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I'm out of town and pocket today. I put this together Friday, so there may be more recent stories which I hope you'll describe below. The big stories this week include 'elensky's trip to the US and UN, hat in hand. The Israel and Hezbollah conflict continues to escalate, and Russia sits in the catbird seat of the Ukraine/NATO proxy war. Drama over these conflicts took place at the UN this week. Censorship is on steroids at YouTube, and the UK is a censorship and scandal center. All this and more below the fold.

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This Week the Most Momentous Decision of Our Time Will Be Made
With the US government–State Department, Treasury, Homeland Security, and Justice (sic)–in the hands of Zionist Jews, only the Pentagon speaks for Americans. So far the Pentagon has refused to approve the firing of missiles into Russia. Zelensky whose “democratic” credentials are shattered by him continuing in office without reelection after his term has expired, is coming to Washington this week to plead with the White House for missile strikes into Russia. Will the Pentagon be present at the meeting? If so, has the officer ranks been so purged and depleted by wokeism that it cannot take a firm stand? Putin has stated that missiles fired into Russia means the US and Europe are at war with Russia. Are Americans aware that this momentous decision is being made this week, and if not, then the following week?
The British Prime Minister has already agreed. The sole holdout is the Pentagon. Likely, the impending Florida hurricane will divert the news from this momentous decision. We could simultaneously be presented with the outbreak of war in the Middle East. Israel, having eliminated many of the leaders of Hezbollah, is intensifying its strikes on Lebanon, which is more or less under Iran’s protection. According to reports, the US 101st Airborne Division has been deployed to Israel. If the reports are correct, it appears that the US is prepared to enter the war on Israel’s side. Putin has indicated that Iran is under Russia’s protection. We are very close to nuclear Armageddon. And insouciance rules while Zionists take us to war and destruction.

Pepe Escobar: Putin & China Drop BOMBSHELL on Israel, Netanyahu and Neocons FURIOUS

(22 min) Geopolitical Analyst Pepe Escobar exposes the shocking moves being made by Russia, China and the BRICS-led multipolar world as they navigate Israel's unthinkable moves in Lebanon and beyond. This video breaks down the crumbling of the old world order and how the new order of multipolarity is going to resolve the crisis in the Middle East.

Richard D. Wolff & Michael Hudson: How the US United China, Russia, and Iran: A Global Power Shift!

Pentagon Trying to Take Control of Ukraine Policy From Blinken – McGovern
The US military could be attempting to seize control of policy on Ukraine from Secretary of State Antony Blinken and other hawkish State Department officials including by blocking sending long range strike missiles to Kiev, former senior CIA analyst Ray McGovern told Sputnik. Ukraine has been lobbying the Biden administration for permission to employ long-range US missiles to carry out strikes deep into Russian territory. On September 12, Russian President Vladimir Putin warned that Russia would not tolerate any such action and would regard it as a last red line to be crossed. “My interest had to do with indications that the military overruled Blinken and told…. [President Joe] Biden ‘No!’ about giving authorization to fire Storm Shadow missiles deeper into Russia,” McGovern said.

What did 'elensky want from his UN and US visit?
Bloomberg cited sources as saying that the ['elensky] proposal includes no real surprises and won’t be a game-changer in the conflict. One official described it as a “wish list” rather than an action plan. Kiev has ruled out negotiations with Russia and has rejected any possibility of compromise. Ukrainian officials have suggested that by escalating the conflict, they could force Moscow into agreeing peace on Kiev’s terms. Andrey Yermak, Zelensky’s powerful chief of staff, reiterated a call to Western backers on Monday not to be concerned about possible blowback from the strategy. Among other things, the Ukrainian government wants permission to use donated Western weapons to strike targets deep inside Russia. Putin has warned that Moscow will view any such step as a direct act of war by NATO and will respond accordingly.
Ukraine also wants NATO-type security guarantees and a shorter accession path into the US-led military bloc, as well as long-term financial support that future administrations in Washington would not be able to revoke, according to reports. Moscow considers the Ukraine conflict to be a US-led proxy war against Russia, which the West is willing to wage “to the last Ukrainian.” Russian officials have said Ukrainian accession to NATO would pose an existential threat to their country, and must be prevented by all means necessary.

Volodymyr Zelensky arrived in the US on September 22 to present his “victory plan” to US President Joe Biden and make his case in separate meetings with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron. “[Volodymyr Zelensky] wants to get people to support his ‘victory plan’, which really is not a victory plan,” Earl Rasmussen, a retired US Army lieutenant colonel and international consultant, tells Sputnik, commenting on Zelensky’s trip to the US. The Ukrainian politician is pushing ahead with the idea of striking deep inside Russia with NATO long-range missiles, something that Western leaders have so far had cold feet about. “Let’s face it, when he goes deep into Russia, those weapons systems basically need intelligence from the United States – NATO and specifically the US,” Rasmussen says.
“The intelligence information provided, the targeting, the programing, all is not done by Ukrainians. So basically the West becomes a full participant in the conflict then, which would basically then open up the avenue for escalation.”

More from the UN this week...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has urged the international community to take action against Benjamin Netanyahu’s “murder network,” once again likening the Israeli prime minister to Adolf Hitler. In his address to the 79th UN General Assembly in New York on Tuesday, Erdogan condemned the Israeli government’s actions in Gaza, describing the Palestinian enclave as a “concentration camp.” “Just as Hitler was stopped by the alliance of humanity 70 years ago, Netanyahu and his murder network must be stopped by the alliance of humanity,” Erdogan said. He accused Netanyahu of trying to “drag the entire region into war for the sake of his political fortunes.”
Erdogan criticized the UN for its failure to “prevent the genocide in Gaza” and called for reforms to make the organization more representative and effective. He stated that the Security Council was too focused on the interests of its five permanent members and was failing to protect international peace and security. Erdogan accused countries that unconditionally support Israel, including the United States, of being complicit in the violence against Palestinians. He emphasized the need for an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza, as well as a hostage-prisoner exchange and uninterrupted humanitarian aid.

Scott comments on the Jordanian UN statement...

More on the Israeli conflict...
Alastair Crooke : Israel’s War Without Limits. (30 min)

Phil Giraldi : Israel Keeps on Killing

Politics

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The FBI has claimed that it doesn’t have the Democratic National Committee headquarters’ security footage from the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol Hill uprising—footage that would presumably show the discovery of a pipe bomb that was allegedly planted outside the DNC the night before.


A former FBI specialist
who was persecuted for questioning January 6 said during a hearing with lawmakers on Capitol Hill that Americans should stock up on food and prepare for hardship. Marcus Allen, a former FBI staff operations specialist, told the Judiciary Subcommittee on Weaponization of the Federal Government that he was deliberately targeted by higher ups for asking why there were so many federal informants in the crowd at the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot. “The FBI questioned my allegiance to the United States, suspended my security clearance, suspended my pay and refused to allow me to obtain outside employment or even accept charity,” Allen testified The feds came down hard on Allen after he sent an email on September 21st, 2021 which his supervisors claimed contained hyperlinks to “extremist propaganda” from “questionable sources”.

It's the ECONOMY, stupid!
Beware of the Government’s Push for a Digital Currency
The government wants your money. It will beg, steal or borrow if necessary, but it wants your money any way it can get it. The government’s schemes to swindle, cheat, scam, and generally defraud taxpayers of their hard-earned dollars have run the gamut from wasteful pork barrel legislation, cronyism and graft to asset forfeiture, costly stimulus packages, and a national security complex that continues to undermine our freedoms while failing to making us any safer. Americans have also been made to pay through the nose for the government’s endless wars, subsidization of foreign nations, military empire, welfare state, roads to nowhere, bloated workforce, secret agencies, fusion centers, private prisons, biometric databases, invasive technologies, arsenal of weapons, and every other budgetary line item that is contributing to the fast-growing wealth of the corporate elite at the expense of those who are barely making ends meet—that is, we the taxpayers.
This is what comes of those $1.2 trillion spending bills: someone’s got to foot the bill. Because the government’s voracious appetite for money, power and control has grown out of control, its agents have devised other means of funding its excesses and adding to its largesse through taxes disguised as fines, taxes disguised as fees, and taxes disguised as tolls, tickets and penalties. No matter how much money the government pulls in, it’s never enough (case in point: the endless stopgap funding deals and constant ratcheting up of the debt ceiling), so the government has to keep introducing new plans to empower its agents to seize Americans’ bank accounts. Make way for the digital dollar. Whether it’s the central bank digital currency favored by President Biden, or the cryptocurrency being hawked by former President Trump, the end result will still be a form of digital money that makes it easier to track, control and punish the citizenry.

CRISIS POLITICS: A Means of Control | Whitney Webb

(25 min) Whitney Webb unpacks the use of crises by the elite to usher in reforms of our society. Wars, pandemics, cyber pandemics, banking crises, are all examples of distracting events that allow broad social controls to be implemented.


The Censorship Industrial Complex

Assange to Testify at Council of Europe
WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange, who was released from prison in June, will address the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, France on Oct. 1 after he was granted Status as a Political Prisoner by a rapporteur of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), WikiLeaks said today. It will be the first time Assange will speak in public since his hearing in U.S. federal court on the North Mariana islands in June, at which he was granted his release after a plea deal. Assange will give evidence before the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), which will meet from 8.30am to 10am at the Palace of Europe, WikiLeaks said. It follows the PACE inquiry report into Assange’s case, written by Rapporteur Thórhildur Sunna Ævarsdóttir.
“The report focuses on the implications of his detention and its broader effects on human rights, in particular freedom of journalism,” WikiLeaks said in a press release published on X. “The report confirms that Assange qualifies as a political prisoner and calls on the UK [to] conduct an independent review into whether he was exposed to inhuman or degrading treatment.” Ævarsdóttir called Assange’s case a “high profile example of transnational repression.” Her report “discusses how governments employ both legal and extralegal measures to suppress dissent across borders, which poses significant threats to press freedom and human rights,” said WikiLeaks.

YouTube Bans Several Geopolitics Channels: African Stream, DD Geopolitcs, Mark Sloboda Gone.

Who will be next? (16 min)

"When exposing a crime is treated as committing a crime, you are being ruled by criminals."
~ Edward Snowden

Health Hearing in Congress this week...
full hearing here (4 hours)
A 13 min summary...

Clips from some of the outstanding speakers at the Senate Roundtable discussion on diet, September 23rd 2024. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Calley Means, Dr. Marty Makary, Max Lugavere, Dr. Jordan B. Peterson, Jillian Michaels, Dr. Casey Means, Mikhaila Fuller. Largely unnoticed by the mainstream media because the Atlantic and mean stream media are paid directly by food and pharmaceutical companies fully aware that they’re poisoning you. They are paid to hide this information. It’s something you’d hear about in completely corrupt countries.
People are starting to pay attention to what the American Standard Diet is doing to people. It’s killing them. This is the biggest crisis facing Americans and it’s being ignored entirely by one side of the political spectrum, (who are also being directly funded by the food corps and pharmaceutical corps behind the food pyramid poisoning everyone).

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More from Bobby...

Mikhaila Peterson Fuller testimony

(6 min) Text here.

Those of you who regularly read this column know I've been pushing for these health revelations for years. I am delighted to see and hear this new found coverage of diet and health on a national level. Perhaps Bobby will manage to do more as time moves forward.

“You Got Everything Right!” – Fmr CDC Director To RFK jr. with Jimmy Dore (13 min) or a short read below...
Former CDC Director Robert Redfield Praises "Make America Healthy Again"

I'm posting this photo again because it speaks loudly...

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I don't know how short nor sweet this news review ended up being, but I hope you found something of interest today. Thanks for reading and coming by today. I hope your weekend is going well. I may be able to check in later. All the best!

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enhydra lutris's picture

I've been thinking that we need to generate a "groundswell movement" to get the US to send many more F-16s to the ukies. The more of each allotment of 2.4 billion bux that is devoted to F-16s, the less than can be spent on other stuff, and the F-16s have, to date, porven themselves to be the least effective weapon system that we have given or can give them.

I am a bit dismayed to see hearings on health-diet-pharma-etc. Congressional hearings are almost invariably part of the "we're looking into that" that runs on for several years opr decades and then ends with "yes, we looked into that and are formulating an agenda" and that's the end of it. We need to blanket the processed food packaging with Surgeon General's warnings just as a first step to at least force people to think and talk about this shit.

The two pictures are am amazing contrast, the first crew is lilly white and seeming preppie+bourgeoise on what is very likely a private beach, while the second has at least one POC on what could well be a public beach. Hmmm

be well and have a good one

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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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endless chores aside
it is an enjoyable type of day

seems the biggest psychpaths
not on a humanitarian diet
are Bibi and exlensky

perhaps they believe that old yarn
about the more they kill, the more
slaves they will have in the afterlife?

thanks for the WW LO
enjoy your getaway

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truth is considered foreign influence, world peace is a threat to national security

Sort of. Possibly.

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"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981

out loud.

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@humphrey equals lockstep.
Hitler's legacy lives on in the new version of the Democrat party.

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"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981

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@on the cusp

Consensus is a process. You can't have consensus without free speech. All positions and truths must be heard in order to find the common denominators. Achieving consensus is a bottom-up process. Consensus forms the foundation of human endeavors. Consensus can take a long time; it is not majority rule. But in the process, people find who they are, and what kind of community values they want to secure. Peaceful societies tend toward consensus building for big decisions.

Consensus is a more perfect union.

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Populations don’t like wars. They have to be lied into it.
That means we can be “truthed” into peace. — Julian Assange

@on the cusp .It requires discussion and varying points of view, which Kerry and other Ds claim is misinformation and/or disinformation. Saying the First Amendment makes consensus too hard or unobtainable is proposing to kill the problematic Amendment, and the discussions end. Pelosi has said it needs to be abolished. Hillary has also said it.
I haven't heard a Republican or Green state anything similar.

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"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981

The rest of the tweet:

It assassinates leaders and flattens neighborhoods out of weakness not strength or victory.

Killing the head of Hezbollah in 1992 led to Israel eventually being thrown out of Lebanon. That's what brought Nasrallah into power in the first place.

Objectively, where does the West really imagine this is going to lead to?

Do they think the US and Israel convinced the world to subordinate themselves to them?

Or has this further convinced the world that the West and its proxies represent an intolerable threat that must be fully dealt with?

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leaders of Jordan, Saudi Arabia. UAE, Bahrain.

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"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981

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Excellent discussion on how automation has destroyed jobs in America and put families out of work. Easy pass destroyed the jobs for people who took your money so you could cross a bridge. Uber destroyed the taxi industry. The list is very long.

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“When out of fear you twist the lesser evil into the lie that it is something good, you eventually rob people of the capacity to distinguish between good and evil.”
~ Hannah Arendt

@snoopydawg as to the date the contract ran out, or percentages of import and export.
I figured Biden would end it before it began by executive order. He has done it before, and is the president of the working class, and wants them to work. At slave wages, of course.

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"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981

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@snoopydawg

According to The NY Times:

If the strike happens, it would impose a fresh barrier to cargo during the run-up to the all-important holiday shopping season, and it would come within weeks of a presidential election that may hinge on economic sentiments.

"American business groups" have urged the Biden administration to use a 1947 law, the Taft-Hartley Act, to demand an 80-day cooling off period to avoid a strike. They point to data that warns of formidable economic damage — approximately $5 billion a day, or 6 percent of the national economy.

Two years ago, President Biden angered union activists in citing a different law to prevent a strike by railroad workers upset by a lack of paid sick leave. But he has proclaimed his credentials as the most pro-union president in history, and he would presumably be reluctant to antagonize labor — a key Democratic constituency.

In his 2022 State of the Union speech, Mr. Biden accused shipping carriers of contributing to inflation, calling them out for having “raised prices by as much as 1,000 percent” and making record profits.

A series of shocks have roiled the industry in recent months. The Panama Canal, suffering from a local drought, has limited traffic through the vital waterway. Houthi rebels in Yemen have unleashed missiles on ships headed toward the Suez Canal, a crucial conduit for ships moving between Asia and Europe. That has sent most traffic the long way around Africa, increasing costs.

Between April and June, container shipping carriers took in more than $10 billion in profits, nearly doubling those of the previous three months. The dockworkers are asserting claims on a share of the gains as they handle growing volumes of freight.

“Strikes are never easy,” says Dennis A. Daggett, executive vice president of the International Longshoremen’s Association. “But in today’s world, with labor laws stacked against us and corporate greed at an all-time high, it remains one of the most powerful tools we have in our fight for justice.”

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Longshoremen, who can earn as much as $200,000 annually, are demanding pay hikes because infrastructure improvements and new technologies have made their jobs more efficient, potentially requiring fewer workers.

So, who pays for the expensive shipping delays due to blowback from Imperial warmongering? Who pays for the price gouging by greedy shipping corporations? And who will pay the wage increases for Longshoremen?

All of those costs are passed along to the consumer, along with the tarrifs. Everyone else in the supply chain receives a pay raise or windfall profits.

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Populations don’t like wars. They have to be lied into it.
That means we can be “truthed” into peace. — Julian Assange
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Populations don’t like wars. They have to be lied into it.
That means we can be “truthed” into peace. — Julian Assange

Meanwhile!

https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2024/09/29/734231/Israel-strike-Yemen-Huda...

The Israeli military has carried out airstrikes against Yemen's strategic western province of Hudaydah, targeting oil facilities and power plants in the Red Sea port city.

The military said in a statement that its warplanes launched air raids on the port of Ras Isa in Hudaydah on Sunday, striking al-Hali and al-Khateeb power plants as well as “sensitive” facilities belonging to Yemen's Ansarullah resistance movement in the area.

The "large-scale operation" was conducted in coordination with the United States, using dozens of aircraft, including fighter jets and reconnaissance planes, it added.

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@humphrey criticize Israel.
Sigh...

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"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981

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How bad do I feel for them?

Zelensky says that it’s right for Ukraine to lob bombs into Russia so that the Russian people feel what war is like. Another goose/gander thing.

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“When out of fear you twist the lesser evil into the lie that it is something good, you eventually rob people of the capacity to distinguish between good and evil.”
~ Hannah Arendt

@snoopydawg "turn about is fair play" apply to Israel?
Just asking for a friend.

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"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981

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@on the cusp

Caitlin hit the nail again. We didn’t grow up hating Israel. Israel’s actions led us to hate what the country does because it’s a genocidal country that has nothing to do with its ethnicity.

I grew up believing that Never Again actually meant that the world wouldn’t stand by as another genocide happened. Gawd…I was so wrong!

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“When out of fear you twist the lesser evil into the lie that it is something good, you eventually rob people of the capacity to distinguish between good and evil.”
~ Hannah Arendt

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@snoopydawg

John Kerry has gone on the airwaves at the WEF to complain about the First Amendment making it "hard to govern"...

Don't worry you pretty little head there, John. Just keep pushing your wars a little harder, and you won't have to worry about governing at all any more. Why not just go ahead and lob a few long-range missiles at Moscow for our Ukie friends? You know you want to. That'd do the trick, I bet.

https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/1840223221120979211

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Twice bitten, permanently shy.

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I’m 66 tomorrow and I can’t believe that it happened this quickly. I was 34 just yesterday.

Charlie has been gone for 4 years and Sam will be 4 this October.

Anywho….RIP, Kris. Loved your music.

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“When out of fear you twist the lesser evil into the lie that it is something good, you eventually rob people of the capacity to distinguish between good and evil.”
~ Hannah Arendt

@snoopydawg

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"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981