Wednesday, April 3, 2024

Healthy Paradigm Shift

 Healthy Humans,


  We humans are a social species, motivated by social relationships as well as our basic needs as individuals and families. How are we motivated as individuals, families and social groups? We are certainly motivated to meet and secure our needs for water, food, fuel, shelter, clothing and necessary tools, but some inflection takes place after those basic needs are secured for our intimate group.
  It has been established that humans get happier with more wealth until their basic needs are secured, after which further increases in prosperity provide little more happiness, and at some point there even seems to be a reversal, with further wealth correlating with dissatisfaction.
  After basic needs are secured, we social humans seem to invest more in social status, social capital within our perceived community. This may be a real community. The former sugar cane plantation workers I came to know in North Kohala, Hawaii had a deep and pervasive sense of community, though the plantation had ceased to exist. I venture to speculate that most of us have never known what it is to exist within such a real and functional human community.
  We do understand the context of status, and how to present our social status in our smaller circles, as well as the broader world. I suspect that the nature of our further investments, after we have secured our basic needs, reflects upon our happiness and satisfaction in life. I'll postulate that if we invest in social status of the abstract and materialistic sort, that we become frustrated and dissatisfied. How many billions does it take to be #1 this month?
  Thorstein Veblen wrote his "The Theory of the Leisure Class"  in 1899, near the end of the "Gilded Age" of Rockefellers and robber-barons with mansions and railroads.
I had to pick from a list of books for a college class, chose that one for the catchy title, and was astounded at how well the insights applied to my world in 1980.   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Theory_of_the_Leisure_Class#:~:text=The%20Theory%20of%20the%20Leisure%20Class%20established%20that%20the%20political,of%20individual%20men%20and%20women.
  In the book Veblen looks at our human drives, and rejects their objective rationality beyond the point of meeting needs, examining the many aspects of social class from the hunter-gatherer and feudal eras into the modern era, making the case that they did not so much change, but shifted their manifestations. The "lower" class performed useful work, such as growing food, storing it, making tools, clothing, and houses, etc. The upper classes displayed their class status by performing activities that were not inherently productive, such as warfare, hunting and acquisition of special knowledge, and by commanding the labor of the lower class. Priests, politicians, academics, doctors, lawyers and warriors were members of this broad class, but did not all enjoy the same social standing. In Feudal Europe these classes were well defined and slow to change, but they did shift in the Industrial Revolution, with Industrial Capitalists taking a lead in the rapid innovation of the social order and the political economy. Marx looked at everything from the basis of rational valuation, as if the rational drives of meeting basic needs were the only drives among economic participants. Veblen, who grew up fairly poor, but educated, in a Norwegian-American family, was a keen observer of the American version of display of status in the Gilded Age Chicago area. We can see that the building of palaces and empires, while barely allowing the workers to eat and have families, reached some kind of apogee then and there. John D. Rockefeller was famously unhappy and stingy...
  The older, "retired" plantation workers, on the other hand, were some of the most satisfied and friendly people I have ever come to know. they mostly inherited their modest plantation houses and vegetable gardens when the plantation closed down. They stayed in place, shared avocados, mangos and whatever other excess they had, and went fishing sometimes. When somebody killed a wild pig, they had a party. Their investments did not appear to be monetary, but almost completely in social engagements and networking. 
  I think I learned something better in North Kohala, though I grew up in the egalitarian 1960s and 1970s, on egalitarian US Marine Corps and Navy bases. We all wore jeans, sneakers and t-shirts. We all had a bike. We all lived in base housing. Our dads all got orders, and we all moved when they got orders. We fought a lot. It wasn't as nice.

  As well as class-consciousness and social climbing vs. egalitarian identification, there is another aspect of human groups, which is harder to talk about, which is the "Wisdom of Crowds" and the "Madness of Crowds". Large groups of people do get feelings-about-things, which may lead to societies inherently trending to good choices much of the time, or to economic trends like the "tulip mania" investment bubble, or to genocidal drives, as the German people were driven to after the exhaustion of WW-1 and the impoverishments forced upon them by the Versailles Treaty. There is something about doing-what-everybody-is-doing which is almost completely validating for about 2/3 of people. This seems to be a set point that lets human societies function. Some smaller groups are torn between personal analysis and group assumptions to varying degrees, and a small group is relatively unconcerned with group beliefs, relying upon personal analysis and intuition as the driver of personal decisions. Somehow or another I have naturally fallen into that small group. It was not so difficult so long as we were always moving and meeting new people. Anything that did not fit could be adjusted, or adjusted at the next move, without truly having to completely conform. Basic conformism was inherent in military families, but true conformism was never actually possible wherever we moved...

  Charles Hugh Smith looks at current societal premonitions of inflation, and YOLO, "you only live once", driving people everywhere to spend on things while they can, because of the feeling that it just won't be possible soon. I have felt it for a fairly long time, but something snapped during COVID lockdowns. "This is it!" About a year and a half before COVID lockdowns, we had bought a modest house on less than an acre in the rural Texas town of Yoakum, settled by Germans and Bohemians (Czech) in the 1840s and 1850s, fleeing European wars for the fertile black soil of the coastal plains. We just drove to Yoakum and worked on the homestead for the pandemic, while I treated patients during the week and never got sick doing it. People snapped and started spending after the lockdowns were over. I am inclined to think that there is an underlying premonition of the end of an era, but that people have varying interpretations of how to best manage that premonition I am a green-prepper...
  Charles Hugh Smith, YOLO Spending, Inflation and the Wisdom/Madness of Crowds
The harder authorities and pundits push the "inflation is under control" narrative, the faster they erode public trust and confidence in the future value of labor and "money."
  The possibility that the human herd senses trend changes before statistics and the economic punditry comes under the capacious category of the wisdom of crowds: in this line of thinking, YOLO spending may be a reflection not just of a pandemic-instigated change of priorities, but of a growing sense that inflation is now embedded, and so it's better to spend earnings now before they lose value.
  This is the core behavioral response to embedded inflation: borrow and spend now, as savings will only lose purchasing power as time goes on. In hyper-inflationary economies, this leads to wage earners finding something to buy the day they're paid, as their wages will lose value literally overnight.
  Put another way, embedded inflation is systemic financial insecurity: the future value of labor and savings is unknown and unknowable, and could be much lower than we expect. To trust that labor and "money" will retain their current purchasing power is a fool's game, as the crowd intuitively grasps the runaway-feedback nature of inflation: once it gets going, every increase in inflation fuels further increases...
..The human herd also intuits that prices never fall back to pre-inflationary-spiral levels. If inflation moderates after a 20% spike, costs across the entire spectrum don't drop 20%; they simply rise at a slower pace...
..To the authorities and pundits tasked with gaslighting inflation to limit inflationary expectations, the wisdom of crowds looks like the madness of crowds: with trust and confidence in the future value of labor and "money" both declining, the sense of insecurity increases, generating demands for higher wages and prices now rather than later. This feedback loop generates its own inflationary pressure, which then feeds back into itself as everyone grasps the potential for an inflationary spiral that gets out of control. To the authorities and pundits tasked with reassuring us that inflation is receding, this mob-generated expansion of inflationary feedback is madness. If only everyone believed us that inflation was near-zero, inflation would be near-zero... 
..The problem with this idea is all the efforts to control the narrative generate their own feedback: a loss of trust and confidence in the system and its statistics. The harder the authorities and pundits push the "inflation is under control" narrative, the faster they erode public trust and confidence in the future value of labor and "money," because claiming inflation is 3% and heading down after inflation has burned off 20% of our purchasing power in three years is, well, not credible.

  A Midwestern Doctor has potentially the best analysis I have come across, of the mystery of Robert Kennedy Jr's choice of 39 year old tech attorney Nicole Shanahan as his vice presidential running mate. This is somehow the actual point to which Thorstein Veblen and Charles Hugh Smith's insights are leading. I have just not been able to "get" why Bobby Jr. would choose a political novice, the 39 year old Irish/Chinese mother of an autistic daughter with a Google-founder billionaire, who grew up poor, troubled by dad's bipolar disorder and alcoholism, and mom's fleeing Mao's China, as his VP running mate. This is incoherent within the political framework I have always known. Yes, she may draw away AOC/Clinton voters from the Democratic party, but where is the political power a VP is expected to bring to the table? 
  If this is a rational choice, and I believe Kennedy to be rational, and she has no established political capital, then Nicole Shanahan has to have some secret super-power, or Kennedy may rationally expect her to manifest some political super power in the near future.  https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/what-is-the-source-of-the-modern
I watched the video clips of her VP running-mate speech presented in this AMD analysis of her candidacy. I read her Wikipedia page:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicole_Shanahan#:~:text=Shanahan%20described%20her%20father%2C%20an,Guangzhou%20City%20in%20the%201980s.

  Kennedy may be running on a Paradigm Shift Platform, just as his father did in 1968, running against LBJ's Vietnam War. For this to be rational, the paradigm shift must be away from industrial capitalism at the expense of human health, towards human-health as the basis for societal cooperation and coordination. Proceed with that thought.
  Shanahan declared:
Conditions like autism used to be 1 in 10,000.
  Now here in the state of California, it is 1 in 22. One in twenty two children affected. Allergies, obesity, anxiety, depression, our children are not well. Our people are not well. And our country will not be well for very much longer if we don't heed this desperate call for attention.
  We are facing a crisis in reproductive health that is embedded in the larger epidemic of chronic disease.
Because it has been so personal for me and my daughter, I got deep into the research and consulted some of the best scientists and doctors. Let me tell you what I found. There are three main causes.
  One is the toxic substances in our environment, like endocrine disrupting chemicals in our food, water and soil. Like the pesticide residues, the industrial pollutants, the microplastics, the PFAs, the food additives and the forever chemicals that contaminated nearly every human cell.
  Second is electromagnetic pollution.
  Third, I'm sorry to say, is our medications. Pharmaceutical medicine has its place but no single safety study can assess the cumulative impact of one prescription on top of another prescription and one shot on top of another shot throughout the course of childhood. We just don’t do that study right now and we ought to. We can, and we will.
  Please see Shanahan's 4 minute video clip discussing chronic disease, the second video clip, to get a feel for this. (Momma bear shows her teeth, for her injured daughter.)
..She later discussed the immense problems we face from our poor soil and highlights that most of them would be solved through regenerative agriculture if we stopped financially incentivizing bad practices with the existing farming subsidies and regulations: [See third video clip]  Note: I believe our current dysfunctional farming paradigm stems from policies put in place by Nixon’s Secretary of Agriculture to lower food prices, which forced independent farmers to leave the business and shifted America to mass-monocultures of cash crops like corn wheat and soy...
  [AMD goes on to discuss causes of chronic disease at length. Worth a close read.]
..Shanahan's proposed solution to this was relatively straightforward:
  It is not about a new pill or, “finding the cure.” We know the cure is cleaning up our environment and providing the basic public goods that are the foundational conditions for health and healing. It is about a shift in our priorities. It is about compassion. Chronic disease, addiction, poverty, depression, this is where Americans are hurting the most.
  Note: I felt this point was important to emphasize because it the exact opposite of what our profit medical system has morphed into—selling as many profitable “treatments” as possible that can never actually lead to health. This may also explain why every politician besides RFK Jr. she met with refused to seriously looking into what is making America sick.   
[AMD presents extensive and insightful political analysis throughout this article. He supports Kennedy. Nobody who fails to support Palestinians gets my support.]

  Here is a short post of mine from April 2016, Gardening For Peace:  https://www.johndayblog.com/2016/04/gardening-for-peace.html
The Biology of Altruism. 
  Yes, the human brain has an app. for that, or many human brains do. Some don't. What does the difference look like, now that we can look at things like the differences in brain function between cold-blooded murderers without remorse, and people who donate a kidney to an unknown person, because they can. (Which kind of person would do better in American politics?)
http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2014/09/22/349639464/the-biology-of-altruism-good-deeds-may-be-rooted-in-the-brain
  I'm going to take that as a jumping off point for speculation about our human future, about our prospects in the realm of social ecology, a term coined by Murray Bookchin.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_ecology
  Over the past 10,000 years or so, we have embedded dominance of each other into our societies. It is ubiquitous, and it is the philosophical basis for "dominion over nature", supposedly "granted by God".
  It is pretty clear that we need to have a paradigm shift and become truly human, truly awakened to our greatest potential, the potential to be really good stewards of natural systems, rather than bands of rapists and looters, our current paradigm. (I don't mean to be harsh, but we could all be on the way out and wishing it would come sooner, in 20 years.) 
  We can nurture and cultivate a food-producing ecosystem It's actually an innate talent we have. It takes some learning. It feels pretty satisfying, natural, healthy.
Each of us can find ways to do this.
  I'm working on finding ways to help open this door of perception for people I work with by food-gardening in the break patio at the new clinic.
If we are all going down this time, I'd rather go down growing green beans than shooting people.

  Steve Kirsch,  New survey confirms that vaccines are, by far, the #1 cause of chronic disease in America
Nobody should be vaccinated. Ever. Especially not during pregnancy. And vaccines are also the #1 cause of sexual orientation issues. The numbers are consistent with other published studies.   https://kirschsubstack.com/p/new-survey-confirms-that-vaccines

  Israel destroyed al-Shifa Hospital to accelerate social collapse in Gaza
Israel wants to cause a breakdown in social order in Gaza, and it can’t achieve that without erasing its hospitals.
  The fall of al-Shifa Hospital will be remembered as one of the most pivotal moments in Israel’s genocidal campaign in Gaza — not for the unbridled annihilationism it displayed, but because it offered a unique window into the real reason Israel decided to systematically dismantle Gaza’s hospitals.
  Hospitals in Gaza during times of war have not only served as places for the treatment of the wounded and the sick but have become pivotal social institutions, housing a microcosm of Gaza’s entire civic order. They became hubs for journalists and human rights defenders, offered space for Gaza’s Civil Defense teams to organize and coordinate rescue efforts, became a base of operations for Gaza’s police force, and hosted tens of thousands of displaced refugees seeking shelter from the bombardment. Hospitals became all those things because they were the last remaining civilian institutions that were supposed to enjoy a modicum of protection from the war.

(CIA mouthpiece, The Washington Post. Signal of policy change?)  How Israeli strikes on a World Central Kitchen convoy in Gaza unfolded
  SUVs and trucks bearing the distinctive logo of World Central Kitchen had become increasingly common in the Gaza Strip by late Monday, when three of WCK’s vehicles were traveling along on the coastal road used as a humanitarian corridor.
  The dynamic international food aid group has been one of the few organizations able to get supplies into the embattled enclave and distributed to hungry civilians from north to south. Two of the SUVs traveling Monday were armored and bore the frying pan logo on the roof, the group said. A third was an unmodified “soft-skin” vehicle.
  None of them would return to base.
  Inside the vehicles were seven of the group’s employees and volunteers, including a Palestinian as well as aid workers from the United States, Britain, Poland, Australia and other countries drawn to the globe’s worst humanitarian crisis. They were one of the teams forming part of the pop-up maritime supply chain WCK had constructed, using barges, temporary piers and convoys to get food from Europe to aid points around Gaza. The group had just been part of a convoy that unloaded more than 100 tons of aid at a warehouse at Deir al-Balah, according to a WCK statement. Three cars were making a return trip to staging areas near the Egyptian border, heading along Al-Rasheed Road.
  The team had coordinated with Israeli military officials and had clearance to drive the route, WCK said. Israel Defense Forces officials said they have been working closely with WCK for months in its Gaza operations...
..Imagery of the aftermath reviewed and geolocated by The Post shows that all of the vehicles were destroyed within a mile and a half of each other, suggesting that some had a chance to keep driving after the attack began.
  One vehicle was off to the side of the road, facing north. The hood of the vehicle was largely disintegrated, the windows blown out and the doors blackened.
  A second vehicle, the Toyota, was in the middle of the road a half-mile to the south, the hole punched through its roof next to the WCK logo spanning nearly half of its width.
  A third vehicle was found a mile farther along. It was sideways along the road, much of the metal of the vehicle’s body frayed.
  Videos showed some bodies that were damaged beyond recognition. Others were clearly identified by the passport photos open on their vests. Palestinian driver Seif Issam Abu Taha was still in his WCK T-shirt.

WHO: Zionist enemy forces may not use hospitals as battlefield in Gaza

  Atrocity propaganda vs. the testimony of atrocity
Since October 7, Zionists have wielded atrocity propaganda to justify genocide, while Palestinians have shared testimony of the atrocities they have witnessed. The difference is not just in the truth of these stories, but also their function.
  Among the differences between atrocity propaganda and testimonies of atrocity is that the former seeks to preemptively justify the unjustifiable, while the latter starts and stops with the event. Testimony doesn’t seek to justify anything. Of course it fits into a larger narrative, a context, but it does not seek to be totalizing, to occlude time and space before and after, the way atrocity propaganda does.
  Another difference between the two is how the listener is meant to receive the story. Atrocity propaganda prioritizes gruesome details to the extent that the victim is reduced to an object, a mirror for the perpetrator’s cruelty. The narrative trick is to make the listener blame the perpetrator for the erasure of the victim’s humanity, too.

  Ecocide a ‘Critical Dimension of Israel’s Genocidal Campaign’ in Gaza: Probe
Analysis by a research group found that roughly 40% of Gaza land that was previously used for food production has been destroyed by Israeli forces.

  New UN report outlines the ‘Anatomy of a Genocide’ in Gaza
Last week, the UN Special Rapporteur on Occupied Palestinian Territories Francesca Albanese issued a report titled “Anatomy of a Genocide,” concluding that there are “reasonable grounds to believe” that the threshold indicating the commission of the crime of genocide has been met.
  Such reports are not usually titled, but the title itself depicts the nature of what Albanese describes in her immaculate 25-page report. It not only outlines a textbook case of genocide, with clearly and widely expressed intent by leaders backed up by clear genocidal actions — it also describes how Israel has used the language and principles of International Humanitarian Law (IHL, the laws governing warfare) to conceal the act.
  Albanese begins with the historical context of the genocide, even rooted in Israeli pre-state colonialist intents, and then charts out how Israel has committed three central facets under the crime of genocide — the killing of members of a particular group of people, causing bodily or mental harm, and creating destructive conditions of life.

  Moscow condemns assassination of Iranian generals
Diplomatic missions cannot be targeted, Russia said after an Israeli strike on Tehran’s consulate in Damascus  
  A national security spokesperson quoted by Axios said the US “had no involvement in the strike and we did not know about it ahead of time.” A senior US official told the news outlet that Washington “has communicated this directly to Iran”.
  Israel notified its key ally minutes before the strike took place, when its fighter jets were already in the air, the Axios article said. The Israelis allegedly said they were going to kill General Zahedi, but did not offer details of their operation, such as his location at the Iranian consulate.

  Israel's Attack on Iranian Consulate Highlights Netanyahu's Pending Defeat in Gaza
  Israel’s attack on the Iranian consulate in Syria suggests that it is trying to “widen” the ongoing conflict in the Gaza Strip by drawing Iran into it, said Foad Izadi, an associate professor at the University of Tehran’s Department of American Studies.
“They have been trying to start a military confrontation between the United States and Iran for many years. And they think that they have an opportunity to have this done fighting Iran using American soldiers,” he told Sputnik, apparently suggesting that the US would be quick to leap to Israel’s defense if the latter were threatened by Tehran...
..“That is what Israelis are trying to do. Netanyahu realizes that he has lost the war in Gaza. He has managed to kill more than 30,000, mostly women and children, without achieving any goals except killing these people and ruining their homes,” Izadi said.
  “They say that they want to destroy Hamas, but that's not a goal they can achieve. Obviously, they would have done that if they could. That's why criminal acts and genocide in Gaza continue. And Netanyahu realizes that sooner or later this war needs to end. And that would be the end of his prime ministership. And so he's trying to prolong the war, he's trying to widen the war,” Izadi added.
https://sputnikglobe.com/20240402/israels-attack-on-iranian-consulate-highlights-netanyahus-pending-defeat-in-gaza-1117699434.html

  West to Use Hypothetical Russia-Ukraine Talks to Supply Arms to Zelensky - Diplomat
  “Even if we imagine the hypothetical possibility of resuming negotiations, it is clear that the [Kiev] regime’s curators will use them to give the Ukrainian armed forces time to rest, pump them up with weapons, and complete a regrouping of troops,” Gavrilov said in an interview dedicated to the 75th anniversary of NATO marked on April 4.
A repeat of a scenario that emerged after the March 2022 talks in Istanbul when the Ukrainian armed forces received time to rest is unacceptable for Russia, Gavrilov added...
.."We have been through this before after the Istanbul talks in the spring of 2022, and the repetition of such a scenario is unacceptable to us. Therefore, at the moment, the future of the Ukrainian conflict is being decided on the battlefield, where our troops hold the initiative along the entire front line,” he noted.

  John Helmer presents the analysis that Russian de-electrification of Ukrainian cities, a selective process, effectively drives civilians out of those cities into western Ukraine, Galicia, which stresses Galicia and it's brand of fascist nationalism. The exception is that men who need to avoid military conscription may be safer lying low in dark cities.
  ELECTRIC WAR GOES WEST – DEPOPULATION TURNS INTO DISPLACEMENT TURNS INTO CIVIL WAR IN GALICIA
  Go West, young man – that American slogan of the mid-19th century  is not an idea the Ukrainian men of Odessa,  Kharkov, Dniepropetrovsk, Poltava and Sumy can contemplate today as long as the danger of press ganging into the army in Kiev and Lvov is a higher risk to their lives than staying put in the eastern cities as they collapse.
  They must calculate that they are better off trying to do without electricity in the east, and wait for the Kremlin to suspend the campaign – as it did during 2023 – or for the Russian General Staff to pressure the Novorussian cities to surrender to Russian control, when the Ukrainian men will be filtered but keep their lives.
  The women and children, however, are evacuating from Sumy and Kharkov.*   The displacement of these easterners to the west, from Kiev to Lvov, is not yet being reported by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) which publishes its Ukrainian population movement data in the third week of each month...
..An unofficial Moscow source comments: “For the time being, the campaign is likely to leave enough lights on in Lvov to lure the displaced easterners there, and generate all sorts of communal friction. The westward process will repeat itself until Lvov and other border areas are huge refugee camps facing a bunch of nervous Poles, Romanians, Moldovans, etc. We’ll see what happens to Euro solidarity then.”

  Military Summary has more about NATO-Ukrainian intentions to destroy the Crimean bridge, which is not a military objective, since there is already a railroad through the Crimean Peninsula, and also that NATO is moving troops into Romania to potentially try to take Odessa before Russia can.
Crimean Bridge - Goal No. 1 | Romania Is Going To Send Troops To Ukraine. Military Summary 2024.04.3

(9 minutes of brevity and clarity)  Peter Mccullough And Meryl Nass Discuss WHO Pandemic Treaty

Meryl Nass MD is interviewed about WHO Treaties by Dr. Drew here, starting at 1:02 time mark and going for 20 minutes with prepared graphs and visual aids:
https://drdrew.com/2024/xi-van-fleet-survivor-of-chinese-revolution-warns-usa-is-following-same-path-to-marxism-ask-dr-drew/

USA has recorded over 1 Million Excess Deaths among the over 65’s since the FDA “approved” the COVID-19 Vaccine

  EPA Allows Highly Toxic Weedkiller on Food Crops — But Not Golf Courses
  Concerns about the safety of paraquat, a highly toxic herbicide, pushed the EPA in 2021 to ban its use on golf courses — but the EPA still allows the weedkiller to be sprayed on almonds, walnuts, alfalfa and other crops.
  The Environmental Working Group (EWG) found in the study released on March 27 that 5.3 million pounds of paraquat were sprayed over a five-year period in California, the only state with readily available figures on the herbicide.
  Most of the weedkiller’s use was concentrated in central counties where farms produce almonds, walnuts, alfalfa and other crops — and where Latino people make up about 75% of the population and nearly the entire farm labor force.
  Ninety-six percent of farmworkers in the state are Latino, and 90% of people in the agricultural workforce were born outside of the U.S., making immigrants who often work for low wages among the people who are most affected by continued use of paraquat on farms.

Short video on 12 food crops to grow. You might have others, too, like black-eyed peas. Top Survival Crops
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1BG0g6sfEc

  This seems wigged-out, but these guys are very practical and get "advice" from the Military Industrial Complex.
Permian Oil Producers Eye Next-Gen Nuclear to Cleaner Drilling
​  American shale companies are eyeing the benefits of small nuclear reactors to power their Permian Basin drilling campaigns in order to reduce carbon emissions in a reliable and sustainable manner, Bloomberg reported on Monday.
​  Among those eyeing small nuclear reactors is the largest independent producer in the region, Diamondback Energy Inc, which Bloomberg reports has already signed a letter of intent for a supply of next-generation nuclear reactors.
​  The letter of intent was with Oklo Inc, whose CEO, Jacob Dewitte, reportedly told Bloomberg that the company was holding discussions with other oil producers, as well. In recent times, American shale producers in the Permian Basin have been retiring their diesel generators and shifting to power from the local grid, which is unreliable at times.​  https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Permian-Oil-Producers-Eye-Next-Gen-Nuclear-to-Cleaner-Drilling.html

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Tuesday, April 2, 2024

Openly Withdraw Your Consent

 Famously Noncompliant,


  Every effort is being made to dishonestly maintain our consent, the consent of the governed, at lower cost, less and less "carrot", and more pervasive fear of the "stick".

  The elusive pursuit of trust [through lying], GOVERNMENT AND ECONOMIC INFLEXION , Surplus Energy Economics
  This undermining of faith in the integrity of government has been happening at the worst possible time, with the economy inflecting from growth into contraction, a ‘GFC II’ financial crisis looming, and a very real environmental and ecological crisis unfolding.
  Ideally, governments would be addressing these issues in search of constructive responses centred on the good of the public as a whole, and the governed would be placing trust in the honesty and intentions of the governing.
  In fact, the very opposite has happened, and we need to try to work out why...
..Economics aren’t everything in government, but aren’t very far off. People enjoying prosperous lives, in a society whose fairness they trust, are very unlikely revolutionaries. Hardship, and perceptions of unfairness and dishonesty, are the stuff of which political instability is made.
  From this perspective, the ‘establishment’ – or whatever term we choose to apply – has two very big problems. First, their routine assurances that economies are continuing to grow are being falsified by events. Second, their behaviour during and after the 2008-09 global financial crisis was inexcusable...
..By the second half of the 1990s, in a process known at the time as “secular stagnation”, economic growth was decelerating very markedly. The proposed ‘fix’ was credit expansion, which didn’t re-energise the economy (because it couldn’t), but did lead straight to a very serious financial crisis...
..The adoption of credit adventurism was ‘the break-in’ in this economic version of Watergate, and the response to the GFC was ‘the cover-up’, and the latter did a lot more damage than the former...
..We need to be in no doubt at all about what these policies did. First, they were a gigantic exercise in moral hazard. Second, they handed enormous gains to some at the expense of others. Third, they abrogated the principles of market capitalism.
  By moral hazard is meant the sending of dangerous signals. What should have happened during the GFC was what had happened in previous financial crises – those who had been reckless, or were simply unlucky, would be wiped out, the system would dust itself off, and normality would return.
  But rescuing dangerously overindebted businesses and individuals sent the message that, should similar conditions recur, they could expect to be rescued again. This took off the brakes on all kinds of excess risk.
  Worse still, the extreme tools used to rescue the reckless at the expense of the prudent handed enormous unearned gains to (generally older) people who already owned assets, at the expense of (generally younger) people who aspired to find rewarding careers and start to accumulate capital.
  Third, these enormous interventions destroyed the essential principles of market capitalism. In a market system, the possibility of taking big losses is a necessary corrective to the pursuit of profit. If rescuing the reckless wasn’t bad enough in itself, ultra-low rate policies made it impossible for investors to earn positive real (above inflation) returns on their capital. The markets were prevented from carrying out their essential functions, which are price discovery and the pricing of risk...
..I can’t recall being given an opportunity to vote on a programme of rescuing the reckless, handing enormous unearned capital gains to a favoured few, or scrapping the basic precepts of market capitalism...
..Instead of conveying an impression of competence in an emergency, the handling of the GFC sent the message that, when a crisis arises, the instinctive response of the authorities is to take care of the wealthy and the well-connected, and leave everyone else to take their chances.
  Having blown this enormous hole in their credibility, the authorities are reduced to giving assurances that cannot be believed. They insist that “growth” is continuing, a claim which is put in context in the following charts. A 2% rise in real GDP isn’t “growth” if the government has to borrow 8% of GDP to make it happen. There’s no point in rival politicians promising “growth” in a country whose prosperity hasn’t grown in fifteen years, and whose social infrastructure is falling to bits...
..The only thing that’s really growing now is the World’s gigantic burden of debt and quasi-debt.

  The great hope now is, supposedly, technology, which has become the secular faith of the modern age... Ultimately, technology is a vast exercise in collective hubris, a statement that human ingenuity can rule the universe. The reality, of course, is that our powers are much more circumscribed.
  No amount of ingenuity can deliver material resources that don’t exist, or repeal the laws of physics to deliver infinite economic growth on a finite planet...
..In an ideal world, the powers that be would admit that economic growth has gone into reverse, and apologise for the monetary gimmickry maintained for more than a decade after the GFC.
  This won’t happen, of course. The authorities may not know about the inflexion from growth into contraction, though this is hard to believe. They may have slipped into the trap of – as one senior politician said of another – “believing your own press releases”. They may be following the old adage of ‘don’t announce a problem until you can announce a solution’.
  In the absence of constructive policies for managing economic contraction, we’re in for a set of one-at-a-time discoveries. These are going to include discretionary contraction, a financial crisis bigger than that of 2008-09, and the realisation that technology, far from putting us in control of the universe, can’t even carry on making big money.

  Battling the Bio-Pharmaceutical Complex , The 2020 apotheosis of President Eisenhower's warning in 1959 , John Leake
  An Austrian journalist friend covered the aftermath of the ISIS occupation. The scenes he described to me were so indescribably shocking that I wouldn’t have believed them had I not known him to be an honest reporter. Most of the photographs he took could not be published because they were simply too horrifying.
  Around the same time, a Sheriff’s Deputy in North Carolina told me about the contents of DVDs she had seized from the vehicle of a U.S. Marine who murdered his wife and children shortly after he returned from duty in Afghanistan. The DVDs contained video recordings of scenes so horrifying that the county sheriff decided to destroy them. He reasoned that if the videos were ever leaked to the press, the ensuing scandal would be the end of the U.S. Marine Corps.
  The Iraq War was, for me, a profoundly dispiriting and disillusioning event. Never again would I trust the United States government to tell the truth about any serious matter.
  The Iraq War prompted me to study what exactly President Eisenhower meant when he warned the American people about “the undue influence of the Military-Industrial Complex.”
  Four years ago, in 2020, this “undue influence” reached its apotheosis when the Bio-Pharmaceutical Complex—an offshoot of the Military-Industrial Complex—assumed control of the COVID-19 pandemic response.

  Iurie Rosca,  Less Than Two Months to Stop WHO Tyranny | Interview with James Roguski
..It helps to understand first what the international health regulations are really all about. In 2005, what they were trying to do was encourage nations to be comfortable, to be transparent, and not hide problems. If there was an outbreak, if there was some strange disease, if there was an increase in disease rates or death, they didn't want nations to keep that a secret because if it got out of control and then it was a problem, the purpose was to encourage all nations to be very transparent. As soon as something was going on, they're supposed to tell the WHO...
..What the current batch of amendments are talking about, all the way back to 2007, the director general, pretty much just because he wants to, can declare a public health emergency of international concern, P-H-E-I-C...
..I uncovered the latest available version of the amendments from February 9th. They had been kept secret since September of 2022. They revealed them in December, but the negotiations for more than a year were kept completely secret. And so I'm going to go through this very quickly. In November of 2022, the Indonesian health minister said that they wanted to institute a global health certificate. And if you were tested or vaccinated, then they would let you travel...
..If you're traveling, they want to be able to make you take a test or prove that you're vaccinated. And if you want to disembark, you know, get off the plane or get off the cruise boat, you might find yourself in quarantine. And one more article that they're changing, or I should say they're not changing. Most people are completely unaware that this is the existing international health regulations. It's double talk. It says invasive medical examination, vaccination, or other prophylaxis shall not be required as a condition of entry of any traveler to the territory of the country, except if they want to. I mean, the doublespeak is ridiculous... It essentially says that they can, I can find the word here, compel the traveler, compel the traveler to undergo vaccination or other prophylaxis...
..The working group for the international health regulation amendments has been trying very hard to keep what they're doing secret...
..I found that one of the relevant stakeholders had published a negotiating text, working document on their website...
..I'm trying to get people to pay attention that they have another set of meetings, April 22nd to the 26th, to negotiate these very secret amendments to the regulations. And as far as I'm concerned, adding more authority to nations, to quarantine travelers is absolutely unacceptable, especially with vaccines that don't work and tests that are fraudulent...
..They don't report on the things that they don't want you to pay attention to. So, it's up to citizen journalists to report on the information that the mainstream media will not share with you. So, what I'm an advocate of is that regular people, we have the power to take a camera or a phone and express our opinion and share it with other people that we know. Now, social media is doing a very good job of trying to censor people, but if you're watching this video right now, you can take this video and you can share it with someone that you know and they can share it and they can share it and they can share it...  What I've been doing for two years is showing people their, meaning the WHO's, information and just saying, were you aware of this? ... The amendments that they are pushing for would, amongst many, many, many other things, put into international law the ability to quarantine people if they don't have a vaccine or they don't pass a test...
..At this point, the vast majority of people are unaware, and so if you're unaware, you're not going to say anything, and the way they operate, silence is viewed as consent. So if you're aware of this and you say nothing, then you're forfeiting your rights.

  Caitlin Johnstone,  Israel Keeps Getting More Murderous
  In the span of just a few hours we learned that Israel committed a horrific massacre at al-Shifa hospital, struck an Iranian consulate in Syria killing multiple Iranian military officers, and killed a vehicle full of international aid workers in an airstrike...
..Israel is so dedicated to protecting civilian life that it’s deliberately gunning down unarmed Palestinians whenever they walk within firing range and then adding them to its “Hamas terrorists killed” tally. Haaretz reports that the IDF has set up “kill zones” in Gaza where they just shoot anything that moves, with an IDF reserve officer saying the number of Hamas members Israel claims to have killed is massively inflated because “In practice, a terrorist is anyone the IDF has killed in the areas in which its forces operate.” Haaretz notes that the three escaped Israeli hostages the IDF gunned down in December had wandered into one of these kill zones.
  A Doctors Without Borders physician went on Sky News to talk about Israel’s deliberate destruction of Gaza’s healthcare system, and the Murdoch shill anchor who was interviewing her asked her if Hamas was active in al-Shifa hospital fighting Israelis. The doctor, Tanya Haj-Hassan, told him “I am just shocked that we’re still having this conversation” and went on to describe how Israel’s assault on Gazan healthcare workers is so methodical that Gazan hospital staff have been changing out of their scrubs before leaving work because Israeli troops are picking off anyone in scrubs.

  Group Of Foreign Aid Workers Killed By Israeli Strike On Convoy, Netanyahu Expresses Regret
  A Monday an Israeli airstrike on the central Gaza town of of Deir al-Balah killed seven international aid workers with World Central Kitchen, resulting in the well-known charity announcing Tuesday that it must suspend operations to deliver food aid to Gaza.
  Footage confirming their deaths is driving international outrage and again ramping up the pressure on Israel. The Associated Press writes Tuesday, "Footage showed the bodies, several wearing protective gear with the charity’s logo, at a hospital in the central Gaza town of Deir al-Balah." The report details, "Those killed include three British nationals, an Australian, a Polish national, an American-Canadian dual citizen and a Palestinian, according to hospital records."

Gaza's al-Shifa hospital lies in ruins as Israel ends two-week siege
Israeli military forces have withdrawn from Gaza's largest hospital after a 14-day siege left the medical facility largely destroyed  
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/pictures-gaza-al-shifa-hospital-ruins-israel-siege

​  The Palestinian doctors found dead in the ruins of al-Shifa hospital
Ahmad al-Maqadmeh and his mother Yusra, both working at al-Shifa, were found executed at the nearby Carrefour Mall roundabout
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/gaza-israel-palestine-war-shifa-hospital-prominent-doctors-killed

​  Israel in Chaos as Largest Protests Since 7 October Erupt
The families of Israeli prisoners have recently shown extreme frustration over Netanyahu’s sabotaging of an exchange deal with Hamas
Tens of thousands of Israelis gathered across Tel Aviv and other occupied cities on the evening of 30 March for protests against their Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.
​  For the first time, the families of the Israeli prisoners being held by the resistance in Gaza, who normally hold separate rallies, joined the massive crowds of anti-government protesters – whose movement initially started with the prime minister’s controversial overhaul initiative last year.
​  “The rallies are over, the protests have just begun,” said the spokesman for the Hostages and Missing Families Forum, Haim Rubinstein.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/israel-chaos-largest-protests-since-7-october-erupt/5853691

  Russia Voices Outrage As Death Toll Rises To 11 After Israeli Attack On Iran's Damascus Embassy
  Russia's Foreign Ministry reacted as follows: "We strongly condemn this attack on the Iranian consular office in Syria. We consider any attacks on diplomatic and consular facilities, the inviolability of which is guaranteed by the relevant Vienna Conventions, to be categorically unacceptable."

  US Assures Iran It "Had No Involvement" In Embassy Strike As IDF Claims Only A 'Military Building' Hit
  The Biden administration was notified just minutes before the major Israeli airstrikes on the Iranian Embassy complex in Damascus on Monday, US and Israeli officials have told Axios; however, the Israeli side wasn't asking for a greenlight, the report emphasizes.

People Are Fleeing Kharkiv | Breakthrough In Umanske | Military Summary And Analysis For 2024.04.02 (15 min.) [No electricity. Huge precision glide-bombs.]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDk1hYYV5Rc

  Every NATO member has military personnel in Ukraine – Estonia
Western advisers and instructors are actively supporting Kiev’s forces against Russia, the defense minister has said

  Roving Reporter Pepe Escobar,  The Sahel's 'Axis of Resistance'
  The emergence of Axes of Resistance in various geographies is an inextricable byproduct of the long and winding process leading us toward a multipolar world. These two things – resistance to the Hegemon and the emergence of multipolarity – are absolutely complementary.
  The Axis of Resistance in West Asia – across Arab and Muslim states – now finds as its soul sister the Axis of Resistance spanning the Sahel in Africa, west to east, from Senegal, Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger to Chad, Sudan, and Eritrea.
  Unlike Niger, where the change in power against neocolonialism was associated with a military coup, in Senegal, the power change comes straight from the polls.
  Senegal plunged itself into a new era with the landslide victory of Bassirou Diomaye Faye, 44, in nationwide elections on 24 March. A former tax inspector who had just spent a fortnight stint in jail, Faye emerged with the profile of an underdog pan-African leader to turn the ‘most stable democracy in Africa,’ under French puppet incumbent Macky Sall, upside down. 
  The incoming Senegalese president now joins Ibrahim Traore, 36, in Burkina Faso, Aby Ahmed, 46, in Ethiopia, Andry Rajoelina, 48, in Madagascar, as well as future superstar Julius Malema, 44, in South Africa as part of the new, young pan-African generation focused on sovereignty. In his election manifesto, Faye pledged to reclaim Senegal's sovereignty no less than eighteen times...
..As Senegal becomes a substantial oil and gas producer, Faye will aim to renegotiate mining and energy contracts...
..Crucially, he plans to ditch the exploitative CFA franc – the French-controlled currency system used in 14 African states – even setting up a new currency as part of reshaping relations with neocolonial power France, Senegal's top trading partner... Emmanuel Macron and the French establishment consider Senegal the key player when it comes to blockading landlocked Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso, which have already left Paris in the (Sahel) dust...
..In sharp contrast to its prior regard of Niger as a staunch ally in the Sahel, Washington is now forced to present a calendar date to get its troops out of Niger – after a military cooperation deal was annulled... There are two key bases – in Agadez and Niamey – which the Pentagon spent over $150 million to build. Niamey was finished only in 2019 and is managed by the US military's African Command, AFRICOM. Operational objectives are, predictably, shrouded in mystery. The Niamey base is essentially an intel center, processing data collected by MQ-9 Reaper drones...
..These bases are not essential to exercise surveillance over the Bab al-Mandeb; it's all about the Sahel, with drones operating on their limit and violating every sovereign air space in sight...
..Pro-west puppet regimes are dwindling fast all across the African continent. The Alliance of the Sahel States – Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger – may be the vanguard of an African Axis of Resistance, but there's more, in the form of South Africa, Ethiopia, and Egypt as full BRICS members – not to mention serious candidates for the next wave of BRICS+, such as Algeria and Nigeria.  
  Russia, diplomatically, and China, commercially, plus the full weight of the Russia–China strategic partnership, are clearly focused on the long game – counting on Africa as a whole as a key multipolar player...
..The Pentagon master plan does not entail abandoning Africa to a multipolar Russia–China–Iran sphere of influence. Yet no one across the Sahel's Axis of Resistance buys the US 'terror threat' card anymore. There was virtually zero terror in Africa until 2011, when NATO turned Libya into a wasteland, then put boots on the ground and erected military bases across the continent.

Vaccinated People Show Long COVID-Like Symptoms With Detectable Spike Proteins: Preprint Study​ [Only the "vaccine" could have done it, since never had COVID.]
Spike protein could remain in immune cells for more than 245 days following vaccination, according to a recent preprint. The study evaluated 50 patients who developed long COVID-like symptoms after the COVID-19 vaccine; none had been infected with the virus.

​  That study:  Persistence of S1 Spike Protein in CD16+ Monocytes up to 245 Days in SARS-CoV-2 Negative Post COVID-19 Vaccination Individuals with Post-Acute Sequalae of COVID-19 (PASC)-Like Symptoms
​  We studied 50 individuals who received one of the approved COVID-19 vaccines and who experienced new onset PASC-like symptoms along with 45 individuals post-vaccination without symptoms as controls. We performed multiplex cytokine/chemokine profiling with machine learning as well as SARS-CoV-2 S1 protein detection on CD16+ monocyte subsets using flow cytometry and mass spectrometry. We determined that post-vaccination individuals with PASC- like symptoms had similar symptoms to PASC patients. When analyzing their immune profile, Post-vaccination individuals had statistically significant elevations of sCD40L (p<0.001), CCL5 (p=0.017), IL-6 (p=0.043), and IL-8 (p=0.022). Machine learning characterized these individuals as PASC using previously developed algorithms. Of the S1 positive post-vaccination patients, we demonstrated by liquid chromatography/ mass spectrometry that these CD16+ cells from post-vaccination patients from all 4 vaccine manufacturers contained S1, S1 mutant and S2 peptide sequences. Post-COVID vaccination individuals with PASC-like symptoms exhibit markers of platelet activation and pro-inflammatory cytokine production, which may be driven by the persistence of SARS-CoV-2 S1 proteins in intermediate and non-classical monocytes.​   https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.03.24.24304286v1

​  FDA's Anti-Ivermectin "You Are Not A Horse" Post Remains Up As Court Order Deadline Looms
​  Eleven days after a court-ordered settlement required the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to remove all social media and directives regarding ivermectin, a webpage and its most infamous post remains online, advising people against the use of the popular drug.

​  Google Settles 'Incognito' Suit, Commits To Wiping User Browsing Data
​  Tech giant Google has agreed to settle with plaintiffs who alleged that the company invaded users’ privacy by tracking online activities even when they were using Chrome browser’s private incognito mode.
https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/google-settles-incognito-suit-commits-wiping-user-browsing-data

​  RFK Jr. Says He Will Pardon Whistleblower Edward Snowden If Elected President
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., claims he would pardon whistleblower Edward Snowden on his first day as president if elected and “investigate the corruption and crimes he exposed.”

​  From 3/12/24: “I would pardon people,” Kennedy said. “I intend to use the pardon power, and I intend to use it very quickly in office. I’m going to pardon Julian Assange. I’m going to pardon Edward Snowden. I may pardon Ross Ulbricht if I find that his prosecution was, that his sentence, his very lengthy sentence, was the result of making an example of him in order to punish Bitcoin and cryptocurrency.”

​  Author JK Rowling could be prosecuted for “misgendering” trans people under Scotland’s odious new hate crime law that comes into force today, an SNP minister has admitted.
​  Senior police officers are expecting a deluge of complaints over online posts after the Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Act 2021 created a new crime of “stirring up hatred” relating to age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, transgender identity or being intersex.
​  A person could now be imprisoned for up to seven years if they engage in “insulting” behaviour towards ‘protected’ groups, and the prosecution only needs to prove that the hatred was “likely” rather than “intended”.​..
..Rowling has vowed to continue calling biological males men and says she will now be targeted for telling the truth.
​  During their training program on enforcing the new law, police officers were taught that even the content of plays and comedy gigs should be considered as potential hate crimes...
..Authorities admit that dealing with the expected flood of hate crime reports would prevent them from investigating real crimes.
​  A Police Scotland pilot in Aberdeen which was deemed a “success” and is expected to be implemented means “more than 24,000 offences a year will no longer be allocated to a front-line officer.”

​Law Abiding Citizen (pictured at ground level receiving cut branch from son via a rope)


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Monday, April 1, 2024

Siege By Electricity

 Currently Connected,


  The Honest Sorcerer , Dodging The Gator - What Can Be Done?  [The elites already have plans which involve massive, preemptive culling of "useless eaters".]
  Humanity is in overshoot, and a major correction is already underway, something which will only accelerate even further. A runaway energy crisis, together with resource depletion, climate change and ecosystems collapse will upend centuries of growth and prosperity. But what does that mean on an individual level? Is there any way to course correct? If not, what are the possible ways of adaptation? 
  The world economy faces a runaway energy crisis, not seen by most commentators. The energy needed to extract the next unit of both oil and minerals increases exponentially due to rich depleted deposits being replaced with ever poorer quality ones. Since energy is the economy, not money, an exponential rise in this area will eventually make further expansion impossible, and lead to a relentless decline. Something, which cannot be stopped, nor financed without bankrupting the economy.
  In the meantime, both investors and politicians act as if energy were just a cost item, and its supply could expand without any hurdles.
  We are clearly approaching a civilizational tipping point, and there is nothing anyone in power can do about this. The entire process is driven by physics and geology, not wishful thinking and clever humans supposedly inventing their way out of this mess...
..Keeping up a good spirit, a positive can-do attitude and a strong will needed to soldier on, however, will be your biggest and most important assets. Don’t wait for the government, the “Market”, Santa Claus or the Tooth Fairy to take care of you: they will be busy taking care of themselves. We are entering a centuries long era of flux and uncertainty, a time of troubles as the Chinese called these periods in their own history. That is not to say that our numbers will not dwindle, but a birth crisis together with deaths of despair and a lack of adequate healthcare will reduce population below unrecognizable levels — even without major wars or a famine.
  The sooner you accept such periods as perfectly normal, the sooner you can move on towards practical steps in everyday life, and will be able to accept the economic realities of a civilization in decline. Collapse is a feature of human civilization, a common trait with all complex systems. Something, which is entirely due to a natural cause, overshoot, and all its symptom predicaments: resource depletion, a net energy crisis, political upheaval, climate change, ecosystem degradation and so on.

  Gilbert Doctorow, Update on the Crocus terror attack    [War teaches the best students how to live without regular electricity. Poor students don't live.]
  Russian security officials are expanding upon their claims that Ukraine financed and directed the terror attack on the Crocus City Hall concert venue. Sunday evening’s edition of News of the Week hosted by Dmitry Kiselyov pointed to crypto currency payments and other financial channels which were used by the Ukrainians, as the latest results of interrogations and further arrests have revealed. A substantial success reward is said to have awaited the assailants upon arrival in Kiev.
  Meanwhile various Western media outlets including Deutsche Welle tell us the Kremlin has demanded the hand-over of the head of Kiev’s Security Service (SSB), brigadier general Vasyl Malyuk on charges of directing terrorist attacks in Russia. To be sure, Malyuk himself has claimed responsibility for the 2022 bombing of the Kerch (Crimea) bridge. But we may now assume that the Russians have evidence to hold him to account for directing the Crocus City Hall atrocity...
..However, we need not speculate about what may come next. De facto, Russia’s current offensive against Ukraine has escalated to a new, vastly more threatening level. There are daily punishing aerial bombing and missile attacks on military command centers across Ukraine, on training centers, on concentrations of foreign mercenaries. And then there is a new dimension to the destruction of Ukraine’s electricity network...
..By contrast what is now going on is Russian destruction of power generating stations. Replacing them will be a matter of years, not months.
  Very much to the point, the mayor of Kharkiv yesterday remarked to the press that the city’s power supplies have been utterly destroyed.  This development corresponds very nicely to the calls that were  made on the Evening with Vladimir Solovyov talk show last week for Kharkiv’s inhabitants to be sent packing in their cars headed west ahead of the city being razed to the ground. The intent was to end once and for all the missiles and artillery shells that Kharkiv has been sending daily into the neighboring Belgorod region of Russia to kill civilians in the greatest numbers possible.  Kharkiv may not yet be razed, but it certainly is on the way to becoming uninhabitable.

  John Helmer, HOW THE ELECTRIC WAR IS REDRAWING THE UKRAINE MAP – IN BLACK
  The electric war, which in its first phase commenced in September 2022,  has now entered its second and final phase – final, that is, for the Ukraine.This is strategic; war has never been fought like this in Europe. The US and NATO general staffs and politicians have been taken by complete surprise. “The Ukrainians are building Maginot and Siegfried lines according to the instructions of their foreign advisers,” according to a Moscow analyst, “as if the Russian offensive will be men, artillery and tanks running across the landscape towards Kiev. But they won’t have to. The offensive against Ukrainian electricity cannot be stopped at these lines.”
  Without effective defence for its power generating plants, distribution hubs, and grid lines, the Kiev regime’s power is being stopped across the country;  the major Novorussian cities in the east – Odessa, Kharkov, Dniepropetrovsk – are being blacked out and their populations forced to evacuate; the warmaking resupplies of the NATO allies are being cut off at borders which are now exposed to reversal of electricity surges threatening the plants and grids of southern Poland, Romania and Moldova. Even European and American money for President Vladimir Zelensky’s regime needs electricity to move...  
..“Even if the French/NATO plan a deployment in the Ukraine, what will they be deploying to?” the military engineer adds. “If the current Russian plan of attack is causing swings of 300+ volts, it’s not even safe to plug in a cell phone. We can safely assume that all manner of appliances and other expensive electrical or electronic equipment has been destroyed in the affected areas. Indeed, even if the power engineers manage to get the power back on, millions of light fixtures, especially the electronic/LED variety, are burned out. Diagnostic equipment (medical and technical), process instruments, programmable logic controllers, power supplies, inverters, frequency drives, bank machines, computerized checkout, refrigeration equipment, are burned up”...
..The Ukrainian media and press releases from the DTEK utility  confirm the vulnerability, especially as the country approaches the June-July period of maximum summer power consumption.   Rolling blackouts are being imposed, then lifted, then reimposed, according to the announcements to domestic consumers.  This means that the utilities and repair engineers are finding it increasingly difficult to keep up with the pace of the attacks.
  In Kharkov, for example, the current rolling blackouts of four hours or more mean that food will be spoiling in refrigerators, telephones will be dead, the internet will be down, and services will seize up. Once the liquid fuel stocks dwindle – these are also under parallel attack – the emergency generators will stop running, such food as there is will rot in the grocery stores.
  This is a type of siege by electricity. The Kiev regime will be unable to reinforce or resupply the eastern cities, and there will be no Russian ground advance; no Mariupol, Bakhmut or Avdeyevka battles; no electricity until capitulation.
  The military sources on whom the milbloggers rely also warn: “Yes, the damage is more than serious,” according to Rozhin, “but you should not accept on faith all the statements of the enemy about the damage received, since it is beneficial for him to overestimate the damage and  foster the impression on our side that the work has been done and so we will not finish off those targets which have already received serious damage, but can be restored.”
  The electric war is an operation to bypass the cities which the Ukrainians and their US and NATO military staffs believe will soon be targets for direct Russian attack...
..A western military source believes, like Russian sources, that the Russian General Staff will make no direct city attacks and will leapfrog over or bypass the new fortifications...
..A western military observer agrees. “My read is that the General Staff are deploying to tie down NATO and Ukrainian forces west of the Dnieper; assembling a credible force to dissuade any NATO move to threaten Kaliningrad; ensuring Belarussian territory is secure from the kind of raids we’ve seen in the Belgorod region.” They are also signaling what the Americans and French can’t admit in public that NATO forces are so weak in terms of manpower, equipment, ammunition, airpower, and capacity to engage that the Russian and Belarussian forces have the capacity to choose and dominate the field on a full spectrum basis whenever they choose.”
  “The strategy”, the western military source again, “is to draw more of the NATO forces into the zones which are rapidly becoming de-electrified where they will soon be cut off from resupply or escape.  The loss of electricity in Kharkov is already pitting the Ukrainian and foreign staff bunkers and troops in position against the city’s citizens for access to power, light, everything. It’s becoming an ungovernable situation. That’s the strategy.”
  “The unspoken Russian advice is for the French, Poles, etc., to stick to posturing and grandstanding unless they have large reserves of body bags and candles laid up.”

  Simplicius agrees with Jacques Baud,  Jacques Baud and the Russian Way of War   [Americans think the enemy thinks as they would think...]
  But it’s in the cumulative sense of the armed forces as a whole, living, breathing organism, we can say without too much exaggeration that in the current historical frame, Russia appears to much better grasp the most fundamental and important precepts of winning real wars compared to the West. We see this categorically demonstrated, for example, in the Russian vision of warfare consistently winning out and being proven superior over the approach of the West in the SMO.
  For instance, the West’s philosophy of concentrating on prestige, precision systems for ‘surgical’ victories has now undoubtedly been trumped by Russia’s revival of the conventional ‘mass production war’.

  Brian Berletic, Does the Fate of US Arms in Ukraine Create Pause for Thought Ahead War with China?   [If you can't beat them...]
  Even as Russia’s military industrial base is outcompeting the collective West, China’s industrial base is larger still. Any difficulties the US is having outproducing Russia in terms of military equipment and ammunition will pale in comparison to China’s military industrial output.
  Together with the fact that any potential conflict the US seeks to provoke with China will take place in the Asia-Pacific region, thousands of kilometers away from US shores, and considering the extensive nature of the networks required to support US military technology on the battlefield, the idea of Washington fighting and winning any armed conflict against China appears particularly and increasingly absurd.
  Even if Washington’s strategy is to subordinate China not with the threat of fighting and winning a war against China in the Asia-Pacific region, but to hold peace and stability in the region hostage by threatening war regardless of its outcome, the US finds itself in a difficult and increasingly weak position year-by-year.
  Current US foreign policy is predicated on the premise, “might makes right.” However, the US is clearly no longer “the mightest.” As it provokes conflicts around the globe directly or by proxy, it risks suffering severe consequences its previous advantages in terms of military power had protected it against decades ago.
  Continuing to pursue an unsustainable policy like this will end in disaster for Washington and for the American people. However, the US could always pivot toward a policy of coexistence and cooperation, built on mutual respect for other nations like Russia and China as well as the primacy of national sovereignty of all nations.

​  Israel has been creating “kill zones” in the Gaza Strip in areas where the Israeli military is operating, and anyone who enters will get shot even if they’re unarmed civilians, Haaretz reported on Sunday.
​  The report said anyone killed in a designated kill zone is labeled a “terrorist” even if they “never held a gun in their lives,” and they are “often civilians whose only crime was to cross an invisible line drawn by the IDF.”
​  One Israeli reservist who was recently in north Gaza said the “feeling we had was that there weren’t really rules of engagement there.”
​  Other sources in the IDF told Haaretz that Israel’s claim that 9,000 out of the 32,000 Palestinians killed in Gaza are “terrorists” is not valid. “In practice, a terrorist is anyone the IDF has killed in the areas in which its forces operate,” an Israeli reserve officer said.

UNICEF: World watches as children of Gaza face horrors of hunger, murder


​  Also "hostages" to the ICJ, I believe:  'Israel' detained over 7,895 Palestinians in West Bank since Oct. 7
There have been 4,430 administrative detention orders issued against Palestinians, including new and renewed orders for children and women.

  ​The UNRWA has always kept all of the records of what Palestinian families had the right to return to what homes and villages.
Israel suggests UN dissolve UNRWA​
  Israel has suggested the United Nations dissolve the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) and transfer its employees to another agency, The Guardian said, citing its sources.
​  Thus, Israel suggests that UNRWA employees be transferred to the World Food Program or a new organization that would be established to distribute food aid in Gaza, the sources said.
​  According to the newspaper, the proposal was handed over to UN officials in Israel by Chief of the General Staff Herzi Halevi late last week.

​  Israel ready to operate in Rafah — Netanyahu
Speaking at a news conference, he vowed that Israel is doing its best to deliver humanitarian aid to Rafah and the Israel Defense Forces is ready to evacuate civilians from this city

​  White House Approves Transfer To Israel Of More Bombs & Jets Worth Billions
​  The Washington Post has revealed, even amid public criticism from US officials over Prime Minister Netanyahu's intent to soon send ground troops into Rafah, which is expected to result in humanitarian disaster in the refugee-packed southern city.
​  This package is to include 25 F-35 fighter jets, sources told the Post, and additionally the highly controversial 2,000-pound bombs which have been known to kill indiscriminately in Gaza when deployed by the Israeli air force.
​  "The new arms packages include more than 1,800 MK84 2,000-pound bombs and 500 MK82 500-pound bombs, according to Pentagon and State Department officials familiar with the matter," the report indicates.
​  "The 2,000-pound bombs have been linked to previous mass-casualty events throughout Israel’s military campaign in Gaza," WaPo continues. "These officials, like some others, spoke to The Washington Post on the condition of anonymity because recent authorizations have not been disclosed publicly."
​  The 2,000 pound bombs have been flagged by human rights monitors as behind much of the soaring Palestinian casualties, given they can demolish entire city blocks and produce craters over 40 feet wide.

​  The evidence of breaking American law by supplying weapons for war crimes is thoroughly documented here, but 
Can’t Impeach-Prosecute Joe Biden for Illegally Continuing to Supply Bombs Dropped on Homes in Gaza

  Attacking the Iranian Embassy in Syria is a provocative escalation against Iran and Syria.
Multiple IRGC Generals Reported Killed In Israeli Attack On Iranian Embassy In Syria
​  Tehran is vowing a "harsh" response to the Israeli attack on its embassy and consulate earlier in the day, which killed at least five to eight people, reportedly including IRGC leaders. Iran's foreign minister slammed it as "a violation of all international obligations and conventions" while the Syrian government denounced it as a "terrorist attack".
​  Iran's Ambassador to Syria Hossein Akbari was not injured in the attack, which appeared to have occurred at the moment a high level meeting was taking place. Iranian state media has since confirmed the death of Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Zahedi, a senior commander in the elite Quds Force of the IRGC. There are further indicators that two more top IRGC commanders may be among the slain.

​  The Palestinian Ministry of Health announced on Saturday that 107 patients are trapped in Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza Strip, including 30 disabled patients, along with 60 medical staff, without water, without electricity, and without medicine.
​  The Palestinian Health Ministry confirmed, in a brief press statement, that the Israeli occupation has thwarted all attempts to evacuate these patients through international institutions.
​  The ministry warned that the lives of patients were in grave danger and called for urgent action to save their lives.

​  Israeli occupation forces confiscate about 27,000 dunums ​[27 square kilometers] of Palestinian land
​  The Israeli occupation authorities seized 27,000 dunums of Palestinian land, including 15,000 dunums, under the name of amending the boundaries of natural reserves in Jericho and the Jordan Valley...
​..The “Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission” (CWRC) explained in a report issued on Saturday on the occasion of the 48th anniversary of Earth Day and half a year after the aggression launched by the occupying Zionist entity against the Gaza Strip that the area of Palestinian territory controlled by the occupying entity and subject to many occupation measures amounted to 2,380 km2, equivalent to 42% of the total territory of the West Bank and 69% of all areas classified as (C), which are areas subject to occupation military rule.

​  (How many skins hath this onion?) Israel wants multi-national security force in Gaza
The troops would reportedly take charge of maintaining law and order in the region and escorting humanitarian aid convoys​.
​  According to the report, the idea came from Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, who voiced it during his visit to Washington earlier this week.
​  The proposal envisages a contingent of troops from Arab countries being deployed to Gaza for a limited transition period. The force would be charged with escorting and helping facilitate humanitarian aid deliveries and generally maintaining law and order in the enclave. They are also expected to help establish an alternative governing body in Gaza, one of the sources said.​..
​..However, an unnamed Arab official from one of the countries reportedly involved in the talks said it is unlikely that foreign troops would be deployed to the region until the hostilities end. A US official added that the move would require an official invitation from the Palestinian Authority in Gaza and would only come in the context of a two-state solution. This, the source noted, makes the initiative unlikely in the near-term due to Israel’s opposition to recognizing Palestine as a separate state.
​  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has repeatedly rejected the idea of creating a Palestinian state after the war. He also criticized the UN Security Council resolution passed earlier this week, which demanded an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, saying that the decision undermined Israel’s efforts to free the Israelis held by Hamas.

​  Sanaa Health Ministry: Over 830,000 children under 5 dead due to Saudi-led blockade
The Ministry of Public Health and Population in Sanaa affirmed on Saturday that over 830,000 children under the age of five have died due to complications and repercussions of the US-Saudi blockade over the past nine years in Yemen.

​  (​Police crowd control training in Israel​ at work?) Victoria White Files $2 Million Suit For Police Using 'Excessive' Force In Jan. 6 Beating
​  A Minnesota woman beaten by police in the Lower West Terrace tunnel at the U.S. Capitol has filed a $2 million civil suit for being repeatedly struck in the head and slammed into a concrete wall on Jan. 6, 2021.
​  Victoria Charity White, 42, of Rochester, Minnesota, alleges at least two Metropolitan Police Department officers unlawfully used “deadly force” by repeatedly striking her head and face with steel riot batons and fists at about 4 p.m. on Jan. 6, 2021.
​  The complaint—filed on March 27 by Washington attorney Paul Kamenar—names MPD Commander Jason Bagshaw and MPD Officer Neil McAllister, and alleges other unnamed officers took part in the beatings.
​  It alleges violations of the Civil Rights Act, 42 U.S. Code § 1983. It is an amended version of a suit Ms. White filed representing herself in January.
​  “The defendants willfully and unlawfully seized plaintiff by means of objectively unreasonable, excessive, and indeed, deadly force that shocks the conscience, thereby unreasonably restraining and depriving plaintiff of her freedom and inflicting physical and mental harm and anguish,” read the suit, filed in U.S. District Court in Washington.
​  “Because of the senseless and unlawful beating she received at the hands of the defendants and the other MPD officers, Ms. White suffered great physical, traumatic, and emotional harm that day and continues to suffer to this day, particularly the traumatic and emotional harm,” Mr. Kamenar wrote in the lawsuit.
​  Mr. Bagshaw, the suit alleges: “Repeatedly struck an unarmed and defenseless White about her head, face, shoulders, and upper body with a metal baton and his fists.”​  https://www.zerohedge.com/political/victoria-white-files-2-million-suit-police-using-excessive-force-jan-6-beating

​  "I Didn't Do That": Biden Reportedly Has No Idea He Issued 'Trans Day Of Visibility' Proclamation
​  "I didn't do that," Biden reportedly said when asked about the proclamation, RealClear Politics' Philip Wegmann reports.
When asked about Speaker Johnson's claim that he had, Biden replied, "he's thoroughly uninformed."

Biden Budget Shells Out $320 Million On Border Walls... For Oman, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, And Tunisia

​  High Pressure Gas Pipeline Halts Salvage of MV Dali​ , by Captain John Konrad (gCaptain) 
Salvage efforts to remove the MV Dali from Baltimore’s Key Bridge were delayed indefinitely yesterday after a high-pressure subsea natural gas pipeline was discovered under the wreckage.

MV Dali and the Francis Scott Key Bridge | March 31 Update & Who Pays for the Salvage?

​  Peter McCullough MD, COVID-19 Vaccine Myocarditis Not Healing > 1 Year after Diagnosis
Serial MRI Study Finds 47% Cases Do Not Resolve

​  [Pfizer mRNA ​COVID "vaccine" recipient, I hear​; the same day as Princess Kate.] King Charles III Has Pancreatic Cancer; Only Two Years to Live​ 
​  According to the In Touch story, “King Charles is much sicker than the palace lets on and simply isn’t up to the job of running his fractious family, the crown’s business interests and fulfilling the daily duties of the monarchy,” the member of the royal inner circle revealed in early March. “His cancer is eating him alive. He’s very frail. The situation is desperate.”
​  While the "In Touch" story reports King Charles may have "two years to live" Google Search engine reports the Life Expectancy for Pancreatic Cancer is as follows:
Survival for all stages of pancreatic cancer around 25 in every 100 (around 25%) survive their cancer for 1 year or more after they are diagnosed. More than 5 out of every 100 (more than 5%) survive their cancer for 5 years or more.

​  ‘FDA Is Not a Physician’: Dr. Paul Marik Weighs in on Ivermectin Settlement
​  Referring to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals’ September 2023 ruling that the FDA exceeded its authority, Marik said the judge in that case told the FDA that “you are not a physician. You’re not in a position to dictate how physicians practice medicine.”
​  Marik said that while the FDA has the power and the regulatory authority to regulate drugs, it is not in a position to influence how doctors behave. “Essentially, that’s what the case was about.”
​  According to the plaintiffs, the FDA influenced the narrative regarding ivermectin through various statements, publications and social media posts.
This content included an infamous August 2021 tweet stating, “You are not a horse. You are not a cow. Seriously, y’all. Stop it,” which linked to an FDA webpage, “Why you should not use ivermectin to treat or prevent COVID-19.”

​  Meryl Nass MD,  In 2006, the US federal government told the WHO that in areas where the states had jurisdiction, the federal government could not enforce IHR obligations on them.  Time to tell the states!
https://merylnass.substack.com/p/in-2006-the-us-federal-government

  More from Dr. Nass,  Summary of the Evidence: Why States Can Assert that the WHO Has No Authority Over Them
This is a compilation of the important info I have been dropping as individual tidbits over the past few days

​  Dr. Nass points out simple, bald falsehoods again and again: 
One hundred globalist flunkies (including has-been politicians) signed a totally misleading letter about the pandemic treaty last week. 
I set the record straight.​ My comments on the letter are in italics. A preponderance of signers are from former Soviet countries.

​  Kids Especially at Risk: 3 of 4 Athletes Test Positive for PFAS After Playing on Artificial Turf
According to the EPA, PFAS exposure is particularly concerning for young children, who are more susceptible due to their developing bodies and at risk for higher levels of exposure than adults. PFAS, which continue to accumulate in the human body, pose long-term health risks.

​Avoiding Astroturf (pictured at dawn this morning with bundled branches and leaves from extensive tree work I did with my son yesterday)  

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