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      • Assange Leaves UK Prison To Finalize Plea Deal With US (RT) • US Escalated Ukraine Conflict to New Level in Sevastopol (Sp.) • Russia ‘Can’t
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle June 25 2024]

    #162012
    V. Arnold
    Participant

    Never thought I’d see this day; Assange is FREE!!
    It took too long and was as wrong as 2 left shoes from the get go…
    Happy as I am to see this; I am not optimistic for the future…

    #162015
    Dimitri
    Participant

    The EU’s economic war on Le Pen – The market’s attack dogs are targeting National Rally

    What is playing out today in France, then, is nothing new. And yet, there is something unprecedentedly brazen about the ECB’s latest attempt at electoral manipulation. What we are witnessing is effectively an unholy alliance between an increasingly discredited national elite and the supranational institutions of the EU against the common “populist” threat. The strategy should be clear by now: the EU creates an artificial financial panic and national elites then use that to scare voters away from the “wrong” candidate. As an MP from Macron’s party told Le Figaro: “First and foremost, we need to scare people… to show the consequences and financial risks of the [National Rally’s] proposed measures.”

    https://unherd.com/2024/06/the-eus-economic-war-on-le-pen/

    #162018
    Dr. D
    Participant

    “Fossil Fuel, CO2 Emissions Hit Record High In 2023

    Hey, you know what the greatest contributor to CO2 is? War and the Pentagon. So let’s go anti-war, who’s with me? Green Party say no. They are pro-CO2, pro-war.

    “It Took Nvidia 23 Days To Add $1 Trillion In Market Cap; Berkshire Hathaway Hasn’t Managed That In 60 Years

    https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/teaser_desktop_2x/public/2024-06/nvda%20berkshire.jpg?itok=5FKGPBuJNvidia

    PublicFine
    https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/facebook/001/476/528/d03

    Wait, what?

    “US Lawmaker Condemns Attack On Crimea Beach With American Weapons
    “Imagine if Russia, using a Russian satellite, fired cluster munitions on a Florida beach.

    When someone says maybe we shouldn’t drop cluster munitions on a vacation beach, that’s now news. Awwww, but I wanna…explain why NOT???

    Question on the Ike: HOW does it get home? Through the Suez? And how does the new one appear? Through the Suez? (No to both questions, the US Navy can no longer traverse the Suez. It’s that what they call a “Suez Crisis”? 1954?)

    “Netanyahu Ready to Wind Down Gaza Operations to Battle Hezbollah in North

    Like all the Western Colonists, calls a victory and crawls home. A loser.

    “Julian is free!!!!

    What da whut happened? UK has lost all power and control?

    “The @EPP, the leftists and the liberals have agreed to create a pro-war coalition in the European Parliament,”

    Ah Leftists, is there anything war can’t fix?

    “• US Escalated Ukraine Conflict to New Level in Sevastopol (Sp.)

    Yes, but also no as usual. It’s likely they were trying to hit another target (nearby base) and Russia is both jamming them off course and hitting them with small arms which breaks them apart…like falling to earth wherever that happens. That goes back to whether cluster itself is legal, but both countries are using them, so I guess yes. It’s a war, people. Don’t get started or I guarantee this will happen. About Florida beaches hit with cluster? I say why not? You want to get started in war, that’s a thing that can happen, and faster than you’d think.

    But, but we’re not there! As .Dotcom and everyone on the planet says, THERE ARE ZERO ATACMS WITHOUT TOTAL U.S. CONTROL. In the target, the guidance, the travel, the material, and the launch. All of it from landing in a shipping container in Amsterdam, on the truck all the way to Odessa, right through to its explosion over a small town and every person it lands on. We’re a full-service shop. We do it all. No Ukrainians required.™

    “According to White House Spokesman John Kirby: “Washington’s position on Kiev is “absolutely clear”: “First, they’ve got to win this war”.

    Well “They” are not going to win the war since “They” cannot target anything nor shoot anything above a pop-gun without full support of NATO stand-ins. That is YOU are fighting the war, not them. And we see that a different “They” feel like they’ve run out of time (rates are rising, need someone to blame) and are calling a draft in EU and America. TO DO WHAT??? Throw sticks and stones at them?

    “Ukrainian pilots have the latitude to judge ‘the intent’ of Russian fighter aircraft?”

    Sure! They’ll use their PutinTelepathy™. Everyone else does.

    “Such a solution – requires a new world security architecture to come into being; and were that to happen, then a complete solution for Ukraine would flow as an implicit part to a new world order.”

    NATO and Europe wanted this to be existential, that one or the other would die. Okay, sold. And the entire present Hegemon, the entire NATO/UN/Western structure, including colonial finance, now will cease to exist as before. War can’t end til then.

    What is that? The money collapses. They’ve said, I’ve said, nothing can happen until you fix the money. EU Currency is there, dropping 50% in usage over the dollar. It’s not a competitor, and may show that it was only ever Russian oil sales denominations that gave the illusion it was. The US$ is being dropped in all 200 countries at once, oil in rupees, yuan, real, bhat. And look at the valuations, which are COMPARATIVE, so don’t take them as absolute– if you want a sense of absolute value, compare to gold (or BTC) where the US$ is plummeting. That is, UK Pound is savaged, another leg down. 1:1. That was what, 7:1 before the 1970 inflation for them, AND the U.S. ALSO dropped 10-20x in 1970-80? What is that, an 80% devaluation since 1969? The Euro is little better, 1:1, dropping as fast as we are, with 20% inflation vs bacon.

    What’s 20% compounded, Alex? It’s been 2-3 years.

    Now they’re talking “Inflation drops”. NO IT DOESN’T. As Michael Pento take the time to point out (this is often glossed over) the American public doesn’t need bacon to rise at a less-fast rate, prices have doubled and they need bacon to be cut in HALF, drop 80%, back to “normal” to have any kind of “Recovery” over here. Eggs at $5? Oil is the thing that’s still cheap, and that’s because Ol’ Joe has made us utterly helpless during a war so he could buy an election.

    (Link bots)

    #162019
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Speaking of buying election, Dore (his wife) does Trudeau and Canada elections: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZX1xCHFJB4

    Speaking of Canadian Idiot, (song, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_TfBbR6L0M ) she’s like “He acts like a groomer! He was all handsome and stuff. But he lied to me and the other wymensssss.” AYFKM? She describes how he BOUGHT his election with $2k/person in Covid.

    AND YOU FELL FOR IT????????????

    Oh my Lord, Saints alive, save us. No wonder we’re in this state. I’d say “what’d you just get off the farm?” but I think the buddies at LetterKenny would have taken him out the back can given him a sound kicking before the first month. Where do they even FIND these jokers in Canada? What is she, 5? Has no suspicion no cynicism at all, doesn’t ask any questions? A: No, SHE’S A REPORTER. What? Yes, she, and her union, were all PAID BY TRUDEAU to STFU, she plays the quote of him bragging about it, and they didn’t think it was suspicious. Or relevant. Oh dear, you people. Maybe we can do a summer boot camp and rotate you through Letterkenny row by row so you all get a good kicking and know what a scam, a sex fiend, and drug dealer is. Cidiots.

    Hey, if um, bacon and houses dropped 80% as the only thing that would save the public, would that, um, cause any problems anywheres? Like collapse worldwide banking and the stock market overnight? Tax revenue, bond repayment, anything?

    Nah, it’ll be fine. This is fine.

    “• Article 5 Won’t Save Ukraine if It Joins NATO (Sp.)

    No because at this point Russia would just crush NATO. Now that depends on 2 things: 1) we go to total nuclear exchange as all game scenarios say, making it all irrelevant, 2) who owns the flying tictacs and volcano weapons, DEW, etc hypothesized to exist but not admitted. By like Solari for instance, but also admitted from time to time about our DUMBs. If we can bomb Russia from the moon, then we’re just sucking them in right now. Hypersonics are nothing.

    “Moscow has resolutely rejected the idea of attacking any NATO member state as absurd.”

    In a sense, yes, but no. They just said again, after months of saying IF you want to attack RUSSIA from NATO, that is, take off an F16, run some idiotic bait-and-switch, we-didn’t-really, then level Belgorod, then NO, Russia has clearly said they will level that base in Romania or Poland to ashes.

    Then game theory says, boom boom boom, three moves later, worldwide nuclear exchange. But that’s what the West WANTS. That’s the only thing that can save them. The hard part is resisting throwing them in that Bri’ar Patch.

    “• Desperate Ukraine Needs Massive Debt Bailout (Miles)

    By who? Mars? The West needs that massive debt bailout MORE. Remember not $36T but another $20T is missing in Solari, hidden in dept budget funds? Yeah, we’re bond-kiting, floating, backing, “counterfeit” bonds that were never officially issued. But someone will show up with the paper and try to collect. (Norway) Our deficit is twice what’s reported. But we’re not paying anyway, what’s the dif?
    (link bots)

    #162020
    Dr. D
    Participant

    “Voters shifted significantly to the right in the elections earlier this month,”

    Yes, the Pro-gay-marriage, Anti-War “Right”.

    “The loophole effectively bypasses Hungary’s opposition to legislation that would have allowed the EU to hand over interest accrued on Russian funds”

    No it doesn’t, that’s illegal on its face. You can always find some lawyer to argue and make up something, that’s what lawyers are for. But “Just made it up” and “Also bought off the Judge” does not make legal reasoning.

    Okay, first principles: What’s the POINT of law? WHY do we have it? So there isn’t the law of the Jungle, of only POWER. How is that? Well, it works because people ACCEPT it. They say “The Law Sez”. Then stop thinking and point to it. Brain shuts off, Issue resolved and dispensed. Okay, great! Good idea, you win.

    One thing: Did you ask RUSSIA if THEY accepted it? Your courts, your laws, your rulings? Or are they going to bomb the f—k out of you if you try? Hey, um, how’s your law working now, First Principles? Oh you got a Lawyer to say? Great, hope you keep him handy as a human shield when Russia drops cluster munitions on all your condos.

    WTF is with these morons? Are they 5?

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    “This week in the Supreme Court, a glimpse of the legal landscape outside of Manhattan came more sharply into view.”

    The only place MORE a howling den of scum and villainy than NYC in the Empire is Washington D.C.. As we’ve just seen a bunch this year with whack decisions all over the place. “We make s—t up!” Okay, POLITICALLY these decisions are…expedient? But arising from a moral, logical, consistent worldview they are not. They just trashed 2A like 48 hours ago, infringing anything they like. In Dobbs they said murder is fine so long as the States do it. And so on. Fine, there’s always some of that, but don’t think it will save you. Don’t obey the USSC. YOU are the government. Do not comply.

    “• Boeing Faces Possible Criminal Indictment – Reuters (RT)

    Who’s after Boeing? Knocking out the U.S. Crown jewels? Not saying they’re not paying them to mismanage (like Disney) or paying workers or airport repairmen to make mistakes or the dog gets it. But this don’t wash and what’s the motive?

    Example: Tesla killed what like 2,000 people with self-driving and other cars? When called on it he told them to SEC, Suck Elon’s C— well, you get the idea. And he’s still a superfriend and pal, but not defense contractor Boeing? Que?

    “• Death Of The Petrodollar: What Really Happened Between The US and Saudis? (RT)

    Oh yeah, good reminder, like me, the Internets is now saying, “Um, there was a dated contract on the Petrodollar??? Anyone want to get me a copy, ‘cause nobody’s ever seen it.” Again, this popped up out of nowhere, got a lot of traction, and can only seem to be traced back to one account that always posts Bellingcat-level MI6 releases, and is always wrong. Not that it hasn’t ended – that’s good propaganda, that’s how it’s supposed to work. But WHY say this that isn’t true? Yeah, to trash the U.S, make us a Clown Show, kill our Bond Market, and therefore Save Europe in comparison. No dice.

    WE, have oil. WE, have food. Europe has a Clown Show surpassing ours AND neither of those things. So you want to tell me how the German Bund is par with the U.S. right now, that has no oil, no economy, and no prospects for the future? Really? Not like even an 8 point differential? Who do you think is more likely to default: the U.S. which never has, or Europe, which does every 50 years for centuries?

    Yellen has been bending the UST issues to ultra-short-term to control it but they’ve run out of time. We don’t need to be GOOD – we’re not. We just need to be LESS BAD than Europe, which is easy. Capital Flows. Core nation collapses LAST.

    #162021
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Nope, I’m wrong, that’s what “HereLetMeGoogleThatForYou.com” is for.

    uk-us
    http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-IcrBt1BhNHQ/VIIxcStGKRI/AAAAAAAABBo/Q0NikFspkiA/s1600/GDP-decline-history-500×268.gif

    $1.50 to $1.00 is still 1/3rd though.

    #162022
    Dora
    Participant

    A mistake typo or a fraud?

    #162023
    tboc
    Participant

    it is the best of times, it is the worst of times

    #162024

    Julian can have breakfast with his wife and kids.
    Amen.

    #162025
    tboc
    Participant

    The Enlightenment has brought us to The Dark Ages

    replace human experience with authority
    base society soley on possiblility sans probability
    replace measurement with prediction
    return the Earth to the center of the universe
    doctrine and dogma become imperial

    “There is something irreversible about acquiring knowledge; and the simulation of the search for it differs in a most profound way from the reality.” ~ J. Robert Oppenheimer

    #162026
    Red
    Participant

    “Governor Moscow oblast, Andrei Vorobyov, confirmed in a Monday statement that three floors of the building have been overwhelmed by flames. “The fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth floors are on fire,” Mash said Monday.”

    So how come it’s still standing? That should be enough to collapse it and at least one other nearby building.

    For a little perspective on the Canadian experience:

    #162027
    Oroboros
    Participant

    At it’s core, the Empire of Lies is based on Cowardice.

    It’s Military Industrial Mafia are cowards who base their power on only beating up on third world, third rate entities who can’t respond as peers.

    That’s not the case with Russia.

    Frankly I wish the Russians would give the Houthis hypersonic missiles that would outright sink a fucking Duh’merica carrier.

    The Empire of Lies is already trying to lie and hide what happened to the Eisenhower, imagine if it was at the bottom of the Red Sea.

    They would either have to admit they have no defense against Russia hypersonic missiles OR they would try to hide the fact the Ick was gone.

    Which do you think the Military Industrial Mafia cowards would take?

    More LIes Lies Lies or admit they are impotent against a nuclear Peer like Russia?

    .

    #162028
    Oroboros
    Participant

    They have already used the Full Rubber Face thing for Pedophile Presidementia Jo-jo.

    Half the Duh’merica public eats it up with a spoon.

    They clap like retarded circus seals, Arf Arf Arf Arf Arf Arf Arf Arf Arf Arf !

    A Has-been brainwashed diseased perverted ‘culture’ putrefying in it’s own waste.

    Behold the road to Hell

    Like boiling the frog to death one degree at a time

    .

    #162029
    John Day
    Participant

    Thanks for the unapproved Arabic Eisenhower update last night, Doc Robinson https://alkhabaralyemeni.net/2024/06/25/265649/
    “Hit twice again this week”… Going to Germany, not “home”.

    Russian “asymmetric response” https://celiafarber.substack.com/p/ransomware-group-lockbit-claims-to
    Ransomware Group “LockBit” Claims To Have Breached US Federal Reserve, Says It Exfiltrated 33 Terabytes Of “Americans Banking Secrets”

    #162030
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Hang Mike Pence from the nearest lamp post

    .

    #162031
    John Day
    Participant

    @Oroboros: Naw, just put Mike Pence in a 2X3m cell in Belmarsh for 1900 days…
    ;-/

    #162032
    John Day
    Participant

    SCOTUS Ruling Deems Trump’s New York Conviction Unconstitutional on Two Key Grounds

    SCOTUS Ruling Deems Trump’s New York Conviction Unconstitutional on Two Key Grounds

    #162033
    John Day
    Participant

    Bankruptcy trustee discloses plan to shut down Alex Jones’ Infowars and liquidate assets
    https://apnews.com/article/alex-jones-infowars-bankruptcy-sandy-hook-e8bf9a3d11b9506abb18c285d3e7b138

    #162034
    zerosum
    Participant

    FOCUS ON RELEVANT INFORMATION

    American specialists,
    • US Escalated Ukraine Conflict to New Level in Sevastopol (Sp.)

    the Global Hawk was providing reconnaissance, targeting information and potentially guidance information for the ATACMS itself. “ATACMS… essentially needs to coordinate with something. So, typically a lot of times drones’ or satellite information are used to help guide the target and guide the missile,” Rasmussen explained.

    On Sunday at 12:15 pm local time, Ukraine attacked the Russian city of Sevastopol with five ATACMS missiles equipped with cluster bomblets. Russian air defenses intercepted four missiles, but the explosion of the fifth cluster warhead led to the death of four civilians with 153 more injured, according to local authoriies. The US government admitted in October 2023 that it had covertly provided Ukraine with a model of ATACMS with a range 165 kilometers. Longer-range ATACMS, capable of striking targets at a distance of up to 300 kilometers, were secretly included in the $300 million aid package and delivered to Ukraine in April. Both ATACMS variants have cluster warheads, prohibited by the international Convention on Cluster Munitions — which the US declined to sign.
    ————
    • Russia ‘Can’t Not Respond’ To Crimea Attack – Ron Paul (RT)

    The US directly engaged in the operation of the missile attack.
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    • Putin’s “War” To Re-shape The American Zeitgeist (Alastair Crooke)

    The three centerpiece announcements emerging from the G7 –
    the 10 year Ukraine security pact;
    the $50 ‘billion Ukraine loan’;
    and the seizing of interest on Russian frozen funds – make the point.
    ————-
    • Article 5 Won’t Save Ukraine if It Joins NATO (Sp.)

    even if Ukraine were admitted, it would not be guaranteed NATO boots on the ground or greater assistance than it already receives.
    ———–

    • Desperate Ukraine Needs Massive Debt Bailout (Miles)

    “The country must now balance borrowing to fund the war with managing old debt obligations.” “Doing so is a tricky juggling act,” the paper’s editorial board observed, claiming substantial Western investment would be needed as the country rebuilds. At stake in current negotiations is $20 billion owed to private bondholders, just a small portion of the government’s $152 billion in overall outstanding debt. Ukraine’s debt payments have been paused since the outbreak of the Russo-Ukraine conflict but are scheduled to resume in August.

    Corruption has remained endemic among government officials since the country’s independence from the Soviet Union in the early 1990s.
    ——–
    Explain the implications
    • Death Of The Petrodollar: What Really Happened Between The US and Saudis? (RT)
    We are now accustomed to the proliferation of unbacked currencies,

    #162035
    Mr. House
    Participant

    @Dr. John

    So that article yesterday was two years old? I didn’t read the entire thing, but the jist of it was that china had been dealing with multiple outbreaks since 2018. If that is the case, wouldn’t the treatment of the virus in 2020 have been less of an unknown?

    #162036
    zerosum
    Participant

    June 25, 2024
    Ukraine SitRep: State And Military Continue to Deteriorate
    https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/06/ukraine-sitrep-state-and-military-continue-to-deteriorate.html#comments
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    #162037
    zerosum
    Participant

    Reflection on possibilities
    Wouldn’t it be a pity if one of those monstrously huge and top-heavy container ships would run into one of the many “loose Ukrainian mines” which have yet to be fully swept or accounted for. Those mines would make for excellent plausible denials for interested parties.

    Posted by: aristodemos | Jun 25 2024

    #162038
    Noirette
    Participant

    On, Article 5 won’t save Ukraine if it joins NATO

    Article was very welcome, I was going to try and publicise Art. 5., which btw (I just checked again) appears immediately, in full, in first place, on a Google search.

    It is very clear, nothing binding, ‘obligatory’, etc. about it, it is in effect ‘a memorandum of understanding’ for ‘mutual’ assistance, which can be requested, but only given IF… the giver decides to do so…

    The MSM and the war crazies misrepresent it entirely, but Zelensky, I am sure, knows the score on this, he is smart, greedy, loving the white powder, but not that dull, he is playing the game too.

    quote from article. According to Reiter and Greenhill, NATO members “have only formally invoked Article 5 once” in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 terror attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, helping Washington patrol its skies from mid-October 2001 to mid-May 2002.

    Yes, afaik. It was understood by all those with some intel (info about what happened) or intelligence (capable of judging what caused the towers to crash down) that the USA was not *attacked* and did not need to be *defended.* However it was deemed expedient, and cheap, to Rah! Rah! on the US side after the‘horrific’ attack.

    Including Putin btw. Ex.:

    U.S.-Russian relations offer one bright counter to this otherwise gloomier international picture. Russian President Vladimir Putin was one of the first foreign leaders to speak directly to President Bush. In that phone call, he expressed his condolences to the president and the American people and his unequivocal support for whatever reactions the American president might decide to take.

    from an article by Michael McFaul (2001)

    https://carnegieendowment.org/posts/2001/10/us-russia-relations-after-september-11-2001?lang=en

    #162039
    ezlxa1949
    Participant

    Sorry to be negative, but no, Julian is not free until this plea bargain deal is concluded in the Marianas (a US territory) and he sets foot in Australia and this bail condition is lifted also.

    I see too many opportunities for various authorities to renege on or abruptly change the terms and conditions so that Julian goes back into detention. Australia is currently doing an Assange on Daniel Duggan, a man whom the USA wants to extradite because apparently he trained some Chinese commercial pilots 12 years ago, beyond the statute of limitations, and not a crime in Australia. The USA reckons they were military pilots, really. One reliable commentator here reckons the whole thing is a politcally-motivated show trial.

    In 2007 an Australian, David Hicks, ill-advisedly involved himself in the al Qaeda mess, and found himself in Guantanamo Bay. He was freed but only after what in the media looked like the Australian government agreeing to a list of US terms and conditions bordering on the hysterical. Hicks was among the most dangerous men in the universe apparently, not to be trusted alone for a millisecond, etc etc.

    Another ,man here, David McBride, blew the whistle on war crimes committed by Australian soldiers in Afghanistan. Who was punished – the military or the whistleblower? One guess.

    As we all know well, The System will not accept criticism. I won’t rest easy until Julian is back home with his wife and children. A long period of healing will ensue.

    #162041
    zerosum
    Participant

    It’s on the web. Did you know? Can you see the connections.?

    Victoria Nuland, born on July 1, 1961, in New York City, boasts a diverse ethnic heritage. Her father, Sherwin B. Nuland, hailed from Ukrainian Jewish roots, while her mother, Rhona McKhann, was a native of Britain. Raised as the sole child in a household that prized intellectual curiosity and global awareness, Victoria was immersed in a tapestry of cultural richness.

    Her educational odyssey laid the groundwork for her illustrious career. After graduating from Choate Rosemary Hall in 1979, she pursued a Bachelor of Arts degree in history and international relations at Brown University, culminating in 1983. Immersed in Russian literature, political science, and history during her tenure at Brown, Victoria’s academic pursuits further fueled her insatiable appetite for knowledge.

    #162047
    zerosum
    Participant

    Hillary Clinton weighs in on Trump-Biden debate
    (ready to replace Biden before JULY)

    https://ca.news.yahoo.com/hillary-clinton-warns-trump-debate-140222248.html
    Clinton argued, “expectations for him are so low that if he doesn’t literally light himself on fire on Thursday evening, some will say he was downright presidential.”

    Choosing between these candidates is choosing between “between chaos and competence” and “a convicted criminal out for revenge and a president who delivers results for the American people.”

    “That’s an easy choice,” Clinton wrote.

    #162049
    Noirette
    Participant

    heh 🙂 zerosum, she won’t give up until on her deathbed…

    #162050
    zerosum
    Participant

    Watch … Hillary, thundering around the corner, …. June
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13556445/joe-biden-legal-counter-fight-election-dropout.html

    How conservatives could make it very hard for Democrats to replace Biden with Hillary, on the 2024 ballot if he has a disastrous debate or steps aside
    By MORGAN PHILLIPS,
    PUBLISHED: 17:37 EDT, 21 June 2024

    We have concluded that the process for substitution and withdrawal is very complicated. We will remain vigilant that appropriate election integrity procedures are followed.’

    If Joe Biden were to withdraw at any point before the Democratic National Convention, it would be up to the delegates at the DNC to pick a new nominee. But from there, they can expect legal challenges from Republicans looking to prevent any other Democratic nominee from getting on the ballot in certain states.

    The Heritage Oversight project has set their sights on three contentious swing states where they believe taking Biden off the Democratic ticket would not allow anyone else to replace him: Georgia, Nevada and Wisconsin.

    Wisconsin does not allow withdrawal from the ballot for any reason besides death.

    In Nevada, no changes can be made to the ballot after 5 p.m. on the fourth Friday in June of an election year or ‘a nominee dies or is adjudicated insane or mentally incompetent.’

    If Biden were to withdraw less than 60 days before the election Georgia his name will remain on the ballot but no votes will be counted.

    In Texas, the two party’s nominees have until the 74th day before the election to withdraw from the ballot. Some states, like South Carolina, do not allow candidates to withdraw for political reasons.

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    #162051
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    Let’s kick that Overton Window farther open a notch or so. If it’s okay to talk about Jews (and thank you again, @CelticBiker) then it’s okay to talk about Jesus. He is, after all and by certified statistical study, the most important and influential person in all of human history.

    By submitting peacefully to his own execution Jesus was basically telling the Evil One that if you try to end my existence by killing me then I will let you do precisely that, so as to PROVE once and for all that I CANNOT be killed, and that what I say is true.

    So The Evil Ones arrange nailing him to a cross until he was very publicly dead, and sure enough, his essence does NOT stop existing. It continues even to this day. Take a look at the historical record of mankind if you don’t accept that as a hard fact.

    Even the world’s staunchest atheist must admit that a LOT of people believe that the God they call Jesus lives on in spiritual form. Christians are not alone in their conscious awareness that there does exist a Divine Source of all reality. That firmly held knowledge continues to be broadly held as the most primary of all fundamental beliefs that humans have. That such beliefs are SPIRITUAL in nature is not a valid argument against the fact that they ARE beliefs and that the vast majority of humans believe them. In fact it makes the whole point. It is NOT material. It is simply something that people believe exists as a factual truth, and which NO ONE could possibly cause to NOT exist.

    Notice that the Universe is still here. I just checked again and sure enough it’s here and running smoother than a Swiss watch. The Divine Source of everything is still manifest for our enjoyment.

    He (for lack of a better word, like “God” for example) is not made of material. He is the non-material quintessential source of an inscrutable (to humans) Divine Thought, and thus spiritual (not material) in nature. Some people might call him an abstraction or an idea or a “faith”, or even a tripartite God, but regardless of what you call it the fact remains that God simply IS and that’s all there is to it, and you CAN’T kill Him.

    To not know and appreciate the profound implication of such a fundamental fact is the very essence of ignorance, and the stupidity of the actions that develop as the consequences of such deep ignorance is a dog’s breakfast to behold.

    The only way to not know such a patently obvious “First Principle” is to proactively decide, of your own free will, to deliberately NOT know what you were born knowing. You ARE consciously aware and there’s just no other way to explain that self-aware awareness. Unfortunately there are a lot of people actively engaged in getting you to disavow or ignore that crucial fact They usually do it for the hidden purpose of taking your stuff, bossing you around, or getting their own self out of a tight jam at your expense. Those folks tend to not be very good at doing much of anything else but they are REALLY good at lying, stealing candy from babies and keeping everyone in a perpetual state of existential fear by hurting weaker people.

    To want or seek the annihilation of a truth as fundamental as the very existence of truth itself is, in turn, insanity itself. Such derangement practically defines insanity. Only a fatally deranged mind would want to “kill” truth by proclaiming that the truth is a lie or that a lie is not. Would any rational entity want the truth of their own existence to instead be false? Of course not. That would be suicidal, and accounts for why suicide is rightfully considered to be a symptom of serious mental illness.

    Truth lives, lies die, take your pick. You are endowed with awareness and free will, so the choice really is yours. Not as easy at it looks, is it? That’s because your head is still teeming with all sorts of lies telling you that the truths in there ain’t true (and that the lies in there are valid).Sorting the two out usually hurts like the dickens.

    #162052
    zerosum
    Participant

    Be careful.
    It is Political Interference to want/think/say/demonstrate, for Canada to be out of NATO.
    ( There are strong/powerful people/expatriate/ “diaspora.” who make/influence the laws, who will oppose you.)

    #162053
    zerosum
    Participant

    D Benton Smith
    (We won’t change our minds because of differences of opinions.)
    1. You got to expand your thinking to include ALL living things.
    2. In a few modern words, Also, HE, is/lives/exists, in between space and time, called spacetime.

    (He (for lack of a better word, like “God” for example) is not made of material. He is the non-material quintessential source of an inscrutable (to humans) Divine Thought, and thus spiritual (not material) in nature. Some people might call him an abstraction or an idea or a “faith”, or even a tripartite God, but regardless of what you call it the fact remains that God simply IS and that’s all there is to it, and you CAN’T kill Him.)
    🙂

    #162054
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    @zerosum

    Fully agreed on all of your points. I was trying to keep the word-count down.

    #162055
    Mr. House
    Participant

    @Dr. D and JB HB

    You guys point out media and the absurdities it pushes as truth today, have you ever considered they do this on purpose? People base their entire identities on Pop culture these days, how better to rile people up that don’t take the bait you lay in other areas of society? Everything feels like they’re trying to start a war of all against all. Sometimes i think they pray at night for a “rightwing” backlash. Almost like they need it.

    #162056
    zerosum
    Participant

    In a few words: My way or the highway

    Safeguarding Canadian democracy in the age of growing digital disinformation

    Safeguarding Canadian democracy in the age of growing digital disinformation
    A host of measures are needed to educate the Canadian public and improve the country’s ability to respond to information threats.
    by
    Bessma Momani,
    Shelly Ghai-Bajaj
    March 5, 2024

    A diversifying threat landscape
    There are also indirect ways in which disinformation spreads within the Canadian information environment. We have long shared a unique, often embedded connection with the information space of the United States. As the convoy experience demonstrates, right-wing ideologies and narratives south of the border can influence perceptions and mobilization in Canada.
    https://www.weforum.org/publications/global-risks-report-2024/in-full/
    Published: 10 January 2024
    Global Risks Report 2024
    Download PDF

    At the same time, Canada’s diasporic communities. (Ukraine, Jewish, USA,), are also embedded in multiple information environments that include narratives and content circulating in home countries. Places in the Global South including Brazil, India, Nigeria, and the Philippines have seen digital disinformation used to influence domestic audiences, especially during elections.

    The digital platforms on which disinformation spreads – including Facebook, X and TikTok but also direct messaging apps like Telegram, WeChat, and WhatsApp – reach global audiences at a scale and speed previously unimaginable. Ethnocultural communities in Canada are often doubly exposed to disinformation emanating from their home countries and from within Canada.
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    Sample//Example of disinformation (Truth)
    https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/595496-years-of-disinformation-have-led-us-to-local-canadian-style-convoys/

    Local Canadian convoy support builds on years of disinformation
    Much of the news coverage of the social media spread of Canada’s Freedom Convoys has emphasized speed, fakery and global reach; tracking how a few loud voices and fake accounts amplified by bots tied to firms well beyond Canadian borders helped to spin up Facebook groups with over a million followers in less than a week.

    BY MICHAEL COLARESI, LARA PUTNAM AND BETH SCHWANKE, OPINION CONTRIBUTORS – 02/24/22 11:01 AM ET
    (Michael Colaresi is the William S. Dietrich chair of Political Science at the University of Pittsburgh; Lara Putnam is the UCIS Research professor, Department of History at the University of Pittsburgh; Beth Schwanke is the executive director of Pitt Cyber. All are researchers at the Pitt Disinformation Lab. )
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    Encrypted messaging platforms provide a high level of privacy and security to individual users. But they present a different set of challenges identifying disinformation threats. There is also the question of how information is perceived among groups of users who share some level of interpersonal communication, connection and trust.
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    THE REPORT
    https://www.cyber.gc.ca/sites/default/files/cyber-threats-canada-democratic-process-2023-update-v1-e.pdf

    EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
    Foreign adversaries are increasingly using cyber tools to target
    democratic processes around the world. Disinformation has
    become ubiquitous in national elections, and adversaries are now
    using generative artificial intelligence (AI) to create and spread
    fake content. This report addresses cyber threat activity targeting
    elections, and the growing threat that generative AI poses to
    democratic processes globally and in Canada.
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    #162057
    zerosum
    Participant

    Point of view
    FWIW, I supported the “Truckers” when they first left the West Coast as they passed by my door, but the movement against the Vax and Corporate Fascism, enforced by Turdeau, was far greater than just the trucks. The convoy was mainly vehicles smaller than the average Transport Truck.
    The WEF/Fauci/Bekind Bonnie Fear Campaign was on Full Throttle when the convoy arrived, peacefully, at Ottawa, and Turdeau, like the vacuous child that he is, shunned negotiation and diplomacy, and went right to the War Measures Act. No kidnapped British Diplomat, nor Quebec Cabinet Minister execution necessary for Trudeau, Jr. to get out his toy guns, puffed up chest and biggest nonsensical argument to quash reason and imprison better people than he will ever be.
    The Iceberg is turning over, in Canada, the U.S., Albion and squabbling Europe.
    Posted by: kupkee | Jun 25 2024
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    There have been many political and technical commentators saying that US is trying to find away to crawl out of Ukraine. One of those ways is to obviously put 100% of funding burden on the EU, which now with Ursula VDL getting a 2nd term and Kaja Kallas replacing Borrell as the new foreign director is more than likely to happen.

    If the FED raises interest rates, the EUR will literally crash on top of already turning into a non-export service economy. There is no reason for anyone keep savings in EUR. They will try to fight it through tightening dictatorship and control of bank accounts, but very deadly situation for Eurozone.

    Ukraine’s own economy at this point is made mostly out of foreign aid, that is, reliance on the crumbling Eurozone. Another pillar are bribes to Rada deputies and government officials, black market sales of weapons (also piling up into Europe for future Gladio ops), prostitution and gambling. The tax revenues are falling and the financials won’t tolerate any sort of disruption in foreign aid which can cause Hryvnia inflation. The energy sector has been destroyed, with transport switces between EU and Ukraine all but destroyed and domestic generation mostly destroyed.

    The place will turn into Detroit-on-steroids.

    Posted by: unimperator | Jun 25 2024

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    #162058
    Dr D Rich
    Participant

    What follows will make your brain explode from pituitary apoplexy the same as reading pro-semitic exchanges between Dr. D and DBS each day.

    In the Navy and, I suppose, the VA, there’s a special kind of f*cker….The RatF*cker.
    And this guy Shereef Elnahal MD, undersecretary for health, Deplorable White Guy from Johnstown Pa, combat veteran, sidekick of Scott Ritter at Camp Lejeune CAN BE SAID TO HAVE RATF*CKED THE PACT ACT. to a tune of 10x to 40x the benefit any real Veteran received from a successful claim in 1/100th the time and 1/1000th the paperwork.

    Avg Award for Shereef’s cronies: $66,000+

    OIG Report Puts Spotlight on Questionable Bonuses to Top VA Executives

      In September 2023, VA revealed that it had erroneously awarded $10.8 million in bonuses to 182 senior executives at its central office using retention provisions included in the PACT Act. The provisions had been meant to ensure difficult-to-replace employees with highly needed skills were incentivized to stay at VA

      That investigation has now been concluded, and the resulting report focuses blame on VA leaders, particularly Under Secretary for Health Shereef Elnahal, MD

      incentive (CSI) bonuses can be issued when an employee possesses a high-demand skill or skill that there is a shortage of; that skill is directly related to their duties and responsibilities; and employment of an individual with that skill serves a critical, mission-related need. With regard to the $10.8 million provided to these executives, the investigators suggested that VA provided no market factors to justify the bonuses, the amount was determined haphazardly, and the executives were grouped together despite having a wide range of skills and being employed in different departments.

      Of the 182 executives, 148 were VHA employees whose bonuses were signed off on by Elnahal. The rest were VBA employees, signed off by Under Secretary for Benefits Joshua Jacobs. The awards ranged from $38,986 to $106,473

      Elnahal announced that VISN directors and medical center directors would be receiving CSI bonuses equal to 25% of their base pay across the board. This came as a surprise to Elnahal’s HR team, since he had signed a memorandum the day before approving 25% for VISN directors and 20% for facility directors

      One HR senior executive described to investigators the stark contrast between the ease with which these bonuses were given to executives vs. the hoops required to jump through for low-level employee awards.

      “I can’t even give a GS employee a special contribution award for $250 without writing an entire page about how great they are and forms and process,” they were quoted as saying. “And this, with a stroke of a pen and three sentences, they’re saying these folks are critical because they’re critical, giving all these people this huge amount of money

    #162059
    zerosum
    Participant

    https://x.com/CaptCoronado/status/1805343006146576706
    Update: Russian revenge!! Reports are coming out that Russian air defense forces shot down an American RQ-4 Global Hawk, a $100 million dollar drone over the Black Sea!!!

    #162060
    zerosum
    Participant

    Newsweek
    https://www.newsweek.com › russia-us-spy-drone-black…
    14 hours ago — A Russian newspaper said Monday that the Russian Aerospace Forces may have downed an American RQ-4 Global Hawk spy drone.
    ————–
    https://www.eurasiantimes.com/russians-claims-mig-31-foxhound-shot-down/
    Russians Claim MiG-31 Foxhound ‘Shot Down’ US Global Hawk Drone After ATACMS Attack On Crimea
    By Sakshi Tiwari -June 25, 2024
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    ‘Reports’ come: ‘RQ-4B shot down over the Black Sea by a MiG-31’


    ‘Reports’ come: ‘RQ-4B shot down over the Black Sea by a MiG-31’
    By Boyko Nikolov On Jun 25, 2024

    UPDATES:

    American officials have dismissed claims circulated by Russian websites—often linked to the Russian Defense Ministry—that an “incident” occurred in the Black Sea yesterday. Specifically, the allegations suggesting a U.S. high-altitude, long-endurance (HALE) reconnaissance drone, such as the RQ-4 Global Hawk or its Navy variant, the MQ-4C Triton, was “chased” and shot down by Russian fighter jets, potentially MiG-31s, have been denied.
    Bulgarian Military
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    #162061
    aspnaz
    Participant

    https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-06-18/palantir-oracle-pfizer-ceos-meet-senators-on-israel-hostages

    Bend over American, here comes your friendly neighbourhood Jew to have his way with you. Be sure to say “Yes masser” when he has his way with you.

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