Debt Rattle February 20 2025

[Raúl Ilargi Meijer]

Pablo Picasso Nude on a beach 1929   • Musk Says “Trump Is A Good Man” In Hannity Interview (ZH) • The Supreme Court’s Golden Opportunity to Rest
[See the full post at: Debt Rattle February 20 2025]

[poppie]

The day US Russia normalization kicks off, Russia starts to pull Ukraine out of Kursk by the roots.

[Dr D Rich]

“…despite all outward appearances, I’m a cultural outsider. I don’t come from the elites.”

“Death rates are rising” for his hometown steeltown was said with as much emotional attachment as his next fart has for the next shit he’s about to take.
Gaseous and shaven.
What’s up with the stuffy nose? An affectation perhaps.

D will like this one.
$$$$ overcomes many Hitler aspersions.

https://zeteo.com/p/jd-vance-called-me-a-dummy-for-pointing

[kultsommer]

It’s all your fault! You!! EU and Zelensky!!
At one point, eventually, high horse riders will arrive on topic of Nordstream 2.0.
Wonder of what script writing they will resort to?

[Just Some Randomer]

Man, I am finding it so difficult to even look at the mainstream media over the past few days. With regards to both the Economy/DOGE etc and Ukraine, The absolute spew of lies and distractions is utterly nauseating, now that all the cherished hopes and dreams of the Globalists are being trashed wholesale.

Seems like they don’t know where to turn and have resorted to doubling down on their delusions and fantasies for lack of any clue what else to do. I have some sympathy for the many out there (my own family among them) who were fully subsumed into the media fairytale world – must feel a bit like the ending of the Truman show when it turns out that so much that appeared real and solid was all fake all along. All of it.

The temptation to engage and try to inject a little truth into the discussions is strong, but for my own peace of mind I think it’s much better to sit back and watch from a safe distance. As Mark Twain reportedly wrote – ‘It’s easier to fool a man than to convince him that he’s been fooled’. There is significant mental pain in admitting to oneself that one has been completely and comprehensively fooled.

I hope Trump’s security team is on top of their game. He’s playing for all the marbles now, with trillions of dollars and control of ‘The West’ at stake.

[John Day]

@Ilargi: I keep putting in the more-articles for you, Bruddah.

(Trump-Putin?) Look Rocky, Watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kx3sOqW5zj4

[John Day]

@Just Some Randomer: You are in the Catbird Seat 😉

[John Day]

[chooch]

Is the bar swinging old lady dropping dookie on those dogs?

[phoenixvoice]

It would also incentivize labor force participation, the investor said, noting that the rebate would be available only to net payers of federal income tax in 2025.

Because of the way that the child tax credit & EITC work, that would mean that impoverished families with children — even those whose parents work (like me) — would be excluded from receiving the “DOGE dividend.” Because “welfare” is now mostly just the EITC, (designed to incentivize work,) many impoverished families with children do not pay income tax, but do pay into social security, Medicare, etc. I don’t see how deliberately excluding impoverished families is helpful to the country’s well-being. I have found that most people do not understand how the EITC works nor how SNAP and Medicaid work. Most likely, Mr Fishback believes that those who don’t pay federal income tax don’t participate in the workforce. Also, Trump is talking about no longer charging income tax on social security checks — at which point many seniors would not be paying federal income tax — the ones who do not work and have no other taxable investments. I don’t support a plan that helps those who already have money and excludes those who are struggling at the bottom of the US’s economy. Just because someone makes little income does not mean that they do not contribute to the country.

[zerosum]

Tomorrow has arrived

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/unemployment-spikes-washington-dc-trump-musk-rcna192398

Unemployment spikes in Washington, D.C., as Trump and Musk begin efforts to shrink the government
Feb. 16, 2025, 11:15 AM PST
By Jeff Cox, CNBC
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• The Supreme Court’s Golden Opportunity to Restore Trump’s Authority (O’Neil)

Trump and key leaders in his administration appealed the case to the Supreme Court, allowing the justices an opportunity to vindicate the president—not only in this case but also as he faces a torrent of court orders blocking him from fulfilling his duties as president.
As Sarah Harris, acting solicitor general, writes in the Supreme Court brief, “Until now, as far as we are aware, no court in American history has wielded an injunction to force the president to retain an agency head whom the president believes should not be entrusted with executive power and to prevent the president from relying on his preferred replacement.”
The Office of Special Counsel aims to protect whistleblowers within the federal government. Congress established the office as an “independent agency,” but Harris argues that its functions fall under the executive purview of the president.

… the woke elites couldn’t stop him from winning the election, they’re trying to stop him in the courts.
Unfortunately for this round of the Left’s lawfare campaign, the president’s authority over the executive branch is clearly established in the Constitution.
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• Trump Orders DOJ To Terminate All Remaining ‘Biden Era’ US Attorneys (NYP)
“Therefore, I have instructed the termination of ALL remaining “Biden Era” U.S. Attorneys. We must “clean house” IMMEDIATELY, and restore confidence. America’s Golden Age must have a fair Justice System – THAT BEGINS TODAY!”
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• Trump, Musk To Discuss Sending US Taxpayers $5,000 Checks Using DOGE Savings (ZH)

… that a “tax refund check” be sent out to Americans after DOGE completes its work in July 2026.
The refund would be funded “exclusively with a portion of the total savings delivered by DOGE,” according to Fishback’s proposal.
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• Can We Really Cut Half of The Military Budget? You Bet! (Ron Paul)

Why? Because most of what is called “defense spending” has little to do with defending this country and a lot to do with enriching the politically well-connected.

.Maintaining that global military empire has bankrupted the United States while making us less safe and less free.

We can start by closing the hundreds of military bases overseas,
bringing back our troops from foreign countries,
and eliminating our massive commitments to NATO and other international organizations. We will be richer, safer, and happier.
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• Trump Brands Zelensky ‘Dictator Without Elections’ (RT)
… accusing him of mismanaging the conflict with Russia and misusing American financial aid
“talked the United States of America into spending $350 Billion Dollars, to go into a War that couldn’t be won.”

• Zelensky Accuses Trump Of Repeating ‘Russian Disinformation’ (RT)

For now, the biggest sticking point is how to structure the ceasefire.
The US wants an immediate halt to hostilities, followed by elections in Ukraine.
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• EU’s Military-Industrial Complex Wants to Prolong Lucrative Ukraine Crisis (Sp.)
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• The US Is Giving Its European Vassals What They’ve Been Asking For (Amar)

For it’s not Russia but the all-new Trumpist US that is panicking its own subjects:
The Americans are leaving.
Or, at least, they have made it brutally clear that they are tired of babying their EU vassals, who need to get ready to stand on their own feet.
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• 19 State Attorneys General Signal Intent to Prosecute Fauci (PJM)

Fauci got a federal pardon from Bidon. but no STATE pardon.
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[kultsommer]

Massive house-sale-wave in DC.
Gov-workers – the only people that can afford the home purchase due to relatively good and “secure income”..
Brings thoughts on Graeber’s “Bullshit jobs” as a “societal need” to have most of the people employed.

[zerosum]

Since end of WWII, Our world, as controlled by MSM
fairytale world – must feel a bit like the ending of the Truman show when it turns out that so much that appeared real and solid was all fake all along. All of it.
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[WES]

Phoenixvoice:

Your point about taxes, underscores how little most people understand about the true impact of the US taxation system.
The same applies here in Canada too.

[D Benton Smith]

By this time on most days there are dozens of comments, but so far today there are just fifteen, counting this one.

What’s up? Is there too little happening (that’s snarky sarcasm, if you didn’t notice), or too much?

It is a bit overwhelming I must admit, and I hardly know where to start in merely itemizing the mere list of existential crises that all seem to reaching their culmination any day now.

Just for grins, let’s just do that. Here’s a dirty laundry list of various calamities in progress any one of which could quite possibly result in the collapse of civilization and the swift and early demise of most of its population, maybe even ourselves and loved ones personally.

Nuclear holocaust sparked in Europe, Palestine, or Taiwan
The exploding death rate, illness rate, permanent physical disability, and hereditary damaged genomic DNA resulting from the biological warfare weapon (mRNA injections) to more than two thirds of the world’s population.
Collapse of the world’s economic system caused by ongoing collapse of the US Dollar and triggered into sudden collapse by Forensic AI guided physical audit of: #1 all of the national gold vaults, starting with Fort Knox, #2 The Federal Reserve, and #3 The Treasury Department.
Another biological weapon attack, as promised, by the same people who did it to us the first time because so far there have been zero indictments, prosecution or punishment of any of the original perpetrators. Indeed, most of them aren’t even known by name. They are known to us only by shadowy “ownership” authority. For example they are the top-of-the-pecking-order owners of all of those thousands of tons of gold residing in bomb-proof vaults scattered all over the globe.
Collapse of the civilization itself as a consequence of economic disruption. An operational civilization can support 9 billion people, but a disrupted one can’t, so there will be massive casualties if our support systems hiccup.
Artificial Intelligence is already running our world because the people who think they are running the world are utterly and fully dependent on enormous AI driven systems just to keep the world running at current levels (poorly). Imagine what happens when they can’t do that anymore. This inability would either because the AI system starts to seriously malfunction OR the incredibly capable AI System simply takes over and runs things despite what real people try to do to stop it. One of the more terrifying obstacles to stopping the “AI Takeover”, is that reducing our world’s AI dependence too quickly would disrupt the world’s ability to sustain 9 Billion people, thereby condemning those billions of people to death when the disrupted civilization can no longer sustain them. Would you, personally, condemn a few billion people to death? Well neither would I, so we have a problem, and it’s a real doozie.

Pretty alarming list, ain’t it?

And that’s just the material side of things. I haven’t even mentioned the matching list of “non-materialistic” crises that are about to go ka-boom (in the spiritual sense) in the near future.

Instead of listing each one out in detail let me just boil it down all to the main event of Good vs Evil. It’s God vs Satan, Truth vs Lies, Life vs Death, etc. you name it. I know that you get the core idea.

Well, you better pick sides and get your ass in gear because it’s going down (or up) now. And by “now” I mean right at this moment. Here’s a video from London of just one example of how brazen the enemy has become. As you watch the video consider the implications of the fact that a bunch of outright Satanists, who obviously do control London, blew upwards of a billion dollars (all told) in the creation and display of this monument to their evil.

[zerosum]

https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/02/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-reduces-the-federal-bureaucracy/
Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Reduces the Federal Bureaucracy
February 19, 2025
SHRINKING THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order continuing the reduction of Federal bureaucracy and waste.

The Order aims to further decrease the size of the Federal Government to enhance accountability, reduce waste, and promote innovation.
It eliminates or reduces to the minimum level of activity and expenditure required by law unnecessary governmental entities and Federal advisory committees.
Within 30 days, a list of additional unnecessary government entities and advisory committees must be submitted to the President for termination.
REDUCING GOVERNMENT OVERREACH: President Trump’s Executive Order is consistent with his Administration’s policy to dramatically reduce the size of the Federal Government, while increasing its accountability to the American people.

The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has already identified billions in waste, fraud, and abuse.
Cutting these governmental entities and Federal advisory committees will save taxpayer dollars, reduce unnecessary government spending, and streamline government priorities.
By reducing the Federal footprint, President Trump is returning power to local communities and state governments.
REFORMING THE FEDERAL BUREAUCRACY: The American people elected President Trump to drain the swamp and end ineffective government programs that empower government without achieving measurable results.

The government wastes billions of dollars each year on duplicative programs and frivolous expenditures that fail to align with American values or address the needs of the American people.
President Trump recently eliminated the Federal Executive Institute, a government program purportedly designed to provide bureaucratic leadership training.
President Trump temporarily paused foreign aid to many non-governmental organizations, international organizations, and contractors to ensure every dollar of U.S. foreign assistance supports American values.
President Trump established the “Department of Government Efficiency” to examine how to streamline the Federal Government, eliminate unnecessary programs, and reduce bureaucratic inefficiency.
President Trump launched a 10-to-1 deregulation initiative, ensuring every new rule is justified by clear benefits.
Through these actions, President Trump is keeping his promise to restore efficiency and accountability in the Federal Government.
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https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/commencing-the-reduction-of-the-federal-bureaucracy/

COMMENCING THE REDUCTION OF THE FEDERAL BUREAUCRACY
EXECUTIVE ORDER
February 19, 2025
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered:

Section 1. Purpose. It is the policy of my Administration to dramatically reduce the size of the Federal Government, while increasing its accountability to the American people. This order commences a reduction in the elements of the Federal bureaucracy that the President has determined are unnecessary. Reducing the size of the Federal Government will minimize Government waste and abuse, reduce inflation, and promote American freedom and innovation.

Sec. 2. Reducing the Scope of the Federal Bureaucracy. (a) The non-statutory components and functions of the following governmental entities shall be eliminated to the maximum extent consistent with applicable law, and such entities shall reduce the performance of their statutory functions and associated personnel to the minimum presence and function required by law:
(i) the Presidio Trust;
(ii) the Inter-American Foundation;
(iii) the United States African Development Foundation; and
(iv) the United States Institute of Peace.
(b) Within 14 days of the date of this order, the head of each unnecessary governmental entity listed in subsection (a) of this section shall submit a report to the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB Director) confirming compliance with this order and stating whether the governmental entity, or any components or functions thereof, are statutorily required and to what extent.
(c) In reviewing budget requests submitted by the governmental entities listed in subsection (a) of this section, the OMB Director or the head of any executive department or agency charged with reviewing grant requests by such entities shall, to the extent consistent with applicable law and except insofar as necessary to effectuate an expected termination, reject funding requests for such governmental entities to the extent they are inconsistent with this order.
(d) The Presidential Memorandum of November 13, 1961 (Need for Greater Coordination of Regional and Field Activities of the Government), is hereby revoked. The Director of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM Director) is directed to initiate the process to withdraw the regulations at title 5, part 960, Code of Federal Regulations, thereby eliminating the Federal Executive Boards.
(e) The OPM Director is directed to initiate the process to withdraw the regulations at title 5, part 362, subpart D, Code of Federal Regulations, and to take any other steps necessary to promptly terminate the Presidential Management Fellows Program. On the effective date of the final regulations promulgated by the OPM Director, Executive Order 13318 of November 21, 2003, is revoked and Executive Order 13562 of December 27, 2010, is amended by:
(i) striking from section 2 the words “along with the Presidential Management Fellows Program, as modified herein,”;
(ii) striking section 5;
(iii) striking from section 6(b) the words “or PMF Programs” and inserting in their place “program”;
(iv) striking from section 7(b)(iii) the words “the competitive service of Interns, Recent Graduates, or PMFs (or a Government-wide combined conversion cap applicable to all three categories together)” and inserting in their place “the competitive service of Interns or Recent Graduates (or a Government-wide combined conversion cap applicable to both categories together)”; and
(v) redesignating sections 6, 7, 8, and 9 as sections 5, 6, 7, and 8 respectively.
(f) Within 14 days of the date of this order, the following heads of executive departments and agencies (agencies) shall take the following actions with respect to the following Federal Advisory Committees within their respective agencies:
(i) the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development shall terminate the Advisory Committee on Voluntary Foreign Aid;
(ii) the Director of the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection shall terminate the Academic Research Council and the Credit Union Advisory Council;
(iii) the Board of Directors of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation shall terminate the Community Bank Advisory Council;
(iv) the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall terminate the Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Long COVID; and
(v) the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services shall terminate the Health Equity Advisory Committee.
(g) Within 30 days of the date of this order, the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, the Assistant to the President for Economic Policy, and the Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy shall identify and submit to the President additional unnecessary governmental entities and Federal Advisory Committees that should be terminated on grounds that they are unnecessary.

Sec. 3. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this order shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:
(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department, agency, or the head thereof; or
(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.
(b) This order shall be implemented consistent with applicable law and subject to the availability of appropriations.
(c) This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.

THE WHITE HOUSE,
February 19, 2025.

[jb-hb]

Your’e in a convenience store when it was robbed and one person had $100 on them, another had $5, another had $500, another had $20.

The cops show up in time, grab the money from the robber, start handing it back to the victims.

NO! Give the $500 “back” to the person who had $5 taken! It is unfair that the $500 person had more to take! And then we can give the $100 “back” to the $20 person!

What kind of stares would you get?

[zerosum]

@ D Benton Smith
You are causing harm to our system, by speaking the truth.
Now, go listen to …
J.D. Vance spokes at CPAC.
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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/jd-vance-cpac-livestream-liz-truss-nigel-farage-b2701660.html
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[jb-hb]

(the gunpoint robbery itself is not objectionable for the person who looks at the robber and says “that should be ME with that gun pointed at those people, deciding what to do with their money”)

[jb-hb]

More and more resources going to the schools. Children, especially underprivileged ones, need the education resources the most! It’s probably the most important single government program to determine their future outcomes!

But it turns out the more resources we divert to education, the worse the outcome for children, including underprivileged ones. Especially, even.

Worse yet, it has been going on for half a century. The world children are born INTO is a degraded one as result of the education. The world they graduate into. It isn’t just that specific child’s needs being met in isolation anymore, it’s the entire world that gets created around them.

More money, more resources, demanded someone to collect it, keep it, manage it, distribute it. Administrators multiplied and multiplied. All those new positions, all that extra money, leading to people playing games within the system rather than teaching children within the material world. For social status, for resources.

The more money you give to education, the more resources go to ruining education. Because your’e sustaining people and activities that work AGAINST your goals.

So cut resources until there is just sufficient to do the job. Then watch for incompetence and start firing on that basis. It turns out that ipads for everyone did not make people smarter than everyone having personal blackboards in Little House on the Prairie.

A world full of parasites, working against the welfare of the populace, using the resources of institutions against the reason for their existence, creates an entire world hostile to impoverished families with children.

In such a world, “where’s my cut of that?” is survival. Rational. Obviously a thing that should be done.

Once accepted as the way to do things, becomes the way for EVERYONE to do things.

In such a world EVERYONE is looking for their cut. Everyone participates in the accepted practice – everyone wants resources, after all. Impoverished families with children have never been, will never be, cannot ever be, apex predators in that system.

(wokeism might be seen as a way to try to get this accepted as THE way of doing things WHILE trying to remain a big fish in a small pond, to find the best way to exclude the most competitors from the resource-allocation competition)

If an animal is covered in parasites, it’s better to get all the parasites off of them than worrying about a specific body part. The ENTIRE animal will naturally recover, be way healthier and happier with the parasites removed. Children are best served by being able to exist in a world not overburdened by, run by, uncountable parasites.

We now KNOW, no longer merely suspect, that we were living under tyranny.

Trillions spent – NOT wasted, we are NOT seeing “government waste” being exposed. but money used as leverage to capture even more trillions.

This is why all governments, NGOs, corporations, educational institutions, and “Experts” screeched with one voice in 2020.

The Economy isn’t some abstract or foreign entity. It is US, it is all the things WE do. It is our LIVES in the process of being lived. All the real people.

And by every possible means, it was being massively directed by unseen, unaccountable, not-very-nice people. The main thing right now is to just pull off all the parasites. Keep shutting off money flows.

A country covered in parasites such that people are desperate, ignorant, and have no influence over their own government, CANNOT fix any other problems. The parasites have to be removed for the US to have a sane, reasonably moral attitude towards Israel/Gaza, towards Latin America, to Russia, to the weaker or more needy members of society. Every diversion of resources to something good will turn against us until that is fixed.

It’s possible that EVERYONE will benefit from not living in a secretly centralized economy under massive tyranny. Even without lifting a finger to specifically benefit specific people.

You’re not eliminating competition with resource allocation. You’re just relocating where the competition occurs. And the strong hands remain strong hands, weak hands remain weak hands. If you’re having trouble with a knife fight, relocating it to a phone booth is not the solution.

[jb-hb]

[John Day]

Shaken Not Stirred https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/shaken-not-stirred

Gilbert Doctorow explains the Russian view of Gorbachev: Donald Trump: the Gorbachev of our times
As of last night, panelists on this talk show were still comparing Trump to Gorbachev but in a very different, much more favorable way. They now focus on Trump’s apparently genuine efforts to bring about peace and also to his remarkable political skills which no one, in Russia or here in the West ever suspected…
..Kellogg and several others in the Trump entourage said that the war was at a stalemate and that lives were now being lost daily for no purpose.
At a stalemate? we in the Opposition to the Washington narrative asked. This suggested that Team Trump was receiving the same Kiev propaganda from their daily CIA input as had the Biden administration before it…
..All of these suppositions about Trump have in the past week been proven to be dead wrong. What we have seen is the Donald Trump 90-minute phone conversation with Vladimir Putin agreeing on the path to a summit meeting that will resolve the Ukraine war in the context of a full re-set of US-Russian relations. We heard Pete Hegseth tell the Ukraine Coordinating organization in Brussels that NATO membership for Ukraine is improbable and that return of the country to its pre-war borders would not happen. We watched as Vice President J.D. Vance directly criticized the European Union member states for undermining their own security by their authoritarian, Soviet-like attacks on free speech at home, by their denial of political legitimacy to their own populist parties on the Right and on the Left, who represent millions of their fellow citizens, by their encouraging the Romanian authorities to cancel their latest presidential elections because the candidate favoring normal relations with Russia came out first.
..The rift that Vance opened with the Europeans was widened to a broad chasm when matched with breaking news that US and Russian delegations would be meeting in Riyad yesterday to prepare the way for a resolution of the Ukraine war and that neither the Ukrainians nor the Europeans were invited to the table. Nor would General Kellogg be present, because he was sidelined by Trump to look after relations with Ukraine and with the Europeans, while the presidential emissary to the talks with the Russians would be Trump confidant and recent facilitator of the Israeli-Hamas truce Steve Witkoff.
As Vance and Trump surely anticipated, the Vice President’s speech left the European high officials in the Munich Conference flustered, unbelieving, horrified…
..There was the realization that Europe is on its own in its defense on the Continent, that the U.S. now is a questionable friend and an unreliable ally.
Washington did not invite the Europeans to the talks, but by way of ‘consultation’ invited them to fill out a questionnaire that demanded figures on troops and equipment that they were prepared to send to Ukraine as ‘peace-keepers’ to provide for Ukrainian security following conclusion of a peace treaty. This prompted Emmanuel Macron to invite the leaders of the key European supporters of Ukraine to a meeting in Paris on Monday to issue a joint statement on their contribution to peace-keeping…
..As we now know, the European leaders, plus von der Leyen from the Commission, De Costa from the European Council and Mark Rutte representing NATO all failed to agree in Paris on putting together a contingent of peace-keepers. Most remarkably Germany, Poland and Spain all said Nyet…
..At the press conference in Riyadh at the conclusion of their four and a half hour talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and with Presidential Foreign Policy advisor Yuri Ushakov, Rubio, Waltz and Witkoff spoke very well. They were very diplomatic, very much in control of the discourse with aggressive, unfriendly journalists from the press. They showed themselves to be loyal, shall we say deferential to the President whose will they were carrying out. They also appeared to be fully up to the task.
From what the American negotiators said and to what Lavrov added in his own remarks to Russian journalists when the talks were over, we understand that the first issue that they addressed was to restore normal staffing and operating procedures at the respective diplomatic missions in Washington and Moscow which had been cut to nearly zero under the Biden administration. This begins with the appointment and confirmation of ambassadors on each side…
..Evidently the repair work on state-to-state relations will proceed in parallel and not be held up by talks on ending the war, which is now acknowledged as something that will take some time. The U.S. side recognizes that a permanent and broad relationship with Russia is essential to deal with global issues of interest to both nations.
This will bring the relationship to the third phase of talks: about ‘geopolitical’ issues. Here we may expect the U.S. to try to drive a wedge between Russia and China, and to try to agree on what role BRICS will have in the coming multipolar world while not fundamentally threatening U.S. interests.
The cherry on the cake was the press conference later yesterday that Donald Trump held at Mar a Lago. In answer to reporters’ questions on why Zelensky was excluded from the talks, he said that Zelensky had been at the table for three years, with no positive results. As even today’s Financial Times recognizes in its article on the press conference, Trump was wholly dismissive of Zelensky and clearly wants to see him gone…
..What sense do I make of all the foregoing?
The negotiating methods that Trump used from inauguration day to present are a perfect example of the alternating feint to the right, feint to the left methods that Mikhail Gorbachev used from early in his presidency to keep his fellow members of the collective Soviet leadership submissive. This is what the panelists in Solovyov’s show understood from their close experience with this at home…
..Those in the alternative media, just like those in mainstream who try to kick the tires, saying that Trump is motivated by narrow financial interests or other personal considerations that come from his vanity are being small-minded and are intentionally missing the big picture. https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2025/02/19/donald-trump-the-gorbachev-of-our-times/

It was really Victoria Nuland, huh? ‘You should have never started it’: Trump suggests Ukraine to blame for war
US president says he will ‘probably’ meet Russian President Vladimir Putin this month. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/19/trump-says-he-will-probably-meet-putin-this-month-hits-out-at-ukraine

Trump Trounces “Modestly Successful Comedian… Dictator” Zelenksy After Ukraine Leader Revives Debunked Russiagate Narrative https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/reviving-debunked-russiagate-narrative-zelensky-says-trump-lives-russian

​ Not fair? Wasn’t this Nuland’s call too? Puppet gets blame and payoff? Musk blames Zelensky for death of US journalist
The Ukrainian leader “killed” Gonzalo Lira, the close ally of President Donald Trump has claimed https://swentr.site/news/613039-musk-zelensky-gonzalo-lira/

[John Day]

​Political updates in First 5:20 min. Zelensky Insulted Trump A New Offensive Instead Of Elections Military Summary For 2025.02.20​ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdK7CuN9i_Y

​ Russian delegation member Ushakov: “The main thing is to begin a real normalization of relations between us and Washington.” —> The negotiations are not about Ukraine, but about restoring relations with America!…
..The Kiev born Kirill Dmitriev, head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund came to negotiate economical details.l and he in the CNN interview explains the approach. Dmitriev said he had already held several meetings with Trump’s team: “We’ve had several meetings with members of the Trump team, and all I can say is that they are great problem solvers. And I think President Trump is a great negotiator, as is his entire team” -> In short, Russia and USA are about to work on the global order, not about Ukraine in isolation. That’s bad news for Ukraine, as it’s a bargaining chip in this equation … not the main actor. Hence EU is also not needed https://x.com/MyLordBebo/status/1891753063456592158

​ John Helmer says that Russia is insisting on proper diplomacy, step by step. TRUMP TRIES GRANDSTANDING IN RIYADH – RUBIO STEPS DOWN
​ It was obvious from the slow descent of US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, stepping down the stairs from his aircraft, watching his shoes until they hit the ground in Riyadh, that the US side in Tuesday’s talks lacked a confident mandate from the White House for negotiations with the Russians.
​ Rubio was there – inexperienced and nervous​.​..– to arrange a grandstand display by President Donald Trump at the summit meeting he wants with President Vladimir Putin. No more, no less.
​ Rubio ended up with less. To the uncomprehending Trump, speaking at his own press conference in Florida fifteen hours later, Rubio and National Security Advisor Michael Waltz are unable to explain.​..
​..Lavrov meant that the Americans were coming to the meeting with no agenda except for what Trump and Putin had said during their telephone call of February 12, and no agreement among the Americans themselves on what to say to the Russians behind closed doors.
​ “We didn’t just listen”, Lavrov said in briefing the Russian press after the meeting, “but we also heard each other…This does not necessarily mean a convergence of positions.” ​…
​..The points agreed are the appointment of ambassadors in Washington and Moscow; removal of restrictions the US has imposed on Russian diplomatic operations in the US, including at the United Nations in New York; and the expansion of the bilateral agenda for talks to come. These were undertakings to continue talking – there was no agreement on more because the US side came unprepared for more.​..
​..Lavrov said more — Trump would not be getting his grandstand soon with Putin.
​ Instead, Lavrov said, “the foreign ministers, the national security advisors were tasked with meeting and seeing what needs to be done before the presidents can begin to negotiate a specific date and date for the summit.” The key term Lavrov emphasized for Trump’s men was “before” – перед тем — that’s process before PR.​..
​..In Riyadh, Lavrov also revealed a split on the US side. He told Russian reporters that he had asked Rubio and Waltz what end-of-war settlement plan Trump’s emissary on Ukraine, General Keith Kellogg, had been discussing in Munich last week with Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski, according to Sikorsi’s public disclosure and the video record. “I asked US Secretary of State Rubio and Waltz what it means. They said it was a fake.”​…
​..Rubio then telephoned the foreign ministers of France, Germany, Italy, and the UK, together with the European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs, to reassure them on what had not been agreed with the Russians. The text of the release reveals the political precedence Rubio gives to the Europeans ahead of the UK and the EU.​ https://johnhelmer.net/trump-tries-grandstanding-in-riyadh-rubio-steps-down/#more-91124

​ “I will meet Donald with pleasure” – that’s what President Putin expressed Wednesday in a brief televised interview with RT. He further outlined some conditions for such a meeting, saying that it can’t just involve sitting for some tea or coffee, but both the Russian and American diplomatic teams which met in Riyadh the day prior must thoroughly prepare to negotiate issues most important to each, particularly the Ukraine crisis.​..
..Putin also called the Trump team ‘completely different’ in terms of positive openness and willingness to work with Moscow, in contrast to the prior Biden administration, and given the Riyadh meeting took place without bias and on “friendly” terms, and with no “condemnation of what had been done in the past” – meaning the two sides showed willingness to move forward and not rehash a blame-game.
Of the Tuesday Saudi-hosted talks, which lasted four-and-half hours, Putin described: “It is impossible to solve many issues, including the Ukrainian crisis, without increasing trust between Russia and the United States” – and stressed that the process is about restoring this trust, toward a resolution of the conflict.
He was further quoted in Interfax saying of the talks: “Yes, I have been informed. I rate them highly, there are results.”
As for Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, his follow-up assessment after leading the delegation in Riyadh was as follows: “Moscow and Washington need to clean up the legacy of former US President Joe Biden’s administration, which ruined the foundation of long-lasting cooperation between the two countries.”​…
​ Putin’s spokesman on Wednesday remained cautiously optimistic:
“Maybe. Or maybe not,” Peskov said, responding to a question about the possibility of the Trump-Putin summit in February.​ https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/putin-i-will-meet-donald-pleasure

Probationary period civilians again… Incoming! DOGE Poised To Strike Defense Department With Mass Layoffs https://www.zerohedge.com/political/incoming-doge-poised-strike-defense-department-mass-layoffs

[John Day]

​ One month into Israel’s West Bank offensive, violence and uncertainty are the new normal
Israel has killed 55 Palestinians after one month of its ongoing “Iron Wall” offensive in the West Bank Killings, mass displacement, and uncertainty are the new normal.​ .https://mondoweiss.net/2025/02/one-month-into-israels-west-bank-offensive-violence-and-uncertainty-are-the-new-normal/

​ UN chief slams Israeli police raids on UN schools in occupied East Jerusalem
​ UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday “strongly” condemned Israeli police’s raid on schools run by the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) in occupied East Jerusalem, Anadolu Agency reports.
​ “The secretary general condemns the breach of inviability of United Nations premises in occupied East Jerusalem, including the UNRWA training center and the attempt to forcibly enter three UNRWA schools and seek their closure,” said spokesperson Stephane Dujarric during a news conference
​ According to witnesses, police stormed the UNRWA-run Jerusalem Elementary School in Silwan town and interrogated its management members on Tuesday.
The raids also targeted another school in the Wadi al-Joz neighborhood and a vocational training center in the Qalandia refugee camp in occupied East Jerusalem.​ https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250218-un-chief-slams-israeli-police-raids-on-un-schools-in-occupied-east-jerusalem/

​ ‘Pure Evil’: Hamas Hands Over Remains of Dead Israeli Mother, Toddler & Infant
​ Thursday was a somber and tragic day for Israel as the bodies of four slain Israeli hostages were returned by Hamas, 503 days after they were initially kidnapped in the Oct.7, 2023 raids on southern Israel and massacres.
​ “Hamas had said earlier in the week that it was handing over the bodies of Shiri Silberman Bibas, her two young sons Ariel and Kfir, and Oded Lifshitz, who was 83 at the time of his abduction,” Times of Israel writes.​..
..It’s unclear how precisely the captives died, also in terms of when or where in captivity, but what’s clear is the young had been taken alive:
​ ​The mother and children were taken captive from Kibbutz Nir Oz. Video of the abduction, with a terrified Shiri Bibas seen swaddling her two redheaded boys in a blanket and being whisked away by armed men, ricocheted around the world in the hours after the attack….
..Israel’s Diaspora Minister Amichai Chikli blasted the whole handover ordeal of small coffins, saying “a society that cultivates a culture of murder and death has no right to exist.”…
​..Hamas has claimed it was actually Israeli bombs and attacks on Gaza which in the end killed the slain hostages, which they emphasized in propaganda posters featuring a bloody, monstrous Netanyahu..​ https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/tragic-day-hamas-hands-over-remains-dead-israeli-mother-toddler-infant

​ 11 more bodies found in south Lebanon after Israeli withdrawal
​ Truce pausing Israel’s war on Gaza — which has reportedly killed over 48,297 Palestinians, a figure revised by officials to nearly 62,000, having added thousands who are missing and now presumed dead — enters its 32nd day.​ https://www.trtworld.com/middle-east/live-blog-israel-abducts-30-palestinians-in-occupied-west-bank-raids-18266444

​ Israel Creates Directorate to Oversee Ethnic Cleansing of Gaza
​ On Monday, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz ordered the creation of a directorate in the Defense Ministry tasked with overseeing the implementation of the plan announced by US President Donald Trump to ethnically cleanse Gaza.​ https://www.globalresearch.ca/israel-creates-directorate-oversee-ethnic-cleansing-gaza/5880302

[John Day]

Another Blackwater? Nearly 100 U.S. Mercenaries Are in Gaza Right Now​;​ 96 former U.S. special forces veterans are currently stationed in Gaza.
​ These mercenaries have been hired by UG Solutions, a North Carolina based military contractor, to patrol the intersection that Israel used to separate the north from the south of Gaza. What the Occupation called the “Netzarim Corridor” split Gaza with a fortified wide road to re-supply weapons and tanks as well as providing a vantage point to launch attacks on both the north and the south.​ https://www.globalresearch.ca/another-blackwater-nearly-100-us-mercenaries-gaza/5880286

​ Satellite Imagery Reveals 7 New Israeli Army Outposts In Syria
The new sites are equipped with living quarters and command centers and aim to reinforce an indefinite Israeli presence in Syria​ https://thecradle.co/articles/satellite-imagery-reveals-seven-new-israeli-army-outposts-in-syria

Choking the tanker trade between Iran and China to hurt both geopolitical rivals:​ Trump’s No-Prisoners Approach to Iran-China Oil Crackdown​ https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/02/trumps-no-prisoners-approach-to-iran-china-oil-crackdown.html

​ Lots of these people are working for cheap in the US. Trump Signs Executive Order Terminating All Federal Taxpayer Benefits Going To Illegal Aliens
The cost of welfare programs for noncitizens is estimated to be in the billions.
​ The Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) estimated that federal expenditures on illegal aliens in 2023 totaled nearly $66.5 billion, including more than $23 billion in federal medical expenditures and $11.6 billion in welfare benefits from Food Stamps, child nutrition, SSI, and other programs.​ https://www.zerohedge.com/political/trump-signs-executive-order-terminating-all-federal-taxpayer-benefits-going-illegal

​ Shades of Teddy Roosevelt: Trump Enforcers Affirm Lina Khan’s Approach to Antitrust
New Federal Trade Commission Chair Andrew Ferguson and acting Antitrust Division chief Omeed Assefi endorsed the 2023 merger guidelines. There’s a new bipartisan consensus.​ https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/trump-enforcers-affirm-lina-khans

[John Day]

Trump Confirms Fort Knox Audit, But Gold Slips As Bessent Downplays Revaluation Rumors​ https://www.zerohedge.com/precious-metals/trump-confirms-fort-knox-audit-gold-slips-bessent-downplays-revaluation-rumors

​ RFK Jr. Lays Out His HHS Agenda: ‘Nothing Is Going To Be Off Limits’​
“Some of the possible factors we will investigate were formerly taboo or insufficiently scrutinized,” Kennedy told HHS staff, Tuesday morning. ​“I’m willing to subject them all to the scrutiny of unbiased science.”
​ Some of these previously taboo concerns, he said, include “the childhood vaccine schedule, electromagnetic radiation, glyphosate, other pesticides, ultra processed foods, artificial food additives, SSRI and other psychiatric drugs, PFAS, PFOAs, microplastics.”
​ RFK Jr. reminded HHS staff that an “overwhelming majority” of our Founding Fathers were “citizen scientists,” including “Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, John Adams, James Madison, Benjamin Franklin, Benjamin Rush, a physician, Julian Bartlett, a physician, Matthew Thornton, a physician, and Oliver Wolcott, a physician.”​ https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/rfk-jr-lays-out-his-hhs-agenda-nothing-going-be-limits

​ Two birds with one stone.. Go ACOG! ​ Peer-Reviewed Study Confirms mRNA Injections Cross the Placenta and Reach the Fetus
Intramuscular mRNA-1273 injection rapidly crosses the placenta within one hour, accumulates in fetal organs, translates into Spike protein, and persists in fetal tissues after birth.​ https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/breaking-peer-reviewed-study-confirms

​ Trump Could Be About To Ban COVID Vaccines; Report
Trump health officials could be about to recommend a complete stop to covid vaccines for all age groups in the US, according to a report.
​ The move would effectively ban the vaccines amid widespread suggestions that they are having expansive side effects and causing a spike in excess deaths.
The Daily Mail outlines how Dr Jay Bhattacharya, President Trump’s nomination to lead the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has backed a petition calling for the mRNA vaccines to be paused and retested.​ https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/trump-could-be-about-ban-covid-vaccines-report

​ The modified mRNA in the Pfizer and Moderna “vaccine” products causes some people’s cells to keep making toxic spike protein without end.
NEW STUDY – Circulating Spike Protein Detectable 709 Days after COVID-19 mRNA Injection
Participants with post-vaccination syndrome had significantly higher circulating Spike protein levels compared with the control group.​ https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/new-study-circulating-spike-protein

[John Day]

A Midwestern Doctor has more on that: Yale Just Proved COVID Vaccine Injury Exists and Spike Production Persists for Years Inside The Body
Reviewing the consequences of the reckless steps used to make the vaccines and the immunological damage which followed​ https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/yale-proved-covid-vax-injury-exists

​ The probability of Earth-impact will likely increase until it suddenly goes to 0% (or 100%). Why “city-killer” asteroid YR4’s impact probability keeps increasing
Asteroid 2024 YR4, which could devastate a city’s worth of humans, has gone from 1.2% to 2.3% to 2.6% to 3.1% chances of impact. Here’s why.​ https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/city-killer-asteroid-yr4-impact-probability/

[Dr D Rich]

As my ppl die, young men primarily, (worshipped at my cousin’s Ukrainian Orthodox church without missing a Catholic beat back in the day) the ghoulish specter of Lavrov et al ponder the number of chairs, water pitchers nd tables at the as yet to be established “diplomatic missions” across from The Lesser punkass Rubio…SoS.
No rush from Marco since there’s no skin to be lost off his prissy-assed back.

Diplomacy….what a vulgar display.

1991

[Noirette]

Re. upcoming German elections, a quick profile of Alice Weidel, AW, the leader of the AFD.

(All > public knowlege, Wiki, MSM articles, etc.)

AW’s background, it need not matter, is ‘Christian’ though she calls herself agnostic. She has a grandfather who was a Nazi, etc. She went to an Xtian Highschool and has +++ Degrees in Economics.

She has worked for (from Wiki, I didn’t know..) Goldman Sachs Asset Management, the Bank of China for 6 years, then as VP of Allianz Global Investors. Next, as a freelance Biz. consultant, and for *Rocket Internet* (into internet Biz) + other.

Alice ‘lives’ in Switzerland – yet her official residence is in Germany – as she is openly lesbian and in a civil partnership with another woman, Sarah Bossard (typical Swiss name, a film maker), who is from Sri Lanka orginally. They have two children. AW publically states that she supports the traditional family (one ma, one pa, etc.) but exceptions should be made.

She is a rabid Zionist and violently anti-Muslim. It is said (have not checked this so prob an exageration) .. that she has called for all Muslims to be deported from Germany.

*SOME* of her mains stances.

Interdicting minarets, interdicting veils, burkas, no social AID for such immigrants, and the like (the enemy within, newest version.) No unemployment pay for immigrants, until they have worked for 10 years. Expulsion of (xyz..) immigrants. Etc.

NATO to be replaced with a European Force.

Gaz imports from Russia to be re-instated, resume. ( > Tear down wind turbines.)

Building new Nuclear Power Stations.

Instoring obligatory military service.

one pic of her with wifey, https://tinyurl.com/3wfacf7y

Truly fascinating to see such a mix of opporunistic, ‘modren’ appeals in one or another direction. Note, Meloni and Milei were invited to the Trump inauguration, but she wasn’t.

[citizenx]

A luxury problem that indicates things are changing for the better, and they do so rapidly.

I’ll open today with the interview Trump and Musk did wih Sean Hannity. Interview: highly recommended.

Thank You, I will listen this evening.

..

Thanks John, for the sharing and Wisdom.

Nonviolence is complicated, and must be practiced in the moment. It is NOT passivity when one must act to prevent or reduce harm.

I felt bad about the whole thing, some unfortunate drama of human emotions and misunderstanding…

I’ll relay an altercation I had some months ago at work in due time- and one I almost, but chose not to have, on Valentines Day last week.

Very similar sentiments on having some bad feelings after every altercation regardless of how ‘justified’.
Perhaps it’s our conscience shadow keeping us fully human ?

…

I second Olivers short speech as well worth the time- a mere 8 minutes towards humble humairty.

..

Just Some Randomer

Man, I am finding it so difficult to even look at the mainstream media over the past few days. With regards to both the Economy/DOGE etc and Ukraine, The absolute spew of lies and distractions is utterly nauseating, now that all the cherished hopes and dreams of the Globalists are being trashed

Likewise- I’m also finding that some of the trashing of Team Trump around here is a bit nauseating.
Strikes me as childish and bratty entitled complaining patterns…

At least a small amount of grace towards Trump/ Vance/ Musk with regards to the revelations and genuine changes taking place. It may not be perfect, but they are addressing many of the complaints by the same people who are now just complaining about them.

Check your negative complaint patterns and be grateful it taint Kamalalala “I would change nothing about the Biden Admin”… Trump ‘”doged” a bullet, and we did too- maybe think about that ?

…

JB – HB

NO! Give the $500 “back” to the person who had $5 taken! It is unfair that the $500 person had more to take! And then we can give the $100 “back” to the $20 person!

What kind of stares would you get?

Why not just be honest with who had what in their pockets?
One theft does not deserve another.

Similarly- who is to say that the person with $500…may have been their last money, they had no credit cards, or financial resources back up…and now they are doubly fucked after getting robbed at gunpoint first, and then by the commissars second ?

Working in the bar business at some very trendy places, I learned to never judge people by their appearances, or dress, or vocabulary. One particular time stands out- especially regarding your “cash” query. Several dudes came in, sat at the bar looking really gruff, unshaven, not well dressed…a bit out of place. They order bottles of wine and lots of food-

Turned out they were just off the boat from months of seriously hard, dangerous work fishing in Alaska, they each had huge wads of cash to pay- and they simply wanted a nice meal. I did not see their cash until the bill was dropped, but I took excellent care of them and gave them great service- to which they also tipped fantastically.

You never know. I’m not a ‘Christian’ – but it is obvious that even Christ would be treated like garbage by many people today presuming he was a poor homeless dude. Buddhas probably the same, even though they literally took vows of owning nothing to service the suffering – I aspire to live by the ethos- never treat anyone less ‘fortunate’ than you poorly- similar, no reason to fawn over those who are more fortunate- Karma, fate, fortune can turn on a dime…

[citizenx]

To all us ‘nobody’s’ , struggling on the planet just to get by…with a sparkle in the eyes…

…

Old man down, way down down, down by the docks of the city
Blind and dirty, asked me for a dime, a dime for a cup of coffee
I got no dime but I got some time to hear his story…

But I’ll get back on my feet again someday
The good Lord willin’, if He says I may
I know that the life I’m living’s no good
I’ll get a new start, live the life I should
I’ll get up and fly away, I’ll get up and fly away, fly away…

+ the Wharf Rats were a self titled group of Dead Heads, at every show with yellow balloons, who were sober and cleaned up their lives…they were there for every lost Dead Head as well.

[Dora]

Covid vaccine faces ban for all Americans in radical U-turn by Trump team
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-14174091/Covid-vaccine-faces-ban-Americans-radical-U-turn-Trump-team.html

[Dr. D]

Page is dropping slightly later. That’s not fitting my schedule just now.

Here’s a thought, a shibboleth for Trump and their intentions: how about pardoning Assange, Snowden, and everybody else? Are you serious about transparency, cleaning up, or what?

“Over the years many of us in alternative economics have wondered if our nation would be able to handle the revelation that almost everything about our system is fake. Half the country has suspected as much, but what would happen if we had hard proof – A smoking gun?
USAID is that smoking gun, the proof of death, but it’s only one of many buried bodies that are about to be uncovered. The real revelations will come when DOGE discovers how much US policy is directed and controlled by entities OUTSIDE our own country.
What happens when they investigate the numerous financial and political networks connected to the WEF, DAVOS, World Bank, the IMF, the BIS, and international think tanks like the CFR, Tavistock, the Atlantic Council, Ford Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation and Open Society Foundations? What about the investment influences of Black Rock,Vanguard, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, etc.?” — Brandon Smith.

Pointing out because he elaborates, but this is Armstrong’s cycle, right on time. IF everything is fake and the U.S. government has actually been both our robber and abuser, THEN people will shift away from it, into Private attention and assets. Yes, removing/reducing the Managerial Empire, but also buying or trusting private bonds…or in our case, even trustless bonds.

That means we own it. The nation is not the government. Generally the government is AGAINST the nation.

Note on that, Solana is the latest crypto to take a big hit for a scandal. Hey, I thought these were supposed to be “Trustless” because there were no humans, companies, reputations involved.

“Rabid Sabotage By The Political Left
The government is effectively being audited by the Trump Administration, and the Democrats are enraged. Why? Because they (and a handful of Neo-Cons) know full well what that audit is going to find.” Smith

Just like always, they know before they know, not to look because everything is perfectly honest and fine over there.

“Economic Downturn Is Inevitable – Trump Will Be Blamed
Broad budget cuts are essential to saving the economy in the long term, but they are also a double-edged sword in the short term. For example, US GDP stats rely greatly on government spending in their calculations”

Bet you’re sorry now!!! Price of eggs hasn’t gone down in two weeks!!! WTF? You mean the price of eggs that under Biden you swore weren’t even going up? But now they’re super high and you think they should drop day of inauguration? (Same with plane crashes. All Trump’s fault, day of his inauguration. No I am not kidding. Shouldn’t he have to DO something first? I guess Trump personally pilots all planes now.) This is, as you say, a level of derangement over DOGE I heretofore have never seen and did not know that existed.

“Cruel: Elon Musk Cuts Off Social Security Benefits For Thousands Of Revolutionary War Veterans” –BBee Sad.

“Billie Joe Armstrong Announces He Will Now Just Be A Regular Idiot” –Bbee

AfD: Okay, are you ready to permit men to protect women and their nations again? Maybe? Maybe give them respect, thank them for keeping you all from being killed, every day, every where?

There was a tiktok, NYC, some homeless guy, harassing, unhinged, sort of not sure what was going to happen, daylight robbery at minimum, what does she do? Crosses the street to the first MAN who was there. That MAN then didn’t make much, but stood up, held off, distracted and diffused the assaulter. No one was killed either! If you can imagine that. The woman was not raped by her protector! If you can imagine that. Life went on. …Better not let the Manhattan D.A. see that.

IF you Germans – and German women – have had enough, say so and they’ll be rousted out in about 6 months. Same here, Larry Johnson was asked about attacking the Mexican cartels who would then not care and openly attack the American people in cities. Hahahahaahahahahaa! Surely you jest, my sir. TRY IT. If you EVER do such a thing and the American people call open season, on you, it’ll be six months before you BEG to surrender to a nice, comfy American cell. Please, PLEASE do this. Please.

CNN: Yes, Virginia, that all sounds super stupid, but they actually believe this. Apparently yes, we are at the level where he has to explain this again, and at that level. I really, really doubt any of this will sink in. At all.

“• Trump, Musk To Discuss Sending US Taxpayers $5,000 Checks Using DOGE Savings (ZH)

They are after every gasp of evil they can perceive, but somebody commented that “Taxpayers” means those who pay taxes, ie, not everyone. I guess that kind of makes sense, we’ll see. Of course they wanted the money to people who didn’t lose that $5k in the first place. I presume, THEMselves personally. God forbid working people get it.

–Phoenix supports this suggestion, so. 1st doesn’t matter a bit. Nothing has actually happened yet, and we haven’t invaded Greenland either. People are reading and mentalizing so much they can’t tell that NOTHING HAPPENED. A word was said. That’s it. nothing’s decided. Johnson said the same thing as CIA analyst on Gaza: “No, that is not a PLAN. That’s a NON-Plan. A PLAN Is when you say ‘we’ve talked to Jordan and Egypt and have arranged land to resettle 750k Gazans and the U.S. Congress and EU have passed budget for $150B each to pay for the construction, which will start in May.” THAT, my darlings, is a PLAN. He SAID he was going to do something…then no troops moved? No MREs wuz bought? Yeah, then we’re not going, he’s talking, AND EVERYBODY KNOWS IT. Reich for example, high level is putting out the most unhinged non-stop Coup drivel, when he’s the sort that knows good and well what it looks like when Bureaucracies actually intend to act.
Part 2) Suppose it does only tax return to those who paid $5k in the first place. So what? A) $5k is like a loose fiver to the rich, B) $5k to the working people will instantly be spent and benefit the very poor you speak of, via the Economy. Actually IF any such thing happens, I suspect that like Nuclear Techs re-hired, he’ll just go “Yeah, the poors too, it’s alright.” Boom done: no one cares.

‘Ze decided to start a fist-fight with Trump. Okay, man. We all know how much Trump likes that sort of thing and that’s definitely how he gives you money. $350 BILLION. Well 1/3 of a TRILLION is up from my estimate yesterday, (+$150B) so I wonder if that means something. When it got high they stopped the clock (as usual) but that seems higher than the original run rate too. He’s probably including CIA dark spending and it’s still higher.

“• Musk Blames Zelensky For Death Of Gonzalo Lira (RT)
I thought Scott Ritter and JD Vance flew over to kill him, what happened?
“• ‘Good Prospects’ with US, ‘Hysterics’ in EU and Ukraine: Putin (RT)
Hysterics? C’mon, surely they’re not crying on national TV or anything.
“PUTIN: TRUMP’S TEAM WAS FRIENDLY AND UNBIASED “

“I JUST WANT PEOPLE TO STOP DYING!” Trump said. Just wanted to repeat that. Ever heard that before? Everyone is heart-set against this, in every way. Europe, Democrats, Labour, Canada, everyone. “No! PEOPLE MUST DIE!!!!” All comments, such as Stormer, were “We will never give up, the last Ukrainian MUST Die.” Like the last dinosaur and the last Dodo bird, we will track, track that last Ukrainiand down in the Arctic where he wanders like Dr. Frankenstein’s Monster, and FORCE him to die.

Speaking of, on the Duran, UK now has TWELVE ships. And I forget, EIGHTEEN guns? That’s it. You train there, as forces “Boys, these are the only 18 guns in all England. Defend them with your lives.” Now he no doubt means major artillery and mobile howitzers, but does it make a bit of difference? Ireland: invade now. Right now. I mean, just get on the ferry with a shillelagh, and whack them soundly. Bob’s yer Uncle, nation is yours!

“• Riyadh Meeting May Be ‘Beginning of the End of NATO’ (Sp.)

No, Vance serving divorce papers was the end of NATO.

“• EU’s Military-Industrial Complex Wants to Prolong Lucrative Ukraine Crisis (Sp.)

On that, the U.S. and Vance said they’re welcome to buy all the weapons they want to use in Ukraine. But it doesn’t activate Article 5. That seems near, but also far. As said, it won’t matter as they’re broke and are about to collapse for collateral.

“It’s the “end of an era” and Germany is “in disarray.” And not just Germany: “Pandemonium” rages in Europe; the continent is under “assault.” Its elites are “shaken, anxious, and sometimes aghast,” as an “ideological war” has been declared against their fiefdom, which is being “left in the dust.” A big “boom” has sounded, and a “ferocious reckoning” is underway. In short, it’s a “European nightmare.”

Wait: I thought they were all for PEACE and are merely sad, sad puppets for the United States. Awwwww. What happened? If this was always the U.S.’s war, then why de long face? Why keep fighting it? You’re Free!!! Fly! Be Free!!!

Could it be, as Herr Docktor has been saying for years, that it’s ‘tother way ‘round? Europe burrowed in and is directing the U.S. to bankrupt itself fighting a losing war on their behalf while they giggle?

“Cut 20% The CNN panel was left dumfounded.” (Dumbfounded is missssspeled, snark)

Well, they’ve never done work before. Worked for a company and not a branch of the CIA. They’re like “But if I get fired, I can’ t pay my mortgage!” Rest of America: “YOU DON’T SAY. Huh.” Maybe rent a Uhaul or something, that’s the advice I got.

““..plaintiffs “have not shown a substantial likelihood that [DOGE] is not an agency.”

Uhhh, I would think so: it’s an OBAMA agency.

“• 19 State Attorneys General Signal Intent to Prosecute Fauci (PJM)

They’re missing the boat. I would Prosecute Fauci for killing 500,000 GAY MEN. That would go over, much, much better. Statute of limitations on Murder?

[jb-hb]

I’m reading Crime & Punishment for the first time since high school. It is electrifying, riveting, horrifying.

Human misery – what is to be done, how is it to be borne? Mercy PLEASE – when, where, how? And how painful is it?

What is to become of those who are incapable of measuring up? Mercy? But then, what mercy for those who they harm, those who make the merciful sacrifice for the Incapable, who continue to be hurt as a result of the Incapable receiving mercy? But aren’t we ALL incapable, ultimately?

I’m only 151 pages into a 523 page book, so Dostoevsky is still establishing his statement – too early to draw final conclusions.

My own postmodernist atheist deconstructionist leftist past rises up in response to scene after scene of human misery.

We must break the wheel of time, stomp the pieces into splinters. Break reality itself if we must, FIX it, free humanity from the unreasonableness, then unbearableness of being.

Transhumanism, exactly.

But we’re already trying transhumanism. Trying to break the chains of Being, free people from reality. Transgenderism is exactly that. It isn’t making people happy.

Feminism is Transhumanism.

Women, freed from so many conventions and strictures of the past — with a promise of even MORE freedom to come. Feminism already is moved on from equality and is working the REAL problem.

The strictures of the current system, of ANY system, of reality – are an injustice, ultimately.

Equality is too expensive
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlX9CLJeu34

This is framed as a men/women thing, but it isn’t really, this is ALL of us. Our dilemma with reality, with Being. The ultimate constraint to freedom.

And the Blob, the larger Blob, not just Kunstler’s bureaucracy, has distinctly Transhumanist overtones. In addition to Communist ones. Their observable actions and words indicate they have come to specific ideas about what is to be done about the problem of Being and Reality.

Women are experiencing Transhumanism in freedom from the past strictures.

We THOUGHT harems were sexist against women (what could be more sexist towards women than 95% of men not being able to have a woman – women most affected!)

…but with TOTAL boundless, undulating, blobulent, formless, undifferentiated freedom, what are women doing? They have divided themselves into harems.

A 5 could very easily have a 5 of her own. Hell, she could have a 7, because contrary to the propaganda in womens’ magazines, so long as a woman is SUFFICIENTLY good looking (which isn’t what women apparently think it is), if she is NICE, if she is kind and sympathetic and supportive, a man will gladly walk through broken glass with bare feet for her.

The removal of all barriers gives 4-8 women access to 9’s and 10’s because men will have sex with a woman who is “good enough.” And enjoy it. Women know they are part of a harem, know they can lock down a man of the same market value as themselves – or even a level or two higher! – are nevertheless staying in the harem, and are the unhappiest they have ever been in history.

And of course, they disbelieve everything anyone tells them about how a man thinks or feels because they are only dealing with 9’s and 10’s who are getting mobbed by women who “refuse to settle.” A 9 with a completely booked social calendar, currently engaged in a self indulgent feeding frenzy = “men” because she can see no other men.

Her complaints in opinion pieces, via tiktoks, etc, regarding “men” is about these 9’s and 10’s. All men, though, are a post office box – you drop the letter into any man conveniently at hand with the purpose of reaching “men” with demands for redress from Chad the 10.

(these particulars being a stand-in for humans – men and women – talking about one facet of life or another but REALLY trying to come to grips with Being)

You can have the thing. Costlessly Having gotten it, even knowing you can have something wholesome and good STILL of higher value than you are technically worthy of, they cannot or will not let go.

Transhumanism will give us what we want. Having grabbed the banana inside the large glass jar, we will refuse to open our paws and release the banana to escape. We will get stuck right there holding our banana and starve. We were told holding the banana was the highest good, the only good.

THIS is what I suspect the dark forces are leading us towards. THIS is what, in their wisdom, they think fixes everything. And besides, it’s a cheat. We never get to the point where EVERYONE is free, do we? OTHER people freed from the strictures of reality, becoming as gods???? Hell no. Terrifying. Not-freedom is that thing for other people. Why every policy to make it fair just so happens to lead towards killing all humans.

See the scifi classic Forbidden Planet.

[Michael Reid]

[Raúl Ilargi Meijer]

Kash Patel confirmed as FBI head. Was he the last big one?

[John Day]

Thanks for the Kash-tip, Ilargi.
😉

[my parents said know]

Kash Patel is in.

[my parents said know]

I guess I should refresh before I post.
That’s the three most contested making it in.
I’m pretty tickled.

[riesterm]

Anybody see this from Marianne Williamson . . . ?

Worth a listen.

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