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  • in reply to: Debt Rattle October 26 2024 #172612
    John Day
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    ​ ‘This is an extermination’: Israel’s assault on north Gaza’s last functioning hospital
    Israel is emptying northern Gaza of its inhabitants during its ongoing ethnic cleansing campaign. One of the key strategies it is using to achieve this is by hospitals, and the Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahia has become a primary target.
    ​ Tens of thousands of displaced Palestinians across northern Gaza have been forced on a death march by the Israeli army since Monday, October 21. Northern Gaza is being emptied of its inhabitants, and one of Israel’s strategies in achieving this goal is to take out the area’s few remaining social institutions: hospitals.
    ​ As part of its ongoing offensive on northern Gaza, the Israeli army has been trying to clear out the entire area north of Gaza City for the past 18 days. At least 200,000 people continue to stay there, many of them fearing, according to local testimonies, that they will be targeted on the way south or in Israeli-designated “safe zones,” which have been consistently bombarded over recent months. The ongoing siege includes a second siege-within-the-siege on the Jabalia refugee camp, accompanied by a massive bombing and shelling campaign that is forcing tens of thousands of people to leave their homes. Many of them have headed to Beit Lahia, and particularly to Kamal Adwan Hospital. Over the past 18 days, the hospital has been issuing daily calls for help, warning of an imminent humanitarian catastrophe.
    ​ The Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahia is one of three functioning hospitals in the northern Gaza governorate. The hospital is the only fully functional medical center in the north, with a specialized neonatal section for newborns.​ https://mondoweiss.net/2024/10/this-is-an-extermination-israels-assault-on-north-gazas-last-functioning-hospital/

    ​ Last night in Iran: Israeli Forces Attack Iran With “Precise Strikes On Military Targets” In Retaliatory Response
    Israel attacked Iran early Saturday morning local time with what it’s referred to as “precise strikes on Iranian military targets,” weeks after the Islamic Republic fired around 180 ballistic missiles towards Israel on Oct. 1. Blasts were reported near the headquarters of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard.​
    ​ In a rare announcement, the Israeli military said its strikes are underway, and that their “offensive and defensive capabilities are fully mobilized,” while the WSJ reports that Israel gave the US advance notice.​ “We were aware in advance,” said a US official. https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/israel-launches-retaliatory-attack-against-iran​

    Iran Says Four Soldiers Were Killed In Israeli Attack Involving 100 Warplanes​ https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/iranian-media-pundits-mock-nothingburger-israeli-attack-involving-100-warplanes​

    Look at the Tehran night sky video. Only ​sky explosions, not ground. Iranian Media & Pundits Mock ‘Nothingburger’ Israeli Attack Involving 100 Warplanes
    The Israeli ‘retaliation’ attack against Iran, which occurred in the overnight and early morning hours, appears to be complete, with Israel’s military (IDF) having declared the response “concluded” after locations in three provinces of the Islamic Republic were hit.​
    ​ Some 100 Israeli warplanes were sent, primarily across Jordanian airspace, for the unprecedented attack which reportedly included strikes on key missile, drone, and other military sites – including air defense installations. However, Iranians are mocking it as if it didn’t even happen, and there’s an emerging consensus among Western pundits that this was remarkably limited in scale. The attack did not involve Iranian nuclear or oil sites.​ https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/iranian-media-pundits-mock-nothingburger-israeli-attack-involving-100-warplanes

    ​ Moon of Alabama, How Russia Is Overwhelming Ukrainian Frontlines
    There seems to be a bit of a panic along the Ukrainian front lines. Several units, for lack of men, have recently left positions they were supposed to hold. The daily progress of the Russian forces along the line is increasing.
    ​ The medium level of the Ukrainian military seems to understand that their defense is breaking down.​ https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/10/there-seems-to-be-a-bit-of-a-panic-along-the-ukrainian-front-lines-several-units-for-lack-of-men-have-recently-left-positi.html#more

    in reply to: Debt Rattle October 26 2024 #172611
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    ​ Musk Mania: European Censors Warn Musk that They May Level Fines Based on all of his Businesses
    X has objected:
    ​ “X Holdings Corp. submits that the combined market value of the Musk Group does not accurately reflect X’s monetization potential in the Union or its financial capacity, In particular, it argues that X and SpaceX provide entirely different services to entirely different users, so that there is no gateway effect, and that the undertakings controlled by Mr. Elon Musk ‘do not form one financial front, as the DMA presumes.’”

    Musk Mania: European Censors Warn Musk that They May Level Fines Based on all of his Businesses

    ​ John Leake, EU President Likens Free Speech to Infectious Disease
    Ursula von der Leyen advocates “pre-bunking” in the public forum to “vaccinate” people against “disinformation.”​ https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/eu-president-likens-free-speech-to

    ​ University of Michigan recruits state attorney general to crack down on Gaza protesters
    Revealed: in a highly unusual move, regents allegedly bypassed local prosecutors, believing Dana Nessel would be tougher on student protesters
    ​ When the University of Michigan governing board this year asked the state’s attorney general to bring charges against campus Gaza protesters, they tapped a political ally with whom some board members have extensive personal, financial or political connections, a Guardian investigation finds.
    ​ Frustrated by local prosecutors’ unwillingness to crack down on most of the students arrested at the height of the pro-Palestinian encampments last spring, the regents executed a highly unusual move in recruiting the Michigan attorney general, Dana Nessel, because she was more likely to file charges, three people with direct knowledge of the decision tell the Guardian.
    ​ The revelations raise new questions about potential conflicts of interest. Six of eight regents contributed more than $33,000 combined to Nessel’s campaigns, her office hired a regent’s law firm to handle major state cases, the same regent co-chaired her 2018 campaign, and she has personal relationships with some regents.​ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/24/michigan-attorney-general-dana-nessel-campus-gaza-protests

    ​ Kill them all: Israel’s extermination of Palestinians in Gaza
    Tel Aviv’s plethora of horrific war-crime strategies – from the Hannibal Directive to the Dahiyeh Doctrine – were nothing compared to the existential peril Palestinians face under Israel’s new Generals’ Plan: a systematic blueprint for ethnic cleansing and Jewish re-settlement of the strip.​ https://thecradle.co/articles/kill-them-all-israels-extermination-of-palestinians-in-gaza

    in reply to: Debt Rattle October 26 2024 #172608
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    Trump responds to Harris over Hitler comment​ Such radical rhetoric shows the Democrat is unfit for office, the Republican presidential candidate has said​ https://swentr.site/news/606380-trump-responds-harris-hitler/

    ​ Hillary Clinton Claims Trump Is “Reenacting 1939 Madison Square Garden Nazi Rally”​ (Everyone I disagree with is a ​Nazi​)
    Appearing on CNN, Hillary stated “One other thing that you‘ll see next week is Trump actually re-enacting the Madison Square Garden rally in 1939.”​ https://modernity.news/2024/10/25/hillary-clinton-claims-trump-is-reenacting-1939-madison-square-garden-nazi-rally/​

    “Don’t worry, I won’t come after you​, so you don’t have to destroy America”? Trump Breaks Silence On Whether He Would Pardon ‘Bad Boy’ Hunter Biden​ Donald Trump on Thursday said he’s open to pardoning Hunter Biden if he’s reelected – a sharp 180 after railing against the “Biden crime family” for the past four years.​ https://www.zerohedge.com/political/trump-breaks-silence-whether-he-would-pardon-bad-boy-hunter-biden

    ​ (Too long for me to) Watch: Trump And Rogan Have A Wild Interview​ [14 vignettes excerpted]​ https://www.zerohedge.com/political/watch-trump-and-rogan-have-wild-interview

    ​ Judge Throws Out Vote Payment Allegations Against Elon Musk​ A federal judge has turned away allegations that billionaire Elon Musk violated the law when he started giving $1 million away to registered voters.​ https://www.zerohedge.com/political/judge-throws-out-vote-payment-allegations-against-elon-musk

    in reply to: Debt Rattle October 26 2024 #172606
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    Why didn’t I know this before? FEMA’s Real Purpose: Suppressing Americans And Preventing Civilian Organization https://www.zerohedge.com/political/femas-real-purpose-suppressing-americans-and-preventing-civilian-organization

    (It is rumored that a bad story about Kamala is about to break.) Celia Farber, CHAOS: LA​ T​imes Editor Resigns After Staff Refuses To Report Both Presidential Candidates’ Records, Wanting Merely To Endorse Harris. It Winds Up LAT Does NOT Endorse Harris, And Owner Soon-Shion Is Blamed
    ​ Keith Olberman Calls Him A “Useless and Spineless Whore” and tells the Chinese South African To “Leave The Country.” Hordes of Angry LAT Readers Cancel Subscriptions, Post Attacks And Profanities​ https://celiafarber.substack.com/p/chaos-lat-editor-resigns-after-staff

    ​ (Washington Post is ​the CIA mouthpiece.​ Don’t let the door hit ya, Bob!) WaPo Editor Quits, Staff Has Total Meltdown After Non-Endorsement Of Kamala Harris​ ​ In response to Jeff Bezos’ decision not to endorse a presidential candidate this year, staff are having a total meltdown, liberals are canceling their subscriptions, and editor-at-large Robert Kagan (husband of Victoria Nuland) just quit.​ https://www.zerohedge.com/political/wapo-bails-kamala-wont-make-presidential-endorsement

    ​ Celia Farber again: Jeff Bezos Barrs The Washington Post From Endorsing Kamala Harris Endorsement: Staff Said To Be Enraged, Editor At Large Has Resigned
    First LAT, Now WaPo; They Must Know Something We Don’t—Yet. This Is Not Mere Unpopularity, But More Like A Hindenburg Feelin​g. https://celiafarber.substack.com/p/jeff-bezos-barrs-the-washington-post

    ​ Celia… British CEO Who Plotted To “K*ll Musk’s X Also Ordered Black Ops Campaigns To Shut Down RFK Jr.
    “Center For Countering Digital Hate” Run by UK CEO Imran Ahmed, An “Authority On Social And Psycohlogical Malignancies On Social Media”​ https://celiafarber.substack.com/p/british-ceo-who-plotted-to-kll-musks

    in reply to: Debt Rattle October 26 2024 #172605
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    Meryl Nass MD reads Slavsquat: BRICS proclaim loyalty to globalism… ​ And while we are at it, a lesson in the lingua franca of globalism
    It is critical to learn the globalist patois (vernacular) if you want to grasp what they are actually saying.
    ​ Multilateralism means global governance.
    Global governance means global government. (The State Department disagrees, but they are the controllers of the deep state, so who cares what they say?)
    ​ Just (as in justice) means “just for us globalists.”
    Sustainable development means we give you just enough to sustain you while you work for us.
    ​ Agile means we are ditching all the old rules.
    Public-private partnership means most of the costs are borne by the taxpayer and most of the profits are skimmed by private interests.
    ​ Carbon markets means “money for nothing and chicks for free.”​ https://merylnass.substack.com/p/brics-proclaim-loyalty-to-globalism

    ​ Gates Funds Harris With $50 Million Donation – Report
    Bill Gates has quietly donated $50 million to a nonprofit supporting Vice President Kamala Harris’s presidential run, The New York Times reported, citing three sources.
    ​ While Gates hasn’t publicly endorsed Harris, his sizable donation was made to Future Forward, a “dark money” group backing her campaign. The funds were intended to remain anonymous, the report said.​ https://sputnikglobe.com/20241023/gates-funds-harris-with-50-million-donation–report-1120649846.html

    ​ Dark Money, Darker Motives: Why is Bill Gates Backing Kamala Harris Using Shady Super PAC?
    The Gates Foundation’s fortunes got a big boost under Biden, with its endowment growing from $69 bln in 2020 to $75.2 bln in 2023.
    ​ Gates enjoyed a profits bonanza off mRNA coronavirus vaccines mandated by the Biden administration…
    ..The billionaire’s foundation supports the Global Virome Project – an ambitious initiative created in 2018 to predict pathogens that could trigger lethal pandemics, but accused of weaponizing viruses from a network of 150 biolabs worldwide.
    ​ Gates has also backed a broad array of World Economic Forum-affiliated initiatives, including projects to reduce emissions and create synthetic meat and dairy. In 2022, The Seattle Times revealed Gates’ secret lobbying to save Biden’s signature $2+ trln Build Back Better social and climate spending package.
    ​ Gates has also been a top backer of the Biden administration’s battle against media and online ‘misinformation’, with an explosive MintPress investigation from 2021 revealing that his foundation had bankrolled some $319 mln in media, including CNN, the BBC, Le Monde, the Financial Times, Der Spiegel and others to ensure favorable coverage of his agenda and that of his allies.​ https://sputnikglobe.com/20241023/dark-money-darker-motives-why-is-bill-gates-backing-kamala-harris-using-shady-super-pac-1120657496.html

    ​ Judge Rules Bill Gates Must Face Vaccine-Injured in Netherlands Court
    A Netherlands judge last week ruled that Bill Gates must face seven people injured by COVID-19 vaccines in court in the Netherlands. Other defendants include Albert Bourla, CEO of Pfizer, and the Dutch state.​ https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/bill-gates-covid-vaccine-lawsuit-netherlands/

    ​ Celia Farber, Netherlands Court Rules Bill Gates Must Stand Trial In Case Of 7 Gravely Injured By Covid Shots, One Of Whom Has Died, Another Can’t Speak. Judge Fells Silent After Bereft Father Said He’d Like To Ask​ Gates What Happened To His Daughter https://celiafarber.substack.com/p/netherlands-court-rules-bill-gates

    in reply to: Debt Rattle October 26 2024 #172604
    John Day
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    BRICS And Glass Houses https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/brics-and-glass-houses

    Simplicius, BRICS 2024 Kazan Special Coverage
    The BRICS 2024 summit kicked off as the big highlight of the week. There are an endless amount of things to be said from a variety of different analytical perspectives …
    Firstly, the obvious is simply the optics of the event. Russia and Putin were supposed to be ‘isolated’ and here they are hosting the world’s top leaders on a grand stage … Note how even the simple optics of the event differ from the more ‘corporate structured’ UN, with its one-at-a-time tribune speech on stage meant to present the leadership of each country in a Western unitary model. The BRICS meeting on the other hand visually represents a roundtable of equals amongst all, which sends a powerful message for the future of global multipolarity and cooperation…
    ..That’s not to mention it was chosen for a symbolic date, as Putin explains here, with the original founding UN Charter being signed on October 24, 1945…
    ..It is clear the organizers of the BRICS summit foresee this pivotal time as being an epochal shift in the global world order similar in weight to that of the UN founding.
    The story of this summit seemed to revolve more around precisely that: perceptions and symbolism as a powerful message in their own right, as opposed to overt actions. No real overt changes were taken on this summit, new members were not yet inducted nor a major “BRICS currency” change announced…
    ..13 countries received the status of BRICS partner country. They are Turkey, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Algeria, Belarus, Bolivia, Cuba, Indonesia, Malaysia, Nigeria, Thailand, Uganda and Vietnam. BRICS partner country status is a mandatory step before full membership.
    What is meant by simple optics? For example, BRICS has sent a message of strength and solidarity, as well as giving legitimacy to a variety of countries, issues, and leaders which do not get it on the Western-ruled world ‘stage’. The most notable example was Venezuela’s Maduro, who was afforded the full respect as a leader, Putin’s direct sanctioning of his legally-obtained and legitimate presidency, and even China’s imprimatur:
    MADURO: “We are defending the same cause, the cause of a shared destiny for humanity.”
    XI JINPING: “We are iron friends. We always keep in touch.”
    Maduro utilized this stage to launch into a withering tirade against the UN, which in itself was a sight to behold given that it for the first time showed the weight behind the BRICS ability to condemn Western institutions in a way not seen before at such a global level…
    ..And veteran BRICS reporter Pepe Escobar has the most detailed write-up of the progress concerning the various BRICS financial projects.
    The general gist is as follows:
    A BRICS single currency: “Not being considered yet, this issue is not ripe yet.”
    De-dollarization, Putin stressed, is proceeding step by step: “We’re taking individual steps, one after another. As regards finance, we did not drop the dollar. The dollar is the universal currency. But it wasn’t us – we were banned and barred from [using] it. And now 95% of all the external trade of Russia is denominated in national currencies. They did it themselves with their own hands. They thought we would collapse.”
    The challenge for a unified BRICS currency: That “requires thorough economic integration (…) Apart from high level of integration among BRICS members, the introduction of a single BRICS currency would involve comparable monetary quality and volume (…) Otherwise, we will face even bigger issues than those that occurred in the EU.” Putin recalled that when the euro was introduced in the EU, their economies were neither comparable nor equal.
    But Pepe also has a new interview with Danny Haiphong where he goes into much clearer detail of precisely every single BRICS financial instrument and payment system currently under development, from BRICS Bridge, to BRICS Pay, an independent BRICS rating agency and insurance underwriting structure, etc…
    It’s uncertain if Pepe’s projections are overly optimistic as perhaps have been at times in the past, but here he states that various meetings on these systems will be held in the coming weeks for some major final approvals “four weeks from now”, presumably after the closed door sessions ironed out the wrinkles during the summit.
    For those who may understandably be skeptical of the sometimes glacial pace of BRICS-related developments, there were a couple interestingly demonstrative moments.
    Putin himself appeared to directly address BRICS Development Bank (NDB) chairman Dilma Rousseff in very politely saying “let’s speed things up” by noting that the longer these transitions to a multipolar model take, the more dangers it poses, and the longer the global south has to live in slavery to the Western financial system.
    On top of that, Putin further appeared to mock or tease Russian Central Bank head Elvira Nabiullina with another mockup copy of the BRICS dollar…
    ..Pepe does state he believes we won’t truly see most of these currency changes until about 2030. I agree but time is moving very fast right now if you’ve noticed, and with global events developing the way they are, we’ll be there quicker than we think.
    A last snippet from Pepe’s interview wherein he explains that the BRICS member candidate list will likely soon swell to most of the world’s countries. But the most important aspect is his explanation for why the pace sometimes appears slow, because managing such an unprecedented expansion of a new global system not seen since 1945 is an incredibly complex and difficult undertaking. This is particularly the case, as Pepe notes, because unlike the US-led United Nations, and other Western organs like the G7, the BRICS is foundationally designed to take everyone’s interests into account rather than being solely one hegemon’s private bully pulpit and centrally planned authority in one…
    ..For those who continue to think BRICS may be just empty promises, there are concrete measures already being taken or planned like a BRICS grain exchange announced by Putin here, which “will promote fair and predictable price indicators for products and raw materials”. This grain exchange will later be turned into a general product exchange, which is a precursor to getting an inter-BRICS currency system to eventually work and replace the dollar.
    Putin was also asked about Trump’s claim that he once told Putin he would strike Moscow if Putin invaded Ukraine. Putin replied that this is merely the effect of election season and that such statements should not be taken seriously…
    ..Iran too was given a renewed legitimacy and dignity on the world stage, particularly as new president Masoud Pezeshkian was visiting Russia for the first time…
    ..Of course the most talked about moment came when Putin was asked about the satellite photos of North Korean troops training in Russia. Putin quipped that photos are serious things, and whatever they show should be noted.
    He makes mention of the fact that the Duma just ratified the strategic partnership with North Korea yesterday…
    ..Putin gives a hint in the video that it is NATO and the West that escalates things in Ukraine. He seems to be implying that the North Korean troops could be Russia’s symmetrical red line response to the West’s provocations, particularly of sending foreign mercenaries into Russia’s Kursk. And by the way, Russia is said to be close to reaching a similar ‘strategic partnership’ agreement with Iran as well—what could that mean for Israel? …
    ..Toward the end, Putin seems to imply—to the contrary—that Article 4 has not yet been implemented with Korea and as such the so-called troops may be some kind of fib or smokescreen. This brings up several important possibilities of the new DPRK autumn moral panic:
    North Korean troops have been sent to train in eastern Russia for the express purpose of rattling the West and sending them a message, but have no intention of actually fighting on the front line in any capacity.
    North Korean troops will in fact provide limited rear capabilities support somewhere near the front in order to gain experience and strengthen the partnership with Russia.
    North Korean troops actually intend to engage in full blown frontline combat to send a chilling message down NATO’s spine that Russia has had enough and will now be responding symmetrically and asymmetrically to all provocations…
    One note first before I elaborate on the latter point. All the North Korean ‘panic’ stories from the Western press mill suggested it was a big ‘top secret’ operation with only ‘clever’ Western satellite intel able to bust Putin’s putative smuggling of the DPRK troops under the cover of night. On the other hand, a huge contradiction in the narrative: a stream of videos taken openly by Russian troops in full view of their commanders has emerged that purport to show DPRK troops in eastern Russian bases. If it was a big top secret operation like they pretend, then why are the troops openly being filmed? …
    ..If they were being clandestinely given Buryat passports to cloak the fact they’re North Koreans, why would they be allowed to be filmed in full view of staff officers in this barracks and elsewhere—does that make sense? …
    ..As I said, it could be a kind of psyop by Putin to give the West a bit of a jolt while merely engaging in some harmless training with the Koreans. Or it could be part of a major new operation, though this is admittedly less likely…
    ..Other sources say Russia is moving major reinforcements near the contact lines around Zaporozhye, Donetsk, and potentially elsewhere. Budanov above claimed that the Koreans are being sent to Kursk by the “end of October”. Those who’ve read my last paywalled article know Western sources claimed three new Russian armies would be ready for battle by ‘end of October by the latest’—the 25th, 40th, and 44th.
    So, my proposed hypothesis: Putin could send the DPRK troops to Kursk to relieve Russian forces—even if it’s more rear-oriented forces—for a major new offensive push elsewhere all over the main lines. Admittedly the idea is a more than a bit silly and improbable on the face of it, but at the same time Putin could seek to send a major message to the West that where Western mercenaries go, now the united front of the multipolar armies will go to meet them—a message of deterrence to the West.
    ..After all, haloed in his unrivaled new prestige of the BRICS tribuneship Putin adopted a much more defiant mien, at one point telling the West it’s useless to threaten Russia because “it only encourages us.”
    For their part, Russian troops have already begun teasing the AFU by posting North Korean flags over their positions, here in Tsukirino and elsewhere…
    ..Overall, the key takeaway from the BRICS summit can be the following. Look closely at some of the scenes presented: India and China after having just negotiated a settlement to their border conflict, Armenia and Azerbaijan hashing out their disputes, other “ostracized” members of the world community being greeted with open arms, no leering judgmental supremacism, condescending sermonizing and pompous pontificating like so often seen by the West at their global institutions, from the EU to the UN, etc.
    The BRICS’ strongest achievement is sending a message of acceptance, compromise, openness, civility, and cooperation—the true definition of anti-illiberal qualities, the same the West so adamantly claims it champions. There was a kind of contagious energy that was palpable in the air: an alternate vision for a world led by sovereign grownups, not the small-minded, nervous little elitist compradors and pushy apparatchiks, the likes seen dotting the halls of the West’s equivalent institutions. In short, a breath of fresh air and maturity. https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/brics-2024-kazan-special-coverage

    ​ Gilbert Doctorow, The times are a-Changing
    ​ In its coverage of the BRICS Summit in Kazan this morning, the BBC World News broadcast featured a report on Vladimir Putin’s press conference at the conclusion of the Summit narrated by their Moscow bureau chief Steve Rosenberg.
    ​ The British, in particular, were compelled to pay attention to the proceedings in Kazan because, to their considerable embarrassment, BRICS had drawn the usual high-level statesmen away from their own gathering of Commonwealth heads of government that was opened yesterday by King Charles in Samoa. Several of the most visible and important invitees to Samoa, like President of South Africa Cyril Ramaphosa. had decided to skip an audience with the King and instead to join the court of Vladimir Putin this week…
    ..Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov instructed his assistants to pass the microphone to Rosenberg, given that he had become such a ‘rare guest’ these days.​ It was clear at once that both Putin and Rosenberg were well prepared for what followed…
    You can watch the exchange on this BBC podcast:​ https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/c9vn8z2wwy9o?ysclid=m2obdc8gk9485411930
    ​ What is most striking is that the podcast captures not only what Rosenberg asked but also captures most of what Vladimir Putin said in return… Here again logic dictates that this was part of a pre-arranged deal…
    ​..Said Putin, the security situation of Russia was far worse before the start of the Special Military Situation than it is now, because the country saw its sovereignty under attack from the West, and without full sovereignty Russia cannot exist as a nation state. Russia was being pushed into what was deemed to be its proper place, as a supplier of raw materials on others’ terms. The West lied to his face with respect to there being no expansion of NATO to the East. As for ‘justice,’ the West staged a coup d’etat in Kiev in 2014 that violated all international laws. It then prepared Ukraine as a base for military operations against Russia. The Minsk agreements were used to buy time to build the Ukrainian forces. What justice was there in the West’s flouting the principle of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe whereby the security of one nation cannot be built at the expense of the security of another?
    ​ As for the violent demonstrations that have broken out in cities across Europe, the blame lies with the leadership of those countries whose misguided policies, especially their prohibition on purchase of cheap Russian gas and its substitution by very dear American LNG has caused severe domestic economic problems and a falling standard of living. This is what is behind the demonstrations.​..
    ..Simmons’ second question was of greater general interest: he alluded to intelligence reports that there are photos showing that North Korean soldiers are now being deployed in Russia to fight on the battlefield in Ukraine.
    ​ Putin did not confirm or deny the reports of North Koreans being brought in to fight. Instead, he made reference to Article 4 of the comprehensive partnership treaty that he had signed during his visit to Pyongyang this spring and which the State Duma had just ratified. Article 4, per Putin provides that each signatory must provide assistance to its counterpart should it be subjected to aggression from third parties. Since the Ukrainian incursion in Kursk constitutes an act of aggression, the provisions of the treaty are being implemented.​..
    ..We also heard Vladimir Putin say in answer to one questioner that expansion of BRICS will be announced after invitations to join as ‘Partner Countries’ are extended to an already agreed upon group of countries and they have consented to undertake certain tasks. No list of the prospective invitees was issued yesterday, however an unofficial list was published today by the Indian commercial broadcaster WION: Algeria, Belarus, Bolivia, Ciuba, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Nigeria, Thailand, Turkiye, Uganda, Uzbekistan and Vietnam. If indeed the list is accurate and all do sign up that will give considerable additional political and economic heft to BRICS in the future without sacrificing the cohesion that the original founding members achieved over the course of many years.

    The times are a-changing and the BRICS Summit is a major factor

    John Helmer has the most detailed and incisive breakdown and interpretation of specific BRICS Consensus Statements:
    RAG PICKING THROUGH THE KAZAN DECLARATION – WHAT PRESIDENT PUTIN GAINED, WHAT HE LOST FROM BRICS 24​ https://johnhelmer.net/rag-picking-through-the-kazan-declaration-what-president-putin-gained-what-he-lost-from-brics-24/#more-90500

    in reply to: Debt Rattle October 26 2024 #172602
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    Thanks Ilargi and Doc Robinson for the Ekathimerini Soup Kitchen updates.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle October 26 2024 #172580
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    @Ilargi:
    I don’t go to Air B&Bs much these days. I am glad to know how to look for spy cameras, though.

    What about the Ekathimerini Soup Kitchen being charged with 600,000 Euros “embezzlement” in 3 years? It seems like they didn’t keep records of cash food purchases or something and are being made an example of. What say You? https://www.ekathimerini.com/news/1245060/soup-kitchen-founder-and-relatives-charged-with-embezzling-donations/

    Lookee at the night sky above Tehran! Remember the night sky over Israel early this month?
    The difference is that all of the explosions are in the air over Tehran, none on the ground.
    Very impressive little missile-tails shoot up from the ground and take out the big horizontal missile tails in the sky. https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/iranian-media-pundits-mock-nothingburger-israeli-attack-involving-100-warplanes

    in reply to: Debt Rattle October 26 2024 #172576
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    @Oroboros: I WAS actually fired illegally in Texas, a week AFTER the Governor said you can’t fire for COVID-vaccine refusal. The agreement with the public health clinic had been to fire me November 1, 2021, but they got worried that it had become illegal, so they fired me 2 weeks early and changed the reason at the last minute to “Fired For Cause”, because I had become very bad suddenly in the 2 months since they gave me the maximum merit raise in August, after 18 years of working there, spearheading the COVID-testing, being the only (embarrassing) COVID-treating MD, and so on.
    I took it. I would never sue the public health clinic.
    “‘Vengeance is mine’, sayeth the Lord.”

    And Also: Archbishop Vigano is legit. The “Pope” is not legit. Archbishop Vigano said so. Archbishop Vigano is openly opposed to globalist-Satanists.
    The “Pope” said Archbishop Vigano is no longer a member of the Catholic Church this year, but most Catholics think he is…

    in reply to: Debt Rattle October 25 2024 #172517
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    How Does AIPAC Shape Washington? We Tracked Every Dollar.
    The Intercept followed AIPAC’s money trail to reveal how its political spending impacts the balance of power in Congress.

    How Does AIPAC Shape Washington? We Tracked Every Dollar.

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    Israeli Forces Attack Iran With “Precise Strikes On Military Targets” In Retaliatory Response
    https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/israel-launches-retaliatory-attack-against-iran

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    I found out when I was 12 that Mein Kampf had been translated to English, so I read it that summer.
    Damn! It just seemed like an interesting life story and lots of reasonable stuff. I was surprised. Hitler did not seem crazy at all.
    Weird.
    I must be “literally Hitler”. (10 years of methamphetamine may have changed him, though…)

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    @Dr. D: Yeah, I’ve looked into it. Going to Mars and back would probably age you 20 years right away, and you’d take 5 years to halfway recover, and still die young, under ideal conditions.

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    @TDK: It doesn’t have to be either-or. A lot of additives to food are new chemicals, and there is the corn-syrup (HFCS), as well as all the subliminal suggestions from “devices”. And vaccine injuries…
    It can ALL ADD UP.
    ;-{

    in reply to: Debt Rattle October 25 2024 #172474
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    UN Report: Women Have Lost 900 Medals to ‘Transgender’ Athletes https://amgreatness.com/2024/10/24/un-report-women-have-lost-900-medals-to-transgender-athletes/

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    @jb-hb: Something like BRICS membership might help?


    @oxymoron
    : My wife knows I would die for her because I put my life on the line for a married lady I just met, in Galveston Bay in 1986, and we did both live, but we could have died…


    @Michael
    Reid: Yes, not a machine, unless you believe you are a machine. Can’t really convince a machine person that they are not, and that everybody else is not, or a sociopath that all people are feeling-humans. Vonnegut dealt with it in Breakfast Of Champions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakfast_of_Champions

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    @Mr. House: The “choices” to which I referred were more general than election-choices, which are a national opinion-poll by original design, at best. ;-(
    All I meant was that if one decides not to become the Evil which one contests against, then that constrains one’s choices of action a lot, eliminating a lot of the punji-trap choices…

    We do not change things by voting, but declare our opinions to the owners, and the politicians whose job it is to deliver us to their will.

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    @jb-hb: Good on Ya, Mate!

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    @Citizenx: You accuse me of failing to say things that I frequently and regularly say.
    You are mistaken.
    You accused me recently of “sucking Jew cock”.
    You were mistaken.
    You previously accused me of making things up and not providing citations…

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    @Mr. House:
    Don’t embody evil…
    That constrains choices, does it not?

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    ​Miscarriages, birth defects, and deaths: Peter McCullough MD, Pre- and Post-Natal Outcomes Better for COVID-19 Unvaccinated
    Graphical Analysis from Middle East Most Maternal-Fetal Complications Worse with COVID-19 Shots​ https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/pre-and-post-natal-outcomes-better

    ​ Bill Gates to Stand Trial in Netherlands in COVID Vaccine Injury Lawsuit
    A Netherlands court last week ruled that Bill Gates can stand trial in the Netherlands, in a case involving seven people injured by COVID-19 vaccines. Other defendants include Albert Bourla, CEO of Pfizer, and the Dutch state.​ https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/bill-gates-covid-vaccine-lawsuit-netherlands/

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    What about the specifics, please? Xi, Putin Hail Ties As Advancing ‘Fair World Order’ Amid ‘Chaos’ Sown By Western Hegemony https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/xi-putin-hail-ties-advancing-fair-world-order-amid-chaos-sown-western-hegemony

    ​Egypt wants to trade in bilateral currencies. Venezuela likely to be accepted, mostly ​fluff: Putin meets with Turkish President Erdogan at BRICS Summit: LIVE UPDATES​
    Around 20,000 delegates from over 30 countries, including senior officials and heads of state, are attending the three-day international forum in Kazan​ https://swentr.site/russia/606060-russia-brics-summit-kazan/

    ​I thought the BRICS Development Bank already existed and Dilma Rousseff was the President. Putin proposes new economic strategy for BRICS
    Creating an investment platform would boost the growth of member countries, the Russian president has said​ https://swentr.site/business/606244-putin-brics-investment-platform/

    ​ This already offended me in 5th grade, in 1969. Mexico Escalates Its War on Obesity by Declaring National Ban on Junk Food Sales in Schools
    ​ The goal of the program, titled “Vida Saludable” (Healthy Life), is to improve the nutrition and overall health of Mexican school children amid an epidemic of child obesity and diabetes.​ The program, enacted by the now-former AMLO administration on September 29, has four main pillars: prevent the sale of ultra-processed food and sugary drinks in school settings; promote the consumption of natural drinking water through the provision of water fountains; train educators in healthy nutrition; and promote sports and physical activity. https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/10/mexico-escalates-its-war-on-obesity-by-proposing-to-ban-junk-food-from-schools.html

    Steve Kirsch, Over 200,000 Americans killed by the COVID vaccine: 10 methods, same answer.
    Many people have no clue how many people have been killed by the COVID vaccines. I list ten different methods and they all given similar results. You can question each one, but not all 10.​ https://kirschsubstack.com/p/over-200000-americans-killed-by-the

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    ​ Yemen’s hypersonic Palestine-2 missile strikes Tel Aviv base
    A Yemeni hypersonic ballistic missile struck an Israeli military target in occupied Yafa (Tel Aviv), on Tuesday, the spokesperson for the Yemeni Armed Forces (YAF) Brigadier General Yahya Saree announced.
    ​ The operation came in support of the Palestinian and Lebanese people and their Resistance movements, Saree explained.
    The YAF’s Rocket Force fired the Palestine-2 hypersonic ballistic missile at the military target on Tuesday. Saree emphasized that the missile bypassed all Israeli and American air defense systems in the region before striking its target.
    ​ “The Yemeni Armed Forces confirms that it will continue to execute its military operations against the Israeli enemy until the aggression and siege on Gaza are ended and the aggression on Lebanon is stopped,” Saree underlined.
    ​ It is worth noting that Israeli media outlets did not report any interception attempt of a ballistic missile over Tel Aviv on Tuesday.​ https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/yemen-s-hypersonic-palestine-2-missile-strikes-tel-aviv-base

    Israel proposes ‘limited’ cease-fire without withdrawal from Gaza: Report​ https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/israel-proposes-limited-cease-fire-without-withdrawal-from-gaza-report/3369642

    ​ Just enough to keep it going… Austin Visits Ukraine, Announces New $400 Million Weapons Package
    The arms package includes HIMARS ammunition, other munitions, armored vehicles, anti-tank weapons, and​ other equipment​. https://news.antiwar.com/2024/10/21/austin-visits-ukraine-announces-new-400-million-weapons-package/#gsc.tab=0

    ​ Pentagon explains refusal to change missile rules for Ukraine​
    Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has defended the decision not to allow Kiev to make long-range strikes on Russia using US weapons​ https://swentr.site/news/606265-pentagon-explains-ukraine-missile-restrictions/

    ​Not even the Pentagon will validate Zelensky’s claim and DPRK denies it: North Korea Responds to Claims Troops Deploying to Russia-Ukraine War https://www.newsweek.com/north-korea-news-responds-troops-deploy-russia-ukraine-war-1972718

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    This collapse looks just like 9/11, but a much shorter building. How? Why? Watch: Building In Beirut Collapses In Its Own Footprint After Israeli Strike https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/watch-building-beirut-collapses-its-own-footprint-after-israeli-strike

    Gazafying Lebanon—Israel Blows up Nabatieh City Hall, Kills Mayor and Aid Workers​ https://scheerpost.com/2024/10/21/juan-cole-gazafying-lebanon-israel-blows-up-nabatieh-city-hall-kills-mayor-and-aid-workers/

    Journalists Find No Evidence of Israeli Claim That Hezbollah Money Stash Is Under Beirut Hospital​, The hospital gave reporters unrestricted access​. https://news.antiwar.com/2024/10/22/journalists-find-no-evidence-of-israeli-claim-that-hezbollah-money-stash-is-under-beirut-hospital/#gsc.tab=0

    Israeli Missile Strikes Kills Six Women and Children in Eastern Lebanon Neighborhood​, All slain are members of the same family, at least 8 others wounded​ https://news.antiwar.com/2024/10/21/israeli-missile-strikes-kills-six-women-and-children-in-eastern-lebanon-neighborhood/#gsc.tab=0

    ​ Israeli massacres in Lebanon continue unabated; civilians main target
    The number of people killed in the Israeli aggression on Lebanon since October 8 has risen to 2,546, in addition to 11,862 injuries, the Lebanese Ministry of Health announced on Tuesday.​ The Ministry said that Monday’s attacks by Israeli forces resulted in 63 martyrs and 234 injured.​ https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/israeli-massacres-in-lebanon-continue-unabated–civilians-ma

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    ​ Nah, we’ll just do it and say we’re not… Netanyahu Declines Blinken Request To Publicly Reject Gaza Ethnic Cleansing Plan
    Israeli officials have claimed to the US they’re not carrying out the ‘general’s plan’ in northern Gaza, but Israeli soldiers have said it’s being implemented​ https://news.antiwar.com/2024/10/22/netanyahu-declines-blinken-request-to-publicly-reject-gaza-ethnic-cleansing-plan/#gsc.tab=0

    ​ So it was a “gesture”? Hezbollah claims responsibility for drone attack on Netanyahu holiday home
    Hezbollah spokesman also acknowledges that some of the group’s fighters have been taken captive by the Israeli military.​ https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/10/22/hezbollah-takes-responsibility-for-drone-attack-on-netanyahu-holiday-home

    ​Yeah, and “no matter what”, too… Israel defense minister says US should stand with Israel when it attacks Iran https://www.arabnews.com/node/2576349/middle-east

    What bombs make those huge fireballs in the video? New Israeli Air Raids Unleash Giant Fireballs, Chaos In Beirut https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/israel-expands-lebanon-strikes-banks-helping-hezbollah

    Thermobaric Bombs maybe? In a civilian area? For maximal casualties?
    https://www.bbc.com/news/business-60571395

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    ​ Hospitals under fire as Israeli forces deepen operations in northern Gaza
    ​ Troops rounded up men and ordered women to leave the Jabalia historic refugee camp, they said. An Israeli airstrike on a house in Jabalia killed five people and wounded several others, medics said.
    ​ The UN Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA said Israeli authorities were preventing humanitarian missions from reaching areas in the north of the Palestinian enclave with critical supplies, including medicine and food.
    ​ “People attempting to flee are getting killed, their bodies left on the street,” UNRWA head Philippe Lazzarini said on X.
    ​ Medics at the Indonesian Hospital told Reuters that Israeli troops stormed a school and detained the men before setting it ablaze. The fire reached hospital generators and caused a power outage, they added.
    ​ Health officials said they had refused orders by the Israeli army, which started a new incursion into the territory’s north over two weeks ago, to evacuate the three hospitals in the area or leave the patients unattended.​ https://www.arabnews.com/node/2576154/middle-east

    ​Estimates vary: UN report says Gaza’s economy will take more than three centuries to recover https://en.topwar.ru/252351-v-doklade-oon-soobschaetsja-chto-na-vosstanovlenie-jekonomiki-sektora-gaza-potrebuetsja-bolee-treh-vekov.html

    ​Me too; It looks like a negotiation tool between Pentagon and Netanyahu: FBI Believes US Intel Leak On Israel Was Likely A Government Insider, Not Hacking https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/fbi-believes-us-intelligence-leak-israel-was-likely-government-insider

    “My Kiwi ate your homework.”: New Zealand In The Crosshairs Of US Intelligence Leak Investigation https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/new-zealand-crosshairs-us-intelligence-leak-investigation

    ​ Netanyahu and Blinken Discuss ‘Uniting Against’ Iran​, They also discussed the Hezbollah drone attack on Netanyahu’s home
    ​Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on Tuesday and discussed “uniting against” Iran.
    ​ “The issue of the Iranian threat was raised, including the need for both countries to unite against it,” Netanyahu’s office said in a statement on the meeting. “The Prime Minister thanked the American Secretary of State for the support of the US in the fight against Iran’s axis of evil and terrorism.”
    ​ The State Department said in a readout of the meeting that the two officials discussed efforts to “deter further regional aggression from Iran and its proxies” and said Blinken “reaffirmed the United States’ ironclad commitment to Israel’s security.”​ https://news.antiwar.com/2024/10/22/netanyahu-and-blinken-discuss-uniting-against-iran/#gsc.tab=0

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    What does Vigano know? Top Archbishop Endorses Trump, Warns Catholics Who Don’t Vote Are ‘Allying with the Enemy’ https://slaynews.com/news/top-archbishop-endorses-trump-warns-catholics-dont-vote-allying-enemy/

    ​ Spokespersons decide what words mean… Harris Campaign Says She Denies Israel Is Committing Genocide in Gaza
    At a campaign event at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, a protester interrupted Harris and said she invested “billions of dollars in genocide” and pressed her about the massive child casualties in Gaza, repeatedly describing the Israeli onslaught as a genocide.
    ​ Addressing the students, Harris said, “What he’s talking about, it’s real. That’s not the subject that I came to discuss today, but it’s real, and I respect his voice.”
    A spokesperson for Harris’s campaign said Sunday that the comments made by the protester “don’t reflect the position of the Biden-Harris administration or the vice president’s stance.”​ The spokesperson added that Harris “didn’t agree with defining the war as a genocide, and she has not expressed such a stance in the past, as this is not her position.”​ https://news.antiwar.com/2024/10/21/harris-campaign-says-she-denies-israel-is-committing-genocide-in-gaza/#gsc.tab=0

    ​ Gazan girl carries injured sister for an hour to reach safety
    A young girl in Gaza was spotted carrying her injured sister along the road after the younger sibling was hit by a car. The displaced sisters had been walking for an hour to make it to their camp for displaced people in Bureij in central Gaza.​ https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20241021-gazan-girl-carries-injured-sister-for-an-hour-to-reach-safety/

    ​ Israeli Ministers Call for Expulsion of Palestinians at ‘Resettle Gaza’ Conference
    On Monday, Israeli Knesset members and senior government ministers attended a conference on re-establishing Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip that was held in southern Israel near the Gaza border.​ The conference, titled “Preparing to Resettle Gaza,” was organized by the Israeli settler organization Nachala and members of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party.​ https://news.antiwar.com/2024/10/21/israeli-ministers-call-for-expulsion-of-palestinians-at-resettle-gaza-conference/#gsc.tab=0

    ​ But they shoot anybody who goes outside… IDF confirms ethnic cleansing plan currently underway in northern Gaza
    ​ Those who are alive and remain in northern Gaza must flee immediately or else they will be murdered by Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in the coming days, three Israeli reserve soldiers told Haaretz this week.
    ​ A hard date does not appear to be publicly known, but the reservists warned that after the deadline passes, anyone still in northern Gaza “will be considered an enemy and will be killed” by Israel as part of the Zionist state’s ethnic cleansing operation in the region.
    ​ Known officially as the “general’s plan,” the ethnic cleansing operation is said to be the brainchild of retired Israeli general Giora Eiland, who wants all Palestinian civilians north of Gaza’s Netzarim Corridor, a strip of land controlled by Israel, to be forcefully evacuated. Anyone who stays behind will be exterminated like a rodent, either through direct military action or through starvation.​ https://www.naturalnews.com/2024-10-21-idf-confirms-ethnic-cleansing-operation-northern-gaza.html

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    ​ Foreign Governmental Election Interference… Trump Files Formal Complaint Of ‘Election Interference’ Against UK Labour Party​
    Former President Donald Trump’s campaign has filed a complaint with the election commission, accusing the UK’s Labour Party of making illegal foreign campaign contributions and interfering in the 2024 presidential elections after its volunteers allegedly traveled to the United States to help campaign for Vice President Kamala Harris.​ https://www.zerohedge.com/political/trump-files-formal-complaint-election-interference-against-uk-labour-party

    Elon Musk Says He’s “Upgrading Security” After Being Named “Enemy Number Two” By Media​ https://modernity.news/2024/10/21/elon-musk-says-hes-upgrading-security-after-being-named-enemy-number-two-by-media/

    Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs accused of raping 13-year-old with two other celebrities at VMAs afterparty: ‘Crazed look in his eyes’​ https://nypost.com/2024/10/21/entertainment/sean-diddy-combs-accused-of-raping-13-year-old-with-two-other-celebrities-at-vmas-afterparty-crazed-look-in-his-eyes/

    ​ Attorney Warns Diddy’s A-List ‘Accomplices’ Who Raped Children Will Be Exposed
    Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs is facing a second wave of sexual assault lawsuits, including shocking accusations that he and celebrity accomplices drugged and raped a 13-year-old girl.
    ​ Texas attorney Tony Buzbee announced seven new cases on Sunday night, shortly after filing the initial six lawsuits last Monday on behalf of anonymous plaintiffs. Disturbingly, some of these allegations involve victims who were as young as nine years old at the time of the incidents.
    ​ According to Buzbee, over 100 more potential victims have come forward, signaling that this may just be the beginning.​ https://thepeoplesvoice.tv/attorney-warns-diddys-a-list-accomplices-who-raped-children-will-be-exposed/

    Abercrombie & Fitch Ex-CEO Arrested In Florida On Sex Trafficking Charges​ https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/abercrombie-fitch-ex-ceo-arrested-florida-sex-trafficking-case

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    ​ Elon Musk Calls for Complete Ban on Voting Machines
    ​X owner Elon Musk called for elections to use traditional “paper ballots in person with ID” during a town hall in Pennsylvania on Sunday…
    ..Over the past week, Musk has been on the campaign trail for Donald Trump, telling crowds, “This election, I think, is going to decide the fate of America, and along with the fate of America, the fate of Western civilization.”
    ​ The Tesla CEO is now coming under fire from Democrats like Pennsylvania‘s Democrat Governor Josh Shapiro, who demanded an investigation of the billionaire entrepreneur’s daily $1 million giveaway to signers of his petition to support constitutional rights.
    ​ During the event, Musk poked fun at electronic voting machines, warning that computers are “easy” to hack and that “the last thing we want to do is have electronic voting machines.”​ https://www.dailyfetched.com/elon-musk-calls-for-complete-ban-on-voting-machines/

    ​ The Elon Musk-funded America PAC on Monday dished out its third, daily, million-dollar prize to randomly-selected participants in the group’s petition drive, as allegations of the scheme’s illegality continued to erupt from triggered leftists.
    ​ Via Musk’s social media platform, America PAC announced that Shannon Tomei, who lives in the Pittsburgh suburb of McKees Rocks, is the latest winner of $1 million. She follows Harrisburg’s John Dreher and Pittsburgh’s Kristine Fishell as winners in Musk’s highly attention-getting incentive scheme to bolstering petition participation — and build a list of names for the PAC to exploit in the run-up to Election Day. Until then, the PAC will be awarding $1 million per day to a randomly-selected petition-signer from a swing state.​ https://www.zerohedge.com/political/musk-awards-third-million-dollar-petition-prize-amid-claims-illegality

    Good, this will eliminate all corporations: ​European Censors Warn Musk that they May Level Fines Based on all of his Businesses https://jonathanturley.org/2024/10/23/musk-mania-european-censors-warn-musk-that-they-may-level-fines-based-on-all-of-this-businesses/

    “Charity” Against “Hate Speech”: UK lobbyists working with US Democrats to ‘kill Musk’s Twitter’ – leaked files
    The Center for Countering Digital Hate reportedly hopes that advertiser boycotts and help from top Democrats will bring down X​ https://www.rt.com/news/606165-censorship-ngo-kill-musk/

    ​ “This Is War”: Musk Responds To Bombshell “Kill Twitter” Plot Involving UK Advisors To Kamala Harris
    Elon Musk has responded to a bombshell report by journalists Paul Thacker and Matt Taibbi which reveals that a the UK’s Center for Countering Digital Hate – which is advising the Kamala Harris campaign, aims to “kill Musk’s Twitter”.​..
    ​..In an explosive leak with ramifications for the upcoming U.S. presidential election, internal documents from the Center for Countering Digital Hate—whose founder is British political operative Morgan McSweeney, now advising the Kamala Harris campaign—show the group plans in writing to “kill Musk’s Twitter” while strengthening ties with the Biden/Harris administration and Democrats like Senator Amy Klobuchar, who has introduced multiple bills to regulate online “misinformation.”…
    ..The documents obtained by The DisInformation Chronicle and Racket show CCDH’s hyperfocus on Musk — “Kill Musk’s Twitter” is the first item in the template of its monthly agenda notes dating back to the early months of this year…
    ..The Center for Countering Digital Hate is the anti-disinformation activist ally of Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s Labour Party, and a messaging vehicle for Labour’s neoliberal think tank, Labour Together. Both the CCDH and Labour Together were founded by Morgan McSweeney, a Svengali credited with piloting Starmer’s rise to Downing Street.​ https://www.zerohedge.com/political/war-musk-responds-bombshell-kill-twitter-plot-involving-uk-advisors-kamala-harris

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    Can Biden Declare Martial Law To Suspend the Election?
    Q: Can Biden declare martial law like Zelensky and postpone the election?
    ​ A: YES! The question of the constitutional status of martial law was raised during World War II by the proclamation of Governor Poindexter of Hawaii on December 7, 1941. He suspended the writ of habeas corpus and delegated to the local commanding General of the Army all his own powers as governor and also “all of the powers normally exercised by the judicial officers . . . of this territory . . . during the present emergency and until the danger of invasion is removed.” Two days later, the Governor’s action was approved by President Roosevelt. The regime which the proclamation set up continued with certain abatements until October 24, 1944.​..
    ​..Therefore, reviewing these decisions, I would have to say that while it would be controversial, the government could call this a necessity if they can get Russia, China, North Korea, or Iran to declare war or attack before the election or certainly before January 20th, and they could declare Martial Law. Hence, the Democrats, in the hands of the Neocons, could carry out their coup, suspend the election, and seize the country as Zelensky has done in Ukraine under the same theory. They would need to close all courts, including the Supreme Court, out of NECESSITY, real or manufactured.​ https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/armstrongeconomics101/opinion/can-biden-declare-marshal-law-to-suspend-the-election/

    ​ Celia Farber, Naomi Wolf Tells Alex Jones Her Former “Liberal” Axis Is Signaling Clearly Their Plan To Save The World From Trump By Collapsing The United States After He Wins: A Sober Look At This Possibility “You’re Right to Identify Jamie Raskin. He’s One of the Scariest People Signaling.” https://celiafarber.substack.com/p/naomi-wolf-tells-alex-jones-her-former

    Michigan Voter Rolls Claim 8.4M Voters, When There Are Less Than 8M Eligible Residents​ https://www.zerohedge.com/political/michigan-voter-rolls-claim-84m-voters-when-there-are-less-8m-eligible-residents

    ​NOT CENSORSHIP! NOT INTERFERENCE! Election officials are hustling to fight misinformation in real time as early voting begins​ https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/22/politics/election-officials-misinformation/index.html

    ​ CYBER-SECURITY EXERCISE ON ELECTION DAY – I’M SURE IT’S JUST A COINCIDENCE
    Just like the military exercise​s planned on 9/11 and the Event 201 pandemic exercise in October 2019 were coincidences.​ https://www.theburningplatform.com/2024/10/21/cyber-security-exercise-on-election-day-im-sure-its-just-a-coincidence/

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    Upping The Ante https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/upping-the-ante

    We can’t see private discussions and negotiations between power and financial elite factions, which I presume to be long-underway, with an eye to improving the real-world economies of the US, EU, NATO, etc. and coordinating the inevitable financial reset, to deal with the vast divergence between real and notional/financial economic figures. These must be harmonized going forward, and something like 50% to 75% of “notional wealth” needs to be eliminated for these books to reflect the same underlying reality. Factual accounting is necessary to restore trust in the systems of production, commerce, and trade, which support our lives.
    In recent decades there has been broadening divergence, “fraud”, between real and notional economies, which has been criminal and quasi-criminal. Those criminal-perpetrators are in control of government and finance, and are incapable of repairing the damage they have done and facilitated, so somebody else has to take the reins, but that puts them in too much personal danger for them to allow it.
    This has happened before. It can go down with lots of killing, or little-to-no killing. I can’t see the negotiations, just some smoke. This is not good-vs-evil in my humble opinion, but that which is completely-dysfunctional also appears to be more pervasively evil. I already protest-voted against genocide, so I’m just an observer.

    This is the least-bad “white lie” that they could tell, and they can’t give any details. House Finds Secret Service Responsible For ‘Preventable’ Trump Assassination Attempt, The House task force investigating the July 13 attack released an interim report on Monday.​ https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-finds-secret-service-responsible-for-preventable-trump-assassination-attempt

    Biden wants Trump ‘locked up’ (VIDEO)​, The US president has called for the Republican to be jailed, later clarifying that he meant “politically”​ https://www.rt.com/news/606184-biden-says-lock-up-trump/

    Biden-Harris DOJ Illegally Keeps Steve Bannon Behind Bars, Warden Admits​ https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/10/22/warden-admits-biden-harris-doj-illegally-imprisoned-bannon/

    I think he gets out on All Saints Day​. Judge Denies Steve Bannon Bid For Early Release​ https://www.zerohedge.com/political/judge-denies-steve-bannon-bid-early-release

    in reply to: Debt Rattle October 23 2024 #172265
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    “Diversity” Uber Alles: Kamala Harris Admitted to Law School Through ‘Adverse Experiences’ Program, Though Parents Were Tenured Professors https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/10/22/kamala-harris-admitted-law-school-ucsfs-adverse-experiences-program-parents-were-tenured-professors/

    in reply to: Debt Rattle October 23 2024 #172263
    John Day
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    “..It Happens” Reporter Injured By Bullet Fragment During Kinzinger-Democrat Campaign Stunt https://www.zerohedge.com/political/reporter-injured-bullet-fragment-during-kinzinger-democrat-campaign-stunt

    in reply to: Debt Rattle October 23 2024 #172261
    John Day
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    Looks like WTC-7, but much shorter. Who rigged it?
    Watch: Building In Beirut Collapses In Its Own Footprint After Israeli Strike
    https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/watch-building-beirut-collapses-its-own-footprint-after-israeli-strike

    in reply to: Debt Rattle October 23 2024 #172260
    John Day
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    @Dr. D: Thanks for pointing out that I protest-voted my conscience in the early-part of the US national opinion poll that feeds into a couple of more steps, or 3 steps, or more to spit out a POTUS in 3 months, after informing the imperial court how the people think, and what they will “willingly accept”.
    A vote for Jill Stein appears to mean one thing, supporting Palestinian Human Rights. It’s not “antisemitic”, cause she’s Jewish, European-Jewish, the regular-American-kind…

    I did not signal that I am ok with funding genocide via lesser-evils Trump/Kennedy/Musk, and I do hope they turn away from that if they get the upper hand, but they sure never say it.
    We all see what “peace in the middle-east” has meant since 1947 or so.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle October 23 2024 #172258
    John Day
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    @Poppie: Gold is $2740/oz. It will go to 8-10X that, or it will just be gold, as fiat-currencies rapidly degrade.
    Holding physical gold was traditionally known as “saving”.
    There may come a time when the physical economy, after restructuring, is getting stronger, and gold is “overpriced” compared to practical things you need, as the world will be under something like a gold-standard.
    That might be the opportune time to build a house or something.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle October 23 2024 #172257
    John Day
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    It looks to me as if the current imperial court has not only driven Russia, China and Iran into each other’s arms, but has driven Kennedy, Musk and Trump into each other’s arms.
    But all I know is what I read on the internet, so…

    in reply to: Debt Rattle October 23 2024 #172254
    John Day
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    @Dr. D Rich: “Overly credulous” would serve to describe the gullible…

    in reply to: Debt Rattle October 22 2024 #172201
    John Day
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    @jb-hb: Did you really have that conversation with a “Republican friend”?
    Did he really not see where the logical exploration would lead?

    in reply to: Debt Rattle October 22 2024 #172200
    John Day
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    @Oxymoron: The video shows Trump being transformed by drinking ayahuasca. It’s a pretty cool video. Somebody put some work and research into it; prob’ly did some ayahuasca homework sessions…

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