her job while not doing her job! -
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