Mar 232023
 


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In Moscow, Xi And Putin Bury Pax Americana (Escobar)
Multipolarity Was Triggered By The 2003 US Invasion Of Iraq (Kneissl)
Why Hypersonic Weapons Change Everything (Krainer)
EU ‘Delusional’ In Its Push To ‘Decouple’ From Russia – Austrian FM (RT)
Results Of Xi’s Visit To Russia Matter, Not Western Reaction – Kremlin (TASS)
China Gives US Advice On Ukraine (ZH)
West Wants Ukraine To Be Destroyed – Moscow (RT)
West Brings Humankind Closer To Nuclear Armageddon – Antonov (TASS)
UK’s Depleted Uranium Plan Threatens All Of Europe – Moscow (RT)
Russia Calls On US Not To Escalate Situation (TASS)
Russia, China Reject Import Of ‘Color Revolutions’ To Central Asia (TASS)
Russia and China Sign Long-Term Nuclear Deal (RT)
Macron Will Not Seek Re-election, Ready To Sacrifice His Popularity (TASS)
US Trying To ‘Cover Up’ Nord Stream Sabotage Role – Seymour Hersh (RT)
US Must Respond To Nord Stream Accusations – Mexican President (RT)
Elon Musk Urges US To Guarantee All Bank Deposits (RT)
Hunter Biden Used FBI Mole Named ‘One-eye’ To Tip Him Off To China Probes (NYP)

 

 

 

 

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Very few in the west have an overview of how the world changed last weekend.

“..the Russian position remains ironclad: demilitarization, Ukrainian neutrality, and enshrining the new facts on the ground. In parallel, the Russian Foreign Ministry completely ruled out a role for the US, UK, France, and Germany in future Ukraine negotiations: they are not considered neutral mediators.”

In Moscow, Xi And Putin Bury Pax Americana (Escobar)

What has just taken place in Moscow is nothing less than a new Yalta, which, incidentally, is in Crimea. But unlike the momentous meeting of US President Franklin Roosevelt, Soviet Leader Joseph Stalin, and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in USSR-run Crimea in 1945, this is the first time in arguably five centuries that no political leader from the west is setting the global agenda. It’s Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin that are now running the multilateral, multipolar show. Western exceptionalists may deploy their crybaby routines as much as they want: nothing will change the spectacular optics, and the underlying substance of this developing world order, especially for the Global South. What Xi and Putin are setting out to do was explained in detail before their summit, in two Op-Eds penned by the presidents themselves. Like a highly-synchronized Russian ballet, Putin’s vision was laid out in the People’s Daily in China, focusing on a “future-bound partnership,” while Xi’s was published in the Russian Gazette and the RIA Novosti website, focusing on a new chapter in cooperation and common development.

Right from the start of the summit, the speeches by both Xi and Putin drove the NATO crowd into a hysterical frenzy of anger and envy: Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova perfectly captured the mood when she remarked that the west was “foaming at the mouth.” The front page of the Russian Gazette on Monday was iconic: Putin touring Nazi-free Mariupol, chatting with residents, side by side with Xi’s Op-Ed. That was, in a nutshell, Moscow’s terse response to Washington’s MQ-9 Reaper stunt and the International Criminal Court (ICC) kangaroo court shenanigans. “Foam at the mouth” as much as you like; NATO is in the process of being thoroughly humiliated in Ukraine.

During their first “informal” meeting, Xi and Putin talked for no less than four and a half hours. At the end, Putin personally escorted Xi to his limo. This conversation was the real deal: mapping out the lineaments of multipolarity – which starts with a solution for Ukraine. Predictably, there were very few leaks from the sherpas, but there was quite a significant one on their “in-depth exchange” on Ukraine. Putin politely stressed he respects China’s position – expressed in Beijing’s 12-point conflict resolution plan, which has been completely rejected by Washington. But the Russian position remains ironclad: demilitarization, Ukrainian neutrality, and enshrining the new facts on the ground. In parallel, the Russian Foreign Ministry completely ruled out a role for the US, UK, France, and Germany in future Ukraine negotiations: they are not considered neutral mediators.

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“..orientation comes from Orient.”

Multipolarity Was Triggered By The 2003 US Invasion Of Iraq (Kneissl)

In the run-up to the Iraq invasion, there was a great deal of division among UN Security Council (UNSC) members. US Secretary of State Colin Powell presented questionable evidence of Iraq’s possession of weapons of mass destruction, while the foreign ministers of Germany and France publicly opposed the aggression, for which they occasionally received applause in the Council. China and Russia, who vehemently opposed the war, began coordinating their decisions and responses, in part because of their respective oil interests in Iraq. This cooperation between Moscow and Beijing set the stage for a coordinated multilateral approach between the two nations. Both governments understood that a war would open Pandora’s box, leading to the collapse of Iraqi institutions and resulting in widespread regional disharmony.

Unfortunately, this is precisely what happened. The subsequent years saw weekly attacks, an expansion of Salafi terror groups like Al Qaeda, the rise of ISIS in 2014, and perpetual internal Iraqi conflict. Anyone familiar with the country‘s conditions was aware of the looming catastrophe when the illegal invasion of Iraq began on 20 March, 2003. Twenty years to the day, Chinese President Xi Jinping will embark on a three-day state visit to Moscow, and the focus will extend beyond bilateral energy relations, which have been a consistent priority since 2004. As previously stated in their joint declaration in Beijing in February 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Chinese counterpart aim to coordinate their foreign policy and advance it together. Their discussions may also touch on the Ukraine dossier, although media expectations in the west may be overestimated.

It may be pure coincidence that the meeting coincides with the 20th anniversary of the Iraq invasion. Yet it also highlights how extensively Russian and Chinese strategies have intertwined over the past two decades. Today, increasingly, “orientation comes from Orient.” Cooperative geostrategic leadership and sound alternative propositions to resolve global conflicts are being shaped in Beijing and Moscow – because the old centers of power can offer nothing new. Twenty years after the US invasion of Iraq, a failed ‘war on terror,’ the proliferation of extremism, millions of dead and displaced in West Asia, and never-ending conflict, China and Russia have finally teamed up to systematically advance their view of the world, this time with more resolve and global clout.


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“Russia is the only country in the world that has deployment-ready hypersonic missiles – not one but three types..”

Why Hypersonic Weapons Change Everything (Krainer)

It was in 2018 that Vladimir Putin took the stage to present Russia’s new hypersonic weapons. The term “hypersonic” refers to missiles that fly at speeds of 5 mach and higher. At the time, many in the west dismissed Putin’s claims and thought it was a bluff. We now know that he wasn’t bluffing. Russia is the only country in the world that has deployment-ready hypersonic missiles – not one but three types: Zircons, Kinzhals and Avantguards. Domazet explained why these weapons are radical game changers in warfare. Namely, in World War 1, tanks were the game changing military technology. Since World War 2, it’s been the air-force. Aircraft carrier strike groups have been an irresistible force wherever they travelled, dominating the seas ever since. But hypersonic precision missiles have rendered that force obsolete overnight.

The main military front in today’s global conflict, according to Domazet, are the Anti-Ballistic (ABM) batteries which the US has set up on the Poland-Romania axis, and the Russians on the North Pole-Kaliningrad-Crimea-Syria axis. These are defensive systems, conceived to intercept incoming nuclear missiles (though they can easily be converted to offensive nuclear missiles). However, today’s ABM systems are only effective against missiles flying at speeds up to mach 3.5 (3.5 x the speed of sound). Russia’s new Kinzhal missile flies at speeds of mach 12 to mach 15 and nothing in western defensive arsenals can stop its strike. During the war in Ukraine, Russia staged a stunning demonstration of its power.

The first Kinzhal strike, delivered one month after the beginning of hostilities in Ukraine, was perhaps the most significant: Russian forces targeted a large weapons depot in Ukraine which had been built during the Soviet times to withstand a nuclear strike. It was buried 170 meters (over 500 ft) underground and protected by several layers of armored concrete. The Kinzhal flies at altitudes of between 20 and 40 km, with a maximum range of 2,000 km. When above target, it dives perpendicularly and accelerates to 15 mach, generating enormous kinetic energy in addition to its explosive payload. That first strike with a single Kinzhal missile destroyed Ukraine’s nuke-proof underground weapons depot. This was a message for the west.

[..] Western intelligence estimated that Russia had some 50 Kinzhals at the start of the war in Ukraine, and thus far it has used only 9 of them. Last week, they fired six Kinzhals in a single salvo. That too, was a message. Here’s how Domazet explained it: United States have 11 aircraft carrier strike groups. Of these, fewer than half will be active at any one time (while others are in dock for maintenance, or in preparation). Firing six Kinzhals in one go is military-speak for, “we have the capability to sink ALL of your aircraft carriers at once.”

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“91% of Western companies are still in Russia and doing what is sensible: waiting, containment, ring fencing.”

EU ‘Delusional’ In Its Push To ‘Decouple’ From Russia – Austrian FM (RT)

Russia will always remain important for Europe, Austria’s foreign minister told Reuters on Wednesday as he defended Raiffeisen Bank’s continued operations in the sanctioned country. Alexander Schallenberg made his comments after the US sanctions authority launched a probe into the Austrian lender over its business related to Russia last month. “Let’s get real,” he said. “91% of Western companies are still in Russia and doing what is sensible: waiting, containment, ring fencing.” Raiffeisen Bank International is Austria’s second-largest lender and, despite sanctions, still plays a critical role in the Russian economy.


It’s one of only two foreign banks on the Russian central bank’s list of 13 systemically important credit institutions. The other is UniCredit, a pan-European commercial bank. “To think that there won’t be Russia anymore and we can decouple in all areas is delusional,” Schallenberg told Reuters, adding that while Austria would loosen ties, this “can’t happen overnight.” Schallenberg also discouraged Europe from introducing further sanctions against Russia. “It is a very blunt weapon,” he said. “We’ve had massive sanctions packages. Give them time to work.”

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“Dmitry Medvedev [..] pointed out that he was pleased that most Westerners were furious about Russia-China high-level talks..”

Results Of Xi’s Visit To Russia Matter, Not Western Reaction – Kremlin (TASS)

It is the results of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to Russia that matter, not the Western coverage that was predictably hostile, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Wednesday. “Undoubtedly, the most important thing is not the West’s reaction after all, but the results of these talks that have taken place. The main thing is the results of the state visit itself,” the Kremlin spokesman said. “As for the reaction of the Western countries, it is practically on all issues nothing but unfriendly and deeply hostile, this is not a secret to anyone. The coverage of this important visit is not an exception,” Peskov stressed.


Chinese President Xi Jinping was on a state visit in Russia from March 20 to 22. On Monday, he had a tete-a-tete informal meeting with Putin, which lasted for 4.5 hours. On Tuesday, the Chinese leader met with Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin and then arrived in the Kremlin for official talks with Putin. The leaders signed two joint statements after the talks. They both pointed out that the talks were successful. Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev, who was part of the expanded circle of Russian delegates at the talks, pointed out that he was pleased that most Westerners were furious about Russia-China high-level talks.

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“..contrary to popular assumptions in the West, the global community stands by China on the side of diplomatically pursuing peace.”

China Gives US Advice On Ukraine (ZH)

Putin had told Xi that the peace plan “correlates to the point of view of the Russian Federation”; but the message out of Biden officials was “don’t be fooled” as it’s all about Moscow seeking to “freeze the war on its own terms,” in the words of Secretary of State Blinken. Also on Tuesday, NSC spokesman John Kirby said China is not an impartial mediator and that China “keeps parroting the Russian propaganda”. On Wednesday the Chinese foreign ministry hit back, charging that Washington is “adding fuel to the fire” of the conflict by its “continuous supply” of weapons to the battlefield. Spokesman Wang Wenbin was asked directly about Kirby and Blinken’s comments from the day prior.

“The US side claims that China’s stance isn’t impartial. But is it impartial to continuously supply weapons to the battlefield? Is it impartial to constantly escalate the conflict? Is it impartial to allow the effects of the crisis to spill over globally?” Wang said. “We advise the American side to rethink its own stance on the Ukraine issue, turn away from the erroneous path of adding fuel to the fire, and stop shifting the blame to China,” he added. The spokesman further insisted Beijing has “no selfish motives on the Ukraine issue, has not stood idly by… or sought profit for itself,” but that “what China has done boils down to one thing, that is, to promote peace talks.” He went on to assert that contrary to popular assumptions in the West, the global community stands by China on the side of diplomatically pursuing peace. According to a transcript:

“On the Ukraine issue, voices for peace and rationality are building. Most countries support easing tensions, stand for peace talks, and are against adding fuel to the fire. This is also China’s position. President Xi Jinping’s visit to Russia is a journey of friendship, cooperation and peace. It has been warmly received internationally. We call on the US to reflect on its own role in the Ukraine issue, stop fueling the flames, and stop deflecting the blame on China.”

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“..if London follows through with its plans, then “Russia will be forced to react accordingly, bearing in mind that the collective West has already started to use weapons with a nuclear component.”

West Wants Ukraine To Be Destroyed – Moscow (RT)

The British government’s plans to send depleted uranium shells to Kiev for use in the conflict with Moscow show that Western claims of caring about peace and the future of Ukraine are lies, the Russian Foreign Ministry’s spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has claimed. Speaking to Radio Sputnik on Wednesday she insisted that the statement by London is a sign of the “absolute recklessness, irresponsibility and impunity” of the US and Britain when it comes to international affairs. She stressed that munitions containing depleted uranium are not only more powerful and have greater penetrating ability, but they also contaminate the soil with radiation, delivering lasting damage to the environment and affecting many generations of people living in the area.

“Everything that we hear from those countries [the US and UK] about peace, the settlement of the conflict, the future of Ukraine, the well-being of the Ukrainian people – it’s all a lie, falsehood and absolute disorientation of the international community. In reality, the goal is completely different,” Zakharova said. After the UK announced plans to supply armor-piercing depleted uranium shells to the Kiev government, “there can’t be any doubts that we’re talking about is the strongly pronounced intention of the collective West, headed by the US and Britain, to see Ukraine completely destroyed,” she stressed. On Monday, Annabel Goldie, the UK Minister of State for Defense, said that “alongside our granting of a squadron of Challenger 2 main battle tanks to Ukraine, we will be providing ammunition including armor-piercing rounds which contain depleted uranium.”

According to the official, such ammunition should be sent to Kiev because it is “highly effective in defeating modern tanks and armored vehicles.” The announcement by Goldie is “yet another British provocation,” which is aimed at escalating the conflict in Ukraine to a new level, Zakharova said. It’s no coincidence that it was made during the visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping to Moscow for talks with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, which were focused on international stability and the Chinese peace initiative for Ukraine, she suggested. The rounds containing depleted uranium are actually “weapons of mass destruction with a nuclear component,”the spokeswoman insisted, adding that “the WMD issue is part of Anglo-Saxon logic of destabilizing the global international situation.” She recalled how Washington’s unsubstantiated claims that the government of Saddam Hussein had been in possession of weapons of mass destruction became a pretext for the US invasion of Iraq in 2003.

She also noted that NATO had used munitions with depleted uranium during its bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999. “Some 15 tons of depleted uranium 238” were dropped on Yugoslav territory back then, and Serbia is still suffering from the fallout, reporting record numbers of some forms of cancer, Zakharova added. After the announcement of the deliveries of shells with depleted uranium to Ukraine, “we have no grounds anymore to doubt in principle who stands behind the activation, the launch of the conflict in Ukraine in all its phases. It is certainly the NATO-centric collective West, which is headed, in the first place, by the US and UK,” she insisted. Speaking about the issue on Tuesday, President Putin warned that if London follows through with its plans, then “Russia will be forced to react accordingly, bearing in mind that the collective West has already started to use weapons with a nuclear component.”

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“There is a continuous flow of lethal weapons to Ukraine, which are used to annihilate civilians, residential areas, schools, hospitals, kindergartens..”

West Brings Humankind Closer To Nuclear Armageddon – Antonov (TASS)

Western countries led by the US have decided to bring the humankind to the brink of a nuclear Armageddon, Russia’s Ambassador to the US Anatoly Antonov said in Washington on Wednesday. He was responding to statements by US officials that depleted-uranium munitions are a standard type of weapons that’s been used for decades and doesn’t pose any heightened risk. “Commenting on this kind of nonsense is really hard. US officials have reached a new low with their irresponsible statements. There is a continuous flow of lethal weapons to Ukraine, which are used to annihilate civilians, residential areas, schools, hospitals, kindergartens,” Antonov said, according to a statement from the embassy.


“It seems that the enlightened West, led by Washington, has irrevocably decided to bring humanity to a dangerous line, beyond which a nuclear Armageddon is looming ever more distinctly.” According to a statement published on Monday, UK Minister of State for Defense Annabelle Goldie wrote in response to an inquiry from a member of the House of Lords that the British government would send Ukraine munitions containing depleted uranium and featuring enhanced effectiveness against armored vehicles. Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that Russia will have to react appropriately to the fact that the “collective West begins using weapons with a nuclear component.”.

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“..depleted uranium munitions, which can contaminate the battlefield and cause health risks for generations to come..”

UK’s Depleted Uranium Plan Threatens All Of Europe – Moscow (RT)

The British decision to supply depleted uranium munitions to Kiev is part of a dangerous trend that makes the Ukraine conflict a threat to the whole of Europe, Russian State Duma Chairman Vyacheslav Volodin has warned. “The war to the last Ukrainian could become a war to the last European,” the politician said in a social media post. Numerous Russian officials have claimed that Kiev’s Western backers are prepared to sacrifice every Ukrainian for their geopolitical interests. Volodin argued that Kiev’s acquisition of depleted uranium munitions, which can contaminate the battlefield and cause health risks for generations to come, could become a stepping stone to even more dangerous weapons. The next step “could be the use of a dirty bomb by the Kiev regime or the deployment of a tactical nuclear weapon,” added Volodin.

President Vladimir Putin expressed concern about the British decision earlier this week, warning that Russia “will be forced to react accordingly, bearing in mind that the collective West has already started to use weapons with a nuclear component.” The Russian military claimed last October that two organizations in Ukraine had been given instructions to build a so-called ‘dirty bomb’, using materials that Kiev has had access to since it was part of the Soviet Union. The Russian Defense Ministry provided a list of locations in Ukraine where nuclear fuel and nuclear waste is present. A dirty bomb has a conventional explosive core surrounded by a radioactive jacket, and when detonated, it causes serious contamination.

Kiev denied the allegations and invited the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the UN’s nuclear watchdog, to inspect several of its atomic facilities, including the Eastern Mineral Enrichment Plant in Dnepropetrovsk Region and the Institute for Nuclear Research in the Ukrainian capital. IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi reported in November that monitors found no evidence of undeclared activities at those two locations or a third site, a rocket-building plant in the city of Dnepr. The British government announced on Monday that it will send Ukraine armor-piercing rounds containing depleted uranium, alongside Challenger 2 main battle tanks that had already been promised.

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“They consider supplying the Kiev regime with even more lethal, longer-range, modern sophisticated systems. Thus, the United States once again shows itself as a party directly involved in the conflict..”

Russia Calls On US Not To Escalate Situation (TASS)

Russia urges the United States not to continue down the path of escalation, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov told reporters on Wednesday, commenting on the US Congress’ calls to supply Kiev with cluster munitions. “We call on the US side not to escalate,” he said, answering a question from TASS. The senior diplomat also pointed out that the US once again proved its direct involvement in the Ukrainian crisis by supplying Kiev with more and more lethal weapons. “They consider supplying the Kiev regime with even more lethal, longer-range, modern sophisticated systems. Thus, the United States once again shows itself as a party directly involved in the conflict,” the diplomat said.


Ryabkov pointed out that the US Congress didn’t even realize “what consequences such an initiative could lead to for the security of the US-led NATO and for any chances of potentially normalizing relations with Washington.” The Politico newspaper reported earlier that four high-ranking Republicans in the US Senate and the House of Representatives sent US President Joe Biden a letter, urging the American leader to supply Ukraine with cluster munitions.

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“The sides are ready to strengthen mutual coordination to support Central Asian countries’ efforts to ensure their sovereignty and national development..”

Russia, China Reject Import Of ‘Color Revolutions’ To Central Asia (TASS)

Russia and China reject attempts to organize “color revolutions” and foreign interference into domestic affairs of Central Asian countries, according to the joint statement signed by Russian and Chinese Presidents, Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping, after their talks in Moscow on Tuesday. “The sides are ready to strengthen mutual coordination to support Central Asian countries’ efforts to ensure their sovereignty and national development. They reject attempts to import ‘color revolutions’ and foreign interference into regional affairs,” the statement reads. The two leaders also lauded the positive contribution of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) to regional security and the potential of cooperation between the CSTO and China to ensure peace and stability in the region.

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“China already operates five Russian nuclear reactors and currently has four more under construction..”

Russia and China Sign Long-Term Nuclear Deal (RT)

Russia and China are deepening their partnership in nuclear energy and will draw up a roadmap for cooperation in developing so-called fast-neutron reactors for decades to come, Russia’s state-run nuclear energy giant Rosatom announced on Wednesday. According to the company, the comprehensive program lays the ground not only for bilateral cooperation, but will essentially influence the shape of the global nuclear energy sector. The document signed between Rosatom and the China National Nuclear Corporation covers “key areas” and is focused on expanding current cooperation as well as launching new projects “related to fast-neutron reactors, the production of uranium-plutonium fuel and the management of spent nuclear fuel.”


The announcement of a long-term nuclear deal came among a raft of agreements presented during a three-day visit by Chinese President Xi Jinping to Moscow. China already operates five Russian nuclear reactors and currently has four more under construction, which makes Russia the largest nuclear supplier to the country. Last year, Rosatom launched the construction of the Xudabu-4 reactor and the Tianwan-8 reactor in the Jiangsu province in eastern China. The reactors will be powered by third-generation pressurized water reactor technology supplied by Rosatom, with operations set to begin between 2026 and 2028, according to the agreement. The cost of construction at each site is estimated to be $1.7 billion.

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He should just leave.

Macron Will Not Seek Re-election, Ready To Sacrifice His Popularity (TASS)

French President Emmanuel Macron said on Wednesday against the backdrop of the pension reform unfolding in the country that he was ready to sacrifice his popularity for France’s interests as he did not intend to be re-elected. “I am not going to do another term, I cannot do it according to the Constitution. Between the opinion polls and the interests of the country I will choose the latter,” he told the TF1 and France-2 TV channels in an interview. “If I have to face unpopularity, I am ready for it,” he added. The head of the state admitted that he had a responsibility to “settle the understandable anger”, however, he pointed out that this anger should not turn into violence, which he said was unacceptable.


“Rallies, the participants of which show protest – this is legal. But its legality should not exceed the legality of democratic decisions, which come to life through the decisions of the people’s deputies,” Macron said. A draft pension reform to raise the retirement age in France from 62 to 64 years was presented in January. This initiative sparked rallies and strikes across the country. On March 16, the head of the French cabinet, Elisabeth Borne, used her constitutional powers and announced that the bill would be adopted without a vote in the National Assembly (the lower house of parliament). This decision sparked a new wave of rallies, which often ended in clashes with the police.

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US Trying To ‘Cover Up’ Nord Stream Sabotage Role – Seymour Hersh (RT)

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh claims the US intentionally provided false stories to the media to cover up Washington’s involvement in the destruction of Russia’s Nord Stream 2 pipeline. In a post on his Substack blog, the veteran reporter claims the CIA was tasked with preparing a cover story in collaboration with German intelligence to provide the American and German press with an “alternative version” of the Nord Stream 2 explosions. “In the words of the intelligence community, the agency was ‘to pulse the system’ in an effort to discount the claim that Biden had ordered the pipeline’s destruction,” Hersh wrote, citing an anonymous source with access to diplomatic intelligence. He noted that the CIA had completed its task and, with the help of Germany, planted stories in the New York Times and German weekly Die Zeit. These referred to a supposed “ad hoc ‘off the books’ operation” carried out by a “pro-Ukrainian group,” which allegedly used a luxury sailing yacht to plant explosives on the Nord Stream pipelines.


“It was a total fabrication by American intelligence that was passed along to the Germans, and aimed at discrediting your story,” a source within the American intelligence community reportedly told Hersh. “The disinformation professionals inside the CIA understand that a propaganda gambit can only work if those on receiving are desperate for a story that can diminish or displace an unwanted truth. And the truth in question is that President Joe Biden authorized the destruction of the pipelines,” he added. In February, Hersh published a bombshell report on last September’s Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipeline blasts, accusing Washington of orchestrating the attack. The White House denied responsibility. Last week, several Western media outlets claimed the culprits may have been linked to Ukraine. Moscow dismissed the reports as “a coordinated media hoax campaign.”

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“the US has “never been ones to indicate that we are the government of the world or some kind of edict like that.”

US Must Respond To Nord Stream Accusations – Mexican President (RT)

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has argued that the US should respond to allegations that it sabotaged the Nord Stream pipelines. The remarks came as the Mexican leader hit out at Washington following criticism of his country. “If we are talking about acts of violence, how is it that an award-winning journalist in the United States claims that the US government sabotaged the gas pipeline from Russia to Europe?” Lopez Obrador asked during a press conference on Tuesday. The Mexican president was referring to claims by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh that the Biden administration blew up the Nord Stream pipelines linking Russia and Germany last year. Lopez Obrador’s remarks came as part of a rebuttal to accusations of “violence” by Mexican authorities, made in an annual human rights report issued by the US State Department this week.

The report alleged “significant human rights issues” in Mexico and cited “credible reports” of unlawful or arbitrary killings by the police, as well as torture and forced disappearances. Lopez Obrador rejected the findings as “lies,” and noted Washington’s own list of alleged wrongdoings. According to the Mexican president, that includes the US extradition demands against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who remains in detention in the UK. In addition, Lopez Obrador pointed to failed American efforts to halt the opioid crisis plaguing the country, which caused over 71,000 deaths in 2022 alone from fentanyl-linked overdoses and drug poisonings. The Mexican leader went on to argue that “lying” and “politicking” is in Washington’s nature, and asserted that the US “do[es] not want to change, so they believe they are the government of the world, and they only see the speck in someone else’s eye and not the beam in their own.”

State Department deputy spokesperson Vedant Patel responded to Lopez Obrador’s remarks by insisting that the US has “never been ones to indicate that we are the government of the world or some kind of edict like that.” Patel suggested that the Mexican police, military, and other government structures were responsible for serious acts of corruption and unlawful killings, which is why these issues were highlighted in the State Department report. Lopez Obrador, however, has repeatedly insisted that there is an “anti-Mexico” conservative element within the US government that is trying to inflame tensions between the two countries. “Mexico is safer than the United States,” Lopez Obrador insisted earlier this month.

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“..Moody’s downgraded its outlook for the US banking system from ‘stable’ to ‘negative,’ citing the “rapidly deteriorating operating environment.”

Elon Musk Urges US To Guarantee All Bank Deposits (RT)

Elon Musk has proposed a solution to the current banking crisis in the US. The government must do away with the current $250,000 insurance cap on all deposits to stop panicking clients from withdrawing their money, the Tesla CEO wrote in a Twitter post on Tuesday. His comments come in response to a media report that US officials are studying ways to temporarily insure deposits beyond the current limit, without having to get approval from Congress. “Absolutely required to stop bank runs,” Musk wrote. The banking crisis began in the US earlier this month with the sudden collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), a major US lender focused on the tech and startup sectors. Over 92% of deposits in the bank were uninsured and the lender was shut down by regulators after massive deposit outflows.

SVB’s failure caused the closure of another lender, Signature Bank. Panicked customers have withdrawn tens of billions of dollars in cash from the smaller banks and placed them with bigger lenders. The billionaire entrepreneur and head of Tesla, Twitter and SpaceX, first proposed the idea last week. “FDIC needs to change to unlimited coverage to stop bank runs… Right now,” he wrote on March 18. The government has guaranteed all deposits of SVB and Signature Bank customers. However, according to a recent study, nearly 200 American banks are facing similar risks. SVB, like many other banks, had invested billions in US government bonds when interest rates were at near-zero and suffered losses when the Federal Reserve hiked them in a bid to curb inflation.

The failures of SVB and Signature Bank sent ripples across the entire US banking industry. Many other financial institutions have seen their stocks plunge, with the six largest Wall Street banks losing around $165 billion in market capitalization, or some 13% of their combined value. Last week, credit ratings agency Moody’s downgraded its outlook for the US banking system from ‘stable’ to ‘negative,’ citing the “rapidly deteriorating operating environment.”

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“..Ye offered Hunter $1 million to be his “private counsel” and flew to China, leaving his wife, daughter, son, mother, and nanny in his $50 million penthouse at 15 Central Park West. He was detained in Shanghai three months later and disappeared.”

Hunter Biden Used FBI Mole Named ‘One-eye’ To Tip Him Off To China Probes (NYP)

Hunter Biden had an FBI mole named “One-Eye” who tipped off his Chinese business partners that they were under investigation, according to an Israeli energy expert arrested in Cyprus last month on gunrunning charges. The House Oversight Committee is investigating the explosive claims by Dr. Gal Luft, a former Israel Defense Forces lieutenant colonel with deep intelligence ties in Washington and Beijing, who says he was arrested to stop him from revealing what he knows about the Biden family and FBI corruption — details he told the Department of Justice in 2019, which he says it ignored. Luft, 56, first made the claims on Feb. 18 on Twitter, after being detained at a Cyprus airport as he prepared to board a plane to Israel.

“I’ve been arrested in Cyprus on a politically motivated extradition request by the U.S. The U.S., 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, and Hunter Biden. “Shall I name names?” Luft remains in jail awaiting extradition to the US over what he says are trumped-up charges of arms trafficking to China and Libya, and violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act. Through his American lawyer, Robert Henoch, Luft said he tried four years ago to inform the DOJ that Chinese state-controlled energy company CEFC had paid $100,000 a month to President Biden’s son Hunter and $65,000 to Joe’s brother Jim, in exchange for their FBI connections and use of the Biden name to promote China’s Belt and Road Initiative around the world.

Luft learned about the scheme through his own relationship with Hunter’s Chinese business partners, Patrick Ho and Ye Jianming, the chairman of CEFC. From 2015 to 2018, Luft organized international energy conferences in partnership with Ho’s think tank, the nonprofit China Energy Fund Committee (CEFC-USA), a front organization for Ye’s CEFC. Ye confided to Luft that Hunter had an informant in the FBI “or formerly of the bureau, extremely well placed, who they paid lots of money to [provide] sealed law enforcement information,” says Henoch. The FBI mole was called “One-Eye.” “One-Eye” told Ye that the Southern District of New York was investigating him and/or Ho in late 2017, and that “an Asian, an African, and a Jewish guy” were named on a sealed indictment, says Henoch. Soon after that tipoff, Ye offered Hunter $1 million to be his “private counsel” and flew to China, leaving his wife, daughter, son, mother, and nanny in his $50 million penthouse at 15 Central Park West. He was detained in Shanghai three months later and disappeared.

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    Gustav Klimt Pine forest I 1901   • In Moscow, Xi And Putin Bury Pax Americana (Escobar) • Multipolarity Was Triggered By The 2003 US Invasion Of
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle March 23 3023]

    #131856
    Germ
    Participant

    Seems like Places like Chiapas, Mexico and Andrah Pradesh, India did the right thing by distributing Ivermectin to the entire population early on.
    They stopped the pandemic in it’s tracks – no vaxx needed.


    TVASF (and were so totally scammed)

    #131857
    Germ
    Participant

    Correction – it was Uttar Pradesh, India.

    #131858
    Afewknowthetruth
    Participant

    On TAE we talk about the Moon landings having been faked six or 8 months ago. Well, I did.

    Most of the YouTube documentaries on the topic have been deleted (of course), especially the ones that went into great detail about the fakery.

    We now know that practically EVERYTHING in the western system is fake, fabricated, fraudulent, adulterated, manipulated, delusional.

    Unfortunately DU is real.

    The good news is, particles of uranium oxide are extremely heavy compared to air molecules and are unlikely to be carried far from the place of use by winds.

    .

    #131859
    oxymoron
    Participant

    Is it just me or is the woman behind nuland in 2016 the same one behind blinken?

    #131860
    Dr. D
    Participant

    3/22: Russia and China end Pax Americana. The U.S. is now officially a nobody, locked out of all talks and meetings.

    Also 3/22: Red Letter Day! The Bad Guys finally learned something!!! They got cold feet and did NOT arrest Trump (yet). Every. Body. Every. Where. Told them it would lead to his election. Every. Lawyer. Said this was nearly the most ludicrous case ever brought to court. After they got their cold feet, Lo! Trump releases the Cohen letter saying this was all established YEARS ago not to be a payment, or an election, catching the tail of the news cycle while it’s still hot. And as above, we can read Stormy’s CONSTANT denials of an event, which was PROVEN in a court of law where Trump got $300k in damages from her. …It sure is hard to have a case where you make years of public denials beforehand, have no details of when or where, no evidence, and only “just remembered” the day of the election. The Jury agreed.

    I’m pretty disappointed though. Playbook #2.5, which like the slowpokes they are took years to develop, was to float Trump for each thing they desire FIRST. So they make THEM, the DNC run his taxes up to the Supreme Court and set a precedent to examine Joe Biden, Paul Pelosi and everyone. Here they were establishing the breaking of the political veil, that it was okay to “Lock her up”, because they just made it okay to “Lock him up.”

    NOW who are we going to lock up??? We really needed this.

    I assume the NYC D.A. accepts all bribes, can we get a GoFundMe or something to bribe him to arrest Trump?

    Also 3/22: With Powell’s help, Yellen tamps down the bank crisis by promising all deposits, everywhere, forever. Whew. THEN REVERSES HERSELF ON CAMERA and blows out the market again. #Winning.

    “• Why Hypersonic Weapons Change Everything (Krainer)

    Nah, it’s just one of many. China had giant trebuchets (okay, artillery) that would launch dead shells 300 miles out into the China Sea. That’s plenty to sink every surface ship as they can keep it up all day. In three weeks they can place the same on all the new islands they created, then go create more.

    Then we have cheap loitering drones and instant-targeting artillery, by sight or sound. Shoot a gun in a forest and the drone hears you and levels every tree in your area. We have seen less of this, but it’s happening.

    “No unity in EU on supply of ammunition to Kiev!”

    Europe never agrees to anything, that’s irrelevant. However, all combined Europe has NO artillery. A year later. France has guns for ONE day. I’m thinking of taking Paris myself, anybody with me? At this level of readiness, there are enough guns in Connecticut – a gun-outlawed state – to take the whole nation. Still no alarms. Suit yourself. I’m sure the bad guys will use Nerf guns and cream pies on you.

    The “Bad Guys” are already inside. They are YOU, fellow Frenchmen.

    “China Gives US Advice On Ukraine (ZH) “

    The U.S. is “impartially” giving $200B to Ukraine’s Army since 2018. We pay their pensions and bank bailouts. That’s what “impartial” means.

    “Ryabkov pointed out that the US Congress didn’t even realize”

    Yes, but Congressmen are too dimwitted to realize how to spell “realize” so you’re talking to the retarded mentally ill. If you want to know how many secret, talking fire trucks live in their closet, they’re your man. Anything about reality on earth, not so much.

    “Macron Will Not Seek Re-election, Ready To Sacrifice His Popularity (TASS)

    All ten points of it. What new dreadful drooler will they pull up from the sewers now?

    “[Protests] should not exceed the legality of democratic decisions, which come to life through the decisions of the people’s deputies,”

    That is to say, all Protests are legal until I decide in my head that they aren’t. And they all aren’t. Ask the other least-popular leader in national history, Trudeau. Chief defender against Confederate, White Supremacist Sikh Semi-Drivers. That’s why he had to dress like one in blackface. Tricky-tricky.

    “[AMLO] has repeatedly insisted that there is an “anti-Mexico” conservative element within the US government that is trying to inflame tensions between the two countries.”

    Yes, the Democrats and NeoCons. Nothing is more “Conservative” than defending the status quo.

    “Elon Musk Urges US To Guarantee All Bank Deposits (RT)

    Twitter has registered as a new PayPal, a new currency processing platform, just like we said. Remember, all these same guys, Musk, Dorsey, created the original, uncaptured PayPal, as an original “Cryptocurrency” back when. Not saying his statement indicates that, just bringing it up. It’s ready to run at scale when the currency rocks and they attempt the hated, failing, CBDC. And not the ONLY, get that sort of idea out of your head. There is no more “one” “centralized” or “only”. It will be 100 “currencies” of all different types, all at once. …As were the 1840s or the 1740s.

    details he told the Department of Justice in 2019, which he says it ignored.”

    Huh. That was Trump’s administration – you know, the fascist, dictatorial one. What gives?

    If you go to the moon landing sites, they’ve got some pretty good stuff. Check out the parallax of the background stars. Same backgrounds over and over, that sort of thing. It wasn’t meant to be able to be disassembled frame-by-frame the way we can now with every human owning a stop-motion copy in their house. This was the old film-projector-theatre days. Well, as I say, go look, it’s a lot of work and I haven’t done it myself.

    Next question: we’ve been to the moon, but not in those ships. The scam was to cover something else, not just to be entertainment.

    Turtles have 13 plates for the 13 moons of the earth year.

    “So we had a pandemic that could be treated fairly easily with Ivermectin.”

    It was Fauci’s own paper that established this. With SARS, its closest relative. …Of course Fauci just hitches his wagons to everybody else’s work while being entirely absent, but nevermind that. He said it.

    Will it ever matter? We’ve known for 10 years, Apparently not. Everyone will merely die first. Pension solved! Currency failure of too many promises, solved! Murder is always the way!

    #131861
    Dr. D
    Participant

    “We pay their pensions and bank bailouts.”

    * And free national health care!

    “The scam was to cover something else,”

    * The giant Apollo rockets did take off from earth. You know: the ones we “forgot” how to make? What were they carrying? Parts for our long-term military space stations? They were carrying something that couldn’t be done in small size. Would that sort of thing — plus all those DUMB bases like the one the hypersomic missile blew up that doesn’t exist — cost something like the Federal Budget’s missing $40 Trillion? Wonder why we’re poor? Where’s my money, Brian? Where’d it go?

    #131862
    zerosum
    Participant

    “Let’s get real,” “Make up your mind”

    Conflict. Confusion.

    Past. Future.
    Peace. War. Competition. Waste of energy.
    Why?
    I want a longer/better/comfortable/pain free, life
    Why?
    Does it matter?

    Inflation. Poverty.
    Opinion.
    Who will you believe.
    Why? Why not?

    Trump, Biden, Victoria Nuland. Blinken, John Kirby, Fauci

    Xi and Putin, multipolarity

    TAE, Germ, Dr. D., Seymour Hersh,
    ———–
    “On the Ukraine issue, voices for peace and rationality are building. Most countries support easing tensions, stand for peace talks, and are against adding fuel to the fire. This is also China’s position. President Xi Jinping’s visit to Russia is a journey of friendship, cooperation and peace. It has been warmly received internationally. We call on the US to reflect on its own role in the Ukraine issue, stop fueling the flames, and stop deflecting the blame on China.”
    ——–
    Western claims of caring about peace and the future of Ukraine are lies, the Russian Foreign Ministry’s spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has claimed.

    ———
    position of the decimal point

    #131863
    zerosum
    Participant

    Wil Trump be allowed to have/open a presidential library?

    It so secrets that we can’t even tell you what the papers were about that Trump and Biden had hidden at home.

    #131864
    jb-hb
    Participant

    this amounts to rumor, since I am taking it from a random post on Moon of Alabama, but it suggests that depleted uranium won’t stay put once it settles.

    Dr. Asaf Duracovich, Georgetown Unversity Major Doug Rokke were both deeply involved in the second wave of investigations for Depleted Uranium 2000 plus. My friend Brian Terrell with others went to Basra, Iran in 1996 to listen to a pediatric oncologist and others involved trying to put together the wave of childhood leukemias, miscarriages and birth defects especially around Basra. Prof Souad N. Al-Azzawi was part of this. I have never been the same since hearing Brian talk about it that year in Des Moines Iowa.

    Correlation is not causation, but the stifled studies in Vieques, Puerto Rico, Iraq and Serbia all are strongly indicative of the long lasting harm from mutagenic, teratogenic and carcinogenic depleted Ur and and any other actinides present. These particles from armour piercing rounds can be hundreds of nanometers to hundreds of micrometers large, with a positive charge dance in the air via Brownian motion. When ingested inside the body it is extremely damaging, the combination of amount of energy and the larger area of impact (compared to gamma or x-rays) is almost tailor made to impact DNA.

    I was wondering, if the west, having been warned, insists on depleted uranium being introduced into the Ukraine conflict, will Russia blow it up in transit to Ukraine? In a warehouse inside NATO territory?

    Like, if depleted uranium is no concern, here you go. Have a whole bunch of your own stuff?

    But since we chemically nuke entire states of our own and then don’t report on or respond to it, I guess they’d just say hey, fantastic idea?

    Nationwide Recall Issued For Frozen Strawberries at Major Retailers Following Hepatitis A Outbreak
    https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/nationwide-recall-issued-frozen-strawberries-major-retailers-following-hepatitis-outbreak

    “recall affects frozen strawberries that are potentially linked to a Hepatitis A outbreak and have been sold across various retailers.”

    “a possible link was established after five cases related to an outbreak of Hepatitis A have been reported since March 13. In all cases, the affected individuals reportedly consumed frozen organic strawberries.”

    “Although the Hepatitis A virus (HAV) has not been detected on the products, the company and the FDA issued the recall as a precautionary measure”

    No Hepatitis found on the strawberries. 5 cases nationwide. Nationwide recall on the strawberries.

    (Hep is a virus. No apparent effort to ponder let alone explain the concepts of the Hep virus infecting… strawberries?)

    Huge numbers of adverse affects including death continual throughout deployment of a drug nationwide, many millions millions affected. Manufacturers turn out to have known this is what would happen before launch. No recall. Not pulled from the market.

    #131865
    tboc
    Participant

    “The good news is, particles of uranium oxide are extremely heavy compared to air molecules and are unlikely to be carried far from the place of use by winds.”

    FUBAR

    you ain’t one of em

    #131867
    jb-hb
    Participant

    “These particles from armour piercing rounds can be hundreds of nanometers to hundreds of micrometers large, with a positive charge dance in the air via Brownian motion.”

    #131868
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Hypersonic missiles are Russia’s advantage for now

    The Empire of Lies® is years away from getting ones that might work.

    However, the Military Industrial Mafia Whores® only know how to design and procure NOT for performance but for Profit & Beezle®

    This will add years to the catchup process.

    So sad ;>(

    By then the Russians, who design for performance not profit, will be years in advance to the next thing and will have perfected counter measures to add to their already superb integrated air desense system.

    They will probable have operational S-700/800 system ready by then to shoot down the retarded nose-picking Empire of Lies® half-assed efforts.

    Mafias are about Lies, and Lies are about incompetence and non-reality.

    Incompetence and non-reality don’t build anything right.

    The Empire of Lies® can only fight the previous wars, Russia is fighting the Present war and planning for the Future based on the results of lessons learned in the Present.

    .

    #131869
    jb-hb
    Participant

    re: 15 minute cities

    I was looking into it a bit more last night. This is actually an old concept from the USSR called Micro Districts.

    I hunted around the internet and the historical pictures, diagrams, etc from the USSR look exactly what the 15 minute city people are presenting.

    I found various current year videos of ambulances, firetrucks, etc beings stopped by blockades set up by governments to “experiment” with 15 minute cities. There was a hilarious speech by 2 govt officials insisting “we aren’t building giant steel barriers, these are just Traffic Filters” (while giving the standard Narcissistic Personality Disorder smirk)

    I DID appreciate one particular Soviet project that placed the highways and parking underground. Rather than intrusive tracking and restricting via punitive law enforcement and physical blockade, they said “Here’s an infrastructure for you to drive on that also makes the surface pleasant and walkable” Holy cow what a concept. Doing something FOR people rather than locking them down and punishing them. Unimaginable.

    So anyway, 15 Minute Cities are just Micro Districts from the failed USSR.

    No. NO. Real Micro-Districts have never really been tried.

    #131870
    phoenixvoice
    Participant

    It was around 15 years ago when I first ran across the idea that the moon landings were faked. I remember being shocked and not wanting to believe it. I thought it over and realized that, well, if the US President declared that it would be done, and it turned out that the technology to do so safely did not exist nor could it be practically developed in a reasonable timeline, faking it was not out of the realm of possibility. The most damning circumstantial evidence was that after a flurry of moon landing missions, all from the US, all of the moon missions stopped, and the decades rolled by without returning to the moon — not even by a different country. If humanity actually had safely sent someone to the moon and back, the missions would have continued. Instead…fifty years have passed with nada, zip, zilch. The only reason Incould think of for not continuing such missions would be that they could not — and never had been — performed safely.

    And here we have an elderly filmmaker indicating before he passes that, hey guys, those moon landings? Yeah, that was me. NASA was so impressed with 2001: A Space Odyssee that they asked me to direct their own little projects.

    #131871
    Dr D Rich
    Participant

    Seymour Hersh is Anthony Fauci, that is, taking all the credit, Acquisitive Projective Identification. And Hersh has been doing it since My Lai alongside his bud, the first prototype Obama, Colin Powell. Hersh has nothing but disdain and disregard for the victims of these Big Boy’s schemes. Ask Frank Olson’s son Eric the PhD.

    Btw, Redfield alludes to Science, codename Fauci. Funny guy

    So said Dr D, the occasionally right One: “Of course Fauci just hitches his wagons to everybody else’s work while being entirely absent, but nevermind that.”
    Mind THAT!!! It’s everything.

    Blame America again???

    Really Dr D and AFKTT? Who is really running this show you call America if indeed the Deep Fakes go way back in time?
    Perhaps Putin and Jinping are surgically removing the (((parasite))) from the Host=America. Btw if you know any thing about medicine, no matter how you remove the ((parasite))), intact without damaging the capsule for instance, the Host’s immune system reacts overwhelmingly and kills the Host.
    John Day probably knows which came first, the penicillin allergy or the Jarisch-Herxheimer reaction. And were JnHx describing anything really unique at all let alone common to our immune response to infectious disease?

    What an apt analogy for fomenting an insurgency and turn a country in on itself! I wonder from whom this America you reference adopted and perfected that tactic?

    However, we’re delimited by this blog and many others from identifying the (((parasite))) (((controllers)) as We, America=White Deplorables referenced above go the way of the American Indians who btw warned us about this very future.

    What is your price?

    #131872

    We always wonder why people get sick, but rarely study why people don’t get sick.

    A website that ate up many hours of my time during lockdowns was one called “Aulis”. It is a nearly exhaustive study of the Apollo moonshot. I’ve linked to one of the pages that tells an interesting personal story, but hit the “home” button and wander about. The site is also obsessed with Kubrick -for a good reason.
    And of course, there’s Dave McGowan’s superb “Wagging the Moondoggie”.

    #131874
    Doc Robinson
    Participant

    Purdue University did chemical testing in Ohio and found toxins from the train fire that the government isn’t even testing for.

    “It’s unclear who is advising these agencies about what to test for,” [Purdue engineering professor] Whelton told the committee. The Purdue team found several chemicals in creek water that state and federal government officials had not investigated but that are “definitely related to the fire.”…There are exposures, Whelton said, that are not being recorded and that people were not warned about. “We have urged these agencies to correct their testing approaches, and we haven’t seen that yet. Because it is pretty hard to understand what health risks are for something if you’re not testing for them,” he said… The professor reached out to the EPA and Ohio EPA to discuss the team’s work. Neither agency responded.

    Earlier results from independent testing found that dioxins in soil samples were “hundreds of times higher than the cancer risk thresholds in residential areas established by the EPA in 2010.”

    Indiana also commissioned independent testing from Pace Analytical Services, a Minneapolis-based environmental testing firm. The dioxin levels in soil samples they examined were below the standards that require the EPA to launch cleanup operations, but hundreds of times higher than the cancer risk thresholds in residential areas established by the EPA in 2010.

    Whose Test Results Should East Palestine Believe?
    https://prospect.org/environment/2023-03-23-test-results-east-palestine/

    #131875
    Oroboros
    Participant

    DU in the Donbass is DU use on Russian territory.

    If the Empire of Lies® and the Collective West want to poison Russian territory like retarded little c*nts, I can assure you that Russia will respond in kind to Eurotardistan territory AND Empire of Lies territory, although East Palestine proves the blood drinking Satanists of the Presidementia Pedo Joe’s admin don’t care how poisoned the plebs are out in the country side.

    Remember, Russia has said the Empire of Lies will receive the consequences on it’s own territory if Russian territory is violated.

    Take that to the bank.

    Oh, I forgot, Empire of Lies® banks are broke.

    You can take that to a Russian bank, they’re not broken.

    Tungsten works just as good as depleted uranium shells but without the radiation.

    The Russians have tungsten shells

    Eurotardistan and Pedo Joe’s Empire don’t have enough tungsten, China, Russia and Vietnam have the market cornered

    In the same way Nordstream was ‘destroyed by groups sympathetic to Ukronaziland’, Eurotardistan will be contaminated with depleted uranium by ‘by groups sympathetic to Russia’

    Two can play this game.

    And Russia has a enormous supply of deleted uranium, surely enough to contaminate an entire retarded rump continent.

    Remember, Putin said a world without Russia is a world not worth having.

    He also said that if …..Russia is sent to Heaven, it will be received

    Unlike the Collective West and the Empire of Lies® who will go straight to Hell :>)

    #131876
    morongobill
    Participant

    The problem with the tungsten shells is that, unlike depleted uranium munitions, it doesn’t turn everyone inside the tank instantly into crispy critters.

    #131877
    anticlimactic
    Participant

    KINZHAL

    The idea that a Khinzhal missile could destroy a nuclear hardened bunker 500 feet underground is awe inspiring. There are buildings where you suspect that most of it is underground but could easily be destroyed with this missile, like GCHQ in the UK and NATO headquarters in Brussels.

    I don’t see that it would need explosives, just add a heavy metal like tungsten to add to the kinetic
    force.

    If used against an aircraft carrier then it depends how it works. It would be travelling at over 3 kilometers per second so would only be in the ship for a few hundredths of a second. If it simply drilled a neat hole through the ship then the ship would probably survive. I assume it generates a shock wave which does all the damage.

    The article says Russia is producing about 200 per year. How deep will the military cooperation be between China and Russia? If Russia shared the technology with China then I would expect production could be thousands a year if required!

    #131878
    jb-hb
    Participant

    Manhattan DA Fires Off Angry Letter Blaming Trump For Arrest Rumors
    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/unprecedent-inquiry-manhattan-da-fires-angry-letter-blaming-trump-arrest-rumors

    “…after Donald Trump created a false expectation that he would be arrested…” (Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg)

    700 NYPD Riot Cops Mobilized, Steel Barriers Deployed Ahead Of Potential Trump Arrest
    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/700-nypd-riot-cops-mobilized-steel-barriers-deployed-ahead-potential-trump-arrest

    Who gave the orders? Nobody gave orders, it’s just that sometimes the NYPD likes to spontaneously mobilize for massive riots of unspecified cause that might happen but stand down for others that do happen? They’re just capricious free spirits, god blessem. What?!?

    a Monday letter from House Republicans on the Weaponization of the Federal Government subcommittee.

    “You are reportedly about to engage in an unprecedented abuse of prosecutorial authority: the indictment of a former President of the United States and current declared candidate for that office”

    The reply from the SAME GUY (Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg):

    “The letter’s requests are an unlawful incursion into New York’s sovereignty”

    We aren’t doing it. It’s actually just a rumor by Trump. Also, don’t interfere with or try to stop us from doing it.

    Were some of the Disney/Lucasfilm writer’s room laid off already and found new jobs? The writers for the mercifully cancelled Star Trek Discovery (STD)? This is full of plot holes. Got to be a JJ Abrams protoge production, surely.

    #131879
    Doc Robinson
    Participant

    Some speculation about the damage a single Kinzhal missile could do to an aircraft carrier.

    What Will Happen To a US Navy Aircraft Carrier When Hit by a Hypersonic “Kinzhal” Missile: Expert Modeling

    So what happens to an aircraft carrier of this type (the Nimitz type) if it is attacked by a single “Kinzhal” missile?

    The simulation itself is reduced to choosing a hypersonic missile complex’s point of contact with an aircraft carrier, taking into account the mass of its warhead. It is known from open sources that the mass of the Kh-47M2 “Kinzhal” warhead is 500kg. The maximum flight speed of the missile along the trajectory is also taken into account. It is about Mach 12.

    The statistics of the Russian hypersonic missile system are such that, even being part of an aircraft carrier strike group with the cover of an air defense system, the American aircraft carrier has no chance of intercepting the “Kinzhal”. The characteristics of American ship-based defence systems against aircraft do not allow to counteract hypersonic missile weapons. In other words, with a hypothetical strike, the target will be hit anyway. How fatal is it for an aircraft carrier?

    Experts believe that striking not at the command room, but at the deck of an aircraft carrier may be the most effective.

    Even if the carrier can stay afloat for the first moments after the strike, the potential of its aircraft wing will be reduced to zero by the damage caused to the deck. In addition, such a strike can lead to the defeat of at least one of the two naval Westinghouse A4W reactors. The total capacity of these reactors is 1,100 MW. A missile with a half-ton warhead moving at high speed can not only destroy the coolant circulation circuits, but also lead to the explosion of the nuclear reactors themselves during their active operation when an aircraft carrier performs a combat operation. This fact suggests that the impact of a single hypersonic “Kinzhal” missle complex may be enough to completely destroy not only the lead aircraft carrier of a strike group, but also the entire carrier strike group itself.

    What Will Happen To a US Navy Aircraft Carrier When Hit by a Hypersonic “Kinzhal” Missile: Expert Modeling
    https://www.stalkerzone.org/what-will-happen-to-a-us-navy-aircraft-carrier-when-hit-by-a-hypersonic-kinzhal-missile-expert-modeling/

    #131880
    John Day
    Participant

    R.E.M. Man on the Moon

    #131881
    John Day
    Participant

    Thanks Doc Robinson for East Palestine chemical testing and Kinzhal-hits-aircraft-carrier links.

    #131882
    John Day
    Participant

    @Dr D Rich: penicillin treating some infectious diseases, like syphilis or Lyme, for instance, may kill a lot of the infectious/parasitic agent at one=ce, leag=ding to a massive immun-system inflammatory response from the dead-organisms being released. That is a Jarisch Herheimer reaction. A penicillin allergy is a separate thing that some people may get if they develop an allergy to penicillin. Some people can get penicillin-family reactions that are not true allergies, which are common.

    I can’t say “what came first”…

    🙁

    #131883
    Dr D Rich
    Participant

    @John Day

    …but they’re both (they as in JRH and PCN allergy):
    1. available in the same human, your patient
    2. part of the same immune system
    3. each of one (T)type of Hypersensitivity Reactions available to your patient, a human
    4. (They) both cause a rash in your patient
    5. (They)’re both manifestations of Memory, albeit a crude memory of the immune system. Yer, I thought memory was restricted to brain function and here it is completely independent.

    You gotta choose…because one will kill ~2% of your patients and the other results in zero mortality in many retrospectives.

    #131884
    John Day
    Participant

    @Dr D Rich: The question was “which came first?” Please clarify.

    Who would not treat syphilis or Lyme disease? Most J.H. reactions are relatively mild.
    There are workarounds for penicillin allergies.

    I fail to see the dilemma.

    #131885
    Afewknowthetruth
    Participant

    Uranium oxide U3O8 has a molecular mass of 842, versus the average molecular mass of air of 29. Each molecular particle of uranium oxide is 29 times as heavy as an average air molecule (N2 28, O2 32). But U3O8 rarely occurs as single molecular particles, and would normally be in the form of clusters of molecules with a relative mass of several thousand times that of molecules of nitrogen.

    We note that CO2, with a differential of just 44 versus 29 is found mostly in the lower atmosphere, whereas H2 with a molecular mass of just 2, tends to quickly make its way into the upper atmosphere and then drift off into space. Gravity follows an inverse square relationship as well as being dependent on the masses of the attractors..

    He who doesn’t know shit from Shinola but likes to argue is back at it. It must be a neurosis.

    Atomic masses

    Tungsten 184
    Gold 197
    Uranium 238

    Specific gravity (density)

    Tungsten 19.22
    Gold 19.32
    Uranium 18.8

    The closeness of densities enabled fakers to pass gold-coated tungsten off as gold. It was only when a drill was applied that the fakery was discovered -pure gold being rather soft.

    Who knows how much yellow metal around the world is actually the real thing?
    .
    In the 1960s Airstrip Two had difficulty getting anything bigger than a 200kg payload into orbit, and certainly did not have the kit required to service the launching of three humans and all their life support and the fuel for a trip to the Moon and back. Faking it was the only option.

    Events in Ukraine have been demonstrating how advanced Oceania actually is.

    But faking it has been the default setting of the Empire of Lies for decades, if not centuries.

    And now all the lies are coming back to the roosting house to roost. They don’t even have to be chased; they are finding their own way ‘home – GDP Fractional Reserve Banking and ‘economics’ in general all being institutionalised fraud.

    What a shame ‘the planet’ had to be destroyed – well absolutely FUBARed- to reach this point.

    Daily CO2

    Mar. 22, 2023 = 420.64 ppm
    Mar. 22, 2022 = 417.83 ppm

    This season’s peak comes late May, the third month of the Roman calendar. That may well be when ‘Project Attack Russia via Ukraine’ unravels, along with Oceania’s fake economic and financial systems.

    #131886
    Afewknowthetruth
    Participant

    Apologies for the strange formatting. I must have missed something.

    #131887
    kultsommer
    Participant

    #131888
    Afewknowthetruth
    Participant

    Canada’s population is now approaching 40 mln in a fast 2022 spurt. They added a record +1 mln new people over in 2022, largely boosted by immigrants and the substantial intake of Ukrainian refugees. The expansion is a stunning +2.7% in one year, their fastest ever post WWII.

    https://www.interest.co.nz/business/120459/us-labour-market-stays-strong-us-new-home-sales-canadas-population-grows-fast

    “No aspect of our predicament is in any way improved by having more people.” – Al Bartlett.

    #131889
    Afewknowthetruth
    Participant

    The price of gold will open today at US$1995/oz and up a strong +US$47 from this time yesterday. And that is a new one-year high for the yellow metal.

    https://www.interest.co.nz/business/120459/us-labour-market-stays-strong-us-new-home-sales-canadas-population-grows-fast

    #131890
    Afewknowthetruth
    Participant

    Not only fake gold but also fake nickel. What else is missing?

    #131892
    John Day
    Participant

    Whole children and/or specified parts…

    Ukraine Is Farming Children in Factories for Elite Pedophiles, Russia Is Saving the Children – Media Blackout

    Ukraine Is Farming Children in Factories for Elite Pedophiles, Russia Is Saving the Children – Media Blackout

    #131893
    jb-hb
    Participant

    Afewknowthetruth are you trying to obliquely, without quotes to what you are are specifically arguing against, argue that dust acts like …I’m trying to guess here, like various liquids sitting in an unperturbed vat, that settle by weight?

    Does common sense even kick in, thinking for instance of how dust clouds from Africa travel to the Americas and dust clouds from Asia provide soil for Micronesia? The known effects in Iraq and Yugoslavia be damned?

    Hydrogen “drifts off to space” therefore (good god, gripping head) “heavier” Uranium dust, found to MOVE AROUND IN THE AIR must NOT because er, “it’s comparatively heavy”???

    Dude if Uranium was as light as HYDROGEN and sure to “drift off into space” eventually, then it would be LESS dangerous, wouldn’t it? It will NEVER drift off.

    is this some weird continuation of the “CO2 is more dangerous than massive radioactive poisoning” debate?

    #131895
    TheTrivium4TW
    Participant

    Off topic, but a big deal, Youtube Search Dr. Chris Palmer.
    I was going on about iron overload, retinol deficiency, magnesium deficiency, and bio-copper deficiency my last go-around here, and while I believe applying that knowledge is necessary, I now believe it is insufficient in at least some cases. My case included.
    The missing ingredient is that iron overload cripples autophagy, or the mitochondrial and cellular recycling process.
    You can have the best building materials in the world, but you have to tear down the old house before you can replace it with a new and high quality home.
    Dr. Chris Palmer exposes the keto diet as a driver that forces autophagy, and he’s observed amazing results in his psychiatry practice. Amazing results! His book Brain Energy is likely one of the most important books on the market today, and if you have Audible you can listen to it.
    Take notes and share the highlights here — if you are cool and grass green (not demon-fraud mon-eye green).
    My current mitochondrial/cellular regeneration diet is an Alkalinized Keto Root Cause Protocol Plus Other Optimizations Diet.
    ^^^This is a big deal. It brings diet in much closer to the physiological requirements of “natural law.”

    #131896
    TheTrivium4TW
    Participant

    >>Ukraine Is Farming Children in Factories for Elite Pedophiles, Russia Is Saving the Children – Media Blackout<<
    Spoiler Alert…. Putin, Zelenskyy, and Biden all do what their Allodial Royal and Banking Financiers tell them to do.
    Here is some insider baseball. The Allodials think they are God’s Righteous on Earth that are competing to become the Messianic Bloodline (God’s Favorite).
    They view every other bloodline as “competition” to be “dealt with.”
    The reason they hire scumbags all the way around is because…
    1. They want dirt on them so the blackmail factor is in play.
    2. They don’t want to promote anyone that they feel could be more favored by God. This is why so much Paganism is forced on the ruling classes.
    3. They want scumbags to manage the rest of us in harsh ways.

    The Allodials are 100% competing the sin Agape (spirit of the antichrist; Agape is the Spirit of Christ) Last Bloodline Standing position on Earth. Sin means without… in Spanish, which evolved from Rome… Romance language).
    In other words, they are competing for the position of Anti-Christ, right here, right now.
    Read Psalms 2. It tells you who doesn’t win out — and that’s the Rothschilds. I believe the Rothschilds are likely the “woman” in Revelations that gets scapegoated in the near future. At least, that’s my current perspective based on the relevant data that I’ve processed, which is always subject to change.
    There.
    Are.
    No.
    Good.
    Governmental.
    Heads.
    There are controlled sin Agape demons at the top, and a bunch pathological money seeking sin Agape Muppets lower down the totem pole.
    It is really very simple.
    Only Iran and Syria have independent central banks. They will be conquered soon enough.
    Who is the antichrist?
    My Spidey-sense is a-tingling!
    King Charles leads the pack, IMHO.
    Yup.
    Sounds crazy?
    He sure hopes so.
    “Pretend inferiority; promote their arrogance.”
    ~Sun Tzu Art of War

    #131897
    TheTrivium4TW
    Participant

    >>Manhattan DA Fires Off Angry Letter Blaming Trump For Arrest Rumors<<
    What is Allodial Money Power, Inc. trying to distract you from?
    That is the only relevant question to those paying attention.

    Pro-tip — I **highly** recommend that anyone interested in their investments and ordering their economic life should tune in an listen to Gary Kaltbaum at GaryK.com. If his politics bother you (he hates both Trump and Biden), decide if your triggered feelings are more important than your money stores (of inextinguishable debts for other people… wrap your head around that, you clueless, slave masters via monetary abstraction!).
    Gary ONLY pays attention to what BIG MONEY is doing, and he pretty much knows all their tricks.
    For historical cred, he was out of the markets in December, 2007, and didn’t re-enter until late 2009-2010. The whole time he did his daily “investment” shows without being invested.
    He’s still around and kicking.
    He thinks the Puppets are stupid, but is kind of starting to wonder if there is malicious intent due to the comic book level of absurdities in play, but he can’t be perfect.
    But he knows how markets works.

    GaryK.com

    I asked about having him manage some investment money, but I asked if he had vetted Charles Schwab to make sure they couldn’t be MF Globaled, and event which I consider to be a Money Power beta test.
    No response yet.
    Speaking of which, does anyone have any good ideas as to where to keep one’s money before the Big Kahuna hits?
    Treasury Direct (TD)? I heard they have $10k limits now. Is that only on certain products, or is that the max you can put into TD per year now?

    #131898
    TheTrivium4TW
    Participant

    >>Empire of Lies®<<

    Short Version: Money Power Fascist Empire

    Long Version: Allodial Money Power Mega-Corporate Orwellian Global Fascist Empire

    Biblical Version: “woman” riding a “beast.” The woman, the Money Power, is guiding the Empire structure represented by a beast. Why a beast? Is it because humans reacting to their emotions are merely beast-humans?

    Whore of Babylon = “woman” that rejected their Agape God Spouse and instead chose to fork the entire world with their Babylonian monetary system.

    Mystery Babylonian Religion = The current one world religion of money worship. It is a mystery because nobody sees it as a religion, which it is, and Babylonian because that’s where human money systems writ large first developed.

    BTW, the “set of reigns” with with the woman controls the “beast” is the debt-based, zero-sum game money system. It just isn’t mentioned explicitly in the Bible.

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