Killing The Messengers

​Memo Recipients,

  Josh Mitteldorf,  Slide toward Totalitarianism, Media and mind control have taken the place of Secret Police

 ​ You may have noticed that in recent decades freedoms we formerly took for granted have narrowed, as power accumulates in the hands of the Usual Suspects. Last week, I read two articles that put these trends in historical context, and help us understand them.
​  David A. Hughes tells us that the roots of the Deep State are in a class struggle, going back to the robber-barons of the 1890s. The Rockefellers and the Bushes know that their power cannot survive true democracy, and have worked over decades to subvert democratic government. The JFK assassination in 1963 was a turning point and their influence has increased steadily since then.
​  Barry Lynn, writing in Harpers, tells us that Google has the power to control what people think, combining individually-targeted messages with mob psychology, and they have put their mind control at the service of the Deep State, which helps explain their success (as Hughes documents) in undermining democracy.​.. ..Hughes begins his story in the 1920s, when a Who’s-Who of American Businesses actively supported Hitler’s rise to power, not just with rhetoric, but also loans and investments. Ford and GM, IBM, bankers led by Brown Brothers Harriman, J P Morgan, Prescott Bush, and John D Rockefeller were all cheerleaders for Hitler.
​  Hughes reminds us that in 1933, Wall Street sponsored a military coup against Franklin Roosevelt, seeking to install General Smedley Butler as a dictator. Gen. Butler played along to gather evidence, then came out dramatically as a whistle-blower, denouncing the plot. Here is how the New York Times reported at the time. Prescott Bush was a prime mover, as were prominent members of the DuPont family and executives of J. P. Morgan.
​  Not one of these was ever charged with a crime... ..After the Second World War, the Nazi braintrust was recruited to come to America and design weapons systems, rockets, and biowarfare for the USA. The Dulles Brothers represented the monied interests that had supported the Nazis in forming America’s foreign policy under Eisenhower. Allen Dulles, as head of the CIA, created a secret government within the government, subverting populist movements abroad, overthrowing legitimate, elected governments in Iran, Panama, Guatemala, Syria, Brazil, and, later Chile. Operation Gladio engineered terrorist bombings and blamed them on “communists” in order to de-legitimize the European trend toward democratic socialism.
 Eisenhower was aware of the Deep State, and warned us on his way out, in the speech which introduced America to the term “military-industrial complex”. Kennedy learned about the Deep State during his first months in office, when the CIA tried to snooker him into invading Cuba at the Bay of Pigs. Bobby Kennedy, as Attorney General, took firm steps to rein in the CIA and for two years it looked as though the elected government had the Deep State under control.
  On November 22, 1963, history turned about face, and the elected government has been under the thumb of the Deep State ever since. Truman wrote a WaPo op-ed a month after the assassination.​.. ..9/11 was engineered by the Deep State as an excuse for a permanent emergency (“terrorism”), providing a rationale for suspending the Constitution. The Patriot Act legitimized jailing Americans without a trial and surveillance of innocent civilians without a warrant. Terrorists lost all their Constitutional rights, and the definition of “terrorist” was gradually broadened to include people who took pictures through the fence of factory farm conditions and doctors who argued that ivermectin was a better COVID strategy than mRNA.
  Voting was computerized beginning in 2001, making possible the central manipulation of elections.
  Starting with “Operation Mockingbird” in the 1960s, the Deep State had infiltrated the mainstream media, Republican and Democratic newspapers and broadcast stations on which Americans relied for a “balanced” picture of the world. During the first two decades of this century, the Deep State consolidated control over the digital media as well.
  In 2016, the Democrats and the Obama Administration actually promoted the candidacy of Donald Trump because of the ease with which he could be painted as a dangerous despot. Thus was born the idea that the First Amendment only protected speech that was truthful, and it was up to government agencies to decide what was the truth. The crime of “misinformation” was invented…​ and handily, in time for the COVID deception of 2020-22. Totalitarian control reached the everyday lives of Americans and most other peoples around the world.​.. ..How could they have gotten away with a lie this big, with a deception so pervasive, with demanding and receiving cooperation from a docile public? This is where Lynn’s story takes over.​..   

Slide toward Totalitarianism

  ​Here is the David Hughes interview (& machine transcript) with Kim Iverson, which may be the one Josh used for his essay.  Interview with Kim Iversen, September 25, 2024 Wall Street and Nazi Germany; the Business Plot; the Great Reset; censorship; technocracy and totalitarian control; the West v China; left/right; the potential return of slavery; divide and rule​   

Interview with Kim Iversen, September 25, 2024

​  John Kerry Says The Quiet Part Out Loud: "First Amendment Stands As Major Block" To "Govern" The World Economic Forum held its 'Sustainable Development Impact Meetings' during last week's United Nations General Assembly in New York City. Speaking at the meeting, far-left elitist and former presidential climate envoy John Kerry expressed frustration to fellow globalists, stating that the First Amendment frequently obstructs their agenda.
​  "Our First Amendment stands as a major block to the ability to be able to hammer [disinformation] out of existence. What we need is to win...the right to govern by hopefully winning enough votes that you're free to be able to implement change," Kerry said.​..  "It's very hard to govern today​."​   https://www.zerohedge.com/political/john-kerry-says-quiet-part-out-loud-first-amendment-stands-major-block-govern

​  'Bombed To Dust': A Look At Beirut's Night Of Hell Lebanon and the whole Arab world is in shock after Hezbollah on Saturday confirmed the death of Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah.
​  But common Lebanese civilians are reeling after mass destruction was unleashed by Israeli warplanes overnight. The attacks continued on Beirut's southern suburbs, leaving entire buildings turned to dust.
​  This comes at the end of a week which already witnessed at least 700 killed, according to Lebanon's Health Ministry. It is unclear how many casualties are militants vs. civilians - but very clearly the civilian casualty toll has been high.​.. ..For eight hours straight and counting, Israel has been carpet-bombing densely populated neighbourhoods of Beirut and greater Lebanon. A new bomb dropped, a new tragedy—every 5 minutes. Videos out of Tel Aviv show Israelis dancing at celebration parties.​.. .."I’m talking to you and there’s a drone flying over the southern suburb where I live some 500-600metres from. Bombings have not stopped all night long – you can see pictures of people on the streets, on the roads, sleeping in open-air spaces"...​  He continued, “So Lebanon today is a complete mess, it’s a country in chaos and I think that the worst is to come regardless of the political and military results of the strike on Hassan Nasrallah or no​t".   https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/bombed-dust-look-beiruts-night-hell​  President Biden has called Nasrallah's death 'justice' for the hundreds of Americans who perished over what the US called a 'four-decade reign of terror'.
​"Hassan Nasrallah and the terrorist group he led, Hezbollah, were responsible for killing hundreds of Americans over a four-decade reign of terror.  His death from an Israeli airstrike is a measure of justice for his many victims, including thousands of Americans, Israelis, and Lebanese civilians," Biden said. The White House says the Pentagon has been ordered to enhance America's defense posture and readiness in the Middle East.
​  Biden has further repeated that the US "fully supports Israel's right to defend itself"...
​  "The US fully supports Israel's right to defend itself against Hezbollah. I have ordered Defense Secretary Austin to increase US forces in the Middle East to deter aggression from Iran and its proxies and reduce the danger of a wider regional war," Biden said. ​  Politico and some other publications have said the assassination of Nasrallah, apparently without US knowledge (that's the current official line anyway), has put more distance between Biden and Netanyahu. "Biden administration officials were trying to figure out how to publicly respond Saturday to confirmation that Israel had killed Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of the Iran-backed Hezbollah militant group," the publication said.
​  "The initial reaction from inside the White House was positive, even though U.S. officials had been trying to convince Israel to pause its operations against Hezbollah, according to two senior administration officials," it added.
​  Russia's reaction has been the opposite, with the foreign ministry saying, "This forceful action is fraught with even greater dramatic consequences for Lebanon and the entire Middle East."
​  "The Israeli side could not fail to recognize this danger, but took the step of killing Lebanese citizens, which would almost inevitably provoke a new outburst of violence. Thus, it bears full responsibility for the subsequent escalation," the Russian statement said... ..PM Netanyahu had ordered or monitored the strike from New York, after just stepping away from a speech before the United Nations General Assembly:​.. ​..American-supplied heavy bombs were likely used in the strikes that killed Nasrallah:
​  Israel media says about 85 so-called “bunker-buster” bombs were used. Also known as “ground penetration munition”, these missiles burrow deep into the ground before they detonate.
​  They have the power to destroy underground facilities and reinforced concrete buildings. The bombs each weigh between 2,000 and 4,000 pounds.​   https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/hezbollah-confirms-its-leader-hassan-nasrallah-killed-israeli-strike

​Hasan Nasrallah 2012 interview with Julian Assange (28 min.): 

​  Pentagon Chief 'Blew Up' as Israel Shortly Notified US of Strike on Nasrallah MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Israel gave a "few minutes notice" to the United States about its intention to strike the secretary general of Lebanese movement Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, enraging Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin, US media reported.
​  Defense Secretary Austin "blew up" when Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant informed him about the strikes on Nasrallah, as there are many US troops stationed in the Middle East, and they had a very short time to prepare for possible hostile military response to the assassination, the publication explained.​   https://sputnikglobe.com/20240929/pentagon-chief-blew-up-as-israel-shortly-notified-us-of-strike-on-nasrallah---reports-1120340403.html

​  Nasrallah’s Death ‘Devastating Blow’ That Will Trigger Escalation of Violence – Lebanese Scholar Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah’s assassination marks “a devastating blow to Hezbollah” and the Iranian-led Axis of Resistance alliance, and will inevitably mark a major uptick in tensions and violence in the region, veteran Lebanese Middle East affairs observer Dr. Imad Salamey says.
​  “Nasrallah was not only the face of Hezbollah, but also a figure of immense symbolic and strategic importance within the broader Iranian-led regional alliance. He has been instrumental in Hezbollah’s military and political successes against Israel, its support of [President Bashar Assad's Syria], and its backing of the Houthis in Yemen. His death represents a major moral and leadership setback, leaving a vacuum that’s difficult to fill,” Salamay, an associate professor of political science and international affairs at the Lebanese American University, told Sputnik.​.. ..Dr. Salamay expects Nasrallah’s assassination to result in a sharp spike in attacks on Israel by Hezbollah and its allies to try to exact revenge, and more broadly, to potential “shifts in regional alliances, a recalibration of Iran’s strategies in Lebanon, and possibly more aggressive Israeli policies aimed at capitalizing on Hezbollah’s weakened position.”
​  The IDF’s decision to code-name Friday’s attack on Nasrallah “New Order” is also an obvious reference to Israel’s ultimate goal of reshaping “the political and security dynamics in Lebanon and the broader region” to a political and security arrangement “more favorable” to Tel Aviv, according to the academic.
Salamay believes Sayyed Hashem Safieddine, the chief of Hezbollah’s executive council, Nasrallah’s “number two” and the late leader's maternal cousin, is the most likely candidate to succeed him, presuming he himself hasn’t yet been targeted by Israel. ​  “While he lacks the same public charisma as Nasrallah, his close ties to both Nasrallah and Iran make him a natural successor. However, his ability to command the same level of trust and authority among Hezbollah’s base and the broader Shiite community remains uncertain,” according to the professor.. ​..The Israeli Air Force F-16 strike on Hezbollah's HQ in a densely populated area of Beirut on Friday reportedly involved the use of over 80 bombs, including US-made 2.3 ton bunker busters, which killed at least six people and injured nearly 100 others, and razed or heavily damaged at least six nearby apartment buildings.
​  Hezbollah has vowed to continue its campaign against Israel.​.. ..The Russian Foreign Ministry "strongly condemned yet another political murder committed by Israel," and expressed concerns that the operation "will almost inevitably provoke a new surge in violence" in the region.​   https://sputnikglobe.com/20240928/nasrallahs-death-devastating-blow-that-will-trigger-escalation-of-violence--lebanese-scholar-1120333561.html

​Not just a list, but biographies and explanations:  Hezbollah, Hamas and Iranian figures whose killings were blamed on Israel   https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/28/list-of-hezbollah-hamas-iran-leaders-killed-by-israel-in-recent-months

​  Iran's Supreme Leader Transferred To Secure Location As Region Braces For What's Next "The sources said Iran was in constant contact with Lebanon's Hezbollah and other regional proxy groups to determine the next step after Israel announced that it had killed Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah in a strike on south Beirut on Friday," the report added.
​  Given Israel's surprise and bold decapitation strike against Hezbollah, Iran likely fears that Israel could go after the Islamic Republic's top leadership in Tehran next. Netanyahu had warned this week, "There is no place in Iran that the long arm of Israel cannot reach."
​  There are unconfirmed reports that one or more Iranian IRGC offers were killed in the strike that took out Nasrallah.
​So far Iran has been mute in terms of a military response. Will it launch ballistic missiles on Israel? Will it mount attacks on other Israeli assets in the region or across the globe?
​  Did Khamenei go to a secure location in order to oversee a new war?​ (He's not that kind of "leader", so​ "no".)​   https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/irans-supreme-leader-transferred-secure-location-region-braces-whats-next

​  Moon of Alabama,  Zelenski's U.S. Trip Ends In Failure The (former) Ukrainian president Vladimir Zelenski has failed. During his current travel in the U.S. his 'victory plan', a wishlist designed to drag the U.S. and NATO deeper into the war, did not gain support.
​  Even his most urgent request, to allow Ukraine to use supplied long range missiles for long-range strikes within Russia, has been rejected.
To justify its decision the Biden administration even 'leaked' an intelligence assessment which warned of allowing such:
​  Intelligence agencies concluded that granting Ukraine’s request to use Western missiles against targets deep in Russia could prompt forceful retaliation while not fundamentally changing the course of the war.
​  A promise of another US$8 billion gift in military supplies was offered as a consolation gift. But the package does not include what the Ukrainian military needs or wants:
​  In the absence of looser restrictions to let Kyiv use Western missiles, the White House has shipped the Joint Standoff Weapon (JSOW), a precision-guided glide bomb with a range of about 80 miles, for the first time.
​  A statement by Mr Biden said the F-16-launched weapon would “enhance Ukraine’s long-range strike capabilities”.
Even if Jsow is allowed to be dropped on Russia — Mr Biden’s statement does not make reference to the possibility — it does not have the range to cause significant harm.
​  Because of the density of Moscow’s air defences near the front line, Ukrainian F-16s would need to drop the bombs from a safe distance, effectively meaning JSOW would be able to hit targets just 25 miles inside Russia.
​  Aside from a rather small amount for additional ammunition most of the $8 billion will be in payments to U.S. companies for the production of weapons which Ukraine will only receive years from now.​   https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/09/zelenskis-us-trip-ends-in-failure.html

  Simplicius,  Israel's Short-Lived Glory Celebrated by Kneejerk Polemicists, + Ukraine War Updates​   Moody's Downgrades Israel's Economic Rating Again Due to War with Hezbollah​.  The agency predicts that the already difficult economic situation in Israel will worsen due to ongoing fighting in Gaza and a new conflict on the Lebanese border. Israel's economic rating fell from A2 to Baa1 — the decision was made even before the IDF attacked Hezbollah HQ in Beirut... Israel's rating has been downgraded for the 2nd time this year: in February, from A1 to A2 due to a reduction in the country's GDP by 20%. And by the end of next year, the costs that military conflicts will entail will amount to another 12% of GDP, according to Israeli officials. However, the Israeli Finance Ministry believes that the country is doing well financially...​ ..The above NYT piece in particular is elucidating, because it covers in more detail the chariness with which US is approaching the topic of long range strikes into Russia. In a new ‘previously unreported’ secret intelligence assessment, they write:
​  U.S. intelligence agencies believe that Russia is likely to retaliate with greater force against the United States and its coalition partners, possibly with lethal attacks, if they agree to give the Ukrainians permission to employ U.S., British and French-supplied long-range missiles for strikes deep inside Russia, U.S. officials said.
​  In particular, the intelligence agencies highlight Russia’s ability to escalate the hybrid war into Europe in a way that apparently terrifies the US:
​  The intelligence assessment describes a range of possible Russian responses to a decision to allow long-range strikes using U.S. and European-supplied missiles — from stepped up acts of arson and sabotage targeting facilities in Europe, to potentially lethal attacks on U.S. and European military bases.
​  U.S. officials say the G.R.U., Russia’s military intelligence agency, has been responsible for most of the acts of sabotage in Europe that have taken place thus far. If Mr. Putin decides to expand the shadowy campaign in response to the use of U.S. and European missiles deep inside Russia, U.S. officials believe the Russians will continue to do so covertly, rather than conduct overt attacks on U.S. and European facilities and bases, to reduce the risk of a wider conflict.
​  Here you finally see it fully bared and naked, what I’ve been reporting since the beginning: unlike the feckless shrilling from the pro-UA commentariat on Twitter and such, the US itself knows full well what Russia can bring to bear if red lines continue to be crossed.​   

Israel's Short-Lived Glory Celebrated by Kneejerk Polemicists, + Ukraine War Updates

​  Dennis Kucinich: Mistaking Militarism for Statecraft, Empire for Democracy and Debt for Prosperity  For decades I have led opposition to war and advocated for the transformation of America’s prevailing policy of “Peace through Strength” to a forward-looking  policy of “Strength through Peace.”
​  I challenged the Bush II Administration’s foreign policies, and introduced Articles of Impeachment against President George W. Bush  and Vice President Dick Cheney over Iraq and the lies which led us into war. Illegal and unnecessary, the Iraq war (debt-funded and authorized by both Democrats and Republicans) has cost our nation over $3 trillion, and the loss of 5,000 of our brave men and women who serve and injuries to countless more troops.
​  The war caused the deaths of over one million Iraqis.  Let that sink in. One million Iraqis perished in a war based on lies. Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11. The war further damaged America’s global reputation and set us upon a path where, since 9/11, America has borrowed $8 trillion to keep the war machine in tune as our own nation’s pressing domestic needs for housing, health care, education, child care, and retirement security have been set aside.
​  When I heard Vice President Harris brag about former Vice President Dick Cheney endorsing her candidacy, that put the exclamation point on the fact that the leaders of the Democratic party are for war.  I am not.    
​  Why else would Vice President Harris become the front person for such virulent bravado, invoking lethality abroad?
​  A paradox of this campaign is that the much-villainized former President Trump, (representing a party that has also taken us into unnecessary wars) is the one who speaks to the need to negotiate and to talk directly with potential foes in order to avoid war, or to end it.  ​ https://scheerpost.com/2024/09/28/dennis-kucinich-mistaking-militarism-for-statecraft-empire-for-democracy-and-debt-for-prosperity/

​  Good Westerners Don't Start Off Hating Israel, But Truth Eventually Leads Them There​.  Caitlin Johnstone
Good westerners don’t start off hating Israel. When our hearts are in the right place we start off giving Israel the benefit of the doubt and assuming the situation must be more complicated than it appears, because we’re not just going to reflexively assume the Jewish state is evil like some kind of neo-Nazi. We grew up learning about the persecution of the Jewish people, watching movies and reading books about it and vowing “never again” like everyone else.
​  So for entirely sensible and good-natured reasons we tend to start off viewing anything to do with Jews and Judaism in a sympathetic light.
​  It’s not until we start learning and paying attention to Israel’s actions that this view begins to change. We come to understand that Israel is in fact profoundly evil, not because it is full of Jews but because it’s a western settler-colonialist project that’s inflicting the same kinds of genocide, ethnic cleansing, theft and abuse on the indigenous population of the land that other western settler-colonialist projects like Australia, the US and Canada inflicted in earlier centuries.​    

Good Westerners Don't Start Off Hating Israel, But Truth Eventually Leads Them There

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  Austrian Right-Wing Freedom Party Scores Historic Victory In National Elections   Less than a month after a crushing loss for Germany's ruling coalition saw the the first victory for a German right-wing party since World War II, Austria's right-wing Freedom Party scored a historic victory of its own on Sunday, winning the most votes in the country's national election for the first time after the eurosceptic party campaigned on mass deportation, cracking down on illegal immigration, and halting aid to the giant money laundromat that is Ukraine.​   https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/austrian-right-wing-freedom-party-scores-historic-victory-national-elections

​  Swedish Foreign Minister Says Country Must Speak Openly Of The Downsides Of Mass Immigration In Sweden, the consequences of the policy of opening up to mass migration from Africa and the Middle East cannot be hidden, with the current government taking moderate steps to improve the situation.​ This is part of an agreement with the Sweden Democrats, a party opposed to destructive migration policies​.   https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/swedish-foreign-minister-says-country-must-speak-openly-downsides-mass-immigration

​  The 'Chemical War' Killing 70,000 Americans Each Year The United States needs to ramp up enforcement against every step of the manufacturing and trafficking of fentanyl and other deadly synthetic drugs if it hopes to stem the crisis.​   https://www.zerohedge.com/political/chemical-war-killing-70000-americans-each-year

​  Coronavirus bioweapons engineering:  The Greatest Coverup in History NIH Director Francis Collins on EcoHealth Alliance/WIV partnership: "There's a lot more to this story than we have been able to talk about."​   

The Greatest Coverup in History

  ​A Midwestern Doctor,  The Vast Pharmaceutical Conspiracy to Silence Dissent Online,  Millions of dollars were spent to weaponize the public against all of us Story at a Glance:
​  •There has been a coordinated campaign to attack and defame anyone who has spoken out against the COVID-19 response. This has primarily been restricted to social media (e.g., getting people deplatformed) but it has also been weaponized in real life (e.g., getting medical licenses revoked).
​  •This coordinated campaign was the result of a “non-profit” known as The Public Good Project (PGP), which was actually directly linked to the pharmaceutical industry. The PGP used the industry funding it received to defend industry interests.
​  •Vaccine safety advocates were able to get into the group where these campaigns were coordinated. There, they discovered numerous public figures working hand in hand with healthcare workers to descend like a hive of bees on anyone “promoting misinformation.” Likewise, we learned that the most belligerent doctors we keep encountering on Twitter belonged to these groups.
​  •Some of the influencers advancing PGP’s message through “Shots Heard” (and its sister United Nations initiative “Team Halo”) were hucksters who faked their own credentials. My overall impression from looking at everything was that this group operated in a very similar manner to many of the sleazy internet marketing operations I’ve seen in the past. Fortunately, the public appears to be seeing through what they did.
​  •Earlier this year we exposed them. Unfortunately,their abhorrent tactics continue and recently have been aimed towards Angela Wulbrecht RN because she advocated for a patient with a widely publicized vaccine injury.​  (Alexis Lorenze)
​  Note: I posted an earlier version of this article six months ago. Due to recent events, I revised it and am re-releasing it.​   

The Vast Pharmaceutical Conspiracy to Silence Dissent Online

  ​"Modeling projected":   Those Published “17,000 Hydroxychloroquine Deaths” Never Happened  [One HCQ study for COVID killed some folks with intentional overdoses]   https://brownstone.org/articles/those-published-17000-hydroxychloroquine-deaths-never-happened/ 

  Hard-Selling measles vaccine:  Maine Warned Public About a Measles Case — But Didn’t Mention It Was Caused by the Vaccine According to documents released Tuesday by Informed Consent Action Network,a single case of measles in 2023, reported by the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention and hyped by mainstream media, was caused by the MMR vaccine.​   https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/maine-vaccine-induced-measles-case-ican/

​  Steve Kirsch interrogates Chat-GPT:  I have been fully vindicated by the world's most objective epidemiologist. The COVID vaccines are not safe. I should have done this sooner. I used gold-standard record-level Medicare data and had it analyzed by an objective expert. The result: 10% higher all-cause mortality risk by brand.​   

I have been fully vindicated by the world's most objective epidemiologist. The COVID vaccines are not safe.

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Meryl Nass MD,  My talk at the Japanese Parliament yesterday, revealing that we are in WW3 and approaching the culmination of a 50 year process toward one world governance   

My talk at the Japanese Parliament yesterday, revealing that we are in WW3 and approaching the culmination of a 50 year process toward one world governance

 "So this is the tale of our castaways, they're here for a long long time"  SpaceX Launches Rescue Mission For Two Stranded Boeing Starliner Astronauts On ISS   https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/spacex-launches-rescue-mission-two-stranded-boeing-starliner-astronauts-iss

Keeping Score  (pictured with "new" 2006 Toyota with bad front wheel bearing and 5-speed manual transmission)