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I see some of my postings have been restored but the blocked ones are still missing. Probably the most significant among them was:
Who is really writing this shite?
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky made it clear before the Russian invasion early last year that he considered the bridge a legitimate military target. Ukraine initially attacked the bridge last October, using a submersible drone, but it was fully repaired within seven months.
The commentary I had following this is missing altogether as it pointed out the fallacies in the quoted part. I tried entering it , with slight modification and was rejected as being a duplicate. That part is not recovered.
From memory:
Two egregious mis-/dis-/mal-facts are stated in the Seymour Hersh attributed quote:
First; the first attack on the bridge used a commercial type truck filled with fertilisers as in the Oklahoma bombing, killing IIRC about five other than the truck driver.
Second: The second attack was the one using a (submersible?) drone.Seymour Hersh would Not make such obvious mis-statements of the facts as presented. It is incumbent on editors to cull such mal-information, not only at the source but those editing the repetition of the statement as that only reinforces the misconceptions in the public mind and must not be allowed to happen in responsible journalism. Jail those editors that ignore that practice. (Some refinements to memory made)
Will attempt this entry again.
Another comment has been blocked and patience with the site is evaporating at a great rate. Please explain what and why this is happening. The site is quickly becoming a second rate place. Is it being done to your site or is it the site itself?
To RIM
It has been, hasn’t it.Paypal has decided I am a troll and the contributions stopped; a matter never put to right.
I remember how some of the commentariat even turned upon yourself when you sought to quell mob behaviour.What next?
An algorithm ate two attempts to post here, something I have never experienced at this site before. I am attempting this to see if what ever is blocking the commentariat will block it as well, hoping the thoughts crossing my mind are in error. Here goes …
Re: Julian Assange
Should any U.S. court act in any manner other than presumption of innocence, it will invalidate itself and the system of justice in the country and the judge expose themselves as incompetent to hold their office. The presumption of innocence places exercise of political judgment protected by the prime document the court is founded upon above all politically based ac accusation by a government prima facia guilty of war and other crimes against humanity not even allowed through an constitutionally supported means of being at war. The premise the king or those acting as such in a republic, can do no wrong is a fallacy that never should be entertained – anywhere. The government itself has a questionable provenance since the election of 2000, and certainly again after the election of 2020. THE U.S. needs get its house in order before acting outside its borders. Let Julian Assange go free – and compensate fully for the wrong done his life.July 26, 2023 at 9:36 am#139876REPLY
Raúl Ilargi MeijerThe double click on twitter sic (blue bird died) begins with a click and nothing happens, click again the video begins. Twitter sic no longer will be click bait.
What is with the double click on twitter sic? Twitter sic is now dead, shall not be tempted for any twitter sic product or production. Find an alternative.
At #139733
Then you don’t want to hear the other day it went from 18ºC to 23ºC and tonight it will go down to 14ºC about daybreak. Soft Irish-like days but without the wind, some rain showers with mist and fog to fill in. No Ac needed, not even a fan. Don’t tell anyone.Does anyone subscribe to the idea that Germany signed their economic suicide note when they pulled the German gold reserves from the vaults in London and New York? The reaction of global finance was slow but assured, striking at Germany’s economic Achilles heel, the North Stream I and II at the time Germany’s policy was NOT to send weapons of any sort into a conflict zone. That got changes on the quick. Germany no longer has the economic or financial resources to rebuild or the social imperative to rebuild given the conditions exacted by the EU (aka lack of national sovereignty) and will result with permanent loss of its industrial base and the population qualified to provide the labour needed – just like the United States.
Headline found at RT:
‘I am the AI’ – Biden
In this case AI must mean Antique Idiot. To believe the AI got more natural votes than Obama beggars the capacity to imagine except the political wasteland between Mexico and Canada.
Oxymoron
The one that got away was:
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That Guardian hit piece on Kennedy is the last Guardian I shall ever look at. F*ck their cookies, doubtlessly baked by Victoria Nutland.
You did warn it was the Guardian, make the warning bigger & better please.At TAE Summary #139404
* The Europeans are to blame for all our problems; Never trust anyone over 30 degrees latitude NORTH
Fixed it for you – No Charge
What is this crap about personal pronouns? A word comes to mind containing all forms of gender as well as non-gender . Shit, covers them all, it’s the world they inhabit, the cesspit. Those inhabiting this world all mothered of assholes, fathered of fake food, cradled in the toilet, matriculate to the toobs, educated in wastewater treatment and released into reality – the world.
It is the waste of the time of day to give them the time of day; a foolish effort – where is cancel culture when needed?
RT reported Ukraine has used cluster munitions in the region with the NPP according to the Russian Minister of Defence. Rough ride ahead, buckle up.
Germ at # 136713
Think you can kiss civilisation adios, likely for many a reason but mostly dearth of working memory from i(diot)Phones. The main obstacle will be the lack of history and the capacity to teach a comprehensive syllabus. If you do not know where you were, you cannot know where you are or navigate to where you wish to go. That the survivors lack adult skills does not help either.Agree with V.A.’s assessment. Also not an untoward approach to the Schrödinger’s paradoxical cat. As for New Zealand? Could have been lost in a rounding error – no?
NATO unprepared to fight Russia – former general
The US-led bloc is struggling with vague plans and poor logistics, Ben Hodges has told the Washington Post
NATO would not be able to move troops and equipment eastwards fast enough to stop a hypothetical Russian invasion of Europe, a retired US general has warned.https://www.rt.com/russia/577540-nato-war-russia-europe/
Ukraine ‘well prepared’ for counteroffensive – top US general
Hours before Mark Milley spoke, a botched offensive was repelled by Russian forces in Donbass
Ukraine is “very well prepared” for its long-anticipated counteroffensive against Russian forces, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley told CNN on Monday. However, Ukrainian forces suffered heavy losses in a multi-pronged attack earlier in the day, and Milley cautioned that it’s “too early to tell” if the offensive will achieve its goals.https://www.rt.com/news/577526-milley-ukraine-ready-counteroffensive/
Soon to be ‘retired general’ status.
In need of a political lobotomy:
Nikki Haley insists on WW3 if Ukraine loses
The Republican presidential candidate explained that the only way to prevent war was to “send a message” by fighting one
Allowing Ukraine to lose to Russia on the battlefield will unleash world war, according to US Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley. The former South Carolina governor told a town hall audience in Iowa on Sunday that arming Kiev was all about “preventing war” by “sending a message” to America’s rivals.https://www.rt.com/news/577539-nikki-haley-ukraine-ww3-cheerleading/
Nikki dahrlin’, you need get your cunt out there on the front lines with a machine gun like RFK Jr’s son and become a war criminal also. By the way, are all politicians from SC as barking mad as one of your senators, and yourself?
Germ at #136074
First of all: Welcome back, the bike sojourn sounds fantastic and with canals, few mountains are found. Tall cotton bicycling. (smiley thing)David Stockman is one of those who are eminently forgettable and it took me nearly the time of the presentation to recall him being Ronnie Raygun’s budget director. Now for some brain wash to remove the memory. The economics discussed were shallow and gravitated into bits and pieces of what is generally considered ‘libertarian economic theology’,; sounding good but of little substance but politically gratifying. At the time I considered David Stockman having the same value as what one found on the bottom of one’s shoes after a stroll through the park, that still holds. It was Ronnie Raygun’s budget policy that ended the New Deal and has produced the economic conditions and consequences you experience today. YMMV
Listening to the RFK Jr. offerings yesterday was disheartening for the trust needed to fully support the candidacy by propagating the lie that Russia illegally acted to stop a military/militia attack by Coup-de-état Kiev on the territory of Donbas and the Russian speaking population there who had voted in 2014 for separation from the état regime supported by the Washington/Wall St./City of London/Tel Aviv axis of evil.
RFK Jr. may be proud of his sone, that is entirely natural, but when a U.S. citizen serves in an alien military force it puts a cloud over that person’s fidelity to their U.S. citizenship and is a matter of little sustainable pride, particularly to one serving in a force that is inundated in the bloods of war crimes since its establishment in 2014. RFK Jr. your son is a war criminal by his act of machine gunning ‘Russians’. Should I vote, and I will not, RFK Jt’s candidacy will be taken under advisement; one does not correct a lie by offering another. I haven’t an idea what can now be done to rebuild the broken trust in your otherwise admirable efforts.Some ten millions of Ukrainians are said to have fled the country; some 3.5 millions to Russia, the rest from western Ukrain to mostly the EU. It would be fair to assume that most of the refugees did not support the Kiev regime after 2014 coup de état and feared the consequences of conflict sufficiently to leave. Those removing to Russia were also taken by fear, that of being the targets of the Kiev regime, altogether different motivation. The OSCE abandoned their posts when Ukrainian shelling of the Donbas had reached forty-fold the established levels some days before the Russian Special Military Operation to protect and defend those living in the Donbas. How often have the collective west heard the phrase ‘to protect and defend’ as authorisation and source of legitimacy by their own government’s actions, with Russia it’s no different. One either accepts double standards or one does not – your choice, your life..
Sad day.
Tina Turner dies at 83 in Switzerland after a long illness.
V.A. at #135614
“When hubris, wilful ignorance, blind beliefs, empty myths and hyperbole rule; … ”
Fixed that for you, no charge. (smiley thing)
At: US and Israeli Envoys Clash Over Soros (RT)
Must be a neoage-editorial in its pure form – no authorship provided being the clue.
Here Elon Musk may be shown most clearly in error. Once in previous era it was observed only one’s friends are willing to tell one ‘No’, as they would see the consequences of one’s errors, one’s enemies will remain silent waiting for those consequences. The gravest of errors is confounding those of Jewish faith as being congruent with Zionism, it is not so. It was Zionist Thugs, Zionist Thieves, Zionist Terrorists that founded the Zionist State that is now Occupied Palestine, founded with tacit approval of Britain (no longer great) with the backing of Washington, D.C’s newfound political and economic worldwide hegemony. Israel’s Zionist state is still completely in the possession of the sions of the Zionist founders under the political camouflage of a “democracy” (It’s said you can fool some of the people all the time as in this case), as half of the population are at best second class citizens, without recourse to law. If the Zionist policy was anything other than a policy to keep and maintain power for themselves, then the unresolved conflicts with the Palestinian people would have been resolves long before seven decades had passed and the two peoples would have found a modicum of harmony with their neighbours as had existed for the most part prior to the Zionist insurrection against British ersatz authority of the region. The best solution for Occupied Palestine is recognising the stark difference between Anti-semite and Anti-Zionism, they are far from being the same in any view other than that of an ignorant fool. From that point it may be possible to find, at last, a solution to bring peace to Palestine for both its populations and begin preserving life rather than robbing each of some part of their common future. YMMVDr DR at #135180
“Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition”
Nobody expected a modified corona virus made into a bio-weapon at Fort. Detrick, Maryland.
Nobody expected it escaped from secure laboratories there.
Nobody expected Fort Detrick soldiers would be in China participants in Military games near Wuhan.
Nobody expected some of those soldiers to become ill at the military games.
Nobody expected a secure bio-weapons research lab to ‘leak’ in Wuhan studying the same virus at the same time.
Nobody expected the virus to rapidly spread through Wuhan and into surrounding regions during a national holiday.
Nobody expected the spike protein of the virus to be inherently pathogenic .
Nobody expected …
And nobody expects any meaningful inquisition by the perpetrators into to subject.
And nobody will inquire why nearly 98% of practicing physicians abandoned all they were trained to know and did not call foul on what was being done to alleviate a not so unique virus, abandoning all their authority to the dictates of bureaucrats and entitled charlatans having letters after their names.
Will anyone inquire as to how the medical profession reestablish the trust they discarded so easily, so conveniently?Opinions expressed here are my own and do not reflect on those few doctors who did not abandon their professional ethics.
Where oh where is the Spanish Inquisition when it is needed.
RFK Jr’s book “The Real Anthony Fauci” is highly recommended reading. It is banned in Ireland, Banning in Boston wasn’t big enough.
Henry #’s 133680, 133685
Having lived in the Euro Zone (EZ) of the European Union (EU) since the inception of the Euro (€) as a currency, it serves quite well as a currency. It is NOT a legal tender in the EZ unless a state has enacted legislation making it so in that state, but in most states it is the functioning medium of exchange /currency. When the € was introduced it was given value at an agreed upon rate of exchange with each member’s national currency to the €. Germany was IIRC about 2 DM, Spain around 166 Pasetas, Irish Pound (Punt) exchanged about 1.27€ per, the only currency trading at less that 1 per €. Values and prices were transformed into € bu the agreed upon exchange rate so the € did not establish either value or price but assumed the established number through that specific exchange rate. The € took nearly a decade from inception to coin in the pocket – some quick change, that. What’s the problem with the €, I do not understand.
I highly recommend going to the comment on yesterday’s Debt Rattle and study one of the most astute comments made here on the site. I can only trust my answer measures equally. Those having been educated in the current theology will not have either the background or the information to solve the economic problems the world is now facing. A link will be put in a separate comment below.
JSR #133671
In terms of more recent history, on 31 December 1998 no transactions in the EU were denominated and valued in EUR and then the next day, they all were. Overnight.
Each country in the original Eurozone had arranged an exchange rate with the € (Euro) which automatically set the exchange rate between money values in the member countries in terms of Euros. That is just what i NOT going on while the dollar is being displaced, and was just exactly the point being made. No principle to establish exchange is being followed outside bilateral treaty that effects no other exchange rate. Plus the continuity of economic history will be broken. This will not end well.
One can argue about the structural failings inherent in the design of the Euro system, but nevertheless it is demonstrably possible to change the basic unit of currency used for trade within and between countries very quickly if necessary.
Disclaimer: Was living in European Union at the time; experienced the change. That “overnight” event took nearly a decade to accomplish, and there were still problems. The point being made does not address “structural failings inherent in the design of the Euro system” but the maintenance of commodity value parity while doing so, something that is not being either addressed or considered by the commentariat. Again what is being created is a break in the history of economic continuity, never experienced before at a universal scale and no current economic theology can provide answers or tools to work out a solution. There be dragons here, (the way is uncharted).
WES @ #133645
Interesting summary you have written. Abandoning the dollar, as desirable as it may be, will create greater problems than it solves. Mainly in assessing the value of commodities and labour. The dollar standard has replaced the gold standard for quite some time, all commodities and labour are now denominated in dollars, destroy the dollar there is no other item to take its place in economic history. The basket of commodities has been in discussion for quite some time also but no universally satisfactory method of determination has been arrived at yet that accounts for everything involved. The replacement of the dollar will increase rather than decrease the problem.
It may be that the dollar remain the value yardstick until this problem is resolved. All currencies can be measured against the dollar, making easy the relationship between any currency with another. In addition, market agreement on value of any commodity or labour will set the dollar value, not the machinations of the printer of the dollar who becomes insnared in the marked determination and has no easy exchange mechanism to escape the market’s value using dollars as the yard/meter stick.
YMMVAddendum: Attempted to provide a direct link to comment. My bad.
WES @ #133645
Interesting summary you have written. Abandoning the dollar, as desirable as it may be, will create greater problems than it solves. Mainly in assessing the value of commodities and labour. The dollar standard has replaced the gold standard for quite some time, all commodities and labour are now denominated in dollars, destroy the dollar there is no other item to take its place in economic history. The basket of commodities has been in discussion for quite some time also but no universally satisfactory method of determination has been arrived at yet that accounts for everything involved. The replacement of the dollar will increase rather than decrease the problem.
It may be that the dollar remain the value yardstick until this problem is resolved. All currencies can be measured against the dollar, making easy the relationship between any currency with another. In addition, market agreement on value of any commodity or labour will set the dollar value, not the machinations of the printer of the dollar who becomes insnared in the marked determination and has no easy exchange mechanism to escape the market’s value using dollars as the yard/meter stick.
YMMVFrom RT:
Mr. R. F. Kennedy Jr. has filled as candidate for 2024 presidential election as a Democratic party candidate.https://www.rt.com/news/574271-vaccine-critic-kennedy-jr-presidential-race/
I didn’t know any real Democrats still existed, only Biden Crime family and Clinton Mafia pretending to be Democrats.
Certainly appears a Gish gallop of felonies facing Former President Donald J. Trump in court. World is watching TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome) show the legal system of the United States for what it has become – fraudulent justice. Fair justice is a glue that holds society together through an implied trust in the system; the January 6th felonious use of the courts is a stable Hercules cannot clean, the social glue is dangerously eroded. Republics do not stand for long without a strong social glue. YMMV
Concerning ‘De-Dollarization’:
Great care must be given by all parties re de-dollarisation if by that the dollarU.S. ($US) is abandoned as an inter-mediatory currency between the primaries of a transaction having differing currencies. What is the danger is abandoning the $US as measure of value, as the $US is the universally accepted successor to commodity gold as the universal measure of all commodities, labour or value. To change from the $US to anything else would entail establishing a universal agreement for any/all substitute to it. Destroy the dollar as a medium of exchange undermines any value it has as a currency and without currency the modern concepts of economics fail to work. A fine mess that would be. Indeed, you may be here, now.For the loss of a nail a shoe was lost.
For the lack of a shoe a horse was lost.
For the loss of a horse the rider was lost.
For the loss of the rider a kingdom was lost.
Likewise:
For the lack of knowledge, understanding was lost.
For the lack of understanding, economy policy was lost.
For the lack of economic policy, the banks were lost.
For the lack of banks, currency was devalued/lost.
For the lack of currency, all economic activity ceased.
For the lack of economic activity, people suffered and died.
For people suffering and dying, revolutions are born.
For revolutions to be born without a knowledgable midwife, the revolution will not be healthy.
Unhealthy revolutions make for masters and subjects if not slaves.
Is that what the preference is?
If so:
Few will be masters, most will be subjects, servants or slaves.
Few will have or need currency, the others will trade their lives for subsistence.
The few will be tutored, the rest will receive only the education their state requires as will their children and their children’s children.
Autocracy in its many forms will rule, all others will obey those rules, no exception, no sunset clauses to the rules.
For lack of effective opposition, this appears to be the drift of the zeitgeist, a living oblivion.
YMMVTo Noirette # 131605,
You overlooked Saddam Hussein’s pseudo-legalistic execution.
Now it ls looking like law-fare being less expensive to wage than war-fare taking down:
Imran Khan of Pakistan and
Donald J (or something). Trump
no mere millionaire can afford legal representation without several millions annual income.. All that is needed is a fictitious accusation of something that did not happen and the victim will have either lost their case or their wealth. Lawyers are a dime a dozen, it’s the bullets that are damned expensive.
