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Elliott Erwitt New York City, USA 1955

 

West Considers ‘Ultimatum’ For Ukraine (RT)
Crimea Integral Part Of Russia, Cannot Return To Ukraine – Peskov (TASS)
Musk: Diplomats Want War, Warriors Want Peace (Celente)
NATO Is De Facto At War With Russia – Kremlin (RT)
Russia No Longer At Mercy Of Global Elite – Lavrov (RT)
How Russia Managed To Survive Western Sanctions (RT)
Pushback: The Folly Of Ukraine (Denninger)
It’s Coming (James Howard Kunstler)
Hungary Demands UN Investigation Into “Scandalous” Attack on Nord Stream (SN)
Ex-White House Doctor Warns Of Biden Danger (RT)
Why is Assange in Jail and Not Seymour Hersh? (Steve Brown)
Starmer Is Paving The Way For The Triumph Of Dark Politics (Cook)

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Russia rebuilt Mariupol in just months. Yesterday, Ukraine started shelling it again.
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Schrödinger’s garbage

 

 

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They have until fall. This is how the west will try to leave while saving face: we gave them everything they needed, but they screwed up!

“Should the counter-offensive fail, the pressure on Kiev to negotiate with the Kremlin will increase..”

West Considers ‘Ultimatum’ For Ukraine (RT)

Ukraine’s Western backers are considering the imposition of an ultimatum on Kiev in relation to potential talks with Moscow, German tabloid Bild reported on Monday, citing anonymous government sources in Washington and Berlin. With new arms supplies, the US and its allies want to provide Kiev with an “incentive” to try and recapture territories seized by the Russian forces, Bild claimed, adding that the West wants to see results in this respect by the fall. “Should the counter-offensive fail, the pressure on Kiev to negotiate with the Kremlin will increase,” the paper reported. Earlier, the Wall Street Journal reported that the UK, France and Germany had allegedly offered Kiev weapons and security commitments under a plan aimed at pushing Kiev to negotiate with Moscow.

The US media outlet claimed last week that London, Berlin and Paris were supposedly ready to offer security guarantees just short of NATO membership. According to Bild, however, the conditions were not that generous. “The Europeans and the US cannot and do not want to provide Ukraine with hard security guarantees such as NATO membership at the moment,” German MP Norbert Roettgen, who previously headed the Bundestag’s Foreign Affairs Committee, told the tabloid. The German Chancellor’s Office also said on Sunday that potential NATO security guarantees played “no role at all” in the discussions between the three bloc members. Berlin neither outright denied nor confirmed the existence of the negotiations plan, Bild added.

French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz also encouraged Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky to engage in talks with Moscow earlier in February, according to the media reports. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg previously admitted that Moscow was winning the logistical war of attrition. He also said it was unclear how much the bloc could spend on further military support for Kiev. Last week, the Russian Foreign Ministry set out its conditions for a diplomatic solution to the conflict. The list included the West halting military aid for Kiev, as well as Ukraine returning to its neutral status after being “demilitarized” and “denazified.” Zelensky rejected any negotiations with Moscow by saying there was “nothing to talk about” and “nobody” to talk with.

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They’re not going to move a inch on that.

Crimea Integral Part Of Russia, Cannot Return To Ukraine – Peskov (TASS)

Crimea is an integral part of Russia and its return to Ukraine is impossible, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Monday. When asked if Moscow could imagine a situation where Crimea would become part of Ukraine again, he answered in the negative. “It is an integral part of the Russian Federation,” the presidential spokesman stressed. US President Joe Biden assumed earlier that potential agreements on the Ukraine issue could include a provision on Kiev taking control of Crimea and some other territories in the future. After the February 2014 coup in Ukraine, the Crimean authorities held a referendum on reuniting with Russia. Most voters supported the idea (96.7% in Crimea and 95.6% in the city of Sevastopol), with turnout reaching 80%. In March 2014, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a treaty on Crimea’s reunification with Russia on March 18, 2014, which was ratified by the Federal Assembly on March 21, 2014.

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That about sums it up.

Musk: Diplomats Want War, Warriors Want Peace (Celente)

Elon Musk, the Tesla billionaire, accurately tweeted Monday about the Ukraine War and the U.S.’s continued effort to keep the conflict going, posting: “The diplomats want war and the warriors want peace.” His response was to another Twitter user who posted a New York Times article about how Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, once said, “Ukraine was unlikely to make substantially greater battlefield gains and should move to the bargaining table.” The Times said the White House “quickly squelched such talk.” Milley sent a shockwave through Washington in November when he said Ukraine may want to consider peace negotiations because the Ukraine War would keep dragging on. He later changed his tune and said Russia already lost.

“They’ve lost strategically, they’ve lost operationally and, I repeat, they’ve lost tactically,” he said. “What they’ve tried to do, they’ve failed at. The strategic reframing of their objectives, of their illegal invasion, have all failed, every single one of them.” Milley spoke with the Financial Times earlier this month and said that it would be “almost impossible for the Russians to achieve their political objectives by military means” and said it is exceedingly unlikely that its military will be able to “overrun” the country, he said. “It’s just not going to happen,” he said. He also said that it will be “very, very difficult for Ukraine this year to kick the Russians out of every inch” of the country it now controls.

Milley continues to sell the political line out of Washington. Col. Douglas MacGregor, who The Trends Journal has interviewed, has criticized these kinds of comments from Washington and said they hurt the administration’s credibility. “General Milley has made it very clear that he’s aligned with the left, he is part of this administration, he’s going to say whatever they want him to say,” MacGregor said, according to RT. Milley seems to be forgetting that Russia never said it had any intention of running over the entire country. The Kremlin has insisted since the start of the operation that it will achieve its goals, which include deNazification and demilitarizing the country. Russian forces now control about 20 percent of Ukraine since their invasion. Moscow also wants assurances that Ukraine will remain neutral and not join NATO.

Musk, in the meantime, has faced unfair attacks by the Presstitutes for calling for peace in Ukraine. The New York Times, in an unflattering report on Musk, called him a “geopolitical chaos agent” because he laid out a peace plan for Ukraine and suggested that tensions between Washington and Beijing can be resolved if China takes partial control. Musk took to Twitter in October to lay out what seemed like sensible steps to achieve peace. He said the referendums in the newly annexed regions could be done over, with UN supervision. Russia would leave if it is the will of the people. He noted that Crimea would be formally recognized as part of Russia, “as it has been since 1783 (until Khrushchev’s mistake).”

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“There would have been very complex, positional, sometimes irreconcilable talks, but they would have been under way. But they refused.”

NATO Is De Facto At War With Russia – Kremlin (RT)

The US-led collective West must change their approach to global security and finally take Moscow’s concerns into consideration, before talks on the New START nuclear agreement can be renewed, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said. Speaking to the Izvestia newspaper for an interview published on Tuesday, Peskov said relations with the United States and Europe have “changed radically” since President Vladimir Putin formulated draft security treaties that were sent to Washington, Brussels and Vienna in late 2021, only to hear that “they were not ready to talk about anything with us.” “If they wanted, they could have sat down at the negotiating table [back then, before the decision to launch a military operation in Ukraine],” he said. “There would have been very complex, positional, sometimes irreconcilable talks, but they would have been under way. But they refused.”

With the failed attempt at dialogue, tensions continued to soar between Moscow and the West in the lead up to the conflict in Ukraine. Peskov argued that NATO is now fully involved in the hostilities, noting “their intelligence is working against us 24 hours a day, their weapons… are supplied to Ukraine for free to shoot at our military, not to mention that they shoot at Ukrainian citizens.” “The moment when NATO de facto became a participant in the conflict in Ukraine, the situation changed,” the spokesman continued. “In fact, the NATO bloc is no longer acting as our conditional opponent, but as our enemy.” “President Putin was and remains open to any contacts that can help Russia achieve its goals in one way or another,” Peskov continued. “Preferably peacefully, at the negotiations table, but when this is not possible, also by military means, as we are seeing now.”

Peskov touched on the New START treaty, a US-Russian accord intended to limit both nations’ nuclear stockpiles and allow them to monitor each other’s military facilities to confirm compliance. Amid the conflict in Ukraine, however, Moscow and Washington have accused each other of failing to facilitate such inspections. Last week, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that Moscow intended to formally suspend its obligations under the pact, with Peskov explaining “the conditions must somehow change.” During the New START negotiations, the nuclear arsenals of France and Great Britain were left out of the equation, even though they are “significant enough for the entire system of European strategic security,” he said.

“These countries – France, Britain, the United States – are members of an organization which is de facto at war with us… you need to call a spade a spade,” Peskov added, noting how Western states nevertheless keep “repeating like a mantra that they do not want to be participants in the conflict.” Putin has also accused NATO specialists of helping Kiev to launch drone attacks against Russian airfields hosting long-range bombers, which are part of Moscow’s system of nuclear deterrence. He blamed Washington and NATO’s proxy war against Russia for destroying the foundation of trust on which the treaty was initially built.

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“Just listing the names of these states already shows the failure of attempts [of the West] to isolate our country,,”

Russia No Longer At Mercy Of Global Elite – Lavrov (RT)

Western political leaders will no longer have the power to dictate terms to Russia, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Monday. Speaking with the heads of the ministry’s regional offices, the diplomat stressed that Russia will now determine its own needs for development. “Until recently, a couple of years ago, the external conditions that we needed for development were determined not by us, but by the Western minority,” said Lavrov. He added that all the foreign policy initiatives promoted by the so-called “golden billion” group serve the sole purpose of making sure that the world lives by rules that allow Western elites to continue their colonial policies and live at the expense of others.

“Therefore, we will no longer rely on someone when it comes to creating the external conditions for the development that we need,” Lavrov stressed, also pledging that Russia will not follow in the footsteps of the “selfish” West, and will take into account the interests of other independent states. According to the diplomat, Moscow aims to create external conditions that are as favorable as possible for the development of the country, but stressed that these conditions must also reflect “the consensus of all independent states” and fully comply with the principles of the UN Charter, which have been “repeatedly violated by our former Western colleagues.”

During the meeting, Lavrov also noted that the number of countries wishing to join BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) economic blocs had increased to almost two dozen by the end of 2022. The diplomat noted that the countries wishing to join the alliances, such as Egypt, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Indonesia, Argentina, Mexico and several African nations, “play a very prominent role in their regions.”“Just listing the names of these states already shows the failure of attempts [of the West] to isolate our country,” Lavrov observed, adding that the opposite has happened, with independent countries now uniting with other like-minded states.

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It turned east,

How Russia Managed To Survive Western Sanctions (RT)

The Russian economy has managed to hold up against the massive sanctions imposed by Western countries and their allies over Moscow’s military operation in Ukraine, White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby admitted on Friday. As the conflict enters its second year, Washington revealed more anti-Russia penalties, targeting dozens of companies and individuals linked to the country, and raising tariffs on Russian goods whose imports were still allowed. Meanwhile, the EU approved its tenth package of sanctions against Russia, which includes export limitations on dual-use items and technology, measures against so-called Russian disinformation, and new restrictions against individuals and entities for their alleged support of the Russian military. Western allies Britain, Switzerland, Australia, Japan and New Zealand joined the measures.

Russia’s economy is “showing some resilience,” according to Kirby, who added, however, that it’s not clear whether this “can be sustained for the long haul.” “He has had to take some drastic measures to prop up his economy, to prop up his currency, including playing pretty aggressively with interest rates, for instance,” Kirby said, commenting on steps approved by Russian President Vladimir Putin. Russian statistics service Rosstat reported that GDP of the sanctions-hit nation contracted by just 2.1% in 2022, much less than the 10-15% some had predicted after sanctions hit last March. The Russian economy is actually forecast to increase by 0.3% during the current year, according to the IMF.

The strength of the Russian economy has been partially attributed to global prices for oil and gas, which saw a dramatic surge shortly after one of the world’s biggest exporters of the two commodities was targeted by Western sanctions. The growth of energy prices has reportedly compensated for the drop in the volume of the country’s exports. At the same time, Russia managed to re-orient some of its exports, including energy sales, eastwards after Western buyers opted to shun direct shipments under the sanctions pressure. The Russian national currency, the ruble, has also managed to stay afloat after bouncing back following a dramatic decline seen shortly after the sanctions were imposed last March. This has been attributed to strict capital controls, a dramatic interest-rate hike by the Russian central bank, and the country’s move to trade transactions with allied countries in domestic currencies.

The share of the ruble in Russia’s international settlements has doubled compared with December 2021. Last week, President Putin said that Moscow would continue to work with partners to form a stable and secure global payment system independent of the US dollar and of other Western currencies. President Putin has also attributed Russia’s economic resilience to the country’s strong agricultural sector. According to the latest data provided by Russia’s statistics service, the harvest amounted to 153.8 million tons, a 26.7% increase year-on-year against 2021. “By the end of the agricultural year, that is, by June 30, 2023, we will be able to bring the total volume of grain exports to 55-60 million tonnes,” he said last week during his annual address to the Federal Assembly.

Meanwhile, parallel imports of non-sanctioned products and flourishing trade with countries that refrained from punishing Moscow had also contributed to the economic resilience. In addition, Russia has been successful in moving a lot of products to Asian markets such as India and China, and to Türkiye. Additionally, Russia also had several years to prepare for sanctions following its reunification with Crimea in 2014. Moscow succeeded in developing an alternative to SWIFT, the messaging network that underpins global financial transactions. This came in response to Western threats to cut the country off from the international banking system.

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“Crimea was purchased by Catherine the Great as it was a gateway for a strategic, warm-water 12 month port.”

Pushback: The Folly Of Ukraine (Denninger)

Ukraine has always been an ungovernable cesspool; there are roughly four ethnic groups, all of whom hate each other, and one of them is essentially Russian. The land itself is a trade crossroads that has served as such for over a thousand years, so that this occurred is not really a surprise. The USSR delegated nearly all operating authority to the territory for this reason; Moscow simply didn’t have the desire to try to tame that which was always trying to bite from one direction or another, as they understood the only real way to make that happen would be to kill 3/4 of the population there or enslave all of them.

Crimea was purchased by Catherine the Great as it was a gateway for a strategic, warm-water 12 month port. Without it Russia was at risk of a pincer on said port at any time, and this was unacceptable. Therefore rather than take it, she bought it. This is historical fact and no amount of revisionism will ever change it, any more than you can un-do the fact that the United States purchased Alaska; even though it is non-contiguous with the rest of our land, it serves as a buffer between North America and the Russo/Asian landmass. It’s ours; we bought it through legitimate consensual negotiation, just as Russia bought Crimea through the same process.

The Turkish mess with NATO (since when are they in the North Atlantic?) and that part of the Cuban mess ought to be obvious, but that’s in the rearview mirror and we managed to avoid blowing each other up, even though we provoked it — and were in the wrong. Well, now we have a problem. You see, over the last three decades or so we’ve offshored huge parts of our supply chain to China. We did it out of idiocy, but that’s in the rear view mirror too. Its done and while we could reverse course we can’t do it tomorrow, and whether we like it or not it takes five to ten years to build a fab and get it online for chips and such, never mind other areas of manufacturing.

China doesn’t like our point of view when it comes to the Russia/Ukraine dust-up. In fact they’re thinking that if we can send weapons, ammunition and such to Ukraine, they can send them to Russia. Oh, by the way, they share a border so its quite-convenient and unlike our shipments, which can be blown up the minute they go into Ukraine, that’s a much-more dicey proposition for Chinese shipments into Russia. This is a problem and one we have no good answer to. Our government has threatened, including our Treasury Secretary (Yellen) that there will be “serious consequences” for China if they do this. Oh really? What consequences would those be? Are you going to shoot or sanction? Good luck with either; shooting leads to WWIII and sanctioning is an empty threat when you need the supply pipeline to operate or you can’t make, well…… just about anything.

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“..what the Left actually thinks is exactly what Woody’s movie script implied: believe everything that the government, the news media, and the drug companies tell you, and act accordingly, and destroy anyone who says otherwise.”

It’s Coming (James Howard Kunstler)

“It’s Coming.” That’s what Elon Musk said a while back apropos of the Twitter files that show all the US government suppression of Covid-19 information mis-labeled as “misinformation.” Think of whatever the truth is as mis-misinformation. Get it? You might have to read that sentence more than once to comprehend what went wrong with the American consensus the past three years. And then you’ll begin to understand why the operation is called mind-fuckery. “It” comes out in weird ways now. For instance, Woody Harrelson’s little prank on Saturday Night Live. The A-List actor opened the show acting stoned, talking about how much he likes weed and getting stoned, and, at the very end of his routine, spoke of a “movie script” that spun out in his stoned head:

“The biggest drug cartels in the world get together, and buy up all the media and all the politicians… and force all the people in the world to stay locked in their homes… and people can only come out if they take the cartel’s drug… and keep taking them over and over. I threw the script away. I mean, who’s gonna believe that crazy idea?“ One can also imagine the NBC lawyers’ iPhones lighting up and emitting a cacophony of ring-tones in the late-night hours following Woody’s little gaucherie. After all, this is the TV network that still employs the likes of Rachel Maddow, Misinformation-Informer-in-Chief of the whole USA who, for years, has performed as the icon representing how the political Left thinks of itself, and what it thinks. What the Left thinks of itself, of course, is that it’s collectively the smartest person in the world. And what the Left actually thinks is exactly what Woody’s movie script implied: believe everything that the government, the news media, and the drug companies tell you, and act accordingly, and destroy anyone who says otherwise.

Woody’s gag offended the news media hugely and instantly, said media being scaffolded on the Internet. The response was wildly censorious. Vanity Fair’s insta-bulletin said, “Uncle Woody… taking the stage to float conspiracy theories disguised as provocative humor is both intellectually dishonest and tedious.” Tedious? As if you’ve heard that come out of A-list actors’ mouths a thousand times? I doubt it. Who is being “intellectually dishonest” exactly? Rolling Stone, likewise headlined: “Woody Harrelson Spreads Anti-Vax Conspiracies During SNL Monologue.” (Just how anti-anti-establishment now is the old counter-culture rag I once worked for?) The Daily Beast, The Left’s house organ, echoed that: “Woody Harrelson Spews Anti-Vax Conspiracies in Rambling SNL Monologue.” Notice, “spews,” as in the most vile and disgusting bodily function imaginable, you revolting piece of filth….

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They will have to frame a reply. It won’t go away.

Hungary Demands UN Investigation Into “Scandalous” Attack on Nord Stream (SN)

Hungary has called for a UN investigation into the “scandalous” attack on the Nord Stream pipelines, which journalist Seymour Hersh asserted were destroyed by the United States. Three of the four natural gas pipelines connecting Russia to Germany were sabotaged in September last year, an attack that must have been carried out by a state actor. The attack left Germany and other European countries dependent on US energy, prompting them to support escalation of the war in Ukraine. Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Hersh published an article earlier this month in which he asserted that the pipelines were destroyed by the US as part of a covert operation.

According to Hersh’s sources, the explosives were planted in June 2022 by US Navy divers under the guise of the BALTOPS 22 NATO exercise and were detonated three months later with a remote signal sent by a sonar buoy. One source told Hersh that the plotters knew the covert operation was an “act of war,” with some in the CIA and State Department warning, “Don’t do this. It’s stupid and will be a political nightmare if it comes out.” After China demanded that the United States “explain itself to the world” over the claims, Hungary has now added its voice to the call for a full and proper investigation. “This is basically the first time when such a major European critical infrastructure was attacked. By whoever – but it was attacked,” Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto told RIA Novosti.

Szijjarto added that the sabotage was a “scandalous” act of terrorism and the truth as to finding out who was responsible should be of the utmost international importance. Budapest wants know “who committed it and why,” asking for a “comprehensive, deep, structured and detailed” probe conducted under the auspices of the UN. “I think the UN should give a framework for such kind of an investigation,” said Szijjarto, adding that the international body should act as a “platform for countries to talk to each other, who even consider each other as enemies.”

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“He also pointed out that Biden, unlike his predecessor, Donald Trump, had not taken a cognitive test and argued that the sitting president’s “ability to think and reason is gone”..”

Ex-White House Doctor Warns Of Biden Danger (RT)

Former White House physician and Republican Representative Ronny Jackson has hit out against US President Joe Biden, arguing that his declining mental state poses a danger to the entire country. “It’s TERRIFYING for our country that Biden is our commander-in-chief,” Jackson wrote on Twitter on Saturday. “He doesn’t know where he’s at half the time and every day he brings us closer to an all-out war with Russia and China. His cognitive decline is going to get people KILLED!!” Jackson, who served as the White House Physician to the President under Barack Obama and Donald Trump until 2018, has previously criticized the current US administration for failing to disclose the truth about Joe Biden’s mental health.

Earlier this month, the White House issued a summary on the status of Biden’s health based on a medical history review and a “detailed physical examination,” which found that the president was a “healthy, vigorous, 80-year-old male” who was fit to execute his duties. Replying to the president’s health report, Jackson stated that the medical exam was a “joke” and a “cover up.” He also pointed out that Biden, unlike his predecessor, Donald Trump, had not taken a cognitive test and argued that the sitting president’s “ability to think and reason is gone” and that he should not be in office.

According to a recent Harvard CAPS-Harris Poll conducted earlier this month, some 57% of Americans have doubts about Biden’s mental fitness, with 67% thinking he seems to be too old to lead the country. Speculations about the president’s cognitive abilities have only continued to grow due to his numerous recurring gaffes, the latest of which was him proclaiming that “more than half the women in my administration are women.”

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“..they claim he made it all up – which means, according to them, that he did not publish classified information. Therefore he cannot be guilty of any crime.”

Why is Assange in Jail and Not Seymour Hersh? (Steve Brown)

On February 7, Seymour Hersh – arguably the most credible investigative journalist of our era – published a bombshell exposé revealing that the United States was guilty of blowing up the Nord Stream II undersea pipeline that was supposed to deliver natural gas from Russia to the Federal Republic of Germany. Hersh’s revelations were based entirely on classified information leaked to him by a member of the government with first-hand knowledge of the planning and implementation of the attack on the pipeline – a member of the government who clearly broke the law by violating his fiduciary duty not to reveal classified information to an unauthorized source.

Like Chelsea Manning, who had revealed classified information to Julian Assange, for which she was convicted and sentenced to 35 years in prison, Hersh’s source, if identified, would surely also be convicted and sentenced to similar long-term imprisonment. But Hersh’s source has not been identified. However – Hersh himself has. According to the same logic under which Assange was indicted for publishing classified information, and now faces up to 175 years in prison, Hersh, too, should be indicted and face comparable long-term imprisonment. So why is Sy Hersh still free? Hersh broke the same laws that the U.S. government accuses Julian Assange of breaking. But unlike Assange, a foreigner whom the U.S. has unsuccessfully been trying to extradite from England for years, Hersh is an American citizen living right here in the United States – easy to find, cuff, indict, convict and throw in prison for the rest of his life.

So why is Sy Hersh still free? Surely the classified information that Hersh has revealed is even more dangerous to the safety of the U.S. than what Assange revealed. Hersh showed that the U.S. had committed an unprovoked act of war against Russia. This gives Russia an absolute legal right to retaliate under Chapter VII, Article 51, of the United Nations Charter, which cites self-defense as an exception to the prohibition against the use of force. Since Russia happens to be a nuclear power, its potential retaliation could trigger World War III and wipe out not just the U.S. but the entire human race. Therefore, in any comparison of who has placed the U.S. in greater danger – Julian Assange is a piker compared to Sy Hersh.

So why is Sy Hersh still free? The answer is this. Although President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland would love to throw Sy Hersh into a maximum security prison for the rest of his life, as punishment for revealing their complicity in blowing up the Nord Stream II pipelines – they don’t dare to. If they did, it would be tantamount to admitting that … what Hersh published is true. Which would be embarrassing, to say the least, because Biden and Company have spent every day since February 7 denying that Hersh’s revelations are true. In other words, they claim he made it all up – which means, according to them, that he did not publish classified information. Therefore he cannot be guilty of any crime.

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I stay away from the stench that is UK politics, but what ails Labour is not Corbyn or anti-semitism, it’s that Blair and Starmer have enough right wing voters inside the party to have taken over.

Starmer Is Paving The Way For The Triumph Of Dark Politics (Cook)

There is a reason – and not the one given – why Labour Party leader Keir Starmer has announced that he is banning his predecessor, Jeremy Corbyn, from standing as a candidate for the party at the next general election. Corbyn has been sitting as an independent since Starmer exiled him from the Labour benches in late 2020 – after Corbyn observed that it was for “political reasons” he faced years of evidence-free accusations the Labour Party was beset by antisemitism on his watch. He called the accusation “dramatically overstated”. The official grounds for Corbyn being permanently barred from returning to the parliamentary party are that he has refused to apologise for his comment.

Announcing Corbyn’s exclusion as a candidate, Starmer said Labour would “never again be brought to its knees by racism or bigotry. If you don’t like that, if you don’t like the changes we have made, I say the door is open and you can leave”. The establishment media – from right to supposed left – are trying to bolster Starmer’s claims about Corbyn and his supporters by continuing to weave a web of misrepresentations about the former leader being depraved and unhinged. Antisemitism in Labour is apparently being kept at bay only because of Starmer’s vigilance, in contrast to Corbyn’s supposed indulgence. And, were Corbyn to be serving as prime minister today, we are warned, he would be taking “cranky” foreign policy decisions, like encouraging a diplomatic process to end the bloodshed in Ukraine.

No other political leader, not even Tony Blair, has haunted the thoughts of his successor – or the airwaves and pages of the billionaire-owned media – in quite the way Corbyn continues to do so. Even a disastrous, if brief, prime minister like Liz Truss quickly faded from memory. Boris Johnson stays in the British public’s imagination only because the scandals and dramas he presided over are still playing out, and because in the crisis-plagued Conservative Party, he might yet manage to claw his way back into Downing Street. So why the perennial concern about Corbyn, even as he languishes on the backbenches, outside the two-party chokehold on British politics, with no evident path back to power? Why does his shadow loom so large?

The reason has nothing to do with antisemitism or Corbyn’s criticisms of the West’s response to the Ukraine war – or rather, not in the sense Starmer and commentators would have you believe. Like the media, Starmer wants not just the solitary figure of Corbyn gone from British politics. He wants to eradicate something far more dangerous to the establishment: Corbynism, the ideas of a fairer, more equal society the former Labour leader gave life to, as well as the potential grassroots movement he represents.

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    DarkMatter
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    If there is a violent reaction to vaxx injuries it will likely be by the vaxxed and their relatives but will probably blamed on the unvaxxed.

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    D Benton Smith
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    If we hold to dualism this video is terrifying

    Well that’s a relief, because dualism is bullshit. It’s called a “Universe” not a “Duoverse”, and for good reason.

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    Dr D Rich
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    A couple things of which everyone is aware… pedantic? repetitive?

    “We already know that the FBI, the DOJ and the intel agencies (AND The Speaker Nancy Pelosi with the Chairman Joint Chiefs Mark Milley) were directly involved in Russiagate (AND J6 both acts were) covert attack(s) on the sitting president of the United States.”

    There….cleaned that up.
    You’re welcome, John Day.

    Of course all this was said repeatedly on this blog by this and other posters in contemporary and ongoing fashion(s).

    Glad Steve Brown caught up, but why even read it. Does he miss the obvious forest for the trees?
    Hersh is An Untouchable, not in that Pittsburgh Punjabi kinda way.

    “Why is Assange in Jail and Not Seymour Hersh? (Steve Brown)”

    As opined and observed here and elsewhere in slightly modified variations:

    “I know Sy Hersh, well, at least better than you.
    Watch Hersh’s interview at the end of Wormwood, Netflix I think, and you’ll see him unMasked.
    Seymour was wrong in the foundation to his 2004 book Chain of Command and this newly minted 0-6 Navy politely called him out of the slumber over it. The result was Hersh departing the podium and stage to chase my mother across the auditorium…to hump her, I suspect. He delivered verbal praise and a written warning, unusually vague for him, on the autographed first edition of CoC.
    Hersh, once again, has been an opportunist, self-promoter and devotee to power. His sustained access to the ruling elite despite “cutting edge” exposé after exposé drives home the point.
    He never pays the price, as let’s say, John Murtha at whose eponymous center Seymour lecture that night ~18 years ago.

    Watch Hersh’s contemptuous rebuke to Frank Olson’s son at the end of Wormwood. There’s not one scintilla of insight, compassion or generosity in that man.

    And perhaps he only once again illustrates how easily Sailors are easily manipulated by the CIA and NCA like those malignancies at Haditha, Abu Ghraib, Bagram and Gitmo.”

    Posted elsewhere
     Rich

    Posted February 19, 2023 at 8:58 pm | Permalink

    Yet, Hersh hasn’t been jailed. And Seymour’s reputation continues to be burnished. Indeed Sy has been spared the very same treatment afforded Watada, England, Grainer, Kirakou, Ritter and Julian Assange.
    Hersh is a protected asset and he serves a purpose.

    Pay attention to Hersh’s “Chain of Command” and contrast the book’s content to his comments on the topic of torture during publisher’s promotional tour. Hersh made the case in his public comments that not only was torture justified, but that the medical personnel involved in prisoner rape, torture and murder added a patina of respectability to the conduct. That indeed the Geneva Conventions’ prohibitions and The Hippocratic Oath did not bind military medical personnel’s duty to defense of country/homeland. Seymour in doing so was either parroting or quoting the assertions made by Elspeth Ritchie, Rumsfeld, Tornberg, Don Arthur, Winkerwerder.

    It’s best to face the fact that Hersh cannot be trusted as anything but a self-promoting monster capable of nothing but contempt for the victims.

    Take a moment to watch the epilogue of “Wormwood” and Seymour Hersh’s contempt for Eric Olsonn and a son’s pursuit of answers, justice for his murdered father. That’s full on Machiavellian, self-promoting, sadistic, dismissive psychopath on full display.

    Or regard these easily retrieved excerpts penned by equally sympathetic journalists:

    From The New Republic: Then in 1975 the Rockefeller Commission Report revealed that Frank had been part of a top-secret CIA program that involved dosing scientists with LSD without their knowledge. Olson gained a bundle of CIA documents stating that his father had exhibited a negative reaction to the LSD, that he’d been brought to New York for psychiatric rehabilitation, and then leaped 13 stories from his hotel window despite his colleagues’ best efforts to recover his sanity. Despite a formal apology from Gerald Ford, Olson couldn’t stop digging. Being in the inner sanctum only made him more suspicious. He felt that the government’s contrition was too showy, a floral bouquet hiding a poisonous spider. He continued to hunt, to ask the needling questions for decades, losing his psychology practice, a woman he loved, and his grasp on reality along the way.”

    NYRB: Don’t make this a big deal about journalism,” Hersh says. “About an amazing, sensitive, credible thing. Well, duh. The source is more important than the story, always.”

    NYRB: Olson family called the investigative journalist Seymour Hersh, whose reporting on illegal CIA domestic spying had instigated the Rockefeller Commission’s investigations. Hersh walked into their home saying bluntly, “You must be the most goddamned incurious family in the United States. How you could have lived with this bullshit story for twenty-two years is beyond me.”

    #130152
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Karl D

    “China doesn’t like our point of view when it comes to the Russia/Ukraine dust-up. In fact they’re thinking that if we can send weapons, ammunition and such to Ukraine, they can send them to Russia. Oh, by the way, they share a border so its quite-convenient………”

    .

    #130153
    John Day
    Participant

    Biden Admin Proposes To Block Half Of Current Gas Range Models
    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/biden-admin-proposes-block-half-current-gas-range-models
    An efficiency proposal by the Department of Energy (DOE) would block half of current gas cooking appliances from the U.S. market, an analysis by the federal agency shows.

    #130154
    Figmund Sreud
    Participant

    Not often we see the colour, … just some light, yes. This was special!

    ‘Quite the show’: Northern lights shimmer over Calgary, a likely trend for coming years
    The bright green aurora was seen hovering directly over Calgary on Sunday night and Monday morning

    https://calgaryherald.com/news/local-news/calgary-northern-lights

    F.S.

    #130155
    John Day
    Participant

    Lula is being comandeered with fake-GPS coordinates, or something to that effect, with the COVID-vaccine-mandate plans. Can Iranian flight-control bring him down for a landing, or will he be shot down?

    “Inquiring Minds Want To Know!”

    #130156
    zerosum
    Participant

    I don’t know what is the season that make liars call other liars, liars.
    It is irrelevant if Seymour Hersh made up his stories.
    It is making everyone look for the real story.

    #130157
    John Day
    Participant

    @Figmund Sreud:
    Solar maximum and weak magnetic fields makes for more Northern Light-Shows.

    #130158
    John Day
    Participant

    @Dr D Rich: Hirsch being as likeable as Henry K. does not keep him from being instrumental…

    How soon before “new management”, and to whom will it be beholden?

    #130159

    Just read that Justin Bieber, after postponing an 2023 Amsterdam concert series, has now cancelled them. No reason given. He has the thing where half his face is drooping, right? Guessing it still is. And his wife has another “symptom”/ vax injury. Some here will know more details. Poor people, they’re in their twenties for fucks sake.

    Makes me think that if injuries to people as much in the spotlight as they are, can remain hidden, what a uphill fight we face. And you may say that Bieber should speak out, but I bet he still has no idea what happened. But his career is over. May he can record some stuff, but live shows?

    #130160

    May 5 2022: “[Hayley] Bieber was diagnosed with a small opening in her heart, called a Patent Foramen Ovale or PFO, that didn’t close the way it should after birth. This caused the blood clot to move from her heart to her brain, and led to her mini stroke..”

    #130161
    Afewknowthetruth
    Participant

    1. Two decades ago, by studying so-called 0fficial planning, I recognised that governance (management of the peasants by the overlords and promoting the short-term interests of fascists) was being carried out by generating documents composed primarily of mutually-exclusive concepts and blatant lies. Also, an important component of official so-called planning was also what was left out, i.e. planning via omission, especially omission of key factors.

    2. Over the following decades, by observing the behaviour of those I encountered, I discovered that the vast majority of people do not understand what mutually-exclusive statements are and have no the desire to find out.

    #130162
    John Day
    Participant

    “The Saker Blog is Now Frozen” https://thesaker.is/the-saker-blog-is-now-frozen/

    #130163
    Afewknowthetruth
    Participant

    Good update on the manipulation of the masses.

    #130164
    Afewknowthetruth
    Participant

    Expect food shortages and higher prices.

    #130165
    John Day
    Participant

    Caveat emptor:
    Chemical Weapons In Ohio Train Wreck
    For Genocide By Drones In Ukraine
    By Yoichi Shimatsu
    https://rense.com/general97/chemical-weaponry-destined-for-ukraine-ignited-in-east-palestine-pt2.php

    #130166
    John Day
    Participant

    @AFKTT: Creepy voices and facial expressions from those two narcissistic announcers opening the news story about loss of produce.

    #130167
    John Day
    Participant

    Ilargi posted:
    May 5 2022: “[Hayley] Bieber was diagnosed with a small opening in her heart, called a Patent Foramen Ovale or PFO, that didn’t close the way it should after birth. This caused the blood clot to move from her heart to her brain, and led to her mini stroke..”

    The small opening between the right atrium and left atrium may allow a blood clot coming into the right side of the heart, such as from a deep venous clot in the leg, to pass to the left side of the heart, not getting caught in the lungs (pulmonary embolism).
    It is rare for this to happen without clots also going into the lungs, which is the larger and easier route of travel.

    It does not explain why clots originated in a person.

    #130168
    Afewknowthetruth
    Participant

    The insecure world the fascists in London, Washington and Brussels have created.

    #130169
    Susmarie108
    Participant

    @Ilargi – on the subject of traveling clots. We have a beloved gentleman here (in his 60’s, works for the State of CA) whose clot (unknown to him) caused a heart attack event. As he fell to the ground he full-body slammed a coffee table. He was air-lifted off the mountain to a big city hospital for heart surgery. The surgeon discovered and removed the clot which was one of those long stringy ones, he saved it and showed it to him. The Dr. also noted that the clot was likely dislodged by the fall and the blood flow to his heart resumed. Not sure what happened next…E.g. did anyone ask WHY this clot developed? Crazy!

    Nick appears to be an Aussie Shepherd. They know a million ways to get you outside. I have one such animal – and she is always on the case. Heading out into the 15 inches of snow for the 5th time today yaaaah!

    C & H frame 2 is where magic happens.

    LOVE to All including The Sacker.

    #130170
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Nazilensky has always been a showboat, coiffed hair, pretend camo, fake voice, barely speaks Ukrainian convincingly, a powder puff ponce.

    That’s going to catch up to him one fine day

    .

    #130171
    Dr D Rich
    Participant

    @John Day

    I like Mike Whitney’s broad perspective.

    https://www.unz.com/mwhitney/the-plan-to-wreck-america/

    “Elites don’t believe that nationalists can be persuaded by propaganda,. They must be eradicated through incarceration or worse. Isn’t that the underlying message of January 6?

    The other underlying message of January 6, is that ordinary people are no longer allowed to challenge the authority of the people in power”

    #130172
    Oroboros
    Participant
    #130173
    zerosum
    Participant

    Retreat from Bakhmut
    1. running out of ammo
    2. save the soldiers
    3. encircled
    4. do not have white flag

    #130174
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    Tucker Carlson: CCP Whistleblower Provides More Confirmation of Analysis From Three Years Ago on China’s Biowarfare Attack

    https://politicalmoonshine.substack.com/p/tucker-carlson-ccp-whistleblower

    #130175
    Mr. House
    Participant

    If the US government says China did it, makes me think all the more that the US did it.

    #130176
    John Day
    Participant

    Air Force Relieves Six Leaders At Nuclear Base Over “Loss Of Confidence” (White, black or grey hats?)
    https://www.zerohedge.com/military/air-force-relieves-six-leaders-nuclear-base-over-loss-confidence

    Six leaders, including two commanders and four of their subordinates, at Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota, were abruptly relieved of their duties “due to a loss of confidence,” the US Air Force wrote in a press release Monday.

    Maj. Gen. Andrew J. Gebara, commander of the 8th Air Force, relieved Col. Gregory Mayer of the 5th Mission Support Group and Maj. Jonathan Welch of the 5th Logistics Readiness Squadron from their leadership positions at Minot AFB “due to a loss of confidence in their ability to complete their assigned duties.”

    #130177
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    Hope of Intravenous Spike Protein Detoxification

    https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/hope-of-intravenous-spike-protein

    #130178
    John Day
    Participant

    @Dr D Rich: “Great Minds” and so on. I have that Mike Whitney already excerpted in my line-up for today.

    #130179
    Dr D Rich
    Participant

    “Air Force Relieves Six Leaders At Nuclear Base Over “Loss Of Confidence” (White, black or grey hats?)”

    Maybe they put a SSGT in charge of those senior officers…after obtaining an MBA or something. That way you invert leadership, legal authority, experience and achievement in one fell swoop.
    At least that’s my experience at the VA and UW Medicine

    #130180
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    @ Mr. House

    I have found the USA did it vs China did it confusing and still do.

    I no longer think it is a country vs country thing.

    It seems to be a global elites thing.

    It seems to me the elites behind the current USA president likely controlled by London/Davos, likely the ones who relocated the production to China and received years and years of Chinese goods for worthless fiat currency now have to collapse and vacate the West. Maybe a little like the UK returning Hong Kong deal but now with genocide

    #130181
    Figmund Sreud
    Participant

    Escobar:

    “[A]s much as Russia is a master of riddles and China is a master of paradox, their strategists are now working full time on how to return all strands of Hybrid War against the Hegemon. One thing is certain: unlike boastful Americans, they won’t outline any breakthroughs until they are already in effect.

    The Stage Is Set for Hybrid World War III

    F.S.

    #130182
    zerosum
    Participant

    China interference in Canadian election ….. NO
    Russia interference in Canadian election ….. NO
    Ukraine interference in Canadian election ….. YES (1.5 expats)
    USA interference in Canadian election ….. YES (bought & paid for)

    #130183
    John Day
    Participant

    Imposing A Crush Zone https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/imposing-a-crush-zone

    Charles Hugh Smith has an engaging perspective. If an economic depression is inevitable, some powers have the capability of weaponizing it against rivals, making harm happen to the rivals first, making rivals take the blame and financial losses, and maybe even deaths.
    Not everybody can play. There are prerequisites.
    ​ ​Weaponizing Global Depression
    ​ ​The general assumption now is that everything is propaganda, i.e. that every shred of content has been stripped of the 90% of messy reality to leave the shiny 10% that protects someone’s vested interests and emotional stake. While propaganda is indeed ubiquitous and overabundant, not everything is propaganda…
    ​ ​We’re quite fond of the illusion that our “likes” and “winning the argument” matter. They don’t. Winning arguments, collecting “likes” and basking in the warmth of confirming our biases don’t change anything…
    ​ ​A third illusion is that policymakers control everything. They don’t…
    Add up these asymmetries and we find a very few winners and many losers. The winners are limited to those nations with these five capacities:
    1. Self-sufficiency in energy, or close enough to manage with modest imports from friendly neighbors or allies.
    2. Not dependent on energy revenues for the bulk of national income.
    3. The capacity to sell newly issued bonds without reducing the purchasing power of the currency, i.e. the risk premium and yield are more attractive than competing issuances of bonds.
    4. Maintain a freely traded (i.e. price and risk discovered by the market), liquid market in size for its bonds.
    5. A diverse, adaptable economy that maintains deep, liquid, transparent markets for goods, services, risk, credit, bonds and other financial assets.
    http://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2023/02/weaponizing-global-depression.html

    ​ Andrei, The Saker: The point being made is that well-funded, narcissistic political ideologues have commandeered think tanks in Washington and New York since the 1980s (previously known as “the crazies in the basement”, but not these days).
    ​ Is Andrei Martyanov right in his criticism of US ruling “elites”?
    ​ ​I fully back him on this issue because for as long as the USA will be the proverbial “monkey with a (nuclear) hand grenade” the Neocons will continue to represent an existential threat to our planet. And with the Neocons in total control of Zone A, that risk will remain with us until these crazies are sent back to some basement or they blow up the entire northern hemisphere.

    Is Andrei Martyanov right in his criticism of US ruling “elites”?

    ​ ​Mike Whitney: The Plan to Wreck America​ Thanks Christine
    ​ ​In America, we have an oligarch problem, and it’s much bigger than the oligarch problem that Putin faced when he became president in 2000. The entire West is now in the grips of billionaire elites who have a stranglehold on the media, the political establishment and all of our important institutions. In recent years we have seen these oligarchs expand their influence from markets, finance and trade to politics, social issues and even public health. The impact this group has had on these other areas of interest, has been nothing short of breathtaking. Establishment elites and their media not only stood foursquare behind Russiagate, the Trump impeachment, the BLM riots and the January 6 fiasco, they also had a hand in the Covid hysteria and the host of repressive measures that were imposed in the name of public health. What we’d like to know is to what extent this group is actively involved in the shaping of other events that are aimed at transforming the American Republic into a more authoritarian system?
    ​ ​In other words, are the mandated injections, the forced lockdowns, the aggressive government-implemented censorship, the dubious presidential elections, the burning of food processing plants, the derailing of trains, the attacks on the power grid, the BLM-Antifa riots, the drag queen shows for schoolchildren, the maniacal focus on gender issues, and glitzy public show-trials merely random incidents occurring spontaneously during a period of great social change or are they, in fact, evidence of a stealthily orchestrated operation conducted by agents of the state acting on behalf of their elite benefactors? We already know that the FBI, the DOJ and the intel agencies were directly involved in Russiagate –which was a covert attack on the sitting president of the United States. So, the question is not “whether” these agencies are actively involved in other acts of treachery but, rather, to what extent these acts impact the lives of ordinary Americans, our politics and the country?​ …
    ​ ​It (Soros statement quoted by McGregor) ​expresses the hatred that globalist billionaires have toward Christians and patriots, both of which they see as obstacles to their goal of a borderless one-world government. MacGregor discusses this phenom in relation to Russia which Soros sees as “the last nationalist state that rests on a foundation of orthodox Christian culture with Russian identity at its core.”​ …
    ​..What Nimmo is saying is that these billionaire elites are now so powerful, that they can openly say they’re going to “transition away from intergovernmental decision-making” (ie– representative government”) to a system of “multi-stakeholder governance.” If I’m not mistaken, that is a pretty unambiguous declaration of a new form of supra-national government, in which only the billionaire stakeholders have a vote in what policies are implemented. But isn’t that the way things work already?​ …
    ​..​Repeat: the first phase of political activity ought to be to create the conditions favoring the installation of chaos in all of the regime’s structures… This destruction of the state must be carried out under the cover of (communist) activities…. Popular opinion must be polarized in such a way, that we are being presented as the only instrument capable of saving the nation.”
    ​..​In other words, the objective of the operation is to completely disrupt all social relations and interaction, cultivate feelings of uncertainty, polarization and terror, find a group that can be scapegoated for the wide societal collapse, and, then, present yourself (elites) as the best choice for restoring order.​ (Uh, Don’t Bite!)​
    https://www.unz.com/mwhitney/the-plan-to-wreck-america/

    ​ Wow, this looks similar…
    ​ Manichaeism and ‘An Ideology of Liberal Empire’ – Biden’s Forever Cosmic War Against Russian ‘Evil’ , Alastair Crooke Thanks Figmund Sreud
    The reality is that the EU is gripped by the attempt to impose a ‘cultural revolution’ – in the sense that broad citizen conformity to its cultural norms and ‘emergencies’ is not enough. But rather, it is its’ thought-processes that have to be fully reflected in modes of thinking such that every citizen’s acts and thoughts reflect EU ‘right thinking’.
    We see this with the war party’s poster girl, Annalena Baerbock’s, lecturing non-aligned countries that there is no space for neutrality when it comes to Ukraine: ‘You are ‘either with us or against us’; and if the former, then GIVE U.S. AMMO!’.
    Well, the cultural revolution already is reversing. Today, the Civilisational States (Russia, China, Iran, etc. and link) see the future as theirs and view the woke globalists – and their financialised economic structures – as passé. This reversal increasingly is evident in the popular war in the U.S., but not in Europe.
    But can the EU change? – since all the bridges by which it might reconnect to the future have long since been burned down. In essence, the EU is a steam-roller ‘offensive’ ever incrementally moving towards ‘more Europe’.

    Manichaeism and ‘An Ideology of Liberal Empire’ – Biden’s Forever Cosmic War Against Russian ‘Evil’

    #130184
    John Day
    Participant

    Katherine Watt explains clearly, in 16 minutes, decades of preparation of federal health emergency security laws, suborned to the US Department of Defense during emergencies, which create a national police state from the top down.
    State and local laws still remain, which have not been superseded, and should be used​ at every opportunity to deconstruct this monster of military-medical-fascism. These are War Crimes. (I had posted this in comments and it was well received.)
    Katherine Watt: In Her Own Words​ ​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9mFc4_5S0A

    ​(There are rumors that other planned intrigues may have fallen-flat due to unanticipated failure modes)​
    ​NATO Members Float Plan For Negotiations Amid “Growing Doubts” Ukraine Can Retake Territory
    https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/west-cold-shoulders-chinas-ceasefire-proposal-ukraine

    Zelensky Hints At Withdrawing From Russian-Encircled Bakhmut: ‘Out Of Options’​ (The other option is just leaving the​ boys​ there to die)
    https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/zelensky-hints-withdrawing-russian-encircled-bakhmut-out-options

    ​ Doctors For Disaster Preparedness, Jane Orient MD​ regarding a nuclear detonation near you:
    ​ ​T​he “duck and cover drill” that Beck like so many others ridicules would save millions of lives in those areas far enough from the bomb where flying glass and debris would be the main hazard.
    ​ ​Any type of shadow or cover can prevent burns from the thermal flash. At Hiroshima, skin under white clothing was protected, while skin under dark colors was burned.
    ​ ​There is no fallout of significance if a nuclear warhead is air burst.
    ​ ​Fallout from a ground burst decays rapidly by the “7-10 rule.” At 7 hours after detonation, the radioactivity would be decreased to 10% of the initial level, and at 49 hours, to 1% of the initial level. It does not take 2 weeks to fall to that level.
    ​ ​Fallout is visible (it looks like sand or grit). Levels can be measured easily—unfortunately, the U.S. destroyed most of its appropriate instruments, but Beck does not mention that fact, or the alternatives available to or makeable by the public.
    ​ ​The nuclear winter theory was thoroughly debunked in 1986.

    WW III? Reply to Glenn Beck on Nuclear War

    ​I would say “covert attack”, or “sabotage”, but everybody says “terrorism” these days.​
    Turkey-Syria Earthquake: Is This An Act of Terror?
    ​ ​Author’s Update
    ​ ​The conclusion of “No Evidence So Far” in the title referred to the strong suspicion that this horrendous quake was the result of an ENMOD engineered disaster. (Environmental Modification Techniques). Up to this day it killed more than 48,000 people, injured more than half a million, and still tens of thousands are missing. ​ ​The “no evidence” statement is wearing thinner and thinner, especially, when listening to Serdar Hussein, the Head of the Turkish Space Agency talking on Russian TV.
    ​ ​He uses hyperbolic emblematic speech, when talking about the hard titanium alloy material being launched to the Earth. It refers to using the titanium alloy rods to send these deadly, super-power beams of energy to earth, deep into the ground to cause the earthquake..
    ​..​The High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP)
    ​ ​The US Air Force’s “Weather Warfare” is related to The High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) which was developed in the early 1990s.
    ​ ​A scientific report (HAL Id: hal-01082992) regarding HAARP (2011, 2014) explains that high-power ELF radiation generated by modulated HF heating of the ionosphere could cause Earthquakes, Cyclones and localized heating. The paper by Fran De Aquino Maranhao summarized the scientific findings as follows:
    ​ ​“HAARP is currently [2014], [the project was closed in Gakona, Alaska and transferred in 2014] the most important facility used to generate extremely low frequency (ELF) electromagnetic radiation in the ionosphere. In order to produce this ELF radiation, the HAARP transmitter radiates a strong beam of high frequency (HF) waves modulated at ELF.
    ​ ​This HF heating modulates the electrons’ temperature in the D region ionosphere and leads to modulated conductivity and a time-varying current which then radiates at the modulation frequency. Recently, the HAARP HF transmitter operated with 3.6GW of effective radiated power modulated at frequency of 2.5Hz. It is shown that high-power ELF radiation generated by HF ionospheric heaters, such as the current HAARP heater, can cause Earthquakes, Cyclones and strong localized heating.”
    ​ ​The patents used to develop the HAARP program are owned by Raytheon through its E-Systems subsidiary.
    ​ ​It should be noted that with the closing down of The High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) program in Gakona, Alaska in 2014 for another location, the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has been actively involved in ENMOD research, most of which is classified. See this
    ​ ​At the time of writing, there is suspicion, but no concrete evidence that the Turkey-Syria Earthquake was an Act of Terror, triggered by Environmental Modification Techniques.
    ​ ​The above statements remain to be fully ascertained.

    Turkey-Syria Earthquake: Is This An Act of Terror?

    #130185
    John Day
    Participant

    ​ Well, there are other reasons, too but this is an interesting take.
    ​ ​Why is Assange in Jail and Not Seymour Hersh?
    ​ ​The answer is this. Although President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland would love to throw Sy Hersh into a maximum security prison for the rest of his life, as punishment for revealing their complicity in blowing up the Nord Stream II pipelines – they don’t dare to. If they did, it would be tantamount to admitting that … what Hersh published is true.
    ​ ​Which would be embarrassing, to say the least, because Biden and Company have spent every day since February 7 denying that Hersh’s revelations are true. In other words, they claim he made it all up – which means, according to them, that he did not publish classified information. Therefore he cannot be guilty of any crime.

    Why is Assange in Jail and Not Seymour Hersh?

    ​ This is probably an hour of reading, upon which I spent about 15 minutes last night, but this one allegation jumped out at me. Thanks Christine.
    ​ ​Has Russia Already Won? Is it “Game Over” for the Rothschild/Rockefeller Empire?
    ​ ​July 2014: As Putin was returning to Russia after the BRICS summit in Brazil, his plane overflew Ukraine.
    The CIA targeted his plane, but the wrong plane was shot down – Malaysian Airlines MH17.

    Has Russia Already Won? Is it “Game Over” for the Rothschild/Rockefeller Empire?

    ​ I’m embarrassed to say that I spent a very long time today trying to determine Vladimir Putin’s schedule and flight path (if any) on July 17, 2014. All I could get was a haystack of “Putin Supplied Buk Missile That Shot Down MH-17”, except for this one needle I eventually pulled out, with an attached rebuttal.
    CNN: Propaganda war: Russia offers alternate takes to what brought down MH17
    ​ THE RUSSIAN TAKE: Putin’s plane was the target
    According to some accounts in the Russian media, MH17 was traveling along almost the same route as President Vladimir Putin’s presidential plane, which was returning to Moscow from a summit in Brazil. Both planes have red, white and blue markings.
    “The contours of the airplanes are in general similar, the linear dimensions are also very similar and regarding the coloring, from a sufficiently long distance, they are practically identical,” an aviation source was quoted as telling the news outlet, RT.
    THE WORLD’S TAKE: Another Russian media, the online news portal Gazeta.ru, reported that Putin’s plane has not flown over Ukrainian airspace for quite some time because of the conflict between the government and rebel forces.
    https://www.cnn.com/2014/07/22/world/europe/malaysia-plane-crash-propaganda-war/index.html

    ​ Steve Kirsch: ​GAME OVER: Medicare data shows the COVID vaccines increase your risk of dying
    ​ ​This is why the CDC has NEVER used the Medicare data to prove the vaccines are safe. And this is why NOBODY in mainstream medicine wants you to see this data. EVER. They ALL want it hidden. FOREVER.
    ​ ​It shows that these shots increase your risk of dying and once you get shot, your risk of dying remains elevated for an unknown amount of time. And that’s in the very population it is supposed to help the most!
    ​ ​Now you know why the CDC, which has always had access to the Medicare records, has never made them publicly available for anyone to analyze to prove that the vaccines are safe. Because the records show the opposite. That’s why they keep the data hidden from view and it’s why they NEVER talk about it.​.. (114,000 records can be downloaded as he instructs with link)
    ​..You’ll soon see for yourself why the CDC will never release this data and why the mainstream press is NEVER EVER going to ask to see the data: because it would reveal they lied to people and killed over 500,000 Americans by recommending they take an unsafe “vaccine.”
    https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/game-over-medicare-data-shows-the

    ​Last week I presented post-vaccine-injury treatment information on Nattokinase,​ Acetylcysteine and Bromelain, now this from Dr. McCullough:
    Hope of Intravenous Spike Protein Detoxification​ , ​​Alkaline Serine Protease derived from River Worm Neanthes Japonica (Izuka)
    https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/hope-of-intravenous-spike-protein

    #130186
    aspnaz
    Participant

    Starmer was the head of the Crown Prosecution Service when Thatcher was in power. That was the time that Jimmy Saville and various politicians and celebrities were visiting mental hospitals and the BBC in order to fiddle with little girls and boys. Starmer had received complaints about Saville and the others but decided to not prosecute probably to avoid embarrassment. As a result many thousands more children were subjected to the favourite perversions of the ruling classes. Why do the rich like fucking children so much? What is wrong with the like of Bill Gates, Jimmy Saville, Epstein etc that they have such perverted desires and cannot control themselves? Starmer will make your children suffer to help his owners. That is the essence of the Labour party in the UK.

    #130187
    aspnaz
    Participant

    Who cares who leaked Covid? This is such a huge diversion because the person(s) can always claim it was an accident and go free. It is not as if the person is going to turn round and say that Mr X in the CIA told me to do it. The real question if who developed Covid and who funded the subsequent suppression of mesicines that would have crushed Covid and turn it into a nothing burger. US congress again pretending to be earning their salaries and perks when really they are just putting on theatre.

    #130188
    Dr D Rich
    Participant

    @John Day
    No, not to this not just it’s uncharacteristically narrowly considerate and unimaginative for you:

    “The answer is this. Although President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland would love to throw Sy Hersh into a maximum security prison for the rest of his life, as punishment for revealing their complicity in blowing up the Nord Stream II pipelines – they don’t dare to. If they did, it would be tantamount to admitting that … what Hersh published is true.”

    I see a pattern…

    Hersh’s My Lai did nothing to curb the rise of Colin Powell…”cover-upper”. Calley and Medina, well, that’s history too.

    Hersh’s Chain of Command did nothing for one Tom Pappas and little hurt for General Karpinski? and it made the rest of the military choose sides with the murderers and torturers;

    segue to Murtha’s vilification and murder at Walter Reed in 2010. The latter solidified the fraudulent sinking of my career.

    So, convince me Hersh genuinely pricked anyone in power since once again Seymour has yet to pay the price Murtha, Assange, Kirakou, Ritter, Jeffrey Sterling so?, Watada, Darby, Assange paid

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