Welcome to Saturday's Potluck - April 15, 2023

“Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.”
Pablo Picasso

Learning the skills to grow ones own food has always provided a comfort of some level by being self sufficient or a better educated purchaser. Most commonly thought of as a vegetable garden, my definition includes kitchen craft and animal husbandry. A good loaf of bread and glass of beer requires carefully growing yeasts in the proper enviornment.

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Gary exaggerates a little on the size of the town when he arrived. It was 17,000 not 15,000. Remember it well. I moved back to town a year earlier after working in Portland a few years and Bend had the same population number on the sign as when I left to attend a college with a student population of 17,000. The local recession which started during high school years had stubbornly continued. The area was about to wake-up with an influx of migrants from around the United States and world. The old class structures would be altered and new ones solidified. This new group of brewmasters would not have to hide their identity as the past bootleggers who sent their homegrown products to the Portland markets during prohibition.

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Best political news of the week.
Republican Mike Pompeo says he will not seek U.S. presidential nomination Reuters April 14, 2023

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The cycle of discrediting official narratives is accelerating in the world press.

60 years after John F Kennedy assassination the Dec 2022 showed a link between CIA and Harvey Oswald.

20 years after 9/11 a link between the CIA and hijackers.
https://sputnikglobe.com/20230414/911-hijackers-given-bank-accounts-california-apartment-at-behest-of-the-cia--fbi-investigator-1109495777.html Sputnik April 14, 2023

At least two of the 9/11 hijackers were being closely monitored by the CIA and may have even been recruited by the agency well before they helped fly a pair of Boeing 767s into the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, newly-released documents reveal.
The jaw-dropping court filing contains extensive testimony by multiple FBI investigators who maintain that the CIA obstructed official investigations into the notorious terrorist attack in order to conceal its connections to al-Qaeda*.

Stephen Gardner interviews with Col. Tony Shaffer regarding 9/11 (approx 16 min)

1 year after beginning of Ukraine Special Operations
US Working on 'Universal' Genetically Engineered Bioweapon: Russian Parliamentary Investigation Sputnik April 12, 2023

Washington is working on a "universal" genetically engineered bioweapon designed to cause severe damage to enemies comparable to that of a "nuclear winter," a Russian parliamentary commission investigating US biolabs in Ukraine has concluded.
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According to the parliamentary commission, a key difference between traditional bioweapons programs and contemporary ones being pursued by the Pentagon is the propensity for the use of pathogens of little-studied natural infections with a high mortality rate, a long incubation period and symptoms typical of common diseases. This complicates adversaries' ability to discover the use of such weapons, and to quickly identify the attacker, the report indicated.
Among the biggest threats, according to the commission, is the military biological research based on work with the decoded human genome, which threatens to "radically" change the entire geopolitical and military situation in the world, and is comparable in significance to the start of the 'atomic era' in the 1940s and 1950s.
'Key Role' Played by Subcontractors
Drawing on evidence provided by the Russian military over the past year on US military biological activities in Ukraine, Kazakhstan, the Caucasus and countries in Africa and Asia, the commission pointed to the "key role" played by facilities abroad in the implementation of the Pentagon's bioweapons programs.

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Pentagon leakde serves its own section. Laughter and wonder beginning the day of the arrest. Watching the attempts to control the narrative is fascinating and providing realtime learning opportunities to identify propaganda techniques. Washington Post continuing to leak information from documents only their reporters have observed.

Leaked Docs/ Leaker Arrest, Something is Very Wrong - Tony Shaffer (21.46)

The diary by Linda Wood on the 13th Scott Ritter, Judge Napolitano on Leaks has a number of videos and links.

The 21 Year Old Leaker — Something Is NOt Right Sonar-21 by Larry Johnson April 14, 2023

Something is askew with the media story being presented to the World about the boy who posted the leak on the gamer chat board. The documents are not randomly selected. If the intent was to post classified information in order to impress a bunch of teenage gamers then why is the bulk of the material only about the war in Ukraine?

Finally, we are told, according to the Washington Post, that there are 300 documents. Really? Where are they? I have only been able to find roughly 18 documents. Have any of your seen the 100 pages that the media insists were posted to the web? That discrepancy alone raises another big red flag for me. Why was the Washington Post allowed to read/see 300 highly classified documents? The Post reporters do not hold security clearances. But it is okay for them to review those documents.

One of the major revelations from this leaking incident is that most of the press in the United States have rejected the fundamental mission of the media — expose truths the Government wants to hide from the public.

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Escobar: Waiting For The End Of The World Zerohedge by Pepe Escobar April 13, 2023

NOTE: This is the English original of a column specially commissioned by leading Russian business daily Vedemosti.

Well, the (cultural) revolution won't be televised; but it may work its charms via countless Telegram channels. France, infatuated with rebellion throughout its history, may well be jump to the vanguard – again.

Yet nothing will change if the global financial casino is not subverted. Russia taught the world a lesson: it was preparing itself, in silence, for a long-term Total War. So much so that its calibrated counterpunch turned the Financial War upside down – completely destabilizing the casino. China, meanwhile, is re-balancing, and is on the way to be also prepared for Total War, hybrid and otherwise.

The inestimable Michael Hudson, fresh from his latest book, The Collapse of Antiquity, where he deftly analyzes the role of debt in Greece And Rome, the roots of Western civilization, succinctly explains our current state of play:

"America has pulled a color revolution at the top, in Germany, Holland, England, and France, essentially, where the foreign policy of Europe is not representing their own economic interests (…) America simply said, - We are committed to support a war of (what they call) democracy (by which they mean oligarchy, including the Nazism of Ukraine) against autocracy (…) Autocracy is any country strong enough to prevent the emergence of a creditor oligarchy, like China has prevented the creditor oligarchy."

So "creditor oligarchy", in fact, can be explained as the toxic intersection between globalist wet dreams of total control and militarized Full Spectrum Dominance.

The difference now is that Russia and China are showing to the Global South that what American strategists had in store for them – you’re going to “freeze in the dark” if you deviate from what we say – is no longer applicable. Most of the Global South is now in open geoeconomic revolt.

Globalist neoliberal totalitarianism of course won’t disappear under a sand storm. At least not yet. There’s still a maelstrom of toxicity ahead: suspension of constitutional rights; Orwellian propaganda; goon squads; censorship; cancel culture; ideological conformity; irrational curbs of freedom of movement; hatred and even persecution of – Slav – Untermenschen; segregation; criminalization of dissent; book burnings, show trials; fake arrest mandates by the kangaroo ICC; ISIS-style terror.

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The most current livestream videos at this link.
Judge Napolitano channel ongoing discussions regarding current Ukraine/Russia conflict and Pentagon Leak from different perspectives. Additional shorts and interviews at this link. Since he asks similar questions to the various guests it is easier to identify the various viewpoints and spin when present.

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Howdy folks, Hi SoE, Hope it's all good out there.

Thanks for the OT.

Yeah, great news on Mike Pompouseo. He knows he won't get anywhere against Trump. And he likely thinks he can again get an appointment into a state dept. or alphabet agency type position which is mighty powerful. Afraid his assholiness ain't goin' away.

Gotta get to work here... have good days everyone!

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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
both - Albert Einstein

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The Leak Was the Op – White House and Congress Demand New Powers, Think Restrict Act, in Aftermath of Classified Intel Leaks

Never letting a crisis go to waste is very useful tool, especially when the government creates the crisis. As CTH has said from the first discussion of the classified intelligence leaks, the “leak is the op.”

The intel leak is the operation created by the Intelligence Community to support new expanded powers for the Fourth Branch of Government. It should not be a surprise to discover the institution now leading the charge to give more power for U.S. intel agencies, is…. wait for it….. The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.

The SSCI is the organizational institution that supports the Fourth Branch of Government, the intelligence branch. The SSCI previously created a bipartisan Restrict Act, to deal with dangerous information on the internet.

I think a lot of people here have already arrived at this conclusion because it makes no gd sense that a person from the lowest position on the totem pole in the military got access to the classified documents. The minute Bellingcat entered the conversation sealed it for me.

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Disorder is the Order of the Day

The mysterious “Joe Biden” regime, in its brief two-plus years of service, has proven especially adept at creating fiascos. Are they aiming for the gold ring in this Ukraine gambit, that is, nuclear war? People seriously wonder. Or is something else going on? Blogger (and ex-CIA agent) Larry Johnson says the leak was done for a specific purpose, namely to shove “Joe Biden” out of the White House. Yes, our Deep State is at it again. Why, because “Joe Biden” can no longer be trusted to even pretend he’s chief executive. (Well, maybe they shouldn’t have installed him in the first place.)

Larry also reminds us that, conveniently, an Obama-era whistleblower named Mike McCormick, who accompanied Veep Joe Biden’s delegation to Ukraine in 2014, has stepped forward to detail Biden family grifting operations there, with the help of then-aide (now National Security Advisor) Jake Sullivan. It’s like somebody is laying out a case for impeachment — or resignation. One really off-the-wall theory floating “out there” has Veep Kamala Harris being induced to take Dianne Feinstein’s senate seat (DF, 89, is very ill), and “Joe Biden” then appointing Barack Obama to be Veep — with BHO stepping back into the White House when “JB” exits (or gets exited). Note, the XXII Amendment only prohibits a person from being “elected” president more than twice. No mention of appointment. Now there’s a real Catch-22!

Yeee-Gads!

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@snoopydawg

seat past the primary and that if she took it and lost it her political career would be over,

be well and have a good one

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@enhydra lutris go wherever she is paid to go.

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@on the cusp

everybody runs and top 2 wind up on the ballot.

Democratic Party machine candidate is Adam Schiff who will have massive support and even rigging from the conservadem/Hillary/Obama/Biden branch of the party.

Also running - Barbara Lee, pretty much the closest thing the Dems have to a progressive, chair emeritus of their progressive caucus, who has a ton of support in the Bay Area, which is where DiFi originated, so a bit of "our senator" thinking crops up.

Also running - Katie Porter also pretty progressive for a Dem and she comes from Orange County - the other end of the state and our RED zone, and a place the Dems really need to hold on to, at least symbolically.

Even if the Dems decide to force Newsome to give Harris DiFi's seat, I don't see how she manages to come in even third, let alone 1 or 2.

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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 --

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@snoopydawg

...was very lucrative for US politicians, insiders, and intelligence operatives — while newly elected government was toppled and US puppets were inserted. Biden was sent to watch over Ukraine while the treasury was emptied and national assets were privatized sold off. Someone should make a list of the US politicians and their aids arrived in Kiev for the grift:

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Lots of countries gave Clintons over $50 million and many much more than that. I wrote about this a few years ago either in an essay or comment so I’m not sure I can find it. But once she wasn’t going to be president the money going to her started going into the McCain foundation. We’ve seen the pictures of McCain stirring up trouble there and working directly with the Nazis and the men who were funding them.

Lots of democrats had business in Ukraine through defense companies and the like. But so much confirmed corruption was on Hunter’s laptop that Barr's justice department sat on for years and now Garland is ignoring. And of course the Ukraine government helped Hellabitch try to take Trump down even before his 1st impeachment. And of course Biden’s on tape bragging to his friends on how he threatened Ukraine to fire the prosecutor who was going to look into Burisma and Hunter’s ties to it.

Republicans have bank statements for the Biden family grift that shows that China gave them millions. Let’s see what comes from that….but I’m not holding my breath.

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@snoopydawg

...was very lucrative for US politicians, insiders, and intelligence operatives — when Ukraine's newly elected government was toppled and US puppets were inserted to lead. Biden was sent to watch over Ukraine during the time to quash related investigations while the Ukraine treasury was looted and the national assets were privatized and sold off to insiders and cronies. (Just as Russia was looted by the capitalists in 1990.) Kiev was engaged in a Democrat election meddling scheme ahead of the 2016 election — this expanded to an impeachment scheme involving the US embassy in Kiev. Trump found out and fired the Ambassador. And she and Embassy staff were key witnesses at his impeachment trial. Someone should make a list of all the US politicians and their brokers who showed up in Kiev for a piece of the money laundering action.

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We humans were making bread, beer, wine and other fermented stuff long before we domesticated yeast. What cultured, carefully grown domesticated yeasts give is consistency and a greater degree of certainty of success. There are winemakers who still use and swear by wild yeasts and, of course, there is sourdough, which is something of a hybrid of wild and domesticated, since starters are carefully maintained and fed by their owners.

In my long distant youth, one could make alcohol by just mashing up store bought table grapes and leaving the "product" to ferment in an appropriate container loosely covered with porous cloth. The native yeasts that reside on the skin would usually kick in and get things going. After the bubbling sopped you would freeze the hell out of it and pour off the liquid, which would be the diluted alcohol fraction which could then be distilled into "pure alcohol" for use as one saw fit. (The intermediate product tasted like shit, concord grapes make terrible wine.)

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a self admitted participant's connections were confirmed after years of stonewalling. those clowns arent getting anywhere near the truth with that stale "discussion".
Claude Barnes Capehart.

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My plan to get out to enjoy some live music has been dashed by extreme weather. Tonight, a thunderstorm, possible hail and high winds, not only at my home, but the storm system is predicted to cover the concert venue an hour and a half away from here.

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@on the cusp

concert. Sounds like time to break out the tamales, records and shinerbock.

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@enhydra lutris Tex-Mex cuisine, Happy Hour!

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@on the cusp

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@kelly Vets I knew that ran drugs.
That's a bad ass song, kelly. Very cool.

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A bit more:

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@humphrey

I get the feeling the CIA and their monster mash is behind it.
Chaos reigns supreme. Keeping countries off balance is one
of their specialties.

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@QMS

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ongoing situation.

@QMS

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@humphrey A Canadian company invested quite a bit of money in Sudan, to develop oil fields there. I think they also played a major role in building a pipeline in Sudan. There was a US media campaign to get them to withdraw from Sudan. The US claimed they were supporting a government with egregious human rights violations etc. So the Canadian company sold its interests to CNPC, the Chinese National Petroleum Company. Malaysia and India also hold major stakes. I don't think the US anticipated that China would become a player in the energy market there, in both Sudan, and South Sudan production. I think this was about the time of the Darfur uprising.

https://www.eia.gov/international/analysis/country/SDN

There is a chart displaying China's interest in the approximate production of 220 thousand bpd total (oil and condensates) in both states if you scroll down the page. The oil production in the two states isn't that great, but it isn't insignificant either, much more than Syria. By far the greater share of the production is in South Sudan. Sudan however controls the pipeline to Port Sudan. Without that, they lose access to their markets.

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Has anyone from congress visited East Palestine or any of the states that have had horrendous natural disasters?

Isn’t that such a touching sight to see Joe Manchin doing a duet with this dude? Why in hell would you go to a war zone to sing? And just who was the audience?

Murkowsky said that after visiting Ukraine she is more determined than ever to send more of our money there. Hey I wonder if the last batch of Americans that have been told to evacuate their homes are getting any financial help to stay in motels or for traveling back and forth for their jobs and school?

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@snoopydawg They happen. They cause derailments.
All the time, always in rural areas, always near water, and always carrying hasmat.
Honestly, nothing to see here.
We shall see if that location is an agricultural area. And even if it is, there is nothing to see here.

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@on the cusp  

https://www.broeckers.com/2023/04/13/notizen-vom-ende-der-unipolaren-wel...

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@snoopydawg

a database, but its accuracy depends upon incident reporting by the carriers which cannot be assumed to be in compliance with reporting requirements. I do recall periods when it seemed like they were happening all the time.

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I love reading Kunstler! I look forward to his essays every Monday and Friday. Kunstler means artist in German, which I believe is an apt description of his writing.

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@Bring Back Civics and have no quarrel with his content.

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