Mar 242023
 


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US Facing New Global Reality Post Xi-Putin Summit, Says Expert (TASS)
US ‘Uneasy’ About China’s Peace Plan For Ukraine – Media (RT)
Pompeo Warns Of Biden Administration’s ‘Enormous’ Mistake (RT)
The ‘Junior Partner’ Meme Gives No Insight To Real Changes (MoA)
‘The United States of America Is Our Enemy,’ Says Medvedev (TASS)
Medvedev Says Diplomacy Doesn’t Always Work, Special Op Was Right Move (TASS)
Effects Of Depleted Uranium In Ukraine Cannot Be Controlled – Zakharova (TASS)
Nato Chief: West Must Brace To Support Ukraine In A Long War (G.)
Ukraine Deployed Over 80,000 Servicemen Around Bakhmut – Prigozhin (TASS)
Ukraine Welcomes ICC Office (RT)
Hungary Says It Won’t Arrest Putin (RT)
House Judiciary Committee Expands Probe Into Alvin Bragg (PM)
CIA Planted Nord Stream Stories in NYT, German Outlets – Hersh (Celente)
Biden Played Direct Role in Addressing Hunter’s Business Deals (Turley)
FOIA Document Shows Government Anticipated Mass Vaccine Injuries (Horowitz)

 

 

 

 

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“..the US and the entire West have to consider this rapidly changing international environment, and that it may be better to cooperate with it, rather than to lose more and more influence by opposing this peace plan..”

US Facing New Global Reality Post Xi-Putin Summit, Says Expert (TASS)

A German political activist urged the United States and its Western allies to pay heed to rapid changes underway in the international arena following Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s Moscow visit. In an interview with TASS on Wednesday, Helga Zepp-LaRouche, the founder of the US-based Schiller Institute, said that China’s peace proposal “is not only endorsed by Russia, but is supported by the entire Global South.” “The initial reaction of [US] President [Joe] Biden was to reject it, as did some other leaders of the EU. But it is now becoming clear to the whole world who is trying to establish peace, and who is trying to prolong and escalate the war,” Zepp-LaRouche emphasized, when asked whether the Chinese leader’s visit to Russia could usher in peace in Ukraine.

According to her, Western establishments “are still completely underestimating the reality that there is a powerful renaissance of the non-aligned spirit occurring right now.” “The countries of the Global South are determined to end colonialism for good in its new cloth, and they do not want to be drawn into a geopolitical conflict between the US and Russia, or between the US and China, with whom many of them have very beneficial economic ties,” she underscored. Zepp-LaRouche praised as spectacular China’s diplomatic success “in getting Saudi Arabia and Iran to return to diplomacy and cooperation,” and said that Beijing had proven that “it can be a surprising peacemaker.” “So, the US and the entire West have to consider this rapidly changing international environment, and that it may be better to cooperate with it, rather than to lose more and more influence by opposing this peace plan,” she noted.

In February, the Chinese Foreign Ministry published a position paper on a political settlement of the crisis in Ukraine. The twelve-point document includes calls for a ceasefire, respect for the legitimate interests of all countries in the field of security, settlement of the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine, the exchange of prisoners of war between Moscow and Kiev, as well as the cancellation of unilateral sanctions imposed without a corresponding decision of the UN Security Council. In the published document, China described dialogue and negotiations as the sole way of resolving the crisis in Ukraine and called on all parties to support Moscow and Kiev in “moving toward each other”, urging a resumption of direct dialogue as soon as possible. The world community should create conditions and provide a platform for the resumption of talks, the document emphasized.

Following talks with Xi on Tuesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that many provisions of China’s peace plan on Ukraine could be used as a basis for the conflict settlement whenever the West and Kiev were ready for that. At the same time, he pointed out that so far, “no such readiness” could be seen.

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“..with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg claiming that China does not have “much credibility” on the issue..”

US ‘Uneasy’ About China’s Peace Plan For Ukraine – Media (RT)

There is a “sense of unease” in the White House about the consequences of its dismissal of the Chinese peace plan for Ukraine, Bloomberg reported on Thursday, citing an unnamed official in the administration of President Joe Biden. In February, the US publicly brushed off the roadmap for peace presented by China for the conflict between Russia and its neighbor. However, Bloomberg reported that Washington now fears it could be “backed into a corner” by Beijing’s proposals, with the Biden administration said to be concerned that it has created the impression that the US does not want peace. America’s stance could be used by Beijing to convince nations that are weary of the conflict that the US has no interest in ending the hostilities, Bloomberg added.

“China will likely ramp up messaging that the US is opposed to a ceasefire, that the US is opposed to the end of the war,” former Pentagon official Bonny Lin, who is now a fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, told the media outlet. The Bloomberg report follows a three-day visit by Chinese President Xi Jinping to Moscow this week, during which he held extensive talks with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin. Moscow had previously welcomed the Chinese peace initiative for Ukraine, and during this week’s talks Putin expressed his readiness to discuss and build upon it. He also reiterated that Moscow is willing to seek a diplomatic solution to the conflict.

The peace plan presented by China called for the resumption of talks between Moscow and Kiev. It also condemned unilateral sanctions, and urged the sovereignty and territorial integrity of all nations to be upheld. Along with Washington, other Western powers largely brushed off the initiative, with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg claiming that China does not have “much credibility” on the issue. However, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken did later admit that the plan includes “positive elements.” Speaking to Fox News on Wednesday, former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo criticized the Biden administration for failing to prevent what he described as a “wedding” between Moscow and Beijing. Downplaying the increasingly close ties between Russia and China “is an enormous strategic mistake,” Pompeo insisted.

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“They have allowed the Russians and the Chinese to come together in this way and it presents enormous risk to the US and every citizen..”

Pompeo Warns Of Biden Administration’s ‘Enormous’ Mistake (RT)

The Biden administration is making “an enormous strategic mistake” by downplaying the importance of rapidly expanding Russia-China ties, Mike Pompeo, who served as US secretary of state under Donald Trump, has said. The alliance between Moscow and Beijing “may be a shotgun wedding, but they’re still married,” Pompeo told Fox News on Wednesday. “To hear the White House play this down as if it’s insignificant or unimportant is an enormous strategic mistake,” he said. Pompeo, who was speaking hours after Chinese Xi Jinping concluded his landmark visit to Moscow, where multiple deals were signed, stressed that China has been “getting energy at a discounted price” from Russia.

“Think about that. American manufacturing companies are paying full freight for energy today and the Chinese are getting a 15, 20% discount on each barrel of oil, allowing them to continue to dump their products here in America,” he explained. The former secretary of state also claimed that “at least for today, the Chinese Communist Party is providing lethal assistance to Ukraine, almost certainly.” He was apparently referring to Russian forces fighting Ukraine, not Kiev itself. Weapons for Ukraine are being provided by the US and its NATO allies, together with funds, intelligence and training for troops. Beijing has previously denied claims that it’s supplying or planning to supply arms to Moscow amid its conflict with Kiev, calling such allegations by Washington “false.”

Russia has also insisted that it relies on locally made weaponry in its military operation. “Now, the Biden administration has failed. They have allowed the Russians and the Chinese to come together in this way and it presents enormous risk to the US and every citizen,” Pompeo continued. Commenting on Xi Jinping’s visit to Moscow, US National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said he didn’t believe that there was an alliance between Moscow and Beijing, reiterating his earlier suggestion that it was just “marriage of convenience.” Russia’s President Vladimir Putin sees “a potential backer” in Xi, but “whether it results in anything, we’ll see,” Kirby remarked during a briefing on Tuesday.

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“..changes “the likes of which we haven’t seen for 100 years.”

“A hundred years ago the world had just seen off a big war. Four big empires, the Russian, German, Austria-Hungarian and the Ottoman had suddenly vanished. The U.S. had stepped onto the international scene..”

The ‘Junior Partner’ Meme Gives No Insight To Real Changes (MoA)

Is there really a ‘junior partner’ in the Russian Chinese relations? Does Russia really need China more than China needs Russia? Well, who of two, Russia and China, has all the stuff that is needed for a modern life? I mean energy, minerals, commodities, foodstuff plus the abilities to retrieve and process all of them into useful products. It is obvious that Russia has all this stuff right within its borders. China, on the other side, is mostly importing these things through rather fragile sea routes. China has a naval problem that can only be solved with Russian weapons. So who is really in need of whom? China has obviously more people than Russia. But for all the Chinese riches these are still less well off than the people in Russia.

On purchase power parity base (PPP) Russia’s GDP per capita in 2022 was $31,962 while China’s was $21,291. When the Russian GDP per capita is 50% higher than the Chinese one can it really be a ‘junior partner’ in this? I don’t think so. I believe that Russia and China see themselves as equals. That is certainly true for the relation between President Putin and President Xi. Two equals who together do great things: As he left a state reception at the Kremlin on Tuesday, Chinese President Xi Jinping turned to his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, and said the world was undergoing changes “the likes of which we haven’t seen for 100 years.” “And we are the ones driving these changes together,” he said. “I agree,” Putin replied, shaking hands with the Chinese leader in an exchange that was captured on camera.

A hundred years ago the world had just seen off a big war. Four big empires, the Russian, German, Austria-Hungarian and the Ottoman had suddenly vanished. The U.S. had stepped onto the international scene. In China the Kuomintang and the Communists founded the United Front to beat the rampant warlords the imperialists had created. (Russia helped with that.) Those were indeed times of great changes. We now see similar changes in this world. The U.S. empire and its proxies are in decline. The BRICS countries, led by Russia and China and rising, now have a bigger GDP(PPP) than the G7. Times have changed. The arrogance of the ‘west’ has ruined its own position in the world. A multitude of other powers have established themselves and are taking over. Russia and China together will see to that. Can the ‘west’ do something about this. I could. If it became humble and truly aware of its own position and of those of the rest of the world. But I for now see no way that it is going to happen. Certainly not anytime soon. Certainly not as long as its political discussions are made up from unfounded memes.

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“..the US’ position “is perfectly logical.” “What I can’t understand is the position of European leaders who are unable to make decisions that benefit Europeans..”

‘The United States of America Is Our Enemy,’ Says Medvedev (TASS)

The United States is currently a hostile country that seeks to cause as much damage to Russia as possible, Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev said. “They are our rivals, and today – let’s put it bluntly-they are our enemy. The United States of America is our enemy,” Medvedev pointed out in an interview with Russian media outlets, including TASS, and users of the VKontakte social media network. However, he pointed out that unlike EU nations, the US holds “a consistent stance.” “They are trying to cause us as much damage as possible, and, where feasible, even tear our country apart and put Europe under their spell in the worst way so that it is unable to move at all,” the Russian Security Council deputy chairman noted, adding: “The reason is that sometimes, the leaders that come to power there start getting clever, either withdrawing from NATO or suspending membership or doing something else.”


The Americans have now achieved their goal, Medvedev went on to say, pointing out that the US’ position “is perfectly logical.” “What I can’t understand is the position of European leaders who are unable to make decisions that benefit Europeans. All of their decisions benefit either certain rival political groups or the Americans,” the deputy secretary of the Russian Security Council said. He emphasized that European nations “are no longer an independent subject of international law as they have simply become a cash cow for the United States at the expense of their taxpayers.” “And they are doing it not even for ideological reasons, but out of stupidity and cowardice,” Medvedev concluded.

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“As a result, Russia would get a neighbor “who is not only a member of an unfriendly bloc but also plans to produce nuclear weapons..”

Medvedev Says Diplomacy Doesn’t Always Work, Special Op Was Right Move (TASS)

There are situations where agreements are counterproductive and one needs to take steps like launching a special military operation, Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev said in an interview with Russian media outlets, including TASS, and users of the VKontakte social media network. “In my view, it makes no sense to negotiate in certain situations. One must ignore it, and in some cases make decisions like the one that was made on February 24 last year because agreements can be counterproductive in certain cases,” Medvedev pointed out, when asked if Moscow needed to make agreements with the countries that failed to see Kiev’s crimes.

According to him, Moscow tried for decades to convey some simple things to the West. “Guys, the Soviet Union collapsed. Yes, it’s sad but that is what happened, both because of the Soviet leadership’s incompetent policy and your external interference. The country fell apart but ties did not, and the people remained the same. How do you imagine that? Ukraine becoming part of NATO?” he said, clarifying Russia’s message. Meanwhile, Ukraine “had its own nuclear weapons complex,” Medvedev went on to say. As a result, Russia would get a neighbor “who is not only a member of an unfriendly bloc but also plans to produce nuclear weapons,” he noted. “I would like to point out that Ukraine’s leader spoke about this shortly before the start of the operation, in late 2021.

So do you want us to put up with it? Particularly in a situation where we have a dispute over Crimea because we consider it part of our land and they regard it as their territory. So imagine them joining NATO and launching a large-scale operation against our country under NATO’s umbrella – we cannot accept this,” Medvedev stressed. The politician stressed that Russia had proposed a draft agreement on security guarantees to Western countries. “They responded ‘no’,” Medvedev said. In his opinion, “the current ramifications are much more complicated than they would have been” had the document been signed last December.

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Iraq and Kosovo tell the story.

Effects Of Depleted Uranium In Ukraine Cannot Be Controlled – Zakharova (TASS)

Radiation effects of depleted uranium shells, should these be used on the territory of Ukraine, will be impossible to control, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told a news briefing on Thursday. “Now the impact of used weapons and shells will be impossible to control either for neighboring states or for the states of the region. This simply cannot be done,” she said, while commenting on London’s intention to provide shells with depleted uranium to Kiev.


“It is possible to participate in the exchange of intelligence, it is possible to ask Washington to control the Kiev regime to ensure it should not carry out strikes at the territory of Poland or shoot down aircraft of some other countries, it is possible to do many other things, but no one can give instructions to radiation, it’s impossible to negotiate with it, there is no way of controlling it.” Zakharova recalled the Chernobyl and Fukushima nuclear power plant disasters. “Both tragedies still have dire consequences. Their scale is different, but the lesson is the same: it’s impossible to come to terms with radiation,” she added.

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Take from the Guardian. “..to enable the Ukrainians to retake territory to liberate more and more and more land..”

Nato Chief: West Must Brace To Support Ukraine In A Long War (G.)

Vladimir Putin has no immediate plans for peace in Ukraine and so the west needs to brace itself to supply lethal aid to Kyiv for a long time to come, Nato’s secretary general has warned in an interview with the Guardian. Jens Stoltenberg said the Russian president was engaged in “a war of attrition”, and said he wanted Nato members to agree that spending 2% of GDP on defence as a minimum at the alliance’s next summit, in the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius. The fierce fighting, currently centred around Bakhmut, in eastern Ukraine, demonstrates Russia is willing “to just throw in thousands and thousands more troops, to take many casualties for minimal gains”, the Nato head said.

“President Putin doesn’t plan for peace, he’s planning for more war,” Stoltenberg continued, adding that Russia was increasing military industrial production and “reaching out to authoritarian regimes like Iran or North Korea, and others to try to get more weapons”. As a result, the US, UK, France, Germany and other western states had to be prepared to support Ukraine with weapons, ammunition and spares over a long time. “The need will continue to be there, because this is a war of attrition; this is about industrial capacity to sustain the support,” the secretary general said. At present, the combat was so intense that Ukraine’s use of artillery shells – 4,000 to 7,000 a day to Russia’s 20,000 – was outrunning western manufacturing.

“The current rate of ammunition expenditure is higher than the current production rate,” Stoltenberg said, although new contracts meant that was changing. Earlier this week, EU members agreed to supply Ukraine with a million rounds of shells, enough for six months or so. But heading into what is expected to be his final summit, Stoltenberg said he wanted Nato members to be prepared to spend more to reverse Russia’s invasion. Nato’s annual report, out on Tuesday, acknowledged that only seven of 30 member states – the US, UK, Poland, Greece and the Baltic countries – met the current defence spending target of 2% of GDP in 2022. France at 1.89% and Germany at 1.49% fell short, although both have committed to increases.

[..] A serious effort by China to act as a mediator in the conflict must be accompanied by an attempt “to understand Ukraine’s perspectives”, the Nato chief said, and to “engage with President Zelenskiy directly”. But while welcoming any peace initiative, he complained that Beijing had not yet condemned the Russian invasion. Stoltenberg thought the west had provided enough military equipment, including tanks, fighting vehicles and rocket artillery, “to enable the Ukrainians to retake territory to liberate more and more and more land” seized by Russia after the initial invasion in February 2022. The goal, he emphasised, was “to enable the Ukrainians to launch an offensive and to retake territory” although he said Nato was not a party to the conflict, with alliance members making their own decision on providing weapons and leaving battlefield calculations to Ukraine’s commanders.

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“..and prepared reserves of about 200,000 people..”

Ukraine Deployed Over 80,000 Servicemen Around Bakhmut – Prigozhin (TASS)

The Ukrainian armed forces have gathered over 80,000 servicemen around Artyomovsk (the Ukrainian name of the city is Bakhmut – TASS), Yevgeny Prigozhin, the founder of the Wagner private military company, said in a video published on his press service’s Telegram channel on Thursday. “As of today, the enemy has deployed more than 80,000 [servicemen] around Bakhmut. This grouping is in Seversk, Slavyansk, Kramatorsk, Druzhkovka, Konstantinovka and Chasovoy Yar,” Prigozhin said. “The Ukrainians received a very large amount of various NATO equipment, various armored vehicles, Leopards tanks, which everyone is talking about, and prepared reserves of about 200,000 people,” he added.


According to Prigozhin, with the help of the accumulated forces, in addition to military action in Artyomovsk, the Ukrainian armed forces may try to strike the first blow in the direction of Belgorod. “They will try to go near Belgorod,” he theorized. The founder of the Wagner private military company indicated the Svatovo – Kremennaya contact line, where, in his opinion, they may try to “reach Valuiki.”

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Ukraine, like US and Russia, never ratified the Rome Statute. But it does get an ICC office?! And to look only at Russian “crimes”?

Ukraine Welcomes ICC Office (RT)

Ukraine’s prosecutor-general signed an agreement on Thursday to allow the International Criminal Court (ICC) to open a representative office in Kiev. Andrey Kostin called it a “significant beginning” in the country’s relationship with the ICC, though Ukraine has still not signed the Rome Statute to accept its jurisdiction. “I am convinced that we will not stop until all those guilty of international crimes committed against Ukraine are brought to justice,” including the Russian military and political leadership, Kostin said after meeting with ICC Secretary Peter Lewis. The prosecutor’s visit to The Hague comes just days after the ICC issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin and children’s rights commissioner Maria Lvova-Belova, alleging that the evacuations of children from the combat zone amounted to “forcible transfer of population.”

Kostin also praised ICC Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan, a British lawyer, for “tirelessly standing guard over justice,” and said Ukraine and the court were “building a more just world”together. The ICC itself acknowledged that Ukraine is not a party to the Rome Statute, the 1998 international treaty that established the ICC. However, the court noted that Kiev has selectively accepted its jurisdiction for alleged crimes committed beginning in November 2013 – when US-backed protests against the government, later known as the Maidan revolution, began – and for an indefinite period thereafter.

Russia never ratified the Rome Statute, and Moscow has responded to the warrant by saying the ICC has no authority or legitimacy. Former president Dmitry Medvedev said that the charges signaled a “complete collapse of international law.” Russian authorities have also initiated criminal proceedingsagainst Khan and ICC judges Tomoko Akane, Rosario Salvatore Aitala and Sergio Gerardo Ugalde Godinez, involved in issuing the warrant. The ICC also revealed that referrals for the alleged crimes in Ukraine came from a collection of countries, mainly EU and NATO members or otherwise allied with Washington. The US itself was not directly involved, however, as it too does not recognize the court. The US withdrew its signature in 2002 and passed a law allowing for a military invasion of The Hague in case any Americans or allies were detained there.

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Hungary did ratify Rome, but turns its back on the arrest warrant.

Hungary Says It Won’t Arrest Putin (RT)

While the Hungarian government has yet to take an official position on the International Criminal Court’s war crimes warrant against Russian President Vladimir Putin, the prime minister’s chief of staff said on Thursday that the country’s constitution wouldn’t allow for its enforcement. “We can refer to the Hungarian law, and based on that we cannot arrest the Russian president … as the ICC statute has not been promulgated in Hungary,”said PM Viktor Orban’s chief of staff, Gergely Gulyas, addressing reporters during a press conference in Budapest. “These decisions are not the most fortunate as they take things towards further escalation and not towards peace,” Gulyas said in reference to the ICC warrant, qualifying it as his “personal, subjective opinion.”

Last week, the ICC called for the arrest of Putin and Russian children’s rights commissioner Maria Lvova-Belova, accusing them of personal, command and indirect responsibility for “forcible transfer of population,” referring to Moscow’s efforts to evacuate children from the combat zone. Ukraine cheered the move, accusing Russia of “kidnapping” children. Moscow responded by saying the ICC has no authority or legitimacy, as Russia never ratified the 1998 Rome Statute that established the court. Former president Dmitry Medvedev said that the charges meant a “complete collapse of international law.” Russian authorities have also initiated criminal proceedingsagainst the ICC’s head prosecutor and three judges involved with the warrant.

Ukraine never ratified the Rome Statute either, but the government set up after the US-backed coup in 2014 announced it would accept its jurisdiction for crimes allegedly committed by Russia on its territory. Hungary did ratify the Rome Statute, and was actually among the NATO countries and other US allies that sent the ICC a criminal referral on Ukraine on March 2, at least according to the court. Washington was not directly involved, however, as the US does not recognize the ICC either. After withdrawing its signature on the Rome Treaty in 2002, the US Congress passed a law allowing for the use of military force to rescue any American or member of an allied military, should they be detained in The Hague.

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“Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is “having trouble” convincing members of the grand jury to hear the case..”

House Judiciary Committee Expands Probe Into Alvin Bragg (PM)

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) sent letters Wednesday to former special prosecutors Carey Dunne and Mark Pomerantz demanding documents and testimony relating to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s “unprecedented abuse of prosecutorial authority” amid the reported impending indictment of former President Donald Trump. Dunne and Pomerantz both resigned from their positions in the DA’s Office in January 2022 after Bragg’s initial reluctance to move forward with charges against President Trump. Since leaving the DA’s office, Dunne and Pomerantz have publicly criticized Bragg for refusing to aggressively prosecute the former president and now have even opened a law firm to bring lawsuits to prevent Trump from holding future office.

House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-OH) wrote in the letters “Your criticisms of Bragg’s investigation were widely reported. It now appears that your efforts to shame Bragg have worked as he is reportedly resurrecting a so-called ‘zombie’ case.” The letters asked Pomerantz and Dunne to turn over documents related to the Trump investigation, including communications with federal agencies and other staffers in the DA’s office and sit for transcribed interviews by the morning of March 27. On Monday, Jordan, Reps. Jim Comer (R-KY) and Bryan Steil (R-WI), the chairs of the Oversight and House Administration Committees sent a letter to Bragg requesting his testimony and documents which included the communications of Pomerantz and Dunne.

Jordan wrote, “In January 2022, soon after you took office, you expressed doubts about President Trump’s case and suspended the investigation.” News broke Wednesday that the grand jury investigating former President Donald Trump for his alleged involvement in a $130,000 payment to adult film actress Stormy Daniels on the eve of the 2016 election was told not to show up and would reconvene on Thursday amid reports that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is “having trouble” convincing members of the grand jury to hear the case.

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“..the explosions occurred in an area that had toxic seafloor sediments, which could prove to be worse for the marine life than the release of CO2..”

CIA Planted Nord Stream Stories in NYT, German Outlets – Hersh (Celente)

Seymour Hersh, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, wrote in a blog post on Wednesday that the CIA planted stories about the Nord Stream pipelines sabotage in the New York Times and German magazine Die Zeit in a coordinated effort to discredit his story that it was the Biden administration behind the attack.“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,” an American intelligence source told Hersh. Hersh’s original story went into detail on how the U.S. and Norway allegdly carried out the elaborate bombing.

His theory is that President Joe Biden was concerned Germany would turn back to Russia for its natural gas if there was a cold winter and restart the pipeline. The White House called Hersh’s story completely false. Hersh brushed off the report in The New York Times that blamed the attack on a “pro-Ukrainian group.” Hersh seemed unimpressed with the report and laughed when reached by The Trends Journal. He joked, “I always thought either Somalia or Nepal were behind it.” The Times’s report cited unnamed U.S. officials who said they reviewed new intelligence about the pro-Ukraine group with no known ties to the Ukrainian government. Ukraine also denied any role in the attack. The paper said: The review of newly collected intelligence suggests they were opponents of President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, but does not specify the members of the group, or who directed or paid for the operation.

The Chinese Foreign Ministry on Wednesday said it supports Russia’s draft resolution that calls on the UN to launch an international investigation into the blast, according to The Global Times. The blast was an environmental disaster. Phys.org wrote, “the explosions took place near the Danish Island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea. It has previously been estimated that more than 115,000 tons of natural gas escaped the damaged pipeline in just six days, with a greenhouse gas contribution of approximately 15 million tons of CO2—or the amount of carbon that can be absorbed by roughly 580 million trees in a year.” The report noted that the explosions occurred in an area that had toxic seafloor sediments, which could prove to be worse for the marine life than the release of CO2.

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“While many Democrats repeatedly stress that influence peddling is not criminal, it is corrupt and the Bidens appear to be a class in themselves..”

Biden Played Direct Role in Addressing Hunter’s Business Deals (Turley)

Some of us have written for two years that President Biden’s denial of knowledge is patently false. It was equally evident that the Biden family was selling influence and access. There are emails of Ukrainian and other foreign clients thanking Hunter Biden for arranging meetings with his father. There are photos from dinners and meetings that tie President Biden to these figures, including a 2015 dinner with a group of Hunter Biden’s Russian and Kazakh clients. People apparently were told to avoid directly referring to President Biden. In one email, Tony Bobulinski, then a business partner of Hunter’s, was instructed by Biden associate James Gilliar not to speak of the former veep’s connection to any transactions: “Don’t mention Joe being involved, it’s only when u [sic] are face to face, I know u [sic] know that but they are paranoid.”

Instead, the emails apparently refer to President Biden with code names such as “Celtic” or “the big guy.” In one, “the big guy” is discussed as possibly receiving a 10 percent cut on a deal with a Chinese energy firm; other emails reportedly refer to Hunter Biden paying portions of his father’s expenses and taxes. Bobulinski has given multiple interviews that he met twice with Joe Biden to discuss a business deal in China with CEFC China Energy Co. That would seem obvious evidence. In addition, the New York Post reported on a key email that discussed “the proposed percentage distribution of equity in a company created for a joint venture with CEFC China Energy Co.” That was the email on March 13, 2017 that included references of “10 held by H for the big guy.”

The new emails show that, as early as 2015, [former Biden Communications Director Kate] Bedingfield told Hunter’s top financial lieutenant Eric Schwerin via email that Joe Biden approved a statement regarding Hunter’s board position. Yet, for years, Biden’s communications office repeated his denial of any involvement or knowledge. That stands in contradiction to Bedingfield’s 2015 email acknowledging that “VP signed off on this — will give this quote to reporters in my name shortly.” Bedingfield left the White House in 2023. The White House has continued the categorical denials. When confronted by Fox’s Fox News’ Peter Doocy on the transfer records showing millions sent from China, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre responded: “Look, I’m just not going to respond to that from here. Look, we have heard from House Republicans for years and years and years how — the inaccuracies and lies when it comes to this issue. And, I don’t even where to begin to even answer that question because, again, it’s been lies and lies and inaccuracy for the past couple of years and I’m just not going to get into it from here.”

The only reason that Biden would even attempt to maintain this clearly false defense is that he could count on a supportive media to blunt any attacks and limit inquiries. Of course, there is a difference with the Sgt. Schulz defense. Schultz was harmless and comical. The Biden influence peddling allegations is neither. Despite the striking lack of interest of many in the media, this is about millions of dollars paid to the First Family by foreign sources, including some with foreign intelligence ties. Influence peddling has long been the favored form of corruption in Washington. While many Democrats repeatedly stress that influence peddling is not criminal, it is corrupt and the Bidens appear to be a class in themselves. Yet, even with the clear contradiction of the President’s repeated statements to the public, Democrats still oppose any investigation into the alleged influence peddling. What made Sgt. Schultz funny is precisely why the Biden defense is collapsing. The refusal of the media to see what is now in plain view will convince no one. At some point, Democratic leaders will have to recognize the obvious or join the Bidens (and many journalists) in this cast of this theater of the absurd.

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In several steps, VAERS was massively expanded. They knew.

FOIA Document Shows Government Anticipated Mass Vaccine Injuries (Horowitz)

[..] as Hebrew University Professor Josh Guetzkow reveals, not only did the CDC know about the vaccine injuries blowing up VAERS at record levels (even before the general public had access to them), the agency contracted with defense contractor General Dynamics to handle the database in anticipation of record use. Then, when the vaccines were released, the CDC had to up the contract to account for even more entries, yet showed no moral qualms about continuing with the campaign without disclosing these revelations to the public. Guetzkow, who has secured numerous FOIA’ed documents both in the U.S. and Israel throughout COVID, posted 69 pages of FOIA’ed documents and contracts from General Dynamics Information Technology to the CDC’s immunization safety office.


Thanks to his work, we already know from the previous FOIA’ed documents that the CDC’s $9.45 million contract with General Dynamics in August 2020 stated that officials anticipated 1,000 adverse event reports a day, with 40% of them being serious. Yet, like a cold serial killer soullessly counting his casualty list, the CDC was completely fine with going through with this campaign, as if it were the price that had to be paid to worship the spirit of the age – the modern-day Moloch. However, this document shows that as early as Jan. 15 – when most people still could have avoided these shots – the CDC was aware of record-setting reports that crushed even the agency’s initial cold-hearted, morbid expectations.

As you can see from page 8 of the pdf, General Dynamics warned the CDC that VAERS had blown through the expected 1,000 cases per day and even reached a level above 4,500 – to the point that GD couldn’t process the data. Mind you, they were never concerned with the human toll, just the logistics of the contract labor. They predicted a need for “reforecasting of staffing needs” to process all these reports. Already in December 2020, when the shots were only available for select people like doctors, there were over 19,000 reports and close to 344,000 website visits. It’s hard to see how this wasn’t organic from people genuinely in pain because there was no organized campaign in the United States to inform people of VAERS at the time. I myself (who obsessively focused on this) hadn’t heard of it until two months later.


By Feb. 15, General Dynamics reported a continued record-setting pace of reports and website visits, to the point that workers had to expand their VAERS ID reports to allow for seven digits instead of six. In April, officials reported that they had to hire an additional 200 staffers to deal with the backlog and continue to process 25,000 reports per week, well beyond the threshold they originally contracted for. As eligibility for the shots expanded for all age groups, they continued to process over 30,000 injury reports a week, yet the CDC never said a word about it. Not only did officials not take the products off the market, they began mandating them over late summer 2021, with some mandates that remain in place to this very day.

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20,000 year-old fossilized human footprints were discovered in Australia in 2006: they indicate the hunter who made them was running at ~37 km/h (or 23 mph), the speed of a modern Olympic sprinter, but barefoot and in sand

 

 

Black hole sound

 

 


The Ili pika (Ochotona iliensis) is a critically endangered species of mammal in the family Ochotonidae, endemic to northwest China. It was discovered in 1983: this is the first documented photo in 20 years, taken in 2015

 

 

Full frontal flip

 

 


Claude Monet in his Giverny garden in 1899.

 

 


What the inside of a tardigrade looks like
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  • #131933

    Gustav Klimt Pine forest II 1901   • US Facing New Global Reality Post Xi-Putin Summit, Says Expert (TASS) • US ‘Uneasy’ About China’s Peace Plan
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle March 24 2023]

    #131934
    Germ
    Participant

    Talented GB boxer dies suddenly aged 19 as tributes pour in for ‘future champ’

    “Jude Moore’s family ‘currently have no answers’ as to what happened to the talented sportsman”

    https://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/local-news/talented-gb-boxer-dies-suddenly-8272645

    ☠️☠️☠️

    TVASF

    #131935
    Germ
    Participant

    Girl found in critical condition dies at school

    “…the girl died in her sleep…”

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9r04w5qq91o

    Oh, the irony. Her school was a death-vaxx center:
    https://www.bordercountiesadvertizer.co.uk/news/19036497.oswestry-school-become-covid-19-vaccination-centre/

    TVASF

    #131936
    Germ
    Participant

    GAA club rocked by sudden death of young player at its ground

    “…the death is not being treated as suspicious.”
    But of course not!

    https://www.belfastlive.co.uk/sport/gaa/gaa-club-rocked-sudden-death-26463428

    Normal!

    TVASF

    #131937
    Germ
    Participant

    Boy, 16, dies suddenly in Wiltshire town

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/boy-16-dies-suddenly-in-wiltshire-town/ar-AA18CpzC

    Another normal event in the UK in 2023.

    TVASF

    #131938
    Germ
    Participant

    Devastated family share heartfelt tributes to ‘popular wee boy’, 15, who died suddenly while playing football

    https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/21723471/devastated-family-tributes-boy-died-football/

    Nobody even cares.
    Nothis suspicious.
    It’s now normal.

    TVASF

    #131939
    Germ
    Participant

    I believe that Jehane had VITT – Vaccine induced immune thrombocytopenia and thrombosis:

    Jehane Thomas, TikTok Star and Mother of Two, Dead at 30 After Suffering Migraines

    https://www.etonline.com/jehane-thomas-tiktok-star-and-mother-of-two-dead-at-30-after-suffering-migraines-201345

    Death Vaxx wot did it – VITT: https://www.bmj.com/content/375/bmj.n2195

    ☠️☠️☠️

    TVASF

    #131941
    Just Some Randomer
    Participant

    It’s really incredible that people can open the newspaper every day, see a story like this – every day – and still just shrug and move on as though nothing unusual is taking place. From today’s Daily Mail

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11897831/Head-chef-38-died-suddenly-Cornwall-beach-bar.html

    ‘He was a fit and healthy man. He last went to the doctor in 2016. He didn’t smoke and had stopped drinking, he never took drugs, he was really fit and healthy.’

    #131942
    Afewknowthetruth
    Participant

    I wonder if you can explain how the laser reflectors got to the moon (previous thread)

    The reflection of laser beams does not require reflectors. However, assuming that reflectors have been transported to the Moon that does not provide any evidence whatsoever that humans went to the Moon and back, nor even imply that humans went to the Moon and back, since reflectors could have easily been transported to the Moon by unmanned transporters. Indeed, the history of space exploration is characterised by the use of unmanned capsules carrying instruments being propelled large distances by the action of the gravitational fields and orbital velocity of planets, never to return, i.e. not the use of chemical propellants, which suffer the effects of diminishing returns – to carry fuel into space requires a larger rocket which uses more fuel, making it heavier and requiring more fuel, requiring the rocket to be bigger and heavier, requiring more fuel….

    #131943
    V. Arnold
    Participant

    It’s really incredible that people can open the newspaper every day, see a story like this – every day – and still just shrug and move on as though nothing unusual is taking place.

    But isn’t that exactly the reality of our day to day lives, today? It is in fact our new normal…

    #131944
    Dr. D
    Participant

    “Only 7 Out Of 30 NATO Members Hit 2% GDP Defense Spending Target In 2022
    As Ukraine war rages, Stoltenberg chastises alliance…”

    One YEAR later. They’re going to book a meeting, about the meeting, about scheduling, about talking about, getting some weapons. Maybe later. After we build a factory and make them.

    Okay then!

    “Defense Attorneys In Jan. 6 Case Allege FBI Informant Spied On Legal Team”

    It’s against the law, so of course they did. Breaking the law so they can prosecute people breaking the law! That’s how you reduce breaking the law!

    “USA Today Again Picks Biological Man As ‘Woman Of The Year’”

    Attacking and eliminating women wherever they can. That’s Love and Support! It’s the protecting of women and girls that’s hatred and bigotry, doncha know.

    https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/bonds-bitcoin-bullion-soar-bank-bloodbath-builds
    Endless charts here. Market Dow, multi-year, rose, failed to make new high, came down, built right shoulder, retested resistance, failed to get through…so all-clear to fall sharply. All standard events have happened.

    BTC, same thing in reverse: 3-year broke out in 2020! Up to the $64,000 question!!! …And then collapsed. Two years and years, back down…but not even to the $15k breakout level, now retested the breakout, rose above the 200DMA, cut right through the former high of $24k, and…here we are. Broke out, retested, ready to rise. (this may not be the minute to buy, that’s a very long chart, but the structure is here now showing substantial strength. — Even unexpectedly.)

    Article charts also show US and Europe are in a major financial fight – bond expectations between them do NOT match up in the most diverging way in history. Somebody is wrong. Europe – and the Dow – are still saying, demanding, Fed will pause and seriously reverse by a whole 1% immediately. The Dow has not cracked, the Fed has no credibility, nothing has really broken, Dow still at 30k, nosebleed highs, along with P/E and every other measure: unprecedented, above 1929, nosebleed, ludicrous highs. And Powell’s gonna stop?

    I’ve got the under on this one. Most of the world is Davos, and the Davos market is the one that’s wrong. Europe is the bond rate that’s going to crack, not Powell. But we’ll see. We might have another “Miracle” like Sept 2019. When it’s bedtime they throw more tantrums.

    “Pentagon Doctors Take Medical Orders from Seven Year Olds”

    Sounds about right. But only if it kills/sterilizes them. If it makes them healthy or it’s a mask the CDC proved doesn’t work, then we don’t. That’s just logic.

    Anyone follow poor Jazz, one of the early highlighted trans people? Who is now crippled beyond repair and as a (literal) man stuck in a “woman’s” body actually IS now trans? Since they did the surgery so early, he’s now a teen and wants to date girls…but he’s a girl now. A sterile one with no parts and a scarred-up Frankestein body. You think it’s hard to find love? Imagine you’re also a burn victim…on your parts. And sterile before 20 with no hope of a family, dying alone.

    They love this and want much, much more tragic stories for any child they can get hold of.

    “”An Unprecedent Inquiry”: Manhattan DA Fires Off Angry Letter Blaming Trump For Arrest Rumors”

    Um, YOU booked the Grand Jury…which is a real thing…then YOUR people leaked it to the media where it was published widely. Whose rumors? Trump rumored himself? I thought the whole point was rumors. The breadth and level of illogic is shocking. “Trump shelled himself inside that nuclear plant.”

    “Pompeo Warns of Biden Administration’s ‘Enormous’ Mistake (RT) “

    Pompeo. Really. After you did the same thing for four years, maybe 12?

    “Medvedev Says Diplomacy Doesn’t Always Work, Special Op Was Right Move (TASS) “

    Their task was to sell it to the Russian people, why there was no alternative and this was smart, and they’ve done that. The West hasn’t and in fact hasn’t even started. There is no argument, because there is no choice. You Do What You’re Told.

    “• Nato Chief: West Must Brace To Support Ukraine In A Long War (G.)

    A long war where one side has no ammunition? Please explain.

    ICC and Ukraine, Hungary.

    Everybody has to do the #Opposite of the law. That’s how we do things now. Only if we follow the law are we arrested.

    many Democrats repeatedly stress that influence peddling is not criminal,”

    I’m a little confused. “Bribery” is not illegal? Under what statute, as it’s in National, State, and Local law? Is this like how Insider Trading is not illegal? And this is not illegal only for them because the Constitution clearly states Congress and government must be subject to their own laws and cannot be a special class?

    Huh. Well it’s #OppositeDay again, I guess. I guess I’ll go “Influence Peddle” my Family Court Judge, lock out my ex, and tell the State Police that it’s not Criminal. That’s how we do things now. If the police give me any trouble, I’ll “Influence Peddle” them too. That’s Justice!

    NASA: I’m a little lost. “In Space no one can hear you scream” because there is no sound. Therefore, they took something else, and digitally fabricated it into sound. The Sound of a thing (which quite certain isn’t sound but light) “From which nothing can escape”. Are they TRYING to break over my mountain of credulity here? I’m hearing a not-Black Hole (maybe the areas surrounding it?) with the not-sound (maybe the light emanating from it). WTF?

    I’ll just go on Youtube, play “Stairway to Heaven” backward, and post it with this title. Same thing.

    They do the same thing to, for example, the “streetlight from space station” photos. They are synthesized, pieced together, from location and also wavelength shots. Then made uniform, translated to visible light, and cleaned up. That is to say, they are entirely fabricated in Photoshop, with virtually nothing you see being real. The predecessors to the AI generated pics. “Just Made S—t Up!”

    It’s okay if you know it’s art, not photo. Photos are deceptive enough, but we consider to know its likely limitations. This is as open as the world-wide human imagination. That’s also the run with the AI/Trump Arrest. A lot of photos are about to come out, on Biden, Epstein, and da boyz. They need no one to believe their own lyin’ eyes and are doing a great job. They need to be a post-truth, post-reality society and it’s going quite well.

    Without reality, #Logos erased entirely, you “Do what you’re told”. What other choice is there? There’s no conflict to be had because where would it come from? Your own eyes and ears? Nope!

    That leads to…My thought on Uranium was the same. That’s a description that’s logical, mathematically sound…and completely wrong. CLEARLY dust wanders around everywhere, and ALL of it is heavier than air. You see this every day of your whole life, walking around. Always, since you were a wee lad. Where is the disconnect that you don’t believe your own lyin’ eyes?

    Now uranium is VERY heavy, so that made me stop and consider, but, you know ROCKS are heavy too, and sand-dust is tiny ROCKS. Besides, the article pointed out that as a decaying nucleus, it has constant ionic charge. I’d have to look into that more as so does everything else, but it’s plausible. Surely it can’t be so heavy as to NEVER float. I can grind metal and smell it. It must at least a little, which isn’t the greatest problem. That’s that it is very heavy and very small, so it remains where it lands, in the soil. We know for a fact it causes birth defects in Iraq and our veterans, although we may not know how long, clearly on decade-level scales, perhaps tapering off after 50 years. That’s not good, and it is indeed chemical and radiological warfare of dirty bombs. In this case on “Russian” soil. Perhaps NYC will “accidentally” have a tsunami and save us the trouble.

    We need to “accidentally” leave these “perfectly safe” weapons Russia is “Overreacting” to throughout the Hamptons, Switzerland, and Kensington. Since like Ohio they’re “As safe as water” they won’t mind, right?

    #131945
    Dr. D
    Participant

    The reflectors? There are spacecraft, just not the ones they admit to. Why would you think all the flying TikTacs, which the Navy has proven are real, aren’t “ours”? Whose else would they be?

    If they can fly at impossible speed, also into the ocean, have no visible propulsion or air-burning from speed, why wouldn’t they fly without an atmosphere?

    We’ve been seeing them since 1949? When all of D.C. was covered them? So why wouldn’t humans have one by 1969? To imagine otherwise is what’s really the stretch here. We can confirm SOME events without hypothesis or rumor. Taking the simplest, most-likely conclusion from what millions of people have seen and photographed — including the U.S. Navy, officially, right now, leads to some pretty simple conclusions.

    Let me say it this way: the SR-71 Blackbird started in the 1950s and it “didn’t exist” either. …But that’s right “no one can keep a secret” “It’s impossible” although the U2, the SR-71, the Manhattan Project, the Japanese and Enigma Code were all kept secret by thousands of collective people even over decades of time.

    If anything were going on, the government would never keep secrets and you would know more than every CIA director and 4-star general combined, right? That’s how this works?

    We don’t have to know where these PROVEN craft come from to know humans are the ones flying them. If they can fly them here, why not there? If we could fly them in 1949, why not 1969? Why not 1999? There, was that so hard?

    #131946
    Afewknowthetruth
    Participant

    It has been said before but is worth repeating:

    The Empire of Lies has no regard whatsoever for the lives of the ‘human livestock’ of NATOstan nations nor any regard for the lives of humans anywhere else on Earth; The Empire of Lies has no regard for other species we share this planet with, nor any regard for the physical or chemical state of the planet; the only factors that feature in the agendas of The Empire of Lies are money, power and control, and The Empire of Lies is prepared to sacrifice everything in the short-term maintenance of [fake] money, power and the illusion of control.

    I believe that Russia has resorted to the use of white phosphorus, in addition to thermobaric weapons and hypersonic weapons to deal with fanatical fascists.

    Use of white phosphorus would normally be considered a war crime but since Russia is faced with an existential threat and NATO has no rules of engagement other than lying and attacking everything – civilians, infrastructure, nuclear facilities, the very foundations of society- it is understandable that Russia is resorting to using really nasty stuff.

    As Putin aid a while ago:” We’re only just getting started.”

    It is said that the fascists of Oceania and Ukraine have accumulated an army of 80,000 and are ready to launch a desperate attempt to turn the tide in and around Bakhmut. River will literally be running with blood.

    Alex Mercouris recently pointed out that Ukraine is now a testing ground for weapons. That said, the bulk of the work is still being done via nineteenth century technology of using charges to fire exploding shells at the enemy.

    ‘All wars are banker’s (banksters) wars’.

    ‘War is a racket.’

    “When all else fails, they take you to war.”

    #131947
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Pentagon Claims 7 Year Olds Can Fly F-35 “Lardbucket” Fighter Jet

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    Military Industrial Mafia® which ran the entire Plandemic Clotshot Genocide Scam wants your kids snuffed.

    Putin describes the Collective West as “perverted, degenerate and degraded”

    I wonder how he got that impression?

    From the Her/Uh? and the He/Haws?

    Is that Paul Pelosi in the back being chased by the Hammer Guy?

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    #131948
    Alexander Carpenter
    Participant

    eugyppius on the “EMO.” Best meta-analysis yet, takes us out of the weeds and into the light of day:

    https://www.eugyppius.com/p/bill-gates-the-global-depopulation

    Rather discouraging, but who really thought we faced a simple challenge? At least now we see the depths and origins of much that otherwise doesn’t make sense. Thank you, eugyppius…

    #131950
    Oroboros
    Participant

    The Empire of Lies Military Mafia

    <strike>We Stand Tall</strike>

    I mean we stand small

    “We’ve lowered our recruitment standards to 7 years old because we can’t get even a few good ‘men’ to join anymore.”

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    #131951
    Just Some Randomer
    Participant

    Finally! The markets have Deutsche Bank in the firing line. Shares down 10% today and CDS prices jumping. How that Godforsaken disaster of a bank is still alive I do not know – but maybe not for much longer.

    #131952
    Oroboros
    Participant

    The Fed and The ECB w/ Tom Luongo (Live)

    Tom gives a very good overview on the banking war between the FED & Wall St vs Davos & Deutsche Bank/Soros

    Each side is trying to collapse the other’s economy

    Turns out blowing up Nordstream to sink Germany was a good move for the FED & the White Shoe Boys

    So was rescuing Credit Suisse and the Swiss banking system from the Davos Mafia

    #131955
    zerosum
    Participant

    Look UP, Way UP,
    See the lights dancing Listen for the crackle

    Index


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    Back to the regular programming
    https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/3/24/us-says-air-strikes-hit-syria-targets-after-deadly-drone-attack

    US air strikes ‘kill 11’ in Syria after drone kills contractor
    Pentagon said air strikes were carried out in retaliation for drone attack on US-led coalition base that killed a US contractor, injured another, and wounded five US soldiers.
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    Israel launches missile attack on Syria’s Aleppo airport: Gov’t

    sad, subdued Nowruz for Syria’s Kurds

    Floods destroy homes of quake survivors in northwestern Syria

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    Let it flow
    • Ukraine Deployed Over 80,000 Servicemen Around Bakhmut – Prigozhin (TASS)

    The Ukrainian armed forces have gathered over 80,000 servicemen around Artyomovsk (the Ukrainian name of the city is Bakhmut – TASS), Yevgeny Prigozhin, the founder of the Wagner private military company, said in a video published on his press service’s Telegram channel on Thursday. “As of today, the enemy has deployed more than 80,000 [servicemen] around Bakhmut. This grouping is in Seversk, Slavyansk, Kramatorsk, Druzhkovka, Konstantinovka and Chasovoy Yar,” Prigozhin said. “The Ukrainians received a very large amount of various NATO equipment, various armored vehicles, Leopards tanks, which everyone is talking about, and prepared reserves of about 200,000 people,” he added.

    #131956
    John Day
    Participant

    International Criminal Court says Russians are taking children out of war zone illegally.
    Since one should “always accuse your opponent of what you are doing” (Rules For Radicals), might that be about the human-child factory-farms that are no longer bringing money into Ukraine? Blame Russia’s police and social workers before they report what they found?

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

    Just wondering, ya-know… It would seem to be an unregulated business activity with high potential profit, for whole kids and vital parts, like kidneys, livers, hearts and lungs.
    Pompeo warns of Biden administration’s ‘enormous’ mistake

    #131957
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Ukraine On the Verge of Launching A Counter Offensive at Bakhmut

    This will be an epic slaughter of the few remaining experienced units of the Ukronazi army

    From Larry Johnson:

    “The odds are stacked against the Ukrainians. They cannot match the Russians in terms of artillery shells and rate of fire. Russia has robust ISR (i.e., Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance) capabilities.

    That means Russia is closely monitoring the build up of Ukrainian assets in Chasov Yar and should be prepared to bring to bear an enormous volume of fire on any attacking columns.

    My friend made quite an understatement in noting that, “bad weather, rain and mud” create a problem for the tanks.

    There are not multiple points of access available to the tanks and they will be facing Anti Tank Guided Missiles, artillery, bombs delivered by combat air, sea and air launched missiles. While I am loathe to reference previous battles in history, this certainly appears to be a Pickett’s Charge moment”

    The Russians want to destroy Ukronazis, their main objective, territory being secondary.

    Nazilensky wants to hold and recapture territory as the prime objective.

    This plays perfectly into Russian plans.

    Is Ukraine On the Verge of Launching A Counter Offensive at Bakhmut?

    22 March 2023 by Larry Johnson 226 Comments

    I received the following from a friend who is well plugged in with the Ukrainian side. I consider his information reliable:

    Volodomyr Zelensky visited Chasov Yar today to kick off an offensive to relieve Bakhmut and push the Russians back. A number of armored and artillery brigades are being moved down from the North to support such a relief operation.

    Chasov Yar may be four or so miles from Bakhmut. Zelensky can no longer chance a visit to Bakhmut as he did earlier this month.

    As we have noted before there are somewhere between 15 to 20,000 UKA fighting inside Bakhmut, and the UKA area of control is shrinking and also bifurcated between a larger group in the western center of the city and the remainder in the north east of the city.

    Sources report that Leopard and Challenger tanks have been moved into position for the relief operation, even though the room for tank operations is not great because of the bad weather, rain and mud.

    Some experts think this relief operation will last only four or five days and may start as early as tomorrow. It can’t go much longer than that because the UKA has limited reserves and cannot afford a long battle or stalemate with the Russians.

    It is anticipated this will be a very bloody battle and could be decisive for both sides.

    Zelensky is acting outside of the advice he is getting from the US/NATO which desires a frontal attack on Crimea and not at Bakhmut or, further to the south, Avdviika, which is also under Russian attack and potential encirclement.

    If the Russians lose at Bakhmut it pressages a much longer war, perhaps years.

    Up till now the Russians have been operating slowly and methodically, but this will go out the window with a fierce rescue operation.

    If the Ukrainians lose, it suggests that the UKA will have squandered much of its offensive capability, and it could lead to a chaotic outcome.

    The odds are stacked against the Ukrainians. They cannot match the Russians in terms of artillery shells and rate of fire. Russia, like the United States and NATO, has robust ISR (i.e., Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance) capabilities. That means Russia should be monitoring the build up of Ukrainian assets in Chasov Yar and should be prepared to bring to bear an enormous volume of fire on any attacking columns.

    My friend made quite an understatement in noting that, “bad weather, rain and mud” create a problem for the tanks. There are not multiple points of access available to the tanks and they will be facing Anti Tank Guided Missiles, artillery, bombs delivered by combat air, sea and air launched missiles. While I am loathe to reference previous battles in history, this certainly appears to be a Pickett’s Charge moment.

    Russia enjoys a critical logistics capability in this looming fight.

    It can rapidly reinforce troops in that sector and it can supply the ammunition necessary to sustain intense fire, short supply lines.

    Russia is waiting for the upcoming attack and is laying in wait to conduct a devastating ambush.

    The Ukronazis have robbed other parts of their lines north and south to concentrate a force near Bakhmut leaving them open to Russian attacks.

    The Ukronazis cannot use the fields right now without being stuck in the Spring mud and turning into sitting ducks, the timing for their counter-offensive couldn’t be worse.

    The Russians timing couldn’t be better.

    The 15 to 20k Ukronazis trapped in Bakhmut are the trap’s bait, they will all perish or surrender.

    It will be an epic slaughter for the counter-offensive and a gift to the Russians

    #131958
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Jim Kunstler, being adverse to conspiracy, always defaults to explaining history as “it seemed like a good idea at the time”

    Well, that has it’s merits sometimes, but not always.

    Nazilensky’s Banzai Charge® at Bakhmut is one of those moments however that will prove his point.

    .

    Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time

    #131959
    Germ
    Participant

    Everything is going to plan …

    TVASF

    #131960
    Germ
    Participant

    “Allison Pearson meets Anders Tegnell: ‘Lockdown was never on the agenda in Sweden’
    While the world’s governments pushed crippling Covid restrictions on their people, one nation – and one man – stood apart”

    Worth a listen:

    “Lockdown killed more people than it saved”

    https://art19.com/shows/planet-normal/episodes/bb2a1941-e852-4f3d-b384-740f29017927/embed

    #131961
    Germ
    Participant

    SENATOR RICK WILLIAMS, HE’S A FUNERAL DIRECTOR. HIS EMBALMER NOTICED THE STRANGE CLOTS AFTER VAX

    TVASF

    #131962
    jb-hb
    Participant

    Russian supplies will last ‘no more than three days’, Ukraine military claims
    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/russia-food-weapons-shortage-ukraine-b2041181.html
    Wednesday 23 March 2022

    Russian invaders have three days of supplies left, says Ukraine military
    *“this article is over 1 year old”

    I checked google for “russia running out of” sorting by date posted

    looks like – according to the latest news – the most up to date thing they are running out of is:
    1. Steam
    2. Momentum

    Also, articles today mention Russia has been “caught” using paper maps. Or what we call MAPS. Surely the walls are closing in now, being seen to use “paper maps”

    They commented that the maps use a coordinate system developed in 1942. You want us to conclude what? Say it then. Uh, dude your GPS uses a coordinate system developed by Hipparchus in the 2nd century BC. (the Greeks accurately calculated the circumference of the earth using the shadow of an obelisk and the shadow inside a well.)

    The article (humorously but without self awareness) concluded that because Russians were being seen to LOOK at maps, they therefore “got lost” Was this written by a late millennial / early gen Z who never ever used anything but a smartphone guiding them through navigation by voice, such that someone taking out a map and looking at it equals lost?

    #131963
    Germ
    Participant

    Piers Robinson on Syria, the West and Propaganda

    #131964
    Germ
    Participant

    Here’s the link – add the . before the ‘com’ in place of the space.

    https://odysee com/@jermwarfare:2

    #131965
    John Day
    Participant

    Oroboros: Find of the day. I don’t watch much. Life is short. I read kinda fast. The Duran interview with Tom Luongo kepts me tuned in without any pause in the flow of important factual and conceptual information about the financial war between European globalist interests (“Davos crowd”), including Biden/Yellen, and the American retail banking establishment, now represented by Jerome Powell, who has American national and financial interests to serve, and is doing so.
    The dance of the central banks just took the Swiss central bank out of the clutches of Davos by crashing the AT1 bonds in the Credit Swiss “buyout”. This is brutally simple when Tom Luongo explains it. It puts the ECB/Davos franchise in dire straits, forcing them to further brinksmanship, which might be nuclear war, not just figuratively. How do they default, blame Russia and convince the whole world that CBDC is the best way out?

    It’s war though, war everywhere, and there are greater and lesser evils, not really white knights.

    #131966
    Germ
    Participant

    “Rare” – hahaha

    Covid vaccine: Dozens of families damaged by rare reaction to AstraZeneca jab launch legal fight

    https://inews.co.uk/news/health/covid-vaccine-families-rare-reaction-astrazeneca-jab-legal-fight-2228146

    TVASF

    #131967
    Germ
    Participant

    Population collapse – helped along by the Death Vaxx

    #131968

    I have eternal life on tiktok and my wisdom lives on forever on twitter. If my fellow humans don’t grasp my value, the eternity of space and surveillance will offer it to other entities from far away and elsewhere. I must daily, hourly, pray to my god by swiping my screen; I must connect with my digital spirits, my audience, my mirror.
    Amen.

    If it’s never just you, but you and your phone
    I can tell you right now I’d prefer being alone.

    #131969
    Oroboros
    Participant

    @JohnDay

    The Duran piece with Tom Luongo saved me a lot of time by allowing me to wrap my head around the “Big Picture” in the Banking Wars.

    Makes much more sense after hearing Tom break it down into digestible bits. Kinda like when you cut little kids meat into smaller pieces for them ;>)

    I can work on the Doomstead listening to podcasts while cutting wood, etc instead of reading.

    The senior citizen equivalent of multi-tasking. ;>)

    A picture is worth a thousand words, a podcast is worth at least a hundred.

    The Ukraine Thing is merely a branch off the Banking War, which is the main course.

    The Multi-polar world seems to be Russia-China (maybe India) on one pole, the Fed & Wall St another and the Davos Mafia who control Empire of Lies political sphere, the White House, all of the State Dept, parts of the Pentagon, parts of US intelligence, and most of the MSMediawhores.

    1,2,3 poles

    Never thought I’d be rooting for the FED and Wall St mafias but they are the least worst at the moment.

    If the FED can crash the EU banking system first, the panic money will flee Eurotardistan into Treasury Direct and Wall St.

    Raising rates to 7%+ by the FED will recapitalize US pension funds, which are on life-support from years of zero bound interest rates.

    We’ll see.

    .

    #131970
    Doc Robinson
    Participant

    Regarding the Ohio train fire dioxin, The Guardian seems to be the only mainstream news source who didn’t get the memo to downplay it.

    Testing of the soil found dioxin levels of 700 ppt.
    The old EPA policy is for federal cleanup of residential areas with dioxin levels of 1,000 ppt.
    “But EPA scientists in 2010 put the cancer risk threshold for dioxins in residential soil at 3.7 ppt, and the [EPA] agency recommended lowering the federal cleanup trigger to 72 ppt. The Obama administration killed the proposed new triggers.

    “Meanwhile, many states will act on a cleanup at much lower levels than the EPA, including at 90 ppt in Michigan, and 50 ppt in California.
    Federal cleanup standards of 1,000 ppt apply in Ohio.

    Plan to test for dioxins near Ohio train derailment site is flawed, experts say
    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/24/ohio-train-derailment-dioxin-test-plan-flawed

    A plan to test for toxic dioxins near the site of a February train wreck in East Palestine, Ohio, is flawed and unlikely to find the dangerous substances, independent chemical pollution researchers in the US who reviewed the testing protocol told the Guardian.

    Initial soil testing already revealed dioxin levels hundreds of times above the threshold that Environmental Protection Agency scientists have found poses a cancer risk, but that sampling was limited in scope…

    In the previous round of testing, Indiana’s government checked several soil samples because it was storing contaminated soil from the Ohio derailment in its landfills.

    Regulators establish the toxicity of dioxins in a soil sample by calculating the “toxicity equivalence” of all dioxins in the soil compared with the most toxic dioxin compound, called 2,3,7,8 TCDD. East Palestine soil showed levels of “2,3,7,8 TCDD toxicity equivalence” of 700 parts per trillion (ppt).

    The contamination level at which the EPA will initiate cleanup action in residential areas is 1,000 ppt. But EPA scientists in 2010 put the cancer risk threshold for dioxins in residential soil at 3.7 ppt, and the agency recommended lowering the federal cleanup trigger to 72 ppt. The Obama administration killed the proposed new triggers.

    Meanwhile, many states will act on a cleanup at much lower levels than the EPA, including at 90 ppt in Michigan, and 50 ppt in California. Federal cleanup standards of 1,000 ppt apply in Ohio.

    Those who reviewed the dioxin testing plan said they could not speculate on why it was designed as is. But Schade noted Norfolk Southern “has a vested interest in not finding dioxin”…

    #131971
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Tom Luongo also said an interesting tidbit about Jerome Powell

    Eight generation Virginia aristocratic old family, a ‘real’ American

    Knew a lot of Virginia landed gentry in the olds days, they consider themselves to be the core of the founding fathers in US history and still believe they are guardians of that flame.

    #131972
    jb-hb
    Participant

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    #131974
    jb-hb
    Participant

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    #131975
    Mr. House
    Participant

    “Knew a lot of Virginia landed gentry in the olds days, they consider themselves to be the core of the founding fathers in US history and still believe they are guardians of that flame.”

    Good. Robert E Lee was probably one of the greatest americans to ever live. Sadly its now controversial to state these days.

    #131976
    Afewknowthetruth
    Participant

    The sick ‘ghost’ Blinken on the hook, blathering like an incoherent zombie.

    #131977
    Afewknowthetruth
    Participant

    France on fire: Macron versus the people.

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