[John Day]

​ Revisiting this article you may have missed last Christmas, about some things our elite owners might expect in their own lives. What is a ‘Breakaway Civilization’?
technologies of the future, here in the present​ , Josh Mitteldorf https://mitteldorf.substack.com/p/what-is-a-breakaway-civilization

​ The search for fundamental understanding of the mechanisms of life can lead to… Sex and the Single Paramecium, Evolution wants us to mix up our genes,
Josh Mitteldorf, The big picture
​ If you’re a paramecium, you can clone yourself for awhile, but your clonal lineage is a dead end. Only the community survives long-term, and not the individual.
For multicelled creatures, we can’t clone ourselves at all. Each of us is destined to be a one-off experiment in combinatorics, never to be repeated. It is the gene pool that has Darwinian staying power, not the particular combination that is you or me.
​ This principle has deep consequences for the whole process of evolution. It means that, in the long run, it is the fitness of the community that matters. Individual fitness is fated to be a transitory phenomenon. It is community fitness that can persist, can compete, can flourish in Darwin’s competition.
​ This is the opposite of the “selfish gene”. Richard Dawkins (and R. A. Fisher 46 years before him) had it exactly backwards. According to the selfish gene dogma, which dominated evolutionary theory from 1970 onward, Darwinian competition takes place primarily at the individual level. That was the old theory. But sex changes this. The meaning of sex is precisely to lift the level of evolutionary selection from the individual to the community.
​ Life is evolved for cooperation, just as much as for competition.​ https://mitteldorf.substack.com/p/sex-and-the-single-paramecium

​Even People can do this with Other People if they both do it! Dogs’ Brains Sync With Ours When We Gaze Into Their Eyes, Study Finds https://www.sciencealert.com/dogs-brains-sync-with-ours-when-we-gaze-into-their-eyes-study-finds

Soul-Gazer (pictured with soul-gazing-partner, Jenny)

[John Day]

​ Meryl Nass MD really encapsulated this well (with transcript): My 3 minute talk at the Sovereignty Coalition Summit on the UN’s Pact for the Future today
I keep trying to boil it down into smaller and more digestible pieces​. https://merylnass.substack.com/p/my-3-minute-talk-at-the-sovereignty

​ Dr. Nass, Is the Pact for the Future a Treaty? The UN has been very cagey about using ordinary terminology to describe it.
Examining 3 examples of the UN’s linguistic somersaults, and I speculate on the next two weeks at the​ UN General Assembly​ https://merylnass.substack.com/p/is-the-pact-for-the-future-a-treaty

​ Dr. Nass, How is the UN framing this meeting and document? It’s a commitment. “This is how we change the world.”
The UN asks nations to “commit” to bold new solutions. The UN wordsmiths learned from the WHO not to use the word “binding” and to make their document as ambiguous as possible​. https://merylnass.substack.com/p/how-is-the-un-framing-this-meeting

​ “Defending Italy Is Not a Crime”: Salvini Reacts to Prosecutors’ Request for Six-Year Sentence
Matteo Salvini, Italy’s right-wing deputy prime minister, is hitting back after Italian prosecutors requested on Saturday a six-year prison sentence against him for blocking migrants from disembarking at one of the country’s ports in 2019…
​.. In a video message on X, the deputy prime minister described in detail the events leading up to his decision to prevent the landing in Italy:
On July 29, 2019, a Spanish NGO ship, the Open Arms, sets said from Syracuse headed to Lampedusa. It will never reach Lampedusa. Suddenly, it deletes its destination from the logbook and heads towards the Libyan coast.
​ On August 1st, it manages to intercept a boat with illegal immigrants on board. From that moment, it begins to sail through the Mediterranean picking up more illegal immigrants and heading towards Italy. On August 20th, it arrives off the coast of Sicily with 164 illegal immigrants on board.
​ In the preceding days, it had stubbornly refused every request for help, assistance, or disembarkation at ports other than Italian ones. They said no to Tunisia, they said no to Malta, they even said no to the flag state, namely Spain. More than twenty days of sailing in the Mediterranean while holding all these illegal immigrants on board when it would have taken just 72 hours to reach Spain.
​ This Spanish ship refused, not once, but twice to disembark the illegal immigrants at two ports made available by Spain. and even refused the aid of a military ship sent by the Spanish government.
​ During the Mediterranean journey of the Open Arms, we always rescued and disembarked sick people, pregnant women, and minors on board.
​ Together with my government colleagues, I had signed the ban on entering Italian territorial waters. Thanks to my government’s actions, landings, deaths, and disappearances in the Mediterranean Sea decreased.​ https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news/defending-italy-is-not-a-crime-salvini-reacts-to-prosecutors-request-for-six-year-sentence/

​ Meryl Nass MD, Some background on the twisted origins of the climate change narrative.
Because “climate change” is the central dogma supporting global government, this will become important as we disentangle the narrative over the next few weeks
​ The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, 1992, stemming from from the Rio “Earth Summit” in 1992 seems to be the only climate change treaty the US Senate agreed to. While it signed and ratified this convention, it has not ratified the Paris or Kyoto subsequent climate agreements, though President Biden returned the US to the Paris Accord after President Trump removed the US from the Paris Accord…
​..Maurice Strong, an oilman friend of David Rockefeller’s, played THE central role in defining and effecting global climate change efforts from about 1970 until 2010, was the Secretary-General of both Stockholm environmental summit in 1972 and the Rio Earth Summit of 1992. I believe he helped found the IPCC and helped create its interesting program of work, assuring that the group would come up with the “right” answers.​ https://merylnass.substack.com/p/some-background-on-the-twisted-origins

[John Day]

​ Tony Blair Calls for Global Agreement on Social Media Speech Restrictions
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, whose neo-liberal Labour Party government enacted some of the strictest speech laws in modern British history, has joined the chorus of commentators demanding a new crackdown on social media.
​ Speaking to LBC Radio this week, Blair said: “The world is going to have to come together and agree on some rules around social media platforms​”.​ “It’s not just how people can provoke hostility and hatred but I think… the impact on young people particularly when they’ve got access to mobile phones very young and they are reading a whole lot of stuff and receiving a whole lot of stuff that I think is really messing with their minds in a big way. “I’m not sure what the answer is but I’m sure we need to find one.”
​ Blair was not alone in calling for new restrictions on social media. Earlier this week, the left-wing Speaker of the House Sir Lindsay Hoyle also said that the government should consider new limits against online speech.​ “Misinformation is dangerous,” Hoyle said. “Social media is good but its also bad when people are using it in a way that could cause a riot, threat, intimidation, suggesting that we should attack somebody, it’s not acceptable​”.​ “What we’ve got to do is factually correct what’s up there, if not I think the government has to think long and hard about what they are going to do about social media and what are they going to put through parliament as a bill​”.
​ “I believe it should be across, it doesn’t matter what country you are in, the fact is that misinformation is dangerous and no misinformation, or threats, or intimidation should be allowed to be carr​ied out on social media platforms.”​ https://endtimeheadlines.org/2024/09/tony-blair-calls-for-global-agreement-on-social-media-speech-restrictions/

​ Don’t accept a “Summons to Parliament”, Elon! British government had ‘constructive’ talks with Musk’s X over disinformation, minister says
LONDON — The U.K. government has had “constructive” talks with Elon Musk’s social media site X over the spread of misinformation and other harmful content, technology minister Peter Kyle told CNBC Friday…
​…“It is a privilege having access to the British economy and society. And I just expect any company that comes to work here and aspires to sell products and services into our country to respect that,” he added.
​ Kyle’s comments to CNBC come after misinformation spread online after a knife attack at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in northwest England sparked far-right, anti-immigration riots — with shops and mosques being attacked in towns across the country.
​ Multiple social media users at the time spread false information about the alleged perpetrator, who has since been charged with murder and attempted murder, claiming he was an asylum seeker.
​ During the riots, Musk, who owns X, made comments about the situation in the U.K., calling Prime Minister Keir Starmer “two-tier Keir” in reference to the conspiracy theory that police were treating white far-right protesters and rioters more harshly than minority groups.
​ He also suggested the unrest could end up resulting in a civil war, saying in an X post: “Civil war is inevitable.” Musk’s comments were condemned by the U.K. government.
​ Last week, the Financial Times reported that British lawmaker Dawn Butler, a frontrunner to become next chair of the parliamentary committee on science, innovation and technology, wants to summon Musk to face questions from members of parliament, if elected.​ https://www.cnbc.com/2024/09/13/britain-had-constructive-talks-with-elon-musks-x-over-disinformation.html

​ Peaceful British protesters jailed for up to 5 years
​ LONDON, UK (CNN) – As right-wing rioters attacked communities with racist violence across parts of the UK last month, 22-year-old climate activist Cressie Gethin sat in a prison cell.
​ Her crime? Organizing a disruptive protest against new government-granted licenses to drill for oil – a planet-heating fossil fuel – in the North Sea.
In late July, a London court found Gethin and four other members of the Just Stop Oil activist group guilty of “conspiring intentionally to cause a public nuisance,” after recruiting protesters to climb structures along the M25 – a major ring road around London – bringing traffic to a standstill in parts over four days in November 2022.
​ Prosecutors alleged that the protests, organized over a Zoom call, disrupted more than 700,000 drivers, caused economic damage of over £760,000 ($980,000) and racked up £1 million ($1.3m) in policing costs.
​ Now Gethin and three others – Louise Lancaster, Daniel Shaw and Lucia Whittaker-De-Abreu, who planned the disruption on the call – are serving four-year jail terms, while Just Stop Oil co-founder Roger Hallam was given five years. All are appealing.
​ The sentences are believed to be the longest in the UK’s history for non-violent protest and were delivered under two new controversial laws that supercharged policing powers to crack down on disruptive protests, even when they are peaceful.
https://www.bignewsnetwork.com/news/274595227/peaceful-british-protesters-jailed-for-up-to-5-years

​ In Defense of Free Speech​, Scott Ritter
As Kennedy pointed out, without the debate, dialogue, and discussion that comes with critical review of policy, the American Republic cannot survive.
The censoring of any media outlet, including RT, silences the very critical debate America needs to survive…
​..In the war of ideas, when faced with defeat, we came up with better ideas.​ Today we fear critical thinking.
​ The words and deeds of Secretary of State Antony Blinken and the head of the state Department’s Global Engagement Center, James Rubin, are not those of representatives of a nation confident in its cause, but the rearguard actions of desperate men confronted with the reality of a failing empire at odds with a world that is in the process of rejecting it.
​ The only path available to the American people that can lead to our collective survival as a Republic is to do our duty as citizens to push back against the tyranny of censorship and the ignorance it enshrines by using the weapons of free speech and a free press to challenge the dangerous and misguided actions and policies of those who represent us—and ultimately must be held accountable to us—in higher office.
​ This is the battle of the ages, one which will be recorded in history as a defining moment for the American Republic.​ https://scottritter.substack.com/p/in-defense-of-free-speech

​ They Protested a Military Base Expansion. So the FBI Investigated Them as Terrorism Suspects.​ (a nice, safe assignment, I presume)
FBI counterterror officials went in person to Michigan to spy on “Stop Camp Grayling” demonstrators, new documents reveal.​ https://theintercept.com/2024/09/13/fbi-protest-terrorism-stop-camp-grayling-michigan/?

[John Day]

Jill Stein surges ahead of Kamala Harris among Muslim-American voters in key swing states​ Dr. Stein has earned my “protest” vote again.
​ Green Party candidate Jill Stein is gaining ground among Muslim-American voters in three critical swing states: Michigan, Arizona, and Wisconsin, according to a recent poll by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).
​ Stein leads Vice President and Democrat candidate Kamala Harris in these states, with 40 per cent support in Michigan, 35 per cent in Arizona, and 44 per cent in Wisconsin. This surge in popularity appears tied to Stein’s vocal criticism of US support for Israel during the ongoing genocide in Gaza.​..
..Nationally, Muslim voters are split between Harris and Stein, with Harris holding 29.4 per cent and Stein close behind at 29.1 per cent. Former president Trump lags with 11.2 per cent, while 16.5 per cent of voters remain undecided. Trump’s controversial pledge to reinstate the “Muslim travel ban” may explain his lower support.​ https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240915-jill-stein-surges-ahead-of-kamala-harris-among-muslim-american-voters-in-key-swing-states/

Trump Proved Right as DOJ Data Shows Crime Surge under Biden-Harris Admin, Contradicting ABC Debate ‘Fact-Check’​ https://slaynews.com/news/trump-proved-right-doj-data-crime-surge-biden-harris-abc-fact-check-debate/

​Forbidden words, I thought… Trump Blasts Biden-Harris Regime for Running ‘Largest Pedophile Ring in History’
​ “As attorney general, Harris defined child sex trafficking, assault with a deadly weapon, and rape of an unconscious person as nonviolent crimes.” Trump declared, adding “She put them in a new category, as nonviolent.”
​ “Now as vice president, she has facilitated the largest wave of sex trafficking and human trafficking in history – the history of our country by far,” he added.
​ Modernity.news reports: Trump further addressed the press, “And in case you don’t want to write about it, which you should because there can be no bigger scandal than this, we have, under this administration, 325,000 migrant children are missing. 325,000!”
​ “In other words, take your biggest stadium in California and you can fill it up five or six times. Those are all missing children. Many of them are dead. Many of them are sex slaves, and slaves of a different nature,” he continued.
​ “But her destruction of the law and order in California did not end there. In 2020, Kamala Harris endorsed ‘defund the police,’” Trump further declared, adding “Anybody that was in favour of defunding the police for one month, let alone her entire career, should never be president of the United States.”​ https://thepeoplesvoice.tv/trump-blasts-biden-harris-regime-for-running-largest-pedophile-ring-in-history/

​I think he just means this recent one. Let’s all forget about investigating the one in July, ok? DeSantis: Florida will conduct its own investigation of assassination attempt https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/4881340-desantis-says-fl-will-conduct-its-own-investigation-of-assassination-attempt/

​ Ohio Gov. DeWine’s deep connections to Haiti inform response to Springfield controversy
​ Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine’s experience with Haiti and Haitians goes far beyond his current efforts to manage issues — ranging from baseless rumors to genuine concerns — related to the recent sudden influx of Haitian immigrants to Springfield.
​ The Republican governor has an extensive connection to Haiti. In 1998, DeWine and his wife, Fran, began their support of the Becky DeWine School, named after the DeWines’ daughter who was killed in a 1993 car accident at 22 years old…
​ A previous Dayton Daily News report relayed that the school had an enrollment of roughly 5,000 students and served just under 10,000 meals a day and was pivotal in shaping his perspective on Haiti.
​ “Our mission is not to save Haiti, because that’s beyond us. But we can affect one child at a time. Our goal is to help that child survive and have a meaningful life. By accident of birth these kids were born in Haiti instead of Beavercreek. Some of the kids don’t make it, and some of them drop out, but we provide an opportunity for success,” DeWine said at the time.​ https://www.daytondailynews.com/local/ohio-gov-dewines-deep-connections-to-haiti-inform-response-to-springfield-controversy/M5HTIUUODNE4FIUPQ2AHDQSIHA/

[John Day]

Ukrainian court to consider Zelensky’s legitimacy – MP
An opposition lawmaker earlier filed a lawsuit claiming the former comedian, whose presidential term expired in May, is usurping power​ https://swentr.site/russia/604113-ukraine-mp-lawsuit-zelensky-legitimacy/

​ “He would say that”… Trump’s promises to end Ukraine conflict ‘not real’ – Zelensky
The Ukrainian leader has downplayed the US Republican candidate’s pledge to secure a peace deal as a typical campaign promise​ https://swentr.site/russia/604101-trumps-vows-to-end-ukrainian/

‘Pentagon Will Run Out of GPS Receivers’: US watchdog predicts problems with communications, intelligence and weapons guidance
​ As indicated in the report of the US Government Accountability Office, posted on the agency’s website, for 20 years the Pentagon has been trying to switch to a new signal, designated M-code. But the process is progressing extremely slowly, which will soon lead to negative consequences.
​ The military has for years pointed to the vulnerability of GPS signals, which have been jammed in Ukraine, allegedly in the Baltic Sea and elsewhere, thanks to Russia’s increasingly sophisticated electronic warfare capabilities.
​ That’s a problem the Pentagon hopes M-code will solve. The solution is based on new chips, called ASICs, that are being developed for B-2 bombers, destroyers, Stryker armored personnel carriers, and Marine Corps Light Tactical Vehicles. Smaller versions are also in development for precision-guided munitions and portable equipment. The chips are expected to undergo final testing next year.
​ However, after the development is completed, there will be problems with production. Firstly, the demand for equipment has increased sharply ​for military GPS-enabled devices made in the US. Secondly, GlobalFoundries [a US-headquartered TNC], the only company that can manufacture ASIC chips, is phasing out production for commercial reasons.​ https://en.topwar.ru/250133-pentagonu-ne-hvatit-gps-priemnikov-kontrolnyj-organ-ssha-prognoziruet-problemy-so-svjazju-razvedkoj-i-navedeniem-oruzhija.html

​ What we can gauge from Intel’s $3B military chip grant
​Intel will work under the Defense Department’s Secure Enclave program, which DOD set up to accelerate the manufacturing of chips for defense and intelligence use within highly-secure environments.​ https://www.washingtontechnology.com/companies/2024/09/what-we-can-gauge-intels-3b-military-chip-grant/399591/

[John Day]

Simplicius, mostly about Ukraine, but I excerpted this: Ukraine’s Situation Worsens as Allied Weapons Drive Flunks
One Russian source with more possible details:
About Yemen’s missile strike on Israel; it’s almost certain that they used their domestic variant of the Iranian Kheybar Shekan-2 hypersonic ballistic missile, revealed a few months ago as ‘Hatem-2’
Before that, Yemen announced they had started domestic production of Iran’s original Kheybar Shekan under the name ‘Palestine’ (Falasteen). The Kheybar Shekan-2 or ‘Hatem-2’ is simply an upgraded version of this missile with a hypersonic warhead and added range and maneuvers.
Images: Hatem-2 hypersonic missile released months ago (left image) and Iran’s Kheybar Shekan-2 (right image); as can be seen, the missiles are nearly identical, except that Yemen uses lesser quality materials.
The Houthis claimed that Israel fired over 20 interceptors which all missed. If a single missile—reportedly not even of Iran’s most advanced class—could bypass all of NATO’s defenses and strike at the heart of Israel, it really does not bode well for a major Iranian attack of hundreds if not thousands of more advanced variants. Nor does it bode well for the Empire if Putin chooses to reciprocate in kind by arming Yemen with even more advanced technology; it goes to illustrate the US’ hesitancy in escalating against Russia. https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/sitrep-91524-ukraines-situation-worsens

Palestinians warn of imminent famine as Israeli siege forces bakeries in northern Gaza to close​ https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240915-palestinians-warn-of-imminent-famine-as-israeli-siege-forces-bakeries-in-northern-gaza-to-close/

​ Lazzarini says the Israeli attempt to shut down UNRWA would have “devastating consequences for the multilateral system, the UN, and the cause of a Palestinian transition to self-determination.”
​ A campaign is underway to defund the UN humanitarian agency for Palestinians, UNRWA, its commissioner general stated, days after 18 people were murdered when Israeli warplanes targeted a UNRWA school in Gaza.
​ Philippe Lazzarini stated in an interview that the Israeli government was attempting to dismantle the organization after failing to persuade Western donors to cease supporting it due to false claims of the agency cooperating with the Palestinian Resistance, Hamas.​ https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/lazzarini-slams-israeli-attempts-to-close-down-unrwa-as–dev

​ Does Iran have deliverable nuclear warheads or not? Russia is out. Will China be “in”? Thanks Eleni. Iran nuclear talks will be in new format, MK Bhadrakumar
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has emphasised two missions: “The first mission is to neutralise sanctions, which the whole government should follow. Our first goal is to neutralise the sanctions and its impacts on the people.”
​ The foreign minister added, “Our priority is our neighbours. Our second priority is to expand the field of diplomacy to Africa and East Asia. The third priority is the countries that stood by Iran in difficult situations.”​ https://www.indianpunchline.com/iran-nuclear-talks-will-be-in-new-format/

Alastair Crooke, Closing hatches before rains founder the Western Vessel
The war is lost, and the struggle to keep the ‘enforced pretending’ going is breaking through, to be seen by all as a false reality.
Israel is entering the next phase of its war on Palestine by completing its takeover of the Gaza Strip – from the northern border to the Netzarim corridor. It is likely that they intend for this area to then gradually be made available for Jewish settlement and annexation to Israel.
In a piece titled, “Annexation, Expulsion and Israeli Settlements: Netanyahu Gears Up for Next Phase of Gaza War”, the Editor of Haaretz, Aluf Benn, writes, were the takeover to proceed, “Palestinian residents who remain in northern Gaza will be expelled, as suggested by Maj. Gen. (res.) Giora Eiland, under threat of starvation and under cover of “protecting their lives””. Netanyahu and his supporters will see this move, Benn suggests, as a lifetime achievement: Expanding Israel’s territory for the first time, after 50 years of Israeli withdrawals. This will be the Israeli Right’s ‘Zionist response’ to 7 October.
This extraordinary shift was actuated – not just through military operations – but by the stroke of a pen: the appointment of Col. Elad Goren as head of the humanitarian-civil effort in Gaza, which effectively, makes him ‘Governor of Gaza’ for years to come.
Less noted in the western Mainstream media is the harsh reality that, in the course of the twenty months in which the current Israeli government has been in power, Ben Gvir has armed a 10,000 strong settler vigilante movement that has been terrorising Palestinians in the West Bank. The police in the occupied territories already answer to Ben Gvir’s authority.
What is missing from this appreciation is that whilst Ben Gvir has been assembling the ‘State Of Judea’s novel army’, Finance Minister Smotrich, who heads the Administration of the Territories, has revolutionized the situation for Jewish settlers and Palestinians in the West Bank. Authority in the West Bank has been turned-over to a closed, Right-wing messianic movement that answers only to a single man: Smotrich (the Governor of the West Bank in all but name).
​ In what Nahum Barnea describes as a stealth pincer-movement deployed by Smotrich, one arm of power has lain with his authority as finance minister; the second arm consists in the power delegated to him in his capacity as second minister in the Defence Ministry. Smotrich’s, and the Israeli government’s objective – laid out in Smotrich’s ‘Decisive Plan’ in 2017 – has not changed: to induce the collapse of the Palestinian Authority; to prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state; and to give the seven million Palestinians who live between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea a choice: to die fighting; to immigrate to another country, or to live forever as vassals in a greater Israeli state.​..
..Netanyahu’s obfuscation about the likely future of Gaza needs little further explanation. The Palestinians in northern Gaza will face the fate of the Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh: They were expelled overnight from the region a year ago, in a rapid move by Azerbaijanis. The world saw this, and simply ‘moved on’ – in the Israeli understanding of history…
​..Israel, by force of logic, has but two options: a Gaza ceasefire that might pacify its northern border, or a deliberate escalation in the north, with all its ramifications.​ The notion that Hizballah would be ‘coaxed’ away from Lebanon’s border was always ‘pie-in-the-sky’. The prospects for a Gaza deal, the mediators now say, are ‘next to zero’, so Israel’s attention has turned northwards…
​..U.S. General Kurilla, who commands U.S. forces in the region, arrived at the weekend in Israel – his second visit in a week – to complete ‘coordination with the IDF in anticipation of any possible retaliatory Iranian and Hizbullah attack’.
​ Washington, though committed to support Israel in any conflict with Iran or Hizbullah, nonetheless is worried. Senior American officials expressed fear in recent days that a full-scale war against Hezbollah will lead to huge damage to the Israeli home front, especially if Iran and others from the Resistance Alliance join in.​..​..Netanyahu’s ‘Great Victory’ plan to clear Greater Israel of Palestinians is unfolding, however crushing Hizbullah remains outstanding. Are all these ‘victories’ remotely feasible? No. They risk rather, the collapse of Israel (as authoritative commentators such as Major-General Brick have made clear). It is however feasible, that Netanyahu will try to execute it. The Kahanist spirit lives on, and is today mainstream in Israel.
​ This prospect casts the dark pall of a huge black swan circling overhead the Middle East, for the months until the U.S. election.
So too, does the Ukraine war contain the seeds of an unexpected unpleasant surprise.​..
..President Putin may ‘talk the talk’ of mediation, but Moscow well understands that the power structure in Kiev was drawn from the pool of racist ant-Slavs, precisely to block any accord with Moscow. Mediation is bound to be rebuffed – that was Washington’s purpose in empowering the Stefan Banderista bloc from the outset.
​ An unravelling of the Kiev political structures, however, probably renders all the ‘would-be mediators’ unnecessary.
​ Put frankly, a new (cleansed) dispensation in Kiev likely would conclude that it has little option other than capitulation on the battlefront, to offer formal neutrality and limits to future militarisation. And Moscow is quite able to discuss ‘that’ with Ukrainians, without ‘help’ from outside.​ https://strategic-culture.su/news/2024/09/16/closing-hatches-before-rains-founder-the-western-vessel/

[John Day]

Jim Kunstler, Beep Beep! Woosh. . . !
“Donald Trump is looking increasingly likely to be the winner of the presidential race. I have long held that the globalists will wrap up an economic collapse or a world war and throw it in Trump’s lap.” — Brandon Smith
This time, the shooter lives to do some ‘splainin’. Do you wonder if he might get around to ‘splainin’ his role with the shady non-governmental orgs (NGOs) supported by the CIA who enabled his travels to Ukraine and his efforts there recruiting global mutts to fight for the Nazi-ish Azov Battalion? Perhaps he might rat-out actual government officials who assisted him in his colorful misadventures?…
..Perhaps we’ll find out — if nothing fatal happens to befall Mr. Routh while in custody — how exactly he learned Mr. Trump would be on the links that afternoon? The candidate’s round of golf that day was supposedly a snap decision known only amongst his innermost circle. Or how did Mr. Routh figure out the most advantageous fairway to lay at for a clear shot? The FBI is on the case…
..Things political are speeding up with the autumnal quickening. The blob is truly and deeply a’fright. So many blobsters will be liable to pay for their multitudinous crimes against the people of this country if Mr. Trump squeaks back into power that such a future is unthinkable to them. And yet, nothing has worked to deactivate this…
..The Butler, PA, head-shot op came awfully close to eliminating their, uh, problem, but no cigar. The Palm Beach golf course ambush had a Peter Sellers vibe, wouldn’t you agree? With the rifle muzzle poking through the shrubbery behind a fence. What next? A pizza with pepperoni, mushrooms, and cyanide? Maybe try to drop an anvil on Mr. Trump’s head from a passing airplane? (Beep-beep. . . woosh!)
Somebody do something!!! The blob is shrieking to its minions from the sub-basement bunkers at Langley to the salons of Georgetown, to the US Embassy in Ukraine. Well, there’s always World War Three! And it looks like just such a romp is about to be instigated…
..“JB” is not available for duty anymore. The “out-to-lunch” sign hangs permanently on the doorknob of the Oval Office now. The USA does not have a functioning chief-of-state for the first time in 235 years. After 2021, some sort of unelected, informal Politburu that self-assembled in the White House, like a clot from a Covid vaccine shot, is running our affairs…
..Kamala Harris is strangely missing from the front page of The New York Times this morning. Is that a little ominous? The debate is behind her. There will not be another, apparently. There is nothing about her schedule on the official campaign website. Has she entered fade-away mode? … https://jameshowardkunstler.substack.com/p/beep-beep

The Honest Sorcerer on the coming decline of oil-driven real economy, The End of the Great Stagnation https://thehonestsorcerer.substack.com/p/the-end-of-the-great-stagnation

Gilbert Doctorow on what may or may not have been a painfully clear back channel ultimatum from Moscow to Washington. Information and disinformation
Scott Ritter rightly denounced this U.S. government-inspired attack on RT as a war not on the Russian broadcaster but on the American people, whom it seeks to deprive of the right to decide for itself whom it watches, whom it listens to without U.S. government interference. The intent of the latest decision by Meta, which bends to the policy dictated to it by Capitol Hill, is to cancel our freedoms. I said and repeat here: bravo to Scott Ritter for an eloquent and pithy statement.
So much for the ‘information’ aspect of this brief note. Now let us move to ‘disinformation’ by the very same Scott Ritter within the past 24 hours: namely what he is saying on ‘Judging Freedom’ and other authoritative internet channels about how we all narrowly escaped death this past weekend, because “back channel” communications from top Russian intelligence officials to their counterparts in Washington delivered a threatening and substantive message that scared the receiving party down its socks and led them to impose on Biden and Blinken to end all talk of allowing Kiev to send US and NATO long range missiles into the heartland of Russia…
..However, the issue of who made and who received the phone call this time is not the main point in my objection. Rather, what I find incredible is the very notion that Putin, through his subordinates, would, as Scott Ritter is saying, read off a list of targets for immediate destruction by Russian hypersonic missiles like the Mach-20 Avangard and that this demonstration of advanced preparation for the Doomsday scenario and readiness to execute it would shake the Americans down to their socks.
Vladimir Putin is not given to drastic shifts in tone and intent such as Ritter is describing. And there is absolutely no reason for him to risk everything on one throw of the dice, to risk a U.S. preemptive strike at once now that the scenario against them had been so neatly laid out…
..Still more, knowing Putin’s behavior in the past at moments of crisis in the relationship with the United States, I believe his first instinct would be to address the American people directly about his intentions and the reasons for them, rather than to confine the discussion to ‘back channels’ with the likes of Burns or Sullivan…
..I have in the past several days freely admitted that my ‘end is nigh’ remarks with respect to the risks of giving unrestricted rights to Kiev on the missiles, were exaggerated. But then I was measuring the countdown to Doomsday in weeks, in the worst scenario, not in hours or minutes as Scott Ritter has done.
We are not out of the woods yet, to be sure. And the task before all ‘warriors for peace’ is not to celebrate our surviving this past weekend but to continue to spread the word in the broadest possible public arenas that our governments are pursuing utterly ignorant and reckless policies. https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2024/09/17/information-and-disinformation/

I have written to Dr. Doctorow, asking him to consider the possibility, as he already has done, that the US/UK were arranging a contingent nuclear-decapitation first strike against all of Russia, from every direction, at the moment when it remained still-possible. Consider that Mr. Putin and Russian military leaders would have no more direct choice than to point out on a deconfliction line, exactly how this would not work to decapitate Russia, and the exact coordinates and depths of some number of secret bunkers, where western “decision makers” would be expecting to find their own protection.

[John Day]

Multiple Perspectives https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/multiple-perspectives

How do human societies act in concert? Might there be other ways to act in concert? Who decides? How is “their” decision manifested and carried out?

Whether we are facing a tight-spot in the availability of crude oil, which production has not risen to the level of late 2018 yet, I will put forward that exponential growth of real economy cannot continue forever in a finite universe, let alone on a finite planet, which concept has been clearly laid out in a way pertinent tour modern industrial economy since M. King Hubbert predicted a peak in US oil production around 1971-1972, which came to pass as predicted.
In 10th grade Sociology class in 1974, I was exposed to the projections of the 1972 computer modeling of The Limits To Growth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Limits_to_Growth This carried the projections of exponential growth of human physical economy into the estimations of natural resource availability, costs of extraction, and consequences of environmental pollution and degradation, all of which were big topics in those days of Arab Oil Embargo and air and water pollution destroying rivers and lungs across the world. I held that to be a likely scenario, as did most people I talked to at the time, though it fell into disfavor under the Reagan administration, as limitless-growth was espoused by that “great communicator”.
Societies across the planet were invigorated to push economic, and especially financial growth, from that point forward. China’s “Little Helmsman” Deng Xiaopeng, reportedly too The Limits To Growth very seriously, and charted a rise to the top for Chinese industrial economy, within the projections it presented. China has followed that course successfully.
Presume with me, if you will, that global net oil (and liquids) production did peak at the end of 2018, and that the “Repo-Crisis” of Summer-Fall 2019 was a result of the end of real-economic-growth, which put a crimp in global finance, so that the world’s largest financial institutions KNEW that they could not trust each other on overnight loans, backed by US Treasuries. BlackRock, the largest asset-management company in the world, was enlisted to come up with a plan for economic-continuity, which involved “going direct”, or just pumping money into the large financial institutions from the US and other national treasuries and central banks. This was done under cover-of-COVID-pandemic-lockdowns, which delayed inflation in the real-economy until the real economy opened up again a year and a half later, at which time money-supply had grown, and the quantity of real-goods had decreased, both driving price inflation. Asset inflation had been even greater, and is a Ponzi scheme waiting to collapse, but is not counted in “inflation”.
So far, the mechanisms of narrative control and continuity of the economic system, which feeds, shelters and protects us, still hold. It is clear that the Ponzi-finance scheme cannot continue much longer, and will have to re-set to something much closer to concordance with real-economy.
This economic-financial reset is traditionally managed through throwing societies into existential wars, so that one side survives and the other is vanquished, while all of the remaining people are exhausted and traumatized, and become accustomed to just-following-orders. Most of us want to work this some other way this time, and there is enough consciousness of the situation that some of us keep pressing the question. this pointing out of the actual facts is causing problems for the control-narratives of the elites. They are not grabbing and are not getting full traction. Something like 20% of people keep calling out their lies, so even the 70% of followers are a little uneasy, and the 10% of undecided people are leaning towards reality. What are the elites to do? Is there an alternate Plan-B which will get better traction, and help them maintain their ownership?
(Let me add that I am watching BRICS+ developments and Trump/Kennedy developments, but will vote for Palestinian Human Rights via Jill Stein MD’s candidacy again.)

Simplicius, Measures Of Control
What is the greatest fear for the controlling archons of our world?
The answer is: the plebs discovering how flimsy the substrata of their control, the machinery of it all, really is. The elites have worked tirelessly to establish the illusion of a grand, impermeable monolith—that irreducibly oppressive panopticon of unspoken ‘rules’ and social limits, Overton windows, and statutory ley lines known only to them and meant to deliberately obfuscate us—a towering obelisk emblemizing the totality of their control. They do this through fear, social programming, and mass media hypnosis triggering traumas on our grasping minds wired through perpetual distress and wrapped in agonizing tension. They erect labyrinths of legal codices to browbeat us into submission with the inexhaustible weight of their esoteric jurisprudence. All meant to convey a sense of crushing weight, to endow us with a futility of purpose in the face of such colossal structures…
..There is no better proof of Weinstein’s opening thesis than the fact that they now tried to take Trump out again for a second time in as many months. It’s clear that Trump terrifies them for the very reason that he threatens to potentially undo decades of established secret agreements, the filaments of that diaphanous Order feigning essentiality, yet whose delicate fibers are a pluck away from being unseamed before the world’s eyes.
Such a development would open up an unprecedented Pandora’s box. The elites rely on the omnipresence of their Great Illusion—a show that must be maintained at all times, all costs, and across the entire spectrum. To allow a single crack to form in the facade would entail a spidering outward, a runaway fracture leading to the collapse of their whole foundation. That is because if people in a single country under their control can be allowed to witness the lie for what it is, there would be no turning back—the populations of every other nation would immediately begin to question the rationale of their own systems, since they are all part and parcel to the matrix of the whole.
Imagine if Trump really did abolish the IRS as he’s threatened to do, long shot that it is. Once Europe sees the US continuing not only to function, but perhaps even thrive like never before—without a single income tax collected—it would spark the end for the regime. Multiply this outward to every other of our modern controlling paradigms. The Central Banks, for instance: abolish one bank in The System, and the rest fall like dominos. The elites’ greatest fear is for humanity to be given glimpse of even a single working example of life outside their prison-like construct—that same Byzantine codex of esoteric multinational agreements. https://darkfutura.substack.com/p/measures-of-control

Jonathan Turley, With Fact-Checks Like These, How Does Truth Stand a Chance?
“You are entitled to your opinion. But you are not entitled to your own facts.”
That famous line from Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-N.Y.) remains a virtual mantra for politicians and pundits. Yet, judging from the presidential debate between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris, we have officially entered the post-truth political era.
ABC News has been widely criticized for the bias of the two moderators Linsey Davis and David Muir. Even liberal outlets acknowledged that the two journalists seemed inclined to “fact check” only Trump. In the meantime, they allowed clearly false statements from Harris to go unchallenged.
Three of the unchecked claims are being widely disseminated by supporters, including some in the media:
“Crime is down under the Biden-Harris administration.“
“Harris has not supported transgender operations for undocumented migrants.”
Harris does not support the right to abortion in the final three months of a pregnancy. https://jonathanturley.org/2024/09/16/with-fact-checks-like-these-how-does-truth-stand-a-chance/#more-223489

Kyle Becker: ABC News whistleblower swears under penalty of perjury that the Kamala Harris campaign dictated the terms of the questions during the presidential debate.
Furthermore, the Harris campaign insisted upon live “fact checking” of Donald Trump during the debate. ABC News “fact checked” Trump at least five times and did not fact check Harris once, despite the Democratic candidate telling provable lies, such as the “fine people hoax” and the “bloodbath hoax.” The whistleblower signed the affidavit in New York and has sent a copy to Speaker Mike Johnson, the notarized document states. The unnamed individual states that he or she is in possession of secret recordings that will prove that ABC News rigged the presidential debate. ABC News committed election interference. This is a MASSIVE scandal. https://x.com/kylenabecker/status/1835347966586171523?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1835347966586171523%7Ctwgr%5E06c6d73bba0e8e509b9c783f6d2668e6b591c79b%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theautomaticearth.com%2F2024%2F09%2Fdebt-rattle-september-17-2024%2F

[John Day]

@Phoenixvoice: Thank You, Sister.
I graduated high school in Yokohama, but I learned some civics, anyway.

[John Day]

Stranded astronauts make first public statement since being left behind on ISS​. They say it was hard to watch their Boeing capsule return to Earth without them​
​ It was their first public comments since last week’s return of the Boeing Starliner capsule that took them to the International Space Station in June.
They remained behind after NASA determined the problem-plagued capsule posed too much risk for them to ride back in.
​ “That’s how it goes in this business,” said Williams, adding that “you have to turn the page and look at the next opportunity.”
Wilmore and Williams are now full-fledged station crew members, chipping in on routine maintenance and experiments. They, along with seven others on board, welcomed a Soyuz spacecraft carrying two Russians and an American earlier this week, temporarily raising the station population to 12, a near record.​ https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/astronauts-boeing-space-1.7323046

[John Day]

​ “Operation Mockingbird” is the search-term: US media merged with intelligence services long ago – RT editor-in-chief
Washington only protects its own “freedom of speech,” Margarita Simonyan has said​ https://www.rt.com/russia/604034-us-freedom-speech-hypocrisy-rt/

​ COVID-19 Vaccine-associated Mortality in the Southern Hemisphere. Denis Rancourt
Abstract
​ Seventeen equatorial and Southern-Hemisphere countries were studied (Argentina, Australia, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Malaysia, New Zealand, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Singapore, South Africa, Suriname, Thailand, Uruguay), which comprise 9.10 % of worldwide population, 10.3 % of worldwide COVID-19 injections (vaccination rate of 1.91 injections per person, all ages), virtually every COVID-19 vaccine type and manufacturer, and span 4 continents.
​ In the 17 countries, there is no evidence in all-cause mortality (ACM) by time data of any beneficial effect of COVID-19 vaccines. There is no association in time between COVID-19 vaccination and any proportionate reduction in ACM. The opposite occurs.
​ All 17 countries have transitions to regimes of high ACM, which occur when the COVID-19 vaccines are deployed and administered. Nine of the 17 countries have no detectable excess ACM in the period of approximately one year after a pandemic was declared on 11 March 2020 by the World Health Organization (WHO), until the vaccines are rolled out (Australia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Paraguay, Philippines, Singapore, Suriname, Thailand, Uruguay).
​ Unprecedented peaks in ACM occur in the summer (January-February) of 2022 in the Southern Hemisphere, and in equatorial-latitude countries, which are synchronous with or immediately preceded by rapid COVID-19-vaccine-booster-dose rollouts (3rd or 4th doses). This phenomenon is present in every case with sufficient mortality data (15 countries). Two of the countries studied have insufficient mortality data in January-February 2022 (Argentina and Suriname).​ https://www.globalresearch.ca/covid-19-vaccine-associated-mortality-southern-hemisphere/5832806

1100% Increase in U.S. Military Morbidity and Deaths – US Lawyer Speaks Out​ “…This is Genocide…”​ https://lionessofjudah.substack.com/p/1100-increase-in-us-military-morbidity

Beyond the injection site: identifying the cellular targets of mRNA vaccines
Despite an ever-growing number of studies, the biodistribution and interactions of LNPmRNA vaccines in humans are still poorly characterized. Notable examples of “missing data” at time of writing this review are the biodistribution and effects of the mRNA vaccines on liver, spleen and ovarian tissues, known sites of accumulation for these particles from pre-clinical testing. Due to the ability of both LNPs and Sproteins to cross the blood-brain barrier, pharmacokinetics and toxicity of vaccines in brain tissue also warrants further study. Although a good proportion of post-rollout biodistribution studies have focused on the heart due to myocarditis being a notorious adverse event, the exact molecular cascade leading to heart tissue inflammation remains unknown. ​ https://00630063015873398338.googlegroups.com/attach/fcccaf227e26/JoCI_003-Reviews_003_Fertig_mRNa.pdf?part=0.1&view=1&vt=ANaJVrGtPZRni39k8rwluKIqMYLFBr-y8EUAcdDs6YZQrVjHoYvzNoRh2L5kkG7mlPqR1kFWzKgsw9mc1klwAcS_v7xJmeW3NWncKl9wss2o-0cCD16XCj8

Joseph Mercola D.O. What Does the Science Say About Alcohol Consumption?​ ​ [Nothing good. All bad.]
​ Alcohol consumption, even at low levels, can negatively impact brain structure, reducing overall brain volume and affecting gray and white matter integrity
Ethanol in alcoholic drinks is converted to acetaldehyde, a toxic substance that damages cells indiscriminately, leading to various health issues including increased cancer risk
​ Alcohol disrupts gut health by killing beneficial bacteria, potentially causing leaky gut syndrome and triggering inflammatory responses that affect your liver and brain
Regular alcohol consumption can alter hormonal balance, increasing estrogen levels and potentially raising cancer risk, especially for breast cancer
​ While N-acetylcysteine (NAC) supplementation may help mitigate some harmful effects of alcohol, abstaining completely is the safest option for optimal health​ https://www.globalresearch.ca/science-say-alcohol-consumption/5867878

[John Day]

​ A True Shock? Economist Jeffrey Sachs Reveals Secret at Heart of U.S.-Russian Relations​ [Global finance really wanted to pick that huge corpse clean of meat.]
The U.S. was advised toward a “Marshall Plan” to help rebuild post-Soviet Russia as a democracy, but a key witness says the Cold War never ended, because ​”we​” didn’t want it to​. https://www.racket.news/p/a-true-shock-economist-jeffrey-sachs

​ Russia opens probe on alleged chemical weapons use by Ukraine in Kursk​
​ Several residents evacuated from border villages previously reported to Sputnik that they observed acrid yellow smoke and unusual steam following Ukrainian attacks, which caused them to feel unwell. Some also said that their livestock died as a result of these incidents.​ https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/russia-opens-probe-on-alleged-chemical-weapons-use-by-ukrain

​”Gotta Get ‘Em All”, Poland backs ending EU benefits for Ukrainian men of fighting age https://www.euractiv.com/section/europe-s-east/news/poland-backs-ending-eu-benefits-for-ukrainian-men-of-fighting-age/

Around 5% of Haiti’s Entire Population Has Invaded the U.S. Since 2020​ https://basedunderground.com/2024/09/14/around-5-of-haitis-entire-population-has-invaded-the-u-s-since-2020/

SOVEREIGNTY SUMMIT TO EXPOSE BIDEN-HARRIS’ STEALTH IMPOSITION OF WORLD GOVERNMENT Morphing UN Charter Unacceptable Without Senate Approval
​ The plan is to use the “Summit of the Future” on September 22-23 effectively to amend the UN’s Charter in order to fundamentally transform the organization from an entity designed to foster cooperation and – where deemed desirable by member nations – collaborative action into an institution of full-on world government.
​ The Summiteers seek to advance “global governance” by securing approval for an effectively irreversible “process” to that end. Guterres laid out the goal of this process in his Policy Brief #2 issued in March 2023: “I propose that the General Assembly provide the Secretary-General and the United Nations system with a standing authority to convene and operationalize automatically an Emergency Platform in the event of a future complex global shock of sufficient scale, severity and reach. “​ ​https://sovereignty.substack.com/p/sovereignty-summit-to-expose-biden

[John Day]

​ Would-Be Trump Assassin Palled Around With Neo-Nazi Azov Brigade In Ukraine: What Did The Government Know?
​ But when he arrived in Ukraine, according to these media reports, the 58-year old Routh himself was considered too old to fight alongside the Ukrainian army. “So plan B,” Routh described to one outlet, “was to come to Kiev and promote the idea of many others coming to join the International Legion. We need thousands of people here to fight alongside Ukrainians.”​ https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/would-be-trump-assassin-palled-around-neo-nazi-azov-brigade-ukraine-what-did

​ Democrat ‘October Surprise’ Targeting Russia and Trump May be in the Making – US Psy-Op Veteran
​ Washington appears to have played down speculation about allowing Ukraine to expand the use of long-range NATO missiles inside Russia following Moscow’s warning. However, the Democratic Party’s “October surprise” may still be in the works, warns ex-US Army psychological warfare officer and State Department counterterrorism analyst Scott Bennett.​..
​..Russian victories don’t play into the hands of the Kamala Harris campaign, backed by the US deep state, according to the psy-op veteran. He referred to the Biden administration switching to full damage control mode by slapping sanctions on the Russian media, “arresting, or shutting down independent bloggers, or news channels by any means necessary.”
​ Given that, Bennett doesn’t rule out that the Kiev regime could be encouraged by the US to carry out possible false flags and expand strikes against Russia in October to either force Moscow into overreacting or try to smear it in the eyes of the American public.
​ Such measures could be also aimed at “guaranteeing” that Donald Trump wouldn’t be able to immediately shift to negotiations on settling the conflict, if he wins in November, according to Bennett.​ https://sputnikglobe.com/20240914/democrat-october-surprise-targeting-russia-and-trump-may-be-in-the-making–us-psy-op-veteran-1120152764.html

​ Sour Note: Taylor Swift Harris Endorsement Backfires As More Voters Turn To Trump
​ Taylor Swift’s post-debate endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, appears to have completely backfired. A new post-debate poll from YouGov released Saturday found that while 8% of voters said Swift’s endorsement made them “somewhat” or “much more likely” to support the Democratic ticket, a significant 20% said they are “somewhat” or “much less likely” to vote for former President Donald Trump’s opponent after Swift spoke out.
​ The majority of respondents, however – 66% – said Swift’s high-profile endorsement made no difference in how they will vote in the upcoming November election, according to the NY Post.​ https://www.zerohedge.com/political/sour-note-taylor-swift-harris-endorsement-backfires-more-voters-turn-trump

‘Two Decades of Development Down the Drain’: Pentagon Fails to Solve GPS Jamming Problem​ https://en.topcor.ru/51543-dva-desjatiletija-razrabotok-kotu-pod-hvost-pentagon-ne-mozhet-reshit-problemu-glushenija-gps-signala.html

Russian Electronic Warfare Makes GPS Useless for Ukraine’s Guided Missiles​ https://sputnikglobe.com/20240915/russian-electronic-warfare-makes-gps-useless-for-ukraines-guided-missiles—reports-1120158739.html

[John Day]

UN staffer shot dead by Israeli sniper in occupied West Bank
Israel has targeted UNRWA workers in the West Bank and Gaza as part of a broader effort to destroy the organization which supports Palestinian refugees
​ The Israeli sniper shot Jawwad three times in the chest “while on the roof of his house having a coffee,” Juliette Touma, UNRWA’s communications director, told CNN on Friday.
Lt. Col. Nadav Shoshani, spokesperson for the Israeli military, confirmed Friday that Israeli troops killed Jawwad in an operation in the West Bank’s Far’a area but claimed he was “hurling explosive devices that posed a threat to the forces operating in the area.”​ https://thecradle.co/articles/un-staffer-shot-dead-by-israeli-sniper-in-occupied-west-bank

​ Houthis Hit Israel With “New Hypersonic Ballistic Missile”
​ A spokesman for the Iran-backed Houthis claimed in a video announcement on X that rebel forces launched a “new hypersonic ballistic missile” targeting Israel on Sunday morning. He also warned that additional attacks could be expected as the first anniversary of the October 7 Hamas attack approaches.​..
​..The Washington Post quoted Israel Defense Forces that said a surface-to-surface missile fired from Yemen hit an escalator in a train station in the central town of Modiin.​..The target appeared to be the ‘Gezer’ power plant, 6 kilometers from Ben Gurion airport.​..
​..”A Yemeni missile reached Israel after ’20 missiles failed to intercept’ it,” Nasruddin Amer, a Houthi media official, wrote on X.​..
​..The Israeli air defense failed to intercept the Yemeni missile primarily because it is capable of changing its course suddenly – Israeli Channel 12 The US Navy failed to intercept the missile in the Red Sea as well. Great possibility that this was hypersonic.​..
​..Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told officials at the start of a cabinet meeting that the Houthis “should have known by now that we charge a heavy price for any attempt to harm us.”​ https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/houthis-hit-israel-new-hypersonic-ballistic-missile

​ Houthis launch long-range missile attack against Israel
​ The attack, which Houthis said was launched from over 1200 miles away, is a mark of escalation from the Yemen-based militia group.
​ Yahya Saree, a Houthis spokesperson, said the group launched “a new hypersonic missile” towards a target in Jaffa, near Tel Aviv.
The IDF’s missile defense system didn’t intercept the missile before it entered Israel’s airspace and said the missile “exploded” in the air, scattering debris in open areas.
The IDF said fragments of air defense missiles launched to intercept the missile fell near a rail station and that a fire started near the Ben Gurion Airport…​
..An IDF official said in a briefing with reporters that Israel began monitoring the Houthi missile shortly after it was launched.
​ Once in Israeli airspace, one of the interceptor missiles detonated near the Houthi missile but didn’t destroy it, the official said.
The IDF official said the Houthi missile was not a hypersonic missile, as Saree claimed.
​..The Houthis have been threatening to retaliate for Israel’s strike on Hodeidah, Yemen’s fourth-largest city.​ https://www.axios.com/2024/09/15/houthis-israel-missile-strike

​ Pentagon renovates Israeli air base to make room for refueling tanker aircraft
The US will send Israel four Boeing KC-46A Pegasus tanker aircraft which could help in a future attack on Iran​ https://thecradle.co/articles/pentagon-renovates-israeli-air-base-to-make-room-for-refueling-tanker-aircraft

​ “Nothing Will Slow Me Down” – Trump Reacts After Second Assassination Attempt​ [So we will all forget about investigating the first attempt now?]
Summary:
​ Shots were exchanged between a shooter and Secret Service at Trump International Gold Club as the former President played.
Trump was 300-500 yards away when the shooting occurred.
​ FBI confirmed they are investigating this as an assassination attempt.
Trump said after: “nothing will slow me down, I will never surrender.”
​ The shooter has been detained.
An AK-47, backpack, and GoPro camera was recovered near the scene.
​ The shooter has been identified as Ryan Routh, whose social media suggest was a Trump-hating, Ukraine-war-supporting liberal.
Trump was NOT given complete perimeter protection, because he is not a sitting president (despite being hit by an assassin’s bullet a couple of months ago)​ https://www.zerohedge.com/political/trump-safe-after-shooter-ak47-reportedly-targeted-former-pres-while-golfing-secret

[John Day]

How To Accomplish World War Three https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/how-to-accomplish-world-war-three

​ Is the possibility of a World War real?​ by Serge Marchand , Thierry Meyssan​ April 9, 2024 Thanks Eleni.
​ Atomic war is possible. World peace hangs on the finger of the United States, blackmailed by Ukrainian “integral nationalists” and Israeli “revisionist Zionists”. If Washington doesn’t deliver weapons to massacre the Russians and Gazans, they won’t hesitate to launch Armageddon.
​ The wars in Ukraine and Gaza have led several leading politicians to compare the current period with the 1930s, and to raise the possibility of a World War. Are these fears justified, or are they just fear-mongering? …​
..First, let’s distinguish between the conflicts in Eastern Europe and the Middle East. They have only two things in common:
They represent no significant stakes in themselves, but a defeat for the West, which, after its defeat in Syria, would mark the end of its hegemony over the world.
​ They are fueled by a fascist ideology, that of Dmytro Dontsov’s Ukrainian “integral nationalists” [1] and that of Vladimir Ze’ev Jabotinsky’s Israeli “revisionist Zionists” [2]; two groups that have been allies since 1917, but went underground during the Cold War and are unknown to the general public today.
​ There is, however, one notable difference between them:
​ The same fury is visible on both battlefields, but the “integral nationalists” sacrifice their own fellow citizens (there are hardly any able-bodied men under thirty left in the Ukraine), while the “revisionist Zionists” sacrifice people who are foreign to them, Arab civilians.
​ Is there a risk that these wars will become more widespread?
​ This is the will of both groups. The “integral nationalists” are constantly attacking Russia inside its territory and in Sudan, while the “revisionist Zionists” are bombing Lebanon, Syria and Iran (more precisely, Iranian territory in Syria, since the Damascus consulate is extra-territorialized). But no one responds: not Russia, Egypt or the Emirates in the first case, nor Hezbollah, the Syrian Arab Army or the Revolutionary Guards in the second.
​ All of them, including Russia, anxious to avoid a brutal retaliation from the “collective West” that would lead to a World War, prefer to take the blows and accept their deaths.
​ If war were to become widespread, it would no longer be simply conventional, but above all nuclear…
​..In addition to the five permanent members of the Security Council, India, Pakistan, North Korea and Israel have strategic atomic bombs. All except Israel see them as a means of deterrence.
​ The Western media also present Iran as a nuclear power, which Russia and China officially deny.
​ During the Yemen war, Saudi Arabia bought tactical nuclear bombs from Israel and used them, but it does not seem to have them permanently at its disposal, nor to have mastered the technique.
​ Only Russia regularly conducts Nuclear War exercises. During last October’s exercises, Russia admitted to losing a third of its population in the space of a few hours, then simulated combat and emerged victorious.
​ Ultimately, all the nuclear powers have no intention of firing first, as this would undoubtedly lead to their destruction. The exception is Israel, which seems to have adopted the “Sa​mson doctrine” (“Let me die with the Philistines”). It would thus be the only power to imagine the ultimate sacrifice, the “Twilight of the Gods”, dear to the Nazis…
​..Two critical works have been devoted to the Israeli military atom: The Samson Option: Israel’s Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy by Seymour M. Hersh (Random House, 1991) and Israel and the Bomb by Avner Cohen (Columbia University Press, 1998).
​ The military atom was never envisaged as a classic form of deterrence, but as an assurance that Israel would not hesitate to commit suicide to kill its enemies rather than be defeated. This is the Masada complex [3]. This way of thinking is in line with the “Hannibal Directive”, according to which the IDF must kill its own soldiers rather than let them become prisoners of the enemy [4].
​ During the Six-Day War, the Israeli Prime Minister, the Ukrainian Levi Eshkol, ordered one of the two bombs Israel had at its disposal at the time to be prepared and detonated near an Egyptian military base on Mount Sinai. This plan was not carried out, as the IDF quickly won the conventional war. Had it gone ahead, the fallout would have killed not only Egyptians, but Israelis too [5].
​ During the October 1973 war (known in the West as the “Yom Kippur War”), the Defense Minister, the Ukrainian-born Israeli Moshe Dayan, and the Prime Minister, the Ukrainian Golda Meir, again considered the use of 13 atomic bombs…​
..In 2009, Martin van Creveld, Israel’s chief strategist, declared: “We have several hundred atomic warheads and rockets and can reach our targets in all directions, even Rome. Most European capitals are potential targets for our air force (…) The Palestinians must all be expelled. The people fighting for this goal are simply waiting for “the right person at the right time” to come along. Only two years ago, 7 or 8% of Israelis thought this would be the best solution, two months ago it was 33%, and now, according to a Gallup Poll, the figure is 44% in favor.​ [early April 2024]
​ So it’s reasonable to assume that no nuclear power, except Israel, will dare commit the irreparable…
..It is very likely that this is the reason why Washington continues to arm Israel, even though it is calling for an immediate ceasefire: if the United States no longer supplies Tel Aviv with weapons to massacre the Gazans, the latter could use nuclear weapons against all the peoples of the region, including the Israelis…
​..On February 19, 2022, Ukrainian President Voloymyr Zelensky announced at the annual Munich Security Conference that he would challenge the Budapest Memorandum in order to rearm his country with nuclear weapons. Five days later, on February 24, 2022, Russia launched its special operation against the Kiev government to implement Resolution 2202. Its top priority was to seize Ukraine’s secret and illegal reserves of enriched uranium. After eight days of fighting, the civilian nuclear power plant at Zaporijjia was occupied by the Russian army.​
According to Argentina’s Rafael Grossi, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, who spoke three months later on May 25 at the Davos Forum, Ukraine had secretly stored 30 tons of plutonium and 40 tons of uranium at Zaporijjia. At market prices, this stockpile was worth at least $150 billion. Russian President Vladimir Putin declared: “The only thing [Ukraine] lacks is a uranium enrichment system. But that’s a technical question, and for Ukraine it’s not an insoluble problem”. However, his army had already removed a large part of this stock from the plant. Fighting continued for months. If the integral nationalists had still had them, they would have done what the “revisionist Zionists” are doing today: they would have demanded more and more weapons and, if refused, threatened to use them, i.e. to launch Armageddon.​
Back to today’s battlefields. What are we seeing? In Ukraine and Palestine, the West continues to provide the “integral nationalists” and, to a lesser extent, the “revisionist Zionists” with an impressive arsenal. However, they have no reasonable hope of getting the Russians to back down, or of massacring all the Gazans. At worst, they can lead their allies to empty their arsenals, sacrifice all Ukrainians of fighting age and diplomatically isolate the puppet-state of Israel. As Moshe Dayan once said, “Israel must be like a mad dog, too dangerous to control”.
​ Let’s imagine that these apparently catastrophic consequences are in fact their goal.
​ The world would then be divided in two, as it was during the Cold War, except that Israel would have become uninviting. In the West, the Anglo-Saxons would still be the masters, especially as they would be the only ones with weapons, their allies having exhausted theirs in Ukraine. Israel, isolated as it was in the late 70s and early 80s when it was only really recognized by the apartheid regime of South Africa, would still be fulfilling the mission it was originally entrusted with: to mobilize the Jewish diaspora in the service of the Empire, fearing a new wave of anti-Semitism.
​ This bleak vision is the only one that can keep the Anglo-Saxons from collapsing, and ensure that they will always have vassals, even if this will bear little relation to their power in the days of the “global world”. This is why they have placed themselves in the current inextricable situation. The “integral nationalists” and “revisionist Zionists” are blackmailing them, but they intend to manipulate them to divide the world in two and preserve what they can of their supremacy.​ https://www.voltairenet.org/article220708.html

​ Seven Days After Israeli Forces Kill American, Biden and Harris Haven’t Spoken to Victim’s Family
And any Israeli “investigation” apparently hasn’t even reached out to other eyewitnesses.​ https://zeteo.com/p/seven-days-after-israeli-forces-kill

Israel releases 9 Palestinian detainees showing signs of abuse​ https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240914-israel-releases-9-palestinian-detainees-showing-signs-of-abuse/

To stifle truth, Israelis threaten to decapitate Lebanese journalist​ https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/to-stifle-truth—israel–threatens-to-decapitate-lebanese-j

[John Day]

1) Thanks tboc

2) “Nothing Will Slow Me Down” – Trump Reacts After Second Assassination Attempt
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/trump-safe-after-shooter-ak47-reportedly-targeted-former-pres-while-golfing-secret

[John Day]

​ Updated Guidance for COVID-19 Boosters for the Fall and Winter 2024–2025 Season
Tallahassee, Fla. – The Florida Department of Health (Department) is reminding health care providers of the importance of remaining up to date with current literature related to COVID-19 vaccines and boosters, and the importance of providing patients with informed consent.​
​ On August 22, 2024, the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved and authorized updated versions of mRNA vaccines from Pfizer-BioNtech and Moderna. The FDA approved the vaccine for people 12 and older and provided emergency use authorization for children 6 months to 11 years old. The stated target of these boosters is the Omicron variant which is not causing a significant number of infections.
​ The most recent booster approval was granted in the absence of booster-specific clinical trial data performed in humans. Furthermore, this booster does not protect against the currently dominant strain, accounting for approximately 37% of infections in the United States. There are currently limited data to inform whether these boosters offer any substantial protection against the virus and subsequent circulating variants. Although randomized clinical trials are normally used to approve therapeutics, the federal government has not required COVID-19 vaccine manufacturers to demonstrate their boosters prevent hospitalizations or death from COVID-19 illness.
​ Additionally, the federal government has failed to provide sufficient data to support the safety and efficacy of COVID-19 boosters, or acknowledge previously demonstrated safety concerns associated with COVID-19 vaccines and boosters, including:
​ prolonged circulation of mRNA and spike protein in some vaccine recipients,
increased risk of lower respiratory tract infections, and
​ increased risk of autoimmune disease after vaccination.
Health care providers are encouraged to share information in this guidance in discussions with patients regarding the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines and boosters.
​ Based on the high rate of global immunity and currently available data, the State Surgeon General advises against the use of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines.​ https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/FLDOH/bulletins/3b56786

​ UN ‘Pact for the Future’: Digital IDs, Vaccine Passports, Massive Censorship
World leaders will convene later this month in New York to discuss proposals that critics believe will enshrine global digital ID and online censorship and give the U.N. secretary-general unprecedented emergency powers.​ https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/united-nations-pact-future-digital-ids-vaccine-passports-censorship/

​ Meryl Nass MD, The disaster that is the Pact for the Future
Bear with me; I am trying to identify the most effective way of conveying this important material. Please share. Consensus on this document will be sought at the UN in 8 days!​ https://merylnass.substack.com/p/the-disaster-that-is-the-pact-for

​ George Monbiot, Out of 1,500 global climate policies, only 63 have really worked. That’s where green spin has got us
​ A paper published in Science last month reviewed 1,500 climate policies around the world, and found that only 63 have delivered significant benefits. These include fuel taxes, carbon floor prices, bans on damaging technologies, renewables mandates, energy efficiency mandates, strong building regulations and higher industrial performance standards. The paper should be a blueprint for action. But precisely because these policies generate real change, they cause conflict with powerful interests.​ https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/sep/12/fossil-fuel-companies-environment-greenwashing

​A Midwestern Doctor: The Unappreciated Benefits of Natural Light​, Exploring the critical biological functions of a complete and balanced light spectrum
Sunlight’s Hidden Benefits: Sunlight is crucial for our health, dramatically cutting the risk of dying or getting cancer, yet we’re always told to avoid it.
​ Beyond Vitamin D: While we recognize the importance of vitamin D, many other critical functions of light in plants, animals, and humans remain largely unknown and will be explored in this article.
​ Modern Light Exposure: Our constant exposure to artificial light is mistakenly seen as harmless, but forgotten research shows it’s a root cause of many modern physical and behavioral issues.
​ Light and Blood: Blood plays a key role in conducting light throughout our bodies. Disruptions in this process (e.g., from wearing glasses that block certain parts of the light spectrum) can lead to serious health problems.​ https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/the-unappreciated-benefits-of-natural

[John Day]

Oxford University Study: Hydroxychloroquine Is a ‘Safe & Effective’ Treatment for Covid
Scientists at the world-renowned Oxford University in England have just confirmed that hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) is “safe and effective” when used to treat COVID-19.
​ A study into the effectiveness of the drug against Covid was conducted by the COPCOV Collaborative Group.
The group, led by Dr. William H. K. Schilling, is part of the Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit (MORU) Tropical Health Network.
​ The study sought to better understand the safety profile of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) after multiple reports emerged during the pandemic that the antiviral drug had been successfully used to treat Covid.​ https://slaynews.com/news/oxford-university-study-hydroxychloroquine-safe-effective-treatment-covid/

​ The New Zealand data released by Barry Young can be used to prove the COVID vaccines are unsafe
​It turns out it is trivial to show that the 1 year mortality from the time of the shot is batch dependent, varying by a factor of 2 or more. That’s a huge problem for the mean mortality rates to have such a huge variation.​ https://kirschsubstack.com/p/the-new-zealand-data-released-by

​ New Zealand First lawmakers are insisting on an honest COVID vaccine inquiry. GAME CHANGING? We’ll see.
​ There really is ONE party in NZ who appears to care about the thousands of New Zealanders left with sickness and injury after (mandated) Covid injections: NEW ZEALAND FIRST (nzfirst.nz).
​ These lawmakers say they want to get to the truth about what happened and why, if the vaccines are so safe, there are so many “coincidences.”
​ The speaker is Tanya Unkovich, a New Zealand politician, representing New Zealand First as a member of parliament since the 2023 general election. She is the author of four books, and has previously worked in finance, as a life coach, and public speaker.
​ Wikipedia says this about Tanya:
During the campaign, she faced criticism for participating in a Nuremberg trials Telegram group that likened COVID-19 vaccines to Nazi war crimes.[8]
​ In other words, she not afraid to call people out. A rarity in politics today.​ https://kirschsubstack.com/p/new-zealand-first-lawmakers-are-insisting

​ FDA Blew Off Scheduled Meetings With COVID Vaccine Injury Victims, Emails Show
Private emails obtained by Children’s Health Defense via a FOIA request reveal more evidence that government officials knew of, and were concerned about COVID-19 vaccine adverse events, but that they eventually stopped corresponding with vaccine injury victims.​ https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/fda-covid-vaccine-injury-emails-chd-foia/

​ Their Vaccine Injury Reports Disappeared From VAERS — So They Developed a Tool Anyone Can Use to Track Their Own Reports
After a group of people injured by the COVID-19 vaccine asked the FDA for an external audit of VAERS, they never heard from the agency again. Now they’re developing a system to audit vaccine injury reports in a continuing struggle to hold public health officials accountable.​ https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/vaers-covid-vaccine-injury-audit-react19-chd/

[John Day]

​ Pepe Escobar, BRICS, the rise of China and how the Hegemon buried the concept of “security”
​ The first meeting of security experts/National Security Advisors under the expanded BRICS+ format at the Konstantinovsky Palace in St. Petersburg unveiled quite a few nuggets.
​ Let’s start with China. Foreign Minister Wang Yi proposed four BRICS-centric security initiatives. Essentially, BRICS+ – and beyond, considering further expansion – should aim at​: peaceful coexistence; independence; autonomy; and true multilateralism, which implies a rejection of Exceptionalism.
​ At the BRICS table, the overarching theme was how member-nations should support each other despite so many challenges – mostly unleashed by you-know-who…
​..Meeting with Wang Yi, Putin stressed that the Russia-China strategic partnership is in favor of a just world order, a principle supported by the Global South. Wang Yi confirmed President Xi Jinping has already accepted the official Russian invitation for the BRICS summit next month in Kazan.
​ Putin also met with the Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, Ali Ahmadian. Putin confirmed he is expecting Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian for another visit to Russia, apart from the BRICS summit, to sign their new strategic partnership agreement.
​ Geoeconomics is key. The development of the International North South Transportation Corridor (INSTC) was confirmed as a top Russia-Iran priority.​..
..Shoigu for his part confirmed, “We are ready to expand cooperation between our security councils.” The deal will be signed by both Presidents soon. Moreover, Shoigu added that Iran’s entry into BRICS advances cooperation among members to form a “common and indivisible architecture of strategic security and a fair polycentric world order.”
Now compare it with the new collective West “strategy” – adopted by U.S., UK, France and Germany: another sanctions wave against Iran related to the case of Iranian missiles transferred to Russia.
Ahmed Bakhshaish Ardestani, a member of the Iranian Parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission, confirmed early this week that Iran is sending missiles and drones to Russia as part of their defense agreements.
But the heart of the story is that these missiles are Russian anyway; they are just being produced in Iran…
..This new pan-Eurasian security system proposed by Putin was discussed in detail at the latest Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit. Putin actually stated that a “decision was made to turn the SCO regional anti-terrorist structure into a universal center tasked with responding to the entire range of security threats.”
It all started with the concept of “Greater Eurasian Partnership”, which Putin advanced in late 2015. That was refined during his annual address to the Federal Assembly last February. And then, in a meeting with key Russian diplomats in June, Putin stressed that the time was right to kickstart a comprehensive discussion of bilateral and multilateral guarantees embedded in a new vision for collective Eurasian security.
The idea, from the start, was always inclusive. Putin stressed the need to create a security architecture open to “all Eurasian countries that wish to participate”, including “European and NATO countries.”….
.As it stands, a deaf, dumb and blind Washington remains obsessed with its single-minded declared goal of inflicting a strategic defeat on Russia…
..And that brings us to the current incandescent juncture. There are only two options ahead for the U.S. proxy war against Russia in Ukraine: an unconditional Kiev surrender, or escalation towards a NATO war against Russia.
Ryabkov has no illusions – even as he puts it quite diplomatically:
“Signals and actions that we are witnessing today are aimed towards escalation. This remark will not force us to change our course, but will create additional risks and dangers for the United States and its allies, clients and satellites, no matter where they are.”
After bombing the concept of diplomacy, the Hegemon has also bombed the concept of security. Acute dementia in U.S. Think Tankland has even reached the point of dreaming of a three-front war. And this from an “indispensable nation” whose mighty Navy has been utterly humiliated by the Houthis in the Red Sea. https://strategic-culture.su/news/2024/09/14/brics-rise-of-china-and-how-hegemon-buried-concept-security/

Record rise in gold price indicates the beginning of ​(further) dollar devaluation​ https://en.topcor.ru/51520-rekordnyj-rost-stoimosti-zolota-govorit-o-nachavshejsja-devalvacii-dollara.html

​ Saudi Central Bank Caught Secretly Buying 160 Tonnes of Gold in Switzerland
​ The Saudis have joined other Asian countries in ditching their long-term sensitivity to the gold price. Evidence suggests the Saudi central bank has been covertly buying 160 tonnes of gold in Switzerland since early 2022, contributing to the current gold bull market.
​ Although the Saudis played a key role in the birth of the global dollar standard in the early 1970s, this time around they might even become a lynchpin for its dissolution.​ https://www.moneymetals.com/news/2024/09/12/saudi-central-bank-caught-secretly-buying-160-tonnes-of-gold-in-switzerland-003458

​ Thanks Jane. A potential association between COVID-19 vaccination and development of Alzheimer’s disease
Results​:
​ Findings showed an increased incidence of MCI ​(Mild Cognitive Impairment) and AD​ (Alzheimer’s Disease) in vaccinated individuals, particularly those receiving mRNA vaccines, within three months post-vaccination. The mRNA vaccine group exhibited a significantly higher incidence of AD (odds ratio [OR]: 1.225; 95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.025–1.464; P = 0.026) and MCI (OR: 2.377; CI: 1.845–3.064; P < 0.001) compared to the unvaccinated group. No significant relationship was found with vascular dementia or Parkinson’s disease.
​ Conclusions​:
​ Preliminary evidence suggests a potential link between COVID-19 vaccination, particularly mRNA vaccines, and increased incidences of AD and MCI. This warrants the need for further research to elucidate the relationship between vaccine-induced immune responses and neurodegenerative processes, advocating for continuous monitoring and investigation into the vaccines’ long-term neurological impacts.​ https://academic.oup.com/qjmed/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/qjmed/hcae103/7684274

[John Day]

​ Russian News Stories:

​ Harris wants war with Russia – Trump
The former president has claimed that the Democrats would drag the US into World War III​ https://swentr.site/news/604035-harris-war-russia-trump/

​ Russia had reason to use nukes, but showed restraint – Medvedev
The deputy chair of the Security Council has warned that Moscow’s patience has limits, as the West mulls allowing Ukrainian long-range missile strikes​ https://swentr.site/russia/604021-medvedev-russia-west-nuclear-strike/

US sanctions RT​, The Russian outlet is a threat to democracy, the State Department has claimed​ https://swentr.site/news/603997-us-sanctions-rt/

​ US has declared information war on Russian media – Zakharova to RT
The latest attack stems from the West’s inability to compete fairly, the Foreign Ministry spokeswoman has said​ https://swentr.site/russia/604031-us-sanctions-information-war/

US media merged with intelligence services long ago – RT editor-in-chief​, Washington only protects its own “freedom of speech,” Margarita Simonyan has said​ https://swentr.site/russia/604034-us-freedom-speech-hypocrisy-rt/

[John Day]

​ US public opinion is divided: Massachusetts man shot in scuffle with pro-Israel crowd as video emerges of another who self-immolated
Videos posted to social media Friday indicate that acts of protest are escalating​ https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/massachusetts-man-shot-scuffle-pro-israel-crowd-video-emerges-another-who-self-immolated

​ (partially deplatformed) Jim Kunstler:​ What You Don’t Know Might Surprise You
The plan, you see, was to disrupt the election certification process underway at mid-day in the House chamber by creating a furor over the discovery of the pipe bomb planted to assassinate veep-elect Kamala Harris — a joint blob / Democratic Party operation. The pipe bomb ruse, it turned out, was never needed because the FBI-instigated riot at the Capitol created a big disruption just in time to send the politicians scurrying for safety and cancel scrutiny of various state’s electors’ reports.
After that scare, the Senators and Congressmen did, in fact, drop the certification challenge and returned to hurriedly finish the certification process later that night of 1/6/21. The pipe bomb story barely made the news, and the scant news about it was expeditiously memory-holed thereafter. After nearly four years, as averred to above, the FBI has come up with. . . nothing. It is important that you understand just how nefarious your federal agencies are, and how corrupt the news is.​ https://jameshowardkunstler.substack.com/p/what-you-dont-know-might-surprise

​ The courts reject many charges on procedural grounds to play-it-safe: Lawfare Collapsing Amidst Harris’ Vow To Prosecute Trump
Now, following setbacks for prosecutors, Trump will have a reprieve in further substantive proceedings until after the election.
https://realclearwire.com/articles/2024/09/13/lawfare_collapsing_amidst_harris_vow_to_prosecute_trump_151609.html

​ Watch: Kamala Harris Gives Trainwreck Answers To Simple Questions In First Solo Interview
​ On Friday, Harris gave her first interview since last week’s debate – this time, instead of going with a major news network, she sat down with an ABC News affiliate in Philadelphia.
​ Despite several softball questions, Harris had absolutely no answer when reporter Brian Taft asked he about “one or two specific things” she’d do as president when it comes to “bringing down prices and making life more affordable for people.”
​ “Well, I’ll start with this,” Harris began. “I grew up a middle-class kid. My mother raised my sister and me. She worked very hard. She was able to finally save up enough money to buy our first house when I was a teenager. I grew up in a community of hardworking people. You know, construction workers and nurses and teachers. I try to explain to some people who might not have had the same experience, but a lot of people will relate to this.”
​ She then kept going​… https://www.zerohedge.com/political/watch-kamala-harris-gives-trainwreck-answer-simple-question

​ Russia & The West Are Engaged In Political Choreography Over Ukraine’s Use Of Long-Range Weapons
​ Putin warned last week that letting Ukraine use Western long-range weapons to strike deep inside of Russia “will mean that NATO countries, the United States, and European countries are parties to the war in Ukraine. This will mean their direct involvement in the conflict, and it will clearly change the very essence, the very nature of the conflict dramatically. This will mean that NATO countries – the United States and European countries – are at war with Russia.”
​ He preceded his words by reminding everyone that “the Ukrainian army is not capable of using cutting-edge high-precision long-range systems supplied by the West. They cannot do that. These weapons are impossible to employ without intelligence data from satellites which Ukraine does not have. This can only be done using the European Union’s satellites, or US satellites – in general, NATO satellites…(and) only NATO military personnel can assign flight missions to these missile systems.”…
​..Although the risk of World War III breaking out by miscalculation continues to grow as a result of these irresponsible Western escalations, it’s unlikely that Putin will radically respond by authorizing his forces to hit targets inside of NATO, let alone launch a nuclear first strike.​.. [uh, how unlikely, sir?]
..Putin’s political choreography can be seen as an attempt to pressure Kiev into complying with his ceasefire precondition from this summer by withdrawing from all the territory that Moscow claims as its own. If that fails and he doesn’t ramp up bombing, then the secondary motive might be to prepare his people for another round of mobilization. By describing NATO as being in a state of war with Russia, he might also be hinting that he’ll curtail resource exports to it.
​ As for the West’s political choreography, it appears to be yet another example of “boiling the frog” by gradually crossing every one of Russia’s so-called “red lines”. This helps manage Western public opinion given the unprecedented nature of this proxy war and give Russia the time to prepare for the next escalation so that it’s not caught totally off guard and thus considers “overreacting” like some hawks have wanted.​..
..Seeing as how their specialists would be handling pretty much everything connected to these long-range missiles, the fact that this hasn’t happened earlier speaks to their decisionmakers’ desire to control the escalation ladder with Russia, at least in terms of how they see it…
​..Reflecting on everything, this experience should teach observers that political choreography is only for the sake of perception management since backchannels exist for rival parties to discreetly convey real threats to one another, some of which might then be reaffirmed in public for soft power purposes. Rarely is everything as clear-cut as it seems, with it almost always being the case that much more is going on behind the scenes than meets the eye.​ https://korybko.substack.com/p/russia-and-the-west-are-engaged-in

[John Day]

Different Light https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/different-light

Pepe Escobar, From 11 September to 7 October: The fake ‘War on Terror’ collapses
For years, the US executed Israel’s regional destabilization program using phantom terrorists as justification for the ‘War on Terror.’ But 7 October 2023 killed Washington’s never-ending war project – with a flip of the switch, US adversaries have now turned the ‘Long War’ on Israel.
​ The events of 11 September 2001 were intended to impose and enshrine a new Exceptionalist paradigm on the young 21st century. History, though, ruled otherwise.
​ Cast as an attack on the US Homeland, 11 September 2001, immediately generated the Global War on Terror (GWOT), launched at 11 pm on the same day. Initially christened “The Long War” by the Pentagon, the term was later sanitized by the administration of Barack Obama as “Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO).”
​ The US-manufactured War on Terror spent a notoriously un-trackable eight trillion dollars defeating a phantom enemy, killed over half a million people – overwhelmingly Muslims – and branched out into illegal wars against seven Muslim-majority states. All of this was relentlessly justified on “humanitarian grounds” and allegedly supported by the “international community” – before that term, too, was renamed as the “rules-based international order.”…​
..US General Wesley Clark’s notorious revelation of a secret Cheney regime plot to destroy seven major Islamic countries over five years, from Iraq, Syria, and Libya all the way to Iran, showed us that the planning had already been done in advance. These targeted nations had one thing in common: they were resolute enemies of the occupation state and firm supporters of Palestinian rights.
​ The sweet deal, from Tel Aviv’s perspective, was that the War on Terror would have the US and its western allies fighting all these serial Israeli-profiting wars on behalf of “civilization” and against the “barbarians.” The Israelis couldn’t have been more happy or smug about the direction this was going…​
..But a false narrative construct cannot hold out forever. Three years ago, on the 20th anniversary of the Twin Towers collapsing and the onset of the War on Terror, we witnessed a great unraveling in the intersection of Central and South Asia: the Taliban were back in power, celebrating their victory over the Hegemon in a discombobulated Forever War.
​ By then, the “seven countries in five years” obsession – aiming to forge a “New Middle East” – was being derailed across the spectrum. Syria was the turning point, though some would argue that the tea leaves were already cast when the Lebanese resistance defeated Israel in 2000, then again in 2006.
​ But smashing independent Syria would have paved the way for the Hegemon – and Israel’s – Holy Grail: regime change in Iran.
​ US occupation forces entered Syria in late 2014 under the pretext of fighting “terror.” That was Obama’s OCO in action. In reality, though, Washington was using two key terror outfits – Daesh, aka ISIL, aka ISIS, and Al Qaeda, aka Jabhat al-Nusra, aka Hayat Tahrir al-Sham – to try to destroy Damascus…
..As much as Israel profited from events after 11 September, Tel Aviv’s actions after 7 October rapidly accelerated its unraveling. Today, amidst massive Global Majority condemnation of Israel’s Gaza genocide, the occupation state stands as a pariah – tainting its allies and exposing the Hegemon’s hypocrisy with each passing day…
..In the end, all the combined sound and fury of 11 September, the War on Terror, Long War, Operation This-And-That over two decades, metastasized into exactly what “Zbig” feared. Not only has a mere “challenger” emerged, but a full-fledged Russia–China strategic partnership that is setting a new tone for Eurasia.
Suddenly, Washington has forgotten all about terrorism. This is the real “enemy” – now considered the top two US “strategic threats.” Not Al-Qaeda and its many incarnations, a flimsy figment of the CIA’s imagination, rehabilitated and sanitized in the previous decade as those mythical “moderate rebels” in Syria.
What’s even more eerie is that the conceptually nonsensical War on Terror forged by the neocons immediately after 11 September is now morphing into a war of terror (italics mine), embodying the desperate Hail Mary pass by the CIA and MI6 to “confront Russian aggression” in Ukraine.
And that’s bound to be metastasized into the Sinophobia swamp because those same western intelligence agencies consider the rise of China to be “the greatest geopolitical and intelligence challenge” of the 21st century.
The War on Terror has been debunked; it is now dead. But get ready for serial wars of terror by a Hegemon unaccustomed to not owning the narrative, the seas, and the ground. https://thecradle.co/articles/from-11-september-to-7-october-the-fake-war-on-terror-collapses

Israel Exists to Help West Loot, Dominate Middle East – Analyst
Although modern defenders of Israel justify its existence under the pretense of “Jewish self-determination” or “decolonization,” the state’s ideological forebears clearly articulated Zionism as a colonial project.
Issued by the British government in 1917, the Balfour Declaration is often considered to mark the beginning of Western support for the establishment of the modern state of Israel.
The pronouncement, notorious among Palestinians and their supporters, committed the United Kingdom to the establishment of a “national home for the Jewish people” in the Levant. Some Zionists viewed the creation of Israel as a progressive act necessary to combat rising prejudice in Europe, but historians have pointed out the nakedly antisemitic motivations of Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour, who sought to appease a British public wary of rising Jewish immigration to the UK. https://sputnikglobe.com/20240913/israel-exists-to-help-west-loot-dominate-middle-east–analyst-1120130235.html

​ Netanyahu asks for criminal probe into himself to evade ICC warrant
A report by the Israeli Channel 12 reveals the intent was for the investigation to be launched and swiftly closed, with a report submitted to the ICC, indicating that the charges had been duly examined.​ https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/netanyahu-asks-for-criminal-probe-into-himself-to-evade-icc

​ The court of Israeli public opinion: Netanyahu’s popularity surges as Gaza genocide nears one year mark: Poll
The popularity of the Prime Minister and his Likud party fell drastically after the alleged intelligence failures on 7 October​ https://thecradle.co/articles/netanyahus-popularity-surges-as-gaza-genocide-nears-one-year-mark-poll

[John Day]

Chinese pug on skateboard wins.
How did they GET that video?

[John Day]

British twins grow ‘monster’ pumpkin expected to weigh more than a rhino

[John Day]

Celia Farber explains Germany’s “Red Queen” court proceedings:
Analysis By Joseph Molitorisz: Fuellmich Defense Denied Clarification Of What The Charge Against Him Is At This Point—Told To Wait Until Trial’s End?​ https://celiafarber.substack.com/p/analysis-by-joseph-molitorisz-fuellmich

​ Another write-up about last week’s “Attack On Food and Farmers and How To Fight Back” symposium:
‘Don’t Eat the Bugs’: How to Reclaim Control Over the Food System
​ “Attack on Food and Farmers and How to Fight Back,” a two-day symposium featuring 40-plus speakers, brought together doctors, journalists, researchers, farmers and politicians to discuss what’s happened to the global food system — and how to fix it.​ https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/attack-on-food-and-farmers-symposium-chd-door-to-freedom/

​ They actually were not stupid, and they had both Polynesian and Native-American genetics, so the Polynesians had gotten to the New World before Columbus. European diseases appear to have killed off the islanders. Genetic Evidence Overrules Ecocide Theory of Easter Island Once And For All https://www.sciencealert.com/genetic-evidence-overrules-ecocide-theory-of-easter-island-once-and-for-all

[John Day]

​ New video, witnesses challenge Israel’s account of U.S. activist’s killing
The IDF said Aysenur Eygi was shot “unintentionally” during a “violent riot.” A Post analysis shows clashes had subsided and protesters had retreated.
​ BEITA, West Bank — It was Aysenur Eygi’s first time at a West Bank demonstration, and she was nervous.
The 26-year-old Turkish American told fellow activists she hoped to be a “protective presence” for Palestinians at a time of spiraling violence across the Israeli-occupied territory.
​ “We had both decided we did not want to be near any action at all,” said Helen, a volunteer from Australia in her early 60s who was with Eygi throughout the day.
​ Eygi’s caution did not protect her. She was fatally shot in the head on Friday in the village of Beita, near Nablus, following brief clashes after Friday prayers. The Israel Defense Forces said Tuesday it was “very likely” she had been hit “unintentionally” by one of its soldiers. “The incident took place during a violent riot,” the statement said, and the fire was aimed at “the key instigator.”
​ But a Washington Post investigation has found that Eygi was shot more than a half-hour after the height of confrontations in Beita, and some 20 minutes after protesters had moved down the main road — more than 200 yards away from Israeli forces. A Palestinian teenager, who witnesses say was standing about 20 yards from Eygi, was wounded by Israeli fire; the IDF would not say if he was a target.
​ Citing an ongoing investigation, the IDF also declined to answer questions from The Post about why its forces fired toward the demonstrators so long after they had retreated, and from a distance where they posed no apparent threat.​..
​..On Friday morning, activists said, Eygi and four other volunteers hired a taxi in Ramallah, the de facto Palestinian capital in the West Bank, and drove about 30 miles north to Beita, a familiar flash point.
​ Palestinians there have been battling for decades to hold off the steady advance of Israeli settlers.​..
​..Helen slipped and fell during “the scary race down the road,” at one point spraining her ankle, she said, but the younger woman stayed with her, “being a protective strength.”
​ A video filmed at 1:22 p.m. shows the road next to the olive grove. A shot rings out.
“They’re shooting with regular guns!” an activist says off-camera in Japanese. Steven Beck, an audio forensic expert who consulted for the FBI and reviewed the footage for The Post, said the pop heard on the video was consistent with a gunshot — a finding corroborated by a second audio expert, Rob Maher.
​ A minute later, the British activist called Eygi to check where she was, according to a call log viewed by The Post. Eygi told him she had already made it down the hill to the olive grove.​ “Stay there,” he recalls telling her.
​ Helen positioned herself behind a tree, she said, with Eygi to her left…​..“Gunshot!” an unseen woman can be heard screaming in the background. She pleads for an ambulance.
In the olive grove, Helen saw Eygi drop facedown to the ground beside her. The older woman rolled her over. Blood was pouring from the left side of Eygi’s head, she said, and she was unresponsive…
​..During her training with ISM, Eygi had spoken about her fear that she “wouldn’t make a difference,” fellow activists said. Her death has now become a test case for U.S.-Israel relations, after 11 months of growing tensions between the two allies over the war in Gaza and Israeli policy in the West Bank. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/09/11/american-activist-aysenur-eygi-killed-idf-west-bank/
​
It certainly couldn’t have been done without them. Dick Cheney helped, too… Israel Did 9/11, W.M. Peterson https://truthblitzkrieg.com/2024/09/02/1379/

Migrant Population In Charleroi, Pennsylvania Explodes 2,000% As Crisis Unfolds​ https://www.zerohedge.com/political/migrant-population-charleroi-pennsylvania-explodes-2000-crisis-unfolds

Missed the special ​radio-coach-earrings at the debate, though… How to Steal an Election: US Conservatives Expose Democrats’ Playbook Ahead of 2024 Vote​ https://sputnikglobe.com/20240912/how-to-steal-an-election-us-conservatives-expose-democrats-playbook-ahead-of-2024-vote-1120119743.html

​ Charles Hugh Smith on our new paradoxical subjugation. What’s “Free” About “Free Speech”?
Without being aware of it, we’ve privatized “free” speech in the form of digital monopolies. https://charleshughsmith.substack.com/p/whats-free-about-free-speech

[John Day]

​ UK’s Starmer, Canada’s Trudeau, Pressure Biden To Escalate With Russia Despite Putin Warning Of ‘War’ With NATO
Update(1450ET): Kirby came out on Friday and told reporters that there’s been no change in US policy regarding Ukraine using Western arms for long-rage strikes inside Russia. But the pressure is quickly ramping up: first Canada’s Trudeau said he supports greenlighting this, despite Putin making clear this would mean ‘direct war’ between Russia and NATO, and now UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer is coming out in support. According to breaking reporting in The Wall Street Journal​. https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russia-informs-un-security-council-direct-war-nato-assured-if-us-approves-long-range

​ Lavrov ridicules ‘divers on little boat’ Nord Stream-sabotage theory
Those who believe such stories are “afraid of truth” and are shielding the Kiev regime, the Russian foreign minister said​ https://swentr.site/russia/603923-lavrov-ridicules-nord-stream-theory/

​ Britain saved tens of millions of pounds by sending scrapped equipment to Ukraine – FT
​ It is noted that a significant amount of British military equipment provided to Kyiv had little military value. However, sending such cargo to Ukraine, according to the publication, “reduced waste or costs associated with disposal.”​ https://en.topcor.ru/51456-britanija-sjekonomila-desjatki-millionov-funtov-otpraviv-na-ukrainu-podlezhaschuju-utilizacii-tehniku-i-snarjazhenie-ft.html

South Africa to submit Gaza war crimes evidence to UN court​, The BRICS member accuses Israel of having committed multiple atrocities​ https://www.rt.com/africa/603840-south-africa-israel-genocide-case-evidence-icj/

​ ‘Everything around me was getting torn apart’: Israel commits another massacre in Gaza ‘safe zone’
Israel committed another massacre in an area it has designated as a “safe zone.” The airstrikes buried entire families in the sand.​ https://mondoweiss.net/2024/09/everything-around-me-was-getting-torn-apart-israel-commits-another-massacre-in-gaza-safe-zone/

[John Day]

Awaiting World War https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/awaiting-world-war

Gilbert Doctorow, Putin to reporter Pavel Zarubin: ‘NATO will be at war with us and our response will be appropriate to the perceived threat’​
Pavel Zarubin, a journalist who seems to follow Vladimir Vladimirovich everywhere to gather material for his weekly Sunday evening show ‘Moscow, the Kremlin, Putin’ put to him the question that is as much on the minds of Russians as it is on the mind of us here in the West: how will Russia respond to the expected American and British go-ahead to Zelensky for use of their missiles to attack the heartland of Russia. Putin gave his answer speaking in a calm and deliberate tone. What he said has been picked up by global media, many of which have presented it to world audiences as being bellicose. It was not bellicose but it was open to various interpretations because its essence is that Russia’s response will be calibrated to the level of threat to itself that it sees in any coming attacks from Ukraine.
​ But before getting to the ‘punch line’ that everyone awaited, President Putin explained Russia’s understanding that what is at issue goes far beyond mere permission for Ukraine to use Western supplied long-range offensive weapons as it sees fit. Per Russian military evaluation, Ukraine by itself does not possess the satellite reconnaissance capability necessary to program the NATO-supplied missiles to target. For this it is totally dependent on NATO countries. More important still, Ukraine does not have the training, the skills to maintain and launch these missiles on its own. Two or three weeks training is utterly inadequate to manage these highly sophisticated weapons systems. Accordingly all of those functions must necessarily be carried out by technical people from the NATO country manufacturers of the weapons. For these reasons, Russia concludes that the missiles effectively represent NATO’s direct involvement in the conflict. The status of the conflict moves on from a proxy war to a full-blown war by NATO countries on Russia. That change in the nature of the war requires a change in the way Russia conducts itself. As Putin said, Russia will calibrate its response to any attack to the level of threat it perceives. Period.​..
..The fact is that Russia is mentally prepared for anything that the West can throw at it today via Ukraine, up to and including, for example, a missile attack on the Kursk nuclear power plant. Due to its unprotected outer structure, a strike there could result in a leakage of radioactivity similar to the Chernobyl catastrophe. We should not doubt that a Russian response to such an incident will be memorable if any of us survives it.​ https://gilbertdoctorow.substack.com/p/putin-to-reporter-pavel-zarubin-nato

​ Britain and the United States are on the verge of allowing Ukraine to use long-range missiles against targets in Russia after accusing President Putin of “escalating” the conflict by accepting ballistic missiles from Iran.​ https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russian-counteroffensive-kursk-belatedly-full-swing

​ Will ‘Insane’ Biden Provoke World War III Before November Election?​ [Now being secretly negotiated in DC.]
​ Both countries nearly saw their worst fears realized during the Cuban Missile Crisis, when it appeared the US and USSR were unwilling to back down over the issue of nuclear missiles being placed just miles from each country’s border in Cuba and Turkey. The incident led to the establishment of a special hotline for US and Soviet leaders to communicate directly, and caused US President John F. Kennedy to remark that tensions between nuclear powers must never again rise to such a level.​..
​..“My fear is that [the United States] will try something really drastic like a false flag attack or maybe even a mini nuke,” said (former CIA Analyst, Ray) McGovern, concerned that the US could fabricate an episode such as the Gulf of Tonkin incident that drew the country into the Vietnam War. “Let’s see what happens the next couple of weeks. I think Putin is right. It’s only the smart thing to see who wins on the 5th of November. Till then, I’m still holding my breath.”​ https://sputnikglobe.com/20240912/will-insane-biden-provoke-world-war-iii-before-november-election-1120114630.html

​Simplicius, Zelensky’s Last Hail Mary Gets Off to Rocky Start
It seems every news cycle there is now some major new development surrounding Ukraine, which threatens to plunge the war into some elevated state of risk and threat. This is by design because Zelensky and his curators need to constantly drum up a sense of advancement in the narrative, otherwise the increasingly dire situation on the front threatens to swallow the entire war effort whole.
​ Today that “shiny new object” meant to give UA supporters some small glint of hope is the information package surrounding permission for deep strikes into Russia.​..
​..Zelensky is traveling to the US to present his plan, which some sources have claimed has three points, which I outlined last time, but as reminder:
​ 1. Zelensky wants the US to allow long-range strikes into Russia with foreign missiles to destroy all military bases, airfields, ammunition and fuel depots within the European part of Russia.
​ 2. The West (US/NATO) must protect Western Ukraine with Polish and Romanian air defense systems from Russian retaliation strikes so Ukraine could transfer own air defense systems closer to the battlefield.
​ 3. The West must guarantee to be prepared to get more involved by sending ground troops to certain parts of Ukraine to free up Ukraine’s manpower which could be sent to the front lines. Zelensky believes after this campaign Russia would be forced to retreat, at some point Putin’s leadership would be destabilized and replaced, with the new leadership signing a peace deal.​..
..However, we already have some sand to throw on the above via another breaking story, which is that infamous Russian pranksters Vovan & Lexus had just caught Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski in their net. Sikorski directly addresses two of the points above, totally dispelling them. He was under the impression he was speaking to Ukraine’s Petro Poroshenko as part of the gag.​ Here he plainly states that right now there is no chance for Poland, and likely the rest of NATO, in shooting down any Russian assets or joining the war​… In the slightly longer version, at the end he actually states: “We don’t want to confirm what Medvedev, Putin, and Russian propaganda has been accusing us of.” He’s saying that Poland does not want to validate the very reason behind Russia’s war on Ukraine, which is that the West intends to use Ukraine to directly attack Russia.​.. The relief, of course, is that Sikorski confirms: “There is no willingness in Europe to have a war with Russia, this is an absolute red line.”​…
..One of the problems is: major transnational conglomerates like BlackRock and the Soros Empire have all signed deals with Zelensky’s regime—and it’s in their great interest to keep those contracts active. Should Zelensky be removed, they know a new leader could annul their deals, causing trillions in future losses. Thus, it serves the cabal’s interests to keep as corrupt a regime in Ukraine in power as long as possible…
..The US will likely attempt to “sit on both chairs” by acceding to Ukraine’s demands to give them some more leeway in strikes, but still hoping to not provoke Russia into an uncontrollable or runaway escalatory spiral. This would logically entail Ukraine given conditional permission to strike certain conventional targets, but not anything even remotely sensitive, with a long list of red-line “no-gos” which would of course include things like nuclear plants, but even likely governmental or institutional structures, for instance—at the extreme end of the case—striking the Kremlin…
​..You’ll recall a couple reports ago I had detailed how the US itself may only have 1000-1500 total ATACMS in its inventory remaining and Ukraine was said to have received upwards of 200-300 of them… People are underestimating just how expensive the ATACMS is. At upwards of $1.5 to $1.7 million each, the total complement of ~300 would have cost around $500,000,000 dollars. The problem with this is that the US has very little military aid left to Ukraine, and its recent “packages” have been only a couple hundred million each, and that is needed to pay for a vast array of different types of ammunition for all systems​…
​..Of course, now there’s talk of JASSM missiles, and the above is merely the underscoring of the point I had made several articles ago where I stated that JASSMs do not represent some “new” wunderwaffe ability but rather the desperate measure of carrying over Ukrainian strike capability from the depleted ATACMS. The JASSMs are much cheaper, at reportedly $700k or so, and on top of that, the US has far more of them in stock—supposedly in the several thousands…
​..Lastly, let me state that despite the hubbub surrounding this, with many outlets reporting with near ‘certainty’ that permission is about to be, or has already been, granted, it seems to me like the opposite is the case, and Biden’s fear-stricken administration is flip-flopping as ever. The official statements today still resoundingly said “no policy change” is expected. My read is that they are desperately scrounging for some symbolic targets to allow Ukraine to hit, which can be approved with a secret backdoor handshake between Russia, where all parties can be satisfied.​..
​..One of the most significant revelations is that Sikorski states that the Trump team has privately told him Trump’s big “plan” to get Russia to agree to a ceasefire would essentially be to threaten Russia with escalation. This appears to confirm the rumors we’ve heard for a while and means that there’s no chance Trump could get Russia to actually accede because threats would be the last possible thing Russia would care about, particularly because this ‘escalation’ is claimed to be in the form of vastly increasing financial support to Ukraine. That would do nothing whatsoever—and Russia knows this—because you can print funny money but you can’t print arms, and US has little of significance left to really give Ukraine that could in any way affect the calculus of the war.​ https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/zelenskys-last-hail-mary-gets-off

[John Day]

@Kultsommer: Bush-I worked Iran-Contra cocaine smuggling into Arkansas with Governor Bill. They were old “bidness” partners…

[John Day]

Thanks Kultsommer. Dick Cheney helped Israel, too…

[John Day]

Dude missed the spy-earrings:
5 Reasons Trump Is Making The Right Strategic Choice To Not Debate Again
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/5-reasons-trump-making-right-strategic-choice-not-debate-again

[John Day]

Erdogan saying Crimea has to go back to Ukraine is a weird stunt, of course. I can’t be sure why he took such an untenable position. It’s cheap grandstanding.
How many countries have to join before we can get SHITBRICS?
Important meeting in DC to start WW-3 today…

[John Day]

Comic Relief:
Watch: Trump Supporter Runs Through Hurricane With Flag, Triggers Weatherman
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/watch-trump-supporter-runs-through-hurricane-flag-triggers-weatherman

Not Funny: Putin Puts West On Notice: Long-Range Arms For Ukraine Will Mean ‘NATO At War With Russia’ https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russian-counteroffensive-kursk-belatedly-full-swing

[John Day]

Moderna Shares Tumble As R&D Cuts Follow COVID Business Slump​ https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/moderna-shares-tumble-rd-cuts-follow-covid-business-slump

​ Meryl Nass MD, US House Passes Bill to Require Senate Approval of any international agreement on pandemic preparedness to be subject to Senate ratification
This is huge. Miracles can happen. 2 years ago these bills were nonstarters.​ https://merylnass.substack.com/p/us-house-passes-bill-to-require-senate

​A Midwestern Doctor, The Great Ozempic Scam. Big Pharma and the Causes of Obesity. The Importance of Natural Foods. Promoting Healthy Eating https://www.globalresearch.ca/great-ozempic-scam/5867678

[John Day]

I just told my neighbor about Kamala’s earrings and he had heard already, “you think it’s real, then?”
;-D

[John Day]

​ Russia Says It Could ‘Combine’ With China If Both Face Threat From the US
The comment comes as Russia is conducting major naval exercises with Chinese participation
​ “I would like to remind you that Moscow and Beijing will respond to ‘double containment’ by the United States with ‘double counteraction,’” Zakharova said​. https://news.antiwar.com/2024/09/11/russia-says-it-could-combine-with-china-if-both-face-threat-from-the-us/

​Meryl Nass MD with 3 minute video: Trump knows he was snookered the first time, and he wants to do things differently next time–RFK, Jr. https://merylnass.substack.com/p/trump-knows-he-was-snookered-the

​ Kamaflage: The Harris Policy Dump
​ The Harris-Walz campaign has been vibe-a-licious and content-free; its positions on domestic and foreign policy have (with apologies to Hollywood) essentially consisted of open defiance of any presidential campaign norms: “Policy? We ain’t got no policy. We don’t need no policy. We don’t have to show you any stinkin’ policy.”
​ But the campaign’s policy on policy changed, sort of, the day before the debate, when it went ahead and posted some stinkin’ policy anyway.
​ In a word, Harris’ policy dump should be seen for what it is: Kamaflage. She uses words that score well with Republicans and moderates, but inverts the meaning of those words, creating an unintelligible stinkin’ mess.​ https://realclearwire.com/articles/2024/09/10/kamaflage_harris_policy_dump_151594.html

NOVA H1 Audio Earrings – Earphones embedded in Earrings​ https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/nova-audioearrings/audio-earrings-earphones-made-earrings

Kamala Wore Novo Audio Earrings in Debate​ https://www.winterwatch.net/2024/09/kamela-wore-novo-audio-earrings-in-debate/

[John Day]

​ Gilbert Doctorow, Judging Freedom, edition of 12 September
We both commented on the sang froid of Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in his discourse before the assembled Russian ambassadors this morning even as he set out the Kremlin’s take on the crossing of those red lines. All of which induced me to mention on air my latest exchange of views on this same issue with Ray McGovern and his insistence that Putin’s full response to any attack on his country using Western supplied missiles will come only after the American elections on 5 November, not in the days just before us, as I had been saying as recently as yesterday. On reconsideration, I join Ray on this point and advise subscribers not to cancel luncheon dates in October now in their agendas, nor to practice ducking under their work desks when sirens go off just yet.
​ Putin and his advisers see the trap being set for them by Washington as well as we do, namely that responding in a violent way to such an attack would give the Americans a pretext for opening a full-blown war for the sake of assuring Kam​ala Harris’s electoral victory through the rally round the flag phenomenon in wartime. Such a ‘trap’ might seem to be insane, but unfortunately it reflects the mindset of those in the Biden administration who are setting policy. Shall we say, planning is all very short term.​ https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2024/09/12/judging-freedom-edition-of-12-september/

Blinken Promises Ukraine Will Join NATO​ https://www.independentsentinel.com/blinken-promises-ukraine-will-join-nato/

​ Blinken Signals US Will Allow Long-Range Strikes in Russia With NATO Missiles
British sources indicated to The Guardian that the US and the UK have already decided to lift restrictions but won’t announce it yet.
​ On Wednesday, Secretary of State Antony Blinken strongly hinted that the US was preparing to lift restrictions on Ukraine’s use of US and NATO missiles to support long-range strikes inside Russian territory, which would mark a significant escalation of the proxy war.
​ Speaking at a press conference in Kyiv alongside UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy, Blinken said he discussed the issue of “long-range fires” with Ukrainian President Volodomy​r Zelensky and said he would bring the discussion back to Washington. He said President Biden and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer will discuss the issue when they meet this Friday.​ https://news.antiwar.com/2024/09/11/blinken-signals-us-will-allow-long-range-strikes-in-russia-with-nato-missiles/

Ukraine launches S-200 missile to strike gas pipeline in Central Russia​, Ukrainian S-200 missile intercepted over gas pipeline in Central Russia
https://english.pravda.ru/news/hotspots/160623-s-200-central-russia/

Netherlands Approves Ukraine To Use Their Weapons to Attack Moscow​ https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/war/netherlands-approves-ukraine-to-use-their-weapons-to-attack-moscow/

[John Day]

Gold Hits New Record High As ING Says Rally Is “Just Getting Started”​ [Fears of WW-3 debt-default​s, I hear.]​ https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/ing-bank-gold-rally-just-getting-started

ECB Cuts Rates By 25bps (As Expected); Projects Worsening Stagflation​ https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/ecb-cuts-rates-25bps-expected-projects-worsening-stagflation

​ A Papal Revolt Created Europe’s First Bureaucracy, Jonathan Culbreath
​ Despite the resistance, the reforms of Gregory VII would go on to revolutionarily transform medieval society, signaling the end of feudalism and the transition to absolutism. Gregory’s second successor, Urban II, went on to found the early version of the Roman Curia, a collection of centralized administrative institutions that have since enabled popes to oversee the vast network that makes up the Catholic Church. As a large advisory body to the pope, the Curia essentially functioned as a regal court. Urban also followed in Gregory’s footsteps by making extensive use of military power to advance the Church’s empire, and it was he who called the first crusade against the Muslims in the year 1095. The extent of European mobilization that he catalyzed signaled the power of his influence.
​ Similar measures were further extended by Pope Innocent III (1198-1216) at the Fourth Lateran Council with the creation of what was effectively a papal surveillance state: a network of intelligence officers appointed by the Pope in response to the Albigensian heresy, who scrutinized regional dioceses for their orthodoxy. On account of all these changes, Berman makes the surprising claim that the Papal Revolution was in many ways the origin of the modern institution we now know as “the state”​.
​ After Gregory VII, however, the church took on most of the distinctive characteristics of the modern state. It claimed to be an independent, hierarchical, public authority. Its head, the pope, had the right to legislate, and in fact Pope Gregory’s successors issued a steady stream of new laws, sometimes by their own authority, sometimes with the aid of church councils summoned by them. The church also executed its laws through an administrative hierarchy, through which the pope ruled as a modern sovereign rules through his or her representatives. Further, the church interpreted its laws, and applied them, through a judicial hierarchy culminating in the papal curia in Rome. Thus the church exercised the legislative, administrative, and judicial powers of a modern state.
​ By importing the Cluniac “corporate” model to the entire clergy, centralized under the headship of the pope, the clerical class became truly conscious for the first time. The development of this new clerical class consciousness was concomitant with the development of something very like a new state consciousness within the institutional structure of the Church itself. In Berman’s words, “The clergy became the first translocal, transtribal, transfeudal, transnational class in Europe to achieve political and legal unity.”
​ Berman is adamant that the “Papal Revolution” inaugurated by Pope Gregory VII was indeed a “revolution” in the strict sense, even according to Marxist terminology—thereby vindicating Georges Sorel’s comparison of the proletariat to the monastic clergy. It was the rebellion of one class against another, the clerical class against the feudal nobility, and the eventual wresting of political power from the latter by the former.​ https://letter.palladiummag.com/p/a-papal-revolt-created-europes-first

​ Is The Migrant Invasion Part Of The Cloward-Piven Strategy To Collapse The Nation?
​ Sometimes Occam’s razor points to the obvious – in this case, the ole’ ‘Cloward-Piven Strategy’ – a multi-year plan by dark forces to destroy capitalism by overloading the current system with intentions of destroying it (and of course, rebuilding it in their image – may the odds be ever in your favor). From the unfettered illegal alien invasion to soaring national debt to endless wars to installing the woke mind virus in universities and corporate America, all have led to mass dysfunction across the Homeland.​ https://www.zerohedge.com/political/chaos-unfolding-across-america-could-be-cloward-piven-strategy-collapse-nation

​ Some 8,000 Haitians signed up for Medicaid in Springfield, Ohio in just the past three years, according to data obtained by Reuters.
The transfer of “as many as 15,000” immigrants from Haiti “over roughly the last three years” has “reshaped” the city of 58,000, Reuters noted.
​ “Enrollment in Medicaid and federal food assistance and welfare programs surged. So did rents and vehicle accidents, including a collision last year when a Haitian without a U.S. driver’s license drove into a school bus, killing 11-year-old Aiden Clark and injuring 26 other children,” Reuters reported.
​ “The number of affordable housing vouchers fell as landlords moved to market-based rents that were rising in the face of higher demand, a blow to existing residents relying on them.”​ https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=64639

[John Day]

If (When) Russia Takes Pokrovsk The Rest Of Eastern Ukraine Will Fall
​ For the majority of the war Pokrovsk has acted as the logistical hub and rear operations base for Ukraine’s eastern defensive lines. It sits astride both a key railroad juncture and the highway to Ukraine’s fourth-largest metro, Dnipro. The city’s defensive positions are a final obstacle to Russia’s access to most of the region. If Pokrovsk falls Russian forces will be able to easily flank entrenched troops in the north and south of the country.​ https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/if-russia-takes-pokrovsk-rest-eastern-ukraine-will-fall

​ Forbes magazine published a map of the value of natural resources in Ukraine and part of Russia
​ It is worth noting that a few days ago, the Russophobic American Senator Lindsey Graham*, against whom a criminal case has been opened in the Russian Federation, made a frank statement on this matter. He stated that Ukraine is located on lands rich in natural resources and that is why the United States provides it with military and financial assistance. After all, if the Russian Federation wins, the Americans are unlikely to get anything there.
​ One would have to be very naive to think that the current leadership of the Kyiv regime does not understand the true reasons for the US “alliance”. But, apparently, in order to live well, Zelensky and his team are ready to trade everything that nature itself has given to Ukraine.​ https://en.topcor.ru/51393-zhurnal-forbes-opublikoval-kartu-stoimosti-prirodnyh-bogatstv-ukrainy-i-chasti-rossii.html

​ Germany Suspends Schengen, Immigration Repercussion Across the Entire EU​ For the first time in EU history, Germany is at the forefront of immigration suspension. Other EU countries will follow.​ https://mishtalk.com/economics/germany-suspends-schengen-immigration-repercussion-across-the-entire-eu/

​ Alex Krainer, Our values: killing pensioners to save money
Britain’s PM found a black hole in the country’s public finances. It looks like the pensioners will have to help pay up at the cost of their lives!​ https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/our-values-killing-pensioners-to

[John Day]

​ Despite ‘safe zone’ designation, 5 Israel massacres have killed 217 Palestinians in Al-Mawasi since May
​ The Israeli military had designated the area a “safe humanitarian zone”. However, these attacks, which have claimed the lives of at least 217 Palestinians and injured 635 others, have been condemned by international and UN bodies, as well as numerous countries.
​ This sandy region, devoid of basic living necessities, has become home to about 1.7 million displaced Palestinians seeking shelter from months of Israeli attacks.
Forced to relocate under heavy fire, the majority arrived in Al-Mawasi following the Israeli military’s ground operation in Rafah, starting on 6 May.​ https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240910-despite-safe-zone-designation-5-israel-massacres-have-killed-217-palestinians-in-al-mawasi-since-may/

​ Experts say ‘Israel’ likely used 2,000-pound US bombs in Mawasi strike
According to an arms expert, the crater and weapon fragments are compatible with the deployment of numerous MK 84 2,000-pound bombs.​ https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/experts-say–israel–likely-used-2-000-pound-us-bombs-in-maw

Saudi Arabia says Israel humanitarian aid blockade in Gaza amounts to ‘war crime’​ https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240910-saudi-arabia-says-israel-humanitarian-aid-blockade-in-gaza-amounts-to-war-crime/

​ Andrew Korybko, Erdogan’s Proposed Islamic Alliance Against Israel Is Pure Demagoguery
​ His strong rhetoric leads to extreme dopamine bursts from those who think that he’s being sincere, but the rush will inevitably wear off once they realize that he’s not, and some might in turn think less of him afterwards.
​ Turkish President Erdogan has attempted over the years to present himself as the voice of the international Muslim community, or Ummah, most recently by calling for an Islamic alliance against Israel.
​ His strong rhetoric about the latest Israeli-Hamas war has earned him the praise of many and also resulted in sharp responses from Israelis, which in turn feed into the perception that he’s seeking to form. All his tough talk is just pure demagoguery, however, since he isn’t willing to go to war with Israel.​ https://www.globalresearch.ca/erdogan-islamic-alliance-against-israel/5867676

​ Pro-Palestine Students, Faculty Sue UC Santa Cruz Over ‘Unconstitutional’ Ban
​ Students and staff at the University of California, Santa Cruz launched a lawsuit against the school on Monday for barring them from campus without due process after they were arrested at a pro-Palestinian protest in the spring.
​ The lawsuit, filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Foundation of Northern California, the Center for Protest Law & Litigation, and civil rights attorney Thomas Seabaugh, is demanding that the University “cease summarily banishing” people who exerciser their First Amendment rights.​ https://scheerpost.com/2024/09/10/pro-palestine-students-faculty-sue-uc-santa-cruz-over-unconstitutional-ban/

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