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4 Ukrainian Regions Vote In Referendums On Joining Russia (ZH)
Historic Context Of The Referenda In Ukraine (MoA)
Von der Leyen’s Warning Message To Italy Irks Election Candidates (Pol.eu)
Reaping the Whirlwind (Scott Ritter)
Talks With Ukraine Necessary – Kremlin (RT)
Hungary Explains ‘Red Line’ For Russia Sanctions (RT)
Sanctions On Russia Lead To More Ship Emissions, Says Cargill (ZH)
Macron Suggests Covid As Reason For Ukraine Conflict (RT)
I Know What I’d Do In Putin’s Shoes – Jordan Peterson (RT)
US Military Bought Tool That Can See 93% Of Internet Traffic – Senator (RT)
“Joe Biden’s” Last Stand (Kunstler)
Biden Family Worked to Sell American Gas to China (ET)
Who Controls Those Who Control Us? (Ugo Bardi)
Judge Orders NYPD Union Members Fired Over Vax Mandate Reinstated (YP)
The Vaccine Narrative Is as Leaky as the Vaccines (Thakur)

 

 

 

 

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This map makes very clear what’s at stake: all of southeast Ukraine. Things will escalate on Tuesday at the latest.

4 Ukrainian Regions Vote In Referendums On Joining Russia (ZH)

On Friday Russian-occupied regions of Ukraine kicked off voting in referendums on joining the Russian Federation, according to announcements by a series of separatist leaders, in the biggest political development on the ground thus far in the seven-month long invasion. These ‘popular referendums’ are taking place in four areas of Ukraine in the east and south, namely the self-declared republics of Donetsk and Luhansk, and in large parts of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia – despite these not yet being under full Russian military control. The voting is expected to continue over a period of five days.

In total the four regions make up nearly 20% of Ukraine’s territory, and signals huge escalation given this week President Vladimir Putin vowed to use “all the means at our disposal” – including the potential of nuclear arms – to defend Russia’s “territorial integrity”. Of course, by bringing whole swathes of Ukraine into Russia, Putin effectively issued a ‘by all means’ declaration for military defense of these territories. The Ukrainian presidency’s office denounced the move as illegal and a “propaganda show”, saying, “Today, there is no legal action called a ‘referendum’ in the occupied territories.” According to a statement by Zelensky adviser Mykhailo Podolyak: “There is only – 1. [A] Propaganda show for z-conscription. 2. The territory of Ukraine that needs an immediate release,” he added, citing the “Z” letter and symbol that has become synonymous with Russia’s offensive.

Ukraine’s Western backers have also dismissed the voting as a “sham” – even as there’s widespread acknowledgement the results will likely be overwhelming in favor of joining Russia, given these are by and large places of a concentrated pro-Kremlin and Russian speaking population (especially among those Ukrainians who’ve remained there under Russian occupation). Western pundits are also seeing the move toward annexation as an act of desperation, following Ukrainian forces’ largely successful counteroffensive which has threatened Moscow’s grip on the east in particular. But officials from the two breakaway republics in the Donbas in particular have pointed to years of shelling and atrocities conducted by Ukraine’s military and nationalist militias such as Azov battalion.

According to international figures, some 14,000 people had died in total among both sides of fighting in what was essentially a localized civil war since even before the current conflict, since 2014. The Ukrainian government has all along initiated polices in attempts to stamp out Russian language and culture.

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And this map shows the context of “historical” Ukraine.

“..one of the first laws implemented by the new government removed the Russian language from official use. Instead of overcoming the differences between its people it only sealed the predominant split in Ukraine..”

Historic Context Of The Referenda In Ukraine (MoA)

Voting for membership in the Russian Federation has started in four oblast of Ukraine: “Russian proxy officials in four regions — Donetsk and Luhansk in the east, and Kherson and Zaporizka in the south — earlier this week announced plans to hold referendums over four days beginning on Friday. Russia controls nearly all of two of the four regions, Luhansk and Kherson, but only a fraction of the other two, Zaporizka and Donetsk. Ukrainian officials have dismissed the voting as grotesque theater — staging polls in cities laid to waste by Russian forces and abandoned by most residents.” President Volodymyr Zelensky thanked Ukraine’s allies for their steadfast support and said “the farce” of “sham referenda” would do nothing to change his nation’s fight to drive Russia from Ukraine.

The Ukrainian regime has resorted to pure terrorism to prevent the votes from happening: “Ukrainian partisans, sometimes working with special operations forces, have blown up warehouses holding ballots and buildings where Russian proxy officials preparing for the vote held meetings. Ukrainian officials have acknowledged that they are engaged in a campaign to assassinate key Russian administration officials; more than a dozen have been blown up, shot and poisoned, according to Ukrainian and Russian officials.” Such behavior by the Zelenski regime against its still Ukrainian compatriots will only encourage the people in the four oblast to vote for an alignment with Russia. The propaganda in the ‘west’ will declare that the vote is irregular and that the results, likely to be pro-Russian, will be fake.

[..] In 2014, after the violent fascist coup in Kiev, one of the first laws implemented by the new government removed the Russian language from official use. Instead of overcoming the differences between its people it only sealed the predominant split in Ukraine. The election promise of the current Ukrainian president Vladimir Zelenski to make peace with the Russia aligned rebellious Donbas region by adhering to the Minsk 2 agreements was rewarded with a large share of southeastern votes for his presidency. However, after having been threatened with death by fascists, Zelenski has made a 180 degree turn and has since posed as Ukrainian nationalist. In consequence he has lost all support in southeastern Ukraine.

The southeastern parts of today’s Ukraine have for centuries been part of the central Russian empire. They were only attached to the Soviet Republic of Ukraine under Lenin’s rule in 1922 and, in the case of Crimea, in 1954 under Nikita Khrushchev who himself had grown up in the Donbas region. A likely high turnout and majority vote for membership in the Russian Federation will only correct the historic misalignment created by those illogical transfers.

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She is unelected. Maybe that’s why she doesn’t understand.

Von der Leyen’s Warning Message To Italy Irks Election Candidates (Pol.eu)

Italian politicians asked European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen not to intervene in domestic politics after she warned that Europe has “the tools” to deal with Italy if things go in a “difficult direction.” During a conference on Thursday at Princeton University, an attendant pointed out to von der Leyen that “figures close to Putin” were among candidates for the upcoming legislative election on Sunday. “We’ll see,” she replied. “If things go in a difficult direction — and I’ve spoken about Hungary and Poland — we have the tools.” This is a clear reference to the ability of the European Commission to cut funds allocated to member countries when they are deemed to be violating the rule of law. Last week, the Commission proposed to cut €7.5 billion of funds allocated to Hungary.

Von der Leyen’s remark came just a day before Italy’s campaign goes quiet for the weekend, and has provoked the ire of multiple candidates during their final stretch. “What is this, a threat? This is shameful arrogance,” tweeted Matteo Salvini, the leader of Italy’s far-right League party. He asked von der Leyen to “respect the free, democratic and sovereign vote of the Italian people.” He also said on Italian TV that “if anyone in Brussels thinks of cutting the funds that belong to Italy, because the League wins the elections, then we have to rethink this Europe,” adding that “this is institutional bullying.”

Italy is the biggest beneficiary of the Next Generation EU fund, a package of grants and loans to tackle the economic challenges after the COVID-19 pandemic. Even Matteo Renzi, the EU-friendly, liberal leader of the Italia Viva party, asked von der Leyen “not to enter into Italian affairs in the slightest.” “I’m sure she will clarify her sentence,” said a more lenient Enrico Letta, who leads the center-left democratic party. He assured Italian voters that “there is no blackmail from the EU.”

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“..a post-SMO military operation will be one configured to destroy an active threat to Mother Russia itself..”

Reaping the Whirlwind (Scott Ritter)

Putin’s decision to order a partial mobilization of the Russian military, when combined with the decision to conduct the referendums in the Donbass and occupied Ukraine, radically transforms the SMO from a limited-scope operation to one linked to the existential survival of Russia. Once the referenda are conducted, and the results forwarded to the Russian parliament, what is now the territory of Ukraine will, in one fell swoop, become part of the Russian Federation — the Russian homeland. All Ukrainian forces that are on the territory of the regions to be incorporated into Russia will be viewed as occupiers; and Ukrainian shelling of this territory will be treated as an attack on Russia, triggering a Russian response.

Whereas the SMO had, by design, been implemented to preserve Ukrainian civil infrastructure and reduce civilian casualties, a post-SMO military operation will be one configured to destroy an active threat to Mother Russia itself. The gloves will come off. The U.S. and NATO, having committed to a program designed to defeat Russia via proxy, must now decide whether they continue to follow through with their political and material support for Ukraine and, if so, to what extent. Does the goal remain the “strategic defeat” of Russia, or will the aid be tailored simply to assist Ukraine in defending itself? These are two completely different goals.

One allows for the continued attrition of any Russian force that seeks to project power from Russian territory into Ukraine but, in doing so, respects the reality, if not the legitimacy, of the Russian incorporation of the Donbass and southern Ukrainian territories under occupation into the Russian Federation. The other continues to sustain the current policy of the Ukrainian government and its Western allies of evicting Russia from the Donbass, occupied Ukraine and Crimea. This means attacking Mother Russia. This means war with Russia. For its part, Russia considers itself already to be in a war with the West. “We are really at war with…NATO and with the collective West,” Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said in a statement that followed Putin’s announcement regarding partial mobilization.

“We mean not only the weapons that are supplied in huge quantities. Naturally, we find ways to counter these weapons. We have in mind, of course, the Western systems that there exist: communication systems, information processing systems, reconnaissance systems, and satellite intelligence systems.” Put in this context, the Russian partial mobilization isn’t designed to defeat the Ukrainian military, but to defeat the forces of NATO and the “collective West” that have been assembled in Ukraine.

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“But, as we have already said, we do not see any prerequisites for the negotiation process..”

Talks With Ukraine Necessary – Kremlin (RT)

Negotiations between Russia and Ukraine are needed, but there are no signs that such a dialogue could resume in the near future, Kremlin Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov said on Friday. He also pointed out that Kiev backed out of talks with Moscow months ago. Speaking to reporters, Peskov was asked whether Moscow believes that talks with the government in Kiev are warranted under the current conditions. The Kremlin spokesman signaled that dialogue is “of course needed.” “And it is needed to achieve our goals. But, as we have already said, we do not see any prerequisites for the negotiation process,” he stated. Peskov went on to say that Russian President Vladimir Putin has already explained that “Ukraine left the negotiations several months ago.”

The Russian leader, he added, also offered the reminder that various Kiev officials had signaled that they “intend to solve their problems on the battlefield.” “You know very well how our president reacted to this,” he said. On Wednesday, Putin announced a partial mobilization in which 300,000 reservists will be called up to take part in the conflict with Ukraine. The move came a day after the two Donbass republics and the Russian-controlled Zaporozhye and Kherson Regions decided to hold referendums over September 23-27 on whether to unite with Russia. Russia has repeatedly said that it is ready to talk with Ukraine, but insisted that it isn’t interested in “a meeting for the sake of the meeting.”

Moreover, earlier this month, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov noted that Moscow had never dismissed the idea of peace talks, warning, however, that “the longer this process is delayed, the harder it will be to reach an agreement.” Meanwhile, in late July Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky said Kiev refused to negotiate with Moscow, claiming that Russia would not stop until it gets “smashed.” The last time Russia and Ukraine sat down at the negotiating table was in late March. At that time, the two parties were discussing a draft peace agreement that would have made Ukraine a neutral state in exchange for security guarantees given by major world powers. Later, however, Kiev ended the talks after accusing Russian troops of having committed war crimes, an allegation that Moscow has vehemently denied.

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Energy. Simple as that.

Hungary Explains ‘Red Line’ For Russia Sanctions (RT)

Hungary is against imposing new sanctions on Moscow, especially in the energy sector, Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said on Friday after meeting his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov. According to the minister, energy sanctions are “a clear red line” for Hungary as Europe is grappling with soaring gas prices. “Our position is very clear. We see no reasonable reasons to discuss a new package of sanctions, especially when it comes to energy,” Szijjarto said on Friday, RIA Novosti reports. The pair met on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York. According to a Hungarian outlet Index, he added that “this is a clear red line for us. We do not want the Hungarian people to pay a price for a war they have nothing to do with,” referring to the ongoing hostilities between Russia and Ukraine.

Meanwhile, Szijjarto signaled that Hungary doesn’t plan to shun any debate on the new sanctions package, but it “wouldn’t consent to anything that is contrary to our national interests.” The minister also addressed the criticism he may face for holding talks with Lavrov, highlighting the fact that peace “will not come without dialogue.” If there are no negotiations, “the world will face even more serious consequences”, he said. Szijjarto warned that the European economy is heading into recession. In recent months, Europe has been plagued by an energy crisis, which was largely caused by skyrocketing natural gas prices due to sanctions the EU has imposed on Russia.

Hungary is heavily dependent on Moscow for energy and gets around 80% of its gas from Russian energy giant Gazprom and while Russia has cut off a number of countries from gas supplies, in late August, Hungary signed a deal with Moscow for additional deliveries on top of the already agreed volumes. On Wednesday, following Moscow’s bid to support referendums in the two Donbass republics and Russian-controlled Zaporozhye and Kherson Regions on joining Russia, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said that the bloc had made a “political” decision to slap new sanctions on Moscow. The exact nature of the restrictions, however, is so far unclear.

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“.. the whole strong climate action EU has been promoting to decarbonize its grid to save the planet is at risk of unraveling this winter.”

Sanctions On Russia Lead To More Ship Emissions, Says Cargill (ZH)

The unilateral sanctions that Western countries slapped Moscow with are igniting even more man-made carbon-dioxide emissions from the shipping industry as Europe rejiggers energy supply chains away from Russia by sourcing energy products from far away. Jan Dieleman, Cargill Inc.’s head of ocean transportation business, told Bloomberg that European importers are hiring tankers for long-distance hauls of energy products from countries halfway around the world. If it weren’t for the sanctions, natural gas and other refined energy products would flow via pipelines from Russia to Europe. But since Europe is hellbent on rapidly shifting its entire energy supply chain away from Russia. EU importers are hiring tankers to source liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Asia.

In a recent note, we outlined the insanity behind the EU’s panic buying of LNG from China. It’s so idiotic because China is just reselling Russian LNG… Dieleman said higher fuel costs for vessels mean ship operators are switching to dirtier-burning fuels like diesel or crude oil on these long-haul trips. Meanwhile, EU countries are aggressively restarting fossil fuel power plants ahead of what could be a very dark and cold winter. Some governments have even asked residents to burn firewood to heat their homes as the energy crisis could induce rolling blackouts during peak demand hours. So the whole strong climate action EU has been promoting to decarbonize its grid to save the planet is at risk of unraveling this winter.

The very fact that Europe has to source LNG from Asia on longer routes while vessels burn dirtier fuel is entirely hypocritical to the bloc’s stance about saving the planet. For some context, shipping is responsible for almost 3% of man-made carbon-dioxide emissions.

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Ha ha ha! You sure it’s not the vaccines?

Macron Suggests Covid As Reason For Ukraine Conflict (RT)

Russian foreign policy regarding Ukraine is dictated by the whims of President Vladimir Putin rather than rational thinking, his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, has claimed. Macron speculated about Putin’s mindset and the reasons he ordered Russian troops to enter Ukraine in late February, during an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper on Thursday. “I have no rational explanation. I think this is a series of resentment, this is a strategy of hegemony in the region, and I would say this is a post-Covid-19 consequence, isolation,” he said. The French leader argued that when Putin “decided to launch his war on 21 February, I think he made the first mistake, a huge one. And he decided to put Russia in a situation indeed to be the new imperial country and to launch a colonial war.”


On February 21, Putin signed orders recognizing the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics as sovereign states. Moscow pledged troops to defend the two Donbass republics, and called on Kiev to withdraw its forces from the territory they claimed as their own, which the Ukrainian government refused to do. Russia launched its military campaign against Kiev on the 24th. The hostilities followed decades of Russian complaints over NATO expansion in Europe, which the US and its allies pushed forward with in spite of their promises to not do so, made to the last leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev.

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“..we can’t say ‘no’ to Putin because we sold our soul for his oil and gas..”

I Know What I’d Do In Putin’s Shoes – Jordan Peterson (RT)

Popular conservative political commentator Jordan Peterson has tried to get into Russian President Vladimir Putin’s head and predict how Russia’s conflict with the West in Ukraine will unfold. Peterson said that if he were the Russian president he would leave the EU without energy supplies in the winter. “I know what I’d do in his shoes,” he said on the Piers Morgan Uncensored show on Thursday. “I’d wait till the first cold snap and shut off the taps.” Peterson was referring to supplies of Russian natural gas to EU nations. He argued that Moscow indirectly warned that a full shutdown would happen when Russian gas giant Gazprom started curtailing deliveries through the Nord Stream pipeline to Germany, citing maintenance issues.

The political commentator declined to endorse a notion popular in the West that Putin resembles Adolf Hitler or Josef Stalin in his thinking, calling the claim “foolish” and not backed by any actual evidence. Putin “is a lot more like everybody else than anyone thinks,” Peterson argued. He added that “there is a bit of Hitler and Stalin in everyone,” before going into an explanation of how accepting government-imposed lies under pressure was part of human nature. “The totalitarian state is actually the grip of the lie. And people would certainly go along with that. We’ve seen this emerge with [the] cancel culture. It’s like ‘Lie! Or else!’,” he said. He mocked the idea that Ukraine and its Western backers could “win” against Russia as “naïve.” “I just don’t understand that. What do you mean we are going to win? What are we going to win exactly?” he demanded.

The Russian government, Peterson believes, would consider simply devastating Ukraine an acceptable outcome, if no better alternative can be achieved. And the West would not be able to stop it due to Russia’s role as a global supplier of energy, he argued. “We can’t win against Vladimir Putin in any way because you cannot win against someone you cannot say ‘no’ to. Period. And we can’t say ‘no’ to Putin because we sold our soul for his oil and gas,” he said. “And we did that to elevate our moral stature in relation to ‘saving the planet.’ And here we are, facing a very dire winter, hoisted on the petard of our very own foolishness and moral presumption,” he added. Peterson was referring to the concern that humanity was facing an existential threat due to climate change, a threat that he believes to be exaggerated.

The unintended consequences of the West’s conflict with Russia are a far more imminent and real threat to humans, he pointed out, as “the World Bank already estimated that we’ve put 350 million people into what they call ‘food insecurity’.” “But the planet has too many people on it anyway, so, you know… It’s just poor people,” he added. Peterson is a Canadian psychology professor who rose to international prominence over his commentaries on various contemporary issues, such as transgender acceptance policies in the West, the role of Christianity in cultures originating in Europe, and geopolitical conflicts. His YouTube channel has over 5.5 million subscribers

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No surprise, but now it has a name.

US Military Bought Tool That Can See 93% Of Internet Traffic – Senator (RT)

Multiple branches of the US military have bought access to “petabytes” of American citizens’ private internet use data via a tool called Augury, giving them access to an almost omniscient set of data points, including an individual’s email communications, browsing history, and other behaviorally identifying information, all on demand and without a warrant, Senator Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) claimed in a letter to the Office of the Inspector General on Wednesday. The senator asked the OIG to investigate the Department of Homeland Security and the Justice Department’s purchase and use of any such records, citing a report his office received from a military whistleblower regarding the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) buying and using netflow data from data broker Team Cymru.

Netflow data includes proprietary information normally available only to internet service providers, and is likely being provided without the informed consent of those providers – let alone judicial authorization. Wyden’s own investigation of the whistleblower’s claim appeared to reveal that US Cyber Command, the Army, FBI, and Secret Service had also purchased the company’s data sets. An investigation by Motherboard found they paid a total of $3.5 million to use Team Cymru’s tool Augury, which allegedly can access 93% of internet traffic. It uses a technology called packet capture data (PCAP), which one cybersecurity technology professional referred to as “everything… there’s nothing else to capture except the smell of electricity.”

A spokesman from the Navy Office of Information told Motherboard that “The use of net flow data by NCIS does not require a warrant,” claiming the agency had not used netflow for criminal investigation purposes – only for “various counterintelligence purposes.”The other agencies which reportedly purchased Augury did not respond to the outlet’s request for comment. For their part, Team Cymru has insisted its tool “is not designed to target specific users or user activity. The platform specifically does not possess subscriber information necessary to tie records back to any users.” However, previous studies have shown that relatively few data points are needed in order to de-anonymize individuals in a database, meaning that even the “limited sampling of the available data” it allows may be enough to unmask an individual – and gain access to the totality of their online existence.

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“They engineered the 2014 coup in Kiev that ousted the elected president, Mr. Yanyukovich, to set up a giant grifting parlor and international money-laundromat.”

“Joe Biden’s” Last Stand (Kunstler)

Let us agree that the place called Ukraine was never any of America’s business. For centuries we ignored it, through all the colorful cavalry charges to-and-fro of Turks and Tatars, the reign of the dashing Zaporozhian Cossacks, the cruel abuses of Stalin, then Hitler, and the dull, gray Khrushchev-to-Yeltsin years. But then, having destroyed Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Somalia and sundry other places all on a great hegemonic lark, the professional warmongers of our land and their catamites in Washington made Ukraine their next special project. They engineered the 2014 coup in Kiev that ousted the elected president, Mr. Yanyukovich, to set up a giant grifting parlor and international money-laundromat. The other strategic aim was to prepare Ukraine for NATO membership, which would have made it, in effect, a forward missile base right up against Russia’s border. Because, well, Russia, Russia, Russia!

An early beneficiary of these arrangements, you might recall, was one Hunter Biden, the drug-addicted, sex-obsessed, no-account son of Barack Obama’s no-account vice-president then known simply as Joe Biden sans quote-marks — because in 2014, he was a closer approximation of a real person than is sadly now the case. In fact, he was known as “The Big Guy” among Hunter’s business coterie (though listed as “Pedo Peter” on Hunter’s speed-dial). After the 2014 coup, and for years beyond, Hunter pulled a steady revenue stream out of Ukraine’s Burisma Holdings, a natgas distributor (among other things), serving as a know-nothing, no-show board member. When this monkey business came to the attention of President Trump, and he made a telephone inquiry about it, he was instantly beset by swarms of DC swamp vermin hoisting writs of impeachment.

Fast forward through the past eight years and you have Kiev’s persecution of the Russian-speaking Donbas provinces, the constant shelling and harassment by Banderite Nazis. Between that and the ever more strident urgings for Ukraine to join NATO, President Putin of Russia, Russia, Russia apparently had enough. In February of this year, he started the Special Military Operation to put an end to these hostilities. By April, when whole battalions of Ukrainian Nazis had been exterminated, a call to peace talks was issued by Mr. Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister. This was shot-down without ceremony by “Joe Biden” (that is, by the junta behind him). The genius strategists in Foggy Bottom aimed to “weaken” Russia.

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Under the carpet.

Biden Family Worked to Sell American Gas to China (ET)

The Biden family was selling U.S natural gas to China long before Joe Biden became president, who was aware of how his son Hunter Biden was making the sale possible, according to Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), ranking member of the House Oversight Committee, citing documents and information provided by a whistleblower. Hunter Biden had a Chinese Communist Party member as his assistant while dealing with the Chinese side for the shipping of American natural gas to China in 2017, and the Biden family was promising business associates that they would reap rewards once Biden became president, said Comer in a letter to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen dated Sept. 20.

“The President has not only misled the American public about his past foreign business transactions, but he also failed to disclose that he played a critical role in arranging a business deal to sell American natural resources to the Chinese while planning to run for President,” Comer wrote. Joe Biden, Comer said, was a business partner in the arrangement and had office space to work on the deal, and a firm he managed received millions from his Chinese partners ahead of the anticipated venture. While part of what Comer stated had previously been reported in the news, the letter, citing whistleblower testimonies, as well as emails, a corporate PowerPoint presentation, screenshot of encrypted messages, and bank documents that committee Republicans obtained, provides a more complete picture suggesting Biden’s knowledge and involvement in the plan from at least 2017.

From 2017 to 2021, the Bidens promised business associates that Joe Biden would run for president in 2020 and those who worked with them from 2017 onward would “reap the rewards in a future Biden administration,” according to Comer’s recount of a whistleblower testimony to Oversight Committee Republicans. “As America now struggles in an energy crisis, it is critical to understand why the Biden family was selling American energy reserves to the Chinese, if that is affecting President Biden’s decision making today, and why President Biden has never disclosed his relationship with the Chinese to the American public,” Comer wrote to Yellen.

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History lesson.

Who Controls Those Who Control Us? (Ugo Bardi)

It never was a secret that Benito Mussolini started his political career as a shill for the British secret services. His task was pushing Italy to join the allies in World War One. Recent data show that, in 1917, he was still being paid by the British M15 to the tune of 100 pounds per week, a respectable sum at that time. We don’t know what role the British Services had in Italy in the events after the end of WW1, but it is likely that they continued to support Mussolini, directly or indirectly. The British wanted a stable Italy that they saw as a staunch ally and a barrier against the ambitions of rival powers in the Mediterranean sea. Italy had played that role from when it had been created as a unified state, in 1861, with the help and financing of the British.

Italy was friendly to Britain, yes, but not a disinterested friend. Italians wanted something in exchange for their friendship, and they had it in the form of coal. Italy had no significant coal reserves, it was fully dependent on imports. It was British coal that had created the Italian industrial economy, from the early 1800s onward. That created a relationship between the two countries that many defined as a true brotherhood (fratellanza). But things changed in 1913, when Britain went through its “peak coal.” Production stopped increasing and was disrupted by strikes and social unrest. Britain still had enough coal for its internal needs, but exports were affected. This was especially bad for Italy, which saw a precipitous drop in coal imports after the end of WWI. At that time, the change of mood toward the British in Italy was palpable.

D. H. Lawrence reports in his “Sea and Sardinia,” published in 1921, how insulting the “English” was a common subject of conversation among Italians. Now, put yourself in the shoes of someone who managed the British secret services in the early 1930s. It must have been clear to them that there was a problem with Italy. An enormous problem. Germany’s coal production was still increasing and Germany could easily supply 100% of Italy’s needs. Then, Italy and Germany were natural allies. Germany had no direct strategic interests in the Mediterranean sea, while Italy could use Germany’s support to become the leading Mediterranean power. By taking control of the Suez Canal, Italy could effectively kick Britain out of the Mediterranean: truly a disaster for the British Empire. (Italy actually tried to do exactly that in 1940).

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“To be unequivocally clear, this Court does not deny that at the time it was issued the vaccine mandate was appropriate and lawful..”

Judge Orders NYPD Union Members Fired Over Vax Mandate Reinstated (YP)

In a major victory for members of the NYPD’s largest police union, a judge ruled Friday cops who were fired for not getting vaccinated against the coronavirus have to be reinstated. In the stunning decision, Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Lyle Frank wrote that the city’s vaccine mandate on the Police Benevolent Association was invalid “to the extent it has been used to impose a new condition of employment” on the union. The mandate was also invalid because it issued enforcement beyond “monetary sanctions” prescribed in the law, Frank wrote — ordering that all PBA members put on leave or canned be reinstated.

It would be a “gross overstatement” of the city’s Department of Mental Health and Hygiene to say it could enforce the vaccine mandate through termination, unpaid leave or suspension, Frank said. “To be unequivocally clear, this Court does not deny that at the time it was issued the vaccine mandate was appropriate and lawful,” the ruling stated. But the city hadn’t “established a legal basis or lawful authority for the DOH to exclude employees from the workplace and impose any other adverse employment action as an appropriate enforcement mechanism of the vaccine mandate.”

Any new condition of employment would have to be included in a collective bargaining agreement between a labor union and the city, the judge wrote. Frank is the same judge who recently ruled to toss the city Department of Education’s budget. [..] The ruling is the second big blow against the Big Apple’s COVID-19 measures in a week, after a Manhattan judge ruled last week an NYPD cop who sued over the mandate couldn’t be fired for refusing to get jabbed. Brooklyn cop Alexander Deletto, 43, should be allowed to keep his job after the city offered no explanation why it rejected his request for a religious exemption.

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“..governments don’t ban products merely because they are not beneficial. Bans apply only to products that inflict harms. So the unstated reality is the benefit: harm ratio is no longer favorable.”

But that’s only in Denmark?!

The Vaccine Narrative Is as Leaky as the Vaccines (Thakur)

Let’s start with two simple questions. If regulators had the information available to them of the leakage between Covid-19 vaccine efficacy rates in controlled trials and their effectiveness in the real world, would they still grant emergency use authorization? Would their legal framework permit them to do so? Remember, all laws serve a dual purpose. On the one hand, they are permissive and enabling, granting powers to do certain things. On the other, they are limiting and restrictive, ring-fencing what may lawfully be done even by the state. Second, is Denmark being ruled by an anti-vaxxer government and health authority? From July 1 Denmark, which has an excellent health infrastructure including data collection, banned under-18s from being vaccinated and in mid-September the ban was extended to boosters for under-50s, other than in exceptional circumstances for immunocompromised and high-risk individuals in both cases.

The explanation offered by the health authorities is interesting both for what they said and what they did not say. They anticipate a rise in Covid-19 infections over autumn and winter and “aim to prevent serious illness, hospitalisation and death.” This risk applies to 50-year olds and above and not those younger. Because the vaccines are not meant to prevent infection, they will no longer be offered to the under-50s. However, governments don’t ban products merely because they are not beneficial. Bans apply only to products that inflict harms. So the unstated reality is the benefit: harm ratio is no longer favorable. The really interesting question therefore is: why don’t they say so? The empirical data from around the world demonstrates negligible to negative vaccine effectiveness for healthy under-50s and greater risk of serious adverse events. Denmark’s decision marks official if implicit acknowledgment that harms are greater than benefits.

The lockdowns across the Western world remain, to me, inexplicable and baffling. The abandonment of a century’s worth of cumulative scientific knowledge and global and national pandemic preparedness plans were based neither on new science nor emerging data. Rather, they were based firstly on apocalyptic modelling using flawed assumptions and secondly on dubious data from China whose authoritarian policies played to innate instincts in our own health bureaucrats and politicians, cheered on by the mainstream media. In a further nod to anti-scientific groupthink conformism, critical and contrarian voices within the health and political establishments were silenced and exorcised. Outside government, they were vilified and expelled from the public square in active collusion with the social media tech giants.

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    Joan Miro Montroig, la iglesia y el pueblo 1918   • 4 Ukrainian Regions Vote In Referendums On Joining Russia (ZH) • Historic Context Of The Refe
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle September 24 2022]

    #116713
    Germ
    Participant

    How this made it onto a NIH.GOV web site I’ll never know:

    “Millions have been deliberately killed and crippled, not only by this engineered virus, but by the vaccine itself and by the draconian measures used by these governments to “control the pandemic spread”. ”

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9062939/

    Worth a slow read
    . Incredible!

    #116714
    Afewknowthetruth
    Participant

    I suspect the African children in the swampy mines are actually looking for cobalt ore, rather than lithium carbonate, which is found extensively in Chile.

    Can’t improve on Kunstler’s description of the criminal gang known as the Biden family. Knew Joe Biden was a criminal psychopath when I read about his involvement in the Wako massacre.

    The contempt displayed for Faucci in the video matches my contempt for the psychotic sociopaths that constitute the NZ government, along with the governments of UK, Oz, Canada and the US.

    Putin and his allies have a plan to sort it all for us and bring these maniacs to their knees. The question is, how much more damage can they orchestrate before they fall? Rather a lot, I suspect.

    Can’t wait for the treason trials to commence, along with the genocide trials and child abuse trials.

    #116715
    Veracious Poet
    Participant

    #116716
    anticlimactic
    Participant

    Macron is a major reason for Russia’s incursion into Ukraine by not pushing the Minsk Agreement to establish autonomous regions in the Donbas.

    He and Merkel are the key architects of the current conflict, along with the Ukraine government.

    NO ONE ELSE.

    #116717
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Markets: 10 year breaks out solidly over 3%. USDX breaks upward as the Pound goes 1:1 with the dollar, an all-time low since 1980. …Which was not a great time. It was gruesome.

    “I have no rational explanation.” – Macron

    Breathtaking. And breathtaking hubris. If I were Russia I would refuse to turn them on for two additional years just for saying such things. But I’m not Russia, and we’ll all have a lot of problems shortly.

    “when Putin “decided to launch his war on 21 February, I think he made the first mistake, a huge one.”

    Would you like to explain this? Seems very do-able to me. Russia hasn’t a scratch, the losses are about the level of one town in 12 time zones.

    I don’t understand the popularity of Peterson, who is as dreadful a thinker as other Professors. Maybe as an anomaly as the only person in all Canadian education willing to stand up for his personal truth? Go Canada! Freedom of thought, open discussion and debate! Let the best man win. He opines as an outsider, and draws pretty obvious opinions. That’s not a bad thing. It’s what we all do, yet he’s the only one with balls enough to do it. I’m happy he’s out there, but I don’t feel more informed listening to him.

    “It never was a secret that Benito Mussolini started his political career as a shill for the British secret services.”

    Remember my theory WWII was all staged, Hitler promoted, armed, all to attack Russia and support MacKinder? Here you go.

    Any new condition of employment would have to be included in a collective bargaining agreement”

    So you only have rights if you’re in a Union? That’s the rule of men, of power, not of human rights granted by your creator. And how about that “Speedy Trial”. Amirite? Just go unemployed for two years, pay a couple million in legal fees, and you too, can have human rights! Which they’ll change the minute you win and make you do it again.

    I forget which civil rights violation – there are so many you could fill an encyclopedia with the last 5 years – but I was like great, you won! Yeah, and now I need a $5M civil rights lawsuit for each and every person involved. If the punishment does not overwhelmingly cost more than the crime, you get more crime.

    I should have added, yes, I’m sure some people leave Russia for the war. Question is, how many? 2,000? 250,000? Since everything said by the West for the last 22 years has been a lie, I don’t think to make too much of it unless we can measure.

    Say the entire planet Earth were hollow and full of oil.”

    This is a truly excellent thought experiment. Remember the idea of “A stadium has one drop of water doubling per minute, when do the people drown?” Well, at a doubling, ONE minute before the end. It looks like nothing even three seconds before the end. Same with an oily earth exponentially, or a lot longer if it’s linearly. So yes, that’s a bad idea. Asimov had a story where humanity very efficiently transformed the entire materium of earth into writhing humanity, spinning in space. Even “Foundation” had a hollowed out planet with thousands of levels filled with life. I would avoid this, and it will be avoided.

    However, the volume of planet earth cannot be consumed in 330 years. Because we just DID do that experiment since 1880, and we haven’t scratched the surface yet. Not only do we have a generation of oil*, but there are no nation-sized craters or land sublimation in the slightest. In fact, none of the earth is missing. Up on the Space Station, I still see the whole thing. I guess I could redo the math, but doesn’t seem worth the effort. The principle is still sound, even if it took 2,000 years. Seventh generation decisions and all that.

    *Despite two wars and unprecedented waste.

    But we should probably do something about that, while we still have some hundred-odd years and a lot of options. We won’t. It will just unfold on its own the way it always does.

    AFKTT Denies and ignores everything I and other posters say. Then goes on like nothing was said. We ask direct, specific questions. No engagement, no reply. Then goes on to straw man how nobody’s listening. Why? Then straw mans arguments not only what no CO2 deniers say – suggesting he’s never read them — but makes up arguments that posters right on this board, that he’s talking to every day, have said. And Why?

    Okay, until we all go mad from repetition: 100% CO2 absorbs heat. 0% does not. What is the relevant threshold level? When does it matter? The past was astonishingly cold while CO2 was high. Why? Commentor describes the entire greenhouse principle as being discredited, as with glass. Is it? The past has been both wildly hotter and wildly colder with similar CO2 levels. Why? High CO2 levels were concurrent with excellent flora and fauna, and a boom in biodiversity. Is this bad? Models put in 300 active variables. Why is CO2 the only relevant one? If it is, why do they bother with the other 299? It makes computering expensive.

    “we know exactly why they do it. Because to accept the facts would require them to accept responsibility” and re-think what experts – who are wrong in every field, almost every time – once told them way back when. And therefore to respond to curious people who have legitimate questions.

    I can’t say either argument is definitively falsified because that wouldn’t be science. But without discussion of common, obvious questions you most definitely have no converts. And no discussion makes people doubt science in general and good faith in particular. Science claims there can be no discussion: ergo, it is not Science. It’s “Do what I say, I’m the Mommy.” A two year old knows that. Feynman and Sagan are happy to answer all questions and respond to all theories. That’s what made them scientists.

    I just like discussing and ideas so when people present them, but assiduously refuse to discuss them, it stands out like a burning sun. Questions and ideas enliven me I can bring up the same thing every day and never get tired. Clearly. I rather fear I will have to ask again, so I’ll paste the question list on speed dial.

    What does it do to bring it up and respond again? It sets ground rules that have science and courtesy in them. It means that writing is communicating, as we are not calling out like crows but listening and exchanging back and forth. Even if no personal action comes from it, both the process and the odds of being useful are improved. Am I supposed to let science be insulted every day until popular faith in it collapses? It’s like letting an identity thief move in next door, pretend to be the neighbor, and saying nothing. It appears on this subject, in this space, Science was kidnapped and held for ransom and nobody’s looking. The kidnapper’s representative shows up saying “I am the Science.” Should we let them?

    That’s not a rhetorical question as “Science” is just and abstraction I can’t actually find and rescue. So maybe? So for me, no listening, no discussion = no Science. That’s what I see, so I give a hard time about it.

    #116718
    anticlimactic
    Participant

    @GERM

    “How this made it onto a NIH.GOV web site I’ll never know:”

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9062939/

    Thanks for the reference – the best summary of the vaccine I have read. I have copied and saved the text because you never know how long it will be online!

    #116719
    Armenio Pereira
    Participant

    Bread (some and vanishing) & circuses (aplenty): one has to keep the populace distracted while the real difficulties discreetly settle in.

    The main difficulty we face (innate, thus hard to notice, and when noticed, close to impossible to implement): to take one good look at oneself; to look inward and clean one’s own mess before trying to clean up the world.

    #116720
    Armenio Pereira
    Participant

    Who Controls Those Who Control Us?

    Easy-peasy: The Everlasting Dissatisfaction (for the believers in the Sacred) or utter randomness (for everyone else.)

    None of these answers is reassuring; regardless,the first one is more aesthetically appealing, IMHO.

    #116721
    The Markster
    Participant

    Thanks to Germ for the excellent article link. Will definitely be using that one in the “rep” letter on tap for this afternoon.

    Afewknowthetruth: I could not agree more, great comment.
    I pray every day these psychos don’t get us all killed before thermodynamics, financial chaos and/or Ma’am Gaia get a chance to shut down the US war machine.

    Peace! Love!

    #116722

    Anticlimactic … Macron and Merkel … NO ONE ELSE ?

    You’re not serious right? Remember the cookie ( F the EU ! ) monster Nuland and her US neocon cabal?

    That whole coup was orchestrated by the sycophant vassals then ?

    Hmmmm, count me dubious.

    #116724
    oxymoron
    Participant

    Regarding Dr D’s thoughts on idea presentation minus discussion etc.. I believe some of us identify with our ideas more tightly than others – they clothe us, seperate us off and define us – even though we may change them (ideas) – WE own them. Reluctance to have ideas changed or challenged externally (if there really IS such a thing – found no evidence yet) is in essence an authority issue. I, do not want YOU, authoring ME.
    It is a kind of fear or arrested development which I at times find myself suffering from.

    But I will say with the climate issue – I seem to remember some years ago challenging Dr D on his firmish stance of carbons’ small relevance in the affairs of men. I would not say he convinced me but he did introduce doubt – a great gift and I thank him. I have always considered carbon to be a possible modern Christian guilt. The fallen Son of God now back turned on religion and nowhere to put his sense of wrongness over a feeling of floating aloneness tied as he is to his perception of the body as the self – cut off and seemingly isolated.

    Then along comes a doomed earth, reflecting our certain demise and Carbon the black sin.

    I think the carbon craze has HEAPS of legs in it.
    HEAPS and HEAPS. people just gotta put that redemptive feeling somewhere now we have lost our religious rituals.
    Driving too far – told a lie at work. Fucking another dude’s husband – plane trip return to Majorca. Red meat twice this week – ooohhh naughty, but it’s okay my confession was paid for with social debit carbon credits so I’m all good.

    Time to close the eyes and grow quiet while I have the urge.

    Peace out my homies

    #116725
    zerosum
    Participant

    Executive Summary

    Everyone knows/are aware of the facts.
    Who Controls Those Who Control Us?

    ———

    Referendums on joining the Russian Federation

    • 4 Ukrainian Regions Vote In Referendums On Joining Russia (ZH)
    • Historic Context Of The Referenda In Ukraine (MoA)

    LIES

    Sham, Fake, “the farce”, not democratic, not free, not ‘popular referendums’, separatist leaders, Russian military control, 20% of Ukraine’s territory, whole swathes of Ukraine into Russia, illegal, a “propaganda show”, occupied territories, not a free vote, grotesque theater,

    Facts

    According to international figures, some 14,000 people had died in total among both sides of fighting in what was essentially a localized civil war since even before the current conflict, since 2014. The Ukrainian government has all along initiated polices in attempts to stamp out Russian language and culture.
    But officials from the two breakaway republics in the Donbas in particular have pointed to years of shelling and atrocities conducted by Ukraine’s military and nationalist militias such as Azov battalion.

    The Ukrainian regime has resorted to pure terrorism to prevent the votes from happening: “Ukrainian partisans, sometimes working with special operations forces, have blown up warehouses holding ballots and buildings where Russian proxy officials preparing for the vote held meetings. Ukrainian officials have acknowledged that they are engaged in a campaign to assassinate key Russian administration officials; more than a dozen have been blown up, shot and poisoned, according to Ukrainian and Russian officials.” Such behavior by the Zelenski regime against its still Ukrainian compatriots will only encourage the people in the four oblast to vote for an alignment with Russia. The propaganda in the ‘west’ will declare that the vote is irregular and that the results, likely to be pro-Russian, will be fake.

    The southeastern parts of today’s Ukraine have for centuries been part of the central Russian empire. They were only attached to the Soviet Republic of Ukraine under Lenin’s rule in 1922 and, in the case of Crimea, in 1954 under Nikita Khrushchev who himself had grown up in the Donbas region. A likely high turnout and majority vote for membership in the Russian Federation will only correct the historic misalignment created by those illogical transfers.

    Moscow will support the referendums
    The hostilities followed decades of Russian complaints over NATO expansion in Europe, which the US and its allies pushed forward with in spite of their promises to not do so, made to the last leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev.

    Intervention in domestic politics by EU, NATO, UN, and the US
    • Reaping the Whirlwind (Scott Ritter)

    All Ukrainian forces that are on the territory of the regions to be incorporated into Russia will be viewed as occupiers; and Ukrainian shelling of this territory will be treated as an attack on Russia, triggering a Russian response.
    Respects the reality, and the legitimacy, of the Russian incorporation of the Donbass and southern Ukrainian territories.

    “Wouldn’t consent to anything that is contrary to our national interests.”

    “They engineered the 2014 coup in Kiev that ousted the elected president, Mr. Yanyukovich, to set up a giant grifting parlor and international money-laundromat.”

    • “Joe Biden’s” Last Stand (Kunstler)
    Let us agree that the place called Ukraine was never any of America’s business.

    ———-
    We are being led by the 3 monkeys
    • I Know What I’d Do In Putin’s Shoes – Jordan Peterson (RT)

    Ukraine and its Western backers could “win” against Russia as “naïve.” “I just don’t understand that. What do you mean we are going to win? What are we going to win exactly?” Jordan Peterson demanded.

    The unintended consequences of the West’s conflict with Russia are a far more imminent and real threat to humans, he pointed out, as “the World Bank already estimated that we’ve put 350 million people into what they call ‘food insecurity’.” “But the planet has too many people on it anyway, so, you know… It’s just poor people,” he added.
    Peterson is a Canadian psychology professor who rose to international prominence over his commentaries on various contemporary issues. His YouTube channel has over 5.5 million subscribers
    ———-

    #116726
    zerosum
    Participant

    Covid – Executive Summary
    In a further nod to anti-scientific groupthink conformism, critical and contrarian voices within the health and political establishments were silenced and exorcised. Outside government, they were vilified and expelled from the public square in active collusion with the social media tech giants and main stream media.

    #116727
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    @ArmenioPereira Opined that, “None of these answers is reassuring; regardless, the first one is more aesthetically appealing, IMHO.”

    And trends less painful in the long run.

    #116728
    zerosum
    Participant

    Thanks to Germ
    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9062939/
    COVID UPDATE: What is the truth?
    Russell L. Blaylock

    The COVID-19 pandemic is one of the most manipulated infectious disease events in history, characterized by official lies in an unending stream lead by government bureaucracies, medical associations, medical boards, the media, and international agencies.[3,6,57] We have witnessed a long list of unprecedented intrusions into medical practice, including attacks on medical experts, destruction of medical careers among doctors refusing to participate in killing their patients and a massive regimentation of health care, led by non-qualified individuals with enormous wealth, power and influence.
    Go read the rest of the article ….

    #116729
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    All the land currently controlled by Russian ally troops (and a good deal more real soon now) are de facto Russia now. The vote, the Western wailing in the press, world opinion, my opinion, your opinion . . . . . none of those things makes one scintilla of difference because the fact is that they are Russia now, and that’s that.

    In a year or two no one outside of the region will care enough about what existed before that fact became a fact to even bother thinking about it, because it’s just another fact and they will have newer, bigger ad more important fish to fry.

    It’s Russia now. Just like it has been for a thousand years or so. Time to move on to today and tomorrow’s business.

    #116730
    Alexander Carpenter
    Participant

    When your premises are wrong, you will ask the wrong questions, get the wrong answers, reach the wrong conclusions, and believe in them (especially if your premises are belief-based), driving just about every cognitive bias there is. Belief is the sanity-killer.

    “It is useless to reason a man out of something he has not been reasoned into.”
    Jonathan Swift

    Here’s another little tidbit for your delectation (and projections):

    https://www.dropbox.com/s/gzvqplscd3b9857/Hard-Won%20Wisdoms.docx?dl=0

    #116731
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    EU Prez Ursula von der Leyen’s unveiled threat against Italy’s election of self-determined nationalist government is actually quite a bit bigger deal than is being acknowledged.

    It’s pretty much a stake the heart for the vampiric New World Order. Italy is a big country and a big economy (with a warmer winter climate !!) and it just told it’s unelected “Prussian Imperial Junker Gang Boss” von der Leyen to either piss up a rope or go fuck herself, her choice.

    And it’s playing out across the headlines of mainstream media, right out in full public view. Oh, my!

    In other words, just as much of the illusory “Ukraine” is now Russia, Europe is now just the gaggle of poor little nations once again, and is simply NOT a powerful European “union” in any way but lip service.

    V

    #116732
    Alexander Carpenter
    Participant

    As an exercise in pattern-recognition, note the consistent stylistic differences between the standard narrative (SN) propaganda spiel and the more truth-seeking commentators, regardless of actual content. Here’s a (bakers) dozen (originally) right off the top of my head:

    SN: Abruptly and simultaneously uses the identical phrases and syntax uniformly across all media and channels — the buzzword (or phrase) du jour, which entirely and forever disappears when some new obsessive panic-du-jour focus leaps out from behind the curtain (unless it’s part of a dunning persuasional looping, as in *).

    SN: Unstated presumptions saturate and mire most potential realism in the presentation and render it essentially incoherent (if not downright stupid). Is there no cause-and-effect in the story? Are the events that are described (or judged) actually difficult-to-comprehend emergences or are they willful manipulations with no regard for some elusive “truth”? Any genuine “expert” is very cautious about what he “knows” (as opposed to intuits), while the SN is full of shallow and vapid certainty and unstated assumptions.

    SN: There are also stated presumptions. “Premise-mongering” — never failing to pronounce its “official” judgement whenever it pretends to address or even mention a legitimately complex and controversial subject (that is often entirely unresolvable with any simple script) — and never presenting evidence for its judgements:
    “…false claims of election-fraud…”
    “…unprovoked invasion of Ukraine…”
    “…fake science of climate-denial…”
    “…safe and effective COVID vaccines…
    “…unfounded Russian bio-warfare pandemic claims…”
    “…sham referenda in the Ukraine…”

    SN: Tends to be very vague and non-specific, while better-informed folks tend to start with examining the credibility of known “facts,” and build outward into a matrix of causalities and feedbacks, with specific uncertainties explicitly identified. The SN starts with a fog of generalizations and stays there. Everything else is “misinformation,” “disinformation,” “violent extremism,” …, or even simply “lies.”

    *SN: Usually loops through and refers to other tropes and reportings in its recent disseminations (e.g., Bucha II). Its content is inbred, and rigidly exclusive of inconvenient “facts” not consonant with its tropes, memes, and overall advocacy — to the point of outright censorship, often devious and backhanded. From being “unpersoned,” “demonetized,” fired for not getting “vaxxed” (or just talking about it),” to SADS, myocarditis, SWATing, being “disappeared,” to outright assassination.

    SN: Doubt is vanishingly rare: all its pronouncements and implications are presented as inevitable truths, without equivocations and nuances (not to mention uncertainty or ambiguity).

    SN: There is no past to be found in the SN; there is no history, neither recent nor long ago — and certainly no nuanced multi-level matrices of process about fundamental human nature at play.

    SN: There are only good guys and bad guys. Occasionally some interviewee or guest speaker will utter some equivocation or mention an ambiguity, but the shills ignore it and revert to their leading questioning, homing back onto their agenda.

    SN: Stories are simple, short, and shallow, and their threats are happening right now (more of that “no past” thing).

    SN: Relies on a few “experts” and “authorities,” and seems to expect (inherently assuming) that the masses will uncritically accept as gospel all that they say, and obey all their dictates. No “second opinions,” except for pretend superficial differences between puppets and shills).
    “Democrat versus Republican” within the Uniparty

    SN: Exaggerating and emphasizing arbitrary and minor (even trivial) differences between factions (or “blocs,” or cartels,” or TBTF front-banks, or …) that are entirely aligned on major policy choices and actions behind the scenes (and never mentioned).

    SN: Disclaimers distinguishing opinion from evidenced facts are vanishingly rare. Factual specificity is almost always absent.

    SN: Is quick to tell us their agenda-driven inventions about what significant world figures are themselves thinking and want to accomplish, and even how they will go about manifesting it. That helps to concentrate focus on a few “bad guys” and turns responsibility into blame. Elected leaders become evil dictators compulsively exercising their neuroses or dancing on their puppet-masters’ strings — but that never happens with the “good guys.”

    SN: Is very diligent at charging its designated demons with its own personnel’s malign (but secretive) motivations and behaviors. By their projections you will know who they really are. They diligently obfuscate who they actually represent behind their slick facade.

    SN: Blind to the offenses of its “good guys” while persecuting its “bad guys” for the identical (but with other names) practices and behaviors.

    In other words, this is not an adult conversation. It is indoctrination full of abstractions and absolutes. It is belief-and-narrative-entrainment into a fortress/prison of identity-myth. It is “cognitive warfare.” It is social engineering. It functions to emotionally and cognitively exhaust its audience, and inculcate disempowered fecklessness, and passive despair. The result is malignant insouciance in the masses, who are “led” by sociopaths working for the engineers.

    Completely ignoring the substance and evidence of other narratives, the SN is, in effect, “gaslighting” us all (including themselves, so there’s positive feedback for individual and collective insanity). And their ad hominem “conspiracy theorist” rhetoric has become an ironic joke as so many such theories are confirmed through sanity and by evidence. So have the “wokish” manipulations (ESG, identity-politics, gender posturings, …).

    If you can question it, it’s science; if you can’t question it, it’s propaganda.

    #116733
    boscohorowitz
    Participant

    “The Big Guy” among Hunter’s business coterie (though listed as “Pedo Peter” on Hunter’s speed-dial”

    No, you’re wrong:

    Hunter Biden’s ‘Pedo Peter’ Contact Alias Is Natalie Biden’s, Daughter of Late Brother Beau

    #116734
    willem
    Participant

    @boscohorowitz: Yesterday you wrote: “A crisis is a relative thing. Weather that 600 years ago would impact a global population of “only 500-600 million, maybe a few hundred at most, like the infamous Little Ice Age, would now impact a global pop of 8 billion, 16 times as many people.It only takes a decade of really wicked weather to crumble a global food/essentials economy like ours…”

    I think part (most?) of the disruption from such stuff is not that we have 16 times as many people. It is the fragility of our current “finely tuned” production and distribution systems. In general, the more a system is tuned to be efficient, the less robust it is.

    #116735
    boscohorowitz
    Participant

    THe existence of the anti-vaks article on a gubmint site tells me that the rank and file members of the NIH/CDC are beginning to do their job, something they’re legally protected.required to do. We may see a whole bunch more of such revelations from unimpeachable sources. ONce a few heads turn, most heads turn.

    #116736
    boscohorowitz
    Participant

    Political Science in a nutshell, repeated from today’s main queue:

    Everybody, Somebody, Anybody, and Nobody

    #116737
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    @AlexanderCarpenter

    That’s an impressive and useful bullet list. Thank you for doing all that direct observational research and taking the time & effort to write it all down. You’re obviously not scared of a little hard work. I will be investing quite a bit of time now, studyin’ on it.

    #116738
    boscohorowitz
    Participant

    “I think part (most?) of the disruption from such stuff is not that we have 16 times as many people. It is the fragility of our current “finely tuned” production and distribution systems. In general, the more a system is tuned to be efficient, the less robust it is.”

    No, you’re not wrong, but only half-right.

    A population bloom of 1.5 billion to 8 billion in 100 years inevitably of itself creates structures too fragile to withstand things like bad weather streaks. Post-modern civilization is (metaphorically speaking) 10% solid ground and structures, and 90% pontoon bridges connecting jerry-rigged inflated floating islands in a global polder dependent on a vast array of financial levees and consumer-driven pumps ultimately dependent on fossil fuels of which we no longer have sufficient supply to meet demand.

    It’s an axiomatic tautology: the means to balloon homo sap population so much so fast is itself the reason for so much systemic fragility, both fundamentally (fossil fuel dependence) and circumstantially (a decade or three of chronically bad weather can compound devastational energy until you have more people starving than fed.

    Some wise guy wrote this a fewnmonths ago:

    “The fascist’s socialist economy is slowing because an increasing amount of people no longer have the will to live a natural life. Insulin bloated blobs of entertainment seeking sugar for brains. If the cure doesn’t kill them all off, a virus certainly will. Not sure what will happen to the economy if the sugar blobs aren’t around to circulate entertainment money. But when the sugar blob’s resource draw disappears, for people who make it through the coming bottleneck there will be a lot of resources made available, at least for those of us with something to defend.”

    #116739
    zerosum
    Participant

    Our social/economic systems
    New work ethics.
    No need to work hard. Assign the work to others. Work smart
    Avoid being liable, only do what is your described responsibility, quiet quitting
    https://theautomaticearth.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/NotMyJob.jpg

    #116740

    Michael Reid- I recognize you posted Blaylock’s paper yesterday, but it was germ who posted it may 30th this year. (post #108736)

    #116741
    zerosum
    Participant

    https://www.rt.com/russia/563462-foreign-fighters-ukraine-killed/
    24 Sep, 2022 14:20

    Strike kills hundreds of foreign fighters in Ukraine – Russian Defense Ministry
    “Up to 300 militants were eliminated by a missile attack on the point of temporary deployment of foreign mercenaries in the area of the village of Kalinovka, Nikolayev Region,” the ministry’s spokesman, Lieutenant General Igor Konashenkov, announced during his daily briefing.

    This adds to a growing list of foreign combatants who have lost their lives fighting for Ukraine. Earlier this week, Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu revealed that Russian forces and the militias of the Donbass republics had eliminated more than 2,000 foreign mercenaries. As of September 21, 1,000 foreigners remained in the ranks of the Ukrainian military, according to the minister, whereas in April the number was estimated at 3,000.

    #116742
    zerosum
    Participant

    There is no need to search the world for wan-to-be-rulers/nazis. Ukraine is gathering them in training/elimination/death – camps.

    #116743
    willem
    Participant

    @Dr. D: Models put in 300 active variables. Why is CO2 the only relevant one? If it is, why do they bother with the other 299? It makes computering expensive. System dynamics is intended to deal with complex systems containing multiple feedback mechanisms. The problem is that the human mind does not do well with lots of variables, and tends to focus on just a few when it starts getting overwhelmed. The CO2 variable gives the public “one evil thing” to focus on, and happens to work well with the Climate Change narrative they are trying to perpetuate. The intention is also to establish it as a convenient metric for measuring (and eventually metering) overall personal resource consumption.


    @boscohorowitz
    : I agree with your response, which is detail I did not include in my own. We are talking about a multi-variable system that is not only growing increasingly complex, but is a system in which one of the main variables is population size.

    #116744

    Anyone read anything about Fuellmilch? I see a Dutch entry that claims he took $700,000 (50%) from a class action fund he started, but that’s all i see.

    #116745
    Mr. House
    Participant

    If anyone here is still able to post at NC they should post that article Germ shared.

    #116746
    Mr. House
    Participant

    Ask Lambert and YVES if it should be censored, because they’ve censored anyone who’s been saying that for the past two years.

    #116747
    Veracious Poet
    Participant

    I believe some of us identify with our ideas more tightly than others – they clothe us, separate us off and define us – even though we may change them (ideas) – WE own them.

    #116748
    Afewknowthetruth
    Participant

    Dr D

    Just why is it that you persist with this kind of bullshit and blatant lying?

    Juts what kind of kick do you get out of denying irrefutable evidence and pretending it has not been presented?

    Just what deep psychosis are you trying to conceal, or bluster you way through, by this kind of garbage:

    ‘AFKTT Denies and ignores everything I and other posters say. Then goes on like nothing was said. We ask direct, specific questions. No engagement, no reply. Then goes on to straw man how nobody’s listening. Why? Then straw mans arguments not only what no CO2 deniers say – suggesting he’s never read them — but makes up arguments that posters right on this board, that he’s talking to every day, have said. And Why?

    Okay, until we all go mad from repetition: 100% CO2 absorbs heat. 0% does not. The past was astonishingly cold while CO2 was high. Why? Commentor describes the entire greenhouse principle as being discredited, as with glass. Is it? The past has been both wildly hotter and wildly colder with similar CO2 levels. Why? High CO2 levels were concurrent with excellent flora and fauna, and a boom in biodiversity. Is this bad? Models put in 300 active variables. Why is CO2 the only relevant one? If it is, why do they bother with the other 299? It makes computering expensive.’

    For completeness, I’ll answer your silly points, knowing that you will ignore the answers (as you have ignored the answer to previous questions)!!!!

    1. You will find that the long-history graph that you posted a couple of weeks ago as ‘proof’ that high atmospheric CO2 was just fine actually demonstrated that a huge amount of sequestration of CO2 had taken place -particularly during the Carboniferous- taking the CO2 level down from low thousands and into the hundreds, and that normal conditions for life-as-we-know-it include a quite low atmospheric CO2 concentration in the range 180 ppm to 260 ppm.

    There’s a simple fact you can ignore.

    By the commencement of industrialism in the 1700s, humans had already caused atmospheric CO2 to commence its deadly climb through deforestation and early industrial activity -refining of ores and production of concrete. But that was only around 20 ppm over 10,000 years -as previously explained!

    It was the mass-scale ‘experiment’ of seeing what would happen if we took the level from 280 ppm to 420 ppm that we are now witnessing the consequences of.

    Okay, I’m being a bit tongue in cheek there because there was no intentional experiment until after the alarm was raised by people like Dr James Hansen, Head of The Goddard Institute.

    From 1988 on, after Hansen’s evidence to Congress was ignored, pouring ever-greater quantities of CO2 into the atmosphere and oceans it did become a malicious attack on the future by our fake so-called leaders -who, as we all here know, are just agents of global banks and corporations.

    2 . ‘100% CO2 absorbs heat. 0% does not.’

    Just what is that nonsense supposed to mean?

    Very recently on this forum I repeated for the umpteenth time that CO2 (because of its molecular structure) absorbs energy in the IR and releases that energy (almost instantaneously) in all directions.

    So there is the mechanism for the profound overheating we are witnessing. Heat that would otherwise [in the absence of atmospheric CO2 and other greenhouse gases] leave the Earth’s surface is redirected back downwards!

    I am sure I pointed out a while ago that the mathematician Fourier worked out that in the absence of some factor he had not identified at the time (around 1830) that the Earth would be substantially colder that it was observed to be, i.e. about 14oC on average instead of around minus 20oC without the atmospheric CO2.

    It was the physicist Tyndall who identified the ‘mystery’ substance that was keeping the Earth warm when he carried out his famous tube experiments: carbon dioxide. And that was in 1859.

    It was obvious to the Swedish chemist Arrhenius that there would be substantial overheating if society continued to burn coal. He wrote about it in 1896. And was ignored, of course.

    I’m sure you assiduously ignored all the relevant and inconvenient facts at the time I previously presented them, and will ignore the facts this time. After all, that is that what you do, isn’t it? Ignore the facts, despite Aldous Huxley’s wise words. “Take note of that which cannot lie: the facts.”

    And so, you keep repeating the bullshit. Not only that, you join the chorus of those who make ad hominem attacks because they have no evidence for their bizarre beliefs which run counter to well-established science. Good luck with that strategy.

    3. ‘Why is CO2 the only relevant one? If it is, why do they bother with the other 299?’

    I don’t know why you churn out this garbage, especially after I have already pointed out that Milankovitch Cycles and volcanic activity were prime drivers of long-term climate until excess atmospheric CO2 and excess atmospheric methane (both a consequence of human activity) began to overwhelm other contributors to climate stability.

    For completeness, let me point out that there are numerous other gases that contribute to the overheating we are now experiencing, including NO, O3 in the lower atmosphere, various chloro-fluorocarbons, and water vaour.

    As explained yesterday. water vapour can never be a prime driver of overheating because water changes phase in the temperature ranges experienced on Earth. But water vapour will be a devastating secondary warming agent, since CO2-induced and CH4-induced overheating raise the average temperature and cause more water vapour to be present in the atmosphere.

    As explained yesterday, that is a positive feedback.

    If you have any other questions relating to our collective predicament and the utterly dire predicamnet of our progeny , feel free to ask them.

    I would appreciate if you ask your questions pleasant manner rather than via an ad hominem attack.

    #116749
    Dimitri
    Participant

    “ I don’t understand the popularity of Peterson, who is as dreadful a thinker as other Professors.”

    Thank you Dr D

    #116750
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    2023-2024 Will Be The ‘Last Hurrah’ For Assets Before Deflationary Winter | Simon Hunt

    #116751
    Afewknowthetruth
    Participant

    I spent a lot of time studying the IPCC modeling.

    It became abundantly clear to me about 15 years that the IPCC was a just another component of the fraud system that western governments use to ensure that none of the fundamental factors that determine the future are discussed.

    The fake western governments that we endure -manipulated on a continuous basis by banksters and corporations (and a few opportunists) could in no way allow their bullshit narratives to be disturbed by actual, genuine scientific data or real scientific arguments.

    I was quite hopeful when the Kyoto Protocol was announced in 1997, though even then I could see the fundamental flaw in a strategy of a slow reduction in CO2 emissions down to 1991 levels.

    By 2012 the Kyoto Protocol as dead in the water and emissions had increased by around 30%

    In 2007, The NZ government put in a ‘road show’ to persuade people living in NZ to go along with the fake ‘carbon trading’ system being established at the time. The fake narrative being presented was that ‘carbon trading’ would help mitigate overheating due to CO2 emissions.

    I saw straight through the government lies. I asked the head of the delegation of liars what the CO2 content of the atmosphere was, and how much it was rising: being a top dog in the NZ Ministry of the Environment on a mission to discuss CO2 mitigation, he had no idea, of course.

    Shortly after that, another, somewhat more junior, official blurted out an inconvenient truth: “We have already got the British investors lined up.”

    The whole ‘roadshow’ was run by the Ministry of Economic Development and had nothing whatsoever to do with ‘saving the environment’ or anything else environment, and was just another [completely phony] scam to facilitate the looting and polluting of the environment.

    I had extensive discussion with Paul Beckwith, climate researcher specialising in atmospheric gas chemistry at the University of Ontario. Unfortunately, he knew less than I did. But did give me a kind of answer to the crucial question of the times that I had been researching fir years: “What is the instantaneous multiplier for methane compared to carbon dioxide [global warming potential, as it was then called]. His answer was “around 250”, which matched my estimate of 300.

    Why is that important? Because the effect of methane erupting from permafrost and methane clathrates on the sea floor of the Arctic region could well be devastating. Like just as devastating as ‘limited’ nuclear war.

    At approximately 2 ppm atmospheric concentration, and with a 20-year multiplier of 86, the methane already in the atmosphere contributes an additional COe of 172.

    “But wait, there’s more if you phone in the next five minutes!”

    Atmospheric methane measurements in the of the order of 3,000 ppb or 3 ppm have been recorded in some regions of the Arctic. 3 times 86 = 258 if you use the 20-year multiplier. Or 3 times 300 = 900 if you use the instantaneous multiplier.

    “Not only that but we’ll give you, absolutely free, not one but two free gifts of you order now.”

    The conversion of CH4 to CO2 is largely dependent on the presence of OH radicals in the atmosphere, which are generated by the action of high-energy UV on water molecules high in the atmosphere.

    All it will take is for the OH radical mechanism to be overwhelmed by CH4 release, and then CH4 will reside in the atmosphere a lot longer than any phony IPCC delegate wants to even think about.

    So, that is why it is absolutely crucial to survival of life-as-we-know-it that CO2 emissions are seriously curtailed, starting about 50 years ago.

    Whoops!

    “It’s the economy, stupid!”

    No. Not really. It’s not ‘the economy’: it’s the greed and stupidity of operating a financial system based on Fractional Reserve Banking and the charging of interest on money created out of thin air.

    “But wait, there’s more! If you phone right this instant and order two of our stylishly designed pieces of crap that won’t improve your life at all, we’ll give five free gifts, including our once-only gift of an uninhabitable planet.”

    #116752
    Michael Reid
    Participant


    Susan Standfield: The Health Emergency Was Organized Large-Scale Financial Fraud
    Canadian activist Susan Standfield discusses the “pandemic” racket and how the so-called health emergency was highly organized and large-scale financial fraud. The English-speaking Western countries are the hardest hit by the looming financial collapse as the new and alternative financial system is being built in the East. She discusses the cashless society and believes Brexit may have triggered the pandemic. She is trying to raise millions in capital in order to assist the freedom community. She sees a return to manufacturing, populism, farming, and people rediscovering their nationhood.

    Susan Standfield: The Health Emergency Was Organized Large-Scale Financial Fraud

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