Debt Rattle August 22 2024
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[See the full post at: Debt Rattle August 22 2024]anecdotal evidence:
spoke with a person seventy three years of age who until two days ago never heard of the Federal Open Market Committee or the non-farm payroll report. This same person, born in Birmingham Alabama, a life long Republican voter has thirty six years experience as an elementary school teacher and is a career long member of The Florida Education Association and is a babtized member of a Christian denomination. Every evening John Muir is on the moronoscope in the den of this person’s home.
i offer you this quote, “Mr. Trump said he will be a dictator”. Came the query, where did you hear that? “On the news” came the reply.
Kamala it is.The most telling factor at the televised DNC is the sound of the mob in attendance. Setting in a room adjacent to a room with a moronoscope tuned to the convention the roar of the crowd is the telling factor. The sound of the crowd may well be canned, this is of little import. The sound of the mob is that which is used in the epic movies where heroes such as Charlton Heston or perhaps Russell Crowe are struggling to overcome mindless overwhelming evil. Perhaps the sound might be compared to Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ as the crowd demanded “Crucify Him”.
Self interest has overcome self preservation.
“I agree to this Constitution … and I believe, further, that this is likely to be well administered for a course of years, and can only end in despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other.” Benjamin Franklin
The mob will sustain the blob. Cultured ignorance is pervasive.
Considering Future Arrangements https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/considering-future-arrangements
It is difficult to pick a first story today, because the global economy, our life support system, runs on fuels and other mineral substrates, which provide energy, transportation, electricity and inputs for manufacturing and agriculture. All of this is coordinated and managed through business-finance, within the paradigm of capital-investment with the expectation of the return of profits, as well as the principle invested, at some point in the future. This assumes the growth of the real economy, which requires the growth of available fuel and mineral substrates, at prices which are low enough to support the generation of profits, with which to regularly pay dividends to investors, and to occasionally return their principle upon demand.
As we know, this system often fails in specific instances of bankruptcy, and occasionally fails as a large, coherent system, as in 1929 and 2008, though the 1929 failure was managed by addressing fundamental problems and the 2008 failure was “managed” by conjuring up enough “money” to pay off all of the players, so the game could proceed as if the system remained healthy, though it was not. The promise of ongoing profits was enough to assure full participation by all economic and financial participants, as long as the system could appear to function as it had before.
The financial failure in 2008 came shortly after the peak of “conventional oil” production in 2005 or so, and oil prices rising to $140/bbl, which was unaffordable to much of the real economy, based upon an oil price of $30/bbl. A lot of assumptions failed when that fundamental price rose so high, as they had in the 1970s, when the Arab oil embargo had also caused “stagflation”. Government sweeteners for investors to finance the “shale revolution” were able to bring oil prices back down, though they fluctuated between choking-the-economy when higher, and leading to oil production cuts when lower. $80/bbl seems to be a fairly narrow “sweet spot” where enough oil can be produced and the economy can be sustained.
The financial system, however, is still a Ponzi scheme, subject to sudden collapse. The financial system has been predicated upon growth of the real economy, which declined in the early 2000s and has further declined since the peak production of “net-oil-and-liquids” at the end of 2018.
Emergencies and emergency-interventions, such as the “going direct bailout” in March 2020, during COVID lockdowns, have been necessary to support the financial Ponzi, but it is tasked with appearing to grow exponentially, while real economy has long been stagnant, bumping between spurts of growth and contraction in most areas, excluding China until recently, and still excluding Russia, which has a lot of energy and other resources, and a low debt-service.
The “owners” of the western financial system re threatened by the exposure of the vast losses of the system, the huge discrepancy between notional-wealth and physical-economic-wealth. Somebody will have to “accept losses” in their portfolios, big losses. The BlackRock class of global investors want that to be the retirement and insurance companies and the retail-investors, please.
That assignment-of-losses is obviously more unfair than the recent increase in disparity between rich and poor, because a lot of people, like retirees, depend upon those assets to live every day. This will be a political determination, even though the BlackRock class has the “legal” rights, “super-senior rights” to all of the assets, which people think they “own”, as Ellen Brown explains clearly and succinctly here:
“The Great Taking”, How They Can Own It All https://ellenbrown.com/2023/10/03/the-great-taking-how-they-plan-to-own-it-all/“Emergency Powers” during the COVID pandemic allowed vast, invisible creation of money, to be provided to the BlackRock-class, and the inflation followed when lockdowns ended and real-economy picked up again. That will not work when people are actually robbed of their necessities of life in a financial economy, losing large fractions of their income. War-Emergency-Powers are typically used by financial elites when the economic systems are so badly deranged, as was the case leading into WW-2.
I believe that is the precipice where we now stand, looking over the cliff at the wars in Ukraine and Palestine/Israel with trepidation. “War is inevitable between Israel and Hezbollah”, interview with Abbas Zalzali [This analysis makes less of the far-right Revisionist Zionist motivations within “Israel”.]
Anthony Blinken left Doha on August 20 empty handed. He had been pushing Israel and Hamas to come to a ceasefire agreement, but the negotiations appear to have once again failed to find peace for the people in Gaza, who have suffered over 40,000 deaths and hundreds of thousands of injuries since the October 7 attack on Israel by Hamas. The US supported Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in his revenge attack on Gaza, which has been termed genocide by the UN. However, the US President Joe Biden administration has forcefully demanded that Netanyahu stop the war to allow Israeli hostages out of Gaza, and prevent further Palestinian deaths. Most of the dead have been women and children in Gaza.
Biden was assured by Netanyahu that he would sign a ceasefire, but at the last moment Netanyahu broke his promise to Biden, and this prompted Biden to end his re-election campaign. Biden was counting on a Gaza ceasefire to win the votes to put him in the White House for a second term, but had to admit defeat. It appears that Netanyahu is determined to wage a full-scale war against Hezbollah, the Lebanese resistance organization...
Abbas Zalzali, news anchor, media instructor, talk show host and writer:
“It was clear that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took the green light for an escalation during his visit to Washington and his speech before the US Congress. The assassination of Hezbollah leader Fouad Shukr in the Lebanese capital Beirut is a translation of this escalation and an attempt to drag Hezbollah into a large-scale war because the Israeli leadership, since the first days of Operation Flood of Al-Aqsa on October 7, has wanted to launch a military campaign on Lebanon and has been trying since that time to separate the fronts to isolate Hamas in Gaza.”…
..”All indications show that war is inevitable between Israel and Hezbollah. Israel, which received a heavy blow on October 7, wants to restore its prestige as an invincible state… If a comprehensive war does not break out this time, it will inevitably break out in the near future. Speaking of the role of the Lebanese army in the event of a war, the matter is clear: it will confront Israeli attacks in defense of the homeland because it is the homeland’s army, despite its modest capabilities and lack of the capabilities ready for such a war.”….
..”As for Hezbollah’s response to the assassination of “Hajj Mohsen”, it is inevitable, as stated by its Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah. As for its nature and timing, the matter is subject to several details that cannot be predicted, but stopping the war on Gaza may change something in this equation.
As for Netanyahu exploiting this response when it happens to launch a large-scale war on Lebanon, it cannot be confirmed or denied because opening the northern front means a regional war. Here we ask him about the American role and American desire because everything that is happening is with American approval and participation, and whoever says otherwise is naïve.” https://mideastdiscourse.com/2024/08/20/war-is-inevitable-between-israel-and-hezbollah-interview-with-abbas-zalzali/ Netanyahu’s latest strategy to avoid a ceasefire, explained
Since the start of the week, two news items about the latest ceasefire negotiations have surfaced that seem to contradict one another.
One has gained widespread attention in the international press, claiming that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has accepted the U.S. ceasefire deal, with Secretary of State Antony Blinken stating that the ball is now in Hamas’s court.
The second only gained traction in Israeli media: Netanyahu told a group of families of Israeli captives held in Gaza that he isn’t sure a ceasefire deal is going to happen because Israel would not withdraw from the Netzarim and Philadelphi corridors in Gaza “under any conditions.” …
..In mid-July, Egyptian and Qatari mediators called Israel and Hamas back to the table. Netanyahu sent a smaller delegation with limited powers to Cairo. The Israeli team returned to Tel Aviv hours later after an argument with Netanyahu over what was increasingly becoming the Israeli prime minister’s focus in the negotiations — the future of the Netzarim and Philadelphi corridors.
But why focus on these two areas? The answer lies in their strategic location and Israel’s vision for the future of Gaza.
The Netzarim corridor is a four-kilometer-wide strip of land in the center of Gaza that the Israeli army has cleared of inhabitants and uses as a military zone to station and move its troops. More importantly, Netzarim extends from Gaza’s eastern edge to the west, bifurcating the coastal enclave in two and thus cutting off northern Gaza from the south. The Philadelphi corridor plays a different strategic role; it’s a two-kilometer-wide strip of land along Gaza’s border with Egypt, and Israel claims that Hamas has been smuggling weapons via tunnels that run through it.
Netanyahu’s statements about holding onto those two corridors followed Blinken’s departure from Israel to Egypt, where he met with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. Egypt’s position was clear in the meeting: Israel has to withdraw from the Philadelphi corridor. The Egyptian presidency also said in a statement that Sisi impressed upon Blinken that it was time for a ceasefire deal to be reached followed by the international recognition of a Palestinian state as part of a two-state solution...
..Upon concluding his stay in Israel, Blinken said that Netanyahu assured him of Israel’s acceptance of the latest U.S. ceasefire proposal, stressing that it is up to Hamas to accept it in order to move forward to discussing implementation details. But as the timeline of events above shows, Israel has consistently undermined ceasefire talks throughout the Gaza genocide, and Netanyahu’s conditions on Philadelphi and Netzarim are just the latest ploy.
These demands are a non-starter that Hamas will be forced to reject, which is exactly what Netanyahu wants: he nominally accepted the U.S. proposal, putting the ball in Hamas’s court, but later doubled down on demands that make it impossible for Hamas to accept. https://mondoweiss.net/2024/08/netanyahus-latest-strategy-to-avoid-a-ceasefire-explained/ IRGC Says Iran’s Retaliation Against Israel for Haniyeh Killing May Take ‘Long’ Time, The IRGC says the response could differ from Iran’s attack on Israel in April “Time is on our side, and the waiting period may be long,” said IRGC spokesman Ali Mohammad Naeini. He added that for now, the “Zionists must remain in a state of imbalance.” … “Our commanders know how to punish the enemy effectively and are not prone to hasty action,” he said.
The US is still vowing that it will defend Israel from an Iranian attack and has deployed additional military assets to the Middle East for that purpose. “We are fully prepared to defend Israel,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in Tel Aviv on Monday.
Hezbollah is also vowing to respond to the July 30 Israeli airstrike in Beirut that killed one of its top military commanders, Fuad Shukr.IRGC Says Iran’s Retaliation Against Israel for Haniyeh Killing May Take ‘Long’ Time
It would shut off most Mideast oil exports through the Strait of Hormuz. War With Iran Would Bring Global Economic Collapse, Isolate The United States https://sputnikglobe.com/20240819/war-with-iran-would-bring-global-economic-collapse-isolate-the-united-states-1119833971.html
How Gaza war has set back Palestinian agriculture, deepened hunger crisis
More than half of Gaza’s cropland and a third of its greenhouses have been destroyed by the conflict, contributing to malnutrition
FAO says the devastation of Gaza’s agriculture has led to severe food insecurity, with 1 in 5 Gazans facing extreme hunger https://www.arabnews.com/node/2568195/middle-eastUN: Over 80% of Gaza’s buildings destroyed https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240820-un-over-80-of-gazas-buildings-destroyed/
New Democratic Party Platform Pledges ‘Ironclad’ Commitment to Israel
The platform also boasts of Biden’s new military interventions in the Middle East, including the bombing campaign in Yemen https://news.antiwar.com/2024/08/20/new-democratic-party-platform-pledges-ironclad-commitment-to-israel/ Rep. Thomas Massie Says Congress Members Should Not Be Dual Citizens, Gets Accused of Anti-Semitism [Current laws somehow allow this in the case of Israel.]
Congressman Thomas Massie (R-KY) is being accused of anti-Semitism for stating that members of the US Congress should not be allowed to hold dual citizenship with other countries.
“Dual citizens elected to United States Congress should renounce citizenship in all other countries,” Massie said Monday on X. “At a minimum, they should disclose their citizenship in other countries and abstain from votes specifically benefitting those countries.”…
..Though Massie didn’t call out any country by name, he was immediately accused of anti-Semitism by Jewish Florida State Rep. Randy Fine (R).
“This guy is just gross,” Rep. Fine said. “Who in Congress is a dual citizen? I think we all know the slur he is tossing around. The real question is why certain Florida politicians choose this bigot to hang around with.” https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=64605Canada revokes Jewish National Fund’s charitable status after audit found group used donations to fortify Israeli military infrastructure https://www.naturalnews.com/2024-08-20-canada-revokes-jnf-charitable-audit-israel-military.html
The Honest Sorcerer, An AI Takeover (Not) Briefly: AI uses a vast amount of electricity, even in current forms, as do Bitcoin and internet servers. Electricity shortage is part of the developing energy crisis. Human brains are extremely energy efficient, even the good ones.
Let’s make it clear because its not obvious to most people: neither human nor artificial intelligence can lessen our energy woes, let alone ‘address pressing national and global challenges’. We are facing a mounting net energy dilemma, where less energy means, less resources, and well, a much smaller economy. Mining is still powered by fossil fuels, and vice verse — so, the less minerals we mine, the less energy we can produce. We need low cost energy to mine minerals, and low cost minerals to obtain energy. Take any of these away, and there goes your economy…
Problem is, as rich deposits deplete, it takes more and more energy to get into the next reserve and deliver the next batch of oil, uranium, silicon or copper. Thanks to four decades of rampant globalization, minerals (especially oil) production is in the same net energy dilemma everywhere. Simply put we have used up the best of our resources already — taking millions of years to form in Earth’s crust — and now we’re stuck with the scrapings left behind by an industrial scale exploitation of this planet… All this at the same time when we would need more energy than ever to fuel “the runaway train of AI’s energy consumption”… ..Energy and resource depletion, resulting in a skyrocketing energy demand just to keep raw material output flat, is thus a predicament with an outcome — not a problem in search of a solution. We have burned through a colossal amount of resources in less than eighty years since the end of WWII, and now we not only face climate deterioration as a result, but risk an outright ecological collapse. https://thehonestsorcerer.substack.com/p/an-ai-takeover-not Surplus Energy Economics, The mythology of growth, EVEN IN THE GOOD TIMES, THE ECONOMY BARELY OUT-GREW POPULATION
Conclusions:
This has been, by intention, a retrospective review of economic trends dating back to 1980. But most of us are interested, not just in where we’ve come from, but in where we’re going.
The ‘big factors’ that emerge from our retrospective analysis can be listed as follows.
1. Both the non-energy resource base and the ex-cost economic value of energy have been depleting markedly, trends greatly exacerbated by relentless increases in population numbers.
2. Most of the “growth” reported in financial aggregates has been cosmetic, a product of ignoring debt and other liabilities, disregarding ECoE, and excluding natural resource depletion from our measurement of economic output.
3. Four decades of reported “growth” have, in fact, seen material economic prosperity barely outperform the rate of growth in the global population.
These underlying trends are continuing. Comparing 2040 with 2023, we can expect the Energy Cost of Energy to rise by about 75%, and the conversion ratio of natural resources into economic value to continue to decrease. Significantly, aggregate energy production is likely to decline, with falls in fossil fuels output only partly offset by increases in the supply of renewables.
On this basis, the aggregate of material economic output is likely to fall by around 18%.
If population numbers continue to increase – albeit at a decelerating rate – the World’s average person is likely to be fully 27% less prosperous in 2040 than he or she is today. At the same time, the cost of necessities per capita is projected to be about 40% higher in 2040 than it is today.
As well as pushing the affordability of discretionary (non-essential) products and services sharply downwards, this trend will undermine the ability of households to support their enormously-expanded commitments to the financial system. [“pay bills”]
If past form is anything to go by, decision-makers, far from accepting actual economic reality and acting accordingly, are likely to carry on trying to stimulate the material economy with monetary tools.
On this basis, a “GFC II” sequel to the global financial crisis of 2008-09 has now been hard-wired into the system.
The decisions that we make are ours alone, but the effectiveness of our choices – financial, occupational, political, social and perhaps even geographical – can only be enhanced if we opt for facts in preference to myths. https://surplusenergyeconomics.wordpress.com/2024/08/20/287-the-mythology-of-growth/Charles Hugh Smith advocates adjusting now to a less-plush future. You Say You Want a Revolution, Owning nothing isn’t happiness. Owning control of one’s life and purpose is happiness. I’ve recently covered the current version of this doing-the-minimum form of opting out: The Anti-Consumers. https://charleshughsmith.substack.com/p/you-say-you-want-a-revolution
Josh sends two articles, derived from one article for Chinese distribution. I find a lot of gaps and assumptions in the first one, and neither seems to look at the fundamental importance of energy and other resources. The first one is introductory, and I’d like to pull an important concept from the second, for our consideration. I am not advocating the acceptance of this presentation as reliable political fact, which I doubt, but the “Communitarian” concept is “an idea whose time has come” for our world. A lot of the descriptive statements might be clearer in Chinese, or not, and I wonder how to accomplish them. Who decides what is “just right”?
Yan Yilong on American Hegemony (Part 1)
“Internationally, the main contradiction [China faces] is between the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation and American hegemony.” https://www.sinification.com/p/yan-yilong-on-american-hegemony-part Yan Yilong on American Hegemony (Part 2)
“China’s overall strategy is not to collide head-on but to maintain strategic composure, continuously enhance its strength, and exhaust the opponent’s power” “Regardless of the form of hegemony, whether based on coercion or consent, prioritising national interests or professing to serve ‘universal interests,’ it always has two characteristics: inequality and rent-seeking, extracting extra profits from other countries. China’s rise does not represent a new hegemony because Chinese civilisation differs from Western civilisation…
..In terms of security, communitarianism is a universal security concept, transcending the ‘balance of power’ and ‘collective security’ frameworks. In terms of development, communitarianism emphasises common development, surpassing the ‘zero-sum’ and ‘liberal’ development models. In terms of civilisation, communitarianism embraces civilisational integration, moving beyond the ‘clash of civilisations’ and ‘multiculturalism.’ In terms of state relations, communitarianism advocates for partnerships, surpassing alliances and non-alignment.”
“Communitarianism represents a new path for globalisation, with the following strategic initiatives:
1. Pursue a new path of ‘open and shared’ (开放共享) globalisation, transcending the ‘divide and conquer’ (人以群分) and ‘each to their own’ (各自为战) approach to globalisation. The economies, technologies, and cultures of countries worldwide are already deeply integrated. We must oppose the use of decoupling and supply chain disruptions as geopolitical weapons and reject supply chains built on so-called shared values.”
“2. Pursue a new path of ‘common development’ in globalisation, transcending the ‘zero-sum competition’ approach to globalisation…The traditional model of government-to-government development cooperation, mainly through international trade and development aid, still faces issues of global development failures and market failures. The Belt and Road Initiative is a new model of intergovernmental cooperation. China engages in strategic alignment and planning coordination with countries along the Belt and Road, building development partnerships…”
“3. Pursue a new path of ‘people-centred’ globalisation (以人民为中心”的全球化), transcending the ‘capital-centred’ (以资本为中心) approach to globalisation. Capital-centred globalisation is driven by the pursuit of capital profits, serving the free operation and flow of capital, making more efficient money, and is the root of unbalanced and insufficient globalisation… The new globalisation must shift from being capital-centred to being people-centred… First, the new globalisation transcends the simple pursuit of profit maximisation… Second, we should guide capital to go global in alignment with national strategies…state-owned capital is the main force driving the new globalisation, with a stronger political orientation, pushing forward many national cooperation projects that are high-risk, long-term, and have small profit margins.”
“4. Pursue a new path of balanced globalisation, transcending the unbalanced globalisation model. China does not seek the extra profits that come from unbalanced globalisation but rather achieves its development through shared progress with the world.”
“5. Pursue a new path of ‘equal-autonomous’ (平等-自主) globalisation, transcending the ‘dominant-dependent’ (支配-依附) globalisation model. China has experienced colonialism and imperialism and deeply understands the challenges developing countries face in an unequal globalisation system…This new path of globalisation requires that no country seek to dominate others, that each country respects the independence of others, does not interfere in their internal affairs, and does not attach political conditions to aid and cooperation.”
“6. Pursue a new path of ‘diverse’ globalisation, transcending the ‘uniform’ globalisation model. Traditional globalisation followed a path of uniformity, attempting to ‘Westernise’ the world…The process of ‘localised’ globalisation means that the new globalisation itself will be diverse, taking on different forms. It is a two-way process, involving both giving and receiving.” https://www.sinification.com/p/yan-yilong-on-american-hegemony-part-608 BYE-BYE PETRODOLLAR: 159 Countries now slated to adopt new BRICS payment system
As soon as October, Russia’s long-awaited international BRICS payment system will be ready to go with some 159 countries said to be in the process of ditching the U.S. dollar as their official settlement currency...
..Russia was banned from SWIFT following its invasion of Ukraine, but now there is a new system emerging from BRICS that threatens to make SWIFT obsolete.
If the new payment system is a success, it will render Federal Reserve Notes (FRNs) obsolete as well. The world will no longer be held hostage by the so-called petrodollar, which reports warn could have massive global market ramifications.
The West’s continued sanctions on Russia have only hastened the speed at which Russia is developing this new BRICS payment system. Its design will promote local currencies and alternative settlement methods that sidestep the U.S. dollar entirely.
Elvira Nabiullina, the governor of Russia’s central bank, says 159 countries are ready to adopt the new BRICS payment system once it goes live. It will serve as an expansion to Russia’s System for Transmitting Financial Messages (SPFS) platform as well as “an alternative to SWIFT.”
“Similar infrastructure exists in some other countries,” Nabiullina commented. “We are holding discussions on the interaction of such platforms, but here the interest and technical readiness of our partners are important.” https://www.naturalnews.com/2024-08-20-petrodollar-159-countries-adopt-brics-payment-system.html Musk responds to Trump’s job offer, The billionaire has stated he is “willing to serve” after the GOP nominee floated giving him an advisory role
In a post on X on Tuesday, Musk signaled to Trump: “I am willing to serve.” One user suggested naming a department that Musk could head in the US government as the “Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)” – an apparent reference to the ‘Doge meme’ and the eponymous Dogecoin cryptocurrency. Commenting on the idea, the billionaire jokingly replied that this is the “perfect name.” https://www.rt.com/news/602849-musk-willing-serve-trump-government/Trump Says He Would Consider RFK in the Cabinet https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/politics/trump-says-he-would-consider-rfk-in-the-cabinet/
Kamala Harris Thread Reader app looks at the “Top Cop’s” long history of accomplishments in detail. Start skimming and scrolling. Lots of content. Thanks Dr. D. https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1817937373751091301.html#google_vignette
Longtime journalist, now blogger, John Ward, “The Slog”, has intimated that a NYC pollster trusted-source, tells him that poll results give Harris 30% and Trump 70%.
Kamala Harris Suffers Triple Polling Blow Before DNC Starts,
Vice President Kamala Harris has suffered a triple blow after two recently released surveys put her behind Donald Trump in the key swing state of Pennsylvania, while a third showed her trailing the Republican presidential candidate at the national level. https://www.newsweek.com/kamala-harris-suffers-triple-polling-blow-before-dnc-convention-1940947 More money on Trump? Harris loses lead in betting odds despite polling success
The betting odds for the winner of 2024’s presidential election currently stand at 51 percent (21/20) for Trump, and 48 (11/10) percent for Harris.
This is despite (because of?) the fact that more bets have been taken out on Harris in the past 24 hours (40 percent of bets) as voters across the United States tune in to the Democratic National Convention this week. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-harris-betting-odds-polls-b2599650.html Big Serge, Back to the Bloodlands: Operation Krepost, Russo-Ukrainian War: The Kursk Operation
By creating a front within Russia itself, the Ukrainians have voluntarily accepted a long and exposed logistical tail, while fighting within the shadow of Russia’s own base of material support. The results have been largely disastrous thus far. A running total of 96 strikes on Ukrainian vehicles and positions have been recorded and geolocated in Kursk thus far, and Ukrainian vehicles losses are on par with the opening weeks of the Ukrainian offensive at Robotyne last summer...
..Krepost ultimately reflects a growing Ukrainian frustration with the trajectory of the war in the east, where the AFU has grown weary of the industrial slugfest with its bigger and more powerful neighbor. By flinging a secretly assembled mechanized package at a lightly defended and previously ancillary sector of front, they briefly managed to reopen mobile operations, but the window of mobility was far too small and the gains far too meager. It has now become clear that the decision to divert forces to Kursk has undermined the already precarious defense of the Donbas. Ukraine hold Sudzha and may very well clear the south bank of the Seim, but if it comes at the expense of Pokrovsk and Toretsk, that is a trade that the Russian Army will be happy to make.
The AFU is expending carefully husbanded and scarce resources in the pursuit of operationally inconsequential objectives. The exhilaration of taking the fight to Russia and being on the attack again can certainly work wonders for morale and create a spectacle for western backers, but the effect is short lived – like a broke man gambling away his last dollar, all for the momentary thrill of chance. https://bigserge.substack.com/p/back-to-the-bloodlands-operation Simplicius, Qatar “Talks” Just Another Ukrainian Perception Management Diversion
The latest lede driving the buzz for the past few days is the claim that Russia and Ukraine were set to meet in Qatar to discuss a mutual ceasefire against hitting each other’s energy grids… Following that, we’ve had several statements from official Russian figures denying any such talks were being planned…
..But now there’s even another old escalatory master plan being tediously revived: the Transnistria gambit. Suddenly, from several seemingly coordinated vectors at once, we’ve had signals that Ukraine may soon attempt to enflame the Transnistria corridor in their attempt to drown Russia in chaos from every side, perhaps imagining they will freeze the Russian general staff in a kind of indecision crisis doom spiral.Here we have Ukrainian charity Come Back Alive head Taras Chmut dropping a hint:
This was suddenly followed by Moldovan ex-Defense Minister Anatole Shalaru declaring that Moldova and Ukraine should jointly “solve” the Transnistria issue once and for all sometime soon...
..And then there were other small hints on rumor mill channels like Rezident UA, etc., that Ukraine is considering opening up that front to stoke the flames against Russia’s war.
Of course, as before, this is now the fourth or fifth time Ukraine has threatened to stoke that theater into conflict, and most likely it will come to naught again, but it’s something to keep an eye on as Ukraine enters the ninth inning.
Also, Ukraine has telegraphed its own intentions in the coming nuclear falseflag Zelensky potentially plans to carry out. https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/qatar-talks-just-another-ukrainian
USAF Orders Ramp Up of JASSM, LRASM Air-Launched Missiles Production F-16 deployable, these would be able to strike deep within Russia, and are very stealthy..
The development comes amid reports that the Biden administration is considering arming Ukrainian F-16s with the air-launched JASSM cruise missile, capable of striking targets 230 miles (370 kilometers) away.
The AGM 158 JASSM extended range (ER) has over twice the range of the baseline variant at 620 miles (998 kilometers), while a newly developed variant, the AGM-158D, has a range of 1,200 miles (1,931 kilometers).
It is not clear which JASSM variant the US administration is considering sending to Ukraine. However, the reported warhead weight of 1,000 pounds (453 kilograms) makes it likelier to be the ER variant.
The stealthy missile features a penetrator/blast fragmentation warhead to take out hardened targets, precision routing, and an infrared seeker to perform in adverse weather and at night, in addition to an anti-jam GPS. https://www.thedefensepost.com/2024/08/20/usaf-jassm-lrasm-missiles/ Ukrainian Parliament Votes To Ban Orthodox Church With Historic Ties to Russia
Ukraine’s parliament voted on Tuesday on a bill that would ban the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC), which has historic links to Russia but severed ties with the Moscow Patriarchate following the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.
The UOC has also denounced the Russian invasion, but these steps were not enough for Ukrainian officials, who still accuse it of having ties with Moscow. The crackdown on the UOC has involved church raids, the arrest of priests, and the eviction of clergy from the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, also known as the Monastery of the Caves.
The legislation would allow Ukrainian authorities to ban the UOC by prohibiting the activity of the Russian Orthodox Church or any religious groups tied to it. https://news.antiwar.com/2024/08/20/ukrainian-parliament-votes-to-ban-orthodox-church-with-historic-ties-to-russia/The same playbook: Peter McCullough MD US HHS Declaration of Emergency for all Influenza A Strains, Paves the Way for mRNA Seasonal and Bird Flu Vaccines https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/us-hhs-declaration-of-emergency-for
Steve Kirsch, Merck MMR case ruling: “You can defraud the American people when government agencies go along with it”
An Appeals Court has ruled that it is OK for drug companies to make false claims as long as the regulators don’t object. This has huge negative implications for whistleblowers going forward. https://kirschsubstack.com/p/merck-mmr-case-ruling-you-can-defraudSasha Latypova shows 3-D computer models of structures. Pandemic Preparedness Racket and DOD, Similarities between “spike protein” and synthetic anthrax toxin. https://sashalatypova.substack.com/p/some-similarities-between-spike-protein
If you or somebody you know contracts Monkeypox, do not take ivermectin, which would worsen the illness by reducing Gamma Interferon levels. https://www.thailandmedical.news/news/breaking-ivermectin-users-will-likely-suffer-severe-or-lethal-mpox-infection-due-to-diminished-interferon-gamma
Bicycles are an efficient mode of human transportation. Ask Amsterdam, old London, China, and India: India’s schoolgirls are leading a silent cycling revolution
Nationally, the percentage of all students cycling to school rose from 6.6% in 2007 to 11.2% in 2017, they found.
Cycling to school in rural areas doubled over the decade, while in urban areas, it remained steady. Indian city roads are notoriously unsafe, with low urban cycling to school linked to poor traffic safety and more cars on the road.
India’s cycling revolution is most substantial in villages, with states like Bihar, West Bengal, Assam, and Chhattisgarh leading the growth. These states have populations comparable to some of the largest European countries. Cycling was most common for longer distances in rural areas than in urban areas, the study found.
India began reporting cycling behaviour for the first time only in the last Census in 2011. Only 20% of those travelling to work outside home reported cycling as their main mode of transport. But people in villages cycled more (21%) than in the cities (17%).
Also, more working men (21.7%) than their female counterparts (4.7%) cycled to work. “Compared to international settings, this level of gender gap in cycling is among the highest in the world,” says Ms Agrawal.
American suffragist Susan B Anthony famously said that the bicycle “has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. It gives women a feeling of freedom and self-reliance”. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3g98lgyj38oYes, the “Obama” Administration – that is to say the Committee, the Derp State collective – was at a very sensitive point of transitioning to Narco money, violent fascist control of all humanity. There were a lot of huge parts moving at once and they didn’t need a Joker out on the field disrupting it.
Sachs: well as much as I pick on him, he’s doing good work and has the bravery and connections to get on TV and say these things, bring the center along. Now Piers here is letting him talk. Why? He doesn’t usually let any guests talk if they start making sense.
It was what I was going to say this week about Hersh. Again, the perfect being the enemy of the good, with no forgiveness. That is to say, no reason, no practicality. That’s almost dumber than just being dumb. “These guys play their Part”. That’s what you have to understand. Hersh plays his Part. Sachs plays his Part. Heck, Obama plays his Part.
“If I’d written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people — including me — would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.” — Hunter S. Thompson. (Who did not shoot himself?)
How much Truth do you think Hersh can get away with saying? Before being shot, but also before no witnesses will dare talk to him? His job, his PART, is to PULL that Overton Window over IN DIRECTION OF, the Truth. OF COURSE he can’t pull it all the way: YOU, would throw up. Not him. Some are good at this, I am not, as internally I have to go to the truth and speak it from there, more directly and fully. But this is no good at all as no one listens to me, and they DO listen to Hersh, so Hersh is doing it usefully and correctly and I am not.
Same with Sachs, same with Ritter, same with Lira, same with Tucker. You know who it’s NOT true of? People from the Army who know embarrassing, high-level things that ought to come out but do NOT get on Garland Nixon, “One America” or whatever. By standing down, they are not fighting. So what “part” do they play? Well I’d say collaborators, but not quite. They have demands on their lives, to take care of their families and pay the rent like the rest of us. They are also in Occupied France. As we understand if you own a shop, a public business in Riems, you’re going to be under the microscope and may not be able to fire wildly into the streets like you can if you’re some minimum-wage worker who can walk away from his flat in Marseilles.
It’s not true that if you don’t say everything, you say nothing. And generally the people who make that argument then say nothing, and are no d—n help at all. They’re just “We’re going to lose anyway.” “DeGaulle is an ass.” “The Resistance is made up of a bunch of shiftless riff-raff, I’ll stay home.” Hey buddy: you’re going to die anyway. None of this negative s—t is going to stop that. It’s then a matter of WHAT you will die for and how. Do you want to die firing away at evil, in public where you can really screw them all to death, or do you want to die cowering in a nursing home, still saying your attending nurse isn’t QUITE good enough? She’s only 80% perfect, so F– her, get outta my room.
C’mon, this ain’t rocket science. Are we taking ground or losing it? Are we gaining allies or alienating them? Are we working more together for cohesion in the ranks as good officers intend, or less?
If someone is shooting back – anywhere – they’re my d—n ally.
“Trump Jr. says he would love the idea of putting RFK Jr. in charge of a 3-letter agency, and let him “blow it up”.
Like that. Which would be good and entertaining. However, logically he’s the expert in medical and environmental law, so he would have perfect expertise in those areas, however generally competent he would be – and no doubt he is – at parallel crimes in other agencies. Really, like Musk we can all cut this down by doing only one thing: running out of money and dropping staff 90%. Twitter showed no difference cutting this much, so I was wrong, it really was that useless. I expect government could drop 99%, but we need someone to prosecute all the other (former) Federal Employees, and that takes…employees.
Why? Could RFK run the CIA? Nope. Trump was running the whole government, so everyone just disobeyed orders, refused to tell him anything, and couldn’t get fired. …For direct insubordination which caused/covered serial felonies, murder, and international incidents. The CIA itself is compartmentalized. Who would you ask? They simply would refuse to tell you. Burn the docs, transfer the whole “BlackBriar” operation to Iran, fund it with child trafficking money through Tblisi. How would you know? Go look for yourself? You’re one guy, they’re 50,000 liars who will lie with every question.
“• Trump Defeats Harris By Landslide In Musk’s Poll On X (RT)
In an election that won’t happen. Hey, did I hear NATO drone-attacked all Moscow in the largest single offensive in the history of drones? Anything on that?
…Nevermind. Probably won’t matter.
“• Two Minutes of Hate: Unhinged Attack Montage on Loop at The DNC (DB)
Don’t go crazy, you sound like the other side. Again, now YOU are getting involved with this instead of putting attention on events that matter. Hey, every American family is being killed right now. With drugs, inflation, crime, immigrants. What about us? Nope. He has the Feelz and takes Umbridge, well I say sir! This gets my dander right up! Stop doing the enemy’s work for them. If you’re the only side that cares what happens to VOTERS, not Icons, furry mascots, they you are the only side they can vote for.
Guess who’s important? The People. Not making fun of Leaders, leaders come and go.
BTW, did these cameras and video drones blow up a major European Capital, er, say, MOSCOW? No? Then don’t care, there is other news to go above the fold this morning. Naughty Memes! Rabelais! Balzac! We got Trouble my friends, memes in River City!
“• Biden, Harris Have No Strategy for Ukraine, Trump Does – Congressman (Sp.)
Newsflash: RUSSIA DOESN’T CARE WHAT WE THINK. If Trump wants to surrender unconditionally, the war will be over, great. Lacking that, nothing he does matters. We are “Not agreement capable” so none of our talk is used, anymore than the gibbering of African Gibbons.
What “Strategy” do you think there is? 1) Send weapons. 2) Stop sending weapons. One of these is surrender.
“The Kyiv Independent, citing a source close to Volodymyr Zelensky, reported Wednesday that the Ukrainian authorities want to prepare the ground this fall for potential peace talks with Russia.”
Same thing. There is no “Peace Talk” with a nation that invaded Russia. You can die now or die later. Why are we wasting our time with this? It’s like talking how the Wayland Corporation is going to bring home more Asteroid mining ore. There’s no Wayland, no spaceship, no revenue, and no ore. It’s all a fantasy in your fevered minds.
What’s real? Life on the Donbas front. Where offensive weapons have eclipsed the defense right now so your life expectancy is in minutes. That Russia can deliver that to us here in 30 minutes. On the Potomac, Martha’s Vineyard or Lincoln Nebraska if they want.
No, Biden and Harris’ Border Crisis Is Not Over (ZH)
“They have read with horror the accounts of innocent Americans victimized by those here unlawfully. They have seen family and friends die after being poisoned by fentanyl coming across the border. And the Biden-Harris administration has largely done nothing. “
Barsoom:
“The Biden presidency was disastrous for America. The economy has fallen apart; inflation has wiped people out; the leaking border has shattered, letting in tens of millions, many criminals, many very possibly much worse than criminals; America has found itself embroiled in wars all over the world, which threaten to turn nuclear. The last four years have been an almost unprecedented national humiliation. Biden is, without a shadow of a doubt, the worst president America has ever had.
But was the Biden presidency worse than a Civil War?
Think about that.”
https://barsoom.substack.com/p/what-happens-when-the-regime-steals
That’s up to you. You think you want to do that, sitting at home on your computer, or working out down at the Base gym? Here, let me give you 10 hours in Sumy and see how you feel about it then. As his article says, if you let a generation go by, do nothing, let each little prison bar get placed, then maybe later you will look back and say “We should have had the Civil War.” Maybe. But the people then will say we shouldn’t, just as we say now, why would you launch a full-on Civil War in 1954? Yet the traitors were already inside then, it would have been the perfect time, before they burrowed into the other towers of power.
I’m just saying, it’s easy to talk.
So is the first step of a Civil War getting allies and recruits? Establishing what we’re fighting for? Is that even accomplished yet? They need to be alerted, alarmed, that the war is NECESSARY.
“Ukraine’s Western backers could trigger World War III by providing Kiev with weapons that can be used to strike targets on Russian soil,”
Yeah, if we don’t look out, they might attack Russia. Wouldn’t want that.
“• US Could Charge, Search More Americans Tied To Russian State News (Sp.)
All of them. You’re Next. This is our weathervane if we’re going forward or back. We either have free speech or we have Tyranny, speech is the primary, without which nothing else matters. That’s why it’s “1A.” We are either owned and at the pleasure of kings, or are sovereign beings. It’s binary. Europe and our government say we’re owned chattel. I disagree.
“• Germans Lying About Nord Stream Exchange – Moscow (RT)
I mean sure, but GERMANY IS BOMBING RUSSIA. Maybe lead with that?
Wait: Germany is covering for a DIFFERENT bombing of Russia as the Pipe was a co-German, Russian project and ownership. Wait, doesn’t Capitalism care about property rights and damage? It’s almost like this isn’t Capitalism.
“commenting on why Israeli officials haven’t confirmed Tel Aviv’s readiness to accept the “bridging proposal” announced by Secretary Blinken on Monday.”
Like Russia, everyone considers Israel “Not Agreement Capable” and ignores them completely. They dropped over the horizon and no one even noticed. We didn’t know the edge of the earth was there, but it was. So Blinken looks like the idiot he is by spending time and capital on it. We don’t care because we don’t believe a thing. If you made up this big deal and showed it to us, we wouldn’t believe it and think it was like a child’s crayon drawing. That’s nice, Jimmy.
Ignore them. That isn’t even being cruel, it’s just the actual, practical reality and truth.
Nutsy MUST start WWIII. Or he will go to jail for life. That’s the only event that was ever happening here. Sounds easy. Grab him like “Inglorious Bastards” and shoot him or not, idgaf.
“The Tuesday report comes days after China implemented export controls on antimony metals,”
Thanks to US attacking OURSELVES for 40 years. Since that “Giant Sucking Sound.” We have all these mines. Most are just sitting there waiting for the lights to go back on. The EPA, etc refuses to allow us to mine military ore that can defend the United States. And make tons of money. And you wonder why I think it’s not “The United States” doing this? It’s a cartel inside. And WHO does that cartel rule for every time, thousands and thousands of times in a row? Europe and Davos. US down, broken by multiple wars. Europe as the center and safe haven.
“The US stands out among developed nations due to its gun culture and levels of gun violence.”
Remove 12 Democratic cities and the gun violence is lower than Sweden. Also most of the violence is adding suicides. Properly prescribed medications are 100x more deadly. Remove those 12 cities and you’d also erase most of the racism.
https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/25-brits-consider-turning-heat-winter-power-bills-soar
I love this. I left the UK some 25 years ago for a lot of reasons, but one of which was the fact that I could not stand the people. There is nothing worse than living with sychophantic, accepting people with super unambitious brains who are being lied to. For example, they admire celebrities … how retarded do you have to be to even care about celebrities, like actors, like musicians. You can appreciate their work, but we all know that people who produce good work are mostly assholes. Get a grip …. there are so many who fail on this on TAE.
Will the British – as in white people – do anything? Of course not. What can they do, they are pathetic, that is why I left. I would rather be in Rwanda arguing with fuckers who will cut off your balls than talking to a bunch of wet diapers in the UK.
You see it in the USA; in the USA, having a gun is the poor man’s equivalent of having a ferrari. You get respect with a gun. But they won’t do fuck. Most people in the world own knives, do they go out stabbing people? Not in the west they don’t. Same with guns, not in the west they dont’t. Everywhere else, sure, they will cut off your balls will their knife, of shoot them off one at a time. But in America, ooooh no.
Now we have the fake billionaire Elon Musk, obviously supported by Jew money, pretending to be the white Jesus. Yes, there are 90% of Americans who will believe him; Americans like to do as they are told. He censors the anti-Jew people then claims he is “an absolutist supporter of free speech”. Bullshit every, like every, like in every corner where where.
America has some of the worst people in this world; greedy for greed’s sake. It is not about survival, it is about greed. The Americans love to greed, and they will greed off everybody else in the world when they can; the people who taught them to greed like this were the Jews, so they are top-grade greeders.
Western humanity is pathetic.
Joan Rivers died in a New York City hospital Sept. 4 at the age of 81. Now, there are some answers for what happened.
Rivers was sedated with propofol before she died of low blood oxygen during a procedure to treat voice changes and acid reflux, according to the New York City medical examiner.
Rivers lacked sufficient oxygen to her brain for a prolonged period of time, which caused brain damage, the medical examiner said. Her heart had stopped after she was sedated with propofol and undergoing procedures to examine her condition.
https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/joan-rivers-death-revealed/story?id=25264318#:~:text=Rivers%20was%20sedated%20with%20propofol,damage%2C%20the%20medical%20examiner%20said.The article list: “growth of the real economy, which requires the growth of available fuel and mineral substrates, at prices which are low enough to support the generation of profits, with which to regularly pay dividends to investors, and to occasionally return their principle upon demand.
As we know, this system often fails in specific instances of bankruptcy, and occasionally fails as a large, coherent system, as in 1929 and 2008, though the 1929 failure was managed by addressing fundamental problems”Focuses on only the West. As if we matter. We don’t, and there is plenty of energy everywhere in the Non-West. The financial problems are ALSO only in the West, as only we have economy-ending debt levels. Russia has essentially no debt at all.
ALSO 1929 was famously NOT solved. At all. Not a little teeny bit, and even FDR’s people cried Uncle on it. 10 years turned to dial zero. Nothing. Nada. Every Socialist-Lite Policy they added saved no one, moved nothing. Only blowing up all other factories on planet earth did the trick.
All the premises and all the history are wrong therefore. Cumulation of little lies, salted in over the years until there’s nothing but salt, no bacon. I wouldn’t mind but it’s VERY CLEAR that we were in Depression in 1929 and still in 1939, with no change. That’s not secret history, and they just report it as if it’s the #Opposite, every day for generations.
“The Honest Sorcerer, An AI Takeover (Not) Briefly: AI uses a vast amount of electricity, even in current forms, as do Bitcoin and internet servers. Electricity shortage is part of the developing energy crisis.”
Sorcerer again, with the same errors as above, that we’re “Running out.” We we’re not. The WEST is. They think only the West matters, but we don’t matter at all. And We have allocated ourselves to utter irrelevancy and probably death because. All these really smart, totally not-racist people don’t think 9/10ths of the planet exist, they don’t speak English. ‘Cause they’re so “diversity-minded” “World citizens” like that.
Anyway, in this quote, THIS IS NO PROBLEM BECAUSE THEY’RE GOING TO KILL YOU ALL. Did you not get 40 years of “Memos”? They are going to produce on AI robots and kill all the humans. USING the AI killer robots. I mean, have they been quiet, made a secret of it? Did they not JUST do this “killing everyone” i.e THEMSELVES, a day before entering the Ukraine war that, if they had, would have crushed Russia via their pricing power?
And we don’t NEED the resources. As we constantly say but can’t point to, Malthus was wrong since the day he was born. We now do NOT need 10 pounds of copper per light bulb, we’re making them out of a tablespoon of rendered crude oil, salted with some metals plus a silicon (sand) chip. No one knew that was possible except, as we find out 100% of the time, it’s always possible. Every object in your house is the same, compared to its 1920 equivalent, yet no one is able to notice. Then we find a new, efficient ore processing method and it drops again.
They are basing on a premise that’s been false for 300 years. Adjust your antenna for God’s sake.
I mean, I’m glad for China, but I have to think that anyone who gets absolute power, they will slowly behave the same way. We mostly have European examples for that, but you can find it in Africa, Japan, etc, so I’d have to think that it’s true. America said just what they’re saying, in 1880, and we did resist the One Ring longer than most, but that’s how humans are. I’m not trading Ameri-Euro fascism for Chinese fascism.
“BYE-BYE PETRODOLLAR: 159 Countries now slated to adopt new BRICS payment system”
Among others, this is the M-Bridge, a highway protocol alternative to SWIFT. Which is badly outdated, like by five decades. (Swift runs on de-facto Teletype) Now we have the “Bridge”; what are the cars and trucks on it, the individual packets? It may matter and it’s not really online yet, but XRP is one. BRIICS, “Unit”, etc. so I hear. (Unit is 40% gold, 60% participating currencies)
Sorry I can’t nail that down for you but it’s like talking about software, it’s all virtual and abstract: it’s the Server drives, which isn’t a REAL server drive, it’s a virtual drive made up of real drives, on which you run a server, but it’s not a real server it’s a virtual server, which isn’t itself a real server, but mirrored in two locations, and runs over a data wire that isn’t a REAL data wire, but a virtual encrypted wire inside the virtual wire, which is inside a real physical wire, somewhere, although it’s using a network of wires, hopping between server racks worldwide that EMULATES a real wire. See why this might be hard to comprehend, or worse, communicate?
Take it at a high level: they have built a communications, like SWIFT, that can move non-dollar currencies around without interference. That’s the only actionable fact. We’re not in charge of sabotaging that system, so we don’t need to know the fine details, but the whole West is, so expect they will, and fail, shortly.
Overheard part of the extended family talking the other night.
Appallingly bought into Kamala La-la and I Am the Walz-trus
Everything out of their mouths was about emotion,
zero about policy, zero about her record of Nothing & Failure
Zero
First impression to them was that ‘brain damage’ played a part.
They are all vax to the max, very possibly a mental side effect.
I’ve mentioned the increase in fender benders and people literally bumping into me at stores, eyes glazed like the classic middle/upper middle class ‘anti-depressive thousand yard smile’.
I mentioned to them that she never got a single vote in the primaries and was a Total Loser when she did run on her own for President [see Tulsi’s bitch slap of her]
Nothing but rapture about Kamala La-la.
Remember the old term about southern Demonrats, “they’d vote for a yellow dog”.
Well let me amend that, “they’d vote for a brown dog”.
A Willie Brown dog.The machine mafia boss of northern Californacate
Boy is his ship going to come in with a Kamala La-la victory.
Vote for the Brown Dog Demonrat
The Rethuglicans had FOUR years to straighten out voter fraud and election tampering.
Virtually nothing substantial has change plus 20 million or so illegal migrants with free benefits dripping out their collective asses while there are ten of millions homeless living on the streets in cardboard boxes and tents with no benefits.
Duh’merica deserves the Fate that is barreling down the rails at it.
Sure looks fatal to me.
A Massive Fail
The successful coverup con job of Pedo Jo-jo as “President” for four years followed by shoe-horning a Bimbo Bitch to replace him has got to have Bernays laughing hysterically from Hellsgate.
The Satanist literally don’t give a rats ass what they present to the Duh’merican public.
The Brown Dog slides down their collective throats like a raw oyster.
Yum, lip smacking delicious
Hey Duh’merica!
We rewrote history a bit to fit
Her-story is that she served as VP under the Sharpest Guy like Ever
Totally believable!
A country that actually proves it can’t walk and chew gum
hahahahahahahahahahaha!
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Going once, going twice…
Sold! to the country that lost its MindOn *Kakala may win*, by Hryce, prev. thread.
A boost-da-Ka spiel. Beat the drum, newness, lovely lady, Rah Rah, etc.
KH was nominated to her previous posts, never elected, in the sense of elected vs. some genuine, viable opponents.
The US Prez. Eee-lection is of a particular type. See, the Electoral College, and the accepted manipulations — Diebold, send-in ballots, illegals voting, vote buying, busing voters, boxes of fake ballots counted at the last minute, and more, Idk..
The frenzied displays of support for KH, flash Spectacles (fakery there too) signal a fierce attempt to win, a prediction of a kind.
Foreign policy —> genocide of Palestinians – continuing bashing and baiting the Russian bear, killing innumerable Ukrainians and Russians .. attempting COLOR in Taiwan, taking over the Philippines, fighting on one side in the Sudan, and more — will not differ under KH / DT.
Internal policies > a slight edging here and there in discourse will change nothing on the ground, or if so, only trivial. Recall Michelle Obama growing veggies in the WH grounds..:)
Imho. US citizens have been conditioned to believe that tales, narratives, promises, scenarios that project some kind of future, if made by a Star Person (which is why I wrote about Taylor Swift – DT and Kakala are also ‘stars’) should be believed, supported, followed, even revered, yet at the same time! aren’t expected to fight for, work towards, mandate, any real, practical change on the ground. A kind of strange fantasy world…
Who wins the Prez. will be decided by those behind the scenes, or just left up to chance, because, no matter.
Another sign of end of the success of (pretend) ‘DEMOCRACY’ in the Collective West.
If you want to find the best and the worst of any group of people (or of all of the people as a whole, for that matter) just go find the battle field and they will all be there. The closer you get to the thick of it, where the fight is raging the hottest, the closer together they will be, and the most fierce. (and don’t forget to look for the Commanders, who typically maintain what they hope is a safe distance from real danger.)
The point of the metaphorical simile is that being in the thick of the fight is not what determines the side that someone is on, nor do flags being waved or the uniforms being worn. Neither do any of those outward symbols separate the Best of people from the Worst of people.
What matters is who you are fighting for.
So religions like Jews, Christians, Atheists and Bankers are not “religions”. They are BATTLEGROUNDS, and within them you will find the BEST and also the WORST of people face to face right next to each other, locked in fiercely mortal combat.
@Dr. D: Thanks for reading and considering. We differ on the progression of mineral-resource depletion. Time will tell.
You opined: “THIS IS NO PROBLEM BECAUSE THEY’RE GOING TO KILL YOU ALL.”
Hyperbole, right?“They” the “owners”, “Bloodline Families”, “Luciferians” & handmaidens, etc. Only want to major cull their herds ahead of what is coming anyway, starting with the magnetic pole shift well-in-progress (if I am not mistaken): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJl-_pAb5QM
How bad the rest of the galactic-current-sheet whiplash might be seems variable. I can’t seem to get definitive information. It seems to be worse some 12,000 years and less-worse some 12,000 years, but it does look like we will be here for the show if we are just mentally-fit enough to survive the series of culls now in progress. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2decDcEJqo&list=PLHSoxioQtwZcVcFC85TxEEiirgfXwhfsw
Again, time will tell, but might not tell all of us. Wishing you and your heirs all the best.
WOW!
Events that matter.Does knowing, telling the truth, without power, result in change/rejection of the lies?
Will knowing, telling the truth, Save the financial system?Jeffrey Sachs (American economist, public policy analyst, professor at Columbia University) gives Piers Morgan an absolute schooling on geopolitics (and the US government’s nefarious role within this).
https://x.com/JamesMelville/status/1826137316135461335?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1826137316135461335%7Ctwgr%5Ef3e8e46f1c3dc39dd3a6c041eaeaf456b08ca32f%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theautomaticearth.com%2F2024%2F08%2Fdebt-rattle-august-22-2024%2F
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WOW!Donald Trump Jr. speaks with Glenn Beck on the potential of RFK Jr. joining the administration!
“..with some speculating that RFK would make a great head of Trump’s CIA..”• RFK Jr To Endorse Trump On Friday Morning (ZH)
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/trump-endorsement-rfk-jr-address-nation-friday-morning.https://x.com/WarClandestine/status/1826285064344441251?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1826285064344441251%7Ctwgr%5Ef3e8e46f1c3dc39dd3a6c041eaeaf456b08ca32f%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theautomaticearth.com%2F2024%2F08%2Fdebt-rattle-august-22-2024%2F
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WOW!
Elon Musk ran his own, smaller election on X. “Since a lot of people have asked, here goes a super unscientific poll,” the billionaire posted on his account. According to the results as of Wednesday, out of the 5.8 million votes, almost three quarters would vote for Trump in November, while more than a quarter would see Harris elected.https://swentr.site/news/602925-trump-harris-musk-x-poll/
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“RealClearPolitics currently projects Trump to win 287 electoral votes to Harris’s 251 based on its state-by-state averages..”
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Who will eat the loses?The assignment-of-losses from the realization that there is no money for a lot of people, like retirees, who depend upon those monthly payments to live every day.
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WOW!Who cares. Who’s listening
Genocide/Murdering of Palestinians is happening with American approval and participation, and whoever says otherwise is naïve.”
Israel has consistently undermined ceasefire talks throughout the Gaza genocide,The US is still vowing that it will defend Israel from an Iranian attack and has deployed additional military assets to the Middle East for that purpose.
War With Iran Would Bring Global Economic Collapse
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Can it happen again?Trump was running the whole government, so everyone just disobeyed orders, refused to tell him anything, and couldn’t get fired. …For direct insubordination which caused/covered serial felonies, murder, and international incidents.
The CIA itself is compartmentalized.
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Which rich and powerful family survived the end of their empires.?
Is anyone left from past Empires?
Did history record any descendant?
Egypt … Cleopatra?
Greeks … Alexander?
Rome … Caesar?
English … ?
Spanish … ?
French …?
Others … ?Russia/Ukraine War
With Ukraine moving troops into Russia, Now, we have both sides destroying the villages in Russia.
Ukraine goes for broke, trying to invade Russia in more spots in Sumy region. 1/3 of Ukrainian forces massed in the region. What’s the objective? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTLRm7PGPjQ
@Zerosum, yeah.
;-/The Slippery Slope
Duh’merica bought it hook, line and sinker
“Abandon All Ye Who Enter”
~Dante The Inferno
Former President Trump appeared to stun many of his critics Wednesday night after he offered rare praise to former President Barack Obama, an action that was unexpected given their ideological differences.
In comments to CNN, Trump said, “I like him,” referring to the Illinois Democrat:
“I think he’s a nice gentleman, but he was very weak on trade… I happen to like him. I respect him and I respect his wife,” Trump said.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-stuns-critics-praise-nice-gentleman-obama-before-predecessor-slams-him-dncI really think there were 2 patsies, like the US-Oswald and the Mexico-Oswald.
New Footage Shows Trump Shooter Casually Strolling Around PA Rally
https://modernity.news/2024/08/22/new-footage-shows-trump-shooter-casually-strolling-around-pa-rally/But some of them are CIA… ;-o
Republican vice-presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance said on Tuesday that a potential second Trump administration would support the introduction of the death penalty for drug dealers because they kill way more people than violent criminals. https://sputnikglobe.com/20240820/jd-vance-trump-admin-will-support-death-penalty-for-drug-dealers-protect-police-1119847364.html
Kennedy:
Kennedy as CIA director?
You must be drinking the CIA’s Kool Aid!Kennedy is a CIA asset!
Kennedy was planted by the CIA to hurt Trump!
Republicans put Kennedy on all the red state ballots to hurt Trump.
Blue states all kept Kennedy off their state ballots.The CIA would love Kennedy as CIA director to control and neuter Trump!
The only thing Kennedy will blow up is Trump!Believing in Kennedy is the same as believing in Kamala!
Re: The Big Serge Krepost article
There is a not insignificant probability that the Russians are intentionally allowing as many Ukrainian/Foreign Mercenary troops and equipment into the salient as possible, and will then annihilate them by using tactical nuclear weapons on their own territory.
This would send quite an unmistakable message to any potential future invaders.
So there you are in the thick of battle. Maybe you went looking for trouble or maybe it came to you. That doesn’t matter at the moment because there is an adversary soldier coming straight at you who means to put you into the ground. The big decision for you to make under those circumstances is whether you should try to kill that guy or not.
From the safety of your home so far from the battlefield that might seem like an easy choice to make, considering things like personal survival, the right of self-defense and things of that nature. But it’s not really that simple. Not by a long shot.
In point of FACT (actual measured and documented fact, entered into the official record), in real battles less than 1 in 5 soldiers fire their weapons at a visible human enemy intending to kill them. 80% of soldiers caught up in the circumstance of close quarters combat with a visible human enemy will not deliberately and knowingly kill even to defend themselves. I can see their problem and well understand how it turns out that way. It’s actually a super-tough problem to satisfactorily solve.
Imagine it. I’m aiming my rifle at a guy who’s aiming a rifle at me. That guy isn’t merely comparable to me. He’s JUST like me because he has the exact same problem that I do. And at the moment it’s pretty much the ONLY problem that he NEEDS to solve. We’re focused. We BOTH need to decide real quick whether (or not!) to kill the guy who’s aiming a weapon at us.
Most armchair warriors (who don’t really see themselves as directly engaged in the fight) reckon that only a total fool or a paralyzingly terrified coward would choose not to shoot and defend themselves from death. Even a scared coward can shoot in self defense, and many have, but to be PARALYZED by fear is pretty extreme and relatively rare. It happens, but not often.
So why do 80% of soldiers choose not to shoot?
The answer to that is in the question itself. The answer is that the CHOSE not to. They decided that under the existing REAL circumstances that the best thing to do was to not shoot (and to do something else instead, such as pretending to shoot, or shooting in the wrong direction, or hiding, etc.)
You just have to wonder why such a huge majority of the men who found themselves in that position would make that same choice, which doesn’t at first seem to be in their own best interests.
And the answer to THAT question is right there in the question, too. They WONDERED. They did it very very swiftly, but they DID wonder. They urgently asked themselves (!) what they should do and why they should do it. It was DECISION time, and so they very quickly wondered why they should do one thing or the other thing, and then they decided, and then they did it. Who am I to judge what calculations that guy had to make to arrive at that conclusion. Everybody has a different set of factors to consider and we have no choice but to accept that they arrived at the best solution that they were capable of under those circumstances.
Two guys, aiming guns at each other and faced with the SAME problem. They might as well be twin brothers of the same parents. Which one should kill and which one should die? Or should they BOTH live or BOTH die and let God sort them out? The clock is running so decide NOW!
20% kill and 80% don’t, and you better be glad that’s the case and recognize it as a VERY good thing, because if all 100% decided to defend themselves with lethal force then there would be no survivors on either side (good OR bad) except the last man standing, and he wouldn’t last for long because he is all alone. No good guys. No bad guys. No anybody. Just dead bodies and game over.
What is the RIGHT thing to do? What is the BEST thing to do? The GOOD thing to do?
Which one should YOU do? You’re going to have to decide soon. This essay is just a heads up.
And by the way, for those awaiting Divine Intervention to miraculously absolve them of the responsibility of needing to decide, I would point out the fact that REGARDLESS of whether God intervenes or not in some supernaturally miraculous way (and I sure don’t have any idea at all about that) that there are some things that even God cannot do.
He cannot, for example, remove your free will (else you would not even exist), so that one remains entirely up to you, and soon you WILL have to start using it because there is a really big decision to make about that guy who’s aiming to put an end to your free will once and for all.
@DBS: I’d like to re-frame your scenario, because soldiers don’t often see opposing soldiers these days unless they are clearing trenches or cities. Artillery supposedly does 80% of the killing.
The “80% of guns unfired” statistic may have come out of WW-1. I think I saw it in those accounts, but artillery, disease and gas attacks killed the most.
The military started training guys to just shoot and shoot and shoot, so that it would be a reflex, not requiring any consideration, the reflex response to anything.
I presume they accomplished that training.
When I was in med school, right around the time the Challenger blew up in January 1986, I was doing a Radiology rotation, and spent a lot of time talking to the Vietnam-vet tech, a smart and broadly experienced guy. He had been a medic. Medics had the shortest life expectancy. He lived. He had carried a shotgun as a weapon.
In a dark room he told me of being out of ammo in his shotgun, and coming upon a young VC in the same situation. “I locked and loaded faster”, he told me… There was a certain softness in his telling of that human encounter. I don’t recall saying anything in response.@JohnDay
You’re right, of course, and the military spends a lot of time , money and planning on ways to “work around” the human instinct to not kill other humans. Distance, invisibility and weapons of automated or indiscriminate mayhem have played a huge role in the design and operation of “modern” warfare. Nevertheless, human nature remains what it is, and most humans (by a factor of 80%) decline to kill when they have the choice. Allowing for a certain percentage of psychopaths (maybe 5% ?) that leaves 10 or 15 per cent who do so when they decide that it really is the right thing todo under certain circumstances. I suspect (and hope) that I am in this latter group, but you don’t really know until the chips are actually down. Which seems to be approaching.
Yep! It takes more than two conflicting brain cells to consider
Bam_Man
There is a not insignificant probability that the Russians are intentionally allowing as many Ukrainian/Foreign Mercenary troops and equipment into the salient as possible, and will then annihilate them by using tactical nuclear weapons on their own territory.
This would send quite an unmistakable message to any potential future invaders.
???? Could NATO/USA have thought of this same operation on Ukraine soil?????
A Deep State Manuover:
This whole Kennedy saga stinks to high heaven of deep state!
Kennedy a Democrat, set up by the CIA to hurt Trump and help the Deep state.This week Kennedy’s VP saying they need to support Trump to avoid Kamala winning!
Yeah, right.This manuover to place Kennedy into the Trump campaign is what the deep state does.
Remember the deep state putting Jeff Sessions early into the Trump campaign so he could become Trump’s AG, then promptly stabbing Trump in the back, by reclusing himself?
Remember Trump’s VP Mike Pence stabbing Trump in the back on January 6th?This is Kennedy’s role too.
Get close to be able to stab Trump in the back, at the critical moment!Are you allowed to read the news from
https://sputnikglobe.com/20240821/us-uk-poland-took-part-in-preparing-ukraines-operation-in-kursk—russian-foreign-intel-1119855186.htmlUS, UK, Poland Took Part in Preparing Ukraine’s Operation in Kursk – Russian Foreign Intel
Ukraine is not a “nuclear power” and does not possess nuclear weapons of its own. Any nuclear weapons employed by Ukrain against Russian forces on Ukrainian/Donbass soil would have to be supplied by NATO. Use of NATO-supplied nuclear weapons against Russian forces remains a “red line” that NATO is very reluctant to cross – and for obvious reasons.
The Woketard generation of Snowflake Losers
Weak men produce hard times writ large
I think of all my uncles and father, some I never met who didn’t make it through WWII
And I look at the pitiful excise for young men I see today.
77% can’t pass a basic military. physical, which is already very low, and don’t know which end of a paint brush to pick up.
“Someone also warned that the propaganda campaign does not actually need to convince people to vote for her. It only has to convince people that she is a credible candidate — enough to give the Democrats enough cover to steal the election.” – Boogaloo yesterday
I never really believed that the DNC was crazy enough to put Kamala forward as their presidential hopeful, always thinking that she was just a placeholder, while Hillary worked levers behind the scenes so that she could be wheeled out during the height of the convention coup strapped to a handcart like Hannibal Lecter.
But Boogaloo is right. With the captured media and fake polling, all they need do is to create the illusion that Kamala is a viable candidate, that the race is close, and their ballot switching/stuffing operation can do the rest. Americans are being prepped for another steal.
I must keep reminding myself that this is a globalist operation. That those calling the shots are playing for all the marbles. What is a stolen election compared to throwing an entire nation, like Ukraine, into the meat grinder of war with its destruction, misery, and death? Wars, psyops, assassinations, bioweapons, nukes, nothing is off the table for these guys.
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