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Arkhip Kuindzhi Red Sunset on the Dnieper 1905-8 (see story below)

 

What’s Wrong With The Hersh Report On The Nord Stream Attacks (Helmer)
On the Legal Question of Russia’s Military Intervention (Lauria)
Stuff You Should Know About Ukraine (Mike Whitney)
The US Takes The Scandal Global And Turns It Into A Tool (Fomenko)
A Star is Born! (Jim Kunstler)
Wagner Boss Estimates Ukraine Conflict Could Last Three More Years (RT)
Kiev Sounds Alarm Over Ammo (RT)
US ‘Lying’ About Nord Stream Expose – Moscow (RT)
German Defense Minster’s Remark About World Without Putin Inadmissible (TASS)
West’s Threat To Russia’s National Security Nipped In The Bud – Lavrov (TASS)
What Funeral Directors Know That You Don’t (Kirsch)
The CDC Lied: The mRNA Wasn’t Meant to “Stay in the Arm” (Kogon)
CDC Adds COVID-19 Vaccines to Child Immunization Schedule (ET)
Righteous Tyrants (Julie Kelly)
US Museum Changes Russian Artist’s Nationality (RT)

 

 

 

 

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Multiple people wonder why Hersh left the UK role out of his article.

What’s Wrong With The Hersh Report On The Nord Stream Attacks (Helmer)

Seymour Hersh’s report on President Joseph Biden’s decision to destroy the Nord Stream gas pipelines on the Baltic seabed on September 26, 2022, and the involvement of the US Navy in preparing the explosives, has been based on a single anonymous US source with what Hersh calls “direct knowledge of the process”. From the full text of the Hersh report, it appears that neither the source nor Hersh has “direct knowledge” of the history of US-led operations to sabotage and destroy the pipelines which became public more than a year before; they directly involved the Polish government and the Danish government. In fact, by error of omission Hersh and his man are ignorant of those operations and of that history.

Also, the two of them are ignorant of the British government’s role in this history, and in the final destruction, which was revealed publicly by then-Prime Minister Elizabeth Truss to Secretary of State Antony Blinken sixty seconds after the detonation; and by the Russian government when it announced its knowledge of the British involvement. The source and the reporter appear to be equally oblivious of the role German government officials played in the operation, and of the history of German warfighting operations against Russia stretching back to Chancellor Angela Merkel’s engagement in the NATO plan for military intervention in eastern Ukraine, following the shoot-down of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 on July 17, 2014. That attack was costlier in lives and in the US warfighting strategy against Russia than the Nord Stream operation.

In terms of cost, the US attack seizing more than $300 billion in Russian Central Bank reserves, announced on February 28, 2022, was much greater. Hersh implies, without identifying his source at all, that there were “US promises to minimize direct conflict with Russia”; that because the Nord Stream attack plan violated those “promises”, they were in the source’s opinion either illegal in US law, or violations of US intelligence and military operation standards, or breaches of international undertakings the US has given its NATO allies or its Russian targets. Without explanation, Hersh omitted to ask Russian officials or others with “direct knowledge of the process” to confirm these claims or deny them. Hersh and his man dismiss the Germans with the same disdain. They report that “after some wobbling [Chancellor Olaf Scholtz] was now firmly on the American team” in January 2022, when the Nord Stream attack plan had already been under way, Hersh reports, for at least a month. Hersh omitted to ask any German source — active official, army general, navy admiral or retiree – to confirm or clarify.

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Different opinions on Article 51. Lauria doesn’t think it’s valid…

On the Legal Question of Russia’s Military Intervention (Lauria)

The U.N. Charter has something to say about the legal use of military force. It allows it in two cases: when it is authorized by the Security Council and when it is legitimately used in self-defense. Council authorization for force is contained in Chapter VII, Article 42: “Should the Security Council consider that measures provided for in Article 41 [economic sanctions] would be inadequate or have proved to be inadequate, it may take such action by air, sea, or land forces as may be necessary to maintain or restore international peace and security. Such action may include demonstrations, blockade, and other operations by air, sea, or land forces of Members of the United Nations.” The second instance allowing armed force is in self-defense, explained in Chapter VII, Article 51:

“Nothing in the present Charter shall impair the inherent right of individual or collective self-defence if an armed attack occurs against a Member of the United Nations, until the Security Council has taken measures necessary to maintain international peace and security. Measures taken by Members in the exercise of this right of self-defence shall be immediately reported to the Security Council and shall not in any way affect the authority and responsibility of the Security Council under the present Charter to take at any time such action as it deems necessary in order to maintain or restore international peace and security.” So, on these narrow legal grounds, the U.N. Charter only permits the use of force after authorization by the Security Council or in self defense by a “member state.”

Russia entered the eight-year Ukrainian civil war on Feb. 24, 2022 to defend against attacks against the majority-ethnic Russian oblasts of Donetsk and Luhansk, which had declared independence from Ukraine in 2014. Russia only recognized their independence on Feb. 21, 2022, three days before its intervention. It intervened without authorization from the Security Council, where the U.S., Britain and probably France would have vetoed it. As the self-defense article pertains only to U.N. member states, it could not apply to Donetsk and Luhansk. Russia is a member state but the article says “if an armed attack occurs” against it, and there was at the time no armed attack against Russia. sSo according to the U.N. Charter, Russia’s military intervention was not legally authorized.

However, states are not prohibited by the Charter to request the presence of foreign forces on their territory. There is no language in the Charter about it. Officially inviting foreign forces onto one’s territory would not be considered an illegal occupation. Article 42 of the 1907 Hague Convention says: “Territory is considered occupied when it is actually placed under the authority of the hostile army.” The Russian army is certainly not seen as hostile in Donetsk and Luhansk. The murkiness of the legal issue arises then on the question of whether Donetsk and Luhansk were independent states in February of last year — states that could invite foreign forces onto its territory — or were they at the time still part of Ukraine?

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… but Whitney does.

Stuff You Should Know About Ukraine (Mike Whitney)

So, has anyone in the western media reported on the fact that Putin invoked UN Article 51 before he launched the Special Military Operation? No, they haven’t, because to do so, would be an admission that Putin’s military operation complies with international law. Instead, the media continues to spread the fiction that ‘Hitler-Putin is trying to rebuild the Soviet empire’, a claim for which there is not a scintilla of evidence. Keep in mind, Putin’s operation does not involve the toppling of a foreign government to install a Moscow-backed stooge, or the arming and training a foreign military that will be used as proxies to fight a geopolitical rival, or the stuffing a country with state-of-the-art weaponry to achieve his own narrow strategic objectives, or perpetrating terrorist acts of industrial sabotage (Nord-Stream 2) to prevent the economic integration of Asia and Europe.

No, Putin hasn’t engaged in any of these things. But Washington certainly has, because Washington isn’t constrained by international law. In Washington’s eyes, international law is merely an inconvenience that is dismissively shrugged off whenever unilateral action is required. But Putin is not nearly as cavalier about such matters, in fact, he has a long history of playing by the rules because he believes the rules help to strengthen everyone’s security. And, he’s right; they do. And that’s why he invoked Article 51 before he sent the troops to help the people in the Donbas. He felt he had a moral obligation to lend them his assistance but wanted his actions to comply with international law. We think he achieved both.

Here’s something else you will never see in the western media. You’ll never see the actual text of Putin’s security demands that were made a full 2 months before the war broke out. And, the reason you won’t see them, is because his demands were legitimate, reasonable and necessary. All Putin wanted was basic assurances that NATO was not planning to put its bases, armies and missile sites on Russia’s border. In other words, he was doing the same thing that all responsible leaders do to defend the safety and security of their own people.

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“..the so-called ‘Chinese Spy Balloon’, the US has now reportedly briefed the diplomats of 40 countries about the supposed threat..”

The US Takes The Scandal Global And Turns It Into A Tool (Fomenko)

After the outburst of paranoia triggered by the so-called ‘Chinese Spy Balloon’, the US has now reportedly briefed the diplomats of 40 countries about the supposed threat. Washington has apparently sent American missions around the world information about the incident and presented to foreign diplomats gathered in Beijing information to demonstrate that it was indeed an espionage aircraft, and not a weather-monitoring balloon as China claims. In addition to the domestic political motivations for Washington to whip up a frenzy about the Chinese balloon, we now see the US deliberately weaponizing the story to attack China on a global scale, aiming to instill greater fear, suspicion and paranoia of Beijing worldwide. The incident itself might be nothing more than hot air, but Washington is willing to gaslight its allies and “partners” into greater alignment with American goals and preferences.

The American foreign policy machine is a master of a process known as ‘manufacturing consent’, the term famously coined by Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman. The US uses an array of aligned think tanks and cherry-picked experts, as well as a monopoly over information and press access, in order to perfectly craft a narrative which promotes their goals and preferences. Simply speaking, the topics, areas of interest and points of view which the US government focuses on are given funding (often from government departments), press access and regular airtime. Those it does not care for are simply ignored. As a key example of how this works: Earlier this week, the Washington Post ran a story that cited unnamed US officials to confirm the Chinese balloon was indeed used by Beijing’s military for spying and was part of a wider aerial surveillance effort.

Not only is this a direct official-to-media report, but no evidence or facts were given, neither was any possible agenda behind the story highlighted or scrutinized, nor any ‘alternative’ point of view presented. Of course, these are beyond the scope of a simple news story – and we don’t get anything other than this news story, sourced from US officials, speaking to the media on condition of anonymity but most likely with the direction of their superiors. This is how the US government shapes the narrative and manufactures consent through the media. So what’s the agenda behind the US raising the ‘spy balloon’ alarm internationally? It’s one thing to make it a scandal at home, trading some political points over who is the most hard-line on China, but to publicize it internationally like that, there must be a bigger goal behind it.

By claiming that the balloon was being used for military and espionage purposes, and therefore constitutes a ‘national security threat’, the US is clearly eyeing up an opportunity to impose new sanctions against Chinese firms. It has been a running theme of US sanctions against China to blacklist a company, either from receiving US technology exports, or from US investment, by claiming that it is owned or operated on behalf of the Chinese military, even when it isn’t. This has been a key part of Washington’s growing technology war against Beijing. These assumptions are made on insinuations and ‘guilt by association’ logic, rather than clear-cut proof. Therefore, the US could be preparing to blacklist the companies involved in constructing the balloon, claiming they are a military threat. In addition to that, it should be noted that the US is also trying to push G7 to collectively sanction China for “supporting” the Russian offensive in Ukraine, which would also involve blacklisting Chinese firms.

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“The perpetually-vacationing Leader of the Free World has apparently made America great again..”

A Star is Born! (Jim Kunstler)

Weird, a little bit. A sane person in a sane world would call sabotaging the Nord Stream pipelines an act-of-war against a friendly nation, since the result was to virtually destroy the basis of Germany’s industry, not to mention the domestic comfort of German citizens. Now, thanks to 85-year-old Seymour Hersh, the independent investigator who uncovered the My Lai Massacre in 1969 and reported on the depraved antics of American jailers at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq in 2004, we have a pretty good idea how the Nord Stream caper went down. For a year before the op, “Joe Biden” and Undersecretary of State Victoria Nuland — architect of the 2014 Maidan Coup in Ukraine, which kicked-off the present fiasco there — blabbed about “ending” the Nord Streams. Curiously, the Germans said nothing.

Meanwhile, the US made a deal to beef up military bases in Norway, an original NATO signatory (1949), for staging the Nord Stream sabotage op. Of course, Norway, being Western Europe’s remaining sole oil-and-gas exporter, had an interest in eliminating its competition. In June of 2022, under cover of an annual NATO naval exercise in the Baltic Sea, US Navy divers attached mines to the Nord Stream pipelines. The mines had triggers that could be activated remotely at any time of choosing, and that moment came on September 26… kaboom. Ms. Nuland and Secretary of State Antony Blinken gloated publicly. Naturally, the US blamed Russia. America’s news media — catamite of the Intel Community — amplified the charge, despite the absurdity of Russia blowing up its most lucrative source of export revenue.

The New York Times has so far made no mention of Mr. Hersh’s recent update of the Nord Stream sabotage. Germany, too, hardly made a peep, nor did the rest of Western Europe, which now faces a future that looks, energy-wise, like a return to the Fourteenth Century. Maybe they’re all jaded with modern life, all that tiresome bathing and malingering in the brightly-lit cafes. Under the sagacious guidance of the WEF they were all going “green,” anyway — but was that green like the heart-shaped leaves of the linden tree or green like the moldy veins in Roquefort cheese? I guess they’ll find out.

Luckily, America had the Chinese balloon to distract them, and then “Joe B’s” State-of-the-Union extravaganza where the nation learned that we are living in the most extraordinary economic boom since the days of Babe Ruth and Charlie Chaplin. The perpetually-vacationing Leader of the Free World has apparently made America great again, despite the dastardly plots and ongoing insurrections of his far-right, white supremacist adversaries. Did the annual SOTU smell a little bit like a reelection pitch, though? I hope so.

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The West doesn’t have ammo for three months once Russia gets serious.

Wagner Boss Estimates Ukraine Conflict Could Last Three More Years (RT)

The ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine will likely continue for up to three more years, depending on the goals Moscow actually pursues in it, Wagner private military group founder Yevgeny Prigozhin has said. The businessman made the remarks in an exclusive interview with Semyon Pegov of the independent WarGonzo project on Friday. “If we need to cover the DPR and LPR, then we need to work for at least another year and a half or two,” Prigozhin stated, referring to the territories of the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics, which were recently incorporated into Russia. Should Russia seek to “go toward the Dnepr,” a major river separating Ukraine into roughly two halves, the conflict will last even longer and drag on for up to three more years, Prigozhin suggested.

At the same time, the founder of the private military group noted that in any conflict, the destruction of the enemy’s army must be the priority, rather than a desire to seize territories from the adversary. Prigozhin also revealed, apparently jokingly, that should Moscow also seek to reach all across Europe toward the English Channel, he already has a perfect plan for such an endeavor. To achieve that goal, everyone in Russia must drop any leisure activity, put on their “working suits,” and work tirelessly. Some spoils of the campaign, however, including “France, Italy, Bulgaria and something else,” should be ceded afterwards to Ukrainians, since they are set to “suffer here with us” much more.

Founded in 2014, Wagner has mainly operated as a security contractor in Africa and the Middle East until now. The precise details of its deployments have not been made public, while Prigozhin denied his ties to the group and its very existence until last year. The group has been an active participant in the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, scoring several victories against the Ukrainian troops. The achievements have also earned the company wide international attention, with the US declaring Wagner a “transnational criminal organization” last month.

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“..upcoming Ramstein format meeting on February 14..”

Kiev Sounds Alarm Over Ammo (RT)

Intense fighting in Ukraine means that its military is running out of ammunition, with stocks not being replenished in time, Igor Zhovkva, chief diplomatic adviser to President Vladimir Zelensky, has told media. The official also called on the West to provide Kiev with long-range artillery systems, tanks and fighter jets. In an interview with Bloomberg on Thursday, Zhovkva lamented that “now we are having like almost zero ammunition,” – a situation that makes it harder for the Ukrainian military to respond to Russian shelling. “We are running [out] of the ammunition very quickly because the fights are intensive,” he went on to explain, adding that Russia has more firepower.

Zelensky’s adviser also noted that Kiev needs long-range missiles to “de-occupy Ukrainian territory,” as opposed to hitting targets inside Russia. According to the official, this type of weaponry would be crucial to launch a counteroffensive against Moscow’s forces. On the subject of fighter jets, Zhovkva named several reasons why Ukraine is seeking to get hold of them. He pointed out that, among other things, such aircraft are “very good in intercepting the ballistic missiles.” He expressed hope that the upcoming Ramstein format meeting on February 14 will see Kiev’s Western backers pledge more weapons, adding that “it’s high time” they stopped caring about Moscow’s reaction to such deliveries.

Commenting on the military aid already provided by the West, Zhovkva said that it was “too late, too little, and too slow.” On Thursday, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov reacted to the news of the British government possibly considering donating some of its warplanes to Ukraine, by warning that the UK and several other European nations are becoming increasingly involved in the conflict. “The line between indirect and direct involvement is gradually disappearing,” he stressed, adding that this fuels further escalation. Peskov pointed out, however, that while unnecessarily prolonging the fighting, Western arms shipments will not be able to change the outcome of the conflict or prevent Russia from achieving its goals.

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China wants answers too.

US ‘Lying’ About Nord Stream Expose – Moscow (RT)

Attempts by the US State Department to brush off Seymour Hersh’s article about the sabotage of Nord Stream pipelines as “nonsense” are overt lies that display shocking ignorance of American history, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told reporters on Friday. The veteran investigative journalist reported on Wednesday that the US was behind the destruction of the Baltic Sea pipelines in September 2022. American divers planted charges under the cover of a NATO exercise, and a Norwegian airplane detonated them remotely when the time came, Hersh wrote. “It would not be typical for us to engage allies and partners on something that is utter and complete nonsense,” State Department spokesman Ned Price said on Thursday, answering a question about Hersh’s article.

Zakharova said she was astonished by Price’s audacity to call “nonsense” what US President Joe Biden and Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland openly described as their preferred outcome. “The US is once again lying live on air, openly mocking journalists who asked fully justified questions,” Zakharova said. Washington also has a history of targeting civilian petrochemical infrastructure, Zakharova noted, citing the 1983 CIA sabotage of a pipeline in Nicaragua as an example. “You did this, you do this, and you will do this until you’re stopped,” the spokeswoman added. As for bringing allies and partners into “nonsense,” Zakharova argued that this was precisely what “trans-Atlantic solidarity” means in practice, referring to the 2003 invasion of Iraq as one example. “Twenty years ago, Secretary of State Colin Powell brought to the UN Security Council a vial of something, and called [on] allies and partners to invade a sovereign state, without any evidence, over claims that proved to be utter nonsense.

Ned, do you know your own department’s history?” Zakharova said. “I have no doubts that at the State Department they are bad with the history of their own country. That’s why we are where we are.” Explosions that damaged both Nord Stream pipelines near the Danish island of Bornholm cut off the flow of Russian natural gas to Germany. US officials tried to blame Russia for the blasts, while expressing delight at the destruction and calling it an “opportunity” for Europe. The White House has denounced Hersh’s report as “utterly false and complete fiction.” Zakharova noted that Denmark and Sweden had refused Russian offers to assist with the investigation, while Norway declined to provide aid citing EU sanctions, adding that this shows the three governments were not interested in finding out the truth, but rather covering it up.

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Germany is not a serious country.

German Defense Minster’s Remark About World Without Putin Inadmissible (TASS)

German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius’s statement that the world would be a better place without Russian President Vladimir Putin is “absolutely inadmissible,” Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told a news briefing on Friday. “Defense Minister Pistorius hinted in very certain terms at the desirability of ousting the Russian leadership altogether. Such a statement is absolutely inadmissible for officials of any country that is a member of the international community,” she said. The West “in its reckless support for the Nazis in Kiev has trespassed all conceivable and inconceivable boundaries,” Zakharova stressed.


She recalled German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock’s remark that the West was waging war against Russia. “[Germany] is not some fictional country. It is a state that is officially a member of the UN. These people represent not some private office, but those who elected them,” Zakharova stressed. Against the background of such speeches by official representatives Berlin still dares position itself “as a champion of international law and human rights,” Zakharova said. Earlier, Pistorius, in an interview with the Bild newspaper during a visit to Kiev said that, in his opinion, the world would be better place without the Russian president.

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“..countries in Eurasia, the Asia-Pacific Region, the Middle East, Africa and Latin America, which are guided primarily by their fundamental national interests..”

West’s Threat To Russia’s National Security Nipped In The Bud – Lavrov (TASS)

The threat to Russia’s national security from the Western track will be robustly neutralized and the diplomatic service will do everything necessary to strengthen national sovereignty, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said at a special meeting on the occasion of Diplomatic Worker’s Day on Friday. “There can be no doubt that the threat to national security from the Western track will be firmly neutralized. The Russian army and navy have adequately met the challenge. For its part, our diplomatic service continues to do everything necessary to strengthen national sovereignty and neutralize external challenges when they are still far away,” he said.

The collective West is waging a “total hybrid war” against Russia, in fact it is conducting a new eastward “crusade”, using “Ukrainian neo-Nazis” as its “advanced detachment.” However, today it can be argued that the West’s plans for isolating Russia and for encircling it with a sanitary cordon have “failed,” Lavrov stressed. “Despite the anti-Russian ballyhoo by Washington, London and Brussels, we keep strengthening neighborly relations in the broadest sense with the global majority – countries in Eurasia, the Asia-Pacific Region, the Middle East, Africa and Latin America, which are guided primarily by their fundamental national interests,” he continued.

Lavrov pointed out that Russia maintains dialogues with reasonable representatives from public and political business circles of European states who appreciate friendship with Russia. “All of us are united by a commitment to the democratization of interstate relations and firm rejection of the US-centric rules-based world order, with its inherent blackmail, threats, ultimatums and zero-sum games – in other words, precisely those utterly irrelevant tools of coercion for which there should be no place in the future diplomacy of the twenty-first century,” Lavrov said.

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These numbers physically hurt.

What Funeral Directors Know That You Don’t (Kirsch)

Ever since the vaccines rolled out, deaths are up, particularly among young people. I talked to the owner of many funeral homes across the US; collectively they handle over 3,000 funerals a year. He asked that his name be kept confidential for fear of retribution. Overall, their business is up by 50% after the vaccines rolled out and it’s not proportional… young people are a greater portion of the deaths. For example pilot deaths at Southwest Airlines are up six-fold after the vaccines were mandated. My source said that normally they’d see 1 stillbirth/month pre-vaccine. After the vaccines rolled out, they were seeing as many as 12 stillbirths a month. But they noted that many hospitals will dispose of these cases directly and NOT involve the funeral home, so they are only seeing a fraction of these deaths; the actual increase could be much larger than the 12X increase they observed.

In the 78 years they’ve been in business, they can’t recall ever having seen a 15-year old die from a heart attack. In December 2022, they had 1 a week for three weeks straight. A very experienced nurse I consulted had never even heard of a 15-year old with a heart attack in her entire career. Now, she hears of these cases on a regular basis. These funeral homes are also seeing the strange rubbery clots that they’ve never seen before. The medical examiner was called and verified it, but nobody is saying anything publicly for fear of being fired. Basically, ever since 2021, they have been seeing very strange things: stillbirths, number of “found dead,” healthy people having heart attacks and strokes, blood clots, etc. They’ve never seen anything like that before; it’s a “noticeable” difference.

Like most funeral homes, they don’t tally statistics but they remember the anecdotes. The most noticeable thing is that the events are happening disproportionally to younger people (i.e., people under 65). So if elderly deaths are only up by 15%, but younger age groups are increased by 100% or more, the overall all-cause mortality for all ages will only increase modestly (since younger people rarely die). Also, the CDC stats for 2022 say that the data is not fully reported due to reporting delays. This means checking with funeral directors is a way to estimate what is happening in real-time. Bottom line: everyone knows what is causing this, but they are all afraid to speak out. For the few who do speak out, their stories are never covered in the mainstream media.

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From bad to worse.

The CDC Lied: The mRNA Wasn’t Meant to “Stay in the Arm” (Kogon)

The CDC’s information page on Covid-19 vaccines contains the following bullet points on “How mRNA COVID-19 vaccines work:” First, mRNA COVID-19 vaccines are given in the upper arm muscle or upper thigh, depending on the age of who is getting vaccinated. After vaccination, the mRNA will enter the muscle cells. Once inside, they use the cells’ machinery to produce a harmless piece of what is called the spike protein…. After the protein piece is made, our cells break down the mRNA and remove it, leaving the body as waste. Or, in other words, as we have long been told, “it” – the mRNA – “stays in the arm.” And then, after having instructed the muscle cells to produce the spike, is disposed of. But look at the below picture from a recent presentation on mRNA vaccination at the European Parliament. The picture was posted on Twitter by Virginie Joron, a French member of the parliament. The speaker is no less an authority than Özlem Türeci, the Chief Medical Officer of BioNTech: the German biotech company that developed what has come to be known to most of the world as the “Pfizer” Covid-19 vaccine.

Far from “staying in the arm” and entering the muscle cells at the injection site, the injection site is only the point of departure for a journey that is supposed to take the mRNA rather to the lymph nodes. The subtitle of the slide is “Bringing mRNA to the right cells at the right places.” The deltoid is not the right place; the lymph nodes are. Once in the lymph nodes, a specific sort of cell, the dendritic cells, is supposed to manufacture the spike protein: here colorfully described as the “wanted poster” that will help the immune system to identify the SARS-CoV-2 virus in case of subsequent exposure. A passage from The Vaccine, the book that Türeci and her husband, BioNTech CEO Ugur Sahin, wrote which journalist Joe Miller, explains why BioNTech’s platform specifically targets the lymph nodes:

“What Ugur learnt was that the location to which a vaccine delivers its ‘wanted poster’ really mattered. The reason for this, the couple’s team in Mainz later realised, was that not all dendritic cells … were created equal. The ones that resided in lymph nodes – of which the spleen is the largest – were particularly adept at capturing mRNA and making sure the instructions it carried were acted upon. These kidney-bean shaped organs, found under our armpits, in our groins, and at several other outposts in the body, are the information hubs of the immune system. (p. 98)” Indeed, Sahin and Türeci were so determined to get their mRNA into the lymph nodes that they had an earlier mRNA construct injected directly into the patient’s lymph nodes in the groin (p. 104).

Needless to say, such an approach was not likely to obtain wide acceptance as a vaccine! This is why the couple, as explained in their book, needed to package the mRNA in lipid nanoparticles, in order to ensure that mRNA administered by way of an intramuscular injection would, nonetheless, be widely distributed around the body and thus reach the lymph nodes.

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Criminal.

CDC Adds COVID-19 Vaccines to Child Immunization Schedule (ET)

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) added COVID-19 vaccines to its routine immunization schedule for children and adults on Thursday, attracting criticism for the decision. According to the CDC’s 2023 immunization schedule for children and adolescents, two or three doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been recommended beginning with infants who are just six months old. Children in the age group of 6 months to four years, and five years to 11 years are recommended COVID-19 vaccines from Moderna or Pfizer. Among children aged 12 to 18, Novavax vaccines are also recommended in addition to Pfizer and Moderna. In the list for adults, two or three doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been recommended from the age of 19 years.

The 2023 COVID-19 vaccine recommendation for kids and adults is included among other typically-recommended vaccines for measles, flu, rubella, and so on. Advisers to the CDC in 2022 recommended adding the vaccines to the schedule. Though the CDC has added COVID-19 vaccines to the recommended list, it has not mandated the vaccines. The agency does not have the authorization to do so, but local and state jurisdictions can, and many mandate most of the vaccines on the schedule. However, there are hardly any states that make flu vaccinations mandatory in public schools. Lawyers have said they’ll sue any state that requires COVID-19 vaccination to attend school and many officials have vowed not to implement such a requirement.

The CDC’s move to add COVID-19 vaccines to immunization schedules has attracted criticism online. “While I thought impossible for @CDCgov to lose anymore credibility—they decide to do this despite growing studies showing declining efficacy, no net benefit for majority of immunocompetent” individuals, anesthesiologist Megan Martin said in a Feb. 10 tweet.

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Gitmo?!

Righteous Tyrants (Julie Kelly)

James Baker, Vijaya Gadde, Yoel Roth, and Anika Collier Navaroli took the quasi-stand this week at a House Oversight Committee hearing to explain their roles in colluding with the government to suppress free speech during an election year, particularly related to the New York Post’s coverage of the Hunter Biden laptop story in October 2020. Baker, the former general counsel for the FBI when the bureau used fabricated political opposition research to defraud a secret federal court and obtain a warrant to spy on Donald Trump, was fired by Elon Musk as Twitter’s general counsel after it was discovered Baker was vetting company files made available to independent journalists.


Roth, Gadde, and Navaroli were considered the “custodians of the internet,” Roth boasted in a New York Times opinion column published in November, shortly after he resigned. “The work of online sanitation is unrelenting and contentious,” Twitter’s former head of “trust and safety” lamented. Roth then outlined a series of steps the government, private companies, and Big Tech oligarchs should pursue to rein in Musk. “In the longer term,” Roth warned, “the moderating influences of advertisers, regulators and, most critically of all, app stores may be welcome for those of us hoping to avoid an escalation in the volume of dangerous speech online.” That sort of hubris was on full display this week as the Twitter Four defended their crusade to censor users on the Right, including the suspension of Trump in January 2021.

Mace

In the process, these self-proclaimed warriors of truth and integrity revealed themselves to be nothing short of petulant foot-stompers unfit for employment anywhere outside of Silicon Valley or the government. Further, all four were clearly guided by their hatred for Trump and his supporters, contrary to their solemn assurances that decisions were based on unbiased considerations to protect the site from insidious content. For example, Gadde retweeted a Nicholas Kristof piece in 2016, emphasizing Kristof’s conclusion that he had “never met a national politician in the U.S. who is so ill informed, evasive, puerile and deceptive as Trump.” She, like 98 percent of people working in Silicon Valley, is a generous contributor to Democratic Party officials and candidates. She reportedly cried when she learned Musk had acquired the company.


But Gadde’s attempts to hide her partisan stripes failed this week. In a nonsensical explanation only an Ivy Leaguer could love, Gadde told committee members about the inner workings of the social media giant. “Defending free expression and maintaining the health of the platform required difficult judgment calls,” claimed Gadde, who was largely responsible for the decision to ban Trump’s account after January 6, 2021. “Most applications of Twitter rules were fact-intensive, subject to internal debate, and needed to be made very quickly. We recognized that after applying those rules, we might learn that some of them did not work as we had imagined and that we would need to update them. At times, we also reversed course.”

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Why? See painting at the top.

US Museum Changes Russian Artist’s Nationality (RT)

Arkhip Kuindzhi, a 19th century Russian landscape painter, has been re-designated as a Ukrainian national, according to an update on the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art’s website. The news comes as a number of museums around the world are rebranding classical Russian artworks as Ukrainian amid the ongoing military conflict between Moscow and Kiev. In the description of Kuindzhi’s 1905 painting ‘Red Sunset on the Dnepr,’ the artist is now listed as “Ukrainian” with the added clarification that he was born in Mariupol “when the Ukrainian city was part of the Russian empire.” Previous versions of the webpage had designated him as “Russian.” In archived snapshots of the webpage, the Met even described Kuindzhi as “one of the most talented Russian landscape painters of his generation” and noted that his works are “celebrated in both Ukraine and Russia.”


The city of Mariupol was captured by Russian forces last spring amid the military operation in Ukraine. In September, the Donetsk People’s Republics, which incorporates Mariupol, along with Lugansk People’s Republic and Zaporozhye and Kherson regions, officially became part of the Russian Federation after holding public referendums. The rebranding of Kuindzhi comes after the Met, on demands from Ukrainian activists, also renamed the painting ‘Russian Dancer’ by French artist Edgar Degas into ‘Dancer in Ukrainian Dress.’ The UK’s National Gallery made a similar move last April when it also re-titled Degas’ ‘Russian Dancers’ into ‘Ukrainian Dancers,’ stating that the women in the painting were “almost certainly Ukrainian rather than Russian.”

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    Arkhip Kuindzhi Red Sunset on the Dnieper 1905-8 (see story below)   • What’s Wrong With The Hersh Report On The Nord Stream Attacks (Helmer) • O
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle February 11 2023]

    #128744
    Germ
    Participant

    “The worlds of journalism and sport have united to pay tribute to the acclaimed boxing writer Ron Lewis, who has died suddenly at the age of 54.”

    https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2023/feb/10/tributes-paid-to-sports-writer-ron-lewis-after-sudden-death-at-age-of-54

    Have you ever heard of so many “died suddenly”?!

    ☠️☠️☠️

    TVASF

    #128745
    Germ
    Participant

    Good Grief!

    Recommended Child and Adolescent Immunization Schedule for ages 18 years or younger

    https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/schedules/downloads/child/0-18yrs-child-combined-schedule.pdf

    TVASF

    #128746
    Germ
    Participant

    Remember – we only get to hear of the famous who “died suddenly”.
    The thousands upon thousands of unknowns who just drop dead suddenly are are unreported.

    “Tragedy as young Aussie actress suddenly dies after starring in award-winning film: ‘We won’t ever forget your beautiful smile’ ”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11729617/Sariah-Saibu-tragically-dies.html

    TVASF

    #128747

    suffer, little children!
    mommy’s feeling blue.
    she shoulda had a pincushion-
    but all she’s got is you.

    The cdc had to do it to comfort and re-assure those who don’t want to know that TVASF.

    #128748

    Google translate. Top flight football coach. The vaccine-to-Guillain-Barré link is well known. But not a word. Nobody told him.

    De Graafschap Trainer Adrie Poldervaart Is Struggling With Guillain-Barré Syndrome: ‘I Have A Rare Variant Of The Disease’

    De Graafschap-trainer Adrie Poldervaart ligt in het ziekenhuis met het Guillain-Barré Syndroom (GBS), een ziekte waarbij de spieren in de armen, benen en romp binnen enkele dagen of weken verzwakken. Paralysis may be one of the consequences of the disease, but it is still too early for that conclusion. Sensation can also change, often starting in the toes or fingers. The complaints can improve, but this often requires long-term rehabilitation. The 52-year-old trainer of De Graafschap spoke on the phone today with ESPN reporter Hans Kraay, who announced the news at Voetbal on Friday.

    “He wanted us to reveal this. So that he is not a trainer who ended up in the hospital overwrought because he takes too few points, but he therefore has Guillain-Barré Syndrome,” said Kraay, who briefly spoke on ESPN on behalf of Poldervaart. “I’m miserable, but I want you to tell people what’s wrong with me. Yesterday I had an MRI scan for my head, back and neck. That looked decent, but the nerves unfortunately don’t look good.

    #128749
    Dora
    Participant

    Holy moley, NYC is crazy. Fingerprints of Unvaccinated NYC Teachers Flagged to FBI.

    https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/white-house/article271887757.html

    #128750
    Germ
    Participant

    “In 78 years, they never had a 15 year old who died from a heart attack. In December 2022, they had 1 a week for three weeks straight”

    “…normally they’d see 1 stillbirth/month pre-vaccine. After the vaccines rolled out, they were seeing as many as 12 stillbirths a month.”

    “A very experienced nurse I consulted had never even heard of a 15-year old with a heart attack in her entire career. Now, she hears of these cases on a regular basis.”

    “…pilot deaths at Southwest Airlines are up six-fold after the vaccines were mandated.”

    https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/what-funeral-directors-know-that

    TVASF

    #128751
    Germ
    Participant

    They will attempt any and every way to get the poison into you.

    If they can’t jab your arm, they will jab the food you eat!

    U.S. to test shots against bird flu outbreak, as Biden administration weighs poultry vaccinations

    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bird-flu-outbreak-vaccine-testing-poultry-vaccinations/

    TVASF

    #128752
    Dr. D
    Participant

    “Adidas Shares Crash over $1.3 Billion Pile of Unsold Yeezy Shoes”

    Took a while but: Get Woke, Go Broke, Kanye edition. Never did fully figure what Kanye is up to.

    “Single men, pray that one day, you will find a woman who looks at you the way these guys look at Zelensky.”
    Slobber
    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FoiYgjKXoAUM2i_?format=jpg&name=360×360

    Systemic racism of raccoons. And you thought I was kidding about replacing all words in the dictionary with “Racism”. They parody themselves.

    “Multiple people wonder why Hersh left the UK role out of his article.”

    The trouble with anonymous sources. Usually they are stupid and careless, just telling lies. In this case, they are dangerously clever. This goes to Luongo’s theory that others: WEF and London, position and use the NeoCons like puppets, making them chase the ball around the field like 5-year-olds. So again, it’s quite possibly true that the NeoCons, Biden, did set this up and blow it off. They DO have an IQ of 80. However, MI6 knew nothing about it? Didn’t provide (false) information that prodded them to do it? Didn’t shut down the sound of all opposition? Didn’t warn Germany? So who shut up Germany after who still claim not to know? If MI6 DIDN’T know, they should freak out, go nuclear over such a lapse, and all be fired. No. They knew.

    So who were Hersh’s “sources”? You can’t fault a reporter, he has to take what he can get, but his sources are bent, promoting their own agendas. Like Deep Throat, top CIA management, whose agenda was the voice of the whole CIA in assassinating (by reputation) and replacing ANOTHER very popular U.S. President. Similarly, his sources forget to mention Germany, MI6, WEF, all those people. It is ONLY the U.S. The U.S. is the ONLY villain. This is Luongo’s thesis. That way the U.S. takes the hit, gets attacked, ring fenced, boycotted eventually while London, Brussels and Basil all walk away wee poor innocent victims of the big, bad gun-happy Yanks. Uh-huh, whatever. Coughbulls—tCough.

    So I’m perfectly happy to remove everyone involved, if and especially if they’re Republicans. But I’m NOT willing to stop there, I want their bosses and ONLY their bosses.

    On the $300 Billion? The Fed told them not to do attack via SWIFT, and in fact they did it outside the Fed, surprising them. What does it mean that they are not allies on the same page? So what do they think of stealing $300B illegally, against international law, without due process?

    To me, this is perfect: cuts off the U.S. at all points of Empire and warns the world in the strongest terms to stop cooperating with Empire. If so, the Empire collapses and the United States remains. Because where else would we go? France? If I were the good guys, and they, the NeoCons asked me, in my Pentagon/Morgan Stanley office, “should we do this?” I would definitely tell them YES!!! Immediately and publicly, with banners and balloons. And I think they have. The faster the NeoCons and Empire fall, the better. The better for us the people sure but ain’t nobody cares about us: the better for the Army, and the better for Wall Street vs Central Bank world currencies.

    “On the Legal Question of Russia’s Military Intervention (Lauria) “

    “In Washington’s eyes, international law is merely an inconvenience that is dismissively shrugged off whenever There is no rule of law. It’s just something they make up now. If so, and it hasn’t been justly and evenly applied in 30 years, what is Russia supposed to do? He’s on “legal rules” and “rule of law” with a bent policeman, prosecutor, judge, and jury. I guess he takes that for granted coming from a country where that is now universal. 1400 days without a trial. Judicial board says recuse yourself from this and P.S. you have no case, and the D.C. judge ignores them and still doesn’t, continues attacking the President. All over. Every day.

    Me? I don’t care or have an opinion because it’s all Politics, not law, which follows in the court of world opinion, which apparently they have won that jury, or won enough.

    “China wants answers too.
    • US ‘Lying’ About Nord Stream Expose – Moscow (RT)

    China also happy to make an enemy of the U.S. and leave London/WEF safely in the shadows. I’d say that’s going perfectly. Especially as WEF/CCP have the same vision for the planet: everyone dead, everyone left treated as insects in an anthill.

    “What Funeral Directors Know that You Don’t (Kirsch) “

    As long as it’s only their children they’re killing, they don’t care. “It was worth it”. Denial ain’t a river. It’s starts with “them” and it always ends up doing it to “Us”. Like about abortion, now that YOU were your child’s murderer, you CAN’T admit it to yourself. You would die. This makes your Support and Stockholm Syndrome stronger, not weaker, or can. What I did just HAS to be right. It has to be. It can’t have been my stupid, careless, trusting negligence with leaving my daughter with that man.

    “Once inside, they use the cells’ machinery to produce a harmless piece of what is called the spike protein…”

    Stop right there. They knew from always that the spike was the dangerous part. Suppose I’m innoculating against tanks. Do I hand you the insignia, the silhouette, the lid, the turret? No. I hand you a truckload of the the live, radioactive depleted uranium explosives. You knew.

    Although muscle in theory (not in their product) would be limited, nothing in the body is limited or contained at all. It’s in the muscle capillaries, and therefore around the bloodstream in 5 heartbeats. Now if that were only inert, perhaps no matter, but anything that then becomes a factory, then wherever it lands becomes a long-term attack.

    two or three doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been recommended beginning with infants who are just six months old”

    What I said, 2-3 in 6 MONTHS? That is = 6 shots a YEAR? So 80 shots before you’re 15? C’mon. This stuff could be very very safe that that STILL be a very bad idea.

    And of course with one study on 8 mice. Well, so long as it’s only my kids I’m killing, sign me up! I need to be popular on Twitter!

    “James Baker, Vijaya Gadde, Yoel Roth, and Anika Collier Navaroli took the quasi-stand this week

    And Roth said “Allowing Free speech causes the end of Free Speech.” That’s why they need to stop free speech, to save it. No kidding and no surprise.

    Rep. Mace: What I said: Chad at Twitter is your Doctor now. Doctors are not allowed to have opinions. They cannot discuss, therefore they must all agree on what is true telepathically, using their insect-like mind meld. Meanwhile, out here in the real world, the only way Doctors can develop a consensus of what is true is by TALKING. Openly, with data, and VOLUNTARY persuasion.

    Imagine a world where things are voluntary. Voluntary exchange and trade. Voluntary association with others. Voluntary adoption of better-substantiated points of view. Anarchy, I’m sure. Do What You’re Told. That’s what the Queen Bee Exomorph says.

    ““never met a national politician in the U.S. who is so ill informed, evasive, puerile and deceptive as Trump.”

    Along with the lack of Sec 230, this is what stood out most to me in the hearing. They repeated Jan 6 ad naseum, where it was “deadly”, and “someone would get shot” generally referring to Trump’s “dangerous rhetoric”. “Deadly” how? We’re two years past, surely you have caught up with what did happen. It was dangerous to who? Zero people. In fact, the only person killed was a Protester, on the Right, who was shot by police that is the #Opposite of your supposition. Did you somehow not notice? You sit in the hearing and STILL say the same thing, not only that you mistakenly THOUGHT it was dangerous – while Antifa using the same “burn it all down/locked and loaded” rhetoric wasn’t dangerous at all, it’s love!, but also that you weren’t just mistaken, it actually WAS dangerous. I guess that was that time AOC got killed. 2 hours before the riot, in a stunning fit of political premonition. Also no comment on how THEY were the ones that shut down Trump’s account when he told the people to settle down and go home.

    So they still believe this. It’s sort of your blitzkrieg attack of the Left. Bring so many lies of so many flavors, you simply don’t have time and can’t address them all. Some break through and remain like the “J6 danger” one, and occupy mental territory.

    Again if they said, “Well, heat of the moment, it’s easy in hindsight” that would be a fair argument. They continue to talk as if these things were the 2nd charge at Bull Run, which is astonishingly opposite to all known reality, then and now.

    The other was not only them, but other Congressmen continuing with the “Muh Russia rigged the ‘16 elections” which has been retracted everywhere including MSNBC and the NY Times. No matter, just continue because reality is whatever I WANT it to be. And that works when enough of the AUDIENCE is also so immoral that THEY don’t care what the Truth is either. And they don’t. Well I can’t save us from ourselves.

    Wow, had not thought of: Use ChatAI to cruise the entire internet to police ChatAI. Wouldn’t that take an awful lot of CPU cycles though? So what response should you send them? GFY? “Cease and Desist”? I don’t talk to unreal beings who have no human rights nor are entitled to any? That could be a problem when they can tell it to initiate a lawsuit against you (without standing) for the price of electricity. Glad it appears to be fake.

    I’m not that into Canadian Prepper. I heard that stuff for years, nothing happened. So alarmist, doom porn, made to react to your “protection self”. Root chakra as it were. Which is a good self, and those things need to be done, but like any I don’t know, base level drug? Hitting it again and again leads to a sort of numbness and bent perception. Not that he can’t be right this time, AND I didn’t follow if he said nothing was going to happen when nothing happened the last 30 years. No one else I know did, and that’s a fail, so although engaging, I wandered away.

    Luongo had a useful take on this, where perhaps at first you just play any game: Monopoly, at the face level, like a child. That’s fine. However, as you go on and on you can and should, develop not only deeper levels but a sort of framework and language behind it. That is, whole books on strategy, approaches, statistics, the way chess theory goes. His example and a common one is the gold bugs “buy gold every day” which essentially as thoughtless as “buy stocks every day”. When was the last time the price rose? Or eg crypto? And what is the add? There are no markets; It’s all politics. And so it goes with the war, whether the war in Ukraine or the war against us; it’s all political. So like it or not, you have to go all political, inside baseball. Yuck. Why?

    But as I often say, since these are their plans, AND they have all the power, why aren’t they implemented yet? Because there is an opposing force. That force is not visible but I can discern it from the shape of defense the aggressor has had to take. Canadian Prepper has been at this a long time, but appears less aware of this force, and therefore we are all about to be overrun, every day for years. Yet we never are. And although prepping is a benefit and necessity, that’s still a fail.

    Clearly nobody appears to be right on this, or nobody I can find, but that’s why I remain somewhat cool to it. It’s a baseline that I need to add something much more too, and I have that baseline. But he is fully forthright, earnest, and well meaning.

    #128753
    Dora
    Participant

    Here’s the right link to the NYC Teachers story. The unvax’ed teachers are flagged and reported to the FBI. NYC is crazy.

    Fingerprints of Unvaccinated NYC Teachers Flagged to FBI

    #128754
    Germ
    Participant

    “found in bed”

    Days of Our Lives actor Cody Longo dead aged 34, leaving world of wife and three kids ‘shattered’

    Days of Our Lives actor Cody Longo dead aged 34, leaving world of wife and three kids ‘shattered’

    TVASF

    #128755
    Germ
    Participant

    Putin enacted Article 51 of the UN charter when he announced his SMO against Ukraine – it was a legal military action.

    “In this regard, in accordance with Article 51 of Part 7 of the UN Charter, with the sanction of the Federation Council of Russia and in pursuance of the treaties of friendship and mutual assistance ratified by the Federal Assembly on 22 February this year with the Donetsk People’s Republic and the Luhansk People’s Republic, I decided to conduct a special military operation.”

    Full text: Putin’s declaration of war on Ukraine

    https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/full-text-putin-s-declaration-of-war-on-ukraine/

    #128756
    Oroboros
    Participant

    The Snowflakes are not even skilled enough to support themselves much less start a family.

    The Snowflakes are quintuple vaxed and useless as tits on a bull.

    The Snowflakes aren’t going to support their parents in old age, they will still live in the cellar in their 60’s

    .

    The Snowflakes aren’t going to resuscitate you any time soon

    .

    They’re too busy playing the flute

    .

    They are on their own

    .

    #128757
    Oroboros
    Participant

    On the Covid Front

    Gasoline on the Flames

    Afshine Emrani MD FACC
    Feb 3

    Could a popular COVID-19 antiviral supercharge the pandemic? Does the anti-viral med cause more mutations? Great job “science”!

    Merck & Co.’s molnupiravir appears to be speeding evolution of SARS-CoV-2

    https://www.science.org/content/article/could-popular-covid-19-antiviral-supercharge-pandemic#.Y91uSkiuylY.twitter

    “A widely used COVID-19 drug may be driving the appearance of new SARS-CoV-2 variants, sparking concerns it could prolong and even reinvigorate the pandemic. The drug, molnupiravir, produced by Merck & Co., is designed to kill the virus by inducing mutations in the viral genome. A survey of viral genomes reported in a new preprint, however, suggests some people treated with the drug generate novel viruses that not only remain viable, but spread……”

    Craptastic!

    .

    #128758
    Oroboros
    Participant

    “If you think tough men are dangerous, wait until you see what weak men are capable of.”
    — @jordanbpeterson

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    #128759
    Red
    Participant

    Dr.d: I’m not that into Canadian Prepper. I heard that stuff for years, nothing happened. So alarmist, doom porn, made to react to your “protection self”.

    I’ve been seeing some of the prepper stuff for years as well. All hype, selling fear to sell his shit at his site! Most of it useless in a real world collapse. Great fun if you have money to burn and time to go out in the woods and play with your new toys. Take a look at the shit for sale at the sites below, I’ve put a space between the : and // to keep it down. The freeze dried foods are mind numbing, how much of that shit could you carry away in a hurry? Try seeds, less room, less weight and will make more than one meal from a mass of less than one pack of freeze dried shit. Remember he’s predicting a nuclear holocaust so you will need more than a few days worth of grub. Try the tool section and again how much could you carry? Then there is the first aid section, go a head and browse it! Pick the items you think might be needed and put it all in a back pack, now throw that assault rifle over your shoulder and the eight hundred rounds of ammo and jog off in the general direction of where you think the wilderness starts! He’s selling fear just like all the rest and is banking on you to provide him with a living for that snake oil. You want to prep, learn a practical skill that doesn’t require electricity. Needle point, leather working, hide tanning, black smithing without gas or electric, yes you can weld steel even without coal it’s called charcoal which can be made in your outdoor fire pit for your new outdoor forge. How to find medicinal herbs and such in the wild. To name a few things that would be of value, that is what real prep is for the coming contraction. Also getting to know folks in your area that already have some skills that would show you how, best if it is voluntary on both sides. Altruistic is always better, if you can find it.

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    #128760
    Oroboros
    Participant

    No electricity for you!

    #128761
    zerosum
    Participant

    Definition of lawyer up. : to obtain the services of a lawyer especially while being investigated for possible wrongdoing. Craft a narrative which promotes their goals and preferences. These assumptions are made on insinuations and ‘guilt by association’ logic, rather than clear-cut proof.

    • What’s Wrong With The Hersh Report On The Nord Stream Attacks (Helmer)

    • On the Legal Question of Russia’s Military Intervention (Lauria)

    • Stuff You Should Know About Ukraine (Mike Whitney)

    • The US Takes The Scandal Global And Turns It Into A Tool (Fomenko)

    ————
    • A Star is Born! (Jim Kunstler)
    we have a pretty good idea how the Nord Stream caper went down. For a year before the op, “Joe Biden” and Undersecretary of State Victoria Nuland — architect of the 2014 Maidan Coup in Ukraine, which kicked-off the present fiasco there — blabbed about “ending” the Nord Streams. Curiously, the Germans said nothing.
    ————-
    The White House has denounced Hersh’s report as “utterly false and complete fiction.” Zakharova noted that Denmark and Sweden had refused Russian offers to assist with the investigation, while Norway declined to provide aid citing EU sanctions, adding that this shows the three governments were not interested in finding out the truth, but rather covering it up.

    Read more …
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    • CDC Adds COVID-19 Vaccines to Child Immunization Schedule (ET)

    The 2023 COVID-19 vaccine recommendation for kids and adults is included among other typically-recommended vaccines for measles, flu, rubella, and so on.
    “While I thought impossible for @CDCgov to lose anymore credibility—they decide to do this despite growing studies showing declining efficacy, no net benefit for majority of immunocompetent” individuals, anesthesiologist Megan Martin said in a Feb. 10 tweet.

    Read more …
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    Remember –
    1. we only get to hear of the famous who “died suddenly”.
    The thousands upon thousands of unknowns who just drop dead suddenly are unreported.

    2. we only get to hear of the famous who “ got sick and almost died suddenly”.
    The thousands upon thousands of unknowns who are unreported.
    ———

    #128762
    Oroboros
    Participant

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    #128763
    Germ
    Participant

    Yet another study showing efficacy of IVM.

    MedinCell announces positive results for the SAIVE clinical study in prevention of Covid-19 infection in a contact-based population

    ” …met its primary efficacy endpoint with a reduction of 72% of COVID-19 infection in the group treated with daily oral administration of ivermectin compared to the placebo group.”

    https://www.medincell.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/PR-results-TTG-VF-EN.pdf

    And to think, the death vaxx doesn’t prevent infection!

    TVASF

    #128764
    those darned kids
    Participant

    the lion looks like he’s hacking up a hairball.

    buster keaton: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYmcN12M97o

    #128765
    zerosum
    Participant

    Brainwashed into believing the truth.

    #128766
    ezlxa1949
    Participant

    Somewhat altered lyric al excerpt:

    Ninety-nine Chinese balloons
    Floating in the summer sky
    Panic bells, it’s red alert
    There’s something here from somewhere else
    The war machine springs to life
    Opens up one eager eye
    Focusing it on the sky
    Where ninety-nine Chinese balloons go by

    Ninety-nine decision street
    Ninety-nine ministers meet
    To worry, worry, super scurry
    Call the troops out in a hurry
    This is what we’ve waited for
    This is it, boys, this is war
    The president is on the line
    As ninety-nine Chinese balloons go by.

    https://www.lyrics.com/lyric/706675/nena/99+red+balloons

    #128767

    Doom porn? I gotcher doom porn!

    I don’t know who Steve Quayle is, but this comes via Rense:
    “THEY SAID: WE ARE CHANGING OUR NUCLEAR WEAPONS USE PROTOCOLS SO THAT WE WILL BE ABLE TO LEGALLY USE FIRST STRIKE NUCLEAR WEAPONS BEFORE WAR HAS BEEN OFFICIALLY DECLARED.

    THIS WAS DONE TO COVER THE NORD STREAM SITUATION AS WELL AS THE USA SENDING THOUSANDS OF TROOPS ON THE GROUND IN THE UKRAINE

    THEY EXPECT THE LEGAL CHANGES TO BE FINISHED BEFORE THE TROOPS ARRIVE AND THEY WILL SIMPLY LAUNCH AGAINST THE TROOPS AND USA BASES IN EUROPE AS WELL AS MAINLAND USA

    TARGETS ALREADY CHOSEN AND ALL IS SET”

    Don’t worry, though. Russia will announce the strike 72 hours ahead of use of nukes.

    Keep yer car gassed up! Enjoy the traffic jam!
    I request that we now proceed to live in boring times. Interesting times suck.

    #128768
    phoenixvoice
    Participant

    Roth, Gadde, and Navaroli were considered the “custodians of the internet,” Roth…. “The work of online sanitation is unrelenting and contentious,” Twitter’s former head of “trust and safety” lamented. “In the longer term,” Roth warned, “the moderating influences of advertisers, regulators and, most critically of all, app stores may be welcome for those of us hoping to avoid an escalation in the volume of dangerous speech online.”
    “Defending free expression and maintaining the health of the platform required difficult judgment calls,” claimed Gadde…. “Most applications of Twitter rules were fact-intensive, subject to internal debate, and needed to be made very quickly. We recognized that after applying those rules, we might learn that some of them did not work as we had imagined and that we would need to update them. At times, we also reversed course.”

    This is not similar to totalitarianism, this is totalitarianism as described by Hannah Arendt. Many simply want to believe that the perpetrators of totalitarian movements/regimes are all knowingly, purposefully doing evil. (This is why some denounce Matthias Desmet for daring to describe the Covid policies as a part of a natural process of group psychology rather than denouncing the entire apparatus as “evil.” Although, Desmet certainly did let the notoriety go to his head and made some embellishing statements — like the no-anesthesia heart surgery that he claims to have watched that apparently never took place.). The reality that Arendt uncovered is that the insiders of totalitarian regimes most often are not irredeemably evil, rather, they have fallen under the influence of a pernicious, all-encompassing ideology that has warped the way that they think into antisocial paths. Does this mean that they are innocent, because they did not intend harm? No, it does not. They are adults and bear responsibility for their actions, whether or not their thinking has been hijacked by an evil ideology.

    #128769
    Noirette
    Participant

    On NS2 blow-up. Going back in time, before Sy. H. article, which may add some info.

    Ralph Bosshard, a Swiss expert, wrote a piece about it, which I read in F, on a site of a F political party, i.e. the info was well-known.

    An eng. trans was published at “La Rouche Co.” Oct. 2002.

    https://larouchepub.com/other/2022/4939-sabotage_of_the_nord_stream_ga.html

    There has been chatter about a ‘previous’ anon whistleblower. Origins here:

    Other. NS2 was built by a company lodged in Zug, Switz. called *Nordstream* (confusing..) and sometimes in the media ‘NS2.’ In late Feb 2022, it filed for bankruptcy.

    About 120 employees were fired, no social plan, the Co. was insolvent.

    The director was Matthias Warnig, the pres. of the board was G. Schroeder (ex. D Chancellor.)

    Co. owned by:

    Gazprom – Russia, 50% plus one share, or 51%, thus having a controlling interest.

    Other half, equal parts held (afaik):

    Uniper – D
    Wintershell DEA – D
    OMV – Austria
    Engie – France
    Shell – GB

    Russian and European companies were heavily invested and lost all.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nord_Stream_2

    https://www.letemps.ch/economie/zoug-annonce-faillite-nord-stream-2

    #128770
    Germ
    Participant

    TVASF

    #128771
    Noirette
    Participant

    In the vid. linked with a pic, go to 5 min 27 secs.

    #128772
    Kassandra
    Participant

    @Germ, have you (or anyone else here) had a look at Taylor’s twitter? Wow. Just WOW. Is it real?

    We really are all living in two completely separate universes. Now I know why there are still a few people I work with that walk around with masks on all day.

    #128773
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Quayle is epic doom and has been for decades. Like most of them, though, a number of his predictions were right. Did it help or matter tho?

    I guess the important thing is the knowledge that separates men from the boys. But that’s not something you can buy or replace and only time can make it. Look into people who actually did what you imagine might happen. What does Lira need, living in a war zone? Cigarettes and money. Until suddenly he needs infinitely more. What did FerFal need in falling Argentina? To GTFO, gold and a passport. In Sarajevo, where they couldn’t? It depends, but bullets and canned goods are a start, his family plus a lot of good luck, but they’d have been better with gold for a border guard. The knowledge lets you make a stove – which you don’t have – out of a tin can without burning down the apartment block. It tells you when to take time boiling water and when not to. Which foods to eat first and not to. In Sarajevo they were living in apartment blocks – only that just like Kherson or Turkey right now, there were no walls, no window, no doors and no heat. Kind of changes what you mean by “survival”. Most “Survival” is really just the Great Depression on Fast forward.

    His gear is useful enough, but only in narrow situations and that’s better than usual. The key thing for gear is that it’s not fragile. Usually. That erases almost everything made in the last 50 years right off. You can almost always better use the money than the gear. Sure titanium is ideal, but I can get a boiling cup from WalMart for $20 and save the other $60 for food and rent. That’s a week of meals. No one will steal it because it’s essentially junk and that can save both my stress and my life.

    I could gear up there and be happy, no doubt, but maybe smarter at the hardware, grocery, and quik-e-mart. Took years to be able to do that, and to baseline my life with solid, durable things that are better values because they last. I’ll bet the Canadians know.

    Top besides money are a working car, good door locks, daily health and security. “Survival” is usually more of the same as daily life.

    “Jump down the shelters to get away
    The boys are cockin’ up their guns
    Tell us general, is it party time?
    If it is, can we all come?

    Don’t think that we don’t know
    Don’t think that we’re not trying
    Don’t think we move too slow
    It’s no use after crying

    Saying it’s a mistake
    It’s a mistake

    After the laughter has died away
    And all the boys have had their fun
    No surface noise now, not much to say
    They got the bad guys on the run

    Don’t try to say you’re sorry
    Don’t say he drew his gun
    They’ve gone and grabbed old Ronnie
    He’s not the only one

    Saying it’s a mistake
    It’s a mistake

    Tell us, commander, what do you think?
    ‘Cos we know that you love all that power
    Is it on then, are we on the brink?
    We wish you’d all throw in the towel

    We’ll not fade out too soon
    Not in this finest hour
    Whistle your favourite tune
    We’ll send a card and flower

    ‘Coz it’s a mistake.

    OnTheBeach

    #128774
    Germ
    Participant

    @ Kassandra

    Covid has evolved – it used to be a systemic, disseminated, vascular, coagulopathy.

    It is now simply a mental disorder.

    TVASF

    #128775
    Afewknowthetruth
    Participant

    ‘a very significant adverse weather event’:

    https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/national/cyclone-gabrielle-forecast-to-impact-northland-tonight-self-evacuation-warning-in-coromandel/ar-AA17mbgH?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=11bba95c250e498886e32bb0de54d167

    I commented to a friend that such events should be celebrated. He was a little surprised.

    I pointed out that such events, such so-called ‘one in a hundred year’ events -that now occur every year or several times a year- will bring down the corrupt political-economic system via repeated destruction occurring faster than ‘The Empire of Lies can utilise energy and resources attend to that destruction.

    As long as The Empire of Lies remains in power and remains on its present trajectory -at war with Nature and at war with the people of the land- As long as it continues to exist, The Empire of Lies will continue to damage both the Earth and the people who live on it.

    We know The Empire of Lies cannot be reformed, nor stopped [by human intervention] because it has complete control over the minds of the bulk of the populaces of the various Airstrips and even a degree of control over the minds of some who comment on TAE. That said, nations that are less contaminated with the lies of empire will put an end to some of The Empire of Lies international antics.

    The Empire of Lies will eventually be brought down by declining energy availability, declining EROEI, declining availability of resources and the increased energy costs of acquiring resources, the effects of the accumulation of waste in the biosphere, Planetary Overheating, the unravelling of fake fiat currencies, and the proliferation of diseases that proliferate when humans and animals are packed too densely into concentration camps etc.

    Collapse is a process, rather than an event. The process has been underway for decades (arguably centuries or even millennia) and is accelerating.

    It’s all a bit tricky, since most of us are dependent on The Empire of Lies for the bulk of the food we eat.

    I know a very nice person who sincerely believes in ‘suppressed energy technology’ -Tesla and all that- and believes that ‘Med Beds’ exist, whereby matter can be disintegrated and reconstructed.

    Too much Twilight Zone.

    Too much Dr Who.

    Too much Star Trek.

    On the matter of Canadian Prepper, today’s comments highlight the danger of providing warnings about what is likely to happen. When it doesn’t happen, or happens on a different time, scale people immediately declare; “You’re just Chicken Little, telling everyone the sky is falling when it isn’t.”

    Been there. Done that. Learned to keep my mouth shut, even though my analysis is the best possible at the time with the information available.

    #128776
    citizenx
    Participant

    Covid Crisis Actors –

    Of course if these actors or their Cult Leader Pushers were to be vax injured or suddenly die from “…” coincidence. I would gloat, celebrate and dance on their f’n graves.

    Vaccine apologists- go get a booster yourself and force everyone you love to Vax Up. You are part of the problem and you suck as a human being. Think !

    Hang Em High – CDC, WHO, WEF, Pharma, Political, MSM SCUM

    #128777
    citizenx
    Participant

    Yeah- Mr “few truths” loses serious credibility linking Canadian Poopers Doom Porn garbage.

    Think if you can, if not stfu and try again.

    #128778
    Afewknowthetruth
    Participant

    Interesting. Russia has demonstrated to capacity to destroy the foundations of the only bridge that was allowing fuel supplies to be brought in from Romania and to wreck any other bridge they choose to target.

    Also, Russia is open to negotiations, knowing that NATO will refuse to negotiate, after which Russia ramps up the pain dial again.

    .

    #128779
    Germ
    Participant

    @ citizenx – we had many crisis actors in the UK doing similar things too.

    It was all a military grade psy-op.
    All. Of. It.

    The world has been poisoned, for profit – and a whole lot more!

    The popcorn’s gonna Pop!

    TPGP

    #128780
    Afewknowthetruth
    Participant

    Minute 24. Shameless declaration that people suffering the effects of the earthquake should not be helped because they are Syrian:

    #128781
    zerosum
    Participant

    Note: Ukraine. Military Summary And Analysis 2023.02.11 does not like to tell about Russian failures and about loss of Russian lives.

    #128782
    Germ
    Participant

    Scotland is having the worst Influenza outbreak of the last 10 years

    Vaccine Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome

    VAIDS

    TVASF

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