Awaiting Further Reports

 Constructively Pensive,

  The Honest Sorcerer, about controlling the vital necessities of life.  War. War Never Changes., The importance of resources in maintaining global hegemony

"Energy is the economy - finance, GDP and the stock market is not." ...

..We are marching towards a full scale world war. In fact it has already begun in one battlefront and in the field of economic relations. On the face of it, it’s about fighting against autocracy and ‘unprovoked’ invasions in the name of protecting freedom and democracy. Dig one level deeper and you find rather different motives like fear of losing global military hegemony, influence and power...

..For those who paid attention so far, this was entirely foreseeable. Despite all the claims to the contrary the world economy still runs on oil. It is the ‘master resource’: fueling all the heavy machinery, doing all the hard labor our ancestors ended up breaking their backs doing. Agriculture, mining, transportation.
  With it’s peak production most probably in the rear-view mirror (November, 2018) and without reasonable hope for a stable recovery we are entering a dangerous period in history. Just like a hundred and ten years ago, the peak of a master resource — then coal — has coincided with the dusk of a global empire — Britain — leading to a very similar situation preceding World War I and the Great Depression afterwards.

  Oil has saved us once from a long decline which started in 1929 and was ominously called the Great Depression. Behind the news of economic hardship, overproduction and stock market crash, there was a silent killer: peak coal produced by coal. Steam engines has reached their practical limits of efficiency and could not enable the mining and hauling of coal from further away as all the close-to-surface, easy-to-reach deposits were depleted...

..It increasingly looks like that we’ve just hit a limit to world oil extraction. Yes, that oil, the master resource and the source of military hegemony. Sure, there are plenty of petroleum reserves remaining around the globe, but accessing them will take more and more energy, and will require more and more oil to be reinvested into drilling, extraction and transportation. Just like with the case of coal above. Behind the scenes, silently—even before hitting an absolute limit to oil extraction—we have already hit peak net energy from oil. Is it any wonder then, that when we’ve hit a peak of conventional (i.e. easy and cheap to access) oil production in 2005, its price skyrocketed, and finally burst the housing bubble in 2008? Remember, no energy — no economy — just stock market speculation...

..The Great Depression Vol. II was only barely avoided in 2009. By pouring an unprecedented amount of money on the problem, in the form of QE and zero interest rates, a number of bankruptcies were circumvented. More importantly, but wholly unintentionally, this flood of money has also saved the energy business, by accidentally lighting the last flash in the pan: the shale oil revolution. Fracked oil and gas was the prime reason behind not having to shut down the economy in the 2010’s — but even this miracle could not last for long. Shale deposits deplete much faster than conventional ones...

..Absent of any viable replacement: i.e. some form of energy wholly independent from oil — but at least as dense, scalable, transportable, easy to store — there is physically no chance to grow the economy, increase mining production, replace the ageing grid and other infrastructure (bridges, dams) and maintain a global military hegemony — all at the same time. Forced to select from the few options listed above, 10 out of 10 empires chose to maintain military hegemony. Or at least make an attempt at it—and fail...

..This is not to say we could not live a modest, but happy life after world dominance by superpowers is over. The world has still ample resources to provide Earth’s nations with a modest living (for a few more decades), but no longer enough to maintain a world spanning empire for any of them.   https://thehonestsorcerer.substack.com/p/war-war-never-changes-23c

  A Midwestern Doctor looks at the rise of empires with novel forms of wealth/value creation, and the decline of empires with the formation of monopolies which extract wealth from production centers through coerced participation in the extractive system. Changing the format is possible.  

  The Space to Create Wealth, Exploring the fascinating future that lies before us   https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/the-space-to-create-wealth

Well tabulated and potentially-useful:  Trump Vs Kamala: The Complete Election Day Guide   https://www.zerohedge.com/political/complete-election-day-guide-trump-vs-kamala

  Meryl Nass MD,  Possibilities for hacking the Vote have been baked into the election apparatus in so many ways one can hardly count them

And this collection of evidence only scratches the surface​   https://merylnass.substack.com/p/possibilities-for-hacking-the-vote

​  There has been yearlong speculation about riots and civil-war in the US if Trump loses or if Trump wins. It is always "Trump" that seems to be named, as the other candidate remains "Not Trump".  This keeps street-riot options, and military suppression options open for ruling elites, but this does imply unlawful orders being carried out by military units, and  I suspect that some would refuse.

  Meryl Nass MD on Tucker Carlson interview with Mike Benz,  "Military Coup To Stop Trump" - 

Mike Benz Exposes Elite's SHOCKING Wargame Plan For 2024 Election/Patrick Bet-David interview 2 days ago

Mike Benz provides the evidence for a pre-2020 election plan to effect a coup if Trump had been reelected.​   https://merylnass.substack.com/p/military-coup-to-stop-trump-mike

​[FWIW] ​ FBI Seize Diddy ‘Blackmail Tapes’ Featuring Kamala Harris and J.Lo​   https://thepeoplesvoice.tv/fbi-seize-diddy-blackmail-tapes-featuring-kamala-harris-and-j-lo/

Israel Killed Over 50 Children in Jabalia in 48 Hours: UN​,  Four children were wounded by an Israeli strike on a vaccination center in northern Gaza​   https://news.antiwar.com/2024/11/03/israel-kills-over-50-children-in-jabalia-within-48-hours-un/

​Meryl Nass MD,  Israel's oldest and most influential newspaper calls for an end to ethnic cleansing and asks other nations to sanction Israel to end hostilities   https://merylnass.substack.com/p/israels-oldest-and-most-influential

Israeli Troops Prevent North Gaza Residents From Returning to Their Homes as Part of Ethnic Cleansing Plan​   https://scheerpost.com/2024/11/03/israeli-troops-prevent-north-gaza-residents-from-returning-to-their-homes-as-part-of-ethnic-cleansing-plan/

[​Reducing sale prices of assets]  Yemen’s Houthis will keep blockade on Israeli vessels after asset sale reports​   https://www.arabnews.com/node/2577934/middle-east

​Vague, but clear...  Iran will not leave any violation unanswered: Pezeshkian   https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/505835/Iran-will-not-leave-any-violation-unanswered-Pezeshkian

  North Koreans are sitting there in Russia!  Zelensky Wants NATO To Support Long-Range Strikes on North Korean Troops Inside Russia

The Ukrainian leader says his Western backers have done 'nothing' in response to the North Korean troop presence in Russia​   https://news.antiwar.com/2024/11/03/zelensky-wants-nato-to-support-long-range-strikes-on-north-korean-troops-inside-russia/

Is the West finally ready to admit defeat in Ukraine?​  The media is changing the narrative as the proxy war is running out of steam​.   https://swentr.site/news/606810-west-media-changes-narrative-ukraine/

US Preparing Europe to Start Direct War With Russia If Ukraine Fails - Lavrov​   https://sputnikglobe.com/20241104/us-preparing-europe-to-start-direct-war-with-russia-if-ukraine-fails---lavrov-1120766825.html

​  “The Train Has Left the Station and No One Can Stop It”. Europe Will be at War with Russia. Serbia’s President A. Vucic

​  These are the words of Serbia’s President Aleksander Vucic. He ought to know. He is in the middle of it. He thinks Europe will be at war with Russia in “not more than three or four months,” if that long. President Vucic says “no one is attempting to stop the war. Nobody is speaking about peace. Peace is almost a forbidden word.”​   https://www.globalresearch.ca/train-left-station-no-one-stop/5859967

​Despite current artillery-shell shortages...  NATO Kicks Off Largest Artillery Drills In Finland, On Russia's Northern Doorstep   https://www.zerohedge.com/military/nato-kicks-largest-artillery-drills-finland-russias-northern-doorstep

Life During Wartime, The Novorussian Decade (ignore sales pitch) ... Thanks Colleen. Russian Liberated 'Ukraine' Offers Migrants from West Rich Opportunities

​  I didn’t realize until after long rambling conversations with our hosts, sometimes bouncing over bombed out country landscapes, the degree to which the Donbass, a small region in​ between two big powers, Russia and NATO, ended up in a strategic position where their best option of many bad ones, was to simply endure years of war and abuse, toughing it out despite the grimness and grisly sacrifice, an eery foreshadowing of what The Resistance is enduring today in Gaza and Lebanon...
..Our hosts explained to us, and one can sense it in the very air, that this 10.5 year life and death struggle, still underway, has profoundly affected the mentality of the people, and this is relevant to what is likely to transpire once peace returns, and why I believe this region will greatly attract migrants from the West.
​  To understand this, one needs to understand who the people of Novorossiya were before the 2014 conflict, and where they came from. Novorossiya, much like the American West, was frontier country. Centuries of spoilage and pillage at the hands of the Turks had left this region depopulated, its hapless Slav villagers regularly raided and kidnapped – sold into the Ottoman slave markets. The edges of the Ottoman empire were basically controlled by marauding local warlords whose main economic model was piracy, pillage, plunder, and extortion. These bandits were an ethnic mix of mostly Turks and Mongols – the Crimean Tatars one of the better known subgroups...
..Now add the p​sychological conditioning of the last 10 years. One veteran put it like this: “All the bad people left.” “What do you mean by ‘bad’?, and what percentage of the population left?” He guessed roughly 40% of the pre-2014 population. Perhaps 30% of that to ‘Ukraine’ for various reasons, the rest to Russia. Then he enumerated: the cowards, the money-grubbers, the physically weak, the liars, the unpatriotic, the careerists, the criminals, the lovers of softness and luxury, the materialists. The ones who stayed then went through a kind of crucible, whether on the front or at home, for a society at war shares in the burden, the grief, and the emotions of those who suffer most. He went on to say that everyone knows who left, their personal circumstances, and why, and that this will be remembered long after the war ends.​   https://www.unz.com/article/russian-liberated-ukraine-offers-migrants-from-west-rich-opportunities/

​Thanks Charles, for this updated 1987 edition of: Nuclear War Survival Skills (317 p)   https://ia902306.us.archive.org/19/items/NuclearWarSurvivalSkills_201405/nwss.pdf

  The Ethical Skeptic,  Technology is not a Device, but a Stack​

When we use sophisticated systems to observe an extraordinary technology in the sky, we must recognize that this is not merely a device; but rather a broad, structured domain, involving the work of tens of thousands of individuals—best understood as a stack.
​  Extraordinary technology demands extraordinary infrastructure. To frame this as a simple device is, in itself, an extraordinary claim cloaked in the guise of simplicity.​   https://theethicalskeptic.com/2024/10/31/technology-is-not-a-device-but-a-stack/#respond

​  Reject Real ID, Don’t Use QR Codes Ever
Nurse and author Twila Brase joined CHD.TV and “The Solari Report” to discuss the dangers of Real ID and QR Codes and how people can resist them.​   https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/reject-real-id-qr-codes-twila-brase/

​  Charles Hugh Smith,  Central Planning: China's Miracle--and Malaise​

  The inherent weaknesses of central planning are on display in every economy. It's tempting to use central planning to kickstart a sector or industrialize / re-industrialize, but there are no mechanisms in central planning to recognize or respond to the fact that you can only funnel private capital into a blind machine of entrenched interests for so long before the machine consumes not only all the gains of central planning but the entire economy, as the distortions become so profound that there are no fixes other than the extreme pain of absorbing catastrophic losses.

​  The illusion created by the initial success of central planning is that it can continue indefinitely, when the reality is it's unavoidably self-liquidating as the distortions unravel the entire economy. As I explained in my weekend post for subscribers, TINS and the Global Economy's Cliff Dive: There Is No Substitute, once the central planning model reaches its inevitable point of failure, there is no substitute available, as the economy has been optimized to reward the "winners", effectively hollowing out other sectors of the economy.​    https://charleshughsmith.substack.com/p/central-planning-chinas-miracle-and

​AAPS Association of American Physicians and Surgeons,  Economic Health Watch: Regulatory Costs   https://aapsonline.org/economic-health-watch-regulatory-costs/   

  Pierre Kory MD makes the case that metabolism is more important in cancer than gene-mutations. The Evolution And Validation Of The Metabolic Theory Of Cancer

For the past 70 years the Somatic Mutation Theory (SMT) guided all research and treatment in cancer. Why are so few aware that it was overturned 15 years ago by the Metabolic Theory of Cancer (MTOC)?​   https://pierrekorymedicalmusings.com/p/the-evolution-and-validation-of-the

RFK Jr Says Trump Plans To Remove Fluoride From American Drinking Water​   https://www.zerohedge.com/political/rfk-jr-says-trump-plans-remove-fluoride-american-drinking-water

​  Steve Kirsch,  Santa Clara County's wastewater shows the COVID vaccine increased infections

In highly vaccinated Santa Clara County, SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater is higher than the national average. That means the vaccine made the risk of infection worse.​   https://kirschsubstack.com/p/santa-clara-countys-wastewater-shows

​Peter McCullough MD,  US Childhood Routine Vaccination Rates Plummeting,  CDC/HHS Report: Parents Declining Shots for Children Born in 2020 and 2021   https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/us-childhood-routine-vaccination

  Meryl Nass MD,  "The Pandemic Agreement Fractures in the Latest Negotiations"/ CFR/ Oct. 29, 2024

  As I have said, and now the CFR confirms toward the end of this article, our efforts to torpedo the Pandemic Treaty at the state and federal level were crucial, and are the reason there has been a concerted push to conclude the treaty while the Biden administration remains in office. But only a watered down agreement, if that, is likely to emerge—Nass   https://merylnass.substack.com/p/the-pandemic-agreement-fractures

  James Roguski,  The U.S. has pledged $667 million to the Pandemic Fund

As a proud co-founder and supporter of the Pandemic Fund, the United States has pledged up to $667 million towards the Fund’s current replenishment.​   https://jamesroguski.substack.com/p/the-us-has-pledged-667-million-to

​Opposing Tyranny (pictured in old Jill Stein MD for President t-shirt, demonstrating okra harvesting and edibility to Atlas)

Uncertain Paths Forward

Standing At The Crossroads,

  I'll throw up a lot of links and headlines today, but I, like you, don't know what paths forward we will variously take this month. A lot of options have been laid out for civil war, cyber-attacks, financial-crisis, world war, even a new global religion facilitated by AI. 

  I have a 5-6 day silent meditation retreat that will wrap up the Sunday before Thanksgiving, myself. I presume that there will be lots of spiritual work to do.

  John Ward, an expatriate Briton, living in The Gambia, has an inside-outside view of current events:  COUNTDOWN TO CHAOS….or ANALYSIS OF ANTI-CLIMAX?

For all kinds of reasons, with just 24 hours to go to The Count, I find myself suffused with a sense of anti-climax.

​  In any empirical sense of the noun-verb “win”, It seems clear that Donald Trump is going to be elected President of the United States for the second time.
The very best consequence of this is that – just maybe – more people might begin to say what they think as opposed to what the ideologues insist they ought to think.
​  But it won’t end there.
I still expect that chaos will rapidly ensue on a number of levels:
​  1. Come what may, Trump’s anti-mercantile tariff barriers will be asked to carry one hundred per cent of the blame for the coming global econo-fiscal collapse, even though (a) his policy is a twin of Kamala’s (b) years of incontinent neocon war spending and ridiculously overpriced stock markets ensured the bubble must burst once thinly-disguised QE came home to roost and (c) fantasies of non-fossil energy picking up the economc growth challenge were adopted by the likes of series liars like John Kerry and Al Gore.
​  2. The DOD edicts were not passed for fun. They will be used to demand a coup d’etat in favour of “saving the US Republic from a Nazi takeover by the insurrectionists of January 6th 2021”.
​  3. The one overwhelming feature of the rise and rise of Silicon Valley above-the-law giga-wealth has been the psychopathic relish with which Bill Gates and his congregation of fellow perverts have been allowed – nay, encouraged – to not just disguise visual Truth but also deny its existence….a Stalinist designed Ministry of Truth that Google in turn stands justly accused of facilitating in the Dystopian Now.
​  Patience is a virtue.    https://therealslog.com/2024/11/04/countdown-to-chaos-or-analysis-of-anti-climax/#like-150930

​  The darker read...  'Fourth Turning' Election Igniting A Firestorm

​  How many times have you heard this is the most important election of our lifetimes in the last few weeks? When Strauss & Howe published The Fourth Turning in 1997, the national debt was $5.4 trillion, and the country was running an annual deficit of $22 billion. We now add $22 billion of debt every 4 days, amounting to $2 trillion per year. They postulated the major catalysts for the next Fourth Turning would be debt, civic decay, and global disorder.
​  As we enter the 17th year of this Crisis, no one can question their prescience in predicting the facilitators which have propelled this ongoing Crisis thus far. The volcanic debt eruption created by the Federal Reserve and their Wall Street cabal owners in 2008 initiated all the chaos, debt creation, crushing inflation, authoritarian measures, social decay, celebration of delusion, delegitimization of the regime media and their corrupt government co-conspirators, and the rise of Trump. This country, and most of the western world, is experiencing extreme economic, social, political and military distress, as this upcoming election is guaranteed to ignite a civil and global conflagration.​

​  No matter the result of this election, the losing side will not accept the outcome. It has been unequivocally evident for several weeks Trump would win this election in a landslide, on par with Reagan’s destruction of Mondale in 1984, if the Democrat cheat machine of fraudulent mail-in ballots, illegal hordes voting, and ever trusty Dominion vote switching algorithms cannot overcome his overwhelming margin.
​  Those pulling the levers are willing to do anything to retain power, not excluding assassination of Trump, initiating WW3 or some other manufactured crisis to cancel the election, illegal lawfare schemes to convict Trump of fake crimes or prevent his inauguration in January, or releasing their BLM, Antifa, and Illegal terrorist hordes into the streets to wreak havoc and initiate civil war. The treasonous bastards who stole the 2020 election and have committed crimes against the American people fear the retribution and prison sentences which could be inflicted upon them if Trump wins. They will not go silently into the night.​..

​..I don’t think Strauss & Howe envisioned the types of social distress which would be ushered in by the ruling oligarchy in a desperate attempt to divide, destroy, and degrade the social fabric of our society, obliterating the common values which helped build this nation. The organized, funded, and promoted invasion of our country by third world bottom feeders with the intent to take the lower paying jobs of native Americans, overwhelm the country’s social welfare system, funnel illegal voters into swing states, and create civil chaos in formerly homogeneous communities, is designed to contribute to the economic collapse of the country, allowing the Great Reseters to implement their new world order machinations.
​  The race riots, funded by Soros and encouraged by his bought off district attorneys in every shithole Democrat run sanctuary city in America, conducted by his BLM and ANTIFA hired terrorists, were designed to bring down Trump and demoralize the white middle class families who are the backbone of the country.​..

​..The desperation of the Deep State oligarchs and their hired henchmen within the CIA, FBI, DOJ, and State Department is palpable and exceedingly dangerous, as they are willing to burn down the system to prevent their criminal conspiracy from being revealed. They have tried to imprison and kill Trump already and will continue to do so before his January inauguration. It is probably too late to stop the election from taking place, but nothing they do is too diabolical to exclude at this point. ​  When Trump’s margin of victory exceeds their ability to cheat, they will proceed with plan B and unleash their paid hordes of violent felons in every major city in America, to try and stop Trump from assuming power.​   https://www.zerohedge.com/political/fourth-turning-election-igniting-firestorm

​  Elizabeth Nickson welcomes you to Absurdistan. Please look closely at how hundreds of billions of (Globalist and Chinese!) dollars go to legislators, officials,  and individuals calling and ringing doorbells here. It is Bind-Moggling.  Thanks NYmusicdaily:   Inside the International Criminal Conspiracy to Steal 2024​, A pox on all their houses   https://elizabethnickson.substack.com/p/inside-the-international-criminal

  As we might also presume:  Trump could become second JFK – Medvedev

The deputy chairman of the Security Council of Russia has suggested that, should the Republican be elected US president and try to stop the Ukraine conflict, he could be assassinated​.   https://swentr.site/russia/606934-russia-medvedev-trump-ukraine-jfk/

  ​Paul Craig Roberts inquires:  Can A Tsunami of Trump Votes Give Power Back to the American People?

The Democrats are set to steal the election.  They have everything in place except enough votes to hide their theft...
..The American ruling elite, which is evil beyond comprehension, will not take kindly to their loss of power and exposure of their crimes.  The FBI, CIA, NSA, Secret Service, and Clinton murder machine only have to assassinate four people–Trump, Bobby Kennedy, Tucker Carlson, and Elon Musk–and the country is back in their hands.
​  Considering the extraordinary support that both Trump and Bobby Kennedy extend to Israel, it is unclear how an America that supports and enables the Genocide of Palestine can be made great again...
​  I do have to say that I am disturbed by Trump seeing Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea as enemies that he will be tough with.  This leaves Trump susceptible to neoconservative influence.  If Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea are our enemies, it is because Washington made them enemies.​   https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2024/11/03/can-a-tsunami-of-trump-votes-give-power-back-to-the-american-people/

  ​So this can happen?  Texas has launched a criminal investigation into Dominion Voting Systems after evidence emerged that their machines are rigged to help Kamala Harris win the presidency.

​  A sheriff’s office in Barry County, Michigan, is referring electoral crimes to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and has confirmed that the America First law officer has opened a criminal investigation into Dominion Voting Systems.
​  “The Barry County Sheriff’s Office has an ongoing investigation into election related crimes since December 2020,” a statement from Sheriff Dar Leaf explains, confirming the Michigan law office “has made referrals for criminal ingestion to the Texas Attorney General’s Office.”​   https://thepeoplesvoice.tv/texas-launches-investigation-into-dominion-voting-systems-for-rigging-their-machines/

​   More:  Michigan sheriff announces criminal investigation into 2020 election crimes, Dominion Voting Systems

​  He stated: “The Texas Attorney General has opened a criminal investigation related to Dominion Voting Systems, Election Systems & Software (ES&S). Hart InterCivic, and SolarWinds including specific subcontractors, agents, and employees.”
​  According to the press release, the sheriff’s office will release more information when it can do so without compromising the investigation. However, he has posted on X in the past that he was looking into “conspiracy crimes, wire services fraud, honest services fraud, and perjury charges” related to Dominion CEO John Polous’ “sworn testimony before the Michigan Legislature that its voting systems could not be accessed or connected to by outside networks and sources, and that it was a ‘US based company.'”​   https://www.naturalnews.com/2024-11-01-michigan-sheriff-investigation-2020-election-crimes.html

​  Jena Griswold “breaks” 2024 election in Colorado: Results will be 100% non-certifiable, warns Patrick Byrne

There has been "a leak of passwords in Colorado" that will render the 2024 election, at least in that state, "completely meaningless."
​  Constitutional advocate Patrick Byrne (@PatrickByrne) shared the following video on X / Twitter showing how the Colorado BIOS Scandal, as they are calling it, nullifies the 2024 election entirely. George Soros plant Jena Griswold, Colorado's secretary of state, revealed that "partial passwords for the voting system components were mistakenly posted on an official website in a spreadsheet."
​  Newsweek is credited with breaking the news about how Colorado "accidentally" published its voting system passwords in a "major error" that "as a member of the public, if you unhid some columns, these passwords became available."
​  "The spreadsheet contained more than 600 partial BIOS passwords for voting system components across 63 of Colorado's 64 counties," Byrne explains in the video below, reading from the article.​   https://www.naturalnews.com/2024-11-01-jena-griswold-breaks-2024-election-colorado-passwords-breach.html

​  Pennsylvania Accused of Election Fraud After Gov’t Official Caught Dumping Millions of Fake Voter Registrations

​  This news comes on the heels of other similar news in Lancaster County, also in Pennsylvania, where a voter fraud operation was uncovered that involved a mostly-fraudulent batch of 2,500 voter applications being turned in on or near the deadline, just like what happened in Luzerne County.​   https://thepeoplesvoice.tv/pennsylvania-accused-of-election-fraud-after-govt-official-caught-dumping-millions-of-fake-voter-registrations/

​  “We’re Not Going to Allow Them to Steal it”: Raskin Repeats Trump-Like Reservation on Accepting Election Results​                                                                                On Bill Maher’s HBO Show on Friday, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) appeared to repeat his reservation about accepting a Trump win in the presidential election. Raskin said that Democrats will only support a “free and fair election.” Trump was widely criticized for the same position when he said “If everything’s honest, I’ll gladly accept the results.”
​  Raskin previously said that he would not guarantee certifying Trump and that, if he wins, he may be declared as disqualified by Congress: “It’s going to be up to us on January 6th, 2025 to tell the rampaging Trump mobs that he’s disqualified. And then we need bodyguards for everybody and civil war conditions.”​   https://jonathanturley.org/2024/11/03/were-not-going-to-allow-them-to-steal-it-raskin-repeats-trump-like-reservation-on-accepting-election-results/#more-225020

​  Washington Governor Jay Inslee announced on Friday that he has activated the Washington National Guard to assist local law enforcement and the Washington State Patrol as needed to address any potential election-related unrest.​ This “purely precautionary measure” comes in response to nationwide warnings from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security regarding threats to election infrastructure.​   https://endtimeheadlines.org/2024/11/washington-national-guard-activated-ahead-of-election-day/

  ​Hal Turner,  It's Official: The Wealthy Have Begun to Flee The USA Ahead of Election Day

Attorneys and advisors to family offices and high-net-worth families said they’re seeing record demand from clients looking for second passports or long-term residencies abroad. While talk of moving overseas after an election is common, wealth advisors said this time many of the wealthy are already taking action.
​  “We’ve never seen demand like we see now,” said Dominic Volek, group head of private clients at Henley & Partners, which advises the wealthy on international migration.​ Volek said that for the first time, wealthy Americans are far and away the company’s largest client base, accounting for 20% of its business, or more than any other nationality. He said the number of Americans making plans to move abroad is up at least 30% over last year.
​  David Lesperance, managing partner of Lesperance and Associates, the international tax and immigration firm, said the number of Americans hiring him for possible moves overseas has roughly tripled over last year.
​  A survey by Arton Capital, which advises the wealthy on immigration programs, found that 53% of American millionaires say they’re more likely to leave the U.S. after the election, no matter who wins. Younger millionaires were the most likely to leave, with 64% of millionaires between 18 and 29 saying they were “very interested” in seeking so-called golden visas through a residency-by-investment program overseas.​   https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/news-selections/world-news/its-official-the-wealthy-have-begun-to-flee-the-usa-ahead-of-election-day

​  Number of Americans Looking to Emigrate Explodes Ahead of Election - Reports

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - A rising number of US citizens are considering changing their place of residence due to political instability at home, which is largely caused by the upcoming presidential election, Bloomberg news agency reported on Saturday, citing emigration experts.
​  The news agency cited Jen Barnett, the founder of Expatsi, a company that helps Americans figure out how they can realistically leave the country, as saying that demand for their services shot up 900% after the debate between then-presidential contenders Joe Biden and Donald Trump.​   https://sputnikglobe.com/20241102/number-of-americans-looking-to-emigrate-explodes-ahead-of-election---reports-1120755084.html

​  Jeffrey D. Sachs: The BRICS Summit Should Mark the End of Neocon Delusions

​Time has run out on the neocon delusions, and the U.S. wars of choice.
​  The neocon quest for global hegemony has deep historical roots in America’s belief in its exceptionalism. In 1630, John Winthrop invoked the Gospels in describing the Massachusetts Bay Colony as a “City on the Hill,” declaring grandiosely that “The eyes of all people are upon us.” In the 19th century, America was guided by Manifest Destiny, to conquer North America by displacing or exterminating the native peoples. In the course of World War II, Americans embraced the idea of the “American Century,” that after the war the U.S. would lead the world.
​  The U.S. delusions of grandeur were supercharged with the collapse of the Soviet Union at the end of 1991. With America’s Cold War nemesis gone, the ascendant American neoconservatives conceived of a new world order in which the U.S. was the sole superpower and the policeman of the world. Their foreign policy instruments of choice were wars and regime-change operations to overthrow governments they disliked.
​  Following 9/11, the neocons planned to overthrow seven governments in the Islamic world, starting with Iraq, and then moving on to Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Iran. According to Wesley Clark, former Supreme Commander of NATO, the neocons expected the U.S. to prevail in these wars in 5 years. Yet now, more than 20 years on, the neocon-instigated wars continue while the U.S. has achieved absolutely none of its hegemonic objectives.
​  The neocons reasoned back in the 1990s that no country or group of countries would ever dare to stand up to U.S. power. Brzezinski, for example, argued in The Grand Chessboard that Russia would have no choice but to submit to the U.S.-led expansion of NATO and the geopolitical dictates of the U.S. and Europe, since there was no realistic prospect of Russia successfully forming an anti-hegemonic coalition with China, Iran and others.​..

​..BRICS can’t replace the U.S. as a new global hegemon. They simply lack the military, financial, and technological power to defeat the U.S. or even to threaten its vital interests. The BRICS are in practice calling for a new and realistic multipolarity, not an alternative hegemony in which they are in charge.
​  American strategists should heed the ultimately positive message coming from Kazan. Not only has the neocon quest for global hegemony failed, it has been a costly disaster for the US and the world, leading to bloody and pointless wars, economic shocks, mass displacements of populations, and rising threats of nuclear confrontation. A more inclusive and equitable multipolar world order offers a promising path out of the current morass, one that can benefit the U.S. and its allies as well as the nations that met in Kazan.
​  The rise of the BRICS is therefore not merely a rebuke to the U.S., but also a potential opening for a far more peaceful and secure world order.  ​  https://scheerpost.com/2024/11/03/jeffrey-d-sachs-the-brics-summit-should-mark-the-end-of-neocon-delusions/

​  Another Ukrainian offensive? When? US provides new military aid for Ukraine with air defense systems anti-tank munitions and Stryker vehicles​   https://www.armyrecognition.com/news/army-news/army-news-2024/us-provides-new-military-aid-for-ukraine-with-air-defense-systems-anti-tank-munitions-and-stryker-vehicles

​  Russia’s Medvedev warns the US: Avoid World War Three

Dmitry Medvedev, a senior Russian security official who served as Russia’s president from 2008 to 2012, warned the United States on Saturday to take Russia’s nuclear warnings seriously to avoid World War Three.
​  Medvedev, who serves as deputy chairman of Russia’s powerful security council, told RT broadcaster that top US officials did not want World War Three but for some reason they believe “that the Russians will never cross a certain line.”
​  “They are wrong,” Medvedev told RT, adding that Moscow believed the current US and European political establishments lacked the “foresight and subtlety of mind” displayed by the late Henry Kissinger.
​  “If we are talking about the existence of our state, as the president of our country has repeatedly said, your humble servant has said, others have said, of course, we simply will not have any choice,” Medvedev said.​   https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/news-selections/world-news/russias-medvedev-warns-the-us-avoid-world-war-three

​  EU Warns "Citizens" To Prepare For A Nuclear Disaster

​  A report published on Wednesday by former Finnish President Sauli Niinisto, says that EU citizens should start stockpiling three days’ worth of goods in order to be ready for various potential disasters, including a nuclear conflict. The initiative is part of the EU’s push to make the bloc more resilient in the face of supposedly mounting threats, ranging from natural disasters to a major military conflict, according to a report by RT.
​  The report encourages EU households to stockpile “basic self-sufficiency” goods that would last for at least 72 hours for fear of potential shortages in case of “armed aggression through conventional means” or other hostile activities such as “cyberattacks or the use of chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear weapons.”​   https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/eu-warns-citizens-prepare-nuclear-disaster

Children with 'single gunshot wounds to the head': US surgeon recounts harrowing experience in Gaza​   https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20241101-children-with-single-gunshot-wounds-to-the-head-us-surgeon-recounts-harrowing-experience-in-gaza/

​  Over 100 staff accuse BBC of bias in coverage of Israel’s war in Gaza
Employees say ‘Israel must be held to account for its actions’ and that failing to do so dehumanises Palestinians.​   https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/11/2/over-100-staff-accuse-bbc-of-bias-in-its-coverage-of-israels-war-in-gaza

​  US sends nuclear-capable bombers to the Middle East
The Pentagon will also deploy other assets to the region to compensate for the scheduled departure of its carrier strike group

​  The US military is set to deploy additional forces to the Middle East, including a number of nuclear-capable B-52H strategic bombers, the Pentagon has announced.
The deployment was reportedly ordered by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin to compensate for the scheduled departure of the USS Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group from the region, Pentagon spokesman Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder has said in a statement.
​  Apart from “several” B-52H bombers, the assets include “additional ballistic missile defense destroyers, fighter squadron and tanker aircraft,” he said on Friday. The forces are scheduled to arrive “in the coming months,” Ryder added without giving any exact timeframe.
​  The upcoming deployment is supposed to show Washington’s commitment to “the defense of Israel,” as well as to “de-escalation through deterrence and diplomacy.”​   https://www.rt.com/news/606920-nuclear-bombers-middle-east/

​  US Warns Tehran It Will Not Restrain Israel If Iran Retaliates

​"We told the Iranians: We won't be able to hold Israel back, and we won't be able to make sure that the next attack will be calibrated and targeted as the previous one," the US official said.
​  The message was reportedly passed to Iranian officials via Swiss intermediaries, the Axios report details, which is a rare public disclosure.
​  Ayatollah Ali Khamenei the same day warned of "tooth-breaking" response for Israel's actions. Recent international reports have also suggested Iran-linked paramilitaries in Iraq could be preparing a new attack on Israel.​   https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-warns-tehran-it-will-not-restrain-israel-if-iran-retaliates

Israeli forces threaten, attack Palestinian farmers harvesting olives in West Bank​   https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20241101-israeli-forces-threaten-attack-palestinian-farmers-harvesting-olives-in-west-bank/

​  Israel’s Extremists Have a Plan for the Day after the Genocide

Under the slogan ‘Gaza is Ours, Forever’, a large number of Israeli extremists and right-wing politicians met in the settlement of Be’eri, near the Gaza border region, on October 20-21.
​  The group represented the who’s who in the Israeli right, far right and ultranationalists. They included Israeli Ministers Itamar Ben-Gvir, May Golan and Bezalel Smotrich, as well as ten MKs of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party.
​  The event, entitled “Preparing to Resettle Gaza”, was organized by one of Israel’s most extreme settler movements, Nachala, led by the notorious Daniella Weiss.​..

..While the army remains unclear regarding its strategic objectives in Gaza, the settlers have always been aware of the nature of their mission: the ethnic cleansing of all Palestinians from Gaza and the rebuilding of the settlements...

..On October 17, a position paper introduced by the Israeli Misgav Institute for National Security & Zionist Strategy called for the “relocation and final settlement of the entire Gaza population.”
​  The report saw in the war “a unique and rare opportunity to evacuate the whole Gaza Strip” into the Sinai desert. Later that same month, the Israeli intelligence ministry itself became involved, with the Israeli news outlet Calcalist publishing a document “recommend(ing) the transfer of Gaza residents to Sinai.”​...

..The ongoing so-called General’s Plan, aimed at the extermination and ethnic cleansing of northern Gaza, is but the military component of the settlers’ vision, that of ‘Gaza is ours, forever’.​   https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/11/01/israels-extremists-have-a-plan-for-the-day-after-the-genocide/

  "Israel" already uses AI to target Palestinian apartment blocks and schools. ​"So what the Munchkins want to know is, are you a good-AI or a bad-AI?"   "An Existential Race Amongst The Great Powers Accelerates, At The Dawn Of The AI Age"  

​  “In the global competition on AI, the alleged role of a single, and outdated, version of an American open-source model is irrelevant when we know China is already investing more than one-trillion dollars to surpass the US on AI,” said a Meta spokesperson, defending itself against an allegation.
​  The Jamestown Foundation had released an academic paper [here] with the following claim: “The military and security sectors within the People’s Republic of China are increasingly focused on integrating advanced AI technologies into operational capabilities. Meta’s open-source model Llama (Large Language Model Meta AI) has emerged as a preferred model on which to build out features tailored for military and security applications. In this way, US and US-derived technology is being deployed as a tool to enhance the PRC’s military modernization and domestic innovation efforts, with direct consequences for the United States and its allies and partners.”​   ... 

​..“The number of different categories of space weapons that China has created and the speed with which they’re doing it is very threatening,” warned General Chance Saltzman, head of space operations for the US Space Force, as an existential race amongst the great powers accelerates, at the dawn of the AI Age.​   https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/existential-race-amongst-great-powers-accelerates-dawn-ai-age

​  Bill Gates Calls for Globalists to Create a ‘New Religion’ for the Public

According to Gates, members of the general public will soon have a lot of time on their hands when machines have replaced them in the workplace, “if all goes well,”
​  Gates argues that artificial intelligence will ensure that alleged issues such as “disease and enough food or climate” will be “solved problems.”
Because humans will have extra free time, Gates is calling on globalists to consider “how do we take advantage of that?”
​  According to Gates, giving the public “a new religion or a new philosophy” is the answer.​   https://slaynews.com/news/bill-gates-calls-globalists-create-new-religion-public/

​  Nicholas Hulscher,  COVID-19 'Vaccines' Estimated to Have Killed More People Than 121 Hiroshima Nuclear Bombings

FDA criteria for Class I recall and market withdrawal far exceeded.​   https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/covid-19-vaccines-estimated-to-have

​  Covid is a military operation subordinate to NATO, Pentagon and NCTV!​,  The first global one after WWII

​The new Minister of Health of the Netherlands, Marie Fleur Agema, who comes from Wilder’s PVV party, has openly declared that she cannot keep her electoral promises because the Ministry is subordinate to NATO, the NCTV (National Coordinator for Counterterrorism and Security) and the USA, therefore it must submit to their orders.
​  Netherlands, Minister of Health confesses:​  “We must follow NATO, USA and NCTV, Covid is a military operation”​   https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2024/11/covid-is-a-military-operation-subordinate-to-nato-usa-and-nctv/

​  Idaho health board defies government edicts, removes COVID-19 vaccines from clinics

​  A health board in Idaho has removed Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccines from its facilities, going against federal government recommendations regarding the deadly injections.
​  The seven-member board of Idaho's Southwest District Health (SWDH) voted 4-3 on Oct. 22 to remove the COVID-19 injections from the 30 locations where it provides healthcare services, The Defender reported. The SWDH board's vote came after it received about 300 public comments urging the district to stop promoting the injections.
​  Before the vote, board members heard presentations from Drs. Peter McCullough, Ryan Cole, Renata Moon and James Thorp. Dr. John Tribble, the board's lone physician, invited them to speak.​   https://www.naturalnews.com/2024-11-01-idaho-health-board-removes-covid-vaccines-clinics.html

​Defending Our Future (not pictured here on back patio) 

Final Countdown

 Monitoring Closely,

  From 9/12/24,  How to Steal an Election: US Conservatives Expose Democrats' Playbook Ahead of 2024 Vote

​  "Election theft has always been present in America," US economist and former Reagan administration official Dr. Paul Craig Roberts wrote. "In the 19th century, a vote could be bought for 50 cents and a half pint of whiskey. But in the 21st century, organized vote theft is a big business."
​  The economist pointed out that "normally, it does not matter to the ruling establishment which candidate wins, because the establishment owns both candidates." However, in 2016, 2020, and 2024, Donald Trump emerged as a player "outside the grip and control of the establishment. Therefore, to keep him out of office, vote fraud has been elevated to the fore," as per the economist.​   https://sputnikglobe.com/20240912/how-to-steal-an-election-us-conservatives-expose-democrats-playbook-ahead-of-2024-vote-1120119743.html

​  So who has the report?  Putin Releases 4,000 Page Report Exposing How Elites Have Rigged 2024 US Election

​  The US presidential election has been rigged to ensure the people do not choose the president, according to Russian President Vladimir Putin who has painstakingly compiled a 4,000 page report forensically detailing the crimes of the US Deep State and globalist elites. According to Putin, the global elite believe the consequences of the US election are far too important to allow the American people to decide the outcome, and the 4,000 page report lists Klaus Schwab, Barack Obama, Bill Gates, and George and Alex Soros as co-conspirators in the plot against the USA.​   https://x.com/tpvsean/status/1851760343489405075

"Fraudulent" Mail Ballot Request Forms Found In Another Pennsylvania County, District Attorney Says​   https://www.zerohedge.com/political/fraudulent-mail-ballot-request-forms-found-another-pennsylvania-county-district-attorney

​  From 10/16/24,  U.S. Postal Service refusing to disclose who paid for nine trucks that transferred up to 1.5 million counterfeit election ballots in 2020

  A federal court is about to force the United States Postal Service (USPS) to fess up about who was behind those infamous nine trucks in Pennsylvania that transferred upwards of 1.5 million counterfeit ballots during the 2020 election, effectively throwing the state for Joe Biden.   https://www.naturalnews.com/2024-10-16-usps-trucks-counterfeit-ballots-election-2020-lawsuit.html

"There Are NO WATCHERS": RNC Sues Georgia Counties Over "Last Minute" Decision To Accept Weekend Ballots, Block GOP Observers​   https://www.zerohedge.com/political/there-are-no-watchers-rnc-sues-georgia-counties-over-last-minute-decision-accept-weekend

​  Voter confidence rattled after voting machines malfunction across Illinois
In viral social media posts, voters say they walked out of a Schaumburg early voting site after the ballot scanner stopped working.​   https://justthenews.com/nation/states/center-square/voter-confidence-rattled-after-voting-machines-malfunction-across

"It Did Occur" - Kentucky County Clerk Confirms Voting Booth 'Glitch' Shifted Trump Votes To Kamala​   https://www.zerohedge.com/political/it-did-occur-kentucky-county-clerk-confirms-voting-booth-glitch-shifted-trump-votes

​From 7/25/24,  Is US Democratic System Crumbling? Voters on Both Sides of Aisle Losing Trust in Election   https://sputnikglobe.com/20240725/is-us-democratic-system-crumbling-voters-on-both-sides-of-aisle-losing-trust-in-election-1119496178.html

​  Americans' Trust in Media Remains at Trend Low
Trust in political and civic institutions highest for local ​(67%) and state ​(55%) governments, lowest for media ​(31%) and Congress​ (34%). [Graphs won't copy/paste]​   https://news.gallup.com/poll/651977/americans-trust-media-remains-trend-low.aspx

​  PATRICK LAWRENCE: Portents of Chaos​   At this moment it is hard to locate the limit of what either of the two main political parties in the U.S. will do to avoid losing.
​  If this election is about anything — apart from the price of groceries, of course — it is about the national-security state’s place in American politics. In our post–2016 era, intel and the military are perfectly welcome to operate openly, unabashedly, in the American political process — this because the Democratic Party gives them a wide berth to do so.
​  Now, do you think the Deep State gives a toot about democratic process? Ask the Italians and the Greeks, the Iranians and the Guatemalans, the Japanese, the South Koreans and the Indonesians, the Chileans and the Venezuelans, and…​

..I recall, very imperfectly, seeing research purportedly done by a computer scientist at one of the universities in Philadelphia. Just after the election he or she put out a series of screenshots on social media, time-stamped to the second, that appeared to show the results in a significant number of districts changing all at once and by enough to give Biden a swift come-from-behind victory by a margin of slightly more than 1 percent.   https://consortiumnews.com/2024/10/31/patrick-lawrence-portents-of-chaos/

​  With just a week until the presidential election, Donald Trump’s close ally and major economic adviser Elon Musk is warning supporters to expect economic chaos, a crashing stock market and financial “hardship” — albeit “temporary” — if Trump wins.​   https://endtimeheadlines.org/2024/11/elon-musk-predicts-hardship-economic-turmoil-and-a-stock-market-crash-if-trump-wins/

​  Trump promises ‘influential positions’ for Musk and Kennedy
The Republican candidate has indicated that RFK Jr. would “take care of health,” while the Tesla CEO would work on cutting government spending​   https://swentr.site/news/606875-trump-musk-rfk-roles/

​  WATCH: RFK Jr. Explains Plan for Reforming the CIA
'The entire upper echelon of that agency is made of individuals who don’t believe in the institutions of the United States of America...'​   https://headlineusa.com/watch-rfk-jr-explains-plan-for-reforming-the-cia/

​  Trump's Potential Treasury Pick Vows Spending Cuts In Partnership With Musk

Billionaire John Paulson said he would work with Elon Musk to cut federal spending, particularly by reducing green energy subsidies, if appointed Treasury Secretary under Trump’s administration.​   https://www.zerohedge.com/political/trumps-potential-treasury-pick-vows-spending-cuts-partnership-musk

​  Ron Paul "Revolution" Reignites After Elon Musk Asks Libertarian Legend To Join Department Of Gov't Efficiency

On Friday evening, AFpost wrote on X, "Ron Paul says he wants to join Elon Musk to cut government waste in second Trump administration." 

Musk chimed in on X: "It would be great to have Ron Paul as part of the Department of Government Efficiency!"​   

Ron Paul responded: "I'd be happy to talk with you about it, Elon."​   https://www.zerohedge.com/political/ron-paul-revolution-after-musk-asks-libertarian-legend-join-department-govt

Jill Stein, Presidential Candidate for the Green Party Takes a Firm Stance against Genocide in Palestine​   https://www.globalresearch.ca/jill-stein-presidential-candidate-for-the-green-party-takes-a-firm-stance-against-genocide-in-palestine/5871695

Leading Up to the Elections: The War Against the Palestinians Must Go On​,  Both major political parties connive at Israel’s genocide in Gaza​   https://www.globalresearch.ca/war-palestinians-go-on/5871612

​  Chris Hedges: Genocidal Scorecard

  A United Nations report, published on Monday, lays out in chilling detail the advances made by Israel in Gaza as it seeks to eradicate “the very existence of the Palestinian people in Palestine.” This genocidal project, the report ominously warns, “is now metastasizing to the West Bank, including East Jerusalem.”
​  The Nakba or “catastrophe,” which in 1948 saw Zionist militias drive 750,000 Palestinians from their homes, carry out more than 70 massacres and seize 78 percent of historic Palestine, has returned on steroids. It is the next and, perhaps, final chapter in “a long-term intentional, systematic, State-organized forced displacement and replacement of the Palestinians.”
​  Francesca Albanese, the U.N. Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, who issued the report, titled “Genocide as colonial erasure,” makes an urgent appeal to the international community to impose a full arms embargo and sanctions on Israel until the genocide of Palestinians is halted. She calls on Israel to accept a permanent ceasefire. She demands that Israel, as required by international law and U.N. resolutions, withdraw its military and colonists from Gaza and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem...

​..A leaked Israeli Ministry of Intelligence “concept paper” from October 2023 outlines the plan to expel the entire Gaza population to Egypt and recolonize Gaza. It is a plan Israel appears to be following.
​  Albanese writes that Israel is replicating the patterns of past genocides. It creates through its rhetoric a “vengeful atmosphere” that conditions soldiers to be “willing executioners.” It claims it is acting in self-defense while targeting a civilian population. It is obliterating the infrastructure that sustains life, a process of “genocide by attrition.” It uses starvation as a weapon. It is attempting to hide its crimes by killing Palestinian journalists and U.N. workers and blocking international agencies and the international media from Gaza.
​  We have seen genocide before. We have also seen the complicity or silence of nations that have the power to intervene.​   https://scheerpost.com/2024/10/30/chris-hedges-genocidal-scorecard/

​  UN briefing in US Congress cancelled after Rapporteur labelled 'anti-Semitic'

​  A planned briefing to Congress by the UN’s Special Rapporteur on Palestine, Francesca Albanese, on Gaza was cancelled due to political pressure, according to organisers.
​  American author and human rights activist, Medea Benjamin, shared a video expressing frustration at Congress, with Albanese noting that her report highlighted Israel’s crimes against Gaza, questioning the US role in undermining 75 years of progress in international law.
​  In a video posted on X, Benjamin criticised Congress, citing allegations in Jewish Insider that labelled Albanese’s position as anti-Semitic, which reportedly led Democratic leadership to pressure for the cancellation.​   https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20241030-un-briefing-in-us-congress-cancelled-after-rapporteur-labelled-anti-semitic/

B-52 bombers and destroyers deployed: Is Iran on high alert?​   https://bulgarianmilitary.com/2024/11/02/b-52-bombers-and-destroyers-deployed-is-iran-on-high-alert/

​  Iran has officially declared a NOTAM (notice to air missions) from November 4 at 2:30 am until November 6 at 6:30 pm. Air travel restrictions confirmed.  It appears the hyper-sonics are ready to hit Israel.​   https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/news-selections/world-news/iran-issues-notam-november-4-thru-6

​  Professor Ugo Bardi asked this a year and a half ago, but it is time to stand-up and join-in. The Age of Exterminations -VII: Can we survive by going undercover?

​  Many ideas are floating in the memesphere on how to survive the current situation. Some people think of moving to a country ruled by less dangerous governments, others of retreating to an agricultural village in some remote area, and others about the possibility of going undercover. That is, disappearing from the sight of the government, waiting for better times that might come in the future. And even acting to bring those times closer.
​  Is it possible? Could you really hide in a world that's becoming more and more like the fabled "panopticon," a prison where the jailers have a full view of everything that the prisoners do? Difficult, surely, but it is also true that we still maintain a certain degree of freedom inside our brains, provided that we don't expose them to government propaganda. So, could people who think alike in certain matters get together and form a secret network?​   https://www.senecaeffect.com/2022/05/the-age-of-exterminations-v-can-we.html

​There is a review of Ugo's recently released "Exterminations" book here, with more coming from other scientists who have read it.  Exterminations: a Review   https://senecaeffect.substack.com/p/exterminations-a-review

  The $16 book ($5.99 on Kindle) is available here:  Exterminations Paperback – October 13, 2024​, by Ugo Bardi

​  Human history is full of mass exterminations. We are witnessing more than one right now. Blaming exterminators is not enough: if we don't want to be the next victims, we must understand why exterminations take place, how they develop, what can make them stop. This is what this book is about. Starting from the statistical studies by the author about the past patterns of wars, it takes a wide sweep at the phenomenon that goes from our remote ancestors to the current situation.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DK18GP68/

​  Khamenei Warns Israel Of 'Crushing Response' - Ramping Up Rhetoric Ahead Of US Election

​  Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has issued a new fierce warning to the United States and Israel at a moment there continues to be speculation that Iran could hit back for the last early Saturday morning attack by Israel which involved over 100 IAF jets attacking Iranian military sites.
​  He addressed an audience of students connected with the anniversary of the 1979 takeover of the US embassy in Tehran by Islamic revolutionary students. "The enemies, whether the Zionist regime or the United States of America, will definitely receive a crushing response to what they are doing to Iran and the Iranian nation and to the resistance front," the 85 year old Shia cleric said.
​  It's unclear if this means Iran is preparing a response. He previously said that Iranian leaders would weigh a potential response and that the last weekend attack "should not be exaggerated nor downplayed."...

​..Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu signaled on Thursday that Iran’s nuclear program could be Jerusalem’s next line of attack as Tehran promises to return fire following last week's air strikes.
​  "The supreme objective that I have set for the IDF and the security services is to prevent Iran from attaining nuclear weapons," Netanyahu said while speaking at a course graduation ceremony for soldiers in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). "Halting the nuclear program has been – and remains – our chief concern​".
"I have not taken, we have not taken, and we will not take, our eyes off this objective," Netanyahu added.​   https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/khamenei-warns-israel-crushing-response-ramping-rhetoric-ahead-us-election

  The October 5 Seismic event in Iran had no pre-tremors, just a huge shock with decaying echoes, like an underground explosion, not like an earthquake.  

Iran earthquake sparks speculation of covert nuclear weapons test
  The possibility that Iran carried out a nuclear test is being discussed at high levels in Tehran amid Israeli threats to bomb the Islamic Republic's nuclear infrastructure   https://thecradle.co/articles/iran-earthquake-sparks-speculation-of-covert-nuclear-weapons-test

​  Only one thing can bring peace to Middle East – Moscow
The creation of an independent Palestinian state is what can guarantee an end to the conflict, Russia’s foreign minister has said​   https://swentr.site/news/606858-lavrov-middle-east-peace/

​  Israel wants Russia to mediate peace – media​  [The ​post-genocide desert called "peace".]
The Jewish state reportedly believes that Moscow’s participation in negotiations would add stability to any future deal

​  According to the reports, West Jerusalem expects that Moscow’s involvement could add stability to any future deal and reduce dependence on the US.
“The Russians will have a special role in implementing the agreement and preventing further escalation,” a source told Ynet.
​  Commenting on the reports, Orna Mizrahi, a former Israeli deputy national security adviser, told Newsweek that while Israel “prefers the Americans,” it understands that Russia’s “good relations” with Iran could contribute to the stability of any deal on Lebanon reached in the future.​   https://swentr.site/news/606862-israel-russia-peace-lebanon/

  ​Thanks Wigs,  US Citizen Who Helped Russian Military Plan Attacks on Ukraine Forces Gives First Press Conference

Russian security forces have taken US citizen Daniel Martindale, who was helping Russian forces, out of territory under Ukraine’s control, security agencies told Sputnik.​..

​..The American, who passed valuable information to the Russian military, has been in Ukraine since February 11, 2022, security agencies told Sputnik.
​  Martindale stated that he is in Moscow voluntarily and showed documents, adding that he initially came to Ukraine from Poland, where he was a missionary, and wanted to get to Donetsk.
​  He also added that his US passport helped him get through Kiev and Kramatorsk and thanked Russian security services for coordinating the operation of his evacuation and those soldiers who crossed the front lines to evacuate him.​..

..Martindale stated that the Kiev regime is responsible for kidnapping and should be completely disarmed, while noting that Kiev is responsible for the death, murder, torture, kidnapping of hundreds of thousands of people.
​  He further noted that the Kiev authorities should be tried like German war criminals and called for organizing a tribunal against them.​   https://sputnikglobe.com/20241102/russian-forces-took-us-daniel-martindale-who-helped-russian-military-from-ukraine-forces-territory-1120752763.html

​Grasping at straws...  UK Foreign Secretary Blames Civil Unrest In Europe On "Russian Disinformation"   https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/uk-foreign-secretary-blames-civil-unrest-europe-russian-disinformation

​  Big Serge,  The Forest and the Trees: Ukraine's Strategic Dissipation​, Russo-Ukrainian War: Autumn 2024

​  Ukraine is now waging war as if - as if NATO intervention can eventually be provoked, as if Russia will crack and walk away from vast territories that it already controls, and as if western assistance can provide a panacea for Ukraine’s deteriorating state on the ground. It all adds up to a blind plunge forward in the abyss, hoping that by escalating and radicalizing the conflict either Russia will break or NATO will step in. In either scenario, however, Ukraine is counting on powers external to it, trusting that NATO will provide a sort of deus ex machina that rescues Ukraine from ruination.
​  Ukraine stands today as a stark example of strategic dissipation. Having opted to eschew anything less than the most maximalist sort of victory - full re-attainment of the 1991 borders, NATO membership, and the total defeat of Russia - it now proceeds full speed ahead, with a material base and a gloomy picture on the ground that is utterly unmoored from its own conception of victory. The “victory plan”, such as it exists, is little more than a plea for rescue.​   https://bigserge.substack.com/p/the-forest-and-the-trees-ukraines

​  North Korean Official In Moscow: US & S.​ Korea Plotting Nuclear Strike​  [since 1951...]

​  New statements from North Korean Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui suggest tensions with the West are higher than ever. She said from Moscow, where she is meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, that her country is coming under nuclear threat by the US and South Korea.
​  She "accused the United States and South Korea of plotting a nuclear strike against her country," Reuters reports Friday. "She did not provide evidence to back her assertion, but spoke of regular consultations between Washington and Seoul at which she alleged such plotting took place."
​  The top diplomat also pledged that North Korea will not stop helping Russia until it achieves 'victory' on the battlefield in Ukraine.​   https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/north-korean-official-moscow-us-skorea-plotting-nuclear-strike

 South Korean fighter planes and pilots are ​already in Romania. South Korean Parliament Warns President Sending Arms To Ukraine Risks War With Kim Jong Un​   https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/south-korean-parliament-warns-president-sending-arms-ukraine-risks-war-kim-jong-un

​Gilbert Doctorow,  ‘Judging Freedom’ edition of 31 October 2024: a review of the BRICS Summit

​  The main point I was trying to make is that the Summit revealed some very unexpected decisions by the BRICS team on how to prioritize its future activities and expansion. They are not planning a frontal assault on the existing world financial structures. They are not building an alternative global system to rival SWIFT. The reason for this, as I see it is not just the technical difficulties but the practical consideration that they do not want to coerce existing and future members of the BRICS inner club and outer circle of Partners to jump with both feet into their camp and to deprive themselves of the proven advantages of SWIFT as if they were under sanctions like Russia and Iran.
​  Similarly, de-dollarization is going to proceed as an indirect, not direct consequence of BRICS activities. The main mover is the consolidation of oil and gas trading in BRICS Members and Partners. That Nigeria and Algeria have been invited to join as Partners is one more proof of this. The relevance is that the single largest commodity in global trade is hydrocarbons, which have traditionally been priced in dollars – hence the ‘petrodollar’ as a global force underpinning the strength of the dollar as a reserve currency. Among the BRICS members there is a strong shift to the Yuan and other of their own national currencies, all of which is progressively dethroning the dollar in this key sector.​   https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2024/10/31/judging-freedom-edition-of-31-october-2024-a-review-of-the-brics-summit/

​  Details and names:  BRICS Grows, Adding 13 New ‘Partner Countries’ at Historic Summit in Kazan, Russia   https://scheerpost.com/2024/10/30/brics-grows-adding-13-new-partner-countries-at-historic-summit-in-kazan-russia/

  Jim Rickards,  "The American System" Made America Great

From 1790–1962, the United States pursued high tariff policies under a program known as the American System.
​  It was created by George Washington’s secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton, who drafted a report to Congress called the Report on Manufactures presented in 1791. Hamilton proposed that in order to have a strong country, America needed a strong manufacturing base with jobs that taught skills and offered income security.​  To achieve this, Hamilton proposed subsidies to U.S. businesses so they could compete successfully against more established U.K. and European businesses.
​  These subsidies might include grants of government land or rights of way, purchase orders from the government itself or outright payments. This was a mercantilist system that encouraged a trade surplus and the accumulation of gold reserves.
​  Hamilton’s plan was later proposed on a broader scale by Kentucky Sen. Henry Clay. This new plan began with the Tariff of 1816. Later on, Abraham Lincoln adopted the American System as his platform in the election of 1860, and it became a bedrock principle of the new Republican Party.
​  It was affirmed by William McKinley at the end of the 19th century and by Dwight Eisenhower in the 1950s. The 19th and early 20th centuries were a heyday of the American System. This period was characterized by enormous economic growth and population expansion by the U.S.
​  The American System was also accompanied mostly by low inflation or even deflation (which increases the purchasing power of everyday citizens) despite occasional financial panics and some inflation during the Civil War.
​  The key takeaway is that America grew rich and powerful from 1787–1962, a period of 175 years, using tariffs, subsidies and other barriers to trade to nurture domestic industry and protect high-paying manufacturing jobs.​   https://www.zerohedge.com/political/american-system-made-america-great

Buffett Calls The Top: Berkshire Dumps 100 Million Apple Shares As Unprecedented Selling Spree Boosts Cash To Record $325 Billion Dollars​   https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/buffett-calls-top-berkshire-dumps-100-million-apple-shares-unprecedented-selling-spree

​The Wayback-Machine has been frozen by repeated attacks; no new page entries can be entered  ;-(     The Internet Is Getting Flushed Down Orwell's Memory Hole   https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2024/11/01/the-internet-is-getting-flushed-down-orwells-memory-hole-n4933849

​  A witness in the ongoing Sean “Diddy” Combs case says that he has several sex tapes that allegedly feature “intoxicated” and “victimized” celebrities, including two who were underage.​ During an interview with NewsNation, Courtney Burgess, who testified against Combs before a grand jury in Manhattan, claimed that he has in his possession flash drives featuring videos of eight celebrities with Diddy.​   https://modernity.news/2024/11/02/witness-in-diddy-case-claims-to-have-sex-tapes-with-intoxicated-celebrities-and-minors/

The Biden-Harris Administration Wasted Nearly One Billion on Misinformation

​  The (Uni) party of “Science” apparently misled hundreds of millions of people on the actual science surrounding the Covid-19 pandemic. Stop the presses.
​  Starting in early 2020, the combined efforts of Dr. Anthony Fauci, the CDC, the Department of Health and Human Services, and their partners in the media caused an untold amount of damage to society and public health and might have even created conditions for increased Covid spread. How? By repeatedly, profoundly, and often purposefully communicating inaccurate information while spending hundreds of millions of dollars to get their preferred messages across.
​  Now, a new, massive 113-page report from the US House of Representatives Energy & Commerce Committee has detailed the remarkable abuses from the Biden-Harris administration and the manner in which they communicated during Covid.​   https://brownstone.org/articles/the-biden-harris-administration-wasted-nearly-one-billion-on-misinformation/

​Sharing Information (pictured in 8 year old t-shirt this morning, harvesting okra to show Atlas where food comes from)