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  • in reply to: Debt Rattle January 2 2021 #67583
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    “Janet Yellen Made Millions In Wall Street, Corporate Speeches (Pol.)”

    Who knew public service could be so profitable? Every third world dictator and warlord, that’s who. Always portrayed in the movies with trunks full of US currency which need laundering. We’ve taken it to the next level in the US, where bribery payments are delayed by a few years so that the “cause and effect” linkage is somewhat muddied to the average onlooker. We even have a name for it: “Revolving Door Politics”.

    Obama knew how it worked, or was certainly instructed during his first weeks in office. He was blessed with a silver tongue (which most often says nothing in lengthy verbiage of flowery rhetoric), but not worth $400K per speech. Janet Yellen, I’ve heard, is a real snooze-fest, but why labor the point. It’s corruption pure and simple. It is the engine which powers DC – paid speeches being just one of their many money-laundering schemes.

    “Central Banks Have Become The Markets”

    I got a whiff of this after the dot-com bust in 2000, when Greenspan lowered interest rates to a whopping 1% and held them there until the housing bubble inflated. That’s when the business cycle was declared persona non grata and banished forever by the Fed. It was also when the strategy of “market timing” also died. Watching the business cycle became “what is the Fed going to do?”. Today, they are front-and-center in the economy with entire segments on TV shows like 60 Minutes. They are the economy. They are the market.

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    I love the smell of Dr. D in the morning… It smells like sanity.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle December 31 2020 #67506
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    “The Pseudo-Left Imperialists Fighting Against Universal Healthcare (MPN)”

    Go Jimmy Dore! Another indie journo on my Patreon list. Here’s hoping this attack by establishment sycophants will help push his subscriber list over the one million mark. As Jimmy often states on his show, his success is because legacy journalists have failed to do their job, leaving him a wide-open field in which to work. Otherwise, he would still be scratching out a living doing standup comedy.

    “The Year in Which Comforting American Myths Were Ravaged (AIER)”

    I was going to point out the myth of “free and fair elections”, but then noticed that the author did give it an honorable mention by pointing out the issues with mail-in ballots. I wish he would have added the voting machine controversy, in which votes are systematically transferred to establishment backed candidates to insure their win. However, in the last election they had so underestimated Trump’s popularity that their machine-based vote transfer scheme had to be heavily supplemented with ballot fraud during the wee hours in order to push Biden over the finish line.

    Happy New Year, everyone! I’m truly grateful for every artwork, cartoon, article, link, and comment that has helped to broaden my understanding.

    in reply to: Thank You 2020 #67375
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    “In one dimension, the world easily gets turned upside down. You just wouldn’t be able to see it, because you need three dimensions to recognize what “upside down” looks like.”

    ******* BRILLIANT!! *******

    Thank you for all you hard work this past year, Ilargi, and for being the grounding rod for the entire TAE commentariat.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle Boxing Day 2020 #67316
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    “Our Upside-Down Postelection World (Hanson)”

    And people look at me like I’m a nut when I say that I don’t trust anything from the TV or papers. All I have to do is take a quick look at the top headlines on my phone to know what the latest scam is.

    Hanson does a great job in this article of contrasting media behavior between Trump and Biden: while one was relentlessly attacked, the other was buoyed into the White House. This could change at any time, though, depending on the needs of the oligarchy, and yet the herd will not miss a beat when being stampeded in the complete opposite direction from the day before.

    The takeaway from this article is the enormous power of media to shape public opinion. The average person is powerless to resist it. Like the Pied Piper, the media calls the narrative and the hypnotized public marches behind. They are public enemy #1 as far as I’m concerned, and I will never stop pointing this out whenever the subject arises, whether it paints me as a crazed conspiracy theorist in the eyes of the other person or not.

    Of course, the media receives their marching orders from above, but they are still the glue which holds the machine together. Destroy them and the whole thing grinds to a halt.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle December 22 2020 #67192
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    “Vincent van Gogh Banks of the Seine with Pont de Clichy in the Spring 1887:

    Love the swirling brush strokes.

    For those who art still on the fence about whether the electronic voting machines were used to rig the election in favor of Biden, here’s another statistical presentation that provides strong evidence to the affirmative. My only complaint with the analysis is that he used ALL counties in the US, which would have the effect of diluting the magnitude of the fraud. He calculates that Biden was given a 5% bump across the nation by counties that used either Dominion or Hart machines. I wonder what the bump would be if he analyzed only counties in battleground states, where it appears much of the fraud was focused, instead of averaging it across the entire nation?

    2020 Election shows Joe Biden over-performs in 72% of counties using Dominion Voting Systems

    “If Assange’s Fate Were Up To a Jury, He, Too, Might Have Walked Free (Glass)”

    Here are two examples of what constitutes a true ‘elite’: Julian Assange and William Penn. Men of superior qualities that are always attacked by lesser men.

    “When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.” – Jonathan Swift

    in reply to: Debt Rattle December 20 2020 #67096
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    “Edward Hopper Sunday 1926”

    Very relaxing. I can feel my heart rate slow down just by examining the guy on the stoop.

    “Northerner terrifies Londoners by saying “Hello””

    LOL! I don’t know if I could live in a world without this kind of satire.

    “Who’s going to flatten these curves?!”

    A great list of knock-on effects from the lockdowns. After thinking about it, I don’t believe those calling the shots on this fiasco really care about the items on this list. Especially if they are already willing to sacrifice hundreds of thousands of lives to protect their vaccine profits by suppressing HCQ and Ivermectin. It seems that even before the pandemic they were only interested in them if there was money to be made.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle December 19 2020 #67053
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    “Sergio Larraín Valparaiso Passage Bavestrello 1952”

    As a parent, this photo triggers my protective instincts. Yes, I would give my life to protect these little ones.

    I don’t know about you, but I’ve found the events of this past year a bit difficult to swallow. I often find myself reviewing them mentally in a Twilight Zone-ish fashion, and with each review their magnitude reaches deeper into my psyche. From the endless lies in the media, the internet censorship, the orchestrated suppression of cheap Covid-mitigating therapies, and recently topped off with blatant presidential election fraud. And I can’t fool myself into thinking that this is the worst of it. We may only be getting started on what is to follow.

    “And floating the trial balloons for martial law and a re-vote. Ding!” (Dr. D)

    I’ve allowed myself to feel hopeful many other times only to see them dashed on yet another turn for the worse. Oh, how I wish your theory was true. That there still existed a faction of power in the US willing to clean up this awful mess of corruption, and reinstate the rule of law and constitution.

    “Lawmakers Ask Whether Massive Hack Amounted To Act Of War (Hill)”

    After all the lies and false flags since 9/11 they want us to believe this one too? And what a coincidence it’s coming out at such an opportune time: the transition of administrations. It looks much more like a kick in the ass for outgoing Trump. One last attempt to negate his initial Russia-friendly pre-election agenda by forcing his hand to do the opposite. And also setting the stage for Biden by giving him his imperial marching orders beforehand.

    “The Gyre Widens (Jim Kunstler)”

    I find myself in syncing up strongly with Kunstler latest batch of articles.

    “LeBron James To Be Appointed As Ambassador To China (BBee)”

    The Babylon Bee has been really hitting it out of the park lately. Their hilarious satire on current events has been a welcome relief from the steady drumbeat of negativity. More often than not they have me laughing out loud.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle December 12 2020 #66759
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    @straightwalker

    Well said. I’ve spent a lot of time and energy for over a dozen years or so trying to make sense of the world. Attempting to understand national policies, globalism, alliances, propaganda, social control systems, money flows, etc.

    But at the same time, I’ve also put just as much energy into building community, getting to know neighbors, volunteering, healing family relationships, building friendships, etc. Like you, knowing that there was little I could do to influence big picture issues, other than free myself from their illusions and control as much as possible, but at the local level I could have an immediate and meaningful impact on the health and happiness of individuals in my little circle. I believe that even the Buddhists teach that there is no need to venture to the other side of the globe when there is work to do right in your own home and in your own neighborhood.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle December 12 2020 #66744
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    “Media, Big Tech Hunter Biden Laptop Story Not A Bug, But A Feature (Malic)”

    Boy, did this article resonate with me. What does it say about our system when one must go to RT in order to find out what’s actually going on? I’m reminded of the stories an old friend used to tell me about his life in communist Czechoslovakia, where people would have antennas hidden in their attics pointed toward western countries. They new that the party media organs only published lies, so they were forced to break the law and risk imprisonment in order to quench their thirst for knowledge. This is the slippery slope on which we find ourselves. Now that censorship is in full swing, laws outlawing dissent from the party line will follow close behind.

    Does anyone here still have any illusions as to the efficacy of elections? I know I don’t. Neither do I have any faith in the legacy media. That was lost years ago, my faith in elections more recently.

    “CBO: Medicare for All Could Cover Everyone for $650 Billion Less Per Year (CD)”

    Medicare for all under the current profit-driven system would play out financially like the final scene from Thelma and Louise. Like everything else in this country, the incentives are misplaced. Every link in the chain would need to be restructured and the re-incentivized. Who is going to take that on? Who is going to volunteer to stop sucking on their personal money tit? Medical universities? Hospital cartels? Big Pharma? Big Agra? McDonalds? Pizza Hut? See the problem?

    in reply to: Debt Rattle December 2 2020 #66302
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    Thanks, Doc Robinson. After following your link my first thought was: “D’oh! Why did I not see that?” But then I went back to the version I had originally viewed and saw that it had been cropped. I found the total scene so much richer.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle December 2 2020 #66281
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    I sort of shot my wad on the first few days after the election and then had one of those days where I caught myself leaning way too far over my skis. That was when I decided to dial it back and just watch history take its course, knowing that there was very little I could do with all my arm waving and other gyrations.

    Since then, a lot of brave souls (actual patriots) have come forward, giving sworn testimony (evidence) of election fraud. A general picture of how it was carried out is starting to form in even the most clueless minds. The Frankfurt raid is a titillating piece of the drama, but not really necessary at this point to form the conclusion that the election was stolen in the most brazen manner. The question now is: are we going to clean up this mess or will it be swept under the rug à la Epstein.

    I agree with Dr D, that if this mess is to be truly cleaned up, it requires that it be an ugly and painful experience for the entire nation, so that even the most distant cave-dweller is made aware of what went down. The rabbit hole should be followed to the very bottom, so that even CNN and the NYT have to jump aboard or be consigned to the fate of Bagdad Bob.

    On another note… I wonder what happened to the princess’ other slipper?

    in reply to: Debt Rattle November 26 2020 #66069
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    @Moo Foo Bay

    They make sense in the context of Trump being an establishment outsider. Even his own party tried to torpedo his candidacy in 2016. DC is owned lock, stock, and barrel by the MIC and its corporatocracy. They are the ones who decide who sits in the White House, not ordinary peasants.

    Trump is a populist, his base being the flyover states who have been plundered and abused for over 20 years by the coastal elites. He is not a globalist, but a nationalist, and therefore out of step with their plans for global domination. So yes, the GOP hates Trump as much as the DNC.

    This mission statement was taken from the “Our Team” page of the Lincoln Project website:

    “The founders of the Lincoln project have spent over 200 years electing Republicans. But now, they’ve sparked a nationwide movement with a singular mission: To defeat Donald Trump and Trumpism.”

    Trump’s no Julius Caesar, but he is a populist, which is always seen as a danger to power. The peasants are not allowed to have any say in how the extracted money is divvied up. You never know when he might decide to crown himself kind and redistribute Noble estates to all the serfs.

    Caesar Assassination

    in reply to: Debt Rattle November 17 2020 #65699
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    Dr. Shiva just presented another tutorial on the fraudulent MI election results yesterday.
    In it we learn that he ran in the Sept 2020 Massachusetts GOP primaries for the U.S. Senate. From what evidence he could gather, it looked as if the GOP screwed him out of a primary win by using the “Weighted Race” feature of the voting software. It’s a clever little “bipartisan” mechanism for dialing in via software variables who will win or lose a particular race.

    They probably thought he was just another techno nerd sticking his nose where it didn’t belong, and that he would just go away after getting kicked in the coin purse by democracy American style. You know, the kind of race where it doesn’t even require a platform or ground campaign in order to win. You can just sit back and let the voting software do the heavy lifting. Sound familiar? Little did they know their little primary “glitch-driven” victory would come back to bite them in the ass two months later. Something tells me that Dr. Shiva is not going away quietly:

    “Dr. SHIVA: MIT PhD Continued Analysis of Michigan Votes Reveals More Election Fraud”

    It’s a follow-on to his previous presentation with a good bit of preparatory groundwork on “pattern recognition” before he gets into the actual MI voter data analysis. And thankfully, he addressed a major weakness that I (and many others) pointed out in his first presentation: the lack of historical (or untainted) voting examples for use as a comparison to the 2020 results. This comparison makes it easier for non-geeks to spot the vote tabulation fraud in all its visual glory.

    I took the liberty of making a couple small edits to Quint’s monologue from the movie Jaws:

    “… and sometimes the nerd would go away. Sometimes he wouldn’t go away. Sometimes that nerd, he looks right into ya. Right into your eyes. You know the thing about a nerd, he’s got lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll’s eye. When he comes at ya, doesn’t seem to be livin’. Until he bites ya, and those black eyes roll over white. And then, ah then you hear that terrible high pitch screamin’, the ocean turns red and spite of all the poundin’ and the hollerin’ they all come in and rip your fake election to pieces.”

    in reply to: Debt Rattle November 16 2020 #65671
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    Several days ago, I had pretty much given up hope. From all appearances we were staring down the barrel of a new authoritarian Dark Ages, as the ubiquitous online references to Orwell’s 1984 suggested. I asked myself, how could it be possible for that knucklehead Trump and his lawyer Rudy Giuliani to stand against the entire western empire? Against all the Silicon Valley information oligarchs, against big media, against the CIA, against Wall Street, against the EU?

    Then, a few brave whistle blowers starting coming forward here and there to expose the election fraud they witnessed. At the same time, election analysts got hold of data and started pointing out mathematical irregularities, impossibilities even. Then on Saturday, Sidney Powell stepped forward threatening to “Release the Kraken”, claiming, “We have so much evidence, I feel like it’s coming in through a fire hose,…”

    Well, now we have ourselves a fighting chance. This woman is a powerhouse. You do not want to see her sitting across from you in the courtroom. Might as well take the plea. And unlike Trump and Giuliani, she doesn’t take to blowing smoke where there is no fire.

    Don’t misunderstand, I don’t think that Trump is the savior of anything. The structural problems are just too great at this point. The capitalist operating system is overloaded with viruses. Most everything is corrupted, high-jacked from its intended healthy function in order to serve wealth extraction.

    Today, I’m much more optimistic. What originally looked inevitable, now looks more like a crossroads, an opportunity for this nation to either step forward and reassert its democratic ideals and the rule of law, or else roll over and submit.

    in reply to: Slouching Out of the Fog Toward Pennsylvania Avenue #65581
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    Thanks, zerosum.

    My experience is similar, but I’m afraid that by labeling them mentally challenged we will miss the mark. Many in my community are very intelligent and caring people, yet they are woefully misinformed by our current system. And it seems, as Dr. D has noted often, that the more educated they are, the greater is their propensity to defer to “authority”.

    Years ago, I learned that it was best to keep controversial ideas to myself, in order maintain harmony with neighbors and friends. Participating in forums such as TAE has made it possible to live a double-life, so to speak, while keeping my sanity. Occasionally, I will tip my hand and ‘test the waters’, but this has to be done delicately, as most are operating on an emotional hair trigger.

    Only yesterday, the election results came up in conversation while walking with a neighbor. When he asked me what I thought, I said that there was a lot of evidence coming forward showing that massive voting fraud occurred. He seemed shocked at this response and asked where I’d heard that. I told him that it was all over the internet, but being censored from mainstream sources like TV news and newspapers. This left him feeling a bit frustrated that he was not internet savvy, and therefore dependent on the legacy media for his world view. We’re talking about a relatively enlightened person, which explains why he did not respond with the usual emotional outburst of denial.

    I thought about it later that day and realized how captive these people are to the spin-masters on TV. And that, even if they could find their way around the internet, occasionally landing on trustworthy sites, many would not know what they were looking at, or how to judge its reality content, since it takes years of work to gain this discrimination. And more so, a dogged determination to ferret out the truth is also required, which few people possess.

    in reply to: Slouching Out of the Fog Toward Pennsylvania Avenue #65578
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    @zerosum

    “We should never have invented the WEB to be able to communicate fake news.”

    I sure hope that this is sarcasm, otherwise it makes no sense at all. Because some choose to use the internet for nefarious purposes, does not make it inherently evil. That’s humanity’s job, as George Carlin would say. Without the internet I would still be watching the man on TV, reading newspapers, and still living in their Matrix of lies.

    This is much more than Trump vs Biden, or GOP vs DNC if you prefer teams. If we now squander this opportunity to expose the massive election fraud that recently occurred, the informational highway we call the internet may more closely approximate China’s state-filtered version in 4 more years. All indicators point that this is the direction we are currently heading.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle November 13 2020 #65550
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    Remember what it was like being a kid on the first day of class? You’d look around the room at all the strange faces and suddenly spot someone a few rows over that you sense ‘gets it’. You then give each other a slight nod and settle back, knowing that things are going to be ok. Reading Dr. D is like that.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle November 13 2020 #65539
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    Even after all the chicanery of the last four years, I was still blindsided by the outright brazenness exhibited by the same parties to steal the 2020 election:

    – The Super Tuesday Switcheroo, that torpedoed Bernie’s campaign and elevated Biden’s.
    – The Weekend at Bernie’s propping up by the media of a deeply flawed and dementia-addled candidate.
    – The last-minute campaign to force mail-in ballots into battleground states.
    – The pre-election censoring of the Hunter laptop story, which in years past would have spelled doom to any presidential contender.
    – The banning of Republican poll watchers.
    – The massive campaign of ballot stuffing.
    – The algorithmic transfer of votes by the Dominion voting software.
    – The premature declaration of a Biden victory by the media.

    I’m sure that several points are still missing from the list, but it’s a start. I’m sure that most Americans would rather not see this. Would like to believe that nothing has changed. Home of the Brave, apple pie, and all that stuff. But America has changed, and I’m afraid it’s not for the better.

    It was good to see Kunstler highlight some of the statistical evidence available which shows the algorithmic voter fraud by Dominion, but he really only touched on it. Even the original presentation would have been more effective if only the MIT crew would have shown how the current data compared to historical (and thus untainted) results. I’m afraid that most Americans do not have the ‘maff’ skills to see what these graphs are saying, that results such as these are statistically impossible to achieve unless they were programmed into the software.

    in reply to: Bring Them Home for Christmas #65498
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    Thanks, Ilargi. It was a joy watching you rip these two CIA mimeographed articles to shreds. The sad part is knowing most Americans will suck this garbage journalism up like a Hoover Deluxe.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle November 12 2020 #65489
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    “Mondriaan Amaryllis 1910”

    I would be very happy to make a spot for this artwork on my living room wall.

    “Joe promised not to declare victory until the election results were independently certified.”

    What Joe Biden wants or doesn’t want is irrelevant. His job was to be a figurehead, while other actors drove Trump from office. Joe is a fairly impotent man in himself, most of his power being drawn from the offices he has held. He is currently like a leaf in a hurricane, being driven by forces outside of his control.

    “Divisive Pentagon Hire May Rush Troop Withdrawals Before Trump’s Exit (Axios)”

    Not going to happen. All those military bases in the Middle East are needed to control the oil resources, while at the same time pester the hell out of surrounding nations that get in our way. You can’t “take the oil” unless you put a gun to their head. The petro-dollar system must be defended at all costs, no matter how many nations must be destroyed.

    All of the lower-level drama that seems to occupy the news cycle from day to day can only be understood by looking down from the high-level game of global hegemony. As Caitlin Johnstone cleverly pointed out, the average American is like a little child who is given a video game controller that is unplugged. He sees all the action on the screen and thinks he is playing, but it’s the big kids whose controllers are plugged in, and they are the ones controlling the game. He doesn’t realize he is being placated, that he is the victim of a lie, but is content nonetheless, happy in the illusion he is a participant.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle November 11 2020 #65446
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    What else can we infer from Dr. Shiva’s MI voter data analysis posted above?

    Obviously, the people running this Juan Guaidó-like coup attempt are idiots. They are not your “betters”. They are certainly light years from the genius of an Alan Turing, inspiration for the movie The Imitation Game in which cracking the Nazi Enigma code machine helped turn the tide of the war. This required the use of statistical analysis, allowing the Allied Powers to win some battles, lose others, but yet win the war. All without alerting the Nazis that their unbreakable code machine had, in fact, been broken.

    What do we see in the Michigan voter data? That the coup leaders rushed into service a stupid linear algorithm to steal votes from Trump and transfer to Biden. Instead of a sophisticated, statistically-based algorithm, difficult to detect, they instead used a sledgehammer. This does not even take into account all the ballet stuffing. Now all the world knows that the US is in fact a banana republic, with idiots at the helm.

    Just how they are going to make all this publicly available evidence go away, I don’t know. And just how are they going to convince everyone who saw this brazen display of voter fraud that they really didn’t see it?

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    MIT PhD Analysis of Michigan Votes Reveals Unfortunate Truth of U.S. Voting Systems

    For those that are able to speak the language of math, the above presentation is pretty conclusive proof that a software algorithm was used in the vote tabulation computer systems to prune votes from Trump and give them to Biden. What does the data say? The stronger Trump did in a particular precinct the more of his votes were siphoned off and transferred to Biden.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle November 11 2020 #65430
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    “Rupert Murdoch-Owned Media Turns on Trump, Urges Him to Cooperate With the Regime Coup Against Him” – Anti-Empire

    From the article above: “Top editors at the Post have “told some staff members this week to be tougher in their coverage” of Trump, the New York Times reported, citing two anonymous employees of the paper.”

    So there you have it. All that’s needed now is for Rudy Giuliani to be found hanging from his shower curtain and the election is over. Falsehood and evil triumph once again. Whom the Gods would destroy they first make mad… and all that stuff. Those stupid philosophers didn’t know what they were talking about. The stock market’s at all-time highs and things couldn’t be better. Next stop, Shangri-La. We know what’s best for you. That’s why we occupy these high positions of power and you don’t.

    “What! Would you so soon put out, with worldly hands, the light I give?” – Ghost of Christmas Past

    Yes, put out with worldly hands any light that tries to shine forth to illuminate truth. Anything that might lead to a “reclamation” – a turning from the path of destruction. Turn it on its head. Stomp on it. Censor it. Kill it if you must. Yes, kill the light. Kill truth. Give us Barabbas!

    A little over-the-top, you say? We shall see.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle November 10 2020 #65397
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    @Boogaloo

    Yeah, it really sucks when your work goes POOF, and then you want to pull your hair out. That is why I always craft comments in Word first, copy and paste to the TAE comment field, and make sure to keep a copy until it actually gets posted. Usually within the hour. Any text entry tool will do the job if you don’t have MS Office.

    @Mister Roboto

    Recants don’t surprise me at this point, although as a rule I don’t believe anything from the WaPo. Just remind yourself what is at stake, and how much work and high-level coordination that has gone into fixing this election for Biden. I would guess that there is a great deal of pressure coming down on anyone who is coming forward. Remember Seth Rich? You just know that the death threats are flying fast and furious right now.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle November 10 2020 #65390
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    @zerosum

    Yeah, sorry about that. Sometimes after posting I notice something I want to edit. Every so often after a quick edit, everything disappears after hitting ‘Submit’. Last time that occurred I waited for hours for my post to show up, but it never did. This time I just reposted immediately, but not before you had commented on the earlier post which vanished. In this case, behavior that portends an actual software “glitch”. 🙂

    in reply to: Debt Rattle November 10 2020 #65386
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    “Truth is not what you want it to be; it is what it is. And you must bend to its power or live a lie.” – Miyamoto Musashi

    Words to live by. Why? Because our desires are like a lens through which we see reality. The stronger the desire, the greater our perception is warped. That is one reason to avoid the Trump-hatred phenomenon, even though the man is a lightning rod for such feelings. The effect is also the same on the other side of the coin, which is why it’s often said that “love is blind” – referring specifically to the attractive/craving aspect of what we erroneously call love.

    Where have we seen this? Why in Russiagate, of course. Note that those who had the deepest loathing for Trump were also the greatest enthusiasts of the media’s Trump-hating campaign, waiting expectantly by their televisions for the next Trump-bashing broadcast. They are also the same ones who are now crying tears of joy, dancing in celebration over his defeat and humiliation. They will not see any voter fraud, and in fact will turn on you like a wild animal if you even suggest it. They live in an altered reality, an untruth, a lie.

    in reply to: Anomalies and Deviations #65355
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    Up and Over

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    My specialty as an engineer was to analyze computer chip designs from every possible perspective in order to ensure the highest possibility of success upon manufacture. This involved the configuration and execution of many highly-expensive software programs, and then sifting through volumes of data reports looking for the proverbial needle in a haystack. Over the years one learns to synthesize large amounts of data without the brain “seizing up”.

    I took this ability for granted until an experience while serving on a jury years ago. The prosecution presented a flurry of technical evidence in support of their client. While I had one of those “holy crap!” experiences, the rest of the jury appeared dazed. Their minds were either deaf to the technicalities or just plain went TILT.

    Then the technical “hired guns” were trotted out to explain “what it all meant”. One for the prosecution and one for the defense. As you can imagine, they each argued as they were paid to do. Because, in the eyes of the jury, the language of the data was incomprehensible, the jury was forced to determine the merits of the case based on whose interpretation of the data was “more believable”.

    This is what I fear will happen with all of the statistical data that is coming forward from the 2020 election. The “holy crap!” response that all the statistical data should trigger with the public will instead turn into a verbal battle of media “hired gun” experts. That is, assuming any of this is allowed to see the light of day.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle November 9 2020 #65340
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    FWIW, ever since Greenwald left the Intercept he’s been like a journalist reborn. Very refreshing to read him again. And Dr. D is as hot as ever. As always, many thanks to Ilargi for all his hard work, along with the many others who post here.

    in reply to: Biden IS the Swamp #65337
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    @HerrWerner

    Didn’t want this thread to end without saying how much I enjoyed your post. Keep writing. You have the gift.

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    After what happened in 2016, the Deep State was leaving nothing to chance this time. But idiots that they are, they left behind a trail of election tampering evidence that even Barney Fife could follow. Don’t worry yourself though, because they control the media and legal system this mess can all be made to ‘go away’, like Hillary’s email server, Russiagate, Epstein, and Hunter’s laptop. The ‘cleaners’ are already at work with their mops and plastic bags. Over the next few weeks Trump’s fingers will be peeled off the White House steering wheel one by one.

    Let’s not forget, these are the same people who are willing to kill millions wherever needed to establish their ‘Dominion’, do you really think they’re going to let a TV reality show host get the better of them?

    However, because they had to resort to such ham-fisted tactics in order to control both the primaries and the general election, an increasing number of voters were jarred awake by this downward slap in the face. Not least were Bernie supporters and most recently Trump supporters. All these have a smarting red welt, but are now wide-eyed and wiser. They can’t be put back to sleep, neither will they forget the painful lesson of their betrayal – that the US electoral process cannot be trusted anymore. Period.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle November 7 2020 #65271
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    @zerosum

    Those who don’t want to see it, like the Biden supporters referenced in my previous comment, will not see it, nomatter what evidence is put forth. It is all there online, with mathematical certainty no less. I would suggest that you use Google Search, but that is also compromised, and may require you looking through several pages before you find something relevant to controversial subjects. On the other hand, if you are only looking for the latest football scores, then no problem.

    Every researcher has their sources, but in the end, you must judge for yourself using your own instrument of reasoning and deduction tuned by a life of experience.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle November 7 2020 #65267
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    In 30 States, A Computer System Known To Be Defective Compromised Is Tallying Votes (ZH)

    There, fixed it.

    As a former engineer with several large programs under my belt, I can assure you that this so-called ‘glitch’ they keep talking about on the news is in fact a ‘feature’ that allows the Deep State to swing elections via remote control of the vote tabulation software. Since the fraud has been discovered, everyone is using the term ‘glitch’ to explain away the vote transfers because it makes it seem so innocuous and innocent. A ‘glitch’, you see, is a random software bug and nobody’s fault. It happens all the time. We’ve all been victims of these little devils.

    If they were to come right out and tell you the truth, that parties in the Deep State determine election outcomes rather than your votes, there would be a complete loss of faith in the democratic process, followed by a mass uprising. Therefore, Lie! Lie! Lie! Coverup! Coverup! Coverup! Distract! Distract! Distract!

    However, what’s really an eye-opener is that Biden supporters seem perfectly content with the fact that systemic vote fraud occurred, since it favored their candidate. Ethics are no longer important, only winning. Barbarians dressed in suits, as on Wall Street.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle November 6 2020 #65251
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    Oh, did a Voteball Happen? | CushVlog 11.04.20 | Chapo Trap House

    Loved Matt’s podcast. Thanks, Mr. House. This is what resignation looks like as one exits the Matrix of capitalism’s political theatre, designed to keep the lumpen chasing their own tail.

    “There’s only one button on the fucking machine, and it’s ‘More Profits’. That’s the logic of capitalism. That’s the algorithm.” — Matt Christman

    in reply to: Debt Rattle November 6 2020 #65248
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    “You don’t think this is being done on purpose?” – Mr. House

    Whether people like Nancy Pelosi or Adam Schiff are driven by some higher purpose other than their personal thirst for power I know not, but you make a good point: if I’m reading you correctly, there does appear to be supranational forces that are intent on destroying any remnants of national cohesion and culture. This became apparent to me when the EU was formed and immediately began their insane open-border immigration policies.

    I’ve often felt that the monied interests are intent on knocking down any of the remaining obstacles that impeded the efficiency of their global wealth extraction machine. Nationalism is the keystone holding the opposition together, so therefore must be destroyed, so that the global Hunger Games can commence.

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    “People trying to change the rules to this methodology [mail-in ballots], which as a matter of logic is very open to fraud and coercion, is reckless and dangerous. And people are playing with fire.” – William Barr

    It’s too late now. The illusion of free and fair elections in the good ol’ USA is finished. The idiot establishment couldn’t resist playing with fire and just burned down another pillar holding up the republic. They didn’t learn their lesson when Russiagate destroyed trust in the media, our Fourth Estate. What’s next, a currency that can no longer be trusted?

    From where I’m sitting, the “shining city on a hill” is in flames.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle November 5 2020 #65216
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    It must now be apparent to even the dimmest bulb, that the power establishment has hated Trump from day one. At first, he was an entertaining straw man set up by the DNC/media for Hillary to knock down so that the illusion could be formed in the public mind that she actually won the presidency, instead of having it handed to her on a silver platter – which was the deal made eight years earlier when Obama was given the tap over Hillary.

    We all know what followed, one attempt after another to, at first sabotage his candidacy, but when that failed, to remove him from office by any means necessary. Why does the establishment see him as such a danger? It can’t be because of his ineptitude. We suffered with George Dubya just fine for 8 years, so that can’t be it. As Caitlin Johnstone points out: Trump puts an ugly face on Empire, but I don’t think that’s their problem either.

    During the last 4 years, every time Trump attempted to scale back militarily (or make nice) with any state on the US hit list, the establishment went ballistic. On the other hand, whenever he took aggressive action against the same, trumpets were sounded in the media. For example, when he fired missiles at Syria: “I am guided by the beauty of our weapons”, sung Brian Williams. And “I think Donald Trump became president of the United States last night” crowed Fareed Zakaria on CNN.

    I believe the main reason that Trump in a thorn in their side is because his anti-war leanings are an impediment to their global hegemony plans. Therefore, he has to go.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle November 5 2020 #65214
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    “the U.S. voting process is rife with major systemic failures and doubt-sowing inefficiencies that can be explained only as a deliberate choice and/or a perfect reflection of a collapsing, crumbling empire.” – Greenwald

    It’s a “deliberate choice”. The best way to hide mischief is by covering it in a shroud of chaos and complexity. Just ask Wall Street. Then, if all the so-called “watch dogs” are in on it (aka captured), it is guaranteed that one’s crimes will never see the light of day.

    I’m in agreement with Basseterre Kitona, that it appears incongruent that Republicans could do so well in other races, only to have Trump unseated. And it certainly raised a lot of eyebrows when Trump’s battleground leads all seemed to disappear magically overnight. Almost as if it’s easier to get away with criminal activity under the cover of darkness. Lots of smoke here! A big story just waiting to be uncovered by the press. Oh yeah, they’ll get right on it… never.

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    “They love Donald Trump because no-one else loves them.”

    Wow, that sent chills down my spine. Tucker Carlson is really exposing the ugly roots of our ruling elite. Even if Trump loses this time around, the ideas which he planted into the national consciousness will continue to grow and gain power. And the all the Deep State shenanigans and conspiracies that were brought to light because of his unexpected win cannot be rehidden. The “genie is out of the bottle”, as they say.

    If you can spare a few minutes today, I highly recommend that you read the article which John Day referenced from the Strategic Culture Foundation website: Plutocrat Violence and Election-Night Horror: Marxian Analysis Shows That Antifa Is Fascist.

    I’ve often wondered why I was so elated and engaged during the early days of Occupy Wall Street, but yet when Antifa/BLM came along I had absolutely no inner “pull’ to get involved or side with their cause. Was I just getting too old for political activism? Nope, that’s not it. Rather, on an instinctual level I was repulsed by their tactics and goals. The referenced article helped in many ways to clarify why.

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