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jinn @ 98

Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | Oct 7 2024 0:52 utc | 103

Posted by: Roger | Oct 7 2024 0:43 utc | 101
Wasn’t aware this was out, thanks for the heads up. Losurdo is brilliant and speaks for our epoch.

Posted by: Patroklos | Oct 7 2024 0:57 utc | 105

I will of course not be responding to the usual BS “climate change is natural”, “CO2 is plant food” and “we have always had hurricanes” etc. comments.
Posted by: Roger | Oct 6 2024 16:28 utc | 23
Of course Roger, we understand – facts are hard to respond to, aren’t they?
“The overall trigger for the end of the last ice age came as Earth’s orientation toward the sun shifted, about 20,000 years ago, melting the northern hemisphere’s large ice sheets.” NSF study
People aren’t focusing on climate change because it is not responsible for the mess in Ukraine and the Middle East. In fact, if WW3 goes hot, climate change will be the least of anyone’s worries

Posted by: drsmith | Oct 7 2024 1:20 utc | 107

Posted by: steven t johnson | Oct 6 2024 18:47 utc | 47
Ah, the lickspittle of the DNC masquerading as a leftist has shown up in the bar to denounce all and sundry as sycophantic followers of the Orange Fascist. This has been a standard practice of the neoliberal right to push for fake leftists and revolutionaries who promote the narrative of the regime, while posing as dissidents.
The case of Trump and the scenario of his assassination at the hands of Iranian agents is spouted by the bullhorns of imperialist propaganda to deflect attention from those who would like to get rid of a seemingly populist buffoon, whose rhetoric subverts the bottomless virtue-signalling of the regime. Trump himself, through his gross idiocy, practically approved his own assassination by suggesting that if he’s wasted and the FBI identifies Iran as the culprit, that country should be eradicated. Sure, why not, Donnie?
The purpose then of the article is to maintain the plausibility of a potential assassination to be heaped upon the Iranians, accusing Trump of ignoring the warnings of the CIA – offered in good faith, of course – and establishing the propaganda framework should such an option be adopted. THat is because, despite the bullcrap vomited by the neoliberal troll “steven t johnson”, the CIA doesn’t simply assassinate in a casual fashion figures of prominent publicity, as the repercussions may well be serious.
A suspicious assassination of Trump might lead to volatile paths in the highly polarized US, if there are strong implications for Deep State involvement. But if the Iranians are “proven” to be the culprits, well, as Donnie himslef asked for, there would be plenty of justification to go against Iran directly.
As the assassination attempts against Trump or Fico have proven, blatant involvement of intelligence agencies is to be avoided. Better to be indignant “lone wolves” or, in the case of Iran, supposedly hostile states. That is the goal of articles like the one from Ignatius, a mouthpiece of the CIA, writing in the WaPo, a propaganda rag for the CIA.
None of that matters, however, to the neoliberal slimebag trolls (progs or conservos), whether it is Inkanafo, johnson etc., who suggest that Trump is the authoritarian enemy of the glorious democracy of the US of A, doing authoritarian things unheard of in the Shining City on the Hill.

Posted by: Constantine | Oct 7 2024 2:16 utc | 109

@ waynorinorway | Oct 6 2024 15:47 utc | 16
thanks waynorinorway! trip was really enjoyable – nova scotia..cape breton island – cabot trail – cheticamp museum on acadian culture, alexander bell museum in baddeck, and then onto annapolis valley and finally to halifax.. we heard 4 different live music acts – mostly celtic..
regarding the fazi article – i don’t know about his guilt by association, but funny thing – b linked this article twice – once last week in review and again here in this weeks moa week in review.. maybe he likes it too?? juliania was recommending it last week after reading it and i heartily agree… check it out if interested.. great overview on the state of the european union..
@ bevin | Oct 6 2024 18:48 utc | 48
the choices for canucks in a federal election are abysmal… even maxime berneir – ppc guy, dropped the idea of getting out of nato.. he had a winning hand and he folded..
@ Sunny Runny Burger | Oct 6 2024 19:46 utc | 60
thanks sunny! i had never heard of matthew hoh before, but i was very impressed with him and the interviewer – dimitri lascaris is very sharp too… well, it is a switch from dima, hudson, the judge, larry johnson and a host of other pundits.. my brother recommended it and i thought it was quite good..
@ Constantine | Oct 7 2024 2:16 utc | 110
entertaining take down of our steve t johnson.. thanks..

Posted by: james | Oct 7 2024 3:43 utc | 111

The Art of Paltering: How to Deceive Others with Truthful Statements
We all know that deception comes in many forms, but one lesser-known tactic is called paltering. It’s a subtle form of lying where a person uses technically truthful statements to mislead others. This technique is commonly used by business leaders, negotiators, and even politicians like Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. This behavior frequently occurs—often without the deceiver feeling any guilt.
Paltering involves delivering accurate information in a way that skews the listener’s perception, creating a false or distorted impression. Business executives often use this strategy to secure a better deal during negotiations. Despite telling the truth, they manipulate how the other side interprets the information.
Interestingly, the research shows that people who engage in paltering tend to believe they’re acting ethically because they aren’t technically lying. However, those on the receiving end of these tactics often feel cheated or misled.

Posted by: Darma | Oct 7 2024 4:21 utc | 113

…….. but in science you are off and you make it a political issue. The climate is controlled by the Sun and we are now moving into an extended minimum with colder winters for the rest of this century, comparable to the Maunder Minimum that lasted for 70 years after 1645.
@ Norwegian | Oct 6 2024 16:51 utc | 30
It’s true that the Sun plays a significant role in Earth’s climate, but it is not solely “controlled” by it. The Maunder Minimum is an interesting historical example of solar influence on climate, but claiming that we’re entering an extended minimum today that will lead to significantly colder winters for the rest of the century misrepresents both current solar and climate science.
First, the current solar cycle has shown no evidence that we’re heading into a “grand minimum” on the scale of the Maunder Minimum. Even if we were, studies show that a solar minimum would have only a minor cooling effect— insufficient to counteract the much more powerful ongoing warming caused by the increase in greenhouse gases. The cooling from a grand solar minimum would likely be no more than 0.1-0.3°C, while human-driven climate change is projected to raise global temperatures by several degrees over the same period.
Global temperature anomalies of between +2.5C to +3.5C are now expected by 2100 on a BAU trajectory for economic driven GHG emissions. This far outweighs any effect of the changing solar intensity or minor shifts in orbital movements of the Milankovitch cycles. It is beyond dispute that human-driven factors, especially the increase in greenhouse gases, are the primary drivers of today’s global warming that is causing climate changes everywhere.
Second, the comparison to the Maunder Minimum overlooks a crucial difference: the levels of CO2 in the atmosphere. During the Maunder Minimum, human industrial activity was minimal, and atmospheric CO2 concentrations were much lower. Today, CO2 levels are at their highest in millions of years due to human activities like burning fossil fuels, which trap heat in the atmosphere and cause global temperatures to rise.
In short, while solar activity can influence climate, it’s not the dominant factor in the rapid warming we’re experiencing today. The scientific consensus is clear: human activity, particularly the release of greenhouse gases, is the primary driver of current climate change. And while natural cycles like solar variations have always affected climate to some extent, they can’t explain the unprecedented rate of warming we’ve observed in recent decades.
In fact, current warming is happening roughly 10 times faster than previous natural warming episodes. All of which is due to human activities predominantly rapid increases of CO2 in the atmosphere from the use of fossil fuels and simultaneous destruction of forests and land sinks.

Posted by: Darma | Oct 7 2024 5:16 utc | 115

re: Nothingburgers | Oct 6 2024 16:15 utc | 22
you wrote; “Presidential candidate Kamela [sic] Harris has pledged her supporters to launch a Venus mission during her term.”
Actually, Harris intends to send a probe to Uranus once she takes office.

Posted by: Perimetr | Oct 7 2024 5:46 utc | 117

Posted by: Cynic | Oct 7 2024 0:30 utc | 97
Such solution appears in direct opposition to the current identity politics.

Posted by: Alberto | Oct 7 2024 6:18 utc | 119

Posted by: Darma | Oct 7 2024 5:33 utc | 117
Lastly, the assertion that human emissions reductions would have minimal impact misrepresents the consensus models. Every degree of warming we can prevent helps mitigate extreme weather, sea-level rise, and ecosystem damage centuries into the future. The data, the logic, scientific knowledge overwhelmingly supports the need for global cooperation, not defeatism.
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Would you agree with Sabine Hossenfelder that part of the problem is that climate scientists themselves are not ‘scientific’ enough? (Not in the way e.g. Norwegian et al. believe)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEZ9HFlqzms

Posted by: Turdworld | Oct 7 2024 6:36 utc | 121

Would you agree with Sabine Hossenfelder that part of the problem is that climate scientists themselves are not ‘scientific’ enough?
Posted by: Turdworld | Oct 7 2024 6:36 utc | 122
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Climatologists are just fine. The issue is that weather reporting is propagandized. It always has been. Weather sells.
Aggregated data for Hurricane Milton ==> https://www.cyclocane.com/milton-storm-tracker/

Posted by: too scents | Oct 7 2024 6:47 utc | 123

I agree with several of the other commentators on the unintentional humor and (for any USA citizens) tragedy of Blinken’s article.
One note is that there is no mention of the “Rules Based Order” but rather “A world where international law, including the core principles of the UN Charter, is upheld” which perhaps signals the desperation of the Washington ruling class.
Another is the mention, as part of pillar one of the Biden/Harris agenda the CHIPS and Science act that the USA has become the world’s largest recipient of direct foreign investment as though this is not signal that US companies can no longer be the driver of US industrial power and innovation.
Another delightful note is the US ”is making clear that the United States’ goal is not regime change and that even as both sides compete, they must find ways to coexist.” This is clearly news to the Global South.
The part about making it clear to Iran that there was a path to reengagement with the west was clearly written before the bombing of Beirut to assassinate Nasrallah and the associated rug-pull from under the moderate Iranian president.
And then the endless Putin evil revanchist and China evil autocrats rhetoric and the offhand swipe at the safety, security and quality of Chinese products and infrastructure just reinforces US impotence and, sadly emphasizes the inferiority of western products and services.
Israeli Iron Colander anyone?
As arrogant and insufferable as he can occasionally be, I have to agree with Martyanov about the quality of the people at the top of US diplomacy

Posted by: Lone Plateau | Oct 7 2024 6:54 utc | 125

Would you agree with Sabine Hossenfelder that part of the problem is that climate scientists themselves are not ‘scientific’ enough? (Not in the way e.g. Norwegian et al. believe)
Posted by: Turdworld | Oct 7 2024 6:36 utc | 122
Hello, thanks for the question. I respect Sabine Hossenfelder and have seen some of her videos. While I agree with aspects of her critique, I think her perspective as an outsider looking in means she may not fully grasp the complexities within the climate science community. Her concerns about the scientific rigor in certain areas are valid to an extent, but I wouldn’t characterize the entire field as “not scientific enough.”
From my observations, there are indeed different viewpoints and internal debates within climate science, sometimes accompanied by ideological or political pressures, as in any large field. However, it’s important to distinguish between these dynamics and the overwhelming scientific consensus on climate change. For example, while some public models suggest around +2°C warming by 2100, many in the field privately express concerns that the situation could be worse, potentially closer to +3.5°C or more, with significant sea-level rise over centuries.
That said, I wouldn’t go as far as suggesting there’s some hidden “real” climate science that’s being suppressed. The field is always evolving as new data emerges, and while there is a gap between conservative public models and worst-case scenarios, it’s the role of science to present the range of possible outcomes transparently, not to panic the public. The real challenge lies in ensuring better communication and transparency about these uncertainties.
An area crying out for leadership and scientific rigor in the community is how they communicate with the broader public. The well-known idea of “ivory towers” in academia holds as true today as ever. The communication and credibility gap between scientists and everyday citizens feels like a gulf the size of the Pacific. In my view, it’s 100% on the scientists to bridge that gap—not the media, journalists, politicians, or the rest of us.

Posted by: Darma | Oct 7 2024 7:13 utc | 127

Posted by: Patroklos | Oct 6 2024 23:57 utc | 91
Excellent. I’ll just point out that this rabid individualism has been present in bourgeois ideology and myth-making for at least a couple of centuries, hence the virulent condemnation of any form of ‘socialism’ that constrains the actions of the individual owners of private capital. The myth of the Invisible Hand comes at it from a different direction, it grants absolution to the capitalist for his depredations and violence against the social good by attributing all of his actions to the inexorable workings of the Market. There is a great deal of truth in this, as long as we confine ourselves to capitalist economies, but when we recognize that other forms of economic organization exist, the moral obligation to choose one that is less harmful to the community reasserts itself.
As for Marx, of course by embracing the concept of ‘scientific socialism’ Marx embraced the idea that his ideas would constantly need updating in the light of experience and experiment. Alas, while this has been pursued by some great minds, many Marxists are not good scientists (just as many ‘scientists’ are not good scientists, and the average person approaches ‘science’ the same way they do religion- revealed Truth. I have long considered one of the most serious failings of Marx to be his rather uncritical acceptance of Enlightenment ideas about human nature and the ultimate primacy of Rational Self Interest. For political, rather than scientific reasons, this issue continues to be widely ignored. Of course, on the practical level Stalin and Mao understood this problem very well, but found it unfeasible to address it directly.
For lack of anything better, I find that Confucianism has a much more useful perspective on human nature and its lack of universality. From Junzi to Stakhanovite is a small step.

Posted by: Honzo | Oct 7 2024 7:21 utc | 129

High functioning Asperger types are now the neoliberal paragons of American virtue and entrepreneurial spirit.
Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | Oct 7 2024 0:41 utc | 100
As a high-functioning Asperger type, I object to this characterization. Beyond our IQs, I have little in common with Elon Musk, especially in the moral and political realms. Asperger’s is not a form of sociopathy, but it does often include a form of perceptions commonly called ‘black and white’ or ‘binary’ thinking. This is not a permanent condition, however. Some of us are as or more capable of nuanced thinking than most, we just come to it by a different path. Musk’s class origins and his pursuit of the corresponding class goals explain his ideas and behaviors much better than Asperger’s does.
Difficulty with nuance and social cues early in life does tend to make people on the autism spectrum very susceptible to emotional manipulation. You can see this very clearly in Greta Thunberg, whose black-and-white thinking on environmental issues was carefully cultivated by her normy (as far as I know) parents to serve their class interests.

Posted by: Honzo | Oct 7 2024 7:34 utc | 131

I assume this is all a piss-take, but according to one NASA engineer Venus is the best place in the solar system for a human settlement.
Posted by: S.P. Korolev | Oct 6 2024 19:27 utc | 56
I think it’s pretty legit. Musk’s Mars obsession betrays the real motivation of SpaceX: seizing the orbital high-ground around Earth for military purposes. Actual colonization of the Martian surface has an abundance of problems not found in Venus’ upper atmosphere, from less gravity to .25 of the solar radiation, and including a lack of easily available CO2. Establishing agriculture above Venus is a much easier task than on Mars, and the resultant free oxygen would be much more abundant than any conversion of local resources on Mars. No need to crash ice-comets into Venus only to watch the resultant gases blow away on the solar wind or refreeze and fall to the surface in widely separated dribs and drabs. I think Landis has it right, in an age when robots can be used to mine the surface remotely. If chemical fuels were needed, the very high availability of CO2 and solar power would easily provide adequate hydrocarbons. The two greatest obstacles to the best of my knowledge would be a shortage of atmospheric hydrogen and the lack of a magnetic field, but if Landis is right, the latter is not an issue. The former might be overcome by collecting water vapor from the atmosphere, which might well be doable given the fast transit around the planet indicated by Landis, even if the water vapor is relatively low concentration. And of course, a considerable fraction of planetary scientists believe that Venus once had a more earthlike atmosphere and free water on the surface, so those elements are probably somewhere. A lot of hydrogen is bound up in hydrogen sulfides and fluorides, but I have no idea how difficult it is to extract the the hydrogen from these.

Posted by: Honzo | Oct 7 2024 8:35 utc | 133

@ jinn
I’ll point it out to you again; this comment of yours appears to be wrong: “Whether you like it or not the rules for how primaries work and how candidates are nominated were followed by both parties. Primaries elect delegates and delegates nominate candidates. Any candidate that has secured delegates can direct those delegates to vote for some other nominee. This is what happened and a candidate turning his delegates over to another happens all the time. If anybody has told you what happened is not the way both parties run their nomination process you have been lied to and you were gullible to swallow the lie.”
It would be wrong because the DNC argued in court, that it might just willfully choose anybody to become candidate and that’s their business. No electing delegates, no debates, nothing, they just pick somebody. If your overall point is that this whole process (of choosing delegates and having “elections” before the populace absurdly has to choose one of 2 candidates as prez) is a sham and people have been fooled, then there is no disagreement.
On a further note I cannot point out when it was the last time in lets say 50 years, where any candidate to run for president of the USA hasn’t been carefully vetted and integrated into the ruling power structure. Trump and Sanders were slight hiccups of a deteriorating political system, hiccups they quickly shut down.

Posted by: Roland | Oct 7 2024 9:24 utc | 135

Key US Yields Hit 4% for First Time Since August on Fed Rethink
. Bonds are extending selloff as traders digest strong jobs data
. Market is pricing fewer than 50bps of Fed cuts by year-end
Key US Treasury yields are back at 4%, a level last seen in August, as a blowout jobs report undercut chances for another big interest-rate reduction from the Federal Reserve.
Bonds dropped Monday, extending a plunge late last week following surprisingly robust September payrolls data. The 10-year yield rose as much as four basis points to 4.01%, while the two-year yield was up nine basis points to the same level.
continues ==> https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-10-07/key-us-yields-near-4-for-first-time-since-august-on-fed-rethink

Posted by: too scents | Oct 7 2024 11:30 utc | 137

@ Posted by: Don Firineach | Oct 6 2024 15:30 utc | 11
“Anyone got any good news? “
VVP had another birthday and is still sprightly enough to get up and down stairs without stumbling; think and speak like a cross between a professor and a saint; and keep bringing together the long exploited Global South to stand with Xi’s Magnificient BRI.
The BRICS+ is going to be MASSIVE – even the ziofascists can’t destroy enough of West Asia spectacularly enough to divert the attention of the majority of the worlds humanity away from the loss of the ‘free’ resources that built their Collective West that congress in Kazan will lead to.
That feels me with joy. Rejoice!

Posted by: DunGroanin | Oct 7 2024 12:17 utc | 139

@jinn
Okay okay, you’re technically correct, the best kind of correct. 😉
It’s just weird to emphasize that point, because it’s usually empire apologists who insist on the DNC following its own rules. Sure, they kind of do, but its rules are deeply undemocratic and the candidate selection process built upon them almost without exception a meaningless theater.

Posted by: Roland | Oct 7 2024 12:58 utc | 141

@DunGroanin | Oct 7 2024 12:17 utc
Yup. I’d say that’s a pretty fair candidate for “good news” award. Let’s hope it continues, gradually and peacefully.
=== To Patroklos:
The Robespierre solution appeals emotionally, but one has to wonder if that solution is likely to occur. There are some big issues to overcome, and you surely know them better than I.
So, there’s this school of thought that goes “If you can’t win playing their game, is there a different game you can play wherein you’re more likely to win?”
And this is what causes me to wonder “Are we approaching this problem-space using Old Thinking? Is it time for something rather different?”
And that is what prompted me to ask you to delve into the subject of “how do these people think” and “what, actually, do they need (not “want” but need) from the Rest of Us. By “these people” I mean the predator-elite-exceptionists.
There’s a psychological dependency, and a physical dependency. The elites must extract/siphon off the economic surplus, right? They have to achieve acquiescence and emotional legitimacy. Will you agree with that assertion?
The predator-elites have some very definitive dependencies on their “flock”. The Divine Right of Kings – in whatever modern form it takes – has to be maintained in some fashion. That takes resources and buy-in.
Do the sheep always have to provide? Is there not some gradual, ethereal, hard-to-ID, and therefore hard-to-squash withdrawal of the key, fundamental things that the elites need in order to perpetuate themselves?
The better we understand what the “elites” actually need – what they have to have – and what they get (thru one means or another) from us … the easier it is to devise a path toward a more viable future for the Rest of Us.
Russia, China, Iran, etc. are busy doing exactly that. They made a plan, built a consensus, and are gradually executing that plan, and that plan, arguably, is about “withdrawing support from the Predators”. Not just Western ones, either; see Snake’s more-broad definition of what “Zionism” is.
So a big part of the world is executing this gradual-withdrawal plan. That’s what the Big Fight is all about: the West is trying to prevent the Walking Away.
Buckminster Fuller said, and I paraphrase a little – “Don’t waste your time fixing the existing system. Make a new system that obsoletes the old one”.
And this is why it’s useful to try to define, to accurately characterize – Zionism, and it’s fellow-traveler-Exceptionalists. They wear many cloaks, but their underlying mentality and needs are probably quite similar.
And .. more importantly, the withdrawal-path and (stated more positively) the path to the New System is probably pretty similar across all those cloaked predators.
There are many lessons to be learned from BRICS, SCO, BRI, etc. There’s likely fruitful application of those lessons for those of us “stuck” in the West.

Posted by: Tom Pfotzer | Oct 7 2024 13:02 utc | 143

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FUKUS, democrazy at its best.
YOu cant go home now mate, its already a marine theme park !
From…
https://tinyurl.com/526m5e28
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Posted by: denk | Oct 7 2024 13:08 utc | 145

Thanks for your response:
1) I, and no one I know, has dismissed historical records before the 1979 sat record. What I said is correct.
2) The assertion is a correct one. The issue is not US centric ‘hurricanes’ but all storms of like extreme across the whole world.
I will not belabor the point, people have to make up their own minds.
Posted by: Darma | Oct 7 2024 12:45 utc | 143
And thank you for your considered and considerate response. I agree with your last point that people have to make up their own minds.

Posted by: Phil R | Oct 7 2024 13:40 utc | 147

Honzo | Oct 7 2024 8:35 utc | 134
*** Martian surface has an abundance of problems … including a lack of easily available CO2. ***
Surely not a problem — more the “global warmist” cult’s aspiration come true.

Posted by: Cynic | Oct 7 2024 14:09 utc | 149

The point I would like to make about climate change is that we have no hope at all of exerting any control over it without learning to control ourselves, at least to the extent of ending wars, and especially industrial wars, which depend on profligate burning of hydrocarbons. To deal with climate change we will have to learn to get along first.

Posted by: Bemildred | Oct 7 2024 14:30 utc | 151

Posted by: DunGroanin | Oct 7 2024 6:20 utc | 121
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For decades already.
CIA/MI6 mercs have been killing Chinese citizens in Afghan and the five Stans.
Main targets were engineers working on major infra proj such as the Gawdar port.
https://tinyurl.com/4j74k5t2

Posted by: denk | Oct 7 2024 14:43 utc | 153

Posted by: denk | Oct 7 2024 14:43 utc | 158
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That link is wobbly, try this.
https://www.opednews.com/populum/page.php?p=1&f=Our-CIA-Freedom-Fighters-by-Dr-Stuart-Jeanne-B-110319-37.html

Posted by: denk | Oct 7 2024 14:59 utc | 155

Thierry Meyssan has a new post up discussing his view of the power dynamics within France’s government and how it fits into the larger picture of the EU, UK and US.
Someone once remarked how when looking at the relationship of political power structures in the west one could use the analogy of nesting dolls wherein the innermost doll is the EU. The EU doll is nested within the doll of Nato, which is itself nested within the doll of the Pentagon. (Iirc this comes from Dmitry Orlov.). I speculate further that the pentagon doll is nested within the doll of the intelligence interagencies which is nested within the outer-most doll of BlackRock? Or perhaps more layers. Wild speculation.
Anyway, the discussion re the dog and its tail is elucidated a bit more by Meyssan’s perspective. The boundaries are blurred further.
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“The place of the United States and Israel in the governments of the EU and France”
by Thierry Meyssan
October 6, 2024

The European Union was founded not by Europeans, but by the United States and the United Kingdom to better control them. The European Commission (formerly called the High Authority) is the unelected administration responsible for imposing their will on the Member States. In recent years, it has managed to expand the Commission’s powers to the detriment of the sovereignty of the Member States without changing anything in the treaties. Following this same line, Michel Barnier is bringing the American Democrats and the fascist faction of Israel into the French government.
[contents:]
The origins of the European Commission
The van der Leyen Commission
Michel Barnier’s role in France
(In this photograph that we have already published, we see, on September 26, 2024, the US and French presidents at the United Nations. Benjamin Haddad is next to Emmanuel Macron, while Amos Hochstein is on the right of the photo. This small group staged a request for a ceasefire in Lebanon. In reality, it was to give Israel time to assassinate Hassan Nasrallah, the secretary general of Hezbollah.)
The most surprising member of the Barnier government is his Minister Delegate for Europe, Benjamin Haddad. The press noted his role within the Atlantic Council, therefore in the service of Washington. He was also a senior official in the European External Action Service (EEAS) where he defended the positions of the United States and Israel.
But the most important thing is elsewhere: he worked for a long time within the Tikvah Fund, which presents itself as an American Jewish education association. In reality, it is an association of “revisionist Zionists”, that is to say, disciples of the fascist Vladimir Jabotinsky whose portrait adorns the walls of all its buildings and all its publications.
The Tikvah Fund is not a pro-Israeli organization like the others, it promotes the ideology of Benjamin Netanyahu (whose father was Jabotinsky’s private secretary) [2]. Let us recall that the first Prime Minister of Israel, David Ben-Gurion, had forbidden Jabotinsky to be buried in Israel.
According to Haaretz, the Tikvah Fund, chaired by the American criminal Elliott Abrams, financed the takeover of power in Israel by Benjamin Netanyahu and his allies Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich [3].
What to remember:
• The European Commission is the heir to the High Authority of the EEC, itself the heir to the AMGOT, that is to say to the Anglo-Saxon military occupation authority.
• The European Commission is therefore not elected, but composed at the instigation of the Anglo-Saxons. Its sole function is to have NATO standards adopted by member states.
• The Barnier government is an extension of the Commission. It thus includes both a minister approved by the US Democrats and another representing the revisionist Zionists of Benjamin Netanyahu.
https://www.voltairenet.org/article221333.html

Posted by: suzan | Oct 7 2024 15:09 utc | 157

Will the two hurricanes, Helene (already hit) and Milton (still on schedule to hit around the Tampa area with force 3-5), affect the election through the sheer disconnectedness of the Democratic elites from reality? The Republicans are playing this well, pushing the position that the Dems care more about helping foreigners than Americans and/or really just don’t care about average Americans (utterly disingenuous of course as the Republicans don’t give a shit about average Americans).
The latest out of the NOAA Hurricane Centre is absolutely brutal, both for US Gulf oil and gas production and the Tampa Bay area:

Milton’s remarkable rapid intensification is continuing. Satellite images show a small eye within the very cold central cloud cover, and the eye is becoming better defined. Data from the Mexican radar at Sabancuy show a small, closed eye with an intense eyewall presentation. The Hurricane Hunter aircraft earlier reported a peak flight-level wind of 146 kt, and dropsonde data show that the pressure has fallen to around 933 mb, which is down about 22 mb in 4 hours. The initial wind speed is set to 135 kt, which is an 80-kt increase in 24 hours (only eclipsed by Wilma 2005 and Felix 2007 in our records) … Milton is likely to become a category 5 hurricane later today with light shear and very warm waters in its path. By tomorrow, its intensity should be dictated by any eyewall replacement cycles, which will likely cause the system to gradually weaken but grow larger. After 36 h, Milton is expected to encounter a much less favorable environment with strong shear and dry air entrainment. Therefore, some weakening is anticipated before the hurricane reaches the Florida Gulf coast. However, the system is still likely to be a large and powerful hurricane at landfall in Florida, with life-threatening hazards at the coastline and well inland.

https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_at4+shtml/093335.shtml?cone#contents
Harris seems to be as tone deaf as Clinton was in 2016, spending more time with donors than with ordinary Americans in swing states and in the disaster zones. Her paltry offer of US$750 per family has already been ridiculed, and shown to be utterly incompetently implemented. With such a close election, such things can make important differences.

Posted by: Roger | Oct 7 2024 15:33 utc | 159

@Posted by: Roger | Oct 7 2024 15:33 utc | 164
The probable jump in oil, and therefore, US gas prices just weeks before the election will also not help the Democratic hopes. I would expect immediate releases from the Us Strategic Oil Reserve to keep gas prices down in the run up to the election. Which may backfire as it could so easily be painted as obvious election manipulation.

Posted by: Roger | Oct 7 2024 15:45 utc | 161

This exudes something that is strikingly found in cultural productions from, lets call them “world hegemony opposed” nations, be it China, Iran, Russia, North Korea, and its this eerily uncanny vapid plastic aesthetic to their cultural products and celebrations – so gaudy, so cheesy, so inorganic and unappealing, completely devoid of vitality – seems like a symptom or premonition that the idea of a “multipolar world” the eastern aligned nations cling to is nothing short of cope.
Its almost pitiful, and I type this from a position of extreme compassion with the Russian people and their struggles, but there is such a cultural soft power gap between the anglo-american empire and the likes of Russia and China that its truly staggering.
Does this really exalt the supposed might of the Russian armed forces? A bunch of dancers performing cheesy kung fu moves? Meanwhile the US doesn’t bother with these low level trivialities, their propaganda is both massive and passive, the yearly releases of call of duty fulfil the same role as this but on a super sophisticated level, massive imperial propaganda, subdued and integrated not only into US culture but world culture, Marvel movies much the same – how can Russia ever “win” if its youngsters still watch Spiderman and Deadpool at the end of the day? Still play Fortnite and Roblox?
If I were Russian and I were to watch this I would be filled with dread. I can only hope that there is some beacon of light of elevated Russian culture that I’m not privy to as a western citizen.

Posted by: Jake From Above | Oct 7 2024 16:33 utc | 163

@Posted by: Jake From Above | Oct 7 2024 16:33 utc | 168
The post you link to is from Anton Gerashchenko, who is an advisor to the Ukrainian Ministry of Internal Affairs; i.e. Ukrainian propaganda. Every nation will have examples of such embarrassing spectacles, the propaganda is to extrapolate from these to a propagandist view of the whole nation, as you are doing. Thankfully on this site there are many who can quickly see through such disguised “caring for” propagandist garbage.

Posted by: Roger | Oct 7 2024 16:52 utc | 165

ive not yet heard it suggested so–it seems likely to ne that the recent seismic reading from Iranian territory was amanufactured event but that it was China or Russian who provided the explosive and not an actual nuclear test..as srnding the message was the key element

Posted by: clif | Oct 7 2024 17:53 utc | 167

too scents (comment 173)
thank you,i appreciate your reply. howver it displaces reason for judgement. if the decades ling fear of Iranian development of nuclear weapons ever had any legitimacy, the perception of this event makes a difference…
and, why ‘a lot of extra woek’ when it is the exact opposite, making peaceful use of a weapon we all hope is never used in war? plus, it permits the Iranians to keep to their religious beliefs..
you’ve got a lot of expla8ning to do.

Posted by: clif | Oct 7 2024 18:22 utc | 169

you’ve got a lot of expla8ning to do.
Posted by: clif | Oct 7 2024 18:22 utc | 174
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Weapons are valued for deterrence as well as harm.

Posted by: too scents | Oct 7 2024 18:32 utc | 171

This is not a monster post, it is a collected bunch of relatively short replies. Skip through looking for your screen name, otherwise it gets repetitive, I fear.
Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | Oct 6 2024 22:16 utc | 74 What Finkelstein said was factually wrong, hence not interesting. See my later comment that crossed yours. Sometimes because of automatic hostility to Marxism I skip writing “bourgeois” democracy, but I didn’t skip in the later comment.
Posted by: Don Bacon | Oct 6 2024 23:05 utc | 80 “Democracy is not election it is governance by the people, which doesn’t exist anywhere…” There is no abstract or ideal democracy like that. As long as we live in class societies, there will be some sort of state which always defends the property of the ruling class. Actually existing democracies are always the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie. Actually existing socialism is closer to governance for the people and of the people and our current ideas of how by the people will look in practice remain to be worked on. Expecting actually existing democracy to look like your personal vision irrefutable, more or less by definition since I can’t transform your brain. But it confuses discussion to selectively apply your idiosyncrasies to reality, in my opinion.
Posted by: Patroklos | Oct 6 2024 23:35 utc | 87 Yes, Aristotle was half right, though he was still wrong re “democracies” by disregarding the class of slaves, metics and oh, yes, women. But for better or for worse, the modern meaning of “democracy” surreptitiously borrows from socialism to tacitly assume all the people, not just the classes counted as citizens. It’s hard enough to get people to distinguish actually existing democracies, which are all distatorships of the bourgeoisie even when they adhere to bourgeois democratic forms. I find it remarkable that many people who counterpose their private ideal democracy to actually existing democracy also counterpose it to actually existing socialism. For what it’s worth, more use of sortilege seems advisable to me, but random nobodies being given access to the workings of government is suspiciously like the justification for journalism? Sortilege can be fixed. There are no magic fixes.
Posted by: jinn | Oct 6 2024 23:39 utc | 88 Again correct. “What did you want to happen? Did you expect they would invent a time machine and go back in time and redo the primaries?” That is exactly what such critics are implying, except they won’t say something so blatantly silly. My hypothesis is that they wanted to split the Democratic Party and ensure a win for Trump.
Posted by: Roland | Oct 6 2024 23:55 utc | 89 Come on, now you are being intentionally obtuse about US primaries…Funnily enough most ‘Muricans would not call Iran a democracy… All of this is simply a mockery of actual representation.” jinn is not being obtuse at all in my opinion and also in my opinion it is more likely you is intentionally obtuse. For the record, I do rate Iran, Israel and the US as actually existing democracies, and the differences in democratic-ness are beyond my poor powers to authoritatively rate. Actually existing democracies always provide actual representation for the ruling class in some fashion: It’s open dictatorships or fascist governments that break formal and informal legal equality and universal suffrage etc.
Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | Oct 6 2024 23:56 utc | 90 If Finkelstein wanted to say something “interesting” he would have said something true, instead of just spouting Trumpery. If you and Findelstein can’t even notice that leaving the VP nomination to the whim of the presidential nominee is a Bad Thing (fu, if you insist) then nothing anyone can say can help either of you. And your follow up @95 “the fix is in” suggests more crazed BS about national vote counts being falsified in a decentralized system where both parties count votes and sit in courts that judge disputes. Stupidity isn’t interesting, unless you redefine the word.
Posted by: jinn | Oct 7 2024 0:24 utc | 96 In my opinion, you should, not could. “What I’m objecting to is the completely obtuse belief that the Democrats pulled some sort of egregious fraud by nominating Harris.” Most plausible hypothesis is not stupidity, I fear. Butthurt because they wanted an easier win for Trump (at some level even they know the vote count isn’t fixed.) Possibly, because Trump made the complaint and the devotees are singing to the choir. Possibly the Sinclair Rule comes into play, but I rate this low. Who would pay money for MoA’s “influence?” Your follow up @98 is still correct and still futile, I think.
Posted by: Roger | Oct 7 2024 0:43 utc | 101 Concede that the Losurdo is informative, but caution the unwary Losurdo does not support, much less document, that bourgeois or liberal democracy is purely “performative.” Losurdo is documenting how liberal democracy is compatible with the class dictatorship of the bourgeoisie, not arguing for feudalism, monarchy, absolutism, dictatorship or whatever.
Posted by: c1ue | Oct 7 2024 1:06 utc | 107 “The problem in the West today is that even the simplistic operation of mercantilism, much less the more advanced economic theories of comparative advantage, are lost…” Mercantilism is opposed to comparative advantage and vice versa, so this is at best very confused. It’s like talking about simplistic operation of Divine Right of Kings and more advanced theories of socialism in the same breath.
Posted by: Constantine | Oct 7 2024 2:16 utc | 110 “…the narrative of the regime…” does not say the selection of the VP nominee by the presidential nominee is a Bad Thing, which makes Constantine either an incompetent reader, a liar or a fool. “The purpose then of the [Ignatius] article is to maintain the plausibility of a potential assassination to be heaped upon the Iranians…” Constantine is far more likely to be privy to the purposes of of the CIA than I am. Skipping over the implausibility of the CIA assassins briefing their friend in the media on such things, insisting that the most obvious impact of the article is Iran-baiting, not Trump baiting is a stretch. The CIA (or other) covering its ass just in case is also a possibility. “A suspicious assassination of Trump might lead to volatile paths in the highly polarized US, if there are strong implications for Deep State involvement.” That’s why an airplane crash, or some of those experimental drugs that mimic or even induce heart attacks or choking to death on a pretzel while drunk would be preferable. If you insist on conspiracy theory, at least make a plausible one! A stream of leaks about Trump’s business dealings are conspicuous by their absence. This is not an incidental, as it refutes the unstated and indefensible premise the CIA is a monolith opposed to Trump.
Posted by: jinn | Oct 7 2024 2:21 utc | 111 “That would be more accurate, but frankly I don’t get why nomination process matters to you. The only thing that the duopoly voters are voting for is Trump or Not-Trump. That is the way its been for 8 years so why the sudden anguish about who will be Not-Trump?” The only sensible answers I can come up with is, butthurt because Trump has a harder campaign given the universal media hostility to Biden since Afghanistan. Or because Trump complained about it and the devotees must as well.
Roland@136 Answering the proof the rules weren’t violated with a claim the rules are a sham doesn’t address the issue. If the larger point is, the American Revolution was a sham and a delusion, I say, down with the British Empire (too.) Trump was not a blip in the sense Sanders was, that’s why he got billions in free publicity but Sanders was hidden as much as possible.
Posted by: jinn | Oct 7 2024 12:07 utc | 141 This is correct. Only a bad reader, a fool or a liar would conclude that means jinn endorses the actually existing rules and procedures of bourgeois democracy as it actually is, are therefore just. Not everyone assumes means justify ends, that what’s legal is just. Personally I believe the true corruption is in what’s legal. jinn may (or may not) believe the same.
Posted by: Roland | Oct 7 2024 12:58 utc | 145 “It’s just weird to emphasize that point, because it’s usually empire apologists who insist on the DNC following its own rules. Sure, they kind of do, but its rules are deeply undemocratic and the candidate selection process built upon them almost without exception a meaningless theater.” Two points: Of course the elections matter, the presidency is designed to be commander-in-chief and the national executive. That’s why the rich invest so much in gaming the system, it makes a difference. If it was mere theater, they wouldn’t spend so much. Second, bourgeois democracy is very much about following rules, that’s how the bourgeoisie reconciles its internal rivalries and erects a facade of legitimacy. The substance is still a class dictatorship. Not following rules is correctly perceived as tyrannical. Even absolute monarchs who ignored “advice” from the leading nobles was criticized.
passim Darma, thumbs up!

Posted by: steven t johnson | Oct 7 2024 18:43 utc | 173

the utility of the ruse
Posted by: clif | Oct 7 2024 18:52 utc | 179
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How is an event that happened and was widely observed a “ruse”? Did it occur incorrectly?

Posted by: too scents | Oct 7 2024 18:56 utc | 175

fair question too scents. it would be a ruse in that it is not what it might appear to be.

Posted by: clif | Oct 7 2024 19:06 utc | 177

Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Oct 6 2024 22:39 utc | 77
I dunno. 15 years is a narrow window. Gitmo is still operating on stolen land, Iraq 1 & 2, Abu Ghraib (assisted by the Israelis), Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Korea, firebombing of Dresden, the “west” including the only country to ever drop nuclear weapons on civilians after previously (secretly) testing them on civilians, the Philippines, Japanese internment camps, the creation of “Israel”, Indonesia, etc. How far back do we need to go? I guess I could just copy and paste from one of William Blum’s books – like the one the CIA says Bin Laden had in his compound after he was summarily assassinated and conveniently “buried at sea.”

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Oct 7 2024 20:25 utc | 179

For the Trumpsters and not really of benefit to the other side either. Stay clear eyed. Focus.
‘If Trump wins, there will be a big war in the Middle East
Elena Suponina, political scientist
▪️Striking Iran’s nuclear facilities is Netanyahu’s long-standing plan. But he will not be able to do this without the full and great support of the United States.
▪️The United States is on Israel’s side, but they are afraid to give the green light for strikes on nuclear facilities on the eve of the elections. There will be some strikes: maybe on oil and gas facilities or military bases. It is no coincidence that a meeting between the US and Israeli defense ministers is now prepared. These days, high-ranking American General Michael Kurilla is in Israel, who is probably discussing the possibilities of Israel’s response to Iran.
▪️If Trump wins the election, there will be a big war without any doubt. There are not only emotions here – there are Trump’s long-standing ties with the Netanyahu government, with the Israeli prime minister personally and with those influential Americans who chose this line.
▪️So all of Trump’s seemingly outwardly emotional decisions on Israel when he was president were made after consultations with the famous billionaire Sheldon Adelson. Since his death, consultations have continued with his family.
#important
https://t.me/llordofwar/374376 ‘

Posted by: DunGroanin | Oct 7 2024 20:49 utc | 181

Jake From Above | Oct 7 2024 16:33 utc | 168 …..
You saying you can actually watch the global-polluting zio-Yankshit without it making you want to completely destroy the USA and its arselick puppets abroad?

Posted by: Cynic | Oct 8 2024 0:36 utc | 183

Wall Street On Parade has a posting up about the perfidy of the biggest private casino the US insures with public money
https://wallstreetonparade.com/2024/10/a-bank-regulator-provides-a-frightening-look-at-the-trading-casino-jamie-dimon-has-built-inside-his-federally-insured-bank/
the quotes

According to the FDIC, as of June 30 there were a total of 4,539 federally-insured commercial banks and savings associations in the U.S. According to Table 19 located in the Appendix of the current OCC report (see partial section below), all commercial banks and savings associations in the U.S. which held derivatives as of June 30, 2024 had trading revenues totaling $15.848 billion. Of that sum, JPMorgan Chase Bank NA represented $6.9 billion or 44 percent.
Even more striking, JPMorgan Chase Bank’s equity trading revenues (stock trading) inside its federally-insured bank came in at $3.5 billion of the total $5.5 billion in stock trading at all banks and savings associations, or a whopping 64 percent of the total.
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JPMorgan Chase Bank NA also appears to have a stranglehold on trading gold and silver contracts inside its bank. Table 21 in the latest OCC report shows that all commercial banks, savings associations and trust companies with derivatives account for $483 billion in precious metals contracts. Of that sum, JPMorgan Chase Bank NA holds $281.7 billion, or 58 percent.
That concentration of activity by one bank in precious metals is being tolerated by federal regulators despite the fact that the U.S. Justice Department criminally charged JPMorgan Chase just four years ago with engaging in “tens of thousands of episodes of unlawful trading in the markets for precious metals futures contracts….” The bank admitted to the charges.

In 2008 the US debt was $800 billion and now it is north of 35 trillion and growing….what happens when the music stops? Does JPM then own the world with their derivatives?….paid for by more US public debt?
The shit show continues until it doesn’t

Posted by: psychohistorian | Oct 8 2024 2:50 utc | 185

@ steven t johnson | Oct 7 2024 18:43 utc | 178
re–There is no abstract or ideal democracy like that.
But mister hope and change tried, really he did, His extensive platform in early 2008 included publicizing important congressional bills so the citizens could make their opinions known. . . Of course we never saw anything like that from Obama. Too difficult I guess.

Posted by: Don Bacon | Oct 8 2024 3:37 utc | 187

Musk a filthy HasbaRat.
He kowtows to Drumpff and the maga zombies, who had a legitimate bone to pick with Twatter and Farcebook for their roles in cancelling him at the last election – so the techbros jump around like Toy Tiggers on amphetamine to stave of the revenge of the re-elected potus – they are directed by their ziofascist masters to contort themselves impossibly like some yogic gymnast sex dolls so they fuck theme we up their own arse, eughh.
‘Kim Dotcom
@KimDotcom
15h
My account was suspended because of my post below. I was told by X to delete the post and to acknowledge that I violated the ‘Child sexual abuse policy’ of X. I refused and filed an appeal. Details here: kimdotcom.substack.com/p/x-c…
In a nutshell X alleged that Hunter Biden is a pedophile and suspended my account for posting one of the images from his laptop. A few days ago I received an apology from X and my account was reinstated. Why? Because I refused to comply and the voices wondering what happened to me got louder.
My Hunter post is now available again. However Elon was informed about my suspension immediately and did nothing for 2 weeks. He did that deliberately. Only Elon knows why.
It was plainly obvious that the X allegation created a problem for Hunter Biden. People wondered what happened to my X account and the longer I was suspended the more would find out that Hunter Biden had sex with a minor, according to X.
I repeatedly criticized Elon for his support of mass murdering war criminal @Netanyahu and the Israeli genocide in Gaza. It did not make sense to me that a man who says he loves humanity would exclude Palestinians. Maybe this explains why I was punished?
I always looked up to Elon for his innovations. I supported his takeover of Twitter and appreciated his whistleblowing with the Twitter files. He certainly gave me a voice until it was taken away. I thought he was one of the good guys and his stance for free speech was real. I’m not so sure anymore.
As a result I will be more of an observer on X. Over the last year it has become obvious to most that dark times are ahead of us. Make good use of your time. All the best to you, sincerely.
This tweet is unavailable
Oct 7, 2024 · 11:28 AM UTC‘
Meanwhile Disco Drumpff mumbles some magic spells with a Hitler moustache and Nazi cap celebrating the start of the next military invasion and expansion into the Levant by the illegal Apartheid Entity.
Looking forward to the new DDay sea landings to invade Lebanon! At the moment the Irish army are not withdrawing from their UN posts – if they call in help – watch as the World sends massive troop numbers before the Collective West pretends they are doing the same.
Our PM Shitherrd Keeeve Starmztrooper is squeaking like a toy duck in a bath tub, ready to do his bit for a very hot ww3 escalation. Whilst he ignores the question of the couped, legitimate PM of the U.K. in Parliament – Jeremy Corbyn , the man he stabbed in the front, back and threw out of the window , but STILL LIVES.
All being covered up by the crazed censoring – which even the most deluded techbro fascists lovers can’t deny any more. I’m talking to some of you here too! 🤡🤡🤡
(Ps haven’t forgotten about fake socialists dont worry I’ll let you have yours soon)

Posted by: DunGroanin | Oct 8 2024 10:19 utc | 189

Yamashita was unjustly executed. He had no control over the radicals in the Japanese Navy who carried out the Manila Massacre. Just read the dissents to the US Supreme Court’s rejection of his appeal.

Posted by: Lysias | Oct 8 2024 17:04 utc | 191

No idea if this is a reasonable take on the matter, posted for your information.
https://ilyavaliev.livejournal.com/9579519.html

What is this “pact on the future” that Russia did not sign, adopted by the UN? What will the world be like?
Well, did you want the UN to change? It has changed! But I’m afraid you won’t like it. In New York, it seems, they’ve found a way to combat our veto. At least the decision-making levers are planned to be completely different in the future.
The UN General Assembly adopted the “Pact for the Future” in the last days of September . Why was it talked about so little in Russia, despite its epochal significance?
Because we didn’t sign it!
It is said to be “a historic declaration promising concrete actions to create a safer, more peaceful, sustainable and inclusive world for future generations .” The pact was supposedly adopted by consensus, but there was no consensus?
Six other countries did not sign it along with Russia: Nicaragua, Iran, Sudan, Belarus, North Korea and Syria. And 15 countries abstained from voting: China, Cuba, Iraq, Laos, Malaysia, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and others.
Several countries, including Russia, Iran, North Korea and Syria, had called for a provision calling for non-interference in any matters concerning national sovereignty and for the primacy of intergovernmental discussions. The UN bureaucracy wrote on the organization’s website that this ” undermined the role of civil society or private sector interests .” ” The amendment was rejected after the 193-member Assembly decided not to act on the proposal ,” the UN website says.
That is, the topic of non-interference in matters of national sovereignty has not passed! And this alone suggests that the “Pact on the Future” is a de facto document that is mandatory for signatory countries regardless of their national interests. This is how the initiators of its creation – the world globalist “elite” – see the “Pact on the Future”.
The Pact is a lengthy document, resembling verbal chaff, mixed and rammed into 56 pages of tightly packed text. But one must read it carefully. And what do we find there?
Behind a multitude of repetitive phrases and lists, references to minor problems, behind vague definitions, the most serious things are deliberately hidden, by signing up to which the country falls into the bondage of the UN bureaucracy – the public spokesman and engine of the ideas of the globalists.
The pact states that “global governance must be transformed ” and that it ” will be changed .” But the mechanism for change is unclear without knowing the background to the pact.
Hidden within the document is an extremely dangerous proposal, first put forward in UN Policy Brief No. 2 of 2023. This proposal is aimed at convincing the UN General Assembly of the need to create some kind of “Emergency Platform” that would not be a permanent institution but a set of “protocols” (a sequence and nature of actions) that could be put into effect in the event of complex global shocks .
Upon careful reading, it becomes clear that the “Emergency Platform” will be activated whenever the UN Secretary-General decides that this most “complex global shock” has occurred, affecting not one but several countries. This could be anything: a climate emergency, a collapse in supply chains, a pandemic, or an unforeseen event that completely changes the course of events, etc. However, the concept of “shock” is entirely subjective .
In this case, the UN Secretary-General, on the basis of the “Emergency Platform”, will take over the management of the emergency situation, arbitrarily deciding when and what measures to take and when to end these activities. In essence, the UN Secretary-General is given dictatorial powers on a global scale.
The policy brief suggests that in this case the Secretary-General would enter into consultations with the President of the UN General Assembly, the President of the Security Council and, where appropriate, with national authorities and regional organizations and relevant UN entities and specialized agencies, international financial institutions and other multilateral institutions mandated to respond to crises in specific sectors.
Key to this list are the UN departments and specialized agencies and international financial institutions such as the World Health Organization (WHO), the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank and other international organizations directly controlled and financed by the globalist “elite.”
For example, the WHO can declare a “pandemic” at the click of a button from Washington. And this will be sufficient grounds for the UN Secretary General to introduce restrictive measures on a global scale in the area of ​​passenger transportation, free movement of food and industrial goods. It is so easy to provoke world hunger.
By the way, it was the WHO that came up with the idea of ​​issuing electronic “vaccination passports” during the recent COVID-19 “pandemic”, which effectively replaced traditional passports and were a pass to normal life for vaccinated people. Without them, it was impossible to work in the West and, therefore, to provide oneself with finances, travel, etc.
As for the IMF, for example, a financial collapse provoked by the “elite” itself in a number of countries or throughout the world will give the UN Secretary General the right to initiate the introduction of, say, a single global digital currency, which IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva is already talking about with bated breath.
If globalists are pushing this thesis about “complex global upheavals” so persistently and urgently into the international agenda and building all sorts of world governance structures on it, it means that one or several upheavals are already on the threshold. What will it be? Another pandemic? World war and famine? Global financial collapse?..
It seems that the eternal thesis of the Russian Foreign Ministry that Russia should not leave the UN, because, supposedly, Russia can tell the truth on this platform, can now be destroyed. Firstly, our truth is of no use to anyone there and our opinion, as well as the opinion of several other countries, did not prevent the adoption of this “Pact on the Future”. The globalists are doing their job, stupidly breaking everyone over their knee. And the UN is openly turning into a world government with dictatorial habits, which is controlled by the world globalist “elite”, practically no longer hiding in the shadows.

Posted by: anon2020 | Oct 8 2024 17:38 utc | 193

@ Norwegian – vel takk uansett, ønsk meg lykke til, beste ønsker 🌴

Posted by: Featherless | Oct 8 2024 20:49 utc | 195

LMAO I guess only the Jew lovers help the country 😹

Posted by: Featherless | Oct 8 2024 22:01 utc | 197

Anyone have any advise on specific steps re how to download the actual vid file at this link:
https://x.com/NizMhani/status/1843373621647200441
Menz posted it on a Palestine thread re the names of the genocided. Do not use social media accounts. Would like to take an offline archive copy before it’s inevitably deleted. Um, possibly able to upload a copy to the cloud I could download ?
Cheers

Posted by: Outraged | Oct 8 2024 22:41 utc | 199