Debt Rattle September 22 2024
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September 22, 2024 at 9:05 am #169423Raúl Ilargi MeijerKeymaster
René Magritte Golconda 1953 • An American Coup? (Neuburger) • 72 Minutes (Scott Ritter) • ‘It’s Over For Russia’ – Boris Johnson (RT) • Has The
[See the full post at: Debt Rattle September 22 2024]September 22, 2024 at 10:40 am #169425tbocParticipantdo you remember reading about that period of time when citizens of the United States thought they had an isolationist foreign policy?
Well the Round Table Group and the legs under the table have managed to isolate the western world from the balance of humanity.
1891 Rhodes-Stead began the exceptional, irreplaceable movement. 1905 The Jungle, Sinclair’s expose of an elite mindset was published.
September 22, 2024 the day the exceptional reached the point where they will not be replaced, they will be isolated. The day that abberant behavior was revealed in it’s true wickedness.
While the children, above the age of voter registration, are playing make believe in the United States the Guy Fawkes mask has been removed. With it’s own rope around it’s neck the west is about to hang itself and the gun powder rebellion will be put down.
fade to black with Conway Twitty’s number one hit playing in the background
September 22, 2024 at 10:50 am #169426tbocParticipanthasn’t the world had quite enough of Boris Johnson? Cracker has had more than enough.
The Third Rome is in ascendancy and Russia’s emmisaries are once again ridiculing the British to their face.
September 22, 2024 at 11:13 am #169427aspnazParticipant‘It’s Over For Russia’ – Boris Johnson (RT)
This is the Boris Johnson who thinks he is Chruchill. The knob with a plastic hat? He is a junior part of the UK’s ex aristocracy, full of shit but a social climber and they can’t remember why. Like most/all Eton graduates, the Johnson is an idiot who is completely out of touch with the real world, it would not matter if he was still a rich kid, like his class mates in Eton, but he is not a rich kid, he has ended up with nothing; nothing in the head, only a name to help him get by. His class mate are part of the moronic trust fund kids club, including people such as the Rothschilds, Russian oligarchs, USA oligarchs, and wannabe popular Asian oligarchs, such as Xi; I understand that he felt a little insecure so sent his children to non-China universities so that they could socialize with the trust fund kids in the west …. doesn’t give you a lot of confidence in Xi, but hey, what else have you got; the Chechen leader buying Teslas like a little girl?
September 22, 2024 at 11:20 am #169428aspnazParticipantIsreal goes nuclear, but hey, that is okay, it is Israel, they can do whatever they want … Americans and other non-responders are pathetic, but that is okay, I have concluded that I live amoung the pathetic, and that our leaders are trying to murder us, to the best defence is attack; find out where they live, whether it is you local mayor or your senator, go give them a piece of your mind.
Did you like the way I avoided incinting violence? Good wasn’t it. should keep the EU head-up-arsers happy, as well as the head-up-arsers in Pathetic Britain. All about keeping the retards happy.
September 22, 2024 at 11:21 am #169429RedParticipant“Nobody seems to know what she is busy with.”
Avoiding the press requires full time effort when you’re job includes talking at them. So, busy with making avoidance plans.
September 22, 2024 at 11:32 am #169430Dr D RichParticipantBoris Johnson “thinks he’s Churchill”. You bet he does.
Ritter thinks he’s Ritter, Lira, Sachs, MacGregor, Sakharov, dissident, journalist, warrior et al
Why go on?
“They’re of a type” or “Some people’s kids”.
Self-referential logic
1. Formal: “Self-reference is a concept that involves referring to oneself or one’s own attributes, characteristics, or actions.”
2. Vulgar
A Circle Jerk: “situation in which a group of people engage in self-indulgent or self-gratifying behavior, especially by reinforcing each other’s views or attitudes”September 22, 2024 at 11:42 am #169431Dr. DParticipantMagritte: It’s Raining Men.
https://goldprice.org/charts/history/gold_20_year_o_usd_x.pngPasses $2,600, no interest. Zero news. Target: $3,000. 16% return compounded since 2019.
Bitcoin, let’s say you bought the peak of 2019 (18): $17,000. It’s now crashed $10k from $70 and is down to $60,000. 21% yoy returns, compounded. Dollar-cost averaging would put this up to 30% yoy.
“EU Leadership Urges Europe To Be Ready To Fight Russia In 6-8 Years
Pipe dream. So to speak. If they were right now opening those factories and hiring those people, while stockpiling those warehouses with arms to later deplete for 6 years, maybe. They have nothing even in precursor materials, gas, chemicals, rails, steel…
That’s actually smart: build a lading port like South Beach in Bremen? LNG terminal in Spain? Russia will just bomb it. There is no distance far enough. This isn’t WWII, you might have noticed, but they didn’t. Build a pipeline? From where? Russian gas via Turkey? Russia will just bomb it.
The U.S. ; Russia will just bomb us too, except a few things: One, Russia dgaf if U.S. makes stuff if it can’t cross the ocean anyway. …Because Russia will just
bombsink it. Two, like Russia itself, the U.S. has more targets than Russia has bombs unless we go full SatanII nuclear. Hundreds of thousands of pipelines, like a beehive. Which is the same problem with all 5 StormShadow missiles hitting “Deep Russia”. It will have zero effect and is meant only as a nuclear war, to get the U.S. involved. So Russia’s nickel is better spent leveling Europe where its real problem is.Tis but one problem: Okay, you need a full-on, multi-million man army then. Kids growing up dreaming of being soldiers. Where’s your officer corps? 6 years? Okay, it will take 6 years to get them into being seasoned Sergeants, Captains, Majors, and they need a THING to do then. Like a task, a mission, a challenge to train on. So you need ONE MILLION of these guys right now, all integrated, all Pan-Europe, interoperable language (English, which is the home language of zero of them). Because you’re going to ADD 5x more men when conscription starts. Right?
Okay, where you at on this? How ya doin’? You have I dunno, let’s say $50k/yr salary x 1M = $50 Billion. Times 6 years = $300 Billion. Salaries alone, you need some Jeeps, tank trucks, barracks, 1,000 Billion rounds of NATO 9mm/.223 ammunition…
No one in Europe has a martial position. You made sure of that. No one’s handled a gun from 13. Oh they’re going to hand all the IMMIGRANTS guns in France, 90% Muslim, and they won’t use them on Mademoiselles Macron?
Six years? No, that’s more like a LIFETIME of work, position, attitude, etc. “But I wrote that I wanted it on a spreadsheet!” A Spreadsheet I tell you! With colors!!!
Britain planning for winter. BBC on how to live in an unheated room, being promoted: https://getpocket.com/explore/item/cold-weather-what-does-an-unheated-room-do-to-your-body?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us Krainer’s set on UK cutting all heat to the poor for a mere $1B gain they can throw to Ukraine (Who won’t get any of it, it will boomerang into billionaire bond holders).
Also why there will be mysterious strokes and heart attacks when they do that (Inset, sidebar)
Back to Russia: so they, Europe, think they fight Russia in 2030 and win. So they kill 200,000 Russians now, knowing it takes 20 years to make a Russian soldier and demographics (mass murder) is their weakness. Okay, good local plan, bad general plan. That’s like the U.S., 1950, fighting ANOTHER full WWII in 1959. Which we were ready for and would have, but.
In outside news, I guess Joe finally showed up for work after equivalent of 45 year’s paid vacation. He opened the meeting and handed the Presidential Cabinet meeting to Jill Biden, who has no security clearance.
“Jill Biden Becomes First Female President” — BBee
“FBI Says We May Never Know The Motivation Of The Would-Be Trump Assassin Who Was A Biden-Harris Supporter And Donated To Democrats 20 Times” – BBee
“After Reading Headlines, Pope Sentences Babylon Bee Writers To 7 Trillion Years In Purgatory “ –Bbee
Served concurrently with Gavin sentencing them to life without parole. Still, Seven Trillion years is the blink of the eye compared to eternity. They got off easy.Tucker: “This person is hired to make you feel bad about your country.”
Right. We’re supposed to demoralize, to despair, give up, say it’s not worth saving, all Americans are stupid, so we stop fighting. Instead of, Well, we’re now one person closing to waking up, saying I’m done with this bulls—t, and doing something about it. So thanks, y’all, if we were following your plan, we’d all have to have given up 30 years ago, the country would have fallen, the evil would have won, but you’d all sit on the couch wearing black berets and being super cool about it. I KNEW it! See? I TOLD you! …Thankfully we Americans are just dumb like that, don’t pay attention, don’t care what you think, and after 30-50-80 years are still fighting them like it’s the first day. And they’re still like, “Why won’t you guys just STOP? Just LOSE already!” https://youtu.be/qTcxhshCElc?t=148
Nope. Because we ignored all you, we’re still here, all the “Smart people” are gone. Gave up. Ran off like little girls. “Why, Mr. Anderson, WHY do you keep fighting? Do you even know? It’s all without meaning and purpose.”
…Because we like fighting. Because each day it’s still the Right Thing to do. Because there’s 300 Million of us, but like 3,000 of you. Because we know ourselves and aren’t much affected by your opinion.
“Today, Ireland woke up to the news that the government has dropped plans to implement hate speech laws.”
But there’s no democracy, we have no power, and might as well give up. Yes, they will be back, which means after turning the tide, we need to push them back harder and create a trend.
“Thiel argued that the main reason for halting nuclear power development stems from political and regulatory barriers,”
Yes, but WHY? This is a hundred-billion industry that somehow did NOT buy the government? When everyone else did and has for like $10k per Senator? Explain? I haven’t figured it out, but I know it was a long Plan, from the highest level, and somehow, for some reason, the nuclear people themselves were in on it. They had too much public participation and regulation and wanted all profit and power themselves? Meh. After they stalled, other things happened and hijacked their initial plans (probably) to destroy all United States economically (probably) and make us look unable and incompetent (probably, but that’s not the ORIGINAL plan, that’s a side, incidental plan).
And what now? Space-Age world to be installed here, which I don’t favor, but is probably where we’re going? Is nuclear even that, or do we have like Zero-point energy instead, so why bother with radiation?
Biden: Goes with my theory they’ve been putting you on the whole time. Like with Jill being the President right now. At this point, it’s late, why not let the curtain fall, the Green Man come out? Wear a red hat? They are DEFINITELY setting up for a 25th removal, to put Kamala in a month before as 1st
PresidentVagina. You know, the important things in life.“Bill Maher calls out Kamala Harris on never winning a primary, a delegate, or ever actually fixing the border.”
They needed to get these guys – exactly like this – all on board or else have a Civil War. Have we reached across the aisle and gotten enough of them yet? This goes with the heavy pull to the CENTER over in Trump-land, with RFK’s constant tour bringing it back with normal, non-moronic statesman speak.
“the Pentagon has taken over US foreign policy. And that is as stark as it sounds.”
Krainer says the same. Here’s the deal: they had ALWAYS had it taken over. They’re just not going to tell you. They ALWAYS had the nuclear football. They ALWAYS had Biden in hand, staged. Since 2020 – 2024, the whole time. Maybe even before, but “The Plan” was to have a Civil War 2.0, in Military splitting, in government splitting, in the People, splitting, in oligarchs, splitting. You can have a rebellion with just some Maga guys, but you can’t have a war. Wars are fought between Upper Powers, exclusively. Same with voting, dgaf about us the people, what we think or want. Sooooo….here you go, Europe, MI6, CIA, the merged worldwide lettermen: what happens if we DON’T have a Civil War on your Color Revolution command? How about we DON’T fight, shoot our neighbors in the face?
Everyone here will be super disappointed and call us all p—ies then. What do we have Ur Guns! Fer? Lazy cheeto-dust couch posers! Why don’t YOU go shoot people while – I – sit at this keyboard and mouth off to you?
The Military has been running this thing THE WHOLE TIME. Can you see that now? “The Coup” from “The Pentagon” didn’t happen yesterday, they let you KNOW a little about that it’s BEEN HAPPENING yesterday. This is the Reveal, not the original action.
“So what’s this encroachment of the Pentagon into foreign policy, if not another “new normal”? Has MacArthur finally won?”
Yes, and now do you see the OTHER problem with the Pentagon saying, “Alert!!! ALL AMERICANS!!! We are now hereby under martial law!” Yeah, no, for so, so many reasons. The Military doesn’t WANT to run the country – for a change, and just as General Washington established for us. They want the VICHY OCCUPATION out, WITHOUT blowing the place to tiny bits. That means the Military, even activated, its only goal is to re-take the CIVILIAN government. Put it back on election without so much bribery and fraud, and NOT blow up the US Bond market. They can do that fast – and that’s an option new every day – OR we can do that slow, methodically UN-doing each thing year by year in the same slow, secret way it was installed and captured. So long as they HAVE power, they HAVE the football, does it matter how long it takes? Compared to the risk?
They picked slow, we can always blow up the whole nation later.
Here’s the first level of them TELLING YOU they did this all along. There will be more. That they really, really, really REALLY don’t want the precedent of military government, military rule, should be a sign and a relief. We may have that anyway as the upcoming election is suspended. Then Delayed. Then run by the military and overseen by the National Guard.
“two visits by the Central Command Unified Commander were to tell him [Netanyahu] that we would not be with him in the event of his going to war with Hezbollah”
Again, what? We let them feed rope upon rope, infinitely. These two services that are controlling “Us”, that is to say, Congress, bought off all sorts of people, are salted into the agencies. We get them nice and Waaaaaaay out on the limb. “We’re right behind you! Honust Injin!!!” Then when Europe is neck-deep, UK is leveraged 100:1 for Ukraine bonds on Russian reparations, it’s like “Oooooopsie! Whoops, just remembered we have the stove on, you’re all on your own.” And DUUUUUUUUUUUUUUHHHHH, we have no tanks, shells, planes, or men. You idiots.
“But, but, Unca’ Sam, we’z startin’ a nuclear war and will be killed!”
Yeah, good luck with that, hope it works out. THAT is their plan. The WHOLE plan, Europe, Israel, have no OTHER plan. None. WE fight their war or else they die. So they lose and get off our backs. Broke. Shattered. Bankrupt. Erased. Bye.
72 Minutes: probably not, there are 500 ways that would be stalled. Still, if anyone opens the road for that, someone definitely should write that book about it. And did. And required reading. Luongo had a good interview where they added their people had written a book called “Nineteen Eighty-Three”. And that book was all the people BEFORE “1984” and how they got INTO that mess, as per reflected up to this election. That’s a fantastic idea and should also definitely be written and read.
I don’t care about AFTER. After is too late. We need to know about the Revolution BEFORE and what to look for, how to stop it. The Glorious Eternal Revolution of IngSoc (English Socialism) on Russian Rev 2.0.
“Russia must understand that “it’s over,” and that Ukraine will not concede any territory for peace, former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has argued.”
BRITAIN again. Hey, who is this guy again? I thought he was the furry mascot out doing commercials and not Prime Minister or nothin’ that we should listen to him. I don’t pay attention to civilian nobodies, as I’ve been told, only “Authorites” and “Experts”.
“any more than we British have the right to tell our former colonies what to do,” he asserted.”
Sounds like the Pentagon agrees with Boris! And also sounds like UK is bankrupt and on the edge of collapse without the war and Russian Reparations, German Versailles 2.0. Awwwwww, too bad, so sad! Is this what happens when you start voluntary wars of aggression?
• Has The EU Suddenly Realized How Much It Has Screwed Itself Over? (Marsden)
Uh-huh. They’re so dumb they thought the President was running things. Joe? Hahahahahaha! You whut now?
Okay, background question: can you see why US/Biden/Pentagon blew up NordStream and why they thought Europe would tolerate and approve it? WE blew up all Europe. Poof. And they sort of had to THANK us and cover for us. WHILE they, Europe, was fighting a war to collapse us, trying to get us into three world wars simultaneously so we’d break up and the Constitution would be erased as an idea. Russia, Israel, and China. We can’t fight even ONE of those wars.
Sure old buddy, old pal, we’re RIGHT behind you! You go first, we’re totally here.
The tone of this article is deserved and appropriate. Vitriol and comedy for wtf are you doing? You’re the planet’s biggest joke right now, you make Florida Man look like Einstein.
• EU Leadership Urges Europe To Be Ready To Fight Russia In 6-8 Years (ZH)
Marsen covers well why six years is “Land War in Asia” stupid for Europe. They might have ONE factory making imported firing pins by then, and 300 more soldiers. As Ritter was repeating for months, the Vaunted “German forcing in Baltics” was like 300 soldiers. Maybe fully there in 10 years. But these guys had to rob all their tanks, etc from other German units. This is considered good, reasonable, normal, and a sign of “force” and Europe “Winning” over Russia, as Moscow lights up 300 THOUSAND men. WITH tanks.
Nope. Nothing. No synapses fire off. No sparks. No connection. Return to sender. ” 1 ≠ 1,000 ” means nothing to them in Europe. Numbers! All numbers are equal if I WANT them to be hard enough.
“• The DEI Trojan Horse Has Undermined US Military (Sp.)
Only if it comes to a crisis can it be rooted out and reformed. Otherwise it festers on forever. Good.
“Harris ‘Too Busy’ To Talk To Media – Adviser (RT)
She’s running for President while Jill, not her, runs cabinet meetings. That’s why she can’t talk to the Press. Why would you want media coverage when running for office?
“America’s Healthcare Dead Last in Rich Nation Rankings (Sp.)
Chart that out for me. And that line looks like what and when? When the GOVERNMENT got involved. 1992, 2008. At each point, and 1.0 correlation at each step. Where’s the money going? Where’s my money, Brian?!? Not in healthcare. Not Doctors. In Real estate development, insurance companies, administration. Zero nurses, firing doctors.
Here’s the good news: there’s like 2x money for the world’s BEST healthcare, if you JUST. STOP. STEALING. And as Marsden says, “Unscrew everything and everybody you screwed.” Then we get $200 billion/yr extra saved to apply to something else.
There’s nothing wrong. This is all voluntary. We are OCCUPIED and they, the Vichy, are trying to DESTROY us. Like Disney. Like Harley. And like Stellaris, I didn’t get to forward that one, same thing. EUROPE takes over Dodge. So bad they invest in all the cars WE DON’T WANT, and electrics no one in American can use since we drive 300 miles at a pop in like 25 states. Towing a Bobcat. Ford said “Electric cars suck” OUT LOUD! And that they lost $20B on even TRYING to be involved with them. They could have given away 100,000 cars free on a “Ford Loves America” Brand promo instead. Back to Dodge, they have canceled all the cars that sell, ruined all the brands that are American, and screwed all the dealers. BOY THEY HATE MONEY!!! More than Disney hates money! The dealers TOLD THEM the whole time as we always do. They are now losing MORE money canceling the Jeep Cherokee, and in fact maybe Jeep altogether, which is a model of certain sell.
1) Print money in Europe. 2) Buy America. 3) Ruin and destroy all their companies. 4) Profit!
It fills the time while you 1) Print money in Europe. 2) Buy American politicians. 3) Ruin and destroy all things American.
Weinsteins: that’s easy, and what I’ve been telling you. One was a Professor at Evergreen, so was involved in racist prejudice and Nazi extortion tactics, and therefore got on the circuit, although somewhat reluctantly. Eventually, they created a broadcast and “came out” to tell the truth, still being moderate Left, like “normal people” type, although as Truth, keep moving “right” – that is: “not insane” – each year like Joe Rogan, etc.
His brother is also a scientist and smarter, so they talked and they need content, so he got on the circuit a little, and for a pleasant change, was both good with ideas and not boring, not avoiding all questionable content like UFOs etc, because: why? Hosts like that and the people responded, so he’s on the circuit. That’s how I understand it, only paying attention incidentally.
This is what I was saying: there are so many podcasts with so much content that there is a constant need for guests and if you call you can probably get on one. Call. It isn’t like a giant Jewish conspiracy stopping you, or white people, or black people, or whatever. It’s YOU. Call up, get on, and stop whining these invisible people you’ve never met are controlling everything when really it’s just you and the phone. I see this all the time.
The Secret International Conspiracy isn’t stopping you from promotion to the fry machine. Stop back stabbing each other.
September 22, 2024 at 11:54 am #169432OroborosParticipant@John Day
The “Wisdom Check” comment was itself a test question on Karma. You passed with flying colors! ;>)
September 22, 2024 at 11:55 am #169433Dr D RichParticipant(cont.)
Board of Directors
Corporate GovernanceThere’s no better practical definition of the Psychopath or Malignant Narcissist supported by a group of wingmen, flying monkeys bleeding off credit, notoriety and profit for no tangible benefit to the company.
At Boeing, they’re the 2 MBAs by way of Lindenwood College
Case in point the great, late success story that is BA, Boeing displays 2 alums of Lindenwood University on its Board of Directors. What are the chances?
Is it not a circle jerk?
What possibly “constructive” could a Lindenwood MBA and her sidekick Chief Sustainability Officer contribute to the engineering, manufacturing, flight profile and “sustainability” of a 737 MAX?September 22, 2024 at 11:55 am #169434OroborosParticipantSeptember 22, 2024 at 11:57 am #169435OroborosParticipantReverse Psychology Double Jujitsu Half-Caf Cinnamon Foam Move
September 22, 2024 at 11:58 am #169436OroborosParticipantSeptember 22, 2024 at 12:00 pm #169437OroborosParticipantA Country of Nillionaires is Upon Us
September 22, 2024 at 12:07 pm #169438OroborosParticipantA Significant Portion of Project De-Population® is Degrading the Food Supply
First to shorten lives but just as important, enrich Big Pharma and Big Sick Care Industrial Complex to strip away all the Sheeple’s assets before they die in poverty.
Mission Accomplished!
September 22, 2024 at 12:13 pm #169439OroborosParticipantSeptember 22, 2024 at 12:19 pm #169440OroborosParticipantAnother Significant Portion of Project De-Population® is “Feminism”
We’re on Iteration number 4 heading to the Final Cliff of No. 5
And “Feminism’s” kissing cousin Transgenderism?Well, that to is a bit of a Klug……
September 22, 2024 at 12:21 pm #169441OroborosParticipantSeptember 22, 2024 at 12:22 pm #169442oxymoronParticipantshit man. a bit of truth telling or at least a little bit of wriggling going on at the mo.Jamie Dimon telling Europe to get fucked by way of championing US work and innovation, Super Mario types a too bad so sad report from his yacht in the mediterranean, the US openly admitting it is run by American Muscle in the form of a pentagon shaped thingy.
Wow almost like shit is going to get more insane. People can see the drop off the edge of the cliff and don’t like them rocks it seems. Car going fast though.Oh and Israel is still a terrorist organisation of the highest possible order.
September 22, 2024 at 12:23 pm #169443OroborosParticipantSeptember 22, 2024 at 12:35 pm #169445oxymoronParticipantTrumps comment about no 1 across all charts is fake news. classic not like a narc to think they were more important or noticed than they actually are.
https://www.billboard.com/charts/hot-100/didn’t make anywhere near the top 10.
I don’t know what charts they are using.. Anyone American here that can show me these ole’ charts…September 22, 2024 at 12:39 pm #169446oxymoronParticipantOroboros that awake and aware meme! I did a gig last night and let rip all my anti gov covid tin hat free speech raving and after it was done – well a few didn’t want much to do with me (sold some of my honey though which was ace) but I got a few of those EXACT looks.
A guy who lost his whole company to mandates said he felt seen and heard which was great. I know it’s a bit tough for the people who egged on the gov and want to forget but for the jabbed and unjabbed alike who suffered the bullshit the silence does not wash.September 22, 2024 at 1:08 pm #169447SeaBirdsParticipantNeuberger
Fascinating. Will this lead to the Empire of Lies admitting defeat to a superior foe? Surely the fallout could be immense.Marsden
“unscrewing everything they screwed up over the past two and a half years through self-inflicted idiocy in the interests of impressing their girlfriend Vladimir Zelensky (aka president of Ukraine).”‘Self-inflicted idiocy’ in following the dictats of their Washington masters.
Boris Johnson
Still paying the silver-tongued liar to spin his web of deceit over the unsuspecting public. Already a very wealthy man, money is all that matters to this popinjay, and he gets paid handsomely every time he opens his mouth.Prison cats
Great idea. Thanks for this one, from all of us who adore cats.September 22, 2024 at 1:17 pm #169448OroborosParticipantSeptember 22, 2024 at 1:19 pm #169449OroborosParticipantA Significant Portion of Project De-Population® is “Climate Change”
September 22, 2024 at 1:40 pm #169450OroborosParticipant• An American Coup?
Putting the Duh in Duh’merica
There is no President
Hasn’t been the past four years
It’s a “Steering Committee” of pathological NeoConJobs with their hands up Pedo Jo-jo anus.
The Pentagram has finally realized that Russia has whipped their asses in Ukronaziland, de-militarized NATO/ZATO and will in fact NUKE Duh’merica if it launches long range missiles into Russia.
Duh yet again.
September 22, 2024 at 1:42 pm #169451OroborosParticipantSmoking is Smokin’
September 22, 2024 at 1:45 pm #169452OroborosParticipantA Country Worth Having
September 22, 2024 at 1:49 pm #169453OroborosParticipantSeptember 22, 2024 at 2:18 pm #169455zerosumParticipantPentagon: it wasn’t advice, but instruction.
They are not listening.1. To Netanyahu, stop the Genocide, and if you invade Lebanon or attack Iran, you’re on your own.
When analyzing the pager detonations from a legal standpoint, it becomes clear that Israel’s killing spree in Lebanon this week lies somewhere between a war crime and an act of terrorism.
Israel Unleashes Hell On South Lebanon With Giant Mystery Bomb As War Escalates
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/idf-says-180-targets-eliminated-southern-lebanon-us-lauds-good-outcome-beirut-strike
Footage appears to show one of the largest Israel has ever dropped…2. To Zelenskyy, no to long range missiles reaching deep into Russia.
Disregarding Russian President Vladimir Putin’s recent warning that enabling long-range strikes would place NATO in a state of war with Russia.Ukraine, (NATO SPECIAL OPERATORS), Scores More Large Hits On Russian Ammo Storage Depots
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/ukraine-scores-more-large-hits-russian-ammo-storage-depots
Ukrainian army says overnight it took out one of the three largest ammunition storage bases in Russia.https://sputnikglobe.com/20240921/russia-hits-ukrainian-military-energy-facilities—mod-1120234595.html
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The Russian armed forces launched a coordinated attack on energy facilities supplying the Ukrainian defense industry, as well as on drone production lines and clusters of Ukrainian manpower and military equipment overnight, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Saturday.—————
“Now conditions have changed,” Draghi said. “World trade is slowing.”The Ukraine conflict has been an equally convenient excuse to make more weapons at taxpayer expense for the EU’s own defense after emptying out the old junk from its closets.
The whole report is just loaded with gems, like this one: “If Europe cannot become more productive, we will be forced to choose.
We will not be able to become, at once, a leader in new technologies, a beacon of climate responsibility and an independent player on the world stage.
We will not be able to finance our social model.
We will have to scale back some, if not all, of our ambitions.
This is an existential challenge…”https://commission.europa.eu/topics/strengthening-european-competitiveness/eu-competitiveness-looking-ahead_en
The future of European competitiveness: Report by Mario Draghi
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Harris spoke, (delivered “a word salad”), at length to TV host Oprah Winfrey, although the interview was friendly and featured a host of Harrris’ celebrity supporters, including Meryl Streep, Jennifer Lopez, Julia Roberts, Chris Rock, and Ben Stiller.
————-September 22, 2024 at 2:46 pm #169458John DayParticipant@Oxymoron: When the Generals Talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqP61lGsXOM
September 22, 2024 at 2:48 pm #169459John DayParticipantFifth Branch Of Government https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/fifth-branch-of-government
Just pointing out that it is only possible to deny physical reality for a little while. Germany Needs New Natural Gas Capacity to Meet Its Coal Phase-Out Target
Germany, which last year closed all its remaining nuclear power plants – is now seeking to balance the generation and transmission systems with new gas power plants. But these plants need to be ready to be converted to hydrogen at some point between 2035 and 2040, the economy ministry has said.
The country has also decided to accelerate the coal phase-out to 2030, from an earlier planned date of 2038, but Europe’s largest economy reactivated some mothballed coal-fired power plants in the previous two winters after Russian natural gas supply to Germany ceased.
Uniper, which continues to run several coal-fired power plants in Germany, cannot shut these down right now because it needs gas-fired capacity to replace them and ensure system stability. https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Germany-Needs-New-Natural-Gas-Capacity-to-Meet-Its-Coal-Phase-Out-Target.html What is the economic difference between Trump and “Harris” economic policies?
Trump says he’ll pump more oil at lower prices to goose all aspects of the economy, pulling that future-oil into the present, which should work in “the present.
“Harris” does not elucidate, but current elite trajectory is to place more and more tight-spots of economic control through rent-collection into all parts of the economy, with every smart-phone being ideal, once only smartphones can be used to buy groceries and pay bills, and each can be micro-managed algorithmically by global financiers and intelligence agencies in “consortium”. Comply or scrounge dumpsters until you die in winter.
I “believe” in peak-oil, and that it already happened, and I also believe there has been a lot of Arctic oil discovered under Jimmy Carter and capped-off, and that Russia recently discovered a lot of Antarctic oil, but that those resources are to be exploited under a very different global economic regime, which has not yet been “agreed-upon” at the elite level.
Trump threatens to goose the economy against “consensus”, basically in concert with the “enemy team”, from the view of neoliberal globalist finance, which has long extracted blood from western economies faster than they can make it. The “consensus” is to shrink all the consumer-economies and consumer/productive human-herds gradually, boiling those frogs, while telling them it’s all fine and preventing any comments to the contrary.
We can all see the weaknesses and vulnerabilities in this plan, but it keeps the parasitic elites in place on the top of the anemic economic bags of bones, another weakness over time…
The economy which is more robust NOW has a military advantage over a more anemic economy NOW. Russia points this out, as does China. Trump plans to goose the US economy, which can clearly be done. The parasites’ long planning for a gradual step-down of resource-burn will be thwarted.
It’s not a bad concept, but a bad mechanism, secretly killing and starving most people, in order to keep pampering a few sociopaths. It is a dead-end for our species.
What’s a good-mechanism? There’s the catch. We have an apex-predator global economy, managed by eating grazing (farming) herds. “Don’t be the slowest zebra.” But technology can take out billions of zebras over a decade, without even blowing up farms, factories and oil-wells now, a formidable mass-apex-predation paradigm.
Learn to listen to your conscience and follow it in your difficult daily actions and decisions…
That’s it. That’s all I’ve got, except to grow vegetables, ride a bike and be a friend and family member.
You can’t see the second step until you take the first step.Harris ‘too busy’ to talk to media – adviser, Avoiding the press is reportedly a key strategy of the vice president’s campaign https://swentr.site/news/604443-kamala-harris-avoiding-media/
It’s more than this; it’s the “Great Reset” WW-3 is the preferred context. An Unprecedented Monetary Destruction Is Coming
The trillions of dollars accumulated in debt will lead to an unprecedented wave of central bank easing, which will continue to include negative real rates and even direct debt monetization. However, they need an excuse to present themselves as the solution to the problem they created. A recession or a significant slowdown will be the trigger to implement the plan to destroy the purchasing power of currencies. However, this time inflation is already evident and persistent...
How can governments implement currency destruction when citizens are already upset about high prices? First, they need to silence you. Second, eliminate your options to run away from the currency. Thirdly, enforce the expropriation with the motto, “You may have nothing, but you will find happiness.” https://mises.org/mises-wire/unprecedented-monetary-destruction-comingAlex Krainer wonders: Was there a palace coup at the White House? Antony Blinken’s foreign policy conduct has been a textbook recipe for a mutiny in the military ranks.
The events have taken a very strange turn in Washington DC this month. Britain’s new cabinet has made it a priority to escalate the West’s proxy war against Russia and to bring the U.S. and other allies onboard by hook or by crook. Part of the agenda was enabling the Ukrainians to strike at Russia with western supplied long-range precision missiles. This wouldn’t be a new thing exactly, but the escalation they are gunning for is quite substantial, involving possibly even nuclear weapons.
The groundwork for this escalation was being prepared for months. In March this year, the Biden administration approved a new “Nuclear Employment Guidance” in preparation to fight and “win” a three-front nuclear war against Russia, China and North Korea. They followed up with plans to deploy long-range nuclear missiles in Germany and Holland. The preparations were being coordinated between the Neocons in the Biden administration, led by the Secretary of State Antony Blinken, NATO and the members of British cabinets, both under (not war) Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and under the new (war) PM Keir Starmer…
..On July 9, his fifth day on the job Keir Starmer flew to Washington for the NATO summit and a meeting with president Biden. On July 16, Starmer’s government published the new “Strategic Defense Review” – a “root and branch” revision of UK’s defence, so that it is “secure at home and strong abroad for decades to come.” Of course, all these ambitious initiatives ultimately depend on the special relationship itself. Without it, Britain would be punching way, way above its weight.
Trump-proofing the “special relationship”
In terms of military power, the UK is pretty much a lightweight with a handicap, so securing the American protection was top priority. Accordingly, the Mutual Defense Agreement (MDA) between the U.S. and Great Britain needed an urgent upgrade. The agreement was last renewed in 2014 and was set to expire on 31 December 2024. The new major upgrade was formulated by the British government in July of this year: it would make the MDA indefinite, turning it into a de-facto treaty. The idea was to Trump-proof the Agreement in case the DNC fails to steal the presidential elections again this November. The treaty also joins the two nations’ nuclear programs.
..Malcolm Chalmers, the deputy director of the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), was jubilant about the new Mutual Defense Agreement, seeing it as a diplomatic win for the UK: “It is good news for the UK that it doesn’t need to worry about a future US administration using a future renewal [of the MDA] as leverage.” How clever! Now we can stir the pot around the world and if things get ugly, the Americans have to come to our rescue. This is a good position from which to manipulate the U.S. into fighting Britain’s (City of London’s?) wars of choice...
..On 10 September, US State Secretary Antony Blinken came to London to meet with his British counterpart David Lammy and the day after they both went to visit Kiev together. On the occasion, Blinken and Lammy almost certainly finalized the plan to commit both nations to aiding Ukraine to strike deep into Russia with western-supplied long range precision missiles. Only two days later, the Prime Minister Starmer flew to Washington again to meet with President Biden, ostensibly to “discuss” the events in Ukraine among other things.
Something went wrong in Washington
Now, the Prime Minister wouldn’t normally travel and meet with his U.S. counterpart just to “discuss” things... In fact, according to British government sources, the decisions had already been made, and Sir Keir brought all the paperwork with him. However, the signing ceremony never took place and neither did the joint press conference. Something went wrong.
It appears that the U.S. military leadership took Vladimir Putin’s warning about this escalation seriously…
…”This would mean that NATO, US and the European countries, the United States are at war with Russia. If that is the case, then bearing in mind the change in the very essence of this conflict, we will take appropriate decisions based on the threats that will be posed to us.”
According to some sources, Putin’s warning was reinforced through back-channel communications between the Russian military leadership and their American counterparts who understand that they were being pushed over the edge of total war. In response, it seems that the American military leadership took over the conduct of the US foreign policy, both in terms of military and diplomatic affairs. State Secretary Blinken and his merry band of Neocons appear to have been sidelined…
..The change in leadership could also be felt in the Middle East. General Michael E. Kurilla, the head of U.S. Central Command visited Israel last week (the second time in a week’s interval), apparently also to announce a new policy. Allegedly, he informed the Israelis that if they provoke a war against Hezbollah or against Iran, the U.S. will not come to their aid: they’re on their own.
The palace coup at the White House wasn’t officially announced and it almost certainly won’t be. We will probably only know of these changes with time, by observing the pattern of events. If the U.S. policy really changes course in a substantive way, this would corroborate that the coup did indeed take place. This may seem inconceivable, but it shouldn’t be. Secretary Blinken has been conducting a truly insane* foreign policy, inflicting massive damage to the United States in material, strategic as well as reputational terms. Such conduct would unavoidably provoke disapproval and opposition within the ranks of the American defense and foreign policy establishments. https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/was-there-a-palace-coup-at-the-white *Quite “sane” if destruction of 2 strong nations is the objectiveSeptember 22, 2024 at 2:49 pm #169460John DayParticipant Thomas Neubrger, An American Coup? ‘No dice, Mr President. No dice on Ukraine and no dice on Gaza. We’re in charge now.
Napolitano: No dice. You’re talking about no dice on the long range missiles reaching deep into Russia, even though Tony Blinkin had intimated all week in Kyiv with his British counterpart that this was happening. And Sir Keir Stormer, the British Prime Minister, had every reason to believe as he’s flying across the Atlantic that Joe Biden’s answer would be yes.
Wilkerson: He was embarrassed. He was embarrassed by the fact — he was pulling out his maps with target data and Biden told him, “Don’t even pull them out. We’re not going to talk about that.”
I’ve been told, again by fairly reliable sources, that Blinkin and Sullivan — Blinkin primarily, but Sullivan too — have been sidetracked, and what’s happened is the Pentagon has taken over, essentially, diplomacy as well as any action, militarily speaking, with regard to both theaters of war.
And so they’re now in charge.
I have to change my evaluation of Secretary Austin if that’s the case, because it means he listened finally to the people in the bowels of the Pentagon who know the truth, and he’s reacting to that, and he’s told the President Biden that, and to Biden’s credit, even though he was furious, he finally took that advice.
Napolitano: Colonel, you once ran the State Department [as Secretary Colin Powell’s chief of staff under George Bush]. How does the Defense Department engage in diplomacy?
Wilkerson: They engage in diplomacy every day. Every day. There are four-stars in the various syncdoms, the regions that they control, the AORs [Areas of Responsibility] [who] are the true U.S. diplomats. And some of them are very good at it. I saw some of them. I worked with some of them who are very good at it, better than any Secretary of State.
But it shouldn’t be that way. That’s a parenthetical remark. We shouldn’t have the military leading diplomacy. But we often do. https://neuburger.substack.com/p/an-american-coup ‘It’s over for Russia’ – ex-UK PM, Boris Johnson has argued that Russia must be forced to accept defeat, even if doing so costs a trillion dollars
Russia must understand that “it’s over,” and that Ukraine will not concede any territory for peace, former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has argued. For this goal to be achieved, however, Kiev will need long-range weapons, NATO membership, and half a trillion dollars, Johnson added.
In an op-ed published in The Spectator on Saturday, Johnson argued that Ukrainian forces still have the “ability to win,” if only the West would cave to every single one of Kiev’s demands. These include, he wrote, permission to strike deep inside Russian territory with Storm Shadow and ATACMS missiles, and immediate invitation to NATO with Article 5 security guarantees, and “half a trillion dollars… or even a trillion.” https://swentr.site/russia/604441-boris-johnson-over-russia/ Israel Unleashes Hell On South Lebanon With Giant Mystery Bomb As War Escalates
Al Jazeera correspondents have confirmed that “Israel’s military launched 400 attacks on Lebanon on Saturday and Hezbollah fired rockets at the Ramat David base near the city of Haifa, in their largest exchange of fire since the war on Gaza began.”
Another indicator of the escalation is that Israel is apparently beginning use much bigger bombs compared to much of the past nearly year of internecine fighting. The below widely circulating footage shows a large flash and skyscraper-size fireball, resulting in some viewers speculating it was likely a heavy bunker-buster bomb, or possibly even a tactical nuke of some sort. Whatever it was, there’s never been anything like it used on Lebanon (that we know about). https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/idf-says-180-targets-eliminated-southern-lebanon-us-lauds-good-outcome-beirut-strikeTerrorist… Attack on communication devices in Lebanon violates international law, could be war crime: UN human rights chief https://www.arabnews.com/node/2572196/middle-east
US to delay military aid to Ukraine – CNN The Pentagon doesn’t have enough weapons in stock to keep up with Kiev’s demands, a report says https://swentr.site/news/604406-us-upcoming-aid-shortages-cnn/
September 22, 2024 at 2:49 pm #169461NoiretteParticipantPrev. posts on Switz.
= Ban on joining milit. NATO exercises = from RT
This is a serious development, very worrisome, and highly indicative of a voluntary abandonment of neutrality.
= CH to expel hundreds of Russian Scientists =
https://swentr.site/news/604402-switzerland-expel-russian-scientists/
This is about CERN (Centre Européen de Recherche Nucléaire), which is geographically in CH and France, but is administered in CH. It is an International Organisation, and run by a ‘Council’ of its members. It’s decision to stop collaboration with Russia (which took a long time to be voted, implemented, following the ‘invasion’ of UKR, and in any case is only partial, as some collab. will not only continue via JINR, but will be expanded..see link in F, for ex.) A 2/3 majority is needed to exclude some x entity, and that was reached.
In eng. – a mealy-mouthed communiqué from March 2022.
https://home.cern/news/news/cern/cern-council-responds-russian-invasion-ukraine
It has nothing to do with the CH Gvmt. which could, potentially, close CERN down, in the same way that NY State? / the Fed. US Gvmt. could force the UN headquarters in NY to close.
Scientist published many screeds about their oppo to such measures. Russians are ‘top’ in Nuke Research (see similarly Space Explor./ in collab. with the USA), and Russia / CH have had v.good relations for a long time. Plus, Russia contributed large dollaris amounts to CERN. Result: CERN is now ‘missing’ about 40 million CHF to ‘update’ existing structures, etc., it has been weakened, etc.
The “400” (inflated no. imho) employees will not be ‘expelled’. Some will loose their jobs, have their ‘contract’ terminated, and will go on to be hired elsewhere, bang off. Some will have to leave as they have no new ‘job’ and were under ‘temp’ status, and be hired right back in Russia/Belarus, etc. Some will get unemployment pay, spouse works in CH or F, want to stay, get a new job. Some will be re-hired at CERN under a different ‘contract, umbrella.’ Some will use their 2nd passport to fall out of R stats. Some will retire…etc. Such events are not that unusual.
CH gave up its neutrality when it imposed sanctions (outside of UN mandated ones) on Russia, Feb. 2022.
Yes CH is an insignificant postage stamp country, but wherever one is, it is important to understand what is really going on.
September 22, 2024 at 2:50 pm #169462John DayParticipantWhat long range weapons were used? Cruise missiles? Whose? Ukraine Scores More Large Hits On Russian Ammo Storage Depots https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/ukraine-scores-more-large-hits-russian-ammo-storage-depots
Simplicius, Ukraine Allies Squeezed by Weapons Drought as Clock Ticks
Ukraine’s fate continues to be hinged on ostensibly allowing “deep strikes” in order to lance the war’s final ‘taboo’ in involving NATO directly against Russia...
..Zelensky will give the US his “victory plan” in order to receive a refusal and then begin negotiations with Russia.
This is the opinion of the former Prosecutor General of Ukraine, Yuri Lutsenko, which is why Kyiv constantly places responsibility for the situation at the front on its allies.
“The entire propaganda machine of the President’s Office constantly hammers into the heads of Ukrainians that we have problems only because the US does not want to give us permission for long-range missiles JASSM, ATACMS, Storm Shadow / Scalp,” writes Lutsenko.
“But this is a lie that will (not) lead to victory. At least because the Russian Air Transport Agency has already gone beyond the ATACMS coverage area. Therefore, it will not stop attacks, KABs, and ballistics.”
Lutsenko believes that Zelensky is acting according to the following plan:
1. We submit to the US a new mega-list of demands for weapons and money.
2. We receive polite doubts that this will change the course of the war and lead us to the borders of 1991.
3. We declare that we have been abandoned and we have no other choice but to return to the Peace Forums with the participation of Russia.
4. During the negotiations we receive demands from Putin in the style of Istanbul.
5. We declare that this is the subject of a referendum and that a ceasefire is needed for this.
6. We sign a ceasefire.
7. We take the pose of the president of the world and hold presidential elections. Preferably – without lifting martial law, so that democracy does not interfere, and the TCC controls the polling stations.
Lutsenko called it a “cynical show” that is “easily read by both Ukrainian political leaders and our allies.”
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/sitrep-92024-ukraine-allies-squeezed Europe’s authoritarian, unelected ruler, Ursula von der Leyen, in a growing dispute with NATO leadership
In his farewell event on Thursday hosted by the German Marshal Fund in Brussels, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg came as close to denouncing European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen as you can in Euro-speak before journalists whom he knew would be weighing his every word.
As The Financial Times put it, Stoltenberg made ‘blunt remarks’ as he condemned the build-up of competences, personnel and budgets for EU command structures and planned rapid response force, fearing that this will divert resources from NATO.
See “NATO chief warns EU against setting up ‘competing’ force” by Henry Foy in yesterday’s FT.
If this is what Stoltenberg is saying in public, you can well imagine that the NATO-EU fight for the lead role in Europe’s defense is running at a fever pitch behind closed doors. It is a contest that has been gathering force for a good many months now…
..Foy’s article on von der Leyen is generally complimentary, calling out that ‘she’s the hardest working’ person in the EU institutions. He acknowledges that critics say she ‘routinely overstretches her powers and bypasses proper due process.’ But he grants her that in the spirit of ‘you can’t make an omelet without breaking eggs.’ So he concludes what is supposed to be a well-rounded appreciation of von der Leyen, saying that ‘admirers, including many EU leaders, revere her ability to get things done by cutting through the byzantine layers of European bureaucracy.’ It is entirely fitting that Foy avoids calling this approach what it might otherwise be called: authoritarian.
What is missing from this piece of seemingly balanced journalism from the FT is what we opened this essay with: von der Leyen’s ongoing duplication of NATO functions. This is self-aggrandizing as it expands her powers. It is also changing the European Union from a peace project, as it was originally conceived, into a war project. In this regard, all the instruments that von der Leyen has deployed to ensure her degree of control over the Commission that Foy describes also infuse the Commission and the EU Institutions more generally with the war agenda of the New Europe (as Donald Rumsfeld described the former Warsaw Pact countries) that is directed against Russia. Here we find the unifying mission of both EU and NATO institutions.
One of the obvious ways that von der Leyen intends to control the EU is through her closest coordination with the commissioners drawn from the Baltic States and extending into the other member states of Eastern Europe. These commissioners are all, by definition, much easier for the Commission president to dominate than are commissioners put up by the large member states like France, Italy and Germany. They have been given heavy responsibility portfolios out of all proportion to the political, economic, demographic weight of the countries they represent. This is why the utterly shallow prime minister of Estonia, which has a population of 1.3 million, was chosen by von der Leyen to head the key portfolio of foreign relations as the EU’’s spokesperson to the world...
..Of course, Kaja Kallas, who herself had been a contender to succeed Stoltenberg at NATO, was and is one of the most aggressive Russophobes in the EU. Several weeks ago, the lady said that the objective of the EU should be “to bring Russia to its knees” by inflicting a humiliating defeat on the Kremlin in its war on Ukraine…
..For those of us who have been around for a while and knew the EU institutions when they were erected by men of great stature like Jacques Delors, it is painful to see how the project has been reduced to a War Project by people of much lower moral standing and vision for the future. https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2024/09/21/europes-authoritarian-unelected-ruler-ursula-von-der-leyen-in-a-growing-dispute-with-nato-leadership/How about resuming Russian natural gas imports next year, instead? EU Leadership Urges Europe To Be Ready To Fight Russia In 6-8 Years https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/eu-leadership-urges-europe-be-ready-fight-russia-6-8-years
Estonia signals readiness to preemptively strike Russia to defend NATO
During an interview with the Estonian public broadcaster ERR, Estonian General Vahur Karus has stated that Estonia is ready to strike Russian territory if Moscow shows signs of preparing for an attack on NATO. “Our capability to neutralize the enemy on its own territory is crucial,” General Karus emphasized, pointing to a new strategy where waiting to be attacked first is no longer an option. https://www.uawire.org/estonia-signals-readiness-to-preemptively-strike-russia-to-defend-nato#September 22, 2024 at 2:51 pm #169463John DayParticipantSwitzerland to expel hundreds of Russian scientists – The CERN research center will end cooperation with Moscow on December 1, the journal Nature has reported https://swentr.site/news/604402-switzerland-expel-russian-scientists/
EU to raise €35 billion loan for Ukraine using Russia’s frozen assets, von der Leyen says https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2024/09/20/eu-to-raise-35-billion-loan-for-ukraine-using-russias-frozen-assets-von-der-leyen-says
European Union chief Ursula von der Leyen is traveling to war-ravaged Ukraine on Friday with the promise of 160 million euros ($180 million) in fresh energy funds to get the nation through the winter. Von der Leyen told reporters that 100 million euros ($112 million) of the funds would come the proceeds of the Russian assets held in the EU because of the 2022 invasion of Ukraine. “It is only right that Russia pays for the destruction it caused,” she said. https://apnews.com/article/eu-russia-ukraine-energy-war-2b9ef02f93993c9e2f4acf5bed079aba
Eugyppius, “Help! My child is becoming right wing!”: Leading Berlin newspaper provides “tips for democratic parents” who are forced to deal with “undemocratic children” https://www.eugyppius.com/p/help-my-child-is-becoming-right-wing
Charges filed against UC Irvine students and professors who took part in protests
The Orange County District Attorney’s office announced misdemeanor charges Wednesday against 10 people, including a professor and lecturer. They have been charged with failing to follow dispersal orders at UC Irvine when police attempted to clear a student encampment calling for an end to Israel’s war in Gaza.
Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer said that the Special Prosecutions Unit spent months reviewing evidence before moving forward with charges.
“The right to peaceful assembly is a constitutional right and we encourage protestors to exercise their right to peaceful assembly on any issue,” Spitzer said when he announced the charges. “However, criminal activity which transcends peaceful assembly will not be tolerated.” https://laist.com/news/criminal-justice/charges-filed-against-uc-irvine-students-and-professors-who-took-part-in-protestsSeptember 22, 2024 at 2:52 pm #169464John DayParticipantGlenn Diesen, BRICS Develops a Multipolar Economic Architecture, The Meeting in Kazan Will Respond to the West’s Economic Suicide
Unlike the bloc politics of the hegemonic system that relies on dividing the world into dependent allies versus weakened adversaries, BRICS uses economic connectivity to mitigate and resolve political disputes. Thus, the members include China and India, Saudi Arabia and Iran, Egypt and Ethiopia. After the Second World War, the Europeans attempted to follow the same model of seeking security with other member by putting Germany and France in the same club. These days are long gone, as security is now security against non-members that has converted the European peace project into an aggressive peacetime alliance. When the US abandons the goal of defeating China, Russia and other adversaries, the BRICS club could also be used to accommodate Western powers into the multipolar international economic architecture. https://glenndiesen.substack.com/p/brics-develops-a-multipolar-economic Jim Kunstler calls it “insane”, like Alex Krainer did. Mad to the Max
“I don’t understand why it’s so difficult for the press to have a consistent narrative about how dangerous Trump is.” — Hillary Clinton
If anything like civil war ignites in this country, the sides will not be the political Red and the Blue but the sane and the insane. Now it happens, unfortunately, that the insane are driving the engine of government. They have been at war with the people of this land for years, depriving them of livelihoods, stuffing them into prison, breaking the social contract, wrecking the country’s relations with the rest of the world, and belaboring the peoples’ minds with one insulting absurdity after another.
They comprise a bizarre coalition of the permanent bureaucracy, the Democratic Party, and the news media. The permanent bureaucracy includes its own machine for making war on citizens: the intel blob, whose tentacles reach into other agencies: Homeland Security, the State Department, the so-called Justice Department, the Pentagon, the myriad Public Health offices, and the shadowy clique that stands-in for a disabled president in the White House.
You can tell they are insane because they are driven by a single motivation: to remain in power for no other purpose than to escape responsibility for their many crimes against the people. https://jameshowardkunstler.substack.com/p/mad-to-the-maxRyan Routh, The Man Who Tried to Assassinate Donald Trump, Wrote a Book That Sounds Like it Was Written by A “CIA Asset”? https://www.globalresearch.ca/ryan-routh-book-sounds-written-cia/5868342
Meryl Nass MD, Entire state of Georgia ordered to hand count PAPER BALLOTS on election day!
A big step toward a clean election. NYT unhappy. There would be machine ballots and paper ballots. Let’s hope the twain shall meet. https://merylnass.substack.com/p/entire-state-of-georgia-ordered-toFor-Profit US Healthcare System—Once Again—Ranks Dead Last Among Its Peers https://www.commondreams.org/news/us-healthcare-system
September 22, 2024 at 2:53 pm #169465John DayParticipantVery effective cost-containment, the repetitive and persistent threat of non-payment for services. Therapy patients stop treatment after ‘pre-payment reviews’ swell https://clearhealthcosts.com/blog/2024/09/therapy-patients-stop-treatment-after-pre-payment-reviews-swell/
Matt Stoller, Up to a Quarter of Rental Inflation Is Due to Price-Fixing
From 2020-2024, rent prices spiked by a third. How much of that is due to collusion by corporate landlords and a software coordinator? And where is the Fed?
And that brings me back to the Antitrust Division’s lawsuit against RealPage. Is this case more than an (alleged) price-fixing conspiracy? Could it point to a broader problem in the economy?
Let’s start with what this firm actually did. RealPage allegedly encouraged excess rental prices in a number of ways. First, it collected sensitive information about the market and let its clients know what everyone else was charging. Second, it explicitly encouraged rent hikes through default settings in its software, and by having its RealPage “pricing advisors” harass employees of clients until they raised rents. As one unnamed landlord put it, “I always liked this product because your algorithm uses proprietary data from other subscribers to suggest rents and term. That’s classic price fixing.” And finally, it hosted in-person meetings where its clients would talk with one another about raising prices. https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/up-to-a-quarter-of-rental-inflation WaPo journalists cited a new study about Earth’s global surface temperatures over the last 485 million years. In 2023, Earth’s average temperature reached 58.96 F (14.98 C), well below the average 96.8 degrees F (36 degrees Celsius) the study showed around 100 million years ago. The trend shows Earth’s temperatures have been sliding for 50 million years. https://www.zerohedge.com/weather/msm-journos-inadvertently-reveal-shocking-truth-about-global-warming
Using GPT-4 to generate 100 words consumes up to 3 bottles of water — AI data centers also raise power and water bills for nearby residents
Net-zero emission goals went out the window with AI. https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/using-gpt-4-to-generate-100-words-consumes-up-to-3-bottles-of-water-ai-data-centers-also-raise-power-and-water-bills-for-nearby-residents Peter McCullough MD, Manuscript: Banoun, Analysis of Beyfortus® (Nirsevimab) Immunization Campaign: Effectiveness, Biases, and ADE Risks in RSV Prevention
Acute RSV Infection and Death after Monoclonal Antibody Infusion Suggest Product Backfires in Some Babies Due to Antibody-Dependent Enhancement https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/breaking-manuscript-banoun-analysisSeptember 22, 2024 at 2:55 pm #169466John DayParticipantBrowse presentation topic summaries and biographies of presenters: Attack on Food and Farmers and How To Fight Back https://live.childrenshealthdefense.org/chd-tv/browse-all/attack-on-food-and-farmers-and-how-to-fight-back-collection/
Biological Intelligence (pictured with peppers, blinking in morning sun, after finishing lawn-mowing)
September 22, 2024 at 3:39 pm #169470zerosumParticipantWhy is Hillary Clinton being allowed, by CNN, Fareed Zakara, and main stream media, to spew her hatred against Trump?
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