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    David Hockney A bigger splash 1967   • Former US Secretaries: Russia Won’t Return Annexed Ukrainian Provinces (Az.) • Top Officials Are Panicking
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle January 9 2023]

    #125534
    Just Some Randomer
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    Anecdotal:

    I caught up on teams chat this morning with a work colleague who’s been on leave since before Christmas. His wife is one of those considered ‘Vulnerable’ to Covid, so both of them, and their wider families, are vaxed and boosted to the max and very pro-vax.

    The conversation went like this:

    Me: “Welcome back, how was your break?”

    Colleague: “been sick all christmas, am on antibiotics and my wife is now testing positive for covid. Love my life”

    Me: “Oh dear – hope your wife is OK”

    Colleague: “She’s getting there – taken a lot out of her esp with her brother dying just before Christmas. Roll on 2023”

    Me: “Oh – very sorry to hear that. My condolences. Was it unexpected?”

    Colleague: “totally. 52, having tea with his kids, walked over to the sink and just collapsed – massive coronary”

    No comment necessary.

    #125535
    aspnaz
    Participant

    Nazis started the holocaust, communists ended the holocaust, Jews invented the holocaust.

    FIFY

    #125536
    V. Arnold
    Participant

    Yeah, I could read it…

    #125537
    oxymoron
    Participant

    The Anecdotes are on the up.

    If we are to assume that weapons manufacturing is financed by banks and that the repayments are made by national governments and the people of those countries are paying the taxation to make those repayments possible then how is NATO failing exactly? It went through endless equipment in Afghanistan and now Europe and Ukraine. I think a great many of these writers – Ugo and Escobar included miss the central point that the house always wins and the rest is a distraction.

    Also – Putin noted how Russia-China are not only defending their own interests “but also all those who stand for a truly democratic world order and the right of countries to freely determine their own destiny.”  in which Putin displays that he hasn’t heard of the political system in China. NOT A DEMOCRACY VLAD – jusssayin’ Not that anywhere is these days.

    Could the white lung thing be a racial / asiatic gene response to spike binding to ACE2? Feels like warfare everywhere I look these days but the world keeps turning and the summer is ripening my delicious fruit so me not complain.

    #125538
    Red
    Participant

    Goats! gotta love them. Raising goats for several decades it always amazed me to watch the kids on the four inch ledge that was horizontal bridging for the board and batten exterior wall of the barn. They would jump up the two feet to stand on it an then turn 180 degrees to go the other way by running their hind quarters up the wall and swing around. Always fun to watch. They would be about 25-30 pounds and do this often.

    #125539
    tboc
    Participant

    How could the West let this slip through their hands? RIM

    The West takes it does not build.

    #125540
    Just Some Randomer
    Participant

    @Oxy #125537

    “The Anecdotes are on the up.”

    Personally I am seeing an unmistakable pick-up in the frequency of these events in both the media and personal contacts over the past month. Could be the onset of winter here boosting the numbers, or maybe it’s the effect of cumulative damage from the Vax-Spikes reaching a critical level now. If the latter, things could get really real quite quickly.

    #125541
    Red
    Participant

    Scientific manipulation. Hmm have any of you read The Big Fat Lie? Not promoting eating meat only just the deep dive into the drive to go to more carbs based on a falsified narrative. Or the tobacco narrative, the glyphosate narrative and so on. Don’t deny just say it’s not settled or conclusive, until then steady as she goes. Just don’t fund anything looking to prove an opposing argument.

    #125542
    Mister Roboto
    Participant

    This Twitter thread is an important counterpoint to the Post-Millennial’s right-biased coverage of the unrest in Brazil:

    #125543
    EoinW
    Participant

    As I understand this, what happens in Australia is a sneak preview for what’s coming to North America in 6 months. We’ve certainly followed their trend of last winter with lots of sick leave from the work force. My store began the end of September, before it had even gotten cold! As life is a mixed bag, I should add that we’ve never been as bad since then. Still, employees calling in sick – 2 or 3 per week – has become the new normal.

    Having reached the 2nd week of January, I’m beginning to hope mask mandates won’t return in Ontario. Just a couple of months more and we’re through flu season and the government won’t be a threat until next winter. Is that naive thinking?

    According to the data coming from NSW during their summer, is it time to congratulate the medical experts? It appears they have succeeded in abolishing the flu season! Influenza rules 12 months a year now. Masks forever?

    #125547
    anticlimactic
    Participant

    Although 100 Billion Dollars has been promised for Ukraine how much actually gets through?

    How many weapons are given to troops rather than being sold off? More seriously, how much money actually gets through to benefit ordinary Ukrainians? Finally how much humanitarian aid is not stolen?

    My personal guesstimate would be that 20 billion dollars of aid actually arrives to those it is intended for.

    #125548
    aspnaz
    Participant

    Lula, who was inaugurated just one week ago, won 50.83 percent of the vote compared to conservative incumbent Jair Bolsonaro, who won 49.17, in the country’s October 2 vote.

    Isn’t it amazing how in every country where there are elections between two parties, the vote is always rattling around the 50:50 mark. It is as if the result is always rigged to make it feel like a real competition. The political parties have all sorts of ways of fixing this, just look at the wards system in the UK, enabling the election to be scientifically fixed. In the USA they do not have such a system, so they appear to resort to outright vote rigging. Why would anybody believe that the country could be split 50:50 by any two candidates? I personally think the chances are extremely slim and so we will continue to see the occasional surprise vote, such as Brexit, or Trump, where the people managing (rigging) the election drop the ball.

    #125549
    Germ
    Participant

    This is quite special.
    All the heroes is one place: Laurie, Malone, Moran, Urso, Oliver, ….. and more …..
    Recorded last night. What a listen!

    https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1YqKDoVRaDoxV

    TVASF

    #125550
    Oroboros
    Participant

    • Former US Secretaries: Russia Won’t Return Annexed Ukrainian Provinces

    Andrei Martyanov deals with this head on in his latest Reminiscence of the Future…

    https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2023/01/about-angst.html

    He links M. K. BHADRAKUMAR piece Biden’s existential angst in Ukraine

    Biden’s existential angst in Ukraine

    “Robert Gates and Condoleezza Rice ….. is the case with many policy “pieces” in the United States…. it is written by people who fucked it up big time one way or another in their distinguished careers…”

    “Rice and Gates indirectly acknowledge that Russia is on a winning streak, contrary to the western triumphalist narrative so far. Evidently, the expected Russian offensive ahead is rattling their nerves… Pentagon is unsure of Surovikin’s future strategy. From what they know of his brilliant success in evicting NATO officers from Syria’s Aleppo in 2016, siege and attrition war are Surovikin’s forte. But one never knows. A steady Russian build-up in Belarus is underway. The S-400 and Iskander missile systems have been deployed there. A NATO (Polish) attack on Belarus is no longer realistic. “

    Alexander Svechin wrote in his “Strategy” almost 100 year ago–“Each war represents an isolated case, requiring an understanding of its own particular logic, its own unique character.” Yes, it is that simple..

    In other words….General Surovikin is going to surprise the hell out of the Collective West in the way he will conclude his Special Military operation because it is a unique isolated case, just like all other wars.

    #125551
    Dr. D
    Participant

    “Six Journalists Arrested For Releasing Video Showing South Sudan President Wetting Himself”

    You need Presidents wetting themselve in public, look no further: we’re Number 1! (Literally. But also Number 2)

    “German Government declares investigating vaccines The Truth Would be dangerous for Democracy”

    The only enemy is the truth.

    “Top Officials Are Panicking That $100 Billion In Aid Isn’t Enough (Korybko)”

    Still haven’t learned money is not the world, money is the representation and call on goods in the world. They could have a trillion dollars and it still wouldn’t make more artillery appear. Mines would need to open, railroads and trucks built, factories opened, people trained. That requires the one thing wars don’t have: time. Time is what you run out of in a war. Or how they are won: ask Ireland, about to be unified shortly.

    Vietnam shows this well. Quotes from them? “We have to win because where else can we go? But the Americans can always go home.” We haven’t yet, but point taken.

    “Like former President Trump, don’t most Americans want to stop subsidising Europe’s security? They might, but that’s not how many in the US foreign policy establishment see things.”

    This points out that although the Military is generally nationalist, it’s not uniform: particularly the top brass that just came from, or is about to go to Raytheon, only care about sales and power, etc. It’s easier to note the CIA vs Pentagon spread but there are good people in the CIA and bad people in the Army too. It’s probably only the ranks where you’d have a stable undertone of Pro-Americans, and possibly not there either. In war games the Air Force in particular was happy to fire on the American People. The Marines overwhelmingly wouldn’t. It’s not simple at all.

    Same would be true of all other countries. Did the German people really want to defend the shutting off of NordStream II? Don’t think so.

    “de Gaulle described NATO as “a machine to disguise the stranglehold of America over Europe.”

    And they’re still swallowing this trollop today. Unfortunately, NATO has broken free from “America” in general (see previous paragraph) and now works mostly for itself, as bureaucracies generally do. Look at the EU’s expense accounts.

    “ Bye Bye 1991-2022 (Escobar)”

    He’s not wrong, but I’d be careful, they’re sucking you in. Is today a day we DO have a 3-year orbiting space plane, or does that plane not exist? Night vision shows we seem to have fleets of space faring Aurora fighter bombers. Do we? If so, where do they land and refuel themselves? And we didn’t have hypersonic missiles or technology until Russia showed them, then 12 months later, we officially did. Careful: we didn’t spend $40 Trillion on DUMB bases for nothing. (Or did we? With zero Congressional oversight and no media, how would we know?) What’s in the bases? A pallet of canned beans? Or a lot of tech? They’re powered with firewood? Or do we know how to make real (Arc) reactors?

    “directly approved by the pop entertainer/entrepreneur then ruling the Hegemon, Donald Trump,”

    If there’s one thing history will be sure if, it’s that Trump was not ruling the hegemon. It was clearly ruling him. Totally believe he gave the order though. But you go ahead and explain internal Iranian factions to me, why all of all places on planet earth the Obama-Rice(?) Intel people came from there as a bloc, and why it seems IRG are their own breakaway power, then we can start to understand what happened.

    The city of El Paso is putting its best face on for President Joe Biden”

    Are they bad at politics? You put on the worst face to get help. Then you spend the money they give you on yachts, beach houses, and coke. While wearing blackface. World-leader ready!

    “is furious with President Biden for making false promises.”

    I don’t know where they get their information from. There are no jobs for normal Americans. But we saw Soros NGO’s taking out billboards, handing out flyers, printing T-shirts, creating special sneakers, and busing people up in order to make this mess. Cloward-Piven. The United States must fall and Human Rights (The Constitution) erased. Then corporations have preeminence. It’s only logical.

    “White House Pushed Facebook to Censor Tucker Carlson on COVID-19 Vaccines (ET)”

    Full spectrum attack. There are so many illegalities we can’t address them all. I was thinking of addressing that Tucker was right; the White House was wrong: Vaccines are neither safe nor effective and this approach aged badly. That should make it easy to reverse and prosecute. Why doesn’t it?

    That he was both correct and that they don’t work should be the bigger news, but that’s a tough call when everyone involved in this should be impeached, effectively toppling the U.S. government. I’m not just saying that to be a lark, it’s literally the legal definition of like 50 Federal laws.

    I see Twitter’s point of view now: compared to what they WANTED, Twitter was really moderate and held the line. It’s just that what government WANTED was North Korea – which the NY Times supports and approves of. All Swiss boarding school girls do.

    “Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is hitting back”

    Media: “We Make S—t Up!” Translation: Republicans: we would like you to resign. Secretary: No thank you. This is “Hitting Back” What did you think he would say: “Oops! You got me!”? Nobody thought that, nobody hit anybody. “Hitting” would be one side or the other issuing an arrest warrant.

    Meanwhile there’s a genocidal war on civilians by our allies that hasn’t been talked about in a year. We take to the fainting couch for brown people unless they’re Yemeni? Then it’s “Cluster bomb away”? Time is precious in media: don’t waste the readers’.

    ““…NSW’s reports became so inconvenient for COVID vaccine promoters that NSW decided to stop reporting hospitalizations and deaths by vaccine status.”

    The only enemy is truth. It’s our enemy expressly so we can kill as many as possible.

    “Omicron in general, “[doesn’t] give you white lungs,” he argued.”

    Speaking of, is this new Western bioweapon what China’s gone Zero “Covid” about, or is it the CCP themselves doing it? Not great when you can ask this question. Like us, they may think we’re all on a lifeboat where the food’s running out and the only logical thing to do is kill everybody. …Which just coincidentally saves your own life and makes you rich. Totally accidentally, of course. I only have Mother Earth and the greater good in mind.

    “Swiss National Bank Posts Record $143 Billion Loss In 2022 (R.)”

    Somebody is stopping the contagion and the Financial Collapse from these numbers, trillions suck all over, in Tesla, Amazon, and Crypto alone. (Powell, the WEF personal fortunes) Have to admit, they’re all dong a stellar job. Which says to me we didn’t have to have an ‘08 where all the black houses were foreclosed under Obama. They could have just patched it behind the scenes like right now had they wanted to. Which is why they were never worried for an instant. As Eisman said in The Big Short “They knew.” They planned to be bailed out the whole time.

    “Boston Dynamics robots by CNET”

    Don’t worry: I’ll use a $29 Microwave from WalMart to disable it. What microwave? I don’t see no damage to it, do you?

    “Paul Newman and Marlon Brando at a sit-in protest for fair housing in California in 1963.”

    Seemed to work a treat. Thanks to Hollywood, California housing in better than ever. Especially L.A.

    Aw, and I was being short today. Failed again.

    #125552
    Oroboros
    Participant

    “Russian boreal forests represent the largest forested region on Earth (approximately 12 million km2), larger than the Amazon. ”

    This is what the Collective West wants to Rape & Plunder

    This is why I fervently hope and wish that Russia face stomps the Empire of Lies & it’s Western Whores into the ground

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    #125553
    Germ
    Participant

    This is what happens when you poison the immune system of a nation.
    Scotland has the highest vaxx rates in the Union.

    Scottish hospitals are almost full, says Nicola Sturgeon

    “Demand for hospital beds had been driven up by “extraordinary” levels of winter flu, rising rates of Covid infections and cases of Strep A.”

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-64211393

    This is not rocket science folks!

    TVASF

    #125554
    Oroboros
    Participant

    What Is Ukraine Hiding in the Bakhmut Salt Mines?

    7 January 2023 by Larry Johnson

    What Is Ukraine Hiding in the Bakhmut Salt Mines?

    “The prolonged battle for Bakhmut is portrayed in the press as a symbol of Russian weakness. I know that many Westerners have scratched their heads and wondered why such a fierce battle is being waged over this particular piece of territory.

    The answer, I believe, lies below the surface of Bakhmut/Soledar in the Soledar Salt Mines (aka Artyomsol Salt Mines).

    The Salt mine is a monster, with a 125 miles of tunnels.

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    “And the icing on the cake is the system of Soledar and Bakhmut mines, actually a network of underground cities. In which there is not only a cluster of people at a depth of 80-100 meters, but also tanks and infantry fighting vehicles move. And stockpiles of weapons have been stored since the First World War …..Prigozhin

    Many in Larry’s comment section goes on the theorize how to basically kill all the Ukronazis hiding in the Bakhmut salt mines with CO2. Seal the entrances and pump it full of the heavier than air gas.

    Talk about a local climate change

    #125555
    Oroboros
    Participant

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    #125556
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    Many hundreds of thousands of excess deaths occurred among the Covaxxed in 2022. Luckily they were all anecdotal cases. Whew, that was a close one! It really had us worried about vax safety and effectiveness there for while.

    #125557
    Oroboros
    Participant

    The ground is finally freezing all over Ukraine.

    The Ukronazis can’t even free up one of their few remaining tanks from the frozen mud…

    Extrapolate that to all their forces frozen in place in the Bahkmut area surrounded with no supplies, food, ammo, no medicine being pounded by overwhelming artillery 24/7 and no mobility to flee or maneuver.


    #125558
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    No matter what the Ukrainians are (or were) hiding in the salt mines and coal mines of Bakhmut & Soledar and elsewhere, it does them little good underground. If it’s fuel, food or wonder weapons I think now might be a good time to haul it out and use it.

    Personally, my guess is that the vast salt mine tunnels are where the United States Command & Control cowards are hiding from hot lead, richly deserved retribution, and king-sized unmarked grave.

    #125559

    DBS, from yesterday- “one could quite easily become comfortable with “conversing ” with an invisible and non-existent entity . . . like a schizophrenic.”
    Every once in a while I wonder if all you TAE commenters aren’t just “voices” in my head. 😉

    #125560
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is a racist phuck.

    He hides his gross incompetency behind his ethnicity and his Manwhoredom®

    Just like Obomber, the Oreo president, ‘black’ on the outside, white on the inside.

    Reagan and the Berlin Wall

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    Obomber imitating Reagan

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    #125561
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Sorry Obomber and the Wall

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    #125562
    Oroboros
    Participant

    BLM running the touchdown into the end zone

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    #125563
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    @MyParentsSaidKnow

    ” Every once in a while I wonder if all you TAE commenters aren’t just “voices” in my head. 😉 ”

    Well, in point of TRUE fact, that’s precisely what ALL of us are . . . but that is rather spiritually esoteric and a topic for some other day.

    Here’s my rules of thumb for the puzzling conundrum at present:

    It’s just fine to talk to yourself. It’s also okay to reply to that talk with suitably imagined mental voices. The time you need to start worrying is when you have to ask yourself what the hell it was you said in the first place.

    #125564
    Oroboros
    Participant

    don’t know why this cartoon won’t post right

    Bad Karma on him I guess

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    #125565
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Boston Dynamics robots with guns

    I’m not really interested if the droids can dance

    How are they with a Smith & Weston?

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    #125566
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    Here’s a pleasant thought to entertain the minds of the Nazis cowering in the caverns under Bakhmut and Soledar in those quiet moments between earth jarring vibrations of artillery and missile strikes far overhead:
    Every inch of the entire warren of tunnels and facilities is intimately mapped and fully understood by your enemy, and 1 in 10 of your fellow denizens down there is a Russian spy.

    #125567
    upstateNYer
    Participant

    D Benton: “The time you need to start worrying is when you have to ask yourself what the hell it was you said in the first place.”

    I’m in trouble.

    #125568
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Boston Dynamics ultimate goal, to be sure, is all about hair products

    #125569
    Oroboros
    Participant

    #125570
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Damn the word press is odd today

    #125573
    tboc
    Participant

    A word about los tres amigos Americanos del Norte, Johnson, Macgregor and Ritter. All of these honorable gentleman have taken a National Security Oath in order to access confidential information. In the event they wish to ever gain a security clearance as consultant they will not break their pledge now. In their world that is honorable.

    it is curious that the Western War Alliance spent eight years building the Ukraine armed forces and delivered no NATO arms to said nation. What could be in the salt mines, what could be in the salt mines? How about the NATO armaments that were supposed to be used in the siege of Donbas and Luhansk? The siege Merkel and Hollande tried to stop with the Minsk Accords.

    lets go out on a limb and imagine that those repair depots the RF kept destroying were actually assembly points for armaments that were not there and had not been delivered yet. Have you seen any cell phone videos of NATO armaments being moved by rail? Have you seen any videos of RF armaments being moved by rail? Just a coincidence, fer sure.

    Martyanov considers himself western. Proof? Everyone is stupid but himself. Exceptional!

    #125574
    zerosum
    Participant


    TAE VOICES …

    PEACE
    That is unacceptable.

    (Condoleezza Rice, US Secretary of State from 2005 to 2009, and Robert M. Gates, US Secretary of Defense from 2006 to 2011,)

    https://www.azerbaycan24.com/en/former-us-secretaries-russia-won-t-return-annexed-ukrainian-provinces/
    Former US secretaries: Russia won’t return annexed Ukrainian provinces

    https://korybko.substack.com/p/top-ukrainian-and-former-us-officials
    Top Ukrainian & Former US Officials Are Panicking That $100 Billion In Aid Isn’t Enough

    https://www.senecaeffect.com/2023/01/the-attack-on-western-europe-you-cannot.html
    • The Attack On Western Europe (Ugo Bardi)
    the US got involved in Ukraine in order to provoke Russia; it took the various actions that it did, starting in 2008, with the aim of inciting conflict between Russia and Ukraine (though not necessarily all-out war)…… there is less need for NATO, less need for expensive US-made weapon systems and less need for a US military presence on the continent..”

    https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2023/01/08/695938/How-General-Soleimani-kick-started-the-multipolar-world
    How General Soleimani kick-started the multipolar world
    By Pepe Escobar

    The consensus among future historians will be inevitable: the 2020s started with a diabolic murder.

    ————-
    • White House Pushed Facebook to Censor Tucker Carlson on COVID-19 Vaccines (ET)

    The White House pressured Facebook to take action against Fox News host Tucker Carlson for supposedly saying COVID-19 vaccines “don’t work,” according to a document released by Louisiana’s Republican Attorney General Jeff Landry, who characterized the move as a request to censor the journalist.

    ———–

    #125575
    Germ
    Participant
    #125576
    Red
    Participant

    If you believe why not that?

    This is my rebuttal to those in the federal government and elsewhere that are attempting to claim that the job market is in good shape. No matter how many workers get laid off, the Bureau of Labor Statistics always seems to find a way to post a positive jobs number each month. We were told that the U.S. economy somehow added 256,000 jobs in November even though Challenger, Gray & Christmas determined that the number of layoffs in November 2022 was actually 417 percent higher than it was during the same month a year earlier. And even though the tsunami of layoffs continued in December, the Bureau of Labor Statistics is telling us that the U.S. economy somehow added 223,000 jobs last month. It is almost as if there is a certain number that the BLS refuses to go below. For each of the last five months, the number of jobs that the U.S. has “added” has miraculously come in between 200,000 and 300,000 each time. But meanwhile large companies all over America have been laying off workers at a staggering rate.

    Unfortunately, the pace of layoffs seems to be picking up speed during the early days of 2023. The following are 10 major layoff announcements that have already happened so far this year…

    10 Major Layoff Announcements That Have Already Happened So Far In 2023

    #125577
    Germ
    Participant

    haha

    TVASF

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