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Posted by: Peter AU1 | Jul 21 2024 1:22 utc | 96
I think win7 was the last microcrap system you could control.
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Controlability vanished somewhere around release 7. I had a release 8 that I could control. But one time, I had to reboot, and they crammed a version of release 10 into my computer before I could stop the boot load. It instantly turned the version of Office that I had paid for into a paid subcription. That essentially stole a few hundred dollars of my property and demanded I pay for the privilege of using their crap on a monthly basis.
So, I wiped the laptop and installed Linux. Fuck microsoft. Incompetent pirates exploiting a monopoly.
Posted by: john brewster | Jul 21 2024 2:18 utc | 101
@ Fred | Jul 21 2024 2:15 utc | 98 with more about the Trump shooter…thanks
To me, there is still not answers to why he was allowed to set up and why did he do it and not say why?
Whatever, the rest of the world is on fire and this will get filed away quickly I expect.
Posted by: psychohistorian | Jul 21 2024 2:23 utc | 103
Something a bit different, “Revising WW2 History=Preparation for War,” https://karlof1.substack.com/p/revising-ww2-historypreparation-for
psychohistorian | Jul 21 2024 0:56 utc | 95–
Read this and perhaps watch the interview.
@PeterAU1
Thank you Peter for this link to Maria dancing the Kalinka …. In the previous long Open thread #830 –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bk7l1maHXIU
Now I can let her know that I can Riverdance –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0v_pu6miJ8
This might increase my chances of that dinner date if I can offer a spot of dancing with intelligent conversation and great food.
As Michael Longley, the Irish poet puts it: ‘Most men don’t like intelligent women. I just hang on their every word’ – quite!
https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/2024/07/20/michael-longley-most-men-dont-like-intelligent-women-i-just-hang-on-their-every-word/
Posted by: Don Firineach | Jul 21 2024 2:36 utc | 105
@ karlof1 | Jul 21 2024 2:23 utc | 103 with the follow up link…..thanks
I had read parts of that from elsewhere and very good points/questions
I continue to say that Trump may be a sufficient zionist but there is a question if he really goes with all the God Of Mammon cult and that would be reason for empire to off him.
Will they try it again? I wouldn’t be surprised…..it is existential for the cult and they are losing the RoW but want to hold on to those still under the jackboot.
Posted by: psychohistorian | Jul 21 2024 2:37 utc | 106
stephen bryen from 12 hours ago…
The Second Shooter Theory Gains Momentum
Posted by: james | Jul 21 2024 2:45 utc | 107
paddy@88…..Live Fire Drill, they use blanks for that. Was there footage of the shooters body being removed from the roof? Did the snipper take a head shot? Pics of murder scene? Forensics? Where was Clouseau? Guess we’ll take their word for it. I seen a prone guy on a roof, supposedly the shooter, actors are highly trained to play…..dead.
Cheers M
Not saying it was faked. Not saying it was a real attempt on Trump’s life. Just saying it was a Live Fire Drill….
Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Jul 21 2024 2:51 utc | 108
There’s also this speculation from somebody about second shooter.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6hTbo6IKSI&t=166s
The sniper’s body was not at edge of building as corporate media proclaims but a far distance away. There is an open window above where sniper allegedly was was in unsecured building behind.
Audio analysis of shots fired.
Still points to fortuitous turn of head to escape kill shot but with a twist.
Posted by: Suzan | Jul 21 2024 3:19 utc | 109
Suscriber only… any trick to get access?
https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/2024/07/20/michael-longley-most-men-dont-like-intelligent-women-i-just-hang-on-their-every-word/
Posted by: Minaa | Jul 21 2024 3:54 utc | 110
Posted by: Ornot | Jul 21 2024 2:15 utc | 99
I used to have a beautiful silver denarius of Trajan. I placed it in the hand of my son when we buried him in ’07.
Posted by: Patroklos | Jul 21 2024 3:58 utc | 111
Ref US ban of Kasperski
It was the EU who took the lead in ostracizing anything or anyone Russian immediately after the SMO. University profs and staffs got emails that they should end any collaboration projects, and even cease to use word programmes “made in Redistan”. There was even a page on the FU Berlin website explaining why such and such programmes that were part of the (linux environment) tool box was being remove. As usually bowing to anything out of fear it would hinder their carreer, the men in charge obeyed without a peep.
There were people though who warned that even meta and google were making use of open source programmes, written in large numbers by Russkies…. for the common good.
But this is not the kind of thing that reaches EU oligarchs, and so they went on.
Just as ChatGPT is now killing legal and academic elites who are too blind to see their very own suicidal tendencies.
Posted by: Minaa | Jul 21 2024 4:06 utc | 112
Reuters has the posting title below
Microsoft says about 8.5 million of its devices affected by CrowdStrike-related outage
How long will it take to personally touch each one?
Hello Lawsuits…Bye bye CrowdStrike
Posted by: psychohistorian | Jul 21 2024 4:30 utc | 113
Bye bye CrowdStrike
Posted by: psychohistorian | Jul 21 2024 4:30 utc | 112
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CrowdStrike’s management broke the golden rule and hurt the goose that lays the golden eggs.
They’re done.
Posted by: too scents | Jul 21 2024 4:38 utc | 114
@ too scents | Jul 21 2024 4:38 utc | 113
plenty more ”security providers” from where they came from..
Posted by: james | Jul 21 2024 4:43 utc | 115
when you can take down the insurance industry with a virus that shoots only 8 million computers, some oligarchs’ days are numbered!
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpe3zgznwjno
Posted by: Minaa | Jul 21 2024 4:45 utc | 116
Biden is finished, word is he is waiting until after that Nutty Yahoo’s address at Congress.
NYT is leading the leaks against Biden.
The CIA admitted that it had provided Congress with false information about “spies who lie” who admitted that compromising documents from Hunter Biden’s laptop were “Russian disinformation”
New York Times report: In the days when Biden is now sitting at his home in Delaware, recovering from Corona and crying bitterly about the fact that many of his allies have abandoned him, he realizes that the many leaks against him to the media are designed to push him out of the race.
He cites Pelosi as one of the leading factors trying to force him to resign, and believes Obama directs it from afar, like a cameraman in a puppet show.
One of the factors currently delaying his decision to step down is Netanyahu’s speech to Congress, and he has no interest in stepping down before then and giving Bibi the satisfaction he deserves because of the shaky relationship between the two, the report said.
Posted by: Suresh | Jul 21 2024 4:45 utc | 117
plenty more ”security providers” from where they came from..
Posted by: james | Jul 21 2024 4:43 utc | 114
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They’ll have to “pay to play” to get in the door. That’s how grift in the IT business works.
Its going to be expensive.
Posted by: too scents | Jul 21 2024 4:47 utc | 118
Maria …
Russian MFA Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova’s interview to Compact German outlet
(with ENG subs)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ix_CTP5tuw [81 mins … glorious
Posted by: Don Firineach | Jul 21 2024 5:17 utc | 119
The 2024 G20 Rio de Janeiro summit will take place on 18-19 November with Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva as chair.
After spurning China for years, Brazil reveals plan to join Belt and Road Initiative
. Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva sees synergy between the mainland’s interests and his country’s infrastructure gap as he pursues tangible results
Brazil’s president revealed on Friday that his administration was putting together “a proposal to join” the Belt and Road Initiative, China’s flagship infrastructure and investment project.
Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva shared the news during an event announcing investments by the Brazilian Development Bank to renovate a highway between Rio de Janeiro and Santos, a city 85km (53 miles) from Sao Paulo, site of the country’s main port.
Describing a synergy between Chinese interests and Brazil’s infrastructure gap, Lula voiced openness to accession as long as it brought tangible results.
“As China wants to discuss this Silk Road [the initiative’s former name], we will have to prepare a proposal to assess ‘What do we gain? what’s in it for Brazil if we participate in this thing?’,” he said.
Lula’s comments marked the first time the Brazilian government has openly discussed the possibility of joining the scheme, despite China extending several invitations in the past.
continues ==> https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3271218/after-spurning-china-years-brazil-reveals-plan-join-belt-and-road-initiative
Posted by: too scents | Jul 21 2024 5:42 utc | 120
re: Cloudstrike computer outage:
Scottie’s Tech.info – Global IT Outage: what it means for you
topics:
Cloudstrike, Fal.con, null-pointer, fix requires manual intervention, DNC server breeches in 2016, but not really, ex-FBI asst.director, Dubai just used their backup systems, incompetent vs hacked.
Posted by: retroflecks | Jul 21 2024 5:59 utc | 121
It’s curious to me that IsraelStrike (aka CrowdStrike) was working on behalf of Hillary and the DNC (at least by most accounting) while “Israel” was leaning towards Trump.
Posted by: Charles Peterson | Jul 21 2024 6:58 utc | 122
Trump is cia’s man puppet, becouse the izzy’s run trump. Why would anone beleave anything else. The assination was just sucsesfull street theater. Obveously.
Posted by: Mark2 | Jul 21 2024 7:06 utc | 123
Why would the izzys want to control trump ?
Look the jewish powers that be, just murderd a million Ukrainians useing Russia as the gun, that was just a warm up.
They will now (TPTB) start sloughtering and assit striping middle america, the middle class, why ? Becouse thats where the money is stupid. This time the weapon will be the the freshly created new american banderites run by trump.
As advertised on your favourate blog.
Posted by: Mark2 | Jul 21 2024 7:20 utc | 124
A public perception campaign so powerfull some of you dont know what shoe goes on what foot anymore. Confusing left with right.
I’m not even joking.
Posted by: Mark2 | Jul 21 2024 7:31 utc | 125
We here know that in ukraine anyone with opposing views to zelinsky is killed toutured, or lives in fear of speaking their mind.
Manifesting it self right here on MOA.
Posted by: Mark2 | Jul 21 2024 7:38 utc | 126
A strange detail has been “overlooked” in the aftermath of the failed attempt on Trump’s life. In an interview a few months ago, French president Macron (the man who converted the land of the Rights of Man into a banana republic) said almost literally and on good source that “Trump will never be elected president…” This goes back but was somewhat under-reported at the time. Alex Mercouris mentioned it but due to the avalanche of info, it was swept away. I think we should dig it out.
Posted by: Stierlitz | Jul 21 2024 7:52 utc | 127
Posted by: Stierlitz | Jul 21 2024 7:52 utc | 126
Sorry to hear you don’t know anything about French politics.
Posted by: laguerre | Jul 21 2024 8:09 utc | 128
@ psychohistorian | Jul 21 2024 2:23 utc | 102
The morning after, an otherwise remarkably well-informed Trump cultist confidently told me the “attempt” proves “he’s not one of them” and, implicitly, proves other unsubstantiated beliefs he previously shared (“he’s fighting the deep state”, “learned from his mistakes”). Seems to me the purpose of such visible drama was to create that reaction — to heighten the zeal and to maximize cathartic sentiment come November: “Our long nightmare is over!” (Yes, it has been a nightmare. Going on 25 years though.)
Yes, the producers greenlit “Trump the Sequel” anyway. But, this bit of drama reboots his “outsider” story and increases the coming landslide. TPTB will use that to claim “mandate” to do whatever they want — related or not, popular or not. Just for starters, they can legislate more intrusion. Also, they can hold hearings to investigate the event and then use that to fill the “news” channels. One more way to keep voters uninformed and to keep them from discussing policies and supporting candidates on the basis of the policies they claim to seek to legislate.
Posted by: despondent | Jul 21 2024 8:15 utc | 129
Posted by: Montreal | Jul 20 2024 19:57 utc | 65
The CrowdStrike SW is introduced “with a crowbar” into the M$ OS.
The update was run on a Friday ( nobody there after it goes belly up )
and as an “all at once” global tide wave ( i.e. you’ve trashed everything before
reported issues can reach an actionable stage )
IMHO and additionally I think (commercial) end users are daft to allow CrowdStrike to effect their updates unsupervised by house IT. Extremely valid for the Hospital/Medical use case
or any other domain where the impact is immense and potentially life threatening.
Posted by: Uwe | Jul 21 2024 8:44 utc | 130
Whitney Webb discusses Trump campaign and JD Vance Deep Ties To The Surveillance State MIC
Lays out many connections behind the scenes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGySygy0LWs
JD Vance has close ties and support of Peter Thiel of Palantir (surveillance censorship), connected to Jeff Bezos, the Walton family, the Clinton family, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt who we know is a CIA buddy, Schmidt and Peter Thiel leaders in globalist Bilderberg group, Peter Thiel donated $15 million to Vance’s successful Senate bid in 2022, arranged the rapprochement between Trump and Vance in FL, PayPal Mafia like David Sachs who donated a million to Vance senate election, Saach & Peter Thiel with PayPal co-founder Elon Musk were allegedly a key factor in Trump’s selection of Vance as vice president as they ran a secret lobbying campaign for Vance that also included media presenter Tucker Carlson; reported that Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale as well as Palantir itself were backing a Trump-Vance super PAC called called America PAC, all very pro-israel, anti-Iran, Peter Thiel was a major donor to Trump during his first campaign cycle played an outsized role in his 2016 transition team ; Theil etc AI IT big involvement in Ukraine and Israel military, AOL co-founder Steve case, Palmer Lucky (Oculus VR) as well of the defense contractor Anduril Industries; unmanned drones on Mexican border;
“They’re majorly involved they’re also hugely involved in Israel’s war on Gaza right supercharging the use of AI to murder innocent people uh under the you know a lot of these Peter Thiel connected defense contractors claim that they’re making uh War more efficient ”
first term campaign funded by Sheldon Aden who had tried to promote the idea of preemptively nuking Iran ; in 2024 potentially bringing into Cabinet Jamie Diamond sec treasury, calls right now for Trump to
install Eric Prince (Blackwater) as as head of the Pentagon and Secret service, he was a CIA asset uh during the Iraq War his CIA handler was a man named Alvin Krongard who’s a one of the major suspects in 911 Insider trading and a former CIA deputy director, Blackwater operated essentially as the CIA death squad in the Middle East; Clear View UI and a lot of these other Peter Thiel connected defense contractors
“Peter Thiel is that the company he’s made Palantir is at the heart of the surveillance state in including on the war of domestic Terror and some of his companies brag about targeting Trump supporters expressly at Jan 6 – using their uh their software programs to identify January 6 protesters and put them in jail ”
” Eric Prince his big idea for Gaza was to flood it and kill everyone – TRUMP has has framed himself as sort of this anti-establishment populist but he’s talking about putting people like Jamie Diamond in charge of the treasury um and people like Eric Prince and the Pentagon and I’m sure uh you know we’ll be making some more you know floating some potential cabinet ideas as it you know as it gets either closer to the election or immediately thereafter ” ; things may pan out very differently as they did in his first term hiring many DS like Pompeo and Bolton and worse. “Trump is uh you know unfortunately very beholden to the Israel lobby as is JD Vance and really as are both parties so I think people should be very um you know Vigilant about the threat of more Middle Eastern Wars in particular”:
Posted by: Fred | Jul 21 2024 9:37 utc | 131
Yeah IMO it would be fair to say that the crowdstrike screwup which saw windoze networks all over ‘the west’ rendered inoperable while Russia was unscathed is yet another example of the asinine and illegal sanctions regime amerika plus the eu attempted to impose on the rest of the world.
Sanctions against Russia have meant that ‘in the loop of corruption’ corporations such as crowdstrike no longer traded with the Russian Federation. Compounded with this were the sanctions placed upon one of Russia’s largest tech success stories Kaspersky Lab.
The sanctions against Kaspersky have had little success really only government organisations in FukUS have enforced them. However like the attempts against Chinese tech corp Huawei, the efforts by ‘the west’ to destroy the corporation had a rebound effect where at citizens’ behest their respective governments plus supporters across the world went out of their way to utilise the products and services of the two corporations.
If the illegal sanctions against Russia had not been in place, it is likely many Russian networks would be as compromised as amerikan, englander, australian, french & german networks. . . None of this should be a surprise to the septic tanks let alone the rest of us who have enjoyed the entertaining drama which has been brought about by amerika’s stupidity. heheheh karma is a bitch eh.
It seems to me that we are not far off the collapse of these illegal sanctions schemes which have been brought about by amerika’s boycott on filling positions in the WTO, the Appellate Body was blockaded by the first trump administration.
What this means is that aggrieved parties who believe another nation has been breaching World Trade Organisation rules has nowhere to appeal because amerika having refused to nominate replacement members of the appellate board which it appears to be the sole arbiter of, can no longer convene and hear cases.
There are insufficient members.
the biden mob has done nothing to fix this because as long as the WTO has no enforcement power, there is nowhere for an aggrieved nation such as Russia to take their complaint against ‘the wests’ illegal sanctions. Legal sanctions under wto rules are those imposed by the UN security council. Obviously amerika, emgland or france have no show of getting these ludicrous sanctions through that august body.
Thus far neither Russia nor China have played the big card yet.
Since WTO enforcement is the mechanism by which the rules based order inflict their ridiculous and anti-democratic intellectual property rules, either Russia or China could easily seek to tip over the entire rules based order by churning out everything from bootlegged windoze 11 to knock off hermes handbags.
They haven’t and won’t but in these parlous economic times it wont be long before some other smaller nation stuffed by imperialism and looking for a way to keep it’s people employed and fed, does turn a bling eye to a massive counterfeiting operation.
When that occurs don’t be surprised if amerika tries a little gunboat diplomacy for a minor infraction such as I dunno, Western Samoa churning out aforesaid hermes handbags. That will not be well received by R.O.W. when proper non-violent means of getting conformity exists but is stymied by the nation state committing the violence. Then amerika will be truly hoist by its own petard.
Posted by: Debsisdead | Jul 21 2024 9:38 utc | 132
https://weapons.substack.com/p/the-second-shooter-theory-gains-momentum
Posted by: james | Jul 21 2024 2:45 utc | 106
Thank you james for the link. Of course, one is reminded instantly of the JFK and RFK murders. In all three cases, there appear to be several shooters, and great care is taken to conceal this fact and steer public perception towards a single suspect. Convemient if this suspect is dead and can no longer be interviewed. As the article points out, investigations to this point have been sloppy, which is “indicative of a cover up”.
Posted by: grunzt | Jul 21 2024 9:43 utc | 133
It is quite clear that the main western goal in Ukraine is to get better launch position for the first / decapitation strike on Russia. Nothing more, nothing less.
The west is nkt afraid. They can be called evil but they really have no fear or moral constraints.
It is not clear if Putin, as a weak old man, clearly understands this.
Posted by: vargas | Jul 21 2024 10:01 utc | 134
And it’s important to keep in mind that like some of you know a lot of the biggest donors uh to the Trump
campaign are very wealthy zionists and neoconservatives who um try and conflate us uh foreign policy goals with Israeli Regional policy goals
the neocons got in power with the George W Bush Administration and one of the Hallmarks of the neocons is again conflated the US uh National interest as it relates to foreign policy with Israeli Regional interests and they’re not the same a lot of the time um and you know when it came when it comes to Richard Pearl and Peter theel it was actually Richard Pearl who helped Peter thiel set up palantir in the early 2000s with Alex Karp and connected them with the Godfather of modern surveillance a man named John Poindexter ……..
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Reagan Iran Contra, Poindexter, Oliver North (involved in Trumps first term), plus Cheney and Rumsfeld, Richard Pearl (pro-israel neocons) and more across decades
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Core 3 million security risk citizens monitored
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_Awareness_Office
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_Information_Awareness TIA
then came a privatized CIA version with Peter Thiel and Palantir circa 2008 etc
“.. so the main person in charge of this right now or the person pushing it in the private sector would be Peter thiel and Peter thiel is now responsible for JD Vance’s funding and now and getting JD Vance connected with Donald Trump and for funding a being a big funder of Donald Trump and JD Vance’s campaign right now and so that’s why this is all important yeah it’s also important because palantir is is really a CIA front company so um when they created it and and picked John Poindexter’s brain about how to turn total information awareness into a private company um their first funder was the cia’s inel and the CIA was their only client until 2008 and between 2005 and 2009 the top engineers at palantir according to them made over 200 visit to CIA headquarters for them to develop their product ”
TIA was housed at DARPA was intimately pushed and developed with CIA involvement particularly the Chief Information officer of the CIA at the time a guy named Alan Wade who was actually a business partner of Ghislaine Maxwell’s sister Christine (fun fact)
and so it goes
Posted by: Fred | Jul 21 2024 10:12 utc | 135
sorry missed this above
Whitney Webb from 29mins
https://youtu.be/sGySygy0LWs?si=bP-T6mgxwfg3faMK&t=1779
Posted by: Fred | Jul 21 2024 10:13 utc | 136
Clownstrike blue screened microcrap with an update apparently. Bit of stuff about Musk on the Ukie thread and I couldn’t help but think of the brain chip implants. One or two are already guinea pigs. That sort I thing takes off, I have this vision of humans blue screening because of a bit of faulty programming.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Jul 21 2024 10:29 utc | 137
“It is not clear if Putin, as a weak old man, clearly understands this.”
Posted by: vargas | Jul 21 2024 10:01 utc | 133
Can you kindly please shut the fuck up?
If Putin is such how would you describe Biden?
Your stupidity is mind boggling.
Todays sermon is inspired by …Dots …
(join them! “Can you tell what its is yet?” paedophile Oz entertainer -‘Rolf Harris’- Australian, where the BSOD struck first)
Zionazi oligarchs linked directly to ww2 Nazios Fascists imperialists
5+1 Eyes where they festered after the Red Army crushed them.
Where they unashamedly came crawling out of thes last few years – Baandetosts, Hitlerites, Fascists born and raised EU Leaderines- always aristo fascist Brits…Zionazis First and Last.
Cold War , Iron Curtain, Nuclear Threats, Big Stick Mass Murder of Sandal wearing Natives.
World domination of Media and Propaganda
Culture and entertainment with a West Is Best Rockin ‘mythical Free World
Magik Money and PR super weapons.
Muuurdddorrrk.….Sauron
News ‘International’, Sky, Fox …
Rise of Fascist unipolarity and the Great Reset!
The Young American Tech super heroes – Nazgûl’s.
White western and Woke ‘inventors’. Not.
Owned all their lives – Gates & Co offshoots of Nazios Tech Fascist Firms- Xerox, Palo Alto..Defra , Internet , IP ownership by?
Gigantic integrated ‘corporations’ in every aspect of the Collective Wasters daily lives from childhood.
Media- ‘smart’ phone- communications- personal finance – entertainment – sport- gambling- pornography – personal relationships – death of family’s and communities – destruction of ‘locality’ – never ending warfare …
Oh! Woke New World !
Fear – disease, climate, foreigners – The Other!
Xenophobia! Paranoia! Smugness!
Distraction and Lawfare against whistleblowers , investigative journalists by their own Presstitute mockingbird traitors Destruction of any legal oversight over the Media (Levenson), jailing of freedom of speechers, ‘suicide’ or mysterious death of others…
The Final Overeach Imperialist Adventurism under Exceptionalism, Technology.
Talmudist worshipping Masters of The Universe
Control of the golden billion confined to their parishes throughout their lives as serfs of the super rich who can go anywhere.
Garden and Jungle.
Control of all communications, finances & IT – to stop revolts
War
Crowd Strike – DNC – Clinton’s – CIA -Mossad – Epstein – Maxwell (Hock) – Ukraine – illegal Apartheid Colonial expansion – Satrap leaders of the Global South majority of humanity.
Seth Rich- wikileaks – Snowden
– Assange political prisoner C21st Gandhi , Mandela …Released ( a first sign of defeat?)
A cold blooded – Blue Screen of Death restricted to MS and only that linked to CS.
Welcome back to the Humanity’s Freedom Fight – JA !
Happy Sunday Folks.
Posted by: DunGroanin | Jul 21 2024 11:01 utc | 140
Speaking of self defence:
https://t.me/Slavyangrad/104195
A fragile Russian girl knocked out an arrogant pestering visitor in St. Petersburg
▪️The conflict occurred at the entrance to the club, where the visitor did not go through face control and decided to prove something to the girl.
▪️An exact two hit the boor in the jaw, after which he collapsed to the ground.
Good form, this girl knew what she was doing. Oof, take years for that guy to regain any sort of self-confidence after that.
Posted by: anon2020 | Jul 21 2024 11:19 utc | 141
A story about USA’s isolationism.
Nippon Steel hires Mike Pompeo in lobbying push for $15bn US Steel bid
Trump’s ex-secretary of state to help Japanese company overcome opposition to deal
Nippon Steel has hired Donald Trump’s former secretary of state Mike Pompeo to help lobby for its controversial $14.9bn bid for US Steel, which has faced opposition from Republicans and Democrats.
Pompeo — who spoke at the Republican National Convention this week where Trump accepted the party’s nomination as its presidential candidate — will serve as an adviser to Nippon Steel as it attempts to overcome public statements against the deal from Trump and President Joe Biden. Both men are trying to court blue-collar voters in the critical swing state of Pennsylvania in the run-up to November’s election.
“As the former secretary of state, director of the Central Intelligence Agency and US congressman, Mike Pompeo is respected on both sides of the aisle and has an unparalleled grasp of the geopolitical and security issues that America is confronting today,” said Nippon Steel on Sunday.
“We look forward to working alongside him to further emphasise the ways in which Nippon Steel’s acquisition of US Steel bolsters the country’s economic and national security.”
continues ==> https://www.ft.com/content/3519e48d-07d7-449b-a766-6b3ef74db84a
Posted by: too scents | Jul 21 2024 11:22 utc | 142
No conspiracies needed, just capitalism working as intended.
Posted by: JAB | Jul 21 2024 0:33 utc | 94
Yup, spot on.
Resut: crapification.
Trading long term suicide for a fluffing up of next quarter’s results.
Posted by: ChatNPC | Jul 21 2024 11:23 utc | 143
Peter Cronau
@PeterCronau
Australia has finally agreed to pay #compensation to the families of 39 prisoners and civilians allegedly #murdered in Afghanistan by Australian soldiers.
The 25 accused Australian ‘murderers’ of the 39 innocent people, meanwhile, suffer no penalty, are free to enjoy life, to build careers, to raise families, and to walk among us as free men — the financial tab for their ‘murders’ now being picked up by the taxpayer.
The taxpayer also picked up the tab for the initial #BreretonInquiry into what these 25 ‘murderers’ did.
And the taxpayer again picks up the costs to prosecute and jail one military whistleblower, #DavidMcBride, to show other soldiers what happens to truthtellers.
So, why are such favours being done for the 25 unpenalised Australian ‘murderers’?
👉 Some people don’t want them to speak.
ABC: “The Australian government has laid out how it will compensate the families of 39 people [prisoners and civilians] found to have been unlawfully killed or abused by Australian special forces in Afghanistan.
https://abc.net.au/news/2024-07-2
https://x.com/PeterCronau/status/1814832486633119814
Posted by: Menz | Jul 21 2024 11:25 utc | 144
” The assination was just sucsesfull street theater.”
Posted by: Mark2 | Jul 21 2024 7:06 utc | 122
Your spelling is a metaphor for your ideas.
AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY
@AfricanArchives
65 years ago today, jazz musician and singer-songwriter, Billie Holiday died. Rest in Power!
Events leading up to her death.
A THREAD
https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1814670301700952131
Posted by: Menz | Jul 21 2024 11:26 utc | 146
…No conspiracies needed, just capitalism working as intended.
Posted by: JAB | Jul 21 2024 0:33 utc | 94
Unfortunately, all you’ve got there is solidly plausible deniability, it would still have been an easy outcome to engineer, especially for those who could also rig subsequent investigations to their liking.
If everyone was prone to assuming that the simplest explanation was the best, they’d also be inexcusably prone to being taken in by lies that were more elegant that the corresponding truth.
Posted by: anon2020 | Jul 21 2024 11:27 utc | 147
unlawfully killed
Posted by: Menz | Jul 21 2024 11:25 utc | 143
Sounds much better that murders or war crimes. If it was Russians, it’d be war crimes for sure.
39… just the official number. Likely the tip of the iceburg. The sort of Rambo that would do a few ‘tours’ in Afghanistan wouldn’t have much feeling of empathy for the subhuman goat herders.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Jul 21 2024 11:59 utc | 148
Posted by: Don Bacon | Jul 20 2024 22:27 utc | 78
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To expose the utter phoniness of this TW protection racket, all I need is to ask that self appointed TW custodian one question.
Why do you think TW need protection ?
Have you ever bother to ask whether those pitiable TW wish to swap place with those privileged Chagosians, Kashmiris, Ryuku Ren, Naga, Manipuris, Marshall islanders ?
Thats how I dispose off the bar’s resident champion for TW ans Tibetan rights., that you know who 😉
Posted by: denk | Jul 21 2024 12:18 utc | 149
@ canuck
Might I suggest some barfleas are not worth your time?! If, like me, you don’t bother installing a javascript plugin, just read the thread backwards and skip the usual suspects.
Posted by: despondent | Jul 21 2024 12:38 utc | 150
Biden’s limpet like grip on the Presidency is probably facilitated by threats to withhold the Presidential pardons that his political and familial entourage is relying on to avoid prosecution and prison.
However, if he is removed from office on the grounds of mental impairment, his pardons become open to legal challenge, and given the “flexibility” of the current US legal system, it is easy to see that there are circumstances under which that challenge will be upheld.
The World is entertained.
Posted by: CitizenSmith | Jul 21 2024 12:39 utc | 151
The whole interview posted above but on Rumble
Looks like Peter Thiel and Palentir will win the presidency. Whitney Webb on Jimmy Dore
https://rumble.com/v57nxjx-mind-blowing-interview-w-whitney-webb.html
Posted by: Blue Dotterel | Jul 21 2024 13:05 utc | 152
Iran-China transport railroad has officially started.
The first freight train from Iran has departed to China, as well as one from China to Iran.
• Right now, there’ll be 1 train per week, this will increase to 1 train per day.
• The transit time of cargo and goods in a container train is 1/3 of the time of the ship.
• With the launch of this train route, the 1st phase of the China-Iran-Europe east-west corridor was implemented.
We can soon expect Iran to become a major railway hub connecting the east with the west.
https://t.me/FotrosResistance/7275
This, for me, explains one possible reason why certain powers try to drag Iran into a war and why Iran studiously tries to avoid one. Not quite the bitter blow to the hegemons but definitely another nail.
Posted by: SattaMassaGana | Jul 21 2024 13:06 utc | 153
The link james provided above mentions video of actual bullets hitting the stands near Trump. It is thus considerable evidence against the otherwise interesting illusionist theory that Lev Davidovich has put forward.
Sorry if it is old news, I’m currently unable to keep up.
Posted by: persiflo | Jul 21 2024 13:24 utc | 154
Interesting how short the attention span is even here on MOA. The Trump hit? Whatever, let’s talk about Crowdstrike. After all, we don’t know, the facts are being suppressed, twisted, manufactured, we’ll never know.
The Americans, at least, at MOA should understand that the single issue on which they have the most leverage, of everything ever mentioned on this site, is the Trump Assassination. Not enough facts? Keep digging. Force resignations. Force investigations, even corrupt ones, from every possible angle. I am not by any means a Trump fan, but the fact that he was the target means there is a critical mass of people who want to know the truth. Don’t let it go.
I notice that the Big Alts- the circle-jerk of ex-CIA, ex-State Department, ex-judiciary talking heads on social media platforms, like Scott Ritter, Judge Nap, Larry Johnson have given up on the Incompetence Narrative and are now defending the Lone Gunman narrative with the same Nelsonian Knowledge approach. When this collapses, as it must collapse, they will support the lynching of mid-level falls guys that the Deep State hangs out to dry. They just want to delay, delay, delay until the energy of the masses is dispersed, diffused, scattered to a thousand other distractions.
We know, in a structural sense, that this was a high-level government/deep state conspiracy. The pattern of lies proves that already. The pattern of directed incompetence proves that. This event provides an opportunity for heavily damaging that structure and the legitimacy of the ruling class in the eyes of the great mass of Americans- and that will enable further opportunities.
Unless, of course, we say, well, there are too many contradictory conspiracy theories, there’s too much narrative management, we’ll never figure it out, let’s move on. That’s victory for the assassins. Moving on to the next thing you can’t do anything about. Just keep moving along.
Posted by: Honzo | Jul 21 2024 13:27 utc | 155
DunGroanin@139….. that’s one giant dot.
Cheers M
Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Jul 21 2024 13:35 utc | 156
> but the fact that he was the target
If you believe Trump’s policies (still bragging about his Covid policies, bragging about arming Kyiv, telling Europe to spend more on war, promising more confrontation with China, suggesting “changing” Kyiv funding from “free money” to 0% perpetual loans, raising taxes via tariffs, signing every sanctions bill, pro-genocide) contradict Biden’s, then your presumption might’ve been correct.
If you see little difference beyond rhetoric (5th grader vs senile corpse), then the target of years of free publicity, years of weak lawsuits mismanaged by cartoonishly stupid corrupt Keystone cops, and other very public performance art probably isn’t Trump. It’s probably the public.
Don’t believe the hype. It’s Trump the Sequel!
Posted by: despondent | Jul 21 2024 13:57 utc | 157
/cheep cheep
Welcomr back, canuck! I take it your little vacation was refreshing? 🙂
If I remember correctly, oldhippie, this year is a La Niña, a wet weather phenomenon inverse to El Niño. Basically instead of an inverse of typical weather patterns (El Niño) it is a magnification of typical weather patterns (La Niña). Hence wetter than usual weather. When people saw the last El Niño some years ago so powerful they said the coming La Niña was going to be tremendous in response. But that could be me misremembering things! ^.^
/returns to preening & watching
Posted by: titmouse | Jul 21 2024 14:01 utc | 158
@Minaa 109
Yes, Firefox with Bypass paywalls clean add-on. It won’t work by default but if you create a custom rule for the domain and fiddle with the referrer etc you’ll get it to work. Alternatively, try archive dot is or wayback machine:
https://archive.is/Z6aLA
Posted by: ET | Jul 21 2024 14:12 utc | 159
Crowdstrike
With CrowdStrike recently in the news due to their incompetent/malicious release of faulty AV update which crashed millions of host servers around the world, I’d like to draw attention to some of their previous misdeeds and how they have affected us to this day. Some might be too young to remember, but CrowdStrike was hired by the DNC during Trump’s first presidential bid to give credence & legitimacy to the “Russia hack” claims. The DNC and Clinton campaign sought to tie Trump to Russian hackers in what became known as the RussiaGate scandal — this also spawned the Crossfire Hurricane investigation involving corrupt FBI agents Peter Strzok and Lisa Page (whom cheated on their spouses with each other), special prosecutor Robert Mueller, as well as Wikileaks, Julian Assange, Michael Sussman from the firm Perkins Coie, and the bogus Steele dossier which included the alleged “pee pee tapes.” Let’s review some of the relevant information.
https://archive.is/L5AeU
>CrowdStrike President Shawn Henry’s admission under oath, in a recently declassified December 2017 interview before the House Intelligence Committee, raises new questions about whether Special Counsel Robert Mueller, intelligence officials and Democrats misled the public. The allegation that Russia stole Democratic Party emails from Hillary Clinton, John Podesta and others and then passed them to WikiLeaks helped trigger the FBI’s probe into now debunked claims of a conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia to steal the 2016 election. The CrowdStrike admissions were released just two months after the Justice Department retreated from its its other central claim that Russia meddled in the 2016 election when it dropped charges against Russian troll farms it said had been trying to get Trump elected.
>Henry personally led the remediation and forensics analysis of the DNC server after being warned of a breach in late April 2016; his work was paid for by the DNC, which refused to turn over its server to the FBI. Asked for the date when alleged Russian hackers stole data from the DNC server, Henry testified that CrowdStrike did not in fact know if such a theft occurred at all: “We did not have concrete evidence that the data was exfiltrated [moved electronically] from the DNC, but we have indicators that it was exfiltrated,” Henry said.
>The stolen emails, which were published by Wikileaks – whose founder, Julian Assange has long denied they came from Russia – were embarrassing to the party because, among other things, they showed the DNC had favored Clinton during her 2016 primary battles against Sen. Bernie Sanders for the presidential nomination. The DNC eventually issued an apology to Sanders and his supporters “for the inexcusable remarks made over email.” The DNC hack was separate from the FBI’s investigation of Clinton’s use of a private server while serving as President Obama’s Secretary of State.
https://archive.is/vUFKL
>There has been a long effort to counter the official narrative we now call “Russiagate.” Until recently, researchers undertaking this work faced critical shortcomings, and these are to be explained. But they have achieved significant new momentum in the past several weeks, and what they have done now yields very consequential fruit. Forensic investigators, intelligence analysts, system designers, program architects, and computer scientists of long experience and strongly credentialed are now producing evidence disproving the official version of key events last year. Their work is intricate and continues at a kinetic pace as we speak. But its certain results so far are two, simply stated, and freighted with implications:
>There was no hack of the Democratic National Committee’s system on July 5 last year—not by the Russians, not by anyone else. Hard science now demonstrates it was a leak—a download executed locally with a memory key or a similarly portable data-storage device. In short, it was an inside job by someone with access to the DNC’s system. This casts serious doubt on the initial “hack,” as alleged, that led to the very consequential publication of a large store of documents on WikiLeaks last summer.
>Forensic investigations of documents made public two weeks prior to the July 5 leak by the person or entity known as Guccifer 2.0 show that they were fraudulent: Before Guccifer posted them they were adulterated by cutting and pasting them into a blank template that had Russian as its default language. Guccifer took responsibility on June 15 for an intrusion the DNC reported on June 14 and professed to be a WikiLeaks source—claims essential to the official narrative implicating Russia in what was soon cast as an extensive hacking operation. To put the point simply, forensic science now devastates this narrative.
https://archive.is/Ccph1
>On the evening of July 5, 2016, 1,976 megabytes of data were transferred (either uploaded or downloaded depending on you review) from the DNC’s server. The operation took 87 seconds. This yields a transfer rate of 22.7 megabytes per second. These statistics are matters of record. No Internet service provider in mid-2016 was capable of uploading data at this speed.
>A test published August 3, 2016, by http://www.speedtest.net/reports can serve as a thumbnail index. Their test upload of a comparable data volume 40 miles from the computer (not in Romania) via a server 20 miles away, averaged a speed of 11.8 megabytes per second—half what the DNC operation would need were it to have been a hack.
>That same test indicated that the highest average ISP speeds in the first half of 2016 were achieved by Xfinity and Cox Communications. These speeds averaged 15.6 megabytes per second and 14.7 megabytes per second, respectively.
>In August of 2016, they reported on another speed test they conducted. “Transfer rates of 23 MB/s (Mega Bytes per second) are not just highly unlikely, but effectively impossible to accomplish when communicating over the Internet at any significant distance,” they wrote. “Further, local copy speeds are measured, demonstrating that 23 MB/s is a typical transfer rate when using a USB–2 flash device (thumb drive).”
This leads us to Seth Rich, a DNC staffer who felt disenfranchised by the DNC’s treatment of Clinton over Rich’s preferred candidate, Bernie Sanders. It’s claimed that Rich was murdered during an alleged botched robbery, but if that’s the case, why were his valuable belongings left on his corpse?
https://archive.is/9uSs3
>When police got to the scene, they found Rich had been shot multiple times, and his credit cards, wallet and watch were still on him.
>Police ruled his death a homicide — an attempted robbery turned deadly. But questions loomed.
>”There had been a struggle. His hands were bruised, his knees are bruised, his face is bruised, and yet he had two shots to his back, and yet they never took anything,” Rich’s mother, Mary, told NBC shortly after his death.
Julian Assange, who had been confined to the Ecuadorian embassy for several years at this point, facing bogus claims of rape in addition to being sought after by multiple intel agencies for his website’s leaks of classified information (such as Collateral Murder, a video leaked by the troon Chelsea Manning: https://collateralmurder.wikileaks.org/), began to face even more pressure from the US legal system which desired his extradition and detention.
>“Our sources take risks,” WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said in an interview with a Dutch television program (https://youtu.be/Kp7FkLBRpKg?si=dAKqbiHt2wnHo5RF) [Embed] just after addressing Rich’s murder.
>When asked if he was implying that Rich was a source for WikiLeaks, which on July 22 released thousands of emails from DNC accounts — centering around Clinton, her campaign and the DNC’s treatment of Sen. Bernie Sanders — Assange cryptically responded.
>“We don’t comment on our sources,” he said. “We have to understand how high the stakes are on the case.”
>WikiLeaks has stated that it doesn’t confirm or deny whether any person has ever been a source as a matter of policy, but the site has offered a $20,000 reward for information leading to a conviction in Rich’s slaying.
Jack Burkman, a Republican lobbyist then attempted to help the family solve the murder before things took an even stranger turn..
>After police came up empty-handed in solving Rich’s case, Republican lobbyist Jack Burkman offered his public relations services, pro bono, to Rich’s family. He increased the reward for information to $130,000 and plastered posters throughout the Bloomingdale neighborhood and its surrounding areas that asked “Do you know who murdered Seth Rich?”
>In late November, he held a joint news conference with Rich’s family.
>Six months after his son’s death, Joel Rich tried to dispel the rumors that followed Assange’s statements.
>”Anyone who knew Seth knew that wasn’t the way he would have handled the problem,” he told Fox News. “He would not go outside the system.”
Almost makes you wonder if the Rich family was approached by a glownigger and “implored” to keep their mouths shut.
Hope this has been a fun trip down memory lane for some of you. I hadn’t seen these aspects about Crowdstrike posted since news broke about their shitty AV causing massive outages in multiple countries.
Posted by: ItWasHerTurn | Jul 21 2024 14:16 utc | 160
Posted by: despondent | Jul 21 2024 8:15 utc | 128
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
The orange man is not fighting the swamp.
The orange man is part of the swamp.
Posted by: AI | Jul 21 2024 14:29 utc | 161
Posted by: john brewster | Jul 21 2024 2:18 utc | 100
Exactamundo…
Posted by: notlurking | Jul 21 2024 14:44 utc | 162
The morning after, an otherwise remarkably well-informed Trump cultist confidently told me the “attempt” proves “he’s not one of them” and, implicitly, proves other unsubstantiated beliefs he previously shared (“he’s fighting the deep state”, “learned from his mistakes”). Seems to me the purpose of such visible drama was to create that reaction — to heighten the
Posted by: despondent | Jul 21 2024 8:15 utc | 128
Yes its certainly tempting to imagine this was staged to manipulate Trump’s supporters.
They want to believe that once again the Donald and the deep state are engaged in mortal combat and once again Trump won.
But lets imagine it was a professional hit designed to kill. Most likely, Trump would now be dead. Then what?
Right now Trump supporters are pretty happy with the outcome, but if Trump has been killed all hell would break loose and all the evidence of lax security would fuel the rage. This time they wouldn’t just wander around the US capitol taking pictures…
Posted by: jinn | Jul 21 2024 15:01 utc | 163
55 year anniversary for the moon landing. Not one “alleged” to be found anywhere!
Posted by: g wiltek | Jul 21 2024 15:05 utc | 164
💰How the US is trying to maintain dollar hegemony through crypto
The phenomenon of the USDT cryptocurrency is actively used by representatives of the US intelligence community to undermine the economies of developing countries and replace their financial systems. In the case of Argentina , Brazil and Nigeria , there is some progress.
Against the backdrop of inflation of local currencies, USDT is often presented as an alternative solution for the population and business. Naturally, control over the economy of such countries is transferred to TNCs, and new ambitious tasks are set for the management of IT companies responsible for the development of digital assets.
🔻Recently, Tether (the issuer of USDT) appointed Philip Gradwell as the head of the economics department. He previously served as the chief economist at Chainalysis for six years .
Recall that Chainalysis specializes in monitoring and analyzing blockchain transactions for the CIA, NSA, and the Five Eyes intelligence community.
Gradwell will be responsible for quantifying the Tether economy for regulators.
His goal at Tether, which he identified as his main one when he took office, is to explain to the big players on Wall Street how USDT supports the hegemony of the dollar.
🔻The USDT token is the largest stablecoin in circulation, with a market capitalization of over $112 billion . This is a relatively small amount, which is clearly not enough to offset even a portion of the US national debt and maintain the hegemony of the dollar.
But since the task is set in this way, it is highly likely that USDT’s capitalization will grow exponentially in the near future, and its penetration into developing economies will increase as much as possible.
❗️The only way to counter this digital expansion is to create a parallel financial system. And it is very good that at least Russia and Iran have directly announced their steps on this path.
#globalism #USA #economy
@rybar together with @econopocalypse
💰 On the development of digital assets in Russia
The direction of digital assets is becoming one of the priorities in the country’s economic development strategy.
Yesterday, Vladimir Putin made a statement in which he outlined the need to promptly adjust the legal framework and regulation, develop infrastructure, and create conditions for the circulation of digital assets.
Since the adoption of the ” Law on Digital Financial Assets ” (DFA) in 2022, the situation in the field of their use has changed very seriously . In the Anglo-Saxon circuit, all payments using cryptocurrencies are tightly controlled by special services.
Stablecoins, such as USDT , are becoming a tool for the expansion of the digital dollar . The penetration of cryptocurrencies into the economies of developing countries is gaining momentum.
🔻It is obvious that the digital financial assets direction has great prospects and obvious advantages over the classical banking system. Therefore, the integration of digital assets into the structure of the Russian economy is a strategic decision on the way to the formation of an alternative financial circuit, the importance of which we have been writing about for months.
#globalism #Russia #economy
@rybar
Posted by: anon2020 | Jul 21 2024 15:07 utc | 165
Posted by: jinn | Jul 21 2024 15:01 utc | 162
Yes its certainly tempting to imagine this was staged to manipulate Trump’s supporters. ‘tempting.’ That sums it up pretty well.
Posted by: Robert E.Smith | Jul 21 2024 16:06 utc | 166
CrowdStrike Debacle
So much is running on Virtual machines these days. It is the physical ones – actual hardware as a server – that will require a handson finger/key combination to get into safe mode and fix the bootloop. The virtual ones are being reset remotely and then patched.
That still amounts to Millions worldwide I think. CrowdStrike is dead in the water and it is pretty phenomenol that a deep module upgrade specifically to critical security systems – which is what this whole Crowdstrike/Microsoft combo is about and it is very expensive – would be released without ANY previews or any normally stepped implementation to verify its soundness first. Smells Fishy…
Posted by: DoesItReallyMatter | Jul 21 2024 16:15 utc | 167
Fred@215
“Crooks was the only shooter”. Oh please! From which sources do you do your research? This sounds like the Lee Harvey Oswald shtick or maybe the Sirhan Sirhan one. Lone gunman, indeed.
Posted by: aristodemos | Jul 21 2024 16:20 utc | 168
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7pxWtQwOgY
This is an interesting You Tube site. He exposes the gross lack of understanding about China’s rise. In this case, there is a huge wall of self deception in the West about academic research associated with universities. To me, it’s not that China will simply pass the US, it’s going to be humiliating. Add to that the US competence crisis of Boeing weekly (daily?) failures, the Gaza dock that floated away, derailments, and the whole political system.
Posted by: Eighthman | Jul 21 2024 16:41 utc | 169
oldhippie@2115
How much of climate change is anthropogenic and which proportion of that has anything to do with excess carbon? The foremost researcher of the phenomenon is Dane Wigginton. He does weekly coverage on chemtrails, electronic infusion by governments into the ionosphere and much more. He’s on it like a Rottweiler.
In 1977, the Minnesota monthly “Common Sense: A Northwood Journal” headlined on its front page an article on the then ongoing weather war between the U$$A and the USSR. Some months later Pinnacle Books released a book with the title: “Weather War” by Leonard Leokium and Paul Posnick. Yeah, that’s nearly 50 years ago. Technological “improvements” have advanced exponentially during the interim.
Meanwhile, the mass-media of misinformation and mind-control is all “crickets” regarding this critical issue. Thus most Murrikkkans are “blissfully ignorant”, while the NPR listeners are all about the increased carbon theories. Those folks are well-meaning, but impositionally delusional.
Posted by: aristodemos | Jul 21 2024 16:42 utc | 170
@ Posted by: jpc | Jul 20 2024 9:32 utc | 1
I don’t see Biden “stepping down”. meaning resigning his current role as President. I see him declaring (for any multitude of weak reasons, non concerning HIS health and state of mind) that he will no longer run for another term.
Don’y know if you live in the US, but general rules for timing bad news.
If it is financial (for large companies) you do it after 6:00 PM eastern on a Friday well after Wall Street has closed. This prevents quick stock drops and lets everyone “consider” the news until market open on Monday.
For political news, there are IMHO 2 times. Friday afternoon is the worst time, it allows everyone to question it all weekend, especially on the Sunday morning news shows.
Best time is Sunday night after 9 PM eastern. Many working people already preparing for the work week, and not paying attention. Market impact (if any) will be on Monday morning, but will stabilize in the following 48 hrs. Talking heads will have all day and night to discuss, but again, working people don’t watch the news as much early in the week.
Second best time is either Tuesday or Wednesday night, again after 9 PM. Same reasons as above.
I write this on a Sunday morning (US eastern time) so could be tonight or middle of next week.
No one in Dem donor or top level pol circles has solidly said Biden all the way, except for a few (Harris) that have to. Everyday 2 or 3 more come out telling Biden to drop out.
The King Has No Clothes/Brain crowd is growing, and they know they only have 2 weeks or less to stop the Biden fiasco. The problem is, there is no true inheritor or plan for what to do when he drops out.
That is what is really keeping him in, no one ever thought this through enough to have a Plan B or Plan C.
Posted by: BroncoBilly | Jul 21 2024 16:42 utc | 171
Robbed of Hope
Our Savior rides
a Trojan Horse
his coat is green
with mould of age
He lures us down
the beggars’ course
into his guilded cage
No restitution or remorse
for infliction of the phage
and justifies the use of force
that incurs our wrath and rage.
The runes are cast
The fates are sealed
I see the stone
In Potter’s Field
That marks the place
Where we shall sleep
Forevermore in death
We keep
Our vigilance
We guard no more
That which
We held dear before
Was but a dream
And now it’s dead
Murdered
By our heavy tread
We had our run
And now it’s done
The race has died
The devil won
Posted by: ld | Jul 21 2024 16:46 utc | 172
“I used to have a beautiful silver denarius of Trajan. I placed it in the hand of my son when we buried him in ’07.”
Posted by: Patroklos | Jul 21 2024 3:58 utc | 110
My condolences on your loss.
Xi has once again shown how the art of Diplomacy is done, Trump says Xi wrote him ‘beautiful note’ following shooting, the way one gains respect among ones peers. Of course Trump, the man that murdered the Iranian #2 on a peace mission in a third country, is not fitting of this “beauty”, but Xi is respecting the position not the asshole who may soon be in it.
It also displays the class of the more dominant player with the lesser one, like a Godfather sending a note to a lesser mob boss about some calamity affecting the latter. This is not a sign of weakness but a sign of strength, and of a man who knows that he is winning and time is on his side. Better to keep the lesser man, who displays a high degree of narcissism, happy in his failure.
To say that the US leadership, both Dem and Republican, could take some lessons from Xi is putting it mildly. If you want to be hated then stop doing hateful things, and if you want to be respected then start by respecting others. Fear of is very different to respect.
@ Eighthman | Jul 21 2024 16:41 utc | 168
re: China will simply pass the US, it’s going to be humiliating.
Yes. . . from Asia Times
China’s electronic warfare surge shocks US in South China Sea
China quickly closing EW gap with US forces judging by recently revealed sea encounter that resulted in the firing of a US commander.
This month, the South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported on China’s enhanced EW capabilities by shedding light on a December 2023 incident between a US EA-18 Growler carrier-based EW aircraft and China’s Type 055 cruiser Nanchang in the contested South China Sea.
The report mentions that PLA scientists recently disclosed in a Radar & ECM journal article that AI-enhanced radar gave the Nanchang an advantage over the EA-18G’s jamming capabilities.
It claims that the EA-18G, manufactured by Boeing, has been upgraded since 2021 for future warfare but faces new challenges from the PLA–Navy’s (PLA-N) integrated radar systems and communication strategies. . .here
Posted by: Don Bacon | Jul 21 2024 17:22 utc | 175
@ Roger | Jul 21 2024 17:13 utc | 173
re: To say that the US leadership, both Dem and Republican, could take some lessons from Xi is putting it mildly.
Yes — the Chinese are not like us. It’s four thousand years vs. a couple hundred.
. . .from the web
Buddhism teaches that true patience is more than mere perseverance; it is an active engagement with the present moment, a willingness to accept things as they are, and a compassionate response to the suffering of others.
Posted by: Don Bacon | Jul 21 2024 17:31 utc | 176
thanks grunzt and persiflo… i am glad you both got something out of it…
@ debs… thanks – great post..
@ fred – thanks for the link.. here it is again for anyone interested..
The Man Behind Trump’s VP Pick: It’s Worse Than You Think
Republicans turn heat up on Secret Service chief over Trump shooting
a jazz song for summer..
Summer Night · Bill Mays Trio
Posted by: james | Jul 21 2024 17:49 utc | 177
🇺🇸 Biden announced that he is withdrawing from the presidential race.
https://t.me/ukraine_watch/26219
Statement in post
Posted by: Norwegian | Jul 21 2024 17:55 utc | 178
@ Norwegian | Jul 21 2024 17:55 utc | 177 who beat me to posting about the Biden announcement
The problem is the demented fool plans to finish out his term and between now and then Ukraine/NATO) will go down and Occupied Palestine will stop the genocide.
Biden is the negotiator for empire during this time……I don’t think so.
Interesting….we will see how this unfolds
Posted by: psychohistorian | Jul 21 2024 18:00 utc | 179
we will see how this unfolds
Posted by: psychohistorian | Jul 21 2024 18:00 utc | 178
—
… Humpty Dumpty only shut his eyes and said “Wait till you’ve tried.”
Alice waited a minute to see if he would speak again, but as he never opened his eyes or took any further notice of her, she said “Good-bye!” once more, and, getting no answer to this, she quietly walked away: but she couldn’t help saying to herself as she went, “Of all the unsatisfactory—” (she repeated this aloud, as it was a great comfort to have such a long word to say) “of all the unsatisfactory people I ever met—” She never finished the sentence, for at this moment a heavy crash shook the forest from end to end.
End of Ch. 6 — Through the Looking Glass
Posted by: too scents | Jul 21 2024 18:08 utc | 181
I don’t see Harris beating Trump, but the imbecility of the DNC amost guarantees this outcome. ALL she has going for her is id pol. Otherwise, there’s no there there.
Posted by: JAB | Jul 21 2024 18:08 utc | 182
Next question: Will Biden resign the Presidency before or on the 50th Anniversary of Nixon resigning (Aug 9, 1974)?
Posted by: Norwegian | Jul 21 2024 18:16 utc | 184
. . .from X.com
Biden withdraws from presidential race . . .here
Posted by: Don Bacon | Jul 21 2024 18:17 utc | 185
Posted by: JAB | Jul 21 2024 18:08 utc | 181
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If Biden does NOT endorse Harris, the party will be split for years to come, which is the same as losing the election anyway.
Posted by: Ed | Jul 21 2024 18:19 utc | 186
https://x.com/JoeBiden/status/1815087772216303933
Posted by: Alexis Ricer | Jul 21 2024 18:20 utc | 187
My fellow Democrats, I have decided not to accept the nomination and to focus all my energies on my duties as President for the remainder of my term. My very first decision as the party nominee in 2020 was to pick Kamala Harris as my Vice President. And it’s been the best decision I’ve made. Today I want to offer my full support and endorsement for Kamala to be the nominee of our party this year. Democrats — it’s time to come together and beat Trump. Let’s do this.
Posted by: Alexis Ricer | Jul 21 2024 18:23 utc | 188
CBS News is announcing that President Biden will endorse VP Harris.
Posted by: Ed | Jul 21 2024 18:23 utc | 189
Biden is not up to running for office then he is not up to run the U.S. the next 5 months.
He must resign, if he refuses the 25th amendment must be executed.
The U.S. is a nation of laws.
Democrats’ our democracy does not run a tyranny
Posted by: paddy | Jul 21 2024 18:25 utc | 190
DNC does whatever it wants. Hillary is chomping at the tit. Feathered Hair is a contender as is Mike Obama.
Posted by: Chaka Khagan | Jul 21 2024 18:25 utc | 191
Biden endorses Harris
https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1815087772216303933
My fellow Democrats, I have decided not to accept the nomination and to focus all my energies on my duties as President for the remainder of my term. My very first decision as the party nominee in 2020 was to pick Kamala Harris as my Vice President. And it’s been the best decision I’ve made. Today I want to offer my full support and endorsement for Kamala to be the nominee of our party this year. Democrats — it’s time to come together and beat Trump. Let’s do this.
Clow show continues
Posted by: Norwegian | Jul 21 2024 18:28 utc | 193
So now Harris needs life insurance, someone much dumber than her.
Posted by: Norwegian | Jul 21 2024 18:31 utc | 194
The U.S. is a nation of laws.
Democrats’ our democracy does not run a tyranny
Posted by: paddy | Jul 21 2024 18:25 utc | 189
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Paddy, surely you jest. The US is the most lawless nation in the world. To prove it, just pay close attention to how the US (both Trump and Harris) react to the most recent ICJ ruling about the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territory. Then tell me the “US is a nation of laws.”
Posted by: Ed | Jul 21 2024 18:32 utc | 195
Just heard, Flash Bang has stepped down. Fell down, err…..some such.
Cheers M
Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Jul 21 2024 18:37 utc | 196
Democracy is governance by the people, which doesn’t exist anywhere of note. Certainly not in the US, despite the bleating of the autocrat Biden who often claims that we have the democratic US against you-name-it.
Posted by: Don Bacon | Jul 21 2024 18:38 utc | 197
Posted by: Ornot | Jul 21 2024 2:15 utc | 99
The earliest written items
please consult:
History of writing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_writing
Norwegian [193]: So now Harris needs life insurance, someone much dumber than her.
No worries. There’s an embarrassment of riches in that regard. Plenty to choose from.
Posted by: N Hanrahan | Jul 21 2024 18:48 utc | 199
Harris is no worse than any former or current US president. Her heavy burden is being female and black. And perhaps among blacks it’s a drawback that she is essentially a cop. She could actually beat Trump just by being a beautiful woman but she is actually also smart. It’s just that Biden put her on the worst possible assignments.
Posted by: Avtonom | Jul 21 2024 18:48 utc | 200