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@RIM: That teeny tiny thing going up a little crack?
That’s cheating.
I’d need stronger reading glasses and radial keratotomy, both.🙁
@Phoenixvoice: I’m glad your parents accept you as a couple.
You did call him your “husband” in public. You know where that leads in the “law”.
Wishing you well through all of this…That’s not a snake, it’s a tree. Bark, Bark!
Something green in bottom right corner might be a Mamba. Don’t reach for it.Thanks WES; maple slurple is a lovely thing. Jenny makes the best pecan pies with it after we shell pecans.
Ukrainian forces moving government files out of Bakhmut in “tactical retreat”.
For Germ ;-(
Boy who survived 18 days in flooded Thai cave five years ago and died in Britain aged 17 after winning football academy scholarship had been found unconscious on the floor of his UK dormitory
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11754703/Boy-rescued-Thai-cave-died-Britain-five-years-later-unconscious-dormitory.html@Phoenixvoice: You got Married! 🙂
@DBS: Knives don’t kill people; people kill knives.
@Dr D Rich: You win.
Tessa Lena, “I’m Not Going to Stop”: A Conversation with Attorney Jeff Childers (Coffee & Covid)
Prior to 2020, Jeff focused on his very successful practice as a business lawyer in Florida. When Alachua County, the county in Florida where he lives, instituted a mask mandate, Jeff felt a spiritual pull to stand up to tyranny—and so he filed his first case against a government entity.
Being thrust into constitutional law, in June 2021, he won the first case in the U.S. against mask mandates, Green v. Alachua County, First District Court of Appeal.
https://tessa.substack.com/p/im-not-going-to-stop-jeff-childersMeryl Nass MD: (There will be a 15 minute segment on how to start a successful and productive vegetable garden That’s my “fighting back”.
A teaser notice: I am producing a Symposium on the Attack on Food and Agriculture–and how to fight back, on Saturday, March 4
https://merylnass.substack.com/p/a-teaser-notice-i-am-producing-aRevolting Vegetarian (pictured with weaponized daikon in new kitchen)
6 months ago, this would have been reasonable. Now it is magical thinking.
The Washington Post reported on Monday that Biden administration officials say they want to help Ukraine retake as much territory as it can from Russia over the next few months before they sit down at the negotiation table with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The report, which cited unnamed Biden administration officials, said that some “optimists” think Ukraine can stop Russian advances in the east, regain territory in the south, and negotiate a deal by the end of the year. But there are “skeptics” who recognize that Russia has been reinforcing its positions with hundreds of thousands of troops.
Russia has been making more gains around the eastern Donetsk city of Bakhmut, where Ukrainian forces have been taking heavy casualties. NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said Russia has started its long-awaited offensive, but it’s not clear if Russia has launched a major push or the momentum is just on its side in Bakhmut.US Wants to Help Ukraine Retake More Territory Before Negotiating With Putin
Christine sent this article anticipating the Russian offensive, and laying out options for routes of attack, and what defenses would stand in the way. The ending scenarios of import are that Russia finishes taking Donbass and the territories now politically reintegrated to Russia, that Russia takes the entire Black Sea coastline, including Odessa, which would include the predominantly ethnic Russian areas, and that Russia takes that and everything east of the Dnieper river.
It is worth pointing out that Russia can stage 3 fronts of attack simultaneously and still hold large, mobile reserve forces. Russia has taken steps to establish complete dominance of the air, with reactivation of mothballed Mig-29s (like F-16s). Russia would then be able to press forward rapidly wherever resistance was weakest. Ukrainian forces are reportedly exhausted, demoralized and mostly untrained at this point.
NATO does not want to declare war on Russia, and can’t sustain such a war with conventional land forces.
Russia will fulfil her stated goal of liberating all 4 provinces which have been politically added to the Russian Federation, and will likely do that first. That is not negotiable to Russia at this point.
Secret negotiations are rumored to be ongoing. Zelensky has been making a tour of European capitals, which would facilitate that, though the Ukrainian forces are a NATO proxy army. It may be that such negotiations are to stall for time, waiting for the ground to turn to mud, but time is otherwise on Russia’s side.
It seems to me that Russia is leaving open the option to stop at her declared national boundaries, but will require a demilitarization and “neutrality of Ukraine, with strict policing. Transnistria, along Moldova’s Ukrainian border, will need to be protected to Russian satisfaction. Putin’s February 24 speech approaches.
It’s clearer than ever that the West is hitting the panic button. With increased solemnity, the Western ‘mainstream’ titans are souring in their reportage of the war like wilting dandelions—headlines not only reeling back the earlier pomp and machismo of a certified victory, but now striking notes of urgency and doubt into their clouding forecasts for the war’s future.
Almost in unison, they now agree that “the next 3 months” will be the “critical turning point of the war”, one way or another. Some Western factions are beginning to float out more than just ‘feelers’ to their audience, to acclimatize them to Ukraine’s ensuing defeat.
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/tempered-outcomes-and-shaken-confidence Who decides and orders something like a nuclear-provocation, and who dies from it?
Russia says Kiev is readying ‘great event’ to accuse Russia of violating nuclear safety
The purpose of the provocation is mainly to create a negative background by forcing countries that didn’t support sanctions against the Russian Federation to vote for the Kiev “peace formula” at the upcoming 11th special session of the UN General Assembly
https://tass.com/world/1576307 Pepe Escobar looks further into Seymore Hersh’ investigative report on the long-preplanned Nordstream Pipeline bombing sabotage (not “terrorist” attacks).
The report reveals a limited institutional perspective. It has been pointed out that involvement must have been much wider within NATO than what is reported.
Hersh refers to a “secure room on the top floor of the Old Executive Office Building …that was also the home of the President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board”.
Christine sent this article about Erdogan’s political fortunes, with fall elections looming, and 40,000 now estimated to have died. Eleni in Athens says that her connections in the Greek military suspect that the earthquake may have been induced to punish Turkey for doing business with Russia. Who can know? Erdogan already knows who his enemies are since the 2016 assassination attempt. What can he do to bolster his friendships this spring?
The full impact of the recent earthquake that hit both Turkiye and Syria has yet to be fully assessed, but the Turkish Republic has already sustained significant damage that could have long-lasting political effects.
https://thecradle.co/article-view/21378/amid-turkiyes-rubble-lies-erdogans-political-fateCharles Hugh Smith envisions “A World Without Finance”
Given its parasitic, predatory nature, it’s not surprising that finance is the primary engine of extreme wealth-income inequality. The fortunes of the few assembled over the past two decades largely trace back to the expansion of debt and leverage (i.e. financialization) which emphasizes marketing as consumption expands not from earnings but from the expansion of debt and leverage.
The problem is parasitic, predatory finance is inherently unstable, as it destabilizes the real economy by distorting every level of regulation and governance and deranges incentives to reward the least civic-minded, the least ethical and the sleaziest self-absorbed gamblers, those who demand a bailout when their private gains turn into private losses.
We’re too big to fail, they whine, and the naive public bought that fraud in 2008-09.
I predict a wholesale eradication of finance once the public digs its way out of the ashes of an economy burnt to the ground by financialization. Finance and central banking will be truncated, limited to the core functions of greasing commerce and the construction of productive assets. All the weaponry of parasitic swindles, all the skims and scams of derivatives, swaps, corporate buybacks, etc. will no longer be allowed. Speculative gains will be so heavily taxed that those seeking wealth will be driven to actually generate real-world goods and services rather than financial frauds.
http://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2023/02/a-world-without-finance.htmlDiana Johnstone writes about the peace rally in Washington DC this Sunday at the Lincoln Memorial. There is squabbling, rather than unity. Whose interests are served by squabbling in those who want peace, rather than war? Thanks Eleni.
If the Feb. 19 rally to end the war in Ukraine fails it will not be a success for other antiwar organizations that disagree with the Libertarian Party. It will only show that internal divisions can unravel every hope. There is video of sparks and flames coming from the wheels and undercarriage of one of the rail cars onf the train in Ohio last week, 20 miles before it derailed.
New toxins are identified. Gevernment won’t talk to citizens in East Palestine or the national news.
“Get The Hell Out Of There” – Ohio’s Apocalyptic Chemical Disaster Rages On
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/ohios-apocalyptic-chemical-disaster-rages When PVC (poly-vinyl-chloride) burns, Dioxin is a combustion-product. Dioxin is also a combustion product of vinyl-chloride.
Palestine, Ohio train wreck: It’s the dioxin
It’s not just what was in the tanker cars. It’s what happens when they burn and combine. This may be the largest dioxin plume in world history.
https://planetwavesfm.substack.com/p/palestine-ohio-train-wreck-its-the“Necessities Of Life” is up https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/necessities-of-life
Surplus Energy Economics, Dr. Tim Morgan’s blog, has part 3 in a series explaining “Prosperity” as the economic output remaining after all of the essential needs of sustaining the economy have been met, which is a lot like my “disposable” income after bills, taxes, rent and food. We know that when food, rent and gas prices go up, we are poorer, less prosperous. There are multiple drivers of this. Fuel cost, the “Energy Cost of Energy” is a big one. When gasoline is $6/gallon , everybody feels poorer. The rest of the economy declines, because people have to buy gasoline first. This is pervasive in the economy, but not as apparent. It is why the Biden Administration can sell oil from the strategic petroleum reserve to goose the economy, and its political fortunes, but won’t pay to refill it, which would raise the price of oil/energy and depress the economy.
“Economics” looks at financial flows, which are assumed to reflect real, physical economy, but fail to actually do that, because they assume that any physical input, like oil, can be substituted-for by some other input, completely dependent upon the monetary price. This has worked in an era where it was possible to drill more oil wells and mine more coal, at a low price, but it does not work when the price of oil can double or triple in a few months, which keeps the economy from growing. These limits of oil supply now appear to be fixed. Saudi Arabia can’t just pump more.
Economies can only afford to pay so much for energy before they begin contracting as the price exceeds that. The currently prominent economic theory assumes permanent growth, because anything that runs low can be replaced for a price, but we find that the price of oil going above $80/bbl seems to suppress the economy, because what’s left as “prosperity” is needed to fund the non-essential parts of economy, like restaurants, pedicures and vacations.
Here is a graph of Energy, Economic Output, Prosperity and Prosperity per capita for the world:
You see how different this is from the purely financial figures which are always reported, but more like what we experience in our lives. Most of us in the advanced economies were more prosperous 20 years ago. There have been lots of events which were blamed, but the trend has been the trend in advanced countries, which support complexities of bureaucracy in government, business, regulation, finance, social and environmental services. China took on a lot of western manufacturing because it could burn dirty coal, pay lower wages, pollute more, and supported lower regulatory, social service and environmental-protection costs.
Declining prosperity per capita in advanced economies has been “hidden” to some degree by focusing on financial indicators like stock-market prices, which have continued to rise with financial support from cheap credit, but which are in contrast to the actual decline in value of companies as profits decline from increased costs of raw materials and labor, because laborers have to be paid more to buy their own necessities of life, also.
Increased borrowing with lower interest rates only works until interest rates become negative in real terms, then sudden loss of monetary purchasing power occurs, and this inflation destroys trust in the economy. Trust is as essential as energy to an economy. “Inflation Expectations” are the inverse of trust, and are now being addressed, which is painful. They were addressed from the early 1980s on by reducing the cost of labor, first by reducing the strength of collective bargaining in advanced economies, then by moving manufacturing to developing economies, with very low wages and benefits for workers.
We can see that prosperity per capita in western countries began to fall about 20 years ago, and prosperity per capita in China is now also in decline, as is global prosperity per capita. Notably, but not graphed, Russian prosperity per capita is still rising, and may rise for even a few more years.
The upshot of this is that everybody has to pay more of what they make for food, rent and fuel, and has less to spend on everything else. Many people are losing their homes in the US, because they can’t sustain rent costs. Landlords have high taxes, compliance and maintenance costs, which is the cost of fuel and the cost of complexity. A lot of complexity cost is in the profit-taking structure of financial capitalism, which is also imposed on countries like Cuba and Venezuela, which do not subscribe to financial capitalism, through economic and military sanctions. Those countries are now known for having been forced to focus on food, housing, medicine and the minimal essentials of life for a long time. All accounts are that it causes constant anxiety, hardship and suffering. Blame is variously placed.
A lot of the complexity cost in advanced societies is bureaucracy in general, which tends to grow, whether governmental or private. There are always good reasons, and everybody learns to protect their job in their bureaucracy, but that becomes the main point after awhile. Every ne protocol or procedure adds complexity expense. Every expansion adds not just size, but also complexity, which reduces the work-output of the bureaucracy per $US or other input.
Reducing bureaucracy is very hard to do. It usually happens through collapse of systems, like the collapse of the USSR. The Russian population declined by 10% in 10 years, as retirees had no income; starved and froze to death. Everybody suffered as the economic life-support system failed. I may be getting into Dr. Morgan’s next essay here, but we all need to consider what form the collapse of bureaucratic institutions in federal, state and local government, and many businesses will affect us. Many of us will lose our jobs, but will still be expected to pay rent and utilities and to buy food and fuel to live. What then?
#248: The Surplus Energy Economy, part 3“How can you be in two places at once, when you’re not anywhere at all?” Firesign Theater
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_Can_You_Be_in_Two_Places_at_Once_When_You%27re_Not_Anywhere_at_All#:~:text=Edit-,How%20Can%20You%20Be%20in%20Two%20Places%20at%20Once%20When,July%201969%20by%20Columbia%20Records.NATO Eyes Fighting Two Wars Life Imitates Firesign Theater (again)
@WES: Yes, I really designed this house around the 2-cook kitchen.
I worked a lot in commercial kitchens in college, at the co-ops where I lived, serving 50-100 students meals, and mainly at the hospital where I later did my internship and fellowship.
Jenny, my wife, learned cooking in her Mom’s small kitchen. Our styles are very different. Sometimes she and “the girls” make tamales for a day or two. We have that capacity, and for canning, and for parties, and it’s just a nice, comfortable, open space for 2 people working with knives.
The other sink and counter is just out of the right of the picture. Either cooking/prepping space has commanding views within the house and out of the large windows above the sinks.
@Red: “Viewing ” authorities as legitimate naturally arises from their legitimacy in seeking out the best compromise solutions within a society. The detached voice of research assumes “objectivity”, but it is a false “objectivity”, since somebody is a customer for the work and pays for it.
PR only goes so far. You can’t fake-sincerity adequately to fool everybody, and even a lot of people will catch on in time if you keep working against their interests and giving excuses.
(One of the nice things abut Firesign Theater was that they were so good at portraying the ubiquity of straight-faced fiction/falsehood in their skits of imaginary-society, somehow enough like our own to recognize the lies, while those within the skits did not.) The object was apparently not hot, as the heat seeking missile failed to seek it. What was the second missile, the one that worked? Same or different?
US military’s first shot at unknown octagonal object over Lake Huron missed, officials say
https://www.foxnews.com/us/us-military-first-shot-unknown-octagonal-object-lake-huron-missed Video from the fighter shows the approach to the object, but the Pentagram is bound to have higher detail than this. Where’s the explosion, guys? Debris?
https://helenastales.weebly.com/blogue/pentagon-press-conference-on-shot-down-object-object-was-octagon-shaped Illuminati plan for Extraterrestrial deception, Dr Wernher von Braun (short 8 min. video is clear and concise)
According to Dr. Rosin, von Braun then gave her one supreme assignment: He said a secretive trans-national power, already in existence, would move to permanently take control of this planet thru a hoaxed alien invasion from outer space.
https://helenastales.weebly.com/blogue/illuminati-plan-for-extraterrestrial-deception-dr-wernher-von-braun Jessica Rose, Ph.D.
While everyone was distracted, they added the COVID injections to the childhood vaccine schedule
No more liability…
Well folks, ‘they’ voted to put these COVID-19 injections into your babies – including the modified mRNA versions – and what that means is that they are free from liability, exclusive of EUA status, forever. What that means is if your baby gets injured by these as yet experimental modified mRNA COVID shots – that your baby doesn’t need: AT ALL – then you are on your own with regard to the product manufacturers being responsible, on any level.
https://jessicar.substack.com/p/while-everyone-was-distracted-they Meryl Nass MD has this for your action, please:
CHD and I need all medical professionals and life scientists to sign this letter to legislators, if you agree
https://merylnass.substack.com/p/chd-and-i-need-all-medical-professionals Tessa Fights Robots: One Step Closer to Capped Programmable Money Digital pound cap and other news (including Tessa’s interview with me)
“Britons face 20,000 digital pound cap under Bank of England plan.” At first, this will be sold to the people as “a little extra digital cash” in your “free digital wallet.” And then one day, the regular account will die suddenly and unexpectedly—and the capped and programmable digital wallet will stay. The way I see it, based on the logic of how history usually works in relation to psychology, unless there is massive spiritual upheaval, this is almost guaranteed.
https://tessa.substack.com/p/the-cap Everything you need to know about CBDCs, Joe Smalley (Note that if you had any cryptocurrency financial dealings last year you have a LOT of documentation to file on your income tax return, or you will be in violation of Federal Law, you uppity-serf!)
In 2023, 11 countries have fully launched a digital currency while more than 20 more will move toward starting one.
114 countries, which represent more than 95% of global GDP, are looking into CBDC — up from just 35 countries in 2020.
Finance guru Catherine Austin Fitts details 10 practical steps individuals can take to stop implementation of CBDCs.
Tips include using cash as much as possible and minimizing your use of digital systems, including avoiding biometric technology and QR codes.
Doing business with local people and entities you know and trust, and ditching large, multinational banks in favor of trustworthy local banks or credit unions will also help.
Central bank digital currencies, or CBDCs, are government-backed digital currencies issued by a central bank. They’re being rapidly rolled out to bring about a new economic transaction system that could lead to a new form of modern-day slavery.
https://planetdecentral.substack.com/p/everything-you-need-to-know-aboutOh no, I’ve done something wrong trying to post comments again…
Steve Kirsch: New paper: An estimated 13 million people worldwide killed by the COVID vaccines
That’s twice as many as were killed by the virus. In the US, the estimates are 670K Americans killed. Perhaps it’s time to declare that the vaccines are a worldwide emergency?
The paper suggests you can take the number of vaccine doses delivered, divide by 1,000 to get an estimate of the number of people killed by the COVID vaccine.
https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/new-paper-an-estimated-13-million Sasha Latypova’s blog: Judicial Watch: Records Show U.S. and UK ‘Confidentiality Agreement’ Tied to Vaccine Adverse Events
My summarizing comment: December 2020 Secrecy-Pact between US and UK health authorities, specifically to hide adverse events and deaths from the “vaccines” they were so actively promoting and about to massively release with the goal of total-population-inoculation … Got It!
https://sashalatypova.substack.com/p/judicial-watch-records-show-us-andThe CDC Lied: The mRNA Wasn’t Meant to “Stay in the Arm”
But look at the below picture from a recent presentation on mRNA vaccination at the European Parliament. The picture was posted on Twitter by Virginie Joron, a French member of the parliament. The speaker is no less an authority than Özlem Türeci, the Chief Medical Officer of BioNTech: the German biotech company that developed what has come to be known to most of the world as the “Pfizer” Covid-19 vaccine.
Far from “staying in the arm” and entering the muscle cells at the injection site, the injection site is only the point of departure for a journey that is supposed to take the mRNA rather to the lymph nodes. The subtitle of the slide is “Bringing mRNA to the right cells at the right places.” The deltoid is not the right place; the lymph nodes are.
Once in the lymph nodes, a specific sort of cell, the dendritic cells, is supposed to manufacture the spike protein: here colorfully described as the “wanted poster” that will help the immune system to identify the SARS-CoV-2 virus in case of subsequent exposure.“Combatants”, right? Not combatants?
US military personnel at a European base provide GPS-targeting for Ukrainian rocket systems
A report from the Washington Post states that “Ukrainian officials say that they almost never launch HIMARS rounds without detailed coordinates provided by U.S. military personnel situated elsewhere in Europe.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/us-military-personnel-at-a-european-base-provide-gps-targeting-for-ukrainian-rocket-systemsFormer UK Ambassador, Craig Murray: Sy Hersh and The Way We Live Now
It is a clear indicator of the disappearance of freedom from our so-called western democracies, that Sy Hersh, arguably the greatest living journalist, cannot get this monumental revelation on the front of the Washington Post or New York Times, but has to self-publish on the net.
Hersh tells the story of the US destruction of the Nordstream pipelines in forensic detail, giving dates, times, method and military units involved. He also outlines the importance of the Norwegian armed forces working alongside the US Navy in the operation.
One point Sy does not much stress, but it is worth saying more about, is that Norway and the USA are of course the two countries who have benefitted financially, to an enormous degree, from blowing up the pipeline.
[Norway became the top supplier of natural gas to Germany in 2022, displacing Russia.]
Both not only have gained huge export surpluses from the jump in gas prices, but Norway has directly replaced Russian gas to the tune of some $40 billion per year. From 2023 the United States will appear in that list in second place behind Norway, following the opening in the last two months of two new Liquefied Natural Gas terminals in Germany, built to replace Russian gas with US and Qatari supplies.
So Russia lost out massively financially from the destruction of Nordstream and who benefited? The USA and Norway, the two countries who blew up the pipeline.
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2023/02/sy-hersh-and-the-way-we-live-now/From October 2022, a detailed military and engineering analysis of precisely what was required to blow the holes in the Nordstream pipelines.
This leads directly to analysis of what actors would have the capability to perform this task technically and operationally. Not very many… Thanks Eleni.
Sabotage of the Nord Stream Pipelines: For Once, the Question ‘Cui Bono?’ Is Not Sufficient
To counter loose speculation on the sabotage of the Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines, Lt. Col. (ret.) Ralph Bosshard of the Swiss Army has written for EIR an authoritative analysis of the requirements for such a sabotage. An expert on countering cyber war, Colonel Bosshard during 2014-2017 served in the peacekeeping mission of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in Ukraine. In 2014, as Senior Planning Officer in the Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine, he was in Kiev, Mariupol, and Dnipropetrovsk. Until 2017 he served as Special Military Adviser to the Permanent Representative of Switzerland to the OSCE, and to the Swiss Ambassador to Kiev. From 2017 to 2020, Colonel Bosshard was Operations Officer in the OSCE High-Level Planning Group, planning for a military peacekeeping operation in the South Caucasus. Subheads are the author’s...
..Who finds it easier to carry out such an act of sabotage? If it was the Russian Navy that carried out an extensive sabotage operation in the middle of a sea area surrounded by NATO countries or candidate countries, 300 km from the nearest Russian naval base, then the Russians would have made NATO look ridiculous. That would have been an impressive demonstration of Russian seabed warfare capabilities. The Russians could have accomplished the mere destruction of Nord Stream 1 and 2—without any demonstration effect—much more easily on their doorstep in the Gulf of Finland.
In contrast, it were much easier for NATO: Only in June, the U.S. 6th Fleet, together with its NATO partners, carried out exercises just off Bornholm in which unmanned underwater vehicles were also tested.[fn_14] The “BALTOPS 22” exercise could have been used as a test run or as a camouflage backdrop for installing explosive devices on the natural gas pipelines. Of course, there is currently no evidence of authorship by either side, and a truly independent investigation is unlikely to ever take place. But the unbiased observer has a question: Is a thief shouting “Stop, thief”?
https://larouchepub.com/other/2022/4939-sabotage_of_the_nord_stream_ga.htmlIs this black humor? Obtuse marketing? Nuclear-warhead-bearing ICBMs are as “safe and effective” as Pfizer & Moderna COVID-shots?
Minuteman III test launch showcases readiness of U.S. nuclear force’s safe, effective deterrent
https://www.afgsc.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/3289352/minuteman-iii-test-launch-showcases-readiness-of-us-nuclear-forces-safe-effecti/ War News 24/7 (Greek) says Putin will give 72 hours warning before announcing nuclear strikes if secret peace talks fail (but where?) Thanks Christine
https://warnews247.gr/apantisi-rosias-stis-apokalypseis-s-chers-an-oi-diapragmatefseis-apotychoun-o-v-poutin-tha-dosei-prothesmia-72-ores-prin-tin-chrisi-pyrinikon-oplon/ East Palestine, Ohio trail derailment with extremely toxic tanks full of vinyl-chloride (chemical to manufacture plastics), which boils at 6 degrees F, so becomes a gas when released, is like a nuclear warhead going off, isn’t it? See this story on the TV yet? (Look up in the sky, Aliens!)
“10% of the U.S. population, over 30 MILLION PEOPLE, live in the Ohio River Basin!” he tweeted. “The Ohio River itself provides drinking water to over 5 MILLION PEOPLE!”REPORT: 30 Million People May be in Danger by East Palestine Disaster
Russia is pulling it’s Mig-29 “Fulcrums (1978-ish design) out of mothballs, to dominate Ukrainian skies.
The Mig-29 is highly maneuverable at low speed, and otherwise similar to an F-16.
F-16 Vs MiG-29: when the mighty Viper dogfighted with the Fulcrum for the first time
“World Safe For Slavery” is up. Happy V. Day https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/world-safe-for-slavery
Jenny has a daikon bouquet in the new kitchen.@Phoenixvoice: I am sorry for the nice elderly man who lost his girlfriend.
So much cancer, so much sadness and loss.@Aspnaz: “Wonder” about Soros? “Nice Mr. Soros”?
Russia is bringing the Mig-29s out of mothballs to really command Ukrainian airspace. Recruiting more pilots… https://warnews247.gr/pagose-to-kievo-apo-tis-eikones-comao-isopedosis-tis-oukranias-me-sfragida-sourovikin-epanefere-ta-mig-29-stin-energo-ypiresia-etoimi-gia-eisvoli-i-omada-d-tis-lefkorosias/
Germ posted this. Funny thing about Israel signing up to get the death shot before anybody else, innit?
@AFKTT: No, last time it was water, so this time civilization ends in FIRE.
I’ve been told that my whole life…@Redneck:
Ilargi does not censor, but TAE gets interfered with, and some links won’t upload, and sometimes the comments section is just broken.
You’re a big boy, don’t get lured into that “victim” thing, bro’.
🙂A correspondent who reads the comments here, and is very intelligent, but chooses not to comment here, sent me this investigative piece about The City of London by Larry Romanoff, an excellent investigative reporter who did good work on the COVID crimes in 2020 and 2021. If you look at the war in Ukraine, and who Russia is actually fighting an existential battle with, it is really simpler, much simpler, cast in this light.
@MPSK: Thanks for the Greek war News story about Putin purportedly giving 72 hours notice before nuking targeted sites (but WHERE?) if secret negotiations fail.
WHY IS VENEZUELA’S GOLD STILL FROZEN IN THE BANK OF ENGLAND? (Working hard to come up with a new fake excuse.)
Four years ago, the UK government recognised Juan Guaidó as Venezuela’s president. He’s now gone, but the Bank of England is still holding some of the country’s key assets.Why is Venezuela’s gold still frozen in the Bank of England?
Fierce Backlash As Project Veritas Sidelines James O’Keefe After Pfizer Bombshells The Pfizer Empire Strikes Back (tactical strike, hope he’s guarded)
The board of directors of Project Veritas on Wednesday placed its founder and chairman, James O’Keefe, on paid leave as it reportedly moves to oust him from his leadership position...
..Widespread reports of a hostile takeover point to a more insidious long game at play, with the move coming after two bombshell undercover video reports from Project Veritas that showed a Pfizer research scientist discussing the company’s gain-of-function work to maximize vaccine profits.
Project Veritas’s board is slated to meet Friday, when O’Keefe’s potential ouster will be discussed, one source told the Intelligencer.
The backlash from all fronts was fierce and furious when news broke about the brewing coup.
“Absolute madness if he is being forced out just weeks after Project Veritas celebrates one of their greatest-ever journalistic investigations with which O’Keefe was intimately involved,” wrote Human Events editor Ben Kew.
“There is no Project Veritas without James O’Keefe,” Candace Owens tweeted. “I say this as a donor to the organization, but more importantly as a colleague who watched him pour everything he had into PV over the years. The money and supporters will follow James.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/fierce-backlash-project-veritas-sidelines-james-okeefe-after-pfizer-bombshellsVideo: Bill Gates Says It’s OK For Him To Use Private Jets Because He’s “The Solution” To Climate Change (Honestly, I did not watch the video.)
Gates claimed that because he continues to “spend billions of dollars” on climate change activism, his carbon footprint isn’t an issue.
“Should I stay at home and not come to Kenya and learn about farming and malaria?” Gates said in the interview with Amol Rajan.
“I’m comfortable with the idea that not only am I not part of the problem by paying for the offsets, but also through the billions that my Breakthrough Energy Group is spending, that I’m part of the solution,” Gates added. (And his very money is clean, immaculate, because it comes from… INVESTMENTS.)Hokay, spacing substack links between dot and com
Let’s Talk about Nuclear War , Ruben Bauer Naveira
The United States and Russia – the two greatest nuclear powers on the planet – have embarked on a wide-ranging “indirect war”. All that now remains is for them to engage in direct warfare, which will end up happening sooner or later. If later, it will be exactly because both powers are aware that any direct war between them will inevitably escalate into nuclear war, with a good chance of devastating them both.
How we reached this point will not be examined in depth here. Very briefly, both parties regard this as a struggle for existence – Russia, in order to continue to exist as a nation (in Putin’s words, “there is no compromise, a country is either sovereign or a colony”), and the United States, to continue to exist as the nation with hegemony over the rest (the US economy has become so reliant on that hegemony that its end would entail the country’s collapse).
Accordingly, both are willing to take the conflict to its ultimate consequences in order to prevail, and thus nuclear war becomes more inevitable with every passing day.
Among those responsible for a nuclear war that will be the downfall of all Humankind, there can be no “good guy”. However, when one side is fighting to subsist with autonomy, while the other is fighting in order to dominate the rest, it is not difficult to discern which is most the “bad guy”. I have been thinking a lot about nuclear war recently, as you may have been, also. It has been sitting there on the shelf my whole life, but we have not been in the habit of worrying about it for the past 30 years or so. We were in the habit of worrying about it before that time.
The spectre of nuclear war was part of the control-narrative that directed our national policy in the cold war years in the US. My family and other families, all had plans of where to go for the air-raid warnings and where to meet after the bombs. “Duck and Cover” in the classroom. “Get under your desk if you can.”
“This is a test of the Emergency Broadcasting System. This is only a test.”
Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, Nixon, Carter, Reagan and even G.H.W. Bush had been in war. Many civilian functionaries in government had been in war. Now it is rare at all levels outside the military. This is now merely conceptual in the minds of almost all decision makers in the US, and the west in general. This is game-theory, not reality.
It’s fair to assume that most modern decision makers are self centered, not so compassionate or principled. Self-centered types mostly care about what they feel and what they want, and that is the “reality” they engage in their lives. An abstract game, where the player has little perceived risk, due to fallout shelters being present in Washington DC, and those “DUMBs” (deep underground military bases) will predispose the player to prioritize “winning” over risk-reduction strategies.
I think we all see that nuclear war is treated much more casually in Washington than it was when I was a boy growing up on military bases.I don’t think that decision makers are “crazy”. I think they are “rational-actors”, as that theory is named, but I see perverse incentives laid out for them by the current bureaucratic system, which lead to life-forms like me being placed at very high risk, as they play-to-win which is the feeling they like.
I pray for guidance often. I do not fear my own death, but I do not want to suffer, do not want all my family to suffer. I can do some limited things. I should repair that cracked water-tank I was given, and paint it and set it up. I should have some propane and a propane-stove for back-up if utilities go down. I should get more rice, beans, salt, oil, and canned goods in the pantries. These are all temporizing measures in a collapse, not the makings of a new life.
When I was a kid we all knew that we would all work together when the time came, all work as teams to survive. I don’t know that now.
Do you know anything like that now?Gilbert Doctorow, fluent in Russian, is back in Europe after recent travels. Thanks Christine.
The coming existential threat: do we act in common or is it going to be every man for himself?
After a month of only very limited reception of Russian news, due to satellite issues and hotel service issues, last night I switched on Russian state television’s news and talk show “Sixty Minutes” on http://www.smotrim.ru and got a full blast of the current state of relations with the US, which are very close to Doomsday.
Allow me to share with you the key point, namely the soon to be announced changes to the Russian doctrine on first use of nuclear weapons and their new more precise red lines that have come about from the plans for Russia’s partition and destruction that seem to be aired daily on US television.
As usual, Yevgeny Popov, State Duma member and host of “Sixty Minutes,” put a lot of video segments from Western television up on the screen, including a lengthy statement by Lieutenant General Ben Hodges, former commander of all U.S. forces in Europe from 2014 to 2017, on how the Ukrainians must be given long range precision missiles for them to attack Russian Crimea and also further into the Russian heartland. The interview from which this declaration was made does not yet appear in Google search, but from interviews posted in 2022 it is clear that Hodges is no madman, and his statements must, as Popov said, be taken with utmost seriousness.
The context, of course, for the radical escalation now being discussed in the United States is the expectation of a massive Russian offensive to begin shortly as the anniversary of the Special Military Operation approaches. The imminent defeat of Ukrainian forces has focused minds in Washington.
One of the regular panelists on “Sixty Minutes” then faced the cameras directly and said that Russia’s nuclear doctrine is under revision in light of these aggressive plans being aired in the United States, so that Russia is headed towards a policy of ‘preventive’ tactical nuclear strikes, similar to what the United States has. Moreover, if Ukraine targets Crimea and heartland Russia, then Russia will respond according to plans now being laid down. These plans foresee counter strikes against U.S military installations in Europe and in the Continental United States using hypersonic missiles. The panelist calls for this threat of counter strikes in Europe and the US to be made public and explicit, so that no one is in doubt about what to expect from the Kremlin.
So here we are. The Russians are stripping away the fiction of a proxy war and revealing the co-belligerent status of the US and its NATO allies in preparation for a kinetic war with NATO. As our illustrious former President, a man of few words, would say: “Not good!”
The coming existential threat: do we act in common or is it going to be every man for himself? Roger Waters addressed the UN Security Council (2/8/23, 14 min.) He did his best to call for an immediate ceasefire for billions of people without a voice.
Russia invited Roger Waters to speak at the UNSC even though the Russians perfectly knew and understood that Roger Waters does not share the same view of this war as Russia does.Roger Waters addresses the UNSC (at the invitation of Russia)
Maybe Substack links won’t upload again. I’ll space it out Talking About Nuclear War
https://drjohnsblog.substack. com/p/talking-about-nuclear-warFrom RT: US President Joe Biden’s administration on Wednesday blasted Pulitzer Prize winner Seymour Hersh for claiming that Washington was behind last year’s sabotage of Russia’s Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines, saying reporting by the veteran investigative journalist was “utterly false and complete fiction.” https://www.rt.com/news/571193-white-house-denies-nord-stream-sabotage/
Volodymyr Zelensky popped up in London yesterday, lobbying for fighter jets, got a “maybe” on that, and an agreement to train some pilots. Zelensky posed with a gushing PM Rishi Sunak in front of a large, manly “Challenger” main battle tank. Charles III received him at Buckingham Palace that afternoon.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/uk-pledges-fighter-pilot-training-ukraine-zelensky-surprise-visitAfter a surprise UK visit, Ukraine’s President Zelensky went to Paris immediately afterward in a whirlwind European tour to meet with Western leaders. In Paris he held talks with French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz
Macron asserted during the visit that Russia cannot win the war against Ukraine. “Ukraine can count on France, its European partners and allies to win the war. Russia cannot and must not win,” Macron said before a working dinner among the three leaders at the Elysee Palace. (Hell I’m convinced now…)
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/macron-says-russia-cannot-win-against-ukraine-while-hosting-zelensky“Biggest Disaster In The Last Century”: Turkey-Syria Earthquake Death Toll Surpasses 20,000
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/turkey-syria-quake-death-toll-tops-17000 1,200 emergency personnel were being dispatched to Turkey in a coordinated effort by the European Union and partner countries.
Reporting by Aljazeera, Reuters and the Associated Press shows that efforts to send rescue teams, medical staff and other emergency personnel by non-EU countries even surpassed this effort, adding up to approximately 1,400 persons as of early Wednesday morning.
However, as Statista’s Katharina Buchholz notes, while news wire reports indicate that more than 40 countries and territories have sent or were preparing to send teams to Turkey, the same was just known of three countries and territories concerning Syria: Russia, Algeria and Palestine.
While the majority of the destruction and the victims of the earthquakes are located in Turkey, the humanitarian situation in Syria was already strained before the disaster, diminishing the country’s ability to deal with the aftermath of the earthquake effectively.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/who-sending-rescue-teams-turkey-and-syria@Kultsommer: By the time I have spent 6-8 hours putting a blog composition together, it still takes me about 40 minutes to get it all formatted and sent out to both blogs and the sites where I comment, which are here and Dr. McCullough’s listserv. I am usually pressed for time, as I am now.
It is a completed composition, getting turned-in.🙂
Well, it’s not working on multiple tries and with completely fresh exposition to explain to Kultsommer why and how i post things in comments here the way I do. It is not casual, quick or thoughtless. No more than 5 links will load at once, so that’s a factor, and I hope the groupings are easy to jump past if not desired or useful.
Yes, there is overlap. I sometimes toss a few out, but the groupings of ideas are part of the meaning.
I’ve frequented TAE since early spring 2008. Some of my guest posts on COVID treatment esp. self-treatment here have been useful to people.@Ezixa 1949 : I always liked Nena’s 99 Luftbaloons auf Deutsch better than 99 Red Ballons in Engrish.
I saved my money, set my bicycle up for touring and camping, and flew to Germany with $200 the summer of 1981 to convince this German girl to marry me, who I had met the summer before, when she was an exchange student at UT, Austin.
She wouldn’t marry me. I had taken a year of German in college. I was no good at it, but hell, I did it.
Her dad liked me and gave me a job working at his tire dealership that summer. We drank beer at work. Local beer, Eichbaum Pils. It was in a rack on the wall, half liter bottles.
I digress. What was I on about again?Oh, I was a ‘wetback”. I had no work papers. “Gastarbeiter”.
Roger Waters addressed the UN Security Council today, less than 15 minutes. He did his best.
Roger Waters addresses the UNSC (at the invitation of Russia)
Zelensky makes strong appeal for British fighter jets during surprise London visit
The Ukrainian President had a meeting with British monarch King Charles III in the afternoon.
https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/zelensky-makes-strong-appeal-for-british-fighter-jets-during-surprise-london-visit/article66485841.ece
@Zerosum: “I am the eye in the sky looking at you-oo-oo. I can read your mind”
