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Jean-François Millet The Gleaners 1857

 

The Biggest Global Food Crisis That Any Of Us Have Ever Seen (Snyder)
The American Empire Self-Destructs (Michael Hudson)
Pity the Nation (Scott Ritter)
A Proposed Solution to the Ukraine War (Mello)
US Secretary Of Defense Orders 500 Additional Us Troops Deploy To Europe (CNN)
Ukraine Fighter-jet Deal Appears Doomed (Axios)
Blinken Invokes Putin’s Dead Brother (ABC)
Ukraine’s Top Negotiator Says Kiev Open to ‘Non-NATO Models’ (Antiwar)
Nowhere Left to Hide (Kunstler)
Australia Targets Hardcore Putin Extremists Spreading Hate About Ukraine (DM)
Florida Department of Health to Advise Against COVID Vax for Healthy Kids (NW)
Leaders Who Got Covid Wrong Must Admit It And Apologize (NYP)
From Sore Arms To Sudden Death (Eugyp)
Los Angeles Suing Monsanto For Chemicals In Waterways (Y!)

 

 

“And yet the rage that one felt was an abstract, undirected emotion which could be switched from one object to another like the flame of a blowlamp.”
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Famines loom.

The Biggest Global Food Crisis That Any Of Us Have Ever Seen (Snyder)

By the end of 2022, we are going to witness very serious shortages of food in many parts of the globe. In fact, World Bank President David Malpass is openly admitting that we are now facing “a huge supply shock” as a result of the war in Ukraine. Of course we were already moving into a global food crisis even before the war erupted. According to the UN, worldwide food prices in February 2022 were 20.7 percent higher than they were in February 2021, fertilizer prices have gone absolutely nuts, crop production is down all over the planet due to crazy weather patterns, and supply chain problems caused by the pandemic continue to create ongoing headaches. But now World War 3 has erupted, and that is going to push this rapidly growing global food crisis to a level that none of us have ever seen before.

Under normal conditions, Ukraine exports tremendous amounts of food and is considered to be one of the most important “breadbaskets” on the entire planet. Unfortunately, everything has changed now, and this has pushed the global price of wheat up 55 percent since a week before the invasion happened… “Ukrainian farmers have been forced to neglect their fields as millions flee, fight or try to stay alive. Ports are shut down that send wheat and other food staples worldwide to be made into bread, noodles and animal feed. And there are worries Russia, another agricultural powerhouse, could have its grain exports upended by Western sanctions. While there have not yet been global disruptions to wheat supplies, prices have surged 55% since a week before the invasion amid concerns about what could happen next. If the war is prolonged, countries that rely on affordable wheat exports from Ukraine could face shortages starting in July, International Grains Council director Arnaud Petit told The Associated Press.”

I really don’t like that “shortages starting in July” part. That definitely sounds rather ominous. Right now, the global price of food is the highest that it has ever been, and Russia and Ukraine normally account for “nearly a third of the world’s wheat and barley exports”. Now that exports from Russia will be greatly reduced and exports from Ukraine will be virtually non-existent, some countries will almost immediately be facing extreme stress. [..] Things are going to be very challenging in Europe as well, because Ukraine normally provides almost 60 percent of the corn that Europeans use… “Ukraine supplies the EU with just under 60% of its corn and nearly half of a key component in the grains needed to feed livestock.” Meanwhile, crops all over the world are in surprisingly poor shape because weather conditions have been so strange.

Earlier today, I was stunned to learn that it is being projected that China’s winter wheat crop could be “the worst in history”… “The condition of China’s winter wheat crop could be the “worst in history”, the agriculture minister said on Saturday, raising concerns about grain supplies in the world’s biggest wheat consumer.” And the USDA is reporting that a whopping 71 percent of all winter wheat in the United States has been affected by drought… “A limited supply of soft white wheat, the primary type of wheat grown in the Inland Northwest, has helped lead to a six-year low for wheat exports from the United States. That’s according to the USDA wheat report for February. The report also states that 71 percent of U.S. winter wheat is being hit by drought in 2022.”

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“But nobody thought that it would happen this fast.”

The American Empire Self-Destructs (Michael Hudson)

Empires often follow the course of a Greek tragedy, bringing about precisely the fate that they sought to avoid. That certainly is the case with the American Empire as it dismantles itself in not-so-slow motion. The basic assumption of economic and diplomatic forecasting is that every country will act in its own self-interest. Such reasoning is of no help in today’s world. Observers across the political spectrum are using phrases like “shooting themselves in their own foot” to describe U.S. diplomatic confrontation with Russia and allies alike. For more than a generation the most prominent U.S. diplomats have warned about what they thought would represent the ultimate external threat: an alliance of Russia and China dominating Eurasia. America’s economic sanctions and military confrontation has driven them together, and is driving other countries into their emerging Eurasian orbit.

American economic and financial power was expected to avert this fate. During the half-century since the United States went off gold in 1971, the world’s central banks have operated on the Dollar Standard, holding their international monetary reserves in the form of U.S. Treasury securities, U.S. bank deposits and U.S. stocks and bonds. The resulting Treasury-bill Standard has enabled America to finance its foreign military spending and investment takeover of other countries simply by creating dollar IOUs. U.S. balance-of-payments deficits end up in the central banks of payments-surplus countries as their reserves, while Global South debtors need dollars to pay their bondholders and conduct their foreign trade. This monetary privilege – dollar seignorage – has enabled U.S. diplomacy to impose neoliberal policies on the rest of the world, without having to use much military force of its own except to grab Near Eastern oil.

The recent escalation U.S. sanctions blocking Europe, Asia and other countries from trade and investment with Russia, Iran and China has imposed enormous opportunity costs – the cost of lost opportunities – on U.S. allies. And the recent confiscation of the gold and foreign reserves of Venezuela, Afghanistan and now Russia, along the targeted grabbing of bank accounts of wealthy foreigners (hoping to win their hearts and minds, along with recovery of their sequestered accounts), has ended the idea that dollar holdings or those in its sterling and euro NATO satellites are a safe investment haven when world economic conditions become shaky. So I am somewhat chagrined as I watch the speed at which this U.S.-centered financialized system has de-dollarized over the span of just a year or two.

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“..the soul of a nation that once was defined by the life and works of Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Gorky, Lenin, Stalin, Sakharov, and Gorbachev was distilled into a shallow caricature of one man — Putin..”

Pity the Nation (Scott Ritter)

In the past few months, the United States has undergone a kind of transformation that one only reads about in history books — from a nation which imperfectly, yet stolidly, embraced the promise, if not principle, of freedom, especially when it came to that most basic of rights — the freedom of expression. Democracies live and die on the ability of an informed citizenry to engage in open debate, dialogue and discussion about difficult issues. Freedom of speech is one of the touch-stone tenets of American democracy — the idea that, no matter how out of step with mainstream society one’s beliefs might be, the retained right to freely express opinions thus derived without fear of censorship or repression existed. No more.

In the aftermath of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Russophobia which had taken grip in the United States since Russia’s first post-Cold War president, Boris Yeltsin, handed the reins of power over to his hand-picked successor, Vladimir Putin, has emerged much like the putrid core of an over-ripe boil. That this anti-Russian trend existed in the United States was, in and of itself, no secret. Indeed, the United States had, since 2000, pushed aside classic Russian area studies in the pursuit of a new school espousing the doctrine of “Putinism,” centered on the flawed notion that everything in Russia revolved around the singular person of Vladimir Putin.

The more the United States struggled with the reality of a Russian nation unwilling to allow itself to be once again constrained by the yoke of carpetbagger economics disguised as “democracy” that had been prevalent during the Yeltsin era, the more the dogma of “Putinism” took hold in the very establishments where intellectual examination of complex problems was ostensibly transpiring — the halls of academia which in turn produced the minds that guided policy formulation and implementation. Outliers like Jack Matlock, John Mearsheimer and Stephen Cohen were cashiered in favor of a new breed of erstwhile Russian expert, led by the likes of Michael McFaul, Fiona Hill and Anne Applebaum. Genuine Russian area studies was supplanted by a new field of authoritarian studies, where the soul of a nation that once was defined by the life and works of Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Gorky, Lenin, Stalin, Sakharov, and Gorbachev was distilled into a shallow caricature of one man — Putin.

[..] As a former chief weapons inspector in Iraq from 1991-1998, I was uniquely positioned to comment on the veracity of the claims made by the United States that Iraq retained weapons of mass destruction capability in violation of its obligation to be disarmed of such. When my stance was deemed convenient to a narrative attacking a Democratic president, Bill Clinton, I was readily embraced. However, when my fact-based narrative ran afoul of the regime-change policies of Clinton’s successor, George W. Bush, I was cast aside as a pariah.

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Greg Mello is the executive director of the Los Alamos Study Group.

A Proposed Solution to the Ukraine War (Mello)

Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began, what was a regional conflict has become a global hybrid war with ever-greater stakes, not least the risk of nuclear war. Perhaps the greatest danger lies in the difference of motives between parties, which is also the fundamental cause of this war: Russia seeks security, while the U.S. and its NATO allies have been using Ukraine to deny that security — to “break Russia,” in Henry Kissinger’s 2015 phrase. The U.S. does not want peace, unless it be the peace of a conquered Russia. That is why there is no obvious end to the escalations and counter-escalations. The U.S. and NATO see opportunity in the war they have been trying so hard to provoke.

The tragedy is that few people seem to understand that at the root of the Ukraine crisis is a specific strategy known as the Wolfowitz Doctrine, named after Paul Wolfowitz who, as under secretary of defense in the administration of George H. W. Bush, was one of the authors of a 1992 document that laid out a neo-conservative manifesto aimed at ensuring American dominance of world affairs following the collapse of the Soviet Union. “Our first objective,” stated the document, “is to prevent the re-emergence of a new rival [to the United States], either on the territory of the former Soviet Union or elsewhere. … This is a dominant consideration underlying [a] regional defense strategy and requires that we endeavor to prevent any hostile power from dominating a region whose resources would, under consolidated control, be sufficient to generate global power.”

The Wolfowitz Doctrine triggered the post-Cold War use of NATO as an instrument of bloody aggression against Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya. It declared, in effect, that diplomacy was dead and that American power ruled by violence if necessary. A resurgent Russia led by Vladimir Putin was next, and on the horizon, a risen China. The 2014 Washington-engineered coup in Ukraine that removed an elected leader who sought to reinforce his country’s relationship with neighboring Russia, was a product of the 1992 Doctrine and the extremism it represented. Victoria Nuland, a neo-conservative ideologue and President Barack Obama’s “point person” in Ukraine, has played the same role in President Joe Biden’s State Department.

The 1992 Doctrine is elaborated in an infamous RAND study on how to overextend and, in Kissinger’s words, “break Russia.” This is U.S. foreign policy today: a fact well understood by the Russian leadership who regard their country as effectively under siege by the United States. The potential of American missiles pointed at Moscow from former Soviet satellite countries, together with NATO troop deployments, is the reality they see. A militarized and virulently anti-Russian Ukraine being used as a tool by the U.S., with an expressed wish for nuclear weapons, on the brink of invading Russian-sympathizing provinces on the Russian border — all that was too much for Russia. What, do you suppose, the U.S. would do if such a situation arose in Mexico or Canada?

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Enablers.

US Secretary Of Defense Orders 500 Additional US Troops Deploy To Europe (CNN)

Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin ordered additional troops and US military assets to be deployed to different parts of Europe amid the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine to further support the US’s NATO allies, a senior US defense official told reporters on Monday. The Defense Department will send a total of 500 troops in this new deployment, the official said. The deployment will include sending KC-135 refueling aircraft to Greece, but the official could not say how many aircrafts would be sent or where in the US they will be coming from. An air support operation center will be deployed to Poland and Romania, and an ordinance company and a maintenance company will be sent to Germany, the official said.

The ordinance and maintenance companies will provide “additional logistic support to the first armored brigade combat team, third infantry division” in Germany which is already deployed there, the official said. “It’s only 500, small units, enablers, we said at the get-go of deploying forces that we would not rule out additional forces to include enablers, and these units are very much in support of forces that were already sent forward,” the official said. With these additional deployments, the US now has about 100,000 US military personnel either on rotational or permanent orders stationed in Europe right now, the official said. The decision to send these troops and military assets were “based on conversations that the secretary had with the chairman and with Gen. (Tod) Wolters,” the commander of US European command, “that these additional enablers would be useful for the forces that are already” in Europe, the official said.

The additional deployment “were already kind of queued up to go, and again fully in support of our efforts to help defend NATO airspace if needed,” the official added.

CIA in Ukraine – Douglas Valentine

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“..the U.S. would be in “no way opposed” to Poland’s “sovereign decision” to transfer its planes..”

Ukraine Fighter-jet Deal Appears Doomed (Axios)

Efforts to push the Biden administration into supporting the transfer of Russian-made fighter jets to Ukraine appear doomed for both technical and geopolitical reasons. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky pleaded for the jets on Saturday during a Zoom call with more than 300 members of Congress, saying they were badly needed if NATO wouldn’t establish a “no-fly” zone. Those jets would likely be Soviet-era MiG-29s possessed by Poland, which Ukrainian pilots are capable of operating. The U.S. would, in turn, backfill Poland’s fleet with American-made F-16s. White House press secretary Jen Psaki reiterated Monday the U.S. would be in “no way opposed” to Poland’s “sovereign decision” to transfer its planes but stressed there are a number of logistical hurdles.


Those include how the planes would actually enter Ukraine’s heavily contested airspace, as well as how to accelerate the years-long U.S. procurement process for “serious weapon systems” like the F-16. The Russians have also been bombing Ukraine’s airports, raising the specter of the planes having to be based in Poland or other NATO territory — increasing the risk of a Russian attack on soil that would have to be defended by the alliance. Zelensky’s appeal produced an immediate and bipartisan groundswell of support. Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) sent a letter on Monday calling on the Biden administration to “do everything we can to compensate countries that heed Ukraine’s desperate call for fighter jets to defend their homeland.” His Republican counterpart, Sen. Jim Risch (R-Idaho), tweeted: “There is absolutely no reason we can’t supply airplanes to Zelensky and the Ukrainians. Our allies are willing and able to provide them, the admin needs to get out of the way.”

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This will now define any further communications.

Blinken Invokes Putin’s Dead Brother (ABC)

As Russian forces continue to advance across Ukraine, the U.S. is accusing the Kremlin of “starving” besieged Ukrainian cities, in the words of Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who on Monday appealed directly to Russian leader Vladimir Putin to “end the war, end it now.” Blinken even appealed to Putin’s family history, comparing the Kremlin’s siege of Ukrainian cities to Nazi Germany’s siege of Russian cities during World War II, which killed Putin’s one-year-old brother Viktor. But amid calls like his, the Ukrainian government, led by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, is urging U.S. and Western leaders to do more — beyond condemnations and the historic amount of defensive aid and provide warplanes, missile defense systems, and a no-fly zone. U.S. allies in the Baltics are increasingly nervous about Putin’s advances in Ukraine, with Lithuania’s president warning Monday that the strongman leader “will not stop.”


[..] These sieges echoed Nazi Germany’s siege of Leningrad, Blinken said, where Nazi forces “systematically starved and intentionally destroyed” the city, leading to hundreds of thousands of deaths, Blinken said. “That siege affected millions of Russian families, including President Putin’s, whose one-year-old brother was one of the many victims. Now, Russia is starving out cities like Mariupol. It is shameful. The world is saying to Russia stop these attacks immediately. Let the food and medicine in. Let the people out safely, and end this war of choice against Ukraine,” he said. Putin’s older brother Viktor died of diphtheria during the siege of Leningrad before Putin was born.

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But NATO is not.

Ukraine’s Top Negotiator Says Kiev Open to ‘Non-NATO Models’ (Antiwar)

In an early sign of compromise following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine late last month, a senior member on Kiev’s negotiation team said his country is open to remaining outside of the NATO military bloc – a key security concern raised by Moscow time and again. Speaking to Fox News’s Nana Sajaia about the progress of the talks on Saturday, Ukraine’s chief negotiator David Arakhamia said little had been accomplished so far. With another meeting set for Monday, however, he outlined certain tradeoffs Kiev is willing to make, including its membership in the North Atlantic alliance. “We are ready to discuss some non-NATO models. For example, there could be direct guarantees by different countries like the US, China, UK, maybe Germany and France,” Arakhamia said. “We are open to discuss such things in a broader circle, not only in bilateral discussions with Russia, but also with other partners.”


The negotiator went on to state that, currently, the bloc’s leading members are “not ready to even discuss having us in NATO, not for the closest period of five or 10 years,” despite repeated assurances that Ukraine would be admitted – a promise first made in 2008 but reiterated as recently as last summer. While closing the door on Ukrainian NATO membership could be a step in the right direction and signal flexibility ahead of the next round of talks, it is unlikely to satisfy all of Russia’s demands. In addition to concerns over NATO expansion, Russian President Vladimir Putin has insisted that Kiev cede its claims to the Crimean Peninsula and the breakaway Donbass region, where separatist forces have been under siege by the Ukrainian military for eight years. “I don’t think that we have a choice now to even discuss some models where we would recognize those territories [as independent],” he said. “Our position is firm. We are ready to discuss any other dynamic options, but not recognition of those territories.“

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“..cutting off your leg to punish yourself for walking into harm’s way..”

Nowhere Left to Hide (Kunstler)

Time, they say, is nature’s way of making sure that everything doesn’t happen at once. If that’s so, then maybe time has stopped because all of a sudden everything seems to be happening at once. Three things, actually: 1) a Russian military operation in Ukraine that a lot of people in America want to turn into World War Three; 2) an epic crack-up of the world financial system; and 3) the breakdown of the fishy Covid-19 affair and especially the story behind its holy avatar: the mRNA vaccine. In a sane society, that might be enough to trip the institutional reality-test apparatus, but we are not a sane society these days, so we plunge ever-deeper into a hurly-burly of wrongful endeavor vectoring toward self-destruction. The immediate problem is a nation (us) that is powerfully bamboozled, led by a figurehead nobody believes in, backed by a hidden coterie of actors who appear to hate our country enough to try to sink it.

Forgive me for re-stating the premise of the Ukraine situation but one must counter the propaganda emitted like poison gas by a perfidious news media: Russia objected to the expansion of NATO to its very border, based on long-standing prior agreements about it. “Joe Biden” had every chance to formally recognize that reality and stupidly demurred. The Ukrainian government, ditto. Our side (the USA) had already created enough mischief there in mounting the 2014 coup against a government friendly with Russia, and then arming its replacement to harass Ukraine’s own citizens in its easternmost provinces, Donetsk and Luhansk. Two weeks ago, Russia moved in to forcefully correct all that. After all, Ukraine had been a part of Russia since they wrested it from the Ottoman (Turkish) empire in the 1700s, and in any other sense Ukraine is within Russia’s sphere-of-influence, as such things are defined in geopolitical history.

The US-led response to the Russian op was an attempt to dismantle the complex interbank payment systems of the global economy in order to punish one region (Russia) of the global economy — that is, cutting off your leg to punish yourself for walking into harm’s way. The result of that now is mayhem in the financial markets and in currencies, with global commodities like grain, oil, and ores acting as hostages. This hostage-taking has far-reaching effects because the nations of the world can’t operate without food, energy, and stuff to make products out of. Interfere with the rational distribution of them and you’ll get chaos and death.

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How to embarrass your entire country.

Australia Targets Hardcore Putin Extremists Spreading Hate About Ukraine (DM)

Australia will impose a fresh round of sanctions against Russia, targeting people who disseminate propaganda and disinformation about the invasion of Ukraine. Ten Putin supporters will be sanctioned for encouraging hostility towards Ukraine and driving false claims that a genocide was taking place against ethnic Russians in eastern Ukraine. The men targeted are journalists, authors or Putin’s press officers. In addition, Foreign Minister Marise Payne said financial sanctions will be imposed on Russia’s armed forces, as well as six senior military commanders responsible for attacks on Ukraine. ‘Together with partners, we will drive Russia out of our economies, supply chains and airwaves,’ she said in a statement released on Tuesday.


The invasion of Ukraine has been accompanied by a widespread disinformation campaign within Russia. Putin has claimed he invaded to ‘de-nazify’ the country, which the West rejects as a false justification. ‘Tragically for Russia, President Putin has shut down independent voices and locked everyday Russians into a world characterised by lies and disinformation,’ Senator Payne said. ‘The addition of sanctions on those responsible for this insidious tactic recognises the powerful impact that disinformation and propaganda can have in conflict.’ The foreign minister said Australia was working alongside major social media companies to help remove propaganda from their platforms. ‘The assertion that there is a genocidal action happening in Ukraine against Russia, that there is a ‘denazification’ required in Ukraine, is an obscene suggestion,’ Senator Payne told Sky News.

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But Newsweek picks the CDC.

Florida Department of Health to Advise Against COVID Vax for Healthy Kids (NW)

The Florida Department of Health will now tell parents not to give their children the COVID-19 vaccine if they are healthy. Florida Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo made the announcement Monday during a roundtable discussing “failures” of the COVID-19 response in the state. The announcement goes directly against the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which strongly recommends vaccination in children ages 5 and older. The CDC claims that since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the virus has become “one of the top 10 causes of death” for young unvaccinated children. The move, which will be the first taken in any state in the country, has not been officially announced by the Florida Department of Health. However, Ladapo was confident in its future.

“The Florida Department of Health is going to be the first state to officially recommend against the COVID-19 vaccines for healthy children,” he said. “We’re kind of scraping at the bottom of the barrel, particularly with healthy kids, in terms of actually being able to quantify with any accuracy and any confidence the even potential of benefit.” More than 12 million cases of COVID-19 have been reported in children since the beginning of the pandemic, accounting for 19 percent of all U.S. infections, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics. The week ending on February 24 saw children make up 26.2 percent of COVID-19 infections in the country. However, health experts have begun pushing back against the potential recommendation.

When asked by Newsweek for comment, the CDC reiterated how children need to be vaccinated against COVID-19, citing its previous research. It is not only the CDC affirming the effectiveness of the COVID-19 vaccines currently on the market, but Florida-based healthcare professionals, as well. “The data [is] clear,” UF Health professor Dr. Sonja Rasmussen, who studies epidemiology and pediatrics, told Newsweek in an email, “the benefits of COVID-19 vaccine in children outweigh the very small risks associated with it.”

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Is there anyone left who thinks that would be enough?

Leaders Who Got Covid Wrong Must Admit It And Apologize (NYP)

You, Rochelle Walensky at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, allowed Weingarten to craft absurd, unscientific policies that kept kids out of school. You let her block the schoolhouse door because you were on the same political team. You broke the trust Americans had in their health agencies and we will all suffer the repercussions of that for a long time. Apologize to the children whose lives you’ve stunted and who may never recover from the educational loss. Apologize to the kids who received speech therapy through masks because you refused to acknowledge that masking had been pointless in stopping COVID-19 spread. You may have permanently damaged these children because you refused to admit that you had been wrong for so long. Apologize.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, you fell in love with your own image and could not stay off the TV even as it caused us all harm. In November 2021, you said that people who were criticizing you were “really criticizing science, because I represent science. That’s dangerous.” What’s dangerous is if you really believe that. You frequently got things wrong on TV or reversed your previous comments with no explanations. The science hadn’t changed, you made political calculations to support the diktats of the Biden administration. You actually argued for the passage of the stimulus bill as if you were some kind of lobbyist and not the director of one of our national health agencies. Worst of all, you shut down dissenting opinions from other scientists because you knew yours could not withstand scrutiny. You have been a disaster for this country in leading us through the pandemic. Apologize. Then exit stage left and let us never hear from you again.

You fearful, quiet politicians who let extended lockdowns destroy businesses, fray the fabric of our cities and cost us all so much: We saw you maskless, at concerts and parties, while our 2-year-olds stay masked to this day. We know that you didn’t actually think masking was important like you implored us it was. You loved your power and nothing else mattered. Apologize. And you, compliant media, the disaster of the last two years is at your feet. You created heroes out of people like Gov. Andrew Cuomo, whose nursing home directive cost thousands of lives, while demonizing Gov. Ron DeSantis, who used all of his political capital to correctly force schools open, a decision everyone now pretends was easy but certainly was not. You ran stories about high case numbers in Florida “as schools open” to project that schools were somehow unsafe. You were incurious and did not ever challenge the corrupt health care agencies. You let us down.

Don’t apologize, we don’t believe you anyway.

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“Rough calculations from VAERS data suggest that they’re at least several hundred times more dangerous than flu shots.”

From Sore Arms To Sudden Death (Eugyp)

It is undeniable: The Corona vaccines cause a wide array of adverse events, not all of them understood. Right now it’s hard to assess their population-wide impact, but it is no longer reasonable to doubt that they’re substantially more dangerous than ordinary vaccines. Rough calculations from VAERS data suggest that they’re at least several hundred times more dangerous than flu shots. In addition to acute vaccine reactions – fever, myalgia, swollen lymph nodes and injection site soreness in the days following vaccination – many of you also discussed an array of more disturbing symptoms, including serious tinnitus, heightened blood pressure, chest pains, irregular menstrual bleeding and shortness of breath.

I also had many letters describing shingles and Bell’s Palsy following vaccination; and of more puzzling and potentially more serious neurological problems, from vertigo to muscular tremors to seizures. For the most part, milder acute symptoms disappeared in days, but some you report sore arms and tinnitus lasting many months. Among the severe reactions, myocarditis and stroke have a prominent place in your reports; I had fewer reports of miscarriages, but they were also present. Consistent with internet discussion elsewhere, some of you also report the sudden development or resurgence of cancer following Corona vaccination. Broadly speaking, dose 3 seems to have been worse than dose 2, and dose 2 worse than dose 1. Many, many of the vaccinated among you caught Corona following vaccination.

There are the preponderance of infections in the week following the first and third doses, which we already knew about, but these are but a fraction of post-vaccine infections overall. Probably a big thing that has stalled the political momentum driving mass vaccination, is the prevalence of bad booster reactions followed by breakthrough infection. Another point that emerged from your letters, is the generally high threshold for obtaining an exemption from further vaccination following an adverse reaction. It was disturbing to read several stories of people who were essentially vaccinated to death – dying after dose 3, following a rough reaction to dose 1 and a near-miss with dose 2.

Finally, almost all of you were vaccinated under duress. Some of you accepted vaccination simply to end the medical surveillance or to win back some freedom of movement. That was surprisingly uncommon, though; those who gave in to the petty harassments of the vaccinators generally said they didn’t appreciate the risk of the vaccines, or the outrageousness of the legal regime surrounding them, until later. Most often, people gave in to keep their jobs or to appease insistent family members. Some parents accepted vaccination so that they could attend school events involving their children; other people wanted to see elderly relatives in hospital or care homes.

It looks like death
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“.. the company knew as early as the 1950s that PCBs were harmful to humans, ordering staff not to eat near the chemicals.”

Los Angeles Suing Monsanto For Chemicals In Waterways (Y!)

Chemical company Monsanto found itself in the horns of yet another lawsuit Monday, as Los Angeles sued the firm for allegedly knowingly polluting waterways in one of the biggest cities in the United States. The suit — filed last week against three companies including Bayer, the German agro giant that now owns Monsanto Company — comes after a raft of legal action over weedkiller Roundup. The latest legal filing claims Monsanto polluted waterways in Los Angeles with polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) up until 1979. PCBs — a toxic chemical that does not break down easily — were used in paint, ink, paper products, fireproofing products, hydraulic fluids and industrial equipment. “It’s time for Monsanto to clean up and pay up,” said Los Angeles City Attorney Mike Feuer.

“The health and environmental impacts of PCBs — impacts the city has been working hard to reduce in waters throughout LA — are just jaw dropping.” “We allege Monsanto knew decades ago that PCBs are toxic and inevitably would cause widespread contamination,” he charged. “It’s infuriating that Monsanto continued to manufacture and sell them — and, we allege, deceive the public about them.” The lawsuit says exposure to PCBs can lead to cancer, as well as to damage to the liver, thyroid and eyes. It says the chemical can hamper brain development and impact birth weight. City officials, who are seeking payment from Monsanto to clean up waterways, say the company knew as early as the 1950s that PCBs were harmful to humans, ordering staff not to eat near the chemicals.

The lawsuit names three companies that Monsanto spun off in the 1990s: Monsanto Company, now owned by Bayer; Solutia Inc., now owned by Eastman Chemical Company; and Pharmacia LLC., now owned by Pfizer.

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    Dr. D
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    We’re all going to be gleaners soon. The only thing worse than that would be, without combine parts, we have to go into the fields by hand again not as gleaners but harvesters. We have no tools, no sickles, no scythes, no skill, no sheaves, no barns, no threshers, no granaries, no pantries, and most likely in that case, no trucks to move all the people and sheaves. That places the planet on the apex of one machine that has massive parts disruption: a $500,000 harvester combine. I’m sure after the Dark Ages, the new Renaissance will use this as the reason the new Rome fell.

    Video: Or rather Biden saying the way to GET Russia to attack, in order to solve our own problems, is to expand. And then also have no diplomacy or response. Laugh in their face and 100 walk out of the room.

    “ The Biggest Global Food Crisis that Any of Us Have Ever Seen (Snyder)”

    Now you see why they wanted to kill all those people, that is, all of us. As I often say, there was still food in 1933. There is still too much food now. Do you see anyone re-tooling the supply chain to stop the waste, produce more, and stop these inevitable deaths? No you do not. That means they like it, want it, are happy about it. Rubbing their fists in glee.

    “The 1992 Doctrine is elaborated in an infamous RAND study on how to overextend and, in Kissinger’s words, “break Russia.”

    Since we openly publish everything, I guess Russia’s just too dumb to read us, plan, and respond? It’s hard for them, being small, but I don’t think they’re illiterate. We just think they are because we are.

    “US Secretary of Defense Orders 500 Additional US Troops Deploy to Europe (CNN)”

    500 whole troops? Will it take more than one Happy Meal to support them? And as far from the front as possible. Anglos always start the wars and run away. Let other people die for our cause instead. We’re not stupid.

    “the Biden administration into supporting the transfer of [MIG-29] Russian-made fighter jets to Ukraine”

    You mean sitting ducks that will be shot down without the slightest effort, killing a priceless pilot? Yeah, great idea. I mean, maybe you want to take a F-4 Phantom there too. We can crank start its propellers and use its AIM-Sparrow missiles. I’d say I hope somebody has more brains than politicians, but EVERYBODY has more brains than politicians. And reporters, apparently.

    “Antony Blinken, who on Monday [begged] Vladimir Putin to “end the war, end it now.” Or else! …Or else we’ll beg you to end it again tomorrow.

    “We are ready to discuss some non-NATO models.” Oh NOW you’re ready to talk. Look, this was happening all along, but even we who read didn’t catch it. Ze was not running the country. The Azovs were (Backed by the CIA/MI6 same as Maidan, with the same paid murders). So without de-Nazification, they can’t hand it back to you with any assurity. And they’ll pinkie-promise not to NATO for five whole years? While they just has 12 bioweapons labs there? Uh-huh. Pass. And last: they will uphold Minsk. Nope, still won’t, will never recognize Crimea. Sure pal, and I recognize that we claim Canada from the Revolutionary days, but that don’t make it so. Canada, you’d better surrender right now, buster. ‘Cause air came out my mouth. You can die first rather than recognize Crimea, that’s an option for sure that the generals have planned for.

    Australia Targets Hardcore Putin Extremists Spreading Hate about Ukraine (DM)”

    “Hardcore extremists”, once men who did boot camp, shot and stockpiled guns, learned explosives, and went out to shoot “those lower races” in the streets of their nation. Now, it’s a guy typing online. That is to say: YOU. Me. Everyone on the planet. Congratulations, you’re double hardcore, punk.

    “The CDC claims that since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the virus has become “one of the top 10 causes of death” for young unvaccinated children.” Holy #$&@ just when you think you can’t be shocked by any new breathtaking lie. At least nobody’s listening now. Except fringe cult members of course; they’ll believe anything.

    Benton, you did hear about Solari who had a similar case, right? She got booted from Ass’t Housing Dept for discovering half the houses we sell mortgage bonds for in Fannie Mae, to, say, Norway and China, DON’T EXIST. More hypothecation fraud, which we are the undisputed leaders in the solar system on. Retiring, she started to look into houses vs zip code for spending…fairly innocuous, right? Again, world’s biggest hammer hit her, for no reason, from no location, essentially with the goal to imprison and/or murder her immediately. Those same docs would demonstrate all housing, all bonds, all banks, all collateral, and therefore the entire US/Anglo financial system was garbage, an unmitigated fraud. …But she didn’t know that. She only knew she was collecting data of houses vs zip codes, the most boring, public, non-descript, non-specific data imaginable. Sort of like a couple misbehaving doctors in one hospital of the forgotten, Nowheresville, US.

    Thanks to them being unimaginative glue-snorting wonders though, we have all cottoned on to their ways. Now whatever they ban or suddenly promote, and precisely by the measure involved, proves exactly where their weakness is. Thanks boys! You’re the bestest ever! Not every day your enemy is so arrogant, so narcissistic, so self-absorbed, and so retarded they daily publish their war plans and strategies, not just years ahead, but daily in real time. Should be a cinch to clobber them. All you gotta to is believe your lyin’ eyes and do it. We don’t.

    I don’t think pancake-head is paid. He believes everything the bosses tell him and does it for free. Public service. Picking on us for no possible gain is like taking out the trash. “I believe everything I see on T.V. It makes me much more selective” –Spinal Tap. No matter how many times they’re wrong, which is every day for 30 years. (Sideshow Bob stepping on rakes for a minute): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WZLJpMOxS4

    Yup, that’s Pancake and his fearless leader CNN. Where are the WMD and ties to Al-Qeada, as Jon Stewart said? Where’s that mushroom cloud? Is Manhattan underwater and are there more or fewer polar bears? Did those 15 days flatten the curve? How did those masks and distancing do for ya? Did the vaccine prevent Covid, the one and only thing it was supposed to do? Were the 99% compliant countries safer, or less healthy? How’s the daily death rate now that everybody has one; going up or down? I’m sure despite all that, now they’re telling the perfect, unvarnished truth in Ukraine. Feel free to watch the garden rake in the face video on loop until the answers come to you.

    Visa, still helping Russia every way they can by stopping credit card debt. Ah, if only they would do that in Kansas. But they have! If you voted the wrong way and your cell phone seen was at 1-6. Outcome? No debt or reckless spending for you, no profits or data tracking for them. Everyone goes back to cash. Sounds like a win-win. Is there any possible way I can MAKE this happen here? Please, please PLEASE Visa, PLEASE embargo America. Please. It would solve just so many problems. If only Coke were banned, we might stay out of the hospital with Type II as well, saving more lives every year than every man killed for far in Ukraine.

    “PriceWaterhouseCoopers and KPMG Cut Business Ties to Russia and Belarus”

    You mean the guys who authorized all the MBS fraud, Lehman, S&L, and AIG? The threat of having honest books. Oh noes! So hard.

    “Americans Who Cowered Under Government Oppression for 2 Years Urge Ukrainians to Die for Freedom”
    “”I am fully supportive of the Ukrainians’ right to die a painful death for liberty,” said local woman Karen Smeet while masking her kids up for school. “Go Ukraine!” –BBee

    “Cryptos Slide on News Biden to Sign Crypto Executive Order this Week” Predicted attack on BTC. Good. Maybe somebody will get off the exchanges for a change.

    Food prices got you down? California’s got your back: “California Lawmakers Target Factory Farms and Slaughterhouses” Prices: “To the Lambo Moooooon!” Gooooo Newsome!

    “Europe Hopes to Cut Dependence on Russian Gas Almost 80% this Year”

    Hahahahahahahaha! I’m supposed to die of the war, not of laughing.

    “House to Hold Imminent Vote on Ditching Trade Relations with Russia & Belarus, Including Oil Imports”

    They picked a bad day to triple up on sniffing glue. So…genius Congressmen, nobody’s gonna buy that Russian oil? Nobody at all? Orrrrrrrrrr? China and Egypt will buy 100% of it at a discount, and the US and England will get NO oil, at a 200% increase? China gets everything, you shot yourself in the face?
    Fudd
    https://www.sigtalk.com/attachments/e8f0d706-a1b5-442a-9155-6241b1a3013c-jpeg.310754/

    “Russian CDS Hit Record 2,757bps after Morgan Stanley Says Russia Set for Venezuela-Style Default”

    That’s ri-diculous. They’re going to get paid in rubles! Self-printed deficit currency. Like the U.S. does!

    “Polish Top Diplomat: No-Fly Zone in Ukraine Likely ‘Illegal’, Would Trigger Major War: “In practice, this would mean a large-scale military operation beyond the North Atlantic Alliance’s borders. It is difficult to imagine today.”

    Yeah, NATO’s never taken an unnecessary, illegal, major war outside of its home countries, ever. You mean NOT setting up a no-fly zone, protecting open-air slave markets like in Libya is illegal, right? You mean NOT moving billions of dollars in arms and running C-130s of drugs losing to Afghan goat herders is illegal, right?

    “UK Dock Workers Refuse to Unload Russian Ships like to kill their own countrymen with privation and hunger. So woke! I’m sure when they freeze in Blackpool, they can come live on your couch. Right? Or, since it was reported, it’s false?

    “UN Reports over 400 Civilians Killed” Sounds like an ordinary day in America. Or one year in Chicago.

    “Armed Intruders Breached Joint Base Andrews Sunday Night as Vice President Landed” Captain Pelosi, master of failure, still trying to get rid of that pesky VP. Imma gonna get you Duke boyz!

    Foreign Affairs, all about how Russia’s a-gonna lose. Yup, that’s why they dun did it, Russkies never thunk about it before. But Foreign Affairs, who according to the other articles both caused it AND screwed up with a fake bluff, never saw it coming. https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/ukraine/2022-03-04/what-if-russia-loses

    “The war was supposed to end quickly, with a lightning strike that would decapitate the Ukrainian government”

    Uh, what you crayon munchers? Russia hasn’t shown the slightest indication of either a full artillery attack OR of taking Kiev in the slightest. This is one of the dumbest sentences this week, which it a high bar to clear right now.

    “Putin will be unable to win this war on his preferred terms.”

    You mean locking up all of Ukraine, taking no casualties, kettling all of Ukraine’s armies, and blackmailing all Europe with the control of rivers instead of capturing 2 broken TV towers downtown? Gee, you’re right, kettling up Ukraine’s armies and owning the right side of Europe are terrible terms. He really should have wasted a bunch of rockets on the Kiev shopping district instead.

    “Putin seems to be trying to reestablish some form of Russian imperialism.” Yes, someday he might have 400 foreign military bases, 15 illegal wars, and steal the whole world’s gold and currency reserves whenever he’s broke.

    “Putin is unlikely to lose the war in Ukraine on the battlefield.” But you just said he was losing and lost. So losing the war, losing the planet, that’s not losing now? …And the open advertisement of their strategy by these fart-sniffing narcissists that they’re going for “a new Vietnam.” Why don’t you take out a Front-Page in the London Times? Adding later: “Trumpet Alert here!!! We are going to attack – checking notes – North, that is the NORTH Caucus now! North Caucus, C-A-U-C…take notes.” (Putin took out the south Caucus with Kazakhstan just last month before this started bc Britain wanted a two-front war as usual.) Oh and P.S. “We are hereby now going after China too! China, start your engines! We hereby declare.” –Foreign Affairs, Atlantic Council DERP State, C.O.D.

    “Belarus is an example of a country that runs on autocratic rule, police repression, and the backing of the … military.”

    Like Canada! Except in Belarus and Russia you can legally protest. CNN is reporting on the Russian protests daily. …But not the Canadian ones, ’cause horse-trample.

    “Zelensky has been pitch-perfect in his appeals to Ukrainian nationalism.” As the whole Azov battalion tells him to “STFU geek,” on camera or they’ll stuff him in a blender, and is so confident in his country he calls BIDEN when there’s a paper fire and demands NATO do the fighting, to send men and shut down the skies. Pitch perfect to Ukraine in saying: “We’re weak. AND, I’m not in charge.” Yay us!

    Here’s a stunning lack of self awareness, he writes: “The long-term effect of these transitions [I.e. wars] is predictable. As the historian Paul Kennedy argued in The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, such countries have a tendency to fight the wrong wars, to undertake financial burdens and thus to deprive themselves of economic growth”

    Wars have predictable outcomes? That’s news to me. Russia is a great power? That’s new too. You just said yesterday they weren’t. Today they are again? Neither? Both? But the United States on the other hand… “have a tendency to fight [stupid, unnecessary] wars, to undertake financial burdens [and owe trillions in unpayable debt] and thus to deprive themselves of economic growth [leading to decades of negative GDP and ultimately crushing inflation.]”

    As if that weren’t the month’s highlight on non-self-awareness:
    “Information about what is happening … will pour in through social media and other channels, disproving the propaganda and discrediting the propagandists. This is an ethical dilemma that cannot be resolved through repression alone. Repression can also backfire in its own right. [Does it work?] just ask the Soviets.”

    “Assuming Russia will be forced to withdraw one day, [really? We’re not even proposing that as a given?] rebuilding Ukraine will be a task of Herculean proportions. And the West must not fail Ukraine again.” The way you failed them by goading them into trouble, claimed you had their back, then running away like usual? Like you did with the Hungarian uprising, the Kurds (3x), etc.? That kind of total fail? “Again” as you say?

    Okay, and don’t forget Mr. China, Foreign Affairs promises they’re coming for you. Not like you’d want therefore to protect Russia’s back, clear their Visa cards, buy their oil, eat their wheat and lock out Europe to cold and starvation they so richly deserve both for the opium wars, the Asian Crisis, and for their steady behavior and unceasing slander every day since then. …To say nothing of us across the pond.

    So we got that goin’ for us. But America was slated to lose this time around. Only right now the rats ain’t got no ship they’re in charge of, or even to flee to. So. Sad.

    I can’t keep up with this. Inflation is biting and I’ve got real work to do now.

    #103768
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Homicide in Ukraine is 2,000/ year so let’s say 166 of those 400 murders are “normal.” And we know a number of them are friendly fire, civilians fleeing Azov districts, etc.

    #103769
    Oroboros
    Participant

    The Empire of Lies

    shall become

    the Lord of the Flies.

    .

    A country so devolved into the pit of deceit and treachery shall reap the Whirlwind

    #103770
    Oroboros
    Participant

    “Antony Blinken, who on Monday [begged] Vladimir Putin to “end the war, end it now.” Or else! …Or else we’ll beg you to end it again tomorrow.…”

    I’d love to see Putin arm wrestle Old Stumble Mumble Bum Joe live on America’s Got Talent

    .

    #103771
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Completely pointless tracking of the Covid narrative. This thing is a parody of itself:
    https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/03/covid-vaccinated-boosted-individual-institutional-responsibility/626560

    “The Key Distinction That Helps Clarify the Path Forward on the Pandemic” –The Atlantic

    Byline: “We need to focus less on what individuals can do and more on what institutions can do.”

    Yes, DON’T DO ANYTHING!!! Quiver in fear, masked in your basement, but for God’s sake, DON’T DO ANYTHING! Only institutions are allowed to do anything, mister. And the “Individuals” that make up the “Institution”? Yeah, they GOT the memo, Buster, so they are NOT going to do “anything” either. That is a job for somebody else, not me, Mr. Chair-warmer, in the “Insititution”.

    “About the author: Craig Spencer is an emergency-medicine physician and director of global health in emergency medicine at New York Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center.” Proving my point about Columbia.

    “As the [death-free] Omicron surge recedes, millions of the country’s thrice-vaccinated find themselves wondering if now, finally, is their moment to enjoy life and stop worrying as much about COVID.”

    Um, yes? It’s time? Unless vaccines, totally, completely, strictly, diabolically, don’t work? And Omicron has killed no one we can find?

    Next sentence: “shouldn’t everybody—including vaccinated adults—continue to do their part, observing stringent measures to reduce the chance that they’ll get COVID”

    So the vaccine means you’ll get Covid. That’s a “vaccine”. Got it. That is, I’VE got it, apparently Doctors from Columbia, journalists from NY, and editors of major magazines have lost their d—n minds.

    We always get the disease we’re vaccinated against. Totally normal. I can’t count the number of times I’ve gotten polio, mumps, measles, rubella, tetanus…. I’d forward the dictionary definition of “Vaccine” but you’re illiterate so why bother.

    Not satisfied with being an embarrassing moron, shaming his family and school, he adds: “What individuals can do to fight the pandemic is simple: Get vaccinated.” YOU JUST SAID THE VACCINATED GET THE DISEASE! How would I fight the spread with something that doesn’t fight the spread?

    boosted adults are still far less likely to require hospitalization and 41 times less likely to die from COVID.”

    Embarrassing himself by lying against all data in the UK and Ireland, Israel… Embarrassing himself, but KILLING OTHERS with his data-opposite advice.

    “In a population with near-universal vaccine uptake and boosting, COVID would never overwhelm the health-care system,”

    Except in Ireland, UK, Israel… where every data is the OPPOSITE. Rather than look, they stopped publishing the truth and data. Scienz!

    Many may choose to continue masking … and they should do what makes them feel most comfortable.”

    …And not instead do what the Science says. Me, I don’t oppose this, it’s a free country. However YOU’RE the one promoting #Science. So promote it now for once: All masks PLUS lockdowns had 1.5% efficacy according to modern studies. Tell the truth. Therefore, masking is not #Science.

    “Others might want to use rapid testing before a large family gathering.” Why would they do this? Because they’re all vaccinated and immune? Because you have a cure?

    “the future of the pandemic does not depend on vaccinated people like me avoiding getting COVID forever.”

    …Because “the vaccinated get Covid,” Pancake-head. The vaccine does not prevent Covid, nor its spread. Therefore: NOT A VACCINE. So the future of the pandemic means: You’re going to get it. This is official CDC data and guidance. Therefore, why bother? Do not avoid it = we need no measures now. But you want continuing measures because we’re NOT going to avoid it and we’re going to get it?

    “we should look to institutions—both public and private—to do three things: increase vaccinations, reduce spread, and improve treatment”

    YOU JUST SAID THE VACCINES DON’T STOP THE SPREAD!!! At all. Why would we increase them? And you JUST SAID EVERYBODY’S GOING TO GET IT. So why/how would we stop it? ‘Cause masks worked so well so far?

    You know, I knew Columbia was dumb, but I didn’t expect them to be IQ=50 either. Any Fetal-Alcohol NASCAR trailer trash who lost his last tooth to Meth is smart enough to know these several argument make no d—n sense, but this guy merrily proceeds on, killing all his patients in his Very-Important-Hospital, I can only assume.

    He goes on to complain about 80% vaccination rates in nursing homes, etc, while he also says the vaccine does not stop the disease. And lauds England, where the vaccine has INCREASED the disease.

    “getting the rest of the world vaccinated is the best way to prevent new variants from emerging.” Not if it doesn’t stop the spread and every vaccinated person gets it. Then it INCREASES the variants.

    Next bizarre promotion, from Deep-Blue “Atlantic”: Monoclonal antibodies. Yes, that’s right, the treatment that kills everyone, doesn’t work, and they both attack and cut off DeSantis for. “It works when WE say it!” So today, MCA works/doesn’t work so therefore we have a treatment that allows/doesn’t allow Emergency Use Authorization.

    He wants permanent masks for stores, as with 2 years and 6 billion people in the test study, they’ve worked so perfectly by not stopping the spread, anywhere, at any time they’ve been tried. And “The pandemic isn’t over, even for the boosted.” Er, whut? Then why would you get vaxxed or boosted then? The whole point of vaxxing according to all of you, to a man, was to “end the pandemic”. Which you said it doesn’t do, and everybody’s going to get it.

    by virtue of getting boosted in the first place, [This group, ] is among public health’s best allies. If we level with them now, they will be more willing to listen when the message and guidance change. Failing to do so risks losing their trust and attention completely.”

    HuhWhat? The people who get and transmit Covid can go on vacation and be normal humans, but the OTHER people who get and transmit the same Covid can’t? …You mean the Covid, Omicron, that kills no one? And we need to “Level with them”? Because if it gets what you want, you were about to and totally consider it a viable option to lie to them instead? And your message and rules are going to change AGAIN? You know this already? Before it’s happened yet? And “failing will lose their trust”? Someday, in the future? But not already for 24 months running, in the past?

    And you wonder why I say they eat glue. WigginOuthttps://i.imgflip.com/2amewh.jpg What else could explain such mind-bendingly illogical behavior, with deep pride and no awareness?
    GluePot
    https://i.imgflip.com/2vy2jo.png

    The disturbing part: it’s not just Columbia graduates: all Atlantic readers believe this too, in the 830 thousands. They’re the coastal anvil-head PMCs driving the bus, blindfolded, fingers in their ears, past the ditch into the canyon, down on top of the open nuke. “Trust the Doctors.” “Follow the Science.”

    #103772
    Red
    Participant

    @dr-d You are consistently rolling sevens! I end up reading most of your post out loud to my wife.

    #103773
    chooch
    Participant

    Nice sound bites from Tulsi last night.

    I have read Russian planes are still being shot down.

    The Ukrainian Air Force retains most of its fixed-wing fleet according to US reports. Ukrainian MANPADS are the primary threat for VKS fixed-wing sorties. The VKS still remains ineffective in planning a comprehensive operation to gain air superiority. ( Jomini day 12 update)

    Also read the Russian army are laying waste to the smaller towns as they roll throw and leave them.

    I would not be surprised if Russia is blocking social media from their citizens.

    https://twitter.com/ArmedForcesUkr/status/1500722512971415553?s=20&t=SDM6J4N8074KY8t886zHyg

    Putin hates the West and has sufficient support of his people.

    The West knows little about Russia and their history beyond what they have been told.

    Not sure how you take Kyiv with 10s of thousands of combatants embedded in the city. Starve them out? Bomb them back to the stone age?

    The West’s playbook of creating a proxy and supplying them arms is likely to fail and many people are sick to death as they has been seen over and over. There is nothing to rally around, nothing to believe in.

    #103774
    chooch
    Participant

    Criminal

    #103775
    Mister Roboto
    Participant

    Why sanctions on Russia will consolidate Putin’s grip on Russia instead of undermine it:

    https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1500996394659696640.html

    #103776
    Oroboros
    Participant

    “And you wonder why I say they eat glue. “

    I think it’s more like lead paint chips.

    Like potato chips with heavy metal for flavor enhancement

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    #103777
    Oroboros
    Participant

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    #103778
    Oroboros
    Participant

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    #103779
    deflationista
    Participant

    #103780
    Dr D Rich
    Participant

    Reposting this as a reply to Dr. D as it touched many of the bases from his post today.
    This shit never ages:
    Btw, deadeye Dick was punctilious.

    December 23, 2019 at 11:01 pmin reply to:Debt Rattle December 23 2019#52304REPLY

    Dr D Rich

    Participant

    The apt comparison is between CIA assets Ciaramella and Carter Page AND what appears to be distinctly different treatment/regard of these two CIA employees by the elected government officials at this saga’s forefront. As for fellow USNAer Page, the traits his IC handlers found useful, toxic levels of earnestness, copious venality and servility to authority are found in abundance at The Boat School (TBS). Distinct from academic and overall performance at TBS, I give you Admiral Stansfield Turner and his link to the CIA as a point of reference. Page “rates” as much sympathy as Ciaramella which is to say none. They both knew/know the game. The common thread is they both have yet to be arrested and subjected to pretrial confinement. I digress.
    I offer my firsthand observation of these characters from communications with Sy Hersh when the Iraq War was in its infancy and Dick Cheney as recently as a little over a year ago. Sy Hersh, the person observable near the end of Netflix’s Wormwood is the real deal, whatever his deal might be with the IC. He will engage you in debate about your valid experience and correct his thinking/writing when appraised of the illogic he has been subjected to by the IC. However, when pressed to do a damn thing about it, Hersh will retreat to the same predetermined warning he have gave Frank Olsen’s son, Eric, beware the level of vicious vindictiveness the IC can and will subject your life. In the end, Hersh exists to maintain access. Glenn Greenwald it seems is auditioning to be Hersh’s heir apparent.
    As for Dick Cheney, a fellow who congratulates an officer and combat veteran for helping to “defeat Russia in Iraq” during Desert Storm when he was asked do you support prosecuting the Iraq War decision-makers IS engaged in grandiose delusional thinking that is megalomaniacal in scale.
    Why this enormous distraction from what is usually not a publicly viewable contest? I agree with Dr. D. It IS a massive theft, trillions of dollars again for the third time that we know since 2008, 1) 2008 Bernanke’s Big Bank Bailout, 2) Quantitative Easing under Barack/Geithner and 3) Not-QE Overnight REPO. AND to announce the disclosure of the Afghanistan Papers, again a massive transfer of wealth to DoD and military contractors, in manner which guarantees inattention by the viewing public and their elected government representatives.
    Btw, I roomed across the hallway from Mike Silva, yes that right hand man of NY FEDs Tim Geithner, who fired Goldman-Sachs monitor Carmen Segara.

    #103781
    zerosum
    Participant

    Did you get it? Go back and read Dr. D
    TAE just explained

    1. The snobs are Herding humanity.
    2. The snobs don’t care if a few bloggers figured how its done.
    3. The snobs don’t care if bloggers explain the tools that are used.
    4. The snobs control the microphones

    #103782
    zerosum
    Participant

    Robbery
    The price of a barrel of oil keeps going up, (+$127 ), the $C keeps going down, (- 77.86)

    #103783
    Figmund Sreud
    Participant

    Latest from Art Berman ( https://mobile.twitter.com/aeberman12 ) interview, I’m grossly paraphrasing here, from memory:

    “If you import assembled automobiles from afar and paint them green, … than you export them afar, are you an exporter of an automobiles? Well, … no! You are an exporter of green paint!”, … or something like that.

    Anyway, the interview:

    F.S.

    #103784
    TAE Summary
    Participant

    * Why do we want to wreck the world? Because it is wreckable!

    * Rage is an abstract, redirectable force. Give into your anger, it will make you strong.

    * The chart of military capabilities didn’t show hypersonic weapons; Only three countries have them, the US, Russia and China.

    * Global Food Crisis on the way: Starving Lives Matter; American should be willing to live on 500 calories a day to support Ukraine; Patriots: Don’t tread on me; Biden Administration: Let them eat snake.

    * Fifty years is a long time to pawn monopoly money off as the reserve currency but all good things must come to an end; It was fun while it lasted; Good job USA!

    * We are our leaders; In Russia every man is Putin; In the US every man is Biden; In Canada every man is Trudeau; In the UK every man is BoJo.

    * They lied about Vietnam, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya and Iran; This time is different.

    #103785
    Mr. House
    Participant

    “* The chart of military capabilities didn’t show hypersonic weapons; Only three countries have them, the US, Russia and China.”

    I’m rather certain ours don’t work.

    https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/us-falls-further-behind-russia-and-china-in-developing-hypersonic-missile-report-says/ar-AAUKOOI

    #WINNING

    #103786
    teri
    Participant

    Biden just announced the US is banning imports of Russian oil and gas products. We are told that we must all suffer for the sake of the Nazis in Ukraine. Remember when Bush told us to go shopping after 9/11? Fun times. Now Biden is telling us to eat dirt and die.

    Reg gas just hit 3.99 to 4.08/gal here in town (Hagerstown Md).

    Diesel is 4.79 in town (4.84 at the truck stop nearest the trucker’s convoy). Considering it’s two hours – on a no-traffic day – to DC, another two hours to circle the Beltway, and then two hours back up here, I don’t see how these guys can afford to do this too much longer.

    #103787
    Figmund Sreud
    Participant

    Art Bearman latest article, bunch of graphs in it:

    OIL SHOCK!

    Oil Shock

    F.S.

    #103788
    Veracious Poet
    Participant

    U$ Empire Inc. needs those 400 foreign military bases, 15 illegal wars, and steal the whole world’s gold and currency reserves whenever he’s broke because, DEMOCRACY…

    Every child should have free skittles, unicorns & be happy, happy, HAPPY! that they’re all FREE from want, of owning anything.

    Free glysophates, mRNA vaccines, remdesivir & AZT all around!

    The West voted for Clown World (NWO), so by Zeus they’ll have it 🙂

    Be sure to watch It’s A Small World XXII on Disney+++ with the whole family, which is a perfect companion to The Wonderful World of Tony Fauci

    So much #WINNING, We just had to share…

    #103789
    Oroboros
    Participant

    The macro result of the Ukraine operation is that the Empire of Lies has made sure that EU countries can’t join the rest of the vast Eurasian Traging Block, and thus insure a prosperous future. Instead the EU has condemned their Sheeple to an unending future cotton picking on the Empire of Lies Plantation. The Euro-attack poodles can buy US LNG gas, shipped across half the planet over an ocean for a huge price increase and pay a huge mark up for fertilizer, oil, industrial materials (lumber, nickel,neon, argon, uranium….) and wheat, all so Uncle Yosemite Sam can keep his jack boot on their collective pencil necks for another 77 years while goosing up the budget of the Military Industrial Mafia

    If the symbol of China is a Dragon, and the symbol of Russia is a Bear, the symbol of the EU is a Muppet.

    The Menacing Muppet, sure to strike terror in the hearts of opponents.

    .

    Burning Globalist Structures to Save the Globalist ‘Liberal Order’

    Burning Globalist Structures to Save the Globalist ‘Liberal Order’

    “Biden, finally, has his foreign policy ‘success’: Europe is walling itself off from Russia, China, and the emerging integrated Asian market.

    “In its triple strike of sanctions on Russia, the EU initially was not looking to collapse the Russian financial system. Far from it: Its first instinct was to find the means to continue purchasing its energy needs (made all there more vital by the state of the European gas reserves hovering close to zero). Purchases of energy, special metals, rare earths (all needed for high tech manufacture) and agricultural products were to be exempted. In short, at first brush, the sinews of the global financial system were intended to remain intact…..”

    #103790
    Figmund Sreud
    Participant

    This will not end well for all of us!

    Russia’s attack on Ukraine. Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Polish authorities are ready to hand over the MiG-29 planes to the US

    Russia’s attack on Ukraine. Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Polish authorities are ready to hand over the MiG-29 planes to the US

    F.S.

    #103791
    Oroboros
    Participant

    .

    #103792
    Oroboros
    Participant

    .

    #103793
    Oroboros
    Participant

    The EU mascot, The Menacing Muppets

    #103794
    chooch
    Participant

    New Orleans ER doctor

    #103795
    Doc Robinson
    Participant

    TAE Summary: “They lied about Vietnam, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya and Iran; This time is different.”

    Liar.
    A lesson from Henry Rollins:

    #103796
    zerosum
    Participant

    Its a bird …. Its a plane …. NO ITS BIDEN GOING TO IRAN FOR GAS/OIL

    #103797
    zerosum
    Participant

    TAE Summary: “They lied about Vietnam, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya and Iran; This time is different.”

    That is why that I saved up all my tears and my sympathy for the Ukrainians being rendered homeless by the RussiansRussiansRussians

    #103798
    zerosum
    Participant

    PEACE COMING
    MIG-29 BEING TRANFERRED TO UKRAINE

    #103799
    zerosum
    Participant

    Titfortat
    https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/putin-signs-countermeasure-decree-limiting-russian-exports-after-bidens-russian-oil-import
    Putin Signs Countermeasure Decree Limiting Russian Exports After Biden’s Russian Oil Import Ban

    #103800
    Veracious Poet
    Participant

    Even mild COVID-19 can damage the brain, affecting a person’s ability to perform complex tasks, study finds

    https://www.businessinsider.com/mild-covid-damage-age-brain-uk-biobank-study-finds-2022-3

    Creativity and enthusiasm define childhood, but American children seem to be losing these gifts, teachers say.

    American children are less creative and less motivated than past generations. When teachers compare today’s children with their peers from only a few years ago, there’s a clear difference, according to Page Park, an Indiana teacher with 24 years of experience.

    “They don’t know how to think for themselves, too. I do have a few kids that are really good at problem-solving, but not as many. They’re not good at problem-solving,” she said.

    Park said that since she first started teaching, creativity has declined. Students today don’t look for solutions to simple problems.

    https://www.theepochtimes.com/american-children-losing-motivation-and-creativity-teachers-say_4309077.html?utm_source=partner

    More than 200 Americans estimated poisoned by at-home PCR test kits

    Former National Institutes of Health (NIH) chief Francis Collins, who was also recently appointed as President Joe Biden’s new science advisor, expressed support for vaccine mandates, emphasizing that people’s employment should be threatened.

    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/03/07/leaked-audio-reveals-former-nih-director-francis-collins-touting-vaccine-mandates-threatening-unemployment/

    #103801
    Dimitri
    Participant

    Oh … so now it’s officially accepted from both sides

    #103802
    teri
    Participant

    Why am I looking at giant (HUGE on my screen, because this website is now formatted in a very strange way on my Mac mini) pictures of muppets, potato chip bags, cartoon characters and Oprah Freaking Winfrey?

    I feel stupider than I did an hour ago.

    #103803
    chooch
    Participant

    teri,

    Veracious P and Oroboros have experienced a mind meld.

    Mm

    #103804
    Veracious Poet
    Participant

    Today’s resident Xiden photo op totally reminded me of the latest Cavin & Hobbes theme:

    I feel stupider than I did an hour ago.

    The Twilight Zone will do that to you 😉

    #103805
    zerosum
    Participant

    Best defense/attack on Cyber.
    Shut off the electricity

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