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“Elon Musk Says Would Rather “Go To Prison” Than Restrict Free Speech On X ”
Aww – he shouldn’t have said that. Never give the enemy ideas. Anti-Musk legislation incoming in 5…4..3..2..1
@ Dr. D
“If you laid all the Victoria Nulands end to end….”
I’d have to seriously question your taste in women 🙂
(With apologies to Dorothy Parker)
@zerosum “They see that Palestinians, largely friendless, without power…..”
By contrast to the Palestinian’s lack of access to the levers of power both today and historically, this is the house in Buckinghamshire in which is displayed the original Balfour declaration where the British Empire acceded to the creation of a Jewish homeland in Palestine at the request of Baron Lionel Walter Rothschild.
Waddesdon Manor was built by Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild between 1874 and 1885 to display his collection of arts and to entertain his friends.
So it was really just a kind of weekend country cottage which the Rothschilds used to entertain and schmooze their powerful London friends and make sure events just happened to fall in their favour.
I posted a comment to exactly this effect a few days ago…..there is a real danger we will end up in WWIII more by accident and as the mechanical outcome of current politics arrangements and ‘Defence’ alliances than out of any specific desire on anyone’s part to do so.
Looks like the Gaza invasion has been put off once again while Netanyahoo tries to suck yet more materiel and firepower from the US.
You have to admire the Israeli chutzpah in (still) claiming that they have the best and most sophisticated army in the world while running crying back to Mommy in Washington for equipment, troops and backup literally the same day they are attacked by a small group of Hamas fighters using improvised techniques and weapons.
I mean – they didn’t even last one day on their own two feet with this marvellous military they claim to have. Didn’t even try to fight back by themselves before crying to mommy because the bad boy gave them a bloody nose. Without getting too political, this is classic, absolutely textbook behaviour of a bully when the object of their bullying unexpectedly punches them back.
@Markster – yeah it’s incredible that the guy never even considers that maybe, just maybe, the locals don’t like him because he’s a member of a military force that has no business being in their country, blowing stuff up and generally acting like colonial overlords.
Hypothetically, how popular/safe would a member of the Chinese military be strolling about the streets of Dallas following a Chinese occupation of Texas to ‘Protect innocent Texans from the depredations of the despotic regime in Washington’ (i.e. ensure the safety of the oil flows Beijing depends on)? Not very, would be my assessment.
And if Americans would do that to foreigners in their own country – well imagine what they would do if they were ever let loose on the rest of the world! Why it hardly bears thinking about.
@John Day – good article. Looks like Hamas will be accidentally hitting a few more churches and hospitals with faulty missiles in the coming days. Oddly enough, we can probably tell which ones they will be simply by referring to the Israeli target list. What a coinkydink.
@Red – a lot of people will argue that the notional 700 trillion figure is gross and actually nets out to a much smaller exposure, e.g. I have an outstanding derivative of $1bn with Joe but I have a hedging derivative with Bob. If one transaction loses money the other side will gain so my exposure is actually way below the notional value of the two combined.
This of course works splendidly until someone in the hedging chain goes broke and cannot pay up, so I lose $10m on the deal with Joe and go to Bob to collect my $9.5m offsetting gain – only to find that Bob has gone bust and can’t pay up.
It is at this point that my supposedly small net exposure very suddenly becomes a very large unhedged exposure.
The chances of that 700trn total outstanding derivative pool ever being unwound calmly and completely without some party in the chain going under and triggering a cascading failure is somewhere in the regions of zero.
“Exterminate the individuals responsible for the crimes.
Exterminating everyone in a group is the wrong solution.
Very unlikely everyone in a group is responsible.”
Wise words. Has anyone made this point the authorities in Israel? It would appear not, on the face of it.
Maybe it’s just me, but it really feels like we are sliding into a major war nobody really wants, or indeed expects. Rather like the run-up to beginning of WWI in fact. Just as then, we see conflicting regional power alliances facing off against each other in a very tense and unpredictable environment, with all the attendant danger that some action against one party (real, perceived or false flag) will drag it’s allies, and by implication, the parties of the other alliance into an all against all war.
Also like back in 1914, since nobody in power seems to expect the situation to explode into war, so nobody’s really doing anything specific to prevent it happening. Waiting for the modern-day Archduke Ferdinand to arrive on the scene….
@jb-hb Borrell is a pompous buffoon. His little tantrum reminds of this Southpark episode
‘Respect My Authoritaaa’.
Lol
Anyone else here shocked by the level of bloodlust and raw hate that fills the below-the-line comments on any news article related to the situation in Israel? It’s frightening how my fellow countrymen seem to have become savages filled with an unholy lust for death and destruction.
It’s possible this is driven by the official media management teams driving the governments agenda but if not then something is truly sick in our society.
Anyone who’s seen ‘28 Days Later’ will know what I mean when I say that the Rage virus seems to be spreading fast. Maybe that’s what was in the nottavax.
Seems like the Israelis are in need of some kind of ‘Final Solution’ to their problems. I know a guy who did some early work in that area back in the ‘40s – they could learn a lot from his methods.
Maybe complacency but I can’t help noticing that the monumental screw-up in Ukraine has completely vanished from the media now that there’s a new ‘Current thing’ to focus on.
Very convenient.
@ Citizenx Don’t get me wrong, my wife and I are not vaxxed either but the upside to me of rubbing her face in the fact that her brother was a willing accessory in his own (potentially) early death is meagre.
Divorce is expensive.
The wheels seem to be coming off everywhere at the same time these days, politically, financially, energetically, diplomatically, demographically…
I ‘ve been assiduously following and learning about all of these fields since before the last GFC and I flatter myself to imagine that I have developed a reasonable feel for what is going on and how things may develop. In one word I would describe where we are right now as ‘Perilous’.
‘The Big One’ financial crash feels so close I can almost touch it…….
If we get though the end of 2023 without a catastrophe kicking off in the financial markets I will be incredulous.
So, my young (mid 40’s), very fit and hitherto healthy brother in law has just been diagnosed with stage 4 non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma out of nowhere. Starts an aggressive course of Chemo today.
One of my wife’s friends (a staunch anti-vaxer) dared to hint at a connection – this was not well received at all. I have decided to maintain a diplomatic silence on the subject – discretion being the better part of valour and so on.
“Well, since most live paycheck-to-paycheck the consuming bit is correcting, or will *sharply*, the hard work and hard times will definitely be a real reality check for a *large* portion of Imperial drones, especially those born after 1980…”
Since most people in Western economies work ‘Bullshit’ jobs that produce nothing of any real value, I’d say the consuming bit, as you put it, still has a looong way to go before it equalises with production.
“Maybe Poland doesn’t want to arm those it might fight in the near future? There are bound to be Ukrainians who don’t want to be part of Poland.”
Exactly my thoughts. The arms Poland has provided so far have achieved nothing other than to allow the Ukrainians to send even more of their troops eastwards to be blown up by Russia – which is ideal from a Polish perspective if they plan to re-take territory in the west of Ukraine that they consider historically Polish.
Now that Russia has disposed of pretty much anyone capable of opposing such a move by Poland, it makes perfect sense for Poland to halt further arms shipments so as to minimise the chances of this weaponry being used to counter their territorial ambitions.
“How long before the White House is painted in rainbow colors? And occupied by a trans POC with no qualifications for the post?”
Well, there are rumours about Michelle Obama making a run for the Presidency……
“Michelangelo Pietà
not possible. freaks me out.”
When you see artefacts such as the Benin Bronzes, which were made at roughly the same time as that Michelangelo sculpture, and are often held out and glorified as shining examples of how sophisticated non-European cultures were in terms of artistic development, it kind of puts things in perspective, doesn’t it.
“10% of all Challengers dead in a week. That means 100% gone by October. And Britain doesn’t have any. As I understand, these WERE the only ones they had operational, but check me. But that’s okay! …Britain has no soldiers to put in them, so I plan on invading Portsmouth shortly.”
‘Official’ sources claim that the UK has 350 Challenger 2s, or thereabouts, but that only 140 of them are ‘Operational’. I’ve seen claims that after donating 14 to the Ukronazis there are actually only 40 combat ready C2s that could be driven into battle next week if required.
No wonder the Ministry of Defence have been quick to make clear that they do not intend to replace any tanks destroyed in country 404. They just don’t have any. They do however seem have a very large stock of non-operational tanks (essentially just spare parts donors). Which might come in handy.
“Excellent article. Thanks very much for sharing it, and for the good advice (as always).”
Second that. Thanks Doc for all your insightful commentary.
“Block the sun! what fucking hubris is this? The blind leading the blind. We don’t need no stinking sun.”
The authorities: You must install Solar Panels to power our bright energy future with no nasty fossil fuels, so we can combat Climate Change!
Same Authorities: We’re going to block out the suns energy so that we can fight climate change.
Fair enough.
Lira’s heading to the Gulag.
Since we’re talking about Ukraine it’ll be a democratic, freedom loving Gulag replete with ‘Western Values’. Not like the nasty Russian ones.
“Kiev has had a chance to disappear this guy for over a year. I wonder how long his followers will have to wait to hear that he is safe? Political asylum from who? Why not catch a plane to Chile or the US?”
Indeed. And if he were a local he’d have been bundled off to the front lines post-haste. Being a US citizen however I guess things are a bit more complicated.
“All that pre-dates CO2 by decades. They did the same with every scientific discovery almost ever. Like Continental Drift, for example. Almost anything in Archaeology ever. They ruin the career of someone out of sheer hate and blind ignorance for the whole 50 years of someone’s career (e.g. Graham Hancock is this week’s model) only to go “Oops! Boy were we THEY dumb!” But who got the money and the textbooks? The ignorant, hateful, bad-faith, anti-scientific liars. Always. They have the safe careers, and the whole thing starts again.”
Which is why it is said that science progresses one death at a time. Once all of those responsible for ridiculing and blocking the challenge to the established ‘Truth’ have popped their clogs, a newer generation, not party to the previous resistance, can accept the ‘New Truth’ and man the barricades to defend it until they too shuffle off this mortal coil.
@afktt – 800,000 year average? Why not 800,000 seconds if you’re going to cherry pick minuscule and irrelevant time periods? Live has been going on for billions of years on our little rock. What’s the average over that period? Might be more relevant.
Oh no! Bird Flu is coming for us! Run for the hills!
@Dimitri – If the false flag is going ahead, it has to be done quickly, IMHO, while there is still enough of the UKR army extant to allow NATO to claim that the Russians did it because they were about to be overrun by UKR forces and lose control of the NPP.
In a month or so more, that story won’t fly at all as there’ll be no Ukrainian forces left.
Also – 96 hours ‘If the Russians are slow to respond’? Like, they’ll book a meeting room in the Kremlin to enjoy some tasty doughnuts and contemplate what to do next? The Russian nukes, would with absolute certainty, be in the air by the time the NPP went bang.
@RIM
According to yr.no (the most accurate weather forecaster I have found) the weather in Enerhodar will be a balmy 30-ish centigrade with sunshine and light clouds today and tomorrow. Bit of rain forecast at the weekend, but no thunderstorms. Not sure why a thunderstorm would affect a bombing of the NPP in any case. Western missiles can’t handle wet weather?
@Dr D “sniper rifle on fast wheels,” the French AMX-10 RC armored fighting vehicle”
I am given to understand that one of the most impressive engineering features of this vehicle is its amazing turn of speed when in reverse gear – it being French and all.
@anticlimactic – Media trying to manufacture a high profile distraction from the undeniable proof of the Biden family criminality and Treachery being aired that same time, of course,
From this perspective ‘Inflation’ actually represents the speed at which the Financial and Physical economies are moving away from each other.
Sure the Financial system is just a fantasy where ‘Money’ is shuffled between players and can be, if required, created in infinite quantities at zero cost in order to bailout key players and keep the game alive. It can, therefore, never collapse due to its own internal flaws. It can always be bailed out.
However the Financial system has a touch point with the real physical world where people make and sell things to each other – things essential to life. Things nobody can print out of thin air. The two systems are drifting ever further apart and at the point where the gulf between them is too great and ‘Money’ no longer bears any practical relationship to physical goods and services then the Financial system simply becomes irrelevant to people. ‘Money’ becomes worthless no matter how internally consistent the debits and credits within the Financial system are.
At that point the Financial system doesn’t exactly collapse, but simply becomes irrelevant whether TPTB like it or not.
Oh No! A super-healthy fitness instructor and model who was also a frontline nurse during Covid and therefore presumable super-vaxxed.
“Ms Fitzgerald, of Mulcair Road, Raheen Heights and Finnitstown, Adare, Co Limerick, “passed away unexpectedly on 27th May 2023” read an obituary posted online.”
Completely normal.
I’m greatly amused by the nonplussed reaction by so many normies to Russia capturing Bakhmut/Artyomovsk.
From the perspective of an unfortunate recipient of exclusively MSM reporting, what’s happened there is the equivalent of:
15 – Love to Ukraine
30 – Love to Ukraine
45 – Love to Ukraine
Game set and Match to RussiaTotal misalignment between what they have been told is going on and what has actually happened – which is causing all sorts of cognitive pain – mostly manifesting in anger and denial. Strangely many seem to have doubled down on their credulity of Pro-Ukie propaganda.
Like Hitler supposedly moving imaginary Panzer divisions around his maps just before the fall of Berlin, many people seem to genuinely believe that The Ukies have lured Russia into Artyomovsk in order to surround and destroy them – with massive forces that, it hardly needs to be said, show no signs of actually existing. I guess the half-dozen UAF squaddies still holed up in some derelict shed on the outskirts of town are about to spring into action any minute now and push Wagner back via a ‘Flanking manoeuvre’ that Zelensky and his mob are now touting. Or something like that.
How long can your batteries supply your entire energy requirements – Including heating, lighting, refrigeration, cooking transport, AC and everything else? To be real-world effective, we would need batteries that can fill in for days or weeks of poor sun/wind conditions. Maybe even longer to account for seasonal variations in sunlight and wind power.
Are you factoring in the requirements of industry as well as domestic needs? I’d imagine the power demands of, say, a steel smelting operation, or a public transport system are considerable.
