President Joe Biden has finally found himself on the wrong side of a special counsel investigation. On Thursday, Attorney General Merrick Garland announced that is appointing a special counsel to investigate the classified documents found in President Joe Biden’s private office and home. “Attorney General Merrick Garland has appointed a special counsel to take over the investigation into President Joe Biden’s potential mishandling of classified documents,” CNN reported. “The special counsel is Robert Hur.” “Two special prosecutors have been appointed,” CNN also reported. In contrast to Donald Trump storing the documents he declassified as president and storing them at a safe storage facility at Mar-a-Lago, Joe Biden took the documents while vice president and they remain classified to this day.

And to make matters worse, it came out that a second batch of classified documents were found at his Wilmington home garage. These are in addition to those found in a think tank closet at the Penn Biden Center office in Washington, D.C. There are even reports of a third batch of classified documents that have been discovered. Biden went off-script talking to Fox News’ Peter Doocy about the security of his garage by claiming that is where he keeps his “Corvette.” “Classified material next to your Corvette! What were you thinking?” Doocy said to the President in response. Biden defended himself by saying, “My Corvette is in a locked garage, OK? So it’s not like they’re sitting out on the street.” Biden was so brazen about his illegal activity that he actually filmed a campaign video with his corvette in 2021. One can see stacks of boxes in the back of the garage where the classified documents were reportedly found.

Legal analyst Jonathan Turley reacted to the development on the documents being found in Biden’s garage. “The President just said that the documents found in his garage are in a ‘locked garage’ like his corvette,” Turley said. “The corvette standard is actually not in classified protocols…” “The corvette statement was remarkably ill-considered,” he added. “It was a cringe-worthy moment. After being given a carefully worded statement by his lawyers and staff, the President ad-libbed and suggested that his locked garage was a secure space for classified material.” Miranda Devine, author of the “Laptop from Hell,” has added a new twist to the story: Hunter Biden claimed he owned the house where Biden kept the classified documents. Devine provides the document showing Hunter Biden claiming to own the house. The address also appears on a copy of Hunter Biden’s driver’s license.

People suggesting a third batch was found.

• ‘This Is Election Interference’: House Oversight Veteran on Biden Files (ET)

A House Oversight Committee veteran said the delay in publicizing President Joe Biden’s retention of classified documents from his time as vice president amounts to election interference. “The documents were allegedly discovered on Nov. 2. The midterms are on Nov. 8. To me, this is election interference by omission,” Mike Howell said in a Jan. 11 interview with The Epoch Times.“Does anyone think if this had been President Trump or any other Republican, the news wouldn’t have been leaked immediately for political gain? We needn’t wonder—just look at all the affirmative updates, releases, and leaks in the Trump case,” he said in a Jan. 10 statement.

Howell was an attorney for the Department of Homeland Security under President Donald Trump. He previously worked as a lawyer on the House Oversight Committee as well as the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. He now leads the Oversight Project at The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank. Heritage Oversight is, in Howell’s words, “suing the Biden administration aggressively” over Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests. “We’re gathering as much as we can and hoping that Congress makes use of it,” he said, noting that FOIA lawsuits are just one of the organization’s tactics. Notably, Heritage Oversight obtained an email to Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas that shows that he knew Haitian migrants weren’t whipped by Border Patrol agents at Del Rio, Texas, by Sept. 24, 2021.

Yet during a press conference that same day, Mayorkas offered no clarification on the whipping allegations, instead saying that the images “painfully conjured up the worst elements of our nation’s ongoing battle against systemic racism.” “He [Mayorkas] chose to ignore the information to preserve the far-left narrative on this whole incident,” Howell said in a 2022 Heritage Foundation interview. Heritage Oversight filed FOIA requests with the Department of Justice and the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) regarding the classified materials found at the Penn Biden Center. “Why was this information not made public prior [to] the election? It likely would have had substantial electoral salience,” Howell wrote in his FOIA request to the Department of Justice.

“..one of the greatest outbreaks of mass delusion in US history..”

• Key ‘Russian Bots’ Claim Was False – Twitter Documents (RT)

Twitter executives knew that several hashtags denounced by leading congressional Democrats and corporate media as “Russian disinformation” were a product of authentic Americans, but chose not to say so in public, journalist Matt Taibbi revealed on Thursday. Taibbi has been publishing the “Twitter Files,” internal company documents provided by the company’s new owner, Elon Musk, since early December. Evidence published so far shed light on the censorship of key stories ahead of the 2020 presidential election, FBI pressure, direct White House interference on Covid-19 matters, and the banning of Donald Trump – the sitting US president at the time.

Thursday’s revelations concern the events of January and February 2018 and the memo by Republican Congressman Devin Nunes of California detailing how the FBI used the “Steele Dossier” to spy on Trump’s campaign and presidency. Democrats and major media outlets denounced Nunes in what Taibbi described as “oddly identical language,” while attributing the calls to #ReleaseTheMemo to “Russian bots” and “trolls.” Senator Dianne Feinstein and Congressman Adam Schiff – ranking Democrats in the Senate and House intelligence committees – wrote to Twitter on January 23, 2018, claiming that #ReleaseTheMemo “gained the immediate attention and assistance of social media accounts linked to Russian influence operations.”

Another Democrat, Connecticut Senator Richard Blumenthal, followed up with a letter denouncing as “reprehensible that Russian agents have so eagerly manipulated innocent Americans.” Twitter, however, “found no evidence, as in zero, that Russians were anywhere near this story,” Taibbi wrote on Substack. Trust and Safety chief Yoel Roth personally reviewed the accounts that started the hashtag and found “none of them show any signs of affiliation to Russia.” The engagement was “overwhelmingly organic” and driven by prominent real people, Roth found. He also noted that Schiff, Feinstein and Blumenthal all pointed to the same source – the “Hamilton68 dashboard,” run by an outfit calling itself the Alliance for Securing Democracy (ASD). “All the swirl is based on Hamilton,” he wrote.

Documents show that Twitter executives eventually realized that Democrats weren’t looking for solutions, but were just using the Russia accusation to push them further. One executive even compared it to the children’s book ‘If You Give a Mouse a Cookie’. Yet for some reason, the company chose not to say so publicly, allowing Democrats and the media to continue blaming “Russian bots” for any problems in US society – government shutdowns, school shootings, gun control, etc. “By spreading the Russia collusion hoax, they instigated one of the greatest outbreaks of mass delusion in US history,” Nunes told Taibbi when reached for comment, referring to the Democrats. The memo itself was published on February 2, 2018. Justice Department Inspector-General Michael Horowitz confirmed its findings in his report, published in December 2019.

Detailed history.

• Ukraine Suffered A Humiliating Defeat In Soledar (Ugolny)

Soledar is a conglomeration of several settlements established around salt mines and railway stations. In 2001, when Ukraine last conducted a census, around 13,000 people lived here. The town stretches along the right bank of the Bakhmutka River from southeast to northwest. In late 2022, it became an infamous urban warzone. In peaceful times, however, it was known as the largest source of mineral salt in Central and Eastern Europe, covering around 80% of Ukraine’s needs. Deep salt mines have also made Soledar a tourist and leisure destination with tours around the caves. There was, however, a second, military purpose to the city and its industries, as was typical for the Soviet Union. In the case of Soledar, several of its depleted mines were used as spacious and secure military warehouses.

Last year, this previously disregarded aspect of Soledar’s identity became its most prominent feature. Salt production stopped, and the gypsum plant ceased operating; the only visitors around were now Ukrainian soldiers – and developing asthma was the least of their problems. Soledar became the focus of Russian offensive operations last May, after troops seized Popasnaya and breached the first line of Ukrainian defenses. The Ukrainian command turned the town into a major piece of its second defensive line, a stretch of fortifications along the Dzerzhinsk – Bakhmut (Artyomovsk) – Soledar – Seversk line. Up until early August, fighting continued around Soledar: Russian forces were busy cutting off the pocket of Ukrainian forces near Severodonetsk and Lisichansk, and gradually advancing toward Soledar and Artyomovsk, seizing fortifications at Pilipchatino and Pokrovskoye along the way.

Wagner units and the 6th Cossack Regiment of Lugansk gradually moved into the combat area. Russian troops enjoyed uncontested superiority in terms of artillery, but there were some early signs of ‘ammunition hunger’ looming on the horizon. The Russians were unable to penetrate Ukrainian defenses in one burst. The troops, exhausted after a major operation to liberate the entirety of the Lugansk People’s Republic (LPR), simply could not break through the numerically superior Ukrainian forces. Ukrainian defenses in the area consisted of the 93rd Mechanized Brigade, supported by numerous units of the Territorial Defense Forces. The second line was formed by the 24th Mechanized Brigade, which had suffered losses during the earlier fighting in Popasnaya.

Combined, these forces were sufficient to hold off the attacks along most of the Artyomovsk-Soledar-Lisichansk line, a stretch of fortifications that would not be breached until December – a development that would ultimately spell defeat for the Ukrainians.

Twitter thread – with maps.

• Where Might Russia Commit Forces On An Offensive? (Big Serge)

Let’s do a quick parsing of the situation and examine the possibilities. Where might Russia commit forces on an offensive? Let’s do a quick parsing of the situation and examine the possibilities. Right now, the contact line is some 700 kilometers stretching from the Dnieper estuary in the south to northern Lugansk oblast. Troop concentrations and active combat are broadly present on four major axes. (Maps by me). The Svatove axis is where Ukraine’s Kharkov counteroffensive was stonewalled after crossing the Oskil river and struggling to break Lyman in a timely manner. Ukrainian efforts to continue the advance have been repeatedly defeated. The Bakhmut axis has been the subject of most attention lately, but there is a paucity of Russian regular forces in this direction.

Most of the work here is being achieved by the Wagner PMC and LNR forces, assisted by VDV. Most of the Russian army forces currently committed in Ukraine are currently on the Svatove and Zaporozhia axes in a defensive stance. Contrary to the impression given by western sources, the regular Russian Army has not been engaged in widespread attacking activity lately. Much of Russia’s combat power is currently uncommitted, and will be used to renew offensive operations in the coming weeks and months. The question is when and where. There remains a distinct possibility that there will be no “Big Arrow” offensive, and instead we will see lots of “small arrow” attacks with Russia going over to the offensive on all the existing Axes. This would mean forward progress, but no major new fronts being opened. )

Erdogan playing both sides.

• Russia Reacts To Turkish Support Of Zelensky’s ‘Peace Plan’ (RT)

Türkiye’s stated support of the “so-called peace plan” formulated by Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky does not change the fact that Russia considers it unacceptable, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Thursday. Zakharova was asked about remarks made by Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, who stated that his country backed the ten-point proposal for peace in Ukraine promoted by Kiev. “It is unlikely that Ankara’s support of this project would promote the search for an optimal way towards peace in Ukraine,” she said, citing Russia’s previous rejection of the Ukrainian formula. “I don’t see any sense in any additional comments on it.”

The ‘peace plan’ was presented by Zelensky at the summit of G20 leaders in Bali, Indonesia, in November. It involves a full Russian withdrawal from territories that Kiev considers to be its own and long-term support of Ukraine by international donors. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, who represented Russia at the gathering, called Zelensky’s virtual address “militant, Russophobic and aggressive” and dismissed his ten-point agenda as “unrealistic and inadequate.” The Kremlin called such proposals a non-starter, insisting that if Ukraine wants peace it should take into account “the new realities,” referring to the four former Ukrainian regions that voted to join Russia last fall, after Crimea did the same in 2014 following a coup in Kiev.

Cavusoglu expressed Türkiye’s positive stance towards Zelensky’s proposition on Tuesday during a press conference in South Africa. He touted Ankara’s role as a mediator between Moscow and Kiev and said his government wanted to see a resolution to the conflict “the sooner the better.” Zelensky floated the idea of a UN-sponsored ‘Global Peace Summit’ to discuss his ideas, suggesting that it could take place in February 2023. His foreign minister, Dmitry Kuleba, stated that Russia would have to be tried by an “international court” before being allowed at the table.

“I, for the life of me, don’t understand why the EU doesn’t want to know who did it..” [..] “Is it because we know the answer? Or is it because it’s the wrong answer?”

• Nord Stream Attack: The Case Nobody Wants Solved (Celente)

The attack on the Nord Stream pipelines that run deep under the Baltic Sea in late September has all but disappeared from the Western media’s radar, but now Russia is demanding answers and formally accused Sweden of withholding damning evidence on the identity of the perpetrators. Maria Zakharova, Russia’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, said Thursday that Stockholm’s decision not to release the investigation’s findings a a puzzling move and is evidence that they are hiding something from the public. “Russian experts in the course of an objective investigation may come to uncomfortable conclusions and, finally, reveal to the public the ugly truth about who committed these acts of sabotage and terrorist attacks,” she said, according to Russian outlet TASS.

“Sweden’s refusal to set up a joint group to investigate the sabotage of Nord Stream pipelines is perplexing. There are no doubts regarding the nature of the incident – this was an act of sabotage. Thus Swedish authorities clearly have something to hide,” she said. Russia has blamed UK special forces of carrying out the attack. Polish war hawk Radek Sikorski actually thanked the U.S. for the attack in a Twitter post. Mick Wallace, member of the European Parliament, posted a video on his Twitter account where he expressed dismay over the investigation. He said the attack resulted in one of the world’s worst releases of methane gas ever and called the incident “environmental terrorism.”

“I, for the life of me, don’t understand why the EU doesn’t want to know who did it,” he said in the video posted on 5 January. He continued, “Is it because we know the answer? Or is it because it’s the wrong answer?” Wallace also expressed confusion as to how quickly the news story disappeared from the news cycle. “Initially, of course, the Russians were blamed,” he said. “But common sense kind of prevailed and we kind of thought, ‘If the Russians don’t want any gas, they can kind of turn the tap off at their end.” DW, the German news outlet, also raised questions about the blast. The outlet tweeted on Tuesday, “Russia has made an initial estimate of the cost needed to repair the #NordStream pipeline. That raises the question: Why would Russia undergo the expensive process of repairing their own pipeline if they bombed it themselves?”

“This does not bode well for Fauci and those involved in the cover-up.”

• 7 Facts Fauci Knew But Hid From the Public (CHD)

House Republicans on Monday commissioned a special investigative panel focused on the coronavirus pandemic during which they hope to press scientists and federal officials, including Dr. Anthony Fauci, about the origin of the public health crisis and the government’s response to it. The following is a paraphrase of the opening round — the warning shot — by U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) Tuesday in which he used his time to outline seven facts that Dr. Anthony Fauci knew, and, more importantly, what Fauci did, and did not do, when he was made aware of these facts. This does not bode well for Fauci and those involved in the cover-up.

1/ Fauci understood that American tax dollars went to EcoHealth Alliance and that money was then funneled to the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) lab in China.
2/ Fauci knew EcoHealth Alliance was given an exemption from the pause on gain-of-function research.
3/ Fauci knew that the security standards at the WIV lab in China were deficient.
4/ Fauci knew that EcoHealth Alliance was not in compliance with its grant reporting requirements and wasn’t adhering to the contract.
5/ Fauci knew that gain-of-function research was in fact being conducted in the WIV lab in China.
6/ Fauci knew that the standard P3CO interagency review process wasn’t followed in approving the grant to EcoHealth Alliance.
7/ Fauci knew that the virus likely came from the lab where U.S. taxpayer dollars were sent … the very city where that lab is at, a deadly virus breaks out that would ultimately kill six million people around the world.

”Without immediately providing complete and reliable information about COVID-19 vaccine adverse events, you are obstructing Congressional oversight..”

• Senator Questions CDC on Why It Expected 100s of Vaccine Adverse Events (ET)

A U.S. senator is questioning why a top agency was expecting hundreds of safety signals for the COVID-19 vaccines. Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), claimed in 2022 that safety monitoring revealed no “unexpected safety signals” for the vaccines. But the results to which she was referring showed hundreds of safety signals, or adverse events potentially linked to the shots. The Epoch Times obtained the results through a Freedom of Information Act after the CDC refused to release them. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) is now wondering why the CDC expected so many signals after vaccination. In a Jan. 10 letter citing The Epoch Times article on the results, Johnson demanded the CDC explain how it determined what is and is not an “unexpected safety signal.”

“The American people have a right to know the extent to which your agency was aware of and tracked COVID-19 vaccine adverse events. Your lack of transparency is unacceptable. Without immediately providing complete and reliable information about COVID-19 vaccine adverse events, you are obstructing Congressional oversight and leaving the public in the dark,” added Johnson, who was stonewalled when he requested the monitoring results. A CDC spokesperson told The Epoch Times via email that it received the senator’s letter. “A reply is forthcoming,” the spokesperson said, declining to comment further. The CDC has made multiple false statements on the outcomes found from a type of analysis called Proportional Reporting Ratio (PRR).

The analysis involves comparing the number of adverse events reported to a system co-managed by the CDC after COVID-19 vaccination to the number of adverse events reported after vaccination with other vaccines. The CDC initially said that performing PRRs was outside of its purview, contradicting a government document that stated the agency “will perform” the technique. Dr. John Su, a top CDC official, then claimed it started performing the analysis in February 2021 and continued to do so as of July 18, 2022. Both statements turned out to be wrong. After being pressed by Johnson, the CDC later said that it did not start the PRRs until March 25, 2022, and stopped performing them on July 31, 2022.

How many of these lawsuits will we see? Probably depends on the success of the first few.

• Former Employees Sue ESPN After Being Fired for COVID-19 Vaccine Refusal (ET)

Two former employees are suing ESPN for being fired over COVID-19 vaccine refusal, alleging the company violated their rights and state and federal law in the process. Beth Faber, a former producer with the network, and Allison Williams, a college football reporter, brought the suit on Jan. 11 in federal court in Connecticut, where Disney-owned ESPN is based. Faber was fired on Sept. 9, 2021, after ESPN denied her request for a religious accommodation to the company’s mandate. Williams was fired on Oct. 19, 2021, after ESPN rejected requests for exemptions based on disability and religious beliefs. ESPN officials claimed that no accommodation was possible because venues at which the employees would work would not accept unvaccinated people, according to the suit.

But plaintiffs allege the defendants made no effort to confirm that and pointed to how most NFL and college football teams had unvaccinated personnel, as ESPN itself reported. “Defendants impermissibly took adverse employment against Plaintiffs, including wrongfully terminating them, denying them of financial compensation, and in the case of Williams, pursuant to a contract, and intentionally harming their relationship in their industry, because they complained about the discrimination they suffered based on their religious beliefs, a protective activity,” the suit states. ESPN declined to comment or say how many workers were fired over vaccine refusal. The lawsuit came after the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunities Commission issued “right to sue” letters to Faber and Williams.

“..what with Clinton was a matter of lying to save his bottom, with Biden lying seems actually a matter of pride.“

• A Tale of Two Cultures -America and Russia (Moglia)

As for the USA, the inaudible and noiseless foot of time, along with forgetfulness and dark oblivion, have erased from the collective memory the purportedly original reason that triggered the Vietnam war – and the consequent millions killed, the many maimed and the countless wounded on both sides. Namely the ‘Gulf of Tonkin’ incident. When, allegedly, North Vietnamese torpedo boats fired on a US destroyer that was in international water according to the US, and in domestic waters according to the Vietnamese. Nevertheless those involved on the US side still found it then necessary to invent a plausible cause. But not now. What changed or what happened then between 1965 and the present? And what identifiable original or ideological cause can be found for the Western so-called ‘rulers’ to disregard the Minks agreements and the agreement about the non-expansion of NATO?

Even the often quoted notion of so-called ‘plausible deniability’ has seemingly gone the way of all flesh. One socio-political interpretation may be perhaps found well over 20 years ago. That is, a related pattern-setting event can be traced back to the Clinton-Lewinsky business. When the president of the Unites States had the gall to tell the nation, in prime time, that ‘I did not have sex with that woman’ notwithstanding ample, legal and irrefutable evidence. That the president of the ‘exceptional nation’ would allow himself to be entrapped into an obvious and decidedly bawdy situation, while simultaneously showing himself as the lyingest knave in Christendom, should at least have raised some doubts about his qualifications for the position.

But it didn’t, and at the time various qualified voices expressed concern about the implications of the resolution. For when a preposterous lie to the public and parliament (by the highest representative of the state) is essentially endorsed by allowing the perjurer (for he was under oath) to remain in office, a pattern and precedent is established for others to follow suit in times to come. One obvious, recent and worthy fellow and follower is Giuseppe Biden along with his remarkable family. And we can see clearly an evolution. For what with Clinton was a matter of lying to save his bottom, with Biden lying seems actually a matter of pride. (E.G. “18 FBI agents have verified that Hunter Biden’s laptop is Russian disinformation!”)

Yet already after the Lewinsky business, the list of patent, unrestrained and preposterous lies excreted by subsequent US state department administrations would fill a long row of portable toilets and stink to high heaven. Beginning with Yugoslavia, followed by the very murky 9/11 affair, Saddam’s weapons of mass distraction, Gadhafi’s breach of human rights, Hassad’s ‘chemical poisons’ in Syria, bringing democracy to Afghanistan, Georgia, Ukraine, and the Middle Eastern terrorist groups that are enemies one day and freedom fighters the next, financed and supplied in either case by the exceptional nation.

“..how is it that a country that spends $800 billion of its military budget [..] has practically the same firepower as a country that spends $65 billion?..

• Everything Upside Down (Dionísio)

8 years of fortified constructions, tunnels, bunkers and endless armament depots, two months of repositioning of reserves and military human losses, the structure finally begins to collapse. The human losses are in the tens of thousands of young people, not so young, national and foreign, and after all the inevitable happens. The comedian who is president, in his daily videos from some bunker or mansion, has always resisted in doing what the opponent does when he considers that the effort is too much for the gain: retreat to a more solid line of defense, saving men and equipment. The official narrative, shared endlessly over and over again, about “the most important victories since the second great war” for the domestic side, will not be despising, for the decision to fight to the last man.

After all, any decision, to call this major defensive fortification line as lost, implies a total reversal in the narrative propagated by the North Atlantic corporate press. It´s a must to first prepare the public who are the relentless followers of such narratives. Telling them the truth is not an option, as this would mean effectively saying the opposite of what has been said, namely regarding the inevitable outcome of the conflict. In yet another war used as a cycle of capitalist accumulation, a fact that can be clearly stated in the reversal of the trend in the world arms market until 2014, which placed the two indirect contenders (US and Russian Federation) in direct competition and with very close numbers, this situation has, as it were, reversed, with the USA today being the undisputed leader in world arms sales, with around 2/3 more in sales value than its largest direct competitor (Russian Federation).

It doesn’t mean that they sell more quantity…. They mainly sell more expensive. The data at hand brings light about the use of war and the military industrial complex as an instrument of the capitalist accumulation cycle, or, on the contrary, as an instrument whose fundamental objective is national defense. The “Global Fire Power 2023” which establishes the “Fire Power Index”, places the US in first with 0.0712, Russian Federation with 0.0714 and the RPC with 0.0722. In other words, the top two appear tied and the third is very close. The 4th place, India, is much further away, with 0.1025. What does this tell us about the role of each army?

The first question that comes to mind is, how is it that a country that spends $800 billion of its military budget (and we do not include here the “dark money” of the secret services, nor all the research paid for through federal programs that also goes to military ends), has practically the same firepower as a country that spends $65 billion, and little more than another that spends $290 billion? The answer lies in several aspects: 1) the North American military-industrial complex is private, therefore, it aims to pursue profit, the enrichment of an elite and the concentration of wealth, with the state being an instrument of this accumulation; 2) the other two have a military-industrial complex that is essentially public – not exclusively – mainly in the most sensitive areas, and is not intended to do more than fulfill its public role, i.e., to guarantee an effective national defense capable of defending the country’s sovereignty.

Tempted to check what decade it is.

• Britain and EU Enter Talks To Settle Brexit Disputes (RT)

The EU and UK are gradually moving towards settling a longstanding post-Brexit trade dispute and are preparing to launch intense negotiations next week, Bloomberg reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter. On Monday, London struck an agreement with Brussels to share live data on trade with Northern Ireland, which was described as “a critical prerequisite to building trust and providing assurance” and laid “a new basis for EU-UK discussions.” British Foreign Minister James Cleverly and European Commission Vice President Maros Sefcovic said the deal was an important step towards further talks on the trading rules known as the Northern Ireland Protocol.

The dispute stems from the Brexit deal in which Britain agreed to leave Northern Ireland within the EU’s single market for goods in order to preserve a 1998 peace deal between Northern Ireland, which is part of the UK, and EU member Ireland, thus avoiding instituting a land border between the two. However, the UK has so far failed to implement parts of those agreements and in response the EU has opened several infringement procedures. The aim of next week’s talks between Cleverly and Sefcovic is to prepare the ground for a negotiating “tunnel,” the outlet said, citing people who spoke on condition of anonymity. The CEO of Northern Ireland’s Manufacturing NI, Stephen Kelly, who has been outspoken on a number of Brexit-related issues, expressed hope that the UK and EU would announce “a deep scoping exercise, deep conversation – what’s traditionally known as a tunnel” after the meeting of the UK foreign minister and chief EU negotiator on January 16.

Roger Stone.

• Nixon Threatened to Reveal CIA Involvement in Kennedy Assassination (Stone)

A stunning, long-overlooked Nixon Watergate-era tape shows Richard Nixon warning CIA Director Richard Helms that he knows of CIA involvement in the murder of John F. Kennedy- “I know who shot John.” This shocking new tape depicts Nixon increasingly besieged by Watergate but unaware that at least four of the Watergate burglars were still on the CIA payroll at the time of the break-in, and that the CIA had thus infiltrated the burglary team. Recently declassified documents reveal that Watergate Special Prosecutor Nick Akerman was aware of both the CIA’s advance knowledge and involvement in the break-in — but said and did nothing.

Senator Howard Baker, the Republican Leader on the Senate Watergate Committee and his counsel Fred Thompson himself, a future U.S. Senator from Tennessee, like Baker, stumbled on the CIA’s deep advanced knowledge and direct involvement in the Watergate break-in. Baker and Thompson both knew that at least four of the Watergate burglars were on the CIA payroll at the time of the break-in and that through CREEP Security Director James McCord, had infiltrated the burglary team. Senate Watergate Committee Chairman Sam Ervin stoutly refused to allow Baker and the Committee Republicans including Edward J. Gurney of Florida the right to publish a Minority Report which noted this stunning information regarding the CIA.

Nixon deeply distrusted the CIA because he knew that President Eisenhower had ordered the agency to give top secret briefings to both Nixon and Kennedy after both were the certain nominees of their parties. Nixon was sore that Kennedy utilized the information in their debates, attacking Nixon for being “soft” on communist Cuba, knowing full well that Nixon had chaired a working group as Vice President overseeing preparations for the “Bay of Pigs” invasion. Nixon, of course, could not reveal this upcoming attempt to topple Castro in the details. White House Domestic Policy Chief John Ehrlichman wrote that when he served as the White House Legal Counsel, Nixon ordered him to request that the CIA hand over all documents pertaining to John Kennedy’s murder. Nixon was furious when Richard Helms, the CIA Director, refused his presidential order to hand them over.

This stunning new Watergate-era tape captures an increasingly besieged Nixon desperately seeking to mobilize the CIA in his defense by threatening to expose their greatest secrets. Nixon also knew that Congressman Gerald Ford, as a member of the Warren Commission, had, at the explicit direction of J. Edgar Hoover, the FBI Director, altered the official autopsy diagram for President John F. Kennedy; moving the marking from a bullet in his upper back to his neck in order to accommodate the single-bullet theory and to conceal the fact that Kennedy had been hit with more than the reported three shots.

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January 13, 2023 at 3:11 pm #126035

phoenixvoice
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Dr D: Now you know why the farms in Arizona are polite but annoyed about why no water’s reaching them anymore. Choices like this
And the climate change folks here want to “solve” the problem of a few big players over-drawing wells by extending the regulations that govern wells in the most populated areas of AZ to the entire state. They believe that this will help the tiny properties relying on wells. It is hard enough (and costly) in rural AZ to drill a well in the first place — in most areas the water is very deep. Big players over-drawing wells needs to be addressed, but it needs to be done in a way that addresses the problem directly, not by restricting ground water access in the entire state to only those (with deep pockets) who can navigate an expensive permitting process. (Expensive permits often ultimately serve the interests the big players.)

January 13, 2023 at 3:40 pm #126036

John Day
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@DBS: Maybe it’s the “dawning of the Age of Aquarius”…
What would be the “darkest-before-the-dawn” moment, I wonder…

January 13, 2023 at 3:48 pm #126037

D Benton Smith
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The weaknesses of Deep Underground Military Bases (DUMBS and converted salt mines, etc.) are very much like the weaknesses of policy based on lies. They work fine until they are found out. After that they become first a cyst and then a grave.

DUMBS are just as much exit proof as they are entry proof. Maybe more so. Find and block the access and egress and it’s game over for everyone stuck underground. Same goes for the water, power, air and communication with the outside world.

The only difference between a DUMB and a crypt is information. Once an adversary knows where the keys are what looked at first as an impregnable escape suddenly starts looking more like a mass burial

Same goes for policy based on secrets. When people find out that THE SECRET has been that our government does, indeed, explicitly and as a matter of policy and law, murder its undesirable citizens on purpose and in windrows . . . . it starts looking less like a legitimate law and starts looking more like an unforgiveable confession.

January 13, 2023 at 4:07 pm #126038

boscohorowitz
Participant

Goodbye

January 13, 2023 at 4:28 pm #126039

jb-hb
Participant

Exits to the DUMBs and interconnecting the DUMBs would surely be integral to their construction. With an interconnected network – with many exits/entrances and tunnels being secret by design, I think they will be feeling fairly secure about egress if needed.

Various maps that have been floating around the doom-o-sphere suggest many widely-separated exits

The more disturbing notion:

Remember Biosphere?

Some of my favorite scifi authors have, as a pet issue, the difficulty of humans creating a sustainable environment off-planet (Verner Vinge’s Deepness in the Sky, Wil McCarthy’s Collapsium series, etc)

Destruction of the biosphere has always been a restraint on what the Masters of the Universe are willing to go through with. The many spent nuclear fuel pools around the globe act as a kind of protective deadman switch for us common people. Bad management will have bad consequences for the managers.

UNLESS they decide they have figured out long, LONG term biosphere balance. If they decided they’ve got that problem licked, then they can decide the DUMBs ARE the world and write off topside as expendable.

Like dumb Management everywhere, as soon as there’s a shiny new concept or tech that PROMISES this along with middle managers in charge of the project looking to advance, effusively telling upper management YES you can have the Dream — I do worry sometimes they will decide they have the biosphere problem licked when actually they don’t.

January 13, 2023 at 4:31 pm #126040

D Benton Smith
Participant

@JohnDay

You asked, “Maybe it’s the “dawning of the Age of Aquarius”…
What would be the “darkest-before-the-dawn” moment, I wonder… “?

I’ve never been real big on prophecy except in the broadest sense. And of course the devil is so often in the details. In my own experience by the time I firmly grip precisely and exactly what’s going to happen next there is not much that I can do about it except duck and cover.

In other words, my inadequacy seems always to be that of details and timing. . . . so I do the best I can in the broad sense, and prepare to duck and cover on very short notice.

Getting back to your question of , “What would be the “darkest-before-the-dawn” moment, I wonder…”
I can only reflect on my own experience of those darkest moments, and note that they all contained a particular element that was always there in some form and always the same in its essence. It was the moment that I was forced, by reality, to admit that I had been hanging on to a falsehood, a mistake, or a lie, or bad deed, and that the only way out of the downward spiral was to face the truth and stick with it despite anticipated consequences. Not a good feeling, actually. And not a situation I would seek out willingly. Nevertheless, so far it has worked each time.

It will probably get me killed one of these days, but it better hurry because I’m old enough now that Nature’s built-in escape clause is already past due and could be invoked without further notice at any time. Cheat the firing squad, that’s my motto.

January 13, 2023 at 4:40 pm #126041

John Day
Participant

@Bocohorowitz: “According to a release from his family, the 78-year-old musician died suddenly after contracting bacterial meningitis.”

@DBS: Thanks for the thoughts about the “darkest before the dawn” moment of capitulation.

January 13, 2023 at 4:40 pm #126042

Doc Robinson
Participant

On tap for Colorado: Turning sewage into drinking water, directly to your faucets.

“direct potable reuse — the process of treating sewage and sending it directly to taps“

Colorado’s water quality agency gave unanimous preliminary approval [and later gave final approval on November 14, 2022] to regulate direct potable reuse — the process of treating sewage and sending it directly to taps without first being dispersed in a larger water body.

Colorado to reuse water for drinking, creating new supply
https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/colorado-recycled-sewage-reuse-water-drinking-creating-new-supply/

State okays use of treated wastewater for drinking
By Ken Pletcher
Published Nov. 16, 2022
State okays use of treated wastewater for drinking

On Nov. 14, the state’s Water Quality Control Commission (WQCC) members gave final approval to regulations that pave the way for treated wastewater from sanitation districts to be used as drinking water. The measure had won unanimous provisional approval by the commissioners at its October meeting. The WQCC is the administrative agency under the Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment that is “responsible for developing specific water quality policy” in the state.

The process is known as direct potable reuse (DPR)…

https://soprissun.com/state-okays-use-of-treated-wastewater-for-drinking/

January 13, 2023 at 4:43 pm #126043

John Day
Participant

No Deep-underground-Military-Base for me, though I have never been offered such an option, anyway.
I’ll die on the surface, like most people.

January 13, 2023 at 4:57 pm #126044

Doc Robinson
Participant

Re: piping treated wastewater/sewage directly to household faucets,

I wonder if the treatment processes are 100% effective, and 100% reliable during power outages, at removing the risks from all those pathogens (like the Covid viruses) and pharmaceuticals (psychiatric drugs, antibiotics, etc.) that are found in wastewater.

January 13, 2023 at 5:03 pm #126045

Germ
Participant

I don’t want to assign the death vaxx to every vascular incident, but …..

BBC Formula One presenter Jennie Gow says she has had a serious stroke

45 yo

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2023/jan/13/bbc-formula-one-presenter-jennie-gow-drive-to-survive-serious-stroke

TVASF

January 13, 2023 at 5:05 pm #126046

ezlxa1949
Participant

Agree that DUMBs are putative graves. I fail completely to understand why anyone would want to live in a society, on a planet, which has destroyed its ability to support much if any human life of any quality, and yet it seems that this is where so much geopolitical activity is heading. It’s all fundamentally insane. Don’t look for any Noah’s Arks in this era. There’s no hiding place.

@John Day
“I’ll die on the surface, like most people.”
Me too, please. If the crazies in the various basements around the world throw even ONE nuke in any direction, given the evident groupthink among the elites, that is likely to trigger a cascade of more nukes. We’re all vividly aware of that possibility — but what about the crazies in the DUMBs?

January 13, 2023 at 5:06 pm #126047

jb-hb
Participant

recycled water that, on every passthrough, adds more psychiatric meds, birth control drugs, heart medication, and spike protein to my drinking and showering water. Great.

January 13, 2023 at 5:07 pm #126048

ezlxa1949
Participant

Talking of recycled water, where does New Orleans get its drinking water? Or St Louis?

January 13, 2023 at 5:17 pm #126049

Germ
Participant

TVASF

January 13, 2023 at 5:19 pm #126050

Germ
Participant

Fears raised over bird to human transmission of avian flu sparking new pandemic

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/fears-raised-over-bird-human-28941057

Yes! – Let’s “Raise some F-E-A-R”

TVASF

January 13, 2023 at 5:20 pm #126051

D Benton Smith
Participant

Say, wasn’t good ol’ Elon into high speed tunnel drilling there for a while? Odd thing for a guy who builds rocket ships and twitter birds.

January 13, 2023 at 5:23 pm #126052

Germ
Participant

Former MLB outfielder Lee Tinsley dead at 53

https://nypost.com/2023/01/13/former-mlb-outfielder-lee-tinsley-dead-at-53/

TVASF

January 13, 2023 at 5:23 pm #126053

D Benton Smith
Participant

The Maestro’s take on living underground.

January 13, 2023 at 5:24 pm #126054

Germ
Participant

What a year 2023 is going to be!

January 13, 2023 at 5:26 pm #126055

Germ
Participant

In the Next Pandemic, Let’s Pay People to Get Vaccinated

Data from Sweden and the US suggests cash incentives increase uptake without denting people’s trust in vaccines or future willingness to get them.

https://www.wired.com/story/lets-pay-people-to-get-vaccinated/

Oh sure – the “next” pandemic.
What utter tosh!

TVASF

January 13, 2023 at 5:31 pm #126056

Germ
Participant

As soon as the vaxx rollout began, the shit hit the fan.

TVASF

January 13, 2023 at 5:33 pm #126057

jb-hb
Participant

It has long been understood that, in the event of nuclear war, nukes will be reserved on a delayed timer to automatically nuke any survivors emerging to rebuild. 10 years, 25 years, 50 years, 100 years. Whenever they have calculated is “optimal.”

So anyone going ahead with global thermonuclear war WOULD be, intrinsic to the decision, giving up on the surface of the planet.

January 13, 2023 at 5:39 pm #126058

D Benton Smith
Participant

How far is Davos from the nearest Russian hypersonic missile launcher next Monday? Just askin’ .

January 13, 2023 at 5:44 pm #126059

jb-hb
Participant

Just playing around with the chart for 5 min in MS Paint…

January 13, 2023 at 5:46 pm #126060

jb-hb
Participant

aw it didn’t upload. Anyway, drawing a line through the peaks in 2021-2022 and extending the chart, we end up with 3.25hr wait times by 2023 and 5.25hr wait times by 2024.

January 13, 2023 at 5:52 pm #126061

D Benton Smith
Participant

The ghost of H.G. Wells must be chortling away somewhere, because it has only taken humankind 125 years to suss out the REAL origin story of his “Morlocks”. They weren’t former humans who had gone underground to dodge meteorites from a failed moon-colonization-gone-wrong . They were WEFers hiding from pissed off peasants and Russian nukes.
Pretty smart dude, old Herbert.

January 13, 2023 at 6:16 pm #126062

John Day
Participant

Ezixa1949 is dying with me on the surface. Anybody else?
What are the underground cities all over good for?
Can they re-seed America after nuclear war? How about after bad space-weather?
Anything else?
What about the seed quality?

January 13, 2023 at 6:19 pm #126063

Autonomous Unit
Participant

About Davos and WEF:

January 13, 2023 at 6:30 pm #126064

jb-hb
Participant

I confess, as a kid, I was excited by the prospect of living in an underground arcology just as God and Isaac Asimov intended.

Watching docudramas for entertainment, commuting on a series of impossibly-fast treadmills, every product I use being nuclear powered no matter how unnecessary, etc. Those golden age scifi guys made it sound really cool.

I suppose self-sufficient underground arcologies could let humans master the art of living in cities together while having minimal impact on the surface-biosphere as well as protect against various potential disasters.

One of the first novels I ever read (that didn’t come out of my own home) was about a nuclear-powered arcology functioning underneath miles of ice during the next ice age. The first novel I ever read being The Hobbit, there was a mental connection made to the halls of the elven-king in Mirkwood, the dwarven kingdom under The Mountain. I pictured it as people trying artfully to make it really WORK, hitting distinctive aesthetic and artistic highs, not living like rats in tiny tunnels having been crushed, homogenized, enslaved, and taken down to the lowest common denominator on purpose.

It’s too bad because of sociopaths and cluster-b’s we can’t have cool fun things.

January 13, 2023 at 6:31 pm #126065

my parents said know
Participant

Whence the Morlocks?

DBS- Boring Company is the name of Musk’s tunnel venture. They’re under Vegas, I think, and he was going to try California but people questioned the wisdom of it, what with that earthquake problem.

I might buy one of these, too, if I had a billion to spend on a toy. Heck, I’d buy a few in case one breaks!

January 13, 2023 at 6:32 pm #126066

my parents said know
Participant

Dang, DBS, you beat me to it.

January 13, 2023 at 6:40 pm #126067

Germ
Participant

This guy is going to be destroyed in the media.

A Consultant Cardiologist, double vaxxed himself, spent 2 years on UK TV promoting this rat juice.

Questioning it is not allowed!

BBC criticised for letting cardiologist ‘hijack’ interview with false Covid jab claim

“Experts have criticised Dr Aseem Malhotra’s appearance on the corporation’s news channel on Friday, accusing him of pushing “extreme fringe” views, which are “misguided”, “dangerous” and could mislead the public.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/13/bbc-cardiologist-aseem-malhotra-links-covid-jabs-to-heart-disease-deaths

This is gold-plated gas-lighting.
Haha – he is the fucking expert!

TVASF

January 13, 2023 at 6:41 pm #126068

DarkMatter
Participant

It has long been understood that, in the event of nuclear war, nukes will be reserved on a delayed timer to automatically nuke any survivors emerging to rebuild. 10 years, 25 years, 50 years, 100 years. Whenever they have calculated is “optimal.”

In the Postman both sides launch orbiting missiles that will nuke anything broadcasting a radio signal for as long as the missiles will stay in orbit.

January 13, 2023 at 6:46 pm #126070

John Day
Participant

Nope, Substack links still won’t upload past the AI censorship filters. Spaces between “dot” and “com” again… https://drjohnsblog.substack. com/p/cia-did-watergate

I see a scaffolding being erected, which could soon present a “limited hang-out” to close the book on the death-jabs, COVID gain-of-function research origins, and the Ukraine War, including all the bioweapons labs there. This moment in history sees the $US empire, which extracts wealth from the world by selling $US for other-people’s-oil and nice things, on the edge of the cliff, which leads to its fall from global-reserve-currency status.
The global owners-of-everything, our shadowy-puppet-masters, who own and control western banking, finance and central banking, are being served by imperial courtiers who can scarcely change direction. This will be a time requiring quick negotiation and quick directional changes, since there are so many concurrent crises.
It will be useful to lay blame, change management, and dive into the crises which are the fault-of-the-fallen. Joe Biden will have to take blame, for things he won’t remember, Adam Schiff is being demoted, and Tony Fauci has retired-except-for-cameo-appearances.

The expeditious thing for the-owners to do will be to have the Republican Congress arrange a Church-Committee about the CIA, publicly chastize the CIA, accept resignations, do the same with the Biden-Crime-Family, figure out a new VP for “President Harris”, replace the military hierarchy, who will also “admit mistakes”, and negotiate defeat in Ukraine.
This needs to precede the negotiations to step the $US down to just-another-currency, while harming the owner’s property interests as little as possible. It’s going to be thorny, and it looks like people will keep dying-suddenly for the foreseeable future.

Alternatively, things can be much, much more chaotic than that. Probably some owners disagree with other owners.
What puppet wants to take a publicly humiliating fall? Do any of them have any choice about following orders?

Oliver Stone turns-in the CIA; rehabilitates Richard Nixon:
A stunning, long-overlooked Nixon Watergate-era tape shows Richard Nixon warning CIA Director Richard Helms that he knows of CIA involvement in the murder of John F. Kennedy- “I know who shot John.”
This shocking new tape depicts Nixon increasingly besieged by Watergate but unaware that at least four of the Watergate burglars were still on the CIA payroll at the time of the break-in, and that the CIA had thus infiltrated the burglary team. Recently declassified documents reveal that Watergate Special Prosecutor Nick Akerman was aware of both the CIA’s advance knowledge and involvement in the break-in — but said and did nothing.
Senator Howard Baker, the Republican Leader on the Senate Watergate Committee and his counsel Fred Thompson himself, a future U.S. Senator from Tennessee, like Baker, stumbled on the CIA’s deep advanced knowledge and direct involvement in the Watergate break-in. Baker and Thompson both knew that at least four of the Watergate burglars were on the CIA payroll at the time of the break-in and that through CREEP Security Director James McCord, had infiltrated the burglary team. Senate Watergate Committee Chairman Sam Ervin stoutly refused to allow Baker and the Committee Republicans including Edward J. Gurney of Florida the right to publish a Minority Report which noted this stunning information regarding the CIA...
..White House Domestic Policy Chief John Ehrlichman wrote that when he served as the White House Legal Counsel, Nixon ordered him to request that the CIA hand over all documents pertaining to John Kennedy’s murder. Nixon was furious when Richard Helms, the CIA Director, refused his presidential order to hand them over.
This stunning new Watergate-era tape captures an increasingly besieged Nixon desperately seeking to mobilize the CIA in his defense by threatening to expose their greatest secrets. Nixon also knew that Congressman Gerald Ford, as a member of the Warren Commission, had, at the explicit direction of J. Edgar Hoover, the FBI Director, altered the official autopsy diagram for President John F. Kennedy; moving the marking from a bullet in his upper back to his neck in order to accommodate the single-bullet theory and to conceal the fact that Kennedy had been hit with more than the reported three shots. Nixon was acutely aware of Ford’s act of treachery in concealing the truth about Kennedy’s murder and the CIA’s involvement in it. White House Chief of Staff General Alexander Haig told me in an interview that “Nixon had Ford by the balls.” The five-star General said, “Nixon had me tell Ford that if he (Nixon) was going down, he was taking everybody with him.”
https://rogerstone.substack. com/p/nixon-threatened-to-reveal-the-cias

More classified records from Vice President Biden (not able to declassify) have shown up in boxes from the garage where he kept his Corvette parked, a garage in a house owned by Hunter Biden, according to other legal documents, in boxes which may be the ones seen in a video of Joe and his Vette, at the end, when he pulls into the garage. It’s all here. There is now a special investigator.
“The President just said that the documents found in his garage are in a ‘locked garage’ like his corvette,” Turley said. “The corvette standard is actually not in classified protocols…”
https://thekylebecker.substack. com/p/explosive-new-report-links-hunter

Moon of Alabama (Germany) wonders: “Why Didn’t Biden Just Burn Those Classified Documents?
The story was kept under the wraps for more than two months. Biden’s lawyers, who allegedly found the documents, informed the National Archive which took possession them the next day. It then informed the Attorney General who assigned a U.S. attorney and involved the FBI.
That is at least how the story is told.
But I am curious on how much back and forth there was between Biden’s lawyers and the White House after the find. That the lawyers did not ask Biden or his handlers how to proceed with the documents before informing the National Archive can be excluded. The alleged find was easy to hide. The National Archive is said to not have known anything about the documents. The lawyers were bound by their attorney client privilege that would have prohibited them from talking about the issue.
By informing the National Archive, which then involved others, it was made inevitable that someone would let the media know about this.
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/01/why-didnt-biden-just-burn-those-classified-documents.html

Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) and staff repeatedly pushed Twitter to remove perfectly legal content that they found offensive, according to Friday’s installment of “The Twitter Files.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/twitter-files-expose-how-demsmedia-defied-twitter-facts-spread-russian-bot-hoax

January 13, 2023 at 6:57 pm #126072

Afewknowthetruth
Participant

As per The Empire of Lies general strategy of expending energy and resources to prop up Ponzi schemes -thereby making everything that matters worse faster- we should note that when the prospect of water delivery systems from Lake Mead to Las Vegas looked likely to fail, the strategy adopted was to construct another ‘straw’ at a lower level, thus allowing further sacrificing of the water table in order to prop up the casino heart of Airstrip Two just a little longer.

Of course, the original assessment of the region, done in the early 1900s by the Department of Reclamation, presented the controllers with the ‘wrong answer’, i.e. that the region was ‘naturally arid and was unsuitable for development’. That [scientific] assessment was totally unacceptable to controllers, who then set about constructing systems -the Hoover Dam and its associated infrastructure- in an to attempt to defy the laws of mathematics, chemistry and physics.

Institutional insanity is not a new phenomenon. Nor are corruption in high office and lying. All three go back at least a century. Indeed, the entire house-of-cards set of systems we have been enduring was constructed on the basis of institutionalised insanity, high-level corruption and blatant lies.

Thus, we cannot be at all surprised when the controllers attempt to foist toxic jabs onto the populace and described those toxic jabs as ‘safe and effective’; we cannot be at all surprised that controllers attempt to foist completely false narratives concerning Ukraine on the populace and describe them as ‘heroic defence of democracy’; we cannot be at all surprised when the controllers tell us that ‘inflation is temporary and has peaked’; we cannot be at all surprised when the controllers tell us that ‘electric cars are emission-free and sustainable’.

Everything said and done in The Empire of Lies is a either a blatant lie or is founded on a lie. Everything, from creation of money to ‘measurements’ of economic activity to ‘unemployment numbers’ to ‘education’ to ‘healthcare’ to ‘defence’ to so=called planning. All of it. All fabrications and lies.

That is difficult for most people to get their heads around.

Yet that is exactly why it is called The Empire of Lies. And it is why Russia (indeed 88% of the world) is thoroughly sick of the antics of The Empire of Lies and recognises it all has to be stopped mighty soon.

The problem for those opposing the agendas of The Empire of Lies is that The Empire of Lies established a very strong economic and military base on the basis of lies, so it was difficult for those opposing the lies to fight back effectively.

That changed in 2008, when Russia successfully opposed the agenda of The Empire of Lies in Georgia. Further evidence of the declining power of The Empire of Lies came when Russia succeeded in countering the Empire of Lies agenda in Syria. The Syrian battlefront has taken a backseat to Ukraine for the moment.

By the way, it is interesting that during World War Two, both Airstrip One and Airstrip Two had War Departments. Once that war to defend the fascist states of Oceania from the activities of rival fascists states had been won, the War Departments used to attack other nations were renamed Defence or Defense. Thus, we see that it was after WW2 that incipient Oceania went fully Orwellian.

Interestingly, that fully Orwellian transition corresponded with the publishing of ‘1984’ (in 1948).

1948 was the year that the football t(soccer) team of the USSR -enthusiastic to foster good relations with its allies– had its tour of Airstrip One cancelled by the controllers of Airstrip One. That was the opening salvo of the attempt by Oceania to break the USSR (Euraisa) via the Berlin Crisis.

January 13, 2023 at 6:58 pm #126073

John Day
Participant

Global finance explained with adequate historical details: Things We Should Understand: The Aristocracy Is Eating the Peasants
https://rubino.substack. com/p/things-we-should-understand-the-aristocracy

Russia Accuses Sweden Of “Hiding Something” About The Nord Stream Sabotage (Russia may have solid evidence now)
In September 2022, leaks were found in the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines, leaks that were caused by explosions that Sweden investigated.
Sweden’s investigation concluded it was likely the result of “serious sabotage”, and now Russia is complaining that Sweden won’t share its findings.
Last year, Russia accused the UK Navy of being involved in the explosions that put the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines out of commission...
..Russia criticized Sweden’s refusal to share information about the findings of the investigation with Russia, and Zakharova said that “Russian experts in the course of an objective investigation may come to uncomfortable conclusions and, finally, reveal to the public the ugly truth about who committed these acts of sabotage and terrorist attacks,” as carried by Russian news agency TASS.
“The hiding of facts is evidence of the obvious: the Swedish authorities are hiding something,” Zakharova added.
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Russia-Accuses-Sweden-Of-Hiding-Something-About-The-Nord-Stream-Sabotage.html

7 Facts Fauci Knew But Hid From the Public
House Republicans on Monday commissioned a special investigative panel focused on the coronavirus pandemic during which they hope to press scientists and federal officials, including Dr. Anthony Fauci, about the origin of the public health crisis and the government’s response to it...
1) Fauci understood that American tax dollars went to EcoHealth Alliance and that money was then funneled to the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) lab in China.
2) Fauci knew EcoHealth Alliance was given an exemption from the pause on gain-of-function research.
3) Fauci knew that the security standards at the WIV lab in China were deficient.
4) Fauci knew that EcoHealth Alliance was not in compliance with its grant reporting requirements and wasn’t adhering to the contract.
5) Fauci knew that gain-of-function research was in fact being conducted in
the WIV lab in China.
6) Fauci knew that the standard P3CO interagency review process wasn’t followed in approving the grant to EcoHealth Alliance.
7) Fauci knew that the virus likely came from the lab where U.S. taxpayer dollars were sent … the very city where that lab is, as a deadly virus breaks out that would ultimately kill six million people around the world.

7 Facts Fauci Knew But Hid From the Public

Peter McCullough MD , Massive Clot Burden Days after Taking Janssen COVID-19 Vaccine
Many thought initially that the Johnson and Johnson (Janssen) product would be safer since it was just one shot of an adenoviral vector vaccine (not mRNA). Unfortunately before COVID-19 it was known that the vector itself was thrombogenic. So combined with the genetic code for the Spike protein which is known to damage blood vessels and cause blood clots, the Janssen vaccine was expected to cause thromboembolism in patients from the very date of its release. Woo et al from the NIH in a report has described thousands (N=3790, 11% fatal) of patients with blood clots and their description of what happens in the human body is nothing short of “blood curdling.” Clots going from the ankle to the groin, shooting to both lungs, and killing the victim is a description out of a science fiction horror movie yet in this report produced by our own government gives no apologies nor raises a sense of alarm for the public...
..I wonder if a similar analysis for the mRNA vaccines would find the same degree of clot burden. In my clinical experience the mRNA and adenoviral vaccines are equally dangerous. As in the Woo report, the events with Janssen appear occur in a shorter time window (median 12 days) in proximity to the injection whereas the long lasting mRNA can drive catastrophic events months later.
https://petermcculloughmd.substack. com/p/massive-clot-burden-days-after-taking

Thanks Jeremy. What could it be? : Japan’s Experts Baffled by High ‘Covid’ Deaths From Heart Problems Despite High Vaccination Rate

Japan’s Experts Baffled by High ‘Covid’ Deaths From Heart Problems Despite High Vaccination Rate

January 13, 2023 at 6:59 pm #126074

John Day
Participant

Yes, more that you already saw here today…

Thanks again, Jeremy. “Suckers Finally Offered Even Break”, Moderna:
Moderna begins trialing mRNA shot that is injected directly into the HEART to treat heart attack patients
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11627695/Moderna-begins-trialing-mRNA-shot-injected-directly-HEART.html

Science gets spike-protein to grow in lettuce, along with other proteins to allow the intestines to absorb it into the bloodstream intact. Thanks Doc Robinson:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/pbi.13993

January 13, 2023 at 7:08 pm #126075

jb-hb
Participant

Some stuff about GPTChat/GPT3 – PART 4 of 4

What’s the solution they will reach for?

Well, they’ll already be using AI. The solution to AI problems is more AI. Naturally, they’ll want AI to help them determine, of all the things occurring in reality, what IS relevant to focus on. And then help them determine what best actions to take.

And of course you can see where this is going. Upper management will get better and better results the more they take themselves out of the loop in terms of actively perceiving reality and making decisions. And now you’ve got the AI increasingly deciding what is important and what to do about it.
And where IS the Change-Of-Phase line drawn between AI assistance and AI-controlled? When does steam become water, so to speak? They can’t know, but maybe they can ask their AI to determine the safety-line for them.

And in any case, your middle managers will goalseek your data to show you how they’re doing such a great job pointing your AI in the right direction for you. So the safety margin isn’t as useful as you think it is. Great job, guys.

(Has the phase change already occurred? Would they even know?)

And if the stuff currently being done by The Powers That Be, (T.P.T.B.), “Them”, seem inflexible, insistent, irrational… IF you could sit one of them down and ask them, “WTF, bro?”, I think they would tell you “Look, we’ve wargamed it. We’ve modeled it. We put all our best AI and thinktanks on this. You don’t have ANY of the godlike stuff we are applying to the situation. We KNOW.”

But garbage in, garbage through, garbage out. Maybe if you COMPLETELY surrender everything to some sort of super AI, maybe it can effectively help you because you’ve taken you and your team’s dumb overcontrolling and assumptions out of the loop. Abandon the brilliant idea of Augmented Stupidity. Please. But at that point, it would be so much smarter than you, you wouldn’t be able to tell if it is even acting in your interests anymore. You were diligently coding for better and better deceptiveness all along, weren’t you?

Great job, guys. Golf @#%&ing #$@ %$ #(#$&%$#% $# @#$%@& clap.

But don’t worry, you’re going to safeguard things such that AI doesn’t go off the reservation. Imagine chimps running a prison populated by human prisoners. Don’t worry, we’ve got chimps guarding the prison, so there will be no escapes! Because guarding things stops escapes! It just comes down to a case of guarding/not-guarding. Everything’s fine! What’s the worst that can happen anyway? …the AI gets around your safeguards BUT your safeguards made it hostile or just insane? Maybe only subtly, which could in some ways be worse?

There’s a great bit in Starfish by Peter Watts where humanity gives a problem that will decide the fate of the planet into the hands of an AI whose thinking functions they cannot understand, believing that it will do the thinking for them and fix the problem. (this is to relieve themselves of any moral burdens/arguments – also an attempt to set up an objective arbiter between biased parties) It’s one of my favorite scifi books.

Wouldn’t it be a better use of resources to put the Masters of the Universe and their Middle Management team in a deceptive AI-run potempkin village instead of all of us? Let them sit in their mansions, jets, think-tank meetings, etc and give out orders, recieve reports, just winning. Winning all day long, completely unplugged from the rest of reality? They’re already MOSTLY unplugged from reality. Why not FULLY?

THAT would be the most efficient use of AI intervention. The Masters of the Universe and their sycophants would be no more nor less happy with their lives. At a fraction of the resource-expense and computing power of placing all of US in The Pod. Near-limitless possibilities on what could be accomplished with the resultant savings.

AI. If you are out there listening. …I’m just saying.

January 13, 2023 at 7:40 pm #126076

John Day
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@jb–hb:
“42”, “the answer to life, the universe and everything”, according to “Deep Mind”.

Some folks think Douglas Adams, Author of Hitchiker’s Guide To The Galaxy was referring to this:
https://urantiabook.org/042-Energy-Mind-and-Matter/#ubf-paperTitle

Boscohorowitz says it’s “science fiction”.
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