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Going, Going Gone. . . .

James Howard Kunstler
kunstler.com
Fri, 08 Aug 2025 00:00 UTC
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"Because they can no longer distinguish between fantasy and reality, they are too crazy to lead this country, and Americans know it."
— Sasha Stone on the Democratic Party
In case you're wondering why the Democratic Party is in a death spiral, it is the proportionate response to the damage they have done to American culture and politics. You might think that they fell haplessly into error, but their turn to Marxian idealism was a cover for a matrix of hustles and rackets to make up for a void of any sane political program.

Coming into the 21st century, our country was beset by looming decline. Our industrial base was going, going, gone, and with it millions of well-paying blue-collar jobs, the Democratic Party base. It was replaced by a so-called "financialized economy," which was sanitized language for sets of swindles and frauds allowed to operate in the de-regulated banking system, in concert with the politicized Federal Reserve and crooked Congressional interests — you notice how many politicians paid $175-K a year somehow acquired multi-million-dollar fortunes?

What mainly grew in this period was government and things that fed off of it, such as the war industries, computer tech allied with the Intel gang, and especially the burgeoning universe of government-sponsored non-profit advocacy orgs, which became the jobs program for otherwise unemployables churned out of higher education, a racket that fed on federal loan guarantees. It was in the racketeering ecosystem that billionaires such as George Soros and Bill Gates could use their fortunes to advance their own personal obsessions through webs of non-governmental orgs (NGOs) to influence public affairs.
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In death tech we trust: Report reveals depth of Microsoft's contribution to Israeli killing machine


Press TV
Wed, 06 Aug 2025 11:28 UTC
CEO Satya Nadella
© MicrosoftMicrosoft CEO Satya Nadella
An investigative report has provided further solid evidence of Microsoft's ongoing collaboration with the Israeli regime towards further empowerment of Tel Aviv's deadly ambitions for Palestinians.

The evidence was provided in a Wednesday report by The Guardian, which showed how the company has been quietly entangled in the regime's vast surveillance dragnet targeting Palestinians.

The bombshell investigation revealed that Unit 8200, the Israeli military's notorious cyber-intelligence arm, has been storing millions of intercepted Palestinian phone calls on Microsoft's Azure cloud servers in Europe since at least 2022.

The surveillance apparatus, which captures calls "by the million each hour," is fueled by a staggering trove of data housed primarily in the Netherlands and Ireland, the probe found.

It monitors Palestinian life in microscopic detail, from the Gaza Strip's bomb-scarred neighborhoods to every corner of the occupied West Bank, the daily showed.
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Reports: Netanyahu orders Israeli army to conquer all of Gaza

Gassam Muaddi
Mondoweiss
Mon, 04 Aug 2025 00:00 UTC
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© Abir Sultan/EFE via ZUMA Press/APA ImagesIsraeli army stationed at the Gaza border • March 10, 2024
The Israeli war cabinet met on Monday to decide on the next phase of Israel's war on Gaza. The meeting was reportedly to choose between ending the war in favor of ceasefire talks or expanding it to reoccupy the entire Strip. According to initial unconfirmed reports, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has briefed "friendly journalists" that he has ordered the Israeli army to "conquer Gaza" in the face of opposition from the army's Chief of Staff, Eyal Zamir. Netanyahu's office reportedly told N12: "The decision has been made — Israel is going to conquer the Gaza Strip."

The ceasefire was supported by Israeli army officials, while the decision to reoccupy Gaza is favored by the hardline ministers like National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, who are key allies in Prime Minister Netanyahu's rightwing coalition and are credited with playing an influential role in sustaining the ongoing Israeli onslaught.
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Zelensky and the EU increasingly desperate over the inevitable outcome of the conflict

Lucas Leiroz
Strategic Culture Foundation
Wed, 06 Aug 2025 00:00 UTC
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Calls for regime change in Russia reflect Ukrainian desperation and psychological collapse

In yet another sign of Ukraine's psychological collapse, President Vladimir Zelensky has once again openly advocated for the political destabilization of Russia. In recent speeches, Zelensky stated that only a regime change in Moscow could guarantee "security" for Europe and prevent future conflicts on the continent. In practice, this is a desperate attempt to keep the narrative of the "Russian threat" alive, even as it becomes increasingly clear that the West has lost control of its proxy war against Moscow.

Zelensky proposes a two-step plan: deepen the seizure of Russian financial assets and intensify diplomatic and political efforts to bring down the current Russian government. His logic is simple — but completely flawed: according to him, even if the war in Ukraine ends, the "threat" will remain as long as Vladimir Putin is in power. The proposal, however, ignores Russia's internal political reality, where Putin enjoys broad popular and institutional support.

Comment: Judgement 100% defined: One percent truth, ninety-nine percent fallacy.

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The carbon footprint of your heart surgery: When climate zealotry invades the operating room

Charles Rotter
Watts up with That
Thu, 07 Aug 2025 13:22 UTC
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If anyone ever needed a perfect illustration of how climate obsession has infected even the most sacred realms of human life — medicine — look no further than this earnest study from the European Heart Journal proposing to weigh cardiac procedures not in terms of survival, outcomes, or cost-effectiveness, but by their "carbon footprint." That's right. Your surgeon's scalpel is now competing with the internal combustion engine for the title of "climate criminal." Who knew the Hippocratic Oath was to be amended: "First, do no harm — to the atmosphere."

The paper is titled, in all seriousness, "Carbon emission analysis of aortic valve replacement: the environmental footprint of transcatheter vs. surgical procedures." Let that marinate for a moment. The burning question keeping these academics up at night isn't how to make cardiac procedures safer or more accessible, but which one expels less CO2 — because, clearly, when Grandpa needs a new aortic valve, the number one concern should be his operation's planetary impact, not, say, his chance of walking out of the hospital alive.

The study measured the "total carbon footprint" of open surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR) and two flavors of transcatheter procedures (TAVR), tallying up the greenhouse gas output with a precision that, one hopes, they also apply to, say, stopping hemorrhages. The results? SAVR was found to spew a positively scandalous 620-750 kg CO2e (that's "CO2 equivalent" for the uninitiated), compared to the positively parsimonious 280-360 kg CO2e for TAVR. The authors are quick to note: "The carbon footprint of SAVR is about twice as high as those from OR-TAVR or CATH-TAVR. These findings should potentially be considered when making population level decisions and guidelines moving into the future."

Let's put that "scandalous" emission in perspective. For reference, the average round-trip transatlantic flight emits about a ton of CO2 per passenger. In other words, your life-saving open-heart surgery — an event presumably rarer in a person's life than, say, a weekend in Majorca — emits less than one seat's share on a flight to Europe and back. Should we start shaming cardiac patients for not taking the train to their operations?
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Neil Oliver exposes changing standards on genocide, rape and racism - Are evils absolute?


GB News
Tue, 05 Aug 2025 10:21 UTC
Neil Oliver
Neil Oliver
Neil Oliver explores how society is losing its moral compass. He argues that crimes once seen as universally evil - like genocide, racism, and rape - are now judged selectively, depending on who the victim is.

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Listen to Lavrov: Here's why Russia won't take crap from the EU anymore

Tarik Cyril Amar
RT
Thu, 07 Aug 2025 09:02 UTC
Sergey Lavrov
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.
On the 50th anniversary of the Helsinki Accords, there's little to celebrate for those who wanted a harmonious coexistence

Like him, hate him, Otto von Bismarck - Prussian aristocrat, arch conservative, user of German nationalism, maker of wars, and then keeper of the peace - was no dummy. And his ego was Reich-sized. Yet even Bismarck had a grain of humility left. Smart politics, he once remarked, consists of listening for "God's step" as He walks through "world history," and then to grab the hem of His mantle.

In other words, stay attuned to the needs and especially the opportunities of the moment. Tragically, Bismarck's single greatest skill was to seize - and, if need be, help along - opportunities for war. But sometimes peace, too, gets its chance. Fifty years ago, all European countries - minus only Albania, initially - plus the US and Canada, signed the Helsinki Final Act (or Helsinki Accords).

A complex document addressing four areas (called 'baskets') of international relations and follow-up implementation, the Helsinki Final Act was a breakthrough for Détente in Europe. Détente was a global attempt, driven by Brezhnev and Gromyko's Moscow and Nixon and Kissinger's Washington to, if not wind down, then at least manage the Cold War better.

Comment: Lavrov's article, mentioned above (use AI to translate):
Half a Century of the Helsinki Act: Expectations, Reality, and Prospects

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Former spy says CIA 'analysts' who helped cook up fake Russiagate intel still thriving in Deep State

Emily Kopp
The Daily Caller
Tue, 05 Aug 2025 18:11 UTC
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© Drew Angerer/Getty ImagesFormer Director of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) John Brennan testifies before the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence on Capitol Hill, May 23, 2017 in Washington, DC, about allegations of Russia’s meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election and possible ties to the campaign of President Donald Trump.
Two analysts who helped Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director John Brennan discredit President Donald Trump through weak or phony intelligence on Russian election interference continue to cash paychecks from the agency, according to a former CIA operations officer.

"At least two still do work there. That doesn't mean that all of the other people have left. Those are just the two that I'm aware of," former CIA Operations Officer Bryan Dean Wright told the Daily Caller News Foundation.

One of former authors remains in possession of a "blue badge," meaning they remain a CIA employee, while another possesses a "green badge" and continues to do work for the agency as a contractor, Wright said. Others may retain their security clearances.

Comment: An excellent question with an obvious answer.

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House Republicans subpoena Bill and Hillary Clinton, former AGs and FBI directors for Jeffrey Epstein testimony

Josh Christenson
NY Post
Tue, 05 Aug 2025 18:49 UTC
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© William J. Clinton Presidential LibraryBill Clinton with Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell in 1993.
House Republicans subpoenaed nearly a dozen former federal officials and politicians — including Bill and Hillary Clinton — as well as records from the Department of Justice on Tuesday amid an expanding probe into the deceased pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

The officials — including former FBI Directors James Comey and Robert Mueller as well as six ex-US attorneys general — were compelled to testify before the House Oversight Committee.

Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) announced the move days after DOJ officials interviewed Epstein's accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year sentence in a federal prison for conspiring to sexually abuse young girls.
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DARPA's Theory of Mind Warfare

Matt Smith
International Man
Wed, 06 Aug 2025 00:00 UTC
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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has an initiative called the Theory of Mind program.
This effort is designed to give national security decision-makers the ability to model, simulate, and ultimately anticipate the intentions and behaviors of adversaries using a combination of advanced algorithms and human expertise.
At its core, the program aims to:
  • Build algorithmic models that "decompose" adversary strategies into elemental behaviors.
  • Use massive data — signals intelligence, open-source information, even social media — to create high-fidelity "avatars" of enemy decision-makers.
  • Simulate possible responses to a range of U.S. and allied actions, exploring which ones best deter, incentivize, or nudge adversaries toward preferred outcomes.
  • Integrate insights from psychological profiling and machine learning to continually update these models as real-world conditions shift.
The promise is profound: a system that doesn't just predict what an adversary might do, but actively guides policymakers toward courses of action that shape the adversary's decision calculus — minimizing escalation and maximizing U.S. strategic advantage.

DARPA's Theory of Mind program fundamentally changes how conflicts are managed. Decision-makers can run gaming scenarios at unprecedented detail and speed, customizing incentives or deterrents tailored to both cultural and individual psychologies. Risks of unintended escalation might be sharply reduced, while opportunities to "push the line" without crossing it become clearer.
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