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Giuseppe Sanmartino The veiled Christ (Christo velato) 1753

 

Vladimir Putin May Declare New World War In Days: UK Defence Secretary (Mirror)
It’s About Time (Edward Curtin)
What is the Collective West? (Batiushka)
Russian Cyber Attacks Fail to Materialize (LI)
Ukraine War Speeds Up US Cyber Agenda (Hill)
The Perfect Nanny To Tidy Up Mess Of Free Speech (Turley)
Time Writer Knocks Free Speech As An ‘Obsession Of The Tech Elite’ (Fox)
Diesel for Dinner (Doomberg)
Vaccine Lies Are Finally Falling (Nass)
High Energy Prices Leave Oil Giants Untroubled By Russia Exit Or Tax Hints (O.)
World Moving to Gold – Jim Rickards (USAW)

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The weapons deliveries need the story that Russia is failing, i.e. Ukraine can “win”. In the UK, politicians actually believe that story.

Vladimir Putin May Declare New World War In Days: UK Defence Secretary (Mirror)

Vladimir Putin could declare a new world war in the coming days, the UK defence secretary has warned. Ben Wallace said that the Russian leader may start a “mass” mobilisation and use May Day to announce a war on the world’s “Nazis”. Putin started the Russian invasion of its neighbour on February 24 saying that it was a special operation to rid Ukraine of Nazis. Since then Ukrainian cities have been pummelled by shelling in a battle which government minister Liz Truss has said could go on for 10 years. And in the face of the West providing money and armaments to Ukraine, Russia has referred to its nuclear capabilities in threats to not get involved. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that the “danger is serious” of a nuclear war.

Now Mr Wallace told LBC that Putin having “failed” in most of his objectives in the war with Ukraine may declare war on the “world’s Nazis”. He said: “I would not be surprised . . . that he is probably going to declare on May Day that ‘we are now at war with the world’s Nazis and we need to mass mobilise the Russian people’.” He continued: “Putin, having failed in nearly all objectives, may seek to consolidate what he’s got . . . and just be a sort of cancerous growth within the country. We have to help Ukrainians effectively get the limpet off the rock and keep the momentum pushing them back.” At the same time around 8,000 British Army troops are to take part in exercises across eastern Europe to combat Russian aggression in one of the largest deployments since the Cold War.

Dozens of tanks will be deployed to countries ranging from Finland to North Macedonia this summer under plans that have been enhanced since the invasion of Ukraine. Mr Wallace said the “show of solidarity and strength” will see UK service personnel joining with NATO allies and those from the Joint Expeditionary Force alliance, which includes Finland and Sweden, for the exercises. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) said the action had been long planned, but that it had been enhanced since Russia invaded its neighbour in late February.

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“..the apocalyptic sense that permeates our lives because of demonic technology and its use to transform humans into machines who can’t think clearly enough to perceive reality..”

It’s About Time (Edward Curtin)

With the start of World War III by the United States “declaring” war against Russia by its actions in Ukraine, we have entered a time when the end of time has become very possible. I am speaking of nuclear annihilation. I look down at my great-uncle’s gold Elgin pocket watch from the 19th century. His name was John Patrick Whalen, an Irish immigrant to the US who fled England’s colonialist created famine in Ireland. It tells me it is 5:15 PM on April 21, 2022, a date, coincidentally, with a history. No doubt John looked at his watch on this date in 1898 when the United States, after the USS Maine exploded from within in Havana harbor (a possible false flag attack), declared war on Spain in order to confiscate Spanish territories – Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines.

One colonial power replaced another and then proceeded over the long decades to wage war and slaughter these island peoples. Imperialism never dies. It is timeless. One hundred and twenty-four years go by in a flash and it’s still the same old story. In 1898 the yellow press screamed Spanish devils and today it screams Russian devils. Then and now the press called for war. If the human race is still here in another 124 years, time and the corporate media will no doubt have told the same story – war and propaganda’s lies to an insouciant and ignorant population too hypnotized by propaganda to oppose them. This despite the apocalyptic sense that permeates our lives because of demonic technology and its use to transform humans into machines who can’t think clearly enough to perceive reality and realize the threat posed by that quintessential technological invention – nuclear weapons.

This is not uplifting, but it’s true. The nuclear weapons are primed and ready to fly. The US insists on its first-strike right to launch them. It openly declares it is seeking the overthrow of the Russian government. Russia says it will use nuclear weapons only if its existence is threatened, which has become increasingly so because of US provocations over a long time period and its current expanding arming of Ukraine’s government and its neo-Nazi forces.The Russian President Vladimir Putin and its Foreign Secretary Sergei Lavrov have just warned the US that such involvement has made nuclear war a “serious” and “real” risk, in Lavrov’s words “we must not underestimate it,” which is a mild form of diplomatic speech. Putin said that Russia has made all the preparations to respond if it senses a strategic threat to Russia and that response will be “instant, it will be quick.”

The US response is to shrug these statements off, just as it has done so for many years with Putin’s complaints about NATO forces moving up to its border. Incredibly, Biden has said, “For God’s sake, this man (Putin) cannot remain in power.”


Donetsk war reporter Dmitry Astrakhan

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“2022. Ancient Russian Lands (recently become known as Eastern and Central Ukraine), occupied, attacked and threatened by Nazi forces, trained and equipped by NATO..”

What is the Collective West? (Batiushka)

1812. The Russian Empire was invaded by the French Empire, the Austrian Empire, the Kingdoms of Italy, Naples, Saxony, Bavaria, Westphalia, Wuerttemburg, Prussia, Spain and Denmark, the Swiss Confederation, the Grand Duchies of Hesse, Berg and Baden and the Duchy of Warsaw. The result? Although the Collective Western forces reached Moscow, they had to retreat with hundreds of thousands of deaths and in 1814 Russian troops liberated Paris from the tyranny of Napoleon.

1853. The Russian Empire was invaded by France, Great Britain, Sardinia and the Ottoman Empire, supported by the Austrian Empire. This war, miscalled ‘The Crimean War’, included the invasion of the Russia through the Crimea, an attempted British invasion of Siberia from the Sea of Japan and the shelling by the British Navy of a Russian monastery from the White Sea. It lasted until 1856. The ending came when the British blew up the Russian dock installations of Sebastopol (Sevastopol), built ten years before by British engineers. For this ‘achievement’, 500,000 human-beings had died as a result of French and British Imperialism, mainly of disease. Another consequence – in 1867 Russia sold Alaska to the then friendly USA, and not to the enemy British Canada.

1914. The Russian Empire was invaded by Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire and the German puppet kinglet of Bulgaria. After immense struggles, the enemy advanced only as far as Poland and Lithuania, never even entering Russian territory. The Russian Imperial Army, suffering fewer losses than the French and Germans on the Western Front even though facing twice as many enemy troops, was headed for total victory in summer 1917. However, in early 1917 the Russian Empire was overthrown by a British-orchestrated coup d’etat and implemented by a fifth column of treacherous Russian aristocrats (i.e. oligarchs, in modern language), generals, politicians, journalists and lawyers. We know what happened next.

1941. The Soviet Union was invaded by the troops of Fascist Germany, Romania, Finland, Italy, Hungary, Slovakia, but these were supported by detachments of Nazi troops from a great many Western countries, including France, Belgium and Norway. The result? Despite the slaughter of 27 million Soviet citizens by the genocidal Nazis who treated the Soviet peoples as wild animals to be massacred, in 1945 Soviet troops liberated Berlin, discovering the gruesome charred remains of the suicide Hitler.

2022. Ancient Russian Lands (recently become known as Eastern and Central Ukraine), occupied, attacked and threatened by Nazi forces, trained and equipped by NATO (the North American Terrorist Organisation), consisting of 30 states led by the USA, are being liberated. They are being freed by Russian forces fighting in what is not a Russian war against the Ukraine but a NATO proxy war against the Ukraine.

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“..unnamed US officials told NBC News that “there is no evidence Russia has brought any chemical weapons near Ukraine,” adding that Washington hurled the accusation merely to “deter Russia from using the banned munitions.”

Russian Cyber Attacks Fail to Materialize (LI)

One month after President Joe Biden warned Americans to prepare for cyberattacks from Russia, a US official said that Washington still has yet to detect any. The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has assessed that Russia has not breached US systems, with agency head Jen Easterly saying the administration has “not seen attacks manifest here.” “To date, we have not seen specific attacks on the US. What we are concerned about is the fact that Russia’s malicious cyber activity is part of their playbook,” she said in a statement on Thursday. Easterly did mention that American economic penalties could provoke Russian cyber operations in the future, despite the lack of such breaches to date. “We are very concerned that as the war drags on, there may, in fact, be retaliatory attacks given the very severe sanctions we have imposed on the Kremlin, the US and our allies,” the agency head continued.


In a March 21 speech, Biden told Americans that “the magnitude of Russia’s cyber capacity is fairly consequential, and it’s coming,” ominous warning of major hacks on the horizon. The Biden administration has issued several similar alerts that have failed to materialize. The White House has warned for months that Moscow could deploy chemical weapons and has even shipped protective equipment to Kiev’s forces to prepare for such an attack. On April 6, however, a series of unnamed US officials told NBC News that “there is no evidence Russia has brought any chemical weapons near Ukraine,” adding that Washington hurled the accusation merely to “deter Russia from using the banned munitions.”

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Still, the narrative of the “Russian Cyber Attacks” works miracles to get funding.

Ukraine War Speeds Up US Cyber Agenda (Hill)

The war in Ukraine has pushed the United States to expedite its investment in cybersecurity amid constant — though so far unrealized — warnings of Russian cyberattacks on government agencies, election systems and critical infrastructure. Following the invasion of Ukraine, federal agencies have invested millions in cyber technology, seized and sanctioned hacking forums, charged Russian cyber criminals, and issued almost weekly warnings on the latest threat risks. Even lawmakers in Congress have stepped up their efforts, with the introduction of several cyber-related bills, and the passage of a new law requiring companies in critical sectors to report significant cyberattacks within 72 hours and ransomware payments within 24 hours.

The legislation passed in March as part of an omnibus spending bill that significantly increased funding for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), which oversees federal cybersecurity infrastructure and enforcement. “The war in Ukraine is sort of a focusing event for getting some legislative initiative and momentum, and getting some public support that this is an issue that their representatives should care about,” said Jason Blessing, a research fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. “As terrible as the war has been, it’s an opportunity for the U.S. government to establish more robust cyber frameworks,” he added. Lawmakers have also held several committee hearings on cybersecurity over the last couple weeks, inviting experts – from the private sector and the government – to weigh in on current cyber threats and how to stop them.

Although many of these efforts predate the Russian invasion, experts say that the war in Ukraine gave the actions momentum and priority, such as lawmakers passing the cyber incident reporting law and the Department of Justice (DOJ) indicting Russian hackers. “The DOJ had clearly been investigating the hackers who were charged in March for some time prior to that announcement, but I think it’s possible that the war prompted them to go public with those charges sooner than they otherwise might have,” said Josephine Wolff, an associate professor of cybersecurity policy at the Tufts University Fletcher School. [..] Despite the U.S. sounding the cyber alarm, Russia is still showing restraint in the face of crippling economic sanctions. Experts and policymakers still warn that Russian cyber aggression is only a matter of time, particularly with midterm elections around the corner.

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The Perfect Nanny To Tidy Up Mess Of Free Speech (Turley)

“You can just call me the Mary Poppins of disinformation.” That Twitter intro to a TikTok parody of the song, “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious,” is now indelibly connected to Nina Jankowicz, the new head of the federal government’s announced Disinformation Governance Board. Given her record of spreading disinformation and advocating censorship, Jankowicz hardly needed the musical-inspired persona. Yet, for the Biden administration, Jankowicz — like Mary Poppins — is “practically perfect in every way” to keep track on whether we all “measure up” in our public statements. It is still unclear from the administration’s public statements what authority the board will wield, but White House press secretary Jen Psaki described the board as intended “to prevent disinformation and misinformation from traveling around the country in a range of communities.”

President Biden already has established himself as arguably the most anti-free-speech president since John Adams. During his transition period, Biden appointed outspoken advocates for censorship; as president, he has pushed social media companies to expand censorship, while his administration has been criticized for spying on journalists. Now, with Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter and his pledge to restore free-speech values to the platform, panic has set in among Democrats — including Jankowicz, who told National Public Radio that “I shudder to think about if free speech absolutists were taking over more platforms, what that would look like for the marginalized communities.”

Jankowicz’s singing voice may be impressive, but her appointment is tone-deaf. She has been ridiculed for pushing the false “Russian disinformation” claim about the original reporting on Hunter Biden’s infamous laptop, stressing that “we should view it as a Trump campaign product.” She continued to spread that disinformation, including tweeting a link to a news article that she said cast “yet more doubt on the provenance of the NY Post’s Hunter Biden story.” In another related tweet, she added that “emails don’t need to be altered to be part of an influence campaign. Voters deserve that context, not a [fairy] tale about a laptop repair shop.” Conversely, she cited Christopher Steele, author of the discredited “Steele dossier” during the 2016 presidential campaign, as a source on how to stop disinformation.

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“The right to say what you want without being imprisoned is not the same as the right to broadcast disinformation to millions of people on a corporate platform..”

Time Writer Knocks Free Speech As An ‘Obsession Of The Tech Elite’ (Fox)

In a Friday piece for Time magazine, the outlet’s national correspondent Charlotte Alter dismissed Elon Musk’s quest for free speech on Twitter as a white male “obsession,” and merely an entrepreneurial way to acquire influence and power in the world. She also claimed that Musk’s idea of free speech is about the right to spread “disinformation” and has nothing to do with the Founding Fathers’ original intent. Alter began her piece by insinuating that Musk should have put his $44 billion into something more worthwhile than what he sees as “free speech,” a phrase she put in scare quotes throughout the piece.

She wrote, “They say that something is worth what someone will pay for it. If that’s true, then protecting ‘free speech,’ which Elon Musk has cited as a central reason he agreed to buy Twitter for $44 billion this week, may be worth twice as much as solving America’s homelessness problem, and seven times as much as solving world hunger.” She added, “It’s worth more (to him, at least) than educating every child in nearly 50 countries, more than the GDP of Serbia, Jordan, or Paraguay.” The author then proceeded to wonder why a rich techie like Musk would even care about freedom of speech and how it “had become paramount concern of the techno-moral universe.”

She asked, “Why does Musk care so much about this? Why would a guy who has pushed the boundaries of electric-vehicle manufacturing and plumbed the limits of commercial space flight care about who can say what on Twitter?” She then cited professor of communication at Stanford University Fred Turner for the answer, who agreed, “It does seem to be a dominant obsession with the most elite.” He stated, “[F]ree speech seems to be much more of an obsession among men,” and part of “the entrepreneurial push: I did it in business, I did it in space, and now I’m going to do it in the world.”

Alter then claimed that “‘free speech’ in the 21st century means something very different than it did in the 18th, when the Founders enshrined it in the Constitution.” She elaborated, “The right to say what you want without being imprisoned is not the same as the right to broadcast disinformation to millions of people on a corporate platform. This nuance seems to be lost on some techno-wizards who see any restriction as the enemy of innovation.”

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Burn your food.

Diesel for Dinner (Doomberg)

Armed with humanity’s mastery of chemistry, we can now rearrange atoms with astonishing specificity at an unimaginable scale, pushing billions of people further up Maslow’s hierarchy than they would otherwise be. In addition to using fossil fuels to create most of the materials that surround us, we leverage them to produce fertilizers, herbicides, fungicides, and other inputs into the farming process, boosting crop yields to levels once thought impossible. We also synthesize mountains of edible ingredients directly from oil and gas. Touring a modern food processing factory would seem almost indistinguishable from a specialty chemical plant, mostly because they aren’t all that different.

While it makes perfect sense to leverage our bounty of fossil fuels and ability to manipulate them at the molecular level to increase global food abundance, going through the effort to grow food only to turn around and burn it for energy seems less than ideal. In a controversial piece we wrote in January titled “In Praise of Corn Ethanol,” we put forth a theory that the adoption of corn ethanol as a mandated additive to gasoline was a scheme to coverup one of the greatest environmental scandals of the past century: the use of tetraethyl lead as an anti-knock agent. While some readers interpreted our piece as supporting this policy – undoubtedly because of the title – our primary purpose was to highlight the ugly history that got us to the current situation, and how it was predominantly a dirty political compromise. In hindsight, “Why Corn Ethanol is a Thing” might have been a better title.

No such compromise underpins the decision to use foodstuffs as replacements for diesel, a policy that will make the unfolding global food crisis substantially worse if it is not soon overturned. Unfortunately for those near the bottom of Maslow’s pyramid, many cooking oils – liquid fat isolated from various crops used extensively in frying, baking, and other types of food preparation all over the world – have a molecular structure quite similar to that of diesel. It does not take much chemical magic to transform previously edible cooking oils into workable substitutes for the valuable fuel. Now that the environmental lobby has convinced government officials worldwide that “renewable carbon content” is prima facia a desirable thing – a fallacy that deserves its own Doomberg piece – various mandates exist to literally take food out of the mouths of the hungry and pump it into our trucks for burning. For the planet, and whatnot.

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“..ambulances are being summoned for a lot more calls for cardiac events and sudden deaths: 40% more to be exact..”

Vaccine Lies Are Finally Falling (Nass)

The kicker for childhood vaccines: the New York state Department of Health study of vaccine efficacy in children. After 2 months, efficacy in the 5-11 year olds had fallen to 12%. In other words, 7 out of 8 vaccinated kids derived no benefit after 2 months, only risk. The data were derived from 365,000 children, and apparently there was no way CDC could spin them, or 12% was the best spin they could put on the data. This report is a huge obstacle to universal child vaccinations. They cabal cannot surmount it. It is important to mention again — because we keep forgetting — that while the vaccines are nominally licensed for adults, in fact you can only find the EUA (unlicensed) product in the US, and legally an EUA is experimental — and therefore forcing someone to be vaccinated is a Nuremberg violation and a violation of federal law.

The imposition of mandates for these experimental gene therapy products is therefore a crime, being committed by states, federal government and certain companies and other institutions. It seems that because US law was not designed for situations in which the government is the criminal, it has been very difficult to use the judicial system to change what is happening. But surely if this persisted much longer an honest judge somewhere would finally rule that the vaccines are experimental and the COVID mandate house of cards would then collapse. Like Humpty Dumpty (it is Easter today after all): “All the king’s horses and all the king’s men couldn’t put COVID mandates together again.” What else has been happening that undermines the vaccine story?

Well, in addition to all the collapsing athletes, there is now a large collection of mayors suddenly dropping dead throughout Germany. In Australia, Queensland’s health minister just admitted that ambulances are being summoned for a lot more calls for cardiac events and sudden deaths: 40% more to be exact. Thanks to Igor Chudov for following this story, and including a video of the clueless minister admitting it, but having no idea why … Then there were the 3 insurance companies, one each from the US, India and Germany, that admitted there were about 40% more deaths than expected in working-age people in the second half of 2021.

The German official who blew the whistle, a CEO or VP, was immediately fired, which is a strong indication he was telling the truth. Three doctor whistleblowers released a large cache of data from the military’s DMED database showing huge increases in service-member deaths. There has been a lot of confusion about these data. In part, that is because the military then reissued its data for the preceding several years, making the 2021 comparison look less dire. Mathew Crawford has some ideas about what really happened to the data. The only thing that is absolutely clear so far is that there has been a coverup, and the health of vaccinated members of the military appears to have taken a dive. But we don’t know how deep.

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Brilliant take from the Observer: oil giants’ profits function to spite Putin. That you pay for them is not important.

High Energy Prices Leave Oil Giants Untroubled By Russia Exit Or Tax Hints (O.)

For BP and Shell, the British companies that account for two of the world’s seven oil “supermajors”, the first quarter of 2022 has been painfully fascinating. Both were heavily enmeshed in Russia and now face having to write down a combined £24bn on the value of their businesses, after cutting ties with the Kremlin. Shell is expected to take a hit of £3.5bn due to its decision to exit its joint venture with Gazprom, Russia’s state gas giant, including its stake in the Sakhalin-2 gas project. BP accounts for the lion’s share of the eye-watering sum, due to its 20% stake in state oil firm Rosneft. It seems only yesterday that BP announced it was taking the stake, in exchange for the takeover of its Russian assets by Rosneft, as part of a new alliance unveiled in a conference at the oil company’s salubrious London HQ.

BP boss Bob Dudley, who had himself fled Russia during a dispute with BP’s partners in a former joint venture there, announced the deal in 2013 alongside his new pal Igor Sechin, then chair of Rosneft. Dudley is enjoying semi-retirement, while Sechin – nicknamed Darth Vader – sits at Putin’s right hand. The result, after discussions between the government and BP, is divestment and a £20bn hit. Rosneft accounted for £1.9bn of profit last year. Looked at one way, that’s a lot of money. Looked at another, it’s practically chicken feed for a company that absorbed £50bn of costs from its 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill and lived to tell the tale. Moreover, the loss might have been more painful if it weren’t for the fact that oil companies have been making out like bandits due to sky-high oil and gas prices.

Bernard Looney, the BP chief executive, described his company as a “cash machine” earlier this year, thanks to the commodity price boom. Annual profits at BP, reported in February, were £10bn, compared to a £4.5bn loss the year before. Shell fared similarly swimmingly, booking £14bn. Their fortunes are widely expected to have improved still further in 2022, with first-quarter results due to be published this week offering the first insight into just how much. In February, oil and gas prices were high but had not yet been rocket-boosted by the war in Ukraine. What Putin has taken from the UK oil companies with one hand, in terms of painful divestments of Russian assets, he has given back with the other. As a result, analysts have pencilled in £3.5bn for BP (up from £2.1bn last year) and £7bn for Shell, nearly three times last year’s £2.6bn.

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“Rickards says the minimum gold price is $15,000 per ounce in the not-so-distant future.”

“..By the time you pay for gas and groceries, if you can, there is not much left over..”

World Moving to Gold – Jim Rickards (USAW)

Five-time, best-selling financial author James G. Rickards says, “We could be in a recession right now,” but the title of his most recent book “The New Great Depression” says where we are definitely going soon. Rickards says, “The current crisis is not like 2008 or even 1929. The New Depression that has emerged from the COVID pandemic is the worst economic crisis in U.S. history. Most fired employees will remain redundant. Bankruptcies will be common, and banks will buckle under the weight of bad debts. Deflation, debt and demography will wreck any chance of recovery, and social disorder will follow closely on the heels of market chaos.”

Rickards says there are many negatives to the current economy, Covid, inflation, war, sanctions, supply destruction, and on top of all that, Rickards says the Fed will ultimately kill the economy with a policy mistake. Rickards explains, “Probably in May they are going to have quantitative tightening, which means you actually reduce the money supply. So, this is triple tightening: Three interest rate hikes, no more taper . . . and doing quantitative tightening at a very rapid rate. What just happened? We had a down quarter. The economy was at recession levels in the first quarter, and the stock market is on the way down. So, here we go again. The Fed is tightening into weakness. It’s tightening into certainly a stock market bubble, and they are probably going to destroy the markets again.”

Inflation, according to Rickards, is very serious, and he explains, “It is the worst inflation in 40 years. You can’t argue about it, it’s there. . . . The inflation we are seeing now does not come from the demand side. . . . It’s from the supply side. It’s because of the war in Ukraine. That’s a supply side disruption. It’s also from the ‘Zero Covid’ policy in China. They locked down two of the biggest cities in the world. . . . There are multiple reasons for supply chain disruptions. . . . By the time you pay for gas and groceries, if you can, there is not much left over . . . .That’s going to kill discretionary spending.”

Rickards says the signs that gold is going way up are global. “The world could not destroy the dollar, but we could. . . . If you are putting sanctions on dollars and kicking people out of dollar accounts . . . why would I want dollars? The U.S. destroyed trust. . . . If you want to get away from the dollar, there is not a currency or bond market you can go to, but there is gold. . . . Gold is money good, and it’s the only form of money the whole world can agree on.” Rickards says the minimum gold price is $15,000 per ounce in the not-so-distant future. Rickards says depending on the backing and math, it could go up in value much higher. Rickards likes silver, too, and food for the common guy. Food prices are going to go much higher according to Rickards, and in some places in the world, he expects out right starvation.

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    Giuseppe Sanmartino The veiled Christ (Christo velato) 1753   • Vladimir Putin May Declare New World War In Days: UK Defence Secretary (Mirror) •
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle May 1 2022]

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    V. Arnold
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    Giuseppe Sanmartino The veiled Christ (Christo velato) 1753

    I am so awed by sculptures such as this; nothing is coming in our age of rage to equal such as this………

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    oxymoron
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    Zelensky and Adam Schiff holding hands. If ever there was a tell.

    You don’t need to see anything else.

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    oxymoron
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    And the eternal darkness is pure undifferentiated consciousness. Nothing to observe as nothing seperate.

    Except conceptual scientists that is.

    And the odd latte-sipping philosopher.

    Oh shit that’s me…….

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    Undoubtedly the highest point in sculpture so far. So high we have no one today capable of it.

    Yes, there’s a reason misinformation was not one of the Four Horsemen. It doesn’t matter, barely naughty, because there is only Information. And the lies will always be with us.

    Putin is at his end like so many of us. There were no civilians, there is also no Azov, they did not take them in the tunnels, then a few days later “The civilians are starving in the tunnels, Azov says.” Very tired of it. Very tired of the NY Times reporting it. Very tired of no retractions. Very tired of it happening again tomorrow. Very tired of everyone believe it, and its opposite, every day.

    “use May Day to announce a war on the world’s “Nazis”.”

    90% of the counties in America would appreciate that. But since we retook Twitter from the Nazis, maybe we won’t need the help. We’re the other holdout nation, although it doesn’t seem so sometimes. 90% of American counties say “we don’t care what you say: make me.”

    “What is the Collective West? (Batiushka)”

    Yes, but to be fair, we didn’t just attack Russia. We killed millions more people in hundreds more places during that time. 1865? Heck we were still genociding nations in Minnesota then.

    “Russian Cyber Attacks Fail to Materialize (LI)”

    That’s because it was never them planning to do it. The CIA will do this to slow/stop the rolling financial collapse which is only getting started. Or possibly the laptop if it gets too bad. That’s why last year the DoD posted they own like 100 million open IP addresses and can re-make the internet if necessary and the CIA tries it.

    “Russia’s malicious cyber activity is part of their playbook,” Really? Would you like to give examples? Also very tired of hearing reporting with zero information, only implication. “Russia shelled Ukrainian cities”, above. WHICH cities? When? Why? How much? Doesn’t matter. No time for Who What Where When or Why. Got to punch a Nazi, and as in the BBee video on Social Media, EVERYONE I see is a Nazi. Oh wait: isn’t that an episode of the Twilight Zone? Where a guy’s wife is mentally ill and sees fake bad guys everywhere?

    “may, in fact, be retaliatory attacks given the very severe sanctions we have imposed on … the US and our allies,” the agency head continued.”

    Speaking of being a glue-sniffing child, why are you punching yourself? Why are you punching yourself? You sanctioned…yourself? And Russia is going to retaliate so they can give you real Uranium for fake paper? Honest? You’re sure?

    “The war in Ukraine has pushed the United States to expedite its investment in cybersecurity amid constant — though so far unrealized — warnings of cyborg Space badger cyberattacks on government agencies, election systems and critical infrastructure.”

    Well there’s no evidence for the existence of cyborg space badgers either, what’s the difference?

    “that significantly increased funding for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA),”

    Great! So why is there still ZERO hardening against EMPs, as reported to Congress for +20 years, and we have mass hacks in Target, Google, Facebook, Yahoo, all banking, federal agencies, the grid’s substations are wide open, utility providers like gas companies are ransomed, along with hospitals, schools, and local governments? Seems a little odd with a budget and 20 years’ work, they have turned the Sahara into a shortage of sand. Far, far worse than when they started. Must be the space badgers. They wot dun it.

    Time Writer Knocks Free Speech as an ‘Obsession of the Tech Elite’ (Fox)”

    “Time” being wrong even in the headline. Clearly the Tech Elite prefer censorship to speech, as long as it’s THEIR censorship. Hey “Time”, are these the same “Elite” who you reported conspired then threw the 2020 election? And you are rock-certain they need more power. Riiiight.

    “not the same as the right to broadcast disinformation to millions of people on a corporate platform..”

    Maybe not, but how do you tell the difference? If I talk to five people, is that the limit? If I Facebook 50? If I blog like Dr. Day and reach 500? Where do you become “corporate” or a “reporter”? At 500 people Dr. Day already has more viewers than CNN. What happens when CNN and Maddow issue clear disinformation for 4 years, about 3 years after it became obvious it was wrong? A: there is no such level, and there is no license to report and say things. (Just as there isn’t for the ownership of cannons and guns) because: who would issue the license? As per Canada? Then who would DENY issuance? And if you had such a license, me and everyone would ignore it anyway, just like the 2A laws. Also the old Socialist “Means of production”. What’s a means of production? My pocketknife? Sometimes yes. A day old bagel on my counter? Sometimes yes. A gas lifting rig in a Pennsylvania field? Sometimes no.

    “may be worth twice as much as solving America’s homelessness problem,”

    I’m guessing she “Supports the Current Thing” and did NOT ask such questions about $33B raised instantly and without permission or act of war to start WWIII and get her city nuked for 1,000 years.

    “Why does Musk care so much about this? Why would a guy … care about who can say what on Twitter?”

    Here’s a thought: Ask Him. Is that what “Reporters” do? From “Time Magazine”? And because spoken = lies, where did you get the assumption he DOES care? Twitter has crashed, the company’s in trouble, widely considered a garbage heap about to bankrupt. By buying this dumpster fire he can turn it around and MAKE MONEY. I know for Swiss boarding school bunnies like Taylor Lorenz and trust fund kids like you, you never had to think about money, but that’s called “Capitalism” and is the point of owning assets. Both to run them correctly and to profit by that so he can go fix more assets and provide more desired services. If they fail to provide services they fail and are not destroyed but the assets are sold to someone who CAN provide the services people want.

    “Diesel for Dinner (Doomberg)”

    Not that they’re not all the same thing, but correlation is not causality. 1936 was also the first time farms widely used tractors and not horses, with the rise of the Red IH tractors you see on the road sign icons. For one thing, that allowed cultivator-tractors, the other is gas-powered harvester combines. Putting sheaves right into the bin rather than scything, then stooking, then carting, then threshing on the barn floor is easy loss of a huge % of grain.

    The point of forcing the use of ethanol was better central control over mass starvation, implemented and first used to insure there would be an Arab Spring as Gen Clark reported on YouTube, in order of attack, while Obama’s election crew were transferred and posted in Egypt, and Egypt was his very first stop. Everyone said it was net energy loss, while burning food in our cars and that would starve people, then promptly didn’t notice when it happened. To brown people somewhere else.

    “Vaccine Lies Are Finally Falling (Nass)”

    Nah, we have a 6-sigma increase in youth deaths and I see nothing. No notice, no remark on it at all. RussiaRussiaRussia, VaccinateVaccinateVaccinate. I support the current thing.

    “Shell is expected to take a hit of £3.5bn due to its decision to exit its joint venture with Gazprom,”

    Russia then received that £3.5bn value for free as we sanction ourselves. As Russia also absorbs 100% of McDonalds. Biden and BP then helpfully raised oil and gas prices by multiples so Russia could profit more and experience no impact at all. Thanks Joe! I did that! Poland will appreciate it as their stoves are shut off. But they won’t have any food to put on them, so no problem.

    “Rickards says the Fed will ultimately kill the economy with a policy mistake.”

    Yes, but it’s not a “mistake”, it’s just a situation, one known for 100 years, and openly planned since 1989 Economist for 2018. We are attacking, destroying, and harvesting RoW, specifically Europe for our own profit and control. That’s okay, Davos was instead trying to harvest and control us with Carbon trading national transfers and GND. Everybody killin’ everybody. Yay.

    ““It is the worst inflation in 40 years.”

    Yes, and the Fed is one-thousand points behind the curve. Maybe TWO-thousand. Last time inflation was this high, the Fed was already at 8-10% rates, as the LOWEST rates ever – in our previously functional system – was “lend at 8%, pay at 5%”…and go home at 4pm. In a Cadillac. Somehow they are paying 0% and collecting 29% and … losing money? Going broke? Explain. And somehow you’re not even at the 100-year AVERAGE rate yet with inflation at 20%? …It’s about where you put the blame. Dodge this. If they raised to 20% we’d have the greatest Depression in the history of the planet. But we will anyway.

    The world could not destroy the dollar, but we could.”

    And that’s the plan. Of course the bad guys had a different plan, with Central Bank Digital Currency intro’d with a vaccine pass they can shut off, reported by Aaron Russo as far back as the 90’s, but the good guys want to end the system too. To be replaced with freedom and choice. Still that means moves have to occur that destroy the USD and Federal Reserve Note/system. Very disruptive, may kill people, that’s why it’s taking so long.

    Twitter now openly admits to fabricating user numbers, a felony of material reporting to the SEC. But that’s a law. Yawn. We don’t enforce those.

    Obviously also reversing their shadow banning/paid bot numbers. Obama and Katie Perry lose +200,000/pr. That’s a lot of people! Conservatives pick up +10,000 apiece. Trump Jr was like what 5,000% higher than average? That would be a lie of material reporting to the SEC. But also it was a lie under oath to Congress that they were not shadow banning, honest injun. Congress who like lies and gives twitter and FB the Congressional Medal of Freedom. …YouTube’s medal of freedom was already given to themselves.

    The Ministry of Disinfo. Moving on from the day’s obvious, so what? Clarifying the record by stating the government’s position on things we already have: it’s called Jen Psaki, the Press Secretary, the current office of lying and disinformation. Well-known. So if Jank does the same thing, so what? We all know what the CIA’s position is: they have their press agent CNN air it for us hourly.

    So unless you mean the Ministry of Disinformation is going to ARREST people, harass and investigate them. IS that what you mean? I’m all for it. Either way it will expose them for being boldly Anti-American, blatantly illegal, ineffective, pointless, and unenforceable. The sooner people realize the Federal level is incapable of anything, the better. Then we can first ignore everything they say the same as we would the neighbor’s 2-year-old, and second, since they are totally ineffective and can’t enforce anything, as well as being counter to the will of, and a menace to the people, stop paying taxes to them as well.

    Let’s go Jankie! Ride ‘em Cowboy!

    “22 food processing plants or headquarters, that we know of, which have been destroyed or damaged in some way over the course of just one week,”

    But I am a coincidence theorist, and I do not find that suspicious at all. In the middle of a war we are spending $33 Billion in heavy weaponry on.

    On Schrodinger’s Euros, the commentariat said this: “the European poor should use gas and electricity as usual, send a photo of the cash, equal to the bill, to their [Local] energy supplier and voila! Bill paid! It’s the same thing.” Absolutely.

    Someone else says they’re broke, “That’s why they want to make the vax digital ID mandatory on 1st July this year.” Yes. Rationing and death.

    “Frequent marijuana smoking linked to higher risk of heart attack, study suggests” –MSNBC

    Especially among 12 year olds. Fluffing sheets.

    #107105
    John Day
    Participant

    aspnaz said: “I have a few friends who also claim to have had Covid. It amazes me how nobody claims to have flu these days. I have one friend who believes his uncle died of Covid. Without reliable tests, I take all these stories with a pinch of salt. Until I see evidence of why flu has been eliminated, I am inclined to take the boring approach and assume all the people claiming to have Covid probably just had flu.”

    I have treated with repurposed antivirals since spring 2020, and have seen immediate results in most patients, overnight improvements, which I also experienced. Influenza does not respond to the same antivirals, things like ivermectin. Working and working and working with an illness and getting feedback from people about how the treatments affect them is the practice of medicine.

    #107106
    Noirette
    Participant

    France, election, 2020, 2nd round (countering MSM lies, obfuscations):

    Of ALL F 18+ citizens:

    Not inscribed on electoral register, 9%

    Inscribed -> abstained, 25%

    Voted blank / spoiled, 6%

    Voted Le Pen, 25%

    Voted Macron, 35%

    Some Macron voters voted not for him but against Le Pen, as a kind of duty, or obligation, to block the ‘far right.’ How many? One poll says 47%, almost half! One expert I trust says “at least a third.” All that can be hard to judge.

    >>> 40% refused to participate, 25% voted for Le Pen, 25% voted for Macron, 10% voted against Le Pen.

    Some serious talk in F about voter fraud is creeping in on the intertubes (no longer taboo after the Biden s-election), and from this summary, one can see that the *feeling* that M and LP were very close, and that she might have won, is correct. (As several OK polls predicted.) However, these results are in line with all kinds of other data. As I posted before, the important qu. about F voting is how Macron made it to the second round in 2017.

    Demographics of the Macron vote.

    What follows concerns only expressed votes, the 60% who participated. 2 most important factors.

    Age

    18-24: 61% (note, 40% of this age group abstained)

    25-59: roughly half, varying with age-tranche (once more, we see parity M – LP)

    60-69: 59%

    70+: 71%

    Non-working ppl prefer Macron, they are outside the daily struggle, are dependent on family / the State. Plus, older ppl: Macron wants to raise retirement age, they are beyond it; many/most watch only MSM TV.

    Social class / income – life satisfaction. (All correlate strongly w. each other.)

    For 5 social groups from ‘défavorisé’ (the poorest, by now desperate), ‘populaire’ (very low level jobs..), lower mid class, upper mid class, to the overlords, rich / top establishment, for Macron:

    35% (i.e. 65% for LP), 44%, 56%, 71%, 79%.

    Life satisfaction, on a 5 point scale, from not at all satisfied, to very satisfied: 24%, 20%, 47%, 69%, 71%.

    Things are not looking stable or happy in France. The present pol. electoral system has always been a kind of facade, a scam. Ppl put up with because of economic growth, long over now in F.

    #107107
    John Day
    Participant

    “Time” with picture of going up new stairs backwards https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/time?s=w

    It’s About Time, Edward Curtain
    In 1898 the yellow press screamed Spanish devils and today it screams Russian devils. Then and now the press called for war. If the human race is still here in another 124 years, time and the corporate media will no doubt have told the same story – war and propaganda’s lies to an insouciant and ignorant population too hypnotized by propaganda to oppose them.
    This despite the apocalyptic sense that permeates our lives because of demonic technology and its use to transform humans into machines who can’t think clearly enough to perceive reality and realize the threat posed by that quintessential technological invention – nuclear weapons…
    ..So time is my focus, for the last days have arrived unless there occurs a radical awakening to the obvious truth that the US government is pushing the world to the brink of disaster in full awareness of the consequences. Its actions are insane, yet insanity has become the norm. Insane leaders and a catatonic, hypnotized public lead to disaster.
    ​ ​I write these words with an old fountain pen, a high school graduation gift, to somehow comfort and remind myself that when we were this close once before in October 1962, Kennedy and Khrushchev miraculously found a solution to the Cuban Missile Crisis; and to find hope now, and that when my time is up and I join John Patrick in the other world, things will have changed for my children and grandchildren.
    ​ ​It is admittedly the hope of a desperado.​..
    ​..Everyone is now doing time while scrolling messages on the walls of their cell phones. A twisted, convoluted, distorted, mechanical time in which it seems that there is no history and the future is an endless road of more of the same.
    ​ ​Some say we have all the time in the world. I say no, that we have entered a new time, perhaps the end-time, when the world’s end is a very real possibility. Hypnotized people can agree to anything, even mass-suicide, unless they snap out of it.

    It’s About Time

    ​ Gail Tverberg presents the last few years through the lens of crude-oil production peaking in Summer 2018. In our current world, crude oil and economy and human population, which oil and economy support, track in close correlation. Lockdowns can be seen as a successful way to reduce economic demand temporarily. War has different effects, but it does destroy the economies of battlefield-countries, reducing oil consumption. The end of oil-fueled-economic-growth necessitates a huge, unprecedented turn from growth economy to salvage-economy (“de-growth”).
    ​ I see western power elites unable to agree on anything​ other than continuation of the current system as they bleed it to death. When it dies, they will need to fight each other over some new system, and they will need competent people to devise such a system, and competent people will not want to include our current parasitic leeches in the new and efficient economy… Compliance-managers will be happy to manage the status quo, but that’s all they can do…
    Crisis calls us to duty.
    The world has a major crude oil problem; expect conflict ahead

    The world has a major crude oil problem; expect conflict ahead

    #107108
    John Day
    Participant

    ​Moon of Alabama notes that, “The typical US reaction to losing is doubling-down.”​
    That works if you have enough to keep betting, until you don’t or until Game-Over.
    Ukrainian soldiers willing to die fighting Russians may be running low.
    The soldiers know, and their families know, that they are expendable.
    They want to live their lives.
    “Ukraine is a victim here but not a victim of Russia but of much bigger plans in the U.S.”
    https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/04/ukraine-doubling-down.html#more

    Much tighter control of the public discourse narrative will be needed by our ill-fated owners.
    Deep State Response, Dept of Homeland Security Will Establish Disinformation Board with Obvious Agenda
    ..The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) announced a new Dept of Homeland Security priority to combat disinformation {LINK} on technology platforms including social media.
    ​ ​Many eyebrows were raised as the announcement appeared to be an open admission that the U.S. government was going to control information by applying labels, that would align with allies in social media, who need a legal justification for censorship and content removal.
    ​ ​This CISA announcement was quickly followed by various government officials and agencies saying it was critical to combat Russian disinformation, as the events in Ukraine unfolded. In essence, Ukraine was the justification for search engines like Google, DuckDuckGo, and social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube to begin targeting information and content that did not align with the official U.S. government narrative.
    ​ ​Previously those same methods were deployed by the U.S. government, specifically the CDC and FDA, toward COVID-19 and the vaccination program.
    https://www.globalresearch.ca/deep-state-response-dept-homeland-security-establish-disinformation-board-obvious-agenda/5778969

    An Intellectual No-Fly Zone: Online Censorship of Ukraine Dissent Is Becoming the New Norm
    “Censorship is the last resort of desperate and unpopular regimes. It magically appears to make a crisis go away. It comforts the powerful with the narrative they want to hear, one fed back to them by courtiers in the media, government agencies, think tanks, and academia.”

    An Intellectual No-Fly Zone: Online Censorship of Ukraine Dissent Is Becoming the New Norm

    “You can just call me the Mary Poppins of disinformation.” That Twitter intro to a TikTok parody of the song, “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious,” is now indelibly connected to Nina Jankowicz, the new head of the federal government’s announced Disinformation Governance Board.

    Nina Jankowicz of Disinformation Governance Board Sings A Mary Poppins Style Parody Song

    Biden’s ‘Mary Poppins of Disinformation’ the perfect nanny to tidy up mess of free speech?

    #107109
    zerosum
    Participant

    “….. holding a jigsaw-puzzle piece to the side ………..”

    In later nov., for +2 weeks, I was exposed to a very sick “flue patient” but I did not get sick
    —–
    Paranoid
    Security was more than for a visit by a royalty

    The Ottawa rumble bike demonstration, was a non event, with 100’s of bikes, thousands of people watching the parade of bikes, and thousands of “peace officers” lining the route.
    ——–
    The 5th horsemen cartoon captured reality
    ———-
    An other name for a rose.
    Imperialism never dies.

    It’s About Time


    It’s About Time
    Edward Curtin
    May 1, 2022

    ” ….. nuclear war a “serious” and “real” risk, in Lavrov’s words “we must not underestimate it,”
    In other words, Lavrov’s words, The USA may attempt a nuclear first strike.
    ——–
    White supremacists, world wide, can achieve their goal with only one horseman ….. famine.
    —–
    What will our descendants think?
    • Diesel for Dinner (Doomberg)
    https://doomberg.substack.com/p/diesel-for-dinner?s=r

    Ability to manipulate fossil fuels at the molecular level to increase global food abundance, instead of going through the effort to grow food only to turn around and burn it for energy.
    ——–
    @ Noirette
    Voting worked for the White Supremacists
    ———-

    #107112
    John Day
    Participant

    Sigh … Saker and other war news links won’t upload again

    Eleni sends this article about NATO/Ukraine​ opening a new war front against Russia in Moldova, at the expense of the local farmers, who really don’t want that. Russian supply lines are not opened by land, sea or air. There is a Russian arms depot in Transnistria (Moldova) with 22.000 tons of military supplies, the largest such depot in Europe. This is a WW-3 scenario, initially favorable to NATO. Poles, Ukrainians, Romanians, Moldovans and Russians will die.

    ​ ​Moldova, in fact, is under external control no less than Ukraine. At the same time,the majority of the population of the republic does not support the beginning of hostilities in Transnistria.
    ​ ​Also, the Armed Forces of Moldova do not have necessary power. Therefore, an attack is possible only by the forces of Polish-Romanian units on the one hand and the AFU from Odessa on the other.
    ​ ​A new hotspot of the war can significantly change the nature and scale of the conflict in Eastern Europe. The escalation of the situation in Transnistria corresponds to Washington’s vision and statements that the United States is changing course towards Russia, from the desire to exhaust Moscow economically to a direct and complete military victory over the Russians on the battlefield.
    This was recently announced by Washington after a meeting with Zelensky in Kiev.

    Saker Blog update:
    ​ T​he Mariupol situation appears to be nearing a possible conclusion. We reported last time that one prominent source said Azovstal would be fully resolved by 4/30 (today), while Sladkov said days ago that Azov had about 9 days of food left, which by now would put them at maybe 6 days or less, by those estimations.
    ​ ​We also reported that negotiators had arrived and were settling in to the small villages around Mariupol. Now today there is a large, full blown UN / Red Cross operation under way to evacuate the civilians in the Azovstal factory.​..
    ..Russian intel agency head Naryshkin, who issued the statement last time regarding Poland’s planned incursion has also now stated that, “plans to deploy a Polish “peacekeeping contingent” in the western part of Ukraine is not a version, but intelligence information obtained from several reliable sources, the Foreign Intelligence Service explained.”
    ​ ​In short, he’s saying this is not speculation but an accurate report based on many sources…
    ..”In light of the latest information about the aspirations of Poland and other NATO members, several questions arise. Firstly, what contingent is now formed on the eastern borders of the bloc, and secondly, why are all these forces being accumulated?
    ​ ​It is impossible to accurately assess the grouping of NATO countries, drawn to the borders of the Republic of Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova and Russia, having only information from open sources.
    ​ ​However, from what is known, a total contingent of 50,000 to 100,000 people can be inferred. This includes units deployed by Poland, and the American contingent, and units of various NATO countries deployed in the framework of exercises in the Baltic states. There is also information about a serious Romanian group in the Moldovan direction. Just as we wrote earlier, combat aircraft are also being transferred to Europe. In the shortest possible time, the size of the NATO contingent can be doubled.”..
    ..“The main topic that worries many today is the adoption by the US Congress of the lend-lease program for Ukraine. Delivery of large batches of modern weapons is expected soon. The war will reach a new level, because now we will also have to fight with the American military industry. Deliveries of American heavy weapons are expected, including F-16 aircraft. Today we wrote that Ukraine is already preparing pilots for these machines. Here you need to understand once and for all, we are at war with NATO, where Ukraine is just cheap service personnel and cannon fodder.” …
    ​(PLANNED)​ .. On the topic of Lend Lease, it became a curious discovery that on the official U.S. Congress website, the date of the submission of Lend Lease to Congress was seen as 1/19/22.

    Charles Hugh Smith, Not the 1970s or the 1920s: We’re in Uncharted Territory
    All of these similarities and differences are setting up a sea-change revaluation of capital, resources and labor that will be on the same scale as the extraordinary transitions of the 1920s and 1970s.
    The awakening of inflation after decades of slumber has triggered a flurry of comparisons to the 1970s accompanied by a chorus of projections for 1970s-type stagflation, defined as inflation plus economic stagnation– limited or negative growth and high unemployment.
    A less popular comparison is with the 1920s: a massive expansion of debt, an equally massive speculative bubble in assets and extreme wealth-income inequality, all against a backdrop of slowing growth and debt saturation.
    https://www.oftwominds.com/blogapr22/not-1970s4-22.html

    #107113
    Dr D Rich
    Participant

    @ Dr. D

    This extract is the most important part of the Twitter-Musk fiasco or as I’ve tried to analogize to family/friends, ‘Twitter; The New Wells Fargo Purveyor of Fraudulent Accounts’.

    “Twitter now openly admits to fabricating user numbers, a felony of material reporting to the SEC. But that’s a law. Yawn. We don’t enforce those.
    Obviously also reversing their shadow banning/paid bot numbers. Obama and Katie Perry lose +200,000/pr. That’s a lot of people! Conservatives pick up +10,000 apiece. Trump Jr was like what 5,000% higher than average? That would be a lie of material reporting to the SEC. But also it was a lie under oath to Congress that they were not shadow banning, honest injun”

    My fellow western Pennsylvania White Deplorables are getting goddam impatient with $33 billion U.S. dollars being shipped off to finance a war between white Peoples, Russians v Ukrainianstanians, and the yet-to-be-indicted-or-arrested by the SEC, $17 million a year f*cker/fraudster Victoria Gadde from Twitter WHEN my people are besotted with collapsing bridges, black-legged ticks spreading anaplasmosis erhlichiosis and Lyme, January 6th Non-insurrection prosecutions and the embedded Tick equivalent of Punjabi immigrant leadership of Pennsylvania medical institutions namely VA Pittsburgh and UPMC et al.
    The People Grow Restless.

    I have an idea. Since the Democrats showed as President Trump isn’t untouchable then maybe corporate attorneys like Gadde can and should be hounded unmercifully to ends of the earth.

    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/twitters-17m-year-censorship-czar-could-get-axe-under-musk

    #107114
    Figmund Sreud
    Participant

    China interviews Russia

    Question: What do you think is at the root of the Ukrainian crisis? What can the international community do to solve this problem?

    Sergey Lavrov: When we talk about the Ukrainian crisis, first of all we need to look at the destructive policy of the Western states conducted over many years and led by the United States, which set a course to knock together a unipolar world order after the end of the Cold War. NATO’s reckless expansion to the East was a key component of those actions, despite the political obligations to the Soviet leadership on the non-expansion of the Alliance. As you know, those promises were just empty words. All these years, NATO infrastructure has been moving closer and closer to the Russian borders.

    The West was never concerned about the fact that their actions grossly violated their international obligations not to strengthen their own security at the expense of the security of others. In particular, Washington and Brussels arrogantly rejected the initiatives put forward by Russia in December 2021 to ensure our country’s security guarantees in the west: to stop the expansion of NATO, not to deploy armaments that pose a threat to Russia in Ukraine and to return the Alliance’s military infrastructure to the 1997 configuration, when the NATO-Russia Founding Act was signed.

    It is well-known that the United States and NATO member states have always viewed Ukraine as a tool to contain Russia. Over the years, they have actively fuelled anti-Russia sentiments there, forcing Kiev to make an artificial and false choice: to be either with the West or with Moscow.

    It was the collective West that first provoked and then supported the anti-constitutional coup d’etat in Kiev in February 2014. Nationalists came to power in Ukraine and immediately unleashed a bloody massacre in Donbass, and set the course on the destruction of everything Russian in the rest of the country. Let me remind you that it was precisely because of this threat that the people of Crimea voted in a referendum for the reunification with Russia in 2014.

    Over these past years, the United States and its allies have done nothing to stop the intra-Ukrainian conflict. Instead of encouraging Kiev to settle it politically based on the Minsk Complex of Measures, they sent weapons, trained and armed the Ukrainian army and nationalist battalions, and generally carried out the military-political development of Ukraine’s territory. They encouraged the aggressive anti-Russia course pursued by the Kiev authorities. In fact, they pushed the Ukrainian nationalists to undermine the negotiating process and resolve the Donbass issue by force.

    We were deeply concerned about the undeclared biological programmes implemented in Ukraine with Pentagon’s support in close proximity to the Russian borders. And, of course, we could not disregard the Kiev leadership’s undisguised intentions to acquire a military nuclear potential, which would create an unacceptable threat to Russia’s national security.

    In these conditions, we had no other choice but to recognise the Donetsk and Lugansk people’s republics and launch the special military operation. Its aim is to protect people from genocide by the neo-Nazis, as well as to demilitarise and denazify Ukraine. I would like to stress that Russia is acting to fulfil its obligations under bilateral agreements on cooperation and mutual assistance with the DPR and LPR, at the official request of Donetsk and Lugansk under Article 51 of the UN Charter on the right to self-defence.

    The special military operation launched on February 24 is progressing strictly in accordance with the plan. All its goals will be achieved in spite of our opponents’ counteractions. At the moment we are witnessing a classic case of double standards and hypocrisy of the Western establishment. By publicly supporting the Kiev regime, NATO member states are doing everything in their power to prevent the completion of the operation by reaching political agreements. Various weapons are flowing endlessly into Ukraine through Poland and other NATO countries. All of this is being done under the pretext of “fighting the invasion”, but in fact the United States and the European Union intend to fight Russia “to the last Ukrainian.” They do not care at all about the fate of Ukraine as an independent subject of international relations.

    The West is ready to jeopardise the energy and food security of entire regions of the globe to satisfy its own geopolitical ambitions. What ither explanation is there for the unrestrained flywheel of anti-Russian sanctions launched by the West with the start of the operation and which they aren’t thinking of stopping?

    If the United States and NATO are truly interested in settling the Ukrainian crisis, then, first, they must come to their senses and stop supplying weapons and ammunition to Kiev. The Ukrainian people do not need Stingers and Javelins; what they need is a solution to urgent humanitarian issues. Russia has been doing this since 2014. During this time, tens of thousands of tonnes of humanitarian cargo have been delivered to Donbass, and about 15,000 tonnes of humanitarian aid have already arrived in the part of Ukraine liberated from the Kiev regime, the DPR and the LPR, since the launch of the special military operation.

    Second, it is essential that the Kiev regime stops cynical provocations, including in the information space. Ukrainian armed formations are barbarically shelling cities using civilians as living shields. We saw examples of this in Donetsk and Kramatorsk. Captured Russian servicemen are being abused with animal cruelty, and these atrocities are being posted online. At the same time, they use their Western patrons and global media controlled by the West to accuse the Russian army of war crimes. As they say, laying the blame at somebody else’s door.

    It is high time for the West to stop unconditionally whitewashing and covering up for Kiev. Otherwise, Washington, Brussels and other Western capitals should consider their responsibility for complicity in the bloody crimes perpetrated by the Ukrainian nationalists.

    … continues at:

    Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview with the Xinhua News Agency (China), April 30, 2022

    https://www.mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/1811525/

    #107115
    zerosum
    Participant

    Its too late. the damage is done.
    The loss of advertising dollars did not wake them up.
    The rising influence of the bloggers barely registered.
    Entertaining opinions, lack of proof of truth destroyed them.
    Elon Musk woke up the mainstream media from their nap time.
    Now, they fear their lost of influence and power.
    They are in full panic mod like a wasp nest that can’t figure out what to do.

    #107116
    TAE Summary
    Participant

    Because all men were free to speak
    Mis-info got so bad
    We suffered under their critique
    It made me feel so sad

    But then one day they made me chief
    With gov’rnance board control
    My apprehension found relief
    I’d black-out every troll, oh

    Super-censor-media-pow’rs and I won’t be negotious
    Even though my pers’nal record’s really quite atrocious
    And my online anima is awfully braggadocious
    Super-censor-media-pow’rs and I won’t be negotious

    #107117

    Here’s one way things could go: banks go belly up, but people’s accounts are insured for up to $250,000. The government will be happy to “pay” that out- in the form of politically manipulated treasury digital currency, and you can have it if you just do as you’re told.
    For those without bank accounts, you get yours for free- if you do as you’re told.

    #107118
    phoenixvoice
    Participant

    i have seen Hannah Arendt’s name come up so frequently in the past couple of years that I decided that it was high time to find out who she was exactly and read what she had written. Which brings me to a quote from The Origins of Totalitarianism that I wish to share with you all:

    For history itself is destroyed, and its comprehensibility…is in danger, whenever facts are no longer held to be part and parcel to the past and present world, and are misused to prove this or that position.

    Cherry-picking the data to “prove” the desired outcome. Like the tobacco companies did for years. Like the pharmaceutical companies do routinely regarding their new products. As has been done with the so-called C19 “vaccines.” As is being done with the Ukraine “news” that is filtered out from the Western legacy media companies.

    For context, Arendt is specifically discussing Antisemitism here, and criticizing the two predominant ways of looking at Antisemitism.

    #107120
    Susmarie108
    Participant

    RE: Giuseppe Sanmartino The veiled Christ (Christo velato) 1753 – there are no words to describe it.

    The choice to veil Christ was monumental for so many reasons.

    Where have all the Masters gone?

    LOVE to Ilargi for keeping the doors open and great art in the halls.

    #107126
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    Test post without a link

    If anyone has suggestions how to get links past the eater of posts it may be useful

    I wonder where the eaten posts go

    #107127
    those darned kids
    Participant
    #107128
    Archie
    Participant

    This is a very useful historical recap for assessing today’s events. Question: When did the Cold War start? If you answered 1941 then you are ahead of the learning curve.

    NATO: The Founding Lie

    #107129
    Figmund Sreud
    Participant

    @ArchieQuestion: When did the Cold War start?
    ________________

    April 25, 1945: … The very moment when American and Soviet military first faced each other at the Elbe River in Germany. There was a six months standstill from that date when both sides mediate on if to continue the WW-II, … or reduce its status into Cold War.

    F.S.

    #107130

    Michael – Is it so hard to copy your post before you hit “SUBMIT“? Then you can just copy it back.
    It happens to me about a tenth of the time. Sometimes, the whole page (and the post) revert to the last link I went to and completely disappear- and I have to log in again, as well.
    This seems less like a fault based problem than a cookies/caches entanglement.
    I’m getting old. I am used to having to exercise patience on a regular basis.

    #107131
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    @ Archie

    The NATO article caused me to conclude the US led neo liberal NATO has been a cancer on the world that needs to be ended

    #107132
    Dora
    Participant

    The Federal Government Finally Admitted Corruption Crafted the COVID-19 Response

    https://amidwesterndoctor.substack.com/p/the-federal-government-finally-admitted

    #107133
    Mister Roboto
    Participant

    #107134
    Archie
    Participant

    @Michael Reid

    I concur my friend. The US and NATO exemplify Hannah Arendt’s “banality of evil”.

    There is a companion piece written by Declan Hayes that brings us back to the future:

    Will Finland’s Warrior Women Cross Russia’s Kola Rubicon?

    Seems that NATO has many, many plans to achieve the original objective. Even wokeness!!

    #107135
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    @ my parents said know

    The safest way to post is to use an editor like Notepad to write to message, then copy the message, then paste the message into TAE message submission box and submit it.

    If something goes wrong it is easy to resubmit the message.

    My issue today was my message contained a link to a website article Ukraine, Romania, Moldova … vs. Transnistria: A WW III Scenario and the link to this article is not allowed for some reason.

    I used up REPLY
    #107121
    #107122
    #107123
    #107124
    #107125
    trying to post the link to the article in different ways all of which failed.

    Immediately after I post this message I will post a message with the link.

    #107137
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    The link that would not post follows. I placed a space characters in the link to try to get it to post.

    And that did not post

    #107139
    V. Arnold
    Participant
    #107140
    V. Arnold
    Participant

    For me it was a simple copy/paste; no idea why you can’t.
    I use Yandex browser (have for years) and nary a problem…

    #107141
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    I found the link in Dr. John’s Blog (see below)


    this article about NATO/Ukraine​ opening a new war front against Russia in Moldova, at the expense of the local farmers, who really don’t want that. Russian supply lines are not opened by land, sea or air. There is a Russian arms depot in Transnistria (Moldova) with 22.000 tons of military supplies, the largest such depot in Europe. This is a WW-3 scenario, initially favorable to NATO. Poles, Ukrainians, Romanians, Moldovans and Russians will die.

    You click on the link in Dr. John’s Blog and
    it opens a tab to The Unz Review and
    Nothing found but
    Delete %E2%80%8B/ from the link, press Enter and wait a few seconds and the excellent article appears

    https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/time?s=r

    #107142
    zerosum
    Participant

    Tell me that I was not dreaming of hearing/seeing the truth

    I woke up from a nap and the TV was on.
    Was I in a different universe?
    SUNDAYS 8PM ET ON MSNBC 01 may 2022
    the episode https://the-mehdi-hasan-show.simplecast.com/

    #107143
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    Thanks V. Arnold

    I think it is the same article (some different wording) but from a different source and lacking the beautiful map of the area

    It seems like a beautiful but tricky area which may unleash the dogs of war

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