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Jean-Francois Millet Charity 1859

 

Ukraine’s Propaganda War: Int’l PR Firms, DC Lobbyists and CIA Cutouts (MPN)
Biden Team: More Russia Sanctions Will Be Announced This Week (DM)
The Lie of American Innocence (Chris Hedges)
Joe Rogan Exposes How West Has Done A Complete 180 On ‘Corrupt’ Ukraine (SN)
Medical Conspiracy: With Eyes Wide Open, They Killed, Maimed Thousands (TN)
A Simple Way To End Vaccine Misinformation Immediately (Kirsch)
Record Infections In Super-vaxxed UK Seniors (Blaze)
Is Tinnitus A Rare Side Effect Of Covid Vaccines? (NBC)
New Zealand’s Discrimination Against Unvaccinated Is Rampant (Bexte)
Next Inflation Shock Comes From Resource Nationalism (Cerasuolo)
White House Comms Director Blames Harris For Chaos In VP Office (JTN)
SCOTUS Nominee: Lighter Sentences Pedophiles b/c Internet Makes It Easy (ZH)

 

 

Have a wonderfully happy wedding day, Julian and Stella.

 

 

 

 

Zelensky is a puppet
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@MaajidNawaz challenges the mainstream narrative on Volodymyr Zelenskyy

 

 

 

 

K Street in Kyiv. “Agencies have offered up entire teams to support Kyiv in the communications war.”

Ukraine’s Propaganda War: Int’l PR Firms, DC Lobbyists and CIA Cutouts (MPN)

Since the Russian offensive inside Ukraine commenced on February 24, the Ukrainian military has cultivated the image of a plucky little army standing up to the Russian Goliath. To bolster the perception of Ukrainian military mettle, Kiev has churned out a steady stream of sophisticated propaganda aimed at stirring public and official support from Western countries. The campaign includes language guides, key messages, and hundreds of propaganda posters, some of which contain fascist imagery and even praise Neo-Nazi leaders. Behind Ukraine’s public relations effort is an army of foreign political strategists, Washington DC lobbyists, and a network of intelligence-linked media outlets.

Ukraine’s propaganda strategy earned it praise from a NATO commander who told the Washington Post, “They are really excellent in stratcom — media, info ops, and also psy-ops.” The Post ultimately conceded that “Western officials say that while they cannot independently verify much of the information that Kyiv puts out about the evolving battlefield situation, including casualty figures for both sides, it nonetheless represents highly effective stratcom.” Key to the propaganda effort is an international legion of public relations firms working directly with Ukraine’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs to wage information warfare. According to the industry news site PRWeek, the initiative was launched by an anonymous figure who allegedly founded a Ukraine-based public relations firm.

“From the first hour of war, we decided to join the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to help them distribute the official sources to show the truth,” the nameless figure told PR Week. “This is a hybrid war: the mix of bloodily struggling fight with a huge disinformation and fake campaign lead by Russia [sic].” According to the anonymous figure, more than 150 public relations firms have joined the propaganda blitz. The international effort is spearheaded by public relations firm PR Network co-founder Nicky Regazzoni and Francis Ingham, a top public relations consultant with close ties to the UK’s government.

Ingham previously worked for Britain’s Conservative Party, sits on the UK Government Communication Service Strategy and Evaluation Council, is Chief Executive of the International Communications Consultancy Organisation, and leads the membership body for UK local government communicators, LG Comms. “We’ve been privileged to help coordinate efforts to support the Ukrainian Government in the last few days, “ Ingham told PRovoke Media. “Agencies have offered up entire teams to support Kyiv in the communications war. Our support for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine is unwavering and will continue for as long as needed.”

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As energy and food prices rise in US and EU. America is bankrupt in more than one way.

Biden Team: More Russia Sanctions Will Be Announced This Week (DM)

President Joe Biden will unveil another round of sanctions on Russia and tighten existing ones during his visit to Europe this week, his national security adviser announced on Tuesday. Biden is due to leave the White House tomorrow ahead of a N.A.T.O. summit in Brussels on Thursday. ‘He will have the opportunity to coordinate on the next phase of military assistance to Ukraine,’ said National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan. ‘He will join our partners in imposing further sanctions on Russia and tightening the existing sanctions to crack down on evasion and to ensure robust enforcement.’ The president will also unveil additional help for refugees and for civilians inside Ukraine, many of whom are trapped in besieged cities, he added.

‘From Brussels, President Biden will travel to Poland where he will engage with US troops, who are now helping to defend NATO territory, and he will meet with experts involved in the humanitarian response,’ said Sullivan. ‘He will also hold a bilateral meeting with President Duda of Poland.’ The U.S. and allies have already imposed sanctions on Russia, as part of an effort to weaken President Vladimir Putin’s position at home and starve funding from his war machine. Washington has also worked with European and N.A.T.O. governments to deliver billions of dollars of weapons and aid to Ukraine. During the briefing at the White House, Sullivan was also asked about Russia’s potential use of nuclear weapons.

‘We have not changed our nuclear posture today. But we are constantly monitoring for that potential contingency and of course we take it as seriously as one could possibly take it,’ he said. ‘We will be consulting with allies and partners on that potential contingency among a range of others and discussing what our potential responses are.’ Sullivan said Biden will use the trip to work with allies on strengthening N.A.T.O.’s defenses on its eastern flank. ‘He will announce joint action on enhancing European energy security and reducing Europe’s dependence on Russian gas,’ he said.

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“Tens of millions of people, who had no connection with the attacks of 9/11, were killed, wounded, lost their homes, and saw their lives and their families destroyed because of our war crimes. Who will cry out for them?”

The Lie of American Innocence (Chris Hedges)

The branding of Vladimir Putin as a war criminal by Joe Biden, who lobbied for the Iraq war and staunchly supported the 20 years of carnage in the Middle East, is one more example of the hypocritical moral posturing sweeping across the United States. It is unclear how anyone would try Putin for war crimes since Russia, like the United States, does not recognize the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court in The Hague. But justice is not the point. Politicians like Biden, who do not accept responsibility for our well-documented war crimes, bolster their moral credentials by demonizing their adversaries. They know the chance of Putin facing justice is zero. And they know their chance of facing justice is the same.

We know who our most recent war criminals are, among others: George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, General Ricardo Sanchez, former CIA Director George Tenet, former Asst. Atty. Gen. Jay Bybee, former Dep. Asst. Atty. Gen. John Yoo, who set up the legal framework to authorize torture; the helicopter pilots who gunned down civilians, including two Reuters journalists, in the “Collateral Murder” video released by WikiLeaks. We have evidence of the crimes they committed. But, like Putin’s Russia, those who expose these crimes are silenced and persecuted. Julian Assange, even though he is not a U.S. citizen and his WikiLeaks site is not a U.S.-based publication, is charged under the U.S. Espionage Act for making public numerous U.S. war crimes. Assange, currently housed in a high security prison in London, is fighting a losing battle in the British courts to block his extradition to the United States, where he faces 175 years in prison.

One set of rules for Russia, another set of rules for the United States. Weeping crocodile tears for the Russian media, which is being heavily censored by Putin, while ignoring the plight of the most important publisher of our generation speaks volumes about how much the ruling class cares about press freedom and truth. If we demand justice for Ukrainians, as we should, we must also demand justice for the one million people killed — 400,000 of whom were noncombatants — by our invasions, occupations and aerial assaults in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, and Pakistan. We must demand justice for those who were wounded, became sick or died because we destroyed hospitals and infrastructure.

We must demand justice for the thousands of soldiers and marines who were killed, and many more who were wounded and are living with lifelong disabilities, in wars launched and sustained on lies. We must demand justice for the 38 million people who have been displaced or become refugees in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, the Philippines, Libya, and Syria, a number that exceeds the total of all those displaced in all wars since 1900, apart from World War II, according to the Watson Institute for International & Public Affairs at Brown University. Tens of millions of people, who had no connection with the attacks of 9/11, were killed, wounded, lost their homes, and saw their lives and their families destroyed because of our war crimes. Who will cry out for them?


10 wars, 6 millions killed, 1 Nobel Peace Prize, 0 sanction

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“We’re supposed to just veer away from the narrative that was being pushed just a couple years ago..”

Joe Rogan Exposes How West Has Done A Complete 180 On ‘Corrupt’ Ukraine (SN)

Joe Rogan noted on his podcast that the Western narrative on Ukraine has flipped 180 degrees in a few weeks from the country having a horrible corrupt government to being heroic allies against the Russian scourge. “I have this screenshot that someone sent me,” Rogan stated, “about the way the people on the left were talking about the Ukraine situation before the war.” He continued, “This is one of the things that’s so weird is that they were very disparaging of Ukraine, and they were talking about the massive corruption of Ukraine, and how horrible it was over there.” “And now, all of a sudden, they’re looking at it like they’re heroes. The same exact people. This is what’s confusing,” the host added.


Rogan then read out points from the screenshot he referenced wherein Ukraine was labeled “the most corrupt nation in Europe” with an “increasingly corrupt and authoritarian” leader who is seeking to deepen an “alliance with the far right”. “We’re supposed to just veer away from the narrative that was being pushed just a couple years ago,” Rogan asserted. Rogan also went on to point out how insane it is that Facebook and other social media platforms are officially sanctioning violent rhetoric against Russians, exclaiming “What the f*ck is that? What is that?”

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“..about 158,000 different health problems in all..”

Medical Conspiracy: With Eyes Wide Open, They Killed, Maimed Thousands (TN)

> A small batch of documents released by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in mid-November 2021 revealed that in the first three months of the COVID jab rollout, Pfizer received 42,086 adverse event reports that included 1,223 deaths. The first really large tranche of Pfizer documents — some 10,000 pages — was released by the FDA March 1, 2022. Included are nine pages of recorded side effects, about 158,000 different health problems in all. An initial review of case report forms (CRFs) reveal significant data collection errors and anomalies. Problems included patients entered into the “healthy population” group who were far from healthy; serious adverse event (SAE) numbers that were left blank; sample barcodes that were missing; at least one death of a patient the day before being listed as being at a medical checkup; and second doses that were administered outside the three-week protocol window.


There also are questions as to whether participants were properly observed for an adequate amount of time; plus adverse events were listed as “not serious” despite extended hospital stay and much more. A majority of the CRFs in this release were from Ventavia-run trial sites. Ventavia is currently facing a lawsuit brought by Brook Jackson, a former Ventavia regional director. Jackson was fired shortly after she brought concerns about potential data falsification and poor laboratory management to the attention of the FDA and higher-ups in the company.

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Autopsies. Embalmers.

A Simple Way To End Vaccine Misinformation Immediately (Kirsch)

If they truly wanted to end vaccine hesitancy, all they have to do is require autopsies if you die within 60 days of vaccination and require the medical examiners to make the required tests to determine vaccine involvement (as doctors Bhakdi and Burkhardt have done) and publish them. Publishing a fraudulent report would be a criminal offense. This would end the debate. Or they could simply require all licensed embalmers to check for the telltale clots and make the numbers public. Again, it would be a crime to falsify reports. Or they could do both. Why don’t they do this? I’ll tell you why they don’t do it: They don’t do it because they know the results would be devastating and would immediately halt the vaccine and discredit the FDA, CDC, the entire medical establishment, virtually all members of Congress, and the mainstream media.


Why doesn’t Florida Governor DeSantis require this in Florida? What is he afraid of? Why doesn’t Governor Newsom require this in California? What does he have to fear? DeSantis would be the most likely of any governor to do this. He could be a world hero if he did this. My suggestion isn’t limited to the US. Any public health official anywhere in the world could order this: local, state, federal. A state or federal legislature could require it. Any member of any legislature could introduce a bill. Why are California Assemblymember Evan Low and state Senator Dr. Richard Pan doing nothing? They have said they want to end medical misinformation. This is a perfect opportunity for them to walk the talk! Why aren’t members of the medical community calling for this? Will any of these people join me in calling for this? Or will they sit on the sidelines and say nothing?

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“Just because Volodymyr Zelenskyy is the new Fauci, it doesn’t mean COVID is over.”

Record Infections In Super-vaxxed UK Seniors (Blaze)

Just because Volodymyr Zelenskyy is the new Fauci, it doesn’t mean COVID is over. In fact, cases are surging in many European countries, and U.K. seniors are now experiencing record numbers. “Covid infections surge to record high for over-70s in UK” was the title of a Financial Times article from Friday. But how can there be record infections precisely after nearly every senior was vaccinated and 90% were boosted, even though many already have had prior infection? Or are the record infections because of the shots, not despite them, and does this mean that they are preventing people from achieving immunity? Ireland is one of the most vaccinated countries in the European Union, yet hospitalizations are rising. There are now more people in Irish hospitals than at any point in 12 months.

Nearly 95% of all adults are fully vaccinated, and nearly 100% of seniors are vaccinated and boosted. The number of COVID cases has nearly tripled in the U.K. since the nadir of the post-winter drop four weeks ago. Moreover, deaths are still hovering around 125 a day, whereas after the 2021 winter wave (with a much lower prior infection rate), deaths were nearly reduced to zero. Furthermore, Scotland, which has the highest vaccination rate of anywhere in the U.K. and is the only region with mask mandates, seems to be worse off than ever before. “Scotland recorded its highest infection rates of the pandemic so far, with one in every 14 people infected with the virus in the week to mid-March, up from one in 18 a week earlier,” reported the Financial Times.

Roughly 90% of all people over age 12 in Scotland have two shots, and 73% have boosters. Among seniors, boosters are nearly universal. Thus, there is nowhere to run or hide from the vaccine failures. The negative efficacy is out of control. What about protection against death? Well, we can’t exactly see where the deaths are coming from because Scotland conveniently stopped providing that data, but the U.K. government will still offer the weekly reports for a few more weeks. According to the latest U.K. health surveillance report, roughly 95% of those over 70 are double-vaccinated and about 90%-93% of the age cohorts over 70 are boosted. Just 1.6% of the senior cases between weeks 7 and 10 of this year were among the unvaccinated, which is below the 5% share of the population pie they compose. The triple-boosted are 90% of the cases.

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NBC tries to obfuscate the issues.

Is Tinnitus A Rare Side Effect Of Covid Vaccines? (NBC)

It was the shock of a loud whistle that almost caused Gregory Poland to veer off the road as he was driving home after getting his second Covid-19 vaccine. “It startled me,” said Poland, who is 66 years old. “I thought it was a dog whistle going off right next to me.” It was not a dog whistle; it was a piercing sound his brain conjured up for an unknown reason. Poland suspects it may have been a side effect of the vaccine. That was one year ago. The noise, he said, has been unrelenting ever since. For the record, neither Poland nor the medical community at large can prove that the mRNA Covid vaccine that he received had anything to do with his sudden onset of tinnitus, a condition that is often described as a ringing, buzzing or hissing noise in one or both ears. It can be constant or intermittent.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and vaccine manufacturers, have investigated anecdotal reports of tinnitus through programs such as the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, or VAERS, following Covid vaccination, but have found no evidence of cause and effect. And Poland’s tale might not carry much weight if he weren’t Dr. Gregory Poland — a globally respected physician who has dedicated his career to vaccine study and development as founder and director of the Mayo Clinic’s Vaccine Research Group in Rochester, Minnesota. What’s more, Poland is a paid scientific adviser for Johnson & Johnson/Janssen Global Services, and acts as a consultant on vaccine development for Moderna, as well as other pharmaceutical companies.

Given Poland’s interests and the uncertainty of a true link between the vaccine and tinnitus — not to mention a strong anti-vaccine movement — why would he publicize his condition and suspicion that a vaccine could be involved? “As a physician who’s taken an oath to first do no harm, I think about these things,” Poland said. His day-to-day focus, he said, is to help patients work through the potential risks and benefits of any treatment, including vaccines. “I refuse to be anything less than transparent,” he said. “I refuse to cherry-pick the information that should be presented to people to make good decisions.” What does the science say? There is no known cause of tinnitus, though it is often associated with “acoustic trauma,” such as what is experienced by active duty military personnel.

There is some evidence that Covid-19 itself may worsen the condition in people who have previously suffered from ringing in their ears. When it comes to potential auditory side effects of vaccination, research is sparse. A study published last month in the medical journal JAMA Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, analyzed reports of hearing issues following Covid-19 vaccines. The reports had been submitted to VAERS. Such reports raise the issue of unexpected problems following any vaccine. Scientists are then tasked with reviewing the reports, looking for patterns of unusual side effects.

In a statement to NBC News, Pfizer said the company takes reported adverse events “very seriously.” “Tinnitus cases have been reviewed and no causal association to the Covid-19 vaccine has been established,” the statement read. A statement from Johnson & Johnson said that tinnitus was identified as an adverse event in its phase 3 clinical trials of the Covid-19 vaccine but also maintained that it was impossible to “establish a causal relationship to vaccine exposure.”

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“..a self-satisfied grin adorning her face…”

New Zealand’s Discrimination Against Unvaccinated Is Rampant (Bexte)

New Zealand remains one of the most flagrantly discriminatory countries in the world due to its treatment of the unvaccinated. While much of the world opens up and ends the two-tiered systems put into place to coerce the unvaccinated to comply with the government’s agenda, New Zealand, under the rule of PM Jacinda Ardern, seems hellbent on dragging the ordeal out as long as possible. According to the government’s website, policies remain for nearly all public sector workers, and the government gives all private businesses the right to continue requiring up to three doses to retain employment. Additionally, during an interview on March 20, Ardern admitted that even if some restrictions are loosened, the vaccine passport will remain in the government’s back pocket just in case.

Perhaps inspired by the Freedom Convoy protests in Canada, New Zealanders took to the streets in early February and have been protesting their government’s restrictions ever since, causing Ardern noticeable concern. Much like other globalists, when finally faced with massive protests not just against mandates but against her as a leader, Ardern claimed that anyone opposed to her authoritarianism is simply being misled by “disinformation.” While Australia was extremely brutal in its crackdown against protesters, what made New Zealand, perhaps, most notable in addressing anyone who dissents, is how smug their PM was when stating the discriminatory policies she planned to implement.

During an interview from October 24, 2021, Ardern unambiguously stated that she was creating an apartheid state to discriminate against the unvaccinated — of course, under the guise of public health. “So, you’ve basically said, you probably don’t see it like this, but two different classes of people. If you’re vaccinated or unvaccinated. You have all these rights if you are vaccinated,” an interviewer asked. “That is what it is. Yep,” Ardern stated, a self-satisfied grin adorning her face.

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Stop calling it inflation. It’s embarrassing.

Next Inflation Shock Comes From Resource Nationalism (Cerasuolo)

First there was supply-chain disruption brought on by the coronavirus, then war in Ukraine further rocked commodity markets. The next bout of inflation via raw material prices will be brought on by resource nationalism. While the cost pressures brought on by the difficulty in moving goods in a world in lockdown are fading, other factors are more enduring. For instance, the post-Cold War spread of e-commerce allowed companies to treat the world as both factory floor and marketplace. Comparative advantage, strategic partnerships and the success of globalization led to growth and prosperity. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine jarred that dynamic and has set in motion a series of quasi-isolationist responses. What started as economic sanctions on Russia has tipped the balance: we are no longer in a uni-polar world.

We have entered into a multi-polar one where traditional economic superpowers can no longer call the shots. Service-driven economies are price takers and have far less leverage over those producing raw materials. The geopolitical landscape has changed and economic incentives along with it. The growing emergency that sanctions on Russia have caused over energy supply security will be inflationary for years to come. Nowhere is this more evident than in Europe, given its direct exposure to Russia energy, with individual countries prioritizing domestic energy security as a first port of call. The European Union entered an era of energy inflation given its commitment to address climate change and fossil fuel dependence by “greening” the economy. Such aims create price pressure, and has led to discussion at the European Central Bank on whether its inflation target should be adjusted.

Russia and Ukraine are two of the globe’s top grain producers. Conflict has triggered panic and price squeezes on everything from fertilizer to cooking oil, and has also led nations to rethink their approach to national stockpiling. Energy security pulls into focus security of other commodities. The list of countries restricting agriculture exports is growing. It includes Indonesia, Hungary, Argentina, and Turkey. China’s begun stockpiling corn and soybeans while sources mention state refiners are considering pausing exports of gasoline and diesel in April. Effectively, every resource a nation produces has the potential to become a bargaining chip. There is a price to meet security of resources. As more economies step away from globalization that cost will get steeper as isolationist tendencies produce greater trade frictions.

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NYT turns on Kamala?

White House Comms Director Blames Harris For Chaos In VP Office (JTN)

Kate Bedingfield, the White House communications director, reportedly pins the blame for disfunction in the vice president’s office squarely on the shoulders of Kamala Harris, according to a new book. “This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden, and the Battle for America’s Future,” by New York Times reporters Jonathan Martin and Alex Burns, was profiled in Politico on Tuesday and reported details about chaos in the vice president’s office were on display. Harris’ office has lost 10 staffers since summer of 2021 and is reportedly a difficult environment in which to exist. Some of Harris’ staffers reportedly blamed the issue primarily on mismanagement of the vice president, to which Bedingfield responded.

Martin and Burns write that “Bedingfield had taken to noting that the vice presidency was not the first time in Harris’s political career that she had fallen short of sky-high expectations.” “Her Senate office had been messy and her [2020] presidential campaign had been a fiasco. Perhaps, she suggested, the problem was not the vice president’s staff,” write the pair. Politico notes that Bedingfield unequivocally denies making such remarks. “The fact that no one working on this book bothered to call to fact check this unattributed claim tells you what you need to know. Vice President Harris is a force in this administration and I have the utmost respect for the work she does every day to move the country forward,” wrote the White House comms director.

The book reports that frustration between the White House and the office of the vice president began to grow last year after Harris’ widely panned trip to Mexico and Guatemala to assess the “root causes” of the migration crisis at thee U.S. southern border. The vice president has since been tasked with leading a number of political missions, most of which have ended in abject failure – most notably, the election reform bill that failed in the senate after months of political back-and-forth.

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It’s already nuts to insist on a black woman, like two wrongs make one right. But this woman herself is nuts too. Lighter sentences for child porn because there is so much of it? The internet has tons of bomb-making instructions too. Now insert that same logic….

SCOTUS Nominee: Lighter Sentences Pedophiles b/c Internet Makes It Easy (ZH)

Supreme Court Nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson defended her record of giving pedophiles light sentences, arguing that it’s easier for them to procure large volumes through the internet – vs. the effort required to obtain child porn through the mail. “The guideline was based originally on a statutory scheme and directives, specific directives from Congress at a time in which more serious child pornography offenders were identified based on the volume, based on the number of photographs they received in the mail. And that made total sense before, when you didn’t have the internet.

“When we didn’t have distribution. But the way that the guideline is now structured, based on that set of circumstances, is leading to extreme disparities in the system because it’s so easy for people to get volumes of this material now by computers. So it’s not doing the work of differentiating who is a more serious offender in the way that it used to.” Brown Jackson, who notably served as the judge in the ‘Pizzagate’ shooting, was responding to Sen. Josh Hawley’s (R-MO) claim last week that her legal record “endangers our children.” “As a mother and a judge who has had to deal with these cases, I was thinking that nothing could be further from the truth,” Jackson said Tuesday. “These are some of the most difficult cases that a judge has to deal with because we’re talking about pictures of sex abuse of children, we’re talking about graphic descriptions that judges have to read and consider when they decide how to sentence in these cases.”


As Tuesday’s confirmation hearing of Ketanji Brown Jackson continued, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) got into heated exchanges with the nominee over several issues – including her views on Critical Race Theory and her record on child predators. When Cruz asked her opinions on CRT, referring to a 2020 speech she gave at the University of Michigan where she mentioned Nikole Hannah-Jones’ revisionist 1619 project, Brown responded: “It doesn’t come up in my work as It’s never something that I have studied or relied on, and it wouldn’t be something that I would rely on if I was on the Supreme Court.” She also says she hasn’t reviewed “any of those books” that are available at Georgetown Day School, where she sits on the board. Cruz also pressed her over her record on pedophiles.

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    RaboBank: “Yes, I’m talking about price controls, rationing, and barter, countertrade, and offsetting. Yes, I’m serious. No, traditional balance-sheet analysts are not considering this.”
    https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/rabobank-we-are-seeing-struggle-new-world-order

    Price controls = endless shortages. No Capitalism.

    “Yet if we are seeing a struggle for a new world order,”– RaboBank. He means in currency. However, Biden just re-iterated he’s trying to start WWIII for the New World Order. “…we are at an inflection point… there’s gonna be a new world order out there and we’ve got to lead it…” Of course no one believes him, because: I dunno. Denial when he tells you directly? Because everything else he says is a lie? So when he tells you, it’s not true. When he doesn’t tell you, it is true. So we just make things up here, project whatever we want? A: Yes. Reality doesn’t matter, has no effect on anything? A: Yes.

    Rabobank ends with “But not if the world order is being restructured. We are talking about sanctions, tariffs, price controls, rationing, and of barter, countertrade, and offsetting: don’t tell me capital controls can’t be part of that hypothetical package if that is what is required to maintain leadership of the free world.”

    Who would want to be “Leader of the Free World”? And why? Isn’t that an Empire, and against everything America stands for?

    “GOP-Led Maryland and Georgia Suspend Gas Taxes as Democrats Ironically Embrace Similar Federal Cuts”

    Does that mean low gas prices are good for people and Democrats now? Low TAXES are a good thing now? Not gloating here, my question is, “Okay, now what do you do about the enormous REVENUE hole?” You weren’t bankrupt 100x over already, ye states?

    Reality optional: Nothing we do has cause and effect. No consequences! It’s all just random where nothing is my fault!

    “Bill Barr: Joe Biden “Lied to the American People” about Hunter’s Laptop”

    And Barr was in charge for the whole year the FBI had the laptop, and during the time Congress was impeaching for Ukraine while not presenting the material evidence on the laptop. Cheeky monkey. Shouldn’t you go arrest yourself now?

    NATO to Draft Statement Warning China against Aiding Moscow”

    These guys seem to have a weird delusion they’re in charge of something.

    “Biden Meets with CEOs to Discuss Russian Invasion of Ukraine, Price Increases”

    Joe meets with his real owners, who are now corporations but prosecuting a foreign war at the expense of their business, profits, and shareholders. #Capitalism! Yes, that is a legally removable action; no one will remove the Directors involved. They also make up an interlocking 80% of the US market cap.

    Fox: What is this nonsense? We’re talking about Ukraine and they want to discuss emotional, pejorative non-words like “Hero”? JHC, we can’t define “Hero” on a normal day. If a girl goes into a burning house to save her cat, is she a hero? Or an idiot? If a cop makes a traffic stop and gets shot at, is he then a hero? Or a victim? Do people not know how stupid and useless they sound? What’s the progress in bringing up unactionable navel-gazing irrelevancies like this when there’s a war on?

    This is why Lavrov and Putin refuse to meet until the other side can be made to be serious people. That could take lifetimes.

    So heroes stash billions of their desperately-poor nation’s money in Panama now?

    But Nawaz has a point: the original Nazis, that is Hitler and his party, were fighting for “Democracy” as well. Al was democratically elected. The people supported his platform.

    Ukraine’s Propaganda War: Int’l PR Firms, DC Lobbyists and CIA Cutouts (MPN)”

    How are we not at war with Russia? Congressmen said – breathless – there are Russians, RUSSIANS I tells ya! In Ukraine! Yes the Wagner private security group. So we should kill them there, and worldwide. When you say “We”, Congressman, you mean “The United States, officially” needs to enter Ukraine and kill Russian citizens? Again, how are we not at war? Because #OppositeLand. And people both believe we are Ukraine, and we are different from them, it’s our war but their war, and we are at war on behalf of Ukraine, and we are not at war at all, but Ukraine is going it alone.

    All things are true! But also false! This is what you can expect from a nation that can’t tell men from women. There are no rules, no definitions, no order. The law is power. Power is the only reality.

    Oh and P.S. as above, they’re all private corporations. So A) Private corporations can blow billions of shareholder money and not be sued now? And B) Private corporations can make decisions and incidents of international scale, enter war zones, support war materials, traffic arms, on behalf of the U.S., and the government says nothing? Okay then, I’m sending Goya to throw their whole fortune supporting Syria. Think that would stop? In a 20-nation bloc that is so anti-free-speech you can be de-banked and arrested for donating $50 to a legal protest? Uh-huh.

    “Newsweek: “Heartbreaking [fake] images, [from video games, Australian firefighters, Beirut, and Georgia] make it easy to focus on the war’s damage…”

    Maybe real footage, honest and not fabricated would be less heartbreaking. I guess we’ll never know.

    “Biden Team: More Russia Sanctions Will Be Announced this Week (DM)”

    Yay! Russia gets stronger. The US$ dies. Thanks, Joe! Oh, along with all the poor people. I’d say Democrat voters, but that’s no longer true. Democrats are now PMCs, the party of the poor has shifted to Republicans.

    “National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan” Wasn’t he just in trouble for subverting all elections and all democracy? Here in the U.S.? But he’s spreading the same love of rigged, protected class, anti-democracy abroad as well.

    The president will also unveil additional help for refugees and for civilians inside Ukraine, many of whom are trapped in besieged cities,”

    Maybe you missed this in weasel-speak, but he’s saying we are transporting direct aid to Ukraine, within the borders of Ukraine. How are we not at war with Russia? And how do you plan to do this without being blown to smithereens?

    “starve funding from his war machine.” Shows the water they’re swimming in: does he think Russia is funding their war machine with loans from abroad? Like we do? How are you going to starve a completely domestic operation with [illegal] sanctions [that are an act of war]?

    P.S., why would Russia rule out using nukes? Why would the reporter ask such a dumb question? Does she think what they say to her is legally binding? These guys live in a fantasy world I don’t understand.

    “the one million people killed — 400,000 of whom were noncombatants — by our invasions, occupations and aerial assaults in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, and Pakistan.”

    Actually, I’d be surprised if it weren’t well over 6 million, but sounds like the world war has started! The U.S. under George Bush started it. So Ukraine is a battle that is a RESPONSE to an aggressive world war of total conquest by the United States. And we’ve said so. And we’ve said it’s a “New World Order” like 100 times, with Bush, but including Biden only yesterday. McCain for instance said the U.S. was going to prosecute war for 100 years. Was he kidding? Why would you not believe him when he tells you this, openly on camera?

    “Pfizer received 42,086 adverse event reports that included 1,223 deaths. The first really large tranche of Pfizer documents — some 10,000 pages — was released by the FDA March 1, 2022.”

    Yes, but like the politicians above, if they tell you, directly, using official documents and channels, it’s NOT true, whereas if they DON’T tell you, it IS true. That’s just common sense. Twitter Sense™.

    So doctors, VAERS, Vps of Pfizer, official documents of Israel, Ireland, UK? All liars. Pfizer’s own documents and discoveries? Also all lies. Chad at Twitter is the only truth. We will have no gods before Chad. Anyone like to explain this otherwise?

    “Just because Volodymyr Zelenskyy is the new Fauci, it doesn’t mean COVID is over.”

    No but I guess I feel it’s too late to save anyone now. They’re already dosed, for whatever that does, and already been communicated with. If at this point, they continue, should I stop them? They will die. I will tell them if they ask, and we need food.

    “And Poland’s tale might not carry much weight if he weren’t Dr. Gregory Poland — a globally respected physician who has dedicated his career to vaccine study”

    So you’re saying if there were thousands, hundreds of thousands of other such complaints, no one would look into them, no one would care, they’d say all 200,000 of them were liars? Yeah, we know.

    As a physician who’s taken an oath to first do no harm, I think about these things,”

    However, he is very, very slow on the uptake and believes everything multi-billion dollar corporations, convicted felons, for mass-murder, tell him. When the VP of the same company tells him he’s right.

    “You have all these rights if you are vaccinated,” an interviewer asked. “That is what it is. Yep,” Ardern stated,”

    Yes, I’m saying half of New Zealanders no longer have any rights or humanhood. Suck it, morans!

    And when she says this, openly and on camera? Apparently we do NOT believe her? Otherwise what is with our reaction?

    The post-Cold War spread of e-commerce allowed companies to treat the world as both toxic waste dump factory floor and marketplace slave market.”

    “and has also led nations to rethink their approach to national stockpiling.”

    Stockpiling? Leave it to governments to die before realizing what “Productive” is, compared to “Parasitical”. You can’t “stockpile” your way out of a 20-100 year cycle, dummies. They will die rather than help support Workers of the World, productive people who create things. Because #AntiLogos, #AntiLife. Why would they care? No consequences fall on them, maskless at 5-star restaurants, while the valet fuels up the car.

    “not the first time in Harris’s political career that she had fallen short of sky-high expectations.”

    A politician who openly slept her way to the top? Who knew she wouldn’t be strong, capable, and meet expectations? A lady who rounded up innocent black kids for for-profit prison companies? Who knew she would have no morals? Shocking, I tell you.

    More’s the problem, Joe needs to have an accident to get Hunter’s corruption in A) China and B) Ukraine out of the news. But they can’t since Kamala is so hated, and so incapable they would shoot their own cause in the face by allowing her anywhere near the public. They already reportedly tried killing her a few times, and as they said of Quayle, “She’s the President’s bullet-proof vest.” However, that leaves problems as it’s not just succession, they THEN need to get Pelosi in, THEN need to vote in Hillary or Michelle, (you can tell because the DNC have PR-puffed no other talent) and THEN solve the Speaker of the House problem. It’s a nightmare.

    But that’s what happens when you choose even MORE psychopathic personalities than ever before, who EVERY VOTER hated passionately, even the “black” and “Asian” ones – ostensibly the whole reason she was there. She couldn’t even be a DNC token minority down on the plantation correctly.

    I don’t mind. I’m glad they’re in a bind and waste all their time on this.

    “SCOTUS Nominee: Lighter Sentences Pedophiles b/c Internet Makes It Easy (ZH)”

    They all are. But when they tell you directly, the people say “No they’re not: you’re crazy (because I haven’t looked).” Essentially saying: “There’s no such thing as pedos. No such thing as blackmail. And certainly never in Congress, in the history of all America.” …While the NYC sex trial implicates judges and congressmen on the very same day, three years after Epstein and Nexium. RBG was worse than this. In her book it says she A) Wanted sex work to be legal. Fine, a progressive principle, right? Why is it illegal to sell what you can give away for free? But she also wanted B) the age of consent to be lowered to 14. What does that tell you? Sex trafficking for 14 year olds. RBG was for it. What can I say? I didn’t make her do that; she did it on her own.

    Since all this USED to be illegal – for 200 years – and then the USSC suddenly said “[Slap] What are we thinking? Obviously Jefferson and Hamilton MEANT to say all this pornography, and its creation ought to be LEGAL!” in 1970, they just made it up. They were for it. So they can go ahead and UN-make it up, if they wish. Somehow…hmmm…it seems, maybe, sorta, cultures have noticed this has bad, harmful, decaying, corrupting, undermining effects before? Which is why it’s illegal everywhere? Always has been? And sex is highly regulated by social custom? Everywhere? Over all time and space? No? Nobody’s ever noticed that before? Must be just me.

    And here I thought we had CONGRESS to make the laws, and AMENDMENTS to pass if we wanted to change things, not federal judges. My bad. A misunderstanding. It’s the people we DON’T vote for that make laws. That’s Democracy!

    The kind of “No-vote” “Official coup” “all opposition is illegal” “arm the Nazis” democracy we fight, die, and pay for overseas. And here at home!

    #104761
    oxymoron
    Participant

    Scott MORRISSON Aus pm donating guns and coking coal (heaps of it) to Ukraine means we are also at war with Russia.
    Nice – helps with party donations too. And mates rates.

    https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/scott-morrison-uses-ukraine-war-to-push-coal-agenda,16176

    #104762
    Red
    Participant

    “Ukraine’s Propaganda War: Int’l PR Firms, DC Lobbyists and CIA Cutouts (MPN)”

    I wonder how they will spin this as more leaks through the censorship sieve?

    https://www.instagram.com/tv/CbaJa-ZF3NO/?utm_medium=copy_link

    #104763
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Gonzalo Lira was talking on Black Pigeon Speaks and the topic of Old White Joe came up as the perfect fall guy to allow the Owners (you’re not one of them) to slither out from under the Ukraine clusterfuck.

    Everyone on the show thought that was now the game plan. Makes perfect sense.

    Karmello the VP can fall down a very long set of stairs I suppose. She a quite the ‘loose end’.

    The cokeheadwhoreson Hunter’s laptop story just suddenly reappears in the Presstitute news???

    WTF.

    The Zombie Sheeple subconscious rage at the Covid Scam gets transferred to RussiaRussiaRussia Putin Evil, after an earlier long successful run as RussiaRussiaRussia Orange Man Bad.

    Notice a pattern?

    The MSMediawhores just push the 2 minutes of Hate around the dial cause the Mass Formation Psychosis is steerable, like a killer drone.

    Mass Formation Psychosis is malleable like the liquid quicksilver Terminator.

    The Sum of All Fears

    #104764
    Henry
    Participant

    What a great painting by Jean-Francois Millet, Charity is simply beautiful.

    #104765
    boilingfrog
    Participant

    As Hemingway is alleged to have said, “First they destroy the currency [to gain], then they start a war [to cover it up].”

    My intelligent brother asked me last night, “What does Russia gain from showing a mobile rocket launcher going back to a mall to be re-supplied, and then the missile strike?”
    Me: “It shows it wasn’t a civilian target”
    He: “Yeah, but does it help explain their invasion (i.e. legitimize)?”
    Me: “I think Russia has been stating their case since before 2014. They no longer care what we in the West think”.

    The concepts that (1) Russia doesn’t care what WE in the West think and feel, and (2) the new world order that Biden speaks of is plain as day if one were to look at a chart of the history of world reserve currencies… these concepts are simple beyond the capacity of most to even imagine (to borrow from Greer).

    “These guys seem to have a weird delusion they’re in charge [control] of something.” Exactly

    #104766
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Autopsies. Embalmers.

    • A Simple Way To End Vaccine Misinformation Immediately (Kirsch)

    “If they truly wanted to end vaccine hesitancy, all they have to do is require autopsies if you die within 60 days of vaccination and require the medical examiners to make the required tests to determine vaccine involvement (as doctors Bhakdi and Burkhardt have done) and publish them. Publishing a fraudulent report would be a criminal offense….”

    Why doesn’t Florida Governor DeSantis require this in Florida? What is he afraid of?

    Cause he’s being ‘groomed’ for the presidency like a pedophile grooms a child.

    Ron DeSatan your new Deep Pervert Overlord

    #104767
    zerosum
    Participant

    It takes two to make a transaction
    “the most corrupt nation in Europe” – Ukraine
    “The most corrupt nation in the world” – USA
    ———-
    If you get covid more than once then you don’t have immunity
    1. https://www.ft.com/content/b4bf71b1-0b60-41fd-b445-ce13379a270c (Paywall)
    2. https://www.theblaze.com/op-ed/horowitz-record-infections-in-super-vaxxed-uk-seniors-as-double-vaxxed-show-negative-efficacy-against-covid-death
    3. https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(22)00076-9?rss=yes#relatedArticles

    “vaccines ……. preventing people from achieving immunity………
    “Covid infections surge to record high for over-70s in UK …. seniors are now experiencing record numbers….. after nearly every senior was vaccinated ……. Nearly 95% of all adults are fully vaccinated, and nearly 100% of seniors are vaccinated and boosted……
    Among seniors, boosters are nearly universal. Thus, there is nowhere to run or hide from the vaccine failures.
    ——–
    Sanctions cause price inflation because it artificially reduces supplies
    • Next Inflation Shock Comes From Resource Nationalism (Cerasuolo)
    ——-

    #104768

    What a great painting by Jean-Francois Millet, Charity is simply beautiful.

    Note how the charity recipients are just about invisible. Which makes me think of a song Stephen Foster wrote in 1854, same time as the painting, Irish potato famine.

    T’is the song, the sigh of the weary,
    Hard Times, hard times, come again no more.
    Many days you have lingered around my cabin door;
    Oh! Hard times come again no more.

    While we seek mirth and beauty and music light and gay,
    There are frail forms fainting at the door;
    Though their voices are silent, their pleading looks will say
    Oh! Hard times come again no more.

    There are many versions of it, including a Springsteen one, but a billionaire singing about frail forms fainting at the door seems a bit much. So I’ll stick with the McGarrigles (hey, I’m a Montrealer) and Emmylou Harris:

    #104769
    Oroboros
    Participant

    written interview with Mike Whitney

    Larry Johnson Answers Some Important Questions about Ukraine Operation

    Larry C. Johnson: “The Ukrainian Army Has Been Defeated. What’s Left Is Mop-Up”

    https://www.unz.com/mwhitney/larry-c-johnson-the-ukrainian-army-has-been-defeated-whats-left-is-mop-up/

    Bottom line end for Ukraine:

    “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.”

    .

    #104770
    phoenixvoice
    Participant

    “ A statement from Johnson & Johnson said that tinnitus was identified as an adverse event in its phase 3 clinical trials of the Covid-19 vaccine but also maintained that it was impossible to “establish a causal relationship to vaccine exposure.””

    Difficult to “establish a causal relationship” when “ There is no known cause of tinnitus,”

    Convenient.

    #104771
    Mr. House
    Participant

    https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/ukraine-blocks-trans-women-refugees-they-are-men-must-go-back-fight

    Don’t they want to fight to preserve their “freedoms”? Its funny i know people from the US who have been in the Ukraine since around 2014 (surprising i know) and they all fled to poland. And they virtue signal on social media about supporting ukraine. Well they had the chance and fled. I feel like everything about the “left” is like that which is why when the moment of truth comes, i’ll go with the “rednecks” 😉

    #104772
    ezlxa1949
    Participant

    VERY glad for TAE Summary’s post yesterday about Arthur Ponsonby’s 1928 book Falsehood in War-time, Containing an Assortment of Lies Circulated Throughout the Nations During the Great War. I knew lies and vicious lies had been spread during that war but not in any detail. This book will fill a large gap.

    Wikipedia have an article about this book (link). An excerpt:

    Anne Morelli systematised the essential propaganda techniques of Ponsonby’s classic in her book Principes élémentaires de propagande de guerre. Morelli explains how these principles not only worked during the First World War, but were also applied in wars into 2001:

    1. We do not want war.
    2. The opposite party alone is guilty of war.
    3. The enemy is inherently evil and resembles the devil.
    4. We defend a noble cause, not our own interests (Just War theory).
    5. The enemy commits atrocities on purpose; our mishaps are involuntary.
    6. The enemy uses forbidden weapons.
    7. We suffer small losses, those of the enemy are enormous.
    8. Recognized artists and intellectuals back our cause.
    9. Our cause is sacred.
    10. All who doubt our propaganda are traitors.

    It would appear that these principles are being actively applied right into 2022, and in more than one arena: the Russia-Ukraine stoush and also the covid narratives.

    #104773
    zerosum
    Participant

    WWIII is being fought with modern tools.
    1. Volodymyr Zelenskyy is doing effective propaganda using “face time” by speaking directly to the foreign snobs.
    2. Biden has used faster than sound smart missiles.
    3. Ukraine has been reduced to a demolished pile of raw material that can only be used by a recycler.
    4. Food shortages will haunt all countries.
    5. Our leaders have not learned that everyone loses in a modern war.

    #104774
    ezlxa1949
    Participant

    @oxymoron

    Yeah, Morrison wants a “khaki election,” so he’ll pursue and promote the death-to-Russia, solidarity- with-the-oppressed-peoples-of-Ukraine lines (and they ARE oppressed, no doubt about it) for all they’re worth.

    Does Ukraine even NEED our coal? According to the IEA Ukraine has abundant mineral resources including oil, natural gas and coal, and great hydro and biomass potential. Supplies are disrupted by this war but anything Australia can send them is trivial tokenism. Never mind; the Australian Coal Cabal would gladly stoke the furnaces of hell to keep their industry alive.

    We’re in a war now, and it was Ponsonby who coined the term “When war is declared, truth is the first casualty.” A bit more from him: “A moment’s reflection would tell any reasonable person that such obvious bias cannot possibly represent the truth. But the moment’s reflection is not allowed; lies are circulated with great rapidity. The unthinking mass accept them and by their excitement sway the rest. The amount of rubbish and humbug that pass under the name of patriotism in war-time in all countries is sufficient to make decent people blush when they are subsequently disillusioned.”

    Justice is repelled, righteousness stands far off; truth has stumbled in the public court and honesty finds no place there.

    #104775
    ctbarnum
    Participant

    Psaki tests positive again. 3 shots, 2 infections, vaccine works great!!!

    #104777
    Figmund Sreud
    Participant

    Interesting commentary:

    Question: do you believe that Poland will send forces into the Ukraine?

    No, I don’t think the US is giving conflicting instructions to Kiev. The fact is that when we are negotiating with Ukraine, we are, in fact, indirectly negotiating with the United States. Because, it is clear that we are fighting not with Zelensky, but with the United States, now, on the territory of Ukraine. The United States is at war with us to the last Ukrainian, but the United States is at war nonetheless. Therefore, when we offer surrender to Zelensky, we offer it to Zelensky, and in response, through the mouth of Zelensky, the United States offers us to surrender. They say: “Well, you withdraw troops from Ukraine, clear the Crimea and Donbass, return them to Ukraine, and then we’ll talk.” So, it is clear that Zelensky himself cannot put forward such demands, they are simply absurd. …

    … rest:
    https://thesaker.is/rostislav-ishchenko-on-will-poland-invade-the-western-ukraine/

    #104778
    Figmund Sreud
    Participant

    Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead!

    Madeleine (“We think the price is worth it.”) Albright, … has died at the age of 84. Lucifer rejoices!

    #104779
    zerosum
    Participant

    Go look. A lot of info
    https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/2/28/russia-ukraine-crisis-in-maps-and-charts-live-news-interactive
    Russia-Ukraine war by the numbers: Live Tracker

    #104780
    Fully_caffinated
    Participant

    How on earth will Australia get coal to Ukraine if the shipping lanes are blockaded? Fly it in? Sprinkle magic fairy gold dust on it? Click his heels and wish?

    Shows how smart our “leaders” really are

    #104783
    zerosum
    Participant

    Our leaders/democracy are NOT talking/promoting peace
    There is only “Blame Putin”
    They want to destroy Russians.
    Our leaders are cheering the Ukraine leader, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, while 90% of the Ukrainians have had their lives destroyed.
    The world leaders and EU will harvest what they have sowed, a pile of devastation and rubble.

    #104784
    Veracious Poet
    Participant

    Mass Psychosis Grooming…

    #104786
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    Test post

    #104789
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    I am able to stream shows from the RT website but if I try to add the link to the show in my post then my post does not go through, but the comment number gets used and I am kicked back to the start

    #104791
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    So I won’t try to add any links at this point and just make a little comment. As you may know I am in the middle if nowhere so I have no first hand knowledge of what is happening out there.

    I was streaming a CrossTalk show on RT discussing Info Warfare

    I read Putin Demands Ruble Payment for Gas

    #104792
    Michael Reid
    Participant
    #104793
    Fully_caffinated
    Participant

    Micheal, I just tried to post a solution but that was blocked.
    Don’t include the actual domain rt dot etc.
    Reach with something we can recognize.
    Even rt x com where x is ‘dot is now fsiling

    #104794
    Fully_caffinated
    Participant

    Replace not reach

    #104795
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    This is a little older but I will see if it posts

    The American Empire self-destructs. But nobody thought that it would happen this fast

    https://thesaker.is/america-shoots-its-own-dollar-empire-in-economic-attack-on-russia/

    #104796
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    Credibility of dollar and euro ‘destroyed’ – Putin
    Moscow will use rubles in gas deals with “hostile” countries, the Russian president says

    Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that Western sanctions against his country have dealt a large blow to public trust in the two major Western currencies. Many US allies have joined together to impose sweeping restrictions on Moscow in response to its ongoing military offensive in Ukraine.

    Putin argued that the penalties showed it “makes no sense anymore” to sell Russian goods in the US and the EU while receiving payment in dollars or euros. He said that the ruble will be used for the sale of Russian natural gas to, what Moscow considers to be, “hostile” countries.

    “During the last few weeks, as you know, several Western countries adopted unlawful decisions to freeze Russian assets,” Putin outlined during a government meeting held via video link. “The West has de facto destroyed the credibility of its currencies.”

    The United States and the EU have practically defaulted on their obligations before Russia. Some have suspected this, but now everyone in the world knows that obligations in the [US] dollars and euros can be left unfulfilled.

    Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said this month that Russia was unable to access around $300 billion worth of reserves due to sanctions.

    Moscow attacked Ukraine in late February, following a seven-year standoff over Kiev’s failure to implement the terms of the Minsk agreements, and Russia’s eventual recognition of the Donbass republics in Donetsk and Lugansk. The German- and French-brokered protocols had been designed to regularize the status of those regions within the Ukrainian state.

    Russia has now demanded that Ukraine officially declare itself a neutral country that will never join the US-led NATO military bloc. Kiev insists the Russian offensive was completely unprovoked and has denied claims it was planning to retake the two republics by force.

    #104797
    Veracious Poet
    Participant

    If I was Putin/Russia, I’d also demand Ag, Au, other precious metals & consider bartering of goods as well (of course exchange made directly, as with all “bad” faith actors)…

    He can always print Rubles internally, actually a store of wealth backed by actual precious metals & not lies printed into infinity like the West.

    That is the future, crypto is now a joke evaporating into ether 😐

    If I was Putin I’d also make damn sure Russia’s border was overly secure, as not only will espionage agents/assassins be illegally entering, but also migrants from surrounding regions harmed by U$/EU Empire idiocy…

    Bizarro Horror World is just rolling out, but the damages unnecessarily inflicted will last for generations ~ Book it!

    All part & parcel of the “reset” fantasy TPTB/TBTF insanely joined as part of their death/suicide cult…

    To point, not only will stores of necessities need to be prepared & secured, but the hearts, minds & spirits of those lucky few that survive the initial culling.

    The reckoning is on the doorstep, yet only a small % have any clue…

    Love & mercy,

    Gary

    #104798
    Veracious Poet
    Participant

    Don’t worry, although only you see the monster, everyone will know it’s wrath very soon…

    #104800
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Putin stating the Eurotards have to pay for their very life blood of gas in rubles is GENIUS.

    hahahahahaa!!!

    .

    It’s like a “Financial Tactical Nuke” strike on the western banks and governments.

    There aren’t enough rubles in global circulation to even buy so Germany might be forced to buy directly from the Russian Central Bank (Feel the Burn Baby!)

    Not only will this be major butthurt for Eurotards, but having to buy rubles will actually support the Ruble’s price in a massive way.

    .

    #104801
    Veracious Poet
    Participant

    Must see/share video…

    Bravo!

    Many on TAE are the “makeweight” 🙂

    #104802
    Oroboros
    Participant

    How fast will the Russian counter sanctions bite Eurotards in the ass?

    Two hikers go into Bear country.

    One hiker says to the other,” You do know that bears can run as fast as a horse in the first 50 yards.”

    The other hiker says,” Aren’t you afraid that a bear is so fast it will catch you?”

    The first hiker says,” No, cause all I have to do is outrun you.”

    This is what EU countries will be saying to each other shortly.

    .

    #104803

    I was most impressed with John Ward’s latest double-hitter. This is part one. And here is part two.
    He discusses what he sees as to what’s up and why it’s so wtf-able- from a European point of view.
    Why is the West doing these satanic things?

    #104804
    Oroboros
    Participant

    .

    #104805
    WES
    Participant

    Clearly the US has long been planning for the war in the Ukraine. Thus the PR propaganda war right off the bat plus sanctions on Russia.

    Russia has had over half it’s foreign reserves seized by the US. Why? There are 2 fractions in Russian government, one pro-west, and the other wary of the west. It appears the woman in charge of Russia’s central bank is pro-west and she is the one who left Russia badly exposed. Going forward, however, she has been “ring fenced” by a new committee made up of the wary. They are now in control of Russia’s economy and many aspects of the Russian central bank activities. The wary are the ones who pushed for oil and gas priced in roubles announced today.

    That slow joe has gone to Brussels to declare more sanctions, indicates the US is doubling down again in it fight with Russia and her allies. I see it as a struggle between the WEF crowd against those not buying what the WEF is selling.

    The WEF are the ones selling higher energy costs through their Build Back Better scheme. The major flaw in the WEF’s plan is the increased dependency upon uneconomic green energy supplies. The major built in problem with green energy is that it takes more energy to create and then maintain green energy, than green energy produces.

    One can only afford to dabble with green energy providing you are enjoying good returns on your fossil fuel supplies and only for as long as those supplies are plentiful. Once your fossil fuel supplies tighten and the amount of energy expended to extract them rises, then you no longer can afford the luxury of dabbling in green energy!

    Following the WEF script means putting yourself at a competitive disadvantage with those not buying what the shit the WEF is selling! What the WEF is selling is communism! The fatal flaw in communism is expecting that people will work hard for other people! No they won’t! People will only work hard for themselves!

    One of the main planks of the WEF is to drive up energy costs. On Biden’s first day in office he signed an executive order implementing Elizabeth Warren’s energy policy designed to do just that! Plus killed Keystone pipeline too. Similarly Trudeau has implemented policies to slow and stop Canada’s fossil fuels industry. I suspect Australia has done the same. Certainly the EU has done so. There is a pattern here.

    In the long run I fail to see how the WEF policies will prevail, simply because they require greater amounts of energy to implement combined with policies ensuring there is less energy available!

    We are all going to suffer and pay the price for this fatal political intellectual folly, just like Russia did starting in 1917. It took Russia just over 70 years to hit the brick wall of diminishing returns via greater energy expended for less energy in return.

    The question is how long can we last doing this?

    #104806
    aspnaz
    Participant

    oxymoron said

    Scott MORRISSON Aus pm donating guns and coking coal (heaps of it) to Ukraine means we are also at war with Russia.
    Nice – helps with party donations too. And mates rates.

    I secretly hope that Australia is the recipient of the “demo nuke” used by Putin to show that he is willing to use his big weapons. The USA is not going to start a nuclear war over Australia or New Zealand, so it would be the ideal target and may even help China take over Australia, not that they need help.

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