Orange Man affair ……as if we need to know more clearly the obvious!

” “I f—ing told them that they needed to post guys f—ing over here…I told them that f—ing Tuesday,” said a Butler Township officer in audio captured by his body-worn camera and obtained by the Wall Street Journal.

“I talked to the Secret Service guys. They’re like, ‘Yeah, no problem. We’re going to post guys over here,'” the officer continues.”

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/i-fking-told-them-enraged-butler-cop-bodycam-says-he-told-secret-service-cover-warehouse

(Video at url)

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Big economic fubar…which dovetails to big trouble dead ahead 

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/rickards-put-your-crash-helmet-you-might-need-it-very-soon

“… stock market bounced back today after yesterday’s mini-crash — the “buy the dip” theme is deeply entrenched in today’s market.

But don’t make the mistake of thinking that stocks will continue on their way to record highs. There are too many red flags to ignore, although Wall Street would like you to ignore them….”

“…If we’re not in a recession already (I believe we entered one in May or June), we’re clearly heading for one. A new Middle East war will drive up the price of oil, maybe dramatically depending on how the conflict unfolds. That means higher prices at the pump, which are already too high for many Americans.

What if Iran shuts down the Strait of Hormuz, ending all oil exports from the Persian Gulf (or the Arabian Gulf, depending on who you’re talking to)? [what if? zionazis may burn the shore facilities]

That could be the final nail in the coffin of the Biden economy. We’d be staring in the face of a major recession that would crush average Americans.”

No kidding? Geewhiz, whodathunk? It doancost a dime more to keep th’ ol’ jalopy’s belly full than it do to keep her 1/2 full, Comrade

Intel Slava Z
🇺🇸 🇮🇷❗️US Air Force F-22 Raptors arrive in Middle East to prevent regional escalation by Iran – US Central Command

https://tass.ru/mezhdunarodnaya-panorama/21563195

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US airlifts F-22s to the Middle East
This is done in case of an escalation of the conflict between Israel and Iran, the US Central Command said.
NEW YORK, August 8. /tass/. The United States has deployed fifth-generation F-22 Raptor fighter jets to the Middle East in case the conflict between Israel and Iran escalates. This was reported by the Central Command of the US Armed Forces (CENTCOM).

“F-22 Raptors arrived in the CENTCOM area of responsibility on August 8 as part of the redeployment of US forces to contain a possible escalation in the region by Iran and its allies,” the command said on its Twitter page.

(almost) “Never before in History”.. (an old WW2 slogan of the German nazis)

“DD Geopolitics
🇩🇪 German exports have been falling since 2022, this decline is not smooth, but in leaps and bounds. Right now, another such failure in the export of German products has been recorded. Demand has fallen in the EU and the US, while slightly increasing in China.

But the most important indicator is something else: for the first time, Germany’s imports exceeded its exports, meaning that the country’s trade balance became negative, something that has almost never happened in history. Is it worth mentioning how important this is for Germany, which largely lived off the sale of its goods to other countries.

🔴@DDGeopolitics
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When the vicious fascists brought the Red Hunts and the “Second Red Scare” – and the McCarthy Committee inquisition, one presumably damning “guilty act” was chipping in for coffee and cookies at a “meeting”. For a quarter of a dollar, for a nickel, one might later be accused of “supporting the international commie conspiracy to overthrow America”. For that quarter one might later find himself  ordered to appear before the inquisition – at one’s own expense, by the way. I know this from direct observations. And I have read much of the Congressional records as they relate to the inquisitions of the 1950’s.

One result was the ruin of the American Communist Party. Another was the ruin of countless decent and moral Americans – the destruction of old friendships,  the sundering of families, the ruin of professional careers, and ultimately the terror of the so-called cold war…including the millions murdered in the name of “fighting Communism”, and vast waste of treasure building weapons, and many thousands of nuclear bombs – including many hundreds of open air “tests” – the product of which even to-day infects millions with cancer. There was no need to “receive foreign monies” or to leave the US – all it took was a few meetings, or even one, and chipping in for cookies.

With that in mind, consider the sober view, with which I am, sadly, in agreement, of Gilbert Doctorow. Specifically with respect to our admired Scott Ritter, and more generally.

Finally, my own view. The Constitution means nothing to the fascist, the nazi. Scott and many have been, and are, naive. Innocents. They fail to grasp the fundamental nature of “domestic” reality. Of course that’s going to change. And this is not the Second Red Hunt”, it’s the third.

https://gilbertdoctorow.com/author/gilbertdoctorow/

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“…Scott Ritter has made some serious errors of judgment which have led ineluctably to the present search and to his likely trial and conviction.

This is not the fate of one brave but misguided public figure that I am writing about. It is the failure by Ritter and others to understand what constitutes correct behavior with respect to the publicly identified adversary of the United States, which Russia is today just as the Soviet Union was in the days of the first Cold War. I write to inform a new generation of activists where the red lines are and what to avoid lest they fall victim as Ritter has and similarly discredit the Opposition….”

Oh how I wish Gilbert was mistaken…

From the many above> “…the secrets of the atomic bomb, known since the 1930s, were disclosed to the Allies as early as 1938…”

The general idea was patented by Szilard (UK patent) That’s true. After that it was still unclear how, even if, it was possible. Einstein thought it would be so big that only a steamship could carry one. More research revealed two potential materials, an isotope of plutonium, and an isotope of Uranium. Pu was unsuitable for a simple bomb, a “gun-type”, but U would work. (iirc there are actually two workable isotopes of U. After than almost everything was just engineering. The only real secret was that it could be done in a package small enough to move around, a “bomb”. Heisenberg was pretty sure, probably, how to do it. However the resources to do it were by that time unavailable to the Germans – it’s just too big a project with the ways of the 1940’s. The “secret” was made essentially public at Alamogordo, when that gadget worked.  Engineering details, like methods of isotope separation, reactor design for breeding Pu, designs of implosions devices…did matter, but leaked out almost immediately. Those secrets were ephemeral and actually almost trivial. Any bright educated bunch with plenty of resources could make these things within a few years.

Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer just signed a bill into law which prohibits recounting votes based on allegations of election fraud

“The people who cast the votes don’t decide an election, the people who count the votes do, ”  (Stalin, smart fella!)

Gretchen Whitmer makes her move to green light widespread election fraud in Michigan…

I think Martanov actually confirms Postal’s most basic argument. That was/is that the people in the US believe that they can do a first strike and get away with it. That they themselves are in “group-think, and must be in that state in order to “advance” in their jobs. That this belief is delusional is the fundamental problem. I had some doubts about Postal’s claim that Ruskie was unable to see US launches, as I noticed he did not mention OTH radar or the likelihood of additional satellites. What seems, probably is, true, is that the couple, the pair of machine elements of Rus and US forms a doomsday machine. If the US were to act upon their delusions as to Ruskie capabilities by launching many missiles, we might hope that Ruskie holds off on counter-fire. Slim hope. Some US missiles would almost surely hit their targets in Russia…after that reprisal would almost certainly take place. Doomsday? They say that about 100 bombs would kill most people on earth, most from starvation due to the smoke from burning targets. In the assumed “exchange” 100 seems like a low number.

OTH radar, by the way, was the first radar ever used. First noticed in the form of radio echos from ships at a distance over the horizon – a surprise in US fleet exercises in the 1920-1930 period, and in WW2 by the UK “Chain Home” system. Chain Home could see V2 launches in Europe, and vector bombers to attack the V2 launch sites in a very short time. That made it necessary to make the V2 launch system mobile. Modern signal processing makes OTH pretty accurate. It depends on ionization of the upper atmosphere, and that waves around and varies constantly, even going away sometimes with Earth magnet field variations, solar conditions create the ionosphere in interaction with the magnetic field. My view that a CME can disarm the doomsday machine, is not changed, that and “ground-based” 😉 affairs, ie political-technical matters may actually shut the machine off in time.

I did some recent exploration of the character of “group delusions” and the holders of false histories and beliefs, of what Postal called “group-think”. It is highly obdurate. Almost impenetrable. In “adults” anyway. In kids it’s probably somewhat plastic.

I had missed, skipped, Martanov’s reply to Postal. Actually I wasn’t going to bother with Postal at all, until AHH suggested it. Thanks to both of you. Quite an excursion!