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Is War What You Asked For?

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The Russians called their move into Ukraine last February a “special military operation” for a reason. The description was precise. It was not a “war” prosecuted on the people of Ukraine. Russia could have completely disabled the Zelensky regime in an afternoon with air power, but they did not want to smash up the country’s vital infrastructure and foreclose the peoples’ future.

The operation was designed to expel Ukrainian military forces from their forward dug-in positions along the Donbas frontier, where they had been shelling, harassing, and killing the Russian-speaking population for eight years — ever since the 2014 CIA-backed Maidan “color Revolution” brought Ukraine under American control.

The precipitating event of the operation begun last winter was the renewed threat to bring Ukraine into NATO, for the purpose of putting bases on Russia’s border. Russia would not tolerate that any more than America would tolerate Russian bases planted across our border with Mexico. The special operation was mounted to reestablish firm boundaries, both geographically and in geopolitical psychology, for an adversary, the West, who displayed an increasingly psychotic drive to smash all boundaries that make civilized life possible, even in their own countries.

Since then, the US has poured money into Ukraine at the rate of about $10-billion a month for the purpose of prolonging the struggle in Ukraine. We’re doing this at a moment in history when the US faces grave financial breakdown, along with the countries of the European Union and the UK. Nothing about our involvement in Ukraine is in the interest of the American people. Our foreign policy establishment has shown a blind animus toward Russia for no apparent good reason.

At this point reasonable people might conclude that it is for a bad reason. Increasingly it looks like a desperate diversion from the technocrat coup perpetrated by a supranational cabal emanating out of Davos, as led by the megalomaniacs at the World Economic Forum (WEF). The coupsters also happen to be intriguing behind America’s Democratic Party and the White House regime of the obvious tool, “Joe Biden.”

To digress from Ukraine for a moment, let’s consider the perilous condition of “Joe Biden’s” regime just now. All the “narratives” — the miasma of lies the regime has generated in its campaign to wreck our country — are falling apart. Much of this centers on the criminal misbehavior of the FBI, the regime’s clean-up crew, which has lost control of the clean-up. If the conservative opposition seizes majority control of the US House of Representatives on November 8, all the US players in this coup will be called to testify.

This includes the perpetrators of RussiaGate (of which the Ukraine mess is a continuation); the perps of the Covid-19 bioweapon op that will end up killing more Americans from the “vaccines” and the economic blowback of lockdowns as died from the virus itself; the backstage perps of the censoring and cancellation initiative run through the news and social media; the perps who arranged the ballot shenanigans in the 2020 elections; the perps who supported the Antifa and BLM riots of that same year; the perps behind the Mar-a-Lago raid; and, most threatening of all to the regime, the perps who concealed the Hunter Biden laptop evidence of international bribery and treason committed by the current President of the United States. He knows it, he can sniff the danger, as do the rogues and degenerates behind him. Hence, his recent mendacious fulminations against “MAGA Republicans [being] a threat to our democracy” and his ramped-up FBI police-state antics against Donald Trump and his associates. “Joe Biden” must sense that he is going down.

The New York Times today is ballyhooing the Ukraine military’s “lightning advance” east of Kharkov. I’d argue that what The Times wants you to see is not exactly what is happening. Rather the Russians appear to have made an orderly, tactical retreat from the outskirts of Kharkov, inducing the NATO-trained Ukraine forces eastward across the Siverskyi Donets River and out into the flat, open country where they will be cut off, cauldroned, and slaughtered. Everything that NATO and the US have done in this conflict has been a stupid move. Why should this one be an exception?

At the same time, Russia has hit a number of power generation plants around Ukraine, leaving many Ukrainians without lights, hot water, communications — in short, what’s needed to remain civilized. This was exactly what Russia had hoped to avoid the past eight months, but the obdurate pathological idiocy of our country’s leaders has forced Russia to send a harsher message to provoke some rational thought here about ending this conflict. There is even chatter on the web that Russia is about to declare that the special military operation is now a war, with all that implies about targets.

The US may be crazed beyond redemption, but the people of the NATO member countries might have had a clarifying experience lately watching their governments barter away the natural gas they desperately need to run industry and heat their homes this winter — in the foolish gesture of jumping on America’s sanctions bandwagon. Will Germany, France, Italy, and the rest now leap into a war against Russia on the plains of Ukraine in winter? I think they will sooner overthrow their own WEF-directed governments. This appears to be just what has happened in Sweden’s election on Sunday where a bloc of center-right parties has ousted the left government led by Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson.

The question for now is this: Will the US jump stupidly into World War Three over Ukraine? If not, how much does Russia have to disrupt life in the rest of Ukraine outside the Donbas to drive the US and NATO into serious peace talks? It better happen soon because otherwise the West will be completely preoccupied with the collapse of its financial markets, currencies, and economies — and probably before the November elections here.


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1,071 Responses to “Is War What You Asked For?”

  1. Walter B September 12, 2022 at 9:31 am #

    Good morning Jim. Friday’s post was titled “Here it comes”. Well here it is.

    On March 9, 2022 the brain-dead clown who calls himself president issued Executive Order #14067 which puts into motion the process of creating a digital US dollar. It orders the treasury and many other agencies to have reports on how to accomplish this and what concerns and details need to be addressed and set a 180-day deadline for getting these reports to his desk. That 180 days expired the day after Labor Day. This order included all of the catch phrases needed to convince the herd that it is good and benevolent:

    “…for the protection of consumers, investors, and businesses, including data privacy and security; financial stability and systemic risk; crime; national security; the ability to exercise human rights; financial inclusion and equity; and energy demand and climate change.”

    No this does not replace the dollar, THAT will come down the line, but it is the head of the camel in the tent. Vlad Putin and Emperor Xi are meeting in a few days and one of the items on the agenda will be to further develop their own Euro-Asian digital currency, based upon a basket of currencies, precious metals and rare earth elements and natural resources. The BRICS nations and those who sign on have been working on a new world order for two decades now and the implementation of this is fast approaching.

    On August 23, 2022 when the Pope ordered his churches to transfer all of their movable assets into the Vatican Bank by September 30, 2022, it was a clear signal to the world that something huge and ominous is at the front door. Clearly this Fall is going to be seriously “eventful”.

    I understand that the new NFL season is underway and the many, many other distractions are keeping Americans asleep at the wheel, so they might not even wake up when the digital dollar is announced. They WILL wake up the day they find that their bank accounts are shut off just like that clown in Canada did to the bad boy truckers because they have a Trump bumper sticker on their car or a MAGA flag on their lawn. After all they are fascists and need to be eliminated as a threat to democracy. Jim Rickerts raised an interesting point about this, that with the government directly controlling its digital currency, they can time stamp your funds so that you have to spend them before an expiration date or lose them, thereby eliminating our abilities to store and save “wealth”. Wow, just wow.

    It is an evil plan but it appears to be working. Who needs to control hearts and minds when you’ve got them by the wallet?

    • Disaffected September 12, 2022 at 9:57 am #

      Ominous indeed, Sir Walter! This has been the globalists’ wet dream for our entire lifetimes. It also explains why they’ve thrown all worries about debt to the four winds. They’ll repudiate it in entirety when the change over finally gets enacted. Minimalist UBI here we come, provided you’re “good” enough to remain eligible for it.

      • Beryl of Oyl September 12, 2022 at 10:13 am #

        Probably what all the new IRS agents are for. To “manage” our accounts.

        • SW September 12, 2022 at 10:26 am #

          Nice to know we’ll be paying the salaries of the very people out to ruin us for taxes. After the midterms it wouldn’t surprise me if the Democrats hold on to Congress, that there’ll be new tax laws and they won’t be aimed at the Bezos, Musks or Gateses of the world.

          • Walter B September 12, 2022 at 10:31 am #

            We don’t pay their salaries, our taxes only cover the interest on the debt. They get paid with dollars printed up out of thin air and so are not beholden to us in any fashion.

        • taijitu September 12, 2022 at 6:03 pm #

          According to Doug Casey (see lewrockwell.com), it’s Modern Monetary Theory (MMT). The Feds print money which the government spends going mostly to the elite class and the middle class iski taxed for it.

          • Walter B September 12, 2022 at 7:37 pm #

            Except that the taxes paid are only 1/4 of the money spent, so those who pay only cover the interest.

    • chet_the_farmer September 12, 2022 at 10:30 am #

      There are entire industries which depend on actual dollars and there are people who perform transactions with actual dollars.
      If there are any dollars around then the oligarchy’s plans are stuffed and no one will be forced into anything.
      Seems like another stupid idea that will die in the wind like all the rest of them.

      The vatican bank stuff is probably another result of the u.s. sanctions and canada’s behavior – anyone can see that you need all assets out of the purview of the u.s.

      Our crises will be limited to things that make the comfortable class uncomfortable, like when there is very little pet food and its all low-quality soy-based crap. (wait for it!)

    • malthuss September 12, 2022 at 11:17 am #

      Jim Rickerts raised an interesting point about this, that with the government directly controlling its digital currency, they can time stamp your funds so that you have to spend them before an expiration date or lose them, thereby eliminating our abilities to store and save “wealth”. Wow, just wow.

      That is old news. The China ‘credit score’ is what the PTB want for us.
      control. depopulation.

      I saw a clip online, a drone tells chinese to stay in lockdown.
      thats spooky.

      • hmuller September 12, 2022 at 12:11 pm #

        We haven’t been able to break even on money in the bank for a long time, i.e. the CPI exceeds the interest you can earn on deposits.
        The Powers That Be have used derivatives to hold down gold and silver prices, thus lessening their investment appeal.
        But that’s starting to change. Precious metals stored in a safe place beats money in the bank, in my opinion.

        • JTinMD September 12, 2022 at 1:16 pm #

          Good! Keep PM prices down. I’m all for it! More for us at silly, low dollar prices. 🙂

    • neurodoc September 12, 2022 at 11:29 am #

      Walter: All plans tend to contain the seeds of their own destruction. Several of the congressional morons, e.g. pocahontas, have praised the ‘fed coin’ and stated that it will STOP crime and underground economic activity. I suspect that underground economic activity will sky rocket eventually, especially when people learn about cryptos such as Monero, Dero, PirateChain, etc. These coins preclude the discovery of who is using them. They cannot be shut down by any central government except by completely shutting down the internet (NOT going to happen). However, those who don’t understand cryptocurrency and/or depend on cash, i.e. the working poor, will, as usual, be completely screwed by the dem/communists.

      • JohnAZ September 12, 2022 at 11:42 am #

        Anybody figure out how much easier it will be for the border crossing illicit trades to occur with digital ie invisible money?

        • neurodoc September 12, 2022 at 12:13 pm #

          JAZ: read about three coins I mentioned above. They have shocking privacy features that are resistant to discovery by govmint. The issue right now is that they are not widely usable to day to day commerce. You can, BTW, easily buy gold and silver with Monero and Dero. Stay tuned.

      • Rain Waters September 12, 2022 at 11:56 am #

        The bigger they are, the harder they fall. Watch that conciet Doc!

        • neurodoc September 12, 2022 at 12:15 pm #

          WHAT?

    • thirdcoastlegend September 12, 2022 at 12:05 pm #

      TPTB want their global control grid via digital currency.

      I’m not convinced they have the human capital to pull it off.

      Heck, my local utility company has been unable to correctly read meters and bill people for over one year.

      A bank that handles one of my credit cards spent several months telling customers they were going to merge their credit card site into their normal retail banking site by January 2022 so we’d better get ready.

      Then it was February ’22.

      Then March.

      Then April.

      Then they just stopped talking about it and customers continued using the legacy credit card site.

      • Blackbird September 12, 2022 at 2:25 pm #

        “Heck, my local utility company has been unable to correctly read meters and bill people for over one year.”

        Mine too – but make it four years.

        Four and a half years ago I sold my house. Shut down everything, except the furnace which I kept at 40 F to keep the pipes from freezing. My electric bill went up 50%. Called the electric company and explained to the poor dumb sucker on the phone. The response, “Well that’s what the meter says.” Damned “smart” meters.

        Now I am paying twice what I was paying last year at this time. My electrical use hasn’t changed. The rates haven’t doubled. My “smart” meter is just lying – that’s what they do.

        No need for “human capital” when the machines do all the lying and stealing for you.

    • cowbell81 September 12, 2022 at 12:14 pm #

      The digital dollar debate raises an interesting question to the old advertising catch phrase: “What’s in your wallet?” Soon to be answer: “A whole lot of nothing.”

    • Jarek September 12, 2022 at 12:23 pm #

      The Preamble:

      We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

      Posterity?

      Definitions from Oxford Languages · Learn more
      noun
      all future generations of people.
      “the victims’ names are recorded for posterity”
      Similar:
      future generations
      succeeding generations
      those who come after us
      the future
      ARCHAIC
      the descendants of a person.
      “God offered Abraham a posterity like the stars of heaven”

      Since it says “our posterity” they were obviously using it in the plural “archaic” or biological sense. Their descendants and not just any later people. Thus your pov was not theirs. You don’t have the Mind of the Fathers in this respect.

      You love the Jewel, the Constitution. But you don’t value its setting or cultural and biological context. Thus the Jewel ends up in a box in a closet, or sitting on the ground to be driven into the mud by the beasts of the fields.

      • BackRowHeckler September 12, 2022 at 12:36 pm #

        Recently we learned that quoting the US Constitution can get you on an FBI domestic enemies list. Rand Paul questioned the FBI Director about it; yes, you could be in trouble.

        • Jarek September 12, 2022 at 2:36 pm #

          So you didn’t like my post, Tonto?

          • Uncle Bob September 12, 2022 at 4:24 pm #

            I think you need to back of your hatred of Jews, both outright and implied. Not every Jew is a megalomaniacal banker, any more than every Moslem is a terrorist or every person of eastern European descent is an idiot.

            Washington and the members of the First Congress promised YHWH that they and future generations would obey him; and if we were to turn away from that path, he should destroy the new nation. Tell me how that isn’t happening now, and that much of the reason isn’t due to Americans’ turning away from the way our forebears promised we would follow?

          • Jarek September 12, 2022 at 11:46 pm #

            So in other words, you don’t think America was supposed to be for White Europeans? Show me the flaw in my logic.

            Or you agree with me on the meaning of the preamble, you just don’t agree with that meaning. In other words, you are not of the Mind of the Fathers.

      • James K Polk September 13, 2022 at 2:19 am #

        You are correct in your legal understanding of the word “Posterity” used in the Preamble. For historical and legal confirmation of this read the legal commentary by US Supreme Court Justice Roger Taney in Dred Scott v Sandford. The Chief Justice explains this in depth and detail. And for anyone who denies this legal meaning of the term, then explain why it was legally necessary to pass the 14th Amendment to grant citizenship to the freed black slaves. My ancestors go back well into the colonial period on both sides of my family. I am legally a part of the posterity, as are all white Americans because of the 1790 Naturalization and Immigration Act and all subsequent immigration laws until 1965. It was necessary to fight a civil war to nullify the law confirmed by Dred Scott v Sandford and to then ram through the 14th Amendment as a form of victor’s justice. This one bogus legal instrument forever changed the nation and the US Constitution. And BTW, there weren’t enough Jews around in 1860 to start the Civil War and then forever alter the Constitution. We did this to ourselves.

        • Jarek September 13, 2022 at 11:58 am #

          Thanks for the insight. Victor’s justice? Strange because most Whites didn’t see them as equals. Lincoln certainly didn’t. Talk about biting your nose to spite your face.

          What a strange, twisted people we have become. Incredibly grasping on the individual level, but then seeming to compensate on the social level by not allowing ourselves to have anything for ourselves. The Elite find this a way to stay in power and have convinced the rest that it’s the only way – “moral” too!

    • pyrrhus September 13, 2022 at 10:52 am #

      The purpose of a digital currency is, of course, control..The USA’s gargantuan debt is of no concern to the denizens of DC, who are engaged in the largest looting spree in world history and don’t plan to be around when the piper demands payment…

    • ThorsHammer September 14, 2022 at 7:10 pm #

      Walter
      Who needs to control hearts and minds when you’ve got them by the balls?

      The USA is clearly a class society. The divisions are not between the workers and the owners of capital as Marx postulated. Instead it is a society divided along irreconcilable belief systems so firmly embedded that no communication is possible. The percentages I assign to the classes in the USA may be subject to interpretation, but what follows is the basic outline:

      Captives of Mass Delusion — 35%
      This class is so firmly under control of its Masters that it is no longer subject to reason or fact. The formerly comfortable middle class suburbanite who’s circumstances have deteriorated to the point of living in a tent under a freeway bridge is no more likely to understand the true origin of their dilemma than the Karen who holds on to her post as a minor bureaucrat. They cheerfully march their children off to the Injector to be inoculated against a disease that they can’t catch and almost never die from.

      The weapons that this class employs are the Culture of Fear and the Christian Guilt used so successfully for generations by the Priests and Witch Doctors of Religion.

      Football Lovers — 30%
      Just leave me alone. And stay away from my guns. This class rarely thinks about anything beyond the big screen and making the next payment on the new F150, Their political affiliation was inherited from their grandfather, but they are not dumb enough to believe any promises that any politician spouts. They may be Deplorable, but they are much more Aware than the Delusionals. They may have joined the Army at age 18, but soon learned that the real enemy is the college graduate who tries to lead their platoon into a death trap, and fragging him is an honorable service to your mates.

      A Fan may rather sleep with his guns than his girlfriend, but once he has a mortgage on a new pickup he will never use his guns for any revolutionary cause.

      Whores — 20%
      College professors, Hospital administrators, Investors in Big Pharma, Politicians, “Scientists”, Medical Doctors and Nurses with Jab in Hand, Bureaucrats from every form of Gov. scam,

      Just following orders for a pay check or bribe. Like the guards at the German WWII gas ovens.

      Mercenaries — 10%
      Anyone willing to kill for money. The Mainstream Media, Pentagon, Arms merchants, Lockheed, Boeing.. Ratheon etc. along with every poor kid from the ghetto who joined for a regular paycheck. And every parent who sent their kid off to make a man out of them.

      The Ruling Class — 5%
      The Deciders: the 500 who actually make the decisions.

      Plus the 4.99% of ass kissers successful enough to have an apartment in Manhattan and convince themselves that they are better than the rabble.

      • MrMangoOnMyShoulder September 15, 2022 at 1:09 pm #

        A brilliant breakdown, Thor.

        Also a little depressing, but hey – that’s already pretty much baked into the cake.

  2. Penelope Dreadful September 12, 2022 at 9:32 am #

    I read that in Sweden, 80% of the “refugees” had visited their home country since being there. That doesn’t help the Leftists there.

    • Walter B September 12, 2022 at 9:43 am #

      I don’t know about them but if I fled my country in fear of my life, I would not be going back for a visit even if it was to bring more of my clan back with me.

      • JohnAZ September 12, 2022 at 10:23 am #

        You assume that is why they fled.

        How about they were paid by the globalist forces with guarantees of better lives in Europe,

        And the US.

        I have noticed they are all well groomed, well dressed carrying their cell phones.

        • Walter B September 12, 2022 at 10:32 am #

          And they were going back for reinforcements? Yes indeed that works for me too. Good thinking John!

        • malthuss September 12, 2022 at 11:07 am #

          I saw, long ago, some news report from Michigan?
          The rush to sign up for possible gov housing.

          FAT MUSSIES WITH NICE CARS AND CELL PHONES.

          • Blackbird September 12, 2022 at 2:32 pm #

            As long as you are from an alien culture and will not assimilate, our government (federal, state, and local) will bend over backwards to accommodate you.

            If you are a citizen… Hahahaha!!

            Well, maybe there is some other country that wants you, will fly you over there, find you a place to live (and pay your rent- until you want to pay it), find you a job (or just give you money), provide health care for free, and give you money until you figure out how to make it yourself.

        • spaingaroo September 12, 2022 at 5:49 pm #

          one G Soros has put 18 billion into Africa without any apparent results except for a thriving people smuggling ring.
          Then those profits get reinvested in the same business.
          Macron seems to support the Kalergi plan and sees 200 million Africans in Europe in 30 years.
          redice.tv/news/macron-openly-endorses-the-kalergi-plan-200-million-africans-to-mass-migrate-to-europe-within-30-years
          The documentary Borderless seemed to be investigating the Open Society Foundation when the trailers were circulating but later the final release didn’t go there.
          Then Lauren Southern seemed to give up for a while.
          The Africans that come to my town to work the olives are big strong boys. From Senegal. Good for the hard work.
          I can’t compete.
          They want to have 4 wives and 20 kids each.
          can’t compete there either

    • Jarek September 12, 2022 at 12:26 pm #

      They go back and forth all the time, in particular to pick out a traditional wife, one not corrupted by Swedish culture. An important part of chain migration. She then can get started getting her people in.

      The rulers of Sweden hate the Swedish people with a passion.

      • Cactus Girl September 12, 2022 at 2:03 pm #

        And then they send their daughters back to “visit granny”, i.e.-have their naughty bits cut off.

  3. Night Owl September 12, 2022 at 9:48 am #

    “Jim Rickerts raised an interesting point about this, that with the government directly controlling its digital currency, they can time stamp your funds so that you have to spend them before an expiration date or lose them, thereby eliminating our abilities to store and save “wealth”. Wow, just wow.”

    This is one of the central characteristics that BIS and the WEF crowd seek.

    I posted the video perhaps a year ago now, but the head of BIS also said they have been working hard to ensure digital currencies will be “programmable,” meaning that they are able to pull funds from your account, program how they can be spent (and by when they must be spent), and much more.

    As each day passes, the masses of asses will learn more about what many of us have been talking about.

    • SW September 12, 2022 at 10:21 am #

      “In a speech launching the neoliberal selloff program Advantage Ukraine, Zelensky offered Wall Street “a chance for you to invest now in projects worth of hundreds of billions of dollars.”

      The financial news service Business Wire published a press release from the Ukrainian government in which Zelensky boasted:

      The $400+ [billion] in investment options featured on AdvantageUkraine.com span public private partnerships, privatization and private ventures. A USAID-supported project team of investment bankers and researchers appointed by Ukraine’s Ministry of Economy will work with businesses interested in investing.”

      So there you have it — Ukraine is for sale to the highest bidders and the workers will be virtual slaves.

      “Multipolarista previously reported on a meeting by Western governments and corporations in Switzerland in July in which they planned harsh neoliberal economic policies to impose on Ukraine.

      The Western participants published documents calling to cut labor laws, “open markets,” drop tariffs, deregulate industries, and “sell state-owned enterprises to private investors.”

      Somebody’s loss is turned into somebody else’s gain. There is no attempt at all to raise living standards, in fact, further impoverishment and misery is in store for them.

      That England, Germany and France can go along with this is shameful and the fact they’re willing to take their own citizens down this path is IMO, treason.

      • niner September 12, 2022 at 2:17 pm #

        Easy to understand that Britain will now accelerate the WEF program under King Charles.

        Search the pix of him in 1992 standing at the WEF podium —

        World Economic Forum
        Vaclav Havel, Klaus Schwab, Prince Charles – World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 1992

        DAVOS/SWITZERLAND, JAN 1992 – President Vaclav Havel of Czechoslovakia with H.R.H. Prince Charles prior to a plenary session, with Klaus Schwab at the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos in 1992.

        He was always insecure.

        And now he should feel even more insecure. He’ll be the last of the crowned Saxe Coburg Gotha’s posing as Brits.

        I don’t know that we have much to celebrate, except that they haven’t managed to kill most of us. A serious defeat for them.

        We have to pick them off like the ticks and leeches that they are.

        • Uncle Bob September 12, 2022 at 4:29 pm #

          Give them time. They haven’t had the time, legal authority, or justification to start the mass extermination of their enemies. Yet.

    • Walter B September 12, 2022 at 10:24 am #

      I assume that they will start off without requiring people to be microchipped so it will be met with less resistance, but eventually implants will be mandatory. THAT will give them the total control that they require. Unfortunately for many of us that believe that this will be the form that The Mark of the Beast will take and those strong enough to refuse will have to be executed or run off into the woods to be hunted down like dogs. oh well, better than dying of cancer, right?

      • NickelthroweR September 12, 2022 at 11:26 am #

        Good luck microchipping Purebloods. The Purebloods have already demonstrated their divine right to rule. We withstood the whirlwind that blew at us from every direction. We withstood the greatest propaganda campaign in all of human history and we didn’t budge. We lost our friends and were shunned by family and we didn’t budge. They took away our income and we didn’t budge. Many lost everything and still didn’t budge.

        Come try and chip me and see what happens.

        • neurodoc September 12, 2022 at 11:51 am #

          Well put Nickel; This is one of the many things the AR15 is for.

          • Walter B September 12, 2022 at 7:40 pm #

            Don’t shoot, let ’em burn.

        • Rain Waters September 12, 2022 at 11:58 am #

          Is purebred a nice term for inbred ?

          • LagingRunatic September 12, 2022 at 1:04 pm #

            Who wrote “purebred,” Rain? A village out there is looking for you.

    • Islander September 12, 2022 at 10:29 am #

      “As each day passes, the masses of asses will learn more about what many of us have been talking about.”

      Only if the asses pay attention, alas.

      Thanks, Mr. Kunstler, for another a good summary of the state of play, also including the Ukraine board.

      Scary. I am scared.

    • Paula D September 12, 2022 at 12:19 pm #

      When the US left Afghanistan I figured they were serious about getting rid of cash.
      You can’t have a flourishing drug trade without cash.

      I tried to find the clip with the head of BIS talking about the control they were looking for, but YouTube appears to have scrubbed it.

      I did find this repost. Hope it goes through the software here….

      youtube.com/watch?v=NA8E5rzkXf0

      • Mac September 12, 2022 at 2:23 pm #

        P- They left the stuff in Afghanistan so the MIC could get a bunch of new orders for Ukraine.

        • Paula D September 12, 2022 at 3:12 pm #

          Cha ching!

      • MaryQueen September 12, 2022 at 9:09 pm #

        Just saw a video of the Afghanis trying to fly a blackhawk helicopter left behind and crashing it into the ground. There goes a few mil!

  4. JohnAZ September 12, 2022 at 9:48 am #

    A really deep question right now.

    Who is the worst enemy of the conservative half of the US?

    Russo -China or the Democratic Party vanguard of the WEF?

    BRICS + Iran + Saudi Arabia has the capability to shut down the world from lack of resources. It has started already.

    If we follow the WEF, our goose is cooked.

    • Night Owl September 12, 2022 at 9:57 am #

      Black/white. Gay/straight. Rich/poor. Left/right.

      Divide and conquer. Dumb and dumber.

      • Jarek September 12, 2022 at 12:32 pm #

        Yeah if only we could only all just get along! But we can’t. That’s why they fill up our nations with aliens – to weaken us. That’s where it had to be stopped, not letting them in and then expecting to get along with them.

        Gays are outside of history and culture. They are naturally part of the New World Order. You really don’t see that?

    • messianicdruid September 12, 2022 at 11:51 am #

      I’ll not quote Pogo to this crowd.

  5. Walter B September 12, 2022 at 9:52 am #

    I am not convinced that America is headed into WWIII. I believe that our corrupt government is manipulating the Ukranian clowns into fighting a losing effort so that we can prove to the entire world once again, that we are not somebody you want to be allied with. The BRICS nations that have been forming a real new world order for decades now are able to point out to perspective allies how evil, incompetent, brain-dead, and outright stupid America has become and turn ALL the world against US(A).

    Heck Dopey Joe has already turned most of us against us as well! Once the digital currency is in place and replaces cash, the scumbags in DC will be able to snuff us out quietly and America’s firearms will in no way help we poor suckers maintain any kind of worthwhile life at all.

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    • Jo-G September 12, 2022 at 10:05 am #

      “… so that we can prove to the entire world once again, that we are not somebody you want to be allied with”

      I thought we are manipulating them to prove to Europe that they shouldn’t rely on purchasing Russian energy so they’ll purchase ours, driving the price up and enriching the oil-patch political donors.

      • Beryl of Oyl September 12, 2022 at 10:15 am #

        The reason they haven’t been more successful, is that there are competing factions involved in this racket, and their interests do not always align.

        • Islander September 12, 2022 at 10:32 am #

          According to Tom Luongo, the Fed and US banks are not on board with the Davos program.

          King Charles probably is.

          I wonder how many zeros the computers will need to transition His Majesty, the Duke of Cornwall, to a digital wallet!

        • niner September 12, 2022 at 2:55 pm #

          Exactly, Beryl.

          Any thoughts about the main competing factions?

          • Beryl of Oyl September 12, 2022 at 4:13 pm #

            Democrats, Republicans, actual thugs,socialists, various forms of commies, and the WEF/Davos crowd.

          • Beryl of Oyl September 12, 2022 at 4:14 pm #

            Oh and the corporate globalists.

        • Katerina September 12, 2022 at 5:03 pm #

          Truer words have not been spoken. You hit the nail on the head.

      • Walter B September 12, 2022 at 10:26 am #

        No, Jo-G, that was just the ruse that was utilized to get our energy CEOs onboard. How could it possibly be more affordable for Europeans to get a better deal by purchasing gas shipped over the ocean in big balls rather then quickly through a pipe?

        Big balls alright, that’s what the asshole that run our country certainly have.

        • Beryl of Oyl September 12, 2022 at 10:35 am #

          Imagine their chagrin, and then their rage, when a builder from Queens with a big mouth was the only person who caught on to some of what they were doing?

          Oh yeah, they released that virus at the time they did because other efforts to take him down were fruitless.

          • JohnAZ September 12, 2022 at 11:01 am #

            That is because he is much more savvy than the whole bunch of them.

        • JohnAZ September 12, 2022 at 11:00 am #

          No, WB.

          That is not the object. LNG from the US will never be sufficient to supply Europe.

          The object is the continued destruction of fossil fuels. That is the object of every action the Biden group and their masters the WEF are doing. Trying to stop FF production without creating WW3 between the public and the PTB. Sure we will ship them LNG, until it starts to impact our supply here. Then they will turn off the taps slowly to both areas.

          They are waiting for a miracle to happen, a legitimate alternative to FF.

          UH huh.

          • Walter B September 12, 2022 at 11:10 am #

            Suck the wells dry eh, and then introduce a magic new energy source such as a Blue Beam Power gifted us by Aliens (Demons) from Antartica? A conspiracy theory perhaps, but when I talk to people about even the weirdest possibilities the reply I get almost all the time is, “I wouldn’t be surprised by anything anymore”.

            Good thing too so our hearts will not stop with fear when the Big One is sprung upon us.

        • Jo-G September 12, 2022 at 5:23 pm #

          I didn’t say Russian energy is more expensive than any alternative for the Europeans. I said “driving the price up.”

          By “ours” I wasn’t being clear I meant “our ideas” like a pipeline through Turkey in addition to the big balls.

          There are other cash flows occurring as a result of the Ukraine issue not just energy. I see another post talking about selling off assets in the Ukraine to foreign investors. With the world hydrocarbon reduction, food production will be an issue so that farmland will become more valuable.

          • happiface September 17, 2022 at 10:33 pm #

            80 percent of the farmland in Ukraine is owned by foreign people–china owns about half

    • Not_GeorgeT September 12, 2022 at 10:57 am #

      Digital currency replacing cash is a further example of how black markets are created and thrive.

      • Beryl of Oyl September 12, 2022 at 11:09 am #

        No wonder they want to give the revenooers pistols.

    • cbeard September 12, 2022 at 12:17 pm #

      Americas firearms are the only thing that may help us maintain any kind of worthwhile life. At all.

      • Night Owl September 12, 2022 at 2:32 pm #

        You wanna buy all your shit on the black market?

        It sounds cool to say, but it isn’t really a long-term solution.

  6. John K September 12, 2022 at 9:56 am #

    “If the conservative opposition seizes majority control of the US House of Representatives on November 8, all the US players in this coup will be called to testify.”

    I doubt that very much, since they are just another color of the same swamp creatures. For instance, Rand Paul for many months has had everything needed to checkmate Fauci and put him behind bars for perjury, but instead all we get is their verbal jousting theater on TV. There will need to be a critical mass of real conservatives, not simply politicians with an “R” next to their name, to effect real change.

    • Night Owl September 12, 2022 at 9:59 am #

      Rand (and Ron) are free thinkers, brave, moral, and intelligent and articulate.

      That is why there are so few of them. This combination of characteristics is probably bestowed on 1 out of 5,000 people.

      • Beryl of Oyl September 12, 2022 at 10:17 am #

        I find Ron much more consistent than his son.

        • Socrates-Detroit September 12, 2022 at 10:28 am #

          Night Owl and Beryl, I agree with both you.

          • Not_GeorgeT September 12, 2022 at 10:58 am #

            ditto

          • Socrates-Detroit September 13, 2022 at 4:14 am #

            NIght Owl, Larry Johnson, at sonar21.com, has a link embedded in it, 12 Sep.

            IS THE WAR IN UKRAINE PART OF A U.S. STRATEGY TO WEAKEN GERMANY? RAND SAYS, “YES”!

        • dbrize September 12, 2022 at 12:36 pm #

          True enough. But…the Senate is a different creature than the House and as much as I hail Ron, he was never going to acceptable to the GOP. Rand using different tactics which require some flip-flopping. Do like it it but understand it.

          • dbrize September 12, 2022 at 12:38 pm #

            Sorry…bad proofreading:

            “…was never going to be acceptable…”

            “Do not like it but understand it”.

        • Night Owl September 12, 2022 at 2:33 pm #

          He is, but Rand is still miles better than virtually anyone else in that masonic swamp.

          • Uncle Bob September 12, 2022 at 4:51 pm #

            Paul, Mike Lee, sometimes Rafael Cruz and Josh Hawley. Definitely not my two senators, Kirsten Gillibrand and the festering piece of shit from Brooklyn that is Asshole Chuck Schumer, aka The Schoolmarm, aka Senator Schmendrick. And not Silent Bob Casey or Pat Toomey (soon to be replaced by either Dr. Oz or John “What’s a Job?” Fetterman) in Pennsylvania, either.

      • Jarek September 12, 2022 at 12:37 pm #

        They’re Libertarians. Libertarianism is a mind virus just like Feminism or Communism. One theory about one aspect of life is ballyhooed into the answer for everything.

        Free thinkers? You must be infected to think that.

        • 100th Avatar September 12, 2022 at 1:16 pm #

          The “Libertarian Party”, if it can even be called that, is a total circus.

          Apparently comedians, part-time intellectuals, and podcast hosts have wrested leadership control from a faction that approved of the totalitarian and liberty curtailing COVID policies.

          The only thing they seem to agree on:
          -no imperialist wars
          -no income taxes
          -less government in your life

          The concept of Libertarianism is another pie-in-the-sky ideology that does not even look good on paper, let alone in practice, but perhaps that is not the point.

          It is there to offer a tent for people who like to puff their chest about liberty, freedom, small government and lifelong martyrdom to a cause.

          Church of the We Don’t Even Know What We Really Want

      • workingclasshero September 12, 2022 at 12:39 pm #

        I thought the Paul’s were libertarians about 10 years ago. They are probably ideologically opposed to immigration controls.

    • Jo-G September 12, 2022 at 10:13 am #

      I agree that the rule of law has deteriorated at the federal level and some states too. I think that one of Mr. Kunstler’s speculations about how things will go post peak oil is that the Federal government won’t be able to enforce laws. Isn’t that what is beginning to happen now?

      • Walter B September 12, 2022 at 10:29 am #

        I think that at the bottom of this all is the cornerstone of our host’s theory that we are running out of crude. Did you see that we are now stealing truckloads of the stuff from Syria while we still can? Yup it is happening right before our eyes.

        • Paula D September 12, 2022 at 12:27 pm #

          Stealing oil AND wheat.

          And the Mighty Wurlitzer of propaganda that the US controls doesn’t say a damn word about it.

          And the “international community” inflamed into an uproar about Russia’s “violation of borders” ignores the fact that the US is occupying 30% of Syria land and stealing their oil and wheat.

          It’s all about control of the population and that takes the media to do it.

      • Woodchuck September 12, 2022 at 10:41 am #

        It remains to be seen just what sort of federal government we’ll have after our dollar dies and is no longer accepted in foreign trade. Anything needing dollars in order to operate may find itself running on just one cylinder instead of six. In the Long Emergency it may come down to mostly just local sheriffs enforcing laws. A totally bankrupt middle class might simply not have any resources left to tax and spend away on federal law enforcement. The feds might need their remaining meager resources for paying their phone and light bills and fixing the roof on the White House.

        • malthuss September 12, 2022 at 11:10 am #

          In East Germany, the gov workers quit as soon as the pay checks stopped.

          whats ahead? Vigilantes?

        • Jarek September 12, 2022 at 12:38 pm #

          Keeping people in prison is very expensive. It’s gonna have to be good riddance to bad garbage instead.

          • Cactus Girl September 12, 2022 at 2:17 pm #

            They’ll just let them out.

          • justanotherguy September 14, 2022 at 12:06 am #

            cg – prisons out of business lead to –

            – simpler solutions

        • Blackbird September 12, 2022 at 2:43 pm #

          “It remains to be seen just what sort of federal government we’ll have after our dollar dies and is no longer accepted in foreign trade.”

          Totalitarian.

          It’s what they want. It’s what they will give us.

      • thirdcoastlegend September 12, 2022 at 12:10 pm #

        Lionel Shriver came to a similar conclusion in her excellent novel, The Mandibles.

        In that tome the urban areas were still under tight control, but as the characters traveled farther into the countryside they realized that a lot of the authoritarian regulations were just a big bluff.

        • Night Owl September 12, 2022 at 2:36 pm #

          That is actually how things were in many parts of Europe during the Covid Hoax.

          There was lots of noise about border crossings being secured and spot checks to see if you tested yourself before entering, but in reality, the governments had no budget or personnel to enforce much.

          That is why they pushed so hard for the people to go after each other.

          • thirdcoastlegend September 12, 2022 at 3:05 pm #

            NO-

            The same thing happened with Cuomo’s attempt to force anyone entering NY state into the NYS quarantine and contact tracing schemes.

            There was no getting around this at the airports.

            The edict was totally unenforceable via land entry.

            That said, even folks who got trapped at the airports did not get effective follow-up and control from the contact tracers.

            Heck, I know at least one person who called them to follow-up that couldn’t get through!

    • cbeard September 12, 2022 at 10:39 am #

      Never vote for anyone with a D or an R beside their name on a ballot. The uni-party is THE problem. Vote Independent or for a new party, not made up of old school, old fool rep. or dems. Yes, Rand Paul and all of the other big talking crooks, Donald (ultimate narcissist)Trump among them. I have been torn about what to do this next election. No more, my mand is made up. Voting is an exercise in total futility. I will no longer waste my time casting a ballot for the lessor of two evils. I will seek out like minded people who are tired of bullshit and lies as I am. I am taking care of me and mine to the best of my ability. If there are any elections held at all for the mid terms and the next presidential race, they will be corrupt fiascos. Join up. Family, friends, clans, clubs, fraternities. Strength in numbers.

      • Not_GeorgeT September 12, 2022 at 11:05 am #

        “If there are any elections held at all for the mid terms… ” I’ve been saying for years the power to suspend elections already exists, it’s a matter of who does it.

        I thought the Kenyan would do it. Rumor being he is still running things from his basement (or fronting for Jarret and Friends), thus it’s very much still on the table.

        Your last 10 words sum up a lot.

        • thirdcoastlegend September 12, 2022 at 12:13 pm #

          NGT-

          I think there is a substantial risk the midterms will simply be canceled, or allowed to proceed with the results being ignored as the regime pivots to a narrative like, “….jeez, all these MAGAs were only elected due to massive fraud….we have to throw out these tainted results to protect our democracy…”

          • Paula D September 12, 2022 at 12:29 pm #

            They won’t cancel the elections.

            The elections are the biggest circus out there, with the most clowns.

            They’ll stop the bread before they stop the circus, imo.

          • Blackbird September 12, 2022 at 2:53 pm #

            I think we will have an “election” this year. Mail-in, maybe even vote by phone (’cause we are too damn stupid to figger out mail-in ballots). The result? The Blue Tsunami!. The Narrative: “Voters turned out in droves on Tuesday to put an end to this MAGA bullshit, to cancel the transphobic white nationalists, to enact commonsense gun control, to flatter the curve on Covid and Honkeypox, to open our borders to all the diverse effluent of the world…”

            We may even have an “election” in 2024 to prove that, yes, we would have overwhelmingly voted the Hildebeast into the Non-White House if we had been given that option.

            After that?

          • Blackbird September 12, 2022 at 2:55 pm #

            Damned italics

          • Paula D September 12, 2022 at 3:15 pm #

            Nailed it, Blackbird.

          • niner September 12, 2022 at 6:31 pm #

            Lots of time for events between Nov 08, 2022 elections and January 03, 2023 new congress.

            As we saw last time.

          • justanotherguy September 14, 2022 at 12:10 am #

            elections are no problem at all – cancelling will get from most people the kind of response that flashing blue lights in the rearview get.

          • justanotherguy September 14, 2022 at 12:11 am #

            eta – its the counting of the vote, as already seen, that will be the lever that moves the world.

            no way elections are cancelled.

      • JohnAZ September 12, 2022 at 11:12 am #

        Well. you are lost.

        You have believed the MSM about Trump and labelled him with all the negatives they have. Do you know Trump, what is the basis for your dislike? I think MAR A Lago will be a real surprise for you.

        Trump’s four years were the only time that this country has NOT grown towards uniparty control. For no other reason, the man should be returned to office to continue the fight against the Deep State.

        Vote, write a name in, vote for a third party, but vote. You become a non-citizen when you don’t. If you think that not voting gives you power in numbers, forget that, it gives you nothing.

        Think of the abolitionists in the early 1800s. Their persistence eventually paid off. Be ready to fight though if needed.

        Vote locally, vote for state folks that want to secede from the madness But vote.

        • Rowdypiglet September 12, 2022 at 12:06 pm #

          JohnAZ, you’re so right. Refusing to take part is both childish and self defeating. It’s not the best tool we have, but it’s a tool. Sitting in the corner and pouting helps no one, nor does building a private utopia of friends and family that will inevitably be destroyed by the refusal to look beyond them. The local elections matter most, and if you think they don’t – well, just wait.

          • JackStraw September 12, 2022 at 12:25 pm #

            Actually, believing in the system at this point is childish and self defeating. If you haven’t figured out yet that the system is completely rigged, you’re naive at best.

            If you keep doing the same thing and expecting a different result, there’s a term for that.

          • cbeard September 12, 2022 at 12:43 pm #

            Rowdy Piglet, I am not refusing to take part. I would vote for someone in a local election that really mattered. Friends and family may be all you have left to rely on in the end. I am Goddamned sure that you can’t rely on your government. Local elections could be important in some instances. It will take like minded people working together to survive the coming shit storms.

          • justanotherguy September 14, 2022 at 12:16 am #

            jackstraw from wichita, completely 100% spot on.

            where we are, even the composition of the state senate is corrupted, and the entire state’s policy is set by one urban area’s domination.

            even local elections are meaningless – local officials mostly are referees for feuding locals, and rubber stampers for non-gov’t state entities that are clearing houses for the uniform incremental creeping agenda 2030 implementation, in all its local minutiae impositions.

        • cbeard September 12, 2022 at 12:34 pm #

          Oh hell yes. I would vote for secession. Whatever anyone thinks of Trump, I believe he came along at the right time and was just the wake up call that a lot of folks needed. He has proven that he doesn’t have what it takes to handle the deep state. Not that any one man could. It will take a group effort of a military nature. People such as Trump (malignant narcissists) are not/cannot be a friend to anyone. To Trump, it is all about him. Nothing and no one else matters in his little shitty world. I still say that voting is an exercise in futility. Especially considering circumstances today.

          • JackStraw September 12, 2022 at 1:35 pm #

            He gave up the extravagant lifestyle of a billionaire to try and correct the course of the country, but to you, it’s all about him and his shitty little world.

            You’re the exact reason why things can’t get done, because you can’t even recognize when somebody is trying to help, but would rather focus on any BS negative story that is thrown at you. Wake up.

          • Blackbird September 12, 2022 at 2:58 pm #

            “He gave up the extravagant lifestyle of a billionaire…”

            He did? When? For how long? Where is he working now? McDonalds? Walmart? Gucci?

          • Uncle Bob September 12, 2022 at 5:59 pm #

            “It will take a group effort if a military nature”? So you advocate a fucking military coup to save America? With all due respect, are you out of your goddamned mind? Setting aside the small point that overthrowing an elected government in favor of a military junta would make the USA a banana republic with nukes, you do realize that the senior brass of the US military is mostly woke morons whose idea of a military operation involves ordering troops into battle against American farmers and suburbanites whom they see as legitimate targets, right? They’d rather slaughter every American who opposes the Deep State and WEF than lift a finger to stop the actual bad guys. That’s also why they’ve done their best to weed out Americanism in the ranks: to make sure the military will destroy the Constitution while saying they’re saving it. But if your idea of saving America involves the military killing other Americans and setting up Generalissimo Fred Schwartz as the new Dear Leader, it’s likely that nothing I can say will change your mind.

          • workingclasshero September 13, 2022 at 12:14 am #

            Secede too where? The Leftist are trying to slowly annihilate White bourgeoise European descendant Americans and people want to secede to state size nations with the same demographic that are destroying that culture. Compel THEM to secede and maybe win back the USA as our own with Marxists and their pet identity groupings moving to, for example, a leftist California/Oregon independent nation state or a deep south Black American nation state. We get the USA, our European ancestors built most of it and worked for it.

          • Not_GeorgeT September 13, 2022 at 4:30 pm #

            Secession has many forms.

            Realigning borders to create a few new states is a little, but not a lot, complex.

            The rural Northwest is an example. There are others, just takes creativity and a little planning.

        • Night Owl September 12, 2022 at 2:37 pm #

          I will never forget the day that CNN told me that when Trump hosted dignitaries at the White House, he would get two scoops of ice cream for dessert, and the guests would only get one.

          That is the kind of quality journalism that keeps one coming back, time after time.

          • cowbell81 September 12, 2022 at 2:57 pm #

            So true, we totally need more hard hitting reports about what kinds and flavor of puddings and Jello Biden enjoyed for dinner last night!

        • Rain Waters September 12, 2022 at 4:42 pm #

          Remember that people VOTED in Trump.

          • cowbell81 September 12, 2022 at 4:51 pm #

            Yes, and most likely the last true act of a legitimate vote or election we will ever see in this country in our lifetime.

            PTB will ensure the mistake of electing a Trump does not ever again occur legitimately.

          • MaryQueen September 15, 2022 at 10:02 pm #

            Are you 100% sure about that?

        • MaryQueen September 12, 2022 at 7:29 pm #

          Elections are fixed now which means voting is an exercise in futility. If they worked, they would have gotten rid of them by now.

      • Woodchuck September 12, 2022 at 12:00 pm #

        “Voting is an exercise in total futility. I will no longer waste my time casting a ballot for the lessor of two evils. I will seek out like minded people who are tired of bullshit and lies as I am. I am taking care of me and mine”

        In the Long Emergency I think you might still be voting. But just not for federal officials. You won’t be caring much about them because whatever they have to say won’t have much effect your actual situation, which will be a local one. You’ll be following closely your local and state officials like your sheriff, mayor, state rep, or governor. They will be the ones doing the hands on management of work that needs to be done in order for a semblance of civilized living to continue. You are riding a bicycle to work? Then you will want local bike trails and roads good for bike travel to be maintained and kept free of bandits.

        • justanotherguy September 14, 2022 at 12:24 am #

          in long emergency times, we will be voting by how we spend our time, and with whom, and by cooperating on a specific necessary effort.

          leaders that can draw people that way will not need to be voted in, and will last as long as they can avoid the temptation of corruption.

          in the absence of local warlords, of course.

    • Rowdypiglet September 12, 2022 at 11:17 am #

      I’m not at all sure that Rand Paul has had “everything needed to checkmate Fauci and put him behind bars for perjury.” If you mean everything in terms of proof, absolutely; we’ve all seen it. But so much of what is permitted to go on in this now lawless country is clearly illegal, the proof is there for all to see, and everyone who is paying the slightest attention is aware of it.

      But neither Rand Paul nor the rest of us has the power to implement the law if those who do simply refuse. This is of a piece with the many criminals who are arrested and whose crimes are openly committed in public, yet they’re released to do it again. We have everything needed to put them behind bars, yet it doesn’t happen.

      I think the idea that individual people who hold office can somehow overcome what is effectively a vast conspiracy with nearly unlimited power and money is not very realistic. Whatever you think of Mr. Trump, I suspect he learned this lesson early on. You can sign an executive order, but if people simply disregard it, what then?

      • Jarek September 12, 2022 at 12:42 pm #

        Wasn’t Rand trying to get Black criminals out of jail just like Trump actually did?

        Utter madness.

        • Night Owl September 12, 2022 at 2:38 pm #

          What about Micronesian criminals?

          Now that would be an outrage.

      • Blackbird September 12, 2022 at 3:02 pm #

        When a lowlife piece-of-shit like George Floyd is turned out back onto the streets again and again to continue his life of crime, why would a highlife piece-of-shit like Fauci face any consequences?

    • Paula D September 12, 2022 at 12:24 pm #

      Rand Paul doesn’t have the power to get the Deep State to arrest or convict anyone.
      It’s like King Canute ordering the tide to stop coming in.

      • Jarek September 12, 2022 at 12:44 pm #

        If Canute had been Russian, the tide would have stopped.

        You’re a stopped watch, on the right side for the first time in your life for purely mechanical reasons.

        • justanotherguy September 14, 2022 at 12:29 am #

          unnecessarily adhom reply there jurke. but worse, obscure, unfunny, and inapplicable.

          raise your standards, boy. if one is going to fake the pose of a public intellectual, one might need to get shiz polished.

    • TPTB-USA September 13, 2022 at 12:18 pm #

      What percent of the population realize that the system is being “gamed”?

      What percent of those that understand that the system is being “gamed”, realize the extent to which it is being “gamed”?

      At least the “verbal jousting theater on TV” is calling attention to the corruption. Other than armed conflict, what else would you suggest Rand Paul do?

      All this epitomizes the current state of affairs, where the population has arrived at the point where there is a failure to communicate. What happens when there is no possibility for reconciliation? Who is promoting the conflict? Who is at fault for the current state of affairs? What are the issues in order of importance?

  7. chopper September 12, 2022 at 9:57 am #

    “criminal misbehavior of the FBI” Come on Jim. We are way past anything that resembles misbehavior.

    • Beryl of Oyl September 12, 2022 at 10:37 am #

      It can’t be called misbehavior, when it is the only way they behave.

    • Not_GeorgeT September 12, 2022 at 11:06 am #

      I took it as a polite statement.

    • Walter B September 12, 2022 at 11:13 am #

      Absolutely, it is in your face outright sellout screw you, pay or die! JFK and RFK were right to fear the unholy matrimony of organized crime and government. Clearly this is where we are at.

      • Uncle Bob September 12, 2022 at 6:18 pm #

        They feared it, and look how they ended up. And their idiot brother did as he was told, and got th o live a long, debauched life. Sad.

        • justanotherguy September 14, 2022 at 12:30 am #

          that still chap-a-quiddicks my a$$.

    • Paula D September 12, 2022 at 12:32 pm #

      It’s better to call it “criminal misbehavior” than “a scandal”.

      Ever notice that the crimes of the rich are called “scandals” instead of crimes?

      Everything from drug abuse to bank theft to murder, it’s all just a ”scandal” when the wealthy do it.

      At least “criminal misbehavior” includes the word ”crime”.

    • Jarek September 12, 2022 at 12:46 pm #

      Yeah, like Lady Gaga singing to Bill Clinton about a “Bill Romance” – he loved it. Ain’t misbehavin’!

  8. Freddie September 12, 2022 at 9:57 am #

    Excellent article, Jim.

    Cutting the power to western Ukraine is a good start. And this winter will be a wake-up call for the EU. Addicts and psychos can only be induced to reverse course by hitting a wall…as they say in AA, by “hitting bottom”. The danger is that even AA acknowledges that to reverse course and attempt recovery after hitting bottom represents a “miracle”. It’s a miracle because an even worse outcome is always a distinct possibility; that being…..death, total destruction.

    • justanotherguy September 14, 2022 at 12:34 am #

      the bounce on this one hitting bottom might be the flashy and familiar 3 neutrons out for 1 in, fast runaway mode.

      word was one in three uniforms in the recent ukr advance had nato markings. nato all in is coming.

  9. Dr. Coyote September 12, 2022 at 10:03 am #

    A muddy, cold, meaningless war that leaves the West impoverished, exposed, and possibly radioactive? No, I really can’t think of any normal people who want that, but that is exactly what we’ll get if we push on this rope any harder.

    After twenty years of what started as – at least to first approximation – a meaningful, quick, decisive war, does the junta behind Biden really think the people of the U.S. are ready and enthusiastic for what appears from the outset to be a catastrophic quagmire? Does the administration really think they’ll get the usual wartime president boost out of this?

    They’re even bigger idiots than they seemed, so probably yes. As you said last Friday, “here it comes” – yep.

    • Woodchuck September 12, 2022 at 10:27 am #

      It seems that the USA is the most warlike country on the planet and has NOT been at war for a total time period of only 17 years since its founding. I’m getting this from a new post on Lew Rockwell’s site called “America’s War History”.

      In my youth the war issue of the time was about Vietnam. There was a tremendous amount of discussion on the subject everywhere while the war was going on. Demonstrations, student uprisings etc. After the war ended in total defeat and humiliation for the USA, nobody wanted to talk about it anymore. Certainly nobody in government wished to discuss anything at all as to *why* we failed. If you cannot learn from your mistakes you’ll be doomed to repeat them forever.

      Not once did the general population of the US examine itself and ask itself how the nation could have been fooled into senselessly and criminally killing millions of people overseas in southeast Asia. For what? Exactly for what reason did almost 60,000 of some of our strongest and healthiest Americans die in Vietnam.

      Instead of getting answers to those questions we instead (myself and my peers) went disco dancing, getting laid, and snorting coke. We killed vast numbers of people in Asia for no good reason? Who cares!! It’s time to party! Time to go crusin’

      • Beryl of Oyl September 12, 2022 at 10:42 am #

        I’ve mentioned this before, but that war did damage to the black “community” that nobody talks about.

        The trend of blacks marrying at a lower rate coincided with a war that took out just enough of the marriageable black men.

        • malthuss September 12, 2022 at 11:11 am #

          no it was LBJs fault.

          • elysianfield September 12, 2022 at 11:29 am #

            Beryl, Malthuss,
            You might consider that it WAS LBJ’s fault. Not the Vietnam War, but rather the War on Poverty.

            Black cuture might not have been matriarchal before transfer payments, but it certainly became so afterwards.

          • Beryl of Oyl September 12, 2022 at 12:09 pm #

            Elysian, it was both. Black women of a certain generation had slim pickin’s when it came to husbands.

          • Jarek September 12, 2022 at 1:00 pm #

            Black men in the Men’s Rights Community talk about being thrown out by their women so that they can get more welfare.

            In any case, marriage was always weaker among them, even back in Africa. The nuclear family is weak, but the clan is strong. We can learn from them in this.

          • MaryQueen September 12, 2022 at 11:53 pm #

            How can you condemn feminism and other groups but defend MRAs?

            LMAO.

          • Jarek September 13, 2022 at 12:02 pm #

            In other words, men don’t have any rights.

            Fuck you.

          • MaryQueen September 13, 2022 at 8:46 pm #

            Ooooh testy.

            *Rent free livin’*

          • justanotherguy September 14, 2022 at 12:39 am #

            once again, the enviable community builder kuoweenmary, with a cutting, helpful, insightful, enlightening, highly self aware, open minded…

            one note reply.

          • Jarek September 15, 2022 at 2:47 am #

            Yes, you’re a grifter of sorts and of course a dumb cunt.

          • MaryQueen September 15, 2022 at 5:56 pm #

            I broke Jarek’s brain.

            And I’m loving it.

        • Mac September 12, 2022 at 2:30 pm #

          Beryl- Why marry a black man when you can marry Uncle Sam?

          • cowbell81 September 12, 2022 at 2:56 pm #

            Was shopping this weekend and saw a rather attractive young girl at the register with her Black man. Too bad, it just broke my heart, knowing that we lost another one. I guess if the Black ladies don’t want them the young White ones will pick up the slack.

          • MaryQueen September 12, 2022 at 7:34 pm #

            “we lost another one.”

            Just, wow.

          • justanotherguy September 14, 2022 at 12:41 am #

            don’t think he meant you… that ship sailed a while ago, right?

          • Anthea September 15, 2022 at 1:03 pm #

            @ Mac:

            Part of the preference for Uncle Sam over a black man, on the part of black women is this: Who in their right mind would marry a black man? I think their deficiencies as life partners has often been covered in this forum: poor impulse control, low IQ, inability to defer gratification, propensity to violence, substance abuse proclivities, a culture that denigrates women as ho’s, etc. Plus they probably don’t have a job and can’t hold a job, and in cases where they can and do, their income is unlikely to be spent to provide for the family. (That’s the women’s job, right?)

            Life on welfare and food stamps is a life of poverty. If a life on welfare looks better to a woman than life with you, you are a pretty poor specimen of a man.

      • steppingup September 12, 2022 at 10:47 am #

        Same reason we always go to war, it’s always is and will always be about the money…..

        • Woodchuck September 12, 2022 at 11:04 am #

          Oh my! Oh my! How can you be so cynical and unpatriotic? We fought our most horrifying war in order to end the institution of slavery. Really? The Northern US was *that* desperate to end an institution that wasn’t even going on inside their own boundaries?

          We fought WWI in order to keep the world “safe for democracy”. Really? Next, ok, we fought WWII to save the world from Hitler (possibly our only war that made any sense).

          We destroyed a considerable part of Vietnam because of the “domino theory”. Our wars always get started from the most idiotic of lame theories, false flag attacks, newspaper yellow journalism, etc. A group of people in our government have a “theory”, like the domino theory. And when the get a “theory” well in hand, it’s time to go to war. Just like they apparently had a “theory” that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction. That’s all it takes for us to go to war. Just give us a “theory” and we’re off to the races.

          Our military will all be coming back home after we’re completely bankrupt and the rest of the world has moved on and left us behind. We’ll be left stranded on our island just as Napoleon ended up stranded on his. The rest of Europe got weary of Napoleon’s “theories”.

          • spaingaroo September 12, 2022 at 6:16 pm #

            why did you add that (possibly our only war that made any sense)?
            You know better than Patton ¿no?
            “We defeated the wrong enemy”
            General George S Patton 1945

          • justanotherguy September 14, 2022 at 12:44 am #

            that’s some powerful sophomore history right there.

            all wars are banker wars. keep it simple. the monsters doing all this are not acting according to citizen’s will or aspirations.

        • JohnAZ September 12, 2022 at 11:16 am #

          More than that, it is the Military Industrial Complex getting its share of the money pie. Since WW2. Eisenhower knew and warned us.

          To no avail.

          • Blackbird September 12, 2022 at 3:09 pm #

            Eisenhower knew, enabled the take over of the US government by the Military Industrial Complex, and then pretended to warn us.

        • Jarek September 12, 2022 at 1:02 pm #

          Woody: The Yankees kept selling Black slaves even after the war ended.

          Did you inhale?

          • Woodchuck September 12, 2022 at 2:52 pm #

            inhaling or not is irrelevant. Yeah, the Yankees were selling slaves after the war ended because they didn’t care about slavery one way or the other. The hysteria was all about the sacredness and total necessity of the existence of the “union”.

            Who knows, maybe Lincoln was into wierd spiritual stuff, after all, he and Mary had sceances in the White House hoping to get their dead son to appear. Lincoln was concerned about “mystic cords” and such things. You know, mystic stuff! We fought the Battle of Gettysburg to keep our “mystic cords of memory” all tied up in one place. It was vital for us to secede from King George, but NOT ok for the South to do the same. That’s cause we didn’t have the proper mystic cords in that situation.

          • Woodchuck September 12, 2022 at 2:53 pm #

            Really, my comment is awaiting moderation? Just who the hell is moderating this place beside JHK?

          • Jarek September 12, 2022 at 11:49 pm #

            Chords not cords. You’re being impertinent.

          • justanotherguy September 14, 2022 at 1:00 am #

            chords – music, cords – binding. be hard pressed to use a metaphor with intend and have it fail so precisely by mis-wording it to reach the opposite meaning…

            apparently inhaled while sitting down at the keyboard just then.

            lincoln drew the short straw for the inevitable denouement that was justified for sake of the price of cotton. a lose – lose, and killed before he could possibly undo the inevitable damage done to the founder’s republic – an insoluble problem.

            banker’s armies win either way.

            they knew he knew, because he chose debt free greenbacks – not borrowed into existence with debt chains like fed bux.

      • Walter B September 12, 2022 at 11:15 am #

        And Mommy and Daddy send their children off to be ground into hamburger without a care in the world. Damn.

        • MaryQueen September 12, 2022 at 7:36 pm #

          And if they stay home, they may be sterilized by vaxx or trans.

          • justanotherguy September 14, 2022 at 1:01 am #

            or just as bad, learn envy and misery with feminist indoctrination.

          • MaryQueen September 15, 2022 at 10:34 pm #

            Yes, that horrible radical feminist ‘indoctrination’ which doesn’t exist in any institutions or schools. But you’re too stupid to know the difference between 3d wave feminism and 2d & 4th.

            4th wave feminism is very pro-motherhood, family unit, etc. which is why it fights the TRA so vehemently. Maybe shut your ignorant pie-hole since you don’t have a clue?

          • justanotherguy September 18, 2022 at 10:29 pm #

            rent free for me now, genius

      • Jarek September 12, 2022 at 1:03 pm #

        Yup. Just look at Afghanistan debacle.

      • Uncle Bob September 12, 2022 at 6:28 pm #

        From what I understand, Vietnam was fought so The Company could take over the Asian drug trade, to allow American businesses to have access to certain rare minerals, and ultimately to get them involved in the global commercial web. So, everything from clothes to model trains to kitchen wares are being made in Vietnam.

        • Paula D September 12, 2022 at 7:14 pm #

          As I understand it, the Company was allied with the Kuomintang drug runners even before they were named the CIA.
          (They were also allied with Mafia drug runners during WW2).

          There was a military flyover here a few years ago, honoring some local dude who crashed his plane in Burma in 1940.

          I pointed out that he was most likely running guns and drugs and lost a friend over it.

          • justanotherguy September 14, 2022 at 1:03 am #

            the mafia was nearly done before ww2, but was stood up by the company again. proved to be a useful tool, no doubt…

          • justanotherguy September 14, 2022 at 1:08 am #

            btw, was the 1940 crash in burma part of or complementary to the flying tigers? that was apparently getting our marks clearly on the ‘against japan’ side.

            helpful but certainly not provocative… /s

            you have a keen mind, pd, but patriots, even poorly informed, are better friends than enemies. i doubt you’re a leftist, but might have come across that way.

    • SW September 12, 2022 at 10:35 am #

      The junta behind Biden does not care if the people of the US are ready OR enthusiastic for yet another quagmire anymore than Trudeau cared if the truckers were within their rights to protest. Or if there was any reason whatsoever for keeping the schools closed, pushing vaccines on toddlers or forcing a war in Ukraine or pretending the Capital was in grave danger on January 6th or — the list is too long to state them all.

      • JohnAZ September 12, 2022 at 11:19 am #

        Yes!!!!

        The Deep State no longer belongs to the people of America. They are a separate group fighting us for their survival. How? By controlling Money and capital.

        • justanotherguy September 14, 2022 at 1:10 am #

          the deep state was on the side of america at one time? that ship sailed soon after cw1, i think.

  10. Beryl of Oyl September 12, 2022 at 10:18 am #

    I wonder if the Albany Times Union would publish this piece as an op-ed?

    What am I saying?

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    • SW September 12, 2022 at 10:47 am #

      Maybe no. But they’ll gladly trumpet Zelensky’s open invitation to crooks to pillage his nation and he rings the bell (virtually) on Wall Street just like the eager puppet he is.

      • Beryl of Oyl September 12, 2022 at 11:15 am #

        They never even bother to ask, where is he getting all this? Who is advising him, and how do they know?

        • justanotherguy September 14, 2022 at 1:11 am #

          given how easily they lie, and how useful to their racket, why would they even care to investigate ukr z-boy…

    • Uncle Bob September 12, 2022 at 6:35 pm #

      Only if there’s an angle exposing stupidity and corruption by politicians or bureaucrats. And even then, they’d want to protect the Democrats as much as possible.

    • RelativeGuise September 15, 2022 at 4:10 pm #

      don’t say “smart”

  11. BackRowHeckler September 12, 2022 at 10:21 am #

    Jim, good to see you comment on events in Ukraine. Scanning news reports in western media this morning, every outlet is proclaiming the Ukrainian offensive in Donbas is resulting in a great military victory over Russia. The Atlantic even has a lead article on how (we) should handle Russia after Russia surrenders, and how quickly Nuremburg style war crimes trials could be set up at the Hague.

    Speaking of boundaries, as I type this a TV news segment is running about a ‘Gender Neutral’ fashion show that took place somewhere in the state this weekend, with video of pasty, emaciated soyboys swishing down the runway wearing women’s clothing, looking fab.

    • JohnAZ September 12, 2022 at 10:37 am #

      Nuremberg war trials?

      I guess the Russians will just line up and be marched into Germany to stand trial.

      Besides, if war crimes are being committed, who is keeping the tally sheet of who is doing them?

      How the heck are we going to get the media in this country to STFU? They are worthless, no dangerous to the future of this country.

      JHK has presented, I hope, a true representation of what is really going on in Ukraine. IMHO, anything that knocks Biden’s Mob on its ass is a good thing, along with the entirety of the WEF.

      This madness must end.

      • Not_GeorgeT September 12, 2022 at 11:13 am #

        I believe the Russian Federation has the tally sheet in the form of the treasure trove of information they acquired when they chose to capture instead of just destroy the bioweapons labs during their Special Military Operation in the Ukraine region.

        • Paula D September 12, 2022 at 12:38 pm #

          Yep, they have the info on the bioweapon labs, plus the MoD announced that they have proof that the US is behind not just the original release of SARS 2, but the “variants” released since then. Since the Mighty Wurlitzer has spent the last 2 1/2 years trumpeting that Scary Virus, you would think that that information would make a dent in the msm “news”. (Of course, it hasn’t).

          They also have the video evidence that the idiot Ukie nazis released of them torturing and murdering Russia POWs.

          Of course there will be no justice coming from “the Hague”, which is part of the western alliance of crooks and criminals that they like to call “the international community”.

          • Jarek September 12, 2022 at 1:05 pm #

            Don’t say the Hague, say the Hag.

        • justanotherguy September 14, 2022 at 1:18 am #

          the ukr offensive is a bust.

          russia managed a tactical retreat that gave ukr territory and the ability to torture the russian speakers remaining. 3000 sq km, at a cost of ~3000 ukr military and virtually no russian men or materiel lost.

          ukr military throws out a big pitch late in the game, a flash in the pan, like the germans at the end of 1944. delaying the inevitable outcome.

          wonder if all the ukr lapel pin libs here really want this fought to the blood of the last ukranian?

          at least z will have a good payday, maybe buy a maga yacht or something. real playa.

  12. Ron Anselmo September 12, 2022 at 10:21 am #

    Morning Jim – excellent as always. Thanks, as always.

    Watch Kharviv, Ukraine’s second largest city @ 1.4 million people, without power – it’ll pay to watch & learn – coming to neighborhoods near us soon.

    Also, notice the number of steel mills in the EU shut down due to lack of energy. Ah, who needs steel? Answer: Any industrialized economy. Get ready for the post-industrial society you’ve painted in THMBH. It’s coming, as is winter.

    Hang tough – that’s all we can do.

    • Socrates-Detroit September 12, 2022 at 10:29 am #

      This is such a brilliant column on so many levels.

      Perhaps, to paraphrase, never have so many issues of so much import been covered with so few words.

      • justanotherguy September 14, 2022 at 1:20 am #

        and been so completely ignored or denied by the legacy media. american pravda as ron unz says.

    • Ron Anselmo September 12, 2022 at 11:02 am #

      *TWMBH* – I’m all THUMBS this morning.

  13. Alfred September 12, 2022 at 10:22 am #

    how much does Russia have to disrupt life in the rest of Ukraine outside the Donbas to drive the US and NATO into serious peace talks?

    Not much. A depressed teenager with an AR-15 brought America to it’s knees…

    Kinda makes me wonder what everybody’s thinking. Wanton mass destruction of global thinker’s minds. Replaced by elocutions of scripted mass delusions, composed and resurrected for usage in these times. How thinly veiled their motives to which they are devoted. They set about so blissfully the spinning of their lies. Friends and dearest family all gather round the tee-vee and offer up so willingly their hears, their souls, their lives…

    Think I’ll let you leave me left behind.

    When all of this is over, I hope you will remember, the choices we accepted, of yours and ours and mine. If made with the same ignorance of those who take our fingerprints I dread the day when these events no longer stay behind.

    Think I’ll let you leave me left behind.

    Does anybody ponder, the fruits these seeds we’re sewing? We see before us growing? How bad it’s taste with time? No, you go on without me. I think I know completely, what’s happening inside your skull is yet another sign.

    Think I’ll let you leave me left behind.

    #FJB

    • messianicdruid September 12, 2022 at 12:40 pm #

      The rapture of the wicked will be shocking.

  14. lizharmon September 12, 2022 at 10:27 am #

    The sanctions are a total failure. We have pushed the Global South into Russia and China’s arms. We are in the process of destroying Europe. Of course, Europe is not without fault in this. They elected their leaders, after all, and it has been obvious for well over a decade what they are. Canada continues to crumble. And yes, the vaunted Ukrainian offensive looks like a trap. America is the new Great Britain. Best thing now would be for Alberta to leave the Confederation and be joined by Saskatechewan, Montana and the Dakotas. I’d emigrate tomorrow.

    • Jarek September 12, 2022 at 1:07 pm #

      I nominate OG for President.

      • cowbell81 September 12, 2022 at 2:52 pm #

        And MaryQueen can be his running mate…..lol

      • cowbell81 September 12, 2022 at 2:53 pm #

        And MQ can be his running mate….lol

        (original post stuck in moderation for some reason!?!? maybe because I mention “q-u-e-e-n???)

        • Blackbird September 12, 2022 at 3:13 pm #

          Queen

          • Blackbird September 12, 2022 at 3:13 pm #

            @cowbell,

            Nope, probably not that…

          • MaryQueen September 12, 2022 at 9:16 pm #

            You called, m’lord?

        • spaingaroo September 12, 2022 at 6:22 pm #

          normally it seems to be links with the the http part that stop the comments in moderation, but there may be a blacklist too

          • spaingaroo September 12, 2022 at 6:23 pm #

            or a list of color perhaps

  15. dplainview September 12, 2022 at 10:29 am #

    Good:

    “If the conservative opposition seizes majority control of the US House of Representatives on November 8, all the US players in this coup will be called to testify.”

    UniParty Reality Better:

    “SHOULD the conservative opposition seizes majority control of the US House of Representatives on November 8, all the US players in this coup MAY be called to testify.”

    Hope is the last to die.

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    • JohnAZ September 12, 2022 at 10:42 am #

      The first people that need to be discharged are McCarthy and McConnell. Their political graves are required before a non Deep State situation can occur. RINOs are enemy number one to the conservative wing.

  16. steppingup September 12, 2022 at 10:30 am #

    The perps as you call them will never be touched. Besides, there is only one perp, or family as the case may be. Whoever controls the money controls the energy, environment, food and drugs. And only one family controls all the money, and it sure as hell aint the Biden’s, Bushes, Clintons, Obamas, Cheney’s or Kissinger. It is either the Rothschilds or
    Paysers.
    “I care not what puppet is placed on the throne of England to rule the Empire. The man who controls Britain’s money supply controls the British Empire and I control the British money supply.” – Nathan Mayer Rothschild. Now they own the Federal Reserve…..
    Its tough finding anything on the Paysers, don’t know if that is the correct spelling even. Daniel Payser as far as I researched was the son of Marie Antionette and king Loui and was brought to the us right as the French revolution kicked off. how much wealth he brought with him only my hair dresser knows for sure.
    Then there is the Wallenberg’s. Regardless, it sure as hell isn’t some lowlife lefty running things and that is for sure.

    • JohnAZ September 12, 2022 at 10:46 am #

      Think Mob. Think of all the national mobs coming together to form a globalist mob. Think of so much influence that they can create a Biden nightmare here and a porous border everywhere in the world to allow the destruction of all mores and folkways. The illicit trades are financing the globalist debt.

      • justanotherguy September 14, 2022 at 1:25 am #

        they are together now of necessity, but they manifest all the evil that makes civil life impossible, and it will cause them to turn on each other on the eve of their victory.

        God wins.

    • Not_GeorgeT September 12, 2022 at 11:24 am #

      Payseurs run under radar better.

      • niner September 12, 2022 at 7:22 pm #

        I have to think that this Temple Fortress is related to those bloodlines.

        Read the art.

        It will chill your heart.

        youtube.com/watch?v=FHa7DBbOxZg ;

        Templar Commandery Peyrassol House of the Sun, weird Statues & chased by guys with sledge hammers

    • Jarek September 12, 2022 at 1:11 pm #

      It’s said that the last King of France died in torment, being kept naked in a cold, dark room and forced to sing dirty songs about his parents, King Louie and Marie Antionette.

      The heart was saved as a relic and passed down generation to generation.

  17. MelvinHashbrown September 12, 2022 at 10:39 am #

    Jim sounds afraid his stream of income is about to dry up. It’ll be interesting to see what happens to all the Russian propaganda spewers once Daddy Vlad is dead.

    • Beryl of Oyl September 12, 2022 at 10:45 am #

      Thanks for confirming that he is right over the target.

    • JohnAZ September 12, 2022 at 10:48 am #

      I will bet you thought VietNam, Iraq and Afghanistan were holy wars. Did you want LBJ, Bush 2 dead also?

    • BackRowHeckler September 12, 2022 at 12:17 pm #

      The guy replacing ‘Daddy Vlad’ might be a bigger nationalist & buster of balls than Putin himself is. Haha what a surprise that’ll be, huh?

    • Paula D September 12, 2022 at 12:41 pm #

      Wow, even CFN has been assigned its own troll.

      They are running scared that the population is starting to reject their bullshit.

    • Anthea September 12, 2022 at 1:26 pm #

      Kind of sounds to me like you’re afraid the stream of income flowing to the MIC, Zelensky, and the Bidens & Co. is about to dry up. Doubtless you in a position in which such a drought would have a negative impact on your own stream of income, due to your being a beneficiary of the machinery of government in some capacity.

    • Night Owl September 12, 2022 at 2:42 pm #

      Is Carghoul back?

      Please, please, please …

    • spaingaroo September 12, 2022 at 6:24 pm #

      like those that talk about the antivax industry, haha indeed

  18. Beryl of Oyl September 12, 2022 at 10:49 am #

    I thought I was going to have to go to Walmart today, but it got worse. I now have to go to the airport.

    I was just reading a 9/11 article laast night that reminded me of all the security theater that was put in place, and remains in place, which makes traveling to the airport such a major PITA instead of a minor inconvenience.

    Republicans did that, and then the Obama administration made it worse.

    These are the people who are going to stop this totalitarian takeover?

    • JohnAZ September 12, 2022 at 11:29 am #

      The Patriot Act is one of the Bush W items that shows how much he and Cheney were in the Deep State.

      Iraq AND Afghanistan, how many presidents can get us into two wars.

      BTW, did everyone see the twitter picture of building 7 and its explosions? Any one got an explanation for those explosions?

      I swear, if all the dirty tricks by this government were exposed, the very necessary revolution would occur. Since JFK!

      If you watched Thirteen Days in May, you will remember that JFK spent much effort trying to keep the MIC from going to war against Russia during the Cuban missile crisis.

      I think that was the movie title, anyway.

      • spaingaroo September 12, 2022 at 6:27 pm #

        do you have a link for that twitter picture?
        I tried searching, but you know how that goes these days.

        • Paula D September 12, 2022 at 7:17 pm #

          I’ll try spaingaroo, but sometimes when I link to a Twitter photo it shows up as the account instead.

          twitter.com/0ctoberReignz/status/1568910900320681984?cxt=HHwWgIDSndiJ8sUrAAAA

      • DaveO907 September 13, 2022 at 12:38 am #

        Biden (his handlers/operatives) wrote the Patriot Act back in the mid-90s. The Duopoly is well organized in their service to the Owners.
        There was a movie called “Seven Days in May” that referenced a military coup in the U.S. if I recall correctly. Burt Lancaster was the lead actor.
        Regarding JFK’s attempts to cool the situation down during the Cuban Missile crisis, Gen Curtis LeMay was the supreme loudmouth trying to launch all of our nukes. He also refused to put out his cigar while present at JFK’s Bethesda “autopsy,” in fact,, he was grinning all the way through it.
        November 22, 1963. The Day the USA died.

  19. Beryl of Oyl September 12, 2022 at 10:58 am #

    Off topic, or rather on topic for Friday’s piece-

    Queen Elizabeth’s death, yes I do morn, and I want to mourn with all the ceremony, pomp and dignity one former empire can muster.

    If you have ever sat across the table from a loved one, and heard him talk about his days in France, in a forest, in a tank, in a goddam TANK, it may give you some clue as to why I mourn.

    I’m not just mourning my people, or a generation. We are closing the books on World War Two. The people who fought it are to be relegated to the dustbin of history, and how long before we see them treated like we see our civil war dead treated?

    Western civilization will not be the same.

    Are there any heads of state remaining, who experienced that war firsthand?

    • Rowdypiglet September 12, 2022 at 11:38 am #

      Yes, Beryl, Elizabeth’s death is the end of the old world and soon few people will know what it was and what we have lost. That’s probably the worst thing, that the fake past they’ve created out of whole cloth will replace the world that once was, and no one will be able to call it up even in imagination. I mourn too, for all that we have lost which was somehow embodied in one person who was at the heart of it, who lived it, and who remembered.

      • Rain Waters September 12, 2022 at 5:29 pm #

        Theres new kids in town. Some call it gen Z, I prefer Omegas.

        Watched 18 yo Jackson Goldstone and Remco Evenepoel assume full spectrum domination of cycling literally hours after her royal departure. Coincidence of the week.

        Indeed, times suddenly change.

        Shes Gone

    • BackRowHeckler September 12, 2022 at 12:14 pm #

      Canadian author Stephen O’Shea makes that point in his book ‘Back to the Front’, written in the 1990s, walking WW1 battlefields in France & Belgium where hundreds of thousands of lives were lost 1914-1918, and visiting war monuments to the dead that sit abandoned and unvisited (as he notes the Viet Nam War Memorial will be by 2050)

      • Jarek September 12, 2022 at 1:15 pm #

        No one bothers to keep up the memorials in Ireland to those stupid enough to have died for the British Empire. Fighting for one’s enemy is stupid. It’s like White guys joining the American armed forces at this point.

        • cowbell81 September 12, 2022 at 2:50 pm #

          Every time I see the US Army recruiting stations, it is always “manned” by young Black thugs, or women of questionable virtue.

  20. Beryl of Oyl September 12, 2022 at 11:03 am #

    Another O/T remark.

    No, Diana’s riding instructor did not father Harry. The two did not meet until after Harry was born.

    This is the Viscount Althorp, Harry’s first cousin on his mother’s side.

    Giant gingers run in Diana’s family.

    https://64.media.tumblr.com/d2a59242e6d8aecbdcce5129c028fb09/tumblr_p91itvqE3N1ve6bumo2_1280.jpg

    It’s occurre to me that Harry single-handedly elevated the statusof gingers worldwide, and then sank it again.

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    • Rowdypiglet September 12, 2022 at 11:41 am #

      He was charming as a young man, because you feel indulgent toward those adolescent qualities in someone who actually is an adolescent. But he grew into a weak, pathetic man who seems now to be no more than a spokesperson for the voracious woman who controls him.

      • Jarek September 12, 2022 at 1:17 pm #

        Yes, he had many fine qualities, but alas, the death of Diana might have a giant hole in his psyche that Me Gain saw and exploited.

  21. mitchellc September 12, 2022 at 11:11 am #

    WalterB: “our host’s theory that we are running out of crude”.

    I really enjoy your posts; good insight and commentary.

    Now, imagine how much more compressive and encompassing they could really be if you were better informed about resource scarcity.

    I would suggest exploring the why Hawaii was annexed (coaling station for pacific fleet), originations of BP and Shell, GBs first major offensive in WW1 (Basra, not the Western front), supply worries during the 20s, the motivations behind Stalingrad and Pearl, MIC studies during the 50s (Hubbert), the inception of the nuclear Navy, and of course publication of limits to growth, carter’s warnings and the iniation of kissinger’s WEF.

    What you’ll discover is that all global events for at least 130 years have been over control of the globes fossil fuels. That means the #1 priority and focus of both public and foreign policy of every UN security council member nation.

    Jim probably knew all of this, especially Club of rome, and aa an excellent writer realized there was a good market for describing the effects on a comatose populace.

    However, the mistake he, I, and many others made was realizing just how far down the path our so called ‘republics’ were in establishing plans to handle the very real fallout resulting from our collective appointment with destiny.

    It doesn’t matter when it all comes together, it only matters when you finally shed all the truth avoidance, denial, bargaining (oh, then we will ride e-bikes), anger, sadness, whatever, and finally accept that these mother f’ers are way way ahead of everyone, and what’s more, have every intention of staying on top.

    That’s when it all finally makes absolute perfect sense, and allows you to finally observe& note the various broad scale strategic plans and associated tactical steps sifted from the daily news (or, evident from their suppression).

    This is the point where it can actually become a bit entertaining, because you can now yell out, like Patton, “you magnificent bastard, I read your book!”

    • Night Owl September 12, 2022 at 11:50 am #

      “What you’ll discover is that all global events for at least 130 years have been over control of the globes fossil fuels. That means the #1 priority and focus of both public and foreign policy of every UN security council member nation.”

      The history of mankind is largely a battle over resources.

      That said, there is no hard evidence that we are at the end of fossil fuels, and we have only just begun to tap alternatives.

      Your head is so far up your own arse that even obvious points such as these escape you.

      • Beryl of Oyl September 12, 2022 at 12:23 pm #

        The cost of obtaining the fossil fuels is a factor.

      • Woodchuck September 12, 2022 at 12:23 pm #

        There is plenty of hard evidence that we’ve blown through most of all the easy to get oil in the USA. Most of the low hanging fruit has been picked. The remainder takes very high tech and energy intensive inputs to pump out. It might remain in the ground a lot longer because supply chain disruptions remove from the market a key component of the fracking process.

        We will not be picking *all* the rest of the high hanging fruit on the fossil fuel tree, only a portion of it. And a lot of what is left should be reserved for our descendents. They will be furious with us if we pig everything up, leaving them with barely enough just to run rototillers, mopeds, mowers, and back porch washing machines. I wouldn’t blame any of our descendents if sometime in the future they stop maintaining our graves entirely. Instead they choose to disturb our rest by digging us up, tossing us in landfills, and trashing us like we trashed them.

        About that high hanging “ff fruit” we think we’re all entitled to. Continuing the analogy, let’s say you have a big orchard and your workers have all the stuff bagged that’s within reach of a worker on a step ladder. For the rest, the grower needs what’s commonly called a “cherry picker”. A machine made using fossil fuels as well as one that runs on fossil fuel. The machine becomes useless for picking because the resources aren’t there to run it. You pick the rest by hand somehow or fuggedabout it. If it turns out that you must pay your workers the same amount of money you get from selling the fruit, and leaving nothing for you – well – you will have no incentive outside of philanthropy to harvest any of the rest of the crop.

        • Jarek September 12, 2022 at 1:20 pm #

          The answer comes form India: monkeys on leashes. There are glyphs from Ancient Egypt that show baboons working in the fields…..

          Apes together, strong!

          Will Night Owl ever become an Ape or will he always be an App? Better an App than an Apu of course.

        • Night Owl September 12, 2022 at 2:48 pm #

          The folks telling me I will own nothing and be happy are the same folks telling me that mother earth is all out of fuel and that she is being crushed under the weight of all da peoplez — you know the “useless eaters.”

          Forgive me if I am no longer able to accept such ideas.

          • Anthea September 13, 2022 at 9:27 am #

            @ Night Owl:

            I share your skepticism. As with most everything else, it is pointless to discuss “over-population” without first defining the term. Is a country over-populated if its territorial basis is inadequate to feed its population through the country’s own agricultural production? What if this same country is immensely productive in other ways, such as manufacturing? What if it has significant mineral wealth or fossil-fuel wealth? In the latter cases, such a country will be able to feed its population through trade, which will allow it to import food from agriculturally rich countries.

            Is a country over-populated because its cities are crowded up, and there is no urban infrastructure for public sanitation (like water and sewer)? And is the infrastructure absent because its cities are not productive enough to capitalize such projects?

            Are the people in these “over-populated” countries poor because the people’s real productivity–whether of agriculture or other kinds–is inadequate to provide for them? Or is it because most of the country’s production is being skimmed off (or stolen) by its elites?

            One of Henry George’s memorable sayings was that whenever a new mouth to feed is born, it is also born with two hands.

            There are also large areas of the world that are not over-populated, and some that are under-populated. Russia, for example, is under-populated. It’s a pretty big place, accounting for quite a lot of the earth’s total land mass. Its resources–of all kinds–are immense.

            The US is not over-populated. Mexico is not over-populated, nor is Canada.

            Most of the earth’s poverty occurs because most of the people’s labor products are stolen from the by the elites. In other cases, people are unproductive because they are literally not ALLOWED to work without permission from the State.

          • Anthea September 13, 2022 at 9:49 am #

            @ Night Owl:

            Re the depletion of fossil fuels, there is a lot of conflicting information, so it’s hard to know whether this is a serioius problem or not. Russia apparently has plenty. Some say that the US has plenty, if the government would allow our oil fields to be exploited. We also have plenty of coal. Karl Denninger has pointed out repeatedly that nuclear power provided by thorium reactors would be both super-abundant and relatively safe. (Re-processing the fuel rods–made illegal by–I think it was–Carter–would render the spent fuel (relatively) harmless. Spent fuel would only need to be safely sequestered for about 100 years–which is managable. Thorium reactors could be powered by coal.

            So I don’t think that the lack of energy resources is an issue at all.

            Yet the decision has been made in high places that the earth’s human population should be greatly reduced, for reasons of both “over-population” and energy scarcity. Other decisions–ones that would support the earth’s peoples in a high degree of comfort and prosperity–could have been chosen.

          • Woodchuck September 13, 2022 at 10:37 am #

            I’ve known people, even stayed in their homes sometimes, who were still living a rather primitive hillbilly/poor southern white lifestyle. A lifestyle using very little fossil fuel inputs. A four room unpainted shack, no indoor plumbing, and with a traditional outhouse out back. Someone in their household each morning goes out early to a water source, either to a well or a spring, and fill up some buckets and carry water back to the home. If its beyond reasonable walking distance or a lot of water is needed for washing clothing or bathing something with wheels on it is used for hauling water.

            Want hot water for washing clothing? No problem, there’s a big black cast iron cauldron looking thing in the back yard, with a pile of big chunks of coal next to it. Maybe make 30 gallons of hot water if you wish. There’s no electric washing machine, instead in the back yard is a 30’s model Maytag washing machine powered by a small gasoline engine. It has a foot pedal you stomp on to start it. There’s a big garden in the back yard.

            This lifestyle has all but dissappeared now, the fading away started in the early 60’s but the memories are still there. Some of the happiest and funniest people I ever met and worked with lived in what today we’d consider unacceptable poverty. It would be a very low fossil fuel powered lifestyle. We’d be riding our high horses and virtue signaling about these “poor people”. Yet the way I remember from hanging out with them, most had joy, very strong family relationships, a lot of adventures, and a great sense of humor. The older ones had lots of stories to tell. I might have been a child, but I could tell that many of the people in my much more affluent part of town seemed to be depressed, withdrawn, and having silly soap opera type problems that I didn’t see going on in the “poor” parts of town or out in the rural areas.

            In my opinion, living a sustainable and very low fossil fuel input lifestyle is more *real* and interesting in some ways than is the lifestyle everyone seems to think they *must* have right now. It could be that a high energy use lifestyle eventually leads to delusional thinking and mental illness. Thus national breakdowns are inevitable anyway – peak oil or no peak oil. A house divided against itself cannot stand, but neither can a house full of crazy people.

            My two cents and worth every penny.

          • Jarek September 13, 2022 at 12:07 pm #

            Nothing cuts the chords as efficiently as inter-racial families. Thus you are in favor of it since you hate real nations.

          • TPTB-USA September 13, 2022 at 2:33 pm #

            Anthea, I have a friend whose philosophy about life seems to align with many of the issues you are writing about, as well as the WEF “Great Reset” promotion.

            I am trying to get my mind around his justification for his position on many issues.

            A common denominator for justification on many issues seems to be that he doesn’t believe in human nature. I’m thinking that this is pretty convenient, in that my position is that if human nature doesn’t exist, humans would not exist.

            The WEF “Great Reset” depends on integration and unity (“Every country, from the United States to China, must
            participate …”). He can’t conceive that people that are “wired differently” would go mad in a one-size-fits-all pigeon-hole lifestyle. Perhaps Xi’s “re-education program” resolves that detail. To me, it is front and center every day at the bird feeder, where basically “birds of a feather flock together”.

            The biggest issue I have with a WEF “Great Reset” type of format for life is: how does one control the management, and insure that it does not get into the wrong hands? All one has to do is view the current state of affairs in the US to realize that the program would be a setup for failure.

            How come the Bernie Sanders of the world don’t build their model society? I forgot, everyone has to participate,
            otherwise it won’t work.

            Is this what Harvard and Yale are pooping out these days?

            Perhaps a reduced population is necessary in order to resolve the issues?

          • Anthea September 14, 2022 at 9:56 am #

            @ Woodchuck:

            Your portrait of “poor Southern whites” raises the question of the nature of human happiness. What does make people happy?

            Mostly, people are made happy by strong human relationships, self-determination, health and vigor, and the knowledge that they have worth. They know that have worth because their work provides very directly for the comforts and needs of those who are dear to them.

            Modern lifestyles are not conducive to any of these things. Probably the most damaging is the lack of self-determination. One must go begging, hat-in-hand, to a prospective employer in hopes of getting “a job.” Where there is self-determination, if you want a house you can build it; if you want food you can grow it; if you want water you can go down to the spring and get it.

            I have always enjoyed the “Earth’s Children” series of books (“Clan of the Cave Bear,” etc.). I could be perfectly happy living in a cave, or in one of the other types of stone-age shelters described in the series. If such a life appears to most modern people to be too physically demanding, I think this is probably because modern humans have been deprived of health and vigor by modern lifestyles and (mainly) modern diets. People in my parents’ generation (born in the teens and 20s of the last century) were FAR more vigorous than their children in the boomer generation–and the boomer generation was quite a bit more vigorous than more recent generations. (The high school boys in the boomer generation got in shape for football season by bucking hay in the heat of summer.)

            Long story short: People are not made happy by a 3,000 square foot house, a hot shower every day, and a two-car garage–for all that mitchellc would like to convince us that such things are adequate compensation for a life spent eating shit in the corporate world.

          • Woodchuck September 14, 2022 at 4:01 pm #

            Jarek writes:

            “Nothing cuts the chords as efficiently as inter-racial families.”

            Some stuff you write goes over my head, I just don’t get it or don’t have the energy to try. And some I do get, maybe because I’ve read some of the same material you that you have. So I’ll ramble around on this general subject.

            My sleepy little town in the 50’s had its small black neighborhoods mixed right in side by side with the less affluent working class whites. Some of us had black neighbors and black kids were naturally in our neighborhood play groups. Even though the schools were segregated, there was still some mixing going on with the unsupervised kids running about doing their own thing.

            Looking back at all of it, there was something going in everyone’s subconscious back then that nobody mentioned or ever talked about, but it was there. It boiled down to one question, what happens when teenaged white girls are socializing with and having “unsupervised” fun with black boys? In the 50’s, this was a BIG issue. I think it was really due to a lot of insecurity among us white boyz. Also there were idiotic ideas about the dangers of “race mixing” producing “half breeds”. Somehow a person half white and half black was considered inferior in some way or as being a “mistake”.

            One thing that black culture had here in spades in the south long ago was charisma and the ability to have fun, or at least that’s how I observed it. I like to tell a story about an old German relative who spent some summers with us in the early 50’s. He spoke British English, and traveled on the local buses for fun and sight seeing The black people on the buses had to sit in the back, there was a sign up front actually instructing them to do so.

            The old German discovered that the whites up front in the bus were often quiet and somewhat sullen compared to the blacks in the back. The people in the back seemed to be enjoying themselves and in more of a party mood. There was more fun and things of interest happening in back of the bus. So he got into conflicts with bus drivers who didn’t like him being back there. The blacks noticed his thick accent and knew he wasn’t a local redneck, so he easily became part of their gang and made some new friends.

            I think on some subliminal level, white boyz were afraid of “their women” getting too friendly with the colored side. And that would also in turn motivate them to them to go looking for some colored gals to try and be friendly with because white gals are dating colored boys. What if the colored gals took a look at these white boyz and turned them down or considered them no fun to be around?

            The flamboyant Little Richard made a lot of people very nervous back in the day when he was starting out and getting white ladies excited and interested in his performances. I went to a James Brown concert a long time ago in Cleveland, and white women up in the front rows of the audience were jumping out of their seats and going up to try and get very close to him while he was performing. Sometimes one would break through security and manage to get up there on stage just to give him a big hug. I’m sure Mr. Brown didn’t mind. The power and charisma of his act was overwhelming some of the women there – and what was wrong with that?

          • Jarek September 15, 2022 at 2:12 am #

            Woody really thinks Blacks are better than Whites. Glad I got that out of him. How utterly grotesque.

            At least he admits they are different. More extaverted and emotional. More “fun”. A lot of Whites can’t even admit they are different.

            So what are Whites good at Woody? Anything at all?

    • CrusherMuldoon September 12, 2022 at 12:28 pm #

      Rommel

  22. malthuss September 12, 2022 at 11:14 am #

    How many will freeze this winter?

    • cowbell81 September 12, 2022 at 2:49 pm #

      If you live in certain locates of Chicago, this winter you will either freeze to death or be shot. Pick you poison.

  23. elysianfield September 12, 2022 at 11:21 am #

    ” If the conservative opposition seizes majority control of the US House of Representatives on November 8, all the US players in this coup will be called to testify”

    The constant assault upon our culture, from many and varied venues, continues unabated. I suspect that those Utopians that are driving the unremitting assault consider this attempt a make or break event.. They hold the reigns of power, the whip hand, and will not easily cede.

    Sooo, if they have the methods, the infrastructure, the desire to manipulate our elections (and the current power base to make their methods permanent)..why would they not? If they have the power to steal an election of critical importance to them…they will. If they do not have the power, they cannot and will not steal.

    Consider, then, that if the Republicans, in future elections, retake any signigicant seat of power, then it would follow that the Utopians currently in power, do not, and most probably did not, have the wherewithal to steal the 2020 event.

    You might then suggest that the 2020 election was flawed, but valid.

    What? The party out of power “learned their lessons” and will prevent the next outrage? You jest.

    • JohnAZ September 12, 2022 at 11:36 am #

      Everyone seems to think that the GOP is the answer this fall.

      NOPE! RINOS should burn in hell.

      Pray that the Mar A Lago fiasco actually brings out the rottenness of the Deep State, including the RINOs. THAT is the only thing going on that will start the necessary revolution.

      • 100th Avatar September 12, 2022 at 12:17 pm #

        The fact that Mitch McTurtle is not only allowed to get away with doing nothing and proposing nothing, but to keep a leadership position while offering nothing and resisting nothing should be all the proof that any semi-informed citizen should need to come to the conclusion that it is all a great big farce.

        • JohnAZ September 12, 2022 at 9:20 pm #

          Yup!

  24. chola3 September 12, 2022 at 11:33 am #

    I am afraid it won’t work the way our host thinks.

    Russia will give a needed “win” to Mr.Biden. Trinkets will continue flowing from China, even as the dollar is sabotaged. Democrats win and the new citizens keep flowing.

    Europe will be the opposite. Many industries shut down for ‘only this winter’ in 2023, 2024 and then permanently. “Refugees” (I worked with them in London) will go back once the refugee allowance dries up and the cold bites (our bones are not suited to it).

    Thus Russia will have a white europe as neighbour who realises their eastern neighbour is superior and queue up to learn Russian.

    The USA? Maybe India can supply some Sunnis for more vibrant diversity and strength. I think they have 100mn+ to spare. More fun than just those Latinos.

    • chola3 September 12, 2022 at 11:49 am #

      The USA and India? Obsession with the Brahmin will do you in. See how Pichai son of Sundararajan changed his name to assimilate.

      For 30 years the English struggled with their stranglehold in south india in the late 19th century. After independence, India put up with their genius and went down the drain for 5 decades.

      Finally India managed to dump them into your NASA and managed to rise up.

      BTW, they and the Sunnis get along just fine.

      • Jarek September 12, 2022 at 1:22 pm #

        What caste are you?

        • chola3 September 13, 2022 at 6:08 am #

          “waiting for moderation” must have been the remains from the Saker comment i made.
          —–

          What caste are you Jarek?
          All Indo European humans have them. Unless you are a generic white *igger, i which case you have my sympathy.

          • Anthea September 13, 2022 at 9:58 am #

            @ cholo:

            Good point.

          • Jarek September 13, 2022 at 12:09 pm #

            You don’t want to say I see. Probably a sudra then, especially since you hate the Brahmins.

          • chola3 September 13, 2022 at 12:42 pm #

            I have given full datapoints. Your reply proves you know nothing about the caste system.

            Don’t be such a low caste white *igger.

          • chola3 September 13, 2022 at 12:50 pm #

            I will paraphrase what i told my low caste friend once:

            “Being born a low caste white nig is not your fault. Continuing to behave like one though is definitely your fault.”

            A shallow knowledge must be rectified when you realise it.

          • Jarek September 14, 2022 at 2:24 pm #

            You are probably a South Asian Black with weird aboriginal (Australoid) features. Low caste? No caste!

  25. wm5135 September 12, 2022 at 11:34 am #

    was not long ago that the latitude and longitude of some of the western alliances positions was published, do you think the coordinates have been lost?

    Valdai Club 2018 –

    Lizzie Truss took an axe and gave the world 40 whacks, before she could see what she had done……

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  26. 100th Avatar September 12, 2022 at 11:35 am #

    Let me read the tea leaves:

    -Russia declares war
    -US declares Russia interfered in (upcoming) elections.

    How novel

    • JohnAZ September 12, 2022 at 11:40 am #

      You do catch the drift. Russia is the enemy the Deep State esp. the MIC has used for a long time to fire up the lemmings. The Deep State, no one particular party.

      • 100th Avatar September 12, 2022 at 12:27 pm #

        The US and its militarized culture with legions of jingoistic “patriot” volunteers is the blunt instrument of the globalist order.

        Initiating revolutions, bombing culturally-closed/fundamentalist adversaries, removing its own installed charismatic despots in the Maghreb, Levant, and Mesopotamia.
        All for the good of the empire of cartel banking and market domination. The enemy is whoever stands in their way.

        • Jarek September 12, 2022 at 1:26 pm #

          Yes, Communism is the offensive arm of Capitalism.

          • JohnAZ September 12, 2022 at 9:19 pm #

            And the object of both is the maintenance of the world currency, the dollar and the flow of oil.

            New on the agenda, potable water. Giant ice cutting and towing ships cutting up Antarctica sea ice in the future?

  27. malthuss September 12, 2022 at 11:45 am #

    I found this at unz.com,

    The American Sun on Twitter: “The most unhinged thing you’ll read today:

    active duty lesbian Marine Corps pilot fantasizes about strafing red states because abortion and Clarence Thomas. Thank you NPR.

    • BackRowHeckler September 12, 2022 at 12:46 pm #

      I’m beginning to wonder just how effective is an armed force made up of homosexual men, transvestites and lesbians? Does it sound like a war winning combination to you?

    • workingclasshero September 12, 2022 at 1:12 pm #

      If she/he was thinking about dipped in s##t Republican state legislators who are dumb enough to push TOTAL BAN abortion laws, I don’t blame her/he/they.

      • malthuss September 12, 2022 at 2:13 pm #

        You are no hero.

        and infanticide i legal.

        • Anthea September 13, 2022 at 10:08 am #

          @ malthus:

          Hmm…. Why would the abortion issue be so important to workingclasshero (whom I assume is male) as to seem to justify mass murder?

          I assume this is because he thinks women should be sexually available to him without his being in any danger of accepting responsibility for children. Thus it is of the utmost importance to him that killing children remain an option.

  28. Why_weren't_we_asked_about_Degrowth September 12, 2022 at 12:03 pm #

    Jim I still don’t understand why turning our government into full time trials of the previous office holders will help. Yes, Biden, the justice department and the FBI are out of control, and now we know how much they are colluding with Twitter, Facebook and Google to restrict and shape all information. This is evidence that we’ve already lost the Federal Government all together. The Federal bureaucrats will not investigate themselves no matter which party staffs the bit players they can appoint. The parasites have swallowed the government whole.

    People need to work within their states.

    • 100th Avatar September 12, 2022 at 12:31 pm #

      There is power in local politics, and that is why we now pave party-backed and politicized school boards and fire chiefs.

      There is more than one way to get us under totally centralized control. Bringing the party to your small town.

      • Anthea September 13, 2022 at 11:36 am #

        Federal control of the states is mostly through funding, which will be withdrawn if states fail to conform to federal regulations.

        I think the best way forward would be for the states to decline federal funds for much of anything: education, transportation, health care, welfare, EBT, HUD–the works.

        It would be REALLY tough, but that’s the only way to get the federal boot off of our necks. It’s also absolutely essential as a first step towards secession. All that funding would disappear with secession; best to figure out how to do without it in advance.

        Nevertheless, there would be many advantages. Kick out the present health care system (including its in-state regulatory boards) and encourage private practices. Kick out Big Pharma. The cost of health care would go back to where it was in the 1950s. The same thing would happen with education. Much of the welfare/moocher crowd would move out of state or get a job. The state could probably provide for the truly needy.

        Such a state would also need sound money–and they’d need to kick out the big banks.

        If it were done right, kicking out the federal government, up to and including secession, would create immense prosperity.

        • Woodchuck September 14, 2022 at 4:53 pm #

          Very good points there Anthea. It could be that after the death of the original US dollar, the feds will have no more “funding” available to feed out to the states anyway. State governments won’t be impressed at all if the “funding” being offered is worthless.

    • cbeard September 13, 2022 at 8:43 am #

      “People need to work within their states” Probably the only way forward.

  29. Paula D September 12, 2022 at 12:09 pm #

    Hit it out of the park today.
    I certainly hope that Biden and his gang are going down, but I don’t have that natural optimism JHK has.

    To me it’s obvious what is driving this attack on Ukraine and Russia.
    They have resources the US wants, especially fossil fuels.

    The US is pretty much out of those resources, fracking bullshit notwithstanding, and industrial civilization doesn’t work without them.

    The US doesn’t have them, Russia does.

    Therefore the US is bound and determined to kill enough Ukrainians and Russians that the remainder will be unable to mount a defense against invasion and looting.

    They are not going to stop.

    • Paula D September 12, 2022 at 12:11 pm #

      I recently found out that Russia didn’t sell Alaska to the US, it leased it on a 100 year lease, which was up some time ago, but Russia never evicted the leasee.

      I found that interesting.

      • cowbell81 September 12, 2022 at 12:38 pm #

        We should just give Alaska back to the Ruskies already. Then maybe they would actually do more mining and drilling there for the resources. I would move there and pledge my life to the Russian Motherland in a heartbeat.

        • Jarek September 12, 2022 at 1:28 pm #

          I don’t think they want us, alas.

      • BackRowHeckler September 12, 2022 at 12:47 pm #

        We’re leasing Guantanamo Bay, too.

        • Paula D September 12, 2022 at 12:53 pm #

          That’s right. But no way Cuba can kick us out either.

    • Woodchuck September 12, 2022 at 12:34 pm #

      I think they will stop after the dollar fails. Once the dollar has hardly any value left for making purchases, we won’t be able to keep our military going for any foreign adventures. Our resources will be so limited that our military will only be able to function inside our own borders and only for defensive purposes. Russia already knows that this is where Europe is heading, and the USA will be following shortly after. All they need to do is just hold on and wait.

      • Paula D September 12, 2022 at 12:52 pm #

        Good point, Woodchuck.

        The US will keep killing and stealing until it is stopped, is what I should have said.

        And yeah, if Russia can hang on until then, the murders will stop in Ukraine and Russia.

        As the serial Lipstick killer of women once wrote “Stop me before I kill some more”.

        • Jarek September 12, 2022 at 1:33 pm #

          Have you read about all the female nurse serial killers?

          • cowbell81 September 12, 2022 at 2:01 pm #

            You mean all the ones that are administering the vaax?

          • cowbell81 September 12, 2022 at 2:02 pm #

            So this is interesting, I just posted something about the
            v-a-c-c-i-n-e

            and how the nurses are the ones doing this as the killers.

            It said my post is awaiting moderation.

            Is this some new kind of filter on the blog to keep us from posting v-a-x-x- comments????

          • malthuss September 12, 2022 at 2:14 pm #

            no, but theres the benz driving nurse who killed 6.

          • Paula D September 12, 2022 at 3:10 pm #

            Jarek pokes and the usual suspects jump in.

            Homey don’t play that game.

      • thirdcoastlegend September 12, 2022 at 1:10 pm #

        The printing press truly is the heart of their power.

        • Paula D September 12, 2022 at 1:28 pm #

          It sure is.
          And they even brag about it.
          They control the narrative of most of the world, including unfriendly countries who are forced to navigate within the parameters of the dominant narrative.

      • Paula D September 12, 2022 at 1:27 pm #

        Speaking to your point about Russia waiting for the collapse of the US, and my point about the Mighty Wurlitzer, over on MoA someone called the Ukie attacks on Kherson and Kharkov “the Ramstein Offensive”.
        Some European countries have populations that are starting to get restive, so it was important for Ukraine to show some sort of “victory” to get more money and weapons from the west at the conference.

        OK, so Ukraine attacks in two places. What a country!

        But what was up with Russia packing up and leaving Kharkov region, thereby allowing the Mighty Wurlitzer to pull out all the stops in a soaring crescendo of propaganda about the stunning and brave victory of Ukraine?

        Is it possible that having the west pour more money and weapons into Ukraine suits Russia? The more money they give Ukraine the less they have for their populations (except the US, but they don’t create money for us anyway). The more weapons they hand over the fewer they have for their militaries, (which are full of misfits and perverts anyway).

        So the Ramstein Conference was a make-or-break for the Zelensky regime, (keep that cocaine coming), but maybe it suited the Russians also.

        Just a thought.

        • thirdcoastlegend September 12, 2022 at 1:52 pm #

          My gut says that regular troops from other NATO countries have and are being processed into the Ukrainian side.

          There’s just no way the Ukes could have pulled off even this most limited advance if they really were down to sending old men and teenage girls to the front.

          • Paula D September 12, 2022 at 3:10 pm #

            I agree, thirdcoastlegend.

            Reminds me of the movie Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
            “Who ARE those guys”?

            Plus I saw a video a couple of months back in which a couple of the soldiers were speaking English.
            I hear there are even more now being outed.

          • Paula D September 13, 2022 at 5:12 pm #

            I ran across this thirdcoastlegend

            It includes video of American mercenaries in Ukraine.

            Scott Ritter also says that there are drive-by attacks on Russians, which sounds very American to me.

            youtube.com/watch?v=9i2e93jb_OE

    • Hereward the Woke September 14, 2022 at 3:22 pm #

      The difference is, Paula, that Russia isn’t Iraq or Libya. They know we want them dead and they aren’t going to give up. They have nukes and will use them. I’m not sure that the Biden Regime or that cretin of a general who spoke yesterday about breaking up Russia, quite understand this.

  30. 100th Avatar September 12, 2022 at 12:09 pm #

    “Our foreign policy establishment has shown a blind animus toward Russia for no apparent good reason.”

    Correct that is it is not for a good reason, but they do have a reason: one global order.

    Of course there are a multitude of theories as to the “why” of a singular global order:

    -Unified response to “climate change”
    -Unified control of resources
    -Unified control of markets/currencies
    -Unified approach to extra-planetary settlement (yes, that’s a thing)
    -Unified/controlled response to the coming labor/employment upheaval brought by AI and advanced robotics.
    -Greed
    -Continuation of a status quo that allows a few to horde unprecedented wealth, and resultant influence at the political level.

    Some people call it the “New World Order”, other’s “The Great Reset”, a few “Globalists” or “Mr. Global”, and some “Global-Cap(italism).

    North America, particularly the U.S. is already experiencing demographic upheaval brought on by the continuous and unmitigated exodus from Latin America, particularly Venezuela, Cuba, Haiti, Colombia, Nicaragua along with the old standbys of Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala, and Hell Salvador into the U.S. where both a non-detention and final-destination-travel-included policy is allowing quick egress into the interior.

    This is all apart of the plan for the hitherto moth-balled North American Union and continued erosion of American sovereignty and the dominance of Anglo/Euro-American “western’ influence.
    Mexico’s president was blowing dust off the project only a few short months ago.

    Over in Europe, AKA NATO, Russia presents a barrier to pan-European fealty to Brussels. Russia presents a barrier to unfettered immigration from the global south and refugee re-settlement. Russia presents a barrier to Globalist control/exploitation of their markets and resources. In short, Russia presents a barrier to a single global order.

    Humanity has experienced many revelations over the ages.
    Ages of discovery, enlightenment, reformation, revolution, and now this: the age of capitulation.

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    • Jarek September 12, 2022 at 1:38 pm #

      Yes, one remembers the video of the drunken African “student” standing outside a club in Moscow insulting Russian women. He got punched out and was rolling around in the snow.

      People need to stay out of other people’s countries. If they must visit, they should be on their best behavior. Either that, or be ready to conquer. Nothing in between. Do or not do as Yoda said. There is no try.

      • SpeedyBB September 12, 2022 at 4:32 pm #

        Failure to adhere to standards of “…best behavior…” have led to serious, and occasionally fatal, encounters for tourists in places like the “Land of Smiles”, aka Kingdom of Thailand.

        Couple of years back a young policeman encountering a couple of backpackers in Chiang Mai ended up shooting both to death. The straight dope never emerged but it is not hard to put together a scenario where a pair of entitled, sneering Eurotrash kids get into a to-and-fro with a local rep of authority, over something likely minor. Take off your shoes when you go into the temple, or don’t tag the monument with a marker.

        Thais, much like blacks, are notorious for insufficient impulse control. I have seen friendly, laughing get-togethers flip into murderous silence in a flash.

        They also love handguns (oh boy do they ever) and alcohol flows rather too freely. These days amphetamines too alas.

        It is a combo that calls for prudence, calm, respect and a measured distance when dealing with locals, particularly when you don’t know the language or customs. Tourists tend to ignore such matters. Shouldn’t do it in places where you’ll get in such trouble.

        Chinese tour groups are notorious for obnoxious, insensitive attitudes as well.

        Big stinko in Paris when high-end stores put up signs saying “No Chinese customers, see voo play” after having had enough coarse behavior exhibited: spitting on the floor, loud conversation, general rowdiness.

        We’re talking a fundamental survival tactic here …

      • Woodchuck September 12, 2022 at 6:35 pm #

        I’ve got a story far juicier than yours. Just one African student? How about 51 guys gettin’ a bad whuppin’ in Russia back in early 2016 – I remember seeing this in online news. From The Washington Standard:

        “A group of 51 Muslim migrants were brutally assaulted outside a night club in Murmansk, Russia, after they groped and molested women at a night club.”

        me: The Daily Caller has a few more details about the story and doesn’t call the Russian response at this bar “brutal”. The Caller posted:

        “The Muslims had previously been ordered to leave Norway for “bad behavior” and tried their luck in Russia. What they didn’t realize when they went out clubbing in Murmansk is that Russians have less tolerance when it comes to sexual assault on local women than other European countries.

        The Muslims allegedly groped and harassed women in a similar manner as the assaults in Cologne on New Year’s Eve. A group of male Russians took them aside to “educate” them on that”.

        Hmm. Russian guys won’t tolerate sexual assaults on their local female friends and relatives? Those eeeeeeeeeeevil Russians!

        .

        • Jarek September 13, 2022 at 12:13 pm #

          Why not? And why do we? Because their chords are still intact whereas have been cut (to use your conflation with cords) or silenced.

          You’re the kind of person who doesn’t see connections between different issues. In other words, unable to reduce things to their most basic terms.

      • Hereward the Woke September 14, 2022 at 3:23 pm #

        Don’t you ever stop thinking about skin colour? Don’t you have a beerhall to go to, you nasty little worm?

        • Jarek September 15, 2022 at 2:15 am #

          Face it, Wokie: Your grandfathers fought for the wrong side. Don’t get angry at me for stating the fact that they fought for the Global Slavemasters.

    • mitchellc September 12, 2022 at 1:46 pm #

      But here’s the problem: how does one react when truth (real politik) confronts lies (representative republic)?

      Do you cling to moralistic fantasies inculcated through deep cultural programming, or accept reality as merely merciless competiton over scarce resources?

      Why would anyone root for Russia? If they prevail, our entire way of life is lost. We may be bastards, but it’s our history, our truth, our reality, not the made up version that casts us as heroes of every story.

      It’s a pleasant experience imaging a life of freedom from the all encompassing Borg, but how would it really work without the $USD?

      Why should I care that the USA will become majority Hispanic, just as W Europe will become majority MENA + India, if I (a) hold hard assets, (b) speak the language and (c) keeping betting on the MIC and Fed?

      These types of questions present themselves after you’ve passed the 5 stages of reality. You need to really assess whether it’s better to deal with the monster you know, rather than pass it all away in some insane fit of pique.

      The next generations are confronting the same dilemma. My oldest accepted a job not only with a major med inst, but is also on the front lines of crafting systems to facilitate “participation”.

      My father was a TLA R&D guy who dreamed of escaping early once he was exposed to the truth in all its terrible glory Me, I rode the tiger with eyes wide open from the git go… and benefitted greatly.

      It will be interesting to see if guys like Walter & JAZ come full circle and learn to love big brother.

      • 100th Avatar September 12, 2022 at 2:12 pm #

        “If they (Russia) prevail, our entire way of life is lost.”

        How melodramatic, but that comes part and parcel with the whole smug putting-on-airs shtick from your tenth cloud of realpolitik dharma.

        And what is this ‘way of life’ that will be lost?

        Humanity pegged to the $?
        Your 401K?

        If it were only mere competition over scarce resources rather than competition at the top to horde wealth no matter.

        And to think, all your deep contemplation on your bodhisattva journey got you was a binary trap of less of two evils.

        How profound, but isn’t most bullshit?

      • Soul Forensics September 12, 2022 at 8:09 pm #

        mitch,

        Good luck in your job interview for traveling field satrap. You’re gonna get a lotta heat from multiple sources other than the sun, so stay shady.

      • Anthea September 14, 2022 at 12:17 am #

        @ Mitchellc:

        Actually, whether Russia prevails or not, our “way of life” is finished. Russia has little or nothing to to with this.

        “How would it really work out without the $USD?” How to you think it works out WITH the $USD? This is a currency that has lost something like 99% of it’s value. This is like asking how it would have worked out for the Weimar Republic without the Papiermark.

        As for throwing in your lot with the Borg, it seems to me that this requires renouncing any hope of self-determination or self-direction, personal worth, and self-respect. Devoting your life to being somebody else’s bitch is unlikely to lead to much happiness, especially when that “someone else” is profoundly evil. It could lead to affluence (or maybe not), but who wants to be Zelensky? Or Kim Kardashian? Seems to me like a good way to spend your life eating shit.

  31. Htruth September 12, 2022 at 12:19 pm #

    LGBTQ Gay Pride Festival For Straits: https://americanyellowvest.wpcomstaging.com/2022/09/11/lgbtq-gay-pride-festival-for-straits/ This is not The Onion.

    • cowbell81 September 12, 2022 at 12:34 pm #

      They call it the “Straights Pride” Fest because of the geographical Mackinac Straights. Yes, this is quite misleading. I would rather see it as an actual festival of straight people, largely White, and a close mix of men to women ratio. If this was the case, I would be planning my vacation there in a heartbeat!

      • thirdcoastlegend September 12, 2022 at 1:12 pm #

        That area is totally non-diverse which makes it super boring.

        You would hate it there.

        • Soul Forensics September 12, 2022 at 8:13 pm #

          Diversity isn’t in race, it’s in imagination. The Woke are proscriptive, the opposite of imaginative.

      • Jarek September 12, 2022 at 1:39 pm #

        Why do we need diversity? Only boring people get bored. Only hateful people hate their own people.

        • cowbell81 September 12, 2022 at 2:33 pm #

          I could be (and currently am) very well entertained and satisfied with the quite mono-cultural lifestyle I have been purposefully living ever since the 2020 Covidian lockdowns have started. I certainly do not intend to change my ways and go back to my old habits anytime soon.

  32. Beryl of Oyl September 12, 2022 at 12:48 pm #

    About the “vaccines”-

    “Just to be clear what we did.

    First we invented a biotechnology that we intentionally designed to FOOL our immune systems in order so it could deliver a payload of unnaturally modified mRNA into our cells and hijack their protein-building machinery…”

    https://twitter.com/AlexBerenson/status/1568951911084072960?s=20&t=NpGW3cMNWUePLAE25Zs7Zw

    • 100th Avatar September 12, 2022 at 12:57 pm #

      Klaus, in his Fourth Industrial Revolution, looks forward to a future of gene editing.

      Crawl-walk-run into the trans/post-humanist future.

      • malthuss September 13, 2022 at 5:09 pm #

        Harari

    • anmariwakaranai September 12, 2022 at 2:33 pm #

      Further Alex Berenson posts, “Then we tested it on about 30,000 people for about three months and discovered that it effectively hijacked that machinery as designed (NOT that it reduced deaths or had any overall positive impact on health)…”
      Alex Berenson
      @AlexBerenson
      ·
      Sep 11
      “Then we gave it to more than a billion people – that’s 1,000,000,000 – for a virus that posed only a minor risk to most of them.

      One day soon this little episode will be viewed as among the greatest medical, scientific, and ethical failures of all time.”
      ———

      I would add, Why is it only the jabbed are dying suddenly and unexpectedly?

      • Night Owl September 12, 2022 at 2:51 pm #

        Has Mr. Berenson isolated the “virus” or explained how people could be accurately tested for it?

        Mr. Berenson seems averse to examining fundamental questions.

        I wonder why.

        • anmariwakaranai September 12, 2022 at 3:20 pm #

          On point Night.

      • GreenAlba September 12, 2022 at 4:39 pm #

        “One day soon this little episode will be viewed as among the greatest medical, scientific, and ethical failures of all time.”

        Whether it’s viewed as a failure or not rather depends on what you think its purpose was/is.

        • JohnAZ September 12, 2022 at 9:04 pm #

          You know, it seems like Covid, whatever it is, virus, pollution or whatever, has learned has adapted or maybe we have adapted.

          A parasite fails if it kills its host. It succeeds if it learns, evolves, into a symbiotic relationship with its host. Or at least close to symbiotic.

          Seems to me Covid is learning, or teaching us, to live with us in a non lethal way. like flu, or like colds, like the 1918 Spanish flu. It will continue to cull out the old the weak, but will continue to decline in effect.

          Now if we can get the global s*&theads to stop jabbing people, the phenomenon AKA the Covid virus should fade to black.

      • Jarek September 12, 2022 at 11:54 pm #

        How can one misinterpret a simply date, namely Dec 8? Or does Fr Michel now say that the Holy Spirit came, but “invisibly” and without the little guiding lights?

        Did he erase his previous posts about this? And you really can’t remember?

    • JohnAZ September 12, 2022 at 9:13 pm #

      Yes, Beryl, hijacking the protein building machinery is exactly what the Vaxx does.

      If it worked as modeled by the mRNA gang, invading only the deltoid muscle cells, it would work with little effect. If it had no possibility of modifying the DNA of liver cells, it would work with little effect.

      Making the Vaxx a IM injection with inherent blood stream leakage was a major error, IMHO, as we have poured a dangerous toxin into 160 million bloodstreams. The model might sound great, the practice is bogus.

      • Paula D September 14, 2022 at 12:05 pm #

        Nurses should know that when you inject a liquid substance into the body, it spreads through the body quickly, via the circulatory system.
        Why would anyone pretend that the GMO product was ever expected to stay in the deltoid?

  33. JTinMD September 12, 2022 at 1:08 pm #

    I think we should just ignore any and all “national” politics. Focus on town/county/state politics, and hold those people accountable to ignore Washington DC too. They must be responsive to and serve their direct constituents. They fail, they’re out. Fuck DC!

    • MaryQueen September 12, 2022 at 8:05 pm #

      All politics is local – true!

  34. amb September 12, 2022 at 1:14 pm #

    The Powers That Be are psychotic. The core of psychosis is an ultra-irrational FEAR and TERROR which then prompts the reactive and illogical effort to “attack or protect oneself”. These people have “invisible enemies” that actually do not exist in reality. They are all running on automatic. Trying to reason or talk with them would be the same as talking to a radio that is turned on and sitting on the table. They are an automaticity, a circuit. They are puppets of their psychosis. This is the woof and warp of the WEF, Climate Change Group, WHO, CDC, and the internal institutions CIA, NSA, Pentagon, MIC, (and their equivalents inside of other countries). These type of people are susceptible to the craziest and illogical ideologies you can imagine (de-population, global warming, etc.). They are magnets for them because of their FEAR based thinking. And there is no such thing as an action or ideology emanating from a group… all of this has been created by INDIVIDUALS. Psychotic people who each have put their own special agenda to work on this planet (which then forms the groups due to people who are either also in FEAR, or are easily fooled and manipulated).

    So many innocent people have suffered death, destruction and misery due to these types of people. Who always seem to rise to head of state heights. Control freaks (you need to control everything if you are basically living in a world of irrational FEAR, right?)

    I don’t want to see one other innocent person harmed. I’d like to see these people immediately stopped, removed from office, and shut down. Yet, we don’t have the foresight or the mettle to do so. Yet, due to the nature of things: mainly our being on the brink of WWIII thanks to these psychotic maniacs, Putin should just bomb Kiev and destroy Zelensky and his whole government (which would be the equivalent of bombing the CIA-NSA-Pentagon-MIC-NATO-WEF-Davos… as the evil USA and it’s idiot allies are really the enemy that Putin is dealing with). Bomb Kiev, destroy this CIA puppet regime, and end this continual threat to Russia. Free the Ukrainian people and allow them to actually elect a leader without any interference, and force Ukraine to remain a neutral territory as a buffer between EU and Russia.

    Of course, in an ideal world, we would get rid of all of these psychotic bad actors and their institutions in all of the infected countries and have a world where all countries co-survive together and through trade, science, education, etc. all work together to make a world where people can have their liberty, freedom, and an environment of peace: where they can prosper, have decent standards of living, not experience shortages of water/food/medicine,etc. raise families, contribute to society, and be happy all playing their part in making a better world and future for humanity.

    • Jarek September 12, 2022 at 1:42 pm #

      It will probably come to that. As Dugin said, kill every last one of them.

    • Rain Waters September 12, 2022 at 6:13 pm #

      Killing psychopathy goes beyond standout individuals. In order to address this society as a whole agrees to identify, isolate, quarantine and constantly supervise psychopaths for their entire lifetime.

      otherwise they network and spread like dark mycelia, uncomfortable to experience yet mostly invisible to neurotypical sensibilities.

  35. Paula D September 12, 2022 at 2:04 pm #

    Clusterfuck Nation has its very own trolls now. No money is spared to shape the hearts and minds of the population.

    “Researchers at the University of Adelaide have published a landmark paper on the activities of bot accounts on Twitter related to the conflict in Ukraine. These Australian findings are truly staggering – of 5.2 million tweets on the social media network from February 23 to March 8, between 60 to 80% were shared by fake accounts. What’s more, 90% of those posts were pro-Ukraine.”

    .rt.com/news/562509-ukrainian-bots-in-twitter/

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    • malthuss September 12, 2022 at 2:15 pm #

      clown world.

    • cowbell81 September 12, 2022 at 2:16 pm #

      See my comment below about when I mentioned the “vaccine” on here. It said my post is “awaiting moderation.” I used the word v-a-x-x without the hyphens in it, since I believe that is what triggered the flag. This is the first time I have ever noticed this level of moderation.

      First it was certain web links, now it is this.

      The PTB are now really tightening down the screws, going so far as to try and limit free range discussion on such little blogs as CFN.

      • Paula D September 12, 2022 at 3:20 pm #

        I see both of your vaccine posts, cowbell, just so you know.

        • cowbell81 September 12, 2022 at 3:59 pm #

          Thanks for letting me know Paula, weird because now the previous posts I typed that mentioned vaxx and MaryQueen have now both been approved, after sitting in moderation mode for a short time. This makes me want to re-phrase my message because I am not keen on “moderation”, and then when it is magically approved now I am left with two rather similar iterations of the message.

          Or maybe I have a target on my back and Big Brother just has it out for me.

    • amb September 12, 2022 at 7:18 pm #

      CIA and such are the ones who have infiltrated, threatened, and forced these social media companies to do their bidding. It will never stop, and then noose will keep tightening, unless these evil institutions are vanquished from our planet.

    • MaryQueen September 12, 2022 at 8:07 pm #

      You bet.

      I could sense the shift there during Trump’s administration. Responses to him were copies of each other, just with different avatars.

      And if you’re a Twitter user, you see that the fake accounts don’t engage. They just spew the talking point and move on.

  36. cowbell81 September 12, 2022 at 2:05 pm #

    Is anyone else’s comments about the “vaccine” getting such an “awaiting moderation” mode? Something like this just happened to me. See post slightly up-thread.

    Weird, fishy, and spooky….all at the same time….

    • Islander September 12, 2022 at 2:34 pm #

      Cowbell,

      Is WordPress the platform CFN?

      Do you happen to know?

      Becauase the Dreizin Report uses (I think) the WordPress platform, and he similarly insists that all jab-related spellings be disguised because otherwise he gets into trouble!!

      Here is his “ridiculous spelling policy”:

      “As usual, if you wish to comment on anything ko-rona related, please use more-or-less my usual idiotic spellings of key terms (e.g. ko-rona, vy-rus, vary-ants, vakk-seen, vakk-seenz, vakk-syn-ay-tted, vakk-syn-ay-shun, booss-tter shawt, imm-yoo-ni-ttee, pann-de-mmyk, etc.) or your comment will NOT be approved, as it will be a risk to the existence of this site on its given platform. Feel free to come up with your own moronic va-ree-ay-shunz. Thank you”

      • cowbell81 September 12, 2022 at 2:43 pm #

        I think it is WordPress here, based on what other commenters have stated.

        So totally stoopid, this whole “moderation” thing is requiring the opposition to invent an entirely new language. We may as well just start using the Cherokee language like the code talkers.

        • GreenAlba September 12, 2022 at 2:57 pm #

          This is how Cockney rhyming slang began, of course – to fool the plods.

          I remember when I lived in France in the 70s, the youngsters had invented something called ‘verlan’, which was saying ‘l’envers’ backwards. All the words were said backwards or with syllables back to front – I’ve no idea how anyone ever managed it, but they did.

          • anmariwakaranai September 12, 2022 at 3:25 pm #

            It’s across the board now I think. Faceplant ‘suddenly and unexpectedly’, with over a million members insists it be called the carrot.

            Mewe getting there too.

          • anmariwakaranai September 12, 2022 at 3:27 pm #

            And, didn’t they just announce some kind of new web oversight for miss information 2022?

            And she’s a beaut!

        • MaryQueen September 12, 2022 at 8:10 pm #

          I build WordPress sites.

          If you download their free CMS, then you can install it on your own hosting account and they can no longer censor since they have no control over what you do with the open source code.

          And it’s cheap enough to do. Just buy hosting for $5-$10 a month, and set up WordPress & its database, choose a template, and set it up.

      • SpeedyBB September 12, 2022 at 5:27 pm #

        I do this when commenting on the poison for Facebook: I’ll write “cl0tsh0t” or “v4ccinat3d” and so far this has squeaked through with no nanny-rapping-my-knuckles.

        • SpeedyBB September 12, 2022 at 5:29 pm #

          That did not come out correctly, by the way. “cl0tsh0t” is written with zeroes instead of the letter “o”. Just FYI. Jeez.

        • Paula D September 12, 2022 at 7:24 pm #

          I call it the GMO injectable and it slips through.
          I have seen people try to misspell the word vaccine and they still get them.
          So I call it what it is, instead of misspelling their label.

      • MaryQueen September 12, 2022 at 8:08 pm #

        Yes, he uses WordPress. Yes, because he uses their hosting, they can censor, etc.

        I have suggested in the past for Jim to rebuild with his own hosting so WP can’t do that.

  37. Roundball Shaman September 12, 2022 at 2:16 pm #

    “Is War What You Asked For?”

    The United States, Incorporated has one enduring industry: War.

    The United States, Incorporated has one enduring National Narrative: War.

    The United States, Incorporated has one enduring existential reason for being: War.

    The United States, Incorporated has one enduring passion at its core: War.

    The United States, Incorporated has one enduring centerpiece to its economy: War.

    If you took War away from The United States, Incorporated it would cease to exist.

    The United States, Incorporated lives… and dies… for War.

    Everyone and everything needs a reason for Being. For The United States, Incorporated, there is no other reason.

    The United States, Incorporated was born in War. It has existed in War. And its future is War… until and unless the most horrid version of War is one-day unleashed upon the Earth and that sickly version of National Suicide will end this entire episode of National War Worship.

    The United States, Incorporated is War… for fun and profit.

    Presidents may come and go. And They do. But War remains and endures.

    War. ‘What Is It Good For’? For The United States, Incorporated… that answer is EVERYTHING.

    So, for the question: “Is War What You Asked For?”

    The answer is: It doesn’t matter. Because War is what you’re going to get.

    • mitchellc September 12, 2022 at 2:53 pm #

      You gotta go back, wayyy back. From Egypt we get persia/Greece, then rome/e empire. Then HRE and Ottomans, eventually GB, then USA.

      We are *not* the bad guys, but rather the natural descendents of the first successful tribes of proto humans.

      Our goals, objectives, policies and cultural order are all derived from the very first principles: self preservation. It’s Maslow on a grand scale; first secure basic necessities, then begin exploring ways to both expand and defend. Don’t stop until someone stops you.

      The cog dis at CFN and other idealistic sites is the conflict of truth and lies. In this case, the truth of nature, life and death are avoided while fantasists eagerly embrace kumbaya, and by so doing alienate themselves from their actual people, who they are, how they got there, and were they’re going.

      • MaryQueen September 12, 2022 at 8:26 pm #

        WEF puppet speaks.

      • Woodchuck September 12, 2022 at 8:31 pm #

        bullcrap!

      • Anthea September 14, 2022 at 10:59 am #

        @ mitchellc:

        State systems of human organization emerged 5,000-6,000 years ago in the Mediterranean region. They have since overtaken almost the entire world.

        The question is, are such systems really “successful”? Successful at what? Providing basic necessities? Providing basic necessities for whom? Such systems don’t provide a secure life, in terms of basic necessities, for most of their people, but only for their elites. It is estimated that, at the height of the Roman Empire, nearly 40% of the population of Italy were slaves. Records indicate that the men in the Roman military were not at all pleased with their lives. Continual warfare does not conduce much to security and happiness either. And indeed, a reading of “I Claudius” provides convincing evidence that life among the ruling classes of Ancient Rome was…um…not all that great.

        Who was better off, in terms of material well being? The people of Rome, or the people of the Germanic tribes of the same era? Or the people of what is now the British Isles?

        Further, 5,000-6,000 years is, in terms of the whole of human history, the mere blink of an eye–an encouraging reflection, since it seems possible that some other systems of human organization may emerge, and this era in which State systems have become pretty much universal come to be viewed as a relatively brief psychotic episode.

        • Paula D September 14, 2022 at 12:11 pm #

          Interesting points, Anthea.

          I have come to the conclusion that the happiest humans were those living in fairly abundant areas in which accumulation of stuff was either not possible or not allowed (i.e. tribes which practice potlatch or the equivalent).

          As long as everyone has enough and no one has too much, humans seem to get along well and find their own amusement.

          • Anthea September 15, 2022 at 3:57 pm #

            @ Paula D:

            There’s really nothing wrong with human acquisitiveness, in and of itself. One of my old friends quoted his mother’s saying on this: “People are just like squirrels. They spend the warm months of the year storing up stuff for winter, and every spring they start all over again.” I once read something where the author of the piece likened shopping to foraging–thus explaining women’s fondness for it. We’re hard-wired to go out gathering things.

            One of the most profound things Henry George ever wrote was that human existence is and always has been hand-to-mouth. The necessities of life are all perishable–though some things decay sooner than others–and must be continually replenished by human labor.

            Money is a different story. It offers the illusion that you can store up imperishible wealth. It is often said that what money really is, is a claim on future production (someone else’s). So if you stash away a dollar, that means that you have a future claim on a dollar’s worth of someone else’s labor. So money is really a form of power over others; you can command their labor and labor products. The more money you accumulate, the more power you have to command others. This too is often an illusion: the crops can fail, the truckers can go on strike, the value of the money can be inflated away–and a million other things.

            So I think there is a potential moral problem with money. The desire for it can arise from the desire to have power over others. And the desire to accumulate a lot of money can also be a fool’s errand.

            There is a need for a medium of exchange, of course. Maybe most of the trouble with it is our attitude towards it–a tendency to think that it’s something it’s not, or, in the sense that it represents power over others, as a desire that is improper.

          • Paula D September 15, 2022 at 8:31 pm #

            Storing food and enjoying trinkets are human characteristics, I agree.
            Some monkeys and birds also indulge.
            Most humans throughout most of history did not have a medium of exchange.
            I recommend the book “Debt: The First 5,000 Years” by David Graeber for an eye-opening history of actual observed humans in tribes without money.
            They don’t, as we fantasize, ”barter” or ”trade” with other tribes or each other.
            They have elaborate rituals and customs that govern any interaction that we Americans might classify as trade.

            Very interesting.

    • Why_weren't_we_asked_about_Degrowth September 12, 2022 at 3:33 pm #

      The majority of these wars are fought to keep the US Dollar as the undisputed global reserve currency, which enables the government and the FED to run massive deficits. The massive deficits and currency printing grease the wheels and keep all the pigs at the trough.

      The US may have reached a limit to its ability to push everyone in-line with sanctions and about to lose the reserve currency, but even that may be planned.

      • mitchellc September 12, 2022 at 5:19 pm #

        Duh?

        Yes, the essential question for us is, why would anyone wish for the demise of the $USD?

        After all, there can only be one master, and it’s either us or the Russian block.

        Jarek keeps going on about national socialism advancing the interests of a country’s own people, but prior versions were actually simply racial favoritism.

        True nationalism is similar to a sports team; it doesn’t matter who the respective players are as long as they all work towards the common goal of winning.

        If you’re on the side of the Borg, who gives a shit about demographics as long as the KSA is forced to sell us their only asset in exchange for digital “money”.

        So too the CCP: real people spend their limited, precious lives making actual physical stuff for us that we in turn give them wads of freshly printed counterfeit “dollars”.

        And if anyone complains …?

        • Jarek September 12, 2022 at 11:58 pm #

          Because National Socialism is natural, not something alien imposed from above. With many competing, hostile groups, the Elite can pick and choose, playing one against the others.

          Blacks are used to keep Whites down. Who can doubt it at this point?

          • Hereward the Woke September 14, 2022 at 3:28 pm #

            Glad to see that your beerhall has a wifi connection, Jarek. It doesn’t change the fact that your comments are the workings of a sick mind who needs to get out more.

          • Jarek September 15, 2022 at 2:54 am #

            So Blacks aren’t being used to keep Whites down? You know it’s true at some level, so you attack me instead of doing the inner work of deleting old mental files and views of the world that haven’t stood the test of time.

    • BackRowHeckler September 12, 2022 at 4:25 pm #

      Actually thru out most of its history the US had a very small standing army. Until about 1812 the US had no fulltime army whatsoever except for a single Regiment called the ‘American Legion’, about 800 strong.

      What army there was — mostly militia — was wiped out twice by Indians in battles in western Ohio in the 1890s.

      Even now the US Army is less than 500,000 soldiers. Bulgaria going into WW1 had more troops than the US Army has now.

      The US was reluctant to enter the World Wars both times. We got in late to WW1 but were the deciding factor. WW2 had been going over two years before we got involved and that was only after the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor.

      • BackRowHeckler September 12, 2022 at 4:27 pm #

        Army was wiped out in the 1790s, not 1890s.

        • Amman September 14, 2022 at 9:53 am #

          Jeez. Yes, that makes more sense.

  38. cowbell81 September 12, 2022 at 2:24 pm #

    To the tune of the song: “War, what is it good for, absolutely nothing”*

    *(Unless you are a Schaubian, arms dealer tycoon, high level political player, Nancy Pelosi, etc)

  39. cowbell81 September 12, 2022 at 2:24 pm #

    vaxx, vaxx, vaxx ….. will this be moderated?

    • cowbell81 September 12, 2022 at 2:25 pm #

      I guess not! Weird, maybe my post above was an anomaly. It appears to now have been approved since the “awaiting moderation” phrase has been removed.

  40. anmariwakaranai September 12, 2022 at 3:32 pm #

    So last night I met one of our newly arrived Ukie families. An old couple with a 30 something son who looks like a Hungarian, Southern European cross.

    The parents can’t speaka da lingo but the son gave a halting thanks.

    They looked worn and the son looked hard.

    We have one more family, a very young couple who did not come. In fact their hosts said, ‘Nobody knows where they are.’

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    • BackRowHeckler September 12, 2022 at 4:28 pm #

      Are they here permanently?

      • cowbell81 September 12, 2022 at 5:07 pm #

        How can a family just disappear and their whereabouts not be known by their presumptive host family?

        One would think that in this day and age everyone should be able to communicate and almost virtually track someone else, especially if there is a planned and expected arrival of a group of people by a host family type of situation, presumably being arranged by some other sort of organization.

        • anmariwakaranai September 12, 2022 at 7:32 pm #

          Permanently Back.

          They have car, will travel cow.

        • MaryQueen September 12, 2022 at 8:27 pm #

          That happens in war situations all the time.

      • CrusherMuldoon September 13, 2022 at 8:36 am #

        They have their blue and yellow card,Marlin

  41. tom clark September 12, 2022 at 3:48 pm #

    Comparisons steal joy; celebrate wins, learn from defeats.

    September 12, 2022–another turn of the crank.

  42. cowbell81 September 12, 2022 at 4:59 pm #

    So much like the apparent change by the MSM from spelling Kiev to Kyiv, are they now trying to pull a change on the country of Turkey to Turkiye? (With an umlaut over the u I might add.)

    When is this insanity going to end? Will they soon be renaming St. Petersburg, Russia again to a new -grad or something?

  43. cowbell81 September 12, 2022 at 5:14 pm #

    So since when has the CDC laid claim as expert to the event of mudslides? This quote is from an article I was reading relative to the mudslides caused by a recent minor quake in SoCal:

    “According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), mudslides are relatively common and account for 25 to 50 deaths a year.”

    • cowbell81 September 12, 2022 at 5:23 pm #

      I would think this matter of mudslides to be more likely in the domain of FEMA, but who knows that goes on in these Federal word salad agencies these days.

      • Islander September 12, 2022 at 6:13 pm #

        How about the U.S. Geological Survey?

        Or the Army Corps of Engineers?

        I guess the latter is now Brown and Root.

        Or Halliburton.

        • SpeedyBB September 12, 2022 at 10:22 pm #

          Fifty-five years later and the words “Brown and Root” enrage me. This is how “Landslide Lyndon” Johnson paid back his not inconsiderable debt to the Houston construction firm for the dough they had poured into his congressional campaigns – by awarding them gigantic contracts for the Vietnam adventure.

          “War is a racket.” Boy, is it ever.

          • Islander September 12, 2022 at 10:44 pm #

            Yes, and they soon merged with something else and became the one-stop shop for construction of whole bases in Vietnam.

            KBR—Kellogg Brown & Root.

            Basically sidelining the Corps of Engineers, at least in ‘Nam.

            There is quite a lot of material about Brown root and Johnson in Cronies, by Robert Bryce.

    • Night Owl September 13, 2022 at 7:12 am #

      And mudslides are another component of race-based socio-economic injustice a result of the inequity of climate change.

      End mudslides now!

  44. MaryQueen September 12, 2022 at 6:36 pm #

    Most excellent article today, James! Thank you!

    When I saw Twitter post from The Telegraph announcing yesterday that Ukraine had Russia on the ropes, I busted out laughing. I just assume these days that when the Democrat/Deep Staters are crowing victory, they have just committed some major flub. The way you laid it all out is incredibly insightful and helpful to anyone trying to understand just how laughable the US leadership’s moves are. Unfortunately, they are breaking the bank and as you say, destroying the country in the meantime.

  45. mitchellc September 12, 2022 at 6:44 pm #

    BRH, you seem to be a nice enough guy, but you really should keep to baseball and sarcasm. Global geo-politics is certainly not your strong suit, which is why you thought you were making some kind of insightful point about US military activities prior to the Civil War.

    I’m going to keep it simple and to the point:

    – the 1820s were devoted to the expansion of slavery via mercantile means – no military required as the shiping trade was promoted & protected by the Royal Navy.

    Cotton production expanded from 750,000 bales in 1830 to 2.85 million bales in 1850. The number of slaves rose in concert with the increase in cotton production, increasing from around 700,000 in 1790 to around 3.2 million in 1850.

    – the 1830s witnessed the expansion of a future US state via Texas. They successfully achieved independence, expanding slavery into what was previously prohibited in the former Mexican territory.

    – 1840s – Mexican-American war; ditto

    -1850s – California, MO compromise; ditto

    You, like many others of your generation, have this weird attachment to inverted truth, as if the US was ever anything but an expansionist, predatory state

    Lastly, full enlightenment comes when you not only accept the truth, but don’t have any problems with it. Two players enter, one leaves. QED

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    • 100th Avatar September 12, 2022 at 7:29 pm #

      As was Brazil, Peru, Colombia, as was the Caribbean, heck one can go to Acapulco and Honduras and witness the human remnants of the slave trade there.

      But who sanctioned this via charters and land grants and contracts, and royal decree?

      Well if it wasn’t ye 1% of olde

      and the same occidental aristocratic class and knighted peerage and merchant enablers.

      Don’t forget the bankers who financed both human cargo ships and plantations, but Barclays or was it Bank of England, you know, apologized so that solves that

      Gee, how nothing has changed.

      But in your world view it is better to make your bed with them.

      Long live the king, long live your bondage

      • GreenAlba September 12, 2022 at 7:39 pm #

        At this point, I’ve almost stopped thinking of the US and the UK as two separate states. They work hand in glove, like the uniparties in both countries.

        • MaryQueen September 12, 2022 at 8:17 pm #

          Definitely. The Five Eyes countries are all on the same page.

          • JohnAZ September 12, 2022 at 8:43 pm #

            AKA the WEF.

            Charles 3 may be defined by his allegiance to this group.

        • Night Owl September 13, 2022 at 7:10 am #

          Correct. And who do they serve?

          The project is so much larger than many of us ever knew.

          • GreenAlba September 13, 2022 at 2:49 pm #

            ‘The project’ gets more over-arching with every book I read or serious interview I listen to.

        • Islander September 13, 2022 at 7:54 am #

          GA: Mathew Ehret is one who lays bare the centuries-long function of the USA as Britain’s poodle.

          The main conduit if British influence on US politics has been Canada, sez he.

          As a Canadian he has a different perch from which to view American history.

          I don’t agree with all that he says, and I often find him long-winded and tedious. But some of his vids on Canadian-British history and how it relates to US history are indeed very, very interesting.

          • GreenAlba September 13, 2022 at 10:47 am #

            Thanks, islander. I came across him a while ago talking to Reiner Fuellmich – perhaps in the Grand Jury Investigation. He was, as you say, a little long-winded, but interesting just the same, not that I recall the content now.

            We’d always been led to believe the ‘UK as American poodle’ version of the story, especially since Bush II and the Iraq war, but everything I’ve delved into over the last year suggests that the original nest of vipers in world affairs is based in the City of London, with Manhattan as its fifth column.

    • GreenAlba September 12, 2022 at 7:41 pm #

      “Lastly, full enlightenment comes when you not only accept the truth, but don’t have any problems with it.”

      That’s not full enlightenment, it’s full psychopathy.

      • MaryQueen September 12, 2022 at 8:14 pm #

        100%

      • JohnAZ September 12, 2022 at 8:40 pm #

        GA

        AKA the Deep State credo,

        Tell a lie over and over, it becomes the truth.

        To an ignorant, stupidified public that is.

        The worst enemy of totalitarianism is an informed public, smart enough to call BS on a biased media.

      • 100th Avatar September 12, 2022 at 9:01 pm #

        He’s mistaking his reconciliation for samma sambodhi

      • Night Owl September 13, 2022 at 7:49 am #

        Truth: Children are raped.

        Mitch: “I accept and have no problem with that”

        Deep thoughs.

    • BackRowHeckler September 12, 2022 at 7:59 pm #

      Just one point, Mitch, no new slaves were brought into the US after 1830. Out of the 12 million Africans shipped to the Americas 1515-1830 only about 335,000 came into what is now the United States. Actually cotton was in decline in the southern US by 1860, eclipsed by cotton production in India. And as I’ve mentioned before the biggest slavers were the Arabs working out of Zanzibar 4th century-1897. 40 million were brought out.

      What you call an expansionist, predatory state, many call Manifest Destiny.

      • MaryQueen September 12, 2022 at 8:17 pm #

        You’re my favorite commenter.

        Don’t ever change!!!!

        • BackRowHeckler September 13, 2022 at 6:58 am #

          Mary, thank you for the kind words.

          • Jarek September 13, 2022 at 12:16 pm #

            This is what happens when you never truly speak your mind.

          • MaryQueen September 13, 2022 at 8:48 pm #

            You are welcome. I do enjoy your sense of humor and your posts, and find them very informative. Unlike mitchellc’s.

      • CrusherMuldoon September 13, 2022 at 8:46 am #

        Marlin, your posts always give me enjoyment. WE still have to meet in a bar near the Book Barn and hoist a few. “Don’t let the shits get you down.”

      • malthuss September 13, 2022 at 1:11 pm #

        more africans have entered USA since (((1965 than were here in 1860.

    • MaryQueen September 12, 2022 at 8:16 pm #

      I personally hope BRH does not merely stick to baseball and sarcasm.

      I enjoy his posts more than anyone else up here. Not only is he witty as hell on MANY subjects, he’s insightful and extremely knowledgeable about history – not just the big stuff but even little known events.

      You’re a really shitty judge of who knows history! BRH constantly surprises me with what he knows.

      • KesaAnna September 12, 2022 at 9:28 pm #

        My favorite ( so to speak ) book on the CIA was Milt Bearden’s , ” The main enemy “.

        Milt Bearden was a 30 year CIA man , and his tone is absolutely true – believer in the intelligence country club.

        I did not deliberately go out and look for the book , I didn’t buy it.

        It was part of a package deal , a box of discarded books that contained one or two titles I DID want.

        I assumed the tone would be , ” hooray for the U.S. Empire ! ” and so it turned out to be.

        That , alone , would put me off.

        But one day I was out of reading material , and reading your enemies can be interesting and informative.

        Anyway , the lions share of the book was devoted to western intelligence agents going Soviet , and Soviet intelligence agents going western , 1960 – 1990.

        Like I said , the guy was a real flag – waving type , who took American exceptionalism / superiority / imperialism for granted.

        Funny thing though , ACCORDING TO HIS DESCRIPTIONS,

        There was scarcely anything to choose from , scarcely any difference , between the two groups.

        The motives were the same , only the methods dependent on those motives were different.

        Western intelligence agents who went over to the Soviets didn’t do so because they got religion and became Communists.

        They wanted money.

        As to method , Western agents wanted to remain in the west as long as possible , to spend the money .

        And when defection to the East became necessary, they knew status , not money , were everything in the Soviet system , so they were at pains to set up the best status they could secure in the East before defection.

        As for Soviet intelligence agents who went over to the west ,

        They wanted freedom ?

        No , they wanted money.

        In their case , they wanted typically to defect immediately , because they already had status in the East .

        Soviet intelligence officers were not trailer park class.

        As I said though , status is what matters in a Communist system , not money.

        So they wanted to defect as soon as possible, not to enjoy every spare minute of freedom on the golf course ,

        But so they could enjoy the money as soon as possible.

        I’m no fan of the United States of course ,

        But I found it one of the most existentially nauseating , depressing books I have ever read.

        It wasn’t full of discourse on the U.S. constitution,

        It was all privilege, privilege, privilege,

        and money , money , money.

        • SpeedyBB September 12, 2022 at 10:56 pm #

          This rings quite true, KesaAnna. I was the surprising recipient of an approach by a spook agency, presumably those who roost in Langley, as a student of Linguistics at the University of Texas, in the early 1960s.

          A tentative, casual but pointed approach – what the British amusingly refer to as “…the hand on the knee…”

          I knew I’d never get along with that gang, primarily because of my fixed sexual proclivity – who wants to lead two lives in paranoid Land of the Free? But also I had what down Texas way we call “hog caution”, an innate wariness and mistrust of superficial appearances.

          As it turned out my suspicions were confirmed, as I read about what a comfortable and casual country club, run at the top by well-connected up-east money, the CIA was. Thus the outrageous betrayals by stooges like Aldrich Ames or Robert Hanssen came as no real surprise. These servants of power had no real moral base or fixed patriotism. They were simply operators, and got turned by the promise of money when their own overblown self-estimates and ambitions were thwarted.

          My own take on western intelligence, excepting the French and the Israelis, is that the only thing that saved the organs from exposure as total incompetents was the colossal bungling of the KGB. Their agents, or at least the ones who turned or got nailed, were exposed in Africa, Asia and Latinoamerica as hapless bull-in-a-china-shop bureaucrats.

        • MaryQueen September 12, 2022 at 11:42 pm #

          Great stuff, Kesa Anna.

          Yeah, when it all boils down to greed and money, it does tend to discuss.

          Nothing like in the movies, where the motives are for God or country or even a love interest.

          Always money. Shit.

          • MaryQueen September 13, 2022 at 12:00 am #

            “it does tend to DISGUST”

            Oops

          • Night Owl September 13, 2022 at 7:07 am #

            IDK. Money always equals power, and those who had status under Communism had money as well.

            Here in Germany, things are not Communist, but there is a strong socialistic streak, and all one has to do is look at government officials or those working in state-sponsored media (for which we are forced to pay a seperate tax) to see how financially well off they are.

            Money and power always go hand in hand. The idea that only status matters is completely illogical.

    • CrusherMuldoon September 13, 2022 at 8:43 am #

      And you’re a pompous ass.

      Antrox melior dulcissima veritas mendicus

      • CrusherMuldoon September 13, 2022 at 8:44 am #

        @ Mitch a lick

    • Paula D September 13, 2022 at 2:08 pm #

      One Note Nelson tells resident CFN with broad knowledge on an array of subjects, and a sense of humor to boot, to ”shut up and let me talk”.

      Yeah, right.

      • MaryQueen September 13, 2022 at 8:50 pm #

        Really ridiculous.

        The ego on mitchellc – and all undeserved.

  46. MaryQueen September 12, 2022 at 8:24 pm #

    If anyone wants to know the true horrors/history of the CIA, you can’t do better (I think) than H.P. Albarelli’, Jr.’s book, “A Terrible Mistake.” it’s based upon the murder of Frank Olson, but it’s 800 of heavily footnoted facts about the CIA’s various programs and detailed explanations and examples of all of them. I only got about 100 pages into it, it’s that dense, but I try to get back to it when I can.

    • KesaAnna September 12, 2022 at 9:29 pm #

      Grr , the above post was of course relative to CIA book recommendations.

      • MaryQueen September 12, 2022 at 11:40 pm #

        “Anyway , the lions share of the book was devoted to western intelligence agents going Soviet , and Soviet intelligence agents going western , 1960 – 1990.”

        Hahahahaha! Reminds me of Mad Magazine’s “spy vs. spy” – they seemed to get it.

  47. Cavepainter September 12, 2022 at 9:41 pm #

    “Truth” can be a detail fact, handily exploited in building a “narrative” via the manipulative scouring of its broader historical context. Consequently, such deceit obscures comprehension of epochal human behavior given what was extant intellectual capital, cultural norms and societal pressures. Instead of ranting “slavery” history can be better understood when examined in terms of labor management.

    • Anthea September 14, 2022 at 1:06 pm #

      @ Cavepainter:

      I strongly suspect that the main reason we don’t have chattel slavery in the US and the Western world in general is because all of our needs for “hewers of wood and haulers of water” are now met with machinery. We no longer need thousands of slaves to work in the cotton fields and sugarcan fields, nor do we have any real need for household servants to do the laundry, carry and heat the bathwater, cut and split the wood, do the cooking when it’s 110° F in the kitchen, etc.

      I likewise strongly suspect that, should the conveniences of modern life disappear, slavery would re-emerge, at least in some form, wherever it was practical.

      • Jarek September 15, 2022 at 12:21 pm #

        The Chinese never had it. Who could work better than their own work animals – the peasants? Bound into servitude by belief and tradition? Ditto Medieval Europe.

  48. KesaAnna September 12, 2022 at 9:52 pm #

    ” The worst enemy of totalitarianism is an informed public, smart enough to call BS on a biased media. ”

    JohnAZ

    That sounds good.

    But I must disagree.

    The worst enemy of totalitarianism is enough people with the wherewithal to inform themselves.

    ( i.e. private elementary and secondary education.

    Like it or not , public elementary and secondary education is a totalitarians wet dream.

    No totalitarian ever wants to abolish public education. Their only stipulation is who controls public education –?- and they will. Sooner or later.

    What about higher education ?

    In one system , only the rich go to college anyway.

    Once the transition to totalitarianism takes place , only the privileged class , and select persons allowed by the privileged class , go to college anyway. )

    The worst enemy of totalitarianism is enough people with the wherewithal to say , ” I don’t want your charity or privilege , I would rather do it myself , thank you. ”

    Call it Communism , call it feudalism , call it capitalism,

    The country club set may hand out many and various privileges.

    But they will never hand out self – determination.

    Freedom is not necessarily a Bill of Rights .

    Freedom is a large enough class of people who can afford to tell the social engineers to fuck off.

    • SpeedyBB September 12, 2022 at 11:00 pm #

      (a round of hearty applause)

    • MaryQueen September 12, 2022 at 11:43 pm #

      Spot on, KA.

      Nailed it again.

    • Night Owl September 13, 2022 at 7:19 am #

      Public elementary and secondary education are ideal, so long as the system is in the hands of the public.

      Which is exactly why they are busy privatizing education, healthcare, water, and anything that was previously in public hands.

      The concept of monopolization also belongs here, and this goes hand in hand with privatization.

      IMO, it is rather the concept of privatization that is a totalitarian’s wet dream.

      • Islander September 13, 2022 at 7:39 am #

        Home schooling is probably the best option these days.

        But it requires that one parent make enough money so that the other can teach the children.

        • Night Owl September 13, 2022 at 7:46 am #

          At present yes, but I think (generally) it is hard to provide your kid with the same scope of subject matter at home. Not to mention that many parents simply are not capable of teaching their children certain subjects beyond a certain level (think math).

          We switch off helping our kid with math and reading, and honestly, 1.5 to 2 hrs a day of that stuff is a massive infringement on what free time we have left over once work and house-related chores are done.

          • Islander September 13, 2022 at 8:01 am #

            Of course it is not for everyone.

            Also, I speak of the US. I suspect it is still possible to get the kind of Gymnasium education in Germany that is comparable to or better than a US college BA.

            However, there is a lot of good curriculum and resource material out there for the use of home-schooling parents.

            Also, people can pool their resources and home-school a group of children—more or less forming a mini-school.

            Very often, home-schooled children significantly outpeform their friends in a typical American high school.

            In this age of declining standards, no standards (e.g., for correct language and grammar), and subject matter even more degrades by ideology than in the fifties, not to mention the whole covid debacle, I read that home schooling is becoming more popular.

            Jeez, if one just had one teenagers read a list of great books and discuss htem, they would be better off than many.

      • Woodchuck September 13, 2022 at 2:44 pm #

        “Public elementary and secondary education are ideal, so long as the system is in the hands of the public.”

        What public? By public you mean governments? Our federal and state governments are completely incompetent and need education themselves. They cannot do anything other than hook their piggy snouts into the public feeding trough. The trough is going bankrupt before long, and the piggies are gonna become somebody’s bacon if they can’t change their ways and stop abusing kids. Our “public education” looks at the minds of children and sees trash receptacles instead – something for them to dump their garbage into.

    • JohnAZ September 13, 2022 at 10:18 am #

      Totally agree.

      But the education problem I am addressing is first the quality and content of what is being taught, and two how many kids are left behind because they just do not get it.

      The beginnings of the Gates style critical thinking programs started when the Education Department was invented by the Feds. The AIMS testing they instituted showed the decline in “smarts” that has occurred but so what? Nothing has been done since. The academia experts have not a clue, Gates is an idiot. The US has dropped from no.1 academically to the twenties. As everything, the Fed has touched education and it has turned to shit.

      Just what percentage of folks do we need to attend college? What percentage can handle the content of a “real” college major? What percentage actually graduate? How many phony degrees are out there? How many kids are able to pay back their loans with the jobs that their phony degrees give them?

      Has higher education become four more years of baby sitting (JHK term). Eight years of babysitting.

      One more, the economy has been destroyed at the middle class level by technology and offshoring. The need for college educated folks has dropped over the years so McDonalds jobs could require a college degree and get away with it. Forty percent of college grads are surplus and more abstract education for the masses is not needed. The result is obvious, tons of overqualified (maybe) kids complaining about job quality, low wages and loan forgiveness.

      How many college grads do we need? The real number is feared by the damned government that has created this education mess in the first place.

      JHK stated in THE that eighth grade was sufficient for the majority of jobs available. That may have changed a little by the advance in technology. Not much. High school and college is babysitting in our society.

      • JohnAZ September 13, 2022 at 10:19 am #

        TLE, not THE.

      • Woodchuck September 13, 2022 at 2:39 pm #

        Once there’s no more parts and fuel for ag machinery, there will be a HUGE demand for field stoop labor. That’s all a lot of these college grads will be good for.

        • Soul Forensics September 13, 2022 at 3:58 pm #

          Yes, back to 1900 when farm labour made up 70% of the work force.

    • Woodchuck September 13, 2022 at 2:37 pm #

      The idea of compulsory public education is a German one it seems. The Hohenstauffens and Hohenzollerns decided morale was low in their 1800’s military, and France had recently whupped ’em. So they decided to make education compulsory for everyone, not just for sons of the rich and the aristocrats. They needed canon fodder just as much as they needed officers. Part of the compulsory education included the militaristic/jingoistic training that went along with being sons of the priviledged Prussian elites. So some child abusing and goose stepping demon that was born in a Prussian castle dugeon perhaps came to be injected into mainstream culture and made into law. The brainwashing now is entirely different of course, but still political as always. Crap and delusions from start to finish.

    • Anthea September 14, 2022 at 1:24 pm #

      @ KesaAnna:

      100% agreement!

      I sometimes wonder, if people would bring the same level of determination to making a genuinely good life for themselves and their families that they bring to becoming a doctor, a partner in a big law firm, or climbing the corporate ladder, owning big house and fancy car (or three) that we might have a very different world.

      One difficulty is that children and young people are never asked what they would like to do and be. They are given a closed-ended set options: rich man, poor man, beggarman, thief, doctor, lawyer, Indian chief. Maybe the answer (if you want a good life) is “none of the above.”

      There’s also no real attention or thought given to what exactly is a good life. And how do you get there from here.

  49. KesaAnna September 12, 2022 at 11:08 pm #

    “Why would anyone root for Russia?

    If they prevail, our entire way of life is lost. ”

    Because your entire way of life is lost anyway ?

    I have always been a sworn enemy of the United States anyway .

    How about we talk then , about your audience instead ?

    Actually, I don’t know many Woke , Black , or LGBT types who think this war is a good idea either.

    Granted , they DO NOT support Russia.

    But they think it’s a dumb idea.

    Come to think of it , it is a lot easier to list the folks who support the war ;

    — folks getting a fat check from Uncle Sam.

    ( I said a FAT check. Most food stamp recipients I know think the war is dumb. )

    — folks with 60K + incomes.

    — would – be new American citizens . If you are dumb enough to take what a turncoat says at face value.

    I suppose , ” turncoat ” is a harsh term , but hopefully it gets my point across.

    would – be new American citizens are going to predictably enough say whatever they think will ingratiate themselves with their hosts.

    This means however that if they sense the majority of their hosts have soured on the policy , then in a New York minute they will sour on the war too.

    Now back to me , your sworn enemy.

    I’m happy as a clam.

    Typically these days I need not say or write anything.

    I write or say anything because I’m an exhibitionist.

    Not because there is any necessity to do so.

    As I have said more than once recently , what Americans themselves say about their own country is worse than what I say.

    Most of my work is done by the steady erosion of your middle class , the destruction of your culture ,

    Neither of which I really have anything to do with.

    20 years ago , yes , I would have frequented a place like CFN to do my bit for the cause.

    But now , again , it’s not really necessary anymore.

  50. SoftStarLight September 13, 2022 at 2:14 am #

    It’s a riveting question. I assume it is rhetorical in nature, except for perhaps an occasional apex predator roaming about or a minion peering in. But i’ll take the liberty to entertain it as a literal question while I still have the liberty to do so.

    No. War is not what I asked for. But war asked for me. And it doesn’t have patience or empathy. This war isn’t isolated or confined to a battlefield. It’s everywhere and everyday. It’s not simply material, but is also of and for the heart and mind and spirit.

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    • Anthea September 14, 2022 at 1:35 pm #

      @ SoftStarLight:

      Yes!

  51. SoftStarLight September 13, 2022 at 2:41 am #

    And if anyone complains? Well, they will be shot. Seems to be the same basic rule whether it is 2022 BC or 2022 AD. Which tells me that the agenda of colonizers and borgs will forever devolve back to base, primal roots no matter what tech veneer is overlaid upon the beast. And in those lie the seeds of destruction such as unabashed greed and selfishness. So that your enlightenment is a bizarre, cosmic sort of groundhog day.

    • Jarek September 13, 2022 at 12:43 pm #

      Have you been able to find Anglin? My usual sources are not working.

      • malthuss September 13, 2022 at 1:12 pm #

        I do not angle in.

      • SoftStarLight September 13, 2022 at 1:53 pm #

        Yeah I noticed a few days ago that when I would go to ds that it’s like the search would just hang up with the bar in the middle and then finally I would get a message that the page was down. I saved a link once to his gab page. I haven’t set up an account on gab but i can see in a little on his page just by going there and he mentioned that the site was down on normie web but their working on it. He is posting at gab too so you can at least kinda stay in touch with what’s going on. There is also this page called darklivenet or something a little strange and if ds is down or the link changes I have gotten the new link there before.

        • Jarek September 13, 2022 at 3:54 pm #

          Yes, they’re after him. His post about the situation has been deleted from the free speech platform, Gab. And the darknet link, which he said would work from Brave, has been blocked.

          But one of the faithful has posted the new address on Gab.

  52. SoftStarLight September 13, 2022 at 3:02 am #

    So much talk of America and Americans and so many accusations. And yet are we certain there is any consensus on what Amercian or America truly means? For example, in my estimation Its doubtful it truly existed by the 1910s. The militarized, industrialized leviathan operating after that era and ever since could only nominally be referred to as America or American. The latest surveillance police state manifestation is not even nominally American.

    • Night Owl September 13, 2022 at 6:44 am #

      True, SSL. The surveillance police state is, in fact, the antithesis of what the United States was founded on.

      Unfortunately, outside interests have corrupted the system through lobbying and the slow erosion of rights.

      The post 9/11 period (with the Patriot Act, etc.) put the wheels in motion in a way not previously experienced. Many of the psyops the marionettes in the government used during that period mirror those used in the Covid Hoax.

      Many of the moronic arguments the Neocons used to support the blossoming police state are now used by “liberals” (in particular) to expand it into something far worse than what one could have imagined back then.

      The people have allowed the police state to be created. Will they allow the digitized global plantation?

      • SoftStarLight September 13, 2022 at 1:58 pm #

        The digitized global plantation is so many levels scarier than your garden variety police state too. Biden signed an executive order yesterday that basically institutes that bioengineering and AI development must be accelerated at all costs to implement for control of the population. So essentially there will be no clinical trials for safety on any new bioengineered products and they also do not have to abide by informed consent.

  53. Redneck Liberal September 13, 2022 at 6:15 am #

    I get the feeling that JHK’s essays are becoming “speculative fiction”:

    youtu.be/u8HOrIY0jtY

    • Redneck Liberal September 13, 2022 at 6:31 am #

      Plus

      youtu.be/_V4Myr7CXts

      • Redneck Liberal September 13, 2022 at 6:39 am #

        “The Russian troops are drunk, and leaving the field”

        • Woodchuck September 13, 2022 at 2:29 pm #

          After you stop posting in here, we’ll be writing about you:

          “RL was drunk too many times and has left the field”.

    • Night Owl September 13, 2022 at 6:49 am #

      Your claim for the last 6 years, over the course of 3 different user names and bans.

      Yet each week you return to be abused.

      • Redneck Liberal September 14, 2022 at 11:05 pm #

        The abuse offered by you is trivial..quite entertaining actually. Keep it up – you’re the start of this show, Night Howler Monkey.

  54. Redneck Liberal September 13, 2022 at 6:36 am #

    KeeaAnne

    You’re clearly an insightful person.
    So either you’ve managed to “turn” MQ, or MQ is just kissing your arse.

    • MaryQueen September 13, 2022 at 8:53 pm #

      I usually like her posts. You might have me confused with someone else, which wouldn’t surprise me, since you can’t keep a thought straight in your pointy noggin.

  55. BackRowHeckler September 13, 2022 at 7:15 am #

    Blue horizon launch had to be aborted yesterday, and it looks like Artemis will never get off the ground. It’s all very puzzling because one wonders what happened to the accumulated knowledge of the 6 decade long American Space program? You would think all of the problems had been solved — by 1969! But that doesn’t seem to be the case.

    The same thing strikes me when I read about automobile recalls, models that are mechanically deficient, systems like engines that were poorly designed and fail — automobiles have been manufactured commercially since about 1895; it’s hard to believe that in 127 years engineers and designers haven’t figured out yet what works and what doesn’t work.

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    • Disaffected September 13, 2022 at 8:29 am #

      With automobiles it’s all about the eternal marketing quest for something “new and improved.” With space programs, it’s all just a boondoggle/grift from the start, since we’ve never put men on the moon in the first place and don’t ever intend to, other than “virtually.” The physics – that thing that nobody understands anymore – simply won’t allow it.

      • JohnAZ September 13, 2022 at 9:43 am #

        Dis

        Pictures have been taken of the landing sites on the moon from earth based telescopes and orbiters. Just like the Mars rovers landing sites. Footprints were resolved. Wonder how they got there?

        • Disaffected September 13, 2022 at 11:26 am #

          Pictures are easily doctored or manufactured outright. You’re WAY too trusting.

        • Disaffected September 13, 2022 at 11:32 am #

          Shorter answer: PhotoShop or an even better proprietary application. It works wonders. Movie makers and TV are using it everyday now, JAZ, or haven’t you heard?

    • CrusherMuldoon September 13, 2022 at 8:53 am #

      Blue Origin, buddy. Artemis will eventually fly, but the lunar landing is years away because getting the “human landing system” to the moon, requires an operation that can only be described as a kludge

      • BackRowHeckler September 13, 2022 at 8:59 am #

        Yes Blue Origin my mistake.

      • BackRowHeckler September 13, 2022 at 9:08 am #

        Crusher, couldn’t Artemis use the same human landing system that was used 1969-1972? Of course, updated a little bit.

        Also, the plan is to launch astronauts sometime in 2024, less than 2 years from now. That goal probably won’t be met; you wonder how long they can string this thing out?

        • CrusherMuldoon September 13, 2022 at 4:10 pm #

          BRH the Apollo lunar module was made by Grumman and the plans are long gone. The advantage Apollo had was the ability to launch all three spacecraft on one booster-the Saturn 5. This HLS landing system is going to require a propellant depot-and orbiting gas station that will; need to be fueled by 5-14 launches of propellant tanks that will dock with it and transfer fuel. Then the HLS will dock with the depot, fuel and head out to dock with Artemis in lunar orbit. It’s a kludge, Marlin and the rocket to launch all 7-16 flights associated with the HLS has never flown in orbit yet. 2024 is a pipedream. Look for Artemis III to be launched around 2028-if, and it’s a very big if, it’s not cancelled.

          • BackRowHeckler September 14, 2022 at 5:30 am #

            Wow, it all sounds complex — a lot can go wrong.

            Incidentally Crusher, great answer to my question. Sounds like you have direct experience working on the project.

    • MaryQueen September 13, 2022 at 11:23 am #

      Everyone needs to read: http://centerforaninformedamerica.com/moondoggie/

      • Disaffected September 13, 2022 at 11:27 am #

        Don’t bother. It’s been posted many times here before. True believers gotta believe. It’s just what they do.

        • MaryQueen September 13, 2022 at 8:54 pm #

          I’m always hoping new curious eyes may be reading along and want to be entertained (if nothing else) for a few hours.

          Even if I believed in the moon landings, I would enjoy David McGowan’s stylings. I sure miss him, would have loved to see him rip apart the covid hoax.

          • Disaffected September 14, 2022 at 9:08 am #

            OH yeah. Great fearless writer. That’s probably what got him in the end.

      • Disaffected September 13, 2022 at 11:33 am #

        Like 9-11, the fake “moon landings” have been shot through with so many holes that I’m surprised anyone even brings them up anymore. Cognitive dissonance strikes again.

        • Night Owl September 13, 2022 at 2:14 pm #

          I never even bothered looking into any of the moon stuff until a few years ago. The information out there is quite shocking.

          It really is something to go look at some of the equipment in the Naitonal Air and Space museum in DC. Some of it is literally made from foam and foil.

          • Disaffected September 13, 2022 at 5:13 pm #

            Same here. I thought it was mildly interesting at most until I read that “Moondoggie” piece linked above and then started seeing corroborating information everywhere else.

            But it makes so much sense. The US was desperate for a PR victory at the time, with both the Cold War and Vietnam raging abroad and domestic unrest (to say the least!) at home. So NASA became a “content generator” long before anyone even new what “content” was. A helluva lot cheaper than doing the real thing, even if they could actually do it, which they couldn’t.

          • MaryQueen September 13, 2022 at 8:55 pm #

            It’s all laughable when you break down every piece of it. I think they remade the size of the models in the museum because the real sized stuff is so unbelievable.

          • Amman September 13, 2022 at 10:27 pm #

            Basically, 911 blew up the capacity to believe or trust in almost anything. At least everyone knows there is a country called America…… rrright? : /

  56. JohnAZ September 13, 2022 at 9:40 am #

    What I detect is happening is the core of the rocket, the propellant storage, piping, valves and engines systems are mis designed, faulty and unreliable.

    IMHO, they are afraid to light the candle, an explosion could stop the program for along time maybe forever.

    Know what is needed? Elon Musk! And his gang of rocketeers. NASA, like any government agency, will screw it up, overspend, they did, compromise, which they did, Musk has sent folks to space, much lower an attempt than the moon, but he has done it with humans aboard with 100% reliability.

    Artemis has spewed fuel onto the launch pad during count downs. I do not think I would get within a mile of that machine.

    Over-engineered? Bet on it.

    • JohnAZ September 13, 2022 at 9:51 am #

      BTW, I have my eyes on those side solid boosters, they look suspiciously like the ones that blew up challenger.

      The design will get us no where. So many human problems in space, weightlessness being number one. Mark Kelly’s DNA was changed by exposure to zero gravity. Two day old data from a study shows that other shuttle people have altered DNA. Yet no signs of artificial gravity systems anywhere. Radiation needs shielding to block it, can Artemis boost the added weight of water that that would take.

      We need to spend money on Gaia, space is too hard. Elon’s dream of colonizing Mars faces a huge question,

      Why?

      • BackRowHeckler September 13, 2022 at 10:28 am #

        Good points, JAZ.

        But what about the designs that did work in the Saturn & Apollo programs. Why can’t they be replicated?

        • JohnAZ September 13, 2022 at 11:59 am #

          Simplicity.

          Each stage of complexity added on to a system decreases its reliability.

          The leak problems are not electronic they are mechanical. I am guessing that like EVs the NASA group has over engineered this project trying to think of everything.

          Remember Challenger, the rings were too cold. One tiny thing goes wrong and boom.

          Adding little tiny things to try to think of everything or computerize everything just degrades reliability.

          Apollo’s computers were so simple, and they only “ran” a small percentage of the ship. They had less capacity than a cell phone.

          People ran Apollo, if Armstrong had not taken control from LEMs computer at the last minute, the Eagle would have crashed.

          • Jarek September 13, 2022 at 12:41 pm #

            Or some ice broke one of the panels, leaving it sticking up a bit. It caught on fire and burned the whole ship and crew.

            So fragile. I realized then we weren’t very advanced at all.

        • CrusherMuldoon September 13, 2022 at 6:32 pm #

          Well, NASA has big plans to “establish a permanent presence ” on the moon. The Apollo landings were “footprints and flag” missions, with none of the surface stays lasting for more than 72 hours. This HLS system which Space X is developing will weigh about 300 ,000 lbs. as it starts down to the moon on Artemis 3. The Lunar module weighed 1/10th of that. Estimated stay time for the first POC and the first woman on the moon is approximately 30 days. The SLS that sits on the pad today could not perform the Apollo lunar mission; You have to remember that the SLS was designed to give U.S. Senators plenty of pork for their respective constituents. NASA’s budget during Apollo was essentially open ended and everything was timed to meet the Kennedy goal.

          • JohnAZ September 13, 2022 at 7:45 pm #

            Yup! I also do not believe that safety and human life is paramount this time. Dangerous!

      • Soul Forensics September 13, 2022 at 4:27 pm #

        Disruption of circadian rhythms, super high nnEMFs, magnetic destruction. All so wonderful for the human body. What’s not to love about the fantasy of human space exploration!

        Just one more reason they’re pushing AI. Only a robot/partial human could survive, let alone thrive, beyond the exosphere. Maybe that’s our future. Experimental space meat for Musk.

    • CrusherMuldoon September 13, 2022 at 6:41 pm #

      John, the space agency has had a long battle with liquid hydrogen because LH2 Molecules are the second smallest size molecules, dwarfed only by liquid helium. Liquid hydrogen will penetrate the tiniest of cracks. In 1990, the shuttle program was plagued with hydrogen leaks and shuttles were moving back and forth from their pads to the assembly building to fix them. You are right about the solid rockets though. However, Artemis has a launch escape system like Mercury and Apollo to pull Orion off a malfunctioning booster.

      • JohnAZ September 13, 2022 at 7:48 pm #

        Apollo 13 was a hydrogen leak, electric spark and explosion.

        The same reason hydrogen cars will never be a reality.

  57. cowbell81 September 13, 2022 at 10:53 am #

    Can’t believe this hasn’t gotten more press, but jazz great Ramsey Lewis died yesterday at age 87. Sad day, sad indeed.

    • elysianfield September 13, 2022 at 11:22 am #

      Bell,
      Your comment brings to mind an embarrassing event. In the very early ’70’s. I and the wife, attended a Ramsey Lewis Trio concert. During one of his sets, I became…almost enraged at the drivel they called music…freeform Jazz. Got up and left, almost having a fist fight with one or several of the other attendees.

      To say I do not understand some forms of Jazz is an understatement. I thought his music was crap, and still do.

      But those were the Bad old Days…I’m much better now….

      …And I apologize to those other attendees.

      • cowbell81 September 13, 2022 at 11:57 am #

        Interesting story elisian, we live and learn I guess and our tastes change. I consider you lucky to have seen Lewis perform live, even if you did walk out in a fit. Oh well, at least you didn’t try assassinating him or going on stage to punch him, which is probably what someone would do in today’s world.

      • Paula D September 13, 2022 at 1:58 pm #

        I still hate freeform jazz.
        Just confessed such to a jazz fan a couple of days ago. She didn’t punch me.

        I took enough music lessons to absolutely hate scales.

        Therefore I do not consider playing scales ”music”, even when accompanied by a drum beat. Nope, not music.

      • Paula D September 13, 2022 at 2:01 pm #

        And I walked out of a Frank Zappa “concert” for the same reason.

        I paid good money and I didn’t consider a auditory assault to be worth it.

        • MaryQueen September 14, 2022 at 8:28 pm #

          I couldn’t stand the one Zappa concert I went to either.

      • MaryQueen September 13, 2022 at 8:58 pm #

        Funny. My mom got shushed by Ella Fitzgerald, as she and her friends were sitting at a table close to the stage and were kinda loud (maybe buzzed but she didn’t admit that – lol).

        She didn’t tell me that story ’til I was like 40 because she was embarrassed.

        • Hereward the Woke September 14, 2022 at 3:35 pm #

          Mary, that reminds me of a colleague who got spat on my a leading punk rocker a few decades a go. It was the high point of his life!

          • MaryQueen September 14, 2022 at 8:29 pm #

            LOL! My mom didn’t see it as a high point. She was still embarrassed 50 years later.

  58. elysianfield September 13, 2022 at 11:16 am #

    From the Situational Awareness report this AM;

    BUREAUS DEMAND REGISTRY INFORMATION: Companies in firearms sales, tobacco sales, and accessory manufacturers are reporting the Census Bureau and licensing agencies are demanding customer information. The bureaus threatened retailers with audits for refusing to give up the personal information of their customers. (AC: The information demanded included things like tracking and order numbers which would allow for auditing what specific items were ordered. This would allow the agencies to back up information gathered with the new Merchant Category Codes to form a more complete threat picture of the people surveilled. – J.V.)

    Accessory manufacturing…

    “Firearms accessoriy” is a very broad category…

    Next they will be coming for the whips, chains, and rubber novelties….

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKnX5wci404

    • cowbell81 September 13, 2022 at 11:19 am #

      LGBTQIA+ demonstrators parading in the streets for Pride Day festivities will of course be exempt from the whips, handcuff, and rubber novelty restrictions.

      Hope they don’t come for my set of kitchen carving knives, or the old machete I have from my bushwhacking days.

  59. 100th Avatar September 13, 2022 at 12:14 pm #

    The beginning of the end of “happy motoring”?

    Cruise, GM’s autonomous taxi service is expanding.

    As I’ve said: the goal is the end of the personally owned vehicle.

    The goal is fleets of autonomous subscriber services.

    The goal is:

    You’ll own nothing and you really don’t have a choice, happy or not

    #it’sallfortheclimatechange

    • JohnAZ September 13, 2022 at 12:38 pm #

      I am constantly scratching my head over what is going on. Is the government feeding us a Line of bull regarding climate change? What is their real reason for promoting alternative energy and EVs, as both have been shown to be insufficient, even close to solving the problem.

      L&G, the end of Happy Motoring IS coming. Peak oil ensures that. We do need ideas to get around the shortages in FF. Biden thinks he can force the issue, that will never happen. Where are the efforts to really find alternatives that will work?

      Nuclear, clean coal are starts.

      Adaptation and populace movement has to occur. The idea that things are going to stay the same is ludicrous. Where is the government on any of this? Invisible.

      • beantownbill. September 13, 2022 at 12:54 pm #

        That’s why we’re likely doomed. We could postpone our demise, but TPTB are either selling us out or are too incompetent to be effective. Take your pick.

      • Woodchuck September 13, 2022 at 2:21 pm #

        There won’t be any “alternative” energy sources that will work to – as JHK says – to keep Walmart, Disneyworld and all the other vacation “worlds” like Gatlinburg in business. Adaptation will consist of learning to live like our ancestors did and occupy the planet that way – or die. Our choice.

      • Night Owl September 13, 2022 at 4:57 pm #

        They have already told you.

        EVs are electric and hooked up to the Internet of Things and the Internet of Bodies. Two concepts you may not be aware of, but I edit articles on this crap on a regular basis.

        You are being pushed toward transportation that most cannot afford, and for those that can, they will be geofenced in based on their compliance with the agenda.

        It isn’t a mystery. They are reducing the population, and pushing those that remain and future generations into a digitally controlled plantation.

        Your general approach to what I have just written reminds me of your approach to Covid — you will slowly move toward the truth over time, while trying to cling to your original belief.

        Good luck.

        • JohnAZ September 13, 2022 at 7:32 pm #

          I move towards the truth always, as it becomes the truth.

          I do not give the doofuses as much credit as you. I think they think they are recreating the world. BS. Too many variables, number one right now the failure of alternative systems and two, the failure of Nato and Ukraine to put down Russia.

          Russia is on the rise, and WEF is falling flat right now.

          Russia does not threaten this country with economic failure, the WEF does.

          • Night Owl September 14, 2022 at 3:45 am #

            There is good evidence that Russia is pursuing its own version of the global plantation.

            Don’t put stock in any country or government to save you. The only thing that will shape the course of this move in our favor is us.

    • Night Owl September 13, 2022 at 5:09 pm #

      “As I’ve said: the goal is the end of the personally owned vehicle.”

      Corret. The climate narrative is another prong of the same attack: you will no longer be able to travel in a private vehicle.

      Those who can actually afford an electric car will have it slightly better, but only i they play ball. The materials required for EVs naturally limit thier numbers.

      Furthermore, you will be energy rationed and charging your vehicle at home will not be possible all of the time. As I mentioned below, these vehicles are also connected to the Internets of Things and Bodies, and you are easily geolocatable and can be geofenced. Your vehicle can also be remotely turned off.

      The EV solves all of the issues with imposing travel restrictions in one fell swoop.

      What many forget is that this is the end game, but we get there incrementally. In Germany they have already outlawed the registration of new ICE vehicles in 2035. They are accellerating the pace, but they will take us to the desination step by step.

      • JohnAZ September 13, 2022 at 7:41 pm #

        You have been watching California. Always a bell weather. Also the leader of economic failure as evidenced by a middle class exodus and unbelievable homelessness.

        Like Cadillacs, EVs will lead the elite crowd. That is all. When the market tops out on EVs, the car manufacturers will be back to gas power. When I worked in the HI tech field, shake outs were inevitable. Fifty companies trying to compete, two survive. EVs are no different.

        Read an article today trying to condemn Toyota for not getting on the EV bandwagon 100%. They want the electric- hybrid to be the driver. I have one, it works. What do you call Toyota in ten years? The survivors and the world wide suppliers of sensible cars and trucks.

        • Night Owl September 14, 2022 at 3:43 am #

          Only if the agenda is seriously set back.

          The agenda stipulates that you and most others don’t get an EV. Those that do, are also slaves, they just get a few more crumbs.

    • Paula D September 14, 2022 at 12:31 pm #

      If they were actually worried about climate change, and not controlling the movement of the population, they would go back to trolleys and trains. EV vehicles are a massive waste of resources, plus they require the stupid system of highways, ambulances and trauma centers that are so expensive to maintain.
      But trolleys and trains are for the masses and they are anonymous. You buy a ticket and you can go wherever you want and they have no way but security cameras to track you.

      They ripped out the entire country’s system of trolleys back in the 20s and 30s, against the wishes of most of the population.
      There was a documentary on YouTube called “Taken For A Ride” that showed old footage of the way GM, Firestone and Standard Oil destroyed the public transportation system and the people trying to stop them, but YT has now taken it down.

      You will stay in your house or pod unless your overlords approve your movement, and they will send a single vehicle to pick you up.

  60. beantownbill. September 13, 2022 at 12:48 pm #

    As my wife and I get older, we feel the necessity of avoiding winter – at least for awhile. We bought a timeshare at the WDW Beach Club Resort about 16 years ago, and every February stay in Florida for 3 weeks, thus shortening our winter. I know what CFNers think about Disney, but we keep to ourselves there and don’t get involved.

    Anyway, this year every timeshare room has been taken in 2022-2023. I’m not going to pay $500 per night for a non-timeshare, so it looks like we’re not going this winter. But we have to get away somewhere warm, so Mrs. BTB and I are thinking of Aruba. Unfortunately, it’s a little too far for me to swim, so we’d have to take a plane, which I hate doing. C’est la vie. We also have to get passports, ours having expired a couple of years ago. At first I didn’t want the government involved in any of my affairs – for obvious reasons. But then I thought the US is failing, so why not have something that allows us to leave Dodge whenever we want – if possible? I recommend having a valid one to get out of the country, if necessary.
    Hopefully, it won’t be, but it’s a good idea to have options.

    So all Disney rooms taken? I thought our economy sucks big time. Upon further thought, maybe people are realizing this will be their last chance to go there, and they should go as soon as they can. I’m not sure Disney World will last much longer as a viable vacation option. Sad, at least for me.

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    • BackRowHeckler September 13, 2022 at 12:57 pm #

      Bill, US Virgin Islands don’t require a passport, and I believe you may be able to get there by boat from Key West.

      • beantownbill. September 13, 2022 at 1:12 pm #

        Thanks, Marlin, but been there, done that. I bought jewelry in St. John once. It’s still too far for me to swim, though. There wasn’t anything to do there; and I didn’t have a good experience on my one-time cruise. I’d still have to take a plane. And getting a passport might be a good idea. I’ve never been to Aruba, but my daughter has a few times and liked it. Maybe BVI. Tortola might be another option.

      • hustled enough September 13, 2022 at 3:48 pm #

        Hi beantownbill (and BackRowHeckler),
        You can also fly into the US Virgin islands–St Thomas. And then take ferries out from there…

        • elysianfield September 13, 2022 at 8:16 pm #

          “Virgin islands”

          …Shamelessly misnamed….

    • cowbell81 September 13, 2022 at 1:09 pm #

      Have you thought about winter vacationing somewhere in Texas, or maybe even further down in Mexico? At least you could drive to those places.

      • beantownbill. September 13, 2022 at 1:23 pm #

        My wife wants to go to Mexico. Her hair stylist lives there now. She’s top-notch – New York/Hollywood quality, does shows all over the world, etc. She recently moved to Mexico, but comes up here every few weeks to service her old customers. My wife wants to see her there. I don’t think I want to go to Mexico. Thanks for the suggestion.

        • cowbell81 September 13, 2022 at 1:30 pm #

          Well at least you’d have someone local to show you the sights, and maybe to even stay with. That would make you look less like an inexperienced gringo ripe for easy pickings to the hoodlums.

      • BackRowHeckler September 13, 2022 at 1:27 pm #

        I’ve always wanted to check out the ‘Redneck Riviera’ on Florida’s panhandle. Had a friend move down there and the first year his house got leveled by a hurricane lol.

        • Disaffected September 13, 2022 at 5:19 pm #

          Humid as hell and buggy, with the added bonus of paper mill stench in many places. What’s not to love? Don’t like FL in general, but if you must, the Atlantic Coast is the place to be. The Gulf, not so much.

          The only advantage to the Gulf coast is the slower lifestyle, if that’s your thing.

          • benr September 14, 2022 at 6:42 am #

            Sitting in a hotel room in Niceville Florida and I can attest the pace of life is a bit slower than San Diego.
            Going for a hike today at turkey creek park.
            Looking for gators and after I will look at the water levels at Choctawhatchee bay and later this week in Pensacola.

    • malthuss September 13, 2022 at 1:14 pm #

      I thought our economy sucks big time.

      You are right, its a debt system nearing a planned collapse.

      start at youtube with various channels there.

      • JohnAZ September 13, 2022 at 7:54 pm #

        Made the comment many times.

        The jig is up when creditors want their money.

        Who are the creditors? Retirements, savings for the future.

        Baby boomers want their IRAs

        • malthuss September 13, 2022 at 9:17 pm #

          I d note creditors are Chinese. and other governments.

  61. GarryOwenTroop September 13, 2022 at 2:29 pm #

    Given past experience with the GOP, I have serious doubts about any accountability coming from the District of Criminals. Still waiting for the repeal of Obamacare.

    • SoftStarLight September 13, 2022 at 3:27 pm #

      I’ve decided to continue to participate in the election system until that is taken away or my ability to participate is taken away. Personally I won’t vote for any Democrat in the given circumstances because they will always support the WEF globalist program. I won’t vote for most Republicans either. At this time I only vote for candidates that expressly make a point to espouse America First policies as well as anti-globalist, anti-WEF positions. The established GOP is a controlled opposition mirage

  62. hustled enough September 13, 2022 at 3:44 pm #

    Dear JHK Admin,
    I appreciate your willingness to double down on your faith in the Russian ability to steamroller Ukraine. Even though I disagree with the claim that Ukraine was asking for it, and got what it deserved, I admire your willingness to go to the mat for your hopes for Russia’s eventual victory. As I said before, I think the Russians win, but not through battlefield might. The Russians have proven themselves inept in conventional warfare. The events of the past couple of weeks shows this pretty clearly.

    First, hoping that “the Russians appear to have made an orderly, tactical retreat from the outskirts of Kharkov, inducing the NATO-trained Ukraine forces eastward across the Siverskyi Donets River and out into the flat, open country where they will be cut off, cauldroned, and slaughtered,” needs to be placed along side the evidence of the activity of the war. If what you say is true, why didn’t the Russians do that BACK in March -July in the areas that look like this when they had MORE equipment and armaments and soldiers? The Russians NEVER had the devastating battlefield success you confidently predict that they are going to have now, now that they are withdrawing. What evidence do you offer to support this hopeful claim of Russia’s eventual success? The eyewitness accounts of Russians throwing weapons away as they ride bicycles out of Izium? A strategically important hub they need to help prosecute the war in the Dumbass? Do you actually think the Russian high command has the chops of a Marshall Pisudski in the Battle of Warsaw? Well, do you know something I don’t on that one?

    Second, “Russia could have completely disabled the Zelensky regime in an afternoon with air power, but they did not want to smash up the country’s vital infrastructure and foreclose the peoples’ future.” Is that so? On what basis did they then allow the Ukrainians to advance now? If the Russians had such OVERWHELMING air power superiority, why haven’t we seen them open up the incalculable can of whoop ass before now?

    In the South, you do not have to be a military genius to see that Ukraine aims to cut Russian forces off in Kherson (just how many bridges and pontoons can the Ukrainians blow up, and then eliminate the un-suppliable Russian pocket?). I am unsure if the Ukrainians can succeed, but the collapse of the Russian effort in the East means that those 25,000 troops are under incredible morale pressures. Ukrainian probabilities of success are much higher this week in the South than was the case a week ago.

    The fact is that this is a mess for the Kremlin. I think it goes one of two ways. Putin collapses or enough people still believe in him and the Eurasian project to be willing to launch the tactical nukes to reset the battlefield. That is the most likely path that will lead to WWIII, not the Ukrainian ability to kick Russian butt. And if that is true, the threat of nuclear war is still a threat—even if Russia wins this war. Why? Because a Putin Russia will miscalculate again. The Baltics come to mind—and then shit gets real, because if they get away with nukes in Ukraine, they will do it again against the Baltics and that is a bridge too far. So, if I understand your view correctly. we avoid WWIII, if we give the Russians everything they want for their “legitimate” security needs—and that is basically an energy subservient Western Europe and post WWII Soviet era borders. I disagree with you.

    Finally, you think that helping Ukraine to remain unassimilated by Russia is not in the US or in Europe’s interests? “Nothing about our involvement in Ukraine is in the interest of the American people. Our foreign policy establishment has shown a blind animus toward Russia for no apparent good reason.” Sorry, but no. No, because the end result of a Russian success is an expansionist and invigorated Russia with Europe under its energy dominating thumb. And that is NOT in the US interests, at all (Note: You have never explained why that outcome would be in the US’ interests). And if that means that the Europeans are going to take a hit? Than they are going to take the hit. And there will be unrest, for sure. And more people in Ukraine will die, but the longer this crapshow goes on, the more Russian domestic political resistance and unrest you are going to see in Russia—especially if there is a general mobilization. When conscripted Russians go home in large numbers of body bags, … this is not going to end well for the Russians. Just ask the Soviets about the impact of Afghanistan ….

    • cowbell81 September 13, 2022 at 3:55 pm #

      Dear West: Just stop all the posturing and aggressive behaviors right along the Russian borders and on their frontiers. Is that too much to ask? If you can follow this simple rule, the entire problem will be solved.

      • CrusherMuldoon September 13, 2022 at 4:11 pm #

        YES!

      • hustled enough September 13, 2022 at 8:31 pm #

        Hi cowbell81,
        Dear Russia: Just stop the ill conceived Eurasian Project with its attendant posturing and aggressive behaviours right along the Ukraine borders (also, it would be ever so nice if you give back the parts of Ukraine you stole, including the Crimea… just saying). Is that too much to ask?
        Dear Non-Russian Eurasian Sphere of Influence: Well, sport, yes it is too much to ask, because Russia’s spiritual need is to oppose and overthrow the spread of decadent Western corruptions and perversions of … (add your list here) in the name of Russian spiritual innocence and purity … (list here)…. etc.
        PS. There is no simple rule here apart from acquiescence to our desires… that will solve the current problem. Don’t worry, we have future problems to solve by moving further West…

    • BackRowHeckler September 13, 2022 at 5:02 pm #

      A better question “Just ask NATO about the impact of Afghanistan …”

      • BackRowHeckler September 13, 2022 at 5:23 pm #

        And it wasn’t 40 years ago but just a year ago in August.

        The truth is Ukraine’s latest offensive in the east has made some headway, creating a salient into Russian held territory similar to the German movement west in the Battle of the Bulge in Dec. 1944. It’s a last desperate gambit; Ukrainian forces, having exhausted themselves, surrounded on three sides, will be cut off and destroyed, just as the Germans were. And that will be that.

        One puzzling thing, I’ve seen more battlefield video of Cuba in 1898, and the Philippines in 1902, than I have of these supposed epic battles on the Russian steppe in 2022. Miles of video exist of action on the Western Front 1914-1918. Where is the embedded news coverage of this war, besides press releases from Kiev’s propaganda bureau? This is especially puzzling when you consider every soldier out there has a cellphone. It’s hard to believe none of them are recording anything then downloading it to outside news organizations. This ain’t adding up.

        • Paula D September 13, 2022 at 7:16 pm #

          That’s because they are downloading them to TikTok, not the self-identified legitimate media, which would never air them.

          And the self-identified legitimate media is not on the frontlines nowadays. They sit in Warsaw, filing the propaganda they are handed by Kiev and the Pentagon.

        • Paula D September 13, 2022 at 7:23 pm #

          The Russian soldiers don’t have cellphones.

          The Donbass militias do. I’m not sure about the Ukies, but I have seen mercenary videos,

        • Paula D September 13, 2022 at 10:15 pm #

          I just watched a mercenary video. Dude is American, with other Americans, and wearing a Go Pro!!!
          His friend gets killed and he gets pissed and screams “You’re all gonna DIE!!”
          And then he dies.
          They found his Go Pro on his dead body and uploaded it to Telegram.

      • hustled enough September 13, 2022 at 7:44 pm #

        Hi BackRowHeckler,
        Not much, actually. It was Biden’s prescience about that albatross that allows US to combat Russia today.

    • Disaffected September 13, 2022 at 5:07 pm #

      Does this mean we’ll have to all learn to speak Ukrainian? Or is it Russian? Or maybe Chinese?

      So many boogeymen these days I can’t keep track anymore? The MIC thanks you for your support.

      • BackRowHeckler September 13, 2022 at 6:53 pm #

        Well, when Ukraine finally throws in the towel it will be interesting to see how it is explained away, and where the $75 billion is. Stock boogeymen like Systemic Racism, Climate Change, MAGA, & the Covid Pandemic won’t cut it.

        • hustled enough September 13, 2022 at 8:21 pm #

          And BackRowHeckler,
          At what point would you be willing to change your mind about what you believe? Unless you also believe that this is all kabuki theatre until the Russians get serious and start dropping nuclear ordinance?

          • BackRowHeckler September 13, 2022 at 8:56 pm #

            Hustled Enough I believe a rapprochement can be established with Russia and what amounts to a Ukrainian/Russian border dispute can be worked out — but as long as the US pours weapons into Ukraine there’s no chance Putin will negotiate anything; and if past wars are any indication this will get nastier the longer it lasts. You mention nuclear weapons; yes, that is a possibility. The fact is, Russia will not lose. I heard Putin say “Russia never again will be invaded from the West.” This tells me that historical memories of events in 1812, 1914 & 1941 motivate Putin as much as more recent events like NATOs abrogation of the Minsk Accord and US meddling in Ukrainian elections.

          • hustled enough September 13, 2022 at 11:20 pm #

            Hi BackRowHeckler,
            Thanks for the reply. We are unlikely to agree but I thank you for your willingness to engage.

            About Minsk… I think it is not very serious to say that Ukraine violated the provisions when you say nothing about Russian transgressions therein. I can agree that both sides violated the agreement but your failure to mention Russian duplicity in breaking the accords is a major problem with your claim. For example: The Agreements stated that “foreign forces” were to withdraw. Russia who had (and currently has) forces in the Dumbass and who denied it (even in the face of dead / captured regular Russian Army “volunteers” from the 6th Separate Tank Brigade and the later active engagement of the 200th Motorised Infantry Brigade) kept its troops in the region fighting. So, no, I don’t grant the framing you want to use. If you want to add that it is quite openly stated by Russians in government positions, like Vladislav Sirkov, who stated that the Minsk Agreements were the first legitimate division of Ukraine aimed at its total reconquest, your claim, as I have said, feels deeply unserious–to me.

            And if we are going o talk about US meddling, talk about Russian meddling. I find it interesting that folks here follow JHK Admin’s lead in denying the autonomy of Ukraine–as if it is a puppet of either East or West. I think that is naive, simplistic, and very dangerous. A possible equivalent would be to call those who follow the former President Trump “puppets on strings” without autonomy. I find that claim deeply offensive for the obvious reason that it denies those folks who follow the former President a sense of agency, history, and lived understanding of their own lives. I would extend the same charity to the Ukrainians–their understanding of their lives does not match that of Russian propagandists who spread their crap in the West to anyone who will listen.

          • Paula D September 14, 2022 at 12:37 pm #

            Hustled Enough spews bullshit again.
            Russia was not a party to the Minsk Accords.
            The Minsk Accords were an agreement between Ukraine and the Donbass people who refused to accept the 2014 coup and wanted autonomy and basic human rights, like the right to speak their own language.

            There is no way that Russia could break an agreement it was not a party to.
            And it is beyond stupid to claim that Russians were already in Donbass AND also invaded Donbass in February.

            Only those skilled in DoubleThink (probably on the payroll of Big Brother) can twist themselves into such statements.

            No reason for straight thinkers to believe such bullshit, no matter how confidently stated.

          • Jarek September 14, 2022 at 2:31 pm #

            If Russia were to invade Eastern Europe, Paula would support it. Russia is her nations and she’s a blind, “my country right or wrong” type patriot.

          • hustled enough September 15, 2022 at 1:03 am #

            Hi Paula D,
            Two things. Minsk was signed by a number of people, including the Russian Ambassador to Ukraine and Russian representative Mikhail Zurabov–both of them. Even if what you said was true, the fact is that you apparently agree with the claims I advanced concerning Russia’s unwillingness to stop fighting beside the separatists. That seems like active participation by Russia to undermine the accords, doesn’t it? So, please square that for me.

            Second, do you really mean this? “And it is beyond stupid to claim that Russians were already in Donbass AND also invaded Donbass in February.” Because you do realise that one can be in a part of an Oblasts that your proxies control (and which you helped them to control) and invade the part of the same Oblasts that your proxies do not control. If you cannot acknowledge tat possibility, I can’t help you.

      • elysianfield September 13, 2022 at 8:14 pm #

        “Does this mean we’ll have to all learn to speak Ukrainian? Or is it Russian? Or maybe Chinese”

        Dis,
        Learn how to be speakin’ Jive, Yo!

        • Disaffected September 14, 2022 at 9:01 am #

          I was pretty good at Jive back in the day. Little out of practice now, but yo, I could get all jiggy wid’ it agin soon enuf, I reckin.

    • CrusherMuldoon September 13, 2022 at 6:54 pm #

      Well, first of all, I can guarantee you that the Russians are not using their most sophisticated weapon against Ukraine Why would they? Why give the West a complete idea what their capabilities are, Secondly, why didn’t they bomb Ukraine back into the Stone Age? Well, it’s kind of obvious. Since the Russians want to integrate Ukraine into Greater Russia, why should they destroy a country that when occupied (and it will be) will have to be built from the ground up like Germany was after World War 2? So, you honestly think that if the Russians secure their borders by making sure the Ukraine never joins NATO, we’ll have an expansionist Russia moving west and goggling up all the nations in its path until they reach the Atlantic Ocean? If you do, you would have loved the domino theory dealing with Communism that was so 1960s I will tell you this: the more support the West gives Ukraine the longer and more savage the fighting will get. I bet this winter, a lot of Europeans and Americans will wonder how they’re going to heat and light their homes and how
      “We Stand With Ukraine will sound through chattering teeth.

      • hustled enough September 13, 2022 at 7:55 pm #

        Hi CrusherMuldoon,
        “So, you honestly think that if the Russians secure their borders by making sure the Ukraine never joins NATO, we’ll have an expansionist Russia moving west and goggling up all the nations in its path until they reach the Atlantic Ocean?”
        That is not what I said. I said: “So, if I understand your view correctly. we avoid WWIII, if we give the Russians everything they want for their “legitimate” security needs—and that is basically an energy subservient Western Europe and post WWII Soviet era borders.”

        Second, looking at the scholarship on Putin and the Eurasian Project (see for example Tim Snyder, The Road to Unfreedom) the picture is very different from the one JHK Admin wants to paint, which is an inaccurate one.

        And as for, the claim: “Why give the West a complete idea what their capabilities are, Secondly, why didn’t they bomb Ukraine back into the Stone Age?” Quick answer: Because they are losing, right now. What would it take to change your mind? Would the collapse of the Kherson pocket do it, or will you hold on—as JHK Admin will–to the “Just you wait for the Russian Bear to finally show what it is made of!!!!! It will knock the Ukrainian socks off!!!! In a boiling cauldron sea of Kyiv soup (with a nice side order of pickled herring, because, well, why not?).”

        What I think you are really saying is: The Russians will use nuclear weapons. If that is it, just say it, and point out to us how big and tough and scruff the Russians are for doing such things. That is what REAL MEN do! Blow up innocent folks by the tens and hundreds of thousands. And if they do this, well then congratulations, they will have truly saved Ukraine from “Nazis” by levelling it…

        • Jarek September 14, 2022 at 2:33 pm #

          Where were you and your delicate conscience when the Ukies were shelling the Donbas for the last decade, killing thousands?

          Shame on you.

          • hustled enough September 15, 2022 at 12:35 am #

            Where were you and your delicate conscience when the Russians and their proxies were shelling the Dumbass for the last decade, killing many on the Ukraine side?

            Shame is something that can be shared, Jarek…

          • Jarek September 15, 2022 at 12:24 pm #

            The Dumbass? Why you worthless sack of shit.

          • hustled enough September 15, 2022 at 3:50 pm #

            Hi Jarek,
            I am sorry I hurt your feelings.
            You should still feel shame over what your Russian and Russian backed compadres were doing in your neck of the woods before war was declared (sorry, before the “special military operation” was declared)

        • CrusherMuldoon September 15, 2022 at 5:34 pm #

          Nobody is talking about post World War II Soviet borders: we’re talking about keeping NATO out a country bordering Russia-Ukraine. YOU think the Russians are looking to reclaim their old post World War 2 borders. -not me. By the way cutting off energy supplies to the Europeans? It’s called tit for tat. You supply weaponry that prevents us from achieving our foreign policy goal of keeping NATO from a country that directly borders us-we cut off your energy supply. Sic transit gloria mundi. You’re seeing the world through the eyes of an 18-year-old. In addition, you’re clueless about issues involving military strategy.

    • JohnAZ September 13, 2022 at 7:00 pm #

      You have presented an anti Russia pro Nato discussion on the war. I can understand your viewpoint as a guard against Russian expansion in Europe. A few thoughts

      Russia should be part of the EU as THEY requested in 2014. Just as a few states provide oil for the US, Russia and the Ukraine region should be providing oil for Europe.

      OH NO says mighty Uncle Sam. We cannot have Russia having advantage in Europe and the need for Nato compromised. The MIC might lose its main target, reason for existence. Someone earlier made the observation that the US has spent more time at war than not. It may not be that bad, but it has been every generation until the last has gone to war of some sorts.

      All in the name of liberty and democracy. The same attributes the government is trying to take away from us now.

      You are stuck in a bad Russia, good US position. Let me give you another. Bad WEF, bad US government, good Tea Party conservative, developing BRICS alliance to counter the WEF takeover. Putin knows if the WEF takes over the West he is next. The Ukraine is a knife in his gut in Russia, he warned Nato in 2014 that Ukraine inclusion would cause war, Nato manipulated Ukraine, think Biden and Obama, and Putin enforces Red Lines unlike the US.

      What has happened is a disaster for the US and Europe. Russia has what it wants, it has a defensive border in Ukraine to stop any tomfoolery from the WEF led West. They will hold on to what they have. The final goal is isolation of Ukraine from the Black Sea and its being removed as a threat. Oil is what this whole thing is about from the beginning, who will control European WEF oil. Right now, it is Russia. A very dangerous thing is happening though, Russia is turning Asian. Finding oil markets in Asia is going to drive them away from Europe. The geopolitics of the world right now says that will be a disaster from Europe’s viewpoint. If they lose Russia totally, the WEF better find a new source for Europe to get oil and gas as the US cannot supply them.

      The war is a proxy. Valuable lessons have been learned, the most important is that technology has just about cancelled out the conventional weapons on both sides. The only successful strategy seems to be the Russian siege techniques.

      It is a mystery why the Russians have not used the German, US inspired blitzkrieg all out war technique to blast the Ukes out. Maybe someday Putin will explain himself. Right now, I shake my head at the Russ inability to just march right in. Have we the West been afraid of a paper tiger for all these years?

      I wonder how many test wells are being explored in Greenland?

      • hustled enough September 13, 2022 at 8:12 pm #

        Yes I did do that, JohnAZ.
        You present an anti-Ukraine, anti-West counterpoint that is de rigeur here.
        I do not subscribe to your views that 2014 was the “shock, shock, horror” point that gave Putin resolve to assimilate Ukraine. Putin had made it clear before then that he wanted a “Greater Russia” and he was happy with Ukraine as long as it was a puppet state that did what it was told. Well, unfortunately, it didn’t. The problem with JHK Admin’s analysis (and the de rigeur analyses here) is that it completely disregards the possibility that Ukraine is anything other than a puppet–of the West or of Russia, and that is its only role historically, economically, and politically. That is a mistake, in my opinion. It is wrong historically, and the current events show regular Ukrainians fighting against what they see as a despotic and barbaric invader. You can dismiss these folks as delusional or liars, or you can meet them where THEY are–in the middle of a conflict that they are willing to fight and die for–with MORE fighting spirit than the Russians are currently showing…

        And as for blitzkrieg–the Russians tried, and failed, and withdrew from Kyiv. Just also remember, such tactics require command of the skies for long term success–just look at the Germans during the Ardennes Offensive in 1944. No air… kabluey… Has Russia finally achieved total air superiority? If you are launching cruise missiles from aircraft in Belarus air space that says a lot about air dominance in Ukraine …

        • CrusherMuldoon September 14, 2022 at 5:38 am #

          So let me guess. Using stand-off missiles to attack a target is a dumb idea, right? How about the Russians just send in manned fighter bombers and risk the loss of expensive machines and trained pilots? That sounds so much more………macho. Geezus..Just another amateur Patton blowing hot air here.

          • hustled enough September 14, 2022 at 9:20 am #

            Hi CrusherMuldoon,
            Its is a very sensible idea. The fact that they are not raining death and destruction down on the Ukrainians could be because they are waiting for the right moment as you suggest, but don’t you think you should entertain the idea that it is because they don’t have the number they would need to do as you say, and they have to economise? Why not that number of them? They have been using a lot over time and those precision munitions need a lot of specialised parts and well, sanctions are hurting Russia, just as Putin as conceded on various occasions.

            Having said that, I expect that the Russians will destroy civilian infrastructure necessary during the winter, but that is something the Ukrainians expect. They just think that starting so early is probably a tad stupid, but the Kharkiv attacks were a signal to the Ukrainians about Russian intent. But if you want to keep your freedom from an oppressor, you know you will have to sacrifice and suffer. I think Ukraine knows and accepts that reality.

      • Jarek September 14, 2022 at 2:35 pm #

        When Putin asked Clinton about Russia joining NATO, Clinton didn’t even bother to answer. He just laughed in his face.

    • Paula D September 13, 2022 at 7:19 pm #

      Gosh, why didn’t the Russians cauldron the Ukrainians back in March, when the Ukrainians were not there?

      This is a question for the military experts, for sure.

      It is a mystery, my son. And the fact that it puzzles you shows why you have been hustled so many times.

      What a doofus!

      • hustled enough September 13, 2022 at 8:15 pm #

        Hi Paula D,
        And your inability to actually think about the question speaks to your level of incuriosity. And yes, I have been hustled a lot, especially by folks who think that covering a lack of thoughtful counter-argument by relying on insults is some sign of intellectual superiority! 🙂

        • Paula D September 13, 2022 at 10:19 pm #

          Why don’t I think about why the Russians didn’t attack a cauldron in March that wasn’t there until September?

          Because that is not a difficult question to answer, without pondering at all.

          The fact that you are still dithering about it only proves that it doesn’t take much intellect to be your intellectual superior.

          • hustled enough September 13, 2022 at 11:24 pm #

            Paula D!
            You are AMAZING!!!
            I just wanted you to know that. 🙂

    • MaryQueen September 13, 2022 at 9:17 pm #

      Thanks for regurgitating The Telegraph, Guardian, NYSlimes and CNN.

      I’m sure everyone appreciates it!

      Especially RedNut Libtard.

      • Paula D September 13, 2022 at 10:21 pm #

        And he clearly thinks that he is posing thought provoking ideas, not just regurgitating what we all hear from msm 24/7, lol.

        What a doofus!

      • hustled enough September 13, 2022 at 11:33 pm #

        Hi MaryQueen,
        Thank you for offering us the reasoned assessments of Russian propagandists filtered through western commentators. You might have to cut out a number of Russian milbloggers who disagree with you and who have begun turning against the Russian strategy in Ukraine, but, that is not a problem. So, even if some, and it is only a few (at the moment) cheerleaders for the Kremlin have begun to change their tune, it is not a problem, right?

        You will stay the course! And double down! And you will be vindicated in your faith (hopefully). And I know for a fact that the majority of folks here appreciate your efforts in this regard (except RNL)

        It is a pity that the way Russia “wins” is by turning Ukraine into a nuclear wasteland (my speculation), but you are good with that, right, because Russia has “god” or “history” or “destiny” or “something” on its side… right?

        • Jarek September 14, 2022 at 2:55 pm #

          Who is shelling the nuclear power plant? The Russians? They control it so why would they?

          It’s the demonic Zelensky regime, controlled by the International Bankers.

          • Q. Shtik September 14, 2022 at 6:24 pm #

            controlled by the International Bankers. – Jar

            ===========

            Why is it always the International Bankers, never the National Bankers? 😉

          • hustled enough September 15, 2022 at 12:33 am #

            Hi Jarek, Since no one knows for sure, it would be as easy to blame the Russians for the explosions. If you want a reason, there is speculation that the Russians are looking for an excuse to put the reactor solely under their “protection” and to use it for powering only its conquered territory. Could the Ukrainians be doing it? Yes. I admit the possibility. Can you admit that the Russians could be doing it for their own ends?

          • Jarek September 15, 2022 at 3:03 am #

            Money knows no borders and has no loyalty, Q. They’ve been waiting a long time for the Economy as a whole to catch up to them. Now it has and the conquest of the Earth is possible.

        • MaryQueen September 15, 2022 at 5:59 pm #

          I don’t have a ‘side’ but I do know what’s going on because I don’t listen to the CIA-paid media.

    • hustled enough September 14, 2022 at 12:02 am #

      Hey all,
      Now that the Kremlin has acknowledged that Russia got its arse kicked around Kharkiv, will we likely see a pivot in what folks believe here, in line with Russian views? Or will some of you entertain the possibility that this struggle is not going the way that Russia intended?

      Also, does the current bru-ha-ha between Armenia and Azerbaijan signal some internal fracturing with the former Soviet block regions? I mean, if your army is getting the shit kicked out of it in Ukraine, can you keep peace amongst fractious internal republics?

      Just asking…

    • Anthea September 14, 2022 at 10:56 pm #

      @ hustled enough:

      “the end result of a Russian success is an expansionist and invigorated Russia with Europe under its energy dominating thumb.”

      1. Your assertion that Russia is expansionist has no basis in fact. To call it speculation is too kind. It’s mere propaganda.

      2. You say that because Russia has a vast fossil fuel resources, it therefore follows that Europe must be “”under its energy dominating thumb.” In fact, it is not unusual at all for some countries to possess resources that are not possessed by other countries. Often they are such natural resources and fossil fuels or minerals. Sometimes they are fisheries. In other cases they may be industrial and manufacturing capabilities. The interdependency of the various nations of the world is a pretty regular thing. The sensible (if not always customary) approach to these imbalances is to engage in peaceful trade. Much of the world has long been heavily dependent on Middle Eastern oil. The US is dependent on China for manufactured goods–including many of great strategic importance–along with pharmaceuticals.

      It kind of appears to me that the only way Europe, along with China and India and the rest of Asia could avoid this dreaded dependency on Russia for energy requirements would be either a de facto conquest of Russia by the US–or a return to the era during which Russia’s resources were looted by Western oligarchs. Hence, I think it is fair to assume that this is what you are advocating. Thus, it should be clear that Russia is correct in viewing this conflict as existential.

      I am also not seeing how it would be disadvantageous for Europe, China, India, and Asia to be dependent on Russia, as compared to being dependent on the the US or Western oligarchs. Europe has been under the thumb of the US for a good long time, and the effects have been far from beneficial.

      In addition, energy dependency on Russia or anyone else is unnecessary. Most energy needs can be provided for with nuclear power.

      3. In a more recent comment, you state that, “Russia’s spiritual need is to oppose and overthrow the spread of decadent Western corruptions and perversions….” That would be their business and not ours. However, you seem to be implying that Russia is intent on reanimating the Medieval Crusades and will, at the earliest opportunity, sally forth in shining armour, mounted on war horses and carrying banners bearing crosses, to conquer the world’s heathen.

      Do I really need to point out that your speculations have wandered over into the realm of fantasy?

      • hustled enough September 15, 2022 at 12:47 am #

        Hi Anthea,
        “1. Your assertion that Russia is expansionist has no basis in fact. To call it speculation is too kind. It’s mere propaganda.”

        You do not have any knowledge of Russian history to make a comment like that. Just ask those who have historical experience of Russian expansionism.

        As for 2. You probably haven’t noticed the way the Russians have used European reliance on its energy resources to try and bend Europe to its will. Sorry, your claim does not wash. One does not have to conquer Russia to get oil if Russia is willing to play by the rules of the international order, one of which is to not invade sovereign nations so that it can assimilate it into a “Greater Russia.” If Russia was acting in a less self-aggrandising way, it would just trade with other nations without trying to get them to allow it to destroy a sovereign state. As it is, no one has the stomach for invading Russia since, well, it has a nuclear arsenal that would guarantee mutually assured destruction for it and its invaders. So, I find this claim unconvincing…

        As for 3. Well, Anthea, it is our business when it is making such claims AGAINST US! And follows it up with actions consistent with an expansionist Eurasian project. You might want to read some of the people that Putin reads with approval. They are not squeamish about the need to protect Russia through expansion–which by the way is a classic piece of Russian thinking in support of expanding.

        • Anthea September 15, 2022 at 4:52 pm #

          @ hustled enough:

          The former USSR encompassed quite a few countries. (That’s why it was called “The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.”) In this way, the USSR was identical to the US (United States). I am not aware of any other historical Russian expansionism.

          Actually, I am not aware of any example of Russia trying to “bend Europe to its will.” Perhaps you can provide an example of this.

          Now, admittedly, the Russians have stipulated that when they sell energy to Europe, they expect to get paid. So there’s that.

          As for the “rule” not to invade sovereign nations, um, says who? I am unaware of any such rule. Did all the nations of the world draw up a document to that effect, after which all of them signed on the dotted line? Or did you just pull this out of your ass? Perhaps you could provide a citation for this assertion.

          If there were such a rule, there would of course be occasions when it would not apply–such as when a nation’s own sovereignity is threatened, as by a threat to place hostile military installations on that nation’s borders, or when one’s own people within the borders of another nation are being killed en mass by shelling them. E.g., if Mexico decided to shell communities of Americans living in Mexico, killing them by the tens of thousands, the US would likely respond. Or if Mexico had plans to place hostile military installations on the US border, it is likely that the US would respond, perhaps by invasion. This might not be our first recourse; we might seek to resolve the problem through diplomacy. But we see that in Russia’s case, at least eight years were expended trying to resolve these issues through diplomacy, to no avail.

          I see no indication that Russia is acting in a “self-aggrandizing” way. Please provide an example.

          You say “no one has the stomach for invading Russia.” So how else do you propose to gain control of Russia’s resources? You have said that it is the very fact that Russia controls energy resources that is at issue.

          Um…what claims is Russia making “AGAINST US!” (All caps with exclamation mark.) You have not stated what these claims are. What people do Putin read “with approval”? How do you know these authors have his approval? How do you know which of their writings meet with his approval? I read a lot of stuff with some degree of approval, often also with some degree of disapproval or with reservations. So what? You are fantasizing again.

          The US itself has, from its earliest history, engaged in expansionist policies to protect its borders. (That was both during and after invading sovereign nations.) Such was certainly one reason for westward expansion. Several other nations would have liked to lay claim to parts of our western frontiers (England, Spain, France). The US has invaded many sovereign nations for a variety of reasons.

          I think you might have trouble finding any nation that is “squeamish” about protecting itself through expansion, where it has reason to believe its sovereignty is at stake.

          • hustled enough September 16, 2022 at 7:36 pm #

            Hi Athena,
            Thank you for your thoughtful reply. Given that the next blog is up, I am not certain you will come back for merely, but let me answer some of what you raise.

            1. “I am not aware of any other historical Russian expansionism.” The USSR was made up of a “federation of smaller “republics.” But these were not like the US. The US is a federal republic with a democratic form of governance, though in practice it works more like an oligarchy. The USSR was an authoritarian structure in which the rights of “member republics” were heavily curtailed. As for the history of Russian expansionism, check out any history of Russia. Poland was a sovereign nation before being dismembered by Austria, Prussia, and Russia, by the 18th Century. The lion’s share of territory went to Russia. It was not just the Bolsheviks who looked westward…

            2. Bending Europe to its will. An example–using the excuse of “maintenance” to curtail gas exports to Europe. Russia is using this as leverage against European sanctions in other areas. SO, it keeps escalating. You may be sympathetic to Russia, but it is using its leverage against Europe to try and get the Europeans to change tact (Please note: No-one actually believes that the sanctions are themselves the material cause of Russia stopping gas supplies to Europe; not when an oil leak has stopped all supplies, indefinitely…).

            3. The rule of law and the just war doctrine. Basic line: You can go to war with folks but you have to be able to justify it. Even Putin isn’t talking about de-nazification anymore. The bio-lab BS isn’t true. None of that is true, and he isn’t trying to justify it on anything other than “returning Ukraine to its rightful place as part of the “greater Russian” nation. At least that expansionist rhetoric is closer to the mark concerning Russian intentions.

            4. What would count as evidence for you concerning “self-aggrandising”? If 3 won’t swing it for you, what do you think would count? Because if making yourself bigger by trying to destroy a sovereign nation is trying to make yourself wanting to feel more self-important (e.g., “I am bigger so I am better!”). I mean, Putin speaks of the return of a Greater Russia. Isn’t that self-aggrandising rhetoric?

            5. I don’t propose to get Russia’s resources. Russia should accept peaceable relations amongst nations and not try and corner a big chunk of the lithium market (Ukraine is rich in lithium…). It should trade like well-behaved nation do…

            6. ” How do you know which of their writings meet with his approval?” Because he tells us that he reads these guys and their ideas pop up in his public addresses and on state media which is closely monitored by the Kremlin.

            7. Yes, the US has doe as you said. But I don’t see it invading Mexico at the moment or Canada for that matter. So, “both sides do it” doesn’t wash here. I grant that the US actively tends its neighbourhood but invasion on this scale? Apparently, the US learned is lesson in Iraq and got out of there and Afghanistan as well. Russia is doubling down. I do not believe that this ends well for Russia. It is a pity that Ukraine has to bear the brunt of this…

  63. Q. Shtik September 13, 2022 at 4:05 pm #

    WOW, the markets just got truly hammered today. If you are invested in stocks (let’s say 50/50 Nasdaq/DJIA) you just lost about 4.33% – 4.5% of your investment. Have a nice day 🙂

    • cowbell81 September 13, 2022 at 4:18 pm #

      Do you think it will ever get bad enough again to see investors and stock brokers jumping to their deaths from the 33rd floor of high rises in midtown Manhattan?

      • Soul Forensics September 13, 2022 at 4:45 pm #

        if it parallels what happened in 1929, investors will be extremely lucky. But the crash will make that October look like minor belt-tightening instead of the multi-trillion dollar phony-asset fat that’ll disappear just around the bend.

      • Disaffected September 13, 2022 at 5:15 pm #

        Well, the BB&B CFO certainly thought so.

      • Q. Shtik September 13, 2022 at 9:36 pm #

        No, and brokers jumping to their deaths is largely mythological.

    • JohnAZ September 13, 2022 at 7:13 pm #

      Remember that the stock market is a forward indicator, roughly six months down the road.

      It is an indicator triggered by interest rates. under normal conditions, the higher the rates , the more the market tanks.

      Look to the Fed, soon on the scene. Inflation continues, MMT is under assault, the entire progressive philosophy of economics, government leadership, is flagging in its ability to run the country. The final result is not the election in November, it is the failure of the economy itself.

      The Fed is going to raise rates one percent now. The faith of the speculators is going to take a hit. The market is still not at the bottom. Rates are not topped off yet, it is a long way to go. Thanks to the idiocy of the Left MMT, inflation has taken a deep hold and it is going to take a lot more rate pain to reverse it. Think the 70s. Markets will bottom when the inflation number abates taking the pressure off the Fed. It is Paul Volker all over again. We will suffer a recession by then to take off the inflation pressure. We have already entered that phase. Hold on, everyone for heavy rolls.

      • JohnAZ September 13, 2022 at 7:22 pm #

        BTW, the market is following its age old pattern of big picture contraction with little “recoveries” to suck in the gullible.

        We are a long way away from the bottom. If you sell now, you are giving up the ability to recover eventually with the market. I have followed the market for decades and it will return with profit to those who do not panic.

        Unless Armageddon has hit.

        • Islander September 14, 2022 at 10:12 am #

          jaz:
          I sure hope you are right.

          I sold off some stuff that I had made a profit on so that I would have enough cash for a couple of years’ IRA payouts.

          fingers crossed that the rest of my small portfolio recovers in a few years and some dividends continue.

          Of course there is no chance for equities to recover if the world ends first!!! No need for any IRA, either!

      • Soul Forensics September 13, 2022 at 7:28 pm #

        Markets tank when a sufficient number of people (not just investors) lose confidence in the dollar. When their dollars can’t keep them warm, or buy cable or cheetos, Fed manipulation won’t delay it any longer.

        • JohnAZ September 13, 2022 at 7:57 pm #

          Faith.

          Without faith in the greenback, it is a piece of paper.

          Same thing with crypto, a few electrons and flip flops. No real value. As are all items of exchange.

        • beantownbill. September 13, 2022 at 9:35 pm #

          That’s it in a nutshell. You have to admit, we’re heading in that direction, straight off the cliff.

      • Anthea September 14, 2022 at 11:24 pm #

        @ JohnAZ:

        Yup. The Fed would need to raise rates FAR more than some piddly one percent here and there. Even the rate increases of the 70s would probably be inadequate to tame inflation, as the situation today is far worse.

        I don’t think they have the…cojones.

        Even small and incremental increases in interest rates will tank the stock market and bankrupt many big corporations that are leveraged out the wazoo. Some people think that any serious increase in interest rates would bankrupt the US government and force an end to entitlements, as well as Medicare. I’m not clear on that. Do higher interest rates mean the government will not be able to just “print” more money? (Borrow it from the Fed.)

        It really astonishes me that there are so many people around who don’t understant the need to increase interest rates–since it’s either that or Weimar; total destruction of the currency. I have a friend of that persuasion, who I figure is concerned about his stock portfolio–but is also in the market for a house, as a cash buyer.

    • beantownbill. September 13, 2022 at 7:13 pm #

      You ain’t seen nothing yet, Q, imo.

      • BackRowHeckler September 13, 2022 at 9:00 pm #

        Watch the market bounce back tomorrow. Of course, it might be a ‘Dead Cat Bounce,’

      • malthuss September 13, 2022 at 9:18 pm #

        when

  64. Night Owl September 13, 2022 at 4:06 pm #

    Smiley faced fascist tranny Jacinda Ardern demands respect, and PJW kicks her in the gonads.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KapKoKQ7Yzw

    Time to erect a gallows, Kiwis.

    • GreenAlba September 13, 2022 at 5:13 pm #

      That woman is an abomination. She sounds as if she’s saying ‘git yer tits done’. 🙂

      • MaryQueen September 13, 2022 at 8:41 pm #

        Her accent is horrible.

        I hope the worst for that authoritarian piece of garbage.

        • Night Owl September 14, 2022 at 5:35 am #

          She has a Kamala quality to her. When she is slinging horseshit or attempting to manipulate, she goes into inappropriate laughter and makes overexaggerated faces in an attempt to distract from her statements or the incongruencies in her behavior.

          Classic narcissist. Not too smart either.

          • GreenAlba September 14, 2022 at 10:06 am #

            Her mouth looks as if it’s being operated remotely.

          • Night Owl September 14, 2022 at 2:40 pm #

            LOL.

          • MaryQueen September 14, 2022 at 8:10 pm #

            Good observation. The inappropriate laughter thing smacks of MKUltra programming. There’s also a name for it as a disorder. Neither one of them can stop twitching or reacting inappropriately.

            Sick fucks.

        • Islander September 14, 2022 at 10:17 am #

          Her accent really is horrible.

          • MaryQueen September 14, 2022 at 8:10 pm #

            She gets no rispict from me.

      • malthuss September 13, 2022 at 9:18 pm #

        tranny

      • GreenAlba September 14, 2022 at 5:28 am #

        Perhaps Redneck Liberal could come in here and give us some different ways of viewing this footage on ‘rispict’ that includes installing an apartheid system to separate unjabbed people who get infected with a disease and pass it on from jabbed people who get infected with the same disease (more frequently) and pass it on.

        RL? Feel free to combine it with an explanation of why we have genetic injections at all when a humble South African family physician can achieve a 100% success rate in keeping covid patients out of hospital.

        We’re all ears.

      • Hereward the Woke September 14, 2022 at 3:40 pm #

        GA: if she was saying that, it’s the sanest thing she’s ever said.

    • MaryQueen September 13, 2022 at 9:18 pm #

      “kicks her in the gonads….”

      hahahahahaha

      • Jarek September 14, 2022 at 3:09 pm #

        Hatred of real womanhood?

        • MaryQueen September 14, 2022 at 8:13 pm #

          Trannies ain’t women.

    • KesaAnna September 13, 2022 at 10:36 pm #

      ” The current thing crisis ”

      and ,

      ” eco – mentalists ”

      Hey , I might like this guy !

    • Islander September 14, 2022 at 10:16 am #

      Good job, PJW!

    • Slugoon September 14, 2022 at 12:49 pm #

      I think she’s quite hot, always liked exaggerated features, but she really does epitomise the smug, gobby, intolerant, progressive type that seems to have infected every part of life these days. And that accent, shudder.

      • Jarek September 14, 2022 at 3:07 pm #

        You must be into drag queens…..

        • Slugoon September 15, 2022 at 8:32 am #

          Why’s that? You can do better, Jar.

      • MaryQueen September 14, 2022 at 8:14 pm #

        That she/zhir/he/it is attractive to anyone kinda blows my mind.

        • Slugoon September 15, 2022 at 8:31 am #

          We all have our unique tastes, Mary! Nothing wrong with that.

          • MaryQueen September 15, 2022 at 6:06 pm #

            Indeed!

    • Jarek September 14, 2022 at 4:11 pm #

      They really do talk funny. Is she worse than most?

  65. cowbell81 September 13, 2022 at 5:19 pm #

    Kenneth Starr proclaimed dead, just shortly after the Queen Mum, Ramsey Lewis, and so many other notable individuals.

    Good or bad?

    Are the Clintons possibly implicated in all of this?

    People sure do seem to be dropping like flies these days. Can’t go a single news day without another obituary for a notable personage.

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    • JohnAZ September 13, 2022 at 7:16 pm #

      Starr was 76.

      I sure would like to hear if all these folks are dying from Covid and Vaxx related injuries.

      We will never know, the biggest cover up in history. Are they part of the 40% surplus?

      • MaryQueen September 13, 2022 at 8:45 pm #

        A sudden appearance of SADS pretty much proves the vaxx is killing people, unless you’re blind, deaf and dumb and can’t see reality right in front of your face.

        SADS caused by ‘climate change,’ sitting, watching TV, etc. Riiiight.

        • anmariwakaranai September 14, 2022 at 2:15 pm #

          My neighbour said, ‘Maybe it’s covid.’

        • Night Owl September 15, 2022 at 3:19 am #

          Don’t forget gardening and showering. According to the BBC that is.

  66. Sean Coleman September 13, 2022 at 5:24 pm #

    Very interesting video today on the Towards The Light Bitchute channel involving Peter Breggin and Mattias Desmet (though not together). From what I have seen so far Breggin is the clear winner.

    • GreenAlba September 13, 2022 at 5:46 pm #

      Thanks – also a response here on Desmet’s Substack:

      mattiasdesmet.substack.com/p/am-i-an-expert-in-mass-formation

    • GreenAlba September 13, 2022 at 7:06 pm #

      I haven’t been able to find your Towards the Light channel. Several options came up, including sites about seances, and even one inviting me to apply to join the Illuminati. 🙂

      illuminatiofficial.org/illuminati-follow-the-light/

      • Sean Coleman September 14, 2022 at 3:25 am #

        Without the link this time

        Oh yes, the Illuminati, or as they are better known THE ILLUMINATI!!!!

        Fromn the shadows THE ILLUMINATI!!!! are discreetly pulling the strings.

        I will try to link it here.

        Title: Juxtaposing: Peter Breggin & Mattias Desmet Interviewed By Reiner Fuellmich And Viviane Fischer

        If you do an internet search on the title and add the word Bitchute you should find it. Search under ‘All’ rather than ‘vidos’ because I find ‘Videos’ gives preference to YouTube.

        Breggin knocks himself out before Desmet even appears. Fascinating on several levels, not least seeing Fischer and Fuellmich back together again.

        • GreenAlba September 14, 2022 at 5:09 am #

          Thanks – found it in a round about way.

          First this site which lists a number of articles/videos on Desmet, Breggin, and various aspects of mass formation theory.

          article.wn.com/view-travelagents/2022/09/13/boooom_dr_peter_breggin_exposes_dr_robert_malone_and_mass_fo/

          And, from an article in the list, embedding the video you refer to:

          bitchute.com/video/Ll3amLp2xYNP/

  67. anmariwakaranai September 13, 2022 at 6:43 pm #

    stevekirsch.substack.com/p/scientists-from-harvard-and-johns

    98 times more deadly…

  68. MaryQueen September 13, 2022 at 7:16 pm #

    This is a great talk. Catherine Austin Fitts talks about what the phones do to kids, it’s not pretty, and how to get the covid19 vaxxers off your back with some legal forms.

    https://tube.solari.com/videos/financial-rebellion-38/

  69. Paula D September 13, 2022 at 7:33 pm #

    I suspect that many CFNers will like this article. Maybe someone posted it here and that’s where I got it.

    .ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2022/september/08/it-s-even-later-than-you-thought/

    • KesaAnna September 13, 2022 at 9:38 pm #

      ” Culture and circumstances count for a hell of a lot more that on – paper ideologies or systems. ”

      Lol ,

      I swear I didn’t borrow that from the essay you posted .

    • Paula D September 13, 2022 at 10:24 pm #

      My favorite line:
      ”“America today is like a corpse being consumed by maggots. Liberals are rooting for the maggots. Conservatives are rooting for the corpse.”

      • Jarek September 14, 2022 at 3:13 pm #

        Until “conservatives” (who conserve nothing) accept the reality of race, they will continue to be trounced. They accepted the Left as their moral superiors but then balked at accepting that America was created as a racist nation. It was. The Left is right about that too, but they say it like it’s a bad thing.

    • MaryQueen September 14, 2022 at 10:04 am #

      It’s excellent, thanks.

  70. KesaAnna September 13, 2022 at 9:12 pm #

    ” Public elementary and secondary education are ideal, so long as the system is in the hands of the public.

    Which is exactly why they are busy privatizing education, healthcare, water, and anything that was previously in public hands.

    The concept of monopolization also belongs here, and this goes hand in hand with privatization.

    IMO, it is rather the concept of privatization that is a totalitarian’s wet dream. ”

    –Nightowl

    While it may seem a flat contradiction, I would not necessarily disagree.

    One of my cosmological rules of thumb ;

    Culture and circumstances count for a hell of a lot more that on – paper ideologies or systems.

    To me , the ideal state would be one where the largest number of people is rich enough to , as I said , to tell the social engineers to fuck off.

    But still poor enough to always remember that you didn’t come from Lord Fontleroy , you came from peasants.

    If socialism accomplishes that , then I’m all for socialism.

    If privatization accomplishes that , then I’m all for privatization.

    I’m afraid though that today both socialists and capitalists have the SAME GOAL ;

    Fucking their neighbor.

    America today is a multicultural mess where everyone hates each other.

    The rich do pretty much whatever they want ,

    so UNDERSTANDABLY I think , everyone wants to get rich , so they can rise above the Tyranny of the Jungle.

    Unfortunately how this usually works out is a grim and unhappy ending for most.

    In such a culture , and under such circumstances, both socialism and capitalism only ever seem to work out as a cure that is worse than the disease.

    Which brings us back , I think , to JHK’s peak oil.

    ” Too much magic ” has primarily worked out as very conducive to Tyranny.

    Long term , money tends to wind up in the pockets of the ruling class.

    I haven’t actually read JHK’s books , so I’m not really sure whether his thinking regarding peak oil is primarily positive , or negative.

    For me it is a positive — though it will be catastrophic for the generations that knew the easy and heady power of cheap oil and cheap coal.

    I’m convinced that now the only possibility of arriving at a state where the largest number of people is rich enough to tell the social engineers to fuck off.

    But still poor enough to remember they are peasants ,

    Is a world where police response times are 6 hours – to – 48 hours.

    When your neighbors hate you , it is always better when they leave you the fuck alone , even if what they leave you alone in is poverty.

    The theory of the past 200 years is that wealth would bring about neighbors that don’t hate you.

    I think that has not born out.

    More wealth just means more power for dictators and their control freak flunkies.

    I never read , ” Too much Magic ” , but whenever I read that title , I think of the sorcerers apprentice in Disney’s Fantasia.

    That is the modern world in a nutshell, except no wizard is going to show up to save us , and set things right.

    The magic power itself is a major problem.

    Again , the only way forward is back to oxcarts.

    Or , in the specific case of education,

    back to a model where people receive the education that they can afford / is appropriate to their current circumstances.

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    • MaryQueen September 13, 2022 at 9:52 pm #

      I think that magical thinking itself is a major problem, in addition to the magic power.

      FFS, people truly believe superheroes are coming to their aid. I wonder when it will click for most people that that isn’t the case?

    • Amman September 13, 2022 at 10:39 pm #

      If the people and leaders have lost their sense of justice and sense of religion, meaning they scornfully consider these 2 to be like sports and entertainment, you can rest assured that no economic system or way of life will ever work out for them long term. That’s my guess. Some countries would rather die than loose this basic sense. I often wonder if that’s what raised Russia back from the dead. i.e. the 90’s

    • Night Owl September 14, 2022 at 5:32 am #

      I figured you did more or less agree. It was simply the focus on the concept that things under public “ownership” that kind of bugged me.

      The challenge we face is keeping the private sector out of things that the public should guide for its own good.

      I am not against the private sector providing services either, nor am I against people making private decisions that might go against the concept of “the greater good” (which as you pointed out is something often misused by tyrants).

      We need a balance.

      • MaryQueen September 14, 2022 at 10:05 am #

        Indeed, we are out of whack, careening too far one way or the other. Balance is what we need.

      • Jarek September 14, 2022 at 3:18 pm #

        The Corporations are nations within our nation – nations that have allied against it. As I have said, one sphere must dominate, and that’s the one where people are elected and swear oaths of allegiance to serve the Nation and its People.
        As opposed to faceless, nameless stockholders and the executives who must please them.

        Balance under late stage Capitalism? Please. Fascism or National Socialism will provide the only possible balance.

      • Islander September 14, 2022 at 4:29 pm #

        “The challenge we face is keeping the private sector out of things that the public should guide for its own good. ”

        One problem with fascism is that the private and public are conflated in that private corporations more or less take over the state. Or vice versa. Doesn’t matter because they happily work together.

        The state is supposed to represent and stand up for citizens, but in a fascist situation NO ONE actually represents the interests of citizens. They become pawns. So the whole idea of “public” ownership is polluted.

        IMO the open announcement by the WEF and other globalists and creation of “public-private partnerships” is a huge red flag that we are entering a state of international fascism and it is being sold as a benefit to mankind. (Prince) Charles’s speech to the WEF as provided at the UK Column pretty much lays it out perfectly clearly—one reason I recommended CFNers watch the Monday edition of the UKColumn News. .

        The “extreme nationalist” aspect of 20th C fascism is discarded so it is harder to spot.

        Meanwhile, populist nationalists are labeled fascists just for being nationalists. The term “fascist” is thrown about to tar anyone not on board with the globalist agenda and it various local manifestations.

        • Anthea September 14, 2022 at 11:39 pm #

          “Public” ownership really means “government ownership.” The government is not your friend, and not “the public’s” friend. I don’t think there has ever been a time in all of recorded history when it was. It is your enemy. It is your enemy in all things. Always has, always will be.

          Thus the problem with Jarek’s views about Fascism.

          • Jarek September 15, 2022 at 3:11 am #

            Yes, bigness is a danger. But there is no other way now. It’s either “fascism” (Islander still doesn’t understand it) or rule by the Corporations.

          • Night Owl September 15, 2022 at 3:17 am #

            This is a vague statement. We need some form of government, and I do not automatically equate the term government with something negative. Government ownership can be good.

          • Anthea September 15, 2022 at 6:38 pm #

            @ Night Owl:

            It would be useful for you to read Nock’s “Our Enemy, the State” for clarification on this.

            Nock made a distinction between “government” and “the State.” I.e., “the State” is an anti-social institution whose purpose is continuous and systematic exploitation of its subjects. “Government” is a social institution, providing for cheap and easy access to the machinery of justice and making no positive interventions against the people it governs. (Positive interventions versus negative interventions is a distinction for which Nock provides detail.)

            Nock argues, as Jefferson did (sort of), that the Iroquois Confederation was a form of “government,” as distinct from “the State.” Nock seemed to think it was successful because “There is no way to force a hunter to hunt for you.” I disagree with that, but his point was that a class system that enslaved the people was impractical in a hunter-gatherer economy. Since people will, de facto if not de jure, enslave other people
            whenever it is practical, it becomes rather difficult to envision a “government” existing in any conditions other than those in which “the State” is impractical. This preference for enslaving others is a corollary of what Nock called Epstean’s Law: “the inherent tendency of human beings to satisfy their wants through the easiest means available.” in other words either by stealing their stuff or enslaving them, or both.

            Epstean’s Law is what you’re up against when it comes to any system of government, economics, or anything else. It’s one of those iron laws, so there is a certain futility in advocating for any particular system.

            I think there is hope. Nock also maintained that “the State” would cease to exist when people stopped believing in it. I don’t look for this to happen any time soon–and we may be talking geological time.

            I also think it is possible for individuals and communities to stop believing in it unilaterally (as with the Amish) and create their own arrangements–though with no guarantees that the State will leave you alone. (The Mennonites were much persecuted in Europe, from the time they first made their appearance in the 1500s.)

            As I said above, if people would bring even a fraction of the determination they bring to “getting ahead” in our current society to creating a good life for themselves and their families and communities, it would be a different world.

            People make all kinds of sacrifices to “get ahead” and become a doctor, partner in a law firm, corporate executive, etc., and to have a big house and a hot car (or three). Bring that willingness to work and sacrifice to bear on a positive goal, and we might get somewhere.

        • Jarek September 15, 2022 at 3:17 am #

          Islander: Fascism IS Nationalism, ok? You’re still falling for the Globalist propaganda. It’s a European word that obviously has too many negative associations to use here and now. But we should at least understand it.

          The two spheres can’t be kept separate any longer. They are dancing – who leads? What you describe – the corporations taking over the state – is what we have right now. That’s not Fascism but rather Plutocracy.

          If they’re not different, why does the Establishment hate and fear Fascism so very much? So much that won’t even teach it in Academia?

          They are different. Their actions prove it.

  71. beantownbill. September 13, 2022 at 10:26 pm #

    One of my favorite SF stories was by Isaac Asimov, from over 50 years ago. Seems there was a space mission going to the moon with at least 2, maybe 3 astronauts. They trained long and hard for the trip. They came back with one astronaut irreversibly insane, and the other very mentally shaky.

    What happened was that the entire mission was a fake. NASA wanted to see if a mission could be done, so they decided to not tell the crew that the flight was bogus. They wanted to see how the crew performed under pressure without actually risking the astronaut’s lives. The astronauts thought the flight was real, by using very realistic special effects. What happened was that NASA’s computer glitched as the special effects were taking the crew supposedly around the luna back side. There was supposed to be a problem at that point and the crew was to turn around and head back to Earth, but the glitch was that the pseudo-trip didn’t stop and took the crew around the fake moon.

    The tragedy was that like a typical government agency, NASA didn’t want to spend the money, so they didn’t build a lunar backside since it wouldn’t be needed. They just used wooden two by fours to prop up the whole contrivance like a billboard. The unaware and uninformed crew thought the moon was fake and the stars probably light bulbs. IOW, the universe was fake and it blew their minds.

    I thought of this story after reading the comments above that the moon launch was faked. Oh, BTW, the Earth is flat, too. Everyone knows that.

    • KesaAnna September 14, 2022 at 12:11 am #

      Personally , I think it far – fetched that the moon landings were faked.

      Does it make you feel all warm and fuzzy to know that Kesa Anna agrees with you ?

      🙂

      That having been said , it strikes me as extremely suspicious SOMEHOW that there haven’t been ANY moon landings for 50 years.

      ” Ah shit , Christopher Culumbus already went there and did that , so fuck it ! ”

      Just doesn’t sound right.

      For example , I have no doubt that if North Korea went to the moon tomorrow,

      It would be a huge propaganda coup anyway.

      For a brief time at least , it wouldn’t matter that it was North Korea .

      It wouldn’t matter that half North Korea’s population is malnourished , that the country has a dozen concentration camps , that North Korea has never won a single Olympic Gold Medal.

      They went to the Moon !

      Or Russia .

      If Russia went to the moon tomorrow , Ukraine would be page 14 news for at least a year I bet.

      So why not ?

      That brings me to the thing that originally brought me to CFN .

      On some documentary JHK said , paraphrasing from memory ,

      That it is something of a modern myth that if we can measure something , it means we can control it.

      It could be that going to the moon , or otherwise leaving near – earth orbit ,

      Is a much bigger and harder problem than our leaders and ph.D’s make it out to be.

      As I suspect a great many problems are much bigger and harder than they make out.

      It could be your trips to the moon were only 50% hard work and enterprise ,

      But also 50% SHEAR LUCK.

      With the flip of a coin , you could just as well have wound up with 15 or 20 crispy fried astronauts ?

      Instead of a huge propaganda coup , the whole thing looks really fucking bad ?

      The odds of something bad NOT happening to humans in space is like the odds of spending 5 years playing World of Warcraft and never once getting killed ?

      So , yeah , a better bet is perpetual play – acting in near – earth orbit ?

      ” See ! We’re in space ! ” ( except not really ) ?

      • BackRowHeckler September 14, 2022 at 8:03 am #

        Yeah the Space Shuttle orbited the earth at a height of about 250 miles — pretty far up there but not exactly deep space. In order to maintain orbit and not crash down to terra ferma the craft had to be kept moving at a hair raising 17,500 mph.

        • CrusherMuldoon September 14, 2022 at 9:50 am #

          Message to Mitch: To paraphrase the old Bo Jackson commercials where the catch phrase was “Bo Knows” “BRH knows spaceflight, too. “

      • CrusherMuldoon September 14, 2022 at 9:48 am #

        That’s sheer luck, Kesa Anna. But since we’re dealing with sheeple, SHEAR luck is totally appropriate.

      • JohnAZ September 14, 2022 at 12:01 pm #

        Kesa Anna

        50 years, right!

        The Apollo program had visits to the moon cancelled. Why? People lost interest, once a great achievement is done, the rest is “Big whoop”. Apollo 13 probably did no help much.

        The over riding question today about space flight is,

        WHY? What is the payback? The only thing I can possibly see is the mining of say asteroids for raw materials that Gaia is running low on.

        Maybe an asteroid would stir some interest if telescopes saw an Exxon or BP sign on it?

    • Night Owl September 14, 2022 at 5:28 am #

      “I thought of this story after reading the comments above that the moon launch was faked. Oh, BTW, the Earth is flat, too. Everyone knows that.”

      Exactly what I would expect after the low-IQ word salad above it.

      Bill also took 4 clot shots and is currently upset that he can’t go to Disneyland.

      LOL.

      • beantownbill. September 14, 2022 at 12:06 pm #

        You should check your own facts before you spout off. First, you are a paranoid AFAIC. Second, I haven’t had 4 vaxx shots. Did I have one I forgot? Your info is wrong Mr. Paranoid, just like many of your other comments. Those who wish they had a higher IQ are usually the ones who take it out on others by projecting their own inadequacy onto others. Your paranoia is clouding your mental functioning. I suggest you consult with a mental health expert.

        • Night Owl September 14, 2022 at 2:38 pm #

          STFU lemming.

          • beantownbill. September 14, 2022 at 3:02 pm #

            What, did I upset you? I know, the truth hurts.

          • Night Owl September 15, 2022 at 3:15 am #

            You have the IQ of a sack of hair.

    • Jarek September 14, 2022 at 3:21 pm #

      Title?

      You should have invested in BRICS.

  72. KesaAnna September 14, 2022 at 12:20 am #

    Like somebody finally successfully summits Mount Everest .

    The result ?

    We have millionaires STANDING IN LINE on Mount Everest.

    Something stinks somewhere in this moon business.

    • Disaffected September 14, 2022 at 12:34 pm #

      Your instincts are good, Kesa. Now follow them. The proof will be in the pudding. The project will be canceled quietly at some future date with appropriately vague excuses. Lack of funding, new priorities, etc.

    • beantownbill. September 14, 2022 at 12:39 pm #

      Yes, I agree. I think the current status of human space exploration is a result of our crazy politicians’ actions (or lack thereof) in so many different areas of our society that the average American has become lazy, fat, selfish, mis-educated and very short of vision. Why go into space when we’ve already been to the moon? Especially when we can venture into much more exciting worlds via x-boxes and computer gaming.

      Our lack of vision and fortitude are appalling.

      It’s true that there are many obstacles to conducting human space travel activities. They’ve been stated here and a lot of other places. But we supposedly have problem-solving brains. We can overcome issues. We’ve always done that.

      • CrusherMuldoon September 14, 2022 at 1:21 pm #

        I remember long ago, Bill that our author felt nothing but contempt for those who thought we’d “technologize” our way through peak oil.

        • beantownbill. September 14, 2022 at 3:28 pm #

          Yes, he did.

  73. tucsonspur September 14, 2022 at 3:19 am #

    Tucker finally said it tonight. Where is the civil disobedience, the fifteen thousand strong (at least) up close and personal right in the enemy’s face?

    Including himself, Tucker said talk alone can’t do it.

    We’re losing and will continue to lose in the long run if the streets remain empty, if civil disobedience doesn’t flame up setting off powder kegs of rage.

    • SoftStarLight September 14, 2022 at 4:11 am #

      I agree. Civil, peaceful and yet adamant and impassioned with appropriate rage. Where do we start? If we’re going to be persecuted and destroyed anyway may as well fight at every turn. We owe nothing to a system that hates us but to fight day and night for the dismantling and unraveling of that system.

    • Disaffected September 14, 2022 at 12:40 pm #

      The one piece of civil disobedience that would matter would be for everyone to cancel their bank accounts and their credit cards, demand cash, and demand all direct deposit paychecks be converted to cash. If it happened all at once it would of course crash the entire system, as that much cash does not currently exist. But it would send a strong message about the only that truly counts. It would also be a tremendous pain in the ass to implement.

      Running in the streets? Nah, they’ve got guns and drones for that, and no matter how valid your arguments, you’d be labeled a terrorist and shot down like a dog in the street.

    • Paula D September 14, 2022 at 12:54 pm #

      I watched Tucker and I don’t think he said to take to the streets.

      What I thought he said was to go to the legislatures and city councils en masse.

      Going out in the streets is what our overlords want, so that they can January 6 the rest of us.

      • Paula D September 14, 2022 at 12:56 pm #

        Although it was going into the building that made possible the Made For TV movie they have been foisting on us since then.

        But they can’t do that for every public hearing.

      • Woodchuck September 14, 2022 at 2:32 pm #

        If we take it to the streets, we’ll need tens of millions of us out there, not just hundreds of thousands. We’d have to arrive in vast numbers like army ants, overpowering everything in our way like a giant steamroller. And we’d have to do this very quickly, once started it would be balls to the wall until *everything* in our way is destroyed. It would have to be a complete extermination leaving government buildings everywhere destroyed and anyone working for it crushed to death outside on the sidewalks.

        That’s why it will never happen. Once we get home after our “victory” there will eventually be no power, nothing to eat, no fuel, and nowhere to go.

  74. Night Owl September 14, 2022 at 3:40 am #

    Conspiracy update: From a Biden Executive Order in September:

    “For biotechnology and biomanufacturing to help us achieve our societal goals, the United States needs to invest in foundational scientific capabilities. We need to develop genetic engineering technologies and techniques to be able to write circuitry for cells and predictably program biology in the same way in which we write software and program computers; unlock the power of biological data, including through computing tools and artificial intelligence; and advance the science of scale?up production while reducing the obstacles for commercialization so that innovative technologies and products can reach markets faster.”

    https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2022/09/12/executive-order-on-advancing-biotechnology-and-biomanufacturing-innovation-for-a-sustainable-safe-and-secure-american-bioeconomy/

    That’s right, kids. Transhumanism offcially approved. “Writing circuitry” for your cells, whether you like it or not.

    *Laughs in Schwab.*

    • SoftStarLight September 14, 2022 at 4:20 am #

      Yup told ya. They know they can’t do this through Congress so its the administrative state carrying this out with pharma. This also proves that they literally view us as slaves and bodies to experiment on.

  75. Night Owl September 14, 2022 at 4:12 am #

    Conspiracy update:

    “UK Government Digital Services signed 2 more contracts with iProov to develop the NHS app into full Digital ID based on biometrics & facial recognition.”

    https://twitter.com/BernieSpofforth/status/1569585133392461824?cxt=HHwWgIC8iZzXpMgrAAAA

    But how can this be?

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    • GreenAlba September 14, 2022 at 7:35 am #

      I specifically asked my doltish MP (it would be easier to word one’s messages to them appropriately if one knew whether one’s MP were stupid, complicit or both) what he, as ‘the Opposition’, was going to do about the disinformation emanating from Sajid Javid regarding the covid pass. He turned coy and didn’t respond.

      I saw this thing about iProov a couple of weeks ago. I’m tempted to write again and annoy him. I’m on the list anyway so it probably makes no difference to my eventual fate. I could also ask him why the BBC was allowed to claim that 4 million Britis remain unvaxxed when Professor Norman Fenton (mathematician) has demonstrated that the Government’s own ONS figures show there are 18.9 million unvaxxed adults, which must be more than a third of the adult population. They can’t all be put in camps (plus all those who are ‘partially vaxxed’.

      In other news, *they* are getting desperate. Apparently that well known medical expert, George Clooney, is convinced that 900,000 lives could have been saved if the US had followed Australia’s admirable response to covid (aka ‘The Science’).

      msn.com/en-gb/video/watch/i-was-so-impressed-george-clooney-is-convinced-900-000-lives-would-have-been-saved-if-america-had-followed-australia-s-covid-response/vi-AA11Lb4U

      • GreenAlba September 14, 2022 at 7:54 am #

        Perhaps we could get RL to tell Dr Clooney about Dr Chetty’s success. Dr Clooney has obviously acquired delusions of medical expertise from his part in ‘ER’.

        • MaryQueen September 14, 2022 at 10:14 am #

          Hahahahahaa! Way to sock it to Clooney. Pretty apparent he’s a WEF stooge. I’m sure RL is one of his biggest fans to boot. I’m guessing as a die-hard lib, RL probably worships Hollywood elites in general, and sees them as legit purveyors of “The Science.”

          • JohnAZ September 14, 2022 at 11:53 am #

            Hollywood is a WEF stooge. It is a mecca for perversion.

          • kbird September 14, 2022 at 12:45 pm #

            And the favorite of this blog, Trump, has his own Hollywood reality show and craps in a gold toilet.

          • MaryQueen September 14, 2022 at 6:24 pm #

            Trump’s not my favorite.

        • kbird September 14, 2022 at 10:49 am #

          LOL!! That rich coming from this blog, where everyone on here seems to think they are medical experts as well. Calling out someone for doing exactly what you do.

          • GreenAlba September 14, 2022 at 11:53 am #

            The people on this blog listen to experts who are not paid by government or Big Pharma to spout their lying shite.

            They listen to doctors and scientists who risk their reputations, careers, medical licences, affiliations, jobs and sometimes their very lives to speak the truth.

            I wonder how you missed that and chose Anthony Fauci.

            Dr Chetty, mentioned above, has personally treated 7000 covid patients so that we didn’t have to. And not one of them even ended up in hospital.

            You get a D- for your effort. D for Disinformation and Disingenuous.

          • kbird September 14, 2022 at 12:39 pm #

            Poor GA,
            What happened to you? I think the Covid lockdowns affected your mental health. If you start pushing Qanon conspiracies, then I’ll know you have completely lost your marbles.

          • kbird September 14, 2022 at 12:43 pm #

            GA,
            Speaking of disinformation, did you see the cause of Darius Cambell death?

            You seem to believe that all deaths of young people are from the Vaxx, you couldn’t even fathom that there could be any other reason.

            His cause of death was “toxic effects of inhalation of Chloroethane and suffocation.”

            But I’m sure it’s just a cover up for a vaxx death in your eyes.

          • GreenAlba September 14, 2022 at 1:00 pm #

            kbird

            Are you ianw? Whoever you are, you are very silly and not very good at arguing your point.

            “I think the Covid lockdowns affected your mental health.’

            How would you know how the lockdowns affected me? I am retired, so my day-to-day life didn’t change at all, apart from not going to cafes or whatever, which I do very little anyway. I continued to shop in our local shops where I always shopped, apart from getting the odd delivery of heavy stuff (dog food and whatnot) which I still do, but not because of covid.

            Also, having a dog that has to go out four times a day means you can’t be in ‘lockdown’ in any real sense.

            That was an even more pathetic and stupid attempt than your last one.

            I don’t recall making any particular comment about Darius Danesh. That his individual death is attributed to a particular cause changes nothing. Patterns are what matter, poor little kbirdie.

            How about dealing with this little anomaly explained amusingly by JP Sears?

            drtrozzi.org/2022/08/22/comedy-explains-albertas-death-by-unknown-cause/

            Go on, give it your best. Or rather pull your socks up and make some kind of effort.

          • GreenAlba September 14, 2022 at 1:07 pm #

            “You seem to believe that all deaths of young people are from the Vaxx, you couldn’t even fathom that there could be any other reason.”

            Do find any quote where I said that. Patterns, little birdie, patterns.

            My nephew, who was diabetic, died 2 weeks after his 30th birthday. He died from the effects of 20 years of mismanaging his Type 1 diabetes, not from a ‘vaccine’ or even a vaccine.

            You’re a very disingenuous little birdie.

          • Soul Forensics September 14, 2022 at 1:28 pm #

            GA,

            It seems that kbird is the banned tekapo, a concern troll.

          • kbird September 14, 2022 at 1:41 pm #

            GA,
            I think you may have some beginnings of dementia because you did make a statement about Darius Cambells death.. I could go back from a couple weeks ago and copy and paste your statement if you would like.

            Are you also a believer of lizard people? I’m sure you are on your way to that next.

            I was just guessing that the covid lockdowns affected your mental health. So I was wrong there, something else is the cause of your demise down the rabbit hole. You fit in well on this crazy blog!!! Hope you find happiness here with this filth you have aligned yourself with!!

          • Soul Forensics September 14, 2022 at 2:01 pm #

            tekapo,

            No, you don’t hope anyone here “finds happiness”, you concern troll. You’re here to mock and ad hom and deflect, all while expressing concern for everyone.

            Do you realize how deranged and transparently disingenuous that appears?

            Enjoy your 15 minutes of attention (and Soros part-time minimum wage compensation) before your next ban.

          • GreenAlba September 14, 2022 at 2:08 pm #

            So, if I specifically mentioned Darius Danesh and have forgotten about him among the over-100 individuals I’ve noted – both in the media and among my personal friends – who have died suddenly after the vaxx rollout, you claim to think I am in early-stage dementia. You do yourself no favours, kbirdie. I am embarrassed for you. If I mentioned him, I stand corrected. But you need to stand corrected on the obvious truth that the issue is patterns.

            You chose not to answer any of my points, but just to talk drivel about my supposed mental state. And then more drivel about lizard people that you are *sure* will be the next thing I’m on the way to, even though you’ve just admitted to making shit up in the most manipulative fashion.

            And then, as your grand finale you equate me and everyone else (except about 2 people, including yourself) on this blog as ‘filth’.

            Mate, I’d fuck off if I were you. Really I would. Before you get banned again. But I expect you might just be about to do that (fuck off, I mean). Good choice.

          • kbird September 14, 2022 at 2:17 pm #

            Greenalba,
            Wow, for someone who I used to think was intelligent, you have certainly gone down the toilet. I’ll refrain from joining in and won’t tell you to fuck off as well.

            Please share how I “you’ve just admitted to making shit up in the most manipulative fashion.”

            Is it because I said “I THINK” the covid lockdowns affected your mental health? Don’t put words in my mouth GA, you don’t like it when people do that to you. Every time I write something you take it and add your own spin on it, you never used to do that.

          • kbird September 14, 2022 at 2:19 pm #

            Soul Forensics,
            BAHAHAHA, i wish I was being paid by George Soros, you guys crack me up, SHEEP!!

          • GreenAlba September 14, 2022 at 2:32 pm #

            Still waiting for you to respond to any of the actual points I made, instead of calling people ‘filth’ then acting all hoity toity.

            Disingenuous moron.

          • GreenAlba September 14, 2022 at 2:36 pm #

            Take-a-pooh OR Redneck Liberal, I’d say.

            Birdie calls people ‘filth’ but doesn’t like being told to fuck off by someone he called ‘filth’. No words.

          • Night Owl September 14, 2022 at 2:37 pm #

            Almost time to roll up your sleeve again, Kbird.

            The new shot has been tested on 8 mice.

            Get rollin’

          • kbird September 14, 2022 at 2:38 pm #

            GreenAlba,
            You don’t know anything about me or how I feel about vaccines. In my first post about how everyone on this blog seems to think they are medical experts.. you bring Fauci into your response. I never once have mentioned him or what I feel about vaccines. You don’t know me one fucking bit GA. I lost my father to the swine flu vaccine debacle of 1976. But I don’t automatically attribute the cause of death to people after vaxx rollouts to the vaccine as you do. The Darius Cambell back and forth was you stating that he died of the vaccine. Which my response to you was just, let’s just wait and see what comes out after toxicology. There are other reasons people die. I even asked you what you would think if you found out Darius was not vaccinated, would that change your mind. You never answered me, just continued to insult me. So ya, I take back my earlier words, I would like to tell you to FUCK OFF as well “Mate”

          • GreenAlba September 14, 2022 at 2:50 pm #

            You don’t respond to ANY issue that is put before you, but you expect responses that you demand.

            Go poop in your birdbath, troll.

          • kbird September 14, 2022 at 7:07 pm #

            Greenalba,
            You’re getting good at deflecting and gaslighting….It might be time to change your medications…Sounds like from things you’ve said on here you’re husband might be in agreement.

          • MaryQueen September 14, 2022 at 7:58 pm #

            I always enjoy watching GA make mincemeat out of one of the Media Matters Muppets.

            Excellent work, GA.

          • GreenAlba September 14, 2022 at 9:55 pm #

            ‘mental health’
            ‘rabbit hole’
            ‘lost your marbles’
            ‘change your medications’
            ‘QAnon conspiracies’
            ‘lizard people’
            ‘the filth you have aligned yourself with’.

            This from the clown-troll who talks of ‘gaslighting’ and ‘deflecting’ and who won’t answer even one serious point.

            Fly away, kakabird, and try to recover your composure.

          • Islander September 15, 2022 at 5:51 pm #

            Kbird aka kakabird:

            Please STFU.

      • Paula D September 14, 2022 at 12:59 pm #

        If Australia had followed the lead of the USA, and paid 20% bonuses to hospitals and clinics for covid diagnoses, they too could have had the impressive death rates that American recorded.

        Put up enough cash and you can get any result you want.

        Put up enough propaganda and you can get the vast majority of the population to believe total bullshit.

        • Not_GeorgeT September 14, 2022 at 1:30 pm #

          Precisely.

  76. BackRowHeckler September 14, 2022 at 6:33 am #

    We had an interesting Cultural Enrichment Exchange in town a few days ago. I don’t have all the details — what I do have comes from a DA who lives in the neighborhood. What it amounts to is a home invasion in a woodsy section of town where the houses, altho large, are on big lots with many trees and long driveways, thus hidden from view from the street. It seems in the late morning 4 distinguished African American visitors showed up at the house of one family (whose name most of you would recognize) armed with pistols. No, they weren’t there to clean the pool — the frightened couple were held at gunpoint, and the premises were ransacked. Then, the victims were forced into a car, their own Cadillac Escalade — they were going for a ride. Another one of the distinguished cultural ambassadors found what they most likely came for to begin with — the Maserati in the garage. He got it going and hauled ass toward Hartford, where no good things emanate from, only bad, putting the Italian sports car thru its paces. As for the hapless couple, they were not shot, as one might expect; what happened is that they were forces to strip and shoved out of the car onto the side of the road, naked, (a final humiliation ‘Sticking it to Whitey’) where they were soon aided by a passerby. So in the end they lost their automobiles, other property, and their sense of wellbeing and safety.

    Strangely enough this story and others like it, have been kept out of the news. I suspect some sanitized version will turn up in a few weeks.These people are obviously wealthy (I don’t know them) which might be held against them. A life changing experience to be sure — but at least they’re alive.

    In other matters, the big HATE CRIME at Yale, so prominent in the news a few weeks ago, has dropped out of sight, a sure indication that this was yet another HATE CRIME HOAX. Needless to say we won’t be hearing anymore about it.

    • Disaffected September 14, 2022 at 8:55 am #

      Message: Beat the rush and live modestly now. I’m having a hard time working up any sympathy for a pair that own an Escalade and a Maserati. “Palatial estate” comes to mind from your description here. Maybe hire some security with all that money and forego a few expensive toys?

      • BackRowHeckler September 14, 2022 at 10:05 am #

        I hear you DA. I know the guy is a car hobbyist, which might account for the Maserati. Private Security and gated communities is not really a ‘Thing’ out here yet. However, that might change in light of recent events. The people I feel sorry for the most are college educated white soccer moms and single high earning women, always “Down fo the Cause”, Pride Flags hanging outside their front door, BLM signs posted on the lawn, ‘Tolerance’ sticker on the Prius, vocal ‘antiracists’ at BOE meetings — now, in a panic, staying awake all night wearily watching their cars for thieves and vandals; suddenly, things have changed, new realities have presented themselves that must be confronted.

        • MaryQueen September 14, 2022 at 10:22 am #

          I always have a chuckle when I go out on my walks around the subdivision and see this massive flag pole (like industrial-sized, the kind you’d see in front of a school or government building) in this person’s back yard with a YUGE diversity flag waving in the breeze. Like they couldn’t just have it hanging from their porch like everyone else; no, they had to have spent a lot of money on that pole. Just so they could let everyone know THEY ARE GOOD WOKE PEOPLE.

          Our subdivision is not very diverse. I’d say maybe 5% – if that – are Asian or Indian, and I hardly ever see any black people at all.

          It’s pretty easy to virtue signal but in the end, doesn’t it always end up biting people in the ass?

          • Disaffected September 14, 2022 at 11:35 am #

            We’ve actually got a hate speech sign ordinance here now, although there’s certainly no limit on the virtue signaling signage. Pulled up behind one of those a Scion Square thingies the other day with a big “Americans for Trump” sign on the back window and a large dent in the hatch cover, and I immediately wondered if the two were related. Trump stickers won’t win you any friends in these parts among the normal townies. The pickup truck crowd coming up from the valley is another story altogether, though.

            We’ve got a few hyper-wealthy fucks up here, and they too prefer to hide their mansions out in the woods as far as possible. Used to hike past them all the time. Funny though, I’d never notice any activity at all around them. No kids playing, no dogs running, no barbeques, nothing. Trophy houses, I concluded.

          • Disaffected September 14, 2022 at 11:38 am #

            Too add, my neighborhood is so rundown I leave the doors unlocked and occasionally open altogether. We’ve got a small time drug emporium down the street, but I think all they’re dealing is pot. Couple youngsters feeling their oats and waiting to get old and jaded like the rest of us. Real colorful characters.

          • JohnAZ September 14, 2022 at 11:49 am #

            Dis

            Dreamer!

            Do you think the network coming into the US designed by the cartel part of the global Mob is not going to use the already existent MJ distribution system to push their drugs?

            The only possible good part of the drug overdoses is that they will be predominately Leftists. Just desserts?

            Everybody, do you think there might be some connection between the vaxx and drugs? It is a fact that cocaine kills by causing heart attacks. If so, is this a double whammy against the Left?

          • JohnAZ September 14, 2022 at 11:50 am #

            Not only biting them?

          • Disaffected September 14, 2022 at 12:31 pm #

            Jazzer,

            LOL! I’m pretty sure these knuckleheads aren’t part of any kind of organized “network.” One of ’ems dad owns the place, and he’s since relocated for work (construction), so he lets his kid and his buddies flop there. There’s three or four more of them that kind of come an go at will and a lineup of cars every night stopping by for refills. Since pot is technically legal in NM, I guess the cops don’t think they’re worth wasting time on, although I have noticed they’re keeping an eye on them.

            My guess is they have a grower or a dispensary connection in the valley and they’re just retailing to lazy fucks up here who don’t want to go to the trouble of buying it legally down there. There are damn sure no dispensaries in Los Alamos County, as smoking is still a no no for all the labbies, which is pretty much everyone and everything up here. This place is still so small time in every way that it’s really quite affecting.

          • Soul Forensics September 14, 2022 at 1:41 pm #

            Re John’s question,

            I don’t give a shit about street hoods snorting or injecting street drugs possibly laced with the vaxx. (My heart doesn’t bleed for them.)

            I’m concerned about law-abiding anti-vaxxers eventually getting the … er .. experimental contents packaged into regular super market food.

            Really, why would they go through the messy public relations fight and trucker protests again, especially because they’re not gonna gain many if any new converts no matter how many times CNN tells them to? Why not just do everything underground? Ingestion by hidden means, through food, water and air.

          • GreenAlba September 14, 2022 at 2:26 pm #

            SF, I suspect your last paragraph is exactly what’s on the way.

            And for most of us (I know many N. Americans have their own sources of food and water) there’s no escape. you can doctor bottles of mineral water just the same as tap water. And spray anything on anyone or the crops they eat. They can’t back down now – that’s the whole point.

          • Jarek September 14, 2022 at 3:27 pm #

            In other words, the fewer Blacks the safer you are.

            Good, Mary. You’re waking up.

          • MaryQueen September 14, 2022 at 7:30 pm #

            Sadly, once again, Jarek, I didn’t say that. You did.

            I suspect there is something really wrong going on in your noggin.

          • Anthea September 15, 2022 at 1:53 am #

            @ Disaffected:

            Your “rundown”–and low crime–neighborhood sounds like my former place at the lake. For most of the years I lived there, the front door didn’t even have a working lock, and when it did I rarely locked the door.

            I put our lack of crime down to two causes: nobody at the lake had anything worth stealing, and most people who lived there were in enough trouble with the law already.

          • Jarek September 15, 2022 at 3:21 am #

            Mary: You didn’t say it, but I’d say you hinted at it. In any case, it is the simple Truth. I suspect you know that at some level.

          • MaryQueen September 15, 2022 at 6:17 pm #

            I didn’t hint at it in any way, shape or form, Jarek.

    • elysianfield September 14, 2022 at 11:28 am #

      BRH,
      Thank God they were old and had no…daughters living at home.

      Cause white girls bleed a lot….

      • Soul Forensics September 14, 2022 at 1:48 pm #

        They were probably looking for innocent teen White sorority types as their #1 priority. And since they didn’t murder the old folks, any blood probably would’ve been from post-rape tearing, not knifing.

  77. GreenAlba September 14, 2022 at 8:42 am #

    Neil Oliver hammers Rishi Sunak and the other rats trying to desert the sinking covid ship. And warns of what’s coming next.

    youtube.com/watch?v=HTA90R9FMoQ

    Or, if you’re mitchellc, ‘Neil Oliver gets all emotional when he should be asking Liz Truss for the best Gauleiter job, having accepted the truth and seeing no problem with it .’

    • BackRowHeckler September 14, 2022 at 8:50 am #

      Well, Mitch is looking at the Big Picture, always.

      Mitch: “Resistance is futile. You already lost.”

      • GreenAlba September 14, 2022 at 9:00 am #

        Mitch chooses to identify with the psychos painting the bigger picture. So, in the long run, he loses. Some of us refuse to be part of the picture. In the end, we win.

        • MaryQueen September 14, 2022 at 10:23 am #

          Right on.

          • Night Owl September 14, 2022 at 10:24 am #

            Mitch is a beta.

          • GreenAlba September 14, 2022 at 11:28 am #

            Everybody is going to die. Everybody, including Mitch, the aspiring Gauleiter.

            You can die with honour, or you can die without honour. That’s about it, as far as I can see.

          • MaryQueen September 14, 2022 at 11:53 am #

            That’s how I see it too, GA. Just because they might be winning doesn’t mean you give up the fight.

            And from what I’m seeing, they might not really be winning.

        • Redneck Liberal September 14, 2022 at 9:29 pm #

          Phyrrus won too.

          • GreenAlba September 15, 2022 at 6:16 am #

            Trust you to have such a narrow view of the meaning of ‘win’.

            It depends how you interpret your humanity. The way I interpret mine, if I die with honour I win, and if mitchellc dies without honour he loses.

            So, are you taking the mouse-tested doubleplusgood bivalent jab, with a flu shot in the other arm?

            My ‘invitation’*for October assures me that taking both together is safe (which is the opposite of what the CDC said, apparently) but it didn’t tell me how they know it is safe, since it hasn’t been tested on humans. Maybe four of the mice had both?

            Anyway, I’ll be passing on the flu jab too, as I did last year. I wouldn’t trust these people to make me a sandwich. Not to mention that Mike Yeadon looked at the Cochrane Review literature and the flu jab, when you take away the window dressing, has an efficacy of 9%. I reckon that, even with a degraded immune system, I can get 9% from my vitamins and whatnot.

            *I know from the previous booster that when you go online to change or cancel your appointment, you find that it can’t be cancelled, only changed, so your only option is to be a no-show, unless you want to phone and be patronised by some pro-vaxx automaton bleating ‘safe and effective, safe and effective, save and effective, like a malfunctioning Dalek.

    • Slugoon September 14, 2022 at 1:03 pm #

      I could listen to Neil talk for hours. He’d look great in a crown too. All hail, King Oliver.

  78. Night Owl September 14, 2022 at 10:23 am #

    A WEF partner has a message for us:

    “Under a ‘climate lockdown,’ governments would limit private-vehicle use, ban consumption of red meat, and impose extreme energy-saving measures, while fossil-fuel companies would have to stop drilling. To avoid such a scenario, we must overhaul our economic structures and do capitalism differently.

    Many think of the climate crisis as distinct from the health and economic crises caused by the pandemic. But the three crises – and their solutions – are interconnected.

    COVID-19 is itself a consequence of environmental degradation: one recent study dubbed it “the disease of the Anthropocene.” Moreover, climate change will exacerbate the social and economic problems highlighted by the pandemic. These include governments’ diminishing capacity to address public-health crises, the private sector’s limited ability to withstand sustained economic disruption, and pervasive social inequality.”

    Wild “conspiracy” again, kids.

    • MaryQueen September 14, 2022 at 11:00 am #

      “Many think of the climate crisis as distinct from the health and economic crises caused by the pandemic. But the three crises – and their solutions – are interconnected.”

      Seems to me, many of us up here have made that connection 2 years ago and predicted how they’d play out the hoax.

      Which WEF partner is this?

    • elysianfield September 14, 2022 at 11:23 am #

      Owl,
      You DO know that there is a scheduled Railroad strike in the USA commencing this Friday? We need someone who can keep the trains running.

      And on time…

      Any suggestions?

      • elysianfield September 14, 2022 at 11:25 am #

        And…the link;

        FOOD & AG: The greatest short term risk to the food supply is failed contract negotiations between railroad companies and rail unions, as workers are set to begin strikes on Friday. Rail companies say they’ll start shutting down rail transportation tomorrow in anticipation of strikes. A sustained strike would impose catastrophic losses on farmers dependent on rail to move perishable goods and disrupt food distribution to warehouses and grocery stores. (For additional information, see today’s Domestic INTSUM.)

      • JohnAZ September 14, 2022 at 11:35 am #

        Nope, too busy listening to James Taylor and celebrating a new law on reducing inflation that actually increases inflation per the CBO and just advances the Dem agenda that is leading us to ruin.

        I want to point out that this miscarriage of sanity is being hailed by half of this country. People, wake up before it is too late. if it is not already.

        • JohnAZ September 14, 2022 at 11:38 am #

          Get it, the Dems want this bad economic stuff to happen. They want people dependent on the government. The Dem led Deep State is smiling with each bad report. Also, remember that the Unions are Democratic.

      • cowbell81 September 14, 2022 at 12:59 pm #

        May as well turn all those railroad beds into bike paths. Looks like this strike might pose as the final straw to bring our economy to our knees.

        Is Dept of Trans Sec Buttgig doing anything to rectumfy this matter?

        • BackRowHeckler September 14, 2022 at 3:10 pm #

          Buttpounder is ramping up the chestfeeding.

        • beantownbill. September 14, 2022 at 3:16 pm #

          Ha, ha.

      • Hereward the Woke September 14, 2022 at 3:48 pm #

        Mussolini? His one great achievement.

    • Soul Forensics September 14, 2022 at 1:51 pm #

      I forget which Euro country this comes from, but you can now go to jail if you turn your house heat up to 19 deg C or higher. That includes over the coming winter.

      Yes, you read that correctly.

      • cowbell81 September 14, 2022 at 2:31 pm #

        Switzerland considers JAILING anyone who heats rooms above 19C for up to three years if the country is forced to ration gas due to Ukraine war
        The country could also give fines of up to 3,000 Swiss Francs (£2,667)
        In gas-heated buildings, water could not be heated to more than 60C (140F)
        Radiant heaters would be banned and saunas and swimming pools would have to be cold
        Likely that the proposed measures will be subject to challenges and disputes

        • Soul Forensics September 14, 2022 at 2:42 pm #

          Thanks for the details.

          • Hereward the Woke September 14, 2022 at 3:50 pm #

            They are only “considering” it, but the SoBs are crazy enough to try it. We have a lot of old people, and they are going to have a hard time living in a cold winter with little heating. Also, the massive ski industry won’t attract tourists if they only heat hotels to 19°C. Even the Swiss have their limits!

      • Islander September 14, 2022 at 4:31 pm #

        Switzerland.

        Snitching encouraged!!

  79. MaryQueen September 14, 2022 at 10:58 am #

    This absolute garbage is what they want to replace the natural world with. Notice the guy’s outfit – he’s given up on being an actual human already, lol. Yes, let’s project goofy invented creature holograms on everything, so fascinating, much better than anything Mother Nature has to offer. SMDH:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=441nwncPN28

    • cowbell81 September 14, 2022 at 11:10 am #

      Did you see the crowd of people there in the audience to view his TED talk? I’m surprised so many people actually turned out in purpose. Isn’t this in contradiction to the very subject he is espousing upon? Everyone should be watching and listening to him at home digitally, in the metaverse, not packed into an overcrowded theater! Bunch of hypocrites.

    • cowbell81 September 14, 2022 at 11:15 am #

      Plus, that weird sweater jacket thing the speaker is wearing probably cost like $300 at a super exclusive boutique. Yet it looks like trash pulled from a thrift store.

      • MaryQueen September 14, 2022 at 12:01 pm #

        That’s exactly what I thought. And then bike pants (?) with neon crap on them, which clashes with animal print.

        Someone call the fashion police!!

      • Islander September 14, 2022 at 4:35 pm #

        “Plus, that weird sweater jacket thing ”

        With some kind of leopard print??

        • MaryQueen September 14, 2022 at 7:34 pm #

          I call that look “Silicon Valley Slouch”

  80. SoftStarLight September 14, 2022 at 11:39 am #

    Still can’t post links 🙁

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    • Disaffected September 14, 2022 at 12:20 pm #

      I haven’t had any problems. Browser?

      • SoftStarLight September 14, 2022 at 12:36 pm #

        Well i have tried multiple browsers. I think for whatever reason my ability to post links has just been disabled here.

        • SoftStarLight September 14, 2022 at 12:44 pm #

          I was going to post a link to an article that was suggesting that folks who are vaxed are having issues with transplanted organs being rejected and doctors think it may be linked to the vax.

          • anmariwakaranai September 14, 2022 at 2:02 pm #

            Just lose the http part s.

          • Islander September 14, 2022 at 4:37 pm #

            Or post the actual (searchable) title of the video.

            This (organs) doesn’t surprise me.

            They are calling for a lot of blood donations in Ukraine. What if all the blood is full of spike proteins? How will that affect the ability of the recipients to heal?

          • SoftStarLight September 14, 2022 at 4:39 pm #

            Thanks ani. Nothing works so yeah I could just include links as text but it sort of defeats the purpose. I will continue to post and continue to disrupt as long as possible until i get outright banned.

          • SoftStarLight September 14, 2022 at 4:44 pm #

            As far as I can tell the ukies are considered human fodder and disposable trash by both zog empire and russkya war machines so I am not certain those providing blood donations to ukies really care if it heals them at all. Specific individuals, yes. The system, no.

        • Disaffected September 14, 2022 at 5:51 pm #

          You’re a rabble rouser!

          • SoftStarLight September 14, 2022 at 5:54 pm #

            No I am not. I have been forced into this position

          • Disaffected September 14, 2022 at 9:33 pm #

            Forgot that final period again. Q. won’t be pleased.

          • SoftStarLight September 15, 2022 at 1:22 am #

            Lol Q. You’re right I guess. And I did it because I wanted to. But I suppose I need to consider Q’s feelings and he did say it drove him crazy when my punctuation was impoverished or forgotten altogether.

  81. cowbell81 September 14, 2022 at 12:33 pm #

    China discovered a new mineral on the moon that could provide unlimited energy. It is a crystal, made of the novel mineral Changesite, named after the Chinese Moon goddess, Chang’e, that also inspired China’s series of lunar missions.

    The China lunar samples also contain Helium-3,a version of the element helium that has long fascinated scientists—and science fiction creators—because of its potential as a nuclear fusion fuel source. This hypothetical form of power aims to harness energy released by atoms that merge under tremendous pressures, such as those in the interiors of stars. Starlight is a ubiquitous product of nuclear fusion, but human-made fusion reactors will still likely take decades to develop, assuming they are feasible at all.

    That said, if these reactors do become a reality, helium-3 would be a good fuel candidate because it produces less radioactive byproducts and nuclear waste compared to other atoms. Whereas helium-3 is incredibly scarce on Earth, it is abundant on the Moon, a disparity that has stoked dreams of mining the material on the lunar surface.

    • CrusherMuldoon September 14, 2022 at 1:14 pm #

      Do you have any idea on how big a booster is required to soft land one bulldozer on the moon? The average bulldozer weighs 49 tons. That’s 98,000 lbs. A Saturn 5 could send it to the moon, but without A LOT OF FUEL ACCOMPANYING IT the bulldozer would be smashed to pieces upon impact. That’s ONE bulldozer.t How is the mining infrastructure going to be built? With unicorn farts?

      • stelmosfire September 14, 2022 at 1:42 pm #

        I would imagine we can just use a laptop and a 3D printer. One Cat D8 coming right up. How about a 250 ton dragline to go with it?

      • beantownbill. September 14, 2022 at 3:14 pm #

        Unicorn farts are extremely powerful. So much so that people need to stay away from them or get blown away. That’s why God didn’t let the unicorns on the ark. The whole vessel would’ve been wiped out.

      • BackRowHeckler September 14, 2022 at 3:43 pm #

        We need to find a way to lasoo the moon, pull it down to us — like in those very early science fiction silent films from about 1910, made in the Edison Studios in the Bronx, before Hollywood. The man is playing the piano in the background, creating suspense; on the flickering screen is the paper mache moon with a feminine face i.e. long eyelashes and a pouty mouth. Up rides a cowboy on a white horse, wearing a white hat; underneath the caption reads

        THIS LONELY COWPOKE HAS FALLEN IN LOVE WITH THE MOON, NOW HE’S GOING TO ROPER HER IN.

        That’s early science fiction and westerns in one package, framing movie making for the next 100 years.

        • Woodchuck September 14, 2022 at 4:16 pm #

          No no NO! No need to pull the moon down to us. The way to do it is to put a big pulley on the moon and another pulley down here on earth. Install a steel cable going through the two pulleys, and now you have a space elevator that you can use to pull stuff back and forth to the moon.

          • Soul Forensics September 14, 2022 at 4:56 pm #

            Does the space elevator have the capacity for weapons of mass destruction?

            We can then finally fight the Moonies!

          • Disaffected September 14, 2022 at 5:50 pm #

            NOW you’re talking! You are now appointed as an Honorary General in the Space Force.

      • MaryQueen September 14, 2022 at 7:36 pm #

        Get the black ladies responsible for the moon landing on it, STAT!

    • Woodchuck September 14, 2022 at 2:10 pm #

      In desperation, the human imagination is coming up with all sorts of completely unrealistic ideas as to how to keep our “lifestyle” continuing. You know, as Dick Cheney once said, “The American way of life is not negotiable.” (With this, he might also have been advising the Russians long ago – You can’t negotiate with us so don’t waste your time)

      Instead of mining equipment going to the moon, chainsaws and garden tractors we will be going outdoors into woodlots, gathering fuel to heat our homes. Instead of building rockets, we’ll be building backyard gardens, learning how to bath effectively in cold water, and how to service our own bicycles. If ya don’t like this or can’t cope with it, you’re always free to jump off a cliff or a bridge and check out of here.

      • Woodchuck September 14, 2022 at 2:17 pm #

        That last sentence in my paragraph above was addressed to humankind in general, not to cowbell who I’d prefer stays with us.

  82. tucsonspur September 14, 2022 at 2:04 pm #

    Okay, maybe my post will return, maybe it won’t. I posted two links regarding the nuclear threat in Ukraine and the call by some Russians for escalating the war, while questioning this statement by Jim:

    ‘The New York Times today is ballyhooing the Ukraine military’s “lightning advance” east of Kharkov. I’d argue that what The Times wants you to see is not exactly what is happening. Rather the Russians appear to have made an orderly, tactical retreat from the outskirts of Kharkov, inducing the NATO-trained Ukraine forces eastward across the Siverskyi Donets River and out into the flat, open country where they will be cut off, cauldroned, and slaughtered’

    My response, in part, was something like, ‘Really, another Russian tactical retreat?”
    And, ‘Maybe the Ukrainians are that stupid’.

    My links were relevant to the topic and informative, and further showed how dangerous this war is becoming.
    Some seem to post links without any moderation and certainly no removal.

    I consider my links just as germane to topic and essentially see them as equivalent to the others.
    Is even mild criticism now banned?

    Is it bias? Favoritism? Dislike? I don’t know. Jim may have his reasons and I’m okay with that, but if this is something like the moderator’s personal prejudice than he or she can go shit in his or her hat.

    • Woodchuck September 14, 2022 at 2:12 pm #

      As far as I can tell, JHK isn’t the one stopping links from being posted or making comments wait moderation.

    • CrusherMuldoon September 14, 2022 at 2:17 pm #

      One very basic military stratagem is to lure an overly aggressive force to a position where a counterattack could prove to be very destructive. I’m not saying Jim’s right about this, but it won’t be the first time in military history, where a force, flushed with victory and contemptuous of their opponent gets its head cut off in a vise. By the way, flat open country is good for mechanized forces making a counterattack.

      • Redneck Liberal September 14, 2022 at 9:18 pm #

        “By the way, flat open country is good for mechanized forces making a counterattack.

        True, and it would be ominous if the Russians had a sizable force to deploy, or the ‘wetware’ to run it.

        Russia is scraping across the country to find manpower and weapons, including old tanks based in the Far East, having used up much of its military capacity in the first 100 days of its invasion of Ukraine, according to senior European officials with knowledge of the situation on the ground.14/06/2022

        Russia Turns to Old Tanks as It Burns Through Weapons
        bloomberg.com › news › articles › russia-t…
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        That was a couple of months ago. Oh, no doubt they’ve rebuilt since then, right?

        • MaryQueen September 14, 2022 at 10:10 pm #

          Bloomberg, yet.

          LMAO.

    • SoftStarLight September 14, 2022 at 3:12 pm #

      I’m studying the Word Press manual and now I have several theories of the case

    • MaryQueen September 14, 2022 at 7:40 pm #

      My guess is that WordPress is doing the censoring, not JHK.

      WP also ‘learns’ so I’m guessing if you posted something questionable some other time, now you’ll have a tougher time getting stuff through.

      Also, I managed to somehow do it – put 2 links in one comment – but I do know that WP is triggered by multiple links in comments. That’s probably a setting on the site.

      There are many possibilities but I doubt that JHK is limiting certain peoples’ ability to post. I’m glad I’ve had very little trouble for months. I had trouble last year.

      Most of my problems then were with bitchute videos, IIRC.

  83. anmariwakaranai September 14, 2022 at 2:20 pm #

    rumble.com/v1jteut-deborah-tavares-nasa-depopulation-document.html

    2013 nasa depop doc above.

    moneymetals.com/news/2021/07/12/bank-of-international-settlements-chief-talks-absolute-control-002328

    • MaryQueen September 14, 2022 at 7:41 pm #

      Just saw a clip of Bill Gates calling the vaccine the final solution again, they aren’t very quiet about it.

  84. JohnAZ September 14, 2022 at 2:22 pm #

    Have you watched Biden today?

    It is so obvious what is going on.

    The Deep State Dems have just made it obvious that the opinion of the public makes no difference any more to the administration. Fellow conservatives, we are no longer in the loop. You are going to get the Dem agenda shoved down your throat, no matter what. We are second class citizens now whose opinions do not matter.

    I am still waiting on Nov., the Dems are acting now like they do not have to worry about us any more. Wonder what they know that we don’t?

    Biden does no give one whit about inflation and its effect on the public.

    • tucsonspur September 14, 2022 at 7:03 pm #

      They just dropped in on Mike Lindell. It’s power and force, intimidation, and the creation of a phony, dangerous threat made all too real by their raids and warrants.

      Too many have been fooled. And look at some of the red candidates, Blake Masters here, for example, wanting to privatize SS and against abortion. His opponent, Mark Kelly, leads in the polls by a small margin.

      Think about it. After all of the Democratic shit show, the Republican is behind.

      • Redneck Liberal September 14, 2022 at 9:09 pm #

        Yeah, TS.

        Go figure…some (probably most) people prefer the Rule of Law and agree that nutjobs like Mike Pillow (of all people!) be called to account for his interference in the 2020 Election and support for the disgraced Trump and his J6 “Tourist Show”.

        As well, clearly, the majority of people can’t swallow a blusterhead like Masters with his two-faced bullshit agenda that would never work FOR the electorate, but for the MAGAts’ plan to turn the US into a Christian Afghanistan.

        • JohnAZ September 14, 2022 at 9:37 pm #

          You are as much of a fool as most of the Dems here.

          You would have been the first on the list of people requiring an investigation of the election if Trump had won.

          Hypocrite!

          • MaryQueen September 14, 2022 at 10:03 pm #

            Redneck Libtard is all for the prosecution of ‘thought crime’ without a judge or jury.

    • MaryQueen September 14, 2022 at 7:44 pm #

      Biden has always been a sociopath, this was apparent early on in his career. I don’t know why anyone is surprised at anything he does. Of course they put him in there to take the fall for all the dirty work, he signed up for that.

      Look at the state of his kids.

      I am convinced his first wife tried to escape him.

    • Redneck Liberal September 14, 2022 at 9:13 pm #

      “The Deep State Dems have just made it obvious that the opinion of the public makes no difference any more to the administration. Fellow conservatives, we are no longer in the loop.

      No, JohnAZ – Biden and the Dems have simply had enough of the MAGAt bullshit and “ain’t gonna take it anymore!!” It’s about time…

      In any case, if the mid-terms do the way of the non-crazies (that is, not you & yours), no doubt it’ll lead to a continuation of The Big Lie. Surely, you’ve already decided that “they” are going to steal this one too, right?

      • JohnAZ September 14, 2022 at 9:34 pm #

        Well you have finally admitted it,

        You are a totalitarian fool. One party of socialist fools and you have jumped right on board.

        Please stay away from the US please.

        • JohnAZ September 14, 2022 at 9:41 pm #

          I know you just cannot stop adoring your hero, The Boss, Biden.

          After all, he knows more about macroeconomics that 200 years of economists.

          The real story has been and still is, his group want the US destroyed economically, just as you do.

          Do not sniff at MAGA, you are soon going to find out it owns half the voters in this country.

      • Slugoon September 15, 2022 at 7:23 am #

        I really don’t get this, RL. The Dems are in power and have been for a while now, yet all they spew on about is Trump and MAGA and white supremacy. Why? Why do you care so much if others think the election was fraudulent? Hillary and many others did (Russian interference, just like the laptop, lol) when it was the other way around so it goes both ways.

        Trump isn’t president, he has no official political power as I understand it so why can’t they/you stop frothing at the mouth talking about him? Mind-boggling.

        The MAGA principles were just ordinary governmental proposals in the interests of US citizens, from what I can tell. It’s a term that seems to have been conflated with something akin to the KKK and weaponised, without any basis in reality. It’s a cult chasing phantoms.

        I never understood the hatred of DT. Still to this day I’ve never seen anybody articulate why he was so bad. The most maligned person on the face of this earth, even here the name elicits a snigger and snide comment, as if you can’t say his name without demonstrating your virtue by demeaning him, yet all I’ve ever seen is emotional ravings, absent of any evidence. Just because he doesn’t talk like Saint Jug Ears?

        Everything they’ve thrown at him, brought by the most powerful forces in the land, none of it has stuck. None of it. This latest raid (banana republic investigation) is likely to go the same way.

        Please, make a list for me, who is your enemy and what exactly are they doing to you?

        • Anthea September 15, 2022 at 7:50 pm #

          @ Slugoon:

          I don’t recall RL ever mentioning an objection to a particular policy espoused by Trump and his supporters. This probably because, as you said, “MAGA principles were just ordinary governmental proposals in the interests of US citizens.” Hence, mentioning specific Trump/MAGA policies and voicing opposition to them just makes you look like an idiot.

          As far as I can tell, liberals are almost invariably government employees/retirees or they live off of the government in some other way. They don’t have any real beliefs; they’re just on the payroll.

          However, RL did express one (and only one) specific “problem” he has with MAGA conservatives: “the MAGAs’ plan to turn the US into a Christian Afghanistan.”

          So it seems likely that his beef is mainly against Christianity. In the new “Christian Afghanistan,” he will be unable to get an abortion, and he could have trouble even getting anyone to acknowledge that he’s pregnant. And he may even find resistance to getting his connubials with his dog sanctified.

    • Not_GeorgeT September 14, 2022 at 11:54 pm #

      I try making it through the day without watching ‘Biden’. Not a tv person, which helps a lot.

      The Phillie thing… the tv is on in the house, so I saw it, brief moment walking through a room.

      Besides, JAZ’s posts keeps me up to date 🙂

  85. mitchellc September 14, 2022 at 2:26 pm #

    Our relationships with dogs is a 2 way street. While the majority of attention has traditionally been directed towards how we shaped them, awareness is growing that perhaps our own evolutionary path was formed by the wolf.

    In other words, we might not even be here in our current position if not for dogs who allowed us to safely roam, hunt, migrate, form communities, protect crops & livestock, and of course wage war. The conclusion is we ourselves have been shaped and conditioned.

    Ok, so what’s the point? Well, when people discuss government and politics, it’s typically within the context that the state is an immutable truth, by which coalitions compete for influence and control.

    But what is rarely stated is that the ability to believe in some kind of cooperative arrangement is identical to many religious dogmas & observances. But if neither actually exist in reality, then the capability for one to believe is simply an evolutionary trait selected to favor certain individuals.

    To summarize, if both the secular and ecclesiastical are purely fitments of imagination, then what actually is reality? To answer that question, simply look out your window.

    Life abounds, but with no purpose or order; Just a random process of reproductive errors and defects, some beneficial, others deleterious. No judgment as each organism pursues its own survival strategy.

    But this truth is too awful for so many, so they resort to fantasy stories and promises of comfort and safety. And here enter the charlatans in our story, offering order, purpose, ‘justice’ and reward.

    But what is the heart of a con? A deal too good to be true, always made obvious by asking the simple question, why? Why offer the deal? What’s the real point, the real motivation?

    And so here we are today, with an entire roster of intelligent commenters who for whatever reason – clearly not correlated with IQ – really (want to) believe the many fairy tales they’ve been told, especially during the formative years where they were exposed to intense brainwashing no different than a cult.

    What I keep suggesting is to step back and consider the more abstract POV. To wit, you don’t matter; rather you’re an obstacle. No one is coming to save your bacon, the peddled hope & promise is just a rear guard action to keep you off balance.

    The truth is we’re very close to a complete collapse of all systems and (cultural) structures. People who have figured it out are hell bent on surviving, if only for the satisfaction of “winning”.

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    • Night Owl September 14, 2022 at 2:35 pm #

      “The truth is we’re very close to a complete collapse of all systems and (cultural) structures. People who have figured it out are hell bent on surviving, if only for the satisfaction of ‘winning.'”

      Whatever you say, nut.

    • GreenAlba September 14, 2022 at 2:44 pm #

      You’re still going to die. And probably not at a time or in a fashion of your own choosing.

      Nothing new under the sun, chump.

      If honour were an invention, then it would be our greatest invention. We would quite literally have surpassed ourselves.

    • Soul Forensics September 14, 2022 at 3:04 pm #

      “protect crops & livestock, and of course wage war.”

      Uh, that would be from the benefit of horses, not dogs or wolves. Protection means nothing if the means to grow the crops is absent.

    • anmariwakaranai September 14, 2022 at 3:39 pm #

      Mitch’s fairytale,

      Out of oblivion came Mitch’s world and all in it. There is order Mitch, from the path of neutrinos out of the sun to it’s rays spending 7 minutes to reach the earth.

      The Mass preceded the new testament by 300 years, and the gospels are based on witness testemony, often conflicting, all based on another 3000 years of faith in a religion some say was shaped in Egypt.

      All religions have some truth Mitch, even the paucity of your own.

    • SoftStarLight September 14, 2022 at 4:08 pm #

      Ok. well per your definition of the stages I have already reached the acceptance of the truth stage. And I simply don’t give a fuck if I am an obstacle and yes, I realize we are essentially alone and there is no help arriving.

      Another truth is that no matter how hard you try most people, even the most prepared, will not survive a total collapse of all of the systems of modern society.

    • MaryQueen September 14, 2022 at 7:46 pm #

      Humans are hard-wired to survive as are all animals. Transhumanists like to pretend that humans can be trained or brainwashed into not listening to our instincts or common sense.

      • benr September 14, 2022 at 9:25 pm #

        That human usually self identifies as a Democrat or progressive.

        • MaryQueen September 14, 2022 at 10:08 pm #

          You bet. Anyone who can be convinced they were born in the wrong body or OK with cutting off healthy body parts is definitely not in touch with their own humanity.

  86. tom clark September 14, 2022 at 3:02 pm #

    Not a peep in today’s local catbox liner about a nationwide rail strike.

    Meanwhile, infinite growth can’t go on forever in a finite world, not today, not tomorrow, never.

    Wednesday, September 14, 2022…another turn of the crank.

    • Soul Forensics September 14, 2022 at 3:08 pm #

      You missed it. It’s upthread. But I guess it’s not surprising since your shtick is to skim, and then respond passive-aggressively.

  87. rundmc September 14, 2022 at 3:09 pm #

    1) At this point, I’d rather have Russian bases at our border with Mexico than whatever the hell it is we have now – given we have people in full military camo, armor and high-tech devices scaling “fences” and belly crawling across the “border.” (That’s not to mention all the thousands that are likely just walking through the tunnels).
    Having military age men invade hourly from lord knows where is certainly a far cry from the “women and children coming here just wanting a better life taking care of Hollywood starlets’ kids and LA lawns.” Having a few Russians there might actually tone things down.

    2) I don’t know why people don’t understand that the dems will steal the midterm elections and republicans will not take over. I hope I’m wrong; I really do. But they are desperate enough to just not care if everyone sees it. And after all, they’ve been successful enough cowing many republicans into not believing their lying eyes about the 2020 election fraud. You can tell what they are planning with all the “news” about the dems being “up in the polls.” Uh huh. Outright lying in the open so they can have some kind of plausible excuse for why they “won” even though 99% of the electorate despises them. Would even the “biden” administration do something as politically bone-headed as shovel tons of $ from the majority of people w/o a college degree to deadbeats with philosophy degrees if they didn’t know they were going to just cheat to win anyway? Republicans had better not wake up shocked/shocked I tell yah the day after the elections if this happens. They’ll have themselves to blame. (Too many republicans think the dems only did this to DJT, but it was ok b/c they were going to stop with election fraud after 2020 – idiots).

    3) Here where I am in the intermountain west, communities are starting to refuse credit cards, or charge a high fee if you use them. For food, fuel, goods and services – cash is king. The fees started early this year. These are wise people. However, not sure how long it’ll be before they only start taking silver….?

    • cowbell81 September 14, 2022 at 3:21 pm #

      In response to your 3rd paragraph, where generally are you in the “intermountain west” where credit payment is being refused? And what kinds of vendors are refusing this as payment? Is it just people at farmer’s markets, rummage sales, and flea markets? If so, that makes sense. If it is the likes of King Soopers, the local Amoco, Joe’s Tire Shop, etc. then this is quite surprising.

      I know that some localities use their own form of currency (like Ithaca Hours) but that is just confined to a very specific downtown business area in order to promote their sales. Using such “depression scrip” was a very popular thing to do, and thousands were issued throughout small towns and villages in the US, during the 1930s Depression. Maybe we will eventually get back to that?

      • rundmc September 14, 2022 at 4:18 pm #

        Generally, I’m in MT, ID and WY – roaming. There are any number of places in MT that are now charging fees for use of credit cards – bars, restaurants, smaller gas stations, propane fill-ups, coffeeshops, novelty stores (even near Yellowstone), even hotels and RV parks. The places I’ve seen that don’t are the larger big box stores which are few and far between. In ID and WY, there are fewer places “charging fees” but in small towns, a number will give “discounts” for paying with cash.

        • MaryQueen September 14, 2022 at 7:49 pm #

          That is great information, thanks!

        • Anthea September 15, 2022 at 8:27 pm #

          @ rundmc:

          My car mechanic of the past twenty-odd years has always charged a fee whenever I paid with a credit card. I think it’s usually about three bucks. This is because the credit card companies take a fee from every vendor’s transaction (which I’m sure you knew). It’s not a lot, but if you do a few thousand dollars a day in sales, it could add up.

          Let’s say the vendor’s fee is 3% (it varies, and I can’t remember the percentage range). If the vendor collects the fee from the customer, he’s just avoided raising his prices by 3%.

          And, while I wouldn’t want to accuse anyone of anything, cash receipts are often treated as tax-free, so that helps a lot. A LOT. Sales tax around here is about 8%. This varies depending on the county and municipality.

    • Disaffected September 14, 2022 at 6:58 pm #

      Haven’t seen that here in NM yet. I’ll keep an eye out. But I wouldn’t doubt that’s happening in the small towns off the beaten track already.

      • BackRowHeckler September 14, 2022 at 7:50 pm #

        Keep an eye on the Atomic Bomb factory in your hometown too; if they start ramping up production we’ll know nuclear war is looming and we are f#kkd.

        • Disaffected September 14, 2022 at 9:31 pm #

          We already are, in a BIG WAY. Not that any of it is actually happening anytime soon. Like space, it turns out even nuclear pit production is HARD!

  88. Night Owl September 14, 2022 at 3:23 pm #

    European MEP shows that clot shots were ready in 2017.

    https://twitter.com/wolsned/status/1567582404193173505?cxt=HHwWgoCy4YT5lcErAAAA

    • MaryQueen September 14, 2022 at 7:50 pm #

      Already removed 🙁

  89. tom clark September 14, 2022 at 3:35 pm #

    SF…I was aware of the pending strike and read of it upthread. What I was trying to say was that it wasn’t covered in my local newspaper, that’s all. Thanks for the vote of confidence, I appreciate it.

    • cowbell81 September 14, 2022 at 3:39 pm #

      Cat box liner = actual old timey newspaper

    • SoftStarLight September 14, 2022 at 4:00 pm #

      That’s because your “local” newspaper is organizing it

  90. cowbell81 September 14, 2022 at 3:38 pm #

    Just like everything else in American society, the electoral process has been commercialized and commodified. Election Day is nothing more than a means to an end for companies and certain people (software developers, campaign sign printers and paraphernalia manufacturers, vote tabulators, poll workers, county clerks, etc.) to make more money.

    It is so obvious it is sickening. Just more commodification towards making this country into one big McDonald’s or Starbuck’s drive-thru.

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  91. cowbell81 September 14, 2022 at 4:08 pm #

    Now there is even the claim that the planet Jupiter may have a direct effect on Earth’s climate (for good and bad):

    www (dot) msn (dot) com/en-us/news/technology/earth-s-sub-freezing-regions-could-become-a-paradise-if-jupiter-s-orbit-shifts/ar-AA11PACM

  92. Jarek September 14, 2022 at 4:13 pm #

    Dan Bongino: John Durham already beginning to give the FBI a pass on pissgate. They were hoodwinked! They didn’t know.

    Bongino concludes that Durham simply isn’t an honorable man.

  93. SpeedyBB September 14, 2022 at 4:24 pm #

    An interesting short film claiming that the Dutch are not as bicycle-nuts as they are portrayed has revealing insight into the nature of the city:

    “This level of urban development isn’t just unusual in almost all of the United States. It’s illegal. Utrecht, the city in the first photo above, has approximately the same metro-area population as Wichita. But because most of its central city was built before the passage of laws that required minimum lot sizes, maximum numbers of homes per lot and lots of on-site car storage everywhere, everything in Utrecht is much closer to everything else than anything is in Wichita.”

    Fill in the usual patches in the linky:

    peopleforbikes.0rg/

    news/

    best-kept-secret-dutch-biking-dutch-hardly-bike

      • Disaffected September 14, 2022 at 6:55 pm #

        Nice, but I can easily imagine those as being a target for harassment; or worse, the wokies crying misogyny.

    • Islander September 14, 2022 at 5:26 pm #

      I read the article.

      I have Dutch in-laws and have spent time in Holland, but not recently.

      I think this article leaves a lot out, despite the statistics. The Netherlands has an incredibly infrastructure for biking, and when i was there we did lovely trips. Every train station has bikes to rent cheaply. The country developed a policy to create safe bike infrastructure shortly after WW2. It wasn’t some kind of “automatic” thing that occurred. They wanted to reduce auto traffic in their dense towns, and they succeeded in doing so.

      “Check out the video “How the Dutch got Their Cycle Paths.”

      IMO, US suburbs are ideal for biking, with their fairly wide streets, especially when there are no hills. When there are traffic tailbacks, you can often pass the cars and ;make much better progress on your bike.

      I could say a lot more about this, but I am working . . .

      • KesaAnna September 14, 2022 at 7:10 pm #

        Grrr , one of the best war movies I have seen was about a Danish bicycle company and the German invasion of Denmark.

        But I can’t remember the name of the movie !

        Lol , the Danes are supposed to be the good guys / heroes , but every time the German troops put in an appearance I want to jump out of my seat and cry ,

        ” Give them Hell boys ! ”

        Actually the Danes are very sympathic characters.

        Even against German light recon and wheeled armored cars the Danes don’t stand a fucking chance.

        The best weapon the Danes have is a motorcycle – mounted anti – tank rifle

        —- the only time I have seen an anti – tank rifle in a movie , and being used.

        Anti – tank rifles , like the Solothurn SS 1000 ,

        Were cool beans, but sadly pretty much already obsolete by 1939.

        Anyway , Denmark is pretty flat.

        I’m guessing Switzerland didn’t have many , or any , bicycle troops ?

        • BackRowHeckler September 14, 2022 at 8:05 pm #

          “the Danes were supposed to be the good guys/heroes but every time the German troops put in an appearance I wanted to jump out of my seat and cry,

          “Give them hell boys”-KA

          Ahahahahaha ahahahaha I split a gut on that one,

          Reminds me of Celine in his book ‘Nord’ writing in his darkly comic style about Wehrmacht troops fighting the allies in France in 1944 — Celine being a Frenchman & WW1 veteran who nevertheless was sympathetic to Germany.

          • KesaAnna September 14, 2022 at 9:10 pm #

            The movie is ,

            ” Invasion Day ”

            Or ,

            ” 9th April. “

        • PeteAtomic September 14, 2022 at 9:26 pm #

          Many, if not most Euro nations had bicycle troops during WWII

          They were used as recon elements

      • MaryQueen September 14, 2022 at 7:53 pm #

        I love biking around here in the ‘burbs of Boise. It’s awesome. Tons of bike paths and as you say big wide streets with bike lanes.

        • BackRowHeckler September 14, 2022 at 8:08 pm #

          Does anybody still ride horses around there, not in the city but in surrounding countryside? It is the wild west after all.

          • MaryQueen September 14, 2022 at 9:15 pm #

            Oh sure, but I don’t get out into the countryside much (I should). It’s amazing how many people all around the country still ride horses. I’d see people in LA proper riding them (mostly in Burbank).

          • GreenAlba September 15, 2022 at 12:03 pm #

            brh

            Talking of horses in the city, there’s a 90s Irish film called ‘Into the West’ where two young boys bring a horse into their block of flats using the lift!

            youtube.com/watch?v=JHcMIXxkn3M

  94. tucsonspur September 14, 2022 at 6:42 pm #

    About six months ago, I said that Putin stepped in it. I did not say that he had no reason to invade Ukraine, he had more than enough reason to do so. But he still stepped in it.

    It wasn’t hard to figure out the response of the West and that a huge amount of help would be going to Ukraine. Whether it’s virtue signaling, distraction, financial fortunes or whatever, fighting Putin was the way to go.

    Russian criticism against Putin, the military, and the war is growing considerably, and he is currently not in a good position on the war ‘games’ chessboard, so talk of a highly escalated war by Russian military personnel is increasing. The nuclear threat continues to grow.

    How long can Putin drag this out before some in the Kremlin decide that it’s time to pull Putin’s plug? Putin must find a way soon to declare ‘victory’.

    Can you imagine the horror of a gloating, beaming Biden saying that he defeated Putin?

    • KesaAnna September 14, 2022 at 7:28 pm #

      “Can you imagine the horror of a gloating, beaming Biden saying that he defeated Putin? ”

      Granted , the 1990’s are now 20 – 30 years ago.

      But I reckon that still leaves a rather large number of Russians who remember the Biden Era. ( so to speak )

      Then again , precisely because the Berlin Wall fell 30 years ago ,

      as undeniably good as Hollywood and Madison Avenue propaganda is ,

      The Russians have had 30 years to learn there is a hell of a lot of fine print in the pretty picture.

    • MaryQueen September 14, 2022 at 7:53 pm #

      Putin isn’t dragging it out.

      The US & UK are behind it all.

      Blame them.

      • tucsonspur September 14, 2022 at 8:15 pm #

        Carry on or continue would have been better. Be that as it may, the ice under his feet is getting thinner.

        • KesaAnna September 14, 2022 at 8:22 pm #

          OK.

          They have to be fought sooner or later .

          Name a date , and why.

          I’m all ears.

          • tucsonspur September 14, 2022 at 9:14 pm #

            I’m not sure what you mean Kesa, we are fighting them now.

            I hope that Putin isn’t crazy enough to force a direct confrontation with the US and NATO.

            Longer term, I don’t know if it will happen with China in the picture. China may want to devour the Great Bear by sometime around 2050.

            Tell me, what’s Putin’s next move? Is he yanked before the end of Biden’s term?

            I wait with bated breath.

          • Disaffected September 14, 2022 at 9:55 pm #

            LOL! “The US and NATO.” As if there’s any difference.

            I’m guessing Putin’s not “crazy” in the least and he can’t wait until “the US and NATO” double down with a direct confrontation against Russia. It will be the last one they ever provoke.

            Why in the world do you think they’ve been holding off for this long? Because they’d LOSE bigly, and even their Nancy-boy, gender-bending generals know it.

        • MaryQueen September 14, 2022 at 9:06 pm #

          So, he should just allow NATO to set up military bases on his doorstep?

          Explain your homework, please.

          • tucsonspur September 15, 2022 at 2:44 am #

            If that is to me, MQ, reread my post at 6:42. No, he should not allow it.

            Dis, what’s to laugh about? Just because the US is the main player, there still is a difference concerning any number of factors involving NATO nations.

            Crazy, desperate, whatever. The US doesn’t have to double down, the Ukrainians are grinding it out and will continue to do so with the aid of US arms and intelligence.

            He can’t wait for a direct confrontation against Russia? Well, if that’s the case somebody better pull his plug sooner rather than later.

            A lot of reasons for ‘holding off’, Dis.

        • MaryQueen September 14, 2022 at 9:07 pm #

          Also, I see him as heroic trying to rid Ukraine of the Azov nazi hordes that have been – backed by the US – bombing and terrorizing people in Donbass since 2014.

    • Jarek September 15, 2022 at 3:27 am #

      So what should he have done? They were massing for an invasion of the Donbass, a reverse Barbarossa. Like Hitler, he attacked first.

      The criminal regime in the Ukraine has to go. It’s as simple as that.

    • Woodchuck September 15, 2022 at 8:09 am #

      Napoleon tried it. Hitler tried it, and now we’re trying. We will fail as well.

      Winter may put a stake in the heart of Europe this time around, just as it was a major factor in sending the the Nazi invaders back home some 80 years ago. For the people who can read and are aware, the earth isn’t getting warmer, it’s cooling instead, and Europe may get hammered with a horrifying winter resulting in a very large pile of dead people. This might help greatly in stopping their global warming delusions as well as cooling off the desires for warfare. They might be too busy burying their dead…….

      • beantownbill. September 15, 2022 at 11:46 am #

        Facts to prove the Earth is cooling? I’d like to read them.

    • Redneck Liberal September 15, 2022 at 9:03 pm #

      “Can you imagine the horror of a gloating, beaming Biden saying that he defeated Putin?

      No, I cannot.

      Such would be the words of an egomaniacal idiot, such as FPOTUS “only I can fix it!” Trump.

  95. MaryQueen September 14, 2022 at 8:00 pm #

    I am assuming that the liberal/Dems who post here STILL do not understand that the WHO is now making global laws that all countries have to abide by.

    And they don’t have a problem with this.

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  96. tom clark September 14, 2022 at 8:05 pm #

    All-Amerikan Boy Bret Favre is apparently now in doo-doo for trying to help some folks out using some of the small fortune he amassed as a pro football player.

    And My Pillow guy and fine upstanding Amerikan Mike Lindell has his cell phone seized by the FBI while dining out.

    Love of money corrupts, but love of (too much worthless) money corrupts absolutely.

    Trouble, my friends, right here in River City.

    • Disaffected September 14, 2022 at 9:26 pm #

      Being on the wrong side of the political divide will do that to you.

      Surprised you didn’t mention that as well, lil’ tommy.

  97. KesaAnna September 14, 2022 at 8:18 pm #

    Here’s an idea ;

    Maybe Russia’s recent actions are not in the nature of a last ditch , last stand against WEF / LGBT ?

    Maybe the idea is to bleed you dry ?

    If it’s all resource wars , they seem to have more resources, and widgets too , than you.

    • SoftStarLight September 15, 2022 at 1:49 am #

      I find myself suspecting something similar in this regard. Some say that the West’ strategy is to drain Russia with a prolonged war. But from what I understand the West really doesn’t make anything anymore, however Russia appears to make a whole lot of weapons and the ability to make more and more. And China will be behind them and China makes everything. And all of that before I even consider Scripture and the prophecies of Ezekiel.

      • Jarek September 15, 2022 at 3:32 am #

        They are stronger, economically and militarily. The West realized that – and that China would never really be part of what they were creating – so they understood that they had to attack before they got any stronger.

        Of course subterfuge is a huge part of the attack. There may be elements in China that are pro-Western. There certainly is in Russia.

      • CrusherMuldoon September 15, 2022 at 8:41 am #

        + a google SSL

      • Redneck Liberal September 15, 2022 at 8:57 pm #

        I guess there’s no harm in adding biblical delusions to those you already carry…

  98. tucsonspur September 14, 2022 at 8:40 pm #

    Kari Lake was great on Tucker. DeSantis sends illegal immigrants to Martha’s Vineyard.

    Kari made the point, however. They’re still being moved inward into the country.

    Kari wants troops on the border. One time Obama donor, now a fierce Trump acolyte.

    • SoftStarLight September 14, 2022 at 8:51 pm #

      Kari Lake is awesome! If I lived in Arizona I would definitely volunteer to work on her campaign. She is right. DeSantis and the other Retardicans who think they are doing something just so great by shipping trespassers into the hinterlands are only helping the downfall of America and their legitimizing the desecration of the border. Kari Lake wants to blow up the cartels and militarize the borderland and finish the wall. Betchya DeSantis wouldn’t do it like Trump didn’t.

      • tucsonspur September 14, 2022 at 9:17 pm #

        Right on SSL, right on!

        • tucsonspur September 15, 2022 at 2:05 am #

          It’s no wonder Katie Hobbs refuses to debate her.

          • SoftStarLight September 15, 2022 at 2:35 am #

            I know, that is so crazy! I love how Kari compares it to someone literally not showing up to a job interview and apparently just expecting to be installed without discussion. She’s successfully obliging Katie to reveal that she’s an empty husk and arrogant and entitled. And Kari is so poised and personable with something real to say.

    • Redneck Liberal September 15, 2022 at 8:55 pm #

      How Kari viewed the world when she was a journalist and a sane person:

      “Arizona Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake posted a meme disparaging former President Trump days before he was inaugurated, according to a new report.

      Lake, who has been endorsed by Trump in the state’s gubernatorial race, shared a post on Facebook shortly before Inauguration Day in 2017 asserting that Trump was “Not My President,” Fox News reported on Wednesday.

      “Will you be protesting the inauguration? If so, which of these suggestions will you adopt? Will you boycott TV coverage? Wear black? Donate money to the ACLU, NAACP or Planned Parenthood? Use the hashtag #NotMyPresident? Will you unfollow Donald Trump?” the post read.

      Fox reported that after the outlet contacted Lake’s campaign about the social media post, it was taken down from her Facebook account.

      Yet another example of GOP political hypocrisy…

  99. PeteAtomic September 14, 2022 at 9:21 pm #

    Be very wary of what Western MSM is telling you about the Ukraine war in general, and this current advance east of Kharkov.

    Remember. The MSM had been touting the great “Kherson offensive”. Remember? So, what happened? It failed completely.

    Recall the 4 main objectives, stated from the very beginning of the SMO: 1) demilitarization, 2) de-nazification, 3) recognition of Crimea as a Russian territory, and finally 4) recognition of the Donetsk and Luhansk republics as Russian territory.

    All 4 of these goals are being accomplished.

    The Russian withdrawal to the Oksil river: There were very few Russians in the territory retaken by Ukraine. The reason for this is because the Russians had been in the process of withdrawal behind the Oskil river. The Ukrainians simply followed the Russians out, similarly to what happened around Kiev in the beginning of the war.

    Remember. There is a war on your mind. The western MSM has complete propaganda control of this war. It never gets the Russian perspective. It is solely a pro-Ukrainian one.

    So, if the MSM is telling you that there is serious criticism of the Putin government, what is this really telling you? It’s not what you will expect.

    It isn’t that Putin is weak, or that Russia is running out of ammunition, or men, or any of these things. That’s all nonsense. Up to now, Russia has maintained restraint during this SMO. This may change. The criticism inside Russia, is that there has been too much restraint, and the gloves need to come off.

    If you believe the MSM, and that Ukraine is about to retake Crimea, and the 2 provinces that they’ve largely lost, you’re being fooled.

    On the contrary, a full-time destruction of the Ukrainian state may now occur, which until this point hasn’t been touched.

    • Disaffected September 14, 2022 at 9:47 pm #

      You mean that Ukraine – “led by” a professional TV actor and hand-picked US lackey – is not about to conquer all of Russia and reduce Vlad Putin to a whimpering, sniveling dog on a leash to “the Joe Biden?”

      I’m shocked that anyone could possibly doubt our above reproach MSM! You must be one of them “commie sympathizers” I’ve heard so much about.

    • tucsonspur September 15, 2022 at 3:17 am #

      There is more than the MSM. There is the world media. Is it all MSM? I doubt it.

      Yes, some in Russia are calling for escalation of the war precisely because of the recent setbacks. Telegram is ablaze with negative comments on the Russian military and the war in general and on Putin himself.

      The Russians haven’t wanted the full destruction of Ukraine and its infrastructure up until now for good reason. Sure, I guess they could take down the grid, etc., maybe kill millions. Then what?

      • Jarek September 15, 2022 at 3:36 am #

        Then they would have destroyed a most evil regime and saved themselves in the process.

        The price is high. If they aren’t willing to pay, then the West will win.

        • Redneck Liberal September 15, 2022 at 9:45 am #

          TS is right. Russia would pay the price, after they’ve destroyed Ukraine. They’d “win” exactly nothing.

          • MaryQueen September 15, 2022 at 9:59 pm #

            The reason Russia doesn’t just mow over Ukraine is because they don’t see any reason to kill civilians or damage infrastructure.

            That’s why it’s taking a long time.

  100. MaryQueen September 14, 2022 at 9:25 pm #

    GreenAlba: Do you have any info on the huge meteor that was spotted over Scotland last night? Just saw some video footage on Telegram. Wow!

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  101. tom clark September 14, 2022 at 9:33 pm #

    Kari Lake is enigmatic, at best. I wouldn’t pay her no mind, and would go my own way. Just sayin’

    • Disaffected September 14, 2022 at 9:40 pm #

      Translation: you have no desire to jump her bones. Got ya.

      • MaryQueen September 14, 2022 at 10:57 pm #

        Good for Tom.

        • Jarek September 15, 2022 at 3:38 am #

          Yeah, men who are attracted to women are the lowest of the low.

          • Night Owl September 15, 2022 at 4:19 am #

            You have nearly gone full OG.

            There is still time to stop.

          • Jarek September 15, 2022 at 12:37 pm #

            Yeah, because Mary is a balanced, normal woman, right?

            The real mystery is guys like you who enable such women. Some kind of mommy syndrome – for women who would find motherhood abhorrent?

          • MaryQueen September 15, 2022 at 6:25 pm #

            He’s surpassed OG by resorting to the “c” word.

          • Soul Forensics September 15, 2022 at 8:11 pm #

            Ah, the scary “c” word. Just like the “n” word that no one now can utter without complete condemnation and ostracization. Genuflecting to the Woke mob.

            Of course you mean “cunt”. Do you even bat an eye when many women (or men) call men “pricks” or “dickheads”? Do you do so yourself? Do the Woke, or feminists, demand that we only use the “p” word instead, or the “c” word for “cock”?

          • MaryQueen September 15, 2022 at 9:51 pm #

            SSL, I had no idea that you like to toss around “cunt” and “nigger” – what a class act! So now it’s “Woke” if I prefer not to use those terms? Interesting.

            Maybe also find an example of me calling anyone a “dickhead”.

            Thanks!

          • MaryQueen September 15, 2022 at 9:55 pm #

            Where on God’s green earth did Jarek get the idea I find motherhood abhorrent?

            What an absolute nutter.

            Totally supportive of motherhood more than almost everything else I advocate for. That’s the number one reason I fight the trans scourge, to protect the kids.

            You can’t possibly have missed that, Jarek. So again: Making shit up that is the opposite of the truth, just like the Democraps and Wokies and TRAs do. Welcome to their club!

          • MaryQueen September 15, 2022 at 9:58 pm #

            Sorry, SF not SSL.

      • Islander September 15, 2022 at 6:44 am #

        Speaking of bone jumping,

        I am pretty sure that Gonzalo Lira referred to the Finnish PM as being “really bangable, really bangable.”

        My comment on this at The Saker was “moderated”—even though it was just a PS to my piercing and relevant comments regarding European civilization!

        • Jarek September 15, 2022 at 12:39 pm #

          What a monster. He wants to do terrible things to the Party Girl!

        • MaryQueen September 15, 2022 at 6:26 pm #

          I can’t stand that creep. Even if he is good about updating us on Russia.

  102. tom clark September 14, 2022 at 9:59 pm #

    Dis…there is no way I could “jump her bones” even if I wanted to, and you are an asshole.

    Luv, Lil Tommy

    • Woodchuck September 15, 2022 at 12:06 am #

      tc says there’s no way he could do any bone jumping it even if he wanted to. Sorry to hear that tc, have you seen a physician about your e d? They can help sometimes……just sayin’

    • Disaffected September 15, 2022 at 9:19 am #

      Well yeah, but am I a gigantic GAPING asshole?

  103. Redneck Liberal September 14, 2022 at 10:05 pm #

    “Busybody Theocrats!”

    youtube.com/watch?v=eu-cTGSc8H8

    • SoftStarLight September 15, 2022 at 2:22 am #

      I’m gonna try to be nice. Jesus please help me!! So what is super hilarious is that this man thinks Jaime Raskin’s thespianic tirade is some sort of indication that he and Democrats care about the American people. When in reality it once again is really all about Ukraine and war. I couldn’t get too far because it was like a show. And your boy is stoned and low energy. Stop it.

      P.S. Lindsey Graham and Jaime Raskin are besties laughing all the way to bank after another day of entertaining you. Think about it long enough and be honest with yourself and you’ll see crisp and clear. I know you won’t.

    • Anthea September 16, 2022 at 5:02 am #

      I think RL is starting to out himself, in that his real beef with MAGA/conservatives is Christianity. He finds it unacceptable–indeed horrifying–that conservatives might propose banning baby-killing.

      I don’t recall that RL has expressed explicit support for other profoundly evil and immoral practices–which, by the way, have always been viewed as abhorrent in every civilized society down through the ages–but it appears that his objection to moral constraints of any kind is the primary reason why he supports liberal ideology.

      Of course, once one chooses liberal ideology, it is a given that you have to go along with all the rest of their crap, re Ukraine, covid and the vax, Obamacare, socialism, Russia and Putin, economic policy, etc.–whether these positions are defenisible, or even regardless of whether they make any sense. Your loyalty to the LGBT baby-killing faction demands your loyalty to the causes of senseless wars, child molesting, money-laundering politicians, destructive covid policies, forced vaccination–or, to perhaps be more brief, loyalty to the boot-on-the-neck form of governance.

      But that’s just part of the price you have to pay, if you want a government that will allow you to kill your kids, marry persons of the same sex, and molest your dog. You know, the really IMPORTANT things.

  104. KesaAnna September 15, 2022 at 2:13 am #

    ” They have to be fought sooner or later ”

    — Kesa Anna

    ” They ” is the kleptocrats of the West enslaving and driving into poverty the rest of the world.

    ” I’m not sure what you mean Kesa, we are fighting them now. ”

    Yes , I’m well aware that you are fighting us now.

    It really, strictly speaking , has nothing to do with Ukraine.

    You want us dead , or enslaved.

    I never for one second believed your heart bled for us.

    ” I hope that Putin isn’t crazy enough to force a direct confrontation with the US and NATO.

    The US and NATO has already been crazy enough to force a direct confrontation with , well , actually most of the world.

    As I said , you want us dead or enslaved.

    Putin really would be dumb if at this point your threats were any more meaningful to him than they are to me.

    Lol , it reminds me of a scene in the movie , Breaker Morant ,

    A soldier has been charged with murder , and speaks his mind in court , the Judge warns him not to speak contemptuously to the court or he might get himself in serious trouble.

    He laughs , ” how much more serious could things be ? ”

    Nice attempt at a fake – out though.

  105. KesaAnna September 15, 2022 at 2:29 am #

    Kharkov offensive ?

    Oh , the United States Mercenary lackies took Izum !

    Izum = that’s like New York City !

    We knew the attack was coming weeks ago ,

    Pro – Russian civilians were evacuated weeks ago.

    The Russian withdrawal looks a lot more like mobile defense than a bug – out.

    Casualties on the Russian side were negligible.

    Meanwhile , we knocked out power to pretty much all Eastern Ukraine easily enough.

    My only beef with Putin , personally, is I would like the lights turned off in Kiev.

    Which clearly we could easily do.

    Luckily the Russian Ministry of Defense is more patient , less emotive than I .

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  106. KesaAnna September 15, 2022 at 2:55 am #

    ” Be very wary of what Western MSM is telling you about the Ukraine war in general, and this current advance east of Kharkov.”

    Yes , this is the MSM that told you that off – shoring would be to your advantage,

    that AIDS was a general problem, not a fag – specific disease.

    ( have all you heterosexuals died yet ? It’s only been 40 fucking years now. Tick tock , tick tock )

    that you are in the midst of a pandemic.

    ( Lol , don’t everyone die at once !!! )

    War ?

    Well , that your surrogates got stopped cold in Lebanon never made it past page 14.

    Iraq , Afghanistan, Libya , and Syria were great successes—- until they got banished to page 14.

    The list goes on , and on.

    Langley – Disney’s secret sauce is not that they lie a little expertly ,

    But lie totally, hugely and vulgarly.

  107. KesaAnna September 15, 2022 at 2:58 am #

    ” Remember. The MSM had been touting the great “Kherson offensive”. Remember? So, what happened? It failed completely. ”

    BINGO !

    • Night Owl September 15, 2022 at 4:12 am #

      Baghdad Bob redux, only on a broader scale.

      The Russkies have accomplished most of what they needed to. What we are waiting for now is to see how far the globocap nutters are going to go in order to save face in losing their vassal state.

      Ukraine is not a country at present (in the sense that it is autonomous and sovereign), so all that remains is the gnashing of teeth and the final carve-up.

      • Islander September 15, 2022 at 6:39 am #

        “the final carve-up.”

        And very likely no clean-up.

        At this point probably only Russia could even contemplate being able to afford it.

        At some point in the future it might make sense to do a total upgrade of the infrastructure and install the most advanced technologies.

        Kind of like in Germany after the destruction of WW2. At least, in the West. Can’t speak for the East.

        • Night Owl September 15, 2022 at 11:24 am #

          That depends. Ukraine was already a test bed for digital IDs and other globocap projects.

          I am still unsure as to what Russia’s path is going to be. Putin speaks openly for sovereignty and a multi-polar world, but there is also evidence that they are implementing some of the same technologies so many of us are fighting against.

          None of the actors in this scenario are truly trustworthy, but I do think it is good that Ukraine as we have known it since the Maidan Coup in 2014 will cease to exist.

      • Redneck Liberal September 15, 2022 at 9:42 am #

        “Trump will be your President.”
        -Night Owl, Jan 3rd, 2021

        Great track record in speculative fiction, there, boho.

  108. KesaAnna September 15, 2022 at 3:01 am #

    ” The criticism inside Russia, is that there has been too much restraint, and the gloves need to come off. ”

    FUCKIN’ A !!!

    • Jarek September 15, 2022 at 3:42 am #

      The Russians are the Nazis now, not those uniformed clowns in Ukraine.

      We want action!

    • BackRowHeckler September 15, 2022 at 5:57 am #

      Truthfully I think the gloves are coming off. Russia is knocking out Ukraine’s electrical grid with cruise missiles, leaving about 1/2 of Ukraine in the dark. A few days ago more cruise missiles hit a hydro electric dam in Zelensky’s home town, breaching the dam and flooding the city.

      As I said before this war will get worse the longer it lasts. There is even talk coming out of Russia of a formal Declaration of War against Ukraine. Putin’s quip “We haven’t even begun yet” doesn’t bode well for the future of Ukraine.

      • CrusherMuldoon September 15, 2022 at 8:37 am #

        The phrase “the gloves are coming off” is exceedingly apt, Marlin, because they WERE on tighter than the ones that” did not fit so you must acquit”

      • Jarek September 15, 2022 at 1:03 pm #

        Thank you, Sweet Mountain Jesus. And blessings to your servant, Vladimir, and your messenger, BRH.

        The blood of Dugina cries up from the ground for vengeance. Surely her cry is being heard.

        Do I remember lots of snow on the ground from the early war footage? Wind and weather will do much of his work for him. Make an example of them. Put the fear of God into the Party Girl in Finland and the rest of the hags who control Northern Europe. They face a Man now, not a soy boy cuck.

  109. tucsonspur September 15, 2022 at 3:26 am #

    The nukes continue to salivate in their silos. They wait, poised and patient with their prodigious lethality.

    • BackRowHeckler September 15, 2022 at 6:00 am #

      Medvedev referred to that exact thing yesterday, threatening to ‘melt the concrete’ around academic think tanks in the west.

    • BackRowHeckler September 15, 2022 at 6:02 am #

      And I’m not really Pro Russian; I’m just saying we are playing with fire.

      • CrusherMuldoon September 15, 2022 at 8:39 am #

        Marlin scores again. Look what’s happening in Europe. The Russians will retaliate unless they’re content to have the US send its billions down another rat hole.

      • Jarek September 15, 2022 at 1:05 pm #

        This is your chance to get it right. Your entire family line has been on the wrong side of wars starting with the War of Northern Invasion.

        Not at the expense of our Nation of course. America first, always.

    • Islander September 15, 2022 at 6:36 am #

      Tucson gets an A for alliteration.

  110. Islander September 15, 2022 at 6:57 am #

    Watched the Corona Ausschuss segment with Peter Breggin, hosted by Viviane Fischer and Reiner Fuellmich.

    I smelled a rat as soon as Malone started talking about “mass formation” on Joe Rogin’s show.

    I think I wrote that here.

    Now I really smell a rat. I don’t agree with all of Breggin’s interpretations of history, I think he is spot on when it comes to what is wrong with Desmet and his theory.

    Malone is popularizing Desmet and his theory.

    And, they have an agenda, says Breggin. IMO he has made his case.

    This theory directs attention AWAY from the perpetrators of the hell we have been experiencing and that is prepared for us in the future.

    What is Malone doing there? Trying to seize control of “the resistance”?

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    • GreenAlba September 15, 2022 at 7:36 am #

      I also listened to Desmet’s response, which, although a little tedious (he has the disadvantage of English not being his first language) was at least fairly short.

      I was very impressed by Breggin (I already have their covid book, but hadn’t seen him before). I’m not sure either way if Desmet is deliberately muddying the waters or if he’s just an airy-fairy academic with a pet theory.

      One thing I noticed in Desmet’s book (which I haven’t finished), as did Breggin in his first article, is Desmet citing Harari on page 2. The quote he attributes to Harari is so banal, I wonder why he’d bother attributing it to anyone, but he drops Harari’s name in as if he were just another author, rather than a eugenicist, transhumanist psychopath proposiing and approving what he supposedly ‘describes’. And in this latest interview (which was just with Viviane and not Reiner F) he mentioned Harari again, in the context of his ‘describing transhumanism’. Harari doesn’t just ‘describe’ transhumanism, he promotes it as the best thing since sliced bread.

      Re Malone, I don’t know. Mark Crispin Miller seems to have good judgement, following a lifetime of critical reading and watching, and he reckons Malone is kosher, despite accusations of being controlled opposition. Also Malone has instigated and put on his website a grid with all the WEF plants in institutions around the world, with the intention that people should expose them and get them out of their positions. So he may just have been carried away by the pet theory too.

      • Night Owl September 15, 2022 at 7:53 am #

        I have always found him a little weird, and never really put much stock in his explanation.

        CJ Hopkins goes after him in his piece this week on Substack. I agree with much of what he wrote, but I am not convinced he is a threat of any sort.

        I think he tries to maintain a degree of mainstream credibility, which these days means that you are dealing with a person who will never get to the truth of the matter. I put people like Caitlin Johnstone in the same category.

        They have slowly accepted the truth over time, but are simply too afraid to go beyond a certain point until it is socially safe to do so.

        Malone is not in Desmet’s boat though, I agree there. He has done good work in informing the public of the WEF and its plans.

        • Islander September 15, 2022 at 8:39 am #

          Re Malone, he should stay away from a subject he does not understand.

          He is a scientist. The longer he hangs out with Desmet the longer he looks like—in that contact—a useful idiot who doesn’t get that he is in fact carrying water for those whom he has previously identified as dangerous adversaries (you say).

          As I have noted elsewhere and here, everyone thinks he is an expert on the Third Reich.

          Again, it is frustrating to hear the discussion turn to the implementation of a totalitarian system in the Third Reich with no mention of Gleichschaltung. At least Viviane and Reiner must grasp the centrality of the veyr coordinated and quickly executed program (by Wilhelm Frick). Which was enforced by very real threats.

          I found Viviane’s “Can’t we all just get along” comments sweet but kind of annoying—perhaps also there a language difficulty, but as soon as she brought Trump into it, I got quite annoyed! Not this again!
          Glad that Reiner quashed that line of thinking. Breggin has been fighting this battle against the misuse of psychiatry and various psychiatric “tools” all his life. I think he is reight, and brave, to call out the constant Trumpfuckery—I think he is probably right that the reason “they” go after Trump is because he stated his position as an antiglobalist.

          Also, surprised that the use of psychiatry to sideline and institutionalize dissidents by the Soviet regime was little discussed (see recent book on this subject by Peter Meddaway). Although Breggin did touch on it. But it could have been more forceful. I copyedited a book by Breggin and I know a fair amount about his work and career. He is indeed the conscience of psychiatry.

          Recall the articles in the NYT that suggested that those who questioned the Russiagate fairy tale had a personality disorder of some kind. Time to call this BS out. Truth seeking is not a personality disorder or paranoia!

          I think pushback on Malone is called for, for him to separate himself from Desmet and concentrate on his field of expertise and stop muddying the waters and causing dissension.. It may be a ego problem with him

          • Islander September 15, 2022 at 9:05 am #

            PS
            The point of totalitarianism is total control

            That is the “total” in the word.

            That was the point of Gleichschaltung. It was a very quickly executed “coordination.”This is the principal similarity with the covid operation, and why Hopkins called it out as Gleichschaltung 2.0—the speed with which every individual, every institution, was on the same page and delivering the same message. This is not possible without planning.

            How can Desmet miss this?
            Why doesn’t Malone get this?

          • Night Owl September 15, 2022 at 9:41 am #

            The concept of Gleichschaltung was little more than scared people getting in line to ensure that they weren’t singled out.

            They knew what would happen to critics or anyone who stood in the way.

            The Covid Hoaxers tried the same thing, and it worked on many, but the big difference is that the current effort to construct a totalitarian society is dependent upon the need to maintain the fascade of democracy or to a lesser degree a free society.

            The mass formation is little more than scared and often weak individuals doing as they are told, in the hopes that they will be spared the wrath of those telling them what to do.

        • Islander September 15, 2022 at 9:13 am #

          NO:
          In this post of yours, does “he” mean Desmet or Malone?

      • Islander September 15, 2022 at 2:16 pm #

        Hi, GA,

        I am with Hopkins on this. A number of commenters suggest the two —or Breggin and Desmet—sitting down to “iron out their differences” or some such.

        Why should either man do this?

        I just gives further scope to Desmet, and I have to say that I think Desmet is there to cause trouble.

        IMO there is a big difference between hammering the world’s people with the carrot and stick f nonstop propaganda and “incentives” (remember the pizza offerings etc. in NYC) and threats and hypnosis. That latter is a special mental state, a trance. I don’t think the covid psy-op put pepole were in a trance. They were given a sudden wall fo information about masks, social distancing, lockdowns, and then, vaccines (the solution!!). They tried to comply because the had been told of the danger, and also that this was good citizenship.

        A subgroup of citizens enjoyed getting a new role as enforcers of the new norm to the rest of the citizens, via shaming etc. This also occurred under the Third Reich. That is why totalitarianism is such a great opportunity for certain personality types. The “new normal” creates opportunities for all kinds of neurotics, including hypochondriacs, to test heir wings in new ways to control those around them .

        IMHO this is where we need to turn the psychologists loose to predicts who will be these enthusiastic little Hitlers in their communities!

        • Islander September 15, 2022 at 2:23 pm #

          “A subgroup of citizens enjoyed getting a new role as enforcers of the new norm to the rest of the citizens, via shaming etc. This also occurred under the Third Reich. ”

          PS. It has been estimated that a subgroup of only about 1 million enthusiastic Party enforcers at various levels high to low, including “Blockwaerter” (block captains), was needed to keep a population of about 60 million (I think that was the German population) in line via surveillance, broad hints of problems if behavior didn’t change (such as, Make your children join Hitler Youth NOW, failing to say Heil Hitler and give the Sieg Heil salute and greeting), receving info from snitches and acitng on it, reporting malingerers, etc. )

  111. Redneck Liberal September 15, 2022 at 9:01 am #

    Trumpistan caught in yet another lie…ho-hum…I’d provide a link but who of you in Trumpistan would even look at it?

    • JohnAZ September 15, 2022 at 10:23 am #

      I would not bend over and pick up a penny because it is not worth the effort.

      The reason folks might not read your posts is because none of them have any real content.

      Just emotions and opinions with no Data or facts to back them up.

    • benr September 15, 2022 at 6:34 pm #

      It would be like me providing a link to the no agenda podcast or a Dan Bongino podcast you would never click the link and listen to it.
      Why because it would run contrary to everything you think is the truth being told to you by a media who lies non-stop.

      • Redneck Liberal September 15, 2022 at 8:36 pm #

        Yes, benr. That is precisely MY argument too.

  112. Redneck Liberal September 15, 2022 at 9:38 am #

    Truth about what’s happening in Ukraine.

    I’ve provided a link so NHM Man can debunk Timothy Snyder and his perspective…(it’ll be utterly predictable)

    youtu.be/W2l8b4CSXBs

    • JohnAZ September 15, 2022 at 11:22 am #

      If your link does not start in at least 2008, it does not include the corruption that the Obama, Biden mob caused in the eastern part of Ukraine that presaged the lead up to the pre warned Russian invasion.

      Trump got impeached the second time because he wanted Ukraine to investigate the manipulation that Biden, NATO and the WEF were attempting in Ukraine.

      Tens of thousands of war casualties have been caused by Western manipulation in Ukraine. You can blame Trump and Russia both as much as you want, but the blood is on the hands of Biden and his mob, since 2008.

      • Night Owl September 15, 2022 at 11:28 am #

        The Phone Call hearings remain one of the biggest fails in political history.

        Their own witnesses ended up supporting Trump’s story.

        Great days in the CFN comments section.

        • Redneck Liberal September 15, 2022 at 8:37 pm #

          Right. You’re (once again) using the Trumpian “just say the opposite of what really happened, and keep on saying it” trope.

          • benr September 16, 2022 at 7:54 am #

            ROTFLOL

            What YOU don’t like about that is people have caught on to the Democrat and nasty Socialist play book and are now starting to blast them with their own Saul Alinsky playbook.
            Nothing but opposite day when any leftist speaks of truth or beliefs.

        • benr September 16, 2022 at 7:58 am #

          Lest we forget the now infamous video of Biden boasting on a cfr conference about getting a prosecutor fired who was looking into the corruption he and his son were involved in.

          youtube.com/watch?v=azLKK0xTOFI

          Well son of a bitch he got fired!

          Quid pro joe and you endlessly complain about the other guy?

          What are you an absolute idiot?

      • Redneck Liberal September 15, 2022 at 8:39 pm #

        Blah, blah, blah, JohnAZ. History is written by the winners, and (so far) that ain’t you.

        You don’t want to see the reality of how Ukraine is sticking it to Putin, right now? Okay, your call. Enjoy your time with your echo-chamber buddies.

  113. JohnAZ September 15, 2022 at 10:19 am #

    Not George T

    Saw your post, ha!

    Biden, today, again asserts there is no problems with inflation as he visits GM in Detroit telling all the lately laid off workers that the future is all the EVs being produced. Good optics, idiot.

    This AM, he is claiming credit for putting through a deal with the Railroad folks. Hopefully, if the city folks want their supplies.

    I posted yesterday, IMHO, that Biden and the Mob seem to have passed a point where they are doing whatever they want with no fear of retribution. Do they know something?

  114. JohnAZ September 15, 2022 at 10:26 am #

    Hunter is in Dutch again, telling the court he cannot afford the child support payment for his illegitimate little girl.

    This man is pondscum and is a good representative of the Biden Mob.

    • BackRowHeckler September 15, 2022 at 12:57 pm #

      Wait a minute. What about the great art he has been churning out and selling to unknown buyers for $500,000 per masterpiece?

      • benr September 15, 2022 at 6:31 pm #

        Come on he has to kick up a vig to the big guy!
        How could he possibly afford to pay his crack addicted baby momma?

      • MaryQueen September 15, 2022 at 6:32 pm #

        It probably went for coke ‘n’ hookers.

  115. GreenAlba September 15, 2022 at 10:30 am #

    @Slugoon

    We mentioned (or rather I did) Professor Norman Fenton the other day (mathematician, Prof. of Risk Analysis or something similar at Queen Mary University, London; much attacked for speaking out about the government’s covid and vaxx statistics, as well as the real risk from both covid and vaxx to different cohorts).

    There’s a really excellent interview posted just today on UKC between him and David Scott, if you’re interested, given that you’re following the stats fairly closely. It was live today, so I presume it’s on the Home page by now.

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    • GreenAlba September 15, 2022 at 10:32 am #

      Professor Fenton is fantastic – down do earth and not at all professorial!

    • Slugoon September 15, 2022 at 10:33 pm #

      Thank you GA. I’ll have some quiet time tomorrow, and will watch/listen.

      (I added an Oxford comma for the benefit of everyone here >:)

  116. Night Owl September 15, 2022 at 10:35 am #

    Another pre-pandemic “tabletop exercise” has surfaced, similar to Event 201 and the SPARS exercise.

    This is not as detailed as the others (was a one-day event, AFAICT), but slide 66 is quite interesting, given that it discusses “vaccines” being produced at record speeds that far exceed what is possible when safety regulations and proper trials are involved (months, not years).

    Also discusses target groups, responses, overwhelmed hospitals, government crackdowns/violance, governmental collapse, plans for military involvement, etc., and most of it aligns with the Covid Hoax script.

    Also interesting is that may of the same groups are involved as with the other simulations. Open Society and WEF linked individuals, Johns Hopkins CFHS, etc.

    I particularly enjoyed “Azaelea Pharmaceuticals” Just another piece of evidence to add to the file.

    https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/our-work/exercises/2018_clade_x_exercise/pdfs/Clade-X-exercise-presentation-slides.pdf

    • Night Owl September 15, 2022 at 10:35 am #

      “violence” 🙂

    • GreenAlba September 15, 2022 at 10:44 am #

      Thanks, NO. Gone into the ‘war gaming’ folder for later reading! I’ll check out CJH first.

      • Night Owl September 15, 2022 at 11:26 am #

        Must be pretty thick by now…

        • GreenAlba September 15, 2022 at 11:50 am #

          Yep! Just read CJ’s piece – that was almost more of a demolition job than Breggin’s. And the comments section is very lively about it, so I’ll need to go back later as there were over 800 comments!

          Interesting about the fibs regarding open heart surgery under hypnosis. I didn’t know about that. I remember reading about the Chinese authorities under Mao denigrating ‘western’ anaesthetics and obliging many people to have surgery with acupuncture only. Denying it worked consistently made you an evil western imperialist.

          • JohnAZ September 15, 2022 at 12:41 pm #

            Once in a while you hear a story about someone waking up from the anesthetic but still under the paralysis agent.

            I cannot think of anything scarier.

            When I was a kid, a dental fad came through saying that loud noise through headphones would offset the pain during fillings. The dentist handed you a set of headphones and a switch.

            It did not help one bit. Give me novacaine.

          • Jarek September 15, 2022 at 1:09 pm #

            People wake up to hear doctors viciously mocking them. Big secret.

            What a dark world this is.

  117. GreenAlba September 15, 2022 at 10:39 am #

    Well, Liz Truss’ new Health Secretary has obviously got her priorities sorted out. Are NHS staff to start looking honestly at covid jab statistics or making sure they only prescribe drugs that are properly tested?

    Er, no – NHS staff have been advised to stop using the Oxford comma and to sound positive. Whew, what a relief. I thought the NHS and its raison d’etre were falling apart.

    msn.com/en-gb/money/other/therese-coffey-tells-health-workers-to-stop-using-oxford-comma/ar-AA11Rdut?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=581899b8107f4a27a92ed3528e6d96bc

    • JohnAZ September 15, 2022 at 11:01 am #

      GA

      The PTB will not do anything to track adverse effects of the vaxx, they cannot. The entire NWO is potentially at risk right now if the truth came out.

      BTW, word on the street is that the testing on the omicron vaxx was done on eight mice, period. Has anyone heard the same?

      • JohnAZ September 15, 2022 at 11:11 am #

        GA

        That fireball last night has been IDed as space debris according to a source this morning.

        • GreenAlba September 15, 2022 at 11:41 am #

          Ah, thanks, JAZ.

          • GreenAlba September 15, 2022 at 11:42 am #

            Glad it was over west anyway – don’t need that landing on my house!

      • GreenAlba September 15, 2022 at 11:45 am #

        Re vaxx, only heard it on here. I do know from the MHRA UK (meds reg.) that not testing drugs is new normal science. The plan (from MHRA and WHO) is for 100 days from new ‘pandemic’ to vaxx rollout.

        MHRA is an anagram of HARM. 🙂

    • Islander September 15, 2022 at 12:57 pm #

      Banning the Oxford comma is a small step on the way to banning clarity.

      • CrusherMuldoon September 15, 2022 at 5:25 pm #

        “First they came for the Oxford comma…”

      • Night Owl September 15, 2022 at 5:36 pm #

        Was the first thing I thought of, too.

        And given how much misinformation is sure to continue flow from this ministry, it is most fitting.

        There is a photo of this fat slug chomping on a cigar at some WEF gala.

        Need one say more?

        • GreenAlba September 15, 2022 at 9:19 pm #

          She’s a picture, isn’t she? Hard to choose between her and the American one for the right aesthetic for a Health Secretary! Where do they find these people?

  118. JohnAZ September 15, 2022 at 11:09 am #

    Info

    Lindsey Graham is presenting a bill to set the limit for abortions at 15 weeks. Good biology, but I do not think it addresses rape, danger to the mother yet. This bill has the possibility to, with amendments, be the compromise law that the country needs.

    It really needs to be an amendment to the Constitution.

    All the bullying from the Left will not bring back the illicit Roe vs. Wade. It never gave the right by law for unlimited abortion.

    • Jarek September 15, 2022 at 1:18 pm #

      It will satisfy neither side. We have to split from them, John. The Unites States needs to split up. Abortion is just one of the issues bringing us to this.

      Compromise at this point? Think again, please.

    • Islander September 15, 2022 at 4:40 pm #

      It really needs to be an amendment to the Constitution.

      Agree.

  119. BackRowHeckler September 15, 2022 at 1:17 pm #

    GOV DeSANTIS FLIES 2 PLANELOADS OF ILLEGALS INTO MARTHA’S VINEYARD.

    ahahahahaha ahahahaha ahahahahaha

    The media lefty and political upper crust securing their yachts, checking the locks on their 25 room oceanfront ‘Cottages’ and warning their daughters not to stray too far from home — but doing it with a sh#t eating smile on their faces, saying to the world “We have big hearts, we’re down with the struggle too”. Lol.

  120. Jarek September 15, 2022 at 1:22 pm #

    “The” Netherlands. This is to give Q something to gnaw on. He is a gnawer. He must mentally gnaw just as rodents must physically gnaw.

    Nether as in not? Perhaps because much of the land is faux, and really belongs to the sea?

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    • Islander September 15, 2022 at 1:52 pm #

      aka “the Low Countries”

    • SoftStarLight September 15, 2022 at 2:48 pm #

      LOL ok oh that made me laugh. 🙂

      Yes, the Netherlands were borrowed from the sea. The land will be returned to the sea at the appointed time. This has been from time immemorial even before men when the land was a bridge to Britain. And then under the sea again when the ice melted. Nether in this case does relate to the very low elevation of the land which gets even lower than sea level at its extreme.

    • Q. Shtik September 15, 2022 at 3:19 pm #

      “The” Netherlands. This is to give Q something to gnaw on. – Jar

      ===========

      Haha. You say this as if this hasn’t been thoroughly discussed ages ago, as has “The” Philippines.

      • Jarek September 15, 2022 at 3:25 pm #

        Oh? I must have missed that. If so, why did/does “The Ukraine bother you so much?

        • Q. Shtik September 15, 2022 at 4:31 pm #

          If so, why did/does “The Ukraine bother you so much? – Jar

          ============

          Ukraine declared themselves a sovereign nation by a vote of their parliament in 1990. The NYT and other important newspapers who take language seriously explained that “the” became inappropriate for a sovereign nation with known and fixed borders. Ditto for “the” Crimea.

          But now that the current war has called all that into question I no longer harp on “the” Ukraine as I once did.

          You could get a better explanation by writing a letter to the Editor of the NYT.

          Now you should ask me about my beef with people who show their utter misunderstanding of learning curves when they say “we face a steep learning curve.”

          • Night Owl September 15, 2022 at 5:34 pm #

            It was a stylistic choice based on politics, but it is not a hard rule.

            Based on your claim, one could easily argue that the Ukraine has not been a sovereign nation since it became a vassal state in 2014.

  121. cowbell81 September 15, 2022 at 1:41 pm #

    The NBC drama stopped filming immediately after gunfire was exchanged close to the set, Variety first reported.

    The Chicago Police Department confirmed to PEOPLE that a gunman fired shots around 1:45 p.m on Wednesday near the 5900 block of W. Madison St. in Oak Park, Ill. The suspect then fled the scene in a black SUV. No one was struck by the gunfire.

    The incident is currently under investigation, and no one is in custody.

    The Chicago Fire set promptly entered into security protocol on Wednesday and halted production after shots were heard. According to a source close to the series, no one connected to the production was involved or injured.

    Filming will resume Thursday.

    • BackRowHeckler September 15, 2022 at 2:31 pm #

      Chi topped 500 KIA last week. 96% of the casualties, and 100% of the assailants, were distinguished ‘People of Color’. Still got 15 weeks to ramp up the numbers. In all the Indian Wars across the entire West 1847-1898 about 1200 US Soldiers were KIA (just as a way to illustrate the prodigious body count in Chicago)

    • MaryQueen September 15, 2022 at 6:39 pm #

      Between downtown Chicago and Oak Park is the nastiest neighborhood you will ever wish to see. I drove through it by accident once, terrifying.

  122. Soul Forensics September 15, 2022 at 2:02 pm #

    I just waded into the long-winded morass of CJ Hopkins’ anti-Desmet posts, along with a substantial amount of pushback in the comments.

    Desmet is wrong, though Hopkins’ argument doesn’t go deep enough, missing the individual and emotional component, as well as not seeing that those subjected not only act out of self-preservation, but also from a belief that authority itself is all-knowing.

    The issue is actually very simple:

    People are conformists.

    There, I just saved both sides a lot of time and gnashing of teeth.

    The single most important scientific experiment done on this topic was Stanley Milgram’s shocking tests beginning in 1961 and corroborated hundreds of times (by different researchers — the scientific method of replication or falsification conducted to a T), that experiment concluding that the vast majority of people will buckle down to an authority’s demands no matter how flimsy the rationale (in this experiment there wasn’t any rationale given at all!).

    Results over theory.

    I encourage those unfamiliar with the experiment to study it. All will become clear.

    • Jarek September 15, 2022 at 2:10 pm #

      Bravo for your clarity. Before you look for extraordinary answers, look for the ordinary. As in, What is the nature of the ordinary human being?

      Now to throw a bone to the other side. The Elite have been making us weirder and more dysfunctional for a long time. They dictate cultural norms, yes. But it matters what those norms are. They used to be healthy. Now they are anything but since they want us dead and gone.

      • Soul Forensics September 15, 2022 at 2:28 pm #

        An interesting caveat, but to that end, it’s important to remember the date of these seminal experiments — 1961. This was about 4 years before the beginnings of social and spiritual inversion of norms.

        To support your point, it would be fascinating to see if the % of those who went to the maximum and fatal option in the experiment would be increased. I’d conjecture that you’re right, and that the 2 out of 3 aggregate total would be higher, maybe significantly so.

      • Q. Shtik September 15, 2022 at 2:33 pm #

        Before you look for extraordinary answers, look for the ordinary. – Jar

        ============

        Occam’s razor?

        • Jarek September 15, 2022 at 3:35 pm #

          Yes. Or Hannibal Lecter (roughly quoting Marcus Aurelius)

          “Everything you need to find him is there in those pages.”

          “Then tell me how.”

          “First principles, Clarice. Simplicity. Read Marcus Aurelius. Of each particular thing, ask what is it in itself? What is its nature? What does he do, this man you seek?”

          Or, in the book:

          “The Emperor counsels simplicity: First principles Of each particular thing, ask: What is it in itself, in its own constitution? What is its causal nature?”

          Jarek: What is man’s nature as a social being? Hierarchy. To believe in superiors and inferiors and to accept what is given by one’s superiors or by the culture itself via one’s parents, relatives, school, etc.

    • mitchellc September 15, 2022 at 3:18 pm #

      You can go back much further than that.

      How do people relinquish belief in one fantasy only to easily, fervently adopt another? I speak of course about seamless religious transitions, but the process applies equally well to temporal behaviors aka social & cultural norms and organizations.

      Our generation just experienced a period of willful self inflicted penalties, discomfort, alienation and poisonings, yet a time traveler who observed former orthodox Xians praying to Allah the day after the walls fell in Constantinople wouldn’t be surprised in the slightest.

      Once you understand there aren’t any absolutes – other than the eternal life struggle – then you can see how reality is so easily crafted and manipulated.

      Once that realization is fully grasped, you essentially have 2 possible reactions: become sad and depressed that your long held cherished beliefs were nothing more than a figment of your imagination, or …

      (As I’ve said countless times), have that Patton moment when you excitedly exclaim you’ve “read the book”. This is where true freedom resides, to see all clearly without subjunctive interference.

      Once you’ve reached that stage of awareness, you’re ready to revisit the concepts of absolutes concerning the life struggle. Here we’re faced with the objective truths of overshoot, depletion and degradation. No amount of denial, bargaining, or emotional reaction alters this fundamental reality.

      Now wrap up what you know: the ease by which mass manipulation is achieved within the context of these existentional civilization threats. Get the picture yet about what’s goin’ down?

    • KesaAnna September 15, 2022 at 3:20 pm #

      Valid point I think ,

      But I also think there is some mud in the water.

      Like , I was watching one of those horrid Jigsaw horror movies the other day.

      The Jigsaw guy — the movies equivalent of avenging angel —

      gives the two remaining surviving scumbag contestants of his justice – game a choice ;

      There is one gun , one bullet , shoot and kill the other guy , and you win and survive.

      ( actually it was a trick , the gun is rigged to shoot the shooter.

      But then the guy who didn’t grab the gun died anyway from blood loss of a previous injury.

      So they both died anyway. )

      Anyway , this last test clued me in to the fundamental flaw in the whole scheme ,

      Based on my military history studies .

      What does military history have to do with it ?

      Two things —

      Experience ( albeit not laboratory – scientific ) seems to consistently show that even the most sane and virtuous people can go psycho and do terrible things when subjected to extreme pressure.

      The extreme pressure , itself , perforce , gives you a one – sided result.

      There is no normal , in an abnormal environment.

      A guy who runs out , cool as a cucumber, and saves ten people while under machine gun fire one day ,

      Can panic the very next day and run away at the first shot.

      Results can be inconsistent even in the same person.

      Not sure it is actually relevant ( ? ) but I mentioned a few back Oskar Dirlewanger.

      He received the iron cross , the war order of the German cross , and the Knights cross , not just for political reasons or because he was somebody’s buddy.

      No question he was crazy – brave and a fierce warrior.

      But off the battlefield?

      He was a total cringe scumbag.

      Perhaps my all – time favorite comment on psychology comes from another movie ;

      ” A person is not the sum of their psychological parts . “

      • KesaAnna September 15, 2022 at 3:21 pm #

        ^ Grrr , that was in response to Soul Forensics.

      • Soul Forensics September 15, 2022 at 3:58 pm #

        Kesa,

        You make a good point re the inconsistency of bravery, especially so (and this has also been corroborated in other scientific experiments, not just anecdotal battlefield events) as it relates to not having anything to do with character or level of pressure.

        The classic case of the latter is the high-powered exec who browbeats 100 employees and then goes home as a henpecked hubby who can’t carve out a half-hour peace from domestic chores.

        The novelist John Hersey also had an obsessive character study over multiple novels where a bluff-and-tough type (WWII air gunner; ladies man, etc) turns into a quivering mass of jello when actually under fire or extreme antagonism.

        The point of the Milgram experiment is that there was no danger, or even the slightest recrimination, to the subjects who pulled the supposed shock lever to the max, no matter what their decision — it was clearly stated before the experiment that they could quit at any time (with full pay) during the hours long (!) “torture” of the screaming-in-pain plant unseen on the other side of the panel.

    • Sean Coleman September 15, 2022 at 4:35 pm #

      SF
      My understanding of the Milgram Experiment is that its results have been exaggerated. John Waters once set out the argument for me (I think) but I have forgotten. M was a Jew and he was much affected by the H story. Asche was similar and I always found his experiment to be excellent. I assume he was driven by a need to understand how the German people could be led to commit genocide. (Just to be clear, I firmly believe no such thing occurred.l)

      But the third, and most interesting, experiment was the Stanford Prison Experiment from August 1971 where 18 student volutneers set up a pretend prison in the university basement with half acting as prisoners and the others as guards of warders (the English slang for the latter is ‘screw’ by the way). It was called off after only a few days because the guards got out of control because the power went to their heads – ‘give a man a uniform’ etc. At least this is what Zimbardo told the press and, later a Congressional committee.

      In 2013 French sociologist and film maker Thibault Le Texier deceided to make a film about it and when he flew to California (?) he got two shocks. 1 Nobody had ever looked at Philip Zimbardo’s papers in the 40 years since and 2 the experiment was a fraud.

      Unlike the other two Zimbardo was not Jewish (I suppose) but he got the idea from one of his students, David Jaffe (Jewish surname), had conducted a similar experiment not long before in his student dorm. Jaffe persuaded his teacher to repeat it on a bigger scale. The only problem was how they were going to get the guards to act sadistically enough. What?

      Jaffe was taken on as a consultant (he posed as just another of the students) and had a long session with the ‘guards’ just before it started, showing them how to use their clubs, chains and other things. He was praised for his sadistic imagination. Of the 17 rules of behaviour 11 were by him, including making the prisoners stand for 15 minutes naked as punishment and chaining their ankles. Zimbarbo contributed waking them up at 2 and 6.30 every morning to report, putting throns in their blankets and solitary confinement.

      I got this version of the story from a Greek language video by Yannis whassisname, a progressive Cypriot comedian who greatly admires Harari, who got it from a book called Human Nature by a Peter Bregman, a progressive Dutch historian who was invited to Davos 3 or 4 years ago to air his ideas about UBI (ie another useful idiot). I must have listened to it forty times and I still miss some of the details.

      So what was the Stanford Experiment about? According to le Texier, according to Bregman, according to Yannis the right-on comedian, it was all about studying the effects of stressing and depersonalizing people. it was never about the guards but was rather a study of the prisoners. A tale for our times indeed. What I wonder about is where Jaffe got his wierd ideas.

      After all that I have no time to talk about Desmet. Desmet is, simply, perfectly right. Look for the recent video with the German ‘Ausschuss’ with the newly reunited Fischer and Fuellmich and the two participants.

      Breggin declined to appear with Desmet so he gave a separate interview and this is the first two thirds. it has to be seen to be believed, relying heavily on ad hominem and emotional, primitive reasoning. Breggin KOs himself before Desmet even steps into the ring.

      At the start of Desmet’s separate interview they explained to him that they had resisted suggestionss (by whom? one wonders) to only show him part of the earlier interview. Desmet then explains how his position had been completely misrepresented and even adds at the end that there had been an obviously co-ordinated press campaign against him which relied on similar tactics as Breggin. (Breggin saved me time looking it up by stating that he is Jewish. His entire argument appears to be based on the H.)

      • Islander September 15, 2022 at 4:56 pm #

        Breggin’s being Jewish doesn’t cancel his views on Desmet’s thesis. Although, I agree, that some of his motivations stem from his Jewish identity. But no, IMO, his dissection of the actual implicationsin of Desmet’s thinking.

        And of course the passages he read from Desmet’s book are pure Desmet.

        I didn’t need to hear what Breggin had to say before being exceedingly skeptical of Desmet when I first saw him on the Corona Ausschuss. I am on the record on that.

        I applaud Fuellmich for sticking to the business of sticking it to the perps.

      • Soul Forensics September 15, 2022 at 5:42 pm #

        Sean,

        Quite a few separate issues in your detailed post. I’ll do my best to address most of them.

        First, the Milgram experiment, whatever motivation Milgram had (and we must admit that motivation/bias is superseded by actual results when the structure and process of the study is as airtight as was this particular test) is irrelevant and (IMO) speculative.

        The oft-cited criticism that Milgram set out to confirm the Germanic penchant for authoritarian kowtowing is ridiculous on its face. The experiments were first conducted in the U.S., and further corroborated around the world, and across all races, classes, and specific experimental conditions (ghettos, upscale and sequestered lab rooms, makeshift industrial areas).

        The Nazi angle from Milgram’s opponents is political grandstanding. The more banal conclusion one takes from Milgram’s shocking and depressing findings is that most humans have no moral backbone.

        The Stanford Prison Experiment is far inferior to Milgram’s experiment. Its structure was problematic from the outset since those recruited were never told it was an experiment, and the screening process wasn’t strict. To be short here, it invited authoritarian, abusive types. Wanna get paid to lord it over actual criminals? You can imagine how many would’ve signed up, same as the incoming IRS agents.

        That experiment was about about the abuse of authority, the other side of the coin.

        If you want to make Nazi comparisons, Christopher Browning’s excellent Ordinary Men shows that the unemployed policemen, bar owners, construction workers (etc) were just situational Milgram subjects, the terrifying difference being that their actions, of course, were real. As shocking as “the banality of evil” played out there, to me at least, the fictional abuse of the Milgram tests was far more troubling because there was no essential pressure on the ones providing the “shocks”.

        Some critics have said that the test abusers felt uncomfortable, questioned the authority figure, grieved. Good God! Who cares? They pressed the button, without justification or challenge. That one experiment taught me more about human nature than the best poetry, novels, or dour historical facts.

        I will look to the convo you mentioned between Desmet and Fischer and Fuellmich. But just to be concise in a wrap-up at this point: Desmet, it seems to me, explains the Covid “mass psychosis” with isolation leading to fear. That seems facile. Despite the lockdowns, how many were those who succumbed to the propaganda under isolation? Remember, this was long before work from home. So you had fewer contacts with a few friends or strangers out and about. Many people — especially men — aren’t particularly social anyway.

        The most logical explanation about that early “mass formation” time was that people conformed because their TV sets, including the extremely well-respected lockstep pronouncements of doctors (including Fauci) who told them what to believe and what to do.

        In short, and against Desmet, people aren’t tricked into conforming, people ARE conformists. It has nothing to do with circumstances, not essentially. Conformism, for the majority, is their default identity.

        • Islander September 15, 2022 at 5:56 pm #

          “Its structure was problematic from the outset since those recruited were never told it was an experiment, and the screening process wasn’t strict.”

          It wouldn’t be an experiment if participants were told that is was an experiment, seems to me.

          I believe the participants were told that the experiment was about the “victims” not about the “controllers.” So those who were the subject of the experiment thought they were actually conducting the experiment on others.

          It seems to me to be SOP to recruit people for an experiment without telling them that they are the subject of an experiment.

          • Islander September 15, 2022 at 5:59 pm #

            PS I mean the particpants in the Milgram experiment.

          • Soul Forensics September 15, 2022 at 6:09 pm #

            “It wouldn’t be an experiment if participants were told that is was an experiment, seems to me.”

            Milgram’s experiment encompassed detailed protocols in which the the authority figure recruited the subject as well as the one undergoing the shocks (the plant). The difference between it and the Stanford experiment is that the subject in Milgram’s test was told the plant was also a recruit. They each drew lots, one (supposedly) with “teacher” (the subject of the study) on it, the other with “learner” on it. Unbeknownst to the subject, both slips had “teacher” on it, but the “learner” recruit, in on the deception, crumpled up the paper, and the experiment began.

            The subject was led to understand that this was a legitimate exploratory study on the motivation for learning.

            I’m not going to explain the other detailed protocols. If interested, you can research it, since I don’t know how familiar you are with it — if at all.

          • Soul Forensics September 15, 2022 at 6:37 pm #

            Correction, above (can be tricky to explain):

            The “learner”, of course, wasn’t a recruit, but was in on the set-up from the beginning. The authority figure then lied, and told the subject that they were both recruited from the same pool.

          • elysianfield September 15, 2022 at 7:58 pm #

            Islander,
            Remember several months back you were describing the situation in Taiwan, and suggested that there was no solution available to us. Do you remember my response?

            “Give the Japanese, Koreans and Taiwan nuclear weapons, and then slowly back away…” You might have thought my comment in jest…however:

            https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/07/15/us-south-korea-japan-east-asia-nuclear-debates-nonproliferation/

        • Sean Coleman September 16, 2022 at 2:25 am #

          SF., Islander

          You might find the following document that I posted under the video on Bitchute three days ago interesting (title given above in my exchange with GA).

          If E Michael Jones were here (do follow his Bitchute channel) he would say that this argument is, essentially about the Holocaust.

          Bregman here saved me the trouble of checking whether he is Jewish. He knocked himself out before Desmet even stepped into the ring. Played the H card from the start. Since it should be clear to anyone who has done more than glance at the story it is beyond absurd. Bregman’s eagerness to accept it says a lot about his judgment. At the start of Desmet’s interview they tell him (if I remember it right) that it had been proposed that he should not see the whole of Breggin’s interview.

          It looks like Fischer and Fuellmich have overcome their recent differences. He had been suspended from the Ausschuss. It seems that he had infringed Germany’s H laws by somehow linking it with the international financial elite and he got a fine. I say ‘seems’ because the newspaper article was almost unreadable for me. If he had bluntly said it did not happen he would have joined the large number of others who are doing time for that crime.

          So when Fuellmich calls for freedom of speech there is this; angle as well.

          To put it bluntly, Breggin’s tactis hee struck me as typically Jewish, trying to censor the debate, ad hominem, trying to corrupt the interviewers (in a manner of speaking of course as he was just trying to get on their good side), emotional.

          Desmet relies too much on Arendt (yes, at Eichmann’s trial in Jerusalem she did note that very many of the crowd of wintesses who were invited to give general testimony – ie ‘background’ testimony, not against Eichmann – she still failed to notice that the trial was a farce. He also has referred to the Dreyfus Affair (using it in support of his claim that those who avoid the ‘mass formation’ are an eclectic group). I believe it has been shown repeatedly to have been a hoax, most recently and comprehensively by French lawyer Adrien Abauzit. On the other hand Desmet seems to have toned down the Nazi angle of late compared to the Soviet one. Sozhenitsyn showed in his book Two Centuries Together that Communism was a Jewish thing.

          I won’t go into it here but there is at least one other important angle here. i have noticed that other figures in the ‘alternative’ side have been attacked in a similar way to Desmet (and I am still getting my head around his storoy of the media vilifying him in what looks like a co-ordinated way). These included Bryan Ardiss and Lanka, Kaufman and company. [end quote]

          Just to add that I see things somewhat different to Desmet. As readers here might know I have be on about ‘collective fantasy’ here for a few years now. Just to note your reference to the ‘banality of evil’. If Arendt had not been blinded by whatever she ought to have seen that the evil doers looked banal because they had not actually done anything, or certainly not the wahnsinnige Dinge they were supposed to have done. She was in Jersualme covering the Ei’chmann trial and noted that so many of the ‘eye witnesses’ were off the wall and yet could not draw the obvious conclusion.

  123. Q. Shtik September 15, 2022 at 3:08 pm #

    Got another of the innumerable automated calls I receive every day; the voice said “The reason for my call today is that we partner with the top otto insurance companies…”

    Yep, he said otto.

    • Night Owl September 15, 2022 at 6:01 pm #

      That is called an accent, Q.

      We understand that language is not your forté.

      • Q. Shtik September 15, 2022 at 10:16 pm #

        I should have written that I got another of the innumerable ottomated calls I receive every day

      • Q. Shtik September 15, 2022 at 10:44 pm #

        So I was just reading about this film director, producer and actor whose name was Auto Preminger.

  124. KesaAnna September 15, 2022 at 3:30 pm #

    ” I will continue to post and continue to disrupt as long as possible until i get outright banned. ”

    — Softstarlight

    It has long seemed to me that if anyone on CFN is begging for the ban hammer , that person would be me.

    So , for what it is worth , if you did get banned , I would think you got unjustly screwed.

  125. elysianfield September 15, 2022 at 3:34 pm #

    Well, CFN’rs, you are in for it now:

    Newsmax, a site you can trust, has, this AM, reported that Facebook has been monitoring all of it’s members…checking each message for incorrect and impure thoughts… having issues with the 2020 election.

    https://www.newsmax.com/politics/facebook-fbi-spy/2022/09/15/id/1087650/

    I would suggest that those of you who have opinions on the 2020 election are gonna get it now…good and hard.

    Not me, however, as the fibbies know I am one of the good ones….

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    • JohnAZ September 15, 2022 at 4:50 pm #

      ef

      Newsmax has a special out on Sam Giancanna’s life. Partially based on his brother, George’s, book.

      You might see why I call the Biden group the Mob.

      • elysianfield September 15, 2022 at 7:49 pm #

        John,

        Biden group a mob?…Fugetaboutit….

  126. cowbell81 September 15, 2022 at 3:35 pm #

    According to the course catalog on the official school website for University of Kansas, there is a 3-credit humanities course called “HUM 365 Angry White Male Studies.”

    The class is described as: “a course that charts the rise of the ‘angry white male’ in America and Britain since the 1950s.” Students will “explore the deeper sources of this emotional state while evaluating recent manifestations of male anger.”

    “Employing interdisciplinary perspectives, this course examines how both dominant and subordinate masculinities are represented and experienced in cultures undergoing periods of rapid change connected to modernity as well as to rights-based movements of women, people of color, homosexuals and trans individuals.”

    It’s also reported that further questions that will be addressed in the class about angry white males will include: “Where does he come from? What’s he angry about? Is his anger misplaced? Is he blaming the right people? How long has this been going on? Is he a global phenomenon? And how do we move forward?”

    Cowbell comments: I think the same course could be offered for the angry Black male. Why does he shoot and loot so frequently in American cities? Why does he leech on the government and demand handouts? Why doesn’t he pick himself up by the boot straps to take personal accountability and try to make his life and community better?

    • Q. Shtik September 15, 2022 at 3:52 pm #

      Why doesn’t he pick himself up by the boot straps – cowbell

      ==========

      …and why does he continue to speak the horrid Ebonics?

      • cowbell81 September 15, 2022 at 4:14 pm #

        Phonics…..for Ebonics. Is that a thing?

    • Islander September 15, 2022 at 5:37 pm #

      There are plenty of angry Black females, too, believe me.

  127. Amman September 15, 2022 at 3:55 pm #

    GEAB writes what’s coming is 500 Million West Europeans losing their purchasing power. Gradually or instantly.

  128. JohnAZ September 15, 2022 at 4:46 pm #

    Not George T

    Biden update

    The Biden Mob got a settlement between the train companies and the Engineer Unions this AM. Yet to be signed by the rank and file.

    24% raise and increased medical benefits.

    The labor secretary immediately stated that it will not add to inflationary costs at all.

    I do feel so much better.

    He also stated that other unions will not take notice and try to follow on. Whew, a close call.

  129. tom clark September 15, 2022 at 4:50 pm #

    Does anyone on this God forsaken blog ever take a break and walk in the woods?

    Thursday, September 15, 2022…another turn of the crank.

    • benr September 15, 2022 at 6:24 pm #

      Why yes, I walked yesterday around two miles along turkey creek Florida.

      alltrails.com/parks/us/florida/turkey-creek-park/photos

    • KesaAnna September 15, 2022 at 7:11 pm #

      Well , I did spend about 10 hours defending my Russian Army from my Ivory tower on CFN today.

      But then I spent 3 hours pulling weeds and weed – wacking outside ( while dreaming up apologia for the Russian Army ) .

      Does that count ?

      It was a nice day.

      We are getting an early cooling – off in Southern Appalachia.

    • Disaffected September 15, 2022 at 7:14 pm #

      Poor Lil’ Tommy’s feeling blue again.

    • Woodchuck September 15, 2022 at 7:50 pm #

      t c, while you’re out walking in the woods – go jump in the lake! It’s still warm enough…….

    • Anthea September 16, 2022 at 5:45 am #

      @ tom clark:

      Some people are pretty fast typists. Some here have orderly thought processes and an easy command of the English language. Probably most here do not find posting to be laborious or time-consuming.

  130. Q. Shtik September 15, 2022 at 4:59 pm #

    The other day I finished reading a novel titled Rabbit, Run by John Updike and I DO NOT RECOMMEND it to you.

    I found it to be a depressing book with not one of its characters showing any redeeming qualities that would make you actually like them.

    Further, there are many lines of description which, for me, utterly fail at describing what they purport to describe. I would quote an example but I have returned the book to the library. I should have taken some notes.

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    • CrusherMuldoon September 15, 2022 at 5:20 pm #

      “Rabbit is an older and less articulate Holden Caulfield”

    • Soul Forensics September 15, 2022 at 5:52 pm #

      Rabbit, Run is excellent. An even better novel in that tetralogy is Rabbit Is Rich.

      • Soul Forensics September 15, 2022 at 5:55 pm #

        “not one of its characters showing any redeeming qualities that would make you actually like them.”

        This is a frequent argument of 15 year-old girls who can’t “identify” with the protagonist.

        Art — and more specifically here — a novelist’s job is to hold a mirror up to human nature, not to provide a Sunday School lesson.

        • KesaAnna September 15, 2022 at 6:53 pm #

          Never read it .

          But ,
          Lol , sorta reminds me of my number 1 favorite movie of all time ;

          Barry Lyndon

          A common complaint about Barry Lyndon is that while he does have a few good qualities , he is also an asshole.

          And while he has some mildly interesting adventures, his life ultimately ends in conclusively and / or in failure arguably to a large degree because he is a weak character and a general nonentity .

          So his whole story ( and the movie of course ) seems boring , pointless , ultimately meaningless.

          — All of which I would say is true ,

          — or would be true if you take the concept of an afterlife out of the picture.

          • Disaffected September 15, 2022 at 7:12 pm #

            I think that movie would be good on LSD. Very strange.

          • GreenAlba September 15, 2022 at 9:09 pm #

            An old school classmate of mine, not a particular friend, with whom I ended up in the WhatsApp group I’ve mentioned that has lost some folks to post-booster heart attacks, lives in a small village called Burnopfield in County Durham.

            en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burnopfield

            I looked it up out of curiosity one time, having never heard of it, and discovered that it was home to a reprobate called Stoney Bowes (there is, not a million miles away ‘Bowes Museum’, which I visited as a child, and I presume they are the same Bowes as Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, late mother of the late Queen.

            Anyway, it turns out that said Stoney Bowes is the person on whom Thackeray based his character Barry Lyndon, as can be seen from the Wiki page.

            The film has a fantastic sound track.

          • Anthea September 16, 2022 at 6:13 am #

            @ KesaAnna:

            I like the movie Barry Lyndon. Interesting story, good cinematography, and I especially liked the music. I vaguely recall liking the book too.

            In general, I don’t much care for books in which the main character is unsympathetic, or where characterization is generally poor. I also dislike books that are focused on the main character’s mental/emotional/psychological problems. Good examples of this are Catcher in the Rye and Portnoy’s Complaint. Jewish authors, in particular, seem to think it is interesting to be neurotic. (It’s not.)

            I haven’t read any Updike in years, which is probably due to trying to read “Couples,” which was published in 1968 and caused me to swear off Updike for good. As best I can recall, it was about a bunch of people and their neuroses, and none of them were of any interest as people.

            Much modern literature is “sickly,” as opposed to “healthy”–not about life and living, doing and being, but about some pitiable weakling’s neurotic navel-gazing. Yuck.

      • Q. Shtik September 15, 2022 at 11:27 pm #

        Rabbit, Run is excellent. – Soul Fore

        ==========

        To a google question (What is John Updike’s style of writing?) I received this response:

        “Updike’s highly distinctive prose style features a rich, unusual, sometimes arcane vocabulary as conveyed through the eyes of “a wry, intelligent authorial voice” that describes the physical world extravagantly while remaining squarely in the realist tradition.”

        Whatever. I guess “describing the physical world extravagantly” is not my thing.

        • Soul Forensics September 16, 2022 at 12:30 am #

          To each their own, of course.

      • gustafson.robert.22 September 16, 2022 at 12:57 am #

        I enjoyed the Rabbit books and Updike when younger. Updike is critically descriptive of late twentieth century life. I think it was extremely lazy and weak of him to land at no real substantive analysis of the situation of the contemporary world, only an easy and indistinct “spiritual vacuity” critique.

    • Soul Forensics September 15, 2022 at 5:58 pm #

      “there are many lines of description which, for me, utterly fail at describing what they purport to describe.”

      Updike’s descriptive chops are powerful, imaginative, nuanced, and carefully tied in to his vision of nature as eternally dying, even in its beauty.

  131. BackRowHeckler September 15, 2022 at 5:07 pm #

    Its Hispanic Heritage Month gents (Not sure if just in CT or the whole country) Local TV & radio networks, as well as newspapers, are going balls to the wall promoting it; they seem to be actually trying to outdo one another in obsequiousness. One message is this is a good chance for State Residents to “Get in touch with our Hispanic roots” lol. The first Hispanics who came here were Puerto Ricans in the late 1940s to work on tobacco farms. There’s our Hispanic Roots. And come to find out my wife and her sister, with their pureblood Castilian/Basque Heritage, because they are from Europe, are not ‘Celebrated’ as Hispanics lol. Nope, they are considered White oppressors, descendants of the Conquistadors apparently. There might be something else going on here too; I notice that attached to Hispanic Heritage Month hoopla are promotions for WIC, EBT cards, rental assistance, immigration lawyers, voting rights and so on — IOW another Welfare State expansion scheme dressed up as ethnic pride.

    Martha’s Vineyard will be celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month pretty soon too, a Mariachi band playing on Obama’s 80 ft motoryacht. Just a few more plane loads of illegals flown in from Florida should seal the deal.

    • KesaAnna September 15, 2022 at 7:24 pm #

      As I think I have mentioned before , I suspect the signature American cowboy hat and cowboy boots are more of Mexican , than Anglo , origin.

      Granted , it is certainly debatable, but the cowboy hat looks to me more like the Sombrero, than it looks like the slouch hat .

      Cowboy boots maybe didn’t come from Mexico ,

      But at least 90% of the time what they were wearing in the 19th Century Wild West was Jack Boots.

      Indeed , it seems to me that cancel culture started with dress.

      • BackRowHeckler September 15, 2022 at 8:38 pm #

        There was the Stetson Cowboy Hat, which dates to about 1865. It was made out in Danbury, Ct, and I believe is still made to this day.

        But I think you’re correct the sombrero probably came a few hundred years before the Stetson.

        • stelmosfire September 16, 2022 at 8:43 am #

          I’ve got a 5X beaver Stetson purchased in Danbury in ’77. Got it on my way out to Wyoming to work the oil patch. Figured I could be a cowboy. They’re not cheap. Probably a 2-3 hundred at least nowadays. I still wear it. Just had it on yesterday . It’s 45 years old now. I used to wear it plowing snow at the firehouse in the topless ’49 Powerwagon brush truck. . It drove the Chief nuts.

  132. Night Owl September 15, 2022 at 5:38 pm #

    Great new session with CJ Hopkins and Ms. Fitts over at the Corona-Ausschuss website.

    Got a notice for it via CJ’s mailing list today.

    https://tube.solari.com/videos/session-120-morphose-cj-hopkins-catherine-austin-fitts/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

    • Islander September 15, 2022 at 6:31 pm #

      I’ll say this just once because this kind of comment is totally verboten—I shouldn’t even notice this. Very shallow of me. Still . . .

      I find Viviane’s weird hairdo quite distracting.

      There, I said it.

      • Disaffected September 15, 2022 at 7:10 pm #

        She’s the one in that orange mess? Distracting ain’t the half of it.

        • Night Owl September 16, 2022 at 8:52 am #

          Lots of Europeans look like this. It an get bad.

          Then again, most Americans wear clothes that are 3 sizes too big (even when overweight), and of course they sport white socks.

          All countries have their fashion issues.

    • MaryQueen September 15, 2022 at 7:24 pm #

      Thanks.

    • MaryQueen September 15, 2022 at 8:12 pm #

      So maddening, all the stuff they are reporting (again).

  133. Night Owl September 15, 2022 at 5:58 pm #

    “House Majority Leader Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-MD):

    ‘[Republicans] have made it quite clear they want to eliminate what they call the Deep State. The Deep State is a cadre of professionals dedicated to honoring the Constitution and the laws of this country.'”

    https://twitter.com/ColumbiaBugle/status/1570457013297221632?cxt=HHwWgMDQyaeVscsrAAAA

    Hahahahahahahahahahaha!

    • MaryQueen September 15, 2022 at 6:45 pm #

      “Putin has been defeated” – The Telegraph, 3 days ago.

      These people are desperate. Who believes their utter garbage?

      • KesaAnna September 15, 2022 at 8:14 pm #

        The bright side ( ? ) is that it has practically become a , ” Tell ” ;

        At least 85% of the time , whatever they emphatically assert , the truth is the exact opposite.

        It has become downright reliable.

        • MaryQueen September 15, 2022 at 10:37 pm #

          Yes, they love to also accuse us of the stuff they themselves are doing.

      • Night Owl September 16, 2022 at 8:50 am #

        Just invert it and you have the truth.

        As always.

  134. MaryQueen September 15, 2022 at 6:10 pm #

    I posted this last week or the week before, but it was still subscription-only. Now it is available to the public:

    WILLIAM HAPPER ON THERE BEING NO CLIMATE EMERGENCY

    Earth is absolutely fine. There is no crisis, and you’re not changing the temperature.

    https://jermwarfare.com/podcast/william-happer

    • Islander September 15, 2022 at 6:28 pm #

      Thanks!

      I saw this before, and want to listen.

    • BackRowHeckler September 15, 2022 at 7:14 pm #

      Last night, in the town north of here …

      A Tesla bursts into flames on the side of the road.

      The driver said he smelled smoke and pulled over. The Volunteer FD couldn’t put out the fire with the equipment they had; they just let it burn and it burned almost all night …

      LIT UP THE WHOLE AREA LIKE A ROMAN CANDLE LoL.

      • MaryQueen September 15, 2022 at 7:21 pm #

        Wow. No way would I buy one of those even if I had the $$.

      • Soul Forensics September 15, 2022 at 7:54 pm #

        Max Igan (who, depending on the issue, is alternately right on the mark or batshit crazy) has some video clips of Teslas, EV motorbikes, and smart phones bursting into flames without warning, the owners lucky enough to escape burns or death.

        • BackRowHeckler September 15, 2022 at 8:29 pm #

          This Tesla owner had plenty of time to get out of the car and call the FD. Firefighters said the fire was slow burning but white hot, like when magnesium burns. Water was out of the question, and other fire suppression agents they tried apparently made things worse.

          When it comes to EVs, LET IT BURN is the watchword.

        • Woodchuck September 15, 2022 at 9:44 pm #

          Back in the 80’s I remember a local incident that had part of the interstate highway in the area I was living in shut down for three days. An 18 wheeler with lithium in the cargo caught on fire. The fire departments weren’t able to do much about it other than watch and keep people away from it. There were complaints and issues coming from people who didn’t understand that lithium fires are completely different from other fires. Having a lithium fire in a tunnel would be a real nightmare.

  135. KesaAnna September 15, 2022 at 7:00 pm #

    @ Soul Forensics.

    Not sure it is necessary to say this ?

    But I wasn’t disagreeing with you .

    Indeed , Milligram experiment or no Milligram experiment,

    It seems to me commonly observable in ordinary life that people will countenance the most outrageous things from authority WHEN THERE IS NOT EVEN THE HINT OF PRESSURE, MUCH LESS A GUN TO THEIR HEAD.

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    • Disaffected September 15, 2022 at 7:09 pm #

      This is true. Not even authority, necessarily. Countless cases of bystanders standing by and doing nothing during a rape or a beating (or a school shooting) when any one or small group of them could have intervened and stopped it. When asked afterward why, they mostly shrug and simply don’t know. It’s like an invisible hand stopped them. We’re herd animals.

    • Soul Forensics September 15, 2022 at 7:10 pm #

      Kesa,

      Indeed.

    • Islander September 15, 2022 at 9:43 pm #

      “WHEN THERE IS NOT EVEN THE HINT OF PRESSURE, MUCH LESS A GUN TO THEIR HEAD.”

      I think that is because some people love to get an opportunity to be enforcers.

      For another group, compliance with a certain kind of order like the vaxx mandates gives them a sense of meaning, of contributing to a social good greater than themselves.

      I experienced this with a friend who actually told me that she and her whole entourage felt a huge sense of community and commitment when they and their kids had all been vaxxed. They felt they were contributing to a good cause and were striking a blow for the good.

      This is the propaganda working as planned! Following orders makes some people feel good about them selves and even gives their lives more meaning and direction amid the chaos created by those running the psy-op. They are decent people whose sense of social responsibility is HIJACKED and deployed for this crap.

    • MaryQueen September 15, 2022 at 10:06 pm #

      You may enjoy the discussion Night Owl posted above, with Catherine Austin Fitts and CJ Hopkins, with the Corona Auschuss. They talk about all this stuff.

      • Islander September 15, 2022 at 10:59 pm #

        I will watch.

        Just watched the Jerfwarfare interview with William Happer.

        DEE-LIGHTFUL!!!

        Happer is a national treasure. What a sweet, intelligent, and psychologically healthy man. An absolute joy to watch and listen to.

        Jerm did a good interview.

  136. MaryQueen September 15, 2022 at 7:12 pm #

    How did someone manage to run into Zelensky’s motorcade?

    Are they trying to take him out?

    • KesaAnna September 15, 2022 at 7:37 pm #

      I hope not.

      I have some archaic scruples ;

      Assassination is for scumbags.

      As a practical matter , in some cases Assassination can make a martyr out of a scumbag.

      • MaryQueen September 15, 2022 at 8:16 pm #

        Someone predicted his usefulness has expired and he’d be disposed of. I don’t actually care either way, I mean, he’s a deep state installed puppet so he has to pay the piper. Those just don’t usually live long.

        Assassination is horrible, and I agree it’s how scumbags deal with things. But do I care much when the ‘leaders’ at the top off each other?

        I don’t care when mafias rub each other out either.

        • Islander September 15, 2022 at 9:38 pm #

          It would be a pretty big distraction to off him.

          So, probably not a good idea to do this via assassination. Not good for the Russians.

          In fact, I can easily imagine a FF that takes out ze for the purpose of blaming it on the Russkies.

          Best not to go there . . .

          • MaryQueen September 15, 2022 at 10:05 pm #

            All we can do is just sit back and watch the big shit show.

  137. tom clark September 15, 2022 at 10:15 pm #

    How about offing Trump? There ya go, FBI. On my tail, for sure!

  138. GreenAlba September 16, 2022 at 4:55 am #

    ‘World Economic Forum official accuses Canadian politicians of spreading ‘disinformation’ about the group’

    ‘Canada should be talking about a lot of things right now. It shouldn’t really be talking about the World Economic Forum based here in Geneva.’

    lifesitenews.com/news/world-economic-forum-official-accuses-canadian-politicians-of-spreading-disinformation-about-the-group/

    So, Canada, stop saying mean things about your betters, who only want the best for you.

  139. xxzzy999 September 17, 2022 at 1:16 pm #

    The US starting yet another ill-advised war… this time with Russia of all countries…. and now the US is starting another full blown cold war with China….. What Could Go Wrong?

  140. stonned September 18, 2022 at 6:39 pm #

    Anybody out there ever heard of WEIMAR (Germany) ?

    Cause you’re liv’n it goy.

    It’s being RAMMED down your throat and up your butt.

    Enjoy !

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  141. Amman September 18, 2022 at 6:43 pm #

    DEPRAVED_HEART MURDER: Legal term, US LAW
    (see also Depraved-indifference murder.)

    “depraved heart” murder is the form of murder that establishes that the wilful doing of a dangerous and reckless act with wanton indifference to the consequences and perils involved is just as blameworthy, and just as worthy of punishment, when the harmful result ensues AS IS THE express intent to kill itself.

    This highly blameworthy state of mind is not one of mere negligence… It is not merely one even of gross criminal negligence… It involves rather the deliberate perpetration of a knowingly dangerous act with reckless and wanton unconcern and indifference as to whether anyone is harmed or not.

    The common law treats such a state of mind as just as blameworthy, just as anti-social and, therefore, just as truly murderous as the specific intents to kill and to harm.

    Therefore, and so, I conclude “Depraved Indifference” is the Ruler of all.

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