Debt Rattle April 13 2022
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Margaret Bourke-White Coney Island 1952 • CIA Admits Feeding Americans False Info About Ukraine (Ron Paul) • The West Cannot Isolate Russia, Pu
[See the full post at: Debt Rattle April 13 2022]Margaret Bourke-White Coney Island 1952
Great photo…
Been there a few times as a kid…
I wonder where Margaret Bourke-White shot it from? Quite a high place…QLD = Queensland, Australia.
Does one laugh or cry?
The QLD health minister says none of her “experts” can explain a sudden 40% increase in code-1 heart attacks, chest pains and respiratory issues.
In other news: I have a theory.
— Avi Yemini (@OzraeliAvi) April 12, 2022
Had a most extraordinary discussion with a young woman I’ve known for 19 of her 24 years…
We hit everything from covid to the vaccines…
…the extraordinary part was the depth we traversed regarding the politics of this …phenomenal verbal exchange between us…
The high point for me was discussing the utter failure of critical thinking in society in general, in both Thailand and especially the U.S.
My friend talked about her fears when faced with taking responsibility by acting on her realizations …
I found this to be a profound understanding to which I could relate too…
Regarding the decision not to vaccinate and rely on IVM and HCQ in case of infection…I also had bouts of fear when taking full responsibility for my actions…
As the old saw goes; Feel the fear and do it anyway…easily said, but not always easy to do…“Biden Announces New “Ghost Gun” Rule, Names New ATF Nominee”
Joe Biden outlaws “plastic”. Not kidding. Okay, every word is in violation, not only of 2A, but also 200 years of Federal law, but here goes: “90%” of a gun completed is a “gun”. “80%” of a gun completed, is not. How is that, how do you measure 80 or 90? No one knows.
But we don’t have to worry about that. Biden says “ANY” ghost gun is illegal. …And as usual becomes the nations’ top gun salesman, all guns and ammo being sold out day after. Also…hmmm…don’t remember any Amendments being passed. Funny. Nevermind, don’t have to worry about that either.
So if “ALL” ghost guns are illegal, what makes a “gun”? 50% completed? 10%? 0%? “I thought it in my mind”? So a “1%” completed is what? A block of plastic? The plastic still sitting unused in the 3D Printer machine? What?
A: “The law is whatever I SAY it is. We’ll arrest WHOEVER WE LIKE.” So expect to be arrested for Federal Firearm Violations if you own something called a “drill” or a dangerous terrorist ingredient called “aluminum”.
Speaking of being arrested, after a year in solitary, one man being beaten blind if I remember correctly, a “Judge” finally saw a “Case” in a “Courtroom”. Crazy, I know! Anyway this judge released the accused immediately as the film clearly showed the Congressional Police opening the doors, inviting him in, and taking selfies while shaking his hand. …As we always said.
Not all: a 2nd case the accused was convicted. Of Trespass and mischief, because he entered in a non-standard way and bothered or “vandalized” things. So that seems quite correct also. Unlike Seattle, you can’t break down the doors of the Federal Building, light them on fire, break the locks, and kill everyone inside. …Oh wait: we do NOT have a case pending for that “insurrection” where a clearly-organized group, WAS armed, DID attack, the attack was a Federal Building, and openly vowed on camera they wanted a “revolution” that would “burn it all down.” You know: an “Insurrection”.
But at this rate, the other J6 will be released from solitary by 2050. Good times. Because they are the legal authorities, who enforce the federal laws and support America. That is, vow to enforce a “speedy trial” without “cruel and unusual punishment” with access to the Prosecutorial evidence. Right?
Anyway, own a piece of plastic? You’re Next.
“The EU parliament is currently working on legislation to provide investors with more transparency as to environmental, social and governance risks that companies may face.”
…And therefore be refused loans by the insider banks. And $11T neo-governments like BlackRock. As yesterday, this is in service of killing everyone to cut off Russia so they can attack them in WWIII, and their compounding debt system will survive.
“Chipotle Sets to Debut Chip-Making Robots to Mitigate Labor Shortage: “Automation is the solution.”
…The solution to everybody being unemployed, and having no money for purchases. Got it!
Thanks to Powell’s 0% financing, erasing employees and citizens practically pays for itself!
“Moderna Recalls 764,900 COVID-19 Vaccine Doses after Contamination Found”
“Safe and Effective” There was medicine found in those doses. The perpetrators will be swiftly dealt with. This is what, the 5th time? Monopoly Rulz! Merger of Government and Corporation means never having to say you’re sorry!
“Bitcoin Price Action Increasingly Disconnected from On-Chain Demand”
Yup. Everyone prices via fraud. Therefore, no price discovery. Congratulations.
“Bitcoin Fans Are Psychopaths Who Don’t Care About Anyone, Study Shows (NYP)”
Compared to whom? This is now our normal society. But I’ve been after them for “Don’t care about anyone”: that is, they want to scalp some Satoshis for Tether on the exchange charts. By doing that, Bitcoin ceases to exist as a blockchain AND Tether is a certified lead-pipe fraud. And since allowed to continue as the most certain Billion-dollar empty-box ever created in the history of trading (really saying something) we also know that it’s 100% established and protected by the insider Wall St-Government merger. To kill and harvest you later. Do they care? “You had me at ‘I scalped a Satoshi’”.
So are traders emotionless sharks? Wow. Who knewd? Are psychological experts fart-stiffing morons who published word-soup articles, supported Mein Kapf, are always wrong and have never helped anyone in their lives? Also true. Where do you turn in a culture like this? Which way, morality?
“Washington Post Writer: Solve Inflation With More Immigration”
More demand equals lower inflation. That’s Econ 101! For glue-sniffing Ivy League writers.
“President Biden Accuses Putin of “Genocide”
“Genocide” doesn’t mean killing folks. It means sorting them out for extermination based on race. …If words have meaning anymore. So what “race” are the Russians killing? Slavs? Ukrainians are not distinct, and also they are/were welcomed by the thousand into Russia.
Now there is a real and logical solution: The people Joe doesn’t want Putin to kill are the “Kazarian Mafia”. Also read as: Not Jews. But I can’t tell. You decide.
“Another Supply Chain Shock on Deck: Cargo Backlog Ripples Beyond Shanghai as Lockdown Stops Trucks, Containerships”
Russia embargoes the food and fertilizer (or rather, the West embargoes themselves) and China embargoes the manufactured goods. Great softening up phase. Hitting us but good.
“When you’re working in diplomacy, there are no results.” –Zelinsky.
Yeah! War has way better results. Let’s do that! “Zelensky said he would never recognize Crimea as Russian territory”
Yup, we’re doing that. Forever, as long as Ukraine exists. Good idea! From a country next to the massive Russian military, with a zero mile supply line. You know how they make fun of Ukrainians as being stubborn and stupid? No comment.
Speaking of, Biden is looking at suspending the Clean Air Act and killin’ some folks. By adding food to our cars, in the form of ethanol. And they still claim, somehow, with a straight face, that they are not actively intending to kill people.
PS, Crimea isn’t Ukrainian at all. It was just under that provincial admin for the 30 years since the breakup. It’s occupied by Tartars and Russians for 1,000 years. Why does he hate the Tartars so much? We’ll never know. 60 Minutes will never ask.
“Americans Are “In Charge” of the War Says French Journalist Who Returned from Ukraine”
How are we not at war with Russia? And if we are at war, what do you think Russia will do to us?
“blood seems to be rushing to all the wrong places across the Commentariat, which has begun in earnest the predictable process of asking the public to dismiss fears of nuclear combat. …This is fast becoming a bipartisan consensus.”
“The pundit excitement over the final clash between “Democracy and Autocracy” perhaps being at hand reminds me exactly of the open praying for signs of the Apocalypse I once heard among the Rapture-ready flock of pastor John Hagee in San Antonio.” –Taibbi Title: “Right Out of Dr. Strangelove”That is, they breathlessly welcome and encourage the end of the world. They are an apocalyptic religious death cult. So what do you think Russia will do to us in that case?
“Mortgage payments growing.”
How? If people don’t have any money, they can’t bid up houses. Oh yeah! BlackRock gets money directly from the Fed at 0% and over-bids all houses by $40k. Driving all normal people out of the market, so they can “Own nothing and like it.” Thanks, Powell, thanks BlackRock! Bidenvilles are not popping up – they’ve been there since Bush – but the population of them sure is increasing 10x.
“CIA Admits Feeding Americans False Info About Ukraine (Ron Paul)”
They essentially said they don’t care in the slightest if it’s true or not. Like the Steele Report. What’s noteworthy is that after they say this, everyone still believes them equally, unchanging. No consequences, I guess? Hard to imagine with highest inflation ever that they are still so fat they’re no consequences, but that’s what I see out here every day.
““..reiterating unproven claims the West has fostered a neo-Nazi, anti-Russian state on its doorstep..”
I know! Since the NEW YORK TIMES was the one who reported we were doing that, no one knows whether it was a lie or not. Candice Owens had a go-round with them. NYT: “Where did you get the crazy, right-wing talking points that there are Nazis and Ukr isn’t pure as the drive snow?” Owens: “From your newspaper. Link link link link link link link link link.” NYT: “Duh, no you didn’t, you’re a poopy-pants. (And also a white supremacist like Larry Elder)”
As I said, it’s supernatural. The level of denial and #OppositeLand is now 5x? 50x? Anything I feared possible. I mean, “we’re going to start a nuclear war because, I’m losing monopoly and you’re talking to me” level? Every day reminds me of when I would play monopoly with rich kids when I was a child and they’d throw tantrums, lie, cheat, flip over the board and punch me. Like, “I’m no genius! The cards just went my way this time and also I don’t care. Monopoly is boring, not your life and ego. Go outside or something.” Punch punch, lie lie, steal from bank WHILE you’re watching. JHC bonobo monkeys behave better than you.
“Since Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine six weeks ago, Western countries have imposed a series of increasingly harsh sanctions and restrictions against” themselves, in the dramatic attempt to kill all their own citizens. Looking at the inflation numbers, it’s probably working. Look at Joe adding eating corn to our gas tanks.
“At no time did Panetta nor CNN mention that he’s a senior counselor at Beacon Global Strategies, a defense industry consulting firm”
100% of generals retire into the Defense industry. That is, the “Death” industry. No one has any problem with this. Nor Breedlove, nor Pfizer being the top advertizer to everyone, nor Brennan being an MSNBC reporter, nor the CIA paying WaPo, nor…
“All incidents are non-vaccine related” …because we suddenly discovered how to prove a negative! So that using that argument no longer makes you an idiot and illogical boob! I am also selling bridges this week, low-low prices.
“California Now Leads the Country in Illiteracy (CJ)”
Straight line down since the day the Dept of Education opened in 1979. Illegally, as the DoE has no mandate. Also California LIKES this. Every year the numbers drop, and every year they do it harder. All Blue Areas seem to make a goal of 0% literacy, 0% competency, and there are so many such cities, you could just say “All.” Baltimore, with near-zero % graduation comes to mind. Top, budget-savaging payouts to the education system, zero results. I got it: they need more money! The Childrens! The Childrens!
Educating your kids is YOUR responsibility, as parents. Not the State’s. Now you see what happens when you trust the government with anything. PS to “Own the Cons”, MD is passing a law not prohibiting teaching of sex, in excruciating detail, and secretly, to 5-year olds like Florida did, but MANDATING teaching gay sex to 5-year-olds. Or even straight sex, I don’t care. If you took those books into work, talked about it with your co-workers, you’d be rightly charged with porn, sexual harassment, and summarily fired. Those books cannot be discussed on YouTube, as too sexual and prohibited. But they are teaching it with glee to 5 year olds. Instead of math.
Why?
I’m serious, come up with a logical explanation and premise for 5-year-olds. In secret. Parents denied the materials, no opt-out. Why? I can wait. I’ve got all day. Tell me why.
“The QLD health minister says none of her “experts” can explain a sudden 40% increase in code-1 heart attacks, chest pains and respiratory issues.”
And no one is bothered at all or the least bit curious.
“who later arrested him for alleged Jan. 6 crimes tried to recruit him on Dec. 11, 2020, to become a confidential informant. He refused. He was arrested on Sept. 30, 2021, when dozens of federal agents swarmed his Florida property.”
Squeal and inform on your neighbors, participate in our illegal entrapment scam, OR ELSE. Or else we’ll arrest, fabricate, plant evidence, and entrap YOU. Got it? “They hate us for our freedoms”.
“Trudeau plans to “compel” Big Tech to down-rank non-licensed journalists”
In America, that would be illegal government denying Freedom of Speech under 1A, but we don’t follow the law either. They ARE in fact doing it already, and HAVE reported it widely, including hotlines to FB, Twitter, should any Congressman be the least bothered by something some folk-lift driver says. …Or decorated Marine veteran and Iraqi UN Weapons Inspector like Scott Ritter. ….Aaaaaaand it’s gone. Your human rights, that is.
“You can guess what the “S” and “C” stand for.”
You know, I was going to make that joke with the SEC saying he’s late reporting above, but deemed it too off-color. Why bother, SEC? You know you never enforce the law on billionaires, regardless of what they do, so why embarrass yourselves to us? I can set up a fake charity, ignore their mandate, not report taxes, hire my family, and openly embezzle the money while claiming to you that all $5B built only 8 houses in Haiti and you’ll do nothing.
“But what he really aims to do is make it even less accountable than it is now,”
Does he? And they know this using their Elon-Telepathy? Talk about “Fake News” and “Pseudo-Science”! But it’s “The Guardian”. They hadn’t told a lie in almost an hour and were getting antsy about their reputation.
@V. Arnold: “Regarding the decision not to vaccinate and rely on IVM and HCQ in case of infection…I also had bouts of fear when taking full responsibility for my actions…”
That is entirely normal. It gets easier over time but self-doubt never completely goes away, which is a good thing. Keeps a person from getting arrogant. I started 20+ years ago, beginning with vet care for my two black labs, and it grew from there to include my own health care. (Although not getting vaxxed was a no-brainer).
We’ve been programmed for decades to look to medical professionals to make the decisions, solve our health problems. Taking responsibility is a leap of faith – in ourselves – which has been eroded by the system.
“The Shots May Be Altering Human DNA to Produce Spike Protein on a Long-Term Basis”
There is no ‘may be’ about it. From the very first articles I read about the mRNA vaccines they described that they ‘worked’ by genetically modifying cells to produce the spike protein, and that the cells would do so this until they died. I can not recall any articles which said otherwise.
It is the reason I was so against mRNA vaccines as they could not be undone if there were bad side-effects.
I can not understand how anyone could think otherwise unless they were just totally ignorant about how mRNA works. Perhaps the media did not inform people about how they worked but the vaccines were supposed to be given by ‘informed consent’, and becoming a GMO is a BIG piece of information!
During an Iowa speech on inflation, a bird actually shits on Old White Joe
Perfect comment!
During his inflation speech — a bird shits on Biden!
lmfao! pic.twitter.com/7L9isBZa4u
— Gonzalo Lira (@realGonzaloLira) April 13, 2022
So this morning I wake up to discover, that as an investor, I am a psychopath!
I have invested in many things such as my education.
Now I will freely admit I mostly learned just enough to be dangerous!
My company provided me with an electronic meter and I was responsible for ensuring it suffered no harm.
Everything I did required at least 2 meters.
So I bought a second meter to make my life easier.
One boss said I couldn’t use my personal meter to set up company equipment.
It was against company policy.
Being a field service engineer, I was always far from Milwaukee.
So I just didn’t tell him which meter I used in my work.
If the company meter ever got damaged, there where many forms that had to be filled out.
However, if I got electrocuted there were no forms to be filled out.
Luckily I never had to fill out any forms.
Clearly I am a psychopath!Believe with a grain of salt
Americans Are “In Charge” of the War Says French Journalist Who Returned From Ukraine
Published 15 hours ago on 12 April, 2022 Paul Joseph Watson
Citing a French intelligence source, Malbrunot also tweeted that British SAS units “have been present in Ukraine since the beginning of the war, as did the American Deltas.”Russia is apparently well aware of the “secret war” being waged in Ukraine by foreign commandos who have been in the region since February.
“Polls showed in the run up to the war the overwhelming majority of Americans wanted our government to stay out of it but our leaders know best and are more than happy to risk World War III in defense of Ukraine’s puppet regime,” writes Chris Menahan.
( http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=63015The only English coverage of the Le Figaro report I can find is from Fars News Agency, “Report: US, UK Conducting ‘Secret War’ in Ukraine”:
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If words have meaning anymore.“President Biden Accuses Putin of “Genocide”
“Boots on the ground”
“Say, Food insecurity instead of starving”
“Pot calling the kettle black”
————Yesterday the Ukrainian army had a very bad day.
First, the Russians fired some missiles killing 1,100 Ukrainians.
Second, a 1,000 Ukrainian marines surrendered in Mariupol at one of the 2 big industrial plants.
Third, the Russians are pumping water down the air ventilation shafts for the 24 km of tunnels and bunkers underneath the neo-nazi held steel plant. If the noe-nazis block the ventilation pipes they will all drown in 2 days. If the neo-nazis don’t block the ventilation pipes they will all drown in 2 days. Same outcome, either way.
Fourth, the 2 US generals trapped in the tunnels don’t need to worry about drowning. The neo-nazis have been ordered to eliminate them, since dead men tell no tales.Since the Ukrainian War began, the US has lost more aircraft in the US (due to vaccine injuries and politically correct woke pilots) than Russia has lost over the Ukraine.
Sometimes when the universe sends a message, it whispers. Other times, it shouts at the top of its voice!
— Mister Nobody (@mister_nobody67) April 12, 2022
Zerosum:
American officers are very definately running this Ukrainian war. Things are going very badly for them too.
First the US didn’t expect to totally lose the war in the air, to the Russians. That means no planes or drones. Right now the Ukrainian army is 100% dependent upon US satellites and US drones flying along the western Ukrainian land border and off the Black Sea coast, to serve as it’s eyes and ears.
The US has never fought a war without total air superiority since WW2. Russian mobile air missile defense systems totally dominate Ukrainian air space. Nothing can fly without being shot down. (Except that bird that pooped on joe!)
All along the Donbas front the Russians maintain total electronic warfare presence such that phones, radios, and GPS don’t work within 24 kms. Russian electronic warfare is so intense that it is able to blow the fuses on Ukrainian artillery and mortar rounds, hundreds of meters up in the air, before they land!
Ukrainian artillery has no chance against Russia’s artillery. Unless Ukrainian troops start surrendering they will be slaughtered. The neo-nazis will make sure nobody surrenders.
Interesting article, i think i posted one a few months back that showed sometime in the early 2000’s they thought that Ivermectin may help battle cancer.
This vaccine induced spike proteins outcome is really going to be sad to watch.
What we don’t know yet is how long the vaccine induced spike proteins will remain in the body.
Will the human body’s natural immune system eventfully be able to regain full control, stopping the reproduction of spike proteins, and start repairing the damage done?
If not, then how quickly will the vaxxed start dying off?
Will we start seeing average life expectancy fall soon?
So many questions and concerns with all governments hiding everything they can so we can not find out the truth.Mr House- try this paper as to ivermectin and cancer treatment.
Yesterday Oxymoron said:
” You see it is ‘they’ who do bad (Putin, Trump, Anti-Vaxxers) – ‘me’ don’t look at me I’m an effect. I am just a dream. I am innocent because the effects and evidence of my life are causeless. If there are bad things happening it can have nothing to do with me as I have no agency and do what I am told. Therefore I must be innocent.
Problem with that is that it is a position of powerlessness.”Good on Ya’, Mate!
Oxymoron also described a state of being partly awake and disturbed, but with limited ability to change the bad dream, a “purgatory” of consciousness.
How does one accept divine consciousness and serve divine consciousness?
We’ve got the part about calling-out lies, murder and oppression, but I also feel that there is more to do than that, without killing and dying in battles…Kyiv, Ukraine becomes the most attractive tourist destination for NATO dignitaries, … after recent travel advert starring BOJO the blowfish!
WORLD | News
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Polish, Baltic presidents visit Ukraine in show of supportKYIV, UKRAINE — WARNING: This story contains details that are disturbing
The presidents of four countries on Russia’s doorstep visited Ukraine on Wednesday in a show of support for the embattled country, after Russian President Vladimir Putin vowed to continue his bloody offensive until its “full completion.”
The presidents of Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia — all NATO countries that worry they may face Russian attack in the future if Ukraine falls — travelled by train to Kyiv to meet Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/polish-baltic-presidents-visit-ukraine-in-show-of-support-1.5859912
WES just asked: “This vaccine induced spike proteins outcome is really going to be sad to watch.
What we don’t know yet is how long the vaccine induced spike proteins will remain in the body.
Will the human body’s natural immune system eventfully be able to regain full control, stopping the reproduction of spike proteins, and start repairing the damage done?
If not, then how quickly will the vaxxed start dying off?
Will we start seeing average life expectancy fall soon?”Spike protein should not persist after a few months, because the mRNA, modified to last much-longer, does eventually break down, though not uniformly in all people. Some don’t seem to break it down well at all. The “boosters” are really, deeply evil at this point. How many will be driven that last few miles past the ability to recover, or to prevent themselves from getting cancer?
We just can’t know if the immune systems can recover. The people who got COVID before “vaccination” are probably better off than those who got “vaccinated” as first exposure (“original antigenic sin”). Those who never had any coronavirus before (youngest) are bound to have been damaged the most by gene-therapy vaccines, especially since they never had any valid rationale to accept them.
Thank You. That Van Wolferen interview was great. I read the Enigma of Japanese Power many years ago. In fact I still have it, though of course things in Japan have changed a bit since it was written. Who was the woman interviewing him?
WES
“Yesterday the Ukrainian army had a very bad day.”
I like to see the links to the original story. I think that is the way to give credit to the reporter for his//er hard work.Did California ever even partake in slavery? I don’t believe so, neither did any of the northern states, so what is this all about?
@oxymoron: from yesterday.
Appreciate the opportunity to look at things from another point of view.
“These people are not actually evil – they simply live in a childish fantasy where effects and cause are kept apart…You see it is ‘they’ who do bad (Putin, Trump, Anti-Vaxxers) – ‘me’ don’t look at me I’m an effect. I am just a dream. I am innocent because the effects and evidence of my life are causeless. If there are bad things happening it can have nothing to do with me as I have no agency and do what I am told. Therefore I must be innocent…Me I am stuck between heaven and hell. Knowing I have chosen ego but I am more than effect. But still a dreamer of the dream.”
The connection you make between not-evil and childish fantasy rings true. By choosing fantasy, a world of effects with no cause, evil is created (and defended) – unintentionally.
The herd’s one-sided embrace of effects without cause, is the ultimate corruptor and destroyer in the “play of life”.
Many here would agree that the herd’s inability to function in the world has hit epic proportions (lacking sanity), while producing a strange kind of insanity.
Since it is impossible to live in this world without generating consequences – taking responsibility and being accountable becomes a radical act. Unacknowledged consequence(s) and the inability to admit mistakes and failures is the rocket fuel for The Empire of Hate and Lies.
When/how did we develop such an aversion to life? A lack of tolerance of everything painful. Zero resiliency in the FACE of daily living of life in the world.
Somehow we have mistakenly interpreted pain with loss/death = bad. Fear of losing/dying overrides, and drives us. It is a misinterpretation of Nature, of what is natural and right – the cycle of life, the TRUTH; undeniable, in constant motion: birth, growth, decay, death.
We’re living in a world of our own creation. Daily living is Guru (Teacher). Are we not given the opport=unity to create, to be accountable and responsible for each and every choice?
Where is the harvest, the sweet fruit of this LIFE? It is wherever you are.
I read the Self-Fulfilling Prophecy piece yesterday and truly appreciated the perspective in which it put things. The only thing that was lacking was that it didn’t mention the crucial role of Peak Liquid Hydrocarbons in 2019. (When most people on the Internet speak of “Peak Oil”, they are referring to the peak of production of conventional light-sweet crude that happened in roughly early 2006.) The abstruse Ponzi-scheme of the world of high finance remains dependent on the ability of the “real economy” to keep chugging along, however remote from the production and trade of goods and services it may be.
Once it becomes very difficult to squeeze out more oil, the high-finance Ponzi becomes nothing more than the shuffling around of pieces of paper. I think we are rapidly arriving at this point, whether the mechanism that brings it is deflationary compression or catastrophic hyperinflation.
The Russian can read English and report in english
Inventory drawdown
https://www.rt.com/news/553782-pentagon-weapons-ukraine-strategy/
Biden to send more weapons to Ukraine – media
Total US aid total aid to Kiev will allegedly pass the $2.4 billion markGot a MSM report
https://windsorstar.com/news/world/after-weeks-of-bombardment-1000-ukraine-marines-surrender-in-mariupol-says-russia/wcm/311ee91b-e585-46fd-a57c-e8299e28be05
Russian television showed pictures of what it said were marines giving themselves up on Tuesday, many of them woundedRussia’s defence ministry said 162 officers were among the marines who had surrendered to Russian and pro-Russian separatist forces.
“In the town of Mariupol, near the Ilyich Iron and Steel Works, as a result of successful offensives by Russian armed forces and Donetsk People’s Republic militia units, 1,026 Ukrainian soldiers of the 36th Marine Brigade voluntarily laid down arms and surrendered,” the ministry said in a statement
@ Mr House
Thx for money circus post.
As I read it I couldn’t help but think of the local elementary school district (pre-K through 8th) and the draconian rules regarding student IDs/bus passes that were gradually implemented as my 3 kids wound their way through 12 years there. The rules that had my daughter in tears a few months back when she was confronted in front of peers by the female middle school principal for the offense of placing a folded $5 bill displaying Lincoln’s image over her own photo on the ID hanging (as mandated) in the lanyard around her neck.Salient quotes:
Governments claim that digital ID is about convenience, however it is by design oppressive. The presumption that the citizen is guilty is integral.That is because the social credit system cannot reward a citizen for actions he would have taken anyway. That would have no propulsive effect.
He must be forced to do something that causes him discomfort: unwanted acts or, at the very least, require him to comply in ways that are ill-defined or changeable so that he must expend effort in order to meet the standard.
If a middle of the road, family-minded individual is trying to raise their children to be stable and secure in their identity, the social credit system must disrupt that. It must gaslight the citizen into an antithetical world in which he is judged against values that are not his own.
I found it perplexing that students who forgot their bus pass/ID could be picked up for school in the morning but later denied entry to the same school bus after school, forced to wait until a parent came to pick them up. Oh, and if a parent is late enough to pick up the child, the police may be called and the parent charged with child neglect. Yet, everyone knows the child, the bus driver recognizes the child, the child knows which exit to use when getting off of the bus, etc. It becomes a performative charade.
A few months back middle school students were threatened that parents would be called if IDs were forgotten again. My daughter’s friend expressed her anxiety about this to my daughter. My daughter explained back to her friend that she didn’t care — the school could call her mom (me) — and I wouldn’t get my daughter in trouble. Actually, I’d probably laugh at the school representative who called complaining of such a ludicrous, made up offense.
I can just imagine it:
School: your daughter refuses to show her photo on her school ID in order to get into the lunch room and again to get her food!
Me: oh, okay. My daughter also hates the food served, would rather skip the lunch room entirely, and would prefer to take no food from the lunch offerings. Instead, she is compelled against her wishes to show a photo that she is embarrassed about, compelled enter the lunch room, compelled to take food that she has no intention of eating, and then proceeds to play with the food out of boredom. And you wonder why the school has a bullying problem? You try to encourage the kids to snitch on each other to the administration, and as a result, anyone who is seen as a snitch by the student body becomes a social pariah. You have such a large problem with students smoking weed in one set of bathrooms that you have locked those restrooms so that no one can use them. And there are kids pulling vape wands from their pockets and using them the moment that they exit the school grounds. A couple of weeks ago you had a fight on campus that allegedly included some sort of weapon. And you are calling me because my daughter forgot her ID or put a photo of Lincoln in front of her ID photo? Are you nuts? You are fostering distrust with your students by focusing on inanities and trying to disempower your young teen students. Treat your students with more respect and dignity and you might be surprised by the outcome.(Yes, I’m talking about schools and children…but humans are humans, and whether a school or business or nation, humans function very similarly.)
I just saw that Pepe Escobar got suspended on Twitter. Why any serious journalist still posts there is beyond me.
Thanks for the Self Fulfilling Prophecy reference. I follow that site but somehow missed that particular article.
@Arnold,,,
What really matters is knowing ourselves,,,
https://americanenglish.state.gov/files/ae/resource_files/the-open-boat.pdf
@Zerosum: I thought I posted this link, to the site where I think WES got his information about 4/11/22 being a “bad day” for the Ukrainian military. It did not post.
I suspect the AI filter is blocking Saker blog links again. Anyway it is the 4/12/22 “Nightvision” post about the war in Ukraine, which he seems to be referencing.
The Vineyard of The Saker is the blog, and this SitRep series is certainly Russian-viewpoint information.Okay! here its. Lots of good info.
https://thesaker.is/sitrep-operation-z-8/The AI filter accepted that link from Zerosum, but will not accept it from me.
Hmmm… AI is smart, I guess, or something. Maybe I’m more of a threat…
I’ll skip the links to Russian-friendly sources, but include my excerpts/comments.
It’s at the blog with another morning veggie-garden picture: https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/publish/post/52169013This Ukraine-War update from The Vineyard of the Saker points out that 4/11/22 was a bad day for Ukrainian forces in Mariupol, now kettled in the fortified industrial district, and subjected to increasingly harsh measures, like fire and water. Would you die by drowning or surrender in a 2 day time window? There have been massed break-outs, which resulted in mass casualties and mass surrenders.
Explored here is the evidence that Ukrainian military are very competent, perhaps better supplied than US military (recently) and quite likely more proficient in warfare than US military.
This implies (if true) that the US military would want to strictly avoid direct battle against the Russian military. It would be humiliating and bad for business.
I’ll keep the hypothesis in mind.
(the link Zerosum posted)SouthFront has a video and transcript of Ukrainian soldiers, who surrendered to separatists, reporting that they had been held captive by a militia unit, after refusing to shoot civilians who had been trucked in, and escaped at night when their guards were drunk. They were shot at by Ukrainian forces as they crossed the front to surrender, one wounded and 2 of the 8 killed. The wounded man is interviewed. The video has one man telling the story, and none of them look happy. It can’t be taken as fact, but does fit with a lot of reports…
Ukrainian soldiers in Mariupol are increasingly accepting the better option:
On April 12, the largest group of the AFU soldiers surrendered in Mariupol. Another attempt to break out from the trap in Mariupol, was confirmed.According to the Russian Ministry of Defence, 1,026 Ukrainian servicemen of the 36th Marine Brigade voluntarily laid down arms and surrendered in the city of Mariupol, near the Illich plant 151 wounded Ukrainian servicemen of the 36th Marine Brigade were provided with primary medical aid on the spot, after which they were all taken to the Mariupol city hospital for treatment.
Western psychological-warfare operations appear to be exceptionally effective upon Americans.
70% now see Russia as an enemy, and opinions of NATO are much improved, as well.
This is partisan anti-western polemic, but presents important insights, like this, about the neoliberal/neoconservative beliefs vs the current reality taking place.
And we have to keep in mind that they REALLY and SINCERELY thought they would (finally!) break the will of the Russian people and that they know this long awaited and oh-so-sweet revenge-victory is slipping away from them – just imagine the rage they must feel. After eight years of endless provocations, insults and “negotiations” the Neocons have FINALLY forced Russia to intervene openly, which was always the dream of the Neocons. But what they did not expect (and neither did anybody else, myself included) was that instead of “just” liberating the LDNR from constant Ukronazi strikes, Putin chose to liberate the entire Ukraine and change the entire collective security architecture of Europe.
Americans Are “In Charge” of the War Says French Journalist Who Returned From Ukraine A French journalist who returned from Ukraine after arriving with volunteer fighters told broadcaster CNews that Americans are directly “in charge” of the war on the ground.The assertion was made by Le Figaro senior international correspondent Georges Malbrunot.Malbrunot said he had accompanied French volunteer fighters, two of whom had previously fought against ISIS.
Moon of Alabama (German) explores the causes and players, and the motives which contribute to this war. A couple of interesting points:
If this two-level perception is correctly analyzed in its appreciation of the different actors with contradictory priorities, then it becomes crucial to understand that in the geopolitical war the US is the aggressor as much as in the traditional war on the ground Russia is the aggressor...
Towards the end of a talk with Gonzalo Lira former Marine officer and UN Inspector Scott Ritter disputes the potential for escalation. The Pentagon, he says, knows the real situation on the ground and that the Ukrainian army will lose the war. Neither NATO, nor the U.S. nor single countries like Poland have their forces configured in a way that would allow them to successfully wage war against Russia. They would need more time to get ready than Russia will need to win the war in Ukraine. Ritter predicts that the Pentagon will overrule any escalation the Ukraine warmongers in the State Department and National Security Council may plan… (I also hope Ritter is right.)
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/04/sane-voices-explaining-the-reasons-for-and-dangers-behind-the-war-in-ukraine.html#more The finance ministers of the BRICS alliance (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) have decided to create their own financial mechanisms to continue trade between nations of similar disposition. Once the internal issues inside the BRICS alliance are resolved, and once the mechanisms are created, then other nations will be able to decide to join or not. The great global cleaving will commence.
Only Ukrainian forces use these missiles, and they drop the solid-rocket booster from the warhead, so it lies along the flight path for inspection.
On April 8, a Ukrainian Tochka-U missile hit the railway station in the city of Kramatorsk. As a result, at least 57 civilians were killed, dozens more were injured.
According to the traditional scenario, immediately after the incident, the Ukrainian authorities sent foreign reporters to the town. However, this time the plan went wrong. The journalists filmed the serial number of the Tochka-U missile which killed dozens of civilians. They left no doubts that the missile was launched by the AFU.
The Tochka-U missile in Kramatorsk has a series number Sh91579: (photograph of serial number)
The Tochka-U missiles, including of the Sh915 series, are actively used by the AFU on the Donbass front lines.
The following cases of the strikes with missiles of the same series have been recorded so far: (#6 are listed, also with photographs of serial numbers.)
https://southfront.org/last-point-in-kievs-lies-about-bloody-attack-on-civilians-with-tochka-u-missile/ According to bioweapons expert Francis Boyle, Russia’s accusation that Ukraine is conducting U.S.-funded bioweapons research appears to be accurate
If true, everyone involved is subject to life in prison under the (US) Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989
According to Boyle, the U.S. government and Pentagon have had a “comprehensive policy” to “surround Russia with biological warfare laboratories” and “preposition biological weapons” there for use against them.
https://tapnewswire.com/2022/04/bioweapons-expert-speaks-out-about-us-biolabs-in-ukraine/Roger Seheult MD of Medcram delves into sunlight and vitamin-D, as they pertain to immune system function and COVID susceptibility, including severity of illness.
Surprisingly, it is not just vitamin-D which seems to be providing benefit to those who accept the sun’s rays. Other mechanisms, which cannot be as easily supplemented, are presented here. Thanks “Germ”.
The global pandemic treaty, superseding all national laws, and mandating a universal digital vaccine-passport is still on track, and would be under the auspices of the WHO, which is under the auspices of… (Bill Gates? Who else?)
@Henry – interview with Karel van Wolferen.
————————————————-Thanks for bringing up said interview! Fascinating, yet most troubling, at least to Russia, European continent. Me thinks, …
The troubling part is that from listening to Karel van Wolferen, I get quite a nagging impression that he is strongly implying that the U.S. is guiding this latest war simply to destroy Russia as a state, a sovereign state.
Yet Russia? … Russia is fighting the U.S. simply just to convert it into a strong and normal nation, … and by extension, make other – currently U.S. poodle-nations, EU and NATO members – a sovereign states, too.
If that is the case, … sooner or later, Russia will loose badly, European continent will loose badly, … and the U.S. will stand to rebuild Europe again.
Now, … why do I say Russia will ultimately loose? Well, … this fight is a fight from a distance – ‘let’s have a war over there, so we don’t have a war over here‘ mantra – for the U.S., and it is a very local for Russia, … and the poodle-nations!
In order for Russia to have a chance of success, the war has to be expanded to the North America, the island of. The United States’ real estate has to be seriously, seriously threaten with a potential of outright destruction for this duel to ever draw to Putin’s and Lavrov’s liking.
I say to Putin’s and Lavrov’s liking, … because if those two are replaced by, say, … an another Boris Yeltsin-type, than all this musing of mine is pointless.
Best,
F.S.
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