Guest Post by Jim Kunstler
“Everything that can be engineered is being engineered dishonestly.” —Truman Verdun
If you think the reasons behind the First World War were incomprehensible, imagine what historians of the future — pan-fraying peccary loins over their camp fires — will think about World War Three. Some people started something in Ukraine… and then the USA blew up the main energy supply line of its NATO ally, Germany… say, what…?!?
Weird, a little bit. A sane person in a sane world would call sabotaging the Nord Stream pipelines an act-of-war against a friendly nation, since the result was to virtually destroy the basis of Germany’s industry, not to mention the domestic comfort of German citizens. Now, thanks to 85-year-old Seymour Hersh, the independent investigator who uncovered the My Lai Massacre in 1969 and reported on the depraved antics of American jailers at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq in 2004, we have a pretty good idea how the Nord Stream caper went down.
For a year before the op, “Joe Biden” and Undersecretary of State Victoria Nuland — architect of the 2014 Maidan Coup in Ukraine, which kicked-off the present fiasco there — blabbed about “ending” the Nord Streams. Curiously, the Germans said nothing. Meanwhile, the US made a deal to beef up military bases in Norway, an original NATO signatory (1949), for staging the Nord Stream sabotage op. Of course, Norway, being Western Europe’s sole remaining oil-and-gas exporter, had an interest in eliminating its competition.
In June of 2022, under cover of an annual NATO naval exercise in the Baltic Sea, US Navy divers attached mines to the Nord Stream pipelines. The mines had triggers that could be activated remotely at any chosen time, and that moment came on September 26… kaboom! Ms. Nuland and Secretary of State Antony Blinken gloated publicly. Naturally, the US blamed Russia. America’s news media — catamite of the Intel Community — amplified the charge, despite the absurdity of Russia blowing up its most lucrative source of export revenue. The New York Times has so far made no mention of Mr. Hersh’s recent update of the Nord Stream sabotage.
Germany, too, has hardly made a peep, nor did the rest of Western Europe, which now faces a future that looks, energy-wise, like a fairly swift return to the Fourteenth Century. Maybe they’re all jaded with modern life, all that tiresome bathing and malingering in the brightly-lit cafes. Under the sagacious guidance of the WEF they were all going “green,” anyway — but was that green like the heart-shaped leaves of the linden tree or green like the moldy veins in Roquefort cheese? I guess they’ll find out.
Luckily, America had the Chinese balloon to distract them, and then “Joe B’s” State-of-the-Union extravaganza where the nation learned that we are living in the most extraordinary economic boom since the days of Babe Ruth and Charlie Chaplin. The perpetually-vacationing Leader of the Free World has apparently made America great again, despite the dastardly plots and ongoing insurrections of his far-right, white supremacist adversaries. Did the annual SOTU smell a little bit like a reelection pitch, though? I hope so.
Speaking of insurrection, the House commenced hearings this past week, debuting with the Oversight Committee’s witness panel of Twitter execs who carried out a years-long censorship campaign against the First Amendment in cahoots with the FBI, CIA, DOD, DOJ, DOS, DHS…. Well, you get the picture: a more arrogant crew of dedicated fascists would be hard to find in any other corner of the world today, except perhaps Canada, than the likes of Vijaya Gadde, Yoel Roth, Anika Collier Navaroli, and James Baker, former chief counsel of the FBI. They “moderated” speech on the chat app for the good of the American people, you understand, lest the public succumb to “misinformation” — otherwise known as reality.
One reality being that the sedulously-repressed news of Hunter Biden’s crime-stuffed laptop represented interference in the 2020 election. James Baker told the committee he “could not recall” whether, at the time (October 2020), he spoke to anyone back in his old haunts at the FBI about the matter — though there is no question that, as chief counsel, he knew the agency had possession of the laptop since 2019, and what was in it. Rep. Clay Higgins (R-La.) warned the four former Twitter employees that “this is the investigation part, later comes the arrest part.” Let’s hope so on that one, too.
Meanwhile, the House Special Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government held a lively colloquy with four “experts” including former FBI agents Nicole Parker and Thomas Baker, GWU Law Professor Jonathan Turley, and one Elliot Williams, former DOJ Assistant AG and currently shill for DC Lawfare tank the Raben Group. The theme, generally, was the change-in-mission in the FBI-DOJ nexus from law enforcement to harassment of US citizens who oppose Democratic Party policy.
Most instructive in Thursday’s session, though, was the political debut of Democratic Rep. Daniel Sachs Goldman (real name), newly elected member for New York’s Tenth District (which encompasses Wall Street). Among other distinctions, Mr. Goldman is an heir to the Levi-Strauss blue jeans fortune, and was lead counsel during the 2019 impeachment hearings against Donald Trump in the House Intelligence Committee. This vicious prick, an apt replacement for the inveterate liar and seditionist, Rep. Adam Schiff (CA), put on a florid demonstration of hectoring witnesses, cutting them off, and re-directing the committee’s attention at every opportunity to the so-called “insurrection” at the Capitol of 1/6/21.
Mr. Goldman is a man to watch, especially as the House actually does give its complete attention later this year to the 1/6/21 matter and the true facts behind the FBI’s engineering of the event, including the nefarious actions of former Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her Capitol Police. When it comes, I can’t wait to watch Mr. Goldman unwind like one of those cheap counterfeit Rolex watches that peddlers hawk on Wall Street’s sidewalk.
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If it was an act of war, it was an article five attack on one or several NATO countries by another NATO country.
Putin has shown discipline for the last year. But imagine if he if he had the capability to respond assymetrically this weekend.
Could he knock out the local power grid wherever they are playing the super bowl, causing them to move the game out a day, a week? He’s not going to attack us militarily, but something like this I could see happening, while he denies it. and honestly, how many countries would love tdo this to us? Scores.
Embarrassing the world’s lone superpower, the leader of NATO, before the entire world, showing that it is powerless to even hold the super bowl on schedule? Got to be tempting.
I doubt it will happen but if it did, what a wake up call for the USA.
I’m certain that’s been done KC Chiefs vs 49ers in Miami, I think.
it was in New Orleans, and it was Ravens vs 49’ers
We are not the worlds sole superpower any more , its time ya’ll woke up and faced that reality .
Yes, someway, somehow all those other nations will find a way to make us Alone & Busted. On second thought, we’re finding our own way to do it right now.
Several days ago credit cards were not working properly for a few hours in the middle of the day. My daughter checked it out when I told her and she found a report stating it was occurring. Highly unusual, there was no mention of this the next day in any news articles posted under the stock tickers of the credit card companies.
My Discover IT card was rejected twice in a row early last week at a supermarket. Clerk told me it said “Do not accept”. Nothing late and thousands in credit available. Tried it the next day, no problems, and no notifications from Discover.
On this 2nd UFO they shot down in Canada, supposedly some of the fighter pilots reported the object having an effect on their instruments.
Far cheaper to claim the pipeline was destroyed to justify conflict escalation.
Just relesse old videos of the pipe air purging process from any ocean pipe and claim its leaking gas.
After the war, bill the suckers billions for repairs, and then just, open the valves up again.
And all the idiots will clap along like seals just as they did in all the other wars started by a “how dare they” staged event.
Pulled a scab off did ya Euddie?
China Demands US “Explain Itself to the World” Over Nord Stream Attack Story
One source told Hersh that the plotters knew the covert operation was an “act of war,” with some in the CIA and State Department warning, “Don’t do this. It’s stupid and will be a political nightmare if it comes out.”
Now Beijing is demanding that the White House address the issue, seemingly unimpressed with the Biden administration’s rather weak response to merely label the story “false”…
Meanwhile, in Germany, the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party is also calling for a full inquiry.
“The Pulitzer Prize winner’s suspicions must be investigated,” wrote co-chairman of the AfD parliamentary group, Tino Chrupalla.
“Has NATO’s leading power carried out an attack on our country’s vital critical infrastructure in European waters? Then one would have to question whether the alliance guarantees security in Europe or rather endangers it. The consequence would be the withdrawal of all U.S. troops.”
https://summit.news/2023/02/10/china-demands-us-explain-itself-to-the-world-over-nord-stream-attack-story/
China and Germany might have better luck if they just directly asked Israel for the explanation.
That’s been the case for pretty much any and all US bogus conflicts since WW1 … and the Balfour Declaration that got US into it …
To be an enemy of the USSA is dangerous to be a friend of the USSA is fatal.
No kidding , well put. look at the prospects for the average “Yuri Blow” Ukrainian just trying to make his way in the world . getting in bed with DC will end up being fatal for a Nation of people .
“Democratic Rep. Daniel Sachs Goldman (real name), newly elected member for New York’s Tenth District (which encompasses Wall Street)”
– Jim Kunstler
As Auntie has said before; the mockery of the American public is ubiquitous, hysterical, and relentless.
Laughing at your victims is a form of psychological torture.
The American people seem to enjoy it.
WTH? Probably a buddy of Trump.
Jews: here, there & everywhere.
There is no other explanation that makes any sense, and Biden and Nuland said very clearly and very publicly that the US would destroy the pipelines.
The crazy part is that Germany sits there and does nothing. The US DESTROYED them, and they meekly do not a thing. Europe is indeed doomed.
The only conclusion for their lack of outrage, anger or actions against the USA is that their leaders are paid off.
But not everyone is paid off, and this is going to bubble up, especially if more corroboration surfaces. Their people will demand it and then business will really pick up.
the US has controlled Germany since 1945
The jews have destroyed Germany since the Treaty ending WW1 … and that was the aim all along. Now they’re turning their hatred for their other ‘enemy’ — Russia.
Equal opportunity haters … and, by the way, they’re really not all that fond of US, either.
Two world wars killed off their alpha males. Emigrated German friend of mine refers to German men as “eunuchs” anymore.
Sad. Days of the vaunted PanzerGrenadier Divisions are truly over.
Same here and throughout the West — destroyed from within …
Germany has been an occupied nation since 1945. They do what they’re told. They’re good at that.
They’ve been occupied in one way or another since the end of WW1 … they were stripped of land and resources and the jews took over everything they could in Germany — and then they took Germany apart from the inside with their Weimar degradation.
“Never underestimate Jo’s ability to eff things up “Barrack Obama , hey he told the truth for once .
Germany is a satrap masquerading as a country…
Germany committed National suicide when Merkel and her cronies decided to let their country be overrun with 3d world folks who use the Germans for whatever they can get from them … and abuse their women, too, just like they do in Sweden and the rest of the EU and the UK that they’ve infested.
At least when the mafia runs a neighborhood, they actually protect the neighborhood once they get paid their protection money.
The US just takes the money and blows up the neighborhood and then demands even more money for “protection.”
Speaking of stars being born, I guess you’ve seen by now this person they call Damar Hamlin made a public appearance, thanking his doctor for saving his life.
That’s not him; that’s CGI done real-time on a stand-in’s face, like the tech they use to de-age people for movies now. I watched a documentary about “The Mandalorian” and the virtual environments they can make in-camera now, whereas it used to have to all be done green screen and in Post. This included actors wearing body suits on a set, whose frame is laser-digitized, then the entire set and its digital actor projected on a 360′ dome and filmed by cameras which can process that data and enhance it remotely, as in that split second before it is rendered. It’s so real it had George Lucas standing with his mouth agape, in the documentary.
If they are using that on a TV show, and showing it off, you can bet the MIC has tech ten years advanced — look at what they have done in the past few years. They have Bill Gates and Silicon Valley and every single university in their pockets. I’m sure they’re still running DOS systems and use CD-ROMs. No way they would ever have the sort of tech to computer-generate a man and a whole background in real-time, that’s just crazy talk.
Besides, if such a thing was possible, our media would have told us.
I’m ashamed that Michael Strahan was once a Westbury Rebel.
He loves Desmond-Is-Amazing; doesn’t that mean anything to you, Joe?
Hater
The dad sounds gay, too. Maranatha.
since you brought tranny kids to this thread,i will put this here —
a woman who was a counselor 4 transitioning kids at a clinic in st louis run by a major university had enough after seeing how screwed up these kids are & has come clean —
https://www.thefp.com/p/i-thought-i-was-saving-trans-kids
Tampa,
OMG…heartbreaking. Psychos taking children and grinding them through a sick sausage factory.
With resultant disaster guaranteed.
Florida continues to lead the way….
Florida doctors’ board tightens ban on gender-affirming care
A prohibition against puberty blocking hormones and gender-affirming surgeries for minors in Florida was tightened further after a board overseeing doctors eliminated an exception for clinical trials Friday at the request of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration.
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-02-florida-doctors-board-tightens-gender-affirming.html
What Ms. Reed and others don’t seem to want to admit is just how powerful the lobbying forces are — and how lucrative these clinics can be.
That’s why the Pritzker family (of IL political corruption fame) is so very heavily invested in this agenda — it leads, as the article carefully mentions, to lifelong medical treatments and medications … none of which are free.
And, of course, in many cases the State’s taxpayers are being forced to foot the bill for all of this — including the expensive surgical procedures. In the People’s Republic of Oregon, for example, medicaid pays for these procedures, which are done at Portland’s flagship medical facility, OHSU (Oregon Health and Scientific University) … on taxpayer money. What leaked out about 3 years ago in OR was the very significant number of former patients who’ve ended up with lawsuits against OHSU … but that’s just one of many ‘inconvenient truths’ in this arena.
There needs to be beatings…to the death
The Korean kids liked to rub the hair on my legs, and I liked them doing it. Kim Jong Un is Korean for Corn Pop and I got a chain and said Kim Corn I’m going to kick your ass if you frkiongthysi zha bugglemits and he backed down. My Dad always said “Joey, no Biden has ever had his ass kicked by a fat Gook and gizzlfringshy! My wife teaches full time. She even has shown the Second Gentleman her gizzyhoopus. So, they damn well better be afraid and send that cute little gal over there to rub my leg hair some more because we’re the United States!”
harry,
you channel potus so well that one could almost believe that you & him “hang out”together —
And a happy and blessed gungaphoglenoctch in my Corvette to you!
Best Korea is often generous enough to share their wisdom with the world.
“America’s news media — catamite of the Intel Community ”
Thanks, spot on, Catamites abound these days, in all sectors. Shit, we probably passed Bangkok in net catamites.
San Fransicko – where the catamites know their rights.
“San Fransicko – where the catamites know their rights.”
And they’re lefts.
“was that green like the heart-shaped leaves of the linden tree or green like the moldy veins in Roquefort cheese? ”
I’m guessing it is grene, as in “gangrene.”
I realize things don’t look so great,but fuck it,smiling for even just a moment won’t kill ya!
This is a new born star!
I do love a little lamb souvlaki.
Parmagiana
Gonzalo Lira today hits bullseye:
“With Seymour Hersh’s reporting on the bombing of Nordstream, and with its refusal to lift sanctions so as to provide humanitarian aid to Syria, it can no longer be denied, and it has to be said out loud:
The United States of America is a terrorist state.”
The problem is what FUSA determines to be “humanitarian” aid. Like how clusterbombs are actually democracy seeds. Or NGO food aggregators are actually HUMINT spook mills. Pretty sure the Clinton Crime Family Humanitarian Trust that grabbed some billions for that Haiti earthquake and was boots on the ground to “help” only brought cholera and contract admin to launder money through local warlords. Its hard to be too cynical these days.
What do I know? Yet as I understand it, the balloon was the property of the
USA, created in the USA, one of many, that are deployed to surveil vehicle
traffic with GPS and cell phones. Ostensibly flying around trying to track
drug trafficking….solar powered and remotely driven. See Monkey Werx,
and realize these are flying around all over world. Other countries use them,
and they are not weather balloons.
That was my guess. A balloon is slow enough to pick up cell signals, I think. Sats and planes are too fast. I remember a blimp used for this purpose in a previous life.
Regarding the Nord Stream pipelines? Both Nuland and Biden threatened
out loud and on camera, the intent to destroy the pipelines if Russia entered
Ukraine. Supposedly, the Germans (leaders) were well informed and knew of
the planned destruction well in advance. This fiasco was no secret. The US
populous will believe anything and every thing reported on MSM, which
is the intent.
“The US populous will believe anything and every thing reported on MSM, which
is the intent.”
Yep. They’ll even believe a gas pipeline was destroyed.
Just make the claim.
The uSA are fat and docile just the way we like em!
Think about this. We had 2 million people illegally cross our border last year. Given the border is basically wide open, why would Russia and China not take advantage of that opportunity and insert as many of their agents as possible? These agents once in the country with the assistance of their government could blend in and live and work among the community until the time for their missions came.
Thanks to the Biden administration, and numerous administrations before our country could be home to tens of thousands of saboteurs who are simply living day to day lives waiting for the day when they are called upon to step into action.
Why use something as obvious as a EMP device when a few hundred agents could take down the grid using coordinated infrastructure attacks which are untraceable back to the responsible countries. The same is true for the rest of our infrastructure. Transportation infrastructure is especially vulnerable as are municipal water systems.
Now just think about how many people and countries worldwide have a visceral hatred for the US for the countless wars and millions of people we have murdered by our wars and economic policies, and imagine the pool of recruits willingly available.
People who believe we will never suffer here at home for our wars abroad are really not looking logically at the situation. Ask yourself if you were being attacked or threatened by the US, what would you do? What future plans would you be making?
Just 2 million? There are those who claim more than 5 million just last year … when the government was even telling US that more than 18,000 would invade the US —— every day …
That works out to more than 6.5 million per year …
You still believe the US needs foreign agents to help destroy itself?
I suppose it depends on whether you pretend the jews are Americans, or not.
Point taken, I should have written “additional foreign agents.”
Chinese illegals caught at the border up 800% since “Joe Biden” took over. Thousands of drug cartel people caught and many not deported. Hundreds of known terror watch list people caught with some allowed to stay.
I don’t believe peccary loins are kosher,oyvey.
As opposed to the Trey Gowdy and Elizabeth Warren hearings where the representatives just put on a show and stroke themselves for as much attention as they can get, maybe this time we will actually get some action on these serious issues, and hope against hope, somebody actually goes to jail for these serious crimes.