Monday, March 18, 2024

Making Assumptions

 Coming Up short,


Bye-bye Carbon, The Honest Sorcerer
UK emissions in 2023 fell to lowest level since 1879. But why is that so? Are we on a path to a green Nirvana, or something entirely different is going on?​ ...


..Missing entirely from the conversation around both emissions and economic growth is the fact that this is what happens when a country is running out of cheap and easy to access carbon, like easy to mine coal, or oil and gas gushing out from a well. Take a glance at the chart above once again.​..
..The sudden rush of oil from the North Atlantic however, could not possibly counterbalance the then already ongoing deindustrialization of the island nation, and thus only made a few people richer. North Sea oil duly produced a smaller secondary peak in emissions, something which eventually fizzled out during the early 2000’s when all the rich pockets of oil started to produce that ominous slurping sound.
​  UK emissions are in a free fall ever sinceThe reasons were the same with coal: energy economics. While there were plenty more hydrocarbons beneath the North Sea, they were found in ever deeper, ever smaller, ever more remote pockets — requiring drilling more wells, more frequently. The energy needed to be invested into (and payed for) obtaining them simply did not, and will not ​be worth it.​..
..78% of Britain’s primary energy still comes from fossil fuels, mostly oil and gas. Mind you, it could not possibly be in any other way: “renewables” are an intermittent source of electricity, and thus wholly unable to power agriculture and transportation, let alone the manufacturing of steel, cement, plastics or fertilizers — the four pillars of civilization — which Brits still use in large quantities...
..As an iron law of modernity, a fall in CO2 emissions equals a fall in real economic outputleading to the same process what we can observe now all across Europe in general, and Germany in particular. An economic decline, which could be masked only temporarily by globalization, and an overvalued currency propped up by foreign investments in the banking sector, or an increasingly financialized economy. This is why oil consumption has a statistically perfect correlation with GDP...
..Shutting down industry, then importing everything which is necessary to maintain modernity does not solve a thing...
​..We are facing a world-wide affordability crisis when it comes to hydrocarbons. Without going into excess debts (which has become all the more expensive with higher interest rates) not even rich nations like the UK could afford to by more oil and gas. Smaller ones are already being bankrupted by these forces, as we speak.​..
..It looks like oil majors are playing a game of ‘last man standing’. Instead of investing in oil exploration and expanding production, they are buying up each other’s resources in the Permian (a now maturing shale play) and the Starbroek near the shores of Guyana.​.. In fact, these two plays are rather the exception than the norm; for the rest of the world production struggles to remain flat. The Starbroek and the Permian are the last two remaining areas where oil production could be grown for a relatively modest investment...
​..Simply put: we have run out of the easy to access stuff, requiring low to modest energy investments to get.​..
..The issue with deep water (as you might have already guessed) ​is that such oil takes much more energy to obtain: cannibalizing most of the gains made by opening such a field...
..Not everything is “oil” that is reported as such. Real petroleum production still remains below its all time high reached in November 2018. The additions are coming from natural gas liquids and other products which are absolutely no substitute for oil. It’s like reporting wheat production together with rapeseed harvests: one does not substitute the other...
..As easy to drill reserves deplete and are being replaced with ever harder to get resources, the energy cost of oil will keep on rising, and rising, and rising...
..So is it good news then, that while traditional petroleum production stagnate, we see a steady increase in ‘liquids’ production…? If you ask me, I see this as a warning sign that we have started to cannibalize our energy production, and turn everything into a liquid fuel to keep the economy from crashing...
..I cannot emphasize enough, that without diesel​ [which can only be refined from traditional "oil"] there is absolutely no modern economy — no agriculture, no mining, no transportation — and it has no real substitute.​.. The ever increasing energy inputs going into creating this indispensable fuel — either through the relentlessly increasing energy cost of drilling or blending in more and more synthetic- and biofuels — will eventually lead to peak diesel affordability. This will mean, first of all, less long distance transport and trade, then second, more expensive minerals (making electrification and “renewables” even less possible to achieve), not to mention the innumerable shortages of just about anything from wood to grains, or from microchips to chemical products.​..
..It should not come as a surprise then that the much touted “renewable” and nuclear powered green economy remains hopelessly tied to affordable diesel (from mining resources to delivering everything on site), and other fossil fuels powering the creation of all the necessary steel, cement and the plethora of other technologies. These “new” energy resources are nothing but a desperate attempt to buy more time — to watch more cat videos while getting rich on Bitcoin...
..The fall in CO2 emissions, while good news for the future of the global climate, signals a turning point in the life of this civilizationThe UK, Germany, and Europe in general are just the first canaries to kick the bucket in this rapidly depleting coal mine we call the ‘economy’...
https://thehonestsorcerer.substack.com/p/bye-bye-carbon

​  "We're One Event Away From A 1970s-Style Stagflation Explosion..."
“The years 2023-2024 look a lot like 1973-1974.”
​  The history books remind us,1973’s oil embargo shook the global energy market. It also reset geopolitics, reordered the global economy, and a multipolar world saw energy weaponized. After kissing 6% in 1970, in Q1 of 1973, inflation as measured by CPI danced just below 4%, much like today, central bankers were doing the Michael Jackson moonwalk in celebratory form. Then, in bloodcurdling fashion in late 1974, CPI breached 12%.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/were-one-event-away-1970s-style-stagflation-explosion

​  Scott Ritter: Putin’s ‘Dedicated Work’ Added to Reinvigorated Russia
"Vladimir Putin was a product of the 1990s. He saw the reality of the 1990s and he understood that Russia could never allow itself to go back to those times. He understood that if Russia didn't break free of the path that it was headed on during the decade of the 90s, there would be no Russia," Ritter concluded.

​  German Lawmaker In Blistering Ukraine Speech To Parliament: "Have You All Lost Your Minds?"
​  Sa​hra Wagenknecht was long well-known as one of the leading members of the Left Party (Die Linke), but currently she's head of the recently formed Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance – Reason and Justice. She recently gave a stirring and rare, courageous speech warning against the German government being on the warpath with Russia, also as a handful of European leaders, with France's Macron leading the way, even contemplating sending Western troops to Ukraine as a viable 'option'.
​  "Have you all lost your minds?" she questioned members of the Bundestag. She said in the speech: "The Scholz government has already crossed one red line after the other. In the meantime we reached the point where German Air Force officers calmly debate how to destroy Russian targets with German cruise missiles..." She continued, "The scandal is that we have reached a point where it has become normal to have such debates."
​  Wagenknecht went on: "Our grandiose military experts from the Greens have been telling us for two years now what 'game changer' we have to deliver next so that Ukraine can win this war." The hawks "dream" about using German missiles to "destroy ministries in Moscow," she said. "And when the pope speaks out against this madness, saying that Kiev should negotiate rather than drive the country to suicide, he was called a 'Putin troll'."
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/german-lawmaker-blistering-ukraine-speech-parliament-have-you-all-lost-your-minds

​  US is not a democracy – Putin 
​  The US has become a global laughing stock by criticizing democratic processes in other nations while suppressing a presidential candidate in its own election, Russian leader Vladimir Putin has claimed.
  Speaking to journalists in Moscow early on Monday morning, shortly after preliminary results indicated he would be reelected with 87% of the vote in the Russian presidential election, Putin stated that the “whole world is laughing at what is happening” in the US.
  “We are behaving with more restraint than their opponents in other countries, but this is just a catastrophe, not a democracy – that’s what it is,” the Russian leader added.
Putin claimed that the current US administration is using all its resources to attack a candidate for this year’s presidential election, seemingly referring to Donald Trump.

​  7/31/15 , Jimmy Carter: U.S. Is an ‘Oligarchy With Unlimited Political Bribery’
The 39th president said the 'Citizens United' ruling 'violates the essence of what made America a great country in its political system'

​  'Burden to Democratic Ticket': Kamala Harris Urged to Step Down Ahead of 2024 Election​  [So ​Hillary goes in? What ​will Harris be offered for that move?]
A Washington Post editorial called on the US vice president to step aside as she has become a "burden" to the Democratic ticket.

​  UNICEF Says Israel Has Killed Over 13,000 Children in Gaza
The agency says many are suffering from malnutrition and do not 'even have the energy to cry'

​  Human Rights Watch called for international sanctions on "Israel" due to its non-compliance with ICJ orders to prevent genocide.
​  "States must impose sanctions and an arms embargo on Israel, to compel it to comply with the order issued by the International Court of Justice," the organization wrote, noting that "Tel Aviv" has failed to comply with the court's orders and has not worked to deliver aid and basic services to Gaza's residents.

​  Israeli PM adamant on invading Rafah despite world pressure
​  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday he would keep on with the military campaign against Hamas in Gaza, where aid agencies say famine is looming, while ceasefire talks were set to resume.​ Netanyahu told a Cabinet meeting that Israel would push into Rafah.

​  Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi said Sunday his country will not allow the forced displacement of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip.​  ("Not allow" how?)
Sisi held talks with European Union Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on the sidelines of an Egyptian-European summit in Cairo.
"Egypt rejects the forced displacement of Palestinians to its lands and will not allow it,” the Egyptian leader said as cited by a presidential statement.
Sisi also underlined the need for a cease-fire in the Gaza Strip.

​  Archbishop ViganĂ²: ‘The Globalist Cabal Want To Establish the Kingdom of the Antichrist on Earth’
'These murderers will soon find themselves answering for their crimes, if not before the tribunal of the world, then certainly before God,' Archbishop Carlo Maria ViganĂ² wrote.

​  UK Advises Ukraine to Stay on Defensive in East and Focus on Targeting Crimea
British soldiers are in Ukraine helping fire Storm Shadow missiles, which can hit targets deep inside Crimea

​  Ukrainian forces have ramped up attacks on the Russian city of Belgorod, across the border from Kharkov/Kharkiv, using western missiles with cluster bombs on civilians, to force Russia to attack in the northeast, not in the Odessa region, which would land-lock Ukraine.
Putin allowed the creation of a sanitary zone in Ukraine due to attacks on the border area
​  President Vladimir Putin admitted that, given the “tragic events” associated with the shelling of border regions, Russia “at some point” will have to create a sanitary zone in Ukraine. This is how he answered the question of whether he considers it necessary to annex the Kharkov region to the Russian Federation in order to ensure the security of the Belgorod region.
​  Vladimir Putin said that he is not ready to talk about plans to annex certain territories. “It may become necessary to create a security zone, which will be quite difficult to overcome using the weapons that the enemy uses, primarily foreign-made,” Mr. Putin told reporters.


  ​Dane Wigington, Geoengineering Watch:
​  "Severe storms bring heavy snow to the Rockies and baseball-sized hail to the Midwest" (NBC News). Chemical ice nucleation cloud seeding operations are a core component for unstable air masses and massive hail. Late this week snow was also falling in Arizona at above freezing temperatures while it was raining in north eastern Canada. Does that make any sense from a meteorological perspective? The short answer is no, it doesn't, unless geoengineering is considered. "Fruit chaos is coming", that new headline from the Atlantic is referring to the crop crushing effect of record warm temperatures immediately followed by freak flash freezes. This devastating scenario is occurring all over the world. Is it just the result of nature? Or something else altogether?​ ...
​..During the build-up of coalition troops in Saudi Arabia the Air Force flew tankers at high altitudes over Iraq (shortly after taking out most of their ground to air missile defenses), and they created record shattering torrential rain in that desert nation, by tapping into a previously re-directed atmospheric river. The Republican Guard armored units were caught off-guard with traditional sand tracks on their tanks and sand tires on their artillery pieces. Plus, they were all hidden from view as they sat in massive dug-out trenches facing the Saudi Arabian front lines. Those trenches became flooded and most of their armored units became bogged down and could not move quick enough to defend against the well-planned coalition offensive.
​  Mainly because, the coalition forces moved under the cover of their heavy rain makers and GPS/radar jamming AWACS planes. Allowing them to attack from the rear of the dug-in Republican Guard forces. Their tanks and artillery units had also been modified with mud tracks and tires that scooped off the wet, heavy clogging sand masses and allowed them to move with incredible agility.
​  The largest tank and artillery battle in history was won by the Coalition Army (even though they were outnumbered ten to one), because climate engineering paved the way for a history making showdown in the deserts of Iraq.

​  Niger Severs Ties With US Military After Alarm Raised Junta Will Supply Uranium To Iran
​  Last year's coup saw a military-led government come to power, which from the start signaled rough and uncertain times ahead for US-Niger relations. A Saturday statement by Nigerien junta spokesman Col. Maj. Amadou Abdramane said, "Niger regrets the intention of the American delegation to deny the sovereign Nigerien people the right to choose their partners and types of partnerships capable of truly helping them fight against terrorism."
​  This charge of the US not respecting the West African nation's sovereignty comes in reaction to recent Western intelligence claims that Niger has been engaged in secret talks and deal-making to grant Iran access to its uranium. US officials have also bitterly complained about Niger cozying up to Moscow.

​  Don't drive a car that's a snitch, right? And don't look at your phone while you drive! Thanks Red.  Smart Cars Reporting to Govt – Insurance Rates up 26% YoY
​  Car insurance rates in the US have spiked by around 26% overall in the past year. The government has been pushing for everyone to go electric and trade, spending tens of thousands more for an electric vehicle, which always comes equipped with monitoring software. Even older cars with basic features like OnStar have tracking devices that report your driving behavior to the manufacturers who share your data with insurance companies and, ultimately, the government.

​  The Public Bank That Wasn’t: New Jersey’s Excursion into Public Banking​ , Ellen Brown [Risky private banks are blocking the formation of ​this public comp​etit​or.]
​  In 2017, Phil Murphy, a former Goldman Sachs executive, made the establishment of a public, state-owned bank a centerpiece issue during his run for New Jersey governor. He regularly championed public banking in speeches, town halls and campaign commercials. He won the race, and the nation’s second state-owned bank following the stellar model of the Bank of North Dakota (BND) appeared to be in view.​..
..The report recommends creation of a public bank as a successor to the SIIF but asserts that the public bank should not be a depository institution. This recommendation is repeated throughout the report.​ Many authorities confirm that a financial institution is not a “bank” unless it takes deposits...
​..Experienced bankers make its loans free from board or political influence and from conflicts of interest. BND’s principal depositor, the state of North Dakota, by law must keep its funds in the bank, thus protecting BND from a run on its deposits. The Standard & Poor’s credit rating for the BND is A+/stable. The S&P report states, “BND has one of the highest risk-adjusted capital (RAC) ratios for rated U.S. banks.”
​  BND’s profitability has helped strengthen community banks and credit unions in North Dakota by making loans in partnership rather than in competition with them. In the Great Recession, it also bought loans from stressed local banks to prevent bank failures and keep the economy running smoothly. BND operates with very low overhead and stresses productive and local lending rather than lending to buy existing assets. The latter is the sort of speculative, nonproductive, bubble-creating lending engaged in by the giant commercial banks from which Gov. Murphy originally sought to divestNorth Dakota’s revenues are safer in its own bank than in the largest Wall Street banks, which “insure” their capital with interconnected derivatives backed by rehypothecated collateral, a practice that the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency has declared to be “unsafe and unsound.”​...
​..Whether the final stage of New Jersey’s efforts will be a true public bank, as advocated by Gov. Murphy in 2017, remains to be seen. Meanwhile other states and cities are making impressive progress toward that goal. For updates, see the Public Banking Institute newsletter.

​  Meryl Nass MD works to simplify the intentionally complex WHO Pandemic Treaty changes and International Health Regulation changes, which hand unchecked supranational global power to an unelected bureaucrat.
​  The WHO Director-General is about to become the World Health Dictator, unless we stop him!
The WHO's 194 member nations are being asked to vote on two documents this May that will transfer unprecedented powers to the WHO.  Here's what is happening:
​  A new Pandemic Treaty is being proposed that would legalize worldwide use of experimental, liability-free vaccines, impose health censorship and much more.
Major amendments to the International Health Regulations are being proposed that give the WHO the power to impose worldwide lockdowns, vaccine mandates and much more.
​  If either one passes it will be a massive attack on our civil rights, Constitutions, and our national sovereignty and individual autonomy.


​  Cancer deaths in the United States spiked in 2021 and 2022 among 15-44 year-olds "in large excess over trend," marking jumps of 5.6% and 7.9% respectively vs. a rise of 1.7% in 2020, according to a new preprint study from deep-dive research firm, Phinance Technologies.
​  The report, which relies on data from the CDC, paints a troubling picture.
​  "We show a rise in excess mortality from neoplasms reported as underlying cause of death, which started in 2020 (1.7%) and accelerated substantially in 2021 (5.6%) and 2022 (7.9%). The increase in excess mortality in both 2021 (Z-score of 11.8) and 2022 (Z-score of 16.5) are highly statistically significant (extreme events)," according to the authors.
​  That said, co-author, David Wiseman, PhD (who has 86 publications to his name), leaves the cause an open question - suggesting it could either be a "novel phenomenon," Covid-19, or the Covid-19 vaccine.​ 
[One ​cause is innumerably more likely than the other two, though.]

Concerns regarding Transfusions of Blood Products Derived from Genetic Vaccine Recipients and Proposals for Specific Measures

​  Psychoactive drug ibogaine effectively treats traumatic brain injury in special ops military vets​  (Rewiring the human brain is disorienting and exhausting, though.)
Stanford Medicine researchers find that ibogaine, a plant-based psychoactive compound, safely led to improvements in depression, anxiety and functioning among veterans with traumatic brain injuries.

​Neurotypical and Uninoculated (stopped for this picture of a storm cloud at sunset)


Sunday, March 17, 2024

Caring About Children

 Supportive Adults,


​  Israeli Genocide Causing 'Complete Psychological Destruction' of Gaza Children​   [I cannot actually imagine the horrors they live in every day.]
"Five months of violence, displacement, starvation, and disease on top of nearly 17 years of a blockade have caused relentless mental harm to children in Gaza," said Save the Children.
​  In addition to killing, maiming, and forcibly displacing hundreds of thousands of Palestinian children, Israel's genocidal assault on Gaza has wrought tremendous psychological damage upon kids in the embattled strip, as detailed by a Save the Children report published Tuesday.

  ​Jonathan Cook, War on Gaza: Torture, executions, babies left to die, sexual abuse… These are Israel’s crimes
​Hostages tortured to death. Parents executed in front of their children. Doctors beaten. Babies murdered. Sexual assault weaponised.
​  No, not Hamas crimes. This is part of an ever-growing list of documented atrocities committed by Israel in the five months since 7 October - quite separate from the carpet bombing of 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza and a famine induced by Israel’s obstruction of aid.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/war-gaza-israel-torture-executions-babies-die-sexual-abuse-crimes

​  Israeli PM approves Rafah operation plan
Benjamin Netanyahu said the IDF is prepared to conduct the attack and evacuate the civilian population

​  Canada’s Center for Israel and Jewish Affairs Is on the Wrong Side of History. Bill C-63, “The Online Hams Act”​  [Canadians remain free to support Genocide.]
The CIJA Supports the Israeli Genocide of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank; The CIJA Supports Life Sentences for Those Violating Its Idea of Thought Crimes and Speech Crimes

​Bibi-Bus-Under [They will let him execute more genocide first.]: Biden Embraces Schumer’s "Good Speech" Which Blasted Netanyahu

  It is hard to get clarity on what is happening in the Russia/NATO proxy war in Ukraine, but I'll try.
Russian Presidential voting finishes today. Putin will be overwhelmingly re-elected. A large-scale Russian spring-offensive is anticipated.
  Ukrainian military assaults on Russia proper have been carried out in recent days, along a northern portion of the border between Ukraine and Russia, both to make Putin look bad, and to force Russia to attack there to create a buffer zone to protect the city of Belgorod, where Russian civilians are being attacked with NATO missile batteries (Czech "Vampires" lately).
  This move seeks to force Russia's hand to attack north, near Kharkiv, not south, to take Ukraine's last-remaining Black Sea Port, Odessa (Odesa). Monsanto, Cargill and BlackRock have extensive Ukrainian holdings, particularly fertile farmland, where they are introducing GMO products, against most of European laws, and against previous Ukrainian laws. A lot of loans are backed by this collateral, and global finance has been very hungry to grab Russian collateral, to further expand leveraging of investments.
  Removing Ukrainian assets/collateral from the books of these global corporate behemoths would weaken or collapse their balance-sheets, accelerating or inducing the collapse of the western global financial system, potentially this year. Any number of lives from any country (Hi, France!  :-) are expendable to forestall such an event.

​  Simplicius,​ Macron Attempts to Woo Nation to War
NATO cannot let Russia capture Odessa for a multitude of reasons.
​  NATO was building important naval bases there in order to fully neutralize Russia’s Black Sea Fleet in the future
​  It would allow Russia to totally landlock Ukraine, thus ruining NATO’s last remaining puppet-state’s chances of being a military thorn in Russia’s side
​  The above alone would allow Russia to dominate global wheat markets as Ukraine would have little ways to export its grain
​  It would allow Russia to create an unbroken land corridor to Pridnestrovie (Transnistria) which would catalyze into an even greater ‘domino-effect’ collapse of NATO destabilization plans, allowing Russia to totally solve the PMR issue and create a fortress in the region
​  In short, it’s absolutely apocalyptic for NATO to lose Odessa.

 Gilbert Doctorow (I think Macron has become "expendable" to his Rothschild-Paris banking masters at this point) 
France sees no red lines in what it does to Russia: there will be consequences…
​  In one sense the nervous, one might say hysterical speeches by Macron demonstrate that even the densest minds in the West have taken in the possibility, nay, the probability of an imminent collapse of the Ukrainian war effort and Kiev’s raising the white flag, as the Pope called upon them to do this past week.
​  It also should be mentioned here that in his latest interview with Kiselyov Putin said that the number of NATO country military men who have been killed in Ukraine over the past two years, approximately 5000, widely exceeds the 3500 NATO military who died in the 20 year long Afghanistan occupation by NATO. The numbers have been set out country by country, with the United States at the head of the list with approximately 1500 deaths. We may assume that these are mostly officers and highly trained operators of advanced equipment supplied to Ukraine like the Patriot air defense.
​  Though Putin’s transparent threats are deadly serious, Russian elites find it hard to take Macron and his associates at face value.

​  John Helmer opens this can of worms. What a MESS!  (US throws German military under the Russian bus to prevent being thrown under the same bus by the Brits?)
NEW EVIDENCE THE GERMAN ["secretly" nuclear-capable] TAURUS ATTACK PLAN WAS LEAKED BY THE US AIR FORCE

Vladimir Putin re-elected to 5th presidential term, with 87% of the vote, a new record.

Tom Luongo, Europe Panics as Trump Rises from the Political Grave
​  US support for Project Ukraine is coming to an end, if it hasn’t ended already. And the panic in Europe is palpable.This was all very predictable if you accepted the framework that there was a split at the top of the US hierarchy. One faction committed to the Davos vision of the future which implied a compliant, even beaten, US and another that looked up from their quote screens and said, “Uh… no.”...
​..”If the US will not provide the money, Europeans on their own will not be able to finance this war, and then the war will end,” Orban said in an interview with M1 broadcaster on Sunday.​ 
​  During his presidency, Trump had shown himself to be “a man of peace,” the Hungarian leader claimed.​ That stance puts him in alignment with Hungary, unlike the administration of US President Joe Biden and many members of the EU, he added. ”The American Democratic government and the leadership of the EU, as well as the leadership of the largest EU member states are pro-war governments. Donald Trump is pro-peace, Hungary is pro-peace. At the bottom of everything lies this difference,” Orban declared.

  Former Moldovan anti-communist activist and Deputy Prime Minister Iurie Rosca's essay is presented again for holistic context of global power dynamics.
UNRESTRICTED WARFARE: A Holistic Approach to the Great Reset

​  Here is a recent English language interview of the same topic with Iurie Rosca, with a machine-dictated transcript. (A few mistranscribed words can be easily figured out).
INTERVIEW: Yuri Rosca - UNRESTRICTED WARFARE: A Holistic Approach to the Great Reset

​  Meryl Nass MD links to: THE DEPRAVITY OF THE CENSORSHIP MOGULS , Don't you dare think outside the mainstream
​  SUMMARY​:  The US Agency for International Development (USAID)’s Center on Democracy, Human Rights, and Governance (DRG) created an internal “Disinformation Primer” that revealed the agency’s explicit praise for private sector censorship strategies and proposed additional censorship practices and techniques.
​  USAID’s censorship proposals were aimed at influencing private sector technology companies, media organizations, education ministries, national governments and funding bodies.
​  USAID endorsed “Advertiser Outreach” for the purpose of getting corporate advertisers to financially throttle disfavored media sources and social media accounts.
​  USAID recommended Google’s Redirect Method and “prebunking” (i.e., psychological inoculation) as potential solutions to stop the erosion of traditional media influence over citizen hearts and minds.
​  USAID proposed targeting gamers and gaming sites, pushing the need to censor their formation of “interpretations of the world that differ from ‘mainstream’ sources” and interrupting the process by which “individuals contribute their own ‘research'” to collectively form their own “populist expertise.”

​  How to Stop the Pandemic Treaty | Interview with Dr. Meryl Nass, by Yuri Roshka​  [Tune in at 17 minutes to find out how every country in the world came to be in lock-step with COVID-19 pandemic management, except a few African countries and Haiti, whose presidents then had "accidents".]

​  RSV Prefusion F Protein–Based Maternal Vaccine — Preterm Birth and Other Outcomes
CONCLUSIONS​: The results of this trial, in which enrollment was stopped early because of safety concerns, suggest that the risks of any and severe medically assessed RSV-associated lower respiratory tract disease among infants were lower with the candidate maternal RSV vaccine than with placebo but that the risk of preterm birth was higher with the candidate vaccine.
​  [Preterm birth occurred in 6.8% of the infants (237 of 3494) in the vaccine group and in 4.9% of those (86 of 1739) in the placebo group (relative risk, 1.37; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.08 to 1.74; P=0.01); neonatal death occurred in 0.4% (13 of 3494) and 0.2% (3 of 1739), respectively (relative risk, 2.16; 95% CI, 0.62 to 7.56; P=0.23), an imbalance probably attributable to the greater percentage of preterm births in the vaccine group.]

​  Meryl Nass MD looks at a remote "biodefense" lab where the many weaponized segments of the COVID-19 spike protein could have been assembled and passed sequentially through humanized-mice.  
COVID Origin: More on Munster's NIAID lab in Hamilton, Montana, far from the eyes of the oversight committees, doing GoF research and producing false narratives

​  Dr. Nass has been presenting to a lot of Parliamentarians in recent months.  What Can Parliamentarians Do about the WHO?
The WHO may not be under the jurisdiction of any court, and its staff has diplomatic immunity, BUT IT IS NOT UNTOUCHABLE.

​  Harvard Fires Professor Who Co-wrote Great Barrington Declaration
Epidemiologist Martin Kulldorff, Ph.D., an outspoken critic of COVID-19 lockdown policies, school closures and vaccine mandates since early in the pandemic, on Monday said he was fired from his position at Harvard University.
​  In an essay published Monday in City Journal, Kulldorff wrote that his anti-mandate position got him fired from the Mass General Brigham hospital system, where he also worked, and consequently from his Harvard faculty position.
​  Kulldorff detailed how his commitment to scientific inquiry put him at odds with a system that he alleged had “lost its way.”
“I am no longer a professor of medicine at Harvard,” Kulldorff wrote. “The Harvard motto is Veritas, Latin for truth. But, as I discovered, truth can get you fired.”

​  [Like me, but much more important.]   Harvard Medical School Professor Was Fired Over Not Getting COVID Vaccine
Martin Kulldorff, an epidemiologist, was fired by Mass General Brigham in November 2021 over noncompliance with the hospital’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate after his requests for exemptions from the mandate were denied, according to one document. Mr. Kulldorff was also placed on leave by Harvard Medical School (HMS) because his appointment as professor of medicine there “depends upon” holding a position at the hospital, another document stated.

  [No, the government/DoD RAN the fraud!]  DOJ Asks Court to Toss Whistleblower Lawsuit Alleging Pfizer Defrauded U.S. Government
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) on Tuesday asked to intervene in a lawsuit alleging Pfizer committed fraud during clinical trials for its COVID-19 vaccine. The DOJ also asked the court to dismiss whistleblower Brook Jackson’s lawsuit against Pfizer.

​  Sasha Latypova,  Moderna is substantially expanding manufacturing capacity, despite low demand for their mRNA poison...
Moderna is building manufacturing facilities in many countries, much more capacity than they had for covid shots.​   [Why, pray tell?]

​  Sasha linked to this Aussie site:  October Surprise: ‘Bioterrorism’?  Should we fear the WHO - or the USA?
The trailer for the new “Biodefense” movie - just released by Washington D.C! - is summarized on YouTube as follows :
​  After the President is incapacitated due to a bioterrorism attack during a National Security speech, the Vice President must step up to lead a unified response as the biological threat quickly spreads across the country.
​  Put in context, does this official 2024 “movie trailer” brought to you by Senator Lieberman and his biodefense co-commissioners - depicting a “bioterrorism attack” and subsequent epidemic across America this fall - prophetically predict the impending “next pandemic” that Bill Gates and Co repeatedly warn about?
​  Is this “the next phony baloney crisis to put Americans back where they belong”, to quote the “Center for Disease Disinformation” guy from The Simpsons?

​  Oxford COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy Scale​  [Maybe they can make up a "snake-handling" hesitancy score. So many people are afraid of  Rattlers and Copperheads.]
Critical Thinking, Desire for Informed Consent, Appropriate Caution--All Ignored in a New "Disease" Score

​  Amish Officially Declared ‘World’s Healthiest Children’ After Rejecting Big Pharma Vaccines
​  The Amish cherish rural life, honesty, manual labor, humility, and “Gelassenheit,” which means submission to God’s will. They prioritize family time, nature, and face-to-face conversations whenever possible.​   [No junk food, either] 

  [​Iurie Rosca sees BRICS+ as "the same, but a competitor". What is the "competitor" offering?]  Will BRICS launch a new world in 2024?​  Pepe Escobar
BRICS doubled its membership at the start of 2024, and faces huge tasks ahead: integrating its newest members, developing future admission criteria, deepening the institution's groundings, and most importantly, launching the mechanisms for bypassing the US dollar in international finance.​..
​..Last week, top Kremlin adviser Yury Ushakov announced that BRICS will work towards setting up an independent payment system based on digital currencies and blockchain.​ Ushakov specifically emphasized "state-of-the-art tools such as digital technologies and blockchain. The main thing is to make sure it is convenient for governments, common people, and businesses, as well as cost-effective and free of politics."​  [Color me not-reassured-enough.]
​  Ushakov did not mention it explicitly, but a new alternative system already exists. For the moment, it is a closely, carefully guarded project in the form of a detailed white paper that has already been validated academically and also incorporates answers to possible frequently asked questions.
​  The Cradle was briefed on the system via several meetings since last year with a small group of world-class fintech experts. The system has already been presented to Ushakov himself. As it stands, it is on the verge of receiving a final green light from the Russian government. After clearing a series of tests, the system in thesis would be ready to be presented to all BRICS-10 members before the Kazan summit.
​  This all ties in with Ushakov publicly declaring that a specific task for 2024 is to increase the role of BRICS in the international monetary/ financial system.

​Facilitating Childhood Health (pictured recently with Jenny and our Grandson)


Friday, March 15, 2024

Steampunk Reveries

 Retrofuturists,


  Thanks AFKTT. A Fatally Repeated Misunderstanding , Consciousness of Sheep (What if there was never any oil?)
  In 1927, the market price of coal spiked.  As is the way with events like this, a scapegoat was easily found.  Welsh coal miners had been on strike for most of the previous year, helping to create a global shortage.  There was though, a deeper and potentially existential cause – the peak of coal-based coal production.  
​  Although oil was rapidly replacing coal as the primary energy source in the USA, the rest of the world’s economies were as dependent upon coal as they had been half-a-century before.  And even America was reliant enough on coal for the price spike to translate into an economic slowdown… which was a serious problem in an economy which had been experiencing the debt-based “roaring twenties,” during which almost everyone came to believe that the economy could only grow, and that tomorrow was bound to be better than today.
​  Economic historians remind us in lurid detail what happened next.  As the economy slowed, the value of assets fell short of expectations.  Millions of people who had borrowed to invest suddenly found themselves with assets which were worth less than the debt they needed to repay.  For a while they stuck it out, hoping that growth would return, and values would be restored.  Until, in October 1929, the big players began to cut their losses.  The Wall Street Crash turned paper millionaires into paupers overnight and paved the way for the Great Depression which saw millions of Americans – and later, millions around the world – reduced to penury.
​  The road out of depression was far worse, involving global industrial warfare which decimated cities and economies, leaving more than 80 million corpses in its wake… but the US arms industry had a good war.  And sadly, among the wealthy and the powerful, the erroneous conclusion that “war is good” was easily drawn.
​  Behind the awakening of the sleeping giant that was the industrial USA, though, lay oil.  Without the oil to power the tanks and aeroplanes and ships and trucks, the allies could not have prevailed.  Indeed, it is a measure of the power of oil that the USA was able to simultaneously fight four campaigns – Central Pacific, Southwest Pacific, North Africa-Italy, and Northwest Europe – against three enemies – Japan, Italy, and Germany – while having sufficient excess industrial capacity to provide essential supplies to its allies – Britain, the Soviet Union, and later France.
​  Insofar as there was a post-war boom, it was the result of the old, coal-powered economies of Europe, Japan and South Korea using US dollars to fund the transition to oil – a process that is still within living memory.  In the two decades 1953 to 1973, the world witnessed more economic growth and trade than had occurred in the previous 150 years of the coal age – creating a modern world which increasing numbers of us realise is already past its peak.
​    So, here’s a thought experiment – what would have happened in the 1930s if there was no such thing as oil?
​  First, although the least understood, is that productivity would have slumped across the industrialised economies as the coal which powered the machinery became harder and more expensive to obtain.  Gradually, processes which had been automated would become labour intensive again.  International, and even inter-regional trade and transportation would become harder to maintain, forcing a re-localisation of the economy.  And ultimately, this economic slowdown would result in everybody becoming poorer (even if some became poorer than others).
​  Government – which more often messes things up than makes them better – would undoubtedly fail, as orthodox economic policy not only failed to restore prosperity but appeared to make things worse.  This, in turn, would lead to the growth of unorthodox political ideas and the arrival of demagogic leaders who promised to make countries great again… but absent an energy source more powerful than the fast-depleting coal, even the most benign dictators would fail to deliver any kind of new deal to turn things around.
​  Elected politicians would also struggle to overcome the vested interests in the permanent state and the wider corporate ownership class, which would only allow for policies which did not threaten their own prosperity.  The likely result would be a downward dumping which attempted to make the poorest people take the greatest hit to their prosperity.  A new lower class, living in precarious conditions would likely emerge, trading labour for food and shelter rather than the monetary wages of the earlier age… a “precariat,” if you will.  Ultimately though, much of the nominal wealth of the elites – government bonds, corporate shares, numbers in bank accounts, etc., – would be rendered worthless by a collapsing economy that has no pathway to sustainability, still less economic growth.
​  In the end, most of the corporate elite would probably be dispossessed as one or other version of collectivism rose to power in a last-ditch effort to restore the broad prosperity of the earlier age.  But without the energy to make things happen, even the brutality of a Stalin, a Mussolini, or a Hitler could only preside over a further collapse and a slide back to the agrarian localism of a much earlier age.​  
[There is no "sliding back"​ now, if you think about it.]
​  But, of course, the oil was there… in vast quantities.  And its raw power propelled the USA and its allies to victory in the war and created the conditions for the unprecedented post-war boom… the “normal” that we have been somehow failing to get back to since the 1970s.
​  Despite its apparently small increased power compared to coal – around 10 megajoules per kilogram – the additional power provided by oil shaped the modern world.  But its high points – sending men to the Moon, commercial supersonic flight, transplant surgery, microprocessors, etc., – are half a century or so behind us.  Indeed, look closely enough and you will probably notice that a good deal of the built environment from those days is falling apart.
​  Oil, it turns out, came with the same issues as coal.  It is a finite resource (at least on any practical timescale) which has been developed on a “low-hanging fruit” basis… starting with the cheapest and easiest deposits then moving on to the difficult and expensive.  And yet all the while being expected to meet the demands of a rapacious debt-based financial system for permanent economic growth.  So that each additional unit of energy that has to be invested in recovering the more energy-expensive oil is a unit of energy no longer available to be converted into profit and interest repayment by the corporations and the banks.
​  Notice too, that the economic landscape today has a certain resonance with the coal depression of the 1930s… remembering that history rhymes rather than repeats.  Doesn’t the gig economy look a lot like those lines of unemployed people desperate to find any kind of work?  Aren’t the tent cities that are now commonplace (if hidden for cosmetic reasons) in almost every western city very similar to the shanty housing of the depression era?  Might foodbanks be a modern iteration of the charity soup kitchens of the 1930s?
​  The political leaders and captains of industry of the coal age might be forgiven to some extent for their failure to understand the central position of coal to their way of life.  Then, as now, a few Cassandras– like William Stanley Jevons in The Coal Question – understood that in consuming its coal at an ever-faster rate, the British Empire was ultimately bringing about its own demise.  But most of the economists of the day blithely promised that as one coal deposit depleted another would be found… and, indeed, with the development of oil-powered machinery, previously unrecoverable coal was eventually produced.
​  In this sense though, the obvious absence of an alternative to oil should have been a cause for concern from the outset.  Indeed, in the immediate post-war years it had been possible to accurately predict the peak of continental US oil production based upon a 40-year lag between the discovery of an oil field and the peak of its productivity.  Since peak oil discovery in the USA was in the early-1930s, the peak of US production should have arrived around 1970-71… which it did.  And since the peak of world oil discovery was in 1964, it followed that the peak of world production would be in 2004-05… which it was.
​  As happened in 1927 with coal, the 2005 peak in conventional oil production created the same price spike which fed through to general price rises across the economy.  This time, aided by the fumbling incompetence of central bankers, rising interest rates were added to the mix.  But the result was the same – a banking and finance crash followed by a depression that we have never recovered from.  Indeed, the only reason that we witnessed even the anaemic growth of the 2010s was the American so-called “fracking miracle.”
​  It wasn’t really a miracle though.  Both the discovery of the shale plays and the invention of the fracking technology had occurred decades before the 2008 crash.  The reason the shale plays remained undeveloped was down to cost.  With oil prices in the 30 to 50-dollar-a-barrel range there was no way fracked shale oil could turn a profit.  But the oil peak of 2005, along with the post-2008 financial landscape changed that.
​  World oil prices exceeded $100-per-barrel either side of the crash, prompting economists to predict $200-per-barrel oil in the 2010s.  Suddenly, fracking looked like a good bet for investors.  And this was aided by the low-growth, low-interest environment following the crash.  The return on safe investments was negative once inflation was taken into account.  And even riskier dabbling in the stock and bond markets brought relatively small returns.  For the investment chancer looking to make a quick fortune, junk bonds were the only game in town.  And the best junk bonds on the market were the bonds offered by the fracking companies.
​  The fracking experiment taught us another important lesson… if only we had heeded it.  $100-a-barrel oil (at 2008 values) turned out to be unsustainable.  As businesses and households adjusted their spending to account for the higher oil price, discretionary sectors of the economy slumped.  With less economic activity following reduced discretionary spending, demand for oil slumped… as it happened, just at the point when millions of barrels of fracked oil were arriving on the market.  The oil price slumped.  And with the exception of a few companies drilling in a handful of “sweet spots,” the fracking companies went bust.
​  Far from the establishment media’s “Saudi America,” and the “century of energy independence,” the hydraulic fracturing of the North American shale plays bought us an additional decade of oil production growth.  But with no serious replacement on the table, that decade would have been best used to mitigate the inevitable economic shrinking and disintegration that is now washing over us.  American, and global oil production finally peaked in November 2018.  By the middle of 2019, the global economy was entering a recession – although this was overtaken by the pandemic lockdowns and restrictions, followed by the insane attempt at economic warfare with one of the most resource-rich states on the planet.  So that even now, in the midst of a global energy crisis and a gathering globally-synchronised recession, establishment politicians, economists, and media seem oblivious to the energy shortages which are driving us to ruin.
​  Maybe it was inevitable.  A species which seemingly evolved to deny death and despair was able to treat oil reserves which it knew to be finite and consume them as if they would last forever… or at least until clever people somewhere else came up with an alternative.  And yet even after global peak conventional oil had sent the global economy into a death spiral, we somehow managed to pretend all would turn out well, and that the final recoverable deposits of unconventional oil would somehow be infinite.
​  How different might the post-war years – or even the last 16 years – have been if we had treated cheap oil as the temporary gift that we should have understood it to be?

​  U.S. Drivers Warned to Brace For Jump in Gasoline Prices
“There is every reason to believe gasoline prices will screech even higher going forward​.
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/US-Drivers-Warned-to-Brace-For-Jump-in-Gasoline-Prices.html

​  Israel’s Security Chief Cheers Killing of Palestinian Child
Twelve-year-old Rami al-Halhouli was fatally shot while playing with fireworks in a Jerusalem refugee camp
​  Ben-Gvir claimed the border officer “shot a terrorist” who had tried to “use firecrackers” against Israeli forces the night prior, arguing the guard did “exactly what was expected of him” in executing the unarmed preteen.
​  “I salute the soldier who killed the terrorist who tried to shoot fireworks at him and the troops. This is exactly how you should act against terrorists – with determination and precision,” he added in another post.

Israel killed more children in Gaza in last 5 months than all conflicts worldwide for last 4 years: UN rapporteur
'Destroying a population from its roots. Genocide is a process, not an act, and what is happening in Gaza is a tragedy foretold,' says Francesca Albanese

Israel To Move Civilians to ‘Humanitarian Islands’ Before Invasion​  [This forced dislocation is also a war crime.]
Tel Aviv claims it will move the 1.5 million Palestinians sheltering in Rafah to other areas of the Strip, then attack the city.

​  The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) food distribution center in Gaza was hit by an Israeli airstrike, killing five. The bombing of the facility is the latest in a series of Israeli attacks on food distribution in Gaza. The Israeli military operations in Gaza and restrictions on aid entering the Strip have placed hundreds of thousands of Palestinians on the brink of starvation.
​  Witnesses, Gazan health officials, and the UN reported that Israel attacked the UNRWA warehouse in Rafah on Wednesday, killing five people, including one UNRWA worker. Officials reported that scores were injured in the attack without providing a number. The Israeli onslaught in Gaza has had a massive impact on aid workers.
​  One Palestinian in Rafah said the attack was particularly concerning because UNRWA sites are generally considered safer. “It’s a UNRWA center, expected to be secure,” one resident said. Over the past five months, 165 UNRWA workers have been killed, and over 150 of the agency’s buildings in Gaza have been hit.

​  War on Gaza: Over 20 killed in new massacre of Palestinians waiting for ai​d , Israeli helicopters fired on crowd of thousands waiting to receive aid
At least 20 Palestinians were killed and over 100 wounded by Israeli fire on Thursday evening while they were awaiting aid in northern Gaza, eyewitnesses have said.
​  The Palestinian health ministry in Gaza said that 20 dead bodies and 155 wounded people have arrived at al-Shifa Hospital in northern Gaza alone. It said that it is working to retrieve more dead bodies.
​  The ministry added that it expects the death toll to rise because of "the seriousness of the injuries" of individuals reaching Gaza's hospitals.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/dozens-killed-new-israeli-massacre-palestinians-waiting-aid

​  MIT student group facing threats of expulsion for supporting Palestine​   [This is serious. They are ​upholding apartheid against an African woman-of-color.]
​  The President of the Coalition Against Apartheid (CAA), Safiyyah Ogundipe, said that the University administration is trying to silence actions supporting Palestine with disciplinary investigations and threats of expulsion.
​  Ogundipe told Anadolu that she evaluated the banning of support demonstrations for Palestine and attempts by administrators to silence students, especially at MIT and other US universities.
​  The senior chemical engineering major said CAA emerged as an activism movement against the apartheid regime based on racial discrimination in South Africa in the past and, today, it takes a stance against Israel’s illegal interventions against Palestine.​..
..She said, at MIT, there were several sponsored research projects funded by the Israeli Defence Ministry and through the Anti-Apartheid Scientists campaign launched in December. CAA urged students and staff to withdraw from companies and research projects complicit in Israeli apartheid, Occupation and genocide...
​..She expressed that CAA at MIT organised protests in response to Israel’s actions, including the bombings in Rafah resulting in casualties. It called on MIT to sever ties with Israeli forces.
​  As a result, CAA received a warning letter, was suspended and its leaders faced threats of expulsion and bans from leading unauthorised demonstrations. Expulsion from MIT was threatened for further rule violations.
​  Ogundipe said MIT Chancellor, Sally Kornbluth, swiftly announced in a video that CAA was expelled from the school.

​  Italian defense minister says Rome suspended weapons supplies to Israel
​  Italian Defense Minister Guido Crosetto said Rome did not supply weapons to Israel after October 7, 2023.​  "After October 7, there were no new authorizations from the relevant organization to transfer weapons to Israel, which led to the suspension of deliveries. The licenses that had been issued before October 7 were already mostly implemented," the minister said at the parliament.
​  He also said that shipments that had been authorized but not implemented before said date were re-examined to make sure that "the list does not contain materials that, if used, could affect the residents of the Gaza Strip."

​  The Russian military police have set up an additional checkpoint as part of their monitoring effort at the disengagement line separating the forces of Syria and Israel in the Golan Heights, the deputy chief of the Russian Center for Reconciliation of the Opposing Parties in Syria (a division of the Russian defense ministry) said.
​  "As part of the effort to monitor the situation at the Bravo disengagement line separating the armed forces of Israel and the Syrian Arab Republic in the Golan Heights, an additional checkpoint of the Russian military police has been created," Rear Adm. Vadim Kulit said.
https://tass.com/politics/1759723

​  Houthis Go Hypersonic? How Ansar Allah’s Advance in Missile Tech Could Trigger US Defeat in Mideast
​  A military source close to Yemen’s Ansar Allah (Houthi) movement has informed Sputnik that the militia has carried out a successful test flight of a hypersonic missile and is preparing to add it into its arsenal.
https://sputnikglobe.com/20240314/houthis-go-hypersonic-how-ansar-allahs-advance-in-missile-tech-could-trigger-us-defeat-in-mideast-1117334551.html

​  US Rejects Russian Ceasefire Proposal for Ukraine
CIA Director William Burns warned that the US is running out of time to support Ukraine
​  Russia’s attempt to broker a ceasefire in Ukraine, along the current lines of control, was met with a firm rejection in Washington. US officials reiterated their stance, stating that they would only engage in talks with Moscow with Kiev’s consent.
​  According to Reuters, in late 2023 and early 2024, Russian intermediaries reached out to US officials seeking to establish a ceasefire. The Kremlin was hoping to freeze the fighting along the current lines of control. “The contacts with the Americans came to nothing,” an unnamed senior Russian official told the outlet.
​  Russian officials said some progress was made, and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan agreed to a call with his counterpart in the Kremlin. Putin’s adviser, Yuri Ushakov, suggested the idea of a ceasefire to Sullivan, but Sullivan refused to talk about Ukraine.

​  The Russian aerospace forces successfully attacked the assembly lines of unmanned kamikaze boats "Magura-V5" and "Sea Baby" in the port of Odessa using Kh-59MK2 cruise missiles, considered one of the most difficult to detect weapons.
https://avia-pro.net/news/v-portu-odessy-unichtozheny-sborochnye-linii-bezekipazhnyh-katerov-kamikadze

​  Scenario for Military Takeover of Ukrainian Parliament Was Written by US - Expert
"This could be a scenario of replacing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky without holding elections," Alexander Dudchak, researcher at the Institute of CIS Countries and expert of the ‘Other Ukraine’ movement, told Sputnik.

  ​Eleni sends this from Andrew Korybko:  NATO Has Secret Agenda for Troops In Ukraine [Denying Ukrainian assets/collateral to global corporations might shorten this war.]
​  Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova warned about the impending partition of Ukraine. According to her, “All these statements that Macron and other NATO politicians make, about the possibility of introducing contingents or some kind of paramilitary units into the territory of Ukraine, are related to the partition of what they see as the remnants of Ukraine…They are ready to occupy and partition Ukraine.” What she didn’t mention, however, is that this will likely be an asymmetrical partition.
​  Instead of Ukraine’s neighbors officially divvying it up like former President and incumbent Deputy Chairman of the Security Council Dmitry Medvedev suggested via the map that he recently spoke in front of, NATO states are unlikely to formally reincorporate their lost lands. Rather, what’s more likely to happen in the event that they form a “coalition of the willing” to conventionally intervene there is that they’ll carve out “spheres of influences” on the pretext of protecting their “strategic borders”...
​..The end effect would be to formally preserve Ukrainian statehood per the West’s officially stated objective that “justifies” their proxy war against Russia through that former Soviet Republic while nevertheless asymmetrically partitioning it into “spheres of economic influence” per the Davos agenda. It’s also possible that with time some of Ukraine’s western neighbors like Poland might consider entering into a “confederation’ with the adjacent region under their control but that’s still a far-fetched scenario.
​  Their taxpayers could be stuck with the bill for reconstructing those formerly Ukrainian regions, plus the locals would become citizens with equal rights (including voting ones), which those countries’ people might firmly oppose and therefore potentially rebel against. It’s much less economically and politically costly to simply siphon wealth from those regions in exchange for limited security support than to constitutionally enshrine enduring economic, political, and security rights to their locals for prestige.  
​  For these reasons, while Zakharova is likely correct in assessing that plans are afoot for partitioning Ukraine depending on several situational variables (e.g. the conflict’s military-strategic dynamics and domestic politics like in Poland’s case), everything probably wouldn’t unfold like the public imagines. Asymmetrical partition between Ukraine’s western neighbors into “spheres of economic influence” alongside a de facto Korean-like partition between NATO and Russia is much more foreseeable.


​  Medvedev responds to Zelensky ‘peace plan’​  [Crashing western finance by withdrawing Ukrainian collateral is my best advice to Russia.]
The senior Russian official has proposed a “soft” alternative that would see Ukraine absorbed by his country
A “reasonable” peace agreement with Ukraine would involve Moscow taking full control over the country, former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has claimed.

​  Macron comments on Trump presidency​  [Depends on what the meaning of "is" is, doesn't it?]
The Republican candidate may not get a chance to deliver on his promise to resolve the Ukrainian conflict, the French leader believes
​  Noting Macron’s reluctance to engage in direct communications with Russian President Vladimir Putin, the interviewers wondered if the United States could potentially mediate such talks, especially if Donald Trump is reelected.
​  “As far as I’m informed, I don’t think Donald Trump is President of the United States,” the French leader claimed, adding that he works with the leaders he gets.
​  At the same time Macron said there was “nothing personal” behind his decision to refrain from dialogue with Putin. “Undoubtedly, I am the head of the state that used to talk to him more than anyone else.”

​  Boeing Whistleblower: ‘If Anything Happens to Me, It’s Not Suicide’
​  The Boeing whistleblower who supposedly killed himself reportedly told a close family friend not to believe it if it was announced he had committed suicide.
62-year-old John Barnett died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, the Charleston County coroner’s office in South Carolina said earlier this week.
​  Barnett had previously raised concerns about the company’s production issues having worked for the company for 32 years before leaving in 2017.
​  According to his attorneys, Barnett had “exposed very serious safety problems with the Boeing 787 Dreamliner and was retaliated against and subjected to a hostile work environment” and was in the middle of a legal deposition against Boeing.
​  “He was in very good spirits and really looking forward to putting this phase of his life behind him and moving on. We didn’t see any indication he would take his own life. No one can believe it,” said the attorneys.

​  Whistleblower Targeted After Exposing 973% SURGE in Heart Failure Among Navy Pilots
​  A United States Navy medic who blew the whistle on an explosive report showing a massive increase in heart issues among military pilots has been blocked by the Department of Defense (DOD) from accessing his work computer.
​  Navy Medical Service Corps Lt. Ted Macie shared shocking information about the surge in heart failure among military personnel.
Macie claimed that members of the U.S. military have experienced massive increases in heart-related issues, presenting Defense Department data showing the following:
​  937% increase in heart failure
​  152% increase in cardiomyopathy
​  69% increase in ischemic heart disease
​  36% increase in hypertensive disease
​  63% increase in other forms of heart disease

​  Martin Armstrong,  Canada to Incorporate Social Scores in Banking
​  Open Banking Excellence, a World Bank partner that originated in the UK, claims that it will host all of a bank’s relevant needs in one place. The organization, which has reached 40 countries, aims to “create exceptional platforms and content that promotes knowledge sharing, new thinking and partnerships within the industry – catalysing the adoption of Open Finance and Data for better financial inclusion worldwide.”...
​  “It’s about having that fairer, more inclusive, more open society,” said Helen Child, founder of Open Banking Excellence. Open Society, well, that does sound familiar. Why is there a need for inclusivity and fairness in banking when it should come down to numbers? “It drives financial inclusion,” she added, “It’s democratizing data.”​...
​..Look at what happened to Nigel Farage. He never committed a crime or did anything to warrant what many have called the “Farage fiasco.” Nigel was suddenly debanked by Coutts and was unable to access any of his checking or savings accounts. His credit cards were deactivated. He was unable to participate in society without a moment’s notice.
​  Farage did his due diligence and found that there were countless people who experienced the same financial attack carried out by the banks on behalf of the government.
​  This is a widespread phenomenon. We saw it happening commonly during COVID lockdowns, where users were not permitted to access places if their digital COVID passports failed. In China, when banks were facing a liquidity crisis, the CCP simply denied depositors the right to access their money and blocked them from physically accessing their banks. The government successfully prevented a bank run. We saw a few celebrities debanked from the system for voicing unpopular opinions without any legal proceedings or crimes committed.

What’s Inside Trudeau’s ‘Orwellian’ Speech Law Threatening Jail Time for Thought Crimes?

​  ‘Stunning Admission’: Widely Used HPV Vaccine Linked to 4 Autoimmune Disorders
A study comparing nearly 2 million vaccinated and unvaccinated adolescent girls over 10 years found the girls vaccinated with a quadrivalent HPV vaccine were 4.4 times more likely than their unvaccinated counterparts to develop rheumatoid arthritis.
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/hpv-vaccine-gardasil-autoimmune-disorders/

​Peter McCullough MD, CDC Not Investigating Chronic Disease Epidemics Linked to Childhood Vaccines

​  US -Death Trends for Neoplasms ICD codes: C00-D48, Ages 15-44​ , David M. Wiseman
​  In this study we investigate trends in death rates from neoplasms (ICD-10 codes C00-D48) in the USA using crude data from the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention). We limit our investigation to individuals aged 15 to 44 and for the period of 2010 to 2022. We investigate both trends in neoplasms where these appear on multiple causes (MC) of death, or as the underlying cause (UC), as well as the trends in the ratio of multiple cause to underlying cause death rates. Using different metrics, we compare mortality trends due to neoplasms before the COVID-19 pandemic with the pandemic period. We show a rise in excess mortality from neoplasms reported as underlying cause of death, which started in 2020 (1.7%) and accelerated substantially in 2021 (5.6%) and 2022 (7.9%). The increase in excess mortality in both 2021 (Z-score of 11.8) and 2022 (Z-score of 16.5) are highly statistically significant (extreme events).


​Trending Towards Death (pictured replanting black beans in a bird-pecked row)