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Zelensky Hints At Withdrawing From Russian-Encircled Bakhmut (ZH)
Situation In Bakhmut Much Worse Than Kiev Admits – CNN (TASS)
Most Front-Line Ukrainian Soldiers Killed Within ‘4 Hours’ (LI)
Kiev’s Troops Have Big Nazi Problem – Ex-US Soldier Who Escaped Ukraine (RT)
The Stage Is Set For Hybrid World War III (Escobar)
European Legislators Get Money From US Military Companies (TASS)
Afraid Some EU Countries May Send Troops To Ukraine – Orban (TASS)
Hungary Calls For Justice Over Pipeline Sabotage (RT)
Putin Accuses West Of Using ‘Extremists’ Against Russia (RT)
Berlin Left Unprotected As Air Defense Systems Sent To Ukraine (RT)
Ukraine Threatens Putin After Drone Attack Deep Inside Russia (Celente)
Hunter Biden Associate Arrested, Provided FBI With ‘Damning’ Information (TP)
Hunter Biden Business Partner Flips, Now ‘Cooperating’ With GOP Investigators (ZH)
Tucker Carlson, Staff NOT Allowed To Record or Remove J6 Footage (GP)
The Return of Oracles: Chatbots Are Coming! (Ugo Bardi)

 

 

 

 

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“West” has been telling Z to withdraw. They portray it as his fight, not theirs, so they can’t lose face. But he can. Maybe the way out for him is attacking Crimea, saying that’s the bigger battle. He also started talking about American kids dying in Ukraine battles.

Zelensky Hints At Withdrawing From Russian-Encircled Bakhmut (ZH)

It was only in late January that Ukraine’s military General Staff emphasized that any potential forces withdrawal from the strategic city of Bakhmut in the east was “out of the question” as the situation was said to be under control. But a month later, the narrative has dramatically shifted amid reports that the Russians are shelling Ukrainian positions around the clock, and as complaints from Ukrainian front lines oersist of not enough ammo supplies to keep pace with the Russians. President Zelensky in fresh remarks on the situation has admitted that besieged Bakhut is running out of options. Within the past days he also said for the first time that he won’t seek to hold the city “at any cost” – strongly suggesting Ukraine has suffered a staggering loss in manpower.

He said Tuesday: “The situation is getting more and more difficult”… “The enemy is gradually destroying everything which can be used to protect our positions,” Zelenskiy said in his address, stopping short of announcing a pullout.” There have been emerging repots of gun battles deep within the city itself, which is a new development, also as Russian forces have it nearly fully encircled, as the NY Times also confirms: “The commander of Ukraine’s ground forces, Col. Gen. Oleksandr Syrsky, on Tuesday described the situation around the city as “extremely tense” in a post on the Telegram messaging app.” And Reuters too for the first time presented a headline Tuesday which put the situation for the Ukrainian side in stark terms: “Russians tighten noose on Ukraine’s Bakhmut,” the news service reported.

On Monday Zelensky had described that “The enemy is constantly destroying everything that can be used to protect our positions for fortification and defense. Our soldiers defending the area around Bakhmut are true heroes.” Some soldiers cited in local reports are vowing to fight till the end, as military reports get more and more desperate. Meanwhile the Biden administration is still resisting demands to give Kiev F-16 fighter jets… “for now” that is. John Kirby had described in a Monday interview that “At no time have the Russians ever achieved air superiority over Ukraine” – though by many military observer accounts, this is a highly dubious statement.

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CNN pushing Z out of Bakhmut.

Situation In Bakhmut Much Worse Than Kiev Admits – CNN (TASS)

The situation near Artyomovsk, known in Ukraine as Bakhmut, is much worse for Ukrainian forces than Kiev officially admits, CNN reported on Tuesday, citing Ukrainian troops fighting for the town. “The situation in Bakhmut is very difficult now. It is much worse than officially reported,” a soldier who wished to remain anonymous told CNN on Tuesday. “We should add another 100% difficulty to the official reports. In all directions. Especially in the northern direction.” Another soldier said in a video that “the situation around the defense of Bakhmut is quite difficult”. A third soldier described the fighting as “hellish.” Artyomovsk is located in the Kiev-controlled part of the DPR and is an important transportation hub for supplying Ukrainian troops in Donbass. Fierce fighting has been raging for the town. Denis Pushilin, the interim head of the Donetsk People’s Republic said on February 16 that Russian forces had seized control of all key heights near Artyomovsk.

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We knew already.

Most Front-Line Ukrainian Soldiers Killed Within ‘4 Hours’ (LI)

A retired American Marine fighting in Ukraine told ABC News the frontlines are a “meat grinder” where soldiers survive an average of “four hours.” Troy Offenbecker is fighting alongside Ukrainian forces in the Donbas region. Moscow and Kiev have been battling around Bakhmut for several months as Russia’s forces have slowly made gains around the city. In January, Germany estimated Kiev was losing a “three-digit number” of soldiers daily fighting for Bakhmut. At that time, the White House believed President Volodymyr Zelensky was committing too many lives and resources to defend the city. Offenbecker’s commentary suggests that the situation may be getting worse for Ukrainian soldiers. “It’s been pretty bad on the ground. A lot of casualties.” He assessed, “the life expectancy is around four hours on the frontline.”

He said the Russian attack on the city is not letting up and had turned into a “meat grinder.” “[The artillery] is nonstop.” Offenbecker explained the Russian forces are fighting around the clock. “[The Russians] have maybe run into a shortage of shells lately, but the past couple of weeks, it’s been nonstop. All day and night,” he told ABC. Meanwhile, Kiev’s Western backers have expressed to Zelensky in recent weeks that NATO countries are struggling to find artillery shells to send to Ukraine. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said the US will train Ukrainian forces on fighting methods that use fewer munitions. The Kremlin ordered a mobilization of 300,000 troops last year. Western leaders have anticipated Moscow will order an offensive this winter.

Ukrainian officials say that the Russian offensive is now underway, and Offenbecker agrees. “With the amount of shelling, the amount of armor that they’ve brought in, I think it’s started,” he explained to ABC. Due to Moscow’s and Kiev’s tight control over their countries’ presses, it is unclear how substantial the death toll is for each country. Since the start of the war, Zelensky has nationalized Ukraine’s media, outlawed his political opposition and jailed citizens who opposed his administration. Commenting on the state of journalism in Ukraine, press-union leader Serhiy Guz explained, “We never know what’s the basis of these accusations, what’s the pro-Russian link…It starts to look like a political accusation rather than a genuine crime.” “A lot of journalists self-censor now,” he added.

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Could be a plant. For either side.

Kiev’s Troops Have Big Nazi Problem – Ex-US Soldier Who Escaped Ukraine (RT)

The Nazi influence in the Ukrainian military is omnipresent, John McIntyre, a former US soldier who served in various Ukrainian military units for a year, has told RT. He defected to Russia after witnessing the actions of the Ukrainian troops amid the ongoing conflict between Kiev and Moscow. “When I came, I was really surprised. Everybody had tattoos and Nazi symbolism,” the former American soldier-turned-mercenary told RT’s Murad Gazdiev in Moscow. McIntyre also admitted he did not believe Nazi ideology was “that big of a problem” for Ukraine until he saw things on the ground himself. The soldier also said he had to conceal his own anti-fascist and communist views to fit in with the Ukrainian troops. Some other Western mercenaries also directly told him: “The Russians aren’t the Nazis, we are the Nazis,” according to McIntyre.

The ex-US soldier served with the Ukrainian forces for a year, although now he claims he had always planned to defect to Russia once he gathered enough intelligence. At a certain point, he was “compromised as a whistleblower” after talking to someone about the war crimes committed by the Ukrainian forces. According to McIntyre, whistleblowers are treated in Ukraine even more harshly than spies. “Anybody who confesses or is known to be about to confess is shot in the back of the head,” he claimed, adding that “a lot of people go missing … including foreigners.” McIntyre himself managed to flee to Russia through Moldova after finding out that Ukraine had snipers hunting down defectors trying to cross the frontlines.

The former soldier, who previously served in Fort Bliss, Texas, for two years, claims the Ukrainian forces actively use civilians as human shields as they station their troops in basements next to residential buildings and then blame Russia if the area gets targeted in a strike. When such attacks happened, news crews covering the incidents “would not show you the houses to the left and right full of soldiers,” he said. The former mercenary also said he had heard about the Ukrainian nationalists, including the members of the infamous Azov battalion and another military formation called Carpathian Sech, who torture and kill Russian POWs by cutting off their genitalia or cutting their stomachs open and slitting their throats. McIntyre, who served with the Carpathian Sech, said he personally knew people who executed POWs, including foreigners from Portugal, France, and Argentina.

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“..Russia’s pivot to the East, towards the rising sun, now irreversible, was the only logical path to follow..”

The Stage Is Set For Hybrid World War III (Escobar)

A powerful feeling rhythms your skin and drums up your soul as you’re immersed in a long walk under persistent snow flurries, pinpointed by selected stops and enlightening conversations, crystallizing disparate vectors one year after the start of the accelerated phase of the proxy war between US/NATO and Russia. That’s how Moscow welcomes you: the undisputed capital of the 21st century multipolar world. A long, walking meditation impregnates on us how President Putin’s address – rather, a civilizational speech – last week was a game-changer when it comes to the demarcation of the civilizational red lines we are all now facing. It acted like a powerful drill perforating the less than short, actually zero term memory of the Collective West.

No wonder it exercised a somewhat sobering effect contrasting the non-stop Russophobia binge of the NATOstan space. Alexey Dobrinin, Director of the Foreign Policy Planning Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Russia, has correctly described Putin’s address as “a methodological basis for understanding, describing and constructing multipolarity.” For years some of us have been showing how the emerging multipolar world is defined – but goes way beyond – high speed interconnectivity, physical and geoeconomic. Now, as we reach the next stage, it’s as if Putin and Xi Jinping, each in their own way, are conceptualizing the two key civilizational vectors of multipolarity. That’s the deeper meaning of the Russia-China comprehensive strategic partnership, invisible to the naked eye.

Metaphorically, it also speaks volumes that Russia’s pivot to the East, towards the rising sun, now irreversible, was the only logical path to follow as, to quote Dylan, darkness dawns at the break of noon across the West. As it stands, with the wobblin’, ragin’ Hegemon lost in its own pre-fabricated daze, the real runners of the show feeding burning flesh to irredeemably mediocre political “elites”, China may have a little more latitude than Russia, as the Middle Kingdom is not – yet – under the same existential pressure Russia has been put under. Whatever happens next geopolitically, Russia is at heart a – giant – obstacle on the warmongering path of the Hegemon: the ultimate target is top “threat” China.

Putin’s ability to size up our extremely delicate geopolitical moment – via a dose of highly concentrated, undiluted realism – is something to behold. And then Foreign Minister Lavrov provided the sweet cherry on top, calling the hapless US ambassador for a hardcore dress down: oh yeah, this is war, hybrid and otherwise, and your NATO mercenaries as well as your junk hardware are legitimate targets. Dmitry Medvedev, deputy chairman of the Security Council, now more than ever relishing his “unplugged” status, made it all very clear: “Russia risks being torn apart if it stops a special military operation (SMO) before victory is achieved.” And the message is even more acute because it represents the – public – cue to the Chinese leadership at the Zhongnahhai to understand: whatever happens next, this is the Kremlin’s unmovable official position.

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“..some MEPs received pensions, for example, from US corporations Raytheon, Honeywell International and Textron Inc – military companies that develop, produce and sell, among other items, cluster munitions..”

European Legislators Get Money From US Military Companies (TASS)

The European parliament’s members receive money from US military companies, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on her Telegram channel on Tuesday. “Corruption in the European Parliament thrives. EUObserver journalists have discovered that some MEPs received pensions, for example, from US corporations Raytheon, Honeywell International and Textron Inc – military companies that develop, produce and sell, among other items, cluster munitions,” she said. “It is noteworthy that the focus is on the US military-industrial complex (not even European), which is the embodiment of the term ‘dealers in death’.


Moreover, as it has turned out, MEPs are sponsored with money from the sale of precisely those types of weapons which EU member-states seek ban. For some reason they do not refuse to take the money,” Zakharova added. She also noted that the MEPs had invested their pension savings in the oil and gas company Royal Dutch Shell after another oil spill from its pipeline. “How about the ‘green transition’ and nature conservation? There is a very special story about this. MEP Jutta Paulus (of Germany) directly lobbies for the interests of Boston’s NGO Clean Air Task Force. In drafting legislative amendments, she obediently and without hesitation used the documents prepared by that organization,” Zakharova said.

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“We need a ceasefire, we need peace talks. That is why Hungary insists on peace at all international forums..”

Afraid Some EU Countries May Send Troops To Ukraine – Orban (TASS)

Hungary’s government is worried to see weapons supplies to Ukraine and is afraid that some of the EU countries may send its troops there, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Monday. He expressed serious concern that “entire Europe is sliding into a war step by step” as EU countries are sending tanks to Ukraine and are looking at supplying it with fighter jets. “If things continue this way, there will be those who may want to send troops to Ukraine,” he said at the opening of the Hungarian parliament’s spring session. He stressed that his government insists on settling the Ukrainian conflict by peaceful means and called on lawmakers to advocate this position. “They want to drag us into this war, but I am calling on you not to yield to provocations,” Orban said.


“We need a ceasefire, we need peace talks. That is why Hungary insists on peace at all international forums,” he said, adding that for these reason Hungary supports China’s peace plan for Ukraine. He reiterated that he continues to be against the European Union’s anti-Russian sanctions, especially in the energy sector. He recalled that restrictions on fuel supplies had provoked a dramatic price rise and Hungary’s spending on energy sources had increased by ten billion euro in 2022. “Brussels has taken this money from the pockets of Hungarians with the use of sanctions,” he added.

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“What we need to know is, if they did it in the north just to stop the Russian gas coming to Europe … then they could do it in the south as well.”

Hungary Calls For Justice Over Pipeline Sabotage (RT)

Hungary needs to watch out for potential sabotage on pipelines that deliver Russian natural gas to the country, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Monday, pointing to the September 2022 blasts on the Nord Stream pipelines connecting Russia to Germany via the Baltic Sea. “The blowing up of the Nord Stream was a simple act of terrorism,” Orban said in a speech to parliament in Budapest. “What we need to know is, if they did it in the north just to stop the Russian gas coming to Europe … then they could do it in the south as well.” Orban said that Hungary, together with neighboring Serbia, must “make clear that if this were to happen, it would not be easy to get away with, like they are doing now with the Nord Stream explosions.”

Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto this week called for the UN to investigate the “scandalous” attack on the pipelines. Budapest wants to know “who committed it and why,” the minister said. Hungary and Serbia, whose economies heavily depend on Russian oil and gas, have opposed sanctions that would have prevented them from receiving supplies from Moscow. Both nations have also refused to impose any restrictions of their own. On Thursday, US state-run news outlet RFE-RL reported that South Stream Transport, which operates the TurkStream gas pipeline, would not be able to repair the infrastructure in the event of damage, as the Dutch government has revoked its license.

The Black Sea pipeline delivers Russia gas to Hungary and Serbia. Veteran US investigative journalist Seymour Hersh claimed earlier this month that the Nord Stream sabotage was orchestrated by Washington with help from Norway. The US has denied any involvement, and rejected the allegations as “complete fiction.” Russia has also called for a thorough investigation into the “terrorist attack.” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov accused Western countries last week of trying to bury the issue.

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“Active attempts are currently being made by the Western special services to restore terrorist cells inside Russia, he warned.”

Putin Accuses West Of Using ‘Extremists’ Against Russia (RT)

The West never shied away from using extremists against Russia and is doing so again during the conflict in Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin has said. He claimed that western intelligence agencies are aiming to restore terrorist cells inside Russia. Countering this terrorist threat remains “an urgent” task for the country, Putin said while chairing a board meeting of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) in Moscow on Tuesday. “Over the past year, the number of such crimes has increased, which is obviously connected to the attempts of the Kiev regime to employ terrorist methods. We are well aware of that. They have been using them in Donbass for a long time,” he said.

The West, which is backing Kiev in the conflict against Moscow, has “never shied away from using both radicals and extremists in their interests, despite all their loud statements about fighting international terrorism,” the president said. “They always use whatever’s at hand against us. They use everything that’s possible. It was always like this and it remains so,” he said. Active attempts are currently being made by the Western special services to restore terrorist cells inside Russia, he warned. It’s essential to intensify counter-intelligence work and keep the Russian-Ukrainian border under extra supervision to prevent the smuggling of weapons and ammunition into Russian territory, Putin told the leadership of Russia’s main security agency.

He praised the FSB’s operatives, who have worked at the frontlines and “behind enemy lines” during the conflict in Ukraine, for their “personal courage, professionalism and determination in ensuring the security of Russia.” The agency, he said, has obtained “priceless experience” that will allow it to execute its duties even more effectively. Putin has previously blamed Ukraine for using “terrorist tactics” following the explosion on the Crimean Bridge in early October, which Moscow insists was masterminded by Kiev. That led to a major ramping up of Russian missile strikes on Ukrainian infrastructure and military targets, causing rolling blackouts across the country and significantly damaging Kiev’s air defense capabilities.

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Germany doesn’t have much defense to speak of. Maybe by 2050?!

Berlin Left Unprotected As Air Defense Systems Sent To Ukraine (RT)

Germany is sending two air defense systems to Kiev in a move that may leave Berlin unprotected, Armin Papperger, CEO of Germany’s leading military contractor Rheinmetall said in an interview with the Pioneer podcast on Tuesday. The two systems in question, Skynex and Skyranger, were commissioned by the German government in order to protect the airspace over Berlin, the arms manufacturer revealed. The two units cost around €200 million ($212 million) and they are to be sent to Kiev within the year. “We had two whole systems that could have certainly defended Berlin,” Papperger said, as quoted by RIA Novosti. According to Papperger, four of the systems would be enough to protect Berlin, but now there will not be enough.

On Saturday, thousands of protesters rallied in the German capital, calling for Chancellor Olaf Scholz to “stop the escalation in weapons deliveries.” Germany also pledged Western-made tanks to Ukraine in late January, promising 14 of their Leopard 2 tanks and pledging to work with partners to create two armored battalions containing 30 tanks each. However, Germany’s EU and NATO allies have been reluctant to deliver. Similarly to Germany sacrificing their own protection for the sake of solidarity with Ukraine, Denmark opted in January to send its 19 French-made Caesar howitzer artillery systems to Kiev, compromising their own defensive capabilities. The artillery systems had been a key component of Denmark’s plan to field a heavy infantry brigade.

Officials in some NATO nations have been cautioning that the constant supply of arms and ammunition to Ukraine on such a massive scale would eventually come at a cost to their own defensive capabilities. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov has warned on numerous occasions that providing Kiev with military aid will not change the course of the conflict, and will instead just “prolong the suffering of the Ukrainian people.”

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“..more than 500km away from Russian border with Ukraine..”

Ukraine Threatens Putin After Drone Attack Deep Inside Russia (Celente)

Russian President Vladimir Putin announced Tuesday that he will increase border security after the Kremlin blamed Ukraine for launching a drone attack deep inside Russia as the U.S. and NATO continue to provide more advanced weapons to escalate the conflict. The Associated Press, citing a nearby governor, reported one drone “fell near the village of Gubastovo, less than 60 miles from Moscow.” Anton Gerashchenko, advisor to Ukraine’s minister of internal affairs, tweeted a photo of the drone that matches that of the UJ-22 Airborne, a product of Ukrainian manufacturer Ukrjet, the BBC reported. “It is more than 500km away from Russian border with Ukraine. Soon Putin might get very afraid to show himself in public as drones can reach far distances,” he wrote alongside the photo.

Andrei Vorobyov, the governor, noted that the Russian Defense Ministry identified two Ukrainian drones that were downed near the village of Gubastovo, where Gazprom operates a key facility. The BBC said Ukraine does not claim responsibility for attacks inside Russia. The Trends Journal has reported extensively how Ukraine has been accused of expanding the war deeper inside Russia after receiving the green light from the U.S. Dmitry Kuleba, Ukraine’s foreign minister who has been one of the most outspoken advocates of more weapons and war, was caught in a prank Zoom video admitting to being behind attacks on civilian infrastructure in Crimea and Belgorod. Reports said Kuleba was evidently under the impression that he was talking to a former American ambassador to Moscow Michael McFaul, who himself has been a major supporter of U.S. intervention.

“Well, if you were to ask me who blows up things in Crimea or Belgorod, then speaking privately, as much privacy we can have in a Zoom call, I’d tell you, yes, that was us,” Kuleba said. The Western media embraced the bridge bombing as though it was another major setback for Russian President Vladimir Putin, who days later approved airstrikes in about a dozen Ukrainian cities, including Kyiv. Victoria “Fuck the EU” Nuland, who was a major player in the U.S.-led coup in Ukraine back in 2014, continued down her path of destruction last week when she called Crimea a legitimate target for Ukrainian forces. Nuland told the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace that the U.S. supported Ukrainian strikes on these targets because Washington believes Kyiv is “owed and due all of their territory within their international borders,” which she said included Crimea. “Ukraine is not going to be safe unless Crimea is—at a minimum, at a minimum—demilitarized,” she said.

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“..he had been cooperating with an investigation into Hunter Biden’s business activities when he was apprehended under an Interpol Red Notice..”

Hunter Biden Associate Arrested, Provided FBI With ‘Damning’ Information (TP)

Gal Luft, a former adviser to a Chinese energy conglomerate now claims to have provided the FBI with incriminating information about the Biden family’s foreign business dealings. He is now calling himself a whistleblower and has announced his intention to reveal the names of those involved, after being detained on what he believes are politically motivated charges. According to him, he has given information to the DOJ about the Biden family’s foreign business deals. Luft was arrested on Friday. A defense expert has stated that the recent arrest of Prof. Gal Luft in Cyprus due to charges linked to the illegal exportation of arms to Libya and China is part of an attempt by the Biden administration to silence him. Luft, an Israeli professor, claims that he had been cooperating with an investigation into Hunter Biden’s business activities when he was apprehended under an Interpol Red Notice at the behest of the US.

According to reports, Gal Luft claims to have provided the Justice Department with information about Hunter Biden, his father, and his uncle, Jim Biden in March 2019. Although some may be quick to disregard Luft’s allegations as an empty threat, his association with CEFC China Energy suggests that he may possess pertinent information about the Bidens. Additionally, an attorney representing Luft has indicated that he intends to offer information about Luft’s situation to Congress. According to Luft’s lawyer, Mordechai Tzivin, the arrest of his client was politically motivated and aimed at stifling him for providing compromising information in a corruption case purportedly linked to Hunter Biden, the son of US President Joe Biden. “The arrest came four years after Luft cooperated with FBI and Department of Justice investigators to help them with information about the case,” he claimed.

On Sunday, Tzivin said that Luft could “bury Hunter Biden, that’s why they’re trying to bury him first.” He continued by claiming that “if it were Russia, this would’ve already been a diplomatic collision… it’s not unreasonable to think that the Democrats or some of their peers would like him gone.” “His testimony will be very devastating, it will divert attention to the president himself as well,” Tzivin claimed. On February 18, 2023, Luft tweeted out, “I’ve been arrested in Cyprus on a politically motivated extradition request by the US. The US, claiming I’m an arms dealer. It would be funny if it weren’t tragic. I’ve never been an arms dealer. DOJ is trying to bury me to protect Joe,Jim&Hunter Biden. Shall I name names?”

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A few days earlier.

Hunter Biden Business Partner Flips, Now ‘Cooperating’ With GOP Investigators (ZH)

Eric Schwerin, a close business associate of Hunter Biden who also dealt with Joe Biden’s business and tax affairs, is now working with House GOP investigators looking into Biden family dealings – particularly in Ukraine and China, where the family collected millions of dollars, Just the News reports. “He is cooperating with us,” House Oversight and Accountability Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) told the outlet. “His attorneys and my counsel are communicating on a regular basis. Now, I feel confident that he’s going to work with us, and provide us with the information that we have requested,” Comer continued. “I think that Schwerwin is going to be a very valuable witness for us in this investigation.”

Of note, Schwerin, the former president of Hunter Biden’s now-dissolved investment firm Rosemont Seneca Partners, visited the White House at least 19 times from 2009 to 2015, according to White House visitor log records reviewed by The Epoch Times and first reported by the New York Post. Emails between Hunter and Eric Schwerin, his business partner at consultancy Rosemont Seneca, show Schwerin was working on Joe’s taxes. The emails were recovered from Hunter’s laptop
Schwerin’s cooperation comes after the committee received word that Hunter and his uncle, James Biden, don’t plan to be forthcoming with all the information Comer’s committee has sought in their wide-ranging probe. According to Comer, subpoenas are imminent for non-cooperating witnesses.

“We know individuals, many are cooperating with us now, but others, not so much,” he said. “We’re going to start subpoenaing people in the private sector, we’re going to start subpoenaing financial institutions to get us the information. And then we’ll go from there.” Comer then suggested that if innocent, Hunter Biden would want to clear his name in front of the committee. “He could come in front of the House Oversight Committee right now and defend his good name,” Comer said. “He would have 20 Democrats that would definitely support him, and he could make 26 Republicans look bad if all this information we have from his laptop, all the emails that were in his own words, all the audio that are in his own voice, if for some reason we’re misinterpreting that, then he could make us look bad.

“But we all know that this family was involved in influence peddling. And this administration is doing everything in its ability to try to block oversight.” Both Joe Biden and Hunter Biden have denied the family did anything wrong, although Hunter Biden has acknowledged he is under federal criminal investigation on tax issues. Comer said while the committee battles the White House and the Biden family for information, Schwerin’s cooperation was a breakthrough that could spur other key witnesses to cooperate. -Just the News According to White House visitor logs, Schwerin met directly with then-Vice President Joe Biden in the West Wing on Nov. 17, 2010, and had several meetings with White House aides during times when Hunter Biden was securing multi-billion dollar deals overseas, including in China.

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There could be legal reasons?!

Tucker must come clean.

Tucker Carlson, Staff NOT Allowed To Record or Remove J6 Footage (GP)

On February 20, 100 Percent Fed Up reported about the newly elected House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s decision to release all of the 44,000 hours of footage from January 6, 2021, to Fox News host Tucker Carlson, giving him exclusive access to Capitol surveillance footage. “I’ve watched what Nancy Pelosi did, where she politicized [Jan. 6],” said McCarthy. “Where for the first time in the history as a speaker, not allowing the minority to appoint to a committee.” “We watched the politicization of this,” McCarthy said. “I think the American public should actually see all that happened instead of a report that’s written for a political basis.” Carlson, who has continuously called for a probe into the actual events of Jan 6., has been granted exclusive access to 41,000 hours of surveillance footage from the Capitol protests.

“[T]here was never any legitimate reason for this footage to remain secret,” Carlson told Axios reporter Mike Allen. “If there was ever a question that’s in the public’s interest to know, it’s what actually happened on January 6. By definition, this video will reveal it. It’s impossible for me to understand why any honest person would be bothered by that.” In January, Carlson slammed the U.S. government for hiding information from the American public. He also pointed out the ridiculous logic of those who warn that releasing the Jan. 6 Capitol footage could threaten national security.

100 Percent FedUp reports- If you’re like most Americans, you were overjoyed to hear that Tucker Carlson, who is not afraid of exposing government corruption in either party, would be allowed to view all 44,000 hours of the Capitol surveillance tapes and were hoping that finally, we would be allowed to discover what really happened on that day. The majority of Americans never trusted the partisan, Trump-hating Jan 6 Witch Hunt Committee to give an accurate picture of what happened on January 6th at our nation’s Capitol. Those who want the truth exposed have been waiting patiently for Tucker to begin showing surveillance footage on his show, believing he would, once and for all, destroy the Left’s narrative that the so-called “insurrection” was pre-planned by Trump and his supporters.

We’re now learning that Tucker Carlson’s staff will NOT be allowed to freely record footage from January 6, but may request particular clips and that his staffers are not allowed to record or remove any videos from a specific screening area. CBS News – “Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s staff was permitted to view but not record portions of some 41,000 hours of police videos documenting the events of Jan. 6, 2021, with the opportunity to request copies of some of the clips under an agreement reached with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s office, according to the high-ranking Republican member of the committee that oversees the U.S. Capitol Police.”

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Do AI chatbots have the same function as the Oracle of Delphi?

The Return of Oracles: Chatbots Are Coming! (Ugo Bardi)

With the second millennium, society became more and more complex, and the state propaganda system started becoming too rigid and oversimplified. The development of the World Wide Web was an existential challenge for the mass media: people didn’t need anymore to be told what they had to know in a one-size-fits-all, form. They could actively search for knowledge using general-purpose search engines. The epistemic battle rapidly moved to the Web, where states tried to crack down on independent thought by using the tools they know best. Demonization, using terms such as “fake news,” “disinformation,” and “Russian trolls,” was extensively and successfully used to censor and eliminate non-standard sources. It was not possible to completely eliminate independent communication, but the search engines could be bent to suit the needs of the state without the need for direct censorship. Those sites that provide independent data could be simply “soft-banned” or “shadowed.” They are still there, but they are nearly impossible to be found.

And now, there came the new oracles. They came with the name of artificial intelligence-based “chatbots.”(**) A new epistemic revolution, they bypass the search engines, seeking for an answer to direct questions, just like the old oracles did. And they are flexible, adaptable, and changing as a function of the questions they receive. In principle, chatbots are the death knell for search engines, which were the earlier death knell for propaganda. We are in the midst of this new epistemic change, and it is unclear what AI chatbots can and cannot do. For the time being, a good chatbot acts like a good (albeit a little dull) librarian and, at the same time, a meticulous editorial assistant (again, a rather dull one). But, in principle, a good chatbot can bypass the shadow-banning of the search engines: they are much more powerful and sophisticated tools for searching information on the Web. They work on the same principle as the old oracles: they pay for information with information. Every time you ask the bot a question, you provide it with a precious element of information.

Eventually, the question is always the same: who controls the flow of information? Can chatbots be controlled by the state? Maybe but, again, they are very sophisticated tools; they are not easily manageable by the brute force that can be used with the old mass media. They have already scared the elites, who may soon crack down on them. Or, on the other hand, they may be used for even stricter control of people. For one thing, be careful with what you say to your chatbot. A general-purpose chatbot such as “chatGPT” does not keep a record of who asked it what. But others, such as “Replika,” do build a database of your questions that may be used to profile you, or much worse. History teaches us that epistemic revolutions cannot be stopped for a long time. And also that their consequences are always unexpected, and not always pleasant. And, as always, we march into the future with blinds on our eyes, in the darkness, not realizing that both sides of the paths are deep chasms. But we keep walking onward.

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    Paul Gauguin Blue Trees (Your Turn Will Come, My Beauty!) 1888   • Zelensky Hints At Withdrawing From Russian-Encircled Bakhmut (ZH) • Situation
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle March 1 2023]

    #130207
    Germ
    Participant

    A Norwegian preprint study on excess mortality in 31 European countries shows a statistical association between increased vaccination coverage and increased excess mortality. Every one percent increase in vaccination coverage in the population increased mortality by just over 0.1% (0.105%) for every single month in the first 9 months of 2022.

    The numbers say it all.

    https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202302.0350/v1

    TVASF

    #130208
    Germ
    Participant

    Family heartbroken after ‘stunning’ girl, 20, collapses and dies suddenly in her dad’s arms after ‘heart attack’

    https://www.mylondon.news/news/west-london-news/family-heartbroken-after-stunning-girl-26344210

    TVASF

    #130209
    Germ
    Participant

    Over 96 Canadian children ages 2-19 have died suddenly or unexpectedly in the past 3 months – a warning call for Canadian parents.

    https://makismd.substack.com/p/over-96-canadian-children-ages-2

    Just look at those faces …

    ☠️☠️☠️

    TVASF

    #130210
    Germ
    Participant

    Just how stoopid do they think we are?

    Warning to women who have children in their early 20s – you might be more at risk of a heart attack or stroke, study claims

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11798919/Women-children-early-20s-risk-heart-attack-stroke-study-claims.html

    ☠☠☠

    TVASF

    #130211
    aspnaz
    Participant

    Today, March 1st, the Hong Kong government got rid of all mask laws. Up until now there was a 5000 HKD (630 USD) fine for not wearing a mask in a public place, unless it was on public transport where the fine was 10000 HKD (1260 USD, for the mathematically retarded).

    I went into the center of Hong Kong this afternoon, I was surprised to see almost 50% of people not wearing masks, but then I went to Kowloon and there were over 90% of people still wearing masks. The Asian psyche is something that I just cannot fathom, they behave as if they are the most pathetic and weak people on earth, and many of them are, but many of them are also very considerable people. It is so disappointing to see these people reject nature and put their trust in man-made masks: it is as if they are trying to live their twisted version of the American Dream: these white-man masks will save us from the Covid.

    Fortunately, many kids and younger people (under 30s) were happy to go around unmasked. Maybe they can teach their elders a thing or two about the value of the white-man’s mask science, as imposed by Fauci the Jew.

    #130212
    aspnaz
    Participant

    After WEF have destroyed the western world, made you all suffer, then march in as saviours offering you a better life – as in food and heat – in return for your slavery etc, will they offer you all the antidote to the vaccine?

    #130213
    Dr. D
    Participant

    CNN: “Situation in Bakhmut is Worse than Officially Reported.” Really? You mean worse than reported by YOU? Because from everybody else, I’ve been reading what was happening there accurately for months.

    So. Black Hats are protecting Sy Hersh. As Step one of taking out Biden. Fine with me.

    Escobar, “Stage is Set”, oi, that is lame. “President Putin’s address – rather, a civilizational speech – last week was a game-changer”

    Okay, any time the word “game changer” is used, the sentence – and probably the article – is false. And he’s full of such stuff, which as a reporter is beneath him. Seems to be a new life path he’s on. Great! But not so great for us. We have all the partisans we can stand. We need reporters with facts.

    Mass Drone Attack Unleashes Chaos, Air Raid Sirens Inside Russia”

    Same. What “chaos”? Real “chaos” is like that ‘nothing to see here’ scene in Naked Gun and is by definition a short-term event like “panic”. It also is extreeeeeeeeeeeemely localized. A “nation” cannot panic. Translation: 5 people in the specific place where the drone hit had a bad day, didn’t know what to do for a short and very inconvenient time. Once they realized what was going on and got the fire extinguisher, all panic passed.

    Just to be fair, even Bakhmut being overrun isn’t “chaos” or “panic” although it’ll be a lot closer. They knew it was coming and what would happen when.

    I guess this is a sign journalists have no brains since THEY would be in “chaos”, THEIR minds would shut off? And/or like 5-year-olds have no experience with reality? Oh and this is ZeroHedge, not NBC. “I didn’t have cream for my coffee and had to use milk. I panicked. It was chaos. When it was over the building had burned down and a woke up in another state, in bed with a leopard seal.” You know: chaos.

    Sorry, all articles are also required by law to have “without evidence. It was a game-changer. Walls are closing in.”

    “As an increasingly disturbing trend of outright chaos spreads through U.S. cities, … Pennsylvania Chick-fil-A Bans Diners 16 And Under Without Adult Supervision”

    Well that’ll fix “chaos”. Chick-fil-a ties up the dogs of war.

    Biden Supports ‘Safe And Secure’ Gain-of-Function Research, White House Says”

    It is now “safe” to make diseases deadly, or even invent new pandemics. That’s what happens as above, words have no meaning. Safe = Deadly. That’s just common sense.

    “Not testing for dioxin = Science.”

    Science = Not Data. All the not-data money can buy: That’s Science!™

    “Transgender Athlete Wins Four Female Running Competitions In A Row”

    What are the odds??? (about 70:1 in favor, actually.) This is what also happens when words have no meaning: women are no longer protected anywhere, and slowly all things are taken from them, including success and safety. That’s love and diversity!

    Meanwhile, in America’s bathrooms:
    ManDown
    https://sinfest.xyz/btphp/comics/2023-03-01.jpg

    You can stop any time you like. Just come back to #Reality.

    “Biden Admin Proposes To Block Half Of Current Gas Range Models”

    The other half declined to pay the bribes to the Big Guy. Government doing what it was designed for. What it does best.

    “Woody Harrelson”, we know HOW, we just won’t do it. And that can be just as simple as going Amish, buying less, choosing companies of your friends and good people. That requires a spiritual change. You can of course tear the country apart, but that’s messy. If you can’t change WITHOUT tearing the country apart, what makes you think you could do it by ADDING a nationwide arson and murder spree? Seems counterproductive. We’re not better than we are.

    Ze: “The US will have to send their sons and daughters exactly the same way”

    Really??? That Coke is really going to your head. Make me. This is why we have more guns than the U.S. Army. How are they planning on making me? If I were shooting the U.S. Army Draft board, how would I also be shooting others who never done anything to me in Ukraine or Vietnam? As Cassius Clay said. Sounds expensive and counterproductive. Better not try it and find out.

    “Wait until insurance companies have to change their long term mortality assumptions…that’s when the real losses get realized. “ – Edward Dowd

    No they won’t, they will raise rates, and no one will have insurance. That will cause friction and help collapse the system. It could be easily fixed, but to do that all one has to do is tell the truth. It would be undone just the way it was done. We just slowly walk away from hell, and back where we came, with smaller people, smaller shops, smaller companies, more local and more moral. No one wants that. THAT is your problem: they are oriented and aligned to #AntiLogos, to #AntiLife, to #AntiReality, #AntiMorality, and therefore to #AntiChrist. As Christ, the #Truth and #Logos is their sole enemy, like holy water to them. Like other demons even hearing his name makes them insane. Inexplicable to me, but I’m just reporting what I see every day.

    Like this: https://twitter.com/i/status/1630489111868985345

    “Hungary Calls For Justice Over Pipeline Sabotage (RT) “

    Like here. Germany is so aligned to #Death and #AntiLogos, #AntiTruth, they cannot look at the #Truth even as it kills them. After waiting patiently for a strategic amount of time, Hungary is therefore taking up the banner of #Life and survival that Germany won’t. Hungary and Russia are trying hard to save Germany. Germany is trying hard to die. That’s war in the time of #AntiChrist.

    “Zelensky Hints at Withdrawing from Russian-Encircled Bakhmut (ZH) “

    The reporter must have “panicked”, everything here is a lie. By omission and direction, mostly. Example: took a month to notice Bakhmut was shelled year-round? Huh. Slow learners. “Hold the city at any cost?” Great but because they invested so heavily in THIS line of defense, there are no lines of defense behind it. That was a choice made months ago about directing #Real resources. So it’s not just a town. There is now essentially nowhere to fall back to except a couple turnaround stations and Kiev. I’m not faulting them for it. If they’d made 5 lines Russia would have overrun 3 of them by now, so same result. That’s just #Reality, their sole enemy.

    “Some soldiers cited in local reports are vowing to fight till the end,”

    Reporters: “Some” people say anything. The drunk on the corner “Claims” the world is flat and Nancy Pelosi is a lizard alien in a rubber mask. However, “Some soldiers”? Yes, all the ones with Nazi tattoos as they will be shot on sight. Or rather, on site, after capture and processing. 16-year old Sasha from Lviv? Not so much.

    ““When I came, I was really surprised. Everybody had tattoos and Nazi symbolism,” the former American soldier said.

    Yes, because he’s illiterate. Sorry to disparage the many vets here, but do soldiers – who are signing up – never, EVER read a word of military history first? I mean, if was going to become a plumber (professionally), I’d read “What does a plumber do? What is their history? What does it pay? Do I want to do this?” But never in the military, which is inexplicable to me. Politicians ALWAYS destroy soldiers. ALWAYS cripple generals and bedevil the war. And the U.S. for one ALWAYS abandons and abuses their veterans. Fix that first and I’ll join. They claim to know war though. /rant and I apologize. But if more young men – who are mostly the children of other soldiers and police – did this, they would be forced to clean up the Army decades/centuries ago.

    “The West has “never shied away from using both radicals and extremists in their interests, despite all their loud statements about fighting international terrorism,”

    Wiki “Project Gladio” if googling “NY Times” “Ukraine Nazis” is too far for you. They are also 13 of 15 of the domestic terrorists in Michigan.

    “Gal Luft, a former adviser to a Chinese energy conglomerate”

    Was that the one Biden took bribes from and Hunter said was the “F-ing head of the Chinese CIA”? Asking because the NY Times won’t.

    The Return of Oracles: Chatbots Are Coming! (Ugo Bardi) “

    Following the AI, “We make s—t up!” so clearly they are best suited to be reporters. Only yesterday, ChatGPT told Musk that each Tesla battery takes 121 barrels of oil. …Oh wait, 121 THOUSAND barrels of oil per battery. Because AI just “makes stuff up” that you want to hear. And it’s dangerous and we’re all going to obey it and do what it says? Well the MORONS among us will. The rest of us will cross-check everything it says with a pencil. I was watching long exchanges and it sounds like a 10-year-old writing a 6th grade school paper. That is, if you want anything smart, it doesn’t have it. But it DID learn everything it knows on the Internet, so… It would therefore be a miracle if it was right.

    The reason it sounds smart to people is because THEY have been reduced to the level of “Idiocracy” and any sentence above “My foot and your -ss” sounds “like a fag high-falutin’ and your s—ts all retarded.” That is, if you could speak with 6th grade competency from 1980, you’d be today’s genius (and they would jail you). And you’d be above every person graduated in Baltimore over the last 10 years.

    Germ: how stupid do they think we are? Apparently just as stupid as we ACTUALLY are. You don’t see anyone catching on and getting mad, do you? Like Idiocracy, we’ve already seen pop-ups with people mad at US and not the doctors injecting people with pure, instant death. Fighting, violently, the people preventing their death. What can I say? I guess they like it and approve.

    #130214
    aspnaz
    Participant

    Meanwhile, Lula shows his finger to the US.

    Two Iranian warships have docked in Rio de Janeiro despite pressure from the US to bar them.

    We need more leaders like Lula to tell the US to mind its own business.

    Lula is a WEF shill, but the CIA has managed to stop the Brazilian army from killing him after the CIA fixed it for him to win the election. Lula cannot stop the Iranian warships, the army wants to host the Iranian warships so Lula has to cave in, beg forgiveness from his USA handlers, then claim he is fighting back against imperialism. It is all rather pathetic, but Lula is a puppet, like Biden, he will do what he is told.

    #130215
    aspnaz
    Participant

    “West” has been telling Z to withdraw. They portray it as his fight, not theirs, so they can’t lose face. But he can. Maybe the way out for him is attacking Crimea, saying that’s the bigger battle. He also started talking about American kids dying in Ukraine battles.

    Surely only minority kids, the blacks, Jews, mexicans etc should fight for the USA, the whites are too fat and supremacist to fight. What would you do if you were called up? I would definitely not enroll, I would be across the border within 24 hours. Why should I be a murderer for the neo-cons? If they want to go a murdering people who are no threat to the USA then they should do it themselves, not turn me into some neo-con servant like Tulsi Gabbard.

    #130216
    oxymoron
    Participant

    “Biden Supports ‘Safe And Secureeffective’ Gain-of-Function Research, White House Says”

    Fixed it D

    #130217
    aspnaz
    Participant

    Dr D said

    Politicians ALWAYS destroy soldiers. ALWAYS cripple generals and bedevil the war. And the U.S. for one ALWAYS abandons and abuses their veterans. Fix that first and I’ll join. They claim to know war though. /rant and I apologize. But if more young men – who are mostly the children of other soldiers and police – did this, they would be forced to clean up the Army decades/centuries ago.

    George Carlin said that you have to be asleep to believe in the American dream. The military is just a short extension of that logic, the American people have a view of their military that is totally detached from the reality that the rest of the world sees.

    #130218
    aspnaz
    Participant

    Some other Western mercenaries also directly told him: “The Russians aren’t the Nazis, we are the Nazis,” according to McIntyre.

    Which just tells you that mercenaries should be hanged. Being a Nazi to protect your family is one thing, doing it to earn money is a different thing entirely, but many US forces will be in Ukraine being Nazis.

    #130219
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Wait until insurance companies have to change their long term mortality assumptions…that’s when the real losses get realized.

    Why won’t the blood drinking Satanists who run all the rackets currently simply BAILOUT the insurance mafia with boat loads of newly minted printed ‘money’ like they routinely bailout the MSMediawhores????

    All the current corporate Presstitutes don’t make enough money to balance their books, they get ‘money’ directly from the central government or from Big Pharma ‘advertising’ useless, harmful products on their censored platforms.

    The Empire of Lies is keystroke printing more ‘money’ than it actually collects in taxes to ‘balance’ the budget.

    Just bailout every industrial corporate mafia racket with fake ‘money’.

    It’s still working right now.

    It seems it can go on forever

    ‘Money’ printing.

    The Insurance Mafia will just be another corporate whore with a hand full of gimme and a mouthful of much obliged.

    .
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    #130220
    upstateNYer
    Participant

    @Dr D: “It could be easily fixed, but to do that all one has to do is tell the truth. It would be undone just the way it was done. We just slowly walk away from hell, and back where we came, with smaller people, smaller shops, smaller companies, more local and more moral.”

    Well said. 🙂 Thank you.

    #130221
    upstateNYer
    Participant

    There isn’t an ounce of intelligence in “artificial intelligence”. It’s not intelligence, it’s machine learning. We need to wrap our heads around that and stop running around like our hair is on fire over the concept of AI.

    Still remember learning WAY back, while attending a college course on computing … garbage in, garbage out. Can’t wait to see the fall out once AI, chatbots, or whatever it’s called … is hacked by a skilled hacker or group of hackers or just about anyone with the time and desire. Now that will be entertaining indeed.

    If the past 3 years have taught us anything, it’s that being irrationally fearful is almost the worst thing we can do to mitigate damage.

    #130222
    Dr D Rich
    Participant

    @Dr. D

    Your business advice, is it sage or sophomoric?

    Are all monopolies successful? And for whom?

    Written elsewhere today. Go to one of 8 universities and become a centimillionaire: Stanford Harvard Yale Cornell MIT Princeton Penn and Columbia.

    My fateful decision was eschewing (who uses that word ever at all in routine speech? Probably John Day and AFKTT I bet) a football scholarship to Penn in favor of the Nation’s financed free-ride to play football at USNA. Find the errors in that run on sentence.
    OTOH, Who gives a poor kid with an IQ a 6-figure loan to attend college where they mint centimillionaires?

    Indeed, no one knows the U.S military.
    Here’s one for John Day. Our LtColonel Marine CO announces that I’m flying the first “combat” mission as H2P with him. He hates me his flight surgeon. Dell Barnewell, 1LT, says “No!”. Who prevails, First Lieutenant or commanding officer?

    #130223
    John Day
    Participant

    @Dr D Rich, by way of explanation: When I excerpt an article on my blog I italicise the excerpt. That does not show up when I transfer it to this comments section. It looks as if the quotation may be my own comment at times, as yesterday in the article about Hersh. It was not my comment, just the paragraph that completed the title with an answer.
    My comment was that there was more to it than that, but that it was an interesting take, and that Hersh is instrumental in history and may be similarly likeable to Henry K.

    You wrote:
    “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”

    I do not disputeanything you wrote.

    #130225
    tboc
    Participant

    Gal Luft “has given information to the DOJ about the Biden family’s foreign business deals.” TP
    most simple interpretation – “throw another virgin in the volcano”

    there is one thought that seems to escape attention rather easily, “and then they came for me”.

    #130226
    Sweet Kenny
    Participant

    That former mercenary that switched sides looks forced.

    #130227
    zerosum
    Participant

    Waste
    Bakhmut is small unimportant city – lies

    misuse of energy
    misuse of consumable material

    • Zelensky Hints At Withdrawing From Russian-Encircled Bakhmut (ZH)
    • Situation In Bakhmut Much Worse Than Kiev Admits – CNN (TASS)
    • Most Front-Line Ukrainian Soldiers Killed Within ‘4 Hours’ (LI)
    ———–
    • The Return of Oracles: Chatbots Are Coming! (Ugo Bardi)

    In principle, chatbots are the death knell for search engines, which were the earlier death knell for propaganda. We are in the midst of this new epistemic change, and it is unclear what AI chatbots can and cannot do. For the time being, a good chatbot acts like a good (albeit a little dull) librarian and, at the same time, a meticulous editorial assistant (again, a rather dull one). But, in principle, a good chatbot can bypass the shadow-banning of the search engines: they are much more powerful and sophisticated tools for searching information on the Web. They work on the same principle as the old oracles: they pay for information with information. Every time you ask the bot a question, you provide it with a precious element of information.
    ————
    Unfortunately, The sheep cannot ‘read’ math’
    The numbers say it all.
    https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202302.0350/v1
    TVASF
    ————-

    #130228
    Germ
    Participant

    TV – The more you watch, the less you know.

    #130229
    Doc Robinson
    Participant

    In today’s news,
    East Palestine Plants Suspend Operations as Workers Get Sick

    The EPA is testing for some toxins but not for dioxins. The workers believed the EPA tests which said it was safe to return to work.

    “some employees repeatedly suffer the same symptoms each time they return to work for a couple of days. They had returned to work once the evacuation order was lifted, believing when they were told it was safe, and again after another air test at the plant showed no signs of problems.”

    With employees continuing to suffer ill effects since the train derailment now more than three weeks ago, CeramFab and two of its affiliated plants in East Palestine have been forced to cease manufacturing – again.

    The situation is most serious for CeramFab on East Taggart Street, according to plant manager Howard Yang. Employees at that 80,000-square-foot plant next to the derailment site, have suffered the most health issues with some reporting a medical diagnosis of chemical bronchitis. The company’s other plant, which houses CeramSource and WYG Refractories, is less than a mile from the train derailment site. It has seen employees suffer rashes and respiratory issues.

    Yang said some employees repeatedly suffer the same symptoms each time they return to work for a couple of days. They had returned to work once the evacuation order was lifted, believing when they were told it was safe, and again after another air test at the plant showed no signs of problems.

    https://businessjournaldaily.com/east-palestine-industry-struggles-to-keep-employees-well-at-work/

    #130230
    phoenixvoice
    Participant

    Dr D:
    know HOW, we just won’t do it. And that can be just as simple as going Amish, buying less, choosing companies of your friends and good people. That requires a spiritual change. You can of course tear the country apart, but that’s messy. If you can’t change WITHOUT tearing the country apart,

    Odd fact: when I was a teen, I studied frugality. I know, kind of weird, but I purchased The Complete Tightwad Gazette from a book club’s introductory deal (then canceled the subscription,) read it cover to cover twice, and made notes in the margins. I still have the 300+ page book.

    During the past 11 years my income has never been more than barely above half the federal poverty limit for my family size. There have been months when there was very, very little money to meet our needs and months when there was enough plus a smidgen to spare. I have applied the lessons in frugality that I studied as a teen. During the lean times, periods of “enforced frugality,” I would find myself growing resentful of the extreme measures I took to avoid taking on debt. During the less lean times, I took pleasure in shopping at thrift stores or grabbing items that were useful to me out of bulk trash piles, pleased with my own frugality — acquiring what I needed or wanted while spending as little as possible is like a game against “The System.”

    So here is the rub, which the WEFfers don’t seem to understand: when people are pushed against their will into deprivation, they will grow resentful, no matter the cause — whether it be due to natural disaster, war, their own ineptitude, inexplicable policies regarding the use of petroleum products, etc. When people discover that others, who did not suffer deprivation, were the deliberate cause of their deprivation, they are likely to become very, very angry. On the other hand, when people believe in a principle, and then adjust their behavior to accommodate adherence to that principle, the changes do not feel like deprivation.

    So, originally the WEFfers seemed to believe that by controlling the masses’ access to information that they could control what the masses believed, and therefore induce the masses to voluntarily reduce their carbon footprint, replace meat with vegetable protein and bugs, and get jabbed. On many fronts this works — especially for the short term. But propaganda, no matter how crafty, is not as genuine as deeply held beliefs and personal values. So, the WEFfers, finding that they have exhausted the carrot, are resorting to the stick — enforced deprivation by sabotaging the systems that provide plenty for the people. I suspect that the WEFfers don’t understand the depth of resentment and hatred that the stick will engender in the people. Or they believe that they can “manage” the resentment of the people. I don’t think that such resentment can be “well-managed” over the long term.

    #130231
    Germ
    Participant

    Just published:

    Amyloidogenic proteins in the SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2 proteomes

    https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-36234-4

    ” …viral particles can trigger the misfolding and aggregation of host proteins, resulting in damage to the host organism” – say hello to our good friend ‘Spike’!

    Amyloidosis is the slow burn fuse for the coming societal health collapse of the death vaxxed.

    TVASF

    #130232
    John Day
    Participant

    Dr D Rich scribed:
    “Here’s one for John Day. Our LtColonel Marine CO announces that I’m flying the first “combat” mission as H2P with him. He hates me his flight surgeon. Dell Barnewell, 1LT, says “No!”. Who prevails, First Lieutenant or commanding officer?”

    A: It depends on the regulations, doesn’t it?

    #130233
    Doc Robinson
    Participant

    phoenixvoice: “So, the WEFfers, finding that they have exhausted the carrot, are resorting to the stick — enforced deprivation by sabotaging the systems that provide plenty for the people.”

    Time to co-create local systems that provide enough for the people.

    #130234
    phoenixvoice
    Participant

    @ doc Robinson

    Yup.

    #130235
    WES
    Participant

    Phoenixvoice

    What you described, was exactly what I saw in communist run USSR in 1983. The people were always promised things would be better, in the next 5 year plan, if they would just continue to deprive themselves today. Utopia was always just around the corner. It never came.

    Meanwhile anyone who could, gardened intensively, to provide themselves with food the government wouldn’t/couldn’t provide.

    Then in 1991, 8 years later, communism hit the wall, because the people had quietly all quit working hard long ago.

    #130236
    kultsommer
    Participant

    Then in 1991, 8 years later, communism hit the wall, …….

    Aside of big possibility being labeled as a”looser” (by the measures of the system, not by me) phoenix’s recommended lifestyle is a death blow to the one that rely on (mindless) consumerism and unlimited growth.

    #130237
    Red
    Participant

    Spirals downward spirals, fun if they’re water slides. I fear they forgot to fill the pool!

    A new report reveals the US’ largest power grid is shuttering power generation units faster than new supply can be brought online, threatening electric reliability in 13 states that stretch from Illinois to New Jersey with over 65 million customers.

    Here are the key highlights of the report:

    The growth rate of electricity demand is likely to continue to increase from electrification coupled with the proliferation of high-demand data centers in the region.
    Thermal generators are retiring at a rapid pace due to government and private sector policies as well as economics.
    Retirements are at risk of outpacing the construction of new resources, due to a combination of industry forces, including siting and supply chain, whose long-term impacts are not fully known.
    PJM’s interconnection queue is composed primarily of intermittent and limited-duration resources. Given the operating characteristics of these resources, we need multiple megawatts of these resources to replace 1 MW of thermal generation.
    The report warned:

    “For the first time in recent history, PJM could face decreasing reserve margins should these trends continue.”

    A significant problem with the ‘green transition’ is adding renewable power, such as solar and wind, are unreliable forms of power generation. Combining this with rapidly retiring fossil fuel power generation units will reduce generating capacity by about 21% through 2030. The report pointed out that the current pace of adding new power generation wouldn’t compensate for the retirement of coal- and natural gas-fired generation amid soaring demand.

    https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/americas-largest-power-grid-faces-worsening-reliability-risks

    #130238
    Red
    Participant

    More drain circling activities.

    What is the answer? Schiff says, “We have to let the phony economy collapse so we can build a real economy on the rubble of this economic house of cards.”

    There are going to be lots of losers in the coming collapse. Schiff says, “People are going to suffer the consequences of this experiment gone bad. . . . We know how this experiment is going to end. They are not doing anything that Zimbabwe didn’t try, or Argentina didn’t try or the Weimar Republic. They didn’t reinvent inflation. It’s the same old thing.”

    Fed Fears Complete Economic Collapse – Peter Schiff

    #130239
    WES
    Participant

    FDR & Biden:

    Both are doing the exact same things. They are completely ignoring what the people want, listening only to the bankers.

    1. FDR raised gold’s dollar price from $20 something to $35 to create instant inflation. Biden signed on first day in office Build Back Better to boost inflation. American people do not want higher inflation.

    2. FDR told Poland not to give Germany a corridor to Prussia, starting WW2. FDR deliberately pushed Japan into a war with the US. Biden pushed US into war with Russia. Both ignoring American’s desire for peace. Both pushed hard for war.

    History repeats.

    #130240
    Red
    Participant

    Interesting direction of AI. It’s an ill wind that blows no good.

    #130241
    Doc Robinson
    Participant

    Someone figured out that just putting some fresh gravel on the tracks wasn’t good enough.

    Ohio governor visits train derailment site as track removal set to begin
    Hazardous waste may be hiding under the train tracks at the derailment site.

    …The track removal is a change from Norfolk Southern’s original plan, which did not include tearing up the tracks.

    https://abcnews.go.com/US/ohio-governor-visits-train-derailment-site-track-removal/story?id=97549324

    #130242
    zerosum
    Participant

    As grandparents, we are doing what we can to supplement the R,W,A, and the mental/learning blockage that are not addressed, encountered in school.
    I expect that the grandkids will still listen to us until they reach the teen years.
    Hopefully, they will be able to outwit the chatbots.

    #130243
    phoenixvoice
    Participant

    @ zero sum
    May I also recommend teaching them about how an internet browser functions, how to type in a web address, how to touch-type, to use bookmarks, how to create their own password system rather than just letting the browser remember them. Teach them to go over privacy settings, and know what they are installing and accepting. These skills are not being taught in school — technology is simply thrust at the children.

    #130244
    WES
    Participant

    Doc Robinson:

    I like how they announced they have a new bus that can do tests in the bus for real time results but are not publically releasing these results. A dog and pony show of “Oh, look shiny object!” while covering up everything. Nothing has changed. Depend upon government at your own risk.

    #130245
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    What if rejecting the “Narrative” for it being false involved accepting instead the truth that one’s self was party to grave child abuse, treason and attempted genocide ?

    What if belief in an insanely unrealistic story was necessary to getting the masses to continue obeying orders to collaborate in massive illegalities which spanned the entire range of criminality?

    One of the things that holds “mass formation” insanity in place is personal guilt.

    #130246
    zerosum
    Participant

    @ phoenixvoice
    Yes!
    There is a lot to do.
    I’m hoping most of your list will be done by their parents and aunts.
    ( I want job of supervising, 🙂 )

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