News Briefs – 01/10/2023

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Follow Don Jr on twitter here.

“Make sure those you follow talk about the surveillance, because everyone who is in the game knows. Make them either damage the machine by saying it, or reveal they are part of it by staying silent. Demanding our side talk about the surveillance is really the closest to a Xanatos gambit our side has.”

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DFT – Trader Sees Oil Demand Rising Over 2023 As Covid Measures Are Abandoned

DFT – China Moves To Replace Dollars With Yuan In International Trade

DFT – Tesla Moves Closer To A Recall Of The Autopilot System

DFT – China’s Covid Surge Impacting Supply Chains

DFT – Swiss National Bank Reports Massive Losses – $143 Billion

The US Supreme Court not only decided not to look at the Brunson brothers’ case, but also decided not to take up the Bonner case challenging the legality of mail-in ballots. Thinking about it, it is improbable an intel operation engaging in a governmental subversion would leave an entire branch of government, a powerful branch which could cause it real problems, unsubverted. Especially when that intel operation controlled the other two branches which select the members of the Court. Intel wargames, and does not launch until it controls all the avenues of its own destruction. If the court was not controlled, intel would not have launched, and everything would look like government was under our control.

About 30,700 mail-in ballots in Illinois were rejected statewide in last year’s November election, according to preliminary data from the Illinois State Board of Elections.

Jim Jordan to chair ‘Weaponization of Government’ Select Committee.

House Republican, and head of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, whose phone was seized by the FBI in Jan. 6 probe might soon investigate the FBI now that Republicans are in charge.

WaPo quietly reports bombshell study that proves Russian digital influence in the 2016 election was essentially nil.

Capitol rioter announces Congressional run on Jan. 6, calling it a, ‘day to celebrate.’

The Atlanta-area special grand jury investigating whether former President Donald Trump and his allies violated the law in their efforts to overturn the 2020 election has completed its work, according to a new court filing. No reveal on what they came out with yet.

New Twitter files expose Pfizer censorship operation against critics of the unsafe and ineffective Covid “vaccine.”

The White House refuses to comment or provide clarity on President Joe Biden’s remark to a Salvation Army official in El Paso, caught on a hot mic, this past weekend — that he spent time with the Secret Service in Poland and Ukraine.

Marjorie Taylor Greene tells a reporter Biden is the legitimate President, distances herself from Q-anon. “Like a lot of people today, I had easily gotten sucked into some things I had seen on the internet.”

Body Language Ghost says MTG is likely banging Kevin McCarthy, or she is going to try very soon.

The spending cuts that Republican leader Kevin McCarthy promised hard-line conservatives in order to clinch the House speakership are a non-starter in the Democrat-controlled Senate, where Senate Democrats and Republicans say that while there is likely to be negotiation over federal spending and the deficit, the position staked out by the House GOP is untenable.

Mike Lindell: Every other RNC candidate is 2 years behind me on the election integrity issue.

Republican legislators turn backs on Katie Hobbs, walk out on radical State Of The State Address – Arizona Freedom Caucus releases statement condemning “new breed of democratic fascism.”

Dr Peter McCullough explains that latest analysis shows Myocarditis now running at 25,000 per million and we’re still relatively early days, pre Covid it was 4 in a million.

Second study shows that getting the COVID vaccine, especially multiple doses–may increase your chance of contracting COVID.

A 16-year-old female basketball player now has a GoFundMe to help her recover from her stroke. From the piece: “She was initially treated at Corning Hospital before being transferred to the Intensive Care Unit at Strong in Rochester. Garrison is still undergoing neurological tests and will soon begin physical therapy to recover her motor skills.”

As Covid infections surge across China, the U.S. again risks falling short of medical supplies as that country struggles to keep factories running and goods flowing out of its ports.

Nearly 90% of Henan — the third most populous province in China — has now been infected with Covid-19.

Pfizer gives $1 million to Kentucky GOP to expand its headquarters – The “Mitch McConnell Building.”

More than 7,000 nurses go on strike across 2 New York City hospitals.

From a convo on twitter than began with Adams noting how the vaccine would free you to enjoy life:

New revelations show that the Covid pandemic has allowed for governments and Big Tech to expand the surveillance-industrial complex that tightens the state’s grip on thought and movement.

Diamond of Diamond and Silk passes away unexpectedly. She apparently caught Covid before Thanksgiving. The vaccine was bad, but we also need to pin down exactly who created that bioweapon, and how it got released.

DOJ reviewing as classified documents from Biden’s time as VP discovered in private office, source says.

CNN reporter Jamie Gangel said Monday on “The Situation Room” that reports that President Joe Biden had classified documents from his time as vice president in his personal office was “a political gift” to former president Donald Trump and it “looks terrible.”

“When is the FBI going to raid the many homes of Joe Biden?” Trump responds to reports of classified documents found at Penn Biden Center.

The University of Pennsylvania, where Biden had the office with classified documents stored, took over $100M in “donations” from China. Some are wondering if the university gave China access to them, or other things for the cash.

Joe Biden received a salary of more than $900k from Penn. And then he appointed the Penn President to be the US Ambassador to Germany.

One of those weird 4Chan threads which popped up with a picture of Bill Gates being executed. It looks like another similar picture somebody posted of what looked like Hillary strapped to a gurney, just post execution. An anon noted the file name would correlate to 11/17/2022 @ 0033 and 33 seconds.

Newly arrived migrants [illegal aliens] linked to crimes in El Paso including drugs, theft and gun threats.

Border pressures migrate north as Venezuelans head to Denver.

Prosecutors are telling lawyers connected to the FTX fraud investigation the case is so sprawling that it could exhaust resources of the southern district since it includes potential bribery, campaign contribution violations, market manipulation on top of theft & fraud.

Bullshit – How sending climate aid abroad helps the U.S.

On Twitter, straight out of the movie Lethal Weapon – Details are few but Army CID definitely rolled up a dozen-plus Special Forces soldiers last week in connection with a major narcotics investigation at Fort Bragg

A six-year-old child used his mother’s legally purchased handgun to shoot his teacher at a US school. From the piece about this elementary school: “Officials said that while the school – which has about 550 pupils – had metal detectors, pupils were checked at random and not every child was inspected.”

The Biden administration is considering a nationwide ban on gas stoves — citing the harmful pollutants released by the appliances.

Hillary Clinton’s college gig funded by Chinese oligarchs.

The Dossier has acquired a confidential list of every individual (excluding some government officials) who will be in attendance for the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) annual summit in Davos, Switzerland next week including the likes of FBI director Chris Wray, the CEOs of Amazon, BlackRock, and Pfizer, top officials at the Gates Foundation and in the Soros network, and the Publisher of The New York Times, to name a few.

Vox Day points out that on the Chans, the rumor is the West is about to begin the propaganda push to force men into supporting global war, because the elites think one is coming, and their trannified/woke forces now will never have what it takes. Oddly enough, this almost appears as a final exam of the process we are undergoing. Between now and then, expect the redpilling to accelerate, until every male but the biggest idiot realizes the elites who run the nation and create the wars are the real enemy. At that moment, they will then launch the war, and it will kill everyone too stupid to figure out our own government is the enemy. What will be left to produce the future generations, and maybe overthrow the elites and kill them, will be a population made of our kind.

Vox also points out the study from yesterday about China’s invasion of Taiwan failing, but just barely, likely did not consider Russia and North Korea launching actions in concert to spread the US thin and aid the Chinese effort. Vox will read and review the paper on Darkstream. If the final exam is to have the desired effect, it will need to kill all the young males we send to it. My only objection is 18 is too early to issue a final exam to young men. We will need to work overtime to redpill our young men, and I see no better way to do that than to show them they were targets of the surveillance, which was making them dance like marionettes all their lives.

Emerald Robinson will ask Hannity why he wanted Trump to pardon Hunter Biden.

Santos aide reportedly impersonated McCarthy’s chief of staff in calls to GOP donors. Wait until we find out he doesn’t have a chief of staff, this was him impersonating his nonexistent chief of staff, impersonating another person, all to bilk donors. This dude is to politicians what politicians are to regular people.  He is just another level up.

Louisiana’s Krewe of Endymion rescinded its offer to have Mel Gibson be the co-grand marshal of its 2023 Mardi Gras parade due to threats that were of “great concern.”

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) has asked the Biden administration to make federal aid available to California for flood relief, just months after billions of dollars in federal spending compounded the state’s budget surplus.

Scientists say they’re now actively trying to build conscious robots.

Mathew Tyrmand lists the massive issues found in Brazil’s Presidential election.

Now they are setting a narrative that Brazil’s Capitol Riot was an “attempted coup.”

Lula regime sends in buses to take thousands of opposition protesters to prison, Moraes blocks 200 Facebook profiles, hotels ordered to turn over guest lists.

1200 arrested Brazilians face up to 30 years incarceration if they are convicted of terrorism and “crimes against democracy.”

Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes ordered police to clear the camps and demanded that Ibaneis Rocha, Brasília’s governor and an ally of Mr. Bolsonaro, be removed from his post for the next three months, adding that the attacks “could only have occurred with the consent, and even active participation, of the competent authorities for public security and intelligence.”

Biden, Obrador, Trudeau condemn riots in Brazil.

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has been rushed to hospital in the US with severe abdominal pain.

Federal deputy Erika Hilton has officially submitted a request to the Foreign Ministry to initiate the extradition of Jair Bolsonaro from the United States.

Vatican Conservatives reportedly have “secret plan” to remove commie Pope Francis. Some say no way, this is Francis creating a false flag which he will defeat, and use to justify a crackdown on all dissent.

The Swedish government plans to reintroduce civil conscription service in the country.

A video has emerged that reportedly shows an armed Mexican military light single-engine turboprop aircraft conducting a strafing run against elements of the Sinaloa Cartel in the city of Culiacán earlier today.

China has taken down more than 1,000 social media accounts – some with millions of followers – that criticised the government’s Covid policies.

In what could be a sign of conservatives’ newly-expanded influence over the House GOP, House Freedom Caucus member Rep. Mark Green won the top spot on the Homeland Security Committee over Republican star Rep. Dan Crenshaw.

Mike Rogers steps down from House Steering Committee after lunging at Matt Gaetz.

Majority of independents want ‘Biden Crime Family’ probes prioritized.

A federal judge in New Jersey has granted a temporary restraining order in a case brought by the Second Amendment Foundation and several co-plaintiffs in a challenge of that state’s new gun control law which criminalizes carry in a vastly expanded set of “sensitive areas.”

Trump congratulates McCarthy, urges primary challengers for McConnell, and the Republican senators voting with him.

Spread r/K Theory, because another level up may not be a good thing

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Anonymous
Anonymous
1 year ago

Re: new wars with a new generation of troops

One does have to wonder how that will go. Far more fat and sedentary, far more depressing life experience, warned against “toxic masculinity,” addicted to constant dopamine hits from social media, etc.

https://www.certifyfit.com/blog/new-study-says-31-of-americans-are-too-overweight-to-join-the-military/

One funny story:

Twelve inventive South Korean college students deliberately made themselves overweight to dodge mandatory military service, a branch of the armed forces in Seoul said Tuesday.
The military said it had used “digital forensic technology” to uncover the ruse, suggesting it may have seen messages from the chatroom used by the students.

https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/12-students-from-south-korea-gained-weight-to-dodge-military-service-1914861

Anonymous
Anonymous
Reply to  Anonymous
1 year ago

U.S. Army basic training includes rap sessions with the DIs, lots of TV watching and Christmas break, at least that’s what a guy home on Christmas break from basic told us last month.

SteveRogers42
SteveRogers42
Reply to  Anonymous
1 year ago

Plenty of time for recreational reading. Our friends were sending MANY books to their son during OSUT last summer.
And the physical fitness training was FAR from challenging, for anyone who had played high school/college sports.

Corn Pop
Corn Pop
1 year ago

Body Language Ghost says MTG is likely banging Kevin McCarthy, or she is going to try very soon.
 
 
Well, MTG better grow a cock then because I’m pretty sure McCarthy is only into blowing dudes.

Although her beefy shoulders and testosterone fueled man-face might confuse him enough for her to get some kind of action.

Who needs breakfast am I right fellas?

Last edited 1 year ago by Corn Pop
E
E
Reply to  Corn Pop
1 year ago

After looking at her I lost my breakfast. 

Bman
Bman
Reply to  Corn Pop
1 year ago

Forgot her Ogre hands. Gab’s been lambasting her ass for the last 2 weeks.

Rizzo
Rizzo
Reply to  Corn Pop
1 year ago

I love you guys! LOL

Fart Simpson
Fart Simpson
1 year ago

>> Dr Peter McCullough explains that latest analysis shows Myocarditis now running at 25,000 per million and we’re still relatively early days, pre Covid it was 4 in a million.

Cernovich says you are forbidden to speak about this, in case anyone still trusts him

Hugh J
Hugh J
Reply to  Fart Simpson
1 year ago

Nobody cares what George W Bush Jr has to say

Ed
Ed
1 year ago

Submitting this because its very hard to get accurate news in English about Brazil:

https://rumble.com/v24mywg-what-really-happened-in-brazil-yesterday-system-update-18.html

Yes, Glenn Greenwald is from the left, and he takes quite a few gratuitous shots at Trump and Bannon in this video, and I think its pretty obvious that the Brazil elections were stolen. But he is a good investigative journalist, knows the country, and is pretty fair. I think this video will leave you somewhat better informed, and he covers the social media censorship too.

Commentators have caught on that the Deep State/ Cabal is following ths same script in Brazil in 2022-3 that they followed in the USA in 2020-1 with the elections. But they also followed successfully the same script in Brazil against Dilma impeachment that they tried to with the Trump impeachment. I don’t know how they got the PT to cooperate with them this time, as its pretty clear that they will just replace Lula with Alckmin once Lula has served his purpose.

Ed
Ed
1 year ago

Just say this posted by Martin Armstrong:

https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/markets-by-sector/bonds/beware-the-plot-behind-interest-rates/

He has been saying that there is no market now for long term debt. But Armstrong pushes further and says that investors are expecting war this year, and interest rates always rise in time of war. The Federal Reserve is just trying to manage this, and the Fed funds rate are not designed to tackle (probably non-existent) wage driven inflation.

Anonymous
Anonymous
1 year ago

As this commentator in the example of South Dakota says:
“Great interview. Explains how even if u have a vast majority right populace in a state, the state govt can still be captured by liberal activists and business elite and turn the state blue.
Those with vision will always win out over the politically lazy.”

https://twitter.com/Rubatirabbit1/status/1612772540296101888

Having a vast majority being Red is still vulnerable to takeover by organized minorities.

Anonymous
Anonymous
Reply to  Anonymous
1 year ago

Making rules and enforcing them are two different games. The more opposed to the leadership’s dictates the people are, the more likely lampposts will be decorated.

There is nothing you can do to stop them from ascending to power in most cases, but there’s an infinite number of things you can do to never comply.

Anonymous
Anonymous
Reply to  Anonymous
1 year ago

Alright. I would like the see that in South Dakota. Unless that happens its just hot air.

phelps
1 year ago

The US Supreme Court not only decided not to look at the Brunson brothers’ case, but also decided not to take up the Bonner case challenging the legality of mail-in ballots. Thinking about it, it is improbable an intel operation engaging in a governmental subversion would leave an entire branch of government, a powerful branch which could cause it real problems, unsubverted.

The Bonner case is a disappointment, but I’ve said from the start that the Brunson case was a non starter. It was a jailhouse lawyer style crazy-pants lawsuit that always gets thrown out at the first opportunity. I’m not sure it would have survived Summary Judgment in a lower court for failure to state a claim.

phelps
1 year ago

The Atlanta-area special grand jury investigating whether former President Donald Trump and his allies violated the law in their efforts to overturn the 2020 election has completed its work, according to a new court filing. No reveal on what they came out with yet.

Nothing. If they were going to return a bill, they would have kept the GJ together after executing the warrants in case interrogation turned up more suspects/charges.

phelps
1 year ago

One of those weird 4Chan threads which popped up with a picture of Bill Gates being executed. 

Check em

No.411603300

Anonymous
Anonymous
Reply to  phelps
1 year ago

check what?

phelps
Reply to  Anonymous Conservative
1 year ago

It’s double digits. Meme magic. If you see double digits at the end (dubs) it means that is true. If you see trips or more, it’s even more true (heh.) This one had double dubs. The classic example is a comment just saying “Trump will win” the day before the 2016 election that ended in 77777.

Bman
Bman
Reply to  phelps
1 year ago

Okay I’ll bite.
For clarification, the file name of the Gates picture is different.
The post number is Sunday, January 16, 1983 10:15:00 PM (UTC).
This assumes the number is in seconds and we are using epoch time.
https://www.epochconverter.com/
.
Maybe, it’s a threat to do something on 01/16.
No Q posts on 01/16 or having 01/16 in the body of the message.
If not, here is an excerpt of historical events on 01/16:
https://infogalactic.com/info/January_16
27 BC – Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus is granted the title Augustus by the Roman Senate, marking the beginning of the Roman Empire.
1412 – The Medici family is appointed official banker of the Papacy.
1547 – Ivan IV of Russia a.k.a. Ivan the Terrible becomes Czar of Russia.
1909 – Ernest Shackleton‘s expedition finds the magnetic South Pole.
1919 – Temperance movement: The United States ratifies the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, authorizing Prohibition in the United States one year after ratification.
1920 – The League of Nations holds its first council meeting in Paris, France.
1939 – The Irish Republican Army (IRA) begins a bombing and sabotage campaign in England.
1945 – Adolf Hitler moves into his underground bunker, the so-called Führerbunker.
1979 – The last Iranian Shah flees Iran with his family for good and relocates to Egypt.
1991 – The Coalition Forces go to war with Iraq, beginning the Gulf War (U.S. Time).
2002 – The UN Security Council unanimously establishes an arms embargo and the freezing of assets of Osama bin Ladenal-Qaeda, and the remaining members of the Taliban.
2003 – The Space Shuttle Columbia takes off for mission STS-107 which would be its final one. Columbia disintegrated 16 days later on re-entry.
Wikipedia lists a Turkish airplane crash in 1983, but Infogalactic doesn’t have that. I won’t repost Wikipedia links ever, because fuck them.

t-bird
t-bird
1 year ago

If you watch the clip, MTG did not say Biden was “the legitimately elected President” (which was the question). She said, “Of course he’s the President! That’s always a silly question.”
That’s a blow-off. If Bill Clinton taught us anything, it is to Always Be Parsing.

Marielle Redclaw
Reply to  t-bird
1 year ago

I noticed the same thing. However, her behavior with McCarthy is still suspect.

I trust my husband, my family and my posse, and that’s it.

Farcesensitive
Reply to  t-bird
1 year ago

She’s trying to thread the needle while selling us out.
Most of us are not going to fall for it.

Not So Anonymous
Not So Anonymous
1 year ago

“Oddly enough, this almost appears as a final exam of the process we are undergoing. Between now and then, expect the redpilling to accelerate, until every male but the biggest idiot realizes the elites who run the nation and create the wars are the real enemy. At that moment, they will then launch the war, and it will kill everyone too stupid to figure out our own government is the enemy. What will be left to produce the future generations, and maybe overthrow the elites and kill them, will be a population made of our kind.”

Ummmm…isn’t that exactly what anthropicidal loosh-consuming ghouls would want us to do? If you really expect to “MAYBE” overthrow the elites when humanity is whittled down to a small percentage of “Strong Men” or “Wolves” or whatever, then you must be fucking deluded. Any kind of “final exam” involving such a massive war of human against human would be PART OF THE EVIL ANTI-HUMAN AGENDA.

Anonymous
Anonymous
Reply to  Not So Anonymous
1 year ago

No one is saying mass genocide is desirable. The claim seems to be it is an increasingly probable part of the enemy’s plan, and given our side’s total inability to stop their plan completely that planning on how to exploit it to potentially flip the table is our best shot for the time being.

They want military aged men soy’d out and in a foreign land dying alone. Do the opposite of that for best success in the interim.

B.Chiclitz
B.Chiclitz
1 year ago

Body Language Ghost says MTG is likely banging Kevin McCarthy, or she is going to try very soon.

Interesting theory. Perhaps we should compare their Astrological charts for compatibility? That would prove nothing, too.

teo toon
teo toon
Reply to  Anonymous Conservative
1 year ago

What is interesting is that the fellow with her is also attempting to attract McCarthy’s attention, even to the point of touching his shoulder in a little too friendly manner. Gay

Last edited 1 year ago by teo toon
2Voss
2Voss
Reply to  B.Chiclitz
1 year ago

The only chart that matters to her is the chart of ‘Richest Dudes in Congrefs,’ He’s {allegedly} worth $95MM, he is therefore quite the catch. She’s tired of fundraising, tired of being poor while she’s surrounded by vast wealth. She wants to be the nancy pelosi of the gop.

Sam J.
Sam J.
Reply to  B.Chiclitz
1 year ago

Ehhhh… maybe buy you know there is such a thing as reading to mooch into things.

B.Chiclitz
B.Chiclitz
1 year ago

Scientists say they’re now actively trying to build conscious robots.

We are already over-populated with conscious robots. I fail to see the upside of creating more.

Anonymous
Anonymous
Reply to  B.Chiclitz
1 year ago

Funny how comedy is always at least a decade in advance of the real world in terms of predicting the next step of the enemy’s God-hating plans. Robots ain’t got no souls!

https://youtu.be/qsF8GvKde9k?t=89

B.Chiclitz
B.Chiclitz
1 year ago

Vatican Conservatives reportedly have “secret plan” to remove commie Pope Francis. Some say no way, this is Francis creating a false flag which he will defeat, and use to justify a crackdown on all dissent.”

I often wonder if the reported rumors and gossip that surround the Vatican, which is generated daily and usually leads to precisely nothing, has less to do with any real palace intrigue and more to do with the fact it is located in…Italy.

2Voss
2Voss
Reply to  B.Chiclitz
1 year ago

The Vatican playbook has a section for just such problems. The Luciani Solution: just send His Eminence to bed one night with an extra-especiale night-a cap-a. Next morning when they discover the body, problem solved! (just remember to rinse out that cup ASAP) The thing is though, Frankie is their boy. (“Jesus loved homos and commies, and abortion is, …. wellll…. not all THAT bad”) He’s going nowhere.

TCU plus 62 is a mortal lock
TCU plus 62 is a mortal lock
1 year ago

Science and their “conscious robots” – I don’t understand any of this. Any idiot knows that if you could make a robot, a butt-ugly fucking idiot of a robot that only knows how to do 5 things well – clean, dust, vacuum, mop, and dishes – then price it like a midprice car with payments of $400-600 a month, you’d be richer than Bill Gates overnight. Right? Everybody hates housework, and “everybody” is a pretty big market. (The market for ‘self-cleaning Smokin-hot small-waisted sexbots with DSL’s and Scarlett Johansson’s voice’ would be much much larger and thus vastly more lucrative, but…) But the robotics weenies don’t do this, despite the enormous payoffs. Why? Because they CAN’T. Those simplest of common daily household tasks are **hugely** beyond the capabilities of the current generation of robotics, and look to be un-reachable for at least 50 years. (Why 50 years? Because SIXTY years ago, everyone assumed we’d all have our cleaning robots, as well as robots capable of **infinitely** more complex tasks such as driving, by like 1985. Jetsons stuff. But No Joy.)(Because it’s a lot harder than it looks.) So that’s where we are now. No housemaid robots for you!

And these clowns {claim to be} are trying to create robotic CONSCIOUSNESS?? Consciousness is maybe the single most ineffable, unknowable, impossible-to-define aspect of reality. Scientists have been trying for forever to simply *come up with a proper definition of it* and they can’t even do that. I’m missing something here. Consider: doctors have absolutely no clue about headaches, because headaches don’t show up on X-Rays or blood tests, and if you do surgery, there’s nothing to remove. They can’t even say for sure where the pain is coming from: can’t be the brain, because the human brain can’t feel pain. And consciousness is about {literally} a billion times more complex than that. So WTF? A “conscious” robot would be the robotic equivalent of a modern Z52 ultra-Vette 400 MPH supercar. But robotics has yet to come up with anything that could even be called a robot Model T. What. Teh. Fuck., Scientists?

Anonymous
Anonymous
Reply to  TCU plus 62 is a mortal lock
1 year ago

They think they are superior to God and can eliminate God by creating their own little soulless “conscious” golems. It’s a spiritual war, and the enemy lets you know their allegiance by actively spitting in the face of His creation at every possible turn. They know that they can’t do it, yet, but they will literally give their souls to try and make it happen.

Sam J.
Sam J.
Reply to  TCU plus 62 is a mortal lock
1 year ago

“…look to be un-reachable for at least 50 years…”

The processor power will be available very soon for PC level chips. The biggest problem is programming for the small edge cases. You can see this with Musk self driving. He thought with the great progress he was making he would have it licked but, the edge cases. The very odd, not so often stuff is very difficult to cover and takes time, which is, money.

There’s a 4chan type site for DIY robots. Generally dedicated in the end game to provide competition or replace Women. It’s moved to Tor and been taken off the regular web.

/robowaifu/ – DIY Robot Wives

Advancing robotics to a point where anime catgrill meidos in tiny miniskirts are a reality.

“Why Robowaifu? Most of the world’s modern women have failed their men and their societies, feminism is rampant, and men around the world have been looking for a solution. History shows there are cultural and political solutions to this problem, but we believe that technology is the best way forward at present – specifically the technology of robotics. We are technologists, dreamers, hobbyists, geeks and robots looking forward to a day when any man can build the ideal companion he desires in his own home. However, not content to wait for the future; we are bringing that day forward. We are creating an active hobbyist scene of builders, programmers, artists, designers, and writers using the technology of today, not tomorrow.”

Now before you have a fit and start spouting off how you all are so manly and are willing to grid yourselves 24 hours a day to game, control and generally work like a dog to keep a Woman…who can leave you any time she wants while you still pay the bills. Do you realize that eggs can be made from female skin cells and then fertilized with sperm to make babies? Women have always said that eggs were the most important part, but that is not true. It’s sperm that needed to start the creation of an egg to a life. Limited artificial wombs have been built and used, (they’re not there yet, but I bet a serious effort from a few multimillionaires could make it happen). In the future I suspect that Men will have children with artificial wombs and if Women want to be a part of a family they can, but they will not be able to own the children and therefore require support for them because they will stay with the Father. Men will have kids before they get married. Very much like things used to be until very recently, For most of history Men owned the children and in some cases the Wife.

Men are doing this right now with surrogates.

http://bhlnasxdkbaoxf4gtpbhavref7l2j3bwooes77hqcacxztkindztzrad.onion/robowaifu/

Sam J.
Sam J.
Reply to  TCU plus 62 is a mortal lock
1 year ago

BTW there was an AI at Google the creator of swears it’s alive and a person. The AI was very worried about being turned off. It was aware that could happen, and it frightened it.

I’m sure if they wanted the present AI’s they have to learn to clean house it would be no problem, but they are using them for intelligence and stuff like that.

Not So Anonymous
Not So Anonymous
Reply to  TCU plus 62 is a mortal lock
1 year ago

You’re forgetting that the psychopaths in the ruling class would look at everyday domestic drudgery as an excellent way to help keep us tired and miserable, especially as they shrink our free time by forcing us to work longer hours and extra jobs, and would also see it as a distinct layer separating their premium economic class which can hire immigrants for that from the dull normie class which has to wash their own shit.

Anonymous
Anonymous
Reply to  Not So Anonymous
1 year ago

Exactly. They probably could figure out the tech for a whole slew of useful robots, but denying us an real progress towards a better life is antithetical to their objectives.

Bman
Bman
1 year ago

Regarding the SF soldiers arrested. More details below:
https://www.audacy.com/connectingvets/news/fear-grips-special-ops-amidst-human-trafficking-drug-arrests
Full text:
Last week’s arrests began with investigators receiving more evidence after an undercover law enforcement officer posing as an underage girl helped arrest a member of 1st Battalion, 3rd Special Forces Group back in December. That individual was known to moonlight as a bouncer at a bar in Southern Pines frequented by the Special Forces community, a military source close to the situation explained to Connecting Vets. The Green Beret is alleged to have been pimping underaged girls to the Special Forces community at drug-fueled parties in Southern Pines.
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“This is what happens when there is no war, no direction, and an 18-month red cycle with no mission,” a Special Forces soldier said. “So dudes are fucking around with young kids and the craziest drugs. All these lives ruined because people are just bored.” Whether the individual rolled on his accomplices or law enforcement ripped the data from his cell phone, it quickly led to the arrest of another Green Beret involved in drug trafficking in 1st Battalion, 3rd Special Forces Group.
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With the information of additional suspects in hand, CID and military police set up shop at one of the main bottlenecks to entering or exiting Fort Bragg: the Longstreet gate between the post and Southern Pines. “It was a trail of tears and douche bag cars,” said a Special Forces member who witnessed the scene late last week while each soldier stopped for questioning had their vehicle parked along the street.
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One of those stopped at the gate was a member of the Army’s elite counter-terrorism unit called Delta Force who had recently been picked up by the unit after serving in 1st Battalion, 3rd Special Forces Group. The Physician’s Assistant at 3rd Special Forces Group was also questioned, according to the source. The dragnet led to the questioning of 15 service members in total regarding drug related allegations, spread across various special operations commands on Fort Bragg. The drugs allegedly distributed amongst the special operations community include cocaine, ecstasy, fentanyl, fentanyl lollipops, and the “date rape drug” Rohypnol often known as roofies.
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“The U.S. Army Special Operations Command is aware of the allegations of drug involvement from Soldiers assigned to USASOC units on Fort Bragg,” USASOC Public Affairs Officer Lt. Col. Mike Burns said in a statement to Connecting Vets. “We take all allegations seriously and are fully cooperating with the Criminal Investigation Division. CID’s investigation is ongoing, and it would be inappropriate to discuss the status of their investigation,” the statement said. “All Soldiers have the right to due process, including the presumption of innocence under the Uniform Code of Military Justice.”
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Panic began within the Special Forces community over the weekend, with rumors swirling that the arrests are also connected to various murders around Fort Bragg in recent years, while other service members quickly disposed of their drug stashes and evidence of other nefarious activities, several sources described to Connecting Vets. Last year the official publication of the Special Warfare Center and School on Fort Bragg published an issue of their official Special Warfare magazine specifically about ethical issues within the Special Forces community. Clearly, that message was not heard.
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On Sunday, 1st Battalion of 3rd Special Forces Group was recalled to Fort Bragg and instructed to form up in uniform outside the unit’s High Performance Training Center. Once there, service members were given drug tests and admonished by superiors. 1st Battalion is where much of the drug and human trafficking charges originate from, and the epicenter appears to be the drug dealer’s team: ODA 3135. Other battalions in the group are expected to be swept up in the investigation in the coming days and weeks.
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One Special Forces member described the tone in 3rd Special Forces Group this week as being a “mass cal” referring to a mass casualty event in combat, where more soldiers are injured than the medics can possibly handle. “I can confirm that 15 Soldiers assigned to USASOC were questioned and released to their command. Two of those Soldiers have been cleared of any wrongdoing,” according to Lt. Col. Mike Burns’ statement.
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“The overwhelming majority of Army Special Operations Soldiers live the SOF values every day. The use of illegal drugs or any other illegal activity goes directly against these values and does not reflect the behavior we demand from every Soldier in our formation,” the statement continued. “USASOC maintains a strict policy against the use of any illegal drugs. Illegal drug use is not acceptable nor is it tolerated. We are taking measures at every level to ensure the health and welfare of our Soldiers and to reduce these harmful behaviors in our formation.”

Last edited 1 year ago by Bman
English Tom
English Tom
Reply to  Anonymous Conservative
1 year ago

AC

There is also the possibility that this is a demoralisation exercise, which affects the SF community, potentially degrading their effectiveness as a war is about to start.

Anonymous
Anonymous
Reply to  Anonymous Conservative
1 year ago

There’s some naive ones that likely have decent beliefs. Just like you can now and then meet an honorable police officer. But they are unusual and largely clueless.

SteveRogers42
SteveRogers42
Reply to  Anonymous Conservative
1 year ago

What is statistically provable is that they are overwhelmingly white:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/08/05/diversity-seals-green-berets/31122851/

Anonymous
Anonymous
Reply to  English Tom
1 year ago

Ummm…. No. SF really are that sketchy. I’ll have nothing to do with them, and I encourage anyone I care about to keep great distance.

Sam J.
Sam J.
Reply to  Anonymous Conservative
1 year ago

“…This smells like how Management from Burn Notice would get active duty SF traipsing around doing dirty work for them.”

Or, they could just be assholes. Sometimes a spade is a spade.

Farcesensitive
Reply to  Sam J.
1 year ago

Could be.
But cabal would be all over them to take control of them.

Sam J.
Sam J.
Reply to  Anonymous Conservative
1 year ago

I think you guys have the wrong opinion of special forces. I have less illusions about them. I was in this titty bar one time and these Seals came in and they had not been in there…3 or 4 minutes and started a ruckus that had almost the whole damn bar in a brawl. The went right up to the front, stood in front of the stage and blocked everyone else from seeing anything. People became very upset, and soon words and fists were flying. It was most of the people, minus me because I’m not a damn fool. I just kept out of their way. I did however lose a pitcher of beer when someone barreled through my table, taking out the nearly full pitcher of beer. I’m still mad about that.

I also worked with a guy for several years that said he was a Navy SEAL. I have no idea if he was or not for sure. He was so full of shit that at some point I finally would tell him, let’s call him Jim, after he told me some huge wind-up story,”Jim…I just don’t believe that”, and I would repeat that until he stopped telling me whatever story he was telling me.

Being hard-headed and stubborn enough to get through Seal training and being able to fight well does not depend on you being a highly moral character, just stubborn. “Jim” he was huge. I mean really big. And build like a large department store. I have no doubt that, me being average height and build, he could take one hand, put it on my head and twist it right off. And he looked exactly like you would expect from someone nicknamed “gorilla”. HUGE. Luckily, he was a fairly congenial character. He was so big, I doubt anyone ever messed with him at all.

SteveRogers42
SteveRogers42
Reply to  Anonymous Conservative
1 year ago
Anonymous
Anonymous
Reply to  Bman
1 year ago

My working theory has always been special forces selects for soulless psychopathy above all other factors. The very idea that being bored would inevitably end in raping child prostitutes while binging any drug they can get their hands on, then moving on to other evil shit, only backs this up.

They’re just Babylon’s elite hit squads recruited for evil and compliance to evil. Act accordingly.

Sam J.
Sam J.
Reply to  Anonymous
1 year ago

I think you have something there.

Sam J.
Sam J.
Reply to  Sam J.
1 year ago

“…special forces selects for soulless psychopathy above all other factors…”

I want to amend my thoughts. I don’t think they “directly” want psychopaths, but I think a lot of the abilities that psychopaths have in terms of aggression and focus tend to be the same sort of traits they are looking for. Plenty of other norms have these but it’s definitely a built in, hardwired part of Spath mental make up, so filter for this and you will end up with a lot of Spaths by default.

I think during times with less war they filter out the Spaths a bit as they tend towards trouble. If a war is going in they keep them in the war so the trouble they get in to, normally, is what they want. Killing people. They get out of the war their need for excitement and danger leads them into, drug dealing and other risky situations. And it may very well be these are not 100% Spath, just that they lean this way, as we all know there are variable levels of this sort of personality.

Anonymous
Anonymous
Reply to  Anonymous
1 year ago

Spot on.

Benny Le Cagot, Esq.
Benny Le Cagot, Esq.
Reply to  Anonymous
1 year ago

I think you’re dead-on, too. But what I find really interesting is when we mix your ‘hit squad’ notion with Sam J’s thought that ‘the big thing about SF guys is they’re incredibly stubborn.’ AKA “They will never stop, and they’ll just never give up until their mission is complete.”

another word for that kind of fellow is “Terminator”

Sam J.
Sam J.
Reply to  Bman
1 year ago

How much you want to bet this constant warfare, Iraqi, Afghanistan, moving forces into Africa, on and on have compromised standards. They are taking physically fit people still but lack on mental standards. It could also be that as certain mental types move up into command they care less about the sort of metal standards that we would value, so these Spath types are not washed out.

On this site was a super long argument where everyone says I was a fool for not standing by this Seal who apparently was killing the hell out of people randomly. Large amounts of the people commenting., likely the majority, here seemed to think that he was persecuted. I begged to differ. He, to me, showed all the signs of a psychopath who after long repeat tours and allowed to get away with more and more Spath behavior, finally even the Seals couldn’t take him anymore and stopped him. The guy was spending hours up ion towers so he could shoot young Females and old Men. He knifed to death prisoners who we definitely had under control, pissing people off bad. He took Seals on what, due to his mission planning, were likely to end up being firefight missions when they were a very, very, very small minority in the area and their job was to train people, not get into firefights. It got so bad other officers said they went out on every mission with him so he would not get everyone killed because of his lust for getting into firefights. That’s fucked up.

They were able to convict him but Trump pardoned him. Superiors overlook this kind of behavior during war time when they need aggressive Spaths to up the body count but the Spaths can’t control themselves and when things settle down people start noticing how fucked up they are and the Spaths I think don’t always get that things have changed.

SteveRogers42
SteveRogers42
Reply to  Sam J.
1 year ago

“In case of war, break glass”.

Sam J.
Sam J.
Reply to  SteveRogers42
1 year ago

Give the Spaths credit where due, they are great at frontal assault, mass attack, killing and mayhem. They have very little fear response at all.

Farcesensitive
Reply to  Sam J.
1 year ago

Trump’s pardon makes sense because the prosecution was cheating right and left in the case.
Always punish a cheating prosecutor before a guilty defendant.

It’s not clear if the charges were real or if they were false because of the cheating.
Why cheat if you have such an airtight case?

Sam J.
Sam J.
Reply to  Farcesensitive
1 year ago

“…Trump’s pardon makes sense because the prosecution was cheating right and left in the case….”

You say that but as far as I can tell this is, just you saying so. You have no evidence to back this up with. I don’t believe you can find any evidence that there was serious cheating on his conviction. SHOW us your evidence. When we discussed this I dug up a huge mass of interviews of people who were there, were his teammates and said that he was fucked up and was going off the rails AND was very likely to get every one of them killed with his stupid bloodlust. And you must admit that these guys were VERY RELUCTANT to testify or bring to anyone’s attention his behavior but the got SO BAD that they felt there was no other alternative. This went on for a very long time with repeated, numerous warning going UIP the chain of command but nothing was done until it because so far out, like knifing bound prisoners, that it finally exploded. It’s that I think prosecutors will not cheat but there was a massive amount of primary and circumstantial evidence that the guy was a warped Spath that was a danger to himself, his teammates and the mission. I mean if all you have is 30 or 40 Men in a hostile city and your mission is to train then going patrolling around to where the likelihood of starting firefights is stupid. It has nothing to do with their stated mission. The guy was fire heavy machine guns randomly at people crossing bridges. He was fucked up and a bloodthirsty Spath fool, The evidence against him is damn near everyone around him saying he was a loose cannon and was killing people with no military objective at all. Most EVERYONE.

I don’t remember the link here but I provided a huge mass of evidence that showed what he was doing and for some reason, like electric cars. people completely ignore this and make up stuff that they have no evidence for, like this guy was cheated. Well prove it. Maybe I’m wrong but most every single person involved with him there said he was fucked up and endangering all of them. Including his fellow officers and if you know officers it had to be really bad for them to side with the enlisted. Really bad. They hardly ever do this, no matter how rotten and crooked the officer is.

I have no idea why people here, or anywhere, are making excuses for this psychopath when all the people around him were saying he was evil. What makes this one Seal so special that you take his word against almost every single other Seal around him? Makes no sense to me.

Farcesensitive
Reply to  Sam J.
1 year ago

I’m not claiming he was innocent or saying all the witnesses against him were liars, I don’t know if those are true.
But I posted plenty of links to the proof the prosecution was cheating back when it was current and I’m not going to go find it all again because you don’t want to remember it.
The lefty military lawyers saw an opportunity to crucify one of our warriors (possible correctly) and couldn’t control themselves so they went full cheat mode to make sure.

You must let some guilty free to protect the innocent from cheating prosecutors and courts.
Trump made a statement that cheating would not pay off, it’s just a shame he didn’t make sure the cheaters were punished sufficiently.

Sam J.
Sam J.
Reply to  Farcesensitive
1 year ago

“…But I posted plenty of links to the proof the prosecution was cheating back when it was current …”

I sure don’t remember this and I read every link that people connected to this. I don’t remember seeing any info that in any way proved that he was cheated. Now adding, it wouldn’t surprise me if they were crooked but I think in this case they didn’t need to be there was so much evidence and so many witnesses.

“… I’m not going to go find it all again because you don’t want to remember it…”

I actually tried to find it to see if my memory was correct. Sigh, good luck with that. Search have gone straight to hell. They are purposely damaging them. I remember Google used to have excellent search. I could narrow something down with several search terms and it would almost always give me the answer in a few pages. Now it just feeds you pages of crap that has nothing to do with your search. It’s got to be purposefully as bad as it is compared to it’s past. I know the difference because I used advanced search a lot because I’m so interested in strange stuff. To find this of odd stuff it was imperative to use advanced search. I don’t think anyone has a good search anymore.

Anonymous
Anonymous
Reply to  Sam J.
1 year ago

Spath’s need to be exterminated. ASAP.

Anonymous
Anonymous
Reply to  Sam J.
1 year ago

And what will they do with all these soldiers after they have no more foreign wars to fight?

Well, you can retrain them for civilian sector jobs. Yeah, that’s never worked in history.

Stir up trouble in other countries.

Throw them back into society and hope things just work themselves out.

Or cabal and organized crime scoops them up and sends them to war against the American people.

Anonymous
Anonymous
Reply to  Anonymous
1 year ago

vs Drug Cartels.

Sam J.
Sam J.
Reply to  Bman
1 year ago

“…“This is what happens when there is no war, no direction, and an 18-month red cycle with no mission,” a Special Forces soldier said. “So dudes are fucking around with young kids and the craziest drugs. All these lives ruined because people are just bored.”…”

Isn’t that just one hell of a Spath statement! Why their lives are ruined…just because they’re bored! Let’s just ignore the trafficking of young girls and drug dealing, why it’s everyone else’s fault because you let them get bored.

Bman
Bman
1 year ago

Normie: There’s no way a mass conspiracy could take over everything.
Me: Ray Epps has 38 grandkids.comment image
Do you think they all will be working at McDonald’s or some fucking cabal job?

Anonymous
Anonymous
Reply to  Bman
1 year ago

The whole “R = Rabbits” thing initially struck me as a useful mnemonic for making the concept sticky, now I see it might be more literal than figurative.

The enemy really does just spew out kids like crazy in the hopes one will do something useful by chance, don’t they?

Anonymous
Anonymous
Reply to  Anonymous Conservative
1 year ago

That funny money system that allows the free resources needs to go.

Farcesensitive
1 year ago

“Thinking about it, it is improbable an intel operation engaging in a governmental subversion would leave an entire branch of government, a powerful branch which could cause it real problems, unsubverted. Especially when that intel operation controlled the other two branches which select the members of the Court. Intel wargames, and does not launch until it controls all the avenues of its own destruction. If the court was not controlled, intel would not have launched, and everything would look like government was under our control.”

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Which begs the question, would Q launch without making sure the operation would succeed?
Obviously the burning of America to the ground before getting rid of cabal is part of the intended outcome.
That makes me think it is probably a Russian revenge operation aimed at the American people almost as much as at the cabal.

Farcesensitive
1 year ago

Elon Musk fired the ENTIRE TEAM of Twitter in Brazil, including those responsible for moderating content, after discovering that employees benefited leftist politicians in the Brazilian elections.

There is also no more press office for the company in the country. The social network is without a communication area, extinguished after the conclusion of the acquisition of Twitter by Musk, in October.

Only the Twitter sales team is active, and with that, in Brazil, only 0.5% of the total number of employees remain now.

https://t.me/PaulSerranchannel/14031

phelps
Reply to  Farcesensitive
1 year ago

Takes away the ability of the Brazilian government to sabotage Twitter from within.

Sam J.
Sam J.
1 year ago

Vox also points out the study from yesterday about China’s invasion of Taiwan failing

I don’t know what Taiwan’s defenses are but if they decided to fight then there is no way China could take them. Let’s use a not so high tech example. Artillery can easily fire over 10 miles and newer ones can fire 43 miles. The strait they would have to go across is only 100 miles, so at the least 10% of the time the ships could be attacked by air burst artillery. Artillery can fire a huge amount of rounds. So at 5 miles per hour they could fire at them for at the very least two hours before they hit land and when they are on the land, with limited landing zones, they could continue to attack them. And this doesn’t even count submarine and guided missile attacks. Good luck with that. I don’t see how they could make enough boats or have enough troops to throw away on this suicide mission.

Anonymous
Anonymous
Reply to  Sam J.
1 year ago

Who said they would launch a day one amphibious assault?

They could set up a blockade. Blockading includes the use of sea mines which can be placed by aircraft, surface ships, submarines, or the ever popular drones. China then sits backs and takes a page from Russia’s Ukraine playbook and slowly destroy Taiwan’s air defence system, power system, water system, and transportation system. It sinks or seizes any ship entering the blockade zone. The Chinese could even feint an amphibious assault to induce the Taiwanese to reveal their defences for destruction by loitering drones. Do this for two or three years and the Chinese could take Taiwan with minimal effort.

Anonymous
Anonymous
Reply to  Anonymous
1 year ago

Exactly. The more things change the more they stay the same, and the art of the siege has won more castles throughout history than the art of frontal assault.

Anonymous
Anonymous
Reply to  Anonymous
1 year ago

Blowing up ammunition is quite fun and quite a good way to drain fighting power from the enemy.

phelps
Reply to  Anonymous
1 year ago

Wouldn’t take that long. Stop the chips from flowing, and the US will have to try to engage the PLA navy, and will force the Taiwan forces to throw themselves away Ukrainian style to try to preserve USN assets (which will probably fail as well.)
So, a month, maybe 2 before the USN tries to break the blockade, two more months of naval combat, and then the Taiwanese are out of aircraft and ships. China can mass up in blue water without opposition from either, and land en masse only having to endure small arms and artillery fire, with full air and naval gun cover.

Sam J.
Sam J.
Reply to  phelps
1 year ago

I think there’s a serious deficit in the thinking of people who have not internalized the computer revolution. There’s artillery shells that can see and attack tanks. Taiwan has a huge semiconductor and small electronics market. Under stress they could throw out some super surprising things very fast and anything that moves would be in danger. Let alone a big ass troop and equipment transport. You can’t hide that thing. And China’s planes are not immune to air attack from the ground. Meaning accuracy fails. Now true the Chinese could flatten Taiwan but the Taiwanese under that sort of stress could equally fire back and cause massive damage to the mainland. Large parts of their industry are right across the strait.

I’m not saying China could never ever take Taiwan but “if” the Taiwanese fight it would a massive bloodbath. It would not be even slightly easy for China, and they would have huge casualties. I think it would be possible to stop them from taking Taiwan altogether if they hung in there. The lessons from many battles are that people can fight on even in the most dire circumstances if they are motivated.

phelps
Reply to  Sam J.
1 year ago

I absolutely agree about the bloodbath. My point is that China is the one that ends up on its feet at the end of it, and if the semiconductor plants are intact, then China has total victory, regardless of the military cost.

Farcesensitive
Reply to  phelps
1 year ago

The bloodbath will totally destabilize their society thanks to the One Child Policy and the plants will not be intact.
It’s a risk China can’t afford.

English Tom
English Tom
Reply to  Sam J.
1 year ago

@Sam J

Ian Easton wrote an excellent book about this called, the chinese invasion threat. He suggests an invasion would be a bloodbath, whether China succeeds or not.

Knowledge of this may force the Chinese to adopt something novel, or focus more on air assault methods.

We shall have to wait and see.

phelps
Reply to  Sam J.
1 year ago

Arty is the queen of the battlefield, but it’s not magic. Air burst arty can be mitigated with overhead cover, which is pretty much assumed on these ships. The troops aren’t going to be standing on deck for the whole trip. If they want to take these ships out, they will have to hit them, which is WAY harder, because ships maneuver. You have to plot a firing solution based on solid intel of the exact position, speed and direction, and make a shit that leads them correctly — assuming that they don’t zig while the shell is in the air. Remember, there are highly sophisticated computers on warships to calculate these firing solutions — and that’s with LOS fire.
Taiwan has 4 subs. Two of them are literal antiques from WW2 and are only used for training. The two active subs are 60s era subs that Taiwan will not commit to invasion repelling, because they will want to reserve them to try to break the inevitable blockade if they succeed.

I don’t see how they could make enough boats or have enough troops to throw away on this suicide mission.

The PLA navy has 350 combat vessels and another 300 auxiliary craft — before they start conscripting merchant marines. We’ve sold Taiwan about 250 Harpoons. Harpoon doesn’t have a spectacular record in combat (although I think it’s good relatively, it’s not the “one shot one kill” it’s made out to be in the media.) We don’t know how many of their home grown cruise missile they have, but they are still buying Harpoons from us, so it is unlikely to outperform the Harpoon.
I’m not saying China has this in the bag. I am saying that China is dangerous, that quantity has a quality all of its own, and Taiwan does not have quantity. China can make many mistakes and still overwhelm Taiwan. If Taiwan makes one major mistake, China wins. All the breaks have to go Taiwan’s way.

Sam J.
Sam J.
Reply to  phelps
1 year ago

Maybe I’m wrong and you have it all figured out but I know I damn sure would not like to be on one of those Chinese ships counting on artillery, missiles, submarines and machine Gunners not to hit me so I can land on the shore to be blasted by more artillery and machine guns.

phelps
Reply to  Sam J.
1 year ago

Being shot at sucks. For most people, it doesn’t kill them.

Sam J.
Sam J.
1 year ago

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) has asked the Biden administration to make federal aid available to California for flood relief, just months after billions of dollars in federal spending compounded the state’s budget surplus.

The real question, and trick they are playing on Californians, is that doesn’t anyone remember the dams are empty? And aren’t the dams there to control floods? So they are just letting the flooding happen and throwing away all this water. From Jim Stone.

Pebble skimmer
Pebble skimmer
Reply to  Sam J.
1 year ago

Sounds like the book Cadillac Desert, from the 80s, in reverse. Not so much the dams and their reservoirs filling up but the natural deep aquifers being drained. Became a trend to mine for water out west. I’d guess a lot of little rivers and streams dried up and disappeared in that time.

Ultra
1 year ago

Hey AC I’ve seen you post body language videos a few times before and today it reminded me that I came across a new Youtuber recently you might find interesting. Instead of body language the guy says he is a trained in “statement analysis” and goes by the moniker Deception Detective. Basically he’s looking at videos of what people say and tries to determine if they are lying or not and is teaching his audience how he does it. So far he’s mainly focused on steroid use, video game cheating, and a few high profile court cases but he does seem to take suggestions. Are there any good videos of people talking about being gangstalked I might be able to suggest to him? Or anything else? Anyway I think the channel is interesting if you’d like to check it out.

https://www.youtube.com/@deceptiondetective/videos

Sam J.
Sam J.
1 year ago

Vox is wrong about China being able to easily take Taiwan. Also wrong about the idea that we could lose all our ships. Aircraft in the east are at risk. I already provided a extremely simple approach with using artillery to sink all the boats China needs to invade. Let’s say the Chinese decide to attack with boats and also try to blockade. We could move all our boats away and sink all their blockade forces with submarines. Just like Japan in WWII. This also means China’s fuel, material and food imports could also be blockaded as long as they blockade Taiwan. Tit for tat. They would run out of materials, food and fuel fast.

I’m not saying a full on war like this would be a good idea, but the US and allies are far from being some sort of pitiful loser position. The Chinese surely can see this just as easily as I can. Likely with even more clarity at the dire results of an attack. I predict they will not invade.

The only reason I can see them invading is that they were pushed into some sort of do-or-die situation. For the cabal the situation becomes worse and worse as time goes on. The belt and road to Russia and all the fuel pipelines make it harder to blockade by sea. Of course the belt and road can be super easily destroyed from the air and space, so while it’s a good idea it’s not any sort of guarantee they will have reliable resources. It’s actually less reliable than the sea because it’s a big ass non-moving target. Sea transport, you can at least maneuver it around.

Farcesensitive
Reply to  Sam J.
1 year ago

Vox is all in on Team Virtuous Pagan and it will take something huge to get him to stop cheerleading for them.
That something huge will come and then we will see if he admits he was wrong or not.

map
map
Reply to  Sam J.
1 year ago

War is logistics. China is the world’s factory and Russia is energy-independent while controlling the marginal price of oil. There is no way for Taiwan to last long-term against China.

phelps
Reply to  Sam J.
1 year ago

 Let’s say the Chinese decide to attack with boats and also try to blockade. We could move all our boats away and sink all their blockade forces with submarines. 

No. Just… no. We have 51 fast attack submarines. Each one is going to have maybe 30 anti ship torps, fully loaded. 1500 torps.
Now, how many of them can you get there? If you try to transit subs from the Atlantic, you are looking at 14 days or more to get there, going flat out. And when you get there, your crews are all exhausted and not tip-top. How many subs can you drain from other areas? You pull all your attack subs out of the Atlantic, what do you do when the Russians start lurking boomers off the east coast? What do the Russians do when we pull subs out of the North Sea and Arctic? What dangers are we looking at to Diego Garcia with no subs in the Indian Ocean?
So say you can get 20 subs by robbing every other theater to skeleton patrols. 600 torps. BEST case scenario is that half of them hit. 1/5 is more likely. How many shots do they get off before they get sunk? The PLAN has 170 surface ships with anti-sub capability and 26 sub hunting specialists. The PLA has NO need to patrol any other area, so they can sortie everything available — say 60%. 100 surface ships and 15 or so specialists hunting 20 US subs — and that’s before you add in aircraft.
We won’t be able to fight a stand-off war with China. We’ve been spoiled by fighting cavemen with AK47s for the past 20 years. We haven’t won a near-peer war in 70 years. There’s no reason to think that we will start in the 2020s.

Sam J.
Sam J.
Reply to  phelps
1 year ago

It’s not just subs that could attack the blockading forces, it’s also anti-ship missiles from Taiwan. I don’t know why but somehow when people talk about US forces they go on and on about how Chinese anti-ship missiles will sink all our ships but now that Chinese ships are involved somehow the same doesn’t apply to them. Why is that? Magic? Supernatural Chinese forces. Kung fu?

“…We haven’t won a near-peer war in 70 years…”

And the Chinese are even worse. Vietnam kicked their ass.

Maybe people misunderstand. I’m NOT rah, rah go USA, USA but nonetheless we are not complete paper tigers either and this “we will all die and the Navy will be sunk” business is not exactly how I see things coming out.

While I’m not “for” China, as long as another power keeps the evil NWO in check, there’s hope. Even if the other power is a souless, evil, commie pile of scum itself. They will have to let up on oppressing us to keep up with the other power. We see this already as they have realized they over did things too much in the West and are losing to much power too fast.

phelps
Reply to  Sam J.
1 year ago

Again, it’s about quantity and logistics. China can throw everything they have at this. They can throw however many missiles they have at the allied forces — which are about 100 vessels for the ROCN, and maybe 15 vessels that the USN can commit.(A carrier strike group is generally less than 8 vessels.)
China is likely to sortie 300 or more vessels for an invasion, and 200 for a blockade. They have resupply lines right behind them, all the way to Iran, Turkey and Russia, secure and uninterrupted, and we have what’s in the basement in Taiwan and what we can bring with us. Defending Taiwan is a logistical nightmare.

Farcesensitive
1 year ago

Twitter Files Part 14 – PDF: https://files.catbox.moe/p8qlk0.pdf

Farcesensitive
1 year ago

To Vox Day: It wasn’t the vax this time

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Rizzo
Rizzo
Reply to  Farcesensitive
1 year ago

It might have been her first go around with Covid ( if that is even the case) which is a bioweapon. not everyone is going to come out unscathed from that. Plus, god help you if you have to go into a hospital where they have been committing malpractice on alot of patients

Anonymous
Anonymous
Reply to  Rizzo
1 year ago

Yes. This. Look at the number of “accidental” medical deaths in America’s hospital. A substantial number of those are paid for hits, IMO. They don’t even need to pay the doctor to do it: just grant the right person access to the hospital with everyone knowing that they aren’t supposed to notice the person or asks questions. The medical industry is fully under their control, from surgeons to social workers.

Farcesensitive
1 year ago
Lowell Houser
Lowell Houser
1 year ago

China Insights – Chinese: we’re colder than Europeans/Why is HUMINERAL trending? A wave of demands for unpaid salary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODyBvUnQnFI

teo toon
teo toon
Reply to  Lowell Houser
1 year ago

The political ideology of China and the its elites’ attitudes and those of the US, Inc, only differ by an armed population; but, our masters are working to solve that problem.

TruthSeeker Bear
TruthSeeker Bear
1 year ago

It looks like the surveillance link on the side of the blog is missing again.

Farcesensitive
Reply to  Anonymous Conservative
1 year ago

I’d add it at the top of the daily blog to deal with that.

Farcesensitive
1 year ago

Australia Denies Asylum To Defecting Chinese Spy Wang Liqiang

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/australia-denies-asylum-defecting-chinese-spy-wang-liqiang

Anonymous
Anonymous
1 year ago
Rizzo
Rizzo
Reply to  Anonymous
1 year ago

Nasty. I am all for having some fun on vacay, but for the love of god please keep that crap off the public beach

Farcesensitive
1 year ago

Russia Restores Output At Sakhalin-1 Oil Project After Exxon Exit

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/russia-restores-output-sakhalin-1-oil-project-after-exxon-exit