[John Day]

Today’s Saker “Operation Z” update is different, thoughtful factual, but not technical.

Sitrep Operation Z: Not your normal sitrep

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VP Gary and Jesus said: “Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and unto God the things that are God’s”.
I completely agree, but rendering unto God that which is God’s is in a whole different reality… 🙂

@MPSK: Don’t get the electronic Mephistopheles !

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I also enjoyed the Justo Gallego Martinez story.
Don Quixote reincarnated!

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The owners can only visualize a world where they remain “the owners”.
They have to remain upon our backs as we sink and try to swim.
That position is bad for us.
We can visualize many other alternatives, and take baby-steps ourselves.
We will meet others taking baby-steps, and cooperate, and solve-problems in cooperative working groups,
our forte’.
What will “the owners” do if they can’t stay on our backs?

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“Gaslighted Me With Psy-Ops”

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@Chooch: Russia is de-Nazifying and de-militarizing Ukraine as long as the Nazis and military keep presenting themselves to Russian artillery. It’s a sad form of cooperation, with many middle-aged conscripts sitting in trenches in the meat-grinder.

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Naomi Wolf realizes that some of us have never been speaking figuratively about mass human culling, as Pfizer-FDA communications keep revealing that the knew all along that these products were killing and sterilizing women and children and causing abortions, as well as killing and impairing all of those other people.
Dear Friends, Sorry to Announce a Genocide
It’s Really True: They Know they are Killing the Babies
The truth is: I’ve been rendered almost speechless — or the literary equivalent of that — because recently I’ve had the unenviable task of trying to announce to the world that indeed, a genocide — or what I’ve called, clumsily but urgently, a “baby die-off” — is underway…
..And now, the babies are dying. Now scale the data from Canada, Scotland and Israel to all the vaccinated nations in the world.
What do we do with all of this?
Knowing as I now do, that Pfizer and the FDA knew that babies were dying and mothers’ milk discoloring by just looking at their own internal records; knowing as I do that they did not alert anyone let alone stop what they were doing, and that to this day Pfizer, the FDA and other demonic “public health” entities are pushing to MRNA-vaccinate more and more pregnant women; now that they are about to force this on women in Africa and other lower income nations who are not seeking the MRNA vaccines, per Pfizer CEO Bourla this past week at the WEF, and knowing that Pfizer is pushing and may even receive a US EUA for babies to five year olds — I must conclude that we are looking into an abyss of evil not seen since 1945.
So I don’t know about you, but I must switch gears with this kind of unspeakable knowledge to another kind of discourse.
https://naomiwolf.substack.com/p/dear-friends-sorry-to-announce-a?s=r

Worse Than the Disease? Reviewing Some Possible Unintended Consequences of the mRNA Vaccines Against COVID-19
https://dpbh.nv.gov/uploadedFiles/dpbhnvgov/content/Boards/BOH/Meetings/2021/SENEFF~1.PDF

Determinants of COVID-19 Vaccine-Induced Myocarditis Requiring Hospitalization
Conclusions: Among those with COVID-19 vaccine-induced myocarditis, the majority were hospitalized, and the independent predictors of hospitalization were age, male gender, positive troponin, and ST-segment elevation on the ECG. Temporal proximity of reporting to injection date and significantly higher reporting rates of cardiac troponin, electrocardiogram ST segment elevation and abnormal C-reactive proteins in young individuals (12-18) in the context of myocarditis requiring hospitalization indicate that these particular pathognomonic markers may be linked to incipient heart failure whereby the injury due to the injection is the reason for the hospitalization, and should always be measured and used as diagnostic markers for COVID-19 vaccine-induced myocarditis.
https://zenodo.org/record/6564414#.YpOuqMPMLtR

Kevin Barrett and Helen Buyniski, with transcript…
So many terrorist-response and pandemic drills have “gone live”.
Monkeypox Biowar Smoking Guns?
An incendiary conversation with HelenOfDestroy
https://kevinbarrett.substack.com/p/monkeypox-biowar-smoking-guns?s=r

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Russia has complex and ongoing frenemy relationships with Israel and Turkey. Right now, Syria is getting clobbered as these countries see how far they can push the bear and gain advantage while Russia is occupied in Europe.

Israel is not the only foreign power escalating against Syria. Turkey is also attempting to take advantage of the Ukrainian conflict, which is keeping Russia busy and the US in need of all of its NATO allies.
On May 23, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that Ankara will launch a new military operation in Syria against Kurdish forces, mainly the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), in an effort to link up two areas already under Turkish control in the northern and northeastern regions of the country.
Erdogan said the operation would aim to resume Turkish efforts to create a 30 kilometers “safe zone” along its border with Syria.
SDF-held Minaq will likely be one of the main targets of any upcoming operation against the SDF, along with the towns of Tell Rifaat and Manbij in the northern Aleppo countryside and the town of Kobane in the governorate’s northeastern countryside. Several units of the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and the Russian Military Police are present near all of these towns.
On May 25, the Turkish military deployed massive reinforcements in the areas held by its proxies.
On the same day, a series of Turkish artillery strikes targeted towns and villages held by the SDF in the northern Aleppo countryside, the northern Raqqa countryside and the northern countryside of al-Hasakah.
A new operation against the SDF in Syria could boost the chances of Erdogan and his party, the Justice and Development party, in the upcoming Turkish elections in 2023.
Overall, it appears that Syria will experience a new phase of violence this summer as regional powers are attempting to secure points in the war-torn country before the conflict in Ukraine reaches its end. https://southfront.org/israel-and-turkey-escalate-against-syria/

“Freeing the slaves”? Russia supports African peoples in their demand for complete decolonization — Lavrov
Russia played a leading role in the decolonization of Africa and it supports the Africans in their demand for the full liberation of the continent from colonialism, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said at a reception on the occasion of Africa Day for the ambassadors of African countries accredited in Russia in Moscow on Wednesday. https://tass.com/politics/1455785?utm

In a rare show of African power and solidarity, several African member states objected to proposed International Health Regulations amendments, discussed at the World Health Assembly 75 this week – a move many believe might shake up the World Health Organization’s dominance.
A well placed source shared: “The resolution on IHR amendments was not passed at the WHA, as African countries were concerned that there was inadequate consultation amongst member states, and the process was being rushed. Botswana read the statement on behalf of the 47 AFRO members and I was personally present.”
Africa objects to US proposal on controversial IHR (WHO) amendments

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Russian nationalist, Vladimir Putin has a wholehearted economic ally in Iran, which has been crippled by 40 years of western economic sanctions. (He still needs the Russian oligarchs, and he needs Chinese banks and businesses, not just Xi’s speeches. Turkey is also ready to do business, but Erdogan is fickle and scheming.)
The Sanctioned Ones: How Iran-Russia are setting new rules , Pepe Escobar
..The EAEU, inaugurated in 2015 with five full members – Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Belarus and Armenia – represents a market of 184 million people and a collective GDP of over $5 trillion. The next step with Iran will be to implement a full free trade agreement, possibly before the end of the year, according to Iranian deputy trade minister Alireza Peymanpak. Egypt, Indonesia and the UAE are also candidates to strike deals with the EAEU…
..Slowly but surely, the new RIC (Russia-Iran-China) – as opposed to the old RIC in BRICS (Russia-India-China) – is attempting to integrate their financial systems. Iran is a matter of national security strategy for China, as an energy provider and essential partner of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in West Asia.
Russia-China, though, is a much more complex matter. Extremely fearful of provoking US sanctions, Chinese banks are refraining – at least for the moment – to increase their deals with Russian banks…
..The Bank of China and the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) have restricted financing for Russian commodities. Even the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), absolutely essential for sustainable development projects, linked or not with BRI, decided to freeze all lending to Russia and Belarus in early March to “safeguard” its “financial integrity.”… As it stands, the Mir card is still not accepted in Iran, but that’s about to change – just as in Turkey, which this summer will start accepting Mir card payments from legions of Russian tourists. What this means in practice is that Russia and Iran will be connecting their banks to the System for Transfer of Financial Messages (SPFS), the Russian equivalent to SWIFT. The Chinese will obviously be examining how seamlessly the transition works. Now compare all of the above with the prospect that soon there won’t be any SWIFT at all, as Mastercard CEO Michael Miebach let slip in Davos… The Russia-Iran front has been fast evolving since January this year, when Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, on a visit to Moscow, handed a draft agreement to Putin on strategic cooperation for the next 20 years, building on “the very good experience of cooperation between Iran and Russia in Syria in combating terrorism,” and expanding to “economy, politics, culture, science, technology, defense, and military spheres, as well as security and space issues.” …

..The bottom line is that on the JCPOA, Tehran and Moscow are in sync: “We are what they call on edge, and it could happen very quickly if the political decision is made.” (by the US) https://thesaker.is/the-sanctioned-ones-how-iran-russia-are-setting-new-rules/

Russian oil exports to India jump 25x

India has come under fire from the West for its continued purchases of Russian oil. However, New Delhi has rebuffed the criticism, saying those imports make up a fraction of the country’s overall needs. Authorities also said India will keep buying “cheap” Russian oil as a sudden stop could drive up costs for its consumers. Previous media reports have indicated that the world’s third-biggest oil importer was seeking Russian crude at less than $70 a barrel to compensate for additional hurdles caused by sanctions.

https://www.rt.com/business/556345-russian-oil-exports-jump-india/

Here is a headline, which is no surprise, but also an important point about making military deals with the US. (The whole world needs Taiwanese chip factories to stay in production.)

Washington ‘Taking Lessons’ From Ukraine to Turn Taiwan Into Anti-China ‘Porcupine’: Report
At the same time as Washington has encouraged Taipei to increase purchases of American-made military equipment, billions of dollars’ worth of weapons already bought and paid for remain undelivered. Last month, Defense News calculated that the US had shipped just 16 percent of the weapons Taiwan ordered in 2019, with COVID blamed for the $14.2 billion backlog, which includes F-16 fighters, replacement parts for Patriot missile systems, and other equipment. Earlier this month, Taipei announced that the US howitzers it had ordered had been “crowded out” by Ukraine. https://sputniknews.com/20220525/washington-taking-lessons-from-ukraine-to-turn-taiwan-into-anti-china-porcupine-report-1095774805.html

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I finally got a picture out of the kitchen cabinetry I’m completely reinforcing and installing. Y’all have seen a lot of these stories, and the forest, not just the trees. Practical Matters
https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/practical-matters?s=w

A lot more than $1 trillion would be needed. The problem is that Europe is barely squeezing by on plentiful , high-grade Russian fuel from pipelines, and borrowing money. There is no direct replacement for Russian oil, and there will not be. Gas might be piped from Iran and Qatar some day, but the empire is blocking that by destroying Syria until it can control such a pipeline. German industry will close down. Will it take 10 years to realize this? Maybe people already know…
The EU Needs More Than $1 Trillion For Plan To Ditch Russian Oil And Gas
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/The-EU-Needs-More-Than-1-Trillion-For-Plan-To-Ditch-Russian-Oil-And-Gas.html

Viktor Orban in Hungary knows, and says so. Other EU members may be breathing a sigh of partial relief now.
EU To Block Seaborne Russian Oil Deliveries, Not Pipeline, To Satisfy Hungary
https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/eu-block-seaborne-russian-oil-deliveries-not-pipeline-satisfy-hungary

Professor Ugo Bardi: The Age of Exterminations VIII — How to Destroy Western Europe
(The very short summary is that there will be mass deindustrialization, freezing and starvation in Europe without Russian oil and gas. All of the population increases afforded by coal, oil and fertilizers will revert to the pre-industrial status-quo.)
https://thesenecaeffect.blogspot.com/2022/05/the-age-of-extermination-viii-how-to.html

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@Phoenixvoice: You have good pipes and good vocal chords, especially when they loosened up a bit. Loud and Clear, sister! i have been appreciating your thoughtful analysis. I’m sure I never spent an hour accidentally wiping any device. My defense mechanism is to always know that everything I say on any electronic format is monitored by NSA AI. (I always felt in my heart that my every thought and scheme was perceived by God, so this is actually a much lower bar.)

@Susmarie108: I was never speaking figuratively of the owners culling the herd. This is the beginning of the cull we are seeing. Owners culling herds is “history”. They have some new instruments now. Naomi Wolf groks it. I’m glad she does.

@Dr.D: Good recall. My recognition is so much better than my recall. You have a mind like a steel trap. Sorry, Bro…

@Oxymoron: I’m glad you have your libido (life force) back.

@D Benton Smith: I’ll be watching. Make sure you don’t stumble out of newspeak!

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This looks like a completely planned and orchestrated political assassination of this popular Christian Al Jazeera journalist and US citizen Shireen Abu Akleh.
Israeli Forces Murdered Star Al Jazeera Journalist: CNN
​..​In an anonymous interview with CNN, a senior Israeli security official denied that Abu Akleh was deliberately killed: “In no way would the IDF ever target a civilian, especially a member of the press.”
​ ​While CNN didn’t note it, according to Reporters Without Borders, Israel has killed at least 30 journalists since 2000, including two Palestinians shot by IDF snipers while reporting on protests near the Gaza-Israel border in 2018.​..
..CNN geolocated the images in the tweeted video to a spot 300 meters from Abu Akleh, and, based on various factors, firmly concluded “the shooting in the videos couldn’t be the same volley of gunfire that hit Abu Akleh and her producer.”
​ ​Indeed, CNN concluded “there was no active combat, nor any Palestinian militants, near Abu Akleh in the moments leading up to her death.”
​ ​Weapons expert and British Army veteran Chris Cobb-Smith studied images of bullet impacts on the tree where Abu Akleh stood before she was killed. They form a relatively tight shot group.
​ ​”The number of strike marks on the tree where Shireen was standing proves this wasn’t a random shot, she was targeted,” Cobb told CNN.
​ ​CNN’s study of acoustic evidence is even more damning:
​ ​According to the Israeli army’s initial inquiry, at the time of Abu Akleh’s death, an Israeli sniper was 200 meters away from her. CNN asked Robert Maher, professor of electrical and computer engineering at Montana State University, who specializes in forensic audio analysis, to assess the footage of Abu Akleh’s shooting and estimate the distance between the gunman and the cameraman, taking into account the rifle being used by the Israeli forces.
​ ​The video that Maher analyzed captures two volleys of gunfire; eyewitnesses say Abu Akleh was hit in the second barrage, a series of seven sharp “cracks.” The first “crack” sound, the ballistic shockwave of the bullet, is followed approximately 309 milliseconds later by the relatively quiet “bang” of the muzzle blast, according to Maher. “That would correspond to a distance of something between 177 and 197 meters,” or 580 and 646 feet, he said in an email to CNN, which corresponds almost exactly with the Israeli sniper’s position.
​ ​Video shows a relaxed scene moments before gunfire erupted. Jenin residents smile, make small talk and smoke cigarettes as they watch the al Jazeera crew led by Abu Akleh.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/israeli-forces-murdered-star-al-jazeera-journalist-cnn

​A season of frayed nerves?​ One woman kept her wits. (I’ve seen what a righteous woman with a handgun can do to some bad guys, one night in an ER.)
​ ​Instead of waiting for the police to arrive, a woman with a concealed carry license in West Virginia acted fast to stop a crazed man with an AR-15-style rifle who was about to kill dozens of people at a graduation party.
​ ​”Instead of running from the threat, she engaged with the threat and saved several lives last night,” Charleston Police Department Chief of Detectives Tony Hazelett told local news WCHSTV.
​ ​The incident occurred Wednesday when Dennis Butler,37, was angered by a group of people hosting a graduation party who told him to slow down through an apartment complex in Charleston. He returned 30 minutes later, parked his vehicle, jumped in the backseat, and discharged his weapon toward the group of 30-40 people.
​ ​Unbeknownst to the shooter, a law-abiding citizen with a CCW was within the group and quickly drew her weapon and engaged Bu​tl ​er with direct fire, fatally wounding him.​
​https://www.zerohedge.com/political/law-abiding-west-virginia-woman-concealed-firearm-stops-mass-shooting

​Will this affect manufacturing?
Summer Heat Could Wreak Havoc on Texas Electrical Grid
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Summer-Heat-Could-Wreak-Havoc-On-Texas-Grid.html

​ ​Texas has been the top exporting state in the U.S. for an incredible 20 years in a row.
​ ​Last year, Texas exported $375 billion worth of goods, which is more than California ($175 billion), New York ($85 billion), and Louisiana ($77 billion) combined. The state’s largest manufacturing export category is petroleum and coal products, but it’s also important to mention that Texas led the nation in tech exports for the ninth straight year.
​ ​California was the second highest exporter of goods in 2021 with a total value of $175 billion​.
​https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/made-america-goods-exports-state

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​ I have been wondering about Sri Lanka. There is an obvious opportunity for a new economic order to act in goodwill towards these people in crisis.​
Bankrupt Sri Lanka Takes Russian Crude As Fuel Crisis Depletes Stocks, Mulls Loan From China
​ ​Ceylon Petroleum Corp., the country’s only refinery, is set to take shipment of Russian grade Siberian Light on May 28. It will be the first time the refinery has processed crude to produce high-value products such as gasoline and diesel in two months.
​ ​Fuel supplies on the island nation are so low that the government has told citizens to stop waiting in long lines at filling stations. The government has run out of foreign reserves to pay for essential imports.
https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/bankrupt-sri-lanka-takes-russian-crude-fuel-crisis-depletes-stocks

​ ​No Progress In Turkey’s Talks With Sweden, Finland On NATO As Delegations Return Home
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/no-progress-turkeys-talks-sweden-finland-nato-delegations-return-home

​What are my national-security choices again?
Russia Conducts Hypersonic Missile Test Near Finland & Sweden
​ ​On Saturday Russia announced it conducted another successful test of the Zircon hypersonic missile, which reportedly flew over a distance of 1,000km (or 621 miles) after it was launched at a target in the White Sea.
​ ​The missile was fired from the Russian navy’s Admiral Grigorovich-class frigate the waters of the Barents Sea. The identified area for the test, given the hypersonic was launched from the Barents, is very close to waters off Finland and Sweden.
https://www.zerohedge.com/military/russia-conducts-hypersonic-missile-test-near-finland-sweden

​”international Rules Based Order”, Attn: “Exceptional Nation”​ (I don’t think “piracy” or even “privateering” is the correct term. It’s “war”.)
US Seizes Tanker Full of Iranian Oil Near Greece
Oil will be sent to the US, Iran faults ‘clear example of piracy’

US Seizes Tanker Full of Iranian Oil Near Greece

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Moon of Alabama (German) ​ [I think “Biden” maybe taken to mean whoever is making decisions on US foreign policy these days. Rockefeller interests?]
..The U.S. did not know of a ‘Russian invasion’. What it knew was that Zelensky, pushed by the U.S., would make another attempt to invade the Donbas republics with overwhelming force and that Russia’s leadership would have to react to such an assault on its compatriots.
The Ukrainian assault began on February 16 when over several days Ukrainian artillery increased its bombardment of Donbas by a factor of 40. Russia reacted to that and on February 24 preempted the planned ground assault.
The above part of Biden’s plan to provoke Russia into a war as a means to strengthen the U.S. position in Europe has worked well.
But how long will the coalition of the ‘west’ hold when inflation, energy scarcity and hunger set in? European unity is already falling apart with each country scrambling to fulfill its own energy needs.
Everyone can now see that the Ukraine, and with it the U.S., is losing the war. Meanwhile Russia is doing much better than anyone had expected.
What is Biden’s plan now as things fall apart? Escalating towards a wider war is an option but the risk of it is much higher than potential gains.
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/05/as-things-fall-apart-biden-may-want-to-escalate.html#more

​ ​Russia Pays Eurobond Coupons In FX As US Dashes To Close Loophole​ (​I​t’s illegal to fail to pay, and​ it’s​ illegal to pay.)
​ ​As Russia’s sovereign debt default showdown with the West continues to ratchet as Washington has been seeking to push Moscow into an involuntary bankruptcy by closing all loopholes for debt payments, all eyes were on a Friday deadline for Moscow to settle on two Eurobond coupons. Late in the day, Russia’s National Settlement Depository (NSD) announced it has successfully paid these coupons in dollar-denominated bond and euro-denominated notes, although it remains to be seen if correspondent banks will accept them and if the US won’t just claim the payments were illegal.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/russia-successfully-pays-eurobond-coupons-fx-us-dashes-close-loophole

​ Pepe Escobar looks at the Eurasian Economic Union ​meeting last week in Kyrgyzstan (not controlled by Rockefeller interests.)
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov keeps stressing that, “the West has declared total war against us, against the entire Russian world. Nobody even hides this now.” …
​..​The EAEU comprises five full members – Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Belarus and Armenia – yet 14 nations sent delegations to the forum, including China, Vietnam and Latin American nations.​..
​..The crucial point is that by 2025 they have to harmonize their legislation concerning financial markets. And that’s directly connected to what the executive body of the EAEU, led by Sergey Glazyev, is working on, extensively: designing the lineaments of an alternative financial/economic system to what the West would rather coin as Bretton Woods 3.​..
..​President Putin’s speech to the plenary session was quite revealing. To really appreciate the scope of what’s implied, it’s important to remember that the Greater Eurasian Partnership concept was presented by Putin in 2016 at the St. Petersburg Economic Forum, focused on a “more extensive Eurasian partnership involving the Eurasian Economic Union” and including China, Pakistan, Iran and India.
​ ​Putin stressed how the drive for developing ties “within the framework of the Greater Eurasian Partnership” (…) “was not the political situation but global economic trends, because the centre of economic development is gradually – we are aware of this, and our businesspeople are aware of this – is gradually moving, continues to move into the Asia-Pacific Region.”
​ ​He added, “in the current international conditions when, unfortunately, traditional trade and economic links and supply chains are being disrupted”, the Greater Eurasian Partnership “is gaining a special meaning.”
​ ​Putin established a direct connection not only between the Greater Eurasian Partnership and EAEU members but also “BRICS members such as China and India”, “the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, ASEAN and other organizations.”​ …
​..​Lavrov this week said that Argentina and Saudi Arabia want to join BRICS, whose next summer in China is being meticulously prepared. Not only that: Lavrov mentioned how quite a few Arab nations want to join the SCO. He was careful to describe this process of converging alliances as “not antagonistic”.
​ ​Putin for his part was careful to define the Greater Eurasian Partnership as “a big civilizational project. The main idea is to create a common space for equitable cooperation for regional organizations”, changing “the political and economic architecture on the entire continent.”​ …
​..The Eurasian Economic Forum has shown once again that this high-speed – economic integration – train has already left the station. It’s quite enlightening to notice the sharp contrast with the endless doom and gloom afflicting a collective West prone to inflation, energy shortages, food shortages, fictional “narratives” and the defense of neo-Nazis under the banner of liberal “democracy”.​ (It’s ​Globo-Cap what’s making “the west​”​ so deathly ​ill​, sez I.)

The Eurasian Economic Union Steps Up

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​Ukraine War update explains that ancient Russian T-62 tanks are now in Ukraine, not as main battle tanks, but at mobile bunkers to man roadblocks, fire with cannon and heavy machine-guns if necessary (against commando raids) and to give Russian troops a secure place to avoid Ukrainian commando attacks, especially at night. Russian forces now have a work-week pattern, with big, rapid territorial advances every Monday, followed by securing the area for the week, and preparing for next Monday… https://thesaker.is/sitrep-operation-z-were-going-down/

​ ​The process of ‘disowning’ the Ukraine has started.
​ ​Gen. Milley notes that the US has reopened military-to-military level talks with the Russians. His call to his Russian counterpart last week was “important” and it was “purposeful”
​ ​Of course, the talk of another peace plan is not born of care for people or human rights or democracy or deep held care for the Ukrainian people. It is driven by desperation and is a desperate grasp at avoiding a psychological defeat bigger than Afghanistan.
​ ​TASS/ Russia’s State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin took to his Telegram channel to highlight that the US and its partners do not plan to provide real assistance to Ukraine.
​ ​Ukraine will only get 15% of the $40 billion promised by the US, he said.
​ ​“Washington and Brussels do not really intend to help Ukraine, or solve its economic and social issues. They only need Ukraine to fight Russia till the last Ukrainian,” Volodin said.
​ ​According to the recent aid to Ukraine legislation signed by President Joe Biden, 35% of the $40 billion is going to finance the US Armed Forces, he explained. Meanwhile, 45.2% of that amount is set to be spent on other countries, not Ukraine, while another 4.8% will be earmarked to support refugees, and restore the US diplomatic mission in Ukraine. “Ukraine will only receive 15% of the allotted sum,” the speaker revealed.
​ ​But Ukrainians will have to pay off the whole sum, he said. The US is aware that Kiev will not be able to service the debt in the future. “That is why they are seizing Ukraine’s last reserves, including grain, which is what we are seeing right now”.
​ ​A list of those that want a piece of the pie is shaping up. Of course, Poland is not suddenly in love with the Ukraine without a reason. They want their piece of the land pie.​ ​https://thesaker.is/sitrep-operation-z-consequences-petty-tabaquis-howling/

​”Russia is stealing Ukraine’s Grain”​ (but only if you count Crimea as “Ukraine”, not if Crimea is part of Russia. Donetsk and Luhansk are no longer “Ukraine”, either.)
“Russia’s invasion of Ukraine will cause global starvation” … As Reuters reported this week, Ukraine still managed to export crops: “The ministry data showed that Ukraine has exported 46.51 mmt so far in the 2021/22 July-June season, versus 40.85 mmt a season earlier.” (Reuters 19 May 2022)
Frankly speaking, 22 mmt of grain will make little difference to the global shortage as it stands. Paradoxically Ukraine is paying for weapons provided by the West through grain exports.” Is it any surprise that Ukraine wants to use Odessa to ship its 70% expected export of grain crops and other products, as to be able to continue to pay for weapon deliveries? Ukrainian exports have largely transferred to Romanian, judging by the ship congestion seen on AIS.
​ ​Importantly, none of the Western experts or corporate MSM outlets have been able to mention the fact that Russia is the world’s largest exporter of grain, about 4 times the amount of wheat that Ukraine does, about 18% of global exports and this year is expected record crops harvest.​..
Sea mines
​ ​This narrative has been crafted for several months now, it first started by denying that Ukraine has laid sea mines to stop potential Russian amphibious assault on its shore, principally in the Odessa region. Practically all the Western media and experts rehashed the Ukrainian position that there were Russian sea mines. As stated in Russian MoD and maritime press releases, Ukrainian mines have drifted all over the Black Sea.
​ ​An estimated 200 – 400 anchor mines were laid around Odessa and the northwest Black Sea. Back in February some of them have parted from their chains in storms and subsequently drifted with the current southwards. A couple of mines had temporarily closed the Bosphorous to shipping transit several times,
​ ​One that was neutralised by the Romanian Navy just happened to be an old sea mine that have distinct Ukrainian markings​…
​ Now we have the grain crop blockade by the Russian Navy narrative, tied in with the alarms of a global famine, opportunely provoked by Russia, (as previously outlined above in Part 1). There are calls to have NATO ships to escort the bulkers in the Black Sea. Slight snag with that is who gets to demine the Ukrainian ports? Ukraine or NATO?​ …
​ ​(UK Minister of Defense) Liz Truss stated that “the UK would want British naval ships to join the escort if the practicalities could be sorted, including demining the harbour and providing Ukraine with longer-range weapons to defend the harbour from Russian attack.” See how a “humanitarian mission” is tightly dovetailed into a case for “sending more weapons”.​..
..Not a single Western MSM outlet has bothered to mention what the Russian MoD and Navy are doing with regards to the blocked shipping. As with the now famous land corridors, Russia has implemented a maritime version for civilian shipping. This hardly a blockade. This humanitarian corridor is part of the IMO’s “establishment and support the implementation of a blue safe maritime corridor in the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov”.

Grains of deceit (updated with visual of maritime corridor set up by the Russian Navy)

​ ​After being accused of using the food supply as blackmail and a bargaining chip, Russia said Wednesday its military will open up protected sea corridors for international shipping to pass through from seven Ukrainian ports that have thus far been blockaded.
​ ​According to a defense ministry statement reported by Bloomberg late in the day, “Humanitarian maritime corridors from ports on the Black Sea and Azov Sea, including Odesa, will operate from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. daily.”…Russia has stressed that its military is engaged in extensive and complex demining operations due thousands of mines dotting Ukraine’s coast placed by Ukrainian forces, making international shipping dangerous and impossible. As reported in the independent Moscow Times:
​ ​The port of Mariupol has resumed normal operations, Russia’s Defense Ministry announced Wednesday.
​ ​The Defense Ministry said Black Sea Fleet specialists cleared more than 12,000 mines from the seaport and its surrounding areas. https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russia-open-sea-corridors-ukraine-ports-amid-wheat-crisis-warns-ukrainian-mines

[John Day]

The Russian ministry of Defense has a lot to say about US bioweapons programs/labs in Ukraine, and the complete falsification of reporting documents every year, even changing reports from year to year; sloppiness. I’m picking out this bit about Smallpox, related to “monkeypox”, as you will recall…​​

​ ​As part of the special military operation, materials of US instructors training Ukrainian specialists in emergency response to smallpox outbreaks were discovered in biolaboratories in Ukraine.

​ ​The Pentagon’s interest in this infection is far from accidental: the return of the smallpox pathogen would be a global catastrophe for all mankind.
​ ​Thus, compared to COVID-19, this pathogen is just as contagious (infectious), but its lethality is 10 times higher.
​ ​As early as 2003, the US Department of Defense established the Smallpox Vaccination Programme, which requires all US military personnel to be vaccinated. Vaccination in the United States is compulsory for diplomatic and medical personnel. This demonstrates that the US considers smallpox as a priority pathogenic biological agent for combat use, and that vaccine prophylaxis activities are aimed at protecting its own military contingents.
​ ​Lack of proper controls and biosecurity breaches in the US could lead to the use of this pathogen for terrorist purposes. Between 2014 and 2021, unaccounted-for vials of the virus were repeatedly found in laboratories at the Federal Drug Administration and the US Army Infectious Disease Research Institute (Maryland) and the Vaccine Research Centre (Pennsylvania).
​ ​Work at these organisations was in violation of World Health Assembly Resolution 49.10 of 1996, which stipulated that only one US laboratory, the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, could store smallpox pathogen.​ https://thesaker.is/russian-mod-briefing-on-the-results-of-the-analysis-of-documents-related-to-the-military-biological-activities-of-the-united-states-on-the-territory-of-ukraine/

Meryl Nass MD: Here’s what you should know about the latest Money Pox … The smallpox vaccine causes a huge number of myocarditis cases and other known cardiac problems, making it almost certainly more dangerous than the risk of getting monkeypox. One in 220 recipients developed an obvious case of myocarditis in a US military study published in 2015, and one in 30 got a subclinical case.

Why would ANYONE take such a high risk of cardiac damage to avoid a miniscule risk of money pox? Only because they were misinformed. https://merylnass.substack.com/p/heres-what-you-should-know-about?s=r

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​Your cellphone data can measure your carbon footprint based on travels you make and purchases you make, tax you accordingly, or exclude you from economic activity and travel if you don’t do your fair share… It’s a “green” business model.
​ ​It is important to remember the ultimate goal of the ‘climate change’ promot​e​rs (World Economic Forum) is not an energy system that changes the global climate. The goal of the ‘climate change’ group is to create a carbon trading system; a new financial mechanism (a global tax program) to control human activity on a world-wide basis. This system also needs a digital identity in order to work.
​ ​You cannot tax or trade things you cannot track. As a result, there was always going to be a need for an individual tracking and monitoring system that would connect to the global digital identity and determine the carbon footprint.
​https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/05/24/canadian-multinational-executive-outlines-tech-initiative-to-create-consumer-carbon-footprint-tracker/

UN Warns of “Total Societal Collapse” Due to Breaching of Planetary Boundaries, Nafeez Ahmed
(OK, I’ll get an iPhone and you can carbon-tax me to save us.) Thanks Again, Red.
When the United Nations published its 2022 ‘Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction’ (GAR2022) in May, the world’s attention was on its grim verdict that the world was experiencing an accelerating trend of natural disasters and economic crises. But not a single media outlet picked up the biggest issue: the increasing probability of civilisational collapse.
Buried in the report, which was endorsed by UN Secretary-General António Guterres, is the finding that escalating synergies between disasters, economic vulnerabilities and ecosystem failures are escalating the risk of a “global collapse” scenario…
​ ​The planetary boundaries framework was developed by the Stockholm Resilience Centre in 2009 to provide what it calls a “science-based analysis of the risk that human perturbations will destabilise the Earth system at the planetary scale”. This framework identifies a range of nine key ecosystems which, if pushed passed a certain threshold, will dramatically reduce the “safe operating space” for human habitation.
​ ​The report notes that at least four of the nine planetary boundaries now seem to be operating outside the safe operating space.​..
..​biochemical flows and ‘novel entities’ (“new engineered chemicals, materials or organisms and natural elements mobilised by human activity such as heavy metals”) have “far exceeded” that space.​.. according to Professor Will Steffen of the Stockholm Resilience Centre, two more planetary boundaries – ocean acidification and freshwater use – would probably by then also be “transgressed”, meaning that we are breaching six out of nine planetary boundaries.​.. “From the scenario analysis… it is evident that in the absence of ambitious policy and near global adoption and successful implementation, the world continually tends towards the global collapse scenario,” it says.​..
​ Global Catastrophic Risk (GCR) events are defined as those leading to more than 10 million fatalities or greater than $10 trillion in damages.
The paper’s worst-case global collapse scenario is described as the result of multiple planetary boundaries being breached, increasing the likelihood of GCR events that set in motion a sequence of economic and political breakdowns, which further drive ecological collapse processes.
​In this scenario, “total societal collapse is a possibility”, the paper warns.​
[And when your only tool is a hierarchical global bureaucracy…]
​ ​Although “reactive” policies are necessary to mitigate existing risks, the paper calls for a focus on “preventive” policies to build greater system resilience and to avoid further crossing planetary boundaries.
​ ​In particular, it calls for “the creation of a planetary boundaries goal” in the next version of the SDGs adopted after 2030, along with “the incorporation of GCR into the targets”.​..
​..​A senior advisor to the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction and contributor to the Global Assessment Report who spoke to Byline Times on condition of anonymity, claims that the GAR2022 was watered-down before public release.
​ ​The source said that the world had “passed a point of no return” and “I don’t feel that this is being properly represented in UN or media as of now”.
​ ​“The GAR2022 is an eviscerated skeleton of what was included in earlier drafts,” they claimed.​ ​ [I’m homesteading. Best I can​ do…]​ https://bylinetimes.com/2022/05/26/un-warns-of-total-societal-collapse-due-to-breaching-of-planetary-boundaries/

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Think Much Smaller post is up. For all my work with the Mexican (cold-hardy-ish) avocado trees, you will see that one is doing much better after last winter than any of the others.
https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/think-much-smaller?s=w

Red sent this article, The Complexity Trap, from The Consciousness Of Sheep blog. It explains the fundamentals of energy economy, which were well described in the early 1930s. It explains the depletion of high quality coal, which was part of the cause of the Great Depression and WW-2, and its replacement with oil, an even denser and more versatile fuel. There is no such replacement this time, as we have used up most of the easy-oil, and what’s left is expensive to extract, so take-it-at-that-price or walk away on foot.
We don’t have an economic model for a contracting economy, as all inputs become more scarce and expensive. (Hold my beer. Watch this!)
​ ​Several decades ago, sociologist Joseph Tainter observed that collapsing civilisations have a habit of unconsciously entering into complexity traps, adding energy-intensive complexity in a desperate attempt to sustain themselves. Our turn to energy-intensive automation in an attempt to overcome our growing woes and to maintain economic growth is likely repeating the same folly. The difference – at least for those who see the economy as primarily an energy rather than a monetary system – is that we have the necessary knowledge to avoid our complexity trap if only we are prepared to actively simplify away from an economy based on mass consumption in favour of one based around material simplicity

The complexity trap

​ Robert Malone MD, one of the developers of mRNA gene-therapy technology, and a major critic of the “vaccines” which employ that technology, has been attacked repeatedly for that. He sees where those attacks originate, the interests of those who attack him, and says here that the higher levels of government are fully corrupted. We need to make our stands at the state and local levels or become slaves without rights.​
Defending Sovereignty: The Fight of our Lifetime
Continuous vigilance and vigorous support of States’ Constitutional rights is critical
​ ​A gradual and silent encroachment of our freedom and Federal, States’ and individual sovereignty by a globalist financial corporate cartel continues to proceed. One key aspect of our current political reality in the US is that many of our laws at the Federal level have been placed there by corporate stakeholders.​..
​ ​In parallel, within the many branches of the US Federal bureaucracy, regulatory capture has become the norm. Furthermore, it has become increasingly clear that it is grossly naive to expect solutions to these corrupting influences to come from either Congress or the entrenched and captured bureaucracy.
https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/defending-sovereignty-the-fight-of?s=r

​ ​Dr. Peter McCullough on Friday sketched what he believes is the true purpose of an induced COVID “medical crisis”: global world government.​
​“What we’re seeing now is the utilization of vaccines as an inroad to global human compliance. Subjugation of the entire world’s population at the same time, via the same method. Having our rights linked to the end of a hypodermic needle,”
https://www.globalresearch.ca/dr-mccullough-medical-crisis-being-exploited-push-global-government/5781106

[John Day]

“playing hard lately” (same keyboard, same proofreading)

[John Day]

@Dr. D: Good stuff again. You’ve been playing a good game; playing had lately.
Soros & Clinton team losing (Bush family in disarray, but Cheney lives, still…)
Rockefeller team ascendant.
NYT has the headlines.
See 99 y/o Henry K. for details.

[John Day]

@Chooch; the horse that Putin is riding looks very calm.
I think she is a mare.
I like the picture of Putin riding a bear, but I think it’s not real.

@V.Arnold: What do you mean by “survive”? i see Russia “surviving” this historical epoch without being parasitized by the rotting-zombie-global-financial-capitalist-system.
Maybe I’m wrong, but I feel like I’m reading history right.

I think “the west” might rise again. Hell, the south might rise again, for that matter.
Russia rose again, after not quite being choked to death.
China might go down again, too, before this is all over. China is harder for me to comprehend, because I can’t see what is really going on under the surface.
“Lotsa’ rot”, some say..

Russia has the most resources per capita (USA #2), the most recently revived and vigorous national government, and a military capable of protecting the nation from anybody, and maybe even from everybody.

[John Day]

Frank Zappa had this to say about “Eskimos” (Inuit) and snow.

[John Day]

“liver cell line they used”
(marginal keyboard. lack of proofreading)

[John Day]

@Boscohorowitz: i like the name of the human liver cell line theu sed in the study that shows Pfizer mRNA vaccine is reverse-transcribed into DNA.
“In this study, we investigated the effect of BNT162b2 on the human liver cell line Huh7 in vitro.”
It looks like “Huh?”

[John Day]

Right-On, Sister!

Phoenixvoice said: “The only person close enough to my ex to determine that he should have no access to firearms was me. Gun control is not the way to reduce mass shootings…we have to heal our sick society.”

[John Day]

D Benton Smith said: “Why anyone would want to be served by robotized human is a concept that escapes me, but the fact that it is being done . . . as evidenced by the events in Uvalde and elsewhere. . . is patently obvious. It is being done by the step-by-step incremental removal of sovereignty and self ownership OF humans AS humans.

That’s a good description of what happened with the local police.
The lone Border Security Agent arrived and acted as an army of one.
Different chain of command.
He was IT.

[John Day]

I think the irritation of some of the things Hillary has said, or which were ghostwritten in her name, comes from the obvious hypocrisy, when they emanate from her.
I think communities do benefit from shared norms and directing children in those norms when they do things like bullying, for instance.

[John Day]

@D Benton Smith: Good work recently, Brother.

@Red: Thanks for the Consciousness Of Sheep article, that says what I like to say once a week or so.

@Michael Reid: Well spoken, Friend.

[John Day]

MPSK said: “My brother was put on prozac when he was dying of pancreatic cancer. When it kicked in, he asked us to babysit his gun, as he feared he might kill himself.
I believe serotonin imparts resolve- removing that vacillation, stalling, and lethargy that accompanies depression. It makes it easier to act on a decision, no matter how bad that decision might be.”

Indeed, the peak in suicides of depressed teenage males seems to happen a couple of weeks after the SSRi is started, as it is starting to work. There is an “activation” phase and the depressed person starts to rise out of torpor and inactivity.
Teenage males can be volatile, but suicide has sort of a “ratchet effect” on volatile actions.

i just caught up on the last few days of posts and comments. good work Everybody!
The kitchen build-in is slowly progressing as i have so much work to do on reinforcing cheap cabinets to last 30 year.

[John Day]

Is Subject #12312982 the Key to Proving Pfizer Vaccine Trial Fraud​, ​The Story of Augusto Roux​ ​
​ ​Subject # 12312982 in Pfizer study C4591001 is Augusto Roux, a 35-year old lawyer from Buenos Aires, Argentina who volunteered for Pfizer’s stage 3 trial of its COVID-19 vaccine (or whatever you want to call it) in order to protect his mother with emphysema.​ ​
(​Briefly, this attorney who kept excellent evidentiary records, got pericarditis from the vaccine, got hospitalized, got gaslighted, got his diagnosis falsified, got lied to, had his trial-records falsified by those running the trial, and presents proof all of this fraud.)​
https://jackanapes.substack.com/p/is-subject-12312982-the-key-to-proving?s=r

There are several layers to the DoD fraud about the vaccine adverse event numbers in active-duty service members. The DoD changed systems in 2021 and wants you to believe that explains everything. It does not, and can be corrected-for. Tessa (Fights Robots) Lena has the story, and a good synopsis.
A DoD Data Fraud? A Conversation with Mathew Crawford
https://tessa.substack.com/p/mathew-crawford-dod?s=r

​Pfizer has an ironclad defense, a contract with the Dod, exempting the company from every usual requirement and liability:
Pfizer has asked a U.S. court to throw out a lawsuit from a whistleblower who revealed problems at sites that tested Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine.
​ ​Brook Jackson, the whistleblower, alleged in a suit that was unsealed in February that Pfizer and associated parties violated clinical trial regulations and federal laws, including the False Claims Act.
​ ​In its motion to dismiss, Pfizer says the regulations don’t apply to its vaccine contract with the U.S. Department of Defense because the agreement was executed under the department’s Other Transaction Authority (OTA), which gives contract holders the ability to skirt many rules and laws that typically apply to contracts.
​ ​That means that Jackson’s claim that Pfizer must still comply with the Federal Acquisition Regulations “is simply wrong,” Pfizer said.
​ ​Warner Mendenhall, a lawyer who is working on Jackson’s case, said in a recent interview that Pfizer has “clearly not followed federal procurement laws.”
“And now they’re saying, ‘of course we didn’t follow federal procurement laws, we didn’t have to—this was just for a prototype,’” he added.
​ ​Mendenhall, who declined an interview request, said lawyers for Jackson are working on figuring out legal ways to counter Pfizer’s argument.
“We may lose on this issue because their contract imposes … none of the normal checks and balances on quality control and consumer protection that we fought for decades in this country,” he said.
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/pfizer-moves-dismiss-lawsuit-covid-19-vaccine-trial-citing-prototype-agreement

​”Amyloid” is globs of useless protein clogging up cells and organs. It has been seen in COVID, yes, but it has been seen a LOT in cases of mRNA vaccine adverse reactions, characterized by continuous production of spike protein in the vaccine-recipients. The amyloid clogging up organs like heart, kidneys, lungs and brain appears to be spike-protein. I saw that hypothesis presented earlier this year. This clinches it, but the researchers don’t exactly say those words.
​ In patients with serious and long-term COVID-19, disrupted blood coagulation has often been observed. Now, researchers at Linköping University (LiU), Sweden, have discovered that the body’s immune system can affect the spike protein on the surface of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, leading to the production of a misfolded spike protein called amyloid. The discovery of a possible connection between harmful amyloid production and symptoms of COVID-19 has now been published in the Journal of American Chemical Society…
​ ​Using computer simulations, the researchers discovered that the coronavirus’ spike protein contained seven different sequences which could potentially produce amyloid. Three of the seven sequences met the researchers’ criteria for being counted as amyloid-producing sequences when experimentally tested. They produced, among other things, so-called fibrils, which look like long threads when examined under an electron microscope…
​ ​“We have never seen such perfect, but scary, fibrils as these ones from the amyloid-producing SARS-CoV-2 spike protein and pieces thereof. The fibrils starting from the full-sized spike protein branched out like limbs on a body. Amyloids don’t usually branch out like that. We believe that it is due to the characteristics of the spike protein”, says Per Hammarström, professor at the Department of Physics, Chemistry and Biology (IFM) at Linköping University.

Scientists May Have Discovered the Mechanism Behind Mysterious COVID-19 Symptoms

[John Day]

Losing control of the control-narrative.
Struggling to speak coherently, Biden said “When it comes to the gas prices, we’re going through an incredible transition that is taking place that God willing when it’s over we’ll be stronger.”
“The world will be stronger and less reliant on fossil fuels when this is over,” Biden added.
Biden also claimed he attempted to combat soaring prices by releasing 180 million barrels of oil from emergency stockpiles in late March, but admitted that it hasn’t had any effect.

Video: Biden Admits Sky Rocketing Energy Prices Are Part Of Green “Transition”

​ ​The EU has put an end to the lingering ambiguity surrounding how EU members can pay for Russian gas without violating sanctions.
Russia has demanded that countries pay for its gas in rubles, although European governments have struggled to find a way to oblige Russia while not running afoul of sanctions. Further complicating matters—until now—was the EU’s lack of clarification on whether such an arrangement would violate the current sanctions.
​ ​On Friday, Germany and Italy both told companies that they could open up rubles accounts in order to purchase Russian gas, in line with President Vladimir Putin’s request.
Russia’s request has companies opening up two accounts at Gazprombank; one in euros or U.S. dollars and another in rubles.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/eu-gives-ok-to-pay-for-russian-gas-in-rubles/5781228

​ ​The European Union is about to agree on a Russian oil embargo within days, Germany’s Economy Ministry Robert Habeck told media.
“We will reach a breakthrough within days,” Habeck told German ZDF, as quoted by Reuters.
​ ​Just a day earlier, Habeck had told the media that Germany was so eager to impose an embargo on Russian oil imports that it was willing to do it without a consensus among all 27 EU members.
​ ​Speaking to another German news channel, Habeck said that “If the Commission president says we’re doing this as 26 without Hungary, then that is a path that I would always support,” adding, however, “But I have not yet heard this from the EU.”​ …
​ ​That’s despite the fact that the refinery supplying fuel for the capital Berlin and its surroundings is majority-owned by Russia’s Rosneft and runs on Russian crude. Earlier this month, Shell’s chief executive warned the 233,000-bpd facility would start reducing production as soon as deliveries of Russian crude stop.
​ ​Suspending Russian oil imports, Ben van Beurden said, “will probably mean that that refinery will be turned down quite significantly because the incoming logistics are constrained and the refinery is not configured for anything else but Urals.”
​ ​The European Union has granted Hungary, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, and Bulgaria temporary exemptions from an embargo, giving them more time to find alternative suppliers.
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Crude-Oil/Germany-Expects-Oil-Embargo-Decision-This-Week.html

​Viktor Orban just got another huge electoral mandate. Hungarians like their cheap Russian gas and oil. What will Slovakia, the Czechs and Bulgarians decide?
Hungary Declares Wartime State Of Emergency
​ ​On Wednesday, Hungary will announce its first measures under the new state of emergency – which Orban began laying groundwork for even before his cabinet’s swearing in ceremony on Tuesday. Besides amending the constitution in order to use his new emergency powers, the 58-year-old leader gave his chief of staff oversight of the country’s intelligence services.
​ ​Orban, the EU’s longest serving head of government, is sitting on his fourth consecutive administration following yet another landslide election victory last month. He’s notably clashed with other member nations on a range of issues, including his opposition to an EU ban on Russian oil.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/hungary-declares-wartime-state-emergency

[John Day]

“From The Mouths Of Blobs” is up https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/from-the-mouths-of-blobs?s=w

Henry Kissinger, not known for saying things that embarrass him the next week, says that Ukraine should cede territory to Russia in return for peace, and should do so promptly. He says that we live in “a totally new era” in terms of how quickly use of modern weapons could escalate to total destruction, and that we should be mindful of that, and mindful of the firm positions of other parties…
“Negotiations need to begin in the next two months before it creates upheavals and tensions that will not be easily overcome.
Ideally, the dividing line should be a return to the status quo ante.
Pursuing the war beyond that point would not be about the freedom of Ukraine, but a new war against Russia itself,” he said.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/blue-checks-furious-after-henry-kissinger-says-ukraine-should-cede-territory-peace

Ron Paul asks what the Biden Administration’s Ukraine End-Game might be.
​ Last week, President Biden signed a massive $40 billion military aid bill for Ukraine. Who cares that inflation is killing the American economy and mothers can’t even get baby formula. For Washington, spending on war and empire always seems to trump America’s interests.
To put this giveaway to Ukraine in perspective: just since late February, the US has provided nearly $60 billion in “assistance” to Ukraine. That is almost half that country’s entire 2020 GDP! …
..Defense Secretary Austin outlined the Administration’s new intention not long ago when he said that the real goal is to weaken Russia…
​..​There is a reason our Constitution grants war powers to the legislative branch. Forcing Members of the House and Senate to declare the US to be in a state of war also enables them – through the powers of the purse-string – to define the goals of the war and particularly what a victory looks like. That prevents the kind of mission-creep and shifting objectives that have characterized our endless wars in the 21st century – including this current proxy war with Russia.
http://ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2022/may/23/whats-bidens-end-game-in-ukraine/

Pepe Escobar has a good, detailed and broad update again. Here is a little of it:
Ukraine is the Holy Grail of international corruption. That $40 billion can be a game-changer for only two classes of people: First, the US military-industrial complex, and second, a bunch of Ukrainian oligarchs and neo-connish NGOs, that will corner the black market for weapons and humanitarian aid, and then launder the profits in the Cayman Islands.
A quick breakdown of the $40 billion reveals $8.7 billion will go to replenish the US weapons stockpile (thus not going to Ukraine at all); $3.9 billion for USEUCOM (the ‘office’ that dictates military tactics to Kiev); $5 billion for a fuzzy, unspecified “global food supply chain”; $6 billion for actual weapons and “training” to Ukraine; $9 billion in “economic assistance” (which will disappear into selected pockets); and $0.9 billion for refugees.
https://thesaker.is/nato-vs-russia-what-happens-next/

Moon of Alabama fills in some other details, and also comments that it “feels insane when Henry Kissinger is the only sane voice in the room”.
The UK support to break the Russian blockade of Odesa is fact-checked. Russia is not blockading Odesa. Ukraine mined the harbor. Things like that.
The US DoD seems to have accidentally hung all of the Ukrainian flags upside down at a press briefing.
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/05/flag-abuse-and-other-bits-on-ukraine.html#more

[John Day]

Pepe Escobar has a pretty good Ukraine update.
https://thesaker.is/nato-vs-russia-what-happens-next/

[John Day]

@Dr D Rich and Zerosum. Thanks for not taking offense. None was intended.

🙂

[John Day]

On Orlov’s “Make Russia Great Again” essay.
This is sarcasm, well done.
However, what is the “actual” reason for the result that Russia has become stronger, more competent and the most self-sufficient country, despite attempts by western financial capitalism and military maneuvers to exploit Russia’s vast resources and dispossess her?

That is actually a difficult question, which bears directly upon what one supposes the mechanisms are which guide the workings of human affairs in the world.
Is there an actual strength to be found in modest virtue?
I’m not answering for you, but Orlov clearly poses the question in an oblique way.

I assert that we should all have an internal model of how the world actually works for humans as they carry out their affairs. Is there “karma”, or is the function a fancy clockwork of some sort/?
How would “karma” possibly function?
How quickly could one become certain that one had developed the right and reliable understanding?

What might be the best and least risky approaches to gaining understanding of how this complex human world works to punish and reward human decisions and actions?

If I tell you, I might well be wrong, and how would you determine that?

[John Day]

Sergey Lavrov on emerging multipolar world:
The trend consists of the strengthening of this multipolar character, because new centres of economic growth and financial might are appearing in reality (have already appeared). This process is accompanied by increased political influence: China, India, Brazil and South Africa are BRICS countries. They are part of the G20 where both G7 and BRICS are represented, as well as other states that are gravitating towards BRICS. This is the format where the West has to talk with the new centres of the world growth. There is no doubt that the final victory will belong to life rather than artificial attempts to curb the advance of a historical process. They can reach their targets for some time. Now the West is feverishly trying to impede these processes agonising in its response to Russia’s actions in defence of its lawful interests but life will gain the upper hand. There is no doubt that the world will be multipolar. The large self-respecting nations will not settle for the role that the West wants to allot to them, the role of obedient observers. No colonial regime in history lasts for a long time and remains sustainable.
https://thesaker.is/foreign-minister-sergey-lavrovs-remarks-and-answers-to-questions-during-a-meeting-with-the-new-horizons-educational-marathon-participants/

[John Day]

Zerosum said:
Our Civilization will not survive the destruction. Nothing will rise from the ashes.
“Civilization May Not Survive” – George Soros Tells Davos Crowd, Defeat Putin (And Xi) Or Else
“The best and perhaps only way to preserve our civilization is to defeat Putin as soon as possible.
That’s the bottom line”

Maybe, just maybe, it is Mr. Soros who will not survive and will fail to rise from the ashes.

I would distinguish a difference in his words to the Davos crowd:
“The best and perhaps only way to preserve OUR CIVILIZATION is to defeat Putin as soon as possible. That’s the bottom line”.

Nice-Mr-Soros seems to be talking about the “civilization” owned by the Davos attendees, perhaps not every-possible-civilization.
Some outliers might even consider Russia to have a “civilization”, even an ancient civilization, evolved from that of Byzantium, but now I’m just talking-crazy.

[John Day]

@Teri: “Innocence of evidence” now trumps “evidence of innocence”… 🙁
Red Queen: “No, sentence first, THEN verdict!”

No right to “representation” has existed for 30 years, and there is a backlog of injustice. Now it is declared to be the constitutional status.
As Dr.D says, “Words mean what I determine them to mean”.

[John Day]

Pre-emptive PR strike?
Ukraine convicts Russian POW of killing unarmed civilian on ordersofsuperior officer, sentences to life in prison. https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russian-soldier-given-life-sentence-ukraines-first-war-crimes-trial

[John Day]

Henry-the-K doesn’t say stuff that backfires on him next week.

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