Funding World War III?

Are we in WWIII or do we merely sit on the brink? To hear the hyperbolic rhetoric from congress you would think we are under existential threat as they justify the funding for more war and global chaos. Additionally the US was the sole veto in the recognition of Palestine as a state in the UN...a guaranteed way to stop the Gaza genocide. More chaos thanks to us, and by the way keep those bombs a'coming. What a colossal cave by Johnson. I suspect his speakership is at risk. All this and much more below the fold.

Friday morning the main stream outlets were panting furiously about Israel's attack on Iran. End's up there were no missiles, it was all drones fired from nearby, probably Azerbaijan, Iraq, Syria, or perhaps inside Iran. The outcome of the performative attack is that the damage was virtually nonexistent, so maybe, just maybe, we've avoided the onset of a hot global war.
According to Pepe it was a close call...
Pepe Escobar
EXCLUSIVE
THE REAL STORY OF THE ISRAELI COUNTER RESPONSE
From a very high level intel source. In Asia. NOT Russia-China.
Although the strategic partnership, of course, exchanges at the highest level 24-7.
Confirmed and re-confirmed.
It will be great to know what Sy Hersh hears from his Beltway sources.
Here we go.
Israel initially chose to respond with extreme force. An F-35 loaded with a nuclear bomb was sent east over Jordan. The mission: cause a high-altitude detonation over Iran that would provoke a surge in the high-capacity power lines, crippling Iran's electric grid, as well as disabling all electronic devices.
An EMP attack.
However...
... As the Israeli F-35 was leaving Jordanian airspace it was shot down by the Russian Air Force. Hence the publicised version of the Israeli counter response was such a travesty. In the end all sides decided not to publicise the real news - to de-escalate what could well turn into WWIII."
If true, we just barely avoided all out nuclear war.

Let's start with the weekly round up with Ray and Larry...

(32 min)

Earlier this week Larry was on the Duran where he describes the grift of war, and why the war machine never stops in the US.

Off-ramp or wider war w/ Larry Johnson (about 2 hours)

Post attack on Iran with Larry and Nima
Iran Has DESTROYED all the US and Israel's Calculations in the Middle East | Larry C. Johnson
(31 min)

Jimmy Dore spoke with the Duran (Alexander and Glenn) about the state of main stream media.
The Failure of the Media - Jimmy Dore, Alexander Mercouris & Glenn Diesen

Jimmy also eviscerates NPR and their new CEO on his show this week.
NPR Whistleblower SCORCHES NPR! (20 min)
NPR’s New CEO Is The Ultimate Woke Mental Case! (22 min)
No wonder NPR is so bad these days.

I've become quite the Chas Freeman fan. He was on with Nima this week.

Iran's Attack on Israel Has Destroyed all of Israel's Calculations | Chas Freeman (54 min)

Alex does a great job describing the west's hypocrisy about Israel in the first few minutes of this clip Cameron hypocrisy. Ukraine-Russia Black Sea deal. Macron, Olympics truce. Little ditty, Jake & Biden
(37 min to watch the whole commentary)

Israeli Settlers, Soldiers ‘Wiping Palestinian Communities Off the Map’ in the West Bank
"While the attention of the world is focused on Gaza, abuses in the West Bank, fueled by decades of impunity and complacency among Israel's allies, are soaring."

Mahmood is a new commentator to me, but he seems spot on and in the know.

HIZBULLAH DESTROYS ISRAELI AIR DEFENCE | ISRAEL-GERMAN CLASH | AQB & SAQ TARGET IOF IN GAZA (10 min)
Annalena 360, Germany's foreign minster with no foreign experience, finally does something good? I guess a broken clock is right twice a day.

The US doesn’t support a two-state solution, the US only supports saying the US supports a two-state solution. We know this because the US just vetoed Palestine’s bid to become a full UN member state, after lobbying other countries to vote against the resolution — despite continually saying it supports the foundation of a Palestinian state. Washington’s words say one thing, but its actions say the opposite.
This is because if the US admitted its actual position, it would greatly damage its reputation on the world stage. What the US actually wants is the same thing the Israelis want: for the Palestinians to go away, or lie down and submit completely, or otherwise stop being an inconvenience until they’re a forgotten footnote in the dustbin of history. But the US can’t come right out and say this, so it pretends to support a two-state solution that Israel has spent years doing everything it can to ensure never happens. It’s a completely fictional resolution to a very real problem, but the alternative to supporting it is to admit you support continued apartheid, oppression, ethnic cleansing and genocide."
Oh, the smell of hypocrisy in the morning.

Interesting exchange between Michael Hudson and Pepe
The Gaza genocide as explicit policy: Michael Hudson names all names
If you missed the Hudson interview posted in last weeks column, here's a transcript.

Ukraine
Jeff Sachs suggests the west is tired of Ukraine as all eyes shift to western Asia.
Prof. Jeffrey Sachs : Is the West Tired of Ukraine?
(34 min) Judge Nap and Prof. Sachs confront tough questions and examine the implications of Western fatigue on Ukraine's future prospects. As tensions persist and geopolitical priorities shift, it's crucial to dissect the complexities of this relationship and its broader impact on regional stability and global security.

The Duran thinks the funding is designed to allow the survival of the proxy war till after the election in November. (24 min)

Preventing Ukraine collapse during US election

U.S. Gov’t Paying For Ukraine SMEAR Operation Against Jimmy Dore! w/ Lee Fang (30 min)
Investigative journalist Lee Fang appeared on The Jimmy Dore Show to describe the sprawling constellation of media outlets in Ukraine, organized with substantial funding and direction from the U.S. government, that has supported strong censorship laws and shutdowns of dissident outlets, disseminated disinformation of its own, and sought to silence critics of the war, including Jimmy Dore, Glenn Greenwald and Aaron Mate.

Who is running the White House. Here is a likely hypothesis

Jake the snake?

More mischief from congress this week...
The US Senate has passed legislation renewing and expanding an expiring law that enables the government to conduct warrantless surveillance of Americans under the guise of protecting them from foreign threats. The bill was approved by a 60-34 vote in the early morning hours of Saturday, authorizing a two-year extension of the so-called Section 702 program of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). President Joe Biden is expected to quickly sign the legislation, renewing the spying tool after it expired at midnight on Saturday. Section 702 is ostensibly about surveilling the communications of foreigners for intelligence purposes, including detection of possible terrorist plots against the US. However, many of the phone calls and messages that are tapped by Washington’s spying apparatus occur between foreigners and US citizens.

War on Human Health...
Excess Deaths are exploding but there is a wall of silence from our respective Governments....
A Great Awakening is taking place all around the world as people wake up and realise what has been done to them...
The first order of any Government is to protect its own people. Not only have they failed to do this but they are attempting to hide their failings and perhaps more disturbingly hide a dark de-population agenda that they are involved in.

Professor Angus Dalgleish, (Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists, Fellow of Medical Science.) explains how the COVID vaccines actually decrease your immune response. John Campbell explains in common language after each topic.

The more boosters, the more likely you are to get COVID.

Dr Pierre Kory

New PROOF Early COVID Drug Trials Were RIGGED! – Dr. Pierre Kory (17 min)

More from Dr. Kory...
Pfizer APOLOGIZES For Illegally Promoting The COVID Vaccine! (10 min)
At least they say they're sorry (as they count their billions in profit)

I want to wrap with an idea some of you might consider...growing Winecap or Garden Giant Mushrooms...
I caught this video a few years ago and ordered spawn, and we eat fresh seasonal mushrooms every fall and spring since.

Cultivating and Cooking Garden Giants with Paul Stamets (10 min)
The Garden Giant is a stellar species for folks to grow in their backyard, and especially in their gardens. This species is plant friendly, helps transform woodchips into rich soils, consumes nematodes and filters out E. coli. Garden Giants produce long, abundant rhizomorphs, and the stem butts can regrow.
Once you have this species (Stropharia rugoso-annulata, aka The Wine Cap, The King Stropharia) growing on your property and if you annually use wood chips as a mulch, the Garden Giant can become resident for years. Not only are the mushrooms huge (see the 4-5 lb specimens in the photos), and edible (mild flavor), but this species can produce acanthocytes - which allow it to eat nematodes, important for protecting root crops.
Moreover, this mushroom will distract slugs from eating your vegetables, and fly larvae love them. I discovered when raising sliver (coho) salmon fingerlings that the fish would strike at the floating maggot-ridden mushrooms to dislodge the larvae and aggressively consume them. So, this suggests that this species could be useful for feeding fish, from salmon to tilapia.
This is our favorite size to harvest.

Nothing like a pan full to enjoy at dinner.

Spread spawn once and harvest for years. Simple easy garden project.

Columbia Suspends Pro-Palestine Student Groups Amid Crackdown on Free Speech

Another eventful week. It is no wonder most folks in the US have no idea about all the chaos we create and spread. Not only does the MSM not report much of it, but distorts what they do report, plus suppress and censors those who do try to explain our true actions. Looks like the tiktok ban is headed for signature. Can't let young folks see the genocide for themselves. Amazing how quickly this got through at the bequest of the Zionist lobby. I look forward to your insights, stories, and thoughts in the comments below.