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    G. G. Bain Asbury Park, Jersey Shore 1914 (just 35 years before Springsteen was born)   • House Delivers Articles Of Impeachment To Senate (ZH) •
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle January 16 2020]

    #52737
    V. Arnold
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    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/introduction-q

    My first introduction to Q; watched the video (a must see, IMO) and frankly, it creeped me out…
    Too smooth, too slick, and the very thing it claims to expose…
    Boy, oh boy, we’re in the deep shit, deep state manipulations, focused propaganda, and obvious control of everything…
    It’s Trump, Trump, Trump is going to save the world…wow, wow, wow…
    My boots aren’t high enough for that quantity of pure propagandistic pig shit………..

    #52738
    V. Arnold
    Participant

    I should probably add; that it’s good to know your adversary and unpleasant as the read/view might be; at least it’s informative…
    Sun Tsu was excellent at this in his seminal, The Art of War…

    #52740
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Is it for all time or simply a lark?
    Is it Granada I see or only Asbury park?

    Late in the day as the sun disappears behind Pennsylvania, there is a sign behind them on the boardwalk, the shadow cast in the sand.

    “Warren Told Sanders He Called Her a Liar On National TV (R.)”

    Had to take a break, lost track of everything because everything is a lie, fabricated, logic-free, self-contradicting from every angle. So Bernie called Warren a liar and she took umbrage, but Warren did NOT call Sanders a liar and he can NOT take umbrage. CNN then reports “this is not a he said, she said story.” Why? “Because we reported it” which makes it real, whichever way they reported it, whoever they choose to believe. Pretty average. Just like who we believe with Biden or in Ukraine, or in the Justice department. DoJ says two contradictory things: no surprise. We consider no evidence to decide the matter, have none, and look for none, but simply say our guy is perfect, without stain or flaw, and your guy’s a liar. QED. Just like Idiocracy:

    “uh, your honor I think we have a mistrial or something!
    I’m gonna mistrial my foot up your *ss you don’t shut up!”
    The Judge drops his pants for the courtroom. “GUILTY!!” is scrawled across it.”

    So what do you think history does to people like that? When you think Putin controls all elections on earth and just installed Trump so he could attack all Russian allies and nuke themselves, I’m at a loss of how to re-instate logic. The nation is clearly insane. And as we’ve heard, while “men go mad in herds, they only recover their senses slowly, one by one.” Very slowly. Then never admit they were wrong. Just like eugenics, desegregation, the Red Scare, the Cultural Revolution, or a thousand other things. But they will designate you a villain and kill you by the thousands in the meantime.

    In the meantime, in Idiocracy, we are instead fighting a Twitter avatar of a snake for Warren, which is now has always been a racist sign, and the #CNNisGarbage goes viral. Glad to see we’re spending our time well and fighting the right fight over, say “Brawndo” instead of things like missile strikes or crops.

    Americans Beware! Russia Can Hack Your Brain (Bridge)”

    So as well shown, nothing, no level of proof, discrediting, no possible illogic can or will derail a people like that, lost in madness and worshipping #AntiLogos, illogic, untruth, as their god. Russia hacked ’16 although Obama says they didn’t, and Mueller could find anything, and has already hacked 2020, although it hasn’t happened, to install a President that attacks them and their allies with missiles, agents, and sanctions at every turn. Of course. Makes sense. When you’re #AntiLogos, you always attack and undermine yourself, so why wouldn’t Putin and Russia surround, attack, and nuke themselves? That’s just common sense in a land of madness. And all it took to undermine the whole 230 year U.S. is a gif with a funny caption on it. We’re helpless before the World’s Funniest Joke.

    America collapses like leaves before a nation the size of New Jersey.

    Sen. Rand Paul Says GOP Will Shaft Trump (GP)

    I imagine he is right. They will definitively double-cross him, and he expects and has planned for it. I mean, they’re politicians. It’s psychologically impossible for them not to. Does that have anything to do with law, justice, or fair process? What’s that? We haven’t done that in 100 years.

    Bloomberg Is Wasting His Money Attacking Teflon Don (DC)

    Not really. He’s 80, is he going to take it with him? He’s not polling 10%? No surprise: he only started yesterday. They claim he’s going to keep spending after losing. I’m not sure Federal Elections Law will allow that.

    90 percent of all coverage he received in 2018 was negative.”

    That’s can’t be true. NBC just accused CNN of being violently Pro-Trump only yesterday. Of course I believe them both.

    “Over 40% Of Listed US Companies Don’t Make Money (ZH)”

    As I say every day in #OppositeLand, land of lies. Tesla just had a jump, they are now probably the largest car manufacturer on the planet by market cap but don’t produce any cars. The cars they produce explode. SEC doesn’t follow the stock rigging, NFSB doesn’t look at one new Tesla murder per day. No one notices: they go higher.

    ““It’s Unthinkable” Australia Sells Arms to Countries Accused of War Crimes (G.)”

    Every word of every sentence they say. “Accused?” I just accused Orkney of war crimes. Unthinkable? Every nation on earth is participating in them, as overseen daily by the U.N. What do they think that arms do? You give them to people to use, not to plant flowers in. Ad nauseum. Logic is dead, so be outraged instead.

    Virgin Islands Alleges Epstein Used Private Island to Abuse and Traffic Girls (G.)”

    Whoops, after 30 years of worldwide media reports, we suddenly noticed there was a crime in our jurisdiction. From a guy of whom we are not questioning or arresting what can only be thousands of accomplices and co-trafficking co-felons. And this is considered logical and not unusual.

    While Taleb is true, and people meddling so often causes not cures problems, yet if you go further and insure regular maintenance fires, you will have least trouble of all. But that takes, sacrifice, intelligence, and self-control. Which from yesterday, is quite the hallmark of our species, unless specifically engineered and countered with substantial meddling and force from elsewhere. You know, in the service of Disaster Capitalism, or worse, Disaster of Socialism.

    #52741
    boscohorowitz
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    Thinking independenttly and acting in concert aren’t absolutely mutually exclusive, but they are at best antagonistic toward each other, while at worst (and as usual), impossible.

    I want a movement that holds signs saying, WE WILL FOLLOW BOSCO FOR HE THINKS FOR HIMSELF. ALL HAIL BOSCO! MAKE HOROWITZ GREAT AGAIN!

    Because it has no apparent connection to whatever it is we’re discussing today, I share here an obscure and groovy little tune from the WWII Era time capsule:

    Tonsillectomy

    #52742
    zerosum
    Participant

    G. G. Bain Asbury Park, Jersey Shore 1914
    Duds are dressed “cool” for the beach. Yep, there is garbage on left on the beach and it gets cleaned everyday, just like now. There is no kelp.

    ———–
    Entertainment for the echo chamber.

    I would say, for the history book. Its all an illusion, as if its meaningful.

    ——–
    ” they should reconsider having any witnesses at all,” Sen. Paul said.”

    Everybody is dirty.
    There is not one politician that can go to communion without first going to confession.
    ———–
    ” …..billionaire Michael Bloomberg is living proof that it can’t buy you common sense, ….”
    WHAT!!!
    Are you saying that we are just as smart as a billionaire.
    Then, why are we not billionaires?
    —–
    giant monopolies
    That is the objective of capitalism. To be able to set the price without worrying about the cash outflow.
    Competition is the enemy of capitalism, (40% of companies don’t make money)
    —–
    • US Freight Shipments Plunge at Fastest Rate since 2009, Hit 2011 Level (WS)

    GEEEE!
    I think if people were given a bigger line of credit, there would not be any reduced buying.
    ——–

    “Over the 2018-19 financial year, Australia issued 45 weapons export permits to the United Arab Emirates, 23 to Saudi Arabia, 14 to Sri Lanka and four to the Democratic Republic of Congo.”

    SEE.
    If you want to stay in business, You got to sell to the people who have money to spend.
    —–

    #52743
    boscohorowitz
    Participant

    I find it interesting that we expect our leaders to be honest and moral. We are THE apex predator of the planet. Along with speed and power, predation is based on stealth, cunning, deception, and camouflage. It is only natural that, having cleared a space for humanity to exist without fear of lions, tigers, and bears, we should then prey on each other, with some of us dominating the field of prey.

    As for sexual predation: today we call it Pedophile Island. Just 500 years ago it was called a harem, and was a respected part of most political ruling structures.

    As for politicis in general: we’re social animals, and we believe that unless the group endorses and empowers it, it is meaningless. So we will only vote for someone who “can win”. We won’t go it alone because we will be exiled.

    #52744
    zerosum
    Participant

    The enablers are in charge

    https://www.bakersfield.com/ap/news/legal-ruling-on-withheld-ukraine-aid-could-shake-up-impeachment/article_e5324698-2e08-5fa4-a07c-29f8dbac4213.html

    Legal ruling on withheld Ukraine aid could shake up impeachment trial
    By Paul M. Krawzak CQ-Roll Call (TNS) Jan 13, 2020 Updated Jan 13, 2020

    As early as this week, the Government Accountability Office could release its legal opinion on whether Trump and senior White House officials violated the Nixon-era budget law that requires executive branch agencies to spend appropriated funds according to lawmakers’ wishes.

    #52745
    seychelles
    Participant

    Entertainment for the echo chamber.

    Manipulative rituals are totally in character for a group of Luciferian occultists/pseudoZioIlluminatists. Midsommar comes to our Congressional galleries.

    #52746
    zerosum
    Participant

    “Entertainment for the echo chamber.”
    Who would have foreseen ….”Drain the swamp” would bring out the creatures using “impeachment” as their preferred tool.

    #52747
    seychelles
    Participant

    Q: Too smooth, too slick, and the very thing it claims to expose…

    My gut reaction, too….

    #52748
    John Day
    Participant

    http://www.johndayblog.com/2020/01/walking-path.html
    Putin’s address to the Russian nation is here: https://off-guardian.org/2020/01/15/transcript-putins-address-to-the-federal-assembly/Some comments about comments in the news about proposed changes in the Russian constitution are here: https://off-guardian.org/2020/01/15/transcript-putins-address-to-the-federal-assembly/I’ve read both the article and the speech in entirety. (Thanks Eleni)The speech is the main thing.Putin suggested in his December press conference that constitutional changes were being called for and considered, fairly widely.The dramatic statements about this being a move to enhance an imperial presidency are clearly false, completely at odds with his proposal to limit successive presidential terms.Also, the imperial presidency, similar to that of France, was intended to serve the purpose of rapid change after the fall of the USSR. We know it was intended to serve the interests of global capitalism, but somehow, Russia got her DeGaulle in Vladimir Putin.France now has Macron, the Rothschild puppet, with DeGaulle’s powerful office.Putin and his government see that they have accomplished the core task of rebuilding a robust Russian society and economy, and the work still to be done.He addresses this first, supporting the needs of people, families with kids, kids, schools, hospitals, and so on.The new constitutional proposal is designed to increase the power of elected officials, so a PM is appointed by the Douma, not the president, but is subject to dismissal by the president. Judges are independent, but will be subject to dismissal for cause, under the constitution. There are more degrees of freedom, more transparency is requested, and there are shorter loops of control, more mechanisms to prevent cronyism from taking hold. I see mechanisms to prevent establishment of a permanent deep-state, as the President, who will not be a permanent fixture, but will keep changing, will appoint security agency heads and fire them. This will avoid what Trump faces, or attempts to avoid it.Russia has survived the life-or-death crisis, is thriving, and undergoing self directed therapy beyond rehabilitation, now.This is very forward-looking to support healthy Russian society in the longer term after current leaders have passed on.
    The BBC has some higher quality worried speculations here:https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-51120167  

    This looks to me more like protection from transnationals in treaty enforced arbitration between corporations and nations.A summary via TASS:
     Putin has suggested a putting up a package of constitutional amendments for a plebiscite. At the same time, the Russian president stated that he sees no grounds to adopt new constitution in Russia.
     Putin also suggest stipulating the supremacy of the Russian Constitution over international norms in Russia.
     “The time has come to make some changes to the nation’s fundamental law that would directly guarantee the priority of the Russian Constitution in our legal space. What does this mean? It means that requirements of international law and decisions of international bodies can only be enforced in Russia to such an extent that does not violate human and civil rights and freedoms and does not violate our Constitution,” Putin emphasized.https://www.moonofalabama.org/2020/01/the-russian-prime-minister-resigns-and-no-one-knows-why.html#more  

    Eleni sends this from Whitney Webb:  How an Israeli Spy-linked Tech Firm Gained Access to the US Government’s Most Classified Networks(First we gave it away to them, then we rented it back with spyware installed. Foreign aid to Israel is the BEST.)Cybereason’s main investors turned partners have integrated Cybereason’s software into their product offerings. This means that the clients of these Cybereason partner companies, the U.S. intelligence community and military among them, are now part of Cybereason’s network of more than 6 million endpoints that this private company constantly monitors using a combination of staff comprised largely of former intelligence operatives and an AI algorithm first developed by Israeli military intelligence.   “Look guys, we set up a war game of what happens if somebody hacks the 2020 election and it has to be invalidated and martial law imposed. Interested?”
    https://www.mintpressnews.com/cybereason-investors-offer-israeli-spy-classified-intelligence/264095/ 

    #52749
    boscohorowitz
    Participant

    “Manipulative rituals are totally in character for a group of Luciferian occultists/pseudoZioIlluminatists.”

    I like that sentence. It captures a big chunk of the weirdness of our times.

    #52750
    boscohorowitz
    Participant

    Because I was trapped in an automobile dealer’s service lobby under a tv, I saw the commencement of the impeachment proceedings, complete with a map showing the ACTUAL PATH THE LAWMAKERS TROD GOING THROUGH THE BUILDING TO THE, ER, Impeachment Chamber. I did!

    Later came The View, and some hyper-coiffed person gushingly revealed that the GAO claimed Trump’s actions regarding certain foreign aid to Ukraine (foreign aid, that unique blend of blackmail and bribery) was — gasp — illegal. This, said the hyper-haired gusher, meant it was wrong, bad, and even, er, impeachable. Or something. Trump had violated an act of Congress. Apparently, I’m supposed to believe the charge must stick because, I guess, this is an act of Congress that Congress for once didn’t itself violate?

    Not sure.

    I do know that the show between the Impeachment March and The View had some woman with fantastically layered, abundant, auburn hair that looked like it was a wig made from the stem cells derived from clippings of Trump’s big tent combover.

    Also, during The View, Whoopi did this great impersonation of Bernie Sanders. It made me notice that, if you shrunk her skinny and ancient, died her skin pasty white and turned her impressive dreadlocks into nebulous silver wisps, she could pass for Bernie’s sister.

    Also, this just in: apparently, fake potted plants with phony dead spots to make them look “real” is now a thing.

    Another thing. Not everything is going to shit. The free coffee from the magic coffee dispenser, featuring Seattle’s Best Coffee, is as good as any coffee I’ve had from vintage pre-Starbucks espresso joints. Kind of coffee what reknits your bones and makes you jitter after 3 cups. Which probably in part explains this post.

    Which somehow reminds me:

    Is Impersonating an Officer an Impeachable Offense?

    I suspect only the data rats at google/nsa/et al know just how many quasi-literate humans terxting (is 2 a wurd!) about current events have written ‘impeccable’ for ‘impeachable’.

    It’s early enough I can still put down my marker on year 2020 bets, right? I got $23 trillion in national debt that says this is the year the Big Tumble will commence.

    #52751
    boscohorowitz
    Participant

    I stumbled on this last night and was surprised by how it floored me. But sometimes, when a simple truth has been the single most defining aspect of one’s life, it becomes so obvious it turns invisible.

    Reading it last night, I decided that there wasn’t a bit of exaggeration in it. Having grown up a straight-A golden child to the extent that other parents regularly praised — in my presence — my parents for having such a wonderful child, I stepped off the prescribed path and have been an exile ever since. It is indeed an unpardonable sin… unlerss it makes you a billionaire, preferably a closet pedophile.

    Life’s weird like that.

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    #52752
    boscohorowitz
    Participant

    Dedicated to the average asshole in charge of whatever for no good reason:

    Mr. Big

    #52753
    boscohorowitz
    Participant

    Nerdy granddad rock cognoscenti will notice how deftly the guitarist channels dear old dead Paul Kossoff.

    The bassplayer reminds us again why this joke is funny:

    at evening twilight on the 3rd day of the safari, the drums began. They came from everywhere.

    Stella was scared.

    “Oh Paul! I’m scared!”

    A porter comforted her.

    “Not to worry, Missy Sahib. Is only the people talking about the day using drum language.

    She thanked him.

    The drums stopped.

    The porter returned, looking scared.

    “What is it?” asked Stella.

    “Very bad, missy. When drums stop, bass solo begins.”

    #52754
    ezlxa1949
    Participant

    Will Australians ever wake up to their political reality?”

    Oh believe me, a great many have, but as long as the Murdoch press maintains its prominent position in Australian media readership (Qld and SA have ONLY the Murdoch message to read), then too many people unwittingly obtain all their ideas and opinions and electoral preferences from it.

    Out of morbid curiosity, I’d like to know what Rupert’s glittering vision is, what state of affairs he’s working towards, whom it will benefit, and so on. What the elites hope to do when they own and control everything remains to be seen. Their lives are totally futile and pointless, but they are and remain wilfully blind to that.

    Australia is run by sociopaths for the benefit of the elites. The ordinary people are expendable. The biosphere is NOT connected to the economy. Some economists reckon the planet can support a trillion people: no worries, no limits, no shortages.

    #52755
    chettt
    Participant

    What is Putin up to? Something has to change in Russia…

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    #52758
    V. Arnold
    Participant

    Q: Too smooth, too slick, and the very thing it claims to expose…

    My gut reaction, too….

    Thanks for the confirmation; I usually go with my gut as well; rarely, if ever, wrong…

    #52766
    Dr. D
    Participant

    For Putin, Raul will probably link tomorrow:

    Putin’s Now Purged the West from the Kremlin

    It’s an opinion. Russia knows Putin will not live forever, and wishes to purge the remaining moles, and set up a more limited, distributed government to avoid the inevitable re-attack of the West to re-take and re-destroy Russia. I can’t get deep enough in to say, but it reads correct to me. You must also remember Russia is more dispositionally authoritarian, they call it “monarchical” than the Anglos (i.e. us). It’s just a way, look at how terribly slow and messy the Anglo method of democracy is. It’s the least bad alternative that suits only is. I.e. not the Middle East, or China. Each have their own ways, which are theirs to have.

    On Q, just what I’m saying about Marine Generals. They can be your allies, but they are not you, nor aligned with you; they have their own plans. Sure, pretty clear he’s from Military Intel Psyops, authorized by Cheeto. And all followers know that, he himself admits it. The problem comes when you think you’re on the same team, with the same plan (The ‘Ineffable Plan’?), as I believe many do, which is why it is high-quality propaganda. That doesn’t make it all not true. The best propaganda IS true. And there’s no reason for them not to, since there’s nothing but high-quality felony targets from Harper’s Ferry to the sea.

    But as the devil, so what happens when they take full power? And you are fully aligned with them, not just in politics, but in your emotion, your mind? Are they going to erase 80% of government as the Constitution requires? Erase the NSA and restore the 4th Amendment? End monopoly billionaires? Stand down the entire army and go back to a Swiss model, as expected by the founders? Not on your life. So it’s easy to see they are true, sure, why not? And also quite false. And that’s even if they — the Q collective — don’t know it or believe it themselves. They could have intentions white as snow, why not? And when Isildur gains the One Ring, what then?

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