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Weird those low-lifes want to be homeless when there’s 0% unemployment and a Dow 27,000, isn’t it?
Almost like something isn’t right with that.
Let’s see if that pic will print on a separate link, a constant issue:
https://arthive.com/res/media/img/ox800/work/484/205784.jpgAfter the Battle of Igor Svyatoslavich, Viktor Vasnetsov
“[Macron] He also questioned whether NATO was still committed to collective defence”
Defense against whom, sir? The Yellow Vests? A Russia the size of Italy? You’re certainly not defending your borders against anything, why do you need an army? The only people you attack are Greeks and Frenchmen.
P.S., what “brain” are you talking about? Are you implying that the U.S. has been running NATO overtop of you, as your oppressor, for decades? Or someone else? The brain is Lockheed? Brennan? The BIS? The IDF? Who? Because I would think if NATO lost its brain YOU, France, would step up and take that job as a matter of course. But you can’t for some reason? Why?“The general secretary … lauded Merkel’s government for boosting its military spending.”
Against whom? We already proved that a totally mobilized, militarized Germany, having all of Europe to draw on, that controls half of Africa, couldn’t beat a Russia yet medieval. So what do you think it will do against a Russia that can disable the United States at will? Or again, is it not Russia you’re after but Sweden? Essex? Barcelona?
“Warren Buffett says he wished he owned even more Apple”
They think trees grow to the sky. Good luck avoiding the cycles of life.
“Fed Goes Nuts with Repos & T-Bills but Sheds Mortgage Backed Securities (WS)”
We saw in a different article the Fed is the operational arm of J.P. Morgan. As Morgan violently re-positions itself, the rules of the Fed require it to pay off anything Morgan does or risk a crash. Therefore, the more Morgan thrashes recklessly, the more they get paid by the taxpayers and consumers. Disaster Capitalism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shock_Doctrine
On the plus side, it had been rising geometrically, and now is not (officially). On the down side, that it probably because they’re now lying and hiding what’s happening.
“It must be very fragile [system] if a handful of berries can bring it down.” – The Hunger Games
“Russia has manifested an overtly aggressive foreign policy, leveraging military power and employing hybrid warfare to achieve its objectives of regional hegemony and global influence”
So? As if I care. Are they in Galveston or New Jersey? No? Call me when it’s our business. Til then, stay home. Americans have been telling them for 100 years and Congress ignores them. Every President since Nixon has been elected for this and they all double-cross us.
“Ukraine is a frontline state and a bulwark against Russian aggression.”
You mean the Russia that’s smaller than Italy? That already has 1,000x more land than people? Wow. Much scare. So fright.
“Burisma’s own American legal team was lobbying State to help eliminate the corruption allegations against it in Ukraine.”
No they didn’t! See how I fixed that? Just like Epstein, if I didn’t report it, it didn’t happen. I didn’t report it so there is “no evidence,” “no credible reporting” that it happened. Okay, moving on to the next shakedown, busy-busy! If I don’t get that money to pay off my blackmailers, I can’t get around town and blackmail others.
“Assange Lawyers’ Links to US Govt & Bill Browder (Komisar)”
Have to ask Martin Armstrong about Browder and Magnitsky, this is the highest-level dirtiest Deep State with an international string of bodies trailing behind. …And remember the U.S. was telling British prosecutors and the judge how to do the case, so it’s US Deep State on both sides and the middle. No surprise: is there anything they’re NOT into? There are no terrorists under my bed, but the CIA sure is! Right, Mr. Clapper?
“Human Population Came from Our Ability to Cooperate (PhysOrg)”
When they want to kill a few million, they say we’re innately violent and competitive. But we’re innately cooperative and self-organizing. …Maybe it’s only THEM who are innately violent and competitive.
Painter Vasnetsov, the wonders of war.That lowering of population everybody is advocating and longing for.
I think I was doing the right thing. The premise is basic, so how could we debate or discuss it? That as Lovelock would say, “Negentropy” of life aggregates energy to itself and disperses waste akin to the 3rd law? Given, so we move on to how our present system foolishly and inefficiently over-uses energy on nonsense, and like it or not, voluntarily or involuntarily, is going to stop.
While everyone else is all for killing as many life units as possible, I don’t find that necessary as all humans could fit in an area as small as Texas, and with 18th c energy-usage would probably have 25x today’s energy to spare. So we can — and most probably will — start solutions to use less energy on the way down, as cars are too expensive, gas, and it’s too dangerous to commute very far. So there we are with the systems we already own, smaller, older, like the Model T, which can be machined into being with the tools left dusty in every auto shop in this dusty, decrepit country. Or with street trolleys as auto parts go missing when China shuts us off. Or with scooters, which are by far small and humble enough to use when most things are down, in cities like Thessaloniki, but not hipster Manhattan, but going back to your unheated apartment with a tin-can alcohol stove, or a 30-year old trailer in St. Augustine, near the last operational nuke plant in Florida.
That is to say, the universe is this way. We have the 3rd law of thermodynamics. We have the principles of life. Always has been and nobody complained too much, we all got by as we get by now. And so we will in the future as well. The real trouble of talking about it, of being positive, is that solutions are microscopic, so individual to one time and place and person that explaining how to get a tree planted here, by my town council, what kinds will grow, what diseases, what purchasing process, what vendor, what lifespan, is wholly inapplicable to an area 5 miles away, to say nothing of a province or parish halfway around the world. It has to do with your family, your finances, your connections, your expertise. Should you plant a walnut orchard or start a Model T factory? Or a banana orchard and a dugout factory? This I can’t say, which is why I don’t, although I’m looking for some kind of doorway there. Many blogs, youtube channels do this for your area, wherever you are. Instead of Greta’s useless complaints, you can see Bjorn Bull-Hansen or TA Outdoors or Swedish Homestead work solutions all day long. But those will be useless even across the water in Scotland or Denmark, much less New Hampshire.
But because of the nature of our problem it will solve itself as it’s always done before. Yes, war perhaps, probably even, but certainly a lock-up of the financial system that greases the over-consumption and makes it possible. And with that, the halt of transport, which will halt not only goods but fossil fuel itself from refineries and pipelines. That may not happen fast and evenly, so the system will build a patchwork replacement and we roll on in a different way. Ever on. Did we think 20 years ago the crash that should have fallen in 1994 but for Greenspan’s printing would be pushed past 1999 out to 2020? No, but systems have a way of doing this. Rome never “fell”. It rotated. The Vandals didn’t “sack” Rome, Rome was so corrupt the people let them in as a better government. So it never fell, it became less Roman until it was feudal, then European, then at long last not like the ancient world at all, having only the same banners and symbols and architecture today. Then Feudalism never “fell”, it rotated war by war, place by place into non-feudalism into modernism today. Just so we will not “fall” but rotate out of hyper-energy frenetic modernism and into something else, crash by crash, place by place. So none of us can predict it but can know it happens.
The Thermodynamic and DNA realities will continue to be true, and yet it will all be different. But slowly, very slowly, in a world more local, with much less energy, that none of us can foresee, and no one will live long enough to see where it goes.
I have a theory that the engineering-insane drive to all-electric is because they already know what new electric patent is about to be admitted. Just like how Uber can only exist as a self-driving car. I can’t identify whether it’s in storage or distribution, but clearly it needs electric motors.
Remember Tesla had a wireless power transmission method? Why not that? We already know it exists, it’s 100 years old.
I wrote a whole article on this, where cows eat grass and are butchered and eaten 100 yards away for zero CO2 and zero kilocalories.
As with so much infrastructure, they forget the road is half the bicycle. That’s very energy-expensive indeed, but can be in much worse condition for bikes or Model T’s than for Teslas. Also weather, which is abominable in half the northern hemisphere, but clearly a lot better than the present system.
http://www.brooklineconnection.com/history/Facts/PghTrolley.html“Depending on how much you drive, a car that’s 10 to 12 years old might actually be better for the environment than replacing it with an electric vehicle,” As I say regularly.
Driving and shipping are options. All these places are capable of walking and growing if they wish. They don’t, and the price point will tell them. $25/gal and $200/liter for grain, a day’s wages for a measure of barley and don’t spare the oil and wine? You’ll be growing kale and tomatoes in a half-second that year.
Well, it will shortly solve itself as we’re going to have another epic economic crack-up and Merkel’s –indeed all Germany’s — master plans can crawl back under the rock they came from. California has said the same thing but when it came to it, they just shut off the power and left you in the dark, no planning, no apologies, no solutions given.
“This whole impeachment thing should have been bipartisan from the start,”
But what are they going to do? If they don’t remove Trump they’re all going to jail starting with Hunter, and the party will be destroyed. …Not unprecedented as FDR run the GOP out of town for 40 years after slandering hyper-interventionist Hoover. The GOP was no different, and still retains a high proportion of crooks, however, they were already reforming with the Tea Party push and a number of them have been allowed to retirement, not prison. So supposing they’re 1/3 reformed with 1/3 of the remaining crimes not being quite as savage or treasonous. Because HRC faction did not allow ANY reform, ANY discussion, and refused to take ANY advice as when they openly rigged the CA primary, illegally sank Bernie, then turned around and expected – still expect – the Left’s Tea Party, the Social Democrats to just vote for them ’cause-we-said-so, the party has instead openly split into two or four pieces and 20 candidates that are essentially at open war with each other. …And you just can’t win in that condition. Yet if they can’t win, the decades-long crime-fest of the DNC won’t be able to be bribed and covered anymore, and Pelosi, Feinstein, quite possibly even Obama, will go to jail for spying on opposition candidates, bribery through Ukraine and Russia at a very minimum.
While I’m deeply sorry we haven’t arrested Cruz and Ryan, to say nothing of open, admitted war criminals like Bush, Rumsfeld, Cheney, and Chertoff, Feith, Bolton, Wolfowitz, and so many, many more, that’s the way it goes. They would be happy to arrest them, but they cut a deal with the Bush mafia and can’t take fire from the rear when fighting the CIA/FBI and the DNC/Clinton fronts. If the immediate attack would vanish, I’d be happy to go round up Cheney, even Blair, before it’s too late.
But that’s to say, they HAVE to impeach. Somebody is going out on their shield. One of these factions is going to vanish from the earth. And at least one side has openly said they will kill and imprison Trump’s whole family if he loses, starting with raping Baron Trump, and in fact has tried like 15 lawsuits and 15 assassinations. Remember that small-plane dust-up in England where a Secret Service agent got killed? How about Trump family’s helicopter going down? That guy who got on the White House lawn and wandered around for half an hour while the cameras were unmanned? How about Secret Service posting pictures of Baron Trump while he slept? Pelosi, Schumer and Schiff don’t care what happens to you or the country. They are already on record as being against virtually the entire Bill of Rights, and clearly against the Constitutional and legal process, which is what America IS. It IS those documents, those beliefs they hate and fight to erase. They clearly are inspiring, even provably funding a civil war with blackshirts in the streets beating gay Asians and orthodox Jews, veterans and the elderly. It’s just how it goes, it’s just how Alinsky said he planned it, in the book he published and you can read.
So the non-trial of non-Impeachment and the election tampering it represents? Sure, but that’s the least of our problems.
“I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo.
“So do I,” said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien“I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.” –Thomas Paine
“There is no evidence of wrongdoing in Ukraine by either Joe or Hunter Biden.”
There certainly is evidence – we have Joe on video for heaven’s sake — but it remains for a court to determine if it’s true and adequate.
“Trump made this claim even though there is zero public evidence to support his assertion,”
Because beyond calling people on that thing called a “telephone” for statements, past reading things on paper made of words, now CNN cannot even see the pretty pictures on the video anymore. It’s not to the level of the Teletubbies, so they cannot understand what “Well, what do you know, they fired him for me” means.
““I think it’s crazy to withhold security assistance for help with a political campaign.”
TDS is so like the air we breathe that this is their proof. Meanwhile, an equal witness or four says, “The President has been crystal clear no quid pro quo’s of any kind” meaning we have a number of witnesses, all of whom disagree. Pretty normal. So how do we get to where any witness that-I-want is de rigor true, and 1,000 statements of my non-witnesses are de rigor false? Can only happen with “my side right or wrong”, and the truth be damned. Aha! Smoking gun! Walls are closing in! 24 hours a day, 289 days in a row.
“Trump Jr. Outs CIA Whistleblower Over Twitter (ZH)”
Similar here. 5 papers have reported this guy, every reporter on earth knows it, yet we’re all supposed to cooperate in pretending it hasn’t happened, we’re still on script, and no one knows anything. That naming him is the illegal, much-hoped “obstruction” of investigation into an underlying crime-we-can’t-name. This is the level of psychosis, of Emperor’s Clothes we’re at, where they’re baffled and appalled when a guy Tweets, “Oh you mean THIS guy? The one that’s been openly reported everywhere for nearly a month?” The one we, me, you, us, them, have all been reporting and talking about? Sputter, spat, fire. “We all KNOW that, but you can’t SAY that. Shhh. We’re PRETENDING.” You know, like Epstein. Us normal people are over in the corner shaking our heads. See that spade? To Americans it’s a spade. We will probably call it a #@*$% the #$%& spade just for good measure. It takes someone with four years of Haaavard to be made idiotic enough to no longer recognize it, which is why, as George Carlin would say, if you know how dumb the average American is to get this, then imagine how much, much dumber CNN reporters and Harvard graduates must be to NOT get it.
You know, words and stuff. Clicking youtube videos and not blinking your eyes or wandering off for fruit loops for 5 whole minutes. Really hard stuff. Literacy and research is a mystery like calculus almost, a secret CNN and the NYTimes just cannot crack.
“Coup Has Started,’ Whistleblower’s Attorney Said in 2017 (Fox)”
So the Whistleblower worked with Biden IN the Burisma payoffs. He drove the getaway car. Sure, I take his word for everything. And his attorney has been saying for years he’ll do any human thing to remove a duly-elected President, using the specific word “We have started a coup d’etat.”. He said, “The nation can survive even Trump supporters,” i.e. that is to say, the true enemy of the state is democracy and the American People. I know. You tell us that all the time. “Thank God for the Deep State!” (the one that doesn’t exist). But he’s not biased! Like Mueller and Comey, he’s a Boy Scout, helping Biden’s co-conspirator remove the policeman chasing him.
…Or so it can be plausibly argued. These things need to be proved in court. Perhaps one day, before we’re all dead, we can try that for a change. Certainly what we’re doing now isn’t working too well. But what did they say, “A people get the government they deserve.” That doesn’t change until we do. Until we like objective reality and morality again. It may be a long time.
“Marx was wrong about many things.” – Quote from Rolling Stone article linked. And there are many things wrong even in that article, to say nothing of Marx. But that would make a very long discussion indeed.
I’d say about Capitalism what Gandhi said about “Western Civilization”: “ I think it would be a good idea.”
The primary problem in critiques and the Rolling Stone article are, how is there an oversupply? A: because central banks artificially suppress interest rates, print money, and hand it to their friends. I.e. Anti-Capitalism, indeed, it is Marxism, State-run, State-directed central planning. Unlike say, the capitalism of the Middle Ages, it causes false, artificial demand, construction of useless products, waste, overproduction, and therefore requires a subsequent collapse and violent unemployment that favors only speculators and financiers. A slow, steady system could not do this, or not to this level. Monopoly relies on bribery and insider dealing of government controlling, favoring, and protecting corporations, i.e. Socialism. Since America is “Only suited to a moral people and will work for none other”, it’s no surprise Americans believed, as they morally attacked the obvious problems of bribery in a government far too small to run the economy and favor insider corporations, that they would believe capital would naturally aggregate, and competition would dis-aggregate as happened for 200 years before government starting running the economy. Once they could control the government to favor corporate interests, i.e. Marxism, the Robber Barons were never unseated again.
Same with Income Tax. It is Communist, one of the platforms, along with a conniving, intervening Central Bank. Every day since it’s existed, inequity has increased, not decreased, and every time it’s raised and expanded even down to the poor, it hurts the modest, not the wealthy. It’s Marxism. As it’s been added, things got worse, not better. So Marx’s conclusion on this, as well as 1) Confiscation of personal property, 2) Open violence as the proper means 3) Confiscation of all dissident property. 4) Centralization of communication, as in Facebook, etc 5) State-run farms, as in Holodomor or FDR dumping milk while people starved 6) Legal Slavery, as the conscription of labor for state ends, 7) Forcing population moves, as destroying the rural areas and driving people into the cities as in France and America 8) Public school system, which now as Baltimore, graduates <10% with basic competency at a cost of $55k/student/year. All failures in the EXTREME, with 300M dead, the biggest mass-death of the 20th century, more than typhus and plague combined. I’d say that’s a pretty unprecedented, extremely well-tested failure.
Product demands were no less in 1800 than they are now. Do you not think every man would have liked a pair of robotic, bird-singing clockwork pistols? Or a pocketwatch? Of course they would. So why were they not created and tossed on the cobbles of Philadelphia? A) they were too poor and B) they didn’t have access to unlimited, free, false, and bankrupting money that causes nations to come unhinged and fall into catastrophe. So their DEMAND for an iPhone5 comes to nothing if you don’t undermine the entire system to make iPhone5s for Steve Job’s personal profit, using hundred-trillion$ in free money to HIM while strangling wages for the working man, food production is gutted, and West Virginians starve. That’s a direct TRANSFER from the poor TO the rich, from the Reds TO the Blues, using Marx’s income tax and central bank, institutions tailor-made for the purpose. This is why RICH people donate to Marxist economic schools and pay to shutter Austrian schools: because RICH people get richer using these tools, not because they get poorer and the poor get a fairer shake.
And a lot more, but trying to keep the base argument short: a) Most of the things they complain about in “capitalism” are actually Marxism, and b) Every day that any element of his platform is enacted, things have gotten worse. It would stand to reason that we should just reverse the double-ills added by Marxism and go back to it being only as “least-bad” as Capitalism, with as little transferring, bribing, and thieving as possible.
But don’t worry, regardless of our opinions, that’s about to happen as both Socialism goes bankrupt and Nations lack the power to control anything and favor all their billionaires at your expense. http://nautil.us/blog/omniviolence-is-coming-and-the-world-isnt-ready
Actually NIH denies medical care to a third category too: Whistleblowers.
Even ones who report on unrelated 3rd nations.
Lang looks like fun. Wish I were there. It’s an honest hard that is better than the drip drip of the “thick of thin things” where “nothing matters and anything goes.” It’s the wealth that has driven us (them) all crazy, not poverty. Ask King David, once a homeless felon and living in caves: that’s not what crashed him.
“ABC Stopped Jeffrey Epstein Report ‘Amid Palace Threats’ (BBC)”
ABC executive said they were simply worried they would no longer get interviews from Kate for celebrity gossip. Much worse and oh-so more American.
“His death was ruled a suicide by investigators.”
And NOT a suicide by OTHER investigators. So as our a la carte news, pick whichever truth you want that fits your existing bias. P.S., why did they feel the need to add that line? Similar to the constantly added “he said, ‘without evidence’,” (usually said of a man’s own opinions or facts that are classified that only he and not the reporter would have access to.) Why? It’s a smear word, a lie word, an I-don’t-believe-it-either-but-must-convince-you-anyway word.
“Project Veritas, a group that seeks to expose perceived liberal bias in the mainstream media.”
Really? Did they find any said bias? Because it sure looks like they’re the only ones on earth doing investigative journalism. And to me the real story is a) how dumb, dumb, dumb the anchor is. “I don’t understand why the managers/owners spiked the story!” You’re fired. You’re not a reporter; you clearly have no cynicism gland. And b) that ABC was happy, satisfied, thrilled in fact, to have such a story, to out the leaker/witness, to tell her name to Epstein, to cover for serial pedophilia rapes, and to be such cheap whores they apparently didn’t even do it for the money. The act of protecting violent criminals and savaging victims, keeping that victim train going for 20 more years was reward enough. For their true Master. The Father of Lies? Tell me why it isn’t.
So the Anchor, a woman, knew this and sat on it for 3 years, not leaking it to anyone else. Knowing all that time, every day she uses her $10,000 makeup and has 5-star meals in Manhattan, that girls from Minnesota were being essentially trafficked and raped? Tell me how that feels for you, because I wouldn’t know.
“this insider leaked this tape to Project Veritas and not the Washington Post, New York Times, CBS or CNN, …the people that were working with Jeffrey Epstein,”
And the FBI too. Look, even low-level dummies like me, totally disconnected and not looking for anything knew about this by 1999. So want to calculate Epstein’s appetite of 3 girls a day x 365 x 20 years? And I’m supposed to say “Aw, too bad Ms. Robach, nice try?”
“Roger Stone, Trump Friend and Alleged Tie to WikiLeaks, Faces Trial (NPR)”
Stone is an operator, and has been doing some clever things by going to trial. I don’t know if it’ll all pan out for him as it has for Flynn, but discovery is going to be hilarious, and the SWAT raid on him 10x harder than for Saddam and Bin Laden, lambasted harder than al-Baghdadi, with pre-alerted CNN reporters imbedded was the kind of public communication to voters about the state of their government that you just can’t buy. As an old guy, I’m sure this is the way he wants to go out. With dirty tricks and panache, spitting in their eye.
“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!” ― Hunter S. Thompson
“Amid 2016 Election, State Dept Saw Burisma as Joe Biden’s Issue (Solomon)”
As I commented late yesterday, this means they knew it was wrong. As the present defense of it shows they also know it was wrong. Wrong in that even having the APPEARANCE causes credibility issues, diverting the Ambassador from useful duties to cover and witness-tamper with her, and so on. Just don’t do it. …Mr. Kushner.
Also mirrors Clinton’s main vulnerability from ’16, the sale of U.S. Uranium to Russia for a few million in free cash to Bill, from our purported arch-enemy, via Russian banks who had been embargoed. Ya think? And it was, but you’re not supposed to ADMIT it! You know, the way Beto admitted he was gun-confiscating with SWAT teams and the way Joy Bahar said on national T.V. that Democrats should lie about taking the guns and your constitutional civil rights, then illegally trash Federal Law and double-cross and arrest you immediately upon claiming office. Yes, we all know it’s true; DON’T SAY THOSE THINGS IN PUBLIC. Do they have diarrhea of the mouth? Tourette’s? As said when pitching to the imprisoned transgender vote or pissing off every voter by adding the white, English imperialism of editing the Spanish language with “LatinX,” who are you talking to? They used to have enough brains to lie. It’s astonishing. I thought it was a requirement for political office, but as Assad said, I really appreciate the new political honesty here. Yes, Hunter Biden and Hillary Clinton are doing wrong. Yes, we all know it. Yes, we are going to erase your civil rights without any process of changing the law and Amendment. Yes, we’re going to lie about it and are lying right now. Thanks! That’s actually the #Logos you’re speaking, I’m surprised your mouth isn’t burning.
“Sondland Reverses Himself on Ukraine (Pol.)”
Well that’s easy: I guess he needs to be arrested for perjury. He was either lying before or lying now. Either way, it’s a crime. Bye.
Q: How guilty do you have to be to be arrested anymore? A: No one knows. We have yet to arrest anyone.
“Ryanair Grounds Three Boeing 737s After Cracks Found (G.)”
“Boeing Whistleblower Raises Doubts Over 787 Oxygen System (BBC)”While fun, I expect this is normal and they’re just checking Boeings more now, and the media is reporting what is ordinarily normal, boring repairs like a front tie-rod end change. The media specializes in reporting tiny events as if they’re pandemic, and pandemic events as if they either don’t exist or are ordinary and always happening. You can tell because math and statistics are like garlic to vampires, never used and spat out, because they enforce objective truth on pathological liars and are #Logos, their one true hate and enemy.
“The Recession in The Auto Industry Is Tanking the Global Economy (ZH)”
This does prove up Marx’s theory that Capitalism will be SO successful that it will glut the market with products and crash itself. I assume since every conclusion he ever had was wrong this one will be too, but this process isn’t. And thanks to non-capitalism, it’s also concentrated in Mary Barra’s and Zuckerberg’s hands, who will obviously give you UBI for free, no strings attached, and not cut off your UBI or health care or anything the way UK’s Nation Health just said they will: https://www.zerohedge.com/political/uks-national-health-service-deny-treatment-racists-and-sexists No no no. When have Zuck or Dorsey or Pichai ever cut off Free Speech?
The other part of this is Germany is now in a Recession, two quarters of shrinking growth. Of course like us they have been, but they’ve paused lying about it now for some reason. How’s the old Euro doing?
This is a good point, since the State Department, all officials CLEARLY saw a conflict of interest. So much so they took time out to cover the Ambassador’s busy schedule to spend valuable time on it (coach a witness). So even supposing everyone’s innocence, this is why you cannot allow Hunter in the area, because it will create the APPEARANCE of a conflict of interest any time Biden takes action, and THAT then leads to other problems, especially credibility problems. That the State Department and others knew this — and clearly they know this back home considering the Biden/media defense — shows that they knew what they were doing was, at least to some extent, wrong and problem-causing.
And that would even be with every completely squeaky-clean in the most corrupt nation on earth, a scenario I do not believe at all. Q: How guilty do you have to be to be arrested anymore? A: No one knows. We have yet to arrest anyone.
“may have been links”
…Or may not. That’s how it’s done now.
“Was alleged,” …by an un-credible source, a certified liar and lunatic and also transparently wrong…
“Who has links to,” …Lives in the same city as…
“The NYT reported that,” …using the same un-credible non-sources and unsubstantiated smears as CNN, who quotes Buzzfeed, who quotes Vox…who quotes the NTY in a giant twit-circle.All perfectly true. They’ll report that local man, killed by police, had guns and contraband, not bibles and charity donations. Both are true.
Never forget: he’s an “austere, venerated gentleman scholar, an unarmed father of three, brutally gunned down without trial.”
How does this work? It’s all because of YOU, fair reader. YOU put up with this instead of pushing their lies out of society. YOU keep referring to CNN for updates on the Overton window, instead of referring to the truth.
Since they are indeed so bad that describing their lies and crimes contaminates us, I have sometimes wondered if we should post only solution links, permaculture, insulation, sustainability, tree-planting links. But that would be a different blog indeed.
“Chuck Schumer last week, said he was “increasingly worried” that Mr. Trump could hold the US government hostage”
Of course there’s a simple solution to all that worry and anger: DO YOUR JOB. If you think there are impeachable offenses, it is your job and DUTY to Impeach and send the matter onward through the process. Though the Heavens Fall. But since no one has integrity, no one believes what they’re saying and then acts on it. That goes for Mr. T as well, who is constantly “Somebody oughta look into all this nonsense in the executive branch.” Yes indeed. You, sir.
But hardly worth comment because these are not punches, but fighters circling. Should anyone ever do their job, you know, arresting people, maybe then we might write a sports article on it. So far one guy has lost his pension and two cases are still in court. We are still in 15 wars with 300 military bases. The CIA/NSA is still spying on every American every day, and Clapper who lied about it is still unindicted for perjury. …Unlike any of us, I daresay. I’m being spied on like every citizen is, while he lives in safe, private, luxury. Like all Socialist Deep State Regimes. “Thank God for the Deep State!” he says only 6 months after denying there is any Deep State at all. NYTimes says, “What? We were always at war with Estasia.”
Anyway, Schumer, I believe you mistake yourself. It is not for the House to run the Impeachment. That Trial and investigation legally belongs to the Senate. So you’re trying to be, not just the policeman, not just the Judge, not just the Executive, to micromanage every aspect of that department, but to be the U.S. Senate as well? …Well, claiming power over all branches of the U.S. government and the People, plus the 5th, the Media, still makes you less overreaching than the British Supreme Court which oversees all government, all referendums, and all people planetwide through time and space, including the Queen. So in that way Mr. Schumer, maybe you’re not power-grabby enough.
Listen: have evidence, which you must or you wouldn’t be attempting to subpoena witnesses like a court, then Impeach. If not, go back to the people’s business. But the courtroom trial belongs EXCLUSIVELY TO THE SENATE. Maybe the Senate should Impeach the whole House of Representatives instead. Why not? It’s no different a power grab than Schiff and Schumer are pulling by replacing McConnell.
“arming Ukraine was a condition of his willingness”
Thinking of this as the willingness of UKRAINE to do the CIA’s job. And this is what will get them. Unlike many secret services, which have toppled every government in history, the CIA is not allowed to spy on home citizens. So therefore they need to coordinate with other nations (5 Eyes), and when even unlimited carte blanche is not enough power and overreach, to use their own drug and arms and human trafficking black money to set themselves up inside another government, and direct and use that government as a front operation to openly control and attack their supposed legal overseers back home. Problem: this makes them both not American, as they have made themselves a 3rd party stateless state, roving the earth like a cloud, but also the literal definition of treason: conspiring with a foreign government to overthrow the real, legitimate government you have a claimed allegiance to. This is why Ukraine was set up, far, far larger although not the first time by any means. Why the nation they chose also happened to be the home of the Kazars I leave to history.
“Did they really believe they could conceal the ties between their agencies and…” everyone else?
No. And they don’t bother to today. They don’t need to because the media just reports whatever they feel like, completely fact and logic-free. And the people believe it all because they also just feel like it, and love lies more than air as long as they can “win” and get it over on somebody. When you reach that level of morality, there’s really nothing to save you.
“Iowans care about impeachment,”
No. No they don’t. Asked about Russia and Russian interference, even a year ago before Mueller closed, the response was statistically close to zero, like 0.1%. The belief that the GOVERNMENT itself, like Congress, was the biggest threat to Americans is like 70%.
But what did I say a second ago? They just lie and make it up, forgetting that article and statistics were well worn only a few weeks ago. Poof! Gone. Just like Whistleblower #1 and #2. Or the Transcript they pretend we haven’t all read, a few days before a general complained he wasn’t able to get into the White House servers and plant evidence with a rogue edit.
“Yang told me that voters don’t want to hear about impeachment,”
This is why Yang is a normal person and not a lunatic. And THAT is why they won’t give him debate time or report him in the news, shutting him out like Bernie, like Gabbard, or like Paul in 2012. Non-lunatic, non #AntiLogos opinions are verboten by the Party. Open debate, opinions, and discussion is like sunlight to vampires. Or as below, also against honesty, fair process, and not screwing their own party members with crooked, illegal, disenfranchising, and election-losing primaries. They need to get their soul back, but the Left and Center are fumbling and have no path yet. The Right has a soul around here somewhere, but maybe they should do what it says once in a while.
“Ryanair Says Its Boeing 737 MAX Jets Will Not Fly Before Summer 2020 (Ind.)”
As regulators caused this by making it far too hard to certify a plane, causing Boeing to do anything to make it the “same” rather than go through that endless process, exactly the same they will not allow Boeing to just put on 3 sensors and fix the software, which would get them safely back in the air while developing a different new hull for the new engines. But here we’ll pile on Boeing for it. What do you think they can or should do? Put all the 737s in a parking lot and light them on fire? A mistake was made but it’s just engineering and can be fixed. The planes themselves were never in any danger: any manual pilot could have flown them effortlessly. Only the SOFTWARE was in danger. As usual. Unrelated news: Waymo is now running free self-driving cars which have one sensor and one software. Everyone cheers.
“FBI Tried to Make Iceland a Complicit Ally in Framing Julian Assange (Ind.au)”
Well this is what the FBI DOES. This is who they ARE. Ever heard of J. Edgar? After 50 non-stop years of this I don’t know where they get more illusion-juice from. Was infiltrating anti-war Hippies and then Quakers not a clue to anyone? Was paying fines for railroading anthrax-scientist and protecting Whitey Bulger not a clue? Nope! They always, always, always, always, always, always, always, always, love power and will do anything power asks, instantly, at any time, without question, then cover for them in news stories for 1,000 years, although the facts could not be more obvious. Oh, and the FBI had no idea Epstein was trafficking a few thousand woman, internationally, for 20 years, as a insider billionaire, to the world’s biggest leaders, including the President either.
And when you have such men, such boot-spittle toadies who lick the crotch of any apparatchik, however small, is it a Republic? Can you keep it? “Every nation gets the government it deserves.” — Joseph de Maistre
“They bragged about having sex with Julian: he was a trophy lover.”
Very first warning flag. Bright red. And so it proved again.
Permaculture recommends dead-flat desert roads as a solution to flash floods annihilating culverts, no matter how large or frequent, but I hadn’t realized the consequence of a water-retaining berm is both the creation of a lush biome AND therefore the destruction of the road it is next to. What a marvelous Australia or Arizona it would be, 200 years from now, walking on the “Roman” road that is the only green strip for miles, the only legacy that they had ever been?
Changes your “Road Warrior” movies, doesn’t it?
All Cait’s articles are great, but the idea of there being an involuntary change in our paradigm — and that some don’t want to change — is quite true. And as far as I can tell, that IS what Maya 2012, your Hairy Age of Aquarius means.
Moving to “US Needs to Occupy Syria Because of Kurds or Iran or Chemical Weapons or Oil or Whatever”
“debate is used to keep us arguing not over whether the empire should be doing evil things, but how and why it should do them them.
Don’t fall for it. It is not legitimate for the US empire to occupy Syria for any reason. At all. “Because oil” is not a legitimate reason. “Because Kurds” is not a legitimate reason. “Because ISIS” is not a legitimate reason. “Because Iran” is not a legitimate reason. “Because Russia” is not a legitimate reason. “Because freedom and democracy” is not a legitimate reason. “Because chemical weapons” is not a legitimate reason. And those who are driving this illegal occupation know it”
A little more Organic land to, you know, not DIE. Of cancer, crohn’s etc. It’s hardly even true that it takes more land, but it does take more effort and — horrors!!! — employs people. That “E” word that must not be named. No we cannot have that until it’s robotic; some deplorable might feed his kids.
But as said, we waste most of that food because it’s not perfect. Food will get constrained soon, but it’s voluntary, as it’ll take quite some time to stop leaving it in the field and warehouse. –Don’t worry: we will. Starve (others) voluntarily rather than open and alter the system.
They only like Moscow if it’s communist, like them. (…ANd naturally, THEY, not an iron-booted military man, will somehow be in charge). Ted Kennedy actually offered to sell the U.S. to them if they’d get him elected, recently unclassified document. Now that Moscow is capitalist (in a Russian way) they hate, hate, hate them. And us, in the very few places we’re still capitalist.
Surely, I jest, no? Nope! Huma Abedin is the daughter of the Muslim Sisterhood, a literal terrorist organization. And with the dozens of other like kinds, visited and/or lived in the White House for years. Not faulting them: it’s their right to advocate. It’s just a fact they wish to erase the United States and it’s laws and customs, and any of its people who would resist them. Such is Sharia, by definition. I don’t prefer it, and if I did, I would move to their nations, instead of they to mine, so I too advocate.
Do not know which exact emails. No time to download and confirm today.
“UK Spy Agencies Found No Evidence Of Russian Brexit Interference (BF) “
“No proof of wrongdoing” as Biden says. Since that means you’re innocent and can’t talk about it anymore, right?
“Nancy Pelosi Is Worried 2020 Candidates Are on Wrong Track”BBG
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-11-02/nancy-pelosi-is-worried-2020-candidates-are-on-wrong-trackThe Bloomberg full article had many more quotes for a change. So it’s not a one-liner, slipped out in frustration. She’s laying her body down to hold the line against Cheeto by all means both legal and illegal. She’s openly rigging the election with a play to impeach a Presidential candidate, basically for talking to anyone about anything without CIA permission. And the Squad of Young Turks, including, “How do you do, fellow kids?” candidates like Warren, are flushing all her hard work, and actually pretty good tactics, considering her hand. (And considering her complete absence of principles or love of the Republic.)
“The speaker’s concerns reflect those of many Democratic leaders and donors who believe that left-wing policies will alienate swing voters and lead to defeat.”
““There’s very strong opposition on the labor side to the Green New Deal because it’s like 10 years, no more fossil fuel. Really?” she said.”
“Bernie and Elizabeth own the left, right? Is anybody going to out-left them?”
“Assad Calls Trump “Best US President” Ever for “Transparency” (ZH)
Wow. Concern. Many fact. So Scare. Much dumb. So what’s the upshot of his silly accident? “America First” President again makes it oh-so-that-much-harder for the Empire after him. He leaks transparency. He reveals blind hypocrisy, deflating all the meddling Deep States and their sanctimonious marionettes. He undermines the DNC for being pro war in these conditions. And he is going to inspire a “bring them home” movement if there are still two Americans to rub together that have any sense. (there aren’t) All for the low, low price of being “accidental” “dumb”. Shucks, Cleetus, you got me again!
Now, remember what I said about Iran hiding their base over the line in Syria, Kurdish country? Not quite where I expected, but militarily the U.S. cannot possibly hold this territory, which is unsupportable. They cannot be there without Russia’s express permission due to the S400 and anti-electronic tech they have. But obviously Russia nor Syria can’t just SAY so, they have to and deserve to, pile on Cheeto, or rather America, for starting a murderous war of aggression for mere profit – the loving, gentle, peaceful Obama and Hillary war, — Nobel Prize Approved™! — which didn’t QUITE kill the 6 million people they were hoping for, murdering and evacuating everyone in the Middle East to make life easier for Israel’s expansion, but close.
That all being said, so what’s he there for? How’s he going to supply the troops and move the oil in these conditions? He’s not. Which is why like everything said by politicians, by generals, by adults in every inch of the West, it’s a lie. Sure, the fields are a nice trading chip, but not worth this level of trouble. He’s there for something else, and that something else is something Russia and Syria are happy to allow HIM to deal with and not them. Because how would Russia or Syria tell their ally Iran – who only just saved them by adding men – they can’t have their really expensive, long-planned, super hard to get nuclear centrifuge deep underground base, but we need to blow it right up after billions and decades spent? (or something similar)
Or maybe it’s a big coincidence, and the U.S. Army is going to hold 20 square miles instead of all of Kurdistan, a few oil wells instead of the whole field, and attempt no transport routes, for some reason you guys can figure.
Speaking of the West and Western leaders delighted to kill all the people:
“ Britain Ignores Assange Medical Appeal: UN (AAP) “… ESPECIALLY when they can break the law and commit war crimes. That’s the BEST. Hardly worth getting up in a morning unless I can arrest and kill a few citizens. As Obama said, “I realized I’m good at killing people”!
“Global Shipping Container Rates Plunge (ZH) “
I’m not kidding when I say the economy’s barely running here, at least outside the 12 ordained cities. Since it’s not much worse here yet, the decline was just arrested for a while, the drop in business must be in those 12 cities. But hey, L.A. is on fire and they shut the power off in S.F. just ‘cause, so that’s no surprise.
“Q: What did they use in California before candles? A: Electricity.”
“More Californians Forced To Run Extension Cords To Neighboring States”
https://babylonbee.com/news/more-californians-forced-to-run-extension-cords-to-neighboring-states
“Deprived of luxuries like power and freedom, more and more Californians are being forced to run extension cords over to their neighbors in adjacent states….Californians are now looking for an alternative energy source, such as rubbing balloons on hipsters’ beards.”“ Labour Plans To Make 27 Million Homes Energy Efficient (G.) “
So they’re going to cut down 100 more forests, mine and ship a million more insulation batts on diesel trucks? Rack up a billion in debt? Knock down ten-thousand existing houses, historical landmarks 100-500 years old, energy already invested and resting, but not “efficient”? Sounds about right. You do you! Put up one of those glass-fronted towne houses that will fall over in 30 years, that’s much more ecological.
Speaking of, we won’t be keeping all those roads up for long. And if we don’t invest CONSTANT energy into them – oil energy – Nature will eat them in no time. Life will be simpler and more local, and everyone will complain about how much they dislike our new environmentalism. The only kind we can afford: environmental austerity, in union with the land.
Times where I agree with Nancy Pelosi:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-11-02/nancy-pelosi-is-worried-2020-candidates-are-on-wrong-track““What works in San Francisco does not necessarily work in Michigan,” Pelosi said at a roundtable of Bloomberg News reporters and editors on Friday. “What works in Michigan works in San Francisco — talking about workers’ rights and sharing prosperity.”
“Remember November,” she said. “You must win the Electoral College.”
“Democrats are not going to win by repeating Republican talking points,” the Massachusetts senator said in Des Moines, Iowa. “So, if Biden doesn’t like that, I’m just not sure where he’s going.”
“There’s very strong opposition on the labor side to the Green New Deal because it’s like 10 years, no more fossil fuel. Really?” she said.
And a lot more. They’re now so far Left that Nancy Pelosi sounds like Ronald Reagan.
Biden was also last in his law class.
He said that was fake news, fixed by Snopes, but the other worst guy died and left him the honor.
Fail to the top, like them all.
“Trump-Ukraine Whistleblower Suddenly Won’t Testify (ZH)”
Sort of speaks for itself, doesn’t it? This is what I always do when I have a slam-dunk case, and somehow “Charlie” thinks he’s NEVER going to have to be named and testify? In a national impeachment in one of the world’s primary countries? …Okay! Good luck with that!
I hear “Americans will see, Americans will understand” this and that, blah blah. No they won’t. They don’t read, they don’t understand, because they don’t care about you and don’t have time to come up there and knock heads. So they get it over on the stupido Americanos, yes? No, because INSTEAD of reading every day like you and I do, they can tell JUST AS MUCH and save a whole lot of time by just watching how people speak and act. And being railroaded, with no fair trade or opportunity to speak is completely familiar to every single person here, having been perjured by police, harassed by school principles, bullied by every code officer and petty official, sitting in a thousand corporate meetings where only this happens. So when they take 60 seconds to look into it, once, 30 days before the election, it will STILL read as garbage. And they won’t care who did what to whom, just that this is b——t steaming 6 feet high, and real familiar.
…And not just saying, as the critical swing states are already not buying it, which will flip the House too. This is what you get when you don’t run on policy, the many, many things that can help people and we all agree on. I think it’s official that they’re running on a 100% negative campaign, “Our candidate is a garbage heap but suck it ‘cause anyone but Trump.” No. People are very, very tired of negativity and division. That’s been true for decades and why Obama got in. But the only reason they use it is because otherwise they can’t get in such awful, double-crossing, anti-American tools.
“The CIA is committed to telling the truth… You heard it here first.”
The sad part is, and commented on by the non-herd left, is how on earth the Left could ever love the CIA, FBI, Police, billionaires, corporations, and promote giving them unlimited power. How did that happen, and how did it happen so fast? I say this with 1 and 2A, they think Hitler is in office and they want to disarm themselves and give HIM total control over speech, and increase the secret state budget by billions. Sorry, what??? That’s not what you’d call “Resisting.” They love authority, and it doesn’t matter who owns it, even if that person abuses them literally to death. –Just look at the Soviet Union. They only love, follow and support power. Because if they believed in individualism and responsibility they’d be Republicans. Okay, or small-government Libertarians, or even Anarchists, but anything but Leftists, because 100% of Leftist requires all-consuming government to be your daddy, and then believing (somehow!) that it will never do you wrong although the history of government and leftists is that they always, ALWAYS do you wrong. This belief causes more attacks of raw power on the powerless and vulnerable than any King could ever dream of, and I’m lost as to why it’s not obvious to them. But here you have it: Left ♥ ♥ ♥ CIA, the CIA that kills brown people by the millions worldwide.
“A Partisan Impeachment Vote Is Exactly What the Framers Feared (Dershowitz)”
It is, but they could not prevent that, and everything is going pretty well. The partisan vote and approach may work in the House, but co-equal branches of government are restraining them, and may do so even more forcefully, meanwhile the co-equal branch called “The People”, the ultimate veto, are also withdrawing power from a partisan power-play from only one branch. It works itself out over time, but the House can do nothing here, nor, if the people themselves don’t play into it, can anyone else. The division will break and re-merge to the center, as we see with Generation Zoomer, now 19.
“Horse-Trading Is Not An Impeachable Offense (HE)”
Sadly yes, we have not yet found a better way, perhaps until we are better people. Therefore the threshold to actual bribery remains murky. That highlights again where you don’t impeach on obstruction (obstruction of your innocence?) but on “High Crimes”, big, obvious things we can all be certain are over the line. So let’s get one. I’m game!
“Gabbard should seriously consider suing for libel. Clinton has veritably, and without a shred of evidence, accused her of treason, a crime that, due to Gabbard’s continued military service, is punishable by death. This is no small matter.”
This is where you end up when no one is held to account, ever. At first it’s things that can be interpreted badly, as horse-trading. Then it’s innuendo and bad faith until you reach a point where you’re calling each other “a tool of the French” and a “Hermaphrodite” as Jefferson and Adams did. That’s why being able to sue, without it being as today, nearly impossible, is so important. It helps keep the culture in check, and is fair because real damages occur that have real costs – it’s not just the court and law getting involved in personal fights.
“Trevor Noah Asks Hillary: “How Did You Kill Jeffrey Epstein?” (ZH)”
I think when they’re swimming in the fish tank they actually believe it. Like all cults do. All ‘good people’ believe it, all my friends believe it, it’s only these two racist rednecks in Alabama that don’t believe it. “’It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.’ Upton Sinclair If they stopped believing it, like I suspect Stewart and Seinfeld have, they lose their jobs and platform, and most probably their friends, their careers, if not their lives. Look at Cavanaugh, etc. or Trump who was a Democrat with a picture donating to every Black organization in NY until his campaign started. Then suddenly: Hitler. All friends flee, all knowing it’s false. Such Intelligentsia, the well-known cowards of history. So they have to keep their protests small. But being small, they are then complicit, helping the lie roll on and on, which is exactly how the Jacobins, Nazis, Cultural Revolution, and every other historical catastrophe happened: “All it takes for Evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing.” – MLK. They do nothing, so I cannot respect them. Simpson, Assange, etc, the information is out there, they can read it. They clearly REFUSE to, which is supported by Antifa, etc, beating anyone in the streets who even TALKS to the other side, even to learn to know their enemy better. This is the sign of certain failure, and certain lies, although sadly the high water mark of failure and discrediting can take quite a while.
This, while everyone in Hollywood, like Stewart, like Noah, knew all about Weinstein and Spacy for decades, Oprah sent over fresh women to him for years, and they told jokes on Family Guy and Simpsons for years, doing nothing. So I’m supposed to believe and respect them while they’re raping Corey Feldman and battering him for his entire life whenever he, the victim, talks about it? I’m supposed to find it a coincidence when the 2nd Spacy accuser has died in a mysterious accident in a single year?
At some point complicity, “just following orders” makes you the enemy. I’d say much of Hollywood has long since passed that point. This is case-by-case, and evidence must be provided, but Noah and Fallon are clearly in that camp: My side, right or wrong, a cult that will cover for ANYTHING their leaders do, however bad.
Gender: the basic problem is that Feminists hate women, they do not see and understand female power, and believe the only path is to make women behave as men, under men’s standards: power, aggression, force, confrontation, autonomy. They reject wholly and even attack the things that give women their REAL power: love, cooperation, understanding, support. So they make women to hate, not love, idolize power, not beauty, focus on their individual selves, not family and community, and thereby destroy everything that fulfill women and make them important and strong. That’s not me saying it: women are measurably more unhappy Every. Single. Year. Since Feminism started. Women are now openly rejecting love of corporation and money in favor of having children and family that they are now 35 and may lose altogether, retiring to old age empty and alone. We already have men to do force and individualization, and that needs to be mitigated so not to be even MEN’S worst traits. We most certainly do not need women to behave just as badly, leaving no one to support love, beauty, family, and community. …Exactly as planned, and exactly the evil we find ourselves in now.
Yes, the world needs more women, as the Feminists say. However, their answer is to have to women in drag, and behave as men, giving villainous men more power under men’s rules, solving nothing, and not even women left to be women.
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As $130B a night (with only a minimum, no maximum) is no longer filled, we see the Fed solution: “There’s a cash shortage? We’ve got the solution! Just go to zero cash reserves! You know all that money we made you keep in case of emergency? Yeah, just get rid of it. What could possibly go wrong with geniuses like us in charge?” So…zero cash reserves on the horizon. But as this continues to expand — although not in the overnight REPOs — that will be eaten soon too. What then, Herr Powell?
Then? They’ve already said they will not have overNIGHT Repos, no, no no. That’s for pikers. We’re going to go unlimited interDAY Repos. So, you need $130B for 30 minutes at 9am? Gotcha. You need $100Trillion for 12 hours on Sunday? No problem. Nothing’s too much for my golfing buddies. …And there we are.
P.S., Pa’s Towing needs $5k for a new truck? Get out you bum! Whaddya think, we’re made out of money? It’s 25% p.a. or nothing. Can never trust a deplorable: they work for a living, as no true “gentleman” would.
However MMT people like to squawk like seagulls without reading a single book (“Mine!” “Mine!”) history is not kind to organizations that print unlimited money at unlimited rates. In fact, contrary to their opining, it appear it causes insurmountable trouble 100% of the time. That is, because confidence is lost, the currency breaks, and ultimately goes to zero as the market participants, which despite the every effort of paid economists are NOT stupid, move to anything else of value and establish a new baseline trading vehicle, a currency, historically gold. Today it might be other things, BTC, WTI, and it has been rice in Japan, etc, but you get the point, something REAL, something CONVERTIBLE, something NOT THE PROMISES OF OVERWHELMINGLY SELF-DEALING, DISHONEST, AND DISCREDITED MEN.
And for exponential functions, we are racing up on one now. A Crack-up Boom.
A crack-up boom is the crash of the credit and monetary system due to continual credit expansion and price increases that cannot be sustained long-term….
When the economy is in the doldrums, one way to give it a temporary revival is to feed extra money into the system—otherwise known as economic stimulus. Providing people with credit makes them feel richer and more inclined to spend their money.
The problem comes when the government continuously pours more and more money into the system and the actual economy beneath the artificial expansion cannot keep up. Injecting money into the economy is a quick way to give it a short-term boost, but this practice isn’t sustainable over the long term.
Can open a page each day where commenters can tag the articles and links. That might be better protected on a different site (IRC?), but the world already knows to come here.
Speaking of: https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/second-consecutive-quarter-what-americans-spent-most-money
The economy is so good, all positive GDP is coming from buying new RVs! Problem: RV industry says sales have never been more dismal, they are shutting down. So…here’s where the BLS is fabricating line-items, because everything said by adults in the U.S. is a lie. …Thus to say, bad economy: donations are down.“Adam Schiff Coached Vindman Throughout Impeachment Testimony – Nunes (ZH)”
This was incredible: new resolution (not investigation) allows the Republicans all normal rights of questioning, cross-examinations, etc only and entirely at the permission of the DNC. That is to say: no rights at all. This was seen here where Nunes asked Vindman basic questions: what did you know? what happened next? who did you talk to? and Schiff said, “Answer this, don’t answer that” to him through the whole interview. …Because Vindman would have to say he told Schiff and coordinated testimony with him, etc. That’s what Nunes means by “I have never in my life seen anything like what happened today.”
“Tulsi Gabbard Unleashes On Erdogan: “Radical Islamist Megalomaniac” (ZH)
A lot of this is right, but I wouldn’t call him “Radical”, maybe “Forceful”, and yes, he wants to reclaim the Ottoman empire under Islam, by taking Greece up to Serbia, as well as the middle east through Israel. Despite what I said yesterday, Tulsi is also not a Republican: she is a moderate Democrat. The twist with that of course is that Trump has Bill Clinton’s 1992 platform, only to the LEFT of it, as Trump is a “Citiot” from the nation’s second most liberal city who went to the Clinton’s wedding. Um, left? Liberal? Progressive? Manhattan isn’t Alabama or Utah, folks. Don’t believe me? Write down their platforms line-by-line and compare. Now compare to his depiction in the media as Hitler, and tell me where we are. But that’s not far off, as that’s exactly what the left is saying of Biden and Obama now.
But as a sensible American moderate, even on the left side, Tulsi only looks like Eisenhower because the Twitter, the media, and the what small part of the DNC that is allowed to speak without being beaten and expelled for it are now to the left of Mao. …Again, I’m not kidding: Mao at least believed in the existence of governments and borders, while the present SJWs do not.
P.S., while we’re on that, Omar wins more points from Storm Front for refusing to recognize the Armenian Genocide. …By the “Young Turks”, a bit off-color point for Mr. Cenk. Maybe he should rebrand?
“We May Not Have A 2020 Election – Kunstler (USAW)”
The government cannot indict the Press, for better or worse, that’s the job of the people. And that may be happening, as Obama comes out – again – against the circular firing squad ruining the party, this time against the gross intolerance of cancel culture. So he waits for Dave Chappelle to make it okay before joining with us Right Libertarians in actually having a Bill of Rights (of Man) and a 1st Amendment. But it shows it may be the high-water mark, and if so, the people may shove out this bad press, as we’ve already seen with HuffPo, Vice, CNN, etc. collapsing, being sold, and bankrupt. In that case, this Social Democratic Authoritarianism, known by some of its flavors such as Nazism, may be behind us, and the country tipping back towards skepticism and rules of law and process. Thank God. And only a couple journalists have been arrested so far, very few citizens shot; about the best outcome one could hope when starting from such a bad location.
I’m not kidding when I say I can feel the wind on my face of these Jacobins, doing what Harris, Beto, Alinsky, and all planned for everyone who disagrees with them and their religion – like Manning, Dan Hale, etc. But we’re not quite out yet. And since we didn’t take our punishment but called a reprieve, we’re in no way cured or honest yet either. Take Israel or Nineveh for example, called out for redemption and got it, only to collapse maybe 20 years later. …Because no alarm, no danger, no chastisement, no reform. What can I say? Human nature. And so probably for us, probably piling our lack of morality, lack of real reform on with upcoming food and oil restraints. Still, always happy to avoid the Jacobins, people so proud of mass-murder they proudly publish a magazine promoting their historic values of intolerance and murder.
“Russia-India Counter-Terrorism Group Vows ‘Credible Action’ (RT)”
Guessing this is to hunt down the guys – Anglos, Deep State — who would keep Indian civil unrest on tap to extort Modi’s compliance, and also try to promote the nuclear war between India and Pakistan. You know, the one that would provide cover for the compounding central bank debt wall problem. Just guessing.
“Famed Pathologist Michael Baden Says Jeffrey Epstein’s Death Was Homicide”
Ridiculous to think otherwise. You don’t break your neck in three places by leaning against a sheet of paper. So…anybody going to do anything, Mr. law and order President?
The elephant thing is about habitat. The elephants are an afterthought. Luckily, there is no special reason we can’t share the viable habitat, even in a space age. Go see “Black Panther”.
Wow, Oxy, you are wonderfully set up. Goes to show what happens if you have a direction and lean against it day after day. Although being hard work, safer retirement than having a 401k in Wells Fargo and owning an $80,000 RV on credit.
We are changing, and with media being no good at all, it is indeed pointless to quote them. Sort of a tethering problem, letting them control the Overton window instead of us, when far from fact-checking, they don’t even call sources anymore and ask for statements.
However, without facts, information, what do we discuss? Our own pre-made biases? Then what? Transmit our biases to the next generation, just cause, free of the supporting evidence that substantiates it?
“6,000 guided missile kits linked to 180 deaths!”
I’d fire them for this. There need to be at least 6,000 more deaths here or their product doesn’t work as advertised.
Let’s say $1M/pc so $6B to kill 180 people, or $33 Million dollars per person killed. Can’t they get some sporks confiscated from London parks and kill more people than that?
“We are continuing this policy in bleeding America to the point of bankruptcy. Allah willing,” Bin Laden said in 2001.
The plan is going perfectly…
Just in, so crazy I can hardly believe it, but so ephemeral that it’s not worth writing an article about, Pelosi IS going to vote on an Impeachment Resolution. Finally.
But not. Because her vote is not what obvious, #Logos, logical, legal people would do: create a real committee with real power to investigate. Heavens, no! That would be crazy if you believed and had evidence of impeachable offenses. For so many reasons, but including that they have to keep pretending they ALREADY had that vote and Trump is wrong…because they ALREADY have the non-subpoena cases in Federal Court…this is a “Resolution” which says “That OTHER resolution and inquiry (you know, the one we never had) is a Great and Powerful Oz, which is going to merge with the Judicial Committee, which just won a court case that might maybe make what we’re doing semi-legal if we smash the two together like rocks.”
Again, all to get around authorizing a REAL inquiry committee, and avoid having ANY minority rights of investigation, subpoena, cross-examination, and you know, LAW that might ask any question they don’t like, bring any evidence they don’t like, and leak to the press things unfavorable to the inevitable impeachment. For something. We’re still not sure. But gaslight the American people into saying they did. Because it’s a “resolution” of “inquiry“, not a “vote” on “investigation.”
Why so alarmed, Herr Docktor? Because when they continue to refuse illegal, unvoted-on, unauthorized subpoenas, the House will then go arrest Executive Department officials and Giuliani under Capital Law as they have been saying they intend to do. When the U.S. Marines and, I dunno, the Bikers for Trump people show up to say no-you-don’t, well, off you go into your long-planned, long-desired civil war. Claiming the Marines have a coup, Pelosi has the legitimate civil government, etc.
Which goes to show: when you have a solid case with bookcases of hard evidence, phone transcripts, witnesses, naturally you refuse to show any of it, have secret trials, and refuse all transparency and ability of the minority government, who could not overrule you or hamper your investigation in any way should you have this public vote, inquiry, and impeachment. I mean, I always do. Whenever I have my opponent dead to rights and have won the game, I always refuse to show him my cards saying “read it and weep”, but instead say, “Don’t argue. You don’t need to see my cards. Trust me: you know that giant poker pot is mine. There’s no evidence the cards WEREN’T winning, right? And the New York Times already reported that I won.”
Right?
Well, there’s one upside, that they have been planning and making or encouraging Pelosi to impeach probably since Flynn was arrested and they knew no civil procedure was possible. Impeachment was always the plan because it’s the only way to get this out on the record, in public. Speaking of, Sidney Powell just busted Lisa Page for fabricating her 302’s transcripts of Flynn, and is on the case of Comey doing the same.
None of it matters, because apparently Americans can’t read words or understand the concepts of “testimony,” “evidence,” and “cross examination.” No surprise since there hasn’t been legal justice under normal rules in a human lifetime. Who would recognize the truth if they saw her anymore?
Might want to buy a flak vest, it’s going to get messy.
“Which of the two accounts is more credible?”
I don’t see why it wouldn’t be both for so many reasons. One is that the two speakers each have credibility. Second, the SDF and the U.S., which itself only equals the PMCs, are allies. Money to one is money to another. So they would be splitting the money (bet the SDF is the 30% junior partner) and claiming it is going to “Syria”. Well, a ‘Syrian’ perhaps, but not to Assad and the central government as any logical expression of that phrase would be. Napoleon said an army moves on its stomach, well today they move on cash, which is how it was so painfully, painfully obvious that ISIS was a scam army supported exclusively from the outside. The U.S. is presently too broke to involve in non-self-financing wars, so the oil pays Blackwater, et al. Another reason they can’t go bankrupt fast enough for me.
That said, we have no strategic leverage there, so pretty sure the oil fields are going to be a bargaining chip. Cut Exxon a contract and mollify Big Oil back home (and PS keep them from going bankrupt, with the U.S. from shale), and we’ll not make it too hard or expensive to pry the Army out of there. And in a way, why not? We’re already neck deep in an illegal, bankrupting war, try to get something to cut our losses on our way out and back to our own hemisphere. This is the big boys game, not a one of them follows law, rules, treaties, etc, and we’re no exception. And hey, didn’t I say this exact thing in 2002 and every. single. day. afterwards until now? No Herr Docktor, you just don’t understand, trrrists! Under my bed! Everywhere!
“We are continuing this policy in bleeding America to the point of bankruptcy. Allah willing,” Bin Laden said in 2001.
Good thing we didn’t fall for that for less deaths than occur from traffic accidents or inner city violence in a year. And golly, if we had shredded the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, freedom of Speech and Freedom of the Press, who knows what could have happened? We might have lost our country and surrendered everything we pretended to be defending!
30 seconds of logical thought, 18 years ago. So frustrating. Goes to show there’s not a lick of #Logos or logical thought from sea to shining sea. But like the prodigal, men have lie with the pigs before they cry out for the #Logos, and make for it at any price.
“Pelosi’s sudden shift towards legitimizing the 34 day old “impeachment inquiry”
It was embarrassing to be schooled by Cheeto on how to create a committee with an investigation function, but apparently that’s what it takes. So lo! They shall create one! Maybe. Maybe a pre-pre-pre inquiry, of a someday maybe impeachment, if when, for something, we’re-not-sure-what. They need to keep the word ‘impeachment’ in the news by any silly means to rig the election, which is odd because they can just vote and do it. According to Schiff, he has smoking-gun slam-dunk evidence since Jan 2017, evidence so good somehow he’s never released any of it to the public. Doesn’t that make him in violent dereliction of duty and need to be impeached and removed? Same with HRC: apparently she has direct personal evidence that Russia is controlling no less than three Presidential candidates. I believe she is an accessory to a felony if she doesn’t get that evidence to the FBI pronto.
…Or is every. single. thing. said by adults in the United States a lie? Is that why they’re mad at Tulsi? Listened to Snowden the other night, and he said the Espionage Act used for example on Daniel Hale, specifically has a greater strictness than mass-murder. That is, you cannot bring up WHY the person did it, their motives, if anyone was hurt, if a greater good resulted, etc., only IF the act happened. That’s already nonsense since even in murder the MOTIVE and intent is how we know it’s Murder 1, Manslaughter, Reckless Endangerment, etc. More importantly, this over-the-top travesty enforcement doesn’t apply for telling lies, for misleading the nation into war, or erasing Democracy itself by hiding facts from the voting people. No, it only applies to TELLING THE TRUTH. Therefore, the government supports and believes that TELLING THE TRUTH ABOUT THE GOVERNMENT IS A CRIME WORSE THAN MURDER. And they do. Clearly.
“I think it’s important to remember that as Australia would not accept intervention or interference in our legal processes, we are not able to intervene in the legal processes of another country.”
Wot a ship of fools. If Nicole Kidman was kidnapped in Estonia and framed for murder, then held in prison for a slow death, I have this funny feeling Australia would claim all kinds of authority and polity, and would discover a whole range of leverage they could use to free their famous citizen from a 3rd country. Maybe we should send Scott Morrison to SDF Syria and find out if they have the ability to intervene and interfere in 3rd nations. I have the feeling they do. Or the SOCOMD would. Go ask them.
For fun, since Tulsi has dropped her run for Congress, and she and her family were centrists moving from the HI Republican party for pragmatic reason, why not dump backstabbing Pence and pull Tulsi as Vice President? Trump is similarly a centrist flopper, a lifelong Democrat from NYC who basically has Bill Clinton’s 1994 platform, to the LEFT of Bill Clinton actually, as on gay marriage, except that he actually intends his promises. So strangely, they’re well-matched. What do you think the vote would be on a Democratic-Republican Unity Party ticket? And if so, how’s your planned Civil War now?
Zero is hot and on the case, but I don’t fully understand what this is without a summary rundown.
Two days off Debt Rattle, looking for the future.
“Powell is brilliant. …this is very damning for the FBI et al.”
Pretty sad that this was clear the day it happened and it took this long to pry out a little piece. Shows pretty clearly Cheeto is running less than 20% of the government, and that part is slow walking everything. Lookin’ at you Wray. What is that where the people have privacy and the government has accountability? We’re near the extreme opposite of that, don’t let it get worse.
In this case: they don’t want to release the exculpatory “Brady” material, required for 230 years, because there’s nothing in there, and it would help their case, of course. That’s why no one can see it! I always trust the CIA and FBI in all things, because they’ve never led us wrong for their own interests.
Basically they said if Flynn didn’t cave, and he was already bankrupted with trial-by-accusation, they’d illegally railroad his son and new baby. …Pretty typical FBI/DA stuff. Wouldn’t give odds on half the people in jail being guilty, at least not to the level of their sentence. Notice his race didn’t matter as they’re equal-opportunity crooks. Here’s the problem: when you let off all your friends for money and favors, your conviction rate would be 1/3 of the norm, since they are most of the crime here, see Mueller and Whitey Bulgar. To make up for it, you then have to throw 3x more relatively innocent people into jail to provide cover. So as with most lies, they multiply quickly. Ask Armstrong all about it, they said they’d kill his 70 year old mother, put a bullet in her mailbox. He didn’t crack, but that may be because they are such mouth-breathing single-celled slime that they couldn’t name the object they wanted him to give them. Money? Confession? Computer records? They didn’t know, which made it really hard to comply, like out of any Kafka/Solzhenitsyn story. …And as SDNY, all the same honest folks that imprisoned him for seven years and tried to kill him like Assange, were on the Flynn and Mueller investigation. But that’s America: no justice anywhere, Freedom for me and not for thee. P.S. Felicity Huffman released early. 14 days is clearly too long.
“It’s frankly disconcerting to be investigated for having done… what we were told to do by the president of the United States.”
Yeah, wot a surprise. When the President tells you to execute an illegal order, you’re supposed to refuse. Like illegally wiretapping the opposition candidate 5 times. But since this is legal now, surely Trump should wiretap Warren and Biden and put FBI opposition moles in their campaigns? That’s democracy, right?
Of course people who INVESTIGATE this, which is 100% confirmed fact, are the ones who need to be impeached and removed. No law here!
“it’s not about the result, but about the process, keep the pressure on.”
That’s because if they ever stop falsely accusing him, he’ll have open field to arrest them all without them pretending it’s to prevent his impeachment. That’s what this week’s newest non-impeachment is for. So expect it until one or the other team is destroyed and taken out on their shield, because if he loses, his whole family will be jailed and killed like Armstrong and Flynn, and by the same railroading Boy Scouts as Comey and Mueller. Short version: truth be damned, this is politics to hide 100,000 felonies. Without that power, all the guys I blackmailed, plus all the people blackmailing me, are coming for me. Gotta get that dough, gotta run fast.
They are burned by their own demons. I didn’t do it, I just want to stop them from hurting others, as a responsible society should.
That’s why Americans would have to win: like the Vietnamese, we have to take back (or rather “fix”) our country. We have no where else to go. That the elites are so, so INCREDIBLY stupid now, having never faced a real challenge in their lives, only makes it that much easier.
Exemplary picture is an example of nature without man in it. I don’t see a lot of food there. Living very close to certain death unless you do everything exactly right. There is also less biodiversity than an interim space, e.g., a forest cleared by man.
“Justice Dept. to Launch Criminal Investigation into Its Own Russia Probe (Hill)”
I wouldn’t worry. We don’t arrest people or enforce the law anymore. We just collect evidence for blackmail and move on.
“EU Set to Put Brexit Delay on Hold after Johnson’s Ultimatum (G.)”
Already on 3 years, want to go for 33? Justice deferred is justice denied. Corbyn is against his own base, another reason he didn’t sweep into the PM, despite every star being otherwise aligned for the opportunity. That doesn’t reflect well on his party or legacy.
“Despite Ultra-Low Mortgage Rates, New House Prices at Multi-Year Low (WS)”
So they’re up near 50% since only 2011? What Millennial got a 100% raise in pay to buy them? And they’re worried about an 8% drop? With average Millennial (and remember they are now in the 30s, peak earning years) income being $35k, the TOP average price should be 3x Income = $100k houses. …So the market is 3x/300% overvalued, and corrections generally overshoot. I don’t think your market rate changes of 1% are going to fix that. Instead, paper assets like these are going to cycle worthless and drop 90%, and prices of real things, commodities are going to rise 10x. –Wait! Isn’t U.S. harvest in corn and beans going to be half the norm? Sounds like the Kondratieff cycle is right on schedule.
https://ourworldindata.org/food-prices
With food prices at relative 1,000 year lows, where do you think it can go? When Arab Spring toppled five governments with a small increase in high food prices, what do you think that means? Well, if you live in California, you won’t have to worry because they’re going to turn off your electricity anyway. Not that the other 40 states can laugh: electricity is ALL they have left, in collapsing houses and cities.
“Europe and the United States have not been ready to tolerate any major country, which would set up its own set of rules and goals.”
He misses the basic point that they wouldn’t tolerate opposition EVEN IN EUROPE, like Barcelona. Or from Russia, which is IN Europe, duh. So who are these “Western” or “European” people really, if they’re equally willing to attack “themselves” as anyone else? Sounds pretty equal opportunity pirates to me. “Why do you rob banks?” “That’s where the money is!” — Willie Sutton. Why do they rob people who actually do work and produce things? And they’re taking all that wealth back to their colonial white people in Glasgow and Gainesville, Krakow and Cleveland? Er…don’t think so.
“Johannesburg Shuts Down Computers City-Wide After Bitcoin Ransomware Attack (CCN)”
Since nothing is as perfectly trackable as Bitcoin, I generally have to think most of these are a scam, inside people making hay for their own reasons. Remember Baltimore? All their computers got ‘hacked’ and ‘erased’ right after they started investigating multiple city frauds? Or that North Korean hacker that turned out to be SONY? Yeah. If it’s written by an adult in a paper, it’s probably false. Don’t believe the hype.
“Former House Lawyer Says Pelosi’s Impeachment Inquiry ‘Is Illegal’ (WT)”
It’s not ‘illegal’, it’s technically ‘non-legal’. She has the right to do what she’s doing: what she’s doing isn’t wrong. However, that is because what she is doing is legally nothing. I guess you could argue it’s fraud, attempting to represent one thing (lack of inquiry) as another, (a Congressionally authorized inquiry), but really they’re not fooling White House lawyers, and I don’t think the 300M citizens have standing to sue for minor mischaracterization.
This goes with the other side’s yelping that Trump’s “due process” is being trampled, he can’t confront his accuser, blah blah. Not false, but non-legal again. Congress has done nothing. Therefore he has no right to counter the nothing they have (not) done. The “impeachment” in the House is not the removal, not the conviction, not the trial, it is the GRAND JURY. If policemen find something, they refer it to the DA, who then decides to proceed by calling the PUBLIC, a citizen jury, who hear the (completely one-sided) accusations of the DA and decide whether to authorize the expense of a trial. The House serves this Grand Jury function, which refers the case to a full Senate trial. Grand Juries have one-sided evidence, no witnesses, and no cross-examination. Trump will have the rights to all those things in the SENATE, if and only IF, the House votes to refer their specific list of “High crimes and misdemeanors” there.
I shouldn’t have to say that, but apparently I do because no one can be bothered to click “Wikipedia.”
Now for the part that is non-legal, or extra-legal, as there is no Impeachment, and no Impeachment vote, and no Inquiry, and no Inquiry vote, the House of Representatives has not authorized and imbued power of that branch into any inquiry or investigation, and therefore, all questions are essentially from citizens asking ‘please.” Obviously the Executive will declare privilege and deny, which they have. They have not voted, in my opinion, because that would establish legality and rules of conduct that would include the minority party, and therefore preclude Star Chambers in a leaky SCIF, where only one side can hear and present evidence, and leak only those statement which they prefer. …And illegally, I may add, because that’s the premise of a super-secret hearing. Trump should get on arresting these Congressional leakers right away, as part of doing his job to keep the nation safe from loose lips that traffic in and sell classified intel. You know, like Assange. But we all know he won’t, because no one’s upheld the law here in 50 years. In #AntiLogos #Oppositeland, it’s only when you obey the law that you get arrested.
So the GOP response was pretty good: to order pizzas and just walk into the SCIF hearing and quietly sit down. As members of Congress, they have the right to hear testimony. Schiff cancelled and walked out, as is his right. Obviously they should have followed SCIF rules, but as a civil disobedience publicity stunt, it’s not really relevant, similar to how they pretend to uphold the Constitution while openly calling for its erasure, and the trampling of the 1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th and 10th in the Bill of (natural, human) Rights. Just lies for my side, right or wrong.
“Benghazi Coverup Discussed on Emails to Clinton’s Unsecured Server (ET)”
Speaking of the rule of law not being enforced or even investigated for 50 years… Reality Winner would be so proud, I think, because what ASSANGE did was NOT illegal: printing a leak. It’s the LEAKER, that is, the Manning, Winner, etc, who take the risk, break the law, and go to jail. But here not only is the PUBLISHER in jail without trial, but a leaker of classified documents in the hundred-thousands is NOT in jail, though each instance is a felony as grave as theirs.
“Oprah Has ‘Begged’ Disney CEO Bob Iger to Run for President (Week)”
Why? Disney exec was just outed for child pr0n and probably far worse, and Oprah used to score serial unsuspecting girls for Weinstein. Disney is well known for missing children, every week, never found. Great crew there in Hollywood. They care so much for truth, justice, women’s’ rights, and the law, I do everything they say. All this was openly known for like 30+ years, not just them but the whole crew. Why do you think Tom Arnold and Robert DeNiro are so alarmed and deranged? They disagree on Trump’s income tax rate?
“Biden Allies Push for Super PAC after Lackluster Fundraising Quarter (CNN)”
Every Democrat in the race would beat Trump, which is why he raised more money in a week than the top 4 candidates have in a QUARTER. Actually, they just have a longstanding pattern of using YOUR, the taxpayers, i.e. Republican voters’ money via back-donations from Planned Parenthood, Warren’s banking reparations, and California general funds. So cut off the federal money, plus the drugs and children in CA, and the DNC dries up. …Because they are too far from the people! #ComeBack! The people don’t want what you’re selling, and the money is the reason you haven’t had to course-correct and go capture voters, you know, with good ideas and policy. But at some point long past, regardless of the money, no voters = no seats. Again, people are beginning to rally around Gabbard, first woman minority President and again the DNC is OPENLY throwing the primary AGAINST HER to a candidate no one wants. Any other candidate but her, they don’t care which. And if you hadn’t noticed, that behavior LOST 2016. Apparently when it comes to it, they radically oppose both women and minorities in power. #ComeBack #ComeBack
“Kremlin Says US Betrayed Kurds in Syria (R.)”
WWE carries on. U.S. plays the bad cop right now as Russia’s ally Assad plays the good cop and “saves” the Kurds who weren’t in significant danger anyway. Because: newsflash, Turkey has the 14th largest Army in the world, as large as France and Germany combined, so if they wanted the Kurds dead, they would be. They don’t: it’s just a lie, like everything else you read.
“Amazon Rainforest ‘Close to Irreversible Tipping Point’ (G.)”
Speaking of. Other than that deforestation has slowed down, other than that the scientific definition of “tipping points” is that you can’t know where it is, other than that Climatologists have been wrong 100% of the time for 50 years, then sure, totally true. Please don’t deforest. You don’t know what can happen. It’s actually pretty dumb and selling your inheritance. Fully agree, but put this way will prevent people from cooperating and helping together, probably as planned. #DisasterCapitalism
Of course no one believes that until it’s them. No one helps their neighbor until they fear for themselves. But what was it the all the Australian news companies said after abandoning him to death for 15 years?
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/10/22/medi-o22.html
“Australian media companies protest government attacks on press freedom”Huh. Ain’t life funny. Fight now while you still have a chance. Tyranny doesn’t sleep, neither should you.
I guess we know who’s dangerous and who’s telling the truth. Not The Guardian, BBC, NYT, or CNN.
If Assange was telling lies, there would be nothing whatsoever to fear: they would simply expose the truth. The only reason he could be treated in this manner is if everything he says is perfectly true. That being the case, the only reason reporters in CNN, BBC, NBC, NYT are free, celebrated, unpersecuted and get six figures is because everything they say is perfectly false. QED.
“Graham to Introduce Resolution Condemning House Impeachment Inquiry (Hill)”
Complicated. Pelosi is right, she doesn’t *have* to call a vote. But then she has no “inquiry” and therefore no subpoena power. It’s Congress that imbues the committee or inquiry with its power, and without that authorization, it’s just some citizen-congressmen saying “please.” However, not calling that vote suits her fine, as she can pretend to do something, while rigging the election by bashing Cheeto, arguably legally, just like they did investigating a candidate’s children and politician in the Mueller investigation and Trump Jr case. Whatever.
Anyway, so Graham’s resolution is also dumb and has no teeth, nor is it possible they wouldn’t hold a Senate trial. Sure, have opinions, why not? However, to me this is Graham doing three things: one, pointing out again that Pelosi’s doing nothing, with no authority, and their process is deeply illegal, two, encouraging them to impeach, and three, making it easy by pretending they wouldn’t have a trial that calls Pelosi, Biden, Clinton, and Obama to the witness stand under oath, surrounding by a warehouse of internal documents.
Politics. Whatever.
“The 2020 Election Is Shaping Up to Be an Expensive Run (ZH)”
I wouldn’t worry about it: they haven’t spent the money or done anything. Ever. Yet. One guy lost his pension and the billionaires replaced it 10-fold to his GoFundMe. All criminal activities are unprosecuted, all CNN articles rest unchallenged. Gosh, from the screaming, you’d think something had happened. Fake screaming and fake outrage from our fake actions, fake reported, and fake believed. What do I mean? The official line is that the U.S. is a fascist dictatorship that runs concentration camps for immigrants and gays, so Booker and Castro cross the border to escort transgender illegals INTO the country with the death camps. Shouldn’t they be escorting them OUT? So which half of their statements do they not believe? Or does nobody believe anything because in #AntiLogos, objective truth, and therefore logic, does not exist? Pick one, I don’t care which.
“EU Moves Towards Brexit Delay as Johnson Seeks Election to Break Impasse (R.)”
Rumor has it, they positioned like this: the U.K. is helpless, so BoJo said, ‘Hey, if you don’t look out, we’ll stay IN the EU, and just break all the rules.’ The EU said, ‘No you can’t, because we’d penalize you more than it’s worth.’ At which BoJo says, ‘I don’t think so because if we align with Trump, the U.S. can unilaterally punish you far MORE than you’d ever get out of squeezing the far smaller U.K. So do you want to negotiate or what?’ Grrr. That said, there may be similarly functioning land-mines inside the agreement that from the surface looks like May’s. …Or so rumor has it.
“They should investigate the links between CIA and Facebook/Google.”
That would be interesting, but Obama repealed the law making it illegal to propagandize your own people. …For no reason, naturally. Of course he didn’t repeal the law right then because he and the DS planned to USE it or anything. I’m a coincidence theorist and that does not seem connected at all.
“Biden or Buttigieg’s public option, over time, will either serve as a weak alternative to private coverage, with high premiums and substandard coverage. Or, backed by government bargaining power, it will outshine private insurance and gradually supplant it.”
The usual. Also the reason for installing the HMOs in 1990 that so critically undermined and destroyed the previous health care pattern and forced it to become a vertical monopoly. …Thus to say “we have no choice” but nationalized health care, whereby you cut off health care to dissidents and whistleblowers like all good Socialist Dictatorships do. Meanwhile, prices are 8-20x the norm, and no one in States or Congress will reign it in. We already have a system that arguably has zero effective health care for infinite cost, but no one wants to move backwards into, say the mid-90s when it was only half as bad, by re-training the 2/3rds of new paper-pushers to be clinic workers or LPNs or something useful. Nope! The answer to high prices is to make the TAXPAYER pay the 20-fold cost increase, not add COMPETITION, break monopoly, and enforce 100-year-old antitrust law which has existed every day of their illegal grab and price rockets. ‘Cause how would profits rise then? And when people are dying by the millions of high cost, adding fascism, a union of corporation and state is the only way profits can rise further. So obviously that’s what we do! Right Warren? Right Trump? Nod your heads on command like the lobbyists direct you to while I die in a ditch, unable to call an ambulance. Thanks.
“the court had no jurisdiction over the conditions of his imprisonment..”
So the courts which have jurisdiction over the Prime Minister, who can tell the Queen to get stuffed you old bat, which have jurisdiction over citizens worldwide, and who indeed claim jurisdiction throughout all space and time, retroactively creating and enforcing laws, has no jurisdiction over Belmarsh Prison. I need to go there because it’s apparently the only place on earth safe from their overreach, and where the good people live, Britain’s only remaining Free Speech zone.
Spare me. If the judge overseeing this particular prisoner’s case has no jurisdiction over UN/Geneva open torture, confirmed by the media itself and human rights groups openly on the BBC, then no one does. Or rather YOU do, you citizens, should you wish to claim your sovereignty and power over the state. Oh and by the way, take BACK the sovereignty you’re furiously shoving away, BACK from the EU, but back from the United States who’s been openly calling you a U.S. “poodle” for decades. Come on, where’s the spirit? I mean if you love the EU that savages Greece like the 3rd Reich, deposes Italian Prime Ministers at will, railroads activists in Spain, shoots the eyes and hands off of French women, at least dislike the United States and Trump enough to stand yourselves above abject slaves.
Let’s not forget, however, that the case against Assange is especially poor in the United States, and that as all Five Eyes/CIA nations will be trying to kill him, he has remained ‘safe’ so far. Perhaps safer than the embassy, where if I remember no less than two assassination attempts were made.
“Information On Poroshenko Money Laundering/Biden Cover Up (CDM)”
CD suddenly to the fore, adding the details of why a Ukrainian minister was convicted and is in prison for openly rigging the U.S. election in favor of HRC. …And why the U.S. cannot report on this open, confirmed, international fact. Now Ukraine is a corrupt country where many men are railroaded on false charges, but that’s a juicy allegation that would be reported in a real society. Since it’s not here, apparently Burisma paid $1M US to Poroshenko to shut down the charges. I can’t imagine how much money that is there.
“Trump ‘Fully Prepared’ For Military Action vs Turkey If Needed – Pompeo (CNBC)”
The WWE goes on. Our 50 troops shore would give Turkey what-for. In reality, Russia is fully prepared to humble Turkey if needed. …It won’t be needed though.
“Enter, the Dragon – Hillary 2020 (Kunstler)”
The direction and distance of Kunstler, a hard, left, lifelong Democrat, is startling. But this is what happens when you, as a lifelong reporter, follow facts. What is he supposed to say? The only way for Democrats to win and kick Trump’s bloc out is to internalize the real truth of how they got there, and what voters really want. As also told by that other life-long bastion of the DNC, Michael Moore. No one’s listening, as demonstrated by HRC’s comment and the support it gets.
“…it’s four more years of the Trumpian Reich, Russian soldiers patrolling the streets, martial law, concentration camps, gigantic banners with the faces of Trump and Putin hanging in the football stadiums..”
Oh wait: I meant the OPPOSITE. This dictator who promotes free speech and gun rights for his opponents, follows Judicial edicts, refuses to arrest corruption in the opposition party, and allows vendors to make a living with booths on the sidewalk of Trump Tower selling gear saying he’s Satan and we should kill him. You know, like Stalin, Hitler, and Mussolini always did. Meanwhile, free states like Britain outlaw free speech and assembly in the Extinction Rebellion, France shoots free speech in the face, and Spain imprisons political opinions, you know, as Free, Democratic Nations do. In contrast to us Putin-Nazis, of course.
You saw the Johnstone article, “”Russian Asset” Is a Meaningless Noise War-Pigs Make with Their Face-Holes” https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/russian-asset-is-a-meaningless-noise-war-pigs-make-with-their-face-holes-c883685ad4c
Where being a “Russian Asset” means you never talked to Russia, Russia never talked to you, gave you money, or had anything to do with you. Ever. In fact, it only means you exist and oppose illegal, international wars of aggression.
Sometimes you have to ask yourself, I’m dressed in a black mask and beating gay Asians and orthodox Jews in the streets, “Am I the baddie here?”
Anyway, just ‘cause Hopkins brought it up, if anyone bothered to, you know, be a journalist and call anyone, on earth, ever, for any story, they’d know that NeoNazis hate Trump and consider him a sellout. They do, however, like Ilan Omar for her anti-Israel stance. I don’t make it, I just report it. But knowing this would require talking to people different than yourself, and no one would want to be contaminated. That’s truth and tolerance!
““The dangerous fuse of Republican discontent with Trump..”
Well, true, but the discontent is with wealthy INSIDERS, not Republican VOTERS. The insiders will obviously try to assassinate him – again – in fact, Tom Arnold called for it again last Friday right on cue. But the article is hugely disingenuous with “an impermissible interruption that, especially for Republicans, just doesn’t fit in the epic story of American “presidentialness.” For ‘Republicans’? Does it LOOK like Red State citizens are abandoning him for not starting more wars? At the same time, the DNC is FOR war even more than the GOP is, if such a thing is possible. So the story is really “Super-wealthy insider elites keep trying to light a fuse that will explode and destroy DJT and his lack of illegal mass-murder, while outsiders and normal, non-psychotic citizens of BOTH parties are dramatically anti-war.” …Being one of the major elements of discontent splitting the DNC into pieces. Hey, is that a matter of CLASS? You know, that one thing everyone, everywhere is always careful not to talk about?
“44% Of Americans Don’t Make Enough Money to Cover Their Expenses (ZH)”
Record economy! Green Shoots! But looking at the article, above, really all ten zip codes in D.C. and all 12 Blessed cities are doing fine. It’s just everyone in all 95% of U.S. counties that don’t have $500 for an emergency. Gee, how can that be? Could it be that THEIR money has been extracted via Wall St and taxes to the 0.0001% at Harvard and K-Street? Asking for a friend.
On the DNC, unfortunately top cycles forecaster Armstrong said the same thing: after a long downtrend starting with FDR, they will essentially cease to exist. And I thought it would be the GOP, but strangely they didn’t rig the primary and attack their own voters and so the party was transformed or redirected instead.
As HRC’s statement makes clear they are too far down the road for reform, nature abhors a vacuum and we all hope and pray that the new, replacement DNC forms anew behind a Gabbard, or somebody: I’m not up on all the great hidden candidates they must have, because they’ve been so ruthless in suppressing their own good will and talent. We thought it might be Bernie, but alas. Yet something new will appear even before the old falls.
This forms with the much longer cycle of the end of Socialism. For as in Scandinavia, and as even Marx would avow, Socialism can only exist after Capitalism, and spend other people’s money. But when you run out of other people’s money, socialism ends, and if you didn’t notice, everyone on earth is broke from pure mismanagement and ordering each other around like a ward full of Napoleons. As that comes clear it will go out of fashion for a time again, and independence and self-reliance will be the day. That means family and those values, but also devolution, decentralization, which may look scary all over, but here will be buffered by the States once again asserting their rights and being able to express their individual characters. They’ll say it’s a break up of the Nation, but since that safety belt exists, most probably not, but it will become a nation none of us would recognize, but possibly J. Quincy would. Perhaps not a trip any of us would choose, but to my mind is better than centralization and absolute power, used absolutely.
