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Report Links Hunter Biden To Classified Files Found in Joe Biden’s Garage (KB)
‘This Is Election Interference’: House Oversight Veteran on Biden Files (ET)
Key ‘Russian Bots’ Claim Was False – Twitter Documents (RT)
Ukraine Suffered A Humiliating Defeat In Soledar (Ugolny)
Where Might Russia Commit Forces On An Offensive? (Big Serge)
Russia Reacts To Turkish Support Of Zelensky’s ‘Peace Plan’ (RT)
Nord Stream Attack: The Case Nobody Wants Solved (Celente)
7 Facts Fauci Knew But Hid From the Public (CHD)
Senator Questions CDC on Why It Expected 100s of Vaccine Adverse Events (ET)
Former Employees Sue ESPN After Being Fired for COVID-19 Vaccine Refusal (ET)
A Tale of Two Cultures -America and Russia (Moglia)
Everything Upside Down (Dionísio)
Britain and EU Enter Talks To Settle Brexit Disputes (RT)
Nixon Threatened to Reveal CIA Involvement in Kennedy Assassination (Stone)

 

 

 

 

Russiagate
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Hunter’s garage?! What are the odds Joe is being set up?

Report Links Hunter Biden To Classified Files Found in Joe Biden’s Garage (KB)

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.

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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.

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“..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.

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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.

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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. )

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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.

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“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?”

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“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.

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”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.

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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.

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“..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.

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“..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.

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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.

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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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The last picture taken of David Bowie. By his wife, Iman, on his birthday, 8th January 2016 – 2 days before his death.

 

 

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The rainbow lorikeet has a very bright plumage: the head is deep blue with a greenish-yellow nuchal collar, and the rest of the upper parts are deep green. The chest is red with blue-black barring. The belly is deep green & the thighs and rump are yellow

 

 

 

 

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    Participant

    All this talk about DUMBS reminds me of an experience I had as a student. I have had an interesting life. Not prticularly economically successful. But interesting.

    I have already mentioned that Hampshire was/is riddled with military bases of Airstrip One. The biggest DUMB on Airstrip One is under Portsdown Hill. No one (other than the constructors and military personnel) knows how deep those tunnels and chambers go. Sea level is 131 metres down. 50 metres of solid chalk is enough to stop the effects of any nuclear bomb attack.

    ‘Southwick House is close by the north side of the hill, the HQ for U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower during the D-Day invasions; the generals prayed together before D-Day at Christ Church Portsdown, on the hill, which has a memorial window.’

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portsdown_Hill

    As a student I worked briefly for a construction and maintenance company to augment my meagre allowance. On one occasion I was directed to deliver goods to a military establishment near Hedge End, northeast of Southampton (not far from Portsdown Hill).

    I had the opportunity to climb down a steel ladder into an underground bunker and see some of the kit that the average person had no idea was ‘secretly stored’ under a field, in the event of an attack on Airstrip One: security was pretty lax in 1970. Telephones were large contraptions usually found on desks or in red cast iron boxes with small glass panes if they could be found at all. Security meant a heavy padlock passing through a steel ring and a sign saying: ‘Keep out’.

    Life was a lot more secure then, of course.

    50 years of fucking up everything by the military-industrial-financial-commercial complex has resulted in a very heavy toll.

    #126078
    Afewknowthetruth
    Participant

    By the way, I believe that the cultural memory that ‘bad things happen on Friday the Thirteenth’ comes from massacre of thousands (tens of thousands?) of Cathars by the Catholics in France on a Friday. the Thirteenth.

    Do you believe in God?

    No.

    You’re dead!

    Do you believe in God?

    Yes.

    Do you believe in the same God as me?

    No.

    You’re dead!

    Do you believe in the same God as me?

    Yes.

    Do you believe in the same forms of worship of God as me?

    No.

    You’re dead!.

    (Thanks, George Carlin).

    #126079
    jb-hb
    Participant

    I am cutting and pasting this from over on Moon of Alabama – one of the comments there. If I could link to that specific comment alone, I’d do that for brevity. Since I can’t, and I think it will be of great interest over here, I’ll post it in its entirety. (and out of respect for the discussion, I’d never post this earlier than page 3 nor earlier in the day)

    Erich Vlad Interview at Emma.de, February 12
    Machine Translation

    Erich Vad: What are the war aims?

    Erich Vad is an ex-brigade general. From 2006 to 2013 he was Chancellor Angela Merkel’s military policy advisor. He is one of the rare voices who spoke out publicly early on against arms deliveries to Ukraine, without any political strategy or diplomatic efforts. Even now he is speaking an uncomfortable truth.

    Mr. Vad, what do you think of the delivery of the 40 martens to the Ukraine that Chancellor Scholz just announced?

    This is a military escalation, also in the perception of the Russians – even if the more than 40-year-old marten is not a silver bullet. We’re going down a slide. This could develop a momentum of its own that we can no longer control. Of course it was and is right to support the Ukraine and of course Putin’s attack does not comply with international law – but now the consequences must finally be considered!

    And what could the consequences be?

    Do you want to achieve a willingness to negotiate with the deliveries of the tanks? Do you want to reconquer Donbass or Crimea? Or do you want to defeat Russia completely? There is no realistic end state definition. And without an overall political and strategic concept, arms deliveries are pure militarism.

    What does that mean?

    We have a militarily operational stalemate, which we cannot solve militarily. Incidentally, this is also the opinion of the American Chief of Staff Mark Milley. He said that Ukraine’s military victory is not to be expected and that negotiations are the only possible way. Anything else is a senseless waste of human life.

    General Milley caused a lot of trouble in Washington with his statement and was also heavily criticized in public.

    He spoke an uncomfortable truth. A truth that, by the way, was hardly ever published in the German media. The interview with CNN’s Milley didn’t show up anywhere bigger, when he’s the chief of staff of our western powerhouse. What is going on in Ukraine is a war of attrition. And one with meanwhile almost 200,000 fallen and wounded soldiers on both sides, with 50,000 civilian dead and with millions of refugees. Milley drew a parallel to the First World War that couldn’t be more apt. During the First World War, the so-called ‘Bloodmill of Verdun’, which was conceived as a battle of attrition, led to the deaths of almost a million young French and Germans. They fell for nothing then. So the warring parties’ refusal to negotiate has led to millions of additional deaths. This strategy didn’t work militarily at the time – and it won’t work today either.

    You too have been attacked for calling for negotiations.

    Yes, as did the Inspector General of the German Armed Forces, General Eberhard Zorn, who, like me, warned against overestimating the Ukrainians’ regionally limited offensives in the summer months. Military experts – who know what’s going on among the secret services, what it’s like on the ground and what war really means – are largely excluded from the discourse. They don’t fit in with media opinion-forming. We are largely experiencing a media synchronization that I have never experienced in the Federal Republic. This is pure opinion making. And not on behalf of the state, as is known from totalitarian regimes, but out of pure self-empowerment.

    You are being attacked across the board by the media, from BILD to FAZ and Spiegel, and with them the 500,000 people who signed the open letter to the chancellor initiated by Alice Schwarzer.

    That’s the way it is. Fortunately, Alice Schwarzer has her own independent medium to be able to open this discourse at all. It probably wouldn’t have worked in the leading media. The majority of the population has been against further arms deliveries for a long time and also according to a current survey. However, none of this is reported. There is largely no longer a fair, open discourse on the Ukraine war, and I find that very disturbing. That shows me how right Helmut Schmidt was. In a conversation with Chancellor Merkel, he said: Germany is and will remain an endangered nation.

    How do you assess the Foreign Minister’s policy?

    Military operations must always be coupled with attempts to bring about political solutions. The one-dimensionality of current foreign policy is hard to bear. She is very heavily focused on weapons. The main task of foreign policy is and remains diplomacy, reconciliation of interests, understanding and conflict management. I miss that here. I’m glad that we finally have a foreign minister in Germany, but it’s not enough to just use war rhetoric and walk around in Kyiv or Donbass with a helmet and flak jacket. This is too little.

    However, Baerbock is a member of the Greens, the former peace party.

    I don’t understand the mutation of the Greens from a pacifist to a war party. I myself don’t know of any Greens who would even have done military service. For me, Anton Hofreiter is the best example of this double standard. Antje Vollmer, on the other hand, who I would count among the ‘original’ Greens, calls things by their proper name. And the fact that a single party has so much political influence that it can maneuver us into a war is very worrying.

    If Chancellor Scholz had taken you over from his predecessor and you were still the Chancellor’s military adviser, what advice would you have given him in February 2022?

    I would have advised him to support Ukraine militarily, but in a measured and prudent manner in order to avoid slide effects into a warring party. And I would have advised him to influence our most important political ally, the USA. Because the key to solving the war lies in Washington and Moscow. I liked the Chancellor’s course in recent months. But the Greens, FDP and the bourgeois opposition are putting so much pressure – flanked by largely unanimous media music – that the chancellor can hardly absorb it.

    And what if the Leopard is also delivered?

    Then the question arises again as to what should happen with the deliveries of the tanks at all. To take over the Crimea or the Donbass, the martens and leopards are not enough. In eastern Ukraine, in the Bakhmut area, the Russians are clearly advancing. They will probably have completely conquered the Donbass before long. One only has to consider the numerical superiority of the Russians over Ukraine. Russia can mobilize up to two million reservists. The West can send 100 martens and 100 leopards there, they don’t change anything in the overall military situation. And the all-important question is how to end such a conflict with a warlike nuclear power – mind you, the most powerful nuclear power in the world! – wants to survive without going into a third world war. And that’s exactly what doesn’t get into the heads of politicians and journalists here in Germany!

    The argument is that Putin doesn’t want to negotiate and that he needs to be put in his place to stop him raging in Europe.

    It is true that the Russians must be signaled: up to here and no further! Such a war of aggression must not set a precedent. It is therefore right that NATO is increasing its military presence in the east and that Germany is involved. But the fact that Putin does not want to negotiate is unbelievable. Both the Russians and the Ukrainians were ready for a peace agreement at the beginning of the war in late March, early April 2022. Then nothing came of it. Finally, during the war, the grain agreement was finally negotiated by the Russians and Ukrainians with the involvement of the United Nations.

    Now the dying goes on.

    You can continue to wear down the Russians, which means hundreds of thousands of deaths, but on both sides. And it means further destruction of Ukraine. What is left of this country? It will be leveled to the ground. Ultimately, that is no longer an option for Ukraine either. The key to solving the conflict does not lie in Kyiv, nor does it lie in Berlin, Brussels or Paris, it lies in Washington and Moscow. It’s ridiculous to say that Ukraine has to decide that.

    With this interpretation, one is quickly considered a conspiracy theorist in Germany…

    I myself am a convinced transatlantic. I’ll tell you honestly, if in doubt, I’d rather live under an American hegemony than under a Russian or Chinese one. This war was initially only a domestic political conflict in Ukraine. It started in 2014 between the Russian-speaking ethnic groups and the Ukrainians themselves. So it was a civil war. Now, after the invasion of Russia, it has become an interstate war between Ukraine and Russia. It is also a struggle for Ukraine’s independence and its territorial integrity. Thats all right. But it’s not the whole truth. It’s also a proxy war between the US and Russia, and it’s about very specific geopolitical interests in the Black Sea region.

    Which would be?

    The Black Sea region is as important to the Russians and their Black Sea Fleet as the Caribbean or the Panama region is to the United States. As important as the South China Sea and Taiwan to China. As important as Turkey’s protection zone, which they established against the Kurds in violation of international law. Against this background and for strategic reasons, the Russians cannot get out of there either. Quite apart from the fact that in a referendum in Crimea the population would certainly vote for Russia.

    So how is this going to continue?

    If the Russians were forced to pull out of the Black Sea region by massive Western intervention, they would certainly resort to nuclear weapons before stepping off the world stage. I find it naïve to believe that a nuclear strike by Russia would never happen. According to the motto, ‘They’re just bluffing’.

    But what could be the solution?

    One should simply ask the people in the region, i.e. in Donbass and Crimea, who they want to belong to. One would have to restore Ukraine’s territorial integrity, with certain Western guarantees. And the Russians also need such a security guarantee. So no NATO membership for Ukraine. Since the Bucharest summit in 2008, it has been clear that this is the Russian red line.

    And what do you think Germany can do?

    We must dose our military support in such a way that we do not slide into a Third World War. None of those who went to war with such enthusiasm in 1914 thought afterwards that it was the right thing to do. If the goal is an independent Ukraine, one must also ask oneself what a European order that includes Russia should look like. Russia will not simply disappear from the map. We must avoid driving the Russians into the arms of the Chinese, thereby shifting the multipolar order to our disadvantage. We also need Russia as the leading power in a multinational state in order to avoid flaring up fighting and wars. And to be honest, I don’t see Ukraine becoming a member of the EU and certainly not a member of NATO. In Ukraine, as in Russia, we have high levels of corruption and rule by oligarchs. What we in Turkey – rightly – denounce in terms of the rule of law, we also have the problem in Ukraine.

    What do you think, Mr. Vad, what awaits us in 2023?

    A broader front for peace must be built in Washington. And this senseless activism in German politics must finally come to an end. Otherwise we wake up one morning and we’re in the middle of World War III.

    #126080
    WES
    Participant

    About Biden’s Documents:

    AG Garland knew Nov. 2/22 about Biden docs.
    Trump doc raid Nov 16/22
    Biden docs story leaked early Jan/23.
    Senator Miss Lindsey Graham calls for special prosecutor Jan 11th.
    AG Garland appoints “deep state” special prosecutor Jan. 12th.
    Jan 13th “we can’t talk about docs as it is under investigation”.

    There is no pattern in the above lying facts at all.

    Appointing A Special Prosecutor:

    Washington DC swamp’s dirty legal trick to hoodwinked Americans, over and over, again.
    A special prosecutor has to legally report everything he finds to the swamp.
    When was the last “swamp person” ever convicted of anything by a special prosecutor?
    I will patiently wait for your reply.

    #126081
    WES
    Participant

    US Gov’s Vaccine Legal Protection Racket:

    Anser Corp set up to run operation Warp Speed for DoD.
    This legal set up shields vaccine manufacturers, like Phizer, from financial liability.
    (Congress passed the required laws for this setup years ago.)

    The covid branding agency was Fors-Marsh.

    Per Dr. David Martin.

    #126082
    Afewknowthetruth
    Participant

    Regarding the counterproductive and self-defeating strategies adopted by The Empire of Lies:

    The propensity of The Empire of Lies to shoot itself in the foot is exceeded only by its propensity to shoot its citizens in the head.

    #126084

    Want to send a scandal to stagnation?
    Want to bore the populace to tears?
    Just impanel some investigation-
    The blathering will gobble up the years.

    WES, from yesterday- Other viruses, other vaccines…there’s something very special about the spike protein. Why must everybody (who’s not somebody) carry it? Even the beasts!
    I’ll just climb out on a limb, with a Cheshire Cat grin. Spike protein is like MSG to the ALIENS(!!!). We are all just being seasoned. :0

    #126085

    At my latitude, we have gained 23 minutes of afternoon light, and will soon be gaining morning light.
    They can’t take that away from me- No, no, they can’t take that away from me!

    #126086
    Polemos
    Participant

    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.

    Are you speaking hyperbolically or seriously?

    Because, from what I understand, much of the research and policy proposals taken in “The Empire of Lies” supports the theory that climate change is occurring, and “climate change” of the specific kind that you’re on record stating is our current reality, Is it your position that you have facts and information and research supporting your claim that occurred without any assitance, funding, material resources, or “saying” and “doing” from The Empire of Lies?

    Also, in an earlier response to Dr. D quoting an interview with Richard Lindzen, you stated “Richard Lindzen has zero credibility.” If this is an accurate and precise claim, and you are capable of assigning quantitative measurements to people’s credibility, what is your quantitative measurement of your own credibility? How many credibles do you have, based on your own analysis and assessment?

    I notice also that in that comment, you link to the website co2.earth, which calls itself “Daily CO2.” You then finish that comment, after posting that link, with “Never let the actual data get in the way of a ‘good’ argument.” But if you go to that website and look at where they get “the actual data,” one sees that they retrieve this information from NOAA GML: “This table presents the most up-to-date, daily average reading for atmospheric CO2 on the planet. Units = parts per million (ppm). Measurement location = Mauna Loa Observatory, Hawaii. Source = NOAA GML.” And when I go to that website, and look at their “About Us” page, besides noticing that I’m accessing a .gov site, I notice at the very bottom that NOAA is an agency within the US Department of Commerce, the Department that is likely also the umbrella responsible for the “measurements” of “economic activity” that you’re saying are lies.

    So, now I’m confused. You on the one hand tell us that when it comes to The Empire of Lies, everything, all of it, fabrications and lies. But then on the other hand tell us —yet sarcastically— that “the actual data” should never get in the way of a good argument, with the twist of the sarcasm implying that if we were to study “the actual data,” we’d conclude that you’re correct. But how can both of these things be true? If the data you want us to learn about and then infer from that data that climate change is real, then why are you linking us to data that comes from the same organizations you are also saying are all of it, everything, fabrications and lies, blatant or founded on lies?

    If you can’t trust the US Department of Commerce to tell you the truth about the economy, why do you trust them to tell you the truth about the climate, especially when everything, all of it, are blatant lies or founded on lies?

    So, in light of the inconsistency noted here, would it be incorrect to say that your assessment of your own credibility is in doubt? Or should we have some other inference?

    And, if you’re just being hyperbolic above, and you think there are some data that are trustworthy coming from The Empire of Lies, then weren’t you just bullshitting when you said all of it, everything, everything said and done, are lies?

    Either way, it will be useful and helpful to know what your own quantified measurement of your own credibility is. As you have pointed out that a few of the commentors here are bullshitters, it stands to reason you think you are more credible (unless you too are a bullshitter). Thus, there must be some quantity of credibility you’ve obtained, if Lindzen’s is “zero.” What is yours?

    #126087
    WES
    Participant

    The Russian MoD is now reporting far more pickup trucks and SUVs being destroyed for each military AFV/APC/tank destroyed. A typical MoD summary report will say 20 Ukrainian service men, 6 pickup trucks, 3 SUVs, and 1 military AFV destroyed in a given attack.

    The number of Ukrainian service members being destroyed daily by the Russians is now only in the tens, not hundreds.

    The Russian MoD is saying half of the Ukrainians they now destroy are foreigners.

    Ukraine is winning the war now because the number of artillery shells Russia is firing daily has dropped by 75%. Clearly Russia is running out of shells!

    Or maybe Russia is simply running out of suitable targets to shoot at?

    #126088
    WES
    Participant

    MPSK:

    My best guess is that “they” know we won’t willingly take anymore vaccines now, so they will simply put it into our food, like lettuce, without telling us.

    #126089
    jb-hb
    Participant

    Next thing to check is, can I at least wilt my spinach, put it in a soufflé, a spanakopita or something? Need to check how resistant both the mRNA and spike are to heat

    #126090
    aspnaz
    Participant

    Polemos said

    I notice at the very bottom that NOAA is an agency within the US Department of Commerce

    How interesting, the government scammers recognising that the atmosphere is a commercial project. If there really was a climate problem, what chance would that department have of fixing the issue?

    #126091
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Large number of Ukrainian soldiers suffering from Tuberculosis

    #126092

    Why The Spike? Why is it so important that everything makes The Spike Protein?
    Are those who suggest “they” want everything to be genetically modified so the claim of ownership holds, correct?
    Is there a “Part 2” to The Spike Protein?
    Does it impart something that’s worth killing off all that can’t tolerate it?
    Do they want to kill as many mega-consumers as possible? (This one has documentation, at least).

    #126093
    Oroboros
    Participant

    .

    #126094
    WES
    Participant

    MPSK:

    One thing the spike protien does is allows them to tracked us all better. Not sure exactly how, but might have something to do with vaccine ingredients like magnetic particles (clustering like micro-circuits), graphene, and god knows what else they put in the vaccines, etc.

    Likely electrically or magnetically by an unnoticed/hidden scanner as you walk by.

    #126095
    WES
    Participant

    Oroboros:

    Well we know exactly how that child is being indoctrinated!

    #126096
    Afewknowthetruth
    Participant

    @ Polemos.

    I am speaking literally, with a tiny measure of hyperbole thrown in.

    If I were to speak totally literally I would have to say more than 90% of what The Empire of Lies say and does is fake or fraudulent or fabricated. The 10% that is not fraudulent/fake/fabricated is more-or-less insignificant.

    You have mentioned the matter of ‘Climate Change’.

    Well, it’s not ‘climate change’; it is severe Planetary Overheating. Or Planetary Meltdown.

    The term ‘Climate Change is fraudulent/fake/fabricated, designed to create the [false] perception in the minds of the scientifically illiterate or scientifically naive that what we are experiencing is simply a small change in the way the world works that could even benefit people in certain locations!

    The data presented by the UNIPCC is all completely outdated -often a decade out of date.

    The forcing factors assigned to various greenhouse gases are all fake/fraudulent/fabricated.

    I had extensive discussions with numerous real experts on these matters around a decade ago.

    For instance, the forcing factor for methane was arbitrarily set at 34 times CO2..

    That figure was revised to 56 times CO2.

    Then it was revised to 86 times CO2.

    The real factor for time scales that matter is around 300!

    But none of the criminals involved in the UNIPCC assessments is allowed to say that: it would be ‘bad for business’.

    Even when the UNIPCC does move slightly towards telling the truth, it is done fraudulently.

    For instance, UNIPCC spokespersons blithely talk about 3oC or 5oC or even 8oC increases in average temperature as though they are survivable.

    The criminals at the IPCC work hand-in-hand with the criminal managers of Airstrips to promote digital-money-shifting scams like ‘carbon trading’. Carbon trading, like everything else they do, makes matters worse by utilising energy and resources whilst doing nothing to address the real source of he predicament, he desequestration of ‘ancient carbin’.

    Criminals at the local level promote ‘climate change’ scams.

    For instance, The Scorpion, having declared a ‘Climate Emergency’, had a fake ‘Climate Commission’, headed by a discredited lawyer-economist, established.

    This fake ‘Climate Commission’ proceeded to p[resent a set of completely fake responses to the ‘Climate Emergency’ that included:

    1. Promotion of electric vehicles -much of the electricity needed to run these vehicles being generated by way of burning coal.

    2. Establishment of a ‘hydrogen economy’ -the hydrogen being generated from natural gas via an ineffeicient process that causes CO2 emissions!

    Needless to ay, challenging this bullshit is futile -I tried several times- because the entire game is rigged to ensure that bullshit cannot be challenged.

    Need I go on?.

    At one stage I had a pile of documents half a metre high, detailing the frauds and fakery of The Empire of Lies. I disposed of it all because there is no mechanism for using it.
    \
    I commenced writing a report to The Auditor General a year ago, but put it on the backburner because I believe that Office of the Auditor General -a supposedly independent body overseeing government- is just as fake and fraudulent as everything else.

    .At some stage I might complete the report to confirm my suspicion, which is based on The Office of Auditor General having completely ignored two previous, well-documented complains.

    Need I go on? .

    . . . ; . .

    #126097
    Afewknowthetruth
    Participant

    @ Polemos

    ‘Thus, there must be some quantity of credibility you’ve obtained, if Lindzen’s is “zero.” What is yours?’

    maybe you have missed it. i have pointed out several times on TEA that I have an Hounurs in Chemistry and studied the Structure of Matter using UV-Visible and Infra-Red Spectroscopy, plus X-ray crystallography.

    I spent many as a Chief Chemist and as a Technical Manager, carrying out environmental monitoring, compiling and presenting environmental reports.

    Whenever I have face to face discussions with anybody, I immediately destroy any fake arguments thye might come up with. One of the most notable was when I destroyed the fake arguments of Dr Sue Krundieck of the University of Canterbury at an energy and environmental symposium.

    None of it makes a scrap of difference because the Empire of Lies just keep pursuing its fake narratives whatever we say or do..

    On the matter of CO2 readings. I do not believe that actual scientists doing the measuring are faking the numbers they report. I believe the US Department of Commerce is simply the funding agency for the researchers.

    The Empire of Lies does generate fake unemployment numbers, fake GDP numbers etc. But, as far as I am aware, the atmospheric CO2 numbers are genuine.

    That said, it would not surprise me at all if the reporting of daily atmospheric CO2 were to be terminated by ‘the controllers’. I have been expecting it to happen.

    .

    . . .

    #126098
    aspnaz
    Participant

    Talking of ancient carbon, more proof that the airstrip special child is nuts … https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspa.1958.0021 by one of his fellow countrymen.

    Prediction: the kid thinks the author is a complete moron.

    #126099
    aspnaz
    Participant

    Meanwhile the antarctic ice continues to ignore climate change … https://joannenova.com.au/2023/01/2000-gigatons-of-plant-wrecking-co2-and-icebergs-around-antarctica-are-the-same-as-the-1700s/ … when will it get on board this climate scam.

    #126100
    Afewknowthetruth
    Participant

    More nonsense from aspnaz, as usual.

    ‘While the decline in Antarctic Sea ice extent is always steep at this time of year, it has been unusually rapid this year, and at the end of December, Antarctic sea ice extent stood at the lowest in the 45-year satellite record. Sea ice extent was more than 500,000 square kilometers (193,000 square miles) below the previous record year of 2018; four of the five lowest years for the last half of December have occurred since 2016.’

    https://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/

    #126101
    Afewknowthetruth
    Participant

    Reported today: Sea temperatures off the coast of Airstrip Five are 6oC above average.

    Whereas air temperatures can swing wildly (here it was 34oC in the shade one day and 14oC the next), water temperatures change slowly. And the heat content of water is more than one thousand times the heat content of the same volume of atmosphere.

    Therefore a 6oC increase in average temperature –the highest ever recorded– is highly significant.

    #126102
    aspnaz
    Participant

    @Jesus I notice you did not address Polemos’ point regarding CO2 level readings. If you quote the bad corporations’ government department, how do you know they are not lying to you, how do you not know that CO2 is actually only 10 ppm? Your source is not reliable, you said so yourself, so you are bullshitting us?

    I know, I know, religion does not need a source on this earth, you are endowed with universal truth and imbued with activist bullshit. Keep on ebelieving.

    #126103
    aspnaz
    Participant

    Jesus said

    Sea temperatures off the coast of Airstrip Five are 6oC above average.

    I thought you were a Chemist? You cannot even document a temperature correctly? Or maybe that is just the way your religion does it.

    #126112
    V. Arnold
    Participant

    For fuck’s sake; can’t you at least get 6°c correct?

    #126164
    Polemos
    Participant

    If I were to speak totally literally I would have to say more than 90% of what The Empire of Lies say and does is fake or fraudulent or fabricated. The 10% that is not fraudulent/fake/fabricated is more-or-less insignificant.

    If this is what you’re saying totally literally, without snark or sarcasm but with all credible sincerity, then why did you link us to the website Daily CO2, which as I pointed out are getting their numbers from The Empire of Lies? Either those CO2 fall into the 90% range, in which case they are lies, fake, fabricated, fraudulent, or they fall into the 10% range, that is “more-or-less insignificant.” Are you asking us to agree with you that Planetary Meltdown is occurring on the basis of insignificant measurements? Are you saying that what you regard as “the actual data” is most probably (90%) fraudulent or least probably (10%) insignificant? How am I being responsible in coming to any inference using insignificant data?

    Because, you go on to say

    On the matter of CO2 readings. I do not believe that actual scientists doing the measuring are faking the numbers they report. I believe the US Department of Commerce is simply the funding agency for the researchers.

    So, you said 90% are fake, 10% insignificant. What does ‘insignificant’ mean to you? Can one make good inferences from insignificant data? What does “actual data” of significance look like, if this data from the website you linked us to is not faked, comes from The Empire of Lies, and is therefore —since you’re totally literally speaking— insignificant?

    You say you do “not believe” the scientists (actual) are faking the numbers they measure, but this doesn’t tell me what significance I should place on the numbers, or if what they measure is what the agency reports, or if the measurements are accurate and precise (where do poor measurements fall in the 90%/10% split), or if the scientists are actually actual at the NOAA.

    Still, as you write here, these are your beliefs. Do you allow for others to have differing beliefs? I mean, maybe I agree The Empire of Lies is not to be trusted, because I take you seriously that everything is fake and whatever is not part of the everything is nevertheless insignificant. So, my belief is not to listen to anything said by any of the NOAA people, because I don’t believe the “actual scientists” working for the NOAA are the ones coding the websites, scripting the databases, reporting the numbers, posting the findings, but what I do believe is that it’s all lies, everything, all of it, except the part that’s not, in which case it’s insignificant, and thus meaningless and not worth considering and unimportant. And maybe I believe that tracing the funding of an agency back to its sources reveals reasons why I do not need to listen to anything said by that agency.

    For example, maybe I learn that Professor Lexample of Varhard Diversity is funded by the Dogo Institute —an institute I do not trust, have never trusted, and think is scum— so whenever someone in an online comment posts a long interview by Professor Lexample where he disagrees with me, I can instead ignore it and not respond to any piece of it, because clearly an agency I do not trust funding someone means that person is incapable of speaking truths that might have something of significance to say to influence my thinking, or at least anyone at my level of thought, towards truth, or have helpful insights, or at the very least be interesting. Would you think this belief is wrong, because we can separate the scientists from the funding agency?

    That is, if you’re okay with the scientists at a lab of the NOAA who receive their funding from the US Department of Commerce (and you are stridently against the kind of imperialistic capitalism that the US Department of Commerce supports and militates for, so this is Big News that you’re willing to set aside a principled stand against fake, fraudulent, and fabricated lies on this Very Important Issue), should I be okay with reading an interview of Professor Lexample of Varhard Diversity who’s also connected with the Dogo Institute? Or can we have different beliefs, and I remain adamantly opposed to anything connected with that scumbag Dogo Institute outfit while you find occasion to not be adamantly opposed to everything, all of it, connected with The Empire of Lies?

    And thank you for posting that you have an Hounurs in Chemistry, studied the Structure of Matter using UV-Visible and Infra-Red Spectroscopy, plus X-ray crystallography, and spent many as a Chief Chemist and as a Technical Manager. So, quantifying this, how many credibles does this amount to? One hundred credibles? Two thousand credibles? I’m trying to understand where to rate you, because if Professor Lindzen has zero credibles, while he also has a degree and spent many years doing chemistry and working as a manager too, among other activities and so on, then I’m unsure if you have more credibles or fewer.

    Finally, I notice that in response to aspnaz posting what you stated was “nonsense” “as usual,” you posted a link to the National Snow and Ice Data Center, which while located within the University of Colorado Boulder (are universities within The Empire of Lies part of the “education” fabrications of The Empire of Lies?) is nevertheless supported by http://www.nasa.gov (aren’t they deeply connected with the military and [counter]intelligence arms of The Empire of Lies?) and by World Data System, which traces sponsorship to the US Department of Energy (are they part of The Empire of Lies?) and the International Science Council. The International Science Council has a fairly interesting history, with many intersections with the United Nations and other world-spanning organizations tied to what you’re saying is the FFFalse Path (fake/fabricated/false) of “climate change” (with The One True Path being the one that talks about Planetary Meltdown). For example, the ISC connects with the World Meterological Observatory through the path of its history as the ICSU. Notice that in 1985, they note with significance:

    “Villach meeting: The joint UNEP/WMO/ICSU conference “International Assessment of the Role of Carbon Dioxide and of other Greenhouse Gases in Climate Variations and Associated Impacts” is remembered as a turning point in creating global awareness of climate change.

    So, not only does the ISC use the misleading and scientifically naïve language (they explicitly state this was about “global awareness”! of “climate change”!, just what you warned us about!) of the FFFalse Path, but this moment in history shows a long-running connection with the organizations you explicitly call out as FFFalse Path. That is, you state above that we’re not to trust the criminals at UNIPCC. But if we go and find out more about the IPCC, we find that they were founded by UNEP and WMO, the same organizations that support the ISC, the same organization that supports World Data Systems, the same organization that supports the National Snow and Ice Data Center, who hosts the website that you linked us to, where we are supposed to learn something to address the nonsense as usual.

    So, we are here again: on the one hand, you do not want us to trust the criminals who distribute false and misleading information, who follow the FFFalse Path and support The Empire of Lies where 90% of what they say and do is fake, fraudulent, fabrication and the other 10% is meaningless, useless, unimportant because insignificant. But on the other hand, you want us to learn from data you are citing that is demonstrably linked to those exact same criminals on the exact same FFFalse Path. If it’s the flow of the money and the content of the language that corrupts the cause, why are you supporting these criminals when they send money and codify the language for these websites we’re supposed to learn is not nonsense, not fake, not insignificant?

    I don’t get it. How is this supposed to work? Am I doing it wrong?

    I’ll admit I’m scientifically naïve and never been anything as important as a Technical Manager. I once managed a yogurt shop in my teens, but that was about it. And I’ve certainly never destroyed anyone in a public debate. I’m kinda much more conciliatory and interested in understanding why people think what they do rather than go around toppling castles in their minds. So, I’ll defer to your wisdom about why you on the one hand do not want us to support criminals and on the other hand do want us to use their data, which you seriously totally literally say is 90% FFFalse Path and 10% insignificant.

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