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    Pablo Picasso The three dancers 1925   • Biden Will ‘Never Recover’ And Must Drop Out – Aides to NBC (RT) • Biden Mixes Up Harris & Trump, Zelens
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle July 12 2024]

    #163354
    tboc
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    well the first thing that needs to be done in order to find a solution to our quandary is to put academia in charge of defining the problem

    after all who has been trained to insure that a defined body of knowledge always take precendent in investigating any anamoly?

    #163355
    tboc
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    “it’s the scientific method man” – not quite his Dudeness

    #163356
    tboc
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    God isn’t dead, it’s just that hypocrisy is now seen as a viable substitute
    Everyone now is the three Os
    Omnipresent
    Omniscient
    Omnipotent
    The Golden Billion is the new Pantheon

    #163357
    tboc
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    what is this China?
    no, only those who have been selected by academia are qualified to ask such a dumbass question with such profound gravitas

    #163358
    tboc
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    Cracker what is your excuse?
    i’m from the South and i don’t have papers. i can say any damn thing that pops into my head and get away with cause i’m just an ignorant hick

    pie r round – cornbread r square

    #163360
    Oroboros
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    “The future wars are really going to be drone wars. If your drones are better than their drones, then you win.”
    一 Elon Musk

    Nice to hear Elon saying what I’ve been saying since shortly after the SMO started in 2024

    It became self evident after videos surfaced of Russian and Ukronazi drones having primitive ‘dog fights’ early on.

    Reminds me of early in WWI when both sides realized airplanes could be weapons and fight each other.

    Quite primitive compared to the jet dogfights of the Korean War.

    Terminator and Skynet are here

    Elon bragging that Tesla inadvertently created the ‘best computer chip in the world’, already in Teslas, for ‘self driving’

    How about for gigantic emergent legions of swarm murmur group co-ordinated killer drones filling the skies and blocking out the Sun?

    How about that…Partner?

    Yeh, it’s here like Now.

    What Elon flailed to mention was industrial base.

    Sure, the ‘Best’ drone is important, like the ‘best’ artillery shell but if you can’t produce them at quantity for the lowest price, well, you end up with Russia producing shells at three times the combined West at $500 per vs $4000 per in the West.

    The Empire of Lies is composed of mobster maggots who are incapable of producing anything except boondoggle ‘weapons’ at astronomical price mark ups.

    Not a winning combination.

    Running the Military Industrial Mafia© on 34 trillion in debt with an industrial base of 11% of GDP (queer as a three dollar bill that ‘GDP’) makes them Loser Girlie Men©

    Duh’merica is a squalid mental patient living in an accelerating dystopian Shithole hellscape

    Good luck with mobilizing the Sheeple into ‘war mode’ to make lifestyle sacrifices for the ‘endless war effort’ of Orwell’s imagination

    Hahahahahahaha!

    Choke on it Baby!

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    Sheeple will swallow anything, cum hell or high water

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    #163361
    Oroboros
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    Gen-Z waiting to be mobilized for the Endless War Effort

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    #163362
    Oroboros
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    Moar Cannon Fodder

    Hahahahahahahahahahaha!

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    #163363
    tboc
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    every day more conclusive evidence accumulates that Fermi’s hypothesis is accurate

    “We will further mobilize the combined set of instruments at our disposal, be they political, economic, or military, to pursue our common objectives to the benefit of our one billion citizens.”

    U.S. to Europe, we’ll hold em you F**k em!
    does that not define Erotic asphyxiation?

    OK, you can take a breath now

    #163364
    Oroboros
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    #163365
    Oroboros
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    Still selling the Dream to the Sheeple

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    #163366
    Oroboros
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    The Empire of Lies

    State of the Union

    Rudderless

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    #163367
    Dr. D
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    Still at rate cuts in September. “The Sound of Inevitability, Mr. Anderson.” Ygtbfkm. …If inflation is 2%.….Ohhhhh!!! Right! We always CUT rates, when things go back to normal to make them UN-Normal again. …While prices have just doubled, markets are at all time highs, gold has no ceiling, unemployment is low, houses are 6x earnings, and a day before the election.

    Uh-huh. You just point out where that’s all happened before. 5% rates are all-time LOWS, in all human history before now. You want to put them back to negative, zero, abnormal…because no banks are failing and everything is going great n’ stuff.

    BTW: Gold now up $40/day. Now the cap is $40 not $20. …But it ain’t rigged or nothin’. Just $40, to the penny, day after day after day.

    “Watch: Black Smoke Billowing Out of Rouen Cathedral In France”

    I guess they chose the new French Pope?

    “FBI Identified ‘Person Of Interest’ In Capitol Pipe Bomb Case By Jan. 10, 2021

    Update: Aaaaaaand, nevermind, he died of old age.

    “Obama’s Presidency Was A Fraud & Has “9 Points Of Forgery”

    This was so long ago I forget the link, and stopped because nobody cared about facts or evidence at all, but it seems the White House evidence given to us (Denninger covered this deeply and factually as usual) that they literally made the legal argument that “It’s not lying” because legally “It was so ridiculous and transparent a fake that no “reasonable” person would ever believe it.” …Now that doesn’t mean there isn’t a real certificate somewhere. But if there is, why on earth would you ever respond this way? I am inferring a negative by your actions, and it shouldn’t be hard to tell if anyone WANTED. The pdf given had the wrong blank template, it still had its editing layers attached, and had like the wrong doctor’s name attached who wasn’t employed at that time, iirc. …Among several others. WH official document, official release to the press who lapped it up.

    Aaaaaaaand you can guess what happened: anyone you said “Please to refer to this official Federal evidence yourself” said THEY WOULD RATHER DIE THAN LOOK. …Like every other issue for years. Guess what? We can guess that later, on another issue, perhaps they all DID die for not looking. They got their wish. At least half the women said they’d rather divorce their husbands than read facts, and are now divorced.

    “How could it be that Tesla, who has never designed a chip before, would design the best chip In the world?”

    Because everyone else is run by middle-management morons? Much as it pains me to say, Listening to SpaceX – a gov’t boondoggle where they blow up a new rocket weekly – SpaceX is merely doing the LOGICAL, practical thing, the engineering thing, and solving the problems one by one like a NORMAL company. …Now it doesn’t SEEM normal since we don’t usually blow up $1B rockets every day. But if you’re Volvo, you blow up 10 engines, then crash 50 cars in testing. We just don’t see that side. If you’re Minolta, you drop your cameras off ladders, in and out of the packaging to test them. You film all that stuff and send it back to the engineers, who make changes. That’s what NORMAL companies do.

    So how can they (maybe) create a better AI chip? You merely ASK, and send it to the ENGINEER, the best one you could hire. Then they do whatever magic those monkeys do down there. WITHOUT US HELPING, and getting in their way. …They also have it easy since now a lot of learning about AI has already happened, and they’re jumping in late after many car crashes.

    Translation: They suck so bad, anybody even being piss-poor, totally average, and barely competent, looks like a GENIUS compared to them.

    Idjitocracy
    https://i.ytimg.com/vi/NpRJADzxtgU/maxresdefault.jpg

    “I think that the death of God is ultimately the main reason for that.”

    Yes, but perhaps not for the Biblical reasons she’s proposing. Which are fine, I don’t see her at my house trying to oppress me like everybody else does. Logic is ALWAYS empty, and ALWAYS wrong. It’s reductionism, and it’s a model, where the map is not the territory. Because it thinks the universe is tiny rocks, therefore there IS nothing else, no sacredness, no consciousness, no love in it. Scientifically they are logical, rational, and entirely correct: have you seen them distill love into a bottle and measure it? Therefore Ipso Facto: it does not exist. QED. — I – am the genius, and YOU are the moron, bow before my superior greatness. (PS Geniuses: you can’t see Dark Matter either.) What is the Wilde quote? “They now know the Price of everything and the Value of nothing”?

    So oddly, and you’d never guess, but the “Tiny Rocks” theory, where we only believe what is measurable even though we can OBVIOUSLY infer and/or prove things like “Love” and “Consciousness” exist, leads DIRECTLY to psychopathic mass-murder, EVERY TIME. And thus similarly, removing “God” from the equation, as she says, –whatever he may be to you — leads to heartless, psychopathic mass murder and infinite death every time.

    Guess what? They KNOW that, and they do it anyway. It’s not an accident. It’s not being wrong. It’s The Plan, very carefully arranged and promoted, for reasons that are different from yours.

    NATO’s Eastern Flank.

    Discussing Finland yesterday, now ceded to the United States so that it can be summarily nuked as we fight Russia to the last Finn, okay, let’s explore that. Not wrong, but follow through: Finland is ANOTHER 1,000 mile border. Yeah, that Russia needs to defend! Maybe: but we ALSO need to defend.

    Ukraine, right now, cannot get 1/3rd, maybe 2/3rds of the materials they need to fight the war. That’s only reason 3 why they’re losing, (marching men into marked minefields, being 10:1 disadvantage) but it’s an important one. So we ALREADY know NATO has nothing. NATO is ALREADY hollow and does not exist in Spain, Portugal, England, Holland, Denmark, and even moderately functional states like France, Germany have nothing left and can be conquered by Romania or South Carolina at this point. Poland is AVERAGE, and their General made public announcement to MOBILIZE ALL POLES FOR FULL WAR ON RUSSIA this week. Uh-huh. Um, you’re the size of a dinner plate, the size of New England. How are you going to BEAT Russia at a 4:1 disadvantage? Ah! The Poles. Certain to be annihilated AGAIN. And then blame everyone else for it AGAIN.

    But so we just established, NATO cannot “fill” the Ukrainian battlefield at all, and in fact are rapidly getting weaker. So you have this front, this battle line, it’s collapsing, and therefore you pull back so your troops are more concentrated and battle-capable in the smaller, remaining footprint, and continue fighting. Military 101. Since before Rome was a country.

    NOPE! What you do when you find out you have NO MEN, and NO SWORDS, is to add a THOUSAND MILES of new territory to protect. Obviously. That’s just S.M.A.R.T. When you don’t have any cement trucks, no oil, wood imports have been shut off, GDP is collapsing, you OBVIOUSLY build 15 new military bases, ‘cause there’s plenty of guns, men, concrete, bulldozers around, and you’re not catastrophically diluting yourself, your men, your money, your resources, and your attention or nothin’ right?

    Now you see why Russia sorta didn’t care? Stolz is from Norway, hey buddy: HOW do you resupply your 15 bases in the arctic when the Baltic is a “Russian Lake”? Oh by taking those tanks by SNOWMOBILE over 1,000 miles for frozen mountain ranges, after landing in Olso? Through only ONE narrow tunnel on a rail line that can so easily have accidents, the Russians probably don’t have to bother doing anything to you, something will happen on that narrow thread all on its own when try to use it?

    And suppose Finland starts setting up those bases, realizes they have: no men, no oil, no guns, no trains, no roads, would that be a complete waste of an already entirely-sapped and bankrupt Europe?

    Russia: Go Ahead. You see, THEY know what “An Arctic” is. And it ain’t no joke, you summer people in Brussels and Helsinki. Get out of your houses more, you ain’t the men of the 1940 Russia-Finnish war, you’re all the world’s biggest joke, like the rock-hard soldiers of Portland and Silicon Valley, blue hair soy lattes and all.

    And I’ll repeat AGAIN: NATO HAS NO TROOPS. You think Portugal can send their men? No, they need a standing body to hold down their own country. They can send 500, not 14,000. Same with EVERYBODY else. Even France – which HAS a military and is not a joke – can’t get up 5,000. Probably not 1,000. So added all up, the USEFUL size of NATO is…

    …Statistical ZERO.

    Let’s say 20,000 free troops, that are trained, geared, and freely able to be deployed outside their borders.
    You know what military thinkers said yesterday? The U.S. has ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND U.S. troops in Europe, Biden said. Again, same problem, we’re occupying 10 countries, 10k per. And you know what 100,000 men is in Ukraine, to Russia?

    …A Speed Bump. A “tripwire” force. GTFO. Use your head for once in your life. Russia just got up a MILLION men and wasn’t trying, while THEY have zero-mile supply lines and ours runs 5,000 miles via surface ships we don’t have, to ports that can be leveled in 15 minutes.

    Just. Stop. For the love of God, you’re all an embarrassment to idiots and give retards a bad name. STOP.

    ““Indo-Pacific” is a crude “rules-based international order” invention. No one across Asia, anywhere, has ever used it; everyone refers to Asia-Pacific.”

    Oh and speaking of, now that they don’t have enough weapons or men to hold ONE modest-sized Oblast in their backyard in Europe, NATO is going to take on ANOTHER whole mandate and become the “South Pacific Treaty Organization” and sail 10,000 miles, on surface ships they don’t have, to blow up China and harass Indonesia n’ stuff. …You know, the single COUNTRY that has more men than all Europe does.
    I see how they weren’t already spread too thin in Zaporozhye, not too thin to add 1,000 miles in Finland, already not too thin in Syria, that they’re so not too thin to take on Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Korea, Japan, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, Pakistan AND India as well. All at Once!! ‘Tis but a scratch!

    You do you, man.

    ““..it cannot end, it must not end in the victory of Russia because if it happened that way, we will have another war soon because Russia will attack again..”

    If only TIME EXISTED and we could prove all that because Russia and Poland ALREADY fought like 50 times. And Russia ALREADY didn’t have a “war soon” and already did not invade Poland since 1991, 2001, 2014 or 2022. …Nor have they any mobilization to do so. So clearly sir YOU ARE DELUSIONAL and need to be confined to a mental ward for your and other’s safety. I kid, not legally this can and must be done, and any court would back me.

    “• NATO Countries Closest to Russia Up Defense Spending (ET)

    Oh SPENDING!! Got it. Does that “Spending” involve getting oil and gas from anywhere? Timber, wheat, titanium? ‘Cause those things come from RUSSIA, not from “spending.” You dips–ts, that “Reality Exists.”

    “These corporations not only wield immense economic influence but are now revealed to be leveraging this power to control online discourse under the guise of “brand safety. The Committee report details multiple instances of GARM’s coordinated efforts to influence and censor online content.”

    Yes that’s called “fascism”. They are Nazis. Look it up, and the Nazi platform and definition. The “Fasces” is where everyone pulls together. That is, it’s a “Social Media” peer pressure thing at root where corporations, governments, etc, no one brooks any dissent. OR ELSE. And “or else we’ll f’ing KILL you.” “Or else you lose your job.” “Or else your wife will leave you.” Yes, EXACTLY like today, could not POSSIBLY be more similar. And like then, the corporations are backing – with flags – the “Nationalization of the Department Stores” in Socialist fashion. “National Socialist” fashion.

    If I’m against Pepsi doing this, I’M the enemy, and the Socialists will all descend on my house and burn it. ‘Cause multi-billion dollar corporations and Old, White CEO’s, amirite? THEY are the Brown Shirts. You cannot POSSIBLY be more fascist.

    Bonus question: Hey, um, is that against every law ever written in the United States? Asking for a friend.

    “• AOC Files Articles of Impeachment Against Justices Alito, Thomas (Fox)

    Oh wait, I’m wrong, you can. AOC just proved you can be a lot more fascist. That is moronic. Wow. Boy! Good thing nobody heard about or looked into their corruption before! Total news flash. …Meanwhile, speaking of corruption, she’s sending billions to two genocides in Gaza and Ukraine and not allowing anyone to audit where the money goes. Stay Classy, gurl! It’s not Fascism Mass Murder Corruption when we do it!

    “In addition to the laptop, the case dealt with the aggressive suppression of COVID skepticism—much of which has borne out as valid,”

    Sooooo…..you’re saying we should censor the truth and true facts that, I dunno, help people make accurate decisions and not die n’ stuff? A: Yes. By law, we have all decided you must die. It is the intelligent, educated conclusion.

    “• Can the West Survive Democracy? (Paul Craig Roberts)

    That’s why we’re not a Democracy, and it was the single thing most hated and feared by the Founding Fathers: the Mob.

    “But for us today democracy is the last and only check on the tyranny of the power of government institutions created by elites who are not interested in our opinions.”

    So it’s an anti-democracy democracy? Not saying you’re wrong, but a bit ironic don’t you think? Yes, this is “Democracy” back to “Julius Caesar” “I come to bury Caesar not to praise him”, where the OLIGARCHS pay, bully, drive the Mob around willy-nilly to their own ends and go crash Rome. Why else own “Media” which loses money, billions, every day of the year? Then take a profitable media like Disney and MAKE it lose billions PER SHOW on purpose, year after year?

    For this: to drive around the Mob for Rich-guys’ ends.

    “• ‘My Life’s Work Melting Before My Eyes’ (Scott Ritter)

    Again, THIS IS ON PURPOSE. It takes a LOT of work, money, blackmail, murder, to get this done, all of which is dangerous and exposes them. They do it anyway, so it’s not “For the money”. Quite the reverse, they BLOW the money in order to “do the murder.” End life on earth and reduce population to 500M with them on top in invisible flying cars of “The Hunger Games.” As he says, there are THOUSANDS of viable practical negotiators and worker bees who would solve all this, but like the FBI, you need to lure them into Government, then make sure they’re overruled and unable to act. Acting AGAINST their own mission statement decade after decade, 100% of the time because “Oops! I guess we’re dum.” …By capturing just 10 guys at the top, Comey, Meuller, who can then insure Epstein keeps going and anyone out of line gets Whack’d by Whitey Bulger, Meuller’s Mafia-on-tap.

    We’re outnumbered, but they’re outnumbered too. How do the Black Hats keep 3 million average Federal workers from doing any good each day? Getting them to kill, then overlook “Accidents” in VA surgery? Just own the 10 men at the top boardroom. The end. Who was involved in Crossfire Hurricane? Guys keeping server farms up and running in the basement don’t know nothin’, but they were involved in approving the “wiretapping” because when Comey clicks “Send” that email sends and those records appear for him. Illegally and unconstitutionally, seditiously. An organized minority always dominates a disorganized majority. That’s what “Government” is.

    So take it as wrote that “America” isn’t bad, we are “Captured,” an occupied Vichy government, a colony, and how does the French Resistance remove the Vichy and return DeGaulle? A: They didn’t.

    There are good people who can solve everything EVERYWHERE. They are being stopped, actively and often violently. Look at your own employment and life. Stop the STOPPERS and it all goes back to normal, where being “Average” is like a 10x wonderland from the active crappification that is here, run by thieving psychos and murderers.

    From yesterday, what was the “Remove the people STOPPING the work?” Reminded me of Post war Germany. They got in, installed a fiat Brit dollar, Germany was screwed. AGAIN. But Germany, having done a bunch of bank/money stuff since 1914 was wise to it and prioritized it, they could activate the people against this bulls—t. So they ran a coup, installed the real Deutchmark, and because “Soviets” the Anglos couldn’t say nothin’. …INSTANTLY Germany recovered economically and the German miracle began, far outpacing others, while England languished for being pin-headed, thieving idiots. …And their country still sucks today, more than ever.

    Stop the Stoppers: overnight recovery.

    Dildo Canada: God is trying to tell us something: You’re F*cked.

    #163368
    Oroboros
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    #163369
    tboc
    Participant

    i find it curious that no one makes the allusion to 15 minute cities being the equivalent of the power plant in the movie The Matrix.

    have an enjoyable weekend

    #163371
    John Day
    Participant

    Courageously Disregarding Threats https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/courageously-disregarding-threats

    In this historical period of gradually declining global oil, there must be an overall decline in economic activity, but it is set to be very uneven. Different economic structures may gradually fail or relatively thrive, and some countries may still be capable of economic growth for a few more years, notably Russia, with lots of resources compared to population.
    In the “west”, neoliberal economics, based upon maximizing monetary-profit for the owner-class, and extracting value from the world at large, via the debt-based currency, the $US, is seen to be inefficient at meeting the needs of the many humans in the world. The “owners” seek to reduce the number of humans in the world, to sustain their profits, focusing on rival human groups, and those groups which consume resources, without producing wealth, such as retirees.
    It is hard to keep this a secret. Word has gotten out to most of the world, and rumors are even spreading in the European cultures and their colonialist diaspora.
    In TROTW (the rest of the world) there is much appeal to being relieved of the gangster-imperialist burden and threat of destruction for not paying tribute by accepting promissory-dollars for actual oil, wheat and steel. BRICS+ is putting together parallel trade, finance, military and governance structures to circumvent the Bretton Woods, UN, EU and NATO constructs of the financial-imperialist post WW-2 epoch.
    Russia, China and Iran together are showing that they can prevail against the western military and financial empire, and also maintain their own national identities, without being homogenized into western pop-culture. Iran has supported an “axis of resistance” of small er countries and nationalist insurgencies against western-backed puppet governments, notably the Iraqi and Lebanese resistance movements. This is internally stressful within Iran, just as it has been for Cuba, under western embargo for over 60 years.
    Will western populations be able to throw off the parasitic neoliberal financial structures, or will they remain subservient, and allow mysterious “excess deaths” and new pandemics to cull them for better profits, while keeping up with social media on the latest smartphones and having another Diet Coke?
    Um, how would that happen? What might be the steps along the way to more independence and self reliance, and overturning the big Ponzi-scheme that promises retirement security?
    All I offer is to start working the problem. Things look different when you are gardening, shelling beans and pulling weeds. Here is some analysis and current news.

    Michael Hudson: Russia and China CRUSH NATO’s Plan as Ukraine FALLS Apart
    NIMA: Just to wrap up this session, when you look at BRICS today, you said that we’re going to have a BRICS summit soon. And how long does it take for BRICS to come to a solution that would make its members totally independent of the American system?
    MICHAEL HUDSON: I don’t see that coming very soon because they’re really reinventing the wheel. Much of this wheel has already been invented in the 19th century by British classical political economy.
    You don’t want economic rent. You want capital formation. You want government to take the lead in natural monopolies and infrastructure. All of this was all worked out in the 19th century.
    But neoliberalism has so extinguished and just excluded the history of this economic thought that most of the political leaders of the BRICS countries are simply unaware of this. And the staffs are unaware of this. Certainly, their central bankers are unaware of this, and their economists, if they’re trained in the United States and Europe, are unaware of this.
    So they’re working so much, I won’t say in the dark. They know where they want to go, but they haven’t worked out how to get there. And this is going to take a while to get something that’s actually workable.
    There’s already so much confusion about discussion of a BRICS currency. They’re not distinguishing between a currency to denominate trade and investment that maybe can be like the euro, and other speculators can buy it, or just a central bank, a version of Bancor is in a central bank accounting system of credits and debits. They haven’t studied all of the discussions at the end of World War II over what kind of an international monetary fund should there be between Keynes and the Americans.
    So if they’re working without this familiarity with history, and without knowing how other countries have already thought through all of these, the same issues that the BRICS are thinking of, it’s going to take a while. https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/07/michael-hudson-russia-and-china-crush-natos-plan-as-ukraine-falls-apart.html

    ​ Pepe Escobar, The Big Picture behind Viktor The Mediator’s peace shuttle
    The Big Picture remains: the future of the “rules-based international order” is being decided in the black soil of Novorossiya.
    ​ In a nutshell: a complete geopolitical and technical-military revamp, as well as geoeconomic (the importance of developing alternative international transport corridors such as the INSTC).
    ​ The Chargé d’Affaires of the Russian Mission to the EU, Kirill Logvinov, tried to brief the Europeans last week, under the rubric “New Security Architecture for the Eurasian Continent”.
    ​ Logvinov explained how “the Euro-Atlantic concept of security has collapsed. Based on U.S. and NATO dominance, the European regional security framework has failed to ensure the practical implementation of the ‘indivisible security for all’ principle.”
    ​ A future system of security and cooperation in Eurasia will then form the “foundation of the global security architecture in a multipolar world based on the UN Charter principles and the rule of international law.”
    ​ And the Greater Eurasian Partnership will form the economic and social basis of this new Eurasian security system.​..
    ​..Putin’s peace plan for Ukraine – announced on June 14 in front of the crème de la crème of Russian diplomats – should be understood. Orban certainly got it.
    Any other plans – with the exception of the revised Chinese offer, and that’s why Orban went to Beijing – are irrelevant, from Moscow’s perspective.
    ​ Of course Team Trump had to come up with their own NATO-centered plan. That’s not exactly a gift to clueless Europeans.
    ​ Under Trump, NATO’s role will shift: it will become an “auxiliary” force in Europe. Washington of course will keep its nodes in the Empire of Bases – in Germany, UK, Turkey – but ground forces, armored vehicles, artillery, logistics, everything, high costs included, will be fully paid by wobbling European economies.
    ​ Under the coordination of Trump’s national defense strategy adviser, Elbridge Colby, the new administration would promise to give Putin commitments “not to expand NATO to the east.” Moreover, Trump seems to be ready to “consider territorial concessions” to Russia.
    ​ As if Moscow would be praying in unison to get “concessions” from a notoriously unreliable American president.
    The whole point of this plan is that under Trump 2.0 the main “threat” to the U.S. will be China, not Russia. https://strategic-culture.su/news/2024/07/09/the-big-picture-behind-viktor-the-mediators-peace-shuttle/

    Aleks at Black Mountain Analysis asserts that a civil war has been foist upon Russia, which “loses”, even if it wins militarily, which it will. this is existential for Russia, and also for the western imperial financial system, “the West”. Trajectory to Armageddon [i]​ The End of the West or the End of the World?​ So, my advice is the following: I know many of you can’t wait to see Russian strikes against NATO as a retaliation for XYZ. But this is a call for your death. If it happens, then it is almost certain that we will all die. I know there is a little window of hope that the Americans would back down after such strikes because their Oligarchs would want to survive, but there are too many uncertain factors to rely on such a hope.
    ​ The way to win for Russia is to defeat Ukraine (NATO) on the territory of former Ukraine, feed NATO and the EU with poison pills, and develop the military and economic alliances to make the West superfluous and thereby make it collapse internally. https://bmanalysis.substack.com/p/trajectory-to-armageddon-i

    ​ Orban just did some actual diplomacy and the EU panicked
    ​ What Orbán is schooling an irate EU elite in is the use of leverage that comes from maintaining effective freedom of action; and that freedom of action does not stem from great military power or a massive population. While Hungary’s forces are modern, it remains a country of not quite 10 million people. Rather the secret of Orbán’s room for maneuver is a classical instrument of the comparatively weak – balancing between bigger powers by cooperating with all of them but selling out to none of them.​ https://swentr.site/news/600796-orban-peace-mission-ukraine/

    #163372
    John Day
    Participant

    ​ European Parliament blocks Orbán’s big Presidency speech
    By long-standing convention, heads of government are given the opportunity to address the Parliament when they take over the rotating presidency of the EU Council, presenting the agenda for their six-month turn at the helm of inter-governmental policy negotiations and answering questions from MEPs.
    ​ The sources said Orbán had indicated to Parliament that he could appear before the plenary on Tuesday or Wednesday next week (July 16-17) to present the agenda of the Hungarian presidency, which Budapest has given the slogan ‘Make Europe Great Again’.
    ​ However the Conference of the Presidents – the heads of the political groups who determine the agenda – said Parliament did not have space in the schedule at that time, both sources agreed.​ https://thejournal.mt/european-parliament-blocks-orbans-big-presidency-speech/

    ​ EU could ‘end’ Hungary’s presidency – Politico
    ​ Having assumed the rotating European Council presidency and vowed to make “Europe great again (MEGA)” Orban visited Ukraine and met with Vladimir Zelensky. He then went to Russia, triggering howls of outrage in Kiev and Brussels alike.
    ​ “Member states were already irritated by the ‘MEGA’ motto. But a meeting with [Russian President Vladimir] Putin will permanently overshadow the Hungarian presidency,” Politico reported on Monday evening, citing an unnamed EU diplomat. “With such a meeting the presidency ends before it has really begun.”
    ​ Politico described Orban as having gone “rogue” and suggested the EU ambassadors “could move from public condemnations alone to concrete action to restrain” Budapest at their meeting on Wednesday…
    ​..The bloc “can get rid of the Hungarian presidency within weeks,” argued Daniel Hegedus, a senior fellow at the German Marshall Fund think-tank. He laid out a series of steps by which Brussels could move the start of Poland’s presidency to September 1, cutting Hungary’s term short, so as to “attach negative consequences to Orban’s behavior.”
    ​ This would require a four-fifths majority in the European Council.​ https://swentr.site/news/600763-eu-orban-revenge-moscow/

    Tulsi Gabbard Warns the ‘Deep State’ is Preparing to Install Kamala Harris as President​ https://rumble.com/v56595p-tulsi-gabbard-warns-the-deep-state-is-preparing-to-install-kamala-harris-as.html

    ​ Kudlow On Trump’s Pro-Growth, ‘America First’ Platform
    Some of the highlights include worker tax cuts and no tax on tips. Stopping Bidenflation. Restoring energy dominance. Ending unfair trade deals.
    Keeping the dollar as the world’s reserve currency — this is especially important for high growth and low prices — Wall Street, will you finally listen?
    Restoring America’s status as the dominant world energy producer and canceling the electric vehicle mandate. Cutting all costly and burdensome regulations.
    Sealing the border, stopping the illegal migrant invasion, and deporting illegals.
    Keeping men out of women’s sports, and radical, racial, and sexual woke policies out of schools.
    The platform also states, and I quote, “unite our country by bringing it to new and record levels of success.”
    These are the message points that have proved so popular on the campaign trail.
    https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/kudlow-trumps-pro-growth-america-first-platform

    ​I am told that this will begin the process of biting off 25 miles at a time of western Ukraine, as Poland/NATO keeps moving Patriot missiles east, and Russia nibbles westward.
    Zelenskiy-Tusk deal: Poland to shoot down Russian missiles and drones over Western Ukraine​ https://warnews247-gr.translate.goog/war-monitor/oukrania/sumfwnia-zelenski-tousk-h-polwnia-tha-katarriptei-rwsikous-puraulous-kai-drones-panw-apo-th-dutikh-oukrania-epibebaiwsh-war-news-24-7/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp#google_vignette

    #163373
    John Day
    Participant

    ​ Moscow has vehemently denied responsibility for the tragedy at the Okhmatdet children’s hospital in Kiev, after a missile hit the facility on Monday. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has insisted that the incident was caused by a Ukrainian air defense missile.​..
    ​..The ministry stated that all the intended targets were hit and rejected Kiev’s claims of Russian missiles striking civilian facilities as “absolutely untrue.”
    ​ “Numerous published photos and video footage from Kiev clearly confirm the fact of destruction due to the fall of a Ukrainian air defense missile launched from an anti-aircraft missile system within the city,” the ministry said.​..
    ​..Pro-Kiev media outlets have claimed that the weapon that struck the hospital was a Russian air-launched Kh-101 cruise missile. However, others have argued that the projectile, which can apparently be seen in a video filmed from a distance by a witness, was probably an AIM120 fired by a NASAM missile system or an interceptor fired by the MIM-104 Patriot missile system. Western donors have provided Ukraine with this type of US-developed weapon.​ https://swentr.site/russia/600723-kremlin-kiev-hospital-tragedy/

    ​John Helmer, US BODYCOUNT 35 KIA AFTER RUSSIAN MISSILE STRIKE
    The latest Russian Defense Ministry daily bulletin was issued on Tuesday afternoon, July 9. Since then the Pentagon and the White House have been as silent as the tomb.
    ​ Make that thirty-five American tombs.
    “During the day [July 9],” said the Defense Ministry briefer in Moscow, “the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation carried out a group strike with high-precision weapons on American HIMARS multiple launch rocket systems prepared for strikes on the territory of Crimea, as well as the venue of an official meeting of the AFU [Armed Forces of the Ukraine] command staff. The objectives of the strike have been achieved. Four US-made HIMARS MLRS launchers were destroyed, as well as up to 35 foreign specialists who serviced them.”​ https://johnhelmer.net/us-bodycount-35-kia-after-russian-missile-strike-gorilla-radio-counts-what-next/#more-90113

    ​ Turkey is an Islamic nation, and can’t be a traitor to Islam/Palestinians. NATO should not be party to Ukraine conflict — Erdogan
    The Turkish leader noted that “every day that weapons are being used [in Ukraine] confirms the rightness of Turkey’s position” on the issue
    ​ Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that during his participation in the NATO summit in the United States he intends to bring up the issues of counterterrorism, Gaza, and Ukraine, especially the fact that the alliance should not become a party to the conflict.​..
    ​..Erdogan also said that he intends to “put Israel’s ongoing massacre against the Palestinian people on the agenda” at the summit. “We have not been able to achieve what we wanted from NATO regarding Israel and Palestine. The efforts of the international community are not yet enough to stop Israel. We will put these issues back on the agenda of our meetings in the US and expect to obtain the results we hope for.”​ https://tass.com/world/1814401

    ​ NATO SUMMIT: Alliance’s Endgame Appears to Be Nuclear War​ The neoliberal financial system needs those strategic assets to back loans and exert leverage.
    ​Why this Western involvement in Ukraine, which, as Barack Obama said while president, is “a core Russian interest but not an American one?”
    ​ One reason was given by Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) in a recent moment of startling televised candor: Ukraine is “sitting on $10 to $12 trillion of critical minerals… I don’t want to give that money and those assets to Putin to share with China.”
    ​ As The Washington Post has reported:
    ​ “Ukraine harbors some of the world’s largest reserves of titanium and iron ore, fields of untapped lithium, and massive deposits of coal. Collectively, they are worth tens of trillions of dollars.”
    ​ Ukraine also has colossal reserves of natural gas and oil, in addition to neon, nickel, beryllium and other critical rare earth metals. For NATO’s leadership, Russia and, in particular, China can’t be permitted access to these resources. The war in Ukraine must, therefore, continue indefinitely, and negotiations with Russia mustn’t be pursued.​..
    ..Where all this is heading is unclear, but what’s obvious is that Western leaders are acting with reckless disregard for the future of humanity.
    Their bet is that Putin will never deploy nuclear weapons, despite his many threats to do so and recent Russian military drills to deploy tactical nuclear weapons. Given that Russian use of nuclear warheads might well precipitate a nuclear response by the West, the fate of humanity hangs on the restraint and rationality of one man, Putin. https://consortiumnews.com/2024/07/09/day-one-natos-endgame-appears-to-be-nuclear-war/

    Israeli Campaign Against Gaza May Kill 186,000 or More — 8% of Population: The Lancet​ https://scheerpost.com/2024/07/09/israeli-campaign-against-gaza-may-kill-186000-or-more-8-of-population-the-lancet/

    #163374
    John Day
    Participant

    ​ ‘It’s permissible to shoot everyone’ in Gaza: Six IOF (Israeli occupation force) soldiers testify​ Six Israeli soldiers present harrowing testimonies as they recount how their fellow soldiers routinely executed Palestinian civilians to release pent-up frustration or alleviate boredom.​ https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/-it-s-permissible-to-shoot-everyone–in-gaza–6-iof-soldiers

    ​ Israel Bombs Youth Soccer Game at School in Gaza, Killing ‘at Least 31 People’ (I could not bring myself to watch the recording of the game.)
    Israel on Tuesday used a US-supplied bomb to airstrike a group of kids and families gathered at a soccer match at a school in Gaza, killing at least 31 people and wounding dozens more. https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=64529

    ​ ‘Israel’ kills 33+ children through malnutrition, starves all of Gaza
    A group of UN experts has warned that starvation, imposed by “Israel”, is spreading throughout the entirety of the Gaza Strip.​ https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/-israel–kills-33–children-through-malnutrition–starves-al

    ​ Israeli Official Says It’s Clear Netanyahu Doesn’t Want a Deal With Hamas
    Al-Monitor reports the US wasn’t surprised by Netanyahu’s list of demands that could sabotage a deal
    “Anyone wanting to succeed in fateful and difficult negotiations does not emphasize the gaps and difficulties twice a day, but tries to emphasize the agreements and the prospects. It is clear to all of us that Netanyahu simply does not want the deal,” the unnamed senior official said.
    ​ Israeli officials believe Netanyahu is trying to ensure a deal isn’t reached before his address to the US Congress in Washington later this month. A ceasefire agreement could lead to a collapse of his coalition government as National Security Advisor Itamar Ben Gvir has threatened to quit. Officials also think Netanyahu wants to hold out until November in hopes that President Trump is re-elected.​ https://news.antiwar.com/2024/07/09/israeli-official-says-its-clear-netanyahu-doesnt-want-a-deal-with-hamas/

    ​ WHO: There is no safe place in Gaza, evacuation orders hinder treatment of injured
    The WHO Director-General concluded his post by calling for a “ceasefire in Gaza.”
    ​ The Israeli occupation forces are intensifying their land, air, and sea attacks on various areas in the Gaza Strip amid a large wave of displacement in the areas of eastern Gaza, while battles and clashes continue in the Al-Shuja’iya neighborhood and the city of Rafah.​ https://en.ypagency.net/329338

    #163375
    John Day
    Participant

    The Israeli occupation has been prohibiting the entry of aid into Palestine for 65 days amid support and complicity from the United States.​ https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/-israel–banning-aid-entry-into-gaza-for-65-days-with-us-com

    ​ PATRICK LAWRENCE: Netanyahu Goes for Broke​
    In perfectly clear language, the Netanyahu government has effectively announced that its policy is to widen what is now the assault on Gaza, the IOF’s escalating aggressions in the West Bank and Israel’s provocations along Lebanon’s southern border…
    ​..As The New York Times reported last week, illegal settlers, under IOF protection, have stolen more land from Palestinians so far this year, typically at gunpoint, than at any time since the Oslo Accords were signed in 1993. West Bank sources report that up to 9,000 Palestinians have been arrested since the events of last October — mostly boys and young men, those typically inclined to organize an armed resistance movement.
    ​ In my read this is the West Bank’s version of the assault on Gaza. No F–16s, tanks, or heavy artillery this time: Deploying these would risk serious international opprobrium. No, the West Bank campaign will be waged more or less invisibly — a farm or an olive grove, a village or a murdered teenager or a kilometer of road at a time…​..The larger war, the war beyond the West Bank, is of course another matter. Israel knows full well it is incapable of waging anything like a “seven-front war” on its own: It is failing in the Gaza Strip as we speak.
    ​ Netanyahu has chosen this moment to mount a go-for-broke attempt to bring the U.S. into some kind of once-for-all conflict that would leave Israel supreme in the region — and so would instantly threaten to be the world’s most dangerous war — since who knows when…​
    ..A couple of week ago, as things heated up along Lebanon’s southern border, Biden told Netanyahu — or says he told Netanyahu — that if Israel invades south Lebanon it will do so without American support. Another red line, it seems. Biden has drawn as many of these as there are stripes on Old Glory.​..
    ..There is the obnoxiously pronounced confidence Netanyahu displays when describing a wider war well beyond Israel’s capabilities. And there is the power the Israel lobby exerts in Washington, not least over Biden, who has received more funds from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, AIPAC — more than $4 million during his Senate years alone — than anyone else holding elected office.
    Late last month the U.S. Navy made one of those quiet logistical moves that sometimes seem to reveal more than intended. It sent an amphibious assault ship, the USS Wasp, into the waters of the eastern Mediterranean off the Lebanese coast. Among its other capabilities, the Wasp is designed to manage large-scale evacuations.
    But an American official told The Associated Press, a little defensively I’d say, “It’s about deterrence,” implying the deployment is part of Washington’s diplomatic effort to prevent a dangerous war between Israel and Hezbollah.
    Wait a minute. Just who is the Wasp intended to deter? Neither Hezbollah nor Iran wants a war with Israel any more than the U.S. wants to see one. No need of deterrence there.
    And a ship off the Lebanese coast is not going to deter Israel: It stands unambiguously to encourage “the Jewish state” in its effort to bait the U.S. into the big war for which it spoils.
    While one ship near Lebanese waters does not signal any grand new commitment to a grand new war — let us not over-interpret — the message seems clear: We don’t want a new war on our hands, Bibi, but if you provoke one, well, we’ll have to be there for you, “standing with Israel.” https://consortiumnews.com/2024/07/08/patrick-lawrence-netanyahu-goes-for-broke/

    ​ Israel’s defense minister OKs plan to start drafting ultra-Orthodox
    ​ Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant approved a plan on Tuesday to start drafting ultra-Orthodox Jews into the military, a move likely to further strain relations within Prime ​Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s fractious right-wing coalition.
    ​ His government relies on two ultra-Orthodox parties that regard conscription exemptions as key to keeping their constituents in religious seminaries and out of a melting-pot army that might test their traditional customs.​ Their political leaders are fiercely opposed to conscription at a time when Israel’s army is seeking to bolster its ranks amid the nine-month-old war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip.​ https://www.arabnews.com/node/2546401/middle-east

    ​ Netanyahu Has Altered Travel Plans Due To ICC Warrant
    ​ The controversial arrest warrant of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has actually altered the travel plans of Israeli leadership, Kan public broadcaster and Times of Israel have reported.​ “Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu considered, then decided against, visiting the Czech Republic and Hungary on the way to the United States when he travels to address Congress on July 24, the Kan public broadcaster reports, amid fears the International Criminal Court was readying an arrest warrant against him​.”​ https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/israels-netanyahu-has-altered-travel-plans-due-icc-warrant

    ​ Andrew Korybko looks at longstanding tensions between Asian colonial powers, China and Japan.
    The Japanese-Philippine Military Logistics Pact Raises The Risk Of War With China https://korybko.substack.com/p/the-japanese-philippine-military

    #163376
    John Day
    Participant

    Setting expectations as low as possible: UK finances worst since 1945 – chancellor
    The UK’s new Labour government has inherited the worst economy since the Second World War, the newly appointed chancellor of the exchequer, Rachel Reeves, has said. Reeves took charge of the country’s finances after Labour won 412 of the 650 seats in the House of Commons in last week’s general election, ending 14 years of Conservative Party rule.
    “I have repeatedly warned that whoever won the general election would inherit the worst set of circumstances since the Second World War,” Reeves said in a speech at the Treasury on Monday. “We face the legacy of 14 years of chaos and economic irresponsibility,” she added, accusing her Tory predecessors of acting out of “political self-interest” as part of a “government that put party first, country second.” https://swentr.site/news/600778-uk-worst-since-1945/

    Pierre Kory MD, Scientific “Consensus” Loses A Legal Challenge
    ​ In a recent development in the defense of Dr. Charles Hoffe against the BC College of Physicians and Surgeons, the judge ruled that the College has to prove its alleged “incontestable truths.”​ https://pierrekorymedicalmusings.com/p/scientific-consensus-loses-a-legal

    Filipino lawmakers sound alarm over 290k excess deaths following COVID jab rollout​ https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/filipino-lawmakers-sound-alarm-over-290k-excess-deaths-following-covid-jab-rollout/

    ​ Jessica Rose Ph.D. Bird Flu Summit in the regal Pentagon City, DC
    Mass Fatality Management Planning. Hmm. Why do we need “management planning” of mass fatalities exactly? Maybe it will be needed when “Delivery of Vaccine and Antiviral Medication” starts up again via forced “Medical Countermeasures”?​ https://jessicar.substack.com/p/bird-flu-summit-in-the-regal-pentagon

    ​Michael Snyder has more, During The “International Bird Flu Summit” In Washington D.C. In October They Will Discuss “Mass Fatality Management Planning” https://conservativefiringline.com/during-the-international-bird-flu-summit-in-washington-d-c-in-october-they-will-discuss-mass-fatality-management-planning/

    #163377
    John Day
    Participant

    Baby Died of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) Three Days After Vaccinations​ Tragically typical​ https://www.globalresearch.ca/baby-died-sids-three-days-vaccinations/5862154

    ​Also a recurring theme: Childhood Vaccine Injury: 18 Months Old Stopped Talking After DTaP Vaccines https://www.globalresearch.ca/18-months-old-stopped-talking-dtap-vaccines/5862150

    Atlas, tree

    #163378
    zerosum
    Participant

    Too many/much “Word/Eye Salad”,
    It’s not helping.
    STOP IT!
    Eye and ear overload.
    A waste of time/energy.

    It’s a confusion resulting from failure to understand.

    ( bafflement, befuddlement, bemusement, bewilderment, mystification, obfuscation, puzzlement, mixing up, forgetting)
    ———–
    Example: TAE, Pablo Picasso The three dancers 1925

    ————

    Let’s check with an AI, copilot

    Copilot Using the web
    Sent by Copilot:
    President Joe Biden’s cognitive state has drawn attention recently, with concerns about memory lapses and forgetfulness.
    Let’s explore this topic:

    Normal Aging and Memory Issues:
    Neurologists emphasize that forgetting names of acquaintances or having difficulty recalling dates from the past can be part of normal aging.
    Almost every older person experiences trouble remembering people’s names, and it’s a common complaint.
    Stress and lack of sleep can also interfere with memory, regardless of age.
    Blanketing on names doesn’t necessarily predict memory disorders1.
    Recent Scrutiny:
    There have been instances where President Biden mixed up names of foreign leaders, leading to scrutiny.
    However, this type of forgetfulness is not uncommon and doesn’t automatically indicate cognitive decline.
    Only a person’s doctor or neurologist can make a proper diagnosis1.
    Special Counsel Report:
    A report by special counsel Robert Hur described President Biden as an “elderly man with a poor memory.”
    It noted instances where he struggled to recall specific time frames and events.
    Biden has rejected these claims, asserting that his memory is fine1.
    In summary, while concerns exist, it’s essential to recognize that memory issues can be part of normal aging. As always, professional evaluation is necessary to determine any underlying conditions1. If you have further questions or need additional information, feel free to ask!

    Learn more
    1 nbcnews.com
    2 msn.com
    3 msn.com
    4 usatoday.com
    5 snopes.com
    6 cbc.ca+2 more
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    We can see when Trump lies and exaggerates and we laugh.
    Biden is so polished that only regulars can see that he is lying.
    If journalist don’t correct/tell/show us Biden’s lie then people believe Biden.
    ———-
    Critical question: who’s actually running the country?
    ———–

    #163379
    John Day
    Participant

    @Oroboros: My grandfather, Robert H. Williams was a machine-gunner in the back of a Spad in “The Hat In The Ring” squadron in WW-1.
    He was a small, wiry man, who came to Texas in a covered wagon as a child. He was near the back of the line for machine-gun tryouts. He saw all the guys were afraid of the machine gun, and failed to firmly grasp and control it.
    When he got to it he shoved his shoulder firmly into the stock and aimed at the target, nailing it the first time.
    The Sergeant called out, “see everybody, Williams here has been practicing”.
    He was embarrassed at the inaccurate accolade. Soon, he was sitting at dinner with Eddy Rickenbacker and Frank Luke…

    #163380
    John Day
    Participant

    Willie Nelson is already his own grandpa: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkX7IW7jpMw

    #163381
    those darned kids
    Participant

    is that a bur oak?

    #163383
    John Day
    Participant

    @TDK: It is a very nice little Bur Oak, isn’t it?
    I get squirrel-planted trees in Austin. I have 2 young Bur Oaks there, which make acorns. I dug up a seedling, potted it over last summer, and planted it in in Yoakum last fall.
    There were others. This one was the most vigorous.
    I especially like Bur Oaks. Their huge acorns are like irregular golf-balls.

    #163384
    zerosum
    Participant

    Would it be smart not to put a color-blind person in charge of pushing the red button?
    (most common color blindness is red-green color blindness.)

    #163385
    Dr D Rich
    Participant

    Megalomania and its admirers are alive and well.

    “Lure”…….
    ………………..is that a coincidence, synchronicity or deliberate?

    Referencing an association with Paul Nitze IS world class acquisitive projective identification. Even Nitze”s Walk in the Woods has been since it was written hagiography par excellence along the lines of “they’d like to think so”.
    Hair blown by unseen winds so to speak

    So, the U.S. survived a horndog Rhodes scholar as president.
    We didn’t all die when an idiot son of an idiot son attacked Iraq after the Saudis and UAE flew airliners into various buildings.
    We survived the 8 years a black gaybo obsessed with child killing WAS president.
    Most folk thrived while Orange Man as President threatened democracy with the help of Vlad Putin.
    Dementia has had its run at the presidency for 3.5 years at the expense of a few extra lives.

    So what harm would come from putting grandiose delusions at the helm of The One Indispensable Nation?

    I will vote yes for the Tulsi-Ritter Ticket since their ‘lure’ feels impossible to resist.

    #163386
    zerosum
    Participant

    Who do you believe that is telling the real truth? Hamas or Biden?
    https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/war-gaza-hamas-dismisses-reports-breakthrough-imminent-ceasefire-deal

    War on Gaza: Hamas dismisses reports that breakthrough is imminent in ceasefire talks

    Hamas has dismissed media reports that claim a breakthrough is imminent in negotiations with Israel over a ceasefire in Gaza, with sources telling Middle East Eye that several obstacles remained and that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was obstructing the process as mediators again push for a deal.

    Sources in the Palestinian movement rubbished reports on Thursday that claimed a framework for the ceasefire had been agreed upon by the parties and that they were now negotiating details of how it would be implemented.

    The sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said that there was “nothing new” to report and there was no impending “breakthrough” in negotiations, despite CIA director Bill Burns meeting senior Israeli, Egyptian and Qatari officials in Doha on Wednesday.

    #163387
    Dr D Rich
    Participant

    Unseen winds

    #163388
    Dr D Rich
    Participant

    Exalted sense of self.

    He doesn’t own the phrase. It’s hard to be modest without looking falsely so.
    I don’t buy it entirely but Brenner here writes it.

    Those folk suffering grandiose delusions are in fact psychotic and could never grip a reality otherwise.

      America’s exalted sense of self is the principal obstacle to its coming to terms with this discomforting reality.  It has sparked the impulse to prove to ourselves (and to the rest of the world) that we remain the global paladin by launching a series of enterprises intended to repel foes and rivals with reinvigorating the bonds with vassals and retainers. That  foredoomed, audacious ambition to secure global dominance does not represent cool strategic judgment. Rather, it is the materializing of fantasies spawned deep in the collective American psyche. It is the go-for-broke strategy of a country suffering from a profound cognitive dissonance compounded by a collective identity crisis
    #163389
    zerosum
    Participant

    Warmongers hate peacemakers.
    Orbán met with Trump at the former president’s beachside compound Mar-a-Lago and shared a photo of the two on social media with the caption: “We discussed ways to make peace. The good news of the day: he’s going to solve it!”

    On his own social media site, Trump posted: “Thank you Viktor. There must be PEACE, and quickly.”

    The Hungarian leader has openly endorsed Trump’s candidacy in this year’s presidential election, and expressed hopes that the Republican will be able to bring an end to Russia’s war in Ukraine.

    #163390
    phoenixvoice
    Participant

    PCR – still 69% of Americans have no regrets being jabbed. So, what we have is a population, 69% of which is too stupid to be functional in a one person one vote Democracy. These fools can outvote the 33%

    There is a problem with the math here.

    #163391
    zerosum
    Participant

    Biden just introduced Volodymyr Zelenskyy as “President Putin” at the NATO summit 🙂

    Biden made a double lie.

    The journalists ignored the lie.
    Biden should know ..
    Volodymyr Zelenskyy is not a president but a dictator of Ukraine.

    #163392
    TAE Summary
    Participant

    Would it be smart not to put a color-blind person in charge of pushing the red button?

    ColorBlindTest

    #163393
    zerosum
    Participant
    #163395
    Noirette
    Participant

    My next post, below, is long and concerns an issue which is now Water under the Bridge, Obama’s birth certificate, so some might want to skip it.

    #163396
    Noirette
    Participant

    sorry, I couldn’t get the post together properly 🙁

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