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Nicolai Dubovskov Hushing (Calm Before the Storm) 1890

 

NATO Contingent May Be Deployed To Ukraine After Vilnius Summit (TASS)
French General Forecasts Failure Of Ukrainian Counteroffensive (TASS)
White House Issues NATO Warning To Ukraine (RT)
The CIA’s Blind Spot about the Ukraine War (Arkin)
Kremlin Wars Of ‘High Threat’ Of Nuclear Sabotage By Ukraine (RT)
Russians Increasingly Believe West Wants To Destroy Their Country (Timofeev)
Medvedev Names How Ukraine Conflict Could ‘End In Days’ (RT)
China Doubted We Shot Down Hypersonic Missiles – Kiev (RT)
Kremlin Denies Media Report That Xi Warned Putin Not To Nuke Ukraine (RT)
Germany Concerned About Western Escalations in Ukraine (LI)
Federal Judge Rules Against Biden Admin Attack on Free Speech (Ramos)
China Warns Chipmaking Export Curbs ‘Just The Beginning’ (RT)
Culprit Who Brought Cocaine to White House May Never Be ID’d (Sp.)

 

 

 

 

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“..NATO countries “will find in the days remaining before the summit the wording that will not disappoint Ukraine..”

NATO Contingent May Be Deployed To Ukraine After Vilnius Summit (TASS)

A NATO contingent may be deployed to Ukraine after the alliance’s summit due to be held in Vilnius on July 11-12, Vladimir Rogov, leader of the We Are Together With Russia movement, told TASS on Thursday. Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda said earlier that Ukraine would not receive an invitation to join the alliance at the summit in Vilnius, but NATO countries “will find in the days remaining before the summit the wording that will not disappoint Ukraine” and it would not be a mere pledge to admit it to the bloc after the combat operations are over.

“Zelensky’s plans include a nuclear false flag attack to try to push through a NATO summit decision to deploy a limited contingent of occupational forces from Poland and the Baltic republics. It will be the legalization of the occupation in a format of ensuring nuclear security on the territory controlled by the Zelensky regime. Such a formula is being looked at the [Ukrainian] presidential office,” Rogov said. As for territories where such a contingent can be deployed to, Rogov noted that Poland is interested in Western Ukrainian regions. Ahead of the NATO summit, Kiev has intensified rhetoric about its striving to join NATO. However, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has said that Ukraine cannot join the alliance as long as it is in a state of an armed conflict.

According to the NATO chief, the Vilnius summit will bring Ukraine closer to the alliance and it plans to set up a Ukraine-NATO Council during the summit. Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky said that the non-invitation to join NATO demotivates the Ukrainian army. His office warned that Zelensky would not go to the summit if the NATO leaders “don’t demonstrate courage” on the issue of Ukraine’s membership. Meanwhile, Russian presidential press secretary said earlier that Kiev’s striving for NATO membership demonstrate its unwillingness and inability to settle the conflict at the negotiating table. He stressed that Russia will continue efforts to ensure its security, which excludes NATO’s expansion by means of admitting Ukraine and thus approaching the Russian border.

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“Ukraine’s greatest vulnerability is its people, or rather a lack of them. Its best fighters have long been dead.”

French General Forecasts Failure Of Ukrainian Counteroffensive (TASS)

Ukraine’s counteroffensive is doomed to fail as the Russian military has the edge over its adversary in all respects, Jean-Bernard Pinatel, a retired French general and the owner of the company called LexisNexis Business Information Solutions, said in a video interview provided to TASS. “I absolutely do not believe in the success of the Ukrainian counteroffensive. The Russians have a significant air superiority. But they also have an advantage on the ground. Even the Ukrainians themselves admit that they fire 4,000 shells a day, while Russia fires 20,000,” said Pinatel, who specializes in Russia and the Middle East. The general also said that the ratio of losses in equipment and personnel is 5 to 1 in favor of Russia. According to Pinatel, the Kiev regime is severely hampered by its lack of human resources.

“What we are witnessing today is a confrontation between a nuclear power and a country that, of course, is sponsored by the Anglo-Saxons, but which does not have significant technical and human potential,” he said. “And I don’t think that the biggest disadvantage Ukraine faces is so much the amount of military equipment, which, by the way, is not always of high quality, because the West supplies Kiev with outdated equipment. Ukraine’s greatest vulnerability is its people, or rather a lack of them. Its best fighters have long been dead.” The general said he believes that, provided NATO doesn’t directly step into the conflict, Kiev’s defeat is only a matter of time. The West’s policy of prolonging the Ukrainian conflict “is only leading to more casualties,” Pinatel said. “Conversations about helping Ukraine until it wins are completely stupid and nonsensical. It will achieve nothing and will only increase the number of deaths among young Ukrainians and Russians,” he said. However, the US and Europe do not care, the retired French general said, because their main goal is not the victory of Ukraine, but the weakening of Russia. Western sanctions, according to Pinatel, have done the most damage to Europe itself.

“Europe cannot do without Russian gas,” he pointed out. “The global gas market, the European market in particular, cannot do without Russian supplies. Before the crisis, Europe used to consume 200 billion cubic meters of Russian gas, while North America supplied only 2 billion. Who are you going to replace Russia with?” Europe is now facing an economic crisis, the general said. “By the winter of 2022, Germany had managed to fill its gas storage facilities, which lasted it through the cold season, but it will not be enough for the next year,” he said. “And many German companies have already closed their doors because of high gas prices. If Germany goes into recession, all of Europe, and France in particular, will be in trouble, because the Germans are our main economic partners.” Russia, on the contrary, is flourishing and developing economically, working hand in hand with Africa and Asia and developing partnerships, according to Pintel.

“This is because Russia is independent of the rest of the world in every way, be it raw materials, grain or energy, but the capitalist world cannot do without the resources supplied by Russia,” he explained. “This war has weakened Europe more than Russia.” European leaders, the retired general went on to say, expected “the whole world to impose sanctions against Russia, but in reality, only about thirty countries have done so, and all the rest are using this opportunity to strengthen the partnership with Moscow.” He said strife is rampant in the bloc of countries that have joined forces against Russia. “The Americans undoubtedly want to hobble economic cooperation between Europe and Russia, which would take away their domination on the international stage. The US strategy is to create a new Berlin Wall between Russia and Europe, but now that wall runs through Ukraine,” Pinatel said.

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Cold feet?

White House Issues NATO Warning To Ukraine (RT)

Ukraine must implement “reforms” before it can even consider joining the NATO bloc, the White House has said, suggesting that even when the conflict with Moscow is resolved, membership for Kiev could still be far off as it struggles to meet the organization’s standards. Asked whether Ukraine would be offered a “clear pathway to NATO membership” at an upcoming summit in Lithuania next week, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters that Kiev still had many hurdles to clear before it could seriously think about becoming a member. “The president has said this over and over again: Ukraine would have to make reforms to meet the same standards as any NATO country before they join,” she said at a Wednesday briefing.

And while Washington remains committed to NATO’s open door policy, she noted that “any decision” on NATO expansion must be supported by all members of the bloc. While Jean-Pierre did not specify the reforms Kiev would need to make, Biden previously stated that the military bloc would not “create special conditions for Ukraine to join,” arguing it would be required to meet the same criteria as any other nation seeking membership. “I think they have done everything to demonstrate the ability [of] military coordination, but there is a whole question, is their system safe, and is it not corrupt?” the president said last month. He went on to ask whether it meets “all the standards that any other country in NATO meets?”

Despite those prior comments, during a meeting with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg last month, the two leaders reportedly discussed a scheme to simplify the accession process for Ukraine. Under Stoltenberg’s plan, the country would not be made to complete a “membership action plan” typically required of applicants. While other Eastern European states went through the procedure before being admitted, NATO’s most recent member, Finland, was spared the process after applying to join last year. Multiple US media reports have stated that Biden appeared “open” to the idea, though some outlets, like the New York Times, suggested Washington would seek an alternative to full NATO membership for Kiev, instead proposing an ‘Israel model’ based on the US relationship with the Jewish state.

Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky has opposed any “substitute for NATO” and reportedly even told Western partners at some point that he would not attend the upcoming NATO summit unless the bloc offered “concrete” guarantees or a roadmap to full membership. NATO’s official position on Ukrainian membership remains unchanged since 2008, when it declared that Ukraine “will become a member” at an unspecified point in the future. While Kiev formally applied to join last September, little progress has been made since. Some US and allied officials have suggested the issue should be resolved only after the conflict with Russia is over, as Ukraine joining NATO would place the bloc at war with Russia. Moscow has repeatedly said that it views NATO’s expansions to the east as a threat to its security, and has listed Ukraine’s neutrality as one of the conditions for any lasting peace between the two countries.

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Newsweek.

“Is the CIA on the ground inside Ukraine?” he asks rhetorically. “Yes, but it’s also not nefarious.”

The CIA’s Blind Spot about the Ukraine War (Arkin)

One of the biggest secrets of the Ukraine war is how much the CIA doesn’t know. The Agency is as uncertain about Volodymyr Zelensky’s thinking and intentions as it is about Vladimir Putin’s. And as the Russian leader faces his biggest challenge in the aftermath of a failed mutiny, the Agency is straining to understand what the two sides will do—because President Joe Biden has determined that the United States (and Kyiv) will not undertake any actions that might threaten Russia itself or the survival of the Russian state, lest Putin escalate the conflict and engulf all of Europe in a new World War. In exchange, it expects that the Kremlin won’t escalate the war beyond Ukraine or resort to the use of nuclear weapons. America’s stance is under threat because the near-mutiny by Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the Wagner Group, raises the question as to whether Moscow has run out of options.

“Putin’s back is really against the wall” a senior defense intelligence official tells Newsweek, warning that while the CIA fully grasps how much Russia is stuck in Ukraine, it is very much in the dark with regard to what Putin might do about it. With talk of Russian nuclear weapons possibly being deployed to Belarus, and in light of Prigozhin’s public exposure of the terrible costs of fighting, something that Moscow has suppressed, the official says that it is a particularly delicate moment. “What is happening off the battlefield is now most important,” says the official, who was granted anonymity in order to speak candidly. “Both sides pledge to limit their actions, but it falls to the United States to enforce those pledges. This all hinges on the quality of our intelligence.”

“There is a clandestine war, with clandestine rules, underlying all of what is going on in Ukraine,” says a Biden administration senior intelligence official who also spoke with Newsweek. The official, who is directly involved in Ukraine policy planning, requested anonymity to discuss highly classified matters. The official (and numerous other national security officials who spoke to Newsweek) say that Washington and Moscow have decades of experience crafting these clandestine rules, necessitating that the CIA play an outsize role: as primary spy, as negotiator, as supplier of intelligence, as logistician, as wrangler of a network of sensitive NATO relations and perhaps most important of all, as the agency trying to ensure the war does not further spin out of control.

“Don’t underestimate the Biden administration’s priority to keep Americans out of harm’s way and reassure Russia that it doesn’t need to escalate,” the senior intelligence officer says. “Is the CIA on the ground inside Ukraine?” he asks rhetorically. “Yes, but it’s also not nefarious.”

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The threat is still alive.

Kremlin Wars Of ‘High Threat’ Of Nuclear Sabotage By Ukraine (RT)

A possible Ukrainian attempt to sabotage the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant in Russia’s Zaporozhye Region would lead to “catastrophic” results, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has claimed. The situation around Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, which has been under Russian control since March 2022, remains “tense,” Peskov told journalists on Wednesday. “Really, there’s a high threat of sabotage by the Kiev regime; sabotage that might lead to catastrophic results,” Peskov warned. According to the spokesman, an attack on the facility cannot be ruled out because the Ukrainian leadership “has many times shown its readiness to stop at nothing” to achieve its goals. Peskov said one example was the collapse of the Russian-controlled Kakhovka dam in early June, which Moscow has blamed on Kiev. The incident had “horrific consequences,” the Kremlin spokesman noted.

The destruction of the dam led to flooding on both banks of the Dnieper River and caused multiple deaths. Ukraine has claimed that the incident was caused by Russia. “All measures are being implemented to resist the threat [to the Zaporozhye nuclear plant],” Peskov added. Renat Karchaa, a senior official at Russian nuclear power plant operator Rosenergoatom, warned on Tuesday that Kiev was planning to strike the Zaporozhye facility with long-range high-precision munitions and kamikaze drones. Intelligence obtained by Rosenergoatom suggests that Kiev could also attempt to target the plant with a Soviet-made Tochka-U tactical ballistic missile loaded with radioactive waste, Karchaa claimed. Moscow and Kiev have repeatedly accused each other of shelling the Zaporozhye plant throughout their conflict.

The Russian Defense Ministry also claimed to have repelled several attempts to retake the station by Ukrainian assault units, which reportedly approached the facility on boats via the now-drained Kakhovka reservoir. The Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant has returned to the spotlight in recent weeks after senior officials in Kiev claimed that Russia was preparing a nuclear incident at the facility. Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky alleged that Moscow wanted to cause a “radiation leak” at the plant, while presidential aide Mikhail Podoliak accused the Russian military of mining the plant’s cooling pond. Peskov previously rejected those claims as “yet another lie.” The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Rafael Mariano Grossi, recently visited the facility and said that “no mines were observed at the site” during his inspection.

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“The goals are believed to be defeating Russia, wrecking its military potential, restructuring its statehood, reshaping its identity and possibly eliminating it as a state, in its current form..”

Russians Increasingly Believe West Wants To Destroy Their Country (Timofeev)

There is an increasingly widespread view in Russia that the goal of the US – and the “collective West” it leads – is to achieve a “final solution” to the “Russian question.” The goals are believed to be defeating Russia, wrecking its military potential, restructuring its statehood, reshaping its identity and possibly eliminating it as a state, in its current form. For a long time, this view remained on the periphery of foreign policy thinking. However, much has changed in the past year and a half. Today, this perception of the West’s goals has gone mainstream. Indeed, it seems quite rational, when placed into the proper context. Meanwhile, Russia itself is pursuing a similar sort of policy towards the Ukrainian state, the existence of which in its former form and borders is perceived in Moscow as a key security challenge.

The historical experience of the last century shows that inflicting total defeat on an enemy and then rebuilding its statehood is the rule rather than the exception in foreign policy practice. There is an important difference to the conflicts of the 18th and 19th centuries, when military defeat of the enemy was seen as a way of extracting concessions from it, but not of rebuilding its very foundations. The experiences of the 20th and 21st centuries are not always linear, but their repetition is obvious. Germany’s defeat in the First World War led to a palpable reshaping of its statehood, determined more by internal contradictions, which grew from the military loss. Germany’s surrender after the Second World War had far more radical consequences. The country was divided, stripped of its foreign policy autonomy and almost completely rebuilt.

Military defeat and subsequent occupation also led to the reformatting of the other large powers, Japan and Italy. The Soviet Union, as a victorious country, was a key player in resolving the “German question.” The USSR was also active in establishing socialist regimes in countries liberated from the Nazi occupation. The subsequent Cold War made this redrawing more difficult. Every attempt was met with resistance from the West. Sometimes the battle ended in a draw, as in Korea. Sometimes the Soviet Union got the upper hand – it helped to inflict a painful defeat on the US in Vietnam, for example. In other situations, the US was successful, for example in supporting anti-Soviet forces in Afghanistan. The collapse of the Soviet Union gave Washington a free hand. Despite Moscow’s rhetoric that the Cold War had ended in victory for both sides, the reality was different.

Many of the former socialist countries were quickly integrated into Euro-Atlantic structures with the active help of new local elites and broad public support. Russia itself loudly proclaimed a desire to return to the ‘civilized world.’ The US-led collective West was given carte blanche to reshape a vast area, which they not unreasonably saw as a result of their bloodless victory over the Soviet Union.

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“..if Washington and its allies stopped the deliveries..”

Medvedev Names How Ukraine Conflict Could ‘End In Days’ (RT)

The ongoing conflict between Moscow and Kiev has been dragging on for so long because of continued Western arms shipments to Ukraine, Russian former president Dmitry Medvedev told TASS on Wednesday. “If NATO, primarily the US and its vassals, had stopped supplying weapons and munitions to Ukraine, the [Russian] special military operation would have ended in mere months,” Medvedev told the news agency. It can still end “in days,” however, if Washington and its allies stopped the deliveries, he added. Medvedev said that any war, regardless of its scale, could end “very quickly … if a peace treaty is signed or if one does what the Americans did in 1945, by using their nuclear weapons and bombing Japanese cities.” The US strikes did stop hostilities at the time, though he noted that “the price was 300,000 civilian lives.”


The US nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki claimed up to 80,000 lives each. The long-term consequences of the attacks, including radioactive contamination, might have brought the estimated number of victims up to 166,000 in Hiroshima and 140,000 in Nagasaki. Medvedev, who currently serves as deputy head of the Russian Security Council, warned that Russia would prevent Ukraine from joining NATO, even if it meant engaging in a “permanent” conflict. Moscow has demanded its security concerns be respected when it comes to NATO expansion, he said, adding that “Russia’s existence is at stake” and it would not hesitate to stop this threat “one way or another.” The former president also spoke against US nuclear weapons deployment to Poland, warning that it could trigger a nuclear conflict. Earlier, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki called on NATO to include Warsaw in the bloc’s Nuclear Sharing Program.

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Not just China.

China Doubted We Shot Down Hypersonic Missiles – Kiev (RT)

When Kiev announced shooting down a Russian hypersonic missile, people in Washington were exhilarated, but a visiting Chinese official didn’t believe the claim and left before he could be shown proof, according to Ukrainian Defense Minister Aleksey Reznikov. The reactions were described by The Financial Times on Wednesday, based on the minister’s account. Reznikov’s department claimed it had intercepted a Russian Kinzhal missile for the first time in May, using a US-made Patriot anti-missile system. Kiev has since reported downing over a dozen such weapons, which Moscow mocked as not corresponding to reality. The Ukrainian official declared that his nation had proven that hypersonic weapons can be defended against, showcasing in the process the advanced capability of NATO systems.

He claimed that when he delivered the news of the first success to a US official, the response was: “Fantastic!” But Li Hui, China’s special representative for Eurasian affairs, who was visiting Kiev in mid-May, was skeptical about Kiev’s ability to down Kinzhals, Reznikov explained. “I proposed that if there are doubts, we are ready to provide proof,” Reznikov told the newspaper, adding that Li left the country without viewing the purported evidence. The Kinzhal is an air-launched hypersonic missile, which is believed to be derived from the quasi-ballistic ground-launched Iskander projectile. The Russian forces have used both types of weapons against military targets in Ukraine, though details about hypersonic strikes have been scarce.

In May, Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu said the number of Kinzhal missiles, which Kiev claimed to have intercepted, was larger than the number actually fired by the Russian side. Some military experts have suggested that Ukrainian officials were misrepresenting debris from Iskander missiles as coming from Kinzhals, when presenting them as evidence of successful intercepts. Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky has claimed that the Patriot system’s capability made it uniquely important for his country’s defense. He told The Wall Street Journal last month that Ukraine needed 50 batteries – which cost an estimated $1.1 billion apiece – for sufficient protection.

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The FT publishes some weird pieces these days.

Kremlin Denies Media Report That Xi Warned Putin Not To Nuke Ukraine (RT)

The Kremlin has dismissed “fictitious” claims in the Western press that Chinese President Xi Jinping warned his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, not to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine. The claim was reported by The Financial Times, based on anonymous diplomatic sources. “I cannot confirm that,” Putin’s Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov told journalists on Wednesday, when asked about the FT article. He suggested that official statements regarding Xi’s “important” visit to Moscow in March were “sufficient” to make conclusions about its nature. According to FT, Chinese officials have “privately taken credit for convincing the Russian president to back down from his veiled threats of using a nuclear weapon against Ukraine.”

The newspaper alleged that “deterring Putin” from an atomic strike was a key part in Beijing’s diplomatic strategy regarding Europe. The Chinese government has blamed Western policies, including the expansion of NATO in Europe, for the Ukraine conflict, rejecting the Western view that Russia’s military operation was “unprovoked”. It has also publicly urged Moscow not to use its nuclear capability. The purported warning from Xi to Putin gave supporters of Kiev confidence that “China is backing up its public rhetoric behind closed doors,” the FT article said. Moscow has called the Ukraine conflict part of a wider Western proxy war waged against Russia. Putin, as well as other senior Russian officials, have repeatedly cited the Russian nuclear doctrine, which allows the use of such weapons to prevent an existential threat to the Russian state.

Western officials and media outlets have framed those remarks as indicating a possible nuclear attack against Ukrainian forces. However, Putin has stressed that he is against the idea of a limited nuclear strike for any purpose other than saving the nation from destruction.“First of all, we have no need for that. Second, the very speculation about this is a factor that lowers the threshold for the use of the weapon,” he explained during the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum last month. The Russian leader added that his recent decision to station some Russian tactical weapons on the territory of ally Belarus was meant as deterrence against “those who think they can inflict a strategic defeat on us,” referring to the stated US goal in Ukraine.

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“..we were once again in agreement that the Alliance must never become a party to a conflict..”

Germany Concerned About Western Escalations in Ukraine (LI)

Top German officials have voiced anxiety regarding Western escalations in Ukraine, signaling that Berlin will push back against the most provocative proposals. Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Germany was reluctant to send longer-range weapons to Ukraine over concerns the arms will be used to attack Russian territory. London has provided Kiev with Storm Shadow air-launched cruise missiles which have a range of more than 155 miles. According to recent reporting, the White House is also closing in on a decision to provide Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMS), munitions capable of striking targets roughly 200 miles away. Last month, Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu warned the West that Ukraine using long-range weapons to attack the Crimean Peninsula could lead to a direct war between Moscow and NATO.

“The use of these missiles outside the zone of our special military operation would mean that the United States and Britain would be fully dragged into the conflict and would entail immediate strikes on decision-making centers in Ukraine,” he said. Berlin is now receiving requests from Kiev to provide Taurus KEPD 350 missiles, an air-launched missile with a range of over 300 miles. Scholz said Germany is considering the request. = Germany has faced intense pressure throughout the war due to Berlin’s occasional reluctance to provide Kiev with all requested aid. However, officials have repeatedly caved to Kiev’s demands. In one example, Germany resisted sending its Leopard 2 main battle tanks to Ukraine, but quickly reversed course after Poland, the UK and the US pledged to send their own advanced tanks. Dozens of its Leopard 2s were ultimately provided.

Some of the German tanks have already been destroyed on the battlefield and Kiev is asking Berlin for replacements. Meanwhile, the American Abrams tanks have not yet arrived in the country due, in part, to a lengthy refurbishment process. Berlin has also pushed back on plans to give Ukraine an official timeline for NATO membership at an alliance summit in Vilnius next week. In an interview published in Rzeczpospolita on Monday, German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said the military bloc could not resolve the issue until the conclusion of the war with Russia. “In my recent meetings with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, we were once again in agreement that the Alliance must never become a party to a conflict,” he said. “Therefore, we will not be able to answer the question of Ukraine’s accession to NATO as long as the war continues in Ukraine.” Pistorius went on to explain that Germany is committed to supporting Ukraine’s war effort for as long as the conflict continues, noting that Berlin would deliver dozens of older Leopard 1 tanks in the coming weeks.

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“..the United States Government seems to have assumed a role similar to an Orwellian ‘Ministry of Truth.’”

Federal Judge Rules Against Biden Admin Attack on Free Speech (Ramos)

Judge Terry Doughty of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana ruled that several federal agencies and officials from the Biden administration cannot collaborate with social media companies in restricting certain speech. Doughty wrote in his introduction to the ruling, “If the allegations made by Plaintiffs are true, the present case arguably involves the most massive attack against free speech in United States’ history.” The ruling states officials and agencies from the Biden administration are restrained from communicating with social media firms “for the purpose of urging, encouraging, pressuring, or inducing in any manner the removal, deletion, suppression, or reduction of content containing protected free speech posted on social-media platforms.”

The ruling does not restrict the government from speaking to companies regarding criminal activity, national security threats, voter suppression, foreign attempts to influence elections and other malicious activity. The lawsuit brings up issues such as COVID-19 health policies, the origins of the pandemic, election security, Hunter Biden’s laptop and others as those targeted for suppression. Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey described the case as the “most important First Amendment lawsuit in a generation.” Doughty wrote in the ruling, “The Plaintiffs have presented substantial evidence in support of their claims that they were the victims of a far-reaching and widespread censorship campaign,” and, “This court finds that they are likely to succeed on the merits of their First Amendment free speech claim against the Defendants.”

Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry said in a statement, “The evidence in our case is shocking and offensive with senior federal officials deciding that they could dictate what Americans can and cannot say on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and other platforms about COVID-19, elections, criticism of the government, and more.” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, Director of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas and other State Department and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) officials were named in the injunction. Doughty also likened the evidence to a dystopian scenario. Specifically, “During the COVID-19 pandemic, a period perhaps best characterized by widespread doubt and uncertainty, the United States Government seems to have assumed a role similar to an Orwellian ‘Ministry of Truth.’”

Biden Big Tech

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..gallium and germanium..

China Warns Chipmaking Export Curbs ‘Just The Beginning’ (RT)

China’s export controls on key components for computer chip manufacturing are “just the beginning,” an influential trade policy adviser warned on Wednesday. Earlier this week China announced that starting next month, special licenses will be required to export gallium and germanium, two key metals used to make computer chips. Speaking to the China Daily newspaper, former Vice Commerce Minister Wei Jianguo said that should Washington place tougher technology restrictions on Beijing, the government will escalate the countermeasures. The decision to restrict the export of industrial products and materials containing gallium and germanium was made after thoughtful consideration, he added. The comments follow a report by the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday that the US plans to restrict China’s access to cloud computing to close a loophole that allows Chinese artificial intelligence firms to bypass the current chip export control rules.


Cloud services allow customers to gain powerful computing capabilities without buying advanced equipment, such as chips. Washington and Beijing have been involved in a dispute over semiconductors and other advanced technologies for several months. Reuters reported in May that US officials were considering tightening a rule designed to slow the flow of artificial intelligence chips to China by clamping down on the amount of computing power the chips can have. Last October, Washington introduced export control rules, effectively cutting China off from certain semiconductor chips made with US equipment. China retaliated in May, by banning memory chips manufactured by Micron, the biggest US producer. This week, Chinese President Xi Jinping called for “stable and smooth functioning of regional and industrial supply chains” ahead of US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen’s visit to Beijing to discuss economic issues between the two nations.

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Ha ha ha. We have no idea!

Maybe Hunter can invite Zelensky for a slumber party.

Culprit Who Brought Cocaine to White House May Never Be ID’d (Sp.)

Sunday evening, a small baggie of white powder was found in the West Wing, prompting a brief shutdown of the White House campus. Preliminary tests determined the substance was cocaine, allowing the White House to be reopened and the bag shipped out for further analysis. As the US Secret Service undertakes its investigation into who brought a bag of cocaine to the White House, an unnamed law enforcement official has told US media the culprit may never be found. On Tuesday, lab results confirmed that the substance was cocaine. While the Secret Service and the White House have refused to say exactly where the baggie was found, both have said it was located at a heavily trafficked area. The Secret Service described it as a “work area of the West Wing” while White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said it was in an area frequented by guests and noted tours had taken place on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

“Where this was discovered is a heavily traveled area, where many […] West Wing visitors come through this particular area,” Jean-Pierre said during Wednesday’s White House briefing. “I just don’t have anything more to share, it is under investigation by the Secret Service, this is in their purview.” Jean-Pierre added the White House has “confidence the Secret Service will get to the bottom of this.” US media outlets have reported on an unnamed official familiar with the investigation who said it is possible the investigation may not discover who brought the illicit substance into the White House because of the area’s high traffic between government officials and tourists. “It’s gonna be very difficult for us to do that because of where it was,” the official reportedly said. The Secret Service said they are reviewing visitor logs and video cameras as part of the investigation. A reporter noted on Wednesday that the baggie remains at the lab for additional tests, including for fingerprints and DNA.

Jean-Pierre refused to answer a reporter’s question about whether US President Joe Biden wanted the culprit to be prosecuted if the investigation reveals the source of the cocaine. “I am just not going to get into hypotheticals from here, let’s let the Secret Service do their job, it’s under their purview,” she said. Biden and his family were not in the White House when the cocaine was discovered – that includes the president’s son Hunter Biden, who at the time was vacationing at Camp David with his father and first lady Jill Biden. However, Hunter Biden, who has a well-documented history of cocaine use, including multiple instances that were caught on video, was at the White House on Friday. At the Wednesday briefing, Jean-Pierre noted all visitors to the White House have to go through security checkpoints; however, she was not asked by reporters and did not clarify if that applies to members of the first family.

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    One of the biggest secrets of the Ukraine war is how much the CIA doesn’t know. The Agency is as uncertain about Volodymyr Zelensky’s thinking and intentions as it is about Vladimir Putin’s.

    I love these articles because they confirm to me that the 95% of sheep in our population are as dumb as I think they are when I try to talk to them. “One of the biggest secrets …”, sure, the CIA has told you that they “know nothing” and you are believing that because you know you can build a story on it that will make the CIA look like Jesus with a biological weapon. Of course, technically that statement is correct, you can’t know what you don’t know, except that the author is implying that he knows. Then he hits us with the big lie, stating that the USA is not 100% in control of Zelensky. Again, what they actually say cannot be denied, they do not know what he is thinking at the moment or what his intentions are in retirement, but they know that the CIA has threatened to kill him and his family and his supporting thugs if any of them step out of line. And, given that Zelensky has been obedient over the last year+, they know exactly what Zelensky will DO, even though they do not know his thinking or his intentions, and what he DOES is all that matters. But, the sheep will eat this up, the CIA is trying to defend both Ukraine and the USA.

    I am sitting in Taiwan, home to the deluded “we can beat China” people. Fortunately I am in my father in law’s house, he is a firm KMT reunification guy, so he disapproved of the current government. However, the TV news he watches almost constantly is showing rotating clips of the Ukraine war explosions and the usual on-the-ground (someone’s garden) reporter dolled up in anti-this and anti-that protective gear, then Zelensky preaching (you can almost see the Hunter dust around his nose), then a few clips of Chiang Kai-shek’s grandson, the good looking mayor of Taipei etc. Seems an insult to Chiang Kai-shek to show his grandson so soon after Zelensky, but I guess all publicity is good publicity.

    It is quite shocking to watch the TV, what a stream of total shite, even here in USA controlled Taiwan.

    #138462
    aspnaz
    Participant

    The goals are believed to be defeating Russia, wrecking its military potential, restructuring its statehood, reshaping its identity and possibly eliminating it as a state, in its current form. For a long time, this view remained on the periphery of foreign policy thinking.

    This is not news on TAE. We have known this for a long time, known that there is no way that the west could establish a global government without completely controlling Russia. If they had managed to do it earlier then there would be no “climate change” emergency, because the west would have centuries of oil and everything else it needs. But, they did not manage to do it because Putin took over, he shackled the oligarchs that were in the palms of the Americans.

    The USA will keep trying to capture Russia, but their first emergency is to start a war to rescue their wealth and enable them to cover up their theft, their scams, their crimes, as all being part of the war. Have you noticed how, at the end of these big wars, it is the losers who are punished, when did you last see the MIC punished for stealing money during wartime? All the prewar crimes are brushed under the carpet and the likes of Biden come out the other end like that idiot drunk Churchill, heroes.

    #138463
    aspnaz
    Participant

    Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky has claimed that the Patriot system’s capability made it uniquely important for his country’s defense. He told The Wall Street Journal last month that Ukraine needed 50 batteries – which cost an estimated $1.1 billion apiece – for sufficient protection.

    Zelensky’s second hand weapons store, eager to supply weapons to anyone with cash. Anti-western countries have already got their hands on them, hence the US military rifles discovered during the French riots. Biden is putting the west at risk by selling weapons to terrorists so that he can score another wheel barrow full of cocaine for his woke (as in pedophile) son.

    #138464
    aspnaz
    Participant

    Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Germany was reluctant to send longer-range weapons to Ukraine over concerns the arms will be used to attack Russian territory. London has provided Kiev with Storm Shadow air-launched cruise missiles which have a range of more than 155 miles.

    Makes sense, London provides missiles that cannot hit London, even from Poland, but Germany is not so keen to provide missiles to snow nose Zelensky that can hit Berlin. The German Oaf is undeniably a total ass kisser and totally owned, but he is a sniveling survivor, and sniveling survivors know not to provide weapons to their enemies, at least not weapons that can be used to kill them, personally. Fuck their colleagues, they don’t care about them, but kill him personally, now that is crossing a red line.

    #138465
    aspnaz
    Participant

    But the question remains: will Zelensky fire a Storm Shadow missile at the German Oaf if he appears to be anti-Ukraine? We are talking crime organisations here, not governments.

    #138466
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Thankfully, no bombing of Zap last night. NATO will just have to lie some other way.

    “”Orwellian Ministry Of Truth” Busted – Judge Bars Biden Officials, Agencies From Contacting Social Media Companies

    Note: they’ve never followed the law or any judges before… Maybe we should create a SECOND government to arrest the FIRST government. Since the problem is, we already have a split government, two of them, plus the States’ governments, we would then have FOUR governments for maximum cost efficiency. Cheaper by the Dozen!

    NATO shill video: That is front page news: someone on the Internet changed their mind! And due to data! This is unheard of, was he on drugs or something?

    “His office warned that Zelensky would not go to the summit if the NATO leaders “don’t demonstrate courage”

    Oh no! Whatever shall we do? If cool Sally doesn’t come to my birthday party, I’ll be the laughingstock of the 7th grade.

    I forget which sportsball org it was, but Ze was going to video in, and they said, “WTF? No. No thanks.” I’m like: “Who are you?” This is like back when kids would photobomb and jump into random Zoom meetings. Would make a good SNL skit. ManBearPig.

    “the Russian military has the edge over its adversary in all respects,”

    Yes? They’re 10x Ukraine’s size? Did Western pinheads finally refer to a “map”?

    “a country that, of course, is sponsored by the Anglo-Saxons,”

    Thank you. That is, it’s an Anglo war, another Anglo genocide, and it is USUK that is in the direct conflict, an invasive, offensive war with Russia. As Nuremberg says, “A crime which inside it is all the others.”

    “their main goal is not the victory of Ukraine, but the weakening of Russia.” Yes. And if I were them, why not? Why NOT kill every Slav to weaken Russia if they’re willing eat my bulls—t? Don’t hate the player, hate the game. Just ‘cause you play it badly: all you had to do was say “no”. I mean: read a (history) book!

    Pinatel is excellent and French intel is known to be good. I wish he also followed the far larger war in finance. That’s more likely to break first.

    “Ukraine would have to make reforms … before they join,”

    Specifically, they need to fire that Burisma prosecutor before the plane takes off. And son of a bitch, that’s what happened.

    “how much the CIA doesn’t know. The Agency is as uncertain”

    …And the CIA told you this? Because they’re totally trustworthy and never lie, and especially not to the press?

    Pretty good Luongo Interview, with a person perhaps better than him, Vince Lanci, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbRojbNmOYQ&pp=ygUKdG9tIGx1b25nbw%3D%3D
    He said, “The CIA has no ground game in Russia” that’s how they don’t know anything. Both of them make idiotic statements, again, about “How Trump screwed up” with Russian sanctions and tit-for-tat closing of embassies which don’t allow CIA ops to wander all over pretending to be diplomats or sports stars. “Accident”? Yeah, Trump “accidentally” destroyed globalism and Empire and “accidentally” insured “America First”, the 100th time in a row.

    Anyway, Lanci points out it’s worse than that. ALL the Western Intel are made up of nothing but moronic bureaucracies, so sclerotic, so ossified, so removed from their origins, that they can’t function even on a normal day. They exist only to tell the guy above them anything he wants to hear, having long since purged all others. i.e. actual intelligence analysts. The Truth is a “Far Right Wing talking point” don’t you know?

    Yes. Both are true. Even if, or back when, they had a ground game in Russia, their fart-sniffing air-tight elite-o-bubble had them thinking Navalny was a real President and contender, with 1% support on his best day. Some Random Guido. And then did it over and over for years while I, and the rest of the world, mocked them ceaselessly, drawing it to their attention.

    The other point of “Trump-o-Luck” is that his sanctions – ordered by the Derp State like back when he sent those 30 “Beautiful Bombs” into Syria and blew up all ISIS/Israel base camp – are the only thing that allowed Russia to be this independent and unharmed by the war. If they hadn’t started to get Russia off globalism and make domestic production – which is d—n expensive! — Russia would indeed have been caught short of chips, cars, etc in the world’s toughest stupidest sanctions.

    “• Russians Increasingly Believe West Wants To Destroy Their Country (Timofeev)

    Wherever would they get that idea? From the NYTimes and Joe Biden himself? Every day for 10 years in a row? Just silly, I tell you. I mean what I say, but it’s also a joke and I mean the #Opposite of what I say. Everything and its Opposite are both true.

    “Kiev has since reported downing over a dozen such weapons, which Moscow mocked as not corresponding to reality.”

    Ooooh. Burn. ...That is about the mildest statement any human could say. Does that really rise to “mock”? A: Who cares! we must slander all things Russia at every word of every sentence and never tell the truth even once or I’d burst into flames.

    Yeah, they need proof as all things. We don’t “Just believe Women Ukraine”. The missile debris was clearly low-grade normal stuff. It’s written on the side.

    “The FT publishes some weird pieces these days.
    • Kremlin Denies Media Report That Xi Warned Putin Not To Nuke Ukraine (RT)

    Since Western brains have long since not worked, it’s all just a word cloud. “Kremlin Nukes” “Xi” “Warns” “Ukraine”. That’s enough, or better than enough, says Edward Bernays. If you told them the truth they’d no longer believe it, reject it, and attack you. Clearly, as demonstrated every day.

    “Ukraine using long-range weapons to attack the Crimean Peninsula could lead to a direct war world-wide nuclear Armegeddon and end of all life on earth between Moscow and NATO.”

    As Western brains have long not worked, they are slowly ratcheting up as expected. It’s working great as expected, no one has the slightest alarm about an imminent and required world-wide nuclear exchange. “Babylon, oh Babylon, you fell in an hour. All the merchants cried out, the great city died”

    “This is a conservative ideology that clearly comes through in this decision,”

    Yes, that’s right. Following the Law, and Human Rights, is now only a Conservative value. That means…yes? Therefore? …That NOT following the law, and destroying human rights, is now a core Democratic value. Why slander? Ask them and they will tell you themselves. And also that Black people can never succeed or get a job in a merit-based system. They need the White Liberal Plantation Owner’s help.

    “Culprit Who Brought Cocaine to White House May Never Be ID’d (Sp.)

    It was really the WAY the story came out. So…they found a white powder and thought…cocaine? Not Anthrax? Huh. And Secret Service immediately made a huge media splash, front page, rather than hushing it up for security like the last 40 years? Huh. And the media says “Traces of cocaine”. Traces? Da fuq? Did you, Mr. Reporter test it? If it’s not tested, then it’s between 0% cocaine and 100% cocaine; that’s not “traces”. You’re just making s—t up.

    Et cetera, all day, all night, all day long. Word cloud: “Brick of cocaine”. “Hunter Biden”. “White House”. So…WHO really did this? They’re pushing Joe out, but in this weird, lingering way. “Leverage” is used in secret. e.g. to stop his attack on Zap that starts WWIII. This is a weakening in PUBLIC.

    So…to screw up the Harris/Newsom plans and install RFK? Getting closer.

    But don’t really care. It’s boring.
    BTC
    https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/022/747/download.jpg

    #138467
    boilingfrog
    Participant

    My money says the WH baggie was dropped by the same person who leaked the Supreme Court briefing…/s

    Me and the carpenter I work with have gotten into the habit of using the same phrases the powerful and connected use when something goes wrong or is forgotten: “I don’t recall”, or “I’m not certain but…” or “I can’t be certain, but…”

    Great fun and adds a lot of humor during the day. So, to all the folks in DC, keep ’em coming!!

    #138468
    aspnaz
    Participant

    So, Coco Lee committed suicide https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/jul/05/coco-lee-dead-hong-kong-mulan-singer. Yeah, I didn’t know who she was either, not that I would expect to. She was a has been singer, died aged 48. Her story is all over Taiwan TV. They show 2 minutes explaining what happened, then they spend 8 minutes discussing who will get her money. The Chinese only care about the money, they have no respect for this person, they just want to know which lucky bugger gets the cash. Hilarious.

    Mind you, having seen some of her videos today, I can assure you she was crap.

    #138469
    WES
    Participant

    Since Russia continues to build up the size of their regular army, by more than 1,000 people a day, and isn’t using them in the Ukraine, clearly Russia believes the CIA isn’t involved in the Ukrainian war. Consolidated Moose Pasture, anyone?

    #138470
    Germ
    Participant

    Posted just for shits and giggles, as death vaxxed friends around me are currently bed-ridden with Covid.
    A respiratory virus in Summer?

    What an utter fuckin’ shit-show.

    https://www.twitch.tv/trumporbiden2024

    #138471

    That conduit in eastern Europe
    Arms the world in preparation.
    World war three is gonna be
    A civil war in every nation.

    #138472
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Be Here Now

    And shut your mouth

    #138473
    jb-hb
    Participant

    SiGe silicon germanium:

    https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIP.lfhehgF0_t-MegSld73OmwAAAA?pid=ImgDet&rs=1fedsafdasfdas fdsafa

    Time to panic buy pedals.

    #138474
    zerosum
    Participant

    THE THREATHS – provocative proposals, “the sky is falling”
    ———
    The flue, Omicron variants, A respiratory virus in Summer?

    What an utter fuckin’ shit-show.
    ———–
    Ukraine, Consolidated Moose Pasture,
    ———-
    Opposition to gov, A civil war in every nation.
    ————
    A Modern successful war tool, A variable noise maker/disruptor

    #138475
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    The downside of living within an informational echo chamber (or “silo” as the sophisticates prefer to call it) is that the occupants thereof remain ignorant of all of the information that is OUTSIDE of the silo. That “outside” information might include information which is VITAL to the continued survival of the sealed-up self-exiled “chamber”.

    An example of the sorts of information which exist OUTSIDE (but not inside) are the such broadly accepted obviously true things as: a) the echo chamber is wrong, b) the silo is surrounded, c) the “info-bubble” is shrinking shrinking, shrinking, and d) the entire structure of managed ignorance is about to catastrophically lose in just about every way you could think of except spiritual justice.

    Of course there is an upside to all that, too. The upside is that when that much “wrongness” is chased down, flanked on all sides and then forced by its own weakness to stuff itself into a tiny silo of evil deeds and intentions that the lives of everyone OUSIDE of that Hell Hole get much better.

    When the echo-chamber-of-evil gets small enough then it drops below critical mass and snuffs itself out, with neither a bang NOR a whimper. The sound is more of a muffled pip.

    #138476
    kultsommer
    Participant

    Self-reflection expressed on the photo at the bottom of the blog.
    There is a huge road sign in the small town in Republika Srbska that reads:

    What a Burden to God
    The Way We (Serbs) are

    Drive-by onlookers go: “Yeah….that’s us”

    #138477
    kultsommer
    Participant

    On more alarming note:
    https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2023/07/06/nudge-unit-chief-says-uk-will-obey-future-lockdowns-citizens-have-learnt-the-behaviour/

    I think if we accept and bow to a new round of humiliating mandates we will be “done for good”.

    #138478
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    I find it infinitely ironic that the word most often used to describe the state of being non-guilty of crime is the word “innocent” which literally means “not knowing”. (“not” + “gnoscent”).

    To my way of thinking “not knowing” is the precise and exact OPPOSITE of what is actually required in order to be truly un-guilty of deeds and omissions which have criminal consequences.

    #138479
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    I think if we accept and bow to a new round of humiliating mandates we will be “done for good”.

    Those who accept mandates will for sure be even more “done for good” than they already are (which is pretty damn far along.)

    I, for one, will accept mandates from . . . . no one. (Pretty sure that I’m not very alone on that , too.)

    It’s fascinating to live inside all of this all playing out. It has been a long time coming, and I’m all in for the showdown.

    #138480
    anticlimactic
    Participant

    It has been obvious that Ukraine has been attacking the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant for quite a while [although the IAEA has ‘no idea’ who could be carrying out these attacks!]

    The US is a long way from Zaporozhye and would not care less if they succeeded, actually they would probably be elated. They may even have helped.

    The EU is NOT a long way from Ukraine but their leaders have NEVER tried to stop Ukraine carrying out these attacks, even Poland, which would be affected the most. Even Orban has not made a statement about it.

    How pathetic, craven, and venal are these leaders. They have been fully okay with the suffering of their people to sustain this war [except Orban]. There seems to be no depths they will not stoop to. They have seen their economies suffer unnecessarily until now I don’t see a way they can recover quickly, or at all.

    It is noteworthy that the last three European elections voted in right wing parties, and France and Germany are moving in this direction.

    #138481
    kultsommer
    Participant

    I, for one, will accept mandates from . . . . no one. (Pretty sure that I’m not very alone on that , too.)

    Fine.
    However think that THEY did “pretty good job in 2021-22“, looking from their perspective. Article states as how confident they are about the “Next”.

    #138482
    jb-hb
    Participant

    Blocking the sun: Everybody remembers Mr Burns doing it, but I haven’t seen anyone mention Highlander II, when they blocked the sun from the entire earth because of the Ozone Layer. As great as the first movie was, a good rule of thumb is to never, ever do anything resembling Highlander II and you won’t go too wrong in life.

    I of course have the Wren & Cuff Super Russian fuzz, all the versatile Germanium based distortion I will ever need, so I am set – just like I was set with toilet paper well before the panic. But if “they” ever go door to door looking for “misinforming” books, I can imagine the sneering reaction – “Wait, what’s this RUSSIAN fuzz pedal I see here? Is that a picture of the KREMLIN on the pedal?!!!?!? Off to summer camp with you!!!” They’re dumb enough. Why not.

    Over 1 year unemployed after refusing the injection which does not vaccinate. I estimate I sent 200+ applications.

    I just completed my 3rd interview for a remote call center job with a food supplier/distributor. I might actually get this job. I checked the News section of their website. Sure enough, they burned down a year ago and are still recovering. Surprised/unsurprised. They’re super Christian and anti GMO, which is probably what gave them the structural integrity to resist The Current Thing in its various forms. My refusal to take the injection is probably even a plus in their hiring process.

    All these various revelations – corruption, drugs, censorship – seem to bounce off the MSNBC/CNN watchers because it’s an interconnected worldview. To shatter one thing is to threaten the entire structure – so the strength of the entire structure comes into play, pushing back on any realization. There’s always “Something Else” if you discuss the vax, corruption, the ukraine, actual misinformation due to censorship, etc etc. The weight of EVERYTHING else, even though it is not directly related.

    Although I am liking the Christians more and more with every passing second, it does remind me of arguments with Christians back in my 20’s – I did try to avoid unpleasantness, but occasionally they insisted on it. They ASK you to say a thing that you think is wrong, and they bring up all the other tenets of the faith as rebuttal. You can go in circle after circle, picking one thing, then another thing, then another thing – they would always point at a different tenet that you weren’t criticizing as their rebuttal.

    Eventually you return to the thing you started with. Or they start witnessing and you have to politely wait while they spew out ALL The Things in a disorganized fashion. You already TOLD them you’ve read the bible repeatedly in its entirety (they haven’t) went to multiple churches, youth group, christian summer camps, confirmation etc etc but it doesn’t MATTER that you already know everything they are going to say because that’s not the point of argument-witnessing, which is just to spew the things out at you. ha-HA! Here’s web in your eye.

    But the Christians haven’t bothered me in at least a decade – they had me a little worried with Dubya. And they were never trying to obliterate all the various basics upon which human life and culture depend. And what do you know, only the Christians seem to even have a sense of humor half the time anymore. Compare The Onion to Babylon Bee for instance. Whoever is The Fun Police are the bad guys, and it ain’t the Christians anymore. Precisely because they had an established worldview, The New Thing did not, Invasion of the Bodysnatchers-style, move in and take over.

    Democrats: Pro War, anti Working-Class, pro racism, anti free speech, rabidly pro ginormous corporations, anti bodily autonomy, anti political-dissident, anti civil rights and due process, pro authoritarianism, pro CIA and Intelligence Community in general (we are Pro Community!!!).

    Incidentally, I’ve noticed an easy-to-use mind-blowing koan for older Democrats with TDS. They will OF COURSE proselytize whatever CNN just told them about Trump (Much like Grandma would proselytize for Jesus anytime we came over) – I reply with “Who was a worse president, Bush or Trump?”

    Sudden 404 error. Seriously, it is interesting to watch. Doesn’t work on younger Dems, but mind blowing for the older folks. Bush – 2 trillion dollar wars, torture, financial collapse, etc – the answer is OBVIOUS, which is why they go into a momentary error status. Then you can point out “Hey, isn’t it weird how Bush’s image got re-imagined and he kept getting put into puff pieces in the New York Times, Washington Post, etc while being anti Trump?”

    From where I am sitting – everyone I know a lifetime card-carrying Democrat and CNN watcher – it has seemed like there is way too much inertia, way too much mass. Colossus punching The Blob with all his might and just getting laughed at: “Nothing hurts The Blob!!! Ahahahaha!” (what happens to Rogue if she touches The Blob with her bare skin, does she become a Target model?)

    But apparently Americans AREN’T all of that type, not even a majority. Slowly, it seems like maybe, just maybe, this stuff is being rolled back – and legally, without any idiotic civil war garbage. (and with fake glowie “far right” groups getting unmasked) As if we were a civil and civilized people. Woke Blackrock owned companies on the skids, Twitter kind of doing free speech, these recent court rulings, a Democrat candidate saying things a 90’s Democrat would recognize as aligned with their party’s values instead of some version of 1984/Brave New World.

    Maybe it’s just the conversations I’ve had with people lately that are outside the Current Thing bubble or maybe it’s the prospect of an ok job, but I am starting to feel slightly, slightly positive.

    Happy International National Pride month everybody. Proud of ALL our peeps – just like surely, they are ALL so very proud and celebratory of us in return! Glad we aren’t reduced to glass and cinders nor waiting on the beach after all. It’s going to be a great morning and a great day. Maybe.

    #138483
    Figmund Sreud
    Participant

    Dr. Campbell’s latest vid, conversation with one of three Danish authors of study (report!) of “vaccine batches with different adverse reactions”

    F.S.

    #138484
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Here you go, the critical scene: “I do not recall, Senator.”

    https://youtu.be/QlXrxNsmMT8?t=367 (timestamp)

    “Clear and Present Danger.” 1994

    Comments?
    “2 years ago I remember watching this as a kid and thinking most people in government were like Ryan and you had a couple people like Ritter. Now that I’m grown up, I realize it’s the exact opposite.”

    #138485
    Michael Reid
    Participant


    I think if we accept and bow to a new round of humiliating mandates we will be “done for good”.

    I agree.

    I feel never accept a mandate unless that is what you would do on your own

    #138486
    Noirette
    Participant

    COV19. ** Excess deaths in Switzerland **

    CH’s policy for making data public is to write short pieces, comprehensible for all, in several languages, and to present some easy to digest graphs, charts. All the raw data can be downloaded, free, by anyone. France has a very different policy.

    Last week, in CH, 5 men aged 20s – 30s drowned.

    It made headlines, people were shocked. I am sure they could all swim (though that was not directly stated in the news) – no earthquake, terrible storm, etc. took place.

    The average no of drownings p.a. is 45, this includes hapless tourists, toddlers who fall into pools, crazy risk takers in icy conditions, suicides, etc. So 5 healthy sporty types in a week is unheard of. (> one link in G below with details.. shows men drown FAR more often than women..)

    One graph is enough. Eng. – can be downloaded and manipulated.

    Scroll > weekly nos. of death.

    https://tinyurl.com/yea9ae4p

    For over 65s, the red lines show ‘excess’ death or ‘unexpected lack.’ For the top 6 peaks, 2010 – today:

    Jan 2015, Jan 2017 > bad flu year.

    End March 2020 – first ‘covid’ surge (that is merely the official attribution.)
    Nov 2020 to Jan 2021 – highest peak – ‘covid’ deaths.

    Once the primary ALARM is over, excess deaths in over 65s has 2 horrid peaks, in Dec 2021-Jan 2022 (second ‘covid’ wave), Dec 2022 – Jan 2023, with in between these two, a lot of excess deaths as well.

    These elderly ppl have been dying off at alarming rates, without any investigation, or even commentary. // Imho vaxx deaths for some consequent part…//

    By contrast, there are no noteworthy excess deaths in under-65s. The red dots do signal outliers, but the numbers are too small to conclude anything. One horrific bus going off a cliff with teens on a school trip makes a red dot. 5 fit men drowning in one week do not.
    Pop CH: 8.7 million.

    It is all most strange. One could attempt to correlate vax stats with death stats (as others have done for other countries) but imho in the CH case it wouldn’t point to anything conclusive, as roughly only 2/3, or even less, of the adult pop is – was vaxed w. 2 doses.

    https://www.slrg.ch/sites/default/files/2022-06/Ertrinkungsstatistik_2021.pdf

    #138487
    jb-hb
    Participant

    They are purposely, premeditatedly, actively smearing adverse reactions across the actuarial tables.

    This would, I suspect, narrow the set of possible motivations

    1.) Actually trying to get away with killing and sterilizing people as little-detectable as possible?

    2.) The Not-A-Vax was a way of testing a wide array of technologies and permutations of those technologies on human subjects quickly? Soros needs nanotech anti-aging, stat?

    Is anyone looking for anomalous BENEFITS? Specific diseases mysteriously cleared up, people feeling mysteriously healthier? If so, then #2.

    #138488
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Pride Month is over. That means it’s Greed Month! Happy greed month everybody!

    And August is Wrath.

    If straight people talked like gay people:

    Actually accurate. Non-offensive.

    And in Honor of B&Js, (Now Unilever™) lighting themselves on fire, a joke:

    “Ben and Jerry saw an ice cream truck in their neighborhood and ran it down. “What do you guys want?” “Nothing, we just wanted to tell you we’re vegan.””

    #138489
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    If it were a battle in which the weaponry consisted of declarations of great confidence then NATO would be kicking Russia’s ass all over the steppes and the US dollar would be peeing Yauns & Rubles into the City of London urinal.

    #138490
    jb-hb
    Participant

    …what I mean by ” purposely, premeditatedly, actively smearing adverse reactions across the actuarial tables” is that instead of the not-a-vax being ONE thing, it’s probably both a cocktail of things and a whole bunch of different cocktails of different things.

    Made with a wide variety of ingredients knowingly for the express purpose of spreading it more thinly across the wide array of all death and disablement causes. Ergo, it is designed to hide itself. Or at least that is one interpretation.

    #138491
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    instead of the not-a-vax being ONE thing, it’s probably both a cocktail of things and a whole bunch of different cocktails of different things.”

    Just the sort of job that gives geeks and experts with super computers a reason for living. Turn those guys loose with access to all of the data and we’ll have all of the answers we ask for, tied up in a bow, by the week-end. Well, it might take them a little longer than that, but you get the idea.

    #138492
    zerosum
    Participant

    Are vegans liars/hypocrites?

    Do vegan eat ice cream?
    Do vegan use a belt to hold up their pants?
    Do vegan use a horse driven cart?
    Do vegans eat eggs?
    Doo vegans eat cake?

    #138493
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    @zerosum

    I’ve seen vegans commit absolute genocide on veggie pizza, and I’m pretty sure that countless lives of numerable life forms from various species were lost in that holocaust.

    #138494
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    I am assembling and installing wind generators

    #138495
    Germ
    Participant

    Horowitz: Now that government COVID malfeasance is exposed, what will the GOP do about it?

    “We now have over two years of information showing ubiquitous injury stemming from damage to all parts of the body, particularly cardiac and neurological. Whether it’s VAERS, European data, countless independent studies, epidemiological data, excess deaths and “died suddenly” mysteries correlating with the take-up of the vaccines, health insurance data, life insurance data, or disability data – we have enough evidence to convict this shot for murder if it were a human standing for trial.”

    https://www.conservativereview.com/horowitz-now-that-government-covid-malfeasance-is-exposed-what-will-the-gop-do-about-it-2662235146.html

    TVASSF ( … and the GOP will do fuck all about it)

    #138496
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    @MichaelReid

    I’m pretty sure you’ve already thought of this but I should suggest it anyway, just in case. The random ground cover and shrubs surrounding your wind turbines will create severe turbulence in lateral air flow not just at ground level, but well above it, thereby disrupting laminar flow and resulting in reduced energy capture by the turbines. A nicely mowed lawn all the way-round would hopefully remedy that to some degree.

    #138497
    WES
    Participant

    Hi Michael:

    Looks like you have been busy this summer.

    Hopefully you can catch a good breeze off of the water/ice. You might want to experiment with rasing the height of your turbines too.

    Do the vertical turbine blades have a profile that allows the blades to accelerate to speeds faster than the wind speed?

    #138498
    WES
    Participant

    On the Russian MoD daily clobber list they mention the downing of 10 to 20 drones a day with over 2,000 drones dispatched to date. These are likely only the toll for big drones.

    However, these stats probably are misleading in terms of the true extent of the Ukrainian drone war.

    Most drones being used are likely small short range video drones. Due to Russia’s strong EW capabilities, Ukrainian’s small drone losses are thought to be over 300 drones a day or about 10,000 per month!

    The drone war we aren’t hearing about.

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