Debt Rattle September 4 2024
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[See the full post at: Debt Rattle September 4 2024]to hell with the “Black Book” tell us who is laundering and managing the money.
45 wants to appoint the criminal banker to treasuryDid no one else notice The Sound of Freedom is a cash register?
you try to do large cash transacations at your bank and see what happens
The destruction of The Fourth Amendment to the US Constitution was the prelude to the current destruction of The First Amendment.
Buying and selling human beings for cash dollars and there is no record? Kiss My Ass!https://x.com/umyaznemo/status/1828407892552138804
The President of Brazil, Lula da Silva, known for his support of Palestine, was seen at an event wearing a kufiya with the inscriptions “Jerusalem is ours” and “We are coming.”
#FreePalestine #SolidaritywithoppressedpeopleOh, so Musk is not fighting Darth Vader in Brazil because of free speech, the fight is about Musk’s support for genocide by his mate Netanyahu and the Biden admin. What a turncoat, Musk should be hung drawn and quartered, he is on the side of evil. Not only is he censoring for the Jews, he is actively supporting their genocide of the Palestinians. Vote Trump, get Musk and Netanyahu.
““If no named storms form across the Atlantic waters by Monday, this would mark the first time in 27 years that not a single named tropical storm has developed in the basin from Aug. 21-Sept. 2.”
NAILED IT! Months out when they predicted worst season evah!!! I said “Meh,
probably not.On what basis?They’re always wrong.” Always. They said it, it’s false.Okay, this has knock-on effects. Read a lot of comments this month, and the key takeaway is “Nobody has any facts”. That is, there are no longer consensus facts. China is an expansionary country that like an empire will collapse if stopped. …Expand to who? Where? When? They haven’t expanded an inch. Like that.
Now you COULD say, and I often do: this guy is a moron and has no idea what they’re talking about, but it’s not. They are well measured and thoughtful. They’re seeing SOMETHING. And that something is already a hazy 3rd-iteration idea we are only testing out to see if it holds. Sure, no shade. But the problem is, there are no longer even CONSENSUS facts to work off of. We … lets’ say play I dunno, Dead Milkmen or Zappa rock off a well-known body of “Normal” rock. With no Establishment, there are no rebels, see? The hierarchy is now flat. I guess with no rebels there is no Hierarchy either: this present set wants to populate the entire establishment with non-rule-following individuals, etc, then wonders why their power-structure is unable to express power and control others (it’s designated purpose). Seat of the pants, reactionary flippsters are the same as pocket-protector engineers now, e.g.
Now this makes sense as everyone has been increasingly lying all my life, or certainly since before ‘63, or maybe as far back as 1920. At some point their ceaseless lies aren’t just an “edge” in social climbing, spin, sales, but systemic and endemic, dispensing with any traffic in the Truth whatsoever. The institutions, worn as a trophy skin-suit, hold up for a long time — decades longer than they rationally should – but eventually are revealed and break, leaving no Appeal to Authority – itself a lying, antiscientific falsehood.
So WE … all grab a body of facts, a consensus reality that WE … can talk to each other and play with. Like we start the discussion HERE, not anywhere, because we can assume THEY will also accept that is a known, agreed place, and we hash out that moment’s discussion FROM that place. (Overton Window or associated) But what we have now is none, or rather in contrast, 100 Overton Windows. Paradigms.
They said when they built the Internet, they expected 5 chat rooms with 1 Million people apiece. Instead they got 5 million chat rooms with 10 people apiece.
Now in some ways this is encouraged: not covered nearly enough is YES, the Left and Derp State is censoring and erasing Conservatives or other voices (anything antiwar) but more deadly, is automatically offering different interpretations of the world, and now spread right down to actual news and FACTS which all contradict the channel and feed of the guy next to you. Nor is it simple: vax vs antivax, binary, but that a spectrum of interpretations with a score of stops in between. Many of which are non-sequitors not really part of a simple spectrum. Like Vax, vax, vax, Aliens, Vax.
I’m not sure if this has been done before, I can’t think of any corollary. I think it just leap-frogs back into quite early culture, like +100 years ago, where you’d have Poles and Italians and Indians in their subgroups, all distinct and distinct WHY? Different beliefs or emphasis that radiate down into action and location. Then you might have the Catholic Germans and the non-Catholic Germans and the Atheist Germans all as subs of that set. So now more like a Catholic German, but not a Catholic Pole. Crossover but Not crossover. While there are still isolated Indians in islands and isolated cowboys on the ranch. From Sweden.
How does the Hyper-centralization core think it’s going to deal with a “Post-truth” or non-centralized, authority=truth world?
This is really going to be the question of our world, maybe next 30 years, because it’s deep as a glacier and alters the whole field. Subtly. Like I had awareness of it, but not up to the surface of having to address it.
Okay, you leave your door: what medicine do you buy? By visiting who? What do you buy at a the grocery? See? Not only exists, in theory, it is an IMMEDIATE, daily action item, based on your differing, competing Science and Trust.
“RONALD REAGAN: “The Constitution is a document in which we the people TELL THE GOVERNMENT what it is allowed to do.”
Well that’s pleasant. Although not revolutionary, this is why people liked Reagan. He at least said, “We’re America, this is it.” There were principles. They could and did name them. Then when it had to be acted out with Tip O’Neal in Congress, they just said, “Well, this is all we can get do, this is what we can agree and compromise on.” Done. Like that’s how The Process was supposed to work, 200 years,and it could all be understood. Now it’s like, “I disagree there IS a process, and we disagree so break every rule” AS WELL AS also lying about what they’re doing, double-crossing campaign promises and selling out to Corporations. Reagan’s GOP only did the first. We’ve now added the second.
“51 days ago. This will forever be one of the most badass things a president has ever done.”
Nope, Teddy was shot THROUGH THE LUNG and finished his speech on stage, barely mentioning it. However, “What Assassination?” Surely if that had happened, there’d be even ONE report and people would be talking about it. I mean, we’d want to know where the money came from to buy America’s most expensive lawyer, right?
“Corporations are gouging families” :
Sure, except their profit margins are lower than ever and they’re going bankrupt. That seems to be the …#Opposite… of Gouging? They post numbers on this, “They made $10M and now they make $15M…” Yeah, and that’s the same profit margin PERCENTAGE, adjusted for inflation. If they made I dunno, $100k and now make $150k salary, that’s because Inflation has doubled costs. Oh wait, they only got a 50% raise on a 100% rise in expenses, that’s going BACKWARDS. …Now of course it’s offensive because the guy down on the line got a $1.50/hr raise, like 3% not 50% but all these maths are the same.
…But it works perfectly because Liberals are entirely illiterate and incapable of maths. They see, “Scary Number, Aaaaiiiii!!!” Panic!!!, and no wheels engage.
“”People are bored by Trump. They’re bored with all of the drama, they’re tired of the insults, they’re tired of the lies”
Like the empty suit cartoon above, reading comments, I see this repeated instantly. Trump is “tired”, his people are “Bored.” Huh? They don’t look it, I didn’t see that. (picks up paper to double-check) A: Some campaign wonk made this up at the top, and like the “Harris 4 Prez” signs it appears 12 hours after her installation to candidacy. 13 hours later, every Democrat is saying this is true. Why?
A: Appeal to Authority. An “Authority” said it (e.g. MSNBC) and I trust them, so it’s reflexively true. Not that that isn’t used on the Right either, of course it is, but their personality type is more rebellious and reflexively opposes, saying “Are you lying to me?” so it doesn’t travel as far.
Point is, DNC Team Kamala said this like Monday, now I read it everywhere in real-life people’s comments a day later. Buuuuuuut…. It’s not real if no one was slowly noticing over the last few months, is it? You don’t get tired one day at 12:01am on Monday, and boom, 0-100% in an hour. Time exists. (No it doesn’t! I just said!)
Anyway, why are we talking about this? Oh yeah because worldwide nuclear war has never happened before, which means it’s a scam and it can’t happen now. We can’t have a War to End All Wars now, because we’re “Modern” and interconnected and Germany is too advanced in brotherly love for that to happen ‘cause “Science”.
Carry on! NATO did NOT have a Land-Invasion in Asia. The Donbas line is not collapsing 3 towns a day, whereupon Ukraine will fall, taking all collateral with it, right on schedule. …On schedule for the Election, which was well-planned. And then the market crack a day before we vote, all well-planned.
“The Dow is 10,000 and we’re in World War Three!!! Vote Democrat!” ….And they will. Clearly.
I predicted this back years ago. So. Bored.
““There is a lot of waste and needless regulation in government that needs to go..”
They already settled this: The President has zero power, he’s not allowed to fire ANYBODY, for any reason, even for an illegal coup or direct, treasonous insubordination. Change my mind.
The third rail for the government – which is half our economy now – is that the Federales will circle the wagons against EVERY American to keep each other from getting fired. For incompetence. Even jacking off on a work computer and not cleaning the screen, SEC. Carry on, sir! We don’t mind at all out here.
Speaking of, from yesterday, yes, the “Socialist” governments of South America barely are, and taken as % of economy run by government vs corporation, they just want slightly more. Usually just a small additional % on the oil or mining resources extracted by foreigners. That’s fine, we agree that’s “Socialism” on that sliding scale. Then America goes in, interferes, shoots people, blockades, funds uprisings, embargos, cripples their economies. Dicks them over for no earthly reason, more expensive than Exxon just paying the additional 2%. And the Americans that do that should be rounded up and shot, in my opinion. What authority do they do that under? I certain they have one, dozens, in Congress (“Clear and Present Danger”, clip often forwarded here) but to me those things are an ACT OF WAR and there’s no declaration of war, nor should there be, so in the clink you go!
Oh, one other thing, besides arresting and hanging them all: That’s Not Capitalism. And if they, the Government, are interfering on behalf of United Fruit (Smedley Butler) or Exxon (Bush) then they are a FASCIST system. Also illegal and Not Capitalism. If Exxon extracts, they keep it, but if there are Country costs associated, like keeping order, the U.S. GOVERNMENT pays them as a pass-through to Exxon? Yeah, That’s not Capitalism. That’s fascism. I know.
Then we’d know if they rise or fall on their own merits. But we already know. It has a scaling problem. You can succeed with a limited, (and still only mixed) Socialism only in countries under a certain size, like Iceland, Denmark, etc. And that number is Waaaaaaay down there, like 2 Million people. Above that, it cripples and collapses. Those nations also don’t do their own defense, etc. They’re helpless to their larger structure, same as a Hippie Commune. Which also usually fail. I’m not stopping anyone from making one, go ahead! Show me how it works.
But all that is their business to fail or succeed on. Best of luck to them, none of my business. Is this not what you expected? This is standard “Conservativeism”, straight-definition. This is standard, definition, Capitalism. You ALLOW competition, from countries as well as corporations.
“• Robert Reich Calls for Arrest of Elon Musk for Resisting Censorship (Turley)
Backing up one level: Humans EXPRESS. That’s it. We are driven to expression by some internal impulse and natural order. You could say by our Creator. What Reich and 100% of everybody is doing is AGAINST the natural order. It’s like rubbing water so it won’t be wet. THAT is really what the Enlightenment – now some 300 years past, dear God – was saying. Sure, any King CAN do these Tyrannies, but DO THEY WORK? Machiavelli. This is the same as the “Mandate of Heaven” in the East. No, it doesn’t work. So ALIGN YOUR GOVERNMENT WITH WHAT WORKS, that is to say, with Physics. Or in this case, social physics. You can’t shut people up and you’ll exhaust yourself trying. So don’t. Make other plans.
But Reich here is too much of a moron and mentally ill to concede that water is wet, and his power has limits, somewhere. Good luck! We’re still talking, and you’re gibbering in a corner flapping your hands dying of old age. Physics won over denial again.
“• Brazilians to be Fined $9000 a Day for Receiving News from X (Turley)
Wow. Maybe they should use Spacelink.
“Because he thinks Trump will win.
• Why Did Zuckerberg Choose Now to Confess? (Tucker)Zuck was waiting on the assassination. (What assassination?) He conceded right after.
“• Can They Really Reinvent Kamala Harris in 70 Days? (Victor Davis Hanson)
They reinvent her every day, so 70 more times, I would think. It’s easy when you pay no attention whatsoever to what she said yesterday, nor to any underlying principles. Why not?
“• Durov ‘Too Free’ For The West – Lavrov (RT)
Or the east, you bastard. Russia did this before France, thats why he left.
“• Mongolia Explains Why It Didn’t Arrest Putin (RT)
Because the ICC is now a completely discredited, political organization, a stooge for anyone who asks, like SWIFT. Good. Appeal to Authority was running the whole thing.
“Israel is in civil war…”
Contrary to most arguments here, the Jews are now killing the Jews. Like a dozen tmes before. Explain? Their foremost victim is…themselves?
“• Epstein Client List ‘Will Be’ Made Public – Trump (RT)
Suuuuuuure it will. ANY truth would have been our greatest win, but you declassified then released nearly nothing. GFY.
“If somebody thinks they’re a hedgehog, presumably you just give ’em a mirror and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them to sort it out for themselves.” –The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
“Darryl Cooper his latest project trying to understand World War Two”
My abbreviated take:
1913 – Federal Reserve Act puts in place the funding mechanism for Endless War Profits
1914 – WWI Commences
1920’s – Wild Speculative Gambling with War Profits because the Fed bankrolled it
1929 – The Fed Croupier rakes the Table clean
1933 – The Business Plot, also called the Wall Street Putsch, was a successful coup Roosevelt
Most major news media dismissed the plot, with a New York Times editorial characterizing it as a “gigantic hoax”.
Media Whores air brushed it over at the time but the Wall Street Putsch threaten Roosevelt and his family with death unless he began preparing for WWII by lining up the country’s ducks for the Pearl Harbor Project by cutting off Japan’s oil supply.
1941 – WWII starts for the Empire of Lies.
Massive arms profits and the foundations of the National Security State are laid down
1945 – Victory for War Whores Inc.
1947 – After putting a gun to Truman’s temple the National Security Act of 1947 was passed.
Truman being a low level second tier hoodlum from Missouri was OK with it.
The End
….of “Democracy”
• Durov ‘Too Free’ For The West – Lavrov
Durov’s troubles are his own fault.
He naively trusted the Collective West to leave him alone because he is in that small club of global billionaires.
Money can’t buy you love Pavel
Sucker!
The Empire of Lies, Lies, Lies
Ritual Humiliation No. 69
I will go on forever until someone with some Balls stops it!
Hahahahahahahaha!
None in Sight!
Kamala Harris is going to go after Wall Street and the billionaires to protect the middle class is she? That’s not what her record says. Story origninally published in The Intercept.
Kamala Harris Fails to Explain Why She Didn’t Prosecute Steven Mnuchin’s Bank
FORMER CALIFORNIA ATTORNEY General Kamala Harris on Wednesday vaguely acknowledged The Intercept’s report about her declining to prosecute Steven Mnuchin’s OneWest Bank for foreclosure violations in 2013, but offered no explanation.
@Dr. D: Point of order. Teddy Roosevelt had a superficial chest wound due to lack of teleprompter in those ancient days: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attempted_assassination_of_Theodore_Roosevelt
On October 14, 1912, former U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt survived an assassination attempt by John Schrank, a former saloonkeeper, while campaigning for the presidency in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Schrank’s bullet lodged in Roosevelt’s chest after penetrating Roosevelt’s steel eyeglass case and passing through a 50-page-thick (single-folded) copy of his speech titled “Progressive Cause Greater Than Any Individual”, which he was carrying in his jacket pocket.
Yeah, Teddy still wins. He had already charged up San Juan Hill and had those kinds of martial patterns ingrained. Bold guy.
My way or the highway.
• Robert Reich Calls for Arrest of Elon Musk for Resisting Censorship (Turley)————-
Create a wall of censorship between citizens and unregulated information.
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Will it be easier to control Harris.
• Can They Really Reinvent Kamala Harris in 70 Days? (Victor Davis Hanson)
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Is this how Hillary got that 97% likelihood to win in 2016?
• Harris’ So-Called ‘Surge’ Is Thanks To Oversampling: Pollsters (ZH)As we’ve been highlighting since 2016, polls are not to be trusted thanks to various ‘tricks of the trade’ – most commonly, oversampling.
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Take care of TAE, since it give you joy to bitch.CRE
KaBOOM!
Commerical Real Estate Debt
Craptastically Fantastic!
CRE debt refers to mortgages secured by a lien on commercial properties.
It can also include real estate bonds that are secured by income-producing property
Roughly $930 billion in CRE debt loans will come due this year.
$4.7 trillion in outstanding CRE debt.
Banks hold about $3 trillion in CRE debt.
70% of that at regional and community banks.
That’s your little old local bank, suckers!
The Sky is Falling Chicken Little
CRE in Big Shities like NYC and Chicago are Toast©
Imagine if home prices drop this much next year.
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135 W 50th NYC
Imagine a property last selling for $285,000,000 dropping to $8.5 million
NYC is losing tax revenue on a hit like that.
Hey, maybe they can fill it with Illegal Migrants!
Republican Voters Against Trump
If it barks like astroturf, smells like astroturf, looks like astroturf…
Spouse and I were driving down a well-used road in Phoenix yesterday, and I noticed that there are now Trump signs sprinkled among all of the signs promoting local politicians. None for Harris…and then I noticed ONE for Harris, by Republican Voters Against Trump. I laughed.
Kursk 2.0 update
The Kursk salient is STILL expanding!
The attack started 8/6 and there were new expansions (on southfront – I figure if a pro Russian website is reporting it and it makes Russia look bad, Ukraine is doing at least that much) …expansions show on their maps from 8/29 and 9/3.
YESTERDAY, new attacks, expanding the Kursk salient at its northernmost extreme with 8 different attacks being launched out of the salient at different points along its perimeter (only the northern one showing any success)
No news or maps out of Chasov Yar in 5 days. There’s still fighting in front of Ugledar. All the major place names remain in the same hands, it seems.
If Swedes join a coalition, stupidly, against Russia and then station themselves in Poltava, how do you NOT find some way to smash them as a Russian? How could you possibly resist? Did the Swedish soldiers actually lay in a field and spell out “kick me” with their bodies so the Russians could see it from orbiting spy satellites?
A weird sub-meme going around in western media is pearl-clutching complaint that the Russian attack on Poltava is overwhelming hospitals.
What? You’re losing 3,000 a day and wounded must consequently be 6,000-9,000 per day, so what’s this pearl-clutching over 100 swedes? But the pearl-clutching sounds so familiar: “Those Bad People are clogging up the hospitals!!!”
Yknow how in spy movies, sometimes there is an “asset” that gets activated? Maybe it’s a mkultra deal, they get a key phrase – or maybe it’s just a sleeper that gets a call to activate. Maybe the intelligence communities treat memetics the same way. Hammer away and implant a little idea into the general populace, activate it as pragmatism warrants. The idea OF pearl clutching over “they’re clogging the hospitals” makes no sense ….except that it DOES make sense to SAY it. We know there’s a million Karens who just got retriggered over Ukraine just when they were in mid-yawn.
(This is a MAJOR part of Frank Herbert’s Dune – various memetics have been implanted in various populaces all over the known worlds – not for a SPECIFIC op, but to just BE there for Benne Gesserit to activate as needed.)
Tiger “pups”: https://www.today.com/news/tigers-say-bye-mom-dog-raised-them-wbna31541834
I sometimes wonder about these “feel good” videos — I suspect that an overly positive narrative is being spun.
The unusual pairing also solved the small zoo’s financial woes. It sounds like quite a place — reviews talk about tour guides (including the owner) who know the personalities of the animals and a woman who went on her birthday, and was permitted to hold a wolf-pup.
Poltava
Ukronazis lost a tremendous amount of personnel, especially Merc Maggots. So Sad ;>(
Biggest missile strike kill of the entire SMO
September 3, a high-precision strike was carried out on the 179th Joint Training Center of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Poltava, where, under the guidance of foreign instructors, communications and electronic warfare specialists from all formations and military units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were trained , as well as operators of unmanned aerial vehicles involved in strikes against civilian targets on the territory of Russia.
Numbers have gone even higher
Given that Ukrainian sources are now reporting 600 to 700 killed and wounded in Poltava, it is highly likely that today we have witnessed the deadliest strike of the war, which will surpass the strikes on the mercenary barracks at the Yavoriv training ground (2022), the barracks of the 79th Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces (2022), and the barracks of the training center in Desna (2023), when in each case there were more than 200 dead.
The attack on Ukrainian troops in Poltava demoralized Ukraine, writes the American newspaper New York Times.
“The strike has had a demoralizing effect on Ukraine as its troops retreat in the face of continued Russian advances on the main military front in Donbas,” the newspaper writes.
From Andrei Martyanov on KurskHe still has good contacts in Russia being a former Soviet officer.
” [Ukronazi] column gets into 810th Marines Brigade ambush–gets blown up, remnants try to maneuver to the flank and get the rest of column destroyed. It is a safari now in Kursk.”
Lavrov on megabrain Lavrov on sexy megabrain Durov the Sire of 100 “childs”:
“Durov ‘Too Free’ For The West – Lavrov (RT)”
Lavrov The Megabrain knows the difference between ‘Too Free” and privileged. Lavrov also knows too free for the West must mean exponentially too free for authoritarians like Putin and Lavrov, right? Ritter probably wouldn’t agree with my characterization of the two great Russians but who cares what Ritter thinks
This problem where smart Lavrovs display the stupid spontaneously IS a sign he’s dealing with malignant Narcissists and psychopaths.
In other words, the characterlogically disordered leaders TPTB have chosen to lead know far better how to set up ppl for gaslighting, ie. looking and sounding like fools better than Great men like Lavrov can resist….…but D knows that too.
So we’re all gonna die in a nuclear holocaust.Loosening associations
Dr. D Rich, compliments in a prev. thread, yes, heh 🙂 🙂
More on Durov. from link at top, RT:
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said over the weekend that Moscow also had issues with the Telegram CEO in the past, but – unlike Paris – never tried to arrest him.
True, Moscow gave him the choice to leave Russia if not complying to R demands, which he did. (See my prev. posts on this matter.)
However, since about 2 years (or more ?) Durov was making ‘peace’ with Russia again, idk how exactly, but visiting it often, meeting ppl. – He never gave up his R. passport.
=> This case is important as it concerns internet ‘free speech’ / censorship in the world.
In F, this is what went down, roughly. Dates 2024. Much more could be speculated on.
— 8 July. A “Judge of Instruction”, that is, a Judge who in F, can open an Enquiry on anyone / any matter, just off his own bat, did so.
same day. The F PM Attal tendered his resignation to Macron, who did not accept it. (Macron did so 10 days or so later.) Not that the events are directly relaated – but Macron was super busy.
The ‘complaint’ by the “Juge d’instruction” did not name any victims, any ‘perps’, or any suspects. Merely, ‘nefarious, bad’ actions, were taking place.
Both from a common-sense pov and legality in F, this isn’t crazy, or contrived, but it is *ODD.*
— Nefarious acts going on, complaining victims or suspected perps not tracked etc., that nevertheless have to be investigated, is legit. —
Complaint against Durov from the Proc. (aka Top Judiciary) of the Republic, is here, 26 Aug. Scroll down for Eng.
The % sliding scale, with “socialism” only wanting 2% extra gets me thinking… “how much difference is there” is always a good question to pose – and is indeed my POINT in asking socialists what % of state-controlled GDP they will fight to stop or even decrease.
From the socialist side of things, the %-of-resources is THE concern. That’s the POINT. Where’s the stuff? Who has the stuff? Where should it be and who should have it?
But is this the proper way of deciding this?
For instance, what’s a Christian society? Do we count up all the land owned by The Church and calculate its total real estate value, calculate the GDP production of monasteries making beer, cheese, and honey? Then decide some dividing line – 51%? 90%? Surely not.
A postmodernist deconstructionist comes along and starts asking “was the society TOTALLY Christian? Partially Christian? Slices the society into different bits, then obsesses over grey areas. Defines the discussion in particular ways, then destroys their own distinctions. ha-HA, Who Is To Say! (WiTS)
Obviously a society is a Christian society when it is culturally christian, when there is a shared set of stories, history, culture within that memeset of allegories and values, observances, rituals. A Christian society would be one that processes reality in those terms. So that even deist humanists might express ideas with reference to “providence” etc – it’s the symbolic language they know to think and communicate in.
So a capitalist society is not “100% capitalist” or “90% capitalist!” or whatever. The % is a lie anyway, the % of GDP devoted to government does not necessarily mean it is socialist. Like if 10% of GDP is government and 90% is private, the society is not not not 10% socialist. Not even if the 10% goes to feeding the poor and education. And roads.
RONALD REAGAN: “The Constitution is a document in which we the people TELL THE GOVERNMENT what it is allowed to do.
The predominant way of understanding and expressing ideas to each other, culturally. Thus infusing all our institutions with that way of thinking and seeing, that sensibility.
If a society hears that from Reagan and thinks, of course and the sky is blue too – then the american revolution is still alive and breathing. If they think reflexively “Only a NAZI would say that!!!” Then they’ve succumbed to counter-revolutionary continental european “revolution” concepts. (counter to the far superior American Revolution)
“It’s not happening” is based on what?
Superficial appearances? Like, to a lazier and more slapdash degree every day, government throws up a potempkin facade of 1950’s US and as long as they make even the vaguest noises like that, then It’s Not Happening?
Certainly not based on raw % of GDP controlled by The State. Because, as no socialist will publicly admit, we’ve already passed the % needed to qualify as Socialist not Capitalist. That’s precisely why they won’t say.
So then The State has The Stuff.
So we hear about “theory.” About how The State should take over The Stuff and then it will be better – they already HAVE the stuff. Right now. Any battle in the real world would be against The State to get it to relinquish its hold on The Stuff.
Moreover, they have FULLY bought into printing. Let’s not bother quibbling over this. We can see it.
And if you are willing to print a trillion or two every few months, what does ANYONE own? If you can print with impunity, then you don’t HAVE to declare the State owns everything. De facto, it DOES.Oh but it’s fascism? Based on …what money gets spent on, I guess, then?
Like… a fascist system spending money on improving things and benefitting the common people, the working class never ever happened and is impossible? Want to try again?
So it isn’t % of GDP and it isn’t control and it isn’t what you spend money ON. None of this would prove/disprove a Christian society either.
It’s a socialist society when that society culturally believes, understands, and communicates in socialist terms. Makes decisions in socialist terms.
Oroboros. Exactly. I’m probably far too generous in thinking some sort of deal happened where FDR sort of had leverage on them. It’s the same the other way around. In any case, it all got locked away and there was an understanding from then on, they were allies.
I always ally with people who tried to have a Marine kill me. That’s just common sense.
JB, yes, there are a bunch of primary factors down there as to how much govt is Socialist, if at all. You could have a Christian, charitable, all-Capitalist society. We may have got 90% there a few times. But there are no pure systems on earth among men, and you could draw the same objections with “The wasn’t real Socialism which has never been tried.” And they do.
It’s enough to say Peru has oil or something, it’s 40% of revenue, and they want Exxon to pay 5% or 15% instead of 2%. …Which goes to the GOVERNMENT, but let’s actually pretend ANY amount would reach the people. Which it would. A little. At first.
Exxon set up the project on profitability of 2%. It LITERALLY may need to close at 5%, and DEFINITELY at 15%. They think because they have oil, that it grows on trees, falls out of the sky into boats, and any price is fair. …Because they never worked a day in their life. You got stuff, I want it, why are we still talking?
AND THEN, Exxon probably COULD figure out a way to pay them 5% and still get oil and everybody profits. …But is it fair to just change the terms all AFTER? AFTER they did all the work? Took all the risk? And then change it in 6 years when the next guy gets in again? So they just call the CIA and have them shoot everyone instead. For free, that goes on the taxpayer bill, so it’s corporate welfare. The CIA now fights a $100M “war” over 10 years that Exxon gets but doesn’t pay for. Direct air-drop of money to the RICHEST, straight from the POOREST taxpayers.
Hey, not like I need to make the case for you so you can argue against Capitalism, but I guess I do ’cause you won’t: how does that work? That’s evil as f–k. And are you, is anyone, holding the so-called “Capitalist” system to account when it tries this always? No they are not. They handwave and wink so it always happens.
— Enter Blank Space here, for certain posters to make their case for the ACTUAL well-deserved evils of Capitalism —
And last, is that Fascism? Yes, because Socialism and Fascism are basically identical. Just one TECHNICALLY the company is owned by the person, and in one TECHNICALLY is owned by the state, although they operate as an indistinguishable merger. And TECHNICALLY one is World-Revolution Socialism and the other is NATIONAL Socialism. Technically, although they behave identically. So technically our system of ever-creeping Socialism is Fascism. Which I say four times a week. But since they somehow hypnotized people to think they’re #Opposites, yes that makes it difficult to talk about.
We all lost our childish idealism over “Our Capitalist System” back with Confessions of an Economic Hitman if not War is a Racket. It’s the air we breathe all over the doom-o-sphere whether it’s TAE or Zerohedge or wherever.
Who is still arguing that this IS a capitalist system? Who is defending THIS not-capitalist system? Basically everyone is complaining ABOUT the current state of affairs from within this “system” if we can call it a system.
There’s two separate concerns here
1. How do the people in a given society understand reality and it what terms do they explain it, communicate with each other?
2. Does reality – what is happening -conform to their ideas of how things ought to be done.
You have a capitalist (not Capitalist™) society and a captured government, then, in the case of Exxon sending in the CIA or US military. A capitalist society on its way to dissolution, since once the institutions able to wield physical force are captured, all other institutions will eventually be “leveraged”
But I’m saying the “pure/not-pure capitalist” “pure/not-pure socialist” is already on false ground. What’s the culture? What’s the language, the ideas behind the language? If you conquer people who speak a different language or have a different religion or culture, have you exterminated all of them? Did a few thousand Normans exterminate the English in 1066? Did each English person become 10% Norman in composition upon conquest? The “pure/not-pure” QUESTION is wrong. “1067 England wasn’t a PURE English society anymore” is headed off into abstraction. Maybe “True” according to Hegel?
The problem with discussing “actual evils of Capitalism” is that language can be used in a Pragmatic™ way devoid of communication. Marxist language is pragmatic. Their Capitalism™ definition is Pragmatic™ in nature. They are “only against Capitalism™” but always attack capitalism.
Evil Stepdad draws a picture of a Bad Guy and only ever punches IT… while laying it up against step-son’s face EVERY single time. Oopsie cosmic coincidence. Didn’t do nothing. Capitalism™ is evil and the picture is evil. The purpose of the picture IS to be evil. That’s WHY they draw it. “Trust us. We still only want to fight evil Capitalism™, pinky swear this time.”
I would LIKE a discussion, but I just don’t see much merit to a conversation in which all my opposite’s energies are to maneuver me into defending Capitalism™ (War is a Racket, Confessions of an Economic Hitman) and they get to be champions against THAT when the conclusion is Kneel To Zod because WE are That Thing You Like now starve and give up on free speech etc – 150 years of track record.
I’d really like to see some sort of benign evolution of the Marxist/Communist/Socialist space – this would involve a lot of… “we were wrong.” THEN there could be some new awesome, good thing along that Marxist/Communist/Socialist genealogy. But deciding to evolve is a kind of death.
Not that there aren’t new evolutions of that memeset, they’re just awful and even worse. And it is another test as to whether an actual discussion is taking place or simulacrum of discussion — the old stuff, not only in practice, but in concept, was there something wrong with it? The NEW stuff, is it even more wrong and awful? SILENCE – as if we don’t know what current year marxism is, we just got out of a time capsule from the 1960’s is Barry Goldwater still running for president?
But “we” always know with GREAT accuracy what to jump in with and when to fight against fighting against current year marxism. WHILE gosh I can’t imagine what you’re talking about. And playing dumb is A Good Thing because… Most-Pragmatic.
Just as soon as they stop LARPing from within their hermetic gnostic religion – invented by a projective malignant narcissist who was super-exploitative, therefore pointed his finger at the Universe saying “You are exploitative!” – there could be a real discussion. Until then you get to watch someone playing at being Neo – I can see the matrix, you’re just a dumb animal, so I will train you with words.
As far as Nationalist Socialism vs Internationalist Socialism, seems like the “Internationalist” part is even more important than the “Socialist” part.
Are you a socialist against unlimited migration? Government should do stuff for the working class of a particular country through border control and tariffs? Stop hurting your country’s working class? So you’re socialist, but with a nationalist component? REAL Nationalist Socialism hasn’t been tried?
The elites that were indoctrinated in Internationalist Socialism in their elite educational institutions cannot bring themselves to do it. It absolutely breaks them. Thus the unlimited flow no matter how bad it makes them look, how much people start to hate them. Look at the UK right now. Just cannot even cringingly turn to glance at it out of the corner of their eye. “Maybe we could be socialist, but ALSO natio— arrrgghhhh it burns!”
I’m cringing myself as I say it – a socialism that was nationalist – can anyone allow themselves to conceive of it? (It should go without saying yes of course I hate NAZIs and Hitler etc duh. Nor do I advocate for some other form OF it or something – I’m just challenging socialists to try to conceive of thinking of their own country’s welfare above others for a second or two and pointing out why they cannot) …think it privately, let alone say the WORDS? My suggestion on how the Marxist/Communist/Socialist memeset COULD evolve in a positive way would be to reconsider nation, family, culture, and tradition. Again – instinctive instant cringe, right? But why – isnt to be against these things anti-human? The Ancients were dumb animals for thousands of years, WE are the only smarties?
@Phoenixvoice: I even smiled a bit while reading this:
“Spouse and I were driving down a well-used road in Phoenix yesterday, and I noticed that there are now Trump signs sprinkled among all of the signs promoting local politicians. None for Harris…and then I noticed ONE for Harris, by Republican Voters Against Trump. I laughed.”
Covert Rules Based Order https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/covert-rules-based-order
Surplus Energy Economics, Without the elixir , OWNING OUR CHALLENGES [Picture yourself at the top, in control, and those beneath you don’t know this.]
Growth in the economy, we’re told, has made the average citizen successively more prosperous over time.
Historically, though, growth has had another, perhaps even more important quality – it has rescued us from our own mistakes and misfortunes. Now that growth has ended, we’ll be compelled to ‘own’ these mistakes and misfortunes, and find innovative ways of fixing our problems within the resources that we have…
..Mr Starmer has conceded that tough choices have to be made about taxation and public expenditures, but he has also said that things will subsequently get “better” once the economy has been restored to a path of growth.
Realistically, this isn’t going to happen. Since 2004, British material prosperity has flat-lined, but the population has grown by 14%, leaving the average person poorer by 12%. At the same time, the estimated cost of essentials – defined here as the aggregate of public services and household necessities – has increased by 40%.
This means that the PXE – the prosperity excluding essentials – of the average British person is 24% lower now than it was back in 2004. At the same time, financial exposure is extreme, and the government’s revenue base can be expected to erode even as demand for public spending rises…
..American prosperity per capita inflected into contraction even earlier, back in 2000. The average person in almost all of the Western advanced economies has been getting materially poorer since no later than 2007…
..The same process of inflexion is now looming for those EM (emerging market) economies which, for the past decade and more, have been portrayed as carrying the global economy forwards…
..The simpler fact is that EM economies tend to be a lot less complex than their Western comparators. Lesser complexity results in lower system upkeep costs, giving EM countries greater resilience in the face of the trend that, across the entire global economy, is pushing prior growth into reverse.
That trend is the relentless rise in the Energy Cost of Energy. The prosperity of the average Westerner started to decline once trend ECoEs were at or near 5%. Now that global ECoEs have broken the 10% barrier, not even China or India can carry on growing their prosperity much longer… In fact, these countries are now at, or close to, the same inflexion-point in disposable prosperity long since experienced in the West…
..The enormous, hyper-complex modern economy is entirely the product of the harnessing of fossil fuel energy. Because we’ve always used lowest-cost energy resources first, and left costlier alternatives for later, we have, over time, depleted the economic value of coal, oil and natural gas. When the coal economy started to succumb to the effects of depletion in the 1920s, oil was waiting in the wings to take over.
Now, as the economic impetus of petroleum, in its turn, is running down, no such complete successor form of energy exists…
..The most important depletion effect of the lot applies to the finite ability of the environment to tolerate the harmful effects of human economic activity.
One way to look at this is the concept of overshoot. As of 1960, almost all of the World’s potentially productive agricultural land was already under cultivation. Since then, the global population has increased from 3 billion to 8 billion…
..Contrary to an almost universal misconception, GDP isn’t a measure of economic output, but of the flow of financial transactions taking place in the system, which is a wholly different concept…
..The average American may have enjoyed an increase of $21,000 in his or her share of real GDP since 2000, but his or her share of aggregate public and private debt rose by $102,000 over that same period, whilst the per capita equivalent of broad liabilities increased by about $200,000…
..None of this means that our predicament is hopeless, but it does tell us that we need solutions of quality rather than of quantity, and this in turn requires new ideas.
One example is the concept of the circular economy. We can increase the re-use of resources by factoring ease of recycling in from the very start of the product design process. We can extend the life-expectancies of products, not just by improving their quality but also by making them easier to repair…
..The main reason why this doesn’t happen is that incentives are skewed towards the linear economic model of rapid disposal and replacement…
..Two obvious priorities are that we strive to improve the lot of the average person, whilst pulling back from the brink of environmental disaster. These objectives require, not just fairer allocation of resources, but also a move towards greater sustainability in the categories of activity that are within our control.
There are no simple solutions – we cannot, for instance, improve the living conditions of the ‘ordinary’ person by confiscating the assets of ‘the rich’. Most of these assets exist only in paper form, and their prices can be expected to succumb to the forces of economic gravity when the bloated system of assets and credit reaches its point of inflexion. Wealth taxes can’t, in themselves, contribute much to the public purse when the yield on this wealth is at, or close to, historic lows.
Neither can we wish our way past the constraints imposed by the laws of physics. We can’t, for example, turn wind or solar power into dense energy sources.
The levers which are within our control include the system of incentives which reinforces the destructive linear economic system and, as things stand, blocks progress towards greater circularity. https://surplusenergyeconomics.wordpress.com/2024/09/02/288-without-the-elixir/Israel Sets Up Army Unit To Oversee Control Of Gaza ‘For Years To Come’ https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/israel-sets-army-unit-oversee-control-gaza-years-come#google_vignette
UK Announces Partial Ban On Arms Exports To Israel
The United Kingdom has announced it will suspend a portion of its current arms and defense sales to Israel, citing a “clear risk” to civilians and that they could be used to violate international humanitarian law.
Foreign Secretary David Lammy informed parliament Monday that the suspension will impact of 30 of 350 arms export licenses to Israel. The partial ban covers supplies “which could be used in the current conflict in Gaza” against Hamas. However, parts for F-35 fighter jets are exempt from the ban. He emphasized that the country still backs Israel’s right to self-defense, and thus the UK is not enacting a blanket ban on all items. https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/uk-announces-partial-ban-arms-exports-israelHamas Hints 6 Hostages Killed Because IDF Forces Got ‘Too Close’ Based On New Protocol
“Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu does not want the hostages back,” wrote former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in Haaretz last week.
Olmert accused Netanyahu of bowing to the pressures of his extremist cabinet members by seeking an all-out confrontation that includes not only Hamas, Yemen’s Houthis, Lebanon’s Hezbollah and Shia militias in Syria and Iraq, but even Iran. “In the choice between what’s good for Israel and what’s good for Bibi – the result is known.”…
..A new poll found that 69% of Israelis think Netanyahu should resign when new elections are held, against just 22% who think he should seek re-election. While she may have been making her statements under coercion, one of the recently discovered dead hostages, Eden Yerushalmi, condemned Netanyahu in a video released by Hamas on Monday:
“Benjamin Netanyahu and the government of Israel: Do what is necessary to release us now…The bombing here never stops and we are afraid for our lives. We are scared of dying here.
Benjamin Netanyahu, you freed 1,000 Palestinian prisoners in exchange for [captured IDF soldier] Gilad Shalit [in 2011]. Now they are asking for less than a quarter of that number for each one of us. I am not able to comprehend…am I worth less? … I ask all the people of Israel to take to the streets and demonstrate…Everything that happened to us is because of failure of the State of Israel and its security forces on Oct. 7.” https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/hamas-hints-6-hostages-killed-because-idf-forces-got-too-close-relative-new-protocolRecord Anti-Netanyahu Protests, Labor Strikes, Bring Israel To A Standstill
Estimates by journalists said the anti-Netanyahu protest ranged anywhere from 300,000+ to 750,000 people. They accuse the Israeli prime minister of intentionally stalling and thwarting a hostage swap deal with Hamas, instead prioritizing the military operation which could put some 100 remaining captives in harm’s way…
..Meanwhile, exacerbating the political divide over Gaza policy is the new announcement by Israel’s largest labor union the Histadrut, which has called a general nationwide strike to begin Monday. This marks an unprecedented first of the Gaza war…
..The union said it is striking as it’s become clear that a truce deal is “more important than anything else,” according to the words of Arnon Bar-David, the head of Histadrut. “We are getting body bags instead of a deal.” https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/record-anti-netanyahu-protests-labor-strikes-bring-israel-standstillNetanyahu Refuses ‘Surrender’ to Israeli Protesters Demanding Hostage Deal https://sputnikglobe.com/20240903/netanyahu-refuses-surrender-to-israeli-protesters-demanding-hostage-deal-1119991461.html
Turkish Protesters Swarm Izmir Port Until US Warship Leaves Following Assault On Americans
The USS Wasp is in regional waters to as part of efforts to “deter potential threats to Israel” amid the Gaza war, and as the potential for escalation with Hezbollah and Iran looms. “Protesters have issued a firm warning to the Izmir Governorship, stating they will remain at the port until the ship departs,” Almayadeen writes. “They also condemned the United States for its role in causing suffering and violence in Iraq, Syria, and the broader West Asia region.” …
..American military personnel have been directly targeted, despite Turkey being a NATO ally and playing host to US bases, as was seen with Monday’s dramatic events where on the streets of the southern city of Izmir US Navy and Marine service members were brutally assaulted, though they managed to escape to safety when local police intervened. The US troops had been on weekend liberty after the USS Wasp amphibious ship docked there…
..Turkiye Youth Union (TGB), which is the youth branch of the nationalist opposition Vatan Party, declared that the soldiers were attacked because they have “blood” on their hands. “US soldiers who carry the blood of our soldiers and thousands of Palestinians on their hands cannot dirty our country. Every time you step foot in these lands, we will meet you the way you deserve,” TGB said in the aftermath. https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/turkish-protesters-vow-stay-izmir-port-until-us-warship-leaves-following-assaultU.S. universities spent the summer strategizing to suppress student activism. Here is their plan.
Schools across the U.S. have altered policies and even landscapes in an attempt to make a repeat of last spring’s Palestine protests impossible. The result is a far-reaching war on free expression and the increased militarization of higher education. https://mondoweiss.net/2024/09/u-s-universities-spent-the-summer-strategizing-to-suppress-student-activism-here-is-their-plan/
NOOOO!!! Not PARADOX! Kremlin Spokesman Suggests Moscow Prefers Kamala Harris Over Donald Trump
After Vladimir Putin said he preferred Biden over Trump, the Kremlin now appears to favor Kamala Harris, saying that, “The Democrats are more predictable.” https://modernity.news/2024/09/02/kremlin-spokesman-suggests-moscow-prefers-kamala-harris-over-donald-trump/It really seems to me that now, this time before potential US elections in November, is the critical time for struggles between Globalist and Nationalist elite factions in our world.
Eric Weinstein: ‘I Don’t Know Whether Trump Will Be Allowed To Become President’
There is something that I think Mike Benz has just referred to as the rules-based international order. It’s an interlocking series of agreements, tacit understandings, explicit understandings, and clandestine understandings about how the most important structures keep the world free of war and keep markets open. There has been a system in place, whether understood explicitly or behind the scenes or implicitly, that says the purpose of the two American parties is to prune the field of populist candidates so that whatever two candidates exist in a faceoff are both acceptable to that world order.
From the point of view of, say, the State Department, the intelligence community, the defense department, and major corporations involved in international issues—from arms trade to, oh, I don’t know, food—they have a series of agreements that are fragile and could be overturned if a president entered the Oval Office who didn’t agree with them. And if the mood of the country was, “Why do we pay taxes into these structures? Why are we hamstrung? Why aren’t we a free people?” So what the two parties would do is run primaries with populist candidates and pre-commit the populist candidates to support the candidates who won the primaries. As long as that took place and you had two candidates that were both acceptable to the international order—that is, they aren’t going to rethink NAFTA or NATO or what have you—we called that “democracy”…
..Under that structure, everything was going fine until 2016, when the first candidate ever to not hold any position in the military nor any position in government in the history of the Republic, Donald Trump, broke through the primary structure. Then there was a full court press: “Okay, we only have one candidate that’s acceptable to the international order. Donald Trump will be under constant pressure—he’s a loser, he’s a wild man, he’s an idiot, and he’s under control of the Russians.” And then he was going to be, you know, a 20-to-1 underdog, and then he wins. There was no precedent for this. They learned their lesson: you cannot afford to have candidates who are not acceptable to the international order and continue to have these alliances. This is an unsolved problem.
I don’t have a particular dog in this fight. I believe in democracy; I also believe in international agreements. And it is the job of the State Department, the intelligence community, and the defense department to bring this problem in front of the American people and say, “We have a problem. You don’t know everything that’s going on, and if you start voting in populist candidates, you’re going to end up knocking out load-bearing walls that you don’t understand.” https://www.zerohedge.com/political/eric-weinstein-i-dont-know-whether-trump-will-be-allowed-become-presidentThis is the part of the falsification they can admit to. Musk-X got 74% Trump, 26% Harris: Harris’ So-Called ‘Surge’ Is Thanks To Oversampling: Pollsters
As we’ve been highlighting since 2016, polls are not to be trusted thanks to various ‘tricks of the trade’ – most commonly, oversampling.
Last month we noted how the founder of the main outside spending group backing Kamala Harris for president says their own internal opinion polling is “much less rosy” than public polls. “Our numbers are much less rosy than what you’re seeing in the public,” said Future Forward super PAC president Chauncey McLean said during a Monday event hosted by the University of Chicago Institute of Politics.
..Polling analysis site FiveThirtyEight shows Ms. Harris’ approval rating ticking up to 42.3%, up from 37.1% in early July. Yet, doubts persist over how she has managed to rise in the polls without significantly improving her historically low job approval ratings. https://www.zerohedge.com/political/harris-so-called-surge-thanks-oversampling-pollsters“Elite Capture?” Pentagon Stonewalls On Walz’s Frequent Trips To China, Raising National Security Concerns
The Biden-Harris Pentagon is refusing to answer questions from Congress and the media regarding Democrat vice-presidential nominee Governor Tim Walz’s (D-MN) frequent travel to China. The lack of transparency has raised concerns about potential risks to U.S. military members and whether Walz properly disclosed these trips to the Army National Guard during his service…
..Typically, U.S. military members, especially those holding a security clearance, are required to report or request permission from their command before traveling overseas—particularly to countries considered adversarial to U.S. interests, such as China…
..Walz has publicly stated he visited China about 30 times, with many of these trips occurring while he was an Army National Guard member. However, it remains unclear if Walz consistently reported his travels to China to his military command, whether he sought proper permission, or whether he possessed a security clearance during these trips. https://www.zerohedge.com/political/elite-capture-pentagon-stonewalls-walzs-frequent-trips-china-raising-national-securityNot if Trump hangs himself with a sheet first: Epstein client list will be made public – Trump The Republican candidate for US president dropped a hint in a podcast interview https://swentr.site/news/603467-trump-epstein-client-list/
Eugyppius, State Elections in Thuringen and Saxony deliver another humiliating defeat for the sclerotic and incapable German political establishment.
After eight months of near-constant media hysteria, desperate Interior Ministry campaigns against the political opposition and unceasing warnings from every last establishment political figure about the crypto-fascist antidemocratic menace of Alternative für Deutschland, Thüringen and Saxony have elected new state parliaments. All of that hue and cry, all of those protests against “the right,” all those false panics and all that disingenuous saccharine moralising was for nothing. The AfD emerged as the strongest party in Thüringen, with 32.8% of the vote; and as the second-strongest party in Saxony, with 30.6% of the vote. The results represent an intensely humiliating defeat for the parties of the coalition government, just months after their earlier humiliation in the EU elections. The SPD, the Greens and the FDP together could claim only 13.3% support in Saxony and 10.4% in Thüringen. It is a repudiation of historic proportions.
Our betters are very angry about this…
..More than 30% of voters in Thuringia and Saxony voted for the far right. The vast majority of them are not neo-Nazis, but – and this is no less shocking – they don’t care about voting for the far right.
Former SPD Chancellor Gerhard Schröder has called the election results “catastrophic.” The SPD Finance Minister of Brandenburg, Katrin Lange, with an eye towards the upcoming 22 September elections in her own state, has demanded that SPD leaders stop appearing in talk shows, because every time they do, the voters get even more tired of them…
..Germany is governed by a political oligarchy that is formally arranged in a system of interlacing establishment parties. Together, the establishment parties function like a cartel, competing with each other for votes and taking carefully coordinated positions on a limited array of issues to limit the options of the electorate. Since Angela Merkel opened the borders in 2015, the cartel system has been bleeding support to the AfD, who are hated and smeared as fascists not because they are evil National Socialists, but because their growing strength threatens the cartel system itself. As the establishment parties grow weaker and the AfD gathers strength, it becomes harder and harder for the oligarchy to achieve the parliamentary majorities that are necessary to control the state apparatus. https://www.eugyppius.com/p/state-elections-in-thuringen-andHow Lula and Modi drove a splinter through the heart of the BRICS
Everyone was able to witness president Lula da Silva’s drift, demanding from Bolivarian Venezuela what he doesn’t demand of any other country with elections — that it demonstrate that its institutions work, not in accordance with its respective national law, but in accordance with the Rules-Based Order — it is also true that this behavior startled everyone who, like me, longs and fights for a fairer world. The truth is that the Brazilian president’s slipping into the narrative sphere imposed by the U.S. and its “international” order raises many questions when it comes to BRICS…
..India is currently a major exporter of light weapons, essentially. And who is its biggest buyer? The Unite States (France and Israel too). Much of this weaponry consists of ammunition, particularly 155mm ammunition, the ammunition most lacking in Ukraine. It’s good to see that Ukraine is now a destination for Indian ammunition, indirectly, if necessary, transiting from New Delhi to Washington and Paris and, there, replenishing stocks and freeing up others — or the same ones — to be thrown at its “strategic” Russian friend and partner. Do you want a bigger contradiction than that? India, directly and indirectly, buys military technology and supplies weapons that will be used by the army hired by NATO against Russia. India, now one of the world’s largest military exporters, has a direct interest in the Donbass war. A war waged by NATO against one important friend.
And if India’s “support” for Kiev, in itself, puts everything in very unethical and transparent terms, making hypocrisy and cynicism the main facilitators of bilateral and multilateral relations in the BRICS, what about the supply of Brahmos missiles, as also announced by The Print, to the Philippines? Brahmos missiles are supersonic cruise missiles (Mach 2.8) and were developed in a joint project with Russia. These missiles are also anti-ship and will be used by the Philippines against… China! But it doesn’t stop there: the Philippines is on its way to becoming the “Ukraine” of the South China Sea, used by the U.S. as a monumental naval base for its “containment” project against the Asian giant. Finally, the U.S. now has privileged access to one of Russia’s most advanced missile technologies. The new version of these missiles (the Brahmos II) is hypersonic and has evolved from the first version. https://strategic-culture.su/news/2024/09/01/how-lula-and-modi-drove-a-splinter-through-the-heart-of-the-brics-bloc/What really should be the big story today is that Turkey has formally requested admission to BRICS…
..As the article makes clear, Turkey realizes that it will never be able to take economic advantage of its strategic location if it allows membership in NATO to dictate opposition to the very countries—Russia, China, Iran—that could transform Turkey into an international crossroads for commerce. By the very terms of that scenario, Turkey’s distancing from NATO will increase, which will have serious consequences for Anglo-Zionist power projection in the entire West Asia region. This is a major setback for the Anglo-Zionists and comes at a time when Turkic Azerbaijan is also pivoting toward Russia and China and Turkey is establishing closer ties with Iran. https://meaninginhistory.substack.com/p/geopolitical-developments-middleTurkiye requests BRICS membership
Ankara “seeks to bolster its global influence and forge new ties beyond its traditional Western allies,” the sources said. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan believes “that the geopolitical center of gravity is shifting away from developed economies” and that the push to join BRICS “reflects its aspirations to cultivate ties with all sides in a multipolar world, while still fulfilling its obligations as a key member of NATO.”
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said in early June that BRICS serves as a good alternative to the EU. [Touche’!] https://thecradle.co/articles/turkiye-requests-brics-membership-reportIsrael Wanted Disease and Genocide in Gaza, So Why Is It Agreeing to the Polio Vaccine Being Given?
The vaccines may be seen by some as a minimal help to Palestinians in Gaza, preventing yet another disaster. And the minimal pauses resulting may be seen as baby steps toward permanent ceasefire, but this seems quite optimistic, especially given Israel’s posture. It is quite possible that the nOPV2 vaccine is largely being done for public relations reasons…
..Moreover, this is useful to distract from the failure of the UN to stop Israel’s carnage. Most especially the US-dominated UN Security Council has refused to implement orders from the International Court of Justice and virtually all states — with the notable exceptions of South Africa and Nicaragua — have failed in responsibilities under the Genocide Convention. The General Assembly has failed to take meaningful action using “Uniting for Peace”…
..Perhaps most ominously however, it may be problematic to give attenuated oral polio vaccine to a population that is immunocompromised — which most certainly includes the Palestinians in Gaza. They desperately need food and clean water and basic medical care. A host of diseases are ravaging Gaza and reportedly, 100,000 people in Gaza have contracted acute jaundice syndrome, or suspected hepatitis A. From Options for Poliomyelitis Vaccination in the United States: “Those in whom OPV is contraindicated include individuals with immunodeficiency disorders…The risk of VAPP [Vaccine-Associated Paralytic Poliomyelitis] in immunodeficient children is 3,000 times that in normal children.” https://www.globalresearch.ca/israel-wanted-disease-genocide-gaza-agreeing-polio-vaccine/5866944RFK Jr: There Has To Be “A Reckoning” For “Immoral, Homicidal” COVID Criminality [Nothing about Israeli genocide of Palestinians, though.]
He charged that Fauci and others used their positions during COVID to enforce “totalitarian controls that were not science-based.” “It’s a story, really, of people involved in really terrible, immoral, homicidal criminal behavior,” Kennedy urged…
..“By depriving people of Ivermectin, many, many people, millions of people around the globe, died, and they didn’t need to,” Kennedy added, charging that Fauci and others pressured the FDA to discourage such treatments in favour of relentlessly pushing unproven and untested vaccines.
“There were cures for COVID from day one, very effective cures. But they didn’t want that. They wanted the vaccine only,” Kennedy posited, adding “if they admitted that any of [the treatments] were effective, the whole vaccine project would have fallen apart.”
Kennedy added that after the vaccines, myocarditis cases among young people, particularly athletes, exploded. “On average, it was, I think, 29 a month globally, athletes who died on the field. We’re getting down to hundreds a month now,” Kennedy emphasised.
He concluded that “the science is out there now, and it’s devastating.”
After endorsing Donald Trump last month, RFK Jr. declared that he is ready to help “make America healthy again.” https://modernity.news/2024/09/02/rfk-jr-there-has-to-be-a-reckoning-for-immoral-homicidal-covid-criminality/Steve Kirsch, COVID vaccinated kids are dying regularly from cardiac arrest
It’s baffling that they try to normalize this as always happening. It was never a thing before the COVID vaccines rolled out. https://kirschsubstack.com/p/covid-vaccinated-kids-are-dying-regularlyAustralian Government Database Exposes Huge Death Toll from COVID Vaccines https://lionessofjudah.substack.com/p/staggering-australian-government
Peter McCullough MD, Most Variation in All-Cause Mortality Explained by Mass COVID-19 Vaccination
Australian Ecological Analysis Points to Vaccine Campaign Causing Rising Death Counts https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/most-variation-in-all-cause-mortalityFDA Authorizes New COVID-19 Vaccine Without Clinical Data https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/fda-authorizes-new-covid-19-vaccine-without-clinical-data
Meryl Nass MD, David Bell expands on the confirmed Moneypox numbers and the false emergency
BTW, It is only an STD if lesions are confined to the genital area. If it is elsewhere it spreads like chicken pox/shingles. This is more likely the type of spread in Africa. https://merylnass.substack.com/p/david-bell-expands-on-the-confirmedNitazoxanide, the “monkeypox ivermectin”?
“We therefore set out to try to elucidate the mechanism by which the drug inhibits vaccinia virus.”…
..This study is the first to demonstrate the ability of NTZ to inhibit a poxvirus, and establishes the potential use of NTZ to control poxviral infections. Although the exact mechanism of action of the broad antiviral effect of NTZ remains unclear, the authors have uncovered a metabolic impact that will be further explored. https://www.fredhutch.org/en/news/spotlight/2018/07/hb_hickson_virology.htmlFrom Virology, May 2018, Inhibition of vaccinia virus replication by nitazoxanide https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5929478/
In Leak, Facebook Partner Brags About Listening to Your Phone’s Microphone to Serve Ads for Stuff You Mention “We know what you’re thinking. Is this even legal?” https://futurism.com/the-byte/facebook-partner-phones-listening-microphone
Dutch prime minister bans wireless devices from meetings to ward off espionage https://intelnews.org/2024/09/02/01-3361/
A professional-reader couple were listening to the car radio… ‘A tech firm stole our voices – then cloned and sold them’
In June 2023, Paul and his partner Linnea Sage were driving near their home in New York City, listening to a podcast about the ongoing strikes in Hollywood and how artificial intelligence (AI) could affect the industry.
The episode was of interest because the couple are voice-over performers and – like many other creatives – fear that human-sounding voice generators could soon be used to replace them.
This particular podcast had a unique hook – they interviewed an AI-powered chat bot, equipped with text-to-speech software, to ask how it thought the use of AI would affect jobs in Hollywood. But, when it spoke, it sounded just like Mr Lehrman. “We needed to pull the car over,” he said.
“The irony that AI is coming for the entertainment industry, and here is my voice talking about the potential destruction of the industry, was really quite shocking.”
That night they spent hours online, searching for clues until they came across the site of text-to-speech platform Lovo. Once there, Ms Sage said she found a copy of her voice as well. “I was stunned,” she said. “I couldn’t believe it.” “A tech company stole our voices, made AI clones of them, and sold them possibly hundreds of thousands of times.”
They have now filed a lawsuit against Lovo. The firm has not yet responded to that or the BBC’s requests for comment…
..Lovo co-founder Tom Lee has previously said its voice-cloning software only needs a user to read about 50 sentences to create a faithful clone.
“We can capture the tone, the character, the style, the phonemes, and even if you have an accent, we can capture that as well,” he told the Future Visionaries podcast in 2021. In their lawsuit, the couple set out how they say Lovo obtained just such a recording from them. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3d9zv50955o David Hughes, Electromagnetic Warfare, History and Dangers (20 min lecture, with transcript, brief excerpt here)
In his book, Physical Control of the Mind, Delgado predicts that new technology will, quote, provide the essential link from man to computer to man. with a reciprocal feedback between neurons and instruments, which represents a new orientation for the medical control of neurophysiological functions. Fast forward to 2012 and behold the front cover of this book edited by Pentagon neuroscience advisor James Giordano. Here the brain is attached to a joystick as in a video game. There is no medical function, just direct control. The following year, Israeli scientist Edo Bachelet gave a presentation on the syringe injectable nanorobots developed by his team, each one equipped with an antenna and an IP address. Bachelet stated, quote, to make sure we don’t lose control of the nanobots after they’re injected, the controller actually links those nanobots to the network like an Xbox. Given that the so-called PlayStation mentality has been linked to excessive, in inverted commas, collateral damage in drone warfare, it is disturbing that bio-digital technologies capable of connecting human brains and bodies to the internet were immediately conceived of in video game terms. According to retired professor of international political economy Kees van der Peel, the possibility of vaccination as neurological remote control must now be taken seriously for, ”After achieving access by vaccination to the biomass of the seven to eight billion individuals who have to be controlled, remote controlling them is no longer an absurd fantasy”. Curie and Brodie in a 2022 article recognised that the COVID vaccines could have been intended as, ”a delivery system for the global hardware necessary to roll out the fourth industrial revolution technologies, such as the internet of bodies, human machine and brain web interfaces”. https://dhughes.substack.com/p/electromagnetic-warfare-history-and
Professor Anthony Hall, Durov is an Internet Freedom Fighter. Israel is Seeking to Destroy Pavel Durov in France as If He is a Proxy for Hamas.
The French government’s arrest on 25 Aug. of Telegram’s founder, builder and operating manager, Pavel Durov, is a telling sign of these tumultuous times. It is alleged that France’s problematic President, Emmanuel Macron, lured Durov to Paris with a mafia-style dinner invitation…
..All signs point to the finding that France is one of several players in a case developed at the highest levels by the most aggressive enemies of privacy and free speech on the Internet.
The sturdiness of Telegram’s encryption system is reflected by the fact that the Armed Forces of both Russia and NATO’s puppet Ukraine, regularly do their secret messaging through Durov’s company. Durov and his brother have built up Telegram’s ramparts against all sorts of spy wear, but especially the invasions on data bases facilitated by so-called backdoors, the digital nuke of Internet integrity.
One of Durov’s supposed crimes is to have stood up to the security state’s most aggressive thugs in denying them backdoor access to Telegram. All the other major platforms, including that of the Israeli government’s servile puppet, Elon Musk, have by now handed over the security keys to the likes of Mossad-CIA-MI6, the FBI, the US Department of Justice and a host of other Internet predators, public and private. Durov, however, is the main holdout. He hasn’t complied in the past. What will he do now? …
..The duplicitous tactics deployed in the surprise hit on Durov in Paris, reflects the sense of urgency felt by the protagonists of Zionist intrigue. These protagonists are intent on protecting their concocted narratives to misrepresent their vicious war mongering in the Middle East and Eurasia. The desperation to hold onto the force of their fake narratives is giving rise to the explosive symbolic implications of the Durov case in Paris.
The ongoing false flag event that is taking place in the battle for the minds of the world’s people began on October 7, 2023. In the ongoing false flag that continues yet, Durov’s Telegram has emerged as one of the most strategic resources in the psychological warfare accompanying the unrelenting genocide.
Macron’s shameful and duplicitous operation was likely done on behalf of Israel and its Zionist network of now-discredited operatives. https://anthonyjhall.substack.com/p/durov-is-an-internet-freedom-fighter Musk threatens to go after Brazilian government assets, The country has banned access to X and frozen the accounts of satellite internet operator Starlink
Elon Musk has vowed to seek the seizure of Brazilian government assets in the US if Brazil does not return property belonging to his companies X (Twitter) and SpaceX.
Last week, the Supreme Court of Brazil ordered the operations of X to be “immediately suspended” and threatened a fine of 50,000 Brazilian reals ($8,874) per day against anyone trying to sidestep the ban on accessing the platform using a VPN. The judge gave Google and Apple five days to remove X from their app stores. https://swentr.site/business/603455-elon-musk-seize-brazil-assets/Kyle Young chases a bunch of dead ends with dead men and missing papers (part-2): Is “Ripple Technology” the real reason for the Trump/Kennedy alliance? https://secularheretic.substack.com/p/is-ripple-technology-the-real-reason
I was listening to whatifalthist the other day and he pointed out a Collapse Indicator Metric I had not heard of before.
Anytime the average marriage age in a society reaches 28, there’s a revolution.
In the West, what’s the average age of marriage now?
29
I was listening to an interview of Eric Weinstein last night — a lot of the same talking points as in that zerohedge article referenced by John Day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYRYXhU4kxM
But he had a lot to say about Physics as well
It has slowly been dawning on me how serious this is. Bit by bit as I hear more. Alarming.
Physics has been led on a wild goose chase for 40 years!
Worse, all the String Theory people apparently did Cancel Culture on any scientists trying to propose and/or research any OTHER avenues than String Theory and String Theory has turned out to be garbage!
Then I recalled that Stephen Hawking was a big string theory guy.
THEN I remembered all those conspiracy theories about Stephen Hawking, how he was lasting like 100x longer than anyone else in history with Lou Gehrig’s disease (without any technical/scientific explanation for it) and oh, how convenient he cannot speak and everything comes out of a computer.
THEN I recalled all the Parallel Civilization conspiracy theories which jibe with Weinstein describing how physics as understood by the public appears to have turned into confusing boring garbage rather suddenly. (he implies, but does not say, that real physics possibly went Top Secret…)
The interview has markers throughout, so you can just focus on the Physics related sections if desired – weird, scary unbelievable implications. (How could a Mean Girls regime have ruined SCIENCE for 4 decades!!! What REALLY happened with science if not that?) Not sure if Chris Williamson (the interviewer) is that much of a denialist normie or is just playing as a foil to enhance what Weinstein has to say.
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