Debt Rattle September 1 2024
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M. C. Escher Order and chaos 1950 • Harris Can’t Beat The Dream Team (Flores) • Ukraine Conflict Can Lead to ‘Global-Ending’ Nuclear War – Ritt
[See the full post at: Debt Rattle September 1 2024]Escher reminds me of the new hologram fans.
Should be useful for movies, cheaper than CG.
And don’t waste that broken bottle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5don30DaaKY
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Pic: What was that about how Ritter is a CIA plant, up to no good because the FBI wasn’t up his -ss yet? And also Gonzalo Lira, clearly a plant and an agent. Killing him while he was issuing all this corporate disinformation was just them being ultra-tricky. “Ha! Bet you didn’t think we’d kill our own agent and stop all the use and flows of…oh shoot!!”
Sometimes a spade is just a spade and not an ultra-clever 3D chess plant. We’ll next know Tulsi is a CIA agent when the CIA shoots her.
What else does that pic say? A: the West is against all Human Rights. Even as far as New Zealand.
“This will probably be the last election in the United States, for we will most likely split into three regional governments. We will deal with that at the upcoming WEC.” — Armstrong https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/civil-unrest/can-the-dollar-survive-a-civil-war/
Question is, how? As I say, the States are legally preeminent. Or if not top, they are supposed to be the major actors and can ally with each other on common interests. That could cause regionalism. But of course if done another way, it would indeed be a straight breakup. If I know anything about America, it will be in the middle, unclear and messy and go on a long time.
That is to say, we won’t even know if we’re in a Civil War or Breakup for years, until hindsight. Will the upcoming attacks by migrants (foreign agents salted into migrants) unite us? It’s a low-cost low-death way to do it, even if there are some deaths. Is allowing some deaths to save the whole country a fair trade?
“So why go to war? Start a forever war. While betting that Russia won’t nuke the US.”
I mean, yes, that’s what is the forward path, but WHY is really they are bankrupt and need to default. That has been known, they made several plans and dates for it, but didn’t happen. Because the domino set-up didn’t allow a grab of “The Great Taking.” (Followed by a boot stamping on the face of mankind forever). So bankruptcy isn’t just “out there” like death, some random day. It moves mathematically, with actual certainty. And that day was August 1st. (Just as it was in August 2019? Before “Then a miracle happened” and
PowellYellen printed $23 Trillion?)Once you know the driver is financial, bankruptcy, mere bonds, you can address it easily. Bankruptcy exists. We know how to do it. We’ve done it before. THEY may not think so, but WE do. Europe is NOT worse off in a general restructuring bankruptcy than a nuclear war. Only the leaders would be. So that’s just a whole other reason that it’s entirely good! Win-Win!
“Ukraine has already “lost the war,” he adds, and nothing that Kiev might do to try and “tip the scales” in its favor is going to change that.”
And if so that means UK is already bankrupt and their kingdom will collapse, taking the King with it. Thus you see the royal family all over, scattered, hidden. Pure coincidence.
“• Lavrov Warns
Russia-UkraineBritish Talks Will Get Harder With Time (Sp.)“Both Ukraine and Israel are trying to spark major regional wars to solve their own problems at the expense of others, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said.”
Exactly. And what doe that mean? The problems aren’t “Real”. They’re all made up, perfectly solvable.
Again, interview this week with a Scot and and an Australian, (Alisdair MacCleod) “The Election” means, the US election. “Interest Rates” means AMERICAN interest rates. I guess no one else exists now? And they wonder how the U.S. remains an empire? YOU cause that. With your unwavering loyalty of focus on us, a 3rd rate nation. Anyway, they laughed a storm at Trump (who, not living here, know all about, ‘natch) and how it is ludicrous our problems could be solved. https://youtu.be/3urrSiIARN0?t=526
“Trump says there will be economic growth, but where is the money going to come from??? Hahahaha!” Right. Spoken like Keynesian Socialists all three of them, and all three gold guys. This is what JB is saying about going to war with them, with not using their Marxist vocabulary, and then all the conclusions that come after are both false, and kill everyone. Their premise– though not openly stated – is that all money and wealth come from the GOVERNMENT. With printing. WHERE does the “Money” come from? WEALTH IS NOT MONEY, dum-dums. Trump said he would create an ECONOMY, not money. ECONOMIES come from WORK. Trump is saying he’s going to stop shelling American corporations with every government agency, take his foot off the brake, and let Americans WORK. WE do the work, idiots, WE are the money. No one does that FOR us.
“Where does the money come from?” This is exactly the root problem, they think economies appear and disappear, rise and fall on Money and not on getting up in the morning and DOING things, like mining gold. With trucks. And pots of coffee.
So what would happen that they laugh at for about 5 minutes here? What Trump is saying is what they both dismiss out of hand: he will slash government spending like no one has ever seen – but he needs a crisis and and mandate from US to do that. They’re creating that now, with Biden. What Trump is NOT saying is that the US$ has to fall 30% to equalize our cost-of-labor and world competitiveness. We know he MEANS that, because that’s what “Tariffs” are, and the tax form you use under that system. We know it works since Harding – which he specifically referred to – did it at America’s peak. The Tariffs “only raise prices”. No dum-dums, ONLY IF YOU’RE IMPORTING. So it’s unthinkable to them that not only OUR nation – still a manufacturing powerhouse – can produce things, but that ANY nation can produce things. Back to “Where will we get the money?” We MAKE IT UP. All economies, always have, always. You want to re-start a copper mine in moth balls. You PROMISE to pay the suppliers. That’s it. That PROMISE is your “Money”. They send you truck parts on that PROMISE. No Fed, no Congress, no Treasury involved. If they take your PROMISE because they also believe that this copper will be used, then they extend you net 90. (days) Or whatever.
When the same principle is used at higher levels, this is called “The American System”, as per Hamilton. But Greenbacks were the same. They CUT OUT BANKING. That’s why they work well and Presidents are shot over it every 60 years. 2024, okay, one year off, sue me.
Breathtaking the level of I don’t know, brainwashing, a-cult-uration here. These guys WORK IN MINING and gold. No idea what “Work” is, or money.
From that, Krainer who just won the internet of the year award with his story on UK Bankruptcy in Ukraine, Nobel Prize, ticker tape parade as far as I’m concerned, then in an interview also bashing Mises Conservatives as illiterate morons. It goes like this:
“Well these Mises types are completely uneducated and don’t have a leg to stand on. Everyone knows that when you’re in a pure, classic capitalist system, with a central bank, the government is going to print up money to infinity. Therefore, the only question is, will they give it to Corporations, or will they give it to the People, like the Socialists do. I would think even the most hard-nosed Capitalists would want the government to print money and hand it to the People, so that they can go out to restaurants and movies and stuff. It only shows how cruel, greedy, and illiterate they are that they they claim otherwise.”
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!
Oh my GOD, and these are the SMART people? For the love of God, you get on TV and claim you’ve read all the Mises hard-money capitalists and heard all their arguments, when clearly you’ve never read or heard even ONE?
A PRIVATE CENTRAL BANK IS SOCIALISM, they would say.
THE GOVERNMENT PRINTING MONEY FOR THE PEOPLE IS SOCIALISM, they would say.That’s exactly the POINT. That THE MINUTE, the second, you add either of these, Capitalism stops and perhaps is even doomed, since the very next second it will need MOAR, until you have a 100% system (as JB says). They say this about every paragraph in every chapter of every book every one of them writes.
Read all the books = Read zero of the books. Then goes on radio and isn’t corrected.
Well, this is what I say about taking allies for what they’re good for, but Luongo should probably interject somewhere and get the ball started with him. More, KRAINER IS A TRADER, a Capitalist, a parasite class, and HE thinks this. Don’t let me go dig up the interview but it was within 5 days.
Back to today’s news:
“They want to take your country away. How many democrat voters want that?”
All of them, I think. Or all still remaining. They think the U.S. is fundamentally evil and racist from birth. It should be killed in the cradle or as soon as possible. …And replaced with Socialism, what never dun no harm.
“Nancy Pelosi 2008: We certainly don’t want anymore coming in.
Nancy Pelosi 2024: Let’s get those undocumented people some taxpayer funded homes and some documents.”He misses the next: Kamala promises to build a wall. Thing / Not-Thing / Thing / Not-Thing all the same. All things and their #Opposites are the same if Great Leader says so. How many fingers am I holding up?
“Why can you not sign ze papiers, old man?” “You have broken both my hands…” –Cheech and Chong.
““It is an open secret that… Amherd wants to destroy Swiss neutrality and throw herself into the arms of NATO and the EU..”
Meh, what’s the worst that could happen? Carry on good sir! Joining the EU entirely at the moment of the Ukraine collapse. No problem! ‘Tis but a scratch!
“• US Not Sending Contractors To Service Ukrainian F-16s – WSJ (RT)
Just thousands already, past-tense for all the other jobs. Including shelling Russia proper.
“The Forward Observation Group, the private U.S. paramilitary company that posted photos of its fighters involved in the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ offensive against the Kursk region, refused to comment on its involvement.”
That’s because as a company, they are the F.O.G. of war. Of course they did. And of course WE did. The only story here is the one we already know, Of Course the media is covering it up and denying it. Like Joe Biden’s health.
Everybody knows, but they don’t know, but they do know, but they don’t. Like the border.
Back to the contractors: so if I hire a hit man from FOG to kill my wife, I’m innocent? Had nothing to do with it? Wow, that’s great! I’ll get right on that. Save me a ton in lawyer’s fees. Everyone says so! All the female reporters at NYT should watch out for the new normal. …Oh wait, they’re all cat ladies who don’t believe in marriage. …Or gender.
““Ritter’s case is a clear example that there is no democracy on American soil, as Washington is very close to revealing an open fascist face”
Yeah, if we don’t look out, something might happen. …Since 2001, a generation ago. A small plane might go down or a journalist killed. Should that ever happen, I’m sure we’ll be alarmed.
“the Western public began to understand that Russians, unlike the American and European authorities, do not use their media to unilaterally express opinions previously authorized by the state.”
Uhhhh, let’s not go crazy here. That Russia is 20% better but still also oppressive is nothing to crow about. WE read them because the specific subjects are ones that Russia is right about and can tell the truth without harm. But they have plenty of subjects that are lies and repressed. This is more like the U.S. in the 50s.
“Despite this, the Supreme Court has ordered the AppStore to remove X within 5 days.”
Apple doesn’t have to do that. Just sayin’. Then they need to fight TWO companies larger than Brazils’ GDP. Also this is why side-loading apps is so important. Un jail-break them and click two additional buttons, boom, done. In fact, Elon’s a programmer, that’s probably possible with a download, and install program, given the user interactively clicks yes.
“• Kamala Is Going To Drive Gold To $10,000 (Hickman)
Ex Jim Sinclair already had this at $30,000 years ago, and we’re adding a $1 Trillion every 100 days. Second problem: sure, and that’s nice, but if it still only has $2500 purchasing power, you’re going nowhere.
“• “France Unbowed” Party Moves to Impeach Macron (Sp.)
Huh. Well that’s different. Can they do it?
Again, how do the dogs know that’s happening? Before it’s happening? We take it for granted because we use abstract thought and language but from the face-level, dogs just appear in this cave, then go away from the cave for some reason. Could be good, could be bad, they don’t get phone calls and letters from former occupants. Yet they DO know. So…explain? More going on here than appears.
This goes with the guy sitting with dogs, maybe too long to add to your animal roster videos, but you see when he TALKS to them, in English, says they’re not named “Killer” anymore, say they’re a good dog, not a bad dog, they immediately know and respond. Not JUST English, but highly abstract concepts of English.
Watch her Reaction When I tell Her It Wasn’t Her Fault
Fault? Guilt? What is “It”? The sum of the infinite past?
Most here at TAE are too young to remember Rosa Parks
I do
Progress is our most important product
Who ever did this doesn’t.
If anyone wants to follow up on Dr D’s debt default details – alex krainer
Global Showdown https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/global-showdown
Michael Hudson: Forgiveness, Foreclosure, & Christianity (But before he gets into that, which you will want to read, he says this…)
Economic rent has become part of society’s economic structure. It’s evolved through different political alliances and has taken different forms over time. Credit relations and land tenure are built into any economic system as part of it. But today’s banking system and absentee land ownership are different from anything that has gone before. Society recognizes the need to protect itself against COVID, but the Western societies no longer feel a need to protect themselves from rising land rent, housing prices, monopoly rent, or debt and credit charges and late fees. So just as disease tends to spread at an exponential rate of growth, so does the debt overhead and the interest-bearing debt. It expands by compound interest. And both rent and disease pandemics may lead to depopulation… Russia’s population plunge with Western neoliberalism in the 1990s exemplifies this common denominator…
..When I went to work in 1961, my salary was $100 a month. And yet I didn’t have any problem buying a house on that salary because you could get a mortgage that absorbed up to 25% of your income. And so everyone, even on low salaries, could afford to buy a house at that time. That’s the difference. It’s not how much you make. It’s the ratio of the housing prices and the mortgage interest compared to what you make…
..Well, the common denominator among all the classical economists was their value theory. And the purpose of distinguishing value from price was to define rent as the excess of price over intrinsic cost value. And the political content of this contrast was to free markets from land rent and from monopoly rent, including unproductive financial overhead. For Adam Smith, land rent and monopoly rent were levies permitted by legal privilege. That is private law, not by any contribution to production that was made by Britain’s hereditary landlord class. They just collected rent. Owners of monopolies had bought their privilege in return for lending money to governments, mainly to wage war. So Adam Smith opposed wars and projects of empire as the cause of public debts and their interest overhead. For Ricardo, rent was the excess of price over intrinsic cost value… Mill described rent as what landlords made in their sleep, that is, without any productive effort of their own. So in the absence of such effort, there was no justification for rentiers to claim to earn their rents. But rents increased and interest grew by the purely mathematical laws of compound interest without any reference to the economy’s ability to pay or to any productive effort made by landlords or monopolists or bankers to be part of the production process…
..They didn’t want to drive down the living standards of labor because they assumed that the wages were basically the cost of living. But they wanted to drive down the cost of living that was pushing wages up. At that time, it was the cost of food that was the major cost. Today, it’s the cost of paying [monopoly prices for food and other necessities and interest] on the debts that one needs in order to get a home and just break even…
..Well, there’s no conspiracy. It’s right out in the open. And it had to be out in the open because the whole purpose of denying the distinction between earned and unearned income was to convince the population at large to think that way. Academic economists had to work for universities and universities have come more and more under the domination of their donors so you couldn’t get a university job without teaching a kind of economics that was friendly to the donors… And there were two major lines of attack. In the United States, John Bates Clarke, claimed that all income was earned, indirectly if not directly. There was no distinction between value and price. And British utilitarian price theory redefined the idea of value as whatever the market decided to pay, reflecting the payer’s utility for the good or service that was being obtained. So there no longer was any distinction between value and price, and hence there was no concept of economic rent in this… Consumers chose to pay interest because they were impatient. Choosing to consume in the present instead of waiting and investing their money to be able to consume more later. This approach led Marx to quip that the Rothschild family must be the most abstinent family in Europe if it were refraining from consumption in order to make money. Obviously, that pointed to the inherent nonsense of Austrian theory. There was no concept of economic need forcing debtors to borrow simply to survive. And ever since economics has become this sort of junk economics with no value or rent theory, and without that distinction between price and value and economic rent as unearned income, you can’t explain what’s wrong with today’s economy…
..GDP analysis of a Gross Domestic Product is really Gross Domestic Cost. And productivity is defined as whatever anyone earns. No, I shouldn’t say earn. Whatever income someone receives is counted as the cost of doing business and producing the product. So the head of Goldman Sachs, Lloyd Blankfein, claimed that his firm’s partners were the most productive workers in the United States, as proved by their income and bonuses. Well, indeed, the U.S. national income and product accounts include such payments as the cost of producing GDP. So rent and interest and monopoly rent are not treated as transfer payments to rentiers, but as an intrinsic cost of production. So not only is interest counted as part of GDP, but late fees on credit cards and other debts are counted in GDP as “providing economic services”. So the result is to overstate the real production by whatever all of these external costs, and basically economic rent is external to society. It’s socially and technologically unnecessary, but it’s become built into today’s economy because the finance, insurance, and real estate sector have pretty much taken over the tax rules and the whole intellectual picture of the economy. And it’s these overhead costs that are deindustrializing the United States and other neoliberalized economies in North America and Europe. And this is a byproduct of our failure to understand the difference between earned and unearned income. https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/08/michael-hudson-forgiveness-foreclosure-christianity.htmlThe Honest Sorcerer , Downslope
The fossil fuel bonanza is slowly coming to an end. Not with a bang, mind you, but with a whimper: presenting us with a long winding road back to a much simpler life. If you happen to live in a region consuming half of the world’s oil supply, though, the way downhill will be one hell of a ride.
https://thehonestsorcerer.substack.com/p/downslopeThere is only one war that the US can wage simultaneously with Russia and China (well, if it’s what we have to do to win …)
Last week, President Joe Biden was reported to have approved a secret nuclear strategy that refocuses it on countering Chinese and Russian nuclear forces, Responsible Starecraft reported.
According to the article, the new nuclear guidelines “reorient America’s deterrence strategy” toward “the need to simultaneously deter Russia, China, and North Korea,” transforming it into a preemptive strike concept. https://en.topcor.ru/51051-rs-est-lish-odna-vojna-kotoruju-ssha-mogut-vesti-odnovremenno-s-rossiej-i-kitaem.htmlMore bang per bomb when it always detonates right above the target: Biden’s ‘new’ nuclear strategy and the super-fuse that sets it off, Theodore Postol
The military is already upgrading warheads capable of fighting a war with both China and Russia simultaneously
The super-fuze achieves its fantastic increase in killing efficiency by measuring its altitude at a chosen time while it is still outside the atmosphere but relatively close to its target. If the measurement gives the desired altitude, the fuse determines no corrections are needed. If the altitude is too high, the fuse determines that the path-length and altitude must be changed to assure that the detonation occurs inside the lethal volume.
If the altitude is too low, this means that the warhead will fall short of and outside the lethal volume.This is corrected by intentionally choosing the aim point slightly beyond the target. By shifting the aim point, the fuse both increases the chances that warheads that would otherwise fall both short and long of the lethal volume will be compressed in range to detonate within the lethal volume.
The military implications of this “technically sweet” added capability to U.S. ballistic missile warheads has major implications for the war-fighting capabilities of the United States…
..Although any technically accurate assessment of the physical consequences of the large-scale use of nuclear weapons instantly shows that “winning” a nuclear war has no meaning, the United States has strenuously emphasized the development of nuclear weapons technologies that could only make sense if their intended purpose is for fighting and winning nuclear wars.
The super-fuze is exactly that kind of technology.
It is now possible, at least according to nuclear war-fighting strategies, for the U.S. to attack the more than 300 ICBM silo-based ICBMs that China has been building since about 2020 with the copious numbers of available 100kt W-76 Trident II warheads. The rapid expansion in “hard-target kill capability” of the 100 kt W-76 warhead also makes it simultaneously possible for the U.S. to attack the roughly 300 silo-based Russian ICBMs. https://responsiblestatecraft.org/biden-nuclear-strategy/Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Tuesday warned the United States that if the war in Ukraine escalates into a wider military conflict, a potential World War III would not be limited to battlefields in Europe. https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2024/08/russias-lavrov-warns-us-that-world-war-iii-wouldnt-be-confined-to-europe/
How Many Americans Will Die From Civilization Collapse? Ian Welsh
345,000,000 Americans to start…
less 33% or 113,850,000 from medical issues = 231,150,000
less 75% of 40% (69,345,000) from Genocide = 161,805,000
less ~10% from plague and pestilence (16,180,500) = 145,624,500
And less ~20% due to starvation (29,124,900) = 116,499,600.
My estimate is that there will be only about 116,000,000 Americans left within two years of the collapse and the start of ACWII. That’s a 66% death rate within two years. That’s a minimum, with my being generous on all the numbers.
Estimates based on an EMP attack that takes down the entire USA power grid have been a 90% death rate in merely one year. So I’m actually looking at things with rose-colored glasses…
..Elevated Comment two (on farms and food) Note: Right now only 2% of Americans live on farms…
..80% of Americans live in a city, which is a literal food wasteland. When they start moving out, it will be like locusts, and anyone who gets in their way simply dies.
Ian – all this assumes a hard collapse as opposed to a slow withering. But that scenario is entirely possibly with hard enough shocks, and we’re doing almost everything we can to ensure they happen. https://www.ianwelsh.net/how-many-americans-will-die-from-civilization-collapse/Medvedev believes he knows why Kiev wants Donbass
Kiev’s backers in the US and the EU have also “spent a lot” on aiding Ukraine during conflict, which “irritates” their populations, Medvedev, who serves as deputy chair of the Russian Security Council, also pointed out.
The West needs a “payback” from Ukraine, he said, adding that it has nothing to do with Zelensky personally. “This kid will be gone soon, but the debt will remain. And it must be paid off, with interest,” the former president noted.
Medevdev reminded readers that, according to open-source data, the natural resources located in Donbass are estimated to be worth $7.3 trillion. The area is rich in coal, metals, rare-earth elements and other valuable materials, including lithium, he added.
“To get access to the coveted minerals, the Western parasites shamelessly demand that their wards [in Kiev] wage war to the last Ukrainian,” he wrote.
Western politicians are “directly voicing” their plans, the official said, referring to a statement made by South Carolina’s Republican Senator Lindsey Graham. In June, the Republican lawmaker called Ukraine a “gold mine” due to its vast reserve of “critical minerals.” Graham argued that Washington should keep helping Kiev in the conflict with Moscow to make sure those “assets could be used by Ukraine and the West, not given to Putin and China.” https://swentr.site/russia/603298-medvedev-ukraine-donbass-zelensky/ Globalists Are Trying To Escalate The Ukraine War Into WWIII Before The US Election, Brandon Smith
Kursk may have been an attempt to embarrass Russia into wild strikes on civilian targets, thereby giving NATO a reason to intervene. That’s one theory. Another theory is that the Kursk operation is designed to convince western policy makers and the public that there will be no nuclear repercussions; that Putin is all bluster and Ukraine should be given more advanced tools to bomb Moscow.
This narrative is largely promoted by the Atlantic Council, a globalist think-tank with ties to the World Economic Forum and the “Three Seas Initiative.” The Atlantic Council directly advises the Ukrainian government on all aspect of the war, including strategy through their Eurasian Center. They also advise NATO through their Scowcroft Center…
..Donald Trump is looking increasingly likely to be the winner of the presidential race. I have long held that the globalists will wrap up an economic collapse or a world war and throw it in Trump’s lap. They already tried to do the same thing with the covid pandemic and the inflationary crisis.
The timing of the Kursk offensive and the call for missile strikes on Russia is not a coincidence. Trump claims that his intention is to end the Ukraine war as quickly as possible once he enters office. This will likely mean a leveraged peace settlement that will involve Ukraine giving up the Donbas region to Russia. If Trump is sincere, then there are many elites in the Atlantic Council, the WEF and NATO that will not be happy. They need to escalate the war into something bigger, something that can’t be undone. https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/globalists-are-trying-escalate-ukraine-war-wwiii-us-election Ukraine uses highways to receive F-16s
The Ukrainian military has adapted sections of highways to receive F-16 aircraft instead of airbases to reduce the odds of a strike on them, the LCI TV channel reported, publishing a video showing one of these roads.
Former military pilot Xavier Titelman told the TV station that center dividers have been removed and asphalt has been restored on some sections of the highway. According to him, this is necessary in order to reduce the risk of aircraft being hit by Russian air defenses. https://tass.com/world/1836383 US won’t send contractors to service Ukrainian F-16s – WSJ
Washington is concerned the Americans could be targeted by Russian forces, a US official has told the outlet https://swentr.site/news/603333-ukraine-us-f16-contractors/ Andrew Korybko, Poland Finally Maxed Out Its Military Support for Ukraine Ukraine is now desperate to embroil Poland in a hot war with Russia.
Polish President Duda revealed on Monday that his country has already spent a whopping 3.3% of its GDP on providing military, humanitarian, and other forms of support to Ukraine over the past two and a half years, which works out to approximately $25 billion thus far. He then added that it also gave almost 400 tanks thus far too. This was followed the day after by Zelensky demanding even more and suggesting that Poland was still holding back from giving all that it really could. https://www.globalresearch.ca/poland-maxed-military-support-ukraine/5866648Sasha Latypova, You have free will. Stanford University wants you to think the opposite. (You might not have come to the same conclusion when you were 13. I didn’t.) Sapolsky’s belief in the absence of free will is rooted in his own personal experiences and a lifelong interest in the topic, dating back to his undergraduate years at Harvard. One may wonder what kind of MK-Ultra event happened to him to get his bearings so distorted. Fortunately, the episode is described in detail in the Stanford Alumni Magazine article.
‘For Sapolsky, the answer has seemed obvious since he was 13. He’d grown up in an Orthodox Jewish home, complete with two refrigerators and two kitchen sinks to keep kosher. But his own religious beliefs came crashing down after he read biblical commentary on a passage in Leviticus that restricts a disabled man from the priesthood. Sapolsky wore leg braces for part of his childhood, and this stricture sent him searching for an explanation from a rabbi, who answered by analogy: Much like you wouldn’t sacrifice a lamb with a blemish on its lip, you wouldn’t present God with a priest likewise blemished. The answer struck Sapolsky as unfathomably unfair, precipitating a crisis in his young mind. “One night at 2 o’clock, I suddenly woke up and said, ‘Oh, I get it. There’s no such thing as God,’ and then I paused a few seconds, and I said, ‘and there’s no free will,’ and I paused, and I said, ‘and this is a vast, indifferent, empty universe,’” he says. “And suddenly everything fell into place.”’ https://sashalatypova.substack.com/p/you-have-free-will-god-made-it-soJudge Bans X In Brazil For Refusing To Comply With Demands
Elon Musk’s X has been ordered ‘immediately suspended’ by Brazilian Supreme Court Judge Alexandre de Moraes, citing the company’s refusal to comply with a legal order to censor the judge’s political opponents, Bloomberg reports.
Officially, the ruling was due to Musk’s refusal to name a legal representative for the social network (after the judge froze his last attorney’s bank accounts. On Thursday, X’s global government affairs account said that it would “not comply in secret with illegal orders,” and said that it would publish Moraes’ demands and related court documents for transparency.
When we attempted to defend ourselves in court, Judge de Moraes threatened our Brazilian legal representative with imprisonment. Even after she resigned, he froze all of her bank accounts. Our challenges against his manifestly illegal actions were either dismissed or ignored. Judge de Moraes’ colleagues on the Supreme Court are either unwilling or unable to stand up to him.
We are absolutely not insisting that other countries have the same free speech laws as the United States. The fundamental issue at stake here is that Judge de Moraes demands we break Brazil’s own laws. We simply won’t do that. In the days to come, we will publish all of Judge de Moraes’ illegal demands and all related court filings in the interest of transparency.
Unlike other social media and technology platforms, we will not comply in secret with illegal orders. https://www.zerohedge.com/political/brazil-judge-orders-immediate-suspension-xDid he ask permission? Brazilian Judge Orders Google, Apple To Remove X From Platform; BAR Association Demands Review For Threatening VPN Users With Fine https://www.zerohedge.com/political/brazilian-judge-orders-google-apple-remove-x-platform-bar-association-demands-review
Musk Vows to Expose Top Brazilian Judge’s Crimes After Suspension of X https://sputnikglobe.com/20240831/musk-vows-to-expose-top-brazilian-judges-crimes-after-suspension-of-x-1119972017.html
Federal Court Upholds Ban On “Let’s Go, Brandon” Shirts In High School https://www.zerohedge.com/political/federal-court-upholds-ban-lets-go-brandon-shirts-high-school
‘No’: Harris Says She Won’t Change US Policy On Arming Israel https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/no-harris-says-she-wont-change-us-policy-arming-israel
Harris Bleeding Muslim Support in U.S. Amid Her Support of Israel’s Genocide https://trendsinthenews.substack.com/p/harris-bleeding-muslim-support-in
Paul Craig Roberts, The Assassination Attempt that Wasn’t
The ruling establishment’s attempt to assassinate Donald Trump has been swept under the rug. Not even conservatives and Republicans want the truth out. The reason is that the truth shatters the idealistic illusions and delusions that “USA, USA, USA Conservatives” have about America and casts discredit on the US government. To acknowledge the use of force to eliminate a presidential candidate who is regarded as a threat by the ruling establishment would upset the stock market, undermine the establishment’s wars against Russia and Iran, cause difficulties for the intended Democrat theft of the 2024 presidential election, discombobulate Washington’s allies, and create powerful propaganda against the US government.
“Protecting America’s reputation” is more important to conservatives and Republicans than the life of a presidential candidate whose election would certainly rock the boat and disturb the status quo. https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2024/08/30/the-assassination-attempt-that-wasnt/They ought to be able to “get the job done” now. US Secret Service to get military support ahead of election – Pentagon
The move comes after the agency came under scrutiny following the attempted assassination of former US President Donald Trump https://www.rt.com/news/603301-secret-service-military-support/Tulsi Gabbard Reveals The Real Reason Behind Endorsing Trump: ‘This Is Personal For Me’
TULSI GABBARD: The choice in this election is very clear and the differences between President Trump and Vice President Harris couldn’t be more stark. Frankly, to put it simply, the choice for the American people is a choice with Donald Trump, a man who values peace, prosperity, and freedom. He has a record that proves that. And Vice President Kamala Harris, whose record shows an increasingly tyrannical government undermining our freedoms. We are embroiled in multiple wars and the world is closer to the brink of nuclear war than ever before…
..This is personal for me, the endorsement of President Trump. As a soldier for over 21 years, I deployed to multiple war zones in different parts of the world, putting my life on the line for the safety, security, and freedom of the American people. It is important to me and every one of my brothers and sisters in uniform that we have a Commander-in-Chief who values every one of our lives, who carries that responsibility as Commander-in-Chief very seriously, and who will exhaust all diplomatic avenues before seeing war truly as a last resort.
The last point that I will make on this—another point of contrast—is that President Trump showed through his last administration that not only did he not start any new wars, but he took action to prevent them by courageously meeting with adversaries, allies, partners, dictators. He would meet with whoever he needed to pursue peace. Kamala Harris criticized Donald Trump for doing exactly that. https://www.zerohedge.com/political/tulsi-gabbard-reveals-real-reason-behind-endorsing-trump-personal-meProfessor Anthony Hall presents: Trump Converted to Judaism in 2017
Jared and Ivanka Persuaded Then-President Trump to Secretly Embrace Chabad Lubovitch. It is Described by Wikipedia as “one of the largest Hasidic dynasties” in Judaism. https://anthonyjhall.substack.com/p/trump-converted-to-judaism-in-2017Israel-US Plan for Gaza Envisions “Fragmenting Gaza and Isolating It from the World”. Mike Whitney
The so-called Netzarim corridor (Highway 749)—which crosses Gaza from east to west—will provide faster transport for IDF troops operating in the area and will also function as vital part of Israel’s security cordon separating the north from the south. There is no doubt that military outposts will be established along the corridor as well as in locations along the western coast.
The aim of these actions is to protect the development of new settlements that will be built north of the corridor.
In short, the Israeli government is using its war on Hamas to divert attention from its real objective which is the expansion of the Jewish state on Palestinian land.
Israel-US Plan for Gaza Envisions “Fragmenting Gaza and Isolating It from the World”. Mike Whitney
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has assured Israel that the US will support preemptive strikes against Lebanese movement Hezbollah amid signs that Israel was preparing to attack the group’s positions last week, The New York Times reported on Friday, citing a senior US official who requested anonymity.
Blinken reportedly delivered this message during his visit to Tel Aviv, where he told Israeli officials that Washington would back them in taking action against Hezbollah forces or equipment posing an imminent threat. https://sputnikglobe.com/20240830/us-assures-israel-it-will-support-preemptive-strikes-against-hezbollah—reports-1119958276.html‘Israel’ bombs aid convoy in Gaza despite prior coordination, kills 5
The Israeli occupation forces bombed an aid convoy organized by a US non-profit humanitarian organization in the Gaza Strip, resulting in the deaths of five individuals. To make matters worse, the convoy was targeted despite prior coordination with the Israeli occupation forces.
The convoy, organized by the Washington, DC-based non-profit organization Anera, was struck by an Israeli missile that specifically targeted the lead vehicle. Anera described the incident as “horrific” in a statement to The Washington Post and confirmed that the victims were employees of a local transport company.
The convoy was delivering medical supplies and fuel to a hospital in Rafah, southern Gaza, operated by the United Arab Emirates. https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/-israel–bombs-aid-convoy-in-gaza-despite-prior-coordinationWest Bank attacks: To western leaders, there are no red lines for Israel’s slaughter
The Israeli military’s assault against four refugee camps and almost every town in the north of the occupied West Bank, using battlefield weapons, commando-style helicopter landings, drones and bulldozers, cannot be classed as a response to the war on Gaza. This is far bigger than a “counter-terrorism” operation claimed by Israel.
War in the West Bank was planned before Hamas’s attack on 7 October last year, a senior Fatah member with close links to security circles told me. It was postponed by the Gaza war, but also refined and honed by it.
When Israel saw just how much Palestinian blood the US and Europe were prepared to tolerate in Gaza – how much destruction, how many millions would be continually displaced, and for how long – Israel felt emboldened to visit the same hell on its real target: the occupied West Bank.
Crush the West Bank, and the Palestinian people can say goodbye to their state forever. This is the message that Bezalel Smotrich, the far-right minister and settler who has been working to transfer the governance of the occupied West Bank from military to civilian control, has consistently and publicly broadcast.
Like the war in Gaza, “Operation Summer Camps” is not aimed primarily at local resistance groups or their leaders, although several have already been targeted and killed.
The attacks from land and air on Jenin, Tulkarm and Tubas, along with the laying of siege and the sealing off of hospitals and detention of medics, are all directed against the population, just as they were in Gaza.
The bulldozers go in, not to clear a path for the tanks, but to dig up the water pipes and drains vital for life, in the full knowledge that in six months, the occupied West Bank will have outbreaks of major diseases and epidemics, just as Gaza has now. https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/israel-no-western-red-lines-attacks-west-bankHuman Rights Activist Sarah Wilkinson Arrested by UK Police
“The pro-genocide UK regime has arrested [MENAUncensored’s] roving reporter and Human Rights Activist Sarah Wilkinson for supporting the Palestinian resistance and relaying what is really happening in Gaza and the West Bank to the world,” MENA Uncensored announced via social media, alleging Wilkinson was accused of supporting “terrorism.” …
..Wilkinson’s arrest comes two weeks after Syrian-British journalist Richard Medhurst was detained and questioned by UK police upon his arrival at Heathrow Airport under the Terrorism Act, Section 12 https://scheerpost.com/2024/08/30/human-rights-activist-sarah-wilkinson-arrested-by-uk-police/Far right is very real threat, says Keir Starmer (Getting the nation on a strictly disciplined pre-war footing)
The far right is a “very real threat” which needs to be combatted, Sir Keir Starmer has said.
Speaking on a visit to Paris, the prime minister said the best way to deal with the “snake oil” of populism and nationalism was through “delivery” and “showing there are progressive, democratic answers to the many challenges we face is the way forward”. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crkm8mg4md4oHe means Macron carried out a coup: Towards A Coup d’état in France? With Macron Refusing to Honor Election Results https://www.globalresearch.ca/coup-detat-france-macron-refusing-honor-election-results/5866586
New Opium-Wars; reversed flows: Chinese Narcos In Toronto Run “Command & Control” Fentanyl Laundering Network Used In TD Bank Case: US Investigator https://www.zerohedge.com/political/chinese-narcos-toronto-run-command-control-fentanyl-laundering-network-used-td-bank-case
There is a vast pressure to treat post-vaccine-syndrome, yet it has to be called “long COVID”, or there is no way to bill for services. The spike-protein is what causes problems.
UCSF Researchers Identify Major Driver Behind COVID And Long COVID, With Potential Treatment https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/ucsf-researchers-identify-major-driver-behind-covid-and-long-covid-potential-treatmentOn the Pavel Durov affair, links at TAE, Aug 31.
In his F passport, Pavel has legally changed his name to Paul du Rove. Weird. OK. it emphasises a trans-nation theme, but heh.
Macron met with him several times, and was (I suppose) the main mover in granting him an F passport, under the ‘exceptional / emeritus / conditions’, which many would argue were not applicable.
Macron also tried to convince Pavel to move Telegram headquarters to F. (All reported in MSM.)
Because Pavel is an epitome of the kind of man Manu admires, idolises, he is young but not too young (Manu despises young ppl and loathes children), he is immensely rich, he is an ‘entrepreneur,’ he is a star of ‘made my way’, with his brother doing much of the scut work, other story.
A neo-liberal capitalists now worth X billions! A leading figure in the ‘novel – matrix’ world, where industries / trad. capitalism has switched over to controlling behavior models, in contrast to extraction of earth ressources models, paying labor some pittance to keep the plebs on…
Macron and his ‘team’ use Telegram. To this day.. it works fine, offers great options…
The ex-PM of F (F at present has no instituted, legitimate Government), E. Borne, tried to stop them doing so, without success. F is in grave disarray, MSM doesn’t report.
Pavel’s arrest was, now **imho** engineered, 1) by the ‘extreme left’ anti-Macron who do control some aspects of the judicial process in F, hmm, but more likely, 2) by some outside power (country, deep state), who want to stop Telegram reporting and spreading news about genocide in Ukraine and Palestine, with damning images, news, descriptions, etc.
Macron is in a bad spot, heh, not flash news.
🙂 … What do you like to have for dinner?
Kakala: Dinner is the evening meal in most of the world, it depends on culture, to us dinner is dinner and we favor a variety a diversity of food, a time to come together and love laughs, be joyful, sustain ourselves, that’s what dinner is all about, it’s a universal need, healthy vegetables, sweet sparkle desserts, we must make dinner, dinner.
Trump: A hamburger.
On the finance end: Ukraine has defaulted on its debts. (Not reported in MSM.)
one article:
No surprise, all involved know UKR would never pay back anything.
The film City of Dreams is just out. Go watch it. Sit though it 2 or 3 times if necessary. Think deeply about all of the characters (especially those who are cast as villains and failed heroes.)
It’s all there. A diagnosis of the entire diseased civilization (and the Western Empire and America in particular) is all there, described within the microcosm portrayed in the film. It exposes the Big Secret.
The entire world is being run as a slave-labor sweatshop, complete with drugs, sex, violence and ABOVE ALL, complicity in the veil of silence, secrecy and covert compliance driven by fear and greed.
The only way to fix it (with God’s help) is for the TRUTH to come out. ALL of it. Especially the lies and crimes.
And the resistance is FIERCE because the resistance is coming from everyone who is depending upon that criminal SYSTEM for whatever wealth and power they are able to eke from its putrid corruption.
Elon Musk, for example, or Durov, or Warren Buffet, or your local District Attorney, etc ad infinitum DRAW THEIR POWER from the system that they are pretending to repair. They could pull all of their “enemies” down in a heartbeat but that same act of justice would bring full justice to themselves, as well, and an end to their wealth and power.
Basically, one can have truth or one can have wealth and power, but not both.
The crew of the Kornet anti-tank missile system (ATGM) of the airborne artillery unit from the Dnepr group of forces launched a guided missile from the coast of the Kinburn Spit and destroyed the Ukronazis performing a crew rotation on the West bank of the river
Dr D
What was that about how Ritter is a CIA plant, up to no good because the FBI wasn’t up his -ss yet? And also Gonzalo Lira, clearly a plant and an agent.This is something that I have noticed as well: distrust gets ramped up, pattern recognition goes on overdrive and seems to take over from other high-level forms of thought, and the individual arrives as erroneous conclusions and begins shunning potential allies. Pattern recognition is a very, very useful and important capability of the human mind, but we must remember that just because we perceive human faces in clouds, the moon, the fronts of cars, rocks, etc., does not mean that these objects were created deliberately to look like human faces. (Okay, perhaps cars were, I don’t really know.). Humans need connection with other humans, and when we lack trust we feel anxiety — fear — and fear-driven pattern recognition has a high rate of false positives. (I.e. Michael Yeadon decrying doctors whose careers were adversely affected for prescribing ivermectin for Covid as witting tools of the WEFfers.). We function best when our thought patterns are balanced between various types of cognition, such as (but not limited to) pattern recognition, logic, empathy, emotion, social cues, cause and effect, observation, direct stimulus of the senses, the scientific method, etc.
At the end of the day I remind myself: United we stand; divided we fall. Yes, there is always risk in allying with other humans. We do not know them as well as we know ourselves. (Some do not even know themselves!). However, to stand alone is a greater risk, and assures that those who stand against us can pick us off singly. I plan to vote for Trump. However, the first and only political yard sign I’ve ever placed is in my front yard right now, for Kennedy. I’ve decided to keep that sign in place. The only other yard sign for the presidential race on this street of 20 homes is for my neighbors to the north. It is for Harris. I find myself scratching my head — the woman is ex-military and her husband likes to hunt, it seems both would be put off by a restriction on personal firearm ownership. Bizarro-land.
God bless Noirette.
I’m agreeing more and more with Noir as more and more time goes by so slowly.
At the end, an ode to Noirette.Lè Affairê Pavel du Rovë alias Durov is it seems as you just said, a contrivance and as contrivances mostly are, a false one.
I sense a theme developing.
The apparent Master of Acquisitive Projective Identification Pavel from his apparently hardworking, did-most-of-the-work brother changes his name not quite as much the Serial-NameChanger and Trump-VP Pick JD VANCE Bowman BLANTON Hamel.And Pavel’s Telegramgraph motors on like Ritter’s mouth motors.
On.
Thoroughly “uninfringed” despite all the desperately breathless declarations of infringement by the usual characters.…just another glitch in the matrix
Remorse, repentance, and atonement are heavy on the negative side of the scale.
Redemption doesn’t weigh a thing, so I guess to most insiders, it has no value.Fear and hatred make you stupid;
Make you ugly; ward off Cupid.
Fear and hatred eat your brain:
Dare and love and laugh again.Pedo Jo-jo spends 40% + during his term in office on vacation
Imagine a job where you can spend that much of it not on the job and gettings paid :full time”
The Never Ending Ice Cream Cone
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