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I am not sure the president mattered much for 5 or 6 decades, if not longer. One word I have heard used a dozen times this last 10-15 years was the "Interagency". I have heard top US generals say that is ultimately where their loyalty lies.

It almost sounds like the top of the US government has evolved into a communist like "Central Committee".

And the military just laid their you know what on the table, and the CIA/State Dept backed down.

Good news for now.

Great read.

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​ Ritter revisits last weekend in an essay: SCOTT RITTER: 72 Minutes, To quote Nikita Khrushchev, “The survivors would envy the dead.”

​..The stage was now set for Keir Starmer, the prime minister of the United Kingdom, to fly to Washington, D.C., last Friday, where he would meet with Biden and jointly agree to give Ukraine permission to use Storm Shadow and ATACMS against targets inside Russia...

​..In comments to the media in Russia last Thursday — one day before the Biden-Starmer meeting at the White House — Russian President Vladimir Putin made it clear that any lifting of the restrictions on Ukrainian use of U.S.- and U.K.-provided long-range weapons would change “the very essence of the conflict.” He said:

​ “This will mean that NATO countries, the United States, European countries are fighting Russia. And if this is the case, then…we will make appropriate decisions in response to the threats that will be posed to us.”​ ...

..Just to drive the point home, Russia’s ambassador to the United Nations, Vassily Nebenzia, told the Security Council last Friday that NATO would “be a direct party to hostilities against a nuclear power,” if it allowed Ukraine to use longer range weapons against Russia. “You shouldn’t forget about this and think about the consequences,” he declared.

​ The finishing touches on driving home the seriousness of Putin’s warning was left to the Russian ambassador to the United States, Anatoly Antonov. Speaking to the Russian media also last Friday Antonov said he was surprised that many American officials believed that​ “if there is a conflict, it will not spread to the territory of the United States of America. I am constantly trying to convey to them one thesis that the Americans will not be able to sit it out behind the waters of this ocean. This war will affect everyone, so we constantly say – do not play with this rhetoric.”​ ... “Yesterday’s statements from Vladimir Putin were weighed very carefully here. Several ex-officials called me asking to explain what actually stands behind those statements. I simply replied: ‘Don’t play with fire.’”

​ Antonov’s sentiments were likely echoed through existing back-channel communications used by the Department of Defense and the C.I.A.

In the end, the message got through — Biden pulled back from giving Ukraine the permissions it sought.

​ Most Americans are unaware about how close they came to waking up Saturday morning, only to find that it was their last.

​ Had Biden yielded to Starmer’s pressure (the British, together with Ukraine and several NATO nations, believed that Putin was bluffing), and signed off on the permission, Ukraine was prepared to launch strikes on Russia that night.​ (British soldiers deployed in Ukraine would be needed to operate the Storm Shadows and they are already there, according to German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, who has refused to send similar weapons to Ukraine.)

​ Russia would likely have responded with conventional attacks on Kiev using new weapons, such as the Avangard hypersonic warhead, which would each deliver a blow equivalent to 26-28 tons of explosives.

​ Russia would also most likely have struck NATO targets in Poland and Romania where Ukrainian fighters are based. And, lastly, Russia would have struck British military targets, possibly including those on the British Isles.

​ This would prompt a NATO retaliation under Article 5, using a large number of NATO long-range strike weapons targeting Russian command and control, airfields, and ammunition storage facilities.

​ The Russian response would most likely involve the launching of more Avangard conventional warheads against NATO targets, including Ramstein airbase and NATO headquarters, as well as airbases from which strikes against Russia were launched.

​ At this juncture the United States, using nuclear employment plans derived from a nuclear posture which emphasizes the pre-emptive use of low yield nuclear weapons to “escalate to deescalate”— i.e., force Russia to back down through a demonstration of capability — would authorize the use of one or more low-yield nuclear warheads against Russian targets on Russian soil.

​ But Russian doctrine has no capacity for engaging in a limited nuclear war. Instead, Russia would respond with a general nuclear retaliation targeting all of Europe and the United States.​ Whatever U.S. strategic forces that survived this onslaught would be fired at Russia.

And then we all die.

72 minutes.​ https://consortiumnews.com/2024/09/19/scott-ritter-72-hours/

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2 Hal Turner stories pertain to that Friday 13 morning ("deconfliction message"?) and Monday 9/16:

Above-Ground "Incident" (Explosion) in Washington State, "Sends Message" to US - Device passed Right Over Naval Base Bremerton 9/13/2021

The United States Geological Survey reports an "Other Event" caused the equivalent of a Magnitude 2.7 earthquake, 0.8 km ABOVE ground at 09:12 UTC this morning. Word is this "Other Event" was . . . . an explosion - possibly of a Hypersonic missile --sent as "a message" to the Untied States...

..There are mountains in that area where the "other event" took place at a "Depth" of -0.8km. Yes, that's a minus sign in front of the "Depth" meaning the "Other Event" took place above the ground by about 2,624 feet. Some of the mountains in that area ARE that high. So if a missile hit a mountain at that height, the resulting explosion could very well register as a Magnitude 2.7 earthquake "above" ground.

For a frame of reference, when the World Trade Center in New York City collapsed in the attacks of September 11, 2001, seismographs registered the massive collapse as a Magnitude 2.1 "earthquake." So the fact that this "Other Event" registers stronger . . . . as 2.7 . . . . gives readers an idea of how powerful this "other event" actually was.

There is no visual evidence of any Landslide in that area. There is no major snowpack yet, and so there is no sign of any massive Avalanche.

So what caused this "Other Event" as being reported by the US Geological Survey?

Was it a "message" to the USA over its continued meddling in the Russia-Ukraine conflict?

Was it a clear warning from, perhaps, a Russian Submarine, that the US authorizing Ukraine to use West-supplied, long-range, precision missiles against Russia, could result in Russia using missiles against the USA? https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/news-selections/national-news/above-ground-incident-explosion-in-washington-state-sends-message-to-us-device-past-right-over-naval-base-bremerton

​That was last Friday, then Turner noted this on this past Monday, 9/16/24: 2:57 PM EDT -- Never Been This Many MILITARY Aircraft in-Flight Over USA

As of 2:57 PM eastern US time on September 16, 2024 there are literally HUNDREDS of military aircraft flying over the continental United States (CONUS).

​The image above from Ads-B Exchange shows **ONLY** Military Aircraft! ! ! ! ! I am 62 years old and I have never seen this many military in the air in my entire life.

​ Those of you who think the likelihood of World War 3 is a "nothing burger" or that folks like me who point out where we are heading - right into World War 3 -- somehow makes me "Chicken Little, The Sky is Falling," would do well to wake up and see what is actually taking place.

​ The US, EU, NATO continue escalating the Russia-Ukraine conflict to the point where Russia has the United Kingdom surrounded by nuclear submarines (Story Here), awaiting orders to attack specific sites in the UK.

​ At least eleven Russian submarines are off the US East coast (Story Here), as many as nine nuclear-powered cruise missile submarines and 21 diesel-electric attack submarines. off our West Coast from Alaska down to San Diego, CA (Story Here). Several more subs are near the Gulf of Mexico.

​ Anyone who thinks this is a joke, or just "posturing" is either in emotional "denial" or is simply a fool.​ https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/news-selections/national-news/2-57-pm-edt-never-been-this-many-military-aircraft-in-flight-over-usa

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FFS Hal Turner? The internet's own tabloid rag. For example this "Our meddling in Ukraine has cost the Russians over half a million men"....

He talks rubbish.

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What about that seismic data?

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The seismic data alone doesn't prove a hypersonic from Russian assets.

Who else is reporting this apart from Hal Turner?

One must be careful swallowing Turner's tales when he is the only reference.

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Agreed that it is not proven, but it is something exceedingly unusual, novel, that bears holding in mind. My intention was not "proof", but deep consideration of current affairs and events.

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Thank you for your passion around this threat to life as we know it... Not much time to simply live life when you are someone so hyper alert to all the threats coming across our horizon. Thank you for what you do, my friend.

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I get outside every day. I have lots of gardening and landscape work to do, and I get a bike ride in for an hour or more most days.

Thanks for your concern. I do spend a lot of time scanning the horizon for threats and developments, with the intention to be of service to life.

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A life well-lived. :)

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Well,... a life lived.

;-)

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​ Thomas Neubrger, An American Coup? 'No dice, Mr President. No dice on Ukraine and no dice on Gaza. We're in charge now.

Napolitano: No dice. You're talking about no dice on the long range missiles reaching deep into Russia, even though Tony Blinkin had intimated all week in Kyiv with his British counterpart that this was happening. And Sir Keir Stormer, the British Prime Minister, had every reason to believe as he’s flying across the Atlantic that Joe Biden’s answer would be yes.

​ Wilkerson: He was embarrassed. He was embarrassed by the fact — he was pulling out his maps with target data and Biden told him, “Don’t even pull them out. We’re not going to talk about that.”

​ I’ve been told, again by fairly reliable sources, that Blinkin and Sullivan — Blinkin primarily, but Sullivan too — have been sidetracked, and what’s happened is the Pentagon has taken over, essentially, diplomacy as well as any action, militarily speaking, with regard to both theaters of war.

​ And so they’re now in charge.

I have to change my evaluation of Secretary Austin if that’s the case, because it means he listened finally to the people in the bowels of the Pentagon who know the truth, and he’s reacting to that, and he’s told the President Biden that, and to Biden’s credit, even though he was furious, he finally took that advice.

​ Napolitano: Colonel, you once ran the State Department [as Secretary Colin Powell’s chief of staff under George Bush]. How does the Defense Department engage in diplomacy?

​ Wilkerson: They engage in diplomacy every day. Every day. There are four-stars in the various syncdoms, the regions that they control, the AORs [Areas of Responsibility] [who] are the true U.S. diplomats. And some of them are very good at it. I saw some of them. I worked with some of them who are very good at it, better than any Secretary of State.

​ But it shouldn’t be that way. That’s a parenthetical remark. We shouldn’t have the military leading diplomacy. But we often do.​ https://neuburger.substack.com/p/an-american-coup

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Why spread dis-information by calling the US Government a "communist like central committee" when you can call it what it is; an Oligarchy. There is nothing "communist like" because if it was, the "Oligarchy" that runs the USA would be rounded up, given the opportunity to relinquish it's excess land and wealth (to the State for redistribution to the peasants) and told to step aside or have the State forcibly take away their excess wealth. I will add, if the USA was a communist state, there would be free education, free healthcare, practically zero homeless and no child malnutrition.

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Jimmy Carter concluded that the US had an oligarchical form of government.

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Yes. because all communist states are models of perfect socisl systems. (sarc)

II 128,168,000 VICTIMS: THE DEKA-MEGA-MURDERERS

61,911,000 Murdered: The Soviet Gulag State

35,236,000 Murdered: The Communist Chinese Ant Hill

20,946,000 Murdered: The Nazi Genocide State

III 19,178,000 VICTIMS: THE LESSER MEGA-MURDERERS

2,035,000 Murdered: The Khmer Rouge Hell State

1,670,000 Murdered: The Vietnamese War State

1,585,000 Murdered: Poland’s Ethnic Cleansing

1,072,000 Murdered: Tito’s Slaughterhouse

1,663,000 Murdered? Orwellian North Korea

All communist? Nope, but most, and all statist, including the current USA behaving much closer to Facism, yet certainly statist.

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The figures are "made up" and exaggerated by the Western Imperialists to hide their uncivilized genocides worldwide over the Centuries. The murders resulting from Western Imperialism and Colonisation are easily over 1 Billion people and counting; Native Americans, Africans, Central and South American native peoples, Aboriginal Australian, Indians and Asians on the subcontinent etc..

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The figures are not made up. Every group you mention, over the centureis, has had massive genocides. (often based on or limited by their technology) Every nation is a reflection of human nature, the good and the bad. Afticans killed and enslaved each other, as did North Americans. The mongolians commiteed massive and brutal murder. One can also find many examples of nobel behaviour in most all cultures. Genghis Khan for instance, had a noble son.

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Willful ignorance is not truth. Western history is lies upon lies. All the examples you give are NOT examples you can verify with your own eyes. Take the current geo-political situation to verify lies. Has the Russian economy collapsed? Has Russia run out of bullets? Is there no genocide in Gaza? Was their weapons of mass destruction in Iraq? The lies which serve Imperialism are endless. Pointing a finger at another committing murder does not exonerate the murders your own culture commits, especially when this Western culture claims to be exceptional (such that everyone MUST follow else be sanctioned or invaded). How morally corrupt are you? FYI, the numbers of Communist China's murders (Great Leap Forward) are a lie. How? The inflated numbers include "projected" deaths from births which did not happen as a result of couples not marrying or having children during those 3 years. That is, a couple had 1 baby the year before the GLF and during the GLF (3 years) couple had no babies thus the conclusion is 3 people died...get it? Believing in Cold War propaganda just makes you immoral and on the wrong side of humanity.

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That is a lot of strawman assertions.

That is not how the numbers I quoted were assembled. There is no balance in your position. "Ignorance is everywhere, 50/50." There is dark and light in most every culture.

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Maybe this group of neocons that have been running and ruining this country, finally got confronted? https://intelligencer.today/the-council-who-is-running-the-united-states-of-america/18/07/2024/8132/

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Good read, recommended.

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"Did we just have a palace coup in Washington?"

Well, nakedly overthrowing Biden via an Orwellian MSM narrative switch on a dime, for having dementia while still keeping him in office for 8 months more, and substituting an undemocratically-chosen successor candidate with a vacuous and shielded presence, certainly DID set a precedent for doing such things right in our faces.

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Coup against the USA happened decades ago.

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That is correct - in 1963…. Recently we learned that Oswald was a CIA operative — the bipartisan War party desperately defends CIA as institution by hiding assassinationS details (note plural).

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True. My point here is that it now happens so brazenly, even NPC idiots are have cognitive dissonance unless they distract themselves with Joy(TM).

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I am always reminded of Milgram's experiments. The majority follow authorities even to the point of thinking they may have killed someone. Recently I read, of all things, a comment online where the commenter said these people have no internal dialogue and went at length about it. It struck me as true .

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That's the old Julian Jaynes theory. . . no internal dialogue = no conscience. Would explain a lot, if true.

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Never heard of Jaynes. Found one of his books on the Internet Archive. Think I'll download it and take a look. https://archive.org/details/he361629

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The Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind is absolute dynamite. Long and complex story short, the external "Voice of God" is an internal one.

It explains a lot to me, especially old-time stories like Abraham. that wasn't Jehovah telling him to kill his son as a trick, that was Abraham wondering if he would gain great power if he did so and then thinking better of it before he actually did the deed.

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Yes, even if it seems so alien to many of us.

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What is NOC?

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NPC?

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@Boris Petrov

Non Player Character, originally a video game designer's term for the built in characters a human player sees and interacts with but can't play the game as- Those characters which only get to appear as background to do/say what the game's designer had programmed them to.

https://youtu.be/3HmnfWJp7pU?si=_CAAC_BBo4lumyDu

The apparent use to belittle "little people" who consume MSM infotainment and run on the authorized narrative is a new thing to me but predictable.

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NPC

It’s like if you were playing a video game and went into a bar & the bartender is always pouring a drink and asks “what will it be?” Every single time. Oh wait, I see your profile picture oh awkward…

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In 1963, to be precise. Been a Masonic Nation ever since. And it damn sure shows.

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“Masonic” nation ?? Another code word?

Mozart was a free mason — a response to oppressing all present clericalism at time of French revolution.

What masons have to do with current US fascism?

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Nothing coded, unless you consider the plain truth a code.

So Mozart was a freemason. Your point is... what? Someone who composed music was a mason, ergo it's a good thing? lol

I spent decades researching and writing essays about freemasonic involvement in history, including their shepherding of two main revolutions, French and American. How many years have you spent in research to deny my words?

After you have done your homework, if you still wish to refute me, then do so. Until then, I will consider you another neophyte (or worse) with an opinion equivalent to one's backside.

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PS: The only reason I mentioned Mozart is that recently I went to, unfortunately poor performance, of Magic Flute, the only opera as saying is, nay have been written by God himself.

Both Mozart and his librettist Schikander were free masons, like thousands of other great people of his time — Magic Flute was composed two years after French revolution and six weeks before Mozart’s death.

I was struck how noble and humane guiding ideas of free masons were and still are — 250 years ago.

Yet your blabbering about our present — after “studying the free masons subject for decades” simply made me to comment….

Open your eyes and heart if you can ;-))

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“Nay” was a typo - should have been “may”….

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Free masons were a very positive movement at time of oppressive clericalism. In today’s secular societies they are irrelevant and archaic.

People like you are stuck with your believes and prejudices, based on ignorance

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You cannot even spell correctly yet are prepared to call me ignorant.

Take your masonic jive and your lies elsewhere, junior. Our communications are over.

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Is there always just one?

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"State Secretary Blinken and his merry band of Neocons appear to have been sidelined."

Reading the evidence at this point, as admirable a job as you do, is sadly not very useful for the long run. It has become crystal-clear, for those of us not in denial: Neocons are nothing if not ruthlessly and carefully and absolutely persistent, with two steps forward when they calculate insufficient resistance, then one step back temporarily after they cross red lines. This has happened time and time again for many decades. (In US politics, it's how monsters like Bolton et al get into Trump's cabinet, and it's how a monster like Cheney can endorse Harris with Democratic Party approval.) They are NOT going to stop. Ever. Even after they finally get Russia.

At the same time, they are highly sophisticated and "rational", in the sense they know how to get what they want, even if at some point it's bunkers for them and a nuclear-baked earth elsewhere. Really, who knows what these people are capable of doing? I'm confident the end goal (and they're getting there fast) is an entire reordering of the world's population into unwitting masters, slaves, and ashes. As they continue to increase their upper hand, and if you're not doing their bidding -- watch out.

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As Alexander Mercouris pointed out, even after one military misadventure (read, "disaster") after another, the "United States has no reverse gear." The neocons -- or whatever damnable agglomeration of entrenched interagency bureaucratic mandarins with private equity shadow bankers and financial superpowers we're talking about here -- they have never demonstrated the capacity to stop, back up and proceed in a different direction. Too much inertia or overinvestment or they simply lack that biological functionality that even that humblest of blind, one-celled organisms, the paramedics, possesses.

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It’s called the “Luciferian Doctrine” they lie even when the truth would serve them better, they proceed even when their deception is exposed. Such arrogance hubris and pride, but they know how to “fail forward” & insinuate it’s all your fault & what are you going to do about it?

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Prof. Michael Glennon of Tufts calls it/them "the Trumanite network", to be contrasted with the "Madisonian" one, in his book National Security and Double Government (OUP, 2016), but I like "damnable agglomeration" better.

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As @CarribeanHawk pointed out here, they can always "create their own reality". The addicts have applied too much of their own black magic.

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I tend to agree.

The "crazies in the basement" (per Bush 41) who are now in the West Wing and 10 Downing Street and many other places, some well known and some less so (e.g., Nevis) are basically what we used to call full-on sociopaths (we can't anymore because the term is "unscientific" and is no longer in the DSM. DSM-5 refers, instead to ASPD and other things) - they desire Wealth/Power/Control. Mostly control, and for the sake of control really, not even for more wealth and power.

This goes back to even before Mackinder and his Geographic Pivot of History.

"Old Gimlet Eye", Marine Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler was right, as was Prof. Carroll Quigley (Tragedy & Hope), Bill Clinton's favourite prof at Georgetown, and now more and more folks are realizing it.

A positive I see is that at least now the masks are off. Previously, only a relatively few would have been aware of the Neocons and their disciples/allies/backers/money men. Now, they are pretty much out in the open.

One interesting parallel set of developments is the increasing pace of disclosure re: UAP/NHI. When you have very senior and serious IC folks like Chris Mellon, Adm. Gallaudet, Cdr. Fravor, and Col. Karl Nell saying what they are saying, not to mention folks like Gen. Chaim Eshed, I wonder about what they know that they are *not* saying/allowed to say, what their equivalents in RF and the PRC know on this subject, and how that knowledge is impacting strategies and decisions (by all players) on more "earthly" matters like Ukraine and Taiwan.

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Good points, thanks. "A positive I see is that at least now the masks are off." Yup. But time is short, and not enough of us can yet see that.

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I’m of the view that this is a very long game. It has been going on for centuries, probably, and will continue to go on for a long time to come.

Even after disclosure, whenever that happens, I don’t expect much to change. Various groups/factions of elites will continue to fight for wealth, power, and control.

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Agreed.

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Alex is replying to Yasho here, not to my comment above, yet he may like it?

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On further thought, I disagree ... about the future. Technology either has, or will soon, reach a watershed moment -- I imagine with the now-furious-paced development of AI -- in which no opposition against sufficiently concentrated psycho/sociopathic power will ever again be possible.

Sure, the psycho/sociopathic elites will fight each other, but the rest of us will have long been vaporized. What they don't seem to recognize is that with the growing psycho/sociopathic proportion in the population, there is no reason to believe the fighting will ever stop. Likely, though, they're also extreme risk-takers who simply don't give a damn about the fighting stopping. It's just a big fucking adrenaline rush to them, and death thereby is simply a risk they're more than willing to take.

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Well, that's motivating on a Sunday morning, and I haven't even gotten through my first cup of coffee (I am a pessimist until I'm done with my 2nd daily cup).

I guess we should hope for a semi-benevolent race of alien overlords, sufficiently advanced (technologically, militarily, intellectually, psychologically, spiritually) who will keep the various factions of human elites in check, and fearful. These folks will then become the compradors.

As Lue Elizondo says in his recently-released "Imminent", Homo sapiens is no longer the apex predator, and relatively soon, this will be known to all ~8 BN of us.

Once it does, the rest of us (non socio/psychopathic homo sapien elite) can take great pleasure in daily taunting - "you guys are just a bunch of comprador lackeys!"

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LOL - I hope that will suffice to not off myself.

"we should hope for a semi-benevolent race of alien overlords"

If "semi-benevolent" can be interpreted as "by divine right", that's how the neocons seem to be thinking about and presenting themselves. Dick Cheney said two decades ago, on national TV, (slightly paraphrasing here) that "We the People" should STFU between election times. Don't worry your pretty little heads. He studiously ignored the third major clause of the First Amendment.

My actual hope lies in the emergence of sufficient non-sociopathic scions from the ranks of the psycho/sociopathic neocons/IC/billionaires/etc. to devise something ingenious, but that might take decades to happen.

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" Wealth, power, control" It appears to me that control and wealth are synonyms for power, yes? I think Power is ok, even unavoidable, all want it. It becomes evil when it evolves into "power over others" https://anderdaa7.substack.com/p/does-absolute-power-corrupt (always free, not a news feed)

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The way I think about it - and it is my own framework, not derived from someone else's theory/model - they are not synonyms, they're different.

- Wealth: I can conceive of folks (including myself) who seek/desire wealth without a desire for power or control (other than a modicum of control over one's own life) - when I use the word "Control" it refers to control over others. I seek wealth for financial security for myself and my family

- Power: there are dozens of definitions, I suppose. In the context of IR, I use it in the sense of the ability to get people/entities/nation-states to do what you want them to do, and not do what you don't want them to do, through a combination of suasion, threat, economic and military tools. Illustration: the USG uses its power to get Tonga to reject a request by the PRC to build a naval base.

- Control: is a different from Power. In my mind/the way I use the term (again, in the context of IR, inter-state relations), it means *on-going* control. So, to continue with the Tonga naval base illustration: if USG did not have control over Tonga (the government in power), one could envision a mixture of "wins" and "losses" for USG/PRC/other nation-state on specific issues. If, on the other hand, USG was in control of Tonga - had it "under discipline" to use an old tradecraft term - then it would be 100% wins on all issues, indefinitely, unless PRC (or other nation-state) were able to effect regime change, coopt the ruling elites, and then put Tonga under *their* control.

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Interesting at least Smedley Butler disrupted their plans for a while but Quigley was mostly boasting

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Well, he was a man of his time - born in 1910, Boston born & bred, Boston Latin for high school, Harvard BA/MA/PhD. At least he had the integrity to write about those groups and about what he believed was true about them.

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Spot on.

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It is self-evident both the neocons in Washington and London remain under the illusion they are still masters of the universe and can "create their own reality". Apparently they remain blind to the fact that Russia has won the arms race especially in stand-off weapons (Kinzahls, Zircons, nuclear underwater drones, etc.). and has the strongest, most seasoned army in the world. At least the top brass in the US Armed forces know better. Keir Starmer is still thinking "Perfidious Albion" can maneuver its designated enemies to fight each other and hoping America will destroy itself by protecting the English. Americans are common-sense people who love making a buck; they rarely persist with unprofitable adventures and so far Ukraine has been a bust and getting worse.

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The key word is Illusion/delusion. The black pillers posting here-- " oh it will always be this way etc etc" do not go back far enough in history to see that not only is that not true but we are coming into a new paradigm where that kind of Neo-con push will not be tolerated or accepted by a multi power world. Everything is changing💗

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Only 90 years ago liberal democracy was the norm in Europe. By 1941 more than half of Europe were outright fascist Staes led by Germany. The oligarchs, who are the real rulers in so-called western democracies, are ruthless and opportunistic.

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I learnt a new phrase/term today - "black pillers", and am now trying to understand all the many colours - and flavours, apparently - of these medications (?)

Question: does the "new paradigm" take into consideration UAP/NHI hypotheses. What if the first race of NHI Earth comes into formal contact with are very much like the British at the height of Empire?

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New paradigm is made very clear in Astrology. It is what many called the Age of Aquarius— people will not be relating the same way— more cooperative collaborative. The material based economic “climbing” will not be part of the value set- sharing and multi-polarity (ie BRICS) will be more the norm.

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"can 'create their own reality' "

This is actually the crux of the modern problem with Totalitarianism, one that I have been arguing for years, with few takers: (1) Humans are necessarily limited and imperfect, and therefore NOTHING is ever settled truth (otherwise, we could get busy closing departments, shuttering universities, and stopping journals), because, at root, there is no fully-accessible truth -- it's ALL belief; and (2) modern Totalitarians, at least, are learned practitioners of the abuse of this very human limitation, and have successfully applied it to engender mass formation psychosis and many other effects in varied subpopulations.

People of all political beliefs and intelligence levels have an extremely hard time with this, thinking that *unimpeachable* truth is always discoverable, at least given enough time and effort, and that they can "possess" it. But, they can't. This "inconvenient truth" is the very basis of democracy, open science, and adversarial justice. If public discourse (and the entire West) is to become civil again, we'd better re-learn that humility, a hard-won achievement of the Enlightenment.

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All supposed "known truth" is simply the consensus of the esteemed, the intelligent, etc. and held by significant majorities. But now, the new-and-improved version is completely bifurcated into Left and Right! How can that be? Because, at root, it's *still* all belief, especially the more complex forms, and can in theory be overturned at any future point. Merely look at the longer (i.e. centuries) history of conventional wisdom, both in wider populations as well as narrow, sophisticated knowledge.

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Intellectuals are a blight on knowing besides when is science ever “settled “?

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Indeed, and never. There is always more information, a bigger telescope, a more powerful microscope, etc...

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Thank you, including for commenting on UK’s government persistent Russophobia and warmongering influence on eager US ruling bipartisan War party.

There are two outstanding recent interviews on that topic:

- deeply frightening by Mike Benz with Shawn Ryan on Ukraine and why deep state protects Hunter Biden -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o98Y1cEja-U

- by RFK Jr. with Scott Ritter about War party’s TOTAL non-communication with Russia’s diplomats. -- https://rumble.com/v5fhs49-ask-the-inspector-ep.-196-with-robert-f.-kennedy-streams-live-on-sept.-20-a.html

As a result on Saturday, Sept. 14 we were at hairline to formal war with capitalist and democratic Russia which also has a greater internal freedom of information than USA.

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Exactly-- Mike Benz's interview in particular is fantastic

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He accepts the right to regime change from bottom up or from top down if needed by the USA. And this is the mindset of 90% if not more of the Trumper political commentators. The US cannot exist without seeding war and destruction.

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Geez you know 90% of the Trumper political commentators 🙄 Dont you mean the UK cannot exist without ......

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Shawn Ryan also had a great interview with Admiral Tim Gallaudet (Annapolis grad, PhD in Oceanography) on UAP and USOs.

https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/113-admiral-tim-gallaudet-underwater-alien-base-ufo/id1492492083?i=1000657014239

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Russophobia is a misleading concept. It's all about containing Russia's expansion and competition.

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Sure Yoni. And the Earth is flat.

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This is part of the neolanguage brought about by the LGTB crowd. Homophobia was first. Then came Transphobia, and so on. However this does not apply to antisemitism or racism. Semiticphobia or blackphobia are not heard of terms. For Russia, its all about world domination, not because Russia is actually a competitor but because it could potentially be. When Napoleon invaded Russia it was not because he hated the Russians but because was breaking the sanctions to England. The Comanches were not hating the Apaches. It was all about ressources and territory. You can keep on using this misled terms coming up in media. They will only damage your correct understanding of the real stakes.

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Please see a doctor -- to pull your head out of your ass... ;-))

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🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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Pulling the Strings addition to your brilliant analysis.

"As we navigated through an enormous maze of documents, we encountered recurring, hypnotic magical mantras such as “brutal, completely unprovoked war,” as stated by National Security Council spokesman John F. Kirby, “Kremlin’s cruelty,” and the “sordid bombardment” of Ukraine by the Russians during an unanticipated emergency. However, we couldn’t find any “prior notifications to the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives, the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate, and the Committee on Appropriations of each House of Congress,” a requirement in 22 U.S. Code § 2318. (“Authority contained in this section shall be effective for any such emergency only upon prior notification” to those legislative bodies).

Many wonder who pulls Biden’s strings, given his obvious mental challenges, and it seems that we have the answer from the horse’s mouth, the U.S. Department of State’s own website, and the Bureau of Political-Military Affairs Fact Sheet135 from September 21, 2023.

The Secretary of State, Antony J. Blinken—one of the Ukraine proxy war triumvirate, Blinken, Nuland, Sullivan—[emphasis mine] ”plays a central role in the initiation and coordination of these draw-downs. After initial engagement with Congress, the Secretary requests the President’s authorization to notify Congress of the intent to exercise the draw-down authority under section 506(a)(1) of the FAA and seeks delegated authority from the President to make the necessary determinations and to direct the draw-down. The Department of State is also responsible for coordinating the implementation of the drawdown with the Department of Defense. For Ukraine, the Secretary has exercised authority delegated by the President to direct drawdowns of defense articles and services from the Department of Defense since August 2021, in response to Russia’s preparation to launch the February 24, 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine and continued war.”

Now we know, Anthony Blinken’s is the purveyor of Ukrainian scheme."

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Wow! Great stuff!!

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Blinken is a rabid Zionist obsessed with greater Israel and Final Solution for Palestinians.

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A ‘family friend’ and practically the ‘godfather’ of Anthony Blinken was Jeffrey Epstein. Yes, that one.

The family seemed to be quite proud of that fact.

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It’s amazing how often I see the hypnotic mantra of “brutal, unprovoked full scale invasion” repeated verbatim in comment sections across platforms and websites. What an operation.

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I have listened to you every time you are on Mel K's show. Your analysis on varied big picture matters has been greatly appreciated. My initial anguish was about the 2020 coup here. But, you broadened my perspective that this has been an international plan and trauma for decades. The article above just adds further to this. Of course Mel's "follow the money trail" has also been important in my education/re-education. By the way, your example of the slipper and the grown lions - what a classic on Mel's 9/21/24 interview!

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Thank you for mentioning the interview which I tracked down (although it was 20 September not 21) it was interesting viewing. Alex is one of the smartest guys I’ve come across in a long time. The first time I heard him was recently on Vanessa Bealey’s Substack.

I was concerned, however, that there were such strong pro Trump vibes! The Father of the Vaccine no less! Alex was very quiet when Mel K spoke about him, so I’m unable to gauge his feelings. But how anyone could trust Trump and “The Plan” is beyond me. She mentioned how Trump came along and derailed their plans for four years. What? You mean that there were no lockdowns, no vaccines, no mandates? When the “assassinations” were mentioned I thought that surely Alex would point out that they were yet more psyops but he didn’t. Maybe he’s just a very polite interviewee or maybe he agrees with her. I have to say I would find it difficult to give credence to anyone taken in by Trump - I also find it hard to take women seriously who do the duck-face thing 🤭. Anyway, I’m off to search Alex’s Substack to see what he has written about Trump in the past. Happy Sunday 😊

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I'm not sure what ti make of Trump. He's made a few terrible mistakes, vaccines being one of them and assassination of Qassim Suleimani the other. But I continue to give him the benefit of the doubt for a variety of reasons. We'll see.

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I have thought much about these questions, and in the end those whom the globalist hate the most, may well deserved support... I will add some other thoughts to Dr Malones comments here...

:The prior administration of Donald Trump did not impose the “vaccine” mandates, but the Biden-Harris administration did.

Donald Trump's administration rejected the WHO.

The Biden-Harris administration reinstated WHO funding and developed and promoted the WHO sovereignty-destroying “pandemic treaty” and “International Health Accord” updates.

The administration of Donald Trump did not deploy years of COVID-related psychological bioterrorism and disaster cronyism in the US and the world, but the Biden-Harris administration did.

The administration of Donald Trump did not conspire with and coerce corporate media and big tech to censor, propagandize, and deploy a myriad of military-grade psychological warfare methods and weapons on US citizens. The Biden-Harris administration did.

The administration of Donald Trump did not arbitrarily and capriciously abandon allies, advanced equipment and US Soldiers in Afghanistan. The Biden-Harris administration did.

The administration of Donald Trump did not prosecute, capitalize, and propagandize an unnecessary war in Ukraine to advance global imperialist objectives. The Biden-Harris administration did.

The administration of Donald Trump did not sacrifice and cripple European populations and industry at the alter of its Ukrainian fantasies. The Biden-Harris administration was complicit in blowing up the Nordstream pipelines and then deployed propaganda to prevent discussion or consequences for its illegal aggression.

The administration of Donald Trump took multiple specific actions to reduce illegal immigration. (fighting the democrats, the RINOS, and the law fare at every step)

The Biden-Harris administration actively facilitated unlawful immigration.

The Trump administration did not jail domestic political opponents or otherwise weaponize the government and the judiciary. The Biden-Harris administration has honed that banana republic strategy into an art form.

The Trump administration did not actively pit Americans against Americans. The Biden-Harris administration cynically did so to gain a short-term advantage during a midterm election."

Donald Trump, IMV represents, to the world, the concept of "rational nationalism" His Bilateral and tri lateral trade deals were reshaping the world and crushing the globalist dreams. India, parts of Asia, even Mexico, and several European nations were fully aboard. Look at Trump in India, and watch his speech, and look at Modi as well, and see them both in Houston. The globalists were done, China was being forced back to the table. As was Canada.

I think it may be possible that Trumps reaction to COVID was his desparation to keep the world going towards this "rational nationalism". He supported prophaylactic treatments, which would have stopped the EUA. Many of us did not know what to make of COVID, until we saw it utlized by the globalist in the manner it was, just as the same folk usw "climate change" for power and control. Trump has recently done an interesting interview where he admits there may be problems with the vaccines. I have never supported Kennedy here as a President, yet belive him to be a sincere man, and accurate on vaccine harms. His association with Trump may have been very productive here.

Just my view. All the Best...

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Thank you for clarifying Alex. There is no doubt in my mind that Trump is a bad actor (with the emphasis on “actor”). I have a very long list of mistakes made by Trump but people keep saying that he is the better of two evils - but he’s still evil! As you say, we shall see. I’ll keep a big box of Kleenex at the ready for his supporters

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Thank you Robin!

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Yes, Alex, this is the best news of the day. Thank you for your research and writing. I’m going to be dancing the rest of the day.

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🙏🙏🙏🙂

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Deep down, in my heart of hearts I think humanity’s situation now was foretold by Charlie Chaplin in this incomparable scene. We’re on the brink of disaster but it’s darkest before the dawn. And what can’t continue surely won’t continue. Thank you Alex for the perspectives you provide.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kPcEFHA3X0c&pp=ygUdY2hhcmxpZSBjaGFwbGluIHJvbGxlciBza2F0ZXM%3D

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I'm a Canadian. Still under the thumb of the British Empire, northen neighbour to the US of A, and we currently have a WEF imbecile as our PM. We're supposedly one of the "Five Eyes", a member of NATO and part of the G7.

Hopefully we have a good Maple Syrup season this year.

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It reads a bit like the Pentagon had suddenly developed a conscience, but it’s more likely that reality had simply overtaken the narrative, eg the narrative that the US saved western democracy in WWII - pure Hollywood! The Eastern front was far more important - and Russia knew it then like they do now. They strategically built up their military capacity between the 2014 coup and the 2022 SMO and consequently revealed the West to be a paper tiger.

The Master Blaster image would be more accurate if the Big Guy/Blaster/World's Policeman/Emperor was depicted with no clothes. Before the Hollywood propaganda shot of US soldiers raising the flag on Iwo Jima in WWII, they carpet bombed this minuscule island for 72 straight days!

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Excellent piece of very informative news. To know that the Brits are the ones who are in charge and their American cousins are mere minions, is big news indeed.. Thanks for the the earth-shaking revelation..

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History has the answers if you look deep enough. Matt Ehret has written 4 volumes (Clash of the Two Americas) explaining how and when (multiple times) America was re-captured by the British Empire. Here is the first volume: https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/now-available-clash-of-the-two-americas?utm_source=publication-search

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Much appreciated..

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Per the US Constitution’s Supremacy Clause, if a treaty violates the Constitution or Bill of Rights, then the Supreme Court can invalidate the treaty.

A MOA is not a treaty that has been ratified by the US Senate, and therefore has less authority than a treaty. Trump can override Biden’s signature with his own signature and invalidate the MOA.

The Supremacy Clause of the Constitution of the United States (Article VI, Clause 2) establishes that the Constitution, federal laws made pursuant to it, and treaties made under its authority, constitute the "supreme Law of the Land", and thus take priority over any conflicting state laws.[1] It provides that state courts are bound by, and state constitutions subordinate to, the supreme law.[2] However, federal statutes and treaties must be within the parameters of the Constitution;[3] that is, they must be pursuant to the federal government's enumerated powers, and not violate other constitutional limits on federal power, such as the Bill of Rights—of particular interest is the Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which states that the federal government has only those powers that are delegated to it by the Constitution.[4] It is the responsibility of the United States Supreme Court in that case to exercise the power of judicial review: the ability to invalidate a statute for violating a provision of the Constitution.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supremacy_Clause

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This really begs the question: which parties stopped Biden from signing the Mutual Defense Agreement?

I am sad to see emotional reactions from other commentators online rather than questions about which faction(s) introduced what looks like a sliver of sanity into US foreign policy. Who or what could have knocked the MDA signing cart off the tracks?

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America under criminal administration Biden/Harris and Gavin Newsam in CA

https://youtu.be/lFNUkaRrKTk?si=ahmwOaWItOLejDZm

Same in Los Angeles, Oakland, San Francisco, etc.