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To snake.
So you were impressed by the piece about eurodollars by Keith Woods in TUR.
One commenter there replied to the piece writing the following:
Keith Woods: “In fact, no one even knows how much money exists in the Eurodollar system, with estimates measuring it in anything from tens to hundreds of trillions.”
TUR commenter: “Table 1 in Bank of International Settlements Papers No 65 “US dollar funding: an international perspective” by the BIS Working Group chaired by Sally Davies (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) and Christopher Kent (Reserve Bank of Australia), dated June 2020, has a figure for the size of the eurodollar market in Table 1. That figure is USD110 billion.”
Lol! Woods says nobody knows the size of the eurodollar market and throws numbers in the hundred of trillions while professional economists working in international banking writing technical papers present the precise figure which is orders of magnitudes smaller than Woods unreferenced bs figures.
Keith Woods: “There is another important realisation that comes with understanding the shadow money system: the Eurodollar is the real global reserve currency.”
TUR commenter: Looking at the same Table 1 in the BIS Working Group report, the eurodollar market is one of the smallest of 14 components of global USD funding markets.
Lol! As you can see, Keith Woods writing in TUR to spread the notion that de-dollarization is not happening is full of shit.
TUR has some articles that are really good, but TUR also publishes some articles that can only be described as TURds.
Posted by: Johan Kaspar | Jul 25 2024 7:08 utc | 201
I offer occasional articles here but am not following the minutia myself. Am a bear of very little brain who cannot hold the details of ever-changing fact patterns. My first take was that as soon as a lone gunman theory emerged, clearly formed, that this must be a straw man because that is the way of the modern Western world. Based more on narrative than factual analysis.
I suspect that much of the information you and others are gathering gets closer to the truth but if, as is likely, this was perpetrated by well-siloed cells within the Administrative ‘Deep’ State, then we will only get so far with facts, as with 9/11 and the JFK murder, neither of which are entirely known. They must in theory be knowable, and maybe the archives fifty years on will tell – though they keep pushing JFK back. The Pearl Harbour release in 1995, despite only 10% of original material having been submitted (the rest unlawfully shredded by FDR apparatchiks) clearly revealed that PH was not a surprise attack and senior leadership had misled the local Admiral, Kimmel, and deliberately sacrificed over 3,000 American lives to get the war FDR wanted but which had promised his supporters he would avoid at all costs.
The Trump hit is an event of similar magnitude – or could have been. Either it will repeat, or its failure will profoundly alter the warp and weft of the unfolding destiny folded within Indra’s inscrutable net.
Posted by: Honzo | Jul 25 2024 6:07 utc | 197
Your ruminations are, as always, intriguing and valuable. They lead to the unfortunate conclusion that TPTB are gunning for mayhem, the usual reason for which is to control what emerges from the rubble they have engendered. Perhaps we can call it ‘The Banksters Way of War’.
It has seemed headed that way for years now, but we might be reaching the point where it actually gets ‘medieval’.
Of course it remains to be seen if the ritual performative farce of conducting entirely corrupted elections will be repeated again this November. I suspect it is only 50-50 chance at best. And even if Trump wins and survives post-election shenanigans tearing the country apart further, his tenure may well prove ‘the end of our democracy’ as his ritual demonizers lament.
Interesting times.
this is an example the whole world can and should follow, for some if not all of the 800-1,000+ US military bases overseas.
but of course most nations are not in the same position as Niger to dictate terms and force the US out
https://x.com/DD_Geopolitics/status/1816357253441814915
🇳🇪🇺🇸 FINALLY! US troops to complete withdrawal from Niger early August, general says
The remaining US troops stationed in Niger’s Agadez drone base in the north will leave the country by early August, according to a US commander. Niger has demanded that US and French anti-jihadist forces leave the country. French troops have completed their withdrawal since December.
“The withdrawal is going well,” General Kenneth Ekman, US commander for Africa, told reporters in Abidjan.
“It is ahead of schedule and this is because of the excellent coordination that we have had with our Nigerien military counterparts,” said Ekman, who heads up the US Africa Command AFRICOM.
“I expect that we will be complete with the withdrawal by early August, well ahead of the 15 September mutually agreed deadline.”
Posted by: michaelj72 | Jul 25 2024 7:37 utc | 204
Posted by: Suzan | Jul 25 2024 3:27 utc | 185
@ Scorpion | Jul 25 2024 3:02 utc | 181
Today as I went for my usual jog, at this time of year in heat and humidity, a sauna of a sort, I decided that the engineering student Crooks probably thought he was working with the good guys, getting into a special club, and so did exactly as he was told, precisely and punctually.
The rifle was thrown away from the body by the LEO and SS men who mounted the roof and were recorded on cam released today.
I offer occasional articles here but am not following the minutia myself. Am a bear of very little brain who cannot hold the details of ever-changing fact patterns. My first take was that as soon as a lone gunman theory emerged, clearly formed, that this must be a straw man because that is the way of the modern Western world. Based more on narrative than factual analysis.
Sorry, Suzan, I chopped off the beginning of the post during editing in word processor. My #202 7:24 post above was in response to yours and should have begun this way.
@Tom_Q_Collins | Jul 24 2024 23:44 utc | 96
You don’t encounter many Trump haters from other NATO countries, other than banderites. Usually people in other places either have no opinion on Trump or they seem to like him.
Have a look around NATO countries MSM and talk to people (you may have to learn a few languages). You would not believe the kind of claims pushed in some places.
Posted by: Norwegian | Jul 25 2024 7:52 utc | 206
@Melaleuca | Jul 25 2024 0:04 utc | 106
This is getting more suspicious every day.
Thank you for several very informative posts.
Posted by: Norwegian | Jul 25 2024 8:03 utc | 207
@Aleph_Null | Jul 25 2024 0:43 utc | 125
Temperature is an intensity. Averaging temperature over large areas is scientific nonsense.
By the way, where I live this summer has been cold and wet.
Posted by: Norwegian | Jul 25 2024 8:14 utc | 208
referring to my post #200 – I found a video with the second sniper team:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GbdQ27cVZg
This second sniper team, however, looked into the opposite direction to cover the whole area (which makes sense, of course). Go to 1:28 in the video with a nice picture of the two teams.
So it wasn’t this second sniper team that killed Crooks (as CBS speculates) because they looked in a different direction.
It was also not the first sniper team because the view on Crooks was blocked
by a tree.
Both of these statements are clear and comprehensible. So who killed Thomas Matthew Crooks?
Posted by: mk | Jul 25 2024 8:15 utc | 209
Have a look around NATO countries MSM and talk to people (you may have to learn a few languages).
Posted by: Norwegian | Jul 25 2024 7:52 utc | 206
Exactly. Where I live in the “garden”, Trumpy was attacked by MSM all the time. It was really funny. All those “journalists” and other TV idiots who usually lick the shoes of anyone from US were laughing and making fun of the US president, which was like a god before and after.
Posted by: rk | Jul 25 2024 8:22 utc | 210
@Melaleuca | Jul 25 2024 0:47 utc | 127
This is mandatory viewing, very solid Audio analysis. Btw., I am familiar with analyzing time series data (not audio) so it is understandable to me.
>B: https://x.com/chrismartenson/status/1814114895065141491
Audio forensics showing multiple firearms were used and that the first 3 shots came from the location where Gregory Nicol was present
Thanks again for collection and posting this information!
Posted by: Norwegian | Jul 25 2024 8:53 utc | 211
@UWDude | Jul 25 2024 2:11 utc | 166
Who attempted to assassinate trump is pretty irrelevant.
I do not agree with that, but a more fundamental question is: Was there more than one shooter? If yes, it debunks the official narrative of a lone gunman.
The evidence shows, especially the audio analysis from several sources, that there was at least 2 weapons used (or at least 3 if you include the SS sniper that killed Crooks (or whoever was on that roof).
So, this was not a ‘lone gunman’.
Posted by: Norwegian | Jul 25 2024 9:07 utc | 212
@Wisco | Jul 25 2024 2:54 utc | 180
Suzan and Honzo, stop it. The details don’t matter. They are buried in piles and piles of disinfo. Look at “cui bono”.
Demanding people stop posting hard facts is a no-no. It hurts your credibility.
Posted by: Norwegian | Jul 25 2024 9:11 utc | 213
Posted by: Norwegian | Jul 25 2024 9:07 utc | 213
I understand all that. I am not saying it is a waste of time to look into the details.
As I said in an earlier thread, even if internet sleuths literally find the smoking gun, press will ignore, say no evidence, bizarre conspiracy theory.
Half the population already does not care, or is disappointed it failed.
Half of the remaining half will swallow any story by ss and state police, because they wear uniforms and play the good guys on teevee. Including Trump himself, who thanked the police and secret service. XD.
So only 25% even have a chance of caring about the truth of the event.
So yes, it is all very interesting, but irrelevant to anything that happens in the real world.
Perhaps it will wake up a percentage of Trumpers to the deep state, but more than likely, it will just increase his cult of personality.
What os relevant, is who they blame, or try to blame. If they simply try to memory hole the hole thing, they’ll probably get away with it. The Biden resignation certainly helped
It was only 10 days ago.
P.S. has Biden given his televised announcement yet?
Posted by: UWDude | Jul 25 2024 9:58 utc | 214
Greg Nicol, K9 handler, SWAT sniper, Monaca PD and the Beaver Emergency Services Unit, was in the second storey window where the shot lines up
§§| An Absolute nobody visits Butler Farm field and inadvertently discovers SWAT sniper Greg Nicol’s nest.
The second storey window is exactly where local snipers were located.
And “Greg” is named in the bodycam featuring clueless suit SS “investigator”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5jI2aftsY4
§§§|
Butler County DA stands up for 2 local snipers after state police testimony
CBS Pittsburg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CY55nDlSpas
>Butler County District Attorney Richard Goldinger said Pennsylvania State Police Col. Christopher Paris got something wrong at Tuesday’s congressional hearing.…
Journo:
Tonight the Butler County District Attorney is sticking up for two local snipers who were inside the building facing the roof where Patsy carried out the shooting. He says the STATE POLICE got something wrong at yesterday’s Congressional hearing.
Jennifer Borrasso is in Butler township to sort it out for us.
Butler County District Attorney Rich Goldinger claims that only one Butler County ESU member left the AGR building near the roof. He says the other officer stayed inside that building on the second floor at all times.
The state police tell me they are standing by the Commissioner’s testimony on Capitol Hill.
Goldinger is defending two Butler ESU snipers who were reported to have left their assigned building in the AGR complex during the Trump rally.
In a letter Goldinger says claims these officers left their post is a misstatement. They performed the duties to which they were assigned. Goldinger says only one of the snipers left the building briefly to chase Patsy after he was spotted. When he couldn’t find him, he returned to the building. Golding’s letter goes on to say for clarification neither officer left their post as was testified at the hearing on July 13th.
Their post was the building.
>… Colonel Christopher Paris was told the two local snipers positioned at the second floor windows overlooking the roof where Crooks started shooting from to took a photo of crooks and circulated that photo then left the area to go look for Patsy on the ground.
§~ State Police spokesperson Lieutenant Adam Reed defended Paris’s testimony saying quote our agency stands by yesterday’s testimony the investigation into the shooting and its aftermath continues.
DA Goldinger also claims the snipers who were posted inside the building wouldn’t have been able to see Patsy from where they were.
The contradictions come amid a whistleblower claim that police were supposed to be on the roof but went inside because of the hot weather
Members of Congress who toured the site in Butler Township say they were told heat was an issue.
Sources tell me those two local snipers were there to watch the crowd, watch the stage.
We’ve reached out to many people no-one can tell us why the AGR complex was not in the secured area.
Colonel Paris testifying about those two local snipers …..he was told by the Secret Service were there to secure the complex we’ve reached out to many officials here in Butler County, and they say secret service was told that local police couldn’t secure that area because they didn’t have the manpower.
In Butler Township, Jennifer Baraso KDK TV news
The infighting is glorious.
But it absolutely CONFIRMS at least 2 snipers were located in the two storey building with a direct line of sight to Trump.
(And they are lying they couldn’t see Patsy, as all vid by the bodycam, Eli Crane (R-AZ) and the Nobody pastor I linked just now, proves.
Posted by: Melaleuca | Jul 25 2024 10:17 utc | 215
Tom @ 96
If you think the rest of the world dont hate trump with a passion, you need to get out more.
He represents every thing the world hates about america.
Just look at the guys face OMG.
He looks like a bloated pig !
Posted by: Mark2 | Jul 24 2024 23:55 utc | 101
Posted by: ChatNPC | Jul 25 2024 10:19 utc | 216
@UWDude | Jul 25 2024 9:58 utc | 215
P.S. has Biden given his televised announcement yet?
It would have been all over the news if it had happened. The strange letter on Xitter has not been confirmed as coming from Biden.
Posted by: Norwegian | Jul 25 2024 10:34 utc | 217
CrowdStrike’s financial reporting is just as bullshit as their security software.
CrowdStrike Outage Puts Its Financial Reporting Under Scrutiny, Too
CrowdStrike’s preferred revenue measure looks especially dubious following global mishap
CrowdStrike’s CRWD disastrous software update ought to put its financial reporting, not just its product issues, under an unwelcome spotlight.
Take, for instance, a self-defined measure that the cybersecurity giant calls “annual recurring revenue,” or ARR. This isn’t revenue using that term’s standard definition under accounting rules, but it is among CrowdStrike’s most prominent headline numbers and one on which management has trained investors and securities analysts to place great emphasis. It also looks uniquely suspect following the global outage that CrowdStrike caused.
…
Like its cybersecurity competitors, CrowdStrike doesn’t show its math for calculating ARR, or provide any reconciliation to any number prepared using generally accepted accounting principles. At the end of the fiscal year ended Jan. 31, ARR was $3.44 billion, while actual annual revenue was $3.06 billion.
Another curious feature of ARR: If a customer’s subscription expires and the two sides are negotiating a renewal, CrowdStrike says it will still count revenue from it in ARR if the company “is actively in discussion with such an organization for a new subscription or renewal, or until such organization notifies CrowdStrike that it is not renewing its subscription.” So in that scenario it doesn’t need an actual deal to book ARR; talks will suffice.
Whatever its utility as a performance measure, ARR has been good to CrowdStrike’s top executives. It is the primary metric used to set their cash bonuses, according to the company’s proxy statement. Those are small compared with the largest portion of their pay by far—stock awards—which are determined using CrowdStrike’s one-year growth in actual revenue, as well as a self-defined profitability metric.
continues ==> https://www.wsj.com/tech/cybersecurity/crowdstrike-outage-puts-its-financial-reporting-under-scrutiny-too-25ad9e9b?
Self defined perfomance metrics are just as good as magic beans.
Posted by: too scents | Jul 25 2024 10:38 utc | 218
Nowregen @ 218
It ‘was’ all over the news, i heared it at 10 pm uk time. (No tv)
Posted by: Mark2 | Jul 25 2024 10:45 utc | 219
Posted by: fart | Jul 25 2024 6:01 utc | 196
Hes a tipikul Cleeshay masheene. Hee theencks boath partees our too but cheeks ov thuh saym arsse.
Butt hei’s eksited abowr kamelih, and noes shew’ll wind.
Posted by: UWDude | Jul 25 2024 10:48 utc | 220
Having the audio only, and listening with a critical ear….
it was quite long for some one in his condition plus not a single flaw in his speech. That shows it was a con.
They could have done several takes and edited the best sections together, or of couse used AI. After all Abba did a live concert not long ago. They had’nt aged a bit.
Posted by: Mark2 | Jul 25 2024 10:56 utc | 221
UWDude is a Trump supporter.
Posted by: Mark2 | Jul 25 2024 11:05 utc | 223
Fixed that for you.
Posted by: UWDude | Jul 25 2024 11:11 utc | 223
Posted by: mk | Jul 25 2024 8:15 utc | 210
I have to retract/update my claim that Sniper Team II monitored the opposite direction. The saim NYT videoclip I posted shows later how this team, while Trump is speaking, turns around on the roof and monitors the same area as Sniper Team I, apparently they received information about Crooks. Apologies that I didn’t view the whole clip before posting the info.
However, there’s still the possibility that Sniper Team II’s view was also blocked by the tree. In the case of Sniper Team I, this is a certainty. They never got a glimpse of Crooks. This is also demonstrated by the NYT video, by the way, which is quite worth watching.
Posted by: mk | Jul 25 2024 11:13 utc | 224
“Can trump turn water into wine, an walk on water.”
Posted by: Mark2
“what is this thing’s persona supposed to be? drunk guy with a history of inhalant abuse? creepy combination of corny and demented like its brain is malfunctioning from drowning in its own self hatred”
Posted by: fart | Jul 25 2024 6:01 utc | 196
To me Mark 2 is a pointless idiot -however, with all due respect ‘drunk guys with a history of inhalant abuse’ are head and shoulders above this imbecile intellectually, morally and spiritually.
“The SEC filing which showed that Austin Private Wealth shorted a large number of shares of Trump Media & Technology Group Corp (DJT) was incorrect and we immediately amended it as soon as we learned of the error.
No client of APW holds, or has ever held, a put on DJT in the quantity initially reported. The correct holding amount was 12 contracts, or 1,200 shares — not 12 million shares, as was filed in error. In submitting the required report for the second quarter of 2024, a multiplier was applied by a third-party vendor that increased the number of the shares by a multiple of 10,000 for all options contracts (not just DJT). We did not catch the error before approving the filing.
We filed the report on July 12 to reflect our positions on June 28. We amended it on July 16. ”
Posted by: james | Jul 25 2024 1:36 utc | 146
james, with all due respect you don’t understand ‘shorting in the equity markets’.
For one the DJT stock might not have dropped if Trump was killed-it would been a touchstone for Trump supporters to rally around thereby improving the stock price around the killed martyr.
If the PTB were successful in assassinating Trump they would have set themselves up for four more years of pillaging the US govt. and treasury so the measly bread crumbs of a short on DJT Media is a sideshow.
The DJT Media balance sheet is atrocious (1) and, in my opinion, that would attract shorters:fitst number 2021, second 2022.
The stock makes no money but lost 38 cents per share
1. Total Assets
11,236.70
19,251.20
Total Liabilities Net Minority Interest
19,809.30
78,347.40
Total Equity Gross Minority Interest
-8,572.60
-59,096.20
Total Capitalization
-8,572.60
-57,011
Common Stock Equity
-8,572.60
-59,096.20
Capital Lease Obligations
511.40
—
Net Tangible Assets
-8,572.60
-59,096.20
Working Capital
-8,805.10
18,282.10
Invested Capital
-4,448.70
-57,011
Tangible Book Value
-8,572.60
-59,096.20
Total Debt
4,635.30
2,085.20
Share Issued
136,700.58
136,700.58
Ordinary Shares Number
136,700.58
136,700.58
In Washington ‘secrecy
Canocks another very upset trump supporter.
Understandable 3 months to go and already its all over. They lost again.
The dems did’nt win Rep’s lost.
A subtile neuonce.
Posted by: Mark2 | Jul 25 2024 11:47 utc | 228
Today’s vid from Chris Martenson with the audio analysis.
This supports the Trump shooter being inside a building.
Chris Martenson, PhD
@chrismartenson
July 24 2024
Here’s the next installment of The Citizens’ Investigation into Trump’s near assassination. The audio has been mostly figured out and resolved.
The evidence is consistent with 2 baddies and 2 LEO weapons being fired.
As you walk through the evidence with me, this is clear.
https://x.com/chrismartenson/status/1816269036768092383
Posted by: Melaleuca | Jul 25 2024 11:50 utc | 229
In other words, might makes right. It always has, and always will.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jul 24 2024 16:01 utc | 9
No, it doesn’t. It merely transcends the rightful order. Its true basis is natural respect for everyone.
Posted by: persiflo | Jul 25 2024 12:00 utc | 230
Posted by: Honzo | Jul 25 2024 6:07 utc | 197
That is a well constructed post, Honzo. My thoughts on current events are similar, except that I always have in mind the edict expressed by Plato in his dialogues that the best we can hope for when seeking truth is right opinion. Issues are frequently clouded, especially as time progresses. I research as much as my limited brain permits, and I do not trust media accounts.
We don’t always get all the answers: in fact – we seldom do. But it’s still a good thing to try.
Posted by: juliania | Jul 25 2024 12:18 utc | 231
re: cui bono concerning the Trump assassination attempt
This only works when the crime succeeds.
Example: if we were to looks at Russia’s economy now, using the principle of cui bono we might conclude that Russia initiated the conflict to grow their economy. Of course we would have to overlook the fact of the ”Sanctions from Hell” backfiring unexpectedly (note: I expected the sanctions to fail spectacularly, but not many others did, including Putin).
When the crime fails, then cui bono is meaningless for finding the perpetrators. Only if we look at who would have benefited had the crime succeeded does cui bono have any significance.
And no, stunningly retarded TDS people, Trump did not arrange for someone to shoot his ear in order to make you look stunningly retarded. Trump doesn’t have to do anything to make you crazies look bad. The very fact you nut jobs even suggest that someone would get a sniper to do the William Tell gig on themselves just to victimize you self-absorbed victimhood fanatics demonstrates that your appearance as lunatics needs no effort from Trump.
Posted by: William Gruff | Jul 25 2024 12:40 utc | 232
Trump’s support of Israel is a deal breaker for me and the Democrats stance is about the only thing I like about them. So I don’t vote. As Frank Zappa said, ” no one looks good wearing brown lipstick.”
Posted by: Immaculate deception | Jul 25 2024 12:48 utc | 233
I expected the sanctions to fail spectacularly, but not many others did, including Putin.
Posted by: William Gruff | Jul 25 2024 12:40 utc | 233
Just a coincidence they did fail. Nothing to do with Putin’s leadership and long range diplomatic, military and economic strategic planning pver the past 20 years.
Posted by: UWDude | Jul 25 2024 12:48 utc | 234
Gruff
But the crime did sucsseed.
It was street theater.
A fake attempt on his life.
To play the victem card.
No ears were harmed in the making of that movie..
Just some poor sob of a loyal suppoter got topped.
But you know this already gruff.
Your dishonest. And a strainger to truth and reality.
Posted by: Mark2 | Jul 25 2024 12:51 utc | 235
Kamala’s “left” positions on UBI, abortion, etc. mean nothing except that she is from San Francisco.
This is apparatchik who has never had a principled position on anything and would not recognize a principle if it smacked her in the face.
Her slight of Netanyahu makes no sense at all for an American politician. She is married to Hollywood Jewish. Should she persist even a bit longer on this course the Jewish donors either abstain or go Trump. Jewish campaign workers and voters the same.
It looks a lot like an abdication in favor of Trump.
Posted by: oldhippie | Jul 25 2024 12:52 utc | 236
https://t.me/llordofwar/364949
❗️ Obama ‘furious’ over Harris’ nomination and doesn’t believe she can beat Trump – New York Post
📝 According to the publication’s source, the former American leader considers the US Vice President incompetent. Harris doesn’t know how to debate and may also say something inappropriate about Israel, Palestine or Ukraine.
👔 It is reported that Obama was involved in a campaign aimed at Biden’s exit from the presidential race, but he expected to see Arizona Senator Mark Kelly as the Democratic candidate.
#important
https://nypost.com/2024/07/24/us-news/obama-doesnt-believe-kamala-harris-can-beat-trump-sources/
Obama doesn’t believe Kamala Harris can beat Trump, which is why he hasn’t endorsed her: sources
Former President Barack Obama hasn’t endorsed Kamala Harris’ presidential bid because he doesn’t think she can beat Donald Trump, according to a source close to the Biden family.
Following President Biden’s shocking exit from the race on Sunday, and his immediate endorsement of the vice president, most of the Democratic elite have been quick to rally behind Harris — but Obama is a notable exception.
“Obama’s very upset because he knows she can’t win,” the Biden family source told The Post.
…
Posted by: anon2020 | Jul 25 2024 13:11 utc | 237
”Just a coincidence they [sanctions on Russia] did fail.”
It is not a coincidence at all. It is the very predictable consequence of a state with an economy based upon finance trying to withhold that finance from others. It might work against a state with an insignificant economy, or a smaller finance-based economy, but not a large manufacturing economy. There was never a chance the sanctions against Russia would work.
Posted by: William Gruff | Jul 25 2024 13:11 utc | 238
Posted by: William Gruff | Jul 25 2024 13:11 utc | 239
Putin knew they were coming, prepared for them, and knew they would fail before he moved into Ukraine.
He would not have moved into Ukraine if he thought the sanctions would harm Russia in any significant way.
He knew he could make them backfire, he knew exactly how NATO would act, so he planted Russia’s feet and flipped NATO over his hip.
None of it was luck or coincidence. It was 5D chess.
Posted by: UWDude | Jul 25 2024 13:17 utc | 239
10 shots fired, one nicked ear and one collateral kill……snipers? My ass.
Cheers M
Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Jul 25 2024 13:19 utc | 240
@UWDude | Jul 25 2024 9:58 utc | 215
P.S. has Biden given his televised announcement yet?
It would have been all over the news if it had happened. The strange letter on Xitter has not been confirmed as coming from Biden.
Posted by: Norwegian | Jul 25 2024 10:34 utc | 218
Seriously? Anybody even reads or tries checking the news? I had to rewind half an hour on CNN because I missed the live but commented within an hour
“So biden promised everything and the cure for cancer
Not sure if his eyes belong to a live human
He wants to pass the torch, id vote for torching him 😀
And Kamala
Posted by: Newbie | Jul 25 2024 0:41 utc | 124”
Posted by: Newbie | Jul 25 2024 13:26 utc | 241
“So biden promised everything and the cure for cancer
Not sure if his eyes belong to a live human
He wants to pass the torch, id vote for torching him 😀
And Kamala
Posted by: Newbie | Jul 25 2024 0:41 utc | 124”
Posted by: Newbie | Jul 25 2024 13:26 utc | 242
Sorry, I read that, but had no idea it meant he said it in his televised thing last night. Pretty sure he talked about curing cancer before, because I remember thinking it was just as ridiculous as when W. Bush said we’d be going to Mars during his presidency.
Posted by: UWDude | Jul 25 2024 13:30 utc | 242
Self defined perfomance metrics are just as good as magic beans.
Posted by: too scents | Jul 25 2024 10:38 utc | 219
Accruals and deferrals with a 15% impact vs invoicing in SAS companies is nothing special.
Sorry to bust your bubble but it’s no smoking gun per se. It might be the likely income and the “prudential” one be used to deduct whatever they can from taxable profit.
My 2 cents (with decades of discussing A&D with auditors and tax authorities)
Posted by: Newbie | Jul 25 2024 13:35 utc | 243
sean the leprechaun @241
There were snipers, just incompetent ones.
Can you honestly point to a single competent individual in the Biden Administration or the seventeen agencies of the American ”intelligence community“?
Of course not. Incompetence is the rule, and you’d have your work cut out trying to find the exceptions.
Posted by: William Gruff | Jul 25 2024 13:38 utc | 244
It might be the likely income and the “prudential” one be used to deduct whatever they can from taxable profit.
My 2 cents (with decades of discussing A&D with auditors and tax authorities)
Posted by: Newbie | Jul 25 2024 13:35 utc | 244
I kind of thought the same. A tax swap scheme that got accidentally exposed.
Posted by: UWDude | Jul 25 2024 13:39 utc | 245
Posted by: Aleph_Null | Jul 25 2024 0:43 utc | 125
“Many municipalities are logging record temps, but the heft of this spike is hitting Antarctica — which is not good news at all for beachfront real-estate, I’ll tell ya.”
Max temp Vostok antarctic research Station for
22.07.2024 -51°C
max temp range july -45°C to -68°C
22.07.2023 -57°C
max temp range july -49°C to -72°C
Such articles could read very differently if journalists would write them with concrete figures or readers did their due diligence.
IMHO the antarctic ice sheet couldn’t care less.
Kind regards
Posted by: Wasntme | Jul 25 2024 13:40 utc | 246
My 2 cents (with decades of discussing A&D with auditors and tax authorities)
Posted by: Newbie | Jul 25 2024 13:35 utc | 244
How common is it a “third party vendor” accidentally puts through an order 10000 times larger than what the client requested?
Posted by: UWDude | Jul 25 2024 13:41 utc | 247
Make that, reports to the SEC a figure 10000 times larger.
Posted by: UWDude | Jul 25 2024 13:46 utc | 248
Sorry, I read that, but had no idea it meant he said it in his televised thing last night. Pretty sure he talked about curing cancer before, because I remember thinking it was just as ridiculous as when W. Bush said we’d be going to Mars during his presidency.
Posted by: UWDude | Jul 25 2024 13:30 utc | 243
I kind of thought the same. A tax swap scheme that got accidentally exposed.
Posted by: UWDude | Jul 25 2024 13:39 utc | 246
On biden, I just did a quick comment because I expected the thread to soon be filled with comments on his announcement (focused on having seen CGI looking more real than him and the cure for cancer as a WTF momment, the rest is the expected crap)
On the other one maybe not even that, just plain tax accounting (or maybe more, but that’s for the IRS to find)
Posted by: Newbie | Jul 25 2024 13:48 utc | 249
Gruff wrote “When the crime fails, then cui bono is meaningless…”
So Gruff thinks that when you start with the assumption that the crime did fail and then that can be used as a fact in evidence to prove that the crime failed. Kinda circular reasoning doncha think?
Why don’t you tell us had Trump been killed then cui bono? I would think it would definitely not be the deep state. There would be a lot more backlash then just the head of the Secret Service being canned.
Posted by: jinn | Jul 25 2024 13:48 utc | 250
I would think it would definitely not be the deep state. There would be a lot more backlash then just the head of the Secret Service being canned.
Posted by: jinn | Jul 25 2024 13:48 utc | 251
Enemies of the state are still in prison for jan 6.
Deep state would love the opportunity to round up more, and get more surveillance and state power to stop right wing terrorism.
Posted by: UWDude | Jul 25 2024 13:53 utc | 251
Posted by: UWDude | Jul 25 2024 13:53 utc | 252
Also dead Trump means republican candidate goes back to regular old republican who doesn’t say things that hurt their feelings, like John Bolton’s solution to everything is bombing.
Posted by: UWDude | Jul 25 2024 13:56 utc | 252
referring to my post #200 – I found a video with the second sniper team:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GbdQ27cVZg
This second sniper team, however, looked into the opposite direction to cover the whole area (which makes sense, of course). Go to 1:28 in the video with a nice picture of the two teams.
So it wasn’t this second sniper team that killed Crooks (as CBS speculates) because they looked in a different direction.
It was also not the first sniper team because the view on Crooks was blocked
by a tree.
Both of these statements are clear and comprehensible. So who killed Thomas Matthew Crooks?
Posted by: mk | Jul 25 2024 8:15 utc | 210
So…
First of all, while Thomas Matthew Crooks is almost certaintly dead, there’s no solid evidence that he was even at the rally. The ‘man on the roof’ is more likely Maxwell Yearick, a much more qualified suspect, who cannot be found anywhere at this time- reported ‘missing’ right after the shooting. Yearick’s background also make him a more qualified patsy than Crooks. An associate in a violent anti-Trump demonstration in 2016, who went to jail with Yearick for their actions, also may have been detained at the scene.
In any case, someone was shot on the roof. The position does have a clear line of site to the South Sniper team, and they turned before the shooting and were no doubt zeroing in on him but did not have the shot lined up before shooting started, which could explain the delay. The problem is that Trump was looking at the jumbotron that is directly behind the bleachers to his right. He could not have been shot in the right earlobe from the roof position. someone firing from there, or from the 2nd story window behind that rooftop, would have hit Trump in the left side of his head- use a straight edge like a piece of paper to ‘connect the dots.’ Whoever shot Trump was in the direction of the jumbotron. Possibly in the water tower, but I think more likely in a hunting blind in one of the trees.
Best guess on current evidence: Shooter 1 was in the trees back of the bleachers, shot three times, missed. Shooter 2 was on the roof, was surprised by Shooter 1 (ie, thought they were the real assassin?) hesitates, then starts spraying bullets. Five shots, making eight total. The ninth shot kills the shooter- but not from the SS Sniper teams. South team makes the tenth shot against an already dead Yearick. I think the rooftop shooter was probably killed by the local team in the window behind him, because he thought they were on his side- and they were, up to that point, since they could have shot him any time or warned Trump off. Then the South SS sniper team shot in order to mask the actual kill shot- or maybe Yearick was still moving. Meanwhile, the professional sniper is on his way home, unmolested.
I know there is a problem with this- the Yearick/Crooks/2nd floor window positions all are credible sources for the audience members shot and the hit on the railing, which can only be explained by the ‘first shot’ coming from that direction. At least one analyst of the audio claims that the audio signature of the first shot is commensurate with two shots fire at almost exactly the same time- ie, coordinated over coms. That would mean the 2nd floor window, and Yearick/Crooks does not appear to have had coms. So- ‘ready, set, go, b-bang.’ Perhaps they shot at exactly the same time but the different ranges caused a slight delay in the report signatures.
The video evidence of North SS sniper team suggests that when the first shot was fired, they were startled- they ducked for cover, yanked the tripod out of position. That strongly suggests that they were fired upon from an unexpected quarter- they had been trying to see Yearick/Crooks through the trees, and suddenly a bullet snaps near their heads. They duck, taking them out of the fight, and if all had gone well, Yearick/Crooks might well have escaped if not shot from behind before the South SS sniper team could get their shot off.
Posted by: Honzo | Jul 25 2024 14:01 utc | 253
William Gruff | Jul 25 2024 13:38 utc | 245
There were snipers, just incompetent ones
Well, not to praise anyone involved in the overall clusteruck, but a shot that clips Trump’s ear, missing his brain by a few centimeters because he turned his head, can’t really be considered incompetence. More like bad luck.
Posted by: john | Jul 25 2024 14:10 utc | 254
My 2 cents (with decades of discussing A&D with auditors and tax authorities)
Posted by: Newbie | Jul 25 2024 13:35 utc | 244
How common is it a “third party vendor” accidentally puts through an order 10000 times larger than what the client requested?
Posted by: UWDude | Jul 25 2024 13:41 utc | 248
Sorry, that’s another subject altogether.
Have a friend more in that area might have a talk later, but the problem is if transactions are filled who pays for the screw up.
But even if the “clerical error” stands, traders who SAW the position might have acted upon it so it is not a “oops we made a tiny mistake” moment
I would enjoy seeing DJT taking someone to court over this one, and a discovery process might raise some interesting stuff.
Posted by: Newbie | Jul 25 2024 14:10 utc | 255
New York (CNN) — Bad news for passengers: Delta Air Lines canceled hundreds more flights early Tuesday morning, as the problems caused by last week’s global tech outage continued into a fifth day. Worse news: Delta’s meltdown will probably extend through the end of the week.
As of 8:30 am ET the Atlanta-based airline had canceled 420 flights, and Endeavor Air, its regional carrier that feeds its system under the Delta Connection brand, had canceled another 18 flights. The cancellations follow more than 1,250 flight cancellations Monday, and 4,500 flights from Friday through Sunday between Delta and Delta connection.
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Principles of safe operating system and safe distributed systems were developed decades ago, and for distributed systems the “classic application” was airline reservation system. My impression is that contemporary software development is degenerating programs instead of improving them, especially under tutelage of proprietary “platform” of Microsoft and Apple. Something is wrong both conceptually and organizationally, where companies with so-so expertise are authorized to push automatic updates. But rest assured, governments work on cyber-security and threat prevention, lest dreaded “malign actors” disable critical utilities etc.
Posted by: Piotr Berman | Jul 25 2024 14:15 utc | 256
contemporary software development is
Posted by: Piotr Berman | Jul 25 2024 14:15 utc | 257
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The “Agile” development model has been specifically adopted in order to transfer debugging and support costs onto the customer.
Compared to traditional software engineering, agile software development mainly targets complex systems and product development with dynamic, indeterministic and non-linear properties. Accurate estimates, stable plans, and predictions are often hard to get in early stages, and confidence in them is likely to be low. Agile practitioners use their free will to reduce the “leap of faith” that is needed before any evidence of value can be obtained. Requirements and design are held to be emergent. Big up-front specifications would probably cause a lot of waste in such cases, i.e., are not economically sound. These basic arguments and previous industry experiences, learned from years of successes and failures, have helped shape agile development’s favor of adaptive, iterative and evolutionary development.
“>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agile_software_development#Philosophy
Broken by design. As soon as the customer accepts it the problems are his.
Re: “As soon as you drive it off the lot …”
Posted by: too scents | Jul 25 2024 14:27 utc | 257
Norman Solomon:
“The Democratic Party’s Culture of Loyalty”
“How an Ethos of Compliance Made the Biden Debacle Possible”
https://tomdispatch.com/the-democratic-partys-culture-of-loyalty/
Posted by: WMG | Jul 25 2024 14:27 utc | 258
this should have been in my post as well–
“A mineral that contains water molecules has never been found in previously returned lunar soil samples,” Jin Shifeng, associate researcher at the Institute of Physics of CAS, said.”
Posted by: arby | Jul 25 2024 14:35 utc | 260
a 15% impact vs invoicing in SAS companies is nothing special.
Posted by: Newbie | Jul 25 2024 13:35 utc | 244
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is nothing special
The point, which you amplify, is that these companies are cheating.
That 15% is a cost that is born somewhere. It is a misallocation of capital and a perfect example of control fraud.
Posted by: too scents | Jul 25 2024 14:37 utc | 261
@ Wasntme | Jul 25 2024 13:40 utc | 247
You don’t really want to talk about the warmth in Antarctica. With the entire planet at record heat (most likely a record for +100K years), coincident with the NH peak, Antarctica’s relative warmth is making the difference in global stats. The continental anomaly there is greatest.
Your unwillingness to even consider giving the issue serious thought is evident by the fact that now, in the heart of the SH winter, you expect record heat in Vostok? Whatever you’re trying to prove, you make a notably lame effort.
Tell you what: I’ve got some beachfront property in Miami to sell you!
Posted by: Aleph_Null | Jul 25 2024 14:39 utc | 262
and a perfect example of control fraud.
Posted by: too scents | Jul 25 2024 14:37 utc | 262
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Adding … But no worries. These things always self correct.
When they do it is expensive.
Posted by: too scents | Jul 25 2024 14:39 utc | 263
Broken by design. As soon as the customer accepts it the problems are his.
Re: “As soon as you drive it off the lot …”
Posted by: too scents | Jul 25 2024 14:27 utc | 258
Waterfall project management with clear specs is a thing of the past.
So is any hope of things that are “safe”
Plug & Pray is the new normal
I’m glad the west hasn’t made new nuclear plants lately 😀
Posted by: Newbie | Jul 25 2024 14:41 utc | 264
Norman Solomon:
“The Democratic Party’s Culture of Loyalty”
“How an Ethos of Compliance Made the Biden Debacle Possible”
https://tomdispatch.com/the-democratic-partys-culture-of-loyalty/
Posted by: WMG | Jul 25 2024 14:27 utc | 259
The Democrats should have started to select a new presidential candidate, a successor for Biden, as soon as the 1st quarter of 2021.
This story confirms my notion that too many people have a vested (financial) interest in maintaining the status quo in the Democratic party.
Posted by: WMG | Jul 25 2024 14:43 utc | 265
Posted by: Honzo | Jul 25 2024 14:01 utc | 254
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Superlative summary!
Do you think they will try again? Or can The Donald work with a loyal cadre of SS agents who will ensure his safety from now on?
This whole business reminds me of descriptions of Russian land warfare approach, one aspect of which is to function like water. Pull back here, flow there, pool or flood into new zones etc.
The options for various ‘Deep State’ actors are similarly limitless, so it’s more like Go than Chess. If they decide to take Trump out many different scenarios open up; if they let him win, various others; or they can have him lose and work with several more.
All lead to steady or rapid deterioration of the old nation state and the birth of something quite different, perhaps closer to the Chinese model though the now fragmented and dumbed down population is not well suited to a Confucian-style conformist dynamic, or perhaps the Russian model which is more European. Both are strong state ‘authoritarian’ which is the Deep State modus operandi already.
is nothing special
The point, which you amplify, is that these companies are cheating.
That 15% is a cost that is born somewhere. It is a misallocation of capital and a perfect example of control fraud.
Posted by: too scents | Jul 25 2024 14:37 utc | 262
Not really. Let me show you a clear example. (and it is a simplification of what can happen when you’re growing)
You started your company, got your first customer, he signs (July first) a yearly contract for 12 M and pays upfront.
You can say that your yearly sales are 12 M (and you expect them to remain, it might even be a 10 year contract with heavy penalties for early termination)
But this particular contract concerns 01/07/2024 to 30/06/2025 so in my profit line I’ll have 6 M and the remainder 6 M are in accruals as it concerns 2025.
In a growing company this can happen with a significant effect.
Posted by: Newbie | Jul 25 2024 14:49 utc | 267
In a growing company this can happen with a significant effect.
Posted by: Newbie | Jul 25 2024 14:49 utc | 268
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The company can grow like the magic beanstock when you purposely miscount customers.
Posted by: too scents | Jul 25 2024 14:53 utc | 268
(Had to make a correction to a my previous post)
Norman Solomon:
“The Democratic Party’s Culture of Loyalty”
“How an Ethos of Compliance Made the Biden Debacle Possible”
https://tomdispatch.com/the-democratic-partys-culture-of-loyalty/
The Democrats should have started to select a new presidential candidate, a successor for Biden, as soon as the 1st quarter of 2021.
This story confirms my notion that too many people have a vested (financial) interest in maintaining the status quo in the Democratic party.
Posted by: WMG | Jul 25 2024 14:43 utc | 266
Posted by: WMG | Jul 25 2024 14:54 utc | 269
The Burkinabe people have been protesting that the French embassy is too close to the Presidential palace in Ouagadougou.
I was looking into the Colonial pact that France hoisted on its colonies. It’s practically a slave contract with no sovereignty whatsoever for its vassals.
Not even the smallest Western country could imagine being under such a “deal”.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jul 25 2024 14:55 utc | 270
Principles of safe operating system and safe distributed systems were developed decades ago, and for distributed systems the “classic application” was airline reservation system… Something is wrong both conceptually and organizationally, where companies with so-so expertise are authorized to push automatic updates.
@ Piotr Berman | Jul 25 2024 14:15 utc | 257
You state it well. That wide-open dialectic and innovation of a free Internet (remember “open source”?) — those awesome currents of digital liberty from which miracles such as moonofalabama once sprung — it’s all shattered to pieces on the rocks of regnant commerce. Even the most basic laws, such as test it before you release it, have dissolved in the current stage of cyberentropy.
I see it as part of a much larger sociotechnological trend: watch the Internet putrify. Nearly everywhere I go I’m assaulted by video ads I can neither stop nor dismiss. Here’s a video-loop of a thumb massaging a pimple, for some reason, and I can’t even scroll away. I’m rediscovering long-neglected books (so far impervious to the pathogen) from my non-electronic shelves.
Posted by: Aleph_Null | Jul 25 2024 15:06 utc | 271
Joe Biden ten minute speech last night was just incredibly concerning.
Even in this short speech he lost his way, mumbling and at one point seemed to lose the setting on the teleprompter.
This man has been propped up for over four years as the country’s leader by the Obama/Soros neo con group, and yet has been completely mentally incompetent via advanced dementia.
And what is with the deep bruising on left side of his jaw?
Posted by: Tobias Cole | Jul 25 2024 15:16 utc | 272
WMG@1454
The understanding of semantics may have bypassed your awareness of political reality. When you refer to the Dems as the “Democratic” party you are snared by their semantic trickery of calling themselves “democratic”. The way they managed to bypass the primary election victories of Bernie Sanders is proof positive that the controlled from the very top, operatives of the Democrat party are by no means democratic.
Astute observers have long realized that rule from the top-down by the bought and paid-for operatives of the DNC is the polar opposite of an actual democratic entity.
Please reconsider your adoption of “Democratic” mind-control memes by the power-brokers of the Democrat party. Semantic warfare upon our minds is a major tool of the ruling bank$ter elite. The DNC are their water-carriers…mere minions by those who do all they can to control the narrative.
The war in which we are currently engaged…whether we are aware of that or not …is a struggle for the minds of We The People. Those who without full consideration adopt the memes and schemes of the minions for the enemies of humanity, are deliberately made unaware of Semantic warfare, by means of which our minds are subsumed under their control.
Three little words are the deepest fear of the ruling elite: “Out of Control”. Take some time to learn the rules of the game of semantics. Empower yourself so that you can become a warrior for truth, justice and elementary honesty.
Posted by: aristodemos | Jul 25 2024 15:20 utc | 273
@ canuck | Jul 25 2024 11:38 utc | 227
thanks canuck, but i do understand what shorting is.. and i make a distinction between shorting and buying puts which is what happened here.. they are different.. in fact, i would argue that most folks here haven’t shorted or played with options in the stock market.. i have.. cheers..
Posted by: james | Jul 25 2024 15:23 utc | 274
the idea that 1 put option represents 1000 shares shorted probably confuses many here as well… either one understands what put options are, or they don’t..
Posted by: james | Jul 25 2024 15:26 utc | 275
Posted by: Honzo | Jul 25 2024 14:01 utc | 254
Thank you for this elaboration, probably close to what has happened.
Posted by: mk | Jul 25 2024 15:28 utc | 276
Scorpion@1445
Well stated and to the point. A multigenerationally deliberately dumbed-down population is easy to mentally manipulate, particularly through the old divide and conquer/divide and rule strategies and tactics. Rule from the top down is ever and anon the aim of the ruling elite. Their control over every major institution in our ruptured republic is key to their power.
Countervailing positive trends are in the works. Due to the possibilities engendered by the internet, social-media and other alternative sources of information and opinions; the two younger generations have essentially shitcanned the whole institutional matrix. The Great Awakening is also occurring amongst those who endeavor to walk the spirit path… along with those who quest for truth and justice.
Essence of the struggle is the ongoing conflict for people’s minds. A fading majority remains terminally deluded. Contrarily, the Awakeners are a growing phenomenon. As the insanity of indebtedness and hyper-inflation runs its course, it becomes virtually axiomatic that the proportion of Awakeners will consequently increase.
When We The People begin to think for ourselves; the outcome veers towards positive outcomes.
Posted by: aristodemos | Jul 25 2024 15:32 utc | 277
i would argue that most folks here haven’t shorted or played with options in the stock market.. i have.. cheers..
Posted by: james | Jul 25 2024 15:23 utc | 275
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How was Hillary Clinton able to front run the cattle futures options market?
Apply the answer to Trump’s short position on DJT.
Posted by: too scents | Jul 25 2024 15:34 utc | 278
@ too scents | Jul 25 2024 15:34 utc | 279
do you understand the difference between futures and options??
Posted by: james | Jul 25 2024 15:42 utc | 279
do you understand the difference between futures and options??
Posted by: james | Jul 25 2024 15:42 utc | 280
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Yes, and I know what a market maker is too.
DJT is a cornered marked and Trump is the whale.
Posted by: too scents | Jul 25 2024 15:49 utc | 280
lol.. okay… you ought to be able to answer your own question then..
in other news… kudos to the germans who can still think straight..
THE BERLIN WALL FALLS AGAIN, THIS TIME ON THE STATE PROSECUTION OF HEINRICH BUECHER
Posted by: james | Jul 25 2024 15:53 utc | 281
So lets see now……….
– The SS and local command HQ is alerted before DJT even takes the stage that there is a suspicious man with a range finder lurking in the vicinity, but the suspect can not be located or questioned or detained.
– DJT is allowed to egress the secure holding area behind the stage, despite the fact the suspect cant be found
– Then multiple reports are made that a man is on the roof of building with an AR. No SS or local sniper team utilizes that weapon. Yet DJT is not removed from the stage and taken to a safe area.
– Then the first gunman is confronted on the roof by a local PO, but the local PO falls from the overhang after gunman one points his AR at him.
– DJT remains on the stage. No warning is given to the PPU detail with DJT.
– Shots are immediately fired and hit the stands behind DJT.
– More shots are fired, one of which nearly kills DJT.
– Still no SS reaction. DJT takes his own cover!
– Only then does the SS detail of undersized agents fall upon him.
– More shot ring out, and gunman one is hit by either the South SS sniper team, or the local sniper team or an unknown sniper somewhere on the perimeter of farm show grounds.
– This was either a massive organizational fail by the SS or a carefully planned assassination plot by Antifa or the deep state or neo con’s that was interrupted by the Local PO’s intrusion on shooter one.
– Huge questions here:
+ How many shooters?
+ Where were positioned?
+ Who capped gunman/shooter one? Local sniper team, SS sniper north or south, an unknown sniper not yet ID’d?
+ Why was gunman/shooter one’s cell phone heavily encrypted?
+ Why was he visited by DC operatives at his home?
– For Chris Wray to state yesterday that they have no evidence of multiple shooters or plotters is patently absurd………
Posted by: Tobias Cole | Jul 25 2024 16:00 utc | 282
@ Tobias Cole | Jul 25 2024 16:00 utc | 283
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What if you don’t like the answer to the shooter question?
What would be a good answer, if there is one?
Posted by: too scents | Jul 25 2024 16:12 utc | 283
@Tobias Cole | Jul 25 2024 15:16 utc | 273
And what is with the deep bruising on left side of his jaw?
I finally got to see the video https://t.me/ukraine_watch/26376
He sure has worked on his tan while away in his basement. Indeed there seemed to be a dark area on left side of his jaw. Maybe that’s why they painted him orange, so it would not stand out so much.
Posted by: Norwegian | Jul 25 2024 16:18 utc | 284
@ aristodemos | Jul 25 2024 15:20 utc | 274
Agree. But I was aghast to see how deep the rot in (in this particular case the) “Democratic Party” has progressed.
Politically and ideologically I consider myself to be closer to the Democratic party than to the Republican party. But already long time I drew the conclusion that both parties are parties of the “ruling class” and that both parties are “bought and paid for” by people who have the one or the other (financial) vested interest to not “change course”.
I don’t consider neither party to be “democratic” with a small “d” any more. #Sad.
Posted by: WMG | Jul 25 2024 16:21 utc | 285
Indeed there seemed to be a dark area on left side of his jaw.
Posted by: Norwegian | Jul 25 2024 16:18 utc | 285
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There has been a rumor of marks on Biden’s face as being evidence that he was fitted with a gag.
This rumor was explained away as being caused be the straps of a cpap device.
Posted by: too scents | Jul 25 2024 16:23 utc | 286
Posted by: Aleph_Null | Jul 25 2024 14:39 utc | 263
I wouldn’t talk of warmth below 0°C.
My opinion is that ice does not care if its -45 or -55°C.
“With the entire planet at record heat”
Would you be so kind and provide a data link?
Asking for a friend experiencing a mild and very rainy european summer.
(most likely a record for +100K years)
Placing the refence in the beginning of the Last Glacial Period looks impressing, not minding the ice sheets and arctc tundra covering north america and europe for most of the period.
Not to speak about the “challenges and oppotunities” reconstructing and combining the diverse data sources to one coherent view by the chosen few.
Considering historic references like the viking settlement on greenland under Erik the red – sustaining up to 6k settlers – i see the constant alarmism in the field as chicks chirping for more dough. And the parent birds are more than happy to spend ours there: “Anthropogenic climate change” is a brilliant narrativ to gain even more control over the inhabitants of Slavelandia.
Posted by: Wasntme | Jul 25 2024 16:28 utc | 288
“The Democrats should have started to select a new presidential candidate, a successor for Biden, as soon as the 1st quarter of 2021.”
Please.
This was their selection process.
you think they want to involve voters in that?
Posted by: Not Ewe | Jul 25 2024 16:40 utc | 289
@too scents | Jul 25 2024 16:23 utc | 287
There has been a rumor of marks on Biden’s face as being evidence that he was fitted with a gag.
Could you explain what “fitted with a gag” means?
This rumor was explained away as being caused be the straps of a cpap device.
That’s nonsense. I know someone using a cpap device.
Posted by: Norwegian | Jul 25 2024 16:42 utc | 290
Could you explain what “fitted with a gag” means?
Posted by: Norwegian | Jul 25 2024 16:42 utc | 291
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https://www.google.com/search?q=ball+gag&udm=2
Posted by: too scents | Jul 25 2024 16:45 utc | 291
@too scents | Jul 25 2024 16:45 utc | 292
LOL, I am not sure about that 😬
Maybe an old fashion right swing.
Posted by: Norwegian | Jul 25 2024 16:50 utc | 292
My voice from Germany: Trump is widely viewed with disgust here, the disfiguring media campaign including russiagate and the HCQ stunt seems to have been a NATO wide thing. Readers of the news will view him as a threat to democracy, no few will express sorry that he didn’t die, and pretty much the only believers in him also believed in QAnon.
Probably many Germans are too polite to publicly despise him on international media. Those who would offer an opinion would mostly have some interest in foreign affairs and global policy, so among them a less 1-dimensional view is often found.
MSM on Trump has been twisted throughout – not that I’d have studied it much – but it appeared like “2 minutes of hate” non-stop.
Posted by: persiflo | Jul 25 2024 16:50 utc | 293
I am not sure about that 😬
Posted by: Norwegian | Jul 25 2024 16:50 utc | 293
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I prefer the gag theory to the 2nd shooter theory.
Posted by: too scents | Jul 25 2024 16:54 utc | 294
lex talionis@178 links to a Black Agenda Report that starts with the premise that starts with the premise that Biden has been a shell for years and that replacing Biden somehow is a coup instead of something that a healthy democracy would have had to do if Biden had merely died of natural causes. This kind of confusion helps no one. The explanation for this self-contradiction is an offhand claim that for some unspecified reason “they” (no clue who this is supposed to be, except somebody white,) couldn’t rig the primaries to ensure their new choice! This isn’t even an argument, it’s just BS. It makes more sense to say they wanted the Democrats to take a dive by putting in Harris, splitting the Democrats’ donor base, the real party so far as the ruling class is concerned. The truly undemocratic aspect is actually the assumption the president/nominee gets to simply choose their own successor! Not sure this author has even noticed that.
The observation that Harris is committed to white power is the kind of denial of class to be expected in idpol/woke (or whatever you want to call it.) Harris is committed to ruling class power. Again, this kind of confusionism or obscurantism helps no one. My judgment of course. I can only point out that for decades upon decades class and class struggle has been denied to even exist, much less matter, that symbolic or performative politics aimed at petty bourgeois privileges being expanded to all loyal to capitalism, or restricted to the old guard, has dominated. I don’t think that’s been working for the majority of the American people.
Class structure in the US is so stratified that mere millionaires like Clinton or Obama or Biden count almost as little people. In many ways you’re not talking about genuinely rich till you talk hundreds of millions at least. And serious money is billions. (By the way, Pelosi and her husband verge on that, apparently due to insider trading? The real corruption is what’s legal, though, so it’s not clear is the Pelosis are serial lawbreakers and cheats.) It’s the difference between the CEO and the Chairman of the Board, the first matters yes, has to, that’s the dude who does the actual work. But anybody who ignores the boards is a fool. Focusing on the “COB gang” doesn’t even try to go deep analysis. Even worse, the notion COB is a gang rather than a set of rivals is preposterous.
Trump faking an assassination is still ludicrous, the sort of thing that gives conspiratorial thinking a bad name. Nearly as bad is the versions where cheap cynicism, masquerading as intelligence, conjures up other assassins from thin air. The related versions where Crooks is mythologized as somehow being a militant Democrat are equally fictional. In general, cui bono? is indeed a valid question. But valid answers still depend on evidence. Hypotheses are not evidence…and if the questions don’t find evidence even after being investigated, then absence of evidence is indeed evidence of absence. There is no reason at this point to think Crooks was acting on orders. It is still most probable to think he was a gun nut (generally deemed a Trumper) who targeted the first famous guy in driving distance.
Posted by: steven t johnson | Jul 25 2024 17:04 utc | 295
@too scents | Jul 25 2024 16:54 utc | 295
They are not mutually exclusive 😎
Posted by: Norwegian | Jul 25 2024 17:05 utc | 296
Chris Wray stated in testimony yesterday that 7 cartridges have been recovered. Yet at least ten shots were heard on audio tapes.
Where are the other spent two cartridges?
Why did Kim Cheatle, ex DSS Director state that there are “no” audio tapes of internal SS comms with various SS units and local police squads ? These tapes can not be found, or were they destroyed? If so who ordered them destroyed?
At least one shot was fired by the SS or Local sniper teams, who fired the other two shots?
Posted by: Tobias Cole | Jul 25 2024 17:12 utc | 297
Anyone who thinks there was more than a single shooter and that they still MISSED is not playing with a full deck OR a student of history.
Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Jul 25 2024 17:15 utc | 298
@Tom_Q_Collins | Jul 25 2024 17:15 utc | 299
Did you watch the audio analyses linked earlier in this thread? What are your factual arguments?
Posted by: Norwegian | Jul 25 2024 17:17 utc | 299
Trumps got a long list of preveous.
Amnesia seems to be a major symptem with worshipers of the trump cult.
Posted by: Mark2 | Jul 25 2024 17:18 utc | 300