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The only good thing out of this, is that Putin has quite literally slammed-the-door in the faces of the Banks, the New World Order, The Trilateral Commission, The Bilderberg Group, & the Wall st. money-meisers..


Instead, we get this bollox from our leaders...Everyone deserves better than this !!!

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Ummm... I'm not sure why you keep trying to spin this like it was Putin who slammed-the-door in the faces of banks... because the reality here is that BANKS are who slammed-the-door in Putin and Russias face! VERY BIG DIFFERENCE!

I should also mention that since Russia has been at WAR, their stock market has been kept CLOSED! People who have money and assets in Ruissa are just SOL! 

Now, if that wasn't bad enough, Putin is going to try and steal a bunch of commerical airliners they were renting! Because their money is wortless and their credit rating now listed as "junk" they can't even make the payments!

Are you suggesting that THEFT is okay now Rastus? That Russia shouldn't have to pay it's bills? That they can just take whatever they want, whenever they want? I think that mentality is what got us to this point where Russia is trying to take over their neighbor!

In a few days Ruissa will default on a key payment... once that happens the Russian currency will be WORTHLESS outside of Russia! I should also mention that business is not going to trust Russia anymore either... at least while Putin is their President!

This all bodes very poorly for Putin... I know Putin thinks he's something special, but he is ex-KGB... he knows damn well what happens to people in Russia that cost the upper crust money and respect... I'd be worried if I were him... 

He has a very rude awaking coming... This war and it's aftermath are 100% on Putin.

I tried to read as much of that communist drivel as I could gut...

It's all bullshit Rastus! The moment the terrified author alluded to the nonsense idea that somehow Russia has a say in other nations partisipation in NATO I had to stop reading. It's a shame too because outside of the communist tilt it was a good article.

You can tell the author fears Putin... but he or she is terrifed of what the USA will do to Putin if this goes too far.

 

Rastus, HERE ON THIS PLANET, the Russians invaded Ukraine on Feburary 24... they lied about it for several months while they built up their army.

The USA did not start any war... but we may have to finish it! 

After we get done trying to signal aliens, do you think we could try to find some unicorns afterwards? I'm sure just having one would be a major babe magnet, even better than a dog or a cat!

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SELLC, HERE ON THIS PLANET, the US-of-A along with countless NATO countries, further expanded NATO illegally through the 1990's & beyond, after signing treaties not to do so, thus, finally forcing Russia into invading the Ukraine, that had white-supremacist infiltration within its gov't, US-of-A biological weapons laboratories, & 15-nuclear power-plants to watch over...

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Further expanded NATO illegally? You need to site your EXACT treaties with their corresponding "promises" that support your preposterous claims! And I don't want none of your classic, "Here's seven volumes of treaties, all 300 pages long and a two hour Zeitgeist CD"... Here ON THIS PLANET and in this CIVILIZED COUNTRY we just want the facts... I'm sure these treaties you speak of are chronologically in order and from a reputable Government (Not Russia because they are junk paper peddlers trying to avoid the repo man). I propose whatever shit has stained your brain, it's being improperly perceived or you're just not doing your research. As far as I'm concerned, if Russia thinks NATO can't expand, then that's Russia's problem! That's some Trumped up BS right there, because just a few years ago Trump was considering pulling out of NATO! Countries can join and leave as they please! UNLIKE RUSSIA! And your White-Supremacist bullshit game is weak too! When is the last time you seen a black Russian that wasn't being handed to you by a bartender!? 

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 The US-of-A is nothing more than the Military-arm of the UK, & other European aristocracies, namely guided by the Banking Cartels, such as the Federal Reserve Corporation...

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The US-of-A is a little more than the Military-arm of any country! At this time we are part of NATO, and that arm is long and distinguished, like my Johnson! If you think the way Russia has been doing business the past three weeks with their markets shut down, stiffing creditors and people who wish to leave then you should do business with Russia! Just know what happens when you want to leave the grip of Mother Russia! Take a good look at Ukraine, and soon the entire Russian economy! Russia better call their troops back to start pumping more oil because nobody will want their money! Russia is officially a deadbeat nation, engaging in hooliganism in the Ukraine!

 

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You have been duped again, & sadly are starting to look pretty silly mate...But maybe it's that Fukushima radiation causing a lapse in your brain-power...

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Duped by who? These ridiculous claims are starting to make me wonder if it's YOU who trying to dupe the readers, myself included! But we have brain-power, and we know better. Even PowerStroker has called you out on it recently... I think it was when you made them sensational claims that a new virus was being released at the Beijing Olympics that made people bleed out from all the holes in their head... yeah, that whopper didn't age well... did it? 

 

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Have you watched the Dana Durnford link yet in the Fukushima thread ???...There's a fellow in Michigan, who has a Spectrum analyzer specific to radionuclides, & he's peeing 220 counts-per-minute of radiation...

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No I have not watched that video yet, but it was probably your Russian friends who poisoned him... It's a FACT and the TRUTH that Russia is well known for these types of things... Of course, you always make these sensational claims with absolutly no credible backing, or you leave out the fact he worked in the Fermi plant for 40 years... And if it wasn't the Russians or Fermi, it's well known here in Michigan there are just some coney islands you don't eat at!

 

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Watch what you say from here-on SELLC, the facts & truth are before you my friend, & many will think you're being very foolish...

As for the ET's, its your choice to go out & meet them. But then again, it's also your choice to live in a fairy-tale...And who could blame you ?...

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Watch what I say? LOL! The only one looking foolish here is YOU mate! You're supposed to be on OUR side... yet look at you! If this isn't a joke, then it's sad really... I honestly try and tell myself you're just being an idiot (devils advocate) lately to stir the pot and make for good back and fourth discussion, but I am starting to wonder if perhaps you have been corrupted with all that CE5 mumbo-jumbo and it's YOU who are living in a fairy-tale! And who could blame you?

But from now on when you make any more crazy claims with regards to global treaties or other NON-UFO stuff it would be great if you could quote that stuff from the actual competent governing bodies, and not RT or Counterpunch... You don't see PowerStroker or I quoting stuff from the Sun or the National Enquirer... Do you know why? Because they would be laughed off for the foolishness they were.

There is a difference between stating the page and line number of any "document" you claim exist, and then backing it up with a link to said actual document (be it 300 or even 10,000 pages)...

Then the question remains did Rastus actually read all this rubbish and watch the two hour video? Sadly, in most cases I'll think... yeah he probably did! LOL

But some of these claims you're making simpily lack any foundation in truth or actual contract... 

And I don't doubt for one minute that there are a lot of people in the USA who have gotten rich off Russia! I'm not one of them, but I have always been up-front in saying I have no desire to visit or live in Russia! 

To me, Russia and Putin is just another swinging dick in the world looking to have their turn kicking some ass... but they are kicking their own ass! For silly reasons! Like the USA or even NATO has any desire to INVADE Russia! LOL, if anything it's to stop Russia from invading everyone else! Is that what you want Rastus? Just hand over Europe to Russia?

It looks like "No more fake news" & John Rappoport is on a roll...

This article further expands & explains the elites alliances between Russia & the US-of-A...

Good stuff !!!


blog.nomorefakenews.com/2022/03/18/the-real-us-russian-connection-looks-like-this/

No...Not quite SELLC...

What it says is that after the Russian revolution, the US-of-A's super-wealthy financed the USSR, & gave it US-of-A technologies, so that it could become a super-power, & an enemy of the US-of-A, all for propaganda purposes...

But let's remember that some Swiss Bankers & Liechtenstein Bankers will allow you to invest your money with them, but you are to never ever get it back. You live on the interest of the investment, whilst they do the war-mongering & financing of war behind-the-scenes...This is what gives the Bankers their power...All very secretive shyte...

What a sick society we live in...

Thankfully, the nuclear bomb drop expression that the artist came up with, while taking a shit, has been omited from this blissful rendition.

Enjoy!

Are you talking about the original annexation of Crimea?

If so, I guess you'd be right... if we peeled back all the layers of the onion, the catalyst would actually be the same... Ukraine...

But Poland presents another issue all together... Russia kicking the shit out of Ukraine did not mean much in the ways of the "forced hand"... But Poland on the other hand.

 

Well... 

Nobody can resist a little saber rattling every now and again... 

I'm turning over a new leaf... shit's got out of hand!

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1.Two years later and more war in the region... 

2.Iran and Israel about to throw down... Don't get me wrong, Iran has been begging for an ass kicking for quite some time now.

3.IIRC, Isreal has nukes -- and who the heck knows, Iran might too!

4.Could get ugly!

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R1. There's "always" been war in the region, & the UN made sure of that back in 1947 or so...And your own "1991 Defence Strategy" clearly states the agenda.

R2. Iran has nuclear-power-plants as supplied by the US-of-A via the Clintons & IAEA...What a shyte idea, & the Arabs are silly enough to buy it.

R3. Israel does have nukes, as bought from the US-of-A. They are likely the US-of-A's biggest customer regarding weapons sales, that's why Genocide-Joe kisses Israeli ass.

R4. It's always been ugly, but there's been the few years of peace before each war. At least the oil is secure hey...

 

The big-picture indicates that for millennia, the Archon network ( Draco-Reptillian's, Orion-Grey's & Serpent-Beings ) have used an AI low frequency to secure their dominion over the planet, that's been successful until recent times, when they were eradicated from our planet. And people like Raytheon have however ensured that this low-frequency continues, as indicated by the reports  from Antarctica from Eric J Hecker, as witnessed & discussed via video in the UFO thread from a few years ago.

The point is, the "Elite / Illuminati" feed-off fear & negative energy. It holds them in power, & stops everyone from evolving. That's why they built that shyte.

Don't worry about it. The more interest you give them, the more they grow in power. Those that want war, can have it, it's their choice.

We're well into dramatic earth changes that are being overseen by many ET peoples, & we have more to look forward to than the bollox in the Middle East.

All will be well, rest assured. You only have to decide on whether to feed the beast with your fear, or get on with your own ascension process.

Be warned in advance about the fake UFO threat / invasion.

 

Now, since we already know what will happen, perhaps some people will be interested in reviewing the Illuminati perspective, on how things will go down, as already reported & linked months ago in the Illuminati thread, by a real-deal, ex-Illuminated-one...

 

Yo,

It appears that Russia is defending itself & others through the UN, where it wants the ability to set-off a nuke-device ( if necessary ) in space, that would knock-out thousands of other satellites, & therefore make the play-field of warfare much fairer, in the event of war...

* The ET's will not allow a full-blown nuclear war, so don't worry at all, this is just fodder for the press, & to indicate that Russia will not allow the US-of-A to have such a great advantage over the rest-of-the-world. In other words, no New World Order...So this is a good thing, & at least it's out in the open...

Here's the cut & paste...


Russia vetoes UN resolution denouncing use of nuclear weapons in space
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Russia's ambassador to the United Nations Vasily Nebenzya during a during Security Council meeting on April 17.

Russia's ambassador to the United Nations Vasily Nebenzya during a during Security Council meeting on April 17. Photo: Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images

Russia on Wednesday vetoed a draft resolution before the United Nations Security Council that would have called on countries to prevent a nuclear arms race in outer space.

Why it matters: Russia's veto comes after U.S. officials alleged earlier this year that Moscow is developing a new space-based nuclear weapon to destroy satellites.

China was the only nation to abstain from the vote, and Russia the only vote against the measure. The other 13 members, including the U.S., voted in favor.

Driving the news: The UN draft resolution, prepared by Japan and the U.S., would have affirmed the obligation of countries to comply with the 1967 Outer Space Treaty.

The treaty bars signatories, including the U.S. and Russia, from placing "in orbit around the Earth any objects carrying nuclear weapons or any other kinds of weapons of mass destruction" or anywhere else in outer space.

State of play: Public details on the new Russian weapon are scant. White House officials have not disclosed its specific capabilities.

National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby said in February Russia had not deployed the capability in space and that the weapon could not cause "physical destruction" on Earth.

What they're saying: "Let me be clear, in no way does this vote undermine the obligations Russia, or any other state party, continues to have under the Outer Space Treaty," U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield said.

"Today's veto begs the question: why? Why, if you are following the rules, would you not support a resolution that reaffirms them? What could you possibly be hiding," Thomas-Greenfield asked Russia's ambassador to the United Nations Vasily Nebenzya.

Before the vote, Nebenzya called the draft resolution a "dirty spectacle."

Nebenzya criticized the resolution for attempting to portray Russia as being uninterested in preventing an arms race in outer space and not upholding its obligations under the space treaty.
He said Russia seeks to keep space free of weapons of any kind.

Reality check: In 2021, Russia which is not directly named in the resolution tested a direct-ascent anti-satellite missile against one of its satellites in orbit.

The test generated a cloud of debris that NASA said endangered the International Space Station and its crew, and could have gone on to threaten other satellites.

The Secure World Foundation's Victoria Samson told Axios she believes that the U.S. pursued the draft resolution to prod Russia to publicly say where it stands on certain obligations under the Outer Space Treaty.

A weapon involving a nuclear detonation in orbit doesn't really make sense, Samson said, as Russia and the U.S. can already launch and detonate nuclear bombs in space with intercontinental ballistic missiles.
She hypothesized that it could be a nuclear-powered anti-satellite weapon, but warnings from the U.S. that the weapon violates the Outer Space Treaty suggest otherwise.

The other side: Russian President Vladimir Putin has denied the allegations and has said that Russia opposes nuclear weapons in space.

However, Putin in recent years has repeatedly warned that Russia will use nuclear weapons if threatened.

Between the lines: Russia vetoed the UN resolution even though it and China have been working on a new treaty that would ban placing weapons in outer space or using threats or force against outer space objects.

The U.S. and its allies have raised objections to that treaty over definitional concerns and existing international legal obligations that already ban weapons in space and the targeting of space objects.

The big picture: Nuclear weapons in space aren't unprecedented.

The U.S. and the Soviet Union detonated at least nine in outer space throughout the late 1950s and early 1960s.
The largest of those tests, the U.S.' Starfish Prime in 1962, destroyed or damaged around 30% of the known satellites in orbit at that time while impairing electrical equipment hundreds of miles away in Hawaii.
Those types of tests, which were eventually banned by the Limited Test Ban Treaty of 1963, motivated the U.S. and the Soviet Union to begin negotiations on what eventually became the Outer Space Treaty.

Threat level: A nuclear detonation in space today would damage or outright destroy a large portion of the thousands of satellites currently in orbit.

Some of the radiation released in the explosion would become caught in Earth's magnetic fields, which could make parts of Earth's orbit untenable for most satellites for years.
Depending on the altitude of the explosion, radiation from the explosion could also create an electromagnetic pulse that causes widespread damage to electrical equipment on Earth.

Go deeper: Palestinian president says he will "reevaluate" U.S. relations after UN veto

Editor's note: This story has been updated with additional details.

PowerStroker wrote:

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A nuke in space would do a lot worse than damage a bunch of satellites. It would create fields of fast moving debris that would tear up whatever satellites remain, as well as any space stations, and possibly make it so nobody could launch a manned rocket into space for generations.

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I don't think it will come to that. I'm very fortunate to have awesome CE-5 events every-night, so I'm confident that WW-III will be a non-event. We really do have off-world people helping-us along, though sadly it's not reported as such, so people are left confusedt...

We have to go back a few months to the "bush-fires" in Hawaii, where the "elite" / "secret gov't" used a directional-energy-weapon on the islanders, likely to eliminate them, so that the elite could set-up Hotels & whatever...And it was also likely deployed as a forewarning to other countries like Russia, which is why Russia is "officially" reporting the issue & their resolve in the UN.

We must remember that the moored boats, out-at-sea in the harbour, don't suffer the fate of a fire on the land...But the boats in Hawaii did...

 

Yo,

I don't mean to be posting this "stuff" all-over-the-place, but a toss-of-the-coin saw the "Illuminati" thread lose to this one LOL ! - Though it could have been placed in many threads...

Dr.Salla has brought us many pieces to the puzzle of the shyte going-down at the moment, & the differing perspectives of that from many sources, so this little cut & paste from my mail-box sits nicely in here I think, as it also has a reference to General Wesley Clark, who is on video ( UFO thread ) stating what is essentially the next phase of the US-of-A's take-over of the world, via the Military Industrial Complex... - And that takes us back to the "1991 US-of-A defence strategy for the new century" where it' all in print, like an almanack...




Was Edgar Cayces Prophesy that Russia would be the Hope of the World against the Sons of Belial just Fulfilled ?

In 1935, Edgar Cayce predicted that Russia would be the hope of the world by freeing humanity from the modern-day incarnation of the Sons of Belial that had previously brought about the destruction of Atlantis. Known generally as a Satanic Cabal, Illuminati, or the Deep State, the Sons of Belial have manipulated humanity throughout the ages by contriving international conflicts to bring about major destruction through economic collapses and major regional wars.

We know from the testimony of General Wesley Clark, the former Supreme Allied Commander of Europe, that in September 2001, the Deep State planned to bring about the destruction of seven Middle East countries: Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Iran. The planned destruction of these seven countries was revealed to be part of an insidious Deep State plan to manufacture a major regional war involving Israel and its neighbors, which would suck nuclear superpowers into opposing sides of a Gog and Magog End Times war.

The Deep State plan called for the destruction of Syria, but one major nation intervened to challenge this plan the Russian Federation under the leadership of President Vladimir Putin. Further Deep State machinations involving Ukraine and Iran have also been neutralized by Putins Russia, thus dashing the prospects of an End Times Gog and Magog war.

April of 2024 was the month when the planned war with Iran was to break out, happening after Israels unprecedented strike on an Iranian embassy compound in Damascus, Syria. Like a bad omen, Israels strike and Irans expected retaliation coincided with peak sunspot activity in our solar system. On April 13, sunspot activity passed 120, and from April 17 - 25, there were over 200 daily sunspots. Studies have shown that major wars consistently breakout during peak sunspot activity.

On April 14, during this peaking of sunspot activity, Iran retaliated against Israel with an unprecedented direct drone and missile strike. Five days later, Israel retaliated with an unprecedented direct drone and missile strike on Iranian territory. Fortunately, Russia intervened to play a critical role in ensuring that Iran constrained its responses to Israels attacks, thereby preventing a major regional war from erupting.

Importantly, positive extraterrestrial groups have been aiding Russia to deal with the advanced technologies used by the Deep State in making and conducting its plans. Russia also possesses a very capable, if small, secret space program that it has been using very effectively to neutralize the Deep States moves. And finally, Russias elite PSI Corps continues to play a critical behind-the-scenes role in anticipating and neutralizing Deep State activities.

In my webinar on Saturday, May 4, I will discuss these world-shaking events in detail, how they relate to the emergence of Russias Secret Space Pprogram, its elite PSI Corps, relations with non-human intelligences, and how Russia became the final obstacle to Deep State global plans thereby fulfilling Cayces 1935 prophesy.

I hope you can join me in an exciting and hope-filled webinar.

Michael Salla, Ph.D.

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1.Eh... what's a Ph.D. now days anyway?

2.Just some dude who never got his hands greasy...

3.When the shit hits the fan, we'll see...

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R1. Not easy to get awarded Stellar, there's a lot of hard work involved in getting one. That said, I met a lot of people who claimed to be studying for their "Masters" & "Doctorates" when I did my time getting my ADME, & they all had difficulty in explaining what subject-matter they were specializing in, & being awarded with per-se...Many people need to get these awards to run family businesses etc etc. Over 1/2 the UAE guys ( Arabs ) I studied with had no wanting to sail as engineers on shipping vessels, but needed the ticket for the desk-job afterwards.

R2. True for many, false for just as many imo.

R3. We'll all have to work together regardless of specialities.

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1. Hard work? I think you mean MONEY! 

2. And even if you got the money, it's a lot of politics and indoctrination involved in the higher echelons of education as well ! All it takes is one professor with a bad attitude to torpedo your average -- regardless how smart you are!

3. That is really the core of what bothers me... by the time these kids get out of college with their Ph.D's, they're pretty much in debt to the gills and have a bad attitude to boot! 

 

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R1. Both...It's hard-work to get over-the-line, & course-fees are outrageous too...But here in Oz, you don't have to pay-back the student-loan until you're earning over 50K per-year...

R2. Yes indeed, that's correct, up-to-a-point...You need "everyone" concerned to lower your average. Exams etc are checked by other people too, & results likely modified & adjusted...But we had a saying that went along the lines of "any exam result better than 50% means you're working too hard"...

R3. Genocide-Joe will forgive their loans, don't worry...He has one-of-these...( See below )...

 

Stellar said....

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qt."Let's just say I have lost a lot of faith in these Ivy league Universities, Politics and of course the Democrat indoctrination that runs deep in these institutions.

And to think these are the people who will be spared from the draft should a WWIII come about ! I mean look at what a complete disaster AOC has been in politics"!
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Yes, well...

Surely you can't have forgotten about these draft-dodging folks either yo ???...

 

 

 

 

 

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1.You know Rastus, I hardly think that someone who goes on to be the President of the United States was a "draft-dodger"... there can only be ONE POTUS! 

2.The baggage one would carry from leading the free world for one, or even two terms -- I don't know. It's not like you could ever go back, hide or even think about leaving that brotherhood! You're a global player at that point, elected by a free majority.

3.I'm not saying that people who have served, such as George Washington and many others don't have higher distinctions in their service, but to be POTUS of the USA is something VERY FEW will ever acheave. 

4.We can only hope that these elected officials will make the right choices... some will fail, and it's unfortunate. But some will perceiver and we have to hope that will lead us to a greater good.

5.All I know is a dictatorship isn't a very "global friendly" method of governance... unless of course you take over the world... then we are all equally worthless. 

 

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R1. That statement is the biggest crock-'o-shyte I think I've ever heard come-out-of your mouth Stellar, & it make absolutely no sense what-so-ever lol !

R2. We don't live in a free world Stellar.

R3. Who cares ??? They're all pre-selected corporate puppets turned warmongers that enjoy themselves to discuss war & atrocities at the annual Bohemian Grove sausage festival.

R4. Now you sound like you're election campaigning yourself lol !

R5. Just because you have your Constitution & the Bill of Rights, doesn't mean your elected officials follow those accords...Look at what Bush jr & Obama did after the false-flag 9/11 event...

 

Go outside, practice the CE-5 protocols, learn the truth, & then fight to get your country back.

Sometimes a helicopter crash is just a helicopter crash.

I think it was sharks with laser beams on their heads though.

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Sometimes a helicopter crash is just a helicopter crash.

I think it was sharks with laser beams on their heads though.

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Sorry PowerStroker, we could only find ill tempered sea bass... mutated sea bass.

Yo,

Here you go folks...This podcast ties-in all of the current bollox going-on quite well, so take the 13-minutes to listen-in well...

*RKM = Rothchild Kazarian Mafia.

Good stuff !

Yo,

To further enhance the above post, here's a really good article explaining the US-of-UK (& I ) Corporation coming movements on China, & impending, & sadly possible war...It uses a bit of history yo, but it explains well, how the Corporation works & bullshytes politically to get its way...


24 / 07/ 2024.

Vietnam Is Precedent as US Prepares for War with China

by W. T. Whitney



Popular struggle for national independence under socialism has regularly provoked U.S. war or hostile interventions, as with Cuba, North Korea, China, Vietnam and other nations. We explore both the extreme danger of possible U.S. war with China and also the changing U.S rationale for fighting wars. This shows in the difference between why the U.S. war in Vietnam was fought and why U.S. war with China may be on the way.

Vietnam recently commemorated agreements reached 70 years ago in Geneva that on July 21, 1954 ended war between Vietnamese revolutionary forces and the French military, defeated two months earlier at Dien Bien Phu. According to official media, the object of a scientific conference held on July 19 was to emphasize the historical importance of the agreements for the struggle for national liberation of the Vietnamese people and the peoples of the world.

Also on July 19, Nguyen Phu Trong died. Once chairperson of the National Assembly and president of Vietnam, this paramount leader, a student and teacher of Marxist theory, had long served as general secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam. His death is a reminder, if such is needed, that for Vietnam revolutionary socialism and national liberation were kindred struggles.

To prevent the unification of Vietnam as a socialist nation, the U.S. government went the last mile, first diplomatically and then militarily from the 1954 Geneva agreements that established Vietnams national independence to the departure of defeated U.S. troops on April 30, 1975. The U.S. leadership class, involved in spreading U.S. power and influence across the globe, created and then defended South Vietnam, while attempting to defeat Vietnams Revolution, all at enormous human and material cost.

The enclave remaining after a U.S. victory might have ended up as a beachhead for counter-revolution and U.S. control in Southeast Asia. In their various situations, thats the role performed by South Korea, Taiwan, and even Ukraine in relation to Russia, and Israel vis-a-vis the rest of the Middle East.

U.S. planners, in thinking about what to do about Vietnam, were not entirely devoid of reason. For U.S. imperialists, to beat back Vietnamese Communists think domino theory and heat up the Cold War against the Soviet Bloc had a certain logic, according to their own lights.

After the Vietnam disaster, official U.S. planning for war has built upon a variety of ostensible reasons for fighting. Having emerged from World War II well-resourced and strong, the U.S. government consistently demonstrated limited tolerance for the risings of oppressed, colonialized peoples. However, once newly formed independent states showed signs of strength, regional prominence, or even strategic rivalry, U.S. strategists turned to action.

War materialized as the ultimate U.S. fix, no matter the circumstances and under a variety of pretexts, as shown with U.S. war-making in Libya, Afghanistan, and Iraq. The rationales for fighting were often imprecise. The threat of U.S. war now looms over Iran and, more ominously, over China. Each is under the gun because they are strong, assertive states.

Anti-communism was a safer and clearer kind of rationale. Vietnam won its American War, and the U.S. government backed off. Thats the story. Incidentally, the Vietnamese people scored a clear win. They live according to plans and socialist purpose in a free and independent nation.

Vietnam has established diplomatic relations with 190 countries. A Vietnamese writer cites important achievements with infrastructure gradually meeting the needs of industrialization and modernization. Since reforms in the 1980s, an economy resting mainly on foreign direct investment in manufacturing and tourism has expanded. Economic growth ranged between 9.5 and 5.5 percent between 1993 and 2022, save for sharps drops in 2020 and 2021. GDP rose 5.05 percent in 2023. By 2022, the poverty rate was down to 4.3%.

Vietnams government since 2008 has spent 20 percent of its budget on education. The same report mentions high primary school completion rates, strong gender parity, low student/teacher ratios, and school attendance rates that are high. The British medical journal Lancet indicates that, Along with the economic growth, the health of the Vietnamese people has significantly improved between 1990 and 2020, whereby the life expectancy grew from 69 to 75 years, and the under-five child mortality rate decreased from 30 to 21 per 1000 live births.

Socialist China restored dignity to the vast majority of its citizens, has afforded them decent lives, and created a well-functioning state that responds effectively to the climate crisis and other challenges. It too warrants a pass from the U.S. government.

Thats not happening: the U.S. government, in the hands of a divided leadership class, deals only haphazardly with major problems afflicting U.S. society and the world. It satisfies the material wants of the upper echelons, and presides over war preparations as part of what has become, in effect, a new Cold War.

Indeed, the USA has accumulated over 750 bases in 80 countries and posted 173,000 troops in 159 counties. The U.S. share of global arms exports in 2019-23 was 42 percent, up from 34 percent during the previous four-year period, according to sipri.org.

In the Pacific waters surrounding China, the United States has expanded the capabilities of its bases; it operates nuclear-equipped naval vessels, arranges for multi-national naval exercises, has vessels engaging in provocative freedom of navigation exercises, and will be introducing nuclear-powered submarines.

The offering of multiple and varied reasons for fighting wars, the practice of recent decades, fits within the overarching notion of a new Cold War, something that by nature is ambitious, far-reaching, and long-term. Where is the justification for that?

Here is a guess: The United States has taken on a great variety of activities related to military preparations, the financing, and recovery from wars. These now intrude massively in the U.S. economy and in society itself, so much so that the economy needs them. Such a state of affairs does require explaining, but on grounds other than economic need.

War provides meaning. Without wars the whole apparatus might not have existed, or might disappear. What then of the economy and of the collective experience of a U.S population variously oriented to the military?

The Costs of War Project of the Watson Institute of Brown University weighs in. Author Heidi Peltier points out that:

Federal spending on the military and on veterans makes up more than half of the federal discretionary budget. Employment in the federal government is dominated by civilian defense workers and uniformed military personnel. Because the majority of taxpayer dollars and federal resources are devoted to the military and military industries, and most government jobs are in the defense sector, the political power of this sector has become more deeply entrenched and other alternatives have become harder to pursue. Instead of having a federal government that addresses various national priorities the U.S. has a government that is largely devoted to war and militarism.

Unfortunately, protecting both the U.S. economy and habituation to the military has its downside, specifically extreme danger to humanity itself. Writing in the most recent issue of Monthly Review magazine, John Bellamy Foster and Brett Clark explain, pointing to China. Discussing Imperialism in the Indo-Pacific, they state that:

Most U.S. strategies for winning the New Cold War directed at China are aimed at a strategic-geopolitical defeat of the latter that would bring down Chinese President Xi Jinping and destroy the enormous prestige of the Communist Party of China, leading to regime change from within and the subordination of China to the U.S. imperium from without (It) is the United States, which sees Chinas rise as a threat to its own global preeminence, with the Indo-Pacific super-region increasingly being viewed as the pivotal site in the New Cold War, that is propelling all of humanity toward a Third World War.

W.T. Whitney Jr. is a retired pediatrician and political journalist living in Maine.

SELLC wrote:

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Say what you want... but this Ukraine using US weapons to invade Russia just feels a lot like Democrats trying to start a war before the election, while skirting the War Powers Act!

After all, the WPA becomes irrelevant when the USA is attacked.

Why else would Russia turn the other cheek? Or are they?

Been hearing chatter they have been sending warships with instructions to set sail FULL steam ahead!

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Stellar..Why are you still involved with this nonsense ???...

Between Shawnee & myself explaining all of this over the years, it's difficult to understand why you're not eating pop-corn like us...

Sit back, relax, & let the show-go-on.

Or if you want to do something really productive, get into a CE-5. There's been so much close contact down here lately it's unbelievable ! Great stuff !

 

*To jog-your-memory, the US-of-I/UK was / is / still does selling missiles to NATO & non-NATO countries since the USSR fell in the 1990's, which remains highly illegal, & goes against treaties that you signed.

The US-of-I/UK needs war to survive. It's your biggest industry. Wake the *uck up !!!