Lavrov Stuns Trump With Declaration After Washington Summit

Trump Gives Away Ukraine's Donbas. Canadians Should Worry. Better Yet, They Should Prepare Their Defense

Is that Trump's strategy: Ok Vlad, you take the Donbas, Crimea and more, and We'll take Canada.

That looks to be the way Trump's mind works. He's already signalled his lust for Canadian territory. With assured aquiescence from Russia, what's to stop him?

The EU?

No way. But Sweden's likely still keen to sell those Saab fighters. And with a nuke from the Old Country? From Starmer? No way. But there are plenty of others who could supply the means. And a nuke on DC would please many people.

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Governor Newsom, quite likely the next US President -- if there's an election, that is, describes Trump's crass egomaniacal insolence.

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That’s not the robot vacuum cleaner, it’s the robot lawnmower.’

The State of Britain: Everything's Just Fine

Trump: What's Wrong with Impeachment

University of Massachusetts: 

Public approval of Donald Trump’s presidency has dropped by 6 percentage points since April and his approval rating is now 20 points underwater, 38-58, according to a new national University of Massachusetts Amherst Poll of 1,000 respondents conducted July 25-30.

“Six months into his second term as president, Donald Trump looks to be on the ropes with the American public,” says Tatishe Nteta, provost professor of political science at UMass Amherst and director of the poll. “Trump’s approval ratings, already historically low for a newly elected president, continue to sink with close to 6-in-10 Americans (58%) expressing disapproval of the job that Trump is doing in office.

Or as Abraham Lincoln is supposed to have said: 

You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

And as Trump is now finding, if you behave like a psychopathic jackass, pissing off all your allies both at home and abroad, all but the dumbest of your own supporters will turn against you.

It's time for Congress to act. 

Hail to the Lunatic-in-Chief

This week Americans will be able to enjoy President Trump's 35% import tariff coming to bear on those sneaky Canucks who, as the Emperor has so rightly observed, unjustifiably occupy the larger part of the North American continent. 

Except, what Americans will discover is that it is they, not the Canadians, who will be paying their mad President's new tax. 

What's more, Americans will discover that they are paying a tariff on imports from everywhere else in the world, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, with special rates applying in a seemingly random way to such items as copper pipes from China, but not from Canada (Phew, thank goodness for that small mercy).

Meantime, let's hope that the emperor's decision to send nuclear armed submarines to confront those pesky Russians doesn't lead to any real unpleasantness. like for instance, Armageddon. 

America's Mad Emperor Prepares for Nuclear War Over a Tweet

 Trump’s Submarine Meltdown: The Empire Tweets Back

The world just watched Donald Trump— the wannabe “Art of the Deal” emperor, panic‑post his way into nuclear theater. On Truth Social, he puffed up his chest and announced that two nuclear submarines were heading toward Russia, because Dmitry Medvedev roasted him online.

“I have ordered two Nuclear Submarines to be positioned in the appropriate regions, just in case these foolish and inflammatory statements are more than just that,”

— Donald J. Trump

This is late‑stage empire in meme form. A jittery president, cheeseburger in one hand, nuclear football in the other, lashing out at a tweet. Medvedev, the wry unofficial spokesman of Moscow, tossed a few words into the digital ether about a nervous sounding Trump and America’s commander‑in‑chief responded by moving the most apocalyptic weapons on Earth like toy boatd on a boardgame.

Two submarines? Awww. Two wittle submarines. A photo‑op for nervous American elite who need to believe their empire still commands the seas. But in Moscow, they sip tea and laugh quietly, knowing escalation dominance belongs to Russia. Washington can sail its steel coffins under the Arctic, but if real war comes, Russia’s answer will arrive in silence, speed, and finality, no tweets required.

Medvedev’s trolling was the perfect judo throw: a reminder that the empire is nervous, that a few lines from a “failed former president” can send the White House into a nuclear cosplay spiral. The Kremlin didn’t even blink. Why should it? The bear has already mauled NATO’s illusions.

Trump warns of “unintended consequences”? The only consequence here is America’s public humiliation, a spectacle where the emperor screams on social media while the world quietly notes: Moscow is winning: militarily, economically, psychologically. At a fraction of the cost. Murica under Trump is spending a record trillion on "defence" and looking utterly impotent against the Houthis and Iranians, let alone Russia.

Late Rome had its bread and circuses. America has its Big Macs and nuclear selfies. And somewhere in the Kremlin, they’re smiling, knowing that the empire tweets as it trembles.

- Gerry Nolan

The Inevitable Failure of Trump's Dopey Sanctions on Russia

Zero Hedge

Economist and longtime adviser to the UN Jeffrey Sachs has issued a scathing critique of President Trump's decision to unleash yet more anti-Russia sanctions, giving Moscow just ten days to negotiate for peace with Ukraine or else the new punitive measures will go into effect.

Sachs called the new policy "dangerous" and a sign that the Trump administration is plagued by contradictions and lack of a coherent strategy for ending the war, despite constant early boasting that Trump would rapidly achieve peace. The 'secondary sanctions' aimed primarily at those nations still trading with Russia are doomed to be ineffective anyway, the Colombia University professor pointed out.

"If the sanctions are actually applied, they are an escalation of the conflict, and therefore very dangerous. I do not believe that they will be effective," he said in an interview with Russian media.

"For example, I do not believe they will stop Russia from selling oil, gas, and other commodities to Asian markets. Yet, provocations and escalation often have unpredictable negative effects, and that could be true here as well," he added.

The new restrictions are likely to backfire regardless, as they "could expose" the "incompetence" or even "accelerate the breakup" of US-led geopolitical and economic blocs.

"This is, in short, the wrong approach. We need diplomacy and negotiation to get to the root causes of the conflict, and solve them, not unworkable ultimatums based on the idea of an unconditional ceasefire," Sachs added.

He further highlighted the West's inability to acknowledge and come to terms with the real underlying causes of Ukraine war, 

such as historic NATO expansion east, the sham Minsk accords, or the coup events of 2014.

"Instead, the Western powers now demand an unconditional ceasefire. Russia will not agree to this, nor will a new round of US sanctions compel Russia to agree to this," Sachs emphasized.

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Putin Spox Boasts 'We Have Developed Immunity' To Sanctions

The Failure of Britain's Elite

Civil War Comes to the West 

David Betz - King’s College London, Department of War Studies

The COVID Shot Catastrophe: Death and Injury on the Scale of Hundreds of Nuclear Strikes

How the Covid vax killed and injured on a mass scale.

A video prepared  by Nick Hulscher, MPH

Via: WRH

President Bullshit Considers Bribing Americans With Their Own Money

Trump considers 'rebates' to US taxpayers from tariff income

Trump said the top priority from tariffs is to reduce the country's debt but he is considering rebates. He didn't specify how big rebates would be or who would qualify.

Musk sought to stoke the Trump-Epstein scandal. Mission accomplished

Trump's Stupid Tariff Lie

 Trump says his 35% import tariff will compel US companies to move production offshored  to China back to the United States. 

That's bunkum. 

Avoiding the tariff barely covers the additional labor cost of US production. 

What's more, the tariff doesn't apply to China-made products distributed outside the US.

So, a few companies may move production home, either to gain favor with Trump, or because they have found offshore production, even without the tariff, not so advantageous as they had expected.

But for most companies that have moved production to China, why return to the US now? It will achieve little if any saving in cost of production for the US market while sharply reducing the margin on worldwide sales.

Production for worldwide distribution might be maintained in China while domestic demand is met from US factories, but that would make life unnecessarily complicated and effective management more expensive. 

No, Trump's tariff is just another tax. A tax that the bureaucracy is no doubt delighted to see. More tax, more money for bureaucrats to dispose of -- much of it on hiring more bureaucrats.

And the benefit to Trump? 

A well-funded, and therefore contented and docile bureaucracy at his back.

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Meantime:

Trump Administration Grabs Certain Papers Held by Ghilaine Maxwell 

Phew, the Epstein blackmail material now safely under Trump's control? 

President Bullshit "Thinking About" Bribing Americans With Their Own Money

Via Drudge Report:

Ghislaine mystery box after secret meeting with Trump lawyer...
'Gives info on 100 people'...
DEALING FOR A PARDON!
Scouring of Epstein Files Consumed DOJ...
Parties. Models. Mansions...
Bondi on brink...
Questions follow lawmakers home...

Good News: Trump Headed for the Historical Trash Heap

Multiple pollsters signal crushing midterm defeat for Trump and GOP. Trump has destroyed his entire base... it's over. He's Nixon

But it's a totally dumb and unfair comment on Richard Nixon who:

Achieved détente with China and the Soviet Union;
Ended U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War;
Established the Environmental Protection Agency.

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Donald Trump Is Trapped

Bondi’s Absurd Epstein Excuses

Trump’s lurking assault on Canada rests on endless lies and irrational populism

Wall St. Journal: Jeffrey Epstein’s Friends Sent Him Bawdy Letters for a 50th Birthday Album. One Was From Donald Trump

Americans oppose Trump’s tariff against Canada 2:1 

Americans and Canadians, though they live under different constitutional arrangements, are pretty much the same people, which is to say mostly of European extraction but with a large and growing admixture of people from everywhere else. Understandably, therefore, Americans for the most part oppose Trump's threats of occupation against, and bullying of, Canada. Bravo, long live America and the Hell with Trump, Friend of Child sex trafficker, Jeffrey Epstein.

Ukraine Nazis Who Started the Ukraine War In the Ascendant

In 2014 the Nazified Azov Brigade instigated the Ukraine war by advancing on the Donbas region of Ukraine where six million ethnic Russians had been threatened with extermination or expulsion by former Ukrainian Prime Minister Julia Tymoshenko.  

Today, Nazis still dominate Ukraine:

“While German and other Western politicians, media and think tanks continue to spread the lie about the ‘depoliticization’ of Azov’s* troops, the latter are pushing ahead with the total militarization of Ukrainian society at full speed,” a new analysis by German alternative news outlet Junge Welt warns.

Highlighting Azov’s gradual “colonization” of Ukraine with its “neo-Nazi war ideology” rooted in ethno-nationalism and concepts of a “Greater Ukraine,” the report stresses that the group openly sees itself as an SS-style “vanguard of Ukraine’s fascist reorganization,” with “practically no Azov-free spaces left in Ukrainian society.”

Azov’s ideologues themselves boast about the “universal penetration” of its “aesthetics” to make ordinary Ukrainians get “used to the fact that this country is our country.”  

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 Faced with the prospect of six million ethnic Russian in the Donbas region of Ukraine either fleeing to Russia or being exterminated by Nazified agents of the Ukrainian Government, Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022 with the objective of regime change in Kiev. The conflict continues with Russia remaining intent on overthrowing the Russophobic regime in Kiev, a city formerly the Russian capital and the birthplace of the Russian Orthodox Church.

Trump's Lust to Seize Canada Has Cost America Her Closest Ally and Largest Trading Partner

 How do you get a bunch of Canadians out of the pool. According to an old American joke, you say: "Will everyone please get out of the pool." President Donald Trump evidently believes the formula is applicable to international relations and he has only to declare Canada the 51st State and Canadians will abandon their independence and sovereignty.

That is childish nonsense. But it is not to say that Trump will be deterred from pursuing his territorial ambition by means other than mere persuasion.

History it has been said repeats: first as tragedy, then as farce. But whether Trump's Hitlerian lust to assimilate Canada ends in tragedy or farce is far from clear. Trump has openly mused about taking Canada by force, an option he has not taken off the table. 

In face of this threat, Canada's government has not been idle. Trump's aggressive utterances have lost America her closest ally and greatest trading partner. They have driven Canada into the arms of the EU as a primary partner in both trade, under The Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), and defense, under the recently signed Security and Defense Partmership. In addition, Canada is negotiating a free trade agreement with both the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), and South Korea.

Trump's Hitlerian territorial ambitions have placed the World at risk of a Third World War.

Idiotically Vindictive German Minister, Robert Habeck, Takes Legal Action Against Pensioner For Calling Him an Idiot

Free Speech Travesty: German Pensioner Who Called Green Economic Minister Habeck An 'Idiot' Has Been Convicted

Why do we call Habeck and idiot? 

Google explains rather well. 

In response to the question, is it libellous to call someone an idiot, Google says: 

No, calling someone an idiot is generally not considered libelous. Libel involves false statements of fact that harm someone's reputation. While "idiot" is an insult, it's usually considered an opinion or hyperbole, rather than a statement of fact. 

Although freedom of expression is guaranteed in Article 5 of the German Constitution's Basic Law, the German constitution, limits this freedom to protect young people, privacy or personal honor. However, Habeck's idiocy is not a matter affecting either his privacy or his honor, but simply his mental capacity. And by seeking to punish a citizen merely for calling him an idiot surely proves Habeck's idiocy. 

German Police Raid 170 Homes Over 'Hate Speech', Insults To Politicians

Is Iran Too White

 Why is Donald J. Trump, intent on bombing Iran?

Is Iran too white?

The Power of Vision: We See Not the World But a Simulation

Have you ever wondered about the capacity of the mammalian brain: its ability to make us aware of the external world? Consider, the power of sight. For example, consider the view of a well kept municipal garden with its ornamental trees and shrubs, its flower beds, its expanses of neatly clipped grass. What you see is out there. 

Right? 

No. Wrong. 

What you are "seeing" is a representation of what is out there that you brain has created based on images focused by the lens of the eye onto an array of light sensitive neurons, the rods and cones, that make up the eye's retina. It takes no more than a handful of photons striking one of these visual elements to initiate a neural impulse that travels via the optic nerve from the eye to the visual lobe of the brain. From thousands of such neural impulses received each second, the brain builds a model of the external world. 

And this is not a static model but a fast changing representation of the world as your attention darts from flower border, to grassy expanse, a passing cloud, a boy playing with a dog, a small child on a tricycle. It is the extraordinary realism of this model that leads to the mistaken belief that what we see is out there, whereas, in fact, what we "see" is a model of the external world created by the brain -- a model that includes ourself.

Ready to Crash: Canada Achieves Record Private Debt to GDP Ratio

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