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  • in reply to: Debt Rattle September 11 2023 #142861
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    @Celticbiker: Stay tuned. I’m almost ready to post.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle September 11 2023 #142851
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    It’s still 9/11.
    It never stopped.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle September 10 2023 #142813
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    Air Force Maui Optical and Supercomputing (AMOS)
    https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/air-force-maui-optical-and-supercomputing

    ​ The AFRL Directed Energy Directorate operates two major telescope sites that are used to advance SSA technologies. One of these sites is located on Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico, and the other site is located on Maui, Hawaii. The Maui site is called the Air Force Maui Optical and Supercomputing (AMOS) site…
    ​ The AMOS site consists of two facilities that conduct SDA operations and research and development (R&D). The first facility is the Maui Space Surveillance System (MSSS) and the second is the Maui High Performance Computing Center (MHPCC).
    ​ Research thrusts at the AMOS site include satellite detection and identification, atmospheric compensation and resolved imaging, astrodynamics and orbital metrics, sensor development, laser propagation through the Earth’s atmosphere, database cataloging of satellite images, and high-performance computer modeling and simulation. In addition to its use as an R&D facility, AMOS has been called upon to help identify and/or track spacecraft payloads and communication satellites.
    ​ The unique focus on research and development as well as operations provides a rapid development cycle from concept to operational implementation.

    AIR FORCE MAUI OPTICAL AND SUPERCOMPUTING (AMOS) SITE

    5/24/2023​ An upward trajectory for directed-energy weapons
    ​ Directed-energy weapons are electromagnetic systems that convert chemical or electrical energy to radiated energy. They are focused on target and on physical damage that degrades, neutralizes, defeats, or destroys an adversarial capability. Directed-energy weapons include systems that use high-energy lasers that emit photons, and high-power microwaves that release high-power radio frequency waves.
    ​ High-power microwave weapons create beams of electromagnetic energy over a broad spectrum of radio and microwave frequencies intended to couple and interact with electronics located at a target and then causing damage or temporary disruption.
    ​ “There’s no direct definition for what’s the difference between a high-power microwave directed-energy weapon and a radar, but we’ve tempted to basically have a dividing point of that,” says John Tatum in a webinar, sponsored by the Defense Systems Information Analysis Center in 2019 ” If a source has a peak effective radiated power of greater than 100 megawatts or radiated energy of greater than one joule per second, it typically will fall into the area of high-power microwave sources.”​…
    ..Air Force Research Laboratory-Kirtland demonstrated a mobile tactical high-power microwave operational responder (THOR), with an aggressive agenda to reach warfighters soon. The intent of THOR is to be up and running in three hours by two people. It’s designed to take down several enemy unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) simultaneously with rotational antenna control to provide 360-degree coverage, with the firing mechanism and overall systems control, coming from a laptop computer…
    ..Also in the report, OSD also requested $11 million in FY2023 to continue ongoing assessments of directed energy weapons, including assessments of the weapons’ effects, effectiveness, and limitations. In addition, DARPA’s Waveform Agile Radiofrequency Directed Energy (WARDEN) program seeks to “extend the range and lethality of high-power microwave weapons … [for] counter-unmanned aerial systems, vehicle and vessel disruption, electronic strike, and guided missile defense.” …
    ..”Directed-energy weapons have been deployed primarily as a force multiplier, able to damage physical targets with greater precision and accuracy, resulting in a competitive advantage over traditional weapons. Especially given the current heightened global threat landscape in Europe and Asia, militaries are seeking any potential advantages,” he says…
    ​..”A key trend right now is the imperative to reduce size, weight, power, and cooling (SWaP-C) requirements in order to make these weapons viable for operational deployment,” says Stoudt. “There is an ongoing challenge of directed energy weapon systems being too heavy, too large, too under-powered, and too expensive for widespread deployment.
    ​ In the modern battlespace, we must balance the need for power with the need for mobility. Now, with the development of fiber lasers, electromagnetic and high-energy weapons can take a more meaningful role in the DOD arsenal. By using modular open-system architectures and optimizing SWaP-C, military and operational utility is enhanced to bring directed energy where it previously couldn’t be integrated into warfighting platforms.”​ …
    ..At The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) recently opened a new High-Power Electromagnetic Effects and Modeling Facility at Kirtland AFB. The new $6 million facility supports high-powered radio frequency weapons systems and contains a dedicated forensic lab for studying a range of HPEM targets after engagement. The new facility will allow for greater collaboration as the Air Force is set to advance directed energy technologies.

    ​Air Force Research Laboratory-Kirtland demonstrated a tactical high power microwave operational responder (THOR), with an aggressive agenda to reach warfighters soon.
    https://www.militaryaerospace.com/power/article/14292443/an-upward-trajectory-for-directedenergy-weapons

    ​ The Vigilant Eagle Airport Protection System is a proposed directed-energy weapon under development by the U.S. military under a Defense Department contract with Raytheon. It would create an invisible microwave dome around an airport that could block missiles heading toward incoming and outgoing aircraft.​..
    ​..Raytheon’s experimentation with directed energy weapons began when its research labs’ experiments had inadvertently produced the first microwave oven in 1958. Under William Swanson, Raytheon’s chairman and CEO, the company has become even more focused on directed energy systems. He has stated “When I look at directed energy, it’s clear that if someone is gonna put us out of business, it will be us.”​ …
    ..Within the last three years, the company’s researchers have shot down multiple types of shoulder-fired antiaircraft missiles at a distance of several miles with pulses of microwave energy…
    ​..The first large difference between the ground-based Vigilant Eagle and other aircraft protection systems is the lower cost between it and its rivals. Mike Booen, Raytheon’s chief of directed-energy programs estimates that the system can be built for about $25 million per airport if the system is deployed in at least 25 airports. Of all the airports located within the U.S., the top 31 airports account for 70% of the country’s takeoffs and landings. “If Vigilant Eagle is installed in all of them, the expenditure would total less than $1 billion, compared with the $6–$12 billion it would take to install protection systems on 6,000 aircraft”.
    ​ Airline carriers have also stated concerns with airplane-mounted systems because of the weight and cost of these systems. The DHS has stated that the cost of each flight carrying the countermeasure would be approximately $350. During the airlines’ best year ever, they only earned about $600 per flight. It is also unclear whether the airlines or the government would bear the cost of using these types of systems.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigilant_Eagle

    ​ The ALKA directed-energy weapon (DEW) system is a Turkish dual electromagnetic/laser weapon developed by Roketsan.[1] It was first unveiled at the 2019 IDEF exhibition on 8 May 2019. This combat laser was allegedly used to destroy one of GNC’s Wing Loong II UAVs; if true, this would represent the first known time a vehicle-mounted combat laser was used to destroy another combat vehicle during genuine wartime conditions.​..
    ​..The ALKA DEW is claimed to have a power of 50 kW.​ It operates both laser and electromagnetic systems. It purportedly uses automatic target recognition utilizing both electro-optical and radar detection[2] to track multiple targets simultaneously. It is claimed by its designers to have the capability to disable a swarm of drones at a range of 4000 m,[​ destroy a target with laser at 500 m distance and destroy a target at 1000 m distance with electromagnetic weapons.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALKA_(weapon)

    in reply to: Debt Rattle September 9 2023 #142789
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    Peter McCullough MD , Vaccination Makes Long-COVID Syndrome Worse and Last Longer
    ​ Lancet Paper Inadvertently Discloses Data on Vaccination Worsening Long-COVID Symptomatology
    ​ I have seen patients in my practice become progressively more ill with fatigue, weakness, hair loss, headaches, effort intolerance, sleep disturbance and in some cases cardiac and neurological symptoms with progressive mRNA injections every six months. Meanwhile the Biden Administration US HHS National Action Plan on Long COVID-19 has been running a billion dollar research plan with no consideration that the vaccine could be the cause of symptoms. The medical literature is loaded with papers on long-COVID ignoring the fact the same patient groups have all been taking COVID-19 vaccines. In essence, there is a global coverup of vaccine injury syndromes as “long-COVID.”
    ​ Mateu et al studied 548 individuals, 341 with long-COVID, followed for a median of 23 months (IQR 16.5–23.5). With continued vaccination, only 26 subjects (7.6%) recovered from long-COVID during follow-up; almost all of them (n = 24) belonged to the less symptomatic cluster and importantly the syndrome finally lessened when they dropped vaccination.
    https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/vaccination-makes-long-covid-syndrome

    ​And furthermore…
    People who received a new COVID-19 vaccine booster were more likely to contract COVID-19 than people who received no COVID-19 vaccine doses, according to a new study of prisons in California.​..
    ​..While the population of bivalent recipients was higher than the unvaccinated—36,609 compared to 20,889—the rate of infection was still elevated in the bivalent group owing to nearly double the number of infections, the researchers found.
    ​ Infection rates in the group that received bivalent shots was 3.2 percent, over the 2.7 percent in the unvaccinated.
    “The bivalent-vaccinated group had a slightly but statistically significantly higher infection rate than the unvaccinated group,” Dr. Robert Mayes of the California Correctional Healthcare Services and the other authors wrote.
    https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/boosted-people-more-likely-unvaccinated-be-infected-new-study-finds

    ​ I always advised pregnant patients against COVID vaccinations, and incurred the ire of the OB/GYN department. I gave the pregnant patients bottles of vitamin-D and instructions for taking it. This was a horrendous betrayal, and Obstetricians in America abandoned all of their usual conservatism to blindly follow and promulgate this advice in lock-step. The leaks about harms to pregnancy were out way before the vaccines came out. I already knew that. It was knowable.
    ​ Government Gave Millions To Top Reproductive Health Org To Promote COVID-19 Vaccines To Pregnant Women​
    The premier professional membership organization for obstetricians and gynecologists accepted $11.8 million from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to promote COVID-19 vaccines to pregnant women, despite the exclusion of pregnant women from clinical trials and regulatory data showing the vaccine had not been tested for safety during pregnancy.
    ​ To learn more about COVID-19 funding received by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) during the pandemic and what prompted the organization’s guidance on COVID-19 vaccines for pregnant women, Dr. James Thorp, a board-certified obstetrician-gynecologist and maternal-fetal medicine physician made a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request in 2022 to HHS.
    ​ “My request was simple: It sought only to obtain documents involving the three ‘Cooperative Agreement’ grants HHS/CDC made to ACOG during the pandemic, one of which was for $11.8 million, listed on a publicly accessible open data source for federal spending, USASPENDING.gov,” Thorp told The Epoch Times.
    ​ Documents obtained by Dr. Thorp show ACOG, on Feb. 1, 2021, was awarded the first of three cooperative agreement grants by HHS and the CDC. The receipt of COVID-19 grant money was contingent upon ACOG yielding substantial control over projects funded by the CDC to the agency and ACOG’s full compliance with CDC guidance on COVID-19 infection and control.
    https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/government-gave-millions-top-reproductive-health-org-promote-covid-19-vaccines-pregnant

    Main Cause of Snowball Earth Period That Lasted 60 Million Years Identified​ (11 minutes)

    in reply to: Debt Rattle September 9 2023 #142788
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    ​ MK Bhadrakumar , The Ankara-Moscow relationship challenges western expectations: Here is a unique model of cooperation among regional powers, built on mutual interests, respect, and the recognition of each country’s independent foreign policies and strategic autonomy.
    ​ In the full flush of his election victory, Erdogan made certain efforts to mend fences with the west, signaling a willingness to agree to Sweden’s induction into NATO and showing solidarity with Ukraine. In moves that could seriously upset Moscow, Ankara wantonly released Azov commanders who were captured by Russia in Mariupol last year and announced an intent to jointly produce weaponry with Ukraine.
    ​ Nonetheless, Moscow reacted cautiously. The Kremlin could afford to mark time since this is also an asymmetrical relationship where Russia holds the upper hand. Moscow could sense that Erdogan was not really “pivoting” to the west, but was rather showing an interest in improving western ties which had soured in recent years -and its outcome remains far from certain.​..​
    ​..Basically, Russia’s relations with Turkiye are fortified by the warm personal equations between Putin and Erdogan, and both leaders are consummate realists with shared interests and a keenness to challenge Western dominance in regional politics…
    The “body language” of the meeting in Sochi confirmed that there is no change in the verve of the personal relationship between the two leaders. Television footage showed the two men smiling and shaking hands upon Erdogan’s arrival at Putin’s residence, where the Russian president suggested that his guest take a vacation in the Black Sea resort.
    ​ In his opening remarks, Putin put Erdogan at ease by reassuring him upfront that the Russian offer to create a global “energy hub” in Turkiye is very much in the cards and will materialize soon.
    ​ However, the icing on the cake is the proposed agreement that would facilitate free exports of grain from Russia to six African nations with the help of Turkiye and Qatar. In Erdogan’s presence, Putin announced:
    ​ “We are close to completing agreements with six African states, where we intend to supply foodstuffs for free and even carry out delivery and logistics for free. Deliveries will begin in the next couple of weeks.”
    ​ The political and geopolitical resonance of this decision in Africa is simply immeasurable — Russia is offering, on the one hand, the Wagner Group as gatekeepers, and on the other hand, food security for the continent. In one fell swoop, western propaganda was trashed, with some help from Ankara.
    ​ Erdogan, on his part, expressed confidence that Russia would “soon” revive the Black Sea grain deal, while also echoing Putin’s stance that the west had betrayed its deal commitments with Russia. Equally, he distanced Ankara from rival western plans to send grain across the Black Sea – which now becomes a non-starter. As he put it:
    ​ “The alternative proposals brought to the agenda could not offer a sustainable, secure and permanent model based on cooperation between the parties like the Black Sea Initiative.”​ …
    ..Putin voiced satisfaction that he and Erdogan have raised the relations to a “very good, high level.” Interestingly, Putin singled out the construction of the Akkuyu nuclear power plant – Turkiye’s first, built by the Russians – which will be fully operational next year, as he described Turkiye as a new member of the “international nuclear club.”
    ​ These are measured words, no doubt. The message out of the Sochi talks is that Russian-Turkish relations have gained maturity. The summit followed last week’s talks between Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov and Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu in Moscow.
    ​ Later, in the presence of Fidan, Lavrov spoke at some length and with extraordinary clarity about Russia’s policies towards Turkiye. The salience lies in Russia’s profound appreciation of Tukiye’s independent foreign policy, “which is geared towards its own national interests,” resisting Western pressure.
    ​ Lavrov said Turkiye’s “constructive and equitable interaction” with Russia is not only mutually beneficial economically and advantageous, but also strengthens “the sovereign basis” of Turkiye’s foreign policy. Lavrov expressed the hope that Turkiye “will continue to respond with reciprocity despite pressure from the United States and its allies who seek to pit everyone against the Russian Federation,” concluding:
    ​ “The effectiveness of our policy dialogue and economic cooperation will continue to depend on mutual willingness to consider each other’s concerns and interests and to seek to balance them. Our Turkish partners possess the necessary strategic vision. We will continue to adhere to approaches based on mutual respect and a balance of interests.”
    ​ Evidently, Lavrov spoke with great deliberation and purpose. What emerges is that although NATO-member Turkiye has not yet sought membership in the expanded BRICS or the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) — unlike Iran, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, or Egypt — Russia nonetheless gives pivotal importance to Turkiye given its strategic autonomy, which is both a game changer in regional politics and a trendsetter.​..
    ..As Lavrov stated recently, Russia is willing to cooperate with any country that treasures its independence.
    https://new.thecradle.co/articles/the-unshakeable-putin-erdogan-nexus

    ​Gilbert Doctorow explains that NATO countries are barely in compliance with their commitments to mutual defense and will be out of compliance if they donate F-16s and such.
    Why Belgium is not sending F-16s to Ukraine

    Why Belgium is not sending F-16s to Ukraine

    ​ Recent Ukrainian attacks in against the villages of Rabotino and Verbovoe will only lead to further attrition of Kiev’s forces, Scott Ritter, former US Marine Corps intelligence officer and UN weapons inspector, told Sputnik’s New Rules podcast.​
    “Russia always had a primarily defensive doctrine inherited from the Soviet times. But this new defensive doctrine that’s being implemented, especially in the Zaporozhye front, is the brainchild of Lieutenant General Alexander Romanchuck, former deputy commander, I believe, of the 58th Combined Arms Army. He was sent to the Combined Arms Academy after participating in the early phases of the Special Military Operation. While he was at the Combined Arms Academy, he rewrote Russian defensive doctrine and then he was brought out of the Combined Arms Academy and given a leadership position in the Zapporozhye front in the Rabotino area.
    “In accordance with the doctrine, “the purpose of the forward defensive zone is to receive an enemy attack to help break it up, to use defensive belts, minefields, obstacles, what they call, ‘fire cauldrons’ or ‘sacks’ where you want to force the enemy to come in so you can hit them with artillery, to break up the attack, but not to hold and die,” explained Ritter…
    ..Exhausted by struggling to overcome Russia’s defense lines, the Ukrainians will have no strength left to push on forward, said Ritter. “This is part of Alexander Romanchuck’s defensive concept, and it’s been executed perfectly by the Russians at Rabotino,” he stressed…
    ..While Ukraine’s objectives include the physical reconquest of territory Ukraine believes belongs to it, NATO’s goal is not so much about achieving decisive military victory on the battlefield, but to inflict pain on Russia to an extent that there could be a “Moscow Maidan”, akin to one that happened in Kiev in 2014, Ritter explained…
    ..”The answer is, NATO itself has a paper tiger that for the last 20 years has not been funded properly. They haven’t been training properly. They’ve not been doing the right kind of defense procurement properly. And there’s not a single military today that’s healthy enough to carry out the kind of combat that’s taking place in Ukraine, let alone transfer equipment to the Ukrainian military that could assist them in doing this kind of warfare.”
    https://sputnikglobe.com/20230908/scott-ritter-ukrainian-counteroffensives-last-desperate-push-1113205046.html

    ​ US media reported on Thursday that the Pentagon had postponed testing of its Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon (LRHW) a day prior, based on “pre-flight checks.” The test was to take place in Florida, with the weapon fired eastward into the Atlantic Ocean.​..
    ​..This, Drozdenko noted, was a key difference between reentry vehicles and hypersonic weapons: they have to be controlled and maneuvered, not just allowed to “ram the atmosphere with their belly” until they slow down.
    “The task of hypersonic weapons like Avangard is to maneuver. This is the most important thing, so that air defense systems can neither detect it nor shoot it down. It needs a control system that can somehow analyze the external environment despite being in this plasma cloud. There is a whole complex of fundamental theoretical sciences – materials science, aerodynamics of high speeds – which current control systems and radio electronics do not have. This is a huge barrier.”​ ..
    ..“And now we actually have just three types of weapons: the glider, Avangard, which has already been repeatedly tested; we have the Kinzhal missile with a rocket engine; and Zircon, a sea-based rocket that works with a ramjet engine that is a further development of the Onyx missile.”​ [and rubbing it in…]
    ​ “Part of these technologies was received by India in the process of joint development of the Brahmos missile. That is why the Americans fail: because a good part of humanity does not want to share technology with [them]. They didn’t manage to steal from them themselves, until they fully developed it.”
    https://sputnikglobe.com/20230907/huge-barriers-pentagons-hypersonic-woes-due-to-very-delicate-physics-problems-behind-tech-1113187726.html

    in reply to: Debt Rattle September 9 2023 #142787
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    How protected are gay Jewish lawyers when push comes to shove?
    ​Greenwald Exposes “Fraudulent” WaPo Disinformation Study, David Frum, And ADL Propaganda To Silence Dissent
    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/greenwald-exposes-fraudulent-wapo-disinformation-study-david-frum-and-adl-propagand

    ​Changing names and definitions is the main solution that our leaders can offer to us.
    The New Authoritarian Agenda Revealed (Globalism Rebranded)​
    ​..I came across a video promoting a barely publicized project called the “Council for Inclusive Capitalism.”
    ​ The group, headed by Lynn Forester de Rothschild, is the culmination of decades of various globalist agendas combined to represent the ultimate proof of conspiracy.
    The CIC is intimately tied to institutions like the World Economic Forum (WEF), the United Nations and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), but it is primarily an attempt to link all these organizations more closely to the corporate world in an open display of cooperation. The group pushes the spread of what they call “Stakeholder Capitalism.” This is the notion that international corporations are obligated to engage in social engineering. That’s another way of saying that corporations are required to manipulate citizens and governments with economic punishments and rewards…
    ..We have also seen stakeholder capitalism on display in the push for Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) guidelines among major companies. Most readers are probably familiar with ESG at this point, but keep in mind, the public was oblivious to the terminology until the past 2 years. Globalists have been developing ESG rules since 2005…..ESG was intended to be the tool that globalists and governments would use to force companies into the stakeholder capitalism model. It is a kind of social credit system, but for companies…
    ​..The exposure of ESG is perhaps one of the greatest triumphs of the alternative media. It was proof that the “woke-ification” of our economy and society was not the result of some grassroots activist movement or the natural evolution of civilization. No, everything woke was a product, forced into existence by corporate and globalist interests.
    ​ It is with some disappointment I’m sure that Lynn Forester de Rothschild admitted the defeat of ESG at the B20 Summit in India recently. Though, as is usually the case, Rothschild admits that the goal will be to replace the term “ESG” with something else that the public is not as privy to while continuing to institute social credit scoring for companies as a means to dominate them.
    https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/new-authoritarian-agenda-revealed-globalism-rebranded

    ​ On Friday evening, New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham (D) issued an emergency order suspending the right of law-abiding citizens to open and conceal​-carry firearms in crime-ridden Albuquerque and the surrounding county for at least 30 days, after declaring a public health emergency in response to a spate of recent gun violence.​ Grisham, who apparently thinks criminals will follow her orders, says she expects legal challenges, but was ‘compelled to act’ following recent shootings.
    ​ The Governor of New Mexico has just declared the 1st & 2nd Amendment “does not exist” due to an “emergency.”
    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/full-authoritarian-new-mexico-governor-restricts-constitutional-gun-rights-law-abiding

    ​Finally, some good news!
    The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Friday that several Biden administration officials had likely breached the First Amendment by pressuring social media companies to moderate or take down content they deemed problematic.
    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/biden-officials-likely-violated-first-amendment-social-media-5th-circuit-court

    in reply to: Debt Rattle September 9 2023 #142786
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    Working For Yourself https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/working-for-yourself

    The “Uniparty” imperial courtiers in Washington DC, London and Brussels manage the investment properties (“world”) for the global owners. The owners hide their identities through management companies like BlackRock and Vanguard, and the central banks of the world. They all own stock in each other’s companies, so they share investment interests while remaining invisible as individuals and families. “Owning everything” is the basic strategy, and when business losses are to be imposed, they are to be imposed upon smaller companies and businesses outside of this global networks. That it straightforward, and it has worked well since 1990, while there wa a “unipolar world” the the western US/NATO empire holding persuasive force, enough to ruin Iraq, Libya, Syria, and to block central asian cooperation by making Afghanistan a war zone, bleeding heroin and violence into Iran, Russia and China.

    Those days of easy-management of the global properties have ended, but there is no restructuring yet. Doubling down on threats has turned into the kinds of defeat that weaken the threats, so that more countries are emboldened to pursue national interests, rather than be bled of their natural resources by globalist neo-colonialism.

    The colonized periphery is pulling away, and the colonization is retreating into Europe and to the streets of the United States, where the squeeze that was put on the Greeks to save German and French banks is now being put on German and French, Italian, Belgian, Spanish, etc. citizens and businesses. This self-digestion cannot persist very long. The maximum value was already being extracted from the productive parts of western economies. More extraction is rapidly shrinking European economies, and the cutoff of inexpensive fuel and feedstocks has just put a lot of them out of business. There is no “recovery” possible in this context, not under the same management protocols.

    The rest of the world continues to reorganize trade incrementally, outside of the $US currency regime, bypassing that value-extraction arrangement. The rest of the world does not want to spook the declining and unstable empire, still armed with weapons of total-annihilation. The rest of the world is still paying tribute, but is looking forward to not paying tribute when that can be safely arranged. Argentina just joined BRICS (official 1/1/2024). Argentina owes a lot of $US denominated debt, but it is mostly held by local Argentine elite families. Hmmm, those families have interests which sharply diverge from the rest of Argentine citizens, don’t they. Elections are coming up. The local Argentine elites will do whatever they can to maintain their ownership positions. This reflects neocolonialist mechanisms in other countries, also. Local financial elites need the military and financial threats available from the rest of the $US denominated empire to sustain their local positions of power, ownership and value-extraction. BRICS+ threatens their prerogatives.
    This winter and this coming year are set for continual incremental weakening of $US based ownership and control status in the world. The direction is for national interests to gather the wealth at home, rather than to export cheap commodities to be processed for additional value in industrialized countries. No sudden, threatening moves, though.

    In the US/NATO/EU/Israel/5-Eyes countries, the interwoven courtiers and deep-states are all slowly sinking together. None is able to take initiative against the consensus, which is to pretend that the “unipolar world” is “still” the thing that it never quite became during the Bush/Cheney global war on brown people in oil countries.
    The US particularly faces an election cycle which can’t be convincingly faked to obtain an arranged outcome, as the Hillary Clinton election almost was, and the Joe Biden election decisively was. There is increasing chaos and disorder as bad political-economic managers in the collective west are increasingly desperate and open in their non-democratic criminal actions to maintain their positions of power and immunity from the consequences of their actions. This holds the productive and other members of society hostage and extracts the value of their work, while saddling them with unpayable debts.

    The globalist owners know that they also face a loss of income, and even of some of their ownership, while these managers continue in power, but what are the alternatives for the owners? They are collectively like the monkey holding onto sweet rice inside a coconut with a hole too small to let the grasping fist out, trapped until they let go…

    ​ BREAKING NEWS: Obama insider and author and biographer Joel Gilbert has claimed Michelle Obama is preparing to enter the 2024 race and become the Democratic presidential nominee allegedly due to Biden’s declining health.​ (​a fourth term for Barack Obama)
    https://twitter.com/dom_lucre/status/1700201573392019469

    ​ Jim Kunstler, A Theory of the Game:
    ​ Hillary Clinton’s 2016 loss was a bigger shock to the Washington DC deep state Blob than Donald Trump’s victory… In the group madness provoked by Hillary Clinton’s loss, the dirty secret was that she had actually bought the Democratic National Committee in 2016, meaning the machinery that runs the party. She used lavish contributions to the Clinton Foundation to accomplish that. And Hillary along with her foundation — and husband Bill, who had been reduced by late career misadventure to a kind of political fashion accessory — had committed any number of grave crimes against our country over the years, especially during her service as Barack Obama’s Secretary of State. Think: Skolkovo… Uranium One…. In 2016 Hillary used her ownership of the DNC to underhandedly de-rail the likely Democratic primary winner, Bernie Sanders, from being nominated.​..
    ​..And who was Barack Obama exactly? Good question. This mysterious figure who rose so swiftly from being, briefly, a mere state senator in Illinois, then to the US Senate — for only a few years, accomplishing next to nothing there — then to being nominated for president, and actually winning the 2008 election! …
    ..Mr. Obama was liberalism’s wish-fulfillment: a half-century after the Civil Rights movement, America elects the first black president (half-black, anyway)! Liberalism needed, above all, a sense of moral superiority, to heal an imperfect world, to be ahead-of-the-curve in mankind’s implacable march of progress toward perfection, and especially to set an example for how to live for all those gun-loving, bible-thumping, meth-smoking, opiate-scarfing, racist, rapist flyover rubes who would dare to vote for such misogynistic vermin as the TV-clown Donald J. Trump…
    ..To what degree was Mr. Obama a tool of other forces lurking in the deep background of world politics, and what are these forces? Many of the non-Left will say they are a loose consortium of corporate and financial actors desperate to keep in motion a set of rackets that magically stabilize business-as-usual, which asset-strips the remaining wealth of the middle classes and transfers it to the already super-wealthy…
    ​ “Joe Biden” was Mr. Obama’s device for wresting control of the DNC from Hillary Clinton’s gang. But now “Joe Biden” has criminal problems of his own that threaten to take down not only his own presidency, but of everything connected to it, namely his controller, Mr. Obama & Company, and the Democratic Liberal order itself driven insane by its own criminality. Meanwhile, his nemesis, Donald Trump has proven to be extraordinarily resilient in the remorseless war against him. And now that has culminated in the (so far) four cockamamie criminal cases cooked up by Obama / “Biden” as the final line of defense against the Golden Golem of Greatness — who obviously has no intention of surrendering.
    It looks like Mr. Obama is now in the process of being “outed” as something other than the suave performer he was for two terms in the White House. The Tucker Carlson interview with one Larry Sinclair, a gay cruiser and druggie who claims to have frolicked with Mr. Obama before he was a celebrity, was met with ominous silence in the mainstream media. They didn’t even dare denounce it to avoid drawing more attention to it. And the mysterious “drowning” of the Obama family’s chef, Tafari Campbell, paddleboarding at night in the shallow bay off the Obama estate on Martha’s Vineyard, remains woefully under-investigated. Will Barack Obama and “Joe Biden” end up sinking each other and the Democratic Party with them? And then, will Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. be called in to rescue the darn thing while driving all the demons out of it?​ [Naw Jim, they’ll just nominate Michelle Obama and fight to somebody’s death.]

    A Theory of the Game

    As per Wayne’s World, “Yeah, and monkeys might fly out of my butt!” The uniparty has policies and procedures by which it “operates”.
    Biden Impeachment Vote Could Take Place in Mid-September – US Lawmaker
    https://sputnikglobe.com/20230908/biden-impeachment-vote-could-take-place-in-mid-september—us-lawmaker-1113195537.html

    in reply to: Debt Rattle September 9 2023 #142761
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    Noirette and Wes. I’ve been wondering about all of that. It looks like Red Queen Hillary still owns the DNC, and asecond Obama Presidency might be just what they have as an ace-in-the-hole.
    Clearly Bobby K. Jr. has considered being excluded, and has a plan-b, which he won’t discuss, “I don’t have a plan-b”.
    Bobby Jr. politely refers to “President Trump” at times. They are sure not “enemies”.
    The “enemies” control microwave beam weapons that kill local children on Maui, and Pfizer gene-therapy products that induce quick death, slow death and infertility. Those “enemies” seem to have a lot to do with the deeply interwoven global ownership/managerial eneterprises like BlackRock, Vanguard, and major central banks. I don’t think this big-exclusive-club is simple to describe. I don’t think they care much about forms of ethnicity, but they know each other as “peers”, somehow.

    Our mission, should we choose to accept it, is to out-survive them.
    “We” are starting at an initial loss, but have been holding for a year or so, now…
    They are starting a new offensive against us on multiple fronts.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle September 8 2023 #142704
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    Do Vaccines Cause Autism? The Evidence Against Vaccine Safety , Part 2 of 3​ , Helen Buyniski et.al.

    Do Vaccines Cause Autism? The Evidence Against Vaccine Safety

    ​Steve Kirsch has good graphics again.
    US Nursing home data shows clearly that the COVID vaccines were a disaster for the elderly; they increased the risk of dying from COVID
    https://kirschsubstack.com/p/us-nursing-home-data-shows-clearly-83f

    ​Get a New Covid Shot? The Evidence Suggests Otherwise

    Get a New Covid Shot? The Evidence Suggests Otherwise

    Please do avoid sunburns. Sunburns harm your skin, but sun without burns is good for you.
    The Healing Power of Vitamin D – What Big Pharma Doesn’t Want You to Know We Know the medical establishment lied to us about COVID. And according to esteemed physician Dr. Paul Marik, they are also lying to you about the sun.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle September 8 2023 #142703
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    ​Simplicius has a Situation-Report (SitRep) on Ukraine, which I have let languish for a few days. There is a lot of information here. (M-1 Abrams soon to arrive with DU ammo.)
    SITREP 9/4/23: First Challengers Burn as East Continues to Rise in Power
    https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/sitrep-9423-first-challengers-burn

    Grain Deal, Gas Hub & De-Dollarization: What Signal Do Putin-Erdogan Talks Send to West?
    https://sputnikglobe.com/20230904/grain-deal-gas-hub–de-dollarization-what-signal-do-putin-erdogan-talks-send-to-west-1113117752.html

    ​This is a minefield covered with broken glass and these poor guys are barefoot. Thanks Eleni in Athens.
    The Turkish and Greek foreign ministers met in Ankara to discuss boosting diplomatic relations and address several longstanding issues between the two

    Turkiye, Greece hail new era of relations

    ​John Helmer thinks Prigozhin just played too fast and loose, for too long, on the territories of too many other gangsters, notably in Africa.
    Prigozhin’s Three Strikes

    PRIGOZHIN’S THREE STRIKES – KHODORKOVSKY BUSINESS, BEREZOVSKY POLITICS, THE LAST AFRICA TRIP

    in reply to: Debt Rattle September 8 2023 #142702
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    ‘Rigged’ US election to blame for Ukraine conflict – Trump
    The former president claims if he hadn’t been cheated out of office Moscow would never have launched its operation against Kiev
    https://www.rt.com/news/582541-trump-rigged-election-ukraine/

    ​ FDA Refuses To Provide COVID-19 Vaccine Safety Data To US Senator
    ​ Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) asked the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the results of analyses on data from the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System in January. The request came after the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said none of the safety signals it identified for the COVID-19 vaccines were “unexpected.”
    ​ The two agencies have run different types of analyses on the system’s reports, which are primarily made by health care professionals.
    ​ The CDC ran Proportional Reporting Ratio analyses, which involve comparing the number of reported adverse events to the number of adverse events reported after vaccination with other vaccines.
    ​ The first time the agency ran analyses using the method for the COVID-19 vaccines, in 2022, hundreds of signals were triggered.
    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/fda-refuses-provide-covid-19-vaccine-safety-data-us-senator

    ​ The European Union has just realized that it can’t rule the internet with an iron fist by throwing around the ‘Kremlin propaganda’ label
    ​ The European Commission has concluded in a new report that despite making pinky-promises to “mitigate the reach and influence of Kremlin-sponsored disinformation,” large social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook were “unsuccessful” in doing so. What a shocker that this research by oversight advocates has ended up advocating more oversight. Russia just happens to be the most convenient scapegoat.
    https://www.rt.com/news/582517-kremlin-eu-weapon-free-speech/

    ​CIA Front Preparing Color Revolution in Indonesia

    Leaked: CIA Front Preparing Color Revolution in Indonesia

    ​ General: NATO, US intend to open front against Russia in Caucasus
    ​ NATO and the US intend to open a front against Russia in the Caucasus, the former military attache of the Turkish Embassy in Azerbaijan, General Yucel Karauz told Report…
    ​..Karauz said he has received information that such a call will be made for Azerbaijan as well. According to him, the United States will also support this call and this means that NATO’s move is not against Azerbaijan: “Azerbaijan is a country with developed relations with NATO. Türkiye will definitely not allow any step against Azerbaijan. Armenia cannot become a NATO member without solving its problem with Azerbaijan, without complying with the conditions of the tripartite declaration signed between the leaders of Azerbaijan, Russia, and Armenia on November 10, without showing clean behavior towards Türkiye and Azerbaijan, and without removing the statements aimed at the territorial integrity of Türkiye from its constitution.”
    https://www.azerbaycan24.com/en/general-nato-us-intend-to-open-front-against-russia-in-caucasus/

    in reply to: Debt Rattle September 8 2023 #142701
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    Connected World https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/connected-world

    Thank you to a commenter for sending these Maui Council hearings with local citizens (Governor Josh Green MD got up and left before public comments began).
    Do listen to the native Hawaiian lady in the first video at the top of the stack. She is articulate and right-on.

    MAUI AND THE LACK OF HUMANITY

    The Forensic Arborist, a lifelong self-taught tree enthusiast, who has searched and studied over 40 fires, many in California, is interviewed from Maui in this video, and says a lot more about specific recurring evidentiary findings, like steel belted tires vaporized except for the steel belts, and unaffected tires invariably being polyester-belted and plied.

    The DNC is taking steps to prevent a political primary this year. Nobody who visits a state holding a primary can get votes there, for instance (Iowa, New Hampshire). If Kennedy campaigns in New Hampshire, none of his Georgia votes will count, either. The DNC is considering making Kennedy pay all of the costs of the primaries (which the DNC does not need). Kennedy is not so much “blasting” as discussing politely, intelligently and with personal reserve.
    Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Blasts DNC’s ‘Rigged Process,’ Slams Biden In New Forbes Interview​

    The UK Daily Mail is even taking note.
    Staggering figures reveal 1.2MILLION US-born workers lost their jobs last month – replaced by 688,000 foreign-born staff – as Joe Biden allows migrants to flood across the border
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12478977/Staggering-figures-workers-lost-jobs.html

    in reply to: Debt Rattle September 7 2023 #142654
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    I’m sure Bud Light has “bottomed” and Bill is making a sound financial investment.

    Woke Bill Gates Foundation Becomes One Of Anheuser-Busch’s Top Shareholders
    https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/woke-bill-gates-foundation-becomes-anheuser-buschs-top-shareholder

    in reply to: Debt Rattle September 7 2023 #142636
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    Lahaina Tree Burns Inside Out (short) https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/lahaina-tree-burns-inside-out

    Yesterday I came across this one uncensored 10 second loop of a tree burning from the central core, spewing flames out, while its leaves were unburned and a truck drove by, again and again and again… This is from a local person. All private-citizen local videos were immediately removed from social media, but this one was picked up by a local news station and looped, sort of like the WTC collapse videos that are burned into our memories. Watch the flames shoot from the core of the tree, while unburned leaves blow in the breeze.

    How would the core of a tree burn out while the bark and leaves are not burned? It’s like a microwave oven heating my coffee, but not the mug, isn’t it? Microwave energy is like radar. The wavelengths excite polar molecules and may be completely absorbed by electrically conductive metals. I can remember putting old China in a microwave, the kind with that tiny metallic edge accent, which got really hot and burned me when I picked up the bowl. I didn’t do that again. Polar molecules, like water, but not only water, absorb microwave energy, and it is converted to heat in the material which contains them. Would that include automotive windshields and windows? There are so many images of melted windshields draped over dashboards like a melted cheese slice on a hamburger patty… I googled it below, and below that is a video posted by Dora in the comments at The Automatic Earth, of Canadian trees, mobile-homes, houses and cars burned in unusual ways. It is a video interview of a Forensic Arborist who studied a lot of forest fires around human towns and suburbs in Canada. Water-loving trees like willows burned from the core, sometimes only the core burned, leaving a charred bowl in the center, or a charred cave in the middle of a large tree with unburned bark. Willows along a river, with roots in the water, all burned, while dry pines going up the mountainside next to them did not burn. A mobile home is completely burned out, while the trees around it and the dry wooden landing steps up to where the front door was are unburned.

    The materials required to make a windshield
    The key ingredients to make windshield glass are soda ash, silica sand, limestone, dolomite and cullet. There are little quantities and traces of aluminum oxide and potassium oxide also included most of the time.
    Silica is the major ingredient and around 65-70% of the windshield glass is just silica. This is what makes glass. After silica, soda ash is added to the mixture when silica is being heated. It decreases the melting point of the mix. Dolomite makes the mixture easier to work with, whereas limestone increases the efficiency of the glass and gives it a good finish. Limestone is also a key ingredient for making the glass more durable.
    Then some water is poured into the mixture and heated at a specific temperature. All these chemicals and materials being blended and heated together give birth to glass.
    https://www.smileysglass.com/blog/how-are-windshields-manufactured#

    LOOKING FOR CLUES in the CANADIAN FIRES

    in reply to: Debt Rattle September 6 2023 #142609
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    Thanks Dora. That video has lots of examples of things like water-loving trees burning from the inside out and dry wood is spared, while metal cars are cooked and windows melted. Seems like microwaves transferring that energy into some things and not others.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle September 6 2023 #142606
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    ​Here is a one minute smartphone-video of flying saucers flying at low altitude over Florida a few days ago, followed by some helicopters.

    Sub 10 minute video, “What Is Space Weather?”, clearly explains how solar conditions directly influence weather and communications outages here on earth.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle September 6 2023 #142605
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    “No Choice”: Musk Threatens Suit Against ADL; Blames Activists For “Most Of X’s Revenue Loss”
    ​ Elon Musk, owner of the platform X, formerly known as Twitter, has threatened to ban the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) from his platform, adding that he had “no choice” but to file a defamation lawsuit against the advocacy group, which previously called for a pause on ad spending on the social network.
    ​ The group alleges Mr Musk has failed to clamp down on hate speech on the social media platform since his takeover last year, allowing disinformation to proliferate – something Mr Musk strongly denies.
    ​ Further, it was revealed that the ADL has put pressure on X to deplatform popular anti-woke account Libs of TikTok, which is run by a conservative Jewish woman, Chaya Raichik…
    ..News of the potential lawsuit comes after news broke that X is still down around 60% in US ad revenue as the ADL continues to put pressure on its advertisers to avoid the social media platform.
    ​ “I don’t see any scenario where they’re responsible for less than 10pc of the value destruction, so [around] $4bn.”
    ​ In November, the pressure group Stop Hate for Profit, which includes the ADL, called on advertisers “to pause their spending globally” and claimed “hate speech and disinformation have proliferated” on the app since Mr Musk’s takeover.
    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/no-choice-musk-threatens-suit-against-adl-blames-activists-most-xs-revenue-loss

    ​ ADL “Has Lost Its Way”; CEO Claims Musk Is ‘Inciting Violence Against Jewish People By Criticizing Us’
    ​ “The ADL taught me that nastygrams from Jew haters were just the price we pay for liberty, worthy of being filed and forgotten,” writes Ron Coleman in the op-ed.
    “This is not Weimar Germany; it is America. We have a First Amendment, we have civil rights, we have a working democracy.
    That is part of the good we have done.
    ​ “But” Coleman explains, “the ADL no longer believes this…”
    “It has become part of a great online censorship machine that is being exposed day after day as an anti-free speech enterprise.”
    ​ As Coleman concludes:
    ​ “The ADL’s efforts to censor Twitter confirms what we have known for years: Not only is today’s ADL not doing the world some good. It is doing something much worse. How much longer will we be allowed to say so?”
    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/adl-ceo-jonathan-greenblatt-elon-musk-inciting-violence-against-jewish-people-criticizing

    ​ These graphs of excess deaths are really easy to read for 1-or-more vaccinations, 2-or-more vaccinations and 3-or-more vaccinations compared to no vaccinations.
    Proof of a mRNA Disaster! A Buried England mRNA Data Avalanche has been Exposed. We can now Compare the % of All Cause Death (by Vaccination Status) with the % of Vaccine Uptake.
    https://thenobodywhoknowseverybody.substack.com/p/proof-of-a-mrna-disaster-a-buried

    ​ This cost Dr. Littell so much time, effort and fees, and he gets nothing but his Family Medicine Board Certification reinstated. Mine remains revoked for this same offense.
    ​ A Florida physician known for being outspoken about COVID-related topics has regained his board certification that was stripped because he publicly criticized COVID vaccines…
    ​ Dr. Littell, a longtime family physician in Ocala and a medical school professor, began posting videos sharing his thoughts about COVID-19 testing, treatments, and vaccines early in the pandemic. He was frustrated to find his content often was pulled down from his YouTube channel.
    ​ But he fought against what he saw as censorship by moving the content to other platforms, such as Rumble, he said.
    Then, in January 2022 and again five months later, he received warning letters from the American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM), the organization that issued his certification for his medical specialty.
    ​ The letter stated that his videos on YouTube and Rumble spread “medical misinformation” and could put his board certification in jeopardy, he said.
    The ABFM declined to comment on the matter because the board’s “policy indicates we are unable to comment about professionalism cases.”
    https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/florida-doctor-reinstated-after-losing-board-certification-criticizing-covid-19-vaccines

    in reply to: Debt Rattle September 6 2023 #142604
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    ​To their deaths…
    Poland begins to extradite to Ukraine men who left it after February 24, 2022
    https://tass.com/world/1669287

    ​ Remember the Polish-Lithuanian Empire? (me neither)
    ​ MINSK, September 4. /TASS/. Poland is using the issue of the Suwalki Gap as a pretext to enter Lithuania and potentially occupy part of its territory, Andrey Bogodel, deputy head of the department of the General Staff of the Armed Forces at the Military Academy of Belarus, said in an interview with the STV TV channel.
    https://tass.com/world/1669357

    ​Gilbert Doctorow , Kim Jong Un as guest of honor at the Far East Economic Forum
    ​ The New York Times and Financial Times both today speak about a meeting between Vladimir Putin and North Korean president Kim Jong Un in Vladivostok during the coming days. Buried in their reports is the suggestion that this may occur simultaneously with the Far East Economic Forum which opens in Vladivostok on Monday, 11 September and continues through the 13th. Of course, neither publication says a word about the Forum itself. Meanwhile on today’s Russian state television (Sixty Minutes) I heard confirmation that Kim is expected in Russia as early as on the 10th.
    ​ The Economic Forum is clearly a determinant of the timing of Kim’s visit to Russia. But then so are the American-South Korean military exercises, the port call of a U.S. nuclear submarine to South Korea and the observation by Kim last week when he visited his own naval headquarters that the nearby seas presently hold the world’s biggest concentration of warships, and that North Korea would respond to this threat…
    ..Of course, at this point no one can say whether Kim will be given the podium at the Forum. But his likely presence in Vladivostok for his meeting with Putin at this moment which will be watched by the entire world shows that Russia’s emerging relationship with North Korea is anything but surreptitious.

    Kim Jong Un as guest of honor at the Far East Economic Forum

    ​Shutting the barn door…
    US Sanctions Fail Again: Huawei Unveils New Smartphone With Its Own Advanced Chip
    ​ Bloomberg purchased a Huawei Mate 60 Pro. The handset was delivered to TechInsights for a complete teardown. They found a new Kirin 9000s chip manufactured in China by Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp.
    ​ TechInsights said SMIC had used existing equipment and applied its second-generation 7-nanometer process, known as the N+2 node, to manufacture the Kirin 9000s chip for the Mate 60 Pro. This phone with the new chip is on par with Apple’s iPhones launched in 2018. Currently, iPhone chips are made by the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, using a 4-nanometer process.
    https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/huawei-breaks-free-us-tech-blockade-new-smartphone-featuring-high-tech-chip

    in reply to: Debt Rattle September 6 2023 #142603
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    This is extremely dark and evil. I have been seeing this same basic story since the mid 1980s. You are not required to look at this. I think it is real. I knew one victim in 1989.
    Elite Pedophilia And The Propaganda Machine, Part 4: The Final Chapter – Towards Ascension

    Elite Pedophilia And The Propaganda Machine, Part 4: The Final Chapter – Towards Ascension

    Ukrainian Spy Participated in US Capitol Breach Alongside QAnon Shaman – Report
    In one of the photos taken on January 6, 2021, QAnon Shaman is standing near the man later identified as Dubynyn at the front door of the US Capitol. Per Jacob, he didn’t know who the man was: the individual approached him and asked for a photo.
    https://sputnikglobe.com/20230905/ukrainian-spy-participated-in-us-capitol-breach-alongside-qanon-shaman–report-1113136979.html

    ​About the complete social media blackout of all personal videos of Maui fires. “Removed for Graphic Content”, even with no “graphic content” at all. 10 second loop of a strange tree on fire from only the inside.

    U.S.-Funded War in Ukraine Costs More in One Day than Biden Is Sending to Maui
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/09/05/u-s-funded-war-ukraine-costs-more-one-day-than-biden-is-sending-maui/

    in reply to: Debt Rattle September 6 2023 #142602
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    Blue Pill Crack Pipe https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/blue-pill-crack-pipe

    You may remember the Larry Sinclair story from early 2008 during the primary season. Hillary Clinton supporters liked Larry. Larry said he gave Barack Obama $250 for some cocaine and had oral sex with him in the back of a limo in 1999, after Barack smoked some crack. That story came up in February of 2008, but the first link I can find in my inbox that is still live is from May, describing Larry’s story and how popular he was during the 2008 primaries among Clinton supporters.
    ​ Larry Sinclair, the Minnesota man who took to YouTube to allege that Barack Obama had oral sex with him in the back of a limousine in 1999, is one of the belles of the ball. “They almost made me cry this morning when they told me to get out of there,” the blond Sinclair–who’s looking roly-poly and giddy in a blue-and-white striped shirt with a pack of Marlboros protruding from the breast pocket–says, referring to several nervous protest organizers who tried to evict him when he first showed up at the rally site early this morning carrying a box of “Obama’s DIRTY LITTLE SECRETS: Murder, Drugs, Gay Sex” fliers. Since then, though, he goes on, “I have been totally surprised by the reception I have received!” He’s not kidding. Clusters of people in Hillary shirts ask to take their photo with him, one woman covered in Clinton buttons introduces him to Greta Van Susteren, and he estimates he has handed out 500 fliers.​.. In the thirty minutes I stand with him, only one woman expresses disgust at his fliers and his willingness to chattily discourse on whether Obama is “good in bed.” Earlier, he claims, he even got to take a picture with Charlie Rangel. “I love him!” Sinclair chirps, though, it must be said, not as much as he loves Lanny Davis.​.. It’s easy to sink into despair here. Standing and watching all these Democrats chat up Sinclair–who’s retained Montgomery Blair Sibley as his lawyer and says the Republican National Committee has also been in touch with him–makes me want to fall to my knees, rend my garments, and start insanely screaming, “Wake up! Wake up! You’ll hate a President John McCain!”
    https://rense.com/general82/larry.htm

    Somehow Larry Sinclair is still drawing air all of these years later. Tucker Carlson has mentioned him recently and has interviewed him.
    That interview may have “aired” by the time you read this. Here is the 1 minute teaser of Larry Sinclair’s statements to Tucker.

    James Roguski, who focuses on international treaty law, particularly related to UN and W.H.O. “Pandemic Preparedness, Prevention and Response” instruments has long monitored organizations which advocate for these interventions. James has put up this blog post about a meeting which would benefit greatly from some “diverse views”.
    ​ If you know anyone who lives in the New York City area, or would be willing and able to travel to NYC on the evening of September 18, 2023, please share this information with them ASAP.
    RSVP:
    https://www.eventbrite.com/e/preventing-the-next-pandemic-are-we-ready-to-take-responsibility-tickets-700668497337
    (Technically, you will not be “crashing” the party – everyone IS invited!)
    The Panel for a Global Public Health Convention and the Government of Malaysia are pleased to invite you to a panel discussion during the 78th United Nations General Assembly on September 18, 2023.
    https://jamesroguski.substack.com/p/crash-their-party

    in reply to: Debt Rattle September 5 2023 #142563
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    Here is something cool, flying saucers being followed by helicopters over Florida. Nice, detailed 1 minute video: https://www.bitchute.com/video/klrz6wvNhOjt/

    in reply to: Debt Rattle September 5 2023 #142561
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    Participant

    This is deeply evil. I have read about this before, long ago and from time to time. DBS knows things about this.

    Elite Pedophilia And The Propaganda Machine, Part 4: The Final Chapter – Towards Ascension

    Elite Pedophilia And The Propaganda Machine, Part 4: The Final Chapter – Towards Ascension

    in reply to: Debt Rattle September 4 2023 #142493
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    ​Meryl Nass MD, via Door To Freedom shows how this W.H.O. “treaty-revision” is a short-circuit of human-rights recognized by nations and constitutions, negating all of that if an unelected bureaucrat declares a “public health emergency”, which has no clear definition, and no checks or balances. This happens automatically if no nation objects promptly.
    The WHO’s Proposed Treaty Will Increase Man-Made Pandemics

    The WHO’s Proposed Treaty Will Increase Man-Made Pandemics 

    ​ On September 20, about 2 weeks from now, the UN will silently approve these 13 pages, which will supersede all constitutional governments in 6 months, if no formal objection is raised by a government. This is very stealthy international law, and it is internally redundant, giving lip service to human rights, then clearly stripping them and enforcing emergency mandates without individual or national recourse. Reading a few pages is about like reading 13 pages. You have seen this kind of writing far too often by now.
    FINAL TEXT FOR SILENCE PROCEDURE
    Political Declaration of the United Nations General Assembly High-level Meeting on Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness and Response
    https://docs.reclaimthenet.org/Final-text-for-silence-procedure-PPPR-Political-Declaration.pdf

    On Door To Freedom, from Yours Truly, for your reference and benefit: Vitamin D, Your Defense In Depth

    Vitamin D, Your Defense in Depth

    in reply to: Debt Rattle September 4 2023 #142491
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    Thanks to Noirette and others:
    Eugyppius 12/20/2021, Omicron is Not Normal , Everything suggests this variant was leaked from a laboratory engaged in gain-of-function research
    https://www.eugyppius.com/p/omicron-is-not-normal

    From 11/15/2021, The Ethical Skeptic looks at evidence of COVID variants circulating in early 2018, and also concludes that Omicron was so very genetically divergent that it had to be released from a lab.
    China’s CCP Concealed SARS-CoV-2 Presence in China as Far Back as March 2018

    China’s CCP Concealed SARS-CoV-2 Presence in China as Far Back as March 2018

    ​ A recent Japanese research paper provides conclusive evidence that none of the many recent COVID variants of Omicron sub-lineage that they tested could have feasibly arisen naturally. Two articles look at that, with different styles and a lot of overlap.

    Who’s Making the Variants?
    https://www.steynonline.com/13744/who-making-the-variants

    “Unnatural evolution”: indisputable evidence for deliberate and systematic creation of circulating covid variants
    Comprehensive panels of “reversion mutations” found in general circulation look like an experiment
    https://swinehoodsremedy.substack.com/p/unnatural-evolution-indisputable

    Dr. Meryl Nass explains how the WHO’s proposed pandemic treaty will enable the WHO “to take over jurisdiction of everything in the world by saying that climate change, animals, plants, water systems [and] ecosystems are all central to health”.​ (3 minutes only)

    in reply to: Debt Rattle September 4 2023 #142490
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    Google hiding websites of Trump and other Biden challengers – report
    Searching ‘presidential campaign websites’ returned incumbent Joe Biden’s webpage and several inactive Democrats
    https://www.rt.com/news/581881-google-censors-republicans-rfk-websites/

    ​Alex Berenson on COVID-vaccine immunosuppression:
    The mRNA Covid jabs damage immune responses to other viruses in children, a new study finds
    Yet another reason giving mRNA shots to kids looks like an increasingly bad choice
    https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/very-urgent-the-mrna-covid-jabs-damage

    ​Thailand Medical News posts that Okinawa is seeing a wave of increased COVID infections and hospitalizations in July and August, which may go global.
    https://www.thailandmedical.news/news/covid-19-surge-in-okinawa-again-is-a-reflection-of-what-is-in-store-for-the-rest-of-the-world-non-stop-infections-and-reinfections-till-you-eventually

    Okinawa is pretty far south of the rest of Japan, and is really a separate culture and ethnicity. Okinawans are the longest-lived people in the world, spending a lot of time outdoors the in sun and fresh air, and eating a widely varied fresh diet. Initial uptake of COVID-19 vaccines by September 2021 was the lowest in Japan, about 55%, based on this graph…
    https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-023-15376-6

    in reply to: Debt Rattle September 4 2023 #142489
    John Day
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    Emergent Threats https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/emergent-threats

    Sasha Latypova, More on Peculiarities of Lahaina Fire
    ​ Today’s post is short and comes from another reader. This is an interesting video from a Lahaina resident who was allowed to go to his house in the mostly unburned neighborhood of Kahoma Village. It is in the middle of the area that burned completely, so it is a miracle of sorts.
    https://sashalatypova.substack.com/p/more-on-peculiarities-of-lahaina

    ​ This particular Navy laser weapon is mounted on the USS Portland, which is docked in San Diego. The Navy has not had much to say about lasers and microwave directed energy weapons recently. They would light different things on fire. The lasers are typically near infrared, especially commercial lasers, so invisible. They make things get hot and burn. The microwaves don’t heat dry grass, cardboard, or ceramics but do heat polar molecules. Different microwave frequencies/wavelengths could act differently on materials. They would and do heat up flesh.
    ​ The AN/SEQ-3 Laser Weapon System or XN-1 LaWS[1] is a laser weapon developed by the United States Navy. The weapon was installed on USS Ponce for field testing in 2014. In December 2014, the United States Navy reported that the LaWS system worked perfectly against low-end asymmetric threats, and that the commander of Ponce was authorized to use the system as a defensive weapon.[2] …
    ..The LaWS is designed to be used against low-end asymmetric threats. Scalable power levels allow it to be used on low power to dazzle a person’s eye non-lethally to turn away a threat, and to be used at high power, up to 30 kilowatts, to fry sensors, burn out motors, and detonate explosive materials. By lasing a vital point, LaWS can shoot down a small UAV in as little as two seconds. When facing small boats, the laser can target a craft’s motor to disable it, then repeat this against other boats in rapid succession, requiring only a few seconds of firing per boat.​..
    ..Against a larger aircraft like a helicopter, LaWS can burn through some vital components to cause it to crash.[3]​ …
    ​..With tests going well, the Navy expected to deploy a laser weapon operationally between 2017 and 2021 with an effective range of 1 mi (1.6 km; 0.87 nmi). The exact level of power the LaWS will use is unknown but estimated between 15–50 kW for engaging small aircraft and high-speed boats. Directed-energy weapons are being pursued for economic reasons, as they can be fired for as little as one dollar per shot, while conventional gun rounds and missiles can cost thousands of dollars each. The Navy has a history of testing energy weapons, including megawatt chemical lasers in the 1980s. Their chemicals were found to be too hazardous for shipboard use, so they turned to less powerful fiber solid-state lasers. Other types can include slab solid state and free electron lasers.[6] The LaWS benefitted from commercial laser developments, with the system basically being six welding lasers “strapped together” that, although they don’t become a single beam, all converge on the target at the same time. It generates 33 kW in testing, with follow-on deployable weapons generating 60–100 kW mounted on a Littoral Combat Ship or Arleigh Burke-class destroyer to destroy fast-attack boats, drones, manned aircraft, and anti-ship cruise missiles out to a few miles.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AN/SEQ-3_Laser_Weapon_System

    ​The expert battlefield mercenaries that did not get killed went home already.
    Failed Counter-Offensive: Is Ukraine Losing Because Foreign Fighters Are Walking Away?
    https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/failed-counter-offensive-ukraine-losing-because-foreign-fighters-are-walking-away

    ​Moon of Alabama has this, but I would like to point out that once a soldier or general is trained, he may well think for himself. (The military men I know think for themselves)
    ​ The U.S. used its training of African officer to subtly find and train people it could work with. An astonishing number of these officer were later involved in coups which often turned out to be anti-French and pro-American:
    ​ [S]ince 2008 U.S.-trained officers have attempted at least nine coups, and succeeded in at least eight in five West African countries alone: Three times in Burkina Faso; three times in Mali; and once each in Guinea, Mauritania, and the Gambia.
    ​ U.S. training and support to the region flows through the State Department and Africa Command, an arm of the Department of Defense, in charge of military operations across the continent.
    ​ Since the above was written Niger has followed:
    ​ Brig. Gen Moussa Barmou, the American-trained commander of the Nigerien special operations forces, beamed as he embraced a senior U.S. general visiting the country’s $100 million, Washington-funded drone base in June.
    ​ Six weeks later, Barmou helped oust Niger’s democratically elected president.
    https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/09/france-can-only-be-an-independent-power-if-it-learns-to-push-back.html#more

    in reply to: Debt Rattle September 4 2023 #142488
    John Day
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    @Figmund Sreud: Here is an overview of the quadrant they are searching for rheumatic issues involving pain. It is conveniently titled the things they said:
    https://www.niams.nih.gov/health-topics/polymyalgia-rheumatica-giant-cell-arteritis#:~:text=Polymyalgia%20rheumatica%20causes%20muscle%20pain,tend%20to%20improve%20with%20activity.
    The jabs do tend to cause autoimmune disease. This paper says polymyalgia Rheumatica is on the rise in the vaccinated:
    https://www.cureus.com/articles/144091-rare-cases-of-polymyalgia-rheumatica-after-receiving-covid-19-vaccinations#!/

    in reply to: Debt Rattle September 3 2023 #142409
    John Day
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    @Noirette: Thank you for the SARS-CoV 2 family tree closet-skeletons. Here the Ethical Skeptic lookes at that from late 2021, drawing similar, yet extended conclusions about lab origins and release or leak timing.

    China’s CCP Concealed SARS-CoV-2 Presence in China as Far Back as March 2018

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    Damn, the spam-blocker threw away my nice work this time!
    It was about the Navy’s ship based anti-missile laser weapon 30kW, from 6 welding lasers, and some look at microwave beam weapons, which are microwaves, like microwave ovens, so heat water, polar-molecules, and anything which is “permissive” to their wavelengths.
    Microwave weapons would have to be line-of sight from a big military transport plane with a serious generator/batteries, but a surface ship 3okW laser has been in use since 2014 on the USS Portland (currently in San Diego) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AN/SEQ-3_Laser_Weapon_System
    Following a review of several ship classes to determine which had available space, power, and cooling, it was decided that after Ponce’s planned decommissioning in 2018, the LaWS will be moved to the new amphibious transport dock ship USS Portland (LPD-27) for indefinite testing. It will utilise the space and power connections reserved for its vertical launching system to house the LaWS power and control modules while the laser itself will be bolted to the deck. Because the installation will be only a trial, LaWS will not be integrated into the ship’s warfare system.[16]

    However as a developmental project the issues, some of them due to the nature of its development as a developmental prototype such as the bulky trickle charge capacitors and long charge time, difficulty tracking small targets and problems producing a single synchronised and coherent beam from the six smaller emitters prevented the LaWS from entering serial production.[17] In January 2018, the Navy announced a $150 million contract with Lockheed Martin for the production of two HELIOS laser units to be delivered in 2020; one will be fitted to USS Arleigh Burke (DDG-51) while the other will be used for land-based testing. Further contract options could bring its value to $942.8 million.[18]

    in reply to: Debt Rattle September 2 2023 #142369
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    Back for more pummeling by the spam-blocker 😀

    ​ Run into that minefield under machine gun fire and artillery barrage: Go! Go! Go! (“Euphoria, no fear, no pain” reported by soldiers ordered to take pills.)
    EXCLUSIVE! Captured Ukrainian Soldiers Speak Out, Forced to Take Drugs To Fight

    ​ We have known and advised this for well over a decade, but now it is in a scientific paper. Excess carbohydrates like sugar induce the liver to convert them to fat, which sits in the liver, causing cirrhosis and sometimes primary liver cancer, hepatocellular carcinoma. Just don’t drink sweet drinks.
    Sugar-Sweetened and Artificially Sweetened Beverages and Risk of Liver Cancer and Chronic Liver Disease Mortality
    https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2807987

    ​ Sasha Latypova, The Real Purpose of the SV40 Promoter in Covid Injections (I really edited this down to the essential core information.)
    ​ Besides being extremely problematic due to large quantities of DNA found in the vials, the most alarming finding was the SV40 promoter in the DNA plasmid sequence. This part was not disclosed by Pfizer to the regulators. Therefore, they encoded a “stealth gene” in the sequence! This falls squarely into Air Force’s (JASON group) definition of a biological weapon…
    ​..Absolutely stunning isn’t it? To summarize: Pfizer encoded an undisclosed “gene” into the DNA matrix from which mRNA is being made for covid injections. Then they left huge amounts of this raw material in the final product. The purpose of this undisclosed component is to ensure that whatever it is attached to is delivered not just into the cell, but into the cell’s nucleus (where the human DNA resides). Let’s remember however, that humans do not have some sort of a central DNA place that can be modified for the whole body. Human body consists of trillions of cells, each with the nucleus containing DNA (except red blood cells), and the majority of cells in the body are a variety of non-human cells (microbiome) with their own DNAs.
    ​ Microbial cells may replicate quickly, such as e.coli that live in our gut who will pick up the plasmids if they end up there and start replicating them and spewing spike, dying off, shedding, etc. Furthermore, the SV40 promoter ensures that the “cargo” is delivered to the nuclei of the cells that are not dividing or slowly dividing, such as neurons, cardiac cells, skeletal and smooth muscle cells. The latter are cells that line the gastrointestinal tract, all blood vessels, bladder and uterus. These cells are not dividing normally, because they reached terminal differentiation which is critical for normal body growth and function. However the cells retain ability to divide, which can be functional (uterine cells during normal pregnancy), or, can be a source of pathology – abnormal cell growth leading to cancer. That’s why SV40 promoter is associated with cancer. It delivers foreign cargo into the nuclei of cells that are not supposed to divide, but may begin this malignant process due to being hacked by the foreign cargo…
    ​..Lastly, a recent study by Italian researchers have demonstrated beyond any doubt that approximately 50% of vaccinated individuals produce spike protein continuously when measured at 6 months after the last injection. Igor Chudov wrote a very good explainer on this. The Italian team also states that this is likely because of 1) some human cells get transfected and the modified RNA is reverse transcribed into genomes of those cells or 2) microbial cells in the blood pick up the foreign material (it can be RNA or plasmids or both) and also become spike spewing factories. Or both things happen in various places in the body. This does not happen in unvaccinated people whether or not they are positive for covid by PCR, so that’s definitely not whatever is called “covid infection”.
    https://sashalatypova.substack.com/p/sv40-promoter-in-covid-injections

    ​ Court revives doctors’ lawsuit saying FDA overstepped its authority with anti-ivermectin campaign​ Thanks Mel.
    ​ The doctors can proceed with their lawsuit contending that the FDA’s campaign exceeded the agency’s authority under federal law, the ruling said.
    ​ “FDA is not a physician. It has authority to inform, announce, and apprise—but not to endorse, denounce, or advise,” Judge Don Willett wrote for a panel that also included Jennifer Walker Elrod and Edith Brown Clement. “The Doctors have plausibly alleged that FDA’s Posts fell on the wrong side of the line between telling about and telling to.”
    ​ Drs. Robert L. Apter, Mary Talley Bowden and Paul E. Marik filed the lawsuit last year. All three said their reputations were harmed by the FDA campaign. Bowden lost admitting privileges at a Texas hospital, the ruling noted. Marik alleged he lost his positions at a medical school and at a hospital for promoting the use of ivermectin.
    https://news.yahoo.com/court-revives-doctors-lawsuit-saying-232441458.html

    ​Meryl Nass MD is now dangerous enough to the control-narrative to merit a “hit piece”. (They will need a more sophisticated and expensive character-assassin.)
    Voila! the HIT Piece​ , From Ms. Melissa Goldin, who specializes in this type of genre
    https://merylnass.substack.com/p/voila-the-hit-piece

    in reply to: Debt Rattle September 2 2023 #142365
    John Day
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    Baby-steps after a couple of tries just to get that last bit to post…

    ​This is a remarkably pleasant and well presented case for global-warming happening as a timely part of a recurring planetary climate cycle.
    Uh Oh, Methane Evidence Suggests We Entered Ice Age Termination Event

    in reply to: Debt Rattle September 2 2023 #142364
    John Day
    Participant

    Testing… Spam blocker’s got my number.

    Spam-in-a-can

    in reply to: Debt Rattle September 2 2023 #142363
    John Day
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    The new rumor is that a pandemic “worse than COVID” is coming this winter.
    ​ Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday accused “left-wing lunatics” of fear-mongering about new COVID-19 variants in order to justify the reintroduction of their left-wing lockdown and mandate policies, which included the use of drop boxes and mail-in ballots in 2020, in a bid to rig the 2024 election.
    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/trump-says-fear-mongering-about-new-covid-variants-lunatic-ploy-rig-2024-election

    ​ Go(de)FundMe has been politically weaponized, as explained by Matt Taibbi. Remember PayPal defunding Wikileaks, and all the bloggers being blocked from ad revenue, and taken down from YouTube? The free-speech closet is over there. Close the door behind yourself.
    ​ GoFundMe, Go To Hell​ , Matt Taibbi
    ​ After they froze a successful GrayZone fundraiser over unnamed “external concerns,” GoFundMe became the official poster child for the politicization of economic services
    https://www.racket.news/p/gofundme-go-to-hell

    ​ Moon of Alabama , Thanks Christine. As The U.S. Wages War On It China Reacts With Defiance
    Will the CCP succeed?
    ​ The product it’s pitching to its citizens and to the world—that’s multilateralism via economic engagement—is fundamentally more attractive to a lot of countries than the deficit driven global War to Save Democracy that the US is peddling. Given money, perseverance, luck, and time the PRC might be able to thread the needle.
    ​ But … there’s that “time” thing. There’s the rub.
    My opinion is, if the CCP is succeeding, in other words if it shows significant progress in establishing a robust parallel international order that can shield it from US economic aggression, the US will start a hot war to see if it can truly f*ck China up.
    Because the only US response to failure is escalation.
    And that’s why my profile says “pessimist”.
    https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/09/as-the-us-wages-war-on-it-china-reacts.html#more

    ​ The Fall-winter pandemic is supposed to be something worse than COVID. Do we still have all of our cowering and complying reflexes intact? The DU rounds are for the Abrams tanks that the US is finally shipping to Ukraine. They may not get there in time for fall mud, but would work better on frozen ground in winter.
    ​ A New “Armored Fist”, A New Pandemic And Old Depleted Uranium Rounds. Military Summary For 2023.9.02

    ​ This summer may have seen 80,000 Ukrainian men, mostly drafted into the army, sent into the meat grinder to come out dead, just this summer.
    The Fall | The Russians Inflict CRITICAL Losses. Final AFU Redeployment. Military Summary 2023.09.01

    in reply to: Debt Rattle September 2 2023 #142362
    John Day
    Participant

    Terminal Arrangements https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/terminal-arrangements

    Dare I say that I am developing a fondness for the battle-cries of Marjorie Taylor Greene?
    (I thought not, but look at her go, as fearless as Tucker Carlson!)
    Marjorie Taylor Greene: Biden Dragged US Into Proxy War With Russia That Moscow ‘Is Winning’
    https://sputnikglobe.com/20230901/marjorie-taylor-greene-biden-dragged-us-into-proxy-war-with-russia-that-moscow-is-winning-1113041167.html

    ​ Gilbert Doctorow , Western leaders are all fighting for their survival in power. Where does this lead? To war! [Discussing only European leaders here!]
    ​ However, we note that the drone attack that destroyed Russian military aircraft at the Pskov airport in Russia’s northwest region a day ago is said to have been launched from Estonian territory.
    ​ So far, Moscow has not reacted to what could and should be a casus belli with a NATO Member State. But how much longer will Putin show forbearance?
    These are very dangerous times and the weakness of Western leadership points to more, not less war.

    Western leaders are all fighting for their survival in power.

    ​ Tom Luongo hits a whole lot of important financial-geopolitics points here. Best summary yet on the BRICS summit last week.
    ​ BRICS Summit Proves Geography Trumps Currency
    ​ While everyone is talking de-dollarization, the real currency losing it’s position in global trade is the euro. But no one is talking about de-eruoization. I guess it doesn’t roll off the tongue as well?
    ​ According to the latest data from the SWIFT RMB Tracker, there is no currency that has lost more ground in global trade than the euro. In just over two years the euro has fallen from 39.5% of global payments outside the euro-zone to just 13.6%.​
    ​ The dollar absorbed most of those payments with the British pound, Japanese yen and, yes, the Chinese renminbi taking up the rest.
    ​ So, the great distraction about de-dollarization is, in part, about paying no attention to the rapid demise of the euro and the emerging sovereign bond crisis that ECB President Christine Lagarde works everyday to paper over.​..
    ​..But, back to the BRICS. If de-dollarization wasn’t the point of the Summit this year, then what was?
    Expansion.
    And not just expansion for the sake of expansion, but geographically strategic expansion.​..
    ..But it is the 5 countries clustered around the center of global trade that should grab your attention. Because all talk of a BRICS common currency are nothing more than theatre if there isn’t a fully developed alternative financial supply chain to capture the profits and minimize currency risks and friction for all the members…
    I​ran:
    ​ So, let’s start with the easy one. Iran, in my book, has been the “I” in BRICS for years. Because with India constantly keeping everyone off-balance, much like Erdogan in Turkey, that incentivized Russia and China to invest heavily in Iran, as a counterpoint, making it the key to both China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and Russia’s long-desired International North-South Transport Corridor (INSTC).
    ​ India dragged their feet for so long on their contracted work on the Iranian port at Chabahar, that Iran nullified the contract, handed it to China, who then finished the work in less time than it took for Iran to get India on the phone to complain about it.​..
    ..Both the ports at Chabahar and Bandar Abbas now serve to get Asian trade, especially coming from Russia, exits beyond the choke points around the Mediterranean, Red, and Black Seas.
    ​ So, Iran was always going to be the first country added to the bloc. It quickly put India on notice to stop playing games.​..
    Saudi Arabia:
    ​ With the successful intervention by Russia in Syria, and their own disastrous results in the War in Yemen, it was only a matter of time before Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MbS) came to his senses.
    ​ Saudi Arabia’s future was with the BRICS not the remnants of the British empire. As an aside here, I talk about Neocons all the time and the best way to think of them, beyond their hatred of pretty much the rest of the world, is to see them as the inheritors of the British empire’s foreign policy.​..
    ..Saudi Arabia had no other option than to go along with its OPEC+ partner, Russia, if MbS wants the country to survive the end of its oil reserves…
    U​nited Arab Emirates:
    The UAE addition is definitely part of the currency discussion. Dubai and Abu Dhabi have rapidly become centers for strategic commodities trading with very successful and deepening gold and oil trading…
    ​..In order to even talk about some form of gold-backed trade settlement system, there has to be a deep and liquid supply chain and financial industry in place to facilitate both that settlement and minimize the storage risks to gold and currency risks of the alliance members trading bilaterally without the dollar as the intermediate.
    ​ So, adding Dubai as one node in that network outside of China’s control was important to building trust there. Having multiple exchanges, vaults, and refineries simplifies everything. And, with that, minimizes the ‘convenience premium’ of using the US dollar and maximizing members’ use of local currencies with gold acting as the universal trust layer and a blockchain for back office and auditing functions.
    ​ So, first, you add the financial center, then you start really talking the whole “Gold-Backed BRICS Currency.” Order of operations matters folks.
    ​ The UAE was necessary to get India to even consider going along with Russia and China on this idea, which is why the UAE dirham will be the settlement currency between India and Russia on oil sales, and not the ruble. It both creates validity for a third party while also keeps India free from directly contravening US sanctions on buying Russian energy.​..
    Argentina:
    ​ It shouldn’t be underestimated how much the IMF and European corruption have wr​eaked [wrought] havoc in Argentina over the years. This is another resource-rich country that has been kept under constant upheaval which now has the opportunity, like Egypt, to get out from underneath the IMF’s thumb, depriving vulture capitalists all across the west the opportunity to plunder the country one more time.
    ​ Adding Argentina should see the development money necessary to build out its significant shale reserves at Vaca Muerta make its way into the country. This stabilizes its foreign exchange reserves and access to the BRICS New Development Bank (NDB) gives it an alternative to the IMF loan sharks.
    ​ The upcoming elections could quickly become a referendum on IMF requirements and capital controls.​ [Argentine elites ​own most of Argentina’s $US debt.]​…​Egypt and Ethiopia:
    Egypt is a fascinating turn of events, because Egypt’s financial weakness was the very thing to create a strategic opportunity for Russia and China to make President Al-Sisi a great offer. Use our New Development Bank and stiff the International Monetary Fund if they won’t negotiate a debt write-down.
    Like what’s in front of Argentina, Egypt now has leverage in negotiations they didn’t have before.
    Either way the IMF loses here, because Egypt has an alternative lender it can force a write-down by the IMF for the first time ever or they can just default. China is already willing to forgive $8 billion in Egypt’s debt while the IMF is holding fast only to restructuring.And if you think Egypt doesn’t have this leverage here let’s not forget that the Suez Canal still handles 12% of global trade daily. The BRICS bloc now have a political ally that controls the Suez.
    ​ With Ethiopia, along with Russia’s deft diplomacy with both Eretria and China’s with Djibouti where they have port access, the BRICS now has effectively unfettered access to the Red Sea. The pressure will mount for Eretria and Djibouti to make peace with Ethiopia, thus opening up trade in eastern Africa.
    ​ Access to or circumventing the historic chokepoints to global trade has been a long-held goal of both Russia and China. And it looks like with these additions to the BRICS bloc, they have finally achieved that.​..
    ​..The Neocons struck geopolitical gold with blowing up Nordstream, depriving Germany and France of much needed gas. Things are so bad in Germany that they are now quietly dismantling their wind farms to rebuild coal-fired plants, going back to the one energy source they have in abundance in Europe.
    ​ Now Africa is in revolt against France. Last month it was Niger. This month it is Gabon. There is no way France can respond to all of these revolts on their own. They need outside intervention and it doesn’t look like it’s coming.
    ​ Queen Warmonger Vicky Nudelman went to Niger and was rebuffed. Reports are now circulating that she and her staff were caught completely by surprise with events in Africa and had no solutions, offers or even credible threats to bring to bear.​..
    ​..If you map Nuland to the UK/US Neocons who are not necessarily aligned with Davos then this report should shock you, because it tells us that neither are capable of moving into the power vacuum left by these juntas seizing power.​
    ​ It says, with little equivocation, that all of the colonial powers of Europe are paper tigers… ​
    ​..The BRIC​S bloc understands that their best course of action is to continue building new relationships, networks, and pressuring the centuries-old colonial networks that have financed their power.​ Staying out of a direct hot war simply makes good strategic sense. Attrition is a bitch, energetically.​..
    ​..Against that backdrop, de-dollarization is the least of their worries. It will be the thing that grinds away in the background, like Powell’s shrinking the Fed’s balance sheet, and will just emerge out of these events.
    ​ The choice the West is now facing is at what point do they stop fighting this and finally come to the negotiating table. Some factions, like the US military and the banking sector, have already made their intentions clear.​ [Adaptation​ to changing realities, I believe.]
    ​ The others? Not so much.

    BRICS Summit Proves Geography Trumps Currency

    ​ Water wars may look like nice vegetales, or alfalfa to feed cattle. Christine says the Mexican aquifer where she lives has been drained and all the local wells are dry, after agribusiness arranged for lots of broccoli to be grown for export to the US.
    ​ US lawmaker introduces bill to rein in Saudi water usage in Arizona
    Congressman Ruben Gallego says Arizona’s water and crops ‘belong in Arizona, not Saudi Arabia’
    https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-lawmaker-introduces-bill-rein-saudi-water-usage-arizona

    in reply to: Debt Rattle September 2 2023 #142358
    John Day
    Participant

    @Michael Reid: The “Bio Warfare Expert” above is Meryl Nass MD, who is actually that. She has now rated a lame hit-piece, which she “debunks” here: https://merylnass.substack.com/p/voila-the-hit-piece

    in reply to: Debt Rattle September 2 2023 #142351
    John Day
    Participant

    As if to illustrate…
    ;-(

    in reply to: Debt Rattle September 2 2023 #142350
    John Day
    Participant

    bad keypad. No corrections allowed by troll-software when I’m in Yoakum. It took me loong enough to get past it this morning to begin with. Sorry, I don’t notice the misses and doubles until I hit (SUBMIT).
    Impatient senior citizen.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle September 2 2023 #142349
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    I was thinking about it. They might be using big chemical lasers, but that is a lot of single-burst packets of chemicals to get up to space, each probably like a 50 gallon drum to make one burn circle, and then iit is used…
    How many bburned circles? How many 50 gallon drums?

    in reply to: Debt Rattle September 2 2023 #142348
    John Day
    Participant

    Thank you, Michael Reid.
    I m not keeping up with Dr.D today, not at all.
    He is reading entrails like Cassandra this morning.
    Where are the children? Where are the families?
    Where is tht robotic orbiting-forever space-shuttle thing?
    DEWs this powerful would need a significant nuclear reactor and vast capacitive electric power storage to do so much cooking.
    That is a whole lot of electric-dryers worth of burned circles!

    in reply to: Debt Rattle September 2 2023 #142323
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    A real ballot in November 2024 would pit Trump & Greene aginst Kennedy & Gabbard.
    The imperial court needs to change “leadership” this winter.
    I seek to avoid hope (last/worst curse from Pandora’s box), but it would be historically elegant if such a sudden transition occurred, perhaps sparked by the Ukrainian “government” falling to somewhat-rational military “patriots”, who would negotiate a deal with Russia to keep Odessa as a self-governing Oblast or something, like what Donetsk and Luhansk were agreed to be in Minsk, while declaring Ukrainian “neutrality”.

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