CNN: How Kamala Harris's Campaign Unraveled Before The Iowa Caucus

"She's not able to articulate a consistent and compelling message."

Kamala Harris dropped out of the 2020 primary race before voting began because she was so unpopular among Democrats.

She then hit a 28%… pic.twitter.com/ryXgHfYAIF

— KanekoaTheGreat (@KanekoaTheGreat) August 18, 2024

Patent

BOMBSHELL REPORT: Video emerges of Kamala Harris openly telling a crowd she will STEAL A COMPANIES PATIENT and take it over..

“I will snatch their patent, so that we will take over.”

“I have the will to do it!”

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— Chuck Callesto (@ChuckCallesto) August 17, 2024

Flynn

The United States intelligence community, both inside and outside, are the ones manipulating the outcome of what we are going to face over the next couple of months.

Click the link below to view my complete interview with @piratemoneyx:https://t.co/WFya7jvsH7 @FlynnMovie pic.twitter.com/SQyCvBemyK

— General Mike Flynn (@GenFlynn) August 18, 2024

Millennial
https://twitter.com/i/status/1824896826019127689

She could be president without ever getting a single vote.

• Democrats Could Make Kamala Harris President Before Election (MN)

An opinion piece in The Hill posits that Democrats could spring the ultimate October surprise by making Kamala Harris president before the election in November. Douglas MacKinnon notes that “This is already the most surreal presidential election of our lifetimes,” and that it could get even more bizarre. He adds, “I wrote several times in this space over the last two years that I never believed Biden would be the nominee, and I was proven right. I also honestly believe Trump will pull away from Harris come September and October.” “So, what then? How would the Democrats and the Harris campaign react to that?” MacKinnon wonders.

He suggests that “At some point, might it become politically expedient to the Democrats to elevate Harris to the presidency for the remainder of the campaign?” adding “Is anything off the table in this weird election cycle? I don’t think so.” As is well documented, Democrats could invoke the 25th Amendment to remove Biden from office. But at this point, it would be clearly a political move. Biden has not been running anything for three years anyway. MacKinnon suggests the 25th may not even be needed, noting that Biden could even enter the Democratic National Convention and say “I’ve had it. I’m done. I am resigning from my office and going back to Delaware.” It’s a bit far fetched, but who knows with the state of this election cycle.

Nearly a year ago, I predicted that Kamala would briefly become president just before the 2024 election.

The Hill is just now figuring it out… https://t.co/jhmwEDYiY2 pic.twitter.com/o8A5EiM9gV

— Roger Stone (@RogerJStoneJr) August 18, 2024

“I think we’d all do well to put away the memes and get serious about making sure that we make this a November 5th to her not to remember..”

• What If Kamala Harris Isn’t an Idiot? (Tom Luongo)

On the eve of the Democratic National Convention, after a coup against their former standard-bearer Joe Biden, we face a very disturbing question. What if Kamala Harris isn’t the idiot the media has made her out to be? Harris was clearly chosen for this role. She’s been groomed for it for nearly two decades. She isn’t the best of a list of bad choices. The Democrats drove the good choices from the party and blocked others becoming a part of it. There were no Democratic primaries, folks. She was placed as Biden’s Vice-President to have the inside track on this gig when they decided Joe finally had to be dragged from the stage. The coup was penciled in on the Gantt Chart at Evil Corp. Central for the weekend of July 13th. In 2020, Harris voters roundly rejected her for President, getting zero delegates before being roasted by Tulsi Gabbard. She dropped out despite being the darling of the media and the donor class. Going into those primaries, she was the establishment’s pick.

Once she failed they moved to Plan B: rig the game for Biden. They said, “We’ll install a mushroom so corrupt we can make him do whatever we want Joe just wants his money and his ice cream.” So you force Harris onto Joe. Or the other way around… never mind she’s too old for him. Meanwhile Harris waited. She let Joe take the heat. She said little, did less and then is installed, tabula rasa, into a campaign just days after a failed assassination attempt on Donald Trump to steal even that thunder. We were never allowed to discuss her culpability, along with the cabinet, as to how Biden could have been running the country for the past three years without them invoking the 25th amendment out of pity for the man if nothing else. Oh, I’m sorry, I forgot Democrats don’t have emotions other than hate and envy. She was installed as the candidate to front-run an insurgency at this week’s convention by Hillary Clinton and her merry band of Neocons. Don’t expect them to take this sitting down, there are likely to be some sparks this week in Chicago, even if they don’t turn into a bonfire.

So, that leads me to ask my question, not because I think Harris is some latent IQ160 or anything. I asked my question because this is a woman who faced zero real voters and is one vote-rigging operation away from the presidency. So, maybe she’s a genius when measuring her political intelligence. What if we’ve all been led down the primrose path of stooping to Trump’s level coming up with cute memes about her vast collection of knee pads or her inappropriate laughter at tragedy? What if that is exactly the means to lull us all into thinking there’s no way anyone will vote for this woman? And if this was any normal (a nebulous term these days at best) election, I would agree with you. But, for 90% of the fifty elections the US is going to hold for its president, who you vote for doesn’t matter. This is, as always, a five state race. All that matters is printing/counting the right number of votes in those five states and the rest is just a Benny Hill skit. Harris chose uber-commie and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate to what, exactly? Shore up the only state that voted for Walter Mondale in 1984? Really?

No, it was to do a few things: • Signal that they didn’t need Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro to win there. • Continue Obama’s antipathy towards Israel. They don’t need “The Jews” anymore. • Put the Quarter-Black HR Nanny in charge of the cucked White Guy. After that, all you have to do is use AI and special effects to make fake crowds supporting fake polls and faker ads to sell everyone on the idea that this woman is what Americans want to rule them over this… The sad part is that too many people still think this is all just part of the game. But it isn’t. It’s nothing more than the same playbook run in 2020 to create just enough plausible deniability that Harris can win this election before they steal it and dare us to do one damn thing about it. Or did you miss how upset the French and British are at their recent outcomes? So, Kamala cackles her way through scripted interviews. She and Walz dance around bringing “joy!” to the world. But when you actually get her talking about policy, about what she believes in, the cackling stops, the fangs come out, it’s just communism all the way down.

I was asked by Sputnik News to comment on her announced economic plan. In short, it’s the same warmed-over ‘Eat the Rich,’ politics of envy the Democrats have used for decades to set the table for a class war where the soon-to-be permanent underclass is used to finish off destroying the middle class so that they both can live in squalor and be thankful for whatever thin gruel is left over. Those that don’t like it can go die in a meat grinder overseas somewhere else. Hey, at least it’s ‘3 hots and a cot’ right? Or is her ascension to the throne the moment when everyone gets just uncomfortable enough for the wolf to come out in a few million of us? No, I don’t think Harris is at all stupid. And I think we’d all do well to put away the memes and get serious about making sure that we make this a November 5th to her not to remember.

Who’s doing the counting?

• Illegal Border Crossings in US Miraculously Drop to Four-Year Low (Sp.)

The crisis at the US’ southern border with Mexico has dogged the Biden administration throughout its tenure in office. In the run-up to the 2024 election, the Harris campaign and friendly media have gone to great lengths to downplay the vice president’s once much-touted status as the administration’s “border czar.” US Customs and Border Patrol’s migrant encounter numbers along the southwestern border with Mexico have hit a four-year low, new figures suggest. “In July, the Border Patrol recorded 56,408 encounters between ports of entry along the southwest border,” the agency said in a press release, referring to the border between Mexico and the US states of California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas. CBP said its “operational statistics” for last month “show a significant decline in migrant encounters during the first full month after a Presidential Proclamation issued June 4, 2024 by President Biden to temporarily suspend the entry of certain noncitizens across the southern border.

US Border Patrol encounters in July were 32% lower than in June 2024 and were the lowest monthly total along the southwest border since September 2020.” Last month’s figures are also “lower than in July 2019, and lower than the monthly average for all of 2019, the last comparable year prior to the pandemic,” the agency added. Biden’s June proclamation moved to restrict asylum eligibility for illegal aliens entering the United States via the southern border, with some 92,000 individuals ejected from the US and sent to their home countries on 300+ repatriation flights – with removals ballooning to their highest level since 2010. The proclamation came after years of increasingly harsh criticism of Biden’s border policy by Republicans, and fears among Democrats that the issue may cost them the White House in November. A Fox News poll this week found that some 87% of would-be voters consider the situation at the southern border a serious concern, with 44% dubbing it an “emergency” and 43% a “major problem,” and the issue found to be a concern among all demographics, including among black Americans, Hispanics, women, and registered Democrats.

Some 71% of respondents blamed the Biden administration for failure to enforce the border, with 57% also saying that former President Donald Trump and Senate Republicans deserve some of the blame for blocking legislation on comprehensive immigration reform. The border crisis is tied with abortion at 14% as the second most important issue in this year’s election behind the economy (38%). The Biden administration facilitated the crisis at the southern border almost immediately after entering office in 2021 by moving to repeal a series of hardline Trump-era immigration directives and vowing to scrap Trump’s signature border wall in favor of a digital “smart wall” which never materialized. An estimate earlier this year suggested that over 7.3 million illegal aliens had entered the United States since Biden took office in 2021.

After Biden announced last month that he would not be seeking a second term, Democratic nominee Kamala Harris’s campaign sought to distance the candidate from her status as the administration’s “border czar” – a title bestowed on her by US media in March of 2021. Harris’ handlers have gone to stupefying lengths to dismiss the “border czar” moniker, to the point where some media have released “fact check”-style articles assuring that Harris was never really a “border czar,” despite ample reporting from 3.5 years ago using the epithet to refer to her. Donald Trump and his allies have dubbed the situation at the southern border a “disaster” and an “invasion” that could “destroy our country.” Some have also attacked those mainstream Republican lawmakers who voted for nearly $100 billion for wars earlier this year abroad while consciously ignoring the border crisis.

Beyond my understanding.

• Free Abortions Fully Booked At Democratic Convention (RT)

A mobile clinic offering free abortions and vasectomies outside the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Chicago was fully booked out even before the event got underway, organizers have announced. Conservatives have mocked the party for “neutering” its voters. Planned Parenthood, the US’ largest provider of abortions, declared on Wednesday that it would be sending a mobile clinic to Chicago for the DNC on Monday and Tuesday. Parked outside the convention, the clinic will offer “free vasectomies and medication abortion,” the organization announced on X, adding that there would be a waiting list for vasectomies.On Sunday, the day before the convention is set to begin, Planned Parenthood announced “all free vasectomy and medication abortions are filled.” Conservative pundits and social media users ridiculed the idea of parking an “abortion bus” at the DNC.

“The average Democrat man is masked, vaxxed and rendered infertile via Planned Parenthood abortion food truck,” The Columbia Bugle, a right-wing news account, tweeted. “Democrats busy deleting their next generation from existence,” conservative writer Peachy Keenan wrote, adding: “I mean, okay.” “I thought this was fake but it’s not,” Republican Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene commented on Saturday. “Planned Parenthood is going to provide free vasectomies and abortions at the Democratic National Convention this upcoming week. It’s hard to even comprehend and it’s truly heartbreaking. Being a mother is the most precious gift, choose life.”Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic Party’s candidate for the presidency, has urged Congress to pass a law guaranteeing nationwide access to abortion.

Her opponent, former President Donald Trump, appointed the Supreme Court justices who overturned Roe v. Wade, a 1973 ruling that de-facto guaranteed the right to abortion under the Constitution’s right to privacy. However, Trump is less hardline on the issue than many Republican lawmakers, and supports the rights of individual states to set their own abortion laws. Trump helped draft the Republican Party’s platform, which was published after its convention last month. For the first time in four decades, the platform does not call for a nationwide abortion ban, instead stating that the GOP will “oppose late-term abortion while supporting mothers and policies that advance prenatal care, access to birth control, and IVF [fertility treatments].”

“If Ms. Harris really believes in this price-fixing, she lacks the most basic understanding of economics..”

• ‘Deeply Flawed’ Judgment: Experts Slam Kamala Harris’ Economic Program (Sp.)

Kamala Harris’ plan is based on the idea that state intervention can fix almost everything in the economy, including soaring prices – a notion questioned by many familiar with social sciences and history. The price ceiling for grocery stores proposed by US presidential candidate Kamala Harris will surely lead to shortages, The Wall Street Journal says in an editorial article titled “Kamala Harris endorses Nixonomics.” The authors accuse the US VP of having a poor understanding of how the economy works and dubbed her stance left-wing populism that has never worked out. “If Ms. Harris really believes in this price-fixing, she lacks the most basic understanding of economics,” the article reads. According to the outlet, Richard Nixon, the 37th POTUS, was the only other president who attempted to introduce a price ceiling, and the policy ended badly.

“He [Nixon] had to stage a humiliating retreat amid shortages and market dislocations, and prices immediately soared when controls were lifted,” they recalled. Kamala Harris is not learning from her own mistakes, the article suggests. During her term as second-in-charge after Joe Biden, inflation has soared, and as a result, Americans are struggling with high prices. Yet Kamala Harris believes the situation can be fixed with more cash injections into the US economy – a move that could cause prices to skyrocket, including the real estate market. “The Biden-Harris inflation has made homes unaffordable for most young families, and her brainstorm for that is . . . more subsidies,” the article says. However, the authors suggest Kamala Harris may have said what she did simply in order to buy public support – and if that is the case, “her cynicism is also telling.” But if she plans to walk the walk apart from talking the talk, her intentions reveal “a candidate whose economic judgment is deeply flawed,” the article concludes.

“..saying that she’s going to lower the cost of food and housing starting on day one, but day one for Kamala was three and half years ago, so why didn’t she do it then?”

• Trump Blasts Harris On Inflation (RT)

US Republican nominee Donald Trump has hammered Vice President Kamala Harris over the Biden administration’s record on inflation, and likened a campaign pledge she recently made to rein in price growth to measures used in communist nations. Speaking on Saturday at a rally in northeastern Pennsylvania, the Republican nominee mocked his rival for her vow to pass the first federal ban on price gouging on food if she is elected president. “Right yesterday Kamala laid out her so-called economic plan, saying that she’s going to lower the cost of food and housing starting on day one, but day one for Kamala was three and half years ago, so why didn’t she do it then?” Trump exclaimed. Earlier this week, Harris pointed to the cost of items such as bread and ground beef, claiming that large food manufacturers are boosting profits and accusing some grocery chains of not passing along savings to customers.

TRUMP: “Yesterday, Kamala laid out her so-called economic plan—she says she’s going to lower the cost of food and housing starting on “Day One”. But Day One for Kamala was three and a half years ago… Why isn’t she doing it now?”

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— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) August 17, 2024

The Republican nominee blasted his rival’s “socialist” approach to price controls, calling her “comrade Kamala,” and adding that she had gone “full communist.” “It will cause rationing, hunger and skyrocketing prices,” he said. “Just like [the Biden-Harris administration’s] Inflation Reduction Act, which is one of the great scams of all time. Inflation has been so bad, it’s gone up much more than 50%. They say 30%, 40% — many more people are being devastated.” Trump stressed that the “radical liberal policies” of recent years under the administration of President Joe Biden have caused “horrific inflation” that has decimated the middle class and “gutted the finances of millions of American families.”

“They have no idea, they’re grossly incompetent people. Real incomes are down by over $2,000 a year. Think of that, minimum, and ours up five times that amount, more than five times that amount. Her price hikes have cost a typical household a total of $28,000, and that’s called the Kamala Harris inflation tax. She was there for everything.” Price growth spiked to 9.1% year-on-year in June 2022 before beginning to subside as the Federal Reserve embarked on a series of interest rate hikes. Nevertheless, annual inflation had remained at over 3% before dropping to 2.9% this past July, the first time it has dipped below the 3% mark since March 2021.

“The United States has been in a state of chronic excess of expenditures over income for almost a century..”

• US Budget Deficit Rises to All-Time High Under Biden (Sp.)

The US budget deficit during the presidency of Joe Biden has hit the all-time high at $6.6 trillion, according to Sputnik calculations based on data from the US Treasury Department. The US government’s expenses over three and a half years under Biden exceeded revenues by $6.6 trillion — the highest in the entire history of these statistics. Thus, in 2021, the indicator amounted to $2.8 trillion, or to 13% of GDP. The following year, the negative balance decreased to $1.4 trillion, or 6.3% of GDP, but last year it increased to $1.7 trillion, or 7.6% of GDP. Over the first six months of this year, it amounted to $758.2 billion, and the share of GDP on a rolling annual basis was 5.5%. His predecessor, Donald Trump, accumulated a total deficit of $5.6 trillion. At the same time, under Trump, there was a maximum annual negative budget balance of $3.1 trillion, or 15.5% of GDP, in the coronavirus-peak year of 2020.

Barack Obama became the only American leader in this century who managed to reduce the US budget deficit by the end of his presidency, to $2.2 trillion from $5.1 trillion under George W. Bush. However, Bush was the last president under whom the US budget posted a full-year surplus of $130 billion in 2001. The United States has been in a state of chronic excess of expenditures over income for almost a century; the last time there was a long period of surplus was from 1920 to 1930. The only US leader after World War II with a budget surplus was Harry Truman (1946-1950), and the largest government spending surplus was under Ronald Reagan at $1.34 trillion. The US finances such a gigantic budget deficit from the national debt, which in July for the first time exceeded the $35 trillion mark, and just two weeks later grew by another $160 billion.

But Hungary cannot stop them?

• Poland Allows Border Guards To Shoot At Migrants (RT)

Polish President Andrzej Duda has signed legislation that expands the use of weapons by the military, police, and border guards, and exempts them from criminal liability for employing live fire, his office has said. Duda approved the ‘Act on Support for the Activities of Soldiers and Officers’ on Wednesday as Poland celebrated Armed Forces Day, the head of the presidential office, Malgorzata Paprocka, announced on Thursday. The new law allows the military to take part in operations within the country in peacetime and sets out the rules for the use of firearms in these situations by troops. Among other things, it introduces an amendment to the Polish Criminal Code that excludes criminal liability if a soldier guarding the border fires a weapon in order to protect their life or the life of another person, even if it is done in violation of the existing rules.

According to Duda, the legislation “will allow the border and other places to be protected even better, even more efficiently, while also increasing the safety of the Polish soldier.” The country’s parliament, the Sejm, passed the bill mid-July, a month and a half after a Polish soldier succumbed to his injuries after being stabbed by a migrant through the fence erected by Warsaw on the border with Belarus. In June, three Polish troops were detained for firing warning shots at the border. Two of them faced accusations of abuse of power and endangering the lives of others. The Council of Europe’s commissioner for human rights, Michael O’Flaherty, urged Warsaw against introducing the changes, saying in a letter that “international law requires states to reduce as far as possible the adverse consequences of the use of force.”

The law could lead to the disproportionate use of force and abusive incidents not being properly investigated, O’Flaherty warned. The leader of The Left parliamentary group, Anna Maria Zukowska, was also among the critics of the legislation, saying in the Sejm that it violates the constitution. According to Poland’s principal law, the priority is the protection of human life, not the border, she argued. An influx of migrants on the Poland-Belarus border has continued since 2021. Warsaw has accused Minsk of deliberately organizing asylum seekers from Africa and the Middle East and sending them towards Poland in what it calls “hybrid actions aimed at destabilizing Poland and other EU member states.” The authorities in Minsk have denied these claims.

“..perhaps it was a blessing that [Ursula von der Leyen] was kept out of the spotlight, given that she has her fair share of graft allegations and cases pending against her.”

• EU Warns Elon Musk Again, Fears Far-Right Groups’ Narrative (Jay)

The EU has just scored a double whammy against itself as yet another letter sent to Elon Musk blows up in its face. Just recently an official working in its highest echelons sent a warning letter to the billionaire pointing out that his social media platform X needs to moderate some of the content it’s allowing to be posted. The letter, written by Thierry Breton, the EU’s Internal Market commissioner in charge of enforcing the draconian Digital Services Act (DSA), insisted that Musk had an obligation to censor potentially “harmful content” on his platform. But what is “harmful” content in the view of the EU? In real terms, the harmful content which is spooking the European Commission is from far-right groups – as Brussels sees these groups and their expansion as an existential threat and believes they need to be silenced.

Musk, since taking over Twitter and rebranding it simply X, has allowed a number of these activists and organisations the freedom of expression believing that it is important to allow all political voices to have a platform to spout whatever they want. The Commission seems to be setting itself up for a huge fall with Musk determined to expose it and its dirty games it plays with huge corporations – in a bid to control more and more of the information that social media platforms circulate. The EU wants to police the internet and, like the U.S., has a series of new rules in place which will effectively allow it to shut down those on social media whose content does not correspond with its own narrative. Yet this letter from Breton is not the first and it would appear that the European Commission has a fatal attraction to Musk who seems hell-bent on humiliating Brussels in the months to come.

In July, Breton announced that the European Commission considered X to be in violation of the DSA and claimed it was poised to his X with massive fines unless it agreed to restrictions on “hate speech” and “misinformation.” According to Musk, there was a dirty deal on offer by the Commission. “The European Commission offered X an illegal secret deal: if we quietly censored speech without telling anyone, they would not fine us,” Musk wrote in response. “The other platforms accepted that deal. X did not.” Breton vocally denied the existence of such an offer, but Musk replied he was looking forward to “a very public battle in court, so that the people of Europe can know the truth.” These two letters show that the European Commission considers both Trump and far-right groups on X to be a major obstacle to its ambitions and even its longer-term stability.

Presently, the European Commission is frantically backpedalling and carrying out a face-saving operation as if it were to be established that doing such dirty deals in smoke-filled rooms with huge U.S. firms was the norm, the fallout and damage to the EU’s reputation could be immeasurable, perhaps prompting a mass resignation of all its commissioners like in 1999 when they had to resign under a cloud of corruption allegations. Some may argue that Ursula von der Leyen is also inept for not even being in the loop about the French letters but few would be shocked to learn that she has an ephemeral control of the Commission even on a good day and perhaps it was a blessing that she was kept out of the spotlight, given that she has her fair share of graft allegations and cases pending against her.

“..the few “rabid” nationalists remaining in Ukraine “no longer set the trend,” therefore, the country has been “de-nazified..”

• Most Ukrainians ‘Hate’ Zelensky – Lukashenko (RT)

The Ukrainian government is out of touch with its own people, who do not want to die in the conflict with Russia, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has said, adding that Vladimir Zelensky has lost the support of the majority of the people. In an interview with Russia 1 TV released on Sunday, Lukashenko claimed that Kiev’s neo-Nazi ideology does not resonate with the population of the country. “There are no longer any Nazis,” he said, arguing that the few “rabid” nationalists remaining in Ukraine “no longer set the trend,” therefore, the country has been “de-nazified” – one of the stated goals of Moscow’s military operation in the neighboring state

According to Lukashenko, around 70% of Ukrainians “hate Zelensky because he promises one thing and does another; because people are dying.” He did not elaborate on the statistics behind his estimates, but noted that his nation has recently faced a large inflow of Ukrainians of fighting age who are “fleeing from the war” with their families.Belarus provides some of them with work and accommodation, Lukashenko said, while others have moved on to Western nations. “Out of them, 99% are men who do not want to fight.” Poll results published by the Kiev International Institute of Sociology in early June indicate that around 43% of Ukrainians believe democracy is in decline under Zelensky. Of those, 28% blame the government, while 11% pointed to the conflict with Russia as the main cause.

Almost half of the respondents said that economic conditions, including transparency and the government’s fairness towards businesses, have worsened during Zelensky’s rule. Zelensky remains in power despite his term officially expiring on May 20. He canceled this year’s election, citing martial law which he imposed due to the conflict. Russian President Vladimir Putin has argued that the Ukrainian leader’s legitimacy as president has expired. According to the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), Zelensky’s approval rating stood at 17% even before his term formally ended. “Over 70% of the public distrusts all Ukrainian media, while about 90% would like to leave the country,” the SVR said in May, adding that the situation has sparked concerns among Kiev’s Western backers as well.

“..Putin said there can be no talks with those “who conduct indiscriminate strikes on civilians.”

• Moscow Denies WaPo Claims About Secret Russia-Ukraine Talks (RT)

Russia and Ukraine have not been involved in any “direct or indirect” talks that could have been derailed by Kiev’s cross-borer incursion into Kursk Region, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told journalists on Sunday. She was asked to comment on a Washington Post article which claimed, citing sources, that the Ukrainian attack thwarted secret indirect negotiations between Moscow and Kiev regarding a potential moratorium on striking energy infrastructure. The supposed talks were said to be mediated by Qatar, the outlet wrote on Saturday. “No one has derailed anything,” Zakharova said, explaining that the two sides have not discussed any “security regimes” for critical infrastructure facilities. She went on to say that threats to energy facilities such as the nuclear power stations in Zaporozhye and Kursk come from Kiev, not Moscow.

Earlier, a Russian journalist had reported that Kiev was plotting a “false flag” attack involving a dirty nuclear bomb either at the nuclear plant in Zaporozhye or Kursk. Commenting on the matter, the Russian Defense Ministry said it takes such reports seriously and vowed a swift and harsh response to any such attacks. Moscow has called on the UN to condemn the alleged plot, while Kiev has denied the claims. According to Zakharova, Moscow and Kiev have not engaged in any talks since spring 2022, except for prisoner exchanges facilitated by third-party mediators. Peace talks held over the first months of the conflict collapsed after Kiev withdrew from them due to what Moscow claims was Western interference. Ukraine had “all the chances” to resolve the conflict through negotiations, the spokeswoman said. Moscow repeatedly stated that it was ready to enter into negotiations at any moment as long as the situation on the ground was taken into account.

Kiev banned any talks with the current Russian leadership at the national level through a presidential decree signed in 2022. The move came after four former Ukrainian regions voted overwhelmingly to join Russia. This June, Moscow put forward another peace initiative, Zakharova noted. At the time, President Vladimir Putin said Russia was ready to immediately open peace talks with Kiev if it withdrew its troops from the four regions that joined Russia in 2022 and committed to maintaining neutral status. According to Zakharova, Kiev reacted to this “goodwill gesture” by launching an incursion into Kursk Region, where Ukrainian forces were “deliberately killing medics, rescuers, and volunteers, as well as attacking civilian transport.” In the wake of the attack, Putin said there can be no talks with those “who conduct indiscriminate strikes on civilians.”

“..the SS battalions in the Baltic States (as in the Netherlands, Belgium and France) consisted of volunteers, that is what is said in their files. In Estonia it consisted of 70,000 men who joined the SS.”

• The Baltic States And Finland Are Ruled By Nazis (Sonja van den Ende)

This article will show you how much the Baltic states and Finland have been radicalized and can be called fascist states, they themselves call it democracy, not realizing that they are fascist and follow the principles of National Socialism as was preached by the German political party NSDAP (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei) which was led by Adolf Hitler in the 1930s and 1940s. Recently there was yet another incident, one of many, this time in Estonia, where in the town of Johvi the monument of two SS veterans from the Second World War was taken out of the cellars of the museum, cleaned up and put on display again. Georg Sooden was a volunteer in the SS 20th Estonian Division (The Waffen-Grenadier-Division der SS).

About 70,000 mostly volunteers fought in this battalion, mainly against the Russian Red Army, notably in the battle of Krivasoo. Georg Sooden was killed in this battle as was his comrade Raul Jüriado also mentioned on the monument. A member of the Johvi council inaugurated the monument. In the Western information and/or media there is hardly any talk about these kinds of incidents and in particular the Baltic States have always defended themselves with the argument that they were “forced” to fight for the Nazis. But the Germans are known for their accuracy to document everything, so they did in this specific topic as well, the SS battalions in the Baltic States (as in the Netherlands, Belgium and France) consisted of volunteers, that is what is said in their files. In Estonia it consisted of 70,000 men who joined the SS.

In Latvia it was the 1st Latvia 15th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS together with the 2nd Latvia 19th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS it was called the Latvia Legion and consisted of 87,500 men. Lithuania did not officially have a Waffen SS battalion, but called itself the Lithuanian Territorial Defense Force. But there was something else, something very terrible about the Lithuanians, most of them collaborated as policemen and carried out raids on Jews, Communists and dissidents. Almost all Jews of Lithuania were killed in the second world war, by Lithuanians, who carried out the executions. Lithuania is the southernmost of the Baltic states. During the Holocaust, about 90 percent of all Lithuanian Jews were murdered, one of the highest victim rates in Eastern Europe, the Netherlands had the highest victims rate of Western Europe.

In 2023 the BBC conducted an investigation in Lithuania and made a documentary (Dailymotion) in which the presenter went in search of the horrors of the Holocaust and found out that almost all Lithuanians were involved in the Holocaust and to this day it is NOT ALLOWED to be talked about. Also, all the SS bataljons mentioned were perpetrators in the siege of Leningrad (St. Petersburg) and Operation Barbarossa in Russia, killing and murdering Russians, Jews, Communists and dissidents. But history is being rewritten, Latvia (and the other states as well) is trying to do this with the help of all kinds of European Union funds. Latvia is a full member of the EU and can simply continue to spew its Russian hatred, conceal and justify the Holocaust committed by its own people. There is a whole site created with the help of the EU about the Baltic States with information (revisionism) about the Baltic States, the foundation is paid by the European Union. No word about this revisionism which took place after their independence in 1991 by other Western EU states.

Finland is a different story, they didn’t have such a big SS battalion during WWII, but since WWII they represent a fascist attitude, both politicians and citizens, especially against Russia. Recently, Finnish President Alexander Stubb spoke on CNN and stated “I felt that there was a potential existential threat coming from Russia”. An interview on his return to politics. He literally says in the interview that the “road to peace goes through the battlefield.” He is bragging along and says that Finland has the highest percentage in Europe, about eighty percent who are willing to die for their fatherland. Referring to the fear he says, fear lives in Finland when “Russia (always referring to President Putin) invaded Ukraine”. He also says that Finland tried to cooperate with Russia after the Cold War (1991) but it didn’t work, because Russia is not a “normal” state that respects the law!

Under threat: 80 percent of its grain production, 70 percent of its dairy supplies and 40 percent of its meat supply.

• Hezbollah Has $150 Bln in Israeli Infrastructure in Its Sights (Sp.)

Tensions between Israel and the Lebanese political and militant group Hezbollah are a hair’s breadth away from a full-scale war amid back and forth border skirmishes, Israeli threats of an “extremely powerful” military operation and the assassination of a senior Hezbollah commander in Beirut last month. Hezbollah reportedly has enough missile and drone firepower to wipe out up as much as $150 billion of key Israeli economic, industrial and food-growing facilities and assets in the country’s northern regions if tensions escalate into a full-scale confrontation. Estimates by Iranian media suggest the Lebanese militia’s capabilities threaten the “economic heart of Israel,” an area in the country’s north accounting for some 80 percent of its grain production, 70 percent of its dairy supplies and 40 percent of its meat supply.

A Hezbollah response to aggression targeting Israeli agribusiness giants like Tnuva or Adom may “paralyze” Israel’s food market, the report suggests. Over 60 percent of Israel’s oil refining and fuel production capacity is said to be concentrated around Acre Port, about 35 km south from the Lebanese border. That puts those sensitive economic targets in range of nearly all of Hezbollah’s known arsenal of missiles and drones. Drones have proven highly effective in overcoming Israel’s sophisticated air defense network — which is designed to handle an array of high-speed ballistic and cruise missile threats, but has proven less efficient in targeting slow-moving aerial vehicles flying close to the ground. Hezbollah released a video Friday showing off a large underground missile base, with the video said to send a “clear message” to Israel that “the resistance in Lebanon today” has weapons, equipment, capabilities and capabilities “stronger than at any time” since its creation.

Footage shows a tunnel network wide enough to drive rocket-launching trucks through, and disguised launch sites from which missiles can be launched without their carriers having to emerge to the surface. “Israel will face a destiny and reality it didn’t expect any day. War with [Hezbollah] extends across all of Palestine from the Lebanese border to the Jordanian border. To the Red Sea, to Kiryat Shmona, to Eilat,” the group warned. “These targets are in our possession, and these missiles are placed, deployed and focused on targets in perfect security,” the text accompanying the video added. Israeli media dubbed the clip “just the tip of the iceberg,” as far as Hezbollah’s true capabilities are concerned, with Jerusalem Post contributor Seth J. Frantzman suggesting the militia tends to play “its cards close to its chest, revealing its capabilities slowly and only showing a part of what it has.”

“Estonia, Finland and the Netherlands have led the charge in cashless payments. In these countries, cash accounted for less than half of P2P transactions..”

• Many Germans Remain Uneasy Over Prospect of Looming Digital Euro (Sp.)

The European Central Bank began the “preparation phase” for the rollout of its ‘digital euro’ central bank digital currency (CBDC) scheme last October, but has held off on its implementation. In April, Deutsche Bundesbank president Joachim Nagel assured that “it may take another four or five years before [the CBDC] is actually implemented.” Cash-loving Germans are leading the charge in opposition to the digital euro among Europeans, with just under half saying they “probably” or “definitely” won’t use the new payment system if or when it arrives. A survey by the Forsa Institute for Social Research and Statistical Analysis on behalf of Deutsche Bundesbank found that while 15% of respondents said they “definitely” would use the digital euro, and 35% are ready to give it a whirl, 25% “definitely won’t use” it, and 24% “probably won’t use” it. One percent of respondents were undecided. The representative survey queried 2,012 people this past April.

Germans are among the leaders in Europe when it comes to the ‘cash-is-king’ mentality, holding on to 500 euro notes long after other EU members’ central banks had dropped them. In 2019, a Bundesbank poll found that 88% of Germans would continue to prefer paying cash even after the 500 euro bill was no longer issued, with the note popular for large purchases. In the EU, the share of cash in P2P payments was above 80% in Germany, Cyprus, Slovenia, Greece, Italy and Austria in 2022. Estonia, Finland and the Netherlands have led the charge in cashless payments. In these countries, cash accounted for less than half of P2P transactions, according to European Central Bank data.
Germans and other Europeans have an array of concerns regarding CBDCs, from privacy and control over finances to fears of overdependence on technology in general.

The European Central Bank’s assurances that the new currency will remain private and secure using encryption and hashing don’t seem to assuage concerns, particularly among older generations. The European Central Bank is expected to make a decision on whether or not to implement the digital euro scheme by late 2025, although some of the region’s top bankers suggest its implementation may be put off, possibly until closer to the end of the decade. Unlike decentralized digital currencies like Bitcoin (which come with their own risks) CBDCs have garnered their share of criticism related to their centralization – specifically fears over finance-related censorship, increasing centralization and politicized control over spending and savings.

Proponents say the technology will promote innovation in payments, keep central banks central to monetary systems, encourage “social responsibility,” including through the potential programming of currencies to be spent only on a list of approved goods or services, ease the doling out of government assistance, and potentially even simplify financial transactions between countries as a workaround to sanctions. In the US, where opposition to state economic control is even stronger in some states than in European countries, opposition to CBDCs has taken on a political dimension, with former president and Republican nominee for president Donald Trump embracing Bitcoin and vowing to block the creation of a digital dollar on the campaign trail.

All their “leading”politicians are hated.

• UK PM’s Approval Rating Down 26 Percentage Points Since Election (Sp.)

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s approval rating has fallen 26 percentage points since early July when he took office and 10 percentage points since early August, a poll conducted by the Opinium market research agency and The Observer newspaper has found. “Starmer’s net approval ratings are -7%, down 10 points from +3 at the beginning of August and down a hefty 26 points from +19% in his first approval rating as PM,” Opinium said on X on Saturday. In addition, 29% of Britons have a less favorable view of the Labour Party since its election victory, while 24% tend to view it more favorably, the poll showed. At the same time, former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s rating is at -30%, according to the survey. On August 11, The Telegraph newspaper reported that Starmer’s approval rating had fallen to its lowest level since the election amid widespread unrest in the country, citing a survey by sociological and consulting firm Savanta.

On August 6, YouGov released a study showing that almost half of the British population thought Starmer was doing a poor job in dealing with mass unrest. In late July, mass protests broke out in many cities in the UK after a 17-year-old teenager attacked children with a knife in the city of Southport. Three children were killed, several more children and two adults were taken to hospital in critical condition. The protests escalated into clashes with police and riots after rumors that the attacker was a refugee. It later became known that the attacker was born in the UK to migrants from Rwanda. Hundreds of people were detained, dozens of police officers were injured during the riots organized by supporters of far-right groups.

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August 19, 2024 at 10:50 pm #166919

John Day
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Protesters hit Chicago streets over Gaza at Democratic National Convention
Thousands of pro-Palestinian protesters marched through Chicago on Monday as the Democratic National Convention began. The crowd was significantly smaller than predicted, and remained largely peaceful aside from scattered shoving matches between groups.
There were no arrests by mid-afternoon, but several dozen demonstrators appeared to be courting handcuffs as they broke away from the march and broke through the first ring of security fencing at the United Center, where President Joe Biden was scheduled to speak Monday night.
An animated line of marchers had set off down a major street lined with schools and three-story brownstones, less than a mile from the United Center − site of the convention’s main event − as a police helicopter hovered overhead and demonstrators chanted, “Free Palestine.” https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/08/19/protests-chicago-dnc-convention/74820242007/

What will the deal actually be? Netanyahu wants the hostages back so he can finish the genocide. IDF Expands Gaza Operations As Blinken Arrives For 9th Visit To Israel https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/idf-expands-gaza-operations-blinken-arrives-9th-visit-israel

Israel massacres Gaza family following two days of ‘constructive’ ceasefire talks
An Israeli airstrike killed 15 members of the Ajlah family in Gaza early Saturday, including nine children
Ahmed Abu al-Ghoul, a local who witnessed the bombing, told AFP that three rockets hit the building the family was sheltering in while women and children were inside.
“What have they done to deserve this?” he asked.
Al-Jazeera added that an Israeli quadcopter shot a six-year-old boy in the head, killing him as he slept in a tent in Hamad City, west of Khan Younis in southern Gaza.
Israel’s latest massacres come one day after two days of negotiations in Doha for a ceasefire-prisoner exchange deal between Israel and Hamas. https://thecradle.co/articles/israel-massacres-gaza-family-following-two-days-of-constructive-ceasefire-talks

Media Claim “Hamas Rejects …” Deal That’s Not Offered [The Israeli ”offer” is to keep troops in Gaza, blocking the Egyptian border, until they get the hostages back.]
More specifically, Hamas objects to the fact that the proposal doesn’t include a permanent ceasefire or comprehensive Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip.
There is no ceasefire deal. How then could Hamas reject a ceasefire deal?
There is only a potential agreement on a pause in the fighting to hand over to Israel the hostages it wants to retrieve. Which is nothing anyone in the situation in Gaza could agree to. https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/08/hamas-rejects-.html

Israeli evacuation orders shut 10 wells, worsening water crisis in Gaza
Ismail Sarsour, head of the municipality’s Emergency Committee, told Anadolu: “The new Israeli evacuation orders for eastern Deir al-Balah have effectively taken 10 out of 19 wells out of service.” “Access to three other wells west of Salah al-Din Street has become hazardous,” Sarsour stated.
He emphasized that the water situation in Deir al-Balah will become extremely dire in the coming days, especially with the shutdown of the eastern wells, which serve as a critical water supply for areas west of Salah al-Din Street, including the city center. https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240817-israeli-evacuation-orders-shut-10-wells-worsening-water-crisis-in-gaza/

August 19, 2024 at 10:54 pm #166920

John Day
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Doha talks just aimed at buying time to delay Iran’s response
“They are buying time to delay Iran’s legitimate response to the Israeli regime’s clear aggression in violating the sovereignty of the Islamic Republic of Iran,” said Mohammad Soltanifar, the head of the Office for the Protection of the Interests of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Cairo. He said that the Doha negotiations, which one of the leaders of Hamas called a “waste of time”, did not yield results as could be predicted. https://en.mehrnews.com/news/219633/Doha-talks-just-aimed-at-buying-time-to-delay-Iran-s-response

Thousands protest against Netanyahu gov. in Tel Aviv
Thousands of people once again held a massive demonstration on Saturday against the Prime Minister of the usurping Israeli regime, Benjamin Netanyahu.
This demonstration was held on the Kaplan Street in central Tel Aviv and the protesters demanded to reach an agreement with Hamas for the release of the prisoners.
The families of the Israeli captives, who are strongly protesting the policies and wasting of time by Netanyahu and his cabinet, stated the talks in Doha to reach a prisoners release agreement is the last chance to return their children to them. The Israeli families stated that the majority of Israelis, security institutions and Americans agree with a prisoner swap agreement, while a hardliner minority prevents it. https://en.mehrnews.com/news/219675/Thousands-protest-against-Netanyahu-gov-in-Tel-Aviv

Lebanon completely loses power – energy company
All “essential facilities” are down after a fuel shortage shut down the country’s last power plant https://www.rt.com/news/602737-lebanon-total-blackout-fuel/

Hezbollah can destroy $150bn worth of Israeli assets
The area is viewed as the economic heart of Israel as it is responsible for 80% of the grain supply, some 40% of the meat supply and 70% of dairy supply to the inhabitants of the Israeli-occupied territories, said the report.
Any attack by Hezbollah on companies like Adom, a major meat supplier, and Tnuva, a large dairy company, would paralyze the food market in Israel, it said.
More than 60% of Israel’s oil refining and fuel production capacity is scattered around the port of Acre near the border with Lebanon which is responsible for processing the entire imports of energy. https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2024/08/17/731552/Hezbollah-Lebanon-Israel-war-economic-losses

Europe planning Abraham Accords II
France, Germany, and Britain intend to join the 146 countries recognizing Palestine as a state, contingent upon significant concessions from Iran, including its recognition of Israel and a halt to support for Resistance groups in Palestine, Lebanon, Iraq, and Syria, according to information obtained by the Tehran Times.
The initiative proposed by Paris and endorsed by London and Berlin aims to offer additional protections for Israel but does not establish any conditions to safeguard Palestinians against Israel’s apartheid policies in the occupied territories, its massacres in Gaza, the abuse of Palestinian prisoners, or the growing number of illegal settlements in the West Bank. https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/502585/Exclusive-Europe-planning-Abraham-Accords-II

August 19, 2024 at 10:55 pm #166921

John Day
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He has no choice. Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry denies Russian allegations of planned “dirty bomb” strikes https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/08/16/7470747/

Was Qatar Secretly Mediating a Partial Russian-Ukrainian Ceasefire Before Kursk?
The Washington Post (WaPo) reported on Saturday that Qatar was secretly mediating a partial Russian-Ukrainian ceasefire before Kiev’s sneak attack against Kursk, which would have seen both sides agree not to target each other’s energy infrastructure. The Kremlin hadn’t commented by the time of that article’s publication nor this present one so it’s unclear how truthful it is. https://www.globalresearch.ca/qatar-mediating-partial-russian-ukrainian-ceasefire/5865608

Moscow denies WaPo claims about secret Russia-Ukraine talks
Kiev has had multiple opportunities to engage in negotiations but has rejected them, the Foreign Ministry has said https://swentr.site/russia/602764-moscow-deny-secret-talks-claims/

Nord Stream: Scapegoating Rogue General to Exonerate Zelensky [This story is physically impossible due to extreme depth requiring advanced tech.]
The asinine report claims the Nord Stream gas pipelines, providing Russian natural gas to European countries before the war, were blown up by a six-member Ukrainian sabotage team of skilled deep-sea divers in an operation that was initially approved by Volodymyr Zelensky and then called off, but which went ahead anyway, likely due to a communication glitch in the Starlink video conferencing or a “terrible misunderstanding” between the president of the banana republic and his top military commander.
According to the outlet’s “credible but phantasmagorical” sources, the idea of blowing up Nord Stream was conceived by “a handful of senior Ukrainian military officers and businessmen” as they gathered for drinks in May 2022, a few months after the outbreak of the conflict between Moscow and Kyiv. The plotters believed that it would reduce Russia’s energy revenues and make the EU less dependent on Moscow.
The subversive operation was allegedly directed by a serving army general, who reported to Ukraine’s then commander in chief, Valery Zaluzhny. Zelensky initially approved the plan, but later backtracked after the CIA found out about it and asked Kyiv to call it off. Nonetheless, Zaluzhny pressed ahead with the mission, claiming once dispatched, a sabotage team goes incommunicado and cannot be withdrawn. https://www.globalresearch.ca/nord-stream-scapegoating-rogue-general-exonerate-zelensky/5865463

“Everybody” pretends it’s true: Ukraine Must Pay Germany Back For Damage From Nord Stream Bombing: Bundestag Lawmaker
In the wake of the latest revelations, member of the German Bundestag, co-chair of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party Alice Weidel has been among the loudest Berlin officials in denouncing Kiev. She is calling for Ukraine to compensate Germany for the damage caused to its economy as a result of the September 26, 2022 underwater bombings. https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/ukraine-must-pay-germany-back-damage-nord-stream-bombing-bundestag-lawmaker

August 19, 2024 at 10:55 pm #166922

John Day
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Not quite everybody… Lavrov Says ‘Clear’ That US Ordered Nord Stream Attacks, Demands Answers From Germany
Russia is calling out the last several days of Western media reporting on the Nord Stream gas pipeline bombing as essentially a limited hangout.
Suddenly all of this ‘new information’ has come out of the German investigation and leaked to the press, and seems by design an attempt to shield both the Ukrainian president and Washington from any culpability, as we’ve been detailing. Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has responded to the WSJ’s recent reporting, saying Monday it was “clear” the US ordered the Sept 2022 attacks on the vital Russia to Germany gas pipelines. https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/lavrov-says-clear-us-ordered-nord-stream-attacks-demands-answers-germany

Gilbert Doctorow, America’s JASSM air to ground stealth missiles and Russian plans to use tactical nukes [Transnistria and Moldova may become war zones.]
The latest development worthy of discussion in last night’s edition of the talk show is the likely fitting of America’s air to ground JASSM missiles on the F16s that have been and will continue to be delivered to Ukraine.
The acronym of this Lockheed produced weapon stands for Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile and its salient features are its range and its nearly undetectable characteristics in flight. The missile apparently has two basic variants, one for approximately 400 km and the other for 900 km.
The logic for fitting a couple of these missiles on an F-16 is to enable the jet to strike deep into Russia, as far as Moscow and beyond, even if they fly well back from the Russia-controlled territory in Ukraine to be safe from Moscow’s advanced air defense systems…
..From the Russian perspective, as explained on ‘The Great Game,’ when Washington says it is considering delivery of the JASSM to Ukraine, that means that the weapons have already been shipped to Poland and/or Romania for handover to Kiev. It may also mean that these missiles are already in Ukraine. And this poses an entirely unacceptable threat which Russia is obliged to neutralize.
In practical terms, the only way to stop JASSM in flight is to destroy the F-16s that launch them. What this means is for Russia to use tactical nuclear weapons against the air bases hosting the F-16s. These are most likely in Moldova and/or Romania.
Moldova is not yet a NATO member, so the consequences of such a Russian attack would be mitigated. Romania is a full NATO member and should it be struck, the final red line, the Rubicon, will have been crossed and there will be no turning back from WWIII...
..Postscript, 19 August: I have received several letters from astute readers who asky why Russia would use tactical nuclear arms to destroy F-16s on the ground in Romania or Moldova when its conventionally-tipped Iskander missiles could do the job.
The use of nukes against, say, airports in Moldova or Romania,is directly connected to the ongoing revision of Russia’s nuclear doctrine and it heads precisely in line with the recommendations of Sergei Karaganov 15 months ago: it is to send a message to the whole of NATO not to even think of continuing escalation in its now open war on Russia. It is a political message, not a military necessity. https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2024/08/17/americas-jassm-air-to-ground-stealth-missiles-and-russian-plans-to-use-tactical-nukes/

Watchdog Group Says FBI is Hiding Records on Trump Assassination Attempt [They have no choice but to cover up the failed Secret Service/DHS Assassination.]
The FBI cited FOIA exemption 7(A) to protect ongoing enforcement proceedings surrounding the incident on July 13 in Butler, PA, when gunman Thomas Crooks was able to shoot at Trump despite being spotted behaving suspiciously hours beforehand.
Judicial Watch sent an FOIA request on July 26th asking the FBI to produce all relevant documents pertaining to its preparation and coordination with the Secret Service for Trump’s rally.
However, the group has been stonewalled by the FBI, leaving questions as to why there was seemingly a delay in taking out Crooks before the shooting unanswered.
“Why is the FBI hiding records on its and the Secret Service’s failures to protect Trump?” asked Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton. “The Biden-Harris administration is covering up the near assassination of former President Trump.” https://modernity.news/2024/08/19/watchdog-group-says-fbi-is-hiding-records-on-trump-assassination-attempt/

The Slog, John Ward, asserts that before rigging the November election, the stage is being set by rigging the opinion polls, so that the ordained outcome will appear plausible.
Explosive: Kamala’s plan to corrupt POTUS opinion polls [Well, it is most likely somebody else’s plan.]
So how do they hope not to get caught in the act of this illegal attempt at electorate conditioning?
Well, I’m not 100% on this one as yet. But asking a question of one EU-based journalist last Thursday morning, I was genuinely shaken to hear accusations that Team Kamala has acquired the services of at least one European research conglomerate with a view to designing questionnaires in order to get the response they want…. be that intention to vote per se, or preferences between candidates where the “weighting” of importance is judged on a five-point scale of likelihood to go for Trump or Harris.
I have no wish to blind with science here: practitioners in the field, however, will know immediately what I’m on about. That is, a subtle use of directional questioning in a survey whose intrinsic bias goes unnoticed towards being ‘A vote for the Candidate’, when it should be recorded as ‘Pro Candidate but vote not guaranteed’.
This could be seen as analyst error, or reflecting the philosophy of the pollster organisation, or even something accurate in relation to what the original respondent went on to do after the survey. The point is, constitutional illegality would be impossible to prove. The survey was “merely” using decades of experience to judge the future actions of American voters.
But whichever way you cut it, the word I’m getting is that the post-Cretin USSS White House is trying to offshore the operation. https://therealslog.com/2024/08/18/explosive-kamalas-plan-to-corrupt-potus-opinion-polls/

Scott Ritter: A Farewell to Truth The FBI illegally confiscated 24 boxes of unclassified records from Scott Ritter, the only independent copies of the Iraq “Weapons of Mass Destruction” investigation, and proof that there were none. These have always substantiated his statements contradicting government narrative. https://scheerpost.com/2024/08/17/scott-ritter-a-farewell-to-truth/

August 19, 2024 at 10:57 pm #166923

John Day
Participant

Charles Hugh Smith, on how the “wealthy” become unsafe when they have robbed a society to the point of breakdown. The Super-Wealthy Have a Problem
The less self-congratulatory camp of the super-wealthy understand the pressure cooker of inequality and unfairness is going to blow unless they relinquish some of their unearned gains generated by Fed policies. https://www.oftwominds.com/blogaug24/super-wealthy8-24.html

Josh Mitteldorf on hidden forms of cooperation in the Political-Economy Ecosystem: Science and Politics, Libertarian and Socialist
The key insight, which came clear to me only gradually is that
All animal communities share common pools of food species that they depend on. It is an existential threat to the community if the food species is depleted by overconsumption. All animal communities are highly motivated to cooperate in the preservation of their food pool.
Individual animals must back off from what would otherwise be their most direct path to selective success, i.e., to eat as much as possible, turn the food into reproductive capacity, and thus dominate the gene pool of the next generation (which is the neo-Darwinist definition of fitness).
The direct result of cooperation over the prey pool is to curb predation. But once it is established that no individual can maximize his evolutionary advantage, the knock-on effect is to encourage a spectrum of different cooperative behaviors. As I said, this insight gelled for me only over the course of several years...
..The “social contract” idea is that we participate in society and consent to be governed by rules because we have more to gain, in the way of safety and prosperity, than we have to lose in the way of limits on our freedom.
I dissent from this view. Sure, there are people who will deceive you or steal from you at every opportunity. They’re called sociopaths and they represent 2-5% of the population, depending who you ask. In East Asia, the percentages are considerably under 1%. [Sociopaths like killing lots of people from time to time, to stop “overgrazing”.]
Most people find meaning in life primarily from social relationships. We are highly motivated to cooperate. We feel good when we can be of service.
Cooperation and work for the common good — this is how we are wired. Freed from destitution and freed from government coercion, most of us would choose service over selfishness. https://mitteldorf.substack.com/p/science-and-politics-libertarian

Steve Kirsch, New Oxford study shows ONLY the kids who took the COVID shots had heart problems and died, We now know kids should NOT get the COVID vaccine. https://kirschsubstack.com/p/new-oxford-study-shows-only-the-kids

Nobody got hurt. The kids were alright. They voiced insights. They went camping, too. 10 Teens Gave Up Smartphones for a Month. Here’s What Happened
British journalist Decca Aitkenhead offered a compelling glimpse into how digital detox can transform young lives — and maybe address what social psychologist Jonathan Haidt, Ph.D., calls “the anxious generation.” https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/teens-smartphones-one-month-digital-detox/

Deep, dark, “Antichrist” questions refuse to depart. Pope Francis Orders Humanity to Follow ‘Universal Bishop’ Klaus Schwab During ‘End Times’ https://thepeoplesvoice.tv/pope-frances-orders-humanity-to-follow-universal-bishop-klaus-schwab-during-end-times/

August 19, 2024 at 10:57 pm #166924

John Day
Participant

Kyle Young expounds a bit on ancient laws, still in effect with global elites: Smart meters, 5G, jabs, geoengineering – Here’s how to shut it all down
Cal had been researching law and found that many of the old laws that predate our burdensome, modern legal system actually have jurisdiction over the newer, more complicated legal procedures that require lawyers, courts and juries. Cal and Josh joined forces to educate the public about how to use a Notice of Liability (NoL), derived from ancient Law Merchant, to force utility companies to replace dangerous smart meters with the older, safer, analogue meters.
I found their discussion about the old laws fascinating. In fact, I was so taken that I reached out to ask them if NoL’s could be applied to other areas. https://secularheretic.substack.com/p/smart-meters-5g-jabs-geoengineering

A very interesting premise that WE may already be ”quantum computing”… Photon entanglement could explain the rapid brain signals behind consciousness
Understanding the nature of consciousness is one of the hardest problems in science. Some scientists have suggested that quantum mechanics, and in particular quantum entanglement, is the key to unraveling the phenomenon.
Now, a research group in China has shown that many entangled photons can be generated inside the myelin sheath that covers nerve fibers. It could explain the rapid communication between neurons, which so far has been thought to be below the speed of sound, too slow to explain how the neural synchronization occurs.
The paper is published in the journal Physical Review E.
“If the power of evolution was looking for handy action over a distance, quantum entanglement would be [an] ideal candidate for this role,” said Yong-Cong Chen in a statement to Phys.org. https://phys.org/news/2024-08-photon-entanglement-rapid-brain-consciousness.html

That Paper: Entangled biphoton generation in the myelin sheath
Abstract
Consciousness within the brain hinges on the synchronized activities of millions of neurons, but the mechanism responsible for orchestrating such synchronization remains elusive. In this study we employ cavity quantum electrodynamics to explore entangled biphoton generation through cascade emission in the vibration spectrum of C-H bonds within the lipid molecules’ tails. The results indicate that the cylindrical cavity formed by a myelin sheath can facilitate spontaneous photon emission from the vibrational modes and generate a significant number of entangled photon pairs. The abundance of C-H bond vibration units in neurons can therefore serve as a source of quantum entanglement resources for the nervous system. These findings may offer insight into the brain’s ability to leverage these resources for quantum information transfer, thereby elucidating a potential source for the synchronized activity of neurons. https://journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevE.110.024402

August 19, 2024 at 11:20 pm #166925

D Benton Smith
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A common misconception among thieves, present company excepted, of course, is that stealing things provides a net gain to the thief. It does not. Stealing always results in net loss to the thief. Every time. No exceptions. It also comes as a surprise to most that the loss is instantaneously immediate, starting at precisely the same moment that the theft is committed. That fact usually gets overlooked because the EFFECTS of the instantaneous loss are spread out over time (typically a LONG time) and only felt in their full agony after the cause of the agony is long forgotten.

When a person steals from another they become a thief, with a secret that must be kept and excommunicate themselves not only fromn their victim but from everybody else who might otherwise have been a friend (but must now be treated as adversaries. And it’s just all downhill from there, forever, actually. The penalty is also forever, and the effects are cumulative. Eventually they can only associate and find comradery amongst other thieves, who they know for a fact to be unworthy of trust of any kind.

Crime pays, alright, but not in the coin that the criminal expects.

August 19, 2024 at 11:23 pm #166926
Dr D Rich
Participant
Is Tom Luongo lurking locally as Dr D?

(((I foremost like my alliteration and I dearly miss the jew-advocates, equally beleaguered indeed, but goddammit, yahwehdammit Israel’s got nothing to do with ((them)), right?))

Luongo: “What If Kamala Harris Isn’t an Idiot?”(Tom Luongo)

Because political intelligence is a thing idiot sons of idiot fathers and moron mothers of moronic daughters DO to exercise a thing, 160 IQ that the rest of us can’t understand because 1. We don’t have it and 2. We never experienced as non-offsoring of idiot parents.

Ex post facto reasoning like Harvard Business School ‘business case study’?
Tautology?
Rigged game?
Stock market ‘market makers’?
Tipping the scales?
Fraud and criminality are not just those things to charged, tried, fined, punished and imprisoned?

From my USNA Class those Special Theys conferred Admiral Stars on Maude Young and Jan Chin of Tighe fame and rumor has it a PhD or two when if their underwhelming undergraduste and junior officer performance was not noteworthy at any point my question isn’t who fixed it in the end for them BUT how did they know to wait until the end to turn on the jets?]

It’s better to have friends and drinking buddies but those contemporaries are not The Selector.

Dave Tam. Flunked half his med school classes, flunked National Boards all parts, failed Peds boards and was ?2nd in line to be CEO Brigham and Women’s instead of Beebe healthcare.

Frank Crespo flunked every Calculus course at USNA, dropped out of flight school but was a shoe in for Harvard MBA and CFO Caterpillar before its financial irregularities.

Michelle Howard ditto 4-star
Lisa Franchetti CNO journalist ditto.

Leadership most certainly isn’t a popularity contest among your subordinates

That IS 12 steps on the program to Dr d’s “nobody’s perfect so don’t expect to get anything done” rarefied logic.

How does anyone unpack the following?:
Yeah, that’s the only possibility other than she stumbled into it in a system that abandoned achievement, qualification and experience a long time ago.

And then this?:
Does the latter mean after the fact, should the U.S. go to war against Iran, then we all have to conclude like Luongo surmised and Tam, Crespo, Chin, Young, Howard proved separately that Shrewd Lewandowski formulated good narrative about an American’s Patriotic duty to annihilate Iran on behalf of rich Jews, Zionists and an Israeli or two? That dullards bought the shtick?

Pre-Post-Facto anyone?
Or Ex-Pre-Facto?
August 20, 2024 at 1:55 am #166930

those darned kids
Participant

“When I worked out the purchase of studio monitors (KRK Rockit 6’s) from my call center coworker in the call center parking lot, handed him cash, and he gave me the monitors, while each of us was forthcomingly honest and not holding any threat over each other, capitalism occurred.”

very nice. unfortunately, such quaint notions will soon to be obliterated by capitalist cbdc.

again, easy on the micro level, impossible on the macro level.

any governmental/economic system, whichever it may be, will always be gamed.

August 20, 2024 at 6:08 am #166931

Dr D Rich
Participant

More Drd Capitalism, Bayesian SuperYacht?

1 in 8.7 Americand live in Poverty….that’s a cool 38 million.
That just doesn’t spring forth like Manna from the free market, eh D!

That’s 10 years lost life per 38 million.
Or 380 million man-years but but but not capitalism’s fault or what about Stalin and Pol Pot.
Good point!

Here read it:

Mapped: Poverty Rates by U.S State

The there’s the victorious billionaire fraudster Lynch superyacht being smote/smited by D’s White Hatted Hand O God!
As the Catholics say “Holy Christ, Jesus!” And right after acquittal where I suppose oaths were administered on someone’s bible equivalent.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13758549/Inside-doomed-superyacht-party-ended-tragedy-British-tech-tycoon-Mike-Lynch-gathered-family-exorbitant-celebration-11billion-vessel-toast-high-stakes-fraud-acquittal-freak-whirlwind-caused-sink.html

Online conversation:

Anon: “President of World Jewish Congress calls for long PRISON sentences GLOBALLY for antisemitism.”

“All world leaders, all politicians must lead in this effort. Laws must be passed, severe tough real laws that will put these hate mongers away in prison for a long time.”

Me: That’s unfair. World Jewish Congress’s president doesn’t speak for all Jews. It isn’t all of them.

Anon: Are you channeling Drd dbs from TA

Me: Huh!?

Me: Yep.
‘Thoughts’. I noticed The WJC Prez left out any punishment for anti-Catholic thoughts. So, I suspect the usual suspects will find that exclusion an example of balanced justice

Anon: well, there’s more of you…like orders of magnitude more

Me: Nice! So 10x. 100x, 1000x etc.

Anon: I’m not an economist or a maff major

Me: god bless you.

Me: A question for Prez World Jewish Congress Is Israel’s,(( a Jewish nation)), slaughter of Palestinians an overt, outward expression of repressed occultism and satanism at the core of their religion?

Anon: 100% yes.

Me: But there are anonymous Italians above the Rothschilds. Aren’t Italians 89.478% Catholic?

Anon: 100% yes

August 20, 2024 at 2:01 pm #166954

jb-hb
Participant

But here’s the thing – the Communists already admitted capitalism was bringing the goods for the working class better than them. That was back in the 1800’s. Already admitted defeat.

Engels had to invent a whole new philosophical concept making the working class dumb animals, non/sub humans possessing a “false consciousness” ie a fake soul, just to invent something to make communism “right anyway”
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