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

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.

Link: https://www.straitstimes.com/world/meta-to-cut-more-than-11000-jobs-in-one-of-biggest-us-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.

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.

Link: https://fee.org/articles/why-the-rise-of-intersectionality-in-medicine-will-have-serious-consequences/

Connor Vasile | School standards have fallen for the sake of political correctness over effective and dependable education. That is dangerous. | In early October, my alma mater made headlines after it decided to fire chemistry professor Dr. Maitland Jones Jr. after 82 of his students signed a petition noting that his organic chemistry class was “too hard.” The students accused Jones of purposely making the class difficult, citing that their low scores negatively impacted their “well-being,” and their chances of getting into medical school. Instead of evaluating the rigor and substance of Jones’ curriculum, NYU justified its hasty action by noting the class’s unfavorable student reviews. This type of judgment would never pass in the fields of architecture, aerial engineering, or even the food service industry; why is it permissible here?

Link: https://www.rt.com/news/566181-russia-us-new-start-nuclear/

American and Russian diplomats will meet to "discuss" the New START nuclear arms reduction treaty “in the near future,” US State Department spokesman Ned Price told reporters on Tuesday. Earlier, Bloomberg and Kommersant cited sources who said that a meeting of the Bilateral Consultative Commission (BCC) may soon be held in Egypt.

Объясняет Readovka | "Let me see": Under the guise of negotiations to reduce nuclear arsenals the US wants to study modern Russian weapons | Kommersant has learned that the United States is planning to resume negotiations with Russia in the very near future to reduce its nuclear arsenals within the framework of the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START III). World peace is the least of Americans' worries, of course, but the inspection of Russia's current weaponry looks much more attractive. ● The START Treaty went into force in 2011 and calls for substantial reductions in nuclear arsenals over the next seven years: each side commits to not more than 700 deployed ICBMs, which are allowed to have no more than 1,550 warheads, and 800 for deployed and non-deployed launchers. ● The treaty deals separately with mutual inspections of nuclear arsenals: according to this item, mutual inspections of nuclear weapons are supposed to be carried out, as well as the timely exchange of information on the current state and quantity of nuclear weapons. The American side, of course, violated the principle of mutual information. ● After another data exchange, the Russian Foreign Ministry said that the United States deliberately concealed the presence of a number of nuclear weapons, namely 41 B-52H heavy bombers and 56 launchers of Trident II SLBMs, which the US side described as re-equipped and, consequently, not subject to inspection. After the US declared its intention to send inspectors "in a matter of course", Russia suspended its participation in the treaty in the summer of 2022. ● Today, US inspectors are particularly interested in the hypersonic weapons successfully tested by Russia in a special operation. If necessary, the Kinnzhal could also be equipped with a nuclear payload, which would significantly expand Russia's nuclear deterrence capabilities. (Translated with www.DeepL.com/)(Free edition)

Link: https://sputniknews.com/20221109/tucker-carlson-calls-to-ditch-glitchy-electronic-voting-machines-1103918601.html

Technical glitches with voting machines in Arizona’s Maricopa County on Tuesday prompted Donald Trump to write on his Truth Social platform, “Here we go again?” | After the 2020 presidential elections, Trump and his team had claimed electronic voting had been part of the process to “rig” the elections in favor of his Democratic rival, Joe Biden. ● The glitchy start to voting in the midterm elections in Arizona’s Maricopa County on Tuesday prompted Fox News host Tucker Carlson to call for ending the use of electronic voting machines. Carlson insisted that 💬 “the core problem” is “we’re not really very serious about democracy if we’re using electronic voting machines or if we’re not requiring photo ID to vote.” ● Approximately an hour after the voting began, some of Maricopa County’s 223 voting sites began experiencing technical issues with the tabulators, according to the state’s media outlets. Ballots were reportedly not being read properly because of the printer settings, which churned out ballots where the formatting marks were not dark enough for the tabulators to read, officials were cited as saying. According to various estimates, from 10 to 30 percent of the electronic vote tabulation machines in the county were malfunctioning at some point until technicians fixed the issue.

■ Dominion voting machines stop working in New Jersey county (Ground News/Articles)
■ News about Republican Party (Ground News)
■ California Gov. Newsom’s Reelection Appears Likely (The Epoch Times)
■ Nevada Won’t Be Done Counting Mail-In Ballots For Days: REPORT (Daily Caller)
■ Republicans favored to retake US House, Senate up for grabs (RT.com)
■ US Midterms LIVE UPDATES: Polls Close, Votes Being Counted (Sputnik News)

Link: https://summit.news/2022/11/07/give-kremlin-a-warning-us-nuclear-apocalypse-submarine-enters-mediterranean-sea/

Multiple reports show the world’s largest nuclear submarine, the USS Rhode Island, left the Port of Gibraltar on Spain’s south coast last week and was last seen entering the Mediterranean. British newspaper Daily Express said the nuclear submarine is “reportedly heading towards the Black Sea.” ● The Italian newspaper la Repubblica said USS Rhode Island, which arrived in Gibraltar on Nov. 1, entered the Mediterranean Sea on Friday. The Ohio-class nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine can carry 24 Trident II missiles capable of hitting targets 18 thousand kilometers away.

Link: https://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2022/11/04/is-the-golden-age-for-jews-coming-to-an-end-some-jews-think-so/#top

RockaBoatus | A recent article published in The Jerusalem Post by Adam Milstein laments what appears to be the end of the Jewish golden age: “Why the Golden Age for Jews in America is Coming to an End” (10/19/2022). | Milstein attributes this apparent end to an array of factors, such as rising anti-Semitism, a fading memory of the Holocaust, ideological polarization and liberalism, growing support for the Palestinian people, resulting in an increasing number of personal attacks on Jews. ● The author is concerned that American Jews are starting to experience the same type of violent attacks that European Jews have been experiencing for the past decade—with no apparent decline in Jewish power in the media and political arena. Nevertheless, Jews are fearful of wearing their kippot in public or anything that might identify them as Jewish.

Link: https://t.me/bioclandestine/824

HERE WE GO: ABC News Explains Why a “Red Mirage” Will Occur Tuesday – Reveals Which States Democrats Are Going to Try to Steal | ABC News explained why a "Red Mirage" will occur Tuesday on Election Day. "[Republican candidates'] leads will dwindle, or crumble completely, after perceived "dumps" of votes are recorded by state election officials who count mail-in and absentee ballots in the days -- or even weeks -- following Election Day." ABC News said. ABC News revealed which states the Democrats are going to steal with post-Election Day ballot counting. "[The Red Mirage is] likely to occur in some of the same states where the phenomenon presented itself last cycle -- in states like Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin -- battleground states that also happen to feature some of the most hotly contested races of the election season." ABC News said. We've seen this before. A Democratic data firm warned of a "Red Mirage" shortly before the 2020 election. The Democrats got away with the steal in 2020 so they're doing it again.

White House Warns Elections Results May Not Be Clear for ‘Days’ After Election (Epoch Times)

Link: https://sputniknews.com/20221107/head-of-us-nuclear-forces-claims-ukraine-just-a-warmup-for-very-long-struggle-with-russia-china-1103870150.html

Since 2018, the US has seen its primary strategic focus as preparing for so-called “great power competition” with Russia and China. | It claims the two nations are spearheading an effort to overturn the US-run global order established at the end of the Cold War. ● US Navy Adm. Charles Richard, the head of US Strategic Command, recently warned the US would soon face a protracted conflict with China unlike anything it’s faced before. Stratcom is responsible for handling the country’s nuclear weapons, as well as the suite of defensive and offensive information capabilities termed C4ISR. 💬 “We have to do some rapid, fundamental change in the way we approach the defense of this nation,” Richard said at a Navy symposium last week. ● Richard warned “the ship is slowly sinking” because China is fielding new capabilities faster than the United States, which will soon find itself outnumbered and outclassed on the battlefield.

Link: https://summit.news/2022/11/07/analyst-warns-there-probably-wont-be-an-election-in-2024/

Martin Armstrong claims the United States won’t exist after 2032. | Analyst Martin Armstrong has warned that there may not be an election in 2024 and that “the United States will not exist after 2032” due to massive societal upheaval and financial collapse. Armstrong, who correctly predicted numerous previous major events, including the 2008 financial collapse, made the comments during an interview with Greg Hunter. ● According to the analyst, future elections are in severe doubt of even taking place due to rampant corruption and cheating, along with the likelihood that neither side will accept defeat. 💬 “The cheating in the midterm election next week is going to be so great that it is almost impossible to make a prediction. . . . In a fair midterm election, the Republicans would win the House and the Senate,” said Armstrong. ● Revealing that he has received emails from people in Canada saying they had been delivered voting ballots for Pennsylvania, Armstrong is predicting utter chaos.

Link: https://countercurrents.org/2022/11/ukraine-update-u-s-troops-in-ukraine-says-u-s-media/

U.S. troops are now on the ground in Ukraine, where they are monitoring NATO arms deliveries to the country, an anonymous Pentagon official told several U.S. media outlets on Monday. It is unclear how many personnel are involved, or where they are located. | While Americans have fought and died in Ukraine of their own accord, Monday’s announcement marks the first time since February that Washington has acknowledged the presence of uniformed troops in Ukraine. Russian President Vladimir Putin has cautioned the U.S. and its NATO allies against getting involved in the conflict, and even before the announcement, he stated that the Kremlin views itself as fighting the “entire Western military machine” in Ukraine. ● The U.S. inspected its arms shipments to Ukraine before Russia launched its military operation in February, but pulled its personnel out of the country days before it began. It is unclear how many troops have returned or when the checks restarted.

Link: https://sputniknews.com/20221104/millions-plan-to-substitute-traditional-thanksgiving-turkey-with-pizza-salad-as-us-food-prices-soar-1103800519.html

Millions Plan to Substitute Traditional Thanksgiving Turkey With Pizza, Salad as US Food Prices Soar | Americans’ wallets have gotten lighter this year amid the highest inflation rate in decades, soaring gas prices and biting food prices, with the pinch caused at least in part by the Biden administration’s efforts to squeeze Russia – a major energy and food exporter, out of global markets to “punish” Moscow for its military operation in Ukraine. ● Soaring poultry costs and shrinking purchasing power threaten to put the traditional Thanksgiving turkey out of reach for millions of Americans this year, with fresh US Department of Agriculture figures showing that Turkey costs have jumped from an average of $1.15 a pound in 2021 to $1.99 now. ● Along with soaring inflation and spiking energy costs, the avian flu also affecting availability and prices, with USDA data indicating that 5.3 million turkeys died or had to be culled from exposure to the virus.

Link: https://www.straitstimes.com/world/united-states/musk-lays-out-twitter-mission-to-have-the-most-accurate-information-about-the-world

Twitter’s new CEO Elon Musk said on Sunday the social media platform’s mission was to become the most accurate source of information about the world, sparking debate about how it would achieve that and who determines what is accurate. | A flurry of drastic measures including sacking half the staff and charging users since he took over Twitter in a US$44 billion (S$62 billion) deal just about a week ago has provided some early clues to how the platform will be reshaped by the world’s richest person. ● Some advertises have pulled spending since the deal was announced, with Mr Musk blaming activist groups for pressuring advertisers amid concerns about its content moderation. 💬 “Twitter needs to become by far the most accurate source of information about the world. That’s our mission,” Mr Musk said on Sunday. ● Mr Musk, who also runs electric vehicle company Tesla and rocket firm SpaceX, said last month Twitter will be forming a content moderation council with “widely diverse viewpoints”. The self-described free speech absolutist said at the time that no major content decisions or account reinstatements will happen before that council convenes.

Link: https://sputniknews.com/20221107/democratic-voters-demotivated-frustrated-ahead-of-midterms-activists-say-1103845338.html

Voter apathy could impact Tuesday’s midterm election turnout, especially among Democratic Party supporters who are frustrated with lack of progress on key priorities, activists told Sputnik. | The Republican Party appears well-positioned to wrench control of the House away from the Democrats, according to the most recent polls, while the fate of the Senate may come down to a handful of tight races, which some experts say may hinge on voter turnout. ● More than 39 million Americans have already cast votes in the midterms, according to official data collected by the US Election Project as of Sunday. ● Although states like Georgia have seen record turnout so far, election officials in Texas, Michigan, Iowa, Colorado, Washington, among others, have said the numbers are lagging compared to the 2018 midterms. ● Recent polling reveals that Republicans are much more enthusiastic about the midterms than their Democratic peers. According to a Marist-NPR-PBS NewsHour poll, 84% of registered Republicans said they were "very interested" in this year’s election compared to only 68 percent of Democrats and 58% of independents.

Link: https://www.rt.com/news/565868-joe-biden-oil-midterms/

Joe Biden has asked oil companies to increase supply and lower prices at their own expense while threatening them with higher taxes. But will it help the Democrats’ election chances? | In direct opposition to the Democratic Party’s green agenda, US President Joe Biden has ordered the oil industry to ramp up production and lower prices – or else. But does the US leader have the power to control the free market? ● As public sentiment over the US economy begins to boil, Biden is attempting to shift the blame onto the oil industry for hoarding profits while keeping prices at the pumps excessively high, thereby strangling economic growth.

Link: https://tass.com/world/1533003

It is noted that Ukraine should not count on support either, considering that Congress has already greenlit up to $60 billion in aid and Kiev is persistently asking the West to increase the amount of aid | The US may reduce or stop aid to Kiev altogether if Republican Party representatives succeed in the November 8 midterm elections to Congress, the Washington Post reported on Monday. ● The newspaper quoted Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene, who said that under the Republicans 💬 "not another penny will go to Ukraine. Her party is poised to make significant gains in Tuesday’s midterm elections and possibly revamp the United States’ whole approach to supporting Ukraine’s resistance. A Republican-led House is expected to, among other things, turn up the heat on the [US President Joe] Biden administration over its handling of the US withdrawal of Afghanistan, as well as step up political pressure on Iran," the newspaper stressed. ● According to its estimates, Ukraine should not count on support either, considering that Congress has already greenlit up to $60 billion in aid and Kiev is persistently asking the West to increase the amount of aid. On the eve of the election, various candidates and legislators from the Republican Party pointed out that the funding should be stopped.

Link: https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/news-nation/truckers-reporting-no-diesel-fuel-parts-of-north-carolina-oklahoma-tennessee

American truck drivers are sounding the alarm that Diesel fuel is running out. | It was on October 14 that the US Energy Infrastructure Agency (EIA) publicly stated the nation was down to 25 days of Diesel Fuel reserves. That would put the run-out date, Tuesday, November 8. Yet Diesel fuel continues to be refined throughout the country, so while "reserves" may have been down to 25 days, there was still ongoing production. Yet, as shown in the video below, truckers in North Carolina are reporting large, 50 mile areas of that state, without diesel fuel! Fuel Distributors in Tennessee announced they had begun LIMITING purchases of diesel fuel in that state, too. ● Like all other nations, the United States runs on diesel fuel. All tractor trailers, trains, and cargo ships require diesel fuel to operate. If that fuel runs out, then there is no way to transport cargo anywhere. ● Supermarkets have only three (3) days supply of food on store shelves. In large metropolitan areas, those supermarkets must get truck deliveries EVERY DAY to keep shelves stocked. If diesel runs out, re-stocking cannot take place. No one is saying WHERE the nation's supply of Diesel fuel is going. The US economy [...] uses 148 MILLION gallons of diesel fuel each and every day. Without that fuel, the economy grinds to a halt.

Link: https://www.rt.com/news/566003-top-nato-boss-candidate/

A granddaughter of a WWII Ukrainian Nazi collaborator, Chrystia Freeland is reportedly Washington’s “prime” pick for the job | The “prime candidate” favored by Washington to replace outgoing NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg is Chrystia Freeland, currently Canada’s Finance Minister and Deputy Prime Minister, the New York Times reported on Friday. ● The bloc reportedly aims to install a woman at its helm for the first time, with other likely contenders being Estonian premier Kaja Kallas, Slovakian President Zuzana Caputova and Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic, former president of Croatia, who was also Zagreb’s ambassador to Washington. The “strong contenders” list provided by the NYT corresponds with earlier media reports this year. [...] Freeland has been extremely ambiguous on her ancestry, not only refusing to condemn her maternal grandparents but somewhat endorsing them instead. In 2015 she wrote an essay called “My Ukraine,” stating that her Nazi collaborator grandparents 💬 “saw themselves as political exiles with a responsibility to keep alive the idea of an independent Ukraine.” “That dream persisted into the next generation, and in some cases the generation after that,” Freeland wrote in the essay.