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Russian Orthodox Ceasefire is up, with picture of trimming-out kitchen door
https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/russian-orthodox-ceasefire Patriarch Kirill of Moscow, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, called on Thursday for both sides of the war in Ukraine to observe a Christmas truce, a step dismissed by Kyiv as a cynical trap.
Many Orthodox Christians, including those living in Russia and Ukraine, celebrate Christmas on Jan. 6-7...
..Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday ordered Moscow’s armed forces to hold a 36-hour cease-fire in Ukraine this weekend for the Russian Orthodox Christmas holiday, the Kremlin said...
..A senior aide to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Mykhailo Podolyak, cast the Russian Orthodox Church as a “war propagandist” that had incited the “mass murder” of Ukrainians and the militarisation of Russia.
“The statement of the Russian Orthodox Church about the ‘Christmas Truce’ is a cynical trap and an element of propaganda,” he said...
..The Russian troops will stop their attacks and offensive artillery strikes during the announced time span.
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/01/christmas-cease-fire.html Russia says Ukraine is shelling Russian military positions during a 36-hour ceasefire, which Kyiv and its allies have dismissed as a sham.
The Russian defence ministry said its positions had come under attack in the Luhansk, Donetsk and Zaporizhia regions but that its troops were observing the ceasefire.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/putins-unilateral-christmas-ceasefire-holding-ukraine-warns-false-flag-attack-churchesM.K.Bhadrakumar , (Netanyahu is a player, as is Erdogan, though they are not “friends”. Netanyahu wants somebody to nuke Iran. He will trade for that.)
In his second coming as Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu has hit the ground running…
..First, Putin is at war with the US and the Western world who are Israel’s traditional allies. But Netanyahu is anything but a one-dimensional man. Trust him to turn challenges into new opportunities.
Second, recapturing the verve in the relationship with Moscow has a great deal of collateral significance. Russia has become a full-fledged West Asian actor today and, arguably, in certain ways makes a more effective regional partner for Israel than the US. The US’ retrenchment is plain to see and the ensuing decline of its capacity to leverage allies such as Saudi Arabia, the UAE or Egypt hits Israeli interests.
Third, during these 18 months that Netanyahu was out of office, Russia and Iran have turned around their difficult relationship into a quasi-alliance, thanks to western sanctions against Moscow. Netanyahu senses the folly of the West trying to “erase” Russia… The Kremlin feels elated that Netanyahu is back in the diplomatic circuit. What is most gratifying will be that unlike the previous Israeli set-up, Netanyahu will not passively accept a subaltern role in the US-Israeli partnership.
Netanyahu has extensive networking with American elites and he won’t hesitate to leverage it if Israeli interests are at stake. And, without doubt, Israel is a stakeholder in the Ukraine crisis and Israeli interests are well served by creating space for peace talks to commence between Moscow and Kiev.
Netanyahu has Putin’s ears and can play a role for the Biden Administration, too, like no other western leader can perform today. On the other hand, Iran’s nuclear programme is turning into a fuming volcano and a point may come very soon when Netanyahu will be compelled to act. And that could happen in the 2024 election year, something that the Biden Administration can ill-afford to see happening. Suffice it to say, the Ukraine conflict and Iran’s bomb are joined at the hips, as it were.
Putin said in a message to Netanyahu on Thursday, “In Russia, we greatly appreciate your personal and longstanding contribution to strengthening friendly relations between our countries.” Russia’s foreign ministry said it was “ready for constructive cooperation” with Israel to “clear up the climate in the Middle East and the international scene in general”.
On December 22, Putin called Netanyahu to congratulate him on his election victory and the establishment of a new government, while Netanyahu’s office disclosed in a statement that the conversation mainly revolved around the conflict in Ukraine. Netanyahu told Putin he hopes a resolution to end hostilities will be found as soon as possible, and the consequent suffering.
Netanyahu also told Putin that he is determined to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons and curb Tehran’s attempts to establish military presence in Lebanon and Syria along Israel’s northern border.
To be sure, Putin is all ears and eyes for Netanyahu. The point is, Moscow gains if diplomacy reappears on the wasteland of Ukraine issue. Certainly, it is far from the case that Russia is enjoying the destruction of Ukraine or the sorrows of the fraternal people.Dr.D, long-winded, can be elegant and parsimonious of speech, and therefore of thought:
“The reason the system is so complicated is that it’s a web of lies that steals from the people.”
This was my immediate thought, but I see Dr.D already wrote it and this is the earliest I can get-on-record:
““Trump Announces Plan to Destroy the Drug Cartels with the US Military (PM)”Yes, because the “Drug Cartels” are really Papa Bush’s CIA. Run by the Central Bank of Ukraine. They are indeed all enemies of the military and the United States. They already were shooting at each other in Syria, this just makes it official for the rubes.”
I can’t get the link for this story from Greek Site War News 24/7 to post
Russian soldier: “From the Ukrainian missile attack, 200 soldiers were killed – 150 are injured”
I fund it scrolling down the War Monitor tab too Ukraine@Redneck: With all due respect the Russian TV New Year’s celebration was completely benign and heteronormative, compared to what was on the local San Antonio, Texas station, turned on for the large in-law’s party we attended. The local San Antonio station had lots of trashy, scantily clad performers of all 7 sexes, flaunting “IT”, whatever “it” individually and collectively may have been.
Ya’ shoulda’ been there; western decadence at some kind of a low mark on the empty toilet bowl.
The fireworks in San Antonio are another story. Something like 10,000 neighborhood parties seem to spend $200 – $ $200 and shoot most of it off at midnight. It’s a totally-embedded experience.
I’d never been in a sort f high and open backyard when it was happening before. (I usually skip new-years, wherever I am, retiring early.)
Very impressive! Putin is offering the Ukrainian soldiers Friday and Saturday off for Christmas. Many already feel abandoned/sacrificed by Kiev. How would you feel?
Ukraine Rejects Putin’s Christmas Truce Proposal As “Hypocrisy” & “A Trap”
Zelensky advisor Mykhailo Podolyak announced on Twitter, that Russian forces…must leave the occupied territories – only then will it have a “temporary truce”. Keep hypocrisy to yourself...
..If the Russian church’s call for a Christmas truce is observed and holds, it could increase the chances of the two sides eventually seeking a more permanent ceasefire and negotiated settlement.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russias-patriarch-kirill-calls-both-sides-implement-truce-orthodox-christmasMK Bhadrakumar has further insights on the midnight, new years massacre of Russian recruits in their barracks, as they phoned-home.
US climbs escalation ladder in Ukraine
In all probability, the message conveyed to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov from his American counterpart Antony Blinken via Israel’s new foreign minister Eli Cohen concerned the Ukrainian missile attack on Makeyevka (Donetsk) on New Year Day at 12.02 am killing 89 Russian conscripts…
..At any rate, although Russian intelligence would have a fair idea of the location of NATO officers conducting the Ukrainian operations, they have not been so far targeted. That is why, the Russian MOD’s decision on Monday to highlight that US-supplied Himars missiles have killed scores of Russian soldiers on Sunday night would have caused some uneasiness in Washington.
The big question is whether Moscow will also now go up the escalation ladder and directly target American military personnel deployed in Ukraine.
Of course, any killing of American military personnel in Ukraine will make very damaging headlines in the US news cycle for the Biden Administration…
..The Russian readout of Cohen’s phone conversation with Lavrov on Tuesday mentioned that the latter “informed his Israeli counterpart about certain aspects of the situation in Ukraine in the context of Russia’s special military operation.”
Lavrov probably had his say on Blinken’s charade that the US had nothing to do with the killing of 89 Russian soldiers. The fact that as many was six deadly HIMARS missiles were fired in rapid sequence at a single target at 12.02 am shows a high level of certainty on the part of the Ukrainian side and/or their western mentors that maximum damage would be inflicted.
The intelligence inputs in real time show direct American participation in the horrific operation targeting the Russian conscripts’ New Year party just when the toasts began. Of course, whipping up public sentiments in Russia against Putin is a core American objective in the war.Moon of Alabama (Germany) Ukraine – The Big Push To End The War (There is mass delusion about the realities of this war. That must be clarified first.)
The ‘western’ propaganda is still quite strong. However, as I pointed out in March last year propaganda does not change a war and lies do not win it. Its believability is shrinking.
Former Lt.Col. Alex Vershinin, who in June pointed out that industrial warfare is back and the ‘West’ was not ready to wage it, has a new recommendable piece out which analyses the tactics on both sides, looks ahead and concludes that Russia will almost certainly win the war… (Colonel Macgregor says the same thing.)
..Casualties are expected in wars and the Russians, with their steady remembrance of the second world war as their Great Patriotic War, know this well. Screw ups also happen and at times some bad leadership decisions puts people into the wrong place where the enemy can and will kill them. That is what happened in Makeyevka (Donetsk) on New Years day 2 minutes after midnight. Some 100 Russian reservists died. The Russian leadership pointed out that they were killed by U.S. HIMARS missiles...
..Those are four HIMARS, three M-777, some Czech ‘aid’, 800 HIMARS missiles and some Ukrainian guns that were lost in just one day. That was probably more than the ‘West’ can deliver over the next months…
..This only confirms the point Alex Vershinin was making. Russia has cared for its resources while the Ukraine, and NATO, have wasted their stuff mostly in senseless frontal campaigns against well protected Russian troops.
Yves Smith of Naked Capitalism points out that Vershinin has left out the economic side of the war where the picture is as bad for Ukraine as it is on the ground…
..December interview the Ukrainian war leader General Valery Zaluzhny gave to the Economist.:
General Zaluzhny, who is raising a new army corps, reels off a wishlist. “I know that I can beat this enemy,” he says. “But I need resources. I need 300 tanks, 600-700 IFVs [infantry fighting vehicles], 500 Howitzers.” The incremental arsenal he is seeking is bigger than the total armoured forces of most European armies.
What Zaluzhny really says is that the war is lost if he does not get those resources. He knows well that is he will not receive them…
..Due to currently warmer than normal weather the ground in Ukraine is not yet frozen and the mud will return in March and April. That gives only a two months window to move forward...
..The big question is how the U.S. will respond. If the Ukraine falls the U.S. and NATO will have lost their war against Russia. That will cause serious political damage…
..The effect of losing the war will be noticed in global and domestic politics. ‘Western’ global standing will be degraded and the leadership of the war party will receive some well deserved bashing.
But will the U.S. let that happen? Can it allow itself to lose this war? Or will it escalate? Even when that is likely to only worsen its situation?
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/01/ukraine-the-big-push-to-end-the-war.html#moreRussian drones far cheaper than Ukrainian air defenses (The Patriot air-defense missiles will cost $3-4 million each)
The drones that Russia uses are priced at around $20,000 per unit, while a surface-to-air missile from Ukraine’s arsenal ranges from $140,000 for a Soviet-era S-300 to $500,000 for a US-supplied NASAM system, he said.
https://www.rt.com/news/569386-ukraine-drones-iran-defense/U.S. Forces in Europe Prepare for War With Russia (What can stop the war machine? Light infantry will be vaporized by artillery. USAF can’t own this sky.)
https://trendsinthenews.substack.com/p/us-forces-in-europe-prepare-for-war 101st Airborne Still Deployed in Romania Simulating War With Russia
Members of the division told CBS in October that they were prepared to enter Ukraine if given the (suicidal) order
About 4,000 members of the US Army’s 101st Airborne Division are still deployed in Romania as part of a military buildup in Eastern Europe that President Biden ordered last year...
..The military buildup in Eastern Europe has brought US troop levels on the continent to over 100,000 for the first time since 2005. The Pentagon is expected to decide soon if it will maintain the current levels for the long term or reduce or increase them. 101st Airborne Still Deployed in Romania Simulating War With Russia
Interview with Peter McCullough MD: NFL Player Drops Suddenly
https://live.childrenshealthdefense.org/chd-tv/shows/good-morning-chd/nfl-star-drops-suddenly-with-peter-mccullough-md-mph/FLCCC treatment options and protocols for post-COVID-vaccine syndromes. Thanks Ilargi.
https://covid19criticalcare.com/treatment-protocols/i-recover/“Card Catalogue” Capsule Summaries of all Twitter Files Threads to Date, With Links and a Glossary, Matt Taibbi
For those who haven’t been following, a compilation of one-paragraph summaries of all the Twitter Files threads by every reporter. With links and notes on key revelations
https://taibbi.substack.com/p/capsule-summaries-of-all-twitterThis is actually a very good story. Twitter management did not initially want to get dragged into this black hole of censorship and propaganda, but was professionally coerced, with relentless pressure from multiple government offices, not just alphabet-agencies.
New Twitter bombshell: How American spies used false claims of Russian election interference to bring the tech giant to heel
https://www.rt.com/news/569389-politicized-xenophobic-witch-hunt/“Release Of Information” is up, with some redundancy redundancy
https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/release-of-informationCardiologist Sanjay Verma MD has the best explanation I have yet seen on the medical evaluation process for athletes who have acute cardiac events.
Cardiac Arrest and Sudden Cardiac Death in AthletesI
In this discussion it seems many (on all sides of the discussion) are subject to some confirmation bias and some deference to authority (quoting someone they respect but not understanding the pathophysiology themselves). While some aspects of the situation are speculative at best, other aspects can be interpreted with 100% confidence.
It really helps to put aside personal ego and not take any aspects of this discussion personally (and refrain from ad hominem attacks). Much of this can be explained or not explained with provable pathophysiology.
https://sanjayverma-66740.medium.com/cardiac-arrest-and-sudden-cardiac-death-in-athletes-9c93a6c47bf6 Damar Hamlin appears to be neurologically intact as he comes out of induced-sedation, holding hands and speaking to family and loved ones.
Time to forget this whole thing? Who needs answers? (Some football players still want answers, though.)
https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/05/sport/damar-hamlin-collapse-bills-status-thursday/index.htmlShort and long versions of this important paper. Thanks “Doc”.
Circulating Spike Protein Detected in Post–COVID-19 mRNA Vaccine Myocarditis
Immunoprofiling of vaccinated adolescents and young adults revealed that the mRNA vaccine–induced immune responses did not differ between individuals who developed myocarditis and individuals who did not. However, free spike antigen was detected in the blood of adolescents and young adults who developed post-mRNA vaccine myocarditis, advancing insight into its potential underlying cause.
https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.122.061025
https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/epdf/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.122.061025Thanks Polemos. No need to self-censor.
Sasha has interesting technical comments regarding the administration of 5, 6 or even seven doses from an identical Comirnaty or Pfizer vial, as pertains to what went into the injected arm. It seems that it is extremely unpredictable how much of the (rises to the top) “active” lipid layer got injected into any particular victim. https://sashalatypova.substack.com/p/it-doesnt-add-up?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=870364&post_id=92869970&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email
I’ll point out that the guided missile cruisers are, themselves vulnerable to submarine attack. The US has many submarines that are attack subs, not nuclear-missile carriers.
There will be the biggest, most sudden wealth-destruction ever when this starts, never to be rebuilt, it seems.@Red: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZaVpv5p2CM Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs
Oxymoron wrote:
“Does this seem correct? I feel that human beings are gunna just be more of a bag of grunt-meat over the mid term.
I welcome corrections or criticism of this view.”No, no, no, no, You’re wrong. It’s gonna be GOOD, I sez, GOOD!
@Germ:
I’m sorry Tessa died. God bless all the well-meaning and dutiful people who are going through these serial bereavements.
I hope that they can see that they have been terribly betrayed, change their views of “the system” and rebuild their lives from this unjust devastation.
I fear and expect that the deaths have not yet peaked, but I can’t know the future curve of that.Dr.D asked: “So when do we get a whistleblower for Schiff and Standard Hotel?”
They reside with the JFK assassination witnesses, I think…”Sudden cardiac death risk in contact sports increased by myocarditis: a case series”
A 2021 paper in the “European Heart Journal” provides additional grounds for considering subclinical vaccine-induced myocarditis as a possible contributing factor to Damar Hamlin’s cardiac arrest.
https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/sudden-cardiac-death-risk-in-contact Damar Hamlin is still in the ICU, still on a ventilator, “improving a little”, but no details are available. He was mandated to have these experimental shots to play football. If he never plays again, which is almost certain, he has no legal recourse to compensation.
Japan Launches Official Investigation Into Millions of COVID Vaccine Deaths
Japanese researchers have been instructed to investigate the mechanisms by which experimental mRNA jabs could be causing deaths and severe adverse reactions.Japan Launches Official Investigation Into Millions of COVID Vaccine Deaths
Naked Capitalism posts an essay explaining the new paper in the BMJ publication, the Journal of Medical Ethics, on Covid-19 vaccine mandates.
The recommendation is to rescind mandates, because of evidence that there is more harm coming from the vaccine-products than good, that they do not prevent transmission, so there is no benefit to society, that they have little to no (“negative” after awhile) efficacy to prevent or diminish illness, that there has never been informed-consent to patients, and that there is no recourse to patients harmed or killed by the products.
It is written so as to be engaging and palatable to vaccine-as-sacrament true-believers. You might know somebody like that. Thanks Christine.Lies Kill post is up, and there is some crossover with TAE again (“great minds”, etc.)
Picture of me sitting near completed baseboards and door trim (“Spokesmodel” posing)
https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/lies-kill “Not related to any sort of vaccine.” MD offered comforting words about “almost certainly a very rare condition called commotio cordis”, minutes after Monday’s game was postponed, apparently before Damar had that second cardiac-arrest in the ICU, without getting bumped in the chest.
“Commotio Cordis” is “commotion in the heart”, fibrillation of the heart muscle, which is akin to cramping while shivering. Fibrillation rapidly exhausts the heart and does not pump blood. A rapid, sharp blow to the heart, at a certain point in the pumping cycle, at just the right part of the heart, can “very rarely” induce fibrillation. It’s hard to make happen in animal models. It usually happens from a baseball, occasionally a hockey puck, not usually a steering wheel or air-bag, never a shoulder-pad. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24760424/
A cardiologists who has treated many COVID and vaccine-injury patients, Peter McCullough MD, explains to Tucker Carlson.
An Obligation to Investigate Possible Role of COVID Vaccination in NFL Collapse
https://rumble.com/v23tbso-an-obligation-to-investigate-possible-role-of-covid-vaccination-in-nfl-coll.html Dr. McCullough: Public Health Obligation to Disclose Cause of Cardiac Arrest and Sudden Death
Events no Longer Private in Era of Mandated COVID-19 Vaccination
In the case of Damar Hamlin, that COVID-19 vaccine-induced subclinical myocarditis and then arrhythmic cardiac arrest on the field was at the top of the list. Tucker said that’s “fair.” I think it’s more than fair since the NFL had a COVID-19 vaccine mandate, as did the military, many corporations, universities, and schools. If an EUA vaccine is mandated, then those who have imposed this product on their players, employees, and students have an ethical public health obligation to tell the world what has happened as a result of the mandate and help all those impacted brace for what could happen next. Damar Hamlin is not just another “unexplained sudden adult death syndrome” case. It was “prime time” for the NFL and now “truth time” for the family, Buffalo Bills doctors, and the University of Cincinnati Medical Center staff.
Did he take the vaccine, brand, and doses given? Is the clinical evaluation consistent with COVID-19 vaccine induced subclinical myocardits and resuscitated cardiac arrest? If not, what is the proven cause of his calamity (hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, anomalous coronary arteries, catecholaminergic ventricular tachycardia, long QT syndrome, Brugada syndrome, Takotsubo cardiomyopathy, pulmonary embolus, spinal cord/intracranial injury, etc.).
https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/public-health-obligation-to-disclose@Germ:
Thanks for the sad news about so many people in your circle of friends and family.
I’m sorry.@VP Gary: I appreciated your thoughts and insights on “seeking the path of truth” last night.
@Ilargi: I also saw that tweet about the doctor saying he had boosted Damar Hamlin 12/26/22, and thought it to be an odd release of personal medical information without consent. it appears likely to be a head-fake. This was already suspected shortly after it appeared.The ‘doctor’ who claimed he gave Damar Hamlin a COVID-19 booster last week isn’t real
@GERM: You can’t visit me in Texas? Not unless a coyote brings you in? Maybe this will pass…
@Doc Robinson: Bail-ins are when you get some stock in the insolvent bank instead of “your” money.
These have been advocated since 2004. I even read Roubini’s book back around 2008.
The banks in Cyprus got that “bail-in” treatment. Nobody liked it.
@Polemos: I think it’s not the knowledge but the intention to seek truth that is more transformative.
Knowledge is never completely true. Yes, feeling superior is a cheap thrill for those who suspect that they are inferior. Don’t indulge.
Have you read any Thich Nhat Hanh? https://www.google.com/search?q=thich+nhat+hanh+books+list&oq=Thich+Nhat+Hanh+books&aqs=chrome.1.0i512l10.14789j1j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8More from McCullough https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/sudden-cardiac-death-risk-in-contact
More from McCullough, but far from the end of this.
https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/interpreting-damar-hamlins-suddenDamar arrested again in the ICO (after RN head-butted him in the chest?)
https://rumble.com/v23qog8-damar-hamlins-second-cardiac-arrest-makes-the-whole-situation-even-more-sus.htmlDamar Hamlin Suffers Cardiac Arrest During NFL Game – Doctor Explains
“What we saw tonight is not related to any sort of vaccine” …
Some link won’t take (AI censorship suspected) I’m trying yet again, gapping every ink between “dot” and “com”.
Tom Luongo has posted “The Russian Regime Change Trap”, pointing out that there is a lot of ongoing talk about effecting regime change in Russia in the west. The reason he explains at length is that the neocon establishment has a foregone conclusion that Russia will again be turned over to western vulture-capitalism, as it was under Yeltsin in the 1990s. This carrion-feast is “divinely” ordained, but they are just being thwarted by Vladimir Putin again. He didn’t go down with the Russian economy, as planned, so he needs to be taken-out as quickly as possible, by any means, so that history can resume its orderly progression.
Luongo sees the “Davos Crowd”, including Merkel, Macron and other Eurocrats, as being distinct from the more vicious and inelegant neocons, like Nuland & friends. He sees the long strategy to get Russia to build Nordstream-2, in order to pretend to plan a future together, as being cover to build a Ukrainian army to destroy Russia, as well as destroying the Russian investment so easily.
Merkel, Macron and Ukrainian politicians have endorsed that they were never serious about normalizing relations with Russia via the Minsk agreements. This stance, whether true or not, means that there has long been nobody “agreement capable” in the NATO world.
Luongo points out that Russia must therefore grind NATO meat, not merely Ukrainian meat in the grinder.
The Russian people do not have the same illusions that those in the west do. They know life is hard, war is bad, and Putin is not a perfect man. Russian government is still corrupt. Still, Putin is a Russian patriot, and this is existential war to save Russia from another round of the 1990s, so the Russian nation, government and armed forces all support this action, which will not falter.
Therefore, as he sees it, NATO advancement against Russian forces will serve to bring NATO to the Russian meat-grinder, and already is.
https://tomluongo. me/2022/12/30/the-russian-regime-change-trap/#respondFrom the Hal Turner show: (If the west keeps feeding the grinder, the west will fare as Ukraine is faring. Going nuclear is the other choice.)
The country of Poland has, over the past months, inserted fifteen thousand (15,000) regular, active-duty, Polish Army troops into Ukraine and they are waging illegal war against Russia inside Ukraine.
This information comes from intel sources just back from the actual front lines inside Ukraine, and these sources are unimpeachable intel sources.
Many have known for months that NATO countries have been sending “advisors” into Ukraine, to “teach” Ukrainian troops how to use advanced weapons being supplied by NATO countries. But all along, NATO emphasized “we are not a party to the conflict.” That is a lie.
NATO troops from Poland, and from the United States and United Kingdom are, in fact, participating in the war and this covert military participation is going to get a lot of us in America, and in Europe, killed.
https://halturnerradioshow. com/index.php/en/news-page/world/15-000-active-duty-troops-from-poland-on-the-front-lines-in-ukraineTurkey will have to follow-through and keep troops out of Syria, but it would then be “agreement capable” and have to exit NATO.
Türkiye has agreed to fully withdraw its troops from northern Syria following tripartite talks involving Moscow, Ankara and Damascus earlier this week, Syrian newspaper Al-Watan has reported…
..Ankara and Damascus also expressed a common view that the Syrian-based Kurdish YPG militia, which Turkey associates with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), “are agents of Israel and the US, and pose a grave threat to both Türkiye and Syria.” …
..A special trilateral commission will be created by Russia, Türkiye and Syria to ensure that the agreements reached in Moscow are honored, Al-Watan reported.
https://www.rt. com/news/569231-turkey-syria-moscow-akar/Russia consolidates in East Mediterranean
The United States has suffered yet another big setback in West Asia as the year 2022 draws to a close. The unfolding Turkish-Syrian reconciliation process under Russian mediation is to be seen as a saga of betrayal and vengeance…
..Syria was the ultimate test case and a real challenge for Erdogan. Ankara had invested heavily in the improvement of relations with Syria within the framework of the so-called Adana Agreement in 1998 in the downstream of Turkish military’s massive showdown with Damascus over the latter harbouring the PKK [Kurdish] leader Ocalan. Erdogan initially did not want Bashar al-Assad to lose power, and advised him to reform. The families of Erdogan and Assad used to holiday together…
..The Pentagon began aligning with the Syrian Kurdish groups linked to the PKK. (In October 2014, US began providing supplies to Kurdish forces and in November 2015, US special forces were deployed in Syria.)…
..Indeed, since then, Erdogan had been protesting in vain that the US, a NATO ally, had aligned with a terrorist group (Syrian Kurds known as YPG) that threatened Turkiye’s sovereignty and territorial integrity…
..It is against such a backdrop that the two meetings in Moscow on Wednesday between the defence ministers and intelligence chiefs of Turkey and Syria in the presence of their Russian counterparts took place. Erdogan’s reconciliation process with Assad is quintessentially his sweet revenge for the American betrayal…
..On Thursday, Turkish Defence Minister Hulusi Akar said: “At the meeting (in Moscow), we discussed what we could do to improve the situation in Syria and the region as soon as possible while ensuring peace, tranquility and stability… We reiterated our respect for the territorial integrity and sovereignty rights of all our neighbours, especially Syria and Iraq, and that our sole aim is the fight against terrorism, we have no other purpose.”
Russian President Vladimir Putin has been counselling Erdogan in recent years that Turkiye’s security concerns are best tackled in coordination with Damascus and that Adana Agreement could provide a framework of cooperation…
..The US resents Erdogan’s move to normalise with Assad — and that too, with Russia’s helping hand. It is now even more unlikely to give up its military presence in Syria or its alliance with the Syrian Kurdish group YPG (which Ankara regards as an affiliate of the PKK.)
But the YPG will find itself in a tight spot. As Syria requests Turkiye to withdraw from its territories (Idlib and so-called operation areas) and stop supporting armed groups, Turkiye in return will insist on pushing the YPG away from the border…
.. Russian influence on Syria remains intact and Moscow will continue to shape Syria’s transition out of conflict zone and consolidate its own long-term presence in Eastern Mediterranean.
OPEC Plus has gained traction. Russia’s ties with the Gulf states are steadily growing. The Russia-Iran strategic ties are at its highest level in history.
https://www.indianpunchline. com/russia-consolidates-in-east-mediterranean/Iran’s Buy of the Century: 24 Plus 40 Russian Su-35 Fighters Land in Isfahan Along with 4 Mi-26s (Translated from Greek)
Iran has confirmed that it is taking delivery of a full Squadron of 24 Russian S-35S fighter jets causing an earthquake in the Middle East. Iran’s PressTV news agency announced the purchase to the Iranian people in a video.
An Iranian journalist also reported that the delivery of fighters to Iran will begin in the next few days. The base that will welcome them has been prepared.
And this is just the beginning: 40 more Su-35s are coming along with S-400 anti-aircraft systems and in the future Su-57s.
https://warnews247-gr. translate.goog/ektakto-i-agora-tou-aiona-apo-to-iran-24-syn-40-rosika-machitika-su-35-prosgeionontai-isfachan-mazi-me-4-mi-26-amok-sto-israil-epivevaiosi-warnews247/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wappTwitter CEO Elon Musk announced Wednesday that the social media company’s new official policy will not penalize users for legitimately questioning scientific claims and narratives that are promoted in the media…
..“New Twitter policy is to follow the science, which necessarily includes reasoned questioning of the science,” Musk said…
..“Anyone who says that questioning them is questioning science itself cannot be regarded as a scientist,” Musk said in response to the video about Fauci.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/elon-musk-announces-new-twitter-science-policy-blasts-dr-anthony-fauci-cannot-be-regarded-as-a-scientistSpeaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, who makes $174,000 per year and has personal wealth (accrued in office) of $114,662,521 (2018), will step down from her leadership position, but is not retiring.
https://www.azerbaycan24.com/en/nancy-pelosi-is-stepping-down-as-us-house-speaker-and-few-will-miss-her/Charles Hugh Smith, It’s A New Era
Making problems much worse by forcing more of whatever worked in the previous era into a saturated, increasing unstable new era–receives little attention or understanding.
Eras may last decades, and only those who’ve lived long enough to recall previous eras have experienced the transition from one era to the next. The era of financialization, globalization and low-cost, abundant oil/natural gas began over 40 years ago in 1981.
The era of digital / Internet technologies took off about 30 years ago. All of these dynamics accelerated in the early 2000s, roughly 20 years ago.
Only those 60 and older experienced working in a previous era (pre-1981).
All of these dynamics are entering a phase of nonlinear turbulence as the changes are outpacing these highly streamlined / optimized systems’ ability to self-correct.
This nonlinear instability is being accelerated by doing more of what worked in the previous era, in the mistaken belief that the 2020s are simply an extension of the eras that began 40 and 30 years ago.
http://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2022/12/its-new-era.htmlIn 2023 it will be all about the dollar The international section of the Shanghai Gold Exchange will be used by Saudi Arabia for its yuan to gold transactions. It is therefore likely that some of China’s purchase of nearly 300 tonnes in recent weeks will be to provide liquidity to backstop this market.
With regard to prospects for next year’s gold price, it should be noted that the major factor will be the fate of the dollar. It appears likely that dollar oil prices will increase in the coming months, while foreign holders of dollars will continue to reduce their dollar exposure, which in the year to October declined by $3.8 trillion. But a rising interest rate trend leading to falling financial asset values and the petroyuan replacing the petrodollar, events could coalesce into a perfect storm for the dollar.
This is not how conventional analysts look at the gold price. They would argue that higher interest rates, if they occur, will drive gold lower. But that is an argument that denies the role of gold as money.
https://www.goldmoney.com/research/in-2023-it-will-be-all-about-the-dollarA Multipolar Shift with Energy and Dollar Disruptions, Victor Xing
Executive Summary
In the near term, China’s reopening and buying of ESPO (East Siberian Pacific Ocean, Russian) crude would likely erode the role of Brent & energy indices
Gulf nations envision the scope of petroyuan to be on par with demands for Chinese goods & technology transfer
Rising yuan payments for Russian energy and more China-Gulf bilateral trade imply future dollar demand decline
In the long term, more local currency trade settlements would erode dollar flows and Federal Reserve’s influence
https://mises.org/power-market/multipolar-shift-energy-and-dollar-disruptions“When Everybody Knows” is up, with picture of lumberjack sawing up a dead tree on New Year’s Day
https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/when-everybody-knowsSome of us remember the Tet Offensive in Vietnam, in very early 1968. My USMC-Major Dad had just gotten back from ‘Nam a few weeks before the offensive, but we already knew things were much worse than advertised (Though Dad always maintained that “we could have won the war if we were allowed to.).
Walter Cronkite, on the CBS Evening News, commented with great concern that America might have been misled by the government, and the tide of public opinion, tensely divided until then, turned against the war. That was a “Paradigm-Shift”.
This appears to be the trigger for another Paradigm Shift in the common-wisdom of the American public.
The US Government has been lying and killing Americans on purpose again.“49% of American Adults believe it is likely that side effects of COVID-19 vaccines have caused a significant number of unexplained deaths, including 28% who think it’s Very Likely”…
..28% know someone directly they believe died from a vaccine. Even if the correlation is false (although I believe it is the opposite as many of the deaths are not recognized), 28% of the population believing the government and every authority they were raised their life to trust would push something this dangerous onto them shatters the institutional trust our entire society is built upon…
..When asked if they knew someone who they suspected had died from the vaccine, 33% of Democrats said yes, while 26% of both Republicans and those who were not affiliated with either party said yes. Rasmussen argues this (along with many other demographic response rates) suggests the poll’s results were valid, and explained this result being due Democrats, while being less likely to want to acknowledge a vaccine injury, likely knowing far more people who were vaccinated, and thus being exposed to a higher rate of deaths.
https://amidwesterndoctor.substack.com/p/the-american-public-is-extremelyThe SS who murdered the lieutenant may have done it to prevent the other Germans from surrendering.
Just sayin’…I don’t know who is killing Russian oligarchs, but they have enemies aplenty. If an oligarch is anti-Putin these days, he might be hit by a rival, and it might be overlooked. Alternatively, they could be false-flag killings for show to the west, because Putin won’t be fooled.
Still, somebody gets the wealth. Who?The lady who was arrested for “praying in her head” near a UK abortion clinic, in an “exclusion zone”, created to prevent the intimidation of clinic employees, presents an interesting way to dissect the law.
The clinic was closed. She was alone and stood silently until questioned by police.
“Praying” was conceived in one way when it was included among public acts which could intimidate employees, but standing alone silently was not what was envisioned. Standing alone silently, thinking prayerful thoughts, is either standing alone silently, or it is a crime-of-undisclosed-thoughts, which were later disclosed under intimidating police interrogation.My fairly brief search reveals that the media has dropped this story. I cannot find the current specifics of the charges. This is really, truly worth following as a “test case”.
@Dr.D: That Hudson Institute article about the imminent collapse of Russia was included in the latest from The Ethical Skeptic, as an example of the deeply entrenched neocon viewpoint, which seems to be so very distant from the model of reality many of us here have, from the information we see.
No model is “reality”, of course.
https://theethicalskeptic.com/Thanks Ilargi. Thanks fellow commenters.
That’s pretty dark business, Dr.D, but we already know a fair amount of that story to be trus, so it’s necessary to consider further implications and business-possibilities. If there is a business possibility, somebody has considered it, already.@AFKTT: Nancy Pelosi is a political elite. Jamie Dimon is a financial elite. Nancy is a “Left” political elite. It’s a personality-type thing of sorts. Newt Gingrich is still a “Right” political elite.
They are not “Owners”. Bush family and Rothschild family are “owner” families, for instance. Soros is a new, individual “owner”, who doesn’t hide himself so much.
The Triumverate For The World used to push this “Family Ties” theme.
“What’s My (blood)Line?”I’m just trying to explain why I use the words I do. It’s not that I admire these elites.
Jesus was not an elite in any way. Buddha was born into royalty, but walked away into poverty to find truth.
I do greatly admire both of them.
