The Political Kabuki Theater

Another busy week in the news cycle. It was the debate which prompted this week's theme. Almost all the commentary I heard about the variety of stories we'll look at today mention the theatrical aspects of what is presented to the people. Censor what the TPTB don't want you to hear, and promote the propaganda with theatrical stories to reinforce the narrative....you know Ukraine is winning, Hamas raped Israelis, Putin plans to conquer the EU, and China's economy is in collapse, as a few examples. Let's start with a great example as Thomas Massie explains the congressional economic policy play.

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Have you seen the mini-documentary on Massie, Off Grid with Thomas Massie (35 min)?
This week He fought to prevent the WHO autocratic pandemic treaty, which might have been approved this week.
Rep. Thomas Massie: Treaties Don't Override Our Constitution 9/11/2024 (5.5 min)
The House adopted my amendment protecting Americans from unconstitutional World Health Organization (WHO) agreements and treaties. Treaties don't override the Constitution. Laws that seek to bind Americans in the United States must first pass both the House and Senate.
The senate, however, did not. They prefer abdicating their power to an unelected international body controlled by Gates and big pharma.

If we were really concerned about citizens' health we would focus on the food and medical industries.

How the MEDICAL PROFESSION is making us SICKER (31 min)

So why don't we help people learn to eat healthy? Big money, that's why.
This Evil Company Owns ALL The Food In Your House (10 min)

The salt on your table, the turkey in your sandwich, the egg in your Egg McMuffin: “the worst company in the world” makes money off all of them.
You may not have heard of them, but Cargill Inc is the biggest privately owned company in America, and they have near complete control over how and what you eat, and how working people in the agricultural system are treated. Their power and breadth has kept wages down, squashed worker power, and pushed family farms to the brink of non-existence, while manipulating prices for the consumer.

Cargill may be the largest, but they're not the only one.
The Big 4's Crushing Small Farmers: What can we do? (8 min)

The dominance of the Big 4 agribusinesses is having a devastating impact on small farmers. In this eye-opening video, we explore how these corporate giants are shaping the agricultural landscape and what steps can be taken to support and protect small-scale farmers.
Visit https://www.regenerativefarmersofamerica.com/ to find a farmer near you.

Eating highly processed foods designed to be addictive by tobacco turned food scientists has led to a real pandemic of chronic disease.

This has happened primarily since the 80's when a seed oil and carbohydrate based diet was recommended.

The rise in chronic disease matches the graph of obesity.

So much for the health Kabuki. Let's move on the political kabuki which is perhaps more obvious.

This week marked the 23rd anniversary of 9/11
The 23rd Anniversary of September 11, 2001

Time passes. An entire generation has grown up since that day when a few Saudi Arabians armed only with box cutters caused airport safety to fail four times on the same morning, caused the entire US/NATO/Mossad security system to fail, caused the WTC towers constructed to withstand airliner collisions to collapse into dust by flying hijacked airliners into them, and attack the Pentagon using maneuvers of which airliners and pilots are incapable and destroying the section of the Pentagon where the documents were that explained where the Pentagon’s missing billions or was it trillions of dollars had gone. During these hours of activity the US Air Force was unable to get interceptors off the ground, and no evidence has ever been found of the passengers on the four hijacked airliners. But an undamaged passport of one of the alleged hijackers were found in the ruins of two hundred-storied skyscrapers. And Americans fell for this totally unbelievable story. What hope is there for Americans?
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It only took 10 minutes for a high school physics professor to demolish NIST’s multi-year computer simulation of the collapse of Building 7, the 47 story WTC building that a BBC reporter stood in front of announcing its collapse 30 minutes ahead of the collapse. They knew the building was slated for destruction, but the word got out prior to the event. Silverstein, who owned or had the leases to the World Trade Center said on live TV that the decision was made to pull building 7. You can’t pull a building unless it is wired, a time-consuming complex job.
It is totally obvious that all 3 buildings were wired for demolition. Building 7 collapsed at free fall acceleration, and the two towers at essentially the same speed. This can only be achieved by controlled demolition. If the alleged Muslim hijackers wired the buildings–an impossibility–what is the point of flying airliners into them?
The orchestrated event was used by Washington to launch wars in the Middle East against Israel’s opponents. Norman Podhoretz at Commentary had called for these wars, and US four star general Wesley Clark, NATO’s commander in chief, later confirmed that Pentagon generals showed him war plans calling for the US to overthrow “Seven countries in five years.”
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The total humiliation that the official narrative delivered to America on 9/11 is without parallel in history. One would have thought that such a system wide failure would have destroyed Americans’ confidence in Washington. Why explains American fists rising not against Washington but against Muslim countries that had nothing to do with it?

Yes, 9/11 lit the fuse of the war OF terror which continues to manifest itself.

Even Trump doubted the narrative.
Stunning Video Of Trump Doubting Official 9/11 Story! w/ Mike Benz

The Fake ‘War On Terror’ Collapses (Pepe Escobar)
Cui Bono? (who stands to gain) remains the paramount question related to all matters related to 11 September 2001. A tight network of fervently Israel-first neocons strategically positioned across the defense and national security establishments by Vice President Dick Cheney – who had served as secretary of defense in the administration of George W Bush’s father – sprang into action to impose the long-planned agenda of the Project for the New American Century (PNAC). That far-reaching agenda had waited in the wings for the right trigger – a “new Pearl Harbor” – to justify a slew of regime-change operations and wars across much of West Asia and other Muslim states, reshaping global geopolitics for the benefit of Israel.
US General Wesley Clark’s notorious revelation of a secret Cheney regime plot to destroy seven major Islamic countries over five years, from Iraq, Syria, and Libya all the way to Iran, showed us that the planning had already been done in advance. These targeted nations had one thing in common: they were resolute enemies of the occupation state and firm supporters of Palestinian rights.
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The western Hegemon excels in constructing narratives and is currently wallowing in the Russophobia, Iranophobia, and Sinophobia swamps of its own creation. Discrediting official, immutable narratives, such as the one about 11 September, remains the ultimate taboo. But a false narrative construct cannot hold out forever.

How is it the dimwits celebrate the 9/11 architect, Dick Cheney's endorsement? (26 min)

In a move that has sent shockwaves through Washington DC, Republican former Vice President Dick Cheney has announced that he plans to vote for Democrat Kamala Harris in the upcoming presidential election. For decades Cheney has been widely denounced as “Darth Vader” by Democrats for his record during the Bush administration, but now that the new evil of Donald Trump has arisen, even someone as vile and universally loathed as Dick Cheney has become a welcome ally to Dems. Jimmy and podcaster Ryan Dawson discuss this dramatic shift in Democratic Party alliances and what it says about Democrats that they can so readily embrace Dick Cheney, the embodiment of political evil.

Larry Johnson Former CIA https://sonar21.com/ and Stephen Gardner discuss several of the most impactful Trump announcements in the last week.

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Russiagate 3.0 is underway. Not only kabuki theater, but totally false and still being pushed. Robert Barnes does a great job recounting the Russiagate story and the current use of the FISA act on several podcasters.

It amazes me how many people still think Russia hacked our election for Trump.

Russia hate isn't new. It arrived on these shores with the Europeans.
Russophobia, Historically Considered - Prof Glenn Diesen interviewed by Prof Dan Klein (1 hour)

Currently there's a push to further censor RT news. Glenn Greenwald explains...

U.S. Pushes to Censor Russian Media Worldwide While Funding Own Propaganda Campaigns (15 min)

US Sanctions RT
RT is “engaged in covert influence activities… functioning as a de facto arm of [Russian] intelligence,” Blinken told reporters. Blinken revealed that the US, UK, and Canada plan to launch a global effort to treat RT’s activities as espionage, and hope to attract all of their “allies and partners” to the endeavor. James O’Brien, assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs, called RT a “threat to democracy and accurate information.” According to the State Department, RT has “moved beyond being simply a media outlet and has been an entity with cyber capabilities,” which is “also engaged in information operations, covert influence, and military procurement.” The US government claimed that “an entity with cyber operational capabilities and ties to Russian intelligence” has been embedded within RT since the spring of 2023 and that RT editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan and her deputy Anton Anisimov had “direct, witting knowledge of this enterprise.”
Whatta a load of bull. They just don't want people to hear another perspective of US aggression.

The new round of US sanctions against Russian media outlets amounts to a declaration of an “information war,” Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told RT.

Washington seeks to silence any dissenting voices, as its celebrated “freedom of speech” applies only to those who support the official narrative and obey instructions from US intelligence services, RT editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan said following the latest crackdown on Russian media.

Debate the Debate?
It was Russiagate which set the stage for "orange man bad". Seems that's the view of the ABC debate moderators.

Many suggest it was three against one in the ABC kabuki. Some have suggested Kamala had the questions beforehand to help her prepare. Donna Brazil admitted in her book, she fed Hillary the debate questions before her Miami debate against Bernie. Considering ABC's obvious bias, I don't doubt it.

I found this debate analysis pretty good. (7 min)

Caleb discusses Trump/Harris debate with George Galloway

US Presidential Debate Delusion: 2 Candidates For 1 Party… The War Party
Two events dominated international news this week: the TV debate between U.S. presidential candidates, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump; and reports that Washington and its NATO allies are gearing up to permit the Ukrainian regime to use their long-range missiles to hit deep into the territory of the Russian Federation. The latter move would be viewed in Moscow as a major escalation from a proxy war to a direct conflict between nuclear powers.

I didn't waste my time watching, but waited for commentary later.

Trump-Harris 'Kabuki Theater' Debate Crystalized Candidates' Position on Risks of World War III
The debate was generally a “very well constructed” display of Japanese-style “kabuki theater,” highly stylized and ritualized and filled with platitudes, but nevertheless highlighting the candidates’ radically different visions on the top foreign policy question of the day – the conflict in Ukraine, former CIA and State Department analyst Larry Johnson told Sputnik.

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“With respect to this talk about Ukraine and Russia, the Kamala Harris approach is the Hillary Clinton approach from 2016, that Donald Trump ‘is a tool of Russia’, [that] ‘he's a surrender monkey’, [that] ‘he's going to give Vladimir Putin whatever he wants’. And Kamala Harris and the Democrats are ‘going to fight the Russians tooth and nail.’ It just underscores that there is no room in the United States right now for an opposition politician to make the case that we need to talk to Russia, that we need to deal with Russia as adults and have mutual respect,” Johnson said.
“The only possible change in policy is if Trump is elected and there will be an effort to stop the war. If it's the Democrats, then the war will continue. Well, it continues for one good reason - it's making people a lot of money. If you look at the stock prices of Raytheon, General Dynamics, Lockheed Martin, they've doubled and tripled in some cases since the start of the special military operation. So we're talking literally billions, tens of billions of dollars that are being made,” the observer lamented.

Russiagate also helped to foment support for the Ukraine proxy war grift.

Pepe Escobar: Endless Wars - A Glimpse of the Future (1 hour)

Ray does a good job comparing the Iraq invasion charade to the Ukraine proxy war.
Ray McGovern: American Activist Killed by IDF- Ukraine Rhymes with Insane: Will War Widen? (55 min)

Scott Ritter: Ukraine on the Brink of Total Collapse as NATO Crumbles Before Our Eyes! (44 min)

The question becomes:
Is NATO on the Brink of a Catastrophic War with Russia and China? | Scott Ritter (20 min)

The West Is Ensuring Kiev’s Demise On Purpose
The predictable and predicted is happening again. Despite the coyly teasing dance of seven veils performed by, mostly, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, to those who ignored the noise and focused on the signal, it’s always been clear that Washington and London would decide to – officially and openly – allow and help Ukraine to use their missiles for attacks even deeper into Russia than before. And of course, it’s been obvious to Moscow as well, as Dmitry Peskov, President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman, made clear as early as September 11. That the West is escalating is no surprise. It has a well-established pattern of continually ratcheting-up the stakes in its proxy war – including (but not restricted to) the supply of intelligence, mercenaries, ‘advisors’, various tanks, armored vehicles, missile systems, and recently F-16 fighter planes. Now it’s time to fully unleash Storm Shadow and then, if perhaps a little later, long-range ATACMS missiles.

Israel and West Asia
It is difficult to discuss the Ukraine proxy war without discussing the situation around the Persian Gulf. Both Larry Wilkerson and Scott Ritter suggest the only solution is a ONE state democratic country involving Jews, Christians, and Muslims as was the case prior to 1948. Jewish supremacy isn't viable according to both men.
Col. Larry Wilkerson: U.S. Strategy in the Middle East & Ukraine: Ideology Over Facts? (50 min)
Israel’s Downfall: The Shocking Truth No One Wants to Admit! | Scott Ritter (43 min)

Israel Exists to Help West Loot, Dominate Middle East
“We see the desperation, despite the fact that this genocide is going on in the full glare of public scrutiny,” said Brar. “The balance of power has totally shifted away from them… And therefore, if they want to survive, they’ve got to find another way forward.” “But the truth is, another way forward can’t be found because as far as the truth about Israel is concerned, Israel is an outpost of Anglo-American imperialism in the Middle East to control the region’s resources,” she continued. “They need that there. It’s their armed base in the middle of the Arab world to control the Arab world and to be able to keep the loot flowing.”
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Forces after the establishment of the ethno-supremacist state in 1948. Israel has pushed the territory’s non-Jewish inhabitants to the margins since then, presiding over what numerous international organizations have classified as an apartheid state. “Oil remains the single most important commodity in the world today,” noted Brar. “It is the most important source of energy for the world, for industry and for war and it is the most geopolitically significant asset for that reason. And without controlling the oil and being able to loot it at rock bottom prices in the way that they do because of their colonial position in the region, then imperialism would be in massive trouble. What’s left of their economies would be collapsing.”
“And so you see this really existential identification of Western imperialism with Israel, which to a lot of people seems to make no sense. They can’t see why they don’t just let Israel fight its own battles and fight and die or live and die according to its own abilities. Why are they all jumping in? Why is Zionism so important to the West?” “The reason is it’s their tool for controlling the region and the region’s resources,” Brar explained. “Without those resources they’re going to be in really, really big trouble.”

Max has spent a great deal of time in Israel/Palestine and has deep understanding of the situation.

Max Blumenthal : IDF Murders an American (28 min)

Phil Giraldi has been calling out Israel for many years. In this clip the Judge asks -
Did Trump Cause Oct. 7? (28 min)
Article here.

Jeffery Sachs places the blame for all these US instigated wars at the feet of the Neocons
Prof. Jeffrey Sachs : Neocons and World Dominance (33 min)
I have to give Prof. Sachs credit for trying to talk sense into these insane neocons.

And before we leave the Theaters of war, let's look at the US aggression in China.

AMB Charles Freeman: Why Is the US Navy in the South China Sea? (32 min)

Why war with China?
BRICS, The Rise Of China And The Concept Of “Security” (Pepe Escobar)
Essentially, BRICS+ – and beyond, considering further expansion – should aim at peaceful coexistence; independence; autonomy; and true multilateralism, which implies a rejection of Exceptionalism.
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In 2024, Russia presides over BRICS while Brazil presides over the G20. President Putin, apart from addressing the meeting, had bilaterals with all the top players. Putin noted how 34 nations “have already expressed their desire to join the activities of our association in one form or another.” Meeting with Wang Yi, Putin stressed that the Russia-China strategic partnership is in favor of a just world order, a principle supported by the Global South.

This might entertain your TDS friends. Who are the MAGA people?

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The world is a stage and we watch a new play or at least another act, each week. The smoke screen is often used to mask reality and promote the fantasy narrative of TPTB. This week we had the theatrics of a rigged debate as western powers granted Ukraine permission to strike into Russia. The intellectually challenged western leaders don't understand the risk they are creating for us all. Rather than limit speech we need more speech to pull back the curtain and reveal the greed and hunger for power driving the insanity. The idea our corrupt political system might be able to right the ship of state is a mistaken notion to my mind. the US government has been bought and paid for, and as Thomas Massie explains in the lead clip, they conduct theatrics to create the illusion they are trying to govern.

Just as with your health, we must act on our own, where we can, to protect ourselves, our friends, and family. Yes folks, we're on our own and the more independent your thoughts, the more you become an enemy of the oligarchs who own the nation. Be well, be thoughtful, be kind to one another, and enjoy everyday! I look forward to your ideas, stories, and comments below. The thread is OPEN.