[Dr. D]

Judge decides he and his court have authority over speech worldwide:

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/how-us-quietly-lost-1st-amendment

Not a power grab or anything, just pursuing power not enjoyed by ‘King’ Draco, of Draconian fame, a man perhaps appropriately like Robespierre, created by a mob democracy run amok: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draco_(lawgiver)

So I am subject to Brussels’ court. Nice! In that case, I must be a citizen of the EU and can ask to impeach and remove him, right? I can travel to Paris without a passport now, no?

…And you thought the jurisdiction over Assange was bad. You’re not Next: you’re already here.

“US forces have been in Syria illegally since 2016.”

Go U.N.! Doin’ that job maintaining order and making the world safe for diplomacy! Now that you’ve run out of other people’s money, why won’t anyone fund you?

“The Syrian government has repeatedly blasted the American military presence as a violation of its sovereignty.”

But no one will ever know as it has yet to be reported in North America. Just like the consequent human and organ trafficking. There was a guy who did, once, but he’s away on vacation in Belmarsh. It must be a vacation since he has not been convicted of any crime.

“Domestic Politics, Idlib Sway Timing Of Turkey’s Syrian Operation (AlM)”

I do wonder if they’re going the other way and preventing any Syrian from returning home in order to weaken them. Since Turkey was ISIS’ greatest ally for years, they’re not great neighbors. And now the media cares just SO MUCH about Syrian children! Oh the children, the children!

“Female Kurdish Politician Among 9 Civilians Killed By Pro-Turkey Forces (AFP)”

Just a matter of endless war and no withdrawl. How else are they going to get America to fight Iran down to the last Yankee? Anyway, NINE whole people? Oh noes! That’s a summer afternoon in Chicago, which they couldn’t give a s—t about. Although Cheeto has raised the Marines, I don’t see Chicago requesting them there and returning rule of law. And it has to be a woman, because men and women are perfectly equal, therefore when men die who cares but when women die: international news. That’s equality! I don’t care which one you pick but pick one or the other: my brain hurts when all things and no things are equal at the same time. You know what I’m going to say: #A—L—S, the state of being anti-rational, anti-reason.

“Army Deployed In Ecuador As Protests Descend Into Violence (G.)”

So easy. If “The Guardian” says it, it’s a lie. QED.

“extremist attacks in Northern Ireland and on the mainland, along with sectarian violence in cities such as Glasgow”

So the EU is saying they’re going to be funding violent separatists in Scotland and Ireland if the UK dares attempt to regain sovereignty. Gotcha. Good thing they don’t have an army, or Britain’s extra $6B, they might crush a small Mediterranean nation and dictate the Prime Ministers of Italy or something.

“Labour Will Stop No-Deal Brexit ‘Whatever It Takes’ – Starmer (G.)”

Wow, really? Because Labour constituents voted FOR Brexit and AGAINST your party. You better look around and make sure you’re still at the head of a parade. Since everyone that hates Brexit hates Corbyn more, not a good look.

“Boris Johnson must seek and accept an extension. That’s the law.”

Awwwww. Just like yesterday, they want to start following the law? I wholeheartedly approve. Starting with a certain referendum you held some years back. But the law only applies when I want it to, to WHOM I want it to. Every other day of the year, we ignore it like we ignore pedophilia going back to Heath and Saville, the Windrush expulsions, human trafficking, and rape gangs. They’re the little people: no law for you!

“They sure are trying their best. To do what? To goose markets higher.”

Objection your honor. This reporter is implying motive. Reason? “Oh no reason, just ‘cause.” You mean like just ‘cause DeutscheBank is $60Trillion in the hole for derivatives and has broken its CDS for being under $8, just ‘cause Morgan’s profits are crushed by being removed from price-fixing, just ‘cause Hong Kong banking center may cease to exist, just ‘cause the Euro may implode, just ‘cause the Pound may go with it, just ‘cause the President may be impeached? Are THOSE some reasons – just maybe – that banks would like to hoard cash and not lend it therefore creating a liquidity crunch? Really a “trust” crunch, the Fed’s only real JOB to cure? NOPE! It’s just ‘cause. Surprised he didn’t say it was Russia.

Listen: the U.S. has added nearly $1 Trillion a QUARTER. The Fed Repo has risen to $250B since 9-11 and is rising at $3B a DAY. Overnight interest rates have already been over 10%. This run rate may be the vertical hockey-stick blow off destruction of the fiat system. But this reporter says there’s nothing going on, no crisis here, just ‘cause.

You’re fired.

“Aria That Cost Marie-Antoinette Her Head Is Sung Again At Versailles (AFP)”

Somebody who believes in magic is throwing a lot of symbolism around France, as with the Notre Dame. Maybe we should ask Frenchie LeGuarde for another public lecture on the magic number seven again. That was eye-opening and no mistake. Remember, it doesn’t matter if it’s TRUE, what matters is powerful people THINK it’s true. It runs their actions, not yours. So much as they are erasing Britain, they are erasing France in a different way. For the hate of ego knows no bounds.

[Dr. D]

“US Delays China Tariff Increase As Trump Claims ‘Substantial’ Deal (G.)”

Seems we’re not trying to be villains here. Despite hysterical rhetoric, no disappearing, no round-ups, no suppression of speech, no demands on corporations to obey and merge with the state…we leave that to China. …That’s why Antifa is waving the Chinese flag all over. Because apparently they are FOR these things? Literally that’s the exact opposite of their speech, that’s precisely what they claim to fight with Trump, and yet that’s what happens when you go #Antilogos, you move to #Oppositeland.

But okay, you have the right, not like people haven’t noticed. You’re Trump’s re-election supporters, and doing a great job winning Minnesota for him.

Anyway, seems 30% drop in crop yields this year, could be more. We can’t tell, the USDA, being the gov’t, is viciously lying, and we’ve never seen a year like this, at least not in a long time. Note 30% drop in supply does not equal a 30% rise in prices. That can compound much more, but depends on a rainbow of factors: storage, demand shifting…

Other nations are doing no better, and some worse. Starting that backyard garden may be a useful hobby. Being responsive, however, a lost spring planting will turn to fall wheat to catch up, so prices change.

“Turkey Attacks US Special Forces In Syria (NW)”

I thought they were pulled for exactly this reason. Pretty standard Turkish behavior though.

“Donald Trump was planning to activate “very powerful” sanctions on Ankara.”

I think Congress said that. Anyway, what is the result? Turkey will be driven to Russia, China, and Iran, and Erdogan can blame America, just like we helped Russia the same way with their sanctions. #Winning. How much we’re involved I don’t know, but the consequence is obvious: strengthening our “enemy”. I see it more as setting them up for their own benefit when (as) the US$ and GFS cracks.

“The SEC has taken the position that [certain] initial coin offerings are securities offerings and therefore subject to SEC offering rules”

That seems pretty reasonable. Too bad the SEC has never protected anyone from fraud in their life and instead protects the inside fraudsters. High-frequency trading? Front-running? Hypothocation? Actual billion-dollar theft via co-mingling of funds? Nada. Joe places a trade from his parent’s basement in London? Hammer of God.

“You’re going to wish your cities weren’t designed to make cars a necessity.”

Easily the single worst thing about America from coast to coast. Three-way shackle as Orlov says: Car, Job, House. All perpetual debt and endless labor forever, as we pave another perfect cornfield to make life yet again harder, weaker, emptier.

“Human, Organ Trafficking Booming in Yemen as War Enters its Fifth Year (MPN)”

Disaster capitalism to the next level. Okay, they sell organs, can you tell me who is buying all these tens of thousands of parts in Yemen and Ukraine? Because those hospitals are deeply responsible and it’s impossible not to know. <Crickets> No journalism here! What’s the closest wealthy nation that can do transplants? SA, UAE, Israel. Gee, with all this nattering about Auschwitz, cattle cars, what do you think history will say of a people that said nothing, didn’t even look into worldwide organ trafficking in the hundred thousands? China? China? Uighurs calling, wave that Chinese flag. Perhaps YOU are the slavers? Perhaps YOU are the Nazis? Perhaps YOU are the baddies? It’s right there; you can’t say you didn’t know.

Having served his time, “ Julian Assange To Remain Locked Up In UK Prison (RT)” Just as we do to all free men who have served their time! Especially when they’re foreign citizens outside the jurisdiction of both England AND the U.S.! Go Britain! Freedom! Democracy! Justice! Magna Charta and the Rights of Man!

[Dr. D]

That’s hilarious. We’ll use the exact same formula we use to calculate bonuses.

“Okay, I need $200,000 back from each of you this year, so go SELL the Rolex, SELL the beach house, and we’ll have Deutsche’s trading dept back at par in no time…”

[Dr. D]

Sure, investigate them all. Shiff sold the port of L.A. to China, Pelosi had a Chinese spy in her meetings for 20 years, Reid stole NV land and sold it, Kushner has Israeli business deals, Trump has this. Again, problem is, “Illegal! Investigate!” Okay, it’s Hunter Biden getting kicked out for drugs, going on a crack-fueled gay-sex bender in Skid Row, then the next day flying to Ukr and getting paid more than Exxon’s executives for not knowing law, oil, gas, or Ukrainian. “Legal! Investigate no one!” Why? If they’re all fine, they should laugh, investigate, then throw it in Trump’s face. They’re supposedly rigging 2020 election: well what do you think investigating Trump for the midterms was? A: Throwing the 2018, and now the 2020 elections. Goose: meet gander.

“Read the freakin’ Constitution. And then let’s honor our oath to it.”

So quaint to hear their undying loyalty to the Constitution when they are publicly against the 1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th, and 10th Amendments. And against speaking in any public place of the “creator’ that “endowed” the people with “inalienable”, i.e., un-removable, inherent rights, i.e., the 1st, 2nd, 4th 5th and 10th amendments. And against the freedom between men to trade it was philosophically based on, i.e. capitalism. And against the very existence of the nation at all, i.e. borders. So if they want to adhere to the Constitution, I welcome it.

…But for the small issue, if it’s so simple and clear, why DON’T they have a vote that will surely win, that will establish a committee to “investigate impeachment”. …That’s not even an Impeachment! It’s just thinking about maybe someday possibly having impeachment. No commitments here! Why? Because then they would have to follow legal and parliamentary RULES. And when you’re #AntiLogos, any rule, any order, any restraint to total power of the ego is your mortal enemy. It IS embarrassing Trump has to remind them of their duty and process of U.S. law, especially when they’re all lawyers, they SHOULD be embarrassed, but that doesn’t make him wrong. If they’d just followed the process they know they would win, he wouldn’t have been able to shame them.

“US House Republicans to Seek Sanctions on Turkey over Kurd Offensive (R.)”

Sounds great. But I expect Trump, Putin, Assad, Erdogan, and most probably BoJo have already cut up a plan on the Turkish border and are keeping the sausage-making in the dark. The market, the others, don’t seem worried about it, so they know it’s settled. Kurdish Syrians had no trouble before, even in a 5-ethnic nation, so I don’t see why they would now. Turkey would fall if they accepted a fully armed, mobilized Kurdish army inside their borders, so pick your poison. Europe’s largest army collapses with the nation and goes rogue, or accept some smashing?

“Erdogan has threatened to release 3.6 million refugees into Europe, so don’t hold your breath for this one.”

I’d say great! You release the migrants, we align with Greece and take Cyprus back. No NATO, no gas fields. Suck it. But since they only surrender because surrendering to everyone is ‘nice’, that can never happen.

“Explosions Rock Iranian Tanker Near Saudi Port City of Jeddah (RT)”

Always hear, “when the first bomb goes off in [blank], then the horsemen ride, the dead rise, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria.” …Because people are violent unthinking brutes, I guess. Never happens. So we had ALL, two piracies, wiped out the world’s refinery, AND blowing up a ship near Suez, and…? The world is a lot more stable than they lead you to believe. A million people without power in one of the most crime-ridden, income-divided cities in America: nothing. No “Two Days Before the Day After Tomorrow” panic in the streets. We wiped out the biggest port in the U.S. in NOLA. Nada. No impact on the U.S. as a whole. This is why the collapse is the “Slow Decent,” but for S.F. the shtf today. P.S. 30% drop in U.S. crop yields minimum. Because of snow. Thanks to Global Warming because that’s logic!

“What Jeff Bezos Wants (Atl.)”

Bezos is akin to Woolworths or Sears Roebuck. We haven’t had anyone do anything real in so long, no one can remember what it was like or who they were.

What does he want? He’s a front man for the CIA who funded him, just like Zuck, Dorsey, Gates, and Epstein. Look into his contracts and who made it legal for him to monopoly while not collecting sales tax for 20 years. Wasn’t him! Sure wasn’t the states who got screwed for every one of his billions! Why? Monopoly control, but more the 1984-type surveillance of everything sold, and back when, especially books.

“Logging began in the protected area, threatening the habitat of the gorillas.”

Depends how the logging is done. The greatest, oldest forest in Europe is logged regularly, but in limited acres each year, and no one can really tell. Japan logged for 2,000 years and they are protected woodlots, where trees are tallied for individual purposes, like temples. In the northeast, they have been logging continuously since Thoreau talked about it, yet there are 1,000x more trees now instead of the logged-over wastes in 1840. Just depends if you act like a fool or not. But hey, if you want everything you buy to be made of petroleum instead, stop logging. Exxon won’t mind. Or you could knock down D.C. and Berlin and grow a tree farm. Be productive! Be green! Be green as San Fransisco is today as a few hundred die of events related to power outages, like fires and traffic lights. The gorillas won’t mind your death at all.

[Dr. D]

Yup.

[Dr. D]

See? will not allow two img postings. Let’s try on a second post, yet often the whole second post will then be erased:

[Dr. D]

Yes he is the target going back months. I feel they staged the phone call for this plan.

Shell UK country chair, said the best way for people to cut their road emissions was to use electric vehicles, supplied with renewable power.

Go green!

And this is before it catches on fire and completely destroys all that hard-won, CO2-wasting, environment-destroying lithium mining. Okay, herr Doctor, be helpful. Here’s an environmental car:

–Insert 1923 Model T Ford Truck–

Light, quiet, hearty, minimalistic, 40mpg, cheap, very economical use of resources, easily fixed at home indefinitely with simple tools, still on the road. The imbedded energy has long since been amortized. Saw one on the road just the other day.

…Unless you think we NEED to go 130kph, and 100k/day commute. If so, there’s nothing that can make your lifestyle environmental. But invading Afghanistan for lithium so you can be charged on a brown coal/nuclear plant at 3 Mile and waste 20% in transmission is certainly not the solution.

“We do not love tariffs, in fact we would prefer not to use them, but after years of discussions and no action, tariffs are finally forcing China to pay attention to our concerns…We could have had a deal two-and-a-half years ago without going through the whole tit-for-tat on tariffs that we have.”

Don’t know what to add to this. Stop stealing stuff, pay IP rights, whatever. We’re not asking the world, they signed that deal with Clinton in WTO ’99 but just lied and cheated for 20 years. They’re clearly cracking pretty hard, and the supply chain is already being moved (unf to Vietnam and Thailand) , but like I said last week this takes years of planning and effort. Again, in any conflict, it’s not cost-free; it’s always whether they hurt MORE than you. You’re never going to lift or win anything without effort/pain on yourself. To think otherwise is to lie on your back and give up on the world.

“Chinese officials say they have little expectation of significant progress.”

They’re counting on the election, but I don’t think they’re going to win that. Prices aren’t rising here that I can tell, so double tariffs again. Surely we’re not doing enough unless it bites a little on our side, see above. If we don’t feel the burn, we’re not playing hard enough. I’d do that just because China seems to be commanding all our corporations and sports teams right now, running our censorship and we need to say, “Bad dog. That’s not yours.”

But I guess free speech, western values, and all our property rights are what we are surrendering today. It’s okay if you take our Bill of Rights, we weren’t using it anyway.

“California Set to End Private Prisons and Immigrant Detention Camps (R.)”

There are only a few things government SHOULD do: shouldn’t the criminal justice system be one of them?

“PG&E Power Outage: Lines for Gas, Batteries, Groceries and Generators (LAT)”

So, top for VD, top for human feces, top for prostitution, drug use, homelessness, spraying the streets with bleach for Hep C, running typhus, starting with medieval diseases like plague and leprosy, high taxes, crushing taxes, fleeing population. And now regular power outages. Yup, socialism at work, like every other time in human history.

It’s more than rolling power outages or brownouts, though. In those, power is off for 2 hours, 4 hours, and they swap parts of the city. This is important as some work can still get done although you savage business. If you drop power for longer, in this case 48 hours, every cooler in San Francisco goes warm and by law every ounce of food must be thrown away. Every medical device, oxygen and CPAP machine goes down. Every air conditioner shuts off. To backstop this, 800,000 gas generators are started up in a smog area, whose white-hot mufflers start fires anyway. A couple people are killed by carbon monoxide. …So you end up killing 300 people anyway, but it’s “not your fault.” Welcome to socialism and the third world. As apparently people forgot, THIS IS WHY we have “modern infrastructure.” We already did those things and a central always-on grid worked better, polluted less, and killed far less people. But they want a utopia on earth that kills NO people, ever. Kind of like withdrawing from war. It’s okay to break international law and have wars that kill a few hundred a year forever, but it’s NOT okay to OBEY international law and LEAVE war if even one child dies. ‘Cause that’s logic! #AntiLogos

“For The First Time Ever, Greece Issues Negative Yielding Debt (ZH)”

No money problem here! Money is beyond free when they want it to be; but only for insiders but not for people. However, money is a mental construct, a call on real goods. Whenever you have socialism, there is a shortage of goods, and political favoritism decides who gets the ‘money’, the ‘call’ on them. Not Nick in Thessaloniki. Franz in Frankfurt was given the calls on real Greek goods, and he sold them to Young in Shenzhen. This is what happens when you’re not allowed to own the fruits of your labors, but “share” and “redistribute.” And it always works just as well as we see in California this afternoon.

But not them only. Worst city in the nation, Gary Indiana: https://www.theorganicprepper.com/50-miserable-cities/

Now why don’t they want to sit there and take it happily while Wall St prospers and the richest 10 zip codes are in D.C.? I don’t understand.

Perhaps we’ve gone wrong somewhere? Perhaps we should backtrack to things that worked? Never! It is never a time for #Logos. We are the rebellious one(s).

[Dr. D]

I believe Foss said something like, “The finance, the money problem, is prevented from being fixed by politics. Therefore, we don’t have a money problem, we have a political problem.” Of course that’s on top of the base problem of oil/resource depletion, which can be addressed a lot but the point was, we’re not addressing our real resource problems for finance/political reasons. It’s all about resources, and finance/politics are what is deciding who gets them.

As she hasn’t been on in years, I don’t have the quotes handy, but it was near the end and I think more than once.

That she’s right is pretty clear from the bank bailout and also the debt-shale industry. Money means nothing: there was no shortage to bail banks, to pump bad oil, to fight wars, or payoff countries. We drop another $1.5T on nothing no one can identify, quadrillions come and go, so pretty sure there’s no ‘money’ problem. But money is a symbol, living in the mind. We have a reality problem. We have an allocation problem. And that’s a political, a human group-cooperation problem.

Not meant as “There’s no such thing as the global financial crisis.”

[Dr. D]

Raul, a great article, but brings up the longtime TAE that point we don’t have a money problem, we have a POLITICAL problem:

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/welcome-not-wednesday-not-9-not-october-not-2019-after-fed-started-not-qe4

a simple piece of Kalecki analysis that is NOT taught in economics classes, and hence NOT used in central banks or think-tanks, and thus NOT recognised in most market research:

Banks create debt (and hence broad money-supply) via lending. If that lending goes to productive investment the stock of money and goods are matched and there is no inflation and there is no long-term increase in debt to GDP. If the productivity growth from the new enterprise is fairly split between profits (for further investment) and wages (for consumption) then the growth cycle continues without a long-term increase in debt to GDP.

However, if businesses push down wages for profit–via globalisation–then consumption growth can only be sustained by borrowing, and debt to GDP trends up: when it hits a peak, growth permanently slows. At that point, businesses have no need to borrow – or if they do it is to speculate on financial assets and not invest in productive business. Growth slows further, and the cycle breaks down structurally. Governments have to then invest more and/or force wages higher. [YOU ARE HERE].

Central banks lowering rates merely sees housing and/or equity bubbles running on fumes. Each hiking cycle is replaced by an easing where we see lower highs and lower lows until we go negative – which is de facto debt default. And/or we do QE, which the Bank for International Settlement recently agreed does not flow to the real economy, but pours more liquidity into asset markets, making the rich richer. Unless QE allows governments more room for fiscal spending – which is de facto debt default. [YOU ARE HERE]

It’s really not that hard to model the system described above – or to predict the outcomes from it. Unless you are a central bank or think-tank – because this all gets political rather than economic, and they like to pretend the two are divorced when they are NOT. “

[Dr. D]

When have spy agencies ever planted evidence and blackmailed anybody? They’re such upstanding fellows!

(That’s why CNN has hired them all)

[Dr. D]

“White House Says It Will Refuse to Cooperate with Impeachment Inquiry (R.)”

Because: media, even the headline is wrong. There is NO Impeachment Inquiry, Trump just sent a letter asking the House why it is refusing to cooperate with a VOTE, a vote that would make such an inquiry legally exist. They’re in the majority: so easy. Pass it and proceed. Done. …So they don’t because why? A) 60% of Americans don’t want it, so their House Congressmen would lose, B) It would establish rights of the minority party to also interview and investigate, and they apparently can’t tolerate ANY review of the facts, even by the minority party which cannot win votes in their subcommittees. …Because they’re completely innocent and there’s nothing to see here, of course.

Like I said: tell them to look all you want, spend 2 years and $10 Million dollars because we’re innocent, and see you at the elections, fool, where you’ll lose for fraudulently prosecuting the innocent and wasting the taxpayer’s time. Why don’t they do that?

In any case, UNTIL such a vote, a 100% lock, THERE IS NO INQUIRY, and therefore, THERE IS NO LEGAL GROUNDS FOR SUBPOENAS. They know this because they CHANGED THE LANGUAGE in the letters and subpoenas to be uniquely non-legal standard. And the media reports on this honestly because…oh wait, that wasn’t us. We report the OPPOSITE of the truth. Because our guys are innocent, and don’t need any offsides favors.

“Powell Says The Fed Will Start Expanding Its Balance Sheet ‘Soon’ (CNBC)”

…Which they already did. QE4 because the economy is so great and there’s nothing wrong anywhere. $218B in Repo rollovers already. May I remind you in ’08 they had to go before Congress for a massive, impossible $700B, now so small we’re almost there off-book.

“Trade Wars Lose US Its Competitiveness Top Spot – WEF (AFP)”

I see this all the time. But if tariffs are so bad like the economists say, then why through history, does every nation that uses them prosper? Like the U.S., Britain, China… Also, in a war of any sort…say the political wrangling in the U.S. right now…a war can be bad for you, and yet hurt your opponent MORE. Then you shove them down until they crack, and when you let up on your own pain, you bounce back and they don’t. …I mean, aren’t all wars like that? It’s not like they’re cost-free for the home team. Do all these journalists, economists, parties grow up in Shangra-la or something, where there are no costs or consequences for any of their actions? Oh wait: yes, their parents bought them into Eton and Haaaavard, then onto the boards of baseball teams and oil and gas companies where they fail ever upward, nevermind.

“Boris Johnson Facing No-Deal Brexit Cabinet Rebellion (R.)”

This is a loss. They’ve gained nothing. Ultimately there are only three things: The EU accepts a fair exit. UK leaves with No Deal. There is an election. In the election they are feverishly preventing-democracy-at-all-costs, they will lose and it will authorize the no-deal or anything else he wants, otherwise they would have called it. So they can only forestall the irritation of the people and crush democratic will for just so long. …But since they’ve admitted the EU will fall if the UK leaves (which deGaulle even said decades ago), you can understand their reluctance.

Larger view: the UK is (somehow!) the 2nd largest economy in Europe (wtf). It takes Italy, France, AND the England to counterbalance the power of Germany. If England leaves, Germany is no longer restrained and essentially Europe = Germany, forever. They already claim that now WITH England weighing on them. So what to do with petty fiefdoms France, whose bonds are all owned by Germany, Denmark, which isn’t the size of a German county, Holland, barely there, Belgium, only slightly better but divided three ways, Bulgaria, Croatia, Estonia, Cyprus… Portugal? Ireland? Greece? Nope, nope, nope. Poland? Spain? Not if France doesn’t even rate. …That leaves Italy.

You see, by political/economic weight and counterweight, it can’t work. They either go full political state or back to root nations. You think it’s bad for Spain with the Basques and Catalonia? Imagine a German state with 25 ethnic minorities agitating, and every day having to run them over to keep the state viable and on track. Problems.

““What’s at stake is not winning some stupid blame game,” Tusk wrote”

Is Tusk rusty on what a politician is? That’s the ONLY thing they do. Get real, man.

“But is asking questions about CrowdStrike impeachable?”

Questioning ANYTHING is impeachable. Or imprisonable. Ask all our whistleblowers destroyed under Bush and Obama. Ask the Dixie Chicks.

P.S., are we ever going to see the servers? A: not under Trump. He’s so gung-ho to tip the election, he has yet to investigate or arrest a single person for not doing their job.

“died by hanging himself in his Manhattan jail cell on Aug. 10, two days after signing a will and putting his estimated $577 million estate into a trust.”

Funny ol’ world. I do not find that suspicious at all. However, you cannot commute your assets to protect a crime. …However, judges who each believe they are Henry VIII preside over what the “law” is, and “The law is in my mouth,” whatever I say it is from one minute to the next, depending on if you’re a golfing pal or an enemy, and whether I’m being blackmailed.

Blackmailed? Conspiracy! Surely that never happens, they say as they review the very case of Epstein and his worldwide blackmailing ring… Nope! No blackmail here! And certainly not from the secret service of a foreign ally!

[Dr. D]

“Trump Appears to Reverse Syria Decision (USNews)”

Syria: guessing as usual the State Dept. and bureaucracy is simply defying orders and doing whatever they think they can get away with. Cheeto only runs maybe 20% of the government so far.

Rumor has it there may be interesting terrain in this part of Syria though. WHAT IF Iran, to be in compliance of the nuclear treaty, instead ran a centrifuge base a mile across the border in Syria? What if that base wasn’t run by Rouhani, but the breakaway Rev. Guard who shot down the drones and tried to get a war going that would only advantage S.A. and Israel? WHAT IF the C-130 cargo planes of cash-money given to Iran specifically so it couldn’t be tracked via banking trace was meant to insure that war happens? And you know, any uranium mischief has an inescapable signature of the source mine, one thing slowing down such mischief, traced to the source. So WHAT IF if was uranium sourced from the Uranium One mines? They are in Canada, but can plausibly blame Russia even though the U.S./Canada/Deep State would have the same material. …Because it’s pretty clear there are quite a posse’ of high-profile individuals gunning for a nuclear war in the M.E., to bring the Christ, to bring the antichrist, to bring the Madhi, to hide the financial theft and collapse, or just for $$$ and greater territory. And we already know a bunch of de-commissioned delivery missiles are missing from the United States. IF by some chance this were true, it would make the territorial control on that border much more understandable. All the U.S. men, Russia, and Assad’s Syria seem to be converging on the same target. Funny world.

While they’re busy with that, they need to keep Europe’s largest army by multiples from settling old scores and stealing all those yummy oil and gas fields on their southern border of Erdogan’s greater Ottoman.

“Joe, Hunter Biden Could Be Forced to Testify in Senate Impeachment Trial (WT)”

Public trial would be awesome, which is why we don’t have one. We don’t even have an impeachment. In fact, we don’t even have an inquiry despite lies to the contrary, because the House would need to vote and set rules. Also it would come from the Judiciary, which already has a committee and 6 REAL investigations. If lies don’t work: More Lies!!!

Any vote would establish rules of the minority party, who could then legally proceed with legal facts, which is why they cannot vote. They can only keep this going and smear the election. Oh wait: isn’t that what they’re accusing HIM of? Politics.

“US Federal Deficit Estimated at $984 Billion, Highest in Seven Years (Hill)”

We are never going to pay this. Obviously. So make it $9 or $900 TRILLION instead. What’s the difference?

“Court Rejects Latest Request to Force PM to Ask for Brexit Extension (G.)”

Wow, a court that is not a self-appointed monarch. That’s refreshing. Because the above sentence is: “The unelected court decides national strategy and policy on behalf of the Prime Minister” They declined.

“Irish Border Is a Matter of Life and Death, Not Technology (Fintan O’Toole)”

Yes but so is Brexit. Only Irishmen count? Or do we have to balance the needs of all the parties involved? If so then Irishmen should have as equally hard time as the rest and not get special dispensation, as is just. That is, the minority have rights, but so do the majority.

“Convicted Pedophile Gary Glitter to Earn Big from ‘Joker’ Movie (CNBC)”

In cancel culture, you have to know the deep history of every person and thing, where the poison from every arrow was made, and a man is never permitted to serve his time and be free. There is no forgiveness, if you are guilty of any crime, ever, even decades ago, even as a child, you are never allowed to grow, change, make amends, but are always and forever judged by your worst day. Because I said so. #AntiLogos, as this is what comes of rejecting the Rabbi’s call for peace, love, forgiveness, and the rules on casting stones: a spiral of hate, violence, and retaliation forever, doing the will of the rebellious one, amen.

Let the guy serve his time, and us to get our music back. You don’t want to look into the personal history of artists. You won’t like what you find.

“How the top tax rate for highest incomes has changed in the US.”

But the wealthy don’t pay those taxes. They buy a senator and a loophole. Didn’t Russia prove this when they went flat-rate and revenue increased? A 10-minute discussion with any accountant will tell you that the wealthy buy oil, muni’s, T-bills, and other tax-free instruments, then offshore money, keep it in corporate structures instead of taking “income”, (Bezos’ ‘income’ is a mere $80k) and shelter it in assets. If you want economic hoarding and stagnation, or the near-total destruction of family farms and businesses, this is how to get it. What happened with Kennedy and taxes? Not saying it has to be erased, but there’s an inflection point, and our tax rate is already far beyond it. The top 10% already pay 90% of taxes. 50% already are too poor to pay any (income) taxes. Too high? This is why they need carbon taxes. They are regressive and fall exclusively on the poor. If they took everything from every person, corporation, and asset, they could only balance the budget for one year. But we have a solution! More government! More spending!

[Dr. D]

Luongo was excellent. Nailed it, in my opinion. Since they would go after him if he stops W’s neocon wars-of-certain-death, he’s got a free hand since they already have opened up all ammunition against him. It’s a straight freebee. Every American in Flyoverland (i.e. the people who suffer these idiotic wars) knows we should get out unless someone can define winning, losing, and why. Americans are always “mind your own business because I couldn’t give a wet s—t about any of you.” That villainous “Isolationism” the schmarty-guyz natter about, unwilling to be within 100 miles of a weapon themselves, much less sign up and go over Lincoln-brigade style, as is their right.

So although they lambaste hicks as being violent, ignorant, bloodthirsty, racist, Jesus-is-for-war cannon fodder, in reality they would, and do, stay out of every war including WWI and II if they could. It’s the Haaaaa-vaard types and Wall Street that makes it happen, to bail their system out and get profits up. In any case, every American except CNN wants out. Out of everywhere. Out of Iraq, out of Africa, out of Germany, even. It’s these bloodthirsty war-profiteers like GE (former owners of NBC) that don’t.

Even the military wants out before the U.S. is destroyed with empire adventurism, which is why it is happening under a President the U.S. Marines and Military Intel put into office.

I don’t see censorship, but it’s been many times you seem to be responding to comments I can’t see. I just assumed they were direct emails or postings on other sites. Of course if they were comments of some sort you should clear as much of the post as you can and offer, or else not comment on things we can’t participate in.
I can attest there is a second problem where if you post more than once, under certain conditions (not sure) the subsequent posts refuse to show, or worse, show in one view/browser/login and not another. Especially if links/images, so I can suspect some sort of auto anti-spamware.

Bosco: better off making a difference in meat-space.

[Dr. D]

Bosco: and thank God for that. Actually, we already bitterly betrayed the Kurds with Saddam and they put their head right back in the noose again not a dozen years later. I’m guessing since the EU is forcing DJT to stay in Syria forever on behalf of the CIA/Deep State to imprison ISIS instead of let t hem go, he’s leaving Syria anyway and letting Turkey take care of them. …Now they can hand them over, OR they can be released back to the field of battle where they get a second chance to shoot them all honestly. Either way…where’s the love, Europe, where’s the love for our honest, diverse Muslim brothers, who simply have a “diversity of beliefs and tactics” and “who am I to judge”? Or are not all animals and all actions equal, and there are rules after all? Sweden said they’d take them, just need to drop-ship and they’ll get refugee status and free health care. AOC agrees.

Here’s what real whistleblowers are like:

As he says, funny ol’ thing how the CIA didn’t protect him as required by law but instead ginned up a new investigation, tapped his phone, bankrupted him and threw him in jail. Got off pretty easy.

[Dr. D]

Bosco: thank you the honorable opposition. Take your party back if there’s anything I can do to help.

Vet: Ominous. Yet not wrong. Somehow we will take a third direction, messy and long, completely unsatisfying for everyone. We deserve it, and still worse, so we may get off easy in the end.

Democracy is presently an illusion, such illusion that ex-Presidents and Universities issue front-page reports on the sham and inspire no comment, no discussion, no change, yet it doesn’t have to be. The only thing that makes it a sham is the surrender and dereliction of duty by the people, which is now being remedied, but fruitlessly opposed. Each day the villains get revealed a little more, and the new generation growing up seeing nothing but lies gets a little more to voting (and fighting) age.

[Dr. D]

A two-fer on surrender today, let’s surrender the Judicial system too:

“…people are innocent, you know, until alleged to be involved in some kind of criminal activity.” –John Brennan

And believe me, they can make some allegations and how.

[Dr. D]

A scalpel to the eyes? That’s graphic.

It’s Monday, what to surrender today? How about the Constitution? I mean, that’s like every other day, but…

“If the impeachment provision in the Constitution of the United States will not reach the offenses charged here, then perhaps that 18th-century Constitution should be abandoned to a 20th-century paper shredder!” —Retweeted by HRC

So of course we should just erase 230 years of Federal Law and replace it with whatever we feel like that day. When has that ever gone wrong?

“The ‘Whistleblower’ Probably Isn’t (Taibbi)”

What’s he whistleblowing? If we’re lucky, they may force Trump to release the transcript. Oh wait: they set up this whole plan on the basis that he WOULDN’T release and are too stupid to adjust. I suspect this is because Mil Intel planted a fake honeypot transcript on their server and let the CIA read it…thus the discussion about him moving it to a “secure” server. The White House isn’t a “secure” server? Can you clarify what you’re saying there, ‘cause it sounds weird. Anyway, what’s Brennan and Schiff going to say? “We’ve been running illegal surveillance of the President and all his servers in an attempt to undermine and remove the executive?” Uh, no. They got caught, and he sucked them into an impeachment misfire specifically mirroring Biden. This is also why Pelosi inexplicably said Schiff read Trump’s actual conversation into the Congressional record, even when challenged on national TV by Clinton/DNC’s Papadopoulos of all people. She may still believe and/or be trying to make something of it.

Go Taibbi though, don’t know how he’s allowed to tell the truth like that. The very fact he’s speaking, and protected anonymously instead of ‘leaked’, outed and arrested, means persons #1 and #2 are definitively NOT a whistleblower.

But we knew that because they worked for the CIA.

“When will the MSM start publishing about the “DNC-UKRAINE SCANDAL”? The Director of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine was convicted in Ukraine for interfering in the U.S. presidential election in 2016…”

A: Never. There is no level of criminality or malfeasance that could possibly cause any protected person to be arrested. Or anyone in their family. Or even investigated. It’s treason to even suggest such a thing.

And they wonder why the peasants rose in 1789? At some point people think either the law applies to them too or to nobody at all. What do you think would happen if I invented a legal document, back-dated it, and filed it with the Judge in order to use the court as my extortioner? It would be a miracle if I got only 30 days. Narcissists on the march: Laws for thee and not for me. “May the odds be always in your favor.”

WashExaminer, they are “choking” on this terrible scandal. Yeah, choking on the record money they’re raising, $25M in one day in CA. Isn’t that sort of the OPPOSITE of Woodward’s characterization? But don’t worry: they haven’t spent any of it winning or doing anything useful, so you’re safe.

“If the US leaves the Kurds alone to be cannon fodder for Erdogan, it will deeply regret it. No-one counting on US support will ever trust it again.”

Nonsense. The Anglos have betrayed and double-crossed everybody they ever met on every treaty they ever signed. Ask the Hungarian revolution, the Iranians, Cyprus, Saddam, Kaddafi, the Ukrainians, and lately, the EU…just like they have for 500 years and just like de Gaulle said they would. Apparently makes no impression on anyone. Maybe everyone is illiterate and never tells stories about the past, I dunno. I’m not a genius or anything, I’m just literate and read, you know, words.

“Actual Conspiracy Kept Jeffrey Epstein’s Accomplices out of Prison (MJ)”

Gosh, when you work raping people for a foreign intelligence agency, and every agency, FBI, CIA, Police, Sheriff, Media, knows all about the rapes, approve them, and protect that foreign agency. …Makes you wonder who’s in charge of whom, doesn’t it?

[Dr. D]

What does a cow eat on the seashore?

“Auto Imports From Mexico Surge As US Sales Decline (WS)”

These aren’t just things, just widgets, I daresay such a move is the result of 10-20 year plans to move factories and supply chains there. And there is no stopping the opening of the doors when you do that, even into the face of an auto recession. (Yes, the U.S. is as flooded with cars as it is retail space. We could stop making them for 5-10 years and get by)

So they make it sound like this is a choice. They just shipped some widgets. No choice. And this is why stability and visibility is more precious than gold to corporations. (thus why gov’t rules being slapped on and off with each season, personality, and fad is so destructive.)

“their allies in the media have proclaimed the texts to be “damning.”

The media is so discredited, if they were cake recipes, they’d be called ‘damning.’ Just yesterday, the NYT made up their entire article. –Hey bub, you can ALREADY just call up whoever on the phone, who you ALREADY know will say whatever you want, though an outlier, and write a real article that will do the same thing. Lying by focus, done for decades. Did you really have to just make it up? This is news?

Yes. This is how divorced from reality they have become. Anyway, that’s why there’s less sense in discussing it, though we have to. Orlov had the same impression: Zelinsky and Ukraine are a nobody, Trump told him if he wants anything, don’t call: you’re the EU’s problem. The West is still living a fantasy: although he said, “talk to Russia if you want anything done,” Russia doesn’t want anything to do with Ukraine. It’s a money pit Nuland, Brzezinski and the dummies at the CFR tried to poison and get Russia to eat. They won’t. They could care less. Never have the CFR and all think tanks been made to look so stupid. So as a neighbor, they’ll send a team, they could even annex Donbass, but why would you take on the world’s most corrupt nation, AND filled with carefully engineered violent, rabid, western, Russia-hating Nazis (for a change, no metaphor or hyperbole, wiki Banderas) You idiots believed the EU and particularly the Anglos, both of which have double-crossed and broken every treaty they’ve ever signed. And now you’re being double-crossed, broken, and sucked dry. Were there no history books in Ukraine? Did the USSR not tell you not to trust the lying, corrupt West? Ah well.

“Despite the widespread conclusion” by the media, which is now mostly CIA and MI6 (see above), somehow he didn’t slavishly trust the source of the “WMD and ties to al-qaeda crowd.” How guache to have the brains of a moo-cow. Get thee to a University and have that fixed so you can believe what we schmarty-guys do.

“Hong Kong Democrats To Challenge Mask Ban In Court (HKFP)”

The courts again, jumping into politics to decide when enough is too much. “Oh wait: there’s no law, we just all felt you’d gone too far.” That’s like running up and down the football pitch with a new sideline painter whenever you want a play to be in or out of bounds. …And in another sense, what can you do? The idea that anyone is truly objective is an illusion, and the courts have always made up the law anyway they wished, through Martin Armstrong back to the Star Chamber. You have to aspire to better, is all. But aspiring to better is within men, not within law.

“We cannot allow rioters any more to destroy our treasured Hong Kong.”

Well she does say “OUR”, as in, “why don’t you look at what you’re doing to the city we all love.” They don’t appear to have any intent of negotiating. They will only accept surrender, and a total loss of face for the central government(s). I’m not sure that’s wise. …What would you do if Brexiteers and Black-clad protesters were waving the Chinese and Communist flags while vowing to topple the government? Oh wait: they are. In any case, it will go GREAT for the CIA and MI6 to destroy China and move the Banking center to Singapore, but it will be ruinous for Hong Kong. So they’re waving the right flags and singing the right anthems: they’re going to die in the service of BoJo and Trump. See Ukraine and their reading assignment, above.

“A woman attacked by Jeffrey Epstein … and Leslie Wexner … summer of 1996.”

And nobody knew nothin’. So when do we arrest and try the policemen in Ohio for dereliction of duty, taking bribes, contributing to a felony, and telling the Ohio Governor too? I’ll wait. We knew back then, but it was a “conspiracy theory.” Funny ol’ world how all the myths are true, which anyone could know if they would look half a second and read a few documents, you know, with your eyes. They won’t. They won’t look, and they’ll say they know it’s not true because they didn’t do any research or investigation at all.

“They should not be allowed to use the filing to shield their assets.”

Back to courts. The whole POINT of a corporation is to shield assets, and if you break that, you will gravely harm modern capitalism. However, you also cannot commute(?) assets in order to put them out of reach of your creditors. If you could, every company would sell their factory to the owner for $1 the day before bankruptcy.

They say the Constitution wasn’t made to deal with modern capitalism and rules, but I’d go the other way on that: under Hamilton, to get a corporate license, you needed to sell Congress on the social good you would create, and could be easily revoked, exactly because they knew how dangerous the West India Company could be, like Epstein and Blackwater, with their own private army. Does Twitter want to explain how their product is improving the peace, prosperity, and tenor of discussion to Congress and the American people? Does Wells Fargo want to explain how creating a few hundred thousand fake accounts, and then feloniously billing people for them is a social good of the people? I think not. Maybe the problem is that we’re not following the Constitution, that is to say, Federal LAW, nearly enough.

[Dr. D]

That’s what happens when your escape hatch is to cause a civil war.

We get over-excited about it, and nobody likes it, but the process is working pretty well, especially for the strain it’s under. Some dictator: listening to Congress, not re-appropriating funds, obeying all judges even in the 9th which is inevitably overturned… At the same time, Congress attempts all kinds of things, but the Courts still rule on them, the executive still calls for process, it still goes to the courts, etc.

And they can’t stop the process here as in Britain. For one, we HAVE to have an election. Parliament CAN’T stop the executive. So sure if Congress wants to investigate and release, so can the DoJ. The court actually exists and has a history. And the election will tip the field one way or another, and one side will then fruitlessly claim it’s false. Again.

No one wants to hear it, but the government also doesn’t dare overrule the people beyond a point either. Cheeto doesn’t have to tell them: they already know if they go too far the 300M guns will suddenly matter, and despite everything they’ve come up with, in war games the People destroy the U.S. military every time. It’s infuriating to every tyrant, so that’s why Beto says he’s coming…or rather he idiotically thinks he’s going to order 90% red hats to go attack 90% of other red hats, and they’ll mindlessly obey him, just ’cause he’s Beto and they’re Minions. All narcissistic sociopaths do.

So the Republic is under a lot of strain, but is working, and the election will pick the direction, not the black-masked guys beating orthodox Jews and gay Asians in the streets of Seattle in opposition to free speech. (Do you ever ask yourself, ‘Are we the baddies?’) Isn’t that against every spin-doctored illusion and lie they’re told you for the last 100 years? That the very existence of guns, and stress, would inevitably mean everyone would shoot each other? You’re still more likely to be bitten by a shark, and 10x more likely to die of ordinary crime in Chicago and Baltimore. The press’s father is the Father of Lies. Their job is to hide all objective statistics and make things seem bigger than they are. Keep your heads.

Yes they’re going to try all these underhanded tactics, but note they will NOT go further. Why not? What is restraining Pelosi from, I don’t know, more mischief than just childishly weaseling some House rules and lying about it on TV? Something certainly is. And it could go further, but instead we’re going to put that energy into an election, and take out the opposition in a SAFE, LEGAL way. …Just as designed.

At some point, they will also flip back to the 10th and give that power back to the States as required for 100 years. Then Blue states can be as Blue as they want, have all the gay marriage, single bathrooms, and single-payer health care they want, and the Red states can have fireworks and do whatever Red states do, I dunno. Via law and elections. Frustrating and slow though it is.

Lke the Joker, their job is to make you think law and order isn’t working. That you must resort to theft, violence, anarchy, abuse, but you don’t. Cooperation is always slower and stronger. We’re getting a lesson in exactly why we have laws, we have processes, and we follow them — a thing forgotten for 50 years and removed from schoolbooks for exactly this reason. In why we don’t want police standing down. In why we have free speech. All this is a good thing, not a bad thing. How else can a people re-learn the lesson of law and #Logos? Why order is better than chaos, why reality works better than illusion? But it’ll be many years yet. Be patient, and more than that be grateful. We almost missed even the offer of a second chance, so make the most of it while it’s here.

[Dr. D]

Quite the traditional dress. Must be a festival that brought it on.

Note the screen wires in the paper-making. Perhaps one could even tell which mill. Many were in Holland using their floating, renewable energy.

[Dr. D]

Wow, let’s not make you captain of the ship. Suppose a storm breaks and we’re battered by the winds, urgent action is required.

Should our response be a) mindless terror, or b) vigorous action?

Should we a) terrorize the crew with stories of how we probably won’t come out alive or b) invigorate them to personal action and teamwork?

Should we a) do what has worked in the past for 1,000 years or b) attempt to rebuild the ship, our response, and our hierarchical structure into something new and untested a few hours before the storm begins?

Battering your crew into mindless terror, thereby avoiding all action and change in their personal actions — the only action they actually have power over — is irresponsible in the extreme. When they have mental breakdowns on the ropes and are washed overboard — as indeed seems to be happening — count yourself responsible. I’ll go plant trees.

“Why don’t you go upstairs and book a conference room. Maybe you can talk him to death” –Bourne Identity.

[Dr. D]

…With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,
it is still a beautiful world.
Be cheerful.
Strive to be happy. “

[Dr. D]

It’s Thursday, who should surrender today? How about Sweden?

Swedes Are Fleeing

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/14894/swedes-are-fleeing

Well, it is the hand grenade capital of the world. However, should you really abandon your country rather than fight for it? Of course this could be fixed, remediated, but to do that you’d have to talk honestly about what has happened and where to go from here, because hands will have to pull together.

“NYT: ‘Whistleblower’ Spoke to ‘Shifty Schiff’ Before Filing Complaint (RT)”

We’re finding new illegalities in the Schiff frame-up job. The Whistleblower documents were altered, as we know, specifically to make it legal for this CIA agent to use nonsense hearsay, as proven by the call transcript. And we know Schiff sat on this “Urgent Matter”, the very reason it has whistleblower status, for 2-3 weeks. And then there’s the other matter of, yes, the Whistleblower ACCUSED the President, (not sure that makes you a whistleblower, maybe a leaker? Or as CIA, a “bureaucratic adversary”?) but how did the agency know the allegation had merit unless THEY HEARD THE CONVERSATION? –And clearly they didn’t. Just question, because sans evidence, all we have is “You said” — which is the reason Whistleblowers must actually have evidence-in-hand. Otherwise, I could say Schiff was brainwashed by aliens from Alpha Centuri, overseen by David Icke and get Whistleblower status — a nonstarter.

But worse than that. The document was suddenly changed, and the leaker’s helpers – CIA and Schiff – BACKDATED the original complaint on the pdf form. So they are not only changing forms at will to make them legal, they are essentially filing false government statements as well. And they had to to get the date and the legality to align, as for 220 years until that date you had to have a thing called “evidence.” So any one else think the CIA whistleblower is himself the CIA agent from the board of Burisma? You know, in conversations with Brennan?

“They should look at him for treason because he is making up the words of the president”

Oh geez, calm down. Like yourself, there are 50,000 felonies in play here, and you go after the one thing that’s senseless. Do your job and prosecute his ACTUAL felonies, which are many.

“Lindsey Graham Urges Foreign Leaders to Assist Barr with Investigation (Pol.)”

I like the quote from yesterday, “I’m old enough to remember when Democrats wanted to look into 2016 election tampering.” Now when they ask about it, it’s Treason.

“We’ll “Definitely” Interfere in 2020, Just “Don’t Tell Anybody” – Putin (ZH)”

Showing that Americans are the laughingstock and don’t even realize it. …Or rather their government is.

“Putin Shames Greta Thunberg and Her Handlers over Environmental Agenda (ZH)”

Apparently suggesting that a person is kindhearted but young is shaming now. But this is America, if you don’t agree with me slavishly, rigidly, and perfectly, you’re Hitler. That’s free speech!

“Dismay in Brussels as Boris Johnson Finally Reveals Brexit Plan (G.)”

Well when everyone has only sabotage in mind, you can pick one of three things not to work. That’s it. Pick one. But remember: only if you leave are you no longer in a eternal Catch-22.

“3 Saudi Brigades Annihilated in Houthi Offensive in Saudi Arabia (Pieraccini)”

Hey, don’t you know it’s useless for normal people with small arms to fight against today’s advanced armies? That’s why Americans are idiots for keeping the 2A: because the intelligentsia who’s never seen a gun in person say they would obviously lose. They’re just living a red-hat couch potato fantasy, as proven by our stellar success in Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq. Hated but well-funded governments backed by Raytheon always win, MBS is just another example.

Oh wait: THAT, but the opposite.

“Ex-Israeli Intel Exec Says Epstein, Ghislaine Worked for Israeli Intel”

You mean they were undermining our GOVERNMENT? Wait: I thought they were our ALLIES. I mean, you know, after they sunk our ship in an attempt to get us to fight their wars. Who else but a friend and ally would laugh that off as a joke?

If only you were wrong, V., but living here it’s both better, and worse, than reported. In one way, life goes on as it always has, go to work, harvest crops, stack pumpkins, deer season, autumn porches in moonlight, and in another way, it is indeed as dangerous and irrational as Robespierre, complete with mob hangings, thankfully (mostly) virtual. But such is history. It looks clear and exciting in the books, but in reality is messy and takes a long time. In reality, things are almost always habitual and ordinary, as it must be. Pump water, chop wood. Men are perrennial as grass…

Desiderata

Go placidly amid the noise and haste,
and remember what peace there may be in silence.
As far as possible without surrender
be on good terms with all persons.
Speak your truth quietly and clearly;
and listen to others,
even the dull and the ignorant;
they too have their story.

[Dr. D]

If we told her the same for economic austerity, we’d be monsters. If we say it’s ECO austerity, we’re heroes. …But you die, or don’t die, just the same. Who cares by which poison?

[Dr. D]

Bah. The British Supreme Court has only been around in this form since 2009. Somehow they got along without it lo these thousand years. So if they vanished, would anyone notice? No one knows where they fit. It would be different if they’d been integral to the founding, like here.

Not that the other questions aren’t relevant. So the Court says they’re Primary and rule everything, including the Queen. Boris says he’s primary, and as head of Parliament, rules executive and legislative, while the court has no jurisdiction over a tradition that existed 500-years before they showed up. And the only one that actually HAS a credible case for pre-eminence, and unlimited precedent, where she merely lends her power voluntarily to the state is the Queen, and she’s abdicating all. I’m alright Jack.

Any of them, including the EU, could solve this in a week if they wanted. The Queen can throw against the court and say, “Oi! Like it or not, I’M the one who said Prorogue was legal. I predate you.” Parliament is essentially required to call and election, and should, and won’t, because they would “lose” and the people would “win” over Westminster. The EU has to see this is no-win and shouldn’t try feverishly to be the villain every time. The court should disband themselves before somebody gets cross with their Henry VIII impersonation. Oh and the people should gilet jaune them all with cricket bats ‘til they fold. But clearly a nation of abdicators and surrenders. And they say that WE’RE the ones who always do the right thing after exhausting every other option. Human nature, I suppose.

Leave But With A Deal may well be the largest group out there.

That’s true but the EU will EBD before they allow the UK and their $11B to leave and set a precedent for leaving that Italy will follow behind. So: there IS no deal. There never will be a deal. The deal is kaput, it is no more, it has joined the choir invisible. If the EU had an army they would nuke the UK and invade before they would agree to a deal. So the majority of Britons can take the highly-advisible view that they should leave with a deal. They should. But that can and will never, ever, EVER, E / V / E / R happen, so they must needs make other plans. …Which I and like 500 other bloggers said as far back as 1999. Here we are, screwed as predicted, and still waiting as predicted, while Britain darkens each day.

This is why the Leave with a Deal is being ignored. If they all want peace they can have it. If they all want a deal they can have it. It hardly takes an afternoon to say, “look this is happening, let’s make the best”. They don’t want peace and they don’t want a deal. They don’t even want a democracy.

So what do you do?

[Dr. D]

Why is Johnson still walking around there? Doesn’t he know the Supreme Court commands everything? He needs to set up his office in Middlesex Guildhall so he can quit fooling around and get proper orders.

“US House Committees Seek to Hold Line on Pompeo in Impeachment Probe (R.)”

For a change I have no idea where to put this. The Presidency executes the will of Congress, and therefore has wide oversight, yet when there is no law and no rules, there is no “obstruction” because everything at this level is political, not legal. Have at it, boys. See you in the election.

“Mueller concluded that Trump’s campaign had extensive contacts with Russians who mounted a sweeping effort to influence the outcome of the election in which Republican Trump was the surprise winner against Democrat Hillary Clinton. Mueller also revealed numerous attempts by Trump to interfere with his investigation,”

Reuters, really? Did you fall asleep in the Mueller hearing? Okay, what are their names, what attempts were made, and when did this all take place? Since you have a document and it’s reported every day, should be easy. I’ll wait.

There is such an administration cover-up that Barr is releasing all the documents related the Russia accusation, with a new thousand-page bundle a week until further notice. We can open source what happened and cut you out of the loop, as digital media is NOT even fit for bird cages.

“.. the longest expansion of the economy in US history..”

I wouldn’t say it was the largest expansion of the ECONOMY. More like expansion of the DEBT, and the lies that underpin it. We’ve been in a recession since 2008, and probably 2000.

“Chinese firms listed in the US are not currently required to abide by US accounting and auditing standards and the SEC cannot review them?”

That’s okay: neither are the American ones. Remember FASB changes in 2008? National Security. RussiaRussiaRussia. When it’s important you have to lie.™

Aaaaaaand FASAB, 2019, right after the $20 T R I L L I O N Gov’t side was revealed missing by U.Mich. But that’s alright: if you don’t like my lies, I have MORE LIES! That’ll fix it.

“Zuckerberg Says Warren as US President Would Be Bad for Tech (R.)”

Maybe, but she was “against’ the banks while taking record (Senate) money from them, just like Obama did, then authored a fake, toothless Dodd-Frank that was reversed whenever they wanted. I expect the same with Tech: harass them, and if they don’t pay, shake them down. That’s what government is for! That’s the whole POINT of regulating the economy. Zuck’s just mad because HE was going to shake WARREN down with blackmail obtained off his platform instead: he already banned her channel as a warning. I wouldn’t give a nickel for either of them.

And for maps, record snow Spokane, MT, UT, Alberta, Saskatchewan, headed east, 1 week after summer. Dangerous: leaves still on the trees, 60mph winds. Record snow Sweden, Finland, Russia. So I’m betting snow in the Sahara, Spain, Turkey, and Greece again this year. Rachael Maddow says it’s Russia’s fault. And they stole our North Pole.

[Dr. D]

Zero: None, of course. They report the opposite.

Bosco: Excellent metaphor. If anything, we can correlate increasing GDP with public UN-happiness.

And obviously, to anyone who’s every looked at a single thing gov’t does, gov’t should be SUBTRACTED from GDP, not added. Unless you’re trying to kill people or steal stuff, everything they do is a failure.

[Dr. D]

“Dear America, Civil War Is Not a Joke – Or a Picnic (RT)”

No, it’s terribly, terribly grave. And also terribly possible, well-designed and engineered since 1970, and certainly meant to be in motion at least since Limbaugh came on air in the 90s: the rural hicks would be antagonized into fighting the Army like the violent, dumb animals they are. Except: they weren’t. They couldn’t get them to misbehave and lose the moral high ground despite everything they could think of, including lately, murdering them by the 30,000’s. Perhaps because they are also generally Christian, if that word even means anything anymore. And btw, who do you think was in the Army and police they were supposed to be fighting? Same red hats. So like most evil plans, a terrible, stupid, self-defeating one; not that they care, as they win and sink the United States with the very fact of the war, knocking them off the world stage, flying to Monaco for a few years, then buying it up on the cheap, a broken nation, depopulated, sans Constitution. #Winning!

Anyway, here we are, and the best laid plans of men… Apparently Americans, or rather journalists and the Intelligentsia have the dumbest sense of history or no sense at all. The Republic has survived far worse than exists now, and several times. The instruments of government are working badly, but adequately, and the nation has come apart and come together before. Really, they seem to think, like 4th graders, that no one ever fought duels with the Vice President, then smeared the opposition as a “Hermaphrodite” and “Traitor puppet of the French”, then beat a fellow congressman on the floor of the Capital building with his cane. All that happened even before Lincoln, much less in the last 100 years. Time rolls on, Americans abide.

No, not a joke, but what we’re in is nothing, a garden party, compared to a civil war, especially the way the Americans fight wars. They have no idea how lucky they are or what a reprieve they’ve gained by going the political and not military route. There is of course still time. Beto says he’s going to go door to door and shoot those 95% of counties, these rural people whether Blue or Red, just as their mastermind Bill Ayers promised they would. Kamala agrees wholeheartedly, as do others. Because if they don’t get this war started somewhere, justice will investigate their actions over the last few years, and they’ll be carried out on their shields anyway, but without taking the nation with them.

It’s messy, but if the people with the 300M guns haven’t felt like acting out before now, and keep picking the legal-and-justice route, then what would it take? Apparently they are incredibly peaceful and long suffering, withstanding as seen, the death of thousands, the complete annihilation of their hometowns, their religion, and vilification of themselves and every tradition even suspected to be “American.”

See that you don’t fight such men as can restrain themselves like this. A cold, smoldering fire that can endure all without breaking is not an enemy to choose.

“Hillary Clinton’s Big Comeback Begins Tuesday (WT)”

Perhaps they are going to re-run the ’16 election in more than name. More do-overs. Okay then, if that’s what you want to do, if that’s what it takes. One problem: an increasing number of Democrats dislike her and Biden even more than ever.

“Twitter Executive for Middle East Is British Army ‘Psyops’ Soldier (MEE)”

As everyone else in social media is also from the psy-op letter agencies, I do not find that suspicious at all.

“ministers attending cabinet admitted that they were not absolutely sure what the PM plans to do if his hopes of a deal fall flat.”

As is required for any negotiation, and the very first thing May sold to the EU.

“The U.S. … distancing itself from its global responsibilities.”

You mean we’re REQUIRED to tell everybody, everywhere how to live? Ou contraire mon frere. You mean: disconnecting itself from empire, like I wrote yesterday? Yes, and with the approval of the American people, but not the CIA/elites.

“they should try to convince Russians that their future is with Europe,”

Is this a joke? Russia is in Europe, and at only a fraction of itself, still one of the biggest territories there, the (only) one that keeps Europe’s lights on, in gas and nuclear. I was just listening to a lecture on the EU as Germany-by-other-means (true) and that is why Russia can never, ever be discussed or included in EU prospects. If they did, it Germany would be run over as far too small, to say nothing of Belgium, and would lose control, making it the “Russian Economic Union.” When you see the truth of that, think again about how well it will be to ATTACK a nation who eclipses you in power while passive and immobile and hardly showing up to talk.

“A private security company organised 24/7 surveillance”

Burying the lede. As said a sentence after, “surveillance was provided directly to the CIA.”

Unfortunately, this would technically be legal, as the CIA can wiretap foreign nationals, but is not done, and for good reason. No one can, or should trust a group that would do such a thing. That’s why they’re now anchors and guests for CNN, telling us about WMDs and ties to Al-Qeada, run by RussiaRussiaRussia, who is hacking Vermont and turning the heat off in your house, while a black hole devours Flight 370. If only I were making that up, but making things up is the CIA/CNN’s job. And “The Guardian”, of course.

[Dr. D]

Better to look at than to live, the slope on the left is going to drop a lot of soggy water into a narrow lane, trapped by the house. Making it lush and cool but bad for March. I’ll enjoy it from here, remediating that problem looks like a lot of work. Maybe deep paving stones in the wheeltracks?

[Dr. D]

This guy’s CIA. They’ll probably give him a tickertape parade and a position as dictator-for-life on CNBC at $1M/season. The CIA will just move the money through the corporate-state merger to back-fill them like usual, no need for profits and losses. So last century.

Things fall apart. The center does not hold. However, it was never meant to centralize, it was never meant to hold. It was meant to re-localize and not be an empire, not be a dictatorship. It’s mean to run at the state and local level as legally ignored and legally required. And this “retreat” is indeed what Military Intel put Cheeto into office for. The gambit to take over the world by controlling (denying) oil in the Middle East and running China, while Russia was a failed-forever state and central Asia was again contained, failed predictably and catastrophically. So these traitors who stood by now can only retreat to America’s borders and salvage the nation, not the world. That’s what’s MEANT to happen. That’s why the Empire globalists at the CIA, CEO, and media are in a death cage with the Marines, NSA, and American people. Whoever loses will cease to exist for 100 years, if their plans would be the only loss they take.

So there’s no “floating off” for anyone. Trump isn’t there for a joy ride. He loses 5-10% of the empire every year in office and if he loses he and his whole family will be harassed, imprisoned, and/or killed, one by one. Starting with Baron. They’ve said so publicly, right Peter Fonda? However, if no one in business and military stood up, the falling empire would land on the spine of the nation, so you make the best of it.

The fake story gets stranger each day. What I can gather from this is that Trump has known about this new plan since Maguire got the call on the 12th. That’s why it was such a set-up since then. Shiff, the guy who arranged and leaked it, as he has leaked so many, many other things, eventually got frustrated and annoyed they were delaying the bait and struck out. Of course then tipping his hand that he knew all about it all along, somehow, while it was so urgent he also didn’t care. Since Trump staged the call and then leaked it specifically and wrongly (8x! Quid pro quo!) to make too tempting a bait, no doubt they’d been waiting for him.

So I can imagine they just MIGHT know who took it upon themselves to change the whistleblower form to “Do you have any Tall Tale or hearsay story, however so wild you’d like to share? Then YOU TOO can be a whistleblower! Sign up today! America’s Got Talent!” So if they’re 4 weeks ahead of the CIA/Shiff team it should continue to be hilarious.

The moment they impeach, Trump will call Powell and the ESF, drop the market 5,000 points, and blame the world collapse on the Democrats. Not saying that’s a great or honest idea, but sure would get people’s complete attention on the Joe and Hunter Biden tale, complete with CIA agents on the board of Burisma, and the billions signed out of China to his account. But I always loan $1B to a guy who can’t remember to remove his crack pipe from the rental car. We’ve all been there, amirite? There’s no corruption and I do not find that suspicious at all.

I say investigate them both. To the nines, with unlimited subpoena and a million dollar budget. Oh wait: one of them already has. Oh well, the other one then.

[Dr. D]

Record early snows the American West, Montana.

[Dr. D]

It’s Monday, so who should we surrender to today?

Well, why not the British Supreme Court? Since they have already claimed jurisdiction over the people, the Parliament, and the Queen, why not the rest of the world too?

But instead: “Boris Johnson and his political strategist Dominic Cummings have labeled the efforts by Parliament a “Surrender” act…” Their offense is that all the cool kids know that good men only surrender, without hesitation and nicely, and they refuse. …By the way, if good men only surrender, who are they surrendering to? Wouldn’t that by definition be to the ‘not good’? Sorry, unwelcome fit of #Logos there, I’ll do better.

“It’s out of central bankers’ hands.”

Quite true, but they do have a choice: they COULD raise rates today and collapse the entire world system into utter ruin and be justifiably blamed for it. …Somehow I think they will try to avoid that, but as Metro Bank has just failed, they may not be able to. …Generally, they hide it with a war, world or civil. It’s tradition. And you see every day they mean to uphold that tradition.

““In the final month of the fiscal year, federal agencies scramble to spend what’s left in their annual budget.”

Gosh, wouldn’t this chart tell you the Government has become a wee bit too large? A: Nevah! The government is never too large until it controls everything legal, economic, social, personal, and controls all virtual space by colonizing your very mind. Don’t worry about what they would colonize next…and they would…because the entire society would collapse into ruin long before they reach this point. Take Baltimore, for instance.

“Trump Demands to Meet Whistleblower, Warns of ‘Big Consequences’ (Hill)”

New plays. It is required that an accused meet their accuser in court, however, there’s something far more interesting: with the CIA unilaterally deciding that you no longer need any evidence, any credible proof, in fact you don’t even need firsthand knowledge, only YahooNews clips (not kidding! See Steele report) they are going to have (non)WhistleBlowers make up stories by the hundreds now and see if any stick. …I mean, that’s no any different than usual, but to fraudulently sell them to the public is. They have to do this since CNN, NYTimes have no credibility left to sell and have been utterly discredited, so they have to start a new “Con” game, where they double-cross the ‘Con’fidence in whistleblowers and the U.S. Government.

…And like #MeToo, what they’re really doing is destroying the credibility of real whistleblowers for a generation, so really it’s a win-win-win.

“It is being reported that Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) had the information from this so-called “whistleblower” complaint back in August”

That’s odd. Why did he have it? And if he believed it was credible, wasn’t it a seditious dereliction of duty to not come forward immediately? I wouldn’t ask him, though: last time he was on T.V. he couldn’t answer sentences. RussiaRussiaRussia!

“Saudi Prince Says War with Iran Would Gut World Economy (AFP)”

Well somebody finally got their brains back. Maybe you can go tell Netanyahu. If they can’t beat 20 hillbillies in Saana, (and I mean that as the highest compliment) then maybe they wouldn’t fare well against a hardened, mountainous country 5x their size? But as they say, they will fight Iran down to the last American.

“Russia Rolls Out the Red Carpet for Huawei over 5G (AFP)”

No idea what they’re thinking. So they like reporting to the Red Army? Also 5G is hilariously stupid to begin with, depending as it must on billions of very-short-range transmitters, densely packed, in highly concentrated areas. If no one noticed Russia needs LONG range wifi, for very dispersed areas, that are highly secure. Whatever. When was the last time we chose sense or #Logos anyway? It has been said that 5G wavelength can affect people’s moods, you know like when they’re rioting? Gosh, then it would be super useful and all the cool kids will pay anything to get it. …Needs research.

“China Aims to Shut 8.7 GW of Coal Power by Year-End (R.)”

They can’t fight a war until they break dependence on (U.S. and Australian) coal. It’s pretty clear they care nothing for the environment. But that’s okay, they’re China! It’s only us in the West that are punished for pollution and harangued in U.N. chambers and on Buzzfeed. Pollute all you want! Sweden will pay for it. I’m sure they have some poor people somewhere they can make suffer with higher gas prices. And if they don’t like it, shoot their eyes out! That’ll larn ‘em.

Gosh, that mood-altering technology sure would be useful, wouldn’t it?

[Dr. D]

V. because the people themselves are #AntiLogos and love corruption more than air. They think they’re all clever to a man and will get away with their small crimes, not realizing instead they are tolerating and encouraging crimes that steal 10x what petty advantage they gain. I can’t save them from themselves and neither can God, as he is a supporter of free will. They can only come to themselves.

“New Docs Contradict Biden Claim That Fired Ukrainian Prosecutor Was Corrupt (ZH) “

Sadly Solomon is tracking this accurately – a single journalist doing his job – and that does not make a happy story for Democrats or America. Or Ukraine, I guess. But the truth should come out so we can deal with it and adjust.

“Adam Schiff Epitomizes the Total Collapse of Democratic Party Integrity (PCR)”

I wouldn’t go nuts about it, but it points out that in better times, this sort of behavior would be a scandal on the office, and support would vanish, but also how the present game is played. Put out hilariously, overwhelmingly, provably fake news, any way you want, then at 6am, just 12 hours later, retract it all and say “oopsie!” The clips that pretend this is even slightly credible circle on YouTube forever, such that the NY Times, and Schiff, are an enemy of the truth and any reasoned discussion, and thus a danger to the Republic and fomenting a Civil War, and should indeed resign to let others attempt to restore the credibility of the office. …But they won’t, so here we are.

“Key feature: “..the Ukrainian delegation hadn’t even been made aware aid was held up until a month after the Trump call…”

This is indeed a key feature, and one critical into driving the leakers into attempting this self-defeating gambit. Trump can put it about that he hid the transcript (true, to frustrate leakers) and withheld funds (true, helps support his guilt) and so the CIA non-whistleblower (you can’t be a whistleblower when you have no firsthand evidence, or evidence at all), would feel confident in Trump’s guilt, even though he has plugged the leaks and they can’t get the actual evidence anymore.

They run with this, exactly as he warned them not to in “22-and-0” quote, and it’s a trap he leaked specifically. Tell me, really people! That this conversation just HAPPENED to mention Crowdstrike, HAPPENED to mention the servers, HAPPENED to mention he only wants to investigate the ‘16 election rigging, HAPPENED to mention Biden, and HAPPENED to leak exactly this distance from the Primary. Really? No wonder he called it “a perfect call.” And then the hammer falls, as they discover the transcript was mis-leaked, he never said anything 8 times, and Ukraine never knew anything about withheld funds.

Now you don’t have to be a genius to try this – and they’re not – because apparently they are so deranged that when Trump goes on national TV and tells them “Warning: THIS IS AN AMBUSH”, and the GOP votes 100-0 to release the documents, they go ahead anyway. So they’re not all that smart, so just imagine how dumb the NYT and CNN must be. But half the country is below the bell curve, refuses to click the widely-circulated video clip, and despite 20 years since the WMD/Iraq War, believes whatever convicted serial liars Brian WIlliams and Anderson Cooper tell them. But less every day, because the people actually care about POLICY for workers and union guys, not so much because they give a hoot about about the truth of this or impeachment. And that’s okay.

“Intel Community Secretly Nixed Whistleblower Demand of First-Hand Info (Fed.)”

After decades, the CIA and only the CIA decided Whistleblowers could use legal hearsay two days before this was filed. As a coincidence theorist, I do not find that suspicious at all.

“they have zero direct knowledge of underlying evidence”

Good enough for me!

“Their ongoing campaign to undo the 2016 election is igniting a civil war.”

As planned since the ‘60s. Any reading of U.S. domestic history since MLK can pick this out pretty easily. However, these racists couldn’t get a race war started, since they’re the ones who – to antagonize the divide – told people to have interracial relationships and families. So they did. So what race are people when they are now 3, 5, 7 races by lineage? A: Pure American. And what are their spouse, their coworkers, their neighbors, their favorite stars are all of races? A: Allies. So thanks! Turned out pretty well after all, as most evil plans do come to bad ends. They are #AntiLogos, and therefore self-contradictory, like their lies.

“Joseph Wilson, US Envoy Who Defied Bush Over Iraq, Dies Aged 69 (BBC)”

There are many heroes and good guys in government, but they can’t get much press or they’ll be purged. There was a diplomat that lost her career preventing Cheney from invading Iran a month before 2008. Outing Plame more or less outed the front companies of the CIA in Africa and blinded them for years, possibly an impeachable offense, or if working with somebody (lookin’ at you, S.A. and IDF), then treason. Still time! They’re still alive, the evidence still exists.

“White House Deliberates Block On All US Investments In China (CNBC)”

I wonder if he can do that, but investments there are a loss since China must own part of the company and everything they own in China can (and I expect will) be confiscated at any time.

“Establishment & Media Sympathize With Greta. So How Is That A Protest? (RT)”

That is a good point. Who are they protesting? There’s some invisible enemy nobody’s met that wouldn’t clean the environment if they could? Since the Media and government, CEOs feverishly sign on, who does that leave? As they point out, their enemy is the Yellow Vests, because they are the poor people savaged by their Eco master plans, and gleefully shot and dismembered in the street while the same passionate, caring media cheers. Les Miserables vs. the Wealthy upper class government workers and media. When that happens you can guess which side I’m on.

So their real enemy? Assange. And therefore the truth. If you have the truth on your own side, such measures as we see with Greta are superfluous.

[Dr. D]

Unlike everything false on T.V., this is what America really looks like:

https://weather.com/travel/news/modern-ruins-abandoned-detroit-photos-20130715#6

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/nov/12/beattyville-kentucky-and-americas-poorest-towns

https://www.baltimoresun.com/maryland/baltimore-city/bs-md-ci-rowhouse-collapse-20180515-htmlstory.html

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/06/the-graying-of-rural-america/485159/

https://www.citylab.com/perspective/2019/05/most-of-americas-rural-areas-are-doomed-to-decline/588883/

But don’t worry: we plan to do more of what got us here! Less family, less society, more government, more laws!

[Dr. D]

Since China discovered they like to, you know, eat, and that food is better than no food, they’ve started buying millions in U.S. meat and soy. So much for their farm-boycott and attempt at foreign election rigging (in this capacity).

In honor of this victory, I think we should unequivocally surrender the way the NY Times economists told us we must.

Britain has the same advisors: they claim that Britain will be boycotted by Europe; okay, sure, why not? However, in the same breath, an independent Britain will leave their markets open to all dumping, and let their farmers collapse. …And I’m sure they would if May and Corbyn were in charge, just to punish those uppity Brexiteers, aka, everyone outside of London.

Here’s a more realistic scenario: Europe will TRY to boycott Britain and kill as many Britons as they can, however their own internal pressure won’t allow it, as Spanish produce farmers would collapse instead. At the same time, Britain will give great preference to local produce – hey isn’t that environmental or something, just like Westminster and the EU natter on about? – however, they can finely tune the cost of food by keeping it as low as possible for the country, while not allowing too many farms to suffer.

In addition, like ALL production – and shhh, apparently this is a secret that economists never heard of – when farms and factories go into bankruptcy, their productive assets are not set on fire, nuked, put through an industrial shredder, loaded on a ship, and scattered at sea. No really: it may seem a miracle, but farms and factories, industrial assets stay right where they are, unharmed. Honest. Their ownership simply transfers to another person. While that is a human tragedy, it’s also a human benefit of the first order since the debt is erased by the transfer, and the banks take a 2×4 to the face for making idiotic, unadvised loans.

Unfortunately, they’ll just have Westminster get the money back from the people, the very farmers that just lost their shirt, now sleeping rough in Yorkshire. …Or for exactly so long as you reject capitalism, and endorse socialism, which does not allow bankruptcy for the insider party members and protected class. No optimism that will happen soon.

“You need 100,000 at the very least, …. There are a million people coming, minimum, each year.”

Why? You’re saying the U.S. is required to build a new American city each year, just ‘cause, while a city of one million — their own home, which they are a fully free citizen of — is vacated and lies empty. Does that seem logical? Don’t we have to cut down a hundred new forests and pave a hundred new miles that way? And how did the number of applicants reach 1M/year? Because for decades they have always said yes to every thing, exactly for this reason: to disrupt and destroy both nations involved. Before this began there was as much, or even more suffering, yet the U.S. was not expected by law to accept every person on earth who felt like moving. So it’s a matter of expectations, not reality.

As I’ve said before, what you’re really doing is taking the most active, hardworking people with the most talent and initiative, and sucking them out of their home countries rather than fix them. It’s called “brain drain” and it’s a well-known method of attacking and destroying other areas or nations. Yet somehow doing that, economically and socially attacking poor, small places like Guatemala is now a social good.
Same with Europe. The promise that the poorest of Europe must accept all, with unlimited, unimaginable social benefits is the sole reason hundreds, now thousands, of people, children, have drowned in boats. If they didn’t think they would be accepted, if they thought they would be turned around, they would be safe at home, and by being there, wanting a better life, would be fighting for their home country, fixing it, and their home country could not get so bad in the first place. They know this, and since the plan of the paymasters of the NGOs is to destroy everything in “disaster capitalism”, well-known, whole books published, as obviously it’s easier to attack and extract a nation you’ve eliminated all the people, all the defenders from. Don’t help this their rapacious destruction, and attack the U.S. too.

Refugee status is by definition meant to be a very narrow thing. It does not include people from Africa who spend $10,000 to fly across the ocean then walk through 10 safe nations because they feel America is the best. I can spend $10k, fly to Berlin first-class, do a backpack tour of Europe, then wash ashore in Monaco and demand they take me because Monaco is richer. This is an extreme, rare, last-case event. Therefore, barring a world war, there cannot possibly be 1 Million refugees for the U.S. alone.

I’m quite sure every body from Pittsburgh to Cheyenne would love to be a refugee in Milan, coming as they do from cities without safe water, with abusive police, with high crime rates, and with 100,000 people a year being killed from opioids, poor health care, malnutrition, and despair, however, what entitles their refugee status in Zurich? Nothing. You would think it crazy for Ohioans to flood Madrid and Stockholm for a better life, yet, it’s completely acceptable to flood TO Ohio, which is no less desperate. Yet those very same people, who already have no jobs, no houses, no health care, are REQUIRED to provide support to people nearly as desperate as themselves, while letting their own home counties die?

Here’s a rough definition:

“In general, eligibility for refugee status requires that: You are located outside the United States. You have been persecuted for fear persecution related to related to one of five things: race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion.”

I guarantee people all over the United States fear, rightly or wrongly, persecution for their race, absolutely. Religion, absolutely, Membership in a group, absolutely. And as they see with Facebook, debanking, and whistleblowers, political opinion, absolutely. I fear so myself, every day. Does that mean Acapulco or Copenhagen has to support me? Apparently yes.

So my proposal is that all 330 Million Americans move to Europe by New Years’, in search of this freer, better life. You can’t stop us, that’s the law.

…Or is there indeed some difference?

Refugee status is meant to be rare and extreme, not to move hundred of millions per decade and create economically exploitable social havoc worldwide.

[Dr. D]

It is probably cheaper to fly to Thailand to get that shot than get it in Tallahassee. I’m not joking. It’s already cheaper to fly to Tokyo for an MRI than have it in Tulsa.

…But we’re not ready for reform yet. Now is not the time for a market.

[Dr. D]

Because: “Science!”™ and MIT, MIT’s new “Food Computer” (swear I’m not kidding) is a complete fraud:

https://www.businessinsider.com/mit-media-lab-personal-food-computers-dont-work-fake-staff-say-2019-9

That’s beyond even that, maybe, just maybe, plugging your tomato plant into the wall to suck coal in a petrocarbon box is less ecological than putting it out in the sun and rain? Spitballing here.

Please don’t ask because I could post several of these complete fabricated science frauds a day, our Lords and Masters who-shall-not-be-questioned. “The Science is Settled!”™

[Dr. D]

“House Backs Release of Trump Whistleblower Complaint 421-0 (R.)”

Amazing. They’re not done yet. The clue may be that 100% of the other party both House and Senate just voted to release information on themselves. …Because it will be incriminating? How can you not see this coming? The GOP didn’t even stall and say, “Don’t throw me in that briar patch.” Sigh.

From yesterday, there ARE larger forces going on, a lot of them. And like with Flynn, they may misunderstand what a President’s job is. The President’s job IS to call other world leaders and make deals. That’s by definition quid pro quo. His JOB. Chief negotiator. In the Constitution. (after which deals must be ratified by Congress) But they’re upset he’s doing his job, asked them to look into corruption Zalinski ran on and they were already investigating, and upset he asked Ukraine, the location of the bot farms, to look into the 2016 election tampering they were just going mad for under Mueller. Sadly, this particular call was a lot of empty glad-handing, with no deals, no discussion, no quid pro quo, and no follow up. So nothing got done so far as anyone knows, which is par for the course everywhere.

Anyway, like Lewandowski and Mueller, with the Whistleblower they’re up for another Congressional camera-fest, while getting nothing done for Union Democrats in Wisconsin. Winning plan since we already see them flee the party in Minnesota, a state that stayed blue last time: https://pjmedia.com/trending/cnn-discovers-minnesota-is-turning-to-trump/ However, Ms. Omar may have changed all that.
This is partially because Minnesota, like half the country, is rural, and therefore owns guns, and Beto just promised he would go door-to-door taking them from black folks and honest Union Democrats, a clip which the NRA will play on loop for 100 years.

Point being, this yet-another-investigation, adding to what Pelosi numbered as six already, is only going to hurt them in 2020. Investigate and interview if you want, but be mindful and legislate for the people too.

I don’t know who’s running their strategy, because I’m sitting here gobsmacked they seem to want everything that will hurt them, and pursue nothing that will help. “They don’t know what to do!” I don’t know, promote policy that people want and would vote for under candidates they like? Just thinking outside the box here.

“Biden Campaign Blasts Republican Request for Classified VP Documents (Pol.)”

Fun stuff. This is why DJT immediately released the transcripts, so he could ask Biden for support to do the same. They are right Biden doesn’t have or own them: they are government records. The point was for him to say, “Sure, go ahead, I did nothing wrong, release anything you want and I’ll see you at the elections, idiot.” BUT HE DIDN’T. Just like with investigating Hunter. Good call with the tax records, that’s how Biden in competent and the rest of the candidates aren’t. However, I’m pretty sure he’ll ultimately laugh and release them, because it’s impossible they haven’t already illegally looked at them, and if there were anything there, would have already leaked it.

“Fury and Mistrust as The Brexit Pressure Cooker Blows Its Top (Sky)”

Interesting that the Supreme Court has been in Britain only since 2009. That is, it’s basically never done anything, nobody knows what point or place they serve. According to their recent ruling, it appears they oversee the people, and can overrule decisions of the public and public referendums. They also oversee Parliament and can decide if anything political can be reversed that they like or don’t like. They are also the intermediary between Parliament and the Sovereign, and approve or deny all discussions there. What’s more, they are superior to the Queen, and can tell her she’s a stupid old bat who has no authority to authorize Prorogue Parliament when both she and the P.M. agree on it.

In fact, the Supreme Court has just effectively said they rule all of England, the People, the Lords, the MP’s, and the Queen. Quite a power grab, and as one might imagine, legally based on f—k-all, literally nothing. We’ll see what comes of it, but Britain has a messy system.

On the flip side, they are defending democracy and Parliament, except for one important thing: Parliament won’t do their job. They won’t approve a deal. They won’t leave the EU. And they won’t call a general election. They are stonewalling all and every thing in England, and thereby holding the majority government hostage, which should also not be allowed. This is the very reason the Queen WOULD, or MIGHT dismiss them, in order that something might get done for the good of the country. So they and just going to sit and not act on the people’s will and not call elections for 1,000 years? Why not.

Given this case, what do you think they, BoJo, Liz, and the People, should do?

I say surrender and give rule of the whole nation to 11 unelected magistrates forever, like something in “Handmaid’s Tale”, but that’s just me. And Westminster. And The Guardian. They approve wholly and without hesitation that surrender to unelected authoritarian rule is the only option.

“How Employees & Employers Get Bled by Health Insurance (WS)”

Medicine is measurably about 8x what it should be, and has only been able to reach this level with violent government intervention. We have the most expensive care on planet earth, with no delivery of medical care. At what point do you say “infinite prices + zero care”, maybe we should cry Uncle? Never, apparently. Just like Baltimore schools with $50k in student costs and a 5% pass rate. It’s just not bad enough yet to do something about.

When you find you’re paying infinity for nothing, isn’t it time to try the free market? It can’t possibly we worse. A: No. Of course not. It’s never time to have free markets and voluntary exchange.

“New Weapons for the ECB (Varoufakis)”

I think this is a new way of unifying EU debt, as described by Martin Armstrong. It is therefore also the Federalization of Europe, a thing everyone knows is true, but has always been denied. Sovereignty…and your cultures and traditions, will be erased. That might even be okay, a choice, if only the EU were elected, but it’s not. Its power rests exclusively in unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats under a soviet system that can pursue favoritism as it pleases, and has, and does every day. See Germany and Greece.

“Beijing Vows to Retaliate After US Hong Kong Human Rights Bill Approved (SCMP)”

Great idea! We should do this in Sudan, and Spain, and Saudi Arabia, and St. Louis, and…
If fact, we will have perfect freedom once we boycott everyone else on earth for doing exactly what we do, only less of it. #Winning!

“the Novichock used in the first (Skripal) incident was found after the second incident. But we know that bottle was sealed, and couldn’t have been used”

Don’t fret, it makes just as much sense as Every. Other. Thing. in the whole case. Even the ducks were fake.

[Dr. D]

John Day: the Archdruid had the same impression, although I did not.

The Dream of a Managed Society

His thought is, their necessary attempt to create a new [financial] structure [as the old one expires in vertical compounding debt] is failing as everyone begins to see THEY, the rich and entitled are not only wasteful, but the authors of our present problems. They wanted Greta to get their Green Techno Dictatorship through, but instead she’s turning around and pointing at THEM, the rich in the U.N., as being most obvious target. They’re still not clear on this, either side, as Greens feel she attacked the rich, and Libertarians believe she was helping the Rich push through tax policy to attack the poor. Both may be true, as not all players are acting on all information.

In any case, then your impression of rage at the rich — meaning anyone a dollar richer than I am — and the old — because they made these environmental choices and also tend to have saved wealth for retirement — are well-founded.

And concerning.

[Dr. D]

We arm-twist and blackmail countries to do our bidding? That must be a first.

No, really, Ukraine already had an investigation running. It’s not ours, it’s theirs, because it’s been running since 2012 until Biden shut it down, with Obama’s direct support, in March 2016. It’s not a question of WHETHER it is corrupt in Ukraine, EVERYTHING in corrupt in Ukraine, it has the sad honor to be the most corrupt nation on earth. So anyone who has ever been there, or worked with anyone there, has perforce, also participated in that corruption. Not all nations are our nation and not all ways are our ways, that’s sovereignty. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Shokin

My only thought on this was that all the anti-corruption initiatives somehow involved taking billions from uber-poor Ukraine and moving it to London where it would be “safe”. Safe from the impoverished and desperate Ukrainian people, certainly, like their now-missing gold. Just like Magnitsky and Bill Browder, now a UK citizen, took all of Russia’s billions safely back to London, under Yeltsin, the way insider participant Martin Armstrong describes. Funny ol’ world.
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/?s=browder

So anyway, TЯump Biden blackmailing an ally by withholding aid to a country being attacked by Putin we just spent $5B to illegally create an illegal coup and was even then in a war with Russian separatists to help him find or makeup hide dirt on a political rival ally is the very definition of desperate.

That’s why Trump had this PARTICULAR phone call with this PARTICULAR country, with this PARTICULAR subject, and had it leaked when this PARTICULAR Biden is the DNC front-runner, this PARTICULAR number of days from the Primary. The media wouldn’t cover it otherwise.

all of those ridiculous charges and all of the mistakes made at The New York Times and other places. You’ve had a very bad week and this will be better than all of them. This is another one. So keep playing it up because you’re going to look really bad when it falls. I guess I’m about 22 and 0, and I’ll keep it that way. … keep asking questions and build it up as big as possible so you can have a bigger downfall.” D.J. Trump

Don’t know what I can say. I don’t think he’s capable of making it more obvious, or the media misunderstand it with more natural, partisan acumen.

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