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Crimean Bridge Explosion Just ‘The Beginning,’ Ukraine Says (RT)
Kiev Amasses Troops On Donbass Border – Official (RT)
US Comments On Zelensky’s ‘Preemptive Strike’ Appeal (RT)
Michael Hudson: A Roadmap To Escape The West’s Stranglehold (Escobar)
US Asked Hungary To Invade Serbia – President Vucic (RT)
Putin Wants ‘Grand Bargain’ – Türkiye (RT)
NATO Should Give Ukraine ‘Everything We Have’ – Lithuania (RT)
Fanaticism Of The Apocalypse (Shellenberger)
Elon Musk, Former Exec Lead Backlash Against PayPal (DW)
Cynical Defense Of Hunter Biden: I Was Addicted To Drugs (Turley)
Lapado: Covid mRNA Vaccine- 84% Increased Risk of Death For Men Ages 18-39 (PM)
England’s Heatwaves See Highest Ever Excess Deaths Among Elderly (R.)
My Trip to Space Filled Me With ‘Overwhelming Sadness’ (William Shatner)

 

 

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Both car – and train traffic has been resumed. But the provocations will continue. Until Russia reacts in a way that can be used as a excuse for a large scale attack.

Crimean Bridge Explosion Just ‘The Beginning,’ Ukraine Says (RT)

The blast that rocked the Crimean Bridge early on Saturday is just “the beginning,” Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky’s aide, Mikhail Podoliak, has said. The bridge was closed in the early hours of Saturday after a truck exploded, damaging the road and causing a huge fire. “Crimea, the bridge, the beginning,”Podoliak tweeted. “Everything illegal must be destroyed, everything stolen must be returned to Ukraine, everything occupied by Russia must be expelled.” Ukrainian officials have promised to attack the Crimean Bridge, which connects the Russian peninsula of Crimea to the country’s Krasnodar Region, on numerous occasions during the conflict between Moscow and Kiev.


In August, Podoliak said that Europe’s largest bridge “should be destroyed” because it’s “an illegal construction and the main gateway to supply the Russian army in Crimea.” Zelensky and other members of his team have also stated that Ukraine will use force to retake Crimea, which overwhelmingly voted to reunite with Russia in a referendum in 2014. The blast occurred at around 6am local time, causing a partial collapse of the road on the section for vehicles. A blaze also broke out on the parallel rail section, where seven fuel tanks caught fire. Russia’s National Anti-Terrorism Committee said that a truck exploded as it was traveling along the 19-km-long structure. The fire has been extinguished, and the damage caused by the blast is being assessed. The Crimean authorities said a ferry service will be provided while the bridge is being repaired.

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40,000 troops on the Russian border..

Kiev Amasses Troops On Donbass Border – Official (RT)

Kiev has deployed some 40,000 troops to the border with the Lugansk People’s Republic (LPR), which recently became part of Russia, the LPR’s top representative in Moscow, Rodion Miroshnik, has said. “In the areas where attempts of a breakthrough are being made [by Kiev’s forces], large quantities of manpower and hardware have been concentrated on the Ukrainian side,” Miroshnik said during an appearance on the Soloviev Live program on YouTube on Friday. According to estimates by the LPR’s forces, “we’re talking about 40,000 men,” the official added.


Kiev’s troops have been gathering to the north and northwest of the LPR, as well as in the area around the town of Krasny Liman in the Donetsk People’s Republic, from where Russian forces withdrew a week ago amid a Ukrainian offensive, Miroshnik added. On Wednesday, President Vladimir Putin signed into law unification treaties with the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics, as well as Kherson and Zaporozhye Regions, officially making them part of Russia. The four territories overwhelmingly supported the move during referendums in late September.

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“a monster, whose hands can destroy the planet.”

US Comments On Zelensky’s ‘Preemptive Strike’ Appeal (RT)

The US is not about to get directly involved in the hostilities between Moscow and Kiev, a State Department spokesman said on Friday, after Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky had urged the West to conduct “preventive strikes” against Russia. When asked about the Ukrainian leader’s latest appeal to the West, State Department Principal Deputy Spokesperson Vedant Patel said that the administration of US President Joe Biden has repeatedly stated that it has no intention of taking part in the fighting. “As long as the United States or our allies are not attacked, we are not going to get directly engaged in this conflict either by putting American troops to fight in Ukraine or attacking Russian forces,” he reiterated, adding that Washington’s message on this matter has been “very clear.”

On Thursday, Zelensky, speaking at an online conference at the Australian Lowy Institute, called for “preventive strikes” against Russia so that Moscow knew what to expect should it resort to nuclear weapons. Later, Zelensky’s press secretary attempted to clarify these remarks, arguing that they should not be interpreted as a request for NATO to attack Russia. The Ukrainian leader himself also stepped in, telling BBC on Friday that he had meant “preventive kicks, not attacks.” The UK outlet also clarified that Zelensky was “referring to sanctions.”

The comments made by the Ukrainian president sparked a backlash from Moscow, which accused him of attempting to spark a world war, which would lead to “unforeseeable disastrous consequences.” Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova went so far as to describe him as “a monster, whose hands can destroy the planet.” Russia has repeatedly stated that a nuclear war should never be fought, while Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu in August made it clear that Moscow is not considering a nuclear strike on Ukraine, given that there are no targets warranting such drastic measures.

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“US policy has created a global state of dependency in which literally There is no alternative but to break away.”

Michael Hudson: A Roadmap To Escape The West’s Stranglehold (Escobar)

Are we reaching the point when the key players of the Global South – over 100 nations – finally get their act together and decide to go for broke and stop the US from keeping the artificial neoliberal global economy in a state of perpetual coma? This means the only possible option, as you have outlined, is to set up a parallel global currency bypassing the US dollar – while the usual suspects float the notion of a Bretton Woods III at best. Is the FIRE (finance, insurance, real estate) financial casino omnipotent enough to smash any possible competition? Do you envisage any other practical mechanisms apart from what is being discussed by BRICS/ EAEU/ SCO?

Hudson: “A year or two ago it seemed that the task of designing a full-fledged alternative world currency, monetary, credit and trading system was so complex that the details hardly could be thought through. But US sanctions have proved to be the needed catalyst to make such discussions pragmatically urgent. The confiscation of Venezuela’s gold reserves in London and its US investments, the confiscation of $300 billion of Russia’s foreign-exchange reserves held in the United States and Europe, and its threat to do the same to China and other countries resisting US foreign policy has made de-dollarization urgent. I have explained the logic in many points, from my Valdai Club article (with Radhika Desai) to my recent book on The Destiny of Civilization, the lecture series that I prepared for Hong Kong and the Global University for Sustainability.

Holding securities denominated in dollars, and even holding gold or investments in the United States and Europe, is no longer a safe option. It is clear that the world is breaking into two quite different types of economies, and that US diplomats and their European satellites are willing to tear up the existing economic order in hopes that creating a disruptive crisis will enable themselves to come out on top. It also is clear that subjugation to the IMF and its austerity plans are economic suicide, and that following World Bank and its neoliberal doctrine of international dependency is self-destructive. The result has been to create an unpayable overhead of debts denominated in US dollars. These debts cannot be paid without borrowing credit from the IMF and accepting terms of economic surrender to US privatizers and speculators.

The only alternative to imposing economic austerity on themselves is to withdraw from the dollar trap in which US-sponsored “free market” economics (markets free from government protection, and free from government ability to recover the environmental damage from US oil companies, mining companies and the associated industrial and food dependency) is to make a clean break. The break will be difficult, and US diplomacy will do everything it can to disrupt the creation of a more resilient economic order. But US policy has created a global state of dependency in which literally There is no alternative but to break away.”

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1999.

US Asked Hungary To Invade Serbia – President Vucic (RT)

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic revealed on Saturday that American and British leaders, including President Bill Clinton, urged Hungary to invade Serbia by land in 1999. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who told Vucic of the request, refused. In a televised address, Vucic said that the US and UK wanted Hungarian forces to push south into Serbia in order to split the Yugoslav military between the front in Kosovo and a new front with Hungary. “Clinton and the British asked [Orban] to attack Serbia from the north so that they could extend our forces from Kosovo and Metohija to Vojvodina,” he explained. Orban, who at the time was one year into his first term in office, refused, and with the help of German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, pushed back against the “pressure from the White House.”

Orban told Vucic of the request during a recent meeting and allowed him to speak about it publicly, the Serbian leader said. NATO launched a bombing campaign in 1999 against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, which by that time was made up of Serbia and Montenegro. In waging the air war, NATO sided with ethnic Albanian separatists, who were fighting with the Serbs for the independence of Kosovo, a province of Serbia. Hungary had joined NATO earlier that year, but did not participate in the campaign.

According to Vucic, Orban then traveled to the UK for talks with Prime Minister Tony Blair and former PM Margaret Thatcher. Greeting him at the door of Downing Street, Thatcher told Orban “it bothers me a lot that you refused to attack Serbia, that’s why more British soldiers will die,” Vucic said. Ultimately, no British troops died during the campaign. Hostilities ceased in June 1999 with the signing of the Kumanovo Agreement, after which NATO troops moved into Kosovo, where they remain to this day. The bombing campaign marked the first time that the US-led alliance used military force without the approval of the UN Security Council, and is still regarded by much of the world as illegitimate.

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Rebalance. I think I still prefer to use the word “Turkey” when we talk Erdogan.

Putin Wants ‘Grand Bargain’ – Türkiye (RT)

Russian President Vladimir Putin wants to strike “a new grand bargain” with the West to erase the humiliations of the post-Cold War period, Turkish presidential adviser Ibrahim Kalin told CNN on Saturday. In an interview with the American broadcaster, he said that the Ukraine conflict will inevitably end in a negotiated settlement, with the only question being when, “and how much damage will have been done by then?” Such a settlement will be about more than the borders of Russia and Ukraine, he continued, arguing that what Putin really aims to do is renegotiate the balance of power between Moscow and the West, after a weakened Russia accepted several rounds of NATO expansion in the aftermath of the Cold War. “Our understanding is that Mr. Putin wants to have a new grand bargain, a new deal, with the West,” Kalin said.

The Turkish official referenced agreements signed by Moscow and NATO in the early 1990s – which included the 1997 NATO-Russia Founding Act, which stated that the alliance would continue to expand, and the 1994 Budapest Memorandum, in which Russia agreed not to use force against its neighbors – as decisions Putin would like to re-do. “The Russian perception is that the Russia of that day, that signed that agreement – that is, the Russia of the Gorbachevs and the Yeltsins – is over,”Kalin claimed. “There is a new Russia, there is a new world, there is a new reality, and they want to have a new bargain.” Putin declared last week that “the ongoing collapse of Western hegemony is irreversible,” and that “things will never be the same.” A multipolar world, he said, will give non-Western nations “an opportunity to strengthen their sovereignty.”

According to Kalin, “This puts of course the entire global order, the liberal order, to a test.” He added: “So far the response has been war from both sides.” Western leaders have not indicated that they intend to negotiate an end to the Ukraine conflict in the near future. Washington’s official line is that it will continue to funnel tens of billions of dollars’ worth of arms to Kiev “for as long as it takes,” and will allow Ukraine to dictate its terms for ending the conflict. Amid the broader conflict between Russia and the West, Türkiye has positioned itself as a middleman, with Ankara hosting peace talks between Russia and Ukraine in March that ultimately broke down. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday called for both sides to return to negotiations, declaring that “even the worst peace will be better than war.”

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Lithuania has nothing.

NATO Should Give Ukraine ‘Everything We Have’ – Lithuania (RT)

NATO countries should arm Ukraine with all available weapons, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis told Ukrainian media on Saturday. However, he expects the alliance’s other members to foot the bill. “Ukraine needs ‘everything we have,’” Landsbergis told Ukrinform, arguing that the Ukrainian military is already capable of working with the alliance’s arsenal now that its troops are receiving training in multiple European countries. While the US has supplied Ukraine with increasingly powerful weaponry, some of its NATO allies have balked at handing over certain arms systems. Germany, for example, refuses to send its most modern Leopard II main battle tanks for fear of causing further escalation. Even in Washington, Pentagon officials have argued that Ukrainian troops would need substantial training to operate Western tanks.

Landsbergis insisted that “these arguments no longer work,” after a series of successful offenses by Kiev’s forces, which are increasingly armed with NATO weapons. “If this is so, I see no reason why Ukraine should not be given everything we have?” the minister said. “I have already said this many times and now I will say it again.” Landsbergis has emerged as one of the most vocally anti-Russian ministers in the EU in the months since Moscow sent its forces into Ukraine. He has threatened Lithuanian entertainers with reprisals for performing in Russia, supported an EU-wide ban on all visas for Russians, and called on NATO to pursue the military defeat of Russia rather than seek a negotiated settlement to the Ukraine conflict.

However, his own military has little to give Ukraine. Landsbergis told Ukrinform that he would only provide “political arguments” for arming Kiev’s forces, as Lithuania does not have its own “significant stockpile of weapons.” While Ukraine has repeatedly called for more and heavier weapons from the West, EU stockpiles are running low, with Germany’s stocks already exhausted as of early September. Although US President Joe Biden has vowed to keep the arms pipeline open for “as long as it takes,” the US is reportedly cautious about delivering more advanced weapons systems. Russian President Vladimir Putin said last week that Russia is now facing “the entire Western military machine” in Ukraine. Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has also warned that “the US, in fact, is teetering on the brink of turning into a party to the conflict” due to its lavish assistance to Kiev.

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Burn baby burn.

Fanaticism Of The Apocalypse (Shellenberger)

In Europe, they’re burning garbage to stay warm. “It’s so bad this season that you can smell trash burning every day, which is completely new,” said the 35-year-old mother of three from Jablonna, Poland, near Warsaw. “Rarely can you smell a regular fuel. It’s scary to think what happens when it really gets cold.” The Polish government suspended quality regulations on coal burning for those who can still afford it; 60% of households no longer can. Because of all the garbage burning, the government may soon hand out masks so its residents don’t inhale toxic fumes. Said one of Poland’s most powerful politicians last month, “one needs to burn almost everything, except for tires and similarly harmful things.” The government estimates that 40,000 people died annually from premature deaths from air pollution before the current crisis.

Forests are being hammered. In Estonia and Finland, forests that had been set aside to capture carbon dioxide to reduce climate change are now being so heavily logged that they are net emitters. Hungary lifted conservation regulations so old-growth forests could be logged; it then banned the export of wood pellets. “People buy wood pellets thinking they’re the sustainable choice, but in reality, they’re driving the destruction of Europe’s last wild forests,” said one conservationist. Wood pellets prices have doubled even in nuclear-heavy France which, under pressure from Germany, and in the grip of renewable energy mania, had been shutting down its nuclear plants so rapidly that it had stopped properly maintaining them. Romania has been forced to cap the price of firewood, which had skyrocketed. Burning wood releases more greenhouse gas emissions than burning coal, something most experts finally acknowledge.

And Europe is returning to coal as quickly as it can. This year it increased thermal coal imports more than any other region. Coal imports increased by 36% more during the first eight months of 2022 than of 2021. Europe’s coal imports are today 10% of the global total. Germany is importing coal from South Africa, which is ironic because, just one year ago, Germany gave South Africa $810 million in exchange for an agreement that South Africa not use coal. And at the United Nations climate change talks in Scotland less one year ago this month, the UN created a special CGI dinosaur to warn all nations, but particularly Africans, that they must not use fossil fuels, and instead do what Europe was doing and, supposedly, transitioning away from fossil fuels to renewables.

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Is the genius who came up with the idea still working there? Look, you can silence a social media account, but you cannot steal people’s money outright.

Elon Musk, Former Exec Lead Backlash Against PayPal (DW)

PayPal reversed its decision to fine users $2,500 for violating its terms of service after Elon Musk and a former executive led a furious backlash against the move on social media. In a tweet Saturday, former PayPal President David Marcus spoke out against a new policy, first reported by The Daily Wire, that would apparently allow the digital payment processor to charge users $2,500 for posting materials that “promote misinformation” or “present a risk to user safety or wellbeing.” Elon Musk, a co-founder of PayPal, said he agreed with Marcus’ criticism, joining a number of others who have spoken out against the new policy. “It’s hard for me to openly criticize a company I used to love and gave so much to,” Marcus wrote on Twitter.

“But @PayPal’s new AUP goes against everything I believe in. A private company now gets to decide to take your money if you say something they disagree with. Insanity.” “Agreed,” Musk wrote in reply to Marcus. The criticism from Marcus and Musk, who was on the board of directors and briefly CEO of PayPal during its early days, were at the front of a fury of backlash to the proposed policy. “Get your money out of [PayPal] right now,” venture capitalist David Sacks tweeted. “Seriously, close your PayPal account immediately if they don’t reverse this today,” replied Scott Adams, creator of the “Dilbert” comic strip. “Why would anyone use @PayPal ever again?” conservative commentator John Cardillo wrote. “They’ve flat out told you they’re going to steal your money if you disagree with the regime.”

“The ‘misinformation’ police are now extending their reach beyond your social media accounts and into your financial accounts,” author and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy wrote. “PayPal probably isn’t protected by Section 230, so it could face legal liability in states with political nondiscrimination statutes,” Ramaswamy added later. “It’s an easier case to make than against a social media platform.” “Orwellian. Paypal reserves the right to take your money if you post a message that Paypal decides is ‘misinformation,’” former FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr said. “This is why it is so vital that state and federal legislatures pass laws that prohibit discrimination by tech companies and protect free speech.”

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“Most hopeless addicts are trying to hock property or score a few bucks for their next hit. Hunter was flying around the world, arranging meetings with his father and coordinating multiple global accounts.”

Cynical Defense Of Hunter Biden: I Was Addicted To Drugs (Turley)

For years, President Biden repeated the same mantra when asked about Hunter Biden’s influence peddling and alleged crimes: “My son did nothing wrong.” It was always implausible — as was his denial of any knowledge of these dealings despite emails and pictures to the contrary. So the president and the press have been shifting to a new defense. As the father recently insisted of his son, “He fought an addiction problem. He overcame it. He wrote about it.” The family and the media have been cultivating the angle for months as they anticipated possible criminal charges. Such charges would not only be an embarrassment for the president but also the media, which have been actively complicit in covering up the multimillion-dollar influence-peddling schemes of the Biden family, including Hunter and his uncle James.

With possible criminal conduct exposed, all that’s left is the addiction defense. Hunter Biden’s autobiographical book laid the foundations for this final line of defense. While the book did not do particularly well in sales with the public, the media offered fawning interviews about his account of addiction. The narrative was ramped up by many of the same media outlets that buried the scandal, including articles on how the family fought “to keep him alive.” Now The Post reports prosecutors are second-guessing charges in light of the addiction and how it might undermine any criminal case. While there’s no question the defense would likely use such an addiction, it’s usually more of a concern for sentencing than charging. Addiction can be cited as a mitigating factor to the court in determining the defendant’s level of culpability.

The most obvious problem for the addiction defense is that Hunter did not appear to have any chemical-based challenge in maintaining a global, multimillion-dollar influence-peddling scheme. The image of a crackhead holed up in high-end hotels with call girls is undermined by thousands of emails on international money transfers and complex deals stretching from Moscow to Kyiv to Beijing. The fact is you can be an addict or alcoholic and still be a criminal. Addiction did not appear to inhibit prosecutors in cases like the murder trial involving Lillo Brancato, the actor from “The Sopranos” series and the movie “A Bronx Tale.” Brancato was a drug addict when he participated in a burglary that ended in a shooting. He was convicted and given 10 years. Indeed, in some cases, prosecutors use addiction is as a motive for committing crimes, particularly in paying for or acquiring more crimes.

Not only is this possible prosecution not based on a drug offense, it would feature a high-functioning defendant who earned millions in influence peddling. Indeed, the now-sober Hunter has repeatedly acknowledged that while his family name may have led to some of his past positions, he is a lawyer with experience that was useful in work like serving on the board of Ukrainian energy conglomerate Burisma Holdings. It will be difficult for Hunter to switch from the privileged-but-capable defense to the hopeless-addict defense. Most hopeless addicts are trying to hock property or score a few bucks for their next hit. Hunter was flying around the world, arranging meetings with his father and coordinating multiple global accounts.

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Common sense.

Lapado: Covid mRNA Vaccine- 84% Increased Risk of Death For Men Ages 18-39 (PM)

Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo on Friday release the state’s analysis of COVID-19 mRNA vaccines, revealing an 84 percent “increased risk of cardiac-related death among men 18-39.” Florida “will not be silent on the truth,” he said. The guidance “recommends against the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines for males ages 18-39 years old.” In a statement, Ladapo said that “Studying the safety and efficacy of any medications, including vaccines, is an important component of public health. Far less attention has been paid to safety and the concerns of many individuals have been dismissed – these are important findings that should be communicated to Floridians.”

The Florida Department of Health released the findings of a self-controlled case series which they used to evaluate the safety of the Covid vaccines, which “studied mortality risk following mRNA COVID-19 vaccination.” It found that “there is an 84% increase in the relative incidence of cardiac-related death among males 18-39 years old within 28 days following mRNA vaccination.” The findings also showed that “Males over the age of 60 had a 10% increased risk of cardiac-related death within 28 days of mRNA vaccination,” and that “Non-mRNA vaccines were not found to have these increased risks among any population. The guidance suggests that Floridians talk to their doctors and health care providers about the relative benefits and risks of vaaccination for Covid with use of mRNA vaccines, and that it should be weighed against the potential risks of Covid.

This analysis comes after the Florida Department of Health issued guidance in March that recommended against use of the Covid mRNA vaccines for “healthy children and adolescents 5 years old to 17 years old.” The state also recommends “against COVID-19 vaccination among infants and children under 5 years old, which has since been issued under Emergency Use Authorization.” When this guidance for children was issued, the Biden administration accused Ladapo of being a “politician.” Florida is not alone in their guidance. Sweden recommends against Covid mRNA vaccines for children ages 5-11. The Danish Health Authority recommends against Covid mRNA vaccines for children under 18. The UK has rolled back their offering of Covid jabs to children ages 5-11, per guidance from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation.

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Hoe much longer can we hide the true cause? Reuters cover its ass from its own headline: “..possibly due to complications arising from extreme heat..”

England’s Heatwaves See Highest Ever Excess Deaths Among Elderly (R.)

England saw the highest excess mortality figure from heatwaves this year since records began in 2004, health officials said on Friday, after a hot summer that saw temperatures rise to all-time highs. England recorded 2,803 excess deaths among those aged 65 and over during summer heatwaves this year, possibly due to complications arising from extreme heat, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) said in a statement. The figures exclude deaths from COVID-19. “These estimates show clearly that high temperatures can lead to premature death for those who are vulnerable,” UKHSA Chief Scientific Officer Isabel Oliver said. “Prolonged periods of hot weather are a particular risk for elderly people, those with heart and lung conditions or people who are unable to keep themselves cool such as people with learning disabilities and Alzheimer’s disease.”


Britain recorded its highest ever temperature, of just above 40 Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) in eastern England on July 19. The heatwave, which caused fires across large grass areas, destroyed property and pressured transport infrastructure, had been made at least 10 times more likely because of climate change, scientists said. read more Around 1,000 excess deaths were recorded among those over 65 between July 17-20, the UKHSA said, while the Aug. 8-17 period recorded an estimated 1,458 excess deaths. Statisticians use “excess deaths” — a term that became more commonplace during the coronavirus pandemic — to describe the number of fatalities in excess of normally observed mortality numbers for a particular time of year.

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Excerpt from William Shatner’s new book, “Boldly Go: Reflections on a Life of Awe and Wonder,” the “Star Trek” actor reflects on his voyage into space on Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space shuttle on Oct. 13, 2021. Then 90 years old, Shatner became the oldest living person to travel into space..

My Trip to Space Filled Me With ‘Overwhelming Sadness’ (William Shatner)

With all the attending noise, fire, and fury, we lifted off. I could see Earth disappearing. As we ascended, I was at once aware of pressure. Gravitational forces pulling at me. The g’s. There was an instrument that told us how many g’s we were experiencing. At two g’s, I tried to raise my arm, and could barely do so. At three g’s, I felt my face being pushed down into my seat. I don’t know how much more of this I can take, I thought. Will I pass out? Will my face melt into a pile of mush? How many g’s can my ninety-year-old body handle? And then, suddenly, relief. No g’s. Zero. Weightlessness. We were floating. We got out of our harnesses and began to float around. The other folks went straight into somersaults and enjoying all the effects of weightlessness. I wanted no part in that.

I wanted, needed to get to the window as quickly as possible to see what was out there. I looked down and I could see the hole that our spaceship had punched in the thin, blue-tinged layer of oxygen around Earth. It was as if there was a wake trailing behind where we had just been, and just as soon as I’d noticed it, it disappeared. I continued my self-guided tour and turned my head to face the other direction, to stare into space. I love the mystery of the universe. I love all the questions that have come to us over thousands of years of exploration and hypotheses. Stars exploding years ago, their light traveling to us years later; black holes absorbing energy; satellites showing us entire galaxies in areas thought to be devoid of matter entirely… all of that has thrilled me for years… but when I looked in the opposite direction, into space, there was no mystery, no majestic awe to behold . . . all I saw was death.

I saw a cold, dark, black emptiness. It was unlike any blackness you can see or feel on Earth. It was deep, enveloping, all-encompassing. I turned back toward the light of home. I could see the curvature of Earth, the beige of the desert, the white of the clouds and the blue of the sky. It was life. Nurturing, sustaining, life. Mother Earth. Gaia. And I was leaving her. Everything I had thought was wrong. Everything I had expected to see was wrong. I had thought that going into space would be the ultimate catharsis of that connection I had been looking for between all living things—that being up there would be the next beautiful step to understanding the harmony of the universe. In the film “Contact,” when Jodie Foster’s character goes to space and looks out into the heavens, she lets out an astonished whisper, “They should’ve sent a poet.”

I had a different experience, because I discovered that the beauty isn’t out there, it’s down here, with all of us. Leaving that behind made my connection to our tiny planet even more profound. It was among the strongest feelings of grief I have ever encountered. The contrast between the vicious coldness of space and the warm nurturing of Earth below filled me with overwhelming sadness. Every day, we are confronted with the knowledge of further destruction of Earth at our hands: the extinction of animal species, of flora and fauna . . . things that took five billion years to evolve, and suddenly we will never see them again because of the interference of mankind. It filled me with dread. My trip to space was supposed to be a celebration; instead, it felt like a funeral.

I learned later that I was not alone in this feeling. It is called the “Overview Effect” and is not uncommon among astronauts, including Yuri Gagarin, Michael Collins, Sally Ride, and many others. Essentially, when someone travels to space and views Earth from orbit, a sense of the planet’s fragility takes hold in an ineffable, instinctive manner. Author Frank White first coined the term in 1987: “There are no borders or boundaries on our planet except those that we create in our minds or through human behaviors. All the ideas and concepts that divide us when we are on the surface begin to fade from orbit and the moon. The result is a shift in worldview, and in identity.”

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    Paul Gauguin Portrait of Ingeborg Thaulow 1877   • Crimean Bridge Explosion Just ‘The Beginning,’ Ukraine Says (RT) • Kiev Amasses Troops On Donb
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle October 9 2022]

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    Veracious Poet
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    Veracious Poet
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    aspnaz
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    The Beltway class wanted to launch the Russia-Ukraine war in 2016, but then Trump got elected and it screwed up their plans.

    So sad that coward John McCain – he paid to have a memorial to himself set up in Hanoi, Vietnam, it says “John McCain crashed his plane into this lake”, if that isn’t ego then what is – didn’t see his long awaited baby being aborted. McCain was a total fraud but he pulled it off well.

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    Britain recorded its highest ever temperature, of just above 40 Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) in eastern England on July 19. The heatwave, which caused fires across large grass areas, destroyed property and pressured transport infrastructure, had been made at least 10 times more likely because of climate change, scientists said.

    This should be researched: why does stuff spontaneously combust at 40C in the UK but not in Asia? We have grass and dead trees – yes, trees die in Asia – yet we don’t get these types of fires. As for climate change, it was kind of them to add a joke at the end, cheers everybody up.

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    aspnaz
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    With all the attending noise, fire, and fury, we lifted off. I could see Earth disappearing.

    90 and blind? He went a few miles up, he obviously forgot his contacts.

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    aspnaz
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    It was as if there was a wake trailing behind where we had just been, and just as soon as I’d noticed it, it disappeared.

    Yes, it’s called pollution.

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    @Veracious Poet That is a truely epic photograph, Thích Quảng Đức was protesting against the Catholics, a far more complex issue, your meme turns gold into junk.

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    Dora
    Participant

    Dr. Peter McCullough permanently suspended and de-platformed from twitter.

    “Twitter just de-platformed the most published peer-reviewed cardiologist and internist in history—and accused him of Covid misinformation. A world-renowned Board Certified medical EXPERT that other experts rely on. -Kate”

    https://gettr.com/post/p1tg4u8db04

    #118058
    Dora
    Participant

    Steve Kirsh about the tweet that got McCullough de-platformed. With links.

    https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/the-last-tweet-of-dr-peter-mccullough

    #118059
    Dora
    Participant

    The short, 3 minute psa on rumble.

    Are The Kids OK?
    https://rumble.com/v1mszqu-are-the-kids-ok.html

    #118060
    zerosum
    Participant

    TAE hasn’t pissed off an angry clerk with a delete button

    40,000 troops on the Russian border..
    Urgent needs
    1. toilet paper and potty
    2. food and kitchen
    3. bed and housing
    4. drinking water
    5. heat and fire
    6. entertainment and stage lights
    dhhhuuuuu
    ———-
    Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu in August made it clear that Moscow is not considering a nuclear strike on Ukraine, given that there are no targets warranting such drastic measures.
    ———–
    Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has also warned that “the US, in fact, is teetering on the brink of turning into a party to the conflict” due to its lavish assistance to Kiev.
    ——–
    In Europe, they’re burning garbage to stay warm.
    All they want for Xmas is coal.

    ———-
    The fact is you can be an addict or alcoholic and still be a criminal.
    ———–
    excess deaths – to describe the number of fatalities in excess of normally observed mortality numbers for a particular time of year..
    Cannot surpass 100% of the living
    ——-
    The Crimean Bridge

    Defense failed to prevent attack on oil supply train
    Attacker’s Guidance System failed to hit the oil train as the primary target

    Let’s blame a truck loaded with explosives to hide the failures of all the expensive systems.
    ————
    Thanks Dora
    Shutting off communications with Impunity

    Any angry, power hungry and unrecognized clerk can permanently suspend and de-platform anyone from twitter or from any social media.
    https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/the-last-tweet-of-dr-peter-mccullough
    ———–

    #118061
    aspnaz
    Participant

    Dora said

    Dr. Peter McCullough permanently suspended and de-platformed from twitter.

    Babylon Bee tells you what you are dealing with … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFNCsSBnYVg. I think the “permanently” bit is misinformation as Musk will probably reverse this, if only to get the rest of the political recruits to resign, leaving the 10% of twitter employees who actually work.

    #118062
    morongobill
    Participant

    I really enjoyed that William Shatner article. I didn’t know he was that good of a writer.

    #118064

    After banning McCullough a few days ago, Twitter has now removed a tweet from Florida Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo (the one linked above).

    #118065
    anticlimactic
    Participant

    I did read that Big Pharma controls 60% of the US advertising budget.

    I am not sure how much this influences Twitter and Facebook’s attitude toward Covid vaccines.

    #118066

    Shane! Come back!

    I hope he’s just taking a break.

    #118067
    zerosum
    Participant

    Black op assassins activated
    https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/watch-john-bolton-calls-putin-assassination-regime-change
    Bolton essentially called for the US to assassinate the Russian leader if the opportunity ever arises.
    Carefully assisting Russian dissidents to pursue regime change might just be the answer,

    Freedom, Democracy, everyday, normal, rule of law, interference in other country’s elections, regime change

    #118068
    zerosum
    Participant

    Capitalism – titfortat
    https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/german-goverment-furious-friendly-countries-charging-astronomical-prices-gas
    German Government Furious At “Friendly Countries” Charging “Astronomical Prices” For Gas

    #118069
    John Day
    Participant

    Peter McCullogh sent me a notification that he has a Substack.
    https://substack.com/profile/68085509-dr-peter-mccullough

    #118070

    Twitter has reinstated Lapado’s tweet. Whatever. Elon!

    #118071
    John Day
    Participant

    Whitney Webb has a 2 part book out exploring “One Nation Under Blackmail” Epstein, etc.
    https://gregmaybury.substack.com/p/one-nation-under-blackmail-the-sordid

    #118072
    Afewknowthetruth
    Participant

    “Continue along your preparedness trajectory”

    #118073
    WES
    Participant

    The poor burning charcoal verses firewood:

    From my African observations there is very little firewood to be had since your neighbors (people/termites) got there first! In African desert areas there is dried dung (sheep, donkey, camel, etc).

    I don’t recall seeing many wooden houses. Something to do with termites, I think.

    If you wait around for dry firewood, you would probably die first. But there maybe plenty of green trees around though in wetter parts of Africa. So creating charcoal does eliminate the wait time for dry firewood while eliminating your direct competition.

    During the dry season, there was plenty of charcoal available roadside in large burlap sacks. I remember the never ending smokey haze everywhere. Nobody in Western countries would have tolerated this level of air pollution.

    I don’t remember charcoal being made during the rainy season. Of course the multiple down pours everyday would have nicely scrubbed the smoke and haze from the air, so I wouldn’t have been aware of it’s continued production.

    #118074
    thomasjkenney
    Participant

    re: the Shatner, it’s a beautiful piece, expresses himself well. But he’s recoiling. I might react the same way, never been to space. Maybe he needs to digest the experience for a while. All that beauty and more is certainly out there. It’s just unattainable in that way humans desperately crave – the cruel trick.

    He’s being a bit disingenuous re: the ‘Ellie Arroway’ quote. She’d been gifted a front row seat on a tour of random spectacle. If John Glenn’s or Yuri Gagarin’s mission had been to go to Europa (a comparative dull trinket), how would that have affected pop culture? What if those first travelers had returned with tales of Cibola?

    @bosco: entropy, time, heat death – Think of every particle you can name as simply another eddy in space/time. It’s all just spin, slowly unwinding. There are no solid particles, just warpage and the attendant force. Entropy drives all, yet is simply the phenomenon of the unwinding. All seeks a level of ‘unenergized’ (from the Big Bang? before?). The particles with the highest energy fall like talus and expend that energy. Things that expedite entropy are ‘selected as agents’ – species use/waste more and more energy, elements congregate and ignite into stars (heaviest first!). Thus we are absolved from being rapacious gits. Not our fault!

    Now consider that our ‘universe’ is simply quantum representation of distinct ‘atoms’ from as many different ‘universes’ simply participating in our own on their off time. And if this might be so, is it possible that all the ‘universes’ taken at once are simply a solid? All ‘particles’ roiling within their own, but when all instances fill all possible positions of the spin, they’re whole?

    Though I’m growing to hate him and his ilk, I still think Benford was right. Biologics are precursors to machines. That’s why we don’t have E.T. in an embassy somewhere.

    Forbidden Fruit

    #118075
    WES
    Participant

    V.P.

    Your “mouse plans” cartoon expresses exactly my future concern as I get closer and closer to having to close up the island cottage for the winter.

    Yesterday I had my son buy a box of Bounce, the clothes dryer wrinkles and static sheets. I will place sheets of Bounce all around the cottage particularly the beds, couches, chairs, clothes, etc.

    I know moth balls don’t work with the island mice other than to give them “the all clear” signal that it is safe for them to all move in for the winter!

    #118076
    zerosum
    Participant

    DYO mouse trap

    #118077
    oldandtired
    Participant

    Still no images of the damage done to Nord1 and Nord2 pipelines?

    Nord1 cost 10 times more to build than the Twin Towers, yet crickets?

    Are they worried about unexploded ordnance? Why not send down an ROV?

    Does Germany even care? Just seems weird.

    #118078
    oxymoron
    Participant

    Maybe Dr woke the algorithm which woke the red flag and is getting a talking to.

    FYI
    https://anonfamous.substack.com/p/the-creation-of-the-central-banks

    #118079

    I watched Derren Brown*’s ted talk and thought- is it that easy? One minute, he tells the audience “everybody but the [victim] is in on [his psychological tricks]. Later he says- after entering the entertainment “illusion”, that “I don’t know any of you, etc.”
    If you accept the first admission, you can assume the second is a lie. Then, everything makes sense. So much happens in the “illusion” that support that he is lying, but the audience is invested and wants to believe he isn’t.

    *He is styled a “mentalist” and does parlor tricks. He’s very good at what he does.

    So: Why weren’t there two distinct plumes in the baltic?

    #118080
    Dora
    Participant

    “How is it possible for you to be so easily tricked by something so simple as a story, because you are tricked? Well, it all comes down to one core thing and that is emotional investment. The more emotionally invested you are in anything in your life, the less critical and the less objectively observant you become.” — David JP Phillips, We Don’t Have Time board of directors, “The Magical Science of Storytelling”

    #118081
    aspnaz
    Participant

    zerosum said

    Urgent needs
    1. toilet paper and potty

    Toilet paper was also on AFKTT’s list but I don’t understand why. The Germans want to live in poverty so they should take a leaf out of the Asian handbook, maybe Indian or Chinese, and use water and one of their hands. Squat toilets with a bucket of water with ladel or hose are still very common in Asia. Of course, poverty in not a prerequisite to clean yourself with water, the Japanese have the washlet but you would need electricity, so that is a non starter. Of course, western people who spend time in the outdoors will have faced this problem before and will either have sought out a plant with big leaves or used the best option which is a stream (bit chilly in the German winter).

    #118082

    Oh yeah. Here is the link to the ted talk.
    Oxymoron- geez, I hope not.

    #118083
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    We are experiencing a financial coup d’etat.

    The central bankers have given up on the west; they are moving the money out and they are trying to eliminate us.

    WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT MR GLOBAL – PART TWO

    #118084
    Redneck
    Participant

    I am a bit surprised Kanye had the nads to say what he said about the Kushners. But then when you are worth billions , that is power too.
    What he said is no surprise , just the fact that he said it is.
    Jews have controlled the president and the country from at least the moment the FED was sneaked through the congress.
    When a tiny minority with allegiances to a foreign power control money and finances through the FED and Wall st. , the culture through Hollywood , the national and the global narrative through NYT and media and now through social media also have the power of censorship , they control the country.
    Take a look at the deep state , they are in all the positions of power. Take a look at any photo of any presidents staff , mostly they are in a majority , all unelected of course.
    The situation is not unlike Germany between the wars , except now they have one hundred percent protection through hate and discrimination laws , you know the Holocaust thing and all.
    In Trump’s case they were playing both sides , as they do, in one hand controlling the president through Kushner and co. and on the other hand trying to have him removed from office.
    It is an open secret.
    Israel is always the winner though.
    Sweet!
    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/kanye-accuses-kushner-sabotaging-trump

    #118085
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    What makes Derren Brown such a wonderful mentalist is his conscience-free aptitude for telling whatever lie is necessary to persuade the “mark” that he’s telling the truth. Once the mark believes the lie, the con is complete, and in show-biz the audience is always the mark (and willing to pay good money to stay that way.)

    #118087
    John Day
    Participant

    “Open Secrets” Everybody knows that everybody knows…
    https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/open-secrets

    ​Putin Decries “Act Of Terrorism” On Crimean Bridge, Identifies Ukraine Secret Services As Culprits
    ​ ​”The authors, perpetrators and sponsors are the Ukrainian secret services,” Putin said during a meeting with the head of the investigation committee, according to a video shared by the Kremlin.
    “There is no doubt this is a terrorist act aimed at destroying critical Russian civilian infrastructure,” Putin added.
    The Investigative Committee head also said that the Federal Security Service (FSB) had identified the suspects that were involved in the attack.
    https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/large-explosion-destroys-part-key-bridge-linking-russia-crimea-zelensky-aide-says

    ​ ​Report: US Special Operations Forces are on the Ground in Ukraine​
    ​The CIA initially predicted that Kyiv would fall quickly to Russia, but after it became clear that wouldn’t happen, the Biden administration sent its covert assets back into Ukraine.
    ​ ​The report said that US clandestine operations inside Ukraine “are now far more extensive than they were early in the war, when US intelligence officials were fearful that Russia would steamroll over the Ukrainian army.”
    ​ ​Several current and former intelligence officials said that there “is a much larger presence of both CIA and US special operations personnel and resources in Ukraine than there were at the time of the Russian invasion in February.”​ …
    ​..​The Intercept report said the covert operations inside Ukraine are being conducted under a covert presidential finding that indicates President Biden has quietly notified Congress of a “broad program of clandestine operations inside the country.”

    Report: US Special Operations Forces are on the Ground in Ukraine

    ​ Moon of Alabama (excerpts not in order)
    ​Boris Rozhin, aka Colonel Cassad, reported on Telegraph (machine translation):
    Today there was a sortie of foreign mercenaries in the Zaporozhye direction, which included, among other things, American special forces soldiers. They were so self-confident that they decided to carry out reconnaissance in battle with this stellar squadron. However, they did not take into account the presence of our units in this zone, which are able to maintain secrecy on the air, and suffered losses…
    On the increasing failures of Starlink communications in Ukrainian battlefield setting recently:
    At the beginning of the war the Ukrainian military was supplied with thousands of Starlink ground terminals that can connect to the swarms of small Starlink satellites, which were financed by the Pentagon, but managed by Elon Musk’s companies. They allowed for communication between Ukrainian ground units as well as for general command and control of larger operations. Without Starlink the Ukrainian command will depend on cable based field telephone, runners and couriers. All of which are extremely vulnerable in an artillery rich environment.
    Since 2001 Russia developed the Tirada 2 electromagnetic system which can disable ground to satellite traffic in specific areas…
    ​ ​The Kerch bridges which connect Crimea with Russia, one for cars and one for trains, were sabotaged. At least one of the two road spans has fallen down while tanker rail cars on the parallel train bridge caught fire.​..​This is a severe handicap for Russian logistics to the frontlines in south Ukraine but not a catastrophe as alternative rail and road routes, as well as ferries, are available. Military logistics is designed to work even under significant constrains. It will find ways to work around the problem.
    https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/10/ukraine-sitrep-recent-incidents-concerning-all-sides.html#more

    ​ Pepe Escobar: Nordstream 2 Offers Germany a Date with Destiny​ (excerpts not in order)
    ​ ​It started with Gazprom revealing that the Line B string of NS2 is intact; not only it escaped Pipeline Terror but may “potentially” be used to pump gas to Germany…​ ​Pipeline Terror was a desperate gambit to keep Germany from concluding a sanctions carve-out for the Nord Streams with Russia.
    ​ ​A secret channel of negotiation was in effect. It’s enlightening to consider that all previous actions by Berlin and Moscow, delaying and restricting the gas flow, were carried out to keep the Empire from following through on its threat of terminating NS2.​..
    ​ Russian Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandr Novak followed up, with a caveat: restoration of the whole system, including NS, is possible, and “requires time and appropriate funds”. But first, in Russia’s order of priorities, the perpetrators must be conclusively identified.​..
    .​.N​either Russia nor the Nord Stream operators are allowed to investigate Pipeline Terror. Russia insists that without its participation the investigation is flawed..
    ​..​Line B is capable of pumping 27.5 billion cubic meters of gas a year, which happens to be half of the total capacity of NS.​ (1/4 of NS + NS-2 total flow)​…
    ​..T​he “investigation” of how Pipeline Terror happened feels like Kafka rewritten by NATO.
    The operators of NS and NS2 – Nord Stream AG and Swiss-based Nord Stream 2 AG – cannot reach the scene of the crime because of absurd restrictions imposed by the Danes and the Swedes. The operators need no less than 20 working days to obtain the “permits” to carry out their own inspections.​..
    ..I​t’s NATO investigating itself – Sweden is about to enter NATO – with no Russians allowed. All top working hypotheses on Pipeline Terror point to an intra-NATO dirty op against NATO member Germany.
    ​ ​So any disturbing evidence pointing to NATO actors may conveniently “disappear” or be tampered with during these long 20 days necessary for the “permits” to be issued.​..
    ​..The Morgenthau Plan after WWII was concocted to literally starve Germany to death via the destruction of the Ruhr coalmines. It’s strikingly similar to the Straussian plan by American neocon psychos to cut Germany off from Russian natural gas by bombing NS and NS2.​..
    ​..US intel was very much aware of the rapprochement between Berlin and Moscow. Striking NS and NS2 was the signature gambit of the Morgenthau Plan remixed by the Straussian/neocon combo.​..
    ​..​Germany may have its own destiny on its hands after all. Just turn on the switch on NS2.
    https://www.unz.com/pescobar/nord-stream-2-offers-germany-a-date-with-destiny/

    #118088
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    The Jews again, huh?

    So the only begotten Son of the singular Jewish God (and a devout rabbi, no less!) was what, then, a Presbyterian?

    #118089
    John Day
    Participant

    Polemos finds important discontinuities of the MonkeyWerx timeline of the P-8 Poseidon​ flying over the Nordstream pipelines the night they were sabotaged. It does not appear that a direct attack on the pipelines by the naval attack aircraft is plausible. It may have been evaluating damage, since it was overhead after the explosions. The P-8 did leave Iceland, not the US, before the explosions occurred that night. There was a large Sikorsky military helicopter over the scene that night also. https://polemos.substack.com/p/is-monkeywerx-just-bad-misleading

    ​ ​Elon Musk, Former PayPal Exec Led Backlash Before PayPal Abandoned Plan To Fine Users $2,500 For ‘Misinformation’​
    ​“Seriously, close your PayPal account immediately if they don’t reverse this today,” replied Scott Adams, creator of the “Dilbert” comic strip.
    https://www.dailywire.com/news/elon-musk-former-paypal-exec-led-backlash-before-paypal-abandoned-alleged-plan-to-fine-users-2500-for-misinformation

    ​ Meryl Nass MD: ​The first day of my Medical Board hearing (to end the suspension of my license) is October 11 at 1 pm
    It will be live-streamed and live-blogged. I will be the first witness. There is a link to the live-stream. Witness history!
    Dr. Nass was suspended for treating COVID with hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin based antiviral therapies. Not a single patient filed a complaint about his or her care; not one.
    https://merylnass.substack.com/p/the-first-day-of-my-medical-board

    Dr. Peter McCullough’s last tweet “Are the kids OK?” is the video the media definitely doesn’t want you to see or share.
    Steve Kirsch, and the video at this link. Maybe you can get this to a couple of Dr. McCullough’s half-million former-Twitter-followers.
    https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/the-last-tweet-of-dr-peter-mccullough

    ​ Dr. McCullo​u​gh emailed me this: ​Welcome to Substack from Dr. Peter McCullough with John Leake​ ​Yes! We are starting a Substack!
    https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/welcome-to-substack-from-dr-peter?

    #118090
    John Day
    Participant

    ​Florida Surgeon General: Covid mRNA vaccine found to cause 84% increase in DEATH for men ages 18-39
    The analysis found that “there is an 84% increase in the relative incidence of cardiac-related death among males 18-39 years old within 28 days following mRNA vaccination.”
    https://thepostmillennial.com/florida-surgeon-general-covid-mrna-vaccine-found-to-cause-84-increase-in-death-for-men-ages-18-39

    ​ ​T​​witter Removes, Then Reinstates Florida Surgeon General’s Covid Vaccine Warning Tweet
    Twitter appears to have pulled a PayPal, and promptly re-instated the post in question after blowback on the social media site about the censoring. As of about noon on the East Coast Sunday, the Tweet was once again showing up under Florida Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo’s feed.
    https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/florida-surgeon-general-recommends-against-mrna-covid-19-vaccines-males-aged-18-39

    ​ Jessica Rose Ph.D. looks at “case-self-control” with each vaccine recipient 28 days before and 28 days after the injection even.​
    The self-controlled case series study in Florida that shows increased risk of cardiac-related death
    Here’s what it all means…
    ​..​It is a powerful technique in that the controls are built-in – each individual included in the study comprises a case (individuals who have experienced the outcome of interest) with an observation time divided into control and risk periods, depending on when they were injected with a biological, in this case.
    https://jessicar.substack.com/p/the-self-controlled-case-series-in

    ​ This is actually “real-news”. Steve Kirsch has the story:​
    Australia has solved the vaccine hesitancy problem: they offer a free funeral gift card with your vaccine
    If you die from the vaccine, they’ll pay for your funeral. So now, you have no reason to say “No.” One minor problem: the payment is not guaranteed. Your next of kin still has to apply.
    https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/australia-has-solved-the-vaccine

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