tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-42758852589148468342024-03-18T16:24:36.557-05:00Johnday's BlogJohn Dayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12123174297818737132noreply@blogger.comBlogger1456125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4275885258914846834.post-69288209341157716582024-03-18T16:23:00.004-05:002024-03-18T16:23:39.296-05:00Making Assumptions<p> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Coming Up short,</span></p><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><b>Bye-bye Carbon</b>, The Honest Sorcerer</i></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>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?<span class="gmail_default"> ...</span></b></i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi0BQGxlHdmRbj7qVbWQmYms0IfwzKEUMbadQWv0_0Eot-jbunRA-tcpPcub4AlpO_8IruZTsptC2HULZuZMbEi-sI_EmZ2GNXWhiXaoU7Mkf5Czev0l4wfT_BMO1JGEhD0lFWr2KsxEgpAmOJSz2GO65Olnvvp3yxLoKLyyURZNqtu68SXLPSAn8Za0uvC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="739" data-original-width="1000" height="456" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi0BQGxlHdmRbj7qVbWQmYms0IfwzKEUMbadQWv0_0Eot-jbunRA-tcpPcub4AlpO_8IruZTsptC2HULZuZMbEi-sI_EmZ2GNXWhiXaoU7Mkf5Czev0l4wfT_BMO1JGEhD0lFWr2KsxEgpAmOJSz2GO65Olnvvp3yxLoKLyyURZNqtu68SXLPSAn8Za0uvC=w619-h456" width="619" /></a></div><br /><br /></div><div><span style="color: #404040; font-family: Spectral, serif, system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol";"><span class="gmail_default"></span></span><i>..<b>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</b> gushing out from a well. Take a glance at the chart above once again.<span class="gmail_default">..</span><b><span class="gmail_default"><br /></span></b></i></div></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">..The sudden rush of <b>oil from the North Atlantic however, could not possibly counterbalance the then already ongoing deindustrialization of the island nation</b>, and thus only made a few people richer. <b>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.</b><br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>UK emissions are in a free fall ever since</b>. <b>The reasons were the same with coal: energy economics</b>. 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. <b>The energy needed to be invested into (and payed for) obtaining them simply did not, and will not <span class="gmail_default">be </span>worth it.</b><span class="gmail_default">..</span></i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>..<b>78% of Britain’s primary energy still comes from fossil fuels, mostly oil and gas.</b> Mind you, it could not possibly be in any other way: <b>“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</b> — which Brits still use in large quantities...</i></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">..<b>As an iron law of modernity, a fall in CO2 emissions equals a fall in real economic output</b>; <b>leading to the same process what we can observe now all across Europe in general, and Germany in particular.</b> 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 <b>oil consumption has a statistically perfect correlation with GDP</b><span class="gmail_default"><b></b>...<br /></span></i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>..<b>Shutting down industry, then importing everything which is necessary to maintain modernity does not solve a thing.</b>..<span class="gmail_default"><br /></span></i></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="gmail_default">..</span><b>We are facing a world-wide affordability crisis when it comes to hydrocarbons.</b> 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.<span class="gmail_default">.</span>.</i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>..It looks like <b>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</b> (a now maturing shale play) <b>and the Starbroek near the shores of Guyana</b>.<span class="gmail_default">..</span> In fact, these two plays are rather the exception than the norm; for the rest of the world production struggles to remain flat. <b>The Starbroek and the Permian are the last two remaining areas where oil production could be grown for a relatively modest investment</b>...</i></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="gmail_default">..</span>Simply put: <b>we have run out of the easy to access stuff, requiring low to modest energy investments to get</b>.<span class="gmail_default">..</span></i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>..<b>The issue with deep water </b>(as you might have already guessed)<b> <span class="gmail_default">is </span>that such oil takes much more energy to obtain: cannibalizing most of the gains made by opening such a field</b>...</i></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">..<b>Not everything is “oil” that is reported as such. Real petroleum production still remains below its all time high reached in November 2018</b>. The additions are coming from <b>natural gas liquids and other products which are absolutely no substitute for oil</b>. It’s like reporting wheat production together with rapeseed harvests: one does not substitute the other...</i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>..<b>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</b>, and rising, and rising...</i></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">..So<b> is it good news then, that while traditional petroleum production stagnate, we see a steady increase in ‘liquids’ production…?</b> If you ask me, I see this as a warning sign that <b>we have started to cannibalize our energy production, and turn everything into a liquid fuel to keep the economy from crashing</b>...</i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>..I cannot emphasize enough, that <b>without diesel<span class="gmail_default"> </span></b></i><b>[which can only be refined from traditional "oil"]</b><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>there is absolutely no modern economy </b>— no agriculture, no mining, no transportation — and it has no real substitute.<span class="gmail_default">.. </span><b>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.</b> 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<b> innumerable shortages of just about anything</b> from wood to grains, or from microchips to chemical products.<span class="gmail_default">..</span></i></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">..<b>It should not come as a surprise then that the much touted “renewable” and nuclear powered green economy remains hopelessly tied to affordable diesel</b> (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 <b>“new” energy resources are nothing but a desperate attempt to buy more time — to watch more cat videos while getting rich on Bitcoin</b>...</i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>..<b>The fall in CO2 emissions, while good news for the future of the global climate, signals a turning point in the life of this civilization</b>. <b>The UK, Germany, and Europe in general are just the first canaries to kick the bucket</b> in this rapidly depleting coal mine we call the ‘economy’...</i><br /><a href="https://thehonestsorcerer.substack.com/p/bye-bye-carbon" style="color: #1155cc;">https://thehonestsorcerer.substack.com/p/bye-bye-carbon</a></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>"We're One Event Away From A 1970s-Style Stagflation Explosion..."</b></i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><b>“The years 2023-2024 look a lot like 1973-1974.”</b><br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>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%.</i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/were-one-event-away-1970s-style-stagflation-explosion" style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/were-one-event-away-1970s-style-stagflation-explosion</a><i><br /></i><div><em style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, "Liberation Sans", Arial, sans-serif;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br /></strong></em></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Scott Ritter: Putin’s ‘Dedicated Work’ Added to Reinvigorated Russia</b></i><div><i>"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.</i></div><div><a href="https://sputnikglobe.com/20240317/scott-ritter-putins-dedicated-work-added-to-reinvigorated-russia-1117362285.html" style="color: #1155cc;">https://sputnikglobe.com/20240317/scott-ritter-putins-dedicated-work-added-to-reinvigorated-russia-1117362285.html</a><i><br /></i></div><div><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>German Lawmaker In Blistering Ukraine Speech To Parliament: "Have You All Lost Your Minds?"</b></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>Sa<span class="gmail_default">hr</span>a 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</b>. 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'.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>"Have you all lost your minds?"</b> she questioned members of the Bundestag. She said in the speech: <b>"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..."</b> She continued, <b>"The scandal is that we have reached a point where it has become normal to have such debates."</b><br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Wagenknecht went on: <b>"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,"</b> she said. <b>"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'."</b></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/german-lawmaker-blistering-ukraine-speech-parliament-have-you-all-lost-your-minds" style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/german-lawmaker-blistering-ukraine-speech-parliament-have-you-all-lost-your-minds</a><b><i><br /></i></b><div><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>US is not a democracy – Putin</b> </i><div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span> 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.<br /> 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.<br /> “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.<br />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.</i></div><div><a href="https://swentr.site/news/594400-putin-us-elections-democracy/" style="color: #1155cc;">https://swentr.site/news/594400-putin-us-elections-democracy/</a><i><br /></i></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="gmail_default"> 7/31/15 , <i><b>Jimmy Carter: U.S. Is an ‘Oligarchy With Unlimited Political Bribery’</b></i></div><i><b>The 39th president said the 'Citizens United' ruling 'violates the essence of what made America a great country in its political system'</b></i><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/jimmy-carter-u-s-is-an-oligarchy-with-unlimited-political-bribery-63262/" style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/jimmy-carter-u-s-is-an-oligarchy-with-unlimited-political-bribery-63262/</a><br /></div><div><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>'Burden to Democratic Ticket': Kamala Harris Urged to Step Down Ahead of 2024 Election<span class="gmail_default"> </span></b></i>[So <span class="gmail_default">Hillary goes in? W</span>hat <span class="gmail_default">will</span> Harris be offered for that move?<span class="gmail_default"></span>]<div><i>A Washington Post editorial called on the US vice president to step aside as she has become a "burden" to the Democratic ticket.</i></div><div><a href="https://sputnikglobe.com/20240317/burden-to-democratic-ticket-kamala-harris-urged-to-step-down-ahead-of-2024-election--1117389568.html" style="color: #1155cc;">https://sputnikglobe.com/20240317/burden-to-democratic-ticket-kamala-harris-urged-to-step-down-ahead-of-2024-election--1117389568.html</a><i><br /></i></div><div><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>UNICEF Says Israel Has Killed Over 13,000 Children in Gaza<br />The agency says many are suffering from malnutrition and do not 'even have the energy to cry'</b></i><div><a href="https://news.antiwar.com/2024/03/17/unicef-says-israel-has-killed-over-13000-children-in-gaza/" style="color: #1155cc;">https://news.antiwar.com/2024/03/17/unicef-says-israel-has-killed-over-13000-children-in-gaza/</a></div><div><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /></span></span></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Human Rights Watch called for international sanctions on "Israel" due to its non-compliance with ICJ orders to prevent genocide.</b></i><div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>"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.</i></div><div><a href="https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/human-rights-watch-calls-for-sanctions--arms-embargo-on--isr" style="color: #1155cc;">https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/human-rights-watch-calls-for-sanctions--arms-embargo-on--isr</a><i><br /></i></div><div><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Israeli PM adamant on invading Rafah despite world pressure</b></i><div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>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.<span class="gmail_default"> </span>Netanyahu told a Cabinet meeting that Israel would push into Rafah.</i></div><div><a href="https://www.arabnews.com/node/2478181/middle-east" style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.arabnews.com/node/2478181/middle-east</a><i><br /></i></div><div><br /></div><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><b>Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi said Sunday his country will not allow the forced displacement of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip.<span class="gmail_default"> </span></b></i>("Not allow" how?)<i><br />Sisi held talks with European Union Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on the sidelines of an Egyptian-European summit in Cairo.<br /><b>"Egypt rejects the forced displacement of Palestinians to its lands and will not allow it,” </b>the Egyptian leader said as cited by a presidential statement.<br /><b>Sisi also underlined the need for a cease-fire in the Gaza Strip.</b></i><div><a href="https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/egypt-says-won-t-allow-forced-displacement-of-palestinians-from-gaza/3166847" style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/egypt-says-won-t-allow-forced-displacement-of-palestinians-from-gaza/3166847</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Archbishop Viganò: ‘The Globalist Cabal Want To Establish the Kingdom of the Antichrist on Earth’</b><br />'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 Viganò wrote.</i><div><a href="https://www.lewrockwell.com/2024/03/no_author/archbishop-vigano-the-globalist-cabal-want-to-establish-the-kingdom-of-the-antichrist-on-earth/" style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.lewrockwell.com/2024/03/no_author/archbishop-vigano-the-globalist-cabal-want-to-establish-the-kingdom-of-the-antichrist-on-earth/</a><i><br /></i></div><div><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>UK Advises Ukraine to Stay on Defensive in East and Focus on Targeting Crimea<br />British soldiers are in Ukraine helping fire Storm Shadow missiles, which can hit targets deep inside Crimea</b></i><div><a href="https://news.antiwar.com/2024/03/17/uk-advises-ukraine-to-stay-on-defensive-in-east-and-focus-on-targeting-crimea/" style="color: #1155cc;">https://news.antiwar.com/2024/03/17/uk-advises-ukraine-to-stay-on-defensive-in-east-and-focus-on-targeting-crimea/</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="gmail_default"> 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.</div><i><b>Putin allowed the creation of a sanitary zone in Ukraine due to attacks on the border area</b><br /><span class="gmail_default" style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><b>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.</b><br /><span class="gmail_default" style="font-weight: bold;"> </span>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.</i><br /></div><div><a href="https://www-kommersant-ru.translate.goog/doc/6578669?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp" style="color: #1155cc;">https://www-kommersant-ru.translate.goog/doc/6578669?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="gmail_default"> Dane Wigington, Geoengineering Watch:</div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>"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?<span class="gmail_default"> ...</span></i><br /></div><i><span class="gmail_default">..</span>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.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>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.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>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.</i><div><a href="https://www.geoengineeringwatch.org/geoengineering-watch-global-alert-news-march-16-2024-449/" style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.geoengineeringwatch.org/geoengineering-watch-global-alert-news-march-16-2024-449/</a><i><br /></i></div><div><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Niger Severs Ties With US Military After Alarm Raised Junta Will Supply Uranium To Iran</b></i><div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>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, <b>"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."</b><br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>This charge of the US not respecting the West African nation's sovereignty comes in reaction to recent <b>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.</b></i></div><div><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/niger-severs-ties-us-military-after-alarm-raised-junta-will-supply-uranium-iran" style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/niger-severs-ties-us-military-after-alarm-raised-junta-will-supply-uranium-iran</a><i><br /></i></div></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div class="gmail_default"> Don't drive a car that's a snitch, right? And don't look at your phone while you drive! Thanks Red. <i><b>Smart Cars Reporting to Govt – Insurance Rates up 26% YoY</b></i></div></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="gmail_default"> </span>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.</i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/armstrongeconomics101/inflation/smart-cars-reporting-to-govt-insurance-rates-up-26-yoy/" style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/armstrongeconomics101/inflation/smart-cars-reporting-to-govt-insurance-rates-up-26-yoy/</a><i><br /></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>The Public Bank That Wasn’t: New Jersey’s Excursion into Public Banking</b><span class="gmail_default"> , Ellen Brown </span></i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">[Risky private banks are blocking the formation of </span><span class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">this </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">public comp</span><span class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">eti</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">t</span><span class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">or</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.]</span><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Georgia, sans-serif;"><span class="gmail_default"> <b> </b></span></span><i><b>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</b>. He regularly championed public banking in speeches, town halls and campaign commercials. <b>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.</b><span class="gmail_default">..</span></i><br /></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">..<b>The report</b> recommends creation of a public bank as a successor to the SIIF but <b>asserts that the public bank should not be a depository institution</b>. This recommendation is repeated throughout the report.<span class="gmail_default"> </span>Many authorities confirm that <b>a financial institution is not a “bank” unless it takes deposits</b>...</i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span class="gmail_default">..</span><b>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</b>. The <b>Standard & Poor’s credit rating for the BND is A+/stable</b>. The S&P report states, “BND has one of the highest risk-adjusted capital (RAC) ratios for rated U.S. banks.”<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>BND’s profitability has helped strengthen community banks and credit unions in North Dakota by making loans in partnership rather than in competition</b> with them. In the Great Recession, it also bought loans from stressed local banks to prevent bank failures and keep the economy running smoothly. <b>BND operates with very low overhead and stresses productive and local lending rather than lending to buy existing assets</b>. The latter is the sort of speculative, nonproductive, bubble-creating lending engaged in by the <b>giant commercial banks from which Gov. Murphy originally sought to divest</b>. <b>North Dakota’s revenues are safer in its own bank</b> than in the largest <b>Wall Street banks, which “insure” their capital with interconnected derivatives backed by rehypothecated collateral,</b> a practice that the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency has declared to be <b>“unsafe and unsound.”</b><span class="gmail_default"><b>.</b>..</span></i><div><i><span class="gmail_default">..</span><b>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</b>. Meanwhile other states and cities are making impressive progress toward that goal. For updates, see the Public Banking Institute newsletter.</i></div><div><a href="https://ellenbrown.com/2024/03/09/the-public-bank-that-wasnt-new-jerseys-excursion-into-public-banking/" style="color: #1155cc;">https://ellenbrown.com/2024/03/09/the-public-bank-that-wasnt-new-jerseys-excursion-into-public-banking/</a><i><br /></i></div></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div class="gmail_default"> 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.</div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>The WHO Director-General is about to become the World Health Dictator, unless we stop him!<br />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:<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>A new Pandemic Treaty is being proposed that would legalize worldwide use of experimental, liability-free vaccines, impose health censorship and much more.<br />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.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>If either one passes it will be a massive attack on our civil rights, Constitutions, and our national sovereignty and individual autonomy.</b></i><br /></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://merylnass.substack.com/p/okay-editors-what-about-this-simplified" style="color: #1155cc;">https://merylnass.substack.com/p/okay-editors-what-about-this-simplified</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>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.</b></i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>The report, which relies on data from the CDC, paints a troubling picture.<br /><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>"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),"</b> according to the authors.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>That said, co-author, David Wiseman, PhD (who has 86 publications to his name), leaves the cause an open question - <b>suggesting it could either be a "novel phenomenon," Covid-19, or the Covid-19 vaccine.<span class="gmail_default"> </span></b></i>[One <span class="gmail_default">cause </span>is innumerably more likely than the other two, though.]</div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/political/extreme-events-us-cancer-deaths-spiked-2021-and-2022-large-excess-over-trend" style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.zerohedge.com/political/extreme-events-us-cancer-deaths-spiked-2021-and-2022-large-excess-over-trend</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Concerns regarding Transfusions of Blood Products Derived from Genetic Vaccine Recipients and Proposals for Specific Measures</b></i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202403.0881/v1" style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202403.0881/v1</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Psychoactive drug ibogaine effectively treats traumatic brain injury in special ops military vets<span class="gmail_default"> </span></b></i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(Rewiring the human brain is disorienting and exhausting, though.)</span><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />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.</i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2024/01/ibogaine-ptsd.html#:~:text=Ibogaine%20is%20a%20naturally%20occurring,in%20spiritual%20and%20healing%20ceremonies." style="color: #1155cc;">https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2024/01/ibogaine-ptsd.html#:~:text=Ibogaine%20is%20a%20naturally%20occurring,in%20spiritual%20and%20healing%20ceremonies.</a><i><br /></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div class="gmail_default">Neurotypical and Uninoculated (stopped for this picture of a storm cloud at sunset)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY6ntGzm9ocMMWgKlZoIY8BqGyEdSOKLoO46r4Esy5jXL36WCWM74PUqOoL-CtE3TY8or1mcHP756iWzD7dy_v-bkAHZM8FKNDREzGELC5hL9HhgXSKsK2MaKOca-LWci2mq_eMVKCZ_hnYu88IpsDPZtquUORlKyIdiqJOVa7ZCsKzQSjylmg-XhT3tZP/s4032/PXL_20240314_002650113.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="2268" height="1147" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY6ntGzm9ocMMWgKlZoIY8BqGyEdSOKLoO46r4Esy5jXL36WCWM74PUqOoL-CtE3TY8or1mcHP756iWzD7dy_v-bkAHZM8FKNDREzGELC5hL9HhgXSKsK2MaKOca-LWci2mq_eMVKCZ_hnYu88IpsDPZtquUORlKyIdiqJOVa7ZCsKzQSjylmg-XhT3tZP/w645-h1147/PXL_20240314_002650113.jpg" width="645" /></a></div><br /><div class="gmail_default"><br /></div></div>John Dayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12123174297818737132noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4275885258914846834.post-91651974378965021312024-03-17T19:25:00.002-05:002024-03-17T19:25:57.044-05:00Caring About Children<p> Supportive Adults,</p><div class="gmail_default"><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Israeli Genocide Causing 'Complete Psychological Destruction' of Gaza Children<span class="gmail_default"> </span></b></i>[I cannot actually imagine the horrors they live in every day.]<i><b><br />"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.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>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.</b></i><div><a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/gaza-children">https://www.commondreams.org/news/gaza-children</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="gmail_default"> Jonathan Cook, <i><b>War on Gaza: Torture, executions, babies left to die, sexual abuse… These are Israel’s crimes</b></i></div></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default">H</span>ostages tortured to death</b>. <b>Parents executed in front of their children</b>. <b>Doctors beaten</b>. <b>Babies murdered</b>. <b>Sexual assault weaponised</b>.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>No, not Hamas crimes. This is part of <b>an ever-growing list of documented atrocities committed by Israel in the five months since 7 October </b>- quite separate from the <b>carpet bombing of 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza and a famine induced by Israel’s obstruction of aid</b>.</i><div><a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/war-gaza-israel-torture-executions-babies-die-sexual-abuse-crimes">https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/war-gaza-israel-torture-executions-babies-die-sexual-abuse-crimes</a><i><br /></i><div><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Israeli PM approves Rafah operation plan<br />Benjamin Netanyahu said the IDF is prepared to conduct the attack and evacuate the civilian population</b></i><div><a href="https://swentr.site/news/594321-natanyahu-approves-rafah-operation/">https://swentr.site/news/594321-natanyahu-approves-rafah-operation/</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Canada’s Center for Israel and Jewish Affairs Is on the Wrong Side of History. Bill C-63, “The Online Hams Act”<span class="gmail_default"> </span></b></i>[Canadians remain free to support Genocide.]<i><b><br />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</b></i><div><a href="https://www.globalresearch.ca/center-israel-jewish-affairs-wrong-side-history/5852263">https://www.globalresearch.ca/center-israel-jewish-affairs-wrong-side-history/5852263</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="gmail_default">Bibi-Bus-Under [They will let him execute more genocide first.]: <i><b>Biden Embraces Schumer’s "Good Speech" Which Blasted Netanyahu</b></i></div></div><div class="gmail_default"><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/biden-embraces-schumers-good-speech-which-blasted-netanyahu">https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/biden-embraces-schumers-good-speech-which-blasted-netanyahu</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div class="gmail_default"><br /></div><div class="gmail_default"> It is hard to get clarity on what is happening in the Russia/NATO proxy war in Ukraine, but I'll try.</div><div class="gmail_default">Russian Presidential voting finishes today. Putin will be overwhelmingly re-elected. A large-scale Russian spring-offensive is anticipated.</div><div class="gmail_default"> 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).</div><div class="gmail_default"> 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.</div><div class="gmail_default"> 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.</div><div class="gmail_default"><br /></div><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Simplicius,<span class="gmail_default"> </span><i><b>Macron Attempts to Woo Nation to War</b></i><br /><i><b>NATO cannot let Russia capture Odessa for a multitude of reasons.</b><br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>NATO was building important naval bases there</b> in order to fully neutralize Russia’s Black Sea Fleet in the future<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>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<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>The above alone would <b>allow Russia to dominate global wheat markets as Ukraine would have little ways to export its grain</b><br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>It would <b>allow Russia to create an unbroken land corridor to Pridnestrovie (Transnistria)</b> which would catalyze into an even greater <b>‘domino-effect’ collapse of NATO</b> destabilization plans, <b>allowing Russia to totally solve the PMR issue and create a fortress in the region</b><br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>In short, it’s absolutely <b>apocalyptic for NATO to lose Odessa</b>.</i><div class="gmail_default"><a href="https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/macron-attempts-to-woo-nation-to">https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/macron-attempts-to-woo-nation-to</a><br /></div><div class="gmail_default"><br /></div><div class="gmail_default"> Gilbert Doctorow (I think Macron has become "expendable" to his Rothschild-Paris banking masters at this point) </div><i><b>France sees no red lines in what it does to Russia: there will be consequences…</b></i><div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>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.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>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.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Though Putin’s transparent threats are deadly serious, Russian elites find it hard to take Macron and his associates at face value.</i></div><div><a href="https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2024/03/17/france-sees-no-red-lines-in-what-it-does-to-russia-there-will-be-consequences/">https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2024/03/17/france-sees-no-red-lines-in-what-it-does-to-russia-there-will-be-consequences/</a><i><br /></i></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="gmail_default"> 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?)</div><div class="gmail_default"><i><b>NEW EVIDENCE THE GERMAN </b></i>["secretly" nuclear-capable] <i><b>TAURUS ATTACK PLAN WAS LEAKED BY THE US AIR FORCE</b></i></div></div><div class="gmail_default"><a href="https://johnhelmer.net/new-evidence-the-german-taurus-attack-plan-was-leaked-by-the-us-air-force/#more-89562">https://johnhelmer.net/new-evidence-the-german-taurus-attack-plan-was-leaked-by-the-us-air-force/#more-89562</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div class="gmail_default"><br /></div><div class="gmail_default">Vladimir Putin re-elected to 5th presidential term, with 87% of the vote, a new record.</div><div class="gmail_default"><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/putin-forever">https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/putin-forever</a><br /></div><div class="gmail_default"><br /></div><div class="gmail_default">Tom Luongo, <i><b>Europe Panics as Trump Rises from the Political Grave</b></i></div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>US support for Project Ukraine is coming to an end, if it hasn’t ended already. And the panic in Europe is palpable</b>.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.”...</i></div><div><i><span class="gmail_default">..</span><b>”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,”</b> Orban said in an interview with M1 broadcaster on Sunday.<span class="gmail_default"> </span></i></div><div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>During his presidency, Trump had shown himself to be “a man of peace,” the Hungarian leader claimed.<span class="gmail_default"> </span></b></i><i><b>That stance puts him in alignment with Hungary</b>, 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.<b> Donald Trump is pro-peace, Hungary is pro-peace. At the bottom of everything lies this difference,” </b>Orban declared.</i></div><div><a href="https://tomluongo.me/2024/03/14/europe-panics-as-trump-rises-from-the-political-grave/">https://tomluongo.me/2024/03/14/europe-panics-as-trump-rises-from-the-political-grave/</a><i><br /></i></div><div><i><br /></i><div class="gmail_default"> Former Moldovan anti-communist activist and Deputy Prime Minister Iurie Rosca's essay is presented again for holistic context of global power dynamics.</div><i><b>UNRESTRICTED WARFARE: A Holistic Approach to the Great Reset</b></i><div><a href="https://iurierosca.substack.com/p/unrestricted-warfare-a-holistic-approach">https://iurierosca.substack.com/p/unrestricted-warfare-a-holistic-approach</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="gmail_default"> 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).</div><i><b>INTERVIEW: Yuri Rosca - UNRESTRICTED WARFARE: A Holistic Approach to the Great Reset</b></i><br /></div><div><a href="https://iurierosca.substack.com/p/interview-yuri-rosca-unrestricted">https://iurierosca.substack.com/p/interview-yuri-rosca-unrestricted</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="gmail_default"> Meryl Nass MD links to: <b>THE DEPRAVITY OF THE CENSORSHIP MOGULS , </b><b>Don't you dare think outside the mainstream</b></div></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>SUMMARY<span class="gmail_default">: </span><span class="gmail_default"> </span>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.</b><br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>USAID’s censorship</b> proposals were <b>aimed at influencing private sector technology companies, media organizations, education ministries, national governments and funding bodies</b>.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>USAID endorsed “Advertiser Outreach” </b>for the purpose of <b>getting corporate advertisers to financially throttle disfavored media sources</b> and social media accounts.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>USAID recommended Google’s Redirect Method and “prebunking”</b> (i.e., psychological inoculation) as potential solutions to stop the erosion of traditional media influence over citizen hearts and minds.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>USAID proposed targeting gamers and gaming sites, pushing the need to censor their formation of “interpretations of the world that differ from ‘mainstream’ sources” </b>and interrupting the process by which <b>“individuals contribute their own ‘research'” </b>to collectively form<b> their own “populist expertise.”</b></i><div><a href="https://merylnass.substack.com/p/the-depravity-of-the-censorship-moguls">https://merylnass.substack.com/p/the-depravity-of-the-censorship-moguls</a><i><br /></i></div></div><div><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>How to Stop the Pandemic Treaty | Interview with Dr. Meryl Nass, by Yuri Roshka<span class="gmail_default"> </span></b></i>[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".]<div><a href="https://iurierosca.substack.com/p/how-to-stop-the-pandemic-treaty-interview">https://iurierosca.substack.com/p/how-to-stop-the-pandemic-treaty-interview</a><br /></div><div><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>RSV Prefusion F Protein–Based Maternal Vaccine — Preterm Birth and Other Outcomes</b></i><div><i><b>CONCLUSIONS<span class="gmail_default">: </span>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.</b></i></div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>[<b>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</b>; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.08 to 1.74; P=0.01); <b>neonatal death occurred in 0.4% (13 of 3494) and 0.2% (3 of 1739), respectively (relative risk, 2.16</b>; 95% CI, 0.62 to 7.56; P=0.23), <b>an imbalance probably attributable to the greater percentage of preterm births in the vaccine group</b>.]</i><div><a href="https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2305478">https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2305478</a><i><br /></i></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="gmail_default"> 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. </div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"></span>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</b></i><br /></div><div><a href="https://merylnass.substack.com/p/covid-origin-more-on-munsters-niaid">https://merylnass.substack.com/p/covid-origin-more-on-munsters-niaid</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="gmail_default"> Dr. Nass has been presenting to a lot of Parliamentarians in recent months. <i><b>What Can Parliamentarians Do about the WHO?</b></i></div><i><b>The WHO may not be under the jurisdiction of any court, and its staff has diplomatic immunity, BUT IT IS NOT UNTOUCHABLE.</b></i><br /></div><div><a href="https://merylnass.substack.com/p/what-can-parliamentarians-do-about">https://merylnass.substack.com/p/what-can-parliamentarians-do-about</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Harvard Fires Professor Who Co-wrote Great Barrington Declaration<br />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.</b></i><div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>In an essay published Monday in City Journal, Kulldorff wrote that<b> his anti-mandate position got him fired from the Mass General Brigham hospital system</b>, where he also worked, <b>and consequently from his Harvard faculty position</b>.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Kulldorff detailed how <b>his commitment to scientific inquiry put him at odds with a system that he alleged had “lost its way.”</b><br /><b>“I am no longer a professor of medicine at Harvard,”</b> Kulldorff wrote. <b>“The Harvard motto is Veritas, Latin for truth. But, as I discovered, truth can get you fired.”</b></i></div><div><a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/harvard-martin-kulldorff-great-barrington-declaration/">https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/harvard-martin-kulldorff-great-barrington-declaration/</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="gmail_default"> [Like me, but much more important.] <i><b>Harvard Medical School Professor Was Fired Over Not Getting COVID Vaccine</b></i></div></div><i><b>Martin Kulldorff, an epidemiologist, was fired by Mass General Brigham in November 2021 over noncompliance with the hospital’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate </b>after his requests for exemptions from the mandate were denied, according to one document. <b>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</b>, another document stated.</i><div><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/harvard-medical-school-professor-was-fired-over-not-getting-covid-vaccine">https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/harvard-medical-school-professor-was-fired-over-not-getting-covid-vaccine</a><i><br /></i></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="gmail_default"> [No, the government/DoD RAN the fraud!] <i><b>DOJ Asks Court to Toss Whistleblower Lawsuit Alleging Pfizer Defrauded U.S. Government</b></i></div><i><b>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.</b></i><br /></div><div><a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/doj-motion-to-dismiss-pfizer-fraud-whistleblower-lawsuit/">https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/doj-motion-to-dismiss-pfizer-fraud-whistleblower-lawsuit/</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="gmail_default"> Sasha Latypova, <i><b>Moderna is substantially expanding manufacturing capacity, despite low demand for their mRNA poison...</b></i></div></div><i>Moderna is building manufacturing facilities in many countries, much more capacity than they had for covid shots.<span class="gmail_default"> </span></i>
[Why, pray tell?]<div><a href="https://sashalatypova.substack.com/p/moderna-is-substantially-expanding">https://sashalatypova.substack.com/p/moderna-is-substantially-expanding</a><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="gmail_default"> Sasha linked to this Aussie site: <i><b>October Surprise: ‘Bioterrorism’? </b></i><i><b>Should we fear the WHO - or the USA?</b></i></div></div><i><b>The trailer for the new “Biodefense” movie - just released by Washington D.C! - is summarized on YouTube as follows :<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>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 <span class="gmail_default"></span>the biological threat quickly spreads across the country.</b></i><div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Put in context, does this official 2024 “movie trailer” brought to you by <b>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?</b><br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>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?</i></div><div><a href="https://democracymanifest.substack.com/p/october-surprise-bioterrorism">https://democracymanifest.substack.com/p/october-surprise-bioterrorism</a><i><br /></i></div><div><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Oxford COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy Scale<span class="gmail_default"> </span></b></i>[Maybe they can make up a "snake-handling" hesitancy score. So many people are <span class="gmail_default"></span>afraid of Rattlers and Copperheads.]<i><b><br />Critical Thinking, Desire for Informed Consent, Appropriate Caution--All Ignored in a New "Disease" Score</b></i><div><a href="https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/oxford-covid-19-vaccine-hesitancy">https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/oxford-covid-19-vaccine-hesitancy</a></div><div><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span class="gmail_default"> </span></span></span><i><b>Amish Officially Declared ‘World’s Healthiest Children’ After Rejecting Big Pharma Vaccines</b></i></div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>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.<span class="gmail_default"> </span></i>
[No junk food, either] <div><a href="https://thepeoplesvoice.tv/amish-officially-declared-worlds-healthiest-children-after-rejecting-big-pharma-vaccines/">https://thepeoplesvoice.tv/amish-officially-declared-worlds-healthiest-children-after-rejecting-big-pharma-vaccines/</a></div><div><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span class="gmail_default"> [Iurie Rosca sees BRICS+ as "the same, but a competitor". What is the "competitor" offering?] </span></span></span><i><b>Will BRICS launch a new world in 2024?</b><span class="gmail_default" style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><span class="gmail_default"><b> </b>Pepe Escobar</span><br />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.<span class="gmail_default">..</span></i></div><div><i><span class="gmail_default">..</span><b>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.<span class="gmail_default"> </span></b>Ushakov specifically emphasized <b>"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."<span class="gmail_default"> </span></b></i>[Color me not-reassured-enough.]<i><br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>Ushakov did not mention it explicitly, but a new alternative system already exists</b>. 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. <br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>The Cradle was briefed on the system via several meetings since last year</b> 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. <b>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. </b><br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>This all ties in with Ushakov publicly declaring that <b>a specific task for 2024 is to increase the role of BRICS in the international monetary/ financial system</b>. </i><div><a href="https://thecradle.co/articles/will-brics-launch-a-new-world-in-2024">https://thecradle.co/articles/will-brics-launch-a-new-world-in-2024</a><br /></div></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="gmail_default"></div><div class="gmail_default">Facilitating Childhood Health (pictured recently with Jenny and our Grandson)</div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjZYEox1KDPogV1gChfnRU4UVP5pygUflqtJbDOI94qwN37qsrkPqho0VAei4IgH3sNbRDzUuYcSzmn4IzeBBE0nOI5wQ-mTwHpvKAOp_oAkPKgQlfFqSpEVim0CR6UITfnd3OwrVVF4CrZCml4Cjkx3jM05-4XhIpCYCKvzyGvNtHEPcqdnM-QJmpAxht/s4032/PXL_20240312_235149683.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2268" data-original-width="4032" height="351" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjZYEox1KDPogV1gChfnRU4UVP5pygUflqtJbDOI94qwN37qsrkPqho0VAei4IgH3sNbRDzUuYcSzmn4IzeBBE0nOI5wQ-mTwHpvKAOp_oAkPKgQlfFqSpEVim0CR6UITfnd3OwrVVF4CrZCml4Cjkx3jM05-4XhIpCYCKvzyGvNtHEPcqdnM-QJmpAxht/w625-h351/PXL_20240312_235149683.jpg" width="625" /></a></div><br /><div class="gmail_default"><br /></div>John Dayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12123174297818737132noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4275885258914846834.post-20458667939642348862024-03-15T16:46:00.004-05:002024-03-15T17:30:47.276-05:00Steampunk Reveries<p> Retrofuturists,</p><div class="gmail_default"><br /></div><div class="gmail_default"> Thanks AFKTT. <i><b>A Fatally Repeated Misunderstanding , Consciousness of Sheep</b></i> (What if there was never any oil?)</div><i> <b> In 1927, the market price of coal spiked</b>. 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. <b>There was though, a deeper and potentially existential cause – the peak of coal-based coal production.</b> <br /><span class="gmail_default"> <b> </b></span><b>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.</b> And even <b>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,”</b> during which almost everyone came to believe that the economy could only grow, and that tomorrow was bound to be better than today.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Economic historians remind us in lurid detail what happened next. <b>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</b>. For a while they stuck it out, hoping that growth would return, and values would be restored. Until, <b>in October 1929, the big players began to cut their losses. The Wall Street Crash turned paper millionaires into paupers overnight</b> and paved the way for the Great Depression which saw millions of Americans – and later, millions around the world – reduced to penury.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>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</b>… 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.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>Behind the awakening of the sleeping giant that was the industrial USA, though, lay oil.</b> Without the oil to power the tanks and aeroplanes and ships and trucks, the allies could not have prevailed. Indeed, <b>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.</b><br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>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</b> – a process that is still within living memory. <b> 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</b> – creating a modern world which increasing numbers of us realise is already past its peak.<br /></i><div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>So, here’s a thought experiment – <b>what would have happened in the 1930s if there was no such thing as oil?</b><br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>First, although the least understood, is that <b>productivity would have slumped across the industrialised economies as the coal which powered the machinery became harder and more expensive to obtain.</b> Gradually, <b>processes which had been automated would become labour intensive again</b>. <b>International, and even inter-regional trade and transportation would become harder to maintain, forcing a re-localisation of the economy</b>. And ultimately, <b>this economic slowdown would result in everybody becoming poorer</b> (even if some became poorer than others).</i></div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>Government – which more often messes things up than makes them better – would undoubtedly fail,</b> as orthodox economic policy not only failed to restore prosperity but appeared to make things worse. This, in turn, would lead to the<b> 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</b>.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>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</b>. The likely <b>result would be a downward dumping which attempted to make the poorest people take the greatest hit</b> to their prosperity. <b>A new lower class, living in precarious conditions would likely emerge, trading labour for food and shelter </b>rather than the monetary wages of the earlier age…<b> a “precariat,” if you will</b>. Ultimately though, <b>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</b> that has no pathway to sustainability, still less economic growth.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>In the end, most of the corporate elite would probably be dispossessed </b>as <b>one or other version of collectivism rose to power in a last-ditch effort to restore the broad prosperity of the earlier age</b>. But <b>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</b> and a <b>slide back to the agrarian localism</b> of a much earlier age.<span class="gmail_default"> </span></i>[There is no "sliding back"<span class="gmail_default"> now</span>, if you think about it.]<i><br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>But, of course, the<b> 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</b>.</i><div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Despite its apparently small increased power compared to coal – around 10 megajoules per kilogram – <b>the additional power provided by oil shaped the modern world</b>. But <b>its high points – sending men to the Moon, commercial supersonic flight, transplant surgery, microprocessors, etc., – are half a century or so behind us.</b> Indeed, look closely enough and you will probably notice that <b>a good deal of the built environment from those days is falling apart</b>.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Oil, it turns out, came with <b>the same issues as coal. It is a finite resource (at least on any practical timescale)</b> which has been developed on a <b>“low-hanging fruit” basis… starting with the cheapest and easiest deposits then moving on to the difficult and expensive</b>. And yet all the while being expected to meet the demands of a <b>rapacious debt-based financial system for permanent economic growth</b>. So that each additional <b>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</b> by the corporations and the banks.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Notice too, that <b>the economic landscape today has a certain resonance with the coal depression of the 1930s</b>… remembering that <b>history rhymes</b> rather than repeats. <b>Doesn’t the gig economy look a lot like those lines of unemployed people desperate to find any kind of work?</b> Aren’t the<b> tent cities</b> that are now commonplace (if hidden for cosmetic reasons) in almost every western city very similar to the <b>shanty housing of the depression era?</b> Might <b>foodbanks </b>be a modern iteration of the <b>charity soup kitchens </b>of the 1930s?<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>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, <b>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</b>. But most of the economists of the day blithely promised that as one coal deposit depleted another would be found… and, indeed, <b>with the development of oil-powered machinery, previously unrecoverable coal was eventually produced</b>.</i></div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>In this sense though, the obvious <b>absence of an alternative to oil should have been a cause for concern from the outset</b>. Indeed, in the immediate post-war years it had been <b>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.</b> <b>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</b>. And since the <b>peak of world oil discovery was in 1964, it followed that the peak of world production would be in 2004-05… which it was.</b><br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>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.</b> This time, aided by the fumbling incompetence of central bankers, <b>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.</b> Indeed, <b>the only reason that we witnessed even the anaemic growth of the 2010s was the American so-called “fracking miracle.”</b><br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>It wasn’t really a miracle though</b>. Both the <b>discovery of the shale plays and the invention of the fracking technology had occurred decades before the 2008 crash</b>. The<b> reason the shale plays remained undeveloped was down to cost</b>. <b>With oil prices in the 30 to 50-dollar-a-barrel range there was no way fracked shale oil could turn a profit.</b> But <b>the oil peak of 2005, along with the post-2008 financial landscape changed that</b>.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>World oil prices exceeded $100-per-barrel either side of the crash, prompting economists to predict $200-per-barrel oil in the 2010s</b>. Suddenly, fracking looked like a good bet for investors. And this was aided by the low-growth, low-interest environment following the crash. <b>The return on safe investments was negative once inflation was taken into account.</b> And even riskier dabbling in the stock and bond markets brought relatively small returns. <b>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</b>.</i><div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>The fracking experiment taught us another important lesson… if only we had heeded it. <b>$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</b>… as it happened, just <b>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.</b><br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Far from the establishment media’s “Saudi America,” and the “century of energy independence,” <b>the hydraulic fracturing of the North American shale plays bought us an additional decade of oil production growth</b>. But with no serious replacement on the table, <b>that decade would have been best used to mitigate the inevitable economic shrinking and disintegration that is now washing over us</b>. <b>American, and global oil production finally peaked in November 2018</b>.<b> By the middle of 2019, the global economy was entering a recession</b> – although this was <b>overtaken by the pandemic lockdowns and restrictions</b>, followed by the insane attempt at economic warfare with one of the most resource-rich states on the planet. So that <b>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</b>.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Maybe it was inevitable. <b>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</b>… or at least until clever people somewhere else came up with an alternative. And yet <b>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</b>. <br /><span class="gmail_default"> <b> </b></span><b>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?</b></i></div><div><a href="https://consciousnessofsheep.co.uk/2024/03/07/a-fatally-repeated-misunderstanding/">https://consciousnessofsheep.co.uk/2024/03/07/a-fatally-repeated-misunderstanding/</a><i><br /></i></div><div><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>U.S. Drivers Warned to Brace For Jump in Gasoline Prices</b></i><div><i><b>“There is every reason to believe gasoline prices will screech even higher going forward<span class="gmail_default">.</span>”</b></i></div><div><a href="https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/US-Drivers-Warned-to-Brace-For-Jump-in-Gasoline-Prices.html">https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/US-Drivers-Warned-to-Brace-For-Jump-in-Gasoline-Prices.html</a><b><i><br /></i></b><div><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Israel’s Security Chief Cheers Killing of Palestinian Child<br />Twelve-year-old Rami al-Halhouli was fatally shot while playing with fireworks in a Jerusalem refugee camp</b></i><div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>Ben-Gvir claimed the border officer “shot a terrorist” who had tried to “use firecrackers” against Israeli forces</b> the night prior, arguing the guard did “exactly what was expected of him” in executing the unarmed preteen.<br /><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>“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,” </b>he added in another post.</i></div><div><a href="https://news.antiwar.com/2024/03/13/israels-security-chief-cheers-killing-of-palestinian-child/">https://news.antiwar.com/2024/03/13/israels-security-chief-cheers-killing-of-palestinian-child/</a><i><br /></i></div><div><br /></div><i><b>Israel killed more children in Gaza in last 5 months than all conflicts worldwide for last 4 years: UN rapporteur<br />'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</b></i><div><a href="https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/israel-killed-more-children-in-gaza-in-last-5-months-than-all-conflicts-worldwide-for-last-4-years-un-rapporteur/3163509">https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/israel-killed-more-children-in-gaza-in-last-5-months-than-all-conflicts-worldwide-for-last-4-years-un-rapporteur/3163509</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div><br /></div><i><b>Israel To Move Civilians to ‘Humanitarian Islands’ Before Invasion<span class="gmail_default"> </span></b></i>[This forced dislocation is also a war crime.]<i><b><br />Tel Aviv claims it will move the 1.5 million Palestinians sheltering in Rafah to other areas of the Strip, then attack the city.</b></i><div><a href="https://news.antiwar.com/2024/03/13/israel-to-move-civilians-to-humanitarian-islands-before-invasion/">https://news.antiwar.com/2024/03/13/israel-to-move-civilians-to-humanitarian-islands-before-invasion/</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div><br /></div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) food distribution center in Gaza was hit by an Israeli airstrike, killing five.</b> The bombing of the facility is the <b>latest in a series of Israeli attacks on food distribution in Gaza</b>. The <b>Israeli military operations</b> in Gaza and restrictions on aid entering the Strip have <b>placed hundreds of thousands of Palestinians on the brink of starvation</b>.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Witnesses, Gazan health officials, and the UN reported that<b> Israel attacked the UNRWA warehouse in Rafah on Wednesday, killing five people, including one UNRWA worker</b>. <b>Officials reported that scores were injured in the attack without providing a number.</b> The Israeli onslaught in Gaza has had a massive impact on aid workers.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>One Palestinian in Rafah said the attack was particularly concerning because UNRWA sites are generally considered safer. <b>“It’s a UNRWA center, expected to be secure,” </b>one resident said. <b>Over the past five months, 165 UNRWA workers have been killed, and over 150 of the agency’s buildings in Gaza have been hit.</b></i><div><a href="https://news.antiwar.com/2024/03/13/israel-bombs-food-distribution-center-in-gaza-killing-five/">https://news.antiwar.com/2024/03/13/israel-bombs-food-distribution-center-in-gaza-killing-five/</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>War on Gaza: Over 20 killed in new massacre of Palestinians waiting for ai<span class="gmail_default">d , </span>Israeli helicopters fired on crowd of thousands waiting to receive aid</b></i></div><div><i>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.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>The Palestinian health ministry in Gaza said that <b>20 dead bodies and 155 wounded people have arrived at al-Shifa Hospital</b> in northern Gaza alone. It said that it is <b>working to retrieve more dead bodies</b>.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>The ministry added that it <b>expects the death toll to rise because of "the seriousness of the injuries" of individuals reaching Gaza's hospitals.</b></i></div><div><a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/dozens-killed-new-israeli-massacre-palestinians-waiting-aid">https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/dozens-killed-new-israeli-massacre-palestinians-waiting-aid</a><i><br /></i><div><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>MIT student group facing threats of expulsion for supporting Palestine<span class="gmail_default"> </span></b></i>[This is serious. They are <span class="gmail_default">upholding</span> apartheid against an African woman-of-color.]<div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>The President of the <b>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</b>.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>Ogundipe told Anadolu that she evaluated the banning of support demonstrations for Palestine and attempts by administrators to silence students</b>, especially at MIT and other US universities.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>The senior chemical engineering major said <b>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</b>.<span class="gmail_default">..</span></i></div><i>..She said,<b> at MIT, there were several sponsored research projects funded by the Israeli Defence Ministry</b> and through the Anti-Apartheid Scientists campaign launched in December. <b>CAA urged students and staff to withdraw from companies and research projects complicit in Israeli apartheid, Occupation and genocide</b>...<br /><span class="gmail_default">..</span>She expressed that <b>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</b>.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>As a result, CAA received a warning letter, was suspended and its leaders faced threats of expulsion and bans from leading unauthorised demonstrations.</b> Expulsion from MIT was threatened for further rule violations.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Ogundipe said <b>MIT Chancellor, Sally Kornbluth, swiftly announced in a video that CAA was expelled from the school.</b></i><div><a href="https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240313-mit-student-group-facing-threats-of-expulsion-for-supporting-palestine/">https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240313-mit-student-group-facing-threats-of-expulsion-for-supporting-palestine/</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Italian defense minister says Rome suspended weapons supplies to Israel</b></i></div><div><i><span class="gmail_default"> <b> </b></span><b>Italian Defense Minister Guido Crosetto said Rome did not supply weapons to Israel after October 7, 2023</b>.<span class="gmail_default"> </span>"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.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>He also said that <b>shipments that had been authorized but not implemented before said date were re-examined to make sure</b> that <b>"the list does not contain materials that, if used, could affect the residents of the Gaza Strip."</b></i></div><div><a href="https://tass.com/world/1759701">https://tass.com/world/1759701</a></div><div><br /></div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>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</b>, the deputy chief of the Russian Center for Reconciliation of the Opposing Parties in Syria (a division of the Russian defense ministry) said.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> <b> </b></span><b>"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," </b>Rear Adm. Vadim Kulit said.</i><div><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1759723">https://tass.com/politics/1759723<i><br /></i></a><div><br /></div><div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Houthis Go Hypersonic? How Ansar Allah’s Advance in Missile Tech Could Trigger US Defeat in Mideast</b></i></div><div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>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.</i></div><div><a href="https://sputnikglobe.com/20240314/houthis-go-hypersonic-how-ansar-allahs-advance-in-missile-tech-could-trigger-us-defeat-in-mideast-1117334551.html">https://sputnikglobe.com/20240314/houthis-go-hypersonic-how-ansar-allahs-advance-in-missile-tech-could-trigger-us-defeat-in-mideast-1117334551.html</a><i><br /></i><div><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>US Rejects Russian Ceasefire Proposal for Ukraine<br />CIA Director William Burns warned that the US is running out of time to support Ukraine</b></i><div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>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.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>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.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>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.</i></div><div><a href="https://news.antiwar.com/2024/03/13/us-rejects-russian-ceasefire-proposal-for-ukraine/">https://news.antiwar.com/2024/03/13/us-rejects-russian-ceasefire-proposal-for-ukraine/</a></div><br /><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>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.</b></i><br /><a href="https://avia-pro.net/news/v-portu-odessy-unichtozheny-sborochnye-linii-bezekipazhnyh-katerov-kamikadze">https://avia-pro.net/news/v-portu-odessy-unichtozheny-sborochnye-linii-bezekipazhnyh-katerov-kamikadze</a><div><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Scenario for Military Takeover of Ukrainian Parliament Was Written by US - Expert</b></i><div><i><b>"This could be a scenario of replacing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky without holding elections," </b>Alexander Dudchak, researcher at the Institute of CIS Countries and expert of the ‘Other Ukraine’ movement, told Sputnik.</i></div><div><a href="https://sputnikglobe.com/20240314/scenario-for-military-takeover-of-ukrainian-parliament-was-written-by-us---expert-1117334224.html">https://sputnikglobe.com/20240314/scenario-for-military-takeover-of-ukrainian-parliament-was-written-by-us---expert-1117334224.html</a><i><br /></i></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="gmail_default"> Eleni sends this from Andrew Korybko: <b><i> NATO Has Secret Agenda for Troops In Ukraine </i></b>[Denying Ukrainian assets/collateral to global corporations might shorten this war.]</div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>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.”</b> What she didn’t mention, however, is that this will likely be an <b>asymmetrical partition</b>.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>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, <b>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”.</b><span class="gmail_default"><b></b>..</span></i></div><div><i><span class="gmail_default">..</span>The <b>end effect would be to formally preserve Ukrainian statehood per the West’s officially stated objective that “justifies” their proxy war against Russia</b> through that former Soviet Republic <b>while nevertheless asymmetrically partitioning it into “spheres of economic influence” per the Davos agenda</b>. 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.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>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. <b>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</b>. <br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>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), <b>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</b>.</i><br /></div><div><a href="https://korybko.substack.com/p/ukraine-is-facing-the-scenario-of">https://korybko.substack.com/p/ukraine-is-facing-the-scenario-of</a><i><br /></i></div><div><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Medvedev responds to Zelensky ‘peace plan’<span class="gmail_default"> </span></b></i>[Crashing western finance by withdrawing Ukrainian collateral is my best advice to Russia.]<i><b><br />The senior Russian official has proposed a “soft” alternative that would see Ukraine absorbed by his country</b></i><div><i>A “reasonable” peace agreement with Ukraine would involve Moscow taking full control over the country, former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has claimed.</i></div><div><a href="https://swentr.site/russia/594272-medvedev-peace-formula-ukraine/">https://swentr.site/russia/594272-medvedev-peace-formula-ukraine/</a><i><br /></i></div><div><br /></div><div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Macron comments on Trump presidency<span class="gmail_default"> </span></b></i>[Depends on what the meaning of "is" is, doesn't it?]<i><b><br />The Republican candidate may not get a chance to deliver on his promise to resolve the Ukrainian conflict, the French leader believes</b></i></div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Noting Macron’s reluctance to engage in direct communications with Russian President Vladimir Putin, <b>the interviewers wondered if the United States could potentially mediate such talks, especially if Donald Trump is reelected</b>.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>“As far as I’m informed, I don’t think Donald Trump is President of the United States,”</b> the French leader claimed, adding that he works with the leaders he gets. <br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>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.”</b></i><div><a href="https://swentr.site/news/594289-macron-trump-putin-talks/">https://swentr.site/news/594289-macron-trump-putin-talks/</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Boeing Whistleblower: ‘If Anything Happens to Me, It’s Not Suicide’</b></i><div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>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.<br /><b>62-year-old John Barnett died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, the Charleston County coroner’s office</b> in South Carolina said earlier this week.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>Barnett had previously raised concerns about the company’s production issues having worked for the company for 32 years before leaving in 2017</b>.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>According to his attorneys, <b>Barnett had “exposed very serious safety problems with the Boeing 787 Dreamliner and was retaliated against and subjected to a hostile work environment” </b>and was in the middle of a legal deposition against Boeing.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>“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,”</b> said the attorneys.</i></div><div><a href="https://modernity.news/2024/03/15/boeing-whistleblower-if-anything-happens-to-me-its-not-suicide/">https://modernity.news/2024/03/15/boeing-whistleblower-if-anything-happens-to-me-its-not-suicide/</a><i><br /></i></div><div><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Whistleblower Targeted After Exposing 973% SURGE in Heart Failure Among Navy Pilots</b></i><div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>A United States <b>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</b>.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>Navy Medical Service Corps Lt. Ted Macie shared shocking information</b> about the surge in heart failure among military personnel.<br />Macie claimed that members of the U.S. military have experienced massive increases in heart-related issues, <b>presenting Defense Department data showing the following:<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>937% increase in heart failure<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>152% increase in cardiomyopathy<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>69% increase in ischemic heart disease<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>36% increase in hypertensive disease<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>63% increase in other forms of heart disease</b></i></div><div><a href="https://disswire.com/army-whistleblower-targeted-after-exposing-973-surge-in-heart-failure-among-navy-pilots/">https://disswire.com/army-whistleblower-targeted-after-exposing-973-surge-in-heart-failure-among-navy-pilots/</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="gmail_default"> Martin Armstrong, <i><b>Canada to Incorporate Social Scores in Banking</b></i></div></div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>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</b>. The organization, which has reached 40 countries, aims to <b>“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.”</b></i>...<i><br /><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>“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.”<span class="gmail_default">...</span></b></i><div><i><span class="gmail_default">..</span><b>Look at what happened to Nigel Farage. He never committed a crime</b> or did anything to warrant what many have called the “Farage fiasco.” <b>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.</b><br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>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.</b><br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>This is a widespread phenomenon. <b>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.</b> The government successfully prevented a bank run. We saw a few <b>celebrities debanked from the system for voicing unpopular opinions</b> without any legal proceedings or crimes committed.</i></div><div><a href="https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/great-reset/canada-to-incorporate-social-scores-in-banking/">https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/great-reset/canada-to-incorporate-social-scores-in-banking/</a></div></div><div><div><br /></div><i><b>What’s Inside Trudeau’s ‘Orwellian’ Speech Law Threatening Jail Time for Thought Crimes?</b></i><div><a href="https://sputnikglobe.com/20240314/whats-inside-trudeaus-orwellian-speech-law-threatening-jail-time-for-thought-crimes-1117328250.html">https://sputnikglobe.com/20240314/whats-inside-trudeaus-orwellian-speech-law-threatening-jail-time-for-thought-crimes-1117328250.html</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>‘Stunning Admission’: Widely Used HPV Vaccine Linked to 4 Autoimmune Disorders<br />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.</b></i></div><div><a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/hpv-vaccine-gardasil-autoimmune-disorders/">https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/hpv-vaccine-gardasil-autoimmune-disorders/</a><b><i><br /></i></b><div><br /></div><div><div class="gmail_default">Peter McCullough MD, <i><b>CDC Not Investigating Chronic Disease Epidemics Linked to Childhood Vaccines</b></i></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_default"><a href="https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/cdc-not-investigating-chronic-disease">https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/cdc-not-investigating-chronic-disease</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div class="gmail_default"><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>US -Death Trends for Neoplasms ICD codes: C00-D48, Ages 15-44<span class="gmail_default"> , David M. Wiseman</span></b></i><div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>In this study<b> 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</b>. 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, <b>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).</b></i></div><div><a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/378869803_US_-Death_Trends_for_Neoplasms_ICD_codes_C00-D48_Ages_15-44">https://www.researchgate.net/publication/378869803_US_-Death_Trends_for_Neoplasms_ICD_codes_C00-D48_Ages_15-44</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div><br /></div><div class="gmail_default"><div class="gmail_default"><br /></div><div><div class="gmail_default">Trending Towards Death (pictured replanting black beans in a bird-pecked row)</div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtsQrLcG_pnbt2ogUFm5zRRBF9bVRPi8x82Mp_oww8vAgoP055qM8UZYbTtK1k_ojxhENbTj1SaqUH5kED6swk2mARt7LahsjQryT7moDJydEyN870AdHwUTfSEGChShghNEWj7-aX1wXX4omFEh6dpiWeqFCHm948fQ9lMRW1fpLfwgCzMaFnBgCXUmNP/s4032/PXL_20240313_220832996.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2268" data-original-width="4032" height="341" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtsQrLcG_pnbt2ogUFm5zRRBF9bVRPi8x82Mp_oww8vAgoP055qM8UZYbTtK1k_ojxhENbTj1SaqUH5kED6swk2mARt7LahsjQryT7moDJydEyN870AdHwUTfSEGChShghNEWj7-aX1wXX4omFEh6dpiWeqFCHm948fQ9lMRW1fpLfwgCzMaFnBgCXUmNP/w606-h341/PXL_20240313_220832996.jpg" width="606" /></a></div><br /><div class="gmail_default"><br /></div></div>John Dayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12123174297818737132noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4275885258914846834.post-25022867002578013752024-03-14T16:25:00.004-05:002024-03-14T16:25:26.520-05:00Net Zero Including Food<p> Engaged In Reality,</p><div class="gmail_default"><br /></div><div class="gmail_default"> Colin Todhunter, <i><b>Net Zero, the Digital Panopticon and the Future of Food</b></i></div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>The food transition, the energy transition, net-zero ideology, programmable central bank digital currencies, the censorship of free speech and clampdowns on protest. What’s it all about? To understand these processes, we need to first locate what is essentially a social and economic reset within the context of a collapsing financial system.<span class="gmail_default">..</span></i><div><i><span class="gmail_default">..</span>Professor Fabio Vighi of Cardiff University has described how closing down the global economy in early 2020 under the guise of fighting a supposedly new and novel pathogen allowed the US Federal Reserve to flood collapsing financial markets (COVID relief) with freshly printed money without causing hyperinflation. Lockdowns curtailed economic activity, thereby removing demand for the newly printed money (credit) in the physical economy and preventing ‘contagion’.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>According to investigative journalist Michael Byrant, €1.5 trillion was needed to deal with the crisis in Europe alone. The financial collapse staring European central bankers in the face came to a head in 2019. The appearance of a ‘novel virus’ provided a convenient cover story.<span class="gmail_default">..</span></i></div><i><b>..In response to a collapsing neoliberalism, we are now seeing the rollout of an authoritarian great reset — an agenda that intends to reshape the economy and change how we live.</b></i><div><i>SHIFT TO AUTHORITARIANISM<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>The new economy is to be dominated by a handful of tech giants, global conglomerates and e-commerce platforms</b>, and new markets will also be created through the <b>financialisation of nature</b>, which is to be colonised, commodified and traded under the notion of protecting the environment.<span class="gmail_default">..</span></i></div><i><span class="gmail_default">..</span><b>This great reset envisages a transformation of Western societies, resulting in permanent restrictions on fundamental liberties and mass surveillance. Being rolled out under the benign term of a ‘Fourth Industrial Revolution’</b>, the World Economic Forum <b>(WEF) says the public will eventually ‘rent’ everything they require</b> (remember the WEF video ‘you will own nothing and be happy’?): <b>stripping the right of ownership under the guise of a ‘green economy’ </b>and underpinned by the rhetoric of ‘sustainable consumption’ and ‘climate emergency’.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>Climate alarmism and the mantra of sustainability are about promoting money-making schemes. But they also serve another purpose: social control.<span class="gmail_default">..</span></b></i><div><i>..To push back against any dissent, ordinary <b>people are being told that they must sacrifice personal liberty in order to protect public health, societal security (those terrible Russians, Islamic extremists or that Sunak-designated bogeyman George Galloway) or the climate</b>...</i></div><i><span class="gmail_default">..</span>The real reason for this ideological shift is to <b>ensure that the masses get used to lower living standards and accept them</b>... <b>Rob Kapito of the world’s biggest asset management firm BlackRock</b>, who says that <b>a “very entitled” generation must deal with scarcity</b> for the first time in their lives.<span class="gmail_default">..</span></i><div><i><span class="gmail_default">..</span>NET-ZERO AGENDA</i><span class="gmail_default"><i> </i>[We are burning too much of their jet-fuel,]</span></div><i>But what of this shift towards net-zero greenhouse gas emissions and the plan to slash our carbon footprints? Is it even feasible or necessary?<span class="gmail_default"> ...</span></i><div><i><span class="gmail_default">..</span><b>But this agenda will also cause serious environmental degradation</b>. So says Andrew Nikiforuk in the article The Rising Chorus of Renewable Energy Skeptics, which outlines how <b>the green techno-dream is vastly destructive</b>.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>He lists the devastating environmental impacts of <b>an even more mineral-intensive system</b> based on renewables and warns:<br /><b>“The whole process of replacing a declining system with a more complex mining-based enterprise is now supposed to take place with a fragile banking system, dysfunctional democracies, broken supply chains, critical mineral shortages and hostile geopolitics.”<span class="gmail_default"> ...</span></b></i></div><i>..In the article Global warming and the confrontation between the West and the rest of the world, journalist Thierry Meyssan argues that <b>net zero is based on political ideology rather than science</b>...</i><div><i><span class="gmail_default">..</span>It seems anyone and everyone in <b>business is planting their corporate flag on the summit of sustainability</b>. Take <b>Sainsbury’s</b>, for instance. It is <b>one of the ‘big six’ food</b> <b>retail supermarkets in the UK</b> and has a vision for the future of food that it published in 2019.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Here’s a quote from it:<br /><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>“Personalised Optimisation is a trend that could see people chipped and connected like never before</b>. A significant step on from wearable tech used today, the advent of <b>personal microchips and neural laces has the potential to see all of our genetic, health and situational data recorded, stored and analysed by algorithms which could work out exactly what we need to support us at a particular time in our life. Retailers, such as Sainsbury’s could play a critical role to support this, arranging delivery of the needed food within thirty minutes — perhaps by drone.”</b><br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>Tracked, traced and chipped — for your own benefit</b>. Corporations accessing all of our personal data, right down to our DNA. The report is littered with references to sustainability and the climate or environment...</i></div><i><span class="gmail_default">..</span><b>However, the promotion of a brave new world of technological innovation that has nothing to say about power </b>— who determines policies that have led to massive inequalities, poverty, malnutrition, food insecurity and hunger and who is responsible for the degradation of the environment in the first place — is nothing new.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>The essence of power is conveniently glossed over,</b> not least <b>because those behind the prevailing food regime are also shaping the techno-utopian fairytale</b> where everyone lives happily ever after eating bugs and synthetic food while living in a digital panopticon.<span class="gmail_default">..</span></i><div><i><span class="gmail_default">...FAKE GREEN...</span></i></div><i><span class="gmail_default">..</span>It is, furthermore, a type of green that <b>plans to cover much of the countryside with wind farms and solar panels with most farmers no longer farming</b>. A recipe for <b>food insecurity</b>.<br /><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Those investing in the ‘green’ agenda care first and foremost about profit. The supremely influential BlackRock invests in the current food system</b> that is responsible for <b>polluted waterways, degraded soils</b>, the <b>displacement of smallholder farmers</b>, a <b>spiralling public health crisis, malnutrition</b> and much more.<span class="gmail_default"> </span>It also invests in healthcare — an industry that thrives on the illnesses and conditions created by eating the substandard food that the current system produces. <b>Did Larry Fink, the top man at BlackRock, suddenly develop a conscience and become an environmentalist who cares about the planet and ordinary people?<span class="gmail_default"> ...</span></b></i><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-style: italic;">..</span><i>The aforementioned article by Andrew Nikiforuk concludes that, </i><b style="font-style: italic;">if we are really serious about our impacts on the environment, we must scale back our needs and simplify</b><i> society.</i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-style: italic;"> </span><b style="font-style: italic;">In terms of food, the solution rests on a low-input approach that strengthens rural communities and local markets and prioritises smallholder farms and small independent enterprises</b><i> and retailers, localised democratic food systems and a concept of </i><b style="font-style: italic;">food sovereignty based on self-sufficiency</b><i>, </i><b style="font-style: italic;">agroecological principles</b><i> and </i><b style="font-style: italic;">regenerative agriculture</b><i>.</i><span class="gmail_default"><i> </i>[Not zero fertilizer, but much less, and targeted fertilization, with composting and crop rotation. Wholesome food is "expensive".</span>]</div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>It would involve facilitating the right to culturally appropriate<b> food that is nutritionally dense due to diverse cropping patterns and free from toxic chemicals while ensuring local ownership and stewardship of common resources like land, water, soil and seeds.<span class="gmail_default"> </span>That’s where genuine environmentalism and the future of food begins</b>.</i><div><a href="https://off-guardian.org/2024/03/12/net-zero-the-digital-panopticon-and-the-future-of-food/">https://off-guardian.org/2024/03/12/net-zero-the-digital-panopticon-and-the-future-of-food/</a><i><br /></i></div><div><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>‘Your vampire ball is over’ – Putin to Western elites<span class="gmail_default"> </span></b></i>[He's just speaking figuratively about cannibalism, <span class="gmail_default">right</span>?]<div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>The president stated that <b>over the past few centuries, the so-called “golden billion” has grown accustomed to being able to “fill their bellies with human flesh and their pockets with money”</b> as they have been <b>“parasitizing” other peoples in Africa, Asia, and Latin America</b>.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>”But they must understand that the vampire ball is ending,” </b>Putin said.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>He added that the citizens of the aforementioned regions, which have been continuously exploited by the West over the past 500 years, have started to associate Russia’s struggle for sovereignty with “their own aspirations for sovereignty and independent development.”<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>At the same time, Putin noted that <b>Western elites have a very strong desire to “freeze the current situation” and preserve the “unjust state of affairs in international affairs.”</b></i></div><div><a href="https://www.rt.com/russia/594197-putin-vampire-ball-west/">https://www.rt.com/russia/594197-putin-vampire-ball-west/</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="gmail_default"> Mike Mihajlovic presents this new development in peer-warfare, though similar US guided-glide-bombs are also devastating Gaza. </div><div class="gmail_default"> Heavy bombs can be fitted with cheap, strap-on glide wings and targeting packages to move bombers 50-70 kilometers back from the battlefield, out of reach of most anti-aircraft systems. </div><div class="gmail_default"> Air defense radar can find and target these glide-bombs, but it has to be moved to the frontlines, where it is immediately spotted and targeted by anti-radar missiles, like the Russian Lancet. As a result, Ukrainian forces were rapidly devastated in the final assault on Avdeevka, and their Patriot and S-300 missile-batteries, now moved closer to the front lines, are being wiped out quickly in recent weeks. </div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Renaissance of the Bomb - Gliding FABs [i]<span class="gmail_default"> , </span>Russian Glide Bombs - a true menace</b></i><br /></div><div><a href="https://bmanalysis.substack.com/p/renaissance-of-the-bomb-gliding-fabs">https://bmanalysis.substack.com/p/renaissance-of-the-bomb-gliding-fabs</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div><br /></div><i><b>South Africa Says Its Citizens Serving In Israel's Military Will Be Arrested<span class="gmail_default"> </span></b></i>[Money, Mouth, <span class="gmail_default">c</span>o-located]<div><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/south-africa-says-citizens-fighting-israeli-military-will-be-arrested">https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/south-africa-says-citizens-fighting-israeli-military-will-be-arrested</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Sullivan Dismisses Reports That Say Biden is Considering Conditioning Aid to Israel If It Invades Rafah<span class="gmail_default"> </span></b></i>["Red line" - <span class="gmail_default">r</span>ubber <span class="gmail_default">e</span>raser]<i><b><br />Netanyahu said he will 'finish the job' in Rafah, which is packed with 1.5 million Palestinians</b></i><div><a href="https://news.antiwar.com/2024/03/12/sullivan-dismisses-reports-that-say-biden-is-considering-conditioning-aid-to-israel-if-it-invades-rafah/">https://news.antiwar.com/2024/03/12/sullivan-dismisses-reports-that-say-biden-is-considering-conditioning-aid-to-israel-if-it-invades-rafah/</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>US building Gaza port to facilitate mass 'voluntary' migration: Anadolu Agency<br />The US claims the port is to facilitate humanitarian aid but could be used to ethnically cleanse Gaza per previously leaked Israeli plans</b></i><div><a href="https://thecradle.co/articles/us-building-gaza-port-to-facilitate-mass-voluntary-migration-anadolu-agency">https://thecradle.co/articles/us-building-gaza-port-to-facilitate-mass-voluntary-migration-anadolu-agency</a><b><i><br /></i></b><div><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>More than a third of young French voters are planning to back anti-immigration, nationalist parties in June’s EU elections</b></i><div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>According to an Ipsos survey published on Tuesday, <b>31 percent of 18 to 24-year-olds in France are lending their vote to Jordan Bardella’s National Rally (RN) — the anti-immigration party</b> still heavily influenced by nationalist firebrand and former presidential candidate<b> Marine Le Pen</b>...<br />..<b>On the RN’s candidate list for the June election is Fabrice Leggeri, the former director-general of the EU’s border agency Frontex</b>, who recently <b>blew the whistle on the European Commission’s commitment to mass immigration</b> in an exclusive interview with Remix News.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>“Migrants come out of love, and your job is to welcome them. Europe is an aging continent, and whether you like it or not, you have to welcome them,” </b>Leggeri claimed he was told by <b>European Commissioner for Home Affairs Ylva Johansson</b> during his tenure at Frontex<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>“I chose Marine Le Pen’s National Rally to enter politics because I want to be in opposition to Ursula von der Leyen’s Commission, which was installed by President Macron. I am resolutely in the opposition to von der Leyen and Macron,”</b> he told this site.</i></div><div><a href="https://www.rmx.news/france/young-french-voters-are-flocking-to-the-right-ahead-of-eu-elections/">https://www.rmx.news/france/young-french-voters-are-flocking-to-the-right-ahead-of-eu-elections/</a><i><br /></i></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="gmail_default"> Celia Farber reports on the revelatory cutting of one of Emmanuel Macron's puppet-control-strings. Certainly there are others...</div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>A Three Year Investigation In France Produces What The Reporters Call Incontrovertible Evidence That Brigitte Macron Is Really A Man By The Name Of Jean-Michel Trogneux<span class="gmail_default"> , </span>Journalists Worked With Geneologists, One Was Raided By Police, No Photos of Brigitte In First 30 Years Of Life</b></i><br /></div><div><a href="https://celiafarber.substack.com/p/a-three-year-investigation-in-france">https://celiafarber.substack.com/p/a-three-year-investigation-in-france</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>The Global North And South’s Fight For LNG Energy Security Is Set To Intensify</b></i><div><i>Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, LNG has become the swing emergency energy supply for many of the developed countries that comprise the Global North.<br />European LNG imports are still at similar levels to those throughout 2022 and 2023.<br />The already intense geopolitical struggle to secure these supplies will become even more of a dangerous zero-sum game between the Global North and the Global South.</i></div><div><a href="https://oilprice.com/Energy/Natural-Gas/The-Global-North-And-Souths-Fight-For-LNG-Energy-Security-Is-Set-To-Intensify.html">https://oilprice.com/Energy/Natural-Gas/The-Global-North-And-Souths-Fight-For-LNG-Energy-Security-Is-Set-To-Intensify.html</a><i><br /></i></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="gmail_default"> Gilbert Doctorow, <i><b>MI6 strikes again: Navalny’s aide Volkov beaten up in Lithuania</b></i></div><div class="gmail_default"> [I sent Doctorow an email on 2/28/24, alerting him to a report that Navalny had at least 3 COVID vaccines, which predispose to fatal blood clots. When I saw this I sent a reply to that original email, gloating. He doesn't reply, but he does appear to have read at least two of my emails.]</div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>One of the more piquant issues that Mikhalkov raised in this show is what exactly was the cause of Navalny’s death</b>. He does not question the coroner’s report that it was <b>due to a detached blood clot (thrombosis)</b>. </i>[Probably to the heart and then the lungs, a "pulmonary embolism"]<i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>He reminds us that this very finding was supported to reporters by the head of Ukrainian intelligence Budanov, who had no interest in exculpating the Kremlin for Navalny’s death. And why the loosened blood clot? For this, <b>Mikhalkov turns to official British findings on mortality from blood clots of those who received the anti-Covid vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna</b> during the height of the pandemic. The statistics speak clearly of a vastly increased risk of death for those who were vaccinated. And,<b> per Mikhalkov, Navalny was vaccinated with the Pfizer shots not once, not twice but as many as five times during his stay of several months in Germany </b>when he was recuperating from a (phony) Novichok poisoning. <b>Mikhalkov concludes that Navalny was killed by Pfizer.</b>..<span class="gmail_default"></span></i></div><div><i><span class="gmail_default">..</span>I am just a layman as regards military hardware, but<b> I will stick my neck out a bit to mention one aspect of the controversy in Germany over sending Taurus cruise missiles to Ukraine that barely is mentioned in our media</b>. We hear time and again that the issue is the range of these missiles, 500 km, which would give the Ukrainians the possibility of destroying the iconic Kerch (Crimea) bridge and attacking other targets way behind Russian lines with devastating effect. That, presumably, would lead to a further escalation from the Russian side, exposing German military production centers to attack.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>However, <b>at least in Russian media there is another issue: the Taurus are said to be nuclear enabled, meaning they could carry tactical nuclear weapons</b>. If that is true, then <b>incoming Taurus missiles could well prompt the Russians to ‘launch on warning’ a strategic nuclear attack on Germany, or on the USA</b> as they may choose.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>There are rumors in Germany that Scholz’s decision against sending the Taurus to Ukraine was advised by none other than Joe Biden.</i><br /></div><div><a href="https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2024/03/13/mi6-strikes-again-navalnys-aide-volkov-beaten-up-in-lithuania/">https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2024/03/13/mi6-strikes-again-navalnys-aide-volkov-beaten-up-in-lithuania/</a></div><div><br /></div><i><b>Boeing Failed 37% of Audits by US Regulators, Report Reveals</b></i></div><div><a href="https://sputnikglobe.com/20240312/boeing-failed-37-of-audits-by-us-regulators-report-reveals-1117275159.html">https://sputnikglobe.com/20240312/boeing-failed-37-of-audits-by-us-regulators-report-reveals-1117275159.html</a><b><i><br /></i></b><div><br /></div><div><div class="gmail_default"> Steve Kirsch., on American medicine blaming the victims again, simultaneously excluding the parents of vaccine injured babies from the courts with the "child abuse" moniker:</div><i><b>The new rise of "shaken baby syndrome"<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>I'm getting reports of parents who had their child vaccinated subsequently being accused of "shaken baby syndrome" and had their child taken from them. Their crime? Following their doctors' advice.</b></i><br /></div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Parents who follow their physician’s advice to vaccinate their kids can find that their child subsequently develops encephalitis soon after vaccination (more likely when multiple vaccines are given at once and even more likely if the child has an infection at the time of vaccination) which then becomes a permanent brain injury.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Their doctor then reports the parents to Child Protective Services for “shaken baby syndrome” and their child is taken away.<br />Physicians are never to blame of course, because vaccines are safe and effective.</i><div><a href="https://kirschsubstack.com/p/the-new-rise-of-shaken-baby-syndrome">https://kirschsubstack.com/p/the-new-rise-of-shaken-baby-syndrome</a><i><br /></i></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="gmail_default"> Fair-Game: <i><b>Democrat primary candidate turned independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. criticized Donald Trump for comments he made during Joe Biden’s State of the Union address, saying the former president “clearly hasn’t learned from his COVID</b></i><i><b>-era mistakes.”</b></i></div><div class="gmail_default"><a href="https://thenationalpulse.com/2024/03/12/rfk-rips-trump-over-covid-vaccines/">https://thenationalpulse.com/2024/03/12/rfk-rips-trump-over-covid-vaccines/</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div class="gmail_default"><br /></div><div class="gmail_default"> Meryl Nass MD, on last week's primary. I voted in the Republican primary (free to choose which in Texas) to vote for this ballot initiative. It should not be necessary.</div><i><b>The Texas GOP polled citizens during a primary yesterday, asking if they wanted the freedom to accept or reject vaccines of their choice</b><br />92% wanted informed consent without coercion: over 2 million Texans voted.</i><br /></div><div><a href="https://merylnass.substack.com/p/the-texas-gop-polled-citizens-during">https://merylnass.substack.com/p/the-texas-gop-polled-citizens-during</a><i><br /></i></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="gmail_default"> Peter McCullough MD, <i><b>COVID-19 Vaccination Refusal: An Inquiry of Vaccine Mandate Positions in Healthcare - </b></i><i><b>Mandates Created Medical Apartheid</b></i></div></div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>This paper caught my attention on the issue of COVID-19 vaccination in healthcare workers. Chaufan and Hemsing used a “What is the problem” framework to search the literature on this issue and understand the “dominant representations” of healthcare institutions<span class="gmail_default">..</span>.</i><div><i><span class="gmail_default">..</span><b>“We conclude by noting that an apartheid-like system has been imposed on “HCWs for simply demanding the free exercise of their human right to informed consent, enshrined across classic documents </b>(Shuster, 1997; UNESCO, 2005; World Medical Association, 1964). <b>Informed consent includes the right to be fully and honestly informed about the risks and benefits of, and alternatives to, any medical intervention, to be offered the alternative to do nothing, and to be able to choose free from coercion.</b> We have also argued that <b>mandated vaccination for HCWs, or any other social group for that matter, is at odds with the principles of equity, diversity, and inclusivity, held normatively in high esteem by the same institutions that appear to be participating in subverting them in practice</b> (CDC, 2023; Health Canada, 2017; NHS Leadership Academy, 2024; WHO, 2023a). </i></div><div><a href="https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/covid-19-vaccination-refusal-an-inquiry">https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/covid-19-vaccination-refusal-an-inquiry</a><i><br /></i></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="gmail_default"> Meryl Nass MD, <i><b>A Good Start: Rand Paul's bill requiring executive branch employees to disclose their royalty payments gets out of committee.</b></i></div><i><b>And it requires financial disclosures from members of government advisory committees. This bill is really important.</b></i><br /></div><div><a href="https://merylnass.substack.com/p/a-good-start-rand-pauls-bill-requiring">https://merylnass.substack.com/p/a-good-start-rand-pauls-bill-requiring</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="gmail_default">Meryl Nass MD and Iurie Rosca, former Deputy Prime Minister of Moldova, <i><b>My interview with Iurie Rosca</b> , </i><i>In which we talk strategies for stopping the <b>WHO</b> in the second half</i></div></div><div class="gmail_default"><a href="https://merylnass.substack.com/p/my-interview-with-iurie-rosca">https://merylnass.substack.com/p/my-interview-with-iurie-rosca</a><i><br /></i></div><div class="gmail_default"><br /></div><div class="gmail_default">Working Towards Food Security (pictured with granddaughter and healthy 3 year old collard plant I intend to collect seed from)</div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQUiEmeM2LEAnbVajahyphenhyphen2uyAAEDarp3ys5wf2b85t-lCk44BHqXgy23fq6zdZYjaUI9oHJk31ljsmpOo7Ah3CK9Qv0fRXlECMxPaycWrUS5KXoBDkXiPfeZkQJf61OBAijUq43zfLngiYVixO-hPFbt9QfBBKCzj9NbClqil1p7R3k4E9thZSVCsYRCUh6/s4032/PXL_20240314_160152052.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2268" data-original-width="4032" height="340" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQUiEmeM2LEAnbVajahyphenhyphen2uyAAEDarp3ys5wf2b85t-lCk44BHqXgy23fq6zdZYjaUI9oHJk31ljsmpOo7Ah3CK9Qv0fRXlECMxPaycWrUS5KXoBDkXiPfeZkQJf61OBAijUq43zfLngiYVixO-hPFbt9QfBBKCzj9NbClqil1p7R3k4E9thZSVCsYRCUh6/w604-h340/PXL_20240314_160152052.jpg" width="604" /></a></div><br /><div class="gmail_default"><br /></div>John Dayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12123174297818737132noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4275885258914846834.post-59780226606512175322024-03-12T12:28:00.000-05:002024-03-12T12:28:16.412-05:00Season Of Decay<p> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Apprehensive,</span></p><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Samo Burja, <b>Why Civilizations Collapse</b><i> </i></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i> <b>Why do civilizations collapse?</b> This question bears not only on safeguarding our society’s future but also makes sense of our present...</i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span class="gmail_default">..</span><b>Institutional failure comes as a surprise because organizations try to hide their shortcomings</b>. They lean on other, more functional organizations in order to keep up appearances. <b>During civilizational collapse, no organization can properly hide its own inadequacy</b>, since the whole interdependent ecosystem of institutions is caving in on itself. States, religions, material technologies, and ways of life that once seemed self-sustaining turn out to have been dependent on the invisible subsidy of just a few key institutions<span class="gmail_default">..</span>. </i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span class="gmail_default">..</span>The environment of <b>societal collapse reveals much of the otherwise obscured inner workings of crucial social technologies.</b> <span class="gmail_default">..</span>In the West today, <b>we operate under the influence of our own key philosophy, which we can call scientism</b>: the tendency to rely on scientific claims to describe the functioning of society, even when there is no empirical reason to assume that they apply. <b>We act as if we are already living in a scientifically-planned society, immune to collapse on a time scale that any of us have to worry about. This is very far from the truth</b>. We are certainly living in socially-engineered societies, but they are not scientifically planned in any straightforward way. Our organs of economic management do not secretly know how the economy really works.<span class="gmail_default">..</span> <span class="gmail_default"></span></i><div><i><span class="gmail_default">..</span><b>To ascertain whether or not we are headed for collapse, we must first analyze the functionality of our own society and pinpoint where things go wrong</b>.<span class="gmail_default">..</span></i><div><i><span class="gmail_default">..</span><b>Our society is dominated by large bureaucracies</b>. <b>These bureaucracies break down the processing of physical goods and information into discrete tasks, such as how a factory worker puts doors on a car, or a stock trader buys futures contracts</b>. These tasks are shorn of their context and executed in a systematized environment whose constraints are quite narrow: put the car door in, increase the portfolio value. <b>Our society is thoroughly compartmentalized</b>. <b>This compartmentalization isn’t driven by the division of labor, but rather by the need to make use of misaligned talent without empowering it.</b> By radically limiting employees’ scope of action, you make office politics more predictable. By fragmenting available knowledge, you can leverage information asymmetries to the intellectual or material advantage of the center.<span class="gmail_default">..</span></i></div><i><span class="gmail_default">..</span><b>It is very difficult, though, to apply this analysis to the construction of society</b>. No matter how large or how small, institutions always coexist in a symbiotic relationship with other institutions. There is no Amazon without the United States government, no U.S. government without—at least—some parts of the U.S. economy.<span class="gmail_default">..</span></i></div></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="gmail_default">..</span>In addition to this complexity, <b>non-functional institutions are the rule.</b> Our institutions today rarely function in accordance with their stated purpose. <b>Individuals within a given society are often very bad at judging institutional functionality</b>. Some <b>people spend their entire lives ruthlessly profiting from the misery of others, or greatly contributing to the prosperity of others, without even knowing that they are doing so</b>.<span class="gmail_default">..</span></i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span class="gmail_default">..</span>Since society is so deeply compartmentalized, <b>it rarely functions as a whole with a single purpose</b>. Note that dysfunctionality is not a normative distinction; it often boils down to the simple reality of <b>whether or not anyone ever follows up on key actions within the institution</b>.<span class="gmail_default">..</span></i></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="gmail_default">..</span><b>Institutions often become non-functional due to the loss of key knowledge</b> at critical junctures. Take, <b>for example, the recent failure of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) to reproduce a niche classified material known as FOGBANK that is necessary for manufacturing nuclear weapons. It took the NNSA ten years and millions of dollars to re-engineer a material that their staff in the 1980s knew how to make</b>. That knowledge never should have been lost in the first place, but <b>in a dysfunctional society, such loss of knowledge becomes the rule</b>.<span class="gmail_default">..</span></i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span class="gmail_default">..</span>Civilizational collapse, then, looks like this dynamic at the scale of an entire civilization: <b>a low-grade but constant loss of capabilities and knowledge throughout the most critical parts of our institutions, that eventually degrades our ability to perpetuate society</b>.<span class="gmail_default">..</span></i></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="gmail_default">..</span>The key dynamic here is the loss of the subtle social technologies that allow us to solve the succession problem. Running a large and complex institution requires skills which are often difficult to fully pass on. <b>How can a successful founder ensure a successor who leads as competently as they did? The succession problem is the central obstacle to transferring the ownership and knowledge of institutions from generation to generation</b>.<span class="gmail_default">..</span></i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span class="gmail_default">..</span><b>The succession problem is especially important when transferring secrets</b>. In ancient Egypt, accurate measurement of the Nile river was a state secret, in order to allow the state to monopolize agricultural production and resource flows. This was crucial to the functionality of Egyptian civilization—it was the legitimating story of the state. By design, it was not clear to the Egyptian public how they would go about running their society if it weren’t for the expert knowledge of the state.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>The failure to maintain implicit traditions of knowledge speaks to <b>the extreme difficulty of transferring secrets between generations. Often the problem is that the kids “don't get the joke”</b>: <b>if you create an institution with a false premise in order to mislead society as to your true goals, the people you hire into it might be fooled by the propaganda themselves</b>.<span class="gmail_default">..</span></i></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">..</i><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Avoiding collapse is so difficult because succession failure is often opaque... The intellectual apocalypse is invisible if there are no true intellectuals around</b><span class="gmail_default"><b></b> </span>.Again, institutional failure typically comes as a surprise.<span class="gmail_default">..</span></i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span class="gmail_default">.</span>.<b>We can define civilizational collapse</b> as a process wherein most recognizable large-scale institutions of a society vanish, coupled with a drop in material wealth, a drop in the complexity of material artifacts and social forms, a reduction in travel distance and physical safety of the inhabitants, and a mass reduction in knowledge...</i></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">..<b>Loss of knowledge is especially damaging, since it accelerates the other aspects of collapse and ensures that they will be long-lasting</b>.... Such losses of knowledge are a constant throughout human history: as with FOGBANK, or as with the state of New Jersey recently scrambling to find a COBOL programmer with the ability to overhaul their legacy information systems...</i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>..Despite how difficult it can be to gather historical data, it’s still a far better way to understand societal collapse than purely theoretical models...<br /><span class="gmail_default">..</span>That exploration is still itself theory-driven. Good historians and theoreticians explicitly acknowledge the theses they work with, so I will do the same. <b>My theory of history is great founder theory: I propose that social technologies do not evolve out of mass action, but rather are devised by a tiny subset of institutional designers.</b> Looking at history, we see that new organizations and social forms often arise within a single generation, showing jumps in social complexity far too rapid to be explained away by collective action or evolution.</i><span class="gmail_default">.</span></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">..<b>It often takes an exceptional individual with exceptional vision to create a new social or material technology</b>. It’s hard to remember nowadays that the <b>smartphone</b> once had to be devised as a combination of the<b> cell phone, the tablet, and the camera</b>, and did not merely emerge out of mass market sentiments. It took a single individual, <b>Steve Jobs</b>, to see that while a combination of the car, the airplane, and the submarine would produce an inferior version of all three, the opposite case would be true in the creation of the smartphone. And then that individual had to implement the vision...</i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>..<b>A keen observer would examine the way that laws are made today and conclude that we have witnessed the emergence of a new legislative body all but in name, with Congress reduced to a vestigial organ of this governing structure. Law today is made mostly by the Supreme Court, or the civil service when it chooses what to implement and how, or occasionally via Presidential executive order</b>. Yet very few people today come to such a conclusion, as the ideology of American government dictates that law is made in Congress, and does not make room for the development of new federal legislative bodies. <b>If no one believes a hypothesis, the evidence for it remains unnoticed, even when such evidence is abundant</b>...<br />..Establishing historical knowledge is difficult. <b>Narrative fills the gaps; stories are told both by you and Obama and FDR, and by Julius Caesar.</b> These are always a mix of accuracy and self-interest, which is, in fact, what history is...</i></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="gmail_default">..</span><b>If we compare the roughly twelve identifiable Dark Ages following civilizational collapse</b> on the Eurasian continent—the collapse of the Bronze Age civilizations, the end of Mohenjo Daro, the decline of the Roman Empire, Han China and so on—we always find that <b>nearly all material technology is not self-perpetuating, but rather rests on foundations of social technology</b>. The only material technologies that routinely survive collapse are small-scale agriculture and small-scale metallurgy, likely because the social technologies needed to sustain such smaller communities can arise organically.<br /><span class="gmail_default">..</span><b>Since collapse in material technology is always preceded by collapse in the practice of social technology, Dark Ages are always preceded by Intellectual Dark Ages</b>. Knowledge of these social technologies is highly compartmentalized and, as a result, they are not understood explicitly by all parts of society. This means that <b>a society undergoing an Intellectual Dark Age doesn’t realize it is going through one at all</b>—all the people who would notice are long-gone, and those who remain are miseducated, role-playing the forms left behind by their predecessors without realizing that they’ve lost the substance.<span class="gmail_default">..</span> </i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span class="gmail_default">..</span>Take the Industrial Revolution for example: surely the most interesting thing that has happened within the last 500 years, and a process that most currently assume is still ongoing. But<b> if the Industrial Revolution was over, what would we expect to see?</b> Much as we see a late Roman drop in lead pollution, today we see drops in pollution in the West. The standard explanation is gains in efficiency and greener technology. But if we take a more global perspective, it seems that we outsourced not just production, but also the pollution associated with production to China. The economists’ argument here is that we have intentionally outsourced our industries to China, obeying the industry-agnostic logic of gains from trade.<b> It is worth considering the economists might be wrong</b> if the promised gains from trade haven’t materialized.<br /><span class="gmail_default">..</span><b>One could hypothesize the American worker and manager have, over time, lost the social technology that enabled them to run the assembly lines in the first place and that, now, our support for outsourcing isn’t so much due to greed as it is an adaptation to inability</b>.<span class="gmail_default">.. </span></i><i>We should seriously <b>consider the possibility that we are a post-industrial society not in a positive sense</b>, but in the sense that in our society the Industrial Revolution has stopped.</i></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>Such a hypothesis is strikingly hard to defeat. A civilizational collapse under conditions of advanced material technology might look very much like what we have now</b>. Our society is the product of what were once advanced, rational, self-catalyzing systems of production, but we have now reverted to a more customary system, where <b>things are simply done as they were 40 or 50 years ago</b>. We have the same bureaucratic and economic institutions as we did then, with some marginal tweaks. Thanks to narrow progress in the CPU industry, most of which has left the United States, <b>we are now able to have Zoom calls</b>.<span class="gmail_default">..</span></i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span class="gmail_default">..</span>Augustus Caesar truly did save the Roman Republic from tearing itself to shreds through unsustainable warfare. His imperial system was in turn torn to shreds through warfare after long-standing economic and intellectual decay 300 years later. <b>The sheer difficulty of reform, coupled with the accumulation of social and cultural technical debt, provides a fairly solid explanation for why civilizations collapse</b>.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>The United States is well-positioned to attempt such civilizational reforms, since it has a remarkable ability to integrate exceptional talent from all over the world and has put that talent to work on some of the most successful institutional projects in history</b>, including the Manhattan Project and the Apollo Program. America is, for now, in an unavoidable period of relative decline<span class="gmail_default">...</span></i></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="gmail_default">..</span><b>A deep pragmatism runs through this country, and if reimagined, the 21st century could see another explosion in American economic, social, and cultural development.</b><br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>The solution lies with a small number of people who can independently judge the generative minds behind the facts, rather than merely minding the integrity of the established body of theories and observations</b>.<span class="gmail_default">.. </span><b>Such people are extremely rare</b>, but if we create a socioeconomic niche for them, our civilization can rewrite its own future for the better.</i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://letter.palladiummag.com/p/new-article-why-civilizations-collapse" style="color: #1155cc;">https://letter.palladiummag.com/p/new-article-why-civilizations-collapse</a><i><br /></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>The Depopulation Bomb</b><span class="gmail_default"><b> </b>, </span>THE HONEST SORCERER<span class="gmail_default"> </span><span class="gmail_default"></span></i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">[It is happening. No, it's not really a "bomb". You will take care of yourself in</span><span class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> your</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> old age. "No problem:", right?]</span><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span class="gmail_default"> "</span>There is a silent aspect of civilizational decline: a marked fall in population numbers. I write silent deliberately, as it happens in the background without too many of us taking notice, or realizing the gravity of the situation. When talking about the collapse of civilizations, most people envision mass casualty events (famine, war, natural disasters), wiping out half of the population in almost an instant. Sure enough, this looks both terrifying and extremely powerful in Hollywood movies, but nothing could be further from the truth. Especially not when it comes to our modern civilization, and its unfolding demise. A radically different world is unfolding in front of our eyes, and we are not the least prepared.<span class="gmail_default">"</span></i></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>John Micheal Greer has steered my attention back to this topic.</b> A couple of weeks ago I already touched on the theme of a slow but steady population decline, but now its time to take a deeper look into the matter, to see its implications and how it relates to the decline of modernity in general.</i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://thehonestsorcerer.substack.com/p/the-depopulation-bomb" style="color: #1155cc;">https://thehonestsorcerer.substack.com/p/the-depopulation-bomb</a><i><br /></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Hedge Fund Icon: "We're Just Two Years Away From A US Debt Sustainability Crisis, Sparking A Major Global Market Event"</b></i><div><i> <b>“The last time the debt as a share of GDP was this large was in 1945-1946, at the end of World War II,” </b>wrote Daniel Wilson and Brigid Meisenbacherat from the Economic Research Department at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. I was grinding through my stack, piled high with white papers. <b>“Over the following three decades, the debt-to-GDP ratio steadily fell, reaching roughly 25% by 1975,”</b> ...<br />..<b>“That 30-year decline contrasts sharply with the projected 30-year increase in the debt-to-GDP ratio, reaching 172%, over 2024 to 2054</b>, according to the latest current Congressional Budget Office projections.” Wilson and Meisenbacherat point out that the Fed projects a longer-term real Fed Funds rate of 0.50%.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>And their median projection for long-run real GDP growth is 1.8%. They highlight that the CBO, however, forecasts a lower 1.5% real GDP growth rate, and a longer-term real interest rate on US debt of 2.0%.<span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>“In this case, slow economic growth relative to interest rates would exert modest upward pressure on the debt ratio, primarily from higher interest payments,”</b> they wrote.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>“The main source of the long-run upward pressure on the primary deficit is spending on mandatory programs such as Social Security and Medicare. Current legislated formulas used to determine spending per recipient for Social Security benefits and government health-care programs, especially Medicare, combined with the projected aging of the population, point to large increases in spending for these programs as a share of GDP. This pressure was absent after WWII because the overall US population was younger and because Medicare was not enacted until 1965.”</b></i></div><div><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/next-few-years-were-going-face-us-debt-sustainability-crisis-sparking-major-global-market" style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/next-few-years-were-going-face-us-debt-sustainability-crisis-sparking-major-global-market</a></div></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Eventual Financial Death Spiral Now Imminent – John Rubino</b></i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Analyst and financial writer John Rubino warned nearly four months ago of a “U.S. Financial Death Spiral.” This past week, Bank of America caught up to Rubino and issued a warning about a <b>“US dollar death spiral” because the federal government was going deeper in the red by creating “$1 trillion in new debt every 100 days.”</b><span class="gmail_default">...</span></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span class="gmail_default"></span></span><i>..<b>Currencies are being inflated away with all these bailouts, deficits, wars</b> and all these things that are going on that are bad for the currency. <b>So, people start selling government bonds, which push up interest rates and blows up even more bad real estate and paper</b> . . . until you get a debt spiral, a real live financial death spiral than cannot be fixed. . . . <b>I was talking to a real estate guy the other day, and he said this is not just inevitable, it is imminent. It is happening now. It is happening quickly, and it is going to hit the headlines. . . . In this case, what is inevitable in commercial real estate is also looking imminent.”</b></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://usawatchdog.com/eventual-financial-death-spiral-now-imminent-john-rubino/" style="color: #1155cc;">https://usawatchdog.com/eventual-financial-death-spiral-now-imminent-john-rubino/</a><i><br /></i><div><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Can Americans Have Hope?</b><span class="gmail_default" style="font-weight: bold;"> </span>Paul Craig Roberts<span class="gmail_default"> </span></i>[I suspect <span class="gmail_default">changes</span> in the imperial court in Washington DC need to happen this summer, or there <span class="gmail_default">ca</span>n't be an election.]<div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Tucker Carlson’s interview with <b>Steve Kirsch reveals that it is impossible in the medical world to speak the truth</b>. The top <b>doctors and medical research scientists cannot state the truth about the Covid m<span class="gmail_default">RN</span>A “vaccine” and childhood vaccination without losing their jobs and becoming a nonperson</b>...<br />..Movies such as <b>The Matrix and V for Vendetta are not fantasy movies</b>. They are accurate reports on our time....<br />..<b>2024 is likely to be a determining year for the Western world</b>. Two wars are ongoing on which the West is on the wrong side. Equally important is this year’s presidential election. <br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>It is completely obvious that Trump is the favorite. <b>The corrupt Republican establishment was unable to find anyone voters would accept to challenge Trump</b> for the nomination. Trump is hands down the people’s choice.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Despite this fact, and remember, allegedly America is a democracy subject to the will of the people, we witness Democrat state supreme court judges ruling that Trump is an “insurrectionist” and is banned from being on the ballot. <b>We see Democrat state secretaries of state and state attorney generals and city and county Democrat prosecutors using law as a weapon to keep Trump off the ballot and to keep him tied up in criminal and civil trials</b>. The Democrats are weaponizing law because they know Trump will win the election.<span class="gmail_default">..</span></i></div><i>..<b>There is no possibility whatever of Biden being reelected.</b> The fool lined up with Israel in the <b>genocide of the Palestinian people</b>. The fool has <b>lost the war in Ukraine</b> that absorbed untold billions of American money. The fool has <b>violated his oath of office</b> and has not only allowed but has actively participated in <b>bringing in during his 4 years 48 cities the size of Pittsburgh full of immigrant-invaders</b>, actually flying in at the expense of US taxpayers 320,000 immigrant-invaders. The fool is <b>signing over to an international bureaucracy, WHO, the determination of your health care</b>, which as of May of this year will be out of your hands...</i><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-style: italic;">..</span>(<span class="gmail_default">Ouch, true-ish)<i> </i></span><i>For decades <b>Democrats have been appointing legal and constitutional illiterates to the judiciary</b>, knowing that the only way Democrats can achieve a <b>one-party tyrannical state is by using stupid people to weaponize law</b>.<span class="gmail_default">..</span></i></div><div><span style="color: #21200b; font-family: "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="gmail_default">..</span></span><i>Earlier <b>I suggested that the Democrats would have Biden resign for medical reasons. Kamala would become president. She would be instructed to choose Hillary as her VP and then resign herself.</b> This would leave Hillary and her machine in power prior to the election. Then the border conflict between Washington and Texas would be heated up. There would be talk of civil war, and the prospect would be used by Hillary to declare martial law to put down rebellion and cancel the election...<span class="gmail_default"><br /></span></i></div><i>..<b>As Trump has declared war on the American ruling elites,they are determined to keep him away from power. Has Trump been re-educated so that he no longer wants normal relations with Russia? We know he is in Israel’s pocket, which is a great gift to the control that the establishment has over Trump.</b> The question before us is: Does Trump want vindication by reelection more than he wants to overthrow the elite and return government to the people as democracy requires?<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>If he hasn’t struck a deal with the elites, why would they allow him, their enemy, be in the Oval Office?</b> ...</i><div><i><span class="gmail_default">..</span><b>My updated opinion is that the elites could permit Trump to assume the Presidency because they know that they can prevent him from achieving what those who elected him want</b>, thereby demoralizing the American citizens who had hope that a leader would restore and revitalize their nation. They know that they can orchestrate an economic catastrophe that would destroy Trump’s presidency and keep Republicans out of office for many years.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>If all else fails, <b>the bullets that destroyed JFK and RFK are available</b>. There is no doubt that the corrupt US media would attribute Trump’s assassination to “a lone gunman.”</i></div><div><a href="https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2024/03/10/can-americans-have-hope/" style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2024/03/10/can-americans-have-hope/</a><i><br /></i></div><div><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Rand Paul Teases Senate GOP Leader Run - Musk Says "I Would Support"</b></i><div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Republican Kentucky Senator Rand Paul on Friday hinted that he may jump into the race to become the next Senate GOP leader, and Elon Musk was quick to support the idea. Republicans must find a successor for periodically malfunctioning Mitch McConnell, who recently announced he'll step down in November, though intending to keep his Senate seat until his term ends in January 2027, when he'd be within weeks of turning 86.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>So far, the announced field consists of two quintessential establishment types: John Cornyn of Texas and John Thune of South Dakota.</i></div><div><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/political/rand-paul-teases-senate-gop-leader-run-musk-says-i-would-support" style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.zerohedge.com/political/rand-paul-teases-senate-gop-leader-run-musk-says-i-would-support</a><i><br /></i><div><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>NATO Can No Longer Hide Its Military Presence in Ukraine</b></i><div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Spokeswoman of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova commented on the statement by Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski about the presence of soldiers NATO countries in Ukraine, telling Sputnik: “They couldn’t hide it any longer.”<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Earlier in the day, Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said during a panel discussion at an event dedicated to the 25th anniversary of the country's accession to the alliance that some NATO countries have already sent their military to Ukraine.</i></div><div><a href="https://sputnikglobe.com/20240310/nato-military-personnel-already-in-ukraine-polish-foreign-minister-admits-1117243553.html" style="color: #1155cc;">https://sputnikglobe.com/20240310/nato-military-personnel-already-in-ukraine-polish-foreign-minister-admits-1117243553.html</a><i><br /></i></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="gmail_default"> Andrew Korybko wonders , <i><b>Are France & The UK Plotting A Ukrainian Power Play Right Under Germany’s Nose?</b></i></div></div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>The <b>debate that French President Macron provoked over whether NATO should conventionally intervene in Ukraine exposed the existence of two distinct schools of thought on this issue inside of Europe. France, the Baltic States, and Poland appear to be in favor of “non-combat deployments” </b>there for demining and training missions, which could be carried out through a “coalition of the willing”, while<b> the rest of the bloc supports Germany’s stance that this shouldn’t happen</b> under any circumstances.</i><div><i><span class="gmail_default"> <b> </b></span><b>“Scholz’s Slip Of The Tongue Spilled The Beans On Ukraine’s Worst-Kept Secret”</b>, however, since he inadvertently<b> revealed that there are already British and French troops there helping Ukraine with “target control”</b>. The <b>subsequently leaked Bundeswehr recording about bombing the Crimean Bridge confirmed that the Americans are there too</b>. Nevertheless, <b>what’s being proposed by Paris is a formalization of these deployments along with their gradual expansion in a “non-combat” capacity</b>.<span class="gmail_default">..</span></i></div><i><span class="gmail_default">..</span><b>Their intent seems to be to prepare these on-the-ground forces for surging eastward</b> in the event that the worst-case scenario from Kiev’s perspective materializes whereby the frontline collapses and <b>Russia starts steamrolling westward.</b><span class="gmail_default">.. </span></i>[A very bad idea, unless the intent is to destroy these NATO countries.]<span class="gmail_default">...</span><div><i>..Germany’s </i><span class="gmail_default">(merely hopelessly deluded)<i> </i></span><i>approach is altogether different in that it prefers to formally stay out of the fray in order to focus on building “Fortress Europe”. This refers to <b>Berlin’s policy of resuming its long-lost superpower trajectory through “defensive” military means with US support in order to lead Russia’s containment in Europe at Washington’s behest while America “Pivots (back) to Asia” to contain China. A major component of this plan is the “military Schengen” between Germany, the Netherlands, and Poland.<span class="gmail_default">..</span></b></i></div>..<i>Like France, the UK also doesn’t want to see Germany resuming its superpower trajectory, and both might wager that they can either get the US’ approval for their intervention or do it unilaterally to make it a fait accompli</i>...<span class="gmail_default"> [A multinational form of "suicide by cop"? "Suicide by Russia"?] ...</span><div><i><span class="gmail_default">..</span>Romania’s <b>“Moldovan Highway”</b></i> <span class="gmail_default">[aka,<b> "Mafia rat-line"</b>]<i> </i></span><i>that’s being built in “emergency” mode is creating <b>a new military corridor in the Balkans from which France can counter Germany’s growing military influence across the continent</b>. </i><br /><span class="gmail_default" style="font-style: italic;"> </span><i>This emerging <b>Greek-Ukrainian corridor is already one of the West’s most important logistical routes for perpetuating the proxy war</b> after the traditional Polish one became unreliable following the farmers’ protests. It therefore makes perfect sense not only to invest in it for that sake alone, but also for countries like France and the UK to entrench their influence along the route in order to create their own “sphere of influence” there for decelerating Germany’s superpower trajectory.</i><br /><span class="gmail_default" style="font-style: italic;"> </span><i>That’s precisely what <b>France is doing via its new security deal with Moldova, which will lead to closer security ties of the “military Schengen” sort with Romania, Bulgaria, and Greece in order to facilitate the dispatch of “trainers” to that landlocked country</b>. The <b>UK can either follow suit in some way or redouble its influence in the Baltic States and especially Poland</b>, possibly culminating in its troops conventionally intervening in Ukraine through the last-mentioned while France’s enter from Romania-Moldova.<span class="gmail_default">..</span></i></div><i>..<b>German involvement in this conflict could further reduce the already dismal chances of it entering into a rapprochement with Russia</b> after everything ends like many hawks still fear is possible and desperately want to prevent...</i><div><i>..<b>If Germany formally stays out of the fray while France and the UK embroil themselves in it with disastrous or at least unimpressive results</b>, including those that see their Baltic and Polish “junior partners” exploited as cannon fodder,</i><b> then Germany might actually benefit</b><i> a lot.<span class="gmail_default">..</span></i></div><i>..<b>It remains to be seen whether France and the UK will go through with this Ukrainian power play right under Germany’s nose</b>, but there’s little doubt that this is what they’re planning. The US could possibly disapprove, however, and they might then lack the confidence to conventionally intervene through their own “coalition of the willing”.<b> </b>There’s also the<b> chance that the US takes the lead in this respect</b> if Russia achieves a breakthrough before NATO’s largest drills in three decades end in June...<br />..In any case, the top takeaway from this analysis is that <b>there are indeed plans for a conventional Western intervention in Ukraine, but they’ve yet to fully form and their execution can’t be taken for granted</b>.</i><div><a href="https://korybko.substack.com/p/are-france-and-the-uk-plotting-a" style="color: #1155cc;">https://korybko.substack.com/p/are-france-and-the-uk-plotting-a</a><i><br /></i></div><div><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Scott Ritter: Pentagon’s ‘Ukrainian Fantasy’ Is Falling Apart</b></i><div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Ukraine reportedly did not listen to tactical advice offered by the Pentagon. Ritter said he believes the assertions are not based in reality but instead are designed to shift the blame away from the United States.<br /><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>“The Pentagon is definitely trying to create political cover for itself because their huge Ukrainian fantasy is falling apart,” </b>Ritter asserted, explaining earlier that Ukraine had little choice but to hold Avdeyevka for as long as possible so that defensive lines could be built behind it, noting however, that Russian airpower prevented even that goal from being achieved...<br /><span class="gmail_default">..</span><b>The Kiev regime is “waking up to the reality that their so-called friends and allies are abandoning them and leaving Ukraine to its own fate” </b>Ritter explained earlier while discussing Macron’s comments that French troops may be deployed in Ukraine, a hypothetical that Ritter says is only being discussed because of the position Ukraine is in.<span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>“To understand why Macron would be even talking about this, you have to understand how dire the situation is for Ukraine right now. They are facing military collapse, right now as we speak the last reserves of Ukraine are being thrown into the battle outside the village of Orlovka,” </b>Ritter explained. <b>“This is to buy time for a miracle to happen and the Ukrainians are hoping the miracle will be the arrival of a French battlegroup.”<span class="gmail_default">...</span></b></i></div><i>..Meanwhile, Ritter argues,<b> the election season is forcing the United States to step back from the conflict</b>.</i><div><a href="https://sputnikglobe.com/20240311/scott-ritter-pentagons-ukrainian-fantasy-is-falling-apart-1117272650.html" style="color: #1155cc;">https://sputnikglobe.com/20240311/scott-ritter-pentagons-ukrainian-fantasy-is-falling-apart-1117272650.html</a></div><div><div><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Hungary’s Orban Says Trump Pledged Not to Provide Financial Aid to Ukraine</b></i><div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>On Friday, Trump met with Orban at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida to discuss a wide range of issues of common interest for Hungary and the United States.<br />"If the Americans do not give weapons and money, and the Europeans follow them, then the war will end. If the Americans do not give money, then the Europeans are not able to finance this war themselves, and then it will end. Trump is not president now, but his party interferes when the Democrats want to send money to the war. Trump said that if he returns, he will not do this, [he will] not [allocate] a penny. And then this war will end," Orban said in an interview with Hungarian broadcaster M1.</i></div><div><a href="https://sputnikglobe.com/20240311/hungarys-orban-says-trump-pledged-not-to-provide-financial-aid-to-ukraine-1117247730.html" style="color: #1155cc;">https://sputnikglobe.com/20240311/hungarys-orban-says-trump-pledged-not-to-provide-financial-aid-to-ukraine-1117247730.html</a><i><br /></i></div><div><br /></div><div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Biden Issues 'Red Line' For Israel Over Rafah, But Won't Do Anything About It</b></i><br /></div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>"[We] cannot have another 30,000 more Palestinians dead," </b>Biden told MSNBC in a fresh interview. <b>He was then asked whether Rafah is a red line</b> for him and he responded: <b>"It is a red line."</b> ... But <b>Biden stopped short of saying he would cut off weapons and ammunition</b> supplies to Israel, which remain vital in its war against Hamas.<span class="gmail_default"> </span></i><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/biden-just-issues-red-line-israel-over-rafah-wont-do-anything-about-it" style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/biden-just-issues-red-line-israel-over-rafah-wont-do-anything-about-it</a><div><i><br /></i></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Defiant Netanyahu Vows To Cross Biden's Rafah 'Red Line': "We Are Not Getting Off The Gas"</b></i><div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span></b>Sunday Netanyahu responded by vowing to press forward with the planned offensive on Rafah, believed to be imminent, when asked about the Biden red line statement. <b>"We'll go there. We're not going to leave them. You know, I have a red line. You know what the red line is? That October 7 doesn't happen again. Never happens again."<br /></b></i></div><div><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/defiant-netanyahu-vows-cross-bidens-rafah-red-line-we-are-not-getting-gas" style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/defiant-netanyahu-vows-cross-bidens-rafah-red-line-we-are-not-getting-gas</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Chasing 'tactical' wins, Israel now faces 'strategic' defeat</b></i></div><div><i><span class="gmail_default"></span>Netanyahu's focus on tactical wins has led to a disconnect with the broader strategic goals of the war.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>The 'progress' made within the Gaza Strip, while significant on a tactical level, has not effectively advanced the strategic aim of eliminating Hamas, Tel Aviv's number one stated war objective. On the contrary, US reports claim that 80 percent of the Palestinian resistance's key military infrastructure remains intact.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>This has left Netanyahu facing a critical dilemma: <b>the pursuit of tactical gains has come at a steep cost, jeopardizing the achievement of his strategic objectives. His Gaza assault has resulted in the wholesale massacre of Palestinian civilians – predominantly women and children – widespread global censure, and thousands of dead and injured Israeli soldiers and officers.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>This tragic toll has permanently tarnished Israel's international image, undermining its fairytale narratives of 'democracy' and 'victimhood' and casting Tel Aviv instead as a leading perpetrator of state-sponsored terrorism in the world. Moreover, Israel's actions have led to accusations of genocide and human rights violations on the international stage, most notably the recent high-profile case at the International Court of Justice.</b><br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Netanyahu and his war cabinet have fallen into a classic trap: allowing pyrrhic wins to distract them from an overarching victory.<span class="gmail_default">..</span></i></div><i><span class="gmail_default">..</span>History teaches us that<b> tactical gains, without alignment with strategic objectives, are inadequate</b> for long-term success. <b>The crucial question that looms is whether US intervention will indeed succeed in preserving Israel's strategic aims.</b></i><div><a href="https://thecradle.co/articles/chasing-tactical-wins-israel-now-faces-strategic-defeat" style="color: #1155cc;">https://thecradle.co/articles/chasing-tactical-wins-israel-now-faces-strategic-defeat</a><i><br /></i><div><br /></div><div><div class="gmail_default"> John Helmer,<i> <b>Last week it happened that God and the United States Treasury managed to underwrite a record issue of Israel Government bonds to continue the war against the Arabs in Gaza, West Bank, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq – and Iran if necessary.</b> <br /> The war financing comprised $2 billion of five-year bonds, and $3 billion each of 10 and 30-year bonds.<br /> <b>The US Treasury guarantees bond holders that if Israel defaults on repayment of its obligations, the US will pay instead. </b>Notwithstanding this, the<b> Israelis were obliged to offer an extra 1.35%, 1.45%, and 1.75% more in interest over the going rate for US Treasury bonds for the same length of term</b>.</i></div><div class="gmail_default"><i> The Reuters news agency headline on March 6 celebrated “Israel sells record $8 billion in bonds despite Oct 7 attacks, downgrade”....<br />..<b>With the higher interest rates the market has just demanded from the Israelis, the spread between the Israel bonds and US Treasuries has never been wider,</b> and the worse this spread will become for Israel. <b>This is a vote of no-confidence from the market</b> which the Israelis, the Americans, and their media are trying to keep secret. <br /> The longer the war is protracted, the more obvious the costs of Israel Defence Forces’ (IDF) failure will become – and the deeper the negative bond sentiment will grow. <b>By converting secrecy into money, the market is signaling that it has begun to turn against Israel – and profit at Israel’s expense</b>...<br /></i></div></div><i><span class="gmail_default">..</span><b>Israel’s public genocide is a private secret among Americans who are paying for it, and among US government officials responsible for regulating the scheme according to US law</b>.<span class="gmail_default"> </span>According to well-informed bond traders, <b>this deal-making is worth in fees to the dealmakers, led by Goldman Sachs, about $100 million</b>.</i><div class="gmail_default"><a href="https://johnhelmer.net/god-is-underwriting-israels-genocide-bond-so-the-us-securities-exchange-commission-goldman-sachs-agree-genocide-is-no-section-17a-fraud-on-bond-investors/" style="color: #1155cc;">https://johnhelmer.net/god-is-underwriting-israels-genocide-bond-so-the-us-securities-exchange-commission-goldman-sachs-agree-genocide-is-no-section-17a-fraud-on-bond-investors/</a><i><br /></i></div><div class="gmail_default"><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Erdogan among ‘greatest anti-Semites in history’ – Israeli FM</b></i><div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ranks among the worst anti-Semites in history because of his stance on the Gaza conflict, Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz</b> has claimed.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>In a speech on Saturday, <b>Erdogan compared Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Nazi German dictator Adolf Hitler</b>, referring to the relentless IDF attacks on Gaza, which have killed at least 30,960 people and wounded 72,524 others, according to the health ministry in the Palestinian enclave. <b>He also again refused to label Hamas a terrorist organization, saying Ankara “firmly backs” the leadership of the Palestinian armed group.</b></i></div><div><a href="https://swentr.site/news/594018-erdogan-israel-gaza-netanyahu/" style="color: #1155cc;">https://swentr.site/news/594018-erdogan-israel-gaza-netanyahu/</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="gmail_default"> I signed this petition. <i><b>‘Reject AIPAC’ coalition forms against Israel lobby in US</b></i></div></div><i>On Monday, more than 20 advocacy groups announced the launch of the “Reject AIPAC” coalition.</i></div><div><a href="https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2024/03/11/721710/Reject-AIPAC-coalition" style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2024/03/11/721710/Reject-AIPAC-coalition</a><i><br /></i><div><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Hedge Fund Icon: "We're Just Two Years Away From A US Debt Sustainability Crisis, Sparking A Major Global Market Event"</b></i><div><i> <b>“The last time the debt as a share of GDP was this large was in 1945-1946, at the end of World War II,” </b>wrote Daniel Wilson and Brigid Meisenbacherat from the Economic Research Department at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. I was grinding through my stack, piled high with white papers. <b>“Over the following three decades, the debt-to-GDP ratio steadily fell, reaching roughly 25% by 1975,”</b> ...<br />..<b>“That 30-year decline contrasts sharply with the projected 30-year increase in the debt-to-GDP ratio, reaching 172%, over 2024 to 2054</b>, according to the latest current Congressional Budget Office projections.” Wilson and Meisenbacherat point out that the Fed projects a longer-term real Fed Funds rate of 0.50%.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>And their median projection for long-run real GDP growth is 1.8%. They highlight that the CBO, however, forecasts a lower 1.5% real GDP growth rate, and a longer-term real interest rate on US debt of 2.0%.<span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>“In this case, slow economic growth relative to interest rates would exert modest upward pressure on the debt ratio, primarily from higher interest payments,”</b> they wrote.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>“The main source of the long-run upward pressure on the primary deficit is spending on mandatory programs such as Social Security and Medicare. Current legislated formulas used to determine spending per recipient for Social Security benefits and government health-care programs, especially Medicare, combined with the projected aging of the population, point to large increases in spending for these programs as a share of GDP. This pressure was absent after WWII because the overall US population was younger and because Medicare was not enacted until 1965.”</b></i></div><div><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/next-few-years-were-going-face-us-debt-sustainability-crisis-sparking-major-global-market" style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/next-few-years-were-going-face-us-debt-sustainability-crisis-sparking-major-global-market</a><i><br /></i></div></div></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Boeing Whistleblower Found Dead In A Truck From "Self-Inflicted Gunshot Wound"<span class="gmail_default"> </span></b></i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(Certainly not "Arkancide".)</span><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>John Barnett, a former veteran Boeing employee of 32 years, passed away from a self-inflicted wound on March 9, as confirmed by the Charleston County coroner</b>, according to BBC which broke the news on Monday evening.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>Bartnett's lawyer said that he was found dead in a truck near a hotel parking lot in South Carolina from an alleged "self-inflicted' wound", with Breaking 911 calling it a 'gunshot' wound and BBC, the Gateway Pundit and numerous other sources referring to it as a 'self-inflicted' wound</b>.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> ..</span>Barnett was involved in a whistleblower lawsuit against Boeing, alleging serious safety concerns at the North Charleston plant, where he managed quality for the 787 Dreamliner production. <b>B<span class="gmail_default">artnett</span> was in Charleston for legal interviews related to the lawsuit when he was found dead</b>...<br /><b>"This is not a 737 problem, this is a Boeing problem," he said during a recent interview he took with TMZ, speaking out about his concerns with Boeing airplanes. "Back in 2012, Boeing started removing inspection operations off their jobs," </b>he continued.</i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/key-boeing-whistleblower-found-dead-apparent-suicide" style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/key-boeing-whistleblower-found-dead-apparent-suicide</a><i><br /></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div class="gmail_default"> Pierre Kory MD, <i><b>"Long Vax" Finally Enters The Lexicon </b></i><i>We finally landed an Op-Ed in a major center-left publication which exposes this reality.</i></div><div class="gmail_default"><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>In response, nearly every major academic medical center or large hospital began opening <b>“Long Covid” clinics</b>. Besides being <b>worthless due to the fact they typically offer zero treatments </b>(i.e. they are waiting for the RCT on Paxlovid), they also <b>perform extensive, largely unrevealing testing followed by referrals to specialists like psychiatry and physical therapy</b>. Note <b>almost none of the physicians or specialists are trained in the disease as they; 1) do not recognize the spike protein as the pathogen</b> and 2) do not read the FLCCC scientific reviews and/or treatment guides nor have they attended the three FLCCC medical conferences on the disease to date.</i></div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Worse is that, for most of 2022 into 2023, <b>those centers consistently gas-lit the Long Vax patients who presented to those clinics</b>. Gaslighting of medical injuries is the well-described <b>inability for physicians to recognize or accept when their own treatments (i..e the mRNA vaccines) cause harm</b>, a topic written about extensively by my colleague A Midwestern Doctor.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>The stories my patients would tell me of the care they received included what I would describe as abuse or insults from the treating physicians when the patients tried to convince them that the vaccines were the cause</b>. These stories still make my blood boil and have estranged many of my patients from “the system.” I believe the gaslighting responses have lessened somewhat but I don’t really know how much,<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>What angered me even further is that <b>the health agencies only directed funding at Long Covid and the medical literature and media only referred to sufferers as having Long Covid. The contribution of the gene therapy vaccines are consistently ignored.</b><br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Problem:<b> 70% of our practice are Long Vax, not Long Covid</b>. I strongly feel that <b>society must be aware of both syndromes</b> given that I now believe there may be important <b>differences in approaches to treatment based on the factors unique to mRNA gene therapy (no shut off on spike protein production, widespread dissemination of mRNA and spike to tissue, inflammatory impacts of the lipid nanoparticles, and the short and long term impacts of the DNA plasmid contaminants.</b><br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>So I think it is important to the millions chronically ill after mRNA vaccination that this syndrome be recognized and appropriately researched along with Long Covid.</i><br /></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://pierrekorymedicalmusings.com/p/long-vax-finally-enters-the-lexicon" style="color: #1155cc;">https://pierrekorymedicalmusings.com/p/long-vax-finally-enters-the-lexicon</a><i><br /></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div class="gmail_default"> Sasha Latypova, <i><b>Brook Jackson's case v Pfizer under False Claims Act - DOJ plans to intervene to dismiss.</b></i></div><i><b>After oral arguments were scheduled for April 17, the DOJ confirms they cannot afford discovery in a court of law.</b></i><br /></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="gmail_default"> </span>I caught up with Brook Jackson at the conference, and she has informed me that she and her attorneys have received email communication from the Department of Justice stating that they are planning to intervene in her case (again) and move to dismiss it.</i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://sashalatypova.substack.com/p/brook-jacksons-case-v-pfizer-under" style="color: #1155cc;">https://sashalatypova.substack.com/p/brook-jacksons-case-v-pfizer-under</a><i><br /></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Woman Sues National Park Service After Being Told She Can’t Use Cash to Pay Entry Fee</b></i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>When Elizabeth Dasburg asked in an email how she could enter the Fort Pulaski National Monument in Georgia if she had only cash, she was told that the site, part of the U.S. National Park Service, could accept cards only.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>An employee suggested she go to the local grocery store or “big chains like Walmart” to purchase a gift card. “Since those are cards, we can accept them in leu [sic] of cash,” the site employee wrote.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Dasburg and two others were told the parks they wanted to visit couldn’t accept cash to pay the entrance fee on Wednesday sued the National Park Service, challenging its cashless fee collection policy.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>In a complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, the plaintiffs allege the federal agency is violating U.S. law by refusing to accept U.S. currency as entry payment.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Children’s Health Defense (CHD) is financially supporting the lawsuit.</i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/national-park-service-cashless-entry-policy-lawsuit/" style="color: #1155cc;">https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/national-park-service-cashless-entry-policy-lawsuit/</a><i><br /></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div class="gmail_default">Almost 8 minutes, reporting a 2015 masters dissertation generated within the USAF Academy. <i><b>Pole Shift Disaster Is Coming | Military Paper</b></i></div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8UAPXdADxI" style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8UAPXdADxI</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Changing With the Seasons (displaying tomato start flower, in row of winter brassicas, now beset by cabbage beetles)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjIGyBwjkRas36yysXmMUES44HO2IytBUWqD47AZc6isbXQr20ANixceJVX39VxuqJBi0nJZTL4ce-wYTa2e0OM61adBNe2o40-RuLnLZ1bwsJH295Dd8vTif_gZptW8R91fbk5UrLzi4PhpdUc9G_AzA2meFSIvPGgY_nxzwoHnG6UcRCvHchXSRWuKw0/s4032/PXL_20240312_155722247.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="2268" height="1051" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjIGyBwjkRas36yysXmMUES44HO2IytBUWqD47AZc6isbXQr20ANixceJVX39VxuqJBi0nJZTL4ce-wYTa2e0OM61adBNe2o40-RuLnLZ1bwsJH295Dd8vTif_gZptW8R91fbk5UrLzi4PhpdUc9G_AzA2meFSIvPGgY_nxzwoHnG6UcRCvHchXSRWuKw0/w591-h1051/PXL_20240312_155722247.jpg" width="591" /></a></div><br /><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div>John Dayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12123174297818737132noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4275885258914846834.post-1024523728055789682024-03-10T16:20:00.003-05:002024-03-10T16:20:31.454-05:00Assault Of The Shadow Power<p> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Blind Sided,</span></p><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Iurie Rosca (Moldovan), recommended by Dr. Nass. The best explanation of our current war yet. <i><b>UNRESTRICTED WARFARE: A Holistic Approach to the Great Reset</b></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>The total <b>assault of the shadow power</b>, which had already been going on for many years, gained a great acceleration in 2020. That was the launch year of a special operation called “the Covid–19 pandemic” which aimed at the mass extermination of the world’s population and genetic modification, as well as impoverishment and subjugation of the survivors.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>This state of alert, prompted by an event of unprecedented severity in history, requires a complex, exhaustive and deep analysis, because the very survival of the human species is at stake.<span class="gmail_default">..</span></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://arcaluinoe.info/en/blog/2024-01-14-466g3tft/" style="color: #1155cc;">https://arcaluinoe.info/en/blog/2024-01-14-466g3tft/</a><i><br /></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Take this in the context of the first story, considering the identity of the shadow-enemy. <span class="gmail_default"> </span><i><b>Who Will Prevail in World War 3? Exploring the 7 Key Battlefields</b></i><br /></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://internationalman.com/articles/who-will-prevail-in-world-war-3-exploring-the-7-key-battlefields/" style="color: #1155cc;">https://internationalman.com/articles/who-will-prevail-in-world-war-3-exploring-the-7-key-battlefields/</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div class="gmail_default"> (10 minutes of truth) <i><b>Col. Douglas Macgregor (Ret) Provides Nation With Alternative View Of The State Of The Union</b></i></div></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Macgregor begins by explaining how <b>the Constitution mandates that the government promote the general welfare. This obligates Washington to secure the basic necessities of life, such as energy, food, and shelter. "Regrettably, the current administration is failing to perform these tasks."</b><span class="gmail_default"><b> </b>...</span></i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span class="gmail_default">..</span><b>"It's impossible to drain the swamp with unsound money and colossal debt that we cannot sustain,"</b> Macgregor said.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>He continued: <b>"Tragically, DC beltway politicians are controlled by the so-called donor class. This form of corruption is enabled by a cancerous central banking system ... this ruling class orchestrates endless wars, enriching themselves and their cronies while sending our soldiers to serve in foreign lands of marginal strategic interest to the United States."</b></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/political/watch-col-douglas-macgregor-ret-provides-nation-alternative-view-state-union" style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.zerohedge.com/political/watch-col-douglas-macgregor-ret-provides-nation-alternative-view-state-union</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div class="gmail_default">(Well, Duh!) <i><b>China wants Russia at Ukraine peace talks – media , </b></i><i><b>Beijing reportedly told EU officials that no settlement can be discussed without Moscow</b></i></div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://swentr.site/news/593984-china-pushes-ukraine-russia-talks/" style="color: #1155cc;">https://swentr.site/news/593984-china-pushes-ukraine-russia-talks/</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Simplicius, <i><b>SITREP 3/7/24: Macron Raises Rhetoric Temp, First HIMARS Kill, Black Sea Fleet Setbacks & More</b></i></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="gmail_default"> </span>On the developing Moldovan front, escalations likewise continue:<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Military expert Alexander Zimovsky: <b>"Moldova has indefinitely withdrawn from the Treaty on Conventional Arms in Europe (CFE Treaty). This opened the way for the free entry of NATO forces into the territory of Moldova in any numbers."</b> So what did you think? NATO intends to destroy Russia, as they stated earlier. Have you heard them abandon this idea? And I didn't hear it either.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>Which is why Putin has now met with the Gaugazian rep. to hear her security requests:</b><br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Vladimir Putin, the President of the Russian Federation, met with <b>Evghenia Guțul, the highest representative of the Gagauz people (the Governor of Gagauzia) and a politician from Moldova, in the city of Sochi on Tuesday.</b><br /><span class="gmail_default"> <b>"</b></span><b>I informed him about the illegal actions of the authorities in Moldova, which take revenge on us for our civil status and loyalty to national interests</b>,<span class="gmail_default"> </span>Step by step, Chisinau takes away our powers, cuts the budget,<b> violates legal rights and causes instability and destabilization in Gagauzia and across the country.<span class="gmail_default">"</span></b><br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>The public meeting was a clear</b> <b>message sent by Putin that he will be taking up the Gaugazia and Pridnestrovie issues as a counterbalance to increased NATO provocations</b>.</i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh6ylSY_LLAfYk6qDb5fVBMAy3lfWU0EZVNx2yIn4hKJblxoQ1Vw9wukLzmZU3FAPThg_mYp2bKQkprtxfUQiUT986WnKI7cXcwvCoAwg7uRsPFYRzaln93yRtBYqFoD6JXzhZuChUbIPOGsUjKrH4WjyXKsSrjxrAQuOjZSnWp89DMi4rRDGWf2FLT4Ghb" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="484" data-original-width="720" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh6ylSY_LLAfYk6qDb5fVBMAy3lfWU0EZVNx2yIn4hKJblxoQ1Vw9wukLzmZU3FAPThg_mYp2bKQkprtxfUQiUT986WnKI7cXcwvCoAwg7uRsPFYRzaln93yRtBYqFoD6JXzhZuChUbIPOGsUjKrH4WjyXKsSrjxrAQuOjZSnWp89DMi4rRDGWf2FLT4Ghb=w536-h360" width="536" /></a></div><br /></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/sitrep-3724-macron-raises-rhetoric" style="color: #1155cc;">https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/sitrep-3724-macron-raises-rhetoric</a><br /></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div class="gmail_default">Eleni sends this from MK Bhadrakumar, <i><b>‘Novorossiya’ rising from ashes like phoenix</b></i></div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><b> </b></i>(Moldovan President)<i> Sandu is a semi-finished American product — an ethnic Romanian who got transformed as a graduate of John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard and had a stint in the World Bank and was pitchforked into the top rungs of Moldavian politics, eventually as the pro-European candidate in the Moldovian president election in 2016.<br /> Sandu has the same genetic make-up as another colourful figure in the post-Soviet space whom the US groomed for “regime change” in Tbilisi — Mikheil Saakashvili who was the president of Georgia for two consecutive terms from 2004 to 2013 following a colour revolution stage-managed from Washington. The strategic calculus both in Georgia and Moldova basically aims at NATO’s expansion into the Black Sea which has been historically a Russian sphere of influence.</i><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.indianpunchline.com/novorossiya-rising-from-ashes-like-phoenix/" style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.indianpunchline.com/novorossiya-rising-from-ashes-like-phoenix/</a><i><br /></i></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> More from Bhadrakumar, who hints at possible secret US/Russian negotiations, which I also suspect. <i><b>Is ground beneath Biden’s Russia policy shifting?</b></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>All things considered, therefore, <b>there could be added meaning to the intriguing remark yesterday by the head of Russia’s foreign intelligence Sergey Naryshkin promising his CIA counterpart William Burns that he will scrupulously observe their mutual agreement not to allow any leaks about their communication. “It was our mutual agreement not to allow leaks not only about the nature, about the issues that are being discussed or will be discussed in our face-to-face meetings, in telephone conversations, but also about them happening. I am standing by this agreement,” </b>Naryshkin said. [Emphasis added.]<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>It could be coincidental that Naryshkin was messaging to Burns on a tumultuous day marking the news that Victoria Nuland is stepping down — and within a week of Putin’s unusual nuclear warning to the US. But it will be extraordinary for a seasoned politician and intelligence chief to speak up fortuitously.</b> </i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.indianpunchline.com/is-ground-beneath-bidens-russia-policy-shifting/" style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.indianpunchline.com/is-ground-beneath-bidens-russia-policy-shifting/</a><i><br /></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="gmail_default"> </span>March 7. /TASS/. <b>The explosion in Odessa, about which the Greek newspaper Proto Thema reported the day before, occurred 500 meters from the motorcade of Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky and visiting Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis</b>, CNN reported, citing a source.<span class="gmail_default"> </span>According to TV channel, <b>the participants in the motorcade felt the impact and noticed a "mushroom cloud" of smoke.</b></i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://tass.com/world/1756791" style="color: #1155cc;">https://tass.com/world/1756791</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Medvedev: We Would Have Hit 'Genital Musician' Zelensky if We Wanted to<br />He called Zelensky a “cocaine shadow of his master, a blind anti–Russian weapon.” He also called Zelensky a “genital musician,” referencing his experience playing the piano with no hands.</b></i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://trendsinthenews.substack.com/p/medvedev-we-would-have-hit-genital" style="color: #1155cc;">https://trendsinthenews.substack.com/p/medvedev-we-would-have-hit-genital</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>Biden Parachutes TV Dinners Into Gaza. Sounds Absurd? It Is</b><br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>It’s a classic American public relations stunt. All show and drama signifying nothing else. President Joe Biden ordered U.S. military transport planes to airdrop food aid into Gaza purportedly to save starving people.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Well, they’re starving to death because the United States is supporting the genocidal siege by the Israeli regime of 2.3 million people for nearly five months.<span class="gmail_default">..</span></i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span class="gmail_default">..</span>The U.S. Air Force has parachuted in 38,000 dinners to Gaza so far, and more are reportedly on the way. That’s only crumbs for millions of people who are starving to death because the U.S.-backed Israeli regime has blocked the hundreds of food aid trucks that should be entering Gaza daily.</i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://strategic-culture.su/news/2024/03/08/biden-parachutes-tv-dinners-into-gaza-sounds-absurd-it-is/" style="color: #1155cc;">https://strategic-culture.su/news/2024/03/08/biden-parachutes-tv-dinners-into-gaza-sounds-absurd-it-is/</a><i><br /></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>War on Gaza: Faulty aid drop kills at least five Palestinians in Gaza City<br />Botched deliveries of humanitarian assistance fell at great speed in a busy neighbourhood, eyewitnesses said</b></i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/faulty-aid-drop-kills-palestinians-gaza-city" style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/faulty-aid-drop-kills-palestinians-gaza-city</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div class="gmail_default">Caitlin Johnstone, <i><b>This Is What Our Ruling Class Has Decided Will Be Normal</b></i></div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjLVSQ98xb1_Jw4dmtVwmvIDsmXOYNOkMCLAyuFzBAvSPVycH8J7MF1MY6ucln9t4Zq7BR3w-n75ShKf0q-IVGRDrQ4C0UZW1fTUAPAtmuSZ8ycN6wvm0S8VdQPjEPm-fN3pQr0YXqHqBHI-XQj2uzmQQpEj_Oukr_EpzEstzLO8Y4S9lFSauAiWpBHW-Q0" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="565" data-original-width="1080" height="324" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjLVSQ98xb1_Jw4dmtVwmvIDsmXOYNOkMCLAyuFzBAvSPVycH8J7MF1MY6ucln9t4Zq7BR3w-n75ShKf0q-IVGRDrQ4C0UZW1fTUAPAtmuSZ8ycN6wvm0S8VdQPjEPm-fN3pQr0YXqHqBHI-XQj2uzmQQpEj_Oukr_EpzEstzLO8Y4S9lFSauAiWpBHW-Q0=w621-h324" width="621" /></a></div><br /></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/this-is-what-our-ruling-class-has" style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/this-is-what-our-ruling-class-has</a><br /></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="gmail_default"> This shifts blame off the Netanyahu government. "The people wouldn't let the aid trucks in."</span><br /><b><span class="gmail_default"></span>At the edge of Gaza, Israelis try to stop aid trucks</b><br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Angry Israelis cut across a field of stubble to try to get around a police blockade to disrupt shipments of food and supplies intended for Gaza.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>For weeks Israeli border officers allowed protesters to disrupt the critical aid convoys at Kerem Shalom, the country’s sole functioning border crossing with Gaza. But at the end of last month, with international pressure and condemnation mounting, authorities announced they were moving additional officers to the crossing to take back control. But even with the area now declared a closed military zone, protesters continue to arrive and try to outmaneuver the police.</i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2024/03/08/middleeast/gaza-israelis-aid-trucks-protests/index.html" style="color: #1155cc;">https://edition.cnn.com/2024/03/08/middleeast/gaza-israelis-aid-trucks-protests/index.html</a><i><br /></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>‘<span class="gmail_default"></span>Israel’ Pressured UNRWA Employees to Make False Statements on Hamas Links: Agency<span class="gmail_default"> </span></b></i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(Torture confessions)</span><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Israeli occupation forced employees of the UN Relief and Works Agency into falsely stating that the agency has Hamas links and that staff took part in the Oct. 7 Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, the UNRWA said.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>The assertions were contained in a report by the UN agency reviewed by Reuters and dated February 2024 which detailed testimonies of mistreatment in Israeli detention made by Palestinians, including several working for UNRWA.</i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://english.almanar.com.lb/2061523" style="color: #1155cc;">https://english.almanar.com.lb/2061523</a><i><br /></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Biden’s Offer for a 6-Week Pause in the Genocide in Gaza<span class="gmail_default"> </span></b></i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><b>Hamas wants an end to the war, but the U.S. is looking only for a 6-week pause, and Israel is willing to allow a pause but resume the genocide afterward.</b><span class="gmail_default">..</span></i></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="gmail_default">..</span>The U.S. is promoting its ‘pause’ deal at the UN, even though the U.S. has vetoed every UN resolution aimed at peace in Gaza, with the most recent U.S. veto on February 20.<br /><b><span class="gmail_default">..</span>Netanyahu says IDF will remain in Gaza for 10 years<span class="gmail_default">...</span></b></i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span class="gmail_default">..</span>On February 29, at least 112 people were killed and 760 were injured when Israeli tanks opened heavy fire on Palestinian civilians attempting to collect flour to make bread near Gaza City.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>The attack was investigated by the Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor. The attack was captured on video in which gunshots and weapon fire were heard. The victims were examined and had gunshot injuries, the scene was strewn with blood on flour sacks and aid boxes, and survivors’ eyewitness testimony attested to the Israeli attack on starving Palestinians in search of food for their families. Many of the survivors stated they were shot in the back while running away from the scene.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Israel tried to blame the deaths and injuries on a stampede in the chaos of scrambling to get the flour. However, the aerial footage the IDF released of the scene proved there were IDF tanks present. The people running in the aerial footage were running from Israeli gunfire directed at them.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>After the ‘Flour Massacre’ happened, the first response from the Biden White House, as parroted by CNN on the front lawn, was the Israeli version of events: people stampeded because of chaos while trying to get some food.</i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://strategic-culture.su/news/2024/03/08/bidens-offer-for-6-week-pause-in-genocide-gaza/" style="color: #1155cc;">https://strategic-culture.su/news/2024/03/08/bidens-offer-for-6-week-pause-in-genocide-gaza/</a><i><br /></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div class="gmail_default"> Eleni sends this analysis from Yves Smith at Naked Capitalism, which expands on other analysis I've seen. Israel is not prepared for a long war. <i><b>Israel: Quietly Fraying?</b></i></div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/03/israel-quietly-fraying.html" style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/03/israel-quietly-fraying.html</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Consciousness of Sheep (UK) , <i><b>Ending the social contract </b></i>(Rigging it to fail soon.)<br /></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="gmail_default"> </span>There is a good argument in principle that if employers want to have healthy and well-educated employees, they ought to make some contribution to the public services that – in theory at least – provide this. But during recessions and depressions, Employers’ National Insurance acts like a tax on jobs – the contributions for roughly every four employees would be sufficient to employ another worker or to provide significant pay increases all round. And since, during a recession, the aim should be to encourage both job creation and wage increases, cutting Employers’ National Insurance makes far more sense.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>It is though, for this reason that we see the ideological nature of yesterday’s cut. Employers’ National Insurance is not being cut, so it will continue to be a block on jobs and pay increases. But the removal of workers’ National Insurance serves to further fray the final threads of the social contract, turning us from citizens served by a state system funded by our contributions, into some version of neo-feudal peasants who live or die at our overlords’ whim.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>The fact that the Labour Party, which, in the distant past introduced this core pillar of the social contract, sees no reason beyond filthy lucre to maintain it, tells us that we urgently need a new party, a new social contract, and a new economic consensus. Because none of the establishment parties of 2024 is leading us anywhere other than to collapse and chaos.</i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://consciousnessofsheep.co.uk/2024/03/07/ending-the-social-contract/" style="color: #1155cc;">https://consciousnessofsheep.co.uk/2024/03/07/ending-the-social-contract/</a><i><br /></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div class="gmail_default"> Where Charles Hugh Smith says "low-trust", I might say "untrustworthy". <i><b>A Low-Trust Society Is an Impoverished Society</b></i></div><i><b>The sole remaining reservoirs of trust in American life are personal networks, local enterprises and local institutions.</b></i><br /></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://charleshughsmith.substack.com/p/a-low-trust-society-is-an-impoverished" style="color: #1155cc;">https://charleshughsmith.substack.com/p/a-low-trust-society-is-an-impoverished</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div class="gmail_default"> William Makis MD, <i><b>mRNA & Pregnancy - 28 year old Pittsburgh nurse Cheryl Strobel had a normal pregnancy. Went to hospital for delivery, had a cardiac arrest & died. Cardiac arrests, aneurysms, sudden death!</b></i></div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://makismd.substack.com/p/mrna-injury-stories-pittsburgh-pa" style="color: #1155cc;">https://makismd.substack.com/p/mrna-injury-stories-pittsburgh-pa</a><br /></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Pierre Kory MD, <i><b>"Long Vax" Finally Enters The Lexicon</b></i></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>I have been trying for 2 years to make the public aware that "Long Vax" is far more common than Long Covid. We finally landed an Op-Ed in a major center-left publication which exposes this reality.</b></i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>The stories my patients would tell me of the care they received included what I would describe as abuse or insults from the treating physicians when the patients tried to convince them that the vaccines were the cause.</b> These stories still make my blood boil and have estranged many of my patients from “the system.” I believe the gaslighting responses have lessened somewhat but I don’t really know how much,<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>What angered me even further is that the health agencies only directed funding at Long Covid and the medical literature and media only referred to sufferers as having Long Covid.</b> The contribution of<b> the gene therapy vaccines are consistently ignored</b>.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>Problem: 70% of our practice are Long Vax, not Long Covid.</b></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://pierrekorymedicalmusings.com/p/long-vax-finally-enters-the-lexicon" style="color: #1155cc;">https://pierrekorymedicalmusings.com/p/long-vax-finally-enters-the-lexicon</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Veterans Affairs Kept COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate In Place Without Evidence<span class="gmail_default"> </span><span class="gmail_default"> </span></b></i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">[Veterans are considered to be the highest risk group for </span><span class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">domestic terrorism</span><span class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. Less = better?]</span><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><b>The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) reviewed no data when deciding in 2023 to keep its COVID-19 vaccine mandate in place.</b></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/veterans-affairs-kept-covid-19-vaccine-mandate-place-without-evidence" style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/veterans-affairs-kept-covid-19-vaccine-mandate-place-without-evidence</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div class="gmail_default"> Meryl Nass MD, whose efforts are spreading awareness. <i><b>The narrative shifts: </b></i>(WHO Pandemic)<i><b>Treaty must be approved because it is NOW or NEVER. </b></i></div><div class="gmail_default"><i><b>That is because there is nothing in it that any sane person might want. Thus: emphasize process not product</b></i></div><i> My comments in italics. <b>They are getting desperate. Note the vague terminology regarding the treaty's ephemeral benefits</b></i><br /></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://merylnass.substack.com/p/the-narrative-shifts-treaty-must" style="color: #1155cc;">https://merylnass.substack.com/p/the-narrative-shifts-treaty-must</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div class="gmail_default"> I choose this article because it explains this position on climate-change well, not because I agree with it all. The climate-change narrative, while partly true, is a control-narrative of our globalist owners, who do not have our best interests at heart, since they need to get rid of half of us to start, because we are consuming their world. (I suspect the problems are worse, coming sooner, largely natural, and not amenable to what we are being force-fed. & People who don't grow food only assume that they understand it.)</div></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Planetary boundary pioneer Johan Rockström awarded 2024 Tyler Prize</b><span class="gmail_default"> </span></i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>I think we will fail on solving the climate crisis if we only phase out fossil fuels. We also need to have a transition back within the biosphere boundaries to have any chance of avoiding [climate disaster]. Even if we stop emitting carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases from society’s industrial sectors, we’ll still have massive greenhouse gas releases from methane, nitrous oxide and carbon dioxide due to our transgressing the biosphere boundaries. So, however we twist and turn, we are in a realm of global transformation today.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>What needs to be done? To begin with, in my view, it offers quite a lot of reassurance that the most straightforward, number one task is to get off fossil fuels. If you take a planetary boundary assessment, it tells you, which I know is provocative, but it tells you that one of the easier challenges we are facing is to phase out fossil fuels. It’s the most mature policy area. We have most solutions there. We even have emission trading schemes and cap and trade systems and carbon pricing. We have the IRA [Inflation Reduction Act] in the U.S.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>We just need to get on with it, because halting biodiversity loss, avoiding destroying freshwater and keeping land systems intact and avoiding overloading of reactive nitrogen and phosphorus are potentially even more challenging. So, getting off fossil fuels is one step in this transformation.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>The second step is we need a food system transformation, and it’s an equally important transformation as the energy transition. The reason for this is that the food system is the number one cause for transgressing planetary boundaries, due to its freshwater use, overloading of nutrients, biodiversity loss and land system changes.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>And here, we have the solutions. Number one, we know we can feed humanity on current cropland without destroying the 50% or so of remaining intact land on planet Earth, if we just reduce food waste and start transitioning towards more healthy diets.</i><div><a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2024/02/planetary-boundary-pioneer-johan-rockstrom-awarded-2024-tyler-prize/" style="color: #1155cc;">https://news.mongabay.com/2024/02/planetary-boundary-pioneer-johan-rockstrom-awarded-2024-tyler-prize/</a><i><br /></i></div></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div class="gmail_default">Solar Harvester (pictured with 3 year old collard green plant in flower)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiUwf9Uw8yl4QUrjA1Dh2rzADbxSiZ-u8A8CDQeBxELR2vx1M8jOWM1Ko2Bnyi8mn_LNoe8v_nJwWbR2lcN7owS3WnTIad7VDBoUL8LRkQjvgA8k2qw3-bQ3Vg0bGOZp03Gff78uu0V2YgEh7W_xBzch4rEvMtgvRJ8v1VIPqPNI5EMMwqAHHcKF-7EVzN/s4032/PXL_20240310_204540575.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2268" data-original-width="4032" height="335" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiUwf9Uw8yl4QUrjA1Dh2rzADbxSiZ-u8A8CDQeBxELR2vx1M8jOWM1Ko2Bnyi8mn_LNoe8v_nJwWbR2lcN7owS3WnTIad7VDBoUL8LRkQjvgA8k2qw3-bQ3Vg0bGOZp03Gff78uu0V2YgEh7W_xBzch4rEvMtgvRJ8v1VIPqPNI5EMMwqAHHcKF-7EVzN/w596-h335/PXL_20240310_204540575.jpg" width="596" /></a></div><br /><div class="gmail_default"><br /></div></div>John Dayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12123174297818737132noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4275885258914846834.post-62507959727200005892024-03-08T11:40:00.004-06:002024-03-08T13:37:26.352-06:00Cleveland's Compassionate Congressman Kucinich<p> Choked Up,</p><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default"><br /></div><div class="gmail_default"><div class="gmail_default"> Dennis Kucinich explains why he left RFK Jr.'s Presidential campaign (Israeli apartheid >> genocide: policy differences) and why he is running for the US House again after being re-districted out a decade ago (America for regular Americans again.). I have set it to about 44+ minutes where he explains leaving the Kennedy campaign and deciding to run independently for Congress in his hometown of Cleveland, Ohio, where he was once the youngest mayor.</div><div class="gmail_default"> Importantly, Dennis, and his interviewer both explain, earlier in the interview, a sensation I feel a lot, in my throat, something is wrong, a heavy and depressed feeling, about the Genocide in Palestine and the war in Ukraine. </div><div class="gmail_default"> Have you ever felt anything like this? I am feeling it again now, like every other day.</div><div class="gmail_default"><a href="https://youtu.be/hTe8PO7az6c?t=2689">https://youtu.be/hTe8PO7az6c?t=2689</a></div></div><div class="gmail_default"><br /></div><div class="gmail_default"> Surplus Energy Economics, <i><b>“Peak almost everything”, part two , Winners and Losers</b></i></div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>The long-running contest between the economic orthodoxy and the energy-based alternative is ‘all over bar the shouting’ (though there will be plenty of that), and the energy argument has won.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>Anyone who understands the economy as an energy system has an inside track over anyone – the majority – who still believes that economics is the study of money</b>.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Thus understood, <b>asset markets are partying at the end of growth. Governments, corporations and investors are planning for a future that cannot happen</b>. The public is increasingly <b>angry with politicians who promise what cannot possibly be delivered</b>.<span class="gmail_default">..</span></i><div><i>..<b>Such meagre “growth” as is still being reported is cosmetic, being faked by the reckless injection of credit </b>into the system.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>If, in order to deliver one dollar, euro, yen or pound of growth, we have to create more than one dollar, euro, yen or pound of new credit, part of any reported growth is being faked. Using the narrow definition of formal debt, each dollar of global growth has, over the past twenty years, been accompanied by $3.20 of net new borrowing.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>On a broader basis, including the credit assets of the NBFI (“shadow banking”) system for which data is incomplete, the ratio of credit expansion to growth is probably well in excess of 7:1.<span class="gmail_default">..</span></b></i></div><i>..The end result must be default, and a loss of faith in the value of fiat money...</i><div><i>..<b>People around the world aren’t buying the excuses. They’re getting worse off, not better off</b>, and, increasingly, they know it.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>We’re seeing this in <b>increasingly fractious and aggressive politics. Governments are becoming steadily more authoritarian ahead of challenges</b> that they sense, even if the causation continues to elude them...</i></div><i>..The <b>first explanation is worsening inequality, an accelerating flow of wealth from the many to the few.</b> Intentionally or not, this has been driven by policies, particularly those designed to sustain a semblance of “growth” through extreme monetary gimmickry.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>The second is that the economy itself, far from continuing to expand, is in the process of inflecting from growth into contraction.</b><br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Put both of these together and the result is that <b>a self-serving minority is cornering an increasing share of a shrinking economy</b>...</i><div><i>..<b>Hardship is worsening, and trust in the fairness of distribution is sinking</b>. <b>The high command displays every sign of not knowing what’s going on with the economy, or of how this is affecting the ‘ordinary’ person</b>...<span class="gmail_default"> </span></i>[I think "they" know, myself<span class="gmail_default">.</span>]<span class="gmail_default"> ...</span></div><i>..Having the inside track on the economy, <b>anyone who understands the material dynamics of energy, resources and the environment has pretty good visibility on what happens next</b>.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>As material prosperity contracts, and the costs of energy-intensive necessities carry on rising, a series of sectors supplying discretionary (non-essential) products and services reach the point of inflexion.</b> We have now, as outlined in the previous article, <b>entered a mountain range of discretionary peaks – peak smartphone (which has already happened)</b>, peak media (which is unfolding now), peak hospitality, peak travel, peak gadget, peak property price, and many, many more.<span class="gmail_default"> </span></i>[Peak electric vehicles, I think.]<span class="gmail_default"> ...</span><div><i>..<b>Many thinkers have urged the need for voluntary economic de-growth, but these counsels have never won out over consumerism</b>. The outlook, becoming clearer by the day, is for <b>involuntary de-growth.</b> <br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>We no longer need to focus our efforts very largely on persuasion. <b>Facts and dynamics have taken over</b>. Our primary need now is to model, quantify and project the trends towards <b>a discretionary-led economic contraction that is already under way</b>.<span class="gmail_default">..</span></i></div><i><b>..In Fig. 2. The “growth” supposedly delivered in GDP has been widely at variance with the trend in material prosperity. Since 2000, extreme and worsening disequilibrium has emerged between the “financial” and the underlying “real” economies, reaching a point at which financial fracture has become inescapable.<span class="gmail_default">..</span></b></i><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgxyrPnq-vSWuc1kaBIdzJX8tHQvfJWUU3bIS7Y5QrQtMWZNOy6TJ4-hZhbzz7ySmix1fsyLq5ED8wxMQW9knxbVTlS9d3V4VvNBhLVktYQS00FW1DtArieam17M7pkh3BlF4SYkBMBynizMeP6_CYwj_JV3Yj-L8ZyBWX-dcbH11jxdWPOrKKiE0IzqhLu" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="274" data-original-width="1024" height="172" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgxyrPnq-vSWuc1kaBIdzJX8tHQvfJWUU3bIS7Y5QrQtMWZNOy6TJ4-hZhbzz7ySmix1fsyLq5ED8wxMQW9knxbVTlS9d3V4VvNBhLVktYQS00FW1DtArieam17M7pkh3BlF4SYkBMBynizMeP6_CYwj_JV3Yj-L8ZyBWX-dcbH11jxdWPOrKKiE0IzqhLu=w643-h172" width="643" /></a></div><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default">..</span>For those who understand what’s really happening, having this knowledge can be positive, as we look ahead to what the corporations and governments of the future will look like.</b></i><div><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://surplusenergyeconomics.wordpress.com/2024/03/07/272-peak-almost-everything-part-two/&source=gmail&ust=1710001536419000&usg=AOvVaw08cAjvma76ATu560d9Pff_" href="https://surplusenergyeconomics.wordpress.com/2024/03/07/272-peak-almost-everything-part-two/" target="_blank">https://<wbr></wbr>surplusenergyeconomics.<wbr></wbr>wordpress.com/2024/03/07/272-<wbr></wbr>peak-almost-everything-part-<wbr></wbr>two/</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div><br /></div><b><i>Credit Card Debt Jumps To New All-Time High, As Card Rates Rise To New Record</i></b><div><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/credit-card-debt-jumps-new-all-time-high-card-rates-rise-new-record&source=gmail&ust=1710001536419000&usg=AOvVaw30UNzSVgIBITs0LqLWfX-Z" href="https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/credit-card-debt-jumps-new-all-time-high-card-rates-rise-new-record" target="_blank">https://www.zerohedge.com/<wbr></wbr>markets/credit-card-debt-<wbr></wbr>jumps-new-all-time-high-card-<wbr></wbr>rates-rise-new-record</a><b><i><br /></i></b></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="gmail_default"> Charles Hugh Smith, <i><b>Global Recession's Winners and Losers</b></i></div><i><b>The few winners of global recession will use the decline as a means to break the chokehold of unproductive BAU </b></i>[business as usual] <i><b>elites.</b><span class="gmail_default"> </span></i></div><div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>That the global economy is slipping into recession is self-evident. What's not yet known is the eventual depth and length of the recession.</b> Given that the <b>extreme policies needed to avoid recession over the past 15 years have reached extremes that are now the problem, not the solution</b>, there won't be any more fiscal-monetary "saves" this time around.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>What's also <b>not yet known is how far the few winners will advance and how far the losers will fall</b>.,,<span class="gmail_default"></span></i></div><div><i><span class="gmail_default">..</span><b>Those nations / alliances that weather a deep, lengthy global recession with modest losses will be much stronger post-recession</b> than those who suffered losses that cannot be replaced that then tipped the nation into destabilization and eventual collapse<span class="gmail_default">.</span>.</i><br /></div><div><i><span class="gmail_default">..</span>I have long held that <b>in this sense, recession can be weaponized by those with superior core assets in resources, flexibility and adaptability</b>: Weaponizing Global Depression (2/23/23).</i></div><div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>Every nation can print money, but the trick is to be able to do so without unleashing currency debasement / hyper-inflation</b>. There are only a few levers that can be pulled to get away with printing money out of thin air to support one's economy in recession, and none are easy to sustain...<span class="gmail_default"></span></i></div><div><i><span class="gmail_default">..</span>You see the problem:<b> it's impossible to broaden one's economic base and establish trust overnight.</b> It takes years or even decades to establish liquid, trustworthy markets that remain trustworthy even as political winds shift.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>Those nations that have broad economic bases and trustworthy financial systems are few, and their choice is simple: either squander this collateral</b> by using the newly issued money to prop up unproductive, rentier BAU (business as usual) elites, monopolies and cartels, <b>or use the recession to divert resources and money away from dead-weight BAU and invest it productively.</b><br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>Those nations that create money to prop up rentier BAU will slide into potentially terminal stagflation</b> as creating new money and giving it to unproductive monopolies, cartels and elites increases the supply of money available to "invest" in asset bubbles--<b>unproductive elites outbidding each other for the pool of productive assets--without increasing the productivity of the economy.</b> This deflates the value of the currency (what we call inflation) even as it guarantees systemic malinvestment that keeps growth of productivity stagnant.</i><br /></div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>The trick is to use the newly created money wisely, which requires limiting the greed and power of BAU elites</b>--something few nations (if any) can manage, as the<b> BAU elites put their own interests above the interests of the nation and its citizenry</b>.<span class="gmail_default">..</span></i><div><i>..<b>The story of civilization is BAU elites will do everything in their power to maintain the status quo </b>as it is because this configuration is the source of their wealth and power. Given the power of their self-interest, this configuration is brittle and thus prone to cracking in unpredictable ways.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>To survive challenges like deep, lengthy recessions, nations must have the structural flexibility to enable competing elites to replace the BAU elites</b> whose exploitive, unproductive grip has fatally weakened the nation's social, political and economic orders.<span class="gmail_default"> </span></i>["You are here", or not. We'll try.]</div><div><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://charleshughsmith.substack.com/p/global-recessions-winners-and-losers&source=gmail&ust=1710001536419000&usg=AOvVaw06YaRkXpyg-6j5lbQmLTPh" href="https://charleshughsmith.substack.com/p/global-recessions-winners-and-losers" target="_blank">https://charleshughsmith.<wbr></wbr>substack.com/p/global-<wbr></wbr>recessions-winners-and-losers</a></div><div><br /></div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>Was Nuland Fired for Her Role in the Ukraine Debacle?</b><span class="gmail_default"></span></i><div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>Victoria Nuland is one of the most knowledgeable and experienced diplomats in the entire State Department, but –even so– they are throwing her under the bus during a time of extreme crisis because she failed in the biggest and most important assignment of her 35-year career. Isn’t that what they’re saying?<br /><span class="gmail_default"> I</span>t is. You can be 100% certain that a combative street-fighter like Nuland would never throw in the towel unless she was explicitly ordered to leave.<br /></b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>And, perhaps, she might have held-on to her job if there was any sign of progress in the war, but there isn’t any sign of progress. It’s as hopeless and dire a situation as we have ever seen.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Even as we speak– the Ukrainian front lines are collapsing while the body count continues to rise. Ukraine is out-gunned, out-manned, and out-led...</i><div><i><span class="gmail_default">..</span>In any event, <b>we think that Nuland’s retirement is anything but voluntary. We think that she’s being terminated by foreign policy elites</b> who no longer believe in her blustery rhetoric and empty promises of beating Putin. <b>By removing Nuland they are acknowledging that the proxy-war has failed and that a different strategy is needed</b>. And while we don’t yet know what that policy-change will entail, we do know that Nuland won’t be involved in its implementation.<span class="gmail_default">..</span></i></div></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #362f2d; text-align: justify;"><span class="gmail_default">..</span></span><i>Her replacement is former ambassador John Bass who oversaw the most excellent and well planned withdrawal from Afghanistan a few summers ago. It could simply be rats jumping off sinking ships. Tori was a key player in the bloody and corrupt Ukraine-Biden nexus; one hopes her sudden departure is more significant than just one big nasty murderous rat diving into the deep– may she lead the way for the rest of the neocon mischief.<span class="gmail_default">..</span><span class="gmail_default"><br /></span></i></div><i>..One final comment: In a February 22, 2024 interview at the prestigious Center for Strategic and International Studies, <b>Nuland was asked the following question</b>:<br /><span class="gmail_default"><b>Q:</b> </span><b>“…if Congress doesn’t act (to provide additional funding for Ukraine)… is there a Plan B?</b> Is the administration thinking about how it could get aid to Ukraine? Is there a way to get aid to Ukraine without Congress actually allocating the funding to do so?<br /><b>Nuland</b>: <b>Max, we’re on Plan A. We’re on Plan A</b>. And, frankly, you know, the U.S. Senate just passed this bill with 70 votes. So that tells you that the American people strongly support continuing to help Ukraine, in Ukraine’s interest but also in our own interest. So I think the question, as the House of Representatives goes out into its districts, what message are constituents giving to their members of Congress? And how are members of Congress understanding what the world looks like, and how they’re going to have to answer if they don’t support this funding? So I am an optimist on this front. I think we will get there. But I think the American people need to speak strongly to their members. <b>Under Secretary of State Victoria Nuland: The Two-Year Anniversary of Russia’s Full-Scale Invasion of Ukraine, CSIS Center for Strategic and International Studies</b><br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>Did you hear what she said? There is no Plan B.</b> Either the US prevails in its proxy-war with Russia or what? Chaos? A Russian takeover of all Ukraine? The dissolution of NATO?</i><div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>This is not the type of response that powerful foreign policy elites (who attended the interview) want to hear. They know that Ukraine is not winning the war, just like they know that Ukraine’s chances of success are extremely poor unless they get more money, more troops and more firepower, all of which are now seriously in doubt. They also know that the State Department has not convened any back-channel negotiations with Russia, so there’s no possibility of a surprise settlement either. And, now Nuland is telling them that neither she nor her colleagues have formulated a back-up plan in the event the war doesn’t turn out as they had anticipated. No Plan B.</i></div><span class="gmail_default"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.globalresearch.ca/was-nuland-fired-her-role-ukraine-debacle/5851505&source=gmail&ust=1710001536419000&usg=AOvVaw0N5bhW4C301B-g-a_aVzkT" href="https://www.globalresearch.ca/was-nuland-fired-her-role-ukraine-debacle/5851505" target="_blank">https://www.globalresearch.ca/<wbr></wbr>was-nuland-fired-her-role-<wbr></wbr>ukraine-debacle/5851505</a></span></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr"><div><div class="gmail_default"> John Helmer makes a statement and includes analysis from the Russian press.</div><i><b>NOTHING IN NULAND’S LIFE BECAME HER LIKE THE LEAVING OF IT</b></i></div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>The reason for Nuland’s exit is either that she was forced out, principally by the Joint Chiefs of Staff before she could do more damage to US military assets in Europe; or that she decided not to be in office when the Articles of Capitulation are signed between Kiev, Lvov, and Moscow.<b><span class="gmail_default"></span></b></i><div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Nuland’s successor should scare Zelensky<span class="gmail_default">, </span>By Dmitry Bavyrin</b></i><div><i><span class="gmail_default"> U</span>S Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland is retiring from the civil service. She was responsible for relations with Russia back in the days of the first Yeltsin government, but all-Russia fame came to her after the distribution of “cookies” on the Maidan. There are serious reasons why Nuland chose retirement, even though she was destined for the Secretary of State’s chair. And the President of Ukraine has reason to be apprehensive of the candidacy of her replacement...<span class="gmail_default">..</span>The fact that Blinken himself announced the departure of his likely rival for the succession seems to indicate his desire to cut off her escape route and the opportunity to change her mind.<span class="gmail_default">..</span></i><div><i><span class="gmail_default">..</span>It is unlikely that this fall is due to failures. There are many failures in Nuland’s career, primarily because she worked in the most difficult areas. It’s much more like escaping from a sinking ship, when the ship is the Joe Biden administration.<span class="gmail_default">..</span></i><div><i><span class="gmail_default">..</span>Although Nuland is strongly associated with the Democratic Party of Obama and Biden, she is a nonpartisan diplomat – a career professional who remains in service regardless of who is president. Nuland received her first non-bureaucratic position, but <b>an important public role as U.S. ambassador to NATO under Republican George W. Bush.</b> It is <b>very possible that her husband Robert Kagan, a political theorist, and concurrently a friend and like–minded associate of the entourage of both Bushes, the elder and the younger, contributed to this.</b><br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>His strong connection with the <b>“neocons” </b>– the most aggressive wing of the Republicans – still holds, although <b>Kagan himself left the party on the arrival of President Trump, cursing him in every way</b>.<span class="gmail_default">..</span></i><div><i><span class="gmail_default">..</span>She will transfer the portfolio to John Bass, another professional diplomat with similar views, whose track record, however, should make Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky wince. <b>Bass is not a new clinician. More like a pathologist.</b><br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>He was the ambassador to Afghanistan when the Americans fled, leaving the country to the Taliban. And as ambassador to Georgia when Washington’s protégé Mikheil Saakashvili lost power. And also as ambassador to Turkey, when President Recep Erdogan, resisting an attempted military coup, conducted a large-scale purge of American agents and agents of influence.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>That is to say, <b>the person who inherits all the Ukrainian problems from Nuland is not very fortunate, but he certainly knows how to destroy the evidence and seal the premises. But this is exactly what Nuland and Biden need in Ukraine – also [Hunter] Biden Jr.</b>, whose greed and forgetfulness brought his father under impeachment, and the entire globalist elite which fanned the conflagration of war in Eastern Europe could not curb it.</i></div></div></div></div></div><div><a href="https://johnhelmer.net/nothing-in-nulands-life-became-her-like-the-leaving-of-it/#more-89522" target="_blank">https://johnhelmer.net/<wbr></wbr>nothing-in-nulands-life-<wbr></wbr>became-her-like-the-leaving-<wbr></wbr>of-it/#more-89522</a></div><div><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>President Biden Delivers The "Darkest, Most Un-American Speech Given By A President"</b></i><div><i>Whatever 'they' gave Biden, every American man, woman, and the other should be allowed to take it - though it seems the cocktail brings out 'dark Brandon'?</i></div><div><i><b>B<span class="gmail_default">iden's Speech:</span></b></i></div><i>Fund Ukraine.<br />Trump is threat to democracy and America itself.<br />Abortion is good.<br />American Economy is stronger than ever.<br />Inflation wasn't Biden's fault.<br />Illegals are Americans too.<br />Republicans are responsible for the border crisis.<br />Trump is bad.<br />Biden stands with trans-children.<br />J6 was the worst insurrection since the Civil War.</i><div><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.zerohedge.com/political/democrats-nervous-ahead-bidens-state-union-address&source=gmail&ust=1710001536419000&usg=AOvVaw0KCQ6vHWgbZIxPGUGhaoPY" href="https://www.zerohedge.com/political/democrats-nervous-ahead-bidens-state-union-address" target="_blank">https://www.zerohedge.com/<wbr></wbr>political/democrats-nervous-<wbr></wbr>ahead-bidens-state-union-<wbr></wbr>address</a><i><br /></i></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="gmail_default">Gilbert Doctorow presumes 2 choices, but not really. He protest-votes, himself, sometimes.</div><i><b>Trump and Biden: which liar will you vote for?</b></i><br /></div><div><a href="https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2024/03/08/9784/">https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2024/03/08/9784/</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div><br /></div><i><b>Biden is Hiding Weapons Shipments to Israel and Ignores Illegal West Bank Settlements</b><span class="gmail_default"><b></b> , Mish Shedlock</span></i><div><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://mishtalk.com/economics/biden-is-hiding-weapons-shipments-to-israel-and-ignores-illegal-west-bank-settlements/&source=gmail&ust=1710001536419000&usg=AOvVaw3Ns2PDlYmZiHbPn4Y61sN9" href="https://mishtalk.com/economics/biden-is-hiding-weapons-shipments-to-israel-and-ignores-illegal-west-bank-settlements/" target="_blank">https://mishtalk.com/<wbr></wbr>economics/biden-is-hiding-<wbr></wbr>weapons-shipments-to-israel-<wbr></wbr>and-ignores-illegal-west-bank-<wbr></wbr>settlements/</a><i><span class="gmail_default"><br /></span></i></div><div><br /></div><i><span class="gmail_default"> Moon of Alabama , </span><b>Finding The Right Words On Gaza</b><br /><b>Wang Yi, the foreign minister of China, has found the right words</b> to describe the ongoing genocide in Gaza:<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Chinese foreign minister calls war in Gaza a <b>'disgrace for civilisation' </b>- AFP / Le Monde, Mar 3 2023<br /><b>"It is a tragedy for humankind and a disgrace for civilization that today, in the 21st century, this humanitarian disaster cannot be stopped,"</b> Wang told journalists at a press conference.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>A disgrace for civilization is also anyone, starting with Joe Biden, who supports the slaughter of the people of Gaza.</b></i></div><div dir="ltr"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/03/finding-the-right-words-on-gaza.html&source=gmail&ust=1710001536419000&usg=AOvVaw2BiRKOXoylrKXL37mJiXnT" href="https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/03/finding-the-right-words-on-gaza.html" target="_blank">https://www.moonofalabama.org/<wbr></wbr>2024/03/finding-the-right-<wbr></wbr>words-on-gaza.html</a></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /></span></span></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Netanyahu says Israel to expand Gaza hostilities to Rafah</b></i><div dir="ltr"><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>The Israeli military operation against Hamas in the Gaza Strip will also affect the town of Rafah near the enclave's border with Egypt, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>"I want to tell you here today loud and clear: the Israel Defense Forces will continue to act against all Hamas battalions throughout the Gaza Strip, including Rafah, the last Hamas stronghold," </b>the prime minister said to cheers at a cadet graduation ceremony at an IDF officers school.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>"Whoever tells us not to operate in Rafah is telling us to lose the war and that will not happen,"</b> the prime minister went on to say in a speech that was broadcast by the government press office.</i></div><div dir="ltr"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://tass.com/world/1757081&source=gmail&ust=1710001536420000&usg=AOvVaw1t_GwlAcbY-6c9CFKUgWV6" href="https://tass.com/world/1757081" target="_blank">https://tass.com/world/1757081</a></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr"><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Netanyahu Vows Israel Will Invade Rafah, Rejects ‘International Pressure’<span class="gmail_default"> </span></b>[This has been slated for Ramadan, <b>March 10, in statements last month</b>.]<b><br />The US is aware an invasion of Rafah would be 'catastrophic' for civilians but is not threatening any consequences for Israel</b></div><div dir="ltr"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://news.antiwar.com/2024/03/07/netanyahu-vows-israel-will-invade-rafah-despite-international-pressure/&source=gmail&ust=1710001536420000&usg=AOvVaw2sHqtN0uPf5hiuiibtC_Us" href="https://news.antiwar.com/2024/03/07/netanyahu-vows-israel-will-invade-rafah-despite-international-pressure/" target="_blank">https://news.antiwar.com/2024/<wbr></wbr>03/07/netanyahu-vows-israel-<wbr></wbr>will-invade-rafah-despite-<wbr></wbr>international-pressure/</a></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default">Both in one week? <i><b>Report: Israel Sets March 15 as Deadline for ‘Broad War’ Against Lebanon , </b></i><i><b>Aid groups urge immediate ceasefire on humanitarian grounds</b></i></div><div class="gmail_default"><a href="https://news.antiwar.com/2024/03/07/report-israel-sets-march-15-as-deadline-for-broad-war-against-lebanon/">https://news.antiwar.com/2024/03/07/report-israel-sets-march-15-as-deadline-for-broad-war-against-lebanon/</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div class="gmail_default"><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>'Israel' using starvation tactic in Gaza to destroy food system: UN</b></i></div><div dir="ltr"><i>After an eight-day expedition to the south of the besieged strip, the deputy director of Handicap International - Humanity & Inclusion (HI) tells AFP he was still "stunned" at the worst situation he has seen in his life.</i></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/-israel--using-starvation-tactic-in-gaza-to-destroy-food-sys">https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/-israel--using-starvation-tactic-in-gaza-to-destroy-food-sys</a><i><br /></i><div class="gmail_default"><br /></div><div class="gmail_default"><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Delegations Leave Cairo With No Gaza Ceasefire Progress, 'No Solution' In Sight</b></i><div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>The Hamas delegation has departed the Egyptian capital, with no progress made, and it is accusing Israel of thwarting truce attempts while also charging Tel Aviv with blocking humanitarian aid shipments to the Strip.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Israel for its part didn't even send a delegation to Cairo and has only been engaged through intermediaries, after Prime Minister Netanyahu called Hamas' conditions "delusional" - particularly the request for Israel's military to withdraw all forces from Gaza.</i></div><div><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/delegations-leave-cairo-no-gaza-ceasefire-progress-made" target="_blank">https://www.zerohedge.com/<wbr></wbr>geopolitical/delegations-<wbr></wbr>leave-cairo-no-gaza-ceasefire-<wbr></wbr>progress-made</a></div></div><div><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Biden Orders "Emergency Mission" To Build Port In Gaza For Aid Shipments</b></i><div><div class="gmail_default"> <i><b>Last weekend's airdrop by United States and Jordan included 66 bundles of aid containing 38,000 meals. Progressives have called this a "shimmering stunt". An op-ed in Mother Jones notes that "A very small NGO, Anera, does 150,000 meals a day. They do four times the amount of meals that the United States Air Force did, but every single day. The US Air Force had two drops in four days. A small NGO is effectively doing much better."...</b></i></div><i>.."A temporary pier will enable a massive increase in the amount of humanitarian assistance getting into Gaza every day," President Biden said, and <b>called on Israel to "do its part" </b>be letting more aid into the besieged territory while <b>ensuring that "humanitarian workers aren't caught in the crossfire."</b><span class="gmail_default"><b></b> </span><span class="gmail_default"> </span></i>[er, inten<span class="gmail_default">t</span>ionally ambushed]<span class="gmail_default"> ...</span><br /></div><i><span class="gmail_default">..</span><b>US soldiers are expected to construct the pier</b> and launch it from aboard US Navy vessels offshore. Vice Adm Kevin Donegan, the most senior US Navy commander in the Middle East has said the plan is "absolutely executable"<span class="gmail_default"> </span>However, a senior US official has emphasized, "The current plan doesn't include any U.S. boots on the ground in Gaza."</i></div><div dir="ltr"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/biden-orders-emergency-mission-build-port-gaza-aid-shipments&source=gmail&ust=1710001536420000&usg=AOvVaw074Mp83Ez4loTjIrm_hJTy" href="https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/biden-orders-emergency-mission-build-port-gaza-aid-shipments" target="_blank">https://www.zerohedge.com/<wbr></wbr>geopolitical/biden-orders-<wbr></wbr>emergency-mission-build-port-<wbr></wbr>gaza-aid-shipments</a><i><br /></i><div><br /></div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Serbian journalist and author <b>Dragan Vujičić interviewed Thierry Meyssan for the daily Večernje Novosti. The interview focuses on the constants between the war in Kosovo (1998), that in Ukraine (2021) and the massacre in Gaza (2023)</b>.<span class="gmail_default"> </span></i>Thanks Eleni.<div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>Thierry Meyssan:</b> <b>People in developed societies do not see the same things</b>. Some watch <b>television which only gives them information favorable to Israel</b>, others get information via the<b> internet and social networks</b>. <b>They cannot stand the massacre they are witnessing</b>.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Nobody knows in the West that <b>Benjamin Netanyahu’s Jewish supremacists have a common history with the Ukrainian Banderists, the Straussians in the USA and the Muslim Brotherhood of Hamas.</b><br /><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Netanyahu’s idol is the Ukrainian fascist Vladimir Zeev Jabotinsky, of whom his father was the private secretary.</b> In 1922 Jabotinsky formed an alliance with Symon Petliura and Dmytro Dontsov. <b>When these people massacred tens of thousands of Jews, the World Zionist Organization demanded an explanation from Jabotinsky, who was one of its administrators. He refused to answer and slammed the door.</b><br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Dmytro Dontsov became Stephan Bandera’s mentor. <b>Before World War II, these people made an alliance with the Nazis</b>. During the War, Dontsov became an administrator of the Reinhard Heydrich Institute. He was one of the twenty or so people who oversaw the <b>“final solution of the Jewish and Gypsy questions”.</b><br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>After the War, Bandera worked with the Muslim Brotherhood at Radio Free Europe in Munich.</b><br /><b>For his part, Jabotinsky had allied himself with Benito Mussolini. He had created a fascist militia, the Betar</b>, under the auspices of the Duce.<br /><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>At the start of the World War, Vladimir Jabotinsky and Benzion Netanyahu received the neoconservative philosopher Leo Strauss in New York.</b><br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Their followers fought the British.<b> After the war, they blew up the British headquarters in Palestine, assassinated the British Colonial Secretary and the UN special envoy, Count Folke Bernadotte.</b><br /><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>For their part, the Muslim Brotherhood created a Palestinian branch, Hamas, in 1987.</b></i></div><div><i><b><br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>It was probably the disciples of Leo Strauss who organized the September 11 attacks.</b></i></div><div><i><b><br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>All these people know each other, share the same ideas and work together. They have no use for Jews and Muslims, Serbs and Croats. They have no other ambition than political power and have no regard for human lives</b>...<br />..<b>Thierry Meyssan</b>: <b>The International Court of Justice has aligned itself with the US State Department. It asked Israel not to commit genocide but is not forbidding “him” it to do so.</b><br /><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Westerners have aligned themselves with the White House. They watch Palestinians die without flinching.</b> They <b>withdrew their funding from UNRWA so that they could starve without being massacred.</b><br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>To sow confusion, Western media attribute the October 7 operation to Hamas alone. It’s wrong</b>. Islamic Jihad and the Marxist PFLP also participated. <b>This was the first joint action by the different factions of the Palestinian Resistance in fifteen years.</b><br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>It is difficult to understand, but <b>Hamas is divided in two: on one side the leaders loyal to the Muslim Brotherhood and the Anglo-Saxons, on the other those who joined the Palestinian Resistance.</b> <b>The former fought with the Israelis against the Syrian Arab Republic, while the latter reconciled with President Basher al-Assad</b> last year. The <b>first are terrorists</b>, the <b>second Resistance fighters</b>.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>Benjamin Netanyahu knew at least a year in advance that Hamas was preparing the October 7 operation</b>. Not only did he do nothing to prevent it, but also, during the summer, <b>he fired his defense minister who asked too many questions</b>. On <b>October 6, Netanyahu allowed the men guarding the Gaza border to abandon their posts</b> and leave<b> to celebrate</b> a religious holiday. Obviously, the historic current of <b>Hamas and Benjamin Netanyahu jointly organized the attack of October 7, of which the Jewish opposition on the (kibbutzs) kibbutz was the main victim</b>.<span class="gmail_default">..</span></i></div><i><span class="gmail_default">..</span><b>Thierry Meyssan</b>: I don’t think we will ever be able to repair our crimes. <b>The most we can do is build, finally, a world based on Law. This was already the objective of Tsar Nicholas II and the Frenchman Léon Bourgeois (Nobel Peace Prize winner) before the First World War.</b><br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>This is what President Vladimir Putin is striving for today: a world where everyone respects their own signature and is responsible for their actions before public opinion</b>.<span class="gmail_default">..</span></i><div><i>..<b>Thierry Meyssan: Today’s world is cruel and dangerous. We are seeing wars in Ukraine and Gaza. But men suffer just as much in Sudan and Haiti. We will not know peace as long as we continue to lie.</b></i></div><div><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.voltairenet.org/article220488.html&source=gmail&ust=1710001536420000&usg=AOvVaw1WzM4hdYizzJ_dj7m7lAJm" href="https://www.voltairenet.org/article220488.html" target="_blank">https://www.voltairenet.org/<wbr></wbr>article220488.html</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>The ideology of war in Ukraine and Israel</b><span class="gmail_default"><b></b> </span>by Thierry Meyssan<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>The wars in Ukraine and Gaza are more similar than you might think, at least if you know their histories. The Ukrainian war didn’t start with the Russian military operation, but with the massacres in the Donbass, while the Gaza war didn’t start with the Al-Aqsa deluge, but 75 years earlier with the Nakhba. In the long term, those responsible for both wars share the same ideology.<span class="gmail_default">..</span></i><div><i><span class="gmail_default">..</span><b>Perhaps the first function of collective blindness is to erase our previous crimes:</b> <b>it was the "democracies" of the United States and members of the European Union who organized the overthrow of Ukraine’s elected president, Viktor Yanukovych, in 2014</b>. It was Germany and France that signed the Minsk Accords to guarantee peace for Ukrainians in Donbass (2015), but never intended to implement them and, according to the confessions of Chancellor Angela Merkel and President François Hollande, used them to arm Ukraine against Russia.<span class="gmail_default">..</span><br /><span class="gmail_default">..</span>Similarly, it is the <b>"greatest democracy in the Middle East", Israel, which has stolen</b>, metre by metre, by occupation and nibbling, most of the Palestinian Territories established by Security Council resolution 181 (1947).<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>Or maybe it’s the other way round: our collective blindness is perhaps designed to enable us to perpetrate our next crimes.</b></i></div><div><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.voltairenet.org/article220527.html&source=gmail&ust=1710001536420000&usg=AOvVaw2KjSEibk7keXQnFZqI3JH5" href="https://www.voltairenet.org/article220527.html" target="_blank">https://www.voltairenet.org/<wbr></wbr>article220527.html</a></div><div><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Ukraine war and Western system's fatal flaw</b><span class="gmail_default"><b> </b>, Alex Krainer </span></i><div><i>The undiagnosed <b>malignancy at the core of our system is now out in the open</b> view</i></div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>After two years of Russia's Special Military Operation,<b> it is now clear that Russia is winning and that Ukraine is now well and truly broken</b>. This is all in spite of the nuclear, all-out trade sanctions against Russia and the full support for Ukraine from her western allies, both in terms of financial, humanitarian and military aid. <b>NATO has practically disarmed itself to provide weapons and ammunition to Ukraine</b>.<span class="gmail_default">..</span></i><div><i><span class="gmail_default">.<b>.</b></span><b>Edward Luce</b> referred to <b>a 2011 strategy session held at the National Defense University by 16 high-ranking US military officers</b>. They concluded as follows:<br /><span class="gmail_default"> <b>"</b></span><b>The window on America's hegemony is closing. We are at a point right now where we still have choices. By 2021, we will no longer have choices</b>. ... The US is way too dependent on its military and should sharply reduce its 'global footprint' by winding up all wars, notably in Afghanistan, and by closing peacetime military bases in Germany, South Korea, the UK and elsewhere... All this is a means to an end, which is to restore America's economic vitality. ... <b>Our #1 goal should be to restore America's prosperity.</b> As such, we recommend the <b>Pentagon shrink its budget by at least 20% ... most of the savings would be spent on civilian priorities such as the infrastructure, education and foreign aid.</b> ... Nobody here thinks the politics in this town are going to change overnight; all we're saying is that we're in trouble if they don't. <b>This isn't about ideology; it is about understanding where we are as a country<span class="gmail_default">.</span><span class="gmail_default">" </span></b>...<span class="gmail_default"></span></i></div><i>..Of course, <b>the warning was ignored and no course correction was allowed</b>. <b>The malignancy consumed America’s prosperity</b> to pursue self-destructive military misadventures around the world. In nature, <b>these types of malignancies deplete and kill their own hosts</b>. It is now becoming clear to an increasing number of people in the West that this is our societies’ trajectory and that <b>our owner classes only know one way to tackle complex challenges: by pressing ever harder on the accelerator pedal.</b>..</i><div><i>..For the rest of us, <b>we really are going to have to build back better from the ruins they leave behind</b>. Only, <b>we must do it in a very different way from the one they planned for us</b>. This must be the dawn for <b>thinking, creativity and coming together in love and faith in ourselves</b>. I’d leave it at this, but the question often crops up: what can we do?<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>Learn the truth and speak it - openly and boldly. Reject fear and the lies they are lobbing our way. Refuse to entertain any idea that we have to go and fight some external enemy</b> in order to set our world straight. It’s as <b>Napoleon Bonaparte put it: wars happen when your government tells you who the enemy is. Revolutions happen when you figure it out for yourself.</b></i></div><div><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/ukraine-war-and-western-systems-fatal&source=gmail&ust=1710001536420000&usg=AOvVaw2jbc-Pa3gGNzffBq2YBQW7" href="https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/ukraine-war-and-western-systems-fatal" target="_blank">https://alexkrainer.substack.<wbr></wbr>com/p/ukraine-war-and-western-<wbr></wbr>systems-fatal</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>The Biden administration has been accused by the House Judiciary Committee and its Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government of conducting unlawful “broad” surveillance of citizens’ private financial data without a warrant and with no evidence of any crimes being committed by the individuals.<span class="gmail_default">..</span></b></i></div><i><span class="gmail_default">..</span>According to the report, federal law enforcement, including the <b>Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) and the FBI, colluded with large financial institutions in the United States, such as Barclays, U.S. Bank, Charles Schwab, HSBC, Bank of America, PayPal, and many others in what boiled down to a “fishing expedition for Americans’ financial data.”</b><br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>“Tactics included keyword filtering of transactions, targeting terms like MAGA and TRUMP, as well as purchases of books, religious texts, firearms-related items, and recreational stores, like Cabela’s, Bass Pro Shop, and Dick’s Sporting Goods,” </b>the report said.<br /><b>“This surveillance extended beyond criminal suspicion, likely encompassing millions of Americans with conservative viewpoints or Second Amendment interests.”</b></i><div dir="ltr"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.zerohedge.com/political/house-judiciary-panel-report-exposes-massive-government-surveillance-americans-financial&source=gmail&ust=1710001536420000&usg=AOvVaw3gLv_Foc522PL5fLNbJFDd" href="https://www.zerohedge.com/political/house-judiciary-panel-report-exposes-massive-government-surveillance-americans-financial" target="_blank">https://www.zerohedge.com/<wbr></wbr>political/house-judiciary-<wbr></wbr>panel-report-exposes-massive-<wbr></wbr>government-surveillance-<wbr></wbr>americans-financial</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div dir="ltr"><i><b><br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>On Thursday morning, electric utility Xcel Energy stated, "Our facilities appear to have been involved in an ignition" of the worst wildfire in Texas history. </b></i></div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Xcel said it has been cooperating with investigations about the wildfire and has launched its own review of the incident. However, <b>the company denied claims "that it acted negligently in maintaining and operating its infrastructure." </b></i><div><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/xcel-says-its-equipment-sparked-texas-worst-ever-wildfire&source=gmail&ust=1710001536420000&usg=AOvVaw2dhnjAsOHXMO0Z-9FPS36j" href="https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/xcel-says-its-equipment-sparked-texas-worst-ever-wildfire" target="_blank">https://www.zerohedge.com/<wbr></wbr>commodities/xcel-says-its-<wbr></wbr>equipment-sparked-texas-worst-<wbr></wbr>ever-wildfire</a><i><br /></i></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="gmail_default"> This is what has happened to medicine. It is all compliance through computers, filling in forms, waiting for crashed software to reload. </div><div class="gmail_default">Problem-solving skills are directed to the parasitic system, not to provision of care.</div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Doctors Offices Are Now Charging Administrative Fees</b></i><br /></div>As if the cost of healthcare rising wasn't enough on its own, some doctors offices are now charging their patients for administrative tasks, according to a new report from Fox News.<span class="gmail_default"> </span>Doctors say administrative tasks are "taking more time away from patient care", according to the article, which they say hurts their bottom line.<div><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/doctors-offices-are-now-charging-administrative-fees">https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/doctors-offices-are-now-charging-administrative-fees</a><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="gmail_default"> Peter McCullough MD , <i><b>Role of Vitamin D in the Prevention of COVID-19 </b></i>(Reduced risk of catching COVID, fewer hospitalizations, fewer deaths.)</div><i><b>Meta-Analysis Confirms Favorable Role Overlooked by Medical Orthodoxy</b></i><br /></div><div><a href="https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/vitamin-d-reduces-risk-of-covid-19">https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/vitamin-d-reduces-risk-of-covid-19</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="gmail_default"> This is the same study that Pierre Kory MD referenced as trying very hard to fail to find benefit, but still found benefit, which was obscured in every possible way, and claimed to "not be of benefit" in the abstract, though the raw data clearly showed benefit. <a href="https://pierrekorymedicalmusings.com/p/the-last-of-the-big-seven-fraudulent">https://pierrekorymedicalmusings.com/p/the-last-of-the-big-seven-fraudulent</a></div><div class="gmail_default"><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>People Who Received Ivermectin Were Better Off, Study Finds</b></i><br /></div><i>The<b> time to self-reported recovery was a median of two days faster among the ivermectin recipients,</b> according to the large UK study.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>The <b>quicker recovery period was statistically significant.</b><br /><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>People who received ivermectin were also less likely to be hospitalized or die, with 1.6 percent of ivermectin recipients being hospitalized or dying versus 4 percent of the comparison group</b>, which received typical care, which in the UK is largely focused on managing symptoms.<br /><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Ivermectin recipients also enjoyed a reduction of severe symptoms and sustained recovery</b>, according to the study.</i><div><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/people-who-received-ivermectin-were-better-study-finds">https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/people-who-received-ivermectin-were-better-study-finds</a><i><br /></i></div><div><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Is it Long COVID or Long Vax? Does the Government want to Know?<br />In a new Op-ed in The Hill, Dr. Pierre Kory and Dr. Paul Marik call on health agencies to study these emerging diseases</b></i><div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Dr. Harlan Krumholz at the Yale School of Medicine published a survey of 241 patients who described post-COVID vaccination symptoms of exercise intolerance, excessive fatigue, numbness, brain fog and neuropathy, a nervous system disorder that can cause pain, tingling sensations, numbness or weakness. Long COVID patients were excluded from the study, which is now undergoing peer review. <br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>The concern is that our findings, Krumholz’s study, and any reports of adverse events from COVID-19 vaccination, will be subject to the same institutional censorship we saw throughout the pandemic.</i></div><div><a href="https://flccc.substack.com/p/is-it-long-covid-or-long-vax-does">https://flccc.substack.com/p/is-it-long-covid-or-long-vax-does</a><i><br /></i></div><div><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>RSV Vaccines May Increase Risk Of Rare Neurological Condition<span class="gmail_default"> </span></b></i>[Rapidly Paralyzing neurologic disease]<div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>In a Feb. 29 meeting of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, health officials presented data that appears to show a slightly elevated rate of Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) among people who received RSV vaccines by Pfizer and GlaxoSmithKline (GSK).</i></div><div><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/rsv-vaccines-may-increase-risk-rare-neurological-condition">https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/rsv-vaccines-may-increase-risk-rare-neurological-condition</a><i><br /></i></div><div><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>New Bill Would Strip COVID-19 Vaccine Manufacturers Of Liability Protection<span class="gmail_default"> </span></b></i>(They are <b>not "vaccines", but "bioweapon countermeasures" by DoD contracts</b>.)<div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>The bill, proposed by Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas), would retroactively remove protections from the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act (PREP Act) for COVID-19 vaccine manufacturers.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>“No federal law ... may make the manufacturer of a COVID-19 vaccine immune from suit or liability, or limit the liability of such a manufacturer, with respect to claims for loss caused by, arising out of, relating to, or resulting from the administration to or the use by an individual of a COVID–19 vaccine,” </b>the bill states.</i></div><div><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/new-bill-would-strip-covid-19-vaccine-manufacturers-liability-protection">https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/new-bill-would-strip-covid-19-vaccine-manufacturers-liability-protection</a><i><br /></i></div><div><br /></div>Uncountermeasured<span class="gmail_default"> (pictured with Jenny in Austin veggie garden as fig tree grow leaves)</span><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJnIlsQHymy012rEzyp2tF0GAPG13ibfFucRPZ1K8lcoljFObeOGAZT8BtKuZQlZ32O32qoj5aqItBGsrYQHvzrC6VTaoy0wDjBjpq94Tk4vU7_7bulYsJPovY7F0VEnnWRcDLk6xsu0aYLmzNRQ_hpzbbrH7H2xPR_9SfMiuScHOvLS9YrxjwL6VARtqn/s3264/PXL_20240303_151217412.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1836" data-original-width="3264" height="349" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJnIlsQHymy012rEzyp2tF0GAPG13ibfFucRPZ1K8lcoljFObeOGAZT8BtKuZQlZ32O32qoj5aqItBGsrYQHvzrC6VTaoy0wDjBjpq94Tk4vU7_7bulYsJPovY7F0VEnnWRcDLk6xsu0aYLmzNRQ_hpzbbrH7H2xPR_9SfMiuScHOvLS9YrxjwL6VARtqn/w620-h349/PXL_20240303_151217412.jpg" width="620" /></a></div><br /><span class="gmail_default"><br /></span></div>John Dayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12123174297818737132noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4275885258914846834.post-18485980720768818792024-03-07T07:13:00.006-06:002024-03-07T08:11:22.422-06:00Having Missed The Point<p> <span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #222222;">Comprehending Reality,</span></p><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Why And How The U.S. Never "Wins" Her Wars: A Review Of Jacques Baud's 'The Russian Art Of War: How The West Led Ukraine To Defeat'</b><span class="gmail_default"><b> </b>, Celia Farber</span></i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>The US has no real interest in “winning” and never had any</b>… not in any of its past adventures around the world from Vietnam to Iraq to Libya. <b>For the US, endless war is just the preferred path to profit,</b> and profit is the only criterion for judging victory. So logically it matters not to the US where the shells are deployed or whom they kill.<span class="gmail_default">..</span></i></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">..<span class="gmail_default"><b>A</b></span><b>s VVP puts it: “[Western politicians] have already forgotten what war is. [They] think that these are just some cartoons</b>...</i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>..There are<b> two key concepts</b> that underwrite the Russian way of war. <b>The first is Clausewitz’s famous dictum that war is a continuation of policy by other means</b>. It’s a tool in the toolbox – <b>the policy is always what is important</b>. <b>“In other words, it’s all about turning operational successes into strategic successes, and strategic successes into political successes.”</b><br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>The other concept is <b>“correlation of forces.”</b> Everything must be taken into account and as accurately and realistically as possible. <b>Political will, military power and capacity, the economy, import dependency, industrial capacity, national morale, the real strengths and weaknesses of yourself and of the enemy</b> – everything. This is Clausewitz again – there’s a purpose to your actions and everything contributes to that purpose. <b>“Thus, while the Russians see a fluid, two-way link between war and politics, the West tends to make war an end in itself.”</b><br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>For the West, by contrast, it’s always bang-bang and then wonder what to do when the bang-bang doesn’t work...</i></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>..In the simplest terms, the Russians know that the bang-bang has to serve a policy purpose; the West does not...</b></i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>..The reason why the Russians are better than the West in Ukraine is that they see the conflict as a process, whereas we see it as a series of separate actions...</i></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">..The <b>Russian calculation is that lost ground can be regained, while human lives cannot.</b><br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>The aim of strategic action is to lead the adversary to negotiation or defeat</b>. The operative level is that of cooperation and coordination of inter-force actions, with a view to achieving a given military objective. The tactical level, finally, is that of maneuver execution at weapons level, as an integral part of the operational maneuver...</i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><b>..The turning point was the misinterpretation by Ukraine and the West about the Russian withdrawal from Kiev. It was a withdrawal, not a retreat—but our media, eager to see a Russian defeat, fed a narrative that today weighs heavily on Ukraine...</b></i></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>..This crisis has shown that Europe has not only lost its global political and industrial leadership but is deeply divided on a wide range of issues. In fact, the only thing that unites Europe is Russophobia.</b></i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://celiafarber.substack.com/p/why-and-how-the-us-never-wins-her&source=gmail&ust=1709866763896000&usg=AOvVaw386dVmxSN39MeZGILxYufa" href="https://celiafarber.substack.com/p/why-and-how-the-us-never-wins-her" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://celiafarber.substack.<wbr></wbr>com/p/why-and-how-the-us-<wbr></wbr>never-wins-her</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="gmail_default"> </span>On Tucker Carlson Uncensored Monday evening, the conservative journalist <b>asked retired Army Colonel Douglas Macgregor if Congress would be stupid enough to pass a law granting citizenship to illegal aliens who enlist in the military</b> — to which Macgregor answered, <b>“YES.”</b></i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>“The problem is Washington is donor-occupied. Donor occupied. The donors own the political figure. So what do the donors want?” </b>he asked.<br />So, if the donor class wants illegal immigrants in the U.S. military, Macgregor thinks they have a high probability of getting their way.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Macgregor also remarked:</i></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>“I think the largest problem is that Washington is this ideological bubble</b>. And everyone decides that anyone who doesn’t agree with them, that the world has to be refashioned in some new image that exists only in their minds, and that <b>anybody who disagrees with them is by definition a criminal and has to be treated as such</b>. <b>What better solution than finding people who have no connection to the American people, arming them, and then sending them out to oppress us? Sounds like a great solution.”</b><br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Carlson responded, “I mean, that’s a mercenary army by definition.”<br /><b>“Of course,” Macgregor replied, “And mercenaries fight for money. They fight for the people that pay them.”</b></i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://vigilantnews.com/post/elon-musk-exposes-the-democrats-secret-game-plan-to-win-every-election/&source=gmail&ust=1709866763896000&usg=AOvVaw2kxmkXBhihTKfUbMIxvJ61" href="https://vigilantnews.com/post/elon-musk-exposes-the-democrats-secret-game-plan-to-win-every-election/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://vigilantnews.com/post/<wbr></wbr>elon-musk-exposes-the-<wbr></wbr>democrats-secret-game-plan-to-<wbr></wbr>win-every-election/</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div class="gmail_default">As CIA Director, deconfliction negotiations with Russia would be appropriate for William Burns. He is reputed to be a fine diplomat and negotiator. Consider that this deconfliction work goes on at this level between the US and Russia, and that the US has been an unreliable partner to agreements. Consider that the Russians may have needed a concrete gesture of goodwill before moving forward in some secret negotiation process, maybe something like getting rid of Victoria Nuland. Just consider it...</div><br /></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>William Joseph Burns (born April 4, 1956) is an American diplomat who has served as director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in the Biden administration</b> since March 19, 2021. He previously <b>served as U.S. deputy secretary of state</b> from 2011 to 2014;<b> in 2009 he served as acting secretary of state for a day, prior to the confirmation of Hillary Clinton</b>. Burns retired from the U.S. Foreign Service in 2014 after a 32-year career. From 2014 to 2021, he served as president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>Burns served as ambassador to Jordan from 1998 to 2001</b>, <b>Assistant Secretary of State for Near East Affairs from 2001 to 2005</b>, <b>ambassador to Russia from 2005 to 2008</b> and <b>Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs from 2008 to 2011<span class="gmail_default">.</span></b></i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_J._Burns_(diplomat)&source=gmail&ust=1709866763896000&usg=AOvVaw1GytexmQM01Ws6C4tAtRI0" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_J._Burns_(diplomat)" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/<wbr></wbr>William_J._Burns_(diplomat)</a><b><i><br /></i></b><div><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>US Under Secretary of State Victoria Nuland’s resignation is related to the failure of Washington’s policy against Moscow, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Tuesday.<span class="gmail_default"> </span></b></i><div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>"They will not tell you the reason. But it is simple — the failure of the anti-Russian policy of [US President Joe] Biden’s administration. Russophobia, proposed by Victoria Nuland as the main foreign policy concept of the United States, is dragging the Democrats to the bottom like a stone," </b>Zakharova told a briefing.</i></div><div><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://sputnikglobe.com/20240305/nulands-resignation-related-to-failure-of-us-anti-russian-policy---zakharova-1117144449.html&source=gmail&ust=1709866763896000&usg=AOvVaw3prKQq1uQziW9VjTSg3jvu" href="https://sputnikglobe.com/20240305/nulands-resignation-related-to-failure-of-us-anti-russian-policy---zakharova-1117144449.html" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://sputnikglobe.com/<wbr></wbr>20240305/nulands-resignation-<wbr></wbr>related-to-failure-of-us-anti-<wbr></wbr>russian-policy---zakharova-<wbr></wbr>1117144449.html</a><i><br /></i></div></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b> </b></i><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">More </span><span class="gmail_default" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #222222;">diplomatic </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">"trust" without Nuland, then? </span><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Nuland's Input in Eroding Trust Between Russia, US 'Immense' - Russian Foreign Ministry</b><span class="gmail_default"></span></i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>US Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland is a typical case of a talented and well-educated person, who knows Russia well, using their skills and abilities for wrong purposes and destroying their countries’ relations with Moscow, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Wednesday. On Tuesday, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Nuland was to step down from her post in the coming weeks. <b>“[Nuland] should have better used her knowledge of Russia for creation, but she used it to destroy our bilateral relations. In general, I believe that her contribution to undermining the trust between our countries was immense,” Zakharova told a briefing</b>.</i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://sputnikglobe.com/20240306/nulands-input-in-eroding-trust-between-russia-us-immense---russian-foreign-ministry-1117166736.html" style="color: #1155cc;">https://sputnikglobe.com/20240306/nulands-input-in-eroding-trust-between-russia-us-immense---russian-foreign-ministry-1117166736.html</a><i><br /></i><div><br /></div><div><div class="gmail_default"> Alastair Crooke,<i><b> ‘Untenable Positions’ – Warning Signs Abound</b></i></div><i><b>The GOP base does not favour giving more cash to Ukraine – will little or no prospect that it can prevail.</b></i><br /></div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>“Tuesday’s local elections were a flashing warning light for Israel.</b> The <b>ultra-Orthodox parties, the religious Zionist groups, and the far-right, racist parties – organized in a few communities and scored gains that are disproportionate to the true size of the groups they represent</b>. Conversely, the democratic camp [largely secular liberal Ashkenazi], which for nearly a year turned out weekly for giant demonstrations on Tel Aviv’s Kaplan Street and dozens of locations around the country, failed in most cases to translate the anger into electoral gains in local governments”.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>“Another conclusion to draw from the elections” continues the Haaretz Editorial “is the growing similarity between the ruling Likud party and [Ben Gvir’s party] the far-right Otzma Yehudit (Jewish Supremacy). In Tel Aviv, the two parties ran together, in a move that was unimaginable in the pre-Benjamin Netanyahu Likud</b> … We can learn from this that Likud is changing: Meir Kahane [a founder of the Jewish radical Right, and of Kach Party] defeated Ze’ev Jabotinsky; <b>Jewish supremacy and forced population transfer replaced liberty”.</b></i><div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Put starkly, Israel is turning further to the Right.<span class="gmail_default">..</span></b></i></div><i>‘<span class="gmail_default">..</span><b>Uncommitted’ however, blew past the 10,000 target and clocked in at nearly 101,400 votes – about 13% of the tally. Biden earned more than 80% of the vote, yet the number of uncommitted votes were enough to send two ‘uncommitted’ delegates to the Democratic Party’s national convention in August”.</b><br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>“The biggest danger for the president here is not that too many people voted ‘uncommitted’”,</b> said former Rep. Andy Levin (D., Mich.), who endorsed the effort. <b>“The biggest danger is if he doesn’t get the message”.</b><br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>A third warning sign: <b>With his plan for Gaza once military operations cease, Netanyahu has formally declared war on Biden and his campaign for re-election</b>...</i><div><i><b>..In effect, Netanyahu is calling for the total conquest by Israel of the remains of Palestine – the exact opposite of what Biden and the rest of the world are suggesting”.<span class="gmail_default">..</span></b></i></div><i>..Netanyahu is putting Biden “between the devil and the deep blue sea”. <b>The former knows that Biden is heavily dependent on not only the Jewish vote, but even more importantly, on Jewish money for his potential re-election</b>. Netanyahu seems to assess that he has the leeway safely to ignore Biden...</i><div><i><span class="gmail_default">..</span><b>So the whole Israel-Gaza operation is starting to look – to more and more people – like a human meat grinder whose only goal is to reduce the population so that Israel can control it more easily</b> … And, I repeat, <b>it is going to put the Biden administration in an increasingly untenable position”</b>.<br /><span class="gmail_default">..</span><b>Panic is widening in respect to Ukraine too: In Europe, leaders were summoned at 24 hours’ notice to the Elysée Palace to hear President Macron warn EU states </b>that the situation on the ground in Ukraine was so critical, and the stakes for Europe so high, that: <b>“We’re at a critical point in the conflict where we need to take the initiative: We’re determined to do whatever it takes for as long as it takes”</b>.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Macron underlined the growing doubts about America’s continuing support for Kiev and warned of a potential new Russian offensive and brutal attacks planned to “shock” Ukrainians and their allies. <b>“We are convinced that Russia’s defeat is essential for the security and stability of Europe” </b>…<b> “Europe is at stake”.</b><br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Bluntly, <b>Macron was grandstanding in order to prise the defence and security leadership of Europe away from Germany, which is busily building a U.S.-linked military axis in alliance with Poland, the Baltics and the European Commission President</b>, former German Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen, and to capture it for France.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>In any event, Macron’s bid was ‘a bust’. His call faced immediate repudiation</b>...</i></div><i>..To fund this European unified defence capacity,<b> the Commission is looking to initiate unitary EU bond issuance and a centralised taxing mechanism (both of which are prohibited under EU Treaties).</b> <b>These are the unspoken projects behind the ‘scare’ narrative </b>of Russian ‘intent’ to invade Europe...</i><div><i><span class="gmail_default">..</span>Chancellor Scholtz, in defending Berlin’s decision to not supply long-range Taurus missiles to Kiev, threw France and the UK ‘under the bus.’<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Scholtz said that to supply Taurus missiles would require the assistance of German troops on the ground: “as is done by the British and French, in terms of [missile] target-control and target-control assistance. German soldiers can at no point, and in no place, be linked with the targets that this [long-range] system reaches”, Scholz insisted.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Needless to say, his explicit admission of European troops already on the ground in Ukraine caused a ruckus in Europe. The fact long suspected, is now official.<span class="gmail_default">..</span></i></div><i>..<b>This new New York Times piece of revisionist narrative on Ukraine – full of questionable claims; puff for the CIA and for John Brennan’s role in particular – probably was understood by western Intel services as a ‘Dear John’ break-up letter, ahead of a coming divorce. The CIA was preparing to exit Ukraine</b>.<br />..<b>It is not clear whether Speaker Johnson will hold the line in refusing to bring the foreign aid Bill to the floor of the House, providing $60 billion for Kiev</b>; or if he will not prove able to persevere.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Yet <b>the ‘writing is on the wall’, as Senate minority leader McConnell tartly observed, whilst announcing his coming retirement as Senate Leader: ‘Politics has shifted, I can see that’, he said</b>...</i><div><i>..<b>So much of what success Ukraine earlier has enjoyed derives from one key factor: western overmatch in ISR (Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance)</b>. NATO weaponry has disappointed; NATO military doctrine has been slated by Ukrainian forces; but <b>ISR has been key</b>.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>The <b>New York Times</b> essay is clear: <b>“a discreet passageway descends to a subterranean bunker where teams of Ukrainian soldiers track Russian spy satellites and eavesdrop on conversations between Russian commanders …”.</b> <b>Are these ‘Ukrainian soldiers’ or NATO techies?</b><br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>When the CIA does depart when the money is cut, it will not be just their staff that goes. The CIA will not leave sensitive kit and intercept equipment behind, to be overrun by Russian forces</b>, and taken for forensic autopsy. <b>Has this already happened?</b> <b>Were those secret bunkers perchance at Avdeeka?</b> Are sensitive details about to leaked?<span class="gmail_default"> ...</span></i></div><i><span class="gmail_default">..</span>Here lies the <b>crux to the New York Times piece: Fear of fallout from disgruntled Ukrainian officials. “Especially in an election year, any war of words between erstwhile allies could get ugly in a heartbeat”.<span class="gmail_default"> </span></b>Biden be warned. Perhaps, however, it’s already too late?</i><div><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://strategic-culture.su/news/2024/03/04/untenable-positions-warning-signs-abound/&source=gmail&ust=1709866763896000&usg=AOvVaw0SitAqAHTlaMqqpd32t4c7" href="https://strategic-culture.su/news/2024/03/04/untenable-positions-warning-signs-abound/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://strategic-culture.su/<wbr></wbr>news/2024/03/04/untenable-<wbr></wbr>positions-warning-signs-<wbr></wbr>abound/</a><i><br /></i></div><div><br /></div><span class="gmail_default"><i> </i>(Bibi Netanyahu's preference) </span><i>Former US President<b> Donald Trump said Tuesday that Israel must “finish the problem” in its war against Hamas as he backed the Israeli army's attacks on Gaza.</b></i><br /><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>Asked </b>by a Fox News presenter <b>if he is in “Israel's camp” and whether he is “on board” with the way the Israeli army was “taking the fight to Gaza,” Trump responded: “Yeah. You gotta finish the problem.”</b></i><b><br /></b><i><span class="gmail_default"> <b> </b></span><b>“You've had a horrible invasion that took place,” he said. “It would have never happened if I was president, by the way.”</b></i><br /><i><b>Asked about Vice President Kamala Harris' call for a cease-fire, the Republican presidential candidate avoided the question</b>.</i><br /><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>“I hate seeing what's happening again. It would have never happened — this attack on Israel — and, likewise, Israel's counter attack, which is what it is, would never have happened if I was president.”</b></i><br /><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>Harris criticized Israel for not doing enough to allow aid into Gaza and called for an immediate cease-fire.</b></i><div><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/trump-says-israel-must-finish-the-problem-in-gaza/3156497&source=gmail&ust=1709866763896000&usg=AOvVaw3otxKwWVhntumt_tfIxaew" href="https://www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/trump-says-israel-must-finish-the-problem-in-gaza/3156497" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://www.aa.com.tr/en/<wbr></wbr>americas/trump-says-israel-<wbr></wbr>must-finish-the-problem-in-<wbr></wbr>gaza/3156497</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="gmail_default">More about Mitch finally retiring, but not saying why...</div><i>On Feb. 12, 50-year-old Angela Chao was found dead in her Tesla that was submerged in a pond on private property in Blanco County, Texas, according to the incident report from fire department EMS personnel. Ms. Chao was the sixth and youngest daughter of Chinese-American shipping magnate Dr. James Si-Cheng Chao, who founded the New York-headquartered Foremost Group in 1964. Angela had been CEO of the company since 2018 and was a founding member of The Asian American Foundation...<span class="gmail_default"> </span></i></div><i>..Her connections to China loom large, particularly in her capacity as the former chair of the U.S. Risk and Management Committee of Bank of China USA, a director of the holding company for state-run China State Shipbuilding, and a former vice chair of the Council of China’s Foreign Trade. China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC) builds ships for the People’s Liberation Army-Navy while the Council of China’s Foreign Trade is a promotional group created by Beijing to facilitate Chinese trade worldwide. <b>Why did the CCP place such trust in Angela Chao?</b></i><div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Her father maintained connections to Chinese communists at the highest levels. As noted here, he “cultivated a close relationship with Jiang Zemin, a former schoolmate from Shanghai” who later became the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and the fifth communist leader of China from 1993–2003. </b>The rise of the Foremost Group mirrored the rise of Jiang in the CCP hierarchy...</i></div><div><i>..<b>The “suspicious death” took place at a ranch that is owned by a corporate entity connected to her husband, venture capitalist Jim Breyer</b>, according to CNBC. <b>Her death is under a criminal investigation</b>, as reported by the Daily Mail.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>There is a surveillance video of Ms. Chao’s car going into reverse and “aggressively backing over a significant obstacle.” </b>The Daily Mail reported on March 1 that <b>“[police] refuse to release the 911 call and video evidence” associated with the incident.</b><br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>General information about identity, time, and place of death was not released to the media per standard practice, as noted by USA Today on Feb. 21. <b>Further information is possibly being withheld because of an ongoing investigation into the circumstances surrounding her death.</b><br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>The death took place one week after IDG Capital was listed as a “Chinese military operation,” which her husband Jim Breyer’s venture capital firm had heavily invested in...</i></div><div><i><b>..Angela Chao’s position as a director of China State Shipbuilding Corporation was unique. No ordinary member of the CCP would have the qualifications or opportunity to become a member of a state-run enterprise that is part of a military-industrial enterprise in China...</b><br /></i><div><i><b><span class="gmail_default">..</span>Mitch McConnell will step down in November as the longest-serving party leader ever in the U.S. Senate</b>. He was first elected to the Senate in 1985 and rose to Republican minority leader in 2007 and later majority leader in 2015 before reverting to minority leader in 2021. <b>He married his second wife, Elaine Chao, in February 1993.</b> Together, they became an important political power couple in Washington, with Ms. Chao having served as U.S. Secretary of Labor from 2001–2009 and Secretary of Transportation from 2017–2021<span class="gmail_default">...</span></i></div><div><i>.<b><span class="gmail_default">.</span>Mr. McConnell “would increasingly avoid public criticism of China” as additional meetings and visits were conducted over the years. Perhaps that shift was facilitated by a multimillion-dollar “gift” from James Chao to Mitch and Elaine in 2008 that increased Mr. McConnell’s net worth nearly 10-fold.<span class="gmail_default">..</span></b></i><br /></div></div><i>..<b>The Blanco County Sheriff’s Office wrote a letter to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton that included the statement, “Although the preliminary investigation indicated this was an unfortunate accident, the Sheriff’s Office is still investigating this accident as a criminal matter until they have sufficient evidence to rule out criminal activity.”</b> The letter further states that <b>“this incident was not a typical accident.”</b><br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Then there were Mitch <b>McConnell’s cryptic remarks about his sister-in-law’s passing as he announced stepping down on Feb. 28.</b> <b>“Perhaps it is God’s way of reminding you of your own life’s journey to reprioritize the impact of the world that we will all inevitably leave behind,”</b> he said.</i><div><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.zerohedge.com/political/dot-connecting-between-angela-chao-and-mitch-mcconnell&source=gmail&ust=1709866763896000&usg=AOvVaw2cYE7q8as9rkOwoy1dCGgX" href="https://www.zerohedge.com/political/dot-connecting-between-angela-chao-and-mitch-mcconnell" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://www.zerohedge.com/<wbr></wbr>political/dot-connecting-<wbr></wbr>between-angela-chao-and-mitch-<wbr></wbr>mcconnell</a></div><div><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Scott Ritter: Leaked Crimea Attack Plans Begs the Question ‘Who’s in Charge in Germany’?</b></i><div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>“What’s interesting about this conversation is, a few days prior to it the German chancellor, the senior civilian executive authority in Germany today, had specifically said that Germany will not be providing the Taurus missile to Ukraine</b>. Moreover, <b>the parliament of Germany, not once but twice, overwhelmingly voted against providing the Taurus cruise missile to Ukraine</b>. <b>Who's in charge in Germany?</b> The civilian leadership or the military? Because, <b>according to the conversation being held by these four senior German military officers, they were talking about a project that had been greenlighted by the defense minister of Germany,” </b>Ritter stressed.</i></div><div><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://sputnikglobe.com/20240305/scott-ritter-leaked-crimea-attack-plans-begs-the-question-whos-in-charge-in-germany-1117141206.html&source=gmail&ust=1709866763896000&usg=AOvVaw1NUEloX3cuiV5GP80tNCOi" href="https://sputnikglobe.com/20240305/scott-ritter-leaked-crimea-attack-plans-begs-the-question-whos-in-charge-in-germany-1117141206.html" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://sputnikglobe.com/<wbr></wbr>20240305/scott-ritter-leaked-<wbr></wbr>crimea-attack-plans-begs-the-<wbr></wbr>question-whos-in-charge-in-<wbr></wbr>germany-1117141206.html</a><i><br /></i></div><div><br /></div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>The headline-making conversation among top-ranking German Bundeswehr (armed forces) officers was apparently intercepted and surreptitiously recorded in Singapore, when one of the participants dialed in to the call via an unsecured line, <b>German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius told journalists</b> in Berlin.<span class="gmail_default">..</span></i><div><i><span class="gmail_default">..</span><b>"According to preliminary data, the information was leaked from a participant who was in Singapore; he got connected via an unauthorized link, that is to say an open channel,"</b> Pistorius said.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>The minister explained that <b>an air show was underway in Singapore</b> at the time when the Bundeswehr officers' conversation took place, which brought together high-ranking military officers from many countries. <b>"it can be assumed that the wiretap of this Webex conference was incidental within the framework of a large-scale operation,"</b> he opined.<span class="gmail_default"> </span><span class="gmail_default"> </span></i>["It can be assumed" takes no responsibility for the statement which it precedes.]<span class="gmail_default"> ...</span></div><i><span class="gmail_default">..</span><b>Germany’s top brass was in fact mulling how to carry out a potential attack on the Crimean Bridge in a way that would have no repercussions for Berlin by giving it the cover of plausible deniability</b>. Simonyan said she had a corroborating audio recording of the Bundeswehr officers’ conversation in her possession. <b>She later released a transcript of it, which makes it clear that the military officers discussed the Taurus missiles’ capability to hit and destroy the Crimean Bridge and the tactical details involved in preparing such an attack.</b><br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>On Monday, the Russian Foreign Ministry summoned German Ambassador to Moscow Alexander Lambsdorff to deliver a formal demarche and demand clarifications over the leaked conversation among Bundeswehr officers discussing potential attacks on the Crimean Bridge using Taurus missiles.</b></i><div><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://tass.com/world/1755695&source=gmail&ust=1709866763896000&usg=AOvVaw3_Jb2vZTHHTLYYq7Itg_Xo" href="https://tass.com/world/1755695" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://tass.com/world/1755695</a></div><div><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /></span></span></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>UK weighs in on Luftwaffe leak<span class="gmail_default"> </span></b></i>[Scholz ratted-out the UK and France for sending operators with their missiles.]<div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>The UK has urged Germany and other Western nations to donate long-range weapons to Ukraine despite a leaked tape of top German military commanders discussing how Taurus missiles could be used to destroy key civilian infrastructure in Russia.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>The UK and France have already provided dozens of air-launched Storm Shadow and SCALP missiles to Kiev, which they produce jointly. In the leaked recording released last Friday, high-ranking German officers discussed a proposal to donate Taurus missiles and what actions Berlin would have to take for them to be deployed and for plausible deniability of German involvement to be maintained.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>They also mentioned that London and Paris were reluctant to send more of their weapons unless Berlin tapped its own arsenal.</i></div><div><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.rt.com/news/593780-leaked-tape-taurus-uk/&source=gmail&ust=1709866763896000&usg=AOvVaw3T3DPDsirn02QpPXrzHTb5" href="https://www.rt.com/news/593780-leaked-tape-taurus-uk/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://www.rt.com/news/<wbr></wbr>593780-leaked-tape-taurus-uk/</a><i><br /></i></div><div><br /></div><i><b>US and UK blew up Nord Stream – Russia’s top spy<span class="gmail_default"> , </span>Some “indirect signs” of sabotage were left by the perpetrators, SVR head Sergey Naryshkin has said</b></i><div><a href="https://www.rt.com/news/593828-nord-stream-explosions-us-uk/" style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.rt.com/news/593828-nord-stream-explosions-us-uk/</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="gmail_default"> Andrew Korybko, <i><b>Why’d The Wall Street Journal Suddenly Share The Terms Of Spring 2022’s Draft Peace Treaty?</b></i></div></div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>The Wall Street Journal <b>(WSJ) claimed to have viewed the 17-page draft Russian-Ukrainian peace treaty from spring 2022 that was sabotaged by former British Prime Minister Johnson</b> and which President Putin waved around while speaking with African leaders last summer.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>They dishonestly described the terms as “punishing” even though they can objectively be described as overly generous considering the previously unthinkable compromises that Moscow was willing to make at the time.</b></i><div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>Ukraine would have restored its constitutional neutrality and the Russian language’s status, limited its armed forces, agreed not to use foreign arms, and recognized Russian influence in Crimea in exchange for the UNSC guaranteeing its security</b>.<b> Donbass’ status would be resolved via talks</b> between their leaders, with the innuendo being that it might be reincorporated into Ukraine per the Minsk Accords, while it’s implied that Russia would have withdrawn from the rest of Ukraine’s pre-2022 borders.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>Had these terms been accepted, then not only would Ukraine have averted destruction and the depopulation that came with it, but this former Soviet Republic could have then served as a bridge between China and the EU</b> (which it would be allowed to join) exactly as Russia always envisaged. Even if Russian-NATO talks didn’t resume afterwards, their security dilemma that was exacerbated by the bloc’s clandestine expansion into Ukraine would have been much better managed to everyone’s benefit.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>The reason why this never happened was because the West believed its own propaganda that Russia could be dealt a strategic defeat through economic sanctions and proxy warfare</b>.<span class="gmail_default">..</span></i></div><i>..<b>These details prove that President Putin was willing to make previously unthinkable compromises in order to obtain his strategic goals of restoring Ukrainian neutrality,</b> <b>denazifying it</b> (with the restoration of the Russian language’s status playing the key role here), <b>and demilitarizing that country</b>. Donbass would likely be reincorporated into Ukraine, prior to which its residents could obtain Russian citizenship to relocate there if they wanted, and Russia would withdraw from everywhere except for Crimea.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>Those territorial compromises are no longer in the cards after Donbass, Kherson, and Zaporozhye voted to join Russia in September 2022</b>, which is why Kremlin spokesman Peskov just described the reported details about that spring’s draft Russian-Ukrainian peace treaty as outdated...</i><div><i>..The problem is that <b>Ukraine legally forbade the resumption of peace talks with Russia, thus requiring the West to coerce it into repealing that legislation</b>, which could happen if domestic pressure over Zelensky’s illegitimacy after his term ends on May 20 leads to him forming a “national unity government”...</i></div><i>..The WSJ’s report is therefore a double-edged sword for both camps since it works for and against each of their interests as explained, but the timing is no coincidence since it’s meant to shake up the balance between them.<br /><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>It's debatable which side this outlet really supports since one can argue that dishonestly describing the details as “punishing” favors those who want another “forever war” while reporting on their overly generous substance is tacitly intended to give an edge to those who want to resume peace talks.</b></i><div><a href="https://korybko.substack.com/p/whyd-the-wall-street-journal-suddenly" style="color: #1155cc;">https://korybko.substack.com/p/whyd-the-wall-street-journal-suddenly</a><i><br /></i></div><div><br /></div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>The West’s hegemony has come to an end and the formation of a new world order is now underway</b>, Hungarian Prime Minister <b>Viktor Orban said during an annual meeting of Hungarian ambassadors </b>at the Foreign Ministry in Budapest.</i><div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>According to Orban’s spokesman, Bertalan Havasi, the Hungarian head of government noted that the<b> "West’s hegemony has come to an end and nobody is disputing this anymore." "A new world order is being born and the situation has to be constantly assessed and analyzed," </b>he cautioned Hungarian ambassadors representing the country in nations around the world.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>According to the press secretary, <b>the prime minister noted attempts by a number of political forces to split the global economy "into geopolitical blocs" and put pressure on those countries that have a sovereign stance on the matter, including Hungary</b>.<b> "There is very little room for maneuver within a bloc, so it is in Hungary’s interests to remain a member of the European Union and NATO</b> [while simultaneously] <b>without being part of a bloc. For this reason, we will seek to bolster our alliances with other sovereign countries," </b>Havasi quoted Orban as saying.</i></div><div><a href="https://tass.com/world/1755865" style="color: #1155cc;">https://tass.com/world/1755865</a><i><br /></i></div><div><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>‘Too many people watched’ – UK MP explains why RT was banned<span class="gmail_default"> , </span>Britain’s commitment to free speech is a farce, George Galloway has claimed</b></i><div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>Galloway trounced both Tory and Labour candidates</b> in last week’s Rochdale by-election, <b>winning twice as many votes than both major parties combined. PM Rishi Sunak denounced the result as “beyond alarming” and a threat to “our democracy itself.”</b><br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>As <b>Galloway pointed out, however, he has been elected to Parliament a total of seven times – far more than Sunak or Labour leader Keir Starmer</b>.<br /><b>“These people are hypocrites. Things like democracy, human rights, rule of law, rules-based international order, it’s just lipstick on a pig. They wipe the lipstick off whenever they no longer feel the need to look prettier,”</b> he claimed.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>“As Sunak’s speech outside Number 10 [Downing Street] on Friday about my election makes clear, it’s not beyond them even to cancel elections,” </b>he added.</i></div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>British authorities have banned RT and the Iranian PressTV outright, refused to renew the license of China’s CGTN, and blocked outlets like Venezuela’s TeleSur.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> <b> </b></span><b>“The reason is pretty simple if you think about it: Too many people were watching these TV channels. Too many people were watching RT. Not just in Britain, but even more so in Germany. That is why RT was closed down. Because too many of the public were watching it. How’s that for freedom?” </b>said Galloway.<br /><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>The best illustration of press freedom in the UK is that “a good friend of mine is lying in the dungeon of Belmarsh top security prison,”</b> Galloway said.</i><div><a href="https://www.rt.com/news/593822-galloway-freedom-censorship-assange/" style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.rt.com/news/593822-galloway-freedom-censorship-assange/</a><i><br /></i></div><div><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>George Galloway is not a threat to democracy – only to the elite hypocrites running the UK<br />The returning politician’s recent electoral win on the back of the Gaza-Israel debate is rightfully alarming for both Labour and Tories</b></i><div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>Galloway won a by-election in Rochdale, a poor Midlands electorate in the UK</b> formerly held by the Labour Party.<br />It was an astounding and comprehensive victory. Galloway received 12,335 votes – over 40% of the votes cast – while the Conservatives gained 3,731 votes, and Labour, 2,402.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>Galloway labeled his win as “a thumping victory” over both major parties – and he described Keir Starmer and Sunak, in characteristically provocative fashion, as “two cheeks of the same backside” that he had just “spanked.”</b></i></div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>Galloway is a controversial and charismatic political figure. He is a former Labour and Independent MP who courageously opposed Tony Blair and George Bush’s war against Iraq</b>, and he has been a trenchant <b>defender of the Palestinian cause for decades</b>.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>In the Rochdale by-election – an electorate with a Muslim population of around 30% – Galloway focused his campaign on calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. <br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>In the UK, the Gaza conflict has become a deeply divisive political issue </b>over the past six months. During that time, <b>more than 30,000 people have been killed by the Israeli military</b>, most of them civilians and many of them women and children.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>Many citizens in the West – to their credit – have refused to turn a blind eye to the distinction between terrorists and civilians, and the humanitarian crisis that America’s continuing support for the Netanyahu government has created in Gaza.<span class="gmail_default">..</span></b></i><div><i><span class="gmail_default">..</span><b>The British parliament recently descended into complete chaos when Starmer pressured the speaker of the House of Commons to breach parliamentary convention and prevent debate</b> over a Scottish National Party (SNP) motion <b>calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.</b><br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>If the SNP motion had been permitted to proceed, at least 60 Labour MPs would have voted in favor of it – thereby provoking a serious political crisis for Starmer</b> and his Labour Party.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Recent <b>polls in the UK suggest that 65% of voters are in favor of an immediate ceasefire in Gaza</b>.<span class="gmail_default">..</span></i></div><i><b>..In his victory speech, Galloway said, “Keir Starmer, this is for Gaza. You will pay a high price for the role that you have played in enabling the catastrophe presently going on in Gaza.”</b></i><div><a href="https://www.rt.com/news/593813-george-galloway-democracy-uk/" style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.rt.com/news/593813-george-galloway-democracy-uk/</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div><br /></div><i><b>Israel has killed 364 health personnel in Gaza</b></i><div><a href="https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240305-israel-has-killed-364-health-personnel-in-gaza/" style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240305-israel-has-killed-364-health-personnel-in-gaza/</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div><br /></div><i><b>Israel Still Blocking US-Funded Flour Shipment Into Gaza<span class="gmail_default"> , </span>US officials previously said Israel agreed to allow the flour into Gaza, but it's still stuck at an Israeli port</b></i><div><a href="https://news.antiwar.com/2024/03/05/israel-still-blocking-us-funded-flour-shipment-into-gaza/" style="color: #1155cc;">https://news.antiwar.com/2024/03/05/israel-still-blocking-us-funded-flour-shipment-into-gaza/</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div><br /></div><i><b>Israel killed another 124 Palestinians in 24 hours</b></i><div><a href="https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240305-israel-killed-another-124-palestinians-in-24-hours/" style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240305-israel-killed-another-124-palestinians-in-24-hours/</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>War on Gaza: Israel's food-queue slaughter cannot go unpunished</b></i><div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Early on 29 March, starving Palestinians were queueing for long-awaited deliveries of food in Gaza City’s al-Rasheed Street when Israeli forces opened fire on them. According to Gaza health officials, a minimum of 112 people were killed and 280 injured, the majority of whom appear to have been shot.</i></div><div><a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/war-gaza-israel-humanity-food-queue-slaughter-unpunished" style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/war-gaza-israel-humanity-food-queue-slaughter-unpunished</a><i><br /></i></div><div><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday that malnutrition is “particularly severe” in the northern Gaza Strip.</b><br />“The situation is particularly aggravated in northern Gaza,” said Richard Peppercorn, WHO representative in Gaza and the West Bank.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Peppercorn added that one out of every six children under the age of two suffers from acute malnutrition in the northern Gaza Strip.<br /><b>“This was in January,” </b>he explained. <b>“So the situation is likely to be worse today.”</b></i><div><a href="https://en.ypagency.net/320740" style="color: #1155cc;">https://en.ypagency.net/320740</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div><br /></div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>The Hamas representative in Lebanon, Ahmad Abdel Hadi, affirmed on Tuesday that the suggestions put forward by Hamas in negotiations stem from two non-negotiables:</b> stopping the aggression on Gaza, and effectuating the Resistance's conditions... <span class="gmail_default"></span></i><div><i><span class="gmail_default">..</span><b>Regarding Hamas' non-negotiables, he clarified the first must be the end of the aggression on Gaza, the ethnic cleansing and massacring of Palestinians, and the starvation war imposed by "Israel". Second, the necessity of including Hamas' primary demands and conditions in any deal.</b><br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Abdel Hadi also updated Al Mayadeen on the path of negotiations, saying they were proceeding within the same climate but were simultaneously <b>seeing obstacles imposed by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu</b>, who is also disengaging in the Paris 2 talks.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>However, he stressed that the Cairo negotiations are ongoing with Hamas submitting its proposal, but<b> it has become clear that "Israel" wants to revoke the captives card from the hands of the Resistance, confirming that Netanyahu does not want to establish any deal because this would kickstart the end of his political career.</b></i></div><div><a href="https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/resistance-will-not-compromise-any-of-its-non-negotiables--h" style="color: #1155cc;">https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/resistance-will-not-compromise-any-of-its-non-negotiables--h</a><i><br /></i></div><div><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Yemeni armed forces target two American destroyers in Red Sea</b></i><div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>The Yemeni armed forces <b>confirmed that they would not hesitate to expand their operations against all hostile targets “in response to the calls of the free people of Yemen and the Islamic nation to provide support and assistance to the Palestinian people, who until this moment are exposed to aggression and siege.”</b><br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>The statement reiterated that the operations of the Yemeni armed forces will not stop until the aggression stops and the siege imposed on the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip is lifted.<span class="gmail_default"> </span></i><a href="https://en.ypagency.net/320793" style="color: #1155cc;">https://en.ypagency.net/320793</a></div><div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Sanaa provides updates on recent developments in submarine cables situation</b>The Minister of Telecommunications and Information Technology in Sanaa, Misfer Al-Numair, said on Tuesday that Yemen is in constant and daily contact with international submarine cable companies in the Red Sea regarding the repair of cables...</i><br /></div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>“The International Submarine Cables Company announced the interruption of three submarine cables, and its announcement lacked professionalism regarding who caused the submarine cables to be interrupted,” he said.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>The Minister of Telecommunications <b>denied the accusations of the Zionist entity’s media, stressing that “the hostile media’s statements were inconsistent with the truth.”<span class="gmail_default"> </span></b></i><a href="https://en.ypagency.net/320756" style="color: #1155cc;">https://en.ypagency.net/320756</a><div><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>When Star Gossip Columnist Began to Dig Deep Into JFK Assassination, She Turned Up Dead: Now TV Legal Analyst Appears to Have Cracked Case</b></i><div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Described by Ernest Hemingway as “one of the greatest women writers in the world,” Kilgallen was a regular on the CBS game show What’s My Line who wrote a column for the New York Journal-American during the early 1960s that was syndicated to 200 newspapers.[1]<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>After John F. Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963, Kilgallen was one of the few journalists to question the findings of the Warren Commission report that Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone assassin.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Kilgallen interviewed Jack Ruby at his trial and exposed his Warren Commission testimony before its release date, causing FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover to become a mortal enemy.[2]<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>If she had lived past the age of 52, Kilgallen’s goal was to expose evidence pointing to the truth about the JFK assassination and corruption at the Warren Commission passed on to her by Commission member Senator John Sherman Cooper of Kentucky in a “tell-all” book she was writing for Random House.<span class="gmail_default">..</span></i></div><i><span class="gmail_default">..</span>Kilgallen’s hairdresser Marc Sinclaire, the first to report Kilgallen’s death at 9:30 a.m. on November 8 after passing by her home, was suspicious because a) Kilgallen was found in a room where she did not normally sleep wearing fancy clothes she would not have gone to sleep in; b) was found sitting up with a book turned upside down (The Honey Badger by Robert Ruark) she had finished weeks before; c) had poor eyesight and required glasses to read but no glasses were found in the room where she died; and d) because a police car was parked outside the townhouse when Sinclaire got there, though Kilgallen’s death had not yet been reported.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Sinclaire ruled out suicide further because Dorothy was a) religiously Catholic; b) cheerful about life; c) at the peak of her fame, earning an income of $200,000 per year (equivalent to $1.5 million today); and d) intent on completing her tell-all book on the JFK assassination.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Sinclaire also knew that Kilgallen would not overdose because she did not have a drug problem or drink heavily. In the days before her death, additionally, she had confided in him her belief that someone close to her was a “snitch” who was watching her closely and feeding information to people who wished to do her harm.[4]<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Johnnie Ray, Kilgallen’s lover whom Tony Bennett called “the father of rock ’n’ roll,” told a friend that he did not believe Dorothy had died of natural causes. Dorothy had told him that she had been investigating the JFK assassination and was “close to breaking the whole case open” and had “been threatened as a result of her work.”<span class="gmail_default">...</span></i><div><i><span class="gmail_default">.</span>.Evidence that her drink had been spiked was reflected in the fact that powdered traces of the barbiturates were found on one of the glasses at her bedside...<br />..The air conditioner was turned on in her apartment even though it was fifty-five degrees outside, which offered a clue that Kilgallen was murdered because, according to Dr. Charles A. Mathis, a fellow at the prestigious American College of Cardiology,, “in a cold environment, alcohol and barbiturates are all respiratory suppressants.”...<br />..Taking cues from Hoover, the police only came into Dorothy’s townhouse at 3:00 p.m., hours after Marc Sinclaire had discovered Dorothy’s body and reported her death.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>The police investigation afterwards was completely shoddy, with police never searching for fingerprints or combing Dorothy’s townhouse for clues. Additionally, they failed to interview key witnesses, including Marc Sinclaire and Pataky and patrons at the Regency Hotel.[15]<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Pataky basically confessed to his own guilt in two poems that he posted on his website in 2016. The poems were uncovered by Shaw and then taken down from the website soon after Shaw viewed them...<br />..In 1967, the CIA issued a memo to its media assets imploring them to label as “conspiracy theorists” and far-left extremists any investigator who dared challenge the veracity of the Warren report. When New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison began probing deeply into the case and prosecuted CIA agent Clay Shaw, he was accused not only of being a conspiracy theorist but also of bribing witnesses and to be suffering from psychoneurosis.[45]<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>In hindsight, it seems clear that Kilgallen’s murder was intended not only to ensure the theft of her file on the assassination but also to intimidate and silence other reporters who might have been intent on probing into the case.</i></div><div><a href="https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/03/05/when-a-star-gossip-columnist-began-to-dig-deep-into-the-jfk-assassination-she-turned-up-dead-now-a-tv-legal-analyst-appears-to-have-cracked-the-case/" style="color: #1155cc;">https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/03/05/when-a-star-gossip-columnist-began-to-dig-deep-into-the-jfk-assassination-she-turned-up-dead-now-a-tv-legal-analyst-appears-to-have-cracked-the-case/</a><i><br /></i></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="gmail_default"> Steve Kirsch, <i><b>Pathologist reports a stunning 52% increase in cancer risk for ages 15-59 who were vaxxed</b></i></div><i><b>I just interviewed a pathologist in Croatia who told me about a study she did which shows a 52% increase in carcinomas (all stages) in ages 15-59 who took the jab. She refuses to be vaxxed</b></i><br /></div><div><a href="https://kirschsubstack.com/p/pathologist-reports-a-stunning-52" style="color: #1155cc;">https://kirschsubstack.com/p/pathologist-reports-a-stunning-52</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="gmail_default"> Pierre Kory MD points out step by step how to make an early-treatment trial of ivermectin for COVID fail to show benefit, by enrolling patients up to 14 days after start of symptoms, delaying the delivery of their medicine, giving an unusually low dose for 3 days only, instead of a week or more, and then just ignoring that fewer died, fewer had long COVID, and that it worked anyway, by just writing in the abstract that it didn't seem to be of benefit. </div><div class="gmail_default"> He compares it to a Molnupiravir trial by the same primary investigator that did everything possible to get people treated by the third day of symptoms, still failed to show benefit, but was spun as "good" because money-talks.</div><i><b>The Last of The "Big Seven" Fraudulent Ivermectin Trials Has Finally Been Published</b></i><br /></div><div><a href="https://pierrekorymedicalmusings.com/p/the-last-of-the-big-seven-fraudulent" style="color: #1155cc;">https://pierrekorymedicalmusings.com/p/the-last-of-the-big-seven-fraudulent</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="gmail_default"> Peter McCullough MD, <i><b>Twenty Eight Mechanisms of Kidney Injury with COVID-19 Vaccination</b></i></div><i><b>Exhaustive Review Finds Common Theme of Inflammation from Cytokines and Auto-Immunity</b></i><br /></div><div><a href="https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/twenty-eight-mechanisms-of-kidney" style="color: #1155cc;">https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/twenty-eight-mechanisms-of-kidney</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Chemicals In Cosmetics, Toys, And Food Containers Contribute To Rise In Preterm Births</b></i><div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>Phthalates, a class of synthetic chemicals often referred to as “plasticizers”</b> because of their common use in making plastic products flexible and bendable, are found in thousands of consumer products, from <b>vinyl flooring to household cleaners and children’s toys</b>. <b>For most of us, our primary exposure to phthalates likely comes through plastic food containers and personal care products such as shampoos and cosmetics</b>.</i><b><i><br /></i></b><div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Phthalates were already under suspicion due to a number of studies that highlighted the role that these chemicals may play in shortening gestational age. <b>Recently The Lancet published a prospective analysis estimating the lifetime cost of prenatal exposure to phthalates in health outcomes, economic productivity, and monetary expenditures.</b> The results are startling. The study authors reported that,<b> in 2018, an estimated 56,595 preterm births could be attributed to prenatal phthalate exposure</b>, at a staggering cost<span class="gmail_default">.</span></i></div><div><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/chemicals-cosmetics-toys-and-food-containers-contribute-rise-preterm-births" style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/chemicals-cosmetics-toys-and-food-containers-contribute-rise-preterm-births</a></div><div><br />Avoiding Chemicals (pictured after planting a couple of apple trees by daughter's house)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9kkutMQrIqpThwWiaj9logQkUVq7Wwx4ynYqiwXKWrwZgRCsHBr4phYR1D4DxIT_-4t21r-wqLKzSoSclaYB3tdMIEmjEDirIMIVUHLsj-awOzEdA-O5AapjfbukBFAeipx3QB6QvfG9DKmzuBDmRp_v8m3iJ8NVw-U_KzUmR2RTk2CWaSUBk1Wlwp0ar/s4032/PXL_20240302_195619216.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2268" data-original-width="4032" height="340" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9kkutMQrIqpThwWiaj9logQkUVq7Wwx4ynYqiwXKWrwZgRCsHBr4phYR1D4DxIT_-4t21r-wqLKzSoSclaYB3tdMIEmjEDirIMIVUHLsj-awOzEdA-O5AapjfbukBFAeipx3QB6QvfG9DKmzuBDmRp_v8m3iJ8NVw-U_KzUmR2RTk2CWaSUBk1Wlwp0ar/w603-h340/PXL_20240302_195619216.jpg" width="603" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div></div></div>John Dayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12123174297818737132noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4275885258914846834.post-21953861095296094492024-03-05T16:08:00.006-06:002024-03-05T16:08:58.750-06:00Change Of Course<div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Guided By Truth,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> There has been a tension between reality and political ideology recently. We have all wondered how long it would be before western policy-inertia would capitulate to public political sentiments, military and economic facts, which are all in opposition to imperial policies and control-narratives ("noble lies" per Plato). There are signs, which might be intentional political communications, that imperial policy of support for wars in Ukraine and Occupied Palestine may be poised to change, to better match physical and political realities. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>'Israel' kills twin babies conceived after 10 years of trying</b></i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><b>"I screamed for my children and my husband. They were all dead. They've gone together and left me behind," </b>Rania Abu Anza, the mother of twin martyrs Wissam and Naeim said.<span class="gmail_default"> </span></i><i>The strike occurred late Saturday night while Rania was asleep with her husband and children.</i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Rania said she woke up to breastfeed Naeim, her baby boy, and went back to sleep with him in one arm and Wissam, her baby girl, in the other. Their father was sleeping beside them, she recalled tearfully.</b></i><div class="gmail_default"><a href="https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/mother-mourns-twins-israelis-killed-after-10-year-trying-to" style="color: #1155cc;">https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/mother-mourns-twins-israelis-killed-after-10-year-trying-to</a> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhRZK0Bs9hdRicv_IdmYD0I-0oiAd5NSKtXrmo5g18fmTOZUxeyRa9wYlEHjjdGAPfOmPEI-vZnks12PO7jPlpXSYbNjnce9egapixL-dbch_KE6XHJdYdqBJyH7Wr719T2Zlmseocucnb6DwHBRcDupl29wRkS9A5NfUNoFyOx8fTuMYnG29DswCAjfTys" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="673" data-original-width="1000" height="418" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhRZK0Bs9hdRicv_IdmYD0I-0oiAd5NSKtXrmo5g18fmTOZUxeyRa9wYlEHjjdGAPfOmPEI-vZnks12PO7jPlpXSYbNjnce9egapixL-dbch_KE6XHJdYdqBJyH7Wr719T2Zlmseocucnb6DwHBRcDupl29wRkS9A5NfUNoFyOx8fTuMYnG29DswCAjfTys=w622-h418" width="622" /></a></div><br /></div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>UN Security Council calls for protection of civilians in Gaza</b></i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i> The UN Security Council (UNSC) has expressed “deep concern” after nearly 120 Palestinians lost their lives in an Israeli attack on civilians waiting to receive humanitarian aid southwest of Gaza City...<br /><span class="gmail_default">..</span>They urged for the protection of civilians and civilian infrastructure, and reminded all parties that they “must comply with their obligations under international law, including international humanitarian law and international human rights law.”<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>They called for parties to the conflict to allow, facilitate, and enable the immediate, rapid, safe, sustained and unhindered delivery of humanitarian assistance at scale to the Palestinian civilian population throughout the Gaza Strip.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>The council members said they also have “grave concern” over the estimation…that all 2.2 million people in Gaza would face alarming levels of acute food insecurity.</i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://en.ypagency.net/320577" style="color: #1155cc;">https://en.ypagency.net/320577</a><i><br /></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Great Legal Clarity and Erudition on the Illegal Israeli Occupation of Palestine</b><span class="gmail_default"> </span></i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(Tune in at minute 18, for instance)</span><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />Legal Scholar Ralph Wilde Representing the League of Arab States Before the International Court of Justice Just Days Ago</i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://anthonyjhall.substack.com/p/great-legal-clarity-and-erudition" style="color: #1155cc;">https://anthonyjhall.substack.com/p/great-legal-clarity-and-erudition</a><i><br /></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div class="gmail_default"> So much here... Simplicius , <i><b>Rifts in Bibi's Camp as Gaza War Drags </b></i>[The economy is imploding, and Bibi even burned bridges with Russia recently.]<i></i></div><div class="gmail_default"><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>In summary: it seems that Netanyahu is trying to have his cake and eat it too. Ostensibly he wants to ‘root out’ and destroy Hamas, but at the same time fears doing so would force the inevitability of creating a Palestinian state—as there would no longer be any real excuse not to allow it, should Hamas be undeniably eliminated.</i></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>The only connective tissue which ties it all together is Israel’s overriding longterm goal of ethnically cleansing all Palestinians from the land Israel believes it has divine right to</b>. With secondary goals revolving around opportunistically utilizing the conflict to either weaken Iran’s hand to buy itself time, or outright embroil Iran in a wider war with the U.S. which can maintain Israel’s center gravity at the heart of the geopolitical great game in the Middle East.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>However, it does seem that, <b>upon realizing the total expulsion of Palestinians will not be allowed by the international community, Netanyahu’s Plan B has reverted to merely creating a fully militarily occupied zone in Gaza, under even more brutal control</b> than it already endures.</i><br /></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/sitrep-342024-rifts-in-bibis-camp" style="color: #1155cc;">https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/sitrep-342024-rifts-in-bibis-camp</a><i><br /></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Israel's UN Ambassador Promotes the Genocide of Palestinians as a Campaign for Freedom</b><br />In equating the plight of Israel to the situation of the Ukrainian government, Israeli Ambassador Gilal Erdan Invokes the Nazi heritage of Israel's Governing Likud Party</i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://anthonyjhall.substack.com/p/israels-un-ambassador-promotes-the" style="color: #1155cc;">https://anthonyjhall.substack.com/p/israels-un-ambassador-promotes-the</a><i><br /></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Aid Groups Slam US for Dropping Aid Into Gaza Instead of Pressuring Israel</b><br />At least 15 children have starved to death in Gaza over past the few days<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>On Saturday, US Central Command announced that it conducted <b>a “combined humanitarian assistance airdrop into Gaza” with the Royal Jordanian Air Force. The command said US C-130 military transport planes dropped 38,000 meals on Gaza</b>, which is <b>populated by about 2.2 million people</b>.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>The international charity <b>Oxfam said the airdrops “mostly serve to relieve the guilty consciences of senior US officials whose policies are contributing to the ongoing atrocities and risk of famine in Gaza”</b> and called for the US to end military aid to Israel.</i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://news.antiwar.com/2024/03/03/aid-groups-slam-us-for-dropping-aid-into-gaza-instead-of-pressuring-israel/" style="color: #1155cc;">https://news.antiwar.com/2024/03/03/aid-groups-slam-us-for-dropping-aid-into-gaza-instead-of-pressuring-israel/</a><i><br /></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Sanders Calls on U.S. to Stop Funding 'Netanyahu's Gov't' as Gaza Children Begin Dying of Starvation<br />Vermont Independent has been criticized by progressives for his stance on the genocide.</b></i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://trendsinthenews.substack.com/p/sanders-calls-on-us-to-stop-funding" style="color: #1155cc;">https://trendsinthenews.substack.com/p/sanders-calls-on-us-to-stop-funding</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Kamala Harris calls for 'immediate ceasefire', more aid convoys to Gaza<br />The US Vice President's comments come as President Joe Biden refuses to demand ceasefire</b></i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/kamala-harris-calls-immediate-ceasefire-more-aid-convoys-gaza" style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/kamala-harris-calls-immediate-ceasefire-more-aid-convoys-gaza</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div class="gmail_default"> Times of Israel: <i><b>Hosting Gantz, Harris balances praise of Israel with criticism over Gaza aid crisis</b></i></div><i>VP stresses US alarm over humanitarian situation in Strip, urges boosted aid, notes Jerusalem’s ‘constructive approach’ in hostage talks; Gantz backs international aid mechanism</i><br /></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Gantz’s office said he had conveyed to Harris his appreciation for the administration’s support for Israel and stressed “the imperative of completing the mission of removing the threat Hamas poses to Israel, finding a sustainable solution to ensuring humanitarian aid reaches civilians and not terrorist Hamas, and the importance of completing all of the operation’s military objectives in Gaza in a manner that enables stability and prosperity for the region entirely.”<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>He also called for the urgent establishment of “an international mechanism to oversee the humanitarian effort [in Gaza] in coordination with countries of the region and as part of the wider normalization efforts,” the statement said.</b></i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/hosting-gantz-harris-balances-praise-of-israel-with-criticism-over-gaza-aid-crisis/" style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.timesofisrael.com/hosting-gantz-harris-balances-praise-of-israel-with-criticism-over-gaza-aid-crisis/</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Poll: Majority of Democrats Want a Presidential Candidate Who Opposes Military Aid to Israel<br />Biden is facing protests from within the Democratic Party due to his unconditional support for Israel's massacre of Palestinians</b></i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>The poll shows that <b>56% of respondents who identified as Democrats were less likely to support a candidate who backs military aid to Israel,</b> while 40% were more likely to support such a candidate.</i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://news.antiwar.com/2024/03/03/poll-majority-of-democrats-want-a-presidential-candidate-who-opposes-military-aid-to-israel/" style="color: #1155cc;">https://news.antiwar.com/2024/03/03/poll-majority-of-democrats-want-a-presidential-candidate-who-opposes-military-aid-to-israel/</a><i><br /></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>‘Uncommitted’ voters unite against Biden ahead of Super Tuesday</b></i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>The <b>Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), the largest socialist organization in the US</b>, has urged primary <b>voters to cast their ballots for ‘uncommitted’ </b>rather than President Joe Biden to show their opposition to his stance on the Israel-Hamas war...<br />..<b>“Today, DSA endorses ‘Uncommitted’ in the remaining Democratic presidential primaries. Until this administration ends its support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza and delivers a permanent, lasting ceasefire, Joe Biden will bear the responsibility for another Trump presidency,” </b>the organization said, adding that “defeat is certain” if Biden continues on the current course.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> <b> </b></span><b>“This week’s brutal ‘Flour Massacre’ has proven once again that Israel is a brutal, inhumane apartheid state which carries a legacy of 75 years of genocide and occupation. Over 30,000 Palestinians have already died; how many will be ENOUGH for Joe Biden to stop this war?” </b>the DSA said in a follow-up post, referring to the tragedy on February 29 when at least 112 Palestinians were killed and more than 750 were injured while waiting for much-needed food aid in Gaza City.</i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://swentr.site/news/593710-uncommitted-voters-unite-against-biden/" style="color: #1155cc;">https://swentr.site/news/593710-uncommitted-voters-unite-against-biden/</a><i><br /></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div class="gmail_default"> Simplicius, again, so much more Ukraine War information here , <i><b>A bombshell wiretap leak has set the intelligence and geopolitical world ablaze, revealing high ranking members of the German Bundeswehr openly discussing plans to supply the Taurus missiles and help Ukraine destroy Russia’s Kerch Bridge.<br /> Many are understandably pinning the leak on Russia’s GRU, but it seems just as—if not more—plausible that it was leaked by German insiders themselves in order to thwart the plans of their own deep-state establishment which is clearly bent on starting WWIII.</b></i><br /></div><div class="gmail_default"><a href="https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/bundeswehr-wiretap-bombshell-german" style="color: #1155cc;">https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/bundeswehr-wiretap-bombshell-german</a></div></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>German Defense Ministry uses ‘1234’ as password</b></i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span class="gmail_default"> It</span>s use was roundly mocked by German tabloid Bild. <b>“After the wiretapping attack on the Bundeswehr [German military] by Russian spies, this is extremely embarrassing,”</b> the paper wrote on Monday.<span class="gmail_default">..</span></i><b><i><br /></i></b><div><i><span class="gmail_default">..</span>Over a WebEx video call, the officers discussed the potential use of German-made Taurus missiles against the Crimean Bridge, wondering how they could maintain plausible deniability of involvement in such an attack. The conversation also revealed that – according to the officers – Britain has already sent its own military specialists to Ukraine to operate Storm Shadow cruise missiles given to the Ukrainian armed forces.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>It is unclear how Simonyan’s contacts obtained the audio. However, the deputy chairman of the German parliament’s oversight committee, Roderich Kiesewetter, said on Sunday that the Russians could have simply logged on to the unsecured WebEx call without the officers noticing.</b></i></div></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://swentr.site/news/593763-germany-defense-password-1234/" style="color: #1155cc;">https://swentr.site/news/593763-germany-defense-password-1234/</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div class="gmail_default"> Gilbert Doctorow, (US Neocon Queen-Bee) <i><b>Victoria Nuland resigns: what can this mean for U.S. policy on Ukraine?</b></i></div></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> <b>Nuland was the guiding spirit of the Maidan</b> who distributed donuts on Independence Square in Kiev to the idealistic youths who sought the overthrow of the legitimately elected sitting president Yanukovich. As we know from leaked telephone conversations, <b>in February 2014, Nuland conspired with U.S. ambassador in Kiev Geoffrey Pyatt for selection of the new government in Kiev from among Opposition leaders following the U.S. backed coup d’etat.</b><br />..There is no question that <b>as an intellectual force she was head and shoulders over her nominal boss, Antony Blinken</b>, and that she <b>stood behind every escalation in U.S. and Allied participation in the proxy war being fought in Ukraine</b>. The idea of sending long-range cruise missiles to Kiev in order to strike far into the Russian heartland, now being debated both in the USA and in Germany, was something Nuland was promoting tooth and nail nearly a year ago.<br />..A touching note and possibly a straw in the wind is the last paragraph in the Associated Press article on the departure of Nuland which tells us: <b>“Nuland will be replaced temporarily as under secretary by another career diplomat, John Bass, a former ambassador to Afghanistan, who oversaw the U.S. withdrawal from the country.” Indeed, let us hope that Bass will also be the fellow who oversees the U.S. withdrawal from Ukraine.</b></i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://gilbertdoctorow.substack.com/p/victoria-nuland-resigns-what-can" style="color: #1155cc;">https://gilbertdoctorow.substack.com/p/victoria-nuland-resigns-what-can</a><i><br /></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div class="gmail_default">Moon of Alabama, <i><b>Ukraine - Cookie Monster Retires , </b></i><i><b>A big fat rat is leaving the ship.</b></i></div><i><b>One might interpret this as the State Department's admittance of defeat in the U.S. war against Russia in Ukraine</b></i><br /></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/03/ukraine-cookie-monster-retires.html" style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/03/ukraine-cookie-monster-retires.html</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div><i><br /></i></div><span class="gmail_default"> John Helmer, The Good Germans Are Blowing Smoke</span><br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>The audio tape is of German soldiers discussing air operations against Russia from a nuclear-armed airbase.</b> <b>The frankness of their war objectives against Russia, and of their attempts to camouflage their “tricks”, as Gerhartz calls them</b>, for German political and public purposes is not what is “new” in this disclosure. Rather, what is “new” is the context of this teleconference among all the others happening in parallel – this is the certainty that when German army officers and German naval officers discuss operations at the general staff level before briefing Defense Minister Pistorius, they are just as committed to attacking Russia as Gerhartz and his airmen.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>All these Germans are at war with Russia.</b> There is no reason for their counterparts on the Russian General Staff to interpret what Gerhartz said in any other way. <b>The identification of Büchel and F-16s in the discussion must (repeat must) trigger the Russian assessment that the Germans are capable, with US, British and French prompting, of launching F-16s with nuclear warheads. </b></i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://johnhelmer.net/the-good-germans-are-blowing-smoke/#more-89498" style="color: #1155cc;">https://johnhelmer.net/the-good-germans-are-blowing-smoke/#more-89498</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div class="gmail_default"> More Helmer, who thinks (somebody in) the US tapped the phone and spilled the beans.</div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Germany has launched an investigation into the scandal involving the leaking of a conversation between senior German military officials discussing the attack on the Crimean Bridge. <b>The Bundeswehr leadership blames “unsecured communication systems” for everything</b>, thanks to which Russia gained access to this conversation.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>However, there is reason to believe that the <b>special services of an altogether different country</b> had access to it, which then <b>shared it with Russia</b>. What is this about?<span class="gmail_default"> ...</span></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span class="gmail_default">..</span><b>Frank Graefe</b> was appointed head of the Air Force Operations and Exercises Department just the other day. And <b>since the end of 2019, he served as the German military attaché in Washington</b>, to serve as which he was awarded the rank of brigadier general.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Thus, <b>if anyone knew in detail the peculiarities of General Graefe’s behaviour, it was the Americans. They also knew Graefe’s phone number</b>, which they could connect to without any hotel Wi-Fi. This is not to mention the fact that the WebEx system originally belongs to an American provider, and the European military considers it safe on account of their misunderstanding.<span class="gmail_default">..</span><br />..Thus, it can reasonably be <b>assumed that Russian intelligence has some kind of intelligence capabilities inside the US National Security Agency. Or if not exactly agents, then let’s say, informants who are close ideologically</b>.<span class="gmail_default">..</span></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span class="gmail_default">..</span>The internal <b>German context is very complicated, especially during the pre-election period.</b> And the publication of<b> this conversation by German officers rather helps [Chancellor Olaf] Scholz, who has been blocking the whole story of the Taurus so far</b>. The scandal, of course, hits the security system of Germany and, in general, the prestige of the Bundeswehr. But most importantly, it demonstrates to the whole world the danger and moral weakness of the very idea of supplying Ukraine with such weapons.</i><br /></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://johnhelmer.net/how-the-bad-germans-were-exposed-by-their-generals-and-not-just-them/#more-89507" style="color: #1155cc;">https://johnhelmer.net/how-the-bad-germans-were-exposed-by-their-generals-and-not-just-them/#more-89507</a><i><br /></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div class="gmail_default"> (Croatian Army veteran) Alex Krainer, Financial and power-structure analyst, <i><b>The power behind the throne and the forever wars </b>, </i><i>We must take a stand or let our children fall, it's that simple.</i></div></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>Former UK Prime Minister Liz Truss</b> gave us a stonker of a revelation which, I believe deserves to be set to the record. Truss appeared in Steve Bannon's War Room and said this:<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>"What I found out when I got into No. 10 is, I thought that if I got to the top of the tree, I would be able to implement those conservative policies... And what I discovered was that I was not holding the levers. The levers were held by the Bank of England, by the Office of Budget Responsibility, they weren't held by the Prime Minister or the Chancellor..."</b></i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>..<b>As the Ukrainian bludgeon broke against Russia, there is every reason for us to expect that they’ll turn to transforming other European nations to serve the same purpose</b>. That process is now under way as we can hear from the growing chorus of European leaders talking about militarization, conscription, and the prospect of war against Russia..</i><div><i>...<b>Unless we accept that in the near future our children also be sacrificed for bankers’ pursuit of Russian collateral, we need to shine the spotlight at those behind the throne who are pulling the levers and pushing us into war</b>. It is our duty today to push against them with all our might, creativity and determination. Anything short of that risks turning more European nations into what Ukraine is today. And no,<b> it has never been about democracy nor about freedom. It is strictly about banking and about the collateral.</b>..<span class="gmail_default"></span></i></div><div><i><span class="gmail_default">..</span><b>All the money in circulation represents debt. Debt represents assets on the bankers’ balance sheets. To conjure up more debt, they need to control the collateral</b>: it directly boosts their wealth and power over us. To all the rest of us it’s all the same: whether we pay money to Gazprom for our gas or to Royal Dutch Shell, we still have to pay...</i><div><i>..Truly, <b>the only group in society to whom the control of collateral makes any difference are the bankers, making them the one main group with the incentive to foment forever wars for control of resources</b>. They won’t hesitate to go nuclear and sacrifice one nation after another to achieve this.</i></div></div></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/the-power-behind-the-throne-and-the" style="color: #1155cc;">https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/the-power-behind-the-throne-and-the</a><i><br /></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div class="gmail_default"> A Midwestern Doctor, <i><b>The Immense Cruelty of Population Control Campaigns , </b></i><i><b>Reviewing the tragic but largely forgotten lessons of the past.</b></i></div></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>There has been a longstanding fixation within the ruling elite that it is absolutely imperative for them to control the world’s population.</b><br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>In many cases, <b>this has resulted in cruel and inhumane campaigns being enacted around the world</b> in areas where the people did not have the civil rights protections afforded to them within the Western Democracies...<br /><span class="gmail_default">..</span><b>It is critical to learn what happened there, both so that we do not allow the global elite to enact similar measures here and so that we can recognize why it is imperative to have a culture which sincerely values morality as that ethical framework is often the only thing which can stop these disasters from happening</b>.</i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/the-immense-cruelty-of-population" style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/the-immense-cruelty-of-population</a><i><br /></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div class="gmail_default"> Tom Luongo, who shares the above view of wars-for-collateral, also prefers not to have Globo-Cap destroy the US for profit</div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Now that the Supreme Court has unanimously destroyed the dreams of Davos to use January 6th as a means to keep him off the ballot, <b>Donald Trump has passed the easiest of the hurdles in front of his returning to the White House</b>.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>Some things, politically, in the US still function.<span class="gmail_default"> </span>This ruling was a lay-up. The SCOTUS had to rule decisively here</b>...</i></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="gmail_default">..C</span>andidate Trump, <b>he will look to shore up his weaknesses</b>.<br /><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Candidate Trump became a guy who preached bringing the US back from a dark place. He ran on a populist platform that incorporated the Bernie Bros (remember them) as well as the tradesmen.<span class="gmail_default"> </span>He broke the Democrats’ Trinity of Victimhood – Unions, Minorities, young people </b>— that was their base and squeaked to victory over The Hildabeast.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>If you think it’s Trump’s team or even US ‘white hats’ pushing out this stuff about Biden, you may be missing the obvious player, Hillary</b>.<br />If there is one thing I know for certain about <b>Trump </b>it is that <b>he’s a master of media. He knows exactly how and when to push everyone’s buttons.</b><br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>For that reason (and many others) <b>Trump’s only real choice for running mate is Tulsi Gabbard.<span class="gmail_default">..</span></b></i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>..<b>When Hillary stole the 2016 primary from Bernie Sanders she resigned from the DNC. This is a woman who crossed Hillary Clinton and, so far, has lived to tell the tale</b>. No mean feat in the 21st century.<span class="gmail_default"> </span>Long story short, Gabbard has stones.</i><div><a href="https://tomluongo.me/2024/03/04/supreme-court-clears-trump-vp-field-gabbard/#respond" style="color: #1155cc;">https://tomluongo.me/2024/03/04/supreme-court-clears-trump-vp-field-gabbard/#respond</a><i><br /></i></div></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>"Treason!": Bombshell Report Reveals Biden Has Secretly Flown 320,000 Illegals INTO The United States</b></i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>A Freedom of Information Act lawsuit has revealed that the Biden administration has flown at least 320,000 migrants into the United States in an effort to reduce the number of crossings at the southern border, according to Todd Bensman of the Center for Immigration Studies.</i><b><i><br /></i></b><div><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/political/treason-bombshell-report-reveals-biden-has-secretly-flown-320000-illegals-united-states" style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.zerohedge.com/political/treason-bombshell-report-reveals-biden-has-secretly-flown-320000-illegals-united-states</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div class="gmail_default"> Charles Hugh Smith points out the Achilles-Heel of Bankers, <i><b>These Four Themes Will Define the Next Decade</b></i></div><i><b>Everyone at the trough believes that the transition from liquid water (free flowing credit) to ice cannot possibly happen. So when it happens, everyone will be surprised.</b></i><br /></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>Morgan Stanley recently came out with their 3 Themes that will impact markets for many years</b>: longevity, AI tech diffusion, and decarbonization, i.e. the transition from hydrocarbon fuels to so-called "green energy."...<br />..That all sounds peachy, but <b>the real world will be defined by four much different themes: sclerosis, dysfunction, debt saturation and power asymmetry</b>...</i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><b>..In a system rigged to maximize the profit and power of the few at the expense of the many, nothing works because the system is no longer capable of self-correction...</b></i></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="gmail_default">..</span><b>Interest rates can't stay at zero, so the costs of servicing the soaring debt rises rapidly. At the same time, the immense expansion of credit--money borrowed from future income to be spent today--generates inflation</b>, as the flood of credit needed to keep a sclerotic, dysfunctional status quo afloat outpaces the value being generated by all the trillions being borrowed and blown.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>No one at the trough of "free money" will give up their place</b>, and so the system is rigged to fail: <b>we have to keep borrowing trillions to keep all the incumbents</b>, entrenched interests and those collecting benefits happy, but as interest payments rise, we need to borrow more trillions just to pay the interest. And so on, in a self-reinforcing feedback loop.<span class="gmail_default">..</span></i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><b>..Everyone at the trough believes that the transition from liquid water (free flowing credit) to ice cannot possibly happen. So when it happens, everyone will be surprised. What do you mean, there are limits?</b></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://charleshughsmith.substack.com/p/these-four-themes-will-define-the" style="color: #1155cc;">https://charleshughsmith.substack.com/p/these-four-themes-will-define-the</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Musk’s X could face new EU restrictions</b><span class="gmail_default"> , </span>The European Commission has said the platform potentially qualifies as a <b>‘gatekeeper’ </b>under the bloc’s digital antitrust rules<span class="gmail_default"> </span>Companies that fail to abide by the EU’s rules may face fines of up to 10% of their total worldwide annual turnover, or up to 20% in the event of repeated infringements. Businesses may also be slapped with periodic penalty payments of up to 5% of their average daily turnover.</i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://swentr.site/news/593729-musk-x-european-commission/" style="color: #1155cc;">https://swentr.site/news/593729-musk-x-european-commission/</a><i><br /></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>State Officials Raid Amish Farmer, Seize $100K of Food<span class="gmail_default"> </span></b></i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">("Destroy" is correct, too.)</span><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><br />Pennsylvania authorities raided Amish farmer Amos Miller’s farm in January, seizing $100,000 worth of food products over allegations his raw dairy products caused E. coli outbreaks in Michigan and New York. Miller's lawyer called the sudden raid “patently illegal” and a violation of state rules.</b></i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/state-officials-raid-amish-farmer-seize-food-cola/" style="color: #1155cc;">https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/state-officials-raid-amish-farmer-seize-food-cola/</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div class="gmail_default"> Cat McGuire points out: <i>America Is A Gentile Nation</i>, and presents some useful graphics of a few elite professions, such as <b>Hedge Fund Manager & January 6th Committee</b>.</div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>The United States is comprised of White people, Black people, Hispanics, Native Americans, Asians, Arabs, and many other ethnic groups</b>. One distinguishing feature that is almost uniformly overlooked is that we as a country are primarily Gentiles—i.e., non-Jewish—and that as Gentiles we comprise 98% of the American populace.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>The distinction between Jews and Gentiles is NOT one of Gentile making. It is how Jews since time immemorial have perceived everyone who is not Jewish.<span class="gmail_default">..</span></i><br /></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="gmail_default">..</span>A good place to start is with Eustace Mullins’ account of <b>the cryptic 1913 Federal Reserve takeover of the U.S. monetary system</b> here and here. <b>Then in 1963 following the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the country took an abrupt 180-degree turn in support of Israel</b>. Definitively, however, <b>after a powerful cabal of Zionists and Israeli Firsters orchestrated the dramatic 9/11 attack in 2001, an ensuing coup d’êtat resulted in their near-complete, quasi-hidden control of the United States government.<span class="gmail_default"> </span></b></i><a href="https://uppityupstart.substack.com/p/america-is-a-gentile-nation" style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">https://uppityupstart.substack.com/p/america-is-a-gentile-nation</a><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div class="gmail_default">Eleni in Athens sends this detailed, yet still incomplete list of recent imperial crimes. <i><b>The Indictment of the Good Guys of the West</b></i></div><div class="gmail_default"><a href="https://www.thepostil.com/the-indictment-of-the-good-guys-of-the-west/" style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.thepostil.com/the-indictment-of-the-good-guys-of-the-west/</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div class="gmail_default"><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>How The Government Used 'Track F' To Fund Censorship Tools</b></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Officials from the National Science Foundation tried to conceal the spending of millions of taxpayer dollars on research and development for artificial intelligence tools used to censor political speech and influence the outcome of elections, according to a new congressional report.</i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/how-government-used-track-f-fund-censorship-tools-report" style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/how-government-used-track-f-fund-censorship-tools-report</a></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div class="gmail_default"> Sasha Latypova, <i><b>World Exclusive: Everything You Wanted to Know About Secret Biolabs in Ukraine, Now Revealed!</b></i></div><i><b>DOD Operation Warp Speed confirms - pathogens are made in the labs. It's ok when WE do it! It's to save grandma and for warfighter readiness.</b></i></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="gmail_default"> </span>I have been asked so many times about “secret” biolabs in Ukraine, that I got annoyed enough to locate this document on the official Ukrainian parliament (Rada) website.</i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://sashalatypova.substack.com/p/world-exclusive-everything-you-wanted" style="color: #1155cc;">https://sashalatypova.substack.com/p/world-exclusive-everything-you-wanted</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div class="gmail_default"> Meryl Nass MD, fighting for truth. <i><b>We are up to 21 Members of the UK parliament speaking up on excess deaths, finally</b></i></div><i>There are over 700 UK MPs, but recall that once Andrew Bridgen was the only one speaking up. Free Telegraph link on Archive.org</i><br /></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://merylnass.substack.com/p/we-are-up-to-21-members-of-the-uk" style="color: #1155cc;">https://merylnass.substack.com/p/we-are-up-to-21-members-of-the-uk</a><i><br /></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>UK Slashes Excess Death Estimates After Announcing New Calculation Scheme<br />The U.K.’s Office for National Statistics unveiled a new methodology that significantly reduces its official estimates of excess deaths since 2020. Critics like Russell Brand and John Campbell, Ph.D., allege the complex changes mask potential harms from vaccines.</b></i><div><a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/united-kingdom-ons-excess-deaths-reporting-covid-shots/" style="color: #1155cc;">https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/united-kingdom-ons-excess-deaths-reporting-covid-shots/</a></div></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div class="gmail_default"> Steve Kirsch, <i><b>BREAKING: Seven MPs request comprehensive data transparency from the UK ONS </b></i>(Office for National Statistics)</div><i><b>They want the UK ONS is to produce a detailed time-series cohort analysis like they should have done 3 years ago. The request was validated by UK Professors Norman Fenton and Carl Heneghan.</b></i><br /></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="gmail_default"> </span>The seven Members of Parliament have sent a letter to the head of the UK ONS requesting that they publish a comprehensive time-series cohort analysis of the UK data (weekly buckets for 152 weeks starting in Jan 2021).<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>If the ONS refuses the request, then the MPs will be able to shift the blame for this crisis squarely on the ONS. And all MPs will then pile on later I predict since nobody wants not to have a chair when the music stops.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>If the ONS complies with the request, then we will have the evidence needed to go after other agencies. It will end the debate as to whether the shots were safe, and begin the debate on who is to blame and how to hold them accountable.</i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://kirschsubstack.com/p/breaking-seven-mps-request-comprehensive" style="color: #1155cc;">https://kirschsubstack.com/p/breaking-seven-mps-request-comprehensive</a></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Childhood Vaccine Schedule Led to ‘Greatest Decline in Public Health in Human History’<br />Public health agencies have refused to study or to publicly release data comparing the health outcomes of vaccinated and unvaccinated children, according to experts who spoke during Monday’s U.S. Senate roundtable discussion on “Federal Health Agencies and the COVID Cartel.”</b></i><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" /><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/childhood-vaccine-schedule-public-health-decline-senate-roundtable/" style="color: #1155cc;">https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/childhood-vaccine-schedule-public-health-decline-senate-roundtable/</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Cambridge University Scientists: 25% of Vaxxed Now Have VAIDS<span class="gmail_default"> , </span>Also: Vaccine Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (VAIDS) Explained </b></i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span class="gmail_default"></span>Top scientists at the world-renowned Cambridge University in England have published the results of a bombshell study into the impact of the injections on the human immune system.<span class="gmail_default"> </span>The study concluded that 25 percent of all people vaccinated with Covid mRNA shots now have Vaccine-Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (VAIDS).</i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://lionessofjudah.substack.com/p/cambridge-university-scientists-25" style="color: #1155cc;">https://lionessofjudah.substack.com/p/cambridge-university-scientists-25</a><i><br /></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Ultraprocessed foods linked to heart disease, diabetes, mental disorders and early death, study finds<span class="gmail_default"> </span></b></i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(Sounds like cigarette smoking, huh?)</span><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>Eating ultraprocessed foods raises the risk of developing or dying from dozens of adverse health conditions</b>, according to a new <b>review of 45 meta-analyses on almost 10 million people</b>.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>“We found consistent evidence linking higher intakes of ultra-processed foods with over 70% of the 45 different health outcomes we assessed,” said senior author Wolfgang Marx, a senior research fellow </b>at the Food & Mood Centre at Deakin University in Geelong, Australia, in an email.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>A higher intake was considered about one serving or about 10% more ultraprocessed foods per day</b>, said Heinz Freisling, a scientist in the nutrition and metabolism branch of the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer, in an email.<span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>“This proportion can be regarded as ‘baseline’ and for people consuming more than this baseline, the risk might increase,” </b>said Freisling.</i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/ultraprocessed-foods-linked-50-higher-233023823.html" style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/ultraprocessed-foods-linked-50-higher-233023823.html</a><i><br /></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><p><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Food Processor (pictured with 3 year old collard green plant)</span> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhl2NE-eKF49QyNS2leXkMbuqx0lRjrX9y7OzCvtqWdk50aBE7tt03cNLHcqvkePVvzPmk7pdPMs3IAQG1cBGn7HwNOKQIYOZaVpmei9FebPVr0acBSlyo8XUXUFWfmli3TNLHA70Bp9eFhPN1zGjI4AiZeETJLug4g_eLQeLRRcv1J9IeOqaB8bjXPEUG/s4032/PXL_20240303_151119030.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2268" data-original-width="4032" height="357" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhl2NE-eKF49QyNS2leXkMbuqx0lRjrX9y7OzCvtqWdk50aBE7tt03cNLHcqvkePVvzPmk7pdPMs3IAQG1cBGn7HwNOKQIYOZaVpmei9FebPVr0acBSlyo8XUXUFWfmli3TNLHA70Bp9eFhPN1zGjI4AiZeETJLug4g_eLQeLRRcv1J9IeOqaB8bjXPEUG/w633-h357/PXL_20240303_151119030.jpg" width="633" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>John Dayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12123174297818737132noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4275885258914846834.post-56762675520558943642024-03-04T13:58:00.003-06:002024-03-04T13:58:30.539-06:00Original Blame<p> Fellow "Sinners",</p><div class="gmail_default"><br /></div><div class="gmail_default"> The Ethical Skeptic explains the perfect excuse for a religious power hierarchy to abuse and terrorize all children and adults to further its absolute power.</div><i><b>Original Sin – Your Mere Existence is Violence</b></i><div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Burdening a hapless creature with the sole responsibility to bring only perfection into the presence of God, is the most ludicrous, vacuous, and diabolical philosophy ever crafted. The construct does bear a mission however: securing the enslavement, tithe, and worship of its intended victim.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>It is critical that one not place trust in any entity that advocates for such a notion. Regardless of their perceived status, those who propagate such a teaching are not concerned with the welfare of anyone in particular; rather, their aim is to assert their divine authority. </i></div><div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Placing the weighty burden of achieving absolute perfection in the eyes of one’s putative God upon a helpless being is not just nonsensical, but it’s also one of the most profoundly misguided and malevolent philosophies ever conceived.</i></div><div><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://theethicalskeptic.com/2024/02/25/original-sin-your-mere-existence-is-violence/&source=gmail&ust=1709662071778000&usg=AOvVaw3DclHFs1PdxijgZnTpQ-BX" href="https://theethicalskeptic.com/2024/02/25/original-sin-your-mere-existence-is-violence/" target="_blank">https://theethicalskeptic.com/<wbr></wbr>2024/02/25/original-sin-your-<wbr></wbr>mere-existence-is-violence/</a><i><br /></i></div><div><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>The Origins and Diffusion of Patrism in Saharasia, c.4000 BCE:<span class="gmail_default"> , </span>Evidence for a Worldwide, Climate-Linked<span class="gmail_default"> </span>Geographical Pattern in Human Behavior*<span class="gmail_default">,</span></b></i><div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>by James DeMeo, Ph.D.</b></i></div><i><b>ABSTRACT<span class="gmail_default">:</span></b><br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>Global geographical patterns of repressive, painful, traumatic, and violent, armored, patrist behaviors and social institutions, which thwart maternal-infant and male-female bonds, were correlated and developed through a systematic analysis of anthropological data on 1170 subsistence-level cultures.</b> When the behavior data were mapped, the hyperarid desert belt encompassing North Africa, the Near East, and Central Asia, which I call <b>Saharasia, was found to possess the greatest areal extent of the most extreme patrist behaviors and social institutions on Earth</b>. <b>Regions farthest removed from Saharasia, in Oceania and the New World, were found to possess the most gentle, unarmored, matrist behaviors, which support and protect maternal-infant and male-female bonds</b>. A systematic review of archaeological and historical materials suggests that <b>patrism first developed in Saharasia after c.4000 BCE, the time of a major ecological transition from relatively wet grassland- forest conditions to arid desert conditions</b>. Settlement and migration patterns of patrist peoples were traced, from their earliest homelands in Saharasia, to explain the later appearance of patrism in regions outside of Saharasia. <b>Prior to the onset of dry conditions in Saharasia, evidence for matrism is widespread, but evidence for patrism is generally nonexistent.</b> It is <b>argued that matrism constitutes the earliest, original, and innate form of human behavior and social organization</b>, while <b>patrism</b>, perpetuated by trauma-inducing social institutions, first <b>developed among Homo Sapiens in Saharasia, under the pressures of severe desertification, famine, and forced migrations</b>. The psychological insights of Wilhelm Reich provide an understanding of the mechanism by which <b>patrist (armored, violent) behaviors become established and continue long after the initial trauma has passed</b>.<span class="gmail_default">..</span></i><div><i><span class="gmail_default"><b>Conclusions</b>:</span></i></div><div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>These findings strongly suggest that <b>the innate portions of behavior are limited to the pleasure-directed aspects of life and social living, which impart distinct survival and health advantages to the growing child, and work to preserve the social unit. These are the matrist behaviors and social institutions, which support and protect the bonding functions between newborn babies and their mothers, which nurture the child through its various developmental stages, and which encourage and protect the bonds of love and pleasurable excitation which spontaneously develop between the young male and female</b>. From these pleasure-directed biological impulses come other socially cooperative tendencies, and life-protecting, life-enhancing social institutions. Such impulses and behaviors, which are prochild, profemale, sex-positive and pleasure-oriented, have been demonstrated to exist in more recent times predominantly outside the bounds of the Saharasian desert belt. However, they once were the dominant forms of behavior and social organization everywhere on the planet, before the great Old World desiccation occurred. Given the new evidence presented here, <b>patrism, to include its child-abusive, female-subordinating, sex-repressive, and destructively aggressive components, is best and most simply explained as a contractive emotional and cultural response to the traumatic famine conditions that first developed when Saharasia dried up after c.4000 BCE, a response which subsequently spread out of the desert through the diffusion of traumatized and affected peoples, and their altered social institutions</b>.<br /></i><div><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.orgonelab.org/saharasia_en.htm&source=gmail&ust=1709662071778000&usg=AOvVaw3MzerUcIR0-_CUXgXBdyFa" href="http://www.orgonelab.org/saharasia_en.htm" target="_blank">http://www.orgonelab.org/<wbr></wbr>saharasia_en.htm</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="gmail_default"> Caitlin Johnstone, <i><b>Aaron Bushnell's Death Can't Rightly Be Called An Act Of Suicide</b></i></div></div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Toward the end of the interview, longtime Democracy Now host Amy Goodman asked Pierpont a question which drew an answer that’s worth highlighting and reflecting upon.<br /><b>“Would Aaron have described this as suicide?” </b>Goodman asked Pierpont.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>“No, absolutely not,” </b>Pierpont replied, adding, <b>“He didn’t have thoughts of suicide. He had thoughts of justice. That’s what this was about. It wasn’t about his life. It was about using his life to send a message.”</b></i><div><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/aaron-bushnells-death-cant-rightly&source=gmail&ust=1709662071778000&usg=AOvVaw15s_E_csYnkXmlKTs-8imK" href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/aaron-bushnells-death-cant-rightly" target="_blank">https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/<wbr></wbr>p/aaron-bushnells-death-cant-<wbr></wbr>rightly</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="gmail_default"> Thanks Fritz. (13 min video cuts to the chase at minute 4). <i><b>Stealing J. Edgar Hoover's Secrets | Retro Report :</b></i><i> In 1971, a group of Vietnam War protestors broke into an F.B.I. field office in Pennsylvania and stole hundreds of government documents, in a heist that shocked a nation. Lesson plan for educators.</i></div></div><div class="gmail_default"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v%3DVVXI5q5PxyI&source=gmail&ust=1709662071778000&usg=AOvVaw1KGQtlYX9AgcZo5WzzkaO3" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVXI5q5PxyI" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?<wbr></wbr>v=VVXI5q5PxyI</a><i><br /></i></div><div class="gmail_default"><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Obama’s CIA Asked Foreign Intel Agencies To Spy on Trump Campaign</b></i><div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>The revelation that the U.S. intelligence community, under the Obama administration, sought the assistance of the “Five Eyes” intelligence alliance to surveil Donald Trump’s associates before the 2016 election is a chilling reminder of the lengths to which the Deep State will go to protect its interests and challenge its adversaries. (The Five Eyes countries are the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.) This bombshell, reported by a team of independent journalists, exposes a dark chapter in American political history, where foreign intelligence services were reportedly mobilized against a presidential candidate.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>The alleged operation against Trump and his associates, which predates the official start of the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane investigation, is a stark example of political weaponization of intelligence.</i></div><div><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://realclearwire.com/articles/2024/02/28/obamas_cia_asked_foreign_intel_agencies_to_spy_on_trump_campaign_150565.html&source=gmail&ust=1709662071778000&usg=AOvVaw3SQ7sCs48SJOLNAcUHPP_W" href="https://realclearwire.com/articles/2024/02/28/obamas_cia_asked_foreign_intel_agencies_to_spy_on_trump_campaign_150565.html" target="_blank">https://realclearwire.com/<wbr></wbr>articles/2024/02/28/obamas_<wbr></wbr>cia_asked_foreign_intel_<wbr></wbr>agencies_to_spy_on_trump_<wbr></wbr>campaign_150565.html</a><i><br /></i></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="gmail_default">The Supreme Court unanimously agrees that former President Trump cannot be removed from state ballots without an act of Congress, which must follow Constitutional due-process. Only Congress, not the states, can disqualify a presidential candidate under the Constitution’s “insurrection clause.”</div><div class="gmail_default"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23-719_19m2.pdf&source=gmail&ust=1709662071778000&usg=AOvVaw04i7O14uLaCpqOGUPFqffy" href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23-719_19m2.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.supremecourt.gov/<wbr></wbr>opinions/23pdf/23-719_19m2.pdf</a><br /></div><div class="gmail_default"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.zerohedge.com/political/supreme-court-rules-trump-remain-presidential-ballots&source=gmail&ust=1709662071778000&usg=AOvVaw0CmS_tmmhRsuvQ0OMm83Gh" href="https://www.zerohedge.com/political/supreme-court-rules-trump-remain-presidential-ballots" target="_blank">https://www.zerohedge.com/<wbr></wbr>political/supreme-court-rules-<wbr></wbr>trump-remain-presidential-<wbr></wbr>ballots</a><br /></div><div class="gmail_default"><br /></div><i><b>Not satisfied to let the Supreme Court-enforced Democratic process play out, House Democrats are now preparing legislation to try and keep Trump off the ballot.</b></i></div><div><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/political/supreme-court-rules-trump-remain-presidential-ballots">https://www.zerohedge.com/political/supreme-court-rules-trump-remain-presidential-ballots</a><b><i><br /></i></b><div class="gmail_default"><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Appeals Court Overturns Jan. 6 Defendant’s Sentence, Potentially Impacting Dozens Of Cases</b></i><br /></div><i>An appeals court in Washington unanimously ruled that <b>a Jan. 6 defendant’s sentence was improperly enhanced, a move that could impact numerous other Jan. 6 cases</b>.<span class="gmail_default">..</span><span class="gmail_default"></span></i><div><i><span class="gmail_default">..</span>On Friday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled that Larry Brock, who was convicted for a range of crimes related to Jan. 6, improperly had additional charges of “interference with the administration of justice.” The judge who wrote the court’s opinion wrote that the charge doesn’t apply to a sentencing enhancement, however, and struck it down.</i></div><div><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.zerohedge.com/political/appeals-court-overturns-jan-6-defendants-sentence-potentially-impacting-dozens-cases&source=gmail&ust=1709662071778000&usg=AOvVaw3y6l1gSwepBPyTYou181EW" href="https://www.zerohedge.com/political/appeals-court-overturns-jan-6-defendants-sentence-potentially-impacting-dozens-cases" target="_blank">https://www.zerohedge.com/<wbr></wbr>political/appeals-court-<wbr></wbr>overturns-jan-6-defendants-<wbr></wbr>sentence-potentially-<wbr></wbr>impacting-dozens-cases</a></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="gmail_default"> Thanks Eleni, <i><b>The Bible and Archaeology</b></i>,</div><div class="gmail_default"><i> <b>Why does Israel need to exist? </b>This question may seem startling and unfair, but it is one that is frequently asked and hotly debated. <b>The various answers and arguments given fall under two categories. First is the political and somewhat historical answer, which argues that the Levant is the Ur-Heimat of the Jews and thus for Jews to settle there is not only natural, but an unquestionable (God-given) right, as it is simply reclamation of legitimately owned property, and it is the Palestinians who are recent interlopers</b>. Here it is important to note that the <b>vast majority of the land itself in Israel is owned by the state, and thus reserved for Jews</b>, which means an exclusion of Palestinians. The second answer expands on this approach and seeks to bolster it by veering into the mystical and the messianic:<b> Israel must exist because it is the necessary condition for housing the Third Temple, which in turn will bring the messiah and his “golden age.”</b> This second answer brings together the aspirations of Protestant and Jewish Zionists. Both answers, sadly, also inform much of the anti-Arab sentiment that pervades the powers that be in Israeli society: the land does not really belong to Palestinians; <b>the Jews, as God’s chosen people, must do what God needs them to do: build the Third Temple so that the age of the messiah can begin</b>...<br />..In short, <b>wherever the Second Temple might have been in Jerusalem (likely on Mount Ophel), it could not have been on what is now called “Temple Mount.” </b>Only 19th and 20th century custom has established such a connection, which archaeology and history now seek to confirm. <b>Some even say that the city of David could not have been located on the Mount</b>, which again calls into question the Temple’s location.<br /> <b>If one questions the veracity of the Wall today, one will called a “Temple denier,” which is akin to “Holocaust denial,”</b> and to question the narrative of Al-Aqsa as the location of the Second Temple is to be a Palestinian apologist.<b> In this way scholarly conformity is assured, since the official task of the historian in Israel is to confirm the eternal possession of the Levant by the present-day Jews</b>, and the erasure of any other memory (Christian and Muslim).<br /> Some scholars even doubt that ancient Jerusalem truly has a Hebraic identity further back from the Roman period. But <b>he who “controls the present controls the past.”</b> <b>Antiquity is a source of great power in Israel</b>.</i></div></div><div class="gmail_default"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.thepostil.com/the-bible-and-archaeology/&source=gmail&ust=1709662071778000&usg=AOvVaw2IjJWQuPyHVJydNdKRaDkN" href="https://www.thepostil.com/the-bible-and-archaeology/" target="_blank">https://www.thepostil.com/the-<wbr></wbr>bible-and-archaeology/</a></div><div class="gmail_default"><br /><i><b> Biden Trots Out Harris To Issue Biting Criticism Of Israel & 'Inhumane' Conditions In Gaza</b></i></div><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Harris has issued a call for a six-week ceasefire at a moment Israel is boycotting ceasefire talks in Cairo. Harris spoke Sunday in front of the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama - scene of state troopers beating civil rights marchers almost 60 years ago<span class="gmail_default">.</span><div><span class="gmail_default"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/biden-trots-out-harris-issue-biting-criticism-israel-inhumane-conditions-gaza&source=gmail&ust=1709662071778000&usg=AOvVaw2dMi-ODbqbWId3OjnwO4cS" href="https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/biden-trots-out-harris-issue-biting-criticism-israel-inhumane-conditions-gaza" target="_blank">https://www.zerohedge.com/<wbr></wbr>geopolitical/biden-trots-out-<wbr></wbr>harris-issue-biting-criticism-<wbr></wbr>israel-inhumane-conditions-<wbr></wbr>gaza</a><br /></span></div><div><br /></div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>The US made its first successful aid airdrops over Gaza on Saturday</b>, at a moment the White House is seeking to stave off further humanitarian disaster in the Strip as the war presses on.<span class="gmail_default"> </span>Local footage has begun emerging, captured by Palestinians scrambling to access the aid. Like Jordan before, the <b>US C-130s flew low and dropped the aid crates over and near the beach</b>. <b>Hundreds if not thousands of people could be seen clamoring to open the crates.</b></i><div><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/new-footage-shows-thousands-gazans-clamoring-access-us-aid-dropped-c-130s&source=gmail&ust=1709662071778000&usg=AOvVaw2ZXh9O9TeC3wskSyrczjLV" href="https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/new-footage-shows-thousands-gazans-clamoring-access-us-aid-dropped-c-130s" target="_blank">https://www.zerohedge.com/<wbr></wbr>geopolitical/new-footage-<wbr></wbr>shows-thousands-gazans-<wbr></wbr>clamoring-access-us-aid-<wbr></wbr>dropped-c-130s</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Israel Unveils New West Bank Settlement Expansion In Defiance Of White House</b></i><div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Israel approved the building of 3,600 Israeli homes in a new West Bank settlement. The announcement came just days after Secretary of State Antony Blinken declared the settlements were inconsistent with international law.</i></div><div><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/israel-unveils-new-west-bank-settlement-expansion-defiance-white-house&source=gmail&ust=1709662071778000&usg=AOvVaw1w1h981mfuUKXo6JsnKVw7" href="https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/israel-unveils-new-west-bank-settlement-expansion-defiance-white-house" target="_blank">https://www.zerohedge.com/<wbr></wbr>geopolitical/israel-unveils-<wbr></wbr>new-west-bank-settlement-<wbr></wbr>expansion-defiance-white-house</a><i><br /></i></div><div><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Heavy losses inflict ‘dramatic manpower crisis’ on Israel<span class="gmail_default"> </span></b></i>[This will accentuate the <span class="gmail_default">tense </span>divide between <span class="gmail_default">militarily-exempt </span>Ultra-<wbr></wbr>Orthodox and secular Jewish Israelis.]<div><i><b>The Israeli military is demanding an addition of at least 7,000 soldiers to its forces due to a serious manpower crisis</b>...</i><b><i><br /></i></b><div><i><span class="gmail_default">..</span>“The army is compiling the data that will explain how dramatic the manpower problem is,” it added.<br />Just one day ago, <b>Israel’s Defense Minister, Yoav Gallant, called to end draft exemptions for members of the ultra-Orthodox community</b>. Gallant said he would only support legislation allowing for continued exemptions if all members of the ruling coalition backed it. <br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>The minister asserted that “all parts of society” must “bear the burden” of service</b>.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>Gallant’s position could result in tension with ultra-Orthodox parties in the coalition</b>, viewed as<b> integral to the current government's survival</b>, according to Hebrew media. <br />However, the army’s demand for a boost in manpower “has nothing to do with politics or the demand for equal burden: The situation is simply not good and does not match the threat map,” Ynet wrote. <br /><span class="gmail_default"><b> </b></span><b>Israel is taking severe losses in its genocidal war in Gaza and its attempt to eradicate the Palestinian resistance.<span class="gmail_default"> </span>While Israel claims that Gaza’s southernmost city of Rafah is the final Hamas stronghold, the group’s military wing, along with several other factions, continue to fiercely confront Israeli troops across the strip. </b></i></div></div><div><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://thecradle.co/articles/heavy-losses-inflict-dramatic-manpower-crisis-on-israel&source=gmail&ust=1709662071778000&usg=AOvVaw2XA9J3lD_2rLHDE4PuX9bi" href="https://thecradle.co/articles/heavy-losses-inflict-dramatic-manpower-crisis-on-israel" target="_blank">https://thecradle.co/articles/<wbr></wbr>heavy-losses-inflict-dramatic-<wbr></wbr>manpower-crisis-on-israel</a><i><br /></i></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="gmail_default"> Big Serge encapsulates what we have been following in the Russia-NATO proxy war in Ukraine. The NATO preparations from 2014, to make a NATO-style Ukrainian army, to use against Russia, were met with a Russian response 2 years ago, as Ukrainian artillery preparation began for an assault on Donetsk and Luhansk. The first NATO army was destroyed in 2022, leading to peace negotiations, thwarted by UK PM, Boris Johnson at NATO's behest. Ukraine made some counteroffensive gains after Russia stepped back during peace-negotiations. A second and third Ukrainian NATO-spec army have been eliminated, along with global stockpiles of Soviet-era military equipment and ordnance.</div><div class="gmail_default"> Ukraine has suffered severe attrition of military age men, due to vast battlefield losses. The Ukrainian soldiers and people have lost the will to keep fighting. The ability and political-will of the western European countries and US to supply this losing war are rapidly evaporating.</div><div class="gmail_default"> Russian military production has vastly increased, and is replacing stockpiles, while keeping up with war-usage. NATO+Ukraine production falls far short of this, and is not on track to ever meet daily demands of artillery shells, as one example.</div><div class="gmail_default"> As time progresses, the negotiating position of Ukraine/NATO will only worsen, but desperate ploys are now presented as some kind of "save" for the "Ukraine will win" story.</div><div class="gmail_default">Russia has the capacity to keep grinding forward along the vast front, and to also make large, dramatic advances as it sees fit. Russia moves vast military reserves around behind the lines of combat, forcing Ukraine to move reserves and war machinery, weakening other points of that line.</div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Russo-Ukrainian War: The Deluge</b></i><br /></div><div><a href="https://bigserge.substack.com/p/russo-ukrainian-war-the-deluge">https://bigserge.substack.com/p/russo-ukrainian-war-the-deluge</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>JACK POSOBIEC and MIKE BENZ: When the dust settles, Ukraine will be 'the largest operation in CIA history'</b> </i><div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>"It's my contention that when the dust settles on this, the Ukraine skirmish in the aftermath of the 2014 Maidan coup is going to ultimately be the largest operation in CIA history."<span class="gmail_default"> </span></b>Compared to the <b>CIA's Syrian operation under Barack Obama, which was revealed to be the most expensive operation up to this point</b>, Ukraine will blow it out of the water once <span class="gmail_default">a</span>ll said and done, Benz said.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Posobiec clarified that <b>Benz was implying the NYT article was a "limited hangout" when "an operation becomes so compromised, or public knowledge or public interest becomes so obvious around something," that the CIA begins to unveil pieces of the big picture, like an "onion."</b><br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>When the US involved itself in Ukraine</b> in the Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and John Brennan era, <b>"We were riding high and riding dirty. And that's what this was, we thought we were unstoppable and we could just coup anyone we wanted, there'd never be any repercussions, and no one would ever stand up for themselves, and Russia would never actually backstop it," </b>Benz said.</i></div><div><a href="https://humanevents.com/2024/02/29/jack-posobiec-and-mike-benz-when-the-dust-settles-ukraine-will-be-the-largest-operation-in-cia-history">https://humanevents.com/2024/02/29/jack-posobiec-and-mike-benz-when-the-dust-settles-ukraine-will-be-the-largest-operation-in-cia-history</a><i><br /></i></div><div><br /></div><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto also warned Western leaders that talk of direct NATO intervention could lead to a “third world war”</b><div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>Ukraine will not be able to strengthen its negotiating position on the battlefield</b> as some Western leaders think it will, and the longer peace talks are postponed, the worse the outcome will be for Kiev, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto has warne.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Speaking to Radio Kossuth on Sunday, <b>Szijjarto said that he has been “hearing for months” about how the Ukrainian military is gaining ground at the front “from which they can start negotiations from a better position.”<span class="gmail_default"> </span>“In recent weeks, it has become clear that this scenario has failed, that time is on Russia’s side,” he continued, warning that “the later a ceasefire is called and negotiations begin, the worse it will be for Ukraine.”</b></i></div><div><a href="https://swentr.site/news/593687-hungary-ukraine-losing-negotiations/">https://swentr.site/news/593687-hungary-ukraine-losing-negotiations/</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div><br /></div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>Concerned about a weaponized financial system, many countries have signaled plans to remove their gold and other assets from the U.S.</b> in the wake of the unprecedented Western sanctions imposed on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>And <b>at least one congressman is demanding answers from the Federal Reserve as to how much foreign gold has actually been removed</b> from U.S. shores so far.<span class="gmail_default">..</span><br />..(The) FRBNY’s gold holdings decreased from 2012 to 2019, then increased by 10,000 bars from 2019 through this year.<br />Assuming the Fed’s website is accurate, <b>one possible reason for the recent uptick is that FRBNY has taken custody of the gold from Ukraine’s central bank</b>.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>Has Ukrainian Gold Offset the Withdrawals of Other Nations?<span class="gmail_default"> </span></b>Such a scenario would explain <b>news reports from 2014 about Ukraine’s gold reserves being “hastily airlifted” to the United States</b> from Borispol Airport just east of Kyiv.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>At the time, the New York Fed refused to answer questions from the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee about whether it had taken possession of Ukraine’s gold.</b> But when <b>Ukraine disclosed in July 2022 that it had sold $12 billion of its gold reserves</b> since the Russian invasion, the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee returned to the issue.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>“The United States and its allies have appropriated tens of billions of dollars in military and humanitarian aid to Ukraine. So why would Ukraine need to sell its gold reserves unless doing so was a condition of all that U.S. and European assistance, especially since the United States already had taken custody of the Ukrainian gold?”</b> Chris Powell asked in a July 2022 article.</i><div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Chris Powell told Headline USA that it’s time for the Federal Reserve to start providing answers.<span class="gmail_default"> </span></i><i><b>“What does the Federal Reserve know about international gold flows that it doesn’t want the American people to know? Does this knowledge involve the grotesque financial mismanagement of the U.S. government and its currency? Why shouldn’t the American people know?”</b></i><i><br /></i><div><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/fed-chair-tight-lipped-foreign-nations-evacuation-gold-us">https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/fed-chair-tight-lipped-foreign-nations-evacuation-gold-us</a></div><div><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Why They Are Creating $1 Trillion Of Debt Every 100 Days</b></i></div><div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>The house of cards, built upon a crumbling foundation of debt comes crashing down when deficits are allowed to drop below $1 trillion. Running in place gets more expensive by the day.<br />Now it requires $1 trillion of new debt every 100 days to achieve nothing but remaining static economically. The regime media pundits and the cabal on Wall Street tell us the economy is doing great. No recession in sight. All is well. The dumbed down and distracted ignorant masses don’t realize all the reported “economic growth” is “created” by the government, enabled by The Fed, spending billions on their wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, funneling the money into the Military Industrial Complex corporations; paying for the transportation, feeding, and housing of the illegal invading hordes; hiring more government drones to harass the citizenry, and desperately trying to prop up a corrupt tottering empire in its final death throes.</i></div><div><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/why-they-are-creating-1-trillion-debt-every-100-days">https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/why-they-are-creating-1-trillion-debt-every-100-days</a><i><br /></i><div><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Germany launches investigation into leaked Crimean Bridge attack talk<span class="gmail_default"> , </span>The Defense Ministry fears that Russia may have spied on Luftwaffe generals</b></i></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>“We are checking whether communications within the Air Force were intercepted,”</b> a spokesperson for the German Ministry of Defense told the outlet Bild. <b>“We cannot say anything about the content of the communications that were apparently intercepted.”<span class="gmail_default">...</span></b></i><div><i>..The Bundeswehr has also resorted to censorship. Multiple <b>accounts on X (formerly Twitter) that distributed the recording were blocked in Germany</b> as of Friday evening.</i><b><i><br /></i></b><div><a href="https://swentr.site/news/593569-germany-crimea-leak-probe/">https://swentr.site/news/593569-germany-crimea-leak-probe/</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="gmail_default"> Gilbert Doctorow has a theory about how this completely avoidable leak of a high level military meeting got out. The outcome might be the opposite of the intention: <i><b>The Bundeswehr scandal: loose ends</b></i></div></div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>There are many ‘loose ends’ in the story about the Bundeswehr generals discussing how to use Taurus missiles to destroy the Kerch (Crimea) bridge</b>, not least of which is <b>the question of Russians supposedly breaking secure communications lines to obtain the recording</b> which RT’s Margarita Simonyan made public...</i></div><i>..Sosnovsky ... asked who were the generals recorded on the tapes, what are their relations to the civilian authorities in Germany and to Big Brother in Washington. When you do that, the plot really thickens.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>The overall commander of the Luftwaffe, Lt General Gerhartz is very close to German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius, who depends on him for advice</b> on military questions since he, <b>Pistorius, is clueless</b>... </i><div><i>..<b>Sosnovsky speculates that the discussion</b> of possibilities for using Germany’s 500 km range, air launched Taurus cruise missiles to attack the Kerch (Crimea) bridge, a discussion in which Gerhartz acted as moderator, <b>was</b> <b>intended to find holes in the Chancellor’s arguments against turning over these weapons to the Ukrainians</b>. <b>The fact that their conversation was overheard, that is to say ‘tapped,’ by outsiders may not have been an accident but instead was their very intention</b>. In short, <b>Sosnovsky is suggesting that a putsch to oust Scholz from power may have been the real intent of the plotters</b>.<span class="gmail_default"> </span></i></div><div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>This scenario is supported by the<b> use of communication lines that were not and could not be completely secure</b>.<span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>Discussions of such confidential security issues are, by military regulation, never to be held with anyone outside the boundaries of the Federal Republic</b>. And yet one of the key participants, <b>Erik Gräfe, was in Singapore</b> at the time and the line was WebEx<b> internet telephony from Cisco, meaning that U.S. intelligence could have easily intercepted it, not to mention the intelligence gatherers of another 15 countries, including Russia</b>.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>As Sosnovsky points out, <b>Gräfe was not vacationing in Singapore. No, he was just on a stopover on his way to Alaska</b>. To Alaska? In this regard, it is highly relevant to mention that Gräfe has had close professional relations with the Americans. At the end of 2019, he was appointed as the <b>Federal Republic’s military attaché in the German embassy in Washington</b>. This was <b>when he was promoted to the rank of Brigadier General.</b><br /><span class="gmail_default"> <b> </b></span><b>I will take a step beyond the educated guesswork of Mr. Sosnovsky and ask whether it was not indeed Washington that was behind this putsch plot</b>, since to its more rabid <b>Russophobes in the Biden administration Scholz is not fit to purpose.</b></i></div><div><a href="https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2024/03/04/9718/">https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2024/03/04/9718/</a><i><br /></i></div><div><br /></div>Macron did his job and said his lines.<span class="gmail_default"> </span><i><b>Macron’s Idea to Send NATO Troops to Ukraine ‘Made Him Look Very Foolish’</b></i><div><a href="https://sputnikglobe.com/20240301/macrons-idea-to-send-nato-troops-to-ukraine-made-him-look-very-foolish--1117069472.html">https://sputnikglobe.com/20240301/macrons-idea-to-send-nato-troops-to-ukraine-made-him-look-very-foolish--1117069472.html</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div><br /></div><i><b>Blackwater founder calls for ‘ugly peace’ in Ukraine<span class="gmail_default"></span></b></i>, The West should recognize Crimea and Donbass as part of Russia in order to freeze the conflict, Erik Prince has said<div><a href="https://swentr.site/news/593610-blackwater-founder-ugly-peace-ukraine/">https://swentr.site/news/593610-blackwater-founder-ugly-peace-ukraine/</a><br /></div><div><br /></div><span class="gmail_default"> </span><i><b>The Internationalization of the Neo-Liberal Shock</b><span class="gmail_default"></span></i><div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>Looking at the present day, under the light of the formulation revealed by Astrid Klein’s<span class="gmail_default"> </span>“The Shock Doctrine” </b>is an enlightening challenge and absolutely reveals the historical importance of the analysis that is carried out, even if, in my opinion, it suffers from a certain “historical punctuality” considering the moments of application of a process that has come to be known as <b>“neo-liberal economic shock theory”</b>.</i></div><div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Klein’s <b>analysis, based on known historical facts, recounts secret CIA experiments in psychology and psychiatry, the application of the techniques in Pinochet’s Chile and many other countries (including post-Soviet Russia)</b>, and the <b>neo-liberal doctrine of Milton Friedman’s “Chicago Boys”</b>, tells us of a process whereby the <b>population is put into a permanent state of shock in order to leave it unresponsive</b> (as in lobotomy treatments), so that, under the cover of the generated amorphism, <b>extremely unpopular measures are applied which</b>, above all, <b>are diametrically opposed to the interests of the majority</b>...<span class="gmail_default"></span></i><div><i><span class="gmail_default">..W</span>e can draw two direct conclusions: <b>the process of applying the shock doctrine evolved from the nation state to the entire world</b>; <b>it also evolved, from the financial component, to broader ones, such as total war</b>; always in an increasing logic of evolution from the least to the most complex, until, if we do not prevent it, our total destruction.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>From the particular to the general, this is the movement that led to the refinement, expansion and globalization of the shock doctrine</b>. The most impoverished countries serve as guinea pigs, allowing the test that is then generalized to the whole world. <b>This is the essence of American and Western hegemony</b>; this is why it is in direct <b>contradiction with the interests of the peoples!</b><br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>And<b> they bring us into a world of permanently induced, international, multifaceted and totalizing shocks</b>, always under the pretext for which lies in the <b>“need for protection”</b>; but the result is unequivocal: <b>with each session, each layer, we find ourselves increasingly gagged, conditioned and impoverished</b>.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>The ultimate contradiction: <b>the more shocked we are, the more disarmed we become!</b></i></div></div><div><a href="https://strategic-culture.su/news/2024/02/29/the-internationalization-of-the-neo-liberal-shock/">https://strategic-culture.su/news/2024/02/29/the-internationalization-of-the-neo-liberal-shock/</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span></b></i>Potentially "shocking" ... <i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Why Is Congress Nuking Northeast Gasoline Reserve As Part Of Bill To Avert Shutdown?</b></i><div><i><span class="gmail_default"></span>On Sunday night, <b>Congressional negotiators revealed a bill which will fund key parts of the government through the rest of the fiscal year</b> which began in October...<br />..But what neither of them mention is that<b> the bill also nukes the entire Northeast Gasoline Supply Reserve</b> - which, at roughly 1 million barrels, is too small to matter on a national scale - but <b>which could serve as a critical cache of energy in the event of another major disaster</b>.<br /><b>The Northeast Gasoline Supply Reserve was established in 2014 following Hurricane Sandy</b>, which cut through refineries and fuel terminals resulting in fuel shortages in some parts of the northeast. <b>The rationale for draining it is that it "does not have the operational functionality that was envisioned post-Sandy,"</b> former President Trump said of the supply in 2017.<br />What's more, <b>once the reserve is drained, the bill mandates that the entire thing will be shut down</b>.</i></div><div><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/political/why-congress-nuking-northeast-gasoline-reserve-part-bill-avert-shutdown">https://www.zerohedge.com/political/why-congress-nuking-northeast-gasoline-reserve-part-bill-avert-shutdown</a><i><br /></i></div><div><br /></div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>As unelected British Prime Minister<b> Rishi Sunak whined about ‘democracy’, a man in the UK was imprisoned for two years for the crime of distributing stickers that criticized mass migration</b>.<span class="gmail_default"> </span>Yes, really.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>Sam Melia, who has a young daughter and a wife 8 months pregnant with their second child, is behind bars after a judge ruled he had ‘incited racial hatred’ by distributing the stickers.<span class="gmail_default">..</span></b></i><div><i><b>..While Melia was locked up for ‘offensive’ stickers, the same judge gave a man who was caught in possession of child sex images no jail time.</b></i></div><div><a href="https://modernity.news/2024/03/02/man-jailed-for-2-years-over-stickers-as-pm-whines-about-democracy/">https://modernity.news/2024/03/02/man-jailed-for-2-years-over-stickers-as-pm-whines-about-democracy/</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div><br /></div><i><b>Hunter Finally Admits Joe Biden Is "The Big Guy"</b></i><div><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/political/hunter-finally-admits-joe-biden-big-guy">https://www.zerohedge.com/political/hunter-finally-admits-joe-biden-big-guy</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="gmail_default"> Meryl Nass MD, <i><b>Very Important: Mainstream Belarus TV runs a 7 minute segment on the WHO scam!!! </b></i>["Asymmetric counterattack" in proxy war? I wonder.]</div><i>The dam (holding back information) is finally starting to leak. The truth is coming out and millions will learn what the globalists are using the WHO for: a world takeover. With English subtitles<span class="gmail_default">.</span></i><br /></div><div><a href="https://merylnass.substack.com/p/very-important-mainstream-belarus">https://merylnass.substack.com/p/very-important-mainstream-belarus</a><i><span class="gmail_default"><br /></span></i></div><div><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>More proof that COVID killed medical ethics</b></i><div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>A February 12, 2024 <b>Slay News.com article reported that thousands of elderly COVID patients in the United Kingdom (U.K.) were secretly euthanized in April 2020 by injection with the drug Midazolam</b>...<br /><b><span class="gmail_default">..</span>Having had a career in analytics, I was skeptical.</b> <b>I reviewed the ResearchGate investigation documentation</b> fully expecting to find fake news. Instead, <b>I found that the report was exceptionally well researched and documented, and the claim appears valid</b>...<br />..<b>About 28,000 care home residents died in April 2020 across England, which represented about one third or 33.5 percent of all deaths in England.</b> <b> Many of the UK elderly with comorbidities or terminal illnesses have died with euthanasia in care homes, and not from COVID-19</b> due to few cases of infections early in 2020.” ...<br /><span class="gmail_default">..</span>“New guidelines were rapidly developed in early 2020 by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) for managing COVID-19 symptoms, including those at the end-of-life. <b>The rapidly developed new guidelines effectively opened the door to implement a policy of euthanasia in UK during the pandemic.”</b></i></div><div><a href="https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/03/more_proof_that_covid_killed_medical_ethics.html">https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/03/more_proof_that_covid_killed_medical_ethics.html</a><i><br /></i></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="gmail_default"> Meryl Nass MD, <i><b>UK: Sunak, Mitchell and Cameron and the WHO</b></i></div><i><b>John Stone reveals damning evidence of senior UK government officials’ involvement in WHO and GAVI - explaining the government's refusal to discuss the WHO 'Pandemic' Treaty</b></i><br /></div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Despite receiving a petition with over 100,000 signatures, the UK parliament refused (just a few weeks ago) to hold a debate about the UK’s continued membership of the World Health Organisation. In this guest post, John Stone provides a possible explanation - that senior Conservative Party politicians are completely entwined in the workings of the WHO and GAVI - both of which are heavily bankrolled by Bill Gates. </i><div><a href="https://merylnass.substack.com/p/uk-sunak-mitchell-and-cameron-and">https://merylnass.substack.com/p/uk-sunak-mitchell-and-cameron-and</a><i><br /></i></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="gmail_default"> A Midwestern Doctor has curated video clips and excerpts clearly and well: <i><b>This Senate Panel On The Vaccines Is The Red Pill We've All Been Waiting For</b></i></div><i>This excellent <b>presentation meticulously breaks down exactly what went awry throughout COVID-19</b>. What everyone needs to know is summarized below.</i><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/this-senate-panel-on-the-vaccines">https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/this-senate-panel-on-the-vaccines</a><i><br /></i></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="gmail_default">Non-Murderer (pictured with Jenny, our grandson and a peach tree I planted for our daughter)</div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizEfUrkh71boSIcxOcvP_gPJgqfY_ctNpJJu8oi5MlXsYLEsTbQtFJ9m9hvHpoI2dfVSYZPUk0RKOxqiDSQTP_5-UfjZ0mb1QtDRGQURxrnQcRCQ3VZVdoO-rKCkqN5nWtXlDKxzQrddrp3XaYeysfmMSDcpB64WkHcu1yYVTxqSa5O5_NpjYwRCOzcR81/s4032/PXL_20240302_200108466.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2268" data-original-width="4032" height="359" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizEfUrkh71boSIcxOcvP_gPJgqfY_ctNpJJu8oi5MlXsYLEsTbQtFJ9m9hvHpoI2dfVSYZPUk0RKOxqiDSQTP_5-UfjZ0mb1QtDRGQURxrnQcRCQ3VZVdoO-rKCkqN5nWtXlDKxzQrddrp3XaYeysfmMSDcpB64WkHcu1yYVTxqSa5O5_NpjYwRCOzcR81/w637-h359/PXL_20240302_200108466.jpg" width="637" /></a></div><br /><div class="gmail_default"><br /></div>John Dayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12123174297818737132noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4275885258914846834.post-57768007684597197152024-02-29T18:48:00.005-06:002024-02-29T18:48:38.109-06:00Man Woman And Child<div class="gmail_default">Worth Sacrificing For,</div><div class="gmail_default"><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Her Husband Burned Himself At The Pentagon To Protest The Vietnam War</b><span class="gmail_default">, a brief interview with Norman Morrison's widow, Anne Welsh.</span></i><div><i><b>"Tina said, 'Daddy has died, but now his love has spread'."</b></i></div><i>In a letter he mailed to Welsh, Morrison reassured her of the faith in his act. "Know that I love thee ... but I must go to help the children of the priest's village". </i><div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWys0y-G58k">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWys0y-G58k</a><i><br /></i></div><div><br /></div><div class="gmail_default"> Hindustan Times has this story, <i><b>Aaron Bushnell was privy to confidential ‘intelligence data’ on US operations in Gaza</b></i></div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Aaron ranted that <b>he had "top-secret clearance" for military intelligence data in a call to his friend on Saturday night</b>, The Post reported. <b>“He told me on Saturday that we have troops in those tunnels, that it’s US soldiers participating in the killings,’’ </b>the friend claimed.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>The friend went on to suggest that <b>Aaron had stated US had troops on the ground, who were killing large numbers of Palestinians</b>. The friend believes these claims may be true as Aaron's job was to process intelligence data and some of that was linked to Gaza conflict.<b> “One of the things he told me is that coming across his desk … was the US military was involved in the genocides going on in Palestine,’’ </b>an unnamed friend was quoted by The Post.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>“There’s just too many things I don’t know, but I can tell you that the tone of his voice just had something in it that told me he was scared,’</b>’ the buddy said.<b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>“I’ve never heard that tone come out of him.”</b></i><div><a href="https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-news/aaron-bushnell-was-privy-to-confidential-intelligence-data-on-us-operations-in-gaza-friend-makes-sensational-claim-101709105818124.html">https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-news/aaron-bushnell-was-privy-to-confidential-intelligence-data-on-us-operations-in-gaza-friend-makes-sensational-claim-101709105818124.html</a><i><br /></i><div><div><br /></div><i><span class="gmail_default"> Moon of Alabama, </span><b>Zionists Use Food-Baits To Attract And Kill Starving Civilians</b><br /><b>The trucks were sent by the Zionists. No other organization was involved</b>. But when people came near to the trucks to collect the food they had carried into Gaza the Zionist went berserk , ‘<b>Massacre’: Dozens killed by Israeli fire in Gaza while collecting food aid</b><span class="gmail_default"><b></b> ,</span> Al Jazeera, Feb 29 2024 <span class="gmail_default"> </span> </i><a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/2/29/dozens-killed-injured-by-israeli-fire-in-gaza-while-collecting-food-aid">https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/2/29/dozens-killed-injured-by-israeli-fire-in-gaza-while-collecting-food-aid</a><i><br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>More than 100 Palestinians have been killed and some 700 others wounded after Israeli troops opened fire on hundreds waiting for food aid southwest of Gaza City</b>, health officials say, as the besieged enclave faces an unprecedented hunger crisis.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>The Gaza Ministry of Health said on Thursday said <b>at least 104 people were killed and more than 750 wounded</b>, with the Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemning what it said was <b>a cold-blooded “massacre”</b>.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>People had congregated at al-Rashid Street, where aid trucks carrying flour were believed to be on the way. Al Jazeera verified footage showing the bodies of dozens of killed and wounded Palestinians</b> being carried onto trucks as no ambulances could reach the area.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>“We went to get flour. The Israeli army shot at us. There are many martyrs on the ground and until this moment we are withdrawing them. There is no first aid,” </b>said one witness.<span class="gmail_default">.. </span></i> <i><b>“I have been waiting since yesterday. At about 4:30 this morning, trucks started to come through. Once we approached the aid trucks, the Israeli tanks and warplanes started firing at us, as if it was a trap.<span class="gmail_default"></span>" </b><span class="gmail_default"> </span></i><div><a href="https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/02/zionists-use-food-bait-to-attract-and-kill-starving-civilians.html#more">https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/02/zionists-use-food-bait-to-attract-and-kill-starving-civilians.html#more</a></div><div><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Aid Truck Stampede 'Massacre' In Gaza: Israel Accused Of Opening Fire On Crowd</b></i><div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Israel is disputing local accounts of what happened and says people died following a stamped caused by Palestinians rushing aid trucks.<br />There are several different versions of what happened, but all accounts agree that mayhem was unleashed when some 30 humanitarian aid trucks containing food were positioned on the street under Israeli protection...<br />..Palestinians say that Israeli troops shot indiscriminately into the crowd and used the aid trucks in a kind of "ambush" - while Israel's military says people were killed in a "stampede for aid" and "crowd crush", and that some of the deaths were the result of Israeli soldiers being under immediate threat.</i></div><div><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/mass-civilian-casualties-after-israel-opens-fire-crowd-rushing-aid-trucks-gaza">https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/mass-civilian-casualties-after-israel-opens-fire-crowd-rushing-aid-trucks-gaza</a></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="gmail_default"> </span>G<span class="gmail_default">ilbert Doctorow, </span><i><b>Vladimir Putin’s State of the Nation speech today: an overview</b></i></div></div></div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Earlier today Vladimir Putin delivered his annual address to the Federal Assembly, Russia’s bicameral legislature, of which the State Duma is the lower house. In addition to the federal level legislators and administrators, the audience numbering slightly more than 1200 included regional governors, leaders of civil society, i.e. representatives of volunteer organizations having national importance, and a large contingent of active servicemen who have participated in the Special Military Operation.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>The speech lasted a little more than two hours. To understand its masterful construction, you had to sit through it to the very end, because in the best rhetorical traditions, Putin came full circle. He opened with a long segment dedicated to those actively fighting on Russia’s behalf in the Donbas and all along the line of contact with the enemy forces, risking their lives every day for the sake of the Motherland. This segment culminated in a moment of silence in memory of those who died in the SMO. And he ended the speech with his vision of how those who have distinguished themselves on the field of battle, those who have led men to heroic feats, will be the new ‘elite’ of Russian society occupying the top positions in government, in business and in other spheres.<span class="gmail_default">..</span></i><div><i>..Western analysts will bore down on one or another point in a speech which had a great many points and not convey the feel of the address and what it tells you about Russian society and Russian government today.<span class="gmail_default"> </span>That is precisely the mission that I set before myself now: without going into detail on each separate item in Putin’s speech, instead to characterize the priorities of this government today and for the future...</i></div><i>..The unmistakable take-away of Putin’s speech is that Russia is today a social market economy which is striving to raise the length and quality of life of the population. The well-known Russian state promotion of ‘traditional values’ has at its core encouragement of families with three or more children. This is first and foremost presented as a validation of the family as the essential building block of society. Putin freely admits that Russian wages are very low, too low in fact, and many measures in the social programs he has introduced and is proposing to expand in this speech are aimed at putting money in the pockets of those who create large families through subsidies in cash and in kind. <br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Let me say in passing that there are no restrictions on which families are being encouraged to multiply. It is no secret that Muslims in Russia, as elsewhere, presently have more children than do blue-eyed Slavs. No matter. Putin insists that every citizen is equally ‘Russian’ whatever his or her religious or ethnic identity and this is borne out by the government’s demographic policies...</i><div><i>..Putin remarked that last year Russia produced twice as much residential housing (in square meters) as did the Soviet Union in its best year at the end of the 1980s...</i></div><i>..From Putin’s recitation of new national projects, it is clear that attention is now also being directed to help those kids who have been born on Putin’s watch and are adolescents today...<span class="gmail_default"> </span>Perhaps it would be better to understand this project as ‘Human Resources’ because it aims to vastly improve vocational training, to introduce secondary school students to factories and other work places and open their eyes to the real world opportunities before them. Money will be allocated in the next six years of a new presidential term to more than double the number of engineering schools in the country. The objective is to ensure that the million job openings for highly trained professionals in industry will find properly prepared candidates.</i><div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>It is interesting and telling that Vladimir Putin’s attention to business interests came near the very end of his speech.<span class="gmail_default">..</span> Measures will be taken to strengthen the role of stock exchanges in raising capital for industrial investments. And business will be assisted by continuing major federal infrastructure investments in highways, high speed railways, renovated airports and an expanded national commercial fleet, including service on the Northern Sea Route.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>I will not say more. I found the most impressive part of the speech to be people-centric, not Putin’s reiteration of Russia’s stated position with respect to negotiations with the USA over strategic stability and similar foreign policy issues.</i></div><div><a href="https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2024/02/29/vladimir-putins-state-of-the-nation-speech-today-an-overview/">https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2024/02/29/vladimir-putins-state-of-the-nation-speech-today-an-overview/</a><i><br /></i></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="gmail_default"> More typical points from The Hindu, <i><b>Putin warns that sending Western troops to Ukraine risks a global nuclear war</b></i></div></div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Mr. Putin cast Western leaders as reckless and irresponsible and declared that the West should keep in mind that “we also have the weapons that can strike targets on their territory, and what they are now suggesting and scaring the world with, all that raises the real threat of a nuclear conflict that will mean the destruction of our civilization.”<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>The strong statement followed earlier warnings from Mr. Putin, who has issued frequent reminders of Russia's nuclear might since he sent troops into Ukraine in February 2022 as he sought to discourage the West from expanding its military support for Kyiv.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Mr. Putin emphasized that Russia’s nuclear forces are in “full readiness,” saying that the military has deployed potent new weapons, some of them tested on the battlefield in Ukraine.<span class="gmail_default">..</span><span class="gmail_default"></span></i><div><i><span class="gmail_default">..</span>He rejected Western leaders’ statements about the threat of a Russian attack on NATO allies in Europe as “ravings” and again dismissed Washington's claim that Moscow was pondering the deployment of space-based nuclear weapons.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Mr. Putin charged that the U.S. allegations were part of a ploy to draw Russia into talks on nuclear arms control on American terms even as Washington continues its efforts to deliver a “strategic defeat” to Moscow in Ukraine.<span class="gmail_default"> </span>“Ahead of the U.S. election, they just want to show their citizens, as well as others, that they continue to rule the world,” he said. “It won't work.”<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>In his speech that focused heavily on economic and social issues ahead of the March 15-17 presidential vote, Mr. Putin argued that Russia was “defending its sovereignty and security and protecting our compatriots” in Ukraine, charging that the Russian forces have the upper hand in the fighting.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>He reaffirmed his claim that the West was bent on destroying Russia, saying "they need a dependent, waning, dying space in the place of Russia so that they can do whatever they want.”<span class="gmail_default">...</span></i></div><i><span class="gmail_default">..</span>Mr. Putin has repeatedly said that he sent troops into Ukraine in February 2022 to protect Russian interests and prevent Ukraine from posing a major security threat to Russia by joining NATO. Kyiv and its allies have denounced it as an unprovoked act of aggression.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>The Russian leader has repeatedly signaled a desire to negotiate an end to the fighting but warned that Russia will hold onto its gains.</i><div><a href="https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/putin-warns-that-sending-western-troops-to-ukraine-risks-a-global-nuclear-war/article67899195.ece">https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/putin-warns-that-sending-western-troops-to-ukraine-risks-a-global-nuclear-war/article67899195.ece</a><i><br /></i></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="gmail_default"> John Helmer, <i><b>Scorching The Earth Westward - What Comes Next As The Ukrainian Army Collapses</b></i></div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>The collapse of the Ukrainian army following the battle of Avdeyevka, and its disorganized retreat, have accelerated Russian military thinking of how far westward the NATO allies will decide that the Ukrainian statelet can be defended against the expected Russian advance – and how fast new NATO defences can be created without the protection of ground-to-air missile batteries like Patriot, long-range artillery like the M777, and mobile armour like the Abrams, Bradley, and Caesar: all of them have already been defeated in the east.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>In short, there is no longer a NATO-command line of fortification east of the Polish border which deters the Russian General Staff. Also, no bunker for the Zelensky government and its NATO advisors to feel secure.<span class="gmail_default">..</span></i></div><i><span class="gmail_default">..</span>Offence is now the order of the day up and down the contact line. The daily bulletin from the Ministry of Defense in Moscow calls this “improving the tactical situation” and “taking more advantageous positions”. In the past three days, Monday through Wednesday, the Defense Ministry also reported the daily casualty rate of the Ukrainian forces at 1,175, 1,065, and 695, respectively; three M777 howitzer hits; and the first Abrams tank to be destroyed. Because this source is blocked in several of the NATO states, the Russian military bloggers, which reproduce the bulletins along with videoclips and maps, may be more accessible; also more swiftly than the US-based podcasters and substackers can keep up.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Moscow sources confirm the obvious: the operational objective is to apply more and more pressure at more and more points along the line, in as many sectors or salients (“directions” is the Russian term) as possible simultaneously. At the same time, air attack, plus missiles and drones, are striking all rear Ukrainian and NATO airfield, road, and rail nodes, ammunition storages, vehicle parks, drone manufactories, fuel dumps, and other supply infrastructure, so as make reinforcement and redeployment more difficult and perilous.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>What cannot be seen are the Russian concentrations of forces aimed in the north, centre and south of the battlefield. Instead, there is what one source calls “an educated guess is that when the main blow comes, it will be North, Chernigov, Sumy, Kharkov, Poltava, or Centre, Dniepropetrovsk, Zaporozhye, or both simultaneously.”</i><div><a href="https://johnhelmer.net/scorching-the-earth-westward-what-comes-next-as-the-ukrainian-army-collapses/#more-89482">https://johnhelmer.net/scorching-the-earth-westward-what-comes-next-as-the-ukrainian-army-collapses/#more-89482</a></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="gmail_default"> </span><span class="gmail_default">Yesterday, starting at the 20:25 time mark, and lasting a few minutes, Dima at Military Summary Channel proposed that the Russians may be politically preparing to come to the aid of Transnistria, as they came to the aid of Donetsk and Luhansk. Transnistria is a russian enclave northwest of Odessa, attached to Moldova, and bordering Ukraine, which never consented to leave the USSR, It has existed as a semi-autonomous and self governed region "within" Moldova, protected by Russia, but is now subject to border sanctions from Ukraine and the new NATO-influenced President of Moldova. Transnistria has petitioned the EU, Red Cross and other international bodies for relief, which Donetsk and Luhansk did not do, and has also petitioned Russia, as they did. Transnistria happens to host the largest supply of Soviet weapons in Europe, guarded perpetually by 1200 Russian soldiers. This reminds me of American forward-staging of supplies in Saudi Arabia, and places like that, so that soldiers and specialists can just be airlifted in. Russia would presumably have to violate Ukrainian airspace with troop transports for a few days to do that. It may be feasible at this point, when spring mud stalls the ground war. This would place Russian forces about a 2 hour drive from Odessa on excellent highways and with railways along the same route. The Russians would have to make do with 1980s artillery, tanks and other equipment, of course. Another Russian force might advance through Kherson.</span></div><i><b>The Russians Entered Krasnohorivka | Transnistrian Crisis | Orlivka Was Taken. 2024.2.28<span class="gmail_default"> </span></b></i><div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3806demJOfw&t=1206s">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3806demJOfw&t=1206s</a></div><div><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>"Americans Are Being Lied To About Ukraine" - Tucker Carlson Reflects On Putin, Zelensky, Navalny & Nuclear War</b></i><div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Carlson explained that the West's escalation of the conflict long ago into a full-blown proxy war has not only resulted in more needless Ukrainian deaths, but it has been devastating for the United States. <b>"I reject the whole premise of the war in Ukraine from the American perspective," Carlson told Fridman. "There’s a war going on that is wrecking the US economy in a way and at a scale that people do not understand."</b><span class="gmail_default"><b></b>...</span></i></div><i>..<span class="gmail_default"><b>"</b></span><b>I guess I’m a child of a different era. I’m a child of participatory democracy to some extent, where your opinion as a citizen is not irrelevant. And I guess the level of lying about it was starting to drive me crazy<span class="gmail_default">"</span>.</b>..</i><div><i>..<b>Russia is turning out artillery shells, which are significant in a ground war at a ratio of seven to one compared to all NATO countries combined</b>...</i></div><i>..And so <b>we haven’t had a world war in 79 years. But one nuclear exchange would of course kill more people than all wars in human history combined</b>.<span class="gmail_default"> </span>I am counting. Because I think it obviously, <b>it’s completely demonic and everyone pretends like it’s great</b>. Nuclear weapons are evil...</i><div><i><span class="gmail_default">..</span><b>He [Putin] wants a settlement, he wants a settlement. He doesn’t want to fight with them rhetorically and he just wants to get this done</b>. He made a bunch of offers at the peace deal. We wouldn’t even know this happened if the Israelis hadn’t told us...<span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>Well, the U.S. government’s not allowing negotiations... I really care about what the U.S. government does because they’re doing it in my name, and I care a lot because I’m American. We are the impediment to peace</b>....</i></div><i>..<b>This week there's been a curious story to emerge in Russian state media sources involving a bizarre 'assassination plot' linked to Kiev, which allegedly was supposed to target Carlson while he was in Russia</b>. Interestingly, the allegations have been picked up in major Indian media outlets, among some other international outlets, though it warrants a high degree of skepticism.</i><div><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/tucker-carlson-gives-wide-ranging-reflection-putin-interview-americans-are-being-lied">https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/tucker-carlson-gives-wide-ranging-reflection-putin-interview-americans-are-being-lied</a><i><br /></i></div><div><br /></div><i><b>Dutch Are Lone Supporters Of Macron's 'EU Boots On The Ground In Ukraine' Plan</b></i><div><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/tiny-netherlands-only-country-back-macrons-call-boots-ground-ukraine-option">https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/tiny-netherlands-only-country-back-macrons-call-boots-ground-ukraine-option</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="gmail_default"> Charles Hugh Smith points out that chat-bots are to keep us at bay, so we don't cost companies anything. <i><b>Who Error-Corrects AI?</b></i></div><i><b>Part of why AI chatbots are so dreadful is we know the corporation / agency doesn't care whether our problem gets resolved or not.</b></i><br /></div><div><a href="https://charleshughsmith.substack.com/p/who-error-corrects-ai">https://charleshughsmith.substack.com/p/who-error-corrects-ai</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default">Meryl Nass MD, </span>The ‘Negotiating Text’ of the new WHO Treaty on Pandemic Preparedness and Response: An Initial Analysis and Under-examined Points of Concern<br /></b>Amrei Müller is an Assistant Professor/Lecturer (Ad Astra Fellow) at University College Dublin, Sutherland School of Law. Dr. Silvia Behrendt is the founder and director of the Global Health Responsibility Agency<b><br /></b></i><div><a href="https://merylnass.substack.com/p/the-negotiating-text-of-the-new-who">https://merylnass.substack.com/p/the-negotiating-text-of-the-new-who</a><i><br /></i></div><div><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>The ‘Negotiating Text’ of the new WHO Treaty on Pandemic Preparedness and Response: An Initial Analysis and Underexamined Points of Concern</b><span class="gmail_default"></span></i><div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Despite recent difficulties in the on-going negotiations, <b>the drafting process of the WHO Pandemic Agreement and the process of amending the IHR are officially scheduled to continue in February 2024 and be brought to an end in May 2024.</b> <br /><b>The Negotiating Text</b> <br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Overall, the Negotiating Text follows a biomedical and securitised approach to pandemic preparedness and response. That is, it is led by the doctrine of Global Health Security (analysed by the authors, others and, more generally) and thus promotes constant global biomedical surveillance, preventive R&D on pathogens with pandemic potential, routine emergency authorisations of investigational vaccines or therapeutics for global administration and the transformation of the WHO towards a global procurement and distribution agency for pandemic products, in particular vaccines. The Negotiating Text thus appears to conclusively leave behind traditional, time-tested and more holistic approaches to the management of infectious disease outbreaks that have been relied on by the WHO before the Covid-19-PHEIC, e.g. in the 2019 WHO Non-pharmaceutical Public Health <span class="gmail_default"> </span>Measures for Mitigating the Risk and Impact of Epidemic and Pandemic Influenza and in domestic public health guidelines (p.70) on the response to infectious disease outbreaks. The draft provisions of the Negotiating Treaty examined in the following reflect the main components of the biomedical approach and its envisaged domestic and international institutions. </i><div><i><b>The Envisaged Global Bio-surveillance System</b><br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>The Negotiating Text foresees the building of a global bio-surveillance system with international (WHO) and domestic components. In short, the draft treaty envisages that each state builds up laboratory capacities that then work together as a global network through which they can identify emerging and re-emerging pathogens, determine and share the genetic sequence data of these pathogens and inform the WHO and other member states about them.<span class="gmail_default">..</span></i></div></div><div><a href="https://opiniojuris.org/2024/02/06/the-negotiating-text-of-the-new-who-treaty-on-pandemic-preparedness-and-response-an-initial-analysis-and-underexamined-points-of-concern/">https://opiniojuris.org/2024/02/06/the-negotiating-text-of-the-new-who-treaty-on-pandemic-preparedness-and-response-an-initial-analysis-and-underexamined-points-of-concern/</a><i><span class="gmail_default"><br /></span></i></div><div><br /></div><i><b>Resistance to the WHO pandemic treaty is growing stronger<span class="gmail_default"> , </span>Individual states are calling for a postponement, the Bundestag is postponing the decision.</b></i><div><a href="https://transition--news-org.translate.goog/widerstand-gegen-den-who-pandemievertrag-wird-starker?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp">https://transition--news-org.translate.goog/widerstand-gegen-den-who-pandemievertrag-wird-starker?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp</a></div><div><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /></span></span></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>A bombshell win: vaccine mandates for police and ambulance drivers ruled a breach of human rights</b></i><div><i><b>Two years late: Two legal wins, and a Senate investigation</b><br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Two years after police and ambulance drivers were forced to get Covid injections, the Queensland Supreme Court has ruled that the vaccine mandates were unlawful. Because this decision is about human rights, it’s may also apply to other humans (we hope). So lawyers all over the country are sitting up and paying attention.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>This follows on from a South Australian decision a few weeks ago where the Employment Tribunal found that an employer (the state government) was liable for any injuries caused to staff by mandatory injections required in the workplace.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>And possibly related to all this, in 2022 10,000 Australians died above and beyond the normal rate and no one (officially) knows why. </i></div><div><a href="https://joannenova.com.au/2024/02/some-wins-vaccine-mandates-for-police-and-ambulance-drivers-ruled-a-breach-of-human-rights/">https://joannenova.com.au/2024/02/some-wins-vaccine-mandates-for-police-and-ambulance-drivers-ruled-a-breach-of-human-rights/</a><i><br /></i></div><div><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>S A H A R A S I A<span class="gmail_default"> , </span>Resource Page<span class="gmail_default"> , </span>The 4000 BCE Origins of Child Abuse, Sex-repression, Warfare and Social Violence, In the Deserts of the Old World <br />Evidence for a Worldwide, Climate-Linked Geographical Pattern<span class="gmail_default"> </span>in Human Behavior James DeMeo, PhD</b><span class="gmail_default"> </span></i>[Thanks Les]<div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>James DeMeo's Saharasia is the largest and most in-depth scholarly study on human behavior and social violence around the world which has ever been undertaken. The findings summarized in Prof. DeMeo's book cover the entire globe, from early prehistory into modern times, integrating on world-maps a full sweep of standard research data from the fields of archaeology and history, plus an in-depth cross-cultural review and mapping of data from over 1000 distinctly different human societies, from standard anthropological data bases. It employed standard cross-cultural correlation tables on over 60 different variables, plus geographical mapping and quadruple blind research procedures to insure objectivity, and all the basic starting assumptions are clearly elucidated in advance. The work also incorporates his own personal field research in the deserts of the Middle East and Southwestern USA. No great knowledge of maths or scientific methods is required to follow the logic and research to their conclusions, though the book is clearly written for scholars. An early period of generally peaceful social conditions is documented in prehistory, but with a major shift towards patriarchal-authoritarian and decidedly violent social conditions across the Saharasian region after a major climate-shift from wet grassland-forest conditions towards harsh desert conditions at c.5000-4000 BC. Major epochs of cultural diffusion are also presented on maps, showing how violent patriarchal authoritarian, sex-repressive and child-abusive behaviors were carried outward from their Saharasian origins to nearly every corner of the globe. It presents previously-unknown geographical patterns in dozens of different human behaviors, beliefs and social institutions representative of human violence and warlike aggression, such as slavery, castes, genital mutilations and a low women's status. The findings have been praised by many, published in scientific journals and magazines, cited repeatedly, but in largest measure have been willfully censored out of the discussion by most within the editorial power-circles of modern academics and mainstream journalism, which continues to embrace the flawed and disproven theories of "violent genes" or other "original sin" concepts. None of those theories, nor anything like them, can stand in the face of the new evidence presented in Prof. DeMeo's Saharasia.</i></div><div><a href="http://www.saharasia.org/">http://www.saharasia.org/</a><i><br /></i></div><div><br /></div><p>Worth Defending (presenting this picture of month old grandson) </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgw_6S3aLAHK3oxba5ce85XgB_Wal-OekfpbVRs-BdsIpMDc43UqSxO-Kq8JWKjrkN6sGDT5Rx8864Gy1faz4SF-lvFltsMQFse5zkQthDbfmoHZE4ypfFmfIdHW3t4icS6udtWwELrJgiVn6luMp-7xDsCGx41_wGRH9c1PdSfiWtYfVZzB6-eFQFGSFLp/s4032/PXL_20240210_004821552.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="2268" height="1167" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgw_6S3aLAHK3oxba5ce85XgB_Wal-OekfpbVRs-BdsIpMDc43UqSxO-Kq8JWKjrkN6sGDT5Rx8864Gy1faz4SF-lvFltsMQFse5zkQthDbfmoHZE4ypfFmfIdHW3t4icS6udtWwELrJgiVn6luMp-7xDsCGx41_wGRH9c1PdSfiWtYfVZzB6-eFQFGSFLp/w656-h1167/PXL_20240210_004821552.jpg" width="656" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p><br /></p>John Dayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12123174297818737132noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4275885258914846834.post-72892823202390536672024-02-28T15:34:00.005-06:002024-02-28T15:36:14.988-06:00Forced To Face Reality<p> Making A List,</p><div class="gmail_default"><br /></div><div class="gmail_default"> The Honest Sorcerer , <i><b>The Net Zero Stragedy </b></i>(tragic strategy)<i></i></div><div class="gmail_default"><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>So, <b>why don’t we “just stop oil” and reduce our emissions right away?</b> Well, that’s the beauty of the story, and the prime reason why people from the poorest farmer to the richest oligarch is reluctant to do so:<b> because that would end this civilization.</b> Sure, it is possible to run a civilization on the power of the sun and the wind alone, just not this one... <b>Sorry to be so blunt, but its neither technically, nor physically possible to get rid of fossil fuels and continue with modernity</b>. This is why the core tenet of the Net Zero belief system, namely <b>that we can “decarbonize” the economy and survive it, is what it is: a myth</b>.</i></div><div class="gmail_default"><a href="https://thehonestsorcerer.substack.com/p/the-net-zero-stragedy">https://thehonestsorcerer.substack.com/p/the-net-zero-stragedy</a><i><br /></i></div><div class="gmail_default"><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Why California’s climate disclosure law should doom green energy</b></i><div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>To lower their state’s carbon footprint, <b>the legislature recently passed a law requiring all companies doing over $1 billion in business within California to “publicly disclose” (by 2026) all their “direct” greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions stemming from fuel combustion they utilize, as well as all “indirect” GHG emissions derived from the electricity, heating and cooling they consume.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>By 2027, they must also disclose “indirect upstream and downstream” GHGs emitted by sources they do not own or directly control but from which they purchase goods and services</b>, including GHG emissions associated with the “processing and use of sold products.”<span class="gmail_default"> </span>This certainly appears to cover almost every mega-scale entity doing business in the once-Golden State.<span class="gmail_default">..</span></i></div><i><span class="gmail_default">..</span><b>The new mandates should also cover wind turbines, solar panels, electric vehicle batteries, grid-scale backup batteries, transformers, expanded and enhanced transmission lines, and other equipment associated with California’s emerging “clean, green, renewable, sustainable” economy</b>.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>And they absolutely should also cover the extraction, processing, refining, and other activities required to obtain the nonrenewable metals, minerals, concrete, plastics, paints, other materials – and fuels – needed to manufacture and install those technologies</b>...</i><div><i><span class="gmail_default">..</span>If such an inventory is accurately taken, which is admittedly a bit “if”,<b> it won’t paint a pretty picture for those touting renewables</b>, Green building construction, and EV transportation “fixes”.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>The International Energy Agency and other experts report that <b>electric vehicles have six times more metals by weight than their internal combustion counterparts. Photovoltaic solar panels require six times more metals and minerals (other than steel and aluminum) per megawatt than a combined-cycle gas turbine that generates electricity pretty much 24/7/365</b>; they also require at least 100 times more land area.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Weather-dependent, intermittent onshore wind turbines need 9-10 times more than a CCGT, and offshore wind turbines require fourteen times more raw materials...</i></div><i><span class="gmail_default">..</span><b>For every 100,000 tons of copper (enough for 2,275 gigantic 12-MW offshore wind turbines), companies would have to blast and extract nearly 60,000,000 tons of ore and overlying rock and then use heat and chemicals to process almost 23,000,000 tons of ore. Every step involves fossil fuels</b>.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>Nickel for powerful nickel-cobalt-aluminum and nickel-manganese-cobalt EV batteries is found mainly in Indonesia</b>, where companies mine the ore using diesel-powered equipment and send it to smelters fueled by coal. <b>Once fully operational, a single nickel-processing industrial park in eastern Indonesia will burn more coal per year than Brazil.</b><br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>Cobalt for cobalt-lithium batteries comes mostly from the Democratic Republic of Congo, involves extensive child and near-slave labor</b><span class="gmail_default">...</span></i><div><i>..One can’t help but wonder what happens when Californian politicians realize their grand scheme to save Planet Earth from a manmade climate crisis actually results in possibly spewing out more greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere.</i></div><div><a href="https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/02/25/why-californias-climate-disclosure-law-should-doom-green-energy/">https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/02/25/why-californias-climate-disclosure-law-should-doom-green-energy/</a><i><br /></i></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="gmail_default"> Surplus Energy Economics, <i><b>“Peak almost everything”, part one </b></i><i>, WORSENING STRESSES IN AN INFLECTING ECONOMY</i></div></div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>There’s a growing feeling that ‘things aren’t working’</b>, and that the continuing affluence of a minority is in striking contrast with the deteriorating economic circumstances (and worsening insecurity) of the majority.<span class="gmail_default"> </span>One can almost sense <b>a collective holding of breath as we wait to see ‘what happens next’</b>.<span class="gmail_default">..</span></i><div><i>..Stated at its simplest, <b>growth in material economic prosperity has long been decelerating towards a point at which the economy as a whole inflects from expansion into contraction</b>.<span class="gmail_default"> </span>Some years ago, this decelerating rate of growth fell below the rate at which population numbers have been continuing to increase. <b>Since 2019, the world’s average person has been getting gradually poorer, even as aggregate prosperity has carried on edging upwards</b>...</i></div><i>..<b>We’re now very near indeed to the moment at which prior growth in the overall size of the economy goes into reverse.</b> This is when <b>the Big Numbers</b> – the size of product and service markets, revenues and profits in the business sector, employment, resources available to governments, and the quantity of sustainable credit – <b>all start to get smaller</b>...</i><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhhm3fa7Hu0fa1yRua_4-jrNi1j3IQKmII6Y4zXYnIpazB0gizJwuyVKMFhfg5VSOlgiYblNp0cKhKwcsIl5cUdxGqB9N1kR2xiWv2Bi2-I9OUZjY-H76OvN2kCLMyRPtJ1Ux96XuI965uSdV-zeEchDGzotgBLSKd3EJl_UUSlHX2se2CPSakGkw36K5--" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="433" data-original-width="1615" height="171" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhhm3fa7Hu0fa1yRua_4-jrNi1j3IQKmII6Y4zXYnIpazB0gizJwuyVKMFhfg5VSOlgiYblNp0cKhKwcsIl5cUdxGqB9N1kR2xiWv2Bi2-I9OUZjY-H76OvN2kCLMyRPtJ1Ux96XuI965uSdV-zeEchDGzotgBLSKd3EJl_UUSlHX2se2CPSakGkw36K5--=w638-h171" width="638" /></a></div><br /></div><i>..<b>You’re likely to be told that the economy is ticking over pretty well, and would have been doing even better if it hadn’t been for the sheer bad luck of running into a global pandemic and a European war in quick succession.</b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Some have alleged that these events have been engineered in order to disguise economic deterioration, and/or to cloak a grab for wealth and power by a self-serving minority...</i><div><i>..<b>The economy is an energy system, not a financial one. </b>Nothing that has any economic value at all can be provided without the use of energy. <b>Money has no intrinsic worth, but commands value only as an “exercisable claim” on the output of the material economy</b>.<span class="gmail_default"> </span>We know that <b>the large and complex economy of today has been built on an abundance of low-cost energy sourced from oil, natural gas and coal.</b><span class="gmail_default">..</span></i></div><i>..<b>Energy is never ‘free’, but comes at a cost </b>measurable in terms of the proportion of accessed energy needed to create and sustain the infrastructure required for energy supply. <b>This cost is known here as the Energy Cost of Energy, abbreviated ECoE.</b></i><div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>Globally, trend ECoEs reached their low point in the quarter-century after the Second World War</b>, explaining the super-rapid economic growth enjoyed in that period.<span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>Since then, ECoEs have trended upwards</b> because of the depletion of fossil fuel resources.<span class="gmail_default">..</span></i></div><i>..<b>Nobody needed credit deregulation, QE or sub-zero real interest rates in the 1945-70 period, because low ECoEs were driving the economy along</b>, ‘very nicely, thank you’, without recourse to financial manipulation. <b>Only as the economy has decelerated have we adopted various forms of monetary gimmickry in order to pretend</b> that the illogical promise of ‘infinite economic growth on a finite planet’ remains a valid expectation...</i><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhq1sol4IgY4lnYz80i4fEWLcKJ9NT8JwMjWwbDg09F2ggDBCTBlqzraGQvh3DJMZLljox6gluTh3cOJaiNeSOMjoDX47JLBFWc6e8fqsKY8EUcf9p7Ni_ZQe5XScilmFH41_SY4ASMqgBc32KvXPnmKSkk-RmBGJ3duBuyqTFQm7OhvWhPFC8T19pN9OpS" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="458" data-original-width="1618" height="183" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhq1sol4IgY4lnYz80i4fEWLcKJ9NT8JwMjWwbDg09F2ggDBCTBlqzraGQvh3DJMZLljox6gluTh3cOJaiNeSOMjoDX47JLBFWc6e8fqsKY8EUcf9p7Ni_ZQe5XScilmFH41_SY4ASMqgBc32KvXPnmKSkk-RmBGJ3duBuyqTFQm7OhvWhPFC8T19pN9OpS=w644-h183" width="644" /></a></div><br /></div><i>..Accompanying this, financial stresses have been worsening. <b>Debt has massively outgrown reported GDP as credit expansion has been deployed to create purely cosmetic “growth” </b>(Fig. 3A). <b>It required annual borrowing of more than 11% of GDP to sustain illusory “growth” at a supposed average of 3.5%</b> (3B) over the past twenty years...</i><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgEE5xYpzrp2d62SyKLeACZ2io3oCV8-wc2UbGDzaY_J8PtH0s_NJ6Z7I914-mo9E_nnd7WUIzuENJV1SYYTZxgpK13hGHQJET5BivcPCZ0UIWEfQbtQYhD5H6tBs28d0w4j68E1nvZ6L50fu32bTdfZxP_UdjL3ZvRtiS8ZKCO5jjfg3qZIXbtJzRFuYOn" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="445" data-original-width="1620" height="178" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgEE5xYpzrp2d62SyKLeACZ2io3oCV8-wc2UbGDzaY_J8PtH0s_NJ6Z7I914-mo9E_nnd7WUIzuENJV1SYYTZxgpK13hGHQJET5BivcPCZ0UIWEfQbtQYhD5H6tBs28d0w4j68E1nvZ6L50fu32bTdfZxP_UdjL3ZvRtiS8ZKCO5jjfg3qZIXbtJzRFuYOn=w646-h178" width="646" /></a></div><br /><i>..<b>The net effect of these trends is severe compression of the affordability of discretionary (non-essential) products and services</b>. This, it should be stressed, is already happening, though ‘<b>the powers that be’ are, with only limited success, managing to present this as a temporary ‘cost of living crisis’ rather than as the structural phenomenon that it really is</b>..<span class="gmail_default">.</span></i></div><i>..All of these processes are going to change the balance of forces in civil society, such that politics becomes ever more unpredictable.<span class="gmail_default"> </span>A point that cannot be emphasised too strongly is that <b>economic deterioration, with all of its attendant stresses, is moving from the predicted to the experienced</b>.</i><div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>Some discretionary sectors are already contracting. Politics is already becoming dysfunctional. The hardship being presented officially as a temporary problem is, in reality, a foretaste of the shape of things to come</b> – or, perhaps more aptly, the shape of things to go.</i></div><div><a href="https://surplusenergyeconomics.wordpress.com/2024/02/26/271-peak-almost-everything-part-one/">https://surplusenergyeconomics.wordpress.com/2024/02/26/271-peak-almost-everything-part-one/</a><i><br /></i></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="gmail_default"> The moment of "truth" approaches, when promises of future repayment of investment will be broadly acknowledged to be imaginary. The elites know this, and seek to stage emergencies to justify emergency-powers for their puppets, so that current elites and puppets can maintain their positions of power. We non-elites will take all losses... simple.</div><div class="gmail_default"><br /></div><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><b>Russia builds equality-based cooperation with partners, unlike West — foreign minister</b><br />Sergey Lavrov assured the congress attendees that Moscow, together with its allies, partners and associates from the countries in the Global South and East, will <b>continue to work on shaping a more just multipolar world order</b></i><br /></div><div><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1751987">https://tass.com/politics/1751987</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>‘Time is Running Out’ - Big Four Leave Oval Office Without Plan to Avert Shutdown<span class="gmail_default"> </span></b></i>[This <span class="gmail_default">delays</span> funding for Ukrainian and Israeli wars.]<i><span class="gmail_default"></span></i><div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>According to one report, those meeting in the Oval Office with the US president “ganged up” on the house speaker to allow more money for Ukraine, with Biden telling him that history would “judge him harshly” if he did not act on the issue. Meanwhile, Johnson said his first priority is securing the US-Mexico border.</i></div><div><a href="https://sputnikglobe.com/20240228/time-is-running-out---big-four-leave-oval-office-without-plan-to-avert-shutdown-1117024667.html">https://sputnikglobe.com/20240228/time-is-running-out---big-four-leave-oval-office-without-plan-to-avert-shutdown-1117024667.html</a></div><div><br /></div><div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>T<b>he shutdown will come in two phases - around 20% of government funding will run out in two phases - one on Friday night, and the other a week later on March 8.</b> <b>The other 80% of government agencies would see their funding expire on various other dates</b> if Congress can't come to an agreement.</i></div><div><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/political/heres-what-will-be-affected-during-impending-government-shutdown">https://www.zerohedge.com/political/heres-what-will-be-affected-during-impending-government-shutdown</a><i><br /></i><div><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 145:</b> Hamas warns Israel and U.S. of ‘political machinations’ amid ceasefire talks<span class="gmail_default">. </span>UN humanitarian officials say that thousands of Palestinians in Gaza are “just a step away from famine” by May. <b>Russia calls on UNSC members to refrain from endorsing Washington’s resolution on Gaza, denouncing it as “a license to kill” for Israel.</b></i></div><i><b>Hamas</b> armed wing <b>launches volley of missiles from southern Lebanon</b> at northern Israeli targets on Wednesday morning.<br /><b>Hamas says it bombed “the headquarters of Israel’s 769th Eastern Brigade, and its airport barracks</b> in Beit Hilal in northern occupied Palestine (present day Israel), with two missile salvos consisting of 40 Grad missiles.”<br /><b>Hamas attack causes severe damage to Israeli buildings</b> in Kiryat Shmona settlement in the <b>Galilee panhandle area, close to the borders with Lebanon</b>.<br />Ismail Haniyeh says <b>“any flexibility we show in negotiations, out of concern for the blood of our people, is matched by a willingness to defend them.”</b><br />On <b>ceasefire talks</b>, senior Hamas figure, Basem Naim, says: “The gap is still wide. We have to discuss a lot of points with the mediators.”<br /><b>Russia calls U.N. Security Council members to refrain from endorsing U.S. proposed resolution on Gaza, saying it constitutes “another license to kill” for Israel.</b><br />Carl Skau, deputy executive director of WFP, says there is <b>“a real prospect of famine by May [in Gaza].”</b><br /><b>Al-Awda Hospital in northern Gaza cancels all orthopedic and plastic surgeries after Israeli bombing destroyed two operating rooms.</b><br />The Commission for Prisoners warns that the life of Palestinian prisoner Moatasem Raddad, 38, is at risk inside Israeli jail.<br />Israeli settlers block Palestinian cars from traveling on road connecting Asira Al-Qibliya and Urif villages, south of Nablus. </i><div><a href="https://mondoweiss.net/2024/02/operation-al-aqsa-flood-day-145-hamas-warns-israel-and-u-s-of-political-machinations-amid-ceasefire-talks/">https://mondoweiss.net/2024/02/operation-al-aqsa-flood-day-145-hamas-warns-israel-and-u-s-of-political-machinations-amid-ceasefire-talks/</a><i><br /></i></div><div><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Egyptian aircraft successfully dropped ten tons of foodstuffs on northern Gaza. At least 45 tons of humanitarian aid were dropped, in addition to the northern areas, in the central parts of the enclave, with the active involvement of Jordan and the United Arab Emirates (UAE).</b></i><div><a href="https://tass.com/world/1752431">https://tass.com/world/1752431</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div><br /></div><div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Biden Moves<span class="gmail_default"> </span></b></i>(slowly)<i><b>To Attach Conditions On Israel Using US Weapons In Gaza</b></i><br /></div><i>"The Biden administration <b>gave Israel until mid-March to sign a letter</b>, provided by the U.S. on Tuesday,<b> that gives assurances it will abide by international law while using U.S. weapons and allow humanitarian aid into Gaza</b>, three U.S. and Israeli officials told Axios."</i><div><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/biden-finally-moves-attach-conditions-israel-using-us-weapons-gaza">https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/biden-finally-moves-attach-conditions-israel-using-us-weapons-gaza</a><i><br /></i></div><div><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Houthis Deny Israeli Media Reports They Sabotaged Internet Cables Under Red Sea</b></i><div><i><b>"We are keen to spare all cables and their services from any risks and to provide the necessary facilities for their maintenance.</b> <b>The decision to prevent the passage of Israeli ships does not include ships belonging to international companies licensed to carry out marine cable work."</b></i></div><div><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/houthis-have-knocked-out-several-undersea-internet-cables-report">https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/houthis-have-knocked-out-several-undersea-internet-cables-report</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>US border a higher priority than Ukraine – Republican leader</b><span class="gmail_default"><b> </b> </span></i><div><i>The House speaker faces renewed pressure from Democrats to approve a vote on $60 billion in military assistance for Kiev</i></div><div><a href="https://swentr.site/news/593289-us-border-ukraine-aid/">https://swentr.site/news/593289-us-border-ukraine-aid/</a><i><br /></i></div><div><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Mitch McConnell - Longest Serving Senate Leader In US History - To Step Down From Position In November<span class="gmail_default"> </span></b></i>[What gave Mitch such sudden "clarity"?]<div><i><b>"As I have been thinking about when</b> I would deliver some news to the Senate, <b>I always imagined a moment when I had total clarity and peace about the sunset of my work,"</b> the prepared remarks continue. "A moment when I am certain I have helped preserve the ideals I so strongly believe.<b> It arrived today."</b></i><b><i><br /></i></b><div><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/political/mitch-mcconnell-longest-serving-senate-leader-us-history-step-down-november">https://www.zerohedge.com/political/mitch-mcconnell-longest-serving-senate-leader-us-history-step-down-november</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div></div><div><br /></div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>An initiative organized by dissident Democrats outraged over President Biden's handling of the Israel-Gaza war has sent a powerful shot across the bow of his presidential campaign</b>, as<b> more than 100,000 Democrats voted "uncommitted" in the Michigan primary.<span class="gmail_default"> </span>That's more than 9 times former President Trump's 10,704-vote victory margin in his 2016 defeat of Hillary Clinton</b>, in <b>a critical swing state that will be worth 15 electoral votes</b> in the November general election. </i><div><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/political/major-shot-across-bidens-bow-100000-michigan-dems-vote-uncommitted">https://www.zerohedge.com/political/major-shot-across-bidens-bow-100000-michigan-dems-vote-uncommitted</a><i><br /></i></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="gmail_default"> Simplicius: <i><b>Desperate Globalists Float Boots on Ground to Save Ukraine</b></i></div></div><i><b>“There are no words. The gap: here in Kiev the Supreme Commander-in-Chief says one thing, but at the front something completely different is happening. I want to say: beyond Avdeevka no field lines of fortifications have been built to this day. I saw our soldiers in holes in the middle of a field being attacked by Russian drones,” said Ukrainian military propagandist Butusov...</b></i><div><i><span class="gmail_default">..</span>Officials are now getting worried. <b>The next ‘thread’ which neatly follows the last report is the looming inevitability of Kharkov and/or the northern region falling</b>.<span class="gmail_default">..</span></i></div><div><span face="Spectral, serif, -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"" style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #404040;"><span class="gmail_default"></span></span><i>..S<b>chumer intimates “if we wait two or three months we will lose the war.”<span class="gmail_default"> </span></b></i>(also if "we" act today.) ...</div><div><i><span class="gmail_default">.. </span></i>[Ukrainian soldier] <i><b>“We have lost our fighting spirit. We simply do not have the means to fight. If this continues for a few more years, it will be a disaster: either we will run out of people, or everyone will simply leave the country,” </b>one of them said.<span class="gmail_default"> </span>He added that now the<b> Ukrainian Armed Forces are forced to leave advantageous positions and decide “which village to give to the Russians next.”<span class="gmail_default">...</span></b></i></div><div><i>..<b>CIA Director William Burns secretly visited Ukraine last Thursday, February 2</b>2 - New York Times According to the newspaper, this is Burns' tenth visit to Ukraine in two years. The purpose of the visit is<b> to “calm down Ukrainian leaders”</b> who fear that American intelligence services, due to the blocking of US aid, will become less active in helping Kyiv “fight Russia”...</i></div><div><i><b>..Western intelligence agencies report that the Ukrainian Armed Forces will exhaust their ammunition reserves by June...</b></i></div><div><i>..We’ve seen the repeated projections for two months or so being the time period when things could unravel. <b>This happens to roughly coincide with when Zelensky’s presidential mandate runs out,</b> and questions of his legitimacy will begin rising...</i></div><i><span class="gmail_default">..</span><b>“Maidan-3”: Russia is preparing a special operation to question Zelensky’s legitimacy after May 20, when his term ends</b><span class="gmail_default">. [</span>The <b>propaganda statement</b> is published by the Intelligence Committee under the President of Ukraine.<span class="gmail_default">]...</span></i><div><i>..Russia may strategically time a larger operation to coincide precisely with the political meltdown coming in May, which we spoke of at the start of this article. <b>Suppose that May comes around and Zelensky is drowning amid a court whose ‘knives are out’ against him. The AFU situation is catastrophic with no aid nor ammo, and suddenly an even larger, perhaps unprecedented, Russian operation begins</b>...<br /></i><div><a href="https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/sitrep-22724-desperate-globalists">https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/sitrep-22724-desperate-globalists</a><i><br /></i><div><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Transnistria Asks Russia For 'Protection' - Setting Stage For Military Intervention</b></i> [NATO wants the excuse to intervene<span class="gmail_default">. Transnistria has always remained Russian</span>.]<div><i>A special congress of pro-Russian officials passed a resolution which charges the Moldovan government in Chisinau with unleashing "economic war" against Transnistria with an aim to turn it into a "ghetto", which has included blocking imports.</i></div><div><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/breakaway-transnistria-asks-russia-protection-setting-stage-military-intervention">https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/breakaway-transnistria-asks-russia-protection-setting-stage-military-intervention</a><i><br /></i></div></div></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="gmail_default"> Eleni sends this from Andrew Korybko: <i><b>The Ukrainian Intelligence Committee Is Preparing For The Worst-Case Scenario </b></i>(How much will Russia take by June?)</div></div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>What’s regarded as the worst-case scenario from the perspective of the ruling Ukrainian elite and their Western masters is the best-case scenario for the rest of the world. In the event that Zelensky is deposed and peace talks immediately resume right as Russia breaks through the Line of Contact, then NATO might not feel as pressured by its security dilemma with Russia to conventionally intervene in Ukraine, thus reducing the risk of World War III by miscalculation.</i><div><a href="https://korybko.substack.com/p/the-ukrainian-intelligence-committee">https://korybko.substack.com/p/the-ukrainian-intelligence-committee</a><i><br /></i></div><div><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>US not to send troops to Ukraine — White House<span class="gmail_default"> . </span></b>Earlier, Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico said that a number of European Union and NATO countries were looking at sending their troops to Ukraine under bilateral agreements with Kiev</i><div><a href="https://tass.com/world/1752447">https://tass.com/world/1752447</a><i><br /></i></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="gmail_default"> Gilbert Doctorow, <i><b>Emmanuel Macron’s provocative advocacy of European troops on the ground in Ukraine</b></i></div></div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Russia devoted a lot of attention to<b> French President Emmanuel Macron’s statements during a meeting at the Elysée Palace of a Conference in Support of Ukraine</b> which was attended by a great many European heads of government or their immediate deputies and at a press conference which followed. Macron yet again has positioned himself and France at the vanguard of a new direction for European foreign and military policy, <b>namely to send ground troops to Ukraine to participate in the war directly and thereby ensure Ukrainian victory and, what is more important, Russian defeat</b>...<br />..<b>Macron’s proposal was immediately rejected by all major European leaders</b>, including the hitherto most aggressive defenders of Ukraine among them, the United Kingdom, Poland and Germany. High-flying French ideological, geopolitical messaging ran into a brick wall of down-to-earth and justified imperatives of self-preservation...</i><div><a href="https://gilbertdoctorow.substack.com/p/emanuel-macrons-provocative-advocacy">https://gilbertdoctorow.substack.com/p/emanuel-macrons-provocative-advocacy</a><i><br /></i></div><div><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Le Pen lays into Macron over comments that sending troops to Ukraine not ruled out<br />"Emmanuel Macron is playing military leader, but he is so careless about the lives of our children," Marine Le Pen stressed</b></i><div><a href="https://tass.com/world/1752201">https://tass.com/world/1752201</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>French Civil Servants' ‘Secret’ Meetings With Le Pen Show Macron’s Waning Influence<span class="gmail_default"> </span></b></i>[The Economist is <span class="gmail_default">largely </span>owned by Macron's Rothschild bosses.]<div><i>French civil servants have reportedly held secret meetings opposition National Rally (RN) leader Marine Le Pen, undermining President Emmanuel Macron.<br />According to a report in British magazine the Economist, party leaders and state officials have been meeting secretly in Paris to discuss a range of issues. Strategists are working on draft legislation shaping a detailed roadmap for a possible Le Pen presidency following the next election in 2027, the report claimed.</i></div><div><a href="https://sputnikglobe.com/20240227/french-civil-servants-secret-meetings-with-le-pen-show-macrons-waning-influence--report-1117010405.html">https://sputnikglobe.com/20240227/french-civil-servants-secret-meetings-with-le-pen-show-macrons-waning-influence--report-1117010405.html</a><i><br /></i></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="gmail_default">Thnks Eleni. Andrew Korybko again. <i><b>The Financial Times Is Freaking Out After Italians Started Souring On The Ukrainian Conflict</b></i></div></div><div class="gmail_default"><a href="https://korybko.substack.com/p/the-financial-times-is-freaking-out">https://korybko.substack.com/p/the-financial-times-is-freaking-out</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div class="gmail_default"><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani has come out against sending troops to Ukraine.<br />"We are not in a state of war with Russia, we are defending Ukraine. And I am personally against sending Italian troops to fight in Ukraine."</b></i><div><a href="https://tass.com/world/1752349">https://tass.com/world/1752349</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div><br /></div><i><b>Majority of Germans support Scholz's decision not to send Kiev Taurus missiles</b><br />In addition, 28% of respondents believe what Berlin is currently giving Kiev is excessive</i><div><a href="https://tass.com/society/1752407">https://tass.com/society/1752407</a><i><br /></i></div><div><br /></div><i><b>Polish Truckers To Rejoin Farmers In Border Crossing Blockades</b></i><div><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/polish-truckers-rejoin-farmers-border-crossing-blockades">https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/polish-truckers-rejoin-farmers-border-crossing-blockades</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div><br /></div><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><b>With almost half of the world’s population residing in countries holding executive or legislative elections in 2024, it’s set to be the busiest election year ever recorded.</b><span class="gmail_default"><b> </b></span></i>(All before mid June except the US.)<i><span class="gmail_default"><b> </b></span></i><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/political/mapping-all-2024s-global-elections">https://www.zerohedge.com/political/mapping-all-2024s-global-elections</a><div><br /></div><div><div class="gmail_default"> Celia Farber, <i><b>Ontario Woman Paralyzed From Neck Down After Moderna Booster Is Twice Offered To Euthanize Herself By Medical Staff: One MD Recorded Saying Vaccines Caused It, </b></i><i><b>Another Suggested She Get Psychological Evaluation; Her Bowels Are Even Paralyzed And She Can't Even Turn Herself, And Is Helpless If No Helper Arrives </b></i><a href="https://celiafarber.substack.com/p/ontario-woman-paralyzed-from-neck">https://celiafarber.substack.com/p/ontario-woman-paralyzed-from-neck</a></div><div class="gmail_default"><br /></div><i><b>Shocking Findings of New Study: Excess Deaths in the UK Pandemic were Iatrogenic and Caused by Midazolam and Euthanasia.</b></i></div><div><a href="https://expose-news.com/2024/02/16/shocking-findings-of-new-study-excess-deaths-in-the-uk-pandemic-were-iatrogenic-and-caused-by-midazolam-and-euthanasia/">https://expose-news.com/2024/02/16/shocking-findings-of-new-study-excess-deaths-in-the-uk-pandemic-were-iatrogenic-and-caused-by-midazolam-and-euthanasia/</a><b><i><br /></i></b><div class="gmail_default"><br /></div><div class="gmail_default">Meryl Nass MD, <b><i>International CRISIS Summit #5 , </i><i>I will blow up the slides for you here.</i></b></div><div class="gmail_default"><a href="https://merylnass.substack.com/p/international-crisis-summit-5">https://merylnass.substack.com/p/international-crisis-summit-5</a><b><i><br /></i></b></div><div class="gmail_default"><br /></div><div class="gmail_default">Meryl Nass MD, <i><b>The Globalists' Threat to Sovereignty: the WHO and the Climate Agenda. An important panel at CPAC</b></i></div><i>Watch the video at the Sovereignty Coalition website. Join the movement.</i></div><div><a href="https://merylnass.substack.com/p/the-globalists-threat-to-sovereignty">https://merylnass.substack.com/p/the-globalists-threat-to-sovereignty</a></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="gmail_default">Meryl Nass MD, <i><b>James Corbett and I discuss Solutions to stop the WHO Coup</b></i></div><div class="gmail_default"><a href="https://merylnass.substack.com/p/james-corbett-and-i-discuss-solutions">https://merylnass.substack.com/p/james-corbett-and-i-discuss-solutions</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div class="gmail_default"><br /></div><div class="gmail_default">Ride a regular bike. Wear a comfortable helmet.</div><i><b>E-Bike Injuries Skyrocket, With 1 In 10 Requiring Hospitalization</b></i></div><div><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/political/e-bike-injuries-skyrocket-1-10-requiring-hospitalization">https://www.zerohedge.com/political/e-bike-injuries-skyrocket-1-10-requiring-hospitalization</a></div><div><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /></span></span></div><i><b>After 16 Years, Apple Abandons Work On Electric Car</b></i><div><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/after-16-years-apple-abandons-work-electric-car">https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/after-16-years-apple-abandons-work-electric-car</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div><br /></div><i><b>The Official Solar-Heinrich-Magnetic Cycle<span class="gmail_default"> </span></b></i>(3:31 min short video)<div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTnq6R0QkfM">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTnq6R0QkfM</a><br /></div><div><br /></div><i><b>Ocean Collapse, Weird Quake, Weirder Animal Migration<span class="gmail_default"> </span></b></i>(2:31 min short video)<div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOcRlBTV-kg">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOcRlBTV-kg</a><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="gmail_default">Investing in Spring (pictured planting biological solar collectors)</div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrjB748hsTB_4wOWqZiIdcGvXdy_KztDkPSk014hpkkhYnvSyb1X1O0mQ9u8uu2nNhhZg8up1ac8WN0yxBtrHJEYJcWXCj9Z_9-EShrtHPW88J71hU94uqBetW4fTZAIaCyQG8rq6DgTIsNDQg9ruR7BkITgNiZBBb2IZiIT8EhuEM74t8ZPjt30gD2ozv/s4032/PXL_20240224_150635169.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2268" data-original-width="4032" height="357" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrjB748hsTB_4wOWqZiIdcGvXdy_KztDkPSk014hpkkhYnvSyb1X1O0mQ9u8uu2nNhhZg8up1ac8WN0yxBtrHJEYJcWXCj9Z_9-EShrtHPW88J71hU94uqBetW4fTZAIaCyQG8rq6DgTIsNDQg9ruR7BkITgNiZBBb2IZiIT8EhuEM74t8ZPjt30gD2ozv/w635-h357/PXL_20240224_150635169.jpg" width="635" /></a></div><br /><div class="gmail_default"><br /></div>John Dayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12123174297818737132noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4275885258914846834.post-42377169745425787082024-02-27T10:38:00.003-06:002024-02-27T10:46:54.290-06:00Aaron Bushnell Bravely Burning<p> <span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #222222;">Praying For Peace,</span></p><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> In the 3 minute video he made, while mostly walking to the Israeli embassy in Washington, Aaron explains softly, with the sincere tone of a really good math tutor, trying to help a kid with geometry, what he is about to do and why he is doing it. That 3 minute video is his contribution to our world. It is here.</div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>Aaron Bushnell, 25, an active duty member of the US Air Force, self-immolated outside the Israeli embassy in Washington, DC</b> on Sunday after stating that <b>"I will no longer be complicit in genocide."</b><br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>"I am an active duty member of the United States Air Force and I will no longer be complicit in genocide,"</b> Bushnell said in video he livestreamed on Twitch. <b>"I'm about to engage in an extreme act of protest but compared to what people have been experiencing in Palestine at the hands of their colonizers, it's not extreme at all. This is what our ruling class has decided will be normal."</b><br /><span class="gmail_default"> Aaron </span>Bushnell then doused himself with accelerant and set himself on fire while repeatedly shouting, <b>"Free Palestine!"</b></i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span class="gmail_default">[</span><b>Loved ones of Aaron Bushnell, 25, reached out to me and gave me consent to post a blurred version of Bushnell’s protest today against genocide in Palestine</b>.<br /><b>“Aaron is the kindest, gentlest, silliest little kid in the Air Force,” </b>said Errico, who met Bushnell in 2022.<span class="gmail_default"> Talia Jane]</span></i><b><i><br /></i></b><div><a href="https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=64311" style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=64311</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Why Would Anyone Kill Themselves to Stop a War? On Aaron Bushnell and Others. Colonel Ann Wright</b></i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Six years ago in 2018, after returning from a Veterans For Peace trip to Vietnam, I wrote an article called “Why Would Anyone Kill One’s Self In an Attempt to Stop A War?”<br />Now, six years later, in the past three months, <b>two people in the United States have taken or risked taking their own lives in an attempt to change U.S. policies on Palestine and call for a cease-fire and stop U.S. funding to the State of Israel</b> that would be used to kill in the Israeli genocide of Gaza. <b>An yet unidentified woman, wrapped in a Palestinian flag, set herself on fire in front of the Israeli consulate in Atlanta, Georgia, on December 1, 2023. Three months later authorities have yet to release the name of the woman. Her condition was unknown as of mid-December.</b><br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>This week, on Sunday, February 25, 2024,<b> active duty U.S. Air Force member Aaron Bushnell set himself on fire at the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C., while he was stating “Free Palestine and stop the genocide.” Bushnell died from his injuries.</b><span class="gmail_default">..</span></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>..While on a Veterans for Peace trip to Vietnam in 2014 and while on another VFP delegation in March 2018, <b>our delegation saw the iconic photo of a well-known Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc who set himself on fire in June1963 on a busy street in Saigon to protest </b>the Diem regime’s crackdown on Buddhists during the early days of the American war on Vietnam. That photo is <b>seared into our collective memories</b>...</i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>..<b>But, did you know that several Americans also set themselves on fire to attempt to end U.S. military actions during those turbulent war years in the 1960s?<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>I didn’t, until our VFP delegation saw the portraits displayed of five Americans who gave their lives to protest the American war on Vietnam</b>, among other international persons who are revered in Vietnamese history, <b>at the Vietnam-USA Friendship Society in Hanoi.</b> Though <b>these American peace persons have fallen into oblivion in their own nation</b>, <b>they are well-known martyrs in Vietnam</b>, 50 years later...</i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>..After seeing one particular portrait again—that of Norman Morrison—<b>I decided to write about these Americans who were willing to end their own lives in an attempt to stop the American war on the Vietnamese people</b>.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>What distinguished these Americans to the Vietnamese was that, as American soldiers were killing Vietnamese, there were American citizens who ended their own lives in order to try to bring the terror of invasion and occupation for Vietnamese citizens to the American public</b> through the horror of their own deaths.</i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span class="gmail_default">..</span><b>The first person in the United States to die of self-immolation in opposition to the war on Vietnam was 82-year-old Quaker Alice Herz who lived in Detroit, Michigan. She set herself on fire on a Detroit street on March 16, 1965</b>. <b>Before she died of her burns 10 days later, Alice said she set herself on fire to protest “the arms race and a president using his high office to wipe out small nations.”</b><br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>Six months later on November 2, 1965, Norman Morrison, a 31-year-old Quaker from Baltimore, a father of three young children, died of self-immolation at the Pentagon</b>. <b>Morrison felt that traditional protests against the war had done little to end the war and decided that setting himself on fire at the Pentagon might mobilize enough people </b>to force the United States government to abandon its involvement in Vietnam. <b>Morrison’s choice to self-immolate was particularly symbolic in that it followed President Lyndon Johnson’s controversial decision to authorize the use of napalm in Vietnam, a burning gel that sticks to the skin and melts the flesh</b>.</i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Apparently, <b>unbeknownst to Morrison, he chose to set himself on fire beneath the Pentagon window of then-Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara</b>.</i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>Thirty years later in his 1995 memoir, In Retrospect: The Tragedy in Lessons of Vietnam, McNamara remembered Morrison’s death:</b><br /><span class="gmail_default"> "</span>Antiwar protests had been sporadic and limited up to this time and had not compelled attention. <b>Then came the afternoon of November 2, 1965. At twilight that day, a young Quaker named Norman R. Morrison, father of three and an officer of the Stony Run Friends Meeting in Baltimore, burned himself to death within 40 feet of my Pentagon window.</b> Morrison’s death was a tragedy not only for his family but also for me in the country. It was an outcry against the killing that was destroying the lives of so many Vietnamese and American youth.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>I reacted to the horror of his action by bottling up my emotions and avoided talking about them with anyone</b>—even with my family. I knew (his wife) <b>Marge and our three children shared many of Morrison’s feelings about the war</b>. And I believed I understood and shared some of his thoughts. <b>The episode created tension at home that only deepened as the criticism of the war continued to grow</b>.<span class="gmail_default">"</span></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Before his memoir In Retrospect was published, in a 1992 article in Newsweek, <b>McNamara had listed people or events that had had an impact on his questioning of the war</b>. One of those events,McNamara identified as <b>“the death of a young Quaker.”<span class="gmail_default">...</span></b></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>..<b>Every Vietnamese school child learns a song and poem</b> written by Vietnamese poet Tố Hữu <b>called “Emily, My Child” dedicated to the young daughter that Morrison was holding only moments before he set himself on fire at the Pentagon.</b> The poem reminds Emily that <b>her father died because he felt he had to object in the most visible way to the deaths of Vietnamese children at the hands of the United States government</b>...<b><br /></b><span class="gmail_default">..</span><b>One week after Norman Morrison’s death, Roger LaPorte, 22, a Catholic Worker, became the third war protester to take his own life.</b> He died of burns suffered through <b>self-immolation on November 9, 1965 on the United Nations Plaza in New York City</b>. <b>He left a note that read, “I am against war, all wars. I did this as a religious act.”</b><span class="gmail_default"><b>...</b></span></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>..In the case of U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Aaron Bushnell, <b>Aaron told the world his reason: "I do not want to be complacent in the genocide of Gaza! Free Palestine!." His sentiments are echoed by hundreds of millions around the world who recognize the horrific Israeli genocide of Gaza.</b> <b>For U.S. citizens, it is our duty to keep pressure on the Biden administration to stop funding Israel's genocide</b> of Gaza and violence in the West Bank.</i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/kill-selves-to-stop-war" style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/kill-selves-to-stop-war</a><i><br /></i><div><br /></div><div><div class="gmail_default"> Caitlin Johnstone in Oz watched Aaron's video, and the people rushing to help and put out the fire which engulfed him, and the one weird guy who rushed in with an automatic handgun, which he trained on the collapsed sacrificial lamb, unflinchingly. (Who was that guy? - Newsweek says he was Secret Service.)</div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>The Most American Thing That Has Ever Happened</b></i><br /></div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>You simply cannot fit more America into a single incident than a man dying a horrifying death in protest of war crimes while a first responder screams at cops to stop pointing their guns at him and go get fire extinguishers. If you were to pick a single moment in history to sum up the essence and expression of the US empire, that would be it.</i><div><a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/the-most-american-thing-that-has-335" style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/the-most-american-thing-that-has-335</a><i><br /></i></div><div><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Netanyahu Says Hostage Deal Will Only Delay Attack on Rafah</b></i><div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu explained that if Tel Aviv agrees to a new hostage deal with Hamas, it will only “delay” the Israeli attack on Rafah. International aid organizations have warned that an attack on the city of 1.5 million will be devastating to the civilian population of Gaza.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>On Friday, the US, Egypt, and Qatar presented a new hostage deal that would see the release of 40 Israeli captives in exchange for a six-week pause in fighting. The deal was negotiated without the input of Tel Aviv and Hamas.</i></div><div><a href="https://news.antiwar.com/2024/02/25/netanyahu-says-hostage-deal-will-only-delay-attack-on-rafah/" style="color: #1155cc;">https://news.antiwar.com/2024/02/25/netanyahu-says-hostage-deal-will-only-delay-attack-on-rafah/</a><i><br /></i></div><br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Netanyahu is accomplishing his genocide.<br /><i><b>Starvation in Gaza: 'If we stay like this for another week, we will die en masse'</b></i><div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>The famine in northern Gaza, caused by Israel's strangling siege, has reached extreme levels, Palestinian residents there have told Middle East Eye. There have been several reports of people dying from malnutrition, including infants.<span class="gmail_default"> </span>Life for over half a million people there now revolves around a single task every day: finding something to eat.</i></div><div><a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/starvation-gaza-if-we-stay-another-week-we-will-die-en-masse" style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/starvation-gaza-if-we-stay-another-week-we-will-die-en-masse</a><i><br /></i></div><div><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Israel Hinders Humanitarian Assistance in Gaza By Delaying Visas for Aid Workers</b></i><div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>The Israeli outlet reports that as well as not approving new visas, it is refusing to extend visas for aid workers already in Gaza and the West Bank. The lack of workers has disrupted the activities of several aid organizations operating in the Strip.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Tel Aviv has taken several steps to block and slow aid transfers to Gaza. Israel has blocked US-funded flour from reaching Gaza, Tel Aviv has established an inspection regime that prevents live-saving aid from entering the Strip, and Israeli forces have targeted the Gazan police force that helps secure aid as it is distributed in the besieged enclave.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>The Israeli onslaught in Gaza has created a humanitarian crisis that American officials have compared to the horrific situation that once plagued Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu. Children in Gaza have starved to death, including a two-month-old boy who died on Friday.</i></div><div><a href="https://news.antiwar.com/2024/02/25/israel-hinders-humanitarian-assistance-in-gaza-by-delaying-visas-for-aid-workers/" style="color: #1155cc;">https://news.antiwar.com/2024/02/25/israel-hinders-humanitarian-assistance-in-gaza-by-delaying-visas-for-aid-workers/</a><i><br /></i></div><div><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>US Intel Has ‘Low Confidence’ in Israeli Claim a Dozen UN Staff Participated in Hamas Attack<span class="gmail_default"> </span><span class="gmail_default"> </span></b></i>[This shows deep-state policy-disagreement.]<i><b><br />The </b></i>(CIA mouthpiece)<i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Washington Post claims to have independently verified that a single UNRWA employee took part in the October 7 attack on Israel</b></i><div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Tel Aviv released a summary of its intelligence for the assertions to several news outlets.<b> After reviewing the Israeli dossier, multiple outlets reported that Israel had provided no evidence to back the claims that members of UNRWA are aligned with Hamas</b>.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>Still, Washington and several other top donors to UNRWA backed Tel Aviv’s allegations and cut funding</b> to the agency. <b>Secretary of State Antony Blinken described the claims as “highly, highly credible.”</b></i><div><a href="https://news.antiwar.com/2024/02/23/us-intel-has-low-confidence-in-israeli-claim-a-dozen-un-staff-participated-in-hamas-attack/" style="color: #1155cc;">https://news.antiwar.com/2024/02/23/us-intel-has-low-confidence-in-israeli-claim-a-dozen-un-staff-participated-in-hamas-attack/</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Israel Escalates Demolitions of Palestinians’ Homes in Occupied East Jerusalem<br />Israeli authorities recently bulldozed the home of a prominent Palestinian human rights activist and elected spokesperson of the Silwan district</b></i></div><div><a href="https://news.antiwar.com/2024/02/25/israel-escalates-demolitions-of-palestinians-homes-in-occupied-east-jerusalem/" style="color: #1155cc;">https://news.antiwar.com/2024/02/25/israel-escalates-demolitions-of-palestinians-homes-in-occupied-east-jerusalem/</a></div></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div><br /></div><div><div class="gmail_default"> Gilbert Doctorow, <i><b>Houthis attack underwater communications cables in the Red Sea</b></i></div></div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>As a result of an attack by Houthis in the Red Sea,<b> four underwater cables connecting Europe with Asia have been damaged, leading to serious interruptions in the work of internet communications, according to the media outlet Vzglyad.ru<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>The main damage is felt in the countries of the Persian Gulf and India</b>, according to Ura.ru per a message of the newspaper Globe to Vzglyad.ru<br />In this material it is noted that repairs to the cables will take at least eight weeks – Vechernaya Moskva.<span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>End quote</b><br /><span class="gmail_default"> <b> </b></span><b>I would wager a guess that the technical and material support for this Houthi attack comes from Russia</b> which is now finally via proxy war <b>beginning to take its revenge on Western powers for the infrastructure terrorism they practiced in bombing the Nord Stream I pipelines</b>.</i><div><a href="https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2024/02/27/news-flash-houthis-attack-underwater-communications-cables-in-the-red-sea/" style="color: #1155cc;">https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2024/02/27/news-flash-houthis-attack-underwater-communications-cables-in-the-red-sea/</a></div><div><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Denmark Drops Probe Into Nord Stream Gas Pipeline Sabotage</b></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>An investigation launched by the <b>Swedish authorities concluded that the leaks were the result of detonations, likely the result of “serious sabotage”.</b><br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>But earlier this month, Sweden’s authorities concluded a preliminary investigation into the Nord Stream blasts <b>but found they lacked jurisdiction to continue, as the incident occurred in international waters and involved no Swedish nationals</b>. Therefore, <b>Sweden ended the probe</b> in early February.</i></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>Denmark also ended its investigation on Monday</b>, with the Copenhagen police saying in a statement that <b>“The joint investigation conducted by the Copenhagen Police and the <span class="gmail_default">..</span>Danish Security and Intelligence Services (PET) into the Nord Stream explosions has been concluded.”</b>...<b>“The investigation has led the authorities to conclude that there was deliberate sabotage of the gas pipelines. However, the assessment is that there is not the sufficient grounds to pursue a criminal case in Denmark,”</b> the police said.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Apart from Denmark and Sweden, <b>Germany has also investigated the Nord Stream blasts, but Berlin hasn’t concluded its own investigation</b> into the sabotage. A <b>spokesperson for the government told Reuters earlier in February that Germany was still interested in solving the case</b>.</i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Denmark-Drops-Probe-Into-Nord-Stream-Gas-Pipeline-Sabotage.html" style="color: #1155cc;">https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Denmark-Drops-Probe-Into-Nord-Stream-Gas-Pipeline-Sabotage.html</a><i><br /></i><div><div><br /></div><div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Chinese refiners have been snapping up cargoes of Russia’s Far East Sokol grade oil that have been stranded off the coast of India due to Western sanctions and thus undeliverable, Bloomberg has reported, citing vessel-tracking data by Kpler.</b></i><div><a href="https://www.rt.com/business/592874-china-russian-oil-india-sanctions/" style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.rt.com/business/592874-china-russian-oil-india-sanctions/</a></div><div><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Those "decisive months" appear to have been December 2023 through February 2024.</span></span></div><i><b>Ukraine conflict may be decided in ‘months’ – Borrell<span class="gmail_default"> , </span>Kiev’s fate depends on continued Western funding, the EU’s top diplomat has warned</b></i><div><a href="https://www.rt.com/news/593153-borrell-ukraine-conflict-outcome/" style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.rt.com/news/593153-borrell-ukraine-conflict-outcome/</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="gmail_default"> Military Summary points out that Russian forces are applying constant pressure along the 1200 km line of combat with Ukraine, tying down Ukrainian forces, and preparing to take 5-6 Ukrainian strongholds at once, which will make reinforcement needs so high that Ukrainian lines will remain broadly exhausted and inadequate. Russians will then be able to seize initiative where it is most favorable to them, and advance rapidly. </div><div class="gmail_default"> <b style="font-style: italic;">Ukrainians Are Trapped | Russians Storm Several Cities At The Same Time. Military Summary 2024.02.27</b></div></div><div class="gmail_default"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0djeXlCpw2w" style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0djeXlCpw2w</a><b style="font-style: italic;"><br /></b></div><div class="gmail_default"><br /></div><div class="gmail_default">This is harder for me to look at than Aaron's self-immolation, somehow. Please Stop, already, Joe!</div><i><b>Biden Botches Lincoln Quote, Brands Xi Leader of Russia, Gets Confused Without Handler</b></i><div><a href="https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2024/02/25/biden-governors-black-tie-event-n2170555" style="color: #1155cc;">https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2024/02/25/biden-governors-black-tie-event-n2170555</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div><br /></div><div><div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Biden Talks Up Gaza Ceasefire By "End Of The Weekend" Even As Israeli Officials Downplay</b><span class="gmail_default"></span></i></div><div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>Biden while in an ice cream shop in New York with Seth Meyers was asked by a reporter when he thought a ceasefire could begin, to which he answered he hoped a truce would be implemented within days. "Well, I hope by the beginning of the weekend, by the end of the weekend,"</b> he said.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>And that's when he even additionally offered Monday as the day the warring sides will reach a ceasefire. <b>"My national security adviser tells me that we’re close. We’re close. We’re not done yet. My hope is, by next Monday, we’ll have a ceasefire."</b></i></div><div><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/political/biden-talks-gaza-ceasefire-end-weekend-evan-israeli-officials-downplay" style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.zerohedge.com/political/biden-talks-gaza-ceasefire-end-weekend-evan-israeli-officials-downplay</a></div></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="gmail_default"> Kyle Young, on his farm near the Mexican border, <i><b>DHS, DACA, Cloward/Piven and Fascism cyber attacks</b></i></div></div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>I’m not going to point any fingers because I’m not sure what’s going on. I’ll just say that, because the blockage has come up since I began writing about those who benefit from the corrupt Border Industrial Complex , it smells fishy.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>What all of this says to me is that no one is safe from cyber attack. When the time comes, any electronically dependent service can be shut down at will by the powers that shouldn’t be.<span class="gmail_default">..</span></i><div><i>..This smallish Catholic non-profit was given 24 hours to provide the documents required. It refused to do so. Annunciation House then sued the State, claiming it needed more time. Texas then sued Annunciation House for failure to comply.<span class="gmail_default"> </span>Paxton has accused the charity of human trafficking and serving as a drug stash house...<br />..What has Annunciation House been doing in El Paso for nearly 50 years?<span class="gmail_default"> </span>Just as a reminder, El Paso sits right on the border with Mexico and has a very long, very violent cartel history.<span class="gmail_default">..</span></i></div><i>..This map shows the <b>100 mile wide Constitutional Free Zone</b> that encompasses the US. <b>This is what the US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) arbitrarily claims as it’s jurisdiction</b>. <b>The CBP claims that people living inside this zone have to forfeit Constitutional rights</b>. In other words,<b> they can come onto your property or into your home without a search warrant. I know this is the case because it has happened to me</b> and others I know in the tiny community eleven miles from the border.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Note that the entirety of the Hawaiian Islands falls under this jurisdiction.<br /><b>This makes CBP the largest law enforcement agency the country. As the map shows, nearly two thirds of Americans come under its purview</b>.<span class="gmail_default">..</span></i><div><i><span class="gmail_default">..<b>T</b></span><b>he massive expansion of government known as DHS, ostensibly created by Bush to make the US more secure, has done the opposite</b>. It set the stage for many more domino’s to fall. <b>With every expansion of government comes an equal or greater expansion of taxpayer funds going to corporate entities</b> that benefit from the new programs that government expansion creates.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>As Julian Assange said, <b>“The job of government is to take money from the people and give it to corporations.”<span class="gmail_default">...</span></b></i></div><div><i>..<b>Professors at the Columbia University School of Social Work, Cloward and Piven outlined their strategy in a May 1966 article in The Nation - "The Weight of the Poor: A Strategy to End Poverty”</b>. Sociologists and political activists, Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven put their heads together and hatched a plan to tear down US society. Their idea was that this would then lead to forced socialism with everyone being enrolled in a Federally funded, guaranteed annual income.<span class="gmail_default">..</span></i></div><div><i><span class="gmail_default">..</span>Regarding the idea that everyone would be on a guaranteed annual income…<span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>"would produce bureaucratic disruption in welfare agencies and fiscal disruption in local and state governments" that would: "...deepen existing divisions among elements in the big-city Democratic coalition: the remaining white middle class, the working-class ethnic groups and the growing minority poor. To avoid a further weakening of that historic coalition, a national Democratic administration would be constrained to advance a federal solution to poverty that would override local welfare failures, local class and racial conflicts and local revenue dilemmas.".</b>..</i><div><a href="https://secularheretic.substack.com/p/dhs-daca-clowardpiven-and-fascism" style="color: #1155cc;">https://secularheretic.substack.com/p/dhs-daca-clowardpiven-and-fascism</a><i><br /></i></div><div><br /></div></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhBbx9KTzxXzC0m_HOd99KXuZU6Cn-ER_eOVmV7z1QlewXDzYe91-Ht2wcLEfvBDwxObW8fs3OFIbdI0HJnsqWG57wim_4XWdWMehcNEBJTpUkzZhdA43QZ5h5UpN-OgS2QbWPGy_P0GVtRyOldkaF40RPHq6HvyT4RmvcJoo9VLGMGEXJsMkLCc3lopkpH" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="330" data-original-width="500" height="395" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhBbx9KTzxXzC0m_HOd99KXuZU6Cn-ER_eOVmV7z1QlewXDzYe91-Ht2wcLEfvBDwxObW8fs3OFIbdI0HJnsqWG57wim_4XWdWMehcNEBJTpUkzZhdA43QZ5h5UpN-OgS2QbWPGy_P0GVtRyOldkaF40RPHq6HvyT4RmvcJoo9VLGMGEXJsMkLCc3lopkpH=w599-h395" width="599" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Governments Must Reject New Amendments to International Health Regulations </b></i><div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>The <b>WHO, most likely with the complicity of your government, is pushing through a set of amendments to international pandemic laws that will put your livelihood and liberties at the mercy of a WHO-appointed “expert committee” whose advice during a pandemic or other “public health emergency” will supersede that of your own government.</b></i><b><i><br /></i></b><div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Proposed amendments to <b>International Health Regulations (IHR) subordinate State authorities to the WHO</b> as “the guidance and coordinating authority” <b>during an international public health emergency</b>. But the WHO is the very last organisation we should be ceding power to over international health emergencies. <b>This is an organisation that has already shown its regressive, inhumane, and anti-scientific colours during and after the Covid pandemic</b>, including failing to warn citizens about the incompleteness of safety data for <b>mRNA vaccines</b>, <b>obstinately recommending community masking</b> with very limited scientific evidence, <b>warmly praising China’s cruel and draconian lockdowns, and enthusiastically supporting a global bio-surveillance regime modelled on the European Union’s digital Covid certificate</b>.<span class="gmail_default">..</span></i></div></div><i>..It is often pointed out that the amendments to the International Health Regulations would not technically remove the sovereignty of national governments. But that completely misses<b> the main point of the IHR, which is to legally bind States to follow the advice of the World Health Organisation during an international public health emergency as determined by the WHO, and to integrate national pandemic responses into an international health bureaucracy.</b></i><div><a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/governments-must-reject-new-amendments-to-international-health-regulations/" style="color: #1155cc;">https://brownstone.org/articles/governments-must-reject-new-amendments-to-international-health-regulations/</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Australians Abandon Failed mRNA Covid Shots<span class="gmail_default"> </span></b></i>[Alternate title: "98.5% of Australians already slow-poisoned".]<i></i><div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Just <b>1.7 million, or 8.5% of Australia’s 20.1 million adults have had a Covid booster in the past six months</b>, according to the latest Australian Government update (as at 7 February). In contrast, 18.1 million, or 90% had at least one vaccination previously, but have not kept up-to-date.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>An estimated 302,000 <b>(1.5%) of Australian adults remain unvaccinated</b>, although this number may be closer to half a million according to data aggregator site Covidlive.com.au.</i><div><a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/australians-abandon-failed-mrna-covid-shots/" style="color: #1155cc;">https://brownstone.org/articles/australians-abandon-failed-mrna-covid-shots/</a><i><br /></i></div></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="gmail_default"> The Ethical Skeptic explains in detail the complete and undisguised fraud in the state-level entry of a "cause of death" for a family member who got colon cancer following COVID vaccination. All real diagnoses were omitted. She did not have "Alzheimers" at all. <i><b>A Case Study in Covid-19 Vaccine Related Death Certificate Fraud</b></i></div></div><div class="gmail_default"><a href="https://theethicalskeptic.com/2024/02/26/a-case-study-in-covid-19-vaccine-related-death-certificate-fraud/" style="color: #1155cc;">https://theethicalskeptic.com/2024/02/26/a-case-study-in-covid-19-vaccine-related-death-certificate-fraud/</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div class="gmail_default"><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Study Finds Hearing And Balance Disorders Among COVID-19 Vaccinated</b></i></div><div><i>“Our study found an increased relative incidence of vertigo in the 42 days following mRNA vaccines, and an increased relative incidence of tinnitus in the 42 days following both Vaxzevria adenovirus vector and mRNA vaccines,” researchers wrote.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>“We are the first to confirm this increased relative incidence of tinnitus and vertigo post COVID-19 vaccines,“ they stated.</i></div><div><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/political/study-finds-hearing-and-balance-disorders-among-covid-19-vaccinated" style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.zerohedge.com/political/study-finds-hearing-and-balance-disorders-among-covid-19-vaccinated</a></div><div><br /></div><div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Ukraine's Top Spy Chief Says Navalny Died From Blood Clot, Rejects 'Murder' Narrative<span class="gmail_default"> </span><span class="gmail_default"></span></b></i>[<b>Nobody can say if this guy was COVID-vaccinated or not</b>.]</div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Gen. Kyrylo Budanov, chief of the Main Directorate of Intelligence (HUR), bluntly stated it to a group of journalists on Sunday. <b>"I may disappoint you, but as far as we know, he indeed died as a result of a blood clot. And this has been more or less confirmed," </b>Budanov stated. <b>"This wasn't sourced from the internet, but, unfortunately, natural [causes]," </b>he added in the remarks which were also caught on video...<br />..<b>Navalny was supposedly very close to being released amid secret talks involving the US and Germany</b>:<span class="gmail_default"> </span></i><i><br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Alexey Navalny had been close to release in a prisoner exchange with the US and Germany shortly before his death in an Arctic prison, a top aide to the Russian opposition leader said.<span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>"Navalny was supposed to be freed in the coming days," Maria Pevchikh said</b> in a video statement posted Monday. Russian President Vladimir Putin was offered an assassin imprisoned in Germany in exchange for Navalny and two US citizens, she said.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>Moscow has long been seeking to gain the freedom of Vadim Krasikov, who is currently serving a life sentence in Germany for the 2019 assassination of a former Chechen rebel in a Berlin park.</b> <b>Krasikov is widely believed to be part of Russia’s Federal Security Service, or FSB</b>.</i></div><div><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/ukraines-top-spy-chief-says-navalny-died-blood-clot-rejects-murder-narrative" style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/ukraines-top-spy-chief-says-navalny-died-blood-clot-rejects-murder-narrative</a><i><br /></i><div><div class="gmail_default"><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Mothers of 2 Girls Who Died After Gardasil HPV Vaccine Sue Merck<br />The mothers of 10-year-old Isabella Zuggi and 14-year-old Sydney Figueroa filed wrongful death lawsuits against Merck</b>, alleging the company knowingly failed to warn the public and medical providers about the risk of injury or death from its Gardasil human papillomavirus vaccine.</i><div><a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/sydney-figueroa-isabella-zuggi-hpv-vaccine-lawsuits-deaths/" style="color: #1155cc;">https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/sydney-figueroa-isabella-zuggi-hpv-vaccine-lawsuits-deaths/</a><i><br /></i></div><div><br /></div><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><b>Plaintiffs Ask Judge to Take Swift Action as Landmark Fluoride Trial Wraps Up</b><br />A landmark trial that could determine the future of water fluoridation in the U.S. ended Tuesday with attorneys for the environmental groups and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency responding to questions from federal Judge Edward Chen.</i><div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>During the trial, top scientific experts who advised the EPA on understanding and setting hazard levels for other major environmental toxins and who conducted gold-standard “cohort” studies on the link between fluoride and low IQ in children testified for the plaintiffs.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>They explained the NTP’s findings and presented evidence from their own research showing neurotoxic risks — particularly to pregnant women, formula-fed infants and children — posed by water fluoridation.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>EPA witnesses conceded fluoride does have neurotoxic effects at relatively low levels, but countered that the risk assessment process under TSCA is highly complex and there is too much uncertainty in the data on fluoride’s toxicity at current levels of water fluoridation to do a proper risk assessment and regulate the chemical.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>It is now up to Chen to weigh the evidence and determine if water fluoridation presents an “unreasonable risk” to human health, which would compel the EPA to create a rule regulating or banning water fluoridation in the U.S.</i></div><div><a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/landmark-fluoride-trial-final-day-us-water-fluoridation-future/" style="color: #1155cc;">https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/landmark-fluoride-trial-final-day-us-water-fluoridation-future/</a><i><br /></i></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="gmail_default">Mother Nature's Son (pictured pushing gas powered lawnmower recently)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9_fNzlvX_PsHM6yrnwkHaHPwWrm62ENq2Y2Tf7ipkTTc6Neg3rLe5FxzM3z7qmF7YIW92RevlWPaQLRtgIR0LDs0F5CtH4tUGLuj4_aQeEiTJhU5oErUEH5SaLffiwohUOuwIeY-MfsDL-EXxRMbcpsFaoDcHbpcYdJ-uV0FsWC-MOiIxBp8SaEfo2Slk/s4032/PXL_20240224_185700295.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2268" data-original-width="4032" height="337" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9_fNzlvX_PsHM6yrnwkHaHPwWrm62ENq2Y2Tf7ipkTTc6Neg3rLe5FxzM3z7qmF7YIW92RevlWPaQLRtgIR0LDs0F5CtH4tUGLuj4_aQeEiTJhU5oErUEH5SaLffiwohUOuwIeY-MfsDL-EXxRMbcpsFaoDcHbpcYdJ-uV0FsWC-MOiIxBp8SaEfo2Slk/w599-h337/PXL_20240224_185700295.jpg" width="599" /></a></div><br /><div class="gmail_default"><br /></div></div></div></div></div>John Dayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12123174297818737132noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4275885258914846834.post-27456954954529032742024-02-26T11:27:00.007-06:002024-02-26T11:27:41.281-06:00Diversity Is Legitimacy<p> Non-Elites,</p><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default"><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>The Real Problem at Yale Is Not Free Speech<span class="gmail_default"> </span></b>, Natalia Dashan August 5, 2019 </i><div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span> When I saw him, he was outside Payne Whitney. Nothing about the tall, gray façade suggests it is the university gym, unless there is a new trend of contractors housing athletics departments in Gothic cathedrals. You wouldn’t guess by looking at the frosted glass panes and arches that the third floor hosts the world’s largest suspended indoor swimming pool. It is a work of art, like the rest of Yale’s buildings.<br /> Marcus was smoking by a bench, his face jaundiced from three packs that day. This is atypical for Yale students—most abstain from smoking. There was no reason for him to smoke so much, just as there was no reason for me to ride around campus on a blue Razor scooter. But Yale students tend to have such quirks. His suit-jacket was dusty and smelled of sweat—he didn’t mind lifting weights in a dress shirt and trousers if that meant more time to read Nietzsche alone at the bar.<br /> When I hugged him, he felt skeletal. I asked if he had eaten today. He assured me that his earthly requirements were limited—no need for anything other than alcohol and cigarettes. <b>“I can buy you a sandwich.” He refused. I insisted. A nice one. Bacon and egg. Or steak and cheese. I was testy now. “GHeav is right there. I’ll be back in six minutes.”<br /> He turned his face towards me, warm with friendliness—and with one sentence, he changed our relationship forever.<br />“You know I’m rich, right?”<br />“What?”<br />“You know I have a trust fund, right? I can buy my own sandwich if I wanted it.”</b><br /> This is the moment when after three years of friendship, Marcus sat down and told me his life story. His cottages in Norway. Sneaking into the family study. Learning about the cost of hardwoods and hearing his boorish, critical father sulk in 5-star hotel rooms.<br /> Marcus did not act this way out of anxiety, grief, stress, or because he had nobody to tell him his habits will kill him. He lived as a starving writer not out of necessity, but for the aesthetic. Out of some desire to imitate the Bohemian 19th century writers. Out of artistry. Style. Intentional choice.<br /> In terms of income at Yale, I was in the bottom 2%. And the people to whom I extended my generosity did not need it, whatsoever. This is mildly entertaining, but not the point. This is not a story about me, or about Marcus, or about our amusing adventures at Yale.<br /> <b>This is a story about an institution and an elite that have lost themselves</b>...<br />..Over the past decade, <b>elite colleges have been staging grounds for what Matthew Yglesias has termed the Great Awokening</b>. Dozens of scandals have illustrated a stifling new ideological orthodoxy that is trickling down into the rest of society through HR departments, corporations, churches, foundations, and activist organizations. The nation is becoming polarized and its parts disconnected. The right is evil, and the left is stupid. Or is it the other way around?<br /> <b>The campus “free speech” debate is just a side-effect. So are debates about “diversity” and “inclusion.” The real problems run much deeper. The real problems start with Marcus and me, and the masks we wear for each other.</b>..<br />..The story of how I ended up at Yale is not typical.<b> Yale’s tuition costs $50,000 per year, but if a student’s parents earn less than $60,000, they can attend virtually for free. This means that for the poorer subset of American society, Yale is not just cheaper than the state school, but cheaper than community college. Through the magic of the universe, I figured this out, and I wanted to go. I wanted to leave my small town, and I had the SAT score to try.</b><br /> Based on statistics from the class of 2013, approximately <b>2% of students hailed from the lowest income quintile</b>, while 69% came from the top 20%. <b>How did those poor students fare after graduation? Around 2% of students at Yale move from the bottom to the top quintile. In other words, nearly all of them.</b> You show up poor, and you leave rich. <b>Going to an Ivy League school may be the fastest way to join the upper class</b>.<br /> But this low number of 2% surprised me because <b>when I was at Yale, everybody kept talking about how broke they were</b>.<br /> <b>“Want to go out for brunch?” “I can’t—I’m so broke.” This was a common line. Sometimes the conversations had a more accusatory tone. “Wow, you took a taxi to the airport? I always take the subway.”.</b>..</i></div><div><i>..What is the point of this new ideology? <b>This ideology is filled with inconsistencies and contradictions, because it is not really about ideological rigor. Among other things, it is an elaborate containment system for the theoretical and practical discontent generated by the failures of the system, an absolution from guilt, and a new form of class signaling</b>. Before, to signal you were in the fashionable and powerful crowd, you would show off your country-club membership, refined manners, or Gucci handbags. Now, you show how woke you are. <b>To reinforce their new form of structural power, people dismiss the idea that they even have the older, more legible forms of status. They find any reverse-privilege points they can, and if they are cis-white-men, they pose as allies. </b>On an institutional level, the old ways of legitimizing power are gone, and the new motto is this: <b>diversity is legitimacy</b>.<span class="gmail_default">..</span><br />..There is a deep comedy to this sort of signaling. <b>Only around 2% of the student body was in the bottom 20% of American society, and yet extremely wealthy Singaporean students who had spent just a few years in America marched in the street and referred to themselves as “people of color.”</b> People’s experiences were ignored when they volunteered information that countered the main narrative, because <b>the surface-level debate wasn’t the point. The point was to signal that you were with the program</b>. <b>Only a select and secret group of student “leaders”—who were already savvy enough to engage comfortably with hierarchy—were invited in to chat with administrators.</b><br /> Shouting from the rooftops that <b>“They aren’t doing enough!” is much easier than following any traditional system of elite social norms and duties, let alone carefully re-engineering that system to reestablish order in a time of growing crisis.</b><br /> Western elites are not comfortable with their place in society and the responsibilities that come with it, and realize that there are deep structural problems with the old systems of coordination. But <b>lacking the capacity for an orderly restructuring, or even a diagnosis of problems and needs, we dive deeper into a chaotic ideological mode</b> of coordination that sweeps away the old structures.<br /> When you live with this mindset, what you end up with is not an establishment where a woke upper class rallies and advocates for the rights of minorities, the poor, and underprivileged groups.<b> What you have is a blind and self-righteous upper class that becomes structurally unable to take coordinated responsibility.</b> You get stuck in an ideological mode of coordination, where <b>no one can speak the truth to correct collective mistakes and overreaches without losing position</b>...<br />..<b>Let’s take down the Man</b>. <b>They say this in front of their PowerPoints</b>. They clink champagne glasses. Let’s take down the Man! <b>But there is no real spirit of revolution in these words. It is all in the language they understand—polite and clean, because it isn’t really real. It is a performative spectacle about their own morale and guilt</b>.<br /> <b>If you were the ruler while everything was burning around you</b>, and you didn’t know what to do, what would you do? <b>You would deny that you are in charge. And you would recuperate the growing discontented masses into your own power base, so that things stay comfortable for you</b>...<br />..<b>The capacity to really think through what an alternative should look like, and create one, is so rare as to be effectively nonexistent.</b> Instead, <b>idealists are forced to take the easy way</b> of just going along with dominant ideological narratives of what it means to do good. <b>They feel guilty about their wealth and privileges</b>, and feel that they won’t be doing their part unless they do something very altruistic, and the idealistic ideologies reinforce these feelings. <b>So they go overboard, and rush headlong into whatever they are supposed to do. They purport to speak for and be allied with underprivileged groups</b>. <b>They get their professors fired for minor infractions</b>. They frantically tear down whatever vestiges of the old institutions and hierarchies that they can, and conspicuously feel guilty about the rest.<br /> <b>These are the people who buy clothes from Salvation Army</b> and decline your Sunday brunch invitation because it’s too expensive, sometimes with the implication that they are saving their money to donate to more effective causes, if they aren’t pretending not to have it. <b>They are the people who might attack or cut off their friends for ideological reasons.</b> They discharge their personal responsibility by sacrificing everything outside of their distant mission, including friendships and social fabric...<br />..But ultimately, <b>by going along with the narratives of an ideology that can efficiently capture these impulses, but has no structural ability to deliver on its promises, it just diverts more energy from what a normal benevolent elite should be doing</b>...<br />..Now <b>we can begin to understand the real problem at Yale. It is not free speech—and it is not non-inclusivity</b>. The standards of reality, and <b>the standards of morality not based solely on being woke, are ousted</b>. That’s because <b>the conventional standards of elite morality, based on responsible use of power—actually responsible, not just a convenient feeling of doing good—are much harder, and based on the very self-consciousness that everyone is trying to avoid.</b>..<br />..<b>Yale is having an existential crisis.</b> Students are taught to break the system, but Yale doesn’t even want to teach them what the original system is, what it was for, or how to productively replace it. The university is so lacking in vision that it doesn’t even know what the ideal student looks like, or what it wants to teach them...<br />..<b>Students are demanding more mental health resources. A new wellness space was created with bean-bag chairs and colored walls. But the real sources of unhappiness are more systemic. They are rooted in uncertainty about the future</b>.<br /> <b>If Yale students are uncertain about the future and their role in it, what does that say about the rest of society?</b> ...<br />..<b>Yale will not be replaced any time soon</b>. Its worldwide brand recognition is worth trillions. And <b>Yale’s role as an institution older than the Republic is important. It is the preserver of cultural knowledge</b>. While Stanford can produce entrepreneurs, <b>it still falls to Yale to produce the bulk of Supreme Court justices.</b><br />..Current Yale administrators have a sense of self-preservation for themselves and their corporation, but not for what made them great in the first place. They are quick to appease students, when they go along with the new zeitgeist, as if students and the latest wokeness were the preservers of cultural knowledge. This is the key to understanding why beloved faculty members can end up purged, against all public sentiment. Whether out of ideological commitment or hard-nosed realpolitik, these <b>apparatchik administrators, bolstered by a minority of students, have effectively outmaneuvered their rivals. In doing so, they have also accelerated the tearing down of Yale’s institutional legacy and undermined its historical mission.</b><br /> <b> If they were confronting a university and student body with a powerful commitment to that mission, things might be different. But they aren’t</b>...<br />..<b>The same vacuum of awareness crops up again and again, influencing both people and institutions</b>, until they are <b>unable to even grasp the potential of their position</b>. Without doing that, <b>rebuilding a shared set of goals around which to coordinate on a large scale will remain impossible</b>.<br /> <b>Yale is supposed to be using its power and reputation to set standards for excellence, but instead it is abandoning its responsibilities and getting embroiled in controversy after controversy. Yale is not special in this regard</b>—other colleges are also often embroiled in controversies. But the controversies of top colleges matter most because they determine what is acceptable for everybody else.<br /> And <b>what’s happening at Yale reflects a crisis in America’s broader governing class</b>...</i></div><div><a href="https://letter.palladiummag.com/p/the-real-problem-at-yale-is-not-free">https://letter.palladiummag.com/p/the-real-problem-at-yale-is-not-free</a><i><br /></i></div><div><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Yale Reinstituting Standardized Tests For Admission</b></i><div><i><span class="gmail_default"></span><b>I<span class="gmail_default"></span>t was reported last week that Yale is once again instituting standardized tests for admission after years of keeping them optional for "DEI" reasons. <br /></b><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>The university's undergraduate admissions dean announced a change in their student selection process amidst ongoing debate</b> over the efficacy of traditional tests. Critics argue these exams don't fully capture a student's potential, suggesting high school GPAs as a more accurate measure. The move, seen as a step towards fairness for disadvantaged students, aligns Yale with institutions like Harvard, MIT, and Dartmouth, which have already adjusted their admissions policies, according to The Daily Mail.<span class="gmail_default">...</span></i></div><div><i>..<b>"Simply put, students with higher scores have been more likely to have higher Yale GPAs, and test scores are the single greatest predictor of a student’s performance in Yale courses in every model we have constructed," </b>he said.</i></div><div><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/yale-reinstituting-standardized-tests-admission">https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/yale-reinstituting-standardized-tests-admission</a></div><div><br /></div><div><i><b>UN, West just watching Israeli crimes in Gaza for 140 days: Turkish President Erdogan<br />Even UN Security Council does not and cannot call for an immediate cease-fire, says Recep Tayyip Erdogan</b></i></div><div><a href="https://www.aa.com.tr/en/world/un-west-just-watching-israeli-crimes-in-gaza-for-140-days-turkish-president-erdogan/3146702">https://www.aa.com.tr/en/world/un-west-just-watching-israeli-crimes-in-gaza-for-140-days-turkish-president-erdogan/3146702</a></div><div><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /></span></span></div><div><i><b>Sexual abuse and beatings: A Palestinian mother's ordeal in Israeli custody<br />A woman abducted by Israeli forces from a school in Gaza recalls her harrowing experience in detention</b></i></div><div><i>"They asked me many questions about my family, my husband and my siblings," Hussain recalled. <br /><b>"The soldiers kept threatening to hurt my children, shouting at me that if I don't tell the truth, they will torture and kill my kids.<span class="gmail_default">"</span></b><br />"They kept asking about my brothers and sisters. One of my brothers is a lawyer and two others are professors and one is a doctor and one barber. They are working people, they have no connection to anything else. They kept insisting that they were 'activists', and when I asked what they meant, they said I knew the answer.<br /><b>"During the interrogations, they tied me to a chair and a female soldier stood next to me, kicking me and shoving me with her weapon to answer properly.<span class="gmail_default">"</span></b></i></div><div><a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/sexual-abuse-and-beatings-palestinian-mothers-ordeal-israeli-custody">https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/sexual-abuse-and-beatings-palestinian-mothers-ordeal-israeli-custody</a></div><div><br /></div><div><i><b>How Israeli settlers are exploiting Gaza conflict to seize more Palestinian land in the West Bank</b></i></div><div><a href="https://www.arabnews.com/node/2466026/middle-east">https://www.arabnews.com/node/2466026/middle-east</a></div><div><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /></span></span></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Gaza faces famine as Israel blocks aid, breaching food rights treaties</b></i><div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Early treaties by international organizations include the right to food among fundamental human rights, with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) in 1948 recognizing it as a basic human right. The International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) in 1966 further guaranteed the right to freedom from hunger, making it the most comprehensive treaty addressing the right to food.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>A report highlighted that the framework for realizing the right to food obligates parties to take necessary measures to provide food and alleviate hunger, particularly in emergencies. International instruments mandate countries to ensure food provision and sustainability, allowing access through all means and providing healthy food to all groups without discrimination.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) also noted that numerous provisions of international humanitarian law pertain to providing food in armed conflict situations. Prohibitions include starving civilians as a means of warfare or combat, as well as depriving populations of food sources and supplies.</i></div><div><a href="https://www.jordannews.jo/Section-20/Middle-East/Gaza-faces-famine-as-Israel-blocks-aid-breaching-food-rights-treaties-34458">https://www.jordannews.jo/Section-20/Middle-East/Gaza-faces-famine-as-Israel-blocks-aid-breaching-food-rights-treaties-34458</a></div><div><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /></span></span></div><div><i><b>Aaron Burned Himself To Make Us Look At Gaza</b></i></div><div><i>An active-duty member of the U.S. Air Force set himself on fire outside the Israeli embassy in Washington, D.C., on Sunday, in apparent protest of the ongoing Israel-Hamas war, which he described as a “genocide.”<br />The burn victim, who identified himself in video of the incident as 25-year-old Aaron Bushnell, reportedly succumbed to his injuries on Sunday night.</i></div><div><a href="https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/02/aaron-burned-himself-to-make-us-look-at-gaza.html#more">https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/02/aaron-burned-himself-to-make-us-look-at-gaza.html#more</a></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiy0LvJTmGQJxVOXdUAh4LgCubQ2fHd1VpFjbj4OH3zhyxl8lDqS9FcamgTj-2xDh65GJPGEWBk4iQwswMcG35YkAmJa9VREQZTZgA9N-7R1F8UQmyhq8XfdPbl-8zP0aNPMz8BlNEUQsSf-ZC7wDKZtkbC5-BZpnZPYWymx-UnciafzVUSBKqU_QmDZFMD" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="374" data-original-width="380" height="607" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiy0LvJTmGQJxVOXdUAh4LgCubQ2fHd1VpFjbj4OH3zhyxl8lDqS9FcamgTj-2xDh65GJPGEWBk4iQwswMcG35YkAmJa9VREQZTZgA9N-7R1F8UQmyhq8XfdPbl-8zP0aNPMz8BlNEUQsSf-ZC7wDKZtkbC5-BZpnZPYWymx-UnciafzVUSBKqU_QmDZFMD=w617-h607" width="617" /></a></div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="gmail_default">June 11, 1963, in front of the US Embassy in Saigon, Thích Quảng Đức burned himself to death, in peaceful protest.</div><div class="gmail_default"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%ADch_Qu%E1%BA%A3ng_%C4%90%E1%BB%A9c">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%ADch_Qu%E1%BA%A3ng_%C4%90%E1%BB%A9c</a><br /></div><div class="gmail_default"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEga2VLkb7wI7gPyf05puvjsy75pr0ltq24EER-JiTwl2b3bAx-UhIgT87IU1GriGyVmCkxMtLbXwGDuzTZKTXvyjBMzyjtNsk1Jde-bHykbkj_bca-x-2sOHDhyHkFggWpokGEpZtYqUT1c1XdIZ00QDua_CuJP2QbBc1L7YhQwa-6wER62kNSL7G6rGWV_" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="580" data-original-width="800" height="443" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEga2VLkb7wI7gPyf05puvjsy75pr0ltq24EER-JiTwl2b3bAx-UhIgT87IU1GriGyVmCkxMtLbXwGDuzTZKTXvyjBMzyjtNsk1Jde-bHykbkj_bca-x-2sOHDhyHkFggWpokGEpZtYqUT1c1XdIZ00QDua_CuJP2QbBc1L7YhQwa-6wER62kNSL7G6rGWV_=w611-h443" width="611" /></a></div><br /></div><br /></div><div><i><b>Former Prime Minister Urges Israelis To 'Besiege The Knesset' To Oust Netanyahu</b></i></div><div><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/former-prime-minister-urges-israelis-besiege-knesset-oust-netanyahu">https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/former-prime-minister-urges-israelis-besiege-knesset-oust-netanyahu</a></div><div><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span class="gmail_default"> The Christian Zionist view from last Thursday: </span></span></span><i><b>No, Virginia, Trump Has Not Lost A Step</b><span class="gmail_default"><b></b> , Roger L. Simon</span></i></div><div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>I was in the audience of two thousand plus at Nashville’s Opryland on Feb. 22 when Mr. Trump addressed the National Religious Broadcasters (NRB) for more than an hour and a half with nary a stumble, consulting a teleprompter or extemporizing as he wished.<span class="gmail_default"> </span>He was also wittier than anyone on late night television...</i></div><div><i><span class="gmail_default">..</span>Mr. Trump delivered a speech that was, in part, what many of us had heard before but skewed slightly to <b>emphasize his Christianity and, probably consequently, his deep-seated love and defense of Israel.<span class="gmail_default"> </span>He stated he “fought harder for Christians than any president has done before.”<span class="gmail_default">...</span></b></i></div><div><i>..Mr. Trump’s evolution has led him to affirm his religious faith emphatically as he did that night with statements like “Our allegiance is to our Creator. They [the Democrats] don’t get that.” Or: “They can’t stand we don’t answer to bureaucrats in Washington. We answer to God in Heaven.”...</i></div><div><i><span class="gmail_default">..</span><b>Who did accompany him, the sole person he invited to join him on stage</b>—he often invites many—<b>was his former ambassador to Israel, David Friedman</b>.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>Mr. Friedman was greeted with utmost warmth and applause by an audience largely of evangelicals who are known as the greatest friends of Israel</b>, not only in our country but arguably anywhere. (There were also a few religious Jews I spotted in the audience wearing their yarmulkes.)<span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>Mr. Friedman saluted </b>his former boss, saying,<b> “Mr. President, you are the greatest friend Israel ever had.”</b></i></div><div><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/political/no-virginia-trump-has-not-lost-step">https://www.zerohedge.com/political/no-virginia-trump-has-not-lost-step</a></div><div><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /></span></span></div><div><i><b>Former Democrat lawmaker endorses Trump for US president<span class="gmail_default"> , </span>Tulsi Gabbard has been listed among the leading Republican candidate’s possible running mates</b></i></div><div><a href="https://www.rt.com/news/593028-tulsi-gabbard-cpac/">https://www.rt.com/news/593028-tulsi-gabbard-cpac/</a></div><div><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /></span></span></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Why Possible Trump VP Pick Tulsi Gabbard Is Visiting Mar-a-Lago Soon</b></i><div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Ms. Bryan asserts: the<b> former Hawaii congresswoman’s March 7 appearance at the ritzy resort in Palm Beach</b>, Florida, is unrelated to President Trump’s big announcement involving Ms. Gabbard and others.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>On Feb. 20, President Trump, the frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination, revealed at a Fox News town hall in Greenville, S.C., that Ms. Gabbard, a former Democrat, had made his “short list” of possible running mates</b>.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Long before that revelation, Ms. Bryan had been in contact with Ms. Gabbard about serving as a guest speaker for the group’s annual gala.</i></div><div><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/political/why-possible-trump-vp-pick-tulsi-gabbard-visiting-mar-lago-soon">https://www.zerohedge.com/political/why-possible-trump-vp-pick-tulsi-gabbard-visiting-mar-lago-soon</a></div><div><br /></div><div><i><b>CIA Built "12 Secret Spy Bases" In Ukraine & Waged Shadow War For Last Decade, Bombshell NYT Report Confirms<span class="gmail_default"> </span></b></i>(Not just bioweapon labs.)</div><div><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/cia-built-12-secret-spy-bases-ukraine-waged-shadow-war-last-decade-bombshell-nyt">https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/cia-built-12-secret-spy-bases-ukraine-waged-shadow-war-last-decade-bombshell-nyt</a></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="gmail_default"> At the 2 year mark of the Special Military Operation, Ukraine has burned through 2 or 3 NATO-trained & equipped armies, extinguishing about 450,000 Ukrainian human lives, and most of the available loose military equipment and ammunition in Europe, the US, and even some from Israel. Funding has been cut off since early December. Morale is so low that exhausted Ukrainian soldiers are fleeing or surrendering, rather than fighting. The 1200 km line of contact is crumbling wherever Russian forces advance. Ukrainian (Patriot missiles and such) air defenses have been so degraded that Russian planes can rain down the huge 1000# to 3000# "FABs", fuel air bombs, remotely-targeted with satellite guidance and glide-wing kits. The Ukrainian army is not able to set up new defensive lines or hold defensive lines under devastating attack. The month of mud will soon arrive, but Russian FABs and long range artillery will not be impaired, nor will precision Russian missiles and drones. Zelensky's presidency ends at the end of March. He says he will remain in office, due to the emergency. Many think he will not, but will have to accept blame. A successor may negotiate peace with Russia.</div></div><div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Avdeevka Denouement: Russian Momentum Turning Point</b></i></div><div><a href="https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/avdeevka-denouement-russian-momentum">https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/avdeevka-denouement-russian-momentum</a></div><div><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /></span></span></div><div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>"Like A Warzone": Farmers Surround EU Headquarters Building</b></i></div><div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>The mephitis of <b>manure, melting tires and malodorous teargas pervaded downtown Brussels this Monday morning</b> as angry <b>farmers encircled the European Union's headquarters</b>. This protest coincides with a <b>meeting of the bloc's agriculture ministers</b>. The farmers are expressing their anger over the EU's disastrous green policies.<br /><b>Hundreds of Belgian farmers on tractors clogged roadways around the European Council building</b>. Videos posted on X show the chaotic scenes...<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>"There is a clear problem with the reduction of the import tariffs for Ukraine and massive imports of grain and poultry which depresses the prices,"</b> said Guillaume Van Binst, <b>secretary general of the Federation of Young Farmers. Guillaume added: "The measures proposed by the commission are very weak and it is more passing the hot potato to member states." </b>...<br />..<b>EU leaders are scrambling</b> to defuse this ticking timebomb of social unrest spreading across the bloc. They are <b>taking steps to reduce red tape and delay some green rules</b>. <b>"It can always go more quickly, But we're already working faster than usually." David Clarinval, Belgium's agriculture minister</b>, told reporters Monday. Clarinval said, <b>"One can understand the anger of the farmers. One can also understand that some are in a difficult situation. But aggression has never been a source of solutions."</b><span class="gmail_default"><b></b> </span></i>(Oh, Really?)</div><div><i><span class="gmail_default"></span></i><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/political/things-are-heating-farmers-surround-eu-headquarters-building">https://www.zerohedge.com/political/things-are-heating-farmers-surround-eu-headquarters-building</a><br /></div><div><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>EU must find ‘enormous amount’ of money to face global challenges, <span class="gmail_default"></span></b></i>(<span class="gmail_default">former </span>Goldman Sachs banker, Mario)<i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Draghi says</b></i></div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>He presented EU governments with his diagnosis: The three pillars the EU has relied on — energy from Russia, exports from China, and the U.S. defense apparatus — are no longer as solid as before, and on the green and digital transitions alone the EU would have to spend €500 billion a year. The funding gap between Europe and the United States in terms of investment is equivalent to half a trillion euros a year, and a third of that would be public money...<br /><span class="gmail_default">..</span>Draghi called for "bold action" on the matter of investments.<span class="gmail_default">.. </span><b>Draghi stressed the necessity to channel European private savings</b>, because <b>“public money will never be enough,”</b> but he also put on the table <b>options to find funds at the EU level</b>, according to the aide.<span class="gmail_default"> </span></i>("Find" funds?)<i><br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>The <b>EU could create a new common cash facility, such as debt or loans</b>, or use private partnerships where the European Investment Bank would have a role to play. <span class="gmail_default"></span></i>(Rothschild banker)<i><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>French President Emmanuel Macron and others support the idea of new common debt</b>.</i><div><a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-must-find-enormous-amount-of-money-to-face-global-challenges-draghi-says/">https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-must-find-enormous-amount-of-money-to-face-global-challenges-draghi-says/</a></div><div><br /></div><div><i><b>Crisis Can't Be Solved in Few Hours, Macron Tells Enraged Farmers Who Stormed Agri-Fair in Paris</b></i></div><div><a href="https://sputnikglobe.com/20240224/crisis-cant-be-solved-in-few-hours-macron-tells-enraged-farmers-who-stormed-agri-fair-in-paris-1116951605.html">https://sputnikglobe.com/20240224/crisis-cant-be-solved-in-few-hours-macron-tells-enraged-farmers-who-stormed-agri-fair-in-paris-1116951605.html</a></div><div><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span class="gmail_default"> Subsidies differ dramatically by country, but all subsidies support global corporate agribusiness. </span></span></span><i><b>Producers Vs Consumers: Who Do Ag Subsidies Support?</b></i></div><div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Indian farmer protests restarted in early 2024 as talks on the producers' demands to set more legally binding minimum support prices for agricultural products have broken down.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>The borders of city state and capital Delhi have been fortified but farmers from surrounding areas seem determined to push past the barricades this week armed with heavy equipment, supplies and masks to fend off tear gas deployed by police. Ahead of the presidential elections in April and May, farmers once again want to make their grievances heard.</i></div><div><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/political/producers-vs-consumers-who-do-ag-subsidies-support">https://www.zerohedge.com/political/producers-vs-consumers-who-do-ag-subsidies-support</a></div><div><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Xi isn’t destroying China’s economy – he’s changing it</b><span class="gmail_default"></span></i><div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Xi Jinping deliberately set about changing the structure of China’s economy in order to end a growth boom based solely on real estate and debt. The newspapers love to waffle on about the “real estate crisis” and Evergrande, but can you imagine how big the problem would have been had previous policies been continued and China pushed for obscene 10% growth targets based on an explosion of debt? Xi Jinping ended this and initiated a process of deleveraging which deliberately slowed down China’s economic growth to around 6% when he came to power. Why? Because debt is not a sustainable mechanism and his policy has been literally to push the real estate industry into a managed recession, even if that has short-term repercussions.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Secondly, Xi Jinping’s policy has been to reinvent China’s economy to meet upcoming challenges by transforming it from a low end, export, real estate boom economy, into a high-end technological powerhouse. Instead of investing aimlessly in local government real estate booms, China has redirected state money to building up high-value industries including renewable energy, computing, semiconductors, automobiles, aviation, among other things. It is primarily this bid to become the global technological leader (by default of size) that has triggered the backlash from the US on an economic level and thus the bid to try and cripple China’s technological advance through export controls, which in fact show little evidence of working.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>In addition to that, the global economic environment China operates in, has changed. The US has terminated its longstanding policy of open economic integration in favor of protectionism, bloc alignment, and the geopoliticization of supply chains. It has, in turn, created geopolitical conflicts with Russia and China and demanded its allies cut or reduce economic ties to the targeted countries...<br /><span class="gmail_default">..</span>The CIA for example, is relentless in trying to strengthen its presence in China, but if China arrests someone or links them to spying, the media will respond by calling Beijing paranoid, insecure and coercive, showing how the narrative will skewer the country no matter what. However, the point still remains that it is more challenging for China to grow in this environment than it was before.</i><div><a href="https://swentr.site/news/593120-xi-china-economy-destroy/">https://swentr.site/news/593120-xi-china-economy-destroy/</a><i><br /></i><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div><br /></div><div><div class="gmail_default">Meryl Nass MD explains Globalist Government via the WHO clearly and succinctly in a 15 minute monologue , <i><b>Interviews I did at CPAC</b></i></div></div><i>Veronika Kyrylenko, editor of The New American interviewed me again. 16 minutes. (I had a cold). This is a very good summary of what the WHO is trying to do.</i><div>Cue<span class="gmail_default"></span> in to 1:18, when <span class="gmail_default">Dr. Nass</span> starts explaining<span class="gmail_default">. (Sorry if you get commercials despite my efforts.) </span> <a href="https://thenewamerican.com/video/dr-meryl-nass-who-and-the-great-reset/">https://thenewamerican.com/video/dr-meryl-nass-who-and-the-great-reset/</a></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="gmail_default">Dr Nass with (incessantly brilliant conversationalist) Russel Brand and Andrew Brigden. All express themselves well, Nass and Brigden more succinctly. 1:07 (long).</div><i><b>Russell Brand interviewed Andrew Bridgen and me about the WHO--the show dropped yesterday<span class="gmail_default"> (sorry, commercials)</span></b></i><br /></div><div><a href="https://rumble.com/v4f89q0-its-all-happening-in-lockstep-meryl-nass-and-andrew-bridgen-on-who-and-exce.html">https://rumble.com/v4f89q0-its-all-happening-in-lockstep-meryl-nass-and-andrew-bridgen-on-who-and-exce.html</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="gmail_default"> Peter McCullough MD , <i><b>Springer Nature Cureus Journal of Medical Science Violates Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) Guidelines</b></i></div><i><b>Publisher Retracts Valid, High Quality, and Widely Read Cureus Paper Calling for Halt in COVID-19 Vaccination</b></i><br /></div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>The paper called for a halt in COVID-19 mass vaccination based on a valid evaluation of the evidence. It topped >330,000 views/reads/downloads in a month as compared to an average Cureus-promoted paper which has only ~2700 in a year.</i><div><a href="https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/breaking-springer-nature-cureus-journal">https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/breaking-springer-nature-cureus-journal</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="gmail_default">Old White guy (took this picture of Jenny by blooming apple tree, with peach in foreground)</div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGUUWiSYYGzLbsUaeyP8bXcpr-4kiZCZgg15SzSL2Y2P2HwlkAaEp6GTpt5uibNtkPczTFPAlb6O8zoXEwsY4DJkWeu8W04I_8521MI8dgLbppgpYY-hQRTOSJInnOpf9RAbRsmN1of6vlE5gkdCHpZ-xgrsNBG3XuW5X1uz4p6F6GVT9SS4sRCMNG5wNu/s4032/PXL_20240224_150845756.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2268" data-original-width="4032" height="343" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGUUWiSYYGzLbsUaeyP8bXcpr-4kiZCZgg15SzSL2Y2P2HwlkAaEp6GTpt5uibNtkPczTFPAlb6O8zoXEwsY4DJkWeu8W04I_8521MI8dgLbppgpYY-hQRTOSJInnOpf9RAbRsmN1of6vlE5gkdCHpZ-xgrsNBG3XuW5X1uz4p6F6GVT9SS4sRCMNG5wNu/w612-h343/PXL_20240224_150845756.jpg" width="612" /></a></div><br /><div class="gmail_default"><br /></div></div></div></div></div>John Dayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12123174297818737132noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4275885258914846834.post-54820152114607848782024-02-23T18:45:00.003-06:002024-02-23T19:11:08.919-06:00Professional Managerial Class Struggle<p> Productive Citizens,</p><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default"><br /></div><div class="gmail_default"> When I was in med school and residency, and beyond that, doctors always had the last word over administrators. That changed by the later 1990s, and it is now reversed. </div><div class="gmail_default">All Professional-Talent (including IT geeks) is now subordinated to middle managers, which impairs the ability of the professionals to perform their essential tasks. This Professional Managerial Class (PMC) is non-productive, so it can only be maintained by societal excess of production. It grows in the monopoly phase of capitalism, and its solutions usually prescribe more-middle-management. </div><div class="gmail_default"> As the non-productive managerial jobs proliferate, they must always justify their proliferation by presenting to the owner-class a picture of improved output of goods, lower cost, and improved profits, as a result of better control over workers and talent. </div><div class="gmail_default"> This presentation necessarily becomes a falsehood at some point. "I passed that point long ago.", Jackson Browne https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7s13CZVACE</div><div class="gmail_default"><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Identity and the Professional Managerial Class<span class="gmail_default"> </span></b>, This post by albrt reviews and analyzes Barbara Ehrenreich’s seminal work on the Professional Managerial Class. <span class="gmail_default"> </span></i><div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>The origins of the Professional Managerial Class lie in Napoleon creating a professional bureaucracy and standardizing education across France so as to allow for the identification of bright young men from poor families could be tracked into the grandes écoles.<span class="gmail_default">..</span></i></div><i>..Widespread identity issues tend to go hand-in-hand with social and political instability, when too many young people are not finding satisfactory options to build an identity they can live with.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Erikson said that identity takes shape in late adolescence (maybe into early adulthood if the process is difficult) based on multiple factors. Some of the most important are childhood experience, individual capacities, available ideologies, and available roles. Of these variables, ideology is a wild card because a new (or old) ideology can unexpectedly become available to the individual much more easily than any of the other variables can be changed...</i><div>..<i>What matters is that you become comfortable and confident enough with your identity that you can stop behaving like an insecure adolescent and focus on adult things like personal relationships, community, or work.<span class="gmail_default"> </span>But . . . this process sometimes goes wrong, especially at difficult periods in history. If a young person was having trouble building an identity and the issues became acute, Erikson called it an “identity crisis.” </i>...</div><i>..This brings us to the subject of today’s post—<b>the social group widely known as the Professional Managerial Class (“PMC”)</b>, a group <b>which has suffered a few different identity crises on a widespread basis</b>. The PMC was <b>christened by Barbara and John Ehrenreich in a 1977 article called The Professional Managerial Class</b> in a small journal called Radical America ...</i><div><i>..Radical America assumes some degree of familiarity with Marxist ideas, so here is a superficial review for those who came in late. <b>Marxists generally believe that society is divided into two classes: the owners of the means of production are the bourgeoisie, and everybody else who must sell their labor to survive are the proletariat</b>. <b>Marxists have always debated how to categorize people who seem to be in between</b>. The most established category of tweeners is the petty (or petite) bourgeoisie, who in the 19th century were basically mini-capitalists such as shopkeepers, tradesmen, and small property holders...</i></div><i>..The Ehrenreichs started out:<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>"The Professional-Managerial Class (“PMC”)</b>, as we will define it, <b>cannot be considered a stratum of a broader “class” of “workers”</b> because<b> it exists in an objectively antagonistic relationship to another class of wage earners</b> (whom we shall simply call the <b>“working class”</b>). Nor can it be considered to be a “residual” class like the petty bourgeoisie;<b> it is a formation specific to the monopoly stage of capitalism." </b> <span class="gmail_default">...</span></i><div><i>..We <b>define the Professional-Managerial Class as consisting of salaried mental workers</b> who do not own the means of production and whose <b>major function in the social division of labor may be described broadly as the reproduction of capitalist culture and capitalist class relations</b>.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>Their role in the process of reproduction may be more or less explicit, as with workers who are directly concerned with social control or with the production and propagation of ideology</b> (e.g., teachers, social workers, psychologists, entertainers, writers of advertising copy and TV scripts, etc.).<b> Or it may be hidden within the process of production, as is the case with the middle-level administrators and managers</b>, engineers, and other technical workers whose functions, as [Andre] Gorz, Steve Marglin, Harry Braverman and others have argued, are <b>essentially determined by the need to preserve capitalist relations of production</b>.<span class="gmail_default">..</span></i></div><i>..The Ehrenreichs highlighted the <b>inherent antagonism between the proletariat and the PMC</b>:<br /><span class="gmail_default"> "</span>We should add, at this point, that the antagonism between the PMC and the working class does not exist only in the abstract realm of “objective” relations, of course. <b>Real-life contacts between the two classes express directly, if sometimes benignly, the relation of control which is at the heart of the PMC–working-class relation</b>:<b> teacher and student (or parent)</b>, <b>manager and worker</b>, <b>social worker and client</b>, etc. <b>The subjective dimension of these contacts is a complex mixture of hostility and deference on the part of working-class people, contempt and paternalism on the part of the PMC</b>.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>The <b>interdependent yet antagonistic relationship between the working class and the PMC also leads us to insist that the PMC is a class totally distinct from the petty bourgeoisie</b> (the “old middle class” of artisans, shopkeepers, self-employed professionals and independent farmers)<span class="gmail_default">"</span>...</i><div><i><b>..Because the boundaries are not always obvious, the definition is important – the PMC is defined by its role in “the reproduction of capitalist culture and capitalist class relations” rather than production of necessary goods...</b></i></div><i>..The analytical leap that the Ehrenreichs made was not the recognition that a buffer class existed, or that it was often antagonistic to the working class. <b>The big leap was to point out that the composition of the buffer class had changed in an important way since the 19th century, and as a result the PMC was experiencing spectacular growth rather than dying out as Marx had expected the petty bourgeoisie to do</b>...</i><div><i><span class="gmail_default">..</span>The introduction of modern methods of management was a reform which was understood by contemporary observers to be part of the overall Progressive cause. In fact, <b>scientific management first became known to the public as a tool for the Progressive attack on corporate greed</b>: <b>In the “Eastern Rates” case of 1911, the Interstate Commerce Commission turned down an increase in railroad rates after scientific-management expert H. Emerson testified that proper management would cut a million dollars a day off the cost of rail shipments</b>.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>In short, <b>the PMC is defined by its expertise, and the Ehrenreichs described how belief in expertise was raised to the level of an ideology</b>.<span class="gmail_default"></span></i></div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Erik Erikson summarized his working <b>definition of ideology as “a highly charged attitude rooted essentially in a general need for a world view coherent enough to attract one’s total commitment and to render forever unnecessary the upsetting swings in mood and opinion which once [in adolescence] accompanied identity confusion.” <span class="gmail_default">...</span></b></i><div><i>..Paul Sweezy has argued that the <b>basic test of whether two families belong to the same class or not is the freedom with which they intermarry</b>. <b>The children of PMC members do overwhelmingly tend to marry within the class</b>; marriage “‘down” to the working class or “‘up” to the ruling class is comparatively infrequent. In line with the frequency of intermarriage, <b>the class exhibits a substantial degree of intergenerational stability: children of PMC families are more than twice as likely as children of working class families to themselves enter PMC occupations</b>.</i></div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Moreover, <b>the class is characterized by a common “culture” or lifestyle</b><span class="gmail_default"> </span></i>[COMPLIANCE]. <i> <b>The interior life of the class is shaped by the problem of class reproduction</b>. Unlike ruling-class occupations, PMC occupations are never directly hereditary...<br />..<b>As a result of the anxiety about class reproduction, all of the ordinary experiences of life – growing up, giving birth, childraising-are freighted with an external significance unknown in other classes</b>. <b>Private life thus becomes too arduous to be lived in private</b>; the inner life of the PMC must be continuously shaped, updated and revised by – of course – <b>ever mounting numbers of experts: experts in childraising, family living, sexual fulfillment, self-realization, etc</b>., etc. <b>The very insecurity of the class, then, provides new ground for class expansion</b>.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>The PMC is capable of expanding at the expense of the other two classes by constantly identifying social and technical problems, and creating new experts to solve them</b>. That gives the <b>PMC a class interest distinct from the interests of either the bourgeoisie or the proletariat</b>. <b>The cultural component of capitalism is precisely the product that the PMC is in charge of producing</b> under the Ehrenreich definition, so to some extent they should control their own destiny. <b> But it isn’t a durable product so it needs constant care and maintenance.</b><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>The “anxiety about class reproduction” has only grown since 1977</b>, and the <b>“insecurity” has blossomed</b> among PMC offspring...</i><div><i>..But the PMC was not only a victim of more powerful groups. <b>It had also fallen into a trap of its own making. The prolonged, expensive, and specialized education required for professional employment had always been a challenge to PMC families</b>—as well, of course, as an often insuperable barrier to the working class. <b> If the children of the PMC were to achieve the same class status as their parents, they had to be accustomed to obedience in the classroom and long hours of study</b>...</i></div><i>..KLG ... expressed this feeling a little more bluntly in a review of Catherine Liu’s <b>The Virtue Hoarders: the Case Against the Professional Managerial Class</b>:<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>The “good enough” mother and father are likely to produce a human being who will grow into a mature adult who is at one with the world</b>. <b>The perfect helicopter parent often produces fear and misery</b>, which with lucky outcomes will not lead to catastrophe. But <b>few of those bathed in the backwash of that rotor, however outwardly successful, are likely to ever be fully independent.<span class="gmail_default">..</span></b></i><div><i>..<b>The PMC gradually moved more and more toward the neoliberal version of rationality—something along the lines of “him who grabs the fastest gets the mostest.”</b> In her book Fear of Falling, the Inner Life of the Middle Class (Harper Perennial ed. 1989), Barbara Ehrenreich wrote that her theme was<b> “the retreat from liberalism and the rise, in the professional middle class, of a meaner, more selfish outlook, hostile to the aspirations of those less fortunate.”</b>...</i></div><i>..By 1989, Ehrenreich maintained that <b>the PMC had achieved class consciousness, aware “of being a class among others, and, ultimately, of being an elite above others. . . . [T]his emerging self-image has led to . . . the adoption of the kind of political outlook appropriate to an elite, which is a conservative outlook, and ultimately indifferent to the nonelite majority.” </b> Fear of Falling at 11. <b>Yet “[i]f this is an elite, it is an insecure and deeply anxious one.</b> It is afraid, like any class below the most securely wealthy, of misfortunes that might lead to a downward slide. <b> But in the middle class there is another anxiety: a fear of inner weakness, of growing soft, of failing to strive, of losing discipline and will.”<span class="gmail_default">...</span></b></i><div><i>.<span class="gmail_default">.</span>In their 2013 article, the Ehrenreichs argued that <b>substantial portions of the PMC were being squashed and proletarianized</b> after all.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>By the time of the financial meltdown and <b>deep recession of the post-2008 period, the pain inflicted by neoliberal policies, both public and corporate, extended well beyond the old industrial working class and into core segments of the PMC. Unemployed and underemployed professional workers—from IT to journalism, academia, and eventually law</b>—became a regular feature of the social landscape.<span class="gmail_default">..</span><b> The old PMC dream of a society rule by impartial “experts” gave way to the reality of inescapable corporate domination.<span class="gmail_default">..</span></b></i></div><div><span face="Optima, sans-serif" style="color: #333333;"><span class="gmail_default">.</span></span><i><b>.The Ehrenreichs seemed to have lost track of their original PMC definition—if you want to know whether college educated workers are part of the PMC, the question to ask is whether they are engaged in reproducing capitalist culture and capitalist class relations rather than producing necessary goods?<span class="gmail_default"> ...</span><span class="gmail_default"><br /></span></b></i></div><i>..The fact is,<b> the PMC is continuing to grow in numbers, but it is not achieving socialism, and it is also not achieving the liberal/neoliberal dream of enlarging the PMC’s share</b> of the economic pie <b>or delivering good economic outcomes to all the little PMCs</b> who work hard and hew to the PMC line. <b>The PMC ideology was difficult for many people to incorporate into a firm identity to begin with, and now it is failing outright because the credentialing process does not reliably produce acceptable role opportunities for individuals</b>...</i><div><i>..<b>The bourgeoisie figured out that they could kneecap the smart alec PMC experts politically with a caricature</b> that is really not all that much of a caricature. <b>The PMC are the bossy gatekeepers that everybody hates, and they have lost most vestiges of their (real or feigned) mid-twentieth century concern for the welfare of the proletariat</b>. The current <b>PMC pretty uniformly regards the working class as deplorable</b>.<span class="gmail_default">..</span></i></div><div><span face="Optima, sans-serif" style="color: #333333;"><span class="gmail_default">.</span></span><i>.<b>The essence of the PMC ideology is a giant jobs program for bureaucrats and experts,</b> not socialism that would benefit the poor or subsistence workers. <b>If you substitute “PMC managerialism” for the word socialism in right-wing rhetoric, then the proletarian/deplorable reaction to a lot of things starts to be a little bit more understandable.</b> <b>Every issue that is dear to the PMC, from climate change to forced diversity, can be interpreted by the working class as just another excuse for the PMC to boss the working class around.</b>..<span class="gmail_default"><br /></span></i></div><i>..The PMC is minimally organized as a class and acts in its own class interest only in the very broadest terms. <b> It is second nature for the PMC to view creating more rules and more PMC jobs enforcing those rules as the solution to every problem, but the PMC appear to have no competent class leadership or strategy to keep the proliferating PMC jobs from being devalued and proletarianized.</b> They are being squeezed economically, and <b>we are going through a phase where neither the bourgeoisie nor the proletariat is listening to the PMC’s expert pronouncements.</b> In fact, <b>the bourgeoisie and the proletariat seem to be uniting behind, of all people, the anti-expert, Donald Trump!</b></i><div><a href="https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/02/identity-and-the-professional-managerial-class.html">https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/02/identity-and-the-professional-managerial-class.html</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div><br /></div><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>War Guilt in the Middle East<span class="gmail_default"> , </span>By Murray N. Rothbard</b><i>, Source: Left and Right: A Journal of Libertarian Thought, Spring-Autumn 1967.</i><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-style: italic;"> </span><i>After World War I, Great Britain seized control of Palestine and used its sovereign power to promote, encourage, and abet the expropriation of Arab lands for Zionist use and for Zionist immigration. Often old Turkish land titles would be dredged up and purchased cheaply, thus expropriating the Arab peasantry on behalf of European Zionist immigration. Into the heart of the peasant and nomadic Arab world of the Middle East there thus came as colonists, and on the backs and on the bayonets of British imperialism, a largely European colonizing people.</i><br /><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>While Zionism was now committed to Palestine as a Jewish National Home, it was not yet committed to the aggrandizement of an independent Jewish state in Palestine. Indeed, only a minority of Zionists favored a Jewish state, and many of these had broken off from official Zionism, under the influence of Vladimir Jabotinsky, to form the Zionist-Revisionist movement to agitate for a Jewish state to rule historic ancient Palestine on both sides of the Jordan River. It is not surprising that Jabotinsky expressed great admiration for the militarism and the social philosophy of Mussolini’s fascism.</i><br /><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>At the other wing of Zionism were the cultural Zionists, who opposed the idea of a political Jewish state. In particular, the Ihud (Unity) movement, centered around Martin Buber and a group of distinguished Jewish intellectuals from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, advocated, when the British should leave, a binational Jewish-Arab state in Palestine, with neither religious group to dominate the other, but both to work in peace and harmony to build the land of Palestine.</i><br /><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>But the inner logic of Zionism was not to be brooked. In the tumultuous World Zionist convention at New York’s Hotel Biltmore in 1942, Zionism, for the first time, adopted the goal of a Jewish state in Palestine, and nothing less. The extremists had won out. From then on, there was to </i>be permanent<i> crisis in the Middle East.</i></div><div><a href="https://www.lewrockwell.com/2024/02/murray-n-rothbard/war-guilt-in-the-middle-east-2/">https://www.lewrockwell.com/2024/02/murray-n-rothbard/war-guilt-in-the-middle-east-2/</a><i><br /></i></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="gmail_default"> Jeffrey Sachs, <i><b>Will Netanyahu Bring Down Biden? </b></i>(I would always put "Biden" in quotation marks, myself)</div><i><b>The U.S. president needs to take back U.S. policy from the Israel lobby and should stop backing Israel’s extremist and utterly illegal policies.</b></i><br /></div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>The cabinet of Israel’s Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu is filled with religious extremists who believe that Israel’s brutality in Gaza is at God’s command</b>. According to the Book of Joshua in the Hebrew Bible, dated by scholars to the 7th century BC, God promised the land to the Jewish people and instructed them to destroy the other nations living in the promised land... <b>Netanyahu pursues the religious ideology of 7th century BC in the 21st century.</b><span class="gmail_default">..</span></i></div><div dir="ltr"><i><span class="gmail_default">..</span><b>The vast majority of the world today, including the vast majority of Americans, are certainly not in line with Israel’s religious zealots</b>. The world is far more interested in the 1948 Genocide Convention than in the genocides supposedly ordained by God in the Book of Joshua. They don’t accept the Biblical idea that Israel should kill or expel the people of Palestine from their own land. <b>The two-state solution is the declared policy of the world community, as enshrined by the UN Security Council, and of the U.S. government.<span class="gmail_default"> </span></b>President <b>Joe Biden is therefore caught between the powerful Israel Lobby and the opinion of American voters and of the world community</b>.<span class="gmail_default">..</span></i></div><i><span class="gmail_default">..</span>So far, <b>Biden is going along with AIPAC</b>, even as he loses younger voters. In an Economist/YouGov poll of January 21-23,<b> 49% of those aged 19-29 held that Israel is committing a genocide against the Palestinian civilians</b>. Only 22% said that in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, their sympathies are with Israel, versus 30% with Palestine, and the remaining 48% “about equal” or unsure. <b>Only 21% agreed with increasing military aid to Israel</b>. Israel has utterly alienated younger Americans.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>While Biden has called for peace based on the two-state solution and a reduction of violence in Gaza, Netanyahu has brazenly brushed Biden aside, provoking Biden to call Netanyahu an asshole on several occasions</b>. Yet it is Netanyahu, not Biden, who still calls the shots in Washington.<span class="gmail_default">..</span></i><div><i>..<b>Biden needs to take back U.S. policy from the Israel lobby</b>. The U.S. should stop backing Israel’s extremist and utterly illegal policies. <b>Nor should the U.S. spend any more funds on Israel unless and until Israel lives within international law, including the Genocide Convention</b>, and 21st century ethics.<b> Biden should side with the UN Security Council in calling for an immediate ceasefire</b> and indeed in calling for <b>an immediate move to the two-state solution, including recognition of Palestine as the 194th UN member state</b>, a move that is more than a decade overdue since Palestine requested UN membership in 2011.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>Israeli leaders have shown not the slightest compunction in killing tens of thousands of innocent civilians, displacing 2 million Gazans, and calling for ethnic cleansing</b>.<span class="gmail_default"> </span></i><a href="https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/will-netanyahu-bring-down-biden">https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/will-netanyahu-bring-down-biden</a></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="gmail_default"> Same stuff, "no Palestinian State", now written down. <i><b>Netanyahu Finally Presents Gaza Post-War Plan To Cabinet & It's Sure To Anger Biden Admin</b></i></div></div><i>The operation will continue until Israeli forces achieve the "complete demilitarization" of the Strip "beyond what is required for the needs of maintaining public order."</i><div><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/netanyahu-finally-presents-gaza-post-war-plan-cabinet-its-sure-anger-biden-admin">https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/netanyahu-finally-presents-gaza-post-war-plan-cabinet-its-sure-anger-biden-admin</a><i><br /></i></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="gmail_default">It is the standing international law... <i><b>China's 'Shock' Statement: Palestinians Have Right To Use 'Armed Force' Against Israel</b></i></div></div><div class="gmail_default"><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/chinas-shock-statement-palestinians-have-right-use-armed-force-against-israel">https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/chinas-shock-statement-palestinians-have-right-use-armed-force-against-israel</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div class="gmail_default"><br /></div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Gilbert Doctorow, Russian expert: <b>UN agency for Palestinian refugees at ‘breaking point’: Press TV, Iran</b><br /> I recommend this 10 minute video both for what the presenter and my fellow panelist said as they described <b>Israel’s unconscionable efforts to destroy UNRWA, the main provider of humanitarian assistance to Palestinians inside and outside of Gaza</b>, and also to what I was allowed to say regarding how this tragedy may yet be brought to a halt if the war widens, rather than contracts.<br /> <b>Most of humanity is outraged by what Israel is doing in Gaza. But governments in the region have not taken military action</b> against Israel to save the Palestinians. The only forces that have acted are non state forces of Hezbollah in Lebanon and the Houthis in Yemen. Everyone else is reasonably fearful of getting involved in a hot war with Israel given the vast destructive force that Tel Aviv commands, not to mention its nuclear arsenal...</i><div><i>..As I say in this interview, Israel may yet be brought to heel because of the now irrational, hubristic mentality of Natanyahu and his cabinet. <b>Netanyahu seems to want a wider war to hold onto power, and perhaps he should get one because only a real war can stop the genocide</b>.<br /> The wider war may yet come from the side of the Hout<span class="gmail_default">h</span>is. <b>From what looked like pitiful volleys of drones and missiles that were easily shot down</b> by U.S. air defense several weeks ago, we saw how<b> the Houtsis have in the past week seriously damaged a Qatari oil tanker, forcing its crew to abandon ship, and how they sank a British freighter in the Red Sea. Now, I understand that the Houthis have successfully attacked Eilat. We may suppose that their weaponry has been greatly improved, and how can that be? It is improbable that Iran would step in, due to the risks posed by the U.S. naval force in the Med. But it is well possible that the Russians are assisting the Houthis in the spirit of tit for tat, paying Britain and the U.S. back for their proxy war on Russia in Ukraine</b>. If this conflict expands, if the fight between Hezbollah and the IDF becomes a war, then <b>we may witness the showdown that will distract Israel from genocide and focus its attention on its own survival as a state</b>.</i></div><div><a href="https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2024/02/23/un-agency-for-palestinian-refugees-at-breaking-point-press-tv-iran/">https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2024/02/23/un-agency-for-palestinian-refugees-at-breaking-point-press-tv-iran/</a><i><br /></i></div><div><br /></div><div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>The Yemeni rebel movement Ansar Allah (the Houthis) has put a number of shipping and insurance companies on notice that US and UK vessels will not be allowed to sail across the Red and Arabian Seas, Reuters reported.</b><br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>According to the news agency, the Houthi-formed Humanitarian Operations Center has issued notifications to shipping and insurance companies warning them that <b>US-and UK-flagged ships or ships owned by US and UK individuals or legal entities are banned from entering the Red and Arabian Seas, as well as the Gulf of Aden. The ban also applies to ships registered in or linked with Israel.</b></i><div><a href="https://tass.com/world/1750457">https://tass.com/world/1750457</a></div></div><div><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>US has no real leverage on Israel, says Russia's UN ambassador</b></i><div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>"Washington's so-called diplomatic efforts on the ground that our American colleagues keep repeating like some mantra, have led nowhere so far. It is obvious that Washington simply has no levers of real influence on the government of Israel," the UN ambassador said.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>"The authorities in West Jerusalem are declaring in no uncertain terms that that mopping up of the enclave will take several more months, making calls for continuing the military operation, the withdrawal of the UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East - TASS) from the enclave and the forced displacement of Palestinians from the places of their permanent residence,"</i><div><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1750575">https://tass.com/politics/1750575</a><br /></div><div><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Red lines: Will Iran enter the regional war?</b><br />Despite Tehran's central role in the Axis of Resistance, which has launched regionwide operations against Israel and its US ally,<b> the Islamic Republic refuses to rise to the enemy's bait and make itself a central target</b>.</i></div><div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Tehran’s envoy to the UN later clarified that<b> the Islamic Republic would only intervene in the Gaza war if the occupation state were to jeopardize Iranian interests or citizens</b>. <br />Given the events of the past four months, this raises the question: What are Iran's red lines, and at what point would Tehran opt for direct confrontation?<span class="gmail_default"> ...</span></i></div><i>..<b>Many in Tehran believe the Gaza war is orchestrated in Washington, with the US serving as Israel's primary advocate in global arenas like the UN Security Council. As such, Iran aims to undermine US influence by exacerbating divisions between Washington and Tel Aviv.</b><span class="gmail_default">..</span></i><div><i><span class="gmail_default">..</span><b>Last week, a major attack was carried out on Iran's national gas transmission pipelines. Iranian Oil Minister Javad Oji called the pipeline explosions in three regions "sabotage and terrorist attacks"</b> and said the enemy's plan was to disrupt gas supply to several cities and main provinces during the winter to ignite social and political unrest across the country. <br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>While no country has claimed responsibility,<b> a New York Times report names Israel as the culprit, citing several western official sources</b>. Despite the severity of the attacks, Iran's critical gas transmission capacity was safeguarded, preventing widespread energy crises.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>Yet even these attacks didn’t cross Iran's red lines because this act of vandalism – intent on destroying about 40 percent of the country's gas transmission</b> capacity and creating an energy crisis – <b>was immediately thwarted</b>...</i><div><i><span class="gmail_default">..</span><b>If Israel pushes Iran's Palestinian allies to the limit, it appears that Tehran would pursue a relative, restrictive, short-term, and mid-term response</b>.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>In the interim, the<b> assertive military reactions from Iranian allies – including Hezbollah in Lebanon, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, factions operating in Iraq and Syria, and the Ansarallah-aligned armed forces in Yemen – serve as a stick to confront Israel's aggressive stance autonomously</b>, even in the absence of direct instructions from Iran.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>While Washington and Tel Aviv claim they wish to avoid opening new fronts, on the ground, they are gearing up for military confrontation and have already escalated on various fronts</b>.<span class="gmail_default">..</span><br />.<span class="gmail_default">.</span>Today, <b>Iran's adversarial stance seems to be more focused on the US rather than Israel. Via regional intermediaries, Tehran hopes to broker agreements with Washington to secure a ceasefire and alleviate Israel's pressure on Gaza</b>. A common view among Iranians is that the pursuit of <b>"legitimate defense" is preferable to engaging in a wider regional conflict</b>, as prolonged internal crises within Israel could ultimately work in Iran's favor.</i><br /></div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Drawing from past conflicts, particularly the Hezbollah–Israeli battles in south Lebanon, <b>Iran sees potential in eroding both Israel's internal power and external support. This strategy intends to gradually force the occupation state to retreat from its aggressive posture in the region</b><span class="gmail_default"><b></b>..</span>.</i><div><i>..<b>Although a “preemptive attack” has already been proposed if Israel continues its assault on Gaza, Iran's strategic partners in Moscow and Beijing have not declared their full support for direct war. Therefore, Tehran is likely to avoid divergence with Russia and China</b> in the event of major international crises..</i><i>.</i></div><div><i>..As the Commander-in-Chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said in January, <b>although Iran is not seeking war, it will not leave any threat unanswered</b>.</i></div><div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>It must be noted that <b>Iran sees the war in Gaza through a realist, long-term lens and not an ideological point of view</b>. This highlights a critical reality: while Iran makes efforts to maintain a delicate balance of threats without plunging into direct warfare, the potential for direct actions and reactions to spiral out of control remains ever-present. <br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>Iran has thus far calculated that neither Washington nor Israel would risk direct attacks on its territory</b>. However, the <b>mutual risk of miscalculation on both sides</b> could lead to a gradual escalation into direct warfare.</i></div></div><div><a href="https://thecradle.co/articles/red-lines-will-iran-enter-the-regional-war">https://thecradle.co/articles/red-lines-will-iran-enter-the-regional-war</a><i><br /></i></div><div><br /></div><i><b>Bundestag backs resolution calling for supplies of ‘long-range weapons’ to Kiev<span class="gmail_default"> </span></b></i>(but removed <span class="gmail_default">specific </span>reference to the Taurus long range cruise missile.)<div><a href="https://tass.com/world/1750475">https://tass.com/world/1750475</a><br /></div><div><br /></div><i><b>Czech farmers join protest against EU’s agricultural policy</b><br />National protests are organized by major farmers associations led by the Czech Agrarian Chamber, with more than 2,000 agricultural vehicles being involved in the protests<span class="gmail_default">.</span></i><div><a href="https://tass.com/world/1750355">https://tass.com/world/1750355</a><i><span class="gmail_default"><br /></span></i></div><div><br /></div><i><b>CBP Seizes 6.5 Tons Of Meth In Eagle Pass, Largest Haul Ever At A Port Of Entry</b></i><div><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/political/cbp-siezes-65-tons-meth-eagle-pass-largest-seizure-made-port-entry">https://www.zerohedge.com/political/cbp-siezes-65-tons-meth-eagle-pass-largest-seizure-made-port-entry</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>"Unprecedented": Now-Fired CBS Reporter Who Investigated Biden Laptop Story Has Personal Files Seized By Network</b></i><div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Reporter Catherine Herridge of CBS had "her personal files seized by the network" in what is being called an "unprecedented" move. Herridge was investigating the Hunter Biden laptop story prior to her firing.<span class="gmail_default"> </span>Last week she was one of about 20 staffers fired from CBS as part of cuts at parent company Paramount.</i></div><div><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/unprecedented-now-fired-cbs-reporter-who-investigated-biden-laptop-story-has-personal-files">https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/unprecedented-now-fired-cbs-reporter-who-investigated-biden-laptop-story-has-personal-files</a><i><br /></i></div><div><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Joe Biden's EV Mandate "Vision" For America Is In Full Collapse</b></i><div><i><span class="gmail_default"> I</span>n the year and a half since passing the Inflation Reduction Act, automakers are finding out the hard way that the rigorous criteria for manufacturing batteries using materials from the United States and its free-trade allies could render them cost-inefficient compared to global competitors.</i></div><div><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/joe-bidens-ev-vision-america-falling-apart">https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/joe-bidens-ev-vision-america-falling-apart</a><i><br /></i></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="gmail_default"> Charles Hugh Smith, <i><b>How the Economy Changed: There's No Bargains Left Anywhere </b></i>(Additional thanks to the PMC for helping so "expertly".)</div><i><b>What changed in the economy is now nobody can afford to get by on working-class wages because there's no longer any bargains.</b></i><br /></div><div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span></b>Many people are spending half or 2/3 of after-tax earnings on rent. Personally, I was only able to work my way through college because there were still nooks and crannies of low-rent dives and rooming houses, and low-cost hole-in-the-wall restaurants and cafes, day-old baked goods outlets, etc.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Lowering the cost of credit for corporations, financiers and the wealthy created unprecedented competition for places to invest all this nearly free money, and real estate has long been a favored market for those seeking to increase income and appreciation by gentrifying low-cost properties.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>The net result is nobody can afford to start a business because rents, insurance, fees, utilities and regulatory compliance are all unaffordable<span class="gmail_default">.</span></i></div><div><a href="https://charleshughsmith.substack.com/p/how-the-economy-changed-theres-no">https://charleshughsmith.substack.com/p/how-the-economy-changed-theres-no</a><i><span class="gmail_default"><br /></span></i></div><div><br /></div><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Pfizer Secretly Studied a Heart Damage Marker, Troponin I, in Five- to 15-Year-Olds, Following mRNA COVID Vaccination in 2021.</b><div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>It became clear by February 2021 that a myocarditis safety signal was in the data and in scientific research ‘in press’ – meaning, scientific research which had passed peer review and been accepted for publication but that was not in print. In fact, the Israeli Ministry of Health alerted the CDC to a myocarditis safety signal on February 28, 2021.</i></div><div><a href="https://behindthefdacurtain.substack.com/p/report-94-pfizer-secretly-studied">https://behindthefdacurtain.substack.com/p/report-94-pfizer-secretly-studied</a></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="gmail_default"> I know of only one pregnant patient who got this vaccine. 12 hours later her amniotic membranes ruptured, labor was induced and she developed preeclampsia. A fluke?</div></div><i><b>FDA Approved First Vaccine for Pregnant Women to Prevent RSV in Infants Six Months Old and Younger</b><br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Though this is not a Pfizer or Moderna COVID vaccine report, it offers vital information on a Pfizer vaccine targeting a once protected group -- pregnant women and their unborn babies.</i><div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>"Among maternal participants, the incidences of serious adverse events through 6 months after injection were similar in the two groups; <b>the most frequent were preeclampsia (in 1.8% of participants in the vaccine group and 1.4% of those in the placebo group) and fetal distress syndrome (in 1.8% and 1.6%, respectively)."</b><br /><b>"The incidences of premature delivery were similar in the two groups (28 cases [0.8%] in the vaccine group and 23 cases [0.6%] in the placebo group)."</b></i></div><div><a href="https://behindthefdacurtain.substack.com/p/fda-approved-first-vaccine-for-pregnant">https://behindthefdacurtain.substack.com/p/fda-approved-first-vaccine-for-pregnant</a><b><i><br /></i></b><div><br /></div><div><span class="gmail_default">(</span>There was an X 6.3<span class="gmail_default"> solar flare</span> last night) <i><b>3 X Class Solar Flares, Satellite/Network Issues, Biggest Flare of the Cycle | S0 News Feb.23.2024</b></i><br /></div><div class="gmail_default"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqLP_-OUeQo">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqLP_-OUeQo</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div></div><div class="gmail_default"><br /></div><div><div class="gmail_default"><br /></div><div class="gmail_default">Unvaccinated Deplorable (pictured today with tomato starts)</div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1aGUYRz6XYqIYjHAiGOAV1lh7W0nqZCc-Cqi4Gs4I1QqDaPMKYAlDCxuAK4fmPLqJ7F92CpNdBSm7WxtQ2CS6vVIdbQYf5H2r4txCtblyQJKzkK-sr0Plr8apZYfw8gHQgzjmlpxk_oGXTSGSnUzw88MaXx5HEgTptxjSIrbrlbH_XMFmGz7nJwnxve50/s4032/PXL_20240223_232138769.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2268" data-original-width="4032" height="347" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1aGUYRz6XYqIYjHAiGOAV1lh7W0nqZCc-Cqi4Gs4I1QqDaPMKYAlDCxuAK4fmPLqJ7F92CpNdBSm7WxtQ2CS6vVIdbQYf5H2r4txCtblyQJKzkK-sr0Plr8apZYfw8gHQgzjmlpxk_oGXTSGSnUzw88MaXx5HEgTptxjSIrbrlbH_XMFmGz7nJwnxve50/w618-h347/PXL_20240223_232138769.jpg" width="618" /></a></div><br /><div class="gmail_default"><br /></div>John Dayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12123174297818737132noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4275885258914846834.post-19882101260785516502024-02-22T19:47:00.001-06:002024-02-22T20:41:06.036-06:00Two Might Play That Game<p> <span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #222222;">Playing With Fireworks,</span></p><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Gilbert Doctorow on new weapons in Yemeni hands: <i><b>Britain’s failed submarine launch of a nuclear missile set against its proxy war with Russia</b></i></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="gmail_default"> </span>As I pointed out in this interview, these problems of underfunding and poor maintenance are not the only serious challenges the Navy is facing. <b>A new threat has just arisen in connection with the determination of the Houthis in Yemen to fight back against the U.S. and U.K. naval presence in the Red Sea</b> and the recent air and missile attacks on Yemen of these two nations. From the early days of the Houthi actions, when their drones and missiles were intercepted by U.S. air defense installations on board their fleet in the Red Sea, <b>we see that the Houthis have in the past week become far more effective: a Qatari oil tanker was set aflame, compelling the crew to abandon ship, and a British owned commercial vessel is said to have been sunk.</b> Moreover we are told that <b>the Houthis are now in possession of submarine and surface drones capable of sinking ships</b>. <b>It is an open question where this new capability has come from</b>. In the interview <b>I venture the guess that the Russians are helping, in the spirit that two sides can play at the game of proxy wars</b>.</i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://gilbertdoctorow.substack.com/p/britains-failed-submarine-launch&source=gmail&ust=1708735682070000&usg=AOvVaw02tykU7Ev64DJZwCzlzgOQ" href="https://gilbertdoctorow.substack.com/p/britains-failed-submarine-launch" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://gilbertdoctorow.<wbr></wbr>substack.com/p/britains-<wbr></wbr>failed-submarine-launch</a><i><br /></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Another UK Ship On Fire Near Yemen As Sea Becomes Littered With Disabled Tankers</b></i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>The US military confirmed Tuesday that two US-owned tankers were struck the day prior. Such attacks are now coming several times a day.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>On Thursday the Pentagon said its coalition ships in the Red Sea intercepted six more drones over waters off Yemen. This came after another UK-owned ship was struck, and is reportedly burning and immobile some 70 nautical miles southeast of Aden.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>A new United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) agency alert said the British-owned, Palau-flagged ship was hit by two missiles while en route from Thailand to Egypt.</i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/another-uk-ship-fire-yemen-sea-becomes-littered-disabled-tankers&source=gmail&ust=1708735682070000&usg=AOvVaw3GPe0igNm0U4ihNUlAl8Bm" href="https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/another-uk-ship-fire-yemen-sea-becomes-littered-disabled-tankers" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://www.zerohedge.com/<wbr></wbr>geopolitical/another-uk-ship-<wbr></wbr>fire-yemen-sea-becomes-<wbr></wbr>littered-disabled-tankers</a><i><br /></i><div><div><br /></div><span class="gmail_default"> </span>How much have Russia and Iran been cooperating in missile technology, and for how long?<span class="gmail_default"> </span><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Iran Sends Russia Hundreds Of Ballistic Missiles</b></i><div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>The report alleged an <b>estimated 400 missiles, mostly from the Fateh-110 family</b> of short-range ballistic weapons, have been provided. <b>These are mobile-launched and have a range of up to 435 miles</b>.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>"The shipments began in early January after a deal was finalized in meetings late last year between Iranian and Russian military and security officials that took place in Tehran and Moscow, one of the Iranian sources say,"</b> according the report.<span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>“There will be more shipments,” </b>one Iranian official has boasted. <b>"There is no reason to hide it. We are allowed to export weapons to any country that we wish to."</b></i></div><div><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/iran-sends-russia-hundreds-ballistic-missiles-washington-powerless&source=gmail&ust=1708735682070000&usg=AOvVaw2YoHnalCW-LB8TTYqp7R1A" href="https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/iran-sends-russia-hundreds-ballistic-missiles-washington-powerless" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://www.zerohedge.com/<wbr></wbr>geopolitical/iran-sends-<wbr></wbr>russia-hundreds-ballistic-<wbr></wbr>missiles-washington-powerless</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="gmail_default"> Gilbert Doctorow looks at longer-range "Hail Mary" weapons in small numbers for Ukraine, as it starts to implode from 2 years of massive losses: </div><i><b>German parliament to vote on delivery of long-range air-borne missiles to Kiev</b></i><br /></div></div></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="gmail_default"> </span>The Biden administration is saying behind closed doors that it is <b>ready to ship to Ukraine its 500 km version of Himars</b>. The difference between the two missile systems is that <b>Himars is ground launched</b> from an artillery rocket system while <b>Taurus is air launched</b>. In practical terms, given the devastation that the Russians have inflicted on most every military air field in Ukraine and given the drastically diminished fleet of suitable jets owned by the Ukrainians today, <b>the launch vehicles for Taurus might have to be F-16s or other planes based in Romania or another NATO country</b>, which becomes<b> a very risky proposition</b>..<span class="gmail_default">.</span></i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span class="gmail_default">..</span>If the United States and Germany do indeed opt to send such long-range missiles to Ukraine,<b> the expert believes that Russia will have to abandon its hitherto ‘humane’ conduct of the war and become similarly vicious</b>. Specifically, he is recommending Russian missiles targeting the Rada (parliament) building in Kiev, leveling it to the ground, the Ukrainian central bank and other decision making centers.<span class="gmail_default">..</span></i></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">..The <b>hopeful signs come from the growing awareness of military officials, politicians and even some media outlets in the West that the struggle of Ukraine against Russia is a hopeless cause</b>, as demonstrated by the major Russian victory in Avdeevka and the Russian advances on the ground and at other parts of the 1200<span class="gmail_default"> kilometer</span> line of contact.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>I put in this context the following <b>amazing remarks by Donald Trump during a campaign talk yesterday</b>. Said Trump: <b>“Russia defeated Napoleon. Russia defeated Hitler. Russia has a military machine.” </b> For those who have been nodding off for the past decade or so, <b>Trump just said what no other American or European politician has admitted over that decade: namely that Russia defeated Hitler</b>, not the Americans by their Normandy landing...</i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span class="gmail_default">..</span>Meanwhile, it is no secret that <b>Zelensky is coming under intense challenges at home</b>, and even within his Servant of the People group of Rada deputies.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>Zelensky has cancelled the constitutionally mandated presidential elections in April </b>and, and none other than <b>his predecessor as president Piotr Poroshenko publicly asserted a day ago that Zelensky will have lost his right to hold office after 31 March</b>. With the dismissal of General Zaluzhny as chief of the armies, <b>Zelensky now bears on his own shoulders the shame and disgrace of defeat at Avdeevka and of the further territorial losses that are sure to follow</b> in the days ahead.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>For these reasons, it is entirely conceivable that <b>with or without any further deliveries of money and weapons to Kiev the government will fall and whoever takes charge will be empowered to enter into talks with the Russians over capitulation</b>.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>Should that happen in April or May, the preconditions will be set for a possibly dramatic shift away from the Center Right European Peoples Party and Center Left Socialists and Democrats in elections to the European parliament</b> in June. <b>These are the parties that have turned the European parliament into a rubber stamp of Cold War ideologists.</b></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2024/02/22/german-parliament-to-vote-on-delivery-of-long-range-air-borne-missiles-to-kiev/&source=gmail&ust=1708735682070000&usg=AOvVaw0pzy0kmRWObpAWKCP9iHpQ" href="https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2024/02/22/german-parliament-to-vote-on-delivery-of-long-range-air-borne-missiles-to-kiev/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://gilbertdoctorow.com/<wbr></wbr>2024/02/22/german-parliament-<wbr></wbr>to-vote-on-delivery-of-long-<wbr></wbr>range-air-borne-missiles-to-<wbr></wbr>kiev/</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div class="gmail_default"> Eleni sends some Andrew Korybko posts: <i><b>Is The West Plotting A False Flag Provocation In Poland To Blame On Russia & Belarus? </b></i>(Who would believe it?)</div></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Poland might very well be put up by its dual American-German patrons into carrying out <b>a possible false flag provocation in order to generate popular support for the bloc’s rapid militarization plans aimed at building “Fortress Europe”</b>.</i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://korybko.substack.com/p/is-the-west-plotting-a-false-flag&source=gmail&ust=1708735682070000&usg=AOvVaw0veRb0IAhdbX0YbveuuGg-" href="https://korybko.substack.com/p/is-the-west-plotting-a-false-flag" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://korybko.substack.com/<wbr></wbr>p/is-the-west-plotting-a-<wbr></wbr>false-flag</a><i><br /></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>A Top EU Think Tank’s Poll Proved That Polish Views Towards Ukraine Are Noticeably Shifting</b></i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>When asked what’s the most <b>likely outcome of the Ukrainian Conflict, 17% of Poles said that it’ll end in Ukrainian victory, 14% said that it’ll end in Russia’s, while 27% said that it’ll end in compromise</b>. To the question of <b>what Europe should do, 47% favored supporting Ukraine until it reconquered all its lost lands</b> compared to <b>23% who said that it should push Kiev to negotiate peace</b> with Moscow. <b>About the Ukrainians themselves, 40% see them as a threat versus 27% who see them as an opportunity</b>.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Only <b>16% of Poles would be very or fairly pleased if Trump returns to power while 41% would be very or fairly displeased </b>by that scenario.<b> If he limits support for Ukraine, 31% of Poles want the EU to replace lost aid as much as possible</b> so that Kiev can keep fighting, <b>25% want EU aid to remain unchanged</b>, and <b>19% want them to follow in the US’ footsteps by scaling back aid and promoting peace</b>. As a whole, <b>34% of Poles think that the EU played a positive role so far compared to 31% who think it’s been negative</b>. <br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>These statistics from one of the EU’s top think tanks, which can’t be accused of being funded by Russia or operating as its propaganda laundromat, probably come as a shock to outside observers who thought that Poles were gung-ho about this proxy war.<span class="gmail_default">..</span></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span face="Spectral, serif, -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"" style="color: #404040;"><span class="gmail_default"></span></span><i>..The preceding half-year was also characterized by Polish-Ukrainian ties plunging into a crisis over the influx of cheap Ukrainian grain to the Polish market, that country’s <b>ungratefulness for all the support that it received from Poland</b> up until that point, and Zelensky scandalously comparing it to Russia at the UN. <b>Many Poles deeply respect their farmers and started to reconsider their views about Ukraine in light of that class warning that they’re on the verge of bankruptcy due to the influx of that country’s cheap grain.<span class="gmail_default"><br /></span></b></i></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Its refugees also began to behave more rowdily as popular support for their homeland dropped, thus accelerating this trend as the socio-economic consequences of Polish support for Ukraine started to negatively affect the daily lives of average Poles. Everything then peaked after Zelensky compared Poland to Russia at the UN in September, which is one of the most insulting things that anyone can do to a Pole, as Ukrainians know very well since they have similar such sentiments</b> in their own society nowadays.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>All of this combined to create the state of affairs whereby<b> less than a fifth of Poles think that Ukraine will beat Russia, but nearly half still want the EU to keep funding it in pursuit of that goal anyhow</b><span class="gmail_default"><b></b>..</span>. </i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>..Quite clearly, <b>the data proves that support for Ukraine has waned, and Polish society is now divided over this conflict.</b></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://korybko.substack.com/p/a-top-eu-think-tanks-poll-proved&source=gmail&ust=1708735682070000&usg=AOvVaw0JA70T1xtSU_1auc4LCvLS" href="https://korybko.substack.com/p/a-top-eu-think-tanks-poll-proved" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://korybko.substack.com/<wbr></wbr>p/a-top-eu-think-tanks-poll-<wbr></wbr>proved</a><i><br /></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div class="gmail_default"> Again, if they were going to do it, why would they wait? This Ramadan date is just an insult.</div></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="gmail_default"> </span>After ceasefire negotiations have faltered, Israel has given Hamas a new ultimatum, with top <b>Israeli war cabinet official Benny Gantz saying that Israel will launch a full assault on the southern city of Rafah if all remaining hostages aren't released by Ramadan</b>. The Muslim holiday begins on March 10 this year, which is a few weeks away.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>"The world must know, and Hamas leaders must know — if by Ramadan our hostages are not home, the fighting will continue to the Rafah area," Gantz </b>told a conference of Jewish American organizations in Jerusalem on Sunday.</i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/israel-sets-timeline-start-rafah-offensive-issues-ultimatum" style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/israel-sets-timeline-start-rafah-offensive-issues-ultimatum</a><i><br /></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div class="gmail_default"> George Soros could destroy the Israeli government bond market, I know he could... <i><b>Genocide is a bad investment.</b></i></div></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>The Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement is targeting divestment from Israel Bonds as part of a larger strategy to build economic and political pressure as a meaningful contribution to the Palestinian struggle to dismantle Israel’s apartheid regime</b>.<span class="gmail_default">..</span><span class="gmail_default"></span></i><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> </span><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Israel Bonds are money lent directly to Israel’s treasury.<span class="gmail_default">..</span></i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span class="gmail_default">..</span>One of the largest pension funds in the world has divested entirely from Israel Bonds.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>In November, the Norwegian Pension Fund announced that it had withdrawn all of its nearly half a billion dollars worth of investments in Israel Bonds, citing “uncertainty in the market.” It pulled what remained of its investments at the start of the Israeli government’s genocidal war in Gaza.<br /><b>Israel’s economy is in trouble. That tells us we need to double down on demands to divest from Israel Bonds</b>.</i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/2024/02/22/genocide-is-a-bad-investment/" style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/2024/02/22/genocide-is-a-bad-investment/</a></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Ex-UN Expert: If Assange is Extradited to US No Journalist in World Will Be Safe</b></i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>"If Assange were to be extradited to the United States, no journalist in the world would be safe," Alfred de Zayas, professor of international law in Geneva, former UN independent expert on international order (2012-18), and a retired senior lawyer with the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>"Essentially it would mean that any journalist who publishes information that the US government does not like would be subject to persecution and prosecution. His extradition would set a very toxic precedent that the core principle of refugee law and asylum law no longer protects persons who have a well-documented fear of persecution, as codified in article 1 of the Geneva Refugee Convention."</i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://sputnikglobe.com/20240221/ex-un-expert-if-assange-is-extradited-to-us-no-journalist-in-world-will-be-safe-1116904070.html" style="color: #1155cc;">https://sputnikglobe.com/20240221/ex-un-expert-if-assange-is-extradited-to-us-no-journalist-in-world-will-be-safe-1116904070.html</a><i><br /></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>US ‘Always Planned’ For Assange to Die in Prison</b></i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Julian Assange, an Australian national, could face up to 175 years in prison if extradited to the United States on espionage charges.<br />But the US has no plans for Assange to stand trial in the United States, Dan Kovalik, a professor, human rights lawyer and peace activist told Sputnik’s The Critical Hour on Tuesday.<span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>“If [Julian Assange] is sent to the US, they’re just going to delay the trial as long as they can so that they can guarantee that he’ll die in jail,” </b>Kovalik explained. <b>“That’s always been the plan.”</b><br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Kovalik noted that there is <b>documented evidence that the CIA plotted to kill Julian Assange in 2017 which revealed their intentions.</b> “Here’s a guy, even if you believe everything is true that they’re charging him with, <b>he is not charged with any violent crime. There’s no reason for him to be in jail</b> while he awaits extradition…<b> They’re holding him so that he’ll die,”</b> Kovalik said.</i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://sputnikglobe.com/20240222/us-always-planned-for-assange-to-die-in-prison-1116910930.html" style="color: #1155cc;">https://sputnikglobe.com/20240222/us-always-planned-for-assange-to-die-in-prison-1116910930.html</a><i><br /></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div class="gmail_default">(Yesterday) <i><b>Pro-Assange Rally Continuing Outside High Court in London for 2nd Day in Row</b></i></div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://sputnikglobe.com/20240221/pro-assange-rally-continuing-outside-high-court-in-london-for-2nd-day-in-row-1116906660.html" style="color: #1155cc;">https://sputnikglobe.com/20240221/pro-assange-rally-continuing-outside-high-court-in-london-for-2nd-day-in-row-1116906660.html</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Do look at the second video, 59 seconds long, of embalmers removing one of these weird clots from the jugular vein of a deceased person. I have never seen a clot like that in all the years I did c-sections and assisted on major surgery and trauma surgery.</div><span class="gmail_default" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"> A Midwestern Doctor , </span><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Embalmers are Continuing to Find Mysterious Clots in the Vaccinated</b></i><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" /><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Reviewing the results of a recent citizen's investigation and what we now know about these amyloid clots.</span><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/embalmers-are-continuing-to-find" style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/embalmers-are-continuing-to-find</a><br /></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div class="gmail_default">"Inquiring minds want to know": <i><b>Is An X-Class Solar Flare Responsible For Nationwide Cell Outage?</b></i></div></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Although AT&T took steps to resolve network issues, the company did not disclose the cause of the outage.<br />According to the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, there were no indications of a cyberattack...<br />Around the time of the outage, two X-solar solar flares were reported by NASA.<br />Solar flares can disrupt ground-based and or satellite-based communication networks.</i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/cell-service-outages-reported-across-us" style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/cell-service-outages-reported-across-us</a><i><br /></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div class="gmail_default">Detailed 3 minute space-weather video with eye candy from this morning: <i><b>Two X Class Flares, Two Other Eruptions, Solar Watch is High | S0 News Feb.22.2024</b></i></div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPdcXkylbfk" style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPdcXkylbfk</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Follow-up space-weather video from this afternoon addresses communications outages directly, explaining mechanisms. <i><b>MAJOR NETWORK OUTAGES | Solar Flare Impact?</b></i></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6NyZKb51Gk" style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6NyZKb51Gk</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> This 6 minute video explains that with magnetic poles going through an excursion now, and magnetic field strength dropping so rapidly that NASA won't report it since 2010, perturbations to the ionosphere and planetary electrical circuit happen with milder solar events than it took before. <i><b>Magnetic Pole Shift | Ionosphere and Atmosphere</b></i></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WH42rFx0I8" style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WH42rFx0I8</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Occasional Solar Collector (pictured recently with grandson)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnLVOrKApx7sfoID6_CvOxqBi2J1Me_3ToJjoN-ix4K1-AgfbLX8oHDrI7wm0yxLta44b5lAcc83HL3xovJu2-NR-5Be_Urg8TXtbDJAmjk-KyQKKg_2X2jQsOskOJjxI8RE0T5181ANS5o-IsTmaV4bdESLFDSMToc4AHf9AK8Yu5loinBUTG0qL4APi1/s4032/PXL_20240218_225634875.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="2268" height="1033" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnLVOrKApx7sfoID6_CvOxqBi2J1Me_3ToJjoN-ix4K1-AgfbLX8oHDrI7wm0yxLta44b5lAcc83HL3xovJu2-NR-5Be_Urg8TXtbDJAmjk-KyQKKg_2X2jQsOskOJjxI8RE0T5181ANS5o-IsTmaV4bdESLFDSMToc4AHf9AK8Yu5loinBUTG0qL4APi1/w581-h1033/PXL_20240218_225634875.jpg" width="581" /></a></div><br /><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div>John Dayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12123174297818737132noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4275885258914846834.post-36167422485731060152024-02-21T17:22:00.006-06:002024-02-21T17:22:45.961-06:00The Sickness Among Us<p> Personally Susceptible,</p><div><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Assange ‘too ill’ to attend last chance UK appeal against US extradition<br />Washington wants the WikiLeaks publisher on its soil where he could face a prison sentence of up to 175 years</b></i><div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>“The outrageous part of the UK’s years-long ‘trial’ to condemn Julian Assange to die in an American dungeon is that the victim of his ‘crime’ (journalism) is a state rather than a person–the definition of a political offense, which the US-UK extradition treaty explicitly forbid,” NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden said</b> on X (formerly Twitter). <br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Activists outside the court chanted “US, UK, hands off Assange” and “There is only one decision – no extradition,” among other slogans.</i></div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>This week’s hearing will decide whether Assange will be allowed to appeal the 2022 decision by the UK government to extradite him to the US. His attorneys have argued that the <b>extradition would amount to punishment for political opinions and violate the European Convention on Human Rights</b>.</i><div><a href="https://swentr.site/news/592777-julian-assange-london-hearing/">https://swentr.site/news/592777-julian-assange-london-hearing/</a><i><br /></i></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="gmail_default"> Tessa Lena interviews financial analyst and former (successful in 2008) hedge fund manager, Alex Krainer, whose articles have always been insightful and intelligent.</div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Is Putin Evil? A Conversation with Alex Krainer</b></i><div class="gmail_default"> Alex says Putin is exceptionally honest, as exemplified by his never accepting bribes when he worked as a St. Petersburg bureaucrat. I have seen this reported before.</div><div class="gmail_default">What I had never seen reported before is Krainer's explanation of how Russia's COVID vaccine response with Sputnik-V, the first to market, broke what was intended to be a global (Hi Bill Gates) monopoly of western vaccines and electronic digital passports, transitioning into electronic-only banking and transactions, with social controls on spending and travel, as already seen in China. The Russian early release, at low cost, of Sputnik-V made the WEF cabal choose between including Russia in the plan as a "partner" or shunning Russia, creating parallel arrangements. They shunned Russian cooperation. The monopoly-based digital-vaccine-passport-and-wallet plan failed to progress for lack of monopoly power. This explanation takes a few minutes and starts at 1:19 on the timeline. I like his closing statements in the last 5 minutes, also.</div><div class="gmail_default"><a href="https://tessa.substack.com/p/is-putin-evil-alex-krainer">https://tessa.substack.com/p/is-putin-evil-alex-krainer</a><br /></div><br /></div><div><div class="gmail_default"> Tom Luongo, <i><b>Why War Bonds Are Returning in Europe</b></i></div></div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>But this is a far more complex and nuanced issue than just making sure the West fights Russia to the last Ukrainian. This is ultimately about shoring up the EU’s fundamental weakness. It is an economic bloc with a common currency whose political authority is mostly powerless to control the value of that currency.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>For this reason the EU leadership, nominally Davosian in their agenda, has been working their political machine towards giving the EU Commission that power through bond issuance and a centralized taxing mechanism.<span class="gmail_default">..</span></i><div><i><span class="gmail_default">..</span>To folks like Macron, Michel, Ursula Von der Leyen and their bosses, European bourgeoisie and proletariats alike are just tax cattle. No wonder they are so against them eating beef.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>So, let’s connect another couple of dots. Because now it should be obvious that this is why they threatened Hungary’s Viktor Orban with economic devastation for holding up their $50 billion aid package for Ukraine.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>They need to keep Ukraine going to justify now spending another $100+ billion to launder into failing French and German banks sitting on massive losses from all the debt they bought during the NIRP (Negative Interest Rate Policy) period.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>This is just the beginning of their plans for transferring sovereignty out of the hands of the member states and handing it to Brussels. But to sell this to global investors they have to prove to the world they have all the wayward voices under control.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Sovereign debt is secured through taxation and the productive capacity of the population. At this point the EU has neither.</i><div><a href="https://tomluongo.me/2024/02/20/why-war-bonds-are-making-their-return-in-europe/">https://tomluongo.me/2024/02/20/why-war-bonds-are-making-their-return-in-europe/</a><i><br /></i></div></div><div><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Kiev has right to demand return of draft dodgers – UN<span class="gmail_default"> , </span>Top Ukrainian officials have been urging European countries to extradite men of fighting age</b></i><div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Ukraine has the right to demand the return of male refugees who are evading the draft, UN official Philippe Leclerc has argued. He added that military mobilization in Ukraine does not constitute persecution, meaning legal protection for draftees can theoretically be reviewed.</i></div><div><a href="https://www.rt.com/news/592776-un-ukraine-has-right-mobilize-refugees-abroad/">https://www.rt.com/news/592776-un-ukraine-has-right-mobilize-refugees-abroad/</a><i><br /></i></div><div><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>The United States Vetoes Yet Another UN Humanitarian Ceasefire Over Gaza<span class="gmail_default"> , </span>Is a rival resolution from Washington another trick to protect Israel?</b></i><div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>The media were informed that Washington would be presenting its own rival Security Council draft resolution that would call for a temporary ceasefire and which also would advise Israel against launching a ground invasion of Rafah</b> in southern Gaza over Ramadan, which starts on March 10th, due to the fact that more than a million Gazans are trapped in the region with, quite probably, nowhere to go. The resolution <b>calls for a “viable plan” for protecting civilians in Rafah</b>, whatever that is supposed to mean, <b>which Israel will presumably ignore, and it includes no sanctions if Israel refuses to comply</b>. The US indicated that its draft document would be discussed in the UN over the next several weeks or more and might be subject to considerable editing, but it set no time table for initiating the temporary ceasefire apart from <b>“as soon as practicable,”</b> which is where a warning flag went up for me and others.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>The resolution gives Israel considerable freedom of action without any bothersome timetable to worry about and <b>“temporary” means it can resume military action when it wishes</b> to do so and there is no threat of possible punishment if Israel does decide to invade Rafah and kills another 30,000 Palestinians while doing so.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>It is well known in Washington circles that follow foreign policy and Biden’s wars that the US doesn’t make any moves on the Middle East without complete prior consultation with the Israelis</b>. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken has even participated in Israeli War Cabinet meetings. Against those weak but positive moves spelled out in the resolution, there is the fact that Netanyahu and his political allies, long opposed to a two-state solution, have recently repeatedly rejected proposals for any Palestinian sovereign entity which means that the intention is to destroy and/or annex Gaza.<b> Israel is in fact using its formidable lobby and international press/narrative control to work assiduously to isolate the Palestinians by blocking any recognition by individual countries or as a full member at the UN. The greatest effort is inevitably being directed at working to keep the United States under control</b>.<span class="gmail_default">..</span></i></div><i>..<b>The United States and some Europeans are recognizing that a Palestinian state with what amounts to full sovereignty will not be allowed due to Israeli resistance and willingness to militarily destroy any such entity</b>, but some leaders are <b>nevertheless hoping to create some sort of “semi-sovereign” disarmed Palestinian government</b> that will be entirely subservient to Israel in every way that matters...<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>Biden’s impending Gaza proposal also has a domestic political aspect.</b> With Israel’s slaughter of Gazans still continuing, a situation that is enabled by Washington’s unflinching support of Israeli behavior, serious problems as the US is an active participant in a genocide are beginning to surface as the war spreads throughout the Middle East. One presumes that Blinken has finally decided that something must be done to salvage the international reputation of the United States while also undoing damage to Joe Biden’s electoral prospects as <b>American voters increasingly are disgusted by the images of dead and tortured Palestinians that flash on national television screens nightly.</b><br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>Aware that Netanyahu wants the war to continue until total victory to include opposition to the development of any Palestinian government entity, Blinken has reportedly asked the State Department to conduct a review and “present policy options on possible US and international recognition of a Palestinian state after the war in Gaza”</b>...</i><div><a href="https://www.globalresearch.ca/united-states-vetoes-another-un-humanitarian-ceasefire-gaza/5850155">https://www.globalresearch.ca/united-states-vetoes-another-un-humanitarian-ceasefire-gaza/5850155</a><i><br /></i></div><div><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Government Media Office: Over 700,000 Palestinians are facing starvation in northern Gaza</b></i><div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>The government media office urgently demanded a ceasefire and end to the genocidal war against civilians, children, and women.<br /><b>“We demand the lifting of the siege and the entry of 10,000 aid trucks within the next two days in an urgent manner, especially into the Gaza and North Gaza governorates, before a human catastrophe occurs.”</b></i><div><a href="https://en.ypagency.net/319510">https://en.ypagency.net/319510</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div></div><div><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>'Israel' hindering rescue missions to Gaza's Nasser hospital, WHO says<br /></b>Since taking over the hospital last week, the IOF has barred access to the complex.<br />According to the WHO, there are still an estimated 130 sick and injured patients, as well as at least 15 physicians and nurses, within the institution, and the conditions inside are conducive to disease transmission.<span class="gmail_default">..</span></i><div><i><span class="gmail_default">..</span>The hospital in Khan Younis, one of the few operational hospitals in the entire region, is now in an "indescribable" state.<br />The statement described that with the lack of water and electricity, the hospital's garbage and medical waste are creating the conditions for a "breeding ground for disease."<span class="gmail_default">...</span></i></div><i>.."The Nasser medical complex is the backbone of healthcare in the southern Gaza Strip. Its ceasing to function is a death sentence for hundreds of thousands of Palestinian displaced people in Khan Younis and Rafah," he added.<span class="gmail_default">..</span></i><div><i>..The statement further mentioned that the military has transformed the hospital into a "military base" and arrested a significant number of medical personnel following a raid on the compound on Thursday.</i></div><div><a href="https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/-israel--hindering-rescue-missions-to-gaza-s-nasser-hospital">https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/-israel--hindering-rescue-missions-to-gaza-s-nasser-hospital</a><i><br /></i></div><div><br /></div><i><b>Day 2 at ICJ hearing: Saudi Arabia condemns Israel’s actions in Palestinian Territories as ‘legally indefensible’</b></i><div><a href="https://www.arabnews.com/node/2463186/middle-east">https://www.arabnews.com/node/2463186/middle-east</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="gmail_default">Really? <i><b>UK Warns It Could Restrict Arms Sales To Israel If Rafah Offensive Proceeds</b></i></div></div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Fresh <b>headlines Wednesday say the United Kingdom is mulling restricting arms sales to Israel if it goes ahead with its planned major offensive on the southern Gaza city of Rafah</b>, which is packed with over a million Palestinian refugees who've been forcibly relocated from other parts of the Strip.<span class="gmail_default">..</span></i><div><i><span class="gmail_default">..</span>Not only has London's High Court recently dealt with petitions from legal advocacy groups alleging British arms sent to Israel are being used to commit war crimes (petitions which thus far have been rejected), but the <b>UK Foreign Secretary David Cameron has just issued a letter to Netanyahu's office calling for Israel to "stop and think seriously about the repercussions of a military offensive" on Rafah.</b></i></div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Earlier this week<b> Israeli defense officials for the first time said that the offensive would likely be launched by Ramadan, which begins on March 10 this year</b>. The military has said Hamas can avoid this by releasing all of the hostages. At the UN Security Council,<b> the UK abstained from a Tuesday vote on a resolution calling for immediate humanitarian ceasefire. It failed due to veto from the United States.</b></i><div><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/uk-warns-it-could-restrict-arms-sales-israel-if-rafah-offensive-proceeds">https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/uk-warns-it-could-restrict-arms-sales-israel-if-rafah-offensive-proceeds</a><i><br /></i></div><div><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Cuban President backs Lula's comments on Gaza genocide</b><span class="gmail_default"> </span></i><div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel expressed his solidarity with <b>Brazilian President Luiz Lula da Silva after he was classified as persona non grata by "Israel for his sincere condemnation of the extermination of the Palestinian population in Gaza."</b><br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>Diaz-Canel hailed Lula's courage, adding "You will always be on the right side of history."</b><br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>This comes after <b>the Brazilian President said during an African Union summit in Addis Ababa, "What's happening in the Gaza Strip isn't a war, it's a genocide," detailing that Israeli troops were not fighting "soldiers against soldiers," but rather a highly prepared army against "women and children."</b></i></div><div><a href="https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/cuban-president-backs-lula-s-comments-on-gaza-genocide">https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/cuban-president-backs-lula-s-comments-on-gaza-genocide</a><b><i><br /></i></b><div><br /></div><div><div class="gmail_default"> Gideon Levy (paywalled) opinion piece from Haaretz:<i><b> The World Must Force Peace on Israel</b></i></div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Now is the time for the United States, and in its wake the international community, to make a decision: Will the endless cycle of violence between Israel and the Palestinians continue, or are we going to try to put a stop to it? Will the United States continue to arm Israel and then bemoan the excessive use of these armaments, or is it finally prepared to take real steps, for the first time in its history, to change reality? And above all, will the cruelest Israeli attack on Gaza become the most pointless of all?</i><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2024-02-18/ty-article-opinion/.premium/now-peace-by-force/0000018d-b862-dd5e-a59d-fdf2034d0000">https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2024-02-18/ty-article-opinion/.premium/now-peace-by-force/0000018d-b862-dd5e-a59d-fdf2034d0000</a><br /></div></div><div><br /></div><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><b>Cuba interested in expanding ties with BRICS, Lavrov says</b><br /><span class="gmail_default"><b> </b> </span>HAVANA, February 19. /TASS/. Havana is interested in expanding ties with BRICS, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said following talks with his Cuban counterpart Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla.<span class="gmail_default"></span><span class="gmail_default" style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><b>"We took note of our Cuban friends’ ongoing and even increasing interest in cooperating with BRICS. As the group’s current chair, Russia will support this attitude. I am confident that other member states will react positively to Cuba’s application for [partner] status in BRICS," Lavrov pointed out.</b></i><div><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1748725">https://tass.com/politics/1748725</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="gmail_default"> Meryl Nass MD, with transcript: <i><b>We CAN Stop the WHO Pandemic Treaty , </b></i><i><b>Part III of Our Interview with Whistleblower Dr. Meryl Nass.</b></i></div></div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>"The number one thing we must do is get the information out there. If the WHO gets its way, it will silence us. We will not be able to push back in the (limited) way we did with the COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, the time is now to act. While we still can, we must wake up the public. We must spread the word that this is real and it’s happening now."</i><div><a href="https://merylnass.substack.com/p/we-can-stop-the-who-pandemic-treaty">https://merylnass.substack.com/p/we-can-stop-the-who-pandemic-treaty</a><i><br /></i></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjxRIMgfgZLDxQnz1AseS4k7mE6XYQLe_cdOPuY-38Jlnrk6--tU-H_Sy7brvO7bkv5o24QeM3TQDzx3fGwhLrrr_rCJNuRmADPv-rLARSg2dA7NfWDjTxCN8U5NZ5Xa-7jUSDIVnf6mJABqeFbmFnqFBzR5ii8m4UmFIJNJXe515EoSasNOreWzUz4XHvl" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1690" data-original-width="1666" height="601" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjxRIMgfgZLDxQnz1AseS4k7mE6XYQLe_cdOPuY-38Jlnrk6--tU-H_Sy7brvO7bkv5o24QeM3TQDzx3fGwhLrrr_rCJNuRmADPv-rLARSg2dA7NfWDjTxCN8U5NZ5Xa-7jUSDIVnf6mJABqeFbmFnqFBzR5ii8m4UmFIJNJXe515EoSasNOreWzUz4XHvl=w594-h601" width="594" /></a></div><br /></div><div><a href="https://merylnass.substack.com/p/another-wonderful-who-cartoon">https://merylnass.substack.com/p/another-wonderful-who-cartoon</a><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="gmail_default">William Makis MD, <i><b>Turbo Brain Cancer Due to University COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates in the United States , </b></i><i><b>Three tragic cases</b></i></div></div><i><b>“I believe this tumor is a direct result of the Covid vaccine, which I never wanted and immediately stopped getting shots of after I was no longer mandated to have it anymore by the school and would not have to worry about facing any consequences such as not being able to set foot on campus anymore if I didn’t have it. If the vaccine wasn’t the cause, I still believe that it may have significantly contributed to what happened.”</b></i><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjxzNRwdiZlJOqtMlMvzkhYZFe0C2NLKU9b6jWCV0VSLWaD1L9zG80v2F_V00yWjH2-TXC3BSGd0y-o6zQKzC5VT4huu6-QQJc_zH3Izsn9ojyrlBVPQGGf3zbTLqRXgyExkcwDtILJZKZJQRaktY_rX08p_OyId7Q6WHla_WkS_N1VXpp7E3FHZPDMNICD" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1545" data-original-width="1456" height="631" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjxzNRwdiZlJOqtMlMvzkhYZFe0C2NLKU9b6jWCV0VSLWaD1L9zG80v2F_V00yWjH2-TXC3BSGd0y-o6zQKzC5VT4huu6-QQJc_zH3Izsn9ojyrlBVPQGGf3zbTLqRXgyExkcwDtILJZKZJQRaktY_rX08p_OyId7Q6WHla_WkS_N1VXpp7E3FHZPDMNICD=w594-h631" width="594" /></a></div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.globalresearch.ca/turbo-brain-cancer-due-university-covid-19-vaccine-mandates-united-states/5849675">https://www.globalresearch.ca/turbo-brain-cancer-due-university-covid-19-vaccine-mandates-united-states/5849675</a><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="gmail_default"> Celia Farber, <i><b>FOX 23 Airs 18 Minute Segment Reporting On 18 Year Old Who Died 12 Days After Second Pfizer Shot: "Trista Was A Beautiful, Beautiful Girl, More Full of Life and Joy Than Anybody I've Ever Known." </b></i><i>Trista Was 18, And Got The Shots Unbeknownst To Her Parents</i></div></div><div class="gmail_default"><a href="https://celiafarber.substack.com/p/fox-23-airs-18-minute-segment-reporting">https://celiafarber.substack.com/p/fox-23-airs-18-minute-segment-reporting</a><i><br /></i></div><div class="gmail_default"><br /></div><div class="gmail_default"> Walter M. Chesnut, <i><b>An Explanation for Observed SARS-CoV-2 Seizures and why Antibodies Post Exposure May be Severely Damaging the Brain</b></i></div><i><b>Blood Brain Barrier disruption and IgG leakage may be a major driving force of COVID neurological pathology.</b></i><div><a href="https://wmcresearch.substack.com/p/an-explanation-for-observed-sars">https://wmcresearch.substack.com/p/an-explanation-for-observed-sars</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="gmail_default"> Charles Hugh Smith investigates the new "broken", as you may also have done recently. <i><b>Digital Service Dumpster Fires and Shadow Work</b></i></div><i><b>One wonders what we're paying for via taxes, products and services, when we end up having to do so much of the work ourselves for nothing.</b></i><br /></div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>All the work that once was performed by agencies and companies has been offloaded onto the customer.</b> This is called shadow work: work we perform that isn't paid or even counted as "work," though it eats up our time and energy, leaving us less leisure and more frayed.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>The ever heavier burdens of shadow work are a major reason modern life is increasingly stressful and harried: what was once done for customers as part of the service being paid for is now the customer's responsibility.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>I just spent--or shall we be honest and say "I wasted"-- significant time navigating AI chatbots and a smartphone app which is touted as an AI assistant.<span class="gmail_default">..</span></i><div><i>..After wasting a frustratingly large amount of time fiddling with the app on my end, <b>I give up and ask to get a callback from the chatbot. A polite rep (based in the Philippines) calls me back, and after hearing my description of the issue, he reports that he sees the source of the problem right away: an update to the gateway's software did not load properly, and so no amount of restarting would get it to work properly.</b><br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>One would think the AI app's troubleshooting script would include a check on whether the gateway's software was actually functioning or not, but you would be wrong.</b> The <b>app said everything was nominal </b>even when it didn't work.<br /></i><div><a href="https://charleshughsmith.substack.com/p/digital-service-dumpster-fires-and">https://charleshughsmith.substack.com/p/digital-service-dumpster-fires-and</a><i><br /></i></div></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="gmail_default">Operating Manually (pictured planting sweet corn amongst freeze-withered banana plants)</div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvBk2piMfxe2srK0LxzjDqY7Bf91MCwOiVufAq-Od30GN19AacC6Yw1pM5G0kfEJytMzQJPgGdWN9n-YTh0o-apbp77gho_hCB9oQlCPLmtdUbrP9IacrOakGX7WDpuZnzU2BfVMvyQEzXJVvAAxbKlr14aDSGbqiq4NDKh3YFzkU1iRfCn1P_R4zFWQLi/s4032/PXL_20240211_190028649.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2268" data-original-width="4032" height="330" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvBk2piMfxe2srK0LxzjDqY7Bf91MCwOiVufAq-Od30GN19AacC6Yw1pM5G0kfEJytMzQJPgGdWN9n-YTh0o-apbp77gho_hCB9oQlCPLmtdUbrP9IacrOakGX7WDpuZnzU2BfVMvyQEzXJVvAAxbKlr14aDSGbqiq4NDKh3YFzkU1iRfCn1P_R4zFWQLi/w588-h330/PXL_20240211_190028649.jpg" width="588" /></a></div><br /><div class="gmail_default"><br /></div>John Dayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12123174297818737132noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4275885258914846834.post-7090722453622988992024-02-20T09:31:00.001-06:002024-02-20T09:42:16.456-06:00Pondering Potential Peace<p> <span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #222222;">Humanitarians,</span></p><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Driving to Yoakum and back yesterday, mowing and pulling weeds, gave me well over 8 hours to consider how the 75 year war between "Israel" and the nations of the Levant and Arab world might conclude, perhaps starting this year.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Big Serge's analysis in "The Age of Zugzwang" was that either "Israel" is defeated militarily as a prelude to a "political solution", or Israel completes its genocide of Palestinians on the land that Zionists call "Israel". The nature of the Zionist state of "Israel" does not allow it to compromise, which would involve giving up lands it has taken, and recognizing land rights, human rights and civil rights of native Palestinians. <a href="https://bigserge.substack.com/p/the-age-of-zugzwang" style="color: #1155cc;">https://bigserge.substack.com/p/the-age-of-zugzwang</a></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Alastair Crooke, <i><b>The Resistance Has a Plan for Israel. But on the Other Side, Fantastical U.S. Stratagems Ensure a Cascading Failure</b></i></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>Nasrallah outlined what is clearly the agreed Axis of resistance’s overarching strategic plan.</b> (There has been a flurry of meetings between senior Axis principals over the last week, across the region, for which Nasrallah is speaking):<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>“We are committed to fighting Israel until it is off the map. A strong Israel is dangerous to Lebanon; but a deterred Israel, defeated and exhausted, is less of a danger to Lebanon”.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>“The national interest of Lebanon, the Palestinians, and the Arab world is that Israel leaves this battle defeated: Therefore, we are committed to Israel’s defeat”.</b><br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Put bluntly, the Axis has its vision of the conflict’s outcome. And it is a “deterred, defeated and exhausted” Israeli State. <b>By implication, it is an Israel that has relinquished the Zionist project – one that is reconciled to the notion of living as Jews between the River and the Sea – albeit with rights no different to others living there (i.e. Palestinians).</b></i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://strategic-culture.su/news/2024/02/19/resistance-has-plan-for-israel-but-on-other-side-fantastical-us-stratagems-ensure-cascading-failure/" style="color: #1155cc;">https://strategic-culture.su/news/2024/02/19/resistance-has-plan-for-israel-but-on-other-side-fantastical-us-stratagems-ensure-cascading-failure/</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div class="gmail_default"> The Israeli plan of genocide, clearing Palestinians off the "land of Israel" has been proceeding in fits and starts in the West Bank area, and seeks a decisive "ethnic cleansing" in ancient Gaza. The cities of Gaza have been destroyed by massive bombing, as have the hospitals and schools. There is no water, fuel or electricity, and aid trucks sit parked for miles in Egypt, starving Palestinians to death, an Israeli success nears completion.</div><div class="gmail_default"><br /></div><i><b>Opinion: I’m an American doctor who went to Gaza. What I saw wasn’t war — it was annihilation</b></i><br /></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2024-02-16/rafah-gaza-hospitals-surgery-israel-bombing-ground-offensive-children" style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2024-02-16/rafah-gaza-hospitals-surgery-israel-bombing-ground-offensive-children</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div class="gmail_default"> Israel acts with such impunity partly because it has nuclear weapons, which it can deliver via F-16 jets, ballistic missiles and submarine launched ballistic missiles. Israel has a military doctrine, the "Samson Option", which dictates that if the Jewish state of Israel is about to fall in a war, then it will unleash its nuclear arsenal against the world, as far as it can reach. Supposedly, implementing this option was discussed at one point in the 1973 Yom Kippur war, when Egyptian and Syrian forces were gaining ground, early in that conflict.</div><div class="gmail_default"> Israel has long had undue influence in the halls of government and finance of the UK and US, as well, and in the conjoined spy services of CIA, MI-6 and Mossad, but the nuclear warheads must absolutely be dealt with in any "Axis of Resistance" plan for victory.</div><div class="gmail_default"><br /></div><div class="gmail_default"> The Israeli navy has 2 large missile corvettes and 6 German Dolphin submarines armed with missiles, which are assumed to be nuclear capable. The Israeli navy is mainly harbored at Haifa, but not only there. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_Navy</div><div class="gmail_default"><br /></div><div class="gmail_default"> It seems that prior to proceeding with a land war against Israeli forces, an alliance intent on actually defeating the Israeli military would need to disable Israeli nuclear weapons with some kind of first strike. Otherwise, why bother? None of the Axis of Resistance forces have nuclear weapons, so how could that possibly be an option?</div><div class="gmail_default"><br /></div><div class="gmail_default"> Last November Iran announced the <b>upgraded Fattah-2 hypersonic missile</b>, with a range that can supposedly reach al of "Israel".</div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) unveiled the new ballistic missile “Fattah 2” equipped with a hypersonic glide vehicle (HGV) warhead...</i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>The <b>fully indigenous missile</b> is equipped with a hypersonic glide vehicle (HGV) warhead, capable of maneuvering at hypersonic speeds ranging between 5 to 20 Mach, equal to about 6,100 and 24,000 kilometers per hour, depending on its design and utility. An HGV warhead allows the ballistic missile to significantly alter its trajectory after launch.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Conventional ballistic missiles follow a predictable ballistic trajectory and are vulnerable to air defense systems. The <b>in-flight maneuverability of HGVs makes them unpredictable, enabling them to effectively evade air defenses</b>.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>The first version of the Fattah ballistic missile, with a range of 1,400 kilometers, was unveiled in June</b>. The <b>precision-guided missile</b> features a two-stage solid fuel engine with a <b>maximum speed of Mach 15 (18,522 km/hour) on impact</b>. The missile can bypass and destroy air defense systems, and it possesses <b>excellent maneuverability</b> and <b>stealth ability</b> to pass through radar systems.</i><br /></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://caspiannews.com/news-detail/iran-reveals-cutting-edge-hypersonic-missile-2023-11-21-0/" style="color: #1155cc;">https://caspiannews.com/news-detail/iran-reveals-cutting-edge-hypersonic-missile-2023-11-21-0/</a><i><br /></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div class="gmail_default"> Newsweek, 3/23/2023 , <i><b>Did Russian Kinzhal Missile Take Out 'NATO Command Center' in Ukraine? </b></i>(Yes, but they pretend that a Russian Kinzhal hypersonic missile shooting 200 meters down the ventilation shaft to destroy a NATO command bunker in western Ukraine was too far fetched to be real. Google doesn't give me any of the good links to the story.) <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/russia-nato-ukraine-command-center-strike-kinzhal-missile-1791805" style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.newsweek.com/russia-nato-ukraine-command-center-strike-kinzhal-missile-1791805</a></div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Is the Iranian Fattah-2 missile as accurate as the Russian Kinzhal? How much sharing did they do on the targeting and guidance systems? Nobody is saying on the internet.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> The Axis of resistance has done a lot of consulting in recent weeks. Have they agreed upon concerted action, simultaneous attacks upon the Israeli military if it ramps up the genocide in Rafah and ejects Palestinians into Egypt's Sinai desert? Netanyahu has less to risk as long as he just starves these families to death and doesn't trigger a concerted attack by driving them into the walled-area Egypt just constructed. The conservative Israeli move is to starve millions of Palestinians to death, and they hare halfway there. The Axis of Resistance has not been able to get food and supplies in through the Israeli blockade. It would require concerted military intervention to force the issue.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Gaza truce talks 'unpromising': Qatar PM</b><span class="gmail_default"><b></b> , </span>Hamas is reportedly planning to suspend talks until enough humanitarian aid is allowed into the Gaza Strip</i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>A deal "does not appear very close," Netanyahu said on Saturday. He had previously called Hamas’ terms for an agreement "delusional."<br /><b>The Israeli premier also vowed that the Rafah operation would commence</b>, despite repeated international warnings over the threat posed to civilians and displaced.</i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://thecradle.co/articles/gaza-truce-talks-unpromising-qatar-pm" style="color: #1155cc;">https://thecradle.co/articles/gaza-truce-talks-unpromising-qatar-pm</a><i><br /></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>US Threatens to Veto New Gaza Ceasefire Resolution at UN Security Council<span class="gmail_default"> , </span>The US has vetoed two similar resolutions</b></i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>The US is threatening to veto a resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza at the UN Security Council as the US continues to provide political cover for the Israeli massacre of Palestinians.</i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://news.antiwar.com/2024/02/18/us-threatens-to-veto-new-gaza-ceasefire-resolution-at-un-security-council/" style="color: #1155cc;">https://news.antiwar.com/2024/02/18/us-threatens-to-veto-new-gaza-ceasefire-resolution-at-un-security-council/</a><i><br /></i><div><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>ICJ Hearings to Examine 57 Years of Israeli Occupation of Palestine<span class="gmail_default"> </span></b></i>[If the<span class="gmail_default"> world</span> would recognize a Palestinian State within the 1967 borders<span class="gmail_default">,</span> that would be something to defend. Russia keeps saying <span class="gmail_default">"</span>1967 borders and a 2-state solution<span class="gmail_default">"</span> are necessary.<span class="gmail_default"> Accepting this kind of plan would save-face for Israeli politicians and generals in the face of strikes, sharply reducing their nuclear capabilities.]</span><i><br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>"Decades of injustice will finally face scrutiny," said U.N. human rights official Francesca Albanese</b> ahead of next week's Hague hearings on the legal consequences of Israel's illegal occupation.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>More than 50 countries are set to participate in next week's hearings at the International Court of Justice focusing on Israel's illegal 57-year occupation of Palestine, a forum that follows the Hague tribunal's finding last month that Israel is "plausibly" committing genocide in occupied Gaza.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>The ICJ—also known as the World Court—will hold a week of hearings</b> on the legal consequences of Israel's occupation of Palestine, which dates to the<b> Israeli conquest of the West Bank, East Jerusalem, Gaza Strip, Syrian Golan Heights, and Egyptian Sinai Peninsula during the 1967 Six-Day War</b>.</i><div><a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/israeli-occupation" style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.commondreams.org/news/israeli-occupation</a><i><br /></i></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="gmail_default"> Currently, Israel limits risk of a concerted all-fronts attack by the Axis of Resistance, by not overtly assaulting Rafah refugees and driving them into Egyptian Sinai, but starving them and attriting them with sniper fire and hospital bombings, as disease moves through their crowded and weakened bodies. Israel can say it will militarily assault Rafah, which will keep global attention focused there, but refrain from that action, maintaining tension. </div><i><b><div><i><b><br /></b></i></div><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Benny Gantz, a member of Israel’s war cabinet, threatened on Sunday that Israel will launch an assault on the southern Gaza city of Rafah if Hamas does not release the remaining Israeli hostages by Ramadan, which begins on March 10 this year.<span class="gmail_default"> </span></b></i></div><div><a href="https://news.antiwar.com/2024/02/19/gantz-israel-will-launch-assault-on-rafah-by-ramadan-if-hostages-not-released/" style="color: #1155cc;">https://news.antiwar.com/2024/02/19/gantz-israel-will-launch-assault-on-rafah-by-ramadan-if-hostages-not-released/</a></div><div><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /></span></span><div class="gmail_default"> The axis of Resistance needs to take out some Israeli missile cruisers and submarines at port or on the seas with precision missiles, while also hitting some nuclear-weapons bunkers nearby and near airfields. Anti-aircraft systems such as S-300, S-400 or S-500 would need to be used to prevent F-16s with nuclear weapons from taking off. Russia world need to say, "we must insist that you don't launch any ballistic missiles or let any F-16s take off until this calms down a bit". Russia would have a clear interest in preventing Israeli nuclear retaliation, as would the world, including the US.</div><div class="gmail_default"> The weakening of the Israeli nuclear wild-card would allow actual negotiations towards a two-state solution with 1967 borders to take place. Armed Israeli "settlers" would need to relocate. It is hard to imagine the Israeli military relocating them, but not impossible. Lots of money to hand out would help. Other national armies might deign to wear the blue helmets, such as Turkey. Would Americans, Canadians, Aussies and Brits do that kind of work? They might. </div><div class="gmail_default"> The non-nuclear destruction of a large fraction of Israeli nuclear weapons would allow the rest of the world to align against the Zionist regime, force them to negotiate a face-saving humanitarian management, respecting 1967 borders, equal rights, Palestinian right-of-return to lands stolen in 1948 and 1967, and the dismantling of the apartheid state.</div></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="gmail_default"> "Netanyahu" will definitely be out if he loses militarily. This article presupposes an Israeli victory/genocide.</div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will not be able to retain power after the country’s military has concluded its operation against Hamas in Gaza, Ynet media outlet has claimed</b>, citing anonymous sources within his Likud party. Amid mounting calls for early elections, the Israeli leader insisted on Saturday that now is “not the time for politics,” suggesting that the next vote will take place “in a few years.”</i><br /></div><div><a href="https://swentr.site/news/592613-media-netanyahu-lose-office-after-war-likud/" style="color: #1155cc;">https://swentr.site/news/592613-media-netanyahu-lose-office-after-war-likud/</a><i><br /></i></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="gmail_default"> Ralph Nader, <i><b>Biden & Blinken – Rule of Illegal Power Over Rule of Law</b></i></div></div></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="gmail_default"> </span>What laws are being violated by the State Department daily as it approves ships and cargo planes full of weapons of mass destruction to be used in Israel’s war crimes and genocide against hundreds of thousands of Gaza’s civilians, mostly children and women?<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b> These are the laws highlighted in the Veterans for Peace letter:</b><br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>The Foreign Assistance Act</b>, which forbids the provision of assistance to a government which “engages in a consistent pattern of gross violations of internationally recognized human rights.”<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>Arms Export Control Act</b>, which says countries that receive US military aid can only use weapons for legitimate self-defense and internal security. Israel’s genocidal campaign in Gaza goes way beyond self-defense and internal security.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>The <b>U.S. War Crimes Act</b>, which forbids grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions, including wilful killing, torture or inhuman treatment, wilfully causing great suffering or serious injury to body or health, and unlawful deportation or transfer, perpetrated by the Israeli Occupying Forces.<br />The Leahy Law, which prohibits the U.S. Government from using funds for assistance to units of foreign security forces where there is credible information implicating that unit in the commission of gross violations of human rights.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>The <b>Genocide Convention Implementation Act,</b> which was enacted to implement U.S. obligations under the Genocide Convention, provides for criminal penalties for individuals who commit or incite others to commit genocide</i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://nader.org/2024/02/16/biden-blinken-rule-of-illegal-power-over-rule-of-law/" style="color: #1155cc;">https://nader.org/2024/02/16/biden-blinken-rule-of-illegal-power-over-rule-of-law/</a><i><br /></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>State Department Threatens Congress Over Censorship Programs<span class="gmail_default"> , Matt Taibbi</span></b><br />A year after its censorship programs were exposed,<b> the Global Engagement Center still insists the public has no right to know how it's spending taxpayer money</b></i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>The State Department is so unhappy a newspaper published details about where it’s been spending your taxes, it’s threatened to only show a congressional committee its records in camera until it gets a “better understanding of how the Committee will utilize this sensitive information.” <b>Essentially, Tony Blinken is threatening to take his transparency ball home unless details about what censorship programs he’s sponsoring stop appearing in papers like the Washington Examiner.</b></i></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="gmail_default"> </span>A year ago the Examiner published <b>“Disinformation, Inc.”</b>, a series by investigative reporter Gabe Kaminsky describing how the State Department was backing a UK-based agency that creates digital blacklists for disfavored media outlets. <b>Your taxes helped fund the Global Disinformation Index, or GDI, which proudly touts among its services an Orwellian horror called the Dynamic Exclusion List</b>, a digital time-out corner <b>where at least 2,000 websites were put on blast as unsuitable for advertising</b>, “thus disrupting the ad-funded disinformation business model.”</i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.racket.news/p/state-department-threatens-congress" style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.racket.news/p/state-department-threatens-congress</a><div><br /></div><div><div class="gmail_default"> Meryl Nass MD, <i><b>Mike Benz is THE best person in the world to explain how censorship works in the US (and to some extent in Europe). New Tucker C interview.</b></i></div><i><b>Proud to say I told my readership about him one year ago. He is still telling the same story, with some more details.</b></i><br /></div><div><a href="https://merylnass.substack.com/p/mike-benz-is-the-best-person-in-the" style="color: #1155cc;">https://merylnass.substack.com/p/mike-benz-is-the-best-person-in-the</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="gmail_default">That hour long Tucker Carlson interview with Mike Benz, who explains exactly how this censorship is carried out within the government/deep-state apparatus.</div><div class="gmail_default"><a href="https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1758529993280205039" style="color: #1155cc;">https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1758529993280205039</a><br /></div><div class="gmail_default"><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has notched a victory in his legal battle against alleged government censorship of statements he made on social media that were critical of the COVID-19 vaccines.</b></i><br /></div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>A federal court has granted a preliminary injunction against the White House and other federal defendants</b> in a lawsuit brought by Mr. Kennedy Jr. that accuses the Biden administration of orchestrating <b>a campaign to pressure social media platforms to censor vaccine criticism.</b><br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Judge Terry A. Doughty of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana issued the ruling on Feb. 14, stating that <b>Mr. Kennedy Jr. has demonstrated a strong likelihood of success in proving government infringement on his free speech rights.</b></i><div><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/federal-judge-hands-rfk-jr-win-lawsuit-accusing-biden-admin-censoring-covid-19-vaccine-info" style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/federal-judge-hands-rfk-jr-win-lawsuit-accusing-biden-admin-censoring-covid-19-vaccine-info</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div class="gmail_default"> Gilbert Doctorow outs the Brits ("perfidious Albion") again: </div><div class="gmail_default"><i> A news brief in <b>RIA Novosti this morning sets out the claim that the shoot-down over Belgorod oblast (RF) a couple of weeks ago of an IL-76 Russian transport plane was ordered and directed by British advisers to the Kiev regime</b> without the consent of the Kiev military unit responsible for air defense. Just remember that the plane was downed by US made Patriot missiles which are very costly and of which Kiev has a very limited supply. Normally the Patriots would be launched only after approval by top Ukrainian military and political officials. That plane was carrying 65 Ukrainian prisoners of war about to be exchanged for Russian POWs...</i></div><i>..Looking back at the early days of the war, we know full well that <b>the peace treaty which Russian and Ukrainian negotiators initialed in Istanbul in week five of the war was sabotaged by UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson during his visit to Kiev</b>. He urged Zelensky to fight on, with Western assistance, and in this way <b>the UK is responsible for the deaths of half a million Ukrainian males in the fighting ever since</b>...<br />..But then, as some readers wrote in, <b>how could British forces reach so far into Russia as the remote penal colony in the North where Navalny was being held and carry out his murder? </b> The answer is very simple: <b>they did it by proxy</b>. As we know from occasional news items on fires, explosions and other acts of sabotage being carried out deep inside Russia, <b>the Ukrainian intelligence agencies have many operatives working clandestinely inside the Russian Federation. They are all native Russian speakers</b>, without a hint of some cockney accent, and they can travel anywhere.</i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://gilbertdoctorow.substack.com/p/after-trt-world-failed-to-post-my" style="color: #1155cc;">https://gilbertdoctorow.substack.com/p/after-trt-world-failed-to-post-my</a></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>The Russian military has made the accusation that NATO troops are actually manning and directly overseeing Ukraine's advanced anti-air defense systems which were provided by the West.</b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>The charge comes after weeks of the Kremlin saying that French mercenaries have been positioned in the city of Kharkiv, which sits across from Belgorod - a Russian border area subject of persistent mortar and rocket attacks.</i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russia-says-nato-troops-disguised-mercenaries-control-air-defenses-ukraine" style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russia-says-nato-troops-disguised-mercenaries-control-air-defenses-ukraine</a><i><br /></i><div><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Assange Judge Worked For MI6 & Defense Ministry</b></i><div><i><b>As with previous judges who have ruled on the WikiLeaks publisher’s case, Justice Jeremy Johnson raises concerns about institutional conflicts of interest.</b></i></div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Justice Jeremy Johnson has also been a specially vetted barrister, cleared by the U.K. authorities to access top-secret information.<br />Johnson will sit with Dame Victoria Sharp, his senior judge, to decide the fate of the WikiLeaks co-founder. If extradited, Assange faces a maximum sentence of 175 years.<br />His persecution by the U.S. authorities has been at the behest of Washington’s intelligence and security services, with whom the U.K. has deep relations.</i><div><a href="https://consortiumnews.com/2024/02/19/assange-judge-worked-for-mi6-defence-ministry/" style="color: #1155cc;">https://consortiumnews.com/2024/02/19/assange-judge-worked-for-mi6-defence-ministry/</a><b><i><br /></i></b><div><br /></div><div><div class="gmail_default"> Paul Craig Roberts, <i><b>2024 Is the Last Year of Free Speech and Democracy in the Western World</b></i></div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>Tyranny is easy to establish over peoples who have confidence in their Constitutional rights and integrity of their institutions</b>. The more patriotic the population is, the more susceptible it is to deception and betrayal by government. <b>Try telling patriots what is happening to them, and they will call you a commie</b> for speaking badly about their beloved country. <b>Christian evangelicals have no opposition to the evil that is engulfing us, because they have been brainwashed that they will escape it by being wafted up to Heaven. </b>The growth of evil is actually their escape from a sinful world into Heaven. The more evil, the sooner their escape. For most of the rest,<b> liberal interventionists and hegemonic neoconservatives have taught that America is exceptional and indispensable, so how can anything go wrong</b>.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Combine these awareness-blockers with the fact that uncomfortable truths are a bad news turnoff, and that <b>censorship is being established as a national security matter</b> with the argument that<b> it makes us safe and “protects democracy.”</b> Consequently, the criminalization of truth is rushing ahead.</i></div><div><a href="https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2024/02/19/2024-is-the-last-year-of-free-speech-and-democracy-in-the-western-world/" style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2024/02/19/2024-is-the-last-year-of-free-speech-and-democracy-in-the-western-world/</a><i><br /></i></div><div><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Douglas Murray, the director of the British Free Speech Union, announced a new initiative on Monday aimed at doxing critics of Israel for "hate speech" and keeping them from getting jobs.</b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>"Douglas Murray is Director of the British Free Speech Union. He is now going to lead an initiative to have harsher penalties for those accused of hate speech, and bar 'bigots' from employment opportunities based on social media posts!" Keith Woods commented on X.</i></div><div><a href="https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=64304" style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=64304</a><i><br /></i><div><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Vice Speaker of the Slovak Parliament Ľuboš Blaha about Navalny's death:</b><span class="gmail_default"> "</span>They better look at what the British and Americans are doing to Julian Assange, who is in custody on the verge of death in this glorious West, which prides itself on freedom of speech and protection of journalists. Let them remember how they remained silent when the American journalist Gonzalo Lira, who criticized Zelensky, recently died in Ukrainian custody. They didn’t even remember about it. And today they will moralize about Navalny’s death.<span class="gmail_default">"</span></i><div><a href="https://twitter.com/djuric_zlatko/status/1759498158575370462" style="color: #1155cc;">https://twitter.com/djuric_zlatko/status/1759498158575370462</a></div><div><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Czech prime minister labels protesting farmers ‘supporters of Moscow’<br />Hundreds of tractors have blocked downtown Prague as part of demonstrations against EU agriculture policies</b></i><div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>On Monday, hundreds of tractors blocked off sections of Prague and disrupted traffic outside the country’s Agriculture Ministry as demonstrators demanded that the EU’s Green Deal, which calls for regulations on the use of certain chemicals and greenhouse gas emissions, be rejected.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>The farmers have argued that the Brussels' proposals place a heavy burden on their businesses, making products more expensive and less competitive, especially when compared to non-EU imports, such as those coming from Ukraine.</i><div><a href="https://swentr.site/news/592696-czech-farmers-russia-supporters/" style="color: #1155cc;">https://swentr.site/news/592696-czech-farmers-russia-supporters/</a><b><i><br /></i></b><div><br /><div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Ukraine Used US Chemical Weapons Against Russian Troops - MoD</b></i></div><div><i>The Russian Defense Ministry reported on the facts of the use of poisonous substances by the Ukrainian military:<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>On <b>August 19, 2022</b>, a toxic chemical, an <b>analog of the warfare poisoning agent "Bi-Zet," </b>was used.<br />A <b>similar substance was found on January 28, 2024</b>, during operational-search activities in a cache in Melitopol. It was in vials labeled "Biosporin".<br />On <b>February 8 and 16, 2023, cases of hydrocyanic acid use with drones</b> were recorded.<br />On <b>January 31, 2024</b>, the <b>Ukrainian Armed Forces used an unknown toxic chemical that caused burns. Analysis showed the presence of a compound known as anthraquinone</b>.<br />On December <b>28, 2023, American-made gas grenades loaded with a substance called "CS"</b> capable of causing <b>skin burns and respiratory paralysis</b> were dropped in the area of Krasny Liman.<br />On <b>June 15, 2023, a drone carrying a plastic container with a mixture of chloroacetophenone and chloropicrin was used against Russian troops</b> near Rabotino.</i></div><div><a href="https://sputnikglobe.com/20240219/russia-recorded-cases-of-ukraine-using-us-chemical-munitions-in-action---mod-1116874393.html" style="color: #1155cc;">https://sputnikglobe.com/20240219/russia-recorded-cases-of-ukraine-using-us-chemical-munitions-in-action---mod-1116874393.html</a></div><div><br /></div><div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>When coming across the dead bodies of foreign mercenaries in liberated Avdeyevka, Russian forces discover many of the deceased to be servicemen from NATO countries</b>, State Duma legislator Viktor Vodolatsky said.<span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>"We find the corpses of mercenaries in the rubble in Avdeyevka, ‘so-called mercenaries’ because these are soldiers of regular units from Poland, Germany, France and many other NATO countries that send their units here to gain combat experience against Russia,"</b> Vodolatsky told TASS.<span class="gmail_default"> </span></i><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1748699" style="color: #1155cc;">https://tass.com/politics/1748699</a></div><div><div class="gmail_default"><i><br /></i></div><div class="gmail_default"><i><b>Pentagon Confirms $32M Drone Downed Off Yemen, Same Day UK Tanker Destroyed</b></i><div><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/crew-abandons-cargo-ship-after-houthi-attack-us-mq-9-reaper-downed-rebels" style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/crew-abandons-cargo-ship-after-houthi-attack-us-mq-9-reaper-downed-rebels</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="gmail_default"> Jeffrey Sachs, <i><b>How the CIA Destabilizes the World </b></i>Thanks Eleni.</div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>If only the CIA’s rogue operations had been consigned to history as a result of the crimes exposed by the Church Committee, or at the least had brought the CIA under the rule of law and public accountability. But that was not to be.</b></i><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/cia-destablizes-the-world" style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/cia-destablizes-the-world</a></div><div><br /></div><div>Peter McCullough MD, <i><b>Placental and Cord Blood mRNA Detected , </b></i><i><b>Freshly Vaccinated Third Trimester Mother Passes Genetic Code for Spike to Baby</b></i></div><div><a href="https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/placental-and-cord-blood-mrna-detected" style="color: #1155cc;">https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/placental-and-cord-blood-mrna-detected</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div><br /></div><div>Dr. Marian Laderoute, <i><b>Must be Disinformation (Hearsay) Due to Lack of Substantiating Data</b></i></div><i><b>How to Tell IF Media or the Government is Gaslighting You on the COVID-19 Vaccine Risks...Even IF You Are NOT VACCINATED</b></i></div><div class="gmail_default"><a href="https://hervk102.substack.com/p/must-be-disinformation-due-to-lack" style="color: #1155cc;">https://hervk102.substack.com/p/must-be-disinformation-due-to-lack</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div class="gmail_default"><br /></div><b><i>Plastics Cannot Be Recycled and Producers Know This, Report Claims<span class="gmail_default"> </span></i></b>[It takes less energy<span class="gmail_default"> and pollutes less</span> to make fresh plastic and put old plastic in the landfill<span class="gmail_default">. Now what?]</span><br /></div></div></div></div><div><span class="gmail_default"><a href="https://sputnikglobe.com/20240217/plastics-cannot-be-recycled-and-producers-know-this-report-claims-1116836370.html" style="color: #1155cc;">https://sputnikglobe.com/20240217/plastics-cannot-be-recycled-and-producers-know-this-report-claims-1116836370.html</a><br /></span></div></div></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div class="gmail_default">Speaking Out (pictured with one month old grandson)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisl3H4peeWcWv95ySbgxA1Uls9uce3jC7gAaTKMEI74-UoiO11qP53ZEZ8V0EA932sZtZRpFfwTKZ9pXMGRUUoaavdmQ97x8Zx81PPhl-apuA2X_B4jfXxWlU1_0ZauYr7pfgr76Gx2-lEouLtLWbTs-Hs_csAXPp_0qEs8zXgKMi0MJKWCt48JDFSRemh/s4032/PXL_20240218_223458687.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="2268" height="1037" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisl3H4peeWcWv95ySbgxA1Uls9uce3jC7gAaTKMEI74-UoiO11qP53ZEZ8V0EA932sZtZRpFfwTKZ9pXMGRUUoaavdmQ97x8Zx81PPhl-apuA2X_B4jfXxWlU1_0ZauYr7pfgr76Gx2-lEouLtLWbTs-Hs_csAXPp_0qEs8zXgKMi0MJKWCt48JDFSRemh/w583-h1037/PXL_20240218_223458687.jpg" width="583" /></a></div><br /><div class="gmail_default"><br /></div></div>John Dayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12123174297818737132noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4275885258914846834.post-73975673349733521452024-02-17T17:19:00.004-06:002024-02-17T17:29:24.301-06:00Coming To A Head<p> <span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #222222;">Erupting,</span></p><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> When societal change is suppressed for a long time, it comes very suddenly when the blocking measures finally fail. It looks to me like 2024 is shaping up as one of those years, a year like 1968. 1968 saw the paradigm shift of American attitudes from support to rejection of the Vietnam War, the assassinations of pacifists Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King, and the effective resignation of Lyndon Johnson from the US presidency, in the face of vast popular rejection of his war policies. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> In the spring of 1968 French student revolt brought the French economy to a standstill and unseated the government. The wartime policies of WW-2, and remnants of colonialism, had been rejected as a mode of routine governance.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Colonialism was progressively rejected in the post WW-2 era, and its successor, global financial neocolonialism is now being resisted in the world, as it also becomes weakened by its own erosive nature of value-extraction, which degrades economic productivity wherever it holds sway.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> The neoliberal, neocolonial global financial capitalist system, facilitated by covert regulatory-capture of governments, degrades the economic periphery first, and also degrades the core governments and economies, the seats of global empire. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Whatever regional economy degrades to the point of crumbling or collapsing is then bankrupted and stripped of productive assets. Remaining local production centers are taken for pennies on the dollar as payment for loans in-arrears, by global capital-consortia. The global "capital" is conveniently created by global capital centers, such as in New York and London, not through actual creation of physical goods and services. This cycles productive enterprise into creating "shareholder value", which is stripped away, rather than being re-invested into productive infrastructure like factories, roads, railroads and powerplants.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> These same forms of financial asset-stripping, leave productive citizens and businesses destitute, and still in debt in the core economies, like the US, UK, Germany and France, after the periphery is looted. This process is already well advanced.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Competing systems have arisen along the lines of nationally directed economies, such as that of the US in the early 20th century, Germany before and after the wars, and Japan. Russia and China have taken up economic nationalism in their own post-collapse periods, still ongoing. This model is very appealing to financially colonized countries in the "global south". India is notably struggling between forces of economic nationalism and global financial neoliberalism. Turkey is in a similar position, leaning towards nationalism, but embattled. Iran is eager to excel within the anti-colonialist BRICS+ consortium, as it becomes more active and assertive in global trade.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> International financiers still need to keep the productive citizens and businesses of the world in adversarial relations to each other, and compliant with global capital, in order to retain their control of their corrosive system of wealth extraction. Their "money is still good" at this moment in time, so bribes and dividends can be paid by the money-pool in their global Ponzi scheme. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> How long before that financial bubble from 2008 pops for the final time? This year? How early in the year? Can you predict the trigger? I can't. Derivatives are part of it, though.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Ellen Brown, <i><b>Fixing Derivatives Time Bomb</b></i></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>The “protected class” is granted “safe harbor” only because their bets are so risky that to let them fail could crash the economy. But why let them bet at all?</b></i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span></b>This is a sequel to a Jan. 15 article titled "Could a Derivatives Crisis Trigger Another 2008-Like Banking Collapse?", discussing the threat of a 2024 “black swan” event that could pop the derivatives bubble. That bubble is now over ten times the GDP of the world and is so interconnected and fragile that an unanticipated crisis could trigger the collapse not just of the bubble but of the economy. To avoid that result, in the event of the bankruptcy of a major financial institution, derivative claimants are put first in line to grab the assets—not just the deposits of customers but their stocks and bonds. This is made possible by the Uniform Commercial Code, under which all assets held by brokers, banks and “central clearing parties” have been “dematerialized” into fungible pools and are held in “street name.”<span class="gmail_default"> ...</span><b><br /></b></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span face="pt-sans-pro" style="color: #333333;"><span class="gmail_default"></span></span><i>..Why not just shut down the casino? Prof. Stout’s suggested solution is for Congress to return to the pre-2000 rule under which speculative derivative bets were not enforceable in court. That would include reversing the “superpriority” privileges in the Bankruptcy Act of 2005 and the Dodd-Frank Act. But it won’t be a quick fix, as Wall Street and our divided Congress can be expected to put up a protracted fight....</i></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">,,</i><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">(Professor Lubin's)</span><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> proposed solution is for Congress to make legislative provision for nationalizing any bankrupt exchange, brokerage or Central Clearing Counterparty before it fails. This is something to which our gridlocked Congress might agree...</i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>..Another alternative that not only could work but could fix Congress’s budget problems at the same time is to impose a 0.1% tax on all financial transactions...</i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span face="pt-sans-pro" style="color: #333333;"><span class="gmail_default"></span></span><i>..There are other possible solutions to customer title concerns. <b>There is no longer a need for the archaic practice of holding all securitized assets in the street name of Cede & Co</b>...<span class="gmail_default"> </span>The states of Delaware and Wyoming have explored maintaining corporate lists of stockholders on a state-run blockchain; but predictably, the measures were opposed. <b>The practice of holding assets in street name has proven very lucrative for the DTCC’s member brokers and banks, as it facilitates short selling and the “rehypothecation” of collateral.<span class="gmail_default">..</span></b><br /></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><b><span class="gmail_default">..</span>"The good news is, this “great taking” can be stopped at the state level</b>. Americans don’t need to count on a divided Congress to get the job done. <b>Because the UCC is state law, state lawmakers can take concrete steps to restore the property rights of their constituents and protect them</b> in the event of a financial crisis.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>On Monday, South Dakota legislators introduced a bill that would do just that.</b> The <b>legislation would ensure that individual investors have priority over securities held by brokerage firms</b> and other intermediaries.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>It would also alter jurisdictional provisions so that cases are determined in the state of the individual investor</b>, rather than the state of the broker, custodian or clearing corporation. <b>This would ensure that individual investors are able to rely on the laws of their local state."<span class="gmail_default"><br /></span></b></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://ellenbrown.com/2024/02/16/defusing-the-derivatives-time-bomb-some-proposed-solutions/" style="color: #1155cc;">https://ellenbrown.com/2024/02/16/defusing-the-derivatives-time-bomb-some-proposed-solutions/</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="gmail_default"> Pepe Escobar, </span><b>Axis of Resistance: from Donbass to Gaza<br />The resistance in Donbas and Gaza share an essential common vision: overthrowing the unipolar hegemon that has quashed their national aspirations.</b></i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>NATO’s cosmic humiliation-in-progress in the steppes of Novorossiya is mirrored by the Anglo–American–Zionist combo sleepwalking into a larger conflagration throughout West Asia – frantically insisting they don’t want war while bombing every Axis of Resistance vector except Iran (they can’t, because the Pentagon gamed all scenarios, and they all spell out doom).<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Scratch the veneer of who’s in power in Kiev and Tel Aviv, and who pulls their strings, and you will find the same puppet masters controlling Ukraine, Israel, the US, the UK, and nearly all NATO members.<span class="gmail_default">..</span></i></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">..The Axis of Resistance “swarm” in West Asia has barely started and still carries a slew of military and economic cards yet to come into play. The Slavic Axis of Resistance has been fighting nonstop for two years – and only now are they starting to glimpse a possible light, linked to the fall of Adveevka, at the end of the (muddy) tunnel.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>The resistance war is a global one, played out – so far – in only two battlefields. But their state supporters are formidable players on today's global chessboard and are slowly racking up victories in their respective domains. All while the enemy, the Hegemon, is in economic free-fall, lacks domestic mandates for its wars, and offers zero solutions.</i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://thecradle.co/articles/axis-of-resistance-from-donbass-to-gaza" style="color: #1155cc;">https://thecradle.co/articles/axis-of-resistance-from-donbass-to-gaza</a><i><br /></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div class="gmail_default"> The "United" States are being divided in every possible way, before being asset-stripped. It is not that hard to comprehend. </div><div class="gmail_default"><i><b>How Progressive Policies Are Designed For Civilizational Suicide</b></i></div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/political/how-progressive-policies-are-designed-civilizational-suicide" style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.zerohedge.com/political/how-progressive-policies-are-designed-civilizational-suicide</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Farmers are smarter than lawyers think. Farmers do winter chores before spring planting. <i><b>Spain and France: Farmers' protests continue</b></i></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>In Spain, highways, ports and the border with France were blocked - French farmers carried out coordinated actions in front of government buildings - and took down the EU flag.</b></i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://transition--news-org.translate.goog/spanien-und-frankreich-bauernproteste-halten-an?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp" style="color: #1155cc;">https://transition--news-org.translate.goog/spanien-und-frankreich-bauernproteste-halten-an?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp</a></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /></span></span></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Russian Media Thrilled By Biden's LNG "Gift" To Putin<span class="gmail_default"> , </span></b>This week, President Vladimir Putin praised President Joe Biden as a more experienced and predictable president than Donald Trump, hoping the 81yo president "with a poor memory" wins a second term.</i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russian-media-thrilled-bidens-lng-gift-putin" style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russian-media-thrilled-bidens-lng-gift-putin</a><i><br /></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div class="gmail_default"> (Pravda is f---ing with the American political machine and having fun doing it.) <i><b>Putin wants Biden to stay in power to cause US empire to fall </b></i></div><div class="gmail_default"><i><b>Putin prefers Biden because he is ruining America from within</b></i></div><div class="gmail_default"><a href="https://english.pravda.ru/world/158969-putin_biden_trump/" style="color: #1155cc;">https://english.pravda.ru/world/158969-putin_biden_trump/</a><i><b><br /></b><br /></i> Charles Hugh Smith looks at an important aspect of the global rent-extracting economic system. <i><b>The U.S. Housing Market: Rent-Serfs and Artificial Scarcity<br />Unleash the powers of unlimited credit and excess capital on a limited, essential resource such as shelter and this is what we end up with: artificial scarcity, rent-serfs and half-vacant neighborhoods owned by absentee landlords.</b><br /></i></div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2024/02/the-us-housing-market-rent-serfs-and.html" style="color: #1155cc;">https://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2024/02/the-us-housing-market-rent-serfs-and.html</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Teachers Sue Gavin Newsom Over Policy Forcing Them to Lie About Student’s Transgender Status to Parents</b></i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/02/16/teachers-sue-gavin-newsom-being-forced-hide-students-transgender-status-parents/" style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/02/16/teachers-sue-gavin-newsom-being-forced-hide-students-transgender-status-parents/</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Texas To Build Military "Base Camp" On Mexico Border To House 1,800 Soldiers</b></i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Texas Governor Greg Abbott on Friday announced that the Lone Star State will build a military base along the Rio Grand at the border city of Eagle Pass.<br />Spanning 80-acres, "Forward Operating Base Eagle" will house upwards of 1,800 Texas National Guard soldiers supporting Operation Lone Star, and will be expandable to house 2,300. Texas Maj. Gen. Thomas Suelzer said the camp will have 300 beds by mid-April, and will add another 300 beds every month after that.</i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/political/texas-build-military-base-camp-near-mexico-border-house-1800-soldiers" style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.zerohedge.com/political/texas-build-military-base-camp-near-mexico-border-house-1800-soldiers</a><i><br /></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>ICC prosecutor threatens Israel with more LEGAL ACTION if it does not stop killing Palestinians in Rafah</b></i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.naturalnews.com/2024-02-16-icc-prosecutor-threatens-israel-action-rafah-killing-civilians.html" style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.naturalnews.com/2024-02-16-icc-prosecutor-threatens-israel-action-rafah-killing-civilians.html</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>'Israel' committed 2,503 massacres in Gaza since Oct. 7: Media Office</b></i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>The Government Media Office in Gaza says the number of Gazans martyred or missing in the Israeli aggression has reached 35,775.</i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/-israel--committed-2-503-massacres-in-gaza-since-oct--7--med" style="color: #1155cc;">https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/-israel--committed-2-503-massacres-in-gaza-since-oct--7--med</a><i><br /></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>South Africa: “Israel” violates decisions of International Court of Justice</b></i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://en.ypagency.net/319083" style="color: #1155cc;">https://en.ypagency.net/319083</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Top UN court rejects South Africa request for more Gaza measures</b> </i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>The UN’s top court Friday rejected South Africa’s request to put more legal pressure on Israel to halt a threatened offensive against the Gaza city of Rafah, saying it was “bound to comply with existing measures.”<span class="gmail_default"> </span></i><i>More than half of Gaza’s 2.4 million population have sought shelter there from Israel’s offensive on the Gaza Strip<span class="gmail_default">.</span></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.arabnews.com/node/2461431/world" style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.arabnews.com/node/2461431/world</a><i><br /></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>War on Gaza: Patients die at hospital as France warns Israel against 'catastrophic' Rafah attack<br />Israel's foreign minister says it is coordinating with Egypt over fears of a refugee influx into Sinai</b></i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/war-gaza-crisis-nasser-hospital-france-warns-israel-against-catastrophic-rafah-operation" style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/war-gaza-crisis-nasser-hospital-france-warns-israel-against-catastrophic-rafah-operation</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg75i8uXnb1jEVZkOE7PydbxSQZtJ_YJn2C3W8QrLDJEgBqlBRHZXjLluaTywu8WGmn-CEzOAIV-yL3vcubUYn0jG6wkoKa-8geDXvfmJ3DN_cv1fu4Q4FAYRohFa69eE2_PLdmf-vF6cxvUbuR_fAE0mrzHsv-egun1RwpxVVQLFWi46cjsfj3vbwikhiZ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="955" data-original-width="1400" height="405" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg75i8uXnb1jEVZkOE7PydbxSQZtJ_YJn2C3W8QrLDJEgBqlBRHZXjLluaTywu8WGmn-CEzOAIV-yL3vcubUYn0jG6wkoKa-8geDXvfmJ3DN_cv1fu4Q4FAYRohFa69eE2_PLdmf-vF6cxvUbuR_fAE0mrzHsv-egun1RwpxVVQLFWi46cjsfj3vbwikhiZ=w595-h405" width="595" /></a></div><br /></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Netanyahu Defiant After Biden Phone Call, Rejects Push For Palestinian State</b></i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Following a Thursday phone call with US President Joe Biden, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is again pushing back against the intensifying international pressure ahead of Israel's planned ground assault on Rafah, which contains over a million refugees with nowhere to go.</i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/netanyahu-defiant-after-biden-phone-call-rejects-push-palestinian-state" style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/netanyahu-defiant-after-biden-phone-call-rejects-push-palestinian-state</a><i><br /></i><div><i><b><br /></b></i></div><i><b>Netanyahu rejects international pressure for Palestinian state</b></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Israel will not be pressured into accepting a Palestinian state, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Friday, following a Washington Post report that Israel’s main ally the United States was moving plans to establish a Palestinian state.<br />“Israel categorically rejects international dictates regarding a permanent settlement with the Palestinians,” said Netanyahu, in a statement published following a call with US President Joe Biden. “Israel will continue to oppose unilateral recognition of a Palestinian state.”</i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.arabnews.com/node/2461101/middle-east" style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.arabnews.com/node/2461101/middle-east</a><i><br /></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div class="gmail_default"> Big Serge quote from yesterday: "<i>Ultimately, foreign observers must understand that <b>the Israeli-Arab conflict is practically predestined by the peculiar nature of the Israeli state. As both an Eschatological Garrison state and a Settler-Colonial enterprise, Israel is unable to relate normally with the Palestinians</b> (who do not have a state at all),<b> and the only way out of the jam is either an Israeli strategic defeat or the shattering of Gaza."</b></i></div><div class="gmail_default"><a href="https://bigserge.substack.com/p/the-age-of-zugzwang" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://bigserge.substack.com/<wbr></wbr>p/the-age-of-zugzwang</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div class="gmail_default"><br /></div><div class="gmail_default"> They are posturing. They don't want to be in Bibi's shoes, where they would have to take the blame for ordering the same unsuccessful war crimes Bib is now ordering.</div><i><b>Gantz, Eisenkot threaten Netanyahu to dissolve Israeli War Cabinet</b></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Israeli War Cabinet members former Security Minister Benny Gantz and former Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot threatened Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with the dissolution of the War Cabinet on Friday evening.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>According to public Israeli broadcaster KAN, Gantz and Eisenkot issued their threat during a meeting held on Thursday, where they informed Netanyahu of their stance if he continues to make significant decisions without consulting them regarding the Israeli captives in the Gaza Strip.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>They expressed their displeasure with Netanyahu's decision not to send another delegation to the Egyptian capital, Cairo, for the prisoner swap negotiations, emphasizing that in this case, "the War Cabinet is becoming unnecessary."</i><br /></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/gantz--eisenkot-threaten-netanyahu-to-dissolve-israeli-war-c" style="color: #1155cc;">https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/gantz--eisenkot-threaten-netanyahu-to-dissolve-israeli-war-c</a><i><br /></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>'Israel' behind attack on Iranian gas pipelines, NYT claims</b></i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>One Western official tells The New York Times the strikes were major and symbolic, but their damage was relatively easy for Iran to repair and caused minimal harm to civilians.</i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/-israel--behind-attack-on-iranian-gas-pipelines--nyt-claims" style="color: #1155cc;">https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/-israel--behind-attack-on-iranian-gas-pipelines--nyt-claims</a><i><br /></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>On Wednesday, the House passed a bill that prohibits the US from opening diplomatic relations with the Syrian government of Bashar al-Assad and expands harsh sanctions on Syria to prevent other countries from normalizing with Syria.<span class="gmail_default"> </span></b></i><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">[Just confiscate all of Saudi Arabia's dollars! Show 'em who's boss!</span><span class="gmail_default" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #222222;">]</span><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>The Assad Regime Anti-Normalization Act passed in a vote of 389-32</b>, demonstrating broad bipartisan support for the economic war against Syria. <b>Only 28 Democrats and four Republicans voted against the bill</b>. The legislation now heads to the Senate.<br />The bill was introduced as <b>a reaction to Arab countries repairing relations with the Assad government and Syria being brought back into the Arab league</b>.</i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://news.antiwar.com/2024/02/15/house-passes-bill-to-work-against-countries-normalizing-with-syria/" style="color: #1155cc;">https://news.antiwar.com/2024/02/15/house-passes-bill-to-work-against-countries-normalizing-with-syria/</a><i><br /></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><span class="gmail_default" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">(Hey, </span><span class="gmail_default" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #222222;">Who </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">remember</span><span class="gmail_default" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #222222;">s</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> French Indochina?) </span><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Lavrov calls for ending colonial dependence of 17 territories</b></i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Moscow is hosting the first Forum of Supporters for the Fight against Modern Neo-Colonialist Practices, which was organized by Russia’s ruling United Russia party. The forum is being attended by around 400 delegates representing leading political forces from African, Asian, CIS, Middle East, Latin American, and European countries, who will discuss ways to counter interference into sovereign affairs of states, destructive neocolonial practices, as well as issues of independence in political, financial, economic, information and other spheres.<span class="gmail_default"> </span></i><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1747555" style="color: #1155cc;">https://tass.com/politics/1747555</a></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Egypt ditching US dollar – diplomats</b><span class="gmail_default"><b> </b>, </span>The North African nation has announced plans to use national currencies for trade with BRICS partners</i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.rt.com/africa/592558-egypt-dedollarization-trade-brics/" style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.rt.com/africa/592558-egypt-dedollarization-trade-brics/</a><i><br /></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div class="gmail_default">Yesterday: Withdrawal had to be ordered because disorderly retreats and surrenders, including by Azov battalion were already underway.</div></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Major Victory For Russian Army As Ukraine Forces Flee Eastern City</b></i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/major-victory-russian-army-ukraine-forces-flee-eastern-city" style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/major-victory-russian-army-ukraine-forces-flee-eastern-city</a><b><i><br /></i></b><div><br /></div>Today, Russia is blowing past Avd<span class="gmail_default">ii</span>vka<span class="gmail_default">, leaving a mass Ukrainian army grave. The fortunate Ukrainians are now Russian POWs. Zelensky is signing-treaties OUTSIDE Ukraine.</span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><b>Russian Victory In Avdiivka | The Orikhiv Offensive Started. Military Summary 2024.02.17</b></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waSiZK3NV9I" style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waSiZK3NV9I</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>The Wuhan Cover-Up by RFK, Jr.: Review and Analysis</b><span class="gmail_default">, Debbie Lerman</span></i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Here’s how <b>RFK, Jr. summarizes</b> those effects:<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>Everyone has now seen that pandemics are another way for the military, intelligence, and public health services to expand their budgets and their power. In 2020, public health, defense, and intelligence agencies weaponized a [Covid-19] pandemic, resulting in unprecedented profits to Big Pharma and the dramatic expansion of the security/surveillance state, including a systemic abandonment of constitutional rights—effectively a coup d’état against liberal democracy globally.</b></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/the-wuhan-cover-up-by-rfk-jr-review-and-analysis/" style="color: #1155cc;">https://brownstone.org/articles/the-wuhan-cover-up-by-rfk-jr-review-and-analysis/</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Study Finds 80% Of Americans Exposed To Fertility-Lowering Chemicals In Cheerios, Quaker Oats</b></i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>According to a recent study, <b>four in five Americans tested positive for an agricultural chemical found in several wheat and oat products</b>, including brands like Cheerios and Quaker Oats.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>The peer-reviewed study, <b>published in the JESEE journal on Feb. 15, looked at urine samples from American citizens to determine their exposure to chlormequat chloride—a plant growth chemical.</b> <b>Exposure to the chemical can result in lower fertility and harm developing fetuses even at doses below acceptable levels set by regulators</b>. Researchers detected <b>chlormequat in 80 percent of urine samples collected between 2017 and 2023</b>, with<b> “a significant increase in concentrations for samples from 2023.”<span class="gmail_default"> </span>The chemical was detected in “92 percent of oat-based foods purchased in May 2023</b>, including Quaker Oats and Cheerios,”</i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/study-finds-80-americans-exposed-fertility-lowering-chemicals-cheerios-quaker-oats" style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/study-finds-80-americans-exposed-fertility-lowering-chemicals-cheerios-quaker-oats</a><i><br /></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Caffeine: Blood-Brain Barrier Protection and SARS-CoV-2 Therapeutic Properties<br />Caffeine's ability to protect the Blood-Brain Barrier also offers protection against neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.</b></i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://wmcresearch.substack.com/p/friday-hope-caffeine-blood-brain" style="color: #1155cc;">https://wmcresearch.substack.com/p/friday-hope-caffeine-blood-brain</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div class="gmail_default"> A Midwestern Doctor, <i><b>What Can a Multiple Sclerosis Charity Teach Us About Medical Propaganda?</b></i></div><i><b>Reviewing their recent unjust firing of a lifelong 90-year old volunteer in the name of "diversity, equality and inclusion."</b></i><br /></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Briefly, this video focuses on <b>Fran, a 90 year-old woman who had spent 60 years of her life continually volunteering for the national Multiple Sclerosis Society and multiple MS supports groups</b> because her (now deceased) husband had MS and had received numerous <b>accolades over the years for her exemplary service</b>. Recently this 90-year-old noticed people were starting to put pronouns after their names, <b>didn’t understand why this was being done and then asked someone to explain it to her (but was confused by the explanation<span class="gmail_default">)</span></b>. A few days later <b>she was notified that she needed to leave the organization because she was “not inclusive” and therefore she was violating the Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI) standards</b> of the organization.</i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/what-can-a-ms-charity-teach-us-about" style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/what-can-a-ms-charity-teach-us-about</a><i><br /></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div class="gmail_default"> Meryl Nass MD thinks laughter might be the best medicine... Petite, delicate, grandmotherly Dr. Nass unsheathes her rapier-wit upon the Massachusetts Medical Board, which is attacking her for her prescriptions of "unapproved" antivirals for COVID, though she's had no license in that state for 25 years, because she might renew it some day.</div><div class="gmail_default"> <i><b>Meryl's Pre-Crime in Massachusetts.</b></i></div></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="gmail_default"> </span>It seems <b>there are no coincidences</b>. <b>The universe has an impeccable sense of humor. The part-time ER doctor who was the Maine Board's expert witness against me was named Dr. Faust. I wondered what the French word "bouton" meant</b>, and the answer was very surprising. Hard to believe. But the Cambridge dictionary insists it is so. <b>It means "zit" in French</b>. If I had a name like that, I'd be a mean son of a gun too.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>So, now my lawyers have a fourth "matter" to address. <b>Mr. Bouton spins his wheels. And the citizens of Massachusetts are paying to be protected from a rogue ex-doctor in her seventies who might someday wish to come back to the Commonwealth to prey on them, especially if another pandemic happened and patients seeking care needed to be protected from themselves</b>, since, you know, <b>medicines can kill you!</b></i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://merylnass.substack.com/p/meryls-pre-crime-in-massachusetts" style="color: #1155cc;">https://merylnass.substack.com/p/meryls-pre-crime-in-massachusetts</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div class="gmail_default">Addressing Blemishes (pictured last week with pile of pruned branches)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnEbP__XctJli32uFm5KoWct9qtjbXiGChwxKYXUB3hBKgqSe5v973zrWCydwNXKAuL3TFS0hRqjzg1xSzoq5uOn20A9743pNU7RIB6Jc_XG5IBY0AAeqOIguaV2OtTN33BG2IhygFrzkhGZgfBxa7tZAZ5UwwLvCJ7lbe7ETi8C9tT9hBz1Su9z3kEn-6/s4032/PXL_20240211_222831890.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2268" data-original-width="4032" height="334" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnEbP__XctJli32uFm5KoWct9qtjbXiGChwxKYXUB3hBKgqSe5v973zrWCydwNXKAuL3TFS0hRqjzg1xSzoq5uOn20A9743pNU7RIB6Jc_XG5IBY0AAeqOIguaV2OtTN33BG2IhygFrzkhGZgfBxa7tZAZ5UwwLvCJ7lbe7ETi8C9tT9hBz1Su9z3kEn-6/w594-h334/PXL_20240211_222831890.jpg" width="594" /></a></div><br /><div class="gmail_default"><br /></div></div>John Dayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12123174297818737132noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4275885258914846834.post-39798637021522895262024-02-16T16:30:00.004-06:002024-02-16T16:30:25.922-06:00Zugzwang Again<p> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Damned If You Do,</span></p><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Big Serge represents physical realities of military capability and industrial capability clearly and in context.</div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>The Age of Zugzwang<span class="gmail_default"> , </span>The Merciless Grip of Geostrategic Logic</b></i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Zugzwang (a German word that literally means “move compulsion”) refers to any situation in chess where a player is forced to make a move that weakens his position, such as a king that is backed into a corner to escape from check - each time he moves out of check, he moves himself closer to checkmate. More simply put, <b>Zugzwang refers to a situation where there are no good moves available, but it is your turn</b>.<span class="gmail_default">..</span></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span class="gmail_default">.</span>.I would like to argue that, despite these many powerful emotional-religious currents, much of the Israeli-Arab conflict can be understood in fairly mundane geopolitical terms...</i></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">..First, <b>Israel is an Eschatological Garrison State</b>. This is a particular form of state which perceives itself as a sort of redoubt against the end of all things, and accordingly becomes highly militarized and highly willing to dispense military force. Israel is not the only such state to have existed in history, but it is the only obvious one extant today.<br /> A historical comparison may help explain.<b> In 1453, when the Ottoman Empire at last overran Constantinople</b> and brought an end to the millennia-old Roman imperium, early medieval Russia found itself in a unique position. <b>With the fall of the Byzantines (and the previous schism with western papal Christianity), Russia was now the only Orthodox Christian power remaining in the world.</b> This fact created a sense of world-historic religious siege. Surrounded on all sides by Islam, Roman Catholicism, and Turko-Mongol Khanates, <b>Russia became a prototypical Eschatological Garrison State, with a high degree of cooperation between Church and State and an extraordinary level of military mobilization</b>... </i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>..<b>Israel is the only Jewish state in the world, founded in the shadow of Auschwitz, besieged on all sides by states with which it has fought several wars</b>. Whether this justifies the kinetic aspects of Israeli foreign policy is not the point. The simple fact is that <b>this is Israel’s innate self conception. It is an eschatological redoubt for a Jewish population that sees itself as having nowhere else to go</b>...</i></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">..However, the Eschatological-Garrison nature of the state is not the only way in which Israel is abnormal. <b>It is also quite unusual in that it is a Settler-Colonial State in the 21st century</b>. Israel maintains hundreds of settlements in soft-annexed territories like the West Bank, which are home to half a million Jews. <b>These settlements constitute an effort to demographically strangulate and assimilate Palestinian lands, and cannot be described as anything other than settler-colonialism</b>... </i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>..Thus, Israel unfolds according to unique geopolitical logic because<b> it is a unique state, having both an Eschatological-Garrison and a Settler-Colonial nature</b>. <b>The viability of the Israeli project depends on the ability of the IDF to maintain powerful deterrence and protect Israeli settlements and settlers from attack</b>. This fact creates<b> a sense of asymmetric vulnerability</b> for Israel...<span class="gmail_default"></span> <b>A security asymmetry exists in Israel because the IDF needs to maintain massive full-spectrum overmatch over its adversaries, both in conventional war against state actors *and* a preclusive defense that can effectively filter against low intensity non-state actors</b>. Israel’s security situation has been<b> built on the back of overwhelming victories</b> over surrounding Arab states - the Six Day War, the Yom Kippur War, and so forth, but it also needs to constantly filter and defend against low intensity attacks. <b>The viability of Israel’s settler project is guaranteed only by IDF overmatch and the threat of punitive attacks</b>.<span class="gmail_default">..</span></i></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">..<b>Rome was able to secure the borders of an enormous empire for centuries with shockingly low force generation by maintaining the threat of overmatch, and reliably (we might say excessively) punishing those who either invaded or rebelled</b>. In the case of the <b>1st Century Jews, their temple was destroyed, much of Jerusalem was wrecked, and their leadership was devastated and scattered.<span class="gmail_default"> </span></b></i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Ironically, <b>Israel now finds itself in a situation similar to their former Roman overlords, needing to maintain full spectrum overmatch and the political will to wield their power punitively</b> in order to <b>sustain deterrence</b> and <b>protect their settler project</b>.<span class="gmail_default">..</span></i></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">..<b>That is why, on October 7, Israel found itself in Zugzwang. It had to move</b>, but the only move available was a massively destructive invasion of the Gaza Strip, because <b>Israeli strategic logic dictates an asymmetric response</b>. Hamas’s attack necessarily triggered a ground invasion and concordant air campaign with the ostensible goals of eliminating the organization, <b>despite the obvious certainty that would cause mass casualties in Gaza and abnormally high losses among the IDF</b>...</i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>..Ultimately, I have always believed that <b>there is no durable solution to the Israeli-Arab conflict short of military victory for one side or the other</b>. Neither a two-state nor a one-state solution is viable given the current construction of the Israeli state and its ideological content. <b>A one-state solution</b> (which gives citizenship to Palestinians within the Israeli polity) is unlikely to satisfy anyone, but would be particularly <b>abhorrent to the Israelis who would correctly perceive it as the de-facto surrender of their state via demographic overwhelming</b>. <b>A two-state solution would require an Israeli strategic retreat from its settlements</b>. In short, <b>any of the potential diplomatic arrangements constitute Israeli strategic defeat, and can only come about once Israel has actually suffered such a strategic defeat</b> on the battlefield.<span class="gmail_default">..</span></i></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">..Ultimately, foreign observers must understand that <b>the Israeli-Arab conflict is practically predestined by the peculiar nature of the Israeli state. As both an Eschatological Garrison state and a Settler-Colonial enterprise, Israel is unable to relate normally with the Palestinians</b> (who do not have a state at all),<b> and the only way out of the jam is either an Israeli strategic defeat or the shattering of Gaza.</b>..</i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span class="gmail_default">..</span>Concurrent with the collapse of the temporary stable state in Israel, <b>the United States faces an unraveling of its position across the region, particularly in Iraq and Syria</b>. This, <b>perhaps even moreso than the Israeli predicament, represents an idealized example of geopolitical zugzwang.</b><br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>To begin, one must understand the strategic logic of American strategic deployments. <b>America has made generous use of a strategic deterrence tool colloquially known as the Tripwire Force.</b> This represents an undersized, forward deployed force located in potential conflict zones with an eye to deterring war by signaling a commitment to respond. <b>The classic example of the tripwire force was America’s minuscule deployment in Berlin during the cold war</b>.<span class="gmail_default">..</span></i></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">..On the whole,<b> the tripwire force is a useful and well established tool in strategic deterrence, utilized by both the United States and the Soviet Union (as in its deployments in Cuba) throughout the cold war.<span class="gmail_default"> </span>Today, the United States adopts a similar strategy in the middle east, in relation to Iran</b>... </i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>..<b>The American strategic goal, in a few words, is to conduct area denial and prevent Iranian hegemony in the middle east</b>. This, in turn, is <b>an extension of the broader American grand strategy, which is to prevent the preeminent or potential regional hegemons from consolidating positions of domination in their regions</b>: <b>Russia and Germany in Europe</b>, <b>China in East Asia</b>, <b>Iran in the Middle East</b>. The geopolitical story of the modern world is one of <b>triple containment by the United States</b>, using an array of <b>regional satellites, proxies, and forward deployments</b>. Because <b>Iran is the only state in the Middle East with the potential to become a regional hegemon</b>, it is the object of American containment.<span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>America’s lingering deployments in places like Iraq and Syria therefore ought to be understood primarily as efforts to disrupt Iranian influence and offer forward deployment to combat Iranian militias</b>...<span class="gmail_default"></span> They can be understood as <b>a form of tripwire force that also has limited operational value.</b><br />Unfortunately,<b> the United States has discovered the limits</b> of these skeletal forward deployments. <b>The American presence across the region is too small to credibly deter attack, but large enough to invite it</b>.<span class="gmail_default">..</span><span class="gmail_default"><br /></span></i></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">..The standard <b>American reprisal for attacks on its facilities and personnel - air strikes - have little deterrent value against irregular combatants</b> who are both willing to take casualties and <b>mentally acclimated to a long struggle of strategic attrition and survival</b>. Iran and its proxies have long time horizons that are resistant to short, sharp rebukes.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Furthermore, <b>Iran and its allies thrive in conditions of governmental disorder, inuring them to America’s capacity to smash up states</b> (<b>creating what I call trashcanistans</b>). Creating a trashcanistan can be strategically useful in many circumstances - by intentionally creating a failed state, a vacuum of disorder can be created on the enemy’s doorstep. In the right circumstances, this is a potent lever for creating geostrategic area denial. <b>In Iran’s case however, failed (or at least, destabilized centers) create vacuums for which Iran is the most natural fill.</b> This is why <b>America’s geopolitical shooting spree across the Middle East has coincided with decades of steady growth in Iranian influence</b>...</i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>..<b>American bases have endured relentless rocketry attack</b> by Iranian proxies (attacks that have killed American soldiers), and the <b>Ansar Allah movement (the Houthis) continue to obstruct shipping in the Red Sea</b> despite a limited air campaign. <b>In a geostrategic environment where deterrence is no longer credible, tripwire forces </b>(like the American bases at Al-Tanf and Tower 22) <b>cease to become deterrents at all, and become mere targets</b>...<span class="gmail_default"></span> After decades of wars across the Middle East, Americans are simply habituated to hearing about casualties in places that they have never heard of and do not care about. Thus, <b>as both a geostrategic and a domestic-political instrument, the tripwire is busted.<span class="gmail_default">..</span></b></i></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">..This is why those voices calling for war with Iran, as deranged and dangerous as they may be, are actually keyed in on a crucial aspect of America’s strategic calculus. <b>Limited measures no longer suffice to intimidate, which may leave nothing in the stable except the full measure</b>.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>And so, America faces Zugzwang</b>. As yet it appears that the traditional American toolbox has little to no deterrent value, and American bases around the region appear to be more like targets tha<span class="gmail_default">n</span> tripwires...</i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>..America soon faces the prospect of <b>a difficult choice, between strategic retreat or escalation</b>. In either case, a skeletal tripwire deployment in the region becomes obsolete, and America must either get out or go in deeper. <b>This is why there are now alarms flashing in the foreign policy blob, who fear an American withdrawal from Syria, alongside ever more deranged calls to “bomb Iran." </b>That’s <b>Zugzwang: two bad choices</b>.<span class="gmail_default">..</span></i></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">..<b>America faces Zugzwang in Ukraine</b>. It can choose to <b>go all-in</b>, but this means both selling a disruptive breakneck rearmament to the American public in peacetime, *and* gambling on a faltering piece in Kiev (which is now facing a command shakeup and yet another shattered defensive stronghold in Avdiivka). <b>Strategic retreat in the form of abandoning Kiev may make the most sense from a pure cost-benefit perspective, but there are undoubtedly prestige factors at play</b>. Walking away from Ukraine entirely and <b>simply leaving it to be steamrolled would be seen, and rightfully so, as a Russian strategic victory over the United States</b>.</i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://bigserge.substack.com/p/the-age-of-zugzwang&source=gmail&ust=1708200798918000&usg=AOvVaw0eKgOngjtpap9w8AtgAZN9" href="https://bigserge.substack.com/p/the-age-of-zugzwang" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://bigserge.substack.com/<wbr></wbr>p/the-age-of-zugzwang</a><i><br /></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div class="gmail_default"> Celia Farber, <i><b>"There Is A Massacre Unfolding, Right Now, In Nasser Hospital In Khan Younis. </b>Masses of Patients,<b> Children, Men and Women Are Being Slain Indiscriminately."</b> </i><i>Footage From Inside Hospital Surpasses All Imaginable Horrors, As Patients Try To Escape Besieged Hospital, Amidst Screams, Machine Gunfire, TOTAL Chaos </i><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://celiafarber.substack.com/p/there-is-a-massacre-unfolding-right&source=gmail&ust=1708200798918000&usg=AOvVaw22QGKUXParWuBIyafHEBns" href="https://celiafarber.substack.com/p/there-is-a-massacre-unfolding-right" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://celiafarber.<wbr></wbr>substack.com/p/there-is-a-<wbr></wbr>massacre-unfolding-right</a></div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>War on Gaza: Biden slammed over failure to help US nationals abducted by Israel<span class="gmail_default"> , </span></b>Hashem Alagha, Borak Alagha and their father Ahmed were taken by Israeli forces in Khan Younis last week, and their family says the US has not done enough to secure their release</i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/war-gaza-palestinian-americans-criticise-biden-inaction-abducted-family" style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/war-gaza-palestinian-americans-criticise-biden-inaction-abducted-family</a><i><br /></i><div class="gmail_default"><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Essay by Mike Whitney, "Over a Million Palestinians Are About to Be Forced From Gaza into Egypt at Gunpoint"</b><span class="gmail_default"> </span></i><div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>The IDF’s recent airstrikes on civilian areas in Rafah mark the beginning of the final phase of Israel’s massive ethnic cleansing project</b>. On Monday, Israel bombed a number of locations where Palestinian refugees were huddled in tents after fleeing Israel’s onslaught in the North. Videos of the destruction appeared on a number of Twitter-sites which showed a deeply-cratered wasteland in the middle of makeshift encampments. Not surprisingly, <b>women and children made up the bulk of the casualties with no evidence of Hamas to be found anywhere</b>. According to a witness at the site,<b> body parts and carnage were strewn across the landscape</b>. This is from an article at the World Socialist Web Site:<span class="gmail_default"> <b>"</b></span><b>Israel launched a massive aerial bombardment of Rafah, the southernmost city in Gaza, on Sunday night into Monday morning, killing over 100 people. As the sun came up, the world was horrified by images of the mangled bodies of children</b>, in a chilling demonstration of what is to come in the weeks ahead.<span class="gmail_default">"</span></i></div><div><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://anthonyjhall.substack.com/p/we-should-all-feel-ashamed-of-ourselves&source=gmail&ust=1708200798918000&usg=AOvVaw0mZ6lccv6qJ1nxSYJDwBKZ" href="https://anthonyjhall.substack.com/p/we-should-all-feel-ashamed-of-ourselves" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://anthonyjhall.substack.<wbr></wbr>com/p/we-should-all-feel-<wbr></wbr>ashamed-of-ourselves</a><i><br /></i></div><div><br /></div><i><b>Egypt Erects 8-Square-Mile Walled Enclosure In Sinai Desert For Rafah Refugee Spillover</b></i><div><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/egypt-erects-8-square-mile-walled-enclosure-sinai-desert-rafah-refugee-spillover&source=gmail&ust=1708200798918000&usg=AOvVaw14P28i0PVb2n8ychu56ZE-" href="https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/egypt-erects-8-square-mile-walled-enclosure-sinai-desert-rafah-refugee-spillover" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://www.zerohedge.com/<wbr></wbr>geopolitical/egypt-erects-8-<wbr></wbr>square-mile-walled-enclosure-<wbr></wbr>sinai-desert-rafah-refugee-<wbr></wbr>spillover</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="gmail_default"> Moon of Alabama, (Lebanese Hezbollah leader, Sayyed) <i><b>Nasrallah Responds To Israeli Attack On Civilians In Lebanon</b></i></div></div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>We absolutely do not tolerate any harm to civilians</b>, and it is imperative that the enemy realizes they have crossed a red line in this regard<br />Since October 7, there has been immense global pressure to prevent the southern front from opening up to support Gaza. <b>The enemy’s tactic, through targeting civilians, is to coerce the resistance into halting its actions</b><span class="gmail_default">.</span></i><i>, the enemy should anticipate this response<span class="gmail_default">.</span><br /><b>The enemy will pay the price in blood for shedding the blood of our women and children</b> in Nabatieh, Al-Suwanah, and elsewhere.<span class="gmail_default">..</span></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span class="gmail_default">..</span><b>It is essential for Americans and Zionists to understand that in Palestine, they are confronting a people who will not retreat</b>, regardless of the sacrifices or challenges they face.<br /><b>The Lebanese resistance possesses powerful and precise missile capabilities, enabling its reach from Kiryat Shmona to Eilat.<span class="gmail_default">..</span></b></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span class="gmail_default">..</span>The <b>Israeli goal was</b> to displace Palestinians from occupied Palestine, <b>relocating the people of the West Bank to Jordan, those of Gaza to Egypt, and those of the 1980s to Lebanon</b><span class="gmail_default"><b></b>. </span><b>Operation Al-Aqsa Flood exposed this long-standing Israeli objective of establishing a purely Jewish state extending from the sea to the river</b><span class="gmail_default"><b></b>.</span><br />The project of establishing a purely Jewish state <b>not only targets Palestinians but also poses a threat to Jordan, Egypt, and Lebanon</b><span class="gmail_default">.</span><br />In memory of our martyred leaders, <b>we reaffirm the efficacy of popular resistance as a viable option</b><span class="gmail_default">...</span></i></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="gmail_default">..</span><b>Seventy-one percent of Israelis believe Israel should conduct a large-scale military operation against Lebanon to deter Hezbollah</b>, a recent poll has shown.<br />The survey was conducted by the Israeli Maariv newspaper amid worsening cross-border violence between the Israeli army and the powerful Iran-backed Hezbollah militant group.<span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>A growing number of Israelis, especially those who evacuated their homes in the north, have urged their government to take decisive action against Hezbollah</b> and push them away from the frontier, <b>even if that means a land invasion<span class="gmail_default">.</span></b></i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/02/nasrallah-responds-to-israeli-attack-on-civilians-in-lebanon.html#more" style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/02/nasrallah-responds-to-israeli-attack-on-civilians-in-lebanon.html#more</a><i><br /></i><div><br /></div><i><b>US Scholars to President Biden: You Must Act Now to Prevent Genocide in Gaza<br />Academics Across America Demand Immediate Ceasefire, Restoration of Humanitarian Aid, and a Just Resolution in Israel-Palestine</b></i><div><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.globalresearch.ca/us-scholars-president-biden-must-act-now-prevent-genocide-gaza/5849651&source=gmail&ust=1708200798918000&usg=AOvVaw09GOpMCX_cJ0v_sckJEKwW" href="https://www.globalresearch.ca/us-scholars-president-biden-must-act-now-prevent-genocide-gaza/5849651" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://www.globalresearch.ca/<wbr></wbr>us-scholars-president-biden-<wbr></wbr>must-act-now-prevent-genocide-<wbr></wbr>gaza/5849651</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div class="gmail_default"> Also on our Mother Planet. Thanks Red. <i><b>Geomagnetic Extinction: A Paramount Science Disagreement</b></i></div></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="gmail_default"> </span>One of the most strongly divisive and imminently important issues in science is <b><span class="gmail_default"></span>whether the known geomagnetic excursions of the last 100,000 years are coincident with major climate changes and loss of species</b>.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>The field is utterly divided, and a resolution is not only academically desirable, but evidence suggests that <b>earth’s magnetic field is entering excursion again now</b>, and if this <b>geomagnetic secular variation presents a biosphere problem</b>, the focus and discourse of various fields need a dramatic shift, now.<span class="gmail_default">..</span></i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span class="gmail_default">..</span><b>Our electrified society, air travel, communications and more have all developed in an age where earth’s magnetic field was much stronger than it will be during the zenith of this excursion event. We now have more than the climate, radiation, food-chain disruption and solar-geomagnetic biology connections to consider in this upcoming event- we are at risk of losing our modern, electrified society.</b><br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>It is a common misconception that earth’s last major magnetic event was the famous Laschamp excursion 42,000 years ago, but the Mono Lake, Lake Mungo, and Gothenburg magnetic<span class="gmail_default"> </span>excursions occurred more recently, along with a minor event known as “Hilina Pali”, and one earlier in the timeline that shows up in Vostok corings. <b>These events are fast-flips, rapid reversals, and these occur in a cycle of ~12,000 years. Gothenburg was ~12,000 to 13,000 years ago, and earth’s field is performing the excursion again- right on time.</b><br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Looking ahead to the next round of academic studies on this topic, it is imperative that the field give appropriate treatment to all the potential biosphere stresses invoked by a weakening<span class="gmail_default"> </span>magnetic field and shifting magnetic pole position.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>This includes (1) the loss of ozone and climate changes, (2) the<b> radiation effect from both extra UV and galactic cosmic rays – on the entire food chain</b>, (3) the navigational disruption to species caused by the magnetic change, (4) the <b>geomagnetic interrelationship with critical biological processes</b>, and (5) the <b>dependence of modern society on electricity, and the increased vulnerability of these systems to both cosmic rays and solar flares while earth has a weaker planetary magnetic shield</b>.</i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://principia-scientific.com/geomagnetic-extinction-a-paramount-science-disagreement/" style="color: #1155cc;">https://principia-scientific.com/geomagnetic-extinction-a-paramount-science-disagreement/</a><i><br /></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>House Intel Chair Accused of Disclosing National Security ‘Threat’ to Get Ukraine Aid Passed</b></i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>US officials later told the media that the “unspecified threat was related to Russian space capabilities and a plan to develop a nuclear weapon that can target satellites. For their part, Russia dismissed the claim and said the US was “making up malicious stories.”</i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://news.antiwar.com/2024/02/15/house-intel-chair-accused-of-disclosing-national-security-threat-to-get-ukraine-aid-passed/" style="color: #1155cc;">https://news.antiwar.com/2024/02/15/house-intel-chair-accused-of-disclosing-national-security-threat-to-get-ukraine-aid-passed/</a><i><br /></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="gmail_default"> Simplicius, </span><b>Planetary Scare: Russian Doomsday Space Weapon Steals Headlines of Avdeevka Collapse<span class="gmail_default"> </span></b></i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">[It's hard to keep up with Adveevka. See below.]</span><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span class="gmail_default">..</span>This could be a potential new escalation on Russia’s behalf to draw a final red line and issue the implied threat that if you continue meddling and harming us with these assets, we will consider wiping out your entire space-based ISR assets.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Of course, the problem with such an approach—if we’re talking about the nuclear/EMP-style option, at least—is it would indiscriminately wipe out everything in sight, including friendly and allied space assets. But I agree with one analyst who said that China likely wouldn’t mind trading a few of its own destroyed satellites in exchange for seeing the entire fleet of U.S./NATO assets go up in smoke.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Such a weapon could truly be a ‘hand of god’ that totally erases the Empire’s most crucial capabilities, instantaneously blinding it in every theater all over the world, allowing Iran, Yemen, North Korea, China, and anyone else to run rampant. I said before that Russia knows how to fight blind—hundreds of videos attest to its artillerymen, for instance, using Bussols and other scopes to accurately hit targets day in and out, while NATO relies primarily on satellite-guided GPS for almost everything.<span class="gmail_default">..</span></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/planetary-scare-russian-doomsday" style="color: #1155cc;">https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/planetary-scare-russian-doomsday</a><i><br /></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div class="gmail_default"> This morning: Avdeevka has been cut in half by Russian forces. Russians offered surrender last night. Ukrainians are abandoning positions to regroup in the 9th quarter to evacuate. Azov reserve forces got to Avdeevka, saw it was hell, and withdrew to the next town against orders, leaving Ukrainian forces no way out, except to cross muddy fields under Russian fire, with 20% survival prospects. <i><b>Attempts To Escape From The Encirclement Turned Out To Be A Disaster. Military Summary For 2024.2.16</b></i></div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDXR2dc7enk&t=918s" style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDXR2dc7enk&t=918s</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> This Afternoon: There is no way out for Ukrainian forces, who have been hit by 300 precision FABs (fuel air bombs) in the past 24 hours, and cannot hope to survive crossing muddy fields under heavy Russian fire tonight. The political decision must be made for something like 6000+ Ukrainian troops to surrender or die pointlessly.</div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Half Of Avdiivka Was Captured.1000s Of Soldiers Were Trapped. Military Summary 2024.2.16</b></i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orPgVI-P7eM" style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orPgVI-P7eM</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Weeks After US Journalist Dies In Ukrainian Custody, Biden Uses Navalny's Death To Push For More Russian War Funding</b></i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russian-opposition-leader-alexey-navalny-dies-jail" style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russian-opposition-leader-alexey-navalny-dies-jail</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div class="gmail_default"> Gilbert Doctorow, <i><b>Death of Aleksei Navalny: the Brits did it!</b></i></div></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="gmail_default"> </span>The Financial Times confirmed that Navalny had indeed died and set out the comments of leading Western statesmen condemning what they considered to be the latest murder by Vladimir Putin of prominent activists who oppose his rule. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, European Council President Charles Michel and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz were among those who already had spoken before microphones and were reading from the same anti-Putin script.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>In short, what happened in the West this afternoon was a new campaign to vilify Vladimir Putin on the world stage based on a death which was, if I may quote former British PM Theresa May, ‘highly likely’ to have been perpetrated by British Intelligence for this very purpose.<span class="gmail_default">..</span></i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>..Why would Putin want to murder Navalny, when the man is now largely forgotten within Russia. Navalny is yesterday’s news and his ‘anti-corruption’ campaign is irrelevant to Russians in the midst of an existential struggle with the Collective West that is being fought on the territory of Ukraine? However, the murder of Navalny clearly serves the interests of that same Collective West as an intended antidote to the major Soft Power coup of the Carlson Tucker interview with Vladimir Putin just a week ago...</i></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">..Russian doctors at the prison colony were said to have spent half an hour today trying to revive Navalny, but in vain. He is just one more case of collateral damage in the British secret war on Russia<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Time was, in the days of Tony Blair, we spoke of the British as the ‘lap dogs’ of Bush. Today it would be more appropriate to say that the British have become the Hound of the Baskervilles, ahead of and likely outside the control of Washington.</i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2024/02/16/death-of-aleksei-navalny-the-brits-did-it/" style="color: #1155cc;">https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2024/02/16/death-of-aleksei-navalny-the-brits-did-it/</a><i><br /></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>"This Is Scary": Soros Prepares Takeover Of 200 Radio Stations Ahead Of US Presidential Election</b></i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>America's second-largest radio broadcaster could soon emerge from bankruptcy with a new shareholder: Soros Fund Management.</i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/scary-soros-prepares-takeover-200-radio-stations-ahead-us-presidential-election" style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/scary-soros-prepares-takeover-200-radio-stations-ahead-us-presidential-election</a><i><br /></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div class="gmail_default"> Phil sent this 24 minute video of (officially disgraced) US Government bioweapons expert David Martin speaking about the WHO and global crime syndicate decades of preparation to launch the COVID bioweapon and the profitable "vaccine" bioweapon-countermeasure, which they openly documented the development of. If you want to cut to the chase, it is found after 16:00, up to the end at 24:00 minutes. (This is not the European Parliament talk.) <i><b>DR DAVID MARTIN MINCES NO WORDS</b></i></div><div class="gmail_default"><a href="https://forbiddenknowledgetv.net/dr-david-martin-minces-no-words/" style="color: #1155cc;">https://forbiddenknowledgetv.net/dr-david-martin-minces-no-words/</a><br /></div><div class="gmail_default"><br /></div><div class="gmail_default"> Meryl Nass MD, <i><b>Trump spent $10 billion on US depopulation: Catherine Austin Fitts/ Mark Crispin Miller's Substack</b></i></div></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="gmail_default"> </span>In an interview with Greg Hunter from USA Watchdog, Catherine Austin Fitts has said that “No matter who is president, they will allow bioweapons to kill Americans without hesitation.” She also argues that the former president Donald Trump is either a knowing participant in the Covid bioweapon operation, or he is grossly incompetent not to understand what’s happening, which Fitts claims is highly unlikely.</i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://merylnass.substack.com/p/trump-spent-10-billion-on-us-depopulation" style="color: #1155cc;">https://merylnass.substack.com/p/trump-spent-10-billion-on-us-depopulation</a><i><br /></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div class="gmail_default"> Digging in the dirt, out in the sunshine, to plant and cultivate vegetables is also very good, supporting a healthy, antidepressant gut microbiome.</div><i><b>New Study Finds Exercise Twice As Effective At Treating Depression <span class="gmail_default">As</span> Anti-Depressant Drugs<span class="gmail_default"> </span></b></i>(and won't make you want to shoot up a school or church)<br /></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/new-study-finds-exercise-twice-effective-treating-depression-anti-depressant-drugs" style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/new-study-finds-exercise-twice-effective-treating-depression-anti-depressant-drugs</a><br /></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>ELECTRIC WEATHER | Where, Why and How<span class="gmail_default"> </span></b></i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2:30 minutes on how air movement with charged particles </span><span class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">carries</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> electric current </span><span class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">which</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> creates and responds to magnetic fields</span><span class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.</span><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmILO4CUW3U" style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmILO4CUW3U</a><br /></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div class="gmail_default">The 3 minute case for the next turn of our ever-changing planetary weather being a cold one. Recent evidence. <i><b>Cold Climate Bomb is Coming</b></i></div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l83iSbwdNEg" style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l83iSbwdNEg</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Chance of Weather (picturing Jenny with some freshly harvested greens, which she later gave away at school) <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggXf8edqTROLAW14rE9Axxli9iPAb0AO0qgVBJCX_LQgptDv-K6MIHv_7bWp5L_8-YMbQXswzob1FII23kiJRK5FOiedlOXaVnuIH0Fnl5WteDOlFGKI9pzc3V2JjL_b5E39oR9rf8JTTMM_hmRDCA8_vijStnpuBmXIU0Cxy2K4i0ek9cjJNhPZ-Sl2ZR/s4032/PXL_20240211_185846709.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="2268" height="1019" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggXf8edqTROLAW14rE9Axxli9iPAb0AO0qgVBJCX_LQgptDv-K6MIHv_7bWp5L_8-YMbQXswzob1FII23kiJRK5FOiedlOXaVnuIH0Fnl5WteDOlFGKI9pzc3V2JjL_b5E39oR9rf8JTTMM_hmRDCA8_vijStnpuBmXIU0Cxy2K4i0ek9cjJNhPZ-Sl2ZR/w574-h1019/PXL_20240211_185846709.jpg" width="574" /></a></div><br /></div>John Dayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12123174297818737132noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4275885258914846834.post-57743949329627769392024-02-15T17:12:00.001-06:002024-02-15T20:00:35.071-06:00Thinking About Tyranny<p> Scaling Down,</p><div class="gmail_default"><br /></div><div class="gmail_default"> Jim Kunstler says <i><b>"Think About it"</b></i>. Massive hierarchical structures of governance and wealth extraction cannot be sustained, due to the decline of energy and increasing energy-cost of other resources. They desperately need to enlarge and take over the entire global economy, but to do so they need total control of all people and resources.</div><div><i> <b>The WEF-Globalist cabal is losing the battle to control and dominate the rest of us</b>. They are <b>trying to power straight into the opposing currents of reality.</b> Above all, <b>they seek to centralize power and decision-making</b>. But the world is moving in the opposite direction. All of the WEF’s aims founder on the macro trends unspooling in history.<br /> The rising rule for human affairs now is that anything organized at the giant scale is going to wobble and fail. <b>There will not be any world government run by the creatures of Davos or Brussels, or Washington DC</b>, or any other place that the grandiose imagine would be their seat of global power. It’s not going to happen so you can stop worrying about it. <b>But you’d better prepare for what is happening: everything in our world wants to get smaller, slower, finer, and more local</b>. Anything that opposes these trends is pissing into the wind...<br />..<b>American oil production may be at an all-time peak now at about 13-million barrels-a-day, but most of that — about 8-million — is shale oil, which is a manifestation of our tremendous debt roll-up since 2009. Now that we’re at the absolute limits of debt, we’re also at the limits of shale oil</b>. The production of shale oil paralleled the accumulation of all that debt both in size and rate of increase, <b>and as the debt goes bad — meaning, unpayable — the organized capital sector will blow and shale oil production will fall as sharply as it rose</b>. It is also a fact that shale oil is subject to natural limits — <b>we’re out of “sweet spots” to drill</b>.<br /> That’s America. <b>Europe is way worse because aside from whatever oil is left in the North Sea (not much), Europe has no oil.</b> Europe’s largest gas field — Groningen in the Netherlands — is scheduled to cease operations in October of this year. You all know what happened to the Nord Stream pipelines. And then Germany, in some psychotic fugue state, shut down its entire nuclear power industry, while France is just not replacing its nuke plants as they age-out.<b> Europe is completely screwed. They won’t have anything we might call modern industry</b>...<br />..<b>Our federal government is not really getting more powerful, it’s cracking up</b>, starting from the very top, with a mentally incompetent president — the secret that everybody knows. Agencies like the <b>DOJ and Homeland Security may seem more tyrannical for the moment, but they are actually breaking as institutions because in their lawlessness they’ve lost the trust of the people</b> — and nothing is more fundamental to a civilized society than trust in the law. That’s what consent of the governed means.<br /> So, <b>the period of disorderly transition we’re in is not moving toward greater dominance by giants, but to the survival of the small and nimble</b>. We will not see capital formation like the orgy of recent times; rather the vanishing of things falsely presumed to be capital, contraction not expansion. You’ll be <b>struggling to identify and preserve real wealth, which you’ll find in unexpected places, like the friends you can count on, your reputation for honesty, your dependability, acquired skills, and your health, physical and psychological.</b><br /> The WEF won’t be able to impose its Globalist nightmare of elite transhumanism and surveilled bug-eating serfs, and they know it now. They’re running scared.</i></div><div><a href="https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/think-about-it/"><i><b><span class="gmail_default"></span></b></i>https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/think-about-it/</a></div><div><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Farmer Uprising Threatens the Globalist West with Nasty Surprise in Election</b></i><div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>The history of farmer outrage is long and deep, but this year the protests of agricultural workers play a special role:<span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>Their distinctive feature is their scale and influence on numerous elections around the world. And while those in power are unsuccessfully trying to pacify the farmers, their opponents, from Donald Trump to nationalist parties in Europe – are enlisting their support to win elections. </b><br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>The Farmers’ Revolt has become a central issue in a broader culture war centered on economic and social transformation</b>. Protests affected countries such as Belgium, France, Germany, Poland, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Romania and many others.</i></div><div><a href="https://europerenaissance.com/2024/02/14/farmer-uprising-threatens-the-globalist-west-with-nasty-surprise-in-elections/">https://europerenaissance.com/2024/02/14/farmer-uprising-threatens-the-globalist-west-with-nasty-surprise-in-elections/</a><i><br /></i><div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"><br /></span></b></i></div><div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Barghouti: Biden gave Netanyahu the green light to invade Rafah</b></i><div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Secretary-General of the Palestinian National Initiative and former presidential candidate, Dr. Mustafa Barghouti, stated that US President Joe Biden has given Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu the green light to begin an invasion of Rafah.</i></div><div><a href="https://en.ypagency.net/318918">https://en.ypagency.net/318918</a><i><br /></i></div><div><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>'Zionist' Biden Calls Netanyahu an 'Asshole' in Private, But Continues Full Support of Israel's Genocide</b><br />The White House needs to try to present the president of being opposed to the Gaza massacre, even though there has been no policy change in Washington</i><div><a href="https://trendsinthenews.substack.com/p/zionist-biden-calls-netanyahu-an">https://trendsinthenews.substack.com/p/zionist-biden-calls-netanyahu-an</a><i><br /></i></div><div><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>US Opens Probe Into US-Supplied Weapons & Possible Israeli War Crimes</b></i><div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>The U.S. is investigating several Israeli airstrikes in Gaza that killed dozens of civilians and the possible use by Israel of white phosphorus in Lebanon, as part of a probe by the State Department to determine whether America’s closest ally has misused its bombs and missiles to kill civilians, U.S. officials told The Wall Street Journal.</i></div><div><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-opens-probe-us-supplied-weapons-possible-israeli-war-crimes">https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-opens-probe-us-supplied-weapons-possible-israeli-war-crimes</a><i><br /></i></div><div><br /></div><i><b>Israel Massacres Civilians in Gaza 'Safe Zone' While Advertising Their Own Victimhood During Super Bowl</b></i><div><a href="https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=64292">https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=64292</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div><br /></div><i><b>Netanyahu Unilaterally Vetoes Further Hostage Deal Talks<br />A group representing hostage families said the move was a 'death sentence' for the Israelis remaining captive in Gaza</b></i><div><a href="https://news.antiwar.com/2024/02/14/netanyahu-unilaterally-vetoes-further-hostage-deal-talks/">https://news.antiwar.com/2024/02/14/netanyahu-unilaterally-vetoes-further-hostage-deal-talks/</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>An independent Geneva-based human rights organization says Israeli forces allow settlers to watch the torture and humiliation of Palestinians who have been abducted from the Gaza Strip during the regime’s ongoing genocidal war.<span class="gmail_default">..</span></b></i><div><i>..According to <b>Euro-Med</b>, the development took place at the <b>Zikim military base used as a public forum </b>to the north of Gaza’s border with the occupied territories and the Negev prison to the south of the besieged Palestinian territory.<br /> Released Palestinian abductees told Euro-Med that <b>groups of settlers were brought into those detention centers on many occasions</b>. They were allowed to watch and even film and take pictures of the prisoners who were being subjected to various types of inhumane and degrading treatment.<br />Instances of ill-treatment of Gazan abductees ranged from being <b>forced to appear naked before the settlers to being beaten with metal batons and electric sticks and showered with hot water.</b><br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>‘I was subjected to torture and abuse at all stages. The arrest lasted for about 52 days,’</b> 43-year-old Gazan Omar Abu Mudallala told Euro-Med, pointing out that<b> Israeli troops brought settlers to watch ‘our nude torture.’</b><br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Upon bringing in the settlers,<b> the Israeli forces would claim the prisoners were the same Palestinian fighters, who staged Operation al-Aqsa Storm against the occupied territories on October 7, 2023</b>, following which the Israeli regime launched its genocidal war on Gaza, the rights body said.</i></div><div><a href="https://europerenaissance.com/2024/02/14/israels-coliseum-where-prisoners-are-tortured-for-the-amusement-of-israelis/">https://europerenaissance.com/2024/02/14/israels-coliseum-where-prisoners-are-tortured-for-the-amusement-of-israelis/</a><i><br /></i></div><div><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>South Africa submits urgent request to ICJ regarding attack on Rafah</b></i><div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>The Zionist attack on Rafah threatens with genocide in the presence of more than 1.5 million displaced people in the city.<span class="gmail_default"> </span>The International Court of Justice confirmed on January 26 that the Zionist entity must take all the measures stipulated to prevent genocide in the Gaza Strip, stressing that it must do so immediately.</i></div><div><a href="https://en.ypagency.net/318790">https://en.ypagency.net/318790</a><i><br /></i></div><div><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Russia does not see any prospects for a quick stabilization of the situation around the Gaza Strip</b>, especially against the backdrop of Israeli plans to expand the military operation, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Tuesday.</i><div><b><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>"Taking into account the uncompromising attitude of the Israeli leadership to continue the military operation in Gaza, now extending it to Rafah, we do not see prospects for the rapid stabilization of the situation in this sector," Lavrov noted.</i></b></div><div><a href="https://sputnikglobe.com/20240213/us-pushing-israel-and-palestine-towards-catastrophe---russian-fm-lavrov-1116754118.html">https://sputnikglobe.com/20240213/us-pushing-israel-and-palestine-towards-catastrophe---russian-fm-lavrov-1116754118.html</a><b><i><br /></i></b></div><div><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Russia and Hamas: a strategic alliance of convenience<span class="gmail_default"> , </span></b>Hamas has asked Moscow to act as guarantor to a Gaza ceasefire. </i><div><i>Growing Russian ties with West Asia's resistance actors should be no surprise; within the context of the global power standoff, they share common enemies.</i></div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Despite the long-term collaborative nature of Russo-Israeli relations, the Ukraine war has rejigged Moscow's geopolitical calculations significantly. Today, Russia views the Gaza war and its regional implications from the perspective of its competition with the US and, therefore, considers Israel a critical tool of American influence in West Asia. The Russian leadership considers the current conflict to be as much Washington’s battle as Tel Aviv's – a weakened Israel would mean the further disintegration of US power projection from the Levant to the Persian Gulf, a strategic Russian objective.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Although Tel Aviv and Moscow still retain common interests of value to both, it is the US–Russian strategic competition that currently holds the most sway over the Kremlin's decision-making. </i><div><a href="https://thecradle.co/articles/russia-and-hamas-a-strategic-alliance-of-convenience">https://thecradle.co/articles/russia-and-hamas-a-strategic-alliance-of-convenience</a><i><br /></i></div><div><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Israel Kills Elite Hezbollah Commander, But Unleashes Single Deadliest Day For Lebanese Civilians</b></i><div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Israel on Thursday announced that it killed a senior commander of Hezbollah’s elite Radwan Force, identified as Ali al-Debs, along with at least two other fighters in his group...<span class="gmail_default">..</span>Al Jazeera reports that at least ten civilians and fighters were killed, and that five among the civilians were children. "Seven of the civilians were killed in Nabatieh late on Wednesday when a rare Israeli attack on the city hit a multistorey building, sources in Lebanon said."<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>"The dead were from the same extended family, and included three children," the report continues. "A boy initially reported missing was found alive under the rubble."<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Hezbollah on Thursday warned that Israel will soon "pay the price" for the deadly day of air raids as the situation continues to rapidly escalate, after months of daily tit-for-tat drone, rocket, and mortar fire.</i></div><div><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/israel-kills-elite-hezbollah-commander-unleashes-single-deadliest-day-lebanese">https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/israel-kills-elite-hezbollah-commander-unleashes-single-deadliest-day-lebanese</a><i><br /></i><div><br /></div><i><b>Yemen's Houthis Claim to Have Stopped Ship Traffic to Israeli Ports<span class="gmail_default"> </span></b></i>(Only from the Red Sea, not the Mediterranean)<div><a href="https://sputnikglobe.com/20240214/yemens-houthis-claim-to-have-stopped-ship-traffic-to-israeli-ports-1116769527.html">https://sputnikglobe.com/20240214/yemens-houthis-claim-to-have-stopped-ship-traffic-to-israeli-ports-1116769527.html</a><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="gmail_default">Simplicius points out that Zelensky's plan to reinforce Adveevka comes too late, and up to 1500 (Azov?) reinforcements were killed at a remote staging area by Russian missiles.</div><i><b>SITREP 2/13/24: Avdeevka Turns Critical as Iskander Strike Devastates AFU Staging Area</b></i></div><div><a href="https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/sitrep-21324-avdeevka-turns-critical">https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/sitrep-21324-avdeevka-turns-critical</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div><br /></div><i><b>Iskanders with cluster warheads hit a large concentration of Ukrainian Armed Forces personnel</b></i><div><a href="https://en.topcor.ru/44341-iskandery-s-kassetnymi-bch-udarili-po-krupnomu-skopleniju-lichnogo-sostava-vsu.html">https://en.topcor.ru/44341-iskandery-s-kassetnymi-bch-udarili-po-krupnomu-skopleniju-lichnogo-sostava-vsu.html</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="gmail_default">They did, and apparently coordinated by a US surveillance drone overhead. (Caesar Kunikov died fighting a noble holding action on <b>February 14</b>,1943 in Novorossiysk)</div><i><b>Ukraine military says it used sea drones to sink Russian landing ship<span class="gmail_default"> , Caesar Kunikov</span></b></i><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.c4isrnet.com/unmanned/2024/02/14/ukraine-military-says-it-used-sea-drones-to-sink-russian-landing-ship/">https://www.c4isrnet.com/unmanned/2024/02/14/ukraine-military-says-it-used-sea-drones-to-sink-russian-landing-ship/</a><i><b><span class="gmail_default"><br /></span></b></i></div><div><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Drones replacing Army helicopter program</b></i><div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>“We absolutely are paying attention to (world events) and adjusting because we could go to war tonight, this weekend,”</b> head of <b>Army Futures Command Gen. James Rainey</b> said.<span class="gmail_default"> </span>Rainey’s statement was seconded by Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George in a press release, where he stated, <b>“We are learning from the battlefield, especially Ukraine, that aerial reconnaissance has fundamentally changed. Sensors and weapons mounted on a variety of unmanned systems and in space are more ubiquitous, further reaching, and more inexpensive than ever before.” </b></i></div><div><a href="https://americanmilitarynews.com/2024/02/drones-replacing-army-helicopter-program/">https://americanmilitarynews.com/2024/02/drones-replacing-army-helicopter-program/</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Russia bolsters Northern defense with 1,000 Yurka drone detectors</b></i><div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>A spokesperson for the design bureau detailed the benefits of this game-changing product, revealing that it efficiently <b>thwarts covert approaches</b> made by various civilian helicopters toward Russian fighters. <b>“This unique characteristic considerably reduces the threat of unexpected assaults. The detector has shown effectiveness against drones produced by manufacturers such as Mavic, Autel, and DJI, as well as FPV drones operating on the monitored frequencies. Despite Yurka’s current restrictions to detect all brands of drones, we are resolutely working towards mitigating this problem in our forthcoming product update.”</b> </i></div><div><a href="https://bulgarianmilitary.com/2024/02/14/russia-bolsters-northern-defense-with-1000-yurka-drone-detectors/">https://bulgarianmilitary.com/2024/02/14/russia-bolsters-northern-defense-with-1000-yurka-drone-detectors/</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Pepe Escobar: Life During Wartime – On the Road in Donbass</b></i><div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>The first thing that hits you <b>when you arrive in Donetsk </b>nearly 10 years after Maidan in Kiev is the incessant loud booms. Incoming and mostly outgoing. After such a long, dreary time, interminable shelling of civilians (which are invisible to the collective West), and nearly 2 years after the start of the Special Military Operation (SMO), <b>this is still a city at war; still vulnerable along the three lines of defense behind the front.</b><br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>The “Road of Life” has got to be one of the epic war misnomers in Donetsk. “Road” is a euphemism for a dark, muddy bog plied back and forth virtually non-stop by military vehicles. “Life” applies because the Donbass military actually donate food and humanitarian aid to the locals at the Gornyak neighborhood every single week</b>...<br /><span class="gmail_default">..</span><b>In one of the back rooms, Svetlana carefully arranges mini-packages of food essentials to be distributed every Sunday after liturgy. I meet Mother Pelageya, 86 years old, who comes to the temple every Sunday, and would not even dream of ever leaving her neighborhood.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Gornyak is in the third line of defense. The loud booms – as in everywhere in Donetsk – are nearly non-stop, incoming and outgoing. If we follow the road for another 500 meters or so and turn right, we are only 5 km away from Avdeyevka – which may be about to fall in days, or weeks at most.</b>..<br />..So yes: deep down in the Donbass countryside, in communion with those living life during wartime, <b>we feel the enormity of something inexplicable and vast, full of endless wonder, as if touching the Tao by silencing the recurrent loud booms. In Russian there is, of course, a word for it: "загадка", roughly translated as “enigma” or “mystery”</b>.</i></div><div><a href="https://sputnikglobe.com/20240213/pepe-escobar-life-during-wartime--on-the-road-in-donbass-1116752456.html">https://sputnikglobe.com/20240213/pepe-escobar-life-during-wartime--on-the-road-in-donbass-1116752456.html</a><i><br /></i></div><div><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>US spies behind ‘Russiagate’ conspiracy – report</b><span class="gmail_default"><b></b> , </span>The CIA asked its ‘Five Eyes’ allies to monitor Trump campaign aides, according to a new investigation</i><div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>Michael Shellenberger, Matt Taibbi and Alex Gutentag – of ‘Twitter Files’ fame</b> – published the first part of an investigation on Tuesday, in which they claim the so-called <b>'Five Eyes' were operationalized against Trump staffers</b>, citing anonymous sources close to the House Intelligence Committee. <br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>According to their report, President Barack Obama’s CIA Director, John Brennan, had sent America’s partners – the UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand – a list of 26 Trump associates to target with data collection, misinformation and manipulation.</b></i></div><div><a href="https://swentr.site/news/592439-cia-russiagate-illegal-trump/">https://swentr.site/news/592439-cia-russiagate-illegal-trump/</a><i><br /></i></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="gmail_default">Free Part 1: <a href="https://public.substack.com/p/cia-had-foreign-allies-spy-on-trump">https://public.substack.com/p/cia-had-foreign-allies-spy-on-trump</a></div></div><div><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>US Govt Is Hiding Documents That Incriminate Intel Community For Illegal Spying & Election Interference, Say Sources</b><br /><b>Part 2: U.S. Government Is Hiding Documents That Incriminate Intelligence Community For Illegal Spying And Election Interference, Say Sources</b><br />Former CIA Director Gina Haspel blocked the release of “binder” with evidence that may identify her role in the Trump-Russia collusion hoax</i><br /><div><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/political/us-govt-hiding-documents-incriminate-intel-community-illegal-spying-election-interference">https://www.zerohedge.com/political/us-govt-hiding-documents-incriminate-intel-community-illegal-spying-election-interference</a><i><br /></i></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="gmail_default">Free Part 2: <a href="https://public.substack.com/p/us-government-is-hiding-documents"> https://public.substack.com/p/us-government-is-hiding-documents</a></div><div class="gmail_default"><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Former US President Donald Trump's campaign rhetoric regarding NATO is a continuation of his policy as the head of state, former US National Security Advisor John Bolton said, adding that Trump had come close to withdrawing the United States from the alliance back in 2018.</b></i></div><div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>On Saturday, Trump said that during his presidency, the leader of an unspecified NATO nation had asked him whether Washington would protect that or other countries in the event of a possible attack by Russia, if they do not meet their defense spending obligations. Trump responded he would not and would encourage Russia to "do whatever the hell they want," stressing that NATO members "got to pay."<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>"At the NATO summit in 2018, he came very close to withdrawing from NATO right there at the summit. So each of these comments, as he makes them now over six years, to me simply reinforces that the notion of withdrawing from NATO is very serious with him," Bolton </b>told Politico on Tuesday.</i><br /></div></div><div><a href="https://sputnikglobe.com/20240214/trump-almost-withdrew-us-from-nato-in-2018---former-national-security-adviser-1116773227.html">https://sputnikglobe.com/20240214/trump-almost-withdrew-us-from-nato-in-2018---former-national-security-adviser-1116773227.html</a><i><br /></i></div><div><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>House Speaker Says Requested Meeting With Biden About US Border Security, White House Rejected<span class="gmail_default"> </span></b></i><div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>“I’ve been requesting a meeting with the president for weeks now, a month. I’ve been asking to sit down with the president to talk about the border and talk about national security, and that meeting has not been granted,” </b>Johnson said during a press conference.<span class="gmail_default"> </span>Johnson said he will continue to insist on a meeting, <b>adding that it is a “problem” if the Speaker of the House cannot sit down with the president.</b></i></div><div><a href="https://sputnikglobe.com/20240214/house-speaker-says-requested-meeting-with-biden-about-us-border-security-white-house-rejected-1116782752.html">https://sputnikglobe.com/20240214/house-speaker-says-requested-meeting-with-biden-about-us-border-security-white-house-rejected-1116782752.html</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Ex-Biden Business Associate Throws the President under the Bus: ‘The Family Business Was Joe Biden, Period’</b></i><div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>Tony Bobulinski</b>, who worked with Hunter Biden and brother James, testified that Joe Biden was “the Brand” which enabled the door to be opened for massive salaries, bonuses, and board positions in China and Ukraine.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> <b> </b></span><b>“I want to be crystal clear,”</b> he said.<span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>“From my direct personal experience and what I have subsequently come to learn, it is clear to me that Joe Biden was ‘the Brand’ being sold by the Biden family.”</b></i></div><div><a href="https://www.dailyfetched.com/ex-biden-business-associate-throws-the-president-under-the-bus-the-family-business-was-joe-biden-period/">https://www.dailyfetched.com/ex-biden-business-associate-throws-the-president-under-the-bus-the-family-business-was-joe-biden-period/</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div><br /></div><i><span class="gmail_default"> <b> </b></span><b>“It's hard to fathom who the big guy could be but Joe Biden. So we've known about this,” independent journalist Dr. Jim Kavanaugh</b> told Sputnik’s The Critical Hour on Wednesday. <b>“[Bobulinski] confirms that the big guy is Biden, which means [...] [Joe] Biden was getting paid from his son’s activities with [these Chinese businesses].”</b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>This, combined with the President’s <b>cognitive problems that have become “impossible to deny”</b> will cause him to step aside before this November’s Presidential elections.<br /><b>“He’s not going to be the Democratic nominee,” Kavanaugh asserted, adding that the only question left is “How much longer is he going to last as president?”</b></i><div><a href="https://sputnikglobe.com/20240215/bidens-dual-big-guy-memory-scandals-will-end-his-presidency-1116789506.html">https://sputnikglobe.com/20240215/bidens-dual-big-guy-memory-scandals-will-end-his-presidency-1116789506.html</a><i><br /></i></div><div><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Biden must be removed – US state’s attorney general</b></i><div><i>West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey has called on US Vice President Kamala Harris to declare Joe Biden physically unable to perform his duties as president. The demand was issued in a letter sent to Harris on Tuesday. </i></div><div><a href="https://www.rt.com/news/592438-harris-remove-joe-biden/">https://www.rt.com/news/592438-harris-remove-joe-biden/</a><i><br /></i></div><div><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Most Americans believe Biden and Trump too old to be president</b></i><div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>According to the poll, which was conducted last week and involved a representative sample of 528 US voters, <b>86% of respondents said Biden should not run for a second term because of his age.</b> Of that number, 27% believed only Biden – who is already the oldest US president in history – is too elderly, while <b>59% insisted that both he and former President Trump are too old.</b> The <b>Republican frontrunner was considered to be too old to run by 62% of respondents</b>. </i></div><div><a href="https://www.rt.com/news/592311-biden-trump-too-old/">https://www.rt.com/news/592311-biden-trump-too-old/</a><i><br /></i></div><div><br /></div><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><b>Inside the chaos of Robert F. Kennedy Jr's campaign: How 14 members of staff have quit his longshot bid for president and more are 'fleeing' over 'lavish' spending and 'amateurish' leadership</b><br /><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Campaign complaints center on campaign manager Amaryllis Fox Kennedy and communication director Del Bigtree </b><br />The campaign is struggling to get RFK Jr.'s name on the 2024 ballot in every state <br />One resignation letter complains of a 'cavalier, and out of touch' operation</i><div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Sources close to the campaign blame campaign manager Amaryllis Fox Kennedy, the candidate's daughter-in-law, and the campaign's communication director Del Bigtree for mismanaging the campaign, according to a report from Mediaite.<span class="gmail_default"><b> "</b></span><b>There is no one with any political experience and it shows,' </b>one source close to the campaign told the outlet.<span class="gmail_default">..</span></i></div><i>..Fox Kennedy </i>(still CIA?) <i>replaced former Rep. Dennis Kucinich</i> (non-Zionist peacenik) <i>as the campaign manager in October</i><span class="gmail_default"><i> </i>(after Bobby tacitly supported genocide)</span><i>, shortly after RFK Jr. decided to end his challenge to President Joe Biden for the Democratic presidential nomination and run for president as an Independent.</i><div><a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13083157/robert-f-kennedy-jr-campaign-chaos-staffers-quit.html">https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13083157/robert-f-kennedy-jr-campaign-chaos-staffers-quit.html</a><i><br /></i></div><div><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Exactly a week after a failed attempt, the House has impeached Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, under whose tenure more than 10 million illegal immigrants have entered the US - doubling the existing population of migrants.</b></i><div><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/political/house-impeaches-mayorkas-historic-vote">https://www.zerohedge.com/political/house-impeaches-mayorkas-historic-vote</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>EPA’s Final Witnesses Concede Fluoride’s Harm, Admit to Flaws in Key Study as Trial Closes<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>A risk assessor for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency admitted fluoride is neurotoxic at relatively low levels and the agency’s key expert on fluoride’s neurotoxicity conceded flaws in his own study as the landmark fluoride trial drew to a close.</b></i><div><a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/epa-final-witnesses-neurotoxicity-fluoride-trial/">https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/epa-final-witnesses-neurotoxicity-fluoride-trial/</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>NIH in Early 2022 Abruptly Stopped Responding to People Injured by COVID Shots</b><br />Documents obtained by Children’s Health Defense via a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit reveal <b>officials at the National Institutes of Health corresponded with people injured by the COVID-19 vaccines throughout 2021, even launching a study only to pull the plug on it before finishing</b> and reporting on it.</i><div><a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/nih-communication-covid-vaccine-injured-people/">https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/nih-communication-covid-vaccine-injured-people/</a><i><br /></i></div><div><br /></div><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><b>WHO Exhibiting Signs of ‘Desperation’ as New Zealand, Iran Reject Amendments to International Health Regulations</b><br />New Zealand and up to three other countries have rejected controversial amendments, proposed in 2022 by the Biden administration to the World Health Organization’s 2005 International Health Regulations.</i><div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>“In May 2022, the WHA voted to adopt the amendment to Article 59 of the IHR (and consequently other articles), which reduces the timeframe for future amendments to come into force from 24 to 12 months. Consequently, the period to reject or reserve future amendments was reduced from 18 months to 10 months,” Murfitt said.<br /><b>For states that did not reject the amendments by Dec. 1, 2023, “the amendment comes into force in May 2024 by way of ‘tacit acceptance,’” </b>Murfitt added.</i></div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Recent <b>statements by WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus also suggest a growing unease with the progress of negotiations and the likelihood of reaching an agreement on the proposed 2023 IHR amendments and “pandemic agreement” by this year’s WHA, scheduled for May 27-June 1</b>.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Others, including<b> Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.) and Rep. Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio), warned during a Feb. 5 press conference that the proposed instruments pose a fundamental threat to national sovereignty, including that of the U.S</b>.</i><div><a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/who-amendments-ihr-regulations-rejected/">https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/who-amendments-ihr-regulations-rejected/</a><i><br /></i></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="gmail_default"> <b>Meryl Nass MD</b>, her medical license suspended for treating COVID patients with antivirals like ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine, has been taking her message about the WHO becoming a super-sovereign entity if the IHR (international health regulation) amendments are passed, which mandate massive yearly funding, and national compliance if a pandemic or other health emergency is declared by WHO Director Tedros or some appointed successor. The Pandemic Treaty amendments might simply be signed by "Joe Biden" without senatorial debate, since a "Pandemic Treaty" already exists, but this would give the WHO supranational powers without legal recourse.</div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Lawfare goes wild. <b>I have not had a medical license in Massachusetts for 25 years. But now Massachusetts wants to initiate disciplinary action against me</b>, because... Quoting from their letter:<span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>"This Board has the authority to discipline a physician who has been disciplined in another jurisdiction"</b></i></div><div><a href="https://merylnass.substack.com/p/lawfare-goes-wild-i-have-not-had">https://merylnass.substack.com/p/lawfare-goes-wild-i-have-not-had</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div></div></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="gmail_default">Over The Target and Taking Fire (pictured planting black beans) </div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEietBVXaI_45fLbBF6lZ-ZDTc_GB1B_8deoR5D5tOJzdUNmT8vpVgMCblvgvq5Vjgl7CRL0KBc-T24oxC4cpqc-Eo_6FXWbeSrdI9YNIOdN-V8ep31iultbHfdRTqk90zE3kV0v44v0bXAu797Hmvy4NLK-RkFDklWSsjITZTzCLP4TyuQYhS9HaUOAaIRu/s4032/PXL_20240211_175155561.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="2268" height="1074" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEietBVXaI_45fLbBF6lZ-ZDTc_GB1B_8deoR5D5tOJzdUNmT8vpVgMCblvgvq5Vjgl7CRL0KBc-T24oxC4cpqc-Eo_6FXWbeSrdI9YNIOdN-V8ep31iultbHfdRTqk90zE3kV0v44v0bXAu797Hmvy4NLK-RkFDklWSsjITZTzCLP4TyuQYhS9HaUOAaIRu/w604-h1074/PXL_20240211_175155561.jpg" width="604" /></a></div><br /><div class="gmail_default"><br /></div>John Dayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12123174297818737132noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4275885258914846834.post-65808839807937210182024-02-14T08:46:00.003-06:002024-02-14T08:46:51.680-06:00Infamy Or Honor<p> Honest Readers,</p><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default"><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Dr. Jane Orient: “Rooting Out the Censorship-Industrial Complex is Essential for Our Survival as a Free Sovereign Nation”</b></i><div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>As the <b>Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) files an amicus curiae brief in the U.S. Supreme Court in a major case focused on government collusion with Big Tech to censor Americans’ free speech</b>, the group’s executive director tells Lumen-News <b>the case’s outcome is monumental “for our survival as a free sovereign nation.”</b><br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>On Wednesday, <b>AAPS filed its brief against the Biden administration’s argument</b> in the case of <b>Murthy v. Missouri</b>, in which the <b>state attorneys general of Missouri and Louisiana, and other private parties, argued the administration violated the First Amendment’s right to free speech</b>.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>The parties asserted the Biden administration colluded with social media platform giants to censor posts and video that contained opinion opposed to that of the government regarding COVID-19 public health policy and the related vaccines.</b><br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>AAPS Executive Director Jane Orient, M.D. said that while many Americans perceive the COVID pandemic to be “over,”</b> the devastating consequences of how the pandemic was handled remains a serious concern for the future.<span class="gmail_default"> </span>“Covid may be a generally mild endemic disease, <b>but it is not over,” Orient told Lumen-News. “Frequent ‘booster’ shots are still recommended annually, like flu shots, and there is already talk of Disease X.”</b><br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>During a session in January at the <b>World Economic Forum (WEF) 2024, World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said, when discussing “Disease X”, “You may even call COVID as the first ‘Disease X,’ and it may happen again.”</b>...</i></div><div><i><span class="gmail_default">..</span><b>“The Surgeon General of Florida, our third largest state, cannot obtain answers from the Biden Administration about safety concerns with Covid vaccines,” Andrew Schlafly, general counsel of AAPS, said</b> in the AAPS press release. <b>“Instead of censoring issues raised about the Covid vaccines on social media, the Biden Administration officials should be providing answers to the questions raised.”<span class="gmail_default"> </span>“When the federal government tells social media platforms to take action against postings, then our basic free speech rights are gravely endangered,” </b>he added.</i></div><div><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://lumennews14.substack.com/p/dr-jane-orient-rooting-out-the-censorship&source=gmail&ust=1708002431798000&usg=AOvVaw34nJbB5LF7yraG1Qjy5-fE" href="https://lumennews14.substack.com/p/dr-jane-orient-rooting-out-the-censorship" target="_blank">https://lumennews14.substack.<wbr></wbr>com/p/dr-jane-orient-rooting-<wbr></wbr>out-the-censorship</a><i><br /></i></div><div><br /></div><i><span class="gmail_default"> Meryl Nass MD, </span><b>GOP lawmakers argue pandemic treaty threatens US sovereignty</b><span class="gmail_default"> </span></i>(They may be barking up the wrong tree, but at least they are barking now.)<div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>The <b>World Health Organization is rushing to finalize a treaty to prevent and combat future pandemics</b>, but some House Republicans say the U.S. should not be a part of the global accord, arguing that the <b>health group is infringing on the rights of American taxpayers</b>.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>They’re <b>concerned that the treaty will result in U.S. taxpayer dollars going toward abortion</b>. They’re also concerned about <b>threats to U.S. intellectual property rights</b>...<br />..Proponents of the treaty say banding together to prepare for the next pandemic is essential, but a group of conservative lawmakers and advocates that gathered Monday on Capitol Hill said the accord is a <b>“global power grab” that uses public health as a method of spreading progressive values</b>.<span class="gmail_default">..</span></i></div><div><i><span class="gmail_default">..</span>The World Health Organization has spent months working to create the world’s first pandemic treaty, an international accord meant to help countries better prepare and respond to future disease outbreaks. <b>WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has described it as “a legally binding pact between countries working together.” </b>Countries <b>hope to finalize the agreement ahead of the annual World Health Assembly in Geneva at the end of May.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>The treaty aims to help countries around the world prepare for “Disease X,” the next global disease outbreak</b>...</i><div><i><span class="gmail_default">..</span><b>“This is about a common enemy, and without a shared response, starting with preparedness, we will face the same problem as COVID,”</b> Ghebreyesus said while speaking on a panel at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, in January.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>But a growing <b>coalition of Republicans on Capitol Hill, as well as supporters of former President Donald Trump, have been rallying against the treaty</b>. During a news conference Monday on Capitol Hill, Reps. Christopher H. Smith, R-N.J., and Wenstrup argued<b> the treaty is too political and relies too heavily on financial support from U.S. taxpayers</b>.<span class="gmail_default"> </span>Tony Perkins, president of the <b>conservative Family Research Council, called the draft “a global power grab” </b>that forces progressive social policies on countries. The agreement calls for the <b>continuation of essential health services, which include abortion</b>.</i></div></div><div><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://merylnass.substack.com/p/gop-lawmakers-argue-pandemic-treaty&source=gmail&ust=1708002431798000&usg=AOvVaw1wSfo7Rpl40C7EUxpiiGjf" href="https://merylnass.substack.com/p/gop-lawmakers-argue-pandemic-treaty" target="_blank">https://merylnass.substack.<wbr></wbr>com/p/gop-lawmakers-argue-<wbr></wbr>pandemic-treaty</a><i><br /></i></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="gmail_default"> A Midwestern Doctor , <i><b>How We Can Stop The WHO's Horrific Pandemic Treaty</b></i></div><i><b>Reviewing exactly what is inside the worst treaty of our lifetime and the heroic efforts that are stopping it.</b></i></div><div><i><b>Story at a Glance</b>:<br />•<span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>“Preventing” pandemics is one of the most lucrative areas in medicine</b>. Unfortunately, despite all the money this industry has received, it has only made the problem worse. This is because <b>most pandemics are the result of lab leaks from “preventative” research</b>, and because whenever an effective solution is discovered for a pandemic, it gets suppressed by the industry since so <b>many business interests depend upon profiting off of an “unsolvable emergency.”</b><br />•<span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>The way COVID-19 was handled was so egregious that it woke much of the public up to this grift</b>. Because of that, the <b>pandemic-industrial complex is now facing an existential risk</b> to its business model (since much of the general population no longer is willing to go along with it).<br />•<span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>To solve this problem, a covert WHO treaty has been put together behind the scenes which gives these international health agencies absolute control over anything related to an alleged “health emergency,”</b> and in turn enshrines each awful policy which was conducted throughout COVID-19 (e.g.,<b> mass censorship or the promotion of dangerous and experimental vaccines</b>).<br />•<span class="gmail_default"> <b> </b></span><b>A grass roots activist movement</b> has accomplished something remarkable—despite the fact every single large organization has pushed the pandemic treaty through, in only a few short months, those activists have begun to derail it. <b>I believe stopping this power grab is one of the most important issues of our time</b>...</i></div><div><i>..<b>This medical monopoly is being established by giving the WHO (rather than your doctor) the authority to choose what responses </b>are adopted to manage a pandemic—which will inevitably <b>lead to the (lucrative) experimental pharmaceuticals being mandated</b> while the competing ones (e.g., <b>repurposed pharmaceutical drugs) are prohibited</b>... </i></div><div><i>..Since there are so many abhorrent agendas being pushed forward within the pandemic treaty,<b> the treaty could never be approved without “undemocratic” tactics being employed to push it through</b>...<span class="gmail_default"></span></i></div><div><i><span class="gmail_default">..<b>T</b></span><b>actics being used to conceal what is in the treaty</b> include:<br />•<span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>Having the treaty documents contradict each other</b> (e.g., in one place it says the WHO can’t do something, while in another place which supersedes the previous one it says it can). <b>This allows the treaty advocates to point to the first instance but not the second and hence falsely suggest the treaty does not also contain its reprehensible provisions.</b><br />•<span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>Having the WHO’s plan be extremely difficult to understand</b>, as it involves two separate legal documents (a<b> treaty and amendments to the International Health Regulations</b>) that need to be pieced together. <b>Much of the language within each is complex and contradictory</b> so most people (myself included) will struggle to make sense of <b>what they actually mean and which statement takes priority </b>under which situation.<br />•<span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>Continually change the name of the treaty with each draft</b> so it’s difficult for independent researchers to even find the right document (most recently, the treaty was referred to as the <b>“pandemic agreement”</b>).<br />•<span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>Not allowing the public to see what is within the current version</b> of the amendments until shortly before<b> it will be voted on in May<span class="gmail_default">...</span></b> </i></div><div><i>..One of major debates in international law is the question of exactly when an international treaty supersedes national (or state) law. <b>Since the underlying purpose of the WHO’s pandemic treaty is to provide a mechanism to bypass populist resistance against the WHO’s edicts, the treaty is attempting to supersede local law, and as the previous section shows, do so in secret so local legislators don’t realize what has been agreed to until the treaty’s “emergency” pandemic provisions kick in</b>...<span class="gmail_default"></span></i></div><div><i><span class="gmail_default">..</span>A rational examination of the texts in question shows that:<br />1. <b>The documents propose a transfer of decision-making power to the WHO regarding basic aspects of societal function</b>, which countries undertake to enact.<br />2. <b>The WHO Director General will have sole authority to decide when and where they are applied</b> [remember that they apply to both “pandemics” and “other health hazards”].<br />3. <b>The proposals are intended to be binding under international law</b>.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Note: these powers include controlling <b>where people can travel</b>, <b>forcing them to quarantine</b>, implementing <b>contact tracing</b>, and <b>mandating treatment or vaccination</b>. Furthermore, many of <b>the treaty’s provisions also violate existing laws</b> (e.g., <b>mass surveillance</b> which violates basic medical privacy protections, <b>taking away intellectual property rights</b> from members of signatory nations, and as mentioned before, <b>encouraging GoF research which violates the 1972 Biological Weapons Treaty</b>).<span class="gmail_default">..</span></i></div><div><i>..<b>The WHO has failed to reveal anything about the proposed amendments to its international health regulations since November 2022</b>, even though they have been continuously negotiated since then. Likewise this means <b>the WHO is not followed its existing rules </b>which had require public drafts of the new amendments to be viewable four months prior to being voted on...</i></div><div><i><span class="gmail_default">..</span>I sincerely believe <b>very few people would support the pandemic treaty if they actually understood what was in it</b>, and it was for that reason that I spent almost a month reading through over a thousand pages of Meryl’s work to put this series together.<br />Note: <b>Meryl also wrote a 1000 word (easily shareable) summary of the treaty here</b><span class="gmail_default">: </span></i><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://merylnass.substack.com/p/dont-read-this-if-you-already-read&source=gmail&ust=1708002431798000&usg=AOvVaw3FxXUMmk2b2PTR5Nul1Z_f" href="https://merylnass.substack.com/p/dont-read-this-if-you-already-read" target="_blank">https://merylnass.<wbr></wbr>substack.com/p/dont-read-this-<wbr></wbr>if-you-already-read</a><span class="gmail_default"> ...</span></div><div><i>..<b>The pandemic treaty will be voted on at the World Health Assembly in May 2024. Because of this, we have about two months left to hit the critical mass to stop this</b> (and have that vote fail)...</i></div><div><i>..<b>There are two entirely different things the WHO is trying to push through</b>. One is the <b>treaty itself</b>, while the other <span class="gmail_default">is a</span> new set of<b> International Health Regulations</b>. It is very possible the WHO will have to let go of the treaty (due to the pushback it has received) but <b>use that confusion to covertly pass those disastrous regulations</b>...</i></div><div><i>..<b>Technically, for a treaty to be enacted in the United States, it needs to be debated in the Senate</b>. Since that exposure would quickly turn the public against the treaty (as it is so indefensible it can only be passed in secret), the current presidential administration has been trying to bypass that step (as <b>the State department has some latitude to decide if it wants to skip the Senate’s advise and consent process</b>). Because of this, one of the most viable ways to stop it is by <b>forcing a debate in the Senate</b> (which <b>senators like Rand Paul are already trying</b> to do). However, <b>a bill Senator Ron Johnson introduced that would have required the treaty to be reviewed by the Senate barely failed early last year on a strict party line vote</b>...<span class="gmail_default"></span></i></div><div><i><span class="gmail_default">..</span><b>The same people who clearly did the worse possible job of handling the pandemic</b> (demonstrated by the fact we fared far worse than Africa which did almost nothing to mitigate COVID-19) <b>are demanding that “failure” justifies giving them the complete authority to do whatever they want during the next pandemic</b>.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>I interpret this to mean that they are actually paper tigers and are <b>in an extremely precarious situation which is requiring them to take extremely audacious steps to protect their racket and not be held accountable for their crimes against humanity</b>.<span class="gmail_default">..</span></i><br /></div><i>..In turn, I would argue <b>we are at a moment in history where we could easily go down two different paths</b> with profound implications for generations to come—<b>our society may end up becoming becoming enslaved to the pandemic-industrial complex but we also have a once in a lifetime opportunity it to break up a predatory industry which has victimized generations of human beings around the world</b> in its relentless pursuit of power and profit.</i><div><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/how-we-can-stop-the-whos-horrific&source=gmail&ust=1708002431798000&usg=AOvVaw0W4YNeMiXGfWsUqdFCVByX" href="https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/how-we-can-stop-the-whos-horrific" target="_blank">https://www.midwesterndoctor.<wbr></wbr>com/p/how-we-can-stop-the-<wbr></wbr>whos-horrific</a><i><br /></i></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="gmail_default"> Meryl Nass MD, <b>Maybe 5% of the WHO Pandemic Treaty and IHR amendment negotiations are about a trade agreement. </b></div><div class="gmail_default"><b>The other 95% are about global control of information, pandemics and medicine through the WHO</b></div><b>Don't let yourself be confused. I wish I didn't need to make this clarification, but many have asked me to do so.</b><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhwaZaWYyZIwtZZgQYpP55SF1igDxgWn1x7HY9iJ41OjAGuW8ul8GqaYKPt9sDfQq90lk7hIMunIT9hbEbLypTXaA_lcJ1mzj7ZBSbv_mnw6FNWZQ62apVvS1y9q56YjLbAhr1FcHmuJjenuswXTUKGB_AtAVff1QJ_u4Vq67gYxBm9OwTZEr-0sSfIE1B8" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="667" data-original-width="1179" height="368" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhwaZaWYyZIwtZZgQYpP55SF1igDxgWn1x7HY9iJ41OjAGuW8ul8GqaYKPt9sDfQq90lk7hIMunIT9hbEbLypTXaA_lcJ1mzj7ZBSbv_mnw6FNWZQ62apVvS1y9q56YjLbAhr1FcHmuJjenuswXTUKGB_AtAVff1QJ_u4Vq67gYxBm9OwTZEr-0sSfIE1B8=w650-h368" width="650" /></a></div><br /></div><div><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://merylnass.substack.com/p/maybe-5-of-the-who-pandemic-treaty&source=gmail&ust=1708002431798000&usg=AOvVaw1hvdW6YdYqYkmyBAd1PiuA" href="https://merylnass.substack.com/p/maybe-5-of-the-who-pandemic-treaty" target="_blank">https://merylnass.substack.<wbr></wbr>com/p/maybe-5-of-the-who-<wbr></wbr>pandemic-treaty</a><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="gmail_default"><i><b>The World's Gyre</b>, Alastair Crooke , </i>Thanks Eleni</div><i> <b>The U.S. is edging closer to war with Iraq’s Popular Mobilisation Forces, a state security agency composed of armed groups, some of which are close to Iran, but which for the main are Iraqi nationalists</b>. The <b>U.S. carried out a drone strike in Baghdad, Wednesday that killed three members of the Kataeb Hizbullah forces, including a senior commander</b>. One of the assassinated, al-Saadi, is the most senior figure to have been assassinated in Iraq since the 2020 drone strike that killed senior Iraqi Commander al-Muhandis and Qassem Soleimani.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>The target is puzzling as Kataeb more than a week ago suspended its military operations against the U.S. (at the request of the Iraqi government)</b>. The stand down was widely published. <b>So why was this senior figure assassinated?</b><br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Tectonic twitches often are sparked by a single egregious action: the one final grain of sand which – on top of the others – triggers the slide, capsizing the sandpile.<b> Iraqis are angry. They feel that the U.S. wantonly violates their sovereignty – showing contempt and disdain for Iraq, a once great civilisation</b>, now brought low in the wake of U.S. wars. <b>Swift and collective retaliation has been promised.</b><br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>One act, and a gyre can begin. <b>The Iraqi government may not be able to hold the line.</b><span class="gmail_default">..</span></i><br /></div><i><span class="gmail_default">..</span><b>The Houthis and AnsarAllah have become heroes across the Islamic World.</b> Look at social media. The Houthis are now the ‘stuff of myth’: Standing up for Palestinians whilst others don’t. <span class="gmail_default"></span><b>A following is taking hold</b>. AnsarAllah’s ‘heroic’ stance may lead to the ousting of western proxies, and so to dominate that ‘rest of Yemen’ they presently do not control.<b> It seizes too, the Islamic world imagination (to the concern of the Arab Establishment)</b>.<span class="gmail_default">..</span></i><div><i>..<b>Nothing changed by way of U.S. policies.</b> It was the same old western bromides from decades ago: <b>financial threats, bombing and violence. And the insistence on one mandatory ‘stand with Israel’ narrative</b> (with no discussion).<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>The rest of the world has grown tired of it; even defiant towards it</b>.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>So to put it bluntly: <b>Israel has now come face-to-face with the (self-destructive) inconsistency within Zionism: How to maintain special rights for Jews on territory in which there is an approximately equal number of non-Jews?</b> The old answer has been discredited.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>The Israeli Right argues that Israel then must go for broke: All or nothing. Take the risk of wider war </b>(in which Israel, may or may not, be ‘victorious’)<b>; tell Arabs to move elsewhere; or abandon Zionism and themselves move on</b>.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>The Biden Administration, rather than help Israel look truth in the eye, has discarded the task of obliging Israel to face up to the contradictions in Zionism</b>, in favour of restoring <b>the broken status quo</b> ante.<span class="gmail_default">..</span></i></div><i>..The trifecta of <b>U.S. failed responses paradoxically has nonetheless facilitated Israel’s slide to the Right</b> (as evidenced by all recent polling). And has – absent a hostage deal; absent a Saudi credible ‘dangle’; or any credible path to a Palestinian State – <b>precisely opened the path for the Netanyahu government to pursue his maximalist exit from collapsed deterrence through securing a ‘grand victory’ over the Palestinian resistance, Hizbullah, and even – he hopes – Iran</b>.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>None of these objectives can be achieved without U.S. help.<span class="gmail_default"></span> Yet, <b>where is Biden’s limit?</b></i><div><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://strategic-culture.su/news/2024/02/12/the-worlds-gyre/&source=gmail&ust=1708002431798000&usg=AOvVaw0KnR-j3CwfHZ2OXKdv4FUM" href="https://strategic-culture.su/news/2024/02/12/the-worlds-gyre/" target="_blank">https://strategic-culture.su/<wbr></wbr>news/2024/02/12/the-worlds-<wbr></wbr>gyre/</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>The Holocaust, at the Heart of the Gaza Genocide<span class="gmail_default"> </span></b></i> , Thanks Eleni.<div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Since the establishment of a Zionist home in Palestine in the early 20th century, Jewish settlers have massacred tens of thousands of Palestinians – mainly women, children and the elderly – whose lands and homes they have plundered and robbed with impunity.[1][2][3]<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Never in the history of mankind has a race of people gone so quickly from being exceptional victims to exceptional murderers determined to exterminate the Palestinians under the pretext of recreating their homeland, the biblical Israel.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>But Palestine was never the homeland of the Jews. Biblical accounts are not supported by historical or archaeological discoveries.[4] “It’s a romantic fantasy,”[5] admits Jewish historian Norman F. Cantor in his book on Jewish history, The Sacred Chain. “The whole notion of Israel and its history is a literary fiction,” says Professor Thomas Thompson in his book The Mythic Past: Biblical Archeology and the Myth of Israel.</i></div><div><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.unz.com/article/the-holocaust-at-the-heart-of-the-gaza-genocide/&source=gmail&ust=1708002431798000&usg=AOvVaw1XMMVxz4-ayuLrJ7g2Z3D-" href="https://www.unz.com/article/the-holocaust-at-the-heart-of-the-gaza-genocide/" target="_blank">https://www.unz.com/article/<wbr></wbr>the-holocaust-at-the-heart-of-<wbr></wbr>the-gaza-genocide/</a><i><br /></i></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="gmail_default">Paul Craig Roberts, <i><b>Israel’s Ever-widening War</b></i><br /></div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>Rafah is the town that borders Egypt and the Sinai desert</b>, where one million Palestinian refugees have fled to escape the merciless Israeli attacks against them.<b> More than 100,000 Palestinian civilians, including 70,000 Palestinian women and children, have already been killed and wounded</b>. Most of these poor refugees are<b> literally starving to death because of the 3-month long Israeli blockade of water, food, electricity, and medicine </b>to Gaza.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>If Israel launches this attack on Rafah, with the aim of driving one million Palestinians into the desert — and killing all those who refuse to leave</b> <b>Gaza</b>– Egypt warns that <b>a regional war will likely result</b>, one which could conceivably become a World War.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Biden could prevent this with a single phone call.<b> If the US cut off all military and financial aid to Israel, the Israelis could not continue to prosecute its genocidal ethnic cleansing</b> of the Palestinians from Gaza. However, just the opposite seems to be happening, with the full support and complicity of the United States...<br /><span class="gmail_default">..</span><b>The Israeli offensive has left 85% of Gaza’s population internally displaced amid acute shortages of food, clean water, and medicine, while 60% of the enclave’s infrastructure was damaged or destroyed</b>, according to the UN.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>And <b>the Great Moral Western Democracies continue to support the Israeli Genocide of the Palestinians</b> even as Egypt warns of a widening war.</i><br /></div><div><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2024/02/12/israels-ever-widening-war/&source=gmail&ust=1708002431798000&usg=AOvVaw2Xc-3i1Bj9_95_OenG8Hie" href="https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2024/02/12/israels-ever-widening-war/" target="_blank">https://www.paulcraigroberts.<wbr></wbr>org/2024/02/12/israels-ever-<wbr></wbr>widening-war/</a><i><br /></i></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="gmail_default"> Mike Whitney, <i><b>Bibi’s Endgame: A Ghastly Humanitarian Crisis Followed by Forced Expulsion</b></i></div></div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>On Friday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the Israeli military to prepare a plan for the forced expulsion of Palestinians located in Rafah, the southernmost city in Gaza where over 1.3 million displaced civilians have taken refuge in tent cities</b>. The announcement was met with howls of protest from political leaders and human rights groups around the world who understand that Israel is now implementing the final phase of its ethnic cleansing operation which began on October 7. Despite the public outcry and mounting opposition, <b>Netanyahu is moving ahead with his plan to drive the non-Jewish population from their historic homeland in order to establish a permanent Jewish majority on Palestinian territory.<span class="gmail_default">..</span></b></i></div><i><span class="gmail_default">..</span><b>The reason Israel continues to kill non-combatants who are in-no-way connected to Hamas, is because it convinces everyone else that the bombing is “indiscriminate” which, in turn, suggests that the perpetrator is a deranged madman driven by irrational hatred.</b><br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>This is how one terrorizes the public into doing whatever is demanded of them</b>. We expect that much of Israel’s current pysops in Gaza was meticulously worked out with a battery of behavioral psychologists long before the first bomb was dropped, perhaps, years before the Hamas attack on October 7.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>It’s also worth noting, that <b>Israel’s unexpected blitz on Rafah comes on the heels of explicit promises from senior-level Israeli officials that Palestinians who willingly left their homes in the North would find safety in the South.</b><br /><span class="gmail_default"> <b> </b></span><b>Now these same people are being pelted with bombs and pushed into the desert</b> where their prospects for survival are dismal at best.</i><div dir="ltr"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.globalresearch.ca/bibi-endgame-ghastly-humanitarian-crisis-followed-forced-expulsion/5849406&source=gmail&ust=1708002431798000&usg=AOvVaw3IEmwRuxTGkyCIV7PHF7Rv" href="https://www.globalresearch.ca/bibi-endgame-ghastly-humanitarian-crisis-followed-forced-expulsion/5849406" target="_blank">https://www.globalresearch.ca/<wbr></wbr>bibi-endgame-ghastly-<wbr></wbr>humanitarian-crisis-followed-<wbr></wbr>forced-expulsion/5849406</a><b><i><br /></i></b><div><br /></div><i><b>Patrick Lawrence: The Crisis at The New York Times</b></i><div><i><b> <span class="gmail_default"> </span></b>It has been evident to many of us since the genocide in Gaza began Oct. 7 that Israel risked asking too much of those inclined to take its side. The Zionist state would ask what many people cannot give: It would ask them to surrender their consciences, their idea of moral order, altogether their native decency as it murders, starves and disperses a population of 2.3 million while making their land uninhabitable. <br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>The Israelis took this risk and they have lost. We are now able to watch videos of Israeli soldiers celebrating as they murder Palestinian mothers and children, as they dance and sing while detonating entire neighborhoods, as they mock Palestinians in a carnival of racist depravity one would have thought beyond what is worst in humanity—and certainly beyond what any Jew would do to another human being... </i></div><div><i>..Since late last year The Grayzone has exhaustively investigated The Times’s “investigations” of Hamas’s supposed savagery and Israel’s supposed innocence...</i></div><div><i>..What we find as we read The Times’s daily report from Israel, and from Gaza when its correspondents unwisely accept invitations to embed with the IDF, is a newspaper unwilling to question either its longstanding fidelity to Israel or its service to American power...</i></div><div><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Lato;"><span class="gmail_default"></span></span><i>..There is also the question of humanization and dehumanization. We have read very numerous and intimately detailed Times stories of Israelis attacked last Oct. 7—individuation being essential to shaping this kind of coverage—while Palestinians are an indistinct blur so far as Times correspondents report on them. The Times has fully indulged the pretense that history began on Oct. 7, erasing the previous 76 years or the previous century, depending on how one counts—the history, this is to say, wherein the Palestinian story is told. There is no Palestinian story in pages of The New York Times...</i></div><div><i>..There is one feature of The Times’s coverage that must be singled out, as it is very key to the whole of it. This concerns the question of evidence. Almost all of the reportage coming out of Israel, and on rare occasions Gaza, relies on evidence Times correspondents have obtained from the Israeli military, Israeli government officials, the Israeli police, or those representing some other part of the Israeli power structure...</i></div><div><i>..“According to Israeli officials,” “Israeli military sources said,” etc. is all readers get. On goes the report from there, in which evidence or “evidence” the Israelis have supplied is presented at face value...</i></div><i>..Jeffrey Gettleman seems to have been other than careful in his reporting after he transited from Ukraine to Israel immediately after the events of Oct. 7... The Israelis began alleging that Hamas militias were guilty of rape and sexual violence during their Oct. 7 incursion into southern Israel more or less immediately after the events of that day. They claimed to be developing “considerable evidence”—Gettleman’s phrase in his initial report, on Dec. 4—from witnesses, photographs, and emergency medical teams. In the same piece, Gettleman quoted a police official saying that women and men numbering in the dozens had been raped on Oct. 7...<br />..“Extensive witness testimony and documentary evidence of killings, including videos posted by Hamas fighters themselves,” Gettleman wrote, “support the allegations.” .<span class="gmail_default">..</span></i><div><i>.. How Hamas Weaponized Sexual Violence on Oct.7.” It took as its central figure “the woman in the black dress.” This refers to a corpse found and videoed on the side of a road on Oct. 8. “In a grainy video,” Gettleman writes, “you can see her, lying on her back, dress torn, legs spread, vagina exposed. Her face is burned beyond recognition and her right hand covers her eyes.”</i></div><div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Gettleman reports this woman’s identity as Gal Abdush, a 34–year-old mother of two who was partying with her husband along the Gaza border in the early hours of Oct. 7 and was later murdered, as was her husband.<span class="gmail_default">..</span></i></div><div><i><b>..Based largely on the video evidence—which was verified by The New York Times—Israeli police officials said they believed that Ms. Abdush was raped, and she has become a symbol of the horrors visited upon Israeli women and girls during the Oct. 7 attacks...</b><br /></i><div><i><span class="gmail_default">..</span><b>The Times “verified” the video, did it? In what way this? What did it verify, exactly? That the video existed? </b>Is Gettleman suggesting that The Times verified from the video that Abdush was raped? <b>No video of a dead body could verify this.</b><span class="gmail_default"><b></b>..</span><br /><span class="gmail_default">..</span>This video has a strange story, to stay with it briefly. Gettleman wrote that<b> it “went viral,” but it is nowhere to be found on the internet</b>, and <b>nobody recalls referring to Abdush as “the woman in the black dress.”</b> There is also a chronology question attaching to this video, as a Jan. 3 report in Mondoweiss analyzes. Gettleman recounts the last text message, with time-stamp, Gal Abdush sent to her family. During this time Abdush’s husband, Nagy, was with her and sent his own texts to the family, also time-stamped.<b> Four minutes elapsed between Gal Abdush’s last message and the time Nagy Abdush messaged the family to report his wife’s death</b>—a message Gttleman did not mention. Nagy Abdush made no reference to rape. <b>He sent his own final message 44 minutes later</b> – a message Gettleman’s report does mention. <br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>Did one or more Hamas militiaman rape a woman in the presence of her husband, then, in one or another sequence, murder her and burn her, then murder the husband—all not in 44 minutes, as the Gettleman piece implies, but in four?</b> Since Gettleman published, Abdush’s family, evidently irate, has accused him of distorting the evidence and manipulating them in the course of his reporting. <b>“She was not raped,” Mira Alter, Gal Abdush’s sister, wrote</b> on social media a few days after Gettleman published. <b>“There was no proof that there was rape. It was only a video.”<span class="gmail_default">...</span></b></i></div></div><i>..There is a witness who told Gettleman he saw two teenage girls lying naked and alone on the floor of a house, one of them with semen all over her back, while it was later proven they were burned so badly they were hard to identify and they were found not alone but in the embrace of their also-burned mother...</i><div><i><span class="gmail_default">.</span>.<b>I rarely urge readers of this column to read The New York Times</b>—some, indeed, write to thank me for reading it so they don’t have to do so. <b>On this occasion I think reading the Gettleman pieces is a good idea—but only back-to-back with The Grayzone’s work.</b></i></div><div><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://scheerpost.com/2024/02/12/patrick-lawrence-the-crisis-at-the-new-york-times/&source=gmail&ust=1708002431798000&usg=AOvVaw32lq2ZIIDG6B4dK_-LVZ5q" href="https://scheerpost.com/2024/02/12/patrick-lawrence-the-crisis-at-the-new-york-times/" target="_blank">https://scheerpost.com/2024/<wbr></wbr>02/12/patrick-lawrence-the-<wbr></wbr>crisis-at-the-new-york-times/</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Last week, special counsel Robert Hur released a bombshell report, declining to press charges against US President Joe Biden partially because his report said, the president would appear to the jury as an “elderly man with a poor memory” </b>and therefore would have trouble convincing the jury of his intent.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>The report also noted that<b> he forgot when his term as Vice President ended and started, and couldn’t remember what year his son died.</b><br />Biden attempted to quell concerns about his age by calling a press conference addressing the report but proceeded to confuse Mexico and Egypt while speaking to reporters.<span class="gmail_default">..</span></i></div><i><b>..On Monday, Vice President Kamala Harris told a US media outlet she is “ready to serve” while slamming the report as “wrong” and “politically motivated.”<span class="gmail_default">...</span></b></i></div><i><b>..Lazare argued that is impossible for the Biden campaign. “Biden cannot go on that kind of tour,” he said. “He can't sit down with Hannity or go on Fox News or do anything like that because he'll only make things worse.[...] It’ll become completely clear that he doesn’t know what’s going on around him.”</b></i><div dir="ltr"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://sputnikglobe.com/20240213/ground-is-shifting-under-bidens-feet-after-hur-report-1116748950.html&source=gmail&ust=1708002431798000&usg=AOvVaw13jFBeQoHfC_vnRS641D4A" href="https://sputnikglobe.com/20240213/ground-is-shifting-under-bidens-feet-after-hur-report-1116748950.html" target="_blank">https://sputnikglobe.com/<wbr></wbr>20240213/ground-is-shifting-<wbr></wbr>under-bidens-feet-after-hur-<wbr></wbr>report-1116748950.html</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>The Nuts And Bolts Of Replacing Candidate Biden, Before Or After The Convention</b></i><div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>While a Biden pre-convention withdrawal would make for quite a spectacle, things would really get wild if Biden were to be nominated at the convention only to subsequently die, resign or be disabled</b>. In that scenario, party rules direct the <b>party chair</b> to <b>"confer with the Democratic leadership</b> of the …<b> Congress and the Democratic Governors Association"</b> and then <b>report to the approximately 450-member Democratic National Committee, which would then choose a new nominee</b>. <br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>The chaos wouldn't be confined to the Democratic Party: States would be forced to scramble to produce new ballots</b>. Ballots for overseas military service members are shipped just a couple weeks after the late-August Democratic convention, and in-person voting kicks off on Sept. 20 in Minnesota and South Dakota. <br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>None of this is to say that Biden won't keep mumbling, shuffling, blank-staring and gaffing his way all the way to the Nov 5 general election finish line. However, after last week, <b>fewer people are willing to wager that Biden will be the Democratic nominee</b><span class="gmail_default">.</span></i></div><div><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/political/nuts-and-bolts-replacing-candidate-biden-or-after-convention">https://www.zerohedge.com/political/nuts-and-bolts-replacing-candidate-biden-or-after-convention</a><i><br /></i><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Russian President Vladimir Putin, like Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, is "anathema to Davos globalists", Wall Street analyst Charles Ortel told Sputnik, stressing that the timing of Putin-Carlson interview was perfect...</b></i><div><i><span class="gmail_default">..</span>."<b>I also think the contrast between Putin’s measured and thoughtful perspectives, having been a world leader for a quarter century with the lack of gravitas — to put it politely of Joe Biden, Kamala Harris </b>and many others in both parties<b> who are surface-level, donor-captured, soundbite specialists was stunning</b>. This contrast was remarkable considering <b>Biden’s post-interview meltdown before what remains of the 'press'," </b>Ortel continued.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>The Wall Street analyst noted that judging from viewership statistics,<b> the corporate — and political donor-controlled — media is destroying itself.</b><br />He stressed that <b>"no political interview has garnered nearly as much coverage as Putin’s recent sit down with Tucker," </b>adding that he expects <b>"it will, in the end, change the thinking of most open minds."</b></i></div><div><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://sputnikglobe.com/20240211/carlsons-interview-putin-and-trump-seen-as-threat-by-davos-globalists--wall-street-analyst-1116731246.html&source=gmail&ust=1708002431799000&usg=AOvVaw0RZCx5Z_WUhXqCQ4va0cOx" href="https://sputnikglobe.com/20240211/carlsons-interview-putin-and-trump-seen-as-threat-by-davos-globalists--wall-street-analyst-1116731246.html" target="_blank">https://sputnikglobe.com/<wbr></wbr>20240211/carlsons-interview-<wbr></wbr>putin-and-trump-seen-as-<wbr></wbr>threat-by-davos-globalists--<wbr></wbr>wall-street-analyst-<wbr></wbr>1116731246.html</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div><br /></div><i><b>Moon of Alabama, Ukraine SitRep: A Collapse Is Coming - And Then?<span class="gmail_default"> </span></b></i><div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>In the last Ukraine situation report I discussed the choice of <b>General Oleksandr Syrski as the new Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. He is likely to support the more aggressive choices the Ukrainian president Zelenski will make</b>.<span class="gmail_default"> </span></i></div><div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>For mostly public relation reasons <b>Zelenski demands constant attacks on Russian forces and no retreat of Ukrainian forces until absolutely necessary. Syrski is willing to deliver on that even as history says that he is unlikely to be successfu</b>l..</i><span style="font-family: georgia, verdana, arial, sans-serif;">.</span></div><div><i><span class="gmail_default">..</span>The new Ukrainian mobilization law, which is supposed to refill the army with fresh bodies, is still creeping through the Ukrainian parliament. It will likely come into force only by April. <b>The first new troops conscripted under it will take until July to be combat capable</b>.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>But even if the existing Ukrainian forces can hold out that long <b>they still will lack the ammunition to hit back at Russian efforts</b>. <b>Even if the U.S. agrees soon to spend more money on Ukraine, which seems unlikely, it would take many months</b> to refill the Ukrainian arsenals.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>For all these reasons I expect that the Ukrainian frontline will break rather sooner - within weeks </b>- than later - i.e. within months.</i></div><div><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/02/ukraine-sitrep-a-collapse-is-coming-and-then.html%23more&source=gmail&ust=1708002431799000&usg=AOvVaw3xMZqXRTzWdaVOoBCZkIeC" href="https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/02/ukraine-sitrep-a-collapse-is-coming-and-then.html#more" target="_blank">https://www.moonofalabama.org/<wbr></wbr>2024/02/ukraine-sitrep-a-<wbr></wbr>collapse-is-coming-and-then.<wbr></wbr>html#more</a><i><br /></i><div><div><br /></div><i><span class="gmail_default"> <b> </b></span><b>In his speech at a rally in South Carolina, Donald Trump appeared to double down</b> on his previous insistence that all NATO members should follow the bloc’s guidelines and spend at least two percent of their respective gross domestic products on defense.<br /><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>"One of the presidents of a big country stood up and said, 'Well, sir, if we don't pay, and we're attacked by Russia, will you protect us?' I said, 'You didn't pay, you're delinquent?'" Trump said as he recalled an exchange that allegedly took place at some NATO meeting. "No, I would not protect you. In fact, I would encourage them to do whatever the hell they want."</b><br /><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Trump’s statement, however, does not mean that the United States would not honor its obligations under NATO’s charter, argued Earl Rasmussen, retired lieutenant colonel of the US Army and an international consultant</b>.</i><div><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://sputnikglobe.com/20240212/european-nato-members-know-russia-threat-rhetoric-is-a-lie---expert-1116744370.html&source=gmail&ust=1708002431799000&usg=AOvVaw0lCe6DRGHHpuEdlc_eVfLQ" href="https://sputnikglobe.com/20240212/european-nato-members-know-russia-threat-rhetoric-is-a-lie---expert-1116744370.html" target="_blank">https://sputnikglobe.com/<wbr></wbr>20240212/european-nato-<wbr></wbr>members-know-russia-threat-<wbr></wbr>rhetoric-is-a-lie---expert-<wbr></wbr>1116744370.html</a><i><br /></i><div><br /></div><div><div class="gmail_default"> Gilbert Doctorow, <i><b>Will NATO be dismantled? Interview on India’s WION television channel</b></i></div></div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>I tried to make plain in the interview that Trump is intent on the break-up of NATO for reasons that make sense to those of us who had the good fortune to listen a couple of years ago to the late Russian politician, founder and long-time chairman of the center-right LDPR party. Vladimir Zhirinovsky explained at the time why and how Russia, with a defense budget ten times smaller than the US, could pull ahead of the US in developing and deploying state of the art strategic nuclear weapons systems.<span class="gmail_default">..</span> </i><div><i><span class="gmail_default">..</span>Zhirinovsky told us the reason. With its vast network of overseas military bases built to ensure U.S. global hegemony, the U.S. military budget of 800 billion to 1 trillion dollars, as he said with a bit of humor, ‘goes to buy toilet paper’ for those bases and to fight hot wars in places that have no strategic value to the States instead of developing and fielding weapons systems to match its peers Russia and China.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>One might look still further and remark on the corruption in the U.S. military procurement system from interaction with private for-profit manufacturers who lobby Congress on their own behalf using retired generals and Pentagon officials. But that source of reduced efficiency in spending is a topic for another day.<span class="gmail_default">..</span></i></div><div><i> ..In this interview I argue that the greatest contribution to Russian-American relations is being made by Trump precisely now when he is acting as a private person to influence Congress to stop funding the war. Once in office, he will be subject to constraints imposed by those elites whom Putin mentioned in his recent interview with Tucker Carlson.<span class="gmail_default"><br /></span></i></div><div><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://gilbertdoctorow.substack.com/p/will-nato-be-dismantled-interview&source=gmail&ust=1708002431799000&usg=AOvVaw2pep11ksX4ryhVxTL3_bqT" href="https://gilbertdoctorow.substack.com/p/will-nato-be-dismantled-interview" target="_blank">https://gilbertdoctorow.<wbr></wbr>substack.com/p/will-nato-be-<wbr></wbr>dismantled-interview</a><i><br /></i></div><div><br /></div><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><b>Elections in Pakistan. Victory of Imran Khan’s PTI Party</b><span class="gmail_default"><b> </b>, Junaid S. Ahmad </span></i>Thanks Eleni.<i><br /><span class="gmail_default" style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><b>The elections in Pakistan today were much freer and fairer than I had expected. Hence, the preliminary results simply reflected the obvious for most of us: former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s political party, PTI (the movement for justice) – facing ruthless repression over the past year – have swept the elections in every single province of the country.</b></i></div><i> <b> Khan, surviving two assasination attempts and languishing in a supermax dungeon since last August, is more popular than ever.</b> Among the youth, Gallup Pakistan surveys have consistently reported around 80-90 percent support for Khan and his party.<br /> The <b>tyranny of the generals in the military high command along with the kleptocratic and dynastic political parties</b> entailed even the suppression of PTI’s symbol (a cricket bat) and virtually a ban, with horrific consequences if violated, on candidates running on a PTI ticket. Thus, <b>all of these candidates ran as independents</b>...<br />..<b>There is one sign of both hope and danger. For the first time in Pakistan’s history, the normally unified and disciplined armed forces are now experiencing deep divisions. The majority of military officers and and 95 percent of soldiers are repulsed by the behavior of Wasington’s minions in the top brass. To the surprise of many of us, these divisions also exist within the intelligence agencies. We are witnessing in an unprecedented way a refusenik impulse within the military. Not to sound like the bogus alarmism we’re used to from Washington think tanks, it’s still worth remembering that Pakistan is a country of 240 million, nuclear-armed.</b></i><div><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.globalresearch.ca/elections-pakistan/5849194&source=gmail&ust=1708002431799000&usg=AOvVaw3Yz2KV5dYyn8ug0VVUsq88" href="https://www.globalresearch.ca/elections-pakistan/5849194" target="_blank">https://www.globalresearch.ca/<wbr></wbr>elections-pakistan/5849194</a></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="gmail_default">Saluting The Honorable (pictured with Jenny and St. Valentine's Day flowers)</div></div></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7fQXlotvSQF26k7bTXYw7WCQJSgIQ0FohdCUVJNvLgIZhGA64jHKO0ljMpPhV9_eq3QrJxfJe-5-Fot1SYTkIXPxgGOXgk_nVjqYf6r4zZyQWv3SDtgpLp-37jOTfM7ZY9Wb2Gug0pnLJsm0SEK75yzyoh_YM4OntcFh-_hQmjcJCr3rVLjEB3VtFXjVC/s3264/PXL_20240214_124422493.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3264" data-original-width="1836" height="1083" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7fQXlotvSQF26k7bTXYw7WCQJSgIQ0FohdCUVJNvLgIZhGA64jHKO0ljMpPhV9_eq3QrJxfJe-5-Fot1SYTkIXPxgGOXgk_nVjqYf6r4zZyQWv3SDtgpLp-37jOTfM7ZY9Wb2Gug0pnLJsm0SEK75yzyoh_YM4OntcFh-_hQmjcJCr3rVLjEB3VtFXjVC/w609-h1083/PXL_20240214_124422493.jpg" width="609" /></a></div><br /><div class="gmail_default"><br /></div>John Dayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12123174297818737132noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4275885258914846834.post-37549412096645348352024-02-12T19:39:00.004-06:002024-02-12T19:39:46.310-06:00Short Term Trust<p> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Increasingly Wary,</span></p><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> This article below is like many you have seen, and it is clearly the case, as far as it goes, but what cannot be repaid, or even serviced for interest, will be defaulted upon by some mechanism when others refuse to continue to lend more money to service debt payments. We can see that spending has been "pulled forward from the future" by means of buying-on-credit. We can likely see that the loans can't be "repaid" for many reasons, and we can see that many nations are servicing their debts by borrowing money to pay the interest. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Lending requires faith that the contract between lender and borrower will be honored. There are many reasons not to have such faith, but one might still want to stay in the game if it would not crash this year, or in the next 6 months, or before one would get a clear enough sign to exit immediately. Many investors have exited, already.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> What form(s) will debt default take this time around? It is likely that the complexity of derivatives contracts and asset-"ownership" structures will leave most "holders" of stocks and bonds without a claim which they can actually exercise on a pool of real-wealth which is some small fraction of the claims held upon it. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> How will this be managed politically? Will all retirement plans lose everything? The structure would hold them to be mostly unsecured-creditors after the holders of derivatives contracts, and the holder-of-record of the securities they "own", which means "have an unsecured claim upon financial-returns from".</div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> When Roosevelt collected all of the gold in America and then devalued the dollar against gold, that was a default on debts. When Nixon took America off the gold standard, that was a repudiation of debt-payable-in-gold, another default. This upcoming debt-default will necessarily be larger, since the economy of the future will be contracting, not expanding, and borrowing has been on a vast scale, never seen before..</div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> In whose hands will the power lie to decide how the real wealth remaining will actually be divided among the many weak and powerful holders of excess-claims upon that wealth.</div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Soaring debt pushing wealthy nations to ‘fiscal death’ – economist<span class="gmail_default"> , </span>Global borrowing topped a record $300 trillion last year</b></i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>“I would expect that some of the bigger countries that don’t address their debt issues will die a slow fiscal death,” Laffer said, adding that some emerging economies “could quite conceivably go bankrupt.” While low-income countries are at high risk of debt distress, repaying debt would be particularly problematic for high-income countries due to an aging population and a lack of workforce.</i><b><i><br /></i></b><div><a href="https://swentr.site/business/592093-global-debt-fiscal-debt/" style="color: #1155cc;">https://swentr.site/business/592093-global-debt-fiscal-debt/</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Farmers bring Poland to standstill<span class="gmail_default"> </span></b></i>[Farmers have already been maximally bled. Figure out some other strategy to service debt and pay for wars.]</div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="gmail_default"> </span>The trade union called out the Polish government for readily accepting the EU’s guidelines on the “import of agricultural produce and food products from Ukraine.” The protesters also called the position adopted by Brussels at the latest EU summit “unacceptable.”<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Similar rallies were held across Poland in January. A separate protest by another group of farmers and truckers blocking a key border crossing with Ukraine saw Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s government capitulate to the protesters’ demands, which included reinstating a permit system for Ukrainian truckers, adopting government subsidies for Polish corn, and a moratorium on tax hikes.</i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://swentr.site/news/592279-poland-farmers-protest-ukraine-eu/" style="color: #1155cc;">https://swentr.site/news/592279-poland-farmers-protest-ukraine-eu/</a><i><br /></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div class="gmail_default"> Paul Craig Roberts presents the case that sociopaths only respond to force which resists and thwarts the exercise of their will. [Non-violent farmers are getting results.]</div><div class="gmail_default"><i><b> Peaceful Protests Are a Waste of Time and Energy</b></i></div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>It appears that one-tenth of a million Gazans have already been killed or maimed by the American-financed and militarily-supplied Israeli intended genocide of the remnants of the Palestinian population, a people who have been evicted from their lands and villages bit by bit since 1947. <br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>This time the violence is massive, and only the Houthis, a poor population in Yemen that survived years of Washington-inspired attacks from Saudi Arabia, has lifted a hand to help the Palestinians. <br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>The “civilized West” responded to the Israeli genocide of the Palestinians by cancelling their contributions to the UN agency that provides Palestinians with humanitarian aid. Consequently, now 1,000,000 Palestinians are facing starvation as Israel has blocked food deliveries and medicines, knocked out the water supply, hospitals, sanitation, and intends to drive any surviving Palestinians into Egypt.</i><br /></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2024/02/11/peaceful-protests-are-a-waste-of-time-and-energy/" style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2024/02/11/peaceful-protests-are-a-waste-of-time-and-energy/</a><i><br /></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div class="gmail_default"> A bold assertion here, but "Biden" already can't "be president". Deep-state-club-member Obama needs a new puppet.</div><div class="gmail_default"><i><b>Texas Lieutenant Governor Says 'Deep State Run by Barack Obama' Has Pulled the Rug Out from Under Biden</b></i></div></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Republican Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick of Texas said a Department of Justice report that described President Joe Biden as an “elderly man with a poor memory” is proof enough for him Democrats are going with a different candidate in November.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>The memo, along with Biden’s late Thursday news conference, means that those who are pulling the strings in the Democratic Party are forcing Biden out, Patrick claimed. He specifically blamed former President Barack Obama and the deep state.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Patrick made the comments on social media Friday morning, where he also predicted Americans could see former first lady Michelle Obama on their ballots this fall.</i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.westernjournal.com/texas-lieutenant-governor-says-deep-state-run-barack-obama-pulled-rug-biden/" style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.westernjournal.com/texas-lieutenant-governor-says-deep-state-run-barack-obama-pulled-rug-biden/</a></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div class="gmail_default"> Bobby Kennedy Jr. Points out that BlackRock owns the American military contractors that get a captive customer base from every new NATO member, and are getting the great majority of the money allocated for the war in Ukraine. That's why "we" have to have wars and NATO has to keep expanding.</div><div class="gmail_default"><a href="https://twitter.com/RobertKennedyJr/status/1756561127557718286" style="color: #1155cc;">https://twitter.com/RobertKennedyJr/status/1756561127557718286</a><br /></div><div class="gmail_default"><br /></div><i><b>Ceasefire or truce? Any Gaza deal could break Netanyahu’s coalition<span class="gmail_default"> , </span>The fate of Israel’s coalition government now hangs on a Gaza agreement. </b></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><b>A short truce will continue the war and Tel Aviv’s global censure. A full ceasefire will deliver a Hamas victory.</b></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://thecradle.co/articles/ceasefire-or-truce-any-gaza-deal-could-break-netanyahus-coalition" style="color: #1155cc;">https://thecradle.co/articles/ceasefire-or-truce-any-gaza-deal-could-break-netanyahus-coalition</a></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /></span></span></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Netanyahu Doubles Down on Plans to Attack Rafah Despite Growing Criticism<br />It's estimated 1.5 million Palestinians are packed into Rafah, which had a pre-war population of 275,000</b></i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://news.antiwar.com/2024/02/11/netanyahu-doubles-down-on-plans-to-attack-rafah-despite-growing-criticism/" style="color: #1155cc;">https://news.antiwar.com/2024/02/11/netanyahu-doubles-down-on-plans-to-attack-rafah-despite-growing-criticism/</a></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /></span></span></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Israeli army approves plan for ground offensive in Rafah</b></i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>“The plan will be presented when the army is requested to do so,” Army Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi said during a Cabinet session as cited by the Israeli public broadcaster KAN.<br />The Israeli army plans to launch a ground offensive in Rafah, home to more than 1 million residents seeking refuge from war, to defeat what Tel Aviv calls the remaining "Hamas battalions."</i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/israeli-army-approves-plan-for-ground-offensive-in-rafah/3134415" style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/israeli-army-approves-plan-for-ground-offensive-in-rafah/3134415</a><i><br /></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Egypt Threatens to Suspend Key Peace Treaty if Israel Pushes Into Gaza Border Town, Officials Say</b></i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Egypt is threatening to suspend its peace treaty with Israel if Israeli troops are sent into the densely populated Gaza border town of Rafah, and says fighting there could force the closure of the territory's main aid supply route, two Egyptian officials and a Western diplomat said Sunday.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>The threat to suspend the Camp David Accords, a cornerstone of regional stability for nearly a half-century, came after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said sending troops into Rafah was necessary to win the four-month-old war against the Palestinian militant group Hamas.</i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.military.com/daily-news/2024/02/11/egypt-threatens-suspend-key-peace-treaty-if-israel-pushes-gaza-border-town-officials-say.html" style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.military.com/daily-news/2024/02/11/egypt-threatens-suspend-key-peace-treaty-if-israel-pushes-gaza-border-town-officials-say.html</a><i><br /></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>War on Gaza: Families of Israeli captives are beginning to turn on Netanyahu<br />Anger is getting louder over government's approach to bringing back captives after the prime minister called Hamas's proposal to end the war 'delusional'</b></i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/war-gaza-families-israeli-captives-are-beginning-turn-netanyahu" style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/war-gaza-families-israeli-captives-are-beginning-turn-netanyahu</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Thousands demonstrate in Tel Aviv, Haifa against Netanyahu’s government</b></i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Thousands of Zionist settlers demonstrated on Saturday in Tel Aviv and Haifa in occupied Palestine for the eighth week in a row.<span class="gmail_default"> </span>The demonstrators demanded the dismissal of the current Zionist enemy government headed by Benjamin Netanyahu, holding early elections, and reaching an exchange deal to return prisoners from the Gaza Strip.</i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://en.ypagency.net/318510" style="color: #1155cc;">https://en.ypagency.net/318510</a><i><br /></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Israel frees two hostages, Gaza officials say airstrikes kill 67</b></i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>An Israeli rescue operation freed two Israeli-Argentine hostages held by Hamas militants in Rafah on Monday, but supporting airstrikes killed nearly 70 Palestinians in the southern Gaza city where about one million displaced civilians have sought refuge from months of bombardments.<br />The mission by the Israeli military, the Shin Bet security service and a special police unit freed Fernando Simon Marman, 60, and Louis Hare, 70, the military said.</i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.arabnews.com/node/2458356/middle-east" style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.arabnews.com/node/2458356/middle-east</a></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div class="gmail_default"><i><b>Israel Steals over $54 million from the Bank of Palestine in Gaza</b></i></div><i>The robbery was launched after a sniper had targeted Israeli soldiers in the vicinity of the bank. Following the incident, the occupation forces raided the bank and ransacked the money.</i><br /></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/israelis-steals-over--54-million-from-the-bank-of-palestine" style="color: #1155cc;">https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/israelis-steals-over--54-million-from-the-bank-of-palestine</a><br /><div><br /></div></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Houthis Say "American Ship" Hit By Missiles In Red Sea </b></i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>On Monday morning, Houthi militants claim to have hit an "American ship" (Star Iris) with missiles in the critical waterway.<span class="gmail_default"> </span>According to Bloomberg, the Marshall Islands-flagged vessel owned by US-listed Star Bulk Carriers Corp. was hit by two missiles that caused "minor damage." The ship was transiting the Bab el-Mandeb Strait at the time of the attack.</i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/houthis-say-american-ship-hit-missiles-red-sea" style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/houthis-say-american-ship-hit-missiles-red-sea</a><i><br /></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Jordan’s King Abdullah participates in Gaza aid airdrop</b></i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Jordan’s King Abdullah participated in an air drop of humanitarian aid to Gaza, Jordanian broadcaster Al-Mamlaka said on Sunday.<span class="gmail_default"> </span>A video showed the monarch in military gear on board a plane in the latest mission by the Jordanian air force to drop urgent medical supplies to field hospitals it runs in the war-torn enclave. According to official media, the latest airdrop was on Feb. 6.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>The kingdom, which has been among Arab neighbors pushing Israel to allow more aid into Gaza, is the only country that airdrops aid to the enclave, channelling it through these two medical facilities.<span class="gmail_default">..</span></i></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="gmail_default">..</span>The king, who has been vocal in calling for an end to Israel’s campaign, left on Thursday on a tour of major Western capitals and is due to meet US President Joe Biden in Washington on Feb 12. to lobby for an immediate ceasefire.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Jordan succeeded in getting Israel to allow the World Food Programme (WFP) to send deliveries to Gaza through another land route that begins from Jordan, helping ease pressure on the main Rafah border crossing which is limited in capacity.</i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.arabnews.com/node/2458146/middle-east" style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.arabnews.com/node/2458146/middle-east</a><i><br /></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Pentagon's Tower 22 'logistics support base' is a secret drone base</b></i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>What was described by the Pentagon as a "logistics support base" turns out to be a secret drone base for long-range surveillance of fighters in neighboring Syria and Iraq and for conducting airstrikes.</i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/pentagon-s-tower-22--logistics-support-base--is-secretly-dro" style="color: #1155cc;">https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/pentagon-s-tower-22--logistics-support-base--is-secretly-dro</a><i><br /></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div class="gmail_default"> Karaganov presents a serious case for building up industry in central Asia, and rail routes to the rest of the world to service it. Pushing rail service costs down to approach ocean transport costs, and getting rail lines to markets like India and other Asian destinations, already underway, will enable this.</div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Sergey Karaganov: Here’s why Russia must permanently abandon Europe and turn fully to Asia<br />Europe is finished, and Russia’s geographical and cultural advantages means it doesn’t have to go down with the sinking ship</b></i><br /></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://swentr.site/russia/592244-karaganov-russia-abandon-europe/" style="color: #1155cc;">https://swentr.site/russia/592244-karaganov-russia-abandon-europe/</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div class="gmail_default">The chain of command is breaking down in Ukraine. <i><b>Nuland told Zelensky not to fire top general – The Times </b></i></div><div class="gmail_default"><i><b>The notorious neocon reportedly tried to save Valery Zaluzhny’s job</b></i></div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://swentr.site/russia/592203-nuland-zaluzhny-kiev-zelensky/" style="color: #1155cc;">https://swentr.site/russia/592203-nuland-zaluzhny-kiev-zelensky/</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>EU leaders threatened to ‘politically rape’ us – Hungary</b></i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Several EU heads of state directly told Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban that they would crash the Hungarian economy if he blocked a €50 billion ($54 billion) economic aid package for Ukraine, his adviser, Balazs Orban, has revealed.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>EU leaders signed off on the mammoth four-year aid package earlier this month, after the Hungarian leader lifted his veto in exchange for some minor concessions from the bloc’s 26 other member states.</i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://swentr.site/news/592247-eu-leaders-threatened-hungary/" style="color: #1155cc;">https://swentr.site/news/592247-eu-leaders-threatened-hungary/</a><i><br /></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Tucker Carlson is a ‘traitor’ – Boris Johnson</b><span class="gmail_default"> , </span>Boris Johnson has invoked Hitler in denouncing the journalist’s sit-down with the Russian leader as an “unholy charade”</i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://swentr.site/news/592240-boris-johnson-tucker-putin-traitor/" style="color: #1155cc;">https://swentr.site/news/592240-boris-johnson-tucker-putin-traitor/</a><i><br /></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson had a mini-meltdown after being exposed during the Tucker Carlson-Vladimir Putin interview for sabotaging the Ukrainian peace deal.<span class="gmail_default"> </span></b>During the interview, <b>Putin confirmed reporting that first emerged last year about Johnson’s role in prolonging the war</b>.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>David Arahamiya, the leader of Ukraine’s ruling party, revealed that Johnson had scuppered a peace deal that would have put an end to hostilities just a few months after the Russian invasion</b>.<span class="gmail_default"> </span>Putin reiterated in his interview with Tucker Carlson that <b>Russia supports a negotiated settlement with Ukraine, and plans were very much underway to making that happen</b> before Boris Johnson stopped it.</i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://modernity.news/2024/02/10/boris-johnson-has-meltdown-after-being-exposed-for-sabotaging-ukraine-peace-deal/" style="color: #1155cc;">https://modernity.news/2024/02/10/boris-johnson-has-meltdown-after-being-exposed-for-sabotaging-ukraine-peace-deal/</a><i><br /></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div class="gmail_default"> Russian political philosopher Alexander Dugin , whose daughter was killed by Ukrainian assassins, presents a stripped-down analysis: <i><b>Tucker, Putin, and the Apocalypse</b></i></div></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="gmail_default"> </span>It is not about the content of the interview with Putin. It is the fact that a person like Tucker Carlson is visiting a country like Russia to meet a political figure like Putin at such a critical time. Tucker Carlson's trip to Moscow might be the last chance to stop the disappearance of humanity. The gigantic billion-strong attention to this pivotal interview from humanity itself, as well as the frenzied, inhuman rage of Biden, the globalists, and the world's citizens intoxicated with decay, testify to humanity's awareness of the seriousness of the situation.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>The world can only be saved by stopping now. For that, America must choose Trump. And Tucker Carlson. And Elon Musk. And Abbott. Then we get a chance to pause on the brink of the abyss. Compared to this, everything else is secondary. Liberalism and its agenda have led humanity to a dead end. Now the choice is this: either liberals or humanity. Tucker Carlson chooses humanity, which is why he came to Moscow to meet Putin. The whole world understood why he came and how important it is.</i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.sott.net/article/488755-Tucker-Putin-and-the-Apocalypse" style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.sott.net/article/488755-Tucker-Putin-and-the-Apocalypse</a><i><br /></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div class="gmail_default"> Eleni sent the Russian analysis of American politics above, which is oversimplified in her view, and these 3 essays from Russia-specialist, Andrew Korybko, which are not.</div><i><b>Putin Subverted The Mainstream & Alternative Media’s Expectations In His Interview With Tucker</b></i><br /></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="gmail_default"> </span>The first takeaway for average viewers/readers is that American foreign policy is actually controlled by elite members of its permanent bureaucracy (‘deep state’) such as those in the CIA, not the President, since Clinton and Bush’s initial interests in cooperating with Russia were scuttled by that agency. The second point is that foreign meddling in Ukraine turned the question of its people’s identity into a geopolitical weapon for weakening Russia, which wants to live in peace and prosperity with that country.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Third, President Putin only commenced his country’s special operation after feeling that the failure to do so would lead to irreversible security challenges that risked culminating with time in Russia’s Balkanization, which he explicitly claimed that the West is pursuing as a means of containing China. The fourth point is that it’s this obsession with dominance among its policymaking elite (i.e. CIA) that’s responsible for destabilizing the world, with the final point being that he wants peace via diplomacy.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>As was pointed out earlier, he isn’t the monster or madman that the MSM portrays him as, though he also isn’t the anti-Western revolutionary mastermind that the AMC claims either. President Putin is simply an apolitical pragmatist that solely wants to preserve his country’s conservative-nationalist society, robustly develop its economy, and ensure its objective national security interests, all while cooperating with others in pursuit of mutual benefit. He’s neither a villain nor a hero, but just himself.</i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://korybko.substack.com/p/putin-subverted-the-mainstream-and" style="color: #1155cc;">https://korybko.substack.com/p/putin-subverted-the-mainstream-and</a><i><br /></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Why’d Putin Spend So Much Time Talking About Poland In His Interview With Tucker?</b></i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Warsaw’s nostalgia for its interwar control over what’s nowadays’ Western Ukraine as well as its earlier control over a swath of that modern country during the Commonwealth era is why it plays a leading role in this conflict.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Prior to the special operation, the Polish intelligentsia were the first external actors to plant the seeds of Ukrainian identity into its people’s minds, which they did as a means of legitimizing their control over the former lands of Kievan Rus whose people’s ethno-religious identity was different than their own. As President Putin explained, Warsaw’s meddling played a major part in the events that later gave rise to some of its own people’s self-proclaimed separate identity that others then exploited for their own ends.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>It's therefore impossible for anyone to have a solid understanding of current events and the historical processes that gave rise to them without learning about Poland’s inextricable role in both. The past laid the basis upon which present developments are unfolding since modern-day Ukrainian identity wouldn’t have taken shape nor would the ongoing proxy war have unfolded without Poland’s participation. These facts suggest that peace isn’t possible without Poland playing some sort of role in this process as well.</i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://korybko.substack.com/p/whyd-putin-spend-so-much-time-talking" style="color: #1155cc;">https://korybko.substack.com/p/whyd-putin-spend-so-much-time-talking</a><i><br /></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Did Putin Really Compare Himself To Hitler & Justify The Nazis’ Invasion Of Poland?</b></i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Hitler could have backed down, but he wasn’t one to take no for an answer, plus he was obsessed with reincorporating Imperial Germany’s lost regions prior to expanding into the Slavic East for “Lebensraum”. That’s why he decided to push his plans forward instead of risking the scenario of them becoming unattainable if the incipient (but at that time illusory) anti-Nazi alliance strengthened. This is a valid point that doesn’t equate to President Putin comparing himself to Hitler or justifying the latter’s invasion.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Only ill-intentioned propagandists would draw a parallel between the events leading up to the Nazis’ invasion of Poland in 1939 and those that preceded Russia’s special operation in 2022. These are two completely different conflicts that can’t be compared by any honest observers. President Putin brought up the first-mentioned simply to correct the historical record after Poland led the EU in laying equal blame on the Soviets for World War II in 2019 and to add further context to the ‘Ukrainian Question’.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>As a history buff who rarely gives interviews to Western journalists, the Russian leader probably didn’t realize at the time how his impromptu summary of events leading up to that conflict would be spun, but he obviously didn’t intend to compare himself to Hitler to justify the Nazis’ invasion of Poland.</i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://korybko.substack.com/p/did-putin-really-compare-himself" style="color: #1155cc;">https://korybko.substack.com/p/did-putin-really-compare-himself</a><i><br /></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div class="gmail_default"> Kyle Young has another update of the view from his farm on the Arizona-Mexico border. More instructive video from a hidden camera is explained.</div><i><b><span class="gmail_default">B</span>iden's socialist border bait is destroying the <span class="gmail_default">U</span>.<span class="gmail_default">S</span>.<span class="gmail_default"> P</span>ima <span class="gmail_default">C</span>ounty takes the bait, hook, line and sinker<span class="gmail_default">.</span></b></i><br /></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Here’s how it works. Biden invites the world to cross illegally into the US from Mexico. That puts a crushing weight on border counties to provide services. Biden then invites those counties to go on the Federal dole to pay for services. Some do. Those that do get highly processed USDA food and money for minimal, crowded, shelter. This causes a rise in disease. Hospitals then get overrun with migrants unable to pay. Some hospitals are pushed to the brink of collapse.<span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>Everyone suffers</b>.</i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://secularheretic.substack.com/p/bidens-socialist-border-bait-is-destroying" style="color: #1155cc;">https://secularheretic.substack.com/p/bidens-socialist-border-bait-is-destroying</a><i><br /></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Def. Sec. Austin Turns His Duties Over to His Deputy</b><br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was taken to the hospital Sunday afternoon for a bladder issue, the Defense Department said in a statement.<br />He transferred his duties to Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks at about 4:55 p.m. Sunday, and all notifications were made.</i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.independentsentinel.com/def-sec-austin-turns-his-duties-over-to-his-deputy/" style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.independentsentinel.com/def-sec-austin-turns-his-duties-over-to-his-deputy/</a><i><br /></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Meet Dr. Kathleen Hicks - SecDef Austin's Presumptive Replacement Woke Deep-Stater</b></i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Hicks established the Deputy’s Management Action Group (DMAG) to be the Defense Department’s principal governance body to address topics from diversity to extremism. You would be correct if you consider Hicks’ role similar to the Soviet Union’s political commissar.</i><b><i><br /></i></b><div><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/political/meet-dr-kathleen-hicks-secdef-austins-presumptive-replacement-woke-deep-stater" style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.zerohedge.com/political/meet-dr-kathleen-hicks-secdef-austins-presumptive-replacement-woke-deep-stater</a><div><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Harvard Renews COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate, Joining 69 Other Schools<span class="gmail_default"> </span></b></i>[An easy way to cull yourself?]<div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Students at Harvard University will continue to be required to take the COVID-19 vaccine in order to register for the upcoming semester, the school has recently announced, joining 69 other schools around the country that still require the shot.<span class="gmail_default"><b> </b></span><b>“Harvard requires all students who will be on campus to have some protection from COVID-19 through vaccination.”</b></i></div><div><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/harvard-renews-covid-19-vaccine-mandate-joining-69-other-schools" style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/harvard-renews-covid-19-vaccine-mandate-joining-69-other-schools</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div></div></div></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div class="gmail_default"> Peter McCullough MD, <i><b>Indoctrination of Vaccine Ideology was Successful on College Campuses</b></i></div><i><b>Isolation, Propaganda, Shaming, Coercion, all Drove Moralistic Fallacy</b></i><br /></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/indoctrination-of-vaccine-ideology" style="color: #1155cc;">https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/indoctrination-of-vaccine-ideology</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div class="gmail_default">Uncool Kid (pictured winter-pruning yesterday)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHuU1n6GfTnsP4swzUOOdAndLe552AxjUgJWSONz_NWqCnvxfKwZ7M9EwcHmmOvnCTbBDHj0HRm8QX26JNxUYNU0Fep0vdxEB0GCBgk0AB3EsqQoKUL2jq8dIJaWF3E-Q-VWqV_eE49rHrz5ezRTGoTK73mkrvp0Ou5ieRYBrRlNmVxDc9y4i5os0zUjXH/s4032/PXL_20240211_203553866.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="2268" height="1054" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHuU1n6GfTnsP4swzUOOdAndLe552AxjUgJWSONz_NWqCnvxfKwZ7M9EwcHmmOvnCTbBDHj0HRm8QX26JNxUYNU0Fep0vdxEB0GCBgk0AB3EsqQoKUL2jq8dIJaWF3E-Q-VWqV_eE49rHrz5ezRTGoTK73mkrvp0Ou5ieRYBrRlNmVxDc9y4i5os0zUjXH/w593-h1054/PXL_20240211_203553866.jpg" width="593" /></a></div><br /><div class="gmail_default"><br /></div><div class="gmail_default"><br /></div></div>John Dayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12123174297818737132noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4275885258914846834.post-34995514856881403642024-02-09T11:48:00.002-06:002024-02-09T12:06:50.435-06:00Thousand Year Gaze<p> Historical Participants,</p><br /><div class="gmail_default"> The Carlson-Putin interview, a little over 2 hours, is here, and was watched over 60 million times in the first 6 hours or so. <a href="https://tuckercarlson.com/the-vladimir-putin-interview/">https://tuckercarlson.com/the-vladimir-putin-interview/</a></div><div class="gmail_default">Carlson, sitting in the Kremlin, then in his hotel room, reflects on the interview for 9 minutes here: <a href="https://twitter.com/WeAreWoke1776_3/status/1755875183762579502">https://twitter.com/WeAreWoke1776_3/status/1755875183762579502</a></div><div class="gmail_default"><br /></div><div class="gmail_default"> Post-filtering of the content for American consumption does not reflect what I saw and heard, not at all, but has some factoids: </div><i><b>Tucker Carlson’s Putin interview: 9 takeaways<span class="gmail_default"> , </span>POLITICO watched the 2-hour love-in with the Russian president so you don’t have to.</b></i><div><a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/9-takeaway-vladimir-putin-interview-tucker-carlson/">https://www.politico.eu/article/9-takeaway-vladimir-putin-interview-tucker-carlson/</a></div><div><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span class="gmail_default"> If I might make the suggestion, I will say that the only independent action is to watch the 2 hour+ interview yourself. Hit the pause button. Have dinner. Come back to it when you can. The pace is different from American media, which is a big part of the message. </span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span class="gmail_default"> Vladimir Putin begins with a 30 minute explanation of Russian history, beginning with the Baptism of Prince Vladimir in 988, which was followed by the baptism of his noble-class and the people of Rus. This is the context within which Vladimir Putin sees Russia and his own place in ongoing Russian history. Russia is a "Civilizational State", as is China, as is Iran. This does not directly translate to the 5-year-plan mentality of western financial capitalism, a contextual framework which Putin would not engage, to the recurring frustration of Carlson. Putin returned repeatedly to the spiritual ties which compose Russian society, the respect for Islamic and Buddhist cultures within Russia, and he closed on a note of spiritual healing between Russia and what is currently "Ukraine". This reflects a patience spanning generations, a very long view, a politely diplomatic view.</span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span class="gmail_default"> Putin left numerous things politely unsaid. He would not make any potentially fractious assertions, which could be used as political ammunition against Russia.</span><br /></span></span><span class="gmail_default"> From my own perspective, the</span> "problems" in Ukraine/Galicia began when Germany carved that area out to provide coal and grain to Germany during WW-1, after defeating Russian/Bolshevik forces, continued during WW-2, including the Holodomor, when Stalin sold the food grain to (necessarily) build Russian war industry, starving Ukrainians to death<span class="gmail_default">. This tribal animosity</span> was <span class="gmail_default">further cultivated by the CIA</span> after WW-2<span class="gmail_default">, through activation</span> of Galician sleeper-<span class="gmail_default">cells</span>, left over <span class="gmail_default">Galician </span>Nazis, who were <span class="gmail_default">deployed in an insurgency</span> against the USSR in the 1950s. Many of them died and some <span class="gmail_default">were brought to</span> to the US and Canada.<span class="gmail_default"> </span>The 2008 Ukrainian <span class="gmail_default">failed-</span>coup, and the 2014 <span class="gmail_default">successful</span> coup, were part of a long, ongoing plan to divide ancient Russia against itself.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>That is my baseline read, from which I hear and interpret Putin's history lesson.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>The other thing Putin left politely unsaid<span class="gmail_default">, though repeatedly asked "why" by Carlson,</span> was that neoliberal financial capitalism needs to consume Ukraine and Russia or collapse into itself, because it is an expansionist financial structure which consumes "assets" like Ukrainian farmland, mines and industry, having already consumed those in the US and EU.</div><div><div class="gmail_default"> Putin spoke repeatedly of "objective changes" in the world, which he sees being opposed in a futile way by western political structures, which are neocolonial, though he does not say that. He does point repeatedly to the destruction of long term western "interests", such as the weaponization of the $US against Russia for a short term gain, which was actually a short term loss for the US, and for Europe, and has begun to loss of global reserve currency status for the $US, now in progress.</div><div class="gmail_default"> The "objective changes" taking place are those of cooperation between countries, rather than colonial extraction of natural resources from colonized peoples. Putin points out that this model has progressed already to consuming the industrial bases of the US and UK, and is destroying European industrial profitability through cutting off inexpensive natural gas, forcing Europe to pay 7 times as much for liquified natural gas, largely from the US. This is self-consuming short-termism. He points out that several pipelines through Ukraine and Poland could be opened, and that one of 4 Nordstream pipelines could also be opened again.</div><div class="gmail_default"><br /></div><i><b>The Triumph and Terror of Wang Huning<span class="gmail_default"> , </span>One man’s thought has become pivotal in China’s new political and cultural crackdowns. That man is not Xi Jinping.</b></i><br /></div><i>This article by N.S. Lyons was originally published on Palladium Magazine on October 11, 2021. <br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>One day in August 2021, Zhao Wei disappeared. For one of China’s best-known actresses to physically vanish from public view would have been enough to cause a stir on its own. But Zhao’s disappearing act was far more thorough: overnight, she was erased from the internet. Her Weibo social media page, with its 86 million followers, went offline, as did fan sites dedicated to her. Searches for her many films and television shows returned no results on streaming sites. Zhao’s name was scrubbed from the credits of projects she had appeared in or directed, replaced with a blank space. Online discussions uttering her name were censored. Suddenly, little trace remained that the 45-year-old celebrity had ever existed.<span class="gmail_default"></span></i><div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>She wasn’t alone. Other Chinese entertainers also began to vanish as Chinese government regulators announced a “heightened crackdown” intended to dispense with “vulgar internet celebrities” promoting lascivious lifestyles and to “resolve the problem of chaos” created by online fandom culture. Those imitating the effeminate or androgynous aesthetics of Korean boyband stars—colorfully referred to as “xiao xian rou,” or “little fresh meat”—were next to go, with the government vowing to “resolutely put an end to sissy men” appearing on the screens of China’s impressionable youth.<span class="gmail_default">..</span></i></div><i><span class="gmail_default">..</span>Officially referred to as <b>Chinese President Xi Jinping’s “Common Prosperity” campaign</b>, this transformation is proceeding along two parallel lines: a vast regulatory crackdown roiling the private sector economy and a broader moralistic effort to reengineer Chinese culture from the top down.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>But why is this “profound transformation” happening? And why now? Most analysis has focused on one man: Xi and his seemingly endless personal obsession with political control. The overlooked answer, however, is that this is indeed the culmination of decades of thinking and planning by a very powerful man—but that man is not Xi Jinping.<span class="gmail_default"> </span>Wang Huning much prefers the shadows to the limelight. An insomniac and workaholic, former friends and colleagues describe the bespectacled, soft-spoken political theorist as introverted and obsessively discreet. It took former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin’s repeated entreaties to convince the brilliant then-young academic—who spoke wistfully of following the traditional path of a Confucian scholar, aloof from politics—to give up academia in the early 1990s and join the Chinese Communist Party regime<span class="gmail_default">...</span></i><div><i><span class="gmail_default">..</span><b>Wang Huning is arguably the single most influential “public intellectual” alive today</b>.<span class="gmail_default"> </span>A member of the CCP’s seven-man Politburo Standing Committee, he is China’s top ideological theorist, quietly credited as being the “ideas man” behind each of Xi’s signature political concepts, including the “China Dream,” the anti-corruption campaign, the Belt and Road Initiative, a more assertive foreign policy, and even “Xi Jinping Thought.”<span class="gmail_default">...</span></i></div><i><span class="gmail_default">..A</span> position referred to in Chinese literature as <b>dishi: “Emperor’s Teacher.”</b> Such a figure is just as readily recognizable in the West as an éminence grise (“grey eminence”), in the tradition of Tremblay, Talleyrand, Metternich, Kissinger, or Vladimir Putin adviser Vladislav Surkov.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>But what is singularly remarkable about Wang is that he’s managed to serve in this role of <b>court philosopher to not just one, but all three of China’s previous top leaders</b>, including as the pen behind Jiang Zemin’s signature “Three Represents” policy and Hu Jintao’s “Harmonious Society.”<span class="gmail_default"> </span>In the brutally cutthroat world of CCP factional politics, this is an unprecedented feat.<span class="gmail_default">..</span></i><div><i><span class="gmail_default">..</span>While it’s hard to be certain what Wang really believes today inside his black box, he was once an immensely prolific author, publishing nearly 20 books along with numerous essays.<span class="gmail_default">..</span></i></div><i><span class="gmail_default">..</span>While other Chinese teenagers spent the tumultuous years of the Cultural Revolution (1966-76) “sent down to the countryside” to dig ditches and work on farms, Wang Huning studied French at an elite foreign-language training school near his hometown of Shanghai, spending his days reading banned foreign literary classics secured for him by his teachers. Born in 1955 to a revolutionary family from Shandong, he was a sickly, bookish youth; this, along with his family’s connections, seems to have secured him a pass from hard labor.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>When China’s shuttered universities reopened in 1978, following the commencement of “reform and opening” by Mao’s successor Deng Xiaoping, Wang was among the first to take the restored national university entrance exam, competing with millions for a chance to return to higher learning. He passed so spectacularly that Shanghai’s Fudan University, one of China’s top institutions, admitted him into its prestigious international politics master’s program despite having never completed a bachelor’s degree.<span class="gmail_default"></span></i><div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>The thesis work he completed at Fudan, which would become his first book, traced the development of the Western concept of national sovereignty from antiquity to the present day—including from Gilgamesh through Socrates, Aristotle, Augustine, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Rousseau, Montesquieu, Hegel, and Marx—and contrasted it with Chinese conceptions of the idea.<span class="gmail_default">..</span></i></div><i><span class="gmail_default">..</span>But Wang was also beginning to pick up the strands of what would become another core thread of his life’s work: <b>the necessary centrality of culture, tradition, and value structures to political stability</b>.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Wang elaborated on these ideas in a 1988 essay, “The Structure of China’s Changing Political Culture,” which would become one of his most cited works. In it, he argued that the CCP must urgently consider how society’s “software” (culture, values, attitudes) shapes political destiny as much as its “hardware” (economics, systems, institutions). While seemingly a straightforward idea, this was notably a daring break from the materialism of orthodox Marxism.<span class="gmail_default">..</span></i><div><i><span class="gmail_default">..</span>Meanwhile, <b>he believed that the modernization of “Socialism with Chinese characteristics” was effectively leaving China without any real cultural direction at all.</b> “There are no core values in China’s most recent structure,” he warned. This could serve only to dissolve societal and political cohesion.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>That, he said, was untenable. <b>Warning that “the components of the political culture shaped by the Cultural Revolution came to be divorced from the source that gave birth to this culture, as well as from social demands, social values, and social relations”—and thus “the results of the adoption of Marxism were not always positive”—he argued that, “Since 1949, we have criticized the core values of the classical and modern structures, but have not paid enough attention to shaping our own core values.” Therefore: “we must create core values.”</b> Ideally, he concluded, “We must combine the flexibility of [China’s] traditional values with the modern spirit [both Western and Marxist].”<span class="gmail_default"> ...</span></i></div><i><span class="gmail_default">..</span>Also in 1988, Wang—having risen with unprecedented speed to become Fudan’s youngest full professor at age 30—won a coveted scholarship (facilitated by the American Political Science Association) to spend six months in the United States as a visiting scholar. Profoundly curious about America, Wang took full advantage, wandering about the country like a sort of latter-day Chinese Alexis de Tocqueville, visiting more than 30 cities and nearly 20 universities.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>What he found deeply disturbed him, permanently shifting his view of the West and the consequences of its ideas.</b></i><div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Wang recorded his observations in a memoir that would become his most famous work: the 1991 book America Against America. In it, he marvels at homeless encampments in the streets of Washington DC, out-of-control drug crime in poor black neighborhoods in New York and San Francisco, and corporations that seemed to have fused themselves to and taken over responsibilities of government. Eventually, he concludes that America faces an “unstoppable undercurrent of crisis” produced by its societal contradictions, including between rich and poor, white and black, democratic and oligarchic power, egalitarianism and class privilege, individual rights and collective responsibilities, cultural traditions and the solvent of liquid modernity.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>But while <b>Americans can, he says, perceive that they are faced with “intricate social and cultural problems,” they “tend to think of them as scientific and technological problems” to be solved separately. This gets them nowhere, he argues, because their problems are in fact all inextricably interlinked and have the same root cause: a radical, nihilistic individualism at the heart of modern American liberalism.</b></i></div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>“The real cell of society in the United States is the individual,” he finds. This is so because the cell most foundational (per Aristotle) to society, “the family, has disintegrated.” Meanwhile, in the American system, “everything has a dual nature, and the glamour of high commodification abounds. Human flesh, sex, knowledge, politics, power, and law can all become the target of commodification.” This “commodification, in many ways, corrupts society and leads to a number of serious social problems.” In the end, “the American economic system has created human loneliness” as its foremost product, along with spectacular inequality.<span class="gmail_default">..</span></i><div><i><span class="gmail_default">..</span>Ultimately, he argues, when faced with critical social issues like drug addiction, America’s atomized, deracinated, and dispirited society has found itself with “an insurmountable problem” because it no longer has any coherent conceptual grounds from which to mount any resistance.</i></div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Once idealistic about America, at the start of 1989 the young Wang returned to China and, promoted to Dean of Fudan’s International Politics Department, became a leading opponent of liberalization.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>He began to argue that China had to resist global liberal influence and become a culturally unified and self-confident nation governed by a strong, centralized party-state.<span class="gmail_default">..</span></i><div><i><span class="gmail_default">..</span><b>This reflected his desire to blend Marxist socialism with traditional Chinese Confucian values and Legalist political thought, maximalist Western ideas of state sovereignty and power, and nationalism in order to synthesize a new basis for long-term stability and growth immune to Western liberalism</b>.<span class="gmail_default">..</span></i></div><i><span class="gmail_default">..</span>China’s own emerging contradictions exploded into view in the form of student protests in Tiananmen Square. After PLA tanks crushed the dreams of liberal democracy sprouting in China, CCP leadership began searching desperately for a new political model on which to secure the regime. They soon turned to Wang Huning.<span class="gmail_default">..</span></i><div><i><span class="gmail_default">..</span>Jiang plucked him from the university and, at the age of 40, he was granted a leadership position in the CCP’s secretive Central Policy Research Office, putting him on an inside track into the highest echelons of power.<span class="gmail_default">..</span></i></div><i><span class="gmail_default">..</span>But Wang is unlikely to be savoring the acclaim, because his worst fear has become reality: the “unstoppable undercurrent of crisis” he identified in America seems to have successfully jumped the Pacific. Despite all his and Xi’s success in draconian suppression of political liberalism, many of the same problems Wang observed in America have nonetheless emerged to ravage China over the last decade as the country progressively embraced a more neoliberal capitalist economic model.<br /><b>“Socialism with Chinese Characteristics” has rapidly transformed China into one of the most economically unequal societies on earth</b>.<span class="gmail_default">..</span></i><div><i><span class="gmail_default">..</span>Most people in China remain relatively poor: some 600 million still subsist on a monthly income of less than 1,000 yuan ($155) a month.<span class="gmail_default"> </span>Meanwhile, Chinese tech giants have established monopoly positions even more robust than their U.S. counterparts, often with market shares nearing 90%. Corporate employment frequently features an exhausting “996” (9am to 9pm, 6 days a week) schedule. Others labor among struggling legions trapped by up-front debts in the vast system of modern-day indentured servitude that is the Chinese “gig economy.”<span class="gmail_default"><br /></span></i></div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>The job market for China’s ever-expanding pool of university graduates is so competitive that “graduation equals unemployment” is a societal meme<span class="gmail_default">... </span></i><div><i><span class="gmail_default">..</span>As young people have flocked to urban metropoles to search for employment, rural regions have been drained and left to decay, while centuries of communal extended family life have been upended in a generation, leaving the elderly to rely on the state for marginal care. In the cities, young people have been priced out of the property market<span class="gmail_default">...</span></i></div><i><span class="gmail_default">..</span>Feeling alone and unable to get ahead in a ruthlessly consumerist society, Chinese youth increasingly describe existing in a state of nihilistic despair encapsulated by the online slang term neijuan (“involution”), which describes a “turning inward” by individuals and society due to a prevalent sense of being stuck in a draining rat race where everyone inevitably loses. <b>This despair has manifested itself in a movement known as tangping, or “lying flat.”</b><span class="gmail_default">... </span></i><div><i><span class="gmail_default">..</span>In this environment, China’s fertility rate has collapsed to 1.3 children per woman as of 2020—below Japan and above only South Korea as the lowest in the world—plunging its economic future into crisis.<span class="gmail_default">.. </span>“Do they not yet know that most young people are exhausted just supporting themselves?” asked one typically viral post on social media.<span class="gmail_default">..</span></i></div><div><i><span class="gmail_default">..</span>They <span class="gmail_default">would</span> identify liberalism’s essential telos as being the liberation of the individual from all limiting ties of place, tradition, religion, associations, and relationships, along with all the material limits of nature, in pursuit of the radical autonomy of the modern “consumer.”<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>From this perspective, China has been thoroughly liberalized, and the picture of what’s happening to Chinese society begins to look far more like Wang’s nightmare of a liberal culture consumed by nihilistic individualism and commodification.<span class="gmail_default"><br /></span></i></div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>It is in this context that Wang Huning appears to have won a long-running debate within the Chinese system about what’s now required for the People’s Republic of China to endure. The era of tolerance for unfettered economic and cultural liberalism in China is over.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>According to a leaked account by one of his old friends, Xi has found himself, like Wang, “repulsed by the all-encompassing commercialization of Chinese society, with its attendant nouveaux riches, official corruption, loss of values, dignity, and self-respect, and such ‘moral evils’ as drugs and prostitution.”</b><span class="gmail_default"> </span></i> <i>Wang has now seemingly convinced Xi that they have no choice but to take drastic action to head off existential threats to social order being generated by Western-style economic and cultural liberal-capitalism—threats nearly identical to those that scourge the U.S.</i><div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>This intervention has taken the form of the Common Prosperity campaign</b>, with Xi declaring in January that “We absolutely must not allow the gap between rich and poor to get wider,” and warning that “achieving common prosperity is not only an economic issue, but also a major political issue related to the party’s governing foundations.”<span class="gmail_default"> ... </span>It’s why record-breaking IPOs have been put on hold and corporations ordered to improve labor conditions, with “996” overtime requirements made illegal and pay raised for gig workers.<span class="gmail_default"> </span> It’s why the government killed off the private tutoring sector overnight and capped property rental price increases. It’s why the government has announced “excessively high incomes” are to be “adjusted.”<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>And it’s why celebrities like Zhao Wei have been disappearing, why Chinese minors have been banned from playing the “spiritual opium” of video games for more than three hours per week, why LGBT groups have been scrubbed from the internet, and why abortion restrictions have been significantly tightened.<span class="gmail_default">..</span><span class="gmail_default"><br /></span></i></div><i>..<b>Our world is witnessing a grand experiment that’s now underway: China and the West, facing very similar societal problems, have now, thanks to Wang Huning, embarked on radically different approaches to addressing them.</b></i><span class="gmail_default"><i> </i> [Russia and Iran are each differently-different.]</span><div><a href="https://letter.palladiummag.com/p/the-triumph-and-terror-of-wang-huning-3b0">https://letter.palladiummag.com/p/the-triumph-and-terror-of-wang-huning-3b0</a><i><br /></i></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="gmail_default"> Moon of Alabama: <i><b>Ukraine SitRep: A Hated New Commander - Critical Lack Of Infantry</b></i></div><i>The Ukrainian President Zelenski has fired the commander in chief of the Ukrainian armed forces General Zaluzny.<br /><span class="gmail_default" style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><b>Zaluzny was replaced by General Syrski, a somewhat unexpected choice as Syrski is hated by the troops for pushing them into meat grinders without a </b>perspective<b> of winning. Syrski, who was born as a Russian, had lost the cauldron battles of Debaltsevo (2015), Soledar (2023) and Bakhmut (2023). Currently Avdeevka is in a cauldron and likely to fall.</b></i><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/02/ukraine-sitrep-an-unliked-new-commander-a-critical-lack-of-infantry.html#more">https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/02/ukraine-sitrep-an-unliked-new-commander-a-critical-lack-of-infantry.html#more</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Trump will keep Ukraine promise – Polish president</b></i><div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Former US President <b>Donald Trump will likely keep his promise to end the conflict in Ukraine within 24 hours if he wins</b> this year’s election, <b>Polish President Andrzej Duda</b> has said...<span class="gmail_default">. </span><b>“I can say from my personal experience as the president of the Polish Republic… what [Trump] promised to me was fulfilled,” </b>Duda told reporters in Rwanda on Wednesday, according to Newsweek. </i></div><div><a href="https://www.rt.com/news/592076-trump-ukraine-peace-duda/">https://www.rt.com/news/592076-trump-ukraine-peace-duda/</a><i><br /></i></div><div><br /></div><i><b>"My Memory Is Fine" Biden Fumes, Before Confusing Egypt's Sisi With The President Of Mexico</b></i><div><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/political/my-memory-fine-biden-fumes-confusing-egypts-sisi-president-mexico">https://www.zerohedge.com/political/my-memory-fine-biden-fumes-confusing-egypts-sisi-president-mexico</a><b><i><br /></i></b><div><br /></div><i><b>Iraq Closer To Expelling US Troops After Drone Strike In Busy Neighborhood</b></i><div><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/iraq-closer-expelling-us-troops-after-drone-strike-busy-neighborhood">https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/iraq-closer-expelling-us-troops-after-drone-strike-busy-neighborhood</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>US Warns Against Impending Israeli Assault On Refugee-Packed Rafah</b></i><div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said he has voiced "concerns" to Prime Minister Netanyahu</b> regarding the Israeli Defense Forces' (IDF) impending ground operation against the far southern city of Rafah in the Gaza Strip.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>Hundreds of thousands of civilian refugees have until this point sought out the greater 'safety' of Rafah. But Al Jazeera observes that "Panic is growing in Rafah over an imminent ground invasion after Israel’s prime minister ordered his military to prepare to enter the city in the southern Gaza Strip that is sheltering 1.2 million people with nowhere else to go as he rejected Hamas’s truce plan and rebuffed US efforts to reach a deal."</b></i></div><div><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-warns-against-impending-israeli-assault-refugee-packed-rafah">https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-warns-against-impending-israeli-assault-refugee-packed-rafah</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div><br /></div><i><b>Israel killing too many civilians – US<span class="gmail_default"> , </span>Innocent people in Gaza should not be punished for the actions of Hamas, Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said</b></i><div><a href="https://www.rt.com/news/592099-blinken-israel-killing-civilians/">https://www.rt.com/news/592099-blinken-israel-killing-civilians/</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Israel Backing Off Hostage Talks, Draws Up Civilian Evacuation Plans For Rafah Assault</b></i><div><i> A new Times of Israel report says that Israeli negotiators are not seeking to come up with new terms for a deal, but are instead trying to pressure Hamas to withdraw the "delusional" terms.<span class="gmail_default"> </span><span class="gmail_default"></span></i>[It seems that Israeli officials and Hamas <span class="gmail_default">leadership</span> hold different baseline assumptions.]<i><br /><span class="gmail_default"> <b> </b></span><b>"The main target now is to create pressure from the Americans and other countries on Qatar, and from there on Hamas, in addition to the military pressure, to bring them down from their delusional demands," said an official</b> cited in the report.</i></div><div><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/israel-backing-hostage-talks-draws-civilian-evacuation-options-rafah-assault">https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/israel-backing-hostage-talks-draws-civilian-evacuation-options-rafah-assault</a><i><br /></i></div><div><br /></div><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>The European Commission has bent the knee to protesting farmers - and is dropping key passages in a proposal for a new 2040 goal aimed at cutting greenhouse gas pollution.</b> According to the EU exe<span class="gmail_default">cu</span>tive's plan, "all sectors" need to now contribute to the effort - but<b> the previously mandated 30% cut to agricultural production between by 2040 is gone. The revised draft has also excluded a mandate for citizens to make lifestyle changes - such as eating less meat, and a push to end fossil fuel subsidies.<span class="gmail_default"> </span></b></i>[The moment of truth?]<div><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/political/eu-bends-knee-farmers-drops-key-provisions-2040-climate-proposal">https://www.zerohedge.com/political/eu-bends-knee-farmers-drops-key-provisions-2040-climate-proposal</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="gmail_default">Looking Forward To Spring (pictured prepping the garden)</div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8aLp_Y8BgSYlQTkiTwcGdjPr6Q84gj6WL-B5Qn8M5L8PcoEt7HocX2G2BSR6NbifOzrV66J6AlIBu0SvaG49r_R8dnDfiZzNFuOQvZALC9MbXCrpitaW-x5zsTkYCr3AJLGInPMsm4-0mTQjCjXTtn98oN1CeRF6coTSk1C3qzjvozRRrRhEx76H5hhDT/s4032/PXL_20240127_195027917.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2268" data-original-width="4032" height="355" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8aLp_Y8BgSYlQTkiTwcGdjPr6Q84gj6WL-B5Qn8M5L8PcoEt7HocX2G2BSR6NbifOzrV66J6AlIBu0SvaG49r_R8dnDfiZzNFuOQvZALC9MbXCrpitaW-x5zsTkYCr3AJLGInPMsm4-0mTQjCjXTtn98oN1CeRF6coTSk1C3qzjvozRRrRhEx76H5hhDT/w633-h355/PXL_20240127_195027917.jpg" width="633" /></a></div><br /><div class="gmail_default"><br /></div>John Dayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12123174297818737132noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4275885258914846834.post-43261341679223998212024-02-08T15:54:00.000-06:002024-02-08T15:54:21.047-06:00Updating Americans<p> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Staying Current,</span></p><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Thanks Eleni. <i><b>‘Transported in Cages’ – Shocking Details of How Israel Treats Female Gaza Prisoners</b></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>“This detail particularly hurt me: these women have been transported in animal trucks. They have been tied, blindfolded and stripped of their head covering, as a way to humiliate them,”</b> al-Abadi said...<br />..The lawyer also said that <b>when the female detainees arrived at the prison, their clothes were stained with blood. Most of them were also bleeding from their hands, as the plastic chains had been tightly tied around their wrists for days</b>...</i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span class="gmail_default">..</span>Al-Abadi shared that <b>one of the women had to leave her four children in Gaza. The eldest was only eight years old, the youngest an infant.</b></i><div><i>According to the testimony from other prisoners, the woman was walking on Salah Al-Din Street, <b>fleeing from the north of the Gaza Strip, when the Israeli soldiers arrested her</b>.<span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>“When she learned that she would be under arrest, she immediately handed her children to a boy who was walking in the street and told him to take care of them,” </b>al-Abadi said.<br /><b>“I learned from the other prisoners that she asked about her children every day, crying inconsolably, but nobody was updating her on their fate.”</b><br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>A few days ago, however, al-Abadi was <b>able to deliver a verbal message to this woman, that her children had eventually reached their father. “This time, she cried out of joy,”</b> he said.</i></div></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.defenddemocracy.press/transported-in-cages-shocking-details-of-how-israel-treats-female-gaza-prisoners/" style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.defenddemocracy.press/transported-in-cages-shocking-details-of-how-israel-treats-female-gaza-prisoners/</a><i><br /></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Tehran refutes accusations it supplies weapons to Houthis — envoy to UN<br />Amir Saeid Iravani also said that his country was ready to call on the Houthis to cease fire, if Israel withdraws its troops from the Gaza Strip and lifts restrictions on sending humanitarian aid to the residents of the enclave</b></i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://tass.com/world/1742973" style="color: #1155cc;">https://tass.com/world/1742973</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Only 3 in 10 Americans Were Aware of US Troops in Syria Prior to Deadly Attack</b></i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Defense Priorities commissioned <b>YouGov to poll Americans from January 8-15 about the deployment of 900 US troops in Syria. Three in ten Americans responded that they were aware US troops were deployed to Syria</b>. The <b>three US soldiers killed at Tower 22 in Jordan were supporting the US base in southern Syria</b>.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>US troops in Iraq and Syria have come under attack over 160 times from Shia militias that operate in the region</b>. The YouGov poll found only a quarter of Americans were aware of the attacks that left scores of US soldiers injured.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>The <b>Shia militias say they are targeting American soldiers occupying Iraq and Syria with drones, rockets, and missiles because of US support for the ongoing genocide Israel is conducting in Gaza</b>. The poll found that <b>a majority of Americans are concerned about a larger war breaking out in the region because of the US troops’</b> presence.</i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://libertarianinstitute.org/news/only-3-in-10-americans-were-aware-of-us-troops-in-syria-prior-to-deadly-attack/" style="color: #1155cc;">https://libertarianinstitute.org/news/only-3-in-10-americans-were-aware-of-us-troops-in-syria-prior-to-deadly-attack/</a><i><br /></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>The Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies interviewed 8,000 people between December 12, 2023 and January 5, 2024 in 16 Arab countries</b> (Mauritania, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Sudan, Yemen, Oman, Qatar, Kuwait , Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, as well as the West Bank) and revealed in early January that <b>89% consider the October 7 attacks legitimate and only 5% consider them illegitimate</b>.</i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Furthermore, <b>69% express support for Hamas</b>, <b>94% consider the U.S. position on the conflict to be negative</b> and 79%, 78% and 75% consider the positions of France, the United Kingdom and Germany to be negative, respectively. Additionally, <b>76% said their opinion of the U.S. after the genocide in Gaza has become more negative</b> and <b>81% do not think the U.S. truly supports the establishment of a Palestinian state</b>;<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>51% think the U.S. is the main threat to their security</b>, while <b>26% think it is Israel</b>;<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>92% think that the Palestinian issue is a problem for all Arabs, not just the Palestinians</b>. This is the highest rate since opinion polls began in 2011. <b>At the end of 2022, the percentage was 76%</b>. <b>In Morocco, the index increased from 59% in 2022 to 95% now</b>, in <b>Egypt from 75% to 94%</b>, in <b>Sudan from 68% to 91%</b> and in <b>Saudi Arabia from 69% to 95%</b>;<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>89% of Arabs reject the recognition of Israel as a State</b>, while <b>in 2022 there were 84%</b>, and only 4% support this recognition.<b> In Saudi Arabia, this index increased from 38% in 2022 to 68% now</b>, in <b>Morocco from 67% to 78%</b> and in <b>Sudan from 72% to 81%</b>.<span class="gmail_default">...</span></i></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="gmail_default">..1)</span>There is <b>immense support among Arabs for the armed struggle against Israel</b>; 2)<b> they consider imperialist powers as enemies</b> and 3) <b>they believe in a unified struggle against imperialism and Zionism</b>.</i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://strategic-culture.su/news/2024/02/06/a-new-and-true-arab-spring-part-two/" style="color: #1155cc;">https://strategic-culture.su/news/2024/02/06/a-new-and-true-arab-spring-part-two/</a><i><br /></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div class="gmail_default"> As pointed out yesterday, the Iraqi militias are Iraqi-government-funded militias, not "Iran backed rebels".</div><i><b>Biden Pulls A Trump: Targeted Drone Assassination Kills Iran-Backed Militia Leaders In Baghdad</b></i><br /></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="gmail_default"> </span>The high-ranking militia member is being initially identified as Wissam Mohammed Al Saiedi according to early reports. A Kataib Hezbollah associated Telegram channel has since mourned "the engineer of the missiles of the Iraqi resistance." An initial statement from the Baghdad police indicated "A car was on fire in Baghdad's eastern neighborhood of Al Mashtal." Additionally the statement said "it was probably hit by a missile fired from a drone. We are investigating.”</i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/biden-pulls-trump-targeted-drone-assassination-kills-iran-backed-militia-leaders" style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/biden-pulls-trump-targeted-drone-assassination-kills-iran-backed-militia-leaders</a><i><br /></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div class="gmail_default"> The rumors have been consistent that Zaluzhny always despised Zelensky, and has had his own eye on the presidency of Ukraine. Zelensky wanted Zaluzhny to ask the Parliament to mobilize 500,000 more Ukrainians and also to take the blame for the (iminent) fall of Avdeevka before stepping down. Zaluzhni refused. The military backed Zaluzhny. Nuland brought "cookies". Now this unfriendly divorce. </div><b><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Zelensky Fires Top General, Appoints New Commander, In Major Shake-Up</i></b></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div class="gmail_default"> <i>Zelensky said Thursday he met with his army chief and that <b>while it's time for significant "changes" - Zaluzhny should remain "on his team"</b>. Though the decision had been rumored and reported for over a week, presumably <b>the stall was to negotiate and ensure peaceful transition</b> of the top defense post. There were also widespread reports that Zaluzhny had refused to step down.<br /> <b>"We discussed what renewal the Armed Forces of Ukraine need. We also discussed who could be in the renewed leadership of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The time for this renewal is now," Zelensky announced </b>in an English statement on X and Telegram.<br /> <b>Zaluzhny had just before the announcement confirmed he had an "important and serious conversation" with Zelensky which focused on changing battlefield tactics and strategy</b>. <b>The now former top commander has huge popularity among military ranks and especially far-right, ultranationalist and neo-Nazi elements</b>. Will his firing result in mutiny or rebellion among some units?</i></div><div class="gmail_default"><i> Very quickly on the heels of news of Zaluzhny's dismissal, <b>Ukraine announced the appointment of Oleksandr Syrskyi as the new </b><b>commander-in-chief</b> the armed forces. Until now, Gen. <b>Syrskyi was Ukraine's ground forces commander. </b></i>(Last week Syrskyi reportedly refused to replace Zaluzhny.)</div><div class="gmail_default"><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/zelensky-pulls-trigger-firing-top-general-initiates-major-shake" style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/zelensky-pulls-trigger-firing-top-general-initiates-major-shake</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div class="gmail_default"><br /></div><div class="gmail_default"> Moon of Alabama, <i><b>Finally A Wonder-Weapon That Does What It Promised To Do ; </b></i><i><b>The battle of Avdeevka is about to be finished.</b></i></div></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>The city of Avdeevka</b>, (not to be confused with the small town of Andreevka near Bakhmut),<b> is situated immediately north-west of Donetsk city. It has been used for years as a Ukrainian fortress well positioned for artillery attacks on Donetsk</b>. <b>The whole city, and especially the coke and chemical plant in its northern sector, was well prepared to defend against Russian attacks</b>.<span class="gmail_default"> </span>But despite all attempts to hold on to it the Ukrainian garrison </i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(10,000 </span><span class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">men</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">)</span><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="gmail_default"> </span>within the city is about to be encircled and fall<span class="gmail_default">..</span>.<span class="gmail_default"></span>..The JDAM kit, of which more than 500,000 were produced, allowed for the use of large piles of cold-war era bombs with previously unknown precision.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>After the 2022 start of the war in Ukraine Russia engaged in a program to develop an equivalent to the JDAM kit.</b> The program was finished by the end of 2023. The <b>Russian version can be strapped onto a 500kg or a 1,500 kilogram dumb bomb extending their range by attaching wings, guidance kit and control surfaces to already existing dumb bombs</b>.<span class="gmail_default"></span> After being <b>programmed with target coordinates</b> the bomb gets dropped, turns 180 degree around its length axis and unfolds its wings. <b>The wings enable the bomb to fly some 50 miles before hitting the ground. This allows the planes dropping these bombs to stay outside of the enemy's air defense envelope</b>.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>The guidance kits are cheap and can easily be mass produced.<span class="gmail_default"> </span>Yesterday some 65 </b></i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(fuel air bomb)</span><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>FAB500 and FAB1500 were used against targets in Avdeevka.<span class="gmail_default"> </span></b></i><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="gmail_default"><br /></span><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>The use of these bombs</b>, which carry 300 kilogram and more of explosives, <b>near one's own troops requires careful planing and observation</b>. Observers on the ground have to make sure that their own troops are outside of the deadly circle of these bombs and that the coordinates of targets are submitted in a disciplined but secure and timely manner. Pilots have to make sure that the received coordinates are programmed into the bombs and that their release is done at the right attitude and positions.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>This kill chain requires intensive training and disciplined soldiers. Yesterday's attacks demonstrate that the Russian army and air-forces have mastered this discipline.<span class="gmail_default"> </span></b>Any detected resistance or <b>position of Ukrainian troops was visited by a precise FAB attack within just a few minutes.</b><br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>There is no defense against these weapons.<span class="gmail_default"> </span></b></i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">[The Israelis have used over 10,000 JDAM-bombs on </span><span class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Palestinian families in </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gaza.]</span><span class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> ...</span><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span class="gmail_default">..</span><b>The Ukrainian army has nothing comparable in its arsenals.</b><br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>The introduction of mass FAB500 strikes onto the Ukrainian battle field have given the Russian forces a new qualitative advantage that will change the course of the war (though not its outcome). <b>The U.S. political and military specialists who still believe that attrition is a viable strategy for the Ukrainian army are clearly way off the path of reality</b>.</i><div><a href="https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/02/ukraine-sitrep-finally-a-wonder-weapon-that-does-what-it-promised-to-do.html#more" style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/02/ukraine-sitrep-finally-a-wonder-weapon-that-does-what-it-promised-to-do.html#more</a><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="gmail_default"> Paul Craig Roberts speaks of the vulnerabilities of American commoners, not those with access to D.U.M.B.s.</div><i><b>The United States Has Zero National Security</b></i><br /></div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>In his newly published book, <b>Nuclear High-Attitude Electromagnetic Pulse</b>, <b>Steven Starr shows that all it takes is one nuclear explosion to shut down the United States</b> and throw the population back into the Dark Ages. <b>The electric power grid would be destroyed along with the communications system, the cooling systems at nuclear power plants and all electronic devices</b>. The reason is that civilian infrastructure is not protected from <b>ElectroMagneticPulse (EMP)</b>. The military has taken steps to shield its weapon and communication systems, but <b>nothing has been done to protect civilian infrastructure</b>. Bills mandating EMP protection have been defeated in Congress. <br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Starr reports that only <b>4% of the US military budget is required to shield the power grid and civilian infrastructure</b>...</i></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span class="gmail_default">..</span>Effects of a single high-altitude nuclear detonation over the Eastern U.S.<span class="gmail_default"> </span></b></i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">[Another over Texas and another over California </span><span class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">c</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ould take out all the lower 48 grids.]</span><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>“105 miles above Ohio, a single nuclear warhead explodes. Because it is far above the atmosphere, there will be no blast or fire effects felt on Earth, however, this high-altitude nuclear detonation will create a gigantic electromagnetic pulse or EMP.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>“In one billionth of a second, the initial EMP E1 wave will cause massive voltages and currents to form within power lines, telecommunication lines, cables, wires, antennas, and any other electrically conductive material found beneath the nuclear detonation in a circular area covering hundreds of thousands of square miles.<span class="gmail_default">..</span></b></i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2024/02/07/the-united-states-has-zero-national-security/" style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2024/02/07/the-united-states-has-zero-national-security/</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div class="gmail_default">A recurring solar micronova sometime before the 2050s would do the same thing and more. This morning's space weather news goes into that again. Micronovas on stars...</div><div class="gmail_default"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcBpfQ2u9PM" style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcBpfQ2u9PM</a><br /></div><div class="gmail_default"><br /></div><div class="gmail_default"> They sent the Farmer's money to Ukraine, but the farmers were already living on the edge.</div><i><b>Facing farm protests, EU eases demands in 2040 climate proposal</b><span class="gmail_default"><b></b> </span></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><b>The EU executive dropped specific references to agriculture emissions cuts as farmers protest across Europe.</b></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-eases-farming-demands-in-2040-climate-proposal/" style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-eases-farming-demands-in-2040-climate-proposal/</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Gilbert Doctorow is not joking as he awaits Tucker Carlson's interview with Vladimir Putin. Censorship is worse everywhere else.</div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>America: Land of the Free, Home of the Brave</b></i><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" /><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="gmail_default"> </span>I say without any hesitation that the United States is the freest country in the Collective West for those who hold nonconformist ideas to express them without fear of persecution and even to assemble vast audiences of followers.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Of course, free speech comes and goes in the United States. The country coined the term McCarthyism during the witch hunts for Communists early in the Cold War. But at present, thanks to the disrupter in chief Donald Trump, anything goes.</i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2024/02/07/america-land-of-the-free-home-of-the-brave/" style="color: #1155cc;">https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2024/02/07/america-land-of-the-free-home-of-the-brave/</a><i><br /></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div class="gmail_default"> Edward Slavsquat on Russian censorship laws. Thanks Oxy-in-Oz: <i><b>Moscow expands war against info-terrorism </b></i></div><div class="gmail_default"><i><b>Spreading fakes is now punishable with fines, prison time & property confiscation </b></i>("Sentenced to 6 months of compulsory medical treatment.")</div></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Russia’s upper house of parliament on Wednesday unanimously approved a law that allows for confiscation of property and deprivation of military ranks and honorary titles for activities directed against the state, as well as for discrediting the country’s armed forces. Since the start of its special military operation in Ukraine in February 2022, <b>the Russian government has granted itself a range of new powers to combat information deemed nonfactual and damaging to national security</b>.</i><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://edwardslavsquat.substack.com/p/moscow-expands-war-against-info-terrorism" style="color: #1155cc;">https://edwardslavsquat.substack.com/p/moscow-expands-war-against-info-terrorism</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> More sideways Slavsquat perspective on Russia and Putin being ordinary and dingy, neither demonic nor angelic. Thanks Oxy.</div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Putin: An alternative perspective<span class="gmail_default"> , </span>A conversation with Iurie Roșca</b></i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span>True patriots and anti-System militants around the world must understand that Russia can and must represent an alternative to the collective West dominated by the Satanists who are imposing a tyrannical regime of dystopian technocracy.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>But <b>today’s rulers of this country are only a simulacrum, an imitation, a Potemkin village, who put on the mask of patriots so that they can continue to plunder Russia’s natural resources</b>.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Meanwhile, Russians are being replaced with Muslims from Central Asia. Few people in the West know that not only the US, Canada and Europe are subject to a premeditated invasion of extra-European and non-Christian populations, but also Russia.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>My criticism is directed against an occupation administration, subordinated to the UN, WHO, WTO, IMF, BIS. The same is true of the administration of my own country, the US, the EU, China and all BRICS members</b>.</i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://edwardslavsquat.substack.com/p/putin-an-alternative-perspective" style="color: #1155cc;">https://edwardslavsquat.substack.com/p/putin-an-alternative-perspective</a><i><br /></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div class="gmail_default"> This honest man, Julian Assange, a servant of truth, has lived in relentless isolated torture for our benefit.</div><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>The United Nations’ special rapporteur on torture has called upon authorities in the UK to block Julian Assange’s possible extradition to the United States</b> to face espionage charges. Britain could be violating human rights laws by turning the WikiLeaks founder over to the US, due to his fragile mental state, UN expert Alice Jill Edwards warned on Tuesday.</i><br /></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://swentr.site/news/592027-uk-assange-extradition-us/" style="color: #1155cc;">https://swentr.site/news/592027-uk-assange-extradition-us/</a><i><br /></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div class="gmail_default"> (Russian propaganda) <i><b>The Western propaganda machine is losing its potency as the United States’ anti-Russian proxy war in Ukraine fails.</b></i></div></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Assange believes the United States seeks to sentence him to life in prison or even submit him to the death penalty.</b><br />Host Wilmer Leon noted that <b>US ally Israel is also deliberately targeting and killing journalists in its assault on Gaza </b>while the<b> United States itself operates a “massive biosurveillance structure” more sophisticated than that run by any secret police in history.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>“The United States government/the West realizes it is losing the narrative, it is losing the public opinion,” </b>said Leon. <b>“When you look at the polls, Americans want us out of Ukraine</b>, Americans don't want their money to go there,<b> Americans are opposed to the genocidal actions of the Zionist government in Israel. </b></i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><b><span class="gmail_default"> </span>They're losing the narrative, they're losing in the court of public opinion.”<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>“And all Tucker Carlson is doing is now adding more information to that information war, and the United States is losing it.”</b></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://sputnikglobe.com/20240208/losing-the-narrative-freakout-over-tucker-carlson-signals-collapse-of-western-war-propaganda-1116657584.html" style="color: #1155cc;">https://sputnikglobe.com/20240208/losing-the-narrative-freakout-over-tucker-carlson-signals-collapse-of-western-war-propaganda-1116657584.html</a></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Laughing Russians note :-) </span></span><i><b>Tucker Carlson Threatened With Death, Sanctions for Putin Interview: Netizens React</b></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>News spread Wednesday that US journalist Tucker Carlson has been added to a Ukrainian “kill list” as the reporter prepares to release an interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin</b> in Moscow.<br />The disturbing development was <b>noted by users on social media, who shared screenshots of the entry for Carlson on the Mirotvorets webpage (actually, the prominent journalist was added to the notorious "kill list" back in 2023)</b>.<span class="gmail_default">..</span></i></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="gmail_default">..</span>More recently, <b>author Gonzalo Lira died in a Ukrainian prison where he was being held after engaging in prominent public criticism of the Kiev regime</b>. The incident garnered <b>minimal comment from the Biden administration, even though Lira was an American citizen</b>.<br />Although the Zelensky regime enjoys American military and financial aid, that doesn't stop Ukraine from listing US citizens on the "kill list".<span class="gmail_default">..</span></i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span class="gmail_default">..</span><b>Former Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt, now a member of the European Parliament, described Carlson as “a mouthpiece” for Putin and former US President Donald Trump.<span class="gmail_default"> </span>“As Putin is a war criminal and the EU sanctions all who assist him in that effort, it seems logical that the External Action Service examine his case as well,” said Verhofstadt.</b></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://sputnikglobe.com/20240208/tucker-carlson-threatened-with-death-sanctions-for-putin-interview-1116656293.html" style="color: #1155cc;">https://sputnikglobe.com/20240208/tucker-carlson-threatened-with-death-sanctions-for-putin-interview-1116656293.html</a><i><br /></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div class="gmail_default">Tucker Carlson , <i><b>We're in Moscow to Interview Vladimir Putin</b></i></div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://tuckercarlson.com/why-were-in-moscow/" style="color: #1155cc;">https://tuckercarlson.com/why-were-in-moscow/</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> From Meryl Nass MD, not a political commercial at all, but the history of biowarfare research and funding in the US. 9:31 minutes well spent.</div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Very important short video of RFK, Jr and Mary Holland discussing the origin of COVID 19 and the US bioweapons establishment that places the last 4 years into context.<span class="gmail_default"> </span> Don't miss this excellent summary</b></i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://merylnass.substack.com/p/very-important-short-video-of-rfk" style="color: #1155cc;">https://merylnass.substack.com/p/very-important-short-video-of-rfk</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div class="gmail_default"></div><div class="gmail_default"> A Midwestern Doctor presents complimentary information about the machine which feeds upon us and slowly kills us.</div><i><b>Why The Bioweapons Research Industry Is A Danger to Society<span class="gmail_default"> , </span>and what the WHO is doing to protect this grift now that the public is wising up to it.</b></i><br /></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>The upper class has gradually shifted to controlling the populace through economic enslavement, the fear of an ecological disaster, and the fear of a disastrous pandemic</b> which must be stopped at any costs.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span>An immensely <b>profitable industry has been built around these fears</b>. Many notorious career scientists (e.g., Fauci and Hotez) depend upon this grift. Worse still, <b>those fears have been used to create the justification we need to perform an endless amount of bioweapons research</b> to “prevent” the next pandemic.<br /><span class="gmail_default"> </span><b>That research is extremely dangerous and regularly leads to disastrous lab leaks</b> which sicken and sometimes kill those exposed to the pathogens.</i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/why-the-bioweapons-research-industry" style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/why-the-bioweapons-research-industry</a><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div class="gmail_default"> (Recovering Russian) Sasha Latypova, <i><b>Audio recording leaked from AstraZeneca: Covid was classified a national security threat by the US Government/DOD on February 4, 2020. </b></i><i><b>Recorded at an internal executive meeting at the end of 2020. This recording has not been published previously anywhere.</b></i></div></div><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="gmail_default"> </span>On Feb 4, 2020 - AstraZeneca and other pharma companies participating in <b>the DOD Pandemic Preparedness consortium received a phone call from the DOD</b> saying that <b>“novel covid virus posed national security threat”</b>. This explains why <b>PREP Act declaration in the US was made retroactive to Feb 4</b>. The <b>US Government organized itself for war, but lied to the public that it was a zoonotic virus</b> and a healthcare event. Anyone who suggested otherwise was heavily censored and surveilled online, including me. They continue to pretend it was/is a natural virus evolution to this day. It appears that the DOD initiated the covid plandemic and did not tell Trump until after.<span class="gmail_default">..</span></i><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><b>..The audio confirms that the DOD pandemic pharma consortium was established in 2017 and the DOD, (not pharmas) was, and remains in charge of it. I knew this based on the covid contracts analysis, but it’s good to have a definitive confirmation. The AZ execs are musing that at the time they thought the DOD’s pandemic preparedness plan - from “discovering” new viruses to making new drugs for them in 60 days - sounded like science fiction...</b><br /></i><div><a href="https://sashalatypova.substack.com/p/audio-leaked-from-astrazeneca-covid" style="color: #1155cc;">https://sashalatypova.substack.com/p/audio-leaked-from-astrazeneca-covid</a><i><br /></i><div><br /></div></div><i><b>THE ATTACK ON FOOD AND HOW TO FIGHT BACK SYMPOSIUM<span class="gmail_default"> , March 4, 2023 </span></b></i>(last year)<span class="gmail_default"> My presentation is "Preparing Your Kitchen Garden", is found in section 3.</span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">https://dev.doortofreedom.org/the-attack-on-food-and-how-to-fight-back-symposium/<br /><div><br /></div><div><div class="gmail_default"><b>Part 1: Deciding Where to Grow Vegetables</b></div><div class="gmail_default"><a href="https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/deciding-where-to-grow-vegetables" style="color: #1155cc;">https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/deciding-where-to-grow-vegetables</a><br /></div><div class="gmail_default"><br /></div><div class="gmail_default"><b>Part 2: Preparing Your Kitchen Garden</b></div><div class="gmail_default"><a href="https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/preparing-your-kitchen-garden" style="color: #1155cc;">https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/preparing-your-kitchen-garden</a><br /></div><div class="gmail_default"><br /></div><div class="gmail_default"><b>Part 3: Growing Food</b></div><div class="gmail_default"><a href="https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/growing-food" style="color: #1155cc;">https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/growing-food</a><br /></div><div class="gmail_default"><br /></div><div class="gmail_default">Green Prepper (pictured not with vegetables but with more of my old homemade toys)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgL50MTZp9DpXznPS5anuR5NeLxoF1TTz2n2qZhG6S12jSOFbHyk-LWhO6ucC5e3cO-GJcjpW5ElHLUt3A3XsW5fKvOv817SgInyNYEYHWlIJz_nAct3FLLOw2dihhXJMn8AmBPbG-Y0d-_X8wqkJs2fIQygQH00iTTzEb5agYMIJDhOIddj5GEIKjCtvIH/s4032/PXL_20240204_002713534.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2268" data-original-width="4032" height="344" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgL50MTZp9DpXznPS5anuR5NeLxoF1TTz2n2qZhG6S12jSOFbHyk-LWhO6ucC5e3cO-GJcjpW5ElHLUt3A3XsW5fKvOv817SgInyNYEYHWlIJz_nAct3FLLOw2dihhXJMn8AmBPbG-Y0d-_X8wqkJs2fIQygQH00iTTzEb5agYMIJDhOIddj5GEIKjCtvIH/w612-h344/PXL_20240204_002713534.jpg" width="612" /></a></div><br /><div class="gmail_default"><br /></div></div></div>John Dayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12123174297818737132noreply@blogger.com0