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Edvard Munch Summer Night’s Dream. The Voice 1893

 

What Sparked D.C.’s Sudden, Dramatic Anti-China Shift? (Schachtel)
US Army Secretary: US Preparing to Win a War With China Over Taiwan (Antiwar)
Beijing To Fast-Track Taiwan ‘Reunification’ Plans After “Extraordinary” Year Of Tensions
US Rallying Allies For New China Sanctions (RT)
Ride Across the River (Schryver)
Europe Needs ‘NATO’ Without US – Orban (RT)
Orban Says Understands Putin’s Arguments, Rejects His Actions On Ukraine (TASS)
US Blocking Russia From Participating In Nord Stream Explosion Probe (TASS)
Putin Calls Attack By Ukrainian Militants In Bryansk Region ‘Act Of Terror’ (TASS)
Top FBI Officials Opposed Mar-a-Lago Raid – WaPo (Turley)
House Overwhelmingly Votes to Keep Syria Sanctions After Earthquake (Antiwar)
Twitter Received ‘State Sponsored Blacklists’ From US – Matt Taibbi (RT)
Musk’s Human Brain Experiments Rejected By US Regulator (RT)

 

 

 

 

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“..Sensing an imperial power in decline, China is increasingly challenging America’s status as the global hegemon..”

What Sparked D.C.’s Sudden, Dramatic Anti-China Shift? (Schachtel)

In recent days, select US government agencies have claimed, behind the shadow of classified reports, that they now believe a lab leak is to blame for the Covid-19 outbreak. It’s fascinating to observe this radical narrative departure from the not so distant past, when these very same people declared that blaming China for Covid was racist, xenophobic, and whatnot. On top of that, it seems that the new Congress is positioning itself only to investigate the gain of function versus lab leak scenarios, but not the origin of the information operations and very oddly timed coincidences that resulted in full blown Covid hysteria. They’re signaling that people like Fauci, Bill Gates, and Big Pharma are going to be let entirely off the hook, which is quite unfortunate.

Unsurprisingly, this is a signal that Congress is not very serious about the real origin story of Covid, and never will be. So what’s going on with all the China bashing? Previously, the Uniparty Standard was to do everything possible not to offend the Chinese Communist Party, and to even engage them as a potential partner on the climate hoax and other power grab campaigns. Now, suddenly, everyone in D.C. seems to agree that China can do no right. So what changed? Why take this action now, several years after the first reported outbreak in Wuhan, China? One possible explanation is China’s behavior concerning the war in Ukraine. Take into account that the D.C. Uniparty has already “invested” well over $100 billion in taxpayer funds into the Slava Slush Fund. Despite these “investments,” the regime in Kiev continues to find itself on increasing shaky ground, losing battle after battle in the conflict.

Ukraine is about to retreat from Bakhmut, once declared a “stronghold” city by Ukraine’s President Zelensky. When Zelensky went to Congress in December, he presented them with a flag from soldiers he said were fighting in Bakhmut. “The fight for Bakhmut will change the trajectory of our war for independence & freedom,” Zelensky said. Now, the fall of Bakhmut will serve as a massive strategic and moral failure for Kiev. Making matters exponentially worse for Ukraine is the possibility that China will take a more active role in this conflict. China is increasingly considering arming Russian forces, and it’s noticeably setting off alarm bells in Washington. China’s economy is ten times bigger than Russia’s, and counteracting the support coming in from D.C. would serve as a significant boost for an already progressing Russian military campaign.

On Tuesday, Secretary of State Tony Blinken demanded that China take this idea off the table. “We did very clearly warn China about the implications and consequences of going through with providing such support,” he said. “We will not hesitate, for example, to target Chinese companies or individuals that violate our sanctions, or otherwise engaged in supporting the Russian war effort.” And earlier Wednesday, the White House press secretary labeled TikTok a “potential national security risk,” opening the door to a ban of the social media platform. More broadly, the China quarrel is about much more than the D.C. Globalist American Empire’s once-unchecked campaigns concerning Ukraine. Sensing an imperial power in decline, China is increasingly challenging America’s status as the global hegemon, and they’re doing so on multiple fronts. Beijing is also turning up the heat on Taiwan, which is not very committed to its own self-defense.

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The crazies dug up a new hero from behind the woodwork: Christine Wormuth.

US Army Secretary: US Preparing to Win a War With China Over Taiwan (Antiwar)

sUS Army Secretary Christine Wormuth said this week that the US must prepare to win a future war with China over Taiwan by beefing up its military deployments in the region. “I personally am not of the view that an amphibious invasion of Taiwan is imminent,” Wormuth said at an American Enterprise Institute event, according to Voice of America. “But we obviously have to prepare, to be prepared to fight and win that war.” Wormuth’s plan would involve sending more troops and advanced weapons into the region, including hypersonic missiles. She said the buildup would be an effort to deter war with China, although Beijing has been increasing its military activity in the region in response to US actions. Wormuth laid out three ways the US Army would work to build up forces in the region.

First, by increasing cooperation with allies, which she said would “complicate” Beijing’s decision-making. Second, the Army will establish “theater distribution centers” to pre-position weapons and other supplies in the region. She listed Australia and Japan as two places where weapons could be staged and said non-lethal equipment might be stored in the Philippines and Singapore. The third aspect of the plan would be to place more visible combat forces in the region. “Our goal is to have Army forces in the Indo-Pacific seven to eight months out of the year,” Wormuth said. When war breaks out in the region, Wormuth said the Army’s role would be to establish “staging bases for the Navy, for the Marines, for the Air Force” and to “provide intra-theater sustainment” using the weapons stockpiles and watercraft. She said the US Army would also have a role to play in the American homeland.

“If we got into a major war with China, the United States homeland would be at risk as well, with both kinetic attacks and non-kinetic attacks. Whether it’s cyberattacks on the power grids, or on pipelines, the United States Army, I have no doubt, will be called to provide defense support to civil authorities,” she said. When asked if the American public could sustain the level of casualties that would come with a war with China, she said they could, just “like we did in World War II.” But both the US and China possess nuclear weapons, meaning a potential war could be catastrophic for the entire world. Wormuth is the latest US official to openly discuss the fact that the US is preparing for war with China. Earlier this year, a four-star Air Force general predicted the US will be at war with China within two years and ordered his forces to be prepared. “I hope I am wrong. My gut tells me will fight in 2025,” Gen. Mike Minihan, the head of Air Mobility Command, said of war with China in a leaked memo.

Wormuth
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US never recognized independent Taiwan.

Beijing To Fast-Track Taiwan ‘Reunification’ Plans After “Extraordinary” Year Of Tensions

Increased military interactions with the US, including ramped-up American naval sail-throughs and flyovers of the contested Taiwan Strait, appear to have hastened Beijing’s timeline for Taiwan “reunification”. A top Chinese lawmaker and adviser, National People’s Congress deputy Li Yihu, announced this week, “The [Communist] Party’s overall strategy for resolving the Taiwan issue in the new era has basically taken shape, and the strategic goals and focus of the future reunification cause have also become very clear.” He specified the process will be sped up, saying ahead of the annual National People’s Congress meeting which kicks off March 5 that “The mainland will promote national reunification on a fast development track.”

Notably this also comes after then House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s ultra-provocative visit to the self-ruled island in August, and further after multiple weapons packages have been announced by the Biden administration. Current Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is also said to be planning a Taiwan visit in the near future. Li Yihu specifically cited an “extraordinary” year for tensions in the region, as well as heightening global events and rivalries: “A series of new policies, including on Taiwan, are expected to be unveiled during the gathering, along with the defense budget and a government reshuffle. Comments made by NPC deputies such as Li can provide some insight into Beijing’s policymaking, which remains largely secretive. In the interview, Li – who is also dean of the Taiwan Research Institute at Peking University – said 2022 was an “extraordinary” year for cross-strait ties and that its major events would “have a certain impact on the future direction” of the relationship.”

Without doubt he also had in mind the Russia-Ukraine war, and the comparisons which some US officials as well has pundits have increasingly made between the Ukraine and Taiwan situations. Beijing has consistently rejected such comparisons, stressing that Taiwan is under Chinese sovereignty, also finding the idea that the situations are parallel to be an offensive. President Xi Jinping and his officials have long emphasized a Chinese plan of peaceful unification via political processes, also as the mainland has deep involvement with opposition movements and parties in Taipei. But it’s unclear whether Washington’s pushing past “red lines” have changed the calculus. Certainly we are witnessing the beginnings of a more assertive and aggressive Chinese posture vis-a-vis the Taiwan question.

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Two can play that game.

US Rallying Allies For New China Sanctions (RT)

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

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

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

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“Ukrainian tanks, armored vehicles, and artillery pieces have been reduced to a minute fraction of what they had a year ago plus what they have received..”

Ride Across the River (Schryver)

The following is a speculation; a flight of fancy, if you will. Beginning no later than the waning autumn of 2022, observers of the ongoing war in Ukraine have been anticipating a major Russian offensive to be launched. The extremely costly late summer Ukrainian “counter-offensives” in the Kharkov and Kherson regions had ground to a halt against impenetrable Russian defensive lines east of the Oskol River in the north and along the Dnieper River in the south. Meanwhile, the Russians executed a substantial mobilization which has added upwards of 400,000 thousand effectives to their forces. Contrary to almost-universal predictions that Russian armaments would have long-since been exhausted, and their economy crumbled under the weight of western sanctions, neither has occurred.

From a military standpoint, the Russians have adopted a resolute strategy of attrition, most exemplified by the relentless meat-grinder of Bakhmut, which has become not only the single largest battle of this war, but the bloodiest battle seen on the European continent since the Second World War. The Armed Forces of Ukraine are now a depleted shell. The tally of soldiers killed in action is almost certainly at least 150,000 – and very arguably in excess of 200,000, with the irretrievably wounded likely double the number of killed. The Ukrainian Air Force is a non-factor. Ukrainian tanks, armored vehicles, and artillery pieces have been reduced to a minute fraction of what they had a year ago plus what they have received from NATO since then. Ammunition shortages have become acute. The Ukrainians are quite literally groveling for more of everything from their NATO handlers. But the NATO armaments cupboard is now bare. And despite grandiose pledges of large new shipments of NATO equipment, the reality is proving to be a pale shadow of the promises.

Even so, the AFU manages to supply still-formidable garrisons of the “fortress cities” they constructed over the course of the years preceding the war. Despite the impending fall of the key strategic fortress of Bakhmut, several strongly fortified towns stand in the way of a successful Russian liberation of the remaining Ukrainian-occupied areas of Donetsk, Zaporozhye, and Kherson oblasts. I have previously considered that the logical Russian solution was to mass forces to launch “big arrow” offensives south from the general direction of Belgorod and north from the general direction of Zaporozhye; cut off Ukrainian supply lines, and then simply starve the Ukrainian fortress cities into submission. Something along those lines could very well still be the Russian plan. But these would be inherently risk-laden maneuvers. Big arrow moves necessarily mean exposed flanks and very long and highly vulnerable lines of communication.

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“.. the EU is serving the interests of the US at the expense of its own..”

Europe Needs ‘NATO’ Without US – Orban (RT)

Europe needs its own military bloc, one that’s free of American influence, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban told the Swiss Weltwoche weekly on Thursday. The US is dragging Europe into a conflict that cannot be won and risks a global war, he believes. “The solution would be a European NATO,” Orban said, adding that the US’ desire for further expansion of its influence is what has led to the tensions between the West and Russia. Moscow is concerned about NATO expanding further east into Ukraine and Georgia, Orban claimed, referring to his conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin just weeks before the ongoing conflict between Moscow and Kiev broke out in late February 2022.

“Putin told me his problem was with the American missile bases in Poland and Romania and possible NATO expansion in Ukraine and Georgia,” Orban told the Swiss media, noting that the Russian leader was concerned about the US potentially deploying its weapons to these nations as well. According to Orban, that was one of the underlying reasons behind the ongoing conflict in Ukraine. “I understand what Putin said. I do not accept what he did,” the Hungarian prime minister explained, referring to the Russian military operation in Ukraine. Orban insisted that Hungary should stay out of this conflict. He also said that Budapest was subjected to “constant pressure” as other Western nations “want to drag us into the war through every possible means.”

Orban believes that is because the EU is serving the interests of the US at the expense of its own. “Decisions made by Brussels reflect American interests more often than European ones,” he said. In his opinion, Western nations need to demonstrate a true “desire” and “will” for peace if they want it to be achieved in Ukraine. “That will is what is lacking today, at least in the West,” he said. Hungary has repeatedly called for peace amid the conflict between Moscow and Kiev, as well as criticized the Western sanctions imposed against Russia and arms deliveries to Ukraine. Earlier this week, Orban said that the ongoing hostilities benefitted no one in the world. Hungary was also the only NATO nation that supported China’s peace plan for Ukraine.

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“I understand what Putin said, but I reject what he did..”

Orban Says Understands Putin’s Arguments, Rejects His Actions On Ukraine (TASS)

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said that he understands Russian President Vladimir Putin’s arguments, but rejects his actions regarding Ukraine. Speaking in an interview for Switzerland’s Die Weltwoche, the Prime Minister also stated that the West must find a way to coexist with Russia peacefully regardless. Orban disclosed that he discussed international security issues, including the expansion of NATO, during a meeting with Putin in February, 2022. According to the Prime Minister, the Russian leader told him back then that “Hungary’s membership in NATO is not a problem, only Ukraine’s and Georgia’s.”


“Putin’s problem is the US missile bases, already created in Romania and Poland, as well as the potential expansion of NATO to Ukraine and Georgia, with subsequent deployment of weapons there. In addition, the Americans cancelled important disarmament treaties. This is why Putin could no longer sleep well at night,” Orban believes. “I understand what Putin said, but I reject what he did,” he added. He also opined that Russia views thing differently from the West, because “this is a different civilization.” However, “it matters not if the West likes it or not,” he said. He underscored that Western power must find a way to coexist peacefully with such a strong power as Russia.

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Well, obviously…

US Blocking Russia From Participating In Nord Stream Explosion Probe (TASS)

Moscow has no doubt that the United States is preventing Russia from participating in the probe into the explosions at the Nord Stream and Nord Stream 2 gas pipelines, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov told a press conference on Thursday. “We were not allowed to involve our experts in the investigation. Neither as participants in the probe, nor as experts, including from Gazprom. Undoubtedly, the United States is behind this,” he said. He also called on the US and its allies to stop obstructing negotiations on this topic. “We want to resolve this situation from a legal point of view. As far as I understand, there have been certain negotiations on this issue, and they will continue. I hope that all participants understand the need for such negotiations,” he added.


Ryabkov noted that those who are now investigating the explosions did not share any details with Moscow. “For months since the Nord Stream’s undermining, we have been trying to get some kind of explanation or reliable information from those who continue to conduct the probe. They have not shared the tiniest piece of information with us,” he said, stressing that Moscow continues to insist on an international investigation into the incidents. [..] At a meeting of G20 Foreign Ministers on March 2, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that Moscow will continue to seek a prompt and impartial investigation of sabotage at the gas pipelines. Moscow insists on its participation in this probe, he added. He noted that the call of the Russian Federation to reflect the need for a fair investigation into Nord Stream in the G20 declaration was ignored.

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“set out to deprive the Russian people of their historical memory, deprive us of our history, our traditions, and language..”

Putin Calls Attack By Ukrainian Militants In Bryansk Region ‘Act Of Terror’ (TASS)

The attack by Ukrainian saboteurs in the Bryansk Region bordering Ukraine is a terrorist act, Russian President Vladimir Putin said at a meeting with participants of the pilot educational program Mentor School. Soldiers and officers of the Russian Armed Forces are now courageously carrying out their duty, protecting Russia, Putin stressed. “Protecting against neo-Nazis and against terrorists such as those who were torturing and killing people in Donbass for eight years, such as those who murdered Darya Dugina in Moscow, such as those who today carried out another act of terror, committed another crime, infiltrated the border area and opened fire on civilians,” the president stressed.


The saboteurs were well aware that they were attacking a civilian car. “They saw it was a civilian car, saw that civilians and children were inside, that it was just a Niva car, but no, they opened fire on them,” Putin said. It is people like this who “set out to deprive the Russian people of their historical memory, deprive us of our history, our traditions, and language,” President Putin stressed.”This is violence, real crime, committed exactly by the neo-Nazis I’ve just mentioned, and by their masters. I’m sure that these very masters won’t remember today’s crime. No one will even pay heed to it,” Putin went on to say. “They won’t succeed, we will put the squeeze on them,” he vowed.

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It was personal.

Top FBI Officials Opposed Mar-a-Lago Raid – WaPo (Turley)

The Washington Post is reporting that there was a heated debate in the Justice Department over the decision to raid Mar-a-Lago in July 2022. The senior FBI agents objected that they believe that a consensual search was possible without the necessity of a raid. It was main Justice officials who overruled them and insisted on the raid. What is most striking about the account is that FBI agents were raising the very concerns that some of us voiced after the unprecedented raid on the home of a former president. The Post describes a “tense showdown” a week before the raid. Jay Bratt, Chief of the Counterintelligence and Export Control Section (CES) of the National Security Division, joined other Justice officials to demand a raid. He was accompanied to the FBI by Assistant Attorney General Matt Olsen as well as two counterintelligence officials, George Toscas and Alan E. Kohler Jr.

Toscas previously worked on the Crossfire Hurricane and Clinton email investigations. He reportedly pushed for a raid. The FBI pushed back hard, according to the Post. Steven M. D’Antuono, then the head of the FBI Washington field office was running the investigation and said that he considered the raid to be unnecessary and overkill. He wanted to arrange a consensual search. He reportedly even refused to conduct the raid without a direct order. D’Antuono wanted to reach out to Trump’s lawyer, Evan Corcoran, who is a former Justice Department prosecutor to arrange the search. Reportedly, the objections angered Bratt and the meeting became loud and heated. Notably, the article reports that D’Antuono “also questioned why the search would target presidential records as well as classified records, particularly because the May subpoena had only sought the latter.”

It quotes him as objecting “we are not the presidential records police.” Finally, D’Antuono reportedly demanded to know if Trump was officially the subject of the criminal investigation. As head of the FBI investigation, that was a telling question. Bratt reportedly replied “What does that matter?”[..] What is striking about the report is the preference, yet again, for the Justice Department to take the DEFCON 1 option over other alternatives in a matter involving Trump. If D’Antuono was allowed to seek a consensual search, any refusal would have largely blunted any later objections. Yet, the FBI General Counsel Jason Jones (who replaced the controversial James Baker at the Bureau) followed his predecessor’s more aggressive approach.

The report will only deepen the unease over how the Justice Department will handle the classified document controversy. Since the raid, President Joe Biden and former Vice President Michael Pence were both found to have classified material in their private homes. In the case of Biden, some of these documents go back over a decade to his time as a senator and were found in multiple locations from a university center office to his personal library to his garage. While special counsels are investigating Trump and Biden on the matters, the ultimate decision will rest with Attorney General Merrick Garland who must decide if prosecution is in the public interest. Few people want to see Biden, Pence, and Trump indicted. Indeed, the Justice Department maintains that it cannot indict a sitting president like Biden. To prosecute only Trump for such unlawful possession would cause a public uproar.

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“Only Reps. Thomas Massie (R-KY) and Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) voted against the measure..”

House Overwhelmingly Votes to Keep Syria Sanctions After Earthquake (Antiwar)

The House this week voted overwhelmingly in favor of a resolution to maintain sanctions on Syria following a devastating earthquake that has killed at least 5,900 people in the country, The Cradle reported on Wednesday. The resolution was introduced by Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC) and received 51 cosponsors. It passed in a vote of 414-2. Only Reps. Thomas Massie (R-KY) and Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) voted against the measure. The resolution calls for the Biden administration to remain committed to “implementing the Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act of 2019,” a law that imposed crippling sanctions on Syria that are designed to prevent the country from rebuilding after years of war.

The resolution said that the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was “falsely claiming” US sanctions impeded the aid response to the earthquake. But it’s a fact that US sanctions hurt the relief effort, something that has been detailed by the head of the Syrian Arab Red Crescent and UN experts. After initially claiming sanctions wouldn’t hurt the relief effort, the Biden administration issued a 180-day sanctions exemption for transactions related to earthquake relief. UN experts responded by welcoming the move but said it wasn’t enough and called for the sanctions to be fully lifted.

The House resolution said it “mourned” the victims of the earthquake and portrayed enforcing the Caesar Act as a way to “protect” the Syrian people. But even before the earthquake, US sanctions on Syria were having a devastating impact on the civilian population. Secretary of State Antony Blinken acknowledged in 2021 that it was US policy to “oppose the reconstruction of Syria,” and the policy hasn’t changed. Business Insider covered Greene and Massie voting against the resolution but completely mischaracterized the bill. The report said they voted against “mourning the 50,000 people killed in the deadly earthquakes in Turkey and Syria” and made no mention of the fact that it supported maintaining crushing sanctions on Syria.

The Biden administration has said it’s against regional countries upgrading ties with the Assad government, even if it’s part of an effort to aid in earthquake relief. On top of the sanctions and opposing Syria’s engagement with its neighbors, the US maintains an occupation force of about 900 troops in eastern Syria and backs the Kurdish-led SDF in the region, allowing the US to control about one-third of Syrian territory. The area the US controls is where most of the country’s oil resources are, keeping the vital resource out of the hands of Damascus.

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“..Yoel Roth, was approached in 2021 and given a list of 40,000 accounts suspected of engaging in “inauthentic behavior” in support of India’s Bharatiya Janata Party.”

Twitter Received ‘State Sponsored Blacklists’ From US – Matt Taibbi (RT)

The US State Department, both directly and through third-party organizations, pressed Twitter to censor American users for their non-existent connections to Russia, China, and Hindu nationalism, according to internal documents. Published by journalist Matt Taibbi on Thursday, the latest ‘Twitter Files’ reveal that Twitter’s former trust and safety chief, Yoel Roth, was approached in 2021 and given a list of 40,000 accounts suspected of engaging in “inauthentic behavior” in support of India’s Bharatiya Janata Party. The list was provided by the ‘Digital Forensics Research Lab’ at the Atlantic Council, a think tank funded by the US State Department’s ‘Global Engagement Center’ (GEC), as well as a host of NATO governments and weapons manufacturers.

According to the files, Roth investigated the list and found that “virtually all appear to be real people” rather than Indian bots, while Taibbi contacted several and learned that they were “ordinary Americans” with no connection whatsoever to Indian politics. Created in the final year of the Obama administration, the GEC is a State Department entity that works with multiple US intelligence agencies to “counter foreign disinformation.” It is forbidden from operating within the United States, and recently had to cut its ties with a George Soros-backed NGO that was using its funding to target American conservative news sites.

While the list of supposed Hindu nationalists was given to Twitter via the Atlantic Council, the GEC directly passed other lists to the social media platform, including 500 accounts that were allegedly spreading Iranian “disinformation,” and 5,500 “Chinese accounts” engaged in “state-backed coordinated manipulation,” despite the fact that this latter list included multiple Western government accounts and at least three CNN employees. Roth described the Chinese list as “a total crock,” while fellow employee Aaron Rodericks said it provided “more entertainment value than anything.” The GEC and its organizations tangentially connected to the State Department – such as the infamous ‘Alliance for Securing Democracy’ that published the ‘Hamilton68’ dashboard of “Russian bots” – had long pressed Twitter to crack down on allegedly Kremlin-connected accounts, but Roth told staff that it was impossible to detect “Russian fingerprints” on any of the accounts.

Instead, accounts that retweeted “news sources linked to Russia” were considered Kremlin-sponsored. One list handed to Twitter by the GEC considered membership in France’s anti-government ‘Yellow Vests’ movement as “being Russia-aligned.” While Twitter’s executives may have been skeptical of the GEC’s ‘blacklists’, the US media was not. Emails show that multiple news outlets and agencies – including the Associated Press – would receive reports from the organization, and then press Twitter to take action and ban the listed accounts. “Reauthorization for GEC’s funding is up for a vote this year,” Taibbi wrote on Twitter on Thursday. “Can we at least stop paying to blacklist ourselves?”

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Would you volunteer?

Musk’s Human Brain Experiments Rejected By US Regulator (RT)

The US Food and Drug Administration has rejected clinical trials of billionaire Elon Musk’s Neuralink brain implant, seven current and former employees told Reuters on Thursday. The regulator cited multiple safety concerns the company must address before human testing can begin – a milestone they had hoped to reach this month. The FDA cited dozens of “deficiencies” barring the way to human trials when it rejected Neuralink last year, the employees explained. Dozens of pigs have already been pressed into experimental service in order to address the agency’s concern that the tiny threads that interface with the wearer’s brain could migrate, altering brain and implant functionality, causing inflammation, rupturing blood vessels and otherwise damaging the fragile tissue, employees said.

The FDA is also reportedly concerned about whether Neuralink can be removed without causing damage – an issue the employees claimed has not been adequately addressed, despite the company’s assurances. Just like the lithium-ion batteries that power Musk’s Tesla electric vehicles, which burn for hours at 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit if hit the wrong way, Neuralink’s lithium batteries could cause brain damage if they so much as overheat, experts told Reuters. The FDA wants Neuralink to prove with animal studies that the remotely-chargeable battery is “very unlikely” to fail. Displeased with the regulatory red-light, Musk has reportedly rushed the animal experiments in an attempt to address the FDA’s safety concerns. As a result, the Department of Agriculture is looking into potential violations of the Animal Welfare Act after alarms have been raised about the treatment of the animals.

Meanwhile, the Department of Transportation is investigating whether Neuralink correctly followed safety procedures when disposing of chips removed from animal brains. The Tesla tycoon has previously boasted that Neuralink is so safe he’d implant it in his own children, claimed it would restore total mobility to the paralyzed, and bragged that users would eventually “be able to save and replay memories.” However, Neuralink’s Vice President of engineering Dongjin Seo told a conference last month that its “primary short-term goal” was merely to help paralyzed patients use computerized text to communicate. Anything else, he said, was “long-term.” Despite the company’s recent projection of March 7, 2023 as the day the FDA would approve human trials, employees told Reuters there were no regulatory approvals looming on the horizon.

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Yes, the sphinx has a tail. A large one.

 

 

When it is in repose the Pterochroza ocellata (or peacock katydid) camouflage resembles a dead leaf. But in its startle display, it shows false eye spots on its normally hidden hind wings

 

 

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    Edvard Munch Summer Night’s Dream. The Voice 1893   • What Sparked D.C.’s Sudden, Dramatic Anti-China Shift? (Schachtel) • US Army Secretary: US
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle March 3 2023]

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    Redneck
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    Russia’s crimes against humanity . Twenty million enslaved , one in every six imprisoned and enslaved , no body has ever been held responsible. The height of this crime was reached in 1950.Putin served in the Secret police that executed this crime of monstrous proportions.

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    This is exactly where society is right now. “Let the bodies hit the floor!” https://twitter.com/i/status/1630981589772402699

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    TVASF

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    Germ
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    it’s all an “accident ” – says Spartacus

    https://iceni.substack.com/p/spartacast-08?publication_id=766426&play_audio=true#details

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    What I’m interested in with Orban is ….

    “ Well, what would YOU do in V Putin’s shoes sir ? “

    #130359
    Dr. D
    Participant

    “Sweden Increases Money Offered To Migrants To Voluntarily Go Home”

    They already did this. But they have no wall and no punishment, so they used it as a free vacation to see Mom. Thanks! I’m sure Swedes would like free travel and time off to see their own families.

    “California’s Years-Long Drought Eases As Mother Nature Fills Reservoirs”

    No! It can’t be! I’m so sad!

    Suspected Poison Gas Attacks On Iranian Girls’ Schools Have Made Hundreds Sick”

    Oh wait: that was Ohio, and it was ten-thousands. It’s not dying when we do it!

    40% Death and doubled miscarriage and death in Singapore. Yet it never matters. Nothing ever happens. No jobs appear either, even as everyone is disabled.

    Is this the real Boris Johnson?

    Candace “thinks we’re going to just keep hiding this from the public”. They are. And the people love it.

    “China’s economy is ten times bigger than Russia’s, and counteracting the support coming in from D.C. would serve as a significant boost”

    I can’t say why, but they are finally realizing that, you know, makin’ stuff is required for war. With energy. And therefore the industrial base – or better, the industrial base and surge capacity useful for war — is all that matters. And with that, China is 3x the U.S. Not to mention everything else is a wreck, including our railroads which we’ve been saying for 30 years. THAT’S ecology — Getting the railroads running. You’d save more there than a score of solar farms. We have specifically and purposefully NOT, against all Green influence anyone brought to bear. Which shows Green has zero real power and is a morbid skin-suit for other, quite evil, profit centers.

    Russia also has surge capacity. Going back, their factories were set up to be enormous, endless, subsidized, expressly TO retain the capacity to be re-directed to war. Like ours used to be, and are all those crumbling buildings you see in photos from coast to coast. But now we’re going to fight China? Not without mowing the lawn on those factories first we’re not! So it’s not serious, nothing is serious, it’s all a lie.

    ““We will not hesitate, for example, to target Chinese companies or individuals that violate our sanctions,”

    Totally in favor. Like Russia, nothing will make the United States collapse faster than putting sanctions on people who actually do and make things.

    “US Army Secretary: US Preparing to Win a War With China Over Taiwan “

    They’ve mistaken bass boats for PTs and thought that the “Dollar General” was a military force. That’s how we’ll have material to fight them. Because otherwise, we’d better stay home. But! This is The Plan™. “The Plan is our Master!” They need an official war with China so we can lose and scrap the Constitution and China can make an official beachhead by handing over WA, OR, and CA like Podesta said. It’s going pretty well. As you can see, all Congress is on board.

    It must be hard to find all these soulless woman maniacs. I hear they’re about 10x less common than the males.

    Well, you saw from my far-out scenario, this would all make sense if Deagle had been correct and we were both sick, dead, and “emotionally and spiritually exhausted.” Then China taking over as a step toward world government would make perfect sense. As it is, these plans seem air-dropped from Mars, have no relevance and make no d—d sense at all. And also won’t work even a bit, although they sure are making a mess and killing everybody.

    ““Ukrainian tanks, armored vehicles, and artillery pieces have been reduced to a minute fraction of what they had a year ago plus what they have received..”

    We had to put up with and waste time for three months now talking about 10 tanks. Ukraine started with TWO THOUSAND tanks. Not all working, but you get the idea.

    “added upwards of 400,000 thousand effectives to their forces”

    They are now using Lira’s number, as the official was what? 200K activated?

    “the AFU manages to supply still-formidable garrisons of the “fortress cities” they constructed over the course of the years preceding the war.”

    Thus why they are the poorest, most miserable, most corrupt nation in Europe. As Eisenhower said, those Fortress Cities are taken directly from the mouths of the people who can’t keep roofs on their houses. Just like in Ohio, a desperate, impoverished third-world s–thole. Thanks Lockheed!

    “… the EU is serving the interests of the US at the expense of its own..”

    What interest is it for the U.S. to divide Russia? We can’t import their gas. Stealing the resources and killing the people is for the benefit of Europe.

    There’s an economic and currency side to this, so I’ll just add we’ve heard again rumors that BlackRock is bankrupt. As is BlackStone, the major R.E. fund who defaulted on a $500M BOND this week. If you default on bonds, you are bankrupt. …Well, if you were in a world with Capitalism, but we no longer are and haven’t been in decades. In addition, Citi and Morgan are also bankrupt, along with several others including Credit Suisse but probably including BNP Paribas.

    But that’s been six months. It doesn’t matter. Nothing happens. Nothing ever happens because after you lash all the banks together in a ‘too big to fail’ you then merge the GOVERNMENT to the Banks and all corporations, so that any bankruptcy, no matter how small, Applebee’s or something, then takes down the whole country and then the Western world.

    So that’s why bankruptcies don’t matter, and therefore to some extent, don’t exist: raw fascism. But it will help explain what Congress, Yellen, Fed, think they’re doing.

    “US Blocking Russia From Participating In Nord Stream Explosion Probe (TASS) “

    Stop all investigation and all discussion: “it’s what innocent people DO.”

    • Putin Calls Attack By Ukrainian Militants In Bryansk Region ‘Act of Terror’ (TASS)”

    No: words have meanings: it is an act of war. In a war, you might have noticed. Since it is civilians it is probably also a war crime, but…

    The FBI pushed back hard, according to the Post.”

    Then folded like a cheap suit and gave them a hand job. They have means: did they call the Supreme Court? No? You didn’t try at all then.

    House Overwhelmingly Votes to Keep Syria Sanctions after Earthquake (Antiwar)”

    Mass murderers in chief. Or they wouldn’t be there. “We must stop all these countries that illegally invade and steal 1/3rd of a nation then commit war crimes against civilians.” Oh wait: that’s us in Syria. And 5 other countries.

    Anyone remember ye Olde Benghazi where a NON-embassy, CIA safehouse that was collecting weapons by the shipload and sending them to Syria to fund open cannibals in ISIS? Then when the handler got cold feet on Hillary and was going to leak it, that gay man was murdered in public while the while U.S. military was ordered to stand down and watch? That wasn’t us, was it? I’m sure that must have been Russia.

    So…what was our act of war in Syria? We’ve been killing civilians there since 2011, surely you got around to passing one as required by our Constitution and Federal Law. Syria was about to invade New Jersey or something. Am I wrong on this?

    The list was provided by the ‘Digital Forensics Research Lab’ at the Atlantic Council, a think tank funded by the US State Department”

    Ditto. Hey, aren’t they breaking the very FIRST Federal Law? Ever? It’s almost like you can’t trust them and they don’t follow the law around here.

    Government blames Twitter, but as Roth is to the Left of Mao, he STILL opposed the government’s attempts at universal censorship of all things. Tell me again how this is Twitter’s fault? Directly illegal, directly imprisonable, direct, open, proven crimes against all Human Rights.

    Boy we should really pay ANOTHER government to hold THIS government to account. Amirite? World government, even bigger and further away here we come.

    “The Tesla tycoon has previously boasted that Neuralink is so safe he’d implant it in his own children”

    I believe him. Glad I’m not his kids. “It puts on the lotion or it gets the lithium fire again…”

    #130360
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Redneck. Okaaaaay. I say it all the time. You did notice that government collapsed and vanished 35 years ago, right? Like, you noticed you’re not living under an aboriginal tribal council? That government fell and was replaced with another one called “Australia”.

    #130362
    Polemos
    Participant

    Being a police officer taught me that many people, being unused to high stress or tense or chaotic situations, will take the “fright” option and lock down, go tharn (lapine), or whirl inside with all the confusions and indecisions their imaginative minds pursue in a very short span. As the tiktoker is saying, she was spending that time thinking and pondering what many do: “What do I do?”

    What I also learned is this. People who commit crimes regularly, people who fought in active combat, people who suffered traumatic abuse and formed disassociative habits/practices, they know what they can do, will do and do do. And, of course, people who work as “first responders” learn how to overcome the ordinary and instinctual paralysis of the sudden shock. I kinda think it’s itself a form of trauma to teach children this way, but soft forms occur through rough play, competitive sports, tree climbing, and running in traffic. Either way, adrenaline and unknowing a person can learn to move through, get past, with training and exposure. Because a lot of normies don’t live dangerous lives or live close to crime, they don’t have the exposure to learn from.

    You also learn many don’t do anything because they are habituated to watch and take amusement in the situation, and the versatility in having a portable movie studio and broadcasting device in the palm of one’s hand encourages this. For example, you might even say constantly posting links to the same situations, calling attention to the multiple car wrecks at multiple intersections like YouTube videos some twenty minutes long, is part of this phenomenon. It’s not “bystanding” in fear as much as it is a way of becoming a part of a larger entertainment and self-publishing social approach. It’s not documentary, not journalism, not social analysis. It is standing on the shore, watching the ship wreck, and marveling at one’s own life, one’s own fate, one’s own joy or horror, in being the person who gets to watch without suffering. Maybe it’s a way of coping with inability to change things, maybe it’s schadenfreude, maybe it’s an automatic unthinking habit, but lots of ordinary people stand around and use all the power in the palm of their hand to record, hyperlink, lather, rinse and repeat. Lots of ordinary, everyday people.

    #130363
    EoinW
    Participant

    @Redneck

    The majority of those crimes were committed by Trotsky(an Odessa Jew) Stalin(a Georgian) and Khrushev(an Ukrainian) who wiped out the Kulaks for Stalin. Lenin was the only Russian in the whole bunch! He’d lived most of his adult life in Switzerland.

    Let’s blame the Russians for mass murder anyway!

    A bit like today. The American government commits crimes against humanity but the Russians get blamed for it.

    #130364
    EoinW
    Participant

    I wonder if 21st century western society will ever produce a personality like Lee Trevino again. But every golfing fan LOVES Phil!

    #130365
    Oroboros
    Participant

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    #130366
    Germ
    Participant

    The young are getting whacked!

    Imagine if just a handful of these deaths were from gunshot wounds….
    Imagine the outcry and outrage…
    But when murder takes place in silence, from the syringe of a credentialed and certified doctor…
    There’s not a sound…

    TVASF

    #130367
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Editors Error correction:

    Ukraine’s crimes against humanity . Twenty million enslaved, one in every six imprisoned and enslaved , no body has ever been held responsible. The height of this crime was reached in 2014. Zelensky served in the Secret police that executed this crime of monstrous proportions.

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    #130368
    Germ
    Participant

    #130369
    Germ
    Participant

    Bonuses for jabbing kids…
    What can one possibly say?

    TVASF

    #130370
    Germ
    Participant


    TVASF

    #130371
    Germ
    Participant
    #130372
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Man In Critical Condition After Hearing Slightly Differing Viewpoint “ –BBee

    Actually, that sounds like the U.S. prison system. 99% Federal conviction rate, neatly eclipsing Hitler’s and Stalin’s. And they didn’t believe it could be done. As we’ve seen, they don’t need evidence: the FBI’ll just make it up for you!

    20% of the whole world’s prisoners! We’re #1! Man it’s good to be free.

    https://www.prisonpolicy.org/profiles/US.html

    #130373
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Laundering the Empire of Lies® ‘weapons’ for Ukronaziland® is a very lucrative grift.

    Recycling ‘money’ to Nazilensky with weapons sales is an old racket but works especially well with the new coat of paint that Dark Web Ebay Weapons® provides.

    There’s so much military Bling on sale it’s driving the asking price down on many items.

    Drug cartels are stocking up and upgrading their arsenals. Now run of the mill hoodlums can buy Manpads to extort with.

    “Nice airliner you have there, it would be a shame if it accidentally dropped out of the sky.”

    You get the drift

    The Russians have even put bounties on capturing Leopard II tanks that are so high, the Ukronazis can just sell the tank to a Russian infantry grunt for a quick slice of the prize money. No need to shed any blood, it’s just a business transaction, everyone can be a winner, except Cookies Nuland and her hair sniffing gigolo President Pedo.

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    #130374
    Germ
    Participant

    Offered to those here who enjoy Fabio Vighi.
    Some very good points:

    #130375
    tboc
    Participant

    Polemos – “You also learn many don’t do anything because they are habituated to watch and take amusement in the situation,…” a clear eyed observation – good on ya

    #130376
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    If a hostile action is taken against your best interests (or perhaps against you specifically) it is fully logical to conclude (not assume) that you were the INTENDED target and that the perpetrator considers (rightly or wrongly) you to be an actual enemy and as very much NOT THEM in any meaningful way.

    Take the FBI and all of the other other sprawling US Government institutions like DoD, CDC and CIA for examples. They do not see you as being on their side in any way whatsoever. Their actions prove it pretty conclusively, dontcha think? Do you see them doing any of those nasty things to THEMSELVES? Consider for a moment whether or not ANY of the recent shit (Covid, Vax, Ukraine, rigged election, etc.) could have possibly gone down in such total slick and timely lockstep if ANYBODY with significant official power was in charge of ANY of the sanctified governments and NGOs thought of you as being one of their own, or a full-on member of that club that George Carlin was telling you about.

    But they DON’T see it that way, see? That’s why they’re sending your money to Ukraine, your food to New Palestine, and your family to the morgue.

    Get it?

    You can scream out the question of, “But WHY?” from the rooftops until you are hoarse, but it might be a better idea to stop that murder thing first, and then sort out the “why” thing afterwards.

    Besides, you already know “Why?” Ya just don’t wanna face who’s playing the music. Evil personified is a scary guy.

    #130377
    Germ
    Participant

    Spotted on a Shopping Centre Toilet door….

    TVASF

    #130378
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Sin Eaters

    An odd take on the whole ‘Karma’ misunderstanding thing.

    Mourning families hired Sin Eaters® to “consume” their loved ones’ unconfessed sins by eating a meal they had placed on the chest of the corpse.

    When Nazilensky is finally choreographically martyred as a last PR sacrifice stunt to the Satanic Cult of Neocons, he will need a extra jumbo Sin Eaters®

    Wait for it

    Yes, Jabba the Hut

    He’s warming up in the wings for his little Nazilensky toin the near future croak.

    .

    Don’t worry, Jabba will be gentle

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    #130379
    zerosum
    Participant

    Who, the liars, the rich and the powerful, you will fight & die for in Ukraine.
    You will be an ignorant mercenary.
    (Its not for independence &freedom & democracy.)

    https://ukraineinvest.gov.ua/analytics-research-2/overview-of-the-regions/
    ————
    After the bombing war, there is nothing left.
    Who & Why destroy Taiwan?
    —–
    blacklisted – ignorant mercenary
    • Twitter Received ‘State Sponsored Blacklists’ From US – Matt Taibbi (RT)
    While Twitter’s executives may have been skeptical of the GEC’s ‘blacklists’, the US media was not. Emails show that multiple news outlets and agencies – including the Associated Press – would receive reports from the organization, and then press Twitter to take action and ban the listed accounts.
    ———-
    Repeat – a teaching/learning tool
    Nothing will make the United States collapse faster than putting sanctions on people who actually do and make things for the USA
    —————-
    Bankruptcies don’t matter, except for the thousands of people laid off.
    ———

    #130380
    Germ
    Participant

    Dropping like flies in Singapore – 90% death vaxxed in 2021:

    Singapore’s 2022 Deaths – Highest Record in 62 years

    https://pharmafiles.substack.com/p/singapores-2022-deaths-highest-record

    ☠️☠️☠️

    TVASF

    #130381
    Germ
    Participant

    Just wait ’till those amyloid plaques and misfolded proteins begin forming in the brains of the death vaxxed.
    Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease all around us – Oh, it’s coming.

    Solid lipid nanoparticles as vehicles of drugs to the brain: Current state of the art
    European Journal of Pharmaceutics and Biopharmaceutics

    https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0939641114001532

    Ensuring that the mRNA coding for the spike gets to the brain is considered an “art” – what a hoot !!

    TVASF

    #130382
    Oroboros
    Participant

    “Mon amour, my little Nazilensky, don’t worry, even though you’re going to Hell, I will be there for you.”

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    #130383
    Germ
    Participant

    “How do the approximately 70 percent of vaxxed-up Americans deal with this reality? Many, of course, are noticing vaxxed family members, friends, colleagues, sports figures, acquaintances getting sick and dying of sudden heart failure, strokes, aggressive cancers, strange neurological problems, and other mystifying syndromes. The aggregate reaction so far seems to be a numb despair. But then, the still-living vaxxed also have to contend with the anxiety over what is going on in their own bodies.”

    We’ll Soon Find Out

    TVASF

    #130384
    phoenixvoice
    Participant

    @ germ – thx for Twitter post about bystander effect.

    #130385
    Dr D Rich
    Participant

    @Pollemos

    Then there’s the entire Uvalde Police Department that was conditioned to do what exactly… exert their control over the situation, look official, carry firearms, piss their underwear, soil their pants, keep vested parents at bay, and ensure they’re the only witnesses in the aftermath.

    I submit that dissociative identity disorder, psychogenic fugue, PTSD, anxiety disorder, sociopathy, psychopathy and PTSD all have age-dependent antecedents.
    Placing a child under age 7 in circumstances where they encounter the genuine prospect of impending death has no redeeming value.
    Psychopathic indifference and lack of empathy look like “talent” in doctors, nurses, soldiers, SEALs, marines and EMTs.
    Most glib public orators possess no capacity for performance under the pressure of bonafide public emergency.
    Even the most highly trained experienced athlete like Aaron Rodgers or Josh Allen have a ceiling where they crumble in the moment that Tom Brady seems impervious.

    Others like Dave Tam Jr, Kathryn Wilson, Frank Crespo, Don Arthur, Anthony Fauci, Rochelle Walensky, Joe Biden and Donald Trump hide in plain view.

    #130386
    phoenixvoice
    Participant

    I found in my own life that while trauma could train me to rush into a course of action in the short term, that in the long term it was more difficult to focus generally, that I was anticipating the next traumatic event during times of calm, unable to let go of the hypervigilance. It has taken years to get beyond this, years of “being kind to myself.”

    In the goldfish story it isn’t just trauma or being an adrenaline junky that may have caused the girl to act. It can also be as simple as having a strong sense of self, of one’s own values, or an adherence to a moral code which is seen by the individual as superseding the classroom. (I.e., God doesn’t approve of this, no matter what the teacher says.)

    #130387
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Where is Ze’s other hand?

    “Highest Traffic Accidents in Washington State in 30 years”

    Now what could possibly have happened???

    Can you really say that “Russia” didn’t do those things, but as a sort of foreign occupation? Well we have the same problem here in America, and I suspect in Australia too. It’s not “America” or “Americans” that bombed every nation on earth and toppled 100 democratically elected governments in 100 years? No. We did that. Sort of. It’s a foreign parasite too, or a tiny minority that’s against us as much as “them”.

    Same with Russia. Did “They” do it? Can you say they didn’t? Meh. No, mostly they did. I understand the deeper argument though. Besides what is a “Ukrainian” or “Georgian” or whatever? You’re going say Stalin isn’t Russian and never represented Russia? Not really, no, it doesn’t make sense to say that anymore than GWB or FDR both of which promised peace just like Ze did.

    And the ability, the inertia of what a nation or national character does or is capable of doesn’t disappear overnight. Or with us. Or Oz. But what’s the difference? They behaved the same way as all nations that have ever gained such limitless power: badly. Right now Oz has open-air concentration camps and is finishing the genocide of the original peoples. The U.S. is applauding a Chernobyl while giving $150B to start a nuclear world war. That doesn’t reflect well on us either, but we’ll collapse and it’ll pass when the power does. Then China can misbehave in their turn.

    I guess the question is: can be take lessons from it, and what happens, what’s going on now?

    #130388
    jb-hb
    Participant

    The other day, Afewknowthetruth asked

    What’s so great about civilization?

    As I told him before, the great thing about Civilization is that it maintains about 1,000 or so spent nuclear fuel cooling pools.

    If civilization has a Fast Crash, a Slow Crash, or just degrades enough, then it will not be able to maintain those pools. When not maintained, they boil off the water, then ignite, cooking up globally lethal amounts of radiation into the atmosphere.

    ONE failed pool full of tens of thousands of rods is arguably enough to kill the entire planet, but these facilities typically have multiple pools. ONE pool cooking up will make the other 5 non-maintainable. Non-approachable. They’ll cook up as well.

    Typically a country using nuclear power has more than one plant. When a region becomes sufficiently radiation-poisoned, multiple cooling facilities each possessing multiple pools, each containing tens of thousands of nuclear fuel rods, will become non-maintainable.

    Yes, we get it that Structures™ are Oppressive™. We get it.

    We get that, via re-branding, those structures can be Patriarchy™, Whiteness™, Capitalism™, Climate™, Civilization™, or anything really. The main thing is that we Criticize™ ie be relentlessly corrosive towards Structures™. It isn’t exciting secret knowledge, it’s boring repetitive claptrap.

    But if you successfully corrode the structure of Civilization, EVERYTHING dies horribly. Including all you Critical Theory Warriors. Bleeding from every orifice, your bodies turning horribly painfully to mush, your ENVIRONMENT, your CLIMATE™ turning to dead brown mush.

    And you KEEP GOING. Looking into the abyss, you keep going into it. The Biosphere, The Planet, etc means nothing, actually. Maximum human suffering and death – as a punishment? as a goal in its own right? – is paramount above truly anything.

    No, the most merciful thing isn’t actually 8 billion people dying, with the 1,000 spent nuclear fuel pools cooking up and killing absolutely everything. No, if you care about The Biosphere, The Climate, The Planet, then you want Civilization more than anything ever in your life.

    Isn’t it interesting how a variety of people – Naomi Wolf, for example – have started to describe the overall trends & forces of our time as satanic, demonic? Myself as well. What business does an ivy league educated feminist liberal woman have explaining the current trends as demonic in origin?

    Whenever I do a back & forth with someone dedicated to the current Corrosiveness Of Everything, closet neo-marxism, whatever, at bedrock, it always turns out to be a hatred for human consciousness and objective reality. Those joined-at-the-hip basic things.

    And what can you call that? All that exists and that which can apprehend it to give it meaning? Existence? Creation? I reject God and all his works? All-encompassingly? Nothing else fits the bill as an easy thumbnail-reference. Demonic.

    The difference between the psychotic and the neurotic is that the neurotic KNOWS that 2+2 = 4, they just can’t STAND that it does. And we must deconstruct, “criticize” math, that description of the music of the spheres, the deep dive into every flower petal and beehive. Coincidence, right?

    WHY do you look straight into the abyss and keep going? You KNOW 2+2=4. What are you counting on? (what are they ALL counting on?)

    This stuff is BAD for you. That was its only purpose all along. Think about it please.

    #130389
    Oroboros
    Participant

    “Highest Traffic Accidents in Washington State in 30 years”

    Ed Dowd is doing a great job sniffing out the vax stats in all the right places.

    But traffic accidents, in specific ‘fender benders’, will show up in auto body shop stats.

    I have not seen anyone post auto body shop stats & profits.

    This is where ‘micro-strokes’ show their pointed little heads.

    Small lapses of situational awareness, boom, crunch.

    The spectacular lethal car accidents are one thing, but the more telling insidious vax injuries will pop up in the auto body franchise chain bottom lines.

    Business is booming (bad pun)

    I imagine if we all put our think caps on we can spot the low level vax damage in some interesting nooks and crannies.

    Kinda like Where Waldo? but for glaring vax damage trends.

    An up-tic in the sale of walking canes? Balance off a little there sport?

    People falling off bicycles?

    Falling down stairs like Slinkies?

    I’m finally seeing people I know locally getting strokes in their 40’s and 50’s with no family history of strokes.

    Like I’ve known this people for years, all in relatively good health, all enthusiastically vaxed.

    The Shoe is dropping

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    #130390
    kultsommer
    Participant

    I say it all the time. You did notice that government (system) collapsed and vanished 35 years ago, right?

    There.
    You said it.

    #130391
    zerosum
    Participant

    TVASF
    You’re not vaxed.
    Therefore, you expect to be the survivor of your circle of life.
    Prepare, now, to improve your lifestyle.
    Make sure that you are named in all the wills as the final survivor/inheritor/administrator of all the assets.

    #130392
    jb-hb
    Participant

    TVASF

    Prepare for what lengths you may need to go to for the sake of compassion. What tests loom on the horizon.

    If things are as bad as they are starting to look, the world is going to be one big hospice.

    A major reason I didn’t take the injection. Because my wife did and someone must care for her if worst comes to worst. If we’re both #$*ed, that makes the nightmare 1000x worse.

    And then that extends out to our human family. Who will care for the injected if all are injected?

    I listed that as an argument in my request for a waiver to my employer, to no avail. Dudes, I am doing this FOR YOU. You’re fired.

    #130393
    Germ
    Participant

    @ zerosum

    “The Unvaxxed shall inherit The Earth, and all its vaporizing fuel rods”

    TVASF

    #130394
    those darned kids
    Participant
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