Feb 272022
 


Rembrandt van Rijn Aristotle Contemplating a Bust of Homer 1653
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picture_This_(novel)

 

Intracellular Reverse Transcription of Pfizer COVID-19 mRNA Vaccine (MDPI)
‘Final Review’ Of Russia’s Relations With West Now Possible – Medvedev (RT)
US Foreign Policy Is a Cruel Sport (Diana Johnstone)
The New Geopolitical Game Board (Luongo)
Ukraine’s Leadership Has Rejected Negotiations – Kremlin (RT)
Can Ukraine Have A ‘Nazi Problem’ With A Jewish President? (Karabelnicoff)
Elon Musk Activates Starlink Satellites to Restore Internet in Ukraine (GR)
The Freezing Of Accounts Was Political Vengeance (TSun)
The Global Disinformation Campaign to Suppress Ivermectin (Kory)
Scientific Groupthink Silenced Scientists Sceptical of Lockdowns (DS)

 

 

 

 

Pharmacokinetics

 

 

This study is in vitro, but it is beyond scary, and should halt all vaccinations right now:

“We also show that BNT162b2 mRNA is reverse transcribed intracellularly into DNA in as fast as 6 h upon BNT162b2 exposure.”

“BNT162b2-derived DNA may be integrated into the host genome and affect the integrity of genomic DNA..”

This MUST first be tested. The sad irony is that there are a few hundred million test cases walking around.

Intracellular Reverse Transcription of Pfizer COVID-19 mRNA Vaccine (MDPI)

In the current study, we employed a human liver cell line for in vitro investigation. It is worth investigating if the liver cells also present the vaccine-derived SARS-CoV-2 spike protein, which could potentially make the liver cells targets for previously primed spike protein reactive cytotoxic T cells. There has been case reports on individuals who developed autoimmune hepatitis [39] after BNT162b2 vaccination. To obtain better understanding of the potential effects of BNT162b2 on liver function, in vivo models are desired for future studies.


In the BNT162b2 toxicity report, no genotoxicity nor carcinogenicity studies have been provided [26]. Our study shows that BNT162b2 can be reverse transcribed to DNA in liver cell line Huh7, and this may give rise to the concern if BNT162b2-derived DNA may be integrated into the host genome and affect the integrity of genomic DNA, which may potentially mediate genotoxic side effects. At this stage, we do not know if DNA reverse transcribed from BNT162b2 is integrated into the cell genome. Further studies are needed to demonstrate the effect of BNT162b2 on genomic integrity, including whole genome sequencing of cells exposed to BNT162b2, as well as tissues from human subjects who received BNT162b2 vaccination.

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“It’s time to close the embassies with barn locks. And to continue contacts by examining each other only through binoculars and weapons’ optical systems..”

‘Final Review’ Of Russia’s Relations With West Now Possible – Medvedev (RT)

Western sanctions could be an “excellent reason for a final review” of Russia’s relations with the nations that have imposed the restrictions, the deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council and former president, Dmitry Medvedev, said on Saturday. Russia’s military operation in Ukraine, which was launched on February 24, has prompted outrage in the West and a new wave of harsh sanctions against Russia. In a lengthy post on the Russian social network VK, Medvedev called the restrictions “a myth, a figment, a figure of speech.” “Sanctions could be an excellent reason for the final review of all relations with those states that have introduced them. Including interruption of the dialogue on strategic stability,” Medvedev wrote. He added that in principle, it is possible “to renounce everything,” including the New START Treaty.


“Yes, and diplomatic relations, in principle, are not particularly needed. It’s time to close the embassies with barn locks. And to continue contacts by examining each other only through binoculars and weapons’ optical systems,” Medvedev said. Commenting on the decision by the Council of Europe and Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe to suspend Russia’s membership, the former president said that while this is a “flagrant injustice,” it could still be considered as a good reason “to finally slam the door and forget about these meaningless almshouses forever.” This development could also be used to “restore a number of important institutions for prevention of especially serious crimes in the country,” he said, such as the “death penalty for the most dangerous criminals, which, by the way, is being actively used in the United States and China.”

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“The Minsk agreement set out a few steps to end the internal Ukrainian crisis. First, Ukraine was supposed to immediately adopt a law granting self-government to eastern regions (in March 2015).”

US Foreign Policy Is a Cruel Sport (Diana Johnstone)

The 2014 U.S.-backed coup that overthrew President Viktor Yukanovych, solidly supported by the east of the country, brought to power pro-West forces determined to bring Ukraine into NATO, whose designation of Russia as prime enemy had become ever more blatant. This caused the prospect of an eventual NATO capture of Russia’s major naval base at Sebastopol, on the Crimean peninsula. Since the Crimean population had never wanted to be part of Ukraine, the peril was averted by organizing a referendum in which an overwhelming majority of Crimeans voted to return to Russia, from which they had been severed by an autocratic Khrushchev ruling in 1954. Western propagandists relentlessly denounced this act of self-determination as a “Russian invasion” foreshadowing a program of Russian military conquest of its Western neighbors – a fantasy supported by neither facts nor motivation.

Appalled by the coup overthrowing the president they had voted for, by nationalists threatening to outlaw the Russian language they spoke, the people of the eastern provinces of Donetsk and Lugansk declared their independence. Russia did not support this move, but instead supported the Minsk agreement, signed in February 2015 and endorsed by a UN Security Council resolution. The gist of the accord was to preserve the territorial integrity of Ukraine by a federalization process that would return the breakaway republics in return for their local autonomy. The Minsk agreement set out a few steps to end the internal Ukrainian crisis. First, Ukraine was supposed to immediately adopt a law granting self-government to eastern regions (in March 2015).

Next, Kiev would negotiate with eastern territories over guidelines for local elections to be held that year under OSCE supervision. Then Kiev would implement a constitutional reform guaranteeing eastern right. After the elections, Kiev would take full control of Donetsk and Lugansk, including border with Russia. A general amnesty would cover soldiers on both sides. However, although it signed the agreement, Kiev has never implemented any of these points and refuses to negotiate with the eastern rebels. Under the so-called Normandy agreement, France and Germany were expected to put pressure on Kiev to accept this peaceful settlement, but nothing happened. Instead, the West has accused Russia of failing to implement the agreement, which makes no sense inasmuch as the obligations to implement fall on Kiev, not on Moscow. Kiev officials regularly reiterate their refusal to negotiate with the rebels, while demanding more and more weaponry from NATO powers in order to deal with the problem in their own way.

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“It was as clumsy as it was stupid, to quote Darth Vader..”

The New Geopolitical Game Board (Luongo)

Up until February 23rd, 2022, the powerful countries of the world played a very rarified game. Too many people try to analyze geopolitics like it is a game of chess. Move, counter-move. Push a pawn? Threaten a knight, that type of thing. It’s easy to understand and makes for good copy. In the past I’ve tried to liken it to a multi-player version of Go, with anywhere from four to 6 different colored stones on the board trying to take territory. It was a better metaphor but nearly impossible to describe adequately. In fact, at times, it was exhausting. The reality is that neither of these metaphors are explanatory. Because the only accurate model for geopolitics is actually Calvinball. You know that game. That’s the one from Calvin & Hobbes.

Contrary to your memory of the legendary comic strip, there were rules to Calvinball that went something like this: Calvin got to make the rules up as he went along. In geopolitics it pretty much comes down to whoever is the strongest player got that power. Here’s the thing. Up until Russia’s invasion of Ukraine (and yes, it is an invasion, justifiable or otherwise) there was something called the ‘rules-based order’ promoted mainly by the US but also supported directly by the European Union and the Commonwealth. The rules of the ‘rules-based order’ were simple. We make the rules, you follow them. We reserve the right to change the rules whenever we want to suit our purpose. It was the geopolitical equivalent of Sam Francis’ idea of ‘anarcho-tyranny,’ which boils down to, “rules for thee, but not for me.”

We’ve heard the Russian diplomats complain about this for years. Why have these rules if they are not ever enforced? As I point out all the time when talking about leftist ideologues purity spiraling towards self-destruction, we have these rules because only others’ hypocrisy counts. Sub-humans are not allowed to talk or even be a part of the conversation. And in the world of diplomacy as practiced by the collective West, the Russians are definitely sub-human, just like the unvaxxed, anyone to the immediate right of Karl Marx and who isn’t a furry. All that changed when Russian tanks crossed the border, stand off missiles hit anti-aircraft and artillery batteries, and marines came onshore in Ukraine.

For months we’ve been treated to the dumbest and most infuriating facsimile of diplomacy I’ve ever witnessed. It beggared belief listening to the nauseating virtue signaling of US ‘diplomats’ who refused to engage Russia’s concerns in even a half-serious manner while blaming them for every issue on the planet. It was as clumsy as it was stupid, to quote Darth Vader. It was clear that Putin and his staff would be given this ultimate option, invade Ukraine and face global opprobrium or kneel before Zod. Their miscalculation was in thinking that Russia actually cares one whit about that global opprobrium at this point. By their actions in Ukraine this week, it is clear they do not.

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Fluid. Latest is that Zelensky is willing to talk, but not in Minsk.

Ukraine’s Leadership Has Rejected Negotiations – Kremlin (RT)

Russia’s military operation in Ukraine is continuing after the country’s leadership declined to negotiate, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Saturday. President Vladimir Putin previously ordered the Russian troops to halt their advance on Friday, awaiting a response from Kiev, Moscow said. It added that the offensive continued on Saturday. Alexey Arestovich, an adviser at Zelensky’s office, confirmed to Ukrainian media that Kiev has declined the talks with Russia, citing the “terms” put forward by Moscow through intermediaries. “It was an attempt to force us into capitulation,” he said, without elaborating. Alexey Arestovich, an adviser at Zelensky’s office, confirmed to Ukrainian media that Kiev has declined the talks with Russia, blaming the “terms” put forward by Moscow through intermediaries.


“It was an attempt to force us into capitulation,” he said, without elaborating. However, moments later, another official at Zelensky’s office, Mikhail Podolyak, told Russian outlet RBC that Kiev did not reject the negotiations. “Undoubtedly, Ukraine did not refuse to negotiate,” he said, underlining that negotiations have not yet taken place. “Ukraine and President Zelensky categorically reject any unacceptable or ultimatum-like conditions of the Russian side.” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Friday that he was ready to sit down for talks with Russia in order to end hostilities between the countries. The same day, Peskov told reporters that Moscow was ready to hold talks in Minsk, Belarus. He later claimed that the Ukrainian side first offered to move the meeting to Warsaw, Poland, and then stopped responding.

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From jewishunpacked.com.

I think Putin’s point is that neo-nazis have too much influence in Ukraine.

Can Ukraine Have A ‘Nazi Problem’ With A Jewish President? (Karabelnicoff)

In Ukraine, the offense of antisemitism is now punishable by a fine or a prison sentence of up to five years. Despite this, antisemitism is not a thing of the past in Ukraine. The country has been historically reluctant to reckon with its role in the Holocaust, during which more than one million Jews were killed by the Nazis and local Ukrainian collaborators. The Jews of Ukraine account for a great proportion of the Soviet victims of the Holocaust with the worst massacre taking place at Babi Yar outside Kiev. During 1941–43 more than 100,000 Jews were killed in Babi Yar. For some in Ukraine’s Jewish community, the current events have stirred up memories of past horrors, reported the New York Times. “Though antisemitic violence is relatively rare in Odessa, some Jews are fearful that it could be unleashed by the chaos of war,” the article explained.

“Antisemitism in Ukraine exists in its old ‘traditional’ and cultural form: the notion that Jews control all money, the media and government, they are greedy, murdered Jesus, and ‘suck our blood,’” said Samuel Kliger, the American Jewish Committee’s Director of Russian and Eurasian Affairs. Alongside that apathy, Kilger said, some Ukrainian lawmakers have pushed to celebrate certain Nazi collaborators as war heroes, trumpeting their anti-Communist battles while ignoring their complicity in Holocaust crimes. “Ukraine really does have a far-right problem, and it’s not a fiction of Kremlin propaganda. And it’s well past time to talk about it,” explained journalist and expert on the Ukrainian far right, Michael Colborne.

The most known neo-Nazi group on Ukraine’s far right is the Azov movement. The movement grew out of the Azov Regiment (originally a Battalion), formed in the chaos of war in early 2014. It was formed by a “ragtag group of far-right thugs, football hooligans and international hangers-on, including dozens of Russian citizens,” said Colborne, who wrote a book on the movement. At that point, Azov became an official unit of Ukraine’s National Guard. Now, the movement’s most public face is the National Corps political party, which won barely 2% of the vote in a coalition with other far-right parties in parliamentary elections in 2019.

Estimates of membership are around 10,000 members, according to Corborne. “It’s more a brand than a party, a polished PR-focused outfit that isn’t above coyly referencing the so-called “14 words”, a white supremacist slogan,” he wrote. “The Azov movement tries to be a one-stop shop for all things far right. There’s also a bevy of loosely affiliated but more extreme subgroups under its umbrella as well, including open neo-Nazis who praise and promote violence.” The Azov movement is frequently cited by people who want to “give Putin a free pass to do what he wants in Ukraine,” Corborne added. “It doesn’t in any way justify the actions of the Russian president.”

De-nazification

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12,000 satellites…

Elon Musk Activates Starlink Satellites to Restore Internet in Ukraine (GR)

Elon Musk said early on Sunday that his Starlink satellite service is activated in Ukraine after a government official in Kyiv called on him to supply satellite-based communications to help resist Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. “Starlink service is now active in Ukraine,” Musk tweeted, adding “more terminals en route.” The tweet came some 10 hours after Ukrainian Minister of Digital Transformation Mykhailo Fedorov urged Musk to provide Starlink services to Ukraine, days after it was invaded by neighboring Russia. “While you try to colonize Mars — Russia try to occupy Ukraine! While your rockets successfully land from space — Russian rockets attack Ukrainian civil people! We ask you to provide Ukraine with Starlink stations,” Fedorov tweeted at Musk.


He also called on the billionaire “to address sane Russians to stand” against their government’s invasion. Internet monitor NetBlocks said Ukraine has seen a “series of significant disruptions to internet service” since Thursday when Russia launched military operations in the country. “Musk’s Starlink helps nations facing threats or natural disasters like Ukraine, Tonga”. Starlink operates a constellation of more than 2,000 satellites that aim to provide internet access across the planet. The company on Friday launched a further 50 Starlink satellites and many more are slated to be put into Earth’s orbit. It currently has more than 1,600 satellites orbiting in space — but that’s only the beginning for the tech maven, who plans to launch up to 12,000, reports Smithsonian Magazine.

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“..an assault on ordinary Canadians just because they disagreed with the government.”

The Freezing Of Accounts Was Political Vengeance (TSun)

By the time you read this column, perhaps the Trudeau government will have permitted banks, pension funds, insurance companies, mortgage brokers and other financial institutions to release the accounts of protestors and Freedom Convoy donors that were frozen after the Liberals invoked the Emergencies Act on Feb. 14. But as I am writing this – about 48 hours after the prime minister ended his emergency degree – the bank accounts, credit cards and loans of Canadian workers and businesses connected with the convoy were still under government lock and key. Why? Monday, when asking Parliament to approve his use of the Emergencies Act, Trudeau promised the state of emergency would not last “a day longer than necessary.”

Well, for the more than 200 Canadians being held financial hostage by Ottawa, it has gone on longer. That is outrageous enough. But consider what Barry MacKillop, deputy director of FINTRAC, told the Commons Finance committee on Thursday. As far as his agency is concerned none of the people whose accounts were frozen intended to bring down the Canadian government or destabilize the country’s economy. The Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada (FINTRAC), is the federal agency within the Department of Finance responsible for detecting and preventing money laundering, terrorism financing and transfers of the proceeds of crime.

When the Trudeau government sent banks on a witch hunt through the account records and credit histories of ordinary Canadians who had given money to the Freedom Convoy, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland said such heavy-handed tactics were necessary because “we know these platforms are being used to support illegal blockades and illegal activity which is damaging the Canadian economy.” Really!? ‘Cuz the very agency within Freeland’s own department in charge of preventing such activity told MPs on Thursday this was the donors’ own money. As far as FINTRAC can tell, the millions donated in small amounts were genuine, good-faith donations. They weren’t money being funneled from powerful sources bent on overthrowing the Trudeau regime.

“It was (donors’) own money. It wasn’t cash that funded terrorism or was in any way money laundering,” MacKillop testified. He added, “There were people around the world who were fed up with COVID and were upset and saw the demonstrations. I believe they just wanted to support the cause.” Which, if you think about it, makes the freezing of these people’s personal accounts an act of political vengeance by the Liberals – an assault on ordinary Canadians just because they disagreed with the government. Politicians using the vast power of the state to intimidate their opponents purely on ideological grounds is far more of a threat to our democracy than any threat the Trudeau government imagined (and I use the word “imagined” on purpose) the convoy posed.

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“It’s time for the cops. It’s time for the prosecutors. And it’s time for the judges. And then it’s time for the prisons.”

The Global Disinformation Campaign to Suppress Ivermectin (Kory)

The only way to stop future pharmaceutical industry crimes against humanity is to record, for posterity, the historically unprecedented scale of censorship and propaganda of information that they deployed. If I can help expose this playbook (with my little Substack—delusions of grandeur?), we have a shot at developing countering and/or neutralizing measures to prevent further massive deaths in this disease—as well as many other diseases. Note that the nefariousness of these actions can only be dwarfed by their scale, as they have impacted survival outcomes in almost the entirety of planet Earth’s citizens. Although I will document these depraved actions, in most cases I will be unable to suggest or truly identify the ultimate or specific protagonists.

You know: The actual individuals deploying these tactics, the ones making the ad buys and providing the “messaging,” paying the journalists and researchers for their media hit jobs, publishing the “negative” medical journal editorials and studies, partnering with the occasional U.S sociopath health agency leader, etc. Although I will be unable to identify them personally, employing logic, the only possible source of sufficient power to have exerted such widespread influence, would be the managers of the three multi-trillion dollar investment firms that have influential and/or controlling stakes in almost all corporations in almost all industries, and those three are: Black Rock, State Street, and Vanguard.

Or it may have been the occasional pseudo-philanthropist-vaccine-obsessed-eugenicist-hundred-billionaire who, along with massive controlling donations to all the major international and national health agencies, also distributed hundreds of millions amongst almost every major media outlet in the world. That investigative exercise is not what I am skilled in, as I am just a lowly physician expert in ivermectin who has held a front row seat to now fourteen months of their deadly successful disinformation campaign against ivermectin. Instead, I simply plan to document every detail of every action that I have witnessed and/or have been personally involved in…and hope the investigative authorities can take care of the rest.

It’s time for the cops. It’s time for the prosecutors. And it’s time for the judges. And then it’s time for the prisons. But first: The evidence. Stay tuned.

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“Many academics and researchers were scared of losing grant funding if they raised their head above the parapet.”

Scientific Groupthink Silenced Scientists Sceptical of Lockdowns (DS)

Early in the pandemic a narrow scientific ‘groupthink’ took hold, which cast those questioning draconian policies as “unethical, immoral and fringe” – but this “smokescreen is finally starting to dissipate”, the Telegraph‘s Science Editor Sarah Knapton has said. “Take scientists who supported the Great Barrington Declaration. They, not unreasonably, believed that it would be sensible to shield the most vulnerable while allowing those at very low risk to carry on their lives, thereby preventing cataclysmic damage to the economy, mental health and education. Instead of the idea being sensibly debated, the signatories were pilloried and made to seem as if they were in the minority.

A recent study by Stanford University revealed they weren’t; they just had fewer social media followers and so struggled in the face of more organised opposition.The report neatly demonstrates the alarming reach and power of demographically unrepresentative forums like Twitter, which are easily hijacked by powerful lobbying groups. Prof John Ioannidis, the study author and an expert in data science and the reliability of research, told the Telegraph: “Twitter is a useful means to communicate both with colleagues and with the general public. However, it should not be used for arbitrating what is scientifically correct, let alone for shaping health policy. “Twitter can be easily usurped by agendas and narratives; it is very easily susceptible to political coloration and fads, and it is often used for smearing opponents.

“I worry about the distortion that can ensue when science is communicated in brief clips or with a mindset of how to satisfy or excite one’s followers.” Much of the pro-lockdown narrative was controlled by a small group of scientists who effectively organised themselves into a political movement which sought to influence policy. Independent Sage, a group of largely Left-wing academics which regularly called for tighter restrictions, was put together by the Citizens, a group founded by Carole Cadwalladr, a Guardian and Observer journalist and activist. Many of the scientists on Independent Sage also signed the John Snow Memorandum, which branded the Great Barrington Experiment as unethical.”

Many of those opposed to the new groupthink kept their heads down for fear of losing funding, Sarah writes. “Many academics and researchers were scared of losing grant funding if they raised their head above the parapet. It created a chilling effect which made it appear that most scientists believed in greater restrictions. Even within the Government, there is now a feeling that too much attention was paid to too narrow a band of scientists, at the expense of seeing the bigger picture. Large parts of the scientific community were completely ignored as a disproportionate amount of attention was given to virologists and epidemiologists. One Government minister said: “We have had to have the guts to say the data can be challenged sometimes, and say that’s good data but we have to make a political decision.

“In the pandemic we got a bit close to pretending there was no tension. Public health officials who have absolutely no remit to keep the economy vibrant, they only remit is to make sure there is no infection were calling for the whole thing to be shut down

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THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE TELEVISED
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People’s Convoy 10 miles long

 

 

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    Rembrandt van Rijn Aristotle Contemplating a Bust of Homer 1653 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picture_This_(novel)   • Intracellular Reverse Tran
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle February 27 2022]

    #103070
    V. Arnold
    Participant

    Rembrandt van Rijn Aristotle Contemplating a Bust of Homer 1653

    Ah, here we are again…yes!
    Picture This Joseph Heller

    😉

    #103071
    V. Arnold
    Participant

    Rembrandt van Rijn is always a visual feast; regardles of what one thinks of his art…
    Rich in color and a master of the play of light…

    #103072
    oxymoron
    Participant

    Ok. Didn’t work yesterday so got it on to Youtube. Enjoy.

    Still can’t leave Australia legally. Have to escape. Sounds melodramatic – is a bit but the implications are not.

    #103073
    oxymoron
    Participant

    If banks and equity funds fund pharma/lockdowns etc. and it’s global and then we get closer and closer to going hard on their fraud and misdemeanours, would it not make sense to start a mass media feeding frenzy around a brand new war?
    With a so-called ‘baddie’ (Putin) who partnered very closely with the WEF during said pandemic and did all the same things as everyone else. The same guy who now is intricately involved in the new ‘lockdown 2.0’ where no one can go anywhere when oil and gas prices go through the roof.
    It’s the same stink different fart.
    Now we are all scared of WW3 and forgetting the shit that just got served us.
    Not me.
    I’m not buying any of it. Except the Oil shares I can’t afford.

    Vegies it is

    #103074
    cazalis
    Participant

    I really appreciate TAE but every once in a while, as a former new photographer, artist and visual image makes I find it very disappointing to see some of the imagery/memes go unchecked like this CNN journo killed in Afghanistan and Ukraine. It took me leas than 2 min to discover both are fake. Again, this is not the first or second time I see this. Your credibility is important to a lot of people, I suggest you don’t swing in the wind, be diligent.

    Link to source
    https://www.snopes.com/news/2022/02/24/ukraine-american-journalist/

    #103075
    upstateNYer
    Participant

    “With a so-called ‘baddie’ (Putin) who partnered very closely with the WEF during said pandemic and did all the same things as everyone else. …
    Now we are all scared of WW3 and forgetting the shit that just got served us.
    Not me.
    I’m not buying any of it.”

    Well done, oxy. Thank you.

    #103076
    chooch
    Participant

    I only post this because

    A) Australia scrapped a vaccine that caused HIV false positives

    B) “rare” reports of covid cases and HIV false positives

    C) The increased messaging to get HIV tested

    D) Fauci being a common denominator or proxy.

    E) They are trying to kill us.

    #103077
    chooch
    Participant

    Ukraine could be another Afghanistan in the making. Very profitable for MIC.

    Several countries, including the US, Germany and The Netherlands, are ready to send military aid, including Stinger air defence missiles, anti-tank weapons and artillery ammunition to Ukraine to fight Russian forces.

    ‘A fighting war with the main enemy’: How the CIA helped land a mortal blow to the Soviets in Afghanistan 32 years ago. To turn the tide, the US introduced Stinger anti-aircraft missiles to erode Soviet control of the air.

    Seems odd Putin would get trapped by this. Putin needs to destroy Kyiv and kill the president and MPs. That’s what a proper war is about though good for absolutely nothing.

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    VietnamVet
    Participant

    The Kremlin did it. There is a lot of history behind the Russian invasion of Ukraine; the 2014 Western directed Coup, the fall of the Soviet Union, or Joe Stalin’s reshuffling the Balkan borders after victory in WWII. The main one is that Slavs have and will be subhuman to the haute Western European aristocracy. Deplorables aren’t much better to new money American globalists.

    Europe, the World, has just been partitioned. The red button for WWIII has been pushed. The Western baiting of the Russian Bear succeeded. But the corporate neoliberal ruling class can’t see beyond the next three months. There are only a few possible outcomes to the world war; 1) Russia halts it advance and withdraws to old borders and the West agrees to something similar to the Minsk Agreements, 2) the West resupplies and inserts Catholic/Protestant Eastern European volunteers into West Ukraine and ties down Russian forces in a forever guerrilla war, or 3) Russia masses its forces to invade Poland and Bulgaria to cut off the supplies and NATO uses tactical nuclear weapons to destroy them. The use of the nukes inevitable will result in igniting of all of the 3200 currently deployed nuclear weapons on both sides.

    Even if the West survives the Russia Ukraine War, extremely tough times are ahead; energy disruptions (blackouts), food shortages, missing essential workers due to COVID and vaccine side effects, unrest, significantly decreased life expectancy, climate change wildfires and heat domes — not enough natural gas to keep warm during polar vortexes like the Texas freeze last winter, plus hurricanes, the crash of the petrodollar, gasoline lines and finally dysfunctional privatized western governments that are unable to address any of the multitude of disasters afflicting their populations.

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    Dr. D
    Participant

    FOIA act on the pandemic labs, they sent 296 redacted pages. Not pages with some redactions; 296 BLACK, 100% redacted, unreadable pages.

    I do not find that suspicious at all. I always hide stuff when I’m completely innocent and want to garner maximum support and trust from the people. However, this guy doesn’t: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNKG8d0ujwo Nor Jon Stewart either.

    However, there’s a logical explanation. The official story is it happened like this (NSFW): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xdNBZk4j20

    I’m kidding. Actually that makes more sense than the official story.

    “White House Asks Congress For $6.4 Billion for Ukraine Crisis”

    Hey! What happened to the additional $7B Congress gave the White House ALREADY for no earthly reason and the Military never even asked for? You give it to Hunter for hookers and blow? That’s still a lot of money you jokers. That’s 80,000 new nurses.

    Anybody think Zelensky is one of the (relatively) good guys who has to play his part in all this playing out? I have, but it’s too complex and hidden to get a handle on as he’s double-playing both sides in a sense. Here’s a tell: so he of all people said there’s no invasion on his borders. Wasn’t gonna happen. And he should know. And took heat, made the Anglos look like idiots for it and got on their wrong side. But that helped the real invasion noticeably.

    Then there has been essentially no resistance and – if reports are to be believed – extremely low casualties for a war. Even if Ukr people don’t want to fight – and it wouldn’t do them a lick of good anyway – that can only be done with some additional coordination. Last, he’s retaining a lot of credibility with stories about how “The U.S. asked him to be evacuated” but he’s going to stay, blah blah. Whatever. If he’s already got a back-channel with Russia, which is a given, he’s got nothing to worry about. He’s not a mentally-ill maniac like the other leaders, he can just go back to being an ordinary actor in a middle-class flat. In the sense of, it wouldn’t bother him emotionally to do that. Do that to Boris – and we should – and he’d break apart and melt down like Huey Long in “Blaze”.

    Like I said, a deal is made, they have to keep the Anglos from another Maidan, another Serbian assassination we do about 12x a year somewhere (very short list above), and so he gives Russia all the intel on his operations, tells them which Oligarchs can be brought to heel, and where the latest labs and human – that is, women and children – trafficking is, where the Derp State human experiment bioweapons labs who are using(killing) those women and children are. Because – just guessing here – he doesn’t like it either. I’m sure they installed him as a puppet and actor, but you hear things. His native attitude is no doubt similar to what Jon Stewart’s would be.

    Anyhow, he/we are all playing out this stage script. For our benefit. So maybe – MAYBE – the normies might learn something and believe the truth for a change. Probably not. I expect the gas will be shut off, they’ll freeze on the way to walk to get Eggos in an empty Piggly-Wiggly, still staring at their blank and powerless phone screen.

    Which makes more sense? Which would YOU do if you were Zelensky? “Putin Invades Ukraine and Europe Buys MORE Gas.” Yup. They like invasions. They heartily approve. Because nobody knew it was coming and they’re all super mad.

    “US Treasury Imposes Sanctions on President Putin” personally. Yup. Can’t you hear us signaling? We’re signaling really hard over here.

    …And you minions are supposed to obey, by gum. When we take your British beach house you’ll be sorry! Now stop! Or I, Boris the Clown, will signal some more.

    “Ukrainian soldiers are peacefully co-patrolling the Chernobyl site with no shot ever fired” Uh-huh. Not that there isn’t shooting, but clearly that is happening widely or there would be enormous casualties by now.

    “Only Washington can negotiate with Russia.” Because we’re not involved in the war and believe in a sovereign Ukraine?

    “Bitcoin uses too much electricity.”

    Why? No it doesn’t. They are MINING Bitcoin. And will stop the minute the prices change. The last block is nearly created already. So after that, you could have 3 PCs running on maybe 133mhz processors, and run the whole Bitcoin system. Is that too much electricity for you? Of course that’s too few, but there’s no set level for how many, it only has minimums. And again, no one argues with the existing massive, wasteful bank system of servers, every ATM and point-of-sale reader, all the telcom back-end, which is thousands of times larger. Or the whole internet, where they absorb whole townships of water in the desert to serve and cool them, in the interest of storing which ads you should be spammed with and cat videos. Only BTC. It bugs me because both are very simple and very false. There are a lot of objections to be had, but not these ones.

    The Pentagon is the largest waster of oil on the planet. Shouldn’t we start there?

    And no money was coined in the U.S.? https://coinreplicas.com/product-category/early-american-coins/post-colonial-america/ Seems like there was.

    “Russia’s invasion represents a fundamental assault on the rules and norms that have prevailed since WWII: that is to say, WE are the ones who are supposed to do the invading and assaulting worldwide. Hey! That’s OUR job! The Rules are: WE invade, kill people and steal stuff, YOU let us.”

    “Can Ukraine Have A ‘Nazi Problem’ With A Jewish President? (Karabelnicoff)”
    “US/UK effectively arming and training Nazis in Ukraine for a number of years and it’s well documented.”

    Or more to the point, YESTERDAY the BBC ran a breathless article on Ukraine, grandma “fighting to the last man” 100,000 50-year-old men ready to die! Die I say!!! Killing Russians and feeding their bones to the dogs, which was shot specifically BY, and with the insignia OF the Azov Extremists. So their saying there aren’t any, or the West doesn’t have anything to do with them is the biggest lie one can tell. Yes, originally they were a bunch of the same useless hooligans every country has, but the U.S. paid to arm, fund, train, and defend them when they set civilians on fire during Maidan. They have then kept them hoppin’ in attacking, intimidating, and murdering dissenting opposition nationwide. Using full force of U.S./CIA/MI6 Intel, as their own little Hunter-defending Stasi. Then we put them on TV as grandma to raise sympathy in the West. …Which works, of course. There’s nothing the Coastal people like better than Neo-Nazi White Supremacists in service of the oligarchical elite. Nothing. They will even take cyanide or some other drug on command and die for the cause themselves like true believers.

    Oh and again. Trump’s family is half-Jewish, as are a bunch of his lawyers, cabinet members, and influencers and money-men, specifically Adelson, but a deep roster with many more as well. He’s from NYC for God’s sake! But that didn’t stop these SAME people saying only YESTERDAY, and TODAY, and TOMORROW, that the U.S. has a Nazi problem, is a Nazi state, run entirely by neo-Nazi white supremacists (apparently under Joe Biden???) while they had a half-Jewish president, cabinet, team, and literally nothing happened to Jews ever under his administration. –No, that happened under Cuomo, and DeBlasio, and lambasted by us roundly, supporting all their religious lawsuits, as we still do today.

    So Nazi? Just means “Bad wordy-word, we no like! Blaaa!” You know, the same meaning as “Racist”, except named things are ‘Racist’, and only a few things are ‘Nazi.’

    Anyway, it’s hard to read such trollop coming from the mouths of adults that even children of five would know better than to attempt to say or be mocked relentlessly, forever. Never forgotten in old age, and rightfully so.

    “ The Freezing of Accounts Was Political Vengeance (Tsun)”

    Meanwhile, back with the REAL Nazis, in a REAL fascist state, where the government merges with billionaire corporations who force you to consume their products and kill you if you won’t, who ACTUALLY create an underclass, ACTUALLY cut them off from society and kill people for their (mild) political views… But we’re the good people, so when WE kill people, specifically minorities, and crush dissent and diversity, it’s GOOD murder, theft, and oppression. The kind that makes you sleep easy at night.

    Whoops, got distracted there. I was saying: Hey, um, that Emergency Act isn’t in force. …So wtf gives you the authority to have their accounts still locked up? It was only the War Powers that let you even attempt it. Now you don’t have that. Explain?

    How about this: “My power, right or wrong.” “Drinking wine from the skulls of my enemies and listening to the lamentations of their women.” “You’ll get nothing and like it!” “The Law is in my mouth.” Or the way THEY think of it: “I’m a ‘good person’. Therefore, every action that I do is by definition, ‘good’.” And BTW then every action YOU do, is by definition ‘bad’. Easy-peasy.

    “Many academics and researchers were scared of losing grant funding if they raised their head above the parapet.”

    Scared? This was a proven fact. Everyone can be proven to be helping this, but Fauci specifically used the full powers and funding of government to personally destroy those he just decided in his mind — with no review, no authority, no committee, no process, no evidence — were his enemies. I can prove it without a subpoena because it was already reported. By him. What part of science is that exactly, where you use government to destroy the lives and reputations of other scientists who debate with you? While hiding the data and hiding yet more yesterday?

    So I guess it’s a day ending in “Y”.

    #103080
    John Day
    Participant

    https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/ukraine-war-sunday-morning?utm_source=url
    https://www.johndayblog.com/2022/02/ukraine-war-sunday-morning.html

    The context of what is happening is important for us, even though we are not yet “combatants” in war. This may be WW-3, or WW-4 as some might classify it.
    We should assume “Rational Actors” in the acts of nations, armies and rulers, not “mad dogs”.

    Moon of Alabama has this:
    In war, truth is the first casualty.
    Gilbert Doctorow:
    The Russian Way of War
    Yesterday anyone watching Euronews on one screen and Russian state television on another would have been perplexed by the totally contradictory coverage of both with respect to the fate of the armed detachment of Ukrainian border guards on one island in the southeast of Ukraine. Euronews carried the address of President Zelensky awarding posthumous designation as Heroes of Ukraine to the entire detachment, which reportedly resisted the attacking Russian forces and were slaughtered. Meanwhile Russian news showed those same border guards seated at tables and signing sworn statements that they voluntarily lay down their arms and awaited repatriation to their homes and families.
    https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/02/disarming-ukraine-day-4.html

    John Ward looks at those American bioweapons labs in Ukraine, and specifically at the development of graphene as a bioweapons technology, but also as a critical technology in creation of transhuman (Terminator?) cyborg warriors with super-powers, a very concerning avenue of military exploration.
    ​ ​It is at this point in my analysis that the reader should be clear about just how interconnected and revolutionary the applications of graphene nanotechnology and biowarfare are.
    ​ ​*It is a bioweapon in its ability to cause serious and probably mortal danger to human beings. Think Wuhan, Covid19 and vaccines that aren’t vaccines.
    ​ ​*It arrives at a crucial point in physics where reduced mass can enable the beginning of interstellar travel, because it is only one atom thick. (See previous Slogpost on this – scroll down to final item)
    ​ ​*It can effectively turn a fragile 3D human soldier into an invisibly indestructible transhuman killing machine. Think Davos and its nightmare futures.
    ​ ​Ultimately, however, what most observers have failed to grasp is that graphene nanotechnology and transhuman development are interdependent: “vaccination” debris has shown conclusively that graphene is a bioweapon in its own right, but it is also vital for transhuman brain development, skin grafting and the 2D “invisibility” that makes a “humbot” hard to kill in battle, and hard to see during espionage ops.
    UKRAINE EXCLUSIVE: INVASION OR ESPIONAGE MISSION?

    #103081
    absolute galore
    Participant

    From today’s NYT front page (I have not read it.):

    Coronavirus Originated in a Market, Not a Lab, in Wuhan, Studies Say

    Two extensive scientific studies released Saturday say the coronavirus was present in animals at the Huanan seafood market in 2019.

    #103082
    absolute galore
    Participant

    Thank goodness we no longer have to worry about all the U.S. biolabs around the world. Time to start cracking down on those crazy ass food markets around the world. Heathens!

    #103083
    chooch
    Participant

    Liked it Dr. D, but want to have some fun with it.

    Couldn’t help but chuckle here.

    “Anyhow, he/we are all playing out this stage script. For our benefit. So maybe – MAYBE – the normies might learn something and believe the truth for a change. Probably not. I expect the gas will be shut off, they’ll freeze on the way to walk to get Eggos in an empty Piggly-Wiggly, still staring at their blank and powerless phone screen.”

    Since Zelensky is playing both sides, why stop there.

    #103084
    chooch
    Participant

    Oops, forgot the last bit.

    Since Zelensky is playing both sides, why stop there.

    #103085
    Doc Robinson
    Participant

    Recent court decisions are revealing some holes in the PREP act’s liability shield.

    A nursing home in California allegedly “moved another resident who had COVID into a shared room with Ricardo” and “Ricardo became sick and died.” The surviving family members sued, and the nursing home tried to get the case moved to federal court for a defense based on the federal PREP act.

    The district court rejected the nursing home’s arguments, and sent the case to state court. The nursing home appealed to the Ninth Circuit court, and lost the appeal.

    “In February 2022, the Ninth Circuit ruled in favor of [Ricardo’s family]. Affirming the district court’s decision, the court held that the PREP Act does not completely preempt state-law claims, that Glenhaven [nursing home] was not acting under the direction of a federal officer, and that the Grable doctrine did not apply.”

    https://www.citizen.org/litigation/saldana-v-glenhaven-healthcare-llc/

    #103086
    chooch
    Participant

    Absolute,

    Long and tedious, but worth a listen if you have time.

    #103087
    those darned kids
    Participant
    #103088
    zerosum
    Participant

    A bag of salt

    TAE presented/found a lot of fake news, miss information, propaganda, and like you did, (also other commentors), found more for evaluation.
    Therefore, you can chose and decide what you want to believe.
    …….both are fake. Again, this is not the first or second time I see this. Your credibility is important to a lot of people, I suggest you don’t swing in the wind, be diligent.

    Link to source
    https://www.snopes.com/news/2022/02/24/ukraine-american-journalist/

    #103089
    those darned kids
    Participant
    #103090
    those darned kids
    Participant

    ukraine conversation test:

    human: so, putin bad, eh?

    me: who is victoria nuland?

    human: i dunno, who?

    me: do you think tom brady will unretire?

    #103091
    Figmund Sreud
    Participant

    For months we’ve been treated to the dumbest and most infuriating facsimile of diplomacy I’ve ever witnessed. – Luongo
    ——————————————

    F.S.

    #103092
    Mister Roboto
    Participant

    “What Russia wants from its invasion of Ukraine”

    #103093

    cazalis,

    I can’t check every single image here for veracity (too much time), and I never make any claims in that regard. In that sense, the images are “for entertainment purposes only” (a phrase we used a lot in the TAE past). And if I wanted to fact check them, Snopes is about the last source I would turn to. Their record is dismal. Though, admittedly, they have stiff competition from Reuters et al. The newly blooming fact check industry amuses me to no end. But that, too, “for entertainment purposes only”.

    #103094
    boilingfrog
    Participant

    I read all this with great interest and am seeing things through a slightly different lens (or, more likely, have my hands on a different part of the proverbial elephant).

    The history of reserve currencies, and how the United States appears to be nearing the end of our time on top. It’s not a political or emotional statement, as history seems to point out the pattern pretty clearly. It just “is” and that could be a book.

    We see so many countries now moving away from the petrodollar, trading directly without bothering to utilize the greenback. No, I’m not an expert nor an economist, just a carpenter, and am sure the dollar still dominates mightily. But, I anticipate this de-dollarization process will continue to really accelerate now.

    This doesn’t take away from any of the “funny business” behind the scenes, reported here, by The Saker, The Slog, MoA… But just another wrinkle in the fabric of it all.
    Nicole and Raul used to discuss energy at the Oil Drum, and then finance with a debate of “Inflation or Deflation?” All of it wonderful, wonderful food for thought, and a call to action within circles of control.

    Greer has talked about, among other things, the dependence we’ll have on anecdotal evidence because of, well, just look around… and acting. Some will say, “I can’t do anything about it, so why bother to read and ponder?”

    Well, you live your life and make decisions based upon your view of the future. If you don’t actively contemplate and act (nod to John Day and others here), then your decision and actions say you’re simply expecting the future to be like the past. Good luck with that…

    Sorry for the long wind, many thanks to all here, especially Raul, who give so generously. And good luck to all.

    #103095
    Rototillerman
    Participant

    I listened to Whitney Webb last weekend while mulching the blueberry rows. I was surprised to find out what globalists Vladimir Putin and his oligarch buddies were, and to learn that there are powerful bankers in Russia connected to the WEF.

    https://rokfin.com/post/71599

    #103096
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    @Dr. D regarding: #103309 I’m at a loss for wards (and for me that’s saying a lot.!) on the brilliance of your analysis. I think you nailed it.
    P.S. there’s even a little historical precedence in that part of the world (in and around the Balkans) and that is the famed Yosip Tito of Yugoslavia, who played Capitalists, Nazi’s, Commies, Royalists(and others!) against each other very successfully for 40 yeras.

    #103097
    Oroboros
    Participant

    “It’s time for the cops. It’s time for the prosecutors. And it’s time for the judges. And then it’s time for the prisons.”

    • The Global Disinformation Campaign to Suppress Ivermectin (Kory)

    This headline sounds like Jim Kunstler for the last couple years and STILL no prosecutions in sight.

    Jim and many other commenters (here too) on this topic of ‘justice’ are what I refer to as having ” a bit too much Boy Scout in their kit bag“.

    The Real World operates like The Godfather movies and the Kunstler et al thinks it’s runs like Sesame Street.

    Naive to the real ways of the world. Justice ultimately comes from the barrel of a gun. In polite society, you never see the blatant violence of the State, but every adult knows it’s implied.

    I’ve harped before on my loathing of lawyers, prosecutors and especially gutless immoral corrupt judges (the majority of judges global are utterly irredeemably corrupt)

    Reiner Fuellmich, no less, has repeatedly stated in no uncertain terms that he considers the entire German legal system at this point in time, including German judges, to be utterly and irredeemably corrupt.

    So there.

    This from a guy who actually won major cases against Volkswagen and Deutsche Bank in the pass, unheard of in Germany, after years of pushing a Sisyphean boulder up the slimy sleazy mountain of the post WWII German ‘legal’ system, the same one that rubber stamped and enforced every Nazi ‘law’ put before them.

    The ‘Allies’ never significantly change the German ‘legal’ system from Nazi times. They just spackled it over with a fresh thin coat of ‘legal’ hypocrisy and currently, according to Fuellmich, all prosecutors and judges in German are simply employees of the German State subject to direct political pressure and whims for their pay checks. Gee, nothing to see here, keep moving, clean as a whistle.

    Reiner says nothing about Covid abuses will EVER move through the German ‘judicial’ system. You will have to build an entirely new parallel system of justice.

    Wow, how the fuck long will that take Reiner, a decade? A century? A couple centuries?

    Hey, in the Long Run every thing turns out OK folks!….

    Karma is always a day late and a dollar short, but it eventually crawls across the finish line on bloody hans and knees!

    “In the long run we are all dead” ~John Maynard Keynes

    .

    #103098
    Figmund Sreud
    Participant

    It’s Time to Get Serious About Energy
    https://doomberg.substack.com/p/its-time-to-get-serious-about-energy?utm_source=url

    “And so, I hope President Putin will help us to stay on track with respect to what we need to do for the climate.” – John Kerry, February 23, 2022

    “In the pantheon of unserious statements by a leading US official on the literal eve of war, it will be tough to top the one quoted above from former Secretary of State and current Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry. Kerry’s sober concern for the emissions that will result from Putin’s aggression is only topped by his worry that kinetic war will distract attention away from the climate crisis.

    Is there any doubt how we got here?”

    #103099
    those darned kids
    Participant

    NEWSFLASH! Biden Administration announces they are open to Piece* Talks with Russia.

    *of the Action

    #103100
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    In order to live we must have true information, we must not lose all that we vitally need to thieves, and we must not allow ourselves to be wrongfully killed. There ya have it. Three Simple Rules For Happy Living.

    How unfortunate it is for us then, when we encounter the apparently inescapable circumstances in which we find that . . . in order to live. . . we must tell falsehoods, we must take more than we have personally created, and sometimes even kill in self defense.

    Brother, this is one tough neighborhood.

    #103101
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Whatever the SWIFT bankers do to Russia, they can also do to you too

    Now, all the other sock puppet nations of the world can see if the Globalist can cut off Russia from banking (like Turd-eau tried in Canadada) for not doing as ‘they’ order, ‘they’ can cut off any nation, Surprise bitchz!

    Russia and China have thankfully already created an alternative to SWIFT

    https://www.brighteon.com/21819c24-7183-408b-8d35-0f6ec9da637a

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    #103102
    Oroboros
    Participant

    #103103
    anticlimactic
    Participant

    UK : RT.COM now shows as ‘forbidden’. SPUTNIKNEWS. COM still available. RT TV channel still there, but suspect not for much longer.

    Would try VPN but through which country? Hungary might be the best bet in Europe.

    Not good times!

    #103104
    WES
    Participant

    Rototillerman:

    So deep down you are a blueberry lover!

    I am originally from Northern Quebec/Labrador so naturally I love blueberries too! Northern blueberries are very tiny and when we went blueberry picking in early September, it would take all 5 of us to pick enought blueberries to make just one pie. Some years we only got enough to make tarts. In those lean blueberry years, the local black bears starved to death.

    I once tried real hard to grow domestic blueberries here in Toronto, setting up a special bed with more suitable soil, verses local clay based soil, but the blueberry bushes never thrived and slowly died off. Since I was producing so few blueberries, the birds got them first. I even put netting over the blueberry bushes to stop the competition, winning that battle, but still losing the war!

    You must be in a better blueberry growing area with the right type of acidic soils, like in BC or Nnorthern Nova Scotia/southern New Brunswick, or maybe the Sudbury area.

    Hoping your blueberries thrive!

    #103105
    cloudhidden
    Participant

    @ anticlimactic
    RT.com still available on Proton VPN via Japan. Seems slow, but connects.

    #103106
    userzeroid
    Participant

    I can confirm RT.com is not accepting connections from UK. If you get the home page, once you click a link you hit website protection and from there are unable to progress. Denial of Service protection to be specific.

    This means that the UK is not blocking the pages but the RT servers are not permitting access, as a precautionary measure.

    #103107
    those darned kids
    Participant

    rt loads in canadada in chromebrowser; in firefox it gets stuck at “DDoS-GUARD” and never loads.

    #103108
    Veracious Poet
    Participant

    “for entertainment purposes only”

    Sage advise for the entirety of the Internet (virtual reality)…

    I’m rolling back my online expectations of “real reality” to 1994-1995.

    All I’m just seeing in 2022 is self-obsessed hubris across the board, now approaching deranged panic as the chaotic heat of Clown World advances into the human condition…

    After reading the comments today I was reminded of the idiom of frogs-in-a-pan ~ Everything was cozy for western civ until the last couple of years, but now the trapped oblivious are ringing alarms that things are not what they seemed to be.

    Hope everyone enjoys their 15 minutes on the stage…

    P.S. If nothing changes, nothing changes 😐

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