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After Months of Freaking Out About ‘The Right’ the German Government Inches Towards Collapse as the Social Democrats Realise They’re Wildly Unpopular

by Eugyppius
17 June 2024 11:22 AM

Since January, German political elites have waged an unceasing ‘fight against the Right’. For weeks at a time, the establishment press would report on little else. We have had freakouts about secret Right-wing immigrant deportation plans, we have had freakouts about Right-wing political violence, we have had freakouts about Right-wing fifth-columnists, we have had freakouts about televised political debates and we have had freakouts about Right-wing song lyrics. We have had every last kind of freakout you could imagine about the Right, all of it promoted by an absolutely deranged media establishment eager to revive pandemic-era hysteria. Then, after all of that screeching and scratching and crying and caterwauling, we had the EU parliamentary elections, and just like that – as if someone had simply flipped a switch – we have stopped freaking out about the Right.

As campaign tactics go, the ‘fight against the Right’ didn’t work as intended. The point of it, I guess, was to blackmail voters into supporting the social democrats, the Greens and the liberals, by warning them that the alternative was fascism. Nobody bought that, and all three Government parties got hammered in the European elections. The latest poll pegs their combined support at 32%.

Now the politicians of these parties are awakening with a pounding post-election hangover, and realising they’ve made a huge mistake. As the Süddeutsche Zeitung reports, “it is dawning on the SPD that they have underestimated the importance of migration and domestic security as political issues”.

The party leadership is… in turmoil. According to BILD, General Secretary Kevin Kühnert – who was responsible for the… failed… election campaign – has been criticising the coalition internally, while the party Co-Chairs Lars Klingbeil and Saskia Esken are trying to maintain unity. … Analysing the election and the success of the AfD has made it increasingly clear that the party has underestimated the extent to which the issues of migration and internal security influenced the voters’ mood. …

Deputy parliamentary group leader Dirk Wiese calls for a tougher approach to limiting migration and deportations and refers to the Danish model with its tougher rules. Young Socialist leader Philipp Türmer sharply attacked Wiese on this account and said that anyone who wanted to sacrifice his own values should please follow Wiese’s lead. Wiese told the SZ: “The topic of migration must be discussed without blinders. In view of the election results, especially among young people, I can only advise the Young Socialist chairman to be more self-critical.”

The fact that ordinary Germans turn out to care more about mass migration and knife crime than they do about the threat posed by defunct 80 year-old political parties may well bring down the Scholz Government. This is because a growing number of voices within the social democrats’ own ranks are beginning to wonder whether dissolving the coalition and holding new elections might not be their least bad option.

As Margaret Thatcher said in 1976, “Socialist governments… always run out of other people’s money”, and the present socialist-headed Government of Germany has been on life support since last November, when courts overturned its accounting wizardry and blew a 60 billion Euro hole in its budget. The liberal FDP, under Finance Minister Christian Lindner, has insisted on austerity and refused all tactics to raise the debt ceiling, leaving the SPD and the Greens without any means of wooing voters with more entitlements. The plan was apparently to tell them horror stories about fascism instead, but nobody believes that’s an option anymore.

Thus the rank-and-file are beginning to sharpen their knives:

During the G7 summit in Italy… something is happening at home in the SPD… that is unprecedented in [Scholz’s] Chancellorship: there is a growing realisation that it would be better to let the coalition collapse in the summer than to go into the 2025 federal elections under the burden of a tough austerity budget.

According to the SPD, sticking to the course of austerity would be a boost for the AfD and a “nail in their coffin”. … In parallel to the internal party conflicts, Scholz must find a solution for the 2025 federal budget with FDP leader … Lindner and Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck (Greens).

The FDP came out of the 2021 federal elections with more than 11% of the vote. Since then, its association with the Scholz coalition has cost it more than half of its support, and it stands a serious chance of being voted out of the Bundestag entirely in 2025. Fiscal restraint is the only reason anybody votes for the FDP, and so for the sake of its own survival, it can’t afford to give ground here – even if it means bringing down its own Government.

Pressure is growing almost daily within Scholz’s own party to confront Lindner with question of dissolving the coalition, should that be necessary. Lindner has so far refused to declare a new emergency or relax the debt ceiling. … Now the SPD is criticising the Chancellor more openly than ever before. …

The fact that Scholz initially failed to comment on the SPD’s historically poor result of 13.9% in the European elections and, above all, that he was unable to present any ideas to his parliamentary faction on how the coalition should come together on the budget… has provoked criticism. … Scholz has repeatedly said that the new budget is to be approved by the federal cabinet on July 3rd. He has sided with Lindner, who envisages budget cuts in the double-digit billion range.

Parts of the SPD parliamentary group, however, are now declaring this a red line. “We need a plan B if it comes down to the wire on July 3rd and Olaf Scholz is unable to agree to 30 billion in savings, but Christian Lindner won’t budge either,” Tim Klüssendorf, [an SPD] Bundestag representative, told the SZ. “Because there can be no such austerity budget with us.”

I have always thought that Scholz is most likely to be taken down by his own comrades. Probably his chancellorship will only see 2025 if the FDP folds, in which case the liberals will be signing their own death warrant in turn.

This article originally appeared on Eugyppius’s Substack newsletter. You can subscribe here.

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EppingBlogger
EppingBlogger
2 years ago

Going into Iraq or Afganistan to throw out (or better, to destroy or disarm) the Taliban and Al Qaeda would have been justified as a defensive move following 9/11. To take over those places for decades was not justified. Indeed, in the UK the justification for Iraq2 was clearly a lie – Sadam clearly did not have WMD. No sensible justification for occupation of Afganistan or the anticipated outcomes were ever given to the British viters.

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Strange Loop
Strange Loop
2 years ago
Reply to  EppingBlogger

If 21yrs later you remain of the belief that 3 immensely strong steel and concrete buildings collapsed ‘into their socks’ as a result of fires started by the plane impacts (one without benefit of said impact) then you’ll definitely be interested in this bridge I have for sale!!

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Nearhorburian
Nearhorburian
2 years ago
Reply to  Strange Loop

You also have to ignore the large number of firemen who reported hearing, feeling and observing the results of explosions in the basements and lower floors.

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stewart
stewart
2 years ago
Reply to  Strange Loop

9/11 was the moment I realised the world was run by gangsters.

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Strange Loop
Strange Loop
2 years ago
Reply to  stewart

‘Back and to the left’ did it for me.

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Marcus Aurelius knew
Marcus Aurelius knew
2 years ago
Reply to  Strange Loop

I’ll admit to only learning about WTC 7’s collapse some several years after the event. That’s what made me, well… think.

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Strange Loop
Strange Loop
2 years ago
Reply to  Marcus Aurelius knew

The BBC knew about it 30 minutes before it happened 😂

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Strange Loop
Strange Loop
2 years ago
Reply to  Marcus Aurelius knew

This poor chap sadly died in an RTA on an open road driving a Volvo (appalling safety record, I know)

https://youtu.be/X6tikZimCQc

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stewart
stewart
2 years ago
Reply to  Strange Loop

It’s interesting how the 9/11 scam is a red pill many otherwise sceptical people just won’t take.

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Strange Loop
Strange Loop
2 years ago
Reply to  stewart

Perhaps they could start here

https://www.ae911truth.org/

And then read this..

https://www.amazon.co.uk/9-11-Revealed-Unanswered-Questions/dp/0786716134

But ultimately, and apologies DS for getting so off-topic with this, the down voters gotta be either bots or shills & it don’t bother me none. I know what I know.

Big love everyone

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Hugh
Hugh
2 years ago
Reply to  Strange Loop

For once I’ll admit to “down voting” and I’m not a bot or a shill.

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Edumacated eejit
Edumacated eejit
2 years ago
Reply to  Strange Loop

No need to resort to complex explanations. I’m now a retired civil engineer. When I watched the collapsing towers in 2001, with my knowledge of structures and the behaviour of steel at elevated temperatures, and a ‘back of a fag packet’ estimate of the kinetic energy of the mass of the floors above the impact zone, it was no surprise to me that the pile-driving effect of that mass accelerated by gravity would cause the floors below to progressively fail spectacularly. When I later learned of the detail of how the steel beams were connected to the central support, it was consistent with my assumptions.

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Strange Loop
Strange Loop
2 years ago
Reply to  Edumacated eejit

No complex explanation needed as to why you’re a ‘retired’ CE if that’s your summary.
Almost ‘Whittyesque’ in its emptiness, quite an achievement.

Hope you didn’t build anything round our way 🤞😕

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Edumacated eejit
Edumacated eejit
2 years ago
Reply to  Strange Loop

Since you have reached a different conclusion please post your calculations to this forum that show that the structure beneath the impact and fire affected zone could withstand the dynamic loading of the accelerating mass of the floors above. To give you a head start, here are 2 impartial bits of information:

The maximum fire temperatures attained in the WTC fires were in the range of 1000 to 1200degC.

I attach a graph showing the effect of temperature on the mechanical properties of steel. From it you can see that even at just 800degC the residual strength is only about 10% of the room temperature value.

Also, your qualifications and membership details of an internationally accredited professional body of civil/structural engineers would be appreciated.

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Edumacated eejit
Edumacated eejit
2 years ago
Reply to  Edumacated eejit

Strange Loop
I think that’s a clear win to me.

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7941MHKB
7941MHKB
2 years ago
Reply to  Edumacated eejit

Glad to see another Civil Engineer pointing out the obvious facts of the matter.

Some of the loopier theorists on here are either certifiable or (more likely) are Al Queda supporters.

And I’m someone who thinks the FBI & CIA absolutely sucks (see their treatment of the last US President democratically elected.)

But, of all the bad stuff the CIA and State Department have been involved in, their negligent insouciance in allowing Khomeini and his murderous chums to take over Iran was one of the worst.

Strange all the Conspiracy Freaks never mention that…

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Edumacated eejit
Edumacated eejit
2 years ago
Reply to  Edumacated eejit

I knew being a DS follower meant having strange bedfellows but 2:1 is seriously depressing. It’s like discovering your fellow traveler is a flat-earther.

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7941MHKB
7941MHKB
2 years ago
Reply to  Edumacated eejit

Edumacated eejit.

Yes, strange bedfellows indeed. But we’ve been there before. A few years ago Steven Lewandowski and Cooke published an “acclaimed” paper looking at every kind of barmy conspiracy theory, including 9/11, Mooon Landing, Elvis alive and well, Kennedy assassination and (of course) “Climate Deniers”.

The entire purpose of the paper was to “show” that people who pointed out all the lies and gross exaggerations in the “Settled Science” Glowbull Warming scam were as nutty as fruitcakes.

The likes of “Strange Loop” and his chums are either certifiable, Al Quaeda fans or Extinction Rebellion/ Ruinable energy freaks. Or maybe paid by Pfizer. There are lots of people out there VERY keen to discredit the Daily Sceptic.

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TheGreenAcres
TheGreenAcres
2 years ago
Reply to  Strange Loop

I’ll take that bridge.

The two towers clearly collapse from the top down, the weight of the structure weakens by the impact and the fires resulting from tens of thousands of gallons of burning jet fuel.

I appreciate there is speculation over the other building but again I don’t believe it is in any way incredible that it collapsed from damage from the other towers.

Now I appreciate that i’ll never change your mind, fair enough, but not everything is a CIA black op.

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Strange Loop
Strange Loop
2 years ago
Reply to  TheGreenAcres

Did I mention the CIA?

It really is a magnificent bridge. All I need is just a few bank details and it’s yours!!!

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Hugh
Hugh
2 years ago
Reply to  Strange Loop

CIA’s dodgy. So are some people who have worked for the UK government, one of whom has a connection with the Falkland Islands. Doesn’t mean those islands are rightly Argentinian, contrary to what one Guardian article implied..

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Nearhorburian
Nearhorburian
2 years ago
Reply to  TheGreenAcres

“The two towers clearly collapse from the top down”

I’d say that they disintegrate from the top down.

“The weight of the structure weakens by the impact”

The official explanation affords no credit to the physical impact of the planes: the towers were designed to cope with planes crashing into them

“Tens of thousands of gallons”

Nope, they wouldn’t have set off with tens of thousands of gallons. I just googled. It isn’t difficult.

But why did they did they disintegrate from the top when the fires were much lower down?

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Strange Loop
Strange Loop
2 years ago
Reply to  Nearhorburian

Agreed.
I trust the evidence of my own eyes.
The buildings explode, detonate, pulverised literally to dust within seconds.
And what steel remained was carted off pronto.
I suspect OBL was as surprised as anyone when they collapsed.

What I’m saying, is that ‘event’ resulted in the War on Terror, countless lives lost, many more immisered, and the cast-iron conviction of those responsible that they can do anything.

And here we are.

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Mogwai
Mogwai
2 years ago
Reply to  Strange Loop

So what about the gazillions of people who witnessed 2 planes crashing into 2 towers? Including the many that were actually present, on the ground and in nearby buildings? What about all the people on the planes that perished? It does present a rather large caveat to your “it was an inside job done with thousands of sticks of dynamite that a team managed to plant unnoticed” theory.

I’m open to hearing alternative theories but with 9/11 you really can’t get passed the minor detail that was the planes. Or are you implying the buildings were in fact detonated just at the same nanosecond terrorists flew the planes into the buildings? That’s some impressive synchronisation, not just once but twice!

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Strange Loop
Strange Loop
2 years ago
Reply to  Mogwai

To be fair, actually starting your remarks with ‘whataboutery’ is pretty transparent, so thanks for that.
What is piquing me at the moment is the standard (i.e rubbish) counters being dredged from years ago, like they’re on an old disk drive somewhere.
I recognise your handle, but can’t recall your comment slant on topics, but I have new insight now and will be paying more attention.
Ta!!

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Mogwai
Mogwai
2 years ago
Reply to  Strange Loop

Merely asking how the planes tie in to your theory that the towers were detonated. I’m missing the part where you’re expecting people to reasonably believe that this landmark could be both blown up with God knows how much explosive ( which happened to be placed and gone undetected for how long? ) and have 2 jumbo jets flown into it in the space of a couple of hours.

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stewart
stewart
2 years ago
Reply to  Mogwai

It always intrigues me that some people can’t get their head around the idea that insiders could pull off crashing three planes and demolishing three buildings within a few hours, but have no problem believing that a Saudi Arabian freedom fighter living in a cave in Afghanistan can orchestrate something similar.

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Marcus Aurelius knew
Marcus Aurelius knew
2 years ago
Reply to  Mogwai

Hello Mogwai. It is possible for both the planes to have hit and the towers to have been intentionally demolished, approximately one and a half hours later. A perfect cover for some very shady goings on.

The collapse of the seventh tower (which was never hit by a plane) was what made me sit up and think. It was so obviously a demolition. Please research what the building (WTC7) contained.

Nothing is as they say it is. There are soooo many unanswered questions. Questions which are met only with derision and denunciation and ad hominem. Good questions asked by very many very well credentialed people.

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Mogwai
Mogwai
2 years ago
Reply to  Marcus Aurelius knew

Ah so the explosives had already been put in situ, all under people’s noses, ready to be detonated on some special date, but a couple of planes just happened to be highjacked and a group of pesky terrorists end up unwittingly aiming for the same target and stealing the thunder of these shady and mass-murdering ‘Insiders’? Now that is the coincidence to end all coincidences. Man, those towers really were unpopular and destined to come down by hook or by crook.

I’ve never heard of a seventh tower. But until somebody explains to me, with convincing rationale, where the planes come into it this theory just sounds like a bad Hollywood movie plot to me.

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Hugh
Hugh
2 years ago
Reply to  Mogwai

Yes, just imagine what might have happened if the gunpowder plot had been successful. And if someone had got Leonardo’s helicopter to work!

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Marcus Aurelius knew
Marcus Aurelius knew
2 years ago
Reply to  Mogwai

You’ve never heard of the seventh tower. Go look it up. Prepare to have your world view bent a little.

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7941MHKB
7941MHKB
2 years ago
Reply to  Mogwai

Absolutely right. And you don’t initiate a structural collapse (a blow down) with “thousands of sticks of dynamite”, nor place the explosive or cutting charges half way up a structure!

Absolute horse manure.

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Hugh
Hugh
2 years ago
Reply to  TheGreenAcres

And one must admit that what was going on between the so-called United States and “Saudi” Arabia was, well, quite provocative.

“American” cultural (and economic) imperialism was surely annoying (and continues to annoy) quite a lot of people, regardless of anything those nice people at the CIA might have done.

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7941MHKB
7941MHKB
2 years ago
Reply to  TheGreenAcres

Thank God.
Someone else with sense.

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Hugh
Hugh
2 years ago
Reply to  Strange Loop

How much difference would it have actually made if it was just the planes (or “aeroplanes” – Douglas Bader) rather than whatever you are suggesting?

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Strange Loop
Strange Loop
2 years ago
Reply to  Hugh

Seriously???
Just as ‘back and to the left’ utterly destroys the Warren Commission conclusion of a lone assassin and confirms conspiracy, so does the collapse of the 3 WTC buildings – fires started by the plane impacts could never achieve that.
The NIST report is an early stab at Scientism, with data manipulation and lies, much like the Covid Inqury will be
Hugh, is it?
Got a little list now 😉

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Ian Rons
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Ian Rons
2 years ago
Reply to  Strange Loop

Oliver Stone has no more credibility as an amateur forensics expert than Ivan Katchanovski, and it’s no wonder he featured Katchanovski in one of his silly films. What do you imagine happens when a bullet hits the spine or brain? People don’t just go limp, in fact they tend to “plank” – i.e., they stiffen up. You can see this in innumerable instances of US police bodycam footage (see Donut Operator’s channel). JFK was hit through the right hemisphere, from the occipital pole to the front, causing massive damage and causing his motor nerves to go haywire, hence the movement seen. Plus it’s naive is to think that bodies move in the direction of travel of the bullet when struck, which they don’t because relatively little momentum is imparted. There was a good documentary discussing this which is unfortunately only available via BitTorrent.

As to WTC7, yes it was highly unusual in that this was the first instance of a fire-induced collapse of a steel-framed building. I don’t think it’s wrong or peculiar to be sceptical of the official explanation, since it was so strange. For a very long time I was baffled by what seemed like something very similar to a controlled demolition, but the NIST report is credible and it’s not good enough to simply dismiss it, especially when the alternative explanation – that the building was secretly rigged with explosives – is really very far-fetched. And especially when the sound of explosives wasn’t picked up on any videos, etc.

I used to be very keen on conspiracy theories of the sort being discussed here, such as JFK, the moon landings, 9/11, etc. I even subscribed to Lyndon LaRouche’s Executive Intelligence Review for a time. But in each instance, after examination I found the “official story” to be true. The opposite is the case when it comes to climate change and the dangers of Covid and the safety/efficacy of the vaccines, but that’s the core issue here: whether it’s possible to keep an open mind and not allow groupthink, prejudice or sheer ignorance to inform one’s belief on highly important matters like 9/11.

And there is a lot of groupthink going on with conspiracy theorists – I see them come up with the same talking points again and again, and they always assume everyone else is just stupid or unaware, but for these “conspiracy theorists” (and yes, I know it’s a term coined by the CIA) they don’t see that they’re being herded just as much as those who blindly accept whatever narrative their own government tells them. And as is quite often the case, the conspiracy version of history is actually being promoted by a foreign government, so really they’re just being herded by a different government. That’s totally the case with Russia-Ukraine, by the way – Katchanovski, Baud, Maté and others are just parroting the official Kremlin line. I’d be embarrassed if my mind were being controlled in that way by Kremlin propagandists, but as P.T. Barnum put it, “there’s a sucker born every minute”.

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Strange Loop
Strange Loop
2 years ago
Reply to  Ian Rons

Hi Ian,

Soz for hijacking your article, but it wasn’t that great, let’s be honest.

Like I said, the standard tropes of whataboutery and random connections btl here (Falklands? Da Vinci? Douglas Bader?? What planes?) are classic diversionary nonsense.

Your previous articles clearly illustrate your stance and views – I suspect you’re presence protects DS from accusations of bias at the very least. So kudos for sticking to it.

Be careful though, Cognitive Dissonance can really mess you up long term 🤯

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Ian Rons
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Ian Rons
2 years ago
Reply to  Strange Loop

Hi Strange Loop,

Nah, don’t worry I’m not bothered about the comments here going off on a tangent – I take it as something of a backhand compliment that nobody’s really taking issue with specific points in the article, and anyway I’m very much at home talking about conspiracy theories and all manner of strange things – I’ve spent a lot of my life researching such things.

I don’t know how many people, like me, went down a Delingpolesque “rabbit hole” with these sorts of things and then came up again the other side, but if I suffer from cognitive dissonance then it’s a strange type of cognitive dissonance, given that I still have very unconventional and non-conformist views on a number of topics (e.g., I’m a researcher and proponent of psi phenomena, currently working on morphic resonance which I think is a fascinating theory but never properly tested in the lab because it’s “heresy”) while at the same time holding conventional views when the evidence supports them. I suppose that’s why I hate it when people try to censor unconventional speech, because there’s no topic so outlandish that it doesn’t deserve serious attention. So by all means, go full JFK and 9/11, I can take it 😉

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Strange Loop
Strange Loop
2 years ago
Reply to  Ian Rons

Another feature of diversionary/destructive tropes is the Ad Hominem attacks.

I haven’t mentioned Oliver Stone or Ivan Kickab***akov or anyone else for that matter.

The only film director I’ve an appreciation of is Abraham Zapruder.

Your explanation of the former president’s movement after the head shot is… interesting.

I think Jackie’s behaviour is at least as telling – instinctively reaching to the the rear of the car to recover fragments of her husband’s skull and brains, where they had ended up following a shot FROM THE FRONT AND RIGHT – sorry, hit caps by mistake.

Enough of this.

Enjoy the weather everyone (don’t start!) 😂😂

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Ian Rons
Author
Ian Rons
2 years ago
Reply to  Strange Loop

I assumed when you quoted “back and to the left” you knew that’s the most famous line from Oliver Stone’s film JFK. On that point, I’d really recommend the PBS Nova Cold Case JFK documentary, which includes what was really the first proper firearm forensics examination of the case. There were also some papers written by the forensics team – look up Luke Haag on afte.org. I won’t link to it, but you can find the documentary on the Pirate Bay.

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Hugh
Hugh
2 years ago
Reply to  Strange Loop

“Like I said, the standard tropes of whataboutery and random connections btl here (Falklands? Da Vinci? Douglas Bader?? What planes?) are classic diversionary nonsense.”

And while we’re at it, an “Arabian fighter living in a cave in Afghanistan”. Seriously? I seem to remember a Guiness book of Records article in the 80s or 90s about the biggest terrorist organisation in the world. Something to do with the Arab world I think. It wasn’t just a few men in caves but a well funded, well organised operation. Did you ever see that Bond film where the Mujahideen were the good guys? The Mujahideen kept their “American” weapons when the Soviets left and their organisation led directly to Al-Qaeda. The so-called States (among others) were annoying quite a lot of people with their cultural and economic imperialism and interference in various governments well before 2001, and continue to do so today. Certainly there is plenty the CIA could do (and indeed have done), but plenty of people had reason to be angry with “America” at the time. That gun attack on a “US” warship? The previous failed attack on the WTC? There was plenty of anger in some places about the various highly provocative “US” actions.

How much help if any such groups may (or may not) have had from the CIA I don’t know (and certainly that organisation will try and manipulate things, I seem to remember a story about a plan they had to fake the second coming of Christ for the benefit of the Cubans), but “American” policy was always going to create a backlash.

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Strange Loop
Strange Loop
2 years ago
Reply to  Hugh

Eh? Sorry Hugh, that’s a C-minus from me – not sure what you’re really on about TBH, but perhaps that’s yourshtick.

Occams Razor for me, every time

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Hugh
Hugh
2 years ago
Reply to  Strange Loop

“Must try harder”, eh?

In any case, what exactly is your point (if any)?

If we take as a starting point the proposition that some people linked to a well organised terrorist group with a grudge against the “US” (see above) hi-jacked some aeroplanes (remembering that security with internal “US” flights was pretty lax in those days) and flew them into some buildings in New York (and apparently the Pentagon), what needs adding or subtracting from this account of events?

  • Was the devastation caused by crashing planes in a built up area an insufficient provocation that needed to be augmented so that “they” got their war?
  • Who are “they” if that is the case?
  • Did the terrorist group involved need some help from “them”?
  • Did a terrorist group actually have anything to do with it?
  • Or was the whole thing more about destruction of certain documents (such as?)? Talk about using a sledge hammer to shred some papers!

I don’t doubt that the CIA and others are capable of some pretty shady stuff and manipulating things to suit their agenda, but equally this “one man in a cave” stuff is rather far from what the situation actually was (and is for that matter, look at Northern Nigeria for just one example)

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Strange Loop
Strange Loop
2 years ago
Reply to  Hugh

Sympathies. I know its Sunday and hard to get the best peeps in, but I’d assumed you’d read the thread, soz.
I made my point (checks thread) 16hrs ago, everything else is bunce, most fun I’ve had in weeks, thank you ☺️

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Hugh
Hugh
2 years ago
Reply to  Strange Loop

Not really, no, and I’m not counting the links which I don’t have time to read. Your point, as I understand it, is that the CIA (or some such) dynamited the WTC buildings because flying aeroplanes into them, killing many people and probably condemning the buildings they hit, wasn’t enough. And possibly that the CIA organised the hijackings too. Why were both aeroplanes and dynamite needed? Why wouldn’t a terrorist group who regards the “US” as evil carry out such attacks (as indeed they have in other places, unless those were the CIA too)? And why would the CIA consider it worth pursuing such a high risk and frankly indefensible strategy as you seem to suggest. More questions raised than answers given. I’m still not convinced that that is how the CIA works.

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Mogwai
Mogwai
2 years ago
Reply to  Hugh

Yes the dynamite was already there then the CIA had to find some kamikaze pilots and incentivize them to sacrifice their lives whilst being willing to kill countless others ( are their families living in the lap of luxury since this infamous date?? ), but the agreement was that they would be blamed for the destruction of the twin towers and their names forever blackened. Thats quite the job description. So hired hit men on steroids then. The timing was imperative, the jumbo jets had to hit then shortly after ( because only a very small window was available otherwise peeps wouldn’t fall for the terrorism line ) it was somebody’s responsibility to detonate shit loads of explosive, which had lain dormant and undetected for months, very soon after so as to say “look, terrorists did it!” When really it was the shady ‘insiders’, and for why? “Let’s kill a shit tonne of fellow American civilians just because we can and blame it on terrorists”, said no-one ever. Yep I’m gonna need more than somebody’s over-zealous belief in something before I’m convinced, personally.

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Mogwai
Mogwai
2 years ago
Reply to  Strange Loop

Yes the planes, which you are inferring are a figment of our imaginations. Please explain. Because all I see is terrorism. Prove me wrong.
Oh you mean it was “an insider job from start to finish”? So the ‘Insiders’in the US had to lay explosives undetected then go on a recruitment of Muslims who were willing to sacrifice their lives plus countless other innocent civilian lives whom they would murder to accomplish their goals, and they also needed the ability to fly a jumbo jet. Okay, so far so implausible.
I’m afraid you’re gonna have to explain to regular peeps like me how on earth such a feat was doable and what the M.O was. Until then it just smacks of cock and bull!

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stewart
stewart
2 years ago
Reply to  Ian Rons

So a Saudi jihadist orchestrating the simultaneous hijacking and crashing of 4 commercial planes from a cave in Afghanistan is not far fetched but insiders secretly rigging up three buildings with explosives is.

Ok.

Last edited 2 years ago by stewart
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Ian Rons
Author
Ian Rons
2 years ago
Reply to  stewart

Osama bin Laden wasn’t in a cave at the time, he had the support of the Taliban government and had a camp where he trained the guys who went to Hamburg to organise things. The “stupid jihadis in a cave” talking point is just empty rhetoric.

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stewart
stewart
2 years ago
Reply to  Ian Rons

I’m not sure any of those details change anything much.

If Osama Bin Laden can do it with the “support of the Taliban government” (whatever that actually means), then I don’t see why some insiders couldn’t do the same thing or something similar.

I wouldn’t claim to know what happened or who did it. And you don’t know either.

What is very clear to me is that you need to believe some pretty implausible things for the official story to add up.

For example, that there were cameras everywhere around the Pentagon and yet there is no footage available of a plane approaching and crashing into the Pentagon. Only a few frames showing nothing and then an explosion.

One’s credulity needs to be off the charts to believe that there is no footage or that the footage cannot be released for legitimate national security reasons.

There are many of those highly unlikely bits to the story. And the fact that someone can come up with explanations for each of them doesn’t mean the explanations are true, or reasonable or even plausible.

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Ian Rons
Author
Ian Rons
2 years ago
Reply to  stewart

The security camera footage shows the plane quite clearly. It was travelling at roughly 460 knots, which is ~230m/s, or likely 115 metres for every frame of footage (I’m guessing that camera was running at 2fps, quite a common frame rate at the time), so it’s actually a little surprising we can see the plane as clearly as we do, although obviously it’s a little blurry.

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stewart
stewart
2 years ago
Reply to  Ian Rons

Please send link to footage. I am intrigued. I’ve never seen a plane.

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Hugh
Hugh
2 years ago
Reply to  stewart

I wonder if the Madrid train and London tube bombings were the CIA as well?

I for one don’t find it particularly implausible that a successful terrorist group, probably with military experience, can carry out these relatively small scale operations (I’m just glad they haven’t managed to set off a dirty bomb).

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7941MHKB
7941MHKB
2 years ago
Reply to  Strange Loop

I said, when the first crack-pot suggestions (or, more likely, vicious anti-American poison) showed up, not long after 9/11, I pointed out that the claim that jet planes crashing into skyscrapers couldn’t lead to collapse, couldn’t even be dignified as a credible hypothesis, usually reliant on the point that melting of structural steel needed higher temperatures.

But, as anyone whose IQ score is greater than their hat size might realise, you don’t need to melt steel, only to weaken it significantly.

That’s how a blacksmith does his job.

You obviously have no conception how the steel frame of a skyscraper is designed, nor of the then deficiencies of the US fire protection codes, nor even the foggiest idea about explosive demolition. I have actual, real life qualifications and experience in many of these areas, as a Chartered Engineer.

If you want to live in your little dream world ascribing the disaster and massacre to those naughty Jews or horrible Americans then I can’t stop you, other than to point out that you are deluded to the point that you should seek medical help.

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Ian Rons
Author
Ian Rons
2 years ago
Reply to  7941MHKB

Talking of blacksmiths, here’s a good two-minute video demonstration. And a more serious look.

Last edited 2 years ago by Ian Rons
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Hugh
Hugh
2 years ago
Reply to  7941MHKB

Talking of fire protection codes, Grenfell. And the EU (Christopher Booker).

Discuss…

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7941MHKB
7941MHKB
2 years ago
Reply to  Hugh

Hugh. you’re correct. But Grenfell didn’t collapse did it?

I should have been clearer.

The ‘fire protection codes’ I referred to weren’t directly about protecting inhabitants, but about giving a reasonable time of exposure to a vigorous fire before the structural steel joints were liable to fail. Relevant to the design of the structure.

It didn’t help the general situation that the cladding around the steelwork was apparently asbestos based. Nothing to do with the collapse, asbestos just as good as modern replacements. But the clouds of asbestos dust helped no-one.

Grenfall was many types of disaster (and I am sceptical that those blatantly in the wrong will ever get their deserved punishment – including the idiots who imagined the “insulation” installed, even if correctly specified and installed, would help save money – let alone the Planet) but not even the loonies on here have blamed the USA.

Yet.

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stewart
stewart
2 years ago
Reply to  7941MHKB

Your argument boils down to

a trust me I’m an engineer, I know.

For every expert engineer claiming it’s perfectly possible for the WTC to collapse as it is claimed it did I can find an equally accomplished one that says it can’t.

b. U.S. building codes are very lax

I’m no expert but it seems rather unlikely to me that US building codes allow tall buildings to be built that would collapse if there was a fire on the upper floors.

The strawmen – naughty Jews, horrible Americans – suggest you don’t always think your arguments through very carefully.

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7941MHKB
7941MHKB
2 years ago
Reply to  stewart

OK, Stewart. You volunteered.

Give us a link to a credible Engineering / Demolition expert who supports the ‘thousands of sticks of dynamite’ theory.

The ‘strawmen’ are precisely the people that the ‘dynamite’ enthusiasts always trott out and have been doing for 20 years.

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JXB
JXB
2 years ago
Reply to  EppingBlogger

Neither Governments were waging war on the USA.

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Free Lemming
Free Lemming
2 years ago

I think we get it – you two disagree. Neither sides argument can be proven, so perhaps time to put this one to bed.

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
2 years ago
Reply to  Free Lemming

Surely a robust debate between people with differing viewpoints where both sides try to make a logical case and address each other’s points is better than what we have in the MSM – one sided, name calling, censorship, hysteria. Same goes for Covid.

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Free Lemming
Free Lemming
2 years ago
Reply to  transmissionofflame

100%. It’s just that this now feels like a spat being made through a series of articles – doesn’t work for me. A better format would be a podcast where the two can directly debate and share their views.

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
2 years ago
Reply to  Free Lemming

Yes, that’s a fair point

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7941MHKB
7941MHKB
2 years ago
Reply to  Free Lemming

Sorry, the idea that the twin towers were demolished using explosive charges is absolute bollocks.

No-one with any serious experience of demolition design and practice could believe that, for a drug induced microsecond.

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Strange Loop
Strange Loop
2 years ago
Reply to  7941MHKB

Wrong thread my friend 🤣🤣🤣
What’s your hat size again?

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anbak
anbak
2 years ago

The author seems to have conveniently overlooked the invasion of Iraq in 2003 by the US and UK, a completely flagrant breach of international law.

Though technically not carried out by NATO, that will appear of little difference to an adversary eg Putin, since the US is the dominant partner of NATO, and the UK it’s sidekick.

We may choose to regard the ensuing war and chaos as history, but others don’t.

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Nearhorburian
Nearhorburian
2 years ago

The invasion of Afghanistan wasn’t a defensive operation because Afghanistan had nothing to do with 9/11.

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stewart
stewart
2 years ago

Ian Rons’ worldview seems to show up rather clearly in his article

Arguments and explanatios put forward by the US for its actions are reasonable, consistent and can be taken at face value.

Those put forward by Russia are unreasonable, contradictory and insincere.

Or to put it in an analogy, if you are having a conversation with someone who happens to be pointing a gun at you and that person claims they’re only pointing the gun for defence, just in case, then if it’s an American, you can believe him and needn’t worry, if it’s a Russian, he’s lying.

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Edumacated eejit
Edumacated eejit
2 years ago
Reply to  stewart

Brilliant!

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NeilParkin
NeilParkin
2 years ago

When someone has parked their tanks on your garden, its a bit late to moralise about whether their actions are justified…

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stewart
stewart
2 years ago
Reply to  NeilParkin

Why?

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NeilParkin
NeilParkin
2 years ago
Reply to  stewart

Because the practical realities of the situation far outweigh any philosophical argument about who or what is to blame. Its like getting run down on a pedestrian crossing. You can argue all you like about your rights to be there and cross the road unmolested, but you got run down and when that happens stemming the bleeding and splinting the broken bones is the priority.

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stewart
stewart
2 years ago
Reply to  NeilParkin

That sounds very good, but in practice the moral/legal implications of the situation are just as much of a priority. The driver will immediately be required to answer for his actions. In fact in a hit and run, most people will try to get a licence plate if they can before attending to the injured.

Whatever the order of things, the moral/legal implications are almost always treated by the authorities as being every bit as important as attending to the consequences.

There are rare exceptions. Like forr example when a novel virus appears in highly suspicious circumstances. The authorities don’t seem at all interested in establishing whether there are moral or legal responsibilities in that case, for some strange reason.

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JXB
JXB
2 years ago
Reply to  NeilParkin

So ban all vehicles, or ban all pedestrians – which?

Put all men in prison to prevent any women being raped?

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JXB
JXB
2 years ago
Reply to  NeilParkin

So we should do what – go to war with any Country – just in case?

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welshsceptic
welshsceptic
2 years ago

Thanks a lot, Ian Rons, for some much needed common sense on this topic!

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ebygum
ebygum
2 years ago

Drat it!!
I was going to read this article then found I couldn’t because I cant’t find my rose-tinted spectacles anywhere….can anyone help?

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Covid-1984
Covid-1984
2 years ago

The west as led by our supposed leaders is not worth defending. Russia does NOT want its culture and history trashed but our governments do. Go figure.

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Sontol
Sontol
2 years ago
Reply to  Covid-1984

“Russia does NOT want its culture and history trashed”

Russia certainly wishes to trash the cultural and ideological legacy of arguably the greatest writer in its history.

Leo Tolstoy (increasingly as he got older) vigorously promoted an anti-nationalist and anti-war / anti-violence agenda.

Since 24 Feb earthquake detectors have been lighting up 100 miles south of Moscow as Tolstoy spins in his Yasnya Polyana grave.

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JXB
JXB
2 years ago

The logic ‘justifying’ NATO’s behaviour outside its remit is a pot-pourri of excuses: pre-emption, retaliation, upholding of Human Rights, doing what’s right.

On that basis NATO would have been justified in carrying our pre-emptive nuclear attack to destroy the USSR in defence of its members, and similarly ‘justified’ in attacking Iran, China, North Korea.

NATO was established to provide a command and control resource for the military forces of its members to counter an attack in Europe by the USSR.

There was nothing in NATOs remit about planning and controlling offensive operations absent immediate and present threat.

Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya did not attack NATO Countries, nor were they poised to strike. Russia has not attacked a NATO Country nor is it poised to strike one.

NATO has become the military wing of the EU and a proxy for US aggression to serve its own foreign policy… such as it is.

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Marcus Aurelius knew
Marcus Aurelius knew
2 years ago

Ian, thanks for the article.

You wrote here BTL that you’re taking it as a compliment that people have gone off on tangents, hijacking the article talking about 911 etc, as evidence that people don’t have anything to attack your article about.

Well, to put the record straight regarding my opinions, at least, I think it’s a terribly written, confusing mass of over-elaborate piffle arguing technicalities, betraying your apparent refusal to recognise the world as anything other than a binary good-guy/bad-guy situation.

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Rich_Smith
Rich_Smith
2 years ago

Here is Ian Rons claiming Russia’s excuses don’t withstand scrutiny, w/o bothering to do much, ahem, scrutiny.
May I suggest an introductory article for people still holding black and white views of the Ukraine crisis (and maybe the world)
https://consortiumnews.com/2022/06/02/us-state-affiliated-newsguard-targets-consortium-news/

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Brett_McS
Brett_McS
2 years ago

Excellent article. The Ukrainian people have long since aligned themselves with the west. Western style military training is probably why Russia’s initial attempt at a quick invasion came a cropper. Now it’s back to the classic Russian rolling artillery meat grinder. Hopefully that will be countered by guided missiles before the whole country is destroyed.

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Rich_Smith
Rich_Smith
2 years ago
Reply to  Brett_McS

The Ukrainian people have long since aligned themselves with the west.
that’s if you only watch BBC. The truth is, considerable part of Ukrainian population side with Russia since before the conflict. Some have changed their mind after the invasion and now side with Kiev. Some Kiev supporters have quite possibly aligned with Moscow after witnessing Ukrainian troops using civilians as a human shield, the fact which has now been confirmed by Amnesty International. And it’s only the tip of the iceberg what Amnesty International has uncovered. there are plenty of videos of independent journalists, interviewing people who say that Ukrainian armed forces were preventing evacuation and even targeting and killing civilians.

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LenaD
LenaD
2 years ago

No a very good article.

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