Please Come To Chicago
Citizens,
Chicago, Graham Nash
Though your brother's bound and gagged
And they've chained him to a chair
Won't you please come to Chicago
Just to sing
In a land that's known as freedom
How can such a thing be fair
Won't you please come to Chicago
For the help we can bring
We can change the world
Re-arrange the world
It's dying, to get better...
"Make It Great Like '68": Chicago Businesses Board Up As Protesters Threaten To Shut Down DNC Tens of thousands of protesters are expected to descend near the Democratic National Convention in downtown Chicago in the coming days. Local media reports that shops have already boarded up doors and windows with plywood ahead of what could be a chaotic week. https://www.zerohedge.com/political/make-it-great-68-chicago-businesses-board-protesters-threaten-shutdown-dnc
Protesters march through the Loop on eve of Chicago DNC in first permitted demonstration The first of two permitted demonstrations is happening on Sunday afternoon in the Loop.
It was a protest that lasted more than 3.5 hours as ABC7 saw the massive crowd take over the Loop. It remained peaceful as they marched to Grant park. Protesters used the march as an opportunity to send a message on the eve of the DNC. They said it's time for less talking and more action from their politicians. https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-dnc-2024-march-bodies-outside-unjust-laws-take-place-loop-1st-chicago-protests-ahead-dnc-united-center/15199312/
Protest march planned in Union Park on 1st day of DNC in Chicago Pro-Palestinian protesters are demanding a permanent ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war. They say Vice President Kamala Harris still has work to do to earn their vote.
"She's not going to take a legitimate stance, so until we can have Kamala Harris actually come to the table and make a legitimate concession, actually make a legitimate push to get the Arab and Muslim vote," pro-Palestinian protester named Nael said. "You can't just say cliché things." https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-dnc-2024-protest-march-planned-union-park-1st-day-democratic-national-convention-united-center/15203420/
Protesters hit Chicago streets over Gaza at Democratic National Convention Thousands of pro-Palestinian protesters marched through Chicago on Monday as the Democratic National Convention began. The crowd was significantly smaller than predicted, and remained largely peaceful aside from scattered shoving matches between groups.
There were no arrests by mid-afternoon, but several dozen demonstrators appeared to be courting handcuffs as they broke away from the march and broke through the first ring of security fencing at the United Center, where President Joe Biden was scheduled to speak Monday night.
An animated line of marchers had set off down a major street lined with schools and three-story brownstones, less than a mile from the United Center − site of the convention's main event − as a police helicopter hovered overhead and demonstrators chanted, “Free Palestine." https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/08/19/protests-chicago-dnc-convention/74820242007/
What will the deal actually be? Netanyahu wants the hostages back so he can finish the genocide. IDF Expands Gaza Operations As Blinken Arrives For 9th Visit To Israel https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/idf-expands-gaza-operations-blinken-arrives-9th-visit-israel
Israel massacres Gaza family following two days of 'constructive' ceasefire talks
An Israeli airstrike killed 15 members of the Ajlah family in Gaza early Saturday, including nine children Ahmed Abu al-Ghoul, a local who witnessed the bombing, told AFP that three rockets hit the building the family was sheltering in while women and children were inside.
“What have they done to deserve this?” he asked.
Al-Jazeera added that an Israeli quadcopter shot a six-year-old boy in the head, killing him as he slept in a tent in Hamad City, west of Khan Younis in southern Gaza.
Israel’s latest massacres come one day after two days of negotiations in Doha for a ceasefire-prisoner exchange deal between Israel and Hamas. https://thecradle.co/articles/israel-massacres-gaza-family-following-two-days-of-constructive-ceasefire-talks
Media Claim "Hamas Rejects ..." Deal That's Not Offered [The Israeli "offer" is to keep troops in Gaza, blocking the Egyptian border, until they get the hostages back.] More specifically, Hamas objects to the fact that the proposal doesn't include a permanent ceasefire or comprehensive Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip.
There is no ceasefire deal. How then could Hamas reject a ceasefire deal?
There is only a potential agreement on a pause in the fighting to hand over to Israel the hostages it wants to retrieve. Which is nothing anyone in the situation in Gaza could agree to. https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/08/hamas-rejects-.html
Israeli evacuation orders shut 10 wells, worsening water crisis in Gaza Ismail Sarsour, head of the municipality’s Emergency Committee, told Anadolu: “The new Israeli evacuation orders for eastern Deir al-Balah have effectively taken 10 out of 19 wells out of service.” “Access to three other wells west of Salah al-Din Street has become hazardous,” Sarsour stated.
He emphasized that the water situation in Deir al-Balah will become extremely dire in the coming days, especially with the shutdown of the eastern wells, which serve as a critical water supply for areas west of Salah al-Din Street, including the city center. https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240817-israeli-evacuation-orders-shut-10-wells-worsening-water-crisis-in-gaza/
Doha talks just aimed at buying time to delay Iran's response "They are buying time to delay Iran's legitimate response to the Israeli regime's clear aggression in violating the sovereignty of the Islamic Republic of Iran," said Mohammad Soltanifar, the head of the Office for the Protection of the Interests of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Cairo. He said that the Doha negotiations, which one of the leaders of Hamas called a "waste of time", did not yield results as could be predicted. https://en.mehrnews.com/news/219633/Doha-talks-just-aimed-at-buying-time-to-delay-Iran-s-response
Thousands protest against Netanyahu gov. in Tel Aviv Thousands of people once again held a massive demonstration on Saturday against the Prime Minister of the usurping Israeli regime, Benjamin Netanyahu.
This demonstration was held on the Kaplan Street in central Tel Aviv and the protesters demanded to reach an agreement with Hamas for the release of the prisoners.
The families of the Israeli captives, who are strongly protesting the policies and wasting of time by Netanyahu and his cabinet, stated the talks in Doha to reach a prisoners release agreement is the last chance to return their children to them. The Israeli families stated that the majority of Israelis, security institutions and Americans agree with a prisoner swap agreement, while a hardliner minority prevents it. https://en.mehrnews.com/news/219675/Thousands-protest-against-Netanyahu-gov-in-Tel-Aviv
Lebanon completely loses power – energy company
All “essential facilities” are down after a fuel shortage shut down the country’s last power plant https://www.rt.com/news/602737-lebanon-total-blackout-fuel/
Hezbollah can destroy $150bn worth of Israeli assets The area is viewed as the economic heart of Israel as it is responsible for 80% of the grain supply, some 40% of the meat supply and 70% of dairy supply to the inhabitants of the Israeli-occupied territories, said the report.
Any attack by Hezbollah on companies like Adom, a major meat supplier, and Tnuva, a large dairy company, would paralyze the food market in Israel, it said.
More than 60% of Israel’s oil refining and fuel production capacity is scattered around the port of Acre near the border with Lebanon which is responsible for processing the entire imports of energy. https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2024/08/17/731552/Hezbollah-Lebanon-Israel-war-economic-losses
Europe planning Abraham Accords II France, Germany, and Britain intend to join the 146 countries recognizing Palestine as a state, contingent upon significant concessions from Iran, including its recognition of Israel and a halt to support for Resistance groups in Palestine, Lebanon, Iraq, and Syria, according to information obtained by the Tehran Times.
The initiative proposed by Paris and endorsed by London and Berlin aims to offer additional protections for Israel but does not establish any conditions to safeguard Palestinians against Israel's apartheid policies in the occupied territories, its massacres in Gaza, the abuse of Palestinian prisoners, or the growing number of illegal settlements in the West Bank. https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/502585/Exclusive-Europe-planning-Abraham-Accords-II
He has no choice. Ukraine's Foreign Ministry denies Russian allegations of planned "dirty bomb" strikes https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/08/16/7470747/
Was Qatar Secretly Mediating a Partial Russian-Ukrainian Ceasefire Before Kursk?
The Washington Post (WaPo) reported on Saturday that Qatar was secretly mediating a partial Russian-Ukrainian ceasefire before Kiev’s sneak attack against Kursk, which would have seen both sides agree not to target each other’s energy infrastructure. The Kremlin hadn’t commented by the time of that article’s publication nor this present one so it’s unclear how truthful it is. https://www.globalresearch.ca/qatar-mediating-partial-russian-ukrainian-ceasefire/5865608
Moscow denies WaPo claims about secret Russia-Ukraine talks
Kiev has had multiple opportunities to engage in negotiations but has rejected them, the Foreign Ministry has said https://swentr.site/russia/602764-moscow-deny-secret-talks-claims/
Nord Stream: Scapegoating Rogue General to Exonerate Zelensky [This story is physically impossible due to extreme depth requiring advanced tech.] The asinine report claims the Nord Stream gas pipelines, providing Russian natural gas to European countries before the war, were blown up by a six-member Ukrainian sabotage team of skilled deep-sea divers in an operation that was initially approved by Volodymyr Zelensky and then called off, but which went ahead anyway, likely due to a communication glitch in the Starlink video conferencing or a “terrible misunderstanding” between the president of the banana republic and his top military commander.
According to the outlet’s “credible but phantasmagorical” sources, the idea of blowing up Nord Stream was conceived by “a handful of senior Ukrainian military officers and businessmen” as they gathered for drinks in May 2022, a few months after the outbreak of the conflict between Moscow and Kyiv. The plotters believed that it would reduce Russia’s energy revenues and make the EU less dependent on Moscow.
The subversive operation was allegedly directed by a serving army general, who reported to Ukraine’s then commander in chief, Valery Zaluzhny. Zelensky initially approved the plan, but later backtracked after the CIA found out about it and asked Kyiv to call it off. Nonetheless, Zaluzhny pressed ahead with the mission, claiming once dispatched, a sabotage team goes incommunicado and cannot be withdrawn. https://www.globalresearch.ca/nord-stream-scapegoating-rogue-general-exonerate-zelensky/5865463
"Everybody" pretends it's true: Ukraine Must Pay Germany Back For Damage From Nord Stream Bombing: Bundestag Lawmaker In the wake of the latest revelations, member of the German Bundestag, co-chair of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party Alice Weidel has been among the loudest Berlin officials in denouncing Kiev. She is calling for Ukraine to compensate Germany for the damage caused to its economy as a result of the September 26, 2022 underwater bombings. https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/ukraine-must-pay-germany-back-damage-nord-stream-bombing-bundestag-lawmaker
Not quite everybody... Lavrov Says 'Clear' That US Ordered Nord Stream Attacks, Demands Answers From Germany Russia is calling out the last several days of Western media reporting on the Nord Stream gas pipeline bombing as essentially a limited hangout.
Suddenly all of this 'new information' has come out of the German investigation and leaked to the press, and seems by design an attempt to shield both the Ukrainian president and Washington from any culpability, as we've been detailing. Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has responded to the WSJ's recent reporting, saying Monday it was "clear" the US ordered the Sept 2022 attacks on the vital Russia to Germany gas pipelines. https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/lavrov-says-clear-us-ordered-nord-stream-attacks-demands-answers-germany
Gilbert Doctorow, America’s JASSM air to ground stealth missiles and Russian plans to use tactical nukes [Transnistria and Moldova may become war zones.] The latest development worthy of discussion in last night’s edition of the talk show is the likely fitting of America’s air to ground JASSM missiles on the F16s that have been and will continue to be delivered to Ukraine.
The acronym of this Lockheed produced weapon stands for Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile and its salient features are its range and its nearly undetectable characteristics in flight. The missile apparently has two basic variants, one for approximately 400 km and the other for 900 km.
The logic for fitting a couple of these missiles on an F-16 is to enable the jet to strike deep into Russia, as far as Moscow and beyond, even if they fly well back from the Russia-controlled territory in Ukraine to be safe from Moscow’s advanced air defense systems...
..From the Russian perspective, as explained on ‘The Great Game,’ when Washington says it is considering delivery of the JASSM to Ukraine, that means that the weapons have already been shipped to Poland and/or Romania for handover to Kiev. It may also mean that these missiles are already in Ukraine. And this poses an entirely unacceptable threat which Russia is obliged to neutralize.
In practical terms, the only way to stop JASSM in flight is to destroy the F-16s that launch them. What this means is for Russia to use tactical nuclear weapons against the air bases hosting the F-16s. These are most likely in Moldova and/or Romania.
Moldova is not yet a NATO member, so the consequences of such a Russian attack would be mitigated. Romania is a full NATO member and should it be struck, the final red line, the Rubicon, will have been crossed and there will be no turning back from WWIII...
..Postscript, 19 August: I have received several letters from astute readers who asky why Russia would use tactical nuclear arms to destroy F-16s on the ground in Romania or Moldova when its conventionally-tipped Iskander missiles could do the job.
The use of nukes against, say, airports in Moldova or Romania,is directly connected to the ongoing revision of Russia’s nuclear doctrine and it heads precisely in line with the recommendations of Sergei Karaganov 15 months ago: it is to send a message to the whole of NATO not to even think of continuing escalation in its now open war on Russia. It is a political message, not a military necessity. https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2024/08/17/americas-jassm-air-to-ground-stealth-missiles-and-russian-plans-to-use-tactical-nukes/
Watchdog Group Says FBI is Hiding Records on Trump Assassination Attempt [They have no choice but to cover up the failed Secret Service/DHS Assassination.] The FBI cited FOIA exemption 7(A) to protect ongoing enforcement proceedings surrounding the incident on July 13 in Butler, PA, when gunman Thomas Crooks was able to shoot at Trump despite being spotted behaving suspiciously hours beforehand.
Judicial Watch sent an FOIA request on July 26th asking the FBI to produce all relevant documents pertaining to its preparation and coordination with the Secret Service for Trump’s rally.
However, the group has been stonewalled by the FBI, leaving questions as to why there was seemingly a delay in taking out Crooks before the shooting unanswered.
“Why is the FBI hiding records on its and the Secret Service’s failures to protect Trump?” asked Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton. “The Biden-Harris administration is covering up the near assassination of former President Trump.” https://modernity.news/2024/08/19/watchdog-group-says-fbi-is-hiding-records-on-trump-assassination-attempt/
The Slog, John Ward, asserts that before rigging the November election, the stage is being set by rigging the opinion polls, so that the ordained outcome will appear plausible. Explosive: Kamala’s plan to corrupt POTUS opinion polls [Well, it is most likely somebody else's plan.] So how do they hope not to get caught in the act of this illegal attempt at electorate conditioning?
Well, I’m not 100% on this one as yet. But asking a question of one EU-based journalist last Thursday morning, I was genuinely shaken to hear accusations that Team Kamala has acquired the services of at least one European research conglomerate with a view to designing questionnaires in order to get the response they want…. be that intention to vote per se, or preferences between candidates where the “weighting” of importance is judged on a five-point scale of likelihood to go for Trump or Harris.
I have no wish to blind with science here: practitioners in the field, however, will know immediately what I’m on about. That is, a subtle use of directional questioning in a survey whose intrinsic bias goes unnoticed towards being ‘A vote for the Candidate’, when it should be recorded as ‘Pro Candidate but vote not guaranteed’.
This could be seen as analyst error, or reflecting the philosophy of the pollster organisation, or even something accurate in relation to what the original respondent went on to do after the survey. The point is, constitutional illegality would be impossible to prove. The survey was “merely” using decades of experience to judge the future actions of American voters.
But whichever way you cut it, the word I’m getting is that the post-Cretin USSS White House is trying to offshore the operation. https://therealslog.com/2024/08/18/explosive-kamalas-plan-to-corrupt-potus-opinion-polls/
Scott Ritter: A Farewell to Truth The FBI illegally confiscated 24 boxes of unclassified records from Scott Ritter, the only independent copies of the Iraq "Weapons of Mass Destruction" investigation, and proof that there were none. These have always substantiated his statements contradicting government narrative. https://scheerpost.com/2024/08/17/scott-ritter-a-farewell-to-truth/
Charles Hugh Smith, on how the "wealthy" become unsafe when they have robbed a society to the point of breakdown. The Super-Wealthy Have a Problem The less self-congratulatory camp of the super-wealthy understand the pressure cooker of inequality and unfairness is going to blow unless they relinquish some of their unearned gains generated by Fed policies. https://www.oftwominds.com/blogaug24/super-wealthy8-24.html
Josh Mitteldorf on hidden forms of cooperation in the Political-Economy Ecosystem: Science and Politics, Libertarian and Socialist The key insight, which came clear to me only gradually is that
All animal communities share common pools of food species that they depend on. It is an existential threat to the community if the food species is depleted by overconsumption. All animal communities are highly motivated to cooperate in the preservation of their food pool.
Individual animals must back off from what would otherwise be their most direct path to selective success, i.e., to eat as much as possible, turn the food into reproductive capacity, and thus dominate the gene pool of the next generation (which is the neo-Darwinist definition of fitness).
The direct result of cooperation over the prey pool is to curb predation. But once it is established that no individual can maximize his evolutionary advantage, the knock-on effect is to encourage a spectrum of different cooperative behaviors. As I said, this insight gelled for me only over the course of several years...
..The “social contract” idea is that we participate in society and consent to be governed by rules because we have more to gain, in the way of safety and prosperity, than we have to lose in the way of limits on our freedom.
I dissent from this view. Sure, there are people who will deceive you or steal from you at every opportunity. They’re called sociopaths and they represent 2-5% of the population, depending who you ask. In East Asia, the percentages are considerably under 1%. [Sociopaths like killing lots of people from time to time, to stop "overgrazing".]
Most people find meaning in life primarily from social relationships. We are highly motivated to cooperate. We feel good when we can be of service.
Cooperation and work for the common good — this is how we are wired. Freed from destitution and freed from government coercion, most of us would choose service over selfishness.
Steve Kirsch, New Oxford study shows ONLY the kids who took the COVID shots had heart problems and died, We now know kids should NOT get the COVID vaccine.
Nobody got hurt. The kids were alright. They voiced insights. They went camping, too. 10 Teens Gave Up Smartphones for a Month. Here’s What Happened British journalist Decca Aitkenhead offered a compelling glimpse into how digital detox can transform young lives — and maybe address what social psychologist Jonathan Haidt, Ph.D., calls “the anxious generation.” https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/teens-smartphones-one-month-digital-detox/
Deep, dark, "Antichrist" questions refuse to depart. Pope Francis Orders Humanity to Follow ‘Universal Bishop’ Klaus Schwab During ‘End Times’ https://thepeoplesvoice.tv/pope-frances-orders-humanity-to-follow-universal-bishop-klaus-schwab-during-end-times/
Kyle Young expounds a bit on ancient laws, still in effect with global elites: Smart meters, 5G, jabs, geoengineering - Here’s how to shut it all down Cal had been researching law and found that many of the old laws that predate our burdensome, modern legal system actually have jurisdiction over the newer, more complicated legal procedures that require lawyers, courts and juries. Cal and Josh joined forces to educate the public about how to use a Notice of Liability (NoL), derived from ancient Law Merchant, to force utility companies to replace dangerous smart meters with the older, safer, analogue meters.
I found their discussion about the old laws fascinating. In fact, I was so taken that I reached out to ask them if NoL’s could be applied to other areas.
A very interesting premise that WE may already be "quantum computing"... Photon entanglement could explain the rapid brain signals behind consciousness Understanding the nature of consciousness is one of the hardest problems in science. Some scientists have suggested that quantum mechanics, and in particular quantum entanglement, is the key to unraveling the phenomenon.
Now, a research group in China has shown that many entangled photons can be generated inside the myelin sheath that covers nerve fibers. It could explain the rapid communication between neurons, which so far has been thought to be below the speed of sound, too slow to explain how the neural synchronization occurs.
The paper is published in the journal Physical Review E.
"If the power of evolution was looking for handy action over a distance, quantum entanglement would be [an] ideal candidate for this role," said Yong-Cong Chen in a statement to Phys.org. https://phys.org/news/2024-08-photon-entanglement-rapid-brain-consciousness.html
That Paper: Entangled biphoton generation in the myelin sheath Abstract
Consciousness within the brain hinges on the synchronized activities of millions of neurons, but the mechanism responsible for orchestrating such synchronization remains elusive. In this study we employ cavity quantum electrodynamics to explore entangled biphoton generation through cascade emission in the vibration spectrum of C-H bonds within the lipid molecules' tails. The results indicate that the cylindrical cavity formed by a myelin sheath can facilitate spontaneous photon emission from the vibrational modes and generate a significant number of entangled photon pairs. The abundance of C-H bond vibration units in neurons can therefore serve as a source of quantum entanglement resources for the nervous system. These findings may offer insight into the brain's ability to leverage these resources for quantum information transfer, thereby elucidating a potential source for the synchronized activity of neurons. https://journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevE.110.024402
Quantum Entangled (featuring picture of Jenny and Yoakum garden)
Missed that... Great song....
wouldn't be singing it in the 1920's for sure... and neither in the 2020's...
"If the power of evolution was looking for handy action over a distance,"
Unbelievable...with stupid comments such as this it is obvious 'evolution' is still a faith based fantasy.
Animals 'deciding' to change, and now we see there is a magical 'power', 'looking for"
Bwahahahhahahahha, "handy action". Sounds like a porn film