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    Pieter Bruegel the Elder Hunters in the snow 1565       Note: Tomorrow’s a travel day, so probably no Debt Rattle. Hope to be back Nov
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle November 27 2024]

    #175413
    Oroboros
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    #175414
    Oroboros
    Participant

    But, but, but…. the Empire of Lies needs cheap labor to ‘pick the cotton”

    Problem solved!

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    #175415
    Oroboros
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    #175416
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Top Five Central Banks sucking the M2 out of circulation.

    What if the problem turns out to be deflation because of purchasing capacity collapsing from all that inflation.

    “equal and opposite reaction and all…..”

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    #175418
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Hunters in the snow 1565

    What’s that Smaug dragon flying in the distance over the Lake People?

    Adding, from yesterday, Chess play for Britain? No MI6 FF, they can’t as Putin says he will ONLY respond with this. Soooooooooo… When UK won’t sit down, as they are almost the ONLY country pushing this – my read is Germany, Poland, are UK satellites – when UK does whatever dumb s—t UK is planning, they’ll hit Moscow or something, Kursk nuke plant, and Putin does what???

    Oreshnik’s Britain’s Queen Elizabeth Carrier. For example. Nuked if it’s at sea. In port if it’s not.

    Then all NATO do what? They sit the f—k down. “Shouldn’t a’ dun that, UK” they say. London you’re on your own. I ain’t losing Berlin for your stupid -ss.

    Now is UK smart enough to sit down on this chess play? Probably not. Something needs to happen or they won’t stop. Drooling morons at CNN and the State Dept need something to point at.

    UK then collapses IMMEDIATELY (and rightfully so) ha ha. And 60 minutes later, all Europe, and 12 hours later the U.S. banking system. Oh. Right.

    Actually don’t care though. If it has to happen, it does, don’t care, waited too long already.

    “A Whimper, Not A Bang: Where Was Antifa After Trump’s Victory?

    There are no good guys. So Antifa, which was specifically created, paid for, and directed by ex-spooks and agitators, using Soros and other Global money just got bored and forgot to respond. “—-I—- Forgot!” ‘Cause logic like that.

    Anyway, as yesterday, boy sure glad we elected Trump. He sure is exactly the same as the other guy, made no difference. All choices are the same choices. Resisting is the same as surrendering. Ask anyone! Ask any rapist and rapee.

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    She specifically point out that the Cool Kidz will be known for how cool they are, when they transcend true and false, right and wrong, and become so cool they believe nothing at all.

    Surrender = Good. Upholding = Bad. Funny how that’s a direct path to mainline laziness.

    “The real world war, never discussed, is governments vs people. Countries being corporations under 1 controlling umbrella, I suppose corporations vs people is more accurate.” –Celtic

    Now you’re talking. So you’ve got it: now what do we DO about it? Surrender? Attack others? Or stop them?

    “is there any decent sized company in the USA that does not suckle off a government teat? Talk about market competition, survival of the fittest etc,”

    My point exactly. What is the total merger of corporation and State again? Should we just surrender and let that happen? Like the Cool Kidz? Or say no? That $6B will spend nicely in Western NC.

    It has become clear the Biden-Harris administration is trying to invoke MARTIAL LAW and not give the Presidency over to me by starting World War 3.” –Trump

    Yes, antagonize Russia to prevent UK collapse, have a premise to declare martial law under Harris and suspend everything. Uhhh…anyone talk to Russia ’bout dat? Because once again, they are not helping your plans.

    Also WHY? Well, going way back, I’m reading article after article about how amazing it is Yellen is resigning in January. Uhhhh…???? Whut? That’s a CABINET position. They ALWAYS leave (unless you’re Obama taking the whole Bush cabinet). What’s with the articles, stupid on their face? Does no one in the media know what a CABINET is? (Actually, probably no. But I’ll save you that personal story)

    What happens when Janet leaves? She’s been using the entire U.S. Treasury, force of a $2T government, to undo all Powell’s work on rates. That’s been one of the few things saving Europe, and remember, we suppose they just SHOT MISSILES INTO RUSSIA merely to control interest rates for a few more days. So what happens when Janet is out and can’t do Europe’s bank rates for them? Insta-collapse.

    You think Russia doesn’t know this? That UK is now so in the hole on this, they’ve turned all British farmland into Donbas, and are planning on murdering all the farmers to give their land to Blackrock. No. Joke. The Hobbits’ll love this and never rebel or nothin’.

    THAT, may be why all the articles pointing at Yellen. That is a linchpin of the present standoff that needs attention. The day after a Powell-type TresSec moves in, Europe collapses. King taken, game over. Is that worth starting a world war over, rather than become the Congo for 200 years? Tossing nukes look more sensible now?

    “Bobby Kennedy that he’s dangerous, and he killed people because he had skepticism”

    Skepticism is the real danger and the real enemy here. DOING WHAT YOU’RE TOLD, without question is actually the safe option. History shows nothing bad ever came from that. …But you can’t look it up, since I told you, and now you have to do what you’re told.

    “why American health is plummeting and how environmental factors are causing it.”

    I know they keep them stupidly busy (with pointless paperwork) and a lot of these studies ARE done, but basically I’m troubled by the TOTAL lack of medical curiosity here. Any weed-smoker high on the couch can see this.

    Same with the military, actually. I try not to rub their face in it, but you love the military, plan to join the military, come from a military family, then NEVER READ any military history, Rome, how Senators treat the military for 2,000 years? Or you KNOW what Senators do, read all about Korea, Vietnam, Air America, Mai Lai, and then say “That’s for me! Sign me up!!! I love being controlled by murderous, cowardly, self-serving dips–ts.” …Again, I’m assuming mostly they’ve never read this. But this is your INTEREST, your passion, right? No curiosity? Huh? There are a lot of hours in childhood, were you watching Scooby Doo instead? Read Cicero.

    Why no curiosity? No discussion?

    Why? “ he killed people because he had skepticism” “Do what you’re told.”
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    #175419
    Dr. D
    Participant

    “• Israeli-Hezbollah Truce Takes Effect (RT)

    Boy I’m sure glad nothing changes no matter what we do or who gets elected. That elections do NOT have consequences, and a President that says, “Get this s—t solved before I get there” is the same as once who provides him thousands of 2,000lb dumb bombs. SAME! Don’t you see how Same they are?

    Do I need to keep going? Apparently yes. Okay geniuses, you just said War = Peace. Since 1984™ That’s who you are. I didn’t make you say that, you made that up totally on your own. YOU are the Foot Soldiers of Big Brother, thanks. That’s what you think is ultra-cool. Surrender monkeys.

    “• Ukraine Could Be Pushed Into Negotiations ‘Within Months’ – WaPo (RT)

    Same. Sure glad elections mean nothing. That’s why everything changes the day after.

    ““Ukrainian war veterans and illicit arms will emerge as new threats to EU nations if Moscow prevails..”

    If you wondered how Europe will become the Congo for 200 years. Hey: if you were Russia, you think you might want to help this happen a little? Who can tell a Russian agent selling arms from a Ukrainian one?

    “end to the military conflict in Ukraine and possibly to start the process by working more with military-to-military negotiations.”

    There’s no way this is not already happening. Just like in Syria with Russian and U.S. jets flying within miles of each other all day for months. So dips—ts like Blinken can flout the process and sneak one through like this, but every Colonel on the field “stops” them. That is: they — a faction — are in constant communication with Russian DoD de-escalation teams. But to admit it would be advertising there’s a Civil War inside the Pentagon. They can’t do that. Europe, Atlanticists, and Team Biden all WANT to create a U.S. Civil War, Russian Rev 2.0, which is the only thing that can save them. Don’t.

    “• Future of EU ‘In Danger’ – Borrell (RT)

    Gee, if only they had a strong manufacturing base, lots of jobs, happy people and cheap energy. They sure would have a lot less danger. Reminder than when you make a deal with the devil about killing everyone, the one who gets eaten is YOU.

    “The NATO Military Committee openly discusses a preemptive attack on Russia.”

    Uhhh, that might be signaling an Act of War? As the Russians immediately said? “Yes, they are now admitting what they have always done.”

    Since we’re dealing with glue-sniffing, inbred, drooling morons, Europe said what? Oh they were doing a DEFENSIVE, pre-emptive attack. That is, they were going to wait for Russia to attack them to attack Russia FIRST. Um. Those words no mean what you think they mean. In the real world, who attacks first…attacks first? And is therefore the…Aggressor? You don’t Defend to Offend. Those things are…#OPPOSITES? A = A

    To get into like 7th grade level here – still for children, or really, really dumb adults – RUSSIA thinks that they were ALREADY pre-emptively attacked. Dummies. Nothing that happens AFTER your Pearl Harbor is, like, a surprise.

    “Japan attacked every ship in the fleet in Pearl Harbor, but now for some reason is massing in the Pacific! Whatever can it mean? Possibly they have intentions of war against us? Can’t figure it out!” (And won’t ask.) Yeah, THAT is the level of the West. We so TRICKY! Boy we outsmarted the Russkies, who will never see us coming! As we publish yet another Public Paper! Front page, “Guardian”, “London Times”.

    Again, as per PCR’s concerns: IF Trump gets in and swaps Treasury Secretaries, Europe collapses, starting with UK. Sound like worthy of a war? A nuke?

    “Washington and London — the latter with the former’s assent — have now authorized the grossly irresponsible regime in Kiev to fire American– and British-made missiles into Russian territory.”

    Hahahahaha! No they didn’t, BOTH are incapable of doing so. The U.S., in uniform, did. Back to them being Storm Shadows, Luongo points out that all ATACMs sent are 100-mile. That is, purposefully very short. However, even in the small area under question, they flew further than any official ATACMs we sent. That doesn’t mean they’re StormShadows, but they are off-ranch. You think Dr. No can’t “Liberate” an ATACM somewhere in the totally unaudited $40 Trillion U.S. military and shoot, blackmail for one MILLLLLLLION Dollars??
    POWER
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    Okay, so “Biden” did this. First, we all know there’s no “Biden”. And also no press release on it? “Biden” never said anything about it in public? ‘Cause he totally did that and that’s all normal? No. Again, oh I dunno, UK had a test ATACMs supposed to be locked on base in Proton Down or something, but it “Blew up” and they had to write it off, trust us. Just one scenario.

    Speaking of Pentagon, this spokeswoman thinks it’s sooper funny we have no idea where anything is and never passed an audit and never will:

    Suck it, peasants!

    “Researchers have discovered that “nuclear winter” would quickly set in across the globe, blotting out sunlight and wiping out agriculture, with a human survival rate of perhaps 1 or 2 percent.”

    That’s actually not true, but Shhhhhh. People aren’t nearly scared ENOUGH, so add anything you honestly can to get their attention.

    “• Musk Hits Merkel ‘Below The Belt’ – German Media (RT)
    This is not the first time Musk has insulted German politicians.”

    How dare he??? All politicians, and Trump all day, every second of every minute of every hour of every day of every year for a DECADE, but insult ONE German? Well, I say! This aggression will not stand!
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    “• F-35 is Modern Rube Goldberg Machine, Musk is Right to Criticize It (Sp.)

    How dare he? Well I say old chum! Criticize a plane that for no logical reason has bankrupted the U.S. and made the entire Air Force useless and unsafe? While sidelining all British carriers as well? (They were supposed to carry this plane, but can’t). Well that’s a bridge too far! You’re supposed to have no (medical) curiosity about these things! No Military Awareness or history. And DO WHAT YOU’RE TOLD.
    “he killed people because he had skepticism” that’s what I say!

    Christmas: I was going to say that here, with no Halloween, suddenly and inexplicably vanished countywide, also skipped right into Christmas. Whaaaa? Like we RAN from the zombie evil and can’t wait to get to Christ, but all unconsciously? For wha??? I don’t get it, but that’s what happened.

    #175420
    Dr. D
    Participant

    “Dr D is telling us that we are over reacting?”

    “We Make S—t Up!” You know, it’s no good to claim I said, “Let’s all take an ice cream truck to the moon” when everyone here reads exactly the same thing. They all read what I say, you know. It’s like you’re 5 years old. You’re not super-tricking anyone. They are also RIGHT HERE IN THE ROOM. You lie when everyone here knows you’re lying. YOU know you’re lying. But you just Make S—t Up! Then everyone knows you’re the kind of person who just Makes S—t Up! About everything! So thanks, I guess?

    The Fake thing is not equal the real thing? Everyone is watching you say True = False every day. Fake = Real. Pretend = Not Pretend. I PRETENDED to be a king today, that makes me a king. So we ignore that I am NOT a king. But if they ACT like I’m a King? Reality still matters, they will remove a King that isn’t the true king. Fake ≠ Real. That is to say “Reality Exists.” Each day you say Reality does not exist while everyone watches you.

    So: Good Job. My work here is done.

    My actual point, where I can’t actually be overreacting because I’m saying we’re on the brink of WWIII and the collapse of all our nations, including 400M in Europe, is that you can’t abduct and murder 6 year old Jewish girls off the street. Your logic requires this. If Jews are evil from birth, by genetics, then surely sneaking into their houses and murdering a dentist or two is saving the planet for all humanity, right? Surely murdering Jewish infants in the incubator in the hospital is a Good Thing™, right? That’s the only logical conclusion if it’s “Jewishness”. To NOT kill 6 year old Jewish girls on sight in WalMart is the real crime, and when you do that is how people will know you are the “Good People”, upright, honest, and doing God’s work…right?

    My point – besides exposing your diabolical evil nature and that you are a danger to all around you – is that IF THERE ARE INDIVIDUALS, then people are Individually responsible for their individual crimes. And that COLLECTIVE PUNISHMENT IS A WAR CRIME. UN, World Court, registered, wherever it is found. But your deepest, most active, soul-blackened core is that we must execute collective punishment. Hey – isn’t that just like Gaza and Lebanon? Huh. Funny world. Collective punishment is apparently only for SOME people: people you hate. So we collectively punish those who collectively punish? We Fight for Peace? We f—k for virginity? We Enslave for Freedom? Fill in your own here.

    IF there is any such thing as an individual, that is not done. If you think Collective punishment is wrong, as in Gaza, then it’s wrong. You don’t’ think it’s wrong, just that you want to commit what is evil to a DIFFERENT people. Perfectly happy to commit evil in all cases then.

    The rest of us are not Insane like that. We have this weird belief that if something is wrong, it’s actually wrong.

    Now aren’t there some cradles you need to go strangle or something all you Good™, moral, trustworthy people? I mean, since Racism is the core of your worldview n’ stuff.

    #175421
    Mister Roboto
    Participant

    From Paul Craig Roberts:

    With life on earth dependent on Putin’s patience with the West, what does the West do? The NATO Military Committee openly discusses a preemptive attack on Russia. To be effective, the attack would have to be nuclear.

    I don’t know if that last sentence is necessarily true, but with the recent change in Russia’s nuclear-weapons doctrine, any such massed attack on Russian territory wouldn’t necessarily have to be nuclear for Russia to respond with her nuclear arsenal. For once, PCR’s heated rhetoric may be completely justified. I can only hope these discussions of an attack on Russia are merely a feint by NATO to possibly trick Russia into doing something rash and ill-advised.

    #175422
    Red
    Participant

    “Like we RAN from the zombie evil and can’t wait to get to Christ, but all unconsciously? For wha???”
    Err Docktor it’s for the sales they think will materialize out of thin air. Ramp up that movement of useless commercial goods, that aren’t necessities, while there is still a chance to move them and make some coin. The era of selling disposable trinkets is fast coming to a close in the west. Securing of food, dry accommodations and heat will soon be the only things on the minds of most. Fantasies will still abound but the ability to achieve these fanciful machinations will soon be the thing of comic books.
    Fiat monies = big lie.

    #175423
    chooch
    Participant

    #175424
    Just Some Randomer
    Participant

    “I don’t know if that last sentence is necessarily true…”

    Well unless the Pentagon is hiding some top-secret Oreshnik type weaponry that actually works (a possibility, I suppose) then I can’t conceive of how, and with what weapons, the West could conduct an effective pre-emptive attack on Russia that doesn’t involve mushroom clouds.

    Any attempt to marshal a large invasion force of infantry, tanks and what have you in Europe would (literally) be visible from space months in advance and thus could not be pre-emptive. Russia would probably just sink all of the handful of troop transports the US is capable of deploying as they cross the Atlantic.

    Hiring Tom Cruise to fly some super-stealthy mission in his F18 to drop conventional bombs on Moscow is hardly likely to do more than bring down a few buildings and thus would not be effective at achieving anything strategically significant.

    Maybe they could drop some Tomahawks on a Nuclear plant somewhere in Russia – that would be effective, but mostly in the sense of provoking a hypersonic nuclear response.

    Seems to me there’s a huge gap in the escalation ladder between the highest rung of what the West can do with our outdated, and hardly plentiful, conventional forces and the very top (nuclear) rung. We’ve tried everything and have now reached the point where there’s literally only that one rung left. It’s a big jump to reach it, but it looks like we have just the kind of lunatics in charge that are prepared to give it a try. A number of them have said so, publicly, on TV in the past week.

    Remember the point JFK made in his speech on June 10th 1963 at American University about the absolute necessity of never putting a nuclear capable power in a position where it has to choose between a humiliating defeat and nuclear war? Well guess what? We’ve done exactly that – to ourselves.

    #175425
    Dr. D
    Participant

    True but I guess I should be more specific. I would never say I saw this in shops and stores without adding that specifically. — And who would know which direction my default and burden-of-proof is? I mean that I saw the fun Halloween lawn displays missing at homes. And now I see all Christmas stuff going up before Thanksgiving at homes.

    Stores do a lot of dumb s–t that a clueless out of touch corporate just tells them too, and yes, I see Xmas in WalMart now already, but these look like last year’s decorations, not something new.

    DOES this mean anything? I have no idea, I’ve never seen it before.

    Oddly, I have the impression that the default-we-just-do-this, there’s no drive or spirit of it in the stores either. That is, they’re stocking merely to not have vacant shelves in a Depression, and don’t really expect all that much to get sold. …But again, that’s a very intangible impression.

    #175426
    oxymoron
    Participant

    Dr D. Dragons are banks. They hoard gold and valuables far away in caves and have spells and wipe out entire villages with the breath of flames that sucks the oxygen out of all endeavour. They covet in the dark.

    #175427
    John Day
    Participant

    Vaya con Dios, Ilargi.

    #175428
    Dr. D
    Participant

    “I don’t know if that last sentence is necessarily true…”

    It’s actually worse than that. Or better. Russia now can NUKE US WITH IMPUNITY. That is, Oreshnik is a de-facto nuke. But the WEST can’t cry big tears and say “We been nuked! Push ‘The Button’!!!” The PEOPLE won’t stand for it and they have to sell all this to the public or get dragged out of their homes.

    So in a sense, Russia can “Nuke” us all day long now. Bases in Syria, Iraq, Diego Garcia, all over. We are in a post-nuclear age. Again that LOWERS the threshold — obviously — as they can “nuke” just one missile factory and deep NATO base with all NATO generals inside. They can “Nuke” HMNB Clyde in Argyll, perhaps, and nothing happens because it’s just a “Conventional” attack. Same as a hand grenade! See the problem?

    …Of course that’s not a problem IF YOU LEAVE PEOPLE ALONE. Then it’s actually the solution. …And golly gosh Trump removed us from the Pershing missile treaty that allowed Russia to solve this problem, darn.

    #175429
    Red
    Participant

    Dr. D here in my neck of the woods xmas decor starts showing up in stores and around homes on Nov.1.
    Way back when I was running from the T-rexs and such it didn’t start showing up anywhere until Dec.1. Ahh but I digress, those days are now the area of expertise best covered by anthropologists digging through our midden mounds. Most likely looking for something to eat as much as documenting history.

    #175430
    Red
    Participant

    Apologies if already posted.

    https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russian-state-media-how-fast-can-oreshnik-missile-hit-us-bases-across-world

    How fast can the Oreshnik missile hit US bases across the world?

    1. Middle East Distance and flight time from southern Russia:

    US airbase in Kuwait: 2,100 km, 11 minutes;

    US 5th Fleet Headquarters in Bahrain: 2,500 km, 12 minutes;

    US Air Base in Qatar: 2,650 km, 13 minutes;

    US Air Base in Djibouti: 4,100 km, 20 minutes.

    2. Pacific and Alaska Distance and flight time from Kamchatka:

    Air Base in Alaska: 2,400 km, 12 minutes;

    US Air Force and Navy Base in Guam: 4,500 km, 22 minutes;

    US Air Force and Navy Bases in Pearl Harbor: 5,100 km, 25 minutes.

    3. Minuteman III missile silos Distance and flight time from Chukotka:

    Minuteman III missile silos in Montana: 4,700 km, 23 minutes;

    Minuteman III missile silos in Minot,

    North Dakota: 4,900 km, 24 minutes.

    #175431
    ByronBishop
    Participant

    Stay safe, Illargi, and be well.

    #175432
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Every London webcam is down, every British ship is coming home.

    Huh. Nothing unusual here, that is not suspicious at all.

    Be sure: nothing’s going to happen in the next 30 days. The CIA isn’t made out of British OSS, nor has Britain ever acted against the Russians.

    #175435
    zerosum
    Participant

    Today’s simple messages.
    Solutions.
    Learn
    Make it work
    Make it happen

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    Learn. Hate is a tool
    https: //x.com/ricwe123/status/1861384823610179589?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1861384823610179589%7Ctwgr%5E4979cc0829c75d299cb0eacd5c5fd8a33c456cfc%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theautomaticearth.com%2F2024%2F11%2Fdebt-rattle-november-27-2024%2F

    Every time the US government wants to overthrow a government they often use extremists to do their dirty work.
    In Ukraine, they backed white supremacist braindead nazi’s to overthrow the government in 2014.
    Extremists are more violent, easier to motivate and cheaper to train..
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    come out of the dark: Learn
    Dr. Casey Means: ” I learned virtually nothing at Stanford Medical School about the tens of thousands of scientific papers that elucidate these root causes of why American health is plummeting and how environmental factors are causing it.”
    https: //x.com/newstart_2024/status/1861480739058938245?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1861480739058938245%7Ctwgr%5E4979cc0829c75d299cb0eacd5c5fd8a33c456cfc%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theautomaticearth.com%2F2024%2F11%2Fdebt-rattle-november-27-2024%2F
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    The Trump team is not making this mistake again.

    In the first Trump administration, the GSA had wiretaps, office bugs, and gave all the electronic communication information from the Trump transition to the FBI, IC and later Robert Mueller.
    In essence, the GSA spied on the Trump team, then gave all the data to the operatives who were in place to target them.

    Trump Transition Team Signs Modified White House Agreement, Without Govt Technology to Conduct Surveillance


    Trump Transition Team Signs Modified White House Agreement, Without Govt Technology to Conduct Surveillance

    November 26, 2024 | Sundance | 254 Comments
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    Peace: Make it work
    • Israeli-Hezbollah Truce Takes Effect (RT)
    https://swentr.site/news/608256-lebanon-hezbollah-israel-ceasefire/

    A ceasefire between Israel and the Lebanon-based armed group Hezbollah, brokered by the US and France, came into force at 4 am local time on Wednesday. There were no immediate reports of violations.
    27 Nov, 2024
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    Peace: Make it work
    • Ukraine Could Be Pushed Into Negotiations ‘Within Months’ – WaPo (RT)
    https://swentr.site/news/608250-ukraine-negotiate-russia-territory/

    US President Joe Biden’s recent decision to allow Ukraine to use US-supplied ATACMS missiles to strike deep into Russian territory, as well as his move to provide Kiev with banned landmines, were made in the hope that it would give the country the “the strongest hand possible” before any potential negotiations with Moscow after Trump takes office in January.
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    come out of the dark: Learn

    • The Utter and Total Insanity of Western “Leadership” (Paul Craig Roberts)

    The Utter and Total Insanity of Western “Leadership”


    November 26, 2024
    Admiral Rob Bauer, the insane fool who is head of the NATO military committee, said publicly that NATO has changed its attitude and is no longer the defense organization that its charter defines it to be.
    It has become a first strike force.
    Here are his words: “It is more competent not to wait, but to hit launchers in Russia in case Russia attacks us.
    A combination of precision strikes is needed that will disable the systems that are used to attack us, and we must strike first.”
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    All risks are acceptable to cling to power.
    They will risk another world war.
    They will risk nuclear annihilation.
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    Last year, under the euphemism of “modernization,” the U.S. government spent $51 billion — more than every other nuclear-armed country combined — updating and sustaining its nuclear arsenal, gaining profligate momentum in a process that’s set to continue for decades to come.
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    Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who was picked by President-elect Donald Trump to co-lead the new Department of Government Efficiency.
    “Manned fighter jets are obsolete in the age of drones anyway. Will just get pilots killed,” he added.
    Musk is correct in his assessment of the Lockheed Martin F-35 fighter, retired US Air Force Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski, a former Pentagon analyst, tells Sputnik.
    Mario Nawfal appears to share Musk’s skepticism: “China is building swarm drones,”
    Nawfal tweeted. “Meanwhile some idiots are still building manned fighter jets like the F-35,” he quoted Musk •
    Matt Gaetz, a former US congressman and Trump pick for attorney general, called the F-35 “a $100 million paperweight”
    earlier this year • Adam Smith, the Democratic chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, dubbed the F-35 a “rathole” in March 2021.
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    #175436
    jb-hb
    Participant

    Dr D. Dragons are banks. They hoard gold and valuables far away in caves and have spells and wipe out entire villages with the breath of flames that sucks the oxygen out of all endeavour. They covet in the dark.

    That was fucking awesome

    #175437
    phoenixvoice
    Participant

    Dr D posted- Hannah Arendt
    A people that can no longer distinguish between truth and lies cannot distinguish
    between right and wrong.

    My spouse watches independent media that blasts Trump for neocon cabinet picks; he says that he knew that Trump never could be trusted, etc.

    I am not familiar enough with the reputed neocon cabinet picks to genuinely evaluate one way or the other. Perhaps those doing the evaluations have that familiarity — but perhaps not. Regardless, passing final judgment on a presidency that has not yet begun seems a mite bit premature. I am certain that some of Trump’s future actions as president I will agree with, some I’ll be neutral, and for some others I will be incensed.

    Regardless, passing judgment before inauguration seems to play into the desires of the deep state — whether those encouraging such judgment are direct appendages of the deep state or independent actors whose messages happen to align currently with deep state tactics and designs. The deep state does not want to lose power. That is the larger battle going on here. Giving up on the battle before it commences by deciding that Trump is a puppet of the deep state is abdicating victory to the deep state. The deep state can only be vanquished when those in opposition stand together and stand firm — the coalition must stand and not be frayed to bits before Jan. 20. This is the larger picture.

    #175438
    jb-hb
    Participant

    As far as accusing people of being evil Jews or Jew-sympathizers or whatever — if you do this from a place of integrity, surely you’d WANT to bring the receipts. Quotes would be the most obvious one.

    You can’t actually argue with someone if you don’t actually address their position. Ultimately, if you wanted to act with integrity, you’d have to not only use quotes, but take your opponent’s description of their actual message into account. And if you believe they are insincere, then you’d have options such as drawing contradictions out of them in discussion. As opposed to just flinging poo.

    Goes the other way too. Someone quotes you or says “you seem to be consistently working your way towards xyz thing” and total silence in response, never addressed, as if it never happened. That’s decidedly unnatural in an argument or discussion, as most people want their objective or beliefs, position to be understood — if they have integrity. People without integrity “argue” for a goal but want their purpose or beliefs to NOT be understood.

    You tend to see people, accused of something they do not like, do not believe, do not stand for, enthusiastically disavow it because, of course, it’s something they don’t like. If a person disavows genocide, then advocates for 10 different genocidal things, you’ve got them then, haven’t you? So a person who will NOT disavow an obviously objectionable thing is a bit of a red flag as well.

    IGNORING SOMEONE’S DISAVOWALS – AND NOT USING THE DISAVOWAL TO CATCH THEM LATER – would indicate lack of integrity as well. You want xyz good thing but somehow magically never ever do the thing that gets you it the easiest most effective way. Weird.

    If you want to display yourself publicly as having no leg to stand on and/or a secret agenda, do those two things in an argument and get de-pantsed. And if you keep going with your pants down like all you have to do is avoid discussion (because not-discussing is winning) and everything is fine, well…

    https://theawesomedaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/saggypants.png

    #175439
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Thank you. And yes, “Here there Dragons be.”

    #175440
    Doc Robinson
    Participant

    “According to Biden, the truce is intended to be permanent.”

    According to Craig Murray, who is currently in Lebanon, the truce is “a smoke and mirrors trick by the USA and Israel”, similar to the Minsk Agreements.

    Please listen to this carefully. The Lebanese ceasefire agreement is a smoke and mirrors trick by the USA and Israel. They have no intention of keeping it; comparable to the Minsk Agreements.

    There is still an Israeli drone over my head in central Beirut, which is a good indication of how Israel view their rights under this lopsided “ceasefire agreement”.

    https://xcancel.com/CraigMurrayOrg
    https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1861494794234613760/pu/vid/avc1/1280×720/0cdmJxRvWjxIyD_s.mp4?tag=12

    #175441
    John Day
    Participant

    Gaius Baltar: THE JAGUAR EXPERIMENT FASCISM FOR THE GOOD PEOPLE
    https://gaiusbaltar.substack.com/p/the-jaguar-experiment

    Jag

    #175442
    zerosum
    Participant

    The Harris video is not the problem.
    The media and the democrats advisors are the problem.

    #175449
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Pace of the magnetic pole drift seems to be a lot faster in the last 75 years

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    #175450
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Russia’s New “GAME CHANGER” Missile: Larry Johnson

    Unlike the F-35 Lardbucket ‘game changer”, the Russians have actually introduced a Brand New Chess Piece for the 5-D chess board

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    #175451
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Dedicated to the Empire of Lies

    There are whole books on psychology that don’t get anywhere near this paragraph from Dostoevsky

    Ta-Da

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    #175452
    Oroboros
    Participant

    #175453
    Oroboros
    Participant

    The entirety of the Joe Rogan <> Marc Andreeseen podcast is fascinating, but please, please listen to this part.

    “The abuse of power within unaccountable (and arguably unconstitutional) federal agencies has become so extreme the stories are almost unbelievable.”

    https://x.com/i/status/1861638586573169043

    #175454
    citizenx
    Participant

    98% of ‘Jews” don’t have ANY Semite blood as per DNA testing
    Like None.

    BS, 100% do not have “Jewish blood”.

    Like I said- there are no Religions on this planet that are also a “race” of people.
    There is no Shinto, Hindu, Muslim, Christian, Amish Race- just as a Jew ‘race’ does not exist.
    Jews completely fabricated their “race” lie. When your religious ideology is mental illness narcissism of being the
    ‘chose ones’..,it may just lead to mass murdering others.

    Religions are faith/ belief based- just like transgender crap. Belief and faith do not make it true.

    The DNA testing has been a recent phenomenon. You write like you are unaware of this. Educate yourself a bit.

    Recent phenomena eh? Is that Fauci speak for “speed of science” bullshit?
    PCR tests, run improperly at too many cycles, increased “covid cases” too. Educate yourself on who is running these ‘dna’ tests- which continues to run cover for the “Jew Race” lies. You orob, write like YOU are unaware of this.

    EXACTLY what the fucking Vatican and Catholic Church have done being fake ‘christians’ for centuries.

    Bullshit- where and when have Christians claimed they are a Race? Nowhere. Definitely not EXACTLY what the Jew liars have done. If you are not actively practicing that Religion- then you cannot in good faith claim that you are one of them.

    “Jews” who are not actively going to the temple are NOT Jews. They are playing the Jew “Race” card- which is complete bs.
    Calling yourself Catholic when you do not go to church or pay the Church- is being disingenuous.
    Jews who claim they are Jews for life because of their “special jew blood” are liars.
    Jews who claim they are Jews because their Mommy claims she is Jewish are liars.
    Notice that if you have a Jew daddy, but not a jew mommy- you can’t claim to be a Jew- fake daddy jew blood or not.

    Educate yourself Orob.

    The fucking Catholic church has a slime trail of blood and gore, pillage and
    plunder for centuries since the fall of Rome

    Catholics do NOT claim they are a Race or a Nation State.
    Jews have an elaborate victim card of their precious Jew blood being gassed (fraud) and have been busy genociding, stealing and lying for their entire existence. 58 standing ovations for Bibi Jew scum with an arrest warrant for war Crimes.

    It’s the fake Jews not the real Jews

    What a complete crock of retarded bullshit you are peddling. There is no Jew race. Jews are not and will not ever be a separate “Race”. Educate yourself.

    #175455
    John Day
    Participant

    Thankful No World War Yet https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/thankful-no-world-war-yet

    I feel like I always write the same essay about the world being at the inflection-point where oil-driven industrial economy has stalled and is awaiting the inevitable decline, while the financial system, predicated upon exponential growth, is cracking everywhere, yet sustained by the widespread faithful belief that rich people everywhere are getting richer as their stock valuations rise year after year.
    The actually powerful people who are financially served by BlackRock, for example, know the actual score of this musical chairs game, and have every intention of holding chairs when the music stops, forcing all others to exit the ownership-game empty handed, “accepting all of the losses”. This includes a lot of upper and mid-level managers, whose service maintains the workings of the real economy, and it includes all of the military and police “enforcers” of the system of ownership-of-real-wealth, so how will “ownership” be maintained by these elites who hold some form of “titles”? Others also have valid claims upon real wealth, and this has to be sorted out politically or the goose that lays the golden-eggs, modern-industrial-economy, will promptly die.
    The “Owners” need a scary enough emergency to maintain their hierarchical power, and to maintain the obedience of the management and enforcement classes. The International-Bankers and BlackRock asset-holders need something like World War-3, but that will also destroy much of their real-wealth, as it permanently destroys much of modern industrial economy. It’s paradoxical, but they cannot let go. They just cannot let go of “power”. It is beyond them.
    This actual desperation makes their insane threats of starting Armageddon more realistic to those who are able to be more rational, due to holding better options, and being ascendent rather than declining in industrial and military power.
    Though politicians usually have the job of delivering the people “willingly” to the plans of the owners, they sometimes have other work to do, re-negotiating the social contract so that society does not collapse and fail to feed everybody. China went through that under Mao, rising out of it under Deng Xiao Peng. Russia reached bottom under globo-cap hostage, Boris Yeltsin, who chose a unique successor, who appeared to be an ordinary bureaucrat, but had organizational super-powers and a historic vision to restore the land his parents both almost died for.

    We are at a point of agonal uncertainty as ordinary humans, feeling the tension, but misunderstanding it in terms of mundane politics, not comprehending the underlying crisis of real-economy. Even elites, even very old trillionaire-families tend strongly to denial when reality threatens them existentially. Who, in their employ, will serve the owners the bad news harshly enough to induce them to relinquish assets, in order to maintain systemic function, when they presume that others in their position will not relinquish assets, and so will surpass them in the game, whether it crashes or not?

    This class of decision-makers has been shielded from the fatal results of their actions by deep bunkers and invisibility of movement in the world, but both are now called into question, and they may be targeted effectively by precision accuracy Oreshnik missiles which can take out any bunker in London or even New York in under 20 minutes, and without prior warning as to the actual target.
    Perhaps an example might be made in the “Square Mile” of London, for instance, to help make this point more clearly pertinent to them in a personal way.

    We really need to take on this big, huge, messy challenge of declining energy and mineral resources constructively in our world, rather than blowing up things we can’t rebuild going forward, things we still, currently need to survive.

    The Honest Sorcerer, A Diesel Powered Civilization​ Part 2: Coping with a difficult reality https://thehonestsorcerer.substack.com/p/a-diesel-powered-civilization-51d

    ​ US and UK ‘directly involved’ in Nord Stream sabotage – Russia’s spy chief
    American and British saboteurs were behind the blasts that crippled the key pipelines, Sergey Naryshkin has said​ https://swentr.site/news/608206-us-and-uk-intelligence-involved-nord-stream/

    ​ Andrew Korybko examines the potential bankruptcy-sale of Nordstream for pennies on the dollar to a US investor, which could become a joint venture with Russia and Germany, even with aspects of making amends, presumably without confessing guilt. Only bankers/investors would take losses.
    ​ Why Might The US Let An American Investor Purchase The Bankrupt Nord Stream Project?​ https://korybko.substack.com/p/why-might-the-us-let-an-american

    It is not “insane” for a puppet to obey orders from the owners, is it? Joe Rogan launches tirade against Zelensky (VIDEO)
    The US president’s decision to authorize long-range missile strikes on Russia is “f**king insane,” the podcast host has said​ https://swentr.site/news/608193-joe-rogan-biden-zelensky/

    #175456
    John Day
    Participant

    Patrick Lawrence, Biden’s “Samson Option”
    ​ We know now the risks those devoted to prolonging the imperium’s final phase will take in defense of the no-longer-defensible: All risks are acceptable as they cling to power. They will risk another world war; they will risk nuclear annihilation.
    ​ We hear a lot these days about the Israeli doctrine known as the Samson Option, whereby the Israelis, if they thought themselves under an existential threat, would use their nuclear arsenal to bring the world down with them. Those freak-show terrorists running the Zionist state, you might say: Who or what could be more diabolic?
    ​ It is a reasonable question. But there is no longer any pretending as to the unique perversity of terrorist Israel and its Samson Option. America in its post–Sept. 11 phase — fearful, viewing itself as threatened by history itself — has just proved equally perverse, equally diabolic, equally given to contempt for the human cause.
    ​ There is a greater and lesser way to understand the U.S. decision to authorize the use of Western-supplied missiles against Russian targets. It is partly a matter of passing politics, this is to say, and partly a question of the dynamics of late-imperial ideology.​ https://consortiumnews.com/2024/11/25/patrick-lawrence-bidens-samson-option/

    ​ “After us, silence”: Russia’s “apocalyptic” troops officially engaged in the special military operation
    For the first time, the Russian Federation has used its Strategic Missile Forces – and this is just the beginning of the escalation.​ https://strategic-culture.su/news/2024/11/23/after-us-silence-russias-apocalyptic-troops-officially-engaged-in-the-special-military-operation/

    ​Mike Mihajlovik has a lot of important context and technical information: “Oreshnik” Enters The Chat [i] Hypersonic missile attack on Dnipro — warning shot https://bmanalysis.substack.com/p/oreshnik-enters-the-chat-i

    John Helmer explains Russia’s new nuclear doctrine. THE UKRAINE WAR AFTER THE PENNY HAS DROPPED – MAKE THAT THE ORESHNIK
    ​ No NATO staff group, no Anglo-American target intelligence unit in bunkers in Kiev or Lvov are safe any longer. Nor are Vladimir Zelensky and his advisors. To escape Israeli-precedent decapitation, they must all decamp to the Ukrainian war operations mock-up already prepared on the Polish side of the border.
    ​ Ukrainian military intelligence head, Kirill Budanov, has claimed that the Oreshnik strike on the Yuzhmash (Pivdenmash) plant in Dniepropetrovsk is “just a cipher…We know for sure that as of October they were supposed to make two research samples, maybe they made a little bit more, but believe me, this is a research sample, but not yet serial production, thank God.”
    ​ “Wishful thinking,” a NATO military source comments. “He’ll get the chance to find out first- hand.”​…
    ​..Russian military sources add that, following disclosure of the Kremlin’s back-channel talks with Donald Trump and his advisors on terms for an end-of-war settlement, the Oreshnik is the signal that the “General Staff are talking directly to Trump & Co.” Putin was explicit in his first announcement of the Oreshnik firing: “We believe that the United States [President Trump] made a mistake by unilaterally destroying the INF Treaty in 2019 under a far-fetched pretext.”​…
    ​..With an estimated 1,500 kgs of combat payload, lifting to a maximum height of 12 km and moving at a speed of Mach 10, the Oreshnik launched from Kaliningrad would strike Warsaw in 1 minute 21 seconds; Berlin, 2 min 35 sec; Paris, 6 min 52 sec; London, 6 min 56 sec.​ https://johnhelmer.net/the-ukraine-war-after-the-penny-has-dropped-make-that-the-oreshnik/#more-90680

    ​ Pepe Escobar: Oreshnik – The 3 Km Per Second Plot Twist
    Martyanov: “NATO has zero capability to stop Russia’s long-range fires.” The “demo” also happens to be paired with a new shot at making war a relatively civil affair: Moscow will warn civilians of any impending Oreshnik strike. Those that won’t leave will do so at their own peril.
    As Martyanov remarked, “this is not anymore just SMO”. Indeed: for quite a while we have been way past a special military operation: this is a do-or-die NATO v. Russia hot war​”. Aggravated by the fact that the Hegemon’s ruling elites are congenitally incapable of stop escalating…
    ..For all the inbuilt dementia of the current – exiting – administration, Americans who only understand the world via movies may have forgotten that it was Trump 1.0 who withdrew the US from the INF treaty, in 2019. If the US had remained, Russia would not have been able to develop and use Oreshnik.​ https://sputnikglobe.com/20241122/pepe-escobar-oreshnik—the-3-km-per-second-plot-twist-1120965738.html

    #175457
    John Day
    Participant

    G​ilbert Doctorow, Vladimir Putin’s decree on the new RF nuclear arms doctrine, 19 November 2024
    ​ The first and most important thing that one can say about Russia’s new doctrine on nuclear deterrence and the circumstances under which Russia foresees use of its nuclear arsenal against adversaries is the following: it has been tailor-made to fit the situation in which Russia finds itself today with respect to the United States and its NATO allies.
    ​ The doctrine is couched in abstract language without naming names, but behind every clause you can identify a specific threat to Russia that the United States and its allies have been implementing these past few years…
    ​..Note the mention of Russia’s allies as also being covered with its nuclear umbrella. Until recently this sounded like an empty piece of rhetoric. ‘What allies?’ one might ask. But the conclusion of a mutual defense treaty with North Korea leaves no doubt that Russia’s nuclear umbrella is part of their deal. Separate statements coming from both Minsk and Moscow tell us that the nuclear umbrella now covers Belarus. De facto we may suppose that the same goes for Iran, though properly speaking no mutual defense treaty has yet been signed with Teheran.​..
    ..It is worth remarking that many of the items in the list reflect directly what the United States and its NATO allies have done already or are talking about. Among them are a blockade of Kaliningrad, the positioning of NATO infrastructures close to the Russian border, holding war games close to Russia’s borders. The remarks in point h above surely refers to attacks on nuclear power stations, which Ukraine has done using drones and Soviet era missiles. Other items, particularly those that one might call a restoration of Reagan’s Star Wars plans are among the stated intentions of Donald Trump…
    ..Comments by panelist Andrei Klintsevich, RF state counsellor: ​This decree is a timely adaptation of the doctrine to present-day realities, especially as regards dealing with blocs as a whole not as separate states for purposes of retaliation. The intention is for the non-nuclear states among NATO to go to Macron and tell him to just shut up since his words and actions can be used by the Russians against them. Klintsevich also points to the new principle of a Russian nuclear umbrella for its allies. Finally, there is the new concept of extraterritoriality, meaning that Russia will respond with nuclear arms to attacks on its bases outside the RF. He explains ‘nuclear deterrence’ as meaning not a nuclear strike but heightened readiness for such a strike, including decentralization of command to avoid decapitation, putting the nuclear triad on alert such as sending to sea submarines with nuclear strike capability. This document is intended to be kept on the desk of diplomats everywhere…​ https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2024/11/24/vladimir-putins-decree-on-the-new-rf-nuclear-arms-doctrine-19-november-2024/

    ​ Russia Reveals 2 Dead, Radar Site Damaged, After US-Supplied Missiles Struck Kursk
    ​ Crucially this is the first time Russian authorities have acknowledged that the US-supplied long range system has killed Russians. It is a rare and unexpected admission, and is likely geared toward showing the Russian population and Moscow’s allies that it faces an existential threat from NATO.​ https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russia-reveals-2-dead-radar-site-damaged-after-us-supplied-missiles-struck-kursk

    France Backs Ukraine Firing Its Long-Range Missiles At Russia​ https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/france-backs-ukraine-firing-its-long-range-missiles-russia#google_vignette

    ​ Britain and France discussing deployment of troops to Ukraine – Le Monde
    ​ The UK and France have “reactivated” talks on sending troops to Ukraine, French newspaper Le Monde reported on Monday. The idea has already caused a rift among European NATO members.​..
    ​..British and French officials have both suggested that some sort of deployment could be in the works. French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot told British state broadcaster the BBC this weekend that Paris is “not ruling out any option” when asked directly about the possibility of sending French troops to Ukraine.
    ​ A British military source told Le Monde that “discussions are underway between the United Kingdom and France regarding defense cooperation, particularly with the aim of creating a core group of allies in Europe, focused on Ukraine and broader European security.”
    ​ Russia has long claimed that Western special forces personnel are active in Ukraine, and Russian President Valdimir Putin has noted that Ukraine cannot fire long-range missiles into Russian territory without the assistance of Western experts.​ https://swentr.site/news/608188-france-uk-troops-ukraine/

    ​More US ATACMS missiles have hit Russia since Simplicius wrote this. Warning not heeded. Swell of ‘WWIII’ Red Herrings Aims to Drown Out Mounting Russian Success https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/swell-of-wwiii-red-herrings-aims

    #175458
    John Day
    Participant

    Paul Craig Roberts, The Utter and Total Insanity of Western “Leadership”
    ​ With life on earth dependent on Putin’s patience with the West, what does the West do? The NATO Military Committee openly discusses a preemptive attack on Russia. To be effective, the attack would have to be nuclear.
    ​ Admiral Rob Bauer, the insane fool who is head of the NATO military committee, said publicly that NATO has changed its attitude and is no longer the defense organization that its charter defines it to be. It has become a first strike force. Here are his words: “It is more competent not to wait, but to hit launchers in Russia in case Russia attacks us. A combination of precision strikes is needed that will disable the systems that are used to attack us, and we must strike first.”
    ​ If not insanity, it is the triumph of evil that the West tells Putin, whose patience is the only guarantor of avoidance of nuclear war, that NATO is considering preemptive strikes on Russia.
    ​ My warning yesterday and my denunciation of the stupidly insane Western “leaders” who have us slated for total destruction was not strong enough. We now have NATO, a puppet organization of Washington, telling Putin to expect a first strike attack to prevent him from making good on his warning about starting a war with Russia.​ https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2024/11/25/the-utter-and-total-insanity-of-western-leadership/

    ​ Gilbert Doctorow, ‘Judging Freedom’ edition of 27 November 2024: Russia’s Deadly New Missile
    Our chat with Judge Andrew Napolitano opened with a look into the technical achievements that the recently used Oreshnik medium range hypersonic ballistic missile represents and whether there is any justification for its existence having been overlooked by U.S. intelligence. We then moved on to how the Kremlin perceives the seeming defiance of the United States to this new reality of superior Russian arms as witnessed by their further ATACMS strikes in the Kursk region this past Sunday and Monday. This led us to the question of whether the Russians will show forbearance at such provocations while waiting for Donald Trump’s inauguration on 20 January or will carry out a very tough retaliation now as many fear. https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2024/11/27/judging-freedom-edition-of-27-november-2024-russias-deadly-new-missile/

    Thanks Eleni. It Happened Again, Romania Stuns Europe – Nationalist Wins First Place in Presidential Election, First Round
    Make Romania Great Again candidate Călin Georgescu came out of nowhere and has won the first round in the presidential election.
    ​ Georgescu campaigned on an anti-EU, anti-NATO and anti-war with Russia platform; simultaneously supporting domestic farmers, domestic energy production and advocating for a Romania that is free from foreign influence.
    ​ Oh, and instead of traditional media, his campaign message was strongly directed to the Romanian people, via TikTok.​ https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2024/11/24/it-happened-again-romania-stuns-europe-nationalist-wins-first-place-in-presidential-election-first-round/

    ​ Israeli Cabinet Has Approved A Ceasefire In Lebanon
    ​ In announcing the ceasefire, Netanyahu called out both Iran and Syria’s Assad. He stressed that Israel is “Determined to prevent Iran from having nuclear arms” and that Assad is “playing with fire” in his coordination with the Islamic Republic and Hezbollah. The prime minister also stressed that Hezbollah will be attacked if its fighters break the deal. Netanyahu added that the ceasefire deal means Israel will now focus on the Iranian threat. He pledged that all Israeli citizens in the north will be able to return to their homes.
    ​ “We were able to achieve many of our goals during this war,” he said. The ceasefire is expected to take effect Wednesday. Jerusalem Post writes, “Presidents Biden and Macron will announce the deal during the night, with the alleged agreement set to take effect at 10 a.m. tomorrow.”​…
    ​..Israel on Tuesday unleashed what eyewitnesses say marked the biggest airstrikes on Beirut yet, hitting 20 sites across the city’s southern suburbs within two minutes. The Israeli military (IDF) said the air force conducted “a widespread attack” on Hezbollah targets there. “After issuing an unusually broad evacuation warning for 20 buildings in the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital, a Hezbollah stronghold, the IDF said that within two minutes, it had struck all 20 sites,” Times of Israel writes.​ https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/netanyahu-soon-announce-hezbollah-truce-israel-hits-20-sites-beirut-within-2-minutes

    ​ Celebrations Across Lebanon As Ceasefire Holds, Thousands Return To Homes In South
    ​ Celebrations have broken out across Lebanon as the ceasefire between Hezbollah and Israel has held since early this morning. Heavy traffic returned to Beirut, after months of constant aerial bombings mainly of the southern suburbs.
    ​ A main north-south highway, the Sidon-Tyre highway, has been jammed with cars as Lebanese civilians from the southern region can finally return to their homes. “Enough wars, tragedies and catastrophes,” Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati said, hailing the ceasefire deal.​..
    ..Israel is saying that Hezbollah’s capabilities have been set “back many years” and is hoping to return some 80,000 of its citizens to the north, as they’ve been evacuated for over a year of fighting.
    ​ “In the next 60 days, we will see if the goal of the war in the north, as defined, is being realized,” Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said Wednesday. Hezbollah rocket and drone fire was daily up to this point.
    ​ President Joe Biden in his initial remarks Wednesday from the Rose Garden asserted “Let’s be clear: Israel did not launch this war. The Lebanese people did not seek that war either, nor did the United States.”​…
    ​..Iran also praised the ceasefire deal, and that it is holding. “We welcome the ceasefire in Lebanon. After the oppression and criminal bombings by the Zionist regime, tonight the people are experiencing peace,” Iranian parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said.
    ​ Ghalibaf praised that Hezbollah “never allowed even an inch of their land to fall into enemy hands.” He added: “We hope this peace will also be established in Gaza. However, the claim by the criminal Netanyahu that his focus is on Iran is nonsense.”​ https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/celebrations-across-lebanon-ceasefire-holds-thousands-return-homes-south

    #175459
    John Day
    Participant

    ​ Yes, but this may collapse the ICC, too. Netanyahu ‘wanted’: A landmark legal moment in the Palestinian struggle
    ​ The ICC’s arrest warrant for Netanyahu and Gallant has beamed a blinding spotlight on Israel’s war crimes, marking a major legal step in holding Tel Aviv accountable for its atrocities in Gaza, while shaking up the halls of international diplomacy.​ https://thecradle.co/articles/netanyahu-wanted-a-landmark-legal-moment-in-the-palestinian-struggle

    ​ Charles Hugh Smith has constructive analysis, Anti-Progress, Breakdown, Reset
    The indicators of breakdown and collapse are all around us, but we don’t dare name them because then they’d become a problem we can’t bury.​ https://charleshughsmith.substack.com/p/anti-progress-breakdown-reset

    ​”Us” against “Them”: NYT & Bloomberg Bury Rutgers Study Showing DEI Makes People Hostile https://www.zerohedge.com/political/nyt-bloomberg-bury-rutgers-study-showing-dei-makes-people-hostile

    ​ US suffered ‘worst telecom hack’ in history – senator​ (Well, now ​your words ​are in 2 sets of wrong-hands. Don’t even think pre-criminal thoughts…)
    Hackers allegedly exploited systems set up by the US authorities to wiretap Americans​ https://swentr.site/news/608114-us-hacked-spying-backdoor/

    ​Can I get that for a sports-car? China Creates Coating Making Warplanes Invisible to Anti-Stealth Radars https://sputnikglobe.com/20241125/china-creates-coating-making-warplanes-invisible-to-anti-stealth-radars-1120996546.html

    #175460
    John Day
    Participant

    Cut it from the budget… F-35 is Modern Rube Goldberg Machine, Musk is Right to Criticize It – Former Pentagon Analyst https://sputnikglobe.com/20241126/f-35-is-modern-rube-goldberg-machine-musk-is-right-to-criticize-it–former-pentagon-analyst-1121011473.html

    David Stockman does not talk about debt default/restructuring, David Stockman on How To Cut $2 Trillion of Fat, Muscle and Bone From the Federal Budget
    A goal of $2 trillion of budget savings is crucial to the very future of constitutional democracy and capitalist prosperity in America. In fact, the soaring public debt is now so out-of-control that the Federal budget threatens to become a self-fueling financial doomsday machine. So more power to the DOGE of Musk & Ramaswamy. In spades!
    ​ For want of doubt, just recall this sequence. When Ronald Reagan was elected in 1980 on a call to bring the nation’s inflationary budget under control, the public debt was $1 trillion.
    ​ By the time Donald Trump was elected the first time it had erupted to $20 trillion, which has now become $36 trillion. And under current built-in spending and tax policies it will hit $60 trillion by the end of the current 10-year budget window.​ https://internationalman.com/articles/david-stockman-on-how-to-cut-2-trillion-of-fat-muscle-and-bone-from-the-federal-budget/

    ​They can get rid of fluoride quickly and relatively easily, an immediate accomplishment. Florida’s Surgeon General Comes Out Against Fluoride In Water Supply https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/floridas-surgeon-general-comes-out-against-fluoride-water-supply

    ​ Trump Taps COVID-Contrarian, Staunch Public Health Critic Makary For FDA
    ​ Declaring that the FDA has “lost the trust of Americans,” Trump said Makary will “course-correct and refocus the agency,” to include “properly evaluat[ing] harmful chemicals poisoning our nation’s food supply and drugs and biologics being given to our nation’s youth, so that we can finally address the childhood chronic disease epidemic.”
    ​ Makary grew to national notoriety as one of several highly-credentialed physicians who pushed back on many elements of the federal response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Testifying before Congress, Makary said:
    ​ “The greatest perpetrator of misinformation during the pandemic has been the United States government. Misinformation that Covid was spread through surface transmission, that vaccinated immunity was far greater than natural immunity…that myocarditis was more common after the infection than the vaccine…that young people benefit from a booster…” ​ https://www.zerohedge.com/political/trump-taps-covid-contrarian-and-public-health-critic-makary-fda

    ​ Bombshell Fauci Documentary Nails The Whole COVID Charade
    Now, four years later, the entire charade has been exposed piece by piece.
    ​ A new must-watch documentary by two-time Peabody Award-winning and four-time Emmy nominated director Jenner Furst, a self-described progressive who has broken with the Democratic party, ties it all together.​ Thank You, Dr. Fauci​ https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/hey-elon-hey-rand-mega-censored-fauci-documentary-nails-whole-charade

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