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Salvador Dali Self-portrait in the studio 1919

 

People Who Resisted Covid Jabs Are ‘Superheroes’ (Blanchon)
Russian General In Charge Of Ukraine Operation Speaks Out
US Should Not Listen To Kiev, Former Ambassador To Moscow Says (RT)
Erdogan Still Wants To Bring Putin And Zelenskyy Together (RT)
The End Game (Batiushka)
Russia Destroys Power And Water Infrastructure Across Ukraine (RT)
Cui Bono? The Big Picture (Blair)
EU Won’t Introduce Gas Price Cap For Now As Countries Disagree (Az.)
US Warned Of Winter Blackouts – WSJ (RT)
Lawmakers Seek Emergency Powers For Pentagon’s Ukraine War Contracting (DN)
Pentagon Considering Paying For Musk’s Starlink Network In Ukraine (G.)
Details Of Nord Stream Probe Shared By Media (RT)
Nord Stream 1: First Underwater Images Reveal Devastating Damage (G.)
Germany Facing Retail Collapse – Der Spiegel (RT)
CDC To Vote On Permanently Shielding Pfizer, Moderna From Vaccine Liability (JS)
Joe Biden KNEW of Hunter’s Shady Business Dealings: Whistleblowers (PM)

 

 

 

 

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“The text of the tribute letter may have originated with Spanish biologist and film-maker Fernando López-Mirones, or France’s General Christian Blanchon.”

People Who Resisted Covid Jabs Are ‘Superheroes’ (Blanchon)

Even if I were fully vaccinated, I would admire the unvaccinated for standing up to the greatest pressure I have ever seen, including from spouses, parents, children, friends, colleagues, and doctors. People who have been capable of such personality, courage, and such critical ability undoubtedly embody the best of humanity. They are found everywhere, in all ages, levels of education, countries, and opinions. They are of a particular kind; these are the soldiers that any army of light wishes to have in its ranks. They are the parents that every child wishes to have and the children that every parent dreams of having. They are beings above the average of their societies; they are the essence of the peoples who have built all cultures and conquered horizons.

They are there, by your side, they seem normal, but they are superheroes. They did what others could not do; they were the tree that withstood the hurricane of insults, discrimination, and social exclusion. And they did it because they thought they were alone and believed they were alone. Excluded from their families’ Christmas tables, they have never seen anything so cruel. They lost their jobs, let their careers sink, and had no more money… but they didn’t care. They suffered immeasurable discrimination, denunciations, betrayals, and humiliation… but they continued. Never before in humanity has there been such a casting; we now know who the resisters are on planet Earth.

Women, men, old, young, rich, poor, of all races and all religions, the unvaccinated, the chosen ones of the invisible ark, the only ones who managed to resist when everything fell apart. Collapsed. You’ve passed an unimaginable test that many of the toughest marines, commandos, green berets, astronauts, and geniuses couldn’t pass. You are made of the stuff of the greatest that ever lived, those heroes born among ordinary men who shine in the dark.

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“..Ukraine is preparing a massive strike on the Kakhovka hydroelectric plant, located on the Dnieper River.”

Russian General In Charge Of Ukraine Operation Speaks Out

Army General Sergey Surovikin on Tuesday spoke to the media for the first time since assuming overall command of the ongoing Russian military operation in Ukraine. Describing the situation as particularly “tense” around the city of Kherson in his statement to the broadcaster Rossiya-24, he added that the military may be forced to make “difficult decisions.” “The NATO command of the armed forces of Ukraine has long been demanding offensive operations in the Kherson direction from the Kiev regime, regardless of any casualties – both in the Armed Forces of Ukraine and among the civilian population,” Surovikin stated. The Russian military is aware of Kiev’s plans to use “prohibited” means of waging war in the Kherson area, Surovikin added.

Namely, Ukraine is preparing a massive strike on the Kakhovka hydroelectric plant, located on the Dnieper River, as well as launching massive rocket and artillery attacks on Kherson itself. “These actions can lead to the destruction of the infrastructure of this large industrial center and massive casualties among the civilian population,” Surovikin said. In the ongoing effort to dislodge the Russian military from its positions, Kiev is pouring its reserves en masse into the frontline, the general said. The vast majority of those reserves are “territorial defense units, who have not been properly trained,” Surovikin added. Such troops have low morale, thus they are propped up by “barrier squads”composed of hardline nationalists “who shoot anyone trying to leave the battlefield,” he claimed.

“The enemy’s daily losses amount to hundreds of casualties. We have a different strategy. <…> We are not aiming at fast-paced offensives, we spare every soldier and methodically grind the enemy’s attacking forces. This not only minimizes our own losses, but also significantly reduces the amount of victims among the civilian population.” “The enemy is the criminal regime that pushes Ukrainian citizens towards death. We are one people with Ukrainians and only wish for Ukraine to be a state independent from the West and NATO and friendly towards Russia,” Surovikin said. Surovikin assumed overall command of Russian troops participating in the military operation earlier in October. The general has significant combat experience, ranging from hostilities in Chechnya to the operation in Syria, for which he was awarded the title of Hero of Russia back in 2017.

According to media reports, Surovikin was given the nickname ‘General Armageddon’ by his colleagues over his hardline and unorthodox approach to warfare. His elevation into the new role has coincided with Russia ramping-up aerial bombings across Ukraine, with cruise missiles and suicide drones attacking crucial infrastructure sites in the country.

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“..Washington is in a position to “encourage the Ukrainians to agree to a ceasefire..”

US Should Not Listen To Kiev, Former Ambassador To Moscow Says (RT)

The Ukraine crisis was preventable but now seems doomed to further escalation, the last US ambassador to the Soviet Union has warned. Washington is making the mistake of delegating to Kiev many of the decisions about American involvement, he added. Kiev does “not know best what is in the security interests of the American people, and that should be the primary concern of any American government,”Jack Matlock wrote in an article published on Monday by the website Responsible Statecraft. The Ukrainians, “under the stress of war, may not be the best judges of their own ultimate security interests,” he argued. Matlock cited a situation from his own time as the top US diplomat in Moscow. He recalled a moment in 1990 when the leadership of Soviet Lithuania declared independence from the USSR right before the Soviet Union itself ceased to exist, and requested “immediate recognition” from the US.

Washington had never formally recognized the three Baltic states, which were captured during World War II, as parts of the Soviet Union. Nevertheless, Matlock advised against acting on the Lithuanian request. “I had total sympathy with the Lithuanian aspirations but had to explain that it would be a mistake to do so until Lithuania was in fact free. Why? Because, in 1990, US recognition would almost certainly have precipitated a Soviet crack-down which the US could not counter without risking nuclear war,”he explained. Matlock said it is natural for Americans to admire “the valiant resistance” that the Ukrainians have demonstrated against Russia, but that “does not mean that Ukraine has to recover all the territory it inherited in 1991.” He explained that people in some regions claimed by Kiev may resist a return to its control, given that they consider the 2014 overthrow of the Ukrainian government to be a US-organized coup.

The former ambassador noted that Kiev had multiple opportunities to avert war. He believes that Russia would not have sent troops into Ukraine in February if Kiev “had been willing to abide by the Minsk agreement, recognize the Donbas as an autonomous entity within Ukraine, avoid NATO military advisors, and pledge not to enter NATO.” Now, however, neither side seems willing to take a pause in hostilities and let diplomacy take hold, he said, adding that the longer the conflict continues, the harder it will be to avoid the “utter destruction” of Ukraine.“The reality is that if the war continues Russia is capable of damaging Ukraine more than Ukraine can damage Russia without risking a wider war,” Matlock said. He concluded that Washington is in a position to “encourage the Ukrainians to agree to a ceasefire” and urged it to do so.

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“..Kalin said that Vladimir Putin wants negotiations now.”

Erdogan Still Wants To Bring Putin And Zelenskyy Together (RT)

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan still wants to meet Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Russian President Vladimir Putin, the Spokesperson of the President of Turkiye, Ibrahim Kalin said, Report informs. Kalin said that Vladimir Putin wants negotiations now – after Russia annexed four regions of Ukraine: “Despite all the difficulties, the door of diplomacy should be kept open. The President of Turkiye can do it.”

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“..we need a consolidated society, and this consolidation can only be based on sovereignty, freedom, creation, and justice. Our values are humanity, mercy and compassion.”

The End Game (Batiushka)

The partial mobilisation of 300,000 Russian reservists is nearly complete. Their presence in Donbass will free up the regulars to advance further, although some of the land taken by Kiev forces in September has already been taken back and more is liberated every day. After seven days of aerial attacks (only two days of them reported in the Western media) on Ukrainian infrastructure, especially on power supplies, even Zelensky has today admitted that 30% of the Kiev regime power stations have been destroyed throughout the Ukraine. This is all in response to his terrorism in Zaporozhye, Donetsk, Belgorod, Moscow (Daria Dugina), and on Nordstream and the Crimean Bridge. What else did he expect? France is on strike. Italy is fed up and wants arms deliveries to the Kiev Neo-Nazis to stop.

In the bankrupt UK, to the amazement of all, Truss is still ‘present’, but the Daily Mail website reports that many pubs will have to close for the winter. The landlords cannot afford to pay for heating bills. In Germany, the Health Minister, Karl Lauterbach, has warned of the risk of even hospitals having to close because of the energy crisis. Some ask: But why did the Russian Federation not start the liberation campaign last February by turning up the pain dial there and then? The answer is simple. It is not just that the Federation underestimated the utter stupidity of NATO and the Kiev junta. It is much more than that, it is quite simply that Russia never did wanted to inflict pain on ordinary Ukrainians and on its own Union soldiers. Ordinary Ukrainians have NEVER been the enemy. Russian targeting has always been of the NATO-supplied and NATO-trained Kiev military.

Russians are not Americans who spray the bushes with machine gun bullets and the trees with Agent Orange, or who blast Hamburg and Dresden off the map like the British. They target. They are not terrorists. Have you not read President Putin’s 30 September speech? Please listen again: ‘I want the Kiev authorities and their true handlers in the West to hear me now, and I want everyone to remember this: the people living in Lugansk and Donetsk, in Kherson and Zaporozhye have become our citizens, forever.…We call on the Kiev regime to cease fire and all hostilities immediately; to end the war it unleashed back in 2014 and to return to the negotiating table. We are ready for this, as we have said more than once. But the choice of people in Donetsk, Lugansk, Zaporozhye and Kherson will not be discussed.

The decision has been made, and Russia will not betray it. …We will defend our land with all the forces and resources we have, and we will do everything we can to ensure the safety of our people. This is the great liberating mission of our nation.’ Today, we are fighting so that it would never occur to anyone that Russia, our people, our language, or our culture can be erased from history. Today, we need a consolidated society, and this consolidation can only be based on sovereignty, freedom, creation, and justice. Our values are humanity, mercy and compassion.

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Targeted. But the story is they hit apartment buildings at random.

Russia Destroys Power And Water Infrastructure Across Ukraine (RT)

Ukraine said Russia had destroyed almost a third of its power stations over the past week as Moscow stepped up a pre-winter campaign to strike infrastructure, a move the West says is a calculated attempt to disrupt and demoralize. Missiles struck power-generating facilities in a clutch of Ukrainian cities home to millions of people and several people were killed. Moscow acknowledged targeting energy plants, while Ukraine said water infrastructure had also been hit. “The situation is critical now across the country … the whole country needs to prepare for electricity, water and heating outages,” Kyrylo Tymoshenko, deputy head of the Ukrainian president’s office, told Ukrainian television.


At least one man died when a Russian missile reduced his apartment in the southern river port of Mykolaiv to rubble. “They (Russians) probably get pleasure from this,” said Oleksandr, the owner of a local flower shop damaged in the attack. “They get pleasure from us feeling bad. I think they want us to bomb and shell (their) city buildings. But we won’t do that to be different from them.”

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“..eventually the destabilization of the USA: perhaps with civil war and revolution in the USA, resulting from its own inevitable economic collapse..”

“note: the author is not Russian, knows no Russians and has never been to Russia”

Cui Bono? The Big Picture (Blair)

First of all, we need to be absolutely clear that this insane FUBAR Ukraine situation was 100% concocted, fabricated and engineered by the USA, certainly since the droolin’ Nuland / lamebrained McCain / CIA Maidan coup of 2014, but even dating back before that. There are few situations in life where one party can be found to be 100% guilty and evil and morally bankrupt, and where the other party is 100% acting in self defence and self preservation. However history will show that with respect to this Ukraine situation, the USA was 100% the evil aggressor and Russia was 100% acting in self preservation and in defense of civilian Russian speakers in Ukraine. This is truly a war of good against evil and in case you still haven’t got the message yet, let me repeat: the USA Deep State is EVIL.

This reality is indisputably obvious to any semi-comatose person remotely interested in historical, documented FACTS. For those with any remaining doubts, they need to listen to this comprehensively researched three part podcast summary by a journalist and a military historian (both Anglophones). They actually obtained their information from Western mainstream media sources before those reports and articles mysteriously vanished from the Google search algorithms (or were relegated to 500th priority on the search list) after 24 Feb 2022. It is unfortunate that the stupid sheeple of the West, probably 99% of the “golden billion”, believe the exact opposite of the Truth, which is testimony to the incredible effectiveness of the relentless lying propaganda pooped out from the AngloEuroZionist mainstream media sewer outlets ever since 24 Feb 2022.

Until the two recent terrorist bombings (Nordstream pipelines and Kerch bridge), Russia had been reacting in a highly restrained manner to the US and US proxy aggravations. The US started provocations many years ago and contemptuously rebuffed multiple opportunities for peaceful settlements. Russia will soon end it. How? With the humiliating defeat of Ukraine for sure, but more widely we will see the economic devastation of Europe (apart from those who buy energy in Rubles – eg Hungary and Turkey) and eventually the destabilization of the USA: perhaps with civil war and revolution in the USA, resulting from its own inevitable economic collapse. The latter two eventualities were never Russia’s intended goal, but will be unintended consequences of the malicious actions of the US and EU themselves, blowback or karma if you like.

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Another big plan down the drain.

EU Won’t Introduce Gas Price Cap For Now As Countries Disagree (Az.)

The European Union is unveiling a new emergency package to tackle the energy crunch, betting on steps to bolster solidarity among member states. But the bloc will refrain from immediate gas-price caps amid political divisions and concerns over security of supply, Report informs referring to Bloomberg. The European Commission plans to propose measures to avoid extreme price spikes in energy derivatives and to use the EU’s joint purchasing power as a leverage in negotiations with global gas suppliers, according to a draft document seen by Bloomberg News. The bloc’s executive arm, also wants to launch a new liquefied natural gas index to better reflect the region’s energy reality after a cut in supplies of pipeline gas from Russia. At stake is the future of the bloc’s $17 trillion economy, which the energy crisis threatens to push into recession as companies and consumers reel from high power and gas bills.


The EU is trying to balance demands by more than a half of the EU’s 27 member states to limit gas prices with the need to avoid undermining its single market or deepening economic splits among member states. “This is the moment to act, for this winter and beyond,” according to the draft document. “The current situation causes economic and social hardship, placing a heavy burden on citizens and on the economy. Rising energy costs are leading to reduced purchasing power for citizens and loss of competitiveness for companies.” The EU’s executive arm is also seeking authority from national governments to propose – only as a last resort – price limits on transactions on the Dutch Title Transfer Facility, whose main index is the benchmark for all gas traded on the continent.

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“They also cannot buy US-produced LNG due to the Jones Act, which bans the movement of ships between US ports..”

US Warned Of Winter Blackouts – WSJ (RT)

New England could face blackouts in the coming months as more global shipments of liquefied natural gas (LNG) are being directed to Europe, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday, citing power producers. According to the report, the surging LNG demand across the ocean amid dwindling gas flow from Russia puts the supplies needed to provide electricity to the US’ northeastern region – including Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island – in jeopardy. These states have limited pipeline capacity and rely on LNG imports from abroad for more than a third of their gas supply during periods of peak demand, according to the Energy Information Administration.

They also cannot buy US-produced LNG due to the Jones Act, which bans the movement of ships between US ports.Europe is also a much more attractive buyer for LNG suppliers than New England. According to the news outlet, while the European benchmark price for natural gas was over $100 per one million British thermal units, gas prices in New England rarely climb above $30. Earlier this year, the governors of some New England states sent a letter to US Energy Secretary Jennifer Graholm asking her to dispel the Jones Act and allow for domestic LNG imports to the region. However, there are no reports so far regarding a change in legislation.

The situation in the region is expected to be especially dire if there are prolonged cold spells, as gas volumes would be redirected from power generation to heating homes. According to ISO New England, the region’s power-grid operator, an extremely cold winter could result in the need for rolling blackouts to balance the supply and demand for electricity. Analysts warn that supply shortages may also drive power producers to purchase gas on the spot-market, which would result in larger bills.

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What you’re paying for. Limitless.

Lawmakers Seek Emergency Powers For Pentagon’s Ukraine War Contracting (DN)

Bipartisan legislation introduced in the Senate would grant the Pentagon wartime procurement powers, allowing it to buy massive amounts high-priority munitions using multi-year contracts to help Ukraine fight Russia and to refill U.S. stockpiles. The Senate Armed Services Committee’s chairman, Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., and ranking member, Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., proposed the legislation as an amendment to the annual defense authorization bill, which the Senate is expected to vote on in November. It was offered instead of the critical munitions acquisition fund that the Pentagon and some lawmakers sought for the same purposes, before Senate appropriators rejected it. The amendment, the text of which was released last week, offers multi-year contracting authorities typically reserved for Navy vessels and major aircraft.

As drafted, it would let the Pentagon lock in purchases of certain munitions made by Lockheed Martin, Raytheon Technologies, BAE Systems and Kongsberg over fiscal 2023 and 2024, a step aimed at encouraging manufacturers to expand production lines for sought-after munitions. The Pentagon would also be permitted to team with NATO to buy weapons for its members in mass quantities, and for Ukraine-related contracts, the legislation would ease several key legal restrictions on Pentagon procurement through fiscal 2024 – a sign lawmakers see the war dragging on. The intent of the legislation is to spur the Pentagon and industry to move more aggressively by removing bureaucratic barriers, with an eye not only on Russia but the potential for a confrontation with China over Taiwan, according to a senior congressional aide [..]

“Whether you want to call it wartime contracting or emergency contracting, we can’t play around anymore,” the aide said. “We can’t pussyfoot around with minimum-sustaining-rate buys of these munitions. It’s hard to think of something as high on everybody’s list as buying a ton of munitions for the next few years, for our operational plans against China and continuing to supply Ukraine.” If the language becomes law, the Department of Defense would be allowed to make non-competitive awards to arms manufacturers for Ukraine-related contracts, an idea spearheaded in legislation from Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., and 13 other senators.

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“..25,300 terminals were sent to Ukraine, but, at present, only 10,630 are paying for service..”

Pentagon Considering Paying For Musk’s Starlink Network In Ukraine (G.)

The Pentagon is considering paying for Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite network in war-torn Ukraine, Politico reported on Monday, citing two US officials involved in the discussions. The most likely source of funding would be the US Department of Defense’s Ukraine security assistance initiative, designed to support the country as it fights Russia, the report added. Musk had said on Friday that SpaceX could not indefinitely fund Starlink in Ukraine, but backtracked over the weekend to assert the rocket company would continue to fund the service in the country. He said in a tweet on Monday that SpaceX had already withdrawn its request for funding, an acknowledgement that such a request was made.A Pentagon spokesman said the defense department would not speculate on future security assistance announcements before they occur.


A separate report in the Financial Times said the European Union was also weighing funding Starlink in Ukraine, citing three officials with knowledge of the decision. Musk, the world’s richest person and chief executive of Tesla Inc, recently said SpaceX spends nearly $20m a month maintaining satellite services in Ukraine and that the company has spent about $80m to enable and support Starlink there. “To be precise, 25,300 terminals were sent to Ukraine, but, at present, only 10,630 are paying for service,” Musk tweeted on Monday. Starlink has helped Ukraine’s civilians and military stay online during the war, with Ukraine’s vice prime minister, Mykhailo Fedorov, last week saying Starlink’s services helped restore energy and communications infrastructure in critical areas.

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“Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova noted that this summer, NATO conducted military drills not far from Bornholm.”

Details Of Nord Stream Probe Shared By Media (RT)

The blasts that ripped through the Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines last month were likely caused by sabotage, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday, citing German officials familiar with the investigation. Earlier, the Russian Foreign Ministry said that NATO had conducted a military exercise this summer close to the location where the leaks were found. According to the outlet, while German investigators have so far failed to definitively identify the culprits, they are “working under the assumption that Russia was behind the blasts.” Moscow has repeatedly denied that it had anything to do with the incident.

German officials reportedly believe that the alleged attack was not likely to have been conducted by a military submarine, given that the Baltic Sea around Denmark’s Bornholm Island, where the explosions occurred, is relatively shallow. This would make it difficult for underwater vessels to operate without being detected. According to one theory, an explosive device may have been dropped from a ship and detonated remotely, sources told the WSJ. [..] Moscow has denounced the incident as a terrorist attack and called for an investigation into the matter. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova noted that this summer, NATO conducted military drills not far from Bornholm.

She was apparently speaking about the BALTOPS 2022 exercises held in June, in which ‘’deep-sea equipment’’ was used intensively. According to Germany’s Interior Ministry, Sweden rejected a plan to set up a joint investigation team with Berlin and Denmark. Stockholm argued that its own findings are too sensitive to share even with other EU member states, Reuters reported. All three nations have said they will not grant access to the investigation to Russia. This prompted Moscow to summon the German, Danish, and Swedish envoys, while declaring that it would not recognize the results of the probe unless Russian experts are invited to take part.

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“At least 50 metres of the gas pipeline appeared to be missing..”

Well, it’s there somewhere. More interesting: is Sweden, after refusing a joint probe with Germany and Denmark, let alone Russia, now also going to refuse a Gazprom repair of the pipeline?

Nord Stream 1: First Underwater Images Reveal Devastating Damage (G.)

The first underwater images taken of the ruptured Nord Stream 1 pipeline reveal the devastating damage caused by what Danish police have described as “powerful explosions” under the Baltic Sea. Swedish newspaper Expressen on Tuesday published photographs and film footage taken by an underwater drone at the site near the island of Bornholm where the gas pipeline between Russia and Germany ruptured on 26 September. They appear to show long tears in the seabed near the concrete-reinforced steel pipe that was not merely cracked but torn apart in an act of suspected sabotage. At least 50 metres of the gas pipeline appeared to be missing, Expressen said. Three separate investigations are currently trying to assess the full extent of the damage to the two twin pipelines, Nord Stream 1 and 2, and collect evidence as to who was behind the sabotage.


A German government official on Monday confirmed there would be no joint investigations team working on clearing up the pipeline blast as initially envisioned, but three separate investigations carried out by Danish, Swedish and German authorities would coordinate closely. According to German news magazine Der Spiegel, the offer of a joint investigation was rejected by the Swedish side, with a state prosecutor from the country telling Reuters that “there is some information in our investigation that is confidential because it is directly linked to national security”. A preliminary investigation by Danish authorities established the leak had been caused by “powerful explosions”, Copenhagen police said in a statement on Tuesday.

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Getting serious.

Germany Facing Retail Collapse – Der Spiegel (RT)

Germany’s retail industry is in jeopardy amid rising energy costs and a sharp decline in consumption, Der Spiegel reported on Monday, citing the German Retail Federation (HDE). According to the organization’s forecasts, the first to face the risk of bankruptcy are smaller stores in city centers. Retail turnover in Germany started to decrease in August. According to the Federal Statistical Office, sales in real terms fell by 1.3% compared to July, and by 4.3% versus August 2021. Food sales were down 1.7% from July and 3.1% year-on-year, reaching their lowest level since 2017. Textiles and shoes, household appliances, and construction supplies were other segments seeing a decline in sales.


An HDE spokesman said that the financial assistance promised by the German government to ease energy price spikes should be used to support retail stores. “If this does not happen, we will face a disaster in many urban centers,” he said, as cited by the news outlet. However, he thinks the crisis can be avoided through investments and new creative ideas, although this would require cooperation between retailers and the authorities. “In the current acute crisis, everything is becoming a little more difficult. The money pots will certainly not get fuller for the time being… If the concepts are to work, all stakeholders in the municipalities would have to work together – from the top of the town hall to city marketing, retail and gastronomy to cultural providers and citizens,” he stated.

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“By adding the shots to the childhood schedule, the CDC [..] will transfer liability for vaccine injuries to the federal government..”

CDC To Vote On Permanently Shielding Pfizer, Moderna From Vaccine Liability (JS)

A CDC committee will convene this week and likely vote Thursday to deliver permanent legal indemnity to Pfizer and Moderna, through the process of adding the drug companies’ mRNA injections to the child and adolescent immunization schedules. By adding the shots to the childhood schedule, the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) will transfer liability for vaccine injuries to the federal government’s National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP), allowing for Pfizer and Moderna to finally bring an FDA approved shot to the market without opening itself up to lawsuits. Moreover, it will act as another windfall for companies that have already brought in hundreds of billions of dollars in revenues, by requiring these vaccinations for children who attend public schools.

In March 2020, the federal government invoked the PREP Act, which gave Pfizer and Moderna a tort liability shield due to the declared “public health emergency,” which the government is reportedly going to revoke in early 2023. The companies’ emergency use authorization shots have since been protected by the federal government through this 2005 congressional action. [..]The Health Resources & Services Administration has clarified what needs to happen for a vaccine to become liability free. “For a vaccine to be covered, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) must recommend the category of vaccine for routine administration to children or pregnant women, and it must be subject to an excise tax by federal law.”

The Dossier has reported extensively on the coordinated effort by Big Pharma and the Biden Administration to delay the rollout of an FDA approved COVID vaccine, with legal experts suspecting the process is in place to protect Pfizer and Moderna from legal liability from vaccine injuries. Once described as the cure to the coronavirus, the novel mRNA shots have resulted in catastrophic failure, with a side effect profile exponentially higher than advertised. Thanks to a fraudulent, deceptive marketing campaign, assisted by top federal officials and high-profile pharmaceutical executives, the drugmakers and the federal government convinced millions of Americans to take shots that were much more dangerous (especially for young men), and much less effective than advertised.

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“.. the interview summary states that work “remained intentionally uncompensated while Joe Biden was vice president.”

Joe Biden KNEW of Hunter’s Shady Business Dealings: Whistleblowers (PM)

New whistleblower documents obtained by Senator Chuck Grassley have revealed that President Biden “was aware of Hunter Biden’s business arrangements and may have been involved in some of them.” On Monday morning, Grassley sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland, FBI Director Christopher Wray, and US Attorney for Delaware David Weiss outlining new whistleblower allegations that claim the FBI has “significant, impactful and voluminous evidence with respect to potential criminal conduct by Hunter Biden and James Biden,” according to Fox News. The whistleblowers allege that the FBI has documents relating to information on Mykola Zlochevsky, who is the owner of Burisma Holdings, where Hunter Biden sat on the board.

“The documents in the FBI’s possession include specific details with respect to conversations by non-government individuals relevant to potential criminal conduct by Hunter Biden,” Grassley wrote. “These documents also indicate that Joe Biden was aware of Hunter Biden’s business arrangements and may have been involved in some of them,” Grassley said. The Senator added that it is “unclear whether the FBI followed normal investigative procedure to determine the truth and accuracy of the information or shut down investigative activity based on improper disinformation claims in advance of the 2020 election.” “It is also unclear whether US Attorney Weiss has performed his own due diligence on these and related allegations,” Grassley continued.

Grassley, alongside Senator Ron Johnson, led an investigation into Hunter Biden starting in 2019, which discovered that officials within the Obama administration “knew” of Hunter Biden’s “problematic” position on the board, saying that it interfered “in the efficient execution of policy with respect to Ukraine.” Hunter Biden joined the board in April of 2014, while his father was serving as vice president and running US-Ukraine relations and policy for the administration. Additionally, Grassley noted an FBI interview with Tony Bobulinski, Hunter Biden’s ex-business partner, from October 2020, where he stated that Hunter Biden and his uncle, James Biden, had created a business agreement with foreign nationals connected to the Chinese government during Biden’s vice presidency.

Grassley said that the interview summary states that work “remained intentionally uncompensated while Joe Biden was vice president.” “After Joe Biden left the vice presidency, the summary makes clear that Hunter Biden and James Biden worked with CEFC and affiliated individuals to compensate them for that past work and benefits they procured for CEFC,” Grassley said. Hunter Biden, James Biden, and their business partners created a joint venture, known as SinoHawk Holdings, that would be a “vehicle to accomplish that financial compensation.” The venture was a partnership between the two Bidens, and CEFC Chairman Ye Jianming. 50 percent of SinoHawk was owned by Oneida Holdings, which according to the summary, was made up of five evenly divided LLCs, two of which went to Hunter and James Biden, and 10 percent, Bobulinski revealed, was “to be held for Joe Biden.”

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    ‘Russians are not Americans who spray the bushes with machine gun bullets and the trees with Agent Orange, or who blast Hamburg and Dresden off the map like the British.’

    I recently referred to the bombing of Dresden and quoted the commonly accepted casualty figure of 300,000..

    This report suggests that actual casualty figure was around 10% of that, i.e. around 25,000.

    Irrespective of the actual death toll, this report suggests that what was considered normal or ‘acceptable’ in WW2 would be regarded as a war crime these days.

    Well, the acceptability would depend on who was doing the killing, and who got killed, I suppose. We know that the 14,000 ethnic Russians killed in the Donbas get no recognition by NATOstan nations. But 3 people killed in Kiev by a Russian drone or missile because they were close to a legitimate target causes outrage.

    By the same hypocritical standards, the 3 million Koreans killed by NATOstan nations in the early 1950s were soon forgotten. Similarly the 3 million Vietnamese murdred by the Americans and their allies, and the half a million Iraqi children.

    Thankfully, it’s all coming to an end soon.

    I see the Mississippi is at an all time low, and barges cannot be used to move grains and beans. Could end up rotting in piles.

    ‘Interesting times’ get ever more ‘interesting’.

    #118765
    Afewknowthetruth
    Participant
    #118766
    Dr. D
    Participant

    But interestingly, Lake Mead is filling. No news on that, maybe there shouldn’t be.

    Pic
    https://www.jsmineset.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/a.jpg

    Just amazed: no one can take anything seriously. Not even war. Not even their own death. Spirit of #AntiLogos, that is of AntiChrist, walks the land.

    “”Operation Lone Star” in Texas Seizes Enough Fentanyl to Kill Every American”

    Nope! No response. Keep that border open! Keep those million potential drug mules flying in. We’ll shut down every small business on earth to save one life, but stop drug flows that could poison every human being on the planet? Surely you jest.

    “First Images of Blown Up Nord Stream Reveals 50 Meter Missing Section of Pipeline”

    Must have cleaned up all the “Made by NATO™” branded debris. …Whoops looks like I’m not first to suggest this.

    Rumor: these glue-sniffing inbreds have screwed the pooch. They blew up the pipes in four PLACES, but in good Ukrainian fashion, attacked only 3 pipes. That is, one pipe is untouched and ready to go. At 4x volume of the tiny Baltic/Polish pipe. Rumor has it. Nobody wants to admit it because then Germany could STILL revolt and change sides and then the self-attack by allies is even dumber, more egregious, and more hostile than if they succeeded. That is, now Germany and all Europe knows what they’re willing to do, but the patient survived and is not against the wall: they can take revenge.

    Cait Johnstone: “Of all the face-meltingly stupid narratives that have been circulated about the US proxy war in Ukraine, the dumbest so far has got to be the increasingly common claim that aggressively escalating nuclear brinkmanship is safety and de-escalation is danger.
    Headline: “ “Putin’s nuclear threats are pushing people like Trump and Elon Musk to press for a Ukraine peace deal. A nuclear expert warns that’s ‘dangerous.’”

    Simple, Cait: “War is Peace.” Any questions? “Ignorance is our Strength” and we’re proud of it. We have a whole month for pride, and the other 11 for avarice.

    Astonished Maher is not only allowing guests, but he himself defending…intelligence. Discussion. Doesn’t make me happy though, since it just demonstrates how they’ll get away with it. No reward for being right. No discredit or disgrace for being wrong. No reprimand for being violent or intolerant.

    They get a pat on the back. “Good job, Brownie!” “You’re a Zero Hero.” Do I get restoration for my g-d d—d losses? How about punitive and restitution for theft, murder, and civil rights abuses? Maybe doctors promoting murder would be removed so I don’t risk seeing a murderer on my yearly checkup? Go fly a kite.

    “[NATO] is preparing a massive strike on the Kakhovka hydroelectric plant, located on the Dnieper River, as well as launching massive rocket and artillery attacks on Kherson itself.”

    That’s why they evacuated the city, not because they’re retreating. It’s because they believe when this starts, the city won’t exist. So they need to get Slavs out, like it or not.

    Ritter: yes, the “Russia Bad” story is terrible, but the “Russia Super” narrative is as well.

    Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island – in jeopardy. These states have limited pipeline capacity”

    And 40 years to build more pipelines or more electric transmission to compensate. NIMBY. Hey, if you WANT to go New England Yankee: one wood stove and the rest of the house cold enough to see your breath, I heartily recommend it. Small, antique houses, green everywhere. But you can’t have it both ways. Concrete jungle, nothing “New England” left, and cold winters.

    P.S. can we dump the Jones Act, which was a lobby payoff to a Union/Industry that literally no longer exists? It’s as embarrassing as yearly payouts to the Cooper oak barrel industry, another thing we do 100 years after it stopped existing. But I guess we have to keep the town shipbuilder and cooper in business, because we all know so many of them.

    Government: they’ll subsidize submarines, then pay men to pour buckets of water on them when they’re stranded in the desert. Just. Stop.

    “Lawmakers Seek Emergency Powers for Pentagon’s Ukraine War Contracting (DN)”

    You mean the war we’re not in? Never declared, deny being a party to? Yeah, why bother: words have no meaning to these people. Or the population. Thus logic has no meaning to them either.

    “The Pentagon is considering paying for Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite network in war-torn Ukraine,”

    Paying for things we use. NOPE! That’s not Socialism, which is our religion and form of government. We TAKE things “From each according to their ability.” And give them to ME, insider Party Members. Thanks! Worker solidarity! Keep working for my glory, Comrade!

    Why don’t they pay? EU said “Money’s not an object”, so send the bill to him. Orrrrr…perhaps money IS an object, but only when I’M paying? When YOU’RE paying money is no object.

    “By adding the shots to the childhood schedule, the CDC [..] will transfer liability for vaccine injuries to the federal government..”

    You can’t transfer open fraud and bribery, but if no one prosecutes it even when it’s openly admitted, I guess you can.

    which would make the vax mandatory for kids to attend school.”

    This may not have the effect they want it to: already school enrollment has plummeted. State Schools are a primary plank of the Communist Manifesto. And they’re working to reverse it? 100 years of total indoctrinal success? No. Don’t. Stop.

    “Joe Biden KNEW of Hunter’s Shady Business Dealings: Whistleblowers (PM)”

    Christ on a pogo stick: they shared a BANK ACCOUNT. I don’t need whistleblowers to tell me anything, it’s a waste of their time. So: everyone knew, it was impossible not to know, it’s open bribery where he’s on tape multiple times saying so, and where are the prosecutions?

    Aluminum: aluminum is highly flammable to oxidize. It also stresses or kills trees. Have we seen any of that? Draw your own conclusions. I say human CO2 has caused global warming that transmorgified the carbon into aluminum on mountaintops. That’s Science. The other Science is that we will never look or ask questions. Unbound aluminum: doesn’t exist in nature, anywhere. Yet here it is everywhere. Well, must be time for a coffee break, that is not suspicious at all.

    #118767
    Red
    Participant
    #118768
    Red
    Participant
    #118769
    Germ
    Participant

    Must be climate change

    Magician who starred in Spanish version of BGT dies after collapsing on stage – The Mirror
    https://apple.news/A0nslF057Q7mn_vSX5_6N5g

    #118770
    Germ
    Participant

    Normal everyday happenings…

    Singer Mikaben dies aged 41 after collapsing during a performance on stage – The Mirror
    https://apple.news/AhMVD9mDqSHOrljHDwk7J9g

    #118771
    oxymoron
    Participant

    That cockatoo we call a Gallah and they always pop by looking for a nest site. Just gotta wait another 150 years for hollows first. Coppiced forest from gold mining

    #118772
    Red
    Participant

    Let’s start by just unloading them all, in compact form, each point to be briefly unpacked in what follows. Some of the points essentially follow from previous ones, but are powerful (jarring) enough to deserve their own statement.

    Humans are not the reason for all of creation: not the end point or goal in this universe.
    A human life is no more sacred than that of a wolf (as just one example).
    Our civilization is not any sort of destiny: not he only or best way to organize ourselves on this planet.
    We are not building civilization—brick by brick—according to some master plan aiming toward a “better” end: no paradise/salvation awaits on the current path.
    Technology and innovation are slowing, not accelerating.
    Technology (ahem; renewable energy) will not solve our big problems.
    Space colonization is an infantile fantasy that is not part of our future.
    Growth is destined to end: we have hitched ourselves to a losing wagon.
    Monetary valuations badly miss the mark by orders-of-magnitude, so that decisions based on money (i.e., most societal decisions) will be bad ones.
    Malthus was wrong only in his optimism that population will saturate and stabilize.

    The Cult of Civilization

    #118773
    Positive Dennis
    Participant

    Harris did not say that.

    #118774
    Mister Roboto
    Participant

    WRT “People who resisted Covid jabs are superheroes” panegyric: I recall that when a video of a newscaster-type person reading this text on a Canadian broadcast was posted to JMG’s Covid thread last week, a few people immediately responded that they were very suspicious of such effusively mellifluous words. This was because it felt to them like some sort of attempt to manipulate in order to co-opt the unvaxxed for some sort of unsavory agenda. I am not so sure I would automatically think that, but that sounds like it should be kept in mind as a possibility, as flatterers more often than not do have one or another agenda.

    #118775
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    @MisterRoboto To be wary of flattery is good advice. On the other hand, accepting praise when it is due is also good advice.

    I like Ms. Olive Oyle’s response when Popeye praised her great beauty, “Flatterer! You’re just saying that because it’s true!”

    #118776
    aspnaz
    Participant

    Reading Kamala Harris makes me think of Josep Borrell, maybe they are related.

    #118777
    zerosum
    Participant

    The CDC is about to add the Covid vaccine to the childhood immunization schedule, which would make the vax mandatory for kids to attend school.
    1. Covid vaccine is not a vaccine
    2. Covid vaccine do not give immunization
    3. Gov./Leaders imposing their power/control by making it mandatory for kids to attend school
    4. Playing Russian roulette/gambling with the health of your child
    5. Only the “rich” can escape the control.

    #118778
    zerosum
    Participant

    Just in case
    Namely, Ukraine is preparing a massive strike on the Kakhovka hydroelectric plant, located on the Dnieper River, as well as launching massive rocket and artillery attacks on Kherson itself. “These actions can lead to the destruction of the infrastructure of this large industrial center and massive casualties among the civilian population,” Surovikin said.

    Avoid shortage problems, food, heat, gas, water, housing, destroyed public service.
    We will help Immigrate, evacuate, move out, supply transport, supply housing, supply work, to a better place. Surovikin said.

    #118779
    aspnaz
    Participant

    Bipartisan legislation introduced in the Senate would grant the Pentagon wartime procurement powers, allowing it to buy massive amounts high-priority munitions using multi-year contracts to help Ukraine fight Russia and to refill U.S. stockpiles.

    Shameless theft, but who will make these weapons, where will they get the resources? China?

    #118780
    zerosum
    Participant

    https://www.rt.com/russia/564930-kherson-region-civilians-fighting/
    Civilians to be relocated from Kherson – governor
    The Russian region will move its citizens away from the right bank of the Dnieper River amid the ongoing fighting

    #118781
    zerosum
    Participant

    https://www.rt.com/russia/564948-energodar-ukraine-amphibious-attack/
    19 Oct, 2022 07:29

    Ukrainian attack on nuclear plant repelled – Russian official
    The amphibious operation in Zaporozhye Region involved 30 boats and followed artillery shelling, according to Vladimir Rogov
    Ukrainian commandos used around 30 speed boats overnight to cross the Dnieper River, targeting the city of Energodar, Vladimir Rogov claimed.

    “After artillery shelling of the city, they attempted to land, including to capture the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant. The fighting continued for several hours, at least three or three and a half. The assault was fended off,” he said.

    Earlier in the day the city administration reported Ukrainian artillery attacks on several key facilities in Energodar, including the city administration building, an access road, and a transformer station crucial for its power supply. The latter was disabled, causing a blackout, the head of the city administration, Aleksandr Volga, said.

    Later in the day, the Russian Defense Ministry stated that the number of troops involved in the Ukrainian operation comprised up to two companies and that a total of 37 boats of various types were used. The military claimed that Kiev lost over 90 soldiers and 14 boats in the botched operation, while its remaining forces were dispersed by Russian artillery fire.

    #118782
    zerosum
    Participant

    https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2022/10/19/russia-ukraine-live-news-tense-military-situtation-in-kherson

    Moscow-installed authorities in Ukraine’s southern Kherson region said they plan to evacuate about 50,000 to 60,000 civilians due to Ukraine’s counteroffensive.

    “We are expecting to evacuate between 50,000 and 60,000 people to the left bank of the Dnieper,” pro-Kremlin official Vladimir Saldo said on Telegram.

    “[W]hen I arrived at the river port I saw that the boats were waiting and are already loaded with people ready to go to the left bank of the Dnipro,” Saldo said, adding that the situation “is getting tense”.

    Saldo estimates that 10,000 people a day would be moved over the next six days and that some regions in Russia were prepared to accept people.

    #118783
    zerosum
    Participant

    Hypocrites
    https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2022/10/19/russia-ukraine-live-news-tense-military-situtation-in-kherson
    Attacks on critical infrastructure amount to war crimes: EU president
    Missile and drone attacks on power stations and other infrastructure are “acts of pure terror” that amount to war crimes, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said.

    “Yesterday we saw again Russia’s targeted attacks against civilian infrastructure. This is marking another chapter in an already very cruel war. The international order is very clear. These are war crimes,” von der Leyen said in a speech to politicians in the European Parliament.

    “Targeted attacks on civilian infrastructure with the clear aim to cut off men, women, children of water, electricity and heating with the winter coming, these are acts of pure terror and we have to call it as such.”

    #118784
    aspnaz
    Participant

    zerosum said

    These are war crimes,” von der Leyen said in a speech to politicians in the European Parliament.

    Are they worse than Von Hitler’s corruption crimes?

    #118785
    John Day
    Participant

    I really like Dali’s self-portrait.
    It’s not like al the others.
    🙂

    #118786
    Red
    Participant

    BASICS

    How can we know that this is going to happen? The answers lie, not in the ebb and flow of market sentiment or, for that matter, of policy, but in the fundamentals.

    The effective interpretation of economic processes requires some straightforward foundation principles.

    The first of these is that the economy is an energy system, because nothing that has any economic utility whatsoever can be supplied without the use of energy. This applies, not just to products and services, but to the entirety of the economy. The creation and maintenance of infrastructure and capacity is entirely reliant on the availability of energy. Access to raw materials – ranging from minerals, chemicals and plastics to food, fertilizers and water – is a function of the energy required to supply them.

    The second principle is that energy is never ‘free’. Whenever energy is accessed for our use, some of that energy is always consumed in the access process. This ‘consumed in access’ component is known here as the Energy Cost of Energy. This is the principle of ECoE.

    Oil isn’t ‘free’ because it exists beneath your land – you still need wells, pipelines, refineries and the rest of the supply system. Solar and wind power aren’t ‘free’ just because the sun shines and the wind blows – we still need solar panels, wind turbines and distribution systems, with the added complication of storage capacity to offset intermittency. None of this infrastructure can be built or maintained without the use of energy.

    The third foundation principle is that money has no intrinsic worth. Rather, it commands value only as a ‘claim’ on the output of the material economy. This is the principle of money as claim.

    From these principles, two conclusions naturally follow.

    First, material prosperity is a function of the surplus energy which remains after ECoE has been deducted from total supply.

    Second, the economy, as presented financially, is a representation or proxy of the underlying material economy determined by the supply, value and cost of energy.

    This wouldn’t be a problem if conventional financial notation was an accurate representation of the material economy.

    Unfortunately, though, it is not. We have to take a brief journey into history to see why.

    More:
    #242. The dynamics of global re-pricing

    #118787
    Dr D Rich
    Participant

    Goddam right!
    In a word, formidable.

    “I … ADMIRE the unvaccinated for standing up to the greatest pressure I have ever seen, including from spouses, parents, children, friends, colleagues, and doctors. People who have been capable of such personality, courage, and such critical ability undoubtedly embody the best of humanity. They are found everywhere, in all ages, levels of education, countries, and opinions. They are of a particular kind; these are the soldiers that any army of light wishes to have in its ranks.

    THEY ARE THE PARENTS THAT EVERY CHILD WISHES TO HAVE AND THEY ARE THE CHILDREN EVERY PARENT DREAMS OF HAVING.

    They are beings above the average of their societies; they are the essence of the peoples who have built all cultures and conquered horizons.

    They are there, by your side, they seem normal, but they are superheroes. They did what others could not do; they were the tree that withstood the hurricane of insults, discrimination, and social exclusion. And they did it because they thought they were alone and believed they were alone”

    #118788
    oldandtired
    Participant

    They also cannot buy US-produced LNG due to the Jones Act, which bans the movement of ships between US ports.

    Of course they can use these ships. The Act disallows foreign bottoms from US port to Us port travel. That is why foreign flagged ships stop in Mexico for a day between passengers getting on the ship in California, and off the ship in Hawaii.

    I call BS on this.

    And absolutely agree the Act was a gift to MMP and MEBA unions.

    #118810
    teri
    Participant

    @ Aspnaz (“Reading Kamala Harris makes me think of Josep Borrell, maybe they are related.”).

    As Positive Dennis said a few comments above: Harris did not say that. Someone put it up as a spoof on Facebook and people started passing it around.

    #118811
    John Day
    Participant

    DAMN! Why’s my Fentanyl so expensive this week? At least gas didn’t go back up again…
    The standard Fentanyl shipment size is now “enough to kill every American”.

    Jones act, wazzat? Gotta’ buy American ships and ship with American crews to Hawaii? Oh. No toilet paper without American ships? Maybe air-freight? https://www.grassrootinstitute.org/2016/03/what-is-the-jones-act/?gclid=CjwKCAjwwL6aBhBlEiwADycBIG9UzArbrHqzKIo8NakBK67yfa0CiA10BbWBofU80N8kEBDxQR9S2BoC6jQQAvD_BwE

    It’s that aluminum chorhydrate anti-perspirant in the atmosphere, getting up into the Mount Shasta snow, or maybe it’s just those old chemtrails… The government should study this.

    #118812
    John Day
    Participant

    Again, public comments against recommending COVID shots as routine for kids, can be entered here:
    https://mailchi.mp/aapsonline/cdc-comments-due-oct-20?e=3c2cb96855

    Meryl Nass MD will be live-blogging the ACIP meeting here:
    https://live.childrenshealthdefense.org/acip-meeting-covid-19-injections-the-childhood-immunization-schedule-liveblog-by-meryl-nass-m-d

    #118813
    John Day
    Participant

    I gotta’ agree that the effuse praise of the “unvaccinated” now is pretty suspicious.

    I’m still an unemployed untermensch working on my “dream house” and gardening, blogging more…

    “Hero-doctor” pays nothing, zilch, nada.

    #118814
    John Day
    Participant

    Thanks Red. This is in my inbox today, too.

    First, material prosperity is a function of the surplus energy which remains after ECoE has been deducted from total supply.

    Second, the economy, as presented financially, is a representation or proxy of the underlying material economy determined by the supply, value and cost of energy.

    #242. The dynamics of global re-pricing

    #118815

    I have lived in my present location for over thirty years and have noticed that ALL the hydrangeas in the area are now pink. You should be able to control the color by acidifying the soil which changes them to blue- the favored color 30 years ago. Is it that everybody now only likes pink ones?
    Rhododendrons used to be wildly popular in this area- now the few bushes left are tiny and sickly.
    Soil Ph is rising in this area.
    On a slightly different note, frost to frost this year was shortened by 22 days. The harvest of peppers and tomatillos was a third of last year’s crops.

    If you love HOT peppers, try my “chili-quila”- your favorite tequila with a skewered habanero (or ghost or scorpion…). Draw the skewer back and forth in the submerged pepper until you achieve the heat level you prefer. Great with oysters!

    #118816

    I really like Dali’s self-portrait.
    It’s not like al the others.

    He was 15. Maybe that’s why

    #118817

    Harris did not say that. Someone put it up as a spoof on Facebook and people started passing it around.

    How do we know?

    #118820
    willem
    Participant

    Anyone who wants to watch “The Real Anthony Fauci” can also find it on Bitchute, no registration required.


    @chettt
    : Thanks for the George Friedman article yesterday. An interesting alternative take on the geopolitical situation.

    #118823
    willem
    Participant

    Can’t get the Bitchute link to post.

    #118824

    I saw that “unvaccinated heroes” thing a while back and thought: don’t think we’re done with this yet- our “heroism” (or simple self-preservation) will be tested again. And again and again and again….

    RFK jr- Roger Ailes should have had the courage to tell Pfizer to go suck a flu-infested egg. When advertisers control the news the news is nothing but advertising.

    #118825
    Dr D Rich
    Participant

    @John Day
    Effuse praise?
    it’s the best we’re gonna get and by the way I’m tired of being humiliated by RNs, techs and hospital administrators.

    Were you expecting to be afforded the same treatment as that ever-execrable trio, namely Tony “Tiny” Fauci, Rochelle “Lips” Walensky and Scott “antichrist” Gottlieb MD?

    #118826
    willem
    Participant

    The CDC is about to add the Covid vaccine to the childhood immunization schedule, which would make the vax mandatory for kids to attend school. pic.twitter.com/Ga0EJZIVbI

    — Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) October 19, 2022

    Interesting that on the right hand side of this tweet, under “Relevant People”, Tucker Carlson, blue-checked, is shown as “fully vaccinated” and with personal pronouns (I guess?) as “she/her”? WTF?

    #118827
    Nemo
    Participant

    Dude, you’re joking, right?
    http://lakemead.water-data.com/
    “filling” — umm, sure. wake me when it fills to the same level as last year on same date.
    smh

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