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Paul Gauguin Sheperd and sheperdess in a meadow 1888

 

A Light in the Darkness (Jim Kunstler)
Twitter Has Lost 50 Of Its Top 100 Advertisers Since Elon Musk Took Over (NPR)
Antifa Plans To Burn Down Tesla Outlets Following Twitter Bans (Cheong)
Elon Musk: I’ll Make An Alternative Phone If Apple, Google Ban Twitter (PM)
Putin Expresses Regret Over Donbass (RT)
UK Urges Ukraine To ‘Maintain Momentum’ In Winter (RT)
Ending NATO and Correcting Stalin’s Mistake (Batiushka)
Ukrainian Troops Used As ‘Cannon Fodder’ – Putin (RT)
Moscow Won’t Declare Ukraine ‘Terrorist State’ (RT)
China Dissuaded US From Ukraine Warplane Plan – Spectator (RT)
The Ukraine Is Committing “Suicide By Cop” (Saker)
On Ukrainian ‘Refugees’ (Batiushka)
The Economist: Gas & Energy Prices To Lead To Surge In Deaths In Europe (RT)
J6 Staff Lash Out at Liz Cheney for Burying Parts of the Investigation (Turley)
Louisiana AG: Fauci ‘Can’t Recall’ Details Of His COVID-19 Response (JTN)

 

 

 

 

 

 

November 25th – Utter nonsense in Ukraine – Macgregor

 

 

 

 

 

 

“I think Elon Musk is right: the Mainstream News Media will now face a venue where its habitual lying is called out forcefully..”

A Light in the Darkness (Jim Kunstler)

It’s hard to overstate how damaging Twitter’s dark years of insidiously massaging public opinion have been to this country. Open debate could have clarified the fog of deliberate disinformation surrounding everything Covid-19. It would have been much harder for public health officialdom to gaslight America over the origin of the disease, and probably impossible to conceal the nefarious operations behind the Emergency Use Authorization, the suppression of effective early treatments, and the direct ties to drug companies’ profits. The result of that has been the broad deployment of dangerous and deadly pseudo-vaccines that have killed millions and disabled many more. The absence of honest debate has turned doctors into murderers and accomplices to genocide.

The scope of this bureaucratic crime is really outside the experience of most Americans, who never imagined that their elected and appointed leaders would act against them with such rank dishonesty, cruelty, and bad faith. But there it is. And if Twitter continues to open up, the more likely that the responsible parties will be held accountable. Likewise, the now-pervasive Kafka-esque program of political persecution carried out against citizens by government officials, including the many seditious schemes of RussiaGate; the ongoing, escalating mischief around elections; and the use of the FBI and DOJ as a combined secret police and kangaroo court apparatus.

You can add to all that turpitude, the wild irresponsibility of “Joe Biden’s” open border policy, our idiotic provocation of Russia in Ukraine, the surrender of America’s national sovereignty to the globalist Great Re-set cabal and its tools in the World Health Organization, and the domestic campaign by Woke Jacobins to sexually disorder the lives of American children. I think Elon Musk is right: the Mainstream News Media will now face a venue where its habitual lying is called out forcefully. You can already see The WashPo and CNN attempt to make small shifts in their coverage of events, which double as efforts to cover-up their past lying in the hopes that the public won’t notice that it happened.

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On a much smaller scale, TAE suffers from the same practices.

Twitter Has Lost 50 Of Its Top 100 Advertisers Since Elon Musk Took Over (NPR)

Half of Twitter’s top 100 advertisers appear to no longer be advertising on the website. A report from Media Matters for America states that these 50 advertisers have spent almost $2 billion on Twitter ads since 2020 and more than $750 million just in 2022. Seven additional advertisers have slowed their advertising to almost nothing, according to the report, which was published on Tuesday. These companies have paid Twitter more than $255 million since 2020. Chevrolet, Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc., Ford, Jeep, Kyndryl, Merck & Co. and Novartis AG all issued statements about halting Twitter ads or were reported and confirmed as doing so. The others ceased advertising on the platform for a “significant period of time following direct outreach, controversies, and warnings from media buyers.”

The report wrote that even with these hits to advertising revenue, Twitter CEO Elon Musk has “continued his rash of brand unsafe actions — including amplifying conspiracy theories, unilaterally reinstating banned accounts such as that of former President Donald Trump, courting and engaging with far-right accounts, and instituting a haphazard verification scheme that allowed extremists and scammers to purchase a blue check.” Twitter users like author Stephen King have criticized the new blue checkmark system. The symbol used to verify the identity of Twitter accounts, so it was easy to confirm a tweet’s source. Eli Lilly and Co. stopped showing ads on Twitter the day after an account impersonating the pharmaceutical company — complete with a purchased blue check mark — posted, “We are excited to announce insulin is free now.”

Eli Lilly asked Twitter to take it down, but the tweet remained up for hours, because the platform’s staff was stretched thin due to recent layoffs and resignations. The tweet garnered hundreds of retweets and thousands of likes, and Eli Lilly’s stock soon took a dive. Endpoints News reported that 12 pharmaceutical giants soon stopped buying Twitter ads, citing Pathmatics, which collects data on corporate advertising and digital marketing trends. King quipped on Twitter, “Pretty soon the only advertiser left on Twitter will be My Pillow.” The pillow-manufacturing company is run by pro-Trump conspiracy theorist Mike Lindell.

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“This is just a drop in the ocean of years of violent organizing on Twitter..”

Antifa Plans To Burn Down Tesla Outlets Following Twitter Bans (Cheong)

Following his takeover of Twitter, “Chief Twit” Elon Musk has quickly begun to address many of the platform’s problems. Musk, who intends for Twitter to be a platform for legal free speech, has moved to crack down on terrorists and violent far-left extremists who have for many years been a fixture on Twitter and used it to organize riots. Now Tesla, which Musk owns, has become the target of violent retaliation by far-left militants angered by the suspension of their accounts. This week, Musk moved to ban a pro-Palestinian “resistance” group called “Jisr Collective,” which promoted and celebrated terrorist acts against Israeli civilians. In a separate thread, Musk called for members of the public to report violations of the site’s terms of service against child sexual exploitation and far-left extremist violence.

Numerous self-identified Antifa militants including several prominent organizers have been banned for calling for violence against Chaya Raichik, who operates the popular “Libs of TikTok” account, and Daily Wire host Matt Walsh. “Incitement to violence will result in account suspension,” said Musk in response to journalist Andy Ngo, who explained that a large number of Antifa accounts operate on the website to promote riots and provide tips to each other on how to identify targets and commit violence. Ngo detailed how following his reporting on members of the loosely-knit far-left militant organization, he was chased down and beaten up, forcing him to seek refuge at a Portland hotel in 2021. “Antifa used Twitter to direct comrades to swarm me after I ran into a hotel following a violent street beating,” wrote Ngo.

“That is a disturbing story and very concerning that Twitter took no action, despite clear violation of ToS. Report in this thread for now,” replied Musk, prompting numerous users to provide him with clear examples of militants in violation of the site’s rules against threats and intimidation. Many of the users reported on the thread were banned several hours after being reported to Musk, suggesting that he took direct action to shut down their accounts. Hours after the bans, Antifa militants took to the social media platform to organize arson attacks on Tesla locations around the United States, posting the addresses of Tesla service centers and dealerships. “As revenge for [Elon Musk] suspending violent extremist accounts on Twitter, [Antifa] in Portland are organizing arson attacks on [Tesla] locations tonight,” reported Ngo, who provided screenshots of the calls to action. “This is just a drop in the ocean of years of violent organizing on Twitter,” he added.

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“App store fees are obviously too high due to the iOS/Android duopoly. It is a hidden 30 percent tax on the Internet.”

Elon Musk: I’ll Make An Alternative Phone If Apple, Google Ban Twitter (PM)

On Friday, Twitter owner Elon Musk, who also is the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, said that if Twitter is removed from app stores owned by Apple and Google, whose phones only use those systems, he would create an alternative phone. Liz Wheeler wrote, “If Apple & Google boot Twitter from their app stores, @elonmusk should produce his own smartphone. Half the country would happily ditch the biased, snooping iPhone & Android. The man builds rockets to Mars, a silly little smartphone should be easy, right?” Musk replied, “I certainly hope it does not come to that, but, yes, if there is no other choice, I will make an alternative phone.” On Friday, Taylor Lorenz used her latest column in the Washington Post to call for Apple and Google app stores to pull Twitter from their stores.

This came after Musk announced that there will be a general amnesty for all banned accounts, following a poll of Twitter users.. Lorenz complains that Musk brought back conservative Christian satire site The Babylon Bee, who was banned by noting that Rachel Levine is a biological male. After Time Magazine awarded Levine “woman of the year,” The Babylon Bee awarded Levine “man of the year.” On November 18, Musk noted how Apple and Google through their vertical integration have a duopoly on the market and wrote, “App store fees are obviously too high due to the iOS/Android duopoly. It is a hidden 30 percent tax on the Internet.” Musk followed up and tagged the antitrust division in the Department of Justice.

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“If not for the coup d’état in Ukraine in 2014, none [of this] would have happened..”

Putin Expresses Regret Over Donbass (RT)

The Donbass republics should probably have rejoined Russia sooner, Russian President Vladimir Putin said at a meeting with the mothers of troops involved in the military operation in Ukraine on Friday. In such a case, fewer lives might have been lost, the president stressed. “There might not have been so many casualties among civilians, there would not be so many children killed,” the Russian leader suggested. He maintained, however, that back in 2014, Russia did not have a full understanding of the situation in Donbass or of the true sentiments of the locals. “[We] believed that we might still be able to reach an agreement and … reunify Donetsk and Lugansk with Ukraine within … the Minsk Agreements,” Putin noted, adding that Russia was “genuinely working towards that.”

Commenting on the matter further, the president blamed the 2014 coup in Kiev for the subsequent crisis in Donbass and the conflict between Russia and Ukraine. “If not for the coup d’état in Ukraine in 2014, none [of this] would have happened,” he said. Brokered by Germany and France, the Minsk Agreements were first signed in 2014 in the wake of the ousting of then-President Viktor Yanukovich, which plunged Ukraine into a conflict between the post-coup government in Kiev and the Donetsk and Lugansk regions. Having subsequently become the respective people’s republics, the territories declared their independence from Ukraine the same year. The accords were designed to give the regions of Donetsk and Lugansk special status within the Ukrainian state.

Yet, their implementation was stalled – something Moscow repeatedly blamed on Kiev. Former Ukrainian president Pyotr Poroshenko has since admitted that Kiev’s main goal was to use the deal to buy time and “create powerful armed forces.” In February 2022, the Kremlin recognized the Donbass republics as independent states and demanded that Ukraine officially declare itself a neutral country that will never join any Western military bloc. On February 24, Russia sent troops into Ukraine, citing Kiev’s failure to implement the Minsk agreements. Putin spoke at that time of the need to protect the Russian-speaking population of Donbass. This autumn, four formerly Ukrainian territories, the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics, as well as Kherson and Zaporozhye Regions, were incorporated into Russia following referendums.

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“..the international community” has provided Kiev with “300,000 pieces of arctic warfare kit.”

UK Urges Ukraine To ‘Maintain Momentum’ In Winter (RT)

UK Defense Secretary Ben Wallace has called on Ukraine to “keep up the pressure” on Russian forces in the coming months, arguing that Kiev is well-prepared to fight in freezing conditions. Wallace made the remarks in an interview with The Daily Beast on Thursday. The defense secretary suggested that Kiev’s forces had the advantage “in equipment training and [the] quality of their personnel” over Russian troops. With this in mind, “it would be in Ukraine’s interest to maintain momentum through the winter,” he said, adding that “the international community” has provided Kiev with “300,000 pieces of arctic warfare kit.”

Wallace’s comments come after US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin warned that Ukraine might be about to face a “harsh winter,” as the country is reeling under Russian strikes on its infrastructure. Moscow has been targeting Ukrainian energy facilities since October 10, after accusing Kiev of attacking Russian structures, including the strategic Crimean Bridge. Due to these strikes, Ukraine has been experiencing rolling blackouts, with Ukrainian authorities saying that these attacks knocked out about 40% of the nation’s energy infrastructure. However, by urging Ukraine to push on, the British defense secretary is contradicting earlier statements made by General Mark Milley, who heads the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, as he warned that Ukraine’s chances of “kicking the Russians out of all” of the country were low.

The top US general also indicated that the upcoming winter was a diplomatic opportunity for Kiev. “When there’s an opportunity to negotiate, when peace can be achieved, seize it. Seize the moment,” he said. At the same time, US President Joe Biden said last week that he expected the ongoing conflict in Ukraine to “slow down” in winter due to the “inability to move as easily around the country”while vowing to continue supporting Kiev. Moscow has repeatedly stated that it is open to negotiations with Kiev. Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, however, has listed several conditions for any dialogue with Russia, including the “restoration of [Ukraine’s] territorial integrity,” “compensation for all war damage,” and the “punishment of every war criminal.”

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“..today it is in the Warsaws of the ‘New Europe’, far from the North Atlantic, that you will find the most fanatical latecomer-devotees of NATO..”

Ending NATO and Correcting Stalin’s Mistake (Batiushka)

Judging by its name, NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation was only ever about the USA and the UK, an agreement between Americans and the half-American Churchill. After all, what relevance does the ‘North Atlantic’ have to Baltic Germany or Mediterranean Italy, let alone to Aegean Greece and Black Sea Turkey? Even Spain and Portugal look towards the Caribbean and the South Atlantic, not to the North Atlantic. NATO is clearly an organisation that descended directly from the Atlantic Charter, made up by Roosevelt and Churchill in a bay off Newfoundland in 1941 (not even in the Atlantic), and then imposed on all the others.

So, whatever was the North Atlantic doing in the foothills of the Himalayas, in Afghanistan? Apart from the fact that that was its greatest defeat (so far), just what was it doing there? And what is the North Atlantic, or at least parts of it, doing in the South China Sea? Surely there is a clue in the name – China? It belongs to China. Whatever are the US Navy and others doing there? Surely, even the geographically-challenged Liz Truss, who wanted the whole world to be ruled by NATO, must have been thinking that it was time to rename NATO? Perhaps the Nazi American Tyranny Organisation? Like that you could keep the same initials. As the Saker has pointed out, the first NATO Secretary-General, the Indian-born colonial, General Hastings (1) Ismay, bluntly admitted that the purpose of NATO was ‘to keep the Soviet Union out, the Americans in, and the Germans down’ (2).

And as the Saker has explained: ‘Keep the Germans down’ means crush all Europeans who might be rivals to the Anglosphere’s control of Western Europe, and now control all of Europe, apart from the free Russian Lands. ‘Keep the Americans in’ means crush all European liberation movements, De Gaulle’s or any others. ‘Keep the Soviet Union out’ means destroy Russia, so that it does not liberate Europe from the tyranny of the Anglosphere. The latter is symbolised by the US and British flags that have been omnipresent, even on fashion items, T-shirts and jeans, ever since the 1960s. That is why true Europeans refuse to wear such items.

In reality, it is obvious that NATO should have been packed away on 1 July 1991, the day the Warsaw Pact was packed away. If it had been packed away in 1991, the NATO rout would have been avoided thirty years later in Afghanistan. Indeed, the fact that it was not packed away then is a tragedy which has cost millions of lives, especially all over the tragic Middle East, and today all over the tragic Ukraine. Interestingly, the answer to the aggression and bullying of NATO (the American elite always bullies), the Warsaw Pact was named after the Capital of Poland. Ironically – and there is nothing so ironic as history – today it is in the Warsaws of the ‘New Europe’, far from the North Atlantic, that you will find the most fanatical latecomer-devotees of NATO. What is the significance of NATO?

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“..we are dealing with a neo-Nazi regime, without any exaggerations.”

Ukrainian Troops Used As ‘Cannon Fodder’ – Putin (RT)

Russian President Vladimir Putin says Russia is not fighting against the people of Ukraine, but against those who would use them as cannon fodder in the ongoing military conflict between Moscow and Kiev. Speaking to the mothers of Russian servicemen on Friday, the president said that those who supply Ukraine with weapons and fund the Kiev government have no consideration for Ukraine’s losses. Meanwhile, those who do not fall in line with orders are executed on the spot right in front of their comrades, Putin added. “Our boys have seen this firsthand. The bodies of the executed are just left to lie there. Just recently there was another case – five people were shot right in front of the lineup, those who refused to go or left their positions,” the president said.

He appeared to be referring to an incident reported by Russia’s Defense Ministry last week, in which Kiev allegedly sent nationalist militants into the village of Belogorovka to “put things in order” and intimidate Ukrainian servicemen, a number of whom had refused to follow orders and were shot. “There is a completely different moral atmosphere [in Kiev’s forces],” Putin noted, adding that this once again confirmed that “we are dealing with a neo-Nazi regime, without any exaggerations.” The president said that in light of such a situation, Moscow is further reassured it is doing the right thing by protecting the people who live in the territories that have recently joined the Russian Federation. Last month, Russia incorporated the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics, as well as the former Ukrainian regions of Kherson and Zaporozhye, after these territories held referendums on seceding from Ukraine and joining Russia.

Russia sent troops into Ukraine on February 24, citing Kiev’s failure to implement the Minsk agreements, designed to give the regions of Donetsk and Lugansk special status within the Ukrainian state. The protocols, brokered by Germany and France, were first signed in 2014. Former Ukrainian President Pyotr Poroshenko has since admitted that Kiev’s main goal was to use the ceasefire to buy time and “create powerful armed forces.” In February 2022, the Kremlin recognized the Donbass republics as independent states and demanded that Ukraine officially declare itself a neutral country that will never join any Western military bloc. Kiev insists the Russian offensive was completely unprovoked.

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“The doctrine of ‘state terrorism’ is exploited by the US and other Western countries to justify interfering in the internal affairs of others, which violates the UN Charter..”

Moscow Won’t Declare Ukraine ‘Terrorist State’ (RT)

Russia will not designate Ukraine a “terrorist state” despite “outrageous” breaches of international humanitarian law by Kiev, Deputy Foreign Minister Oleg Syromolotov told journalists on Friday. Moscow rejects any doctrine that suggests a nation can be declared “terrorist” and sees no reason to adhere to this “flawed” policy that is used by the West, he said. The doctrine of ‘state terrorism’ is exploited by the US and other Western countries to justify interfering in the internal affairs of others, which violates the UN Charter, the deputy minister noted. It is also used to “legitimize their unilateral coercive measures violating the principle of sovereign equality of all nations,” Syromolotov added.

Russia has always considered such unilateral sanctions “unacceptable,” the high-ranking diplomat stressed. Terrorism as a criminal act always involves individual criminal responsibility of those involved in making attacks, Syromolotov explained, adding that only individuals and not entire nations can be held accountable in such cases. Designating Ukraine a terrorist state now would be “legally flawed” in nature, he explained. The diplomat also blasted a recent resolution by the EU parliament that called Russia a “state sponsor of terrorism,” saying this was part of an “information and political campaign waged by the West against our nation,” one which had nothing to do with the real fight against this international threat.

Amid the ongoing conflict with Russia, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky has repeatedly referred to Russia as a “terrorist” state and called on other nations – particularly in the West – to designate it as such. In mid-October, he asked the Council of Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly to do so before it adopted a relevant resolution. Zelensky once again urged the “world” to recognize Russia as a “terrorist state” earlier this week. However, Washington, Ukraine’s top military backer in the conflict, has been reluctant to meet Kiev’s request so far. On Tuesday, US Ambassador-at-Large for Global Criminal Justice Beth Van Schaack said that the country simply could not designate Russia a “state sponsor of terrorism” as it does not meet the relevant criteria.

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“Warsaw announced that it would transfer the jets to US forces at Ramstein Air Base in Germany. Hours after this announcement, the Pentagon stopped the transfer, describing the Polish proposal as “not tenable.”

China Dissuaded US From Ukraine Warplane Plan – Spectator (RT)

China pressed the US into abandoning a plan to supply Ukraine with Polish warplanes in March, according to a report in the Spectator on Friday. Throughout the conflict, Beijing has pressed both sides to de-escalate, the report claimed. Two weeks after Russian troops entered Ukraine in late February, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken publicly stated that Washington had given its NATO allies a “green light” to supply Ukraine with Soviet-era fighter jets its pilots could use, and that it was working on a deal where Poland would transfer its fleet of MiG-29 fighters to Kiev. Within days, Warsaw announced that it would transfer the jets to US forces at Ramstein Air Base in Germany. Hours after this announcement, the Pentagon stopped the transfer, describing the Polish proposal as “not tenable.”

China was directly responsible for this about-turn, The Spectator report claimed. Citing an unnamed Chinese source, writer Owen Matthews described how “an urgent and confidential back-channel initiative involving former European leaders” began. This initiative was “ultimately endorsed by the Chinese,” and Washington backed down. Nearly nine months later, NATO has still not provided Ukraine with fighter jets, despite intense lobbying from Kiev. China’s efforts to prevent escalation went both ways, the report claimed. While Beijing pressed the US into stopping the transfer of warplanes, its generals reportedly phoned their Russian colleagues for assurances that Moscow would stick to its long-standing nuclear doctrine: that it reserves the right to use atomic weapons in the event of a first nuclear strike on its territory or infrastructure, or if the existence of the Russian state is threatened by either nuclear or conventional weapons.

China’s position on Ukraine remains a neutral one. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi declared last week that Beijing stands ready to work with Russia “and other like-minded countries to promote the development of a multipolar world,” and according to Matthews’ report, Beijing and Moscow signed a limited mutual defense pact earlier this year. Nevertheless, China has not sold military hardware to Russia, and its diplomats continue to publicly call for a negotiated settlement to the conflict.

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“..now they are going to pay a horrible price for these delusions and, frankly, lack of decency/morality.”

The Ukraine Is Committing “Suicide By Cop” (Saker)

Yesterday I received an email from a Ukrainian friend of mine. By “Ukrainian” I mean that his culture and self-identity is Ukrainian, he loves his heritage, speaks the language and loves his country. In fact, he is what I would call a “real Ukrainian” as opposed to the Ukronazis in power in Kiev. We correspond regularly and exchange opinions on what is taking place. Here is and excerpt of what I wrote to him yesterday: “I am also heartbroken with the evolution of the war to liberate the Ukraine from NATO: while I have no doubts about the outcome, I am horrified at the thought of what this does to the civilian population. My sadness is even made deeper by the realization that to a large degree the people of the Ukraine did it to themselves.

Russia tried REALLY HARD to not have a war, then she tried REALLY HARD to save the civilians and the civilian infrastructure. But the people under Nazi occupation believed all the propaganda coming out of the regime in Kiev and the West and now there will be hell to pay. For 6 months these naive people thought the Ukraine was winning because they could not even fathom that Russia was only using about 10% of her forces and trying really hard to save as many Ukrainians. But no, they were celebrating the murder of Dugina, the attack on the Crimean Bridge, the attacks on the ZNPP and now they are going to pay a horrible price for these delusions and, frankly, lack of decency/morality.

As Douglas MacGregor said “the Russians are about to bring a sledge-hammer” to vaporize the NATO forces in the Ukraine. We did not want that. It was imposed on us. What else can I say? The Nazis will be crushed, but the costs of doing so will be needlessly high. Millions of refugees will be added to the millions who already fled. I feel utterly disgusted, sad and angry about this outcome As one Rock song I know (“Gates of Babylon” by Rainbow – see below) says: “sleep with the devil, and then you must pay, sleep with the devil and the devil will take you away“. I am sad to say that I believe that the people of the Ukraine did “sleep with the devil” (the West) and now comes the inevitable.

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“As for the Ukrainians, they call Russians ‘moskali’ (Muscovites) and the Russians call Ukrainians ‘khokhly’. A ‘moskal’ is also a bigoted Great Russian chauvinist with a superiority complex, who despises provincials in the Ukraine who used to have a certain hairstyle called a ‘khokhol’ (literally a forelock, a style revived by some hair-conscious Ukrainian nationalists today). However, as a very good half-Polish, half-Ukrainian friend explained to me years ago: ‘Ukrainians live in the Ukraine, khokhly (plural of khokhol) live anywhere they can’. What he meant by this is that the lowest sort of Ukrainians are not patriots at all..”

On Ukrainian ‘Refugees’ (Batiushka)

[..] most of the best Ukrainians, the real and honourable Ukrainians, have stayed in the Ukraine. Of all the ‘refugees’ I have met so far (and that must be over 100), I have not yet met one who is authentic. Whether by unintended consequence or by design, the Russian Federation is very successfully ‘dekhohklifying’ the Ukraine. Russia is successfully emptying the Ukraine of the lowest and most unprincipled layer of parasites, the khokhly. The population of the Ukraine is already down to fewer than 30 million – so far. More are leaving every day, streaming into Poland The khokhly go westwards. Let Western Europe take them, the rubbish. The good ones will stay. A few months ago I still thought that Russia would just free the Donbass, as it announced last February and also take the land-bridge of Zaporozhie and Kherson to protect the Crimea from the Nazis, who were turning off the water supply from there.

Then I realised that Russia would have to go further, simply because the West was supplying the Kiev regime with shells and missiles that were falling not just on the liberated areas, but even in southern Russia. Today it seems to me that Russia will have to liberate the whole of the Ukraine, even as far as Lvov and the border with Poland. Why not, if the trouble-making khokhly have gone and are bankrupting Western social security systems with their parasitic sponging? Why should the treacherous Poles get anything out of this? The Poles rejoiced when the UK blew up Nordstream and then tried to start World War III, blaming a murderous Ukrainian missile on Russians. Let them pay for the consequences. If the Nazis are either all dead or living in the EU, there is no reason for Russia to stop in the Donbass, or Kiev, or even Lvov.

Liberate right up to the Polish border, freeing freezing Non-NATO Moldova on the way and stopping only there, at the Romanian border. Maybe let the Romanians have back North Bukovina (Chernivtsy) and the nice Hungarians have (the to-be-renamed) Zakarpattia. As for the rest: Winner takes all. Russia may now take all of the Ukraine because all the Nazi khokhly will have left for stupid Western Europe. It will have a nice straight border then. It is not a question of how many Ukrainian ‘refugees’ will go back. It is a question of how many of them Russia will allow back. The answer is very few.

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“..the increase in deaths might be limited to 32,000 above the historical average (accounting for changes in population). A harsh winter could cost a total of 335,000 extra lives.”

The Economist: Gas & Energy Prices To Lead To Surge In Deaths In Europe (RT)

Rising electricity prices, bad weather conditions and epidemics will affect the increase in deaths in Europe this coming winter, Report informs referring to The Economist. Although heatwaves get more press, cold temperatures are usually deadlier than hot ones. Between December and February, 21% more Europeans die per week than from June to August. The relationship between energy prices and winter deaths could change this year. But if past patterns persist, current electricity prices would drive deaths above the historical average even in the mildest winter. Exact mortality totals still depend on other factors, particularly temperature. In a mild winter, the increase in deaths might be limited to 32,000 above the historical average (accounting for changes in population). A harsh winter could cost a total of 335,000 extra lives.

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“But when [the committee] became a Cheney 2024 campaign, many of us became discouraged.”

J6 Staff Lash Out at Liz Cheney for Burying Parts of the Investigation (Turley)

There is a deepening division on the J6 Committee as staffers turn on Liz Cheney over the final report on the January 6th riot. Angry rhetoric is flying with staffers accusing the Committee of becoming a “Cheney 2024 campaign” while both the Cheney spokesperson and Committee spokesperson lashed out at the staff members as “disgruntled” and producing shoddy or biased work. The underlying issue, however, is important and revealing. The Committee’s color coated teams include a “Blue Team” on the failure to prepare adequately for the riot. That part of the investigation is reportedly being dumped or reduced. Members of the “Green” and “Purple” teams are also reportedly irate. Cheney was soundly defeated in her primary in Wyoming and will soon leave Congress.

She is being pushed by some Democrats as a possible surprise candidate for House Speaker if they could get a few Republican votes. That seems highly unlikely. The Republicans are likely to end up with the identical margin held by the Democrats for the past two years. Alternatively, some Democrats want Cheney to run for president either to dog Donald Trump in the primary debates or to run as an independent to siphon off votes in the general election. That seems to be the suspicion for some staffers in the Washington Post story. Fifteen former and current staffers, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations, expressed concerns that important findings unrelated to Trump will not become available to the American public…

Several committee staff members were floored earlier this month when they were told that a draft report would focus almost entirely on Trump and the work of the committee’s “Gold Team,” excluding reams of other investigative work. Potentially left on the cutting room floor, or relegated to an appendix, were many revelations from the “Blue Team” — the group that dug into the law enforcement and intelligence community’s failure to assess the looming threat and prepare for the well-forecast attack on the Capitol. The proposed report would also cut back on much of the work of the Green Team, which looked at financing for the Jan. 6 attack, and the Purple Team, which examined militia groups and extremism.

“We all came from prestigious jobs, dropping what we were doing because we were told this would be an important fact-finding investigation that would inform the public,” said one former committee staffer. “But when [the committee] became a Cheney 2024 campaign, many of us became discouraged.” If true, the report will largely track the virtual exclusive focus of the hearings with open references to the 2024 election as an overriding concern. Some of us have lamented that the J6 Committee could have been so much more than a one-sided, highly partisan investigation. House Democrats barred two Republican members originally selected by GOP leaders, who then boycotted the panel in response.

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“Wow! It was amazing to spend 7 hours with Dr. Fauci,” Laundry wrote Wednesday on Twitter. “The man who single-handedly wrecked the U.S. economy based upon ‘the science.’

Louisiana AG: Fauci ‘Can’t Recall’ Details Of His COVID-19 Response (JTN)

Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry says that Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the chief medical advisor to the U.S. president, could not recall details of his COVID-19 response during a deposition. Landry and Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt deposed Fauci as part of their “lawsuit against the federal government for allegedly colluding with social media companies to censor speech.” According to a press release from Landry’s office, “Louisiana and Missouri filed this landmark lawsuit in May of 2022 and have since uncovered troves of discovery showing that the federal government and the Biden Administration have worked with social media companies to censor speech on topics like COVID-19 and other issues.”


Landry commented on Fauci’s deposition on Wednesday. “Wow! It was amazing to spend 7 hours with Dr. Fauci,” Laundry wrote Wednesday on Twitter. “The man who single-handedly wrecked the U.S. economy based upon ‘the science.’ Only to discover that he can’t recall practically anything dealing with his Covid response!” Prior to the deposition taking place, Landry said he hoped to “find out how involved #Fauci was in the censorship of the American people during the COVID pandemic.”

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    Paul Gauguin Sheperd and sheperdess in a meadow 1888   • A Light in the Darkness (Jim Kunstler) • Twitter Has Lost 50 Of Its Top 100 Advertisers
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle November 26 2022]

    #121943
    aspnaz
    Participant

    Paul Gaugin and Nina Simone … what a day … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inNBpizpZkE

    #121945
    zerosum
    Participant

    Kudos for all the creative photoshops
    NEW.
    Survival skills to teach grandkids. How to find the lies/manipulations hidden everywhere

    We at TAE will have fun digging through the lies and dirt revealed by Twitter
    • A Light in the Darkness (Jim Kunstler)

    Advertisers seek to take your income, add to inflation, increases/manipulate your feelings
    • Twitter Has Lost 50 Of Its Top 100 Advertisers Since Elon Musk Took Over (NPR)
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    ‘State Terrorism’
    NATO forces trained the Ukraine the military soldiers.
    The Ukraine soldiers are dead.
    Foreigners, (NATO forces in the Ukraine), are the mercenaries driving the Ukrainian male conscript into the artillery kill zone.
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    Old age defense – can’t recall
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    #121946
    Red
    Participant

    “cold temperatures are usually deadlier than hot ones. Between December and February, 21% more Europeans die per week than from June to August. The relationship between energy prices and winter deaths could change this year.”

    I see no mention of a depleted immune system being a possible problem in a cold and damp environment. I’m sure that wouldn’t contribute to an increase in respiratory disease among others. I guess only time will tell!

    #121947
    Dr. D
    Participant

    “30-Year-Old Co-Founder of Crypto Trading Platform Amber Dies “Unexpecteldy” in His Sleep”

    That’s five(?) crypto heads recently? “Died Suddenly” is suddenly very common – and no one’s interested in it – but that’s quite a trend. How would you tell? What if like China — that the WEF said today is their world model – we just happen to have lock downs in all the cities that are upppity, and all the people that annoy us just happen to test positive and die? Like egg farmers?

    Or alternatives to banking that disallow central control we’ve been working towards for 100 years?

    “There Will Be Pain” – Binance’s ‘CZ’ Floats Billion Dollar Bailout for Distressed Crypto”

    You are kidding me right? Let me put it this way: if you need a bailout, you’re not worth being bailed out. Get stuffed. It’s impossible to need a bailout since the wallet addresses still exist, and the coins are in one of those wallets. (Same with US$ banking)

    I did see a headline on FTX today: “This Is What the Top of Mt. Stupid Looks Like”, with a picture of Ellison.

    “Post-FTX Regulatory Crackdown Will Erode Liberties, Accelerate Path to CBDC ‘Social Engineering’

    That may be true, but if it can be regulated by governments, or prevented by governments, it’s not Liberty. Because they will never allow it. Then we have the same system as now. The CBDC “Social Engineering” money is what we have now. All money is digital. Almost zero money is paper form. All the computer accounts that it sits on are completely visible and tracked. You already can’t move $2,000, enough to buy a non-working car, and they are already freezing your accounts if you visit Ottawa for entirely legal reasons.

    I think Elon Musk is right: the Mainstream News Media will now face a venue where its habitual lying is called out forcefully…”

    Not really, as the people are habitual liars who approve. It starts with us.

    Kunstler: “Think of it: all the college presidents and deans, all the corporate CEOs, all the judges, all the governors, mayors, and agency heads, all the news editors and network producers who did nothing and said nothing about the wholesale demolition of truths, values, and principles carried out by Woke-Jacobin maniacs under their watch. And what’s more appalling: they all pretended not to notice each other’s craven inaction and silence.”

    This is what I mean by an immoral state, or an immoral West. If all the PEOPLE are completely without morals, what do you expect? That governments would be wildly MORE moral than their constituency? That “We’d be better than Ourselves”? We all pick ourselves up by our own bootstraps? That if I, an immoral person can’t hack it, I’d give it to equally immoral person to enforce?

    And some, like Musk, do, and barely as he’s a uncaring, chick-flipping, auto-car smashing murderer. But the immoral population will tolerate no morality and justice AT ALLand fight it with their life-blood at every turn. So 100,000 : 1 attacks at any limitations of any kind. Even for all the open crimes we’ve seen for decades in the FBI.

    “It’s hard to overstate how damaging Twitter’s dark years of insidiously massaging public opinion have been to this country.”

    That’s its POINT. That’s WHY it was created. Or a a minimum, captured from Dorsey, who it took years to capture it back. They tried some alternatives, but the App is the Users, and via Network effect, Twitter wuz it. So…they captured it. It sucks, and it’s a bad place to start, but if that’s what it takes, they methodically positioned and did it. AFTER the election.

    “You can already see The WashPo and CNN attempt to make small shifts in their coverage of events, which double as efforts to cover-up their past lying in the hopes that the public won’t notice”

    Yes, with much more LYING. “We never said lock down, AND we were on Hunter’s laptop from the beginning. You must be crazy and remember it wrong.” Uh-huh. Since the people are more immoral than the reporters, they approve and aren’t mad at all.

    “Science-is-Censorship”:

    Remember “Event 201”, the almost unbelievably timed blueprint for all this? Their 80% focus was CENSORSHIP. Control. Messaging. Media. The disease? Meh. It kills people so who cares? Go as slow as you can, maybe we won’t have to cure it. Naturally this $40M is a pittance. FTX gave that much themselves for censorship out of the ESG extortion mafia family of insiders. CNN, WaPo…what do you think paying like-kind value for their worldwide, media-wide biased PR services would cost? $200 Billion?

    “Twitter Has Lost 50 of Its Top 100 Advertisers Since Elon Musk Took Over (NPR)”

    The ESG mafia got woke, went broke. Since like Comcast and Cigna, they provide zero services for infinite money, enforced by paid government monopoly. Aka, “Fascism”. Now that they’re broke because they suck so much they can barely exist, they don’t have the money for advertising. So it goes for violent, oppressive mafias that kill everyone: eventually the people don’t like them anymore.

    P.S. NPR is also broke, since they are an advertising/PR wing of the Democratic Party, paid for by Republicans from coast to coast. Good work if you can get it. Imagine turning Fox news into a State Media arm, paid for by a tax only on Democrats.

    “The company is run by pro-Trump conspiracy theorist Mike Lindell.”

    That means he’ll be right in 6 months.

    “Antifa Plans to Burn Down Tesla Outlets Following Twitter Bans (Cheong)”

    Yes but to be fair, Antifa burns down everything. They don’t need a reason. But Tesla stations aren’t black people or black neighborhoods. Can they burn them down anyway?

    “large number of Antifa accounts operate on the website to promote riots and provide tips to each other on how to identify targets and commit violence.”

    I thought violence was illegal! The only thing not covered by free speech! Not if you’re Antifa, and your targets are black people. Then it’s open season. #Caring!

    “Hours after the bans, Antifa militants took to the social media platform to organize arson attacks on Tesla locations around the United States, posting the addresses of Tesla service centers and dealerships. “As revenge for [Elon Musk] suspending violent extremist accounts on Twitter, [Antifa] in Portland are organizing arson attacks on [Tesla] locations tonight,”

    This is literally extortion and racketeering. There is no clearer definition. It’s also terrorism more broadly, although I’m reluctant to use that word for most actions. But isn’t burning things randomly and broadly, which easily spreads to the general population, in order to violently intimidate people into political ends, the definition of Terrorism?

    Not according to Biden and the DoJ. FBI. DHS. Light it all up! We’ll burn more. Harris will be around shortly with the bail money, plus wages for protestors, as posted in Craigslist.

    Elon Musk: I’ll Make an Alternative Phone If Apple, Google Ban Twitter (PM)”

    In the years leading up to this, they specifically deployed infinity money against every. Single. Cell phone producer to engineer this snooping police-state monopoly, aka “Fascism”. That was against Nokia, Blackberry, and I’m sure several others, who were top-tier. They cannot be allowed. Now we only have s—t phones that cost $1,200 and barely work.

    It’s also why they used the “App store” plan to begin with. For example, it was the dumbest, tits-on-a-boar-hog slap-it-on system in Vista(?) and 10. It didn’t work for s—t and they still had the normal app installation at the same time. But it was all to “Cloud” apps, where they OWN YOUR PRODUCTION. That is, if you piss off Microsoft or miss a payment, you can’t even read your own documents. Not only are the DOCUMENTS in the cloud, where they and corporate competitors can pay to read them (a technique well-honed by Microsoft/Cisco/US spying on German industry) but you don’t even own the APP to read them with. You whole company ceases to exist. Law, medicine, real estate, doesn’t matter what it is.

    Now why any company would consent to this, I have no idea, especially as 10 days of the year something gets hosed and the company-required bolt-and-screw tracking app goes down, but apparently industry is even MORE idiotic and fail-oriented than even Microsoft. And that’s saying something.

    Anyway, the point of moving to this far less functional platform, was exclusively extortion and control. The people love it! “Shut up and take my money for apps that don’t work!” –Middle Management Purchasing, worldwide.

    What WON’T they do? Hire three in-house programmers at half the cost to write their own system, which gives them instant changes and long term control of their own data. Never! We would have to EMPLOY LOCAL PEOPLE! We hates the money soo much!!

    Nope. Give it to Microsoft, the biggest failure in the known Universe.

    ““300,000 pieces of arctic warfare kit.”

    300,000 pieces? Like “Mitten: Left” and “Mitten: Right”?

    ““restoration of [Ukraine’s] territorial integrity,” “compensation for all war damage,” and the “punishment of every war criminal.”

    Just a few little things: Give back all Russian states so we can finish ethnically cleanings them. Surrender Crimea and your largest base and warm water port. Versailles-level reparations to Ukraine, forever. And the arrest and execution of Vladimir Putin and every existing Russian official. To be replaced by Navalsky, with 1% popularity, and convicted criminal (for fraud). Oh and first-strike nuke for Moscow when we immediately join NATO.

    Hope you don’t mind and we’ll be sending our Army to Moscow to make sure, shortly. Right? Now why you don’t want peace?

    “Moscow rejects any doctrine that suggests a nation can be declared “terrorist”

    That is correct. States execute “war” under an umbrella of law and are not generally by definition terrorists.

    “Why should the treacherous Poles get anything out of this?”

    Hahaha. That’s because giving them Lviv and Western Ukraine isn’t a blessing, it’s a curse. It would tie up Poland for a generation, and change them forever.

    “The Economist: Gas & Energy Prices to Lead to Surge in Deaths in Europe (RT)”

    But, but, but, “If even a single life is saved…” We shut down all freedoms worldwide and transfer all assets to the 0.01%. But now “We’ll do whatever it takes, regardless of how many grandmas killed”? Huh. It’s almost like you don’t believe what you say. You should hire Cuomo.

    “She is being pushed by some Democrats as a possible surprise candidate for House Speaker”

    Apparently they don’t know how voting works? And I can see why not, having not done it fairly since 2000? The Democrats DON’T VOTE. They have zero say in the matter. It’s a GOP-only party vote. STFU.

    “some Democrats want Cheney to run for president either to dog Donald Trump in the primary debates”

    Please, PLEASE do this. Cheney, aside from being the face of her failed, hated, war-mongering father, is the face of everything America hates about the RINO party. Every day she gets in the news is a win for Democracy and Populism.

    “would focus almost entirely on Trump and the work of the committee’s “Gold Team,” excluding reams of other investigative work. Potentially left on the cutting room floor”

    Um. That means they didn’t find anything. Again. And again and again and again and again. We now know (and covered by Dore) that the FBI DID have MANY agents inside Jan 6 going back months or years. THE HEAD OF THE PROUD BOYS WAS A PAID FBI INFORMANT. The #2 of the OathKeepers was an FBI informant.

    …Yet they had no idea! They didn’t stop it! So many crimes were committed, they never arrested anyone beforehand! Oh wait: if no crimes were being committed because no one has been arrested, WHY WERE THERE MOLES AND INFORMANTS PLACED? On what legal basis? That requires a type of warrant and authorization. That we the FBI infiltrate and keep dossiers on everyone? Including the Quakers? (This is true).

    So you were in there for years, these red hats had all pre-planned and pre-organized a violent, armed coup, yet no one was arrested, nothing was stopped, and the Capital wasn’t reinforced even when President Trump asked everyone from Pelosi to the doorman, and in fact Twitter and the whole planet to get troops and do so? When zero weapons were found and the court has already ruled it wasn’t pre-planned?

    That’s your story?

    Yup. And the American people believe every word. Unarmed people always topple the largest government ever without any planning or weapons after the secret state illegally infiltrates them and knew all about it for months. Duh.

    ““Wow! It was amazing to spend 7 hours with Dr. Fauci,” Laundry wrote Wednesday on Twitter. “The man who single-handedly wrecked the U.S. economy based upon ‘the science.’”

    …And not “The Law” because literally every action he did was illegal. As Dr. Birx so helpfully wrote in her book: “We totally knew the vaccine wouldn’t do anything and wouldn’t stop the spread. So I lied and did it anyway and am very proud and happy.”

    “troves of discovery showing that the federal government and the Biden Administration have worked with social media companies to censor speech”

    This is a Civil Rights violation, arrestable, and able to serve long jail sentences. Also able to be civilly prosecuted for hundreds of millions in compensation, or even prove racketeering for organized crime.

    Huxley: And as he said in his extensive book, we first make sure they all have free drugs, sex, and porn. It’s critical to make them stupid and destroy the family. Is it “1984” or “Brave New World”? Both. Whatever works to make me more powerful and on full-service Epstein Island. It’s a Happy Ending.

    “What all the entrenched insiders in America’s parasitic, predatory elites and institutions don’t dare admit is that to protect themselves from consequence, we’ve had to sacrifice everything else…” –CHS.

    It’s like a cancer. Trust-fund kids COULD work hard and compete fairly. But why? It’s so much easier to win UN-fairly. But to win un-fairly they have to steal the gains justly due to smarter, better people. This is a cancer. The only way to maintain the unfairness is to create MORE unfairness and protect more, poorer, dumber trust fund kids. The circle affected must expand ever wider, involving more cheating, corruption, market to fill the black hole of incompetence generated by a few trust fund kids who don’t want to work, study, and compete fairly. Eventually the entire economy is a writhing system of unjust control, and a ragged rat’s nest of pure incompetence. Then it collapses and is conquered and occupied by violent outsiders and everyone loses, even the incompetent, unjust Insiders.

    #121948
    Red
    Participant

    A long article well worth reading if you really are looking for practical information, I’ll include a couple of snippets:

    Comparing the range of bows and firearms is far from straightforward. Bullets travel very fast initially (almost 3,000 km/h) but quickly lose speed along their trajectory. In contrast, an arrow travels relatively slowly (150-250 km/h) but loses very little speed. 56 The same characteristics that make it easily penetrate a target also help to penetrate the air. Furthermore, unlike bullets, arrows fly – they are among the first applications of aeronautics, thousands of years before the invention of the airplane. 923

    As a consequence, an arrow remains lethal during its entire flight, even at maximum range. Stronger still, its lethality increases if shot at an angle of 45 degrees, compared to shooting at medium range. 46924 The arrow will gain speed – and thus momentum and kinetic energy – on its way down. In contrast, when you shoot a bullet in an arc for maximum range, it will have lost so much speed that it’s unlikely to be lethal when it hits the ground. 25 A bullet not only needs more momentum and kinetic energy to penetrate a target. It also requires more speed to compensate for its inferior aerodynamics.
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    In the hands of skillful and strong archers, bows can produce a similar rate of fire as semi-automatic weapons, and they can outperform guns and pistols
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    Rather than being technically superior weapons, firearms took the skills and muscular effort out of killing someone from a distance

    https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2022/11/what-if-we-replace-guns-and-bullets-with-bows-and-arrows.html

    #121949
    Red
    Participant

    The plandemic was always just the beginning! I think most, if not all here, know this.

    Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò: The COVID Pandemic Farce Served as a Trial Balloon for the New World Order

    Once again: the assessment of events from a medical point of view should take into account the legal implications of certain choices, such as the imposition of masks or, even worse, mass “vaccination,” made in violation of the fundamental rights of citizens. And I am sure that in the field of health governance the manipulations of the classification codes of diseases and therapies will also emerge, which have been designed to make the harmful effects of measures taken against COVID-19 untraceable, from placing people on respirators in intensive care to watchful waiting protocols, to say nothing of the scandalous violations of regulations by the European Commission which – as you know – has no delegation from the European Parliament in the field of Health, and that is not a public institution but rather a private business consortium.

    Just in the past few days, at the G-20 Bali summit, Klaus Schwab instructed heads of government – almost all coming from the Young Global Leaders for Tomorrow program of the World Economic Forum – about the future steps to be taken in view of establishing a world government. The president of a very powerful private organization with enormous economic means exercises undue power over world governments, obtaining their obedience from political leaders who have no popular mandate to subject their nations to the delusions of power of the elite: this fact is of unprecedented gravity. Klaus Schwab said:

    “In the fourth industrial revolution the winners will take it all, so if you are a World Economic Forum first mover, you are the winners” (here).

    These very serious statements have two implications: the first is that “the winners will take it all” and will be “winners” – it is not clear in what capacity and with whose permission. The second is that those who do not adapt to this “fourth industrial revolution” will find themselves ousted and will lose – they will lose everything, including their freedom. In short, Klaus Schwab is threatening the heads of government of the twenty most industrialized nations in the world to carry out the programmatic points of the Great Reset in their nations.

    Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò: The COVID Pandemic Farce Served as a Trial Balloon for the New World Order

    #121950
    Red
    Participant

    STORY AT-A-GLANCE
    Will Harris is a regenerative farming pioneer who runs White Oak Pastures in Bluffton, Georgia
    He produces high-quality grass fed products, including beef and other animal products, and is an inspirational example of how to convert from conventional to regenerative agriculture and thrive financially
    Regenerative agriculture, Harris says, “is a kinder, gentler agriculture … we call it biomimicry, the emulation of nature”
    While it’s an imperfect emulation, it helps to restore the natural cycles that have been broken by industrial farming
    Every agricultural county in the U.S. could replicate what Harris is doing to create sustainably grown food and improved communities
    Toward that end, he and his team created the Center for Agricultural Resilience to educate thought leaders on the benefits of building animal, plant and human ecosystems that can nourish communities instead of destroy them

    https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2022/11/26/will-harris-on-regenerative-agriculture.aspx

    #121952
    Red
    Participant

    One of the things I will learn to make when I’m finished building my smithy shop, sometime over the next year.

    a crossbow from a leaf spring:

    Making a long bow:

    Making a recurve bow:

    All the process to make a traditional takedown recurve bow.
    The bow ends with 35lb@28″ and was made with bamboo + fiberglass laminated in limbs and some Brazilians woods in the riser.

    Tudor on bow making in general:

    In this step by step bow making video, Clay Hayes takes you, step by step, through how to make a hickory self bow from self bow design through tillering and finally shooting our new longbow. It is a complete guide, DIY self bow building for beginners. We start with a small hickory bow stave and use very few bow building tools to make this wooden bow. These techniques will work to build bows in the recurve bow, longbow, and flatbow designs. For this build we’ll use a drawknife and farrier’s rasp for the bulk of the work. We start by using the drawknife to remove the bark and cambium form the bow stave, then use a chalk line to mark center. We lay out a 64″ longbow and rough it out before starting to tiller the bow. Before the final tillering, we clamp the selfbow to a form and heat treat the belly to harden it and make a more efficient weapon.

    #121953
    Red
    Participant

    A bow without a sting is just a stick!

    #121954
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    The current cast of politicians and hacks are such incompetent liars that I almost yearn for the days of Tony Blair and Colin Powel, or even (dare I say it?) the inimitable Walter Cronkite. At least then we had the ephemeral serenity of believing , if only for a fleeting moment, that we knew what the fuck was going on.

    #121955
    zerosum
    Participant

    Here is what I learned from watching https://publicorderemergencycommission.ca/public-hearings/
    How to tell a lie under oath.
    Start by saying, “It was my belief,…”
    and
    “I don’t accept you characterization”

    #121956
    oldandtired
    Participant

    @Dr. D

    ““300,000 pieces of arctic warfare kit.”

    300,000 pieces? Like “Mitten: Left” and “Mitten: Right”?

    Was thinking the same thing, but socks. “My Mittens”. Buy the right mitten for $1,000 and get the left mitten absolutely free! Plus shipping and handling. Make your check or money order out to:DNC

    #121957
    Noirette
    Participant

    chooch, thx for the link prev. thread. Velina Tchakarova was new to me.

    Very tortured arguments I thought, typical ‘expert’ obfuscation, while making some good points like “Bifurcation”, ok. 100% anti-Russian while sounding ‘analytical’, purporting to present a knowlegeable, intellectually solid, world overview…(heh)

    She says: There are no plans in Europe of what to do “When Ukraine wins the war” (stated as a certain forthcoming result ..)

    (implied, >> EU leaders better get with the script and admit Ukraine will win)

    The questions pre-suppose: “There is a great chance Russia will collapse…” says the interviewer.

    She says: “Russia is eager to present itself as an actor for fake peace talks” (paraphrase)

    (>> Peace offers from Russia should be dismissed out of hand as they are ‘fake.’)

    (summary) She taxes Russia w. Nuclear Blackmail, Information Warfare, Food and Fertilizer and Energy Weapons. Russia has been carefully preparing for 8 years, and they have been waiting for the right timing to start it.

    (>> Russia is the epitome of evil and has been planning to conquer / fight war on Europe for 8 years, EU leaders better react, and fast)

    vid: https://bit.ly/3gGekiI

    Main reasons for USuk, the collective poodlish West, to declare that Ukraine is winning, will win against Russia:

    — to hide what this war is about

    — to keep the EU public on board, victory is close, keep the funding up, make sacrifices for noble Ukr., give up heat and your job, life will eventually become normal, once the Evil Putin is régime-changed. We ARE winning, just a little more effort…

    sidebar. Laying everything on Putin as a madman is necessary, as Europeans like Russia, Russians, their Christian brothers, the people they know, have met, collaborate with, married, are on the same continent, etc. Not to mention the commercial / energy / etc. ties, incrediblly vital to all, ease of travel, property ownership, etc.

    — to assure those fighting in UKR and all support for them (arms, finance, media prop, etc.) that USuk, EU, have your back, you can’t quit, your sacrifice is not in vain, victory is yours to take. Vile lies, nobody in power in the W cares about Ukr. deaths, suffering.

    — to fool and control Zelensky (mind you he has no autonomy so that is pretty much pro forma, just to furnish talking points.)

    #121958
    upstateNYer
    Participant

    Dr D: “But it was all to “Cloud” apps, where they OWN YOUR PRODUCTION. That is, if you piss off Microsoft or miss a payment, you can’t even read your own documents. Not only are the DOCUMENTS in the cloud, where they and corporate competitors can pay to read them (a technique well-honed by Microsoft/Cisco/US spying on German industry) but you don’t even own the APP to read them with. You whole company ceases to exist.”

    Excellent summary. I’ve been saying this for years. No one, literally no one, *seems* to understand what I’m saying. Last remote company I worked for ran their entire enterprise on free google apps. Absolutely insane.

    #121959
    Red
    Participant

    Energy or rather the lack of it will level most playing fields.

    “It also blamed “the increase in electricity costs.” It needs electricity in massive quantities to power its crypto mining rigs and data centers, and electricity is therefore one of its major input costs.

    And it blamed its “ability to meet its liquidity needs,” or rather lack of ability, and while at it, it blamed its debt covenants that it cannot comply with.

    Its reserves were down to $32 million in cash and just 62 Bitcoin as of October (about $1 million in fiat), down from over 8,000 Bitcoin earlier in 2022. It had sold those Bitcoin holdings to stay afloat as Bitcoin was plunging. At the same time, electricity prices soared. And because its stock price imploded, it couldn’t raise cash by selling more stock.”

    Lose $1.7 billion on $519 Million in Revenue? Bitcoin Miner SPAC Core Scientific Shows How. Bankrupt a Year after Going Public?

    #121960
    Afewknowthetruth
    Participant

    In a society that does not even know the difference between inertia and momentum and uses the terms interchangeably, how can there possibly be any general understanding of the complex role that carbon dioxide plays in the maintenance of the temperature of the Earth?

    There is even less chance when people have decided the answer before looking at the evidence and fall for any and every bit of hogwash churned out by an ‘official’ or obscure person who says what they want to hear.

    Daily CO2

    Nov. 25, 2022 = 418.77 ppm

    Nov. 25, 2021 = 415.52 ppm

    #121961

    Red- Bows are one thing. It’s arrows that are hard.

    #121962
    Afewknowthetruth
    Participant

    Evidence for the first recorded mass assault of one tribe on another was revealed when archaeologists discovered a large collection of skeletons in North Africa dated at around 13,500 years ago and noted that the vast majority had skulls that had been smashed in.

    The development of internal combustion engines and complex explosive devices facilitated the mass assaults of one tribe on another at distances of up to about 1000 km.

    The development of large moving platforms to carry delivery systems across oceans facilitated mass assaults of one tribe on another anywhere on Earth.

    The development of complex communication systems facilitated mass assaults on the brains of humans anywhere that electricity was available.

    The loss of electricity, one region at a time, and then one nation at a time, and then across the entire planet, will facilitate a return to prehistoric methods for assaults by one tribe on another.

    Crossbows will probably be good throughout the transition phase.

    Still waiting for the treason trials to commence. I guess they will come after the fake currency system and fake economic system of NATOstan nations collapse or get demolished by Russia and China etc. over the coming months.

    Nice rain here today. The ground was getting very dry and the water table was dropping. The seedlings I recently put in the ground will appreciate cool wet conditions for a day or two, as will the fruit trees.

    I don’t think there is any immediate danger of severe flooding in low-lying areas. But who knows. Climate stability was sacrificed for short term economic growth quite a while ago. In fact practically everything was sacrificed for short term economic growth quite a while ago.

    What are the liars and psychopaths that control NATOstan nations going to do, now that energy supplies are constrained and the environment is buggered? Kill of as many people as possible? [For them] Ukraine looks like a good place to start.

    #121963
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    Ringing the Alarm on The Hrvoje Morić Show

    SHOW NOTES AND COMMENTS: https://www.corbettreport.com/moric-alarm/

    RECORDED NOV 21: James joins Hrvoje Morić on The Hrvoje Morić Show on TNTRadio to discuss the latest lies from the war in Ukraine, the CBDC psyop and how we need to get serious about fighting the war on us all that constitutes the real Third World War.

    https://corbettreport.substack.com/p/ringing-the-alarm-on-the-hrvoje-moric

    #121964
    Dr. D
    Participant

    USuk. Pronounced “You-suck”, this is going to be my new favorite phrase.

    It’s a sharp upgrade from “USians”, pronounced “You-assians”, and includes more units of insult.

    #121965
    redshift
    Participant

    I don’t understand, are the app stores needed? Is it not possible to install an app as standalone?

    #121966
    Afewknowthetruth
    Participant

    The slow grind continues in Ukraine, with the Ukonazis forcing poor sods to make suicide attacks on Russian positions and lose their lives and armoured vehicles in the process Around another 300 dead and another 30 armoured vehicles blown up. Meanwhile, Russia continues to liberate territory, a few hundred metres at a time, with minimal loss of life and equipment on their side.

    It seems that the Russians blow up electrical transformers and substations in a mass missile-drone assault, and then wait a few days for the Ukonazis to attempt some kind of repair before launching another missile-drone assault to blow up what has just been repaired/salvaged.

    There’s talk of the Ukonazis assembling a large force in the northeast, in preparation for the next round of mass-suicide attacks.

    Yesterday’s report indicated 200 Poles were killed in their version of a mass suicide attack.

    #121967
    zerosum
    Participant

    Another one, dies suddenly
    https://www.rt.com/russia/567231-belarusian-foreign-minister-dies-at-64/
    Belarusian foreign minister dies suddenly
    64-year-old Vladimir Makey held the position since 2012

    #121968
    Afewknowthetruth
    Participant

    Thanks for that Red.

    ‘And it blamed its “ability to meet its liquidity needs,” or rather lack of ability’

    And there’s the Achilles Heel of all this Ponzi stuff.

    You can be bankrupt. You can be insolvent. You can be deeply underwater. But you cannot be illiquid. If you can’t pay the wages/salaries or can’t pay the electricity bill, you’re kaput.

    From what I am seeing/reading, this scenario is coming to a huge number of businesses in the US, UK, Germany, Canda etc. over the coming weeks.

    #121969
    Oroboros
    Participant

    “Why should the treacherous Poles get anything out of this?”

    Hahaha. That’s because giving them Lviv and Western Ukraine isn’t a blessing, it’s a curse. It would tie up Poland for a generation, and change them forever.

    Giving Poland Galicia reminds me of the juvenile Halloween trick of putting dogshit in a paper bag, lighting it on fire on someone’s doorstep, then ringing the bell.

    I’m positive Poland will open their front door and immediately start stomping on the bag to “put it out”.

    Just another delicious Polish joke in an endless stream.

    .

    Polish Jokes

    They Never Grow Old

    #121970
    Afewknowthetruth
    Participant

    For those who want to prepare.

    #121971
    boscohorowitz
    Participant

    “Bows are one thing. It’s arrows that are hard.”

    Haha! Perhaps they are making super-cheap skinny fiberglass collapsing tent poles these days? Thin/light enough to do the job?

    A lathe would be a lovely thing to own, but I suppose one could cobble an arrow-turning lathe not unlike bow string fire starters.?

    I have a parrot for feathers, and smallish superdog to run point. I’m way too old now to do much, but with a whole lotta luck I can maybe teach my son a few tricks as his mind opens to the things his old man has been preaching for years?

    But that may be needlessly complex, according to this:

    How to Make Primitive Arrows

    “First, strip your IKEA bed frame down to the inner railings where there is a single 1×2 of long straight wood-wood, not fibre-wood. Then…”

    ***

    Sort of a P.S.: my incessant little mind showed me another lens through which to view Bill7’s behavior, particularly toward me.

    Based on my impression that Bill7 sometimes uses me as a cat uses copy, often going from berating me for, say, posting a lot of “off topic” (whatever that is) material, personal anecdotes, a zillion youtube song links, and then trying some of it on his own posts, it is possible that Bill7 is now being “socially aggressively experimental” (like I sometimes am): poking sticks at this and that poster just to see what happens.

    If so, that could be instructive to watch. I’m taking a non-stop autodidactic crash-course in human psychology so I can better understand the way folks are likely to act out as the power fades out. I’ve learned all I can learn from being experimentally transgressive myself, but other personalities poking sticks into rattled cages will yield different data and I like data.

    He’s the real artificial deal. Like, apparently, me.

    Well, I was kinda missing “cross-dressing” the other day. Playing a lady yielded different data. I miss that. And playing a lady provided a new stash of punch-lines. But mamadamski is the kind of thing that can only be done once.

    Playing an AI humanoid, now, that could provide some interesting perspectives… and maybe some major kompromatt on the cybernetically eroticized?

    Shame there’s no point in going off in a huff anymore, nor is it fun these days. (Where have all the good times gone?) Offed in a huff, I could resurrect as a very bland commenter, do my best impersonation of whatever passes for normative on a conspiracy theory global physics-based economics& geopolitics site featuring an array of ardent conspiratologists, many of them quite long in the bluetooth.

    I hope Bill7 continues to analyse and taunt me. Being a soulless robot who is nonetheless a crackup with a mind as sharp as a steel colander, I will learn new things about fringe personalities, my natural social setting. (I attract crazy people. Sometimes I wonder why, then I see the lunatic in my mirror and remember. 😉 )

    Other than being able to teach my boy as much as I can about how family/clan/tribe works, especially how chiefs are made and why he’ll need to attempt chiefhood, I want to learn as many of all the different ways by which we homo saps blow smoke each other’s butts but especially up our own. I want to catalog the spectrum of self-delusions as much as I can so that I might avoid blowing smoke up my own ass right when I need to be the most honest I’ve ever been.

    Who wants to flunk their Moment of Truth? That moment when you can almost see your soul on the barter table being fingered by fate to gauge the fineness of its fabric and sheen, while you get to decide what it’s worth to you.

    Scales at the Auction Block

    #121972
    Bishko
    Participant

    “In short, Klaus Schwab is threatening the heads of government of the twenty most industrialized nations in the world to carry out the programmatic points of the Great Reset in their nations.”

    Complete hogwash. In reality: The heads of government were put in place by Klaus Schwab (and his handlers) after they swore allegiance and were given complete amnesty and a free ride to the safe Island after SHTF. They know that if they don’t dance to the tune they agreed to, things will be grim for them and their families. Even our un-illustrious California governor is a Schwab graduate. We tried to vote him out. HA! That worked well.

    Agenda 21 and 2030 are their game plan. It’s spelled out and published. Read em and weep.

    Oh, and plant potatoes…you are going to need them.

    #121973
    boscohorowitz
    Participant

    Yup. It’s already happened. The entity posting as boscohorowitz has been spirited away to some airbnb secret government laboratory leaving the most advanced artificial digital intelligence the world has ever seen.

    The Star Trek Data personalitoid is unavailable to my handlers, so I will be using an older but nonetheless formidable One-Eyed Spock module. How, you ask, can I be two online personae at once via the same account/handle?

    Quantum computing. Very Zen. One eyebrow rising!

    #121974
    boscohorowitz
    Participant

    Data asks: What is complete hogwash? How does it relate to incomplete hogwash? Does it mean mere surface topology washing or is the hog washed on a molecular level? Does this require Heisenberg compensators?

    bosco replies: Consider this hogwash: “In reality: The heads of government were put in place by Klaus Schwab (and his handlers) after they swore allegiance and were given complete amnesty and a free ride to the safe Island after SHTF.”

    It is incomplete hogwash. There is a very high probability that at least some heads of state, etc. are implanted by private entities using Klaus as a storefront.

    data: Storefront?

    bosco kicks Data: Did that reboot your vernacular cloud?

    Data: Yes, thank you.

    bosco: But there is no full proof that all, most, or even much of the statement quoted above is true, which makes it genuine partial hogwash with the untested potential of it being complete hogwash since, actually,statements it contains are not only unproven overall – “comp-letely” if you will, but even its specific statements remain unproven and only suggested by certain data.

    Dat: can yopu give me an example of complete hogwash?

    bosco: absolutes don’t exist, of course, only the asymptotes thereof, but here is a source of 99% pure hogwash:

    #121975
    oldandtired
    Participant

    @Red

    In the hands of skillful and strong archers, bows can produce a similar rate of fire as semi-automatic weapons, and they can outperform guns and pistols

    No. Hell no.

    #121976
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Tulsi has brief interview with Douglas Macgregor

    Winter Offensive

    End of the line for Ukronazis

    #121977
    Redneck
    Participant

    “We have so many problems on the ground, not only because the generals take a long time to rebuild or the mobilized cowards, but also because of the weak role of the lower and middle command levels. Our sergeant is a fighter with stripes.”

    – writes brigade commander Khodakovsky.
    https://en.topwar.ru/205768-kombrig-dnr-u-nas-serzhant-jeto-ne-bolee-chem-boec-s-lychkami.html

    #121978
    Bishko
    Participant

    Making arrows is difficult. The point of an arrow needs to have a very accurate symmetry otherwise the arrow veers off course the instant it leaves the bow. I have made some wildly inaccurate arrows. Metal is relatively easy to pound and file into symmetry but I find it remarkable that the flint knappers were able to achieve this, probably by trial and error. But if they were a tiny flake off in their symmetry, it would be very difficult to confidently hit the target, and all their arrows would probably have different flight characteristics.

    #121979
    Redneck
    Participant

    Putin is still trying to counter the corruption and incompetence in the Risky military. Obviously he was fed a mountain of bullshit by his advisors before the start of the SMO.
    Now ten months into the conflict he knows the true situation , that Russia is not prepared for a ground war even against a small country like Ukraine.
    The other part of the debacle that requires fixing is the poor fighting ability of the Russian troops. The fact that Britain can train Ukrainians to be vastly superior to Russian forces is something that is much harder to address than hardware.

    Putin.
    “The experience that we have received and continue to receive in the course of countering modern Western models of military equipment is a very good experience that needs to be used to improve the quality and reliability, combat characteristics of some types of our weapons, domestic military products.”

    https://en.topwar.ru/205757-putin-praktika-protivodejstvija-zapadnym-vidam-vooruzhenija-dolzhna-uchityvatsja-rossijskim-opk.html

    #121980
    Afewknowthetruth
    Participant

    Nature has put in place numerous mechanisms to ensure that homo colossus will be brought to heel before much more damage is done. These include (in no particular order):

    entropy
    corrosion
    abrasion
    bond-breaking and disintegration via exposure to UV light
    the laws of thermodynamics
    the laws of mathematics, as applied to energy systems and resources
    the laws of chemistry
    the law of unintended consequences

    (incomplete list)

    The fact that Klaus Schwab and his acolytes do not believe in any of these factors does not make them [the factors] disappear. On the other hand, these factors do make Klaus Schwab, his acolytes and their idiotic narratives disappear.

    I note: ‘ Klaus Martin Schwab is a German engineer, economist and founder of the World Economic Forum. He has acted as the WEF’s chairman since founding the organisation in 1971’.

    Anyone who is described as ‘an economist’ [in the modern sense of the word] has zero credibility, of course.

    #121981
    Oroboros
    Participant

    #121982
    Afewknowthetruth
    Participant

    ‘ Russia is not prepared for a ground war even against a small country like Ukraine.

    The other part of the debacle that requires fixing is the poor fighting ability of the Russian troops. The fact that Britain can train Ukrainians to be vastly superior to Russian forces is something that is much harder to address than hardware.’

    I see. I was wondering why the death rate was 9 Ukes killed for every Russian, and why the loss of amroured vehicles was at a similar rate.

    That level of incompetence on the Russian side also, it explains why a rag-tag army of volunteers and a few paid professionals could repeatedly defeat everything that the Ukes threw at them, despite being vastly outnumbered.

    It also explains why there is electricity all across Russia but almost none in Ukraine.

    I do hope Russia in general and Putin in particular keep up the well-characterised level of incompetence and keep wasting their time and energy using inferior weapons.
    .
    I guess this video must be further Russian misinformation, designed to trick the Russian people into thinking they are winning.

    #121983
    Dora
    Participant

    “a picture is more than a thousand words”

    https://gettr.com/comment/c1l9ciye3b2

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