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    Giorgio de Chirico The Archaeologists 1927   • Durham Found Zero Merit to Trump Russia Claims (CTH) • Durham Report Condemns FBI’s Russia Probe (
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle May 18 2023]

    #135392
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Archdruid has the answer to Cait Johnstone. https://www.ecosophia.net/stumbling-through-the-fog/
    If only she could read it.

    Her question was: Capitalism is a total, worldwide failure because it can’t stop turning the planet into money (roughly), consuming all things. That’s not wrong; it’s just not Capitalism. The Archdruid, on another line, has the answer: re-enchantment. Which is going to happen anyway, so beat the rush. What does that mean? Exactly where we came from, what was Christian originally, or other places, what C.S. Lewis or other people pointed out: the World is alive. For them it’s alive with God, but there are other reasons.

    If “Things” are alive, and trees, rocks, mountains, and all have consciousness, (animism) then they are no less valuable than we are. We have to work out our various living needs. This re-animates the discussion and is not at all in contradiction to Capitalism because they don’t define it or understand it, calling everything “capitalism.” So is there money? Yes. Is there private property? Yes. Is there “capital” investment? Yes. …But there was in Indian tribes too, silly. There is in Shinto too. But this difference is that if the world was alive, you can’t so easily pave it. If people are alive, you can’t so easily kill them, to say nothing of animals and plants.

    So, contrary to JB and my approach this, perhaps we should promote this insane, unscientific superstition where guns get up and walk around, shooting people and things can magically be their opposites almost every day, shape-shifting like warlocks. Then the world is magical, and in a magical world, anything can happen, so you have to be careful.

    Tell them the Plants said they don’t like Brawdo.

    Other thing, delayed on Charles Nenner interview. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Bb-qGfqaFA&pp=ygUOY2hhcmxlcyBuZW5uZXI%3D Rates are now positively turned, rising for 30 years. That’s correct. Gold can’t rise til after May, seems to be true. Non-cycle, they comment in America, “Nobody knows who’s in charge”, as in for confidence and rates. Who’s in charge? Hive Mind. GroupThink. Very clear, you can see it everywhere in everyone. Biden or Fetterman babbles incoherently yesterday (as Congressmen do) insects of the Hive Mind LEAP into action, voluntarily racing to publish “Stunning and brave” stories, translating this babble into something plausible by? …Just making s—t up. THEY are now the President, clearly as THEY now make up for the world, what was said. How do we know? People like them, and White House staffers, correct and reverse the President’s policies, as in Taiwan. It’s Group Think all the way down. That’s “The Memo.” That’s who’s running things, but unfortunately, pre-canned responses are terrible and a certain loss in any contest. Even AI, which is just a different, more complex canning.

    “never to be spared condescension and rebuke. The “why,” in case you haven’t heard,” …Is GroupThink.

    Cramer: “Confident no collapse” Aiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    NY Post:

    “But it’s a Tabloid” – Group Think, coming up with something. Stops thought, they all agree, so problem went away! Since we solved all the problems and things are better than ever, why are there no eggs?

    “The FBI and the Department of Justice were weaponized, and Trump was specifically targeted… It was an operation from beginning to end to fuse political opposition research from the DNC”

    Yes but no one cares. You’re either in Hive Mind or you’re banished to certain death. That’s the life of Alien Ant Farm.

    Patriots: They need a new Patriot Act, what they have is zero production. Saudi, for instance, can’t and won’t buy any because the U.S. won’t commit to produce any. Wow, way to get customers! That said, they’re still outdated and hardly worked even when new. Does no one remember from the Gulf Wars? That happened / didn’t happen? Reality occurs then vanishes back into fantasy again? CNN was caught Green-screening it even 20 years ago, is that why it happened/didn’t happen?

    “NATOs Mission extends to protecting diversity” Aiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiieeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Btw, “diverse” means “all the same” but “with no white people”. I know because I’ve asked. “Diversity means ALL people, right, so that means White people have to be there” (Yes I’m ignoring for argument that nobody knows what that means) A: “No.” “No really, if you have a rainbow, then you have ALL colors, right?” A: “No.”

    Me: “…”

    As this makes literally no social, political, scientific, or logical sense, I have no response for that. I guess we kill them? If that definition is true, how else can we have ‘diversity’ EXCEPT by killing them? …And again, ‘good’ people. Sensible and caring. With an argument we kill people on the basis of skin color, that’s what makes humans innately good or bad.

    “Forget about returning the territories,”

    Brian Berletic said this is impossible, certainly now, but not unless NATO throws everything they have continent-wide at them. Nope, not then either. Their equipment doesn’t work, like the F-16, F-35, and Patriot. Their men can’t, and won’t, fight. And it would immediately escalate and probably go nuclear.
    However, Nenner’s – and Armstrong’s – models have the war starting end of this year escalating to 2027.

    “Mueller’s probe existed in material fact to hide the Obama weaponization to target Donald Trump.”

    And Durham’s did too, as he prosecuted no one. “Stop pretending.” The only “Shock and Awe” is awe that no one can be arrested and shock that no one cares. Like, we don’t throw the waterboy under the bus anymore? Too far?

    “it is not a crime to be unethical or incompetent,”

    It is indeed a crime, or can be. So I guess we know why policemen that kill people, have complaint and rap sheets long as your arm warning them, are never removed before, during, or after their next murder. Meanwhile, for us: “Ignorance of the law is no excuse.” “Intent is not material to whether a crime was committed.” “Some animals (and criminal justice systems) are more equal than others.”

    “those who perpetrated this scandal on the nation are left to carry on making money on books, speeches, TV commentary and lectures about political or electoral ethics….If a 305-page report proves a concerted political hoax but no one is there to read it, does it make a difference?”

    So our choices are: allow it? Or take up arms and level the country from coast to coast? They like both options and we like neither.

    “we’re going to start apparently gonna have to start the whole thing over, so what does that mean to the investigation?”

    It means they’ll foot-drag until we all die of old age, which has been happening 20 years now. We have two choices about it (above)…

    “Problem is, they want the DMZ and still become a NATO member. Russia will not let that happen.”

    …Need I add that NATO law expressly prohibits this? Or does the mention of “law and rules” just make everyone in the West giggle with nervous hysteria?

    And Krill Badenov? Brother to Boris?

    While they are dying, financial institutions are insidiously supporting the consolidation of farmland by oligarchs and Western financial interests.”

    Sounds like Ohio. But then remember, WE are the greatest threat the nation has ever faced. WE are the ones Joe says he is attacking. We know, since we’ve been dying by the ten-thousands for decades, far in excess of Kiev shelling the Donbas. This has the full and enthusiastic approval of the media class. Never saw a genocide they didn’t like. Learn to Code. If you’re to dumb to rent a U-haul…

    “Lavrov: The Minsk agreements were the last attempt at diplomacy”

    Unlike the West, he’s not kidding. This is why they can’t understand him, because he’s telling the truth. Does not compute.

    “Switzerland rejected its neutral status by its actions,” …despite it’s own constitution…or ours. It’s a “Law” a “Rule”, and once we remember that, we do the #Opposite.

    ““..they created huge farms because that was the policy promoted by the government “

    #Helping. Government involved in and central planning everything. Then because ‘government’, they change their mind tomorrow because “it’s all just words’. However, the workers EXECUTING the words, it’s years of hard work and billions of dollars. Why should government care, it’s not THEIR work or dollars. Then another year, new admin, it reverses again, decade after decade. This is why it is essentially prohibited. Do you see a clause in the Constitution about the Government’s right to run the economy? No, but I DO see Amendment 10: “All powers not expressly listed here are strictly prohibited.” No one cares. That’s #Logos. Rules. Limits. We hate that with every fiber of our being.

    “• The Harm Caused by Masks (Anderson)

    Getting to quantify it, so people like me can’t just minimize and dismiss it. It’s not good. I can tell just by wearing one, but that’s not science.

    ““reduced cognitive performance, impaired decision-making and reduced speed”

    Well that would explain Democratic voting, as they continue to wear them today. Kidding?
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    “at this stage the Lancet model is flat on the floor begging for mercy so I will stop here.”

    Yes but no one cares. That is not GroupThink. You are ejected from the Hive.

    ““No currency has been on top more than 150 years.”

    Not even in Rome. Greece ran the confidence first, then Rome, then Egypt and Byzantine. It moved around even in “Rome”.

    “admits to assisting in rounding up of Jews and confiscation of Jewish property.” calling it the happiest time of his life.

    No he didn’t. GroupThink says so this minute. Next minute the opposite. And Jews rounded up other Jews then claim you can’t criticize him because, Jews. Wow. Chutzpah.

    NOAA temps: very moderate here, like back to 25 years ago. “Cold” actually, if you could call it that, and very very moderate in terms of winds, storms…

    I may not have to eat crow on the Sunspots cooling, but it’s been a close call…

    #135393
    John Day
    Participant

    Bobby Kennedy With Krystal Ball https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/bobby-kennedy-with-krystal-ball

    Krystal Ball and Saager Enjeti interview RFKJr. for 49 minutes on Breaking points. Thanks Christine.
    Krystal exhibits stress at the outset, seeking to distance herself from Kennedy’s positions on vaccine harms, makes that point, then holds those questions for late in the interview, when she again exhibits stress and is unable to accept Kennedy’s answers to her questions.
    When asked why he wants to be President, Kennedy expresses the need to separate the conflicts of interest caused by corporate financial capture of government, from the core purpose of serving the American people well. On his first day he would “pardon Julian Assange” and remove the pharmaceutical funding from the FDA and CDC, which captures and conflicts of interest he explains in detail.
    Kennedy supports wind and solar installations, but not nuclear energy, due to long term and demonstrable risks of catastrophe, and very high costs per kWhr.
    He says “show me a polluter and I will show you a subsidy”. He advocates bringing externalized costs back to the profit centers, such as the mercury contamination of fish and sterilization of lakes to the cost of burning coal. He points out the need to safely store nuclear waste for 30,000 years, Chernobyl, Fukushima, etc. No insurer will insure a nuclear power plant. He states that he does believe in anthropogenic climate change, and that Exxon company scientists in the 1970s quietly laid it out to company officials as a benefit, since warming the north pole would make arctic oil accessible to drilling. He says that he feels “every abortion is a tragedy” and that he continues to “absolutely support bodily autonomy and privacy of all medical decisions”, specifically including abortion.
    Later in the interview, when Krystal asks pointed questions about Kennedy’s position on vaccines, she is unable to debate the merits of the medical arguments with him. She says he has no studies, then will not hear his citations of specific studies. (I know his positions to be correct, myself, having followed all the information I could find closely from December 2019, and treated many patients with various antiviral combinations, including myself, and paying attention to the treatment-responses.) Krystal does recurrently return to the question of “how will you deal with people who believe as I do?” This is Kennedy’s everyday life, of course, and he demonstrates by how he patiently answers Krystal. When asked how he would deal with a pandemic, he answered that seeing what known drugs could help, and what was working for practicing physicians would be the traditional approach and his first choice of approach. It is certainly what I and many other physicians did do.
    When asked if he would support the Democratic candidate, he said that he intended to be that candidate, but could not support any candidate who was supporting a war, quoting JFK’s statement that the main job of a president is to keep the country out of war. When asked if he would run third party, he said he “had no plan-B”. When asked if he would support (anti-war) Donald Trump, he said that he thought they “were probably too far apart for that to ever happen”, but did not strictly say “no”.

    I am heading down to Yoakum to do chores this morning, but wanted to share this. Bobby Jr. answers a lot of important questions here, sincerely and within his principles, honorably…

    #135394
    Oroboros
    Participant

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    #135395
    Oroboros
    Participant

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    #135396
    Oroboros
    Participant

    So any geezers here at TAE old enough to remember the promises in the 1950’s will appreciate this

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    The Tards running the country now can’t even master self driving cars much less flying ones

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    #135397
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Meanwhile Back at the White House…..

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    #135398
    The Markster
    Participant

    Just an expression of gratitude to Ilargi for this site, especially today the excellent and moving Scully NR piece on Bobby Jr., which has clarified and informed some weighty personal and career/life decisions coming to a head this week. And yesterday my two official union-made Kennedy 2024 campaign t-shirts arrived on the front porch.

    For today I will stand with my eyes wide open and imagine good things for our beaten-down, splintered country in the future. God Bless and keep you all! ☮️

    #135399
    those darned kids
    Participant

    that’s a scallop..

    #135400
    zerosum
    Participant

    The enemy is within
    Durham report
    Hillary did it.

    “This was a United States government operation to conduct full-throated surveillance on a U.S. presidential candidate, and then remove that candidate from the office of the presidency after his victory in the 2016 election. With John Durham outlining in granular details how the FBI, DOJ and larger intelligence apparatus acted politically to weaponize government on behalf of an allied presidential candidate in Hillary Clinton,”

    • Durham Found Zero Merit to Trump Russia Claims (CTH)

    “…he knew Robert Mueller and Andrew Weissmann were installed to cover up the original fabrications by the CIA, FBI, DOJ and U.S. intelligence apparatus. Mueller’s probe existed in material fact to hide the Obama weaponization to target Donald Trump. Durham knew this; that’s why he never touched it.”
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    Lots of blame to go around
    • Durham Report Condemns FBI’s Russia Probe (Turley)

    ” Indeed, the same pattern and figures reemerged in 2020, when another false narrative was created to dismiss the Hunter Biden laptop scandal. Some of the officials involved in the false Russia collusion conspiracy were signatories on the letter by 51 former intelligence officials claiming that the laptop story was likely “Russian disinformation.” And the media again pushed that version before the 2020 election — only to admit, two years later, that the laptop was authentic all along.”
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    Ukraine has been sold

    • Sowing Seeds of Plunder: A Lose-Lose Situation in Ukraine (OffG)

    The largest landholders are a mix of Ukrainian oligarchs and foreign interests — mostly European and North American as well as the sovereign fund of Saudi Arabia. A number of large US pension funds, foundations and university endowments are also invested in Ukrainian land through NCH Capital – a US-based private equity fund, which is the fifth largest landholder in the country. President Zelenskyy put the land reform into law in 2020 against the will of the vast majority of the population who feared it would exacerbate corruption and reinforce control by powerful interests in the agricultural sector.
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    #135401
    kultsommer
    Participant

    Peter Schweizer talks Durham report on 77WABC radio.
    I found troubling that blow-fish-face Alan Dershowitz is legitimate commentator, here and elsewhere, on the issues of equal application of law. The guy who exonerated himself by claiming that he had his underwear on while given the massage on Epstein’s premises, thus not a “real client”, like others I presume, for the service rendered. Talking about backstabbing partners in crime, that 2% is famous for.
    As for the Soros being top evil, he’s got the formidable competition in the likes of Larry Silverstein.

    #135402
    phoenixvoice
    Participant

    The US is “still training Ukrainians how to fly our F-16s that will be shot down by Russia

    And, apparently, are doing so locally. I had noticed the past few months on and off rumbling from jet engines all through the days, and figured it was from Luke AFB. I have a client in Globe, a small town about 2 hours east of Phoenix. They have been experiencing frequent sonic booms of late that rattle their buildings and sometimes cause the power to wink out for a couple of seconds. The rumor there is that the sonic booms are from the training of Ukrainian pilots. I suppose the population on Globe is considered inconsequential, as compared to the greater Phoenix metro area, and so the AFB lets the sonic booms rip overhead in that region.

    #135403
    boscohorowitz
    Participant

    And so begins the reactionary “correction”, the conservative backlash, responding to the reactionary “progress” the past ten years of liberal crusade.

    https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/urban-progressivism-national-tour-crashes-philadelphiaUrban Progressivism’s National Tour Crashes in Philadelphia With crime spiraling in big cities, Philly voters chose a law-and-order candidate in Tuesday’s Democratic primary BY SEAN COOPER MAY 17, 2023

    Meanwhile, these headlines:

    • Durham Found Zero Merit to Trump Russia Claims (CTH)
    • Durham Report Condemns FBI’s Russia Probe (Turley)
    • Oversight Panel Has Subpoenaed Joe Biden Phone Records (BB)
    • The Real Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (Scully)
    • Neighbor Countries Ready To Pay Zelensky To Stop Conflict – Seymour Hersh (RT)
    • Ukrainian Spymaster Wants 100-km Demilitarized Zone With Russia (TASS)
    • Sowing Seeds of Plunder: A Lose-Lose Situation in Ukraine (OffG)
    • Russia Confirms Grain Deal Extension By Two Months – Zakharova (TASS)
    • NATO’s ‘Reckless’ Expansion To Undermine Security Dialogue – Lavrov (TASS)
    • China Notifies Embassies In Beijing Not To Display Ukraine Propaganda (TASS)
    • Hungary Urges EU To Redirect Ukraine Aide (RT)
    • The Working-Class Revolt Against Net Zero (Spiked)
    • Dutch Farmer ‘Families Are Crying At The Kitchen Table Every Day’ (RMX)
    • The Harm Caused by Masks (Anderson)
    • Global Impact Of The First Year Of Covid-19 Vaccination (Lancet)
    • Dollar Dominance ‘Coming To An End’ – Jim Rogers (RT)
    • FBI Adds Itself To FBI Watch List (BBee)

    read like a list of failures from some Ten Year Leap Forward Cultural Revolution. I wanna t-shirt what sez Dumber Than Mao pasted over a red, white, and blue flag shaped like the continental 48.

    Now comes the “correction”: full-blown open socialist fascism.

    See, it’s true that the libs start this stuff: they’re starters. It takes conservatives to finish the devastation and, for awhile, enshrine it.

    Politics on Parade

    OLd people look back:

    I Knew You When

    #135404
    boscohorowitz
    Participant

    Seger’s tribute to Gleen Frey.

    Seger is so predictable yet therefore so reliable. He grew up in the music bizz with Glenn Frey of The Eagles, whom I almost delivered an acoustic guitar for when I worked as a courier but the airline fucked up three flights in a row and he’d left the golf spa when I finally got it to him.

    (I understand why Van Morrison speaks ill of his influence on Seger: It sounds petty to hear Van speak bitterly of how Seger, Springsteen, John COugar and others copied what Van had worked out. But Van always changes while Seger took a certain approach Van crafted in the late 60s/early 70s, and never changed since. Same with Springsteen.)

    #135405
    boscohorowitz
    Participant

    On RFK, Jr.: “And although RFK Jr.’s campaign is “personally painful” to relatives, it’s comforting to know “he has no chance to be the Democratic nominee.””

    Good. No sane person would vote for a DNC candidate at this p[oint, and RFK,Jr. is obviously running on the Sane Party ticket.

    I predict armed guards at the polls in many neighborhoods.

    I have exclusive footage from the future ofg the DNC candidate debates:

    Jiggy Bardust and the Hiders from Mars

    #135406
    boscohorowitz
    Participant

    “Capitalism is a total, worldwide failure because it can’t stop turning the planet into money (roughly), consuming all things.”

    Jesus would agree: “The love of money is the root of all evil.”

    But we all have our precious fetishes, our sacred cows who must never be submitted to the “price discovery” process of life: eat or be eaten.

    Money is the one thing EVERYBODY loves. MOre than Godm, more than reality, more than their handroid, more than their favorite sex doll. EVERYONE worships money. That I’ve met. Except two or three people including me. I lived without money for nine years. Mendicancy changes one’s perspective on such things.

    Say it isn’t so!

    #135407
    boscohorowitz
    Participant

    As for this:

    Yeesh.

    “NOAA had released highlights from its most recent annual global climate report showing the planet’s average land and ocean surface temperature was 1.55 degrees Fahrenheit higher in 2022 than the 20th century average, which was 57 degrees F. This rise in temperature is part of an upward trend going back decades.

    But Steve Milloy, who is on the board of a think tank that publishes content denying the existence of climate change, claimed “NOAA makes it official” that the “last 8 years” of temperature data show a “global cooling” trend.

    That’s wrong. NOAA actually said the opposite.

    “The planet continued its warming trend in 2022,” the agency’s press release said, “with last year ranking as the sixth-warmest year on record since 1880.””

    from: Viral Tweet Misrepresents NOAA Report on Rising Global Temperature

    It’s like you guys are TRYING to sell the public on global warming by making any challenge to it sound really really stupid. If you’d offer some serious rebuttal, that would be, you know, “nice”, passive-aggressively speaking.

    Yeesh.

    #135408
    Mr. House
    Participant

    “Now comes the “correction”: full-blown open socialist fascism.”

    Babylon Berlin, history doesn’t repeat but you know the rest. Is anyone surprised?

    #135409
    Mr. House
    Participant

    Lord Varys: I did what I did for the good of the realm.

    Petyr ‘Littlefinger’ Baelish: The realm. Do you know what the realm is? It’s the thousand blades of Aegon’s enemies, a story we agree to tell each other over and over, until we forget that it’s a lie.

    Lord Varys: But what do we have left, once we abandon the lie? Chaos? A gaping pit waiting to swallow us all.

    Petyr ‘Littlefinger’ Baelish: Chaos isn’t a pit. Chaos is a ladder. Many who try to climb it fail and never get to try again. The fall breaks them. And some, are given a chance to climb. They refuse, they cling to the realm or the gods or love. Illusions. Only the ladder is real. The climb is all there is.

    #135410
    zerosum
    Participant

    The “west” claims that Russia doesn’t have a friend and is all alone.

    In that case.
    Russia has accomplished some unbelievable success.

    Every NATO country has been disarmed to the point of not having enough military inventory/museum pieces so that they will not be able to attack any other country and they fear that they will not have enough guns and ammunition to defend their own territories.

    All retired military spookman/experts proved why they are retired. They were wrong with their warplans and would have lost yesterdays war even faster.

    Using Ukraine as a testing ground demonstrate that the next conflick will be RESOLVED between OPPOSING A.I.

    #135411
    zerosum
    Participant

    Can you guess what I would think about sending aid to Ukraine if I was in Northern Italy?

    #135412
    Alexander Carpenter
    Participant

    Bosco, you might try looking at the actual data from NOAA and comparing that with their “statement.” Then look at all their “fudge factors.” Then root out all their unstated assumptions (“premises”), and then see what sense they all make. Good luck with that…

    #135414
    Afewknowthetruth
    Participant

    More pushing shit uphill with a pointed stick from RIM.

    Land temperatures are largely irrelevant -though wild swings do severely impact on ecosystems.

    What matters are:

    1. Ocean temperatures (heat content)…increasing inexorably, as pointed out on numerous occasions!!!.

    2. The rate of loss of ancient ice…increasing inexorably…as pointed out on numerous occasions..

    Both are catastrophically bad and being made worse by continued use of fossil fuels that emit CO2 when burned -the various government-sponsored scams promoted as ‘mitigation’ exacerbating the burgeoning catastrophe.

    That’s why RIM assiduously avoids the abundant evidence of both the clear link between rising ocean heat and rising atmospheric CO2 and increasing climate instability and keeps pushing shit uphill with a pointed stick with silly, irrelevant distractions -and in doing so, discredits TAE.

    It is largely as a consequence of the bullshit posted on Planetary Meltdown that I ceased to recommend TAE as a reputable website a while ago.

    I guess TAE will go the way all such similar websites went: down the drain, with just a few fanatics holding on to false beliefs.

    Meanwhile, there are masses of reputable channels not churning out bullshit and obfuscation.
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    #135415
    DarkMatter
    Participant

    Here’s a NOAA sea temperature graph

    NOAA Sea Temperatures

    #135416
    aspnaz
    Participant

    Poland is leading a group of European nations that are secretly urging Vladimir Zelensky to find a way to settle the conflict with Russia, veteran journalist Seymour Hersh has reported, citing a “knowledgeable” American official.

    A good example of why I do not trust Seynour Hersh. First, there is no evidence at all that Zelensky has the best interest of Ukraine at heart: at least this is implied in that they are offering to bribe him. Second, there is no evidence at all that Zelensky has any real power to do anything in Ukraine other than act the role of puppet leader. We even know that he won’t cross the Nazis inside Ukraine. Why would Poland be going to Zelensky and not to the people that control him? Why tell off the dog for crapping on the sidewalk instead of telling off the owner? These people are politicians, they know who calls the shots, so if this story is true then it is all window dressing for the voters.

    #135417
    Dora
    Participant
    #135418
    Alexander Carpenter
    Participant

    AFKTT’s predictions are right in there with all (and that means ALL) the other predictions of the climate-doom fetishists: 100% wrong. So that tells us that what he and his fantasies deserve is our scorn and ridicule for being such a sucker (another one born every minute) prattling such hysterical simple-minded nonsense.
    The genuine science is available for those who wish a responsible investigation of a matter of sufficient complexity that most (including AFKTT?) can’t wrap their minds around it. But it doesn’t meet the emotional needs of fear-addicts and political-agenda minions.
    I wish, though, that it would keep them off the airwaves and quiet in the peanut galleries, but that’s obviously expecting too much.And the greatest “too much” is that they might ever explicitly identify their premises, those assumptions that when revealed demolish their “reasonableness.” Too bad, so sad…

    #135419
    boscohorowitz
    Participant

    Nothin’ that some solid late-stage Basie can’t help. And look at that jacket!

    Straight Ahead

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    The world she is a-warming!

    She is a-not!

    The world she is a-cooling!

    She is a-not!

    Such fun. And let us not forget to call each other shrill names. We Love It

    I just wanna see you at night
    Don’t come ’round my house in the day
    I love it when we start up a fight
    And I love it when the fight ends your way
    I love it when you call me names
    I love it when you call me names
    I love it when you call me names
    I can’t wait to see you again
    I know you’re gonna slap my face
    You beat me up then beat me again
    And over and over and over and over and over and over
    I love it when you call me names
    I love it when you call me names
    I love it when you call me names
    Big woman and a short, short man
    And he loves it when she beats his brains out
    He’s pecked to death but he loves the pain
    And he loves it when she calls him names
    Big woman and a short, short man
    And he loves it when she beats his brains out
    He’s pecked to death but he loves the pain
    And he loves it when she calls him names
    I love it when you call me names
    I love it when you call me names
    I love it when you call me names
    She’s wearing heavy leather with lace
    He dresses up in cowboy taste
    They punish then they think up a crime
    It’s their way of loving, not mine
    I love it when you call me names
    I love it when you call me names
    I love it when you call me names
    Big woman and a short, short man
    And he loves it when she beats his brains out
    He’s pecked to death but he loves the pain
    And he loves it when she calls him names
    Big woman and a short, short man
    And he loves it when she beats his brains out
    He’s pecked to death but he loves the pain
    And he loves it when she calls him names
    I love it when you call me names
    I love it when you call me names
    I love it when you call me names

    ***

    And now, let us turn our ears to something really important:

    Monkey on a String

    #135420
    boscohorowitz
    Participant

    Going to Church

    Beauty has its place in TEOTWAWKI, too.

    #135421
    Oroboros
    Participant

    .

    #135422
    WES
    Participant

    US Patriot missile system(s) in Kiev, Ukraine have all been turned off until US officials can determine what went wrong! That video of the Patriot missile system’s very impressive fireworks display, has probably tanked any future Patriot system sales!

    Unfortunately the 6 Patriot missile video bloggers paid the price as they were all rounded up by the SBU. Five of the 6 bloggers were all relatively young men, somehow not serving as cannon fodder on the front lines. That implies Ukraine has not yet used up all of their available manpower.

    Meanwhile 4 warehouses in Odessa flew up into the sky last night!
    Russian drones hang onto the sky over Kiev!
    Don’t you just love machine translators sense of humor!

    Between 2014 and 2022, corrupt Ukrainian officials used to steal munitions from ammunition storage bunkers to sell on the black market. Then to hide their theft, they would then blow up the depleted ammunition storage bunker! Needless-to-say, a lot of Ukrainian storage bunkers blew up!

    A new US military attaché was being given a guided tour of Belgrade Military Museum by a Serbian officer.
    They stopped in front of the museum’s shot down stealth F-117 aircraft display.
    The US attache asked.
    “How did it feel to go up against the world’s most powerful military?”
    The Serbian officer replied.
    “We have never fought the Russians, so I really don’t know.”

    #135423
    zerosum
    Participant

    strutting
    To walk around (some place) in a vain, swaggering, or pompous manner.

    Smart people are turned into babbling idiots in front of a mic and a TV.
    ( its also creeping into the blogsphere)

    #135424
    V. Arnold
    Participant

    A new US military attaché was being given a guided tour of Belgrade Military Museum by a Serbian officer.
    They stopped in front of the museum’s shot down stealth F-117 aircraft display.
    The US attache asked.
    “How did it feel to go up against the world’s most powerful military?”
    The Serbian officer replied.
    “We have never fought the Russians, so I really don’t know.”

    Whether the story is true or not; it’s still hilarious….
    The U.S. is a malignant entity; it’s good to have Russia as a counter balance…

    #135425
    Alexander Carpenter
    Participant

    And DarkMatter, offering a compromised-data “Here’s a NOAA sea temperature graph” as a… just exactly what? That, and all its ilk, merit a “So what?” since their presentation includes neither premises nor context, just pretend “science” and neurotic fright-wig projection.
    Were we more contemptuous of their gropings, we might ask, “So fuuckin’ what?” But we give them some credit for trying to deal with the world, even if they can’t see it straight, or explain what they are claiming the “meaning” and significance are.
    “Average,” indeed! A good start at meaningless nonsense. Since nothing in Nature engages the “average” of anything, and since most of the “averages” in the Carbon Cult are meaningless even in its own terms (such as “average global temperature”), this tells us that the graph is nonsense without multiple pages of background and context — and even with.
    For perspective, try drawing that graphic with the left-hand axis starting at 0 K, and see how much less significant it looks. Then extend it to cover multiple cycles in time, for the same result.
    Next you will use an “anomaly,” another way to exaggerate the import of otherwise meaningless and even boring information. Nothing in Nature engages with “anomalies,” either. Ho, hum…
    So what? as an actual, non-rhetorical question Is the only sensible way to relate to the Cultists and the Know-Nothings, returning to them responsibility to explain and justify their posturings and claims. As with their predictions, they fail. Instead, they over-generalize, catastrophize, and resort to ad hominem nit-picking.
    It occurs to me that there is some deep origin-drive similarity between this sort of sleazy rhetoric and woke identity-politics, in that it provides empty unexamined gratification for its advocates, is stuck in abstractions and absolutes, while pretending at significance and missing the essence of their relationships with the real world.

    #135438
    zerosum
    Participant

    competition to babbling idiots
    A.I. are creeping into the blogsphere blogsphere blogsphere with their word
    salads word salads word salads word salads

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