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    Salvador Dali The tartan el son 1919   • Russia’s Victory Will Be NATO’s Defeat – Stoltenberg (RT) • NATO Admitted It’s At War With Russia – Medv
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle October 12 2022]

    #118252
    V. Arnold
    Participant

    “..military men are essentially pacifists. That does not mean that they are cowards, it means that, as professionals, they want to achieve their aims avoiding losses as far as possible.”

    This statement is specious at best…
    It has no standing in the reality of our present day world…

    #118253
    Red
    Participant

    “I can no longer remain in today’s Democratic Party that is now under the complete control of an elitist cabal of warmongers ”
    ,because it looks as though I would lose my job next month.

    #118254
    That Bloke
    Participant

    I saw this couple on the evening news on Monday and thought then how the blood looked fake.

    #118256
    teri
    Participant

    I never would have guessed the painting at the top was a Dali. Really nice- very painterly.

    #118257
    Veracious Poet
    Participant

    Joe Biden = officious blowhard.

    How low can “they” go?

    Can you imagine the next puppet autocrat “they” will select for the white house?

    Just how far will “they” pervert & make a mockery of the “justice” system to support neurotic woke partisanship games?

    Seriously, I don’t know how “the people” can keep voting for Clown World?

    Although I accept the ridiculous charade known as politics & government, as de facto reality, I still can’t fathom how “the people” support and/or follow the GOP/DnC grotesqueries…

    Well, I’m stumped at the sheer insanity & needless suffering of it all, not much more to say or add 😐

    Good luck,

    Gary

    #118258
    Dr. D
    Participant

    “Ukrainian ambassador: “Every escalation, they bring in more dangerous people. This guy was known as the Butcher of Syria.”

    Uh-huh. Because, as an ally of Syria, saving them from the United States, he killed Syrians? Or was he the butcher of…the enemy forces? …Which means 1) You’re a General? 2) See #1. JHC. And they’re not “scaring” you, they’re destroying you: they don’t care if you’re scared or not. How can I be sure? All reports are all NATO is out of weapons to ship as they were all destroyed, Europe-wide, as Russia flattened both the 2nd largest army in Europe in weeks, AND then destroyed all military gear in Europe. Reports no tanks, no reasonable way to move and advance troops without heavy losses. Never any reports of jets or aircraft, at any time, for any purpose, since day 1. Total air superiority.

    Go ahead and tell me how they’re losing so badly trading empty territory for heavy casualties. Do that 2-3x and there is no army and you can take all the “Land war in Asia” you want. Mao said the same thing. But they haven’t collapsed yet, so I’m taking an L here, clearly mis-predicted something. (E. European mercenaries paid w US$)

    I see the Economist loves MissTruss. With enemies like these, I like her better and better. Commenters said her (election) policies were very ordinary, just thoughtless, normal Tory things, which had their origin in the 80s. Need to get business some footing with tax cuts, etc. Problem being, as thoughtless in a crisis, their time had passed, and even in the 80s they misunderstood them. That seems a pretty sensible understanding of a back-bencher. No different than we complain about with Ryan, Cruz, Joe, and Hillary. Doddering, brainless dinosaurs, roaming the landscape with petrified ideas. And none of them under 80, same age as our jets.

    I’m sorry: why do British Pensions need cash? Did everyone suddenly retire yesterday? Because otherwise it’s a problem of faith in markets.

    They didn’t list which news source(s) fabricated the Lebanon films. Name n Shame.

    “NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg told reporters on Tuesday that a military victory for Russia in Ukraine would spell defeat for the entire Western alliance.”

    Glad to hear it.

    “Despite this “unprecedented support,” Stoltenberg has repeatedly claimed that “NATO is not a party to the conflict.”

    Yeah, we’ve had to mention that every day. NATO sinks battleships = not in the war. Got it. And all the people believe it, seeing nothing wrong with this logic at all. An army of marching morons, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

    ““Now is the right time to be firm and to be clear that NATO is there to protect and defend all allies.” …by causing a war in their backyard, that will destroy them and not us. As yesterday: “with allies like these…”

    On other note: The UK and Pound is cracking, but the financial collapse has been remarkably slow.

    Covid: share this video. To whom? They are all innoculated against it. Against all science and information, against their friends and family. Against all words and deeds that are not in support of billionaire profit. How, I don’t know, as they’re leftists, but try it yourself if you must.

    “Sweden Won’t Share Findings of Nord Stream Probe with Russia (RT)”

    Is that because the last guy died suddenly? Trust me: if those findings said Boris Badenov did it, they would share, share, share. We always refuse to offer and share evidence that makes our case and creates overwhelming, undermining suspicions: that’s just common sense!

    The Swedish authorities say they found evidence that points to sabotage”

    Again, with reporters and words. Words have no meaning. I don’t own a dictionary. Never called anyone on a phone. Got a participation trophy so never had to admit I was wrong at Columbia J. Therefore I’m perfect fodder for a newsroom!

    What is “Sabotage”? An INSIDE job. A pipe worker “Sabotages” a pipe in secret before it it laid on the ocean, only later realizing the expensive fault. A millworker “sabotages” his machine with a shoe, then takes a 2-hour break while it’s fixed.

    Who is the supposed “saboteur” here? No one. No worker/employee was anywhere near it. No, it is an “Attack”, a “Bombing”, by a state-run military force (due to depth and difficulty), and therefore an act of State Warfare, on the nation state of Germany and Russia, the two owners and participants. I mean, unless you think it was the actual Germany military, directed by the official German Government, it isn’t “sabotage.”

    Words have meanings. No meanings: no words. No words, no logic. #AntiLogos. We are against any mental sense and against anyone reaching the Truth, at any time, for any reason. The Left always attacks language first, middle, and last.

    “”We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.” –CIA Director Casey

    The Right – let’s say Bush – attack people (Plame) and things (Iraq) but not words. They don’t care if you know or not and wouldn’t bother denying it.

    “Russia is running out of missiles!”

    Because this was said, it’s a lie. We are fairly sure Russia has the capacity to manufacture more than they are using. This may be why they’re so sparing with them right now, but still. I suspect rather they produce more but they are sparing bc they need to stockpile many, many more for a possible open field war with NATO, and must create a stunning, overwhelming reserve.

    200 missiles level the country. This tells you what infrastructure can do. Unprotected. Which is not really fair, unlike Carrington, you can’t really protect against modern missile strikes. What would you do? Put all power lines and substations 80’ below ground? Yeah, no. 5GW: you’re totally exposed, and exposed, front line 22,000 miles away. The Satellites can see you.

    “The pipeline explosions seemed to eliminate such a future option.”

    Nope, and that’s why Sweden won’t share: it would ancillarily tell Russia how to repair it. If they repair it = they are not the cause. They must be prevented from reviving the victim or they are not the murderer.

    US LNG: I can’t believe Blair/Saker can’t see this is foolish: the US could NEVER have provided Europe, probably even if they had the ships and ports, which is a planet-sized project, never planned or undertaken. The only POSSIBLE conclusion is we never meant to: the only route is to attack, invade, and steal Russia, first by killing every Slav in a Biden genocide. It’s astonishingly obvious: they had 30 years and built nothing. One small port as eyewash. One city on a continent of 300 million. Total foolishness.

    “The enemies are the hostage-takers, Zelensky and Company.”

    Again with words and the obvious: Zelensky is an actor. He isn’t relevant and doesn’t exist, so we should name the REAL people involved. Can you imagine him taking even another actor hostage, in the green room? Neither can I. He’s lower T with limper wrists than Pete Davidson and the Try Guys. Point? HE is probably the one being held hostage. Hostagee, not hostage-er. So who holds the gun to the head, ’cause it ain’t him.

    “Putin Reveals Russia’s Goals in Global Energy Market (RT)”

    Goal: To sell to anyone including Europe. Clearly. They are not fixing NS2 to NOT sell to Germany, right? They are selling to Italy, right? Note: why do I have to keep saying these most obvious things?

    OPEC is cutting because they merely have considerations of national budget. If they have enough money due to high prices actively and voluntarily caused by Europe (thanks Europe!), they have no need to lose more oil: save it for tomorrow. Also the say Russia led the cuts, even as UAE boycotts Reuters for lying (of course, on the payroll of MI6). They each cut by PERCENTAGES, and Russia as a large nation therefore cuts more barrels. Obvious, normal, average, stuff. Which is why reporters fabricate, invent, misunderstand, and lie about it. Knowingly. If they ever told the truth their mouths would burn with everlasting hellfire.

    “But if George Webb is right, [talks] will take place at the end of the month.”

    And do what? Have complete surrender of NATO and their – and Europe’s – collapse because of it?

    “Zelensky recently signed a decree ruling out any dialogue with Putin’s government.”

    So…peace talks on Ukraine, but Ukraine can’t participate? And yet it’s their war and not NATO’s? Why bother with sense? It just makes things more confusing. Yet no one notices.

    “Kiev Introduces Rolling Power Blackouts (RT)”

    Doing far better than Britain. Lira points out that he will have gas, on the front lines – and RUSSIAN gas at that. Britain will not have gas, 1,000 miles from the front. 5GW, new rules, new ironies.

    Tulsi: I can’t tell where she stands or trust what she stands for especially as she is not in and has no current voting record. It’s all blather. Words. Since with “Political Ironies” all candidates do the exact #OPPOSITE of what they run on. Hope and Change!

    Damien Hirst: I wish more modern artists would set fire to their work. Cold winter, plenty of opportunity.

    #118259
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    @V.Arnold

    In my long life I have probably know dozens of military people (men and women) who would qualify to be called heroes in the sense that they had voluntarily placed their own lives at extreme risk in violent, mortally dangerous combat situations in order to defend the lives of others, but only two of them are known to me personally, by name, and for certain. One was my uncle, Carl Martin, and the other was my Dad, G.W.Smith.

    I won’t regale anyone with their stories, but Uncle Carl served as a Navy Corpsman to Marine combat troops in Vietnam for early 7 years. Dad was a USAF pilot in WW2 flying out of Northern Australia who was shot down and severely wounded on three occasions, one of which involved close quarter hand-to-hand combat in order to survive.

    Both men were gregarious, cheerful, sociable, funny, tolerant and peaceful almost to the extreme. They both knew what violence was, and they absolutely hated it. It was their LAST resort

    #118260
    zerosum
    Participant

    WWIII
    MERCENARIES
    NATO of waging war against Russia “by proxy,”

    TODAY
    Depleted weapons stockpiles/inventory after shipping billions of dollars’ worth of military aid to Ukraine in hopes of helping to defeat Russian forces.

    TOMORROW, DEEPER BANKRUPT
    Rebuilding bankrupt social/economic structures that have been destroyed
    ——–
    MAKE ME
    • Sweden Won’t Share Findings Of Nord Stream Probe With Russia (RT)

    Moscow described as an “act of international terrorism.” US Secretary of State Antony Blinken hailed the attack as a “tremendous opportunity” for Europe “to once and for all remove the dependence on Russian energy.”
    ———-
    • Will They Ever Learn? -answer: probably not- (Saker)

    Putin blew up the “Putin bridge”
    Putin blew up his own pipeline
    “Russia is running out of missiles! Russia is running out of missiles!“
    ———
    HISTORY
    Who remembers
    Who will take a revenge

    Russia has not forgotten the Teutonic Knights in 1242, the Poles in the Time of Troubles (1598-1613), the Swedes at Poltava in 1709, Napoleon in 1812, the Franco-British in 1854-56, the Kaiser in 1914, Hitler in 1941, or Clinton in the 1990s.

    the Chinese have not forgotten the British-run genocide of the Chinese in the Opium Wars, just as the Indians have not forgotten British atrocities in the First Indian War of Independence (the British call it ‘The Indian Mutiny’) in 1857-8, just as the Iranians have not forgotten the overthrow of their democracy by the British in 1953 and then the torture-chambers of the Shah’s secret police.

    What about remembering Cuba, Haiti, Venezuela, etc.
    What about remembering the poor “in your backyard” living on the street.
    ——-

    #118261
    Mister Roboto
    Participant

    #118262
    Kassandra
    Participant

    Yesterday I had a meeting with an HR manager still working for the University of California. A job (and state) I escaped from 2 years ago this month. I asked about the vaccine mandates and was told they are changing the Flu shot to “opt out” (it’s no longer mandatory but you have to actively opt out) and they are doubling down on the Covid mandates, mandating the new booster. When this happens he said the numbers will go from 98% compliance to 10% compliance.

    He thinks by next year they will likely change covid to “opt out” as well, just his hunch at this point.

    So many lives destroyed over this. So many people’s physical and mental health. One can’t help but think this is a sick, coordinated, torture experiment.

    #118264
    zerosum
    Participant

    “So many lives destroyed over this. So many people’s physical and mental health. One can’t help but think this is a sick, coordinated, torture experiment.”

    For me, the only words that have impacted the brainwashed to reflect, are,
    ” Playing russian roulette by taking the vaccine”

    #118265
    boscohorowitz
    Participant

    One surmises significant overlap with the crippling labor shortage and those who refuse to be vaxxed to keep/get a job.

    #118266
    morongobill
    Participant

    Tulsi and the bird photographs, the most beautiful images in today’s post.

    #118267
    DarkMatter
    Participant

    Regarding the question around, did we know about stopping immunization before it entered the market? No. These, um, you know, we had to really move at the speed of science to really understand what is taking place in the market.

    This statement doesn’t say anything about whether they knew about the vaxx stopping transmission or not but it does contain a couple interesting slips:
    1) “did we know about stopping immunization” – The vaccines “stop immunization”, that is, they stop one from getting immunity via natural means. Stunning that she admits this and claims they didn’t know. CYA.
    2) “speed of science to understand what is taking place in the market” – Science for them isn’t about understanding what is happening with people’s health, it’s about understanding “the market”, it’s about making money. No surprise here.

    #118268
    Noirette
    Participant

    bosco posted: Terrorism was always a stupid word.

    Yes…a description that was meant at the start to designate non-state actors or ‘just desperate’ bodies, or, let’s say, those acting against the hegemon USA.

    Palestininan suicide bombers (insofar as they existed..) were hyped and touted as ‘terrorists’, individual ones.

    The bombings in Madrid were the work of ‘terrorists.’ The Bataclan (Paris) was attacked by ‘terrorists.’

    Those attacks were carefully planned to have certain outcomes. Many ‘terrorist’ actions are false flags. They are cheap and relatively easy to organise.

    The word was used to instill fear into ppl, there might be a terrorist in your village, town, on your appartment block, so watch out, be alert, be suspicious, danger is everywhere, etc.

    At the same time, the word was used to denigrate and cancel ‘movements’ of any kind that went one centimeter beyond peaceful submissive protest, terrorists ‘tried to storm the Elysée’ France, etc. And so on…

    Anti-terrorist operations are now hiked up to justify national policies (not really new..), e.g. Russia may turn the SMO into an anti-terrorist Op, to mention one ex.

    The word has no real meaning any longer.

    https://www.britannica.com/event/Madrid-train-bombings-of-2004
    https://www.britannica.com/event/Paris-attacks-of-2015

    #118269
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    The Great Awakening seems to include the nasty hangover.

    #118270
    cloudhidden
    Participant

    @ DB Smith yr comment 118259
    Agree. From personal experience. Knew many like that inc. my father and self.
    Most soldiers abhor war.
    Mercs, however…….

    #118271
    Polemos
    Participant

    Often left out of the transcripts/quotations of J. Small’s response to Roos’ question is the little laugh just after quickly saying “No,” the kind of response and transition one makes to emphasize light dismissiveness of the seriousness and an attempt to produce consensus acknowledgment: as though one shrugs, says “No,” but then says, “Look, here’s how it was really going down” so that her audience also understands what was already understood. Not quite as bad as an “Are you serious? Duh!” but moving in that rhetorical direction. The laugh is recorded in the captioning of the video, but I do not see it mentioned in many of the quotations. Those little details are not often seen in news coverage anyway, though.

    Also, does anyone else notice the Freudian slip in her response as she reframes the question before answering? “Regarding the question around did we know about stopping immunization before it, um, entered the market.” She does shake her head ‘No’ subtly as she says ‘stopping’ but notice the word that follows and compare it specifically to what Roos asked her. ‘Immunization’ is not the same word as ‘transmission’. What does it mean to stop immunization? Is her head language indicating part of her understands she’s about to misspeak, or is it a tacit admission of that foreknowledge regarding the “stopping” and so the dissonance prompts her to switch words midstream?

    Off to see the Wizard . . .

    #118272

    OT
    I’ve got a malware thing that is associated with an ad on the right sidebar “play now” (which has more trees?) that has an X on it. If I’m fast enough to cancel the X the malware (a verification scam) is over- ridden.
    Only on TAE. Only on Safari (not happening on Brave.)
    Anyone else?

    #118273
    Armenio Pereira
    Participant

    Humans consume the equivalent to 254 oil filled Olympic pools per hour (as of 2021, estimated daily oil consumption source here). How many pools of oil do the geological processes produce per hour? We don’t know, therefore all discussions concerning human permanence on the planet are moot.

    Meanwhile, enjoy some beauty

    #118274
    John Day
    Participant

    I am just now able to get onto TAE today, after pop-up spam tried to get me to “allow notifications” to “prove I was not a robot”.
    It was incessant. Glad it’s gone.

    #118275
    Afewknowthetruth
    Participant

    In 1066, ruthless murderers invaded England and subdued the local populace via violence. They catalogued everything worth stealing or taxing, and lived a high life at the expense of the peasants.

    By the early 1600s, ruthless murderers and exploiters had worked out that by invading North America and establishing slave colonies there they could extract more wealth build bigger palaces for themselves etc..

    Around 1695 money-lenders establish control over the international gangsters of England via debt.

    The English money-lenders set up numerous corporations to extract wealth from distant lands and sent in the military to subjugate or kill those who resisted.

    In the late 1700s wealthy landowners in America rebelled because too much wealth was being extracted by the money-lenders from their patch.

    The American rebellion was eventually subdued, and the Americans were eventually brought back into the London-based international money-lender scam.

    Yet to be fully confirmed but I understand that in 1835, King William IV declared Aotearoa to be an independent nation.

    However, [fully documented] in1841, the money-lender-backed corporations tricked representatives of the indigenous [Maori] people into signing a treaty they did not fully understand.

    After crushing indigenous resistance, the various corporations took complete control of the Aotearoa land mass and established a single over-arching corporation that significantly increased the rate of wealth extraction.

    A long succession of fake governments orchestrated and managed the looting and polluting of Aotearoa under the flag of the International Money-lender Empire.

    In 2017 a particularly vicious, but also extremely deceptive, female manger was installed by the corporation as the fake leader, officially called the prime minister.

    By 2021 the actions of the NZ corporation had become so despicable with respect to forcing the unwilling to be subjected to fake ‘vaccines’ that open rebellion amongst the awake broke out. However, the foolish and uninformed continued to comply with the outrageous and arbitrary ‘rules’ invented by agents of the NZ corporation to keep them subjugated..

    By October 2022 the mismanagement of everything by the corporation-installed managers had led to a crisis in all aspects of finance, economics, health, environment, energy and social arrangements.

    Similar multiple-faceted crises are being experienced in all divisions of the global corporate empire.

    I believe that the fake ‘government’ still has sufficient control over ‘the zombies’ that constitute the bulk of the population to continue to operate their nefarious schemes for a while longer.

    However, the system will certainly come tumbling down at some time in the near future because it is predicated on the bulk oif the populace believing obvious fabrications and outright lies.

    Just how soon will it all get very ‘messy?

    New Zealand To Be HIJACKED This Month; New Zealand Is Rising Up Against Their Tyrannical Government

    #118276

    John Day- how did you get rid of it? What browser are you using? That I can work around it doesn’t make me happy. I want to know it is gone. Does its url read (ignore the stars) *guro*shied*?

    #118277
    kultsommer
    Participant

    Tulsi, no doubt, has a hart in the right place. But…
    She is “allowed” to talk (up to the point) as a glimmer, for the time being, of (perpetual) hope and “proof that our democratic system works” and all gifted to us in a form of pretty woman in designer outfit.
    Same goes for the endless Congressional “hearings” where YT titles usually go as : Such-and-such congressman DEMOLISHED such-and-such sleeze bag.

    Peanuts clip or Autumn leaves in general always remind me on Branko Radicevic, (1824-1853):

    Yellow leaves are falling down
    Leaves are yellowing all over the trees
    as of me, green one
    I will never see again…

    Which he did not. Poet, tuberculosis and XIX century – not a good combination. .

    #118278
    Afewknowthetruth
    Participant

    No exit strategy

    #118279
    John Day
    Participant

    A friend sent 15 minutes of Tulsi Gabbard on Joe Rogan:
    Judge for yourself.

    #118280
    John Day
    Participant

    @MPSK: Sorry, it’s just gone now. Some kind of Trojan malware, I’m sure…

    #118281
    Dora
    Participant

    Edward Dowd:

    “It’s beginning in earnest now. Can’t hide the bodies. The current regimes in power will become very desperate indeed. Expect the unexpected. ”

    https://gettr.com/post/p1u2tt99451

    #118282
    oldandtired
    Participant

    @myparents said know

    OT
    I’ve got a malware thing that is associated with an ad on the right sidebar “play now” (which has more trees?) that has an X on it. If I’m fast enough to cancel the X the malware (a verification scam) is over- ridden.
    Only on TAE. Only on Safari (not happening on Brave.)
    Anyone else?

    RIM is directly over the target. Expect more of this.

    #118285
    zerosum
    Participant

    Yep I got it. Only on TAE.
    I close TAE. It’s gone while I’m here. Comes back if I leave TAE open.

    #118289
    John Day
    Participant

    My Substack link is blocked at TAE again today. How “Revealing”. I’ll put a gap after the “dot”
    Look for the 2015 Russian picture of the “Seafox” mine-retrieval (laying) robo-sub by Nordstream-1.

    trying the Google blog link https://www.johndayblog.com/2022/10/revealing.html

    Alastair Crooke opens with The Masque of Pandora Thanks Eleni.
    ​ ​“This time, élites cannot shirk responsibility for the consequences of their fatal errors … Put simply, the emperor has no clothes: The Establishment simply has no message for voters in the face of hardship. The only vision for the future it can conjure up is Net Zero – a dystopian agenda that takes the sacrificial politics of austerity and financialisation of the world economy to new heights. But it is a perfectly logical programme for an élite that has become unhinged from the real world”.​.. ​
    ..Yes, the Beast’s Siren Call is for sacrificial politics to be levered down upon the people, whilst the horsemen of War and Pandemic all scream out that an apocalyptic hour approaches. We may call it a collective syndrome – similar to the Witch Craze of the 14th–17th Centuries – but today, the phenomenon WB Yeats termed the ‘rough beast’ with its’ gaze as ‘blank and pitiless as the sun’, is better known simply as Ideology.
    ​ ​The word ‘ideology’ is often used as a synonym for political ideas, a corruption of language that conceals its fundamentally anti-political, latent totalitarian character. Ideology is incapable of treating human beings as distinct participants in a shared, non-political social life. Today’s woke ideology sees human association rather, as groups to be acted upon. It is explicitly anti-National, anti-Sovereign, anti-Traditional Religion, anti-Traditional Culture, anti-National Infrastructure, and anti-Family.​..
    ..Here is the point: Our disorientation and sense of disappearing sanity owes not a little to the psychic stress of embracing an ideology that purports to be exactly what it is not. Or, in other words, it proclaims liberty and the individual, when concealed within is absolute statism…
    ..When the western financial authorities say they ‘welcome’ a recession to destroy demand – and so to reduce inflation – implicit in this statement is an élite conviction that protest can and will be successfully squashed.
    All the signs are that a ruthless, violent, and administrative suppression of popular disquiet is being contemplated.​..
    ..But if we look back at this pattern, repeating itself, time and time again, we get a clear sense of both the event and of the repeating experience of void. For, it is the insecurity and fearfulness associated with ‘void’ which causes torpor to fade, and people to erupt into rebellious disorder. And why also the attempt by the élite inner circle ‘to manage away’ such awakenings, so easily ends in tragedy (and bloodshed)….
    ..What happens when people awake to the deceit of Totalitarian-Lite posing as liberty and individualism (let alone democracy!). The question then becomes: To what other ‘image-idea’ will the people collectively migrate?
    ​ ​The geo-political implication is that Italy may migrate to one; Germany to another; and France to yet another, and others may just ‘give up’ on the whole mess of European politics (and nihilism will rise). Does this matter? Might it possibly be revitalising?
    ​ ​It does let us address directly the ‘Beast of ideology’, who through ‘his’ own ineptitude, has inadvertently stripped Pandora of her masque, thus opening her box.
    https://strategic-culture. org/news/2022/08/08/the-masque-of-pandora/

    #118291
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    Well it’s round-about and indirect, but if it gets the job done then what the Hell, right?

    For a mere 2 or 3 three grand ($US equivalent) per month per head, NATO is vacuuming up the terrorist dregs from the Middle East and depositing them in the front lines of Ukraine as cannon fodder, where the Russians send them on to their final destination with heavy artillery.

    Diabolical humor at its darkest. Only Satan could laugh.

    #118292
    John Day
    Participant

    ​ ​NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg told reporters on Tuesday that a military victory for Russia in Ukraine would spell defeat for the entire Western alliance. However, despite providing “unprecedented support” to Kiev, Stoltenberg still claims that the US-led bloc is not a party to the conflict…
    ..Asked whether weakening its own forces to strengthen Ukraine’s is a wise policy, Stoltenberg described the conflict in Ukraine as existential to the alliance.
    “If [Russian President Vladimir] Putin wins, that is not only a big defeat for the Ukrainians, but it will be the defeat, and dangerous, for all of us,” he said.​ ​
    https://www.rt. com/russia/564484-russia-victory-nato-defeat/

    ​ NATO needs an excuse to escalate. This is worrisome. They might do a nuclear false-flag attack to steal some “credibility”
    Despite reports of strikes on civilians, there were 14 reported casualties to the many russian missile strikes. Russians targeted command and control centers, military storage of fuel and ammunition, and some electrical providers, expected to limit electric rail transport of military supplies, as well as impairing Ukraine’s ability to wage war.​ Were foreign soldiers killed? Are excuses for foreign military deaths needed?
    ​ ​On Friday, the Ukrainian Special Forces orchestrated a terrorist suicide bombing on the Kerch Bridge, which connects Russia to Crimea. The move came after the former commanding general of the US Army in Europe, General Ben Hodges, urged Ukraine to “drop” the bridge, and current US officials publicly gave a green light to attack it.
    ​ ​Days after the attack, the aim of the Kerch Bridge bombing comes into sharper view. Its purpose was to provoke a military response by Russia against civilian infrastructure in Ukraine, which could then be used to justify a massive increase in US-NATO involvement in the conflict.
    ​ ​For months, US officials had been expressing concern that Russia had not been “provoked” into expanding the war into western Ukraine, which had been largely spared in recent months.
    ​ ​Last month, former US Ambassador to Ukraine William Taylor complained to The Hill that, despite the fact that the White House had provided “larger, more capable, longer-distance, heavier weapons to the Ukrainians,” the “Russians have not reacted.”
    ​ ​With Tuesday’s attack, Russian authorities had, in fact, allowed themselves to be “provoked,” setting the stage for an even more massive escalation of US-NATO involvement in the war.
    ​ ​The attack on the Kerch Bridge was timed to take place just days before the NATO defense ministers’ meeting on October 12 and 13, which is expected to expand the level of direct NATO involvement in the conflict.
    ​ ​A senior Biden administration official interviewed by the Washington Post called the escalation of the war a “turning point.”
    https://www.wsws. org/en/articles/2022/10/11/fcqp-o11.html

    ​ ​NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg may have inadvertently admitted that the Western military alliance is at war with Moscow, at least in the eyes of former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev…
    ..Medvedev called the comment “an open confirmation of NATO’s participation in the war against our country – an unwise, but pure-hearted remark. The honest Norwegian fellow has finally admitted it.”
    https://www.azerbaycan24. com/en/nato-admitted-it-s-at-war-with-russia-medvedev/

    ​ ​Russia’s TASS News Service released photos on Tuesday of a NATO Seafox mine disposal unmanned underwater drone was found during a scheduled visual inspection of the Nord Stream 1 gas pipeline in November 2015.
    Russia accused NATO of attempting to blow up the pipeline in 2015.
    https://www.thegatewaypundit. com/2022/10/russias-gazprom-releases-photos-nato-seafox-mine-destroyer-found-next-nord-stream-pipeline-2015-nato-tried-blow-least-one/

    #118293
    John Day
    Participant
    #118294
    John Day
    Participant

    Removed any evidence from the crime-scene, Ma’am?
    Sweden Refuses to Share Results of Nord Stream Pipeline Explosion Investigation With Russia
    ​ Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson said that the outcome of the inquiry into what severely damaged the Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines in late September would not be revealed to Moscow.
    “In Sweden, our preliminary investigations are confidential, and that, of course, also applies in this case,” Andersson told reporters.
    The investigation found that the blasts were an act of sabotage, although the culprit has not been named.
    The Swedish leader said that Russia was free to conduct its own investigation into the incident, adding that Sweden had removed cordons from the area.

    Sweden Refuses to Share Results of Nord Stream Pipeline Explosion Investigation With Russia

    ​ ​A potential venue for talks between Biden and Putin could be the sidelines of the upcoming summit of G20 leaders that will be held in mid-November in Indonesia. But according to Lavrov, Russia has not received any serious proposals from the US to negotiate.
    ​ ​The US was quick to dismiss Lavrov’s comments, accusing him of “posturing” and calling for Russia to stop launching strikes across Ukraine. “We see this as posturing. We do not see this as a constructive, legitimate offer to engage in the dialogue and diplomacy that is absolutely necessary to see an end to this brutal war of aggression,” State Department spokesman Ned Price said.
    ​ ​Despite the US dismissal of potential talks, Turkey appears eager to broker negotiations between the two sides. The Kremlin said that Putin will meet with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday, and it’s “possible” that the two leaders will discuss a Turkish proposal to host talks between the West and Russia.

    Lavrov Says Russia Open to Talks With the West, US Dismisses His Comments

    ​ ​Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov slammed on Tuesday US statements that Russia left unanswered Washington’s proposals on negotiations on Ukraine as lies, noting that Moscow received no serious proposals.
    ​ ​”This is a lie [that Russia refuses to negotiate]. We did not receive any serious proposals to enter into contact. There were some not very serious calls, to which we also did not respond negatively, but offered to formulate specific proposals, with which some people want to contact us through indirect contacts. And in this case, we did not receive more specific explanations from anyone,”
    https://sputniknews.com/20221011/lavrov-says-russia-received-no-serious-proposals-from-us-on-talks-calls-us-remarks-lies-1101716524.html

    ​ ​Internal divisions are deepening within the EU as countries attempt to lower the price of natural gas while also ensuring they secure enough of it.
    ​ ​Germany’s decision to announce a 200-billion-euro aid package to ease its domestic crisis while opposing a price cap has angered some members.
    ​ ​EU leaders are meeting again towards the end of the month, and they will aim to find a gas price policy that can please all its members and, most importantly, the sellers.
    https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/The-EU-Is-Divided-Over-Its-Natural-Gas-Price-Policy.html

    ​ A natural gas pipeline to Europe can now be built and the gas fields can be tapped.
    ​ ISRAEL AND LEBANON REACH HISTORICAL AGREEMENT ON MARITIME BORDER
    ​ ​The agreement was brokered by the United States, which has been working to resolve the maritime border dispute between the two countries for several years. The disputed maritime area covers 860 square kilometers. It includes the Karish oil and gas field as well as a region known as the Qanaa prospect.​..
    ..After the announcement of the draft agreement, Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah said that if the president endorsed the deal “then for us… things are settled”.
    ​ ​Nasrallah’s statement eased tensions in Israel and Lebanon, as many in the two countries were worried that a conflict could erupt if Hezbollah decide to ignore the agreement and attempt to disturb Israeli operations at Karish..​.
    ​..Officials in Lebanon have already clarified that this maritime agreement is in no way a step toward normalization of relations between the two countries, which are technically at war.
    https://southfront.org/israel-and-lebanon-reach-historical-agreement-on-maritime-border/

    #118296
    John Day
    Participant

    ​ Deactivating links with gaps again… Dangerous information.

    ​Putin reveals Russia’s goals in global energy market
    ​ ​Russia’s actions regarding energy resources are aimed at ensuring market stability, and not creating obstacles for anyone, President Vladimir Putin insisted on Tuesday while meeting with his UAE counterpart, Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, in St. Petersburg.
    ​ ​The leader of the UAE is on an official visit to Russia to discuss cooperation between the two countries, as well as regional and international issues.
    ​ ​“We are actively working within the framework of OPEC+. I know your position, our actions, our decisions are not directed against anyone … They are aimed at stability in the world energy markets, so that both consumers of energy resources and those involved in their production, as well as suppliers feel calm, stable and confident. So that the supply and demand will be balanced,” Putin said.
    https://www.rt. com/business/564473-putin-russia-global-energy-market/

    ​ It’s a better deal than it sounds like, for all parties, and it preserves value.​
    ​ ​Russia to nationalize assets of Japanese carmaker – trade ministry
    ​ ​Nissan will receive a symbolic payment of €1 for the transfer
    ​ ​“We have managed to reach a formant where the enterprise remains operational. Key competencies, the production cycle and jobs are preserved,” Russia’s Trade Minister Denis Manturov said in a statement on Tuesday.
    ​ ​Nissan has some 2,000 employees in Russia and after the transfer is completed NAMI will be able to attract other companies as production partners to create joint ventures.
    ​ ​According to the minister, Russian carmaker AVTOVAZ will carry out maintenance services for Nissan vehicles, as well as supply spare parts. The deal will give Nissan the right to buy back the business within six years, the trade ministry said.​..
    ​..Meanwhile, Nissan reported on Tuesday an estimated loss of $686.2 million from leaving the Russian market.
    ​ ​In 2009 the manufacturer started producing SUV models such as the X-Trail and the Qashqai at its plant in St. Petersburg. The Japanese carmaker suspended production there in March due to supply-chain disruptions, following the conflict in Ukraine.
    https://www.rt. com/business/564470-russia-nationalize-assets-japanese-carmaker/

    ​The Koreans want to end the war which was foisted upon them in 1950. Every little step is blocked
    ​Roadblocks in the Inter-Korean Railway Projects: The Armistice and the UN Command between Two Koreas
    https://www.asia-pacificresearch. com/roadblocks-inter-korean-railway-projects-armistice-un-command-between-two-koreas/5631383

    ​ ​What We Are Seeing In The UK Is Decades-Long Hyper-Financialisation Being Unwound On Fast-Forward At Gunpoint
    ..At an IIF event in Washington, DC, BOE Governor Bailey admitted what is plainly visible: the Bank’s interventions in the Gilts market show its monetary policy objective and its financial stability mandate are pulling in opposite directions. That is bad enough, and more so when the government’s fiscal policy and monetary policy are also pulling in opposite directions.
    ​ ​Bailey then stated to pension and LDI (Liability-Driven Investment) funds: “You’ve got three days left now,” to exit problematic positions. “You’ve got to get this done. The essence of financial stability is that it is temporary. It’s not prolonged.” In other words, restructure the entire industry by Friday by selling whatever is needed, then the BOE quits the “QE R US” game!
    https://www.zerohedge. com/markets/what-we-are-seeing-uk-decades-long-hyper-financialisation-being-unwound-fast-forward

    #118297
    John Day
    Participant

    ​ US “allies”: ​India, UAE Explore Trading in National Currencies to Reduce Dependence on US Dollar
    https://sputniknews.com/20221011/india-uae-explore-trading-in-national-currencies-to-reduce-dependence-on-us-dollar-1101711078.html

    ​ ​Indian FM Says Global South Feeling ‘Frustrated’ With West For Neglecting High Fuel & Food Prices
    ​ ​During a discussion at Sydney-based think tank the Lowy Institute on Tuesday, Jaishankar warned that a “new set of problems” could be created between the developing nations and advanced economies if the questions of energy and food security exacerbated by the Ukraine crisis weren’t addressed.​..
    ..Jaishankar said that he met foreign ministers from around 100 countries on the sidelines of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly in New York last month and most of his counterparts wanted to bring a “speedy end” to the ongoing crisis in eastern Europe.
    ​ ​“For them, some kind of speedy remedy to the challenges they face in terms of energy and food security… Those are really, really pressing challenges,” the top Indian diplomat remarked.
    https://sputniknews.com/20221011/indian-fm-says-global-south-feeling-frustrated-with-west-for-neglecting-high-fuel–food-prices-1101715421.html

    ​ ​The United States needs to re-evaluate its relationship with Saudi Arabia after the kingdom backed the OPEC+ group’s decision to reduce oil production, White House National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby told CNN on Tuesday.​ (​US n​ot driving this car now.)
    https://sputniknews.com/20221011/us-needs-to-continue-to-re-evaluate-relationship-with-saudi-arabia-white-house-says-1101723881.html

    ​ Not even discussing fatal side-effects here, just catching COVID:
    ​Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine Effectiveness Turns Negative Within Months: Study
    Against BA.2, BA.4, and BA.5, the effectiveness went negative after 150 days.
    Against BA.1.12.1, the effectiveness turned negative after 91 days.
    Negative effectiveness means a vaccinated person is more likely to contract COVID-19, the disease the virus causes, than an unvaccinated person.
    https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/moderna-covid-19-vaccine-effectiveness-turns-negative-within-months-study

    #118298
    aspnaz
    Participant

    According to The Blaze, the company’s president of international development markets, Janine Small, testified before the COVID committee of the European Parliament in place of CEO Albert Bourla.

    Picture of health, Fat Small tries to kill people and thinks it is hilarious that she conned people into taking the vaccine without it actually being tested – duping delight? And, she is still alive, as is Bourla, despite them deliberately killing people with the vaccine – killing through deception and lies. But she knew she would still be alive because she knew that the loved ones of the people who were killed do not have what it takes to avenge the loss of their loved ones. You could also argue that nobody has found a lamp post strong enough to support Fat Small.

    #118300
    John Day
    Participant

    It seems like internet censorship is ramping up ahead of US midterms, like Spring 2016, like fall 2018, like summer 2020, same thing. Lots of trouble at Caitlin Johnstone’s site just now. Slightly different filter algorithm.
    No AI likes Substack now.
    Deactivate links.

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