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“The president is 100% serious,” a source close to Trump told the news outlet, while another one noted that the president-elect “is of the belief that empires that don’t grow start to fail” and “favors past presidents who were expansionist on the continent.”
https://swentr.site/news/609910-trump-shopping-list-countries/ — RT at top post
Trump is flailing about like a hooked, trapped fish.
Isolationism. No more ‘cheap’ imports, tayriffs (sic) will stop them, like 100% (or whatever) on cheap Chin. cars, the US will produce, will become self-sufficient, vile competition by evils will be blown out of the water, with the US as winner. Tay-riffs will accomplish that. (Re-industrialising in almost impossible today, imho.)
Expansionism. Taking over of strategic spots (trade routes, close neighbors, shipping lanes, etc.) will make the ‘US a winner’, it will Konker, Kontrol. (How, why, for what result is unknown.) Bluster, of course, and made ‘jokey’ at top post, but it is expressed…
Rerpession. Internal crack-down, repression, on ‘illegals’, ‘immigrants’, ‘criminals’, one ex.
More could be said. Empire in decline, Oh Man.
The Syria they didn’t tell us about. by Lorenzo Maria Pacini.
Strategic Culture, Dec. 21 2024.
excerpt:
“In concluding our conversation, which lasted about an hour, Ram ventures an almost ‘prophetic’ projection: ‘I say it: yesterday Palestine, today Syria. Tomorrow Lebanon for good. Then Yemen. Once Yemen and Lebanon have fallen, Iran will be next. In between there is nothing left, Iraq is a gas pump surrounded by American gunmen, it will fall soon. President Trump is ready to destroy Iran, the intelligence community already knows this. If Khamenei dies, Iran collapses’. A few seconds of silence. Khamenei is the last remaining ‘global’ Islamic authority and the last patron of the Resistance.”
At top Musk congratulates Pavel Durov .. (>Telegram turned a profit.)
Pavel was released after his Aug. 2024 arrest in Paris, paying mega bail.
Where is he? What is he doing?
The F MSM / Gvmt. are obviously embarassed. **Silencio!**
Note, it is reported, idk if correct, Telegram has 950 million users.
Pavel appeared in court on 6 Dec 2024.
Pavel Durov, founder of Telegram, appeared in a Paris court on 6 December to address allegations that the messaging app has facilitated criminal activity. Represented by his lawyers, Durov reportedly stated he trusted the French justice system but declined to comment further on the case.
From TASS:
According to the report, Durov arrived at the court at about 10 a.m. (local time), accompanied by lawyers David-Olivier Kaminski and Christophe Ingrain. He refused to comment on the court proceedings and the charges for the press, saying only that he “believes in the French justice.”
https://tass.com/world/1883687
Durov is also facing two judiciary action in Switz. From an ex-wife / GF (idk, a Russian woman) who has 3 children by him, domiciled in CH. Some of the accusation(s) are severe, but who knows..alimony, custody, etc.
Pointed out, Telegram went public in 2018, and raised 1.8 billion (dollaris), mostly from R oligarchs, energy cos, and more > this is not just some Free Speechie Super Sexy Russkie guy.
There is more, about how Pavel became a target in France.
In F, from RTS (Swiss MSM)
Trump blusters a lot, he is a NY bizman and show man.
He is going to take ‘back’ the Panama Canal, buy Greenland, invade Mexico, this last not mentioned at top post. https://tinyurl.com/yp22bwv4
You bluster, threaten, refuse to talk, slam down the phone, swear to the skies or to the loyal secretary, and the next day, take a less confrontational stance, talk to someone else, one level down from the top brass, or an ‘ally’ in some other biz, etc.
I haven’t read *The Art of the Deal* but this book accounts for much of Trump’s popularity in the World. Idk how many translations were made, but as he would say, *Huuuge.* Incl. Korean, Russian, Arabic, etc.
for ex. https://www.goodreads.com/work/editions/1224415-trump-the-art-of-the-deal
Everybody knows this about Trump so he is not taken seriously unless his foolish statements can be used for some advantage, which imho is almost never the case.
Now, about the UKR war, to wind it down, cancel it (24 hrs remember?) this electoral promise must be at least seriously attempted. Sure, this is all just an extension of the usual US-Bi-Party support vs. critcism of ‘wars’ (devastation of X countries, one or the other faction pretends to be vaguely against), Yet…
Trump stopping US support for UKR and ending that ‘war’ will have to be done quickly, so that he can blame Biden, Zelensky, EU / NATO, for the endavour / the loss, in various ways. If it lasts, for more than say 3 – ? months, he will have to share the blame, as he will be seen as incapable of shutting it down.
So a quick move is on the agenda, this means that MAJOR concessions will have to be made to Russia. Territorial, sure, and Trump might, will? agree to those, like who cares about the borders of the Donbass?
The sticking point is that Russia will demand the ‘total’ guaranteed *Neutrality* of UKR, in effect a regime change, a cancelling of some elements (recall, de-nazifaction..) a new Int’l status, see Austria afer WW2, say.
The ploy of a ‘frozen conflict’ (temp. cease-fire etc.) with ‘some peace-keepers’ on the ground that is being pushed (by Dems) can’t be accepted by Russia.
For some footage from on the ground recent ‘troubles.’
Bald-and-Bankrupt travels from Beirut to Damascus, visits an Assad spendid home, a Captagon factory. 21 Dec.
Best wishes for Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas, and Happy New Year, to all on the board. xxx Noirette.
Some footage from on the ground recent ‘troubles’ ME,
Bald and Bankrupt travels from Beirut to Damascus,visits an Assad Spendid Home, a Captagon factory…
21 Dec.
top post: Musk supports AFD in Germany.
In D, the ‘centrists’ in power are subject to the US, NATO and the EU.
Two oppo’ parties. AFD (called ‘radical right’) and the new Sarah W. party (ex-Die Linke, The Left, called the ‘radical left.’) Both agree that war against Russia in UKR etc. should be stopped. There are some differences between them on ‘immigration’ and the ‘green agenda’, but imho it looks like the ‘divide to conquer’ and ‘demonise the ‘extremists’ in the pol. sphere is being slowly fissured in Germany.
The D Green Party is the no 1 top warmonger and anti-industrialist, which is a seemingly odd contradiction that mostly passes by unnoticed. > War expends huge amounts of energy, creates massive deadly pollution, global warming, not to mention killing strong young men, etc.
*Green Energy* in D was mostly activated and pursued as an arm against France’s superiority via cheap nuclear energy.
In F, Macron has nominated a new PM, an old-time political hack who has been a Manu supporter from day 1.
The opposition from the ‘left’ (Mélenchon at the top of a patchwork temp. coalition) and from the ‘right’ (Marine Le Pen) had internal policies in the past that were near identical (even Le Monde pointed this out), concerning, of course, funding of schools, support for parents, good health care, suppoorting local agri. etc.
The main difference today. Mélenchon is an old-time Palestine supporter, Le Pen supports Israel. Le Pen used to be anti-EU and anti-EURO and ‘anti-semitic’ like her father, but has given all that up since quite a while.
As for the F ‘left’, it is riven by quarrels, contradictions, etc. Shameful imho etc.
The contrast between F and D is that D does seemingly have pol. parties that present partly ‘cogent’ positions, though hmmm what that leads to, idk, probably not much.
F has a more stalwart, ready to act ppl on the ground, less sheeple-like, see Gilets Jaunes, can’t imagine that in D.
Musky-Trumpy, shouldn’t, according to old fashioned protocol, be supporting one or the other pol. party in whatever X country, but only deal with the instituted Gvmt. However support for AFD as isolationists is a cogent choice for Trump, heh, but will they then support 5% GDP to arm against Russia? NO.
Heh 🙂 Elon Musk as Prez / VP / Top Bozo, what else to call him..?
The Billionaires takin’ ovah’ America! Fascism anyone?
Gossip column:
Musky is half Iranian and half Canadian. His father was an Irianian diplomat in S. Africa. Errol Musk was Maye’s da Super Model’s Second Hubby, and she changed Elon’s name.
Elon has a twin bro called Kian Bagherzadeh.
In itself this isn’t of interest – but that it is covered up IS.
The Iranian heritage is hidden, to the point that Wiki on Elon lies.
The war is over and it is safe for Syrian refugees to return home. Is BS, as posted by Dr. D.
Who wants to ‘return’ to a country that is falling into the hands of Tal-mudic hysterical freaks, Takfiri (or, oh, oh, just Djihadist) militants, greedy US Corps (grabbing the last dregs of Syrian oil), or to the Kurdish / Turkey quarels?
Nobody.
Syrians abroad are doing all they can to stay away. Marriages will be upped fast in the EU and eslewhere, to save many ppl.
One ex from the ground. Craig Murray showing that Syrians are not returning.
Where reality is very different from what the BBC and CNN are telling you.
Trump held a presser at Mar-a-Lago, with qus. from the audience. 1H 10 mins.
Putin held his National Yearly 4 H presser w. qus. from all over, incl. USA MSM.
Christoforou (The Duran) gives some of the highlight of that (Putin),
(I didn’t listen to the end of either of the top guys)
Putin is a better statesman than Trump imho, but that is not the point here. The point is to highlight the tremendous, gaping, difference between these two countries, with entirely different governing systems, different ‘populist’ appeals, different mechanisms of control…
For Trump, as a biz man and a show man, it is courting foreign capital, biz, biz, cutting taxes, The Wall, and so on. Putin postures as the ‘reasonable restrained’ clever, informed long-lasting ruler and defender.
Let’s hope they can after Jan 20. have some relationship which is not purely adversial.
Hopium for sure. 🙂
On, Status of David returns to Italy, at top post.
Heh, very apt. Anecdote. Ppl in the Int’l community (UN Agencies mainly, but others also, Big Corps..) since 15 years, or 10, or longer, 20, etc. have avoided / refused posts to the US, particularly to the UN in NY.
Sure the money is ‘top’, influence and position in a group is still there somewhat, and some still want to cash in, hoping to save, gather status, then leave, etc.
Reasons. NY. First, those with children can’t ‘afford’ it or ‘hate’ it. One needs a Nanny – live in – and Private School – ferrying back and forth – by private car by parent or with hired driver / secure cab / etc. Wearisome, a drag, incredibly expensive, and locks the kiddos up in a routine that is horrible, makes them unhappy, jittery, anxious.
Second, all from other continents who go to the US gain weight. We are talking top 15 percent or so ‘economically’ who have all amenities, can buy whatever food they want, go to gym, play tennis, take ski vacations, etc. The women are particularly strident, mostly spouses, it just can’t be…they want out…
SYRIA. Let’s not forget Operation Timber Sycamore.
Even the lame Wikipedia has an entry on it. (From 2012)
“Timber Sycamore was a classified weapons supply and training program run by the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and supported by the United Kingdom and some Arab intelligence services, including Saudi intelligence. The aim of the program was to remove Syrian president Bashar al-Assad from power.”
Syria Refugees.
While Evil Dictator Torturer Al Assad was in power, Millions of Refugees were accepted round and about into Europe.
—> Specially Merkel, at the time (2011 > ..) The idea was that Syrians are ‘well educated’ (by the Evil Dictator hmm?), and will contribute to resolving a labor-shortage, a young-ppl shortage, etc. Liberal democracies are super welcoming of qualified sincere workers opressed by Nasties !
*Sub rosa*: Let’s save money on bringing up kiddos and educating them to age 20, imports of controlled 20 + yr – olds can be wonderful!
(Idk precisely what was up with that by Merkel.)
Now that Cozy Jihadists who have the support of the US, see Biden statements. Plus the instituted US Foreign Legion, which is labelled Mujahideen, Al-Q, ISIS, Al Nusra, and now a new brand, etc. with the support of Israel, Turkey, KSA, Jordan, Qatar …all is well in Syria, so…
—> the Syrian Refugees can be sent back to Syria!
The EU has suspended ‘asylum’ procedures for Syrians, this means that all those whose ‘case’ was not decided previous are at risk for deportation.
MSM articles.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy7kxn6p878o
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg6eeg87lqo
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/12/10/where-do-six-million-syrian-refugees-live-todayOn the first article at top post, *Western Democracy is Dead*, about the cancellation of elections in Romania (where the first round heavily favored a ‘sovereignist’ who was against aiding URK, anti-NATO etc. – a qualifed Pol btw) because of supposed ‘interference’ via TikTok in the elections.
So the ‘robust, vibrant, joyful (shades of Camel-a), righteous, ‘Democracy’ as the ultimate Aspiration, is vulnerable to a Chinese Co. that publishes short vids, to grab an audience, cliks, of cooks, pranksters, climbers, jokers, dancers, sneaky sexy etc.?
Ppl must be waking up…MUST…
On article at top post, Trump Says Developing Concept to End ‘Ridiculous’ Conflict in Ukraine.
Trump was very buddy-buddy with Macron at the Notre Dame opening. He was dismissive, hmm, horribly rude, to the pathetic Zelensky. (Note, beyond considerations of world geo-politics, Zel. doesn’t – can’t in fact – follow dress codes, politeness, etc. and is dumb as a rock, has a crappy accent, is no longer even a Pres., etc. These things count …) A more puppet like figure is very hard to dig up in history, or even invent!
Trump will try to accomplish his aims to end this ‘useless’ war, I believe he is sincere about that, but even setting aside Influence-Kontrol within the US on Trump, Russia will not agree to anything beyond total victory, which includes very stringent criteria (R may want Odessa, and the total de-arming, vassalling of UKR, as in the initial aims of the SMO) and much more, so the concessions will be hard.
On Zelensky Rules out Lowering Draft Age, top post.
UKR has ‘few’ men left (the pop. of UKR is a complicated topic, just one aspect here) – sending off 18-24 yr-old to get butchered would leave UKR with no hope for the future as a State, forever. It is a step too far that the ppl of UKR clearly understand, Z. can’t do it, crunch time had come.
On Songs ..
Here are NATO Ministers singing and shuffling bumping about on WE ARE THE WORLD. 2015.
No joke, Not a parody! Real Life! 1 min. Longer versions are available.
Here a great mash up, of WE ARE THE WORLD leaders, featuring Putin, Biden, Kim, Donny, Greta, Prince Harry, Musk, Candace, Zukerberg, The Pope, and more. 3 mins.
Craig Murray is in Lebanon, posting writings and vids..
*vids are ‘soft’* on the ground reportage.
> see prev. posts at his site.
Imho, ISR is fulfilling its ‘holy’ (rabid violence in exchange for money, status, impunity, etc.) mission of being the mad dog in the ME, backed, paid for, by USuk, other ‘W’ who are terrified of getting into the US’ bad books – they are most likely there already but don’t want to face up to it, like Germany. (For long-term geo. strategic considerations.)
Anecdote. I went to a main shopping snob center in Switz. last week. Most of the customers were speaking (besides Italian, which is staple.. lux apparel goods are cheaper here than there and travel is trad., by bus, and cheap) Russian (or Ukrainian, idk the difference) and Hebrew / Jewish English. 🙂
Poppie wrote just above,
The first is why Russia has effective products and the US doesnt. I know that the topic is bigger than Russia and US. I know the topic is bigger than just the military.
Yes… to the first part of Poppie’s post. (I know nothing about heat shields)
The main problem can be formulated, for milit. material, machines, products, etc., as motivated in the US by FOR PROFIT (much or all of the income coming from Gvmt. contracts, i.e. tax payers, which in return provides money to workers in the Defense Industry, and skim-offs for pols who guard, champion, that industry and their kick-backs, not to mention shareholders etc.) and not FOR EFFICIENCY, which by definition has to be clever, cheap, innovative, easy to produce long term, a communal effort, protected from extraction or skimming off by ‘overlords’, so as usually, but not always, regulated by the ‘Gvmt’ (Dictator, King, etc.) to prevent that.
on: Poletaev in RT, prev. thread, explaining why Trump won’t be able to quickly end the UKR conflict.
https://swentr.site/russia/608224-nothing-changes-ukraine-trump-administration/
Hmm. The plans bruited at present for ending it, seem to be a usual US-thingie, e.g. freeze the conflict, in this case for 10, 20 years? .. Getting away with claiming *not-a-loss* leaving future actions open..
Or, some plans of EU / neighbors domination, cut-up, control of UKR, which Russia will not accept … Recall Putin had no trouble with trade agreements between UKR and the EU at one time, he even said UKR was welcome to join the EU. Of course NOT, NATO…
Trump’s position rests on ending the UKR proxy war (at least that! – leaving internal politics aside), imho he will do an ‘art of the deal’ in one way or another, and ‘end’, a ‘climb-down’, etc. though capitulating to Russia’s demands will be very hard. (UKR neutrality, de-nazi, etc.)
All depends on Trump’s (faction, advisors) reading of the state of the USuk – W domination, hegemony, and how it might best maintain itself, continue to impose, command, triumph.
He surely knows that UKR is a lost cause. The final battle between The W Imperialists and the ROW is being fought out now in \West Asia./
If Israel is somehow ‘defeated’ (e.g is destroyed, no longer exists, or is reduced to an enclave of policed, controlled, marginal pop, or becomes a tiny country minus apartheid, one man one vote thingie) the whole ME will orient differently, change shape.
ROW = rest of the world
— merely one reading of course, I tried to make it v. short.
>> note condition: If Trump stays alive till end January.
That photo of Biden and Zelensky on the prev. thread says a lot.
https://theautomaticearth.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/BidenZelensky.jpg
Biden is tall, slim, wearing dark glasses, and dressed like a W Imperialist or King, white shirt, tie, dark coat (actually the coat isn’t quite righ imho.)
Zelensky is much smaller, chubby looking, dressed like a hoodlum or a guy on the street .. imho he was ordered to dress in this way from the start, probably was told ‘to gather sympathy from ordinary ppl’ etc. but the real aim was to solidify his status as a dumb vassal. **Handsomely** paid of course, well he is an actor, so.
The posture emphasises the master-servant relation, Biden is in a friendly fashion touching or tapping, Z on the back, like congrats to the waiter who won the serving competition, balancing super frizzy fancy cocktails on a tray while running to serve the rich.
Z has one arm down helpless or even close to begging shape, the other is missing altogether, ergo, he has no arms, no power.
Unfortunately for them, the Western Imperialist Coalition (principally USuk, France, Netherlands .. Germany not, see Nord Str. 2 for ex. See for ex the founding memebers of NATO..) are in deep trouble and floundering about.
The UKR. project has failed, though that judgement depends on what the aims were to begin with. Slavs killing Slavs is good to go at all times…but overall, from at least 1992 onwards, the efforts to ‘weaponize’ UKR against Russia have not had the hoped for results. Russia re-claiming Crimea was a terrible blow. (Note how for many years the mantra was R must give up Krim, we can’t accept such blatant agressssion, illegality, etc. but now it is no longer mentioned.)
Michael R., thanks for the vid. of Catherine Austin Fitts, I knew about her vaguely some time ago, had forgotten about her…
The belated Inquiry into the death of Dawn Sturgess (link above, by John Helmer) is focussing attention once more on the Skripal Affair. Rightly so. Helmer has written a book about it, which I haven’t read, not a crit. of him, but I fear being influenced by interpretations, I looked into this in depth at the time, and later, and now will do so again. Such mini-events, scandals, are very indicative of how the PTB functions.
I’m home alone so over-posting.
From article at top post, J. A. Tucker:
The division was not really left vs right. It was workers vs laptoppers, wage earners vs six-figure stay-at-homers, bottom half vs top 5 percent, people with actual skills vs weaponized resume wielders..
Yes.. but US elections are about gathering votes, about how to do that, appeal to this or that demographic, etc. (leaving out payments, fraud, etc.) The electorate is scinded into groups or ‘leanings’ by the analysts, sliced and diced, and how to propagandise / convince / draw in etc. the voters from the various groups is a well-paid! speciality.
An anecdote, joke? about Obama (heard in CH, re. his first election). The expert comes to the Obiman campaign and says the only segment I can find where O could be boosted at the booth, beyond all we have done so far (recall, he was expected to win handily by those in the know) is Animal Lovers. O should get a dog and a cat and have plenty of pictures taken, specially with the daughters!
Bo the dog has a wiki entry. 🙂
aspnaz posted, prev. : Austria refuses to pay the negotiated price for Russian gas, so the Russians stop pumping the gas …. but somehow it is Russia’s fault, they are bad. Sad article where they try to portray the Russians as the badies where, in reality, Austria refused to pay, but that is good, according to ZH. Desperate and a little pathetic.
about this article: https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/gazprom-cuts-gas-austria-just-time-winter
Yes. … What is set to happen next, which is related to this Austria squabble, is that the agreement between Russia and Ukraine for the transit of the gas to Austria, plus others in Europe, via UKR (the gas has origins and a travel path – UKR cashes in super transit fees) will expire at the end of this year. It was a 5-year contract between UKR and Russia and Russia won’t renew it because UKR does not have a legitimate Gvmt., President.
Some explanation, etc.:
https://www.bruegel.org/analysis/end-russian-gas-transit-ukraine-and-options-eu
🙂 ! link which shows official stats of various EU energy imports which ‘flashes’ so speedily the casual viewer can’t make sense of it:
Of course the info used to make the display is (imho) correct but so partial as to be meaningless.
Trump is at heart a business man, + a show-man.
Not a lawyer (not keen on them, other story), a politician, a spokesperson or stooge for XYZ industry, not a ‘leader’ of a ‘nation’….
Apologies for all the ‘..’ – a 3 page essay, no…So he gathers together a team who seems ‘dynamic’, they share some of his views, they can ‘move for change’ (or pretend to do so), and this time round, it seems that only ppl who are ‘loyal’ to him have been ‘chosen’.
The ‘team’ is supposed to ‘manage’, ‘direct’, everything, ‘shake things up’, improve everything rapidly, just like in a Business.
Close that franchise, buy back stock, fire dumb managers, get cheaper prices for A B and C, and what is the goopy HR doing? Get them contracts moving… get together with big Innovators, Capital, like Musk.
Those who didn’t perform to whatever standard are just fired pronto, and replacements swoop in. The rapid turn over syndrome…
But that is not how huge Federations (USA) should be managed.
The PTB (or Deep State, or…) is very powerful, and in a way, the Prez. elections are a popularity contest, TV buzz for the ‘deplorables’, plus ca change plus c’est la même chose.
This time round, Trump was AGAIN billed as the maverick, the supposed ‘outsider’ who challenged the ‘Swamp’ and positioned himself as a champion of legal citizens, now not just against illegal immigration, contra foreign influence (oops that is a Dem meme) but seemingly attacking ‘interior’ functioning, the prime ex. is Kennedy’s MAHA, Make America Healthy Again, which threatens big Med and Big Pharma.
Interesting, as now the glorified ‘profit making’ motive clashes with considerations about e.g. child health.
Plus ca change, plus c’est la même chose.
Trump will continue winding down the ‘war’ in UKR, which has been cancelled already by the BidAdmin, the ‘war’ was a ‘success’ in a way ! at the start, a ‘failure’ going on, admitted by the US in 2023 or well before and now definitely in 2024.
(Note that Slavs killing Slavs is always wonderful…so ‘failure’ is just a WORD…it all depends on what the aims were…)
URK. How Trump will manage that, idk, the *Trump Admin* first proposals touted across the MSM will not be accepted by Russia. >> Russia will go on to take Odessa (at least)…
Trump will now turn to ‘other’ threats, or areas of ‘concern’ etc. IRAN (in first place) and CHINA.
phoenix voice posted (prev thread) —- re. 20 million “missing” voters…
Well, either the Democrats cheated in 2020 or the clot shot killed 20 million voters.
🙂 ! Yes.
Another link between Covid19 and the imho *unbelievable* no. of votes for Biden vs. Trump 2020, was that the lock-downs that the COV19 ‘plandemic’ was launched to make official, accepted, allowance for a ‘huge’ number of ‘postal’, aka ‘distant’ etc. votes to be tabulated.
I read this take posted as a comment somewhere, I never thought of it in this way, that the COV19 ‘plandemic’ was launched to make official, accepted, allowance for a ‘huge’ number of ‘postal’, aka ‘distant’ etc. votes to be tabulated. Pallets! of fake ballots.
Idk, not believing or touting it, but it is interesting, in the sense that some ppl believe this, and that it stitches together Corps and some Gvmt. Agencies (who created the COV19 panic etc.) and the election process.
On Trump seeking ‘major changes’ to US foreign policy (top post.)
Bush Junior attacked, 2001 – 3, Iraq (supposedly cos WMD, etc..) and the Afgh. ‘war’ was churning on.
The GWOT raging loud.
How much destruction? Oh Man…spare me…so many dead…
Obama bombed Afgh (cont’d).. Lybia (destroyed), Yemen, Somalia, Syria, Pakistan, Iraq (cont’d…)
From CNN, like it is ‘official’:
https://edition.cnn.com/2014/09/23/politics/countries-obama-bombed/index.html
Biden withdrew from Afgh. Then launched the ‘serious’ ‘war’ w. Ukr. as a proxy against Russia. Under the radar: territory that could be taken over in UKR by US Big Corps (Agri, minerals, cheap labor, easy control.) Something like that…
Under Trump there was a ‘pause’ in foreign military attack adventures, hmm.
Diffent factions in the UNIPARTY switch about being pro / contra this or that murderous enterprise against some country, territory that can’t resist, fight back. Which serves to make their adherents cover themselves with ‘no support for that’ now.. while the other wing of the Uniparty sets out to murder, destroy, sometimes not even for any financial / other advantage, just the JOY of a killing spree to benefit the MIC.
The risk that Trump may instigate a war against Iran is imho NOT to be ignored.
About Elon Musk. He figured out Trump would win, no question (imho he can analyse twitter etc. -> it was a no-brainer) like others did. Opportunistically, Tulsi G, the Kennedy Junior, and no doubt many others not visible in the MSM.
Scattered thoughts … 🙂
John Day posted prev. thread “Hitler wouldn’t have killed Peanut.” Nice pic. Yup.
Hitler was ‘Green’ in the sense that he was a vegetarian (though some stories have him sometimes eating meat), a non-smoker (he forbade smoking around him, in meetings, etc.), and a v. strict non-drinker. He was also an anti-vivisectionist, and adored animals and pets, and was totally against hunting. Afaik, he even tried to ban meat-eating in Germany (it didn’t work out, he died.)
Anyway, my post is superficial, historians will know more, but I am struck by the similarity between the present ‘Greens’ in Germany, as the most rabid war-monger party (no question there, see Annalena) and some kind of ‘Green’ Agenda which champions personal consumption along supposed ‘virtuous’ lines but completely ignores, for ex. the effect, contribution of blowing up stuff, building milit. materiel, etc. to ‘conquer’ or ‘defeat’ ‘opponents’, with no concern for ‘preserving the earth’, nor of course killing others, genocide, etc.
Plus ca change, plus c’est la même chose..
yes, thanks to Ilargi for the board.
OH, AI vid of Trump Musk RFK Tulsi etc. and the Squirrel, dancing to Staying Alive – Epic.
I predicted 3 times Trump would win (was wrong once) but as I posted here before, when the gap or the diff. between 2 candidates is too large, or too visible to the public (via betting sites, memes, feelings round-about, etc.) – the threshhold is maybe around 2 – 3% – hmm .. maybe a bit more .. no…? (depends on various factors..) it is not advised, considered possible imho, to ‘game’ the system or ‘cheat’ by whatever means, when the diff. exceeds that ‘point’.
If such a manipulation (see via Diebold for ex.) is attempted or done, the risks of discovery and the following outrage are high, and what follows is the ‘imploding’ of the mythical ‘wonderful democracy’ of the USA, which nobody in the Ruling Class, the PTB, wants. It has to remain ‘rules based’ – credibly so, for the public. So there is a big show, suspense, hold your breath, freak out at the results, etc., but that is DEMOCRACY!
Polls are often derided, rightly so, for being ‘not scientific’, ‘model built’, ‘just garbage,’ etc.
But ppl in the know do run proper polls and some or most of the ‘top’ Dems certainly knew Harris was a no-show. Just as the Trump Team expected they would win. (imho.)
A *caricatural* description, from far away from the US.
Two tribes are facing off against each other, which has been engineered by the US PTB and US ‘traditions’, rules and regs. (e.g. > no valid 3rd party candidates for the Prez. can ever emerge.) Sure, there are many who recognize the idiocy, many ‘Independents’, many who are checked out, and so on.
Group One Harris is composed of the lower-to-upper middle class who are divorced from production, they are in the ‘professions’ — law, med, health, media, culture, educ. Unis, arts, internet Cos. Big Corps, etc. – or hope to join so… They don’t collect rubbish, sweep the streets, lay bricks, run buses, check meters, work in an arms factory (what no ?) etc. etc.
The split is of course muddy, what about a nurse who sees real suffering and knows what causes it?
This group is steered by the \inclusion/ propaganda, which admittedly has had tremendous effect, LGTB ppl, immigrants, ppl from ‘other cultures’, ‘fatties’, the ‘disabled’ and more, are seduced by ‘equality’ and you be different you do you we love you and now you vote for us stuff.
Setting aside immigration (a world-wide complex issue, Kalergi plan, exploitation of cheap labor, and more..) and other, many of the Group One adherents don’t perceive that they have been granted a kind of superiority status by ersatz moves.
Some of the privileges of the Top Upper Classes (1850 or so > Europe) which guaranteed that their members could do as they wanted sexually, but the lower classes would be condemned, sometimes even put to death for sodomy, could be abrogated, as who cares what the deplorables do. That mech. of control could be given up with NO LOSS. And could gather votes! (About 4 – 15% depending on place, etc.)
So, the whole storm around that aspect of private behavior was created to have ppl concentrate on non-economic issues, feel ‘empowered’ etc. and adhere to One Party.
Plus, all big Ad Agencies, their clients, wanted, as usual, to segment the population so as to be able to target one or another group with ‘personalised ads’ in an open manner, with male homosexuals (often ‘richer’ and childless) being the first group on the radar.
Group Two Trump…I have run out of steam for now …but you all get the picture.
See posts above about Elon Musk, and others.
So — One has to wrap ones head around the fact that the USA is run by billionaires (Musk, ready to hand out cash for votes), powerful financial conglomerates (Blackrock), influencers on the what used to be the boob tube and is now the ‘social media’ (Taylor Swift, who endorsed Harris, twice), with the votes tabulated (not counted) by rigged machines (Diebold, lovely name..), and corruption *hey babe* being the only trickle-down.
Is civil war in the US, or a sorta quiet descent into chaos, or just hell on earth…to be the result?
What happens next? The ‘Democratic’ pretense of the Uniparty as composed of two pol wings in struggles for ‘policies’ is dead (Kennedy, Gabbard, Musk, etc. supporting Trump) – note Harris has no ‘new’ support…This is all a charade, a show, as it has been for some time. Its function is to obscure what is going on behind the scene so to speak – that is, in the real world. 🙂 🙁
Re. Police Escalate Britain’s War on Independent Journalism. (….)
It is about scaring us into staying silent on Britain’s collusion in Israel’s genocide.
– From top post.
Arrests and harrassment in the UK of independent journos have been against those who are not gung ho about the Is – r killing spree (geno- c), or are pro – Pal in some fashion, that is, aren’t willing to proclaim that the right to murder Arab – Muslim Scum that is squatting on ‘their’ land is the Right Thing to Do, as in tune with Western Values, or whatever….
Richard Medhurst, Sarah Wilkinson, Asa Winstanley, Richard Barnard, see link for him,
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-police-charge-co-founder-palestine-action-under-terrorism-act
Others have been targeted.
Guy Smallman, a veteran photojournalist and NUJ member whose coverage of protest activity appears throughout the UK press, was arrested on 25 June for aggravated trespass while standing on what he says was a public footpath, covering an ecological protest at a boating lake near former Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s Yorkshire residence. He has since been released on bail, with the police retaining £14,000 worth of camera equipment. He has not been charged.
(…)Martin Pope, a British Association of Journalists (BAJ) member, spent 20 years working for the Daily Telegraph and has also contributed photography to The Guardian, The New Yorker and The Sunday Times. In April 2024, he was swept up in a pre-emptive arrest of protesters planning to target an arms company implicated in Israel’s ongoing war on Gaza. (…)
https://www.indexoncensorship.org/2024/08/uk-journalists-fall-victim-to-new-police-tactics/
Rich Felgate (2023) arrested at an environmental protest.
UK police arrest journalist Rich Felgate while covering coronation protest
Joshua Tartakovsky a British cit. arrested in Lebanon, Oct. 2024
Matt Broomfield, who has worked in Kurdish-controlled north-east Syria, had his phone and laptop seized when he was questioned last month .. (2023)
And there are many more, I don’t have a list, Reporters Without Borders doesn’t seem to have one either, though there is a lot of info there.
On Trump pokes fun at his Subs. Kamala’s abscence.. at top post.
Remember! Trump roasts Clinton (Killary) at Al Smith Charity Dinner.
CBS news. 7 years ago. 15 mins.
So this recent version is a re-visit, a re-make, a wheel back to the past.
My words, “still standing”, lead me to look up Elton John, 14 years ago, famous song. Note the beginning images – …
All the background is from Cannes, France. The interior scene is from Paris.
Heh I’m being influenced by Oroboros, Idk what this means.
On, the true size of countries.
Yes ppl have a weird mental map of the world via the Mercator Projection.
This site shows ‘true size’ (area, of course there are problems with that as well) and offers drag – n – drop comparisons.
Another dimension that is pretty much hidden by conventional maps is — of course first, elevation (mountains, etc.), and at second I would put the agri-bio-tope (to make it very general), i.e. distinguishing between desert, forest, rain forest (still standing!), agri exploited, for what use (pasture, crop-land, intense agri, town using high energy, etc.) high up, rock, or under ice, coast land that exploits fishing, and many more. I have never seen any such categorisation.
Maybe I’m just ignorant and it exists somewhere? It can’t be too difficult to make a first stab?
My hunch is that such data just isn’t an avenue that Gvmts and Corps would like to have ‘out there.’
re. prev. thread.
Conversation. jbhb, the very appellation Human Ressources is nuts. (I once knew someone who taught a course on HR, absolute rubbish.) Ppl who are remunerated for their work, are, ppl / workers / employees / staff / and down the chart, the team in charge of repair, etc.
This HR stuff is an added layer to ‘management’ that absorbs or grabs a good chunk of cash / profits, and engages in weird social engineering. Though one needs to distinguish between what used to be called Personnel Admin (in a large Co./Entity, in charge of payments, empl. records, deductions for pensions, etc.) which is (was) legit, who now call themselves *HR specialists.*
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News.
On: “US Emergency Workers Hunted by Militia” (Wapo.)
U.S. Military Now Authorized to Kill Americans on U.S. Soil?
New DoD Directive Drops.
Just ahead, intriguingly, of the November elections, the U.S. military has granted itself permission to unleash “lethal force” on the civilian population in cases of “national security” emergency. (…)
As the U.S. prepares for one of the most controversial and closely watched elections in its history, a concerning update to DoD Directive 5240.01 has quietly been put into effect. Reissued on September 27, 2024, this directive governs the Department of Defense’s (DoD) intelligence activities and now includes provisions authorizing lethal force in certain circumstances when assisting civilian law enforcement. While the directive forbids assassination, it opens the door to lethal interventions under “national security” conditions (…)
https://armageddonprose.substack.com/p/us-military-now-authorized-to-kill
article has many legal details I can’t address, but imho but the direction is clear and should be of concern….
