Final Contdown

Monitoring Closely,

  From 9/12/24,  How to Steal an Election: US Conservatives Expose Democrats' Playbook Ahead of 2024 Vote   "Election theft has always been present in America," US economist and former Reagan administration official Dr. Paul Craig Roberts wrote. "In the 19th century, a vote could be bought for 50 cents and a half pint of whiskey. But in the 21st century, organized vote theft is a big business."
​  The economist pointed out that "normally, it does not matter to the ruling establishment which candidate wins, because the establishment owns both candidates." However, in 2016, 2020, and 2024,Donald Trump emerged as a player "outside the grip and control of the establishment. Therefore, to keep him out of office, vote fraud has been elevated to the fore," as per the economist.​   https://sputnikglobe.com/20240912/how-to-steal-an-election-us-conservatives-expose-democrats-playbook-ahead-of-2024-vote-1120119743.html

​  So who has the report?  Putin Releases 4,000 Page Report Exposing How Elites Have Rigged 2024 US Election ​  The US presidential election has been rigged to ensure the people do not choose the president, according to Russian President Vladimir Putin who has painstakingly compiled a 4,000 page report forensically detailing the crimes of the US Deep State and globalist elites. According to Putin, the global elite believe the consequences of the US election are far too important to allow the American people to decide the outcome, and the 4,000 page report lists Klaus Schwab, Barack Obama, Bill Gates, and George and Alex Soros as co-conspirators in the plot against the USA.​   https://x.com/tpvsean/status/1851760343489405075

"Fraudulent" Mail Ballot Request Forms Found In Another Pennsylvania County, District Attorney Says​   https://www.zerohedge.com/political/fraudulent-mail-ballot-request-forms-found-another-pennsylvania-county-district-attorney

​  From 10/16/24,  U.S. Postal Service refusing to disclose who paid for nine trucks that transferred up to 1.5 million counterfeit election ballots in 2020   A federal court is about to force the United States Postal Service (USPS) to fess up about who was behind those infamous nine trucks in Pennsylvania that transferred upwards of 1.5 million counterfeit ballots during the 2020 election, effectively throwing the state for Joe Biden.   https://www.naturalnews.com/2024-10-16-usps-trucks-counterfeit-ballots-election-2020-lawsuit.html

"There Are NO WATCHERS": RNC Sues Georgia Counties Over "Last Minute" Decision To Accept Weekend Ballots, Block GOP Observers​   https://www.zerohedge.com/political/there-are-no-watchers-rnc-sues-georgia-counties-over-last-minute-decision-accept-weekend

​  Voter confidence rattled after voting machines malfunction across Illinois
In viral social media posts, voters say they walked out of a Schaumburg early voting site after the ballot scanner stopped working.​   https://justthenews.com/nation/states/center-square/voter-confidence-rattled-after-voting-machines-malfunction-across

"It Did Occur" - Kentucky County Clerk Confirms Voting Booth 'Glitch' Shifted Trump Votes To Kamala​   https://www.zerohedge.com/political/it-did-occur-kentucky-county-clerk-confirms-voting-booth-glitch-shifted-trump-votes

​From 7/25/24,  Is US Democratic System Crumbling? Voters on Both Sides of Aisle Losing Trust in Election   https://sputnikglobe.com/20240725/is-us-democratic-system-crumbling-voters-on-both-sides-of-aisle-losing-trust-in-election-1119496178.html

​  Americans' Trust in Media Remains at Trend Low
Trust in political and civic institutions highest for local ​(67%) and state ​(55%) governments, lowest for media ​(31%) and Congress​ (34%). [Graphs won't copy/paste]​   https://news.gallup.com/poll/651977/americans-trust-media-remains-trend-low.aspx

​  PATRICK LAWRENCE: Portents of Chaos​   At this moment it is hard to locate the limit of what either of the two main political parties in the U.S. will do to avoid losing.
​  If this election is about anything — apart from the price of groceries, of course — it is about the national-security state’s place in American politics. In our post–2016 era, intel and the military are perfectly welcome to operate openly, unabashedly, in the American political process — this because the Democratic Party gives them a wide berth to do so.
​  Now, do you think the Deep State gives a toot about democratic process? Ask the Italians and the Greeks, the Iranians and the Guatemalans, the Japanese, the South Koreans and the Indonesians, the Chileans and the Venezuelans, and…​ ..I recall, very imperfectly, seeing research purportedly done by a computer scientist at one of the universities in Philadelphia. Just after the election he or she put out a series of screenshots on social media, time-stamped to the second, that appeared to show the results in a significant number of districts changing all at once and by enough to give Biden a swift come-from-behind victory by a margin of slightly more than 1 percent.   https://consortiumnews.com/2024/10/31/patrick-lawrence-portents-of-chaos/

​  With just a week until the presidential election, Donald Trump’s close ally and major economic adviser Elon Musk is warning supporters to expect economic chaos, a crashing stock market and financial “hardship” — albeit “temporary” — if Trump wins.​   https://endtimeheadlines.org/2024/11/elon-musk-predicts-hardship-economic-turmoil-and-a-stock-market-crash-if-trump-wins/

​  Trump promises ‘influential positions’ for Musk and Kennedy
The Republican candidate has indicated that RFK Jr. would “take care of health,” while the Tesla CEO would work on cutting government spending​   https://swentr.site/news/606875-trump-musk-rfk-roles/

​  WATCH: RFK Jr. Explains Plan for Reforming the CIA
'The entire upper echelon of that agency is made of individuals who don’t believe in the institutions of the United States of America...'​   https://headlineusa.com/watch-rfk-jr-explains-plan-for-reforming-the-cia/

​  Trump's Potential Treasury Pick Vows Spending Cuts In Partnership With Musk Billionaire John Paulson said he would work with Elon Musk to cut federal spending, particularly by reducing green energy subsidies, if appointed Treasury Secretary under Trump’s administration.​   https://www.zerohedge.com/political/trumps-potential-treasury-pick-vows-spending-cuts-partnership-musk

​  Ron Paul "Revolution" Reignites After Elon Musk Asks Libertarian Legend To Join Department Of Gov't Efficiency On Friday evening, AFpost wrote on X, "Ron Paul says he wants to join Elon Musk to cut government waste in second Trump administration."  Musk chimed in on X: "It would be great to have Ron Paul as part of the Department of Government Efficiency!"​    Ron Paul responded: "I'd be happy to talk with you about it, Elon."​   https://www.zerohedge.com/political/ron-paul-revolution-after-musk-asks-libertarian-legend-join-department-govt

Jill Stein, Presidential Candidate for the Green Party Takes a Firm Stance against Genocide in Palestine​   https://www.globalresearch.ca/jill-stein-presidential-candidate-for-the-green-party-takes-a-firm-stance-against-genocide-in-palestine/5871695

Leading Up to the Elections: The War Against the Palestinians Must Go On​,  Both major political parties connive at Israel’s genocide in Gaza​   https://www.globalresearch.ca/war-palestinians-go-on/5871612

​  Chris Hedges: Genocidal Scorecard   A United Nations report, published on Monday, lays out in chilling detail the advances made by Israel in Gaza as it seeks to eradicate “the very existence of the Palestinian people in Palestine.” This genocidal project, the report ominously warns, “is now metastasizing to the West Bank, including East Jerusalem.”
​  The Nakba or “catastrophe,” which in 1948 saw Zionist militias drive 750,000 Palestinians from their homes, carry out more than 70 massacres and seize 78 percent of historic Palestine, has returned on steroids. It is the next and, perhaps, final chapter in “a long-term intentional, systematic, State-organized forced displacement and replacement of the Palestinians.”
​  Francesca Albanese, the U.N. Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, who issued the report, titled “Genocide as colonial erasure,” makes an urgent appeal to the international community to impose a full arms embargo and sanctions on Israel until the genocide of Palestinians is halted. She calls on Israel to accept a permanent ceasefire. She demands that Israel, as required by international law and U.N. resolutions, withdraw its military and colonists from Gaza and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem... ..A leaked Israeli Ministry of Intelligence “concept paper” from October 2023 outlines the plan to expel the entire Gaza population to Egypt and recolonize Gaza. It is a plan Israel appears to be following.
​  Albanese writes that Israel is replicating the patterns of past genocides. It creates through its rhetoric a “vengeful atmosphere” that conditions soldiers to be “willing executioners.” It claims it is acting in self-defense while targeting a civilian population. It is obliterating the infrastructure that sustains life, a process of “genocide by attrition.” It uses starvation as a weapon. It is attempting to hide its crimes by killing Palestinian journalists and U.N. workers and blocking international agencies and the international media from Gaza.
​  We have seen genocide before. We have also seen the complicity or silence of nations that have the power to intervene.​   https://scheerpost.com/2024/10/30/chris-hedges-genocidal-scorecard/

​  UN briefing in US Congress cancelled after Rapporteur labelled 'anti-Semitic'   A planned briefing to Congress by the UN’s Special Rapporteur on Palestine, Francesca Albanese, on Gaza was cancelled due to political pressure, according to organisers.
​  American author and human rights activist, Medea Benjamin, shared a video expressing frustration at Congress, with Albanese noting that her report highlighted Israel’s crimes against Gaza, questioning the US role in undermining 75 years of progress in international law.
​  In a video posted on X, Benjamin criticised Congress, citing allegations in Jewish Insider that labelled Albanese’s position as anti-Semitic, which reportedly led Democratic leadership to pressure for the cancellation.​   https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20241030-un-briefing-in-us-congress-cancelled-after-rapporteur-labelled-anti-semitic/

B-52 bombers and destroyers deployed: Is Iran on high alert?​   https://bulgarianmilitary.com/2024/11/02/b-52-bombers-and-destroyers-deployed-is-iran-on-high-alert/

​  Iran has officially declared a NOTAM (notice to air missions) from November 4 at 2:30 am until November 6 at 6:30 pm. Air travel restrictions confirmed.  It appears the hyper-sonics are ready to hit Israel.​   https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/news-selections/world-news/iran-issues-notam-november-4-thru-6

​  Professor Ugo Bardi asked this a year and a half ago, but it is time to stand-up and join-in. The Age of Exterminations -VII: Can we survive by going undercover?   Many ideas are floating in the memesphere on how to survive the current situation. Some people think of moving to a country ruled by less dangerous governments, others of retreating to an agricultural village in some remote area, and others about the possibility of going undercover. That is, disappearing from the sight of the government, waiting for better times that might come in the future. And even acting to bring those times closer.
​  Is it possible? Could you really hide in a world that's becoming more and more like the fabled "panopticon," a prison where the jailers have a full view of everything that the prisoners do? Difficult, surely, but it is also true that we still maintain a certain degree of freedom inside our brains, provided that we don't expose them to government propaganda. So, could people who think alike in certain matters get together and form a secret network?​   https://www.senecaeffect.com/2022/05/the-age-of-exterminations-v-can-we.html

​There is a review of Ugo's recently released "Exterminations" book here, with more coming from other scientists who have read it.  Exterminations: a Review   

Exterminations: a Review

  The $16 book ($5.99 on Kindle) is available here:  Exterminations Paperback​, by Ugo Bardi    Human history is full of mass exterminations. We are witnessing more than one right now. Blaming exterminators is not enough: if we don't want to be the next victims, we must understand why exterminations take place, how they develop, what can make them stop. This is what this book is about. Starting from the statistical studies by the author about the past patterns of wars, it takes a wide sweep at the phenomenon that goes from our remote ancestors to the current situation. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DK18GP68/

​  Khamenei Warns Israel Of 'Crushing Response' - Ramping Up Rhetoric Ahead Of US Election ​  Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has issued a new fierce warning to the United States and Israel at a moment there continues to be speculation that Iran could hit back for the last early Saturday morning attack by Israel which involved over 100 IAF jets attacking Iranian military sites.
​  He addressed an audience of students connected with the anniversary of the 1979 takeover of the US embassy in Tehran by Islamic revolutionary students. "The enemies, whether the Zionist regime or the United States of America, will definitely receive a crushing response to what they are doing to Iran and the Iranian nation and to the resistance front," the 85 year old Shia cleric said.
​  It's unclear if this means Iran is preparing a response. He previously said that Iranian leaders would weigh a potential response and that the last weekend attack "should not be exaggerated nor downplayed."... ..Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu signaled on Thursday that Iran’s nuclear program could be Jerusalem’s next line of attack as Tehran promises to return fire following last week's air strikes.
​  "The supreme objective that I have set for the IDF and the security services is to prevent Iran from attaining nuclear weapons," Netanyahu said while speaking at a course graduation ceremony for soldiers in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). "Halting the nuclear program has been – and remains – our chief concern​".
"I have not taken, we have not taken, and we will not take, our eyes off this objective," Netanyahu added.​   https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/khamenei-warns-israel-crushing-response-ramping-rhetoric-ahead-us-election

  The October 5 Seismic event in Iran had no pre-tremors, just a huge shock with decaying echoes, like an underground explosion, not like an earthquake.   Iran earthquake sparks speculation of covert nuclear weapons test
  The possibility that Iran carried out a nuclear test is being discussed at high levels in Tehran amid Israeli threats to bomb the Islamic Republic's nuclear infrastructure   https://thecradle.co/articles/iran-earthquake-sparks-speculation-of-covert-nuclear-weapons-test

​  Only one thing can bring peace to Middle East – Moscow
The creation of an independent Palestinian state is what can guarantee an end to the conflict, Russia’s foreign minister has said​   https://swentr.site/news/606858-lavrov-middle-east-peace/

​  Israel wants Russia to mediate peace – media​  [The ​post-genocide desert called "peace".]
The Jewish state reportedly believes that Moscow’s participation in negotiations would add stability to any future deal ​  According to the reports, West Jerusalem expects that Moscow’s involvement could add stability to any future deal and reduce dependence on the US.
“The Russians will have a special role in implementing the agreement and preventing further escalation,” a source told Ynet.
​  Commenting on the reports, Orna Mizrahi, a former Israeli deputy national security adviser, told Newsweek that while Israel “prefers the Americans,” it understands that Russia’s “good relations” with Iran could contribute to the stability of any deal on Lebanon reached in the future.​   https://swentr.site/news/606862-israel-russia-peace-lebanon/

  ​Thanks Wigs,  US Citizen Who Helped Russian Military Plan Attacks on Ukraine Forces Gives First Press Conference Russian security forces have taken US citizen Daniel Martindale, who was helping Russian forces, out of territory under Ukraine’s control, security agencies told Sputnik.​.. ..The American, who passed valuable information to the Russian military, has been in Ukraine since February 11, 2022, security agencies told Sputnik.
​  Martindale stated that he is in Moscow voluntarily and showed documents, adding that he initially came to Ukraine from Poland, where he was a missionary, and wanted to get to Donetsk.
​  He also added that his US passport helped him get through Kiev and Kramatorsk and thanked Russian security services for coordinating the operation of his evacuation and those soldiers who crossed the front lines to evacuate him.​.. ..Martindale stated that the Kiev regime is responsible for kidnapping and should be completely disarmed, while noting that Kiev is responsible for the death, murder, torture, kidnapping of hundreds of thousands of people.
​  He further noted that the Kiev authorities should be tried like German war criminals and called for organizing a tribunal against them.​   https://sputnikglobe.com/20241102/russian-forces-took-us-daniel-martindale-who-helped-russian-military-from-ukraine-forces-territory-1120752763.html

​Grasping at straws...  UK Foreign Secretary Blames Civil Unrest In Europe On "Russian Disinformation"   https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/uk-foreign-secretary-blames-civil-unrest-europe-russian-disinformation

​  Big Serge,  The Forest and the Trees: Ukraine's Strategic Dissipation​, Russo-Ukrainian War: Autumn 2024 ​  Ukraine is now waging war as if - as if NATO intervention can eventually be provoked, as if Russia will crack and walk away from vast territories that it already controls, and as if western assistance can provide a panacea for Ukraine’s deteriorating state on the ground. It all adds up to a blind plunge forward in the abyss, hoping that by escalating and radicalizing the conflict either Russia will break or NATO will step in. In either scenario, however, Ukraine is counting on powers external to it, trusting that NATO will provide a sort of deus ex machina that rescues Ukraine from ruination.
​  Ukraine stands today as a stark example of strategic dissipation. Having opted to eschew anything less than the most maximalist sort of victory - full re-attainment of the 1991 borders, NATO membership, and the total defeat of Russia - it now proceeds full speed ahead, with a material base and a gloomy picture on the ground that is utterly unmoored from its own conception of victory. The “victory plan”, such as it exists, is little more than a plea for rescue.​   

The Forest and the Trees: Ukraine's Strategic Dissipation

​  North Korean Official In Moscow: US & S.​ Korea Plotting Nuclear Strike​  [since 1951...] ​  New statements from North Korean Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui suggest tensions with the West are higher than ever. She said from Moscow, where she is meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, that her country is coming under nuclear threat by the US and South Korea.
​  She "accused the United States and South Korea of plotting a nuclear strike against her country," Reuters reports Friday. "She did not provide evidence to back her assertion, but spoke of regular consultations between Washington and Seoul at which she alleged such plotting took place."
​  The top diplomat also pledged that North Korea will not stop helping Russia until it achieves 'victory' on the battlefield in Ukraine.​   https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/north-korean-official-moscow-us-skorea-plotting-nuclear-strike

 South Korean fighter planes and pilots are ​already in Romania. South Korean Parliament Warns President Sending Arms To Ukraine Risks War With Kim Jong Un​   https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/south-korean-parliament-warns-president-sending-arms-ukraine-risks-war-kim-jong-un

​Gilbert Doctorow,  ‘Judging Freedom’ edition of 31 October 2024: a review of the BRICS Summit   The main point I was trying to make is that the Summit revealed some very unexpected decisions by the BRICS team on how to prioritize its future activities and expansion. They are not planning a frontal assault on the existing world financial structures. They are not building an alternative global system to rival SWIFT. The reason for this, as I see it is not just the technical difficulties but the practical consideration that they do not want to coerce existing and future members of the BRICS inner club and outer circle of Partners to jump with both feet into their camp and to deprive themselves of the proven advantages of SWIFT as if they were under sanctions like Russia and Iran.
​  Similarly, de-dollarization is going to proceed as an indirect, not direct consequence of BRICS activities. The main mover is the consolidation of oil and gas trading in BRICS Members and Partners. That Nigeria and Algeria have been invited to join as Partners is one more proof of this. The relevance is that the single largest commodity in global trade is hydrocarbons, which have traditionally been priced in dollars – hence the ‘petrodollar’ as a global force underpinning the strength of the dollar as a reserve currency. Among the BRICS members there is a strong shift to the Yuan and other of their own national currencies, all of which is progressively dethroning the dollar in this key sector.​   https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2024/10/31/judging-freedom-edition-of-31-october-2024-a-review-of-the-brics-summit/

​  Details and names:  BRICS Grows, Adding 13 New ‘Partner Countries’ at Historic Summit in Kazan, Russia   https://scheerpost.com/2024/10/30/brics-grows-adding-13-new-partner-countries-at-historic-summit-in-kazan-russia/

  Jim Rickards,  "The American System" Made America Great From 1790–1962, the United States pursued high tariff policies under a program known as the American System.
​  It was created by George Washington’s secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton, who drafted a report to Congress called the Report on Manufactures presented in 1791. Hamilton proposed that in order to have a strong country, America needed a strong manufacturing base with jobs that taught skills and offered income security.​  To achieve this, Hamilton proposed subsidies to U.S. businesses so they could compete successfully against more established U.K. and European businesses.
​  These subsidies might include grants of government land or rights of way, purchase orders from the government itself or outright payments. This was a mercantilist system that encouraged a trade surplus and the accumulation of gold reserves.
​  Hamilton’s plan was later proposed on a broader scale by Kentucky Sen. Henry Clay. This new plan began with the Tariff of 1816. Later on, Abraham Lincoln adopted the American System as his platform in the election of 1860, and it became a bedrock principle of the new Republican Party.
​  It was affirmed by William McKinley at the end of the 19th century and by Dwight Eisenhower in the 1950s. The 19th and early 20th centuries were a heyday of the American System. This period was characterized by enormous economic growth and population expansion by the U.S.
​  The American System was also accompanied mostly by low inflation or even deflation (which increases the purchasing power of everyday citizens) despite occasional financial panics and some inflation during the Civil War.
​  The key takeaway is that America grew rich and powerful from 1787–1962, a period of 175 years, using tariffs, subsidies and other barriers to trade to nurture domestic industry and protect high-paying manufacturing jobs.​   https://www.zerohedge.com/political/american-system-made-america-great

Buffett Calls The Top: Berkshire Dumps 100 Million Apple Shares As Unprecedented Selling Spree Boosts Cash To Record $325 Billion Dollars​   https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/buffett-calls-top-berkshire-dumps-100-million-apple-shares-unprecedented-selling-spree

​The Wayback-Machine has been frozen by repeated attacks; no new page entries can be entered  ;-(     The Internet Is Getting Flushed Down Orwell's Memory Hole   https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2024/11/01/the-internet-is-getting-flushed-down-orwells-memory-hole-n4933849

​  A witness in the ongoing Sean “Diddy” Combs case says that he has several sex tapes that allegedly feature “intoxicated” and “victimized” celebrities, including two who were underage.​ During an interview with NewsNation, Courtney Burgess, who testified against Combs before a grand jury in Manhattan, claimed that he has in his possession flash drives featuring videos of eight celebrities with Diddy.​   https://modernity.news/2024/11/02/witness-in-diddy-case-claims-to-have-sex-tapes-with-intoxicated-celebrities-and-minors/

The Biden-Harris Administration Wasted Nearly One Billion on Misinformation​  The (Uni) party of “Science” apparently misled hundreds of millions of people on the actual science surrounding the Covid-19 pandemic. Stop the presses.
​  Starting in early 2020, the combined efforts of Dr. Anthony Fauci, the CDC, the Department of Health and Human Services, and their partners in the media caused an untold amount of damage to society and public health and might have even created conditions for increased Covid spread. How? By repeatedly, profoundly, and often purposefully communicating inaccurate information while spending hundreds of millions of dollars to get their preferred messages across.
​  Now, a new, massive 113-page report from the US House of Representatives Energy & Commerce Committee has detailed the remarkable abuses from the Biden-Harris administration and the manner in which they communicated during Covid.​   https://brownstone.org/articles/the-biden-harris-administration-wasted-nearly-one-billion-on-misinformation/

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