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  • in reply to: Debt Rattle October 15 2024 #171597
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    File under: “And monkeys might fly out of my butt”

    “Skipping COVID Booster Could Reduce Your IQ”: Vax Propaganda Thrives At LA Times
    The LA Times is out with an opinion piece by two Yale professors who suggest that failing to get a COVID booster could reduce your IQ.
    Their argument: a recent study published in the New England Journal of Medicine found that COVID itself reduces IQ, which “suggests yet another reason to get the vaccine: It may protect your intellect.”
    https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/skipping-covid-booster-could-reduce-your-iq-vax-propaganda-thrives-la-times

    in reply to: Debt Rattle October 14 2024 #171503
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    ​ Reiner was preparing mandatory-vaccination lawsuits against governments: ‘Persecution in Prison’ by Dr. Reiner Fuellmich
    Dr. Reiner Fuellmich, who has been in a German prison for a year after being kidnapped in Mexico by German authorities, has written about what life is like for him in prison.
    “Prison officials told me that they had never seen a defendant be held in pre-trial detention for more than 11 months for a simple offence (and not for a serious crime or an act of terrorism), held in solitary confinement and, most importantly, brought to court hearings handcuffed and shackled,” he writes.​ https://expose-news.com/2024/10/11/persecution-in-prison-by-dr-reiner-fuellmich/

    ​Dr. Raoult proved by mid 2020 that Hydroxychloroquine based treatment was life-saving, and he did it early, as well as in hospitalization.
    Penalty Increased on Appeal for French Doctor Didier Raoult, Banned From Practicing Medicine for Two Years for Using HCQ to Treat COVID-19 Patients​ https://www.globalresearch.ca/penalty-increased-doctor-didier-raoult-banned-practicing-medicine-two-years-hcq-treat-covid-19-patients/5869956

    ​Huge arm grabs gigantic flaming-booster, descending slowly and smoothly: SpaceX: Starship Splashdown “Confirmed” & Mechazilla Successfully Catches Super Heavy Booster https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/elon-musk-hints-sunday-starship-rocket-launch-amid-suspicious-faa-delays

    Less than 4 minute video: Magnetic Pole Flip – Introduction https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inRzIx_xY3U

    in reply to: Debt Rattle October 14 2024 #171502
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    Here is what the Councillors were watching during that Confidential Session .. an address by Oncology Professor, Angus Dalgleish MD .( a little over 10 min.) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mFR_JzwA9Z862pRnGhVcNv1LpWJ0ZzH5/view

    ​I’ve been reading about these good, cheap and safe protocols. William Makis MD: First-in-the-World Ivermectin, Mebendazole and Fenbendazole Protocol in Cancer has been peer-reviewed and published Sep.19, 2024! The future of Cancer Treatment starts now. https://makismd.substack.com/p/breaking-news-first-in-the-world

    Learn the difference between real food and slow poison, then choose wisely. American Health & Nutrition: A Second Opinion – Senator Ron Johnson https://anamihalceamdphd.substack.com/p/american-health-and-nutrition-a-second

    ​ Meryl Nass MD on the self-amplifying genetic poison project: Self-amplifying mRNA vaccines
    2 gutsy companies (Arcturus and CSL) test drive their first-in-class vaccine in Japan–and how this ties in with the 100 day vaccine promise of CEPI and the globalists​ https://merylnass.substack.com/p/self-amplifying-mrna-vaccines

    ​ Steve Kirsch on ​fire-department’s mandatory on-the-job injury with half compensation:​ Exclusive interview: How NY’s Bravest treat those they disabled with the COVID vaccine
    O’Brian Pastrana used to be a super-healthy firefighter. After 2 COVID shots, he was deemed unfit to be a firefighter for life so he was terminated and only given half-pension.​ https://kirschsubstack.com/p/exclusive-interview-how-nys-bravest

    in reply to: Debt Rattle October 14 2024 #171501
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    Whose? Mysterious drones circled US military bases – WSJ, American officials were reportedly at a loss over how to respond to swarms of unidentified UAVs https://swentr.site/news/605668-us-langley-base-drone-swarm/

    ​ Zelensky’s demands ‘fell on deaf ears in Berlin’ – Bild
    Germany’s Olaf Scholz reportedly promised the Ukrainian leader nothing on long-range weapons deliveries and fast-tracking its NATO membership​ https://www.rt.com/russia/605649-zelensky-demands-germany-deaf-ears/

    Andrew Korybko explains that it’s all a bit complicated: Russia Sells Processed Oil Products to Israel and Facilitates Kazakhstan’s Oil Exports to It https://www.globalresearch.ca/russia-sells-processed-oil-israel-facilitates-kazakhstan-oil-exports/5869945

    It’s worth the expense, if the drug gets approved… Drug Trials Funded By Manufacturers Find 50 Percent Greater Drug Effectiveness https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/drug-trials-funded-manufacturers-find-50-percent-greater-drug-effectiveness

    All 537 Australian Councils to Receive DNA Contamination report [Increased near-term and distant risk of turbo-cancer with each additional mRNA shot]
    Professor of Oncology, Angus Dalgleish MD, as the lead co-signatory of Mr Broadbent’s letter of the 25th, stepped-up to break-down the Science Summary that letter contains, for the benefit of Port Hedland Councillors and the attending public. https://julesonthebeach.substack.com/p/all-537-australian-councils-to-receive

    in reply to: Debt Rattle October 14 2024 #171500
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    Group of Iranian lawmakers asks Security Council to authorize creation of nuclear weapons
    Since 2003, a fatwa by the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has outlawed the production of nuclear weapons as contradicting Islam
    TASS/. A group of 39 Iranian legislators has sent an official message to the Supreme National Security Council with a request for revising the national defense doctrine and permit the development of nuclear weapons in the context of a threat from Israel, the initiator of the appeal, Hasanali Ekhlaki Amiri, has said. https://tass.com/defense/1854007

    ‘ We have to attack Iran,’ says Israeli economy minister
    FRANCE 24 spoke to Israel’s Economy and Industry Minister Nir Barkat, who previously served as mayor of Jerusalem and is a member of PM Binyamin Netanyahu’s Likud party. “We have to attack Iran”, he declared, saying that this included hitting Tehran’s nuclear capabilities.
    Barkat claimed that “Iran is the head of the snake” and is using its proxies Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis in Yemen in a bid to “choke Israel”. According to him, Iran’s aim is to “create a nuclear bomb” to “wipe Israel out”.
    Asked about the risk that an Israeli attack on Iran would ignite a regional war, Barkat replied: “It’s our neck on the line!” https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/t%C3%AAte-%C3%A0-t%C3%AAte/20241010-we-have-to-attack-iran-it-is-the-head-of-the-snake-israeli-economy-minister

    Wait, YOU didn’t hear about the nuclear test, either? Hamish de Bretton-Gordon, The West is sleepwalking into nuclear disaster
    Our leaders must let Israel eliminate the menace of Iranian atomic weapons for the longer term https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/10/09/west-sleepwalking-nuclear-disaster-middle-east-iran-russia/

    This advanced anti-ballistic-missile system will be a prime target during a war, of course. US Troops To Operate THAAD Anti-Ballistic Missile System In Israel https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-troops-operate-thaad-anti-ballistic-missile-system-israel-army-radio

    Taiwan could win by luring all the Chinese onshore, then nuking the whole island. China Initiates Huge Military Drills Around Taiwan In Warning To Island’s President https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/china-initiates-huge-military-drills-around-taiwan-warning-islands-president

    in reply to: Debt Rattle October 14 2024 #171499
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    in reply to: Debt Rattle October 14 2024 #171498
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    Revisiting this until it is common-knowledge: Has Iran Just Tested a Nuclear Bomb? https://www.globalresearch.ca/iran-tested-nuclear-bomb/5869745

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    in reply to: Debt Rattle October 14 2024 #171497
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    Palestinians in Jabalia killed with ‘unspeakable cruelty and sadism’: UN rapporteur
    In a social media post on Sunday, Francesca Albanese said Palestinian civilians in Jabalia “are killed – both in groups and one by one – amid unspeakable cruelty and sadism” by Israeli troops “who have accepted to be ‘willing executioners’ of a genocidal plan.”
    She further noted that the Israeli attacks are being conducted with Western support and weapons… “What is happening in northern Gaza now is a genocide within the genocide,” Palestinian Ambassador Majed Bamya, the deputy permanent observer to the UN, wrote on X.
    Israeli troops in Jabalia are burning houses and bombing them with tanks and artillery fire, using Palestinians as human shields. https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2024/10/13/735172/UN-Francesca-AlbanesePalestine-Gaza-Jabalia-

    So many children without arms and legs. Thanks Clif: ‘Unseen casualties’: The amputee crisis in the war on Gaza
    In-depth: Israel’s war on Gaza has led to an unprecedented number of amputations, with NGOs recording the highest numbers seen in any recent conflict. https://www.newarab.com/analysis/unseen-casualties-amputee-crisis-war-gaza

    Gaza Doctor Corrects CNN Anchor: ‘This Is Not a Humanitarian Crisis… This Is Genocide’ https://scheerpost.com/2024/10/13/gaza-doctor-corrects-cnn-anchor-this-is-not-a-humanitarian-crisis-this-is-genocide/

    Bombing, choking and starving people to death: Red Crescent ambulances in northern Gaza out of service due to lack of fuel https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20241011-red-crescent-ambulances-in-northern-gaza-out-of-service-due-to-lack-of-fuel/

    Israel forces attack farmers, destroy olive harvest in West Bank https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20241011-israel-forces-attack-farmers-destroy-olive-harvest-in-west-bank/

    in reply to: Debt Rattle October 14 2024 #171496
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    Chris Sidoti: ‘Israel’ deliberately destroying Gaza healthcare system
    A member of the United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Chris Sidoti, stated that the Israeli delegation’s statements in Geneva are not taken seriously, asserting that their claims and comments on the report are based on falsehoods. https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/chris-sidoti—israel–deliberately-destroying-gaza-healthca

    ‘Israel’ blocks two WHO aid missions to besieged Northern Gaza A United Nations inquiry further accused “Israel” of committing war crimes, stating that “Israel” has been deliberately targeting medical personnel and facilities in Gaza. https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/-israel–blocks-two-who-aid-missions-to-besieged-northern-ga

    Bezalel Smotrich calls for Israel’s borders to extend to Damascus
    Far-right security minister cites ‘greater Israel’ ideology that envisions expansion across Middle East https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/smotrich-calls-israels-borders-extend-damascus

    Haaretz: Israeli Government Done With Ceasefire Talks, Seeks Annexation of Gaza
    The Israeli military is currently carrying out part of an ethnic cleansing plan in north Gaza, which could pave the way for Jewish settlements https://news.antiwar.com/2024/10/13/haaretz-israeli-government-done-with-ceasefire-talks-seeks-annexation-of-gaza/#gsc.tab=0

    Caitlin Johnstone, It’s So, So Bad, and it’s About to Get a Whole Lot Worse [Like Lahaina, but every day after every day…]
    Hossam Shabat, one of the last remaining journalists in northern Gaza, reports the following on Twitter:
    “The Israeli occupation has besieged us in this area, which includes Beit Hanoun, Beit Lahia, and the Jabalia refugee camp, for the past eight days. Since October 1st, they have stopped all food, water, and medical supplies from entering. They have threatened hospitals to shut down, stopped fuel from entering in order for hospitals to operate, and are targeting anyone who moves. So far, 400 people have been killed. People are bleeding in the streets, and we can’t reach them.” https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/its-so-so-bad-and-its-about-to-get

    in reply to: Debt Rattle October 14 2024 #171495
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    UN chief: Israeli attacks on UNIFIL ‘may constitute a war crime’
    UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has condemned recent Israeli attacks on the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon that left several peacekeepers injured.
    On Sunday, the spokesman for the UN chief quoted Guterres as saying that the Israeli attacks “may constitute a war crime.” “UNIFIL personnel and its premises must never be targeted,” Stephane Dujarric said, referring to the blue-helmet international force. “Attacks against peacekeepers are in breach of international law…(and) may constitute a war crime.” “In a deeply worrying incident that occurred today, the entrance door of a UN position was deliberately breached by [the Israeli military] armored vehicles,” he added in a statement. https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2024/10/14/735197/UN-chief–Israeli-attacks-on-UNIFIL–may-constitute-a-war-crime-

    Netanyahu calls on UN to evacuate Lebanon peacekeepers, UNIFIL forces will be in danger unless they withdraw, the Israeli prime minister has warned https://swentr.site/news/605652-netanyahu-guterres-evacuate-peacekeepers/

    (Uh, can we get some air support and artillery cover down here?) Joe Lauria, UN Troops in Lebanon Can Shoot Back at Israel
    United Nations peacekeepers who have been fired upon by Israel can fire back at them according to a 2006 U.N. Security Council resolution.
    Paragraph 12 of Resolution 1701, which helped bring about an end of fighting in the 33-day Israel-Hezbollah conflict in 2006, says that the U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL): “Acting in support of a request from the Government of Lebanon to deploy an international force to assist it to exercise its authority throughout the territory, authorizes UNIFIL to take all necessary action in areas of deployment of its forces and as it deems within its capabilities, to ensure that its area of operations is not utilized for hostile activities of any kind, to resist attempts by forceful means to prevent it from discharging its duties under the mandate of the Security Council, and to protect United Nations personnel, facilities, installations and equipment … ” [Emphasis added.]
    Repeated attacks by Israel Defense Force (IDF) beginning last week and continuing until at least Sunday, accurately fit the description of “hostile activities” in UNIFIL’s “areas of deployment.” https://consortiumnews.com/2024/10/13/un-troops-in-lebanon-can-shoot-back-at-israel/

    The Lebanese Health Ministry has said that Israeli strikes in Lebanon on Saturday killed at least 51 people and wounded 174.
    The ministry said that since last October, Israel has killed 2,306 people and wounded 10,698 in Lebanon. The breakdown isn’t clear, but the Israeli bombing campaign has killed many civilians, especially since it dramatically escalated attacks on September 23.
    Late Saturday, Israel targeted an Ottoman-era market in the southern Lebanese city of Nabatieh that was established in 1910. The attack obliterated the area, with Lebanese Civil Defense officials saying they battled fires in 12 residential buildings and 40 shops in the market. https://news.antiwar.com/2024/10/13/israeli-strikes-in-lebanon-killed-at-least-51-on-saturday/#gsc.tab=0

    Israel Confirms 4 Soldiers Dead, 60 Injured, After Biggest Hezbollah Drone Attack Of War
    A drone swarm was sent on the Golani Brigade training base deep inside Israel at a moment that hundreds of IDF soldiers were in or near a mess hall that suffered direct impact by at least one or more sizeable drones.
    The Golani Brigade training base lies about 20 miles south of Haifa. After a huge emergency response to the base as a result of the attack, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has confirmed that four soldiers were killed, and 58 were injured. Other reports say that over 60 were injured, some seriously. https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/israel-confirms-4-soldiers-dead-60-injured-after-biggest-hezbollah-drone-attack-war

    in reply to: Debt Rattle October 14 2024 #171494
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    This is what the North Carolina State legislators watched before moving to protect North Carolina from the Federal Government, which then withdrew:
    Geo-engineering Watch Director Dane Wigington Exposes The Federal Government’s Secret Weather Weapons System Now Targeting All Life on Earth https://www.infowars.com/posts/geo-engineering-watch-director-dane-wigington-exposes-the-federal-governments-secret-weather-weapons-system-now-targeting-all-life-on-earth

    I’m voting for Jill Stein MD, a “protest vote” against genocide, but I am watching the elite power-struggle between the current “globalist imperial-courtiers” and the ascending nationalist faction represented by Trump, Vance, Musk, Gabbard, etc. There was a report last month of 5 teams of Trump-assassins, with something like 8 shoulder-fired antiaircraft missiles smuggled into the US for the purpose. Trump says “Iran” wants to kill him, because it’s ok to say that, even if it’s stupid.
    Trump Campaign Requests Military Aircraft With Antimissile Capabilities Amid Iran Threat https://www.zerohedge.com/political/trump-campaign-requests-military-aircraft-antimissile-capabilities-amid-iran-threat

    Three attempts so far, but two were just decoys? New Trump assassination attempt foiled – US police
    A man has been arrested with fake press passes and loaded weapons outside a rally in California being held by the former president https://swentr.site/news/605662-trump-third-try/

    ‘Unacceptable’: World reacts as Israel fires at UN peacekeepers in Lebanon
    The UN Interim Force in Lebanon says the attack on its peacekeepers was a ‘deliberate’ act by Israeli forces. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/10/10/world-reacts-to-alleged-israeli-attack-on-un-peacekeepers-in-lebanon

    Israeli Tanks Smash Into UN Peacekeeper Base in Southern Lebanon
    As the Israeli invasion of Lebanon escalates, it has been reported that on Sunday morning Israeli tanks smashed their way into a UN peacekeeper base in southern Lebanon near Ramia. Exactly why they decided to force their way into a UNIFIL base, which is of course a violation of UN Security Council resolution 1701, is not at all clear. https://news.antiwar.com/2024/10/13/israeli-tanks-smash-into-un-peacekeeper-base-in-southern-lebanon/#gsc.tab=0

    in reply to: Debt Rattle October 14 2024 #171493
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    Lahaina Slaughter Is Not Yet Finished https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/lahaina-slaughter-is-not-yet-finished

    I spent about 3 hours going over the extensive compilation of links and texts sent to me by Steve in Japan last evening, and mulled it over in my dreams and the early morning hours. This is really a lot of information about the slaughter in Lahaina. It would be processed by AI, including videos, in a millisecond if download speeds were fast enough. I am much more limited, but I slept on it…
    This was a vast and detailed and intimately managed assault on the native population of the Lahaina area on the island of Maui, using personnel who would never have chosen to do that, like the police, guided by their radios to constantly re-route drivers onto rods leading them into oncoming fire, so that the drivers who survived were the ones who disobeyed at the roadblocks. They had an intuition to disobey.
    Most of the Emergency Response officials in Hawaii were on Oahu that day, taking classes at an emergency response conference, where they were told about a few grassfires from fallen power lines, already being put out, first thing in the morning, nothing unusual… They went into the day with that perception, and did not get different news until the widespread high-tech military assault on people was already in rapid-sequence-progress, and they got misleading information as it happened.
    Governor Josh Green was in New York, presenting to the UN, the highest-level presentation of his life, and he also got misleading information until it was too late to act, and he was hobbled by not being in his operational setting, having to give general tasks to the Lieutenant Governor.
    This compartmentalization, “siloing” of tasks and information is routinely used in military and intelligence settings to employ people to act in parts of a task that they would not be able to carry out for moral reasons if they understood the task.
    Let me look a bit at the position Josh Green MD was in, because I worked with Josh at Kohala Hospital and ER on the Big Island on the several occasions that I worked there, about a year in total. Josh worked in ERs on the Big Island for 20 years, initially to work off Med School scholarship debt. He was a good ER Doc, enjoyed working with people, and was used to quickly and efficiently managing heart attacks, strokes and injuries of all kinds when he was the only doctor on the scene. If Josh Green were at his office in Hawaii, he would have habitually taken decisive action to help people, based upon the information provided to him. He would have worked through his own human channels, which would not have been limited to official channels of information, because Josh made a lot of human relations, by his very nature, which is what took him into Hawaiian politics. Human relations are “everything” in Hawaiian politics, because people on the islands live their lives through human connections.
    Josh really liked making deals and doing favors for people as a State Senator. I called him when my eldest daughter was starting to apply to Med Schools, and Josh was quickly able to set up interviews, and scholarships, with further scholarships possible, and he did not ask for anything from me. This was completely in keeping with his Senatorial duties. He was helping recruit two physicians for rural Hawaii, which needed more physicians. Josh obviously enjoyed this kind of “politicking”.
    I would be surprised if Josh Green were not involved in the Smart-City-Maui project, with developers and investors from Japan and global financial institutions. He would have been their natural go-to guy, but Josh Green MD would not have knowingly helped murder the citizens of Maui. Josh would need to be far removed that day, and he was.
    What struck me most, going through all of the horrific accounts of human experience of people who survived the high-tech-beam-weaponry attacks, was how my head and eyes hurt and how tired I felt reading and reading for hours, but AI would not feel that way. Battlefield AI, in use in Ukraine and Gaza at that exact same time, would manage all of the instructions to cops to route traffic, and all of the specific beam-weapon attacks, car by car and house by house, with the appropriate amount of dwell-time for each target, based on the energy of the microwave (mostly) and laser beams in use. The blue painted cars and trucks were unscathed. Firemen had to abandon their fire truck when the glass window and steering wheel started bubbling before their eyes. Cars had pools of aluminum on the ground from wheels and engine-blocks, while grass and trees a few feet away were green. Boats burst into flames a quarter mile into the bay, while people nearby in the water watched. Blue trash cans and umbrellas survived the devastation which surrounded them. Battlefield AI, programmed to run an attack sequence and adapt in real time to the movements of the people, the targets, could have kept re-routing people into kill-zones and death-roads, as is still being done today in Gaza and Ukraine, with and without AI, because that is how wars kill people.
    There is much in here, tales of people who fled between sequential attacks and were somehow sequentially missed, surviving to tell their tales, sometimes with video. There are the videos recorded by body-cams of local police, but the images that haunt me are those of a lone family dog, and a boy and his dog, both carbonized without burning into statues of themselves, the family-dog perfectly preserved and identifiable to the family that did get away, and the carbonized boy and doge, huddled and carbonized together in their final embrace, known clearly to the grandmother, who felt that “God had preserved them for her to recognize and identify”.
    Tis is not finished. The investment machine grinds forward with its conversion-plans. People who were complicit are likely horrified inside. Local people Know They Were Slaughtered. Oprah is making real estate deals.
    Human ways are not machine-ways. I see that this is what we all face in various forms, vast and coordinated killing-operations being run against us, one isolated group at a time, so as to not unite all people against the “owners”, their battlefield-AI, and their killing machines. Towards the Danger, The Democide of the Hawai’ian Native Capitol of Lahaina Maui https://individualistanarchy.wordpress.com/

    Ugo Bardi: The Age of Exterminations (IV). How to Kill the Rich
    The Monastic order of the Templars (Pauperes commilitones Christi Templique Salomonici), was founded in 1119 as a military force to defend the Christian holdings in the Holy Land. In time, the order evolved into a financial structure: the Templars became bankers and they developed a sophisticated money transfer system that helped pilgrims and warriors to move to and from the Holy Land and to transfer money from Europe to Palestine and back. They have been termed “the first multinational corporation” in history.
    As you may imagine, the Templars were rich, despite the term “pauperes” (poor fellows) in their name. They had land, castles, palaces, and, of course, plenty of gold and silver. The problem was that, with the loss of the last lands controlled by the Christian crusaders in the Holy Land, at the end of the 13th century, they had become useless: no more crusades, no need of a banking system to finance them.
    At that point, the Templars attracted the attention of the king of France, Phillip IV, in dire need of money, as kings normally are. In 1307, he ordered the arrest of all Templars and the confiscation of their properties. Most of the leaders were burned at the stake after that they had confessed under torture all sorts of evil misbehaviors: spit on the cross, deny Christ, engage in indecent kissing, worship the devil, and other niceties.
    As exterminations go, this one didn’t involve large numbers: we read of 54 executions in France in 1310. Probably there were more in other countries, but the total cannot be higher than a few hundred. Nevertheless, it had a big impact: it is said that the fame of Friday the 13th as an unlucky day originates from the date of the arrest of the Templars: Friday, October 13, 1307.
    The question is, of course, can it happen again? How about our class of hyper-rich, the “100 billion dollar club,” that includes well-known names such as Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, and a few more? They are clearly going to become trillionaires in the near future. But a house full of gold is hard to defend, as we read in the Tao Te Ching. Could our Internet barons follow the destiny that long ago befell another class of financial tycoons, the Templars?
    As usual, the key to the future is in the past. Examining the destiny of the Templars, we may understand the factors that may lead to the extermination of a powerful (but not enough) financial guild.
    First of all, why were the Templars exterminated? I argued in previous posts (one, two, and three) that certain categories of people can be exterminated and their possessions confiscated when they are 1) wealthy, 2) clearly identifiable, and 3) militarily weak, The Templars clearly satisfied the first two rules but not necessarily the third: after all, they were a military order. Yet, when the King of France descended on them, they didn’t even try a military reaction. It may be that the prowess of the Templar Knights was much overrated: they were more like a private police force for a financial organization, not a real military force. But it may also be that it was exactly the presence of this force that hastened their downfall. Sometimes, a little military power may be worse than none at all, since it invites a decapitation strike. This is probably what happened to the Templars, exterminated just to make sure that they would not become a threat.
    The story of the Templars is just an example of a power struggle that has very ancient origins. One of the earliest written texts we have was written by the Sumerian priestess Enheduanna who complained with the Goddess that her temple had been desecrated by a local warlord. Enheduanna does not say if the warlord was after the temple’s money, but we know that, at that time, temples were also banks, a tradition that remained unchanged for millennia. https://www.senecaeffect.com/2021/10/the-age-of-exterminations-iv-how-to.html

    Eleni sends this from Scott Ritter: America’s Midas Touch
    The dreams and aspirations of pre-war America evaporated in the reality of a post-war America where the Masters of War took precedent over a nation of builders. Death and destruction quickly became the coin of the realm, all in the name of seeking to impose a vision of American hegemony over a globe once dominated by Empires composed of friend and foe alike. Indeed, the Cold War between the US and the Soviet Union was triggered by Moscow’s refusal to subordinate itself financially to the American-led rules based international order more than anything else—Stalin’s opposition to joining the Bretton Wood’s institutions of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). His opposition was given voice in a speech delivered on February 9, 1946, where he extolled the strength of the Soviet economy as it compared to those of “world capitalists” like the United States and Europe. This led to George Kennan writing his now-famous “long telegram”, which in turn spawned the Truman-era of containment, which led to the Cold War.
    The Cold War was about money, not ideology.
    It was about the need for the United States to assert economic control over the post-war world.
    It was about gold.
    We touched Korea, and Koreans died.
    We touched Vietnam, and the Vietnamese died (so, too, did Jimmy Stewart’s son, who was commissioned in the US Marines and died in combat leading his Marines in an action that would earn him a posthumous Silver Star medal).
    We touched South and Central America, and the citizens of these lands died.
    We touched Africa, and the Africans died.
    We touched Afghanistan, and the Afghans died.
    We touched Iraq, and the Iraqis died.
    Everything we touched, died.
    Everything we touch dies.
    Americans would be hard-pressed to find one instance of American post-war policy intervention that did not manifest itself into death and destruction.
    The America curse.
    The American Midas Touch.
    And this is the part most Americans fail to comprehend. There are those among us, like Senator Lindsey Graham, whose faces can contort into a combined smile-sneer as they speak about the financial benefit America will accrue by embarking on its path of blood-soaked hegemony.
    But they forget the end of the Midas story.
    A king driven mad by hunger and thirst, void of friends and family, because the happiness sought through the pursuit of gold only, in the end, left him surrounded by death and famine. https://scottritter.substack.com/p/americas-midas-touch

    Kyle Young, The US Government War on Americans, Neighbors vs. FEMA [FEMA is a political slush fund now.]
    The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) was created by President Jimmy Carter in 1978. In March of 2003 President Bush brought FEMA under the vast, new umbrella of the Department of Homeland Security. The creation of DHS was the largest expansion of government since FDR’s New Deal programs. Yes, a Republican was responsible for one of the largest expansions of government in US history.
    The stated mission of FEMA was to “Help people before, during and after disasters”. However, under the Biden/Harris administration FEMA has undergone a major transition. The 2022-2026 FEMA Strategic Plan has changed the focus to what the Biden/Harris FEMA calls “Three bold, ambitious goals”.
    Goal 1: Instill equity as a foundation of emergency management
    Goal 2: Lead whole of community in climate resilience
    Goal 3: Promote and sustain a ready FEMA and prepared nation
    As you can see, disaster relief is no longer on the radar.
    As one might expect, the “equity” in Goal 1 means some groups of people will now get preferential treatment. As you will soon learn, migrants top the list of preferred groups…
    ..Maybe it’s because I’ve lived in a small, remote community of less than 1,000 people for most of my life, an unincorporated community with no local government and no local law enforcement, that I’ve come to appreciate the value of developing relationships with fiends and neighbors. To some degree many of us are self sufficient in food production, home building, solar systems, mechanics, and many have other barterable skills. Of course, we don’t all see eye to eye on many issues, but we’ll be there for each other in the event of a disaster.
    Unlike FEMA or the DoD, none of us would even consider confiscating our neighbors property. Quite the opposite. I’m quite sure that if some federal agency came and tried to confiscate my property I would have a small army of well armed neighbors here within minutes to help me defend my farm. https://secularheretic.substack.com/p/the-us-goverment-war-on-americans

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    @Oroboros: Taxes take money out of the economy where the government wants to take it out.
    Spending and lending put money into the economy where the government and banks want to put it in.
    It’s a flow, a selective perfusion of the economy with money, like your heart pumps blood to your kidneys, liver, brain and muscles.

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    seismic

    Images won’t take. Do look at seismographic images in very first link from Global Research.

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    Trump said to bomb Iran’s nuclear facilities shortly after this apparent Iranian nuclear test, and after that the CIA declared that Iran was not making a nuclear device yet (but has trade-relations with N.Korea), and now the Mediterranean 9 are calling to embargo arms to Israel, with Rothschild-Paris banker, Macron as spokespuppet.
    It seems to me that this is all reactive in the moment that elites know and pawns do not know, but things are what they are. Iran can obliterate “Israel”, but “Israel” cannot obliterate Iran.

    ​ Has Iran Just Tested a Nuclear Bomb? Rodney Atkinson
    ​ Two disturbing news items out of Iran suggest that Iran may already have a nuclear bomb capacity.
    Firstly, an Armenian station recorded a seismic event measuring 4.4 on the Richter scale in Iran on Saturday 5th October and according to Armenian researchers, its characteristics suggest it was more like an explosion than an earthquake.
    Secondly, a source in the Islamic republic said in a private conversation with an official close to Khamenei that​:
    ​ “Allah has already given us everything, everything is far away from the eyes of the Zionists, and we are ready to release this genie in response to any hint of a real threat to the existence of our state”​ https://www.globalresearch.ca/iran-tested-nuclear-bomb/5869745

    ​From Pravda now… Did Iran conduct an underground nuclear test on October 5? Israel and US to invade Iran not to let it build nuclear bomb
    https://english.pravda.ru/world/160855-iran-nuclear-bomb/

    ​From Tehran Times: Rising call for nukes Unchecked Israeli aggression fuels Iranian public demands for nuclear weapons (sure it does) https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/504740/Rising-call-for-nukes

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    Sachs makes the case for Trump’s plan to rehabilitate the $US as global reserve currency:

    “So, the point is we need alternatives, this is clear,” Sachs stated. “Of course, countries need non-dollar payment mechanisms. We are going to need some quick, special-vehicle entities that are not also engaged in the dollar payment systems… entities that cannot be directly sanctioned…”

    The economist stressed that “the best alternative would be if the US recovers sense, decency and legality and stops imposing unilateral sanctions.”

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    ​ Dr. Mercola, Billions Worldwide Face Micronutrient Deficiencies, Study Finds
    A recent study published in The Lancet Global Health found that over half of the global population is lacking essential micronutrients, with deficiencies varying by age and gender
    ​ The researchers found that more than 5 billion people are deficient in iodine (68%), vitamin E (67%) and calcium (66%), while over 4 billion lack iron (65%), riboflavin (55%), folate (54%) and vitamin C (53%)
    ​ In the U.S., common nutrient deficiencies include vitamins D, B12, B1, B2, B3, A, C and E, as well as calcium, magnesium and iodine. Tips to address these deficiencies are included below…​ https://www.globalresearch.ca/billions-worldwide-face-micronutrient-deficiencies-study-finds/5869840

    ​ A Midwestern Doctor: “Wear only what feels good. Wash it first. Nothing tight. No bra at night. Daily hours of bra-wearing correlate highly with breast cancer.”
    How Your Clothes and Their Materials Shape Your Health​, The Hidden Dangers of Toxic and Tight Clothing​ https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/how-your-clothes-and-their-materials-231

    ​ The Ethical Skeptic has another extensive statistical and graphic analysis of excess deaths, cancers and disabilities from COVID “vaccines”: The State of Things Pandemic – Week 38 2024 https://theethicalskeptic.com/2024/10/02/the-state-of-things-pandemic-week-38-2024/

    ​ ‘Should Not Be Used in Any Infants’: Higher Death Risk in Beyfortus RSV Shot Clinical Trials
    Two new reports raise concerns about the dangers of Beyfortus, an immunization against RSV for infants that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention added last year to the Childhood Immunization Schedule.​ https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/death-infants-clinical-trials-beyfortus-rsv-shot/

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    Gilbert Doctorow points out that Russians are also suffering and dying in this slow, meat-grinding war of attrition: The Russian ‘Steamroller’ in Donbas https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2024/10/11/the-russian-steamroller-in-donbas/

    Delayed Ramstein Meeting Speaks Volumes About Zelensky Regime’s Failure – Ex-Pentagon Analyst​ https://sputnikglobe.com/20241009/delayed-ramstein-meeting-speaks-volumes-about-zelensky-regimes-failure–ex-pentagon-analyst-1120490770.html

    ​ Ukraine is ready to unofficially give up lost territories for the sake of quick accession to the EU​ (A better opening position; who will negotiate for Ukraine?)
    Kyiv is ready for a ceasefire along the current front line. This is reported by the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera. According to the publication, Ukraine does not want to officially recognize the sovereignty of the Russian Federation over the DPR, LPR, parts of the Kherson and Zaporizhia regions, and in exchange expects to quickly join the European Union.
    ​ Ukraine’s disenfranchised President Volodymyr Zelensky is now scrambling to avoid losing everything at once. His army is exhausted, Western support has been severely curtailed, and the upcoming US presidential election threatens to cut off funding altogether.​ https://en.topcor.ru/52384-ukraina-gotova-neoficialno-otkazatsja-ot-poterjannyh-territorij-radi-bystrogo-vstuplenija-v-es.html

    ​ Bud’s Offshore Energy (BOE)
    ​ Swedish engineer Erik Andersson has personally investigated the September 2022 sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines. He is perhaps the most informed independent investigator of the incident and the associated legal and political drama.
    ​ Andersson provided an updated defense document filed by the pipelines’ insurers (attached) and posted his observations on X.​..
    ​..Andersson’s personal view is that it doesn’t matter much if Team USA trusted and protected the Ukrainian sailboat crew so they could place the bombs, or if they just waited for the sailboat cover operation to finish before detonating the bombs they had placed there by other means (making sure they didn’t do anything that couldn’t have been done from a sailboat).
    ​ The presence of American, Danish and Swedish warships in the area, with all their surveillance capabilities, including the underwater surveillance, makes it a very hard sell that the Ukrainians did this alone without American participation.
    ​ American warships were also present at the crime scene when it was closed off (justified by an erroneous interpretation of international law) and cleaned up by the Swedish investigation. If any materials were found which contradicted the sailboat narrative, these materials could have been removed.
    ​ It’s impossible to trust the investigations when (1) the crime scene was illegally blocked & cleaned with US military protection, (2) international investigation was blocked, and (3) the Swedish and Danish investigations were closed with a bogus justification contradicting the premise of “jurisdiction” which was used to seize control of all information in the first place. (Very interesting point about Sweden and Denmark. After 16+ months of investigation, they both punted. Sweden suddenly didn’t have jurisdiction and Denmark decided they didn’t have sufficient grounds to pursue a criminal case.)​ https://budsoffshoreenergy.com/2024/10/08/erik-anderssons-informative-nord-stream-update/

    Starving to death… EU committing ‘energy suicide’ – Gazprom CEO​, The bloc’s economy is suffering without cheap Russian gas, Aleksey Miller has said​ https://swentr.site/business/605522-eu-energy-suicide-gazprom/

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    ​ Russia Calls Out US Deep State on Covering Up P. Diddy Sex Scandal
    ​ For many years, P. Diddy’s “white parties” were highly exclusive and not all Hollywood stars were given access. Participation at this level of crime was reserved for the highly exceptional business elites only, according to the Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman.
    ​ US law enforcement agencies and special services were involved in all this media blackmail, as well as “thousands of people” who were engaged in the “criminal network,” Zakharova said.
    ​ She also noted that many US experts believe the content of those “freak-offs” was recorded. The records enabled the creation of an “elite network” which has been spreading information to manipulate public opinion for years.
    ​ Zakharova also made the topic-related remarks on her Telegram page:​ “Now it is clear why the American deep state is interested in foreign policy, the Ukrainian agenda, hacking accusations against Russia, the “​Kremlin hand,” and purported interference in US elections – all this is a smokescreen and a distraction from the bottomless decline of a society whose elite rapes children.”​ https://sputnikglobe.com/20241009/russia-calls-out-us-deep-state-on-covering-up-p-diddy-sex-scandal-1120487322.html

    ​I hope she’s not “suicidal”. She’ll need a security detail: Epstein Victim Virginia Giuffre Offers to Give Elon Musk the ‘Client List’ https://slaynews.com/news/epstein-victim-virginia-giuffre-offers-elon-musk-client-list/

    ​ Globalists Are Taking The Mask Off And That’s A Bad Sign…​
    ​ Besides some of the speeches made by Klaus Schwab at the height of the pandemic, Kerry’s statements might be the most open declaration of globalist authoritarian intent I have ever heard. He’s pulling the mask off and this has me concerned.
    ​ His arguments fall in line with a number of articles published in the past couple months from establishment media platforms. The New Yorker just posted an article asking ‘Is It Time To Torch The Constitution?’ The New York Times published a treatise titled ‘The Constitution Is Sacred. Is It Also Dangerous?’ They also wrote an article highlighting the potential positives of despotic governments in countries like Brazil threatening to shut down public access to Elon Musk’s X (Twitter) in order to force the site to censor citizen accounts. These people are on a war path to convince the public that free speech is a threat.
    ​ When political elitists and their lackey’s start attacking free speech it’s usually in preparation for a major crisis that they hope to use as a vehicle to eliminate public freedoms. Free speech is the most important liberty because it enables the populace to discern through debate what the truth is and what to do about it.
    ​ The globalists thought they had a lock on information during covid and they were wrong. They won’t make the same mistake again. Whatever the next crisis ends up being, they will definitely seek to silence the the alternative media and any rebellious social media platforms before they move forward.​ https://alt-market.us/globalists-are-taking-the-mask-off-and-thats-a-bad-sign/

    ​Res ipsi loquitur (It speaks for itself) ‘Not Acceptable’: Obama Scolds Black ‘Brothers’ For Not Backing Harris – Blames Sexism​ https://www.zerohedge.com/political/not-acceptable-obama-scolds-black-brothers-not-backing-harris-blames-sexism

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    ​ Anybody letting Israel use their airspace to bomb Iran is complicit and shares consequences… Iran warns Persian Gulf states against any assistance to Israel — Reuters
    “The message emphasized the need for regional unity against Israel and the importance of securing stability,” the source added​ https://tass.com/world/1853893

    ​ Tass: IRGC Confirms Destruction of Numerous Israeli F-35s in Iranian Missile Strike
    Major General Ebrahim Jabbari, an advisor to the commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), confirmed reports that parked Israeli F-35 jets were destroyed during a recent Iranian missile strike on Israel’s infrastructure. “In this operation, Iran’s missiles successfully struck important military facilities and hangars of Israeli criminals’ F-35 fighter jets, which destroyed a significant number of these fighters. This was only a small part of the defense capabilities of our country’s armed forces,” the Iranian Defense Ministry’s press service quoted the general as saying. https://tass.com/world/1854045

    This journalist drove around in Israel after the strikes, including to Mossad HQ: BREAKING: American Journalist Arrested After Reporting Censored News in Israel https://censorednews.substack.com/p/breaking-american-journalist-arrested

    ​ American journalist Jeremy Loffredo was released Friday morning by Israeli authorities after spending four days in Israeli detention following his arrest in the West Bank.
    ​ Although an Israeli judge granted his release from police custody, he was ordered to remain in the country until October 20, allowing investigators more time to bring additional allegations or to further interrogate Loffredo, according to Lea Tsemel, a renowned Israeli civil rights attorney who represented Loffredo. Police obtained Loffredo’s phone and were able to jailbreak the device and plan to search it for potential evidence, according to Israeli media.
    ​ Israeli police had held Loffredo, an independent journalist from New York, on suspicion of assisting an enemy in war, a serious allegation that carries a maximum sentence of life imprisonment or death​. https://theintercept.com/2024/10/11/us-journalist-jeremy-loffredo-released-israel-detained/

    ​ Pointing out the crime gets you beaten-up. Police remove you to the free-speech-zone: Protesters assaulted as illegal Palestinian land sales continue in New York and New Jersey​ https://mronline.org/2024/10/08/protesters-assaulted-as-illegal-palestinian-land-sales-continue-in-new-york-and-new-jersey/

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    These guys seem to fight all day long. Hezbollah repels incursions, showers Israeli settlements with rockets
    The fighters of the Islamic Resistance in Lebanon continue to target Israeli troops and confront their attempts to advance toward Lebanese towns along the border with occupied Palestine. https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/hezbollah-repels-incursions–showers-israeli-settlements-wit

    Sitting Ducks: Israeli Troops Fire on UN Peacekeepers in Southern Lebanon, Two peacekeepers were wounded by an IDF tank
    ​ The UN’s peacekeeping mission in southern Lebanon, UNIFIL, said Thursday that Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers fired on its positions multiple times, and two peacekeepers were wounded by an Israeli tank.
    ​ UNIFIL said its headquarters in the town of Naqoura and several nearby positions came under repeated Israeli attacks.​ “This morning, two peacekeepers were injured after an IDF Merkava tank fired its weapon toward an observation tower at UNIFIL’s headquarters in Naqoura, directly hitting it and causing them to fall,” UNIFIL said in a statement.
    ​ UNIFIL said the injuries were not serious, but the two wounded peacekeepers remain in the hospital. The statement said the IDF also fired on a UN position in the town of Labbouneh, “hitting the entrance to the bunker where peacekeepers were sheltering and damaging vehicles and a communications system.”
    ​ A day earlier, UNIFIL said Israeli troops “deliberately fired at and disabled the position’s perimeter-monitoring cameras.”
    The Israeli attacks on UN peacekeepers came after the Israeli military told UNIFIL to abandon its positions in southern Lebanon.​ https://news.antiwar.com/2024/10/10/israeli-troops-fire-on-un-peacekeepers-in-southern-lebanon/#gsc.tab=0

    Mike Whitney, If Tehran Is Turned “Into a Parking Lot”, Israel Will be Soon to Follow [Whitney doesn’t know about the underground test last Saturday yet.]
    ​ Israel now has its greatest opportunity in 50 years, to change the face of the Middle East. We must act now to destroy Iran’s nuclear program, its central energy facilities, and to fatally cripple this terrorist regime. We have the justification. We have the tools. Now that Hezbollah and Hamas are paralyzed, Iran stands exposed. —Naftali Bennett, former Israeli Prime Minister
    ​ For Israel to achieve its regional ambitions, it must lure the US into a war with Iran.
    In order to accomplish that feat, Israel must strike Iran with enough force to provoke a violent and destructive retaliation.
    ​ As soon as it looks like Israel is in trouble, the US will ride to the rescue with “guns blazing”.​..
    ..Americans are under the illusion that the United States will prevail in a war with Iran. But it’s not true. Iran has been preparing for a war with the US for over two decades, and they are ready-to-go. They have developed a missile technology that far exceeds anything currently available in the Pentagon’s arsenal and they are fully prepared to conduct a protracted asymmetrical war that will trigger a cataclysmic disruption of critical supply lines followed by the thundering crash of global markets.
    ​ Bottom line: If the US attacks Iran, Washington is going to suffer a withering knockout blow that will end its dominance in the region and perhaps the world.
    The top brass in the Pentagon know this as do many in the Intelligence community.
    ​ They know that a war with Iran is a bridge too far and a fast-track to the dustbin of history…
    ​..That same calculus exists today. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have already been briefed on this reality. Donald Trump is already familiar with it. We cannot defeat Iran in a conventional fight. And here’s the gamechanger: The IRGC came out with a press release saying….”The Islamic faith allows things to change over time if a threat emerges against the Islamic Republic. And, if this threat does manifest itself, Iran will reconsider its stance on nuclear weapons. Iran is literally days away from being able to produce a nuclear weapon. If the US or Israel wants to play nuclear games, Iran is ready to play that game​”. And this changes everything because Israel can no longer say, “We can nuke you, but you can’t nuke us”. Iran has put all the pieces together, and it would be a matter of days before they have a functioning nuclear device capable of being mounted on a missile that cannot be shot down and that missile will be fired against Israel or American targets in the region.
    ​ This is a gamechanger. The days of the United States intimidating Iran are over, passed, finished. And the same with Israel. Israel can be wiped out tomorrow. Iran is prepared to fire 2,000 missiles at Israel in the span of a few hours. These missiles would destroy the entire infrastructure of Israel including every power plant, every water purification plant, everything that deals with modern civilized society will be eliminated because it can’t be defended and because Israel has nothing to fall back upon. They will literally bombed back to the Stone Age, and that’s without using nuclear weapons. Three to five nuclear weapons will wipe Israel off the face of the earth. There will be no Israel. That is the reality facing Israel today. That is the weakness that Benjamin Netanyahu has brought on the Israeli state and the Israeli people.​ https://www.globalresearch.ca/tehran-turned-parking-lot-israel-follow/5869889

    ​ North Korea is “getting out more”, recently: North Korea Enhancing Strategic Arsenal, Building First Nuclear-powered Submarine, Allied with Russia​ https://www.globalresearch.ca/north-korea-building-first-nuclear-powered-submarine/5869836

    ​This article does not like the fact, but has lots of details. I wonder if Iran “borrowed-some-sugar” from North Korea last week. China & Russia would have had to “approve”.
    Iran & North Korea: Proliferation Partners​ https://www.unitedagainstnucleariran.com/north-korea-iran

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    ​ Eleni sent this, which makes the point that southern Shia in Lebanon have been politically distinct from other Lebanese religious and political groups, but that all Lebanese are now all being bombed in their homes by “Israel”. By bombing Lebanon, Israel will further strengthen Hezbollah https://strategic-culture.su/news/2024/10/09/by-bombing-lebanon-israel-will-further-strengthen-hezbollah/

    ​Israeli army orders Beirut’s southern suburb residents to evacuate​, Israel continues air and ground raids in Lebanon​ https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/israeli-army-orders-beiruts-southern-suburb-residents-to-evacuate/3355817

    Single Deadliest Israeli Attack Of War Hits Central Beirut, But Hezbollah Commander Escapes​ https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/single-deadliest-israeli-attack-war-hits-central-beirut-hezbollah-commander-escapes

    ​Finally: Belated US Announcement Confirms Evacuation Of Citizens From Lebanon https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-much-belatedly-says-evacuation-us-citizens-lebanon-underway

    ​ Scott Ritter: The Fall of Israel
    ​ The ​(10/7/2023) Hamas raid triggered a number of varied responses, some of which were by design, such as luring the Israeli Defense Forces into Gaza, where they would become trapped in a forever war they could not win, triggering the dual Israeli doctrines governing military response to hostage taking of the “Hannibal Doctrine” and the Israeli practice of collective punishment, the “Dahiya Doctrine.”
    ​ Both of these doctrines put the IDF on display to the world as the antithesis of the “world’s most moral military” by exposing the murderous intent ingrained into the DNA of the IDF, a propensity for violence against innocents which defines the Israeli way of war and, by extension, the Israeli nation.
    ​ Prior to Oct. 7, 2023, Israel was able to disguise its true character to the outside world, convincing all but a handful of activists that its actions in targeting “terrorists” were proportional and humane.
    ​ Today the world knows Israel as the genocidal apartheid state it really is.​ https://scheerpost.com/2024/10/09/scott-ritter-the-fall-of-israel/

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    ​Paul Craig Roberts makes the point that there is work to do. My point is that Globo-Cap owns politicians in “both camps” and deep-state operatives, too.
    Does Israel Wag America or Does America Wag Israel
    Americans who pay attention are critical of Israel for its control not only of US foreign policy but also US domestic policies, such as those regulating speech, and even tenure decisions of Catholic universities. CIA personnel have complained that attempts to rein-in Israeli spying on America have been politically blocked…
    ​..The visible evidence indicates that Israel controls America, not America controls Israel. But there is another view. It is well stated here — https://www.unz.com/mhudson/middle-east-exploding-ukraine-crumbling-the-u-s-take-action/ — by Michael Hudson and Richard Wolfe. Gilbert Doctorow shares it.
    ​ Hudson and Wolfe are credible witnesses, because they, especially Hudson, participated in the formation of Washington’s policy to use and direct Israel in behalf of US hegemony in the Middle East. Israel is Washington’s proxy against the Muslims, just as Ukrainians are Washington’s proxy against Russia, just as Georgians were when Washington sent them to invade South Ossetia, and just as the British and Europe are by serving Washington’s hegemony at the risk of their own destruction.
    ​ Looking at it from this standpoint, the view that Israel controls Washington serves as a cover to protect Washington from responsibility for Israel’s actions that serve Washington’s agendas.
    ​ Instead of choosing between the two explanations, I would say both are true. The cover has been in place for 50 years, and during that time due to belief in it, acquired its own power. The consequence is that whereas Israel has as much power over Americans’ First Amendment rights as the US Supreme Court, Israel continues as Washington’s proxy against the Arabs.​..
    ​..Hudson and Wolfe support the point that I have often made. No one with a wide audience, money, or clout from a think tank, university, or major foundation is saying a word about the risks of two wars spinning out of control into nuclear war. Those few of us speaking are isolated individuals denounced as Russian agents, anti-semites, and purveyors of disinformation. This should scare the world to death. We are approaching Armageddon from two directions, and the word can’t get out.​ https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2024/10/10/does-israel-wag-america-or-does-america-wag-israel/

    ​ I’m voting for Jill Stein MD, again… Netanyahu: Trump Called to ‘Congratulate’ Me On War With Hezbollah
    ​ Former President Donald Trump called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to “congratulate” him for the “intense and determined operations” Israel has carried out in their rapidly expanding war on Hezbollah.
    ​ Trump “called Netanyahu last week and ‘congratulated him on the intense and determined operations that Israel carried out against Hezbollah,’ according to Netanyahu’s office,” the AP reported on Tuesday.​ “A Trump ally, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., joined that call,” the AP added.​ https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=64688

    ​ Biden speaks with Netanyahu, pledges ‘ironclad’ support for Israel​ [Does ​”Biden” know about that​ underground Iranian nuclear test-detonation last Saturday?]
    White House says the leaders discussed confrontation with Iran in 30-minute conversation that included Kamala Harris.​..
    ..“The president affirmed his ironclad commitment to Israel’s security,” the statement added. “He condemned unequivocally Iran’s ballistic missile attack against Israel on October 1.”​…
    ​..The call comes as Israel considers an attack against Iran in response to Iranian ballistic missile launches that targeted Israeli military sites last week.​..
    ​..The US administration pledged to ensure that Iran would face “severe consequences” for the attack.​ Asked after the missile launches whether he would support an Israeli strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities, Biden said: “The answer is no.”​…
    ​..The US has provided unconditional military and diplomatic support for Israel since the outbreak of the war on Gaza – a policy that Harris has promised to maintain.
    ​ While Washington has warned against expanding the war, the Biden administration says it is in favour of the Israeli offensive in Lebanon, which has killed more than 2,000 people and displaced over one million others.​ It has also backed Israel’s ground invasion of the country’s south.​ https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/10/9/biden-and-netanyahu-hold-productive-call-amid-middle-east-violence

    ​ Official: Readout of President Joe Biden’s Call with Prime Minister Netanyahu of Israel
    ​..The President affirmed Israel’s right to protect its citizens from Hezbollah, which has fired thousands of missiles and rockets into Israel over the past year alone, while emphasizing the need to minimize harm to civilians, in particular in the densely populated areas of Beirut. On Gaza, the leaders discussed the urgent need to renew diplomacy to release the hostages held by Hamas. The President also discussed the humanitarian situation in Gaza and the imperative to restore access to the north, including by reinvigorating the corridor from Jordan immediately. They agreed to remain in close contact over the coming days both directly and through their national security teams.​ https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/10/09/readout-of-president-joe-bidens-call-with-prime-minister-netanyahu-of-israel-9/

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    The New York Times, a State Department mouthpiece, is presenting this now: US doctors recount horrors of children shot in the head in Gaza: NYT
    An anesthesiologist, Dr. Ndal Farah, says shot children had “non-curable, permanent brain damage” in what can be described as a near-daily occurrence. https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/us-doctors-recount-horrors-of-children-shot-in-the-head-in-g

    ​ As Israel Launches Massive Attack in Northern Gaza, Hospital Director Defies Israeli Evacuation Order
    “As long as there are patients, I won’t leave,” Dr. Hossam Abu Safia tells Drop Site News from Kamal Adwan Hospital.​ https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/northern-gaza-kamal-adwan-hospital-director-defies-israeli-order

    Israeli Strikes Kill 28 Palestinians Sheltering at School in Gaza​ Gaza’s Health Ministry said Thursday that Israeli forces killed 55 Palestinians in the previous 24-hour period​ https://news.antiwar.com/2024/10/10/israeli-strikes-kill-28-palestinians-sheltering-at-school-in-gaza/#gsc.tab=0

    ​ The “jealous God”, not the “Loving God”: Netanyahu’s ‘God Complex’ Caused Cancellation of Israeli Defense Chief’s Visit to US – Expert
    ​ According to Tsipis, Netanyahu is afraid that Gallant may be gunning for him and would immediately start plotting against him upon arriving in the US.
    “Netanyahu is paranoid, he has a king syndrome, a god complex,” says Tsipis. “He constantly fears that someone might overthrow or supplant him. This paranoia of his grows more acute with each passing day. He sees traitors everywhere, he sees enemies inside his inner circle.”​ https://sputnikglobe.com/20241009/netanyahus-god-complex-caused-cancellation-of-israeli-defense-chiefs-visit-to-us—expert-1120489318.html

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    Meryl Nass MD presents: Solid though limited Info on Man-Made Weather, But what have they learned to do recently? https://merylnass.substack.com/p/solid-though-limited-info-on-man

    Their aircraft was positively identified and the video was perfectly clear: Black Hawk Pilots Grounded After Rotor Washing Helene Volunteers’ Aid Cache https://www.westernjournal.com/huge-update-black-hawk-pilots-grounded-rotor-washing-helene-volunteers-aid-cache/

    Ugo Bardi has more useful perspective: The Age of Exterminations (III). Why you Should be Worried. Very Worried
    The extermination of social subgroups is a relatively recent phenomenon in history but, unfortunately, it seems to have become more and more frequent in recent times. Often, as in the case of the witch-hunting age, extermination is the result of a perfectly rational attitude that develops in societies under heavy stress. When a social subgroup is relatively wealthy, can be identified, and can’t offer significant military resistance, there are good chances that its members will be exterminated and their assets confiscated. That was what happened to the people branded as “witches” in Europe during the 16th and 17th century in Europe. Another classic case was that of the Jews, a few centuries later.
    At this point, considering that our society is surely under heavy stress, the question is: which subgroup could be the next target for extermination? I asked this question to the readers in a previous post of this series, but almost nobody could identify the right target. Now I think I can propose the answer:
    The most likely target for the next extermination round are middle-class retirees.
    Retirees satisfy all the requirements: They are identifiable, of course, they are old! They are often relatively wealthy and, more than that, they cost a lot of money in terms of health care. Finally, they can hardly put up serious military resistance. Exterminating the middle-class elders would be both easy and profitable.
    Let’s make a few calculations. In the US, there are nowadays about 46 million retirees living on social security. The US spends about 7% of its GDP on pensions, that is, about 1.5 trillion dollars per year (about $30.000/person/year). That’s more than the about 1 trillion dollars that the US government spends for the military budget, bloated as it is.
    Assuming that you could remove just 10% of the retirees, it would mean saving some 150 billion dollars per year. But, in practice, much more than that if you take into account the health care costs. For instance, summing nursing care facilities and home care for the elderly, we are talking of something close to 300 billion dollars per year, and that does not include hospitalization costs. The potential savings are truly huge: hundreds of billions of dollars. https://www.senecaeffect.com/2021/10/the-age-of-exterminations-iii-you.html

    Caitlin Johnstone, Israeli Snipers Routinely, Deliberately Shoot Palestinian Kids In The Head
    ..“I worked as a trauma surgeon in Gaza from March 25 to April 8. I’ve volunteered in Ukraine and Haiti, and I grew up in Flint, Mich. I’ve seen violence and worked in conflict zones. But of the many things that stood out about working in a hospital in Gaza, one got to me: Nearly every day I was there, I saw a new young child who had been shot in the head or the chest, virtually all of whom went on to die. Thirteen in total.
    “At the time, I assumed this had to be the work of a particularly sadistic soldier located nearby. But after returning home, I met an emergency medicine physician who had worked in a different hospital in Gaza two months before me. ‘I couldn’t believe the number of kids I saw shot in the head,’ I told him. To my surprise, he responded: ‘Yeah, me, too. Every single day.’” https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/israeli-snipers-routinely-deliberately

    As Israel Extends Its Genocide Into the West Bank, It Targets and Kills Children
    Since October 7, 2023, Israeli forces have killed at least 722 Palestinians, including at least 164 children, in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem.
    In Jenin city, within the governorate, approximately 70 percent of the roads have been damaged or destroyed in the attacks, according to the city’s mayor, Nidal Obeidi. Electricity, internet and telephone lines were shut down. Water and sewage lines were cut, leaving about 80 percent of Jenin with no running water, including the main hospital.
    “They are imposing conditions, materially and psychologically, that make people feel: Gaza is coming to you,” Shawan Jabarin, director of Al Haq, a human rights group based in the West Bank, reported to the Times. “There is a feeling among Palestinians across the West Bank that what is coming is very bad — that it will be a plan to kill and expel us.” https://scheerpost.com/2024/10/09/as-israel-extends-its-genocide-into-the-west-bank-it-targets-and-kills-children/

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    Last week, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre admitted that only $4 million had been sent directly to hurricane victims. That number has likely increased in the week since but it is still a pathetically paltry sum a full week after Hurricane Helene hit. Meanwhile, FEMA keeps touting its top-line number of $286 million, which has primarily been given out to well-connected aid organizations that filled out the organization’s “Vendor Profile Forum,” enabling it to engage in “business with FEMA” (their words) if approved. https://sputnikglobe.com/20241009/hes-just-not-that-into-you-1120491484.html

    Emails between BCBS NC executives, including CEO Dr. Tunde Sotunde and Director of Community Engagement Cheryl Parquet, reveal BCBS’s plans to coordinate disaster relief in a way that would intentionally slow the recovery process.
    Parquet, responsible for managing community outreach, was instrumental in aligning BCBS’s efforts with Cooper’s office.
    You can see the emails here.
    ttps://twitter.com/NationalFile/status/1844392418613002594
    The leaked communications show that BCBS NC directed volunteers to avoid spontaneous aid efforts and only work with government-affiliated organizations like the Red Cross and VolunteerNC. This coordination deliberately restricted the speed and scope of the recovery, despite acknowledging internally that this would delay relief by four to six weeks. https://thepeoplesvoice.tv/leaked-emails-prove-democrats-conspired-to-slow-down-hurricane-helene-response-in-north-carolina/

    Now, as if to say that they never intended to help, and are being thwarted by the locals: FEMA halts aid in North Carolina… A case of federal overreach
    Western North Carolina’s mountain communities, including Asheville, Chimney Rock, and Black Mountain, have been devastated by Hurricane Helene’s flooding and landslides. Despite the extensive damage, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has decided not to provide aid to these areas, leaving residents without the crucial assistance they need to rebuild. The lack of federal support has sparked outrage as families, businesses, and local governments face overwhelming recovery challenges on their own. https://www.americaoutloud.news/fema-halts-aid-in-north-carolina-a-case-of-federal-overreach/

    Lawmakers Briefed on Weather Modification Tech, Conclude Hurricane Helene Was DOD-Linked Weather Weapon Deployed
    State representatives and senators in the Carolinas were briefed on weather modification technology and have come to the conclusion that Hurricane Helene was a weather weapon deployed against the American people, according to a geoengineering expert.
    Dane Wigington joined Ret. Col. Douglas MacGregor’s podcast on Monday to reveal that he briefed numerous lawmakers about patented Defense Department-linked technology used to control major weather events like hurricanes. https://basedunderground.com/2024/10/09/breaking-lawmakers-briefed-on-weather-modification-tech-conclude-hurricane-helene-was-dod-linked-weather-weapon-deployed-against-american-people/

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    Tarheels Eject Carpetbaggers https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/tarheels-eject-carpetbaggers

    With your leave I will present again some of the stories I posted yesterday, laying out Federal Government preparations to subdue the population of North Carolina (“Tarheels”) and kill some of them if it came to that, in order to carry out a land grab for critical mineral deposits of ultra-pure quartz, necessary for the highest density computer chips, and Lithium for batteries the DoD will be needing. There have been lots of stories of local relief efforts being blocked and sabotaged by federal personnel, but no actual relief being provided by any of them.

    The US Military appears to get pre-justification to kill some crowds of Americans on US soil. Use of lethal force in a reasonably anticipated confrontation
    What exactly qualifies as reasonable in a reasonably anticipated confrontation? DOD Directive 5240.01 effective September 27, 2024.
    ..Secretary of Defense Approval
    (2) The decision to approve requests for these types of permissible assistance described in Paragraph 3.2. to law enforcement agencies and other civil authorities are reserved to the Secretary of Defense:
    (c) Assistance in responding with assets with potential for lethality, or any situation in which it is reasonably foreseeable that providing the requested assistance may involve the use of force that is likely to result in lethal force, including death or serious bodily injury. It also includes all support to civilian law enforcement officials in situations where a confrontation between civilian law enforcement and civilian individuals or groups is reasonably anticipated. Such use of force must be in accordance with DoDD 5210.56, potentially as further restricted based on the specifics of the requested support. https://jessica5b3.substack.com/p/use-of-lethal-force-in-a-reasonably

    Kyle Young, ..Recently we saw all of that converging into a hurricane that Dane Wigington and others have pointed out was steered by Nexrad radar over the most lithium rich deposit in the US, Western North Carolina…
    ..Because the local economy may take many years to recover, those that remain will be hard pressed to make a living. Many will be forced to sell what’s left of their homes and farms for a tiny fraction of what they were worth before the flood. This will put ever more pressure on those that remain.
    And who will be buying up all of these properties? That would be those who’ve been lurking in the shadows for years trying to buy-up homes and farms that sit on top of the vast lithium and quartz crystal deposits of this region…
    ..Albemarle’s maneuvering began in 2023 when they applied for a grant from the Department of Defense. Recently the DoD and DoE approved a total of $250 million in grants to Albemarle to gear up for Kings Mountain. Anthony Stasio MCEIP director, said this “… agreement with Albemarle demonstrates the DoD’s ongoing commitment to meeting the needs of our warfighter, today and in the future,” … Why the worlds largest lithium mining company needs to be given $250 million of our taxpayer dollars to gear-up for Kings Mountain has not been explained. What can be explained is that this is just another example of the type of corporate socialism that’s rampant in the US…
    ..We know there are companies that specialize in weather modification. They work for whoever pays them. One of the largest weather modification companies in the world is Weather Modification Inc (how original). Right now I’m trying to determine if they had a contract over Western NC during Helene. I’m also trying to track some C130 flights above and below Milton as he was out over the gulf of Mexico. There is mounting evidence that Milton was heavily seeded with silver iodide while over the gulf. https://secularheretic.substack.com/p/waging-weather-warfare-and-plunder

    An individual who tried to drop off food and other supplies in the devastated mountain region of North Carolina using his private helicopter was arrested by the Biden regime for interfering with “a government operation.”
    After the man landed his craft, authorities immediately cuffed him using the excuse that he was getting in the way of their own rescue efforts – except there were no rescue efforts actually taking place. “He landed and got arrested and [they] said he was interfering with a government operation, but there’s no operations going on,” explains the man in the video. https://www.naturalnews.com/2024-10-08-kamala-admin-arrests-good-samaritan-hurricane-helene.html

    According to Fox News, budget experts warn that FEMA is now a slush fund for the Biden-Harris administration to use at will.
    Meanwhile, $73 billion in unliquidated funds remain open, and there are 8.3 billion in unliquidated obligations. The money could be returned to help people battling for survival and disasters now. The IG report agrees that seven billion-plus dollars in unliquidated funds could potentially be returned to the Disaster Relief Fund. https://www.independentsentinel.com/600-missing-femas-a-slush-fund-mayorkas-has-8-billion/

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    What might be the qualifications necessary for an adult American to infer that Barack Obama could be a “Double Stuffed Oreo”?
    “Aksking” for a friend…

    in reply to: Debt Rattle October 11 2024 #171237
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    Regarding the Moscow – St. Petersburg nocturnal express:
    “All Aboard, the Night Train”

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    Enjoy your northern lights, mpsk.
    😉

    Somebody swipe Kamala’s pen; that thing’s loaded with ink!
    😮

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    Solar storm is arriving. https://spaceweather.knmi.nl/viewer/#start=2024-10-07T16:21:50&end=2024-10-13T16:21:50
    I’m going out for a bike ride in it.

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    So the question just popped into my mind of whether North Korea provided Iran with the nuclear device to test last Saturday, which would explain the CIA assessment that Iran had not proceeded to making such devices yet. (Though the CIA has confessed to occasionally lying…)
    https://www.unitedagainstnucleariran.com/north-korea-iran

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    NOAA: G4 (Severe) Storm Watch for 10-11 October​, published: Wednesday, October 09, 2024 14:44 UTC
    ​ A fast coronal mass ejection (CME) erupted from the Sun the evening of 8 October, 2024, and is likely to arrive at Earth on 10 October. This CME has been analyzed and speed estimates are 1200 to 1300 km/s. This makes for a potential arrival time as early as the morning to midday of 10 October EDT. There is potential to reach G4 (Severe) upon arrival of this CME and throughout its passage.​ https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/news/g4-severe-storm-watch-10-11-october#:~:text=A%20fast%20coronal%20mass%20ejection,midday%20of%2010%20October%20EDT.

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    I’m worried about other things, but this may be true: Elon Musk: Democrat Elites Terrified Epstein List Will Become Public If Trump Wins https://www.dailyfetched.com/elon-musk-democrat-elites-terrified-epstein-client-list-will-become-public-if-trump-wins/

    ​ Whistleblower Imprisoned for Investigating Election Fraud
    ​ Former Colorado country clerk Tina Peters has been sentenced to 9 years imprisonment for conducting an independent investigation regarding election fraud. Prosecutors said Peters was “fixated” on voter fraud after the 2020 US Presidential Election and took it upon herself to investigate the matter. “I’ve never done anything with malice to break the law. I’ve only wanted to serve the people of Mesa County,” she told the court.​ https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/politics/whistleblower-imprisoned-for-investigating-election-fraud/

    AI wants its own, personal nuclear power plant. ​ Google Turns To Nuclear To Power Its Data Centers​ https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/google-turns-nuclear-power-power-its-data-centers

    ​Space weather reports say Solar Storm Today:
    (2 min.) Level 4 Solar Storm Predicted​ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69b_KzivaWA&t=1s
    (3.5 min.) Solar Storm Coming Today, Aurora Watch Tonight​ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYyZdiRGwak
    .

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    ​From Tehran Times: Rising call for nukes Unchecked Israeli aggression fuels Iranian public demands for nuclear weapons (sure it does) https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/504740/Rising-call-for-nukes

    US is producing plutonium cores for warheads againhttps://en.topwar.ru/251579-ssha-snova-proizvodjat-plutonievye-jadra-dlja-boezarjadov.html

    Report: US Considers Launching Airstrikes Against Iran To Support Israeli Attack​, US officials say Israel hasn’t briefed the US on its specific plans to attack Iran​ https://news.antiwar.com/2024/10/08/report-us-considers-launching-airstrikes-against-iran-to-support-israeli-attack/#gsc.tab=0

    ​ USN Ret. Admiral Cem Gurdinez, Israel’s Air Defense and the Weakness of the U.S. Navy. “Damage Control Project” of Commander of the U.S. Naval Forces
    ​ In June 2023, the American Congress approved the naval target of 381 ships. In addition, it is aimed to have 397 ships by 2053. However, today, in order to complete the 381 ship target by 2030, a 20% budget increase is needed, which is not possible under today’s debt stock burden.
    ​ Today, the backbone of American naval power is nuclear-powered attack submarines (SSN), other than nuclear aircraft carriers and ballistic missile submarines (SSBN).
    ​ However, today, nearly 40% of submarines are under repair and the delays in repair are enormous. If aircraft carriers operate in waters close to the continent – for example, in the South or East China Sea – they are likely to be hit by hypersonic and ballistic missiles. In short, the US is unprepared for a major power conflict which is developing.
    ​ If a conflict with China were to break out tomorrow, the American Navy would have very little chance of winning because it is not ready. The logistical difficulties of building and sustaining American naval power in the short and medium terms are incredible. If the problem of replenishing existing weapons and ammunition stocks is added to this, the seriousness of the situation becomes apparent.
    ​ According to former American Undersecretary of the Navy Seth Cropsey, if the US does not increase the production of the weapons it will need in the Indo-Pacific, especially hypersonic cruise and ballistic missiles and short-range anti-ship weapons, it will lose a war for Taiwan in weeks. In its current state, the US Navy cannot maintain its bases and allies in the Indo-Pacific Oceans and its transoceanic logistical support line.
    ​ The parameters of the US​SR-USA balance in the Cold War and today’s US-China balance are extremely different. The USSR could not defeat the US because the American Navy’s enormous size of 600 ships confined the Soviets to the continent and weakened them. China, on the other hand, is far more advanced at sea than the US naval power today. China has the advantage in terms of both its geographical location, naval power and number of anti-ship missiles. The conditions are more in its favor than ever to bring this to a dynamic conclusion. The US is weakening its power in the Mediterranean and the Persian Gulf because of Israel. China, on the other hand, will use every opportunity to protect and develop its own geopolitical interests, especially in Taiwan and the South China Sea, as long as the Israel-Iran crisis continues.​ https://www.globalresearch.ca/iran-israel-tension-weakness-american-navy/5869826

    ​It’s OK. I hear China is going to finally build it. Twenty Three Years Ago, the U.S. Invaded Afghanistan Over an Oil Pipeline https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/10/08/twenty-three-years-ago-the-u-s-invaded-afghanistan-over-an-oil-pipeline/

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    Lebanon reports over 400,000 flee to Syria in just two weeks amid escalating conflict​ https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20241008-lebanon-reports-over-400000-flee-to-syria-in-just-two-weeks-amid-escalating-conflict/

    ​I wonder if somebody will assassinate Kamala this month and blame The Donald… Vice President Harris Says Iran Is the US’s ‘Greatest Adversary’
    The vice president also said the US ‘must win the competition for the 21st century with China’​ https://news.antiwar.com/2024/10/08/vice-president-harris-says-iran-is-the-uss-greatest-adversary/#gsc.tab=0

    ​ What might this actually mean? Do bankers want this war to wind down? British PM declares London ‘will never stop selling weapons to Israel’
    The announcement comes a month after the Labour government suspended less than 10 percent of active arms export licenses to Israel​
    ​ His statement came in response to a question by MP Zarah Sultana, who pressed Starmer on whether London would “finally do what’s legally and morally right and end the government’s complicity in Israeli war crimes by banning all arms sales to Israel, including F-35 fighter jets, not just 30 licenses.”
    ​ “No,” Starmer replied bluntly. “But it is a really serious point. Banning all sales would mean none for defensive purposes. None for defensive purposes on the anniversary of 7 October and days after a huge attack by Iran into Israel would be a wrong position for this government and I will not take it,” Starmer said. https://thecradle.co/articles/british-pm-declares-london-will-never-stop-selling-weapons-to-israel

    Has Iran Just Tested a Nuclear Bomb? Rodney Atkinson
    ​ Two disturbing news items out of Iran suggest that Iran may already have a nuclear bomb capacity.
    Firstly, an Armenian station recorded a seismic event measuring 4.4 on the Richter scale in Iran on Saturday 5th October and according to Armenian researchers, its characteristics suggest it was more like an explosion than an earthquake.
    Secondly, a source in the Islamic republic said in a private conversation with an official close to Khamenei that​:
    “Allah has already given us everything, everything is far away from the eyes of the Zionists, and we are ready to release this genie in response to any hint of a real threat to the existence of our state”​ https://www.globalresearch.ca/iran-tested-nuclear-bomb/5869745

    ​From Pravda now… Did Iran conduct an underground nuclear test on October 5? Israel and US to invade Iran not to let it build nuclear bomb
    https://english.pravda.ru/world/160855-iran-nuclear-bomb/

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    ​ Israeli Forces Kill 56 More Palestinians in the Gaza Strip
    The Israeli military continues to escalate in northern Gaza, where it appears to be carrying out an ethnic cleansing plan ​ https://news.antiwar.com/2024/10/08/israeli-forces-kill-56-more-palestinians-in-the-gaza-strip/#gsc.tab=0

    ​ Israeli Strikes Kill 36 in Lebanon as Netanyahu Threatens To Turn the Country Into Gaza
    The Israeli president said Lebanon would face similar destruction if its people didn’t ‘free’ the country from Hezbollah​ https://news.antiwar.com/2024/10/08/israeli-strikes-kill-36-in-lebanon-as-netanyahu-threatens-to-turn-the-country-into-gaza/#gsc.tab=0

    ​ Netanyahu Goes Even More Rogue, Announces Intent to Turn Lebanon into Gaza, Refuses to Inform US of Iran Strike Plans
    ​And the State Department confirmed that the Biden Administration is all in with more war crimes like collective punishment, and the extension of the Gaza genocide plan:
    ​ “So the answer to your question is yes, we do support Israel launching these incursions to degrade Hizballah’s infrastructure so ultimately we can get a diplomatic resolution that allows 1701 to finally be fully implemented​”.
    ​ Needless to say, the assertion that Israel is attacking “Hizbollah’s infrastructure” when it destroys hospitals and apartments is an insult to intelligence.
    While the US and Israel are on the same page regarding the destruction of Lebanon, they appear to be at odds over what exactly Israel will do in its planned counterattack on Iran.​ https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/10/netanyahu-goes-even-more-rogue-announces-intent-to-turn-lebanon-into-gaza-refuses-to-inform-us-of-iran-strike-plans.html

    ​ Biden Holds Phone Call With Netanyahu On Iran Strike Plans After Gallant Trip Blocked
    ​ President Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are holding a crucial phone call Wednesday morning focused on Israel’s plans to strike back at Iran for the Oct.1st ballistic missile attack, which saw some 200 warheads launched, many of which hit targets on the ground including key airbases.
    ​ It marks the first call since Iran’s attack, and also the first between the leaders in two months, and comes as Washington has signaled it is deeply worried that a bigger regional war could break out if Israel’s retaliation goes too far. The call is scheduled for 10:30ET. NBC is reporting that Vice President Kamala Harris will join the call.
    ​ The call comes amid some internal Israeli drama, given the open spat between Netanyahu and his Defense Minister. Netanyahu has forced Gallant to cancel a planned trip to Washington. It was set for Wednesday, and he was to meet with counterparts in the Pentagon about “ongoing Middle East security developments,” a Pentagon statement had indicated.​ https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/biden-holds-phone-call-netanyahu-iran-strike-plans-after-gallant-trip-blocked​

    US Says It Doesn’t Want a Ceasefire in Lebanon, Supports Israeli Offensive​, The State Department voiced strong support for Israeli military operations​ https://news.antiwar.com/2024/10/08/us-says-it-doesnt-want-a-ceasefire-in-lebanon-supports-israeli-offensive/#gsc.tab=0

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    ​ 600 Missing, FEMA’s a Slush Fund & Mayorkas Has $8 Billion?
    According to Fox News, budget experts warn that FEMA is now a slush fund for the Biden-Harris administration to use at will.
    ​ Meanwhile, $73 billion in unliquidated funds remain open, and there are 8.3 billion in unliquidated obligations. The money could be returned to help people battling for survival and disasters now. The IG report agrees that seven billion-plus dollars in unliquidated funds could potentially be returned to the Disaster Relief Fund.​ https://www.independentsentinel.com/600-missing-femas-a-slush-fund-mayorkas-has-8-billion/

    ​ An individual who tried to drop off food and other supplies in the devastated mountain region of North Carolina using his private helicopter was arrested by the Biden regime for interfering with “a government operation.”
    ​ After the man landed his craft, authorities immediately cuffed him using the excuse that he was getting in the way of their own rescue efforts – except there were no rescue efforts actually taking place.​ “He landed and got arrested and [they] said he was interfering with a government operation, but there’s no operations going on,” explains the man in the video.​ https://www.naturalnews.com/2024-10-08-kamala-admin-arrests-good-samaritan-hurricane-helene.html

    US Navy is said to have been at the scene shortly before Nord Stream was destroyed, Danish newspaper reports​ https://weltwoche-de.translate.goog/daily/us-marine-soll-kurz-vor-nord-stream-zerstoerung-mit-abgeschaltetem-transponder-am-tatort-gewesen-sein-berichtet-daenische-zeitung/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp

    ​ John Helmer on Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov’s recent clarification:
    ​ The Russian history of end-of-war negotiations for the capitulation of Germany and for the World War II peace settlement requires it to be understood now: it was the Red Army’s defeat of the enemy on the battlefield all the way to Berlin which preceded and which was the precondition for the paper promises and pacts offered to Moscow by those allies whom Joseph Stalin understood to be permanent enemies of Russia — the United States, United Kingdom, and France.
    ​ Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has just spelled this out in an especially timed essay published on October 2.
    ​Those lessons are being repeated now because they apply with equal force to the end-of-war negotiations with the US in the process nicknamed Istanbul-II.
    ​ For Russian decision-makers in Moscow, and for the Russian people across the country, there can be no long-term security for the country without the military defeat of the enemy on the Ukrainian battlefield, capitulation of the Kiev regime, and withdrawal from Ukrainian territory of its US and NATO allies.​ https://johnhelmer.net/what-is-russia-deciding-for-terms-to-end-the-war-in-the-ukraine-gorilla-radio-explains/

    ​ BINGO! Blackrock’s Ukrainian assets in the crosshairs: Russia could seek war reparations from Ukraine – senior diplomat
    Military victory over Kiev may be followed by demands for compensation, Rodion Miroshnik has said​ https://swentr.site/russia/605453-ukraine-conflict-reparations-database/

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    Storms Coming https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/storms-coming

    The US Military appears to get pre-justification to kill some crowds of Americans on US soil. Use of lethal force in a reasonably anticipated confrontation
    What exactly qualifies as reasonable in a reasonably anticipated confrontation?​ DOD Directive 5240.01 effective September 27, 2024.
    ​..Secretary of Defense Approval
    ​ (2) The decision to approve requests for these types of permissible assistance described in Paragraph 3.2. to law enforcement agencies and other civil authorities are reserved to the Secretary of Defense:
    ​ (c) Assistance in responding with assets with potential for lethality, or any situation in which it is reasonably foreseeable that providing the requested assistance may involve the use of force that is likely to result in lethal force, including death or serious bodily injury. It also includes all support to civilian law enforcement officials in situations where a confrontation between civilian law enforcement and civilian individuals or groups is reasonably anticipated. Such use of force must be in accordance with DoDD 5210.56, potentially as further restricted based on the specifics of the requested support.​ https://jessica5b3.substack.com/p/use-of-lethal-force-in-a-reasonably

    ​Ugo Bardi, The Age Of Exterminations (II) — How to Exterminate the Young
    ​ The power of propaganda is immense. It is so strong especially because people don’t realize that they are embedded in it and the things that propaganda makes them do look like the most natural and obvious ones. It was Baudelaire who said, “the devil’s best trick is to convince people that he does not exist.”
    ​ So, here is a story of a triumph of propaganda: how it convinced most Italians in 1914-15 that it was a good idea to go to war against their neighbors, the Austrians in one of the greatest follies of history, what our ancestors called, rightly, “The Great War.”
    ​ It all started when, in July 1914, a Serbian madman shot an Austrian Archduke. That caused the Great Powers of the time to attack each other in a sort of large-scale domino game. Austria attacked Serbia, Germany attacked France, Russia attacked Austria, and more.
    ​ And Italy? It is a story poorly known outside Italy, but interesting for many reasons. Italy at that time was a nation of peasants, its economy was weak, and its military power limited. Sometimes, it was called the “proletarian nation,” in contrast with the Northern “plutocracies,” Britain and others. Italy was poor, but secure inside its borders: protected by the sea and by the Alps. No need to go to war against anyone.​ https://www.senecaeffect.com/2021/09/the-age-of-exterminations-ii-how-to.html

    ​ Kyle Young, Waging “Weather Warfare” and “Plunder Capitalism” on the good folk of the US
    ​ “Others are engaging even in an eco-type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves. So there are plenty of ingenious minds out there that are at work finding ways in which they can wreak terror upon other nations. It’s real, and that’s the reason why we have to intensify our efforts, and that’s why this is so important.” Secretary of Defense William Cohen giving the keynote address at the Conference on Terrorism, Weapons of Mass Destruction, and US Strategy at the University of Georgia, Athens April 28, 1997.​..
    ​..Recently we saw all of that converging into a hurricane that Dane Wigington and others have pointed out was steered by Nexrad radar over the most lithium rich deposit in the US, Western North Carolina.​..
    ..Because the local economy may take many years to recover, those that remain will be hard pressed to make a living. Many will be forced to sell what’s left of their homes and farms for a tiny fraction of what they were worth before the flood. This will put ever more pressure on those that remain.
    ​ And who will be buying up all of these properties? That would be those who’ve been lurking in the shadows for years trying to buy-up homes and farms that sit on top of the vast lithium and quartz crystal deposits of this region…
    ..Albemarle’s maneuvering began in 2023 when they applied for a grant from the Department of Defense. Recently the DoD and DoE approved a total of $250 million in grants to Albemarle to gear up for Kings Mountain. Anthony Stasio MCEIP director, said this “… agreement with Albemarle demonstrates the DoD’s ongoing commitment to meeting the needs of our warfighter, today and in the future,” …​ Why the worlds largest lithium mining company needs to be given $250 million of our taxpayer dollars to gear-up for Kings Mountain has not been explained. What can be explained is that this is just another example of the type of corporate socialism that’s rampant in the US.​..
    ..We know there are companies that specialize in weather modification. They work for whoever pays them. One of the largest weather modification companies in the world is Weather Modification Inc (how original). Right now I’m trying to determine if they had a contract over Western NC during Helene. I’m also trying to track some C130 flights above and below Milton as he was out over the gulf of Mexico. There is mounting evidence that Milton was heavily seeded with silver iodide while over the gulf. https://secularheretic.substack.com/p/waging-weather-warfare-and-plunder

    ​ It’s in a different category. FEMA already misspent most of what was in the disaster pot for the year. There would need to be Congressional approval to transfer these funds.
    Watchdog found $7B in untapped FEMA funds — even though DHS Secretary Mayorkas said none available for future disasters
    ​ DHS Inspector General Joseph Cuffari found in his Aug. 14 report that as of October 2022, FEMA had $8.3 billion in unliquidated funds meant to relieve declared disasters from 2012 or earlier.​ https://nypost.com/2024/10/07/us-news/watchdog-found-7b-in-untapped-fema-funds-even-though-dhs-secretary-mayorkas-said-none-available-for-future-disasters/

    in reply to: Debt Rattle October 9 2024 #171086
    John Day
    Participant

    Already embarrassingly bad, and Trump wants to see the WORSE?

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