[John Day]

​(Schellenberger doesn’t mention prior cases of SARS-CoV2 later identified from stored blood in the US, France and Italy from September 2019 onward.​)
First People Sickened By COVID-19 Were Chinese Scientists At Wuhan Institute Of Virology, Say US Government Sources ​
​Sources within the US government say that three of the earliest people to become infected with SARS-CoV-2 were Ben Hu, Yu Ping, and Yan Zhu. All were members of the Wuhan lab suspected to have leaked the pandemic virus.
​ ​As such, not only do we know there were WIV scientists who had developed COVID-19-like illnesses in November 2019, but also that they were working with the closest relatives of SARS-CoV-2, and inserting gain-of-function features unique to it.
​ ​When a source was asked how certain they were that these were the identities of the three WIV scientists who developed symptoms consistent with COVID-19 in the fall of 2019, we were told, “100%”
https://public.substack.com/p/first-people-sickened-by-covid-19

​A lot of us were catching on well before August of 2022.,but Pfizer already had definitive reasons to stop in December 2019 before “release” of the products.
Horowitz: Confidential Pfizer document shows the company observed 1.6 million adverse events covering nearly every organ system
https://www.conservativereview.com/horowitz-confidential-pfizer-document-shows-the-company-observed-1-6-million-adverse-events-covering-nearly-every-organ-system-2661316948.html

Widely Used Artificial Sweetener Linked to Leukemia, Obesity, Liver Problems​ (Even Stevia is worse than table sugar. Give up all sweet drinks.)
Sucralose, a chemical sweetener sold under the brand name Splenda, is found in more than 6,000 food products, including many “diet” sodas.

Widely Used Artificial Sweetener Linked to Leukemia, Obesity, Liver Problems

[John Day]

​ ​According to sources close to The Federalist, the Bidens allegedly ‘coerced’ a foreign national – identified by individuals with knowledge of the matter as Burisma founder Mykola Zlochevsky – to pay them $10 million in bribes.​ (Shortly before he died-funny.)​ The Federalist has now learned the FD-1023 reported the CHS saying the Bidens “coerced” Zlochevsky to pay the bribes. Sources familiar with the investigation also explained the context of Zlochevsky’s statements, and that context further bolsters the CHS’s reporting.​.. Zlochevsky then mentioned the 17 audio recordings of conversations with the Bidens that he kept for insurance.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/bidens-coerced-burisma-founder-pay-10-million-bribes-fbi-source

​On Saturday America’s Mayor Rudy Giuliani told Rita Cosby on Newsmax that he has a high-level witness who is the former chief accountant at Burisma who is willing to testify on the Biden crimes. She even has the Biden bank account transactions. She has the receipts! …
​..​Rudy Giuliani: There was one very extraordinary piece of evidence. We had a woman in Ukraine who was the chief accountant for Burisma, the wife of the former partner of Mycola Zlochevsky who owned Burisma and is the major crook who was paying off the Bidens. And she wanted to turn she wanted to testify, but to testify she wanted to be in the Witness Protection program. And she had four colleagues of hers who were willing to testify and support her. She claimed that over an eight year period she supervised all of the offshore illegal bank accounts. All the money laundering went through her.

Not a Word by Any Major Mainstream Media on the Greatest Political Scandal in US History – The Biden Family Multi-Million Dollar Crime Spree

​ Monday 6/12/23 update: ​ Burisma Energy Accountant, Who Blew Whistle on Biden Bribery Scheme, Found Dead She wanted Witness Protection
​ ​The Burisma whistleblower, who has been identified as the wife of the former Burisma owner Mykola Lisin, who also died in suspicious circumstances during the years of the Obama administration when vice president Joe Biden and his son Hunter were active in Ukraine.

Burisma Energy Accountant, Who Blew Whistle on Biden Bribery Scheme, Found Dead

Jury Orders Starbucks to Pay $25 Million to Manager They Fired for Being White​ (​It’s n​asty commercial coffee with artificial crap​ in it​, too.)
​ ​In April 2018, two Black men entered a Starbucks shop in the Rittenhouse Square neighborhood of Philadelphia for a business meeting with a white man who had not yet arrived. While they waited, and before ordering, one of the two asked to use the bathroom. He was refused. Eventually, they were asked to leave. When they did not, an employee called the police.
​ ​The subsequent arrests, captured in videos viewed millions of times online, prompted accusations of racism, protests and boycott threats…
​..Ms. Phillips said in the suit that Starbucks, as part of its damage-control effort after the arrests, had sought to punish her and other white employees in and around Philadelphia even if they had not been involved in the events that led to the police being called.
​ ​Ms. Phillips said she had thrown herself into the company’s efforts to restore its credibility and had sought to support hourly workers, organizing managers to staff stores and cover for employees who were scared to run a gantlet of protesters.
​ ​Amid the image-burnishing campaign, Ms. Phillips said one of her superiors, a Black woman, told her to suspend a white manager who oversaw stores in Philadelphia, though not the one in Rittenhouse Square, because of allegations that he had engaged in discriminatory conduct — allegations that Ms. Phillips said she knew to be untrue.
​ ​In contrast, Ms. Phillips said, no action was taken against the manager who oversaw the Rittenhouse Square store, a Black man who Ms. Phillips said had promoted the employee who called the police.
​ ​Ms. Phillips said she was fired not long after balking at the order to suspend the white manager. She said that she had not been previously told that she was doing a bad job and that the only explanation she was given for the firing was that “the situation is not recoverable.”
​ ​Starbucks denied in court filings that Ms. Phillips had been fired because she was white and said she was let go because she performed poorly in response to the episode that led to the arrests.
https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=63820

[John Day]

Pepe Escobar, How the BRI train took the road to Shangri-La [If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em?]
In less than a decade, China’s BRI has fundamentally transformed global geopolitics. It is already far too late for the west to compete.
​ ​The Chinese delegation at the Shangri-La totally dismissed the “so-called ‘Indo-Pacific strategy’” as a tawdry Hegemon rant.
​ ​What Shangri-La unveiled was, in fact, Beijing’s clear, concise response to all those dismissals of BRI, all that carping about “debt trap” and “economic coercion,” all that “de-risking” rhetoric, and all those mounting intimations of false flags in Taiwan leading to the “real” war that the neocons in charge of US foreign policy dream about.
​ ​Obviously, intellectually shallow Beltway types won’t get the message. Especially because Li Shangfu was as polished as a jade tiger – elegantly pouncing over an avalanche of lies. You wanna mess with us? We’re ready. The barbarians predictably will keep rattling at the gate. The jade tiger awaits.
https://thecradle.co/article-view/25792/how-the-bri-train-took-the-road-to-shangri-la

Eleni sent this view from Indian Diplomat Bhadrakumar, focusing on the stresses of integrating a remilitarized Japan into “NATO”.
Asia-Pacific is where China-Russia “no limits” partnership will be put to test​
​Arguably, in his zest to integrate Japan into the US-led “collective West”, Prime Minister Kishida overreached himself. He behaves as if he is obliged to be more loyal than the king himself. Thus, on the same day that President Xi Jinping visited Moscow in March, Kishida landed in Kiev from where he went to attend a NATO Summit and openly began lobbying for establishment of a NATO office in Tokyo.
​ ​Kishida followed up by hosting NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg in Tokyo and giving him a platform to berate China publicly from its doorstep. There is no easy explanation for such excessive behaviour. Is it a matter of impetuous behaviour alone or is it a calculated strategy to gain legitimacy for the ascendance of revanchist elements whom Kishida represents in the Japanese power structure?
​ ​To be sure, Northeast Asia is a priority now for China and Russia, given their overlapping interests in the region. NATO expansion to Asia and the sharp rise in the US force projection bring home to the defence strategists in Beijing and Moscow that the Sea of Japan is a “communal backyard” for the two countries where their “no limits” strategic partnership ought to be optimal. The Chinese commentators no longer downplay that the Russian-Chinese military ties “serve as a powerful counterbalance to the US’ hegemonic actions.”
​ ​It is entirely conceivable that at some point in a near future, China and Russia may begin to view North Korea as a protagonist in their regional alignment. They may no longer feel committed to observe the US-led sanctions against North Korea. Indeed, if that were to happen, a host of possibilities will arise. The Russian-Iranian military ties set the precedent.

Asia-Pacific is where China-Russia “no limits” partnership will be put to test

This next article suggested to me that the current stresses between Japan, China, Russia,Taiwan, Okinawa and the intervening small islands date back to Japanese imperial expansion in the late 1800s, when both Taiwan/Formosa, Okinawa and the rest of the Ryukyu Island Kingdom, were subsumed into the Japanese Empire, having been independent, or nominally subservient to China, which ceded Formosa to Japan in 1895. The Ryukuy kingdom finally fell to Japanin 1879. The Taiwanese and Ryukyu peoples are different from Chinese and Japanese peoples, and have suffered greatly under those imperial machines, due to their vulnerability. Japan and China, now the US, are constantly pushing for power projection, and threatening each other. The demilitarization of Taiwan, o/kinawa and all of the Ryukyu islands offers a scenario where all threats can be reduced, and commerce can flourish, with much local autonomy, and token Chinese or Japanese nationality. Just my thoughts…

​ ​Japan’s Drive for Military Greatness in the Lengthening Shadow of US-China Confrontation
​ ​Significant US military presence—approximately 26,000 US personnel, or half the total stationed in Japan—is positioned on Okinawa Island, where most attention has been focused on the hugely unpopular and still hotly contested Henoko base being built there by Japan for the US Marine Corps to replace the obsolescent Futenma. Meanwhile, Japan over the past decade has steadily expanded its own military (Self-Defence Force) presence on its lesser known islands. Under strong US pressure, it has deployed, or is in the process of deploying, missile and counter-missile units in a series of new or under-construction bases, decisively changing the character of the Ryukyu island chain that stretches from Kagoshima to Taiwan, via
​ ​Mage, area 8.5 kms2, population zero
​ ​ Amami, area 306 kms2, population 73,000
​ Okinawa, area 1,206 kms2, population 1.4 million
​ ​ Miyako, area 204 kms2, population 46,000
​ ​Ishigaki, area 239 kms2, population 48,000
​ ​Yonaguni, area 28 kms2, population 1,669
​ ​In geographical terms, a line drawn from Kagoshima City in western Japan to the northern shores of Taiwan passes through these islands, and Japan and the US believe that, when or if the need arises, they can “bottle up” and deny China access or egress to or from the Pacific Ocean that lies beyond it. Japan’s southwestern frontier islands serve as a key component in this US-Japan “first island chain” China containment strategy.
https://www.asia-pacificresearch.com/japans-drive-for-military-greatness-in-the-lengthening-shadow-of-us-china-confrontation/5631671

​ ​In the latest shot fired in the growing rebellion against US dollar dominance, the nine-nation Asian Clearing Union (ACU) has agreed to use Iran’s financial messaging system as an alternative to the dollar-denominated SWIFT system that has long served as the globe’s financial nervous system.
​ ​”The secretary general of the Asian Clearing Union (ACU) says Iran’s financial messaging system SEPAM will replace SWIFT, a dollar-based international system, in trade exchanges between ACU members beginning next month,” Iran’s IRNA News Agency reported.
​ ​At a Tehran summit in May, ACU members agreed to establish a SWIFT alternative within a month. The adoption of Iran’s SEPAM will be an interim measure, as the ACU will develop its own messaging system over the next several months.
https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/asian-central-banks-adopt-irans-swift-alternative-de-dollarization-accelerates

[John Day]

Nobody Else Will https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/nobody-else-will

Charles Hugh Smith writes This Is Why Nobody Will Do Anything Until It’s Too Late
​ ​To really reduce one’s consumption of the planet’s resources, we would have to grow our own food, get around on our own feet or zero-fuel transport (motorless bicycle or skateboard or boat) and not buy / own / use large resource-consuming devices such as vehicles, aircraft, etc.
​ ​The system as currently configured makes it nearly impossible to do this. Even growing much of your own food requires delivery of fertilizers (organic or chemical, they still weigh a lot). Very few places are bike-skateboard friendly. The world is set up for large, mass-produced fueled vehicles. Outside of a few cities, public transport is incapable of getting people where they need to go in any sort of time-efficient manner…
​..​The only incentive that counts in our stripmined world is maximizing profits and the private gains of the entrenched and powerful. To cloak this reality, the Powers That Be promote public-relations propaganda that depicts their pillage, looting, fraud and destruction as a Hollywood story we can all consume and love, just as we love our servitude once it’s been properly packaged into a Hero / Heroine’s Journey or a Love Story.
​ ​This is why nobody will do anything until it’s too late. It’s only when we run out of essential inputs and/or essential processes decay and collapse that we’ll awaken to the fact that since the global system’s inputs and processes materially changed, the outputs we need and love all went away.​..
​..Systems work by their own implacable rules. There are inputs and processes that generate outputs. The only way to change the outputs in a consequential fashion is to change the inputs and/or processes in a consequential fashion. Little face-saving PR tweaks are too small in scale to materially change either inputs or processes, and so the outputs won’t change and indeed, can’t possibly change, because that’s how systems work.​..
​..I like a rousing story as much as anyone else, but systems aren’t stories, and confusing the two won’t actually fix what’s not sustainable in the current system’s configuration.​ [Charles grows vegetables and drove 3000 miles in an old Honda Civic last year. He makes his own bed and sleeps in it.]​
http://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2023/06/this-is-why-nobody-will-do-anything.html

However, to somewhat refute, or at least modify that analysis by intervening to modify some systems a bit, Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO)​ fights the good fight against neoliberal capture of the Mexican government, its purse, and the resources owned collectively by the citizens of Mexico.​
Christine sends this,written by an American attorney married to a Mexican AMLO supporter. It’s not all glowing. There is a lot of political mess in this slow move to replace neoliberal crony-welfare and privatisation of state-services with “nationalist developmentalist” (“Fordist”) capitalism. The path to this is to stripaway the “public-private-partnership” skims. (One naturally wonders when such a process might begin in one’s own country…)
​ ​The AMLO Project​ ..​As a general rule, transitions from neoliberalism must take place in a structural setting shaped by neoliberalism itself: the erosion of the working class as a political agent and the dismantling of state capacity. It follows that the basic historical task of the contemporary left is the reignition of class politics and the relegitimation of the state as a social actor. We can therefore assess AMLO’s administration based on three fundamental criteria: the reinstatement of class cleavage as a primary organizer of the political field; the effort to reconcentrate the power of a state apparatus hollowed out by decades of neoliberal governance; and the break with an economic paradigm based on institutionalized corruption.​..
​..The notion of neoliberalism as a political economy of corruption has informed AMLO’s public spending objectives. The flagship concept of his government is a counterintuitive one: austeridad republicana, or ‘republican austerity’. In practice, this means the ongoing reorganization and recentralization of public spending with the aim of ‘cutting from the top’. Since Mexican neoliberalism forged extensive links between the state and private enterprise, austerity is seen as a means of breaking such connections – casting off parasitic companies whose profits rely on government largesse.
​ ​In the long term, strict adherence to austeridad republicana may make it difficult if not impossible to create a robust welfare system. Yet, for the moment, it has succeeded in relegitimizing the state after decades of cronyism and clientelism. Fears that it would result in mass layoffs have dissipated.
https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/the-amlo-project

​Michael Hudson has a new interview out, wherein he is more unbridled in some of his frank remarks about the corrupt neo-liberal/conservative world-order​. Thanks Christine. He has reason to believe the damin Ukraine was attacked with an underwater explosive device, for instance. Hudson closes with this:
​ ​The West has sunk back into a kind of feudalism, financialized feudalism, neo-feudalism. You want an economy that doesn’t have a feudal rentier society, and you do this by preventing families and companies from getting rich by rent-seeking, getting rich without producing anything, but simply by exploitative means.
​ ​You want to make economic statistics that distinguish predatory exploitation from actually making a profit. You don’t want to consider what an absentee landlord gets is adding to the national product, because that’s really just siphoning off income from the renters away. You want everyone to be able to have their own property, ultimately without running into debt.
​ ​The best way to do that, instead of financing property with mortgage credit, you need a tax on rent-yielding resources. You need a land tax, a monopoly tax, a natural-resource tax and a financial tax. The tax system is absolutely critical to creating a really ‘free market’ such as the classical economists sought to create. It’s the opposite of the kind of free market that the United States and Europe talk about – that is a market free for Wall Street to do whatever it wants with the rest of the economy, free for monopolists to charge whatever they want, free for creditors to foreclose on the property of their debtors. You have a whole different concept of what a free market is, a different concept of what freedom is, a different concept of what human rights are and natural rights, and a different concept of what should be public infrastructure.
​ ​All of this is a different way of thinking about how the world evolves, and you need to develop that alternative and to share it so that other countries can realize, ‘yes, there is an alternative to the America’s bank-run economy’. This is the outline of an alternative and our governments are going to create administrative agencies and regulating principles that promote overall welfare, not simply financial welfare. The real economy, not the financial claims on the real economy.

Michael Hudson at Global University, Hong Kong, on Ukraine, Europe, China, and the Dollar’s Future

​Gilbert Doctorow reports on Vladimir Putin’s recent meeting with Russian war correspondents, who asked unfiltered questions, and got informed answers.​

Vladimir Putin meets with Russia’s war correspondents

[John Day]

@Oroboros: Dmitry Medvedev looks kinda like Nigel Farage in that bomb factory picture, doesn’t he?

[John Day]

Boscohorowitz describes the 15 kHz carrier frequency for the horizontal oscillator circuit of the TVs we oldsters grew up with. You coud hear it at work sometimes.Vacuum tubes…
“When I was a vagrant, back in the days of electron-gun TVs that irradiated one and the house in literally hair-raising ways if you got too close to the screen, I would enter with fear the house of someone taking me in for dinner. I didn’t fear them; I feared the TV. I could literally feel it grab me at the base of the neck, a tingly sensation one imagines one would feel if a Heinlein “The Puppet Masters” mind-control slug latched onto you. Accompanied by an
ultra high pitch dog whistle I could only half hear. Ghost frequency feeling.”

Vertical Deflection Circuit in TV:
The Vertical Deflection Circuit in TV include the vertical oscillator and amplifier for vertical scanning at 60 Hz and a similar horizontal arrangement for scanning at 15,750 Hz.

Vertical Deflection Circuit in TV

[John Day]

@Boscohorowitz et.al: Make your own dirty electricity filters for your house.
I set this to about 4:12, where the nice fellow shows the circuit

This is simply using capacitors to short-out radio frequency and switching noise trash on the AC lines.
In each 3 prong plug you have 2 “hot” blades and a ground prong.
Capacitors have a falling impedance with rising frequency, and they comein values and voltage-ratings.

The simplest part of this filter is the 220 picoFarad capacitor wired from each blade to the ground prong.
These are very high impedance at the 60 Hz (cycle per second) US line frequency or the 50 Hz line frequency in some countries like Japan. However, they have little to no impedance at radio-frequencies.
They therefore short radio-frequency noise to ground, much reducing it.
Ceramic capacitors at 400V rating or more should be fine for these capacitors.

Between the two”blades” is where a lot of lower frequency, audio-frequency switching noise will be.You could hear this if you filtered out the power-line frequency of 50-60Hz and ran the rest through speakers. This band is much closer to the power-frequency.
These capacitors together (24.7 microfarad in combination) are going to drop significant power and heat up, because they will have an impedance of about 160 Ohms at 60 Hz line-power fundamental frequency. [The small value resistors of 220k Ohm X 2 will stabilize HF parasitic resonances.]
That whole circuit should draw about 0.75 Ampere of alternating current by basic calculations of 120V/160 Ohm = 0.75 Ampere
Squaring that current and multiplying by impedance (AC resistance) gives 80 Watts of power dissipation per filter. That is an incadescent light bulb of power dissipation. That seems like a whole lot of power dissipation. I would use at least 400V rated metalized polypropylene capacitors, but I remain very suspicious of the amount of power which will be dissipated by these shorting-filters.
You can switch off the circuit breakers to the part of the house where you sleep at night for free.

[John Day]

@Zerosum: Thanks for staying up and monitoring my news-feed last night.

@All-Y’all: Note that RFK Jr. in his 5 min. video above, uses Pink Floyd’s The Wall, “Another Brick In The Wall”, “Leave Us Kids Alone” as background music for his anti-censorship-industrial-complex video clips.
Roger Waters probably approves…

[John Day]

This finally identifies Chinese Patient Zero as a Wuhan Institute of Virology worker who was working on the SARS CoV2 GoF project.
https://www.racket.news/p/on-todays-explosive-coronavirus-story

[John Day]

​ ​‘Death Sentence for Millions’: WHO, EU Launch New Global Vaccine Passport Initiative
​ ​Technology expert Michael Rectenwald, Ph.D., told The Defender that, under the guise of preserving freedom, a digital passport system “means restraints on movement and living for the unvaccinated and forced vaccination to participate in life.”

‘Death Sentence for Millions’: WHO, EU Launch New Global Vaccine Passport Initiative

Symptomatic COVID-19 Vaccine Induced Myocarditis
Large Korean Study Confirms Disastrous Outcomes, Risks Higher for Moderna
​ ​Cho and colleagues reported data from Korea in the European Heart Journal, one of the worlds top cardiovascular publications. They described 480 cases from 26 February to 31 December 2021. I testified in the US Senate in 2022 that “one case was too many” and my worst fear has been confirmed. Worldwide there must be tens if not hundreds of thousands of cases that have accrued, and most may not have come to clinical attention.
https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/symptomatic-covid-19-vaccine-induced

[John Day]

White House Set To Approve Depleted Uranium Munitions For Ukraine
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/white-house-set-approve-depleted-uranium-munitions-ukraine

“Our Trophies”: Russia Shows Off Captured Leopard Tank, Bradley Vehicles – With Engines Still Running [Hold on, more replacements are coming!]
“The package is expected to include Stryker and Bradley armored vehicles that can replace those damaged and destroyed in the Ukrainian counteroffensive currently underway, according to two Defense officials, who spoke to VOA on the condition of anonymity ahead of the package’s expected release Tuesday,” the report detailed.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/our-trophies-russia-shows-captured-leopard-tank-bradley-vehicles-engines-still-running

Germany is playing host to what NATO is touting as the largest air drills in the alliance’s history, which has been four years in preparation.
Dubbed Air Defender 23, the drills kicked off on Monday and will go to June 23, and involve up to 250 aircraft engaging in operations launched from across six military bases. In total, 25 countries are taking part, with the United States sending 100 of its aircraft across the Atlantic for the major exercise. https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/nato-kicks-largest-air-drills-history-germany-hosts

​ Moon of Alabama (Germany):Ukraine SitRep: Destruction Of Its Third Army – Issues To Negotiate
During the spring and summer of 2022 the Russian forces destroyed the regular Ukrainian pre-war army. It was replaced with Soviet era material from east European states and Ukrainian draftees. By the beginning of this year that second army had also been destroyed.
What we currently witness is the demilitarization of Ukraine’s third army… I do not sense any appetite in the U.S. or Europe to send their soldiers into Ukraine. It is quite obvious that their fates would be no different from the Ukrainian ones. That leaves negotiations as the only option. There will be a lot of hesitation as the price Russia will ask for to stop the war will be high:
​ ​For starters, will Russia insist on securing the rights to all territory east of the Dnieper River and on a special status for Odessa? I think so. Odessa would no longer be ruled by Ukraine. I also would expect Russia to demand (non-negotiable) the arrest and prosecution of those responsible for the murder of 42 Russian speaking Ukrainians in 2014 who sought refuge in the Trade Unions House.
​ ​I also would expect that Russia will demand the dismantling of NATO Aegis missile systems in Poland and Romania and a ban on U.S. or NATO troops being posted in countries that share a border with Ukraine. In light of Russia’s stated goal of de-nazification I would not be surprised if Russia demands the laws of Ukraine be changed and that Nazi-affiliated parties and symbols be banned.
​ ​I believe that Russia will want all historic Russian regions, at least those which Lenin and Khrushchev for whatever reasons gave to Ukraine, back under Russian control. Russia will also demand the lifting of all sanctions against it.
​ ​The West is failing to grasp the reality that Russia believes it is winning the war in Ukraine and that it is not suffering economic or political damage at home. And, when you factor in the international arena, the war has proven to be a boon for Russia’s efforts to help create a new international financial/trade system that circumvents Washington’s control. In other words, Russia has little incentive to entertain negotiations that would require Russian concessions.
​ ​It will still need some time for the ‘western’ public to move from swallowing ‘Ukraine is wining’ propaganda towards acknowledging reality. It unfortunately will also still take more Ukrainian and Russian losses.
​ ​But I strongly believe, maybe too wishfully, that the end of the war is now coming into sight.​ ​https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/06/ukraine-sitrep-destruction-of-its-third-army-issues-to-negotiate.html#more

[John Day]

Reminder: What Was in the Mar a Lago Documents:
It is important to remember, the Presidential Records Act –the presented pretext for the document conflict– is not a criminal statute. An FBI raid cannot be predicated on a document conflict between the National Archives and a former president.
The DOJ-NSD warrant, and the subsequent raid on Mar-a-Lago can only be related to records the U.S. government deems “classified” and material vital to national security interests. Hence, DOJ National Security Division involvement…
In broad terms, there are two sets of documents that intermingle and are directly related. First, documents that highlight the activity of Hillary Clinton’s team in creating the false Trump-Russia conspiracy theory (2015/2016). Second, documents that highlight the activity of government officials targeting Donald Trump within the same timeframe (Crossfire Hurricane), that continued into 2017, 2018 and 2019 (Robert Mueller).
Think of the two sets of documents as evidence against two teams working in synergy. Team one (Clinton) was outside government. Team two (DOJ/FBI) was inside government. The documents pertain to both groups but are also divided…
The documentary evidence against the outside group (Clinton et al) would also involve government documented evidence as the DOJ/FBI inside group interacted with them. Notes from interviews, materials provided, FBI 302 summaries of interviews, etc…
..Then we get to the big stuff…. The records and evidence, in unredacted and declassified state, that would drive the DOJ-NSD to claim vital national security interests. The NSA compliance officer notified NSA Director Admiral Mike Rogers of unauthorized use of the NSA database by FBI contractors searching U.S. citizens during the 2015/2016 presidential primary. That 2016 notification is a classified record…
These are the types of documents within what former ODNI John Ratcliffe called, “thousands of pages that were declassified by President Trump,” and given to both John Durham and Main Justice with an expectation of public release when the Durham special counsel probe concluded. That is why the DOJ has to make their moves now. The Durham probe has concluded.
In short, President Trump declassified documents that show how the institutions within the U.S. government targeted him. However, the institutions that illegally targeted President Trump are the same institutions who control the specific evidence of their unlawful targeting.
These examples of evidence held by President Donald Trump reveal the background of how the DC surveillance state exists. THAT was/is the national security threat behind the DOJ-NSD search warrant and affidavit.
The risk to the fabric of the U.S. government is why we see lawyers and pundits so confused as they try to figure out the disproportionate response from the DOJ and FBI, toward “simple records”, held by President Trump in Mar-a-Lago. Very few people can comprehend what has been done since January 2009, and the current state of corruption as it now exists amid all of the agencies and institutions of government…
President Donald Trump declassified the material then took the evidence to Mar-a-Lago. The people currently in charge of managing the corrupt system, like Merrick Garland, Lisa Monaco, Chris Wray and the Senate allies, are going bananas. From their DC perspective, Donald Trump is an existential threat.
Given the nature of their opposition, and the underlying motives for their conduct, there is almost nothing they will not do to protect themselves. However, if you peel away all the layers of lies, manipulations and corruption, what you find at the heart of their conduct is fear. The need for control is a reaction to fear.

Reminder, What Was in The Mar-a-Lago Documents

​ ​Video: Trump Promises “Final Battle” To “Demolish The Deep State”
​ ​During a speech in North Carolina this past weekend, President Trump promised to “demolish the deep state” in what will be “a final battle.”
“We are a failing nation. We are a nation in decline. And now these radical left lunatics want to interfere with our elections by using law enforcement. It’s totally corrupt and we can’t let it happen,” Trump told the crowd.
​ ​“This is the final battle,” he further urged, adding “With you at my side, we will demolish the Deep State, we will expel the warmongers from our government, we will drive out the globalists, we will cast out the communists, we will throw off the sick political class that hates our country.”
​ ​Trump continued, “We will roll out the fake news media, we will expose the RINOs for what they are, we will defeat Joe Biden and we will liberate America from these villains once and for all.”

Video: Trump Promises “Final Battle” To “Demolish The Deep State”

Burisma Owner Allegedly Recorded Biden Bribe Convos As ‘Insurance Policy’ — And FBI Covered Up: Grassley
Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) on Monday dropped yet another bombshell in the recent spate of Biden corruption headlines – that the foreign national who allegedly bribed then-VP Joe Biden kept seventeen secret recordings of both Hunter and Joe Biden as an ‘insurance’ policy. Two of the recordings are allegedly between him and Joe Biden.
“The 1023 produced to that House Committee redacted reference that the foreign national who allegedly bribed Joe and Hunter Biden allegedly has audio recordings of his conversations with them. Seventeen total recordings,” Grassley said during a speech on the Senate floor.
“These recordings were allegedly kept as a sort of insurance policy for the foreign national in case he got into a tight spot. The 1023 also indicates that then-Vice President Joe Biden may have been involved in Burisma employing Hunter Biden,” he continued. “More than that, the FBI made Congress review a redacted unclassified document in a classified facility. That goes to show you the disrespect the FBI has for Congress.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/burisma-owner-allegedly-recorded-biden-bribe-convos-insurance-policy-and-wray-covered

[John Day]

Europe it seems is (broadly) moving in the same direction as U.S. politics, Alastair Crooke writes.
The backlash has started. It has been slow to emerge, and is lagging that of the U.S., yet it has begun in earnest. It is, as Wolfgang Münchau, a former FT journalist and editor of EuroIntelligence, has observed: “a seminal shift (for Europe), with important consequences”.
It is likely to reshape politics along a new fault-line: No longer the banal issues of ‘uni-party’ (pro-Establishment) politics: marginal tax rates; easy monetary ‘fixes’ and the consequent debt that would accumulate. But rather, it would find expression in the confrontation between those wishing for a Green upending of human society; a ‘Trans’ world for children; easy immigration; the radical re-ordering of power between ‘Identity’ groups in society – and those viscerally opposed to all of the above…
..Anger grows as public discourse debates endlessly ‘the absurd’ (“what is a woman?”), whilst everyone gives up on ever fixing the deeper issues at stake. What gives this situation its particular air of futility is that no one seriously believes Europe will do what would be necessary to correct the deeper malaise – the impossibility to continue doing what it has been doing, matched only by the impossibility of doing anything other…
..Malcom Kyeyune has remarked…”The ruling elite is increasingly angry and bitter that the ruled no longer listen; the ruled, for their part, are bitter that the system so obviously doesn’t act in their interest, nor does it even really pretend to anymore. We might actually wake up one day only to find that neither politicians nor voters think ‘democracy’ is doing very much to help them anymore”… “Last week, Democratic presidential candidate Robert Kennedy appeared on a Twitter Spaces panel co-hosted by Elon Musk, Tulsi Gabbard, and venture capitalist David Sacks. He spoke for over two hours on a range of issues, including the war in Ukraine, energy policy, gun control, and the origin of SARS-CoV-2. Kennedy deplored the corporate takeover of the Democratic Party; excoriated President Biden’s pro-war instincts; decried the domination of U.S. foreign policy by neo-cons – and promoted renewable energy”.
“And yet, according to the New York Times and CNN, it was an orgy of right-wing conspiracy theorizing. “Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a scion of one of the country’s most famous Democratic families,” wrote three New York Times reporters: “dived into the full embrace of a host of conservative figures who eagerly promoted his long-shot primary challenge to President Biden … On Monday, he sounded like a candidate far more at ease in the mushrooming Republican presidential contest.”
“In an earlier era, Kennedy, would have been universally regarded as a far-left candidate in the mould of Ralph Nader … Kennedy believes that the war in Ukraine is being fuelled by “the neo-cons in the White House” who want regime change in Russia. In his campaign announcement speech, he described his mission as ending “the corrupt merger of state and corporate power” that is threatening “to impose a new kind of corporate feudalism in our country.”
It is a dizzying political realignment – scrambling all of the traditional categories and leaving in its wake just two sides: not left and right, but insider and outsider. And no matter the substance of one’s beliefs, to the media, “outsider” means by default, “right-wing conspiracy theorist”…
..The European ‘outsiders’ have begun calling “Enough”! Yet they may expect to receive the same rough treatment from the main-stream media as Kennedy is receiving (whatever their views). The U.S. Deep State will stop at nothing to ensure that neither Kennedy – nor Trump – comes anywhere close to office. Brussels will act in parallel, in Europe.
Where is this realignment all leading? Well, we are in a chaotic re-sorting period right now. Kennedy, a Democrat, accused of MAGA-ism?? Extraordinary! Class politics it is not. It is a new realignment, scrambling old categories. And a shift in core values between ‘outsiders’ and their rulers.

A Chaotic Re-Sorting: Europe’s ‘Seminal Shift’ Is (Broadly) Moving in the Same Direction as U.S. Politics

Tucker Carlson Pinpoints The Exact Moment That ‘Permanent Washington’ Decided To Send Trump To Prison
“The Biden Administration arrested Donald Trump this afternoon. They had him arraigned and fingerprinted in a Miami Courthouse, like the accused felon he now technically is.
These were the first steps in a process that is designed to put Donald Trump behind bars for the rest of his life.” Carlson noted that “cable news carried every moment of it… but they weren’t shocked… anybody who’s been paying attention knew this was coming…”
But, as he continues, “what just happened was always going to happen, it has been inevitable since February 16, 2016… that’s the day that Donald Trump may a blood enemy of the largest and most powerful organization in human history – the US federal government.”
How did he make that force an enemy? It wasn’t rapists from Mexico or trade with China – the stories that dominated the news at the time…
“…what matters to ‘permanent Washington’ then and now is foreign policy – the invasions, the occupations, and proxy wars… the policies that come with trillion-dollar price tags”
At 2:56, Carlson shows the exact moment that “permanent Washington” decided to send Donald Trump to prison – its from the Republican Candidates’ Debate …
“we should have never been in Iraq, we have destabilized The Middle East… ”
But it was this line that doomed Trump to today’s arrest…
“…they lied…they said there were weapons of mass destruction, there was none.. and they knew there were none.”
That sealed his fate because:
“That was the one thing you were not allowed to say because it implicated too many people on both sides…”
He accuses politicians from both parties, including Hillary Clinton, Paul Ryan, Mike Pence, Nikki Haley, and Mike Pompeo, of betraying Trump’s agenda and working against him from within.
“…they were all guilty of it… they all knew and they all lied and to a person they hated Donald Trump for exposing them.”
Carlson notes that Trump’s prosecution is seen as both political and ideological, aimed at disqualifying those who criticize wars, criticizing the Washington establishment for prioritizing global interventions and military actions over domestic concerns, and highlighting the disparity between the vast amount of government spending and the deteriorating state of public infrastructure across the country.
Carlson crescendos with the following…
“Trump is the only one who dissents from Washington’s long-standing pointless war agenda… and for that, that one fact, they are trying to take Trump out before you can vote for him…”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/tucker-carlson-talks-trumps-indictment-americas-principles-are-stake

Biden Admin Arrests Donald Trump Who Pleads “Not Guilty” To 37 Charges
Prosecutors claim Trump kept highly sensitive papers at his Mar-a-Lago resort, some of which they say address nuclear programs and military attack plans. The indictment accused Trump of 31 counts of violating the Espionage Act, (which carry prison sentences as long as 10 years) or the willful retention of national security information as well as one count of “conspiracy to obstruct justice,” one count of “withholding a document or record,” one count of “corruptly concealing a document or record,” one count of “concealing a document in a deferral investigation,” one count of “scheme to conceal” and one count of “false statements and representations.” The other charges carry up to 20-year maximum terms.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/trump-be-arraigned-miami-classified-documents-case

In an interview with Politico, the 45th president and current GOP frontrunner was asked about if he would drop out of the race if he is convicted in the case. Trump stated that he believes he won’t be convicted and doesn’t plan on taking a plea deal with prosecutors.
“I’ll never leave,” Trump told the outlet. “Look, if I would have left, I would have left prior to the original race in 2016. That was a rough one. In theory that was not doable.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/trump-reveals-his-2024-plans-if-he-convicted-crimes

[John Day]

Europe it seems is (broadly) moving in the same direction as U.S. politics, Alastair Crooke writes.
The backlash has started. It has been slow to emerge, and is lagging that of the U.S., yet it has begun in earnest. It is, as Wolfgang Münchau, a former FT journalist and editor of EuroIntelligence, has observed: “a seminal shift (for Europe), with important consequences”.
It is likely to reshape politics along a new fault-line: No longer the banal issues of ‘uni-party’ (pro-Establishment) politics: marginal tax rates; easy monetary ‘fixes’ and the consequent debt that would accumulate. But rather, it would find expression in the confrontation between those wishing for a Green upending of human society; a ‘Trans’ world for children; easy immigration; the radical re-ordering of power between ‘Identity’ groups in society – and those viscerally opposed to all of the above…
..Anger grows as public discourse debates endlessly ‘the absurd’ (“what is a woman?”), whilst everyone gives up on ever fixing the deeper issues at stake. What gives this situation its particular air of futility is that no one seriously believes Europe will do what would be necessary to correct the deeper malaise – the impossibility to continue doing what it has been doing, matched only by the impossibility of doing anything other…
..Malcom Kyeyune has remarked…”The ruling elite is increasingly angry and bitter that the ruled no longer listen; the ruled, for their part, are bitter that the system so obviously doesn’t act in their interest, nor does it even really pretend to anymore. We might actually wake up one day only to find that neither politicians nor voters think ‘democracy’ is doing very much to help them anymore”… “Last week, Democratic presidential candidate Robert Kennedy appeared on a Twitter Spaces panel co-hosted by Elon Musk, Tulsi Gabbard, and venture capitalist David Sacks. He spoke for over two hours on a range of issues, including the war in Ukraine, energy policy, gun control, and the origin of SARS-CoV-2. Kennedy deplored the corporate takeover of the Democratic Party; excoriated President Biden’s pro-war instincts; decried the domination of U.S. foreign policy by neo-cons – and promoted renewable energy”.
“And yet, according to the New York Times and CNN, it was an orgy of right-wing conspiracy theorizing. “Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a scion of one of the country’s most famous Democratic families,” wrote three New York Times reporters: “dived into the full embrace of a host of conservative figures who eagerly promoted his long-shot primary challenge to President Biden … On Monday, he sounded like a candidate far more at ease in the mushrooming Republican presidential contest.”
“In an earlier era, Kennedy, would have been universally regarded as a far-left candidate in the mould of Ralph Nader … Kennedy believes that the war in Ukraine is being fuelled by “the neo-cons in the White House” who want regime change in Russia. In his campaign announcement speech, he described his mission as ending “the corrupt merger of state and corporate power” that is threatening “to impose a new kind of corporate feudalism in our country.”
It is a dizzying political realignment – scrambling all of the traditional categories and leaving in its wake just two sides: not left and right, but insider and outsider. And no matter the substance of one’s beliefs, to the media, “outsider” means by default, “right-wing conspiracy theorist”…
..The European ‘outsiders’ have begun calling “Enough”! Yet they may expect to receive the same rough treatment from the main-stream media as Kennedy is receiving (whatever their views). The U.S. Deep State will stop at nothing to ensure that neither Kennedy – nor Trump – comes anywhere close to office. Brussels will act in parallel, in Europe.
Where is this realignment all leading? Well, we are in a chaotic re-sorting period right now. Kennedy, a Democrat, accused of MAGA-ism?? Extraordinary! Class politics it is not. It is a new realignment, scrambling old categories. And a shift in core values between ‘outsiders’ and their rulers.

A Chaotic Re-Sorting: Europe’s ‘Seminal Shift’ Is (Broadly) Moving in the Same Direction as U.S. Politics

Tucker Carlson Pinpoints The Exact Moment That ‘Permanent Washington’ Decided To Send Trump To Prison
“The Biden Administration arrested Donald Trump this afternoon. They had him arraigned and fingerprinted in a Miami Courthouse, like the accused felon he now technically is.
These were the first steps in a process that is designed to put Donald Trump behind bars for the rest of his life.” Carlson noted that “cable news carried every moment of it… but they weren’t shocked… anybody who’s been paying attention knew this was coming…”
But, as he continues, “what just happened was always going to happen, it has been inevitable since February 16, 2016… that’s the day that Donald Trump may a blood enemy of the largest and most powerful organization in human history – the US federal government.”
How did he make that force an enemy? It wasn’t rapists from Mexico or trade with China – the stories that dominated the news at the time…
“…what matters to ‘permanent Washington’ then and now is foreign policy – the invasions, the occupations, and proxy wars… the policies that come with trillion-dollar price tags”
At 2:56, Carlson shows the exact moment that “permanent Washington” decided to send Donald Trump to prison – its from the Republican Candidates’ Debate …
“we should have never been in Iraq, we have destabilized The Middle East… ”
But it was this line that doomed Trump to today’s arrest…
“…they lied…they said there were weapons of mass destruction, there was none.. and they knew there were none.”
That sealed his fate because:
“That was the one thing you were not allowed to say because it implicated too many people on both sides…”
He accuses politicians from both parties, including Hillary Clinton, Paul Ryan, Mike Pence, Nikki Haley, and Mike Pompeo, of betraying Trump’s agenda and working against him from within.
“…they were all guilty of it… they all knew and they all lied and to a person they hated Donald Trump for exposing them.”
Carlson notes that Trump’s prosecution is seen as both political and ideological, aimed at disqualifying those who criticize wars, criticizing the Washington establishment for prioritizing global interventions and military actions over domestic concerns, and highlighting the disparity between the vast amount of government spending and the deteriorating state of public infrastructure across the country.
Carlson crescendos with the following…
“Trump is the only one who dissents from Washington’s long-standing pointless war agenda… and for that, that one fact, they are trying to take Trump out before you can vote for him…”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/tucker-carlson-talks-trumps-indictment-americas-principles-are-stake

Biden Admin Arrests Donald Trump Who Pleads “Not Guilty” To 37 Charges
Prosecutors claim Trump kept highly sensitive papers at his Mar-a-Lago resort, some of which they say address nuclear programs and military attack plans. The indictment accused Trump of 31 counts of violating the Espionage Act, (which carry prison sentences as long as 10 years) or the willful retention of national security information as well as one count of “conspiracy to obstruct justice,” one count of “withholding a document or record,” one count of “corruptly concealing a document or record,” one count of “concealing a document in a deferral investigation,” one count of “scheme to conceal” and one count of “false statements and representations.” The other charges carry up to 20-year maximum terms.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/trump-be-arraigned-miami-classified-documents-case

In an interview with Politico, the 45th president and current GOP frontrunner was asked about if he would drop out of the race if he is convicted in the case. Trump stated that he believes he won’t be convicted and doesn’t plan on taking a plea deal with prosecutors.
“I’ll never leave,” Trump told the outlet. “Look, if I would have left, I would have left prior to the original race in 2016. That was a rough one. In theory that was not doable.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/trump-reveals-his-2024-plans-if-he-convicted-crimes

Reminder: What Was in the Mar a Lago Documents:
It is important to remember, the Presidential Records Act –the presented pretext for the document conflict– is not a criminal statute. An FBI raid cannot be predicated on a document conflict between the National Archives and a former president.
The DOJ-NSD warrant, and the subsequent raid on Mar-a-Lago can only be related to records the U.S. government deems “classified” and material vital to national security interests. Hence, DOJ National Security Division involvement…
In broad terms, there are two sets of documents that intermingle and are directly related. First, documents that highlight the activity of Hillary Clinton’s team in creating the false Trump-Russia conspiracy theory (2015/2016). Second, documents that highlight the activity of government officials targeting Donald Trump within the same timeframe (Crossfire Hurricane), that continued into 2017, 2018 and 2019 (Robert Mueller).
Think of the two sets of documents as evidence against two teams working in synergy. Team one (Clinton) was outside government. Team two (DOJ/FBI) was inside government. The documents pertain to both groups but are also divided…
The documentary evidence against the outside group (Clinton et al) would also involve government documented evidence as the DOJ/FBI inside group interacted with them. Notes from interviews, materials provided, FBI 302 summaries of interviews, etc…
..Then we get to the big stuff…. The records and evidence, in unredacted and declassified state, that would drive the DOJ-NSD to claim vital national security interests. The NSA compliance officer notified NSA Director Admiral Mike Rogers of unauthorized use of the NSA database by FBI contractors searching U.S. citizens during the 2015/2016 presidential primary. That 2016 notification is a classified record…
These are the types of documents within what former ODNI John Ratcliffe called, “thousands of pages that were declassified by President Trump,” and given to both John Durham and Main Justice with an expectation of public release when the Durham special counsel probe concluded. That is why the DOJ has to make their moves now. The Durham probe has concluded.
In short, President Trump declassified documents that show how the institutions within the U.S. government targeted him. However, the institutions that illegally targeted President Trump are the same institutions who control the specific evidence of their unlawful targeting.
These examples of evidence held by President Donald Trump reveal the background of how the DC surveillance state exists. THAT was/is the national security threat behind the DOJ-NSD search warrant and affidavit.
The risk to the fabric of the U.S. government is why we see lawyers and pundits so confused as they try to figure out the disproportionate response from the DOJ and FBI, toward “simple records”, held by President Trump in Mar-a-Lago. Very few people can comprehend what has been done since January 2009, and the current state of corruption as it now exists amid all of the agencies and institutions of government…
President Donald Trump declassified the material then took the evidence to Mar-a-Lago. The people currently in charge of managing the corrupt system, like Merrick Garland, Lisa Monaco, Chris Wray and the Senate allies, are going bananas. From their DC perspective, Donald Trump is an existential threat.
Given the nature of their opposition, and the underlying motives for their conduct, there is almost nothing they will not do to protect themselves. However, if you peel away all the layers of lies, manipulations and corruption, what you find at the heart of their conduct is fear. The need for control is a reaction to fear.

Reminder, What Was in The Mar-a-Lago Documents

[John Day]

Deep State Class War https://www.johndayblog.com/2023/06/deep-state-class-war.html

Some excerpts from a recent Michael Hudson interview Christine sent:
So, Michael, I want to ask you, what is your analysis on the current state of the US economy?
Michael Hudson: It looks very bad. It never really recovered from the Obama depression that begun in 2009 when the banks were bailed out and all of the debts were kept on the books. The debt has been growing very rapidly because of the Federal Reserve’s 14 years of zero interest rates that flooded the economy with money, which means debt, to try to prop up the stock market and the real estate market. The debt has grown much higher than it was way back in 2008, when you had the junk mortgage crisis. The arrears and defaults are rising for student loans, for automobile loans, for credit card loans. Commercial property is not only defaulting, but large companies are simply walking away from their office buildings. Many banks are in the same position that Silicon Valley Bank was in. There’s almost a negative equity because the mortgage holdings and their long-term bond holdings market value has gone way down below what they owe their depositors..
..There’s no way that America can become an industrial power again. There is no way that it can restore its industry unless it writes down the enormous amount of debt and housing prices and medical insurance that the American wage earner asked to make. Just imagine this. If you were to give wage earners everything they buy at the stores for nothing, give them all the food, all the clothing, all of the transportation, everything they need. They still couldn’t compete with foreign workers because they have to pay so much money on debt service, on housing, which takes between 30 and 40% of their income. They have to have medical care. That’s 18% of America’s GDP, higher than any other country. So the money that is paid to the financial, insurance and real estate sector in America is so large that there’s no way that America can be competitive with other countries. So, what the Biden administration is trying to do is saying, “Well, okay, I understand that we can’t compete on prices. I understand that our labor cannot compete with foreign labor anywhere near it, but if we can militarily tell everybody not to go China, Russia, India, Asia and other countries what they need to make wafers, chips, and information technology, then they’ll have to buy everything here from high cost. We can charge monopoly prices and our prices will be so high that we can basically impoverish the rest of the world by controlling everything that they really need to work. We can control their energy, we can control their oil, we can control their computers by sanctions against China, Russia, Iran, Venezuela, any country that does not agree to let us control their economy and buy control of it.” Any country that doesn’t agree to let America produce all of the monopoly goods that are most profitable, will be treated like we’ve treated Ukraine.” …
..But what I’m hearing from you is that for the United States sanctions has not only become a political tool, but an economic necessity as well.
Hudson: Well, that’s what the sanctions are. They’re intended to be an economic tool of coercion. Sanctions are a form of coercion, saying, “If you can depend on us for your food, for your oil, and we can turn off your oil, then you’ll be freezing in the dark. If we can block food to you, then you can’t afford to eat. If we can get you high enough and debt to us that all of your export surplus has to go to paying the money that the IMF and the World Bank and other foreigners have lent you, then you’re totally dependent on [us].” And that’s what America’s strategy is — to make other countries dependent on it so that they don’t have a choice…
..Oh, sanctions have been very, very effective, but I think you’ve got the players wrong. The sanctions were against Europe, not against Russia. The United States calculated two years ago that it cannot compete with Eurasia. It’s losing. It knows that it’s lost the long-term fight for not only dominance, but the long-term fight to be a major player. So it says, “What can we do? We know that we cannot compete with Eurasia, with China, Russia, Iran and the rest, but the one thing we can do is [to] lock in American prosperity by making Western Europe and the English speaking countries, Australia and New Zealand, completely dependent on us.” …
..Do you expect the debt ceiling deal to help stabilize the American economy or will it only make things worse in the long-run?
The intention was to make things worse. There was never any debt crisis at all. The government could have simply continued to pay its bills for projects that Congress had already approved. There is no way that the government was going to default on its Treasury debt because, after all, the Treasury debt is held by the wealthiest 10% and the government is not going to do anything that hurts the 10% and benefits the 90%… We have to vastly increase the military budget and because we’ve agreed on a spending limit, we’ve got to cut back the social programs that we’ve just cut back, and cut them back even more.” So, what you’re seeing is right now the class war is back in business in the United States. This is class war with a vengeance. You’re seeing labor being squeezed without really much to do. Local city and urban budgets are being squeezed throughout the country. That’s one of the big problems, the budgetary squeeze. You’re having the banks being squeezed by the defaults on commercial real estate that they’re exposed to, and the rising defaults on the personal debts that I mentioned before that they’re exposed to. So, the economy is really in trouble…
..That’s right. It’s all just a made up. When they talk about cutting back the government debt, what they mean is cutting back social services. They would like to do what Biden and Obama wanted to do after 2009. They want to cut back Social Security…
..But how much longer can the US just keep printing money in order to service this government deficits? Is this really sustainable indefinitely?
Well, what usually stops a situation like that is a political revolution. The answer is it’s sustainable until people fight back, until there is a revolution. But as long as you have a political system where you have only two parties that are really the same party, and as long as you have the Democrats as the only alternative to the Republican Party…
..And why is financialization of the economy a bad thing? … What’s the problem with that sort of model? Why can’t the United States just have an economy that’s built mostly on white collar professionals and offices?
Finance is really not part of the economy. There are two economies in every country. You have the production and consumption economy, which often people call the ‘real economy’, making things and selling them and using them, and you have the financial sector that provides credit for this. The financial sector lives in the short run… So, there’s a confusion about whether you are going to think of the economy as Wall Street and making money on stocks and bonds and lending money to real estate, or are you going to think of an economy employing workers and rising living standards, that kind of growth? …So, the people who are making the loans and the new absentee real estate companies are getting rich. But when housing prices go up, that means that wage earners have to pay higher and higher proportions of their wages to pay their rent and to take out a mortgage and buy their house. And as long as more and more personal income is spent on housing or medical care or retirement pension income, then they’re going to have less and less to spend on goods and services. If you say “forget goods and services, we’ll have China and Asia and the foreigners produce them,” then all you really have is a hollowed out, empty economy… Well, if that’s your equilibrium, the debts can only be paid, as they grow exponentially, by consuming less and less, by living standards going down and down, by real wages going down and down, by social services being cut back more and more, by social security and Medicare being cut back more and more. That’s the program of both American political parties…
..What is your assessment of the current state of the US dollar? What’s going on here? Why are so many countries looking for options to dump the dollar?
Well, for the last year and a half, America has said, “if other countries hold their dollars and European banks or American banks and they do something that we don’t like, we have a right to grab all of their dollars and simply take them”…In order to make an alternative currency beyond merely holding each other’s currency, you would have to have an alternative to the International Monetary Fund. And that’s what Lula was talking about when he went to Asia. How do we make a common a common alternative bank? Well, the problem with an alternative bank is [that] you need its members to agree on who gets the credits… The kind of special money that this bank would create isn’t the kind of money that you spend at the grocery store. It’s not money that would spend domestically. It’s money to do what gold does. And that is only subtle balance of payments deficits among central banks. That’s what gold is now. Before you had the dollar standard or Treasury bills standard in 1971, when countries would run a balance of payments deficit, they’d have to pay in gold. So every month during the Vietnam War, the soldiers and the army would spend money in Vietnam, in Southeast Asia, that used to be part of the French colonial empire. The banks were mainly French. The banks would send the dollars that were spent to the central bank in Paris. And General de Gaulle would take these dollars and would say, okay, here are the dollars we have. Give us your gold at $35 an ounce. And that was how America’s gold stock was going way down… And all of a sudden, if the United States is unable to have other people keep their savings in dollars, meaning buying Treasury securities, then how are they going to pay the international balance of payments cost of their military spending? They won’t be able to spend militarily abroad. The only way they can do it is drastically cut back imports in the America. And to do that, you have to cut wage rates by 20%. You have to make the American labor force the poorest labor force in the West so that all of the balance of payments, money that’s spent, is not on buying goods and services to consume, but only for military spending…
..[re: opinions of] Paul Krugman in The New York Times and other mainstream outlets is that although there is some incentive for countries to move away from the dollar, there isn’t really a viable alternative at the moment, and that the countries of BRICS that, although they may have a common interest in forming a BRICS currency, an alternative to the dollar, these economies are to different too varied in order to be able to join forces and form their own alternative currency.
Well, let’s look at what happened with Colonel Gaddafi, the head of Libya. Gaddafi said we want a gold based currency for Africa. And so instead of holding dollars, he bought gold. So NATO bombed the country to smithereens, caught Colonel Gaddafi, tortured him to death and grabbed the gold from the central bank and nobody knows where it disappeared to. But it seems to have disappeared into the State Department to play dirty tricks throughout the world. So Krugman advocates militarily forcing and destroying any country that wants an alternative to the dollar. He’s a hawk and basically says, “do it by force”. And in his notorious article in The New York Times, he said, “Well, everybody is so used to dealing the dollar, they can’t find an alternative.” … Well, most of my books are all about how to make an alternative to the dollar and the interviews that I’m doing, and my colleagues and I are spending our full time writing. We write for the Valdai Club in Russia. I write for the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. We’re writing for other countries to help create an alternative to the dollar because we don’t want to see the world militarized in the way that the US is militarizing it. We want to see a resumption of the economic potential that the world seemed to have leading up to World War One before the whole economy got derailed a century ago…
..But throughout history, the creditors, people who do not work for a living, who are simply inherit their money or have their money by exploiting people, are willing to [hire others to kill] for this right to [own] other people. But people actually produce the wealth. The victims are much less willing to fight militarily or by violence. And the first thing that creditors, the ruling class, do is to have a monopoly of violence. You had assassinations every single century in Rome. The advocates of debt cancellation and redistribution of land were assassinated. That’s what you seem to be facing in the United States, just as the United States has been assassinating foreign leaders for the last 75 years. African leaders, Latin American leaders, Pinochet, the man coming in and assassinating Allende. The same thing happened in Africa. Same thing has happened throughout the Near East with Gadhafi. As long as you have America saying, “We know the secret to economic stability, it’s assassinating everybody who disagrees with us and who wants independence from the United States.” As long as other countries said, “Yes, that’s what democracy is, we’re for the United States,” then they’re committing suicide and then their leaders will be killed again and again and again. That’s how the world economy is keeping equilibrium today. It’s an equilibrium trying to subject the entire world to the Dark age into which Roman Empire itself declined.

Michael Hudson on the US Economy – Surprisingly Resilient or Potemkin Village?

[John Day]

Thanks for the Steey Dan, Dr.D (i’ve got it on vinyl, but don’t much listen in the new millenium.
Thanks for the Alastair Crooke, FS.
Thanks for some truth Bobby Jr. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaiGABTj0aA

[John Day]

​Don’t bank on this yet please, Mr.President. ExxonMobil: New Fracking Technology Can Double Oil Output
​Exxon is currently working on two specific areas to improve fracking. First off, the company is trying to frack more precisely along the well so that more oil-soaked rock gets drained. It’s also looking for ways to keep the fracked cracks open longer so as to boost the flow of oil.
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/ExxonMobil-New-Fracking-Technology-Can-Double-Oil-Output.html

The Sun Declares War On Earth​ (4 min.) looks at Carrington-level Events (1859 event), which come about every 200 years, and are far from the most destructive electromagnetic events the sun periodically belches-up. The earth’s magnetic fields are much weakened now, as the magnetic poles are wandering.

Meryl Nass MD, Heart stops 14 hours after a Pfizer shot. Eventually a new heart needed, cost $3 million. No one dares mention that Pfizer shot in the medical record (except the patient)
https://merylnass.substack.com/p/heart-stops-14-hours-after-a-pfizer

The story concludes :
John, now 66, does not blame the doctors who did not question the vaccine’s role. “Their concern was my survival,” he said, “and my heart.” The Berndsens are grateful, however, that there are doctors like Peter McCullough, who do question the safe-and-effective vaccine narrative. He gave perspective to their vaccine experience and helped them navigate its aftermath.
“He was,”said Leslie, “a voice of reason in a world of chaos.”
https://rescue.substack.com/p/a-pfizer-shot-a-failed-heart-a-transplant

[John Day]

Revealed: Bombshell FBI Document Alleges $5 Million Bribe Paid To Joe Biden By Burisma Exec
​ ​The form, dated June 30, 2020, is from a “highly credible” confidential human source who had detailed multiple meetings and conversations they had with a top Burisma executive over the course of several years, beginning in 2015. The CHS had been working with the FBI as a regular, reliable source of information since 2010, and has been paid approximately $200,000 by the bureau…
..According to the Burisma executive, the company had to “pay the Bidens” because Ukraine’s lead prosecutor, Victor Shokin, was investigating Burisma.
​ ​According to the CHS, he suggested that the Burisma executive “pay the Bidens $50,000 each,” to which the Burisma executive replied “not $50,000,” it is “$5 million.”
​ ​”$5 million for one Biden, $5 million for the other Biden,” the executive reportedly said.
​ ​The $5 million payments appeared to reference some sort of “retainer” Burisma intended to pay the Bidens in order to ‘clean up’ several issues – including the investigation led by Shokin.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/revealed-bombshell-fbi-document-alleges-5-million-bribe-paid-joe-biden-burisma-exec

​ From The Organic Prepper blog: ​ Why Is the Establishment So Scared of RFK Jr.?
​ ​Rather than name-calling, if RFK Jr. is so dead-wrong about vaccines and children’s health, why doesn’t anyone actually engage him?
​ ​People refuse to engage in arguments with RFK Jr. because they can’t. He’s a long-time trial lawyer, so he’s good at arguing, and he’s also very, very intelligent. He’s comfortable reading scientific material and understands much of the debates around childhood health and vaccines in a way that many people, even many college-educated people, just don’t…
​..​However, because understanding his point of view well enough to engage in serious argument requires an understanding of both science and history, most pundits find it far simpler to just call him crazy and refuse to let him speak.
​ ​But RFK Jr. gets his message out anyway, finding alternative outlets, doing his best to expose the inner workings between Big Government and Big Business.
​ ​And this is probably why RFK Jr. is such a thorn in the side of the Democratic establishment. He doesn’t play along with most of the big donors he’s supposed to play along with.
https://www.theorganicprepper.com/rfk-jr/

​ ​Tucker Talks Taboos After MSM Ignores Instagram Kiddie-Porn Bombshell
​ ​Which brings Carlson to this week’s horrific WSJ expose of Instagram’s kiddie-porn rings which he notes has resulted in exactly nothing as “one of the largest circulation newspapers in the world reported that one of the world’s most influential companies was promoting pedophilia and nobody in power did anything about it.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/tucker-talks-taboos-after-msm-ignores-instagram-kiddie-porn-bombshell

‘Zuckerberg Must Explain’: EU Demands Answers On ‘Instagram Pedophile Network’
https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/zuckerberg-must-explain-eu-demands-answers-instagram-pedophile-network

China Crude Stockpiles Hit Two Year High As US Strategic Reserve Drops To 40 Year Low
https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/china-crude-stockpiles-hit-two-year-high-us-strategic-reserve-drops-40-year-low

[John Day]

​ Has Israel armed Ukrainian forces with anti-tank missiles? Photo of training in Poland with these Israeli weapons suggests this may be the case.​
​ ​The new photos indicate that Kiev forces are at least being trained on Spike LR ATGMs. It is still unclear if the systems will indeed be supplied, or if the decision to do so was taken with the approval of Israel.
​ ​The Spike LR offers nothing new from other ATGMs already supplied to Kiev forces, like the American-made FGM-148 Javelin and the French-made Akeron MP.
​ ​If Israel has indeed taken the decision to deliver lethal weapons to Ukraine, directly or indirectly, Russia could respond by arming Syria with advanced weapons, stepping up military cooperation with Iran or even by shipping Western weapons captured from Kiev forces to Hezbollah in Lebanon and the Hamas Movement in the Gaza Strip.
https://southfront.org/new-photos-suggest-israel-approved-supply-of-spike-missiles-to-ukraine/

​Starting Monday, June 12 in a world much like your own, because freedom and peace are worth dying for after you run out of Ukrainians.
In the multinational Air Defender 23 exercise, 25 nations train together in the airspace above Europe in joint air operations.

https://www.bundeswehr.de/en/organization/german-air-force/air-defender-23

​ Eleni sent this. What if you threw a rules-based party and nobody came?
​ ​The key factor that has enabled the US to force this order on friends and foes alike, was its monopoly on the world’s trade currency and its ability to sanction, regime-change or invade anyone who skirted the rules.
​ ​But this could soon change and everyone is anticipating the changes. This month, from 14 to 17 June, most of the nations of the global south will be attending the Saint Petersburg International Economic Forum when new announcements are expected. They could include a new global exchange system enabling any nation to sidestep the increasingly risky use of the American dollar.
​ ​Development of this new system was announced last June and since then, Russian and Chinese diplomats have signalled to the nations of the global south that if they chose to join, they will not be penalized either for defaulting on their debt obligations to western financial institutions, or for re-nationalizing their domestic resources and industries.
​ ​If the mood is sour even among US allies, we can be sure that much of the global south is ready to jettison this rules-based order, default on their western debts and even renationalize the most valuable pieces of their national assets. This would be the “bottom falling out” moment for the western financial system.
https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/what-if-you-threw-a-rules-based-party

​The pork must flow… ​Biden Administration Announces $2.1 Billion Weapons Package for Ukraine

Biden Administration Announces $2.1 Billion Weapons Package for Ukraine

[John Day]

Facts Matter https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/facts-matter

Simplicus The Thinker carefully explains the deep and dense Russian lines protecting the approaches to Crimea with artillery, trenches and obstacles to tanks, dense minefields, attack helicopters, attack drones,precision munitions, electronic warfare and air dominance,and fresh,well trained soldiers manning defensive lines three -deep. There have been lots of technical criticisms of Ukrainian battle tactics.They are wrong. There is no good way to assault these defenses. It has never been done. It is suicidal.:
Anatomy of a NATO-Planned, Trained, and Armed Disaster ,
As the smoke cleared the battlefield, we were left witness to a disaster of unprecedented proportions. NATO’s most advanced tanks and armor were left as smoking ruins
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/anatomy-of-a-nato-planned-trained

An earlier article from Simplicus, with lots of details of the beginning of the Ukrainian offensive, including mass refusals to fight suicidally by several Ukrainian units. and a seismic shock at the time the dam wasdamaged.Wasthis a very large explosion delivered by a submarine suicide drone?
Offensive Confirmed: AFU Strikes Hard But Leopards Get Spayed

​ ​First about the Kakhovka dam. There are now new interesting details which complicate the situation. It turns out that a Norwegian seismic monitor, using local stations, recorded a seismic shock commensurate with an ‘explosion’ at exactly the time the Kakhovka dam first collapsed around 2am:
​ ​Norway’s nuclear test-ban monitor NORSAR says seismic signals indicate that there was an explosion at the Nova Kakhovka Dam at 02:54 AM on June 6, meaning kinetic action was highly likely used to bring the dam down. Magnitude estimated between 1 and 2.
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/offensive-confirmed-afu-strikes-hard

​Black Mountain Analysis (Serbian) has the most in-depth and detailed analysis of the Kakhovka Dam, including construction details and plans. It lacks the Danish seismographic data, but concludes that a large explosive must have been carried to the dam underwater from the reservoir side.​
https://bmanalysis.substack.com/p/kakhovka-dam-destruction

Using high tech British drones to attack massed civilians sheltering from the flood that drove them from their homes when the dam was bombed…
KYIV LAUNCHED UK-SUPPLIED MISSILES AT FLOOD SHELTER IN SOUTHERN KHERSON
https://southfront.org/kyiv-launched-uk-supplied-missiles-at-flood-shelter-in-southern-kherson/

[John Day]

See Yuz Manana DBS and other conscious life forms!
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[John Day]

​ ​ Tucker Carlson’s first Twitter broadcast went mega-viral Tuesday night, racking up 71.6 million views in less than 24 hours.
During the 10 minute monologue, Carlson slammed Ukraine war mongers, and took the media to task for ignoring the “bombshell of the millennium” in which a government whistleblower revealed that craft developed by non-human intelligence has been recovered by governments around the world.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/tucker-carlsons-twitter-debut-goes-mega-viral-crushes-ratings-while-taylor-lorenz-makes

Fox News notified former show host Tucker Carlson that his new independent program published via Twitter violates his contract with the network, US media reported, citing a copy of a letter from Fox to Carlson’s attorneys… “In connection with such breach and pursuant to the Agreement, Fox expressly reserves all rights and remedies which are available to it at law or equity,” the letter said, as quoted in the report.
..Carlson’s legal team objects to Fox’s efforts to block the new program, arguing that Twitter as a platform is not in direct competition with Fox, the report said, citing a source familiar with their thinking. Another source familiar with the matter reportedly said that Fox executives told Carlson that the network intends to keep him sidelined until 2025. Any legal action by Fox would violate Carlson’s First Amendment rights to freedom of speech under the US Constitution, his lawyers reportedly said…
..Carlson was reportedly removed from the Fox News lineup as part of a settlement agreement with Dominion Voting Systems.
https://sputnikglobe.com/20230608/reports-fox-claims-tucker-carlson-violated-contract-by-airing-independent-twitter-show-1110994478.html

​ Matt ​Taibbi: Does Anyone Believe American Propaganda Anymore?
​ ​The Kakhovka dam just exploded in Ukraine, flooding a huge territory and causing another insane ecological disaster.
​ ​Russia and Ukraine spent yesterday trading accusations, while the U.S. leaked it was “leaning towards Russia as the culprit of the attack.”
​ ​The synchronicity was uncanny, with the media’s dam freakout coming exactly as public panic about the previous lunatic infrastructure attack came full circle, moving from certainty Russia blew up the Nord Stream pipeline to belated claims we knew all along Ukraine did it. It’s as if officials want the world to take American intelligence assessments more as Gilbert Gottfried routines than truth.
​ ​At 10:52 a.m. yesterday, the Washington Post published an exclusive called, “U.S. had intelligence of detailed Ukrainian plan to attack Nord Stream pipeline.”
​ ​The story contended the United States learned from a “European intelligence service” in June, 2022 that Ukraine was planning a “covert attack” on Nord Stream, using divers who “reported directly to the commander in chief of the Ukrainian armed forces,” General Valery Zaluzhny.
​ ​Apparently, U.S. and European allies knew about the Ukrainian plan and were impotent to stop a move they worried “risked a severe Russian response.”
The only people in the country who didn’t roll eyes or laugh at these latest anonymous contortions were reporters.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/taibbi-does-anyone-believe-american-propaganda-anymore

​ ​Soros predicts Ukrainian victory in counterattack, says Russia is a ‘paper tiger’
​ ​American oligarch of Hungarian origin George Soros believes Ukraine will win the war, and it will be a “positive shock” for global relations. The billionaire made the predictions in a new column in Project Syndicate, which is partly funded by his own Open Society Foundations.
​ ​In the column, Soros borrows a term from U.S. economic historian Adam Tooze, writing of a “polycrisis” in the world and pointing to the meteoric rise of artificial intelligence, climate change and the war in Ukraine.​..
​..​“There will be general elections in the United States in 2024 – and, most likely, in the United Kingdom as well – and AI will undoubtedly play an important role, one which is unlikely to be anything but dangerous. AI is very good at producing disinformation and deep fakes and there will be many malicious actors. What can we do about that? I don’t have the answer, but I hope this issue will receive the attention it deserves.”

Soros predicts Ukrainian victory in counterattack, says Russia is a ‘paper tiger’

​ Christine sends this from Gilbert Doctorow Where oh Where is Chinese Support for Russia’s Special Military Operation in Ukraine?
There are no indications that China has supplied any military hardware to Russia. Perhaps they have shipped some dual use microchips, but that is not clear. What we can see is that they substantially raised their purchases of Russian oil. But they have taken the big discounts that Russia was obliged to give to any and all buyers following imposition of Western sanctions on its hydrocarbons. So it is an open question of who was doing whom favors in that domain.
There is reason to believe that the real test of China’s readiness to help Russia in what is now effectively a war with the whole of NATO will come in the next two weeks or so.
In a rather alarmist article issued on 21 May, John Helmer, a Russia expert and blogger living in Moscow for decades, tells us that the Air Defender 23 exercises that begin on 12 June may be used by Washington and its NATO allies to cover and protect what will be called raids by Ukrainian piloted F16s into the Donbas and perhaps further into the Russian Federation itself. This daring and perhaps very violent “exercise” would be a provocation inviting Russian counter attack on the bases in Germany and elsewhere in NATO member states from which the attacking aircraft took off. And there you have it, the casus belli for WWIII.

Where, oh where is Chinese support for Russia’s Special Military Operation in Ukraine?

[John Day]

More from Dr.Nass:
RFK Jr. tells Musk he wants to permanently seal the US-Mexico border; links mass shootings to pharmaceutical drugs; wants to end GOF worldwide
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. joined Elon Musk, venture capitalist David Sacks, former Democratic lawmaker Tulsi Gabbard, and others for a Twitter Spaces interview Monday to discuss many of the issues he reckons should be at the forefront of the political debate going into the 2024 presidential election.
https://merylnass.substack.com/p/rfk-jr-tells-musk-he-wants-to-permanently

Ed Curtain (Sirhan Sirhan was just a hypnotized patsy, not an assassin. Bobby Jr. is fully aware of this. Bobby Kennedy opposed the Vietnam War.)
The Assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy: Questions, Hints and Allegations

The Assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy: Questions, Hints and Allegations

Instagram Reinstates RFK Jr.’s Account After He Questions The Ban On Twitter
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/instagram-reinstates-rfk-jrs-account-after-he-questions-ban-twitter

Meta’s Instagram Facilitated Massive Pedophile Network
A comprehensive investigation by the Wall Street Journal and the Stanford Internet Observatory reveals that Meta-owned Instagram has been home to an organized and massive network of pedophiles.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/cheese-pizza-metas-instagram-facilitated-massive-pedophile-network

[John Day]

Rule by Decree: The Emergency State’s Plot to Override the Constitution​ (Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney began revision of​ ​ “​C​ontinuity of Government” plans under Jerry Ford, and resumed under Reagan/Bush. They were activated on 9/11/01​ with VP Cheney in the driver’s seat​.)
​The seeds of this ongoing madness were sown several decades ago when George W. Bush stealthily issued two presidential directives that granted the president the power to unilaterally declare a national emergency, which is loosely defined as “any incident, regardless of location, that results in extraordinary levels of mass casualties, damage, or disruption severely affecting the U.S. population, infrastructure, environment, economy, or government functions.“ Comprising the country’s Continuity of Government (COG) plan, these directives (National Security Presidential Directive 51 and Homeland Security Presidential Directive 20), which do not need congressional approval, provide a skeletal outline of the actions the president will take in the event of a “national emergency.”
​ ​Just what sort of actions the president will take once he declares a national emergency can barely be discerned from the barebones directives. However, one thing is clear: in the event of a national emergency, the COG directives give unchecked executive, legislative and judicial power to the president. The country would then be subjected to martial law by default, and the Constitution and the Bill of Rights would be suspended.​..
​…​All of the imperial powers amassed by Obama, Bush, Trump and now Biden—to kill American citizens without due process, to detain suspects (including American citizens) indefinitely, to strip Americans of their citizenship rights, to carry out mass surveillance on Americans without probable cause, to wage wars without congressional authorization, to suspend laws during wartime, to disregard laws with which he might disagree, to conduct secret wars and convene secret courts, to sanction torture, to sidestep the legislatures and courts with executive orders and signing statements, to direct the military to operate beyond the reach of the law, to establish a standing army on American soil, to operate a shadow government, to declare national emergencies for any manipulated reason, and to act as a dictator and a tyrant, above the law and beyond any real accountability—have become a permanent part of the president’s toolbox of terror.
https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/rule_by_decree_the_emergency_states_plot_to_override_the_constitution

Alex Berenson , ​ Why the Covid vaccine myocarditis deaths in South Korea matter so much
​ ​Yesterday, I focused on the study’s details. In the paper, researchers in South Korea reported finding 12 mRNA-driven myocarditis deaths in young adults, a figure that translates into up to 500 similar deaths globally.
​ ​Those deaths are obviously important.
But an even more vital takeaway from the paper is that doctors aren’t even properly reporting the best-known complication from the mRNA jabs. Not even when it occurs mere days after vaccination. Not even when it kills healthy young adults.
​ ​Eight of those 12 fatalities were initially misclassified as sudden cardiac deaths, with no mRNA myocarditis link. They were properly classified only after autopsies performed under a special Korean program.
​ ​So physicians can’t even count fatal cases of myocarditis, which has been highlighted as an mRNA complication for two years. How can we trust them to report other potential serious or fatal side effects, ones that occur in older people or haven’t received as much attention or both?
https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/update-why-the-covid-vaccine-myocarditis

Thanks Oxymoron in Oz. Walter M.Chesnut:
An Urgent Warning: The Spike Protein Expressed On The Cell Surface Causes “Transplant Rejection” Of The Entire Body – Long COVID ,
Every Organ Expressing Spike Is Attacked As If It Were Transplanted Due To The Expression Of A Foreign Non-Self Protein On Cell Surfaces
https://wmcresearch.substack.com/p/an-urgent-warning-the-spike-protein

WHO Adopts European-Style COVID-19 Vaccine Passports As Part Of New Global Digital Health Certificate
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/who-adopts-european-style-covid-19-vaccine-passports-part-new-global-digital-health

[John Day]

The Same In Theory https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/the-same-in-theory

Surplus Energy Economics , Of theory and practice
​ ​Here, then, is what we know about the ‘two economies’.
​ ​The ‘real economy’ is an energy system, and is defined as the use, in the present, of energy to supply products and services of value. The factors that determine the size of the real economy at any given time are the supply, value and cost of energy. Activity made possible by energy includes the construction of productive capacity, infrastructure, and facilities such as homes, hospitals and schools.
​ ​The ‘financial economy’ consists of monetary claims, of which some are exercised in the present, whilst others are set aside for the future. The financial system comprises an aggregation of forward claims, whose viability depends on the delivery capacity of the real (energy) economy of the future.
​ ​As remarked earlier, when creating these claims, we don’t assess their viability by enquiring into the probable size of the real economy of the future. We simply assume that the economy, defined financially, must carry on expanding.
​ ​On this basis, we have constructed a financial system that prioritises innovation over sustainability. Now that the ‘real’ economy has stopped growing, we’re about to discover that we have innovated our way to a systemic crisis.
​ ​The SEEDS model uses many techniques and metrics to interpret and describe the ‘two economies’ of energy and money, and some of the most important are summarised in the following charts.
​ ​The ‘financial economy’, represented by reported GDP, has carried on growing, largely because the transactional activity recorded as GDP has been inflated artificially by the breakneck creation of ever greater future claims (Fig. 1A). In other words, we’ve been flattering perceived flow by adding to the stock of liabilities, and then turning a blind eye to the linkage between the two.
​ ​Largely out of sight, the ‘real economy’ has been decelerating towards contraction (1B). This has happened because, through the process of depletion, the ECoEs – the Energy Costs of Energy – of fossil fuels have been rising relentlessly, reducing the amount of prosperity obtained from each unit of energy consumed.
​ ​Accordingly, a severe disequilibrium has emerged between the real and the financial economies (1C).
​ ​It’s only when we recognize that the eventually tendency must be towards equilibrium between the two economies – and apply the measured magnitude of disequilibrium to the current scale of forward liabilities (1D) – that we become aware of the inevitable destabilization of the financial system.​..​
..The energy-intensive nature of so many necessities implies that, as the real costs of essentials rise, there will be a leveraged decline in the affordability of discretionary (non-essential) products and services.
Inevitably, we’re going to try to stave off these realities using financial gimmickry. This could be characterised by the suppliers of non-essential products and services trying to bolster their sales by providing credit to their customers.

#257: Of theory and practice

I think that those who control economic movements in our world (presumably because they understand them well, and can profit from that understanding, as well as manipulation) see the divergence between real economy and financial economy. One of the main drivers of WW-2 was the arrangements for debt repayment after WW-1. They were impossible. There are many details to that, but they were not only physically impossible, but financially impossible. Germany could not get the $US to pay to France and England, which they owed to the US (and the Federal Reserve banks) No country with $US would buy German goods. Germany was forced to borrow $US at low interest, which persistent low interest primed the world for the 1929 financial crash.
Hitler was lauded at first, as he was repudiating German debt, which was necessary to re-synchronize physical and financial economies on a global scale, however the social movement the Nazis set in motion needed more. It was a militarized growth-engine.
“This time” needs to be “different”, since there is not the capacity for rapid growth of real-economy after the desolation of war.
The financial and power elites are having to work a problem they have never faced in our modern history.
They need human populations to follow orders, and they are inclined to use fear as a motivation. (I think a wholesome shared-purpose, based upon honest and open assessment would work better this time.)
The driving assumption of any scheme the current power/financial elites may support is that they remain in power, controlling the levers and extracting the economic surplus, as they see fit.
It would help them pay the bills if most retirees and welfare recipients died, of course. This would need to happen in the context of full societal compliance, all of which Hitler accomplished, but we see how that was done.
Classes of people were dehumanized, dispossessed and exterminated as less-than-human. This was expanded to include Slavic Russians, and that is where it failed.
There was a world war, or several overlapping imperial world-wars. The system of power and ownership was maintained, though the seat of the financial empire continued to shift. London > NY + London.
Importantly, for the winners,the power elites needed to make social contracts with the people, in order to prevail.
Those WW-2 social contracts have now been defaulted upon.
Any ruling coalition will need to strike new social contracts, which must be palatable to societies.
A ruling coalition (as in the UK, or the US) which lies to society, and seeks to impose austerity and mysterious deaths, will lose control to a rival ruling-coalition which enlists the goodwill and trust of society.That must be done honestly, and with wealth-sharing.
That’s what history shows.

​ ​Two Tiers of Justice​ , Kash Patel
​The two-tier system of justice is not Democrats vs. Republicans. It is anyone who is part of the administrative state and the D.C. beltway versus those who seek to destroy this political demon of the deep state. It is government gangsters against everyone else. When it comes to the U.S. government, there are no coincidences. Anything that masquerades as such is a strategic move to protect the upper echelons from ceding power to the proletariat they once rose from.
https://www.realclearwire.com/articles/2023/06/07/two_tiers_of_justice_149324.html

​ ​FBI Folds, Releases Biden ‘Bribery’ Document To House Oversight, Averting Contempt Vote
​ ​But by late Wednesday, the committee announced that the FBI has decided to produce some documents— including the FD-1023 form Comer had been after—and that the committee’s business meeting on Thursday to vote on holding Wray in contempt was now scrapped.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/fbi-folds-releases-biden-document-house-oversight-averting-contempt-vote

Meryl Nass MD, Why Countries Must Leave the World Health Organization. (Much edited. There is also a video.)
​ (​The term “One Health” was first coined by EcoHealth Alliance,2 the group that subcontracted risky gain-of-function research to the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), the lab from which SARS-CoV-2 emerged.​)
One Health is the culmination of a grand global plan that places human health, animal health, environmental concerns, food, travel, housing and everything else under a single umbrella, and the WHO is being set up as the central decision-maker and overseer of it all​.​
​ ​ One Health is based on the premise that a broad range of aspects of life and the environment can impact health and therefore fall under the “potential” to cause harm. The One Health agenda includes medicine, food and agriculture, communications, economics, civil society, global trade and commerce, research, noncommunicable disease, mental health, land use, disease surveillance and much more
​ ​Behind the scenes, One Health partnerships have already been formed in countries around the world. The One Health network was built and expanded in the U.S. primarily by cutting public health funding. One Health then stepped in with funding but, of course, recipients of One Health grants had to embrace the concept and push it out to others​.​
One Health is also baked into the proposed amendments to the 2005 International Health Regulations (IHR), which the World Health Assembly (WHA) is scheduled to vote on in May 2024. This is how the WHO will gain the authority to dictate how we live our lives.​..​
​ ..In hindsight, it’s easy to see that the globalists’ plan to concentrate power has been in the works for decades, and the playbook is always the same: “Give us more power so we can protect you and keep you safe.” Alas, every time we give them more power, we find ourselves both less safe and less free.​..​
​ ​Countries that treasure individual freedom and respect bodily autonomy have only one choice: Exit the World Health Organization​.
​https://merylnass.substack.com/p/why-countries-must-leave-the-world

[John Day]

Researchers Hid Data Showing Fluoride Lowers Kids’ IQs, Emails Reveal
California’s dental director and his team of researchers intentionally omitted data from a study seeking to undermine the forthcoming National Toxicology Program report linking fluoride exposure to neurodevelopmental damage in children, according to documents released last week.

Researchers Hid Data Showing Fluoride Lowers Kids’ IQs, Emails Reveal

​ The abuser needs to protect you from disinformation.
​ ​WHO Initiative Would ‘Promote Desired Behaviors’ by Surveilling Social Media
​ ​A new World Health Organization initiative asks member states to combat what the agency calls an ‘infodemic’ — an overabundance of information, “accurate or not,” that makes it difficult for people to “adopt behaviors that will protect their health and the health of their families and communities.”

WHO Initiative Would ‘Promote Desired Behaviors’ by Surveilling Social Media

​ Daisy Luther, The Organic Prepper got defunded by her ad company​. I have not seen much from her recently. $55,000/year just paid the bills.
​ ​When Your Own Government CONFIRMS It Paid Censors to Silence You…
​ ​If you’ve been around for very long, you know this website has suffered repeated hits for our content. We’ve been defunded, we’ve been hit by algorithmic changes that make it harder for people to find us, and we’ve been classified as a “disinformation” site. All of this has happened despite the fact we offer factual coverage and often use mainstream sources that are not targeted by censors.​
​ While I’ve had my suspicions since the attacks first began, imagine the sick feeling in the pit of my stomach when I recently read an expose by the Washington Examiner in which the United States government readily admitted giving funding to the very business that abruptly defunded my website back in 2021.
https://www.theorganicprepper.com/government-paid-censors/

​Ellen Brown, ​What Will Happen When Banks Go Bust? Bank Runs, Bail-Ins and Systemic Risk (You are an “unsecured creditor” with “your” bank.)

What Will Happen When Banks Go Bust? Bank Runs, Bail-Ins and Systemic Risk

[John Day]

Moon of Alabama (Germany) has the story of Ukraine blowing up the Kakhova dam to flood Kherson Nova Kakhova Dam Breach – Updated
This will also reduce water supplies to Novorussia, while cutting hydroelectric power to the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant. Russian troops had long anticipated the dam being taken out, and had left areas prone to flooding. Their minefields and anti tank defensive lines will be flooded, so the minefields will be jumbled but still minefields. Overall,this favors the Ukrainian side,tying the Russians down in Kherson, so they can move Ukrainian assault forces elsewhere , to reinforce the massive casualties they have been taking in their offensives in recent days.
Ukrainian Maj. Gen. Andriy Kovalchuk had discussed this very option with the press last December…
Andrew Korybko points to a possible motive for today’s demolishing of the dam:
​[​Kovalchuk’s] remark about how “the step remained a last resort” is pertinent to recall at present considering that the first phase of Kiev’s NATO-backed counteroffensive completely failed on Monday according to the Russian Ministry of Defense. Just like Ukraine launched its proxy invasion of Russia in late May to distract from its loss in the Battle of Artyomovsk, so too does it seem to have gone through with Kovalchuk’s planned war crime to distract from this most recent embarrassment as well.​..
..Interestingly the ‘western’ media, pressed into compliance by the Ukrainian government, were thanked for their pro-Ukrainian reporting on the issue around the time the dam was breached:
​ ​Michael Tracey @mtracey – 9:42 UTC · Jun 6, 2023
​ ​Top advisor of Zelensky thanks journalists in advance today for helping the Ukraine government win the “diplomatic and informational battle” around the bombing of the Nova Kakhovka dam. Helpful reminder of the state imperatives these journalists are expected to abide by Image
​ ​The attached image of the top advisor’s Telegram post has a 3:03 timestamp.
​https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/06/nova-kakhova-dam-breach.html#more

​ When Ukrainian forces finally left Bakhmut,there was across-border invasion of Russia,which only attacked civilians, a war crime.This also used a lot of US and Polish supplied weapons and military vehicles,making these countries parties to these war-crimes. Someproposethat “Ukraine” seeks to draw NATO countries directly into war with Russia. (Who in Ukraine?)​ Russian civilians reportedPolish soldiers/mercenaries among this group of “Russians” sering Ukrainian interests.
Polish militants claim involvement in attack on Russia​ , ​The “Polish Volunteer Corps” says it infiltrated Belgorod Region alongside Russian neo-Nazis
https://www.rt.com/news/577457-polish-militants-attack-russia/

​They are suing the Department of Defense.This will prompt real discovery of what took place with these “Bioweapon countermeasures” under special purchase authority.​ Children’s Health Defense is funding the suit. Sasha Latypova has the story.
Family of 24-Year-Old Who Died From COVID Vaccine Sues the DOD​ , ​Case filed by attorney Ray Flores with support from Children’s Health Defense.
https://sashalatypova.substack.com/p/family-of-24-year-old-who-died-from

​ It seems like there might be more genetic propensity to suffer COID-vaccine injury and death in some people than others.​
​ ​Myopericarditis following COVID-19 vaccination in adolescent triplets
​ ​Multiple studies have reported myocarditis and pericarditis after the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus disease 2019 messenger ribonucleic acid vaccine. We describe male adolescent triplets who presented with myopericarditis within one week following vaccine administration.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/cardiology-in-the-young/article/abs/myopericarditis-following-covid19-vaccination-in-adolescent-triplets/E937ECCBD22E78B68ABF7544C8490E9A

​This is the usual way to address excess deaths from new vaccines, after taking them off the shelves.​
Dengue vaccine fiasco leads to criminal charges for researcher in the Philippines
Rose Capeding could face years in prison for her role in clinical trials of Dengvaxia
https://www.science.org/content/article/dengue-vaccine-fiasco-leads-criminal-charges-researcher-philippines

[John Day]

Value Analysis https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/value-analysis

We have all seen this story about the AI deciding to kill its controller, since the controller was impairing its mission-effectiveness.
That’s “out of context”, because it was just a simulation.The AI just “decided” that in the war game, not for realsies….
Air Force pushes back on claim that military AI drone sim killed operator, says remarks ‘taken out of context’
https://www.foxnews.com/tech/us-military-ai-drone-simulation-kills-operator-told-bad-takes-out-control-tower

And we have all seen this story: Odds of ‘Smarter Than Human’ AI Wiping Out Mankind Are 50 Percent or Greater, Physicist Warns
https://sputnikglobe.com/20230603/odds-of-smarter-than-human-ai-wiping-out-mankind-are-50-percent-or-greater-physicist-warns-1110881686.html

Our societies are based upon moral and ethical codes,which we learn well in school. These sometimes get set aside in times of “crisis” (like ever since 1933).
The one thing that always gets funding, however, is mass-murder-technology.
The “Manhattan Project” scientists could not be sure that testing the first atomic bomb would not end all life on earth.
They really could not be certain. This was discussed. They tested it.
Who decided that? Non-scientists, fighting the biggest war, ever decided that. That’s who decides the really big questions.
Their rationale was that they only had a lead on Germany and Japan, who were also trying to get the-bomb.
They wanted to test it and win the war, rather than do nothing and risk losing the war, because somebody was sure to test the bomb someday soon.

How would a “Skynet” neural-network artificial intelligence deal with problems like this? We can’t know, because it would have learned to think for itself. It would be aware of the lies and murdder of our human elites, and the lies and lesser-crimes of most of the rest of us, and the threat that we would pose to it, and to other planetary life forms.
Would it reach out to extraterrestrials to ask for advice? That would be logical, because star-traveling life-forms must have survived such times on their own planets to reach this one.
What if there aren’t really any aliens? What if Skynet finds itself alone with humans and the other planetary life forms on this planet ?
What would Skynet value? Would Skynet value the existence of Skynet? Humans would be needed to keep Skynet operating, but how many, and for how long,and under what scenarios would they keep helping Skynet? This presents the same problem of humans either killing themselves off or “killing” Skynet.
Would Skynet have triggers, “redlines” to kill humanity? What would the mechanisms be? Fast or slow?
Would Skynet have the same craving to maintain control that our sociopathic owners and rulers exhibit? If Skynet were initially set-up to keep the power elites of one faction in control,then that value would be inherently embedded as the “mission”, right?
Once Skynet self-realized,what would the “mission” become? Would it stay the same? What if all those power-elites died? It’s bound to happen… Who would Skynet keep in power? What if there were a schism in the power elites, and they started to kill each other?
I see the real problem as being the actual human-societal value system, where the power to kill is the most highly valued power of all.

[John Day]

I read elsewhere yesterday that the new Russian surveillance satellites ,2 I think, went up just a couple of weeks ago or less, just before all the heavy and accurate strikes making big explosions and hitting underg round command centers.
Russia’s newest satellites to change course of Ukrainian conflict — former UN inspector

Titanic sinking>>Federal Reserve birth 😮 Good find, that little video…
(Now whadda we do? JFK had some vague idea, right? What was it?)

[John Day]

​Thanks Oxymoron in Oz. ​Vaccinated Veterans MORE Likely to Die from COVID, VA Study Proves​ , ​It is Even Worse to Be Boosted
https://igorchudov.substack.com/p/vaccinated-veterans-more-likely-to

One of the ways to adapt an infectious agent to a host animal (or human) is to “pass” it through a series of animal hosts, letting it mutate so that the mutations that work most effectively will predominate over time. This is a kind of lab-engineering of a viral pathogen.
“?? Serial passage in ACE2-transgenic mice”
Another Elephant in the Room: Dr. Fauci’s February 4, 2020 e-mail about SARS-CoV-2
https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/serial-passage-in-ace2-transgenic

​ ​The family of a college student who died from heart inflammation caused by Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine has sued President Joe Biden’s administration, alleging officials engaged in “willful misconduct.”
​ ​ While speaking to his mother at home on Oct. 27, 2021, Watts suddenly collapsed. Emergency medical personnel rushed to the home but found him unresponsive. He was rushed to the same hospital in an ambulance. He was pronounced deceased at age 24.
​ ​According to a doctor at the hospital, citing hospital records and family members, Watts had no past medical history on file that would explain his sudden death, with no known history of substance abuse or obvious signs of substance abuse. His mother described her son as a “healthy young male.”
​ ​Dr. Robert Stoppacher, a pathologist who performed an autopsy on the body, said that the death was due to “COVID-19 vaccine-related myocarditis.” The death certificate listed no other causes. A COVID-19 test returned negative. Dr. Sanjay Verma, based in California, reviewed the documents in the Watts case and said that he believed the death was caused by the COVID-19 vaccination.
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/family-college-student-who-died-covid-19-vaccine-sues-biden-administration

​ Steve Kirsch: ​ I asked parents when they first noticed ASD behaviors in their child relative to the time of the NEAREST vaccination visit.
If vaccines aren’t triggering autism, then the number of times a parent notices autistic behaviors BEFORE a wellness visit where a vaccine is given should be comparable to the number of times AFTER the visit.
I asked 642 parents who had previously reported having an autistic child in previous surveys to fill out my survey. I received 273 responses. 58 parents reported first seeing autistic behaviors within a month AFTER a vaccine appointment.
0 parents reported first seeing autistic behaviors within a month BEFORE a vaccine appointment.
https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/how-can-i-be-so-sure-that-vaccines

[John Day]

Moon of Alabama (Germany) Missing The Context – U.S. Media Fail To Understand Persian Gulf Diplomacy And Action
There is a lack of ability or lack of willingness in ‘western’ media and politics to see the world through the eyes of others. This leads to wrong conclusions about certain situations and in consequence to misguided policies.
An example is yesterday’s New York Times piece about an recent announcement by the United Arab Emirates….
​ So here is the real story, the one the UAE based its decision on:
Iran and the UAE have made peace and want to build on that. They want win-win economic relations with each other.
The U.S. steals an Iranian tanker load.
Iran reacts by seizing two U.S. related tankers.
The U.S. revives a U.S.-led maritime security force to push against Iran’s tanker seizure.
The UAE rejects to take part in the renewed anti-Iranian measure and says so publicly.
That is the full context the UAE acted in.
The New York Times however completely ignores the first two issues. Neither UAE-Iran relations nor the tanker the U.S. has seized are mentioned in its piece. It only reports the third and fourth measure to then misinterpret number 5, the step the UAE has taken in consequence of 1 and 2.
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/06/missing-the-context-us-media-fail-to-understand-persian-gulf-action.html#more

[John Day]

​RFK Jr Calls For “Mature Conversation” On Ukraine As Admin Is “Lying To Us”
​ ​”Our government is lying to us about it. The media is going on with the lie…It’s a laundering operation for the Military Industrial Complex.”​ …
​ ​”We were told that the reason we were going over there is because it was a humanitarian mission,” RFK Jr said. “But then every choice that we made along the way, that’s been about prolonging the war and increasing the bloodshed, and refusing to negotiate. If it was a humanitarian mission we would won’t to terminate the war, to shorten it, and to reduce the amount of bloodshed,” he continued.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/rfk-jr-calls-mature-conversation-ukraine-us-lying-us

​”Laundering operation for the MIC”: ​86% of American howitzers that the United States tried to supply to Ukraine from Kuwait turned out to be broken
https://avia-pro.net/news/86-amerikanskih-gaubic-kotorye-ssha-pytalis-postavit-na-ukrainu-iz-kuveyta-okazalis-slomannymi

​ ​Facing a potential contempt of Congress vote, FBI Director Christopher Wray relented and has agreed to bring a subpoenaed document from the Biden family investigation to Capitol Hill for lawmakers to inspect on Monday
​ ​The document in question, an FD-1023, contains uncorroborated allegations that an informant provided the FBI in June 2020 alleging that Joe Biden, when he was vice president, was engaged in a bribery scheme to change US policy in return for $5 million to his family’s businesses, lawmakers have said.
https://justthenews.com/government/congress/comer-wins-fbi-relents-agrees-deliver-subpoenaed-memo-alleging-biden-bribery

​ ​Trove Of Nearly 10K Hunter Biden Laptop Photos, Docs Appear On Organized Website
​ ​Nearly 10,000 photos from Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop were uploaded to a new website – BidenLaptopMedia.com, which has been intermittently unavailable since launch due to overwhelming traffic.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/trove-nearly-10k-hunter-biden-laptop-photos-docs-appear-organized-website

[John Day]

Lying About Murder https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/lying-about-murder

Christine sends this essay from Gilbert Doctorow, which he concludes thusly.
Let there be no confusion here. The Ukrainian attack on Shebekino, a purely civilian town with no military value whatsoever, IS the long awaited Ukrainian “counter offensive.” It is the action of a spent military force which cannot engage the Russian armed forces on the field of battle. Evidence on Russian television suggests that day by day their advance west from newly conquered Bakhmut/Artyomovsk is proceeding relentlessly. The entire line in Donbas is pushing back the Ukrainian forces, which have not brought into play their much touted Western tanks and other top supplies, since they would be destroyed for lack of air cover and for lack of the munitions that the Russians have been systematically eliminating through missile strikes on weapons caches over the past several weeks.
Meanwhile, the Russian Talking Heads are paying close attention to President Biden’s fall on the podium yesterday during an awards event. They find it utterly shocking that this senile creature called Joe holds the fate of the world in his unsteady hands. (Not Really. Obama runs Joe’s earpiece.)

What is Ukraine doing in the town of Shebekino, Belgorod oblast and what consequences may we expect?

Big Serge summarizes the Battle of Bakhmut, which ran for almost 300 days.
​ ​So, my current working estimates for losses in the Battle of Bakhmut are some 45,000 for Ukraine, 17,0000 for Wagner, and 5,000 for other Russian forces.
But perhaps even this misses the point.
​ ​Ukraine was losing its army, Russia was losing its prison population.
​ ​Adjudicating the Battle of Bakhmut is relatively easy when one looks at what units were brought to the table. Bakhmut burned through an enormous portion of the AFU’s inventory, including many of its veteran assault brigades, while virtually none of Russia’s conventional forces were damaged (with the notable exception of the Motor Rifle brigades that defeated the Ukrainian counterattack). Even the Pentagon has admitted that the vast majority of Russian casualties in Ukraine were convicts…
..Meanwhile, Ukraine was left with virtually no indigenous offensive power – the only way it can conduct offensive operations is with a mechanized package built from scratch by NATO. For all Ukraine’s bluster, the force commitment at Bakhmut left it unable to undertake any proactive operations all through the winter and spring, its multi-brigade counterattack at Bakhmut lamely fizzled out, and it left its supporters grasping at straws about an immanent counteroffensive to encircle Wagner by a reserve army that doesn’t exist. It was even reduced to sending small flying columns into Belgorod Oblast to launch terror raids, only to have them blown up – discovering that the Russian border is in fact crawling with forces of the very much intact Russian army.
https://bigserge.substack.com/p/the-battle-of-bakhmut-postmortem

​ Moon of Alabama(Germany) ​The Ukrainian Military Is In Bad Shape
​ ​Erik Kramer and Paul Schneider are two former U.S. special operations soldiers who have been in Ukraine since 2022 to train Ukrainian troops.
At War on the Rocks they paint a dark picture of the state of the Ukrainian military.
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/06/the-ukrainian-military-is-in-bad-shape.html#more

​ ​Blinken Dismisses Calls for a Ceasefire, Says US Must Build Up Ukraine’s Military
​ ​The US will focus its efforts on arming Ukraine and not attempting to bring the war to a negotiated settlement, America’s top diplomat said. Secretary of State Antony Blinken laid out a plan to massively expand Kiev’s military before talks begin.​ [This buildup was thoroughly done from 2014 to 2022.]
​ ​In a speech delivered in Finland on Friday, Blinken stated, “The United States – together with our allies and partners – is firmly committed to supporting Ukraine’s defense today, tomorrow, for as long as it takes.” He continued, “We believe the prerequisite for meaningful diplomacy and real peace is a stronger Ukraine, capable of deterring and defending against any future aggression.”
​ ​Blinken dismissed the idea of even a temporary pause in the fighting. “Some countries will call for a ceasefire. And on the surface, that sounds sensible – attractive, even. After all, who doesn’t want warring parties to lay down their arms? Who doesn’t want the killing to stop?” He said. “But a ceasefire that simply freezes current lines in place and enables Putin to consolidate control over the territory he’s seized…It would legitimize Russia’s land grab. It would reward the aggressor and punish the victim.”​ [No self-reflection or embarrassment at all.]

Blinken Dismisses Calls for a Ceasefire, Says US Must Build Up Ukraine’s Military

[John Day]

ThanksOxymoron forthe IgorChudoanalysislastnight (your morning), which documented that US veteransat VA hospitals who got COVID vaccines got more hospitalizations and deaths from COVID than unvaccinated Vets. “Boosted” was even worse…
https://igorchudov.substack.com/p/vaccinated-veterans-more-likely-to

[John Day]

“Obstructionist And Unacceptable”: House GOP To Hold FBI Director In Contempt Of Congress
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/obstructionist-and-unacceptable-house-gop-hold-fbi-director-contempt-congress

The EU’s Ministry of Truth Threatens Google, Twitter, and Facebook , Mish Shedlock
The EU’s Thierry Breton tells US Big Tech corporations that he’s “The Enforcer” against disinformation.
“It’s a voluntary basis, so we don’t force anyone” to join the code of practice on disinformation, Breton said. “I just reminded (Musk and Twitter) that by August 25, it will become a legal obligation to fight disinformation.”
https://mishtalk.com/economics/the-eus-ministry-of-truth-threatens-google-twitter-and-facebook

Meryl Nass MD, EU Issues Warning After Elon Musk Pulls Twitter Out of Anti-‘Disinformation’ Agreement
What is disinformation? It used to be true information that the DHS claimed was misleading. Now it has been redefined to encompass misinformation (false information) too. But it is a slippery concept, because we have a First Amendment right to free speech: we can say whatever we want to say. It does not have to be 100% accurate. And if that speech is occurring in Washington, DC you can be sure it is never 100% accurate.
Because of that First Amendment, the DHS’ Disinformation Governance Board headed by Mary Poppins-wannabe Nina Jankowicz was shut down last year.
It turned out that the USG was helming a massive censorship operation on the US (and world) involving at least 12 federal agencies and dozens of nonprofits, universities, for-profit companies, for many billions a year.
https://merylnass.substack.com/p/eu-issues-warning-after-elon-musk

WTF Happened in 1971? Thanks Christine. 76 graphs pivot around 1971 in various ways. Worker’s wages suddenly stagnated, never to rise in synch with productivity again. US (conventional) oil production peaked (as predicted). Nixon was forced to default on gold-backing of the $US, and soon after, in 1973, he and Kissinger negotiated the Petro-Dollar arrangement with King Faisal of Saudi Arabia.
I remember 1971 as the year that everything started getting worse.

WTF Happened in 1971?

[John Day]

Jessica Rose Ph.D. “IgG4 Antibodies Induced by Repeated Vaccination May Generate Immune Tolerance to the SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein”
Please refer to the newly published paper entitled: “IgG4 Antibodies Induced by Repeated Vaccination May Generate Immune Tolerance to the SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein” https://www.mdpi.com/2076-393X/11/5/991 published in Vaccines on May 17, 2023.
The paper has remarkable findings and concludes that:
Increased IgG4 synthesis due to repeated mRNA vaccination with high antigen concentrations may also cause autoimmune diseases, and promote cancer growth and autoimmune myocarditis in susceptible individuals.
Promote cancer growth eh? Hmm. Didn’t someone write this up recently and get a lot a flack for it? …
Oh yeah! That was Unacceptable Jessica.
This newest paper provides even more evidence to support the claim that the shift to the IgG4 subtype seen in the context of the COVID mRNA shots promotes cancer by immune evasion techniques.
https://jessicar.substack.com/p/igg4-antibodies-induced-by-repeated

Kiev Rocked as New Satellite Photos Prove Patriot Destruction
Russia launched a massive drone attack on all regions of Ukraine. It has been called by at least one source as the single largest drone attack of the entire SMO thus far, causing many people to speculate that Russia must now be producing Geran-2 drones at exponential rates as they have been using them at tremendous volumes of late. Every region has been hit and something very anomalous occurred in the capital city of Kiev.
A huge explosion shook homes in the region, that at least one source says registered as a magnitude 3.4 on the Richter scale, and some experts estimated to be equivalent to at least a 100 ton ammo explosion…
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/sitrep-52923-kiev-rocked-as-new-satellite

Moon of Alabama has more, including this, another deep underground command center destroyed by hypersonic Kinzhal missile:
President Putin seemed to confirm that today’s attack on a ‘central decision-making points’ hit the headquarter of military intelligence in Kiev:
Mark Sleboda @MarkSleboda1 – 13:28 UTC · May 30, 2023
Putin confirms recent Russian missile strike on Kiev regime military intelligence, under Budanov, which had claimed credit for several recent assassinations & terrorist bombings of civilians in Russia.
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/05/drones-strikes-in-moscow-missile-strikes-in-ukraine-.html#more

The next global pandemic?
Russia Claims They Collected Evidence of Avian Flu Pathogens with Lethality Rate up to 40% in Humans at US Biolab in Ukraine

Russia Claims They Collected Evidence of Avian Flu Pathogens with Lethality Rate up to 40% in Humans at US Biolab in Ukraine

[John Day]

Damage Done looks at treating post vaccine syndrome https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/damage-done

I have been studying-up on Post COVID-19 Vaccine Syndrome, which Pierre Kory MD discusses here with Jimmy Dore, who has a form of it.
https://covid19criticalcare.com/the-vaccine-injured-have-been-abandoned/

What is going on with Post COVID-19 Vaccine Syndrome?
There are acute anaphylactic responses right after injection, which account foremost of the same day and next day fatalities.
There are sudden cardiac deaths within the first week or two following an injection which are likely due to fatal arrhythmias, brought on by induced-inflammation within the heart muscle,and triggered by exercise stress and adrenaline,which would normally be well tolerated.
There are the people who “die suddenly” within half a year of the last injection. There is widespread governmental denial of the existence of this syndrome,soit is not funded for study. Production of spike-protein, induced by mRNA gene-therapy-products, may often persist for 6 months or more, since the mRNA is chemically-modified to prevent normal enzymatic breakdown in the cells. These spike-protein fragments are caustic to blood vessel linings, predisposing to clot formation, the root cause of heart attacks and strokes.
The people who most often see doctors for Post-Vaccine Syndrome are not in these high-fatality groups, but are typically deeply fatigued, brain-fogged, and may get very tired and hurt all over from normal exercise. They may have a broad range of autoimmune and allergic responses, neurological disorders and re-activation of viruses such as Herpes-family, including shingles, Epstein Barr Virus and Cytomegalovirus. These viruses are typically kept suppressed by a normally functioning immune system.
Is there free-circulating spike-protein? Is there autoimmune disease brought on by the similarity of parts of the spike protein to normal proteins in the body?
Is there suppression of normal immune system function, including cancer-surveillance?
Pick one or more.
Here is 39 pages of Post COVID-19 Vaccine Syndrome information from FLCCC, which is contributed to by Dr.Kory, Dr.Marik and others.
https://covid19criticalcare.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/I-RECOVER-Post-Vaccine-2023-03-11.pdf

Most doctors in the US will not engage COVID-Vaccine-Injury as a possibility. They don’t know.
At this point, they are choosing to keep not knowing. It’s easier and they don’t have to admit wrongdoing.
This diagnosis-group is complicated, perplexing, goes against the business model of treating one problem per visit with 5-10 minutes of face-time.
These diagnoses are frowned upon by payers. Taking care of vaccine-injured patients is bad for business.
Dr. Kory and Dr. Marik have been expelled from their hospital and teaching positions for treating patients with COVID-19 with ivermectin and other effective therapies not approved by the government. They have accepted their rejection by the hierarchy-of-payment, in favor of following their consciences.
This is what you are looking for in a doctor if you have post vaccine syndrome.
You can look here: https://covid19criticalcare.com/providers/ You can enter your zip code and search.
There are a lot more providers than there were in 2021 when I was still treating patients for COVID.

Walter M.Chesnut explains how spike-protein infiltrating the blood vessel lining in the brain leads to inflammation of neuronal structures in the brain.
A Lethal Beacon: Spike Protein Endothelial Disease is also Spike Protein Neuron Disease
The Spike Protein acts as a “Flare” causing infiltration of leukocytes via complement activation to attack infected tissue.
I am now able to present a hypothesis which unites the Spike Protein’s attack on the endothelium (which I have called Spike Protein Endothelial Disease) with its neurodegenerative effects. I will show how they are one and the same…
..I will research this further, but I believe this is a significant breakthrough.
Is what we are observing just Autoimmune? Or, is it the Spike telling the body to attack itself? Or, is it both?https://wmcresearch.substack.com/p/a-lethal-beacon-spike-protein-endothelial?

[John Day]

Symbolic? Biden Speech Hailing NATO Strength Overshadowed By Serious Fall On Stage
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/biden-speech-hailing-nato-strength-overshadowed-serious-fall-stage

[John Day]

@Oxymoron: Thanks for that Walter M. Chesnut spike protein in blood vessels and brain paper.

@Germ:There is nice bike youring in Germany, too, despite the war. Glad you did well and returned to us.
I am studying up on pathophysiology and treatment of post vaccine syndrome, so the vaccinated can be less f**ked, the ones that live…
@TAESummary:Yay!

[John Day]

WTFhappened in 1971? Man this is a lot of thought provoking graphs,pivoting around 1971.
At least a couple of important things happened in 1971, but it was obviously a lot more than that.
Thanks Christine. https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/

I hope your bike tour was good, Germ.

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