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Former UK Defense Minister: NATO May Need To Send Ground Forces To Ukraine (ZH)
NATO Involved In Hybrid War Against Russia For A Long Time – Lavrov (TASS)
‘At War with Russia’, Europe Peers Down the Abyss (Alastair Crooke)
Trials and Tribulations of the Collective West (Escobar)
Sending Tanks To Kiev Not To Help Resolve Ukraine Conflict – Erdogan (TASS)
Zakharova: Jet Deliveries To Kiev Not Leading To Escalation ‘Absurd’ (TASS)
Russia Ramps Up EU-Bound Gas Transit Via Ukraine (RT)
Russia’s Pipeline Gas Exports To Europe Slump To Record Low (ZH)
Ukraine Attacks Pipeline Pumping Russian Oil To EU – Transneft (RT)
EU-Owned Tankers Boost Russian Oil Shipments (RT)
“Objectivity Has Got To Go” (Turley)
Hunter Biden’s Metabiota Labs Received $10s of Millions in DOD Contracts (GP)
Hunter Biden Demands Investigations Into Reporting On His Laptop (JTN)
The Press Versus The President, Part Three (CJR)
Why Did UK Wait 3 Months to Disclose Data Showing COVID Vaccine Risks? (CHD)
Is a Mad Scientist Set to Become Chief Scientist at the WHO? (CHD)
Sweden Destroyed Substantial Part Of Its Documents On Julian Assange (Maurizi)

 

 

 

 

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Gonzalo 2023.02.01 The West Is Now Impotent In The Ukraine Conflict

 

 

 

 

“Are western citizens willing to fight and die for Ukraine? It’s highly unlikely.”

Former UK Defense Minister: NATO May Need To Send Ground Forces To Ukraine (ZH)

The “domino theory” was once used to great effect in order to manipulate the American public into supporting the Vietnam War, but will the same narrative work to get the west to support World War III with Russia? Former UK Defense Minister Sir Gerald Howarth seems to think so as he uses this exact claim to justify NATO boots on the ground in Ukraine.

It should be noted that a large percentage of the American populace and most of Europe have no interest whatsoever in engaging with Russia and possibly its allies in all out war, but the establishment appears intent on forcing the issue anyway. The delivery of NATO tanks and the possibility of longer range missiles will no doubt trigger a wider response from Russia, which will then be used by NATO as a reason to escalate further. At the very least, Howarth does admit what many in the alternative media have been saying for some time – That Ukraine’s efforts have ground to a halt without further support from NATO troops. The deliveries of money and weapons are nothing more than a stop-gap; wars are won by men.


The former minister suggests that Ukraine is essentially too big to fail and that NATO cannot allow Russia to prevail in the region, otherwise they will be emboldened to strike other nearby nations. There is zero evidence to support this argument, but it is clear that NATO talking heads are desperate to drum up some kind of public fervor. Are western citizens willing to fight and die for Ukraine? It’s highly unlikely.

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“..take necessary measures in order to prevent further attempt to turn Ukraine into an even sharper threat for our security..”

NATO Involved In Hybrid War Against Russia For A Long Time – Lavrov (TASS)

NATO has been involved in a hybrid war against Russia for quite a long time, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said during a press conference after the talks with Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry Tuesday. “Whatever our Western partners may say, however they try to justify their actions on pumping Ukraine with weapons – including the known slogans that the path to peace lies through arms shipments – everyone understands everything. We are talking about NATO being involved in a hybrid war against Russia for a rather long time, a war that is being refracted in its hot displays, in actions of the Kiev regime,” he said. Lavrov noted that Moscow is taking necessary measures in order to prevent attempts to turn Ukraine into an even sharper threat to Russia’s security.


“Of course, we watch how discussions develop in the West about further pumping of Ukraine with increasingly serious weapons, including offensive weapons. Of course, we see it all, and we not merely observer, but take necessary measures in order to prevent further attempt to turn Ukraine into an even sharper threat for our security, and to prevent the Kiev regime from prevailing in its policy of discrimination and destruction of rights of all those Ukrainian citizens and former Ukrainian citizens, who felt involved in Russian history, Russian culture and Russian traditions,” he said. Lavrov underscored that Russia is watching this process, while the armed forces take all necessary measures to prevent Western plans from coming to fruition. “And they will not [come to fruition],” Lavrov underscored.

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“..the neo-cons ultimate intent: Poland, already mobilising a 200,000 man military force, would become the new proxy (and the largest army in Europe) in a wider European war against Russia.”

‘At War with Russia’, Europe Peers Down the Abyss (Alastair Crooke)

‘Serendipitously’ – at this moment of Davos decay – a raucous, distracting noise started up: Abrahams M1s and Leopards for Ukraine. German FM, Baerbock declares Germany and the EU family are “at war with Russia”. The noise, as usual, succeeds in obscuring any wider picture. Yes, point one, we do have mission creep: We won’t send offensive weapons, but then they did. We won’t send long-range weapons M777), but then they did. We won’t send multiple missile launch systems (HIMARS), but then they did. We won’t send tanks, but now they are. No NATO boots on the ground, but they have been there since 2014.

Point two: Colonel Douglas Macgregor, a former adviser to a U.S. Defence Secretary, says that the mood in Washington has notably changed: DC gets it – the U.S. is losing the proxy war. This fact however, Macgregor says, still remains ‘under the radar’ in respect to the main-stream media. The more important point Macgregor makes is that this late ‘awakening’ to reality is not shifting the stance of the neocons hawks, one jot. They want escalation (as do one small faction in Germany – the Greens; as well as a leading faction in Poland and, as usual, the Baltic states). And Biden has surrounded himself with State Department war-hawks.

Point three: the contrarian ‘reality’ is that the ‘uniformed’ militaries of Europe also ‘get it’: that Ukraine is losing, and now are very worried by the prospect of escalation – and of war engulfing eastern Europe. The tanks have nothing to do with their calculus about the war outcome. The professionals know the Abrams or Leopards will neither change the course of the war, nor will they arrive before it is too late to alter anything. The European military cadre do not want war with Russia: They know the EU has no ‘surge’ manufacturing capacity to sustain war against Russia beyond a very small window. Popular opinion, and key strands of élite opinion in Germany (and elsewhere in Europe), are becoming hardened in opposition to the war. The concern is that the emphasis on sending exactly German tanks, with their dark symbolism of past bloody battles, is intended to bury any prospect of any future German relationship with Russia – for good.

Further, German military officers worry that a failing Ukrainian military might fall back to the Polish border – and even across it – before the tanks are delivered. The tanks then would be absorbed by the Polish military. There is a thought in these military circles that this might, in fact, be the neo-cons ultimate intent: Poland, already mobilising a 200,000 man military force, would become the new proxy (and the largest army in Europe) in a wider European war against Russia.

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“..nearly every possible scenario gamed in Washington and Brussels finishes with NATO like a giant, armoured version of Wile E. Coyote plunging to the depths of the Grand Canyon..”

Trials and Tribulations of the Collective West (Escobar)

Every military analyst with an IQ over room temperature knows all those Leopards will be duly incinerated – or better yet, captured, and dissected by Russian military specialists. So what happens next is yet another vector of the – very successful so far – U.S.-unleashed German de-industrualization racket: the Americans will invade the German industrial military complex with their “much improved” Abrams – which may perhaps arrive in 2024, when only a rump Ukraine may still exist, or never arrive at all. So no need for the Abrams to prove themselves in actual combat – as in being captured and/or incinerated. Rumors in Washington advance that the U.S. “strategy” in Ukraine – extensively detailed by endless think tank reports – had to be adapted. It’s not about “defeating Russia” anymore, but providing Kiev with the means to “scare” Russia.

The Russian General Staff must be trembling in their boots. Meanwhile, in real life, nearly every possible scenario gamed in Washington and Brussels finishes with NATO like a giant, armoured version of Wile E. Coyote plunging to the depths of the Grand Canyon. And that happens even if the much ballyhooded “Big Arrow” Russian offensive starts in a few days or weeks, or never starts at all. Arguably the Russian General Staff has concluded a long time ago there’s no point in reducing Ukraine to rubble in a matter of hours – something they could easily accomplish. Thus the fabled mincing machine approach – offering no excuses for NATO to “escalate” (which they continue to do anyway, as Jens “War is Peace” Stoltenberg is so fond of parroting).

The trick is that NATO’s escalation overdrive, as it happens, is somewhat controlled by the Russian General Staff, which is always calculating which optimal maneuvers will consume NATO’s military hardware faster. Call it a Russian version of the popular axiom “frog in a boiling pot doesn’t realize it’s being cooked until it croaks.” Absolute desperation is now graphically extrapolating into attacks on Iran. Both Russia and China have Iran as their key ally in West Asia for the whole, complex process of Eurasia integration; strategic partnerships interlink the trio. So attacking the Ministry of Defense in Isfahan with drones – total fail – and bombing an IRGC convoy of humanitarian aid crossing from Iraq to Syria is a serious U.S.-Israel-coordinated provocation.

Essentially these are also attacks against Russia and China. Israel cannot lift its hand or foot without U.S. permission. Iranian intel may be able to establish how the Straussian neo-con and neoliberal-con cabal in charge of U.S. foreign policy authorized if not ordered these attacks, which of course are directly connected to NATO’s desperation in Ukraine. When in doubt, just come back to Zbig “Grand Chessboard” Brzezinski: “Potentially, the most dangerous scenario would be a grand coalition of China, Russia and perhaps, Iran, an ‘anti-hegemonic’ coalition united not by ideology but by contemporary grievances. It would be reminiscent in scale and scope of the challenge once posed by the Sino-Soviet bloc.” And mirroring Ukraine/Russia there’s of course Taiwan/China.

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“..this risky step is especially profitable for arms barons.”

Sending Tanks To Kiev Not To Help Resolve Ukraine Conflict – Erdogan (TASS)

The West’s supply of weapons, including tanks, to Kiev will not bring about the solution to the Ukraine conflict, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said in a televised interview with the TRT channel on Wednesday. “I cannot say that I believe that sending tanks is a step towards resolving [the Ukraine conflict],” he said. “We expect Western countries to back our calls for negotiations between Ukraine and Russia.” Referring to the buildup of arms supply to Kiev, Erdogan emphasized that “this risky step is especially profitable for arms barons.” Nevertheless, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said that weapons supplies to Ukraine may create conditions for “a negotiated peaceful solution” in the future.


On January 25, the United States pledged to send 31 M1 Abrams tanks to Kiev. On the same day, Germany confirmed that it would transfer 14 Leopard 2A6 tanks to Ukraine and would allow other countries to re-export these combat vehicles to Ukraine. According to German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius, the Leopard 2 tanks would be sent to Ukraine “before the end of March.” Norway, Slovakia, the UK, Poland, and France have also pledged to provide Kiev with Western-made tanks. Kiev expects to receive up to 140 tanks from 12 countries as the first batch. Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that tensions around the situation in Ukraine are rising due to Washington’s decisions and US pressure on other countries.

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‘Nothing is forbidden in principle, provided that it will be useful, in particular, for the Ukrainian armed forces, will not lead to an escalation of the conflict and strikes on Russian territory..”

Zakharova: Jet Deliveries To Kiev Not Leading To Escalation ‘Absurd’ (TASS)

French President Emmanuel Macron’s statement that the possible delivery of military aircraft to Ukraine will not lead to an escalation is absurd, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said at a briefing on Wednesday. “We’ve paid attention to the words of French President [Emmanuel] Macron, who, responding to a question about the possible supply of aircraft to Ukraine, said: ‘Nothing is forbidden in principle, provided that it will be useful, in particular, for the Ukrainian armed forces, will not lead to an escalation of the conflict and strikes on Russian territory, will not weaken the defense capability of France itself.’ Forgive me, but it’s some kind of absurdity,” Zakharova said, “Sorry, but Paris’ readiness to supply Kiev with fighter jets was confirmed by the French Defense Minister [Sebastien Lecornu] who visited Ukraine on January 28.”

“Is the French president really sure that supplying the Kiev regime with arms, heavy weapons and aircraft for combat operations will not escalate the situation? I refuse to believe that a grown man can have such logic,” the diplomat added, “Such statements only increase the already irrepressible appetite of [Ukrainian President Vladimir] Zelensky’s regime, which, by shelling hospitals and massacring civilians, has clearly demonstrated that Western military injections – how did Mr. Macron put it? – will not lead to an escalation of the conflict. Well, of course, they ‘give’ peace. Obviously these planes are going to be used to drop cookies and candy, right? I have a different feeling.”

The diplomat stressed that Russia strongly condemned “the increasingly aggressive and bellicose rhetoric of Western officials, who have not been shy about making loud statements on the Ukrainian conflict lately.” “I understand them. They feel the deadlock of their own position and the lack of arguments to explain to their own citizens what they have done, in particular to the European continent. Hence the tearing and shouting, trying to find some kind of explanation for what they are doing,” she added.

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4 articles on Russian gas to EU that seem to contradict each other. Is the volume going up or down? You tell me.

Russia Ramps Up EU-Bound Gas Transit Via Ukraine (RT)

Russian energy giant Gazprom has increased its daily volume of gas transit through Ukraine to the EU by 20% for the first time in weeks, the company announced on Wednesday. Supplies jumped to 29.4 million cubic meters (mcm) on February 1, compared to 24.5 mcm pumped the previous day through the Sudzha entry point, which remains the only operating interconnector in Ukraine. “Gazprom supplies Russian gas for transit through the territory of Ukraine in the amount confirmed by the Ukrainian side through Sudzha – 29.4 mcm as of February 1,” Gazprom spokesperson Sergey Kupriyanov told reporters. Kupriyanov added that an application had been rejected for the Sokhranovka transit point, which previously served as a key gas transit route through Ukraine and handled about a third of the Russian gas flowing through the country to the EU.

Ukraine shut down transit through Sokhranovka in early May, citing “interference by the occupying forces.” Russian gas deliveries to the EU via Ukraine were slashed from last May in the aftermath of the bloc’s sweeping anti-Russia sanctions, and stood between 40 to 43 mcm per day. This year, shipments declined sharply from 35.5 mcm in early January to 24 mcm by the end of the month. Analysts attributed the lower volumes to warm winter temperatures in Europe and to high stocks of gas in underground storage facilities. Imports have somewhat rebounded after gas prices began to rise on expectations of colder weather next week. Flows are still about 27% lower than levels at the start of the winter gas season last year, according to Reuters estimates.

Meanwhile, requests for Russian gas from Ukraine to Slovakia via the Velke Kapusany border point also surged to 23.7 mcm compared to 18.6 mcm the previous day, Ukrainian transmission system data showed. Gas transit through Ukraine remains the only route for Russian supplies to the countries of Western and Central Europe after sabotage attacks in September rendered the Nord Stream pipeline inoperable. Gazprom also exports gas via the Turkish Stream and Blue Stream pipelines to Southern and South-Eastern Europe.

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The article above: “Russian energy giant Gazprom has increased its daily volume of gas transit through Ukraine to the EU by 20% for the first time in weeks..”

This article: “Russia’s pipeline gas exports to Europe slumped to a new monthly record-low in January, falling by nearly 30% from December..”

Russia’s Pipeline Gas Exports To Europe Slump To Record Low (ZH)

Russia’s pipeline gas exports to Europe slumped to a new monthly record-low in January, falling by nearly 30% from December due to lower prices on the spot market, according to Reuters calculations. Russia’s gas giant Gazprom has seen exports to Europe decline since the Russian invasion of Ukraine last year as Russia cut off gas supplies to a number of countries in Europe. Russia cut off supply to Poland, Bulgaria, and Finland in April and May, slashed gas deliveries via Nord Stream to Germany in June, then off Nord Stream supply in early September. Russia still sends some gas via pipelines to Europe via one transit route through Ukraine, and via TurkStream.

This month, Gazprom has reduced pipeline gas transit flows to Europe via Ukraine on some days. Analysts have said that the lower pipeline flows were the result of lower demand for gas under long-term contracts, considering the milder weather in parts of Europe earlier in January and the fact that spot supply is currently cheaper. Per Reuters calculations, which are based on daily data of flows from Russia via the transit route through Ukraine and via TurkStream, pipeline gas exports from Russia to Europe dropped to around some 1.8 billion cubic meters (bcm) in January, down from 2.5 bcm in December.

Gazprom hasn’t released January export data yet, but its exports to Europe via pipelines plunged to a post-Soviet low in 2022, according to data from the Russian firm calculated by Reuters. Last year’s Russian gas exports slumped by 45% year on year to reach 100.9 bcm in 2022. Germany, Russia’s biggest customer of gas before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, doesn’t import any Russian gas via pipeline now. Norway became Germany’s single-largest natural gas supplier in 2022, overtaking Russia, as total German gas imports dropped by 12.3% compared to 2021.

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“..Transneft workers are currently repairing the damage caused by the attack and that the pipeline continues to operate normally..”

Ukraine Attacks Pipeline Pumping Russian Oil To EU – Transneft (RT)

A Ukrainian rocket has reportedly struck near an oil pumping station connected to the Druzhba pipeline in Russia’s Bryansk Region, the operator Transneft claimed on Wednesday. Speaking to the TASS news agency, Igor Demin, a spokesman for the company, said the shell landed on the territory of the Novozybkovo station in the late hours of January 31. He noted that the attempted attack ultimately failed to cause any casualties or hinder the work of the pipeline. According to initial reporting by the Mash news agency, the strike was carried out using a Tochka-U rocket. Workers reportedly found a 20-meter crater on the territory of the station, which lost power as a result of the attack.

Demin explained that the Novozybkovo oil pumping station, which was the apparent target, is only temporarily used at peak times on the Druzhba pipeline and was last turned on in 2022 for only a few hours. He noted that Transneft workers are currently repairing the damage caused by the attack and that the pipeline continues to operate normally. The Druzhba (Friendship) oil pipeline is one of the longest in the world and connects eastern parts of Russia to several points in Europe, including Ukraine, Belarus, Poland and Germany.

The segment that was apparently being targeted by Kiev’s forces on Tuesday is located some 39km from the Russian-Ukrainian border and leads directly into Belarus, where it branches off into two sections: one going to Germany and Poland and the other delivering oil to Ukraine, Hungary, Slovakia, Austria and the Czech Republic. Germany, however, has not received any oil since the start of the year after Berlin and Poland both pledged to stop all imports of Russian crude. According to Bryansk Governor Aleksander Bogomaz, Kiev’s forces also launched several artillery strikes against civilian targets across the region on Tuesday. Although no casualties have been reported, Bogomaz said the attack damaged over a dozen residential buildings, a WWII memorial, and a shop. The strikes also cut off power to several villages, he said, later adding that these issues had been promptly resolved by emergency services.

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Price cap is $60. The average price for Urals oil blend was at $49.50 per barrel.

EU-Owned Tankers Boost Russian Oil Shipments (RT)

Exports of Russian oil loaded in Western-insured tankers surged in January as prices for Moscow’s flagship Urals grade stood below the cap set by the Group of Seven (G7) countries and the European Union, Reuters reported, citing tracking data. The price cap on Russian seaborne oil exports of $60 per barrel was introduced by the EU, G7 countries, and Australia on December 5. It bans Western companies from providing insurance and other services to shipments of Russian oil unless the cargo is purchased at or below the set price. The average price for Urals oil blend was at $49.50 per barrel on a free-on-board basis (FOB) on Tuesday for shipments from the port of Primorsk, and at $47.83 FOB from Novorossiisk, traders told the outlet. Western tankers are set to carry more than 9.5 million tons of crude from the Russia, hitting a multi-month high in January as soaring Asian demand pushes up prices.


This month’s loadings of crude from Russia and Kazakhstan from only two ports of Ust-Luga and Primorsk are expected to reach the highest volumes since 2019, amounting to 7.4 million tons, traders’ data showed. A quarter of all Urals shipments from Russia in January were handled by EU-owned vessels mainly from Greece, twice as much as in December. Meanwhile, other Russian export blends such as Sokol and ESPO are trading well above the price cap, with Sokol being contracted at about $78 per barrel and ESPO trading at over $72 per barrel as of Tuesday. Russia has been opposed to the price cap initiative from the start. Last month, President Vladimir Putin signed a decree banning the supply of Russian oil and oil products to foreign buyers that “directly or indirectly” mention the cap in their contracts. The ban came into force on February 1, and will be valid for at least five months.

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The blessings of bias.

“Objectivity Has Got To Go” (Turley)

Columbia Journalism Dean and New Yorker writer Steve Coll decried how the First Amendment right to freedom of speech was being “weaponized” to protect disinformation. In an interview with The Stanford Daily, Stanford journalism professor, Ted Glasser, insisted that journalism needed to “free itself from this notion of objectivity to develop a sense of social justice.” He rejected the notion that journalism is based on objectivity and said that he views “journalists as activists because journalism at its best — and indeed history at its best — is all about morality.” Thus, “Journalists need to be overt and candid advocates for social justice, and it’s hard to do that under the constraints of objectivity.” Lauren Wolfe, the fired freelance editor for the New York Times, has not only gone public to defend her pro-Biden tweet but published a piece titled “I’m a Biased Journalist and I’m Okay With That.”

Former New York Times writer (and now Howard University Journalism Professor) Nikole Hannah-Jones is a leading voice for advocacy journalism. Indeed, Hannah-Jones has declared “all journalism is activism.” Her 1619 Project has been challenged as deeply flawed and she has a long record as a journalist of intolerance, controversial positions on rioting, and fostering conspiracy theories. Hannah-Jones would later help lead the effort at the Times to get rid of an editor and apologize for publishing a column from Sen. Tom Cotten as inaccurate and inflammatory. Polls show trust in the media at an all-time low with less than 20 percent of citizens trusting television or print media. Yet, reporters and academics continue to destroy the core principles that sustain journalism and ultimately the role of a free press in our society.

Notably, writers who have been repeatedly charged with false or misleading columns are some of the greatest advocates for dropping objectivity in journalism. Now the leaders of media companies are joining this self-destructive movement. They are not speaking of columnists or cable hosts who routinely share opinions. They are speaking of actual journalists, the people who are relied upon to report the news. Saying that “Objectivity has got to go” is, of course, liberating. You can dispense with the necessities of neutrality and balance. You can cater to your “base” like columnists and opinion writers. Sharing the opposing view is now dismissed as “bothsidesism.” Done. No need to give credence to opposing views. It is a familiar reality for those of us in higher education, which has been increasingly intolerant of opposing or dissenting views.

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“..they had also helped it “get new customers,” including “government agencies” in the case of Metabiota..”

Hunter Biden’s Metabiota Labs Received $10s of Millions in DOD Contracts (GP)

According to USASpending.gov, a database of spending by the US federal government, the Department of Defense (DoD) awarded tens of millions of dollars in contracts to Hunter Biden’s Metabiota labs. Metabiota is a San Francisco-based health startup known for tracking epidemics. The company is mentioned on the Hunter Biden laptop. Hunter Biden’s investment firm, Rosemont Seneca, invested $500,000 in Metabiota, and the company went on to raise several million more from investment giants like Goldman Sachs. The firm has biolabs in several countries, including Ukraine, where Hunter played an important role in the company’s activities. In their pitches to potential backers, Hunter bragged that they had done more than just get financing for the company; they had also helped it “get new customers,” including “government agencies” in the case of Metabiota, according to Daily Mail.

Government data shows Hunter Biden secured millions in government funding and grants for Metabiota after he became part owner of the firm. Metabiota was one of the 46 Ukrainian Bioweapon labs that the US government partnered with, per DC Draino. Following Hunter Biden and his company, Rosemont Seneca’s acquisition of a 50% ownership stake in the Metabiota, the government contracts and grants started flowing. Before the Rosemont Senaca agreement, Metabiota was given a $349,513 contract from the government. Following Hunter’s involvement, Metabiota was awarded a contract with the Department of Defense worth $23.9 million. Before Hunter was involved, Metabiota received a $649,882 grant from the US government. After Hunter became involved, Metabiota received several million in government grants.


According to Daily Mail, Hunter Biden connected a corrupt Ukrainian gas company called Burisma with the Metabiota for an undisclosed “scientific project.” The outlet added that Metabiota is supposedly a medical data company, but in 2014, Metabiota Vice President Mary Guttieri contacted Hunter explaining how they could “assert Ukraine’s cultural and economic independence from Russia,” an unusual ambition for a biotech corporation. “Thanks so much for taking time out of your intense schedule to meet with Kathy and I on Tuesday. We very much enjoyed our discussion. As promised, I’ve prepared the attached memo, which provides an overview of Metabiota, our engagement in Ukraine, and how we can potentially leverage our team, networks, and concepts to assert Ukraine’s cultural and economic independence from Russia and continued integration into Western society,” the email reads.

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“[n]o one thinks this strategy of putting Hunter Biden front and center is smart… No one, including the White House, thinks this is a smart strategy.”

Hunter Biden Demands Investigations Into Reporting On His Laptop (JTN)

First son Hunter Biden and his legal team sent a slew of letters to government agencies on Wednesday demanding investigations into the dissemination of materials from his laptop, while also threatening to sue Fox News host Tucker Carlson. A source familiar with the letters, obtained by CBS News, indicated to the outlet that the scandal-plagued Biden intends to take the initiative in combatting negative press and Republican-led investigations. “He is not going to sit quietly by as questionable characters continue to violate his rights and media organizations peddling in lies try to defame him,” the source said. The letter to Carlson demands that the Fox host retract statements describing a “money laundering scheme” connected to Biden allegedly paying his father “rent” money.

The letter acknowledges that other outlets have retracted such claims. Other letters went to the Delaware attorney general, the IRS, and the Department of Justice seeking investigations related to the publication of the laptop, the authenticity of which has since been verified. The letters appear to mark a direct admission from Biden’s legal team that the laptop does indeed belong to Biden and that the contents are authentic. “This failed dirty political trick directly resulted in the exposure, exploitation, and manipulation of Mr. Biden’s private and personal information,” read the letter to Delaware AG Kathy Jennings. “Mr. Mac Isaac’s intentional, reckless and unlawful conduct allowed for hundreds of gigabytes of Mr. Biden’s personal data, without any discretion, to be circulated around the Internet.

Specifically, Biden wants investigations into laptop repairman John Paul Mac Isaac, at whose store the younger Biden left the laptop, as well as various Trump aides connected to the publication of its contents. Biden alleges that many of these aides may have broken the law in obtaining and distributing the laptop’s contents. Biden also has asked the IRS to review the tax-exempt status of Marco Polo, the organization operated by former Trump aide Garrett Ziegler that published a lengthy report on the laptop’s contents. Reports emerged in December that Hunter Biden was mounting a legal and media blitz to combat conservative criticism and allegations of legal improprieties. A source at the White House expressed concerns to the Washington Post about Hunter’s plans at the time, saying “[n]o one thinks this strategy of putting Hunter Biden front and center is smart… No one, including the White House, thinks this is a smart strategy.”

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The “Russia thing”.

The Press Versus The President, Part Three (CJR)

Trump’s firing of Comey on May 9 was nothing like his hit TV show, The Apprentice. The boss couldn’t move on to the next episode, nor would the ousted employee quietly walk away. The firestorm that erupted in the aftermath of Comey being axed required a do-over, in part because of shifting White House explanations for his dismissal. So Trump sat down two days later for an interview with Lester Holt, the Nightly News anchor for NBC. But instead of tamping down the controversy, it fanned the Russia flames for the media. A tweet from the show on May 11 set the narrative for the Holt interview: “Trump on firing Comey: ‘I said, you know, this Russia thing with Trump and Russia is a made-up story.’” Those few words, by suggesting Comey’s firing was aimed at getting the FBI inquiry off his back, provided fresh ammunition to anti-Trumpers.

The full interview, which was available online, presented a more nuanced story, and appeared to reflect what his advisers told him: firing Comey could prolong, not end, the investigation. Trump told Holt, soon after the controversial words, that the firing “might even lengthen out the investigation” and he expected the FBI “to continue the investigation,” to do it “properly,” and “to get to the bottom.” The media focused on the “Russia thing” quote; the New York Times did five stories over the next week citing the “Russia thing” remarks but leaving out the fuller context. The Post and CNN, by comparison, included additional language in their first-day story. The White House was upset and repeatedly asked reporters to look at the full transcript, according to a former Trump aide and two reporters.

On the heels of the NBC interview came a leak of Comey’s notes of private conversations with Trump, including one at a dinner in January where Trump was said to have asked the FBI director to pledge loyalty to him. The Times piece reported that the inquiry into Trump and Russia “has since gained momentum as investigators have developed new evidence and leads.” Comey, once out of office, had his internal memos leaked to the Times, hoping that might “help prompt” the appointment of a special counsel, he testified to Congress a few weeks later. At the same hearing, he criticized the paper’s story of February 14, one of whose authors was Michael Schmidt, the reporter who received his leaked memos. On June 8, at a Senate hearing, Comey was asked whether the Times story was “almost entirely wrong.” He said yes.

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“.. there were a total of 1,250 serious adverse events for every 1 million people vaccinated..”

Why Did UK Wait 3 Months to Disclose Data Showing COVID Vaccine Risks? (CHD)

A Jan. 25 report by the U.K government showed the risks of serious adverse effects from mRNA COVID-19 vaccines largely outweigh the benefits, according to John Campbell, Ph.D., who analyzed the U.K. data used for the report. U.K. health officials knew about the data in October 2022, but didn’t change their recommendations for the shots until the day they released the report and announced they will no longer recommend COVID-19 boosters for healthy people under 50. They also said they will discontinue free distribution of the primary two-shot series. In his latest video, Campbell, a retired nurse teacher in England, summarized the results of the report, which calculated how many people had to be vaccinated in different age groups and risk profiles in order to avoid a single hospitalization.

Campbell compared the results to peer-reviewed data on serious adverse events reported following mRNA COVID-19 vaccines. The report was based on an October 2022 UK Health Security Agency presentation to the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI). Despite the “massive shift” in vaccine risk-benefit analysis that was already clear in the October presentation, Campbell said, “the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation carried on without modification to the autumn booster program.” “My question to the Joint Committee on Vaccination Immunisation is why?” said Campbell, who noted that the agency is 85% funded by industry.

Summary of the analysis: ‘number needed to vaccinate’ versus risk of serious adverse events The U.K. study analyzed the “number needed to vaccinate” by age group to prevent either hospitalization or “serious hospitalization,” which is when someone needs oxygen or a ventilator — though Campbell noted that it is common, in general, to oxygenate in hospitals. For example, healthcare providers would need to vaccinate 43,000 people in the 50 to 59 age group to prevent one hospitalization and more than 256,400 people in that age group to prevent a serious hospitalization. Campbell compared the numbers in the report to a peer-reviewed study published in Vaccine that re-analyzed the original phase 3 trials for Pfizer and Moderna to identify serious adverse events of special interest following the mRNA vaccines.

In the Moderna trials, the risk of serious adverse events was 15.1 per 10,000 doses. In other words, 1 in 662 vaccines administered produced a serious adverse event. In the Pfizer trials, the risk of serious adverse events was 10.1 per 10,000, which breaks down to 1 in 990 vaccines administered producing a serious adverse event. On average, there were 12.5 serious adverse events per 10,000 people vaccinated, which is 1 in 800. That means there were a total of 1,250 serious adverse events for every 1 million people vaccinated, according to the study.

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“What we see with Farrar is a recipe for disaster when it comes to imposing experimental medical technology on the population during public health crises..”

Is a Mad Scientist Set to Become Chief Scientist at the WHO? (CHD)

The World Health Organization (WHO) last month named Dr. Jeremy Farrar its new chief scientist. Farrar will step down Feb. 25 as director of the Wellcome Trust, the largest funder of medical research in the U.K. and one of the largest in the world. Farrar and the Wellcome Trust are less well-known relative to similar global public health giants, such as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation — and that’s “to people’s detriment,” investigative journalist Whitney Webb told journalist Kim Iversen on a recent episode of “The Kim Iversen Show”: “If what is essentially a power grab by the World Health Organization gets put into force, then Jeremy Farrar will have essentially total authority to impose upon member states what medical responses they would have to implement in the event of another pandemic.”

Webb referred to proposals in the works to transform the WHO from an advisory organization to a global governing body whose policies would be legally binding for member states in the case of a global health emergency. While at Wellcome Trust, Farrar was the architect of several key WHO COVID-19 pandemic policy directives, including lockdowns, masking and mass vaccination. “What we see with Farrar is a recipe for disaster when it comes to imposing experimental medical technology on the population during public health crises. This is a guy who was very much invested in this stuff,” Webb said. It’s something out of ‘Brave New World’ Iversen asked about links between the Gates Foundation and the Wellcome Trust.

While there is no direct link, Webb said, “The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and a lot of these other organizations, including the Wellcome Trust, are very much pushing an agenda that I would argue is sort of the fusion of Big Pharma and Big Tech.” “Essentially Big Pharma is looking for new markets and new products and Big Tech can help them accomplish that,” she said. Over the last several decades, Big Pharma and “billionaire philanthropists” have come to dominate the WHO, Webb told Iversen. They are the ones, “in my opinion, executing this power grab more than the WHO itself,” she said. There are also key ties between Big Tech and national security agencies, Webb said. Farrar has connections to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency or DARPA, the Pentagon’s research arm, Webb said.

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Stefania Maurizi has been tirelessly filing FOIA requests for years in Sweden, Britain, the United States and Australia.

Sweden Destroyed Substantial Part Of Its Documents On Julian Assange (Maurizi)

A substantial portion of the documents on Julian Assange were destroyed by the Swedish Prosecution Authority, which investigated him for rape in a criminal investigation opened and closed three times between August 2010 and November 2019. The materials destroyed were correspondence between the Swedish Prosecution Authority (SPA) and the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) which was providing the SPA with support on the case, since Assange was under investigation in Sweden but had been in London since 2010. The correspondence between the SPA and CPS is absolutely crucial to understand and reconstruct what really happened in the Swedish rape investigation. That investigation was ultimately dropped once and for all without Assange ever being charged, but for almost a decade has deprived him of the empathy of public opinion.

Especially the empathy of that segment of the public more sensitive to the WikiLeaks revelations on war crimes and torture, often the segment also more mindful of women’s rights. The highly anomalous handling of the Swedish case by prosecutor Marianne Ny resulted in justice for no one, contributed to the devastation of Assange’s health, cost British taxpayers at least 13.2 million pounds to keep the Ecuadorian embassy under siege by Scotland Yard from 2012 to 2015, and resulted in the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention decision that Sweden and the United Kingdom had arbitrarily detained Assange since 2010, in the case of Sweden the first time the UN Group had ever made such a decision in the country’s history. In September 2019, the then UN Special Rapporteur on Torture who had investigated the case, Nils Melzer, listed fifty perceived due process violations, including “Proactive manipulation of evidence”, in an official letter to the Swedish government.

[..] The fact that documents were destroyed by the Swedish Prosecution Authority has just surfaced thanks to our lengthy FOIA litigation, and comes almost six years after that very same FOIA litigation unearthed that key documents were destroyed by the Crown Prosecution Service. It is now clear that both of the authorities handling the Swedish case, the SPA and the CPS, destroyed a large part of their email exchanges. Why? What did those documents contain and on whose instructions were those materials destroyed? Now more than ever some sort of explanation is urgently needed, considering that the United States is currently acting through the Crown Prosecution Service itself in the extradition proceeding against Julian Assange.

Since 2015, we have been engaged in trench warfare in Sweden, Britain, the United States and Australia to access the full documentation on the case under FOIA, represented by seven lawyers. This investigative work has allowed us to find the answer to one of the key questions around the Swedish case: why did Swedish prosecutor Marianne Ny, who reopened the rape case in September 2010 after Stockholm’s chief prosecutor, Eva Finné, had immediately dismissed it (because, in her judgement, the suspect’s conduct “disclosed no crime at all”) refuse to question Assange in London for six years?

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    Andre Derain The port of Collioure 1905   • Former UK Defense Minister: NATO May Need To Send Ground Forces To Ukraine (ZH) • NATO Involved In Hy
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle February 2 2023]

    #127975
    Bishko
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    “It is thus that small acts of kindness make life pleasant and desirable. Every dark object is made light by them, and many scalding tears of sorrow are thus easily brushed away. When the heart is sad, and despondency sits at the entrance of the soul, a little kindness drives despair away, and makes the path cheerful and pleasant.”

    I do not know who wrote this, but I have had it hanging in my office for the last 30 years.

    #127976
    oxymoron
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    Elon Musk is a ‘seriously good man’ who lives off the blood sweat and tears of young African children mining Cobalt in the Congo. Yes we all have Lithium and Cobalt in our devices, but we are only responsible for perhaps 10 minutes of suffering with the tiny amount of the weird blue stuff. Do you honestly think Elon has purchased, requested and sanctioned the mining of just a few rare earths or perhaps its millions and millions and millions of batteries and components. My pollution in the landscape makes me look like Gandhi and he Genghis Khan (another globalist wanker). I’m tired of this guy being seen as such a great guy – it’s manufacturing consent by popularity contests.
    He is probably as deep state bank-rolled as they come. Almost all of his financial success has come from Gov money – which should tell you all you need to know. Coming in as the free speech guy, but not releasing any actual docs – just screen shots and hand-picked reporters. Come on, seriously. He’s been involved in the WEF as well if I remember correctly.
    My neighbour drives a 90 year old car. Why we need to make new things to throw away is how dudes like Elon get rich. And he wants the everything ap like China’s Weibo – just like Klaus and WEF gang and Larry Fink are advocating.

    I think we should look not to heroes, but to ourselves or we will suffer more than we need to.

    Hard work, time with friends and family, locally sourced food, drugs and fuel and perhaps time to contemplate why we are here or seem to be.
    That’s all we need.
    Elon can have his ticket to see the stars if he wants – I intend to become one with them, and make music in the meantime.

    #127977
    tboc
    Participant

    Thankyou Bishko, salve for a weary soul.

    #127978
    oxymoron
    Participant

    The metaphysics of kindness from one perspective. Thank you Bishko for the reminder

    #127979
    Doc Robinson
    Participant

    “My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.”
    — Dalai Lama XIV

    #127980
    aspnaz
    Participant

    Why China Will Never Lead on Tech: Communism is incapable of nurturing the curiosity that leads to innovation.

    Written by Ms Gao, someone of Chinese descent?

    Communism does not exist in China, so that is a very weird accusation. What is the system in China? A form of aristocracy maybe?

    Innovation will not happen in China – whether by white folks or Chinese folks – until there is a framework of IP laws in China. Who will a billion dollars into developing a new software application when your neighbour can legally pay one of your employees to provide them with a copy?

    As for curiosity, China breeds tons of curiosity, that is why Simone is at the WSJ.

    #127981
    Dr. D
    Participant

    “’Missing’ Ex-ABC News Producer Hit with Child Porn Charge”

    Don’t they know that’s a conspiracy theory. Pedos are in every state, and in every occupation (especially favoring ones with children), but there are zero in TV, Hollywood, and Politics. They are 100% pedo-free zones. I know this for a fact because I never looked.

    https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/powells-dovish-presser-sparks-bid-bonds-big-tech-bitcoin-bullion

    Don’t worry about the article, run your eyes over the long list of charts at the end.

    Powell leans dovish. Stock rise. However, yields now most inverted ever, US$ falls, gold headed to test all-time highs, etc. Powell may be right. He may not raise shortly, since with inside information he is able to gauge whether Europe is about to have the biggest banking collapse since John Law and the South Seas Bubble. Then he would indeed not need to raise anymore for a while.

    “China will never lead on tech.”

    Maybe so, but they ALREADY lead on tech. Because we’re more communist and more repressive to curiosity than they are. Think I’m kidding? Go ask a medical question about Pfizer.Check out the U.S. math skills even in Princeton.

    What are the Twitter programmers finding?

    It’s interesting because we all understand adding/subtracting a few points of preference in the algorithm. (All Hail the Algorithm!) But we seem to be reaching a level of direct hands-on programming. Who does that? Who had root access to the core software, live real-timewhile Twitter was running? As in “Testing in Production.”? And had an almost supernatural political bent? These are fundamental, “permanent” software changes, not like adding a new recognized word in your MSWord dictionary.

    Other notes: Elon needs new events and actions to keep this in the news cycle. Freezing his own account is another of these stunts. This educates the people on how crooked they, the media, and their whole culture are, largely at behest of government tyranny. Why as a bad man, near-100% paid by governments does he do this? I think he cut a deal. He’s not “doing it”. Do you think he really has time? He’s licensing it. Besides, although a deep insider from Africa, whose own father is a criminal and a pedo (he married his own daughter) I actually feel he DOES hate them. However, he also is neck-deep with them and can’t avoid it. What would you do if you were born into the Gambinos, tough guy?

    Surely I exaggerate, as the very next article is 1MDB, a painfully, pre-planned government theft of people’s money for personal gain that included everyone from the dishwasher to Goldman Sachs, NY. The government isn’t corrupt, self-interested or a tyranny having no justice. That’s a conspiracy.

    “The West Is Now Impotent in the Ukraine Conflict”

    That’s what I said last week. They’re not in control, because to be in control once you leave the feminine of talking, accusing, haranguing, lying, then you need to take on the masculine and ACT. And to do that you need an army which the West has none. None? That’s strong words. Well, this Lira clip points out that France has as many Howitzers IN TOTAL as Russia blew up THIS WEEK. And Russia’s being very laconic, not in any rush at all. Could probably have blown them up in a day.

    As I (and Jimmy Dore) said from the beginning, Russia is going to end this whenever they feel like it, however they feel like it. …I mean unless you want to mobilize all NATO, go nuclear, and STILL lose. (we can’t transport assets to theatre, and we probably don’t have enough assets to try) You’re not in control.

    And STILL the markets, the people, go on. Nothing changes anywhere. Business as Usual. There is no alternative.

    “a large percentage of the American populace and most of Europe have no interest whatsoever in engaging with Russia”

    They can’t get the men, sure, but the men aren’t mentally competent, not physically capable, they have not been trained, they cannot be made to train or to take anything seriously, they then cannot be sub-trained to their specialty, and they cannot then by transported by the multi-millions over the Atlantic (and soon Pacific) oceans. Oh and all their ships, carriers, and especially fuel depots, are exposed, fully-visible targets. Other than that, how was the play, Mrs. Lincoln?

    “Ukraine is essentially too big to fail”

    They need a bailout. But it’s just the tip. Where have I heard that before? Just a couple of old uniforms and some food, it will never become $150 billion dollars, sinking all aid to our own people, including tanks and planes that will make it WWIII, as Biden said.

    “NATO Involved in Hybrid War against Russia for a Long Time – Lavrov (TASS)”

    300 years, but we’ve been supporting Nazis there since at least 1946. We were top Bandara supporters, jsut as we were top Nazi supporters, setting them up lavishly to inside government jobs in “Paper Clip.”

    Of course as Uri Bezmanof said, they’ve been in a hybrid war to install Soviet Socialism in all our schools, media, and institutions and that’s gone wonderfully – no resistance. Fair’s fair.

    “Poland, … would become the new proxy …in a wider European war against Russia.”

    They genocided all the Ukrainians, next kill the remaining Slavs. This is going WAAAAAY better and more thoroughly than when Hitler did it. The Slavs volunteer!

    And again, with the tanks, tanks, tanks. What happened the 2,000 tanks we already gave you? It’s only been 11 months. Where’d they go?

    “Brzezinski: “Potentially, the most dangerous scenario would be a grand coalition of China, Russia and perhaps, Iran, an ‘anti-hegemonic’ coalition”

    Then he went out and CAUSED it. But he got to see his Grand Chessboard entirely lose and collapse before he died, so there’s that.

    “will not lead to an escalation of the conflict and strikes on Russian territory, will not weaken the defense capability of France itself.’ “

    Well, Macron says that the F-16 jets are totally useless. That’s the only condition where his statement is logical: they do nothing for Ukraine, which is why they can’t escalate, and they do nothing to defend France, which is why their loss is of no merit. He’s very nearly correct.

    journalism at its best — and indeed history at its best — is all about morality.”

    And nothing says “Morality” like “The end justifies the means.” That is, to be “non-objective”, to tell open lies is the greatest morality anyone could hope for.

    How’s that working out for you, CNN? “ CNN Ratings Plunge To New Low” – Off The Press
    “CNN just notched its lowest ratings in nine years across all its day parts … averaging just 444,000 viewers”

    Tucker Carlson 4.2 million. Mr. Beast, 100-500 million with 5 million subscribers. Pewdiepie, now an old man, 110m with 5m subscribers.

    Okay, that’s each 10-100 times larger than CNN, who is headed toward the ratings of Spongebob Squarepants.

    “Rosemont Seneca’s acquisition of a 50% ownership stake in the Metabiota,”

    A closely-held private company run exclusively by the Bidens and friends.

    “First son Hunter Biden and his legal team sent a slew of letters to government agencies on Wednesday demanding investigations into the dissemination of materials from his laptop,”

    Yay! Publicity into his 400+ felony crimes. Including, perhaps, open treason. Gooooo, Hunter! This is better than when his daughter accepted the receipt of the diary, proving it was hers.

    “If what is essentially a power grab by the World Health Organization gets put into force, then Jeremy Farrar will have essentially total authority to impose upon member states what medical responses they would have to implement in the event of another pandemic.”

    Hahahaha! Make me. Does the WHO approve of heroin sales? ‘Cause I can get that. Are they against stabbing family members? ‘Cause that happens every day too. It’s easy to avoid them, but it depends on what you’re willing to DO. If you’re only willing to go to restaurants and change nothing at all, well there you are.

    Bucker is on the Left and also fully anti-war. See? It is possible. …He was then arrested and imprisoned by the Left. In government.

    So I’m pretty sure the Left is widely pro-war, with a few outliers. The exception does not prove the rule.

    James Baldwin never picked no cotton. He was born in Harlem, published in “The Nation” and lived in Paris. Under this logic, Mitt Romney drove Canastoga Wagons across the open plains to Utah with his 10 wives, Biden carried a shillelagh and threw firebombs in Belfast. No wonder these people are confused. You only did what YOU did, sir. You’re only responsible for YOURSELF. Lord, is that not enough?

    “There are two ways to enslave a nation…one is by debt.” – Adams

    And this was the man supposedly working for the East India Company. By pointing out and avoiding the top strategies of control of those same structures. Pretty tricky fighting them with an 8-year war and killing 33,000 Tories just to make people THINK you don’t like them.

    ““It is thus that small acts of kindness make life pleasant and desirable. Every dark object is made light by them” –Ten Acres Enough, by Edmund Morris 1864
    https://www.gutenberg.org/files/48753/48753-h/48753-h.htm

    Sounds like a very useful, productive, timely read. If that’s up your alley, you might move up in history to “5 Acres and Independence” by Kains in 1935 It’s cheap and still in print. We’re going to need it. Up-to-date is “New Organinc Grower” by Eliot Coleman. Producing lavish food in blowsand, snow and no light in Maine. All winter.

    But it can’t be done. We must never, never try.

    Shakers:

    #127982
    Figmund Sreud
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    Fed said, ongoing increases in the target range will be appropriate.”, and by extension, Powell gave a tiny jerk of the head that Bull understood to mean, “Well – if you must.”

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    F.S.

    #127983
    Germ
    Participant

    Royal favourite and renaissance man of opera Kit Hesketh-Harvey dies suddenly

    https://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/1729605/Kit-Hesketh-Harvey-dead-cause-royal-opera-news

    I went to school with his wife’s brother, Simon Rabett.

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    #127984
    Dora
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    #127985
    Oroboros
    Participant

    February 2, 1943 – The German Surrender at Stalingrad

    “February 2, 1943. Red Army troops trudge in through snow and rubble to accept the surrender of General Strecker, the commander of the last German forces holding out in the northern ruins of Stalingrad. The decisive battle of World War II in Europe is over….”

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    Oroboros
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    #127986
    Figmund Sreud
    Participant

    “Poland, … would become the new proxy …in a wider European war against Russia.”
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    Poland, … by its continuous machination will once again become non-existent, … just alike the late 18th century, when Poland was partitioned three times and into non-existence by the three major European powers: Russia, Prussia, and Austria. Polaks never learn, … never!

    Anyway, … Timeline of Polish history from the year 450 A.D., if anyone is interested:

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

    F.S.

    #127988
    aspnaz
    Participant

    Poland, already mobilising a 200,000 man military force, would become the new proxy (and the largest army in Europe) in a wider European war against Russia.

    After Covid and all the rest of the lies, I would be amazed if there are 200,000 normal EU citizens who hate Russia enough that they are willing to put themselves on the line to defend the EU. That is 200,000 out of a population of 450 million. Mind you, Poland seems to be the butt of many cruel jokes, so maybe they are not normal EU citizens, maybe they are stupid enough, but to gain what?

    #127989
    Dora
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    #127990
    Germ
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    #127991
    Germ
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    #127992
    aspnaz
    Participant

    nearly every possible scenario gamed in Washington and Brussels finishes with NATO like a giant, armoured version of Wile E. Coyote plunging to the depths of the Grand Canyon

    Escobar is like the village story teller. He just makes up tales about what is happening in the seat of power here or there, then writes an article with this storyline and gets loads of readers. Why do people buy into his stories, all hot air, zero data to back up his statements.

    #127993
    Oroboros
    Participant

    The Abolition of Man Amid the Consequences of Reality

    from Doug “Uncola” Lynn at The Burning Platform

    https://www.theburningplatform.com/2023/02/01/the-abolition-of-man-amid-the-consequences-of-reality/#more-292824

    He covers C.S. Lewis and his book The Abolition of Man

    He quotes George Orwell review of Lewis’ book “That Hideous Strength”

    Doug closes with:

    During former U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s farewell speech to the nation on January 17, 1961, he warned about a developing “military-industrial complex” that had “the potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power” and that “public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite”.

    Three months later, on April 27, 1961 newly elected U.S. President John F. Kennedy warned of “secret societies” infiltrating America, and of “secret oaths”, and about a “monolithic and ruthless conspiracy” that was a “tightly-knit, highly efficient machine” combining “military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific and political operations”.

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    By Doug “Uncola” Lynn via TheBurningPlatform.com

    Woke ideology is doomed to fail because its foundational premises are not grounded in reality. Or, more specifically, “wokeness” is rooted in human emotionalism as opposed to truth. Such applied moral irrationality has also been identified as relativism or subjectivism.

    In truth, the Woke Religion is merely one leg of the three-legged stool upon which the central planners behind The Great Reset are currently enthroning themselves. The other two legs underpinning the proposed New World Order are economic and political. Although all three legs of world control are manifesting by means of relativism, or subjectivism, these manifestations are not occurring through random chance. On the contrary, Hegelian / Marxist Luciferian dialectics are being strategically applied toward the consolidation of global power: solve et coagula vis-à-vis ordo ab chao. Dissolution and coagulation are occurring now so that chaos concludes in the form of controlled order.

    The negation of truth allows the Luciferian puppet-masters, and their puppets, to do as thou wilt – and by means of modern technology, they are operating beyond the construct of moral realism that has previously constrained, and ultimately conquered, various tyrants throughout history. Hence, the Religion of Wokeness has been conjured to psychologically manipulate humanity into accepting the new economic and political system that is now manifesting through medical tyranny, war, and the Climate Agenda.

    The “ideological subversion” (i.e. demoralization) of the West, as described by former Russian KGB defector turned whistleblower, Yuri Bezmenov, is near complete.

    Collectivist utopias derive from the mind of Man, but perhaps the original source is actually as U.S. Climate Envoy John Kerry has recently claimed: extraterrestrial.

    There are those who claimed Karl Marx was a Satanist. But, at the very least, Marx and his adherent’s appear to have wielded the Hidden Hand of Freemasonry. What difference, at this point, does it make?

    The Bible’s Apostle Paul warned there would be “terrible times” in the latter days as some would profess a form of “godliness but denying its power” and, perhaps, a better definition of moral relativism and woke “virtue signaling” could not be found:

    People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God— having a form of godliness but denying its power.

    – 2 Timothy 3:1-5

    Throughout history, the Christian Church has traditionally stood against such unorthodox behavior, but no longer. It seems many Christians now value the socially-perceived “godliness” of acceptance over the power of repentance.

    Although British author C.S. Lewis was a Christian apologist and widely regarded as one of the most influential twentieth-century Christian writers, his book “The Abolition of Man” was not a theological or ecclesiastical exploration, per se. It is, instead, a philosophical exercise comparing the reality of what Lewis called “The Tao”… or the sphere of traditional values universal to all cultures… and in relation to the non-reality of faux values that are inherent to ethical subjectivism / moral relativism.

    In the final analysis of “The Abolition of Man”, Lewis predicted that a small group of wizards, in the pursuit of power, would perfect psychology and technology to the point they could create a new reality – but the wizards would not be human because they will have erased the age-old system of values that has always constrained humanity across all cultures.

    Accordingly, the “Abolition of Man” is divided into four parts:

    1.) “Men Without Chest” which addressed the present

    2.) “The Way” which addressed the past

    3.) “The Abolition of Man” which addresses the future

    4.) and the Appendix providing examples of “The Tao” from various cultures throughout history

    In the first segment, Lewis critiques a book written by two educators who, perhaps inadvertently, or ignorantly, subverted traditional values by claiming that value judgments are derived solely from feelings. To paraphrase Lewis, modern educators have created “men without chests” – young people with heads full of knowledge and bellies full of instincts, but minus the mediating middle that rightly divides truth as it relates to reality:

    By starving the sensibility of our pupils we only make them easier prey to the propagandist when he comes. For famished nature will be avenged and a hard heart is no infallible protection against a soft head.

    ― C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man

    Throughout the book and, especially, in the second part of the book, Lewis explains the totality of “The Tao”:

    The Tao, which others may call Natural Law or Traditional Morality or the First Principles of Practical Reason or the First Platitudes, is not one among a series of possible systems of value. It is the sole source of all value judgments. If it is rejected, all value is rejected. If any value is retained, it is retained. The effort to refute it and raise a new system of value in its place is self-contradictory. There has never been, and never will be, a radically new judgment of value in the history of the world. What purport to be new systems or…ideologies…all consist of fragments from the Tao itself, arbitrarily wrenched from their context in the whole and then swollen to madness in their isolation, yet still owing to the Tao and to it alone such validity as they possess.

    ― C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man

    Obviously, training generations with knowledge subject to instincts, and minus ethics, won’t end well. Hence, the book’s third segment, as a warning to mankind: “The Abolition of Man”.

    Using the examples of the airplane, wireless radio, and contraceptives, Lewis demonstrates how Man’s acquired power over Nature, through science and technology, is actually “power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.”

    At the end of the book, Lewis explained the reader’s probable perception of science as progressing forward, like numerals counting upward in order. However, Lewis argued, the last count will be “sui generis”, or unique to all of the other steps before; and, thus, explains how mankind will use science to jump-the-shark, so to speak:

    You cannot go on “explaining away” for ever: you will find that you have explained explanation itself away. You cannot go on ‘seeing through’ things for ever. The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it. It is good that the window should be transparent, because the street or garden beyond it is opaque. How if you saw through the garden too? It is no use trying to “see through” first principles. If you see through everything, then everything is transparent. But a wholly transparent world is an invisible world. To “see through” all things is the same as not to see.

    ― C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man

    In the “Abolition of Man”, Lewis provides the following warning (once again paraphrased): In Mankind’s seemingly fanatical quest to conquer nature (i.e. reality), Man has failed to see that nature is simply engaging in a temporary strategic retreat while Man erases himself.

    A few years after the publication of The “Abolition of Man”, Lewis also published a fiction series entitled “The Space Trilogy” whereby the contentions made in “The Abolition of Man” were taken to their full manifestations. In the final book of “Space Trilogy”, entitled “That Hideous Strength”, Lewis showed how western civilization could transition toward a dystopian society controlled by science and technology.

    Paradoxically, another British dystopian writer, by the name of George Orwell, reviewed “That Hideous Strength” and wrote the following:

    His [Lewis’] book describes the struggle of a little group of sane people against a nightmare that nearly conquers the world. A company of mad scientists – or, perhaps, they are not mad, but have merely destroyed in themselves all human feeling, all notion of good and evil – are plotting to conquer Britain, then the whole planet, and then other planets, until they have brought the universe under their control.
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    All superfluous life is to be wiped out, all natural forces tamed, the common people are to be used as slaves and vivisection subjects by the ruling caste of scientists, who even see their way to conferring immortal life upon themselves. Man, in short, is to storm the heavens and overthrow the gods, or even to become a god himself.

    There is nothing outrageously improbable in such a conspiracy…

    – Source: “THE SCIENTISTS TAKE OVER”, Manchester Evening News, 16 August 1945. Reprinted in The Complete Works of George Orwell, ed. Peter Davison, Vol. XVII (1998), No. 2720 (first half), pp. 250–251

    In that same critique of “That Hideous Strength”, Orwell claimed the story “would have been stronger without the supernatural elements” – and in a July 2020 article entitled “Dystopian Societies Derive From Displaced Ethics and Values”, this blogger even speculated that Orwell’s novel “1984” may “have been written in response to Lewis – about a world devoid of logic and morality, except without the ‘supernatural elements’”.

    Time has shown, however, that Lewis as a prognosticator had remarkable insight – even as he compared science with the supernatural elements of magic. In fact, Lewis considered science as “The Magician’s Twin” and that both science and magic shared the following similarities:

    Science and magic can function as a religion
    Science and magic encourage a lack of skepticism
    Science and magic seek power over reality

    Certainly, these similarities would explain the apparent fervor underlying the de facto “faiths” of evolution, climate change, and Covid. In other words, these have become like a religion upon which people accept on faith.

    Certainly, there has been a profound lack of skepticism as “followers” have instinctually embraced scientific and medical “authority figures” like witch doctors wearing white coats. People trust “the science”…. whether believing human reason developed by means of a mindless evolutionary process or having faith in Freud’s claims of humanity being solely driven by sub-rational impulses… Lewis identified both evolution and Freud’s theories as proof of how gullible people can be.

    Just as archaic magicians wished to harness the power of nature in order to control it, Lewis argued that many scientists have the same objective. In modernity, people have come to view science as savior and as a means to create utopian dreams; except, where magic fails at controlling nature, Lewis warned that science does have the power to bring all of mankind’s dystopian nightmares to fruition.

    Lewis claimed that, absent applied ethics derived from beyond the realm of science, the manifestations of what he called “scientific utopianism” would be dire: Sterilization, eugenics, selective breeding, biochemical conditioning, experimentation on humans, and the creation of a new humanity unconstrained by previous restraints.

    Magic.

    Consider what the conjurings of the wizards have inaugurated over the last three decades: The “smart” surveillance society, “Dominion” voting machines, bait and switch elections, the January 6th entrapment and persecutions, the subversion of constitutional law by all branches and agencies of U.S. Government, a “woke” society where some are more equal than others, and widespread deception, deaths, and injuries via bio-warfare and vaccine sorcery.

    The modern magicians have coopted sovereign governments. They have harnessed the power of Medicine, they own the Media, and they can even manipulate weather patterns – all from outside the view of The Overton Window. The wizards have conjured up the technological magic to make their narratives spells come true – and as average minds believe what is seen on faith.

    Now imagine how an alien deception could expand the faux reality even further, with mind-blowing signs and wonders.

    How did we get here? Slowly, then suddenly.

    In an undercover operation by Project Veritas, an employee of Pfizer exposed Big Pharma as tinkering with virus mutations to sell more vaccines. But when he was later confronted with his own statements, he threw the mother of all hissy fits. And, after the video footage went viral, Pfizer was forced to respond.

    C.S. Lewis was right. Modernity is reaping the whirlwind that modern education has wrought; or as Lewis sublimely summarized in “The Abolition of Man”:

    In a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand the function. We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.

    In like manner, Yuval Harari, an agenda contributor for the World Economic Forum, has claimed mankind will one day be as gods via technological transhumanism.

    These wizards have heads full of knowledge that are subject to their arbitrary instincts and whims; and like the Greek myth of Icarus who flew too close to the sun, they will eventually be erased in their vain attempts to overcome reality.

    As men without chests, they resemble what the Apostle Paul long ago identified in the Bible’s Second Timothy Chapter three: “Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.”

    The Greek term for “word” is “logos” of which the word “logical” is derived – and the writing is on the wall; it appears the words were written there long ago.

    Although George Orwell’s book “1984” hauntingly illustrated a collectivist dystopia in the final convulsions of madness, C.S. Lewis and Aldous Huxley most accurately foretold the “Brave New World” of scientific dictatorships, operating sans ethics, which would ultimately drown humanity in an electronic sea of subjectivism.

    The wizards have whipped their words far and wide with technology, casting spells meant to divide and conquer; and their magic incantations have been accepted on faith: Flatten the Curve ®. Together Apart.® Safe and Effective. ®

    But whereas magic spells are fleeting, right values are eternal – even when they appear not to be.

    Time reveals all things.

    And, in the interim, those who still can, choose.

    During former U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s farewell speech to the nation on January 17, 1961, he warned about a developing “military-industrial complex” that had “the potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power” and that “public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite”.

    Three months later, on April 27, 1961 newly elected U.S. President John F. Kennedy warned of “secret societies” infiltrating America, and of “secret oaths”, and about a “monolithic and ruthless conspiracy” that was a “tightly-knit, highly efficient machine” combining “military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific and political operations”.

    Eisenhower and Kennedy witnessed that of which Lewis and Huxley had warned.

    These men saw the rise of The Technocracy.

    And, paradoxically, C.S. Lewis and Aldous Huxley both died on November 22, 1963 of natural causes – the exact day that John F. Kennedy was murdered.

    What were the odds?

    #127994
    aspnaz
    Participant

    A substantial portion of the documents on Julian Assange were destroyed by the Swedish Prosecution Authority, which investigated him for rape in a criminal investigation opened and closed three times between August 2010 and November 2019.

    I was tasked – by my wife – to renovate my father in law’s kitchen. I have not done this for a while, so my first response was to think of an Ikea kitchen – cheap, easy to install – but I associate Ikea with Sweden, and I think of Sweden as the corrupt country that helped to destroy Assange. My father in law is in Taiwan, so is Ikea, but i decided to skip Ikea … they are from cunt country. Ikea provide the best lighting solution but the cabinets are crap, so we went to a local furniture maker, the result was amazing and the lighting was from some Italian company, and in total it cost about 60% of the Ikea equivalent. It’s your money, you decide where to spend it.

    #127995
    Germ
    Participant

    Better late than never!

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    #127996
    aspnaz
    Participant

    I once bought a house in southern France than was on an olive grove and the house had an atrium with a large tree growing up to the ceiling. I never did find out the type of tree, all I can say is that it was deciduous and would drop leaves in the autumn. That was an old farmhouse, well it looks as if the city people have discovered old farmhouses … https://joannenova.com.au/2023/02/imagine-there-was-a-cheap-way-to-save-thousands-of-lives-and-reduce-the-temperature-but-it-didnt-make-anyone-rich/.

    #127997
    zerosum
    Participant

    War – conflict, regime change – political, social, economic, energy, popular opinion,

    Wrong objective – ineffective tools

    • ‘At War with Russia’, Europe Peers Down the Abyss (Alastair Crooke)
    • Trials and Tribulations of the Collective West (Escobar)
    • “Objectivity Has Got To Go” (Turley)
    • Hunter Biden’s Metabiota Labs Received $10s of Millions in DOD Contracts (GP)
    • Hunter Biden Demands Investigations Into Reporting On His Laptop (JTN)

    ————
    People don’t understand. It’s all about math. Russian roulette
    In the Moderna trials, the risk of serious adverse events was 15.1 per 10,000 doses. In other words, 1 in 662 vaccines administered produced a serious adverse event. In the Pfizer trials, the risk of serious adverse events was 10.1 per 10,000, which breaks down to 1 in 990 vaccines administered producing a serious adverse event. On average, there were 12.5 serious adverse events per 10,000 people vaccinated, which is 1 in 800. That means there were a total of 1,250 serious adverse events for every 1 million people vaccinated, according to the study.

    Read more …

    Why Did UK Wait 3 Months to Disclose Data Showing COVID Vaccine Risks Outweigh Benefits for Omicron Variant?


    Why Did UK Wait 3 Months to Disclose Data Showing COVID Vaccine Risks Outweigh Benefits for Omicron Variant?
    Brenda Baletti, Ph.D.
    https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-vaccination-programme-for-2023-jcvi-interim-advice-8-november-2022/appendix-1-estimation-of-number-needed-to-vaccinate-to-prevent-a-covid-19-hospitalisation-for-primary-vaccination-booster-vaccination-3rd-dose-au
    Appendix 1: estimation of number needed to vaccinate to prevent a COVID-19 hospitalisation for primary vaccination, booster vaccination (3rd dose), autumn 2022 and spring 2023 booster for those newly in a risk group
    Updated 27 January 2023
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    #127998
    Oroboros
    Participant

    So the Turks are coming to Russia’s cause.

    “Volunteers from Turkey undergo training before being sent to Russian units at the front in the Zaporozhye region.

    Volunteer says: “We came to help the Russians because we know that the Russians are not fighting Ukraine, but the Nazis and US-sponsored terrorists.”

    #127999
    Germ
    Participant

    The gift that keeps giving!

    “Adult-Onset Type 1 Diabetes Development Following COVID-19 mRNA Vaccination”

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9829515/pdf/jkms-38-e12.pdf

    – – – – – !

    #128000
    Dr D Rich
    Participant

    A crude calculation he chance all 3 men died on the same day, we can all agree these events were independent unless they weren’t, is a product of the individual probabilities.
    So here goes:
    0 00407 the probability a 46yo man dies in a
    particular year, JFK’s age
    0.01657 the probability a 64yo man dies in a
    particular year, CS Lewis age
    0.02522 the probability a 69yo man dies in a
    particular year, Aldous Huxley

    1 out of 600,000 chance in the same year, but on the same day requires some factoring of one out of 365 days. The incidence of choroidal metastases from lung cancer is similar.
    A quirk of statistics and a statistician will say rare things happen all the time

    So the chance those men died on the same day without tipping the scales in death’s favor is less than 1 in 215,000,000… approximately the lottery, Powerball or Megamillions

    #128001
    zerosum
    Participant

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/?term=vitamin+D+covid+2022
    1 to 20 of 5027
    Vitamin D Status and SARS-CoV-2 Infection and COVID-19 Clinical Outcomes
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    #128002
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    The guys who are bringing us the war are the guys who brought us the deathvax are the guys who brought us the bioweapon spike protein who are the guys who brought us the military industrial complex who are the guys who brought us the Hegemonic Empire of Lies who are the guys who own means and profit from war. I mean , it’s all the SAME guys, and they’re all “rich” by means of the same counterfeit money, which they print at will in whatever quantities they need to buy the people and things that they need to go on being the owners.

    Anybody see a clear way off of this merry-go-down-to-hell?

    I mean, I’m willing to swear off counterfeit money if you are.

    #128003
    Noirette
    Participant

    UKR. war.

    Ukraine will be destroyed, its ppl decimated – to the last Ukrainian – a wasteland..

    Ukr.’s situation after its independence has never been good (as compared to before / other ex-Soviets..), Corruption was extreme, etc., the reasons for that were never exposed by the W Govms., W MSM.

    Now we see that b**** Merkel and the US-installed ChocoTzar Poroshenko and Hollande (who is often called Flamby in France, in ref. to a cheap industrial custard dessert) admitting the Minsk agreements were a ploy to buy time for Ukr. to arm.

    They made these admissions because the naked power play is now respectable, top of the agenda. Being a liar and a plotter to ‘fool’ Russia is now super – cool …

    Russia (+ observers) saw through all this. After Minsk 1, attacks on the Donbass did diminish sharply for a few months; then, all continued as before, nothing was implemented or even discussed, and Minsk 2 was just a *bis repetita.*

    see ex.

    — Postil magazine, 1 Feb. 2003.

    1993: The Barry R. Posen Plan for War on Russia via Zombie State Ukraine. eng text.

    1993: The Barry R. Posen Plan for War on Russia via Zombie State Ukraine

    UK column news, from 12 mins on. eng.

    https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-1st-february-2023

    #128004
    Afewknowthetruth
    Participant

    Missing from today’s narratives (and normally missing from all discussions):

    1. Money-lenders create [fake] money out of thin air and charge interest on that money [created out of thin air].

    2. The interest required by the money-lenders is generated by dilution of the purchasing power of money previously created by money-lenders and via the conversion of rapidly depleting resources into waste -much of it toxic.

    3. Money-lenders commenced the takeover the governance, regulation and cultural memes of industrialised nations just over three centuries ago in Europe. Their control of politics and cultural memes is near complete in Oceania.

    4. Money-lenders established fake measures of economic activity in the twentieth century and ensured that only members of the money-lender club held (hold) political office in Airstrip nations.

    5. Under Fractional Reserve policies, banks are required to hold only a tiny fraction of the fake money as reserves. When confidence in fake money is low, banks rapidly go kaput via bank runs. Much effort is devoted to maintaining completely unjustified confidence.

    6. Everything in the money-lender-industrial system is Ponzi -has no backing and is dependent on the incorporation of ever-greater numbers of victims into the system and dependent on maintaining confidence in the system… .even as it unravels.

    7. The money-lenders and their agents are engaged in massive propaganda wars and censorship wars to prevent the victims of their scams realising they have been lied to and scammed.

    8. Fake money is used as a proxy for energy and resources that existed at the time of inception existed but no longer exist.

    9. All wars engaged in by Oceania are money-lender wars.

    10. Since the energy and resources necessary to successfully fight physical wars and to maintain Ponzi arrangements do not exist in Oceania, Oceania will lose its physical war with Eurasia and its Ponzi economic arrangements will collapse throughout Oceania in the near future.

    11. Most of the Proles living in Oceania will be victims of their own ignorance and stupidity and refusal to become informed about anything of significance -as carefully trained to behave by those who control them.

    #128005
    Mr. House
    Participant

    Dr. D:

    You may enjoy this and the substack in general

    https://roundingtheearth.substack.com/p/world-war-e-levels-deep-on-psyops

    #128006
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Polish Joke Write Themselves

    Ads Appear In Poland: “Protect Poland In Ukraine, Become A Tank Driver”

    After Russia has destroyed probably close to 2,000 Ukronazi tanks, so far

    Over 6,000+ armored vehicles, transports, heavy trucks, etc….gone with the wind.

    Why do you think Nazilensky is begging for tanks?

    They’re pretty much all gone. Duh

    #128007
    zerosum
    Participant

    @ Noirette
    Thanks. Obviously. A secret among the elites.

    This war against Russia was preplanned by the USA elites

    https://www.thepostil.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/A-Defense-Concept-for-Ukraine-Posen-1994.pdf
    A DEFENSE CONCEPT FOR UKRAINE
    WRITTEN BY
    Dr. Barry Posen

    Nov. 11, 1994
    Originally published only in Russian
    “A defense concept for Ukraine” in Ukraine: Issues of Security, Irina
    Kobrinskaya and Sherman Garnett, eds., Moscow: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 85-136. 1996, [i

    https://semxxi.mit.edu/program/faculty/barry-posen

    Ford International Professor of Political Science, MIT
    Barry R. Posen is Ford International Professor of Political Science at MIT and serves on the Executive Committee of Seminar XXI. He has written three books, Restraint-A New Foundation for U.S. Grand Strategy; Inadvertent Escalation: Conventional War and Nuclear Risks; and The Sources of Military Doctrine. The latter won two awards: The American Political Science Association’s Woodrow Wilson Foundation Book Award, and Ohio State University’s Edward J. Furniss Jr. Book Award. He is also the author of numerous articles, including “The Case for Restraint,” The American Interest, (November/December 2007) and “Command of the Commons: The Military Foundation of U.S. Hegemony,” International Security, (Summer, 2003.) He has been a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow; Rockefeller Foundation International Affairs Fellow; Guest Scholar at the Center for Strategic and International Studies; Woodrow Wilson Center Fellow; Smithsonian Institution; Transatlantic Fellow of the German Marshall Fund of the United States, and most recently Visiting Fellow at the John Sloan Dickey Center at Dartmouth College.

    #128008
    Germ
    Participant

    99 Doctors and Medical Professionals Demand the British Heart Foundation Comes Clean About Vaccine Heart Injury ‘Cover-Up’

    99 Doctors and Medical Professionals Demand the British Heart Foundation Comes Clean About Vaccine Heart Injury ‘Cover-Up’

    – – – – – !

    #128009
    Oroboros
    Participant

    You can never be too careful

    .

    #128010
    John Day
    Participant

    @Dr. D: A fine treatise of applied philosophy today, Brother-Sir!

    And, paradoxically, C.S. Lewis and Aldous Huxley both died on November 22, 1963 of natural causes – the exact day that John F. Kennedy was murdered.

    #128011
    Oroboros
    Participant

    If this was a movie cast, what’s the title of the movie?

    .

    #128012
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Huxley, Lewis, Kennedy all die on Groundhog Day and the 80th anniversary of the German’s total defeat and surrender at Stalingrad Feb 2, 1943

    A pearl clutching moment

    .

    #128013
    Veracious Poet
    Participant
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