Debt Rattle November 19 2024
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New Attorney General Matt Gaetz says what everyone else is too afraid to say, The Ukraine War is “to launder money through”
Matt Gaetz “I think that the reason we are as involved in Ukraine as we are is because Afghanistan wound down. If we still had Afghanistan to launder money through, there probably wouldn’t be the need for this type of excessive involvement in Ukraine. But I think we can look at Afghanistan and we can look at what’s going on here and say, what a lot of these defense contractors are pushing toward is how to have an extended kind of low yield war.
Like if there’s a way to stretch this thing out, turn it into a 20, 30 year kind of thing where there’s a whole lot of money moving around and unaccountable pots and a lot of weapons getting bought and then all man the stockpiles well we got to spend more money to reload those”
American Wars are looking for Longterm Unaccountable Money Laundering
That’s Aquaman sneaking up on Superman.
Not gonna go down like you think.
Musk couldn’t take either guy in real lifeLots of good comments today.
My AI succeeded in deleting my comments once again.Nothing important.
Trump and his team have got a major challenges to wrestle control from the establishment if the USA is to avoid the worst of what is coming,. Where to get the energy needed to address world
wide food insecurity and poverty, and pain and chaos..The guy who brought us Medical Marshall plans to call out The Posse, old Lone Ranger, Bonanza and Gunsmoke style.
“Posse Comitatus Act is a United States federal law (18 U.S.C. § 1385, original at 20 Stat. 152) signed on June 18, 1878”
The People are gonna love the military riding rough domestically and Dtrump didn’t reference the Tulsi’s or Tim’s National Guard
Trump
Donald Trump said on Monday that his administration would declare a national emergency and use the US military to carry out mass deportations of undocumented immigrants.
As my soon to be 90yo Mom quipped yesterday, “Where are all those fancy businessmen going to find cheap labor once the immigrants are deported?”
David A. Hughes
Interview with Carlos Sanchez, September 30, 2024
English starts at 5:00Truth to power;
a century of psy-ops;
Naomi Klein;
the Left;
Keir Starmer;
lab leak;
infantilisation;
Boris Johnson;
Hancock;
Drosten;
Ferguson;
opinion polls;
nudging;
hospital propaganda;
and more!https://dhughes.substack.com/p/interview-with-carlos-sanchez-september
From my inBox this a.m.:
Ukraine Uses U.S.-Provided Long-Range Missiles in Russia for First Time
MKYIV, Ukraine—Ukraine fired long-range missiles provided by the U.S. into Russia for the first time Tuesday, posing a test for Russian President Vladimir Putin after Moscow’s threats to retaliate for such a move.
Ukraine used the Army Tactical Missile System, known as ATACMS, to strike an ammunition storage facility in Russia’s Bryansk region, a Ukrainian official said. The strike came just days after President Biden gave approval for their use.
“This is a signal that they want escalation,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday in response to the attack, describing it as a new phase in the war.
Russia has warned for months that use of such long-range missiles against its territory would amount to an attack by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and lead to a clear response, but it hasn’t specified what that would be. On Tuesday, Putin signed amendments to Russia’s nuclear doctrine—a move that appeared to be timed to send an additional warning to the West.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces said Tuesday that they had struck an arsenal near the town of Karachev at 2:30 a.m. local time, causing 12 secondary explosions and detonations. The official confirmed that the strike was carried out using ATACMS.
The Russian Defense Ministry said its air defenses had shot down five ATACMS missiles launched by Ukraine against a military target in the western border region of Bryansk. The fragments of a sixth missile struck by a Russian interceptor rocket hit the military target causing fires on its territory, it said, but didn’t result in any casualties.
The Biden administration had long declined to authorize Ukraine’s use of ATACMS in Russia, citing concerns of escalation. ATACMS, a surface-to-surface missile system fired from a mobile launcher vehicle, can strike between 100 and 190 miles away, depending on the model of the system.
But the White House authorized the use of the missiles after thousands of North Korean troops were deployed to Russia’s Kursk region, where Moscow is seeking to oust Ukrainian forces that seized territory in a lightning offensive in August.
Russia sought to head off the U.S. decision in recent months by warning about retaliation. Putin in September alleged that missiles as sophisticated as ATACMS can only be fired with the help of U.S. satellites and military instructors.
“If this decision is made, then it will mean nothing less than the direct participation of NATO countries—the U.S., European states—in the war in Ukraine,” Putin said. “And that will substantively change the very essence, the very nature, of the conflict. It will mean NATO countries are fighting against Russia.”
Putin has hinted that using ATACMS against Russian territory could prompt Moscow to place more military assets in countries closer to the U.S. Russia recently sent a nuclear-powered submarine, capable of firing Kalibr cruise missiles, and a navy frigate to Cuba’s Havana harbor, just 100 miles from Key West, Fla.
Russia could also expand its sabotage campaign in Europe with clandestine attacks on Western infrastructure that give it plausible deniability, as part of a hybrid strategy. Such attacks send “a message that hostile actions on Russia’s internationally recognized territory will have a price tag,” said Alexander Gabuev, director of the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center.
Russia has recently stepped up cooperation with Iran and North Korea and with anti-Western military groups such as the Houthis in Yemen. Iran is supplying drones that Russia uses to strike Ukrainian cities and infrastructure, and North Korea has sent some 11,000 troops to Russia in recent weeks, according to U.S. and Ukrainian estimates.
On Tuesday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia could ultimately deploy as many as 100,000 North Korean troops in Ukraine, where it is steadily gaining territory in the east.
Russia’s strike campaign against Ukrainian cities has intensified in recent weeks, but it is constrained by the number of missiles it can produce for such barrages.
The amendments to Russia’s nuclear doctrine that were unveiled on Tuesday are a largely symbolic move, analysts say. The new document expands the range of threats Russia can respond to using nuclear weapons, and says an attack against Russia using conventional weapons can be a pretext for a nuclear response—including against a nonnuclear state aligned with a nuclear power, an apparent reference to Ukraine.
According to the doctrine, attacks that warrant a nuclear response are those that “pose a critical threat to the sovereignty and/or territorial integrity” of Russia or Belarus, a staunch ally where Russia also stores some of its nuclear missiles. They include use of ballistic missiles, such as ATACMS, and a “mass launch” of cruise missiles, jet fighters or drones, which Ukraine has actively used in recent months to target Russian military bases far from the border. Putin proposed the changes in a session of the Russian security council in September, warning the U.S. against continued support for Ukraine.
“The idea was to try to find a way to limit or constrain the assistance that the West provides to Ukraine, and create some uncertainty about the possible scenarios,” said Pavel Podvig, a senior researcher at the U.N.’s Institute for Disarmament Research.
Write to Ian Lovett at ian.lovett@wsj.com
Copyright 2024 Dow Jones & Company, Inc.
“Where are all those fancy businessmen going to find cheap labor once the immigrants are deported?”
agreed
and if we fire all the teachers who cannot pass a basic competency test, who will teach? (not the people who just failed the competency test both after AND prior to the test…)
when will we find out what STUFF we actually had?
When will we find out what DIDN’T run on quasi slavery? All those people for equity and justice, when will they discover whether the stuff they advocate is actually more or less equitable or just?
When will we find out how much environmental damage “clean” energy, recycling, net zero, etc actually causes vs petrochemicals? Single best thing you can do for The Planet is stop putting plastic in the recycling bin and start putting it in the garbage bin… but why???
True costs, true benefits? — don’t measure!!!! Can’t catch thieves or slavers if you hide it in a spreadsheet and don’t measure. But they’re usually inefficient (after all, they don’t measure) and we cannot bring all our costs down until we DO measure.
Is there even someone at the top of the data heap with a bullshit-remover that is actually looking at real things?
jb-hb said:
Is there even someone at the top of the data heap with a bullshit-remover that is actually looking at real things?
Answer: Yes, a Narcissist, Psychopath, Megalonaniac or Spellbinder that is certain he or she is worth $200 billion or entitled to exclusive access to the airwaves and intertubes ((Danny Haiphong et al excluded))
An attempt at Ritual Humiliation and Disorientation
Treading Water in the Lunatic Fringe
They’ve captured the language and do violence to the meaning of words
Opinions, news from many sources to evaluate and determine who are the liars.
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/11/us-to-allow-atacms-use-on-russia-to-prolong-war-in-ukraine/comments/page/2/#commentsRe: DPRK troops in Ukraine (or Russia), I saw a good comment at Naked Capitalism earlier today which I will repost here. I don’t have time to sort through and find the hyperlink; I only copied the text of the comment, so apologies to the person who made it, but I think it’s worth spreading.
Leaving aside the fact that we have zero, none, nada, proof of any kind beyond the verbal say-so of anonymous Ukrainian officials and South Korean intelligence persons.
1. Integrating a 10-thousand strong unit – or even battalion-sized components thereof – into a modern battlefield with constant vertical and horizontal communication from individual squads all the way up to brigade or division command, when members of said unit speak a completely different language, is borderline lunacy. I am not saying it cannot be done, if one tries really, really hard, and has enough interpreters or bilingual officers on hand, but please.2. No-one is yet to explain to me in a coherent fashion where the weapons and equipment, including vehicles, tanks, artillery, ambulances, et cetera, for these North Koreans are supposed to come from. A basic motor rifle battalion of 400 men needs 50 BMPs just to move around, not counting supply trucks, a tank platoon or two in support, anti-air, some artillery or heavy mortars, buggies-bikes for assault groups, reconnaissance and strike drones, and so on. Most of the North Korean stuff is either very, very old Soviet stuff that the Russians wouldn’t want to use on the frontline, or wholly incompatible with what the Russians do use on the frontline, or is available in extremely limited quantities, or does not exist altogether. We are basically suggesting that the Russians will take the gear meant for 10 thousand of their own volunteers and give it to the North Koreans. Because why, exactly.
3. Said Russian volunteers routinely spend many months on the training grounds before going anywhere near the frontline, and then usually as reinforcements to existing veteran units rather than separate brand new formations. In fact, more than one English-language source has now noted that the Ukrainian practice of just creating new brigades instead of reinforcing existing veteran ones is, at best, highly inefficient, and at worst utterly wasteful. Furthermore, even veteran troops are rotated back to the training range every few weeks in order to either hone their general skills, or to practice against a copy of the specific defensive position they are about to face.
Either the North Koreans have been practicing somewhere in Siberia for the past six months, or letting them anywhere near the frontline would violate pretty much every practice established by the Russian army to date.
4. I await any evidence of this mythical manpower shortage that is forcing the Russians to accept an extra 10 thousand foreign troops. Aren’t the same Western sources squealing about the North Koreans also telling us about the 120 thousand Russian troops sitting around in the Zaporozh’e area doing pretty much nothing? Or that the total Russian troops deployed along the frontline now outnumber the Ukrainians?
5. If the whole thing is a matter of the North Koreans gaining “experience”, then why not have military attaches at various HQ levels and small groups of 5-10 specially selected officers attached to combat companies here and there? Why constitute a 10 thousand strong block that no-one knows what to do with?
6. North Korea will not do a bloody thing without getting a tacit approval from China. Why China would want North Koreans in direct combat with US proxies anywhere in the world in general, or especially now, when a new President is coming in, is clearly not something anyone is bothering to address.
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Look, I am as happy to continue discussing this, err, topic. While we’re on the subject, we might resurrect the old Russians-paying-bounties-to-Taliban pile of steaming male cow manure. But what is the point? Until any actual evidence is produced, this is just another Iraqi weapons of mass destruction type of psyop designed to justify the escalation on the US side, to wit, the mythical North Koreans are literally the stated reason for permitting the Ukrainians to use ATACMS against core Russian territory.
And yes, in theory anything is possible.
Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Nov 18 2024 23:38 utc | 132
I’m ever so happy that Garland is finally being refered to in public with the proper term
Musk Goes All In On ‘Judge Dredd’ Matt Gaetz, Notes ‘Douchebag’ Garland Never Brought Charges
“If AG Garland (an unprincipled douchebag) could have secured a conviction against Gaetz, he would have, but he knew he could not.
Case closed.”
Dedicated to Garland:
Negative Clank
He’d sell
a rats asshole
to a blindman
as a wedding ring~Richard Brautigan
Change is in the air
https://www.rt.com/russia/607877-bryansk-long-range-strike/
19 Nov, 2024 12:08
Kiev fires ATACMS missiles at Russia’s Bryansk Region – MOD
Air defenses have intercepted five US-made projectiles and damaged another, the Defense Ministry in Moscow has said
The Ukrainian military has launched multiple US-made ATACMS missiles at Russia’s Bryansk Region, some of which have been intercepted, the Russian Defense Ministry reported on Tuesday.US President Joe Biden reportedly authorized the use of American-supplied weapons for strikes deep inside Russia last week. Moscow had previously said that long-range strikes with Western weapons would constitute a direct war between NATO and Russia.
According to the statement, Kiev fired six long-range ballistic missiles identified as ATACMS early on Tuesday morning. Five of them were intercepted with S-400 and Pantsir air defense systems, while another was damaged and hit the ground at a Russian military site in Bryansk Region, causing a fire that was quickly dealt with. The Russian military claimed that no damage was caused by the incident.
Ukrainian media earlier reported that Kiev had fired ATACMS missiles into internationally recognized Russian territory for the first time during the conflict, releasing purported footage of the launch. The attack reportedly targeted an ammunition depot in Bryansk Region, though military officials in Kiev have not confirmed the claims.
Earlier on Tuesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the enactment of the country’s new nuclear doctrine. The document says that an attack on Russia by a non-nuclear power backed by a nuclear one should be considered a joint attack by both.
In September, Putin warned that long-range attacks by Ukraine using Western weapons would be a serious escalation of the conflict. Kiev cannot launch such attacks without direct input from NATO member states, he noted.
Bryansk Region is located in western Russia and borders Ukraine and Belarus, which is a Russian ally.
Just take a look at the location of Bryansk Oblast. It’s the small red area in the far left of the country.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/be/Map_of_Russia_%282014%E2%80%932022%29_-_Bryansk_Oblast_%28disputed_Crimea%29.svg/600px-Map_of_Russia_%282014%E2%80%932022%29_-_Bryansk_Oblast_%28disputed_Crimea%29.svg.pngPosted by: Milton | Nov 19 2024 13:37 utc | 252
fact he’s a Jewish Demonrat is just a coincidence
Funny that. Always just a coinkydink until the joos need to play their race, religion, state, holocaust card….
Anyone notice how the msm/liberal/democrats have blamed latinos, blacks, whites for voting Trump- but not a peep on how jooooos voted ? Shadow Jews, shadow govt- Alex Soros another scum fuck Jew trash murdering asshole.
Psst, AOC- alexandria cortez – latino, liberal, feminist Democrat- just announced she/her/it is Jewish.
Can’t make this shit up= only leftists can be so fucking retarded- waiting for her to announce a family member is a transfagtard-
The Russians are gaining priceless experience in real combat conditions for their R&D drone research production.
The Latest
“The Russian Armed Forces have begun using the latest FPV UAVs “Molniya-2”
The daily theatre has to be fantastic and engrossing. He said, she said, OMG did you hear about blah, blah, blah, missiles and drones, inditements and confessions. 1 gigantic jew soap opera. Mindfuck em till you steal their last dollar. kill them with poison, and send them off to war. Protocols of Zion, read it, cause you’re in it.
You wrote:
Anyone notice how the msm/liberal/democrats have blamed latinos, blacks, whites for voting Trump- but not a peep on how jooooos voted
$$$$$$$$
Me: So obvious as not to be noticed.
Is it feigned ignorance?
Maybe deliberate, willful blindness.
Perhaps, the phenomenon is best described by operant conditioning.Invariably the most difficult thing to take measure of is the loss or disappearance of something….the loss of someone. They will disappear someone, the annoying voice the recalcitrant unrepentant critic. The phenomenon has been described by Eric Berne in Alcoholic Games where the Antithesis, he who won’t abide or play by the rules, is accorded the worst possible treatment ie. court, morgue, emergency surgery. Friends, family and colleagues gang up on the Outlier, Outcast, Antithesis. Most everyone is conditioned to kiss the boss’s or leader’s ass as a faux expression of higher moral development and dishonest brokering of favorable status.
I had to see for myself.
There it is…from 2018 no less.“Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York made a surprise revelation to a progressive Jewish group on the final night of Hannukah on Sunday: She traces her ancestry back to 15th-century Sephardic Jews.”
“Speaking at an event organized by Jews for Racial and Economic Justice at the Jackson Heights Jewish Center in Queens, the rising Democratic star drew cheers with the revelation, which she told Haaretz was the first time she had spoken publicly about her family’s Jewish heritage.”
What happened
https://karlof1.substack.com/p/lavrovs-post-g-20-rio-presser
Lavrov’s Post G-20 Rio Presser
Karl Sanchez
Nov 19, 2024some days this place is more fun than an issue of Bijou Funnies
on a more subtle note from Zap Comix
“Where will it end?”
“In the grave my boy, in the grave.” – Mr. Naturalif the joos had told you who they were voting for would you have voted for Kackles?
damned if you do, damned if you don’t – Eretz YisraelOnce being the Antithesis Outlier becomes normative one finds out what being in the catbird seat is really all about. The art of the game is to find someone on the inside and confide in them how deeply you wish you were part of the crowd. All one has to do then is watch and the crowd measures the pond for you. Add a little feigned angst and watch em go Spinal Tap and turn it up to eleven.
True Cynicism is an acquired taste, mutch like Scotch, and can lead to Stoicism if properly managed.Peace.
Look what I found!
https://worldbeyondwar.org/canada/
Organizing Against Canadian Militarism
What’s Going On?
Despite what many Canadians may think (or want!) Canada is no peacekeeper. Instead, Canada is taking on a growing role as colonizer, warmonger, global arms dealer, and weapons manufacturer.Here are some quick facts about the current state of Canadian militarism.
Canada has become one of the world’s top arms dealers
Militarized violence continues colonization across Canada
The Canadian military is playing a major role in accelerating the climate crisis
The Canadian Armed Forces are ramping up efforts at domestic surveillance and propaganda
The military budget has increased 70% in just a few years, and we currently spend 20 times on the military as we do on the environment, federally
Canadian peacekeeping is more myth than reality
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