Oct 042023
 


Albrecht Dürer Study of the left hand of an apostle (for the Heller Altar) c.1508

 

RFK Can Become President as an Independent (Jeffrey Tucker)
US House Removes McCarthy From Speakership in Historic Vote (Sp.)
Trump Hit With Gag Order After ‘Disparaging’ Attacks Against Court Clerk (Sp.)
New Messages to Hunter Deepen Concerns Over Chinese Influence (Turley)
Ukraine Forbids Troops To Group Together Fearing Mutiny – Macgregor (TASS)
No Arms Left For Ukraine In Europe – Politico (RT)
EU Incites Ukrainian Conflict and Stigmatizes Peace Talks – Hungary FM (Sp.)
EU Wants To Pay Hungary €13BN So Orban Doesn’t Veto Ukraine Aid (ZH)
UK Advises Zelensky to Enlist Young Ukrainian Recruits (Bridge)
‘Experiments Carried Out’: Ukrainian Soldiers Become Antibiotic-Resistant (Sp.)
US ‘Failing’ At Life Expectancy – WaPo (RT)
“The Beasts With A Red Star On Their Foreheads” (Helmer)
Murderous Work on mRNA Technology Wins the Nobel Prize (VN)

 

 

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Ukr nazis

 

 

 

 

Gaetz
https://twitter.com/i/status/1709320755572289570

 

 

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“That would put him in the solid category of a real Democrat—half a century ago. Times have changed, and dramatically so.”

RFK Can Become President as an Independent (Jeffrey Tucker)

As predicted two weeks ago, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. appears ready to declare as an independent for president. Already polling at 20 percent nationwide, he will announce that he’s severing ties with the Democratic National Committee (DNC). This is because the DNC has set up impossible roadblocks to victory within the party apparatus and the primary process. The Biden administration is denying him Secret Service protection despite apparent attempts on his life. Of all figures in public life today, Mr. Kennedy has the strongest claim to the legacies of his father and uncle, ideologically and culturally. That would put him in the solid category of a real Democrat—half a century ago. Times have changed, and dramatically so.

He started off this campaign with the belief that he would help guide his family’s party back to a principled commitment to the common good. But he has discovered that this isn’t what the party is about anymore, at least not according to the masters at the top. This is a man who believes that America isn’t lost, not foundationally corrupt, not a complete goner. He looks around at the people in this nation and sees goodness, a love of country, a desire for freedom, and a strong devotion to making things right. Conventional American politics, however, seems designed to block real solutions. Because he still wants to make a difference—one senses that he believes it’s his destiny—he will continue his run for president as an independent.

[..] Few people really want to see a Biden/Trump rematch, and those who do are motivated by a burning passion to reverse or reinforce the 2020 election, the results of which are widely disputed thanks to President Trump’s aggressive protests against irregularities. Let’s just say that this constitutes about one-third of the electorate. What about everyone else who would like to see something like normalcy return to this country without the incredible corruption that has invaded our public lives? Mr. Kennedy makes a credible claim that he has the knowledge and ability to begin to clean up the system in Washington, precisely because he has been litigating against it for many years. What else does he have going for him? There’s an authenticity to his language and approach that no other candidate can match. He’s obviously not a professional politician.

He speaks and sounds more like the best professor you ever had, with an incredible and ever-present command of facts and information about a huge range of subjects. His recall seems at times to be photographic concerning names, dates, data, and anecdotes. His speeches often seem more like teaching seminars. In a strange way, we need that now. Regardless of what you think about his views on this topic or that, everyone has to admit that he has an amazing command of all the issues, whether health policy, foreign policy, censorship, or environmental problems. In a startling way, when he doesn’t know something, he outright admits it and seeks out experts to help him. What’s especially beautiful about Mr. Kennedy is his absolute refusal to censor himself. He believes that the CIA was involved in the killing of his uncle and says that, bringing the receipts.

He believes that the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are deeply corrupt, sacrificing American liberty and health in the pay of the legally privileged pharmaceutical industry, and he says that, too. He looks around the country and sees a government/corporate cartel crushing the interests of small businesses, farmers, and the middle class generally, and he says that, too. Most striking of all, none of these points are politically strategic, much less put together by consultants with focus groups. They come from his own mind and heart. He has ruminated on them for many years. Running for president is just his chance to reach a larger audience with a message that’s his alone.

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Next: Gaetz, Scalise, Trump?!

Trump is a nice option, but he’ll be in court much of the time.

US House Removes McCarthy From Speakership in Historic Vote (Sp.)

Over the weekend, Congress narrowly passed a continuing resolution funding the government for another 45 days, to give more time to debate a series of spending bills that form the 2024 budget. After a vote of 216 to 210, the US House of Representatives on Tuesday removed US Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) as speaker of the House. It was the first time the lower chamber voted on vacating the speaker’s office in 113 years and the first time it has ever succeeded. The decision came after an earlier motion to table the vote failed, with 11 Republicans voting with Democrats against the motion and allowing it to proceed. “It’s to the benefit of this country that we have a better speaker than Kevin McCarthy,” said US Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), who called the vote against McCarthy. “The reason he went down today is because no one trusts him.”

Gaetz said the California representative “is a feature of the swamp … we are breaking the fever now and we should elect a speaker that is better.” Shortly after the motion cleared the congressional chamber, Republican held a closed-door meeting to discuss next steps, specifically who would be put forward to permanently fill the position. At present, it’s temporarily filled by US Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-NC). McCarthy has since detailed that he will not be making another bid for the speakership. “I will not run for speaker again, I’ll have the conference pick somebody else,” McCarthy said Tuesday evening. “I wouldn’t change a thing.” The former speaker added the country is too great for the small visions of the eight Republicans who voted alongside Democrats to oust him from his post. Moreover, McCarthy said he will look into whether he will remain in Congress.

US President Joe Biden has weighed in on the latest developments and urged the House chamber to immediately elect a new speaker. Democrats are expected to hold a meeting at 9 a.m. local time on Wednesday to address the McCarthy fallout. Gaetz has suggested US Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) would make a better speaker than McCarthy. The Florida lawmaker is a member of a small GOP faction that has used the party’s slim House majority to push its own agenda on McCarthy. The faction, which is closely aligned with the Freedom Caucus and former US President Donald Trump, allowed McCarthy to become speaker in January only after extracting a series of agreements on policies, such as a willingness to engage in brinksmanship regarding budget cuts.

Even then, McCarthy only became speaker after 15 rounds of voting, with several members of the faction ultimately only agreeing to vote “present” during the vote instead of against the California lawmaker. After McCarthy spent months refusing to raise the debt ceiling in an attempt to force Democrats into agreeing to steep budget cuts – a key demand of the Freedom Caucus – the speaker then agreed to cut a deal with Democrats in late May that provided for some limitations on the forthcoming budget, but well below what hard-liners had demanded. Gaetz and his coterie saw this as a betrayal and the threat to oust McCarthy has hung over the House chamber for months.

McCarthy’s fate was ultimately sealed after he blinked a second time in the showdown with Democrats over the fiscal 2024 budget this past weekend. Without a budget, the federal government would have shut down many of its non-essential functions until new funding could be passed. Republicans made clear they saw this as an acceptable outcome if it meant pressuring the Democrats into large budget cuts, but McCarthy again cut a deal with Democrats at the last minute to pass a 45-day funding extension, giving lawmakers more time to debate the budget without facing a shutdown.

Trump speaker

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“Schumer’s girlfriend, Alison [sic] R. Greenfield, is running this case against me. How disgraceful! This case should be dismissed immediately!!”

Trump Hit With Gag Order After ‘Disparaging’ Attacks Against Court Clerk (Sp.)

The judge presiding over Donald Trump’s civil fraud trial in New York issued a limited gag order for the former president and other parties involved in the case, barring them from publicly speaking about his staff. The order came after Trump’s Truth Social account posted about the judge’s principal court while he sat feet from her in court. Judge Arthur Engoron did not mention Trump by name while issuing the order, saying instead that “one of the defendants” posted a “disparaging, untrue and personally identifying post” about his staff. The judge ordered the post deleted, but by that time it had already been shared across the internet. “Personal attacks on members of my court staff are not appropriate and I will not tolerate it under any circumstances,” Engoron said, adding that he warned counsel about the issue previously.

During the trial, Trump’s Truth Social account posted a picture of the clerk, Allison Greenfield, with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY). “Schumer’s girlfriend, Alison [sic] R. Greenfield, is running this case against me. How disgraceful! This case should be dismissed immediately!!” the now-deleted post read, which also shared a link to one of Greenfield’s social media accounts. The photo showed Schumer and Greenfield smiling while standing next to each other. Schumer’s arm can be seen high on Greenfield’s shoulder and the two do not seem to be in any kind of embrace. The image has been likened to photos people take with celebrities or politicians. Screenshots of the post include a comment by Greenfield saying it was taken at a brunch event for the Chelsea Reform Democratic Club Founders. Greenfield also took a photo with US Rep.Carolyn Maloney (D-NC) at that event.

There have been no credible accusations that Greenfield and Schumer have an inappropriate relationship or any relationship at all. Schumer has been married since 1980. Trump was apparently sharing an accusation made by a conservative account on X (formerly Twitter) that started posting about Greenfield shortly before the trial began. The same account previously accused Engoron of drinking on the job. It is not clear if the account, which has less than 500 followers, is satirical in nature. It purports to be “applying the 69th Amendment to the internet.”

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“Hunter Biden’s massive spending and addictions would have been a draw for intelligence services..”

New Messages to Hunter Deepen Concerns Over Chinese Influence (Turley)

Messages from longtime Biden associate Fran Person show the Chinese stepping in to support Hunter’s lavish lifestyle as funds dried up during his divorce. Person wrote Hunter that Chinese businessman Bo Zhang “will help you with what you need.” Fran Person was not just a close aide to Joe Biden for years, but someone that the First Lady Jill Biden described as a member of the family: “Fran has been like a son to Joe and me. For eight years, we traveled the country, shared holidays together … Fran may be leaving the office, but he will always be a part of our family.” Fran left the staff of Joe Biden and went to work with Chinese figures . . . and Hunter. In a July 2017 WhatsApp message, Person told Hunter that Zhang was aware that he was in financial distress during his divorce and would cover his costs.

Hunter sounds desperate for the Chinese support as he gushes money to fund his lavish lifestyle: “100K at least gets me until next month.” Person assures him that Zhang has his back: “He will help you with what you need.” Fox News Digital reported on Person’s messages. They include this assurance: “I talked to Bo previously about the 37K – he didn’t flinch. I will talk to him about 56K and possibly 100K. It really depends on his liquid assets in the US…I will ask. His only problem is getting large sums out of China (especially right now).” Hunter appears in distress and presses Person if he knew whether anything was wired or if they were in a “holding pattern.” Person responds “No holding pattern…he was on his way to the bank this morning. He will be in touch when it’s confirmed.”

“He will help you with what you need. He also mentioned that you should take a trip to China some time this month to just get away for a week or so…just decompress.” Hunter later schedules the trip. The concern is that Hunter was receiving money from figures closely associated with foreign governments and foreign intelligence agencies, including the CCP. These operatives often look for people who are in desperate situations to exercise influence over them. Hunter Biden’s massive spending and addictions would have been a draw for intelligence services. He offered an obvious entry into potential influence or access with regard to Joe Biden. At one point, Hunter offers in July 2017 to have Zhang at his father’s McLean home after Joe Biden left the vice presidency.

Zhang met repeatedly with Hunter Biden, Person, and Eric Schwerin. Person’s message shows him showering Hunter with praise and promises of Chinese funds. In one message, Person told Hunter that he “selfishly want[s] to work” with him “because I know what the hell your capable of, AND I want to learn from you. I’m putting myself out there right now, and I’m learning quickly. But I’d love to be there with you doing some of this stuff. I mention the 500K on 10M raise be I’m about to get started on that, and I could really use your help. We could knock it out together. I’d think that’d help take some bite out, and you wouldn’t feel like your ‘resorting’ to anything…I’ve got one loyalty brother. That’s to my family. Your family.”

Person is obviously going to be busy during this impeachment inquiry. Despite President Biden’s repeated denials that anyone in his family received any money from China, The Washington Post and other media outlets have found those denials to be false. Indeed, at least two transfers of funds to Hunter Biden in 2019 from a Chinese source listed the President’s home in Delaware where Hunter sometimes lived and conducted business. The latest messages reveal how Hunter Biden’s personal and financial distress may have been viewed as an opportunity for foreign interests. Hunter suggests that he was existing month to month on such payments. The question is what he did in return for such foreign generosity in what is clearly an influencing peddling operation.

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“..whittle down the squads to three or four men to prevent larger formations from forming that might actually rebel..”

Ukraine Forbids Troops To Group Together Fearing Mutiny – Macgregor (TASS)

The leadership of the Ukrainian armed forces does not allow its servicemen to gather in large groups for fear of a large-scale rebellion, retired Colonel Douglas Macgregor, a former adviser to the Defense Secretary of Defense under former US President Donald Trump, said.”They (the Ukrainian military leadership – TASS) whittle down the squads to three or four men to prevent larger formations from forming that might actually rebel,” Macgregor said on the air of the YouTube channel Judging Freedom. He pointed out that distrust pervaded a military that sees its leadership send them to their deaths. “It’s a terrible condition. The people (the Ukrainian servicemen – TASS) are simply being fed systematically into the so-called meat grinder. <…> I would expect that to continue and even worsen in time,” the colonel added.

Earlier, Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist Seymour Hersh said that Ukrainian troops had suffered enormous losses during the counteroffensive and were effectively forced to call it off. According to the Russian Defense Ministry, the Ukrainian army has been making unsuccessful attempts to launch a counteroffensive since June 4. On September 12, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the Ukrainian armed forces had lost 71,500 servicemen, 543 tanks and almost 18,000 armored vehicles of various classes. The head of state stressed that the Ukrainian counteroffensive yielded no results.

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“..the “big elephant in the room” in Europe is the concern that Washington could abandon Ukraine..”

No Arms Left For Ukraine In Europe – Politico (RT)

EU countries have given Ukraine all the arms they can without compromising their own defense, Politico has reported, citing a European official. Kiev is facing cuts to both arms supplies and cash injections as “cracks appear”in Western support, according to the outlet. “We cannot keep on giving from our own stockpiles,” the European source said as quoted on Monday. There may still be robust political support, but “we’ve given everything that will not endanger our own security.” The comment was made to Politico as part of its coverage of last week’s International Industries Defense Forum in Kiev, during which the hosts went on a “charm offensive directed at weapons-makers,” as explained in the report. In a separate story on Tuesday, the outlet said that support for funding the Ukrainian government was “showing more cracks than ever.”

The failure of the US Congress last week to allocate aid money in its stopgap budget, the election victory of former Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico, who vowed to stop assistance to Ukraine on the campaign trail, and Kiev’s ongoing diplomatic row with Poland all send “a chilling message.” The Ukrainian government expects to receive at least $42.8 billion from international donors next year, as outlined in its projected budget. An expected fight over the EU’s joint budget means that “no one dares to predict anything” at this point, a diplomatic source told the news outlet. Another diplomat said the “big elephant in the room” in Europe is the concern that Washington could abandon Ukraine. The event in Kiev was part of its effort to ramp up domestic military production. Germany’s Rheinmetall and the UK-based BAE have made some commitments to open production facilities in Ukraine.

Kiev’s goal is to become “an Israel in Europe – self-sufficient but with help from other countries,” Daniel Vajdich, a Washington-based advocate for Ukraine, told Politico. President Vladimir Zelensky floated the idea of paying for the proposed build-up with “confiscated Russian assets” when he spoke at the forum. Prime Minister Denis Shmygal indicated that the proposed plants would not be safe. He said 37 of Ukraine’s own facilities have been damaged by Russian strikes. Russian officials have stressed that foreign-funded arms manufacturing sites in Ukraine would be treated as legitimate military targets. Denis Pushilin, the head of the Donetsk People’s Republic, reiterated the policy during an interview on Monday.

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“..other countries do not understand why Europe “has made this conflict global” and why people living in Asia, Africa and Latin America have to pay for it due to growing inflation, energy prices and unstable food supplies..”

EU Incites Ukrainian Conflict and Stigmatizes Peace Talks – Hungary FM (Sp.)

The world outside Europe does not share its position on the Ukraine conflict and does not understand European double standards applied to conflicts in other parts of the planet, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto has said. “I can say that the world outside Europe is already really looking forward to the end of this war, because they do not understand many things. They do not understand, for example, how it can be that when a war is not in Europe, the European Union, looking down with fantastic moral superiority, calls on the parties to peace, advocates negotiations and an immediate end to violence. However, when there is a war in Europe, the European Union incites the conflict and supplies weapons, and anyone who talks about peace is immediately stigmatized,” Szijjarto said in an interview on Monday. He also said that other countries do not understand why Europe “has made this conflict global” and why people living in Asia, Africa and Latin America have to pay for it due to growing inflation, energy prices and unstable food supplies.

Szijjarto added that Hungary’s position on the issue is treated with “great respect” outside the EU, which he was witnessing more than once during the UN General Assembly. Hungary has consistently opposed sanctions on Russian energy resources and sending weapons to Ukraine since the beginning of the Russian military operation in Ukraine in February 2022. The Hungarian parliament issued a decree banning the supply of weapons to Ukraine from the country’s territory. Szijjarto explained that Budapest seeks to secure the western Ukrainian region of Zakarpatye, where ethnic Hungarians live, since the supply of weapons through its territory would become a military target for Russia. The country’s leadership has repeatedly emphasized that Hungary stands for the earliest possible start of peace negotiations.

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“..so that EU aid to Ukraine doesn’t get blocked at a crucial moment that Washington funding is drying up..”

EU Wants To Pay Hungary €13BN So Orban Doesn’t Veto Ukraine Aid (ZH)

“The European Commission is preparing to unfreeze around €13 billion in funds for Hungary to try to avoid Prime Minister Viktor Orbán vetoing EU aid for Ukraine, in a move likely to draw criticism from the European Parliament,” Politico reports Tuesday. “The Commission needs the unanimous backing of the bloc’s 27 countries for an update to the EU’s long-term budget, which includes a €50 billion funding pot for Ukraine,” the report adds. Akin to what’s currently going down in Washington with a group of Republicans holding up Ukraine funding, Brussels may soon have its own Ukraine aid blockage problem. EU aid for Kiev which was previously approved runs out in December, hence the urgency for EU leadership in wanting to push through a new package.

A week ago, Orbán gave a speech declaring Hungary will no longer support Ukraine in any way unless certain significant policies are changed both in Kiev and in the European Union. He stressed in the words given before parliament that “Hungary is doing everything for peace” but that “unfortunately the Russian-Ukrainian war continues, tens of thousands of people are victims.” Thus, he continued, “Diplomats must take control back from the hands of the soldiers, otherwise it will be in vain for women to wait for their sons and fathers and husbands to come home.” The Hungarian leader has stood against ratcheting Western sanctions on Moscow, instead choosing to maintain a generally positive diplomatic relationship with the Kremlin. He also a week ago charged that Kiev and its backers have cheated Budapest by “Ukrainian grain dumping” into his country.

He had also laid out, per The Hill: … that he was protesting a 2017 law in Ukraine that limits ethnic Hungarians from speaking their own language, particularly in schools and said Hungary would not support Ukraine on international issues “until the previous laws are restored. Needless to say EU officials are panicking, and are readying a lucrative quid pro quo with Hungary (based on freeing frozen funds related to the prior years’ so-called “rule of law” punitive measures”), so that EU aid to Ukraine doesn’t get blocked at a crucial moment that Washington funding is drying up.

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“Ukraine will eventually have to restore its dangerously depleted demographic numbers if it hopes to survive in some form..”

UK Advises Zelensky to Enlist Young Ukrainian Recruits (Bridge)

On the same day that the party of pro-Russian populist Robert Fico emerged victorious in Slovakia’s parliamentary election, potentially destabilizing European unity for Ukraine, Ben Wallace, the former UK Secretary of State for Defence, penned a zinger of an opinion piece in The Telegram where he argues without a hint of irony that “Ukraine’s counteroffensive is succeeding.” “Whisper it if you need. Dare to think it. But champion it you must. Ukraine’s counteroffensive is succeeding. Slowly but surely, the Ukrainian armed forces are breaking through the Russian lines. Sometimes yard by yard, sometimes village by village, Ukraine has the momentum and is pressing forward.” There’s just one problem with Wallace’s hyperbolic pep talk – it’s absolute malarkey, yet so many people are lapping up the war propaganda and asking for seconds.

Across the line of conflict, the Ukrainians have spent the last four months of their counteroffensive taking one step forward and two steps back in the face of an impenetrable, multilayered Russian defense line, complete with mines, artillery and almost total air superiority. When the Ukrainian forces have succeeded in seizing a village or plot of land – increasingly on foot, as they no longer trust their lives inside the deathtraps of armored vehicles – it almost always turns out to be a self-defeating Pyrrhic victory. Since June, the Ukrainians have lost an estimated 81,000 troops in their efforts to seize Russian acquired territories in the Zaporozhye, Donetsk, Lugansk, and Kherson regions. At the same time, over 10,000 Ukrainian fighters have surrendered since summer using a special radio frequency set up by the Russian forces. Needless to say, Kiev’s stated goal of ultimately cutting off Russian forces from the land bridge connecting to the Crimean peninsula has thus far proven illusory.

And this is where Wallace’s message to the Ukrainian people takes on a very dark and even sinister tone. While imploring Ukraine to “play its part,” as if it has been sitting on its laurels all this time, the former defense minister lectured Kiev about its mobilization, particularly its lack of young blood. “The average age of the soldiers at the front is over 40. I understand President Zelensky’s desire to preserve the young for the future, but the fact is that Russia is mobilising the whole country by stealth. (In fact, there is nothing “stealth” about Russia’s recruitment efforts, as it’s widely known that 300,000 Russians have volunteered for military service since the start of the special military operation in February 2022).”

It is the absolute height of arrogance and cynicism for one country to entreaty another on behalf of a lower military recruitment age, especially when the primary purpose does not seem connected to securing victory, but for sustaining a steady flow of profits for the Western arms manufacturers. After all, no soldiers, no need for expensive weapons systems. And lest we forget, millions of young Ukrainians have already fled their country, never to return. Yet Ukraine will eventually have to restore its dangerously depleted demographic numbers if it hopes to survive in some form, a fact that has conveniently escaped Wallace’s attention.

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“..healthcare networks in Europe now consider prior hospitalization in Ukraine to be a critical risk factor for colonization of MDR organisms..”

‘Experiments Carried Out’: Ukrainian Soldiers Become Antibiotic-Resistant (Sp.)

Hospitals in several European countries have recorded significant growth of antibiotic resistance among Ukrainians arriving for treatment. So far, the exact cause of this remains unclear. The first case was announced in a research letter for the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in Germany in August, when a Ukrainian soldier was diagnosed with a number of dangerous infections that were not treatable with antibiotics. Western media recently highlighted that similar incidents were registered in several unnamed European countries, where wounded soldiers and refugees from Ukraine had gone. They cited “hospital and hygiene infrastructure” problems in Ukraine as one of the reasons the diseases spread, making “it harder to take the usual precautions against antibiotic resistance.”

Media also pointed out the absence of tests to determine the correct antibiotic use in Ukrainian hospitals. Therefore, infections and antibiotic-resistance are often found only in Europe. However, experts told Sputnik that antibiotic resistance could be a sign that these people had undergone biological experiments. The German CDC report claims the first case was officially registered in Germany. The wounded Ukrainian soldier was taken from Dnepropetrovsk to Kiev first, and then to an American military hospital in Germany. It was only when he was there that he was tested for infections and the unexpected discovery was made. “Doctors obtained blood, urine, respiratory, and peri-rectal surveillance cultures. Surveillance cultures grew A. baumannii, Enterococcus faecium, Klebsiella pneumoniae, and two distinct morphologies of P. aeruginosa.

Blood cultures grew a third P. aeruginosa. By using the Vitek 2 automated system, the gram-negative organisms were found to be non-susceptible to almost every antibiotic tested,” the paper explained. According to the CDC, Acinetobacter baumannii, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Klebsiella pneumoniae can cause pneumonia, meningitis, as well as infections in wounds and in the urinary tract. Ukrainians, both military personnel and refugees, can be carriers of dangerous infections across both Ukraine and Europe. Thus, US researchers warned European countries of an “increased risk” of the spread of multidrug-resistant organisms (MDR): “As a result, healthcare networks in Europe now consider prior hospitalization in Ukraine to be a critical risk factor for colonization of MDR organisms (7,10). Healthcare practitioners treating citizens of Ukraine need to be aware of the increased risk for MDR organism transmission and infection imposed by the conflict in Ukraine and implement appropriate infection control measures to mitigate their spread.”

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“..almost 42% of adult Americans are obese, compared to 11.6% in 1990. Medical professionals and scholars interviewed by the Post blamed a variety of factors, from lack of preventive care and focus on treatment, to racism.”

US ‘Failing’ At Life Expectancy – WaPo (RT)

The US is dead last among “peer countries” in terms of life expectancy for its population, the Washington Post reported on Tuesday. Months of research and interviews have revealed a widespread problem with obesity, cancer, heart conditions, and diabetes, as well as a growing gap between poor and wealthy Americans. “Among wealthy nations, the United States in recent decades went from the middle of the pack to being an outlier. And it continues to fall further and further behind,” according to the Post. American life expectancy peaked at 78.9 years in 2014, the same year the Affordable Care Act – also known as ‘Obamacare’ – fully went into effect. It has been declining ever since. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as of 2021 it was at 76.4 years.

The Post reporters looked at county-level death records over the past five decades, finding the largest increase in excess deaths among the 35-64 demographic. In that group, chronic diseases kill twice as many Americans as “all the [drug] overdoses, homicides, suicides and car accidents combined.” Heart disease, cancer, diabetes, liver failure, and other chronic ailments are the main culprits. Cases of breast, thyroid and colorectal cancer are “mysteriously” rising among Americans under 50. Meanwhile, almost 42% of adult Americans are obese, compared to 11.6% in 1990. Medical professionals and scholars interviewed by the Post blamed a variety of factors, from lack of preventive care and focus on treatment, to racism.

They said advances in medicine, nutrition, and technology have been “overwhelmed by poverty, racism, distrust of the medical system, fracturing of social networks and unhealthy diets built around highly processed food.” While the US medical system is great at treating diseases, “growing healthy people to begin with, we’re the worst in the world,” according to William Cooke, a doctor in Austin, Indiana. Elena Marks, a senior health policy fellow at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy, argued that the US has built a “health industrial complex” that costs trillions of dollars but focuses on treatment.

“Eighty-plus percent of health outcomes are determined by nonmedical factors,” said Marks, who used to be the health and environmental policy director for the city of Houston in Texas. There is a major “wealth gap” in life expectancy, according to the Post. In 2020, during the Covid-19 pandemic, the poorest Americans were 61% more likely to die than the richest ones, and had “far lower” life expectancy than poor people in comparable countries. While wealthy Americans enjoyed longer lives on average, they too lagged behind their counterparts in Canada, France, or Japan. The Post also highlighted the racial disparities in life expectancy, with Native Americans coming in dead last at 65 and Asian-Americans leading at 84. Meanwhile, Hispanics were at 78, whites at 76, and African-Americans at 71.

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“They were all murdered by June 1943 when the town was declared Judenfrei. Hunka remembered that time as “the happiest years of my life..”

“The Beasts With A Red Star On Their Foreheads” (Helmer)

Canada’s parliament, the Canadian Armed Forces and Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) demonstrate what the other NATO allies keep trying to hide. They aim to reverse the outcome of World War II and resume Adolf Hitler’s operation to destroy Russia. However, the fate of soldier Yaroslav Hunka of the SS Waffen Galician division, whom the MPs, the chief of the Defence Staff, and the RCMP commissioner, saluted a few days ago for his exploits killing Jews and Poles in the Ternopil region of western Ukraine between 1943 and 1945, now rests with two dossiers. One is in the archive of the Polish war crime prosecuting authority, the Institute of National Remembrance, in Warsaw. The second is the Soviet Army intelligence and KGB archives on the operations of Hunka’s unit before it fled a thousand kilometres southwest to Austria in order to surrender to the British Army.

“Beasts in human form with a red star on their foreheads,” Hunka has called the Russians whom he was afraid to fight. His Jewish schoolmates in the Berezhany Gymnasium – 32 of them refugees from Poland – caused him to “wonder why they ran away in front of such a civilized Western people as the Germans.” They were all murdered by June 1943 when the town was declared Judenfrei. Hunka remembered that time as “the happiest years of my life [dreaming] of the company of charming girls.” A year later, the Red Army launched its offensive against Lvov and in four weeks Hunka’s division was destroyed at Brody, 70 kilometres north of Hunka’s home. Of 11,000 of the Galicians with Hunka in the battle of the Brody pocket, less than a third survived. He fled with the retreating Wehrmacht towards Graz, Austria. “It was now every man for himself”, a recent history of the Battle of Brody (lead image, July 14, 1944) has described the outcome for the Galicians.

What Hunka had already done to the “charming” Jewish girls of Berezhany, and what he did when facing the Russians has been described by the Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons, in a script drafted by the Canadian Foreign Ministry, applauded by General Wayne Eyre, chief of the Defence Staff, as “heroic”. With Hunka as their inspiration, the Canadian military wants to repeat this battle against “the beasts with a red star on their foreheads” — this time with the Canadian Jewish community for allies, one of them the Leader of the House of Commons, Karina Gould. But she and her fellow government ministers must now decide whether to block Polish and Russian requests for assistance in documenting Hunka’s war record from Canadian, British and US military intelligence files. If they refuse, they will be protecting Hunka from prosecution for the war crimes in the Ukraine they declare they know nothing about, in order to improve themselves on Hunka’s performance at Brody seventy-nine years ago.

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“COVID is just the beginning. And what will likely ensue will be subsequent campaigns to get more mRNA injected into every man, woman, and child.”

Murderous Work on mRNA Technology Wins the Nobel Prize (VN)

Katalin Karikó and Dr. Drew Weissman have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their work on messenger RNA (mRNA). Their collaboration has not only transformed vaccine development but also opened up possibilities for other novel treatments for various diseases. Karikó, a Hungarian-born biochemist, spent a significant portion of her career at BioNTech, the German pharmaceutical company that partnered with Pfizer to create the first COVID-19 vaccine. On the other hand, Weissman, a physician-scientist, holds a prestigious position as a professor of vaccine research at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine. Soon, mRNA technology will be coming to flu vaccines. Supporters tout that the adaptability of mRNA technology allows for quicker response times in developing vaccines that can more accurately target circulating influenza strains, potentially making yearly flu shots more effective.

Furthermore, work is being done to apply mRNA technology to “treat” various other diseases. It is being explored as a potential treatment for sickle-cell disease and the autoimmune disorder, multiple sclerosis. Additionally, its application in cancer treatment is under investigation, with the aim of harnessing the immune system to combat malignancies. The fight against HIV, a long-standing global health challenge, is also on mRNA’s radar. Currently, three experimental HIV vaccines, built on an mRNA design akin to the COVID-19 vaccines, are in the early stages of human clinical trials. Dr. Robert Malone, a renowned scientist, medical doctor, and pioneer in mRNA vaccine technology, made some fiery comments on “X.”

He stated, “Kariko and Weissman get the Nobel, not for inventing mRNA vaccines (because I did that) but for adding the pseudouridine that allowed unlimited spike toxins to be manufactured in what could have been a safe and effective vaccine platform, if safely developed.” Malone further criticized the integrity of the award process, suggesting undue influence from pharmaceutical giants. “Pfizer has been campaigning for this since 2020 – at first, they even claimed (as did Kariko) that she invented the mRNA vaccine platform technology. Pfizer donates heavily to the Karolinska Institute, which awards the Nobel. Science has been hijacked again by big pharma.” The decision to honor Karikó and Weissman while omitting key contributors like Dr. Robert Malone raises questions about the narrative that’s being pushed surrounding mRNA technology. One thing is sure: COVID is just the beginning. And what will likely ensue will be subsequent campaigns to get more mRNA injected into every man, woman, and child.

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    Albrecht Dürer Study of the left hand of an apostle (for the Heller Altar) c.1508   • RFK Can Become President as an Independent (Jeffrey Tucker)
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle October 4 2023]

    #144148
    aspnaz
    Participant

    Trump and Jesus? Is DBS the new spiritual advisor on TAE, telling us all how we are so wrong and how he is the way, the truth and the light? Dear oh dear, what will we get next, this is like shock therapy.

    #144149

    I thought it was John the baptist. Lawrence of Arabia?! Who’s DBS? Cousin of TDS, twice removed? Nah, just a good drawing. Could have made it a caption contest.

    #144150
    oxymoron
    Participant

    So Asians and Hispanics are the most Racist in America then?
    I wonder how conclusions are made and framed.
    Good luck everyone.

    #144151
    oxymoron
    Participant

    aspnaz DBS is just riffing on deep thought. I like it. A bit time poor with 1000 substack subscriptions but still find time to read some of his musings and there is some good stuff there.

    #144152
    aspnaz
    Participant

    Alison R Greenfield should be in a sty.

    #144153
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Global Use of the Euro Has Collapsed in The Past Nine Months
    It’s share in transactions dropped from 38% in January to 23.2% at the end of August, which is the lowest level recorded in, at least, twelve years.”

    Nothing happens. Nothing will ever happen again. The Euro can go to one guy, Jose, trading it with Victor and Jean, and the price will remain the same with $1T in debt/year no problem to be floated. Yup!

    That’s our life now.

    “Blackstone’s Massive CRE REIT Records Eleven Months Of Outflows 

    …And nothing happens. Nothing will ever happen again. Blackstone (not BlackRock) goes from 100% invested to 0% and no prices change anywhere. Just like in “The Big Short”! 100% change in the housing equity, 0% change in the paper that TRACKS the housing equity.

    McCarthy. First time in 170 years a Congressman has held mild and appropriate consequences of his conduct. That was post Civil War when the corporations starting taking over the country, so I hope that means something.

    “• Ukraine Forbids Troops to Group Together Fearing Mutiny – Macgregor (TASS)

    Um…your plan is that the army can’t mass into formation? Brilliant! Be sure not to give them guns, tanks, and ammo either…oh wait.

    “Another diplomat said the “big elephant in the room” in Europe is the concern that Washington could abandon Ukraine.”

    Luongo has a new one and he channels Alex Marcolis and saying Britain is the one behind this. That the reason for several media events this week was to get the U.S. to keep footing the bill. Why should Europe or England pay? Make the U.S. pay! And all they have to do is buy a handful of dummies and keep the media positioning in place.

    However, the U.S. did NOT slavishly fall into it as we usually do. Not saying we won’t, but they might have to kill some kids or blow up a nuclear plant or something instead. …Which as we see, Britain is happy, relaxed, and overjoyed to do. Doing it for 200 years and they ain’t stopping now! They’ve got the 2nd Crimean War to fight! THEY are the ones who trained the 300 suicide squad to cross the river and take Zap Power against a few thousand Russians when the inspectors were there, keep blowing up the Kersh Birdge, etc. All England, all the time. Perfidious Albion, as every Irish, Scot, Frenchman, and German can tell you. …Yet they never stop running back. “Oh England, not THIS time you won’t! I love you and your beautiful teeth.”

    Anyway, the concern is first, last and always that the U.S. will stop funding the war for no f-ing benefit to us, so Europe and England don’t have to. …Just like the last X wars.

    Kiev’s goal is to become “an Israel in Europe – self-sufficient but with help from other countries,”

    What??? That’s just what I said! But I’m considered a crazed moron ranting nonsense all day. And it’s not “help” it’s “Sucking off the world like a parasite”…forever. What we’ve given Israel would probably fix all the infrastructure in the country 5x over. We could be 2nd world!

    So, what you’re saying is, If we win in Ukraine, we have the great benefit of ALSO paying you for all eternity? Shut up and take my money! You had me at “Israel in Europe”. We need such a beacon of peace, stability and human rights in all four corners of the world. They’d never be racist, ethnically divided, outlaw half the people and shell them, right?

    “He had also laid out, per The Hill: … that he was protesting a 2017 law in Ukraine that limits ethnic Hungarians from speaking their own language,”

    As discussed elsewhere and always, this is against the UN charter on Human Rights. …Just like everything the UN does and supports.

    ““Ukraine will eventually have to restore its dangerously depleted demographic numbers if it hopes to survive in some form..”

    Uh-huh. I know you’ve been buried in a textbook over there at Columbia, but maybe you should get out more often and look into what “Sex” is. “Sex”, if you haven’t heard, is how you make babies. With a man and a woman. Then a year after drunken frat orgy or however you guys do that sort of thing, and Brittany doesn’t get an abortion because it’s Chad’s baby and his father is rich and famous, she gives birth with a lot of screaming and blood. THEN, fast forward twenty MORE years of constant hardship, heartbreak, screaming, hitting people with belts and locking them in closets or whatever you guys do, ONLY THEN will you have a soldier. A “Demographic number”.

    …And only 50% of the time. The other half are girls, which apparently aren’t good enough or strong enough for you to go to war.

    So chop-chop, get hopping, you guys. At $10,000/year it’s only $200,000 and a lifetime away from filling one “X” on that spreadsheet you’re talking about.

    What a bunch of ninnies. I never thought I’d see the day I’d have to even explain “sex” and “Unplanned pregnancy” to morons. …Or to their much, much dumber cousins, the Ivy League.

    BTW, yeah, as discussed before, all that is past-tense. Ukraine has ALREADY demographically ceased to exist. I can’t think of a single plausible scenario where they retake their homeland.

    Or as Dorothy Parker would say, “If all the girls at Yale were laid end to end…I wouldn’t be surprised.”

    ““…almost 42% of adult Americans are obese, compared to 11.6% in 1990.”

    As RFK says 4x sicker than any other nation. Only since 1990. What are causes of obesity? Well if you’re straight-up poisoned the body often gains weight as if to dilute the poison. Endocrine disruptors are a major type of herbicide, pesticides and other toxins. Chlorine has an effect on iodine uptake which is thyroid health. And as well-established since the first concentration camps, called “Reservations”, if you feed people the worst, most carb-filled, vitamin-free diet like they used to on Food Stamps, they will gain the very specific kind of weight we commonly see. Get your fry bread today.

    Those are a few, and yes, there are others, and personal choices, but they’re using the choice and willpower part to distract from what they are very knowingly doing, paying, and forcing for decades. How do I know? Read all the food literature from the gov’t pre and post-WWII. They were savage about child nutrition and health, doing the opposite of everything today. Why? They wanted those soldiers as cannon-fodder as above. That was when we were arranged to ‘win” the war. Now we are pre-slated to “lose” it. Thus the expensive, decades-long, tireless, exhaustive push to ruin health, the opposite of the expensive, tireless, exhaustive push from 1930-1960. Push-pull. Problem-solution.

    “They were all murdered by June 1943 when the town was declared Judenfrei. Hunka remembered that time as “the happiest years of my life..”

    Like Soros. Apparently the more Jews he turned in for money, the happier he was. Oh wait—that can’t be right: he was also a Jew, as he defends every day he’s criticized. It’s almost as if a specific subset of Jews sacrifices the other set of them as a means of cloaking and survival.

    Anyway, Taibbi wrote on this un-real, un-credible, ir-real, astonishing, breathtaking defense of Nazis through all common papers right now. You see, we all “Misunderstood” that Hunka, a literal SS soldier neck-deep in atrocities, was actually an “SS Soldier” neck-deep in atrocities. And it’s OUR misunderstanding that this person they directly say and admit was an SS soldier, and tell us and admit was a war crime person, was a Nazi or a war crime person. …Which THEY say he was. In their own articles, paragraph before. But he wasn’t. Although they reported he was. Got it? Good.

    Trump, yeah, caption contest. The guy is just a guy. Unexceptional. Unimportant. Stupid. Fat. Ugly. Selfish. Amazing all the focus on him, I mean really pick somebody decent, will ya?

    Speaking of. Inexplicable. But fun.

    #144154
    boilingfrog
    Participant

    I’m still waiting for someone, anyone, to give me a single example of Mr. Trump, from any stage of his life, acting on an idea that was above and beyond his own self-interest… something said or done based upon a higher principal…

    Yes, I thought it was Jesus, too, good drawing but man it is so easy to ask the computer to do that sort of thing nowadays…kinda sad. And here you have magnificence from Durer…from the 1500’s! Amazing! I stop and think of the materials he was working with…in what conditions of lighting, etc…

    #144155
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Ukraine Forbids Troops To Group Together Fearing Mutiny ~McGregor

    We are at the Event Horizon for the Ukronazis troop morale collapse

    Ukronazi officers are actually stealing the paychecks of men under their command and collecting paycheck of dead soldiers under them so their wives and families are deprived of death benefits from the government.

    Sweet

    Three to four man groups on a battlefield like Ukronaziland won’t do shit.

    That’s kabuki, nothing more than pantomime to keep the Grift flowing.

    Ukronaziland is a corruption sewer second only to the Empire of Lies Congress.

    Whitney Webb interviews Catherine Austin Fitts

    Well worth a listen, lots of dots connected by two really smart women.

    https://rokfin.com/post/48152/Interview-with-Catherine-Austin-Fitts

    #144156
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Stopping a fan with your head

    Looks like NATO=NAZI trying to stop Russia

    https://twitter.com/i/status/1709419661610340790

    #144157
    zerosum
    Participant

    https://newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/38-companies-join-newly-established-ukraine-1696067765.html
    38 companies join newly established Ukraine defense alliance
    SAT, SEPTEMBER 30, 2023
    Ukrainian companies have signed 20 documents with foreign partners, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
    These agreements and memorandums cover the production of drones, the repair and manufacture of armored vehicles and ammunition. Among the cooperation formats are joint production, technology exchange, and the supply of components.

    During the forum, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced the creation of a defense industry alliance, with 13 companies already joining. Ukraine will also establish a special defense fund using funds from Russian assets and dividends from state defense assets.
    ———–
    Preparing the defense ground.
    It’s not because of the vaccine or long covid.

    The life expectancy crisis is systemic, with social, economic and political drivers.
    • US ‘Failing’ At Life Expectancy – WaPo (RT)

    https://www.azerbaycan24.com/en/us-failing-at-life-expectancy-wapo/

    The US is dead last among “peer countries” in terms of life expectancy for its population, the Washington Post reported on Tuesday.
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/interactive/2023/american-life-expectancy-dropping/?itid=lk_inline_manual_5
    ( DYING EARLY AMERICA’S LIFE EXPECTANCY CRISIS
    AN EPIDEMIC OF CHRONIC ILLNESS IS KILLING US TOO SOON)

    Months of research and interviews have revealed a widespread problem with obesity, cancer, heart conditions, and diabetes, as well as a growing gap between poor and wealthy Americans.
    ———–

    The evidence available in Canada against Ukrainian war criminals has been concealed, starting with the Deschênes Commission of 1987.

    https://publications.gc.ca/Pilot/LoPBdP/CIR/873-e.htm
    WAR CRIMINALS:
    THE DESCHÊNES COMMISSION

    Prepared by: Grant Purves
    Political and Social Affairs Division
    Revised 16 October 1998

    “The Commission found prima facie of war crimes in just 20 cases, and, in a confidential Part II to the Report, made detailed recommendations to the government about how to proceed in each case”
    ———

    #144158
    those darned kids
    Participant

    well, mr. trump looks pretty good in that portrait.

    but, there’s NO WAY jacob chansley has that much hair.

    #144159
    WES
    Participant

    As long as the US and NATO keep pumping money into the Ukraine, the Nazis will keep the war going. It is corruption that is feeding and keeping the war going!

    Oh, so if I keep throwing more of my countrymen at the Russians, you will give me more money? Sure, no problem!

    Notice in both the US and EU, the anti-war focus is now on stopping the money flows, not the weapons flows.

    #144160
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    It’s almost as if a specific subset of Jews sacrifices the other set of them as a means of cloaking and survival.”

    Yeah, like the way it would look if the IMAX version of the cinematic blockbuster History Of Humankind was adapted for smaller screens and shorter attention spans, and translated with really clunky subtitles.

    #144161
    WES
    Participant

    China has been actively restricting the sales of drones and drone components to restrict the West’s and Ukraine’s ability to produce drones. This is why the Ukraine is now short of drones compared to Russia.

    #144162
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    I had a teacher in High School who was much like @aspnaz (but with a MUCH sweeter temperament), in that Archie [his name was Archie Stewart] couldn’t get past the rules of spelling, grammar and conventional syntax to grasp the underlying meaning or message of a story. For him it was all form and story, but no meaning. You could have bounced parables off his head for a lifetime to no avail. For example, he thought that Ivanhoe was about chivalry, and that the Christian Bible was about religion.

    For that matter, he thought that RELIGION was about religion, but it never occurred to him that religion itself was merely a MEANS of getting at something far more fundamental and immeasurably more important; in a word, truth.

    And, to quote more than one historical figure, “What is truth?”

    To which my answer would be, “That’s a very good question! I think it would be an enormously beneficial endeavor to actually try to find the answer.”

    Along such a path one will inevitably stumble into religion. That’s a good sign that you’re at least in potentially fruitful country. But don’t get hung up in the words, forms and textualized stories. Go for the underlying message instead.

    And yes, this endeavor has absolutely everything to do with our current predicament.

    Find the truth and the truth will set you free. And that’s the truth.

    #144163
    phoenixvoice
    Participant

    Wolf pup howling…
    My dog realized a few years back that vocal (singing) warm ups are like dog/wolf howls. He has decided that he wants to join in the fun. So, whenever I do vocal warmups, he joins in. He does this when my singing students do their vocal warmups with me. He realized that the piano accompanies student vocal warmups, so now, sometimes general piano playing means to him that it is “time for a pack howl.” This is mostly hilarious, except when I’m teaching vocal harmony as his howls are not quite harmonious enough, are loud, and are too big of a distraction!

    #144164
    Noirette
    Participant

    Some keen classical music fans went to the Ambronay Music Festival (France), and were devastated when the main star, Baritone, whom they knew personally and admired, collapsed on stage in the middle of the performance, was shortly thereafter pronounced deceased.

    They described to me (viva voce, in person, over dinner) the tragedy, the closing down of the show, the tweets, the reactions of the Soprano Lady, who freaked out, other performers, the audience’s leaving, and so on. One noted that the Baritone was playing the role of GOD / An Elder, and saw some symbolic significance there.

    Nothing was said about the cause of death, there were no questions about why this Baritone died, he just collapsed! Horrific! So Terribly Sad!

    News report eng.

    https://tinyurl.com/2ysfaj7r

    https://tinyurl.com/4c4bm7fw

    (> … these kinds of deaths are now totally accepted as natural)

    #144165
    John Day
    Participant

    Hungry War Machine https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/hungry-war-machine

    Simplicius has extensive news again. The US Army War College report says the US military will need to draft cannon-fodder and turn off electronic communications in any peer-war, which lessons have been learned from Ukraine, where any electronic communication lights up a target for the enemy drones, artillery and missiles. This is the Army’s first major rethink of warfighting since the fall 1973 Yom Kippur War, involving Israel, Egypt and Syria.
    The need for an American draft is based on estimates that the burn-rate of American casualties would be about 3600 soldiers per day, so a lot of fresh meat needs to be in the pipelines and moving to keep feeding that grinder. (This seems to assume a one-front war, not Russian And Chinese fronts.)
    The poor quality of young American meat these days has 77% of 17-24 year olds “unfit for service”, so really only the cream of American youth will meet minimal requirements to be ground into closed-casket hamburger in the approaching “war for freedom and democracy”.
    American industry will have to gear up to make more tanks, FPV drones, which are suddenly so deadly-important, new communications networks, and all forms of armored vehicles, which need to be completely redesigned based upon battlefield lessons from Ukraine. America will keep buying into “public private partnerships” to do all this.
    There are some thoughts that identity politics should not be a primary military consideration, but those can be left for another day…
    Questions are raised about the hypothetical killing of NATO personnel inside of Ukraine by Russian forces, but this strikes me as odd because that happened already in spring of 2022 and was just covered over as helicopter accidents in other countries and high level prisoner exchanges from Mariupol were quietly arranged.
    The report notes that Russia does not need to go on the offensive while it continues to “win” a war of defensive attrition against declining Ukrainian manpower and exhausted NATO military supplies of all kinds. Russia is currently winning the global PR war by not-escalating in the face of provocations.
    NATO is ratcheting-up provocations and looking for obscure targets to hit within Russia to impress the western viewing audience, whose support is slipping hard lately from “war-fatigue”. It is officially hoped that such strikes will demoralize Russians and lead to Putin’s ouster. It is more likely that the NATO hope is to goad Russia into more aggressive action, to justify escalating NATO nuclear-brinksmanship, and allow the control-narrative to be effectively updated to overcome “war-fatigue”.
    ​ Army War College Report Predicts Mass Casualties in Near-Peer Fight Against [Russia] – Analysis​ [Note: US/NATO would be the “near” peer party.]
    https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/army-war-college-report-predicts

    ​I remember the “fragging” of American officers in their tents at night in Vietnam. (My Dad did not get fragged. The most-hated officers got fragged. Democracy at work?)
    ​ The leadership of the Ukrainian armed forces does not allow its servicemen to gather in large groups for fear of a large-scale rebellion, retired Colonel Douglas Macgregor, a former adviser to the Defense Secretary of Defense under former US President Donald Trump, said.
    ​ “They (the Ukrainian military leadership – TASS) whittle down the squads to three or four men to prevent larger formations from forming that might actually rebel,” Macgregor said on the air of the YouTube channel Judging Freedom.
    ​ He pointed out that distrust pervaded a military that sees its leadership send them to their deaths. “It’s a terrible condition. The people (the Ukrainian servicemen – TASS) are simply being fed systematically into the so-called meat grinder. <…> I would expect that to continue and even worsen in time”​.
    https://tass.com/world/1683731

    ​ Colonel (US Army ret,) Douglas Macgregor has an 8 minute update on the war in Ukraine, where Russia has 750,000 well trained, well led and well supplied troops in and around the war-theater. This is a realistic summation, and he draws implications based upon facts and trends.

    Eleni sent this article about strategic pathways for information transfer being contested in war, the same as strategic choke points for trade and pipelines are.
    ​ Eurasian integration and the western nightmare for a “Fistful… of cables”
    It is a common geopolitical secret based on the South China Sea that about 1/3 of the world’s shipping passes through its waters, while it is believed that huge amounts of oil and natural gas lie beneath its bottom but the most of all is that passes 99% of global internet. With the words of Haley Zaremba, “The crux of the war is underwater cables. More than 99% of all international internet traffic is carried through such subsea cables, which are overwhelmingly controlled by a handful of Big Tech companies in the U.S., “namely Google-owner Alphabet, Facebook-owner Meta, Amazon and Microsoft.” As the internet economy ramps up in Asia – it has expected to reach $1 trillion in value by just 2030 – other economic powers now want their slice of that pie. Whoever controls the cables that cross through the South China Sea will stake a major claim to that $1 Trillion”

    Eurasian integration and the western nightmare for a “Fistful… of cables”

    #144166
    John Day
    Participant

    Also from Eleni: (Can Venezuela hope to follow suit?) The US-Iran deal: prisoner swap or new nuclear agreement?
    ​ This week’s front-page prisoner swap and release of frozen Iranian assets may be nothing more than a sweetener toward a more sweeping US-Iran nuclear agreement.
    ​ Western diplomatic sources tell The Cradle that the main reason the US initiated secret talks with Iran is because Washington has a critical need to increase oil supply in global markets.
    ​ Deescalating with Tehran can bring new energy sources online quickly to make up for lost Russian supplies. This is why one of the unpublicized US deal concessions to Iran is to ignore sanctions on Iranian oil and gas trades.​ [Note: “Ignoring” sanctions is temporary and reversible, but releasing $20 billion of Iranian assets was a concrete step.]
    https://new.thecradle.co/articles/the-us-iran-deal-prisoner-swap-or-new-nuclear-agreement

    ​Gilbert Doctorow seems a little hopeful for these rays of sunshine.
    Sometimes democracy allows the will of the people to become state policy: this eventful weekend on Capitol Hill in Washington and in Slovakia

    Sometimes democracy allows the will of the people to become state policy: this eventful weekend on Capitol Hill in Washington and in Slovakia

    McCarthy Won’t Seek Speaker Position In Re-Vote; Trump Nominated By Nehls​ (Don’t laugh coffee through your nose, please.)
    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/mccarthy-out-today-motion-vacate-first-order-business-says-he-hasnt-struck-deal-dems

    ​Nice opening move… Nancy Pelosi evicted from her private office in the Capitol by interim House speaker
    McHenry assumed the temporary speakership after now-former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy was ousted on Tuesday
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/nancy-pelosi-evicted-private-office-capitol-interim-house-speaker

    ​Sea Change? Jim Jordan (R-OH), the man who said he didn’t want the job, is running for House Speaker to replace Kevin McCarthy (R-INO).
    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/jim-jordan-entertains-bid-house-speaker

    #144167
    John Day
    Participant

    U.S. Money Supply CONTRACTING; Down 3.69% and Falling

    https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/news-nation/u-s-money-supply-contracting-down-2-and-falling

    ​The recession has begun, but remains unheralded.
    ADP Employment Report Signals Weakest Labor Market Since Jan 2021
    https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/adp-employment-report-signals-weakest-labor-market-jan-2021

    US Factory Orders Jumped More Than Expected In August… Thanks To War​ (Expensive, outdated junk.)
    https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/us-factory-orders-jumped-more-expected-august-thanks-war

    ​ Swiss Writer Sentenced To 60 Days In Jail For Calling Journalist A “Fat Lesbian”​ (She does appear to be significantly overweight. “​Facts = hate speech” now?)
    ​ Soral’s remarks occurred two years ago when he took aim at Catherine Macherel, a journalist who prided herself in using her platform to advance her advocacy for LGBT causes.
    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/swiss-writer-sentenced-60-days-jail-calling-journalist-fat-lesbian

    Glenn Greenwald Weighs in on Russell Brand and the ‘War on Rumble’​
    ​ “So crucial is the online censorship regime to Western power centers that one thing is certain — any individual or company that even thinks about defying it will be severely attacked and punished,” journalist Glenn Greenwald said on an episode of his “System Update” podcast.
    ​ Big Tech platforms and the U.K. government have launched a war against Rumble, using recent allegations against comedian and political commentator Russell Brand as a pretense.
    ​ Rumble is an online platform that reaches large audiences and has a demonstrated commitment to defending free speech against the “censorship-industrial complex,” Greenwald said.
    ​ Four anonymous women accused Brand of rape, sexual assault and other types of emotionally controlling behavior that allegedly occurred more than a decade ago. The allegations were made as part of a joint investigation from The Times of London, The Sunday Times and Channel 4 Dispatches.
    ​ To date, no police complaint has been filed against Brand.​..
    ​..YouTube said Brand was suspended for violating its “creator responsibility policy.” A spokeswoman told The New York Times, “If a creator’s off-platform behavior harms our users, employees, or ecosystem, we take action to protect the community.”
    ​ Greenwald said organizations that deplatformed Brand were “engaging in obvious political censorship and capitulation to the demands of establishment sectors that hate Russell Brand, not because they believe he did this, but because his political messaging is so threatening.”
    ​ Other key figures in independent media agreed. Investigative journalist Max Blumenthal of The Grayzone told The Hill:
    ​ “Whatever the merits of the allegations are, it’s trial by media that he is being targeted because he has become perhaps the most prolific critic of corporate media as well as the War State and the Ukraine proxy war on the planet.”​…
    ​..But Rumble refused to comply, noting Brand had never been convicted of any crime, and that it is “not competent to adjudicate his guilt or innocence, just like it’s not competent to adjudicate truth and falsity in our nation’s most complex political and scientific debates,” Greenwald said.
    ​ In response, the British government and media and the U.S. corporate media have “launched a full-on assault on Rumble,” he said.
    ​ The Times of London said the U.K.’s new Online Safety Act could be used to eliminate Rumble in the U.K. altogether. The Sun warned that Rumble’s executives face the threat of arrest under this new online safety if they try to enter the U.K. without fully complying with these new censorship orders.
    ​ Greenwald said the attack on Brand and the new law are only “the beginning of the cycle of reprisal, not the end.”
    https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/glenn-greenwald-russell-brand-rumble-free-speech/

    #144168
    John Day
    Participant

    Family Investigated for Keeping Teen Home After School-Based Health Center Gave Bag of Unlabeled Zoloft to 17-Year-Old
    ​ When the girl’s father, Eric Sack, found the pills — which his daughter told him were Zoloft — he complained to the school.
    ​ Zoloft carries a black box warning — which warns of possible serious adverse reactions — indicating the drug can cause suicidal ideation, particularly in people under age 24, when they first start taking the drug.
    ​ Sack kept his daughter home from school the following week to make appointments with a doctor and therapist — a decision that resulted in someone at the school or the health center reportedly contacting Child Protective Services, which investigated the family.​..
    ​..”A young person is getting a drug with a black box warning. They come home with it. It doesn’t even have any warning label on it. The parents haven’t been told, and the drug is in some plastic bag that anybody — any other child in the house, or their peers — could have access to. It could be a very dangerous situation.”

    Family Investigated for Keeping Teen Home After School-Based Health Center Gave Bag of Unlabeled Zoloft to 17-Year-Old

    ​ Police Detective: 50% of Sudden Infant Deaths Happened Within 48 Hours of Vaccination — But No One Is Allowed to Say It
    ​ In an interview with Steve Kirsch, a former police detective claimed that about half of the sudden infant death cases she investigated showed the child had received a vaccination in the previous 48 hours. But coroners never mentioned vaccines on the death certificates, and doctors have been trained to gaslight parents, she said.​
    ​ Dr. Elizabeth Mumper, president and CEO of The Rimland Center For Integrative Medicine, told The Defender, “Many parental reports about a baby dying suddenly start with the phrase, ‘He just was at the pediatrician’s office — they said he was healthy.’”
    ​ “If there were no correlations between vaccines and SIDS, then sudden death cases would be evenly distributed throughout the month,” Mumper said.
    ​ “Instead, we see clusters of unexpected deaths in the first week after shots are given. Reports from police officers and first responders are supported by this published evidence,” she added.
    ​ Despite the comprehensive data gathering required by the coroner, Jennifer told Kirsch vaccines were never listed as the cause of death — or even mentioned — in the final reports.

    Police Detective: 50% of Sudden Infant Deaths Happened Within 48 Hours of Vaccination — But No One Is Allowed to Say It

    ​”Sinister Developments” Dr. John Campbell interviews James Roguski about UN and WHO efforts to establish global pandemic-emergency authority and funding through non-vote procedures, which are just “accepted” if not officially rejected, and on very short timelines. There are multiple parallel initiatives underway, not only the “Vaccine Treaty”.
    (This is 44 minutes long, but the first 34 minutes contains the essential information as well presented by Roguski.)

    Dr. Marian Laderoute , Pfizer Vaccines with Oncogenic SV40 DNA Contamination Not Revealed to FDA , Looks Like it Does Puts the TURBO in Turbo Cancers!
    https://hervk102.substack.com/p/pfizer-vaccines-with-oncogenic-sv40

    Consider ivermectin to be a possible contributon to care, not the answer to all prayers, please. Glioma studies are particularly interesting, though.
    ​ IVERMECTIN and CANCER, it has at least 15 anti-cancer mechanisms of action. Can Ivermectin Treat COVID-19 mRNA Vaccine Induced Turbo Cancers? – 9 Ivermectin papers reviewed
    https://www.2ndsmartestguyintheworld.com/p/ivermectin-and-cancer-it-has-at-least

    #144169
    Noirette
    Participant

    US is militarizing Ukraine to invade Russia.

    Sergei Glazyev speaks,

    June 2014. Vid. 11 mins. Eng subs.

    https://tinyurl.com/bdf97vaa

    well worth a watch.

    #144171
    John Day
    Participant

    ​ Pierre Kory MD , Reports From The Front Lines Of The Vaccine Catastrophe – Part 5
    Last of my series of posts (for now) on reports from the front lines. Currently, am hearing of issues with blood donor drives, vaccine exemptions, hiding of vax status, and cognitive dissonance.
    https://pierrekorymedicalmusings.com/p/reports-from-the-front-lines-of-the-530

    Robert Malone MD lays out how doctors participating in the “free” children’s vaccine must purchase at their expense COVID vaccines every month to provide to other patients, or face disciplinary actions from the Medical Board. (“That which is not forbidden is mandatory.”).
    ​ Coercing Doctors to Buy COVID Booster​s
    NY State Government Department of Health provides a lesson in how the Federal Vaccines For Children (VFC) program gets enforced
    https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/coercing-doctors-to-buy-covid-boosters

    ​ Of Mice and Men: Aspartame at Doses Lower Than FDA Limits Made Male Mice Slower and Dumber
    ​ Male mice fed the artificial sweetener aspartame at lower-than-recommended levels showed learning deficits, which they passed on to their offspring, according to a study in Scientific Reports. Although the deficits appeared only in first-generation offspring, the results suggest the effects of exposure to aspartame may be many times greater than originally thought.

    Of Mice and Men: Aspartame at Doses Lower Than FDA Limits Made Male Mice Slower and Dumber

    #144172
    John Day
    Participant

    ​The inevitable decline of shale oil drilling is underway, as predicted… Shale Is Not Coming To The Rescue
    https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/shale-not-coming-rescue

    Always underappreciated. It is all from humans, not from that big nearby star. Has the Sun’s true role in global warming been miscalculated?
    https://www.ceres-science.com/post/has-the-sun-s-true-role-in-global-warming-been-miscalculated

    Magnetic Pole Shift update. Earth’s magnetic fields are down to about 70% of their pre-1900 value and declining ever more rapidly.

    #144173
    jb-hb
    Participant

    I love how pointing out corruption is “disparaging.” If you point out conflicts of interest and ethical breaches, especially with a picture illustrating the fact so a 3rd grader can understand, you are a big meanie. And everyone knows, Don’t Be A Big Meanie is a rule!

    Since as of today,

    No Speaker Of The House, 2nd in line after the VP for President
    Russia running emergency drills
    US running emergency drills
    This is the day the 5g towers activate the marburg virus in all the notavaxxed (I have some serious doubts…)

    best of luck to us all!

    #144174
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    I’ll be off the interwebs for a couple of hours, or forever, as the case may be.

    Why didn’t I set up a pool for the possible outcomes of the events (and/or non-events) of this day? Coulda made a fortune!

    Anyway, tah tah for now.

    #144175
    John Day
    Participant

    My flip phone went emergency-buzzer at 1:18, before I removed the battery, so I removed the battery about 4 seconds into it.
    I never got jabbed.
    I think I’m gonna’ be ok.
    Who knows?
    😮

    #144176
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    Oh, no, I’m still here! Why do I feel a little bit disappointed? It might have been much more interesting the other way, and come to think of it, it still may.

    #144177
    jb-hb
    Participant

    IPAWS National Test 2023
    The test will reach millions of mobile phones across the country via Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA), radio and television via the Emergency Alert System (EAS), and other communication pathways.

    Test will take place at approximately 2:20 p.m. ET on Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2023.

    Backup testing date is Oct. 11.

    They will get you on the backup.

    dgadsgfdas

    fdsafdsas

    #144178
    jb-hb
    Participant

    Best go somewhere with no 5g

    sgddfd

    #144179
    jb-hb
    Participant

    Oh, no, I’m still here! Why do I feel a little bit disappointed?

    That’s the 5g effect they are testing today. Remote inducement of disappointment. (scratching their heads, how on earth can we make Americans uniformly feel disappointed? ..maybe with, uh, …electromagnetism???)

    Think of it as Wireless Biden.

    WiBi.

    #144180
    Figmund Sreud
    Participant

    … fwiw: The largely unknown story of the first Ukrainian refugees in Britain:

    F.S.

    #144181

    “Wireless Biden”. Perfect!

    #144182

    I forgot to mention:
    “Yamyam”.
    HaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHa!!!!

    #144183
    Oroboros
    Participant

    .

    #144184
    Oroboros
    Participant

    .

    #144185
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Demonrats Beg Bidet Biden to Abandon Economic Messaging

    #144186
    Figmund Sreud
    Participant

    A 200-metre-long bulk carrier docked in Vancouver, BC, Canada, … filled up with coal, and is now headed back to Asia – South Korea – where the coal will be burned in steel plant. That ship’s name? The MV Climate Justice! Yes, …

    https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/shipid:7803532/mmsi:209271000/imo:9942237/vessel:CLIMATE_JUSTICE

    Presumably this ship got its name because it’s reported to be cleaner-burning than all other bulk carriers.

    MV Climate Justice can carry between 30,000 and 40,000 tonnes of coal.

    F.S.

    #144187
    Celticbiker
    Participant

    I was in a divebar today, about 230 ET the commie fema signal went off, every retard therestarted punchin buttons on their jewphone. You know what, they deserve whats coming, They voluntarily walked into a cell, a prison. Fuck em, dont look back.

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