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The Nation's First Trillion-Dollar Defense Budget Looms
Link: https://www.pogo.org/analysis/2022/11/the-bunker-the-trillion-dollar-pentagon
It’s not here yet, by most accounting, but we’re within spitting distance of spending $1 trillion annually on the U.S. military. This might actually be a good thing, if more spending made us safer. But it doesn’t. It only makes us feel safer, which is a devil’s bargain. | The Senate version of the 2023 defense authorization act earmarks $857 billion (PDF) for national defense. The slackers in the House only want $850 billion (PDF), which may be why it’s known as the “lower house.” Both bills are well beyond President Biden’s $813 billion request. Differences between the two versions will be ironed out in the coming weeks, but the bottom line is that the Pentagon is bound to break the trillion-dollar barrier relatively soon. ● Estimates of when U.S. defense spending will top $1 trillion range from next year to 2027 to 2030 depending on gobs of variables. Toss in elements like homeland security and the Pentagon’s share of interest paid on the national debt — as Mandy Smithberger, the former director of the Center for Defense Information here at the Project On Government Oversight has done — and a case can be made that the nation crossed that $1 trillion threshold five years ago.
Minnesota: Doctors Receiving Instructions “to Report Covid19 as a Cause of Death, even if Patient was never Tested”
[First published April 10] Minnesota State Senator Scott Jensen appeared on a local news show to report that doctors were receiving instructions from the Minnesota Department of Health to report Covid19 as a cause of death, even if the patient was never tested. | Senator Jensen, who is also a practising physician, said he had never before in his thirty-five-year career received specific instructions on how to fill out a death certificate. ● The apparent policy of Minnesota – to report any and all pneumonia or “flu-like illness” decedents as Covid19 cases, with or without a test – ties in with the US policy as described by the CDC’s official memos. ● In fact the governments of Italy, Germany, the UK and Austria all doing the same thing. ● So, while Dr Jensen’s revelation isn’t as shocking as it would have been just 10 days ago, it does at least demonstrate that, within the medical world, these guidelines are not normal. In a separate interview with Lauran Ingraham, Jensen described the guidelines as “ridiculous”. According to Jensen, citing a colleague, it is not usual practice to ever put “presumptions or probabilities” on a death certificate, but rather to “stick to the facts”. The question still hangs in the air: Why do national and regional governments appear to be going out of their way to inflate the Covid19 death statistics?
FTX goes bankrupt: Investors who put US$2 billion into crypto exchange face scrutiny too
Link: https://www.straitstimes.com/business/investors-who-put-us2-billion-into-ftx-face-scrutiny-too
On Friday, FTX, facing a cash shortfall of US$8 billion and scrambling to drum up money, filed for bankruptcy. | Mr Bankman-Fried resigned as chief executive. The Justice Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission are examining whether FTX improperly used customer funds to prop up a separate trading firm, Alameda Research, which Mr Bankman-Fried also founded. ● FTX’s list of investors spans powerful and well-known investment firms: NEA, IVP, Iconiq Capital, Third Point Ventures, Tiger Global, Altimeter Capital Management, Lux Capital, Mayfield, Insight Partners, Sequoia Capital, SoftBank, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Ribbit Capital, Temasek, BlackRock and Thoma Bravo. ● Four FTX investors, who declined to be identified, said they were shocked by the company’s sudden collapse. They said they properly researched the company’s financials, which showed a healthy, growing business that provided an easy-to-use platform for people to buy, sell and store crypto. And they were completely in the dark about FTX’s possible self-dealing with Alameda.
UKRAINE "MILITARY AID" FROM USA --- WAS INVESTED IN CRYPTO "FTX" BY UKRAINE!
Divers find wreckage of USS Challenger in Florida
Link: https://en.newizv.ru/news/world/11-11-2022/divers-find-wreckage-of-uss-challenger-in-florida
The wreckage was accidentally found by a film crew looking for World War II aircraft. | NASA has confirmed that the wreckage of the Space Shuttle Challenger was discovered off the east coast of Florida, which in 1986 exploded less than two minutes after launch and killed seven people on board, reports The Guardian ● Divers found a fragment in the sand and, since the site was close to the NASA spaceport, contacted the agency. “Though it has been nearly 37 years since seven brave explorers died aboard the Challenger, this tragedy will forever remain in our nation's collective memory”, - NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said in a statement. “For millions of people around the world, myself included, January 28, 1986 still feels like yesterday.”
DHS Censorship Agency Strange First Mission: Banning Speech That Casts Doubt On Election
Unfortunately, this country is headed for a horrible outcome. No self-governing society can suffer the strain to civil society that comes from loss of regime credibility. This overt and actual illegal censorship, in violation of the First Amendment, must be brought to a halt. How that takes place, really doesn't matter anymore. | The US Department of Homeland Security is actively engaged in the deprivation of American's constitutionally protected free speech rights. They are using our own tax money to strip away our rights. ● Last week, The Intercept published a set of leaks that drew broad interest in perhaps the most under-covered scandal inside the US government today: the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) quiet move to establish, for the first time in US history, an explicitly inward-facing domestic censorship bureau. ● What The Intercept glimpsed, however, is just the tip of a much larger iceberg.
John Bolton mocks First Amendment as reporter detained (VIDEO)
Link: https://www.rt.com/news/566369-john-bolton-journalist-arrested/
Former US national security advisor John Bolton joked about the First Amendment as a protesting journalist was detained for accusing him of lying about weapons of mass destruction and “covering up war crimes in Afghanistan.” | Bolton’s speech at an Institute for Policy Innovation conference in Texas on Thursday was interrupted by journalist Tayler Hansen, who stood up and accused the long-time war-hawk of lying about Iraq possessing weapons of mass destruction prior to the 2003 US invasion. 💬 “You essentially genocided the Iraqi people,” Hansen shouted at Bolton. “And you covered up war crimes in Afghanistan, sir.” “Why did you celebrate the arrest of Julian Assange?” Hansen continued. “Why do you think that’s acceptable, sir? Is celebrating war crimes acceptable?” ● Hansen was handcuffed and led to a parking garage before being set free. 💬 “Most notable people that work in the National Security Apparatus are psychopathic criminals with no moral compass,” he wrote in a tweet on Friday. “I’m not sure what ‘National Security’ has to do with it, but there is definitely a pattern.”
Stephen Lendman: Repeat of the Big Steal
Link: https://stephenlendman.org/2022/11/10/repeat-of-the-big-steal/
What’s the point of voting under a system operating as follows:
■ When elections are stolen with electronic ease.
■ When mail-in ballots for candidate A go to candidate B — enough to delegitimize election results.
■ When hegemon USA is a one-party state with 2 right wings.
■ When both wings enforce a permanent state of war on invented enemies threatening no one.
■ When so-called “rules-based order” flagrantly breaches the rule of law at home and worldwide.
■ When self-styled master of the universe USA is at war on the great majority of Americans.
Count the ways:
■ By kill shots designed to irreparably hard and shorten the lifespans of everyone getting them.
■ By eroding human and civil rights ahead of eliminating them altogether in favor of police state rule.
■ By governance of, by and for privileged interests exclusively at the expense of the general welfare.
■ By the following indisputable reality:
● If elections achieved positive change, they’d be officially banned.
● Grand theft by undemocratic Dems defined Election 2020 — what’s indisputable.
● What’s known about midterms showed a similar pattern.
● What should have been a slam-dunk red wave sweep of House and Senate races didn’t turn out this way.
Three-fourths of Americans believe things are heading in the wrong direction. The worst of it lies ahead, what’s highly likely to be clear in 2023. And all of the above is happening at a time when dominant Biden regime hardliners support Nazi-infested Ukraine. A state of US-launched war exists between hegemon USA-dominated NATO and Russia. The extremist Biden regime is the most recklessly dangerous one in US history. Dem hardliners infesting Washington risk global war in pursuit of their diabolical aims. And domestically, they serve privileged interests exclusively at the expense of the general welfare they don’t give a damn about. Are Republicans the preferred option? When the choice is between death by hanging or firing squad, we’re dead either way.
US election: Trump tears into rising Republican rival DeSantis
Link: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-63593457
Ex-US President Donald Trump has lashed out at Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, as the simmering rivalry between the two top Republicans boiled over. | Mr Trump belittled his former political apprentice as an "average" governor, lacking in "loyalty". ● Mr DeSantis, 44, won re-election in a landslide in Tuesday's midterms, sealing his status as the Republican party's brightest rising star. He is widely expected to run for the party's 2024 White House nomination. But Mr Trump, 76, looks increasingly likely to stand in his way. ● The former president - who has a massive campaign war chest and remains hugely popular with the party's base - would be a formidable opponent for Mr DeSantis, or any other Republican who dares challenge him.
George W. Bush will hold his first public meeting with Ukrainian President Zelenski
Link: https://t.me/MariaVladimirovnaZakharova/4123
Maria Sacharova / MFA Russia | Former US President George W. Bush will hold his first public meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenski. The politicians will chat online. The event will take place next week in order to reiterate the importance of continued US support for Ukraine, the George W. Bush Institute has clarified. In this context, it brings to mind a recent fake by The Insider, in which the grief-stricken authors were dovishly speculating that George W. Bush was not part of the American establishment. How was it, "one of the most unpopular presidents in US history"? We found the foreign agents' idea that George W. Bush was a nobody fresh and interesting at the time. Now we await an official meeting of the two "nobodies" in which the contestants could compete in unpopularity. Perhaps The Insider will have a separate... "insider"? (Translated with www.DeepL.com; free edition)
COP27: Biden arrives in Egypt to push climate action, talk human rights
Link: https://english.alaraby.co.uk/news/cop27-biden-arrives-egypt-set-talk-human-rights
US President Joe Biden will arrive at the COP27 conference on Friday where delegates expect him to try to pump up global ambition to fight climate change. | His visit is the first stop in a packed week-long trip to grapple with some of the United States' thorniest foreign policy issues. ● Biden's speech in Sharm El-Sheikh will remind countries to stay focused on the goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. He will also discuss the importance of public-private partnership and detail US efforts to decarbonise and lower methane emissions. ● Anti-government protests that will take aim at Egypt's deteriorating economic and human rights situations are planned for Friday. Egyptian security forces have detained scores of activists in the lead-up to the demonstrations.
US judge strikes down Biden's student debt relief plan
A federal judge in Texas on Thursday ruled that President Joe Biden's plan to cancel hundreds of billions of dollars in student loan debt was unlawful and must be vacated, delivering a victory to conservative opponents of the program. | US District Judge Mark Pittman, an appointee of former Republican President Donald Trump in Fort Worth, called the program an “unconstitutional exercise of Congress's legislative power” as he ruled in favour of two borrowers backed by a conservative advocacy group. ● The debt relief plan had already been temporarily blocked by the St. Louis-based eighth US Circuit Court of Appeals while it considers a request by six Republican-led states to enjoin it while they appealed the dismissal of their own lawsuit. The judge's ruling came in a lawsuit by two borrowers who were partially or fully ineligible for the loan forgiveness Biden's plan offered. The plaintiffs argued it did not follow proper rule making processes and was unlawful. The borrowers were backed by the Job Creators Network Foundation, a conservative advocacy group founded by Bernie Marcus, a co-founder of Home Depot. ● The US Justice Department promptly moved to appeal the ruling. White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in a statement the administration strongly disagreed with the decision.
Alex Jones's Assets Are Frozen by Judge in Sandy Hook Case
Link: https://ground.news/article/alex-joness-assets-are-frozen-by-judge-in-sandy-hook-case
Infowars host Alex Jones was temporarily blocked from transferring any assets or spending money other than for ordinary living expenses by the judge overseeing the Sandy Hook defamation trial in Connecticut. (Ground News // Articles)
Control of U.S. Congress hangs in balance with key contests still unresolved
Control of the U.S. Senate hung in the balance on Friday as election workers in Arizona and Nevada tallied hundreds of thousands of uncounted ballots, a process officials in the two battleground states warn could drag on for days. | Either Democrats or Republicans can capture a Senate majority by sweeping contests in both states. A split would transform a Dec. 6 runoff Senate election in Georgia into a proxy battle for the chamber, which holds sway over President Joe Biden's judicial appointments. ● In the fight for the House of Representatives, Republicans were inching closer to wresting control of the chamber from Biden's Democrats. House control would give Republicans veto power over Biden's legislative agenda and allow them to launch potentially damaging investigations into his administration. ● Republicans had secured at least 211 of the 218 House seats they need for a majority following Tuesday's midterm vote, Edison Research projected late on Thursday, while Democrats had won 197. That left 27 races yet to be determined, including several close contests. ● The Republican House leader, Kevin McCarthy, has already announced his intention to run for speaker if Republicans take over, an outcome he has described as inevitable.
US Midterm Election Results: All Eyes on Arizona, Nevada as Control of Congress Hangs in Balance (news18.com)
US conducts ‘provocative’ Arctic missile test aimed at Russia
Link: https://www.rt.com/russia/566300-us-arctic-missile-test/
The US military tested an experimental cruise missile launch system above the Arctic Circle on Wednesday. The commander in charge of the test called it a deliberately “provocative” move aimed at deterring Russia. | The operation involved dropping a long-range cruise missile from a Special Operations C-130 transport aircraft, with parachutes slowing its descent until its rocket motor blasted it toward a target. The deployment system – called ‘Rapid Dragon’ by the military – was developed by the US Air Force, and Wednesday marked its first demonstration in Europe. ● The choice of Norway’s Andoya Space Range for the launch was deliberate. Located around two degrees north of the Arctic Circle, the range sits at the far western edge of a region of military and economic importance to Russia. 💬 The test “puts this thing within range of Russia. We are intentionally trying to be provocative without being escalatory,” operation lead Lt. Col. Lawrence Melnicoff told the US military’s Stripes outlet. “We’re trying to deter Russian aggression, [and] expansionist behavior, by showing enhanced capabilities of the [NATO] allies.”
[Editor: The US is not trying to "deter" Russian "aggression". The US is doing all it can to get a war going. Simple as that. No use listening to Pentagon's lies. More fun listening to what the readers are saying about stuff like this. Here are just some of their comments:]
💬 "These A-holes cannot help themselves, they always gotta be stirring the pot. One of these days Putin is going to lose his cool." + "Cursed Devil never rest its damned self from creating mischiefs." + "From Pax Americana to Pest Americana?" + "Seems to me, that's a lot of tax payers money, just for one rocket!" + "To be honest Russia and China need to destroy America. First China destroys the economy by dumping all Americas debt and completely dump the dollar Take Tiwan back and then both country's destroy all Americas military and get the middle east to not give them oil. That should end any threat from the US ever again. The eu have already killed them selves so no threat from them." + "So the whosa can continue to provoke and antagonize other countries with nothing to be heard from the other muppet countries who scream when NK tests a missile in it's own region...."
Evidence of harm
Link: https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/the-evidence
Steve Kirsch | A short collection of key pieces of evidence showing the COVID vaccines are not "safe and effective." Not even close. They are the most deadly vaccines we've ever produced. | Here’s a high level collection of some of the most compelling pieces of evidence I’ve seen to date. This is not an exhaustive list, but just the key pieces of data that are impossible to explain if the vaccines are safe and effective. I’ve divided the collection into sections and I’ve tried to limit each section to the most compelling data points. So don’t be disappointed if your favorite item isn’t mentioned in this article; I wanted to keep it short enough to be read. I’ll try to keep this updated over time. It can be found in the my Reference Section.
Future of oil industry and European market
Midterms Roundup
Link: https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/11/midterms-roundup.html
Moon of Alabama | The midterm election did not come with the red wave some had expected. The reasons for that are manifold. | That the Trump brand has lost some of its shine is one. Trump has always been bad at picking people. In the case of this election he supported some particular bad candidates. They obviously did not perform as he had hoped for. ● Biden is not liked much. But he is - in general - also not disliked much. He has managed to bribe the voters first through the large spending programs he had moved through Congress and then through the huge releases from the strategic petroleum reserve. The prices fell at the pump and that typically counts for a lot. ● Abortion seems to have played a role and Democrats said they would do something about that. But the Supreme Court judgment pushed the issue back to the states. I doubt that the Democrats will do anything about that. They have no incentive and no means to change that ruling. ● So the Democrats may keep the Senate though barely. The Republicans will likely take the House but also with only a thin majority. That means that U.S. policies, internally but especially on foreign issues, will not change one bit. ● As the saying goes: 'If elections would change anything they would not be allowed.'
■ New York State Election Fraud Caught on Camera - STATEWIDE! (Hal Turner Show)
■ Myriad of problems with election equipment, voting tabulators in key states raise early suspicions about vote fraud in midterms
42% of Gen Z Diagnosed with a Mental Health Condition, Survey Reveals
Link: https://www.cryptogon.com/?p=65253
Study Finds | Forty-two percent of America’s young-but-cynical Generation Z are dealing with a mental health condition, a new survey finds. A range of these issues were largely identified during the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic. | The analysis by Harmony Healthcare IT suggests tens of millions of Gen Z young adults started dealing with a mental health problem in the months immediately following the start of the global pandemic in March 2020. ● Three-quarters of these Americans, all under the age of 25, say the pandemic negatively impacted their mental health, with many citing loneliness and uncertainty about the future. ● The Indiana-based data management company’s survey highlights a staggering percentage of young adults diagnosed with anxiety, depression, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), or post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) during the pandemic. ● Twenty percent of the 1,000 Gen Z study participants say they have a regular therapist, 57 percent take regular medication, and 39 percent attend therapy for mental health issues once a week. ● Sociologists and statisticians identify Gen Z as the third-largest American population behind the millennials and baby boomers. These tweens, teenagers, and 20-somethings are also the most racially, ethnically, and sexually diverse generation in the United States.
Facebook parent Meta to cut more than 11,000 jobs in one of biggest tech layoffs this year
Meta Platforms said on Wednesday it will let go of 13 per cent of its workforce, or more than 11,000 employees, in one of the biggest tech layoffs in 2022 as the Facebook parent battles soaring costs and a weak advertising market. | The broad job cuts are the first in Meta’s 18-year history. ● They follow thousands of layoffs at other major tech companies, including Elon Musk-owned Twitter and Microsoft Corp. Meta employed more than 87,000 people as at Sept 30, according to media company Insider. The reductions were disclosed on Wednesday in a statement. The company will also extend its hiring freeze through the first quarter. ● Meta will also reduce its real estate footprint, review its infrastructure spending and transition some employees to desk sharing with more cost-cutting announcements expected in the coming months. The pandemic boom that boosted tech companies and their valuations has turned into a bust in 2022 in the face of decades-high inflation and rapidly rising interest rates. Meta, whose stock has plunged 71 per cent in 2022, is taking steps to pare costs following several quarters of disappointing earnings and a slide in revenue. Its profits fell to US$4.4 billion (S$6.2 billion) in the last quarter, a 52 per cent decrease year on year.
The Coming Struggle To Stay Warm
Link: https://principia-scientific.com/the-coming-struggle-to-stay-warm/
The Pipeline | One of the first columns I wrote for The Pipeline almost three years ago employed the metaphor of the irresistible force meeting the immovable object to forecast the likely consequences of Green politics. | The irresistible force was the imposition of a policy of Net-Zero carbon emissions upon the populations of the West, in particular those of Anglosphere, and the immovable object was the democratic electorates of these countries. It might take time, I argued, but when the voters found that Green Deals and such meant higher energy prices, higher taxes, immiseration of the less well-off, and harshly puritan lifestyles for the rest of us, an almighty smash-up would ensue. And so it has. ● Indeed, the smash-up has come sooner than I expected, namely this year, and it will almost certainly be harsher because the negative impact of Net-Zero has been aggravated by the Russo-Ukraine war and sanctions adopted by the U.S. and the E.U. in response to it. What I didn’t expect, however, is that the smash-up would take place in slow-motion. But that is what’s happening. Almost wherever you look, there’s some not-very-important story that tips you off to a subterranean explosion whose full impact won’t be properly felt for a while. The effect is something like the delayed impact of depth charges or deadpan jokes.
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