I want to give you folks a heads up. I am working with my technical guru to see if there is a plugin that will require folks to register if they want to comment. The reason for this is troll control. There are some who post who are abusive and disruptive. At present I have to search out each comment and deal with it myself. Requiring registration will give me a better ability to deal with the troublemakers.
First up is a video channel I highly recommend if you are looking for someone to explain what happened with the ship Dali, which is owned by Grace Ocean Private Ltd, flies a Singapore flag — What’s Going On With Shipping. Notwithstanding speculation by folks like Lara Logan that the ship’s steering mechanism was hacked, this guy destroys that theory. If you watch the videos at his channel you’ll quickly appreciate he is not some political hack spinning. He is a knowledgeable professional and makes the complicated pretty simple.
My weekly chat with Nima focused on the “Duty to Warn” policy, how it came about and how it is supposed to be executed. I apologize for hammering on this issue but the propaganda campaign underway to portray this as a Russian failure to act is an outrageous lie. I recall one incident when I worked at the State Department under Ambassador Morris “Buzz” Busby. Buzz, prior to joining State, served in Naval intelligence and was not your typical pasty faced, sniffling foreign service officer. He later served as Ambassador in Colombia and directed the hunt for Pablo Escobar.
Anyway, we received intelligence at State that a terrorist attack was planned for a U.S. Embassy in the Middle East. The problem, if we took action to prevent the attack, it would compromise the source and the source would likely be killed. Buzz opted to prevent the attack. It was one of those moments where the duty to protect a source was outweighed by the duty to prevent the loss of life, not just of U.S. Embassy personnel, but of the foreigners who worked in support jobs at the Embassy. It was a tough call but Buzz did the right thing.
I do not, sir, regard you as the Oracle of Truth. I do take into account your history with the USG, and I take into account what I have read from you over the years . . . and how things have played out afterwards. I hope this doesn’t sound too negative! You’re a smart man, with a depth of experience that informs your opinion. I watch every video, I consider your thoughts . . . and to the limited extent that I can form an opinion, they make sense to me. I type this on Easter Sunday: God bless you, sir.
Thanks for the blessing. I certainly don’t see my self as an Oracle. I’ve just had a unique career experience that has crossed into CIA ops, intel, State Department policy, FBI investigations, and US military special ops activities. I know how the sausage is made and try to convey that.
your experience in that regard is very important to whether we, the people, take it as ample evidence in our own research. this example is curious as i generally trust Logan’s reporting, and she is saying insiders in the IC are saying this was absolutely intentional. is it your impression that she is being misled or lying and this is just a tragic accident? i really do not believe in coincidences anymore.
LJ is there reason to remove the upvote/downvote system ? the trolls on this site are becoming brazen and theres no option to block them or downvote them.
especially those tag-team trolls who used multiple account to reply to themselves so we got a loooong chain of discussion totally out of topic and basically this is the troll/hasbara’s intention , that is to ruin the comment section with banal useless posts
Karpatok
Dear Larry, as well as buntalanlucu: I
look forward to all your posts including the judge, Nima, Alina and any others. But very few commenters
are worth the time. Just a very sincere few who have the requisite experience and intellect. So what is the point of wading through the rest of the banter
and hostility and trash? Who has the time and why should they be encouraged? I want to learn but all that I learn from most of these people
Is mud slinging, their “feelings” and their ignorance. So please forgive me
If I cannot bring myself to participate.
However, please know that I applaud your courage, hard work and diligence.
Pleased take good care of yourself and your family. Be well and be careful.
*****
Yes , you are correctly assesed the real issue , the comment section became diluted with endless off topic and pointless posts.
This is common hasbara strategy ‘poison the well’ , to make the comment section of a site unbearable/unreadble.
they spam off topic nonsense , post anti jewish conspiracy , use multiple accounts (aka sock puppets) to reply to their own posts , target certain ppl with smear/insult so they will reply in rebuttal or anger.
The ONLY WAY to stop these hasbara is for people to STOP RESPONDING TO THEM..
omg i saw the usual ppl still engaging them , FOR WHAT ? These ppl dont seek civilized discussion , all they want is filling the comment section with their drivel and your stupid replies to them
*****
HI Larry
I enjoy reading your post everyday (and other commentaries with people like Judge Napolitano, Alexander Mercouris, Max Blumethal, Scott Ritter etc). I find it incredibly illuminating and cannot understand why you should be subject to abuse – keep it up we need more people like you to keep us informed on critical issues which you and others report on
That’s why the west backed the racist national Navalny. He would have broken the Russian federation and pushed an anti Muslim agenda.
There were no chances in hell that Navalny would have ‘broken’ Russia. He was bottom dwelling fruit that was fed upon by US NGO’s.
“He would have broken the Russian federation and pushed an anti Muslim agenda”
I think you meant to say– correct me if I am wrong– that they were deluded enough to think he would have broken the RF… etc.
Perhaps they didn’t even place such hopes on Navalny, but only planned to use him and the NGOs they funded to organize enough civil disturbances to force Putin to take serious law and oder steps so they could claim huge human rights violations by the “dictatorship” that required “humanitarian” intervention from outside
Registration is a great idea if it helps you to deal with abusive and disruptive posters in a timely and efficient manner.
Interesting conversation with Nima. Dangerous times indeed.
It feels like being in a mental asylum where the patients are playing with explosives while strutting about, skipping and jumping and we watch helplessly, horrified that they can stumble at any moment.
Larry, Registration may not be as effective as you might expect. Over at MoA, B requires a type of limited registration yet is inundated with nefarious NAFO trolls who hijack IDs and post as if they were them. I think it is a huge problem. I think real registration with verification of email or 2FA would be sufficient to screen out most of them. It would limit comments though but perhaps this is a good thing in the long run.
” I think real registration with verification of email or 2FA would be sufficient to screen out most of them.”
I agree. Also a definition of “trolling” is needed.
Repetitive virulently anti-Islamic/anti-Palestinian posts pushing a defense of the genocide in Gaza, like those by “Martin” would be at the top of the list. I have ceased to excoriate him for his abhorrent posts but he continues to troll me with idiotic rants.
i appreciate the need for reg, but am growing increasingly wary of listing and verifying my email in an age of ubiquitous federal fascist surveillance. its not like i cannot be identified via other means, but i’d sure like for them to have to spend some time carrying out their task if they are that dedicated to their evil cause.
I share your concern. Perhaps this can be done by direct e-mail to Larry, not some registration vulnerable to surveillance?
Email is simply open.
BTW you know who admits to being a Roman Catholic. That is why I repeatedly bring up Tomas Torquemada of the Dominicans, God’s Dogs.
Thanks to Russia’s Dostoevsky.
I will post the Grand Inquisitor again as a reminder :
“BTW you know who admits to being a Roman Catholic.”
No, I don’t.
I only know of one who insistently claims to be a Roman Catholic in the context of an unsolicited autobiography made up of lots of anecdotes full of many “uncles” and “aunts” of several ethnicities. Other than that there is only one poster who talks often about his religion and he is not Catholic.
“Repetitive virulently anti-Islamic/anti-Palestinian posts pushing a defense of the genocide in Gaza, like those by “Martin” would be at the top of the list.”
You should take a second look at your hundreds of pure jew-hatred posts before condemning me. Obviously, you are using Gaza as a fig leaf; now, with the winds blowing just right, it’s your big chance to openly hate Jews and all things Jewish. You’ve grabbed on to this opportunity for all it is worth, maybe you’ll never get a chance to so openly hate again.
Yours, ariadna, is the classic case of “The pot calling the Kettle black.”
It was you, along with your sidekick brussell, who first tore into me with the most foul-mouthed/vicious of comments after my very first honest post explaining why I, after my personal experience of living in 30%-Muslim Brussels for over ten years, didn’t sympathize at all with Gazans.
I, a Roman Catholic, mentioned my week in Israel immediately after the Muslim terrorist (ISIS) attack in Brussels – while I was there – and am still “accused” to this day of being a filthy Jew.
Apparently, you’re used to people taking whatever highfaluting hate-filled vitriol you choose to spew at them without them pushing back. I decided to return your insults with a more intelligent, difficult-to-refute version of what you gave me – laughably, my challenging you with inconvenient facts gave you the vapors.
How predictable, our
obnoxiously mean
Nellie can dish it out
but she can’t take it.
“along with your sidekick brussell, who first tore into me…”
Little Martine is still butthur weeks later. One would think that as a “Roman Catholic” it would be used to having it’s butt reamed.
could you please stop getting baited and replied to the usual troll on this site ? this is what they wanted from ordinary posters , to gaslight them and thus ruin the comment thread by endless rebuttal on the troll posts
Trolling is when someone is more concerned with antagonizing or harassing another poster, than to actually argue a perspective on an issue. It can be easily identified by the use of derogatory comments, name calling, sarcasm, personal assumptions, and attempts to silence a different perspective.
Bottom line is that there is no one vision of reality. Each of us perceives the world, and everything in it, differently. When a persons perspective is questioned, it tends to make them instantly defensive, and people often lash out at anyone who does not agree with them.
Most people can be adult enough not to take a different opinion as a personal attack, but some cannot, and so sometimes they must be removed from the conversation.
“Bottom line is that there is no one vision of reality. Each of us perceives the world, and everything in it, differently.”
Sure… I will not blame a daltonist for not being able to pick strawberries but I will not stand for him to harangue me insisting that strawberries do not exist.
You can have your vision of reality based on your perception but you cannot deny some HARD FACTS of reality.
If you are “adult enough” to take denial of vast atrocities as a matter of personal opinion, I will not join you in that “vision.”
i suggest you ignore trolls who obviously want to gaslight everyone and look for engagement instead of honest discussion.
they all want to flood the comment section with off topic banal useless discussion
jdog is not a troll
Reality is manufactured by assembling the limited knowledge each of us has. Because humans are basically egotists, we deceive ourselves into believing the conclusions we have arrived at based on our very limited knowledge is correct and that our reality is the correct one.
People get angry when others disagree with them simply because their disagreement challenges their reality, by questioning their knowledge about a given subject.
We are all far less knowledgeable about things than we are willing to accept. Of course our egos will not allow us to admit that.
Humans are egotists to a different level. Some are aware of the limits of their knowledge, others not so much. Telling the difference is not so hard, once one get the gist of it. Smart people have no problem being proven wrong, and changing their mind. Idiots and fanatics would rather die.
The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.
The real knowlege mostly lies in the STEM fields. Everything outside is free-for-all, and anyone can make up shit. People would believe anything, from trickle-down economy, to 72 virgins.
Moon of Alabama does not require registration and the site owner has consistently held that he does not want people to have to login to comment when someone request an add on like Disqus.
“Registration is a great idea if it helps you to deal with abusive and disruptive posters in a timely and efficient manner.”
The biggest foul-mouthed, “abusive and disruptive” troll on this site, by far, is brussell and you have consistently supported and encouraged him. When I asked Larry to ban him for using extremely foul language against me and another poster, language he used only because he was safe behind the protective anonymity of the internet, it was you who called me the coward.
That makes you, ariadna, a proven troll-supporting hypocrite.
Larry could start his troll banning with the commenter below. I’ll be interested to see if you, ariadna, also call Larry, like you called me, a coward for doing what I had wanted done all along.
In case any are thinking it is me as who Larry is referring to: Larry definitely knows who I am already, has for some time. He can contact me at any time if he feels I’m out of line. He has not made any mention of my behaviour in our email exchanges. Analysis of when I DO get abrupt with or make fun of other posters is in response to ad hominem directed at me. Yes, I give back as well as I am served.
I still hold the position that there are paid disrupters present, given the speed and deftness with which they re-appear, alter “personality” and tactics as changes are made by Larry and other posters to inhibit their effectiveness.
Public allusions to mental disorders are made based on certain posters qualifications as psychiatric professionals? I doubt they have such, so shouldn’t be making any public diagnoses. Look in a mirror.
2FA? Not to be able to post comments. It gives away current location and possibly other personal info Larry may not want to have to account for and manage under various privacy legislation. More opportunity for data scraping by Big Tech.
Simply supplying a valid phone number as required on the Contact Form should be more than sufficient to dissuade the trolls and the hired saboteurs. If that is the path chosen, I would expect Larry’s tech folks to harden their Registration database security/encryption to avoid hacks, as a ready-made list of potential dissidents would be very valuable in any gov’t SOP Jan6-style “investigation” sweep. Not that the NSA/5-Eyes/etc. doesn’t have the means to collect whatever they want, but it does make them work a bit harder and more explicitly in legal terms to get it. Hacks can be “any old bad guys”.
“scoring” as mentioned below. So novel, but “unpopular” POVs get derated in some manner, “popular” ones get elevated? Mob rule as we saw with the voting in another form. Have the conviction to make your own case, the Chorus too often is reacting to (or playing on) emotion, not information. Promoting voting is no more than wanting a means to “put a thumb” on the public opinion balance-scale.
Certain posters focused on my “style” as their rationale for the down-votes, but almost invariably did NOT put forward alternative factual, referenced counterpoint. It is interesting to see they have since adopted some of my positions they formerly opposed, albeit missing the bits they don’t want the public to focus on.
There is not a lot of bots, so specifically “protecting” against them is a waste of resources. The ChatGPT-using posters seem to have subsided, no real protection against gibberish short of full moderation, which ain’t happening.
MoA is not a model to follow, there is a specific agenda B wishes to see, and any alternatives are either removed or allowed to be attacked. The resulting dumpster fire is not a surprise. Saker had much the same predetermined agenda issues, and the “volunteer” moderation scheme didn’t fare well. Too many cooks…
Pipe down, AP. I do not consider you a troll with an agenda.If it were up to me I would only ban “Martin”– the Genocide lover.
I consider you a minor nuisance whose comments I just scroll over because by now I know what they are likely to be about without reading them.
— Long harangues (with links!) against religion hurled at anyone who used the word “God” in their comment, because you will rid humanity of the scourge of faith one commenter at a time,
— Reprimands to any commenter who discusses the decline of the West without mentioning the Rothschild family (lots of links…)
— Reprimands to any poster who mentions race, whom you lecture that races do not exist, only “the human race.”
— Constant complaints about imaginary Rothschild infiltrators who are responsible for your having been downvoted and now, without the voting mechanism, largely shunned by most commenters.
I don’t care about any of that. I don’t address comments to you and only asked you to return the favor but you can’t seem to to be able to let go. Even so, I don’t care. So… BYE BYE
What happened to “scroll on by”? And I’m not going anywhere unless Larry chooses to weigh in on it. You are the arbiter of nothing here and your annoyance that the votes are gone show your entitled attitude.
It is a PUBLIC blog, so I’ll comment on any post I please. How you react is your issue, not mine. The BYE BYE is a nice touch, you’re leaving?
It doesn’t matter to me what you FEEL about my comments, if you don’t have anything FACTUAL to contribute to the blog, then don’t. You even take a shot at the fact I supply references… really, free-floating opinion should carry more weight than referenced information. Astounding.
The original Twitter 140-character limit spawned a new paradigm of pithy, zero-content communication, where punch trumped information. It fit precisely the dumbed-down, attention-deficit plaguing the internet-generations.
Your above post? Not ONE fact to be seen, all is your opinion, hurt feelings and ego on display.
WORDS MATTER. They are tools used to communicate. The correct use of those tools is key to accurate communication. You have often played school-marm, correcting grammar and lexicography… but only you are allowed such power here?
Racism is a misused, catch-all term, so clarifying that there is only one HUMAN race is a benefit to any who adopt that fact as a part of their reality. That would help to ratchet down the underlying trigger-levels and reduce confusion by using “ethnicity” or “ancestry” instead, more accurate terms. Bigotry instead of racism…
Ditto for the correct understanding of “antisemitism”, but oddly you chose not to broach that one? A couple orders of magnitude too much to sweep under the Zionist Movement carpet?
The Rothschilds? Why are you and certain other posters so adamant to protect them from notice? They even have an online archive to trumpet their goodness, so why not tell the entire story, not just parts they want? I don’t care what they ate for breakfast, but whatever decisions they influence or make that affect all our lives is worth the public knowing.
I will apply the “logic” presented to the public when gov’t overreach on our privacy is concerned… If they have nothing to hide, they have nothing to fear. But it is beyond remarkable that those who have great influence over such a wide swath of politics and commerce have such a small (non-existent?) notice in all media. Except what they want to known (i.e. WEF) but even then, as not directly connected to them and their other activities.
Again you engage in subtle ad hominem, positing I have some mental disorder that makes me focus on the oh-so innocent Rothschilds and the supposedly unconnected Chorus posters who rail at any mention of them. Protesting too much?
So the Chorus collectively decided to embargo my posts… as if I hadn’t noticed. More like you all have no referenced sources to refute what I present, so “Social Proof” against my “style” is your last bastion.
And last but not least, “God” and religion.
This is a hard-ass geopolitical blog, not a religious pulpit and recruiting site. Unz, MoA and Saker make/made no bones about the religious underpinnings of their projects. Fair enough, go there if that is your world-view. But to think overt and covert proselytizing will not garner a response in a non-religious-context blog is arrogance. If posters are going to parade their sacred cows, I’m going to take them to task. Especially given the massive historical and CURRENT role religion has been shown to have as a major psychological factor in war, bigotry and hatred.
The kind of hatred spewed at me for pointing out that history and current abuses, and the intrinsic, fundamental flaws all religions and their followers’ thinking share.
HATRED. I’ve even been threatened with physical harm and you said NOTHING to dissuade your fellow Christian.
So I’d say your credibility here is about shot.
So, the flaming keyboard coward, Any Person is back!
LJ must have impressed something on your disturbed psyche as your rant is slightly more civilized and while you abandoned the full assertion that you are LJ”s “knowingly anointed comment administrator,” you deflected by implying it this time. Some progress, I see. Still a long, long, long road to go, tho.
Got the Hazmat suits. Name the place, troll
You need to book into a rubber-room for a few days, the hallucinations are getting out of control.
Delusion 1- I never even inferred Larry had “anointed” me to moderate or any other official status. You made it up.
Delusion 2- Larry hasn’t commented negatively to me… ever. So whatever more “civilized” behaviour you think you see is not the result of Larry “impressing” me. That’s in your twisted mind.
Delusion 3- That there is any “deflection” on my part. That’s your Christian Apologist stock in trade, avoiding the point…
So where IS your proof about God? You’ve tried to get as far away from that as possible with your rant-o-rama. So before you even attempt it:
https://sonar21.com/are-ukraine-and-nato-waiting-in-vain-for-a-russian-offensive/#comment-239790
So bring better “proof” than that, which you can’t, because that’s what the best and brightest Apologists have come up with.
The fact you react so immaturely, actually challenging me to a physical fight, says more than I ever could. Over words on a computer screen… which leads to:
Delusion 4- I’m a coward? YOU threatened to send someone else to do your dirty work…
Wrong rant, this is what I referred to;
https://sonar21.com/hopeless/#comment-237937
Read the whole tread – you ran away.
IF LJ doesn’t ban your disturbed trolling ass after this latest round of yours, I guess you DO run the comment section.
You will never learn.
Too bad.
No, I gave up trading jibes with the intellectually bereft.
That you focus so intently on my every post says more about you than I.
So how IS the Inquisition here going? The virtual Burning of me at the Stake all planned?
It’s you who won’t learn.
Religion has held the Bully Pulpit since the beginnings of Civilization, using fear, lies and physical force to coerce people, or kill any who refused to knuckle under.
You all have just demonstrated that age-old system here at SONAR21. And you are too brainwashed to understand what you have shown the world. Although we haven’t discussed it, I’d bet big Larry is under no illusion who the problem posters are. He just needed someone to draw them out and get them to show their true agendas. I have been that lightning rod, and you have thrown EVERYTHING in your collective Hasbara Bag of Tricks at me… to no avail.
I KNEW you all couldn’t resist resorting to overt abuse, that your worldview is so intolerant, so inward-looking that you couldn’t comprehend how your actions look in objective minds.
But the world has changed, real knowledge is available at a few keyboard clicks and religion is dying. Slowly at first, then all at once.
Gaza will be the turning-point for many Believers, that their “leaders” can be so morally bankrupt and callous as to cynically, openly supply the weapons to knowingly kill innocent people in the name of the Abrahamic God. And even if Ukraine is cast as a secular war (it’s not), the total destruction of a country to further Rothschild-US/ZATO aims is not playing well on computer screens.. Vietnam looks like a tea-party by comparison.
Thanks for playing, fool.
The keyboard coward trolls as that is his reason fro living! You are nausiately amusing!
“No, I gave up trading jibes with the intellectually bereft.” – So, that is why you attack others, me included who are mentally, intellectually superiors – because of your masochistic tendencies, then!
Well, roast in your own bile, and continue to drag this comment section down.
If you ever want to meet, I’m there.
Again, the not-so-veiled threat of physical harm.
I’m not “attacking” I’m responding to your ad hominem attacks. That you have no factual information to give as counterpoint to my posts is your problem, not mine.
Stop parading your sacred cows and I’ll stop butchering them. Genuine believers accept that I respect their right to have faith as they choose, just don’t show up making claims you can’t back up. MoA and Unz are places more amenable to that.
But commenting on how Nutty-yahoo’s Torah justification for the genocide in Gaza is identical to the passages found in the Christian Old Testament is FACT, so therefore fair game.
I’m not the one “roasting in bile”, readers can see the hatred in your posts, oozing out of every phrase you type. True Christian sentiment, to be sure…
You actually think I’m pained, “masochistic” at your ineffective idiocy? Nice trying to pick up on the theme I used on McMorrow. How about you try to have an original thought once in your life, rather than being led around by the nose by some old book and the people who trade on explaining your life from it.
You’re the one getting spanked at every turn, you just don’t realize it.
“I do not consider you a troll with an agenda.If it were up to me I would only ban “Martin”– the Genocide lover.”
“Genocide,” in Gaza? Hint: If Israel wanted to commit genocide all those Gazans would have been dead by Christmas. And I’m a “Genocide Lover” because you, a demonstrable Jew hater, says so? Anything you think, type or say is the truth because you did it? Laughable!
The same applies to your six-months worth of mislabeling as “starvation” and “famine” the inability of Gazans (more-often-than-not obese) to get, for the first time in their entire well-fed welfare lives, their supposedly Allah-given right to their infidel-provided three square meals a day.
Hamas leaders, overly-fed and safely tucked away inside their luxury hotel in Qatar, threw the Gazans under the bus and, according to you, it’s all Israels fault. I’m not buying it, not for a second, and I’ll, using provable facts, speak out against it here.
For a little over a month I’ve punched holes in your highly emotional arguments and your accusing, mean-spirited, Jew hatred; doing so appears to give you the vapors,
Without me to challenge your unhinged comments you’ll have free rein to spew your Jew hatred unhindered, consequently you want me gone.
Sempre leio os comentários e não vejo Ariadna sendo odiadora de judeus, mas sim uma antisionista como eu e que vê os crimes cometidos por Israel. Vc como defensor de genocidas usa muito senso comum para tentar esconder os crimes de sionistas bem antes de terem inventado sua terra sem ninguém para um povo sem terra, mas hoje isso não está mais enganando e é esse o desespero de todos os sionistas.
He should be able to understand your comment since he says his wife is Portuguese and in addition to Belgium and Israel he spends time in Portugal.
And Martine has a Mexican Aunt, and it’s also part Cherokee. It also lived in Brussels and while there bashed a Muslim.
Quite the internationalist.
Israel is committing genocide. That is not debatable. The fact that more than 70% of Israeli settlers support this genocide and the inhuman war crimes makes them all accomplices in war crimes.
It is correct and moral to hate evil, and Israel is pure evil. Not all Jews support Israel, but all Zionists do…
On this point I agree with ariadna, and that’s saying a lot.
SO WHAT about the actions that you CLAIM about Hamas leaders? Don’t forget, Hamas was ADMITTEDLY deliberately created by Israel (under Nutty-yahoo’s direct influence) to split the Palestinian gov’ts. So perhaps Israel paid the Hamas leaders to stay in luxury digs as you claim? Could it be that’s why those photos exist, because the Hamas leadership was suckered in by Israeli agents?
Zelensky lives in luxury while his press-ganged soldiers die in the trenches. Biden lives in the White House while Gazan children die under the bombs he supplies.
What you present is a distraction, a deflection of blame from those dropping the bombs on children to those who drew attention to the open air prison (that Israel never denied buildin) and slow starvation of 2 million people trapped there. If Hamas never existed, the situation in Gaza would be little different. That was the plan.
As to your position all the reports and video coming out of Gaza are faked… get on a plane to Ben Gurion airport, go to Gaza and send Larry some live-feed from the front line in Gaza you say is peaceful. Tour the hospitals you say weren’t bombed. Should be no problem, it’s all peaceful according to you… then no one here could say you’re full of shit.
You can’t play your “Jew lover” bullshit on me, so what will be your ad hominem ploy?
“…the open air prison…”
Yeah, “the open air prison” with two BMW dealerships!
http://www.preoccupiedterritory.com/blockade-forces-gaza-car-dealer-to-sell-bmws-only-to-wealthy/
“The open air prison” with the “Come Visit Beautiful Gaza” tourist campaign?:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJaxKQrHE6U
Photos of you standing in the showroom TODAY or it’s bullshit.
Have you ever actually been to Gaza? Or are you just another Zionist genocide supporter? I think we know the answer.
Happy Easter,
Whatever the cause of the loss of power on the ship there should’ve been far more robust bridge pier protection to prevent this exact scenario from happening causing the complete collapse of the bridge. Too much of American infrastructure is built at a minimum design standard to save costs during construction yet when something like this happens it’s costlier in the long run.
As far as the terrorist attack on March 22 there’s one thing obvious… the Empire of Lies 🇺🇸 government knew the source of this terrible tragedy. What a shame it is that such a rogue state was created just to weaken Russia. What a double shame it is that the US government did not properly notify Russia because they see Russia as an adversary. It’s time for the complete and total destruction of this Nazi Kiev regime. It’s also time to reign in this out of control deep state, CIA and every other alphabet soup agency who are predators to sovereign nations.
On the first part- yeah, that.
I was up late the night of the crash and collapse. I was looking at things on the web, read about it, and found myself watching a live stream video of the scene. (It turns out there was a long running stream there, just showing the bridge, because… people like to look at stuff like that.)
I glanced at the running chat window, and there was somebody saying he is a civil engineer, and part of his work has been designing bridge base support, specifically designing protective structures around the bridge supports, to make it so it is nearly impossible for any watercraft to hit the actual bridge support structure.
I thought, yes. That’s the whole thing right there.
Addendum to my post… The US stated in its warning “…to include concerts…” They HAD to know about this attack. They lost track because the Russians had high security during the original planned date when Shaman was performing at the Crocus before the elections. The US creates terrorism throughout the world and renames them “freedom fighters.”
…. and calls freedom fighters terrorists.
And the real freedom fighters are callled terrorists.
Before “freedom fighters,” back when Osama Ben Laden had not yet been selected to be “the Mastermind of 9/11,” they were called “the brave Mujahedeen.” No TV commentator used a different term.
Too much of American infrastructure is built at a minimum design standard to save costs during construction yet when something like this happens it’s costlier in the long run.
That’s sort of funny.
And the Sovjetunion over-engineered their Infrastruktur.
What does that says to US?
American infrastructure has a new problem now: copper theft!!!
Read this article to get a snapshot of a country crumbling at an accelerated pace
https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/more-inflation-more-copper-theft
Copper theft is universal. It is is a valuable metal. I recently saw a construction site telling thieves not to bother as they are using aluminium cored electrical cable
Copper is the metal of Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged. When ZH posts that just imagine its Libertarian crowd crowing!
Communism does not work.
International communism does not work, but neither does internationalist capitalism. The 3 civilizations most demonized by the Global American Empire (GAE) are Russia, China, and Iran. These have widely disparate social, political, and economic governance structures. (1) However, they all have one very huge commonality: in all three merchants do not rule.
I’m not running down merchants in general. Merchants as a group are one of the the underpinnings of civilization. Unless you want to be picking ticks off each other and living in grass huts, you must have a merchant class in your society supported and nurtured by rule of law. However, the mentality that makes a good merchant is not one that makes for a good designer and manager of civilization.
The longevity of America as a merchant-run civilization is due to homogeneous high quality starting human capital and essentially a complete lack of civilizational threats. (2) These conditions are no longer true.
We are diverse (heterogeneous), not homogeneous. Civilizations serious about their own perpetuation do not import violent 80 IQ peasants from alien cultures. The quest for profit is a very weak glue with which to bind together a multiracial polity. I expect in the coming decades that rule by Mexican drug cartels will be seen by many as preferable to rule by the JudeoPuritan progressives of the GAE.
It is clear that intelligent people, having failed at a task of existential importance, should look at the example of others who have succeeded and incorporate the ingredients of others’ success into their own project. We Americans need a new ruling class devoid of merchants. People respond to the incentive environment in which they operate, so the legal possession of property abroad must be banned, and foreign ownership of property within our borders must also be banned.
(1) This is such an unlikely alliance it boggles the mind. It’s a testament to how rancid America has become that they have been driven together. A smaller scale example is the Taliban in Afghanistan. Most of the tribes don’t LIKE the Taliban or want to be ruled by them. Even the Pashtun are not all in on the Taliban. However, when the choice came down to siding with either the Taliban or the GAE, the GAE lost decisively, because in the end the Taliban, for all their faults, were and are seen as their moral superior.
(2) Proximate existential threats tend to focus governance efforts. Civilizations facing destruction (if they choose to live) do not leave soybois and bimbos like Scholz, Biden, Macron, Hochul, and Pelosi in charge. Nor do they tolerate continued hostility from enemies within.
Lots of food for thought.
Nevertheless the merchant class cannot exist without a manufacturing based-economy, which America has systematically dismantled and transformed into a financialized service economy. The “merchant class” is now the financier class trading debt packaged as assets and imaginary money
But it was the financier class that provided Americans with many years of prosperity and made America great. Candy wrappers (dollars) sent around the world by the financier class returned to America with candy wrapped in candy wrappers.
An economy based on production can only grow due to three factors:
cheap raw materials (+),
cheap energy (+?),
cheap labor (slave labor) (-).
The United States does not have cheap labor, because the freedom-loving population under democracy is accustomed to consuming candy in candy wrappers.
Is it worth reproaching the class of industrialists that, in the pursuit of profit, they moved their production to places where cheap labor or cheap energy or cheap raw materials were available?
Do Americans agree to slave labor on grandiose five-year construction projects, and on collective farms as under Stalin?
There is no other way.
(Sorry, I try in my writing to avoid idioms, metaphors and neologisms that do not want to be translated into English, so as not to look stupid or clumsy).
Post 1990’s, Putin deliberately took back control of the central and general banking system, jailed, drove out or domesticated the Oligarchs. The 5th Column was rendered impotent and regime change operations in Russia and various Republics were dismantled.
China achieved the same over a longer time frame, also having to lift 100s of millions out of poverty and generally educate, modernize the society.
Iran I can’t speak to, but it is stronger in so many ways than the US/ZATO/Israel counted on. In my estimation, the theocracy is likely to be its weakness long term, providing an attack-vector for the US/ZATO. Especially if it is significantly resisting modernization (not Americanization) of the culture. Tolerance of other beliefs/non is key.
The Rothschild Class are the apex “merchants” today. Until their outsized influence and power is brought back into reasonability, the US/ZATO problems will persist. Russia and China have demonstrated this clearly.
Yes. post Soviet Russia and the PRC have confronted and dealt with the issues of a pure “command” economy. Yugoslavia ran a mixed economy that had some success. It’s interesting that both Presidents Xi and Putin are depicted as “tyrants” which in ancient Greece meant those who stopped the oligarchs, but the mean was inverted. These two states have wrecked the prospects of a “reset” (on the banksters terms).
Ah, another reader of Hudson I’ll bet…
Registration might work, but it is the nature of the Internet and deep states that any and all forums are infiltrated by trolls and AI bots.
Getting scored on every point in your comment by some troll, with zero criteria for scores, or any considered opinion as to why they score the way they do. Back in the day it was something like ‘make sure you’re wearing your tin foil hat’.
As to the Francis Scott Key Bridge, this was no accident. While I’ve not spent much time analysing this, the video show two fairly presice changes in direction, one, it’s heading for the pier, and then it changes course for a precise strike.
This is going to be a ‘we will never know the truth’ case. Sure, we will be fed a narrative, but it won’t be water tight, pardon the pun.
I believe this was Russian sabotage. They’re had a number of US Naval ships hit other ships, in good weather and in daylight. As to those in the business coming forth with their ideas, or attempts at debunking theories, isn’t helpful.
ISIS-K (Kay) – Kay, Francis Scott Bridge = FSB. I am just having fun…
I am minded of MH370, and all the theories, but no one countances the fact this plane was fitted with an automatic distress bouy which the crew had zero control over. The bouy wasn’t deployed, so the plane didn’t crash. Mind you, there’s a UK company who knows exactly what happened, but they are wired into the Nazi security framework. It probably landed in Africa. This is an example of how things are made to be merky and muddy. Same with the MV Estonia, sank by MI6, but there’s every theory under the Sun on NaziTube.
I encourage you to watch the video I posted and other videos posted by that gentleman. The process of steering the ship is analog.
Yes, maybe, but the facts remain, the ship lost power, and the ship made two course changes, this was not drift or wind. The engines were working quiet hard, but not efficiently, because the pumps that supplied air to the engines weren’t working, hence all the black smoke.
Clear as night, that ship changed direction twice, but rudder, or something. I doubt the wind could have such sudden influence on direction.
Seems way out there, but could something under water be pushing the ship towards the pier?
When US navy ships have been sent on collision courses, they clear don’t see their real location, or that of other vessels. We’re not talking blanket fog and dark nights.
The crew were using their instruments, and what they saw, was not reality. This happens to pilots who believe they are at x safe altitude, and then plough into a mountain.
I should also point out this ship almost certainly has bow thrusters, so rudder not the only means to influence direction.
There’s a story this ship have power issues while in port and they mentioned steering problems. I don’t know why they would experience steering probs in dock, but this is what one fake news report stated. Was this a test run for power control?
‘I believe this was Russian sabotage’.
The Russians have no doubt a trained flock of seagulls. Putin pushed a button on his desk and the seagulls flew into the bridge kamikazi style – thereby causing it to fall / to collapse. A puff of wind helped.
The alternative to ‘Russia the bogeyman’, a modern day mischievous Puck, was a Klingon star fleet in the area under impulse drive. They used a Russian designed tractor beam to control the ship – Right?
I believe Larry wants to stop this kind of pointless trolling. Everything I have stated is possible. I’m not saying it happened, but this boat was way off course before it was anywhere near the bridge, and then it made two course corrections before impact. Neither of these changes in course, were down to wind, or drift.
Trolling Larry with comments repeating your fixed ideas is not the best way to make a case of being the victim of trolling.
I have ridiculed you several times for absurd speculations and do not take back any of them.
“Everything I stated is possible” is an “argument” that deserves ridicule.
Refusing to believe that Russia caused the ship to hit the bridge despite repeated posts trying to educate Larry and all of us of Russia’s agency is undoubtedly trolling.
The evidence stares you in the face: the acronym of the name of the bridge has been decoded: it is FSB!
BTW: The Russians would not use seagulls but trained dolphins.
FSB is a domestic organisation not active overseas.
Tell that to Carl, the decoder
Just look at all the naval incidents involving NATO ships in the recent past. The new British carriers just get their nose out of harbour and they break down. British submarines are also crashing in their own ports, as well as the ME. 2 US destroyers crashed, in open seas. I Norwegian frigate, crashed in open seas, and we know the Russians have destroyed US/NATO satellite guided and glide bombs by messing up the signals.
The largest port on the East Coast is completely blocked, just as the West is promising to send troops to Ukraine. While I have no doubt Kinzhal and Zircon would destroy any US troop movements on the docks, the need for that is greatly reduced with the mayhem about to take place at all East Coast ports trying to ship products normally sent through Baltimore, as well as the backlog of goods already stuck in Baltimore.
If this wasn’t in the USA, no doubt Blinken and co would be blaming the Russians, as usual without any evidence.
I smell embarrassment, if the USA accuses Russia, they would look weak, and the last thing the US needs is the world finding out just how far ahead the Russians are tecnologically.
Let’s look at Probability.
Russia did it? .001%, too many uncontrollable variables, including the question, if a ship hit the concrete pillar, would the bridge fall down or would the ship sink?
Incompetence, individual and collective, was the Perpetrator? 99.9%
A ship at sea or in port with a faulty steering system. What’s the big deal? If you don’t need bolts on a door-plug in a Boeing plane, what’s the big deal with hit-or-miss steering on a container ship?
Send in the Plumber, er, Mechanic/Electrician to fix it. Did he/she/it pass their DEI qualifications? Check. Does he/she/it know what end of a wrench or screwdriver to change out a failed part? Now you’re being racist and unsympathetic.
I have just watched a US sailor on a similar size ship to the Dali give a breakdown, with full video, of his ships steering and power systems, his site is called Steam man, he mentions 30 seconds max as the time for other power systems to kick in, showing the redundancy built into these large tonnage ships.
Recently, I started watching a site where luxury yachts are featured, wishful thinking on my behalf, and of course the engine rooms feature a lot. These are 70 to 170 ft and all below 500 tonnes luxury yachts, below 24 metres can be considered as non commercial, and even those had multiple redundancy for power and steering.
From the video … the only way to hack this ship’s computer is by bringing a thumb drive on board. Steering is analog. Nonetheless, the collapse is a hit to the US Supply Chain
What is going on with Shipping.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Wim-_Q_59o
In the video Sal Mercogliano is giving a good explanation on how ships work and how shipping insurance works. The drawing of the Engine room (shown at 3.30) relates to most modern Ships.
Stern of the ship is on the left side of the drawing, and bow of the ship is at the right side of the drawing.
In the centerline of the picture, and center of the engine room, you have the Main engine.
In the centerline right behind the Main Engine toward the stern you have the propulsion driven generator.
On both sides of the propulsion driven Generator you have 2 diesel engine driven generators.
In the centerline at the stern, you have the rudder rams (the circle) and 2 hydraulic pump stations (squares)
The propulsion generator are driven by the propulsion shaft of the Main Engine but only when the Ship is at open sea, because the main engine must rev near full engine speed, in order for the propulsion generator to produce the correct frequency (50 or 60 HZ) of the 3 phase AC voltage.
Thus one or both Diesel engine driven generators must be used when the Main engine is at slow speed.
One important thing: When electrical load suddenly surges, you can’t just start up one more generator and load it directly to the electrical grid of the Ship. The second generator must be in sync with the frequency of the already working generators before it can be connected to the grid and deliver more power to the system.
At sea you have no Police to pull over and stop faulty ships. Instead you have the insurance company to demand how the ship must be build, and inspectors to check yearly that the ship is in compliance.
Shipping insurance companies (IG-P&I) demands that the ship must have redundancy on all critical functions onboard.
Dali was built in 2015, and would most certainly have PLC (Computer) control system onboard, (instead of the old “Analog” control system). Today, most producers of ships engines have SAT links to their engines onboard ships, in order to help the Machin engineer’s trouble shoot the engines if faults should occur when at sea. More over the Ships position system is also connected to GPS satellite and AIS networks, and most ships can steer via Auto Pilot when at open sea.
In the video (at 6.30) Sal explains how “computers” are connected to control modern ships and confirms most of what I have written about what may have happened onboard Dali.
However he claims that modern PLC (Computer) systems onboard ships cannot be hacked via satellite.
I don’t agree, and is writing as a whistle blower with knowledge on this particular subject.
We need to face reality. Hacking has become a major vulnerability in control of Nuclear power plants, Ships, Airplanes, and Automobiles.
If the ship was hacked the incident becomes an act of terror, and thus the insurance company can refuse to pay for damage.
I hope the NTSB will thoroughly investigate whether the ship was hacked.
One thing is certain; the inspectors from the Insurance Company will focus on this subject.
Becoming a whistleblower necessitates the protection of identity of the whistleblower.
So if my writing means that Larry introduces mandatory registration, or bans me from this site, I will just leave this site and my warnings to the public hopefully resulting in securing such critical functions from hacking, will thus become in vain.
White papers written on exactly what your saying. Not only maritime but aircraft and trucking are wide open targets. Robust Encrypted systems mostly nonexistent on all infrastructure.Spoofing GPS position is the easiest and probable in the bridge incident. I like LJ but if he resorts to censoring people he doesn’t like he only hurts himself. Truth is a lion, it’ll defend itself.
I think that Larry should think very hard before doing anything that would dissuade people in your situation from posting. I have always found your contributions extremely insightful and valuable.
I don’t see why you should be banned for advancing the hypothesis of hacking, supported with technical explanations.
I am ready to believe it was an accident because it is not the first of its kind, but I am suspicious of Biden’s rush to declare it an accident before a full investigation has been done because, as you point out, an act of terror or sabotage would mean the insurance company will refuse to pay..
Nevertheless, from suspecting foul pay and deciding it was RussiaRussiaRussia it is a long stretch and one you did not make.
ariadna wrote:
“I am ready to believe it was an accident because it is not the first of its kind”.
My comment: I not ready to believe it was an accident, because Ships are mandated to have several redundancy systems to mitigate such catastrophes.
Besides according to NTSB investigator in charge, Marcel Muise, the VDR (black box) on the ship stopped recording when the lights went out.
That can’t happen with 2 Generators, Battery backup and independent UPS powering the VDR on the ship.
Check this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnAaf9L4tBA at 4.00 onwards.
I dont believe Russia had anything to do with this. See my post below.
I see.
Bear with my next uneducated question:
I understand the bridge was supported by only two pillars with a very wide span between them.
A ship out of control was more likely to pass under that wide span than directly into one of the two pillars, or not?
A. Dane, the things you write almost always amaze me. Thank you for your valuable, detailed insights. “Just the facts, ma’am.” — The Logical Joe Friday
PLCs (programmable logic controllers) are mechanical relay-replacements, generally not full-on computers, are more robust and far less prone to hacks or EMF/software glitching in critical applications. By computing standards, they are pretty “dumb”.
First introduced in the 1960s, they are still widely used in all manner of industry for this exact reason. Essentially they replace the wear-prone physical contacts of mechanical relays with semiconductors, the “logic” used to control the process is still essentially the same.
Yes, when introduced in the 1960, PLCs were only used to replace major relay switchboards of mainly digital functions (On and OFF).
Back then they were pretty dumb, as they could only create the functions they were programmed to do, until they were programmed to do other functions.
However with the advent of Analog (Variable) functions and data sharing technology, the PLC system was transformed into a SCADA system, thereby being able to share and receive data with other PLC systems and computers via BUS communication, and thus be controled remotely via the internet.
Since the early 2000 it has been common praxis to monitor, edit and program SCADA systems via online communication. However it necessitate that you know the IP address and the code to access the system.
Agreed, but the more critical the operation or process, the less fragile, interconnected computerization would be prudent. Perhaps like the 737s, the Dali is the canary-in-the-coalmine, indicating the limits of technology as balanced against basic safety.
“Perhaps like the 737s, the Dali is the canary-in-the-coalmine, indicating the limits of technology as balanced against basic safety”
My comment
Now we are on the same page.
AP,you don’t know what your talking about.PLCs are absolutely FULL ON Computers!They rarely replace relays,they control the relays.What you meant to say is PLCs replace relay logic circuits.
Readers can search “PLC vs computer” to see the basic differences.
If I had used the term “relay logic circuits” few here would have understood it. Technically you’re right.
I spent some time programming Gould PLCs back in the day. Before computers could be used to code, then download the logic.
https://www.reddit.com/r/PLC/comments/tozh6j/gould_modicon_plc/
The “line” is increasingly blurred, but for critical safety-related functions, simple is better. It stands to reason that on a ship, safety is the first requirement, all other functions must be subordinate to that.
PLCs don’t replace Electrical relays (other mechanical things like speed governers etc sure) in fact they drive Relays which control valves, and other electro mechanical actuators. Sitting with just one wall separating me from the worlds largest industrial automation company. Have close family and friends working for it.
Not sure if it does ship engine room automaton. More likely Honeywell does that.
See my above post, if you haven’t already.
Fair points
Thank you for this information. I have satellite internet with limited ability to view video’s, due to my location. I find you very informative. Hope you hang around and keep informing.
If it turns out it was sabotage, then I would lean towards Ukraine as the culprit as they are extremely upset over the failure of the US to provide funds now and have said so. BTW, it can’t be ignored that the pilot was a Ukrainian, wasn’t he?
Captain, not pilot. And I think that while it has been established that the ship has had a Ukrainian captain in recent years, some people are saying that he had left the ship and been replaced before the incident. I’d be interested in definitive proof on that either way.
I am also intrigued by the fact that people who suspect the ship was hacked point either to Russia or to Ukraine as the possible culprits. Could it not be an act of internal sabotage?
Watch the Lloyds insurance panic.
They will not panic about $4 Billion, they are counter insured among other insurance companies.
However the US taxpayers are not counter insure.
ariadna wrote:
Could it not be an act of internal sabotage?
My comment:
That was my first thought when I saw the video presented by Larry in this thread..
https://sonar21.com/usg-cant-get-its-story-straight-on-terrorist-warning-to-moscow-while-baltimore-bridge-collapse-seems-apt-metaphor-for-america/
How would a Ukrainian have detailed knowledge of Chesapeake Bay waters ?
Immigration for one, thousands of Bandera forces transferred to Canada and the USA after WW2.
Ukraine was also a major sea faring nation under the Soviets, no doubt many Ukrainian ships and crews travelled there.
The captain of the Dali is Ukrainian, do you think an experienced captain or crew would not familiarise themselves with the ports and harbours they service?
I see Russia moving to the river, blowing the bridges, taking Odessa to landlock what is left of Ukraine and calling it a day. There is nothing western backed Ukraine can do to prevent that EXCEPT NEGOTIATE NOW.
NATO is an obsolete idea IMO, it now only has the power to ensure WWIII.
NATO is waiting for an attack that was never coming, very expensive.
Western media keeps fearmongering that Russia is coming for NATO member countries, claiming they are “rebuilding the USSR”, which makes no sense. Putin can let them rot, ignore them, and wear down member countries by forcing them to spend.
Question – The US ambasador to Moscow in 2008 is now the current head of the CIA. He famously stated in 2008 that “Ukraine joining NATO is the brightest of red lines for Russia”. He was right, but now he seems to be making all the wrong assumptions, what happened? He just posted an article on the “foreign affairs” website with several nonsensical conclusions. Thoughts?
It seems to me that ‘negotiations’ won’t prevent that outcome either. While it might take awhile, Russia is capable of advancing all the way to the Polish border, and the west has made this a necessity. The Ukronazi regime can either die slowing them down, or it can capitulate and let the Russian occupy the country. Any other end to this conflict just sets the stage for a repeat down the road.
Also remember that the fundamental problem that Putin and the axis of resistance is face is that of US hegemony. The slow progress of the SMO has dealt massive blows to west politically, militarily and above all economically. It is not in Russia’s interest to stop the SMO and let the west recover. As long as the west continues to invest in the conflict, Russia will continue, in much the same way as the meat-grinder campaign of attritional warfare is reducing the AFU to ruins, the sanctions war is reducing the western economies to ruins.
Russia has not peaked in terms of building its war production up, introducing new weapons, or building up its armed forces. Now is not the time to accept a partial victory.
The west, on the other hand, is in zugzwang. Every move they can possibly make makes their own situation more dire. A good player would have resigned several moves ago, but the core US leadership still sees ways to profit from the conflict and intends to milk it for all its worth.
The wars of last few years and the current war in Europe and Middle East has made US and wests loose all it’s moral standing and soft power both in the global South and as well as within to it’s own citizens.
What a fall it has been. This is a necessary condition too for the fall of a hegemon.
“US and wests loose all it’s moral standing and soft power both in the global South and as well as within to it’s own citizens”
In addition, the genocide in Palestine, to which it is a full accomplice and the main subsidizer, has revealed to the world something else, namely, that the US is like an exhausted giant, tottering on his feet, dragged around on a leash by a pigmy– Israel.
Everybody understands that the US is losing enormously by this (billions it borrows to feed the pigmy, prestige, respect), yet it is acting against its own national interests, as if it no longer has any agency, hollowed and destroyed from within.
+1
Karl Denninger at the Market Ticker has some very informed ideas about how this accident could happen.
https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?blog=Market-Ticker
Thanks for the link, informative.
This is a US Congressman talking!!
“Michigan congressman Tim Walberg believes that Washington should not waste money on humanitarian aid for civilians in Gaza or Ukraine, and instead focus on supporting Israel’s and Kiev’s war efforts to achieve “quick” victories.
Walberg made his controversial remarks during a meeting with members of the public in Dundee, Michigan last week. In a video posted on social media on March 25, the congressman criticized President Joe Biden’s policies, telling a small audience that the US should better spend Gaza aid money on supporting Israel, which he labeled Washington’s “greatest ally, arguably, anywhere in the world.”
“We shouldn’t be spending a dime on humanitarian aid. It should be like Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Get it over quick,” Walberg could be heard saying.
Simple evidence for the pile that many in the US Congress are evil/idiotic/deluded/all of the above.
I don’t understand how money will help “get this over with quickly” like in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Is the congressman going to shower Moscow and Gaza with green paper cut-ups?
Although…the amount of debt of 34 trillion dollars is equivalent to a nuclear apocalypse.
It would be more useful for the congressman to check the condition of the US and Israeli nuclear weapons.
Actually it is the $1.6 TRILLION a YEAR in Interest Payments that are going to make Americans squeal
Funny. I think the opposite. All that money spent supporting Israel’s genocide should be redirected to support & protect Palestinians.
Reparations for the damage caused by our vicious, rogue “aircraft carrier” in the ME desert.
Being the hegemon means never having to say you’re sorry
From 1973 to 1977, Walberg served as pastor at Grace Fellowship Church in New Haven, Indiana
These American psychopaths……..
I don’t know what kind of pastor he was. He may be an adherent of the beliefs that razing Gaza hastens the “end of times.”
“Mankind was created in the image of God, but fell into sin and is therefore lost. ”
https://gracefellowship.com/about-us/what-we-believe/
sure looks like Pompeo’s crowd.
and Israel laughs all the way to the bank
You could not make this stuff up! That churche’s merc t-shirts :
the very definition of a troll – living an audience for one.
“Michigan congressman Tim Walberg believes that Washington should not waste money on humanitarian aid for civilians in Gaza or Ukraine, and instead focus on supporting Israel’s and Kiev’s war efforts to achieve “quick” victories.”
“We shouldn’t be spending a dime on humanitarian aid. It should be like Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Get it over quick,” Walberg could be heard saying.”
I disagree with the congressman wanting, for any reason, to send US tax dollars to Ukraine and Israel, but he has a point about comparing Gaza to Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Considering that the USA vaporized two Japanese cities where its civilians never once cheered the mass murder of Americans, why should the USA send aid ($$$) to the Gazans who openly cerebrated the mass murder of 3,000 Americans on 9/11?
Why should we Americans spend one thin dime on a Muslim people who have proven beyond all doubt that they hate our non-Muslim guts, who have happily danced, and then pissed, on our graves?
Gazans are hungry?
“Think of the CHILDREN!!!!”
OK – Let the filthy-rich Saudis &UAE feed them.
Palestinians CELEBRATE the murder of 3,000 Americans by Muslim terrorists on 9/11:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9yK0u-XH1M
Palestine didn’t attack the USA, look for the Dancing Israelis who had film cameras set up to watch the planes hitting the towers.
As for spending a dime, the US has spent billions attacking the Middle East, you break it, you pay for it.
“Palestine didn’t attack the USA…”
You are correct, no they didn’t. Their Muslim “brothers” attacked the USA and were consequently lauded as great Muslim heroes by the overjoyed Palestinians.
I’d wager that the only 9/11 disappointment for the Palestinians – whom almost everyone on this site cries over – is that more Americans didn’t die, that it was only 3,000 who died instead of 30,000.
Now that the shoe is on the other foot – that it’s now the Palestinians who are dying a violent death – these same Gazans who were so thrilled over 3,000 dead Americans are singing The Blues.
It’s common knowledge that this killing in Gaza could immediately end, that the Muslim world could open its door and usher the Gazans to safety. But, of course, the Muslims wouldn’t touch these violent, welfare-for-life Gazans with a ten-foot pole, let alone move them into their neighborhoods.
In the end the West (USA, Canada, Western Europe, Australia) will get stuck with these deadbeat Gazans as Israel and the entire Muslim world won’t have ’em.
But carry on about “the dancing Israelis” if it makes you feel good, as if that somehow answers all the questions and explains everything to a tee.
As for the “you break it you pay for it” canard, we aren’t shopping at Pottery Barn. We didn’t fix Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam either. The most I can expect from the US government – though I doubt it’ll happen – is for it to finally stop meddling in foreign affairs and destroying other nations in the process.
Israel and the Zionazis need to be erased, those pagan desert dwellers should buck off and pray to their golden calf for forgiveness, but they are godless creatures who pray to demons.
For good measure, take those fake “Christian” evangelists with them, let them burn in their rapture.
Shower of muppets.
The Dancing Israelis are fact you muppet, the arrests were made, the perps let go later.
Dude, Stop showing your ass. Palestinians include Christians. Got it?
There is stupid trolling: harassing another poster again and again for lambasting your comments, even after that poster has long ceased to reply to you, and then there is agenda-driven, noxious and reprehensible trolling pushing Islamophobia, denying the genocide in Palestine and dehumanizing its victims.
You practice both.
You impersonate a “White conservative American” and you think you can cleverly appeal to the Americans’ exasperation with the open border policies that bring in millions of unvetted, unassimilable migrants, many of them Muslims, and somehow identify them with the Palestinians whose genocide you are denying.
You think it goes unnoticed that the strong supporters of open borders in Congress– the likes of Schumer– are the very same who push unconditional support of Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
Your impersonation includes hypocritically saying you disagree with sending US tax dollars to Israel (you, who stated you have residences in Belgium and Portugal and don’t even pay taxes), while pushing the shameless, long debunked Jewish lie about the Palestinians “celebrating the murder of 3,000 Americans by Muslim terrorists on 9/11.” Actually two lies in there. So they deserve to be given the Hiroshima/Nagasaki treatment, according to you….
The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is often used as an argument by Israeli genocide lovers like you when an American criticizes the terrorist apartheid state: “Look who’s talking! You did Hiroshima/Nagasaki. You criticize Israel because they are Jews… “
The same with depriving the Gazans of food and water: “there were African starving, look at the photos!. You didn’t make as much noise about those because no jews were involved! Show me photos of Palestinians that emaciated.”
You rush to minimize Weitman”s outrageous statement (“Russian must pay”) by claiming that he, the leader of an influential Likkud faction, is just a “blowhard.” Nothing to see here, let’s go back to talking about the ‘fat’ Palestinians in Gaza who lie that they are starving.
Lots of posters disagree with one another and engage in debates, sometimes acrimonious, some may annoy others with their repetitive fixed ideas and idiosyncrasies, but none poison this site with the kind of anti-human hatred you espouse.
You are a provocateur and a reprehensible troll and for that reason you are the one whose banning I would salute.
Notice Belshazzar’s hand in the gold coins as he gets banned from On High.
Right ON Ariadna!!!
“You impersonate a “White conservative American” and you think you can cleverly appeal to the Americans’ exasperation with the open border policies…”
“Your impersonation includes hypocritically saying you disagree with sending US tax dollars to Israel (you, who stated you have residences in Belgium and Portugal and don’t even pay taxes)…”
“…while pushing the shameless, long debunked Jewish lie about the Palestinians “celebrating the murder of 3,000 Americans by Muslim terrorists on 9/11.”
“So they [Gazans] deserve to be given the Hiroshima/Nagasaki treatment, according to you….”
“You rush to minimize Weitman”s outrageous statement…”
All false. You gotta stop believing that everything you think, write, and say is the truth.
“…none poison this site with the kind of anti-human hatred you espouse.”
All you have to do is look at your own poisonous hate-filled posts along with your sidekick brussell’s poisonous foul-mouthed posts to prove your statement, one again, wrong.
“You are a provocateur and a reprehensible troll and for that reason you are the one whose banning I would salute.”
Look in the mirror ariadna, look in the mirror.
P.S. Believe all you want otherwise – I’m not Jewish. What I am is a white, Roman Catholic, Conservative male; I’ve pulled my own weight my entire adult life. I am also, after over a decade of living in Europe, still stuck with paying my American taxes.
P.P.S. Are you saying that all these Palestinians celebrating 3,000 dead Americans on 9/11 are actors? That this is all fake? That the world has been lied to – Let me guess: By Jews! – for over 20 years? Can you post credible proof of that? Of course, you can’t, but you’ll continue to believe the ridiculous lie that Palestinians didn’t celebrate the mass murder of Americans on 9/11 anyways.
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Palestinian men, women, and children absolutely ecstatic over the murder of 3,000 Americans by Muslim terrorists on 9/11:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuL4NVZog1g
Спасибо! Мне нечего добавить.
This is why you are labelled as a troll and Israeli Hasbara. This is not the first time you have trotted out an lie and this is not the first time I have pointed out that this claim of Palestinians celebrating has been debunked long long ago. The video was from a celebration one year earlier of a Palestinian win in a football match ( soccer)
But you still live in your delusion that your old hasbara lies have any effect any longer. Save your breath.
Though Americans have been complicit in the genocide of Palestinians since 1948. It’s not their first rodeo.
***!
“Russia will pay the price”
https://rumble.com/v4l34jx–israeli-amir-weitmann-ruling-likud-party-threatens-russia-on-rt-.html
There are some connections pointing back in the direction of Hell Aviv.
A sentiment shared by many, if not most, of Israelis
Israelis also support the genocide of Palestine, so what else would you expect from a genocidal bunch of loons.
The video of that bridge collapse continues to amaze. The Dali squarely hits one supporting pillar and the entire bridge collapses like a house of cards….. ??
The structural factor that is relevant in this circumstance is defined as ‘fracture critical’. As one of the critical points (main truss bearing point) was hit and the physical manifestation occurred, thus there is the devastating fracture and the subsequent collapse we see. There is a federal inspection standard (among several) for these matters and that’s why repainting of bridges must be done to forestall corrosion, which can go critical. Going critical can be virtually instantaneous, and though it is not engineered to be so, it is still a true reality. Protecting such points by appropriate means is vital to preventing disaster.
Are you saying a single point of failure of the whole bridge – bank to opposite bank?
Of course. Look at the image of the bridge.
https://images.app.goo.gl/Vq3ERGVqsfqn84SL7
The main span only had two supports, one at each end.
Take out one support, and down she goes.
If you are into amazing bridge collapsing videos, you may like this classic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XggxeuFDaDU
As to registering, if that is what you wish to do.
Just remember that root causes derive from historical events that for some people are fresh in their minds, though they may have occurred several centuries beforehand. Honesty is Painful.
Trolling isn’t honesty
sure, some of the root causes are quite old
True, but pithy comments always get one’s dander up.
Larry, it continues to amaze and disgust me to read assorted noise from the usual suspect “news” operations, with articles on the themes like “why Putin ignored US warnings” and “Moscow attack reveals Putin weakness/stupidity/negect/incompetence” and “the beginning of Putin’s downfall as The Russian People rise up after attack”.
I just imagine English-fluent Russians reading all that kind of dreck and thinking “who writes this shit?“.
It is a Sandbox. You know like Java where they run inside their own bubble oblivious to the outer world or simply in defiance of external reality.
Most political activity is within a closed circle. Even BBC radio like Radio 4 Today is a “North London kitchen discussion” among people on first name terms – the microphone is an incidental allowing people outside in the garden to eavesdrop
The West is like the Court of Louis XIV where only the courtiers count and the rest are cleaning the stables
Radio 4 Today is a “North London kitchen discussion” among people on first name terms . . .
That brings back memories of when very many bourgeois “progressives” lived in Islington, London — people such politician and War Criminal Blair of “New Labour” and artistic types, entertainers and theatre “dahlings” and such like. It was just so fashionable to live there!
Who writes all the shit in the news? Is this a serious question? In case it is here is a couple of hints. The WaPo is CIA mouth piece. The Daily Mail, is MI6.
The propaganda maestro is the NY times and from where the talking points are given.
Not just English-fluent Russians….
Whether fluent in English or not, those Russians who wish to be informed about what Western “news” outlets publish have access to translations of Western Dreck into Russian at ИноСМИ (Иностранный СМИ — Foreign MSM) and ИноТВ (Foreign TV). Russians are generally far more aware about what’s going on in the West than Westerners are about what’s happening in Russia, apart from the “fact” that Putin is a tyrant and Russians live in an authoritarian state and yearn for freedom and democracy and a standard of living that Westerners all enjoy.
“Russians are generally far more aware about what’s going on in the West Russians are generally far more aware about what’s going on in the West than Westerners are about what’s happening in Russia
True and I would add
” than Westerners are about what’s happening in Russia and what’s happening in their own countries”
Imagine if you had a democracy like US in Russia last 25 years. We would be counting the number of countries spawned by Russia and Russians would be lining up for food like gazans. Thank god for the tyranny of the righteous.
What is your point?
Good links. Non-fluent in Russian? No problem. Encourage anyone to use translations apps to see what is available and make your own judgements.
Try this as well:
https://ukraina-ru.translate.goog/
The utter lack of real information in OTANistan is amazing. Also the utter lack of knowledge among its denizens about how to search for it. Not being multi-linguistic is no excuse anymore with translation apps available for browsers, phones and tablets. Yes, you have look at apps privacy concerns with each app, try more than one, and be aware that all are imperfect. So what? So is everything else.
The simple absence of curiosity and minimal effort to look is disheartening. The beyond ignorant lack of initiative boggles the mind. Even among commenters on this blog, which is, in general, more aware than most. How many times have you seen something like: “News about ‘xyz’ has just dropped of the map, why?” or something like that, instead of being motivated to look for info and then posting results.
Just blindly ‘following the shiny object’ and siezing upon or making up silly conspiracies to spout as ‘original analysis!’ is not way to go thru life if one ever wants to learn anything, anytime.
All useful but he was not talking about Americans not fluent in Russian but about Russians not fluent in English
Sorry, wasn’t clear. What I wrote was an observation of Americans and OTANistan residents in general, nor RF.
“I just imagine English-fluent Russians reading all that kind of dreck and thinking “who writes this shit?“.
Worse yet, “Do the American people, most of them, believe this shit?”
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I’ll register if you go that road.
Personally, all the conversations – whether or not there was a warning, who could transfer information to whom and in what volume – only convince me that the organizers of the terrorist attack are in Washington, London, Tel Aviv, Kyiv and worked in conjunction.
The best thing for this company would be to make surprised eyes and remain silent, without expressing either feigned sympathy or criticism towards the Kremlin and Russian security forces. In this case, there would be hope to instill in Russians a suspicion that Western intelligence agencies (CIA, MI6, MOSAD, SBU) were not involved in the terrorist attack.
But after two years of war with the entire NATO arsenal, killing civilians every day on Russian territory, including new regions, and after hysterical threats against Russia, after everything that Western propagandists have said about Putin and the Russian people, it is extremely stupid to expect that a terrorist attack will force Russians to rebel against the authorities.
The one who has enough endurance, who remains calm, is stronger and wins.
He who fights in hysterics and threatens with heavenly punishments is weak and loses.
It is obvious.
Has Lindsey Graham’s gloating statement that killing Russian is “money well spent” not been heard by Russians?
I heard. I can’t vouch for other Russians.
This may useful to consider. From MOA “Deterence By Savagery” 25 March 2024
This last few paragraphs are most important to consider, IMO. It accurately summarizes the developing situation from the OTAN perspective and indicates the danger to ROW as the collapse continues.
“Having lost its two main sources power, the rules based order as a (somewhat) soft power instrument and its military hard power superiority, the West is in need of a new instrument of deterrence, a new tool that allows it to press its interest against the will of other powers.
It found that in demonstrating utter savagery.
The war on Gaza, backed by the West, is a demonstration that the West is willing to cross all lines. That it will discard any nuance of humanity. That it is willing to commit genocide. That it will do everything to prevent international organizations to intervene against this.
That it is willing to eliminate everyone and everything that resists it.
Those nations who commit themselves to multi-polarity should steel themselves for what might be visited on them.”
Well worth reading the whole post, IMO:
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/03/deterrence-by-savagery.html#more
I read the article.
Yes, the prospects are frightening.
What do you think, what should Russia do in this situation?
Frightened by Western savagery and retreat? Or, in revenge, begin to genocide the population of hostile countries?
I think it’s not the first and not the second. Russia must find a third way. I hope that Russia will find a way out.
Neither of the options you mention as you recognize are ‘ideal’ and there are many other ways.
Some of which are and have been developed over the past two decades are now bearing fruit. Others might also occur to observers and still others are certainly being tested.
Life is a verb, not a noun. It is active, evolving, changing, adapting, this is easy to forget or lack awareness of as we all are enveloped by daily concerns that cannot be ignored.
Other ways being used, IMO:
Economic – both strengthening one own economy and focusing on real intellectual, industrial, cyber production for more that control and profit harvesting. This has been going on in RF, China, India, Iran. The opposite in OTANistan.
This also includes de-dollarization – BRICS, SCO are examples and supporting the real ending of colonization in Africa and ROW. OTAnistan helping in their own demise turned over its basic industrial production to China, primarily, greatly helping China to rise and be able to take steps to secure its own place and in turn greatly weakening OTANistan as the elite gained immeasuarble wealth.
Military – OTANistan relied on using defense industry as a wealth transfer and harvesting from their enslaved populations to the elites and their servants. OTAN militaries turned into colonial suppression thru terror in Asia, East and West, and Africa, leaving tens of millions dead, economies destroyed and plundered, yet still were and are being ejected.
RF rebuilt its education, which was far better in basic sciences even in the darkest days of the 1990s than in OTANistan because OTANistan was tearing down its education system, culture, and family structure since the 1960s. RF rebuilt its industry and expanded after the transition to VVP leadership. Thanks to the ‘helpful’ OTANistan ‘sanctions’ RF is even on a more solid and sustainable independent economy that at the beginning of SMO.
RF views its defense industry and military as just that – defending and defeating aggressors (which does include global offensive capability as the threats are global). Compare the OTANistan wunderkrappenwaffen with RF military tech. It is real and existential for RF.
Iran, also heir to an ancient civilization, threw off OTANistan chains and withstood its own OTANistan proxy war, built up its own education, industrial, cyber and military capability and now is the premier power in West Asia and part of a cooperative group with RF and China.
All this is evolving and will continue to evolve.
OTANistan is evolving as well. As noted in the MOA summary of 25 March, it is getting more dangerous and the reaction of OTANistan turns more rabid. Yet there are varieties of ways of defusing. Can’t guess or will guess any probabilities, but there are more than one possible, even probable, directions.
As a short-hand overall summary, have to think that there are more than one faction of the ‘blob, PTB, deep-state, etc.’ and there those within it and at the upper-level just below, and maybe even a few ‘colonels’ looking for a survivable way out of the trajectory toward nuclear destruction. This is hidden from view and may fail, or not. If it succeeds, no guarantees for plebs like us.
What’s next? The best, as unsatisfying as it is, is ‘dangerous timez…
+1
At first consideration it seems odd they would think that the world needs more demonstration of their savagery given their ugly track record: America’s first use of nuclear bombs on civilian populations, its wars on the ME (the “Jewish wars”) that killed millions, Israel’s 75 years of brutal ethnic cleansing and population expulsion, its use of white phosphorus bombs dropped on schools, its current genocide of Palestinians.
But maybe you are right and having lost military power as well as “soft power,” they are opting for doubling down on terror ad the “surprises” of asymmetrical hits Nuland thretened Russia with.
+1
As for the whole Crocus issue, the US has just been using another device to pressure the Russians to do some face saving deal to end this war, or US involvement in it anyhow. As in….. look how much intel we could play with, how bad it could get with our own plausible deniability intact, if you do not step up.
This is the name of the asymmetric game now. It is a dangerous game for the US who got in so early with that deniability of Ukrainian involvement, regardless of credibility, simply to stifle anyone in Ukraine claiming responsibility either truthfully or for the perceived kudos. The message to Ukraine was clear. Don’t you dare make noises that it was you.
Funny how the fanatical Interior Minister in Germany is using it as an excuse for border controls to check football fans coming for the European Football Championship but has no border controls or checks on the 30,000 Afghans a month they fly into Germany nor the flood from Ukraine…….and now Bulgaria and Romania have Schengen Rights – the EU borders are wide open – except for fastball fans !
They are probably too “Un-Left”
France has the Olympics so no doubt they will want to control access to anyone who is NOT a terrorist
Have you forgotten what British Football “Fans” did in Marseilles and elsewhere? That was long before mass migration. It is well documented that FC’s are prime recruitment swamps.
you sho8uld look at your tlelgram channel, there’s someone that is pretending to be yuo and asking people to join his financial chat
I gave a minus “dislike” to this fake message on Larry’s channel.
Yes – it seems to be a worm infecting so many Telegram channels
Every Telegram channel has those.
That is an infection that is widely spread on youtube channels as well
How about a few volunteers administering the comment section? I once did this 2 x 2 hours per week on the saker’s site until an arrogant and righteous poster of his several daily essays (you also have these types on sonar21 and , believe me, they are keeping many others away) insulted me for my own post. Anyhow, it seems to be feasible on platforms like discord.
You need not publish this one.
“Volunteers”? Like a comment section sanhedrin court?
No, that is used only on hasbarbarian.zionazi/talmudist/red-cow.org
Use of volunteer moderators is common with smaller blogs, websites and organizations that have grown over time and present too much for the original author.
Some people on this site certainly have that experience and likely others not-identified.
Having a full time moderator or flagging every post for approval quickly becomes impossible for anyone person and expensive to hire or buy software and doing that, as well, presents its own issues.
Another method is to make comments only available to paying subscribers. However a troll who pays can still troll, unless swiftly banned and a paywall eliminates most of viewers, who, in time, just leave unless there is enough unpaid content for them.
Remember the ‘ineresting discussion ‘ on this topic beginning at:
https://sonar21.com/hopeless/#comment-237790
Thanks for the link to the excellent comment by O’ Canada,. complete with a good characterization of what a troll is. Re-reading it makes me reconsider my previous lenient inclination to just ignore the pest he describes.
Thank you. How did I miss such a discussion!
If you are interested in my opinion, then I would say: there is no need for external moderation, or the abolition of the ability to vote, or registration.
On this site I noted only two malicious brawlers who disrupt comfortable communication. This is Any Person and Martin.
Why doesn’t our community self-moderate and collectively decide to ask Larry to clear the forum of them?
How, by taking a vote? I would be in favor of an open, not anonymous vote.
Of course, by open voting.
Trolls are trolls because ignoring them is not very effective. If you ignore the attack on you, he will find a new victim. Martin, of course, is not completely hopeless.
I never liked anonymous voting.
Do you think that my proposal is technically impossible?
Larry’s team can tell you that.
You ALL have not been paying attention. I have said the informtion below MULTIPLE TIMES and you all just ignore it… so I am obliged to SHOUT to see if it penetrates your thick skulls.
Larry has NEVER told me I was out of line. NEVER And we have communicated directly several times, so he has had ample opportunity to do as you say… HE HAS NOT.
Got that? HE HAS NOT.
HE….HAS…NOT!!!!!!
Again, Saker tried a “volunteer” system and chaos ensued. MoA is little better. Unz has been described by others as a dumpster fire. Inconsistent moderation is worse than none.
“community self-moderation” is mob rule. You all have proven you are not sufficiently tolerant or mature to act as moderators, or even offer counterpoint to views you disagree with without resorting to some level of ad hominem. I’m just supposed to let you insult me, because you’re superior to me because you’re Christians. Not happening.
Open or anonymous voting amounts to the same mob rule.
That I don’t lay down and let the God Squad or Rothschild-deniers have their way doesn’t make me destructive. See bonbon for destructive. If you have the strength of your convictions AND PROOF OF SAME… plainly show it. No sarcasm required.
You all mistake factual counterpoint as a personal attack.
IF YOU COULD ADEQUATELY DEFEND YOUR POSITIONS, I WOULD ADOPT YOUR POSITIONS. Unlike you all.
But you refuse to post factual counterpoint, go off and sulk, then collectively cry to Larry to ban me. Then the attacks resume, only the format changes.
For over a half-century I have seriously looked for proof of God and reasons to follow some religion… all I see from you all is the same old rhetoric and deflections.
There are MANY other places you all can go and be in a religion-forward geopolitical environment, I have seen no other religion-free, Free Speech-dedicated sites of the quality of SONAR21.
Is your expectation in the Comment Section primarily for soft social interaction? Otherwise why the preponderance of low-content, high-opinion interaction between this group and the high level of emotional reactions to any views you find disagreeable?
This has been raised by others in the past as well, and can be useful and effective if repeated trolls are identified and banned and not allowed to return as ‘sock puppets’ by the blog owner. Otherwise it fails.
If you are referring to my change of moniker, I explained to the readers when I did it, that with the new software automatically inserting the username, the shorter A P was no longer necessary.
I requested the change from Larry and he approved it.
So while your strategy for dealing with sockpuppets is potentially useful (I’d guess Larry’s tech folks are already on it), if you’re trying to allude my change as sockpuppeteering , go bark up another tree.
Watched a video yesterday evening, Euro time, from Redacted speaking about the Baltimore bridge incident. Clayton Morris, if I remember his name correctly, made the same accusation that I’ve been making since it happened: “this ain’t no accident!!” This position of his could have been deducted from a recent interview he had had with Doug McGregor. When you reflect on it, it’s clear this was an orchestrated cyber attack against the US as a tit for tat warning. The message: We can hurt you and really bad if you continue orchestrating terrorist activities on Russian soil.
This scenario is far from being conspiracy theory. I’d bet all the coke in Zelensky’s nose that Russia has either an SSBN or SSGN in the Atlantic outside of DC awaiting whatever stupid move the DC bandits concoct in their demented glial cells. Unless you’re a Navy specialist, many people don’t realize how powerful the EW suites are onboard these ships. Plus, add in the fact, virtually unknown in most countries, that Russia has the best computer hackers in the world far outpacing what the US is capable of, well, the conclusion should be obvious. Every year, for over 20+ years, the Russians win the World University games in computer programming. The Chinese, usually come in second place. US schools, once at the forefront have fallen way behind, and most of these students are foreigners studying in the US!!!!! For US residual pride, I think MIT may have won it back two or three years ago.
I just watched a video on this channel which stated ships like MV Dali are not satellite up-linked. It is not therefore clear how it could be a cyber-attack………and with 2 Pilots on the ship it becomes human error rather than “cyber attack”
In the video he expresses surprise that diesel generators could go out at the same time as diesel propulsion systems………
One day NTSB will find out
No SAT links for a ship like that in the 21st century I find hard to digest. Every moving object from tricycles to planes and ships is basically GPS coordinated now. If the Iranians can hack America’s most precious Global Hawk drones, anything is plausible under the Sun. Repeat, if it wasn’t cyber it could easily have been EW.
Has your tricycle a Sat Uplink? Maybe a Spacex antennae?
“it’s clear this was an orchestrated cyber attack against the US as a tit for tat warning.”
No, it is not clear at all. In fact it is completely unsubstantiated.
“The message: We can hurt you and really bad if you continue orchestrating terrorist activities on Russian soil”
This is projection. You think that’s how Russians think because that’s how we think.
Typical narrative of the exceptionalists from the Empire of Lies. Russians aren’t wussies, far from that in fact, and don’t like laying prone for anybody…that’s what Americans and their vassals want people to believe.
Rethink what you just stated.
It has absolutely nothing to do with the Russian being “wussies.” or “laying [sic] prone to anybody.”
It is about American chest-beating certainty they know how Russians think, despite having been proven wrong again and agin.
PS Free tip for Peppe and Any Person, who also misuses it.
— to lie, lay, lain — intransitive verb. Ex: You may lie in bed. He lay on the floor motionless
— to lay, laid, laid— transitive verb. Ex: You lay the table. Song: “As I lay me down.” Urban jargon: you get laid.
People whose mother tongue is English (which I assume is the case with both of you) should not get confused
And the Grammar Nazi schoolmarm reappears. Cute, but who gives a shit?
If I made such grievous errors (seldom if ever, examples please), I am sure you’d have jumped on it immediately as an indicator of your superior intellect.
Drones are unmanned vehicles controlled by radio signal.Ships are manned by a crew of thirty.NO signal to interupt.Total nonsense.
Not my nonsense…
Terrorism is a well known weapon of war favoured by The West. Look at Syria, where Jihadi hotheads from all over the world were hired, armed and trained to attack the country, causing the deaths of hundreds of thousands and the displacement of millions.
In the current climate, it seems odd that there was any kind of tip-off at all.
About controlling the “trolls” …
One could use the voting system (which seem to have been removed) to remove down-voted posts. Voting was always a good indicator to see peoples reaction to a post that was questionable. There could be a threshold that would trigger the post to be removed. But it also should be shown that the post was deleted due to harsh down-voting. People should still see the posters nickname and the time he posted his opinion and the final voting score.
Just an idea. I believe this “forum” can regulate itself.
Oh … and to stop bots, just implement capcha.
Honestly, I don’t see why registration should stop trolling from accessing this forum. It’s just one step in between unless it’s required to submit IDs or other means of identification to avoid people register unlimited times.
“Voting was always a good indicator to see peoples reaction to a post that was questionable. There could be a threshold that would trigger the post to be removed. But it also should be shown that the post was deleted due to harsh down-voting.”
I’ve up-voted a comment on this site and it registered as 10 down-votes.
The voting system here has been wonky for months, far worse than the US presidential voting system, and therefore worthless. Considering the circumstances, Larry’s removal of his site’s fatally-flawed voting system was a good decision.
Voting sounds like democracy. Putin would interfere with that.
Voting would work, at least in part, if it had two separate
“voting urns” so that it showed the number of downvotes and separately the number of upvotes. If they cancel each other you don’t get a clear picture. Even better, a voting system that is not anonymous but one can see –like on UR– who voted how.
It’s not the first “peace with Russia” conference without the Russians… As you pointed out, the Russian are no more in a negotiating mood, but Nima didn’t understood the US never were in that mood.
Those damned politicians see wars as a “winners takes all” elections caucus. When they loose, as the sore looser they are they will contest the results until the supreme court rules a winner and then they simply walk home as if no elections ever happen…
One last comment, based on your conversation with Nima.
Spoke with a good friend yesterday who is a Dyed-in-the-Wool Biden supporter. He told me that in his opinion, what will save the Dems this November is the Never-Trumper faction of the establishment GOP. Yeah, Right! As if Lindsey Graham wasn’t already on his knees in front of Trump.
Oh, and Joe will get rid of Netanyahu, the pier of salvation will be built at Rafah, and Michigan will go to Genocide Joe because Arab-Americans will “see the light” and vote for Joe.
Yes, indeed-y, Ladies & Gentlemen, ABSOLUTE DELUSION.
If Michigan will go to the resident, it will be the same way it did last time. 3am magic mail-in ballot drops in Detroit, after the windows have been barred and all the election watchers have been kicked out.
Larry, you are the first person i read every morning, and i watch all your Videos. Thanks for the especially clear and informed pieces you write. All the best to you.
First, I have a YouTube playlist of what Dr. Sal has been saying since the beginning of the Key bridge disaster (also a few other videos):
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZlQy6FlDBO3WlxlBsanJJVQ1wdK-ZaU8
Second, whatever happened to the source Larry mentioned in his post?
I hope he came out okay.
This is best analysis I’ve see so far. Gilbert Doctorow’s analysis of the Russian’s suspicions of the likely Anglo-American role in the terrorist attach should really scare us all with its implications. https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2024/03/27/yesterdays-remarkable-statements-to-journalists-by-alexander-bortnikov-director-of-russias-federal-security-service-fsb/
Gilbert Doctorow’s site won’t open on my pc for some reason. Anyone else have this problem?
You could try Paul Craig Roberts site where he reproduces Doctorow’s article: https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2024/03/28/the-russian-federal-security-service-identifies-us-as-a-suspect-in-crocus-attack/. This is where I saw it first but Roberts endorsement is not always a plus, so I didn’t want to muddy the waters.
Doctorow writes in the above linked article:
To the uninitiated, I explain first that the FSB is the successor organization to the Soviet Union’s well-known and much feared KGB.
I see similar statements time and time again in the Western media.
The FSB is NOT the successor to thr KGB: it is ONE of the successor organizations to the KGB.
I get tired of reading in the Western media that the FSB is the KGB with another name.
The FSB did NOT “inherit” all the functions of the KGB.
For example, the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, the SVR, one of the successor agencies of the KGB, is not part of the FSB.
And although Doctorow rightly says:
It [FSB] deals with domestic criminality of all kinds and with threats to Russian civilians such as terrorism
where “Russian civilians” means Russian civilians living in Russia, he then goes on to say:
the FSB is less visible both at home and abroad than the Foreign Intelligence Service . .
The FSB “deals with domestic criminality of all kinds”, that’s why it is NOT visible abroad: the FSB deals with domestic issues.
In a similar fashion, the British MI5 dealt with internal security issues, MI6 with foreign ones.
Except in the case of MI5 “internal” means in NATO. MI6 outside NATO such as in Tajikstan…
One thing to bear in mind about ships. Like trains, they take a long distance to stop. Also, unlike trains, they take a long distance to turn. Losing power at certain, critical moments, can lead to catastrophy. Especially in a confined space like an estuary or river.
“One thing to bear in mind about ships. Like trains, they take a long distance to stop. Also, unlike trains, they take a long distance to turn.”
So true.
I learned that first hand in the 1970’s when I took the wheel of a tugboat pushing a string of barges in the Gulf of Mexico, a safe place to learn because there was nothing nearby for me to hit. This old memory was the first thing that came to mind when I saw the container vessel hit that bridge in Baltimore.
Interestingly, I also took part in removing a train-trestle bridge that was struck by a vessel and dropped into the Atchafalaya River. The river water was moving fast that time of year, the city/state powers-that-be, after recommendations, wanted to wait until the river was calmer to remove the bridge. My company’s president said he’s remove the bridge immediately on the condition that he also got to keep all the scrap metal.
His offer was accepted.
Two divers willing to do the work were flown in from Belize. As an 18-year-old I tended (air, communications, tools) these two divers who, while underwater one at a time, had to cut the submerged bridge into movable crane-sized pieces. Both of these divers were incompetent, almost clownish. The company lost money when the project was immediately shut down the moment the first tiny piece of bridge – the culmination of a solid 84-hour week of work – was pulled from the water.
There was no use in throwing good money after bad.
For me, the shut-down of this bridge-removal job was a bummer; being a diver’s tender was, by far, the easiest job I had while working in the Gulf. Compared to the dangerously hard work of climbing leads to drive creosote piling, tending divers on a bridge-removal project had been, while it lasted, an absolute dream job.
I was late to the debate on the last bridge discussion. I looked at lots of steelspan collapses and the piers usually remain intact as they are designed to hold up the entire bridge, when it falls it gets lighter, these are reinforced concrete structures that don’t “crumble”. Watch the video and look at the right pier. What are these lights flashing around the pier as it falls? Any engineers here? Thanks.
https://sonar21.com/usg-cant-get-its-story-straight-on-terrorist-warning-to-moscow-while-baltimore-bridge-collapse-seems-apt-metaphor-for-america/#comment-239069
@mad cow, thanks I had posted something there and there was no discussion on ancillary evidence. My point: during and after 9/11, the planes were the total focus. There are still many mysteries on how and what happened with the planes (and missile). BUT the overlooked Blg 7 was noticed by enough people to shift the discussion and prove that it was a set-up, the planes were a attention distraction. Look at the scope of this event, why did the spans separate as they and if there is any destruction that seems out of place it should not be ignored. These images from the video show unusual flashes of light all around the concrete pier that probably should not have collapsed. Trying not to leave any stones unturned as any good investigator should, cheers.
Being not from USA, I never cared about 9/11, and can not comment on it, nor want to.
There are still many mysteries about Roswell too, for people that want to believe. For others. it was a top secret spy balloon, dozens of which were sent over Soviet Union and got shot down.
Have you ever seen or heard explosion at night? Not a firecracker, but a big one. I have. It creates a large flash, and a boom that can be heard from kilometers away. The time between flash and a boom can be used to estimate distance, just like with thunder (3 seconds per kilometer). How many people have reported hearing an explosion or seeing a flash?
There are none so blind as those who will not see, if you can’t see the various changing and disappearing sources of light surrounding the pier as it collapses then you are a jackass, I was asking intelligent people who understand engineering and physics what they might think about it and I actually researched similar situations before bringing something into the conversation. Your immature condesention is not appreciated and is not productive.I apologize to Larry for the unnecssary churn and am sad that you are so eager to demean not only me but the concept of honest investigation.
I am an engineer. I also have real life experience with explosives. Yet, I’m a blind jackass for not seing, or asking simple questions. If your hypothesis can be so easily derailed, maybe it wasn’t a very good one to begin with. Forensics is a serious thing, and not home entertainment. Or at least it should be. Maybe in USA everything is entertainment, and I’m just a partybreaker.
P.S. The thing about people who understand engineering and physics is that they often don’t tell what people want to hear. In those cases it’s recommended asking lawyers, or salesmen, or other yes-men.
So what is the source of the illuminations, that do not look as bright as the electric lights behind them and a lower visible spectrum which would indicate more heat than light even though they are vastly closer to the camera and why do they appear and disappear as the pier collapses? As an engineer can you speak to the pier collapsing and show how it is the predicted result? I did not find that to be the common result. Please back up your expert opinion with some credible information. Your responses so far do not indicate any level of sophistication.
You are right. Sorry to bother you. Have fun.
Mr. Johnson, sorry to hear that the trolls – both real or bots – have started infesting here as they do on many conservative news websites. Truth is a very rare commodity in this Age of Lies. You are right to take action to eliminate and control any harassment of paid or programmed liars and troublemakers. I see no problem with a registration or membership requirement.
On another note, I always enjoy all the interviews and banter between you, the Judge, Mr. McGovern, Mr. Ritter, Col. MacGregor, among so many others, but I really like the interviews with Nima and the very lovely Ania K. They are both so polite and knowledgeable about the facts and issues and always ask the right questions. Your channel is a wealth of honest information so please do whatever it takes to maintain it for us. We, your followers, have nothing but respect and admiration for you.
We are already registered here to comment, what will be new?
If you are thinking on us registering with our real email accounts, forget it, you lose me, I will never sign in with any real email account of mine in a blog fully occupied and patrolled 24/7/365 by MI6/CIA/Mossad, as tested when immediately after posting it here an analyst channel program was immediately banned at YouTube.
Registering is no obstacle for the NAFO trolls, as someone so correctly has already pointed out, as a sample, MoA…Email accounts and characters is what they have ample….This people work from Riga with plenty of time available too…Amongst them there always will be an Hispanic character, a Russian one, a Briton one, a Trump follower, a Biden follower, a zionist, all joining, or fighting, each other….so as to make the blog unreadable for the genuine citizen out of the ammount of useless crap…
If you have really the help of an IT expert, what about limitating the number of daily comments a person can do so that the blog comes back to readability?
I would end myself prejudiced by that measure, since there are days on that I have many things to say, and days on that, I either do not have the time, or I am not inspired at all, but I think I will manage controlling myself when the muses finally come….
In the past here there were well seasoned comments adding some new reflections and points, sometimes not seen at other blogs. Those people have left.
Now, you have hundreds and hundreds of comments, sometimes repeating others´previously made points, or news we all have read at our sources through the day, made by the same “persons”, which, moreover, are always answered by their organized group, many times with a single phrase, and sometimes not even…a word…a meme…making the thread incrasingly long and narrow by the design….
Notice that the handler at MI6 is sparse in words, thus, ads nothing except picking on commenters to then being clapped by the subordinates…
These people have sent the blog to waste, which could well be their goal in face of the EU and US elections, as they did with The Saker before, around 2016. This always happens when a blog is dying of success….like it is the case of yours…
Happy Easter Monday to the people of good will….
https://youtu.be/2v_Vtjo1kUg?feature=shared
“…what about limitating the number of daily comments a person can do so that the blog comes back to readability?”
That is an EXCELLENT idea.
A maximum of three or four comments every 24 hours would work wonders. Those with the least amount to say yet comment the most would be the first to lose interest and leave. Even if they don’t leave they’d be, at a minimum, partially muzzled.
It’s a matter of quality over quantity.
If Larry doesn’t mind getting only 100 or so varied comments per post instead of 400 repetitive comments, from the same small crowd who posts here all day long, he should follow your good advice.
You can bet we’re all on CIA/Mossad/M15 lists already. They don’t need your email to track you down. I am sure we’d all be in the gulags if they had their way and maybe they will one day, but at the moment you can be comforted they are really scared of what could happen to them if enough people really wake up.
The US has a duty to inform. Ok, true but they do not have a duty to inform fully? They even got the date for this policy (as Larry states), wrong. This is a pattern now in the US government to be very careless with information similar to the lack of care given to finding out the strengths and weaknesses of a state like Russia when the truth conflicts with various narratives. We cannot know if the hate for Russia (or control of globalist policies) is so entrenched in the US administration that all interactions are compromised by corrupted or poorly researched information. How difficult is it for the US administration to find out how militarily Russia is compared to the USA? It would seem the government also has no awareness that its military lacks the ability now to go to war. This is all the same pattern and is a recipe for WW3. I keep warning that the USA does not have a history so much as a mythology; how else can you maintain such a skewed sense of reality of what Americans understand about their own place in the world? The result is that the US is considered a rogue state in the world, and rightly so.
I believe that we can only make sense of (and plan) our own lives by understanding the historical moment and context we are living in. That means we have to read a range of opinions regardless of how comfortable or uncomfortable those opinions make us feel. This is particularly important in times of momentous change such as now. The entire geopolitical landscape is shifting under our feet with implications on everyday life at the level of kitchen-table politics and economics. Your commentaries are an invaluable corrective to the narratives I read in the media of record, helping me and my family make better decisions and be better prepared for an uncertain future.
A word of warning about personal data :
https://thegrayzone.com/2024/03/19/banned-elons-free-speech-x-app/
I was banned from Elon’s ‘free speech’ X app for offending power
Kit Klarenberg·March 19, 2024
Must wants X to be an everything app. Well then, one wrong word and your bank account is gone.
Never mind NAFO, Britain’s 77th Brigade alone and Zinc, MoD funded are on the job.
“I am working with my technical guru to see if there is a plug in that will require folks to register if they want to comment.”
I have seen this on other sites – control the trolls & bots – but…….. it has proven to be a slippery slope that ultimately leads to shutting down the conversation completely.
Perhaps this is what the bots desire – raise the pain level to a point where the site owner just decides enough is enough and the ‘conversations stop’.
There will be no easy answer, so beware – once you start down this road it will ultimately lead to stopping all commenting.
I think Larry knows well enough it is war out there, at least 2 ongoing.
And there are definitely “bots”.
Still, long before “bots” people’s minds could become machine-like – see how they marched into mass slaughter such as Troy, or Peloponnese for example.
“bots” can imitate that mindset. AI is really stupid. NATO is using AI – Palantir AIP for example. ChatGPT another example. Professional military trolls will have a OpenAI console at hand for efficiency.
Machine-like quality of comments are more obvious as we get more AI everywhere.
From the cited video:
He goes on to say that interacting with the ships computers cannot be done remotely; however, what Lara Logan said was that the GPS signal that the ship relied on was spoofed, so this was external to the ship’s systems.Their own instruments didn’t need to be hacked. It’s like the old Roadrunner cartoons where the bird paints an image of a road and puts it in front of a cliff so the coyote plows through it and over the edge.
Bottom line is he has no more information than has been released publicly, which is zilch.
I find it interesting that we are constantly warned of the vulnerability to cyber attack, but when it is suggested (Lara claims to have intel sources) that a ship hitting the precise location on a bridge spanning a major port that would cripple that port was the victim of such cyberattack, we get this .
Now, WHY would we not be told that this was a cyberattack?
Biden wants to get reelected (or should I say, actually elected).
To have a failure of this magnitude in the public eye would cause panic and show the ineptitude of the National Security State, on top of the fiascos in Ukraine and Israel, on top of the hasty withdrawal from Afghanistan. It would be disastrous, politically, for the Biden Administration, and that isn’t allowed by the deep state.
@Larry, a suggestion.
Any comment with more text characters than your lead should be simply clipped at the limit with a flag. Easy to automate. Some pedants will of course add chapters…
I am surprised you don’l suggest that only comments that have photos with brief legends should be allowed
Good art is worth thousands of words…
Still , there is a “bug” , the edit function seems to dump a photo, and has no image button.
The like dislike options that UNZ uses seem very advanced, major scripting there. No idea if it is a proprietary or package.
Good art reproduced multiple times and sold retail is kitsch.
Meet stubborn repetition with art.
Velazquez nor Rembrandt is never kitsch. Nor Boris Karloff.
Good that some remember the last threads – mostly they are Tabula Rasa, where the same ol’ is rolled out – unz, jooz, paganz. zionz.
Of course it is if it is reproduced as a poster. Like all the “Monets” on the walls lof hotel rooms. Kitsch– read up on it.
I believe he wrote and maintains the software himself. Not his company — he does it with his very own mind and hands. When people make suggestions, if he likes them he says he will implement them when he gets some spare time!
Why no large ultra.-size container ships come to the US.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=–l-FWUxxiw. is another interesting podcast from What’s Going on With Shipping? which speaks to the inadequacies of US ports to handle the newest and biggest container ships now up to 400 meters long. These ships currently restricted to Asia, Africa and the Middle East. US would need to dredge ports, raise bridges, install larger cranes and improve infrastructure for moving the off-loaded containers
https://t.me/AussieCossack/15141
The Russian troops restored a captured German Marder armoured vehicle, and are giving it an honest review …
https://t.me/AussieCossack/15169
The Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs has completed work on a bill tightening control of migration …
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the only thing missing is decapitating babies, which suggests that Jürgen had no Israeli consultant
Self admitted NAFO on X.
Experts?
Which experts?
No names?
No links?
Those mobilized are regular conscripts, that go through training every year, and then go home.
“Experts” are Western experts that have seen Putin’s playbook. The panicking German is just doing the run-of-the mill propaganda, for unintentional comedic effect. Red Army is coming yet again. Hide your kids, hide your wives, and teeth too. In this Brave New World, every day is April Fools’ Day.
In this Brave New World, every day is April Fools’ Day.
Excellent
Marder is made for paved roads and maybe sand roads. Those are NATO standards. 🙂
https://t.me/AussieCossack/15141
The Russian troops restored a captured German Marder armoured vehicle, and are giving it an honest review …
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but they couldn’t restore the crew that came with it…
I believe the Russians have more than enough material for a Captured Western Military Hardware Museum
Patriot Park in Moscow have been displaying all NATO and US captured equipment for months now, there must be a regiment size of hardware to examine, lots of it never used, lol. It takes up a very large area, but then again, they capture so much gear.
Russia at this stage are resembling the schoolboy taking the sweets off of the bully, and all that bully can do is attack some little kids while he runs home.
Why not have a small list of moderators who can point out the abusive comments to you for action to take action?
Alternatively they can put those comments up for your review where you can delete Or ok to be seen?
1.”Why not have a small list of moderators who can point out the abusive comments to you for action to take action?”
Who would they be? Other commentators?
2.”Alternatively they can put those comments up for your review where you can delete Or ok to be seen?”
So a lot of work for Larry…
Well, Larry, you just made a decision about this site that I wish you had not. Nothing annoys me more that entering a web site and getting an immediate popup to subscribe. That level of begging just plains annoys me and is unnecessary.
My golden rule about that is I do not participate in sites that beg me to subscribe. Been a good run, I appreciate your effort…but I am out of here.
Don’t be in such a rush. The fat lady has not sung yet.
I watched the video up to where he said it can’t be hacked by satellite because this kind of ship wouldn’t be “uplinked”, but he said it could be done by someone on the ship, using a pen drive or something. So the possibility of hacking is not negated.
I don’t post very much but it takes hours to get approved for many of my comments if at all even after bringing it to your attention. Some comments I read say 15 minutes ago or less so I don’t get it; I just don’t get it.
I have noticed the site has experienced the same Zerohedge has experienced over recent years. The more over the target, the more flak kind of thing.
Larry, thanks to you, Scott Ritter, and the rest of the people who work so hard to try to avert further escalation in the war prone environment. I share your concern that the world is spiraling towards nuclear war, with incompetent people making the decisions.
It is as if people really do not understand the dangers we are currently facing. Hopefully we will begin to deescalate this situation, but I do not see any sign of that so far.
The most important to take from almost every human catastrophe and even some natural catastrophes today, from 9/11 – where regardless of what one thinks about the causes, the twin towers fell in NY – to the bridge collapse in Baltimore, its the imbalances of our societies and not an intensive PhD, in the case of cargo ships or port infrastructures.
The truth is that when the bridge was built there were no freighters of the size and especially the mass of the massive MV Dali. And the worst is that today its nothing more than a medium-sized freighter, like it didn’t exist 30 years ago. What I mean is that basically no ship capable of collapsing the bridge should pass under it. Because accidents happen, even if it was also realized that the bridge pillars have no protection. And the deck and metal structure of the bridge rest on the foundations, as they did 100 years ago in Mississippi. The truth is that cargo ships continue to grow, as do port infrastructures because 90% of world trade is carried out by sea, but the same will not happen with rivers and canals and even with many ports, without the possibility to continue resizing its infrastructure.
The catastrophe should question everyone about the necessity or greed of the size of cargo ships and the volume of maritime trade continuing to grow with no limit in sight. Isn’t it also related to the localization and relocation of production without any other economic logic other than profit? And even crazier overconsumption, especially in the West? And the population is growing exponentially in one part of the world and decreasing in another? And aren’t these imbalances much more important than the number of engines and generators on the ship? Or other technical specifications important for insurance companies and technical liability for the accident?
A smart German lady whom Germans should listen to
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCxCPr8mlVI
“Cochav Elkayam-Levy, the Israeli lawyer at the center of the campaign accusing Hamas of systematic sexual violence on October 7, now stands accused by Israeli media of scamming donors and spreading misinformation. The allegations appeared just days after Elkayam-Levy received the prestigious Israel Prize.”
https://thegrayzone.com/2024/03/25/israeli-propagandist-hamas-grifter-fraud/
Her great mistake was to get arrogant and greedy and branching out to operate solo, outside of the system, and also wanting to keep all the loot to herself.
A Jewish sub-human animal hoarding shekels? Surprise, surprise!
The main point of it is that she fanned the flames and exploited the hysteria over the blatant lies of of the rapes allegedly perpetrated by Hamas, an effort for which she was celebrated and even got the prestigious Israeli Prize. But she got too greedy, scammed some donors and got into trouble. Nevertheless I don’t see the lie being debunked in Israel.
Dear Mr. Johnson, listening to all your comments from Nima to Judge Napolitano one can’t get away from a great appreciation and understanding you have for people throughout the world, especially when we realize you used to be involved with CIA.
I’d really like to know what was a breaking point in your life to cut and break the narrative in your life? I’m sure it was not easy and must have been heart breaking realizing your own country is the bad guy. Not only that but the fact that there is still goodness left in your country and you’d like to cling to it just like Mr. Scott Ritter. I’m sure it’s not easy being considered piranha in your own country. How are you coping with it?
I think you meant to say “pariah” not “piranha”
Thank you for correcting me.
QUESTION: If you EXPECTED imminent war vs an opponent, would you not want to take out their main infrastructure, and fly spy balloons over their country etc? THE FLIP SIDE: If you WANTED to BLAME another country for having to go to war with them, would you not back false flag events to justify your actions?
So the question is, who is preparing for war here… something is most obviously not OK right now.
I want to give you folks a heads up. I am working with my technical guru to see if there is a plug in that will require folks to register if they want to comment. The reason for this is troll control. There are some who post who are abusive and disruptive. At present I have to search out each comment and deal with it myself. Requiring registration will give me a better ability to deal with the troublemakers.
I beg to differ, if that’s still allowed. It seems to me that most of the problems on this site are not caused by occasional visitors and drive-by-shooters, but by regulars that act like they own the place. Anyone that has spent time here can guess what any of the lounge lizards is going to say, before reading. New commenters are the ones that make things interesting, by bringing in some fresh thoughts, even if wrong. Raising barrier to entry will only make those things more pronounced, and the swamp waters more stale. But hey, what do I know.