Debt Rattle January 2 2025
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January 2, 2025 at 11:31 am #178278
Michael Reid
ParticipantBritish Intelligence,
Liberal Imperialism,
state policy, practice,
or advocacy of extending power and dominion,
especially by direct territorial acquisition
or by gaining political and economic controlRichard Poe:
The British,
The Jews,
Communism,
& World GovernmentRichard Poe: The British, The Jews, Communism, & World Government
January 2, 2025 at 12:42 pm #178279oxymoron
ParticipantMichael Reid – Richard Poe seems to be looking in the right direction. All roads lead to British Jewish bankers it appears
January 2, 2025 at 12:44 pm #178280Dr. D
Participant“France Launches First Air Raids Over Syria Since Assad’s Overthrow
Ostensibly as part of a continued ‘counter-ISIS’ mission…Did they not get the memo? Who are they bombing? “We just always bomb all sides in all countries. It’s more fair that way.” (except to taxpayers)
“Biden Donor Calls Trump A “F**king Genius” For Beating Dems
“He tapped into something Republicans never saw, which was anger and populism on that side.”Republicans were unaware there were “People” and “Workers” having a hard time in America. Yeah, we know. So Trump tapped into this thing called “Voters” and that’s his special genius? That’s so crazy it just might work!
Now Part II, where the Republicans do the #Opposite of everything they promised, like expand the Empire.
“Ukraine, World Bank sign $15B agreement funded by US: Premier
“The United States will provide Ukraine with $15 billion, secured by revenues from frozen Russian assets,” Shmyhal said in a statement on Telegram. https://www.yenisafak.com/en/world/ukraine-world-bank-sign-15b-agreement-funded-by-us-premier-3696493Great: that money will get to Kiev, then turn around and pay London. Out of instant default. We just pay the world’s national debt by transferring it to ours…and they all know it.
“BBC Staff in Open Revolt Over Gaza.
The BBC is dealing with a major internal revolt about its reporting on the Israel-Gaza conflict. Journalists are claiming the organization is systematically biased and frames the story in a particular way.”Ya think? More the point is, How did reporters this bad, this indifferent, this obedient, and even THEY are rebelling? You mean like the IDF themselves, even the best, more ruthless, racist, hardened soldiers are defecting?
“UN experts on Monday said that Israel “must face the consequences” of its campaign to undermine the legal framework for the protection of civilians”
Really? What “consequences” could you possibly propose for such behavior short of the erasure of their country? 80% are for it, do we imprison the 80% and let the 20% run it? You may find some obstacles in attempting such a plan.
“Ketanji Brown Jackson Embarks On ‘Read The Constitution In A Year’ Plan “ –Bbee
“Former CIA Officer Warns: 1,000 Al-Qaeda Fighters In US For Next Homeland Attack
This is your plan? To kill like a dozen people? You are kidding, right? Yeah, I don’t think this is going the direction you think it’s going. We’re not going to beg you for help because YOU let a dozen people die violently every weekend of the year. While on the job. We already know how incompetent and uncaring you are.
Sooo…three? Terrorist attacks in one day nationwide? Opening up those sleeper cells from the 12 million. And Whyyyyyy, Jan1? 12:01am Some kind of deal was on and ended?
Boy, they sure want me to keep the nation open to immigration! And have no gun rights!
“Moscow Fumes, Vows Response, After State Media Telegram Channels Blocked In EU
“Fuming”? Since being unable to make Europe aware of your side, your needs and reservations, is necessary to cause WWIII, then maybe being deeply alarmed by this is in order and appropriate? And whatever “Opposite-Fuming” is, Crowing, being elated by NOT hearing anything from anybody else, is a moronic approach that will get 100 million Europeans killed? In thirty minutes? But only Russia is concerned by this.
“”You can’t have national security if you don’t have border security.”Biden killed what? 20 people this week?
“NEW ORLEANS, LA – The FBI announced today that the horrific scene in New Orleans was not a terrorist attack, thereby confirming to the nation that it was, in fact, a terrorist attack.” –Bbee
“• Journos Who Hid Biden’s Decline Should Never Live It Down (NYPost)
Yes, they SHOULD, but no one notices and no one is discredited.
“White House Insists Jimmy Carter Is Still Sharp And Focused Behind Closed Doors “ –BBee
“• Musk Says Cybertruck That Exploded in Las Vegas Contained Blast (Sp.)
Spoken like a true 19th century industrialist. Maybe it would have, but the bomb was in the BED? Therefore did not contain? Unless they have a very special tanneau cover? Also, note time, places, keywords: they used a Cyber as a threat to Musk personally? Because…gee, you have to rent one, so you’re on camera, then there are 100 cameras inside and outside the truck, mailing all video back to TeslaCorp, including your face and everywhere you were. And you CHOSE this vehicle on purpose? You do you, man.
“enabled and funded the cynical maladministration by the Zelensky government, which will go down in history as one of the greatest examples of waste and theft of Western aid.”
Errr, depends how you look at it. Moving one level forward from ‘Nam, they gave the money to Ukraine to pay the WEF, Europe, and London. That is, direct colonization of America, or at least our Congress, to float and maintain their bonds. …And money flipping back TO buy that Congress, with SBF and the DNC. That’s the Bribery side, but you bribe somebody FOR something. To accomplish something. We have $36T national debt? How much of that was floating Europe? Well the missing 2% of GDP for NATO for 20 years for one. That’s $10 Trillion itself? Then the highest line-item in all budget, the interest payments? Who holds the bonds? Santander, Rostchchild AG Francaise?
“• Ukraine Lost Nearly 600,000 Troops in 2024 (Sp.)
What soldiers, what war, what Ukraine? I haven’t heard anything. Surely if something were going on it would be reported, right?
“Sapsan has been under development since 2006, but the process has been hampered by delays and funding shortfalls.”
Yeah, that’s 20 years. I was going to comment same on HIMARS, their latest, greatest top-new missile tech finally tested against Iran or Yemen. Guys? It’s 20 years old. It needs to be retired now, not finally used now. You’re a generation behind. But they ARE brand new! …Compared to everything else we use, carriers and jets from the 70s, tanks from the 80s, Patriots from the 90s, 30 years ago….
““Sikorski should be “locked up in a mental institution” for “celebrating cutting Europe off gas in the middle of winter..”
WES is dead right: there is no Ukraine, we bought, own, and run them. So the U.S. just shut off Europe, not Kiev.
“• German Energy Official Asks Citizens To Save Gas (RT)
You’re kidding, right? HOW??? If you want to shut down a million houses and move people into bomb shelters that’s one thing, but otherwise, what? Stop baking bread?
“Elon Musk’s verbal attacks on German leaders risk straining relations between Berlin and Washington,”
He used WORDS? Oh. My. God. How will the Republic survive? If they confuse air-holes with being “Attacked” they are way too soft and need some toughening up with a dose of reality. Give them a week driving ambulance behind the front lines they love so much. We’ll see how they feel about naming it an “Attack”.
“25 years ago Russia was nowhere land.”
And so are we, “Closing the Collapse Gap with the Soviet Union.” And we can turn around as fast or faster.
The renaissance is happening right now, in thought and priority. The H1B visa blowout with Ramaswamy keeps echoing, with ever-new solid, grounded, practical, directed posts addressing the issues and their solutions.
Part of what keeps people down is to attack and corrupt, destroy their language so they can’t think straight, coordinate a response, as I often say. I realize that beyond “Woke” “Gay Race Communism”, it is a WAR in the sense that TIME is the key issue. Can you get the disease to multiply faster than the host can create anitbodies to stop it? If 1, lose, if 2, win. That’s it, that’s the end, in medical and also in combat. They were diverted, slowed down, resisted, long enough that our people and body politick created antibodies, a response to their mind-virus.
So we’re seeing a WIDE swath of people who can really THINK and tell the truth, all independently, and independent of platform. With divergent but compatible views. You see that from Sargon to Barsoom to Jimmy Dore. They run media companies, could write books, follow economics, and can give lectures on Jung. This is your genesis to any new revived America. They can communicate with each other, largely freed from poisoned language, and people follow on and cooperate in their outlook and therefore their physical actions. Which are no longer mass-murdering and nihilistic. No longer self-hating and suicidal. And those things are again relegated as symptoms of the mentally ill.
“• Russian Rejection Of Trump Proposals Puts Wrinkle In Pursuit For Peace (JTN)
Let’s see: we get in and find What??? Hunter Biden stole/trafficked/conduited $100 Billion there??? Well stop the presses we need a re-think! Then we are in re-re-re-negotiations that appear to be moving with Russia. …You know, we are negotiating with them for the war we’re not at all involved in, right? Then in April we/they pull the plug on the entire stock and bond market, in a financial collapse. Yada ya.
“President Jimmy Carter departed this world with 2024. He was a good man outfoxed by Washington.”Just to bring up, there was talk of his mother, a secretary, just as for Clinton’s mother, a secretary. Just passed by. So he was the another, bastard son of another Rockefeller. That’s not his fault, he probably didn’t know. And so there was a guy named Greene, probably 20 years ago on FinancialSense maybe? Talked about poppa Trudeau in Cuba with a cigar box full of coke? And at the same time, they had told them all “Carter is it, he’s next.” Who??? Jimmy Carter. You mean the Peanut Farmer? Why?? Nobody knows, but it’s already been arranged.
And the next story picked up over the years, Carter wins this amazing, clean, wholesome, underdog battle after Watergate, and then they come in the office and show him the Zapruter tapes, so to speak, As Bill Hicks said. They said “This is going to be your cabinet. THIS is going to be your agenda. And THESE are going to be your plans. Any questions?” And he went to bed and cried. All that, his life really, for nothing. All the “Clean America, 1776” stuff, all sham, all bulls-t. And so it was, Kissinger and Brzezinski, all those fellows, new boss same as the old boss, unchanged policy straight back through ever. Dulles Brothers special. CIA now unhampered by annoying Kennedys and Nixons.
Now I can’t PROVE any of that, but if it were true would it help make more sense about it?
What’s Carter supposed to do? Like Adolph, finding out his mother…and her reputation…and so his…and therefore your credibility…and therefore your power…and then who would you tell? The first file they drop on your desk shows EVERYBODY is already in on it. You’re going to tell the FBI? The CIA? Naval Intel? Governor Reagan? Who? They already know and are already stuck in the same web too. There isn’t a straight cop in all of Gotham, and hasn’t been in years. How do you fight them?
Well, all sorts of ways, like both Nixon and Reagan did. But Carter picked a different, milder way, AFTER the Presidency was over. To make both President and America look good. …Which the bad guys don’t mind, they can use that to help themselves. Carter makes prestige and we sell it, skin-suit it. But that was done. That was his expression opposing them.
“Carter also hurt himself by turning the Panama Canal over to Panama.”
Did he though? Or did they drop a file on his desk about Nixon being framed for Watergate which was run by three CIA guys with two CIA media plants. If Mr. Global wants it sold (for the money) then what? Say no? Mr. Global’s Derp State power was still ascending right then, and would right through Blair. That’s a big freight train and a long time to wait. (Make a foundational crack: set a time bomb)
“• Trump Says He Is Planning To Attend Jimmy Carter’s Funeral (AP)
“Jimmy Carter To Skip Trump Inauguration “ — BBee. Trump’s inauguration is the first one Carter hasn’t attended since he retired 40 years ago. …I think that fact speaks for itself.
“• Imperial Hubris -And Its Consequences- In Syria (Alastair Cooke)
What Cooke is saying is true. …But it’s not the Truth. I don’t know what that is right now. Except half a million men vanished overnight? Have no security problems? Are still being fed?
WES, every comment was a hit yesterday.
January 2, 2025 at 1:01 pm #178281zerosum
ParticipantI’m reading a fiction story and a copycat event is happening or a coincidence/similar event is happening in reality
https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/new-orleans-mass-casualty-bourbon-street-01-01-25-hnk/index.html
At least 15 killed in New Orleans after driver intentionally rams into crowd on Bourbon Street
Updated 12:13 AM EST, Thu January 2, 2025
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https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-chef-james-patterson/1128998108
The Chef
by James Patterson, Max DiLallo
17 Feb. 2019
Overview
In the Carnival days leading up Mardi Gras, Caleb Rooney comes under investigation for a murder he is accused of committing in the line of duty–as a Major Crimes detective for the New Orleans Police Department. Has his sideline at the Killer Chef food truck given him a taste for murder?
Chapter 78, p.. 341
———–January 2, 2025 at 2:22 pm #178282tboc
Participant“How did we ever get used to this?” – TAE
March 16,1968, murder of nuns in El Salvador 1980, Kosovo, Weapons of Mass Destruction, “Fuck the EU”
linear progression“Hell is empty and all the devils are here …………
“You taught me language, and my profit on’t / Is, I know how to curse”―
William Shakespeare, The TempestDamned we are in our Depraved Nobility
Self Righteous Courtiers to the Father of LiesJanuary 2, 2025 at 2:34 pm #178283Oroboros
ParticipantPolish Foreign Minister Sikorski is a Judas Goat
He should be exiled from Poland to go live with he’s satanic puppet masters in Duh’merica.
He is a living breathing Polish joke.
• German Energy Official Asks Citizens To Save Gas
The Humorless Teutonics are a close second now to a pitiful Polish joke.
And meanwhile back in Germany they have lit their collective hair on fire and are trying to put it out with a hammer.
Sweet
“Oaf Scholz” leading the German lemmings off the cliff.
What a sad pitiful country, it’s access to cheap energy and resources GONE for at least the rest of the 21st century, Russia will never forgive the Krauts for generations, condemned to the role of a quaint Euro-trash amusement park masquerading as an actual country with an economy. Drowning in migrants, shivering in the dark.
A humorl
January 2, 2025 at 3:05 pm #178287Oroboros
ParticipantThe ‘rejuvenation’ of Duh’merican ‘culture’ can’t happen because of this:
Prisoners are just Horses of a Different Color
It’s not just that your language is corrupted and perverted and words lack any meaning.
Your institutions are corrupted and perverted and interchangeable and lack any meaning.
January 2, 2025 at 3:09 pm #178288Oroboros
ParticipantDuh’merica deconstructed in a paragraph by a foreigner:
Duh
January 2, 2025 at 3:11 pm #178289Oroboros
ParticipantCan’t get enough
Make Duh’merica healthy, not again, it never was….
January 2, 2025 at 3:30 pm #178290Oroboros
ParticipantForget language distortion in Duh’merica and words mean nothing.
How about simple survival logic
Even reptiles think things out better than the Inmates of the Empire of LiesJanuary 2, 2025 at 3:32 pm #178291Michael Reid
ParticipantJanuary 2, 2025 at 3:34 pm #178292Oroboros
ParticipantJanuary 2, 2025 at 3:35 pm #178293Michael Reid
ParticipantKrainer states likely remnants of the British empire
January 2, 2025 at 4:00 pm #178294Oroboros
ParticipantJanuary 2, 2025 at 4:21 pm #178295zerosum
ParticipantThe authorities of Pokrovsk do not give up: the almost surrounded city will allocate millions for the media, salaries
Подробнее: https://eadaily.com/en/news/2025/01/02/the-authorities-of-pokrovsk-do-not-give-up-the-almost-surrounded-city-will-allocate-millions-for-the-media-salaries
The Russian army is located a few kilometers from Pokrovsk, but the city authorities still paint millions of hryvnias for dubious expenses.Pokrovsk adopted the city budget for 2025.
“Financial support for the media will cost the city budget UAH 14 million 558 thousand,” writes the Ukrainian Telegraph.
The publication notes that the city in the Donetsk region, around which fierce fighting is taking place, has adopted a budget with questionable expenses. According to the Pokrovskaya city Military Administration, 70% of residential buildings, 80% of social and 95% of industrial facilities were damaged or destroyed by the end of the year.January 2, 2025 at 4:25 pm #178296D Benton Smith
ParticipantWow, the commentariat has been on a real ROLL for the last couple of days. It has been a joy to read. I haven’t seen this much truth laid down in such a short span since the Sermon on the Mount.
January 2, 2025 at 4:26 pm #178297zerosum
ParticipantBuyers of Russian gas. Too bad Ukraine and EU.
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/china-completes-full-pipeline-power-of-siberia-gas-2024-12-02/
China completes full pipeline for Power-of-Siberia gas
By Reuters
December 2, 202412:27 AM PSTUpdated a month agoSINGAPORE, Dec 2 (Reuters) – China has built and connected the 5,111-km (3,175-mile) Power-of-Siberia pipeline to deliver gas from Russia’s Siberian fields to users as far as the financial hub of Shanghai, Chinese state media reported on Monday.
The completion will allow the project to reach its full annual designed capacity of 38 billion cubic meters in 2025, roughly 9% of China’s consumption this year.
Chinese builders added the last section, a 167-km line from Nantong to Luzhi in the eastern province of Jiangsu, around mid-November, completing the massive project seven months ahead of schedule.January 2, 2025 at 4:32 pm #178298John Day
ParticipantDr. D is storing treasures in Heaven, which has its own blockchain-ledger.
Trump will attend Carter’s funeral. Good Form, Sir!
Tesla truck bombed, killing patsy-driver, in front of Trump Tower Las Vegas, signaling that Trump and Musk will be killed together with a bomb.
Change my mind.January 2, 2025 at 4:36 pm #178299zerosum
Participanthttps://eadaily.com/en/news/2025/01/02/veterans-of-the-armed-forces-of-ukraine-go-to-the-porch-there-is-nothing-to-eat
Veterans of the Armed Forces of Ukraine go to the porch: there is nothing to eatA video appeared on Ukrainian telegram channels showing a veteran of the Armed Forces of Ukraine asking for money for food on the street. The country predicts that there will be more and more such disabled people, as the state has simply forgotten about them.
“I served in the army for nine years, and now I’m starving. After being wounded and dismissed, the state did not pay me the money,” 48—year-old veteran Yevgeny Lomsky told the XUA-Photo of War telegram channel. He was standing with a sign saying “I’m starving” right on Khreshchatyk.
A veteran of the Armed Forces of Ukraine told bloggers that he was a steelworker in Mariupol, but in 2015 he voluntarily became a sapper in the Armed Forces of Ukraine. However, on September 17, 2023, he was blown up by a mine and lost his leg.
“His story has stunned foreigners and has already been on the pages of world-famous media. On the eve of the New Year, Al-Jazeera published an article with the eloquent headline: “Abandoned: Struggling with Veterans of the war in Ukraine feel humiliated and forgotten by Russia,” writes XUA-photo of the war.
According to the veteran, he is entitled to payments, but for this it is still necessary to prepare documents. They promised to help him with housing for three years.“But this is not accurate,” said Yevgeny Lomsky.
Telegram channel “Legitimate” believes that soon Ukrainian cities will be filled with military disabled “beggars” with signs that they are starving and there is no money for treatment.“It will be 100%, since Zelensky and Yermak use and throw out the military as “junk” — we were the first to insider about it all the time. Hundreds of thousands of soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have been transferred to the reserve after being wounded, where they receive $15-75 each. There is not enough money for treatment and life, which means that soon they will start coming out and asking, and after they realize their strength, they will begin to demand compensation from the state. Against this background, Zelensky’s New Year’s video message looks hypocritical, where he lies to millions of Ukrainians that he “values” the life of every Ukrainian,” writes Legitimate.
January 2, 2025 at 4:36 pm #178300zerosum
ParticipantRT
Germany and with it the backbone of the EU is being broken..
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Germany is being ruined – but there is silence about the causes
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By Wolfgang BittnerIt is astonishing what is happening before our eyes. 22,400 corporate bankruptcies in 2024, mass layoffs, short-time work, companies moving to other countries. Now the parties have published their election manifestos and they want above all to revive the economy. But there is silence about the real causes of the economic decline; the same applies to trade unionists and entrepreneurs.
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In September 2022, when many people demonstrated for the commissioning of Nord Stream 2 in order to avoid a threatening emergency, the pipeline was largely rendered unusable by explosions at the same time as Nord Stream 1. After extensive research, the well-known American investigative journalist Seymour Hersh has come to the conclusion that the USA carried out this attack on Germany’s energy supply. The Berlin government, which in all probability knew about it, is silent on the matter; instead, this criminal attack on German infrastructure is being obscured with ever new lies.The Berlin government is wasting billions on the proxy war in Ukraine, which did not begin in 2022, but already with the Kiev government’s attack on the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts, which at the time were merely demanding more autonomy within Ukraine after the coup. After British Prime Minister Boris Johnson boycotted the Istanbul peace efforts in agreement with the US government, the Ukraine war escalated, Germany was bled dry and increasingly positioned against the Russian Federation.
It can be assumed that neither the USA nor Great Britain have any interest in a rapprochement between Germany and Russia or a revival of the German economy. On the contrary, they will prevent this by all means. Germany has been under guardianship in a permanent state of emergency since 1945, and it is urgently time to end this guardianship.
How the CIA made fools of the German media: Ukrainian cover game with commanding officer Smith
The most important goals of a sensible policy for Germany must be:Withdrawal from NATO, which has long been violating its own statutes;
Termination of the stationing of foreign military forces on German territory;
Resumption of cheap gas supplies from Russia;
Cessation of arms supplies, especially to warring parties;
Resumption of normal relations with states with which relations are currently strained.
To achieve these goals, a fundamental change in policy is required, but this is not possible with the established parties. Therefore, the elections scheduled for next February are merely a way of misleading the population, which is being lied to and deceived.
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But one thing is certain…if Germany is finished, the EU is finished. And above all France and Italy will collapse, and with them the Euro!
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And this development in Germany will continue regardless of victory or defeat in Ukraine…
That means the end of the EU is already written.
Even if Germany removes its debt brake from the constitution (basic law) after the election in February and thus, like all bankrupt EU states, can and must take on trillions of dollars in debt in order to continue to support these bankrupt states, just to give the euro a reprieve…in order to ensure the existence of the dollar, the USA will drop the euro, whose purchasing power has almost halved compared to the Swiss franc in around 10 years…and simply declare the euro zone a dollar zone…which in turn will give the dollar a reprieve.
My comment on this
All this assuming that the average German allows himself to be driven into poverty…as Churchel said, “Woe to the German who loses his historical servitude.”Posted by: ossi | Jan 2 2025 16:19 utc | 383
January 2, 2025 at 4:50 pm #178301D Benton Smith
ParticipantSome guy just lost it and shot up a dozen friends and relatives in Montenegro, ending with himself. The craziness is not just limited to the USA. Have you ever seen Montenegro? It has to be one of the most stunningly beautiful countries in the whole world.
January 2, 2025 at 5:10 pm #178302Dr. D
ParticipantBut Oroboros, that cup is merely “Child Sized”:
Pawnee: #1 in Diabetes!
January 2, 2025 at 5:10 pm #178303D Benton Smith
ParticipantAI, drones, and biological warfare is a “three way” hookup from the lowest level of Hell.
I think they have just pulled the trigger on the next big attack on the world’s population, and it’s going to use all three in an extremely coordinated fashion.
The initial “pandemic” will be distributed by drone. All it really needs is a few “alarming outbreak” cases in few specified places (New Jersey, perhaps?) to then justify aerosol spraying the vax on targeted areas and populations everywhere that it “unpredictably” pops up. (actually, “sprayed down” would be a better choice of words). Side effects from the vax (which has already been mass produced, stocked up and ready for final distribution) will be used to “prove” the existence of a fast spreading 20% lethal pathogen. This technique will enable the killers to exercise full control over who gets sick and who dies, when, where and how, in whatever pattern that the perpetrators choose.
REAL plagues are too unpredictable and impossible to manage, but using a vaccine to do it gives total control.
January 2, 2025 at 5:22 pm #178304Michael Reid
ParticipantJanuary 2, 2025 at 5:36 pm #178305Noirette
ParticipantFrom top post:
Back in February, 86% of Americans thought Biden was too old to serve a second term because they had watched his decline happen in real time, and over the course of several years. Way back in 2022, some 75% of Democratic voters wanted someone other than Biden to run in 2024. But the “Biden is fine” charade continued even after special counsel Robert Hur said a jury would see Biden as an “elderly man with a poor memory,” and Biden himself began repeatedly calling world leaders by the names of their dead predecessors.
Why was Biden pushed to the top? Worldwide, ppl were surprised.
It was well known he was senile (obvious), not to mention corrupt (Burisma, etc. amongst those following…). Ppl were reminded of crumbling ‘large’ régimes where some decrepit figure is hoisted (because expendable, death no problemo, etc.), as a kind of symbol of the ‘old guard’ with the guard resolutely continuing on.
If this was a result of infighting in the DEM fishbowl, it was seen as just as negative, if not more. (Vibrant democracy, anyone?) Lack of other candidates, ditto. Bidadmin (backers) using coercion of whatever type, same.
Then, with the choice of VP being Kabala (flakey nobody, despised, and ridiculed all over the world), puzzlement grew. Subsequently, she is put in the position of candidate without ever being a VP ‘who does anything’ — and Biden is clearly only propped up with some meds for some brief senseless sorties…
All this showed, as seen from Europe, Russia, India, etc. that the US was, is, run by, at the top level, totally incompetent ppl who can’t even hold ‘the stage’, and that there is no internal political structure that has anything to do with ‘representation’ or ‘democratic governance’ or indeed any other structure that might be effective, such as a benevolent dictatorship, or whatever…Though the MSM covers that up as best they can.
So the question is Why? What could possibly be the point, the advantage sought for? It has only backfired…Talk about shooting yourself in the foot.. The US is still feared *yes, really* because of military power, but even that image / trope is now crumbling. (Oreshnik missiles.)
January 2, 2025 at 5:39 pm #178306D Benton Smith
ParticipantIf you aren’t doing so already then get cracking on boosting and safeguarding your immune system, like NOW if not sooner.
Some densely populated areas will be targeted first, of course (for many practical reasons) but with AI and drones there won’t be any place dependably safe from incursion. You won’t be CAPABLE of just saying no to vaccines.In other words, you’re gonna get vaxxed (bio-poisoned) whether you like it or not, so your only defense is the gift God gave you (including, and most importantly the gift of being able to ask him for further assistance.)
Your body and its innate immune system is a literally miraculously effective and adaptable device. Give it a chance to do its thing.
January 2, 2025 at 5:49 pm #178307D Benton Smith
ParticipantIt’s all so backwards that it’s almost comical. Instead of masking up and social distancing to avoid inhaling the pathogen we’ll be masking up to avoid breathing the medicine! (and taking other measures to minimize exposure and dosage level)
January 2, 2025 at 5:55 pm #178308jb-hb
Participant(I post these sometimes in case anyone wants a bug’s eye view of current year corporate culture.)
Why, if we can’t hire visa people for cheap, the only way to make employment expenses worth it for us as employers would be to…. to … would be… auuughhhhh noooooooo
Educate your workers.
This would involve TRAINING them and training them COMPETENTLY.
I have just gotten through about 8 weeks of incompetent corporate training in which I knew – more or less – how to compensate for it but was not allowed the time nor system access to do it. So now I’m in production, STILL with no time to learn, picking up bits and pieces as I go. This is going to take a year when they could have trained me in 4 weeks. Had they left me logged into their systems 8 hours a day for 8 weeks unsupervised, I could have trained MYSELF better with ZERO interaction with the (woke) trainers.
No after-action survey, no skip-level. Don’t know, don’t want to know. Requests fell on deaf ears. I made the mistake of using the word “feel”: I feel unprepared. She spent 20 minutes 1 on 1 speaking to feelings but doing nothing about being unprepared and refusing all my proposed solutions. It is demeaning, insulting, purposely infantalizing to address someone’s perceived psychology while throwing their appeals to fix problems in the garbage.
My last job, I had a boss like that but way worse. When she introduced herself 1st day, she said proudly “I’ve studied PSYCHOLOGY” and I was careful to keep a straight face during my inward groan. Here we go then. EVERY attempt to interface with her to do the job got the same response – a “psychological insight” in which she saw (hallucinated) something in my subconscious I was “unaware” of and then spoke to it with “expertise.” My appeals to do the job became ever more blunt.
Very close to the end, I got as blunt as possible with her: “Look, your house is on fire. YOUR HOUSE IS ON FIRE. It has been since I got here. The inbound queue is always 50-100 deep, I currently have 200 emails in my inbox I cannot get to, you won’t give me any guidance on how you want me to deploy my finite resources, you don’t seem to know what specific coaching to give on my behaviors that would lead to success nor do you seem to have given any thought to what success looks like. Everything you teach me to do, you tell me is the wrong way the next time you talk to me. Orders/emails/calls/followups/etc are screwed up…. on a continual basis for the past half year, I can see that your house has been on fire.”
answer: “I notice you mentioned a house being on fire, and what I’m hearing is a lot of fear.” (followed by 20 minute lecture about feelings and fear) Uh, that’s 20 minutes you could have spent fixing something instead of playing pretend as a sort of soft aggression/abuse.
What was that shit Carnegie did? Built a million new libraries? All those robber barons making or funding new schools? Huh. All that education must have had no purpose and had no effect, right? Thus it doesn’t matter if all the libraries are full of woke garbage and loud “community” activities now? Same as a quiet one with real books 50 years ago?
Yeah, assholes. If you couldn’t import people, you’d have to stop taking advantage of the native population, the infrastructure they built, in every way and start EDUCATING them. Taking some interest in fixing the schools and/or setting up parallel education systems, perhaps even at your own expense because you are doing it for your own benefit? Set up a private library system where the librarians still shush or kick out people, ones full of books that give real knowledge or instill wholesome values?
You’d have to educate AND train your workforce and be EFFECTIVE at it. The one thing you cannot face, apparently
Oh and the billions in corporate money going to do the opposite, going to make your prospective workforce ignorant, stupid, and insufferable, you’d have to stop that. Was its purpose all along to degrade american workers and therefore justify your massive immigration?
My own takeaway from corporate training though is that you cannot simply throw time and corporate trainers at people. SOMEBODY SOMEWHERE has to lower themselves enough to not generally do things, but SPECIFICALLY do things, like get to know the job, your people, their needs, and act accordingly. Figure out what your trainers, your managers are SPECIFICALLY doing or not doing and choose people accordingly.
My 2 woke female trainers wanted to spend 1/8-1/4 of each day talking about food, margaritas, shopping, pets, food, food, wine, travel, that cute thing their out of wedlock child did/said, pets, travel, and food. Imagine trying to use that chatter-time to study – the trainers themselves are chattering and any moment, they will switch to training. Imagine sitting at a cubicle at work trying to study arcane corporate process documents in an unfamiliar industry, but they’re going to gather the 10 most talkative people in the office to press around you and talk over/through you while you try to read AND two of them will start saying something important at an unpredictable time – make sure to listen for it.
The dude in charge of training popped in to Teams every once in a while. He seemed SUPER status sensitive and didn’t take kindly to any rocking of the boat. Rocking the boat could be anything that could sound like a criticism of the company, training, systems, policies, etc – so he asks us “how’d it go on the phones?” the person starts relating significant challenges they encountered – just factually – and he becomes displeased, cuts them off. He was apparently very proud of his networking-connections – used most of his Teams time -every time – talking up how he had connections with the other various members of leadership, the trainers. NOT the guy to do surveys and skip levels nor get his hands dirty figuring things out on a specific basis.
Just idiotic things like- I’ve never been shown how a sale gets completed in 4 of the the 6 systems we use for 20 different products because the training environment doesn’t support it and “gasp, we can’t possibly do it in production” Oh you corporate idiots. You build a dummy account and go all the way through demonstrating in THAT. You screenshot the steps on your own time and make a process document out of it for us. Duh. Nobody to tell. Nobody asking, nobody listening. Yet from the time the customer says “Yes, I want to buy your product” to transaction completed is the most predictably uniform process, the most IMPORTANT process. You WANT us to have this down pat. Even if you don’t care anything for competency or performing our fiduciary duty, surely processing the CLOSED SALE is important? Duh, we cannot show you how. PS the process document will be almost intentionally evasive on this subject.
The one time I was in charge of anything – by default due to neglect rather than empowerment – I trained about 200 people. I did it by actively, continually, taking an interest in my people – getting to know their particular character, temperament, style, answering their questions, inquiring to find out what their troubles were and in what WAY their troubles were troubling them. Always telling them how I knew something or if I did NOT know. Honestly, forthcomingly admitting if I got something wrong – THANKING them if they corrected me on something! Counting that the ultimate training success!
I am sick of purposely vague, evasive networking self-important managers who can’t even figuratively get their hands dirty. With their own fucking job. And Woke just sanctified them. So when I see CEO’s like Vivek and Elon say “Ho-ho, need a knowledgeable workforce, ergo H1B visas galore!” I see someone too good to get their hands dirty. That’s YOU, man. Training your workforce, that’s YOU. Or if you cannot lower yourself to handle that, then maybe some concern that the University-HR-Trainer pipeline is pumping shit into your companies? Intrinsically? Therefore use your new political victory for visas not concerning yourself with training and education? Because of how dedicated you are to excellence, how great you are? And great people don’t worry about specificity or causality or things like that.
Like, if the US education system is allowed to crumble into the equivalent of a nearly-impassible field of potholes and you’ve been benefiting from it for free, don’t fix it. Don’t make your own. No, find some other nation that will do it for free that ISN’T ruined yet and benefit from them. Just keep switching between free stuff.
Is there some crisis I’m unaware of, of worker pay skyrocketing? Due to a labor shortage? Inflation-adjusted worker pay as a slice of revenues and profits and GDP is down for 50 years straight, ergo, there’s a labor shortage and we need massive foreign help to bring down wages? You don’t have enough profits to bid higher to get the workers you want nor spend on education/training to fix your problem? You’re penniless – the H1B program being sort of a covert bailout of sorts where we rescue you? WE being the people you intend to displace?
January 2, 2025 at 5:59 pm #178309Noirette
ParticipantAbout Sars-Cov2 / Covid-19, plagues and the rest, the below is definetly worth a careful look.
SARS-CoV-2 originated in a US lab – that isn’t in itself controversial, see more:
Interview with US lab leak researcher Jim Haslam, part 1.
https://www.velazquez.press/p/sars-cov-2-originated-in-a-us-lab
>> Jim Haslam substack for more info.
January 2, 2025 at 6:00 pm #178310D Benton Smith
ParticipantBe especially careful about ingesting the information that our government allows, announces , leaks or causes in any way to be broadcast through the main media channels. I’m not saying that it’s all lies. Much of it is true, but MOST of it (by far) is also targeted to a specific purpose. What I am saying is that it is being put in front of you in order to “social engineer” a specific response that is NOT in your own best interests. PsyOps are being layered on top op PsyOps until its nearly impossible to separate and properly adjudicate the significance of any and all of the data that’s flying around. Be careful!
January 2, 2025 at 6:27 pm #178311jb-hb
ParticipantHave you seen anything about The Fog?
All week I’ve been seeing claims of some sort of low-lying not-real-fog fog – in the areas plagued by drones in previous weeks – reportedly leaves a sticky residue, gives rashes and “brain fog” to exposed people.
All tinfoil youtube channels saying it, just recently getting pushed into my youtube feed. Ones I’ve never seen before – presumably because I watched a few drone videos.
January 2, 2025 at 6:28 pm #178312D Benton Smith
ParticipantThe Jim Haslam article was fascinating, but must fascinating of all was the notion entertained and promulgated from within the “virologists universe” is the concept of a “self replicating vaccine”. Say, WHAT?
By their definition, Bubonic Plague was a self-replicating vaccine, that damned near cured itself.
January 2, 2025 at 7:09 pm #178313jb-hb
ParticipantThe CFPB Wants You To Pay For Mistakes Of Others
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/cfpb-wants-you-pay-mistakes-othersThey want to charge the transaction platform if a victim of a scam loses money by sending money to the scammer
CFPB Chair Rohit Chopra
Uh… sir. Sir?
You realize the scammers are all in India, calling from call centers?
If you can’t get India to stop them, you could sanction India until they do? Or just send Jason Bourne or a few wetwork teams to wipe out a few call centers instead of their normal duties like toppling democratic governments and assassinating elected leaders?
Idunno, try it for like 6 months, see if anything changes?
You understand THE ENTIRE UNITED STATES stopped answering their phones because India keeps calling them to scam them? And now they’re just trying to just keep you on the line long enough to clone your voice?
Somebody else’s problem. Just charge small companies that process financial transactions (never HSBC, Bank of America, JP Morgue, oh no never…)
Is there some unspoken reason you want to go after small financial transaction platforms and NOT scammers in India? Can you think of any reason you have not divulged yet, Rohit?
January 2, 2025 at 7:23 pm #178314D Benton Smith
ParticipantCar sized unidentified drone swarms over New Jersey? Don’t worry about it.
January 2, 2025 at 7:29 pm #178315jb-hb
ParticipantMaybe we could pit evil against evil.
Get the ear of a few medical industry CEO’s. Explain that every cent stolen from Grandma by “Scam Likely” is a cent not taken from her in end-of-life care?
Medical Industry Lobbyists Everywhere: “We must stop this scourge of Scamming Grandma!!! What do we have an NSA for??? They’re taking millions upon millions from Grandma!!! (rubs hands together) Millions, I tell you! The NSA knows who they are, where they are! This is an outrage! Something must be done!”
January 2, 2025 at 7:43 pm #178316Dora
ParticipantEl Gato Malo. “Come Offit”
https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/come-offitGain of Function research (aka the Frankenstein labs research) in the US and the Netherlands on avian flu virus:
https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/the-reputations-of-researchers-atJanuary 2, 2025 at 7:47 pm #178317WES
ParticipantUkrainian Peace Negotiations:
Currently there are no Ukrainian peace negotiations going on.
We are now publically talking more about Ukrainian peace negotiations in the MSM.
(Therefore, it must be a lie!)
But the only Ukrainian peace negotiations happening, are the negotiations we are having with ourselves!
God forbid, we are certainly not talking to the Russians about peace!
So we are just pretending to negotiate for peace in Ukraine!
So we really want the war in Ukraine to continue, to the last Ukrainian!
January 2, 2025 at 7:58 pm #178318Red
ParticipantGermany you want save on gas then shut down the supply to all government buildings, all of them cafeteria kitchens hot water everywhere. Bet that’s more than we would guess.
Drones? Interesting problem. Some clear two inch mesh fishing net, a few helium filled clear balloons and some heavy clear fishing line for tethering to the ground. Lots of tethered balloons with no net between them as decoys. Bring a few down quickly put them in faraday boxes and shuttle them off for dissection. Broadcast findings widely. Or conversely sit passively by and make a cup of tea for yourself and the reaper when he comes a knocking or is that now misting?
Harm the birds you say! Aren’t they already all dead due to H1N1 or about to be extinct because of it? Or is that also a targeting issue?
Collateral damage say I. It’s quickly becoming an us or them issue.
Some dialogue about practical ways to combat these globalists would be helpful.January 2, 2025 at 8:40 pm #178319zerosum
ParticipantNew expression on TV for exaggeration: trumped up
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call center responses:
1. Hang up mid explanation, or
2. if calling you back, they hang up before you can pick up.
————January 2, 2025 at 8:48 pm #178320zerosum
ParticipantI get to use that new expression’
TRUMPEDUP
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2415890
Critical Illness in an Adolescent with Influenza A(H5N1) Virus Infection
Published December 31, 2024
Copyright © 2024
Highly pathogenic avian influenza A(H5N1) viruses are circulating among wild birds and poultry in British Columbia, Canada.1 These viruses are also recognized to cause illness in humans. Here, we report a case of critical illness caused by influenza A(H5N1) virus infection in British Columbia.
On November 4, 2024, a 13-year-old girl with a history of mild asthma and an elevated body-mass index (the weight in kilograms divided by the square of the height in meters) of greater than 35 presented to an emergency department in British Columbia with a 2-day history of conjunctivitis in both eyes and a 1-day history of fever. She was discharged home without treatment, but cough, vomiting, and diarrhea then developed, and she returned to the emergency department on November 7 in respiratory distress with hemodynamic instability. On November 8, she was transferred, while receiving bilevel positive airway pressure, to the pediatric intensive care unit at British Columbia Children’s Hospital with respiratory failure, pneumonia in the left lower lobe, acute kidney injury, thrombocytopenia, and leukopenia (Table S1 in the Supplementary Appendix, available with the full text of this letter at NEJM.org). A nasopharyngeal swab obtained at admission was positive for influenza A but negative for A(H1) and A(H3) by the BioFire Respiratory Panel 2.1 assay (BioFire Diagnostics). Reflex testing of the specimen with the Xpert Xpress CoV-2/Flu/RSV plus assay (Cepheid) revealed an influenza A cycle threshold (Ct) value of 27.1. This finding indicates a relatively high viral load for which subtyping would be expected; the lack of subtype identification suggested infection with a novel influenza A virus. Oseltamivir treatment was started on November 8 (Table S2), and the use of eye protection, N95 respirators, and other precautions against droplet, contact, and airborne transmission were implemented.
A reverse-transcriptase–polymerase-chain-reaction (RT-PCR) test specific for influenza A(H5)2 was positive on the day of admission. The patient had signs of respiratory deterioration — chest radiographs were consistent with progression to acute respiratory distress syndrome (Fig. S1) — which prompted tracheal intubation and initiation of venovenous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) on November 9. Continuous renal replacement therapy was initiated on November 10. Combination antiviral treatment with amantadine (initiated on November 9) and baloxavir (initiated on November 11) was added to ongoing treatment with oseltamivir. Bacterial cultures of blood (samples obtained at admission) and endotracheal aspirate (obtained after intubation) yielded no growth.
Because of concern for cytokine-mediated hemodynamic instability, plasma exchange was performed daily from November 14 through November 16. Serial influenza A–specific RT-PCR tests showed increasing Ct values, which suggested a decline in the viral RNA load in serum and a decline in viral RNA in upper- and lower-respiratory specimens shortly after the initiation of antiviral treatment, with the first negative RT-PCR result for serum obtained on November 16 (Table 1). It is notable that lower-respiratory specimens consistently yielded lower Ct values than upper-respiratory specimens, a finding that suggested higher viral levels in the lower-respiratory tract (Table S3).
Table 1Results of Virologic Testing of Clinical Specimens from a Patient with Influenza A(H5N1) Virus Infection, November 2024.
Influenza A(H5N1) virus was cultured from respiratory specimens obtained between November 8 and November 12 but not from subsequent respiratory specimens or from any serum specimens (Table 1). No evidence of reduced susceptibility to any of the three antiviral agents used in treatment was observed in serial respiratory specimens by either genomic analysis or phenotypic testing with the NA-Star influenza neuraminidase inhibitor resistance detection kit (ThermoFisher Scientific) (Table 1). The patient’s respiratory status improved, ECMO was discontinued on November 22, and the patient’s trachea was extubated on November 28.
The viral genome sequence obtained from a tracheal-aspirate specimen collected on November 9 (8 days after the onset of symptoms) was reconstructed as described previously.3 The virus was typed as clade 2.3.4.4b, genotype D1.1,4 most closely related to viruses detected in wild birds in British Columbia around the same time (Fig. S2). Markers of adaptation to humans were detected in the tracheal-aspirate specimen collected on November 9: the E627K mutation was detected (52% allele frequency) in the polymerase basic 2 (PB2) gene product, and analysis of the H5 hemagglutinin (HA) gene yielded ambiguous calls in the codons for amino acid residues E186 (E190 according to H3 mature HA numbering) — 28% allele frequency for E186D — and Q222 (Q226 according to H3 mature HA numbering) — 35% allele frequency for Q222H. The mutations in the H5 HA gene have previously been shown to increase binding to α2-6–linked sialic acids, which act as receptors that facilitate viral entry into cells in the human respiratory tract and enable viral replication.5
Highly pathogenic avian influenza A(H5N1) virus infection acquired in North America can cause severe human illness. Evidence for changes to HA that may increase binding to human airway receptors is worrisome.
Agatha N. Jassem, Ph.D.
British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Ashley Roberts, M.D.
British Columbia Children’s Hospital, Vancouver, BC, Canada
John Tyson, Ph.D.
James E.A. Zlosnik, Ph.D.
Shannon L. Russell, Ph.D.
British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Jessica M. Caleta, M.Sc.
Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
Eric J. Eckbo, M.D.
British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Ruimin Gao, Ph.D.
Taeyo Chestley, Ph.D.
Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
Jennifer Grant, M.D.
British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Timothy M. Uyeki, M.D., M.P.H.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA
Natalie A. Prystajecky, Ph.D.
British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Chelsea G. Himsworth, D.V.M., Ph.D.
British Columbia Ministry of Agriculture and Food, Abbotsford, BC, Canada
Elspeth MacBain, M.D.
British Columbia Children’s Hospital, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Charlene Ranadheera, Ph.D.
Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
Lynne Li, M.D.
British Columbia Children’s Hospital, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Linda M.N. Hoang, M.D.
British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Nathalie Bastien, Ph.D.
Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
David M. Goldfarb, M.D.
British Columbia Children’s Hospital, Vancouver, BC, Canada
david.goldfarb@cw.bc.ca
Notes
The findings and conclusions in this report are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official position of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
This letter was published on December 31, 2024, at NEJM.org.
Disclosure forms provided by the authors are available with the full text of this letter at NEJM.org. -
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