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Russia Conducts ‘Precision Strikes’ on Ukrainian Military Targets (Sputnik)
Russia Has ‘No Plans’ To Take Over Whole Of Ukraine – Putin (RT)
Disarming Ukraine (MoA)
Saudi-Russia Collusion Is Driving Up Gas Prices (IC)
Trudeau Discontinues Emergencies Act (RT)
Canada Instructs Banks to Unfreeze Freedom-Convoy Accounts (WSJ)
Significant Underreporting of Vaccine Side Effects: German Health Insurer (ET)
Genetic Code of Covids Spike Protein Linked to Moderna Patent (DM)
China’s Property Bubble Collapse Gets Worse (Lacalle)
Biden Officials Fear Elon Musk Would Embarrass President At WH (NYP)

 

 

David Mamet

 

 

Putin

 

 

Sputnik. Propaganda from the other side.

Russia Conducts ‘Precision Strikes’ on Ukrainian Military Targets (Sputnik)

Earlier this week, Russia officially recognised the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics and urged Kiev to stop attacks on Donbass. As shellings by Ukrainian forces escalated in the region, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a special military operation aimed at the demilitarisation and denazification of Ukraine. “Ukrainian military infrastructure, air defence facilities, military airfields, and air forces are being neutralised by high-precision weapons”, the Russian Ministry of Defence said in a statement. The MoD stressed there are no threats to the civilian population. The tensions have been escalating over the past few days, with Ukrainian forces shelling the territory of Donbass, forcing thousands to evacuate to Russia.


Following an appeal from the leaders of the Donetsk People’s Republic and Lugansk People’s Republic, Moscow recognised both as independent nations and called on Ukraine to stop the eight-year-long war in the region. Russia also stressed that it will protect the people of Donbass against any threats, as president Putin noted the actions of the Ukrainian regime in the region are genocide. In response to the ongoing attacks, President Putin authorised the military to conduct a special operation to protect Donbass, aiming at the demilitarisation and denazification of Ukraine and saying that people who committed war crimes during the eight-year-long bloodshed should stand trial.

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Me, I wonder what Hunter Biden is doing right now..

Russia Has ‘No Plans’ To Take Over Whole Of Ukraine – Putin (RT)

Russian President Vladimir Putin has claimed that Russia had “no plans to occupy the Ukrainian territories” after announcing that a special operation was launched to defend the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics from “Ukrainian aggression.” The operation’s ultimate goal is “to protect the people who have been subjected for 8 years to genocide by the Kiev regime,” Putin said in an adress on Thursday morning, adding that Moscow would “embark on a demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine, and handing over to justice those who committed numerous atrocities against civilians.”


The Russian president noted, however, that Moscow harbors no far-reaching plans to take over the whole territory of Ukraine. “We do not have plans to occupy Ukrainian territories. We are not going to impose anything on anyone by force,” he said. Ukraine has been accusing Russia of illegally occupying Crimea, which was reabsorbed by Russia following a referendum in March 2014, following the US-backed coup that overthrew the elected government in Kiev. Kiev has also repeatedly accused Russia of having a military presence in Donbass, although Moscow consistently denied this claim.

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“During the last two centuries Russia had to defend itself, with horrific casualties, against two huge invasions from the west.”

Disarming Ukraine (MoA)

The military of Russia has launched an operation to disarm, and possibly regime change, the Ukraine. I do understand why Russia is doing this – it is either attack now or defend itself later with way more casualties and the danger of total defeat. I had hoped though that it would find other methods to protect Russia from further NATO aggression. In 2014 the U.S. instigated regime change in Kiev and has since controlled the Ukrainian government. It has build up the Ukraine as a base to strangle Russia economically and militarily. During the last two centuries Russia had to defend itself, with horrific casualties, against two huge invasions from the west. It is understandable that it does not want to repeat that experience.

It is difficult to discern what the planned end state of this operation is. Where is this going to stop? Looking at this map I believe that the most advantageous end state for Russia would be the creation of a new independent country, call it Novorussiya, on the land east of the Dnieper and south along the coast that holds a majority ethnic Russian population and that, in 1922, had been attached to the Ukraine by Lenin. That state would be politically, culturally and militarily aligned with Russia. This would eliminate Ukrainian access to the Black Sea and create a land bridge towards the Moldavian breakaway Transnistria which is under Russian protection. The rest of the Ukraine would be a land confined, mostly agricultural state, disarmed and too poor to be build up to a new threat to Russia anytime soon. Politically it would be dominated by fascists from Galicia which would then become a major problem for the European Union.


Thanks to Stalin’s additions to the Ukraine three countries, Poland, Hungary and Romania, have claims to certain areas in the Ukraine’s western regions. If they want to snatch those up again it is now probably the best time to do so. Despite being part of NATO, which likely would not support such moves, those three will have domestic policy difficulties to withstand the urge. I hope for a sharp but short fight which destroys the Ukraine’s military capabilities but causes as little casualties and other damages as possible. It is sad that NATO countries, including mine, did not have the courage to make the necessary concessions to prevent this from happening.

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Odd detail.

Saudi-Russia Collusion Is Driving Up Gas Prices (IC)

As Russia ordered troops into Ukraine on Monday, gas prices soared to their highest levels in over seven years. While the media focuses on the conflict in Ukraine, a major cause of the gas price spike has gone overlooked: Moscow’s partnership with Saudi Arabia has grown dramatically in recent years, granting the two largest oil producers in the world the unprecedented ability to collude in oil export decisions. The desert kingdom’s relationship with the U.S. has chilled in the meantime, as demonstrated earlier this month, when President Joe Biden pleaded with the Saudis to increase oil production — a move that would not only have helped to alleviate rising inflation and gas prices, but also reduced Russia’s extravagant profits amid its aggression against Ukraine. The Saudi king declined.

The Saudi and Russian relationship has blossomed under Saudi Arabia’s de facto ruler, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, whose first formal meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin took place in the summer of 2015. MBS pursued the meeting after then-President Barack Obama declined to meet with him, The Intercept has learned from two sources with knowledge of the matter who were granted anonymity to describe sensitive discussions. Now, as Biden refuses to meet with MBS due to his culpability in the grisly murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, the crown prince may again see a friend in Moscow, which is profiting handsomely off MBS’s refusal to increase oil production. Hints of MBS’s resentment over Biden’s refusal to meet with him occasionally spill out into the public, as they did last year, when the crown prince canceled a meeting with Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on a day’s notice.

He opted instead to meet with Leonid Slutsky: a top Russian lawmaker who was sanctioned by the U.S. for his role in Russia’s 2014 invasion of Crimea. (MBS canceled Austin’s visit because he was “holding out for a call from the president before responding to the administration’s entreaties,” according to senior officials cited by Council on Foreign Relations fellow Martin Indyk in Foreign Affairs magazine.) “Putin and MBS have much in common, including murdering their critics at home and abroad, intervening in their neighbors by force and trying to get oil prices as high as possible,” Bruce Riedel, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and former CIA analyst with expertise in the Middle East, said in an email to The Intercept. “Putin will do MBS a great service if he invades Ukraine and sends oil prices through the roof.”

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You’d think Russia tried to invade.

Trudeau Discontinues Emergencies Act (RT)

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has brought an end to the Emergency Act in the country after 10 days after it was used to widen the scope of government and police authority in order to remove and detain ‘Freedom Convoy’ protesters who had shut down a major US-Canada border crossing as well as much of Ottawa over the last weeks. Addressing the nation on Wednesday evening, Trudeau said that the situation is “no longer an emergency.” The Canadian leader referred to the expanded authority given to law enforcement, which included targeting protesters’ funding, as “time-limited extra tools” that had helped the police to lift blockades plaguing downtown Ottawa. Trudeau said he is “confident” now that “existing laws and bylaws” are “sufficient to keep people safe.”


He, however, appeared to signal that the federal government was ready to step in if the situation goes awry. “We will continue to be there to support local and provincial authorities if and when needed”, the PM said. Nearly 200 people have been arrested as police cracked down on the Freedom Convoy protests, with over 100 facing various charges. Organizers like Tamara Lich were also arrested last week. Lich was denied bail with the judge stating this week that her continued detention is “necessary for the protection and safety of the public.” The prime minister’s decision, which takes effect Wednesday evening, came only two days after Canadian lawmakers greenlighted the extension the emergency powers. At the time, Trudeau that the situation was “fragile” and still an “emergency.”

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Just 2 days ago they were saying it would be a long fight. Did Justin talk to a lawyer?

Canada Instructs Banks to Unfreeze Freedom-Convoy Accounts (WSJ)

Canada told banks to unlock financial accounts belonging to individuals involved in a weekslong Covid-19 protest in Ottawa that police shut down this past weekend, according to a finance ministry official. “They started [Monday] to unfreeze accounts,” Isabelle Jacques, a senior official in Canada’s finance department, told lawmakers Tuesday. The step marks a reversal for the Liberal government, which has argued the sweeping power to freeze bank accounts and other assets was crucial during what was declared an emergency period. The power became available over a week ago, when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau invoked rarely used emergency measures in an effort to end a roughly three-week protest calling for all Covid-19 vaccine mandates and related social restrictions to be rescinded. The Ottawa protest, involving thousands of individuals and hundreds of trucks, inspired blockades at crucial U.S.-Canada border crossings.


[..] On Monday, Canadian Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland defended the freezings, which some financial-law experts warned could affect people unaffiliated with the protest. “These measures were put in place to disrupt illegal activity in Canada,” she said. “We were very clear that we would be following the money, that we would be using financial tools to disrupt illegal blockades and occupations. The focus absolutely has been on leaders and on the vehicles that were such an important part of the illegal blockades and occupations.” “The way to get your account unfrozen is to stop being part of the blockade and occupation,” she added.

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Tick, tick, tick…

Significant Underreporting of Vaccine Side Effects: German Health Insurer (ET)

A large German health insurance provider said that it analyzed data from more than 10 million individuals regarding COVID-19 vaccine complications and suggested there were more than health authorities have reported. The insurer, BKK ProVita, concluded that the rate of vaccine side-effects is several times larger than earlier reports from the Paul-Ehrlich Institute, a German federal agency, according to a letter from the company. BKK board member Andreas Schöfbeck told Die Welt publication that the data is an “alarm signal,” adding: “The numbers determined are significant and urgently need to be checked for plausibility.” The Epoch Times has contacted the Paul-Ehrlich Institute for comment.

The letter, written by Schöfbeck, said BKK analyzed doctors’ billing data from 10.9 million insured people, finding that of that figure, some 217,000 received treatment due to vaccine side-effects. Overall, in Germany, which has a population of about 83 million, the Paul-Ehrlich Institute reported 244,576 suspected cases of COVID-19 vaccination side effects in 2021, the firm noted. “The data available to our company gives us reason to believe that there is a very considerable under-recording of suspected cases of vaccination side-effects after they received the [COVID-19] vaccine,” he wrote in his letter.

“If these figures are applied to the year as a whole and to” the entire population of Germany, Schöfbeck estimated, then “probably 2.5-3 million people in Germany been under medical treatment because of vaccination side effects after [COVID-19] vaccination.” Schöfbeck then concluded that based on their data, “there is a significant underreporting of vaccination side-effects” in Germany. Another letter that was sent out by BKK suggested that vaccination side effects reported across Germany are at least 10 times more common than what was reported by the Paul-Ehrlich Institute, reported the Nordkurier newspaper on Wednesday.

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Researchers say one in 3 trillion chance Covid developed the code naturally …

But lots of questions.

Genetic Code of Covids Spike Protein Linked to Moderna Patent (DM)

Fresh suspicion that Covid may have been tinkered with in a lab emerged today after scientists found genetic material owned by Moderna in the virus’s spike protein. They identified a tiny snippet of code that is identical to part of a gene patented by the vaccine maker three years before the pandemic. It was discovered in SARS-CoV-2’s unique furin cleavage site, the part that makes it so good at infecting people and separates it from other coronaviruses. The structure has been one of the focal points of debate about the virus’s origin, with some scientists claiming it could not have been acquired naturally. The international team of researchers suggest the virus may have mutated to have a furin cleavage site during experiments on human cells in a lab. They claim there is a one-in-three-trillion chance Moderna’s sequence randomly appeared through natural evolution.

But there is some debate about whether the match is as rare as the study claims, with other experts describing it as a ‘quirky’ coincidence rather than a ‘smoking gun’. “Moderna filed the patent in February 2016 as part of its cancer research division, records show. The patented sequence is part of a gene called MSH3 that is known to affect how damaged cells repair themselves in the body. It was approved on March 7 the following year ” In the latest study, published in Frontiers in Virology, researchers compared Covid’s makeup to millions of sequenced proteins on an online database. The virus is made up of 30,000 letters of genetic code that carry the information it needs to spread, known as nucleotides. It is the only coronavirus of its type to carry 12 unique letters that allow its spike protein to be activated by a common enzyme called furin, allowing it to spread between human cells with ease. Analysis of the original Covid genome found the virus shares a sequence of 19 specific letters with a genetic section owned by Moderna, which has a total of 3,300 nucleotides.

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“..the implosion of the real estate sector may cause a large hole in the national banks’ assets that may need the largest bailout in modern times..”

China’s Property Bubble Collapse Gets Worse (Lacalle)

The real estate sector is enormous in China. Its direct and indirect weight, according to JP Morgan, is 25 percent of GDP, more than double the size of previous real estate bubbles in Japan or Spain. It’s impossible for the Chinese regime to contain the implosion of a sector that has massive ramifications that affect all the services sector and numerous side industries. The Chinese regime tries to disguise the risk by injecting liquidity into Chinese banks and cutting rates but, even if the vast majority of the property developers’ debt is in the hands of domestic savers, the collapse in investor confidence is difficult to contain. At best, the Chinese economy will see an inevitable slowdown.

In the worst-case scenario, the implosion of the real estate sector may cause a large hole in the national banks’ assets that may need the largest bailout in modern times. The outcome may lie somewhere in between. Many sectors in China may continue to thrive regardless of the property slump, but none of them, even all combined, can offset the impact of such a dominant part of the Chinese economy. If other global economies were unable to offset the burst of a property bubble even when the size of their real estate sectors in the total economy was extraordinarily lower than in the case of China, it’s virtually impossible to believe that the Asian giant will be able to achieve its growth target when the property bubble burst coincides with an unprecedented government intervention in other sectors.

Chinese property developers need to repay or refinance up to $100 billion in debt in 2022, according to Bloomberg. It isn’t difficult to predict that at least half will default, surpassing 2021’s record figure. Additionally, global and domestic demand for the largest Chinese sectors is weakening due to expectations of more government crackdowns in 2022. The combination of increasing government interventionism with the rising concern about the financial situation of debt issuers may be unsurmountable for the Chinese economy. Repeating failed Keynesian demand-side policies is not the answer. China needs to open its economy and abandon a debt-fuelled model.

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“It got to the point, hilariously, where no one in the administration was even allowed to say the word ‘Tesla’!”

Biden Officials Fear Elon Musk Would Embarrass President At WH (NYP)

The White House is reportedly worried Elon Musk would be a bad guest if invited to meet with President Biden — a target of frequent mockery by the Tesla founder. Some of Biden’s top advisers have purportedly warned against inviting Musk to the White House over fears he would say something to embarrass the administration. The billionaire has repeatedly slammed the White House for failing to mention Tesla while discussing its plans for major nationwide investments in electric vehicles. Biden and his close advisers are said to be irritated with Musk’s public criticism and have no immediate plans to invite him to the White House for future events, CNBC reported, citing sources familiar with the matter.

When CNBC asked about the White House’s apparent concerns, Musk responded with a pair of “roll on the floor laughing” emojis and suggested his attendance at a future meeting shouldn’t be a cause of concern. “They have nothing to worry about,” Musk said. “I would do the right thing.” White House press secretary Jen Psaki and others have suggested that Tesla has been snubbed from business events because the company’s factories aren’t unionized. In January, Biden met with the CEOs of Ford and General Motors while promoting his Build Back Better Bill and claimed that “companies like GM and Ford are building more electric vehicles here at home than ever before.” That snub appeared to infuriate Musk, who referred to Biden last month as a “damp [sock] puppet in human form” and claimed the president was “treating the American public like fools.”

“It got to the point, hilariously, where no one in the administration was even allowed to say the word ‘Tesla’! The public outrage and media pressure about that statement forced him to admit that Tesla does in fact lead the EV industry,” Musk told CNBC. Biden went several months without discussing Tesla’s leading position in the electric vehicle market — only recently mentioning Musk’s company for the first time. On Feb. 8, the president referred to Tesla as “our nation’s largest electric vehicle manufacturer.” Musk argued that Biden “pointedly ignored Tesla at every turn” while touting other companies. Despite the tensions, Musk also downplayed the severity of his rift with Biden and other White House officials, asserting that the “notion of a feud is not quite right.” “I have nothing against Biden otherwise, apart from general concern about more deficit spending, which would apply to any president, and actively supported the Obama-Biden election,” Musk told the outlet.

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    Pablo Picasso Glass, bread and cheesee 1923   • Russia Conducts ‘Precision Strikes’ on Ukrainian Military Targets (Sputnik) • Russia Has ‘No Plan
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle February 24 2022]

    #102757
    Germ
    Participant

    For an idea of how monstrous is the rolling out of vaxxing for the 5-11 cohort.
    Do click the link to see the data:

    #102758
    anticlimactic
    Participant

    UKraine : Well, that escalated quickly!

    #102760
    oxymoron
    Participant

    The W E F young leaders have a problem

    I don’t want to be led

    Alot of others don’t as well

    #102761
    chooch
    Participant

    So natural immunity in two weeks (8 to 11) jumped from 60% to 90% for this age group, wow. Nearly 100% at the time it achieved approval (Feb. 22nd). Need to tease out how this group faired post vaccination keeping in mind the dose was 10mcg x 2 vs 30 mcg x 2 for adults. Were they going to stop reporting data in U.K. for fear of misinterpretation?

    #102762
    anticlimactic
    Participant

    The Ukraine is a very large country but it is a Frankenstein creation stitched together from chunks taken from surrounding countries. [See map above] Many of these areas have kept the language and customs of the original countries and are being harmed by the extremely nationalistic government in Kiev.

    I think that Ukraine should be broken up. I would have a vote of all Ukrainians about which country they want to belong to and as far as possible for areas to be rejoined with their countries of choice.

    #102763
    chooch
    Participant

    I am starting to wonder if naturally evolved viruses (not engineered) can actually help benefit the immune system in regards to helping us stave off cancers. Viral infections are necessary evil from time to time. If we go to war not understanding this, we will lose. Just a thought.

    #102764
    chooch
    Participant

    Does Putin believe that Xi has his back? Is Xi looking at this as an opportunity to take Taiwan? Curious as to what noirette’s thougts are, bosco’s too. Or is that akin to summoning the kraken now.

    #102766
    Basseterre Kitona
    Participant

    Me, I wonder what Hunter Biden is doing right now..

    Hunter is probably trying to remember is he lost any laptop computers in the brothels of Kiev. Although I doubt Russian will actually invade into the Ukraine beyond the breakaway provinces, it would be interesting if they went to Kiev and turned up more hard evidence of corruption from Biden & Co.

    As for Trudeau, rumor is that the about face was caused because his financial dragnet exposed some embarrassing connections, i.e., donations to the truckers from within his own party, government and police forces. Opened a can of worms and now trying to stuff it back in.

    #102767
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Not sure what’s up with revoking the War Powers, but the next casualty is they look like they have no idea what they’re doing. Taking a guess, compounding the guess that it was really the banking system: they found out that doing that backfired and was worse than if they hadn’t. Banks immediately called their paid servants and told them they don’t care if they look like the Three Stooges on national TV, reverse it. So the MPs, being wholly owned subsidiaries and paid monkeys, did as the bankers told them, and happily looked like idiots, discrediting all themselves and the whole government, perhaps worldwide.

    I really suspect they shot themselves in the head, but with a low-caliber round like .25. The bleeding begins and can’t be stopped.

    “Only 40 percent of rural hospitals in Texas offer labor-and-delivery services, and with staffing shortages, many deliver babies only a few days a week. There are 71 counties in the state with no hospitals at all. Across the country, 22 rural hospitals have shuttered in the past two years. According to one 2020 study, 453 more are in danger of closing.” –NYT

    Remove all health care from an area and watch them die. Classic genocide, generally apartheid, as covered in South Africa, Israel and Palestine. This was all well published in Agenda 21 and others, well-directed by Congress, and well-rewarded with profits by insurers.

    1) Murder people. 2) Steal their stuff 3) Profit! 4) Find more people and repeat 5) You did nothing and there’s a knock at the door.

    I’d say hold the over-posting in proxy but that doesn’t solve the problem: Raul would have to read them all anyway and who has time? My own posting is already way out on the edge but I try to provide ideas and facts that are new and relevant. This is just self-regulating culturally. He’s the host, we’re the guest. If you can’t behave yourself, then there’s no more dinner parties.

    #102768
    boilingfrog
    Participant

    Once again I’ll be applying an ‘anecdotal scientific method’ to what I see happening; reading news from all sides, watching actions, and seeing (a) whose predictions were most accurate, (b) which person
    /country came closest to matching their ‘talk’ in actions.

    That’s really an amazing datapoint by Chooch.

    And in the ‘sarcasm section’, I wonder if Victoria Nuland will choose to put her GoPro camera on her helmet, or on her rifle, as she live-streams her heroic, on-the-ground defense of Ukraine from the eastern front?

    #102769
    boilingfrog
    Participant

    Dr D, your posts are wonderful, to my way of thinking, and challenging my thinking. A delightful dinner guest you be…

    #102770
    auffi
    Participant

    I want to thank you Raúl for the amazing job you do here every day at TAE. The community you’ve attracted is invaluable.

    I don’t know if it’s already been shared here, but in Austria every household was sent a letter a couple of weeks ago by the government explaining the vaccine mandates.

    Here is a link to the complete letter:
    Vaccine mandate letter

    FWIW, I feel that you exercised extreme patience with bosco before laying down the truth. I used to read every comment, but after all the spam, I would rarely make it past the first or second page of comments.

    Cheers

    #102771
    Doc Robinson
    Participant

    chooch: “Does Putin believe that Xi has his back?”

    Some second-hand reporting of diplomat-speak:

    “The Chinese Foreign Ministry said on Thursday that Moscow does not have or need the backing of Beijing for its military action in Ukraine.”

    Hua said that Russia is a permanent member of the Security Council and an independent power. She claimed that Moscow’s action is based entirely on its own judgement and national interests.

    She emphasized that Sino-Russian relations are based on non-alignment, non-confrontation, and non-targeting of third parties.

    China is not interested in, and has no intention of following, the Cold War mentality of either friend or foe, she added.

    https://www.rt.com/news/550450-china-ukraine-russian-operation/

    #102772
    chooch
    Participant

    Thanks Doc, a little humor for the moment.

    Expert

    #102773
    absolute galore
    Participant

    Tucker Carlson continues to impress me. I’m sure I will hear from someone that he is simply “controlled opposition.” Whatever. In my opinion, he is truly speaking truth to power. How he gets away with it is beyond me, but I really don’t care. His latest take on the situation in Ukraine is powerful and spot on. It’s scary to think half of America believes the talking heads on the other channels when their hypocrisy is so obvious.
    https://youtu.be/eHrv38It9_I

    #102774
    chooch
    Participant

    Speaking truth to power. Check out Plett’s speech imbedded in this commentary.

    https://juliusruechel.substack.com/p/the-senate-speech-that-may-have-forced?utm_source=url

    #102775

    BILKA!

    #102776
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    It was fascinating to hear “straight from the horses mouth” about the selection process of the WEF Young Global Leaders Program. Not to brag, but it was exactly what I had postulated : a hierarchical structure of psychopaths self-selecting for psychopathic traits, thus ensuring that only the most utterly ruthless minions could ascend to trusted positions. So of course they then brag about the crime as though it were brilliant , what else could be expected from the “Dark Triad” of psychopathy-narcissism-Machiavellianism?

    #102777
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    Ooops. Forgot to add the exciting conclusion ! A hierarchical structure of psychopaths self-selecting for psychopathic traits inevitably produces a monolithic Cabal of evil people in charge of everything (if ya don’t stop them first . . . which is a dicey war, never safe or easy.). I submit as evidence the world around us at this very moment.

    #102778
    EoinW
    Participant

    I’d say that Dr. D is – as usual – correct. The banks told Canada’s child emperor to cool it. Thus our 21st century Napoleon took the crown off his head and handed it back to the Pope.

    I had a good laugh when hearing that China had condemned Trudeau’s anti democratic actions. Why would the CCP care? Then I remembered that the Chinese have been off shoring money in Canadian banks for close to two decades. If a threatened bank freeze can get me buying US dollars, what’s the effect on all that Chinese money? I’m sure TD survived my bank trot. Can all the Canadian banks survive a Chinese bank run?

    Doing the math: Lehman Bros. x 5 chartered banks = ?

    All we need now is a friendly push from Russia and western leadership credibility goes POOF!

    #102779
    Henry
    Participant

    @cooch, nice one. 👍

    #102780
    those darned kids
    Participant

    chooch: i’ve been listening to mr. plett’s speech in pieces since last night. i do, however, put it on 1.25 or 1.5 speed because it’s in senatetone and i don’t want to fall asleep like the rest of the senators usually do.

    #102781

    I wonder if nuclear fallout can provoke heart disease, cancer, and immune system disorders.

    #102782
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    @MyParentsSaidKnow asked , “I wonder if nuclear fallout can provoke heart disease, cancer, and immune system disorders.”

    I don’t have enough data to fully answer your question, BUT but I AM pretty sure that ENOUGH nuclear fallout will cure all of those conditions and quite a few more. . . in an unfortunately permanent way.

    #102784
    Figmund Sreud
    Participant

    The Canadian PM revoked the controversial order that had given the government sweeping powers to crack down on mandate protesters
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    Yes. This is a beginning of the end of him, … and all of his immediate handlers! Before summer arrives, he will be gone: … will resign as PM, and party leader, … begin sitting in back benches of Canadian Parliament. Depart a political theatre within six months after that. Over time, he will just become a footnote in Canadian history, …

    … good riddance!

    F.S.

    #102785

    Further to the discussion of Trudeau’s 180.

    A Major Backfire – Is the Canadian Financial and Banking System in Serious Trouble as a Result of Their Attack on Private Bank Accounts?

    I think the crypto crowd will pay special attention to the sentence “ Worse yet, the short-sighted Canadian government via Minister Freeland announced their ability to control cryptocurrency exchanges in their country and block access … .”

    #102786
    zerosum
    Participant

    Re.: speech given by Senator Donald Plett.

    I listened live.

    https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/441/debates/020db_2022-02-23-e#9

    Senator Gold: Colleagues, first I want to thank all honourable senators for the thoughtful contributions that have been made during this important debate. I’m rising on behalf of the Government of Canada to announce in this chamber that the government has revoked the Emergencies Act in accordance with section 22 of the act.

    Some Hon. Senators: Hear, hear!

    Senator Gold: The appropriate order-in-council will be filed in due course.

    Motion to Confirm the Declaration of a Public Order Emergency Withdrawn
    Hon. Marc Gold (Government Representative in the Senate): Therefore, honourable senators, I ask for leave of the Senate to end the debate on the motion to confirm the public order emergency proclaimed on February 14, 2022, and revoked earlier today, and to withdraw the order for the consideration of the motion, with the Senate resuming sittings following the rules, orders and practices that would otherwise be in effect.

    The Hon. the Speaker: Is leave granted, honourable senators?

    Hon. Senators: Agreed.

    (Motion withdrawn.)

    (At 4:24 p.m., pursuant to the orders adopted by the Senate on November 25, 2021 and February 21, 2022, the Senate adjourned until 2 p.m., tomorrow.)

    #102788
    zerosum
    Participant

    My crystal ball
    Hidden in the fog, This riffraf, could not see, the logic of Russia going to war in Ukraine.

    #102789
    Figmund Sreud
    Participant

    Disarming Ukraine (MoA)
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    Not quite, … it’s just the initial step to halt the United States’ ongoing process to balkanize Russia, … perhaps even to go much, much further. MoA added an update at the bottom:

    Putin’s speech last night (English version) explains why this is happening.

    Read it! Read it slowly for good comprehension, … the whole statement is simply the most unambiguous message to Russia’s national greatest enemy, …

    … this will not end well to us all!

    F.S.

    #102790
    Mr. House
    Participant

    “Bankruptcy For Moderna, Definitely Pfizer”

    You caught the eye of the covid true believers. First time i’ve seen any of your stuff linked over that way in a long time.

    #102791
    chooch
    Participant

    zerosum,

    5d chess (taking Basseterre Kitiona’s comment to the next level). Ukraine has Biden’s over a barrel. Sweeper operation where Putin is the proxy.

    #102792
    ezlxa1949
    Participant

    As you would expect, much agitation about Russia and Ukraine in the Oz MSM today.
    Auntie (ABC) has these headlines among others:

    “Second wave of targeted missile strikes hits Ukraine and world leaders condemn Putin’s cold-blooded war.”
    “The Russia-Ukraine crisis isn’t just unfloding on the ground. Cyber attacks are intensifying too.”
    “The global economy is staring into the abyss as Ukraine invasion hits tje Australian stock market.”
    “It’s 15,000 kilometres from Kyiv to Korumburra, but the Russia-Ukraine conflict will have impacts across Australia.”
    “Russia sanctions, Ukraine conflict likely to increase petrol, gas, fertiliser and wheat prices.”
    “China refuses to call Russia’s actions in Ukraine an invasion.”
    “Why are building costs going through the rooof?”
    “Australia won’t send troops, but how else is it going to help Ukraine?”

    No idea what terrifying stratagems Australia will deploy. The mouse that roared…

    FYI, the national average unleaded petrol price rose to a record 179 cents per litre last week. Convert that to your local currencies and weights & measures, and see if running your car fits into your household budget. It does mine, but I don’t need to use the car a great deal.

    #102793
    zerosum
    Participant

    Target rich military infrastructures

    Russia destroyer/bombed the first round of assets.
    Western world needs to send more enriched targets/guns/ammunition/etc for Russia to practice and to save the riffraf.
    Old bombs are missfiring and hitting unintended targets and causing corollary damage..

    #102794
    Mr. House
    Participant

    Ha, those Thomas Paine podcasts, at least the second get to what i’ve been saying since the beginning of this mess. REPO issues in the fall of 2019 may or may not be what led to the “covid crisis”. Glad to see some other people are starting to consider that.

    #102795
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    Trudeau and Freeland’s multiple extremely damaging and extremely high profile screw ups are evidence that their “Masters” are rapidly pulling more and more micro-managerial control back to the top management level . . . which put’s that “top management” further and further removed from the realities on the ground and in the trenches.

    The phenomenon is inevitable and inescapable, so definitely look for more such brazen almost unbelievable “stupidity explosions” in the immediate future (probably NZ or Australia . . . but maybe the USA).

    Here’s how it works : The Master tells the minion to do something awful. The minion complies. The awful deed fails awfully. The Master blames the minion, thinks the minion is incompetent, and takes over the minion’s authority. Being now even further away and less informed and overwhelmed, the Master dreams up even more awfully misconceived solutions, and the process repeats , and it just goes on and on. The “top” keeps pulling more and more authority back under its personal control, and yet the top now has fewer and fewer trusted people left to help them do the work.

    It is the fate of all cult leaders, dictators and authoritarian juntas. As they drag authority towards the increasingly overwhelmed incompetent center the consequent failures speed up like an implosion and annihilates them. Once it starts it will run to the end. And that’s all there is to it.

    #102796
    Henry
    Participant
    #102797
    Figmund Sreud
    Participant

    @zerosumRussia destroyer/bombed the first round of assets.

    Machine translation of https://cont.ws/@sam8807/2216623

    Eyewitnesses publish photos and videos from Ochakov, Mykolaiv region, where earlier US military builders erected a command post for the Naval Forces.

    The day before, Vladimir Putin, in an appeal for the recognition of the LDNR, mentioned Ochakov among the threats to Russia due to the expansion of NATO infrastructure.

    F.S.

    #102798
    Mr. House
    Participant

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/white-supremacists-plotted-power-grid-attacks-to-start-a-race-war-feds-say/ar-AAUdDE0

    Uh huh, this is believable. Three guys were going to take the power grids down across the country to start a race war? The only people who’ve been trying to start a race war the past few years is .gov

    #102799
    John Day
    Participant
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