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I think the irritation of some of the things Hillary has said, or which were ghostwritten in her name, comes from the obvious hypocrisy, when they emanate from her.
I think communities do benefit from shared norms and directing children in those norms when they do things like bullying, for instance.MPSK said: “My brother was put on prozac when he was dying of pancreatic cancer. When it kicked in, he asked us to babysit his gun, as he feared he might kill himself.
I believe serotonin imparts resolve- removing that vacillation, stalling, and lethargy that accompanies depression. It makes it easier to act on a decision, no matter how bad that decision might be.”Indeed, the peak in suicides of depressed teenage males seems to happen a couple of weeks after the SSRi is started, as it is starting to work. There is an “activation” phase and the depressed person starts to rise out of torpor and inactivity.
Teenage males can be volatile, but suicide has sort of a “ratchet effect” on volatile actions.i just caught up on the last few days of posts and comments. good work Everybody!
The kitchen build-in is slowly progressing as i have so much work to do on reinforcing cheap cabinets to last 30 year.Is Subject #12312982 the Key to Proving Pfizer Vaccine Trial Fraud, The Story of Augusto Roux
Subject # 12312982 in Pfizer study C4591001 is Augusto Roux, a 35-year old lawyer from Buenos Aires, Argentina who volunteered for Pfizer’s stage 3 trial of its COVID-19 vaccine (or whatever you want to call it) in order to protect his mother with emphysema.
(Briefly, this attorney who kept excellent evidentiary records, got pericarditis from the vaccine, got hospitalized, got gaslighted, got his diagnosis falsified, got lied to, had his trial-records falsified by those running the trial, and presents proof all of this fraud.)
https://jackanapes.substack.com/p/is-subject-12312982-the-key-to-proving?s=rThere are several layers to the DoD fraud about the vaccine adverse event numbers in active-duty service members. The DoD changed systems in 2021 and wants you to believe that explains everything. It does not, and can be corrected-for. Tessa (Fights Robots) Lena has the story, and a good synopsis.
A DoD Data Fraud? A Conversation with Mathew Crawford
https://tessa.substack.com/p/mathew-crawford-dod?s=rPfizer has an ironclad defense, a contract with the Dod, exempting the company from every usual requirement and liability:
Pfizer has asked a U.S. court to throw out a lawsuit from a whistleblower who revealed problems at sites that tested Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine.
Brook Jackson, the whistleblower, alleged in a suit that was unsealed in February that Pfizer and associated parties violated clinical trial regulations and federal laws, including the False Claims Act.
In its motion to dismiss, Pfizer says the regulations don’t apply to its vaccine contract with the U.S. Department of Defense because the agreement was executed under the department’s Other Transaction Authority (OTA), which gives contract holders the ability to skirt many rules and laws that typically apply to contracts.
That means that Jackson’s claim that Pfizer must still comply with the Federal Acquisition Regulations “is simply wrong,” Pfizer said.
Warner Mendenhall, a lawyer who is working on Jackson’s case, said in a recent interview that Pfizer has “clearly not followed federal procurement laws.”
“And now they’re saying, ‘of course we didn’t follow federal procurement laws, we didn’t have to—this was just for a prototype,’” he added.
Mendenhall, who declined an interview request, said lawyers for Jackson are working on figuring out legal ways to counter Pfizer’s argument.
“We may lose on this issue because their contract imposes … none of the normal checks and balances on quality control and consumer protection that we fought for decades in this country,” he said.
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/pfizer-moves-dismiss-lawsuit-covid-19-vaccine-trial-citing-prototype-agreement”Amyloid” is globs of useless protein clogging up cells and organs. It has been seen in COVID, yes, but it has been seen a LOT in cases of mRNA vaccine adverse reactions, characterized by continuous production of spike protein in the vaccine-recipients. The amyloid clogging up organs like heart, kidneys, lungs and brain appears to be spike-protein. I saw that hypothesis presented earlier this year. This clinches it, but the researchers don’t exactly say those words.
In patients with serious and long-term COVID-19, disrupted blood coagulation has often been observed. Now, researchers at Linköping University (LiU), Sweden, have discovered that the body’s immune system can affect the spike protein on the surface of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, leading to the production of a misfolded spike protein called amyloid. The discovery of a possible connection between harmful amyloid production and symptoms of COVID-19 has now been published in the Journal of American Chemical Society…
Using computer simulations, the researchers discovered that the coronavirus’ spike protein contained seven different sequences which could potentially produce amyloid. Three of the seven sequences met the researchers’ criteria for being counted as amyloid-producing sequences when experimentally tested. They produced, among other things, so-called fibrils, which look like long threads when examined under an electron microscope…
“We have never seen such perfect, but scary, fibrils as these ones from the amyloid-producing SARS-CoV-2 spike protein and pieces thereof. The fibrils starting from the full-sized spike protein branched out like limbs on a body. Amyloids don’t usually branch out like that. We believe that it is due to the characteristics of the spike protein”, says Per Hammarström, professor at the Department of Physics, Chemistry and Biology (IFM) at Linköping University.Scientists May Have Discovered the Mechanism Behind Mysterious COVID-19 Symptoms
Losing control of the control-narrative.
Struggling to speak coherently, Biden said “When it comes to the gas prices, we’re going through an incredible transition that is taking place that God willing when it’s over we’ll be stronger.”
“The world will be stronger and less reliant on fossil fuels when this is over,” Biden added.
Biden also claimed he attempted to combat soaring prices by releasing 180 million barrels of oil from emergency stockpiles in late March, but admitted that it hasn’t had any effect.Video: Biden Admits Sky Rocketing Energy Prices Are Part Of Green “Transition”
The EU has put an end to the lingering ambiguity surrounding how EU members can pay for Russian gas without violating sanctions.
Russia has demanded that countries pay for its gas in rubles, although European governments have struggled to find a way to oblige Russia while not running afoul of sanctions. Further complicating matters—until now—was the EU’s lack of clarification on whether such an arrangement would violate the current sanctions.
On Friday, Germany and Italy both told companies that they could open up rubles accounts in order to purchase Russian gas, in line with President Vladimir Putin’s request.
Russia’s request has companies opening up two accounts at Gazprombank; one in euros or U.S. dollars and another in rubles.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/eu-gives-ok-to-pay-for-russian-gas-in-rubles/5781228 The European Union is about to agree on a Russian oil embargo within days, Germany’s Economy Ministry Robert Habeck told media.
“We will reach a breakthrough within days,” Habeck told German ZDF, as quoted by Reuters.
Just a day earlier, Habeck had told the media that Germany was so eager to impose an embargo on Russian oil imports that it was willing to do it without a consensus among all 27 EU members.
Speaking to another German news channel, Habeck said that “If the Commission president says we’re doing this as 26 without Hungary, then that is a path that I would always support,” adding, however, “But I have not yet heard this from the EU.” …
That’s despite the fact that the refinery supplying fuel for the capital Berlin and its surroundings is majority-owned by Russia’s Rosneft and runs on Russian crude. Earlier this month, Shell’s chief executive warned the 233,000-bpd facility would start reducing production as soon as deliveries of Russian crude stop.
Suspending Russian oil imports, Ben van Beurden said, “will probably mean that that refinery will be turned down quite significantly because the incoming logistics are constrained and the refinery is not configured for anything else but Urals.”
The European Union has granted Hungary, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, and Bulgaria temporary exemptions from an embargo, giving them more time to find alternative suppliers.
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Crude-Oil/Germany-Expects-Oil-Embargo-Decision-This-Week.htmlViktor Orban just got another huge electoral mandate. Hungarians like their cheap Russian gas and oil. What will Slovakia, the Czechs and Bulgarians decide?
Hungary Declares Wartime State Of Emergency
On Wednesday, Hungary will announce its first measures under the new state of emergency – which Orban began laying groundwork for even before his cabinet’s swearing in ceremony on Tuesday. Besides amending the constitution in order to use his new emergency powers, the 58-year-old leader gave his chief of staff oversight of the country’s intelligence services.
Orban, the EU’s longest serving head of government, is sitting on his fourth consecutive administration following yet another landslide election victory last month. He’s notably clashed with other member nations on a range of issues, including his opposition to an EU ban on Russian oil.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/hungary-declares-wartime-state-emergency“From The Mouths Of Blobs” is up https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/from-the-mouths-of-blobs?s=w
Henry Kissinger, not known for saying things that embarrass him the next week, says that Ukraine should cede territory to Russia in return for peace, and should do so promptly. He says that we live in “a totally new era” in terms of how quickly use of modern weapons could escalate to total destruction, and that we should be mindful of that, and mindful of the firm positions of other parties…
“Negotiations need to begin in the next two months before it creates upheavals and tensions that will not be easily overcome.
Ideally, the dividing line should be a return to the status quo ante.
Pursuing the war beyond that point would not be about the freedom of Ukraine, but a new war against Russia itself,” he said.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/blue-checks-furious-after-henry-kissinger-says-ukraine-should-cede-territory-peaceRon Paul asks what the Biden Administration’s Ukraine End-Game might be.
Last week, President Biden signed a massive $40 billion military aid bill for Ukraine. Who cares that inflation is killing the American economy and mothers can’t even get baby formula. For Washington, spending on war and empire always seems to trump America’s interests.
To put this giveaway to Ukraine in perspective: just since late February, the US has provided nearly $60 billion in “assistance” to Ukraine. That is almost half that country’s entire 2020 GDP! …
..Defense Secretary Austin outlined the Administration’s new intention not long ago when he said that the real goal is to weaken Russia…
..There is a reason our Constitution grants war powers to the legislative branch. Forcing Members of the House and Senate to declare the US to be in a state of war also enables them – through the powers of the purse-string – to define the goals of the war and particularly what a victory looks like. That prevents the kind of mission-creep and shifting objectives that have characterized our endless wars in the 21st century – including this current proxy war with Russia.
http://ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2022/may/23/whats-bidens-end-game-in-ukraine/Pepe Escobar has a good, detailed and broad update again. Here is a little of it:
Ukraine is the Holy Grail of international corruption. That $40 billion can be a game-changer for only two classes of people: First, the US military-industrial complex, and second, a bunch of Ukrainian oligarchs and neo-connish NGOs, that will corner the black market for weapons and humanitarian aid, and then launder the profits in the Cayman Islands.
A quick breakdown of the $40 billion reveals $8.7 billion will go to replenish the US weapons stockpile (thus not going to Ukraine at all); $3.9 billion for USEUCOM (the ‘office’ that dictates military tactics to Kiev); $5 billion for a fuzzy, unspecified “global food supply chain”; $6 billion for actual weapons and “training” to Ukraine; $9 billion in “economic assistance” (which will disappear into selected pockets); and $0.9 billion for refugees.
https://thesaker.is/nato-vs-russia-what-happens-next/Moon of Alabama fills in some other details, and also comments that it “feels insane when Henry Kissinger is the only sane voice in the room”.
The UK support to break the Russian blockade of Odesa is fact-checked. Russia is not blockading Odesa. Ukraine mined the harbor. Things like that.
The US DoD seems to have accidentally hung all of the Ukrainian flags upside down at a press briefing.
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/05/flag-abuse-and-other-bits-on-ukraine.html#morePepe Escobar has a pretty good Ukraine update.
https://thesaker.is/nato-vs-russia-what-happens-next/On Orlov’s “Make Russia Great Again” essay.
This is sarcasm, well done.
However, what is the “actual” reason for the result that Russia has become stronger, more competent and the most self-sufficient country, despite attempts by western financial capitalism and military maneuvers to exploit Russia’s vast resources and dispossess her?That is actually a difficult question, which bears directly upon what one supposes the mechanisms are which guide the workings of human affairs in the world.
Is there an actual strength to be found in modest virtue?
I’m not answering for you, but Orlov clearly poses the question in an oblique way.I assert that we should all have an internal model of how the world actually works for humans as they carry out their affairs. Is there “karma”, or is the function a fancy clockwork of some sort/?
How would “karma” possibly function?
How quickly could one become certain that one had developed the right and reliable understanding?What might be the best and least risky approaches to gaining understanding of how this complex human world works to punish and reward human decisions and actions?
If I tell you, I might well be wrong, and how would you determine that?
Sergey Lavrov on emerging multipolar world:
The trend consists of the strengthening of this multipolar character, because new centres of economic growth and financial might are appearing in reality (have already appeared). This process is accompanied by increased political influence: China, India, Brazil and South Africa are BRICS countries. They are part of the G20 where both G7 and BRICS are represented, as well as other states that are gravitating towards BRICS. This is the format where the West has to talk with the new centres of the world growth. There is no doubt that the final victory will belong to life rather than artificial attempts to curb the advance of a historical process. They can reach their targets for some time. Now the West is feverishly trying to impede these processes agonising in its response to Russia’s actions in defence of its lawful interests but life will gain the upper hand. There is no doubt that the world will be multipolar. The large self-respecting nations will not settle for the role that the West wants to allot to them, the role of obedient observers. No colonial regime in history lasts for a long time and remains sustainable.
https://thesaker.is/foreign-minister-sergey-lavrovs-remarks-and-answers-to-questions-during-a-meeting-with-the-new-horizons-educational-marathon-participants/Zerosum said:
Our Civilization will not survive the destruction. Nothing will rise from the ashes.
“Civilization May Not Survive” – George Soros Tells Davos Crowd, Defeat Putin (And Xi) Or Else
“The best and perhaps only way to preserve our civilization is to defeat Putin as soon as possible.
That’s the bottom line”Maybe, just maybe, it is Mr. Soros who will not survive and will fail to rise from the ashes.
I would distinguish a difference in his words to the Davos crowd:
“The best and perhaps only way to preserve OUR CIVILIZATION is to defeat Putin as soon as possible. That’s the bottom line”.Nice-Mr-Soros seems to be talking about the “civilization” owned by the Davos attendees, perhaps not every-possible-civilization.
Some outliers might even consider Russia to have a “civilization”, even an ancient civilization, evolved from that of Byzantium, but now I’m just talking-crazy.@Teri: “Innocence of evidence” now trumps “evidence of innocence”… 🙁
Red Queen: “No, sentence first, THEN verdict!”No right to “representation” has existed for 30 years, and there is a backlog of injustice. Now it is declared to be the constitutional status.
As Dr.D says, “Words mean what I determine them to mean”.Pre-emptive PR strike?
Ukraine convicts Russian POW of killing unarmed civilian on ordersofsuperior officer, sentences to life in prison. https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russian-soldier-given-life-sentence-ukraines-first-war-crimes-trial“I hope the Ukrainians will match the heroism they have shown with wisdom,” Kissinger warned an audience at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, adding with his famous sense of realpolitik that the proper role for the country is to be a neutral buffer state rather than the frontier of Europe.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/blue-checks-furious-after-henry-kissinger-says-ukraine-should-cede-territory-peace@Dr D Rich: Obama is fully as competent as Tony Blair, a good speaker and a quick and foresightful thinker.
“Joe Biden” is the designated fall-guy.
B.O. quote: “You know you don’t have to do this, Joe…”
I think it will be under the next Republicant administration that such deposition of B.O. will be considered, but it may never get done…
Obama is like an establishment super-hero.This opens the door to Russian one-upsmanship, which would fit the Russian style currently being displayed. Russians could assure the grain getting to the most needy countries, while also making certain that another “holodomor” is avoided in Ukraine.
” The Lithuanian foreign minister, Gabrielius Landsbergis, proposed the plan during talks with the UK foreign secretary, Liz Truss, on Monday in London.
“Time is very very short. We are closing in on a new harvest and there is no other practical way of exporting the grain except through the Black Sea port of Odesa,” he told the Guardian. “There is no way of storing this grain and no other adequate alternative route. It is imperative that we show vulnerable countries we are prepared to take the steps that are needed to feed the world.”
Landsbergis proposed that a naval escort operation – not run by Nato – could protect the grain ships as they headed through the Black Sea and past Russian warships. He suggested that, apart from Britain, countries that were affected by the potential loss of grain such as Egypt could provide the necessary protection.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/23/lithuania-calls-for-joint-effort-on-russia-black-sea-blockadeThe new-Amish-kids stopping to talk to Kunstler-the-Elder as he painted the landscape was cool.
Serendipitous?
🙂Thanks Willem for the monkeypox perspective piece from Robert Malone MD.
https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/monkey-pox?s=rGood timeline Anticlimactic!
I have been told, a rumor that originated fairly high up, that Russians are taking the Ukrainian grain from the silos. Who isn’t? Wheat is now a strategic commodity in the famine-war.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/top-putin-aide-predicts-global-famine-end-year
Maksim Oreshkin asserts that the United States’ attempt to takeover Ukraine’s grain reserves is going to lead to a humanitarian disaster.
“It is important that in the conditions, for example, of a global famine that will occur closer to autumn, by the end of this year all over the world, Russia should not suffer, but be fully provided with food,” Oreshkin said.Oreshkin blamed inflation caused by the Federal Reserve overprinting the dollar since 2020 as one of the causes, but also zeroed in on the Biden’s administration’s more recent actions in Ukraine.
“In fact, what America is trying to do with Ukraine now is to take out the grain reserves that Ukraine currently has in its possession – just another action that dooms Ukraine to serious humanitarian problems, but also dooms the global community to having big problems with hunger,” he warned.
@Kassandra: You had COVID Sx and a positive test. You had Omicron in February.
I think the antibody tests are the same ones as ever, not modified for the new strains. That was how Delta and Omicron could be distinguished last December. Delta showed 3 antigens (+) and Omicron showed 2:3 antigens (+).
You had the bug. No more useless tests for you unless you feel sick.WES asked: “Heard anything more from Texas’s medical mafia?”
It’s the American Board of Family Medicine that is evaluating my decertification for dissing COVID vaccines on my blog, and to patients (previously “informed consent”).
They notified me of my status in February, and have said nothing since then.
I took my every-10-years board recertification exam a month ago, after cramming everything I had studied in those 10 years over the week before.
I’ll be given the result next week.
I suspect that the board is delaying to see how the political winds will blow.
Last summer when Family Medicine, Internal Medicine and Pediatrics medical boards announced that they would de-certify members who discouraged COVID-vaccination it was safe and easy virtue-signaling…
They are predictably cowardly and unprincipled… sigh.More on Monkeypox, the monkeys that got away in February 2022…
https://bioclandestine.substack.com/p/monkeypox?I’m not exactly sure what’s going on, but I immediately questioned if the US buying insane amounts of monkeypox vaccines has anything to with the CDC lab monkeys escaping from the transport van in Pennsylvania back in February.
So I dug into it and what I found was interesting and highly alarming.
A quick refresher. February 1, 2022, a CDC transport carrying 100 “possibly infected” lab monkeys, crashed in Pennsylvania and 3 monkeys escaped for a few days and eventually were caught and killed. The Monkeys were flown from Mauritius, a small island 400 miles off the coast of Madagascar, to New York, and were allegedly being transported by truck to an undisclosed “CDC Quarantine Facility”.
The CDC have been “tight-lipped” about what possible infections the monkeys could have been carrying. The airline, Kenya Airways, declined to disclose who shipped the monkeys, but said they were cancelling their subscription of providing their transport to assist the CDC.
Who is sending infectious lab monkeys to the CDC from tiny islands in Africa? And why are all parties involved so desperate to keep it a secret?
Monkeypox might stand-in for smallpox, and is currently spreading at a low level in the world.
Spartacus: Monkeypox is the new COVID
https://iceni.substack.com/p/monkeypox-is-the-new-covid?s=r NYC Reports First Suspected Monkeypox Case As WHO Convenes Emergency Meeting
https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/how-has-monkeypox-suddenly-spread-all-over-globe-lightning-speed Smallpox vaccines (like what I got in 1962 or so) are about 85% effective against monkeypox (which does not appear to include the COVID-triple-jabbed).
https://www.cdc.gov/poxvirus/monkeypox/clinicians/smallpox-vaccine.html
The US government supposedly has 20 million doses of tecovirimat, approved to treat smallpox, and effectively treats monkeypox:
“postexposure treatment with tecovirimat alone or in combination with ACAM2000 provided full protection. Additionally, tecovirimat treatment delayed until day 4, 5, or 6 postinfection was 83% (days 4 and 5) or 50% (day 6) effective.”
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25896687/Not only are the mRNA and DNA vaccines killing people and immunosuppressing them, more with each subsequent dose, but the push for an “Omicron specific vaccine” is a push for an oxymoron…
The so-called “Omicron Variant” is a very inclusive term that includes “every Sars-Cov-2 descendant after Delta”. It is best to think about it as a marketing term giving an excuse why Covid vaccines do not work, rather than as a scientific term.
For example, the Ba.1 and Ba.2 variants are MORE distant from each other, than they are from any past Sars-Cov-2 variants.
https://igorchudov.substack.com/p/vaccine-against-variants-is-impossible?s=rOfficially published (UK just stopped publishing) statistics from various national governments show progressively worsened immune system function among those vaccinated 2 or more times against COVID. Plenty of graphs. Hospital admissions for COVID and deaths from COVID per 100,000 are higher for the vaxxed.
There is a sharp rise in acquired immunodeficiency syndromes directly related to these gene-therapy vaccines, also. The plague of (non-COVID) all-cause deaths of the working age populations which peaked in Q3 2021, and continues, is also noted. . “Conciliatory tones” from the west, towards Russia, regarding war in Ukraine?
There are mainly rumors about the content of the US Secretary of Defense’s phone call 5/13/21 to the Russian Minister of Defense, but they talked.
We also know that the EU is having trouble divorcing from Russian oil and gas…
https://www.globalresearch.ca/western-military-strategy-ukraine-changes-conciliatory-tone/5780608 Putin: Oil Sanctions Will Be Europe’s “Economic Suicide” On Orders From “American Overlords” (Ouch, shaming)
https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/putin-oil-sanctions-will-be-europes-economic-suicide-orders-american-overlordsMoon of Alabama explains the strategic objectives pushing the EU towards “suicide” cliff.
As President Biden explained, the current military escalation (“Prodding the Bear”) is not really about Ukraine. Biden promised at the outset that no U.S. troops would be involved. But he has been demanding for over a year that Germany prevent the Nord Stream 2 pipeline from supplying its industry and housing with low-priced gas and turn to the much higher-priced U.S. suppliers.
[T]he most pressing U.S. strategic aim of NATO confrontation with Russia is soaring oil and gas prices. In addition to creating profits and stock-market gains for U.S. companies, higher energy prices will take much of the steam out of the German economy.
In early April Professor Hudson took another look at the situation:
It is now clear that the New Cold War was planned over a year ago, with serious strategy associated with America’s perceived to block Nord Stream 2 as part of its aim of barring Western Europe (“NATO”) from seeking prosperity by mutual trade and investment with China and Russia.
So the Russian-speaking Donetsk and Luhansk regions were shelled with increasing intensity, and when Russia still refrained from responding, plans reportedly were drawn up for a great showdown last February – a heavy Western Ukrainian attack organized by U.S. advisors and armed by NATO.
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/05/how-europe-was-pushed-towards-economic-suicide.html#more Gail Tverberg looks at cheap energy as the fuel for economy, and that rising debt and falling interest from 1981 to 2020 allowed borrowing to cover energy costs, so that economy could grow, though more feebly after 2008.
Energy and modern economy are tightly linked. The current period is not actually like the 1970s stagflation, but is much more akin to the Great-Depression/WW-2 period, when declining coal production and higher cost of extracting coal globally created a similar situation of falling living-standards. (UK coal production peaked in WW-1, after which they could no longer supply Italy. Italy had to get coal from Germany, causing a change of alliances)
The economy can only continue as long as all of its important parts continue. We cannot assume that reported reserves of anything can really be extracted, even if the reserves have been audited by a reliable auditor. What actually can be extracted depends on prices staying high enough to generate funds for additional investment as required. The amount that can be extracted also depends on the continuation of international supply lines providing goods such as steel pipe. The continued existence of governments that can keep order in the areas where extraction is to take place is important, as well.
What we should be most concerned about is a very rapidly shrinking economic system that cannot accommodate very many people. It seems that such a situation might occur if the debt bubble is popped and too many supply lines are broken. There may be a time lag between when interest rates are raised and when the adverse impacts on the economy are seen.Is the debt bubble supporting the world economy in danger of collapsing?
Garden at sunset pictured https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/further-revisions?s=w
Azovstal surrenders are now completed. Some further high profile prisoner identities should be announced soon.
Today, on May 20, the last group of the 531 militants surrendered.BREAKING: Azovstal Is Under Full Control Of Russian Armed Forces
High-value prisoners previously captured in Mariupol are linked to bioweapons lab there:
(retired) US Admiral Eric Thor Olson, (Canadian, suddenly resigned for sex scandal) 4 star General Trevor Cadieu,
and (UK) LTC John Bailey. Russia’s First Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN Dmitry Polyanskiy gives key takeaways from the last UN Security Council meeting on US biolabs in Ukraine:
The US refuses to explain its engagement in military bio activities in Ukraine. Keeps shrugging off several hundred pages of evidence. “These are all lies and Russia’s propaganda, and we are good guys because it can’t be otherwise”. Not a word on the point of discussion.
Western delegations are praising the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) and calling on us to make use of its mechanisms. They fail to mention however that it is the US who is blocking the elaboration of BWC verification mechanism. Such a hypocricy!
The US refuses to explain why it doesn’t want an effective international verification mechanism for bio weapons. Why act like this unless you are trying to conceal something? Why does Washington position itself above the international law? American exceptionalism at its best.
https://thesaker.is/sitrep-operation-z-nato-surrenders-in-azovstal/ Turkey is demanding that Sweden must hand over and extradite “terrorists” in its midst before seeking to join the NATO alliance. In fresh televised remarks on Thursday, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that Swedish and Finnish diplomats shouldn’t even bother trying to dispatch delegations to Turkey if they aren’t willing to stop supporting Kurdish PKK ‘terrorists’.
“We have told our relevant friends we would say ‘no’ to Finland and Sweden’s entry into NATO, and we will continue on our path like this,”
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/erdogan-sweden-dont-expect-us-approve-nato-bid-without-first-returning-terroristsIt looks like surrenders at Azovstal have been completed
BREAKING: Azovstal Is Under Full Control Of Russian Armed Forces
@TAE Summary:
Zinc 50 mg thrice per day, with quercetin and lecithin (any convenient dose), also thrice daily,
and Ivermectin 0.4 mg/kg per dose daily, all for 5-10 days, depending on duration of symptoms. Continuing for 2 full days of feeling normal, or 10 full days is prudent.The newer strains do not tend to attack the blood vessel lining, so I am not advising aspirin daily, as was good for Delta and prior strains.
Vitamin-D 10,00U/d while sick is reasonable, and 1000 mg vitamin-C thrice daily is reasonable.
I hope this remains mild for you.@Phoenixvoice: Amen, Sister!
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One’s own life is complicated enough, I might add…This just in! half of “Joe Biden’s” twitter 22 million followers appear to be fake (still under 5% of total though?) https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/half-bidens-twitter-followers-are-fake-according-audit
@Boscohorowitz: Putin makes war against financial capitalism. Vladimir is a “stand-up guy” 🙂
@Figmund Sreud: I heartily accept your agreement with me.
@Zerosum: “It’s acruel, cruel summer…” https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/half-bidens-twitter-followers-are-fake-according-auditA perspective which I find helpful in understanding the war in Ukraine is that NATO set it up since 2014 to exhaust and drain Russia, and was finally ready to pull the trigger , even if Russia did not take the bait and pull the trip-wire by invading.
Russia knew this, and knew that NATO could attack Russia if Russia became weakened.
Russia reserved the best troops and weapons to counter an overt NATO attack, and still does this.Russia “invaded” with 1/3 the force of the “defenders”, who were arrayed to attack, then hunker-down and drain Russia. Russia had to re-engineer modern warfare this way, working hard to wear down the foe, without being worn down.
This continues.
It looks different, and it is hard to use the usual metrics to define “winning” and “losing”.
Russia still awaits the overt war against NATO.Russian forces appear to be meat-grinding Ukrainian forces in human terms. Howitzers are getting through, but not to critically contested areas. Russian artillery has a very high rate of fire and of accuracy, which these howitzers, in Ukrainian hands, so not begin to approach, maybe 1/3 of the rate of fire, and lesser (how much less?) accuracy.
We will need to be patient and monitor the global economic situation.
I am calling this a WW-3 because the global economic and financial systems must change.
Neoliberalism did not win quickly. The Ruble rebounded. Western financial capitalism has not clearly lost yet, either, but morale in the EU is rapidly declining, since EU citizens are the ones who will have to suffer the most, and already had a bad winter, followed by a spring of insecurity.I am with Michael Hudson on this. I think the western global financial capitalist machine, which needs to expand into Russia or admit collapse/failure is being thwarted at a critical moment in history. It is already in overshoot. It is already eating itself. It has long since destroyed most of its own industry, except Tech, military, American-farming and oil. It really, really needs TROTW to keep paying those $US debts, but TROTW now glimpses a real alternative, just at a time when it must choose between paying $US debts and importing oil and wheat to feed and fuel the citizens of the debtor countries.
The choice is not obvious, though it seems obvious to me. Some countries will choose each side of the choice, and next year TROTW will monitor how the “leaders” of those countries fare, siding with globo-cap or siding with their own people and “national interests”.We will no doubt stay tuned-in here, too.
@Boscohorowitz: Howdy! 🙂Pepe Escobar has a good, readable summary of the Russian presentation of initial US/allied bioweapons labs findings in Ukraine.
https://thesaker.is/empire-of-bioweapon-lies/Spartacus has so many well organized facts here:
COVID-19 Deep Dive IX: Addendum
https://iceni.substack.com/p/covid-19-deep-dive-ix-addendum?s=rColleen Huber NMD, makes a comparison between “abortion pill” RU-486 and Pfizer and Moderna mRNA “vaccines”, based upon available official data, which is far from perfect. The full data needs to be released for proper review.
Of those 116 women vaccinated during the first and second trimesters and then had a completed pregnancy of either live birth, spontaneous abortion or stillbirth, there were 104 miscarriages (spontaneous abortion). This is a miscarriage rate of 89.66%.
The morning-after abortion pill, mifepristone, has a reported efficacy rate of 80% to 90%. [2]
https://colleenhuber.substack.com/p/covid-vaccines-may-rival-or-exceed/comments?s=r#comment-2894742Twitter “Bot-gate”: Musk counterpunches hard.
The controversy began on Friday after Musk tweeted a Reuters article in which Twitter estimated that fake accounts comprise less than 5% of users, to which Musk said “Twitter deal temporarily on hold pending details supporting calculation that spam/fake accounts do indeed represent less than 5% of users,” then added “Still committed to acquisition.”…
Update (1426ET): Speaking virtually at the “All In” summit tech conference, Musk speculated that at minimum, Twitter is ‘20% bots,’ before asking rhetorically whether it was potentially 80-90% bots.
He added that there’s ‘no way’ to know the actual number of bots on the platform…
This sent Twitter CEO Parag Agrwal into meltdown mode – posting a 14-part thread to “talk about spam,” with “the benefit of data, facts, and context.” ..
Update (1447ET): Is the Twitter deal dead? Musk seemed to suggest it was, unless he can buy the company for a lower price in light of ‘bot-gate’ which erupted over the weekend.
… Musk said that a viable deal for Twitter is “not out of the question,” but at a lower price...
Shares of Twitter are now at pre-acquisition rumor levels, trading below Musk’s initial purchase basis.Central Bank Digital Currency and Your Biometric ID are in advanced planning stages in your country.
Here is the list with national overviews.:
https://corbettreport.substack.com/p/cbdc-a-country-by-country-guide?s=rPepe Escobar looks at Russian strategy in Novorossiya/Ukraine, and the brute-force-and-propaganda approach of the US/NATO.
While we are all familiar with Sun Tzu, the Chinese general, military strategist and philosopher who penned the incomparable Art of War, less known is the Strategikon, the Byzantium equivalent on warfare.
Sixth century Byzantium really needed a manual, threatened as it was from the east, successively by Sassanid Persia, Arabs and Turks, and from the north, by waves of steppe invaders, Huns, Avars, Bulgars, semi-nomadic Turkic Pechenegs and Magyars.
Byzantium could not prevail just by following the classic pattern of Roman Empire raw power – they simply didn’t have the means for it.
So military force needed to be subordinate to diplomacy, a less costly means of avoiding or resolving conflict. And here we can make a fascinating connection with today’s Russia, led by President Vladimir Putin and his diplomacy chief Sergei Lavrov.
But when military means became necessary for Byzantium – as in Russia’s Operation Z – it was preferable to use weaponry to contain or punish adversaries, instead of attacking with full force.
https://thesaker.is/death-by-a-thousand-cuts-where-is-the-wests-ukraine-strategy/India has a national-interest based foreign policy and is not a vassal of the US or Russia. Traditional ties to Russia and Iran are important.
In April India said it was hoping to expand its wheat exports from 7 million tons to 10 million. However, as precarious winter wheat harvests reflect lower outputs, they are reversing position and will now block any wheat exports in order to ensure their own supply.India Reverses Prior Position and Will Now Block Further Wheat Exports, Triggering G7 Concerns
Israel retains good relations with the US (benefactor) and China, but is clearly increasing economic relations with China, evidenced by massive Chinese investment in the port of Haifa and the Belt and Road inclusion of Israel as a regional hub. Israel is careful(ish) to not officially snub the (declining) US. Thanks Eleni.
(Picture of “finished attic” shortly before installation of doors, AC unit and final 5 rolls of fiberglass insulation last week. This building has a “passive-cooling” effect where the downstairs is 82F when only the upstairs windows are open , it is 97F at 5PM and the AC has been off for 2 days.)
https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/expecting-shortages?s=wNow We Are Being Told To Expect Food And Diesel Shortages For The Foreseeable Future , Michael Snyder
The war in Ukraine, extremely bizarre weather patterns, nightmarish plagues and a historic fertilizer crisis have combined to create a “perfect storm” that isn’t going away any time soon. As a result, the food that won’t be grown in 2022 will become an extremely severe global problem by the end of this calendar year. Global wheat prices have already risen by more than 40 percent since the start of 2022, but this is just the beginning. Meanwhile, we are facing unthinkable diesel fuel shortages in the United States this summer, and as you will see below there are “no plans” to increase refining capacity in this country for the foreseeable future.
Now We Are Being Told To Expect Food And Diesel Shortages For The Foreseeable Future
“Genius”t future-trends advisor to WEF’s Klaus Schwab, Yuval Noah Harari was recently interviewed. He explained himself clearly and well. Here are A-V clips and transcribed excerpts, which are worthy of a few minutes of deep our comprehension. (Do “useless people” have to go to the back of the food line?) Thanks Red:
“Again, I think the biggest question in maybe in economics and politics of the coming decades will be what to do with all these useless people?
The problem is more boredom and how what to do with them and how will they find some sense of meaning in life, when they are basically meaningless, worthless?
My best guess, at present is a combination of drugs and computer games as a solution for [most]. It’s already happening.”Yuval Noah Harari | What To Do With All of These Useless People?
Kim Dotcom: “A major Global Collapse is coming. It may be worse than we can imagine. Our leaders know. But, what are they planning?
Total US debt is at $90 trillion. US unfunded liabilities are at $169 trillion. Combined that’s $778,000 per US citizen or $2,067,000 per US tax payer.
Remember, the only way the Government can operate now is by printing more money. Which means hyperinflation is inevitable…
Let’s do the math:
US total debt
$90 trillion
US unfunded liabilities
$169 trillion
Total
$259 trillion
Minus all US assets
$193 trillion
Balance
– $66 trillion
That’s $66 trillion of debt and liabilities after every asset in the US has been sold off...
It’s all perception and denial.
The perception is that the US has the largest economy and the strongest military in the world.But in reality the US is broke and can’t afford its army.
The denial is that all nations depend on a strong US or else the global markets will crash.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1525293982133407744.htmlForeigners Sold The Most US Stocks On Record In March, China Dumps TSY Holdings To Lowest Since 2010
..And finally, as Treasury holdings drop, gold reserves have surged to new record highs…
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/foreigners-sold-most-us-stocks-record-march-china-dumps-tsy-holdings-lowest-2010@Red: Thanks for the “useless people” insights. It goes well with the CBDC (central bank digital currency) article from Michael Reid. One might merely diminish the “useless people”, keeping their accounts viable for purchase of drugs and video games, but not things which might be in shortage that month…
like food and fuel.“The masses” = “useless people” per future-visionary Harari, if I understand him correctly.
He is purely working with intellectually abstracted constructs, and comes to the logical conclusions which he explains. This is not fully human, is it?I have been meaning to comment that Klaus Schwab appears to me to be a high-functioning “submissive”. The “You’ll own nothing and be happy” appeals to “submissives”. There are not that many pure submissives.
You might never have had a frank explanation from a high-functioning submissive.
They do not generally talk about it, but Dominants and Submissives are on a continuum of understanding.
I do not really understand it. I cannot really enter that continuum.
It does not seem that one can really fake it to real doms and submissives.@Michael Reid: You are welcome. God bless your grandmother. There are actual fine-flour corns you can grow, and I have and popcorn is also flour corn, but I just don’t end up grinding it and using it.
Carol Deppe, The Resilient Gardener goes into corn pretty deeply.@TAE Summary: I Rate! 🙂
@D.Benton Smith: Probably no wrong-interpretation of “fog of war”. Everybody needs to trick and kill everybody else in war.
@Zerosum: It’s the war against people who need to eat food. It’s just beginning. Grow neighbors.@Figmund Sreud: Thanks for finding and posting good stuff.
