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Zelensky, Cronies In Major Corruption Scandal In Ukraine – And US? (Lavrenin)
Zelensky Floats ‘Strategic Pullback’ From Bakhmut (ZH)
Germany’s Scholz: Russia Must Take First Steps Towards Peace In Ukraine (TASS)
UK Ex-Foreign Secretary: US Makes Decisions On Arms Supplies To Ukraine (TASS)
Ready to Die for Ukraine? Russia Warns of Nuclear Annihilation (Celente)
Deep State Absolutely Wants to Kill You – Alex Newman (USAW)
EU Is Threatening Serbia – Vucic (RT)
Pentagon Says It Struggles To Track US Weapons In Ukraine (RT)
Deadly Balancing Act For Region With US Hell Bent On China War (Lo)
US Rallying Allies For New China Sanctions (RT)
Russiagate Spells Journalism’s Death (Chris Hedges)
Greek Consumers Pay Up To 45% More This Year For Basic Food Items (K.)
Ghislaine Maxwell Reportedly In Solitary After Saying Epstein Was Murdered (GP)

 

 

 

 

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“..we can be certain that the inspectors won’t disclose any serious abuses following the audit, since this would deal a blow to President Joe Biden..”

Zelensky, Cronies In Major Corruption Scandal In Ukraine – And US? (Lavrenin)

The corruption scandals in Ukraine are being actively publicized by the media and are linked not only to the government’s political opponents, but also to Ukraine’s partners, primarily the United States. For example, Bihus.Info published an investigation into Yermak’s ties with former deputies from the now banned “Opposition Platform – For Life” party. This was Ukraine’s second largest political faction, until it was prohibited by Zelensky, as part of his crackdown on political opponents. Many experts have viewed the saga as an attempt by the American government to solve its own pressing issue of Republican demands that the White House establishes control over US aid to Ukraine. Having gained a majority in the House of Representatives, the Republican Party wants stricter controls over the expenditure of multibillion-dollar tranches allocated to Kiev. In Ukraine, the political consequences may also be significant.

On January 29, several inspectors arrived in Kiev from the US. The commission included Inspectors General Diana Shaw, Robert Storch, and Nicole Angarella from the US Department of State, the Pentagon, and the Agency for International Development (USAID), respectively. According to the US Ambassador to Ukraine Bridget Brink, the purpose of their visit was “to advance independent oversight of US assistance to Ukraine”. The offices of all three inspectors have established an interdepartmental working group that includes similar services in other departments and several government auditing services – 17 in total. The group will be responsible for holding meetings with “key American and Ukrainian officials, colleagues in various government agencies and non-governmental organizations implementing programs funded by the United States.” The inspectors are clearly trying to work with the civilian population, bypassing the Ukrainian authorities.

Among the inspectors, Robert Storch is closely familiar with Ukraine’s internal affairs. From 2007 to 2009, he worked in Ukraine as a consultant on anti-corruption issues, and in 2014, he returned to Kiev to help develop anti-corruption legislation. He also advised the authorities on the creation of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU). Storch has already been active in Ukraine. He met with Vitaliy Shabunin, director of the Anti-Corruption Centre (ACC), who recently criticized the Ukrainian Presidential Office and raised issues of graft in the higher echelons of power, and who was in turn criticized by Reznikov. After the meeting with Storch, however, the anti-corruption activist wrote in his Telegram channel that “all three inspectors-general are deeply aware both of corruption in food purchases and other problems in the Ministry of Defence (which will soon become public)”.

Storch also made time to hold a meeting with Reznikov directly. What’s next? It remains unclear whether the increased interest in policing corruption is an initiative by Ukraine’s pro-Western structures or is part of a new strategy from Washington. Nevertheless, the US inspectors’ main goal was to investigate the misuse of allocated funds. Given that the aid accounts for about half of Ukraine’s budget, the US reasonably expects the funds to be used for achieving set goals and not enriching officials. Consequently, we can be certain that the inspectors won’t disclose any serious abuses following the audit, since this would deal a blow to President Joe Biden and would also reflect negatively on American officials.

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Zelensky Floats ‘Strategic Pullback’ From Bakhmut (ZH)

Zelensky officials are now openly talking about a possible ‘strategic pullback’ from the besieged eastern city of Bakhmut. This comes after Zelensky himself said he’s not ready to order a continued defense of the city at all costs. By all accounts both sides are suffering huge casualties, but Russia has the superior artillery fire, which has been sustained around the clock, also as Kremlin forces have the city almost completely surrounded. According to The Hill: “A Ukrainian presidential adviser on Tuesday said troops may “strategically pull back” from the town of Bakhmut, the focus of intense and brutal fighting for the past few months. Alexander Rodnyansky told CNN the Ukrainian army has not yet pulled out of the city, but Kyiv may soon decide the cost of holding Bakhmut “outweighs the benefits.”


“Our military is obviously going to weigh all of the options,” the Zelensky aide told CNN. “So far they’ve held the city, but if need be, they will strategically pull back because we’re not going to sacrifice all of our people just for nothing.” President Zelensky has also admitted defense of the town has proven “most difficult” for his forces. However, in rare comments, Wagner Group founder Yevgeny Prigozhin said Ukrainian forces continue putting up a fierce resistance on Wednesday. So far they’ve been throwing an immense amount of manpower into Bakhmut, he said. “The Ukrainian army is throwing extra reserves into Artyomovsk and trying to hold the town with all their strength,” Prigozhin said, using the Russian name for Bakhmut, in an audio message published by Wagner’s press service. “Tens of thousands of Ukrainian army fighters are putting up furious resistance. The bloodiness of the battles is growing by the day.”


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“He would like to see the withdrawal of Russian troops in the first place..”

Germany’s Scholz: Russia Must Take First Steps Towards Peace In Ukraine (TASS)

The German government thinks that Russia should be the first to take a step towards achieving peace in Ukraine, Chancellor Olaf Scholz said at a joint press conference with Latvian Prime Minister Krisjanis Karins in Berlin on Wednesday. Scholz argued it was “clear” to him that Russia had attacked Ukraine, and that Russia was the country that “must do something” to make peace possible. He would like to see the withdrawal of Russian troops in the first place. Scholz stated that attention should now be paid to what he described as “the security policy situation on NATO’s eastern flank.” “In the event of an attack, we will together defend every centimeter of the alliance’s territory,” Scholz argued. He assured that the West would continue to “support Ukraine as much as necessary.”

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UK=Perfect Puppets.

UK Ex-Foreign Secretary: US Makes Decisions On Arms Supplies To Ukraine (TASS)

Britain will not be able to independently expand the supply of arms to Ukraine, since the main decisions in this regard are still being made in Washington, former British Foreign Secretary William Hague said in a conversation with Russian pranksters Vladimir Kuznetsov (Vovan) and Alexei Stolyarov (Lexus), published on Wednesday. Hague served as Britain’s Foreign Secretary from 2010 to 2014. In a conversation with pranksters who called him on behalf of Ukraine’s former president, Pyotr Poroshenko, he said that he remained in touch with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, advised him on the need to increase arms supplies to Ukraine and was sort of a mentor for the head of the British Cabinet. “Great Britain will not change its policy without the United States, without coordinating it with the United States. In other words, the main decisions are still made in Washington,” Hague said.


He noted that if Britain had free reign to make a decision to supply long-range weapons to Ukraine, there would be no doubt on that score. He added that the process of Ukraine’s accession to NATO, in his opinion, would last for years. Hague speculated that the scheme that existed between the United States and Israel might serve as a solution for such a transition period. This is not an agreement or a defensive alliance, he said, but political certainty that Israel will always have the most advanced systems for defense. Ukraine, too, can have such relations with Britain, the US and many other Western states. “As for NATO, you can only imagine how long all this coordination will take in the alliance,” Hague said.

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“If the issue of the very existence of Russia is raised seriously, it won’t be decided on the Ukrainian front. [It’ll be decided] together with the issue of the further existence of the entire human civilization.”

Ready to Die for Ukraine? Russia Warns of Nuclear Annihilation (Celente)

Last week, in an article published in Izvestia newspaper, the former president of Russia Dmitry Medvedev warned of a nuclear ‘apocalypse’ if NATO and the U.S. continued to ramp up the Ukraine War. Noting that the West and its “satellites” represent only 15 percent of the world’s population, he wrote it is “delusional” if they think that, “after putting the Soviet Union to rest, it’ll be able to also bury modern Russia without significant problems for itself, by throwing the lives of thousands of people involved in the conflict [in Ukraine] into the furnace,” and that those are “extremely dangerous misconceptions.”

The now deputy chair of the Russian Security Council also noted that “If the issue of the very existence of Russia is raised seriously, it won’t be decided on the Ukrainian front. [It’ll be decided] together with the issue of the further existence of the entire human civilization.” He warned the more weapons the U.S., NATO and its allies send to Ukraine while failing to discuss peace, the more it’s “…bound to lead to a total fiasco; the defeat for everyone; a collapse. An apocalypse when the former life would have to be forgotten for centuries, until the smoky debris ceases to emit radiation.” Echoing Medvedev’s nuclear warning, on Sunday, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Moscow must take into account NATO’s nuclear capabilities as he claimed that the West wants to destroy Russia.

“Where the leading NATO countries have proclaimed their main goal to be the strategic defeat of Russia, in order for our people ‘to suffer’ as they put it, how, in these conditions, could we not take into account their nuclear potential?” he asked. Putin said the West is complicit in “crimes” being committed by Ukraine by supplying the country with weapons and that the end goal is to destroy and divide Russia. Resonating that sentiment on Monday, Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said America and its allies want to “isolate, and even dismember” Russia and the future world order is being formed.

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Mengele, Rockefeller, Schwab.

Deep State Absolutely Wants to Kill You – Alex Newman (USAW)

Award-winning journalist Alex Newman, author of the popular books “Deep State” and “Crimes of the Educators,” predicted at the beginning is this year that the Deep State demons will have one crisis after another to keep people confused and afraid. The latest crisis is the economic and ecological disaster in East Palestine, Ohio. Newman says expect many more disasters and explains, “All across the country we are seeing very bizarre things happen. Factories and chemical plants going up in flames, food processing facilities blowing up, airplanes crashing in mysterious ways, and I think we are heading into an era of really serious crisis. Last summer, I was putting together the wave of crises that the Deep State was preparing for us, and one of the terms I used was ‘polycrisis.’ Then, right before the World Economic Forum meeting this year, they actually put on their website is 2023 the year of the polycrisis? Of course, it will be the year of the polycrisis.

I think we are prepared and being groomed for cyber-attacks, currency crisis, economic crisis and, of course, Russia/Ukraine and China/Taiwan. I think all of this is going to be used for a series of never-ending crises until we are ready to give up our freedoms, give up our national sovereignty and self-government, and move towards this crazy totalitarian, technocratic system they want.” Newman says it’s not going to be a kind transition for most people. Newman says, “The thing that is so hard for people to understand is that there are very powerful people that are working together, and they absolutely want to kill you. That is not speculation. These people have been openly saying for a century that they believe there are too many people on this planet. . . . The eugenics movement never died. Margaret Sanger, the Rockefellers, Dr. Joseph Mengele was funded by the Rockefeller dynasty. These people are very much still around. Bill Gates is the perfect example. His dad was on the board of Planned Parenthood, the largest butcher of unborn babies in America. . . . Bill Gates says openly and frequently that there are too many people on this planet. He wants to use vaccines and healthcare to reduce the number of people on the planet.”

Newman has a dark warning for America and explains, “Now that they are done with America and we are no longer useful and an obstacle to this global agenda, they need to knock us out. They may not want to resort to nuclear bombs, but if they did, it would not surprise me. . . . America is founded on very important ideals, and these are, once again, making a resurgence. Our self-evident truths that are enshrined in our Constitution, that God created us equally, that God gave us the right to property. God gave us our right to life. Government exists to protect these rights. These are Biblical ideas distilled into a political document. . . . These are ideals that are fundamental to liberty, and as long as the United States exists in its present form . . . . America is a major threat to this agenda. I don’t think we should put it past them that they would use nuclear bombs against us. I also think there is a fifth column in Washington that would be more than happy to collaborate.

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“Vucic vowed that he would never sign any “formal or informal recognition of Kosovo” as long as he is Serbia’s president..”

EU Is Threatening Serbia – Vucic (RT)

Serbia has not agreed to the EU’s “normalization” proposal on its relations with the breakaway province of Kosovo, President Aleksandar Vucic said on Tuesday while appearing on national TV. He added that Belgrade was facing threats from Brussels, but still refused to discuss the recognition of Kosovo and its accession to the UN. His words came a day after the EU’s top diplomat, Josep Borrell, said on Twitter that both Belgrade and Pristina supported the Franco-German proposal for a “path to normalization” of relations between Serbia and Kosovo. Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti then said he had offered to sign the plan, but that Vucic refused to do so, even though he had apparently “agreed to” it. On Tuesday, however, Vucic said that the sides “did not agree,” but simply agreed on continuing the talks. He added that “nothing has been signed in Brussels.”

Serbia is “ready to work on the implementation of many [points of] this plan,” Vucic said, but Belgrade still does not want to discuss “mutual recognition” as well as Kosovo’s accession to the UN. Serbia has not struck any “secret agreements,” the president said, adding that “not a single agreement is hidden” and he has “nothing to hide.” Vucic also called Borrell’s statement “very vague” and said that he was ready to discuss the “concept” of normalization. Vucic vowed that he would never sign any “formal or informal recognition of Kosovo” as long as he is Serbia’s president. He also admitted that Belgrade was facing pressure from Brussels and that the consequences of rejecting the plan would be a halting of Serbia’s integration into the European Union and a withdrawal of EU investments.

“We currently have 80,000 people working in German-owned factories alone. They threatened a number of other measures, including that Serbia would become a pariah isolated from the [rest of the] world,” Vucic said. An EU plan published by the bloc’s External Action Service says that Serbia and Kosovo would “develop normal, good-neighborly relations with each other on the basis of equal rights” and their dialogue would be guided by UN principles, including “those of the sovereign equality of all States.” The EU has insisted on Serbia recognizing Kosovo’s independence as a precondition for joining the bloc, even though five member countries – Spain, Slovakia, Cyprus, Greece, and Romania – do not recognize it either.

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“..refused to say whether his team had encountered any such corruption in Ukraine..”

Pentagon Says It Struggles To Track US Weapons In Ukraine (RT)

A classified report last year found that the Pentagon was unable to keep tabs on tens of billions of dollars worth of weapons sent to Ukraine. Details of the report were revealed – apparently inadvertently – by a Republican lawmaker during a hearing on Tuesday. Speaking at a hearing of the House Armed Services Committee in Washington on Tuesday, Pentagon Inspector General Robert Storch noted that the US has allocated $113 billion in aid to Ukraine since the conflict there began last February, around 60% of which went to the country’s military. Storch – who is tasked with ensuring that this money is accounted for and not lost to waste, fraud, or abuse – refused to say whether his team had encountered any such corruption in Ukraine. However, Republican Rep. Mike Johnson stated that a report from Storch’s office last October found that the Pentagon was unable to carry out monitoring of weapons deliveries to Ukraine in line with its own policies.

Storch responded that the report in question was supposed to remain classified, but admitted that it was “accurate” in acknowledging “challenges” faced by the US in Ukraine. Monitoring of such arms deliveries is governed by the 1996 Arms Export Control Act. Questioned by Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz – a vocal opponent of military aid to Ukraine – Storch would not confirm or deny under oath whether the Pentagon was complying with this act. National Security Council spokesman John Kirby claimed in January that the Biden administration has “not seen any signs” that military or economic aid “has fallen prey to any kind of corruption in Ukraine.” However, the classified document mentioned by Johnson appears to back up a slew of reports suggesting that weapons often disappear once delivered. Reports from last year – backed up by Amnesty International – claimed that as little as 30% of Western weapons sent to Ukraine were actually making it to the front lines.

American and Canadian officials admitted at the time that they had no idea where most of these weapons were ending up, with one US intelligence source telling CNN that they vanish “into a big black hole” once they enter Ukraine. The Kremlin has claimed that up to $1 billion worth of these weapons are funneled from Ukraine to criminals and terror groups in the Middle East, Africa, and Southeast Asia every month, while Europol and Interpol both warned that weapons have likely been transferred from Ukraine to criminal organizations in Europe. Pressed by Gaetz on Tuesday, Storch admitted that “there’s a long history of issues with corruption in Ukraine.” Earlier on Tuesday, a former American soldier who fought for Ukraine’s foreign legion before defecting to Russia told RT that he had personally seen commanders selling off Western missile launchers and rifles.

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“Why talk when you can just pull out a gun? That’s America’s style..”

Deadly Balancing Act For Region With US Hell Bent On China War (Lo)

In one respect, Antony Blinken’s latest claim about Taiwan is right. The US secretary of state said any cross-strait crisis is “a matter of concern to quite literally the entire world”. That’s true because Washington has made it so by deliberately escalating what are already high tensions into a powder keg. When arsonists like Blinken are threatening to torch a house, which is Taiwan, to save it, it’s no wonder the whole neighbourhood is alarmed. It doesn’t help when top US military men just keep on predicting a war with China, any time now, and up to 2027 at the latest. It also doesn’t help when the United States keeps selling more weapons to the island, and is now increasing its military presence with actual boots on Taiwanese ground. If that’s not provocation, I don’t know what is.

There is an easier and sensible way to ease tensions with China, and that’s by trying to reach an understanding with Beijing over the island, as both the US and the mainland have managed to do in the past 40 years, until now. But then the US decides it must openly confront and contain a rising China. And what’s more convenient than playing the Taiwan card, Asia’s peace and security be damned? After all, if the whole region goes up in smoke, that’s someone else’s neighbourhood, not America’s. It’s déjà vu. How many times have we seen this film before? Why talk when you can just pull out a gun? That’s America’s style. It’s apparently even written into its constitution. Washington plans to significantly increase its presence of troops on Taiwan, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal, by quadrupling the number to 200 military personnel in the coming months.

Meanwhile, separate reports also say Taiwanese troops will be sent to the US for combat training. Until recently, there were not supposed to be any US troops on Taiwan; and even up to the start of 2021, no more than two dozen were reported. The military exchange will be a real escalation. Such moves are usually between the militaries of two sovereign countries. It’s clear while the Joe Biden White House claims to uphold the one-China principle, its actions say otherwise. For a while, President Tsai Ing-wen tried to put a lid on the rising US presence of troops, but now she doesn’t even bother. Washington keeps arguing for increasingly assertive and overt support, especially with frequent US naval operations across the strait. It’s the only way to help deter “Chinese aggression”. That’s a matter of perspective. For Beijing, it just looks like deliberate provocation.

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All these economies are overflowing with Chinese imports.

US Rallying Allies For New China Sanctions (RT)

The US is coordinating with its close allies to impose new sanctions on China should it decide to support the Russian campaign in Ukraine, according to Reuters. Beijing has rejected claims that it intends to offer military aid to Moscow, and recently unveiled a plan seeking a peaceful settlement to the conflict. Washington is in “consultations” with foreign partners, namely those from the G7 nations, regarding new economic penalties, several unnamed US officials told the outlet on Wednesday. They declined to provide details about the potential sanctions, only confirming that discussions are “laying the groundwork for potential action.” The report follows repeated warnings toward China from the US and other Western nations, which claim Beijing intends to supply weapons to Russian forces for the campaign against Ukraine.

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg echoed the charges during a recent interview with the Associated Press, saying “we have seen some signs that they may be planning for that,” but without offering evidence. On Tuesday, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken declared that Washington would “not hesitate” to target Chinese firms with sanctions in the event that Beijing supplies lethal aid to Moscow, saying the move would carry “implications and consequences.” Blinken added that he raised the issue with top Chinese diplomat Wang Yi when they met at the Munich Security Conference last month. China has dismissed the charges as “groundless speculation,” arguing that it does not intend to provide weapons to Russian troops while accusing Washington of hypocrisy.

“The US has no right to dictate China-Russia relations, and we will never accept coercion and pressure from the US,” Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said on Monday. She went on to observe that it is Washington, not Beijing, that has been “pouring lethal weapons into the battlefield in Ukraine.” While Western nations have long pressured China to sever ties with Russia, accusations toward Beijing have only grown louder since it unveiled a 12-point roadmap for a diplomatic settlement for the conflict in Ukraine last month. Moscow has signaled willingness to “carefully analyze” the details of the proposal, though US officials quickly rejected the plan, claiming Beijing has adopted “Russia’s false narrative about the war” and is not “serious” about ending hostilities.

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Russiagate to Covid to Ukraine. Who could have predicted?

Russiagate Spells Journalism’s Death (Chris Hedges)

Gerth, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter who worked at The New York Times from 1976 until 2005, spent the last two years writing an exhaustive look at the systemic failure of the press during the Trump-Russia story, authoring a four-part series of 24,000 words that has been published by The Columbia Journalism Review. It is an important, if depressing, read. News organizations repeatedly seized on any story, he documents, no matter how unverified, to discredit Trump and routinely ignored reports that cast doubt on the rumors they presented as fact. You can see my interview with Gerth here. The New York Times, for example, in January 2018, ignored a publicly available document showing that the F.B.I.’s lead investigator, after a 10-month inquiry, did not find evidence of collusion between Trump and Moscow.

The lie of omission was combined with reliance on sources that peddled fictions designed to cater to Trump-haters, as well as a failure to interview those being accused of collaborating with Russia. The Washington Post and NPR reported, incorrectly, that Trump had weakened the GOP’s stance on Ukraine in the party platform because he opposed language calling for arming Ukraine with “lethal defensive weapons” — a position identical to that of his predecessor President Barack Obama. These outlets ignored the platform’s support for sanctions against Russia as well its call for “appropriate assistance to the armed forces of Ukraine and greater coordination with NATO defense planning.” News organizations amplified this charge. In a New York Times column that called Trump the “Siberian candidate,” Paul Krugman wrote that the platform was “watered down to blandness” by the Republican president.

Jeffrey Goldberg, editor of The Atlantic, described Trump as a “de facto agent” of Vladimir Putin. Those who tried to call out this shoddy reporting, including Russian-American journalist and Putin critic Masha Gessen were ignored. After Trump’s first meeting as president with Putin, he was attacked as if the meeting itself proved he was a Russian stooge. Then New York Times columnist Roger Cohen wrote of the “disgusting spectacle of the American president kowtowing in Helsinki to Vladimir Putin.” Rachel Maddow, MSNBC’s most popular host, said that the meeting between Trump and Putin validated her covering the Trump-Russia allegations “more than anyone else in the national press” and strongly implied — and her show’s Twitter account and YouTube page explicitly stated — that Americans were now “coming to grips with a worst-case scenario that the U.S. president is compromised by a hostile foreign power.”

The anti-Trump reporting, Gerth notes, hid behind the wall of anonymous sources, frequently identified as “people (or person) familiar with” — The New York Times used it over a thousand times in stories involving Trump and Russia, between October 2016 and the end of his presidency, Gerth found. Any rumor or smear was picked up in the news cycle with the sources often unidentified and the information unverified. A routine soon took shape in the Trump-Russia saga. “First, a federal agency like the CIA or FBI secretly briefs Congress,” Gerth writes. “Then Democrats or Republicans selectively leak snippets. Finally, the story comes out, using vague attribution.” These cherry-picked pieces of information largely distorted the conclusions of the briefings.

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Great! Now go run a homeless kitchen…

Greek Consumers Pay Up To 45% More This Year For Basic Food Items (K.)

Greek consumers are paying up to 45% more this year for basic food items compared to a year ago, as estimates of temporary price appreciation, which started before the war in Ukraine and intensified later on, turned out to be false hopes, Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT) data show. Although there were eventually no food shortages and the market caps imposed on some products in the first weeks after the Russian military invaded Ukraine, such as flour, sunflower oil, sugar and chicken, did not have to last for long, the price increases have not only not been contained since then, but are continuing in 2023. Despite the significant de-escalation in recent months, the prices of electricity and natural gas also remain high, having been up to four times higher in the past year than in 2021, even after the government subsidies for household consumers’ bills.

Increased spending on food and other household essentials, as well as inflated energy bills, despite subsidies, resulted in more than half of households reporting that their monthly income was sufficient up to the 18th of each month. Out of a total of 62 food items, only in one case was there a price reduction in January 2023 compared to a year earlier and that was negligible (-0.02% for fresh fish). All other products saw prices increase from 0.29% (fresh fruit) to 44.96% (sugar). In fact, the increase is over 20% in 14 types of food, which includes the most basic ones, such as milk (24.29% for fresh milk with even greater increases in other types), bread (25.55%), flour (26.89%), eggs (26.27%), cheeses (26.61), yogurt (21.65%), olive oil (22.37%), beef (20.15 %), lamb and goat (21.35%).

For a “basket” with 25 basic products – food and household items – on March 1, 2022 Greeks paid 76.26 euros, while the exact same products (same brand and code) now cost €91 – i.e. 19.33% more money. In some cases the increases even reach 60%, such as in branded toilet paper or detergents and shower gels, where price hikes of over 50% are recorded.

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“I probably wish I had stayed in England.”

Ghislaine Maxwell Reportedly In Solitary After Saying Epstein Was Murdered (GP)

Convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell was reportedly punished by authorities at the Federal Correctional Institute Tallahassee over a recorded jailhouse interview that aired in January. The onetime British socialite, who was accused of procuring underage girls for convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, “was handcuffed and slung into solitary confinement for 48 hours after prison authorities accused her of profiting from a media interview,” the Daily Mail reported Monday. “She protested her innocence but was marched off to the Special Housing Unit (SHU) — a ‘prison within a prison’ comprising tiny, grim cells where inmates are locked up for 23 hours at a time and fed through slits in the door.”

The news outlet quoted unnamed “insiders” as saying that the inmate they know as “Max” “was just minding her own business when they came in, turned her around and handcuffed her.” “She got really upset, she was crying, she was yelling that she hadn’t received any money, but nobody saw her again for three days.” The Mail’s source said, “The SHU is not a nice place.” “It’s like a little box and you’re only allowed out to shower once a day. There’s no contact from anyone, no privileges, they slide your meals through a slot.” According to the report, Maxwell’s interview, which was aired Jan. 23 on TalkTV, would have violated the terms of her 20-year federal prison sentence if she received payment for the appearance.

Also in question was how the interview was obtained. As federal prisoner number 02879-509, she is permitted video calls with only those family members and friends on a list approved by the federal prison, according to the report. She apparently conducted the interviews during phone calls with her friend, filmmaker Daphne Barak. Maxwell made headlines for several remarks made during those interviews. One much-publicized comment was that she believed Epstein, contrary to the official narrative, did not commit suicide in his jail cell in 2019. “I believe that he was murdered,” Maxwell said.

When she heard the news of his death, “I was shocked,” she said. “And I wondered how it had happened. Because as far as I was concerned, he was going to … I was sure he was going to appeal. And I was sure that he was covered under the non-prosecution agreement.” She also expressed regret for her association with Epstein during the interview. “I honestly wish I’d never met him, you know, looking back now,” she told the interviewer. “I probably wish I had stayed in England.”

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Fingers don’t have muscles, apart from the arrector pili, which are completely unrelated to motion. The 34 muscles that actually move human fingers are all located in the palm and forearm

 

 

AI sign language

 

 


Chand Baori is the deepest and probably the oldest stairwell in the world

 

 

Silent flight

 

 


The tufted ground squirrel is noted for having the largest known tail to body size ratio of any mammal, with the volume of its tail including the air included in the fluff being 130% of the volume of its body

 

 

 

 

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    And now, here comes Bird Flu!

    Bird flu HAS mutated to infect people

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11807961/H5N1-bird-flu-mutated-infect-people-scientists-ground-zero-Cambodia-say.html

    “The World Health Organization (WHO) has described the situation in Cambodia as ‘worrying’ “.

    Germ says it’s a nothing burger.

    Bird Flu in Humans

    🤡☠️🤡

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    CDC says it’s in a ‘posture of readiness’ amid fears H5N1 bird flu is poised to jump to humans — and reveals there are several vaccines and drugs in the works

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11803767/CDC-says-posture-readiness-amid-bird-flu-pandemic-fears.html

    Haha, haha, haha, haha ………

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    V. Arnold
    Participant

    Camille Pissarro Plum Trees in Blossom, Éragny 1894

    Wonderful painting…beautiful, IMO…
    Never heard of her…I wonder why?

    #130285
    Germ
    Participant

    Damning – and if they thought lockdown was a “disaster”, then just wait ’till they find out what was injected into them!

    They soon will.

    Untruth after untruth was peddled to justify the great lockdown disaster

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/03/01/untruth-untruth-peddled-justify-great-lockdown-disaster/

    TVASF

    #130286
    Germ
    Participant

    ” …there were 25.4 per cent more deaths in the Republic in December compared to the average number of deaths for the same month each year between 2016 and 2019.”

    Good grief – Ireland’s only 4th, there’s even worse?!

    Ireland’s excess mortality rate fourth-highest in EU

    https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/irelands-excess-mortality-rate-fourth-highest-in-eu-1438817.html

    If this death rate continues, and the collapse in birth rates continue, then Deagle may be right after all.
    https://nobulart.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Deagel-2025-Forecast-by-Country.pdf

    ☠️☠️☠️

    TVASF

    #130287
    Germ
    Participant

    – and all designed to coerce people to get the death vaxx.

    ☠️☠️☠️

    TVASF

    #130288
    Germ
    Participant

    “No matter how cynical you become, it’s never enough to keep up.”
    Lily Tomlin

    Deja vu: FDA committee recommends Pfizer’s RSV shot despite known risks

    https://www.conservativereview.com/horowitz-deja-vu-fda-committee-recommends-pfizers-rsv-shot-despite-known-risks-2659485387.html

    TVASF

    #130289
    Germ
    Participant

    Twice as many people died in Japan last year as were born.
    The population is in freefall.
    The rest of the world is trending to follow.

    Japan births fall to record low as population crisis deepens

    https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/03/01/asia/japan-births-2022-record-low-intl-hnk/index.html

    Keep Boosting suckers!
    https://www.statista.com/statistics/1239927/japan-covid-19-vaccination-rate/

    TVASF

    #130291
    Dr. D
    Participant

    “Ukraine Will Eventually Join NATO, Stoltenberg Reaffirms”

    What the…? Now is not the time. Are these guys high, or just really stupid? They are cripplingly bad at their jobs, when their job is merely to lie and steal things, making that seem okay to the public.

    “USPS Purchases Ford EV Vans To Electrify Nation’s Largest Federal Fleet

    Well, there goes the mail. I thought we’d at least have that going for us on horses. But Ford’s EV which will need charging all day…

    “Future Ford Vehicles Could Repossess Themselves

    From the USPS. This is not a joke. You know how they just wrote the NE grid may collapse because lack of maintenance, shutting down power production? Yeah, well even with every rate hike approved by paid politicians, there were cases where their big trucks were repossessed.

    “The Top 3 Reasons The US Has Entered The Inflation Death Spiral”

    Thing like raising the monthly gas bill 13%, yet not being able to pay your bucket truck loan? This is just normal, boring, predictable, 3rd world inflation stuff. The topmost have no problem in stocks and assets. The bottom remain without relief – no change. But the entire middle class is wiped out on purpose, made poor. They need to own nothing, you see, and they’ll be happy about it or else. Well? Who else you gonna steal from? The rich will shoot you. The Poor don’t own anything. The only people who have anything are those who do work: that is the middle class.

    “Watch: Sen. Hawley Exposes Biden Archivist Nominee With Her Own Past Partisan Tweets”

    The fun thing about this is how universal, energetic, and brazen the lying is. For the ARCHIVIST. When I say corruption from the President to the Janitor what did you think I meant? Her specific actions are strongly arguable of direct, knowing, and active perjury before Congress. A felony. So you commit a felony in public BEFORE being hired? Like punch someone in the lobby before the job interview? Here’s the other part:

    Although it’s a felony, Congress will do nothing. They haven’t enforced the law on people abusing them in my living memory. How, why that is, I have no idea. It’s not like you go hang them; pleading down for perjury is not too bad – it’s one of the few remaining crimes where the punishment is appropriately inconvenient, serious, yet not debilitating. Professional courtesy, I guess: 2/3rds of Congress are convicts, so why go hard on a fellow criminal? The more crimes the merrier, I say. If someone lies, they say “Well done Christian soldier.” “It’s (our) god’s work.”

    Sean Penn: who the f—k is this guy? Geopolitical expert, also truck repairman from Kentucky you met in the local dive, “I cannot claim to have any geopolitical understanding…” Okay, then shut your pie hole and go find out. Seems to me you were in this weird position of TALKING to some of the people involved. Like Ze personally, while you gave him that hand job. Yet you – and apparently they – understand “nothing”. Nothing – nothing? Okay then, you sold me: I’m not going. Shut off all the money there until they can “know”, explain, and convince me.

    …Actually he can’t because Ukraine and the Slavic genocide is about printing money to keep BANKING alive. EUROPEAN Banking. Yeah, I’m sure that diesel repairman in Kentucky you’re pretending to be – you sucky poser – really needs to send $2,000/year out of his family’s wallet (real official number) to back-bail European Bankers in Basil and London.

    El Salvador shows if you put up a wall and shoot all the bad guys, throw them in jail without mercy, it works! Who knew? Why have we never tried this before except every day of the last 5,000 years before now? Dead, incarcerated people don’t commit crimes, don’t rape your daughters. But that’s a bad thing, right, Joe?

    Okay, I’m shocked at MSNBC running an actual story on this, but “Kiev never admitted the bridge”? THEY PUBLISHED A COMMEMORATIVE POSTAGE STAMP THE SAME DAY. You can just not add that stupid sentence and pass it over as the “admission” was unclear. But Fact Check! that statement is rated: “Mostly (meaning completely) false.”

    “This was Ukraine’s second largest political faction, until it was prohibited by Zelensky, as part of his crackdown on political opponents Democracy.” Fixed it.

    “government auditing services – 17 in total.”

    This number comes up a lot. That’s not an accident, it’s a communication.

    “troops may “strategically pull back” from the town of Bakhmut,”

    Yes, now that the road is cut and they have to “pull back” across open fields. Good plan! But he’s still busy “floating it” like the 6 weeks of meetings about having a meeting the UN was doing. Carry on! I wouldn’t change a thing.

    Now on the flip side, they’ve done wonderfully there, all props to Ukrainian general and their defense. He withstood it and executed it perfectly. But overall, their larger plan is stooopid. I don’t know what you need to do, but sitting around in one place getting shelled is not it.

    • Germany’s Scholz: Russia Must Take First Steps Towards Peace In Ukraine
    ““He would like to see the withdrawal of Russian troops in the first place..”

    First: we require your complete surrender! Then we can talk.

    Again, who ARE these people? They couldn’t win a Cub Scout paintball tournament.

    Britain will not be able to independently expand the supply of arms to Ukraine, since the main decisions in this regard are still being made in Washington, former British Foreign Secretary William Hague said”

    Suuuuuuuuuuuuure they are. Uh-huh. When this all goes bad, it’s the baddy-bad America’s fault. That’s ’cause Joe Biden and da boyz are all against Europe and never did what Davos said or nothin’.

    UK also has ceased to be a relevant country, even by European standards. They have one day of artillery and 30 day’s worth of men. They’re likely to be taken over by a Cub Scout Paintball team. I’m thinking of taking them over myself.

    Newman, Polycrisis: — “the other nations, once more divided on this issue will be constrained to fight to the point of complete physical, moral, spiritual and economical exhaustion” –Pike — Most importantly SPIRITUAL exhaustion. As this is their RELIGION, a Jihad, a religious war. Their god is the god of violence, chaos, and lies, the god of #AntiHuman, #AntiLife. But they cannot do that if we KNOW they are doing it. Their plan, their strategy, their whole LIVES, require only scheming in the dark like rats. If we know there is a “They” out there doing it, and not “Us,” “humanity”, “human nature,” as all humans are evilly-evil who deserve to die, we will simply identify and kill them all like in El Salvador, then go have lunch in peace and leisure.

    That’s why The Truth is their only enemy. They hate being rats in the dark, but they are rats and parasites and that is what they do, who they are, and what they have chosen to be.

    “I don’t think we should put it past them that they would use nuclear bombs against us.”

    They definitely would and are. Look at Fentanyl. Look at Ohio. It’s not safe for a 5-year old to go to school without a mask, but it is safe to live 24h in a place where animals all fall dead in hours and your water is the color of the rainbow.

    “If even ONE life is saved…” You mean like the ten MILLION lives in the watershed and on to Pittsburgh, Buffalo, and Toronto? 10,000,000? FIFTY U.S. Cities? “…Who?” The CDC has looked and there are no humans there. Only sub-humans. Right UpstateNY? Didn’t you say they closed all the hospitals in your area?

    And you’re worried about a couple people in Ukraine? Bakhmut is a rounding error to the Ohio watershed. You could up Bakhmut by ten and still not being the range.

    EU Is Threatening Serbia – Vucic (RT) “

    That’s because it’s a day ending in “Y”. Europe’s sold purpose in life is to attack Europe. Like Greece and Cyprus.

    “The Kremlin has claimed that up to $1 billion worth of these weapons are funneled from Ukraine to criminals and terror groups in the Middle East, Africa, and Southeast Asia every month,”

    There’s your $12B/year holding up the European banking system. I exaggerate? The UN released a report saying the Drug Trade – in reference to Afghanistan – was the whole of the money upholding world banking. TEN YEARS AGO. But the guns that specifically allow the drug trade doesn’t? Nor the human trafficking, for which Ukraine is the center, and Mexico, lacking a wall, is #2? (P.S. they are merely feeding OUR demand for human sex slaves)

    “Washington has made it so by deliberately escalating what are already high tensions into a powder keg.”

    Just for thrills, let’s remind that the U.S. officially agrees with the “One-China” policy, that Taiwan IS China. So…how can they ‘escalate’? China takes China because China? Uh-huh. Brains no work in North America. No workie-workie.

    “US Rallying Allies for New China Sanctions (RT) “

    That’s odd: I didn’t know Trump was President again. Isn’t enforcing tariffs racist? I know saying the virus came from Wuhan is, and the whole Biden administration is on board, with the FBI confirming today. Yup: they’re racist.

    “Russiagate Spells Journalism’s Death (Chris Hedges)”

    All the things have one thing in common: the Enemy is the Truth. In whatever form, spoken by whatever person.

    All you need to stop it, and stop WWIII, is to tell the truth. 8-Ball says “Outlook not so good.” We, America, all adults in the Western world, now adhere only to #AntiLogos, #AntiChrist, and will DIE rather than tell the truth. Ever. Anywhere. About anything. Or so my ex tells me.

    “Greek Consumers Pay Up To 45% More This Year For Basic Food Items (K.) “

    You have to build a system outside the money system, but that takes agreement and cooperation. WE, that is, Greeks, grow stuff, and WE that is Greeks, eat stuff. So disintermediate the two and cut out the scoundrels who rob you via inflation. That is: COOPERATE. I’ll gave farmers 16 hours of my day. I was unemployed and not doing anything anyway.

    “Ghislaine Maxwell Reportedly In Solitary after Saying Epstein Was Murdered (GP) “

    They’re afraid she’ll tell the client list. That every federal government already has, and we already know who is on it. But like Sy Hersh, it doesn’t exist until we OFFICIALLY know who is on it. In a nation of liars and pretenders. Like Sean Penn, mechanic extraordinare.

    BBee better than me: “Southern California Covered In 6 Feet Of Global Warming”

    The owl certainly is creepy, as not only are they as silent as they say, but are very, very large. If one flies over your head it’s like a dream since it’s disconnected from senses, disconnected from sound. I feel the same way about the northern lights. It’s as if they are not real since there’s no soundtrack. Kind of a gyp actually, maybe some AC/DC or something.

    From Beiber comments yesterday:

    It’s the Eye of the Pfizer!
    mRNA- the gift that keeps on giving
    Safe and effective™

    Comments purged every 15 minutes. ‘Cause this was posted at 1:40 and there’s a biiiiiiig blank in there.

    #130292

    Camille Pissarro Plum Trees in Blossom, Éragny 1894

    Wonderful painting…beautiful, IMO…
    Never heard of her;…I wonder why?

    Jacob Abraham Camille Pissarro was a Danish-French Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painter born on the island of St Thomas.

    pissarro

    #130293
    V. Arnold
    Participant

    Camille Pissarro
    Never heard of her;…I wonder why?

    Got me….
    As I said; never heard of this painter… 😉

    Thank you for the clarity… 🙂

    #130294
    Germ
    Participant

    DEVASTATING Australian NSW data showing the quadrupled COVID mRNA vaccinated (4 shots) have massive spikes in hospitalization & death

    https://palexander.substack.com/p/devastating-australian-nsw-data-showing

    TVASF

    #130295
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Deagle, etc. Was reminded yesterday we’re in a war, and the plan was way worse than this.

    The Plan was for the disease to be deadly. That may have been averted, or it may be they ran all their tests on Chinese Uighers who are sun-averse and wildly vitamin D deficient. In any case, it could hardly BE less deadly: 0.03%, with average age of death a jaw-dropping 78 years old.

    Then we were supposed to be locked down in our houses for 10 years as the disease made wave after wave. This is as the economy stopped (no one can work) and the food system was destroyed (as is being done now). While you’re locked down, MS-13 and every other deadly, violent gang was imported and allowed to run rampant everywhere, while if you defend yourself — with the guns they already outlawed — Soros’ DAs would arrest you, not the gangs, you racist pig. This establishes a nice baseline for the nation, as they have control via Borwnshirts, the drug gangs all run out of Langley since Pappa Bush.

    At some point, they would release the vaccines which you’d both have to have to leave the house, AND would be mandated, not fake, but for real. Vaccine after vaccine, just as now. More vaccines = more deaths = more positive Covid tests, as we’ve seen. But no control group to counter.

    At that point things are so screwed up you could elect or install ANYONE and your 15-minute open air prisons…I mean cities…start to look pretty good just to have some order and a chance at survival. So Deagle would be right, because essentially they are the Derp State and the mafia perpetrators who planned it.

    Now, how did it go wrong? If you’re the good guys, a shocking minority having only a few key places you can’t reveal. One: the disease wasn’t deadly. They may have stopped it or they may have pre-released an Omicron and that’s what like Dr. Day and myself were picking up before Jan 1. It wasn’t as good as the later Omicron where they had enormous time and testing, but did avert it. Or they got hold of the original and swapped it.

    Why not swap to saline solution? They would notice, duh, and release the real one or another. You can’t delay them, you need to DEFEAT them. It’s a war, and the people need to know. Newsflash: People die in wars.

    Second, Trump went down to the patent office and discovered — shock!!! — they had the vaccine BEFORE the disease existed! Well how about that? So with a vaccine — that totally workie-works, according to Pfizer, etc, how can you have masks and lockdowns? As we said for three years? And yet they tried, but it was OBVIOUSLY stupid and losing battle. Trump got it out there NINE YEARS EARLY. Boy that really cut into their plans. With NO lockdowns — Federally — or even by law, Stateside, and a wall cutting off the key flow of MS-13 n’ pals.

    Worse, he made the vaccine VOLUNTARY. So Deagle had it at 30 million people dead, we’re now at ONE million, maybe three ultimately, and all voluntary. That’s a 90% savings any general landing at Normandy would jump at. The offset was he had to “be on board” and “believe” all these things.

    Without a 10 year lockdown, AND 90% of the people surviving AND the law mostly holding AND the bad guys revealing themselves everywhere, well, here we are today. They are outed, the people are realizing what happened, able to get out and speak, even speak on Twitter and find out.

    Slowly like Woody Harrelson, they are gravitating to the reality of what was done, and WHO, precisely, did it to them. And it’s not the Jooooos. So they lose their other layer or protection too: of throwing their countrymen by the thousands to the bear every time they’re getting chased.

    So if you’re in a war, and the war is “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” where you don’t know who is compromised (and was why that movie was made), then people die in a war. But we’ve saved 90% of the people and identified most of the alien overlords and their centers.

    Not too shabby.

    #130296
    Germ
    Participant

    No wonder Mark Steyn had to be recently banished from our airwaves.

    I know UK docs still injecting this rat juice into people claiming it’s safe.
    Absolute fuckers.

    ☠️☠️☠️

    TVASF

    #130297
    Germ
    Participant

    @ Dr. D – “And it’s not the Jooooos.”

    Oh, really?

    K26R – baby!
    Wakey, Wakey!!

    TVASF

    #130298
    EoinW
    Participant

    Why the difference in the Deagle’s stats? Some heavily vaxxed countries with 70% population decline, while other equally vaxxed countries only 25% drop.

    #130299
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    I suppose that if the baddies had their way we would all have a chip in our brain, a 5-G phone in our pocket, and bugs in our belly. No kidding at all. Not one bit.

    There are plenty of folks who for a variety of real (and soon to be more real) reasons would consider that to be an acceptable deal if it was the only way to avoid and even more horrible outrageously unacceptable conditions such as the ones being engineered for all of us right now by those old baddies again.

    I don’t care to imagine how bad those conditions might be, but it’s not hard to prove (and I do mean PROVE) that the baddies have imagined them, to the last jot and tittle in the finest of detail.

    That fight is moving out into the open. That’s what happens when the curtain is ripped aside. Everybody sees that this humanized world actually is a no-holds barred fight to the death after all. Huh! Who woulda thunk it?

    Your personal death will be openly, publicly and “legally” called for in the public forum by “official” officials, who will base the legitimacy of that death sentence on the fact that you DESERVE to be erased and eliminated because of the freedom of thought and deed that you insist upon.

    You can deny those charges and be cleared of that capital crime by buckling under and accepting the chip, the QR Code “passport” to the essentials of rudimentary bare survival , and the endless “vaccines” forevermore. Or you can fight for your life and be deemed outlaw by that very act.

    Them’s the rules. Prepare your response, because you are being faced with precisely those choices, and you therefore SHALL respond, one way or the other. What happens to you after that will be determined by which choice you make. Live free or submit?

    The baddies have been working diligently on the gig for more centuries than anyone wants to contemplate (but if you’re not a combo Paleo-Archeologist /Theologian you’re not even in the same room as the answer) , and have the logistics and Psychological aspects of the conflict worked out to the finest grained detail that their shrinks and AI’s can muster. All the numbers have been run, the die is cast and and they actually do believe that they have a real shot at succeeding.

    We’ll see. Yes, indeed. We shall see.

    #130300
    Mr. House
    Participant

    ““If even ONE life is saved…” You mean like the ten MILLION lives in the watershed and on to Pittsburgh”

    Pittsburgh ain’t a city of FDR Democrats. Its essentially an Obama Democrat city sucking off the tit of higher education and healthcare. Overpaid people who hold themselves as important but really don’t provide anything tangible or useful. Essentially leading the charge in fraud and i think their “premiere” healthcare monopoly played a large part in it which shall not be named. Those people about 70 miles away in Ohio that got slammed, they’re the salt of the earth. Pittsburgh is just a bunch of transplants from liberal areas into PA and then making Pittsburgh uninhabitable price wise for the people who have lived in the area for generations. I won’t weep for them.

    #130301
    kultsommer
    Participant

    Never heard of her…I wonder why?

    In today’s world Lia Thomas is the woman too.
    So not a biggie.

    #130302
    zerosum
    Participant

    Changes happened
    I would not immigrate to N.Z.. Turkey, Iran, Ukraine
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    See the lies
    https://ukraineinvest.gov.ua/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Kherson_2022.pdf
    Region Overview
    Kherson region
    ———–
    https://www.azerbaycan24.com/en/zelensky-and-his-cronies-are-trying-to-cover-up-a-major-corruption-scandal-in-ukraine-what-role-is-the-us-playing/
    Zelensky and his cronies are trying to cover up a major corruption scandal in Ukraine – what role is the US playing?
    Given that the aid accounts for about half of Ukraine’s budget, the US reasonably expects the funds to be used for achieving set goals and not enriching officials. Consequently, we can be certain that the inspectors won’t disclose any serious abuses following the audit, since this would deal a blow to President Joe Biden and would also reflect negatively on American officials.
    —————–

    Chris Hedges: Russiagate Spells Journalism’s Death


    Chris Hedges: Russiagate Spells Journalism’s Death
    February 27, 2023
    Jeff Gerth’s exhaustive look at the systemic press failure in covering allegations of pro-Trump Russian interference in the 2016 election has been followed by an ominous silence.
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    miscalculation invalidates all of their land deals.
    https://www.oaklandinstitute.org/sites/oaklandinstitute.org/files/takeover-ukraine-agricultural-land.pdf

    This report was researched and authored by Frédéric Mousseau
    and Eve Devillers.
    The report identifies many prominent investors. (losers)

    Those many prominent investors better push for a cease fire and a peace deal before Russia conquers all of Ukraine and invalidates all of their land deals.

    I also, think that China would join with Russia for all the insults from the West & USA, NATO.
    —————–
    Germ
    Keep collecting the info on TVASF
    —————

    #130303
    phoenixvoice
    Participant

    I’ve been wondering when Chris Hedges would start figuring out that the “alt-left” that he usually pals around with has been largely compromised. He is capable of cogent analysis. I should have figured that his desire for peace would lead the way. So…he is finally figuring out that The Donald isn’t as evil as Hedges has been painting him — because he figured out that the Russia!Russia! nonsense was a farce. I think that this is the first time that I have read a piece by Hedges that mentions Trump without suggesting that Trump is a fascist.

    #130304
    phoenixvoice
    Participant

    Dr D
    The Poor don’t own anything. The only people who have anything are those who do work: that is the middle class.

    I realize that this is largely hyperbole, but…a nugget of truth would be nice. Most “po’ folks” are the “working poor,” who have low-paying jobs, few benefits, often working multiple part-time jobs to survive. To suggest that the poor don’t work is deeply offensive — it supports the lie that all one needs to do in the US to get ahead is work hard — and if one does, all the benefits of the American dream will follow. (Not!)

    For the most part, the middle class “has things” based on credit and installments — without a steady income they lose everything. For that matter, because of consumerism, many higher income folks are also in this boat. There are very few (poor, middle class, or higher,) who actually have positive “net worth” — they are the few who, regardless of their income, live on less than their income and therefore accumulate assets.

    #130305
    Oroboros
    Participant

    We need Nayib Bukele to come to the Empire of Lies® in DC with his troops and clean the swamp out from the ground up.

    Our guys are too stoned to do it

    .

    #130306
    tboc
    Participant

    what do you think someone might have on Sean Penn or perhaps who has coerced Mr. Penn?

    being a citizen of the US access to the purported budgets for the federal agencies and departments is available. Should one follow the growth of the national security state some idea of the amount of dollars spent over the course of time for the associated agencies can be deduced. Take the period from 1961 thru 2021 and the dollar amount the citizens of the US were willing to pay to not know what the foreign policy of their nation was can be estimated. One of the growth industries in the US is self storage facilities. Self Storage of excess consumption, many items of questionable value. Considering the dollar amount spent not to know, a state of questionable value, and expecting the population to abandon the bullshit they have paid for seems a little naive and quite at odds with observable behavior.

    Germ and Dr. D – We’re all Jews now. Perhaps: Some of the Jews are more Jew than the other Jews. Irony is not dead.

    #130307
    Oroboros
    Participant

    ‘Strategic Pullback’ From Bakhmut (ZH)

    The Russians have any remaining escape roads from Bakhmut covered heavily with massive artillery concentrations.

    Retreating across them will be a slaughter, like shooting fish in a barrel.

    #130308
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    Once they release and distribute the “new flu” into the wild (which is both not preventable AND probably already done) our options will be either to take their medicine (more or less fatal), or live through the disease. To survive the disease will require an operational immune system (the better the immune system the better one’s chances of surviving infection.)

    Come to think of it, those were the same two choices that I was born into, lo these many years ago . . . . and the last time I checked I was still alive.

    #130309
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    I’m neither nigger nor Jew, but I AM Irish Catholic . . . which is close enough for all practical purposes.

    #130310
    Oroboros
    Participant

    In one of those Grand Moments of Irony

    In the same way the Collective West and the Empire of Lies® strung Russia along with the Minsk Accords, Russia, by slow grinding the Ukronazilanders into dust, they are giving China time to prepare

    Ya, China is using every moment to ramp up their military industrial machine.

    And it is a Mighty Machine®.

    Even dwarfing Russia’s.

    The Empire of Lies® is not capable of industrial warfare.

    Eurotardistan® can’t manufacture their way out of a wet paper bag much less produce sufficient quantities of military equipment against Russia’s industrial capacity.

    China can out produce Russia by magnitudes.

    Also any sanctions on China will be met by China’s sanctions on Eurotardistan®

    German industry needs hundreds of critical sub components from China.

    China needs ZERO critical sub components from Eurotardistan®

    Gee, I wonder how that will play out.

    Eurotardistan® now has permanently overpriced energy bills to run it’s non-competitive industries with.

    That’ll go well.

    Borrell’s Eurotardistan® ‘garden’ is looking kinda pitiful

    So sad :>(

    .

    #130311
    Oroboros
    Participant

    .

    #130312
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    @Oroboros

    Borrell’s Eurotardistan® ‘garden’ is looking kinda pitiful

    Borrel’s garden has gone to weeds. Time for some Spring cleaning, and I know just the folks willing and able (and well equipped!) to do it.

    #130313
    Doc Robinson
    Participant

    It’s now obvious enough that the Guardian has an article about it.

    “Here’s the real reason the EPA doesn’t want to test for toxins in East Palestine”

    because they know they will find it. And if they find it, they’ll have to address the many questions people are asking. It will not be easy to interpret the results of the testing for dioxins in soil, but to avoid testing is irresponsible. The EPA’s mission is to protect human health and the environment. Clearly the situation in East Palestine is the place where EPA should follow its mission and do right by the people who live in this town. EPA must test the soil in East Palestine for dioxins.

    The people who live there need to know so they can make informed decisions about their future.

    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/02/epa-toxins-test-east-palestine-ohio-train-derailment-dioxins

    #130314
    Doc Robinson
    Participant

    Move along, nothing to see here.

    Rail Workers Falling Ill at East Palestine Cleanup Site, Union Tells Biden Administration
    https://thefederalistpapers.org/us/rail-workers-falling-east-palestine-cleanup-site-union-tells-biden-administration

    #130315
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    Why wait for the EPA to test soil and water in East Palestine? Some enterprising entrepreneur (or entrepreneurial citizens’ group) should do scientifically and legally unimpeachable testing with private funding and then use the results of that testing to sue the living shite out of the EPA and related government officials and make a FORTUNE.

    #130316
    Germ
    Participant

    I am a Jew – and some of what I’ve been privy to, in private with other K62R’s, over the years has been simply shocking and appalling.

    If the goyim only knew ….

    TVASF

    #130317
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Yes I was going to clarify that but it takes too long. The working poor are actually the most put upon, but that was covered with saying “People who work”. Since the middle class itself is now hardly different from the working poor in most regards, excluding their access to debt, what’s the difference? What was it people up to $100k income still don’t have $1000 for emergencies? One paycheck from eviction.

    Depends where you live. Since anyone who works are all the same, aren’t the people I’m talking about more or less the destitute, mentally ill, and State-dependent? I don’t know your city, but here they seem over 30%. That’s supported by the record-and-ever-increasing “not in workforce” numbers. That’s an awful lot of people you can’t tax, and with the sub-1%, that means the 60% (“working” in quotes) or less are paying 50% of their income just to have the rich buy off the 30% destitute with middle-class money, that is, money that isn’t theirs. The 1% and the 30% got together and said they’ll shoot you or else. That’s love and charity!

    So if it feels like life is ever-harder and you’re not getting anything for the first 50% of your work, you’re correct. That WOULD otherwise be fine but 80% of those people are capable of helping out and doing some work, or even a lot. AND as said, 50% of that transfer is lost in administration: that is, job welfare for the PMC laptop class to get free healthcare while they harangue and immiserate both the poor AND the middle class.

    Did I cover everyone? Of these transfer classes, is ANYONE doing any work?

    A: No. Provably. Obviously. We can tell because we don’t have roads, grids, rails, mines, ships, manufacturing, food, roofing, or plumbing. So no one is doing work. Everyone is living at everybody else’s expense, and it’s going about as well as usual.

    #130318
    Afewknowthetruth
    Participant

    ‘The owl certainly is creepy, as not only are they as silent as they say, but are very, very large.’

    One of the most memorable experiences of my life was to be in my permaculture garden and have a morepork -the local owl species- fly around me several times at a distance of less than a metre in absolute silence -as far as my superb hearing could detect (I can hear a tap dripping in another room).

    Once common, moreporks are now very rarely seen, as the original landscape of Aotearoa has increasingly been converted into urban dead zones and monoculture death zones by ‘developers’.

    #130319
    peteypies
    Participant

    Germ….not all jooz are zionists and not all zionists are jooz……..,.to understand the contradiction of , for instance Kolomoisky supporting Azov and such like you have to go back and look at the influence of Sabbatai Zevi and his follow on Jacob Frank……??

    #130320
    tboc
    Participant

    DBS – Norwegian, French, Irish Catholic in the other corner. Pahdner you did not mention the Catholic part in the region in which i came up. Some of the boys had special come to the cross ceremonies you know.
    Germ are you a person of the Book or do you use another metric to define your identity?

    Germ, one more and i will retire. Do you think all goyim are ignorant of the Talmud?

    #130321
    Afewknowthetruth
    Participant

    Rare footage of a morepork (ruru) flying silently in its natural habitat

    Once known as the Land of Birds -isolated for over 100 million years when mammals were evolving- the landscape was decimated once Europeans introduced all sorts of predatory mammals and competing bird species (along with fast growing weeds that outgrew many native species, old man’s beard being one of the deadliest for native bush because it smothers it), along with munchers of native plants. Deer, goats, rabbits, rats, mice, weasels, Australian possums, abandoned domestic cats, gorse, thistle, old man’s beard….what a fuck-up. All because someone thought it would be a good idea to.

    By far the fastest destroyer of everything is industrial human.

    I know, the advocates of ‘civiliation’ will be on my back again for saying so. But really, what is so great about civilisation once we got past Mozart and Beethoven?

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