larry johnson is baffled by this as am i;

What is the Pentagon thinking? The US aircraft carrier, the Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72), reportedly has departed the Persian Gulf and is returning to its home port in the US. In its place, the Pentagon deployed six B-52s to Qatar:

The US Department of Defense has deployed additional air assets to the Middle East amid escalating tensions with Iran and its regional proxies. 

The Pentagon Press Secretary, Major General Pat Ryder, announced on November 1, 2024, that the Department of Defense had ordered the deployment of new fighter squadrons, tanker aircraft, B-52 long-range strategic bombers, and Arleigh Burke-class destroyers equipped with Aegis ballistic missile defense systems.  

According to Air & Space Forces Magazine, the combat aircraft deployment will consist of six B-52 bombers and a squadron of F-15E Strike Eagle fighters. The US Central Command confirmed the arrival of B-52 Stratofortress strategic bombers from the 5th Bomb Wing of Minot Air Force Base in its area of responsibility on November 3, 2024. They will likely operate from Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar. ........more.........

 pcr says we're in the final days of the lie machine but i wonder if he's being optimistic;

The Final Days of the Lie Machine

Paul Craig Roberts

One of the worst features of Democracy is the self-serving lobby groups. The Israeli lobby groups, AIPAC and ADL are having a rough time because of the Zionist genocide of the Palestinians.  People are starting to wonder how Israel is a victim when Israel is slaughtering women and children not only in Gaza but also in south Lebanon. 

Now that in Ukraine the Biden-Harris regime have given Americans another lost war, which casts more doubt on American omnipotence, the military/security complex lobbies are experiencing public  disbelief in their narratives.

The Atlantic Council is a lobby group for the military-security complex and Washington’s hegemony over Europe.  Attempting to control explanations important to war profits, the group created a lie machine, DFR Lab.  On October 30, one of the lie machine’s employees, Meredith Furbish, branched out into other areas and defined those of us who have documented the legalization of election theft in the swing states as “Russia-linked media.”  Furbish doesn’t say why only Russians and not Americans are concerned with the mechanisms used to steal American elections.  

Citing a narrative controller called Alliance for Securing Democracy, Furbish describes me as “an RT regular and noted conspiracy theorist.”  I think it has been years since I was interviewed by RT, and being interviewed doesn’t make one a “regular.” Furbish is so incompetent that she doesn’t know that the Russian journalist Ekaterina Blinova writes for Sputnik, not RT.  The notion Furbish is trying to perpetuate is that those who identify voting irregularities are Russian agents spreading disinformation. Russia has to be behind everything so that we can stay at war with Russia.  As for being a conspiracy theorist, the self-serving interest groups declare all truth-tellers to be conspiracy theorists. Every explanation, no matter how truthful, that does not uphold the official narratives is a conspiracy theory.  This tells us that it is the conspiracy theories that are correct, not the official narratives..........more...........

in answer to pcr's question the magic eight ball says no; 

Will America Survive the 2024 Election Tomorrow?

Paul Craig Roberts

The election is upon us.  It is an important election, because the result will determine whether America as we knew it will continue to exist.  

Trump represents America.  Kamala represents the forces attempting to overthrow America.  In the last few days leading Democrats, such as Hillary Clinton and John Kerry, have said that the First Amendment is in the way of their ability to impose their agendas on the American people and that censorship of truth is essential to their rule.  Democrat Law school deans and Democrat intellectuals have said the same.  

In the Autumn 2024 City Journal, Jacob Siegel describes the Democrats’ plot to manage Democracy.  Censorship is used to control the public’s access to information.  Denied facts, controlled narratives are used to create public acceptance of Democrat agendas.  These agendas are open borders; normalization of sexual perversity; sexualization of young children; demonization of white people as “racists,” “deplorables,” and “garbage;” replacement of merit with DEI, and further erosion of  parental control by performing sex change operations on under age children without parental consent.  Liberal American women think these are good policies.  If Kamala becomes President of the United States, it will be while liberal women who elected her..........more......

 war, but will it satisfy the neocons;

Hungarian leader Viktor Orban has a similar view as does Slovakian president Robert Fico, who survived a recent assassination attempt.

In Western Europe, UK, and Washington everyone is talking about wider war with long range missiles used for attacks deep into Russia. Such attacks cannot revive the defeated Ukrainian military. Their purpose seems to be to provoke Russia into a retaliation that Washington can use to widen the war.

President Vucic is correct. The West is making no effort–indeed, is avoiding all effort–to defuse the dangerous situation. Instead, the West is throwing oil on fire with long range missile attacks and French troops sent into Ukraine.

It has been completely clear from day one that Putin’s limited drawn-out war enabled the West to get more and more involved into the conflict to the point that the conflict now is really between the West and Russia. As President Vucic says, the West’s prestige is now involved and the West cannot permit Russia to prevail.

It seems that Putin might have finally realized that the war is no longer limited to Donbas and has become a wider threat that is not subject to negotiation on terms that Russia can accept.

Now that Putin is backed into a corner with the prospect of NATO missiles striking deep into Russia, President Vucic’s expectation that war is close at hand is understandable. The way matters are shaping up, the avoidance of war depends on how many provocations the Kremlin will accept and for how long. Putin needs to quickly knock Ukraine out of the war before Ukraine fills up with NATO military personnel.

Zelensky’s term has expired, making him illegitimate. Russian forces should quickly take Kiev, install a new government agreeable to Ukraine as a neutral country and to the reunification of Donbas with Russia.

I don’t know if Putin still has time to avoid a larger war by quickly winning the current conflict or whether Putin has been fighting on the cheap and lacks the force size to take Kiev and control the country.

If Putin has been too limited in his goal and too parsimonious with his means, he has bought himself a wider war...........more.........

the thing that stands out for me is that both sides believe that their 'solution' is the correct one. its like the dr zuess thing about which side of your bread the butter is laid upon. it will be no surprise if there are some obvious demonstrations of displeasure in either decision; 

"Most people do not get a clear opportunity to vote against Communism and prevent a historical evil from taking hold. We have that opportunity. Vote Trump." — James Lindsay

You thought Halloween was over, but somehow the horror show won’t stop, and it’s not so much fun anymore. Those oversized ghouls, werewolves, and dead souls you erected in the front yard, like shrines to wickedness, represent something truly roiling and moiling around the zeitgeist of this troubled land: the ruling Party of Chaos. Look at what they have done to you and what they are still doing. Hoaxing you, sucking the life-blood out of you, and lying about everything. Wrecking the country.

     Why does it seem that the Democratic Party is in it solely to remain in power? I will tell you: because it controls the money-flows to the vast cadres of a vicious parasitical bureaucracy and its support system of outside orgs that commit crimes and make war on the rest of us. It’s called “the blob” for a reason. It’s exactly like that monster out of the 1950s horror movies, a shape-shifting leviathan that devours everything in its path with only one purpose, to grow ever larger until it consumes. . . everything.

     In my state of New York last week, the DEC authorities sent a swat team to seize a man and woman’s pet squirrel and raccoon and then killed the animals. Why? Because they could. How is that different from the DOJ swatting and seizing a grandmother for walking through the US capitol building and then stuffing her in prison for the rest of her natural life on misdemeanor charges? It’s not different. They are both demonstrations of deliberate cruelty — and that’s why the squirrel story resonated so widely around the country. You know exactly what it says: we can take whatever is dear to you. . . your pets. . . your livelihood. . . your freedom. . . your life........more.....

 four hours sixteen minutes with an exiled brain surgeon speaking about darpa and so much more that all tie together in a new world order sort of train of events towards a goal. its full of too much info to remember that all effects you. i aught to post it weekly just to remind us all. watch it in pieces cause its worth it;

watch........

 twenty seven minutes in which you discover, with mike benz, some potential plans for a military coup to stop trump;

watch..........