Who is Susan Miller? She is a recently retired CIA officer who entered on duty in September 1985, began her career in the Directorate of Intelligence and then, sometime after 1989, changed her career path and moved to the Directorate of Operations, where she spent most of career, including a stint as the Chief of Station in Israel. How do I know this? Well, not only am I relying on press reports…

Why is Susan Miller Doing Media?

 by Larry C. Johnson

Susan and I were in the same Career Trainee (CT) class. I will let Perplexity tell you about the CT program:

The telephone conversation between the Russian and US presidents was held at the initiative of the US side, and lasted 1 hour and 15 minutes, Russian presidential aide Yuri Ushakov said.

Key takeaways:

— Trump wanted to discuss a number of issues ahead of his meeting with Zelensky

— The tone of the Putin-Trump call was friendly, constructive, and business-like

— Trump strongly pushed the idea of ending the conflict as soon as possible

— Trump was convinced the Russia seeks a political and diplomatic settlement to the crisis. "It is with this in mind that he intends to structure today's negotiations with Zelensky," Ushakov said

— Ukraine was urged to promptly make a decision on the Donbass, taking into account existing realities on the front

BREATHING THE AIR INSIDE A MICROWAVE OVEN ISN'T GOING TO KILL YOU... BECAUSE YOU CANNOT CLOSE THE DOOR... SHOULD YOU BE ABLE TO CLOSE THE DOOR AND TURN THE MACHINE ON, YOU WILL BOIL TO DEATH... THIS IS WHAT MANY PEOPLE DO NOT UNDERSTAND. DENIALISTS OF GLOBAL WARMING ARE THUS DANGEROUS...

THE "TINY" QUANTITY OF CO2 AFFECTED BY SPECIFIC SOLAR WAVELENGTH EMISSIONS — LIKE WATER IS IN A MICROWAVE OVEN [SAY PLACE A METAL SPOON INSIDE THE BLITHER AND IT COULD "EXPLODE"] — IS THE MAIN DRIVER OF CLIMATIC CONDITIONS IN THE EVOLVING DYNAMICS OF THE PLANET THAT INCLUDE THE VARIATIONS OF THE MILANKOVICH CYCLES.

HERE FOLLOWS A TON OF FAULTY ARGUMENTS IN A DENIALIST ARTICLE BY SOMEONE WHO HAS NOT UNDERSTOOD ANYTHING ABOUT THE SCIENCE OF GLOBAL WARMING...

There is a moment in every civilization’s collapse when the instruments of its destruction become visible to those paying attention. We are living in that moment now. But the warning signs are not carved in stone or written in prophecy—they are embedded in source code, amplified by algorithms, and funded by men who speak openly of human extinction while racing to cause it.

Palantir's Palestine: How AI Gods Are Building Our Extinction
The machines are not coming for us. They are already here. And the men who control them have made their intentions terrifyingly clear.

BY BETTBEAT MEDIA

NATO boss, Mark Rutte, says that Western Europe could be heading toward a war with Russia “like our grandparents experienced.” Which implies that he has a phenomenal memory of World War II, 80 years ago. This is especially impressive coming from a man known in the Netherlands, where he spent fourteen years as Prime Minister – until last year – for routinely insisting that he couldn’t remember what he did just the week before.

NATO’s scandal-ridden boss wants war with Russia to be his next train wreck
Mark Rutte is trying to invoke history against Russia – bold move for someone with such a selective memory of his own scandals

BY Rachel Marsden

On its final day, St. Anna's is almost full again. A choir is singing and the small organ is supporting them. But this is the last mass in the small Catholic church in Gildehaus, a district of Bad Bentheim near the German-Dutch border. In future, the building will no longer be a place of worship.

Germany's empty churches repurposed as congregations shrink

Axel Rowohlt | Christoph Strack

The number of practicing Christians in Germany is falling. The result is surplus churches. What happens to these empty houses of worship?

SPOILER: THEY BECOME BICYCLE [MADE IN CHINA?] SHOPS.....

In 2020, Dutch lawyer Arno Van Kessel realized that Covid-19 was being used by governments to exercise malign influence on populations and began vocally opposing both the Dutch government's pandemic response measures and the subsequent Covid-19 'vaccines'.

Despite Lawyer's Detention Under Accusation of 'Terrorism', Landmark Covid-19 Lawsuit Pending Before District Court in The Netherlands

Laurs
Sott.net

The Israel President cannot be welcomed in Australia. The government he represents has been found by the International Court of Justice to have breached international law: the Netanyahu regime has committed a range of international crimes against humanity including war crimes, apartheid, illegal occupation and ethnic cleansing.

Margaret Reynolds,  Stuart Rees

A key reason why China has, for decades, had the highest annual increases in per-capita GDP PPP (standard of living as experienced by the country’s population — as opposed to pure per-capita GDP, which reflects ONLY the investors) is the Chinese Communist Party’s relentless war against corruption.

Pain and dying. It’s what humans do. We endure the pain of birth through a passage that is too narrow both for child and mother. In China, nearly 37 per cent of birth are done through Caesarean sections. We also use pain killers. Could the natural birthing limit the size of our brain? Much of what we do in life is designed to alleviate pain and achieve a certain level of contentment, though we are often told “no pain, no gain”. This of course is a contentious concept. Can we achieve a better way of thinking? We vie to be relatively happy....

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has given a positive assessment of a conversation he had with US envoys on how to end the Russia-Ukraine war.

Zelensky said Thursday's call with Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, which lasted nearly an hour, had yielded "new ideas in terms of formats, meetings, and... timing on how to bring a real peace closer". He added later that he would hold another meeting with President Donald Trump "in the near future".

Australian law enforcement and intelligence agencies are to be reviewed, in the Albanese government’s latest response in the wake of the Bondi tragedy. 

But Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is still resisting calls for a national royal commission. 

Albanese said in a statement after a meeting of cabinet’s national security committee that the review would be done by the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet. It will be led by Dennis Richardson, a former secretary of the defence and foreign affairs departments, as well as a former head of ASIO. 

There have been questions about the adequacy of ASIO’s performance. It checked out Naveed Akram – the younger of the father and son gunmen – in 2019, because of his radical contacts, but did not later keep tabs on him. 

While browsing through the magazine section at Barnes and Noble recently, for fun, I picked up the September issue of the John Birch Society’s publication The New American.

Named after an OSS veteran who was killed by the communists during the Chinese Civil War, the John Birch Society has a history going back to the 1950s of warning about alleged communist infiltration of the U.S. government and society and railing against the UN.[1]

John Birch Society Tries to Bring Back Cold War Culture

By Jeremy Kuzmarov

Across the United States, Democrats and Republicans are demanding that their leaders come clean with the Epstein files and the truth finally be told. What they are getting instead is a massive redaction campaign.

Not since 1998 with the Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky show trial has the American public been so incensed by a sex scandal like the one the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein personally directed for many years.

The American people will never get closure on the Epstein files

The Democrats and Republicans initially worked together to release the files, until ‘politics as usual’ inevitably spoiled everything