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China Wants its Balloon Back (Celente)
Let’s Talk About Nuclear War (Naveira)
Musk Assesses Public Awareness Of WWIII Risk (RT)
Kiev Inching Closer To Conceding Defeat – Medvedev (RT)
Kiev Still Conducts Terror Attacks Against New Russian Regions – Shoigu (TASS)
Anglo-Zionism and the Confederation of Europe (Batiushka)
China Sees Russia’s Concerns Over NATO Expansion As Premise For Conflict (TASS)
West Uses OPCW To Justify Its Aggression – Moscow (RT)
EU ‘Sold Its Soul’ To Russia – Poland (RT)
EU’s Borrell Can’t Hide His Racist Worldview – Lavrov (RT)
Ukraine: There’s No Substitute For Victory (Steve Forbes)
US Rep. Matt Gaetz Calls For End To Funding Of Kiev’s Army (RT)
Russia Has Lost Confidence In US Dollar – Finance Minister (RT)
US Lacks Unity Before Modern Challenges – Kissinger (TASS)
Where Do Things Stand? (Jim Kunstler)
The Failure of Scientific Journals: the Failure of Science (Ugo Bardi)

 

 

 

 

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They’ve “rescued” it, so let’s hear if it’s just a weather balloon.

China Wants its Balloon Back (Celente)

China’s Foreign Ministry called on the U.S. to immediately return the “airship” that was shot out of the skies last weekend by an F-22 after Washington identified it as a “spy balloon.” Mao Ning, a spokeswoman from the ministry, said during a press briefing Tuesday that the balloon does not belong to the U.S., it belongs to China, according to RT, the Russian outlet. She accused Washington of overreacting and acting in an unprofessional manner with the goal of smearing Beijing. China has insisted that the balloon was a civilian meteorological research airship. Tensions between China and the U.S. are hitting new lows. Wei Fenghe, the Chinese military head, refused a call with Lloyd Austin, the U.S. military chief, on Tuesday.

[..] American F-22 fighters successfully shot down a Chinese high-altitude surveillance balloon off the South Carolina coast last weekend that the U.S. said was being used by Beijing to “surveil strategic sites.” U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin called the incursion an “unacceptable violation of our sovereignty.” The Defense Department said it began tracking the balloon, which was carrying a payload the size of three buses, over the Aleutian Islands on 28 January. The balloon floated over Alaska, Canada, and then re-entered U.S. airspace over Idaho, a statement read. The U.S. claimed it did not shoot down the balloon over land to prevent “undue risk” to civilians. President Joe Biden said Saturday that he ordered the Pentagon to shoot the balloon down “as soon as possible” on Wednesday. The balloon was eventually picked off by the Raptor which fired one AIM-9X Sidewinder missile that cost We the People of Slavelandia about $400,000.


The statement said, “F-15 Eagles flying from Barnes Air National Guard Base, Massachusetts, supported the F-22.” “Long before the shoot down, U.S. officials took steps to protect against the balloon’s collection of sensitive information, mitigating its intelligence value to the Chinese,” the statement read. China said the U.S. overreacted over a weather balloon. “China strongly disapproves of and protests against the U.S. attack on a civilian unmanned airship by force,” the Chinese Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Sunday morning, according to the South China Morning Post. “The U.S.’s use of force is a clear overreaction and a serious violation of international practice,” the ministry said, before noting that Beijing reserves the right to make “further responses that are necessary.”

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“..there is no compromise, a country is either sovereign or a colony..”

Let’s Talk About Nuclear War (Naveira)

The United States and Russia – the two greatest nuclear powers on the planet – have embarked on a wide-ranging “indirect war”. All that now remains is for them to engage in direct warfare, which will end up happening sooner or later. If later, it will be exactly because both powers are aware that any direct war between them will inevitably escalate into nuclear war, with a good chance of devastating them both. How we reached this point will not be examined in depth here. Very briefly, both parties regard this as a struggle for existence – Russia, in order to continue to exist as a nation (in Putin’s words, “there is no compromise, a country is either sovereign or a colony”), and the United States, to continue to exist as the nation with hegemony over the rest (the US economy has become so reliant on that hegemony that its end would entail the country’s collapse).

Accordingly, both are willing to take the conflict to its ultimate consequences in order to prevail, and thus nuclear war becomes more inevitable with every passing day. Among those responsible for a nuclear war that will be the downfall of all Humankind, there can be no “good guy”. However, when one side is fighting to subsist with autonomy, while the other is fighting in order to dominate the rest, it is not difficult to discern which is most the “bad guy”. Also, if it is still possible, after the hecatomb, to bring the culprits to some kind of justice, it will make all the difference to distinguish who “pressed the button” first (that is, who deliberately chose for millions of people to die) from whoever operated their buttons in retaliation to the incoming attack.

What developments will take place until we finally arrive at nuclear war is also not the purpose of this piece. Once again, to summarise, both are trying to “gain time”, hoping for their adversary to fall over their own feet before direct war ensues: the Russians are counting on an economic and social collapse in the West, while the US counts on a military defeat of the Russians by the Ukrainians, resulting in the fall of the Putin government. It has to be said, however, that thus far the Russians are getting the better of this “war of attrition”.

The US also seeks to draw Russia into war against some other, NATO-member country, prodding Lithuania to blockade land access to the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad, Romania to provide Moldavia with the means to reincorporate the pro-Russian separatist region of Transnistria, and Poland to occupy the westernmost portion of the Ukraine, so as to force Russia to respond militarily. Under the fifth article of the treaty that set up NATO, an attack on any member state is to be taken as an attack on them all; in that way, the United States would drag all of Europe into a war against Russia. The Russians (as well as these European cannon-fodder candidates) have thus far managed to sidestep this trap.

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“Most are oblivious to the danger.”

Musk Assesses Public Awareness Of WWIII Risk (RT)

The majority of people are not even aware that a new world war may erupt soon, billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk has stated. The risk of a global catastrophe was highlighted this week by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. The UN head said in a speech to the General Assembly on Monday that he feared that humanity was marching toward a “wider war” with its “eyes wide open” and urged preserving peace. “Could we please not do WWIII,” pleaded conservative political commentator Luke Rudkowski, reacting to the speech. Musk responded: “Most are oblivious to the danger.” The Twitter and SpaceX CEO previously warned against “relentless escalation” of the conflict in Ukraine, stating that it was dangerous for the country itself and the world.


Musk won praise for supplying SpaceX Starlink satellite internet systems to the Ukrainian government, with some experts assessing that they were a game-changer in the fight against Russia. But he also suggested that Kiev would have to make concessions to Moscow in order to achieve peace, a notion that prompted some Ukrainian officials to harshly criticize and even insult the businessman. Mikhail Podoliak, an aide to Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, claimed last week that Musk was using his control of Twitter to reduce the reach of Ukrainian official accounts and help “Russian propaganda.” “Maybe a regulator is needed to explain competition rules to the owner?” Podoliak mused. The Ukrainian official offered no evidence to support his claims or explanation of how his regulatory threat could be carried out.

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“..Aleksey Danilov, who claimed that Russia is lobbying EU nations to accept a Korean-style split of his nation..”

Kiev Inching Closer To Conceding Defeat – Medvedev (RT)

Discussions of a “Korean scenario” in Ukraine are a sign that Kiev is on the way to recognizing the reality on the ground and accepting its losses, former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has said. The idea of a Korean-style division of Ukraine has been discussed by current and former officials in Kiev, who claim that this is what Russia is pursuing. The idea that Ukraine could be divided up the way Korea was after the war in the 1950s is “for domestic consumption” and constitutes “wishful thinking,” Medvedev added, citing unnamed “propagandists” as peddling the notion. What is notable is that “they coyly tested the statement that there can be no victory” and that “being split is the best-case scenario,” the former president said. The ‘Korean scenario’ means that a smaller, US-backed Ukraine could eventually develop to the level of South Korea while maintaining its claims over lost territories, Medvedev explained.

“In essence, this is the first step towards accepting the realities on the ground,” he said. Korea was split into two parts after a three-year civil war, in which the opposing factions in the north and south were backed by the USSR and China, and the US respectively. Both Pyongyang and Seoul claim sovereignty over the entire Korean Peninsula, and each considers the other government to be unlawful. Unlike South Korea, Donbass voted in a referendum to become part of Russia rather than forming a sovereign state, Medvedev said, arguing that a ‘Korean scenario’ is not feasible for Ukraine. The former president currently serves as the deputy chairman of the Russian National Security Council.

The idea was floated to the Ukrainian public last month by Medvedev’s counterpart in Kiev, Aleksey Danilov, who claimed that Russia is lobbying EU nations to accept a Korean-style split of his nation, and stated that Kiev would reject it. The Kremlin dismissed the report as a “hoax. This week, the Korean scenario was also brought up by Aleksey Arestovich, the former aide to the office of Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky. Speaking at an expert panel discussion on Monday, he stated that Ukraine does not have enough manpower to beat Russia on the battlefield anytime soon, and claimed that a Korean scenario may become an acceptable off-ramp for the parties involved. Like Danilov before him, Arestovich claimed that Russia is seeking this type of outcome, while noting that the Western nations which Kiev depends upon “think the same way.”

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“..Ukraine’s armed forces have been attacking residential areas, hospitals, and public gathering areas..”

Kiev Still Conducts Terror Attacks Against New Russian Regions – Shoigu (TASS)

Authorities in Ukraine continue intimidating civilians in Russia’s new regions, with Ukrainian troops attacking residential areas and hospitals there, Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu said on Tuesday. “While realizing that they won’t be able to inflict a military defeat on Russia, the Ukrainian leadership has been resorting to criminal activity in order to intimidate residents of new Russian regions,” Shoigu said, adding that Ukraine’s armed forces have been attacking residential areas, hospitals, and public gathering areas and committing terror attacks against government and social facilities. On January 28, Russia’s top brass said that the Ukrainian armed forces had launched an intentional attack at around 7:30 am, using rocket-propelled projectiles from the US-made HIMARS multiple launch rocket system, on a hospital in Novoaidar in the Lugansk People’s Republic (LPR).


Fourteen patients and medical employees were killed, while 24 more suffered wounds. The Russian Defense Ministry pointed out that civilian and military health professionals had been providing medical treatment to local civilians and service members at the Novoaidar hospital for many months. Former LPR’s ambassador to Moscow Rodion Miroshnik said last week that Ukrainian forces had shelled four LPR hospitals since the start of the year. The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has said it’s going to look into the circumstances behind the Novoaidar hospital shelling.

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Orthodox priest Batiushka sees the GOP as the Anglos, and the Dems as the zionists.

Anglo-Zionism and the Confederation of Europe (Batiushka)

[..] the main bastion of Anglo-Zionism is undoubtedly the USA, which the bankers from London seriously colonised during the First World War. specifically during the 1916 turning-point, when it became apparent to the Round Table organisation there would only be one winner, neither Germany, nor Great Britain, but the USA. As soon as Russia had been taken out of the equation through US bankers via their British agents and Russian traitors in Petrograd in early 1917, the first US troops appeared in France less than one month later. All had been pre-planned. Today in the US, the Republican Party represents the Anglos and the Democratic Party the Zionists. The billionaire Trump, like Bush, is a typical White Anglo nationalist WASP: America first.

On the other hand, Biden is a typical Zionist, just like Obama and Clinton before him, though quite unlike Kennedy. An electoral accident, he of course had to be eliminated. And he was.For 250 years the Anglos and the Zionists have worked together in the US, they have had the same self-interested interests – money and power. However, there are now discussions between them regarding the Ukraine. Already half of the Anglo Republicans want out of the Ukraine (1). It is too costly and they want to save the US (and their own fortunes) from its multiple self-inflicted wounds just in case it goes under. But the Zionists are thinking along the same lines. There is only one solution. The Anglos wanted the Ukraine in order to defeat their traditional rival, Russia.

However, for the Zionists the Ukraine had another purpose, it was to destroy White Europe, the same purpose they had in fomenting the First and Second World Wars, so ensuring Zionist domination of the world – ‘Globalism’. Not all neocons are Wolfowitzes, Kagans and Nulands. Many are Anglos. Today, we are already seeing that the Republicans are increasingly beginning to support Zaluzhny, the Kiev military commander, whereas the Democrats still stand behind the Jewish Zelensky, but are now wavering. The Republicans originally wanted to weaken Russia. The Republicans are nationalists, so are the Russians. It is now just dawning on them that Russia does not want to recreate the Soviet Empire or any other sort of Empire, all they want is to protect Russians, not to invade other countries. In any case, they are not going to weaken Russia any more through the Ukraine.

All that they have done so far is to strengthen Russia. The Ukraine has not served its purpose. As for the Zionists, they are happy to kill as many White Europeans, especially Russian and Ukrainians, as possible, but above all they want world power. The interests of Anglos and Zionists coincide. For if the Russians do not want world power after all, then the real rival is China, which has real mercantile power. Therefore, the pivot to China, where there is real money. Once the US has lost in the Ukraine, and Kadyrov confidently predicts that it will be over by the end of 2023, the US will turn its attention to China. But it is already happening. That is what the balloon show was all about. China is a much more interesting option for the money-grubbers, whether Anglos or Zionists. But where does that leave benighted Europe?

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“You believe that the NATO expansion does not carry a threat for Russia, but, when [Soviet leader Nikita] Khruschev decided to deploy nuclear weapons on Cuba, what was [US President John] Kennedy’s reaction?”

China Sees Russia’s Concerns Over NATO Expansion As Premise For Conflict (TASS)

China remains neutral in regards to the conflict in Ukraine, but it understands Russia’s concerns over NATO’s eastward expansion and the plans to include Ukraine in the alliance, which have become the premise for the current conflict, Chinese Ambassador to France Lu Shaye said on the LCI TV channel Monday. “NATO has been posing a threat to Russia’s security for decades, […] the five rounds of NATO’s eastward expansion pose a significant threat for Russia’s security. This is what [Russian] President Vladimir Putin is talking about; he strongly opposes the inclusion of a number of neighboring states to NATO, including Ukraine,” Lu Shaye said, answering a question about the reasons behind the current conflict in Ukraine.

“You believe that the NATO expansion does not carry a threat for Russia, but, when [Soviet leader Nikita] Khruschev decided to deploy nuclear weapons on Cuba, what was [US President John] Kennedy’s reaction?” he continued. When the host noted that, prior to the special military operation, there allegedly were no plans to include Ukraine to the alliance and to deploy NATO missiles on its territory, the diplomat noted that this could happen in the future. “If NATO pushes its borders to Russia’s threshold, it will also deploy missiles,” he noted. The Chinese envoy opined that the actions of the West do not contribute to a prompt end of the Ukrainian conflict.

“China remains neutral in this crisis, but we believe that constant shipments of increasingly heavy weapons to one side of the conflict do not contribute to its prompt end. It is like pouring oil to the flame,” he said. Answering corresponding allegations from the host, the diplomat assured that Beijing does not ship weapons to Russia and “does nothing against peaceful settlement of the conflict.” “Several months ago, European countries refused to ship tanks to Ukraine, and now they do. Today, they refuse to ship warplanes, but, maybe, in several months, they will ship them,” he noted. “Maybe, one day, NATO member states will wonder if they are a side to the conflict.”.

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It’s insane that the OPCW still exists. On par with Bellingcat.

West Uses OPCW To Justify Its Aggression – Moscow (RT)

The latest report by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), which blames Damascus for carrying out a chemical attack in Douma in 2018, looks like a political hit piece meant to justify the West’s continued military aggression against the Syrian government, says Alexander Shulgin, Russia’s permanent representative to the organization. Speaking to RT, Shulgin vehemently dismissed the report, which was released in late January by the so-called Investigation and Identification Team (IIT). Calling the IIT “completely illegitimate,” he claimed the group’s creation was pushed through by the US and its allies in order to undermine the core principles of the OPCW and international law and replace them with their own “made-up rules.”

The IIT’s report, according to Shulgin, is riddled with inconsistencies and factual gaps, and barely holds together. Furthermore, none of Russia’s or any other country’s “uncomfortable” questions regarding the details of the IIT’s findings were even remotely addressed during an OPCW briefing on the report, the ambassador claimed. Shulgin also noted that the report highlighted the double standards currently present within the OPCW. When Russia presented evidence of a chemical attack in Aleppo back in 2016, every minute detail of Moscow’s findings was heavily scrutinized by the organization, he said. However, when it comes to the attack in Douma, OPCW officials seem to turn a blind eye to basic questions such as how and when the evidence was gathered and presented during the investigation.

“For instance, they referred to the fact that some new sample has appeared, provided by a third party. What is this third party? Nothing is said about it. They just say ‘trust us’,” said Shulgin, noting that the sample in question had never been reported on in previous investigations. “So before, there was no sample, but now, suddenly, it has somehow appeared. Without any explanations,” the ambassador stressed, suggesting its sudden appearance can only be explained by the need for the US, France, and UK to escape international accountability for their aggression against Syria.

The three NATO states launched a series of airstrikes against civilian and military targets in Syria in April 2018 after the so-called ‘White Helmets’ – an NGO operating in rebel-controlled areas of Syria – published a series of videos supposedly showing the aftermath of a chlorine attack on the residents of Douma. Syria has vehemently denied any responsibility for the incident, and both Damascus and Moscow have repeatedly pointed to evidence, including testimonies from alleged victims, that suggests the incident was staged in order to justify a Western attack.

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“..Peskov said in December that the EU was only replacing one “addiction” with another while filling Washington’s coffers with billions of dollars…”

EU ‘Sold Its Soul’ To Russia – Poland (RT)

Europe allowed itself to grow dependent on Russian energy like a drug addict, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said on Monday. Speaking at a conference in Warsaw on efforts to support Ukraine, Morawiecki suggested that the EU got hooked on Russian natural resources, with Moscow doing its best to enable the addiction. “The dealer always gives the first dose for free or very cheap so that the addict comes for more and agrees to any price,” he said. As a result, the prime minister stated, gas contracts with Russia “turned out to be a pact under which Europe sold its soul.” The continent was “so easily seduced by Russia” not through “demonic abilities,” but rather because of its own weakness, he claimed.

At the same time, Morawiecki said the Ukraine conflict had awakened many countries “from their geopolitical slumber.” As the fighting rages, the West stands at a crossroads: “either the victory of Russia and the defeat of the West, or the renaissance of Western civilization,” he asserted. “Today it is not enough for us to talk about rebuilding Europe, today we have to think about rebuilding Europe so that peace and security become permanent foundations for development for many decades,” Morawiecki stressed. Since the start of Moscow’s military operation in Ukraine in February 2022, the EU has committed to completely weaning itself off Russian energy by 2030. It intends to double down on the use of green energy and secure oil and gas supplies of non-Russian origin. In particular, the bloc has resorted to importing liquified natural gas (LNG) from the US.

However, in October, French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire accused the US of capitalizing on the EU’s economic woes, saying that it sells its LNG “at four times the price that it sets for its own industrialists.” Commenting on the bloc’s push to reduce dependence on Russian energy, Kremlin Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov said in December that the EU was only replacing one “addiction” with another while filling Washington’s coffers with billions of dollars.

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“Not so long ago he openly spoke about Europe being a garden surrounded by a jungle that threatens it..”

EU’s Borrell Can’t Hide His Racist Worldview – Lavrov (RT)

Calling African countries easy to manipulate is on brand for Josep Borrell, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Tuesday, responding to the EU foreign policy chief’s remarks that accused Moscow of “spreading misinformation.” Borrell had addressed EU diplomats earlier in the day, accusing Russia of using “information manipulation and interference” as weapons of war. Noting that Lavrov was visiting Mali and Eritrea, Borrell called them “easy countries” for Moscow to “spread lies about who is guilty for what is happening” in Ukraine. “So speaks a man who can’t hide the racist essence of his worldview,” Lavrov said when asked about his EU counterpart’s accusations. “Not so long ago he openly spoke about Europe being a garden surrounded by a jungle that threatens it, so the garden needs to be careful with the jungle. That says it all about who actually relates to the needs and interests of African countries, and how.”

“We have nothing to hide or to be ashamed of,” the Russian foreign minister added. “We were at the source of Africa’s liberation from the colonial yoke. The Soviet Union was one of the main initiators of the declaration to grant independence to colonized countries and peoples in 1960. And it was not an imitation, as [former UK PM] Boris Johnson recently called the Minsk agreements, but a real historical act that sealed the end of colonial rule.” Speaking to EU diplomats, Borrell lamented that some African countries do not support the bloc’s position that Ukraine is fighting “for the values on which we are basing our understanding of the world.”

In his view, the current conflict is not only being fought on the battlefield with troops, but “in the information space, trying to win the hearts and minds of people.” For that purpose, the EU is “protecting the freedom of expression” by banning Russian media, while providing support to “independent” outlets that Moscow has designated as foreign agents, he added. While accusing Russia of spreading disinformation, Borrell apparently did so himself – by saying Eritrea was among the “easy” countries Lavrov was currently targeting. The Russian diplomat actually visited that country last month, along with Angola, Eswatini and South Africa. His current trip includes stops in Mali, Mauritania and Sudan.

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Well, well, Mr Forbes.

Ukraine: There’s No Substitute For Victory (Steve Forbes)

The disgraceful dithering—especially by Germany—over sending tanks to Ukraine highlights the hesitation and confusion over what’s at stake in this war with Russia. Since the conflict’s beginning, the U.S. and NATO have provided Ukraine with weaponry, but never in sufficient quantity and quality to win. This hesitation has only stiffened Vladimir Putin’s conviction that despite humiliating battlefield setbacks, he can ultimately triumph, and that as time goes by, the West will tire of the effort and pressure Kyiv into a bad deal.


In Putin’s mind, the best way to achieve the subjugation of Ukraine is to use the same approach that Russia used against Nazi Germany in World War II, when the Red Army relied heavily on massive artillery barrages, tank attacks and unrelenting human wave attacks to beat back the Nazi onslaught—which is why Russian casualties were more than ten times those of the U.S. and Britain combined. Putin is playing for keeps. Russia and our other adversaries still see the U.S. as a country in terminal decline and lacking the stamina it exhibited during the Cold War. Therefore, we should be supplying Ukraine with everything it needs to unmistakably defeat Putin. That means not only many more tanks—especially Germany’s Leopard 2s, which are better suited to the terrain than our Abrams tanks—but also fighter aircraft, including F-16s, antitank and advanced antiaircraft weaponry, drones and much else.

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“..foreigners” have come to Washington “to lecture us about spending our constituents’ money on a conflict thousands of miles away..”

US Rep. Matt Gaetz Calls For End To Funding Of Kiev’s Army (RT)

The US must stop sending billions of dollars to bolster Ukraine’s military, Republican Congressman Matt Gaetz said during a speech in the House of Representatives on Monday. He slammed President Joe Biden and both parties, saying the conflict in Ukraine is only benefiting military contractors. “Tomorrow [at the State of the Union address] President Biden will tell us how much more we must do for Ukraine,” Gaetz said, adding that the ongoing hostilities are only lining the pockets of America’s military industry. “Defense contractors need there to be a war going on somewhere. Whether the arms end up in the hands of ISIS, the Taliban, the Azov Battalion, or on the black market,” according to Gaetz. Washington’s support of Ukraine with endless weapons will not end the war but just “prolong the killing,” he said.


“Bandits in the Sinaloa mountains hurt more Americans than the [Russian] men in Crimea,” Gaetz said, adding that the benefits of the conflict to normal Americans are “unclear.” He lamented that “foreigners” have come to Washington “to lecture us about spending our constituents’ money on a conflict thousands of miles away” – a reference to Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky’s visit to the US Capitol in December. He accused Biden of doing “everything possible” to provoke a nuclear war with Russia and called on the White House to pursue a solution through diplomacy. Biden promised 31 US-made M1 Abrams tanks for Ukraine in late January, but said that Washington would not send F-16 fighter jets. Gaetz noted that Lockheed Martin, the manufacturer of the warplane, was ramping up production in anticipation that there could soon be “third party transfers” of the jets to Kiev.

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“..the US dollar, euro, and British pound – the main reserve currencies – had once been considered the top units of account. “The situation has shown that now this [dollar] is a completely unreliable instrument..”

Russia Has Lost Confidence In US Dollar – Finance Minister (RT)

Russia no longer has trust in the US currency because it has become an unreliable financial instrument, Finance Minister Anton Siluanov stated on Monday. He pointed out that the US dollar, euro, and British pound – the main reserve currencies – had once been considered the top units of account. “The situation has shown that now this [dollar] is a completely unreliable instrument … Therefore, we have no confidence in this kind of unit of account. It is lost,” Siluanov told Russia’s Channel One channel. He also pointed out that Russia has been switching to trade in other currencies, particularly “in rubles and, of course, currencies from other friendly countries, such as the yuan.”


Moscow has been steadily pursuing a policy of de-dollarization in foreign trade. In recent years, Russia and some of its trade partners, including India and China, have been ramping up the use of domestic currencies in mutual settlements in an effort to move away from the dollar and euro. Siluanov highlighted that in 2021 a significant part of financial transactions in Russia were carried out in dollars and euros. “About one third of settlements were then carried out in rubles, while now more than half, about 55%, are conducted in rubles and friendly currencies,” he said, adding that this figure will continue to grow. According to the minister, the economic wellbeing of citizens is more important than exchange rates. “We are most concerned about how the economy will develop, how the income of the population will grow, what kind of employment we will have,” he concluded.

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“..Reagan “understood better than anyone how to integrate the elements of power and the elements of conciliation.”

US Lacks Unity Before Modern Challenges – Kissinger (TASS)

The US lacks unity inside the country amid modern challenges, Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said during the event, dedicated to the 112th anniversary of former US President Ronald Reagan. “Today we again suffer from domestic division and international disorder about arguments about who we are and what we stand for. We find it difficult to muster the domestic cohesion necessary to face the challenges ahead of us,” Kissinger said. He named “China’s ambitions” and the situation in the Middle East, where, in his words, there is a risk of “developing the world’s most devastating weapons.” He also mentioned the Ukrainian crisis that “shows no signs of abating,” and touched upon the issue of development of artificial intelligence that “is transforming human consciousness itself.””Each of these present developments requires a combination of strength and conciliation,” Kissinger said, adding that Reagan “understood better than anyone how to integrate the elements of power and the elements of conciliation.”.

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“.. Russia’s war-aim is simple: the elimination of chaos on its border. This rational objective is something that America’s Party of Chaos can’t understand..”

Where Do Things Stand? (Jim Kunstler)

The Right perceives that its opponents have lost their minds, but there is no arguing with people who are literally insane. What must be done is to wrest political power away from them. In the madness of the Left, power is solely a destructive force, and coercion is a form of pleasure-seeking. Unable to control the dynamics in-play, they seek to wreck the dynamics, to induce as much chaos as possible, so as to punish the non-insane. That is exactly what the Green New Deal does. Unable to control the dynamic disruptive changes in the global oil-and-gas industry that our high-tech economies depend on, the Left pretends that there is work-around “Green” energy system that can replace fossil fuels with wind and solar devices that don’t scale up and which require fossil fuels to make and deploy.

It’s slick and grandiosely hypothetical (i.e., wishful thinking), and the net effect of this major crusade will be to hasten the collapse and impoverishment of our society (ergo: the punishment). Keep all this in mind as you watch the Congressional inquiries now just getting underway. Much as they are likely to reveal the insane and arguably criminal machinations of a panicked bureaucracy, and the figures who run it, the Left will remain impervious to any truthful revelations that emerge. Of course, many of these officials are culpable for actions extremely damaging to the people of this land, and the masses on the Left who supported those actions — such as mandatory vaccinations — will be among the most damaged. These True Believers will find it hard to admit that they did it to themselves. So, the hearings upcoming, such as the House Subcommittee on the Weaponization of Government, will probably not change the minds of your friends and relatives stuck in the mass formation of Jacobin-Wokery.

But the hearings will be a step in wresting power away from these maniacs. Part of that step must be to demonstrate the dishonesty of recent elections, so as to remove the implanted mechanisms that enabled that dishonesty: mail-in, no-ID ballots, “motor-voter” laws, electronic vote-counting machines. If that can be fixed, the left can be voted out of power. The hearings will take place against the back-drop of our deteriorating charade over in Ukraine. The Zelensky regime that we employed to foment this conflict with Russia is losing its mojo for creating chaos in that corner of the world. The newly-announced tank caper will amount to nothing. Russia’s war-aim is simple: the elimination of chaos on its border. This rational objective is something that America’s Party of Chaos can’t understand. How will it react when chaos gets cancelled in Ukraine? Probably by attempting to foment chaos in another corner of the world, or on the home front — another reason that power must be wrested away from it.

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Covid coverage has hurt scientific journals like nothing ever has.

The Failure of Scientific Journals: the Failure of Science (Ugo Bardi)

“Biophysical Economics and Sustainability” is a scientific journal that I helped create back in 2016. I still think it was a good idea, but it didn’t work and it couldn’t have worked. So, I resigned from my position as editor of the journal this December. But let me tell the story from the beginning. The journal was the brainchild of Charles W. Hall and David Packer. About Charlie Hall, you may have heard of him, he was the developer of the fundamental concept of EROI (energy return on energy invested). Dave Packer was a senior editor at Springer (now retired). The idea was to create a high-quality journal that could offer a publishing outlet in the field called “biophysical economics,” or also “econophysics.” You may have heard about this field: it is an approach to economics based on the same models used in biology.

The idea was to examine the basic elements of what an economic system is: an entity that transforms resources into products, and then into waste. The main difference with traditional economics is that biophysical economics is focused on physical things that can be measured: energy, mass, materials, and the like. In contrast, economics is heavily focused on money and prices and, often, it loses contact with the physical world. For instance, it is often said in the field of the economics of natural resources that “prices create resources.” The idea is that when a non-renewable resource becomes scarce, prices become higher, making it possible to extract resources that were not profitable before. It is a magic trick supposed to create something out of nothing. No need to say that it doesn’t work in the real world. And it doesn’t work in the biophysical approach, either.

The concept of EROI (Energy Return for Energy Invested) is fundamental to understanding this point. It tells you what’s possible to do with energy technologies, and what’s not possible. But it just does not exist in traditional economics: it is ignored and, as a consequence, plenty of resources are wasted in non-viable energy technologies, biofuels for instance. You may think that it is time to replace the obsolete approach of traditional economics with the more rigorous one of biophysical economics. But it is just not happening. If you look at the number of publications in scientific journals on databases such as “Scopus”, you see that growth has stalled during the past 10 years or so, and now it is going down, as you can see below for a search of the term “Biophysical Economics.” Not only growth stopped about 10 years ago, but the number of published studies remains a minor fraction of the publications in economics.

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    Johannes Vermeer The glass of wine c 1658-1660   • China Wants its Balloon Back (Celente) • Let’s Talk About Nuclear War (Naveira) • Musk Assesse
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle February 8 2023]

    #128463
    Germ
    Participant

    “(Kim Pegula) …. was asleep when her dad, Bills and Sabres co-owner Terry Pegula, awoke to his wife going into cardiac arrest and that she was unresponsive for a while.”

    https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/35607738/jessica-pegula-mom-kim-pegula-went-cardiac-arrest-2022

    co-owner of the Buffalo Bills, that’s Damar Hamlin’s team.

    Typical early morning heart attack due to jab damage. She will never fully recover.

    The NFL covered up the jab injury for 8 months. ☠️☠️☠️

    TVASF

    #128464
    Germ
    Participant

    TVASF

    #128465
    Germ
    Participant

    Remdesevir – https://twitter.com/BohemianAtmosp1/status/1623082067083894785

    Doctors and nurses will be hunted down for what they have done.

    ☠️☠️☠️

    TVASF

    #128466
    Germ
    Participant

    The WHO is coming for you!

    “100% of over 60s.”

    🤣☠️☠️🤣

    #128467
    Germ
    Participant

    Vaccine Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome – VAIDS – This is what wrecked immune systems look like –

    ‘Tripledemic’ infected nearly 40 percent of households, survey finds

    Now, wait for the explosion of cancers and autoimmune diseases.

    It’s coming next.

    ☠️☠️☠️

    TVASF

    #128468
    Germ
    Participant

    “If you wanted to kill as many people as possible, deniably and with no criminal consequences, what would you do? ”

    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/feb/08/next-pandemic-bird-flu-mink-farms-transmission

    Haha – you’d inject them all with an experimental gene transfection technology. That’s what you’d do. ☠☠☠

    TVASF

    #128469
    aspnaz
    Participant

    China’s Foreign Ministry called on the U.S. to immediately return the “airship” that was shot out of the skies last weekend by an F-22 after Washington identified it as a “spy balloon.”

    I am no lawyer but doesn’t a country have a right to shoot down any object flying over their airspace? Wouldn’t you assume such action if that country has not granted permission? You could think of it as trespass. So what the hell does China think it is complaining about? Why is China sulking, refusing to take calls? Are we in some era of child leaders or maybe retarded leaders. Maybe all the leaders have been treated with the new WEF mind control technology: Labotomy 2. China can be amazingly embarrassing at times, as dumb as the Americans.

    #128470
    aspnaz
    Participant

    The majority of people are not even aware that a new world war may erupt soon, billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk has stated. The risk of a global catastrophe was highlighted this week by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.

    Musk reveals a little more about his role in the globalisation movement. Nothing has changed in the politics of the Ukraine war for at least two months. Russia is still playing the waiting game and NATO is still sending weapons. What has changed is that more European countries, especially ex-USSR nations, are beginning to realise that they are on the wrong side of history. The disintegration of Europe into pro-Russia and anti-Russia would sink the WEF plans forever, so now they roll out the big guns, the “We are about to experience nuclear war” shills, their number one shill being Musk, the man who is revealing that Twitter was exactly what we all knew Twitter was, the consequences being nothing. Meanwhile the CEO of Toyota is replaced for not being enough like Musk, the electric car shill for the globalised pseudo-green movement.

    #128471
    oxymoron
    Participant

    That WHO woman is just doing infomercial for pharma. She didn’t look scared like Desmet would say she looked keen. Keen to get that moolah baby. Dollar billz ya’ll dolla dolla billz.

    Keep em scared of the boogey virus and hating the nature of their own bodies and people will drink gallons of mRNA for breakie.

    Ding bats.

    #128472
    tboc
    Participant

    aspnaz do you appreciate the reality of a mirved hypersonic glide re-entry vehicle? The fat lady is singing, maybe sounds like a Satie piece, none the less she is singing.

    a westerner going on about territorial sovereignty

    #128473
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Was Vermeer a prisoner? He only seems to inhabit one room.

    “Koch Network Criticizes GOP for Nominating ‘Bad Candidates,’

    That can’t be, the GOP is in the pocket of the Kochs, run by the Kochs, ask any Democrat.

    “Does The FBI Have Spies In Congress?”

    Is the Pope Catholic? Oh, wait, wrong metaphor. 1) the FBI lobbies Congress. 2) the FBI has wiretapped Congress. 3) But the FBI would never wiretap Congress and use what they learn to lobby Congress. That would be illegal, and bureau of J Edgar Hoover never does illegal, immoral things.

    In this article, the FBI argues that they obviously totally do that, but you can’t find out about it with a FOIA because then you’d be able to exercise common public and Congressional oversight over them. That would be a national security issue. The people might find out what we’re doing to them and make informed choices about it. The judges and courts then support them but not because they likewise wiretap and ‘lobby’ Judges. No no no, but because they’re upstanding and swell fellas.

    The Spy agency and Secret State always takes over all governments. Always.

    Joe Biden as Anchorman has a Secret: He will read anything you put on the teleprompter. Anything.

    Sorry I didn’t follow the SOTU Address, I’ll catch up to it maybe, but Joe isn’t the real President anyway so why bother? We need a statement from the people who actually give the orders.

    “• China Wants its Balloon Back (Celente) “

    Huh, that’s funny. Shooting them down is very common, and it’s just a normal balloon, so there’s nothing to see, right? If you wanted it protected, you should have declared it before it crossed the border. Oh wait: we don’t do that anymore.

    So we effectively declare war on China, then a month later China sends over a balloon just like their tested EMP bomb? That’s odd. And it was filled with white powder?

    Here’s an idea: who’s to say they didn’t push “Boom” on the balloon but the Pentagon isn’t a bunch of backwards fools and had already microwaved and disabled it? Would YOU tell the American people they were totally unprotected and 90 seconds from total annihilation, be it under Joe Biden or not? See why they didn’t want to drop 3 nukes and a barrel of anthrax in a cow pasture in Montana?

    ““Long before the shoot down, U.S. officials took steps to protect against the balloon’s collection of sensitive information,” the statement said.

    “Accordingly, both are willing to take the conflict to its ultimate consequences in order to prevail,”

    That is a personal opinion, not a fact. In fact, Putin has done everything to minimize damage and prevent escalation, and the Pentagon has refused to enter the theatre in any way that would permit Ukraine to win. That does not sound like spiraling escalation to me. If these two parties are putting on a show, who is the third party they are putting on the show for?

    “prodding Lithuania to blockade land access to the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad,” etc

    Yes, but note that is State Department. Others are CIA. Pentagon? Nope, they are not. The “U.S.” is not one monolith, nor is the U.S. Government. Nor are any other governments. They are composed of competing power blocs.

    “Musk won praise for supplying SpaceX Starlink satellite internet systems to the Ukrainian”

    Praise from whom? And also criticism. Why do you report one side with an vacuum of facts but not the other?

    ““Maybe a regulator is needed to explain competition rules”

    Ukraine, being the world capital, is now the chief regulator of Europe, and enforces laws without passing them anywhere. That’s called the “beacon of democracy”. Got it.

    The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has said it’s going to look into the circumstances”

    They looked, but the Russians aren’t Humans so no rights were violated. That’s their objective, unbiased opinion.

    “Orthodox priest Batiushka sees the GOP as the Anglos, and the Dems as the zionists.”

    Cute, but I’m having a difficult time following what any of his words mean. Example: “Zionist” means to re-establish the State of Israel. If anything wouldn’t the Christian RIGHT be that Party? You can’t say A and B, then be just as able to swap A and B in every sentence. That means what you’re saying is nonsense.

    “For 250 years the Anglos and the Zionists have worked together in the US,”

    I was unaware a top priority of Adams and Jefferson was to re-establish the state of Israel. They sure were fighting on the wrong continent then! He also follows the common modern custom of calling all people “white” when Catholics and Protestants, Poles, Italians, Spaniards, and Irish all fought like cats and dogs for 1,000 years and wouldn’t be one “White” race until way after John Kennedy. As in: practically yesterday.

    for the Zionists the Ukraine had another purpose, it was to destroy White Europe,”

    Case in point: the “Zionists” or Jews as he speaks of are now considered “White”. Unless a political brick can be thrown, then it’s totally the #Opposite and they are seriously, definitively not white, you bigot. So he’s saying white people were destroying white people and a white continent…which it isn’t either. But if so, how would they know where to stop? Don’t we generally destroy the “Other guy”, the group that is different and distinct from us?

    Democrats still stand behind the Jewish Zelensky,”

    Ze is not “Jewish” in any but the most racist sense. He is baptized as are his children and has no traffic in the Temple. Schrodinger’s Whites. They claim to be Jewish, you’re picking on me because I’m Jewish, while I can’t tell you’re Jewish in the slightest, I had no idea, don’t keep track and don’t care. Most Jews I’ve met have only the vaguest sense of their heritage and are atheists, as are most ‘Christians’. They just claim this or that if they can get a free coffee out of it, like everybody else in grievance studies here. So conclusion? “They make s—t up!” P.S. don’t use the word to mean two things at once: one, your ‘racial’ heritage, and two, your religious belief and practices. Then we’d have Americans walking around claiming they were “totally French” “totally German” “Totally Italian” when they can’t speak the language, know nothing about it, are 1/32nd out of 32 other origins, and they came here 200 years ago. That is to say, totally racist. Following only the race as the primary and sole principle in life.

    Who does that? That is totally weird and entirely un-American.

    • West Uses OPCW to Justify Its Aggression – Moscow (RT) “

    At least they’re not trafficking kids like other parts of the U.N. are. They are trafficking the DEATH of kids, which is totally different.

    “Europe allowed itself to grow dependent on Russian energy like a drug addict, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said on Monday.”

    Um. Isn’t Poland still buying gas from Russia RIGHT NOW? Or am I mistaken on that? There was some tangle about the payments recently. And the EU should sell its soul to AMERICA instead? Oh, I’m sure there’s no downside to that. Morawiecki, it’s called “Free Trade”. As a Socialist, you may not have heard of it.Where everybody gives you everything for free, but that’s not human #slavery.

    “French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire accused the US of capitalizing on the EU’s economic woes, saying that it sells its LNG “at four times the price”

    Huh. That’s funny: just before France shut off all their reactors for “maintenance” and jacked the kwh price 4x in good Enron-style. “It’s not Fascism when we do it!”

    “highlights the hesitation and confusion over what’s at stake in this war with Russia.”

    Nobody knows what’s at stake. They still won’t tell us why we’re there. Everyone including Blinken and Austin say “it’s to weaken Russia” but why would we need to do that? That’s more important to me than eating eggs and drinking water?

    Kissinger was the anti-Reagan. He worked for Carter. And it’s Reagan’s…birthday? Do we celebrate and remember all 45 President’s Birthdays with Press Releases each year? One per week for 100 years? No. Kissinger is signaling to somebody. Note he had to disavow his peace talks earlier this year, as it seems the war faction of Davos/WEF (Soros?) won out and they must always have complete political orthodoxy. My guess is at 99 he’s trying to save bacon by bucking that orthodoxy again, thus highlighting Reagan who “ended” the Cold War and did not “win” it. That is, “peace”.

    DeclineofPapers

    As you see, the innovative content of new papers, measured in terms of the “CD” (conservative/disruptive) index, has been declining over the past 60 years or so. Even more worrisome is that despite these results, nobody, nowhere, seems to have been publicly expressing the idea that some changes are needed in science to improve the situation.” –Ugo

    This is what I’m always saying. “Science” is now Anti-Science. It is opposed to new ideas and allergic to discussing them. It is verboten to provide your data sets. It is unheard of repeat and confirm experiments. This is an ex-parrot. A skin-suit, masquerading as Science almost entirely for profit of an extended “Con”, that is to say, “We sell you CONfidence, trust, and then betray it for money.” That’s what a “Con” is, and what “Con Artists” are. Scientists are now con artists, and they are foremost conning themselves. If the papers are word-salad, the experiments can’t be duplicated even on the vanishing few times they are tried, data sets are locked up and never shared, and it’s all done for money and funding, what Science is there? The Con is, you’re lying to yourself by ignoring it.

    #128474
    Oroboros
    Participant

    #128475
    aspnaz
    Participant

    Orthodox priest Batiushka sees the GOP as the Anglos, and the Dems as the zionists.

    In my memory it has always been that way, which is why the Democrats are the anti-semitism party. Even when it comes to their entertainment, the Democrats are the fans of Dylan, the anglos are fans of Zappa. Was FTX – the latest nest of thieves – giving money to the GOP? Do ANY Jews exist in the GOP? Well, yes they do, you can count them on three fingers and I suspect they are there to report to the DNC. The rest are in the Democrat party … https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Jewish_members_of_the_United_States_Congress.

    #128476
    Oroboros
    Participant

    The Kamala Kackle on Tucker’s show

    #128477
    Oroboros
    Participant

    “Does The FBI Have Spies In Congress?”

    THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES — A Bad Lip Reading

    Straight from the mouths of babes

    #128478
    aspnaz
    Participant

    Covid coverage has hurt scientific journals like nothing ever has.

    Covid coverage has been like Trump, it revealed just how corrupt is the science reporting system. Science journals will have been corrupt for a very long time, Covid did us the favour of revealing their corruption so that only the blind cannot see that they are just another arm of the corporate government propaganda system.

    #128479
    aspnaz
    Participant

    Germ said

    “100% of over 60s.”

    Will my nail gun protect me? Can I nail the fuckers to the wall before they jab my arse with the Pfizer Nazi-Jew Potion. Or will my wife have to use the chainsaw? No guns allowed in Hong Kong except for biggest thugery organisation, the government.

    #128481
    Oroboros
    Participant

    ElevenLabs and the Rise of the Deepfake

    Deepfake is getting much better and AI is really delivering the goods.

    .

    #128482
    aspnaz
    Participant

    Dr D screams

    Case in point: the “Zionists” or Jews as he speaks of are now considered “White”. Unless a political brick can be thrown, then it’s totally the #Opposite and they are seriously, definitively not white, you bigot.

    Name calling, I like it. Not an arrow to the heart, but something none the less. Don’t all political groups, including the Jews and whites, misrepresent their enemies? You do it, I have read it here on TAE. Are you complaining about your own hypocrisy or something wider?

    #128483
    aspnaz
    Participant

    Dr D said

    Then we’d have Americans walking around claiming they were “totally French” “totally German” “Totally Italian” when they can’t speak the language, know nothing about it, are 1/32nd out of 32 other origins, and they came here 200 years ago. That is to say, totally racist. Following only the race as the primary and sole principle in life.

    There are loads of such people. You have native indians who are 1000th indian biologically and you have the Irish Kennedys and all the other American crazies. Weren’t they all funding the IRA because they were Irish? But I like the call out to “totally racist”, the woke movement is so useful when throwing insults, they really produce a lot and the “you’re racist” is such a good and well supported one. Your black and white analysis of race is revealing. Personally I am a fan of racists, it is good to know your race and where you come from. Go to China and you will meet a billion others who think similarly. For many, the fact that you are not one of them means you are essentially of no value. For many, race is the most important thing in life, just ask BLM.

    #128484
    aspnaz
    Participant

    My main interest with these AI language engines is that TPTB will soon be able to use them to provide you with a completely customised version of the web. At the moment we comment on TAE, I assume I am receiving the same listing that others are receiving. What if TPTB use chat bots to customise the comment section so that you only see comments from bots and all others logged into TAE also only see their own customised comment section with comments from a selection of bots. You would never see any information from the other users. TAE would not need to implement this, your government could do it by modifying the page you receive when you connect to TAE. Such a system would enable them to control not only the data sent to you but also the preceived opinions of your fellow man. They try to do this at the moment, as we all know, by getting bots to promote a certain position on comment boards. With these AI machines they will be able to do that much more effectively.

    What is more interesting a quesiton is whether people would prefer comment sections generated just for you by a bunch of bots. You would obviously easily discover that your copy of TAE is different to your wife’s copy, but would that be a problem? How would the general population react? Would they lose interest or would the bots make the comment section more enticing, using more of the reader’s time.

    #128485

    Thanks Oroboros!

    #128486
    VietnamVet
    Participant

    Seymour Hersh reports that USA took out the Nord Stream pipelines:
    https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/how-america-took-out-the-nord-stream

    This appears to be a continuation of his reporting on the Syrian “rat lines”. I didn’t see any glaring errors. It will be interesting to see the responses besides ignoring and denying it. This could bring on corporate-state censorship of the internet; not just social media.

    In reality, since Libya, Syria and the Ukraine Coup in 2014, the West has been at war with nations that don’t obediently kowtow to Washington DC’s wishes. What this article indicates is that even before the Ukraine invasion while Russia was massing its troops, the planning went ahead for an operation to rig the Nord Stream natural gas pipelines with C4 limpet mines that would detonate at command by buoys dropped from an airplane. On September 26, 2022, explosions cut off cheap Russian natural gas to Europeans who use it for heating and manufacturing.

    It is now clear that WWIII is underway and that will most likely continue to escalate to a nuclear war. Unlike the 1953 Korean Armistice, the USA/UK cannot choose peace because a new multi-polar world means that both nations must live within their means. The West is in decline just like the old Spanish Empire. Likewise, Russia is facing dismemberment if it loses the war. The US dollar will only be supported by the wealth, resources and labor within its part of North America. The 774 billionaires in both nations will suddenly become mostly worthless, only owning what remains in their homelands or nothing at all if workers revolt as a result of a prolonged unwinnable trench world war, like 1917.

    Famine and medieval plagues will engulf Europe and the Americas as long as wars and corporate profits have preference over human life.

    #128487

    Was Vermeer a prisoner? He only seems to inhabit one room.

    Yeah, and he had lots of visitors….

    I has Kamala’s cackle lined up for today, and thought: NO!

    #128488
    zerosum
    Participant

    It’s already here
    New tool/bug – Phishing + – implanted mechanisms in your computer
    Controlled/Censored/ delete before you can copy and paste your ideas.
    ———-
    Secrets/lies
    • US Rep. Matt Gaetz Calls For End To Funding Of Kiev’s Army (RT)

    • Kiev Still Conducts Terror Attacks Against New Russian Regions – Shoigu (TASS)
    ————-
    Call to arms
    Wake up
    Stand up
    Survive
    Do like the elites
    Stay off the battle fields.
    Don’t sign up
    Don’t volunteer
    ————

    #128489
    phoenixvoice
    Participant

    WTF…
    WHO wants to force all over age 60 to receive Covid shot??
    My parents aren’t going to do it. They fore-went a cruise with my father’s brothers and their wives to avoid the jab. They no longer plan international trips to avoid the jab.

    ~~~~~~~~~~

    Chatbots….
    Do TPTB *really* think that we can all be fooled into believing that we are interacting with live humans rather than some sort of simulacrum?
    Some will be fooled.

    But, thus far, I can’t be fooled in that way very long, any more than I could get lost in London in 1995. I tried. I thought that it would be fun to get completely lost, just walking around, and then use the map book to find my way back. After a half hour or so I finally succeeded in deceiving my sense of direction, truly lost my way…and three minutes later ran into the Thames and sorted out where I was in seconds, without consulting the map book.

    I don’t want to “tempt hubris” and declare that I cannot be deceived by a chatbot, but based on my life experiences thus far, especially the Covid media coverage and my reaction to it, I suspect that I would realize that something odd was going on before too long.

    One allure of TAE is how jumbled and *real* it is with the comments factored in. (Without the comments, TAE is nicely and neatly organized.)

    #128490
    John Day
    Participant

    Trump’s SOTU address: Trump looks tan, with better hair, and a vigorous presentation.

    #128491
    John Day
    Participant

    thanks for the Sy Hersch Nordstream-demolition details, Vietnam Vet.

    Aspnaz wrote (but it will use as much power as Bitcoin, won’t it?)
    ” AI language engines is that TPTB will soon be able to use them to provide you with a completely customised version of the web. At the moment we comment on TAE, I assume I am receiving the same listing that others are receiving. What if TPTB use chat bots to customise the comment section so that you only see comments from bots and all others logged into TAE also only see their own customised comment section with comments from a selection of bots. You would never see any information from the other users. TAE would not need to implement this, your government could do it by modifying the page you receive when you connect to TAE. Such a system would enable them to control not only the data sent to you but also the perceived opinions of your fellow man. They try to do this at the moment, as we all know, by getting bots to promote a certain position on comment boards. With these AI machines they will be able to do that much more effectively.”

    It’s just like a 1950s science fiction novel.

    #128492
    Dr. D
    Participant

    “misrepresent their enemies? You do it, I have read it here on TAE.”

    Fair enough. I get frustrated and I demonstrate things by hyperbole. Their logical extreme, the Devil’s Advocate. I am much enamoured of people who can accurately understate things in the British fashion, I think it’s a better method, but I am not that person.

    If they present custom pages we would find out right away, and get around it right away. Just like Covid. Many people would not believe it and stay on, just like now. They would then move to chaperoned safe sites with fairer moderators, just like today. If necessary, they would use a VPN or mesh network, just like today.

    Very likely we would get a page to load with the subpage TAE embedded in it from a neutral source. Then we would comment in the envelope space, not the embedded neutral page. I believe this was already happening 4 years ago but hasn’t had to expand yet.

    If they go further, I we will leave the ‘net and move into meat space which is better anyway, and won’t be tracked and hackable.

    #128493
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Your move.

    #128494
    Afewknowthetruth
    Participant

    “Above all we need to build trust.”

    The funny thing about trust is once it’s gone, it’s gone, never to be seen again for that particular person/organisation. And the reason is because that person/organisation demonstrated themselves to be untrustworthy.

    NATOtan governments
    WHO
    The UN
    The medical establishments of Oceania.
    The mainstream media of Oceania.
    The local council.
    The regional council.
    Advertising agancies.
    My ex-wife.
    My ex-bridge partner.
    My neighbour.

    Say what you mean. Mean what you say.

    That’s hard for humans whose income is dependent on serving the short-term interests of professional liars, professional thieves and professional murderers that constitute the managerial staff of the various Airstrips -that call themselves ‘governments’ promoting ‘freedom and democracy’.

    With Oceania now building up for the very last defence of its crumbling fake money system, its fake economic systems, its fake medical systems its fake everything, it is interesting to review what happened the last time Oceania’s tanks went head-to-head with Eurasia’s tanks: a shocking, disaster only salvaged via the use of Oceania’s air power. And then an unresolved stalemate.

    This time it’s different, of course. Oceania no longer has the air dominance it had 70 years ago. Indeed, from everything I have seen over the past decade or so, Eurasia has far better kit than Oceania has, and more of it, on land, the air and above the air.

    #128495
    Afewknowthetruth
    Participant

    A good summary of SHTF that is coming very soon:

    #128496
    Afewknowthetruth
    Participant

    POTUS of Airstrip Two saying, “Standing with Ukraine for as long as it takes” = we’re preparing to cut and run.

    #128497
    zerosum
    Participant

    Projection/coming:
    More concrete dust in the air

    https://www.haspod.com/blog/health/concrete-cement-dust-health-hazards

    #128498
    Oroboros
    Participant

    In a very rare moment of lucidity, on really tranked out ultra high quality meds, Pedo Joe realizes the depth of his Ukronazi position and craps his slacks.

    .

    Your number is dialed in Grift King, run for your life…..

    .

    #128499
    kultsommer
    Participant

    Promoting boosters. Still!
    Fame and sick desire for attention has no boundaries.
    Even though, when God was distributing charisma among people he passed her over.

    https://www.instagram.com/reel/CoNbI0sA_le/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading

    #128500
    Armenio Pereira
    Participant

    Mankind’s main ailment: the pervasive fear of the future, and he/she, who lives in permanent fear, can’t help him/herself but to spread fear around, non-stop.
    To stop living in fear, to stop spreading fear – we all know what the future is all about: the relentless decaying of body and ego, until we are delivered from the current cycle.

    Humans are an oxymoronic species, ruled over by a pantheon of whimsical demigods/angels/djinn and a an even more whimsical Creator. (If you’re not of a religious disposition, replace ‘demigods’ and ‘Creator’ with ‘free will’: the end result is the same.)
    A few of us see this fact with either some bonhomie or with overt animosity, while the masses couldn’t care less, channeling all their efforts into getting food and trying to improve their odds of mating.
    It has been this way for more than 300 thousand years, wash – rinse – repeat, with the vast majority not showing any signs of even beginning to get tired of it.

    So soldier on, kommentariat, those who are about to die salute ye.
    Soldier on, until the thing you cherish the most, the thing which made you spend unfathomable energy and resources to preserve – the body/ego combo – finally perishes.

    Fear not: “progressives” can’t control Change, “conservatives” can’t prevent It; eventually, equanimity towards Change is our best bet.

    #128501
    John Day
    Participant

    “Tide Going Out” is up here https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/tide-going-out

    Picture last week with “Ice Tree”
    Ice Tree

    #128502
    John Day
    Participant

    Thanks Christine. Russia builds more military strength and capability every day that it​ continues the “Special Military Operation” at the current restrained pace, not using Russian regular-army forces in infantry-attacks. Ammunition is not running out. New and updated military equipment is put into use, to good effect. Ukraine has reportedly lost 257,000 men, as reported to Def.Sec. Lloyd Austin recently. They are drafting 16 year olds. They are grinding up NATO equipment that NATO cannot replace this year. Russia is prepared to respond to any form of western escalation in kind. Russia says uranium munitions are “dirty bomb” equivalents, a form of nuclear first-strike, if used against Russia.
    ​ ​Marching Into the New Year with World Wars III, IV, and V (Part 1)​ ​BY JIM KAVANAGH​
    ​As the head of the Russian arms-control delegation in Vienna, Konstantin Gavrilov, says: “If Washington and NATO countries provide Kyiv with weapons for striking against the cities deep inside the Russian territory and for attempting to seize our constitutionally affirmed territories, it would force Moscow to undertake harsh retaliatory actions…Do not say that we did not warn you.”
    ​ ​Note well that Putin has now suggested changing Russia’s military doctrine on nuclear-weapons use to mirror the more permissive policy of the United States:
    ​ ​Vladimir Putin said Russia may consider formally adding the possibility of a preventive nuclear first strike to disarm an opponent to its military doctrine…[P]erhaps we should think about using the approaches of our American partners,” he said, citing what he called US strategies to use high-accuracy missiles for a preventive strike.
    ​ ​Also note that Russia works with a broad definition of “nuclear weapons.” Regarding depleted-uranium munitions that are regularly used by Leopards, Abrams, and Bradleys, Gavrilov stated: “If Kyiv were to be supplied with such munitions for the use in Western heavy military hardware, we would regard it as the use of ‘dirty nuclear bombs’ against Russia, with all the consequences that entails.” So, even under Russia’s more restrictive doctrine, tanks firing depleted-uranium munitions would be considered a first use of nuclear weapons.
    ​ ​I’m afraid there will be more weapons delivered and more red lines drawn and crossed. Russia will show it is not afraid, but confident of its ability, to respond to any escalation, and the US/NATO will be faced with accepting defeat or using nuclear weapons.​ [and then facing same-day defeat]

    Marching Into the New Year with World Wars III, IV, and V (Part 1)

    ​ Seymour Hersh, Thanks VV.
    US Navy divers planted C4 explosive charges on the pipelines, to be detonated by a signal from a sonar buoy when the order was given by “President Biden”.
    How America Took Out The Nord Stream Pipeline
    The New York Times called it a “mystery,” but the United States executed a covert sea operation that was kept secret—until now
    https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/how-america-took-out-the-nord-stream

    ​ The US needs to drop a whole lot of baggage in order to change course in almost every endeavor. (If only some politicians could be blamed and replaced.)
    ​ ​US lacks unity before modern challenges, Henry Kissinger believes​ [Henry, do you mean Ron DeSantis? Help us out, here.]
    ​ ​February 7. /TASS/. The US lacks unity inside the country amid modern challenges, Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said during the event, dedicated to the 112th anniversary of the birth of former US President Ronald Reagan.
    ​ ​”Today we again suffer from domestic division and international disorder about arguments about who we are and what we stand for. We find it difficult to muster the domestic cohesion necessary to face the challenges ahead of us,” Kissinger said.​..
    ..”Each of these present developments requires a combination of strength and conciliation,” Kissinger said, adding that Reagan “understood better than anyone how to integrate the elements of power and the elements of conciliation.”
    https://tass.com/world/1572443

    “Joe Biden’s” State of the Union address is condensed here. It proposes spending borrowed money to help people cope with the current economic structure, which is impoverishing them, as they cannot pay bills with what they make and must borrow money. It does not propose changing the system to something less parasitic. “President Biden” hints at raising taxes. He assumes that the system will keep working as-configured, which it won’t.
    I’m interested in some of his public health proposals towards the end. Where IS all that cancer coming from these days? What DO you propose to fund in the way of “cancer research”? More mRNA platform “innovations”?
    ​ ​More than 1 million Americans have lost their lives to COVID. We still need to monitor dozens of variants and support new vaccines and treatments. So Congress needs to fund these efforts and keep America safe.​.. [same widely-discounted lie]​ ​…​
    ​ ​We also need more first responders and other professionals to address growing mental health and substance abuse challenges.​ [More EMS. More Federal $]​
    ​ ​Let’s do more on mental health, especially for our children. When millions of young people are struggling with bullying, violence, trauma, we owe them greater access to mental health care at school.​ [More federal $ for counseling services. Counselors support narratives of their funding source.]​
    ​ ​No one should be homeless in this country, especially not those who served it.​ [FEMA homeless camps?]​
    ​ ​Let’s end cancer as we know it and cure some cancers once and for all.​ [Ignore COVID mRNA “vaccines” as cause of increase in cancers, through immuno-suppression.]​
    https://mishtalk.com/economics/biden-gives-a-well-delivered-stou-speech-begging-for-more-inflation-and-tax-hikes

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