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Theo van Doesburg Counter-Construction 1923

 

US May Assist Ukrainian Strikes On Crimea – NYT (RT)
NATO Inflates Russia Threat To Justify Its Existence – Chinese Media (TASS)
Putin: Victory In Ukraine Is “Unavoidable” (ZH)
West Expects Ukraine To ‘Succeed On The Battlefield’ – Blinken (TASS)
‘Fragmented World’ Sleepwalks Into World War III (Escobar)
West ‘Tired’ Of Ukraine Situation – Poland (RT)
Lavrov Lambasts Zelensky’s ‘Absurd’ Ideas Of How To Settle Conflict (TASS)
Russia Posts Record Current Account Surplus (RT)
Saudi Arabia Ready To Ditch Dollar In Trade – Finance Minister (RT)
500 Advertisers Paused Spending At Twitter, Daily Revenue Plunges 40% (ZH)
Microsoft Announces Mass Layoffs (RT)
John Kerry Fuels Davos Controversy With ‘ET’ Speech (RT)
Against the Tide (Jim Kunstler)
The Biden Scam Unravels (Denninger)
Hunter Biden Lived In Classified Doc House While Raking In Chinese Millions (ZH)
After 4 Shots Covid Jabs Sharply Reduced Immune Function In Mice (Berenson)
Jacinda Ardern Resigns As New Zealand’s Prime Minister (PM)

 

 

 

 

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All Vaccinated Will Die Soon
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“..willingness to help Ukraine “go on the offense – including targeting Crimea.”

US May Assist Ukrainian Strikes On Crimea – NYT (RT)

The US government is weighing whether to supply Ukraine with the capability to attack the strategically important Crimean Peninsula, according to the New York Times. The discussions highlight a gradual shift among US officials toward more brazen support for Kiev, even as Washington insists it does not seek confrontation with Moscow. Following months of hesitation, the White House is now warming up to the idea that Ukraine may “need the power” for strikes deep inside Russian territory, namely its military stronghold in Crimea, the Times reported on Wednesday, citing several unnamed US officials.

“American officials are discussing with their Ukrainian counterparts the use of American-supplied weapons, from HIMARS rocket systems to Bradley fighting vehicles, to possibly target … Crimea,” the outlet said, adding that Washington “has come to believe that if the Ukrainian military can show Russia that its control of Crimea can be threatened, that would strengthen Kiev’s position in any future negotiations.” Despite Moscow’s heavy fortifications on the peninsula, which hosts Russia’s Black Sea Fleet and other military bases, Crimea remains a “major focus” of Ukrainian battleplans, according to the Times. It is unclear exactly how Washington hopes to assist attacks on the region, but the outlet suggested the decision to supply Kiev with Bradley infantry fighting vehicles showed willingness to help Ukraine “go on the offense – including targeting Crimea.”

Alongside troop transports provided by France and Germany, the military vehicles “could be the vanguard of an armored force that Ukraine could employ in a counteroffensive this winter or spring,” unnamed “government and independent analysts” told the Times. However, even as the White House considers supporting attacks on Russian soil, President Joe Biden continues to refuse Ukrainian requests for longer-range missiles and heavy battle tanks that could be used in a future offensive. He has previously warned that such aid could provoke direct hostilities with Moscow and even kick off a nuclear war, though such concerns appear to be slowly waning as the conflict drags on. “The fear of escalation has changed since the beginning,” an unnamed US defense source told a British newspaper last month, suggesting the Pentagon had “given a tacit endorsement of Ukraine’s long-range attacks on targets inside Russia.”

While State Department spokesman Ned Price insisted on Wednesday that the US is not placing any “limits” on Ukrainian strikes or “making targeting decisions” on Kiev’s behalf, the latest discussions at the White House may indicate a shift in opinion among some officials. Historically a Russian territory from the late 18th century until its transfer to Ukraine under Soviet authorities in 1954, Crimea held a referendum to reunify with Russia following the Euromaidan coup of 2014. Kiev and its Western allies have refused to recognize the vote, however, and say the peninsula is still rightfully Ukrainian land, with President Vladimir Zelensky reiterating hopes for the “reconquest” of the region last month.

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“Without the function of dealing with such a so-called threat as Russia, NATO would have no use at all…”

NATO Inflates Russia Threat To Justify Its Existence – Chinese Media (TASS)

NATO is trying to inflate the so-called Russia threat to justify its existence, China’s Global Times newspaper said in an editorial on Wednesday. “Without the function of dealing with such a so-called threat as Russia, NATO would have no use at all. Therefore, the NATO chief needs to consider how to prolong the alliance’s life. NATO finds a way to justify its existence by setting up targets, including Russia,” the editorial reads. “But it is impossible for the West as a whole to cut off relations with Russia completely. Russia is an important pole in the multipolar world that the Western world cannot avoid or ignore,” the paper noted.


“If the West and Russia continue to fall into an abnormal state of relations, such as confrontation and conflict, Europe, which is closely connected with Russia, will suffer the most. What’s more, European countries are not monolithic. As large-scale military conflicts in Ukraine ends and sporadic conflicts occur, some European countries may relax sanctions against Russia and develop their bilateral relations, because they know that continuing to contain Russia may undermine their interests, even more than Russia’s,” the editorial added. “The Russia-Ukraine conflict is not a confrontation between the West and Russia, but simply between Washington-led NATO and Moscow,” the newspaper emphasized.

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“Putin said once that his mother was declared dead and was about to be taken for burial when his father, who had just come home on a visit from the frontlines, managed to ward off a funeral team at the last moment and helped her recover.”

Putin: Victory In Ukraine Is “Unavoidable” (ZH)

In a highly anticipated speech Wednesday on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the Red Army breaking the Nazi siege of St. Petersburg (during Soviet times: Leningrad) on Jan. 18, 1943, President Vladimir Putin said that victory in Ukraine is “unavoidable”. Addressing military veterans, Putin said, “Large-scale combat operations involving heavy weapons, artillery, tanks and aircraft haven’t stopped in Donbas since 2014.” He added: “All that we are doing today as part of the special military operation is an attempt to stop this war. This is the meaning of our operation — protecting people who live on those territories.” The talk was filled with the usual themes he’s emphasized since the February invasion, but absent was what many pundits and officials in the West were anticipating when the speech was first unveiled a day ago: formal declaration of war.

But the full mobilization has yet to come; instead, he again reviewed Moscow’s perspective of the causes underlying the conflict. He asserted that Russia attempted to negotiate a peaceful settlement to the years-running war in Donbas, in order to prevent the need to send troops, but emphasized “we were just duped and cheated” by Ukraine and the West. He also said that Russia had a duty to protect the Russian-speakers of eastern Ukraine. The Zelensky government has of late cracked down even harder on Russian culture, placing severe restrictions on Russian books and music, and even arresting Ukrainian Orthodox clerics that maintain unity with the Moscow Patriarchate church.

The Associated Press references some interesting background regarding Putin’s personal family history, which makes the West’s ‘Putler’ references hollow and shallow, given that the Nazi siege of Leningrad (Petersburg) directly impacted Putin’s family: “Putin on Wednesday laid a wreath at the city’s Piskaryov memorial cemetery, where 420,000 civilian victims of the siege and 70,000 Soviet soldiers were buried. He also put flowers in a section where his brother, who died as a child during the siege, was buried in a mass grave.” Putin said once that his mother was declared dead and was about to be taken for burial when his father, who had just come home on a visit from the frontlines, managed to ward off a funeral team at the last moment and helped her recover.

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I don’t think he thinks that.

West Expects Ukraine To ‘Succeed On The Battlefield’ – Blinken (TASS)

Western countries are adapting their military aid to Kiev and expect Ukraine to “succeed on the battlefield,” US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said at a joint press conference with UK Foreign Secretary James Cleverly on Tuesday.According to him, Ukraine has been “strongly supported by our two countries and many other countries.” “We continue to adapt along the way,” the US top diplomat said. “The bottom line is we are determined to make sure that Ukraine has what it needs to succeed on the battlefield,” he asserted. As Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine evolved, so did Western military aid to Kiev, according to Blinken. He stressed that it started “months before the Russian aggression.”


“If you look at the trajectory from Stingers, to Javelins, to HIMARS, to Bradley Fighting Vehicles, to Patriot missile batteries, we have continuously provided what Ukraine needs,” the diplomat said. According to his estimates, Kiev has already received “some $25 billion in security assistance to Ukraine over less than a year.” “I would anticipate that you’ll hear more announcements in the days to come,” he added. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and other Russian officials have repeatedly noted the danger of Western weapon supplies to Ukraine ending up in other regions. Russian Ambassador to the US Anatoly Antonov cautioned that the militarization of Ukraine by the West directly threatens European and global security.

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“The resistance of Russia’s economy is leading the imperial American system to the precipice. Nobody had foreseen that the Russian economy would hold facing NATO’s ‘economic power’”

‘Fragmented World’ Sleepwalks Into World War III (Escobar)

Emmanuel Todd was not at Davos. But it was the French anthropologist, historian, demographer and geopolitical analyst who ended up ruffling all the appropriate feathers across the collective West these past few days with a fascinating anthropological object: a reality-based interview. Todd spoke to Le Figaro – the newspaper of choice of the French establishment and haute bourgeoisie. The interview was published last Friday on page 22, sandwiched between proverbial Russophobic screeds and with an extremely brief mention on the bottom of the front page. So people really had to work hard to find it.

Todd joked that he has the – absurd – reputation of a “rebel destroy” in France, while in Japan he’s respected, featured in mainstream media, and his books are published with great success, including the latest (over 100,000 copies sold): “The Third World War Has Already Started”. Significantly, this Japanese best seller does not exist in French, considering the whole Paris-based publishing industry toes the EU/NATO line on Ukraine. The fact that Todd gets several things right is a minor miracle in the current, abysmally myopic European intellectual landscape (there are other analysts especially in Italy and Germany, but they carry much less weight than Todd). So here’s Todd’s concise Greatest Hits.

– A new World War is on: By “switching from a limited territorial war to a global economic clash, between the collective West on one side and Russia linked to China on the other side, this became a World War”.
– The Kremlin, says Todd, made a mistake, calculating that a decomposed Ukraine society would collapse right away. Of course he does not get into detail on how Ukraine had been weaponized to the hilt by the NATO military alliance.
– Todd is spot on when he stresses how Germany and France had become minor partners at NATO and were not aware of what was being plotted in Ukraine militarily: “They did not know that the Americans, British and Poles could allow Ukraine to fight an extended war. NATO’s fundamental axis now is Washington-London-Warsaw-Kiev.”
– Todd’s major give away is a killer: “The resistance of Russia’s economy is leading the imperial American system to the precipice. Nobody had foreseen that the Russian economy would hold facing NATO’s ‘economic power’”.

– Consequently, “monetary and financial American controls over the world may collapse, and with them the possibility for the US of financing for nothing their enormous trade deficit”.
– And that’s why “we are in an endless war, in a clash where the conclusion is the collapse of one or the other.”
– On China, Todd might sound like a more pugnacious version of Liu He at Davos: “That’s the fundamental dilemma of the American economy: it cannot face Chinese competition without importing qualified Chinese work force.”
– As for the Russian economy, “it does accept market rules, but with an important role for the state, and it keeps the flexibility of forming engineers that allow adaptations, industrial and military.”

– And that bring us, once again, to globalization, in a manner that Davos roundtables were incapable of understanding: “We have delocalized so much of our industrial activity that we don’t know whether our war production may be sustained”.
– On a more erudite interpretation of that “clash of civilizations” fallacy, Todd goes for soft power and comes up with a startling conclusion: “On 75 percent of the planet, the organization of parenthood was patrilineal, and that’s why we may identify a strong understanding of the Russian position. For the collective non-West, Russia affirms a reassuring moral conservatism.”
– So what Moscow has been able to pull off is to “reposition itself as the archetype of a big power, not only “anti-colonialist” but also patrilineal and conservative in terms of traditional mores.”

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“Support for Ukraine only ranked sixth among Democrats and tenth among Republicans.”

West ‘Tired’ Of Ukraine Situation – Poland (RT)

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said on Wednesday that Ukraine’s backers seem to be growing “a little tired” and showing less “emotional” involvement in the ongoing conflict, despite a steady flow of Western weaponry and other aid to Kiev and unprecedented economic pressure on Moscow. “A few months ago, the discussions were on a different emotional level – and the interest was different,” Morawiecki said in an interview with the state broadcaster TVP, on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos. “The West, the free world, is a little tired and would like to live a normal life,” Morawiecki claimed. “Today, I see this very clearly and I want to warn world leaders, because Russia is patient and looks to tighten its grip on Ukraine in the long term.”

“Everyone would like to live a normal life, but if Ukraine falls, will it be a normal life?” he argued, adding that “fortunately” he sees a “broad consensus” on the issue of Ukraine among the Western leaders in Davos. After Russia launched its military operation in Ukraine last February, the US and its allies imposed unprecedented sanctions on Moscow, freezing half its gold and foreign currency reserves and targeting Russian energy exports. The restrictions, however, caused energy prices and living costs to surge, prompting multiple protests across Europe over the past year. Ukrainian officials pledged to fight until their forces seized control of all the territory the country considers its own, while the leaders in Washington and the EU have vowed to help for as long as it takes.

However, according to this week’s opinion poll, roughly half of the people in nine EU nations favor a swift end to the armed conflict in Ukraine, even if it means Kiev would have to relinquish some territory. Americans also don’t consider the ongoing conflict as their top priority, according to a Morning Consult poll made public in December. Democrats cared more about things like climate change and preventing another global pandemic, while Republicans wished the government would focus on immigration, terrorism and drug trafficking. Support for Ukraine only ranked sixth among Democrats and tenth among Republicans.

Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky said in July that helping his country should be more important for Americans than domestic concerns, claiming that inflation and coronavirus are “nothing” compared to Ukraine’s struggle, and urging Americans to make sacrifices and support aid for Kiev “until we win.” Since the beginning of the conflict, Poland has become a key hub for the transfer of military aid to Ukraine. Addressing the WEF on Wednesday, Polish President Andrzej Duda pleaded for more deliveries of heavy weapons and ammunition to Ukraine, saying the country may not continue to exist otherwise.

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“..food security, energy security, biological security, withdrawal of Russian troops from everywhere, Russia’s repentance, tribunal and condemnation..”

Lavrov Lambasts Zelensky’s ‘Absurd’ Ideas Of How To Settle Conflict (TASS)

Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky is putting forward absurd ideas of how to handle the conflict, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said at a press conference devoted to Russian diplomacy in 2022 on Wednesday. “Zelensky puts forward completely absurd initiatives, like a ten-point plan, where everything is piled up – food security, energy security, biological security, withdrawal of Russian troops from everywhere, Russia’s repentance, tribunal and condemnation,” Lavrov said. Lavrov stressed that negotiations with Zelensky were out of the question. “At least because he legally forbade negotiations with the Russian government,” he recalled.


While addressing the G20 summit in mid-November by video link, Zelensky said that Kiev had its own ten-point “peace plan.” He mentioned nuclear, food and energy security, the exchange of “held persons” according to the “all-for-all” formula, and the restoration of Ukraine’s territorial integrity. Once again Zelensky recalled that Kiev was insisting on international security guarantees and had developed a draft of the corresponding document. The Ukrainian leader added that Kiev wished to see the establishment of an international mechanism to compensate for Ukraine’s losses from hostilities at the expense of Russian assets.

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“..severe sanctions on Russia that will plunge the Russian economy into recession for decades..”

Russia Posts Record Current Account Surplus (RT)

Russia’s current account surplus almost doubled last year and hit a record high amid rising global energy prices and despite the imposition of Western sanctions, the country’s central bank reported on Tuesday. The current account – which measures the difference between outgoing funds and money coming into the country through trade, investment and transfers – grew by almost 86% year-on-year in 2022 to $227.4 billion, the regulator’s preliminary data showed. The central bank said soaring commodity prices throughout 2022 had helped push the current account balance higher, while imports slowly recovered in the second half of the year.


“The value of imports of goods and services was reduced,” the regulator said. “Nevertheless, the decline in imports observed in the first half of 2022 compared to last year’s indicator was replaced by their gradual recovery.” Russia’s foreign trade surplus in goods and services also surged by 66% from $170.1 billion in 2021 to $282.3 billion last year, reaching a historic maximum for the second straight year. It comes as Moscow has rerouted the bulk of its trade flows eastwards after Western sanctions largely disrupted supply chains with European markets. Trade between Russia and China soared by nearly a third in 2022 to over $190 billion, according to China’s customs data.

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Yes, the riyal is still pegged to the dollar.

Saudi Arabia Ready To Ditch Dollar In Trade – Finance Minister (RT)

Saudi Arabia is ready to discuss trading in currencies other than the US dollar, according to the Kingdom’s finance minister Mohammed Al-Jadaan, as cited by Bloomberg. Al-Jadaan’s comments come a month after China’s President Xi Jinping said that Beijing is ready to make energy purchases in yuan instead of the US dollar in trade exchanges with members of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). China’s leader highlighted the necessity of the shift while speaking at a Chinese-Arab summit hosted by Saudi Arabia earlier this week. “There are no issues with discussing how we settle our trade arrangements, whether it is in US dollar, in euro or in Saudi riyal,” Al-Jadaan said on Tuesday during an interview with Bloomberg in Davos, Switzerland. The oil-rich kingdom is seeking to deepen its ties with vital trade partners, including China.


The readiness for talks on the issue expressed by Riyadh may signal that the world’s biggest oil exporter is open to diversifying away from the US dollar after decades of pricing crude exports in the US currency. The riyal, the Saudi national currency, has been pegged to the greenback, too. The trend towards the shift to national currencies that is recently being observed among the major participants in global trade chains is partially attributed to the policies of secondary sanctions that Washington is pursuing. Initially, the steps towards ditching the US currency in trade, particularly in the energy sector, were intensified in the wake of the sweeping sanctions introduced by Western nations against Russia, one of the world’s major energy producers and exporters, over the military operation in Ukraine.

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I think they’ll be okay.

500 Advertisers Paused Spending At Twitter, Daily Revenue Plunges 40% (ZH)

Questions are swirling about the health of Twitter Inc.’s ad business. Since taking over Twitter, Elon Musk has faced an exodus of executives and advertisers. Nearly three months as ‘Chief Twit,’ Musk’s social media platform might be experiencing a significant decline in daily ad revenue and hundreds of top advertisers paused spending. The Information reported that a senior Twitter manager told staff on Tuesday that more than 500 of Twitter’s top advertisers have paused spending since Musk bought the company on October 27.

An alarming crisis is festering in the company’s core ads business. Siddharth Rao, a manager supervising the engineers working on Twitter’s ad business, also told employees that daily revenue plunged 40% versus the same day a year ago, according to a person with direct knowledge of the matter. “While Musk plans to diversify Twitter’s revenue away from ads in the long run, continued deterioration of that business will make it harder for the company to break even on a free cash flow basis in 2023 as Musk predicted it would three weeks ago,” The Information said. Musk reduced the company’s headcount by thousands of employees to supplement sliding ad revenue and quickly pushed a paid verification subscription for users.

However, Axios reported under Musk’s leadership, the social media company has secured content sponsorship deals with three dozen news outlets, media companies, and sports leagues. “This year, almost all of the major sports leagues, including the NFL, NBA, NHL, MLB, NASCAR, PGA Tour and more, plan to run content deals on Twitter around regular season games and tentpole events, like March Madness, NBA Playoffs and the Super Bowl, according to the schedule seen by Axios.” Twitter makes most of its money through advertising and now user subscriptions. It remains to be seen if Musk’s radical overhaul of the social media platform will be successful.

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It’s not just Twitter.

Microsoft Announces Mass Layoffs (RT)

Microsoft announced on Wednesday it will eliminate 10,000 jobs worldwide, almost 5% of its workforce, and take a $1.2-billion charge as global growth is slowing down. In a note to employees seen by Reuters, the company’s chief executive Satya Nadella said the layoffs would conclude by the end of March, with notifications beginning Wednesday. According to the CEO, the company was grappling with a slump in the personal computer market as customers that were accelerating their spending on digital technology during the pandemic are now trying to “optimize their digital spend to do more with less.”


“We’re also seeing organizations in every industry and geography exercise caution as some parts of the world are in a recession and other parts are anticipating one,” Nadella wrote. He added, however, that Microsoft will continue to hire in key strategic areas, emphasizing the importance of building a “new computer platform” using advances in artificial intelligence. Microsoft’s jobs-cut announcement follows similar ones from other big tech companies amid rising concerns of a global slowdown. Amazon said earlier it will be slashing about 18,000 positions while Facebook parent Meta is laying off 11,000, about 13% of its workforce. Twitter’s new CEO Elon Musk has recently also slashed the company’s workforce.

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Delusions of grandeur. They can be dangerous.

John Kerry Fuels Davos Controversy With ‘ET’ Speech (RT)

US climate envoy John Kerry has drawn widespread mockery for his speech to the World Economic Forum, in which he sought to portray the people gathered there as wise saviors of the world. “When you start to think about it, it’s pretty extraordinary that we – a select group of human beings, because of whatever touched us at some point in our lives – are able to sit in a room and come together and actually talk about saving the planet,” Kerry told a WEF panel on Tuesday. “I mean, it’s so almost extraterrestrial to think about ‘saving the planet.’ If you say that to most people, most people think you’re just a crazy, tree-hugging, lefty liberal, you know, do-gooder, or whatever, and there’s no relationship. But really, that’s where we are,” he added.

Later in the speech, Kerry lamented that “allegedly wise adult human beings” ignored the science, mathematics and physics of climate change, and said he was certain the world will “get to a low-carbon, no-carbon economy” because “we have to.” Kerry lost the 2004 US presidential election but went on to be secretary of state during Barack Obama’s second presidential term, taking over from Hillary Clinton. He returned to Washington in 2021 as President Joe Biden’s “climate change czar.”While some critics on social media pointed out that Kerry preaches carbon caps while jetting around the world on a private jet, others zeroed in on his “extraterrestrial” remarks about a select few. “Who are you going to sacrifice to save the planet,” tweeted psychologist Dr. Jordan Peterson, “and do you think and how will you ensure that they have any say in the matter?”

“I always knew they were aliens,” joked Timcast co-host Luke Rudkowski. Others, like conservative radio host Vince Coglianese, compared the Davos event to a summit of cartoon supervillains. “WEF is increasingly becoming an unelected world government that the people never asked for and don’t want,” billionaire Elon Musk commented on the gathering. The 2023 WEF summit is reportedly being attended by 2,700 participants, including more than 600 global CEOs, 116 billionaires and over 50 world leaders.Kerry’s speech about a “touched” few special leaders wasn’t the only controversy at this year’s gathering in the Swiss Alps. Someone at the WEF also decided it was a good idea to have former CNN employee Brian Stelter host a panel on “Clear and Present Danger of Disinformation,” at which European Commission VP Vera Jourova asserted the US will “soon” have laws against “hate speech,” just like the EU.

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“The payments per patient ranged wildly, state by state from $18,000 (NJ) to a whopping $471,000 (WVa). Why was that?”

Against the Tide (Jim Kunstler)

Former US attorney and chief-of-staff to the SecDef, Kash Patel, had a good idea: start with the latest insult to the country. Haul in the newly-appointed special counsel assigned to the “Joe Biden” purloined document scandal. His name is Robert Hur. He was a top aide to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein at the height of RussiaGate, and liaison to the Robert Mueller operation. Mr. Hur participated in filing falsified warrants based on Steele Dossier nonsense to the FISA court. He should have been accountable for that. He’s not fit to serve as any sort of legal arbiter in a national scandal. He was not appointed to shed any light on the issue, but to bury it under a load of procedural horse-shit, in particular, the dodge that questions about “ongoing investigations” can’t be answered. Let’s disarm that weapon from the get-go. And why not appoint Mr. Patel chief counsel to the Weaponization of Government Committee?

Another person who must answer right away is CDC Director Rochelle Walensky because her agency is still aggressively pushing mRNA shots strongly implicated in causing injury and death among the American people. There are no more obvious weapons against the people than these deadly products retailed by Pfizer and Moderna. The government’s “vaccination” crusade has to stop ASAP. Not one more dose of the stuff should be given to anybody. An audit needs to be run on the CDC’s data base to determine exactly how it was manipulated to hide the facts about “vaccine” injuries and deaths. The public should also hear why Ms. Walensky’s CDC promoted “incentive payments” to hospitals for each patient who died testing positive for Covid-19 (not necessarily from Covid-19). The payments per patient ranged wildly, state by state from $18,000 (NJ) to a whopping $471,000 (WVa). Why was that?

The payments amounted to a bonanza for hospital administrators, who were incentivized not only to misattribute cause-of-death — the proverbial motorcycle crash victim who tests positive — but to let people die on ventilators. The Weaponization of Government Committee might also subpoena FDA Commissioner Robert M. Califf and his two predecessors during the Covid-19 event, Janet Woodcock and Stephen Hahn. The country needs to hear what they knew about the operation that produced the “vaccines” with such astonishing speed — as if these products were somehow in development before Covid-19 even appeared on the scene. They also need to answer about the shenanigans behind the following: the fudged and expedited “vaccine” trials; the demonization and virtual outlawing of existing safe and effective FDA-approved drugs for early treatment, ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine and other meds; the promotion of toxic remdesivir as a primary therapy for C-19; and the initiation and extension (for three years) of an emergency use authorization that shielded the drug companies from liability while injuries and deaths mounted.

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Puzzled by this:

Hunter also claimed that said house was owned by him, but the tax and deed records say otherwise.

The Biden Scam Unravels (Denninger)

Well now the classified document scandal has really blown up in Biden’s face. But even more-intriguing is that there is an apparent set of evidence of both hinky dealing and intentional cover-up to be found in Biden’s tax returns and the revelation that Hunter was paying Joe $50,000 a month to rent a house that was worth a couple of million. Hunter also claimed that said house was owned by him, but the tax and deed records say otherwise. That, however, is Hunter’s problem — not Joe’s. Joe’s tax return not only shows the property tax paid on the house it also deducts mortgage interest. It’s his house both by deed and by who’s covering the mandatory bills. Joe’s tax returns from the subject year shows business income from pass-throughs (two S corps) which is perfectly legal.

The tax returns do not show income in that classification from other sources; ergo, said “rental” has to be inside one of those two corporations or there is a serious felony involved, because that would be $600,000 of undeclared (and untaxed) income. Line 17 of Schedule 1 shows this and ties back from Schedule E, as it must. The other “business income or loss” from Schedule C is inconsequential in amount. But this leads to a very serious question: There’s nothing wrong with an S corp owning property but does it not have to be titled into the corporation? It wasn’t; at all times material the house was owned by Jill and Joe Biden in their personal capacity. It was not in a trust of some sort nor was it retitled into an S-corp as there’s no record of either.

That seems rather hinky but perhaps not. In any event rental property is very different than a personal residence in that with rental property there’s depreciation and all other manner of things you can deduct that isn’t true for a personal residence — but if you convert it back to a personal residence that gets recaptured which is something I’ve warned other people to be careful of. So let’s see the records on those two S-Corps that the Bidens declared and paid taxes on during that year. Is the rental income from Hunter in there, and if so, how does the S-Corp, which I remind as a corporation must keep formal books of account and not lie in any material respect account for income from an asset it does not own?

If the rental income isn’t in those two S-Corps then either it never existed or Joe and Jill ripped off the government and committed tax fraud on the $600,000 paid by Hunter to Joe that is not declared anywhere in their state or federal tax returns. In any event someone is hiding something in there. Whether this is more confabulation of a drug-addled Hunter or was disclosure of “10% for the big guy” kicked back to his father under the table and either improperly buried in an S-Corp “profit” that never owned the asset in question and thus can’t do that or Joe and Jill got $600,000 worth of undeclared income and didn’t pay taxes on it is now the question that demands an answer.

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“..the same media which suggested the Trumps were Russian operatives based on a hoax – are virtually silent at actual risks to national security posed by the Biden family.”

Hunter Biden Lived In Classified Doc House While Raking In Chinese Millions (ZH)

[..] Second, the Washington Free Beacon reports that photos from Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop place him at the Wilmington House in July, 2017. Of note, the classified documents were reportedly brought to the house in January of that year. The photos ‘are the most concrete evidence to date’ that Hunter – who was actively negotiating a deal with a CCP-linked Chinese energy company – had access to areas of his father’s home where classified documents were stored. A Washington Free Beacon review of the laptop found four 2017 photographs of Hunter Biden, clad in a white collared shirt and a camouflage baseball cap, behind the wheel of his father’s 1967 Corvette Stingray. GPS metadata embedded in the photos indicate they were taken within a minute of each other at 6:49 p.m. on July 30 of that year, just outside the president’s Wilmington, Del., residence. The photos show Hunter Biden posing in the vehicle beside two young girls. One appears to be his then-12-year-old niece, Natalie Biden. The other could not be identified.

Former Secret Service agent and certified cyber forensics expert, Konstantinos Gus Dimitrelos, analyzed the photos and confirmed their authenticity. “If requested, I will testify the photographs are genuine and were taken on July 30, 2017,” he told the Free Beacon. And as the Beacon further reports – corroborating Breitbart’s reporting, “At the time the photos were taken, Hunter Biden was negotiating a lucrative business deal with the now-defunct Chinese energy conglomerate CEFC, which was closely tied to the Chinese government. Biden’s former business partner Tony Bobulinski claimed to have met with Joe Biden in person in early May 2017—less than three months before Hunter Biden was pictured taking the wheel of his father’s prized vehicle—to discuss the Biden family’s Chinese business dealings.” In total, CEFC paid Hunter Biden $6 million in legal and consulting fees in 2017 and 2018. And of course, the same media which suggested the Trumps were Russian operatives based on a hoax – are virtually silent at actual risks to national security posed by the Biden family.

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“..the mice the researchers used are genetically altered to model accurately the human response to the coronavirus..”

After 4 Shots Covid Jabs Sharply Reduced Immune Function In Mice (Berenson)

Mice who received more than four Covid vaccine jabs had a collapse in their ability to fight the coronavirus, Chinese researchers have found. The damage extended past antibodies, the immune system’s front line of defense against viruses and bacteria, to the T-cells that form the crucial backup. The researchers reported the finding in a peer-reviewed paper published December 22 in the journal iScience. In surprisingly clear language, they warned: “Our findings demonstrate potential risks with the continuous use of SARS-CoV-2 vaccine boosters, providing immediate implications [emphasis added] for the global COVID-19 vaccination enhancement strategies.” Later in the paper, the researchers were even more direct:


“We found that the protective effects from the humoral immunity and cellular immunity established by the conventional immunization were both profoundly impaired during the extended vaccination course.” The finding has not been confirmed in humans. But the mice the researchers used are genetically altered to model accurately the human response to the coronavirus and have “been shown to share profound similarities with humans in response to SARS-CoV-2 infections,” as the paper explains. The scientists used a vaccine that has a different mechanism of basic action than the mRNA jabs from Pfizer and Moderna, which turn our own cells into spike protein factories. But like them, the Chinese-tested vaccine causes the immune system to focus on a specific part of the coronavirus spike protein to the near-exclusion of other responses.

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One woman wrecking crew.

Jacinda Ardern Resigns As New Zealand’s Prime Minister (PM)

Jacinda Ardern, who has served as prime minister of New Zealand since 2017, announced that she will be resigning effective February 7 at the latest. Ardern revealed her decision at the Labour Party’s annual caucus meeting on Thursday. “I’m leaving because with such a privileged role comes responsibility,” she said, according to The Guardian. “The responsibility to know when you are the right person to lead and also when you are not. I know what this job takes, and I know that I no longer have enough in the tank to do it justice. It’s that simple.” As Bloomberg reports, Ardern will stay on as a member of parliament until April. An election is scheduled to be held on October 14. Ardern was a controversial figure. During her time as leader, her government imposed on the people of New Zealand some of the strictest Covid-19 restrictions in the world.


At the onset of the pandemic, for example, books were deemed “non-essential” as Ardern and other officials attempted to keep people in their homes. Then in August 2021, following a six month period where no cases were recorded, Ardern sent the entire country into Level 4 lockdown for three days when one man in Auckland tested positive. Those who chose not to adhere to the draconian policies were hit with heavy penalties, including fines of up to US$8,400. Ardern was also an ardent supporter of tightening restrictions on New Zealanders’ online activity, calling for increased censorship. After years of clamping down on the freedoms of her citizens, Ardern’s popularity began to plummet. A December 2022 poll revealed that her support was down to just 33 percent. Support for the centre-right National Party sat at around 39 percent, and in the first polls of the new year, they continue to hold the lead.

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    Theo van Doesburg Counter-Construction 1923   • US May Assist Ukrainian Strikes On Crimea – NYT (RT) • NATO Inflates Russia Threat To Justify Its
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle January 19 2023]

    #126503
    Germ
    Participant

    Meet Nicolas –

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    TVASF

    #126504
    Germ
    Participant

    “SUDDEN DEATHS” CONTINUE TO EXPLODE AT THE BEGINNING OF 2023

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    TVASF

    #126505
    Germ
    Participant

    Yale university mandates bivalent booster for its students, regardless of how many monovalent boosters they got, while professors and other staff only need 2 primary shots and any 1 booster.

    Good job making sure to maximize the amount of myocarditis.

    Just how dumb are these Yale undergraduates?

    https://covid19.yale.edu/covid-19-vaccination-policy

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    TVASF

    #126506
    Germ
    Participant

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    TVASF

    #126507
    Germ
    Participant

    “A statistical rummage through the data held on UK GOV servers that reveals a strong correlation between COVID-19 vaccination dosing and cleared new claims for Personal Independence Payments (disability) –

    pip

    https://jdee.substack.com/p/uk-personal-independence-payments-f89

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    TVASF

    #126508
    Germ
    Participant

    Cardiologist – 7 million Americans injured by the vaxx (minimum)

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    TVASF

    #126509
    Germ
    Participant

    Dr. Richard Ennos, a retired Professor of Evolutionary Biology at Edinburgh University, –

    “There can be no question that the mRNA vaccines should be withdrawn with immediate effect.”

    Unequivocal Safety Signals for Heart, Blood and Reproduction Found in Yellow Card Vaccine Data, Says Top Scientist – “Withdraw Them Immediately”

    TVASF

    #126511
    Germ
    Participant

    TVASF

    #126512
    Afewknowthetruth
    Participant

    Look on the bright side: you can only suffer ‘sudden death syndrome’ once. Whereas you can get Covid plus complications over and over again until you die of the jabs.

    Have heard nothing more from my friend overseas who -fully jabbed- had a blackout, collapsed unconscious, and was then diagnosed with pneumonia…which normally comes after an extended period of illness. No reply to my text.

    Another friend whose husband collapsed shortly after a jab, now has to relocate, to be closer to medical services, as he is going downhill.

    The jabbed sister of an unjabbed friend has strange subcutaneous blood clots on her back. The fully-jabbed mother is going downhill fast.

    As well as the emerging catastrophe of the effect of the ‘safe and effective jabs’ another likely reason The Scorpion has done a runner this week is that Waitangi Day is coming up soon. Waitangi Day is the fake celebration of the fraudulent treaty that facilitated land theft and take-over of Aotearoa by The Empire of Lies and its subsequent conversion into Airstrip Five.

    In recent times The Scorpion has been told to fuck off by highly pissed-off Maori, and clearly she/it is now terrified of public appearances where the true feelings of the much-abused masses are expressed in no uncertain terms.

    But that’s what happens when you ‘sell your soul to the Devil’, and The Scorpion surely did.

    Apparently Fatguts has turned down the opportunity to be ‘supreme leader’.

    I suspect he knows what is coming in the very near future and could well be the next criminal-actor to resign. . .

    #126513
    Germ
    Participant

    “The Scorpion” – love it!

    Fascism with a smile – never forget this monster.

    C U Next Tuesday

    TVASF

    #126514
    oxymoron
    Participant

    There is alot to think about and unpack around Todd’s comments re ‘patrilineal’ world feelz. I think he may be onto a significant thread there.

    Also…

    Glad I’m not jabbed.
    Juss sayin’

    #126515
    Dr. D
    Participant

    “ US May Assist Ukrainian Strikes on Crimea – NYT (RT)”

    Lira may be right, they are fixated on Crimea. Must have been part of their “Plan”, maybe in the 1960s. They never give up a “Plan.”

    So let’s see: long-range missiles attacking a 200 year old Russian Military base, in a Oblast that’s been Russian for almost a decade. Yeah, I don’t see why Russia should see that as an act of war worth responding with long-range missile strikes on London, Frankfort, and Langley. What could possibly go wrong with the entire U.S. infrastructure unhardened, short of food, and a sitting duck? NY is right there, exposed to Russian tsunami nuke offshore drones, but it won’t be too amusing for the Russians to resist.

    I say do it. I never liked NY, London, or Berlin anyway. With the San Diego fleet at the bottom of the ocean maybe we can fix our water. Addendum: are these people serious? I guess that’s what it takes when you’re as asleep as we are.

    “If you look at the trajectory from Stingers, to Javelins, to HIMARS, to Bradley Fighting Vehicles, to Patriot missile batteries, we have continuously provided what Ukraine needs,”

    Um. Did you notice you sent almost zero of these products and thereby Ukraine lost 4 Oblasts? That’s the #Opposite of providing what they “Need”.

    “Consequently, “monetary and financial American controls over the world may collapse, and with them the possibility for the US of financing for nothing their enormous trade deficit”.
    And that’s why “we are in an endless war, in a clash where the conclusion is the collapse of one or the other.”

    There is no chance of Russia falling right now. And most of America wishes for the U.S. Petrodollar, evolved into a U.S. MurderDollar to collapse. Because most of the nation is isolationists, and the rest of them oppose killing “brown people.”

    So where is their support? The pyramid sitting on its tiny point, the club-installed nepotism-fueled few seats of power in D.C. No one else want them, or this. Yes, they’re well burrowed in like a tick, but that doesn’t make them strong.

    The trick here is to lose – or exit – the war and not fall into and follow the Russian Revolution scenario as is planned and laid out for us.

    “growing “a little tired” and showing less “emotional” involvement”

    So we have wars voting like “America’s Got Talent” now? A little twist in the drama narrative and we can drone strike children again?

    ““Everyone would like to live a normal life, but if Ukraine falls, will it be a normal life?”

    Yes. Yes it will. We won’t notice at all. We’ll still be dirt poor, downtrodden, insulted and oppressed, still taking meth and fentanyl, daughters still trying out sex work in high school with administrative approval, the only difference is the PMC apparatchiks and their kids will be joining us.

    “ • Russia Posts Record Current Account Surplus (RT)”

    Russia is just about to collapse before the might of Kiev, the poorest country in Europe. Any day now they will fall and Ze will sweep to Vladivostok, occupying them with one Ukrainian soldier per 500 square miles.

    “a select group of human beings… almost extraterrestrial”
    “an unelected world government that the people never asked for and don’t want,”

    I guess I can’t add to that. I see Timcast and peers are now replacing the Mainstream news.

    “The payments per patient ranged wildly, state by state from $18,000 (NJ) to a whopping $471,000 (WVa). Why was that?”

    Asking questions is treason. It was perfectly equitable, that’s why it’s different. It’s for cost of living adjustment, that’s why it’s 20x different in the #Opposite direction, NJ being the cheap whores state, and WV being the expensive. It all makes sense if you don’t look, ask, or think about it.

    …And we won’t. 6,000,000 year outlier on non-war deaths: no curiosity, no investigation. I guess we should have known when the response to opioid deaths was to OPEN the border to drug dealers. And no one cared.

    Congratulations on the removal of the Scorpion from the center of the field to the sidelines. It’s something and you need it.

    There are a number of solutions to the vax, but it’s much, much harder. First you have to overcome the reasons you took it in the first place. Have to admit you were catastrophically wrong. Have to reject the authority that you trusted. Have to reject the medical system at large. Then after being passive and thus taking it, become extremely active, while injured with a wasting disease that makes you constantly tired and brain-fogged. Then after trusting official data, reject all official data. Then after following censorship and the narrative, reject the narrative and seek out new information from the very people you rejected as non-medical, inaccurate, and unscientific all along. You must do this WHILE the scientific consensus remains against them. AND while they themselves, the scientific minority, have no solid treatments or firm, tested beliefs themselves. After all this, you must take and do some things that probably don’t work – yet keep going – and also take treatments that were formerly ridiculed and outlawed, like IVM. Only then * Might * you get better. Or not. And with almost no way to tell or quantify it.

    That’s a big ask. But like other errors, don’t dig yourself a hole. If you find yourself in a hole, look around and stop digging. This is not to say everyone can be fixed, any more than any other injury or disease. We’re not that good yet.

    #126516
    aspnaz
    Participant

    Ukrainian presidential advisor Oleksiy Arestovych was forced to resign after stating that the deadly strike on this apt building in Dnirpo was caused by a Ukrainian SAM missile, not a targeted Russian attack. Another casualty of Kiev’s information war.

    Plenty more students desperate to fill that role. Maybe Greta can help advise Ukraine? Just an idea, seems like they are losing people too quickly at the moment, what with that helicopter bomb.

    #126517
    Red
    Participant

    I’ll just drop this here for the Canadians that might be interested:

    https://www.beyondthenarrative.ca/canadian-federal-politician-members-of-the-world-economic-forum/

    P.S. It’s quite a long list.

    #126518
    aspnaz
    Participant

    Just how dumb are these Yale undergraduates?

    Bring in a diversity student, graduate them to the morgue with a vaccination? I wonder how many blacks fall for this shit versus the milky white students. Milky white men or milky white ham planets with varicose veins, which ones get to the morgue first? I suspect that the population of black Americans is destined to rise well above the 12% that has been the concentration for the last few years. Mind you, that does not bode well for the USA, but will be interesting from a Darwinian perspective.

    #126519
    Dr. D
    Participant

    NY Times Publisher Sulzberger at Davos:
    “if you look at this question of disinformation, I think it maps basically to every other major challenge that we are grappling with as a society, and particularly the most existential among them. So, disinformation and in the broader set of misinformation, conspiracy, propaganda, clickbait, you know, the broader mix of bad information that’s corrupting information ecosystem, what it attacks is trust.
    And once you see, trust decline, what you then see is a society start to fracture, and so you see people fracture along tribal lines and, you know, that immediately undermines pluralism.
    And the undermining of pluralism is probably the most dangerous thing that can happen to a democracy.”

    Yes, but they miss that fracturing societies and ending democracy is the GOAL. You can take his information to Davos two ways. They’ve already said they wish to end democracy and run via unelected technocracy, that’s “Stakeholder Capitalism”.

    Here’s the other thing: apparently we have a trust and misinformation problem. After 200 years of allowing anyone to say or publish anything, it’s only after they installed widespread censorship that this problem suddenly appeared, fractured society, and threatened democracy. They have no curiosity as to why.

    Last point: the New York Times is the least trustworthy paper in the country. They have printed wrong – knowingly wrong – false, divisive, and un-checked materials in increasing amounts for nearly 20 years until today the disinformation approaches 100%. They are the Beacon of Disinformation worldwide. The Newspaper of Recorded Ignominy and Shame.

    His answer of course, for a fighter against “disinformation” is to put out MORE censorship, less debate, and further propaganda, clickbait, and disinformation.

    Barnett, the editor who deigned to allow Senator Cotton an op-ed recommending the end of nationwide murder and violence summer of love, said Sulzberger “blew the opportunity to make clear that the New York Times doesn’t exist just to tell progressives how progressives should view reality.” Meaning, with this decision, he ensconced the NY Times as a paper that exists solely to tell Progressives how to view reality. This is how they get “the Memo.” And never allow anyone besides themselves to speak ever again. You have no existence or agency outside of their wants and desires. They will “Master the Earth”, and you will “slave the earth” for them.

    No, I’ve got it. You’ve made it quite clear.

    #126520
    Germ
    Participant

    C U Next Tuesday:

    #126521
    aspnaz
    Participant

    FAA lowered their safety standards and is now as trustworthy as the FDA & CDC. Fly at your own risk.

    Hang on, this all started with the FAA. Let’s not forget Boeing and the 737 Max killer plus the Dreamliner wannabe killer. American engineering is now a joke except for small companies and a very few larger companies who still demonstrate how great the USA used to be in the engineering field, companies like SnapOn. They are still the best and still able to ignore the recession, because they are the very best and produce 10s of thousands of individual tools, amazing. Saw a joke today, went something like “you never see a jogger running down the street with a SnapOn tool box, joggers don’t work”. Says it all. Will the USA be able to wind back the clock and get back its engineering skills. That said, the USA has the worst domestic electrical system in the world, totally appalling, but there you go.

    #126522
    oxymoron
    Participant

    The Amadeus bit described Jeff Beck’s guitar playing perfectly. Never a bung note, constant flow state – communicating effortlessly with the now through 6 strings and a whammy bar.

    See you on the other side Jeff…

    #126523
    aspnaz
    Participant

    “Zelensky puts forward completely absurd initiatives, like a ten-point plan, where everything is piled up – food security, energy security, biological security, withdrawal of Russian troops from everywhere, Russia’s repentance, tribunal and condemnation,” Lavrov said.

    At least Zelensky is improving as a comedian. I had expected Zelensky to pull out his plonker and wave it at Lavrov. The world is run by retards.

    #126524
    aspnaz
    Participant

    Microsoft will continue to hire in key strategic areas, emphasizing the importance of building a “new computer platform” using advances in artificial intelligence.

    Microsoft CEOs have promoted all the trends, from web services (are going to change the world, but didn’t) to now hanging onto the AI bandwagon. If windows uses AI it will be even worse than it is now, and from what I have heard that is pretty shit …. actually I have bought windows 5 times (maybe 6) but have never used it, it was preinstalled on computers I wanted to use, I wiped it before ever starting Windows. Bill Gates the pedophile managed to twist the US law so that they could force manufacturers to load Windows on their machines. Most machines do not offer the option of Windows or nothing, so you have to clean the disk on first boot then clear the BIOS of Windows poison. It was a pain in the arse and I used to hold out no hope until the Chinese took over the PC business and they now offer lots of very minimal BIOS etc. probably containing CCP spyware, but why would you care if you are not Han Chinese. Back to the way it was 25 years ago.

    #126525
    oxymoron
    Participant

    Dr D, you missed something (rare) – the ‘fracturing along tribal lines’ – ah yes tribes. We hate tribes. Only the Borg. Only the unit-party.
    I hate Italians being different from Chinese and can’t wait to only eat soy sauce with my pasta in a world extravaganza of socio-cultural entropy and death.

    Yes Tribal equals bad. Just like family a smaller set within the tribe and child for that matter.

    #126527
    aspnaz
    Participant

    John Kerry, Brian Stelter etc. are very useful, they are like the Swastika flag, when you see them your mind switches turns off “serious” and switches to nanometer bullshit filter mode. You don’t need to think when these guys are on the screen, you know this is just an episode of animal planet with the bald coot swooning over the rich whore’s piece of man – yes, Kerry is the best man that the billionaire Teresa Heinz could get …. Davos really should outlaw the hooker and child hookers and take up a dating service between the sychophants and the ugly billionaires. Glad that Stelter has found a new home, he was always such a toady, he never had any morals or principles or values, he is a toady, like the Cane toads in Australia, you either punt them over the fence with a wood, or you let them be, it really depends on whether you had a good day today.

    #126528
    EoinW
    Participant

    Yes it takes historical liberties and there is a fair amount of myth making, however Amadeus is still a masterpiece. I’d rank it with Citizen Kane, Singin’ in the Rain, The Godfather & Chariots of Fire as one of the greatest movies ever. Thanks for sharing the clip.

    #126529
    EoinW
    Participant

    Still quiet on my front. No close friends or relatives who have been victim to the vax. Reminds me of reading a biography on Bix Beiderbecke. I know it ends badly – dead at 28 from alcoholism – yet each chapter proceeds with normal health, as if nothing ever bad will happen. But when Bix’s health goes, the collapse is rapid.

    I wonder if all the vaxxed I know are on the same journey. I hope not.

    #126530
    aspnaz
    Participant

    Dr D said

    NY Times Publisher Sulzberger at Davos

    End of conversation. This entitled brat, pretending he can do his grandfather’s job, is really rather tiring. He complains about the lack of plurality then proposes a single view, refusing to accomodate plurality. What a fucking jerk, the guy doesn’t even know what he is saying. He should just go and molest another child.

    Disclaimer: I have never read the NYT on a regular basis, mostly because I have met a few of their reporters and have seen extracts of a few of their articles. My nose for bullshit is strong and I do not care that they are influential, that is just a further warning.

    #126531
    EoinW
    Participant

    I’d go further back than 20 years when it comes to the Toilet paper of Record. Back in 1913, we got a glimpse into the future of the NY Times when they put politics ahead of truth to defend the Jewish murderer Leo Frank.

    #126532
    aspnaz
    Participant

    Looks like one faction is trying to get rid of Biden while the others are taking their time to pay up to protect him. Interesting Mafia politics. Biden will be fine, he is so inept nobody would bother wiping him out. The hair stroking people (clubs?) need not worry, he will be back with plenty of cash, although his reputation may be slighty damaged.

    Major risk: With all his cash, expect his daughter to sue him for sex in the shower. Meeee tooo.

    #126533
    aspnaz
    Participant

    The scientists used a vaccine that has a different mechanism of basic action than the mRNA jabs from Pfizer and Moderna, which turn our own cells into spike protein factories.

    Eh? Why? Who cares about some unknown vaccine? This is pure bullshit.

    #126534
    aspnaz
    Participant

    Zuckerberg warned his staff not to get the Vaccine !

    The billionaires are not your friends.

    #126536
    Dr. D
    Participant

    I am getting the sense that a lot of…I don’t know…fake ideas? Prospective things that never happen? Are being let out as a means to “Track the Mental Space”, or as they said “Master the Human Domain” (?? SW wargames motto a few years back).

    The only reason they would need to release tracers and track them is if we’re going to have a harder lockdown/oppression soon. Now let’s not jump to conclusions as to whom. Letting Antifa go was a perfect means to map the financiers and overseers of that group, possibly shutting them off without news or comment. Or the other way around: maybe to map anyone who is against the Editor of the NY Times who identified as the enemy — everyone on earth.

    Especially if there is a war or economic collapse. I’m more afraid of the relative speed this appears. On either side or both. If they learned people escape if they’re slower than Covid attack, then they’ll go even faster, impossible as it seems. So if they just roll up everyone, most probably online, but have to make the point with a few poor random saps in person. This is done all over in history, worldwide, and it directs resources to the “Important” people: you know, the exact #Opposite of the “Essential Workers” during Covid. No truckers, no repairmen, no nurses, more like “Essential Wokers”.

    …And thus final collapse and replacement. No support from the public.

    Or in the other direction: finally somebody does something, because they’ve waited so long, encouraged them to overreact, go so far, that when they finally act against the 1% the 99% will approve and say “What took you so long?”

    In a Democracy, doesn’t the government, the Army, have to do only what the people demand them to? And therefore NOT act ahead of time even if it’s better for us? Are we supposed to be better than we are, save us from ourselves while we resist them? Isn’t that what the bad guys do? YOU are the government, you lowest people, Least-common denominator: you need to tell US what you want done or undone.

    Tracking the memes through the space for something. The Internet is not anonymous. They are going to tie the engineered food shortage to the digital currency and social approval. It won’t last, but we still have to get through it intact, if only so we can give them hell on the other side. Remember the Tribulation, only 3 1/2 years of success before it goes to pot and the bad half of the 2nd 3 1/2. Prepare and be ready.

    Speaking of, they’d only dump a head minion like Ardern to put in someone worse. Who do they have in mind?

    #126537
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    The world still seems pretty chaotic messy and dangerous today. Maybe just an infinitesimal iota less so than last week, but still just awfully screwed up, screwed over and bizarre beyond easy description.

    I’m waiting for the second biggest big shoe of all to drop and clear up some of the geopolitical (etc. etc.) chaos that swirls higher with every passing hour and day like a cosmic pressure cooker. This “shoe drop” realization will be the broadly understood epiphany that no organization of noble heroes or miraculously reformed institutions or enforced rule of law is going to come to our rescue BECAUSE it is hierarchy itself, the organized enforcement of rules itself, that is the problem in the first place.

    Enforcement (of rules or anything else) implies force, does it not? Well hierarchy is the enforced authority of one or more persons over another or others. By definition. That definition is also is also the description of slavery and tyranny. Ya just can’t sidestep the fact.

    Rules, authority, power and hierarchy are part and parcel of the same thing. Just face it. By their intrinsic nature they all involve the suppression (or “overruling”) of free will.

    Well, you have free will, and the bad news is that you ARE going to use it. Attempting to not use it can only end in the factual reality that such an attempt is just another way of using it.

    Trying to abdicate free will by making or enabling hierarchies or external authorities to do jobs that only you can do is a fool’s game that races itself to the bottom. The only escape from such a dwindling spiral of abdication of responsibility is personal awareness and acceptance of the God who made you. Talk with him or it (or whatever representation that suits your fancy) . He’ll explain it a lot better than I can.

    #126538
    Oroboros
    Participant
    #126539
    Oroboros
    Participant

    I’ve noticed the twitter links that previously when posted here no longer have a video preview window.

    I can only imagine Twitter change something on their end to do that, or is it something in the TAE code?

    #126540
    Oroboros
    Participant

    I’m trying the copied address of a Twitter link with the LINK button above

    #126541
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Doesn’t work at all as a LINK button post

    #126542
    boilingfrog
    Participant

    As usual, a ton of good “data points” on TAE (“data points” is a phrase one of my customers, a retired investment banker, likes to say… the same person who when asked about the box canyon the Federal Reserve has flown itself into responds, “They’ll think of something!”).

    Being in a university town, the phrase “Stakeholder Capitalism” really caught my eye this morning. I hear the same thing around here. The wealthy ‘stakeholders’, living up on the mountain overlooking the town, or down in the valley by the country club, all think they are in control of events. They all feed at the university trough. As “stakeholders” somehow they can gather the “right” information, create the “right” technology, to bring this experiment in for a successful landing/conclusion.

    ‘Successful landing’ ALWAYS includes them holding their positions of power and wealth. Always. Others are simply not even considered as they crawl back to their trailers in the “hollers”.

    Joggers abound, but I’ve never seen one carrying a Matco toolbox. Nor have I seen a $3000 titanium bicycle with a MIG-welder strapped on back. But “Im’a lookin!!!”

    Construction seems to be proliferating: banks, university buildings, and literally hundreds of glue-and-sawdust + plastic homes surrounding the university starting in the mid-$400’s.

    Doing what I do (fix houses) I know dozens of Ph.d’s… I can think of exactly one who is open to any alternatives to the CNN and NYT story. One…

    Okay, chickens and goats taken care of, back to ‘crashing now’ so as to avoid the rush!

    #126543
    Oroboros
    Participant

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    #126544
    tboc
    Participant

    One perspective to press disinformation might be found by having a look at the Continental Congress of the not yet United States. All we hear today is Federalist and Anti Federalist, and this was and has been the story line. There were states rights populists and federalists in attendance. Who owned and controlled the press? The answer to this question may be found in the first contest between Mr. Jefferson and the Federalist Mr. Adams. In support of Mr. Adams Mr. Jefferson was smeared in the press. “All the news that’s fit to print” appeared above the New York Times on an illuminated sign in 1896. Fit to a purpose and that purpose has not changed. Myths die hard and the romance with a fair and open press is born of a myth. Please remember the alleged words of William Casey in 1981. What was your reaction after reading “Killing Hope” by William Blum? What was and is the narrative in the press concerning Mr. Blum’s pamphet? ……”everything the American public believes is false”, how long have you believed in a fair and open press? Gulf of Tonkin?, Weapons of Mass Destruction?, unprovoked Russian Agression? Manifest Destiny?

    “He who controls the spice controls the universe” Herbert

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