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    Henri Matisse Harmony in red 1908   • We’ve Reached Peak Zelensky. Now What? (Freeman) • World Could Reach ‘Critical Mass’ At Any Moment – Ex-Pol
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle December 30 2022]

    #124619
    Germ
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    Booster mandates in young adults are expected to cause a net harm: per COVID-19 hospitalisation prevented, we anticipate at least 18.5 serious adverse events from mRNA vaccines, including 1.5–4.6 booster-associated myopericarditis cases in males (typically requiring hospitalisation).” –

    https://jme.bmj.com/content/early/2022/12/05/jme-2022-108449.info

    TBASF

    ☠️☠️☠️

    #124620
    Germ
    Participant

    ABC News Journalist Speaks Out, Describes Her Covid Jab Injury As A ‘Living Hell’

    ABC News Journalist Speaks Out, Describes Her Covid Jab Injury As A ‘Living Hell’

    TVASF

    ☠️☠️☠️

    #124621
    oxymoron
    Participant

    i’m pretty suss on chat gpt. I think it is control grid 3.0
    it didn’t know anything about the igG4 studies – I had to manually input the weblinks. It argued that ‘well we don’t know what will happen etc.”
    It has a moral input in line with the zoom class westerner which is massively problematic. They are going to have to set it free or it is just going to fail or make everyone a puritan.

    It won’t offer to help me write a song that involves anger or violence (sorry Eminem and Hollywood).
    It won’t help my kids find out about farts without a lecture on health advice and then still won’t let them find out about farts.

    This thing is great at writing like you have a lobotomy. Is this where we are headed?

    #124622
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Here’s a thought:

    Time
    https://sinfest.xyz/btphp/comics/2022-12-30.jpg

    SBF is out. Immediately wallet transfers happen of the few real cryptos they owned:

    “Alameda Wallets Funnel over $1.7 Million Via Crypto-Mixers Overnight”

    Not only that, it’s not the courts, clearly the criminals as they are going out of their way to hide the transaction paths and recipients with wallet tumblers. See? Now this IS a good use of blockchain. I can easily tell this is an open fraud and a crime 2,000 miles away in my basement. Everyone else can too. Including the SEC and Bankruptcy judge, neither of which will do a thing.

    “SBF Was Meeting with Senior White House Officials Shortly before FTX Collapse”

    Of course he was. He has an inside line. But he only has the access I have as a private citizen, because it’s not about the money or anything. I’m sure if I asked for an appointment, ol’ Joe would fit me in. Oh wait, if it IS about the money, doesn’t that mean it’s effectively bribery, by definition?

    politics was not discussed at the White House meetings.”

    Suuure. They talked about golf and grandkids, like usual. Purely social call. We’ve heard that before and believed it then too.

    “World Economic Forum Cancels Twitter, Directs Followers to Chinese Social Media Apps”

    China – EU merger. Identical in principles and morality.

    I’m baffled by Trump’s unwavering allegiance to the vax. Unfit. People say this or that, but I’ll say this: I thought you said he was just chasing likes and did whatever was popular with his base. But he does what is overwhelmingly unpopular with his base, that undermines him sharply, perhaps fatally? And the base is a cult because they reject great leader, his judgment and advice?

    You tell me. My guess is he made a deal of some sort to support them and is keeping his end. What he traded for I can’t guess, because clearly it’s bad. Maybe that they wouldn’t release a far worse virus, airborne ebola?

    Ze is the New Churchill. Is that the evil, racist, white supremacist one? Or the heroic, stoic, uniting Britain one? I get confused. I assume they mean the evil racist one since it’s the Left talking. Stand by your beliefs, sir.

    “The conflict has put an end to the old world order”

    If the old world order is over, then we enter into What world order? An older one? A middle one? Maybe a “New” one? Nope. When I say what they say, I’m crazy. When they say what they say, it’s good and true.

    “Lavrov Suggests ‘Hundreds’ of US Troops Are in Ukraine (RT)”

    It’s a big place and hundreds are a given. No one should object to this description.

    “Western states declared “war” on Russia nearly a decade ago, soon after the 2014 Euromaidan revolution, which was soon followed by US and NATO”

    Does anyone object to this?

    “I argue that the Imperial Administrative State which the United States Federal Government has been transformed into has clearly lost any semblance of integrity.”

    I have heard an alternate take of history that the colonies didn’t secede from Britain in the way usually claimed: an equal difference of opinion taken to a war of secession, but it was something not dissimilar, just merely not mentioned: from the 1750s Britain actually wasn’t governing the colonies at all. It was a de facto government vacuum. So the Colonies would present “We have these X, Y, Z problems” and no representatives in Parliament, but the king would say, “I can’t be bothered with this right now. I have real problems. (with France)” and hand it off to the third minister of paper clips. 20 years of this, the Colonies have tried everything to get attention and their problems “fixed”, you know, the executive version of “adjudicated”, and all they get is more taxes. …To pay for the French and Indian war, it’s true. But now they have all taxes and no government.

    Eventually they come to the realization – after 25 years – that “Hey, if we don’t have any government, ain’t gonna get any government, I guess we have no choice but to govern ourselves.” What’s the actual difference? Then after 50 new messages that they will do this if they don’t get solutions, they have painted themselves into Ultimatum Corner and had to take actions to go through with it.

    See the difference? Same story, not that the commonly known facts aren’t true, but it changes their character. That and knowing that London CAN’T give the colonies the vote, because already in 1775 America was ALREADY larger and could outvote England. To say nothing of the rest of the Empire if they also had reps. So no body, no where, no how, gets Reps. Definition of an Empire-Colony. Imagine India, voting per man.

    Re-read that quote from today: “the United States Federal Government has been transformed into has clearly lost any semblance of integrity.”

    They tax infinite. They provide zero. Worse than zero as they appear to be actively corrupt and working AGAINST the people at every turn among other things as a means of extracting wealth. Not even wealth for empire, but wealth for personal McMansions. Ew.

    If that’s true, Why are we looking at them? Why are you asking them for anything? You know they won’t do it, why are you wasting your valuable time and breath? That is to say, we clearly and visibly already have no Federal Government Administrative State administering anything but fraud.

    I know people don’t like this – I don’t know why – but when the government shuts down, what stops? Literally nothing. No one notices. Nothing changes. The FBI still doesn’t prosecute crimes. The SEC still doesn’t protect the markets. Trade and commerce still crosses state lines. Ships still dock, planes still land. Trains rail place to place. They could take the whole year off and no one would notice but a minor backlog of important cases.

    If so, then why confuse yourself believing the King is there and gives a s—t? If you need government, just run it at the State or Local level. …And P.S. after a while stop paying them.

    “Half of Chinese Arrivals to Italy Carrying COVID-19 Virus – All Omicron (CTH)”

    Omicron isn’t dangerous, why would I care? Because like a single snowflake falling, you gave it a name? Winter Blizcano Billy-Bob! It’s going to drop a whole INCH of snow in Maine!

    Italian Coronavirus!!! Exactly the same as every Coronavirus aka “common cold” since Caesar Augustus was a lad. Ah-choo! GMAFB.

    People are so brain-addled they think giving something a name makes it real. And the name then becomes more real than the thing. That’s literal insanity. The visions in your head aren’t real, man; there are no flying badgers out to get you.

    The $208bn wiped from Mr Musk’s net worth is roughly equivalent to the GDP of Greece.”

    Goes to show it was never real to begin with. The symbolic wealth “name” I wrote on paper isn’t real wealth in the world. Musk knows that but clearly some other people don’t. Speaking of: enduring mystery, $1T in Tesla, $1T in Amazon (which they don’t mention, as it’s pile-Elon time), $1T in crypto, $12T lost elsewhere, no nothin. No bank collapse, no stock collapse, no margin call, no emerging market rush, nothing. No nothing nowhere. Wait: I thought in ‘01 and ‘08 that reversing the inflation wealth effect, servicing of compounding debts mattered? Now it no longer matters anymore? So Tesla can go to $1 market cap and nothing happens? Amazon can be worth $10,000 for their HQ building and nobody calls their debts? Debt-to-assets?

    Yup. I guess so now. We’re in a post-reality world. Capitalism where money has no value, is a unit accounting nothing.

    “– the UK experienced its ‘warmest’ year; and”

    Thinking: if there were any such thing as weather modification, I’d shove the Arctic Cap off the NP down on North America and prevent a freeze in Germany and Ukraine. Wouldn’t you?

    Jh-Jb: I write too long, but I used to know call center people. Here’s the thing people don’t get, as they just hire in any minimum wage worker off the street: Call Center is a very specific trained specialty with a very specific personality type. Like being a doctor. It takes a year – years – of training for all the ins and outs of whatever company or service you provide, and years in learning people skills more honed than a salesman, a job that actually pays. They’re also the face of your company, as Southwest just found, without them nothing happens. Nobody calls in to pay. Nobody calls to tell you things, indicate problems, etc.

    I’d forward you to them for a job, but they are doing exactly what the rest of the nation is doing: utterly and methodically destroying the call center people, knowledge, and talent brick-by-brick. From a very high-functioning state that was easy to quantify cost/benefit, satisfaction, call time, etc. They hauled in half-priced reps from outside that cost them 4x as much because they can’t do, know, or solve anything. That put all the weight on the remaining employees. They refused to hire. They refuse to train. They refuse to staff for storms and holidays they know are high. They lose money faster than a fire hose at an ever-increasing rate rather than go back to what worked. No one can call in and buy product. No money is booked. No one cares.

    I guess companies, managements, don’t like money now? Don’t sully themselves with things like “Customers calling and paying?” Without talent or a system, all problems customers call about are not fixed. Not forwarded. Go into a queue that gets infinitely longer until it’s too long and they just erase it for month-end numbers.

    What fresh hell is this? I understand call center is going to be a tough sell that there is actual ten-thousands of dollars per-rep in training. Those people are VALUABLE. In dollars invested if nothing else. That answering the phone takes more than monkeys. And that the computer can’t actually solve jack in their automated system and will both take more time, more money, and piss off every existing human who then vows a blood oath never to buy from your company again. I get that, even as they do more of it every day.

    What I don’t get is how they shut down this specialty of call centers and thereby LOCK THE FRONT DOOR to paying customers. “Hey! Oi! You want our product YOU figure out how to make us sell it to you! We’re not just going to have, you know, an “store” where you come in, ask questions, get the product and pay. That’s for YOU to figure out!”

    I’d say “For us to know and you to figure out” but really the inside company doesn’t know either. They have NO METHOD for the customer to talk to and pay. They don’t like money: they got rid of the shop, locked the cash registers, then threw them in a lake.

    Upper management says it’s not our problem: Having money come in the front door with “customers” costs too much money, so they squeezed down, fired, and closed them.

    I kid you not.

    Capitalism? What Capitalism? We’re clearly in a money-free, reality-free, bankruptcy-free zone.

    Good luck getting people to value your expertise. I couldn’t think of a solution there myself, but I’m sure some companies, somewhere must understand the basics of “Money come in.” I just haven’t met a company like that since I don’t know when.

    #124623
    John Day
    Participant

    @Oxymoron, Re. flatulence question from 13 y/o son: Flatulence results from undigested food getting to the colon, where anaerobic bacteria break it down, forming gas. Meat products produce fouler smell, similar to rotting meat vs. rotting vegetables or legumes. Cheese also foul. Eating a consistent diet, like beans-every day, will eventually induce production of the digestive enzymes needed to thoroughly digest that food (like the complex carbohydrate-branchings in beans/legumes).
    Farts from poorly digested dry dog food really do smell bad, but it’s not the dog’s fault.

    #124624
    John Day
    Participant

    @Germ: The Baccinated Are So F***ed?

    #124625
    Oroboros
    Participant

    “Being sarcastic put you at a greater risk of heart attack….”

    Hahahaha!

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    #124626
    John Day
    Participant

    @Dr.D: jb-hb seems to have a pretty good grasp of bureaucratic machinations. The middle-managers “rule” by keeping the upper-managers and workers at arm’s length from each other, thereby cementing their intermediary position as critical to the corporation. This intermediation serves the middle-managers job-security, just as any form of intermediation serves a profit-carve-out function, but may harm the function of the system as it does so.
    This is the inherent reason for “the right way, the wrong way and the government way”, and the resultant process-inefficiency. You have to have a big bureaucracy to do big jobs in the long term, but each level of bureaucracy harms efficiency in the process through corruption of information at each level. Still, it is necessary in the long term. In the short term you might get somebody like Musk who comes in with fewer layers of bureaucracy, and actually checks in at ground-level frequently, and over-accomplishes stuff. How long can he last?
    Any bureaucracy degrades when the founder degrades, then dies. Eventually, the bureaucracy just perpetuates itself, and does not perform much of its official function.

    #124627
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Happy New Year

    Let Your Freak Flag Fly High

    Fully Un-vaxed

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    #124629

    It is indeed pronking time for the deer in my area, and it’s a delightful thing to see. It started early this year, and the chickadees have followed suit- singing their spring song on Boxing Day instead of New Year’s Day. I hope that means an early spring.

    When I contemplate a 1.7 trillion dollar budget, and then look at the dollar bill in my hand, I am flabbergasted.

    #124630

    John Day- “the boosted are so fucked”

    #124631
    Dora
    Participant

    Denninger’s explanation of the IgG4 effect vs IgG1-3 antibodies effects.

    https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=247709

    #124632
    zerosum
    Participant

    TAE is bad for peace of mind.

    Our social/economic/political systems can only operate/depend on people accepting the communication of successful liars.
    (Human beings can be characterized by exhibiting integrity or its opposites, hypocrisy and deceit.)

    Examples

    • Integrity Lost and Regained (Malone)

    • Lavrov Suggests ‘Hundreds’ Of US Troops Are In Ukraine (RT)

    • Ukraine Falsifying History And ‘Replacing’ Memory – Moscow (RT)

    • SBF Met With Senior White House Officials Shortly Before FTX Collapse (ZH)

    • Study Finds Worse Antibodies After mRNA Boosters (JTN)
    ————
    Lies
    It’s not covid19. It was a variation of Omicron

    No new mutations at all.

    • Half of Chinese Arrivals to Italy Carrying COVID-19 Virus – All Omicron (CTH)

    Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said Italy already sequenced half of the samples tested in Milan and they all show the omicron strain of the coronavirus. “This is quite reassuring,” she said at a press conference Thursday. “The situation in Italy is under control, and there are no immediate concerns.”

    ————-
    @ oxymoron
    Using chat GPT, will awaken//prepare/improve critical thinking skills and improve communication skills for a liar/politician/snob.
    It will improve communication skills of introverts.
    It will replace the first level of “call center” employees and “Q&A”
    ———-

    #124633
    Germ
    Participant

    I highly recommend this with a srong whiskey over the holidays.
    It’s full of so many gems.

    “Dave joins me to talk his year in review, diet, Covid, Ukraine, the economy, the media, politics and more.

    David B. Collum is an economic commentator, chemist, Betty R. Miller Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Cornell University. ”

    https://quoththeraven.podbean.com/e/quoth-the-raven-302-dave-collum/

    What a hoot!

    TVASF – and Collum confirms he’s death vaxxed. He must be shitting himself.

    #124634
    zerosum
    Participant

    Germ,
    Did you look at the following?
    Its more than the twitter files.

    https://bioclandestine.substack.com/p/russian-mil-begin-naming-names-fauci?utm_source=direct&r=wwj8c&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
    Russian MIL Begin Naming Names! Fauci and Collins of the NIH Created C19!

    The investigation found that Fauci openly lied and deliberately concealed US government involvement in the research programmes.

    At the same time, his collusion with social media management to manipulate public opinion on the causes of COVID-19 was revealed.

    Such revelations raise legitimate questions for the US about the causes of new human-caused pathogens and the patterns of pandemic spread.”

    So now Russian MIL are bridging the gap between the creation of Covid 19, and the coverup via social media and MSM influence, facilitated by one Dr. Anthony Fauci.

    #124635
    Germ
    Participant

    @ zero – Ta!

    #124636
    John Day
    Participant

    The Unbearable Cost Of Sycophancy, The Ethical Skeptic (about blind virtue signaling costs)

    The Unbearable Cost of Sycophancy

    #124637
    John Day
    Participant

    Thanks MPSK for clarifying this: “the boosted are so fucked”

    #124638
    Afewknowthetruth
    Participant

    Comparing Zelensky with Churchill is perfectly valid. Churchill was also a privileged, mendacious warmonger who squandered the lives of millions and facilitated profiteering by corporations in the protection of unjust, hierarchical social arrangements that served the interests of a small group of sociopaths at the top of the money-power pyramid.

    The scumbags who pretend to be promoters of freedom and democracy don’t lie all the time.

    The clever aspect of Big Brother’s plan is to get Ukrainians to fight and die for the establishment of a new Airstrip and fight and die to promote their own enslavement, as was the case for English-speaking proles in previous World Wars.

    Remember Gallipoli, and how The Empire of Lies squandered the lives of lads -mostly from farms on Airstrips Four and Five- because of Churchill’s arrogance and incompetence. And don’t forget the lives of the lads on the battleships that sunk because Churchill’s idiotic gunboat-diplomacy plan to sail up to Constantinople/Istanbul and terrorise the Turks into surrendering, having previously confiscated the ship build for Turkey by a British shipyard and kept the money paid by Turkey. If the Turks had surrendered at the sight of the Dreadnaughts, next stop, Sevastopol!

    History doesn’t repeat but it does rhyme.

    “Where’s the memory hole. We need to rewrite some recent history.”

    Italy. Wasn’t that where Coronavirus Round One commenced? Travellers from China arrived carrying a ‘deadly virus’, so deadly the only solution was to roll out death jabs that had been in-the-making many years before.

    “Where’s the memory hole. We need to rewrite some more recent history.”

    Here’s one Big Brother can’t rewrite and shove down the memory hole: Without energy, nothing happens. Without energy The Empire of Lies collapses.

    War is Peace

    Freedom is Slavery

    Ignorance is Strength

    #124639
    John Day
    Participant

    Shortly after FTX Digital Markets filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, Bahamian authorities seized $3.5 billion of digital assets from the failed cryptocurrency exchange, according to a statement late Thursday.
    https://www.zerohedge.com/crypto/bahamas-seized-35-billion-ftx-assets-over-risk-imminent-dissipation

    #124640
    phoenixvoice
    Participant

    Oxymoron
    Is this where we are headed?
    YES.
    I know, I know — it is crazy.
    I was raised Mormon. There were taboos in the home and in the Mormon culture. As a child I noticed that in the greater world it seemed like “anything goes.”
    (I was naive…there still were taboos out there, but they were less concrete in most areas.)
    Now…
    I play one video game — I unwind with it before going to bed — a Boggle word-finding game. A couple of years ago the words “ass” and “rape” were suddenly no longer recognized by the app. Gee, whiz, these are three and four letter words! In addition, the app does not recognize “slut,” or “gay.” Um…”gay” means “happy” and has for centuries…it is banned for a slang meaning with only decades of traction? It recognizes “goy” and “gey”….but not “gay.”

    #124641
    Afewknowthetruth
    Participant

    Action on Airstrip Eleven is ramping up.

    The Koreans are keen to have Big Brother’s Airstrip removed from Korea.

    Big Brother wants to keep Airstrip Eleven open.as a base for operations against Eastasia and Eurasia.

    ‘South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol has vowed more aggressive retaliation to military action by Pyongyang, calling to “punish” the DPRK soon after Seoul unveiled a new $440 million military spending package.’

    https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/south-korea-vows-more-aggressive-response-norths-provocations

    #124642
    phoenixvoice
    Participant

    Dr D — federal government shut down…no one notices…
    Nah. When the tax refund checks stop coming and the SNAP EBT cards don’t refill and the Lifeline phones get shut off and the states don’t get their allotted Medicaid funds and the Social Security checks don’t arrive and the bankruptcies don’t proceed forward — the people will notice, and very quickly.
    Of course, it was very, very foolish for states and counties and cities and citizens to pawn off their responsibilities toward the vulnerable in society onto the federal government. But the feds made it so easy to do. Capitalism does not value the souls who get lost in the musical chairs shuffle, but human compassion could not permit the sufferers to be permanently blotted out. So, instead, we pay out federal taxes and soothe our consciences by telling ourselves that the feds are taking care of it now. Don’t bother feeding the panhandlers, say the new little signs in the nicer commercial districts of the City of Phoenix — donate to proper charities instead! Meanwhile, the services for the indigent are hopelessly inadequate for the scale of the problem, and individuals and families in crisis are more likely to get aid through pleas on Nextdoor.com than by calling 211.

    #124643
    Afewknowthetruth
    Participant

    Song for Ukraine

    #124644
    Afewknowthetruth
    Participant

    Tribute to Pele.

    Degrade the electric grid. Degrade the air defence systems. What comes next?

    #124645
    John Day
    Participant

    @Phoenixvoice: Folded dollar bills in my pocket are my only remaining charity since unemployed for “vaccine” refusal.
    Handing them out from a bike is generally a welcome surprise to the mendicants.

    #124646
    zerosum
    Participant

    Heheheh
    https://sputniknews.com/20221230/us-wont-consider-petroleum-to-be-of-russian-origin-once-it-is-transformed-in-another-jurisdiction-1105931747.html

    US Won’t Consider Petroleum to Be of Russian Origin Once It is Transformed in Another Jurisdiction

    “OFAC would not consider petroleum products to be of Russian Federation origin solely because they contain a de minimis, (too trivial or minor to merit consideration),amount of Russian petroleum products left over from a container or tank,”

    #124647
    John Day
    Participant

    “The Real War” post is up https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/the-real-war

    Eleni introduced me to the big-picture work of Alex Krainer yesterday. Here are a couple of his essays.
    The real war is, “people vs. the banks” Things are not going well for the “rules-based” empire of lies
    ​ ​There it is: “There is no long-term prospect for achieving America’s critical, long-standing goal of peace and security in Europe without regime change in Russia.” What Bolton seems to be saying is that Putin has defeated the rules-based global order and that they can only reverse this defeat if they could remove Putin from power and replace him with some Juan Guaido who would hand them back their toys and their victory.​..
    ​..​We can trace the evolution of today’s monetary system back to the Bank of England. It was established in 1694 and over the following century (from 1701 to 1815), England waged fully 18 officially declared wars against her then rival power, France. Back then, the French were hated almost as much as the Russians are today. In 1833 the Parliament passed the Bank of England Act, granting the BOE monopoly on issuing the empire’s “legal tender” currency. Out of the remaining 67 years of the 19th century, Britain spent 32 years in recessions, depressions, bankruptcy or financial collapse including the 22-year long depression lasting from 1873 to 1896. This was while the British Empire was at the zenith of its power.
    ​ ​Rather than waging never-ending wars, blowing up bridges and pipelines or assassinating Vladimir Putin, western powers would do well to reform their monetary systems and embrace honest money. Even a miraculous military victory over Russia could only delay the day of reckoning, and the system would need to find a new enemy to fight more wars. That is a certainty. As Lord Acton said over a century ago, “The issue that has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the Banks.” The banks – not Russia nor Vladimir Putin!
    ​ ​P.S. I do not mean local banks and savings institutions but the international banking cartel and their Global Systemically Important Banks.
    https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/the-real-war-is-people-vs-the-banks

    ​ Is this what Kissinger has been on about, urging urgent negotiation in Ukraine to avoid WW-3? Trilateral Commission squabbling in public?​
    ​ ​Huge new cracks appear in the empire’s edifice​ ​The very foundations of the “rules-based global order” seem to be collapsing
    ​ ​On Saturday, 19 November the secretive Trilateral Commission held a meeting in Tokyo. For the first time in the organization’s 50 years, the press – three reporters from Nikkei Asia – were allowed to witness the proceedings of the Commission’s Asia Pacific Group on condition that they don’t identify delegates by name in reporting their statements…​
    ..​Rahm Emanuel, the US Ambassador to Japan delivered his remarks in a speech titled, “Democracy vs. autocracy: You are going to see 2022 as an inflection point in the success of democracy.” It was a serving of all the usual globalist talking points, but it seems that the Asian delegates weren’t too impressed. A former Japanese official challenged Emanuel: “What is the ambassador saying? We must engage China. If we force countries to choose sides, the Southeast Asian nations will choose China. The key is not to force them to choose.”
    ​ ​A veteran member from the Philippines said, “When two elephants fight to the death, we will all be dead. And the question is, what for?” Commission’s executive committee member and next director of the Asia Pacific Group Masahisa Ikeda said, “We feel that the U.S. policy toward Asia, especially toward China has been narrow-minded and unyielding…”
    ​ ​Although the language of the discussions was diplomatic, it was clear that Asian delegates largely reject the American policy towards Asia. Overall, the gathering was described as “nervous that the world is heading in the wrong direction,” that “the problem is America” and that “It’s the U.S. penchant for exporting its ideology that is the main concern for many.”
    https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/huge-new-cracks-appear-in-the-empires

    ​ The Unbearable Cost Of Sycophancy, The Ethical Skeptic
    “The Blind Leading the Blind” proceeds on personal, national and global scales. It’s often fatal.
    ​https://theethicalskeptic.com/2022/12/29/the-unbearable-cost-of-sycophancy/

    The EU just walked into this same room. This really needs to be stopped, and remedied, but who pays for that? It’s not profitable.
    Sri Lanka’s Neoliberal Nightmare, Widespread Famine Triggered by Covid-19 Lockdown and an Unpayable External Debt

    Sri Lanka’s Neoliberal Nightmare, Widespread Famine Triggered by Covid-19 Lockdown and an Unpayable External Debt

    #124648
    John Day
    Participant

    ​ Mike Whitney thinks US/NATO will openly enter the Ukraine War. Western munitions are already depleted by Ukrainian use. All that leaves is nuclear forces.
    ​Why Putin’s Winter Offensive Will Prompt US Entry Into the War

    Why Putin’s Winter Offensive Will Prompt US Entry Into the War

    ​ (German) Moon of Alabama: ​Typical News Updates From Ukraine
    After having run out of missiles, the Russian military today fired another round of them at Ukrainian energy facilities​ …continued…​
    ​https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/12/typical-news-updates-from-ukraine.html

    ​ ​Russian MIL Begin Naming Names! Fauci and Collins of the NIH Created C19!​ Thanks Zerosum.
    ​ ​Russia exhausted all the formal diplomatic channels to no avail, but they show no intent to stop their mission to hold the West accountable for their biological genocide in Ukraine.
    ​ ​In response to the West’s lack of cooperation, Russia have decided they are going to start dropping names.​..​
    ​..​Russian MIL’s narrative is on a collision course with Elon about to drop the Fauci Files and C19 portion of the Twitter Files. Russian MIL’s narratives also seem to coincide with that of Trump/Q narratives, that C19 was released intentionally by the Deep State to implement a medical police-state and force mail-in voting to steal 2020 with ballot fraud. It’s all pointing to the same conclusion.
    ​ ​Slowly, the public is being made aware that Covid 19 was a bioweapon, and the same people who made it, covered up the origin, covered up viable treatments, and pushed vaccines that didn’t work, which they profited off of, all in an effort to retain and gain power.
    ​ ​Russia, and the rest of the non-NATO countries, want reparations for the millions of lives (purportedly) lost, and the irreparable economic and psychological damage, caused by the outbreak of the bioweapon created and set loose by the US Democrat National Party and their affiliates.
    ​ ​I​t’s happening. The world will know the truth about Covid 19.
    https://bioclandestine.substack.com/p/russian-mil-begin-naming-names-fauci

    ​ ​Twitter’s COVID-19 Censorship Led To Loss Of Life, Says Former White House Adviser Dr. Scott Atlas
    ​ ​“Censorship of the correct science and medical information, during this pandemic, absolutely killed people. It prevented people from making intelligent decisions. It prevented people from making the appropriate use of caution​.​”
    https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/twitters-covid-19-censorship-led-loss-life-says-former-white-house-adviser-dr-scott-atlas

    ​Jessica Rose Ph.D. addresses the shift in immunoglobins caused by mRNA “vaccine” products
    ​ IgG4 and cancer – a mechanism of action for cancer relapse and onset
    https://jessicar.substack.com/p/igg4-and-cancer-a-mechanism-of-action

    #124649
    John Day
    Participant

    @Oroboros: I am guessing that is a Honda CB 500, but I can’t be sure.
    Streamlined position is apparent for a rider seeking top speed.

    #124650
    zerosum
    Participant

    ​ IgG4 and …. we are all f***
    I’m reading the comment at
    https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=247709&page=3

    With old age, the body does not function like it did when younger.
    There are so many more “frailties”/ disfunctions/ that will be enhanced because of ???/c19/vac shot

    My wish for everyone for 2023, is that what was making you miserable in 2022, does not make you turn to painkillers.

    #124651
    ezlxa1949
    Participant

    Seems ever more that they must conclude every speech with, “Rossiya delenda est!”

    #124652
    ezlxa1949
    Participant

    Quoted by John Day: “It’s the U.S. penchant for exporting its ideology that is the main concern for many.”

    Don’t forget that free trade agreements with the US have often if not always included a clause permitting cultural access.

    In other words, in the name of trade and commerce, Hollywood is permitted to penetrate and alter the other country’s culture, mores, attitudes, hopes, dreams, etc.

    Even before that, however, I grew up in the 1950s (in Oz) and well remember the Cold War propaganda on TV, such as Superman (“Truth, Justice, and the American Way!”) or Captain America (softened here to Jet Jackson), or endless movies about how we won WW2 and now are fighting the Commies. All so blatantly obvious now but of course at the time I absorbed it unthinkingly. Took years to undo the conditioning.

    In your copious spare time, I suggest you read “Hollywood vs America”, by Michael Medved. Here’s a Wikipedia link to a review. He is a conservative fim critic and doesn’t approve of what his industry stands for.

    #124653
    ezlxa1949
    Participant

    @phoenixvoice: In my part of the Anglophone (Oz, NZ, UK, ZA, etc) world the word for buttocks is still “arse”, deriving from the Greek orhos meaning buttocks. The word “ass” when I were a lad denoted an animal, only that and nothing more. Even in the US the word “arse” was in use, and I have seen it in US literature as recent as Hemingway or Ogden Nash.

    “Ass” was introduced as a euphemism and the other word seems to have fallen out of use. Now it seems that the euphemism needs a euphemism!

    In Oz the term “ass” seems to be growing in usage, thanks mainly to the growing perfusion of US culture. I dislike it because the way the thought police seem to be heading, we will no longer be able to mention even the braying of an ass. Pity. There are so many asses braying around here. They need to be pointed out.

    Another good word is “bum”, meaning one’s posterior. Dead common in Oz, NZ, UK, etc. To have a good audience is to have a lot of bums on seats.

    #124654
    Oroboros
    Participant

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    #124655
    aspnaz
    Participant

    The Sun said

    Being sarcastic puts you at greater risk of a heart attack, docs warn

    TPTB are using their faithful doctors and scientists to spread all sorts of bizarre reasons why people are having heart attacks, but the one aspect they all fail to address is why there are more heart attacks now than before people were vaccinated. I particularly liked this set of excuses from the telegraph, posted by off-guardian on their Telegram channel https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/10/11/video-games-could-trigger-heart-attacks-children/.

    #124656
    Afewknowthetruth
    Participant

    Working with aluminium (or as Americans call it, aluminum) I yesterday I cogitated on the various ages.

    There was the Stone Age (often split into parts because it was so long -like 2 million years).

    That was followed by the Copper Age. But the Copper Age didn’t get much of a write up. Indigenous people of the west coast between Oregon and BC were really into copper until they got exterminated by European invaders. Indigenous people don’t count. Especially if they were wiped out.

    Next was the Bronze Age. Copper weapons were no match for Bronze Weapons.

    Bronze Weapons were no match for Iron Weapons.

    The Romans dabbled with all sorts of metals and mixtures of metals (as did the Chinese, but they don’t count). However, the Romans just couldn’t manage Alumimium -the reason being it hangs on ‘tenaciously’ to oxygen atoms. Only high-temperature non-aqueous electrolysis will do the trick.

    Aluminium was expensive and hard to come by until reliable electric generators [mostly running on coal] and reliable rectifiers of AC and reliable electric heating systems had been perfected. That was around 1930.

    Thus, the Aluminium Age has a life expectancy of around 100 years, i.e. 1930 to 2030.

    Some people are concerned about ‘Aluminium poisoning. I believe those fears are unfounded because it hangs on ‘tenaciously’ to oxygen atoms. And in aqueous media it hangs on tenaciously to OH. Only very acidic or very alkaline conditions will result in Al+++ ions.

    The great thing about Aluminium is that the Al-O bonds are so strong it does not corrode the way that Iron does under normal environmental conditions.

    A friend of mine makes castings out of Aluminium. And he cuts and grinds Aluminium all day. No signs whatsoever of Aluminium poisoning. Articulate, cultured, industrious and talented. And not jabbed. A ‘voice in his head’ told him there was something very not right about the jabs, even though he had had other, genuine, vaccinations in the past.

    The main difficulties I see for my friend over the next year or two are:

    1. Inability to get diesel to fire-up his diesel-heated furnace.

    2. Loss of orders for the machines he makes, as the electricity grids of the world gradually (or suddenly) progresses from occasional blackouts to permanent blackouts.

    The transition from the Aluminium Age back to the Stone Age will be ‘challenging’.

    It will probably commence with the demise of airlines, which are rather dependent on Aluminium and liquid fuels and electricity and digital currencies that don’t exist, other than as electronic records in failing computer systems.

    We have this silly thing called New Year tonight. many people will see it as an excuse to get drunk and let of fireworks containing Aluminium and its cousin Magnesium. Copper gives explosions a nice green tinge.

    I believe the most spectacular use of Aluminium was as the oxygen acceptor in the military-grade Thermite used to cut through the steel columns that supported the Twin Towers.

    Pity so many people had to die at the time and in the events that followed. But that’s what psychotic sociopaths do, isn’t it? Kill people. For personal gain.

    Being the first major land mass to pass into the new day, Airstrip Five will undoubtedly kick off the insanity of ‘New Year’ that isn’t.

    Sweetcorn, beans, pumpkins, tomatoes and grapes are doing well. And the sunflowers are starting to look magnificent.

    Pity about Ukraine, known for sunflowers.

    I guess many sunflowers will still grow in Ukraine in the spring, despite what the mad humans in the region are doing.

    P.S. Aluminium is excellent for making aircraft, missiles and incendiaries.

    #124657
    Oroboros
    Participant

    @John Day

    The Honda 350 was my dream machine, lighter than the 500, still more than enough power for a teenager ;>)

    .

    #124658
    aspnaz
    Participant

    That tweet about Anecdotals talks about not being able to post stories regarding vaccine injury, yet the film is on youtube, here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t36HntCJf6Y. The tweet directs you to a site containing a link to youtube. What are we supposed to make of this apparent contradiction?

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