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Many Ukrainian Fighters Remain In Azovstal, ‘Operation Going On’ (R.)
Surrender “On Far Bigger Scale Than Kyiv Has Acknowledged” (ZH)
Biden Resists Ukrainian Demands For Long-range Rocket Launchers (Pol.)
When US Pivot Is Seen As An ‘Expansion’ Into Asia (Kukis)
US Aid To Ukraine Borrowed From China: Rand Paul (JTN)
US Adds $100 Million In Arms For Ukraine On Top Of $40 Billion Aid Package (PM)
Senate Blocks $48 Billion Aid For Restaurants, Other Small Businesses (Hill)
SpaceX Flight Attendant Said Elon Musk Exposed Himself (BI)
Half Of America Faces Power Blackouts This Summer (ZH)
Analysis of Hunter Biden’s Hard Drive (NBC)
How The Feds’ Civil Suit Against Steve Wynn Helps Hunter Biden (Turley)
Trump Lawyer Demands CIA Action Against Ex-agents on Hunter Biden Laptop (JTN)
African Nations Resisting Bitcoin Only Delay The Inevitable (BCM)
A Theory of Impossibility (Fred Reed)

 

 

 

 

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The ones that remain are those who have most to fear from Russia. But ‘Operation Going On’ is BS, it’s over.

Many Ukrainian Fighters Remain In Azovstal, ‘Operation Going On’ (R.)

Russia’s siege of the Ukrainian city of Mariupol stuttered towards its end on Thursday, with hundreds of fighters still holed up in the Azovstal steel works and some 1,700 who have already surrendered facing an uncertain fate. A full abandonment of the bunkers and tunnels of the bombed-out plant would end the most destructive siege of a war that began when Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24. It was unclear how many fighters remained inside. Russia’s defence ministry said 771 fighters from the Azov Regiment had surrendered in the past day, bringing the total of those who had given themselves up since Monday to 1,730. Ukrainian officials declined to comment, saying it could endanger rescue efforts.

Sviatoslav Palamar, deputy head of the Azov Regiment, released an 18-second video address on Thursday to say he and other commanders were still on the territory of the plant. “A certain operation is going on, the details of which I will not disclose. Thank you to the whole world and thank you to Ukraine for (your) support,” he said. Denis Pushilin, head of the Russian-backed separatist Donetsk People’s Republic, which now encompasses Mariupol, said more than half the fighters had surrendered, and that the uninjured had been taken to a penal colony near Russian-controlled Donetsk. “Let them surrender, let them live, let them honestly face the charges for all their crimes,” he told an online video channel.

[..] Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy says Mariupol’s last defenders – regular soldiers as well as members of the National Guard, to which the Azov Regiment belongs – are national heroes, and that he hopes they can be exchanged for Russian prisoners. Moscow portrays the regiment as one of the main perpetrators of the alleged radical anti-Russian nationalism and neo-Nazism which it says threaten Ukraine’s Russian-speakers. read more The unit, formed in 2014 as a militia to fight Russian-backed separatists, denies being fascist, racist or neo-Nazi, and Ukraine says it has been reformed away from its radical nationalist origins. The Kremlin said the combatants would be treated in line with international norms, though some Russian lawmakers demanded they be tried for war crimes and one demanded they face the death penalty.

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Yesterday 771 surrendered, today’s number will probably be a bit lower.

Surrender “On Far Bigger Scale Than Kyiv Has Acknowledged” (ZH)

Russia’s defense ministry has now revised the numbers of Ukrainian fighters to have emerged from the besieged Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol upward to more than 1,700 soldiers that have left the plant. A new Reuters headline has stressed that there’s ongoing “silence from Kyiv” as the surrender is on a much larger than expected scale: Moscow said on Thursday that 1,730 Ukrainian fighters had surrendered in Mariupol over three days, including 771 in the past 24 hours, claiming a surrender on a far bigger scale than Kyiv has acknowledged since ordering its garrison to stand down. Statements from early in the week by Ukrainian officials, including President Zelensky, attempted to downplay this as “surrender” – avoiding the word altogether and instead stressing the end of the “combat mission” and that its Azov fighters were “evacuated”.

Russian-backed separatists in control of the area, Denis Pushilin, has recently said many of Azov’s top commanders still remain inside the huge, cavernous steelworks facility. Reuters observes, “The ultimate outcome of Europe’s bloodiest battle for decades remained publicly unresolved, with no confirmation of the fate of the hundreds of Ukrainian troops who had held out in a vast steelworks at the end of a near three-month siege.” “Ukraine, which says it aims to secure a prisoner swap, has declined to say how many were inside the plant or comment on the fate of the rest, since confirming that just over 250 had surrendered in the initial hours after it ordered them to yield,” the report added. Meanwhile, a report from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) suggests that indeed the number of fighters which were hold up at the plant for months is likely significantly higher that what was known. The Red Cross has thus far registered “hundreds”…

On Tuesday the ICRC started “to register combatants leaving the Azovstal plant, including the wounded, at the request of the parties,” it said in a statement from its headquarters in Geneva. “The operation continued Wednesday and was still ongoing Thursday,” it added. It was previously reported that the wounded are being transported by the Russian military to one of its administered hospitals in the Donbas, some 40km away. The Red Cross sought to stress that it is a neutral humanitarian organization which will monitor the transfer of the prisoners. “The ICRC is not transporting POWs to the places where they are held,” an official statement said. “The registration process that the ICRC facilitated involves the individual filling out a form with personal details like name, date of birth and closest relative.”

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I like the notion that Biden does anything at all. It adds comic value.

Biden Resists Ukrainian Demands For Long-range Rocket Launchers (Pol.)

Ukrainian officials are growing frustrated with the Biden administration’s resistance to providing U.S.-made long-range rocket systems, a weapon Kyiv says is critical to outgunning Russia in the heavy artillery duels raging across the Donbas. Officials across the Ukrainian government have pleaded with the U.S. for months to send the Multiple Launch Rocket System, or MLRS. But three people familiar with the issue say the Ukrainians are concerned that the White House is holding back over worries the weapon could be used to launch strikes inside Russia, thereby expanding and prolonging the conflict. “There was momentum on it at Ramstein, but that seems to have cooled,” said one congressional staffer with knowledge of discussions last month in Germany, where 40 nations gathered to discuss the next steps in arming Ukraine.

“There’s definitely a frustration building” in Kyiv over these new caveats being placed on military aid, this person said. The weapon has been near the top of Ukrainian requests for months, and military and civilian leaders in Kyiv have made their case to their American counterparts directly on multiple occasions. A Biden administration official who asked to remain anonymous to discuss internal deliberations told POLITICO that the two countries remain “in active discussion” about the weapon, but that even with the $3.8 billion worth of military aid the U.S. has sent Ukraine since Russia’s Feb. 24 invasion, not everything Kyiv asks for can be sent quickly. “We have to make decisions about what weapons systems provide the biggest bang for the buck,” with the money Congress allots to the Ukraine effort, the official said.

Over the past several weeks as the latest funding package began to be whittled down, the administration decided “it was more effective and efficient to send the 90 M777 [howitzers] because you can send more of them” and more munitions for the price than a much smaller number of MLRS. The U.S. has quietly provided older, Soviet-era multiple launch rocket systems to Ukraine over the past several months after scouring the warehouses of allies who still operate the older weapons. But the more precise, more powerful American systems are what Kyiv is looking for to blunt Russian advances in the Donbas.

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Biden’s in Asia right now. Wonder what drugs they give him on these long flights.

When US Pivot Is Seen As An ‘Expansion’ Into Asia (Kukis)

Vladimir Putin and other Russian leaders now more than ever have reason to feel encircled with Sweden and Finland moving to join NATO this week. Moscow’s persistent fear of Western military encroachment on Russian borders now stands as a stark reality in the wake of the war in Ukraine, a seismic development in European security all the more remarkable when taking a long look back at NATO expansion. Analysts and policymakers intensely debated the future of NATO in the early 1990s, when the collapse of the Soviet Union left Russia with a hobbled military that was in disarray. Countries close to Russia cried for protection from a future threat they were sure would emerge once Moscow reordered itself. Others saw a different future, one in which Russia became a cooperative and largely demilitarized nation integrated with Europe. NATO had no reason to exist in such a world, they said.

Remembering what was foreseeable and what was not in that period is important now when looking at the actions of the United States and its allies in East Asia, where a potentially fateful military buildup is underway. In the 1990s, it was not clear whether Russia would renew its military ambitions. But Russian officials plainly stated again and again that they regarded NATO expansion as a security threat. And even a basic reading of Russian history reveals how dire such a threat looms in the eyes of Russians who consider it their duty to safeguard the nation. Similarly now, it remains unclear whether China harbors imperialistic military ambitions as many in Washington contend. But Chinese leaders have made their feelings about an expanding U.S. military presence in Asia quite clear.

America’s pivot to Asia, which continues despite events in Europe, represents an existential security threat in the eyes of Chinese leaders. A basic understanding of geography and economics underscores why. The tradeways of the South China Sea are vital lifelines to China’s economic development. Any foreign military presence in that region operating outside of cooperation with Beijing looks like a hand reaching for the throat of the Chinese economy. Military pacts like AUKUS add to the sense of encirclement China clearly feels, a perception very similar to the one Moscow held as NATO looked to expand roughly a decade after the end of the Cold War. Leaders in Beijing today have good reason to think and act like leaders in Moscow did back in the early 2000s, when Russia grew serious about developing modern military capabilities and taking action in line with explicitly stated security aims. The start of the road to a future war in Asia stretches before us today in much the same way that the beginnings of the war in Ukraine trace back to seemingly slow-moving events almost 25 year ago in Europe.

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“To borrow the money from China simply to send it to Ukraine makes no sense and makes us weaker not stronger..”

US Aid To Ukraine Borrowed From China: Rand Paul (JTN)

Congress needs to borrow money from China to send aid to Ukraine, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) told “Breitbart News Daily” on Wednesday, one day before the Senate overwhelmingly voted to send $40 billion in military and economic aid to Ukraine and its allies. “I think it’s important to know that we don’t have any money to send,” Paul, a fiscal conservative, explained. “We have to borrow money from China to send it to Ukraine. And I think most people kind of get that, and many Republicans will say that when it’s a new social program, but if it’s military aid to a country, they’re like, ‘Well, we can borrow that, that’s a justified borrowing.'”

Paul voted against advancing the bill along with ten other senate Republicans: Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, John Boozman of Arkansas, Mike Braun of Indiana, Mike Crapo of Indiana, Bill Hagerty of Tennessee, Josh Hawley of Missouri, Mike Lee of Utah, Cynthia Lummis of West Virginia, Roger Marshall of Kansas, and Tommy Tuberville of Alabama. Rampant inflation is a major concern Paul said he has with the bill. “The problem is that it all leads to inflation, so it kind of hurts the Republican argument that Biden’s spending and Biden’s debt leads to inflation, except for when it’s bipartisan spending and that doesn’t really count,” he noted.

The United States is currently more than $30 trillion in debt. The U.S. owes China more than $1 trillion, Investopedia states. Paul temporarily blocked the Ukraine aid legislation from moving forward in the Senate, but he was overruled earlier this week. “To borrow the money from China simply to send it to Ukraine makes no sense and makes us weaker not stronger,” Paul said on the Senate floor about the aid package.

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Send them some more scrap metal, why don’t you.

US Adds $100 Million In Arms For Ukraine On Top Of $40 Billion Aid Package (PM)

The Biden administration has announced $100 million in arms funding to Ukraine on top of the newly approved $40 billion aid package. On Thursday, the Senate approved $40 billion in aid for Ukraine as the nation continues to fight back against Russia’s invasion. Just hours later, Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced that the United States would be sending an additional $100 million in arms. In a statement, Blinken explained that Ukrainian forces have “remained firmly in the fight” against Russia, but are in need of assistance, namely arms and other equipment. “Pursuant to a delegation from the President,” Blinken said, “I am authorizing our tenth drawdown of additional arms and equipment for Ukraine’s defense from US Department of Defense inventories, valued at up to $100 million.”


“This brings total US military assistance to Ukraine to approximately $3.9 billion in arms and equipment since Russia launched its brutal and unprovoked full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24. “The United States is committed to helping Ukraine continue to meet its defense needs and build its future capabilities,” he continued, “as well as to bolster Allies and partners across NATO’s Eastern Flank and the broader region.” The increasing amount of money has been criticized by Republicans, however only eleven voted against the recently passed $40 billion aid package.

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Sorry guys, we need it for Ukraine. Of course you support Zelensky from your closed store!

Senate Blocks $48 Billion Aid For Restaurants, Other Small Businesses (Hill)

The Senate on Thursday blocked a bipartisan bill to provide $48 billion to restaurants, gyms and other small businesses hit particularly hard by the pandemic. Senators voted 52-43 to hold a vote on the bill, falling short of the 60-vote threshold needed to move forward. Just five GOP senators voted for the motion to proceed, with the bill’s opponents citing its impact on the federal deficit and inflation. The vote likely spells doom for the bill, which was crafted by Sens. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and backed by Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) as a way to help struggling small businesses get out of debt accrued during the pandemic.

“Well, this was our best shot. Make no mistake about it, we’re disappointed that we weren’t able to get it done,” Cardin told reporters after the vote. “But you know, I’ll always fight for small businesses. I’ll continue to look for ways we can help.” Pressed after the vote on any potential plans for a similar measure in the future, Wicker told The Hill, “You know, time is a very fleeting commodity, so I just don’t know.” Advocates had argued that the additional funds were needed to prevent scores of debt-ridden small businesses from closing down. The bill would have provided $40 billion to a relief fund for struggling restaurants. Democrats provided $28.6 billion to the fund in their COVID-19 relief package, but the federal dollars quickly ran out, with only one out of three applicants receiving aid.

“Local restaurants across the country expected help but the Senate couldn’t finish the job,” Erika Polmar, executive director of the Independent Restaurant Coalition, said in a statement. “Neighborhood restaurants nationwide have held out hope for this program, selling their homes, cashing out retirement funds, or taking personal loans in an effort to keep their employees working and their doors open.”

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You would hope for something cleverer than this. Business Insider should be deeply ashamed of itself.

SpaceX Flight Attendant Said Elon Musk Exposed Himself (BI)

SpaceX, the aerospace firm founded by Elon Musk, the world’s wealthiest man, paid a flight attendant $250,000 to settle a sexual misconduct claim against Musk in 2018, Insider has learned. The attendant worked as a member of the cabin crew on a contract basis for SpaceX’s corporate jet fleet. She accused Musk of exposing his erect penis to her, rubbing her leg without consent, and offering to buy her a horse in exchange for an erotic massage, according to interviews and documents obtained by Insider. The incident, which took place in 2016, is alleged in a declaration signed by a friend of the attendant and prepared in support of her claim. The details in this story are drawn from the declaration as well as other documents, including email correspondence and other records shared with Insider by the friend.


According to the declaration, the attendant confided to the friend that after taking the flight attendant job, she was encouraged to get licensed as a masseuse so that she could give Musk massages. It was during one such massage in a private cabin on Musk’s Gulfstream G650ER, she told the friend, that Musk propositioned her. After Insider contacted Musk for comment, he emailed to ask for more time to respond and said there is “a lot more to this story.” “If I were inclined to engage in sexual harassment, this is unlikely to be the first time in my entire 30-year career that it comes to light,” he wrote, calling the story a “politically motivated hit piece.” Insider extended the deadline and reiterated the offer to Musk to comment on the claims. He did not respond.

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Sometimes I’m sure they do it on purpose.

Half Of America Faces Power Blackouts This Summer (ZH)

Tens of millions of Americans could be thrown into a summer of hell as a megadrought, heatwaves, and reduced power generation could trigger widespread rolling electricity blackouts from the Great Lakes to the West Coast, according to Bloomberg, citing a new report from the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), a regulatory body that manages grid stability. NERC warned power supplies in the Western US could be strained this summer as a historic drought reduces hydroelectric power generation due to falling reservoir levels and what’s expected to be an unseasonably hot summer.

Compound the hellacious weather backdrop with grids decommissioning fossil fuel power plants to fight climate change and their inability to bring on new green power generation, such as solar, wind, and batteries, in time, is a perfect storm waiting to happen that will produce electricity deficits that may force power companies into rolling blackouts for stability purposes. The regulatory body pointed out that supply-chain woes are delaying major Southwest solar projects, while some coal plants have trouble procuring supplies because of increased exports. They said there’s also an increasing threat of cyberattacks from Russia. By region, the Midwest power grid will be extremely tight. Across the Western US, power generation capacity has declined 2.3% since last summer, even as demand is expected to increase.

Grids in the region may have to source power from neighboring grids as extreme heat will cause people to crank up their air conditioners. A situation of low wind speeds could trigger blackouts, according to NERC. They outlined how the Midwest could face power shortfalls due to the removal of power capacity from retiring fossil fuel power plants. NERC issued a similar warning last year, stating power grids that serve 40% of the US population were at risk of blackouts. One year later, there was only one notable blackout last June during a heatwave in the Pacific Northwest that left 9,000 customers without power. But with reduced electricity generation capacity outpacing new green power sources, the risks of blackouts are increasing this year.

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Ha ha ha, from the very same people who called it Russian disinformation when that was convenient. Credibility zero.

Analysis of Hunter Biden’s Hard Drive (NBC)

From 2013 through 2018 Hunter Biden and his company brought in about $11 million via his roles as an attorney and a board member with a Ukrainian firm accused of bribery and his work with a Chinese businessman now accused of fraud, according to an NBC News analysis of a copy of Biden’s hard drive and iCloud account and documents released by Republicans on two Senate committees. The documents and the analysis, which don’t show what he did to earn millions from his Chinese partners, raise questions about national security, business ethics and potential legal exposure. In December 2020, Biden acknowledged in a statement that he was the subject of a federal investigation into his taxes.

NBC News was first to report that an ex-business partner had warned Biden he should amend his tax returns to disclose $400,000 in income from the Ukrainian firm, Burisma. GOP congressional sources also say that if Republicans take back the House this fall, they’ll demand more documents and probe whether any of Biden’s income went to his father, President Joe Biden. “No government ethics rules apply to him,” said Walter Shaub, a former director of the U.S. Office of Government Ethics who is now an ethics expert with the Project on Government Oversight. Shaub added, however, that “it’s imperative that no one at DOJ and no one at the White House interfere with the criminal investigation in Delaware.”

Shaub had previously raised questions about Hunter Biden’s new line of work, selling his own paintings, which created the potential to purchase a painting to buy perceived influence, and also because the White House became involved in the transactions, arranging that none of the buyers’ names be known to Biden, the White House or the public. Frank Figliuzzi, the FBI’s former assistant director for counterintelligence, said there is a national security risk when foreign powers like China see an opportunity to get close to someone like Biden. “It’s all about access and influence, and if you can compromise someone with both access and influence, that’s even better,” said Figliuzzi, now an NBC News contributor. “Better still if that target has already compromised himself.”

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Civil case vs criminal case. Yes, how convenient.

How The Feds’ Civil Suit Against Steve Wynn Helps Hunter Biden (Turley)

The Justice Department this week sued former casino mogul Steve Wynn for allegedly working as an agent for China. The lawsuit under the Foreign Agents Registration Act is bad news for Wynn, but it may be a win for another potential target: Hunter Biden. By bringing this action as a civil lawsuit, the Justice Department may have undercut the ongoing investigation by David Weiss, the US attorney for Delaware, into Hunter Biden’s foreign dealings. This civil suit doesn’t necessarily bar Weiss, but Hunter’s team can now argue that criminally charging him with a FARA violation would be inconsistent with contemporary investigations.

I recently testified in Congress on FARA prosecutions and noted that the Justice Department had largely dropped civil actions under the act in favor of criminal charges. Special counsel Robert Mueller targeted various Trump officials with FARA, using the law to investigate, search or charge attorneys from Paul Manafort to Rudy Giuliani to Victoria Toensing. I testified earlier that “after ramping up prosecutions in the last decade, the Justice Department has created precedent for the criminalization of what were previously treated as administrative violations. From Paul Manafort to the current investigation of Hunter Biden, there remain questions as to whether Justice Department will operate under a single, coherent and predictable standard.”

Some in the administration may be hoping that this charge will compel a consistent approach that would effectively decriminalize any violations under investigation in Delaware. The feds sued Wynn over his effort to intervene in the case of Chinese businessman Guo Wengui, a billionaire real-estate magnate and critic of the Chinese government. Beijing wanted the businessman back in China and hoped to persuade the US government to deny him a visa. Wynn spoke to President Donald Trump about the case, a call that carried added weight due to Wynn’s position as the Republican National Committee’s finance chairman. Wynn has interests in Macau, and his intervention was allegedly appreciated by high-ranking Chinese officials. The Justice Department asked Wynn to register as an agent, but he declined.

What is most striking about this case is how serious it is, particularly compared with past criminal cases like the prosecution of Paul Manafort. Here, Sun Lijun, then the Chinese vice minister for public security, was allegedly organizing the lobbying effort in 2017 and contacted figures like Elliott Broidy, a former RNC finance chairman, and Nickie Lum Davis, a top Trump fundraiser. Both Broidy and Davis later pleaded guilty in prosecutions. The question is why Broidy was criminally prosecuted in 2020 under FARA, including for work on the Guo matter, yet the Biden administration suddenly decided that the Wynn part of the deals should be treated as a civil matter. This is coming at the very time a grand jury is reportedly considering charges against Hunter Biden that could include FARA violations.

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“I take special pride in personally swinging the election away from Trump. You’re welcome.”

Trump Lawyer Demands CIA Action Against Ex-agents on Hunter Biden Laptop (JTN)

The attorney for former President Donald Trump is demanding the CIA take “immediate legal action” against the 43 former agency employees who signed a letter in October 2020 saying Hunter Biden’s laptop was not authentic and part of a Russian disinformation campaign. The laptop from President Joe Biden’s son and its contents showing questionable actions from the Biden family were proven to be authentic more than a year after the election. “Media outlets used this purportedly credible intelligence assessment as a justification to not report on the story. Some polls show that up to 17% of people who voted for President Biden would not have if they knew about the contents of the laptop at the time,” attorney Timothy Parlatore wrote in a letter obtained by Just the News to the CIA’s Prepublication Classification Review Board Chairman, John Hedley.


“It would not be an exaggeration to say that these former intelligence officials changed the outcome of the election through knowingly flagrant misconduct,” Parlatore said in his 12-page letter. One of the letter’s CIA signatories, John Sipher, said in March, “I take special pride in personally swinging the election away from Trump. You’re welcome.” He quickly followed up that he was using “sarcasm.” Parlatore wrote the letter to Headley because his agency, the PCRB, is mandated to oversee the publication of letters such as the one signed by the 43 former CIA employees. “[I]t is beyond apparent not only that the letter did not undergo the mandatory PCRB review but that it further used violative behavior that could have threatened national security and attempted to play upon the nation’s trust in its intelligence agencies to support a political talking point,” Parlatore noted.

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Excellent argument for bitcoin.

African Nations Resisting Bitcoin Only Delay The Inevitable (BCM)

Doing business on the continent of Africa is very difficult. It is difficult to get payments in and very difficult to get payments out. For example, there is a black market exchange rate, and the government sanctioned exchange rate in Nigeria, meaning that there are two economies running in parallel, on top of the difficulty of moving money out. Bitcoin fixes all of this because anyone can send and receive bitcoin in any amount at any time, without permission, and its price is determined by the market, not the State. Saying “without permission” or “permissionless” as Bitcoiners do, is a phrase loaded with so much benefit that it is hard to describe to Westerners who have no idea of what it is like to do business on the continent of Africa. They take for granted that doing business and sending and receiving fiat money is a matter of pressing a button.

In Nigeria, for example, real life is not so. Moving money is fraught with difficulties and multiple ways of making a loss on a transfer. These piled up losses can make it impossible to earn a profit, and if you do, impossible to spend or recycle it where you need to spend or recycle it. Bitcoin makes all of this go away, as well as adding extraordinary speed to all transactions that are without precedent for Nigerians and many people living on the African continent. Given all of the advantages of Bitcoin, an intelligent person would ask, “Why then hasn’t Nigeria officially embraced bitcoin as a means of payment?” This is the correct question, and there are many answers to this, some cultural, that are preventing the Nigerian government from embracing reality and acting boldly like a leader nation as El Salvador and the Central African Republic has.

Trying to do any sort of Bitcoin business in Nigeria very often involves the invocation of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), which has a stranglehold on all businesses and bank accounts in Nigeria. Bitcoin would abolish their societal status and the reign of terror that they’ve unleashed on the great people of Nigeria. It is a sure bet that this is one of the key reasons why they’re trying so hard to stamp out Bitcoin, rather than do their duty to serve the Nigerian people by embracing this new tool. That the most populous country on the continent of Africa is the number two nation on Earth for Bitcoin adoption (one-third of all Nigerians use it) in the face of withering and unethical restrictions is a testament to the powerful and resourceful character of the Nigerian people who are born futurists, natural capitalists and extraordinary entrepreneurs: highly intelligent, capable and motivated.

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This is delightful. Don’t miss.

A Theory of Impossibility (Fred Reed)

A problem of biology for years has been the inability of evolutionists to explain how life or many of its manifestations can have evolved, irreducible complexity and all that, the usual response being ok, we aren’t sure, but any day now we will have the answer. The check is in the mail. But in fact the inexplicability grows ever greater year on year as more and more complexity is discovered, such as epigenetics, and the more complexity, the less likelihood of coming about by chance. But we advocates of Impossibility Theory assert that not only can living things not have evolved, but also that they can’t function. Too many little gear wheels. Therefore life doesn’t exist.

Consider the retina, a very thin membrane consisting of ten distinct sublayers engaging in appallingly complex biochemistry, somehow maintaining position and function for, occasionally, a hundred years. These layers consist of millions of cells doing the impossibly tricky chemical dance mentioned above, more or less perfectly. In the rest of the eye you have the three layers of the eyeball, sclera, choroid, retina, and the five layers of the cornea, epithelium, Bowman’s membrane, stroma, Descemet’s membrane, and posterior lamina. And a lens consisting of a proteinaceous goop contained in a capsule, attached to the muscular ciliary body by suspensory ligaments, and an iris of radial and circumferential fibers innervated competitively by the sympathetic and parasympathetic subsystems of the autonomic nervous system.

No way exists of explaining how this purportedly evolved—or how it works for many years without the layers of intricacy, biochemical through mechanical, collapsing. (I know this stuff because I have eye problems connected with Washington’s foreign policy.) The intricacy of life is layered. We start with a zygote which, being a cell, is bogglingly complex. This little time bomb develops into a baby, which is impossible. If you don’t think so, try reading a textbook of embryology. The migration of cells, this control gradient, that control gradient, DGRNs, perfect inerrant specialization to form implausibly precise and complex things like incus, malleus, stapes, tympanum in the ear and (very) numerous other examples, all impossible individually and more so in aggregate. Impossible, at least, unless we can come up with an auxiliary explanation. Magic seems a good candidate.

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    Marion Post Wolcott Signboard along highway in Alabama 1939   • Many Ukrainian Fighters Remain In Azovstal, ‘Operation Going On’ (R.) • Surrender
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle May 20 2022]

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    V. Arnold
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    Marion Post Wolcott Signboard along highway in Alabama 1939

    Great photograph and the Buick is gorgeous…

    I’m doing limbering exercises so I can bend over and kiss my ass goodbye…

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    Red
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    “Biden’s in Asia right now. Wonder what drugs they give him on these long flights.”
    Probably sleeping meds as he isn’t required at the meetings.

    I have no love for Musk but this is familiar ground ” The incident, which took place in 2016, is alleged in a declaration signed by a friend of the attendant and prepared in support of her claim. The details in this story are drawn from the declaration as well as other documents, including email correspondence and other records shared with Insider by the friend.”

    A friend? Even if it isn’t more gaslighting does it mean the twatter followers are suddenly real?
    Message: Don’t f#@k with the controllers!

    #108224
    V. Arnold
    Participant

    The Marion Post Wolcott Signboard is of particular interest given it’s 1939; surely the winds of war were already blowng; more than a gentle breeze…

    #108225
    chooch
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    Recently, there was a leaked audio regarding Taiwan and Chinese war mobilization plans.

    Here is a transcript provided by Jennifer Zeng. She has an Odysee channel, Inconvenient Truths.

    https://zzeng97.blog.bannedbook.org

    And the audio

    It was released by Lude Media

    What is Lude Media

    Politico article from yesterday evening.

    https://www.politico.com/amp/news/2022/05/19/deadly-serious-u-s-quietly-urging-taiwan-to-follow-ukraine-playbook-for-countering-china-00033792

    U.S. officials are pushing their Taiwanese counterparts with new urgency to look to Ukraine’s success in fending off Russian forces as a blueprint for countering a Chinese attack, former and current U.S. officials tell POLITICO.

    #108226
    Formerly T-Bear
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    V. A.
    You may like the exhibition at the Guggenheim-Bilbao. You may have to go from home page to exhibitions “Motion, Autos, Art, Architecture” currently on display.

    https://www.guggenheim-bilbao.eus/exposiciones/motion-autos-art-architecture#themes

    Let us know what limbering exercises you’re using; keep us advised on your progress. (smiley thing)

    #108227
    V. Arnold
    Participant

    U.S. officials are pushing their Taiwanese counterparts with new urgency to look to Ukraine’s success in fending off Russian forces as a blueprint for countering a Chinese attack, former and current U.S. officials tell POLITICO.

    Ukraine and Taiwan are not even remotely the same!!!
    It’s this thinking that will get us all killed…

    #108228
    V. Arnold
    Participant

    Hey T-Bear;
    Yes, I’ll let you know when I can figure it out…………….
    Kissing ass has never been my forte’……
    😉

    #108229
    christine
    Participant

    Ukrainians regrouping and being retrained in Poland…just the first few minutes of this Ritter piece will suffice https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOzs_cCHVeU.

    C.

    #108230
    chooch
    Participant

    V. Arnold,

    Should boost weapon system sales.

    #108231
    boilingfrog
    Participant

    VA, I just had surgery and your “limbering” comment caused me to laugh out loud – painful, but well worth it. Thank you sir!

    #108232
    Dr. D
    Participant

    “Ukraine’s success in fending off Russian forces”

    Is this a joke?

    1,700 Azov surrenders and counting.

    So how’s that “Open Borders” policy going in Ukraine? What? They aren’t in favor of open borders when it’s not us???

    “let them honestly face the charges for all their crimes,”

    Is this why they are determined to define it as a Police Action and not a war?

    “alleged radical anti-Russian nationalism and neo-Nazism” –Reuters

    This is AFTER MI6-paid Reuters and NY Times, BBC, NPR have ALREADY reported that they ARE radical, anti-Russian, and Nazis. Several nations including the U.S. and Canada had to pass specific laws against them because of this verified truth. But that was when we were at war with Estasia. Now we’re at war with Eurasia. History has become the eternal now where The Party is always right.

    “The unit, formed in 2014 as a militia to fight Russian-backed separatists, denies being fascist, racist or neo-Nazi,”

    Ummmm, what? I’m pretty sure if you denied this, the Azovs would kick you out and/or shoot you. They are very proud of being Banderas, Nazis, and racists, and don’t make a secret about it. Reuters: “We Just Say Things!™” …The things that MI6 pays us to say. Or since that was all official documents, is that no longer true as well?

    Ukrainian officials are growing frustrated with the Biden administration’s resistance”

    Nice framing. It neatly describes who’s in charge here, who’s on top and who gives the orders. Apparently Ukraine isn’t the 51st state, they are actually the U.S. Capitol!

    “Others saw a different future, one in which Russia became a cooperative and largely demilitarized nation integrated with Europe.”

    That is, disarmed and conquered, subservient non-nation to rapacious Europe. I mean, they DO just tell you openly. You only have to be literate to find out.

    The tradeways of the South China Sea are vital lifelines to China’s economic development.”

    Well, we’re screwed then. Any aircraft carrier on the surface of the ocean is a sitting duck. Please steam them to port and melt them down so the reactor can be decommissioned safely.

    Small Business: “with the bill’s opponents citing its impact on the federal deficit and inflation.”

    Jimmy Dore says the same thing. Psaki scoffed, “What are you nuts? We can’t just GIVE these Covid tests away! You know how much that would cost???” And “We can’t just send $5M to give Flint safe water!” “We can’t just stop homelessness!” “We can’t just reduce Fentanyl deaths!” “We can just STOP endless Black murders in Chicago!” “We can’t just have HEALTHCARE in a Pandemic!” That might cost $40 BILLION dollars!

    But when our true masters need it, a day later, we can. Like in ’08. Ah, remember the kerfuffle about $700 Billion dollars??? Buy a pack of gum.

    House passes price control, price-gouging bill. Shortages are now certain and soon. I’m going to go fill up right now, as they are also adding digits on the pump in anticipation of +$10 gas.

    All things have cycles, and this will pause sometime, but we’re not at the end of it.

    I think your grid map is wrong. There are several zones within the U.S., or used to be. Remember how the NE went out only from Ohio to NYC? That did not take out Minnesota as this map suggests.

    Monkeypox in the U.S. now, following yesterday. Good call on the vaccine. Worked for AIDS, worked for CV, it’ll work forever and ever, and ♫don’t be suspicious.♫

    Suspicious? “NY Governor Announces New Gun Control Plans After Buffalo Shooting, Signs Order on Domestic Terrorism”

    ‘Cause all the shootings were in the exact states with all the gun laws. The more laws, the more shootings and crimes. It’s also illegal. I mean the governments, it’s unconstitutional. By the STATE constitution.

    So exactly how many levels of illegal do we have to have before somebody does something? I mean do we have to arrest a foreign reporter in a foreign nation and hold him in solitary for 10 years or something? Do we have to illegally regulate baby formula out of existence? How bad does it have to get?

    Lest you think I’m saucy, “People are wondering how you had the right to acquire the weapon in the first place when you are this individual. We have red flag laws in place to prevent exactly this situation,” Hochul said.” That is, she said the GUN was illegal; the ACT was illegal; the PROCESS to stop it was completely in place, and yet for some reason, PEOPLE KEEP BREAKING THE LAW, which is why they need MORE laws.

    Can’t stop stupid. And the voters are MORE stupid: they eat it up.

    “to require the New York State Police to file an extreme-risk order of protection under New York’s red flag law when they have probable cause to believe that an individual is a threat”

    Which already existed. They will file PAPERWORK. Paperwork I tells ya!!! That’ll larn ‘em.

    The governor said that algorithms on some social media platforms can serve to “elevate hateful incendiary speech.”

    Despite the fact that the platforms, and the NY Times, have constantly reported the opposite. Despite that everyone who has ever interacted with the platforms reports the opposite to a wild and hilarious degree. But that’s adult Americans for ya: LIE. She is “Elevating hateful incendiary speech” herself by establishing a new department – which I’m sure they have the money for – to investigate all their political enemies, because Biden and Co have been very clear that all Republicans are White Supremacist terrorists, investigating school board and PTA meetings and anyone else who disagrees with their State Theocracy.

    She goes on to say they will investigate 4Chan and 8Chan. Hahahahaha! Good luck. They are fully anonymous non-platforms.

    Fed policy causes a “recession” (Actually Global Financial Crisis, aka “Disaster Capitalism”) with only a 0.75% rate hike. Not even ONE point. They are 20%, 2,000bp, behind the curve and rising.

    “Doing business on the continent of Africa is very difficult. It is difficult to get payments in and very difficult to get payments out”

    This is by design, and there was a special coin called “Populous” to stop this rape of Africa. See, London looks at the Whoooooole continent of Africa, larger than Europe and China combined and says, “Well that’s Africa: it’s a dirty, dangerous, 3rd world s—t hole” …except they then get PAID to be racist and repeat Trump’s battered talking points. They jack rates to 30%, regardless that d’Ivory might be dangerous, but that’s a thousand miles away from many safe, reasonable places. Who cares??? When they make money in their favor, it’s all good! F- those Africans! Same with the BTC problem/solution. London and the GFS make SURE that banking is impossible, both to keep them down on plantation, and to extract the vig…which keeps them poor and down on the plantation. Goooo Anglos!!! We’re sooper caring, ESF, Green, Diversity! That’s why we GIVE money to Elon and rich EV owners in the Hamptons, and TAKE those billions from poor people in Africa! “Sharing is caring.” Anyway, Populous Cryptoed an ACCURATE loan rates for Africa (or anybody else) and therefore have HONEST money to borrowers, which you the crypto holder would then get the interest payments for. MicroLoan initiative, minus the political tampering of the NGOs. (Benton will hate these acronyms). Obviously Populous was immediately set upon by forces unknown and has had steady headwinds. But if they free themselves from banking that is the Colonial extraction will instantly free up Africa. …And destroy London and Anglo-land.

    “ A Theory of Impossibility (Fred Reed)”

    They just handwave and say, “’Cause: Scienz”. I know because I’ve asked and tried. “How do the cells KNOW what to do?” “’Cause Chemicalz n’ s—t. Scienz.” It’s like talking to Idiocracy. Why are people Depressed? “Brain chemicals n’ s—t.” No kidding. So…Is that the “cause”, or the “effect”? Blank stare. Somehow being able to name something, just use a word to plug the hole, means you both understand it and control it. True fact. “We create our own reality now” ‘cause I said some s—t. Words mean you have to do it! If I pass a law! …So, so dumb. Midwits. You cannot make people who are in this state recognize the magnitude of what they don’t understand.

    Cluephone: the Implicate Order, the consciousness and intelligence that runs it comes from outside the physical dimension. Their own geniuses, the people they look up to have said this, but being midwits, they can’t understand.

    SRSRocco points out that as gas gets more expensive, Green Energy becomes more competitive and takes over. Oh wait, the exact #OPPOSITE. Green Energy is presently made entirely of oil, so when oil rises, Green Energy costs rise faster. So at what point does our investment in Renewables pay off? I mean, probably someday, as we learn things, but when? Today is not that day. California is looking at blackouts all summer and is investing in – wait for it – diesel generators, clearly the greenest technology they can find. And coal. Don’t forget the coal. Killin’ some folks, killin’ some folks.♫

    More for the filling of the exponential debt, when the crime syndicate has their drug running shut off:
    “U.S. Orders Millions of Smallpox Vaccines”. Wot a coincidence! Golly Billy’s not only a top wold Doctor but an expert psychic as well, knowing not only OF a pandemic, but exactly WHICH pandemic it would be. Gosh if I were Angela Lansbury I sure would like to ask him a few questions. “Eh, Mr. Gates, um, just one more thing: you know how you said you had no idea which disease it would be…?”

    So not only $40B, then $100 million, then what, $100 per dose for a disease that never existed before now? Another $100M to the crime families to fill their budget crisis and keep the blackmail money running? How long can they keep it up? Need at least 5 more crises per month.

    Don’t worry: since YOU pay the cost of every crisis, the number of crises and their expense is limitless.

    “German Supreme Court Rules Compulsory Vax for Health Workers Constitutional”

    Just like last time. Hitler was democratically elected and what he did was legal. Unlike us. So if the government says: it’s legal. Still in violation of Nuremberg though, but that’s more UN/International laws and Norms.

    Thought she was kidding about worrying she got the man pregnant? Now official congressional witnesses think the same thing: “Democratic Witness at Judiciary Committee Abortion Hearing Says Men Can Get Pregnant and Have Abortions”

    Well, they’re Americans so mentally they’re between 8 and 12. They haven’t had sex ed yet.

    https://www.youtube.com/shorts/mxpGbNJyqXc (NSFW)

    #108233

    Update: TOTAL SURRENDERED (EVACUATED) IN MARIUPOL

    1. 1908 people have already surrendered at Azovstal.
    2. 1387 people surrendered at the Ilyich plant.
    TOTAL 3925

    #108234
    V. Arnold
    Participant

    boilingfrog

    …and may a speedy recovery go to get you on your wayback to health…

    #108235
    Armenio Pereira
    Participant

    Bread seems to be lacking, but there’s circus aplenty.

    #108236
    Mister Roboto
    Participant

    House passes price control, price-gouging bill. Shortages are now certain and soon. I’m going to go fill up right now, as they are also adding digits on the pump in anticipation of +$10 gas

    All Republicans in the House and something like four Democrats voted against it, so I predict this turkey of a bill will die in the Senate. All the Republicans will vote against it there too, and WV Democratic Senator Joe Manchin’s policy is to vote with the Republicans when Republicans in the Senate are unanimous in their opposition to something.

    Yeah, Manchin is probably just “playing the game” because he represents a red state and needs to do the whole bi-partisan thing if he wants to keep his job, but you have to give him credit for playing well. Not to mention helping to put a stop to this incompetent administration’s worst ideas!

    #108237
    Oroboros
    Participant

    #108238
    Oroboros
    Participant

    I support the latest thing.

    Shunning the letter Z

    Zelensky is now Elensky

    He is now the Head Not-Z

    #108239
    Oroboros
    Participant

    1. 1908 people have already surrendered at Azovstal.
    2. 1387 people surrendered at the Ilyich plant.

    TOTAL 3925

    Wow, that’s a lot of NOT-Zs!

    #108240
    zerosum
    Participant

    The mercenaries are surrendering.
    The USA money and the scams are continuing.
    The lies are obvious

    ———–
    from MSM
    https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/analysis-hunter-bidens-hard-drive-shows-firm-took-11-million-2013-2018-rcna29462
    Analysis of Hunter Biden’s hard drive shows he, his firm took in about $11 million from 2013 to 2018, spent it fast
    The hard drive and documents from Senate Republicans indicate few of Biden’s deals ever came to fruition and shed light on how fast he was spending his money.
    ————
    “Biden’s in Asia right now”, probably to make sure to get his supply of “smart chips”.
    ——–
    I have no love for Musk but …..” sex sells.”
    ———–
    “…. The mercenaries are surrendering.
    The USA money and the scams are continuing.
    The lies are obvious

    ———–
    from MSM
    https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/analysis-hunter-bidens-hard-drive-shows-firm-took-11-million-2013-2018-rcna29462
    Analysis of Hunter Biden’s hard drive shows he, his firm took in about $11 million from 2013 to 2018, spent it fast
    The hard drive and documents from Senate Republicans indicate few of Biden’s deals ever came to fruition and shed light on how fast he was spending his money.
    ————
    “Biden’s in Asia right now”, probably to make sure to get his supply of “smart chips”.
    ——–
    I have no love for Musk but …..” sex sells.”
    ———–
    The mercenaries are surrendering.
    The USA money and the scams are continuing.
    The lies are obvious

    ———–
    from MSM
    https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/analysis-hunter-bidens-hard-drive-shows-firm-took-11-million-2013-2018-rcna29462
    Analysis of Hunter Biden’s hard drive shows he, his firm took in about $11 million from 2013 to 2018, spent it fast
    The hard drive and documents from Senate Republicans indicate few of Biden’s deals ever came to fruition and shed light on how fast he was spending his money.
    ————
    “Biden’s in Asia right now”, probably to make sure to get his supply of “smart chips”.
    ——–
    I have no love for Musk but …..” sex sells.”
    ———–
    “…. verified truth …….” means ….. improve your story
    ———-
    Lie and tell us that you are not White Supremacist terrorists
    ———–
    I can’t believe it
    It must be fake news.

    Update: TOTAL SURRENDERED (EVACUATED) IN MARIUPOL

    #108241
    zerosum
    Participant

    ^^^^^^
    Sorry for funny post

    #108242

    1. 1908 people have already surrendered at Azovstal.
    2. 1387 people surrendered at the Ilyich plant.

    TOTAL 3925

    Pretty sure that should be 3295

    #108243
    zerosum
    Participant

    Todays joke:
    Reduce the gas taxes to help the people.

    #108244
    zerosum
    Participant

    Sunshine for the long weekend will be good for getting a boost of vitamins

    #108245
    zerosum
    Participant

    How Has Monkeypox Suddenly Spread All Over The Globe At Lightning Speed?
    https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/how-has-monkeypox-suddenly-spread-all-over-globe-lightning-speed
    Authored by Michael Snyder via TheMostImportantNews.com,

    How Has Monkeypox Spread All Over The Globe At Lightning Speed?


    If this new outbreak continues to grow, it will only be a matter of time before people start clamoring for vaccines. Health officials say that the existing smallpox vaccine should offer at least some protection against monkeypox, and they are already considering giving it to certain groups…

    CDC officials are evaluating whether smallpox vaccine should be offered to healthcare workers treating monkeypox patients and other people who may be at “high risk” for exposure to monkeypox, McQuiston said.

    “It’s definitely something that we’re discussing and evaluating, whether offering smallpox vaccine makes sense in the current setting,” she said.

    “We’ll be closer to making recommendations for that in the next day or so.”

    And it is being reported that there are enough doses of the smallpox vaccine “to vaccinate basically everyone in the U.S.”…

    And as another bioterrorism precaution, stockpiles of three smallpox vaccines are large enough “to vaccinate basically everyone in the U.S.” Inglesby said. And though monkeypox patients usually get just supportive care, a possible treatment does exist and has also been stockpiled: Tecovirimat, or TPOXX, was developed to treat smallpox but would likely work for monkeypox too.

    Hopefully we never get to a point where officials feel like a full-blown vaccination campaign is needed. After what we have been through with COVID, nobody wants to see that.

    Apparently a monkeypox vaccine already exists as well, and the New York Post is reporting that the U.S. has just ordered “13 million additional doses”…

    The US has ordered 13 million additional doses of the monkeypox vaccine after a Massachusetts man contracted the rare — but potentially severe — virus, officials said Thursday.

    The massive $119 million order of Jynneos jabs — which can be used to treat both the monkeypox virus and smallpox — was created by the biotechnology company Bavarian Nordic, according to Newsweek.

    Authorities in the western world are certainly acting as if this is going to turn into something big.

    Time will tell whether that turns out to be true or not.

    But without a doubt, I believe that we have entered a time in history when there will regularly be great pestilences.

    In secret labs all over the globe, mad scientists are feverishly trying to make the deadliest diseases on the planet even deadlier.

    I could not possibly overstate the foolishness of conducting such “research”, but no matter how much we object they are just going to continue their work.

    Over time, it is inevitable that at least some of their creations will get loose, and vast numbers of people could end up dead as a result.

    * * *

    #108246
    Susmarie108
    Participant

    Thanks for this ONE Ilargi:

    “But we advocates of Impossibility Theory assert that not only can living things not have evolved, but also that they can’t function. Too many little gear wheels. Therefore life doesn’t exist..

    …No way exists of explaining how this purportedly evolved—or how it works for many years without the layers of intricacy, biochemical through mechanical, collapsing. The intricacy of life is layered…

    …We start with a zygote which, being a cell, is bogglingly complex. This little time bomb develops into a baby, which is impossible. Impossible, at least, unless we can come up with an auxiliary explanation. Magic seems a good candidate.”

    Or GOD.

    All GOD or no GOD. We choose or not. When viewed through the GOD choice, everything – all issues discussed above, crumble to the sea.

    UNDERSTAND your place. Your hand in mine, we walk the miles.

    Thanks to you, THY WILL BE DONE.

    LOVE to All.

    #108247
    Dr D Rich
    Participant

    Fred Reed: very entertaining! Although, I suspect he doesn’t expect to be referenced for a USMLE.

    Neurosensory retina versus the retina: 9 or 11 and maybe 13 or 14 depending on who or what is doing the measuring ie. OCT vs histological layers.

    WRT the cornea: Fred’s edit must include the endothelium because various corneal transplants not limited to:

    1. (DSAEK), short for Descemet’s Stripping Automated Endothelial Keratoplasty

    2. Descemet’s membrane endothelial keratoplasty (DMEK)

    #108248
    chooch
    Participant

    The destruction of Mariupol.

    The two memes.

    Meme1

    The Truth About Nazism in Ukraine: And Why the Media is Covering It Up…

    Meme2

    They speak with fork tongues

    Western serpent

    Eastern serpent

    #108249
    morongobill
    Participant

    Sure hope the monkey pox doesn’t cause behavioral changes such as slinging feces at others.

    #108250
    Noirette
    Participant

    Thierry Meyssan writes..

    We can see that, despite the dominant discourse in the West, the war in Ukraine is not territorial, but ideological. President Volodymyr Zelensky is the first warlord in history to speak several times a day. He spends much more time talking than commanding his army. He writes his speeches around historical references. We react to the memories he evokes and ignore what we don’t understand. To the English, he speaks like Winston Churchill, they applaud him; to the French, he reminds of Charles De Gaulle, they applaud him; etc… To all, he concludes “Glory to Ukraine!”, they do not understand the allusion which they find pretty.

    17 May, https://www.voltairenet.org/article216896.html –> some good points.

    Zelensky (Ze) is put forward as a kind of Star, a VIP, many important figures in the W world travel to a war zone to meet him! He makes a special appearance at the Cannes Festival of Cinema!

    Note, Scholtz didn’t go to meet Ze, as Steinmeier (Pres. of Germany who was a KEEN defender of Nordstream 2, although he *cravenly* apologised for that recently) was refused a visit, snubbed. Biden, Macron, Draghi, Erdogan, and other top dogs don’t go, as the reputational risk (there is uncertainty) is too high.

    Ze’s role as Commander in Chief is covered up, scrubbed away, he ostensibly just stands for something ‘necessary, true and right’, oh man! an ordinary guy fighting a good fight! .. dressed like your neighbor who is mowing his lawn, whew it’s hot! – wipes brow, or whatever, and not as a military Commander, or as a President of a Country. Ze’s speech and delivery are also pathetic, he mumbles and thanks all these powerful ppl for their ‘support’..

    W power-ppl fawn over him. Very like the TV series in which Ze played a school-teacher who becomes Prez. of Ukr. by ‘accident’, the whole story, show, organised by Kolomoisky. Ze played an actor role in a fictional show, then a similar role in Real Life, — creepy degrees of masquerades / pretense involved.

    What is the next level? This is very frightening to think about.

    Note, Ze was elected by the ppl in Ukr. in part because some of his productions (as actor, comedian, and owner of production Cos.) which were in *Russian* were banned in Ukraine! by the Poroshenko Gvmt. (They might even be still banned today, Idk.)

    Guy Debord, a French ‘situationist’ was prescient. “The Society of the Spectacle” was published in 1967.

    Here is a summary trans. in eng, http://www.voxfux.com/features/situationists/sos/soschap1.html

    full text eng trans https://files.libcom.org/files/The%20Society%20of%20the%20Spectacle%20Annotated%20Edition.pdf

    The question is, what is being covered up by all this distraction, spin, fictional BS, simulacra?

    #108251
    TAE Summary
    Participant

    Covid Treatment Summary

    I tested positive for Covid yesterday. The most likely source was a triple vaxxed person at work. I am treating it with following:

    * Things I was taking regularly but have now increased
    – Vitamin C
    – Vitamin D
    – Zinc with Quercetin
    – Lecithin
    – L-Lysine

    * Additional things I am taking now
    – Lactoferrin
    – Diphenhydramine
    – Ivermectin
    – Nattokinase
    – Nebulized hydrogen peroxide and iodine in saline solution

    I am interested to see how this regimen works. So far I have a lessening of symptoms since last night.

    One question: how often and for how long should one nebulize? I am using a 0.1% hydrogen peroxide solution currently for 5 minutes every hour.

    #108252
    chooch
    Participant

    TAE,

    I did 2ml 0.25% solution 3X/day.

    #108253
    Mr. House
    Participant

    What are your symptoms?

    #108254
    those darned kids
    Participant

    In March 2021, NTI partnered with the Munich Security Conference to conduct a tabletop exercise on reducing high-consequence biological threats. The exercise examined gaps in national and international biosecurity and pandemic preparedness architectures—exploring opportunities to improve prevention and response capabilities for high-consequence biological events. Participants included 19 senior leaders and experts from across Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe with decades of combined experience in public health, biotechnology industry, international security, and philanthropy.

    This report, Strengthening Global Systems to Prevent and Respond to High-Consequence Biological Threats: Results from the 2021 Tabletop Exercise Conducted in Partnership with the Munich Security Conference, written by Jaime M. Yassif, Ph.D., Kevin P. O’Prey, Ph.D., and Christopher R. Isaac, M.Sc., summarizes key findings from the exercise and offers actionable recommendations for the international community.
    Exercise Summary

    Developed in consultation with technical and policy experts, the fictional exercise scenario portrayed a deadly, global pandemic involving an unusual strain of monkeypox virus that first emerged in the fictional nation of Brinia and spread globally over 18 months. Ultimately, the exercise scenario revealed that the initial outbreak was caused by a terrorist attack using a pathogen engineered in a laboratory with inadequate biosafety and biosecurity provisions and weak oversight. By the end of the exercise, the fictional pandemic resulted in more than three billion cases and 270 million fatalities worldwide.

    philanthropy, huh? hmmm…

    #108255
    Mr. House
    Participant

    “Ultimately, the exercise scenario revealed that the initial outbreak was caused by a terrorist attack using a pathogen engineered in a laboratory with inadequate biosafety and biosecurity provisions and weak oversight.”

    The only terrorists that exist are our “leaders”!

    #108256
    boscohorowitz
    Participant

    Noirette:

    Much graci for the Guy Debord book. The summary is seriously excellent. All I can offer as thanx is this E-Z Wider short and somewhat sensationalist overview of Putin and how Russia reached this point. It has hits and misses, like everything:

    The War Against Putin copyright 2014

    Oh. Just remembered. I have this to offer, too. I think I encountered it here but it’s good enough to deserve remention: Golden SIlkworms in Pandora’s Box

    #108257
    TAE Summary
    Participant

    @House
    Body aches, slight fever, runny nose, lack of energy

    #108258
    Mr. House
    Participant

    Sounds about right but i had few in addition to that in August of last year. Hope you feel better!

    #108259
    Maxwell Quest
    Participant

    “A Theory of Impossibility (Fred Reed)”

    Yes, this was delightful. I remember watching a short animation in biology class called: The Inner Life of the Cell. Though animated in slo-mo so that viewers could grasp all of the varied cell processes happening simultaneously, it was still mind-boggling to watch. “Why do these idiots claim that all this intelligent activity occurs from molecular happenstance”, I thought, “Can’t they deduce that there are unseen, energetic forces controlling all this?” The answer, of course, is still beyond the instruments of science, and therefore it doesn’t exist… yet.

    “Cluephone: the Implicate Order, the consciousness and intelligence that runs it comes from outside the physical dimension. Their own geniuses, the people they look up to have said this, but being midwits, they can’t understand.”

    Dr. D nails it again. Science is able to examine the lowest sheath (or body) of a human being, but is unable at this time to examine the other containers that make human life possible on the physical plane: the etheric, emotional, mental, and causal bodies. Each succeeding body composed of higher dimensional matter than the one below. All working together, the higher interpenetrating the lower.

    Once this is understood, all the Great Reset talk of transferring the essence of a human being into an AI machine rings hollow, like a child building a rocket ship to mars in the backyard from a cardboard box.

    I’ve discovered that few are able to get the idea of higher dimensions to register on their mental screen. It seems that certain faculties are needed in order to conceptualize it. A blank stare it the most common response.

    #108260
    Dr D Rich
    Participant

    Gonzalo Lira II on Marine Intel Scott Ritter:

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