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It's been another busy news cycle this week: Drone strikes in Russia, war grinding on in the Donbass, a supposed coup attempt in Germany, a definite presidential coup in Peru, China meets with Saudi and Qatar adding another blow against the petrodollar, Egypt joins the BRICS+ bank, Twitter files reveal FBI involvement, 'elensky is Time magazine and The Financial Times "Man of the Year", Dutch farms seized, and more. Jump in below the fold for details...
The news is on a spin cycle as we seemingly race toward the end of 2022. Some of the spin is being revealed in the twitter files with its democratic party influence aided by the complicit FBI, as well as COVID misinformation.
Sky news (a Murdock channel) isn't my favorite but this coverage is fairly balanced.
The Twitter Files revelations are part of a broader pattern that has been playing out for years now: Small, unelected groups of private executives making sweeping decisions about speech, cheered on by Democratic Party politicians, as part of an increasingly organized, top-down system of corporatized speech restraints.
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Not a single mainstream media outlet has covered the Twitter Files story. The least curious people in the country right now are the credentialed news media. How disgustingly ironic that newspapers with highfalutin mottos like “Democracy Dies in Darkness” and ”All the News That’s Fit to Print” are refusing to cover arguably the biggest story of the year in even the briefest of ways. It’s testament to the bizarre situation we now find ourselves, in which the biggest advocates of state and corporate censorship are media corporations and their employees. Journalists are among the leading proponents for political censorship. That is surreal.
Isn't it interesting how MSM has covered the files?
These people are such hypocrites working for billionaires like Bezos and distracting from the content of the files by attacking Matt's character. Standard operating procedure for these propagandists.
Corp. Reporters United In Hate For Superior Journalist Matt Taibbi (33 min)
When Matt Taibbi was tapped by Elon Musk to reveal the internal deliberations at Twitter over censoring the Hunter Biden laptop story, the response from Taibbi’s colleagues in the corporate, mainstream media was swift — and uniform! As if reading from the same script, countless good boys and girls who work for corporate media outlets leapt to criticize Taibbi, whom they all USED TO admire, for how far he’s fallen, now serving as a PR flack for the world’s richest man. Jimmy and his panel of The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal and Americans’ Comedian Kurt Metzger discuss the epic meltdown among corporatist reporters over Taibbi’s big scoop.
This week FBI and Twitter counsel Jim Baker was fired for censoring the files prior to the release to Matt in order to scrub any FBI involvement. He was also a creator and salesman of the Russiagate false narrative. Baker is, as the New York Post puts it, the Kevin Bacon of government scandal. He is related to Russiagate, Clinton, Trump, Biden; you name it.
If you were wondering what happened the past few days to interrupt journalist Matt Taibbi’s release of internal deliberations at Twitter over the social media platform’s censorship policies, it turns out that the company’s legal counsel, James Baker, had been actively trying to hamper Taibbi’s search. And why would he do that? Perhaps because Baker is a former lawyer for the FBI who was deeply involved in the Russiagate investigation. He has since been let go by Twitter. Jimmy and Americans’ Comedian Kurt Metzger discuss the Twitter files (12 min) release and their amazement at learning of Baker’s background and role in this drama.
Thursday was a new release of more files...
The latest batch of insider company information was released on Thursday evening by journalist Bari Weiss. The former New York Times columnist went into greater detail after the first Twitter Files installment last week failed to confirm the popular theory that the U.S. government played a role in censoring a story about Hunter Biden's laptop.
"A new [Twitter Files] investigation reveals that teams of Twitter employees build blacklists, prevent disfavored tweets from trending, and actively limit the visibility of entire accounts or even trending topics," Weiss tweeted. "All in secret, without informing users."
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Take, for example, Stanford’s Dr. Jay Bhattacharya (@DrJBhattacharya) who argued that Covid lockdowns would harm children. Twitter secretly placed him on a “Trends Blacklist,” which prevented his tweets from trending.
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Weiss framed this as shadowbanning, a practice whereby social platforms limit the visibility of a social media account without informing the account owner of such. Twitter employees called this practice of tagging or limiting accounts "visibility filtering," according to Weiss.
Surprise, surprise!
‘Twitter Files’ part 3 details ‘internal debate’ over Trump’s ban after Jan. 6 riot
Twitter’s internal standards eroded during the months leading up to Jan. 6, with high-ranking executives violating their own policies while interacting with various federal agencies. Taibbi posted messages that he said “show Twitter executives getting a kick out of intensified relationships with federal agencies.”
What an amazing story the MSM ignores. I find that in itself revealing. It will be interesting to see how the story evolves.
Matt Taibbi Explains Journalism Gone Wrong: #‘You Should Not Trust Mainstream Media' (10 min)
Ray McGovern give a nice Russiagate history lesson before the conversation shifts to the Twitter files...
US Intelligence community & conflict with Russia - Ray McGovern, Alexander Mercouris & Glenn Diesen
Ray was also on Jimmy's show this week... (37 min)
Time Magazine has named Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky its “Person of the Year,” continuing the corporate media practice of promoting the puppet leader of a nation NATO is using to wage a proxy war against Russia. Jimmy and antiwar activist and former CIA analyst Ray McGovern discuss whether Zelensky really deserves an honor that in the past has been bestowed on such luminaries as George W. Bush, Ayatollah Khomeini and Adolf Hitler.
Putin Balks At West Imposing Oil Price Cap (18 min)
In the never ending search for ways to punish Russia for the invasion of Ukraine, Western nations, led by the United States, have decided to enforce a $60 per barrel limit on the price of Russian oil. The Putin government is refusing to go along, however, and it appears that other nations like India have decided they won’t play by the United States’ rules either. Jimmy and Americans’ Comedian Kurt Metzger speak to The Duran hosts Alexander Mercouris and Alex Christoforou about what effect the proposed oil price caps will have and why Russia will likely skirt them with ease.
More on Ukraine
As the Ukraine-Russia conflict escalates, the Ukrainian government forces have increased their bombing of civilians in Donetsk. Fighting in the Donbas has claimed over 15,000 lives since 2014. Journalist Johnny Miller has been living in Donetsk and joins the show to provide the on-the-ground reality of the daily attacks on civilians there and what are their real attitudes towards Russia and Ukraine.
Ukraine Fires Drone Missiles DEEP INTO RUSSIA
Reports have confirmed that Ukraine has begun firing missiles deep into Russia, attacking military bases as far as 400 miles from the Ukraine border. These attacks represent an unquestionable escalation of the war, and threaten comparable retaliatory strikes from Russia and further escalation. Where such escalation would lead no one can say for sure. Jimmy and Americans’ Comedian Kurt Metzger speak to The Duran hosts Alexander Mercouris and Alex Christoforou about this latest phase in the Ukraine War and the growing obstacles to any possible end to the conflict.
Mark Sleboda: Russia-Ukraine SITREP, Missiles & What Comes Next (1 hour)
Mark Sleboda joins me to talk about the situation on the ground in Ukraine:
- positional fighting along the front;
- possible Ukrainian offensives before New Year's;
- Russia's large winter offensive;
- dwindling Western arms supplies;
- Russian cruise missile production;
- where did the Geran-2 drones go?;
- and what's coming next.
Mike (iearlgrey) is headed back to the Donbass carrying a load of cookies and toys. (3 min)
China
President Xi Visits Middle East: Riyadh one of Beijing's closest partners in West Asia (2 min)
A comment below the clip:
Saudi Arabia is now a friend and a big trading partner of China. This strategic partnership is a pivot in the power play in the Middle East between the usa and China. Russia is also a friend of the Saudi and will have a major role in the balance of power in the Middle East. The western hegemony has been broken as the world turns to multipolar world order abandoning the usa’s unipolar policy.
Chinese President Xi Jinping pledged that China will continue to enhance cooperation with Arab states during his speech in the first China-Arab States Summit and the China-Gulf Cooperation Council Summit, which kicked off on Friday in the Saudi capital Riyadh. (3 min)
The Duran covers the agreements
China & Saudi Arabia, massive realignment. A new power rises in the Middle East
Brian Berletic and Alex of Reporterfy discuss global events in China, Ukraine and the US.
Economic Effects?
Are we witnessing the death of the petrodollar? I think it is likely. This week I heard three interesting takes of where the global economy is headed.
First investor E B. Tucker was on the Duran.
Reserve currency, gold and inflation w/E.B. Tucker
Max is still a bitcoin proponent. He was on the Stansberry report.
What Happened to $220K Bitcoin? Max Keiser Says No Damage Done, Reveals 2023 Forecast
"Sam Bankman-Fried ran out of runway, it's similar to Bernie Madoff and also the 2008 financial crisis," says Max Keiser of the Keiser Report, founder of Bitcoin Capital and Heisenberg Capital. "The regulators really have some answers that need to be filled in, this was the culmination of a multidecade nightmare," he tells Daniela Cambone in this edition of Powershift: Outlook 2023. "Regulators are clearly implicated, and the U.S. is a kleptocracy at this point," Keiser continues. He touts the garnered strength El Salvador has attained over the past year, arguing "the U.S. is on its way down, and El Salvador is on it's way up." Keiser claims there has been no damage done to the bitcoin network in the wake of the FTX crisis... "It never touched the network, the hash rate has never been higher." "The axis of power, the pendulum of power is swinging away from the U.S. dollar and fiat currencies, it's a new century," he concludes.
And finally, Jim Rickards and Keith McCullough on The Collapse of Our Global Economy (1.1 hour)
They discuss Jim's forthcoming book, "Sold Out: How Broken Supply Chains, Surging Inflation, and Political Instability Will Sink the Global Economy." As always, Jim and Keith will dissect portfolio positioning, broader market and economic dynamics, and actionable investment ideas.
To my mind turning cash into real things that make your life better in someway is the best investment of all. The people in our lives are our real treasure. Speaking of which, I enjoyed getting to hear Gonzalo's, Brian's, and Alex background this week.
The Expat Experience with Alex Christoforou and Brian Berletic
I also thought this personable interview with Alexander was fun.
ALEXANDER MERCOURIS (@TheDuran) ON HOW LONG THE CRISIS WILL LAST AND WHAT GOOD WILL COME OUT OF IT?
The Assange Saga Continues...
An eleven min excerpt of the hour interview.
Glenn sits down with WikiLeaks editor-in-chief, Kristinn Hrafnsson. They discuss the Biden Administration’s continued prosecution of Julian Assange (which could soon lead to his extradition), the nature of their charges against him
This is surprising...
Rachel Maddow & Tucker Carlson Agree: Free Assange! (5 min)
While most media outlets in the United States have either ignored or excoriated Julian Assange, either tacitly or explicitly supporting the Wikileaks founder’s arrest and imprisonment, some have defended Assange. In this video compilation put together by Matt Orfalea, prominent media figures ranging from Rachel Maddow to Tucker Carlson share their thoughts on why Assange’s continued persecution is a violation of the first amendment and fundamentally wrong. Jimmy and his panel of Americans’ Comedian Kurt Metzger and The Dive’s Jackson Hinkle discuss why even corporate media figures might be coming around to support Assange.
The National Press club held a debate about Julian. Max Blumenthal challenged the narrative.
Warmongers CONFRONTED By Journalist At National Press Club Event (26 min)
During a recent symposium at the National Press Club about the prosecution of Julian Assange, The Grayzone reporter Max Blumenthal asked DC attorney and Assange critic Mark Zaid whether prosecutors should really be depending on testimony from an admitted pedophile and liar like Sigurdur Ingi Thordarson, who has since recanted his allegations, to convict Assange. Jimmy plays a video of the interaction and then he and Max discuss the weaselly way Zaid attempts to dodge the question and suggests that Assange will get a fair trial in the U.S.
PROF: RYSZARD LEGUTKO: "Two minutes of truth, of bitter truth" in the European Parliament
The world is in flux as we witness a great power shift. I'm hopeful the world will be a better place as the western US empire sets. I continue to hope our collapse will be economic rather than military. Oddly it is self inflected in a refusal to accept the loss of US primacy and the waste of resources on endless war. The EU has committed suicide. I wonder if it will survive the decade.
I look forward to your insights, thoughts, and information in the comments below.
Comments
Good morning, Lookout and C 99.
America is deprived of reality every step of the way.
Biden's crashing failure at the OAS and around the world is suppressed and policy successes that will not actually happen are celebrated.
Here is a bit from The Cradle that illustrates what I mean: The Duran Tape you provided above makes the same points, but in their own way.
https://thecradle.co/Article/Analysis/19283
"Xi’s visit stands in stark contrast to US President Joe Biden’s underwhelming ‘fist bump’ meeting this summer, which saw the self-professed leader of the free world falling asleep at a conference table and demanding more Saudi oil production while offering nothing durable in return.
In contrast, Xi’s arrival was greeted by a multi-cannon salute and Saudi jets painting the red and yellow colors of China’s flag in the skies over Riyadh. Beijing’s delegation of political and business elites, in the following days, will continue to meet with Saudi counterparts to strike long-term strategic deals in cultural, economic and scientific domains."
Empires collapse slowly, but this time the devolving seems to be taking on great speed.
Thank you for all the juicy news. It will take a while to read through all that interests me.
NYCVG
Xi's visit illustrates the changing world...
Edit to Add:
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PO1_-z2z6TQ]
US arrogance and aggression has alienated MOST of the world. We will all pay the price here in the states and EU.
Thanks for the visit. Hope all is well in the big apple! Rainy here today with cold weather due next week. Take care.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Oh!
What a brilliant and heart stirring video. I teared up when I saw that the Palestinians were included.
The world is changing faster than most Americans---stuck on pronouns and "diversity" have even the least understanding of.
The news is full of Biden "victories" which, Magically, do not cost the Oligarchy a penny. If they did, they would not have passed both houses, let alone get the Presidential signature.
NYCVG
Another excellent conversation...
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRfuSjWA9eo&t=59m45s]
The changes we are witnessing are amazing. Too bad most Americans are totally unaware of their rapidly fading position on the world stage.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
This is such a great conversation
Brian and Carl really understand the issues. Carl's discussion of the "now or never syndrome" in the US with respect to its impetus to create a conflict as soon as possible "before it's too late," is similar to the attitude of German industrialists in Nazi Germany. If we don't go to war soon, we'll never be able to compete with continental powers Russia and the US, this was their thinking.
Brian's discussion of why Americans can't understand China and take a negative attitude toward it is primarily cultural in nature, and even racist in nature. James Bradley makes the same connection in his book linking current US policy and apparent inability to assess Asia correctly over history is directly related to nineteenth century imperialist political and cultural values. Douglas MacGregor made the same point about US defective net assessments that lead to foreign policy and military failures abroad. He cites an inability of "leadership" to grasp the perspective of the other state, nor put themselves in the place of the other. Without this you can't succeed abroad and are unable to advance your own national interests.
語必忠信 行必正直
Those guys are insightful
Sounds like Carl is working on a historical series that sounds interesting. Glad you found the conversation as interesting as I did.
Hope your hurricane adjustment is going well, and you and your family are adapting. Wishing you the best!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Thanks
Reconstruction started yesterday.
What Carl said about Taiwan and TSMC applies also applies to South Korea, Samsung and other semiconductor makers, South Korean automakers, their battery manufacturers etc. The US policy is going to damage the South Korean and Taiwan economies.
語必忠信 行必正直
Are they trying to relocate to the US?
From what Carl said, my understanding is that the US owns much of the Taiwan chip manufacturing company, and is simply relocating them to the US (AZ) at LOWER salaries. Hope the same game isn't being played in Korea.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
I used to follow this
...but lately I've lost track of it. I was off line too long, and lost access to Defense Politics Asia on discord, where I had made an acquaintance in NZ who was some kind of business person and kept track of it. We would discuss military and political issues about the Koreas, China, Japan, Taiwan etc., and he would give me links on the semiconductor issue. No one else there agreed with our views, the rest were right wing gamers pretty much (some did support Russia others Ukraine). From what I learned from talking to him and my own reading of South Korean newspapers, this Tass article has the right perspective.
There's more on the battery EV issue and South Korea's arms exports. Spelling issues in the article it's president Yoon Seok-yeol, and Hangyoreh, the newspaper.
https://vpk.name/en/660328_the-korean-wave-of-investment-in-the-us-is-bu...
Imo Yoon is being led down the primrose path. As I recall, people in South Korea were generally shocked when the US announced protectionist measures on EVs and batteries, and restrictions on marketing semiconductors in China. Even if the chaebol (corporate rulers) may ultimately make more money in the US market, by building there, it isn't going to help the South Korean economic situation much. In addition, in the short term it will damage Korean EV and battery sales in the US. Yoon and some of the chaebol seem to think they can keep their positions in China in the semiconductor market. I think they are going to have problems. I read another article which said the US indicated it would provide etching raw materials to South Korea as incentive, which supply had been restricted by Japan a couple of years ago claiming South Korea was a "security risk." My limited understanding was that the South Koreans had made some backdoor substitute deals to get these same materials indirectly through Chinese sources. So this US inducement sounds somewhat fishy to me. Once the Moon government was out, South Korea's direct access to Japanese suppliers wasn't restored. I doubt if the same kind of US pressure is being put on Japan to fix this supply issue to the South Korean industry.
I'm not an expert in this field, but I think it's bad from a national security point of view for South Korea, for the same reason it's bad for Taiwan. The more secure the US national security community feels with domestic semiconductor access, the less squeamish they'll be about taking foreign policy and military risks in Asia, whether its Taiwan or North Korea. It's going to impair South Korea's economic relationship with China.
語必忠信 行必正直
I'm confused
I'm still trying to figure out how exposing twitters corrupt and unethical business practices and relationship with the FBI equates to doing PR work for the worlds richest man and how it's all just a big nothing burger. I was really surprised and disappointed to hear Pasta and Fi on the Convo Couch parrot the big nothing burger talking point. I know they're better than that.
Thanks for the WW Lookout.
I'm great at multi-tasking. I can waste time, be unproductive, and procrastinate all at the same time.
Distraction?
Don't look at the fact the Twit world was manipulated by the Demoncraps and FBI and used as a tool against Trump...now with definite hard evidence...no attack Matt as a Musk puppet.
To my mind the propagandists often attack the character of the revealer instead of addressing the reveal. COVID really illustrates this when they were attacking doctors who were effectively treating the disease. One of the most published doctors in the world, Peter McConnell, but the crazies are trying to strip him of his board certifications because of his warnings about heart problems connected to the Covid shots. They did the same to Dr. Paul Marik.
And of course Julian is a prime example of character assassination... He was charged with rape (which was finally dropped because it was consensual) as a set up to extradite him to the US for revealing our war crimes.
Thanks for coming by today. I think your pictures are outstanding in the last couple of Friday columns!
Edit to add:
I thought more about your nothing burger question, and I guess it could be "well duh"...the dims and FBI collude with big tech, big tech suppresses voices TPTB tell them to throttle, Big tech targeted T-rump...
Many in this community know all these things already, but having good proof makes it news to my mind. Thanks for the question.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Oh, no, not the Convo Couch too!
Constantly reeling for six years now, seeing source after source seemingly succumb to the Pod People…
Free Software and GNU guru Richard Stallman, for example, freaked out and lost it big time when Trump pulled off his upset victory in 2016. Since then, on some key topics, RMS appears to have been assimilated by the “blue” side (the more Democrat-driven pseudopodia) of The Blob…
Trump derangement syndrome
and its zombie companion, Russiagate, are still alive and well.
Many of my (music) friends can't seem to escape the allure of T-rump hate, and are blinded as a result.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
So
a survey was done to find
out peoples ‘tudes toward various Other People
and the Unjabbed fair the worst apparently
race, religion(or lack of), country of origin, political party
All mean Less to the jabbed then being Unjabbed
talk about a new ‘untermenschin’
but conversely the Unjabbed hold no such feelings toward
the jabbed?
At least according to the survey?
f@ck me but we are through the looking glass
as more and more Die Suddenly
my usual recommendation to the beLIEvers of
the narrative insistent on their way or the camps
go get your next jab, what? five or six now in three years?
yeah, effective that is
f@ckin maroons
thanks whomever for the word on
TAE a year or two ago
Nice WW as usual
thanks LO
Ya got to be a Spirit, cain't be no Ghost. . .
Explain Bldg #7. . . still waiting. . .
If you’ve ever wondered whether you would have complied in 1930’s Germany,
Now you know. . .
sign at protest march
It is difficult to push the narrative forever...
especially when the virus expresses as a cold. At this point most (vaccinated) folks I know have had the virus. If we had it, we didn't express symptoms. The spike protein the mRNA teaches your body to make have been causing havoc in many people's system...expressing itself in a variety of ways.
We were done unto during the scamdemic from my view.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
They might be done with this scamdemic
But they are already planning their next one. Just like they ‘prepared' for the Rona scam in October 2019 and then they planned for the Monkeypox one in October 2021 they just got done planning the one that will target the younger people.
Kids and Young People Targeted by Bill Gates' Exercise, "Catastrophic Contagion"
People from Biden’s administration that were involved in getting people banned from Twitter are going to deposed, but nothing will come from it. Fauci already had his turn and he couldn’t remember a damn thing he had done. He said that he didn’t recall 174 even when they showed him his saying it.
But like the nothing burger of the fbi and people from Biden’s agencies working with Twitter people from animal farm working together to get people who went against their narrative banned Musk says that he’s going to release the information on the Covid bannings.
I checked out what the shitlibs were saying about the Trump files and they said well no duh and they too attacked Taiibi. It’s just like when the Mueller investigation fell flat on its face they shrugged it off and still believe that Putin put Trump in office and still controls the republicans.
Oh yeah and even though they are jabbed and boosted with every jab they can get and they still wear their masks everywhere they go, when they still get Covid again and again they blame the unjabbed with a vengeance! I dunno but I’d be blaming big pharma for making a product that doesn’t infect them. Remember that we were told that it was 95% effective and when one got jabbed it would stop with them and protect grandma, but then Blix said that she knew that it wouldn’t do either. Her book reads like an admission to a crime scene.
Also remember that Fauci predicted in 2017 that Trump would face an epidemic during his presidency. I just can’t believe that anyone is still trusting a damn thing that the government says, but alas….
There were problems with running a campaign of Joy while committing a genocide? Who could have guessed?
Harris is unburdened of speaking going forward.
And if anyone thinks that Musk is one of the good guys
Here’s what he is up to in his spare time. It’s being reported that his experiments have killed 1,500 monkeys.
https://www.thelastamericanvagabond.com/neuralink-hype/
He also owns a vaccine company.
There were problems with running a campaign of Joy while committing a genocide? Who could have guessed?
Harris is unburdened of speaking going forward.
Agreed...
Multi-billionaires are not our friends. And to your comment above, COVID was used to manipulate us and TPTB are not through with us as they encourage us to commit suicide literally and figuratively.
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/legalizing-assisted-suicide-increa...
Whatta a world.
Hope you and Sam are faring well!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Here is another poll that might interest you
https://amidwesterndoctor.substack.com/p/we-now-have-a-clear-estimate-of...
Doc discusses the recent Rasmussen poll on the jabs and how people reacted to them. It looks like 7% of the people who responded to it have been injured by their jab. It’s also interesting to see who thinks they are effective and can harm people. If nothing else read the conclusion. Doc hopes that this horrible scam will lead to a medical freedom bill so jabs cannot be mandated again. Well we better hurry since the PTB are planning on doing this shit show all over again soon.
Great essay.
There were problems with running a campaign of Joy while committing a genocide? Who could have guessed?
Harris is unburdened of speaking going forward.
Round and round we go again and again...
Some friends of mine and I sing The highwaymen...
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFkcAH-m9W0]
I sing the second verse ...I was sailor...
I'll be back again and again...
The game is easy to see if you look.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Wow!
That's you, sailor? gorgeous and thought provoking song.
NYCVG
No that's famous folk...
Johnny, Waylon, Kris and Willie.
In our little local group that's the verse I sing.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Oh
As I have reported, my sight in the one still working eye is going fast.
NYCVG
Rant for the ages
Especially by normally restrained Japanese standards. This from someone about as prominent as you can get in Japanese academia - Professor Emeritus at Kyoto University, Dr. Masanori Fukushima on Covid response, vax, the press and scientific community...
View on Rumble
None of the Japanese people I've shown this to had heard anything about it - crickets in the mainstream press. For context - while Tokyo University is often considered the 'top' university in Japan, Kyoto U. is basically on a par with it, excelling in science and medical fields. BUT Tokyo U. graduates tend to predominate in the extremely powerful bureaucracy - and politicians and the mainstream press are very much prone to toe the line and get direction from the bureaucratic elite (who get *their* direction from big corporations and the barely-visible real powers operating mostly in the background).
Even Nobel prize winners associated with Kyoto U. have seen their funding dry up after going off-narrative with some criticism of the government.
The official Covid response has, as elsewhere, been a disaster, but those responsible are actively interested in not having the obvious pointed out publicly...
Good morning Lookout et. y'all.
Rain and high winds here, another atmospheric river. A mere stopgap in the perennial drought, but welcome overall despite some flooding, downed trees, north bay power outages and such.
Holiday season is here, another layer of silliness with a fringe of self indulgence and, of course, a helping of superstitious mumbo jumbo.
The war on Xmas is alive and well it seems.
Can't stay ahead of the leaf fall, whines the California whinin' boy.
Ah well, stuff to do and the niners play a full game with their 3rd string Mr. irrelevant QB today, which may be interesting, all things considered.
Be well and have a good one.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Too much or not enough rain...
...one extreme to another. We've had 5.3" so far this month, plus it's raining today. They're calling for 2+" on Wed. too. We had 79" last year. Currently 74.8" in 2022. Looks like a close race in the rainfall category.
A war on Christmas? What about the derision focused on Festivus? Come on, man.
Thanks for the humorous clip. Have a good one!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
The Weather Channel and Accuweather
predicted last evening's t-storm to be over and done in 49 minutes. No more rain until tomorrow! Except, it rained steadily, often heavily, for 12 straight hours.
Thanks for the WW, and as I get through some of the links, I may even have a cogent comment. Well, let's not keep fingers crossed...
Great stuff, friend!
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
I'm not complaining about rain...
...but it is interesting how it runs feast to famine. I'm interested in 2021 vs 2022. So far 2022 is about 4-5" behind. Better just enjoy the weather we have I guess.
Have a nice evening!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
What a loaded WW, LO!!
I'm not sure that our
"fearless leaders"schmucks running the showrealize how intellectually inept they have been since at least Raygun but
this seems to prove it in spades, and it isn't good at all
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oz6rKADPIGU]
I never knew that the term "Never Again" only pertained to
those born Jewish
"Antisemite used to be someone who didn't like Jews
now it's someone who Jews don't like"
Heard from Margaret Kimberley
Alex as usual is on target...
Thanks for the clip. He must have gone back to Cyprus yesterday.
Always nice to "see" you. The auto earth features many of today's stories including Alex's
https://www.theautomaticearth.com/2022/12/debt-rattle-december-11-2022/
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
This is the most frightening
thing in this week's news, the Pentagon saying they're no longer concerned about escalation if Russia's nuclear weapons forces are attacked. The base they hit last week included nuclear weapons forces.
Escalation, according to Scott Ritter, means, "Everybody dies." The Pentagon is saying they're no longer concerned about that.
Ritter discusses the attack from 12:30 to 17:18 in this video.
[video:https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=67OpqQ7vo5A]
you mean just go ahead an bomb Russia concerns you?
Pentagon says ‘the situation has changed’ and no longer bans Ukraine from hitting targets in Russia
The US wants escalation and you're right it is frightening.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Every day that I
wake up not dead amazes me, here lately.
This unending escalation has only one ending, and it will not be in our favor. Oh, well. I’m going in to have my left knee done tomorrow, anyway, and maybe I’ll get a chance to enjoy it for a little while before we all get vaporized. Honestly, I do not expect to see many more sunsets- this whole process will simply end up with one more sunrise than the scheduled number of sunsets.
Twice bitten, permanently shy.
ufs,
Ok, pal. Good luck on the knee. I will be thinking of you in the morning. Check in with us when you wake up. But, what I ponder while trying to fall asleep each night is a 'nuther thang.
Who would flip the switch/turn the key/push the button/pull the lever/give verbal command to a bot to kill not only the bad guys, but their own friends, family, and countrymen? Oh, and every plant, animal, and insect, except for roaches, which I was taught in the 60s would be all that remains of life on earth post-nuke?
All my life, I have heard this threat. Not one breath have I taken, EVER, that couldn't have been my last because of nukes.
No protesters ANYWHERE at ANY TIME stopped this madness.
I hope at that final moment, I will be looking at the beach, or snow covered mountains, listening to a good song, holding the hand of TLOML, and I hope it is, indeed, a quick, instantaneous dissipation, since I fucking HATE roaches!
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
I heard it would be roaches and ants
not that it really matters.
On to Biden since 1973
Best of luck with your knee replacement!
Hope you heal quickly. Worrying about things impairs healing so focus on good thoughts (friends, family, beauty) if you can.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
And now,
apparently, we can't tell Ukraine, or any other country, presumably, what they can or cannot do with the weapons we give them. I thought we had legal restrictions against that. I thought if we enabled Ukraine to attack Russian security it would bring us into WWIII. So are we saying we CAN'T tell Ukraine not to force us into nuclear war with Russia?
Democracy in Ukraine is such a wonderful thing!
Not to mention taking down media and opposing parties...
....and now churches. Go Ukranazis! You can't make it up.
Thanks for the tweet!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Just a smidgen more than a fist bump. Nothing much to see here.
see below
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
This is the
biggest thing happening Right Now and the media makes sure that ordinary citizens remain ignorant.
NYCVG
The red carpet was rolled out...
...complete with jets.
Xi Jinping’s grand entry into Saudi Arabia that saw his Air China Boeing 747 flanked by jets of green and white smoke to represent the Gulf country’s flag has been contrasted with the lukewarm welcome received by Joe Biden during his visit to the country a few months earlier.
https://news.yahoo.com/xi-jinping-grand-welcome-saudi-123426186.html
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Shitlibs think this is no big deal
If you want to see for yourself how they are reacting to the news that government officials worked with Twitter honchos on deciding what information is allowed and who should be kicked off the site wander over to Orange state and see. It’s on the main page. Plus one on the wreck list. Censorship is now okay with many dem voters which just blows my mind.
There were problems with running a campaign of Joy while committing a genocide? Who could have guessed?
Harris is unburdened of speaking going forward.
The twitter files speak volumes...
...ignoring them also screams to me. Faux news is the only MSM outlet covering the story. Sure is interesting. Thanks for the link...
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Breakthrough News looks like a very good
site to visit!
Thanks!
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
I like them...
Glad you found them useful. The Donbass reporter from Britain they featured was good in today's clip.
We are lucky to have some reasonable voices.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Signing out tonight...
...with this one
How Deep Is Your Love - Bee Gees cover feat. Josh Turner, Reina del Cid, Carson McKee, and Toni Lindgren
These young folks are impressive...at least they impress this musician.
Have a great night, and see you tomorrow!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
You are right Lookout;
that conversation about the expat life between Gonzalo, Christoforou, and Berletic was enjoyable and a bit of a break from the more depressing news. I listened to it intermittently during the day but that is as far as I made it through the WW.
Thanks for your chock-full WW though...next up on my list for listening is the Ray McGovern piece you posted. I really like McGovern...he is one of my favorites.
Hope all is well with you and the plants you tend to. I finally got a hold of a baby mulberry tree. I am very pleased about that. I planted her last week so hopefully she will flourish and the birds will get to reap some berries in the not-too-distant future.
All the best to you and thanks again for the WW roundup.
I've got a couple of baby mulberry too
and I noticed a deer or something knocked away the surrounding cages over one of them. Got to fix that this week. Thanks for joining into the conversation!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”