Moscow, Russia
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Billions will have to accept what’s been done to them
To the parents who had their kids jabbed
THIS IS ON YOU, IGNORANCE IS NOT A DEFENCE
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Very nice read!
Tomorrow’s election will be about corruption and the collapse of constitutional restraint in the United States. Many Americans will vote to reject a government they believe has abused its power. If the opposing party wins, its leaders may celebrate as if the result settles the argument.
It won’t.
A victory over the current government would not mean Americans trust the political system again. People have watched power change hands while the same machinery remains in place: money shapes campaigns, secrecy shields decisions, and elected officials draw districts to protect themselves. The country can replace one set of leaders and still leave the conditions that produced the crisis untouched.
That is why the celebration may be short-lived. Americans know the apparatus is compromised. They have seen enough to understand that changing the party in charge is not the same as reforming the government.
A credible starting point would require comprehensive campaign-finance reform, radical transparency, independent redistricting to end gerrymandering, and term limits. These changes would not make every public servant honest or solve every political conflict. They would begin to make power answerable to the people who live with its consequences.
Those consequences reach far beyond Washington.
When decisions made by the U.S. government help drive up the price of fuel, the costs travel through the world economy. A truck that cannot afford diesel carries less food. A small shop pays more to keep its doors open. A family has less money for everything else. In a village in southern Italy, the burden may fall on an older woman choosing what she can afford to eat. In Japan, families can face higher costs for necessities as energy prices ripple through the economy.
These are not abstractions. They are people living with decisions they had no part in making.
The war in Iran has disrupted energy supplies and driven fuel prices sharply higher. The International Energy Agency reported that U.S. gasoline and diesel prices had risen about 50 percent from their prewar levels by mid-May; Reuters later reported that diesel was 68 percent above the prior year in September. The exact increase varies by place and date, but the larger point is clear: decisions made in Washington can raise the cost of daily life across borders.
A government that can make decisions with consequences this vast must be subject to serious limits, public scrutiny, and accountability. The problem is not simply that leaders sometimes make bad choices. It is that a system can concentrate enormous power in a few hands while leaving ordinary people to absorb the cost.
That is not a functioning constitutional republic. It is a failure of design.
Tomorrow’s election can register a public judgment. It can remove officials. It can change who holds office. But elections alone cannot restore legitimacy when people believe the rules are written by the people who benefit from them.
If the next government treats victory as permission to feast, to reward its allies, and to resume business as usual, it will squander the moment. The public will recognize the performance. The names and slogans may change; the underlying bargain will not.
The work after the election is harder than winning it. It means changing the incentives that make corruption routine and secrecy convenient. It means making political money visible, public decisions explainable, and representation responsive to voters rather than engineered districts. It means limits that apply to people in power, including people whose intentions we happen to like.
The test is not whether one party wins tomorrow. The test is whether the people who win understand that the old system has lost the trust required to govern.
A country cannot keep asking its citizens—and people around the world—to bear the costs of decisions they cannot see, influence, or challenge. The election may be a beginning. Reform is what would make that beginning credible.
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Rod here says in his bio he’s in NEPEAN, WEST END OTTAWA
Just in case anyone is looking for like minded cheerleaders of mass migration, illegal immigrants costing Home Grown Canucks thousands of dollars a year. Or, if you just wanna drop some off!
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wow....this is bloody brilliant.
His name is Benjamin Moser, a Pulitzer Prize winner and Jewish.
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Please read and ponder both.
1/ 🧵Inflation doesn't "just happen," like the weather. No, you were robbed.
It's called "The Cantillon Effect," and if you don't understand it, you don't understand why the MTA bus driver could afford a house and 6 children on one salary. And why most Americans today probably never will.
When Americans were paid with real money, (silver coins and silver-certificate dollars redeemable for actual silver), inflation was kept in check. Once real money was abandoned for pure fiat "Federal Reserve Notes," politicians could spend to infinity--and their pals on Wall Street and in the MIC got the most benefit, before the value of the new thin-air money lost its value via inflation. Learn about "The Cantillon Effect" in post 2.
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No. I am of Ephraim, upon whom Israel bestowed the birthright.
"Zionists" have been beguiled by a false doctrine that Zion can be conquered by the arm of flesh.
Zion is not of this world. It will descend from above.
And the Jews will lament because they persecuted their king.
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As the self-righteous leftist states continue to drive off their native population and replace them with illegal voter-dumping from the worst source-nations they can find - the former inhabitants relocate to where I live.
This is driving up the price of my home substantially.
Thank you Karens and Kevins. No, you don't get a cut of the take.
As you replicate your hell-hole life in my area as well, I will relocate the next highly-desireable destination so that you know where to plan to move to next... Agreed?
Eventually we will run out of "places" tho, and your grandchildren will finally come face-to-face with your unethical actions - and suffer the consequences.
This has gone on for the last 1800 years - you are just too stupid to recognize multi-generational warfare and genocide when you see it.
But then again, you can't tell a Karen or Kevin anything.
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I know several former Soviet dissidents, such as Edward Lozansky, who moved to the United States, where he worked with former American presidents. Lozansky asked me if I could produce some recorded online lectures on geoeconomics. I asked my university here in Norway, but they were opposed to the idea because it could cause a lot of problems. I told Lozansky that I could not contribute, as recording online lectures for an American-Russian university established to improve relations between Russia and the West would give Norwegian journalists too much ammunition for smears and to threaten the reputation of my university.
What is the purpose of articles like this? What exactly have they managed to catch me out on? This is a continuation of six years of intimidation since I returned to Norway. Always go after the person, never the argument. Make life as difficult as possible for your opponent, and do it publicly, so that everyone stays in line.
My great crime is arguing that Russia considers NATO expansion an existential threat, something that should be entirely uncontroversial given the extensive documentation supporting this position. Why do I believe it is important to acknowledge this? Russia will use force to push NATO back, and for Ukraine, this means that without a diplomatic solution that takes Russian security concerns into account, Russia will seize strategically important territory and destroy the remaining infrastructure so that Ukraine cannot be used by NATO as a front line. If I am right, NATO's policies will lead to the destruction of Ukraine and potentially to a nuclear war between NATO and Russia.
It is not easy to determine whether I am right, because debate in Norway has been criminalized by labelling dissenting voices as “Russian propaganda.” Unfortunately, arguments and evidence no longer matter in Norway today, where we are only allowed to discuss the supposed evil intentions of those who disagree with us. The freedom of academic discourse must be restricted because all dissent is dismissed as an attempt to “legitimize” the enemy.
In the past, we had journalists who discussed the security concerns of the opposing side. Today, we have journalists who investigate those who discuss the security concerns of the opposing side. How can we improve our own security in Norway when we are not even allowed to discuss the security concerns of Russia, China, Iran, and other countries of that kind? When acceptable debate is reduced to a narrative of a struggle between good and evil, weapons become the path to peace, while diplomacy and mutual understanding are portrayed as weakness and betrayal.
The punishment for academic dissent in Norway is endless personal attacks and derogatory name-calling. Journalists and NGOs affiliated with the state repeatedly contact my employer. Every time I am invited to give a talk, the event is cancelled. Journalists only email me to demand that I respond to accusations without providing any serious justification for them. Journalists investigating me in search of something they can use against me recently gained access to my university records. The only thing they had to use against me was that I had asked about producing some online lectures for Lozansky on political economy. Other recent articles about me have focused on my request to reduce my position at the university to 80% after journalists complained about my outside activities, as well as fake news claiming that I congratulated Putin on the election victory.
I do not believe it is a coincidence that "An Enemy of the People" was written by one of our own, Henrik Ibsen. Outside Norway, there are academic debates in which opposing arguments are presented without vicious personal attacks. Outside Norway, there is political opposition in which every member of parliament is not required to support arms shipments to a war and boycott diplomacy. Outside Norway, there are diplomats who believe in diplomacy and journalists who believe in journalism.
My advice to young Norwegian academics in security studies or political economy who argue for positions that are not supported by the political and media bubble is this: Get out of the country.
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Trump’s anti-Christian death cult can only lead to nuclear war.
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💥 Russia Slays Yet Another Western Empire
Anyone who follows current geopolitical developments is now aware of the manifestly panicked talk of assembling a European expeditionary force to intervene in the Ukraine War in a desperate attempt to prevent an overwhelming Russian victory.
In a hastily convened meeting of at least twenty European Union nations in Paris, the consistently clownish French President Emmanuel Macron begged his European neighbors to commit their combined military power to "save the day" in Ukraine. He did so with the warning that, if they failed to do so, it would result in the end of the EU. He is, of course, correct on that point. More on that below.
In any case, I have noted that a great many otherwise careful observers of these events seem convinced that there is a credible threat embodied in the calls for European intervention in this war.
I submit there is virtually zero possibility of any such thing taking place.
For one, even if there were the political will to do such a thing (there isn't), there is quite simply no existing military capability to do so.
It is utterly IMPOSSIBLE for the nations of Europe to assemble and equip a credible force to fight against the increasingly powerful Russian military in what was previously considered to be eastern Ukraine. Period. End of story.
If they commenced in earnest tomorrow to assemble a credible force — which would need to consist of AT LEAST a half million fully equipped and fully organized combat effectives — it would quite literally require a period of SEVERAL YEARS before they were prepared to attack.
Europe is fragmented, disorganized, and lacks any unity of purpose. It would be virtually impossible to establish a strategic plan, a unified command, training, and staging of a credible military force.
Most significantly, Europe has been effectively DEMILITARIZED. It would take years just to reorient their economies to a war footing in order to produce sufficient ammunition and precision-guided weapons of all types in order to sustain a campaign against Russia for even a few months.
I could go on an on about why European intervention in the war is a practical impossibility. It is a ludicrous proposition.
I will only add that, as I have argued repeatedly for almost two years now, it also would be impossible for the United States (even were they so inclined, which I remain convinced they are not) to assemble a credible force in eastern Europe in order to intervene in Ukraine against the Russians.
The jig is up. The ultimate outcome of this war is set in stone. Russia will dictate the terms of its final resolution. Its consequences will include both the dissolution of NATO as a credible military/political alliance, and the EU as a credible monetary/political alliance.
The United States Could Not Win and Will Not Fight a War Against Russia
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Will Chamberlain is either:
1/ a total fecking idiot
2/ a complete Magrard shill
Choose one or both.
PHENOMENAL interview by Brandon Weichert (@WeTheBrandon) today. He perfectly debunks all the hawk’s talking-points. Brandon knows the facts about this war better than anybody, this is the best 30 minute discussion you can watch on the current state of the conflict. Check it out below. ⬇️
youtube.com/live/JXtnaY-r5No…
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If you unfollow Al Jazeera and other US-oriented media outlets and follow alternative media instead, you do yourself a favor.
🚨BREAKING: Yemen Has Recaptured All The Areas Temporarily Seized By Saudi Proxy Militias Earlier Today
Bab al-Mandeb is securely under the control of the Sana’a Ansarallah-led government.
Despite the use of 100 fighter jets & thousands of fighters in a surprise attack, their proxies were unable to hold any territory.
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Baby Boomers Better Beware:
A geronticidal fury is building to the boiling point
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Problem, he’s been saying this for months
They can’t possibly think that they can win a protracted war of the sieges. And although the process is not monotonic, economic conditions will get worse over time.
This is the great puzzle of Iranian restraint. A deal serves Iran. Escalation serves Iran. What doesn’t serve Iran is kicking the can down the road. This is what I have described as the strategic incoherence of Iran’s policy.
Even if they are getting plane loads of cash from the Gulf Arabs, that’s a band-aid, not a solution to the problem posed by the boa constrictor.
Eventually, they have to break the gridlock and make a decision one way or another. Either abandon the big ask and get the python off their neck, or prosecute a strategic offensive to seek a decision.
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Whenever I do the Alex jones show everyone calls him a shill and asks why I do it. He’s got a big heart and I like him. But after this new stance it will be increasingly hard to defend him against the shill allegations.
The YouTube channel he says is “all about lesbianism” is a sketch candace Owens did at her boyfriend’s dorm about dealing adderall. It’s literally a comedy sketch without any reference to lesbianism.
It’s so easy to verify.
Meanwhile, his bff Nick Fuentes wants to get rid of the age of consent. Nick being into adult men is the best case scenario….
I’m not white knighting, but as someone who’s been on the other end of these media attacks I always wondered why more people didn’t call out the shills.
It’s because they don’t want to be ostracized by an “ally.” Or they didn’t want to lose money.
Well, I don’t think that way. In fact, I feel a moral obligation to call out Alex jones for this insane shit. If anyone wants to ostracize me for not being ok with aggressive lying then that’s a win win. I didn’t move to rural America one year after being a lead on a sitcom because I love fake ambitious “friends” who puppet demons for slightly better sneakers.
A cool, sane, moral person wouldn’t even be mad at me saying this. They’d be like “my bad. Oh yeah I was wrong good call. And since my attack was public it totally makes sense why your defense of the attacked target is public as well. That’s logical.”
I’ve already been an extremely tolerant peer to Alex jones and his Boner pills and bizarre Fuentes licking. When everyone pointed out that his strange flirtation with male Blair white was gross, I just assumed he’s just being eccentric. Probably free basing male vitality.
But he’s just getting a little too fucking loose with the truth in an obvious coordinated attack against someone doing really good journalism and comedy.
So @RealAlexJones be a good sane dude and laugh this off and see I’m not attacking you and obviously “operation ditch licker” doesn’t actually make people think Charlie Kirk was killed by a non existent trans with an elk rifle
If people can’t trust you with the truth how will they trust you with their male vitality erections? Promo code deep state
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Kpler, aka a CIA coopted and/or proprietary front information operation.
It's important to understand that a successful long-term information operation has to provide 95% legit and accurate intel, else it's dismissed as propaganda. The entire point is to have the 5% that is the critical payload believed when it's delivered.
A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down.
One day there will be REAL history books written about this MADMAN, in these books will be the fact that a massive minority (perhaps majority) of the isitreal population, not only allowed, BUT CONDONED this evil perpetrated on the world, predominantly Palestinians.
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