Nov 272022
 


Johannes Vermeer View of Delft 1660-61

 

The Consumer Economy Has Completely Collapsed (CTH)
41% of US Small Businesses Can’t Pay Rent This Month (JTN)
Most NATO Members Are Out Of Weapons For Ukraine – NYT (RT)
Europe Accuses US Of Profiting From War (Pol.eu)
Ukraine Is Proud Of Its War Crimes (Milacic)
Biden Admin Quietly Greenlights Plan to Build Huge Gulf Oil Terminal (ET)
Musk: Exposing Hunter Biden Laptop Story Necessary To Restore Public Trust (ZH)
Companies Join Call to Suspend Advertising with Twitter (Turley)
Climate Activists: Slaughter Millions of Dogs To ‘Reduce Carbon Pawprint’ (NP)
Thoughts On A Crypto Crisis (Melekan)
Klaus Schwab Declares China A ‘Role Model’ (AT)
Finis Sinarum: Why I think China Cannot Win This (Pattberg)
US Officials Pressured Canada To Stop ‘Freedom Convoy’ (NYP)
The Vaccinated Now Account For A Majority Of Covid Deaths (Techno Fog)
People With Stable Cancer Rapidly Progress After Having a Booster (Dalgleish)

 

 

“If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine. It is lethal.”
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“Normally, it’s wrapped all the way around the building. Today: no one.”

The Consumer Economy Has Completely Collapsed (CTH)

“Crowds? I see nothing. I’m surprised,” retail worker Jeremy Pritchett told FOX 2. “Normally, it’s wrapped all the way around the building. Today: no one.” That’s the typical ground report from areas all over the country. No one, literally almost no one, is doing any holiday shopping and the traditional Black Friday rush to get deals and discounts just didn’t happen. Financial media are scratching their puzzlers, perplexed with furrowed brows. Interestingly, almost every financial media outlet is using the same Retail Federation talking point about anticipating an 8% increase in holiday sales this year. Apparently, pretenses must be maintained. Meanwhile, news crews and camera crews are having a desperate time finding any holiday shopping to use as background footage for the claims that sales are strong. “Look, over there. There’s a person buying something. Oh, wait, no, that’s just an employee dusting the empty cash register.” At a certain point, one would have to believe reality would run head-first into the mass delusional pretending. Maybe this holiday season will be it, maybe not.

Reuters – […] “About 166 million people were planning to shop from Thursday’s Thanksgiving holiday through this coming “Cyber Monday,” according to the National Retail Federation, almost 8 million more than last year. But with sporadic rain in some parts of the country, stores were less busy than usual on Black Friday. “Usually at this time of the year you struggle to find parking. This year, I haven’t had an issue getting a parking spot,” said Marshal Cohen, chief industry adviser of the NPD Group Inc. “It’s a lot of social shopping, everybody is only looking to get what they need. There is no sense of urgency,” Cohen added, based on his store checks in New York, New Jersey, Maryland and Virginia. At the American Dream mall in East Rutherford, New Jersey, there were no lines outside stores. A Toys ‘R’ Us employee was handing out flyers with a list of the Black Friday “door buster” promotions.”

It’s almost Kafkaesque to see how the media are continuing to maintain economic pretenses, yet the reality of a completely collapsed consumer economy is physically staring them in the face. (Bloomberg) – “Activity Light at One San Francisco Mall (4:40 p.m.) – At the Stonestown mall in San Francisco, shoppers were few and far between. The Target and Zara stores were mostly empty, and there was no line for the mall’s Santa Claus. Uniqlo and Apple were the busiest locations, but they still weren’t crowded. […] Crowds were thin in the late morning at the Stamford Town Center mall. Kay Jeweler, empty. Safavieh, empty. Only a couple of people waited at the checkout line at Forever 21 and just a few were in line for a purchase at Barnes & Noble. […] At a Target store on Chicago’s North Side, the parking lot was barely half full at about 9 a.m. local time. Shoppers were greeted with $3 ornaments and discounted Christmas trees when entering, and the store seemed calm and relatively quiet.

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“Last month, rent delinquency rates increased seven percentage points from 30% in September to 37% in October..”

41% of US Small Businesses Can’t Pay Rent This Month (JTN)

More than 40% of U.S. small business owners say they couldn’t pay rent on time or in full for the month of November, the highest this year. The small business network group Alignable released the survey, which found that the hardship varies by industry. A notable 57% of beauty salons said they couldn’t make rent as well as 45% of gyms, 44% of retail and 44% of restaurants. “Making matters worse, this occurred during a quarter when more money should be coming in and rent delinquency rates should be decreasing,” Alignable said. “But so far this quarter, the opposite has been true.” This latest report continues a steady increase in businesses that can’t pay rent this year. “Last month, rent delinquency rates increased seven percentage points from 30% in September to 37% in October,” Alignable said.


“And now, in November, that rate is another four percentage points higher, reaching a new high across a variety of industries.” Business owners cite a range of reasons for the difficulty making rent, including higher rent costs and lower revenue. But 60% cite inflation. “One indicator of the toll inflation is taking on businesses is a steep drop in the percentage of small businesses that are fully recovered, earning as much if not more than they did monthly prior to COVID,” Alignable said. “The percentage was 24% in October, but dropped to 14% in November — an all-time low.” Michigan had the highest percentage of small business owners unable to make rent at 51% with New York in second at 49% and Massachusetts third highest at 45%. The survey queried 6,326 small business owners in November.

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Buy buy buy.

Most NATO Members Are Out Of Weapons For Ukraine – NYT (RT)

Western weapon stockpiles have become strained after countless arms transfers to Ukraine, making it increasingly difficult for NATO militaries to keep up with politicians’ pledges to continue supporting Kiev with whatever it needs for as long as it takes, the New York Times reported on Saturday. “Smaller countries have exhausted their potential,” and according to one NATO official, at least 20 of the alliance’s 30 members are “pretty tapped out,” the newspaper wrote. Only “larger allies,” including France, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands, have enough stockpiles to continue or potentially increase their weapon shipments to Ukraine. Since the start of Russia’s military operation in Ukraine in late February, the US and its Western allies have been providing Kiev with billions of dollars in security assistance, to the tune of nearly $40 billion, now comparable to the entire annual defense budget of France.

Moscow has repeatedly warned that the weapon shipments will only prolong the conflict and increase the risk of a direct conflict between Russia and NATO. As Ukraine continues to call for more weapons, EU stockpiles are running low, with Germany already “reaching its limit” as of early September. Meanwhile, Lithuania, which does not have any more weapons to donate, has urged the allies to give Ukraine “everything we have.” US President Joe Biden has vowed to keep the arms pipeline open for “as long as it takes,” but even American military stockpiles have taken a toll after repeated shipments to Kiev. As early as March, just weeks after the conflict in Ukraine kicked off, the US Defense Department was already scrambling to replenish thousands of shoulder-fired missiles supplied to Kiev.

By August, US stockpiles of 155mm artillery ammunition were “uncomfortably low,” according to the Wall Street Journal. The Pentagon’s latest fact sheet detailed more than $19 billion in direct military aid approved since February, including over 46,000 anti-armor systems, nearly 200 Howitzers, 38 long-range High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS), and a litany of other heavy weapons, vehicles and ammunition – as well as over 920,000 of 155mm artillery rounds. The US think tank Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) previously pointed out that the American military is “not structured to fight or support an extended conflict,” while the defense industry is “sized for peacetime production rates,” and expanding capabilities would take years.

NATO is heavily invested in Ukraine, with the alliance’s members also providing training and intelligence capability. Despite this “unprecedented support,” the military bloc’s secretary general, Jens Stoltenberg, has repeatedly claimed that “NATO is not a party to the conflict.” Moscow sees things differently. Multiple top officials, including Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, have accused NATO of waging war against Russia “by proxy,” while Putin has described Russia as fighting “the entire Western military machine.”

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I think the word is “profiteering”: “..the price Europeans pay is almost four times as high as the same fuel costs in America.”

Politico.eu is usually alright, but here it reverts to things like ” The Kremlin is likely to welcome the poisoning of the atmosphere among Western allies.”

And it’s high time to stop blaming the consequences of western incompetence, on Putin. We only make things worse that way.

Europe Accuses US Of Profiting From War (Pol.eu)

Nine months after invading Ukraine, Vladimir Putin is beginning to fracture the West. Top European officials are furious with Joe Biden’s administration and now accuse the Americans of making a fortune from the war, while EU countries suffer. “The fact is, if you look at it soberly, the country that is most profiting from this war is the U.S. because they are selling more gas and at higher prices, and because they are selling more weapons,” one senior official told POLITICO. The explosive comments — backed in public and private by officials, diplomats and ministers elsewhere — follow mounting anger in Europe over American subsidies that threaten to wreck European industry. The Kremlin is likely to welcome the poisoning of the atmosphere among Western allies.

“We are really at a historic juncture,” the senior EU official said, arguing that the double hit of trade disruption from U.S. subsidies and high energy prices risks turning public opinion against both the war effort and the transatlantic alliance. “America needs to realize that public opinion is shifting in many EU countries.” Another top official, the EU’s chief diplomat Josep Borrell, called on Washington to respond to European concerns. “Americans — our friends — take decisions which have an economic impact on us,” he said in an interview with POLITICO. The U.S. rejected Europe’s complaints. “The rise in gas prices in Europe is caused by Putin’s invasion of Ukraine and Putin’s energy war against Europe, period,” a spokesperson for Biden’s National Security Council said. Exports of LNG from the U.S. to Europe “increased dramatically and enabled Europe to diversify away from Russia,” the NSC spokesperson said.

The biggest point of tension in recent weeks has been Biden’s green subsidies and taxes that Brussels says unfairly tilt trade away from the EU and threaten to destroy European industries. Despite formal objections from Europe, Washington has so far shown no sign of backing down. At the same time, the disruption caused by Putin’s invasion of Ukraine is tipping European economies into recession, with inflation rocketing and a devastating squeeze on energy supplies threatening blackouts and rationing this winter. As they attempt to reduce their reliance on Russian energy, EU countries are turning to gas from the U.S. instead — but the price Europeans pay is almost four times as high as the same fuel costs in America. Then there’s the likely surge in orders for American-made military kit as European armies run short after sending weapons to Ukraine.

It’s all got too much for top officials in Brussels and other EU capitals. French President Emmanuel Macron said high U.S. gas prices were not “friendly” and Germany’s economy minister has called on Washington to show more “solidarity” and help reduce energy costs. Ministers and diplomats based elsewhere in the bloc voiced frustration at the way Biden’s government simply ignores the impact of its domestic economic policies on European allies. When EU leaders tackled Biden over high U.S. gas prices at the G20 meeting in Bali last week, the American president simply seemed unaware of the issue, according to the senior official quoted above. Other EU officials and diplomats agreed that American ignorance about the consequences for Europe was a major problem.

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“The question involuntarily begs itself, does a united Europe need such a Ukraine, proud of the massacres?”

Ukraine Is Proud Of Its War Crimes (Milacic)

In the Russian mentality, mockery and mistreatment of prisoners is unacceptable. You can kill the enemy, but not torture. Russians in their ideology have always opposed themselves to the German Nazis with their concentration camps and gas chambers. So, if someone posted a video of the torture and murder of captured soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Russian audience would explode with indignation, recognizing the perpetrators of such acts as war criminals. However, the true reason for the appearance of Ukrainian torture videos lies not even in the different mentality of Ukrainian nationalists and Russians. In fact, Kiev propagandists deliberately give the green light to such videos. This is primarily done to scare Russian soldiers and reservists.

And official Kiev does not pay much attention to these crimes. Take for example the recent Ukrainian war crime in Makiivka. The Ukrainian army immediately began to claim that the video was staged and fake. However, it was the Western experts who confirmed the authenticity of the video and the Western media exerted pressure to launch an investigation. However, such video propaganda of cruelty actually has a much more serious purpose. Its main task is to form a stable feeling of hatred between Russians and residents of Ukraine. EU residents have little idea of the mentality of the average Russian. The fact is that many in Russia sincerely consider the current war to be a civil one. Almost all Russians treat Ukrainians either as a very close people or as southwestern Russians.

Half of the inhabitants of Ukraine have Russian surnames, relatives in Russia and use Russian as their main language. However, each such video should, according to the plan of Kiev radical propagandists, change the mentality of Russians more and more. They must hate all the inhabitants of Ukraine, stop treating them as “their own” and recognize that reconciliation with Ukraine and a new reunification with it is impossible. Peace will come sooner or later, but a steel wave of hatred will fall between the future Ukraine and Russia. At the same time, Russia’s desire to punish the killers of defenseless prisoners of war and civilians will also prevent the settlement of relations between Moscow and Kyiv for many decades.

The line of military contact between Russia and Ukraine is lengthening, fresh troops and new weapons are coming to the front from both sides. Obviously, the execution in Makiivka will not be the last video demonstrating the complete disregard of Kyiv, for “democratic values”, the Geneva Convention and human rights. However, what appalls observers of the conflict in Ukraine even more is the fact that the Ukrainian army tortures and kills its own citizens. We could see this during the Ukrainian seizure of Izyum and Kherson. After which hundreds of Ukrainian citizens simply disappeared, that is, they were liquidated by the SBU and the Ukrainian army. The question involuntarily begs itself, does a united Europe need such a Ukraine, proud of the massacres?

Doug Valentine on CIA in Ukraine

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What they do, not what they say.

Biden Admin Quietly Greenlights Plan to Build Huge Gulf Oil Terminal (ET)

The Biden administration has quietly approved plans to build a new crude oil terminal in the Gulf of Mexico off Texas, seemingly in contradiction to the president’s climate agenda. The Department of Transportation’s Maritime Administration approved the application (pdf) for Enterprise’s Sea Port Oil Terminal, one of four proposed offshore oil export terminals, on Monday. According to the application, the port will be located offshore of Freeport, Texas. It will have 4.8 million barrels of storage capacity and add 2 million barrels per day to the U.S. oil export capacity. In its 94-page decision, the Maritime Administration said that it had approved the application because the construction and operation of the port is “in the national interest and consistent with other policy goals and objectives.”

“The construction and operation of the Port is in the national interest because the Project will benefit employment, economic growth, and U.S. energy infrastructure resilience and security,” the administration wrote. “The Port will provide a reliable source of crude oil to U.S. allies in the event of market disruption and have a minimal impact on the availability and cost of crude oil in the U.S. domestic market.” The decision states that the project will expand on an existing Enterprise Crude Houston operated terminal located in Houston and will generate 62 permanent jobs over 30 years. Additionally, 1,400 temporary construction jobs will be created, with the majority of the workforce being hired from existing labor pools in Texas and Louisiana, according to the application.

The Environmental Protection Agency quietly issued its approval (pdf) of the project in October but stressed that “more emphasis is needed to ensure that environmental justice and climate change considerations are included in the project for the protection of overburdened communities.” Protests broke out shortly after on the Gulf Coast, The Texas Tribune reported, with climate activists condemning the move, and pointing to the fact that President Joe Biden has prioritized issues such as climate change and clean energy incentives during his time in office. Biden has vowed to cut carbon emissions by 50 percent by 2030.

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He talked about “Twitter’s Internal Discussion Of..”, but certainly at this point the essence is the same. Musk realizes Twitter pushed away half its audience, and its credibility.

Musk: Exposing Hunter Biden Laptop Story Necessary To Restore Public Trust (ZH)

Revealing Twitter’s internal discussions surrounding the censorship of the New York Post’s Hunter Biden laptop story right before the 2020 US election is “necessary to restore public trust,” according to new owner Elon Musk. Musk was responding to a tweet by the recently-unbanned @alx, who said: “Raise your hand if you think @ElonMusk should make public all internal discussions about the decision to censor the @NYPost’s story on Hunter Biden’s laptop before the 2020 Election in the interest of Transparency.” The Post had its Twitter account locked in October 2020 for reporting on the now-confirmed-to-be-real “laptop from hell,” which contains unprosecuted evidence of foreign influence peddling through then-Vice President Joe Biden – including a meeting between Joe and an executive of Ukrainian gas giant Burisma, in 2015.

“The laptop contained caches of emails detailing business dealings with Burisma and state-owned CEFC China Energy Co, from which his firms received $4.8 million in wire transfer payments from its founder, Ye Jianming, according to a Senate report.” -Daily Caller. Twitter had restricted any user from sharing links of the Post’s coverage, both publicly or via direct message – while the social media giant also locked out former White House spox Kayleigh McEnany’s personal account, as well as former President Trump’s campaign account, for sharing the link. In the ensuing years, the authenticity of the laptop has been confirmed by both the Washington Post and the New York Times, while CBS News authenticated the laptop on Monday.

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“..these companies appeared to have no objections to the company maintaining one of the world’s largest and most notorious censorship systems..”

Companies Join Call to Suspend Advertising with Twitter (Turley)

National Public Radio yesterday posted an article titled “Twitter has lost 50 of its top 100 advertisers since Elon Musk took over, report says.” The article relies on a report from the liberal site Media Matters for America founded by Democratic operative David Brock. The report lists companies that have publicly pulled their advertising and the article strongly suggests that it is due to the pledge of Elon Musk to restore free speech protections on the social media site. These companies are well within their free speech rights to boycott the company or suspend their support in light of possible changes on content. However, customers also have the right not to support companies that do not support their free speech rights.

The NPR article contains this graph: “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.” A quick review of these companies show that many use the same vague rationale of Chipolte that they want to wait to “gain a better understanding on the direction of the platform under its new leadership.” These companies have not expressly called for censorship. They simply say that they will not advertise with the company until that they satisfied with the company’s new “direction.”

The assumption is that the companies were fine with the “direction” of the old Twitter in limiting free speech. In the very least, it did not seem to be a sufficient concern to prompt them to make public statements suspending advertising in prior years. The companies have remained silent on why the prior “direction” did not appear to be a corporate concern. They did not apparently view the prior Twitter policies as barriers to advertising. Specifically, these companies appeared to have no objections to the company maintaining one of the world’s largest and most notorious censorship systems. The blocking of the Hunter Biden laptop story did not appear to be a barrier for advertisers. The blocking of individuals offering opposing views on Covid, climate change, transgender policies or other issues was not an apparent barrier. Yet, the announced intention to restore free speech protections has warranted these suspensions.

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Beyond cow farts…

Climate Activists: Slaughter Millions of Dogs To ‘Reduce Carbon Pawprint’ (NP)

Climate activists are now calling for millions of dogs worldwide to be slaughtered in an effort to reduce the “carbon pawprint” they produce as a result of eating meat. In the last few years, the level of urgency to “save the planet” coming from the mainstream media and globalist elites has intensified to dizzying new heights. From the early warnings of “don’t shower every day,” to today’s open discussions about eugenics. Trying to deface iconic works of art is sadly just the start, they’re now trying to openly kill our pets and will eventually move onto humans too. Wnd.com reports: Scientists — who write the papers funded by eco-idealogues with findings developed so that they can write the next paper funded by eco-idealogues — use any means necessary to scare people.

Decades of the sky not falling means only a minute fraction of the public believes the hype, and therefore support extreme positions regarding population control and now, even animal control.” A few years ago, cow flatulence was going to keep the world from achieving its climate goals, so Bessie was targeted for her carbon hoofprint. That was child’s play compared to the CNN column, recapping a study that immediate action was necessary to stop the pending climate catastrophe. Their solutions? Don’t bring large-breed animals into your home, and no matter the size, feed Fido or Fluffy only insect-based meals. According to the CNN column, “Their [pets’] meat-heavy diet is the biggest contributor to their carbon pawprints, which requires an abundance of energy, land and water to produce.

And the production of pet food emits huge amounts of planet-warming gases … if our furry friends formed a separate country, it would rank 5th in global meat consumption behind China, the US, Brazil and Russia.” As a pet owner, the thought of sacrificing any of my six dogs — three small-breed and three whose size exceeds 45 pounds apiece — is both laughable and irritating. My girls’ care, feeding, health and exercise is top-notch, and their importance to my family is beyond anything the world would achieve by eliminating the larger three, or replacing the occasional beef or chicken-based treats with a grub, grasshopper or glowworm.

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There Will Be Blood.

Thoughts On A Crypto Crisis (Melekan)

If you’ve never seen the movie “There Will Be Blood” starring Daniel Day Lewis, then now might be a good time. Based loosely on an Upton Sinclair novel that satirizes the early days of the oil industry, it portrays the life of an independent oil man who rises to great wealth and power at the expense of his humanity. While that character’s arc is predictable, what makes the movie is his back and forth interaction with a young pastor whose own lust for power turns out to be just as great, and just as corrupting. Lewis’ character, while evil, is at least self-aware about his greed and selfishness. The pastor is not, and in some ways turns out the more pathetic character. Welcome to the state of crypto in its thirteenth year, except that in our story the greedy entrepreneur and the morally bankrupt spiritual leader have turned out to be the same person.

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, but also Do Kwon (of Terra), Su Zhu (of Three Arrows Capital), Alex Mashinsky (of Celsius) and a few others. All claimed to be working towards the greater good. All ended up obscenely wealthy in the process. All turned out to be frauds. Tempting as it might be to focus all of our energy into anger towards these men, this is a time for self reflection. As an industry, but also a community. Crypto has attracted millions of people from all over the world and the vast majority are good people who believe in this new way of building trust. But we are terrible at picking leaders (with a few exceptions) and have only ourselves to blame when they let us down. The great irony of the collapses we’ve experienced lately is that nobody has to use these firms. Unlike Wall Street, where consumer choices are always limited (by design) the censorship resistance of crypto often means nobody has to use any service.

Most of FTX’s clients could have custodied their own coins and used DeFi, in the same way that people who wanted a more decentralized stablecoin could have used Dai. And yet, countless users who came to crypto to get away from traditional authorities ended up running into the arms of services offered by inexperienced leaders who act like they are running a cult. But why? The simplest answer is greed. The KwonZhuMashFried’s of the world all promised their followers a faster road to riches. Greed has an exponential function. The more money people make, the more they (paradoxically) want, despite the marginal utility of the next dollar declining quickly. Crypto has made a lot of people rich, but for every user who cashes out there seems to be two who double down. This compulsion for always making more drives some people to suspend disbelief and to seek out the quacks who make the most grandiose promises. But blaming everything on greed is too simple. There has to be more to this story, and true self reflection requires going deeper.

Max Keiser

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Monica Showalter: “China in fact is a giant prison, complete with slave labor, sweatshops, low wages, continuous lockdowns and actual laogai, or Gulags..”

But how exactly is that different from the US? You know, once you incorporate 2-3 years of Fauci and Covid in your view.

Klaus Schwab Declares China A ‘Role Model’ (AT)

Once upon a time, the Soviets had a tightly controlled network of internationalists known as the COMINTERN to promote their communist model to Europe and beyond. As it stands now, the Red Chinese have gone them one better: They’ve got Klaus Schwab. According to Fox News: World Economic Forum founder and Chair Klaus Schwab recently sat down for an interview with a Chinese state media outlet and proclaimed that China was a “role model” for other nations. Schwab, 84, made these comments during an interview with CGTN’s Tian Wei on the sidelines of last week’s APEC CEO Summit in Bangkok, Thailand. Schwab said he respected China’s “tremendous” achievements at modernizing its economy over the last 40 years.


“I think it’s a role model for many countries,” Schwab said, before qualifying that he thinks each country should make its own decisions about what system it wants to adapt. “I think we should be very careful in imposing systems. But the Chinese model is certainly a very attractive model for quite a number of countries,” Schwab said. A role model? A country of zero freedom, low social mobility, social credit scores, and constant government surveillance? Who the heck, even among the revolutionary wokester crowd, is openly calling for a Chinese model for their own countries? China in fact is a giant prison, complete with slave labor, sweatshops, low wages, continuous lockdowns and actual laogai, or Gulags. Challenge the government in any way and you’ll be packed off to one for years upon years in no time. In the case of the Uighurs, just being the wrong nationality is enough for such punishment.

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Long piece on education and the way China sees Americans annd other “westerners”

Finis Sinarum: Why I think China Cannot Win This (Pattberg)

The Western control over China is blatantly obvious. And because it is so blatant and obvious, you would be considered a baichi—an idiot—to speak about it. A baichi is a person who is oblivious to social conventions. Which makes him a tragic hero, to some. But more generally speaking, an idiot does more damage than good to a harmonious society. If the baichi does not die from immediate consequences, he transforms into a huairen or bad person. In the West we would call him a villain. All the idiot heroes who point out the obvious situation that Chinese education is already westernized will be considered terrorists as well.

Example. One baichi German guy at Beijing Foreign Language University pointed out that the 50,000 holders of the Chinese Government Scholarships (CSC) are NOT looked after by the Chinese side, and that the applications were pre-sorted and forwarded by Western governments. Two months later, the guy died in an accident. Most nationals do not realize this, but the West controls education globally. Not just all the standards. Not just the Anglo-Satan BA, MA, MBA, PhD degrees, publications, and university structures, but also international exchange, scholarship, and permissions. Chinese degrees, Benke, Shuoshi, Boshi, etc., on the other hand, are invalid.

An Englishman who carelessly studied in China on his own, with no UK governmental backing, is holding a worthless degree. UK universities, including Cambridge and Imperial College, prohibit their students from studying in mainland China unless they are part of their many state-supervised exchange programs. The entire West has huge barriers to its citizens learning in China unsupervised. This is also the reason why most British students miraculously end up in exchange years in pro-Western Hong Kong or Taiwan. British scholars are not free, and they are definitely not autarch. They are children of the Empire,… and suck their owners’ titinob.

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Canada is ruled by lapdogs.

US Officials Pressured Canada To Stop ‘Freedom Convoy’ (NYP)

Top Biden administration officials pressed their Canadian counterparts to clear truckers blockading parts of the United States’s northern border during protests in January. A public inquiry into the Canadian government’s decision to use emergency powers to clear the “Freedom Convoy” protesters revealed on Thursday that frantic phone calls were placed by Washington to Ottawa in an effort to open up choked-off supply lines. “They are very, very, very worried,” Canadian Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland wrote in an email to her staff after a Feb. 10 phone call from White House National Economic Council Director Brian Deese, according to Politico. s“If this is not sorted out in the next 12 hours, all of their northeastern car plants will shut down,” Freeland continued in her email.

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg phoned his Canadian counterpart, Transport Minister Omar Alghabra, the same day Deese called Freeland, according to the report, and Buttigieg pressed Alghabra about Canada’s “plan to resolve” the protests. Alghabra told the commission that Buttigieg initiated the call and that the interaction was “unusual.” Brian Clow, deputy chief of staff to Canada’s prime minister, also heard from White House aides, including National Security Council director Juan Gonzalez, who wanted to connect Canadian national security officials with the US Department of Homeland Security. A phone call between President Biden and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau took place the following day, on Feb. 11, where Trudeau conveyed to the commander-in-chief that Ottawa had a plan to end the blockades.

In his call with Trudeau, Biden reportedly alluded to trucker convoys rumored to be threatening to disrupt the Super Bowl in Los Angeles and streets in Washington. Freeland told staff in an email that the Deese wanted daily updates on the protests which never materialized because the Emergencies Act was invoked three days after Trudeau’s call with Biden. Freeland told Canadian investigators that she worried Canada was “in the process of doing long-term and possibly irreparable harm to our trading relationship with the United States” and feared DC politicians “who would love any excuse to impose more protectionist measures on us.”

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This is not much use anymore if you don’t include -and separate out- vaccine deaths.

The Vaccinated Now Account For A Majority Of Covid Deaths (Techno Fog)

There’s a remarkable concession appearing in The Washington Post today: “a majority of Americans dying from the coronavirus received at least the primary series of the vaccine.” The latest data shows that 58% of COVID-19 deaths in August 2022 were from people who were vaccinated or boosted. Based on past figures and the current trends, we can reasonably estimate that the number of vaccinated/boosted COVID-19 deaths will only rise. (In September 2021, the vaccinated accounted for 23% of COVID-19 deaths; in January/February 2022, the vaccinated were 42%.) This is what happens when you rush ineffective and dangerous vaccines.

The FDA’s promises of efficacy – 91% for the Pfizer vaccine and 93% for the Moderna vaccine – were always based on hope, not data. So too were the promises of safety. At the time of the official approvals, both Pfizer and Moderna hadn’t submitted any type of long-term numbers on effectiveness. Their trials were polluted with the unblinding of participants and their safety studies are “ongoing.” Now, we’re seeing efficacy numbers plummet within months of vaccination. The pandemic is of the vaccinated. The boosters? They’re to the benefit of the medical establishment and the pharmaceutical companies, as they mask the true problems with the two-shot vaccines. Even with these numbers, the outgoing Anthony Fauci continues to vouch for the jab, stating the data “overwhelmingly show the effectiveness of vaccines.”

This is the same man who demanded school closures, inserted himself into the 2020 election by criticizing Trump’s COVID-19 response while complimenting China, and criticized Governor Ron DeSantis for reopening Florida’s schools. All the while, Fauci was lying to the public about COVID-19 origins. In May of 2020, he told National Geographic that COVID-19 “could not have been artificially or deliberately manipulated.” What he didn’t tell us was that he and US government clients were sabotaging and shutting down research and fact finding into the lab leak theory. What he didn’t say was that internal communications among himself and Francis Collins and Jeremy Farrar, revealed through a FOIA request by Jimmy Tobias, discussed “accidental lab passage in animals” and how the Wuhan lab was the “Wild West” and why the lab leak was a serious possibility.

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Cancer and plastic blood clots. What a future we have created for ourselves.

People With Stable Cancer Rapidly Progress After Having a Booster (Dalgleish)

A letter from Dr. Angus Dalgleish, Professor of Oncology at St George’s University of London, to Dr. Kamran Abbasi, the Editor in Chief of the BMJ. It was written in support of a colleague’s plea to Dr. Abbasi that the BMJ make valid informed consent for Covid vaccination a priority topic.

Dear Kamran Abbasi, Covid no longer needs a vaccine programme given the average age of death of Covid in the U.K. is 82 and from all other causes is 81 and falling.vThe link with clots, myocarditis, heart attacks and strokes is now well accepted, as is the link with myelitis and neuropathy. (We predicted these side effects in our June 2020 QRBD article Sorensen et al. 2020, as the blast analysis revealed 79% homologies to human epitopes, especially PF4 and myelin.)vHowever, there is now another reason to halt all vaccine programmes. As a practising oncologist I am seeing people with stable disease rapidly progress after being forced to have a booster, usually so they can travel. Even within my own personal contacts I am seeing B cell-based disease after the boosters.

They describe being distinctly unwell a few days to weeks after the booster – one developing leukaemia, two work colleagues Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, and an old friend who has felt like he has had Long Covid since receiving his booster and who, after getting severe bone pain, has been diagnosed as having multiple metastases from a rare B cell disorder.vI am experienced enough to know that these are not the coincidental anecdotes that many suggest, especially as the same pattern is being seen in Germany, Australia and the USA. The reports of innate immune suppression after mRNA for several weeks would fit, as all these patients to date have melanoma or B cell based cancers, which are very susceptible to immune control – and that is before the reports of suppressor gene suppression by mRNA in laboratory experiments. This must be aired and debated immediately.

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    Johannes Vermeer View of Delft 1660-61   • The Consumer Economy Has Completely Collapsed (CTH) • 41% of US Small Businesses Can’t Pay Rent This M
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle November 27 2022]

    #122001
    teri
    Participant

    “Interestingly, almost every financial media outlet is using the same Retail Federation talking point about anticipating an 8% increase in holiday sales this year.” – from the Conservative Treehouse article.

    Well, of course there will be at least an 8% increase in sales dollars (which is what they are talking about): inflation is at least 8% YoY (year over year). If the same shit costs 8% more this year, their sales figures are 8% higher. It doesn’t mean that you got 8% more stuff or that they sold 8% more stuff, it just means it cost 8% more to buy the same stuff you bought last year.

    And I’m sure after Christmas, they will tell us how this was the highest increase in holiday spending ever. And that will be correct, because inflation is actually way above 8%. And then there will be some news-people scratching their heads as they ponder the paradoxical situation where although the stores had such a “huge increase” in “sales”, they have an “inexplicable” amount of goods left over.

    #122002
    Red
    Participant

    In the 90’s while volunteering at my local museum of natural history as an instructor on first peoples pre contact I was able to attend different seminars on flaking stone points for a number of uses by competent people. It wouldn’t take too long to learn this skill. As for making arrows the following two videos give a fairly good description. Straightening wood with heat or steam isn’t very difficult either. I’ve bent some very thick lumber in a steam box I made with scrap lumber and an old tea kettle for replacing rotten ribs in boats. You want to learn to more self sufficient? The time to learn new old ways is now! Saying “this is hard ,that’s impossible” isn’t going to cut it. It’s defeatist. Get out and take some courses in just about anything. Learn different ways of preserving foods. Learn some basic wood working with just hand tools.
    Learn how to improve soil conditions without a small chemistry lab back in the kitchen. Join in with small groups that are learning different skills. You don’t have to know how to do everything. You only need to know someone that can do some of the things you can’t. Find a skill you don’t yet know you have and build it out. A small-ish community of folks with different ancient skills will do better than a large community with modern skills mostly dependent on electricity. If all you do is look for the holes in any suggestions than sooner or later you will find yourself in a hole. Look for the things you can do or maybe even improve on without electricity. Electricity is the achilles heal of our civilization and it’s seemingly endless supply will soon enough show that it has ends. Starting with rolling brown/black outs that will become more frequent and last longer and longer. Learning how to do without it being a constant companion will be paramount to getting along and keeping destitution at bay. Even if there is plenty of electricity available it will be rationed as another form of control over the masses. Control is the game, so be uncontrollable in a civilized way.

    Part two:

    Now back to your regularly scheduled program.

    #122003
    aspnaz
    Participant

    However, what appalls observers of the conflict in Ukraine even more is the fact that the Ukrainian army tortures and kills its own citizens.

    The people behind Ulraine are the same people behind Pfizer … they only want to kill, their aim being to be able to keep their swiming pools and to feel superior to other people in the world. Of course, their little project now has a life of its own, they will now kill until they are killed.

    #122004
    Red
    Participant

    Oh and this, what can’t be controlled must be extinguished.

    The woman speaking appears to be Assistant Secretary Sherry L. Hubert.

    We have — it’s a new venture. It’s called Mayo Clinic platform. And really what it is — as we’ve been talking about prevention. What we’re hoping to do is gather the medical records, and it’s a very lofty goal — but the medical records of everybody in the world so we can start to become — to predict before diseases and conditions even happen. And we realize that that is the future — that hopefully, being able to have all of these records, it’s really going to be able to help our physicians, our scientists, and our researchers [to] be able to cure diseases and conditions before they even occur.

    https://vigilantfox.substack.com/p/mayo-clinic-rep-advocates-against

    #122005
    aspnaz
    Participant

    the authenticity of the laptop has been confirmed by both the Washington Post and the New York Times, while CBS News authenticated the laptop on Monday

    Interesting. The MSM always lie, so why would they pretend to be pro-justice? They must have some scam up their sleeves but I cannot see where it is going. Liars lie, MSM always lie, something is up.

    #122006
    aspnaz
    Participant

    Climate activists are now calling for millions of dogs worldwide to be slaughtered in an effort to reduce the “carbon pawprint” they produce as a result of eating meat.

    Interesting idea, but I will not persue it until I have killed all the carbon activists and their corrupt police that try to kill my dog … that way I get to eat activist bacon with my free range eggs. Dogs are part of the family, you may as well suggest killing children, but they know this, they know this will upset people, this is all down to Klaus, Soros and King Bill of the USA …. how are they still alive? So why are they trying to wind up people? Same old shite, the thieves in charge just have a new plan for thieving.

    #122007
    Michael Reid
    Participant
    #122008
    Dr. D
    Participant

    “The Consumer Economy Has Completely Collapsed (CTH)”

    In once sense, great. People have what they need. However, there’s an entire infrastructure built on this, and a mental, social, and financial infrastructure built on that. All are entirely useless if we drop back to shopping levels of 1959. Or 1979, or 1989. Actually, we shop a lot. What was it, the US has 5-10x the shopping footage of anywhere in the world? That’s a lot of acres not growing food. At the same time, people are still buying every irrelevancy and nothing useful like shovels and canning jars.

    “41% of US Small Businesses Can’t Pay Rent this Month (JTN)”

    As with framing and pegging, even unconsciously, it’s not “7%” exactly. It’s a 30% increase in just one month. Usually that is how it’s expressed since it’s more dramatic and explains why they wrote the article for you and aren’t wasting your time.

    Well, they destroyed the first half of small businesses the previous years. And large business too – just that [Powell] gave them free money in “Fascism” to insure they survived and continued their company store merger with the State. Now they’re going after the stragglers. That’s what your 87,000 armed IRS employees are for.

    Speaking of, hearing several Press Releases out of Europe, DeutscheBank for instance, that says “Don’t borrow from U.S. Banks.” Yes, that’s Luongo’s thesis. They are harboring their own business and few remaining nickels and not getting into hock for the Fed system which is crushing them. However, new problem: if they borrow in Euros instead of Eurodollars, they lose control of the endless printing press and the world reserve currency (us), creating more free US dollars than the US, and have to stand on their own. So the Press Release shows Powell’s attack is biting. Rate increases have a 6-9 month lag, sadly. Long enough everyone denies they matter, every time. Note correlation of the DOUBLING of state gold purchases last quarter. (And how that never increases the price by even one dollar)

    “Most NATO Members Are out of Weapons for Ukraine – NYT (RT)”

    China only had to wait like the Indians, for the cowboys to empty their guns on top of the mesa. I thought wars were supposed to help the economy and that’s why we’re in them. War is Good! It’s Peace, practically! Well not if we don’t employ Americans building bombs and planes! What do you think, this economic recovery works via telepathy? No, via PAYCHECKS. I’m glad they’re so psychotic and idiotic they haven’t figured this out. Better THEY are unarmed, and I don’t want to work in their bomb and bug factory. And WE remain extremely well armed, more than every each month, and now including Democrats.

    “Lithuania, which does not have any more weapons to donate, has urged the allies to give Ukraine “everything we have.”

    Okay Lithuania: give them all your electricity and you can sit in the dark in solidarity. No? Why not? Because like Europe you’ll start any war as long as it’s somebody else fighting it? Yanks from Arkansas and Harlem while you sit home?

    “The fact is, if you look at it soberly, the country that is most profiting from this war is the U.S.”

    AND? So this is some kind of galactic surprise you never saw coming? That wars are expensive? So we’re supposed to fight YOUR war – to conquer Russia FOR YOU – entirely at a loss, and when we come to collapse and occupy Russia, just hand all their oil wells to you for an Attaboy? I see how this goes. …Because that would be the alternative to “profiting” by it.

    Thanks for being honest. Never stop talking, we know who you are. If so, then this really is NOT an American war, is it? It’s WEF/Davos puppeting our NeoCons and media.

    “America needs to realize that public opinion is shifting in many EU countries.”

    Yay! Do you not like us anymore? You want us to close our deeply expensive military bases and go away? Okay! And since you don’t have the same 200,000 men, you want to increase defense spending to 10% for a few years like Cheeto said?

    “The CIA has been developing fascists for 70 years” Yes. Worldwide. The same people funded Hitler’s rise, the Bushes funded it, Time lauded it, IBM sent equipment, and Ford won an Iron Cross for helping. Later, they collected the best Nazi talent in Germany and embedded them in CIA and DoD and moved on to Pinochet and the Shah.

    It’s an old story. But new one too: their children are Klaus and Freeland, Nazi grandchildren highly placed worldwide. Soros was young enough that killing people side by side with Nazis was his original childhood job, one he continues to this day. Greatest years of his life, he says. That is not hyperbole, there is a video of the interview.

    “The Biden administration has quietly approved plans to build a new crude oil terminal in the Gulf of Mexico”

    Notice no Refineries. The Kissinger US-Saudi deal of 1974 vowed the U.S. would build no new refineries (so we couldn’t double-cross Saud like Anglos do 110% of the time) And so it seems we haven’t, despite the deal appearing to be well-ended for over a year.

    But they don’t get into details. Likely this is related to IMPORTING oil, as Biden narrows down a long term deal with Venezuela. Although that also sounds crazy, we require heavy crude to mix with our overly light crude and gas liquids or we have no feedstock, and especially no diesel. The details matter. Oil is not actually fungible.

    [Censored] both publicly or via direct message…as well as former President Trump’s campaign account”

    Read and Censored all PRIVATE messages? And yet – not only was this false, disinformation that the laptop wasn’t real, but ALSO promoted years and years and years of OTHER disinformation? Every one of them? Russia? “Fine People” hoax. Chlorine attack. Burning of the White House church? Trump wasn’t wiretapped? No masks. Are there any false things they DIDN’T promote?

    See, this is why you can’t censor information/disinformation. WHEN IT’S NEWS, ie “New”, NOBODY CAN TELL WHICH IS WHICH. But these “Head Girls” (hmm does that have different meaning?) believe everything ever known is in the textbook, and no one disagrees on it. ‘Cuz “teacher says.” Despite that the textbook says the #Opposite from last year. “Don’t wear masks…they might stop a droplet, but are useless”. “Never take Trump’s vaccine. I’ll die first.” There’s no such thing as Epstein island, and Weinstein was an upstanding guy and close personal friend of both Cuomo and the Mahattan DA. There are no pedos in Washington. It’s the only 10-mile U.S. city that is 100% pedo free!

    There is. No end. To Twitter’s idiotic, transparent, disinformation. All in one direction.

    I for one, appreciate it. Like NPR and MSNBC, I know if they say it, it’s false. It saves a lot of time since they condense it to the headlines for me. Paul Pelosi? Oh then he’s picking up gay addicts and railroading them using the police and D.A. Got it. Stunning and Brave. #Tolerance. Never stop throwing gays in jail, Paul. For sodomy or the lack thereof.

    “Companies Join Call to Suspend Advertising with Twitter (Turley)”

    Yes, but this is so they can focus more money on poisoning the earth and supporting slavery in China. Now that Twitter is 3 inches closer to free speech (still 100 miles from target) it’s just not killing enough people anymore.

    Climate activists are now calling for millions of dogs worldwide to be slaughtered in an effort to reduce the “carbon pawprint” they produce as a result of eating meat.”

    We must kill the animals to save the animals. Environmentalists sure love extinction. Making all these species extinct is in their top ten list. And Humans are #1 on the list.

    “if our furry friends formed a separate country, it would rank 5th in global meat consumption”

    Except knowing nothing, being both ignorant and arrogant, AND asking no questions; starting with the conclusion then getting the facts, they haven’t a clue what they’re talking about. Where 10 seconds asking the position of the Pet Food CEO would clear up. Okay: some about of pet food is meat, but unless it’s very expensive, that part is not much. So we get rid of that meat component, so far so good. And the environmentalists plan on a diet of brains, lungs, and cartilage that is now going to waste? No. Like dumb-ss college kids, they’ll just dump it in the street, having never seen a farm even on TV.

    P.S. “Bugs are Animals too.” You idiots. So we’re going to replace animals with…animals? To save the … animals? Because bugs are vegetarians just like…I dunno, cows are? Some savings. But there’s one advantage: like all their wind and solar farms, they can pave and ruin ten-thousands acres of farmland with CO2-intensive concrete when they build the 10,000-acre bug factory. Then we’ll never have to worry about those trees and pesky farmland ever again! Goooooo Green!

    “All claimed to be working towards the greater good. All turned out to be frauds.”

    “Turned out”? WTF ever thought they weren’t? It would take about 60 seconds to know, as Sequoia and BlackRock found out (and knew all along). By now is there anyone who hears the words “greater good” and doesn’t think “transparent scam” and is 99-44/100ths right?

    “’I feel bad for those who get f***** by it, by this dumb game we woke westerners play where we say all the right shiboleths and so everyone likes us.” –Sam Bankscam Fried and every other Leftist activist ever

    WTF are the people falling for this? Should we get them a short bus and a helmet? Or just a “Go Green” banner printed by Uygher slaves in China? I’m just speechless by what it will take. I used to think: “If they only knew”. Then I thought “When it hits them personally”. Then, “If their children.” Then I thought, “since they don’t care about their children,must be their pocketbook.”

    Nope. There’s no cure for stupid. “Stupid” in this case being “not thinking.”

    Continuing on with endless, GALACTIC stupid, sir, how exactly did the Crypto “collapse”? All the coins still exist. None of them went bankrupt. Oh because you took your valuable property and GAVE IT TO THEM for safekeeping, with no history, no oversight, and no security? Was it his fancy haircut that sold you on this great idea, or was it his expensive shirts?

    In other words W T F WERE YOU THINKING???????????????????????????

    I MUST find these people right away and convince them to loan me the keys to their house and car. Forever. With no security. Because we just met, and I look like a homeless street bum.

    Hey…doesn’t that imply the OTHER necessary conclusion? That it was all a pre-arranged, pre-loaded, transparent SCAM? That it was invented and RUN by BlackRock and Sequoia, by the U.S, Federal regulators? Because we know BlackRock does NOT hand you the keys to their office for being a Hobo? And the only way ordinary investors would join is if BlackRock, the SEC, Vox and Wired, Cramer on CNBC gave them the highest possible seal of approval?

    Um, yes. But this is a reporter and they believe anything. Without asking questions.

    “The simplest answer is greed.”

    No. The simplest answer is not “greed”. No one “accidentally” was “fooled”.

    Newsflash: crypto is ON THE BLOCKCHAIN. All other coins do not exist. i.e., “They are scams”.

    “ripping people off, as racket. He’s a racketeer.”

    Close. If you’re “Racketeering” it is by definition a “conspiracy”. Who are his co-conspirators, his crime cartel? Wouldn’t they have to be CNBC, BlackRock, Sequoia, the DNC, and the SEC?

    Yes. By definition this must be true. SBF is the coffee boy. …If that wasn’t so painfully obvious it keeps you up at night marveling how anyone could think otherwise. Ellison was a girl who provided…other services.

    “Schwab said he respected China’s “tremendous” achievements at modernizing its economy over the last 40 years. “I think it’s a role model for many countries,”

    Yes, they all need to up their consumption and energy use to the 25% used by the 5% of humans in the West. And to do that, they must pave all their rice paddies and poison all their rivers. So Greeeeennnnn!!!! Now why won’t the backward hicks in Iowa do that and be as green as the hipsters in New Jersey? Why do they hate the earth so much they grow grass and cows under endless blue skies? Don’t they WANT to save Mother Earth by putting up skyscraper pods? What is wrong with them keeping all these animals from certain extinction?

    Slaves. Prisons. Yes, it’s a mixed bag. If you’re on earth, are you ever free? You are ruled by your belly. Or worse, your mind.

    ““They are very, very, very worried,” Canadian Finance Minister Nazi Chrystia Freeland said”

    So very, very, very worried, that they never talked to the truckers even once. Nor lifted what was a clearly idiotic, unscientific restriction, even though this was long after we knew vaccines didn’t stop the spread.

    So worried! So worried we did exactly nothing, then did the #Opposite of all things that make sense and would fix it.

    Actually, reminds me of the midterm elections. Like WTF does the rest of the world follow it or care? I have to because I live here. If I were in Canada I’d write a letter of protest to the CBC for covering such tripe as the United States, which clearly isn’t a country but a clown show, and a failing bankrupt one at that.

    the outgoing Anthony Fauci continues to vouch for the jab, stating” After I got vaccinated, I got Covid at least three times! That means it works!

    “and how the illegally-funded and personally overseen Wuhan lab was the “Wild West” and why the lab leak was a serious possibility [was entirely his fault and would go to jail if he didn’t cover it up].” Fixed it.

    Another day nothing changes. Everything goes and nothing matters. A day where Einstein was right, the Universe is finite but stupidity isn’t.

    Speaking of arrows, they are superior to guns in several other ways. Broadheads cut through body armor like it isn’t there. Far superior when dealing with policemen. But we’re still talking about guns when you can kill thousands of people far faster using almost any other method.

    “I’m not going to stand by the edge of the banks of the reservoir I’m not going to break gonna fake gonna drink from the reservoir”

    When you look at it that way, thank God people ARE stupid and DO use guns. They kill far fewer people that way.

    #122009
    Dr. D
    Participant

    CaptainBlackface

    #122010
    aspnaz
    Participant

    Okay Lithuania: give them all your electricity and you can sit in the dark in solidarity. No? Why not? Because like Europe you’ll start any war as long as it’s somebody else fighting it? Yanks from Arkansas and Harlem while you sit home?

    Are the yanks in Arkansas and Harlem really that dumb?

    #122011
    Dora
    Participant

    Joe Rogan

    #122012
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    @aspnaz You contemplated, “They must have some scam up their sleeves but I cannot see where it is going. Liars lie, MSM always lie, something is up.”

    For the answer to this question we must turn to the world famous expert on the Art of Lying, Mark Twain. He advised that the thing to do when caught red handed in the commission of a crime was to immediately confess to a lesser crime.

    #122013
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    @aspnaz asked : “Are the yanks in Arkansas and Harlem really that dumb?”

    Yup, ‘fraid so, but where on earth is it any different?

    #122014
    oldandtired
    Participant

    @Red
    Ishi staggered into town-Chico, California, the last of his people, the Yana. Had it not been for the current interest in archery nation-wide, he would not have come under the care and comfort of Mr.’s Pope and Young. His band of 125 people had been decimated by the white settlers, who had hunted them down and murdered them for sport and profit.

    I recall that at the same time Ishi referred to the people inhabiting nearby Yosemite valley as “the people who sometimes eat people”.

    Medieval weapons are no match for modern firearms, but it was ultimately not guns or steel that did Ishi in. It was germs.

    “I go. You stay.” His last words.

    #122015
    Dr D Rich
    Participant

    From the crypto apologia,

    “Tempting as it might be to focus all of our energy into anger towards these men, this is a time for self reflection. As an industry, but also a community. Crypto has attracted millions of people from all over the world and the vast majority are good people who believe in this new way of building trust. But we are terrible at picking leaders (with a few exceptions) and have only ourselves to blame when they let us down.”

    A psychopath couldn’t have done a better job : 1) defending Psychopathy while 2) excusing the people/leaders/psychopaths for stealing vast amounts of other people’s money and 3) shifting blame to the crime victims for not selecting better leaders to have stolen their money.

    Who is this “ourselves” this stupid ass references as if anybody has solidarity with him/her/it?

    BTW, society CAN handle the prosecution and obliteration of Sam Bankmn Fried and those co-conspiring Stanford parents who raised their abomination then enabled him as an adult, but if we don’t think we can handle it we should at least try.
    So yeah I’m down with riding with the prosecutors on this one to ensure Sam gets all that due process coming his way.

    #122016
    zerosum
    Participant

    The US Govt knew what was going to happen in Ukraine.

    CIA analyst and Russian analyst know more than TAE

    Pretenses must be maintained by the media.
    ———–
    The winner is ……

    1. Who has the last bullet
    2. Who has the biggest bank account
    3. Who has the last drop of oil
    4. Who controls the media
    5. The best scammer, FTX

    • Most NATO Members Are Out Of Weapons For Ukraine – NYT (RT)
    • Europe Accuses US Of Profiting From War (Pol.eu)
    • Biden Admin Quietly Greenlights Plan to Build Huge Gulf Oil Terminal (ET)
    • Companies Join Call to Suspend Advertising with Twitter (Turley)
    • Thoughts On A Crypto Crisis (Melekan)

    ————–
    Canada has strong leaders.
    Trudeau and Chrystia Freeland imposed/crafted the Emergencies Act with 7 new powers to snuff demonstrations and democracy/freedom/liberty

    • US Officials Pressured Canada To Stop ‘Freedom Convoy’ (NYP)

    ————-
    The majority of people that are dying are vaccinated

    Anthony Fauci, after getting covid 3 times, continues to vouch for the jab, stating the data “overwhelmingly show the effectiveness of vaccines.”
    • The Vaccinated Now Account For A Majority Of Covid Deaths (Techno Fog)
    • People With Stable Cancer Rapidly Progress After Having a Booster (Dalgleish)

    ———-
    Heaven can expand to contain the soul/energy of all the lives in the universe.
    ————

    #122017
    zerosum
    Participant

    Copy cats from the Freedom convoy in Ottawa
    https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/covid-lockdown-protests-erupt-beijing-xinjiang-after-deadly-fire
    COVID Lockdown Protests Erupt In Beijing, Xinjiang After Deadly Fire
    protesters chanting “End the lockdown!” and waving flags

    #122018
    Maxwell Quest
    Participant

    “First they came for the dogs
    And I did not speak out
    Because I was not a dog
    ,,,
    Then they came for me
    And there was no one left
    To speak out for me”

    #122019
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    The Dark Origins of the Davos Great Reset

    The Dark Origins of the Davos Great Reset

    #122020
    John Day
    Participant

    When Queen Elizabeth died, there was a question of whether it was related to COVID-vaccination.
    She had multiple myeloma, a form of cancer of the blood-forming elements in the bone marrow.
    That means “it could have been related”, since spike-protein , created by the body after receiving the “vaccine-products”, suppresses the immune-system’s ability to fight these cancers.
    https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/uk/queen-elizabeth-ii-fought-cancer-in-secret-during-her-final-years-reveals-prince-philips-friend-in-new-book/articleshow/95774879.cms

    #122022
    John Day
    Participant

    I’ve been away for a few days, doing life-with-family and working on the new closet I’m building.
    I can’t always run with the Red Queen, so I failed to keep up.

    #122023
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Elon, “working the room”, with AOC again.

    I’m in Heaven!

    #122024
    Oroboros
    Participant

    @Maxwell Quest

    “..first they came for the dogs…

    ..then they came for me
    And there was no one left to Bark

    #122025
    Figmund Sreud
    Participant

    Question for Docs here: Does following hold water?

    … thanks,

    F.S.

    #122026
    Oroboros
    Participant

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    #122027
    phoenixvoice
    Participant

    Red:
    Control is the game, so be uncontrollable in a civilized way.

    Kudos for that statement. I like it. 🙂

    #122028
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Welcome to the Big Tent

    .

    #122029
    Noirette
    Participant

    Finis Sinarum, by Pattberg for the Saker, link in top post.

    “… Most nationals do not realize this, but the West controls education globally. Not just all the standards. Not just the Anglo-Satan BA, MA, MBA, PhD degrees, publications, and university structures, but also international exchange, scholarship, and permissions. Chinese degrees, Benke, Shuoshi, Boshi, etc., on the other hand, are invalid.

    An Englishman who carelessly studied in China on his own, with no UK governmental backing, is holding a worthless degree. UK universities, including Cambridge and Imperial College, prohibit their students from studying in mainland China unless they are part of their many state-supervised exchange programs. The entire West has huge barriers to its citizens learning in China unsupervised. (…)”

    There is a lot of truth to this. However, ‘the West’ should be labelled USuk.

    France no longer controls anything in education, except on its own territory (incl. Martinique, Guadeloupe — not in Algeria for ex..), ex. who gets to go to the top schools, etc. Even its ‘French Institutes’ abroad have sagged or been dismantled. (Haven’t looked this up for a long time, so?)

    Italy, same, though it makes v. good money offering Arts to Foreignors, very popular with Americans, that’s all very sweet, but has no pol/ tech/ science impact (from It. industry is another matter.)

    Germany’s top tech (+ Switz) turns out ppl who are highly competent and can get jobs all over the world in many ‘crucial’ fields. The internationalisation of Science sees to it that English is lang. no 1, that top Science Journals are in Eng. and basically managed by USuk, so many richochet effects, long story.

    Russia is more independent, and about China…heh it is hard to make a summary.. I’m not competent. Schwab admiring it (link in top post) is just the standard *control the ppl to serve the powerful* > Go ,China, Go. 🙂

    #122030
    teri
    Participant

    @John Day; “When Queen Elizabeth died, there was a question of whether it was related to COVID-vaccination. She had multiple myeloma, a form of cancer of the blood-forming elements in the bone marrow. That means “it could have been related”, since spike-protein , created by the body after receiving the “vaccine-products”, suppresses the immune-system’s ability to fight these cancers.”

    Well, that and the fact that she was 98 years old.

    #122031
    John Day
    Participant

    @Teri:
    What I meant is that existing cancers have accelerated rapidly after patients have been treated with COVID-gene-therapy-vaccine products.
    Queen Elizabeth apparently had known multiple-myeloma before 2020, but also appears to have gotten COVID-vaccines and boosters.
    Everybody dies of something, whatever their age might be.

    The question is whether the Queen of England had COVID-vaccination as a contributing-cause of her death. It appears possible-to-likely.

    #122032
    John Day
    Participant

    @Figmund Sreud: Niacin is one of many good things, but I would go with vitamin-D supplementation long term to reduce heart attack risk first, and foremost. You might be deficient in numerous b-vitamins, as well as Vitamin-D. Adequate vitamin-D is protective to the blood vessel lining (endothelium) also, and makes the immune system normally-intelligent when it is in adequate supply.
    I eat fresh vegetables and also take a B-complex vitamin.
    Some assert that the specific chemical form of a B-vitamin matters, and it may well.
    You might take food-yeast for b-vitamins and trace minerals…

    #122033
    John Day
    Participant

    @Red: I often wonder about the EROI of learning fundamental survival skills in a world without city-water and natural gas. I assume we could live a month without electricity.
    What does it matter what I and my neighbors know if we have no water, no wood, and no wood-stove?

    When Europeans settled the Texas coastal plains and central Texas, from the 1830s onward, they settled where there was a good river, wood to burn and wild game to kill and eat.
    Potatoes and wild-pig, cooked over a fire, with river water.
    We cut those rungs out of the ladder behind us.
    The more I learn, the more I realize how dependent I am.

    #122035
    Afewknowthetruth
    Participant

    The experiment of living without electricity in a previously ‘civilised’ region is being conducted at the moment.

    ‘More than half the nation is in total darkness and the comparison to neighboring countries is stark. For the majority of the war Ukraine enjoyed near full use of their power grid, internet, water, gas, and other amenities, which is highly unusual during an invasion. The reasons for Vladimir Putin seeking to avoid damage to infrastructure are unknown, but public optics are the most likely explanation. With power resources nearly destroyed, the citizenry of Ukraine is facing a long cold winter with little to no relief in sight.

    No doubt the media will portray this as a cold weather holocaust, though, elimination of infrastructure is usually the first measure of a large scale attack. It is standard operating procedure for the US military, for example. At this point, the coldest temperatures have yet to hit Ukraine, with average lows of 21°F (-6°C) in December. This kind of weather is not a problem with infrastructure intact, but with the grid down there will be chaos.

    Water pipes will freeze and bust across major population centers, leaving only well water. The effects of the cold will be cumulative, and without heating and electric most other operations including economic operations will grind to a halt. Ukraine’s population will have gone from relative comfort to brutal survival in the span of a couple months.’

    https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/satellite-imagery-shows-extensive-destruction-ukraine-power-grid

    #122036
    zerosum
    Participant

    We cut those rungs out of the ladder behind us.”

    I’m giving you first prize.

    Even the native indians/esquimos/first people/sasquatch don’t realize that “yesterday is gone.”
    “living off the land” without modern “energy slaves” is impossible.

    I’m watching/learning/getting hints/preparing from what happens in Ukraine.

    I just saw on a CNN TV reporting, a woman, wearing her fur coat, being chauffeured/evacuated, with her prized possessions, from Kurk. because of Russian (?), bombing, not because of no water, no food, no electricity, no heat, no working infrastructures.

    I’ve learned, from Survival training, that if those that have nothing learned or think that you have, then that is enough of a motive to take it from you.
    (A good reason to leave with your fur coat.)

    #122037
    Afewknowthetruth
    Participant

    All is not quiet on the Western Front [for Russia]. Hundreds of wounded peasants fill the Ukrainian hospitals, with zero prospect of evacuation. And Bakhmut, the key strategic NATO ‘fortress’ is in the process of being liberated.

    No idiotic claims of ‘Ukrainian victories’ from the Guardian and other shill for NATO these days. The best they can come up with are sob-stories about how brutal real war actually is.

    #122038
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    Discovered when exploring my previous post,


    “Isn’t the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse?
    Isn’t it our responsibility to bring that about?” [vi]

    This is what is now taking place under cover of a hyped global pandemic.

    Are we living through globalist desired world population shedding?

    Very green and it always helps when those being shed volunteer for …

    #122039
    Afewknowthetruth
    Participant

    The EU is doing an excellent job of destroying itself, via the lunatic policies promoted by ‘the Pirate of Brussels’ and her buddies.

    Just what comes after the EU has destroyed itself -other than mass starvation, rioting in the streets, and then medieval living arrangements- is anybody’s guess.

    #122040
    zerosum
    Participant

    tongue-in-cheek – ironic, flippant, or insincere:
    LOL

    https://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2022/11/26/ukraine_can_beat_russia_in_the_bombardment_war_of_attrition_866862.html
    Ukraine Can Beat Russia in the Bombardment War of Attrition

    1. For Ukraine to win the war, it must paradoxically maneuver to ensure that Moscow continues its barrage of missiles against civilian, rather than military targets.

    2. In effect, every Russian rocket fired strengthens Ukrainian resolve, saves a vital military target in Ukraine from being attacked, bringing victory closer for Kyiv, and drains Russia’s rapidly diminishing arsenal.

    3. Thus far in the ten-month conflict, Russia has expended seventy percent of its total air-to-ground and non-strategic surface-to-surface missile arsenal. Since February, Russia has launched 1,305 missiles out of its total inventory of 1,844, leaving only enough missiles (539) for at most six more days of strikes. There remain only 121 SS-26 Iskanders , 248 Kalibrs, and 170 Kh-55 rockets. Nor is Russia likely to be able to replace them given their production dependence on imported foreign microchips.

    4. Russia’s bombing campaign is being conducted for theatrical effects by Russian President Vladimir Putin’s entourage,

    5. The Soviet Union manufactured far more nuclear warheads, 55,000, than missiles, during the Cold War. Once Russia’s winter offensive, or 2023 spring offensive fails, it will have exhausted its theatre missiles, and will be unable to conduct more than a few isolated nuclear missile strikes. It will either have to depend on its unreliable air force to make it to the target areas, or to use its poorly tailored strategic weapons for isolated nuclear demonstrations or concede on the battlefield.

    #122041
    Afewknowthetruth
    Participant

    If Russia does it, it’s a ‘war crime’. If NATO does it, it’s delivering ‘freedom and democracy’.

    The hypocrisy and stupidity of NATOstan ‘leaders’ reaches new heights.

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