[John Day]

​”Simple”, but politically-difficult: 6 Simple Steps to Reform Big Pharma Clayton J. Baker, M.D.
Six changes in federal law — four repeals of existing law, and two new pieces of legislation — would go a long way toward reining in and even reforming the pharmaceutical industry.​..
​..The six simple steps are:
Repeal the 1980 Bayh-Dole Act.
​ Repeal the 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act.
Repeal the 2004 Project Bioshield Act.
​ Repeal the 2005 PREP Act.
Outlaw direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical advertising.
​ Encode medical freedom into federal law.​ https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/6-simple-steps-to-reform-big-pharma/

​ Synthetic Food Dyes: A Half-Century of Harm, Nicolas Hulscher, MPH
Outdated FDA standards expose Americans to toxic food dyes linked to cancer, neurobehavioral issues, and other health risks, demanding urgent regulatory action.​ https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/synthetic-food-dyes-a-half-century

​ The War On Froot Loops​ [​Fight this one fast and keep advancing.]
​ The maker of Froot Loops has faced criticism for using artificial food dyes that some say cause health problems in children. Now-incoming HHS secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a vocal critic of processed foods, argues that companies opt for artificial dyes because they’re cheaper than natural alternatives, despite potential health risks, according to the Wall Street Journal.
​ Kellogg maintains that the colors used in its cereals are considered safe by scientific bodies worldwide. And therein lies, as WSJ puts it, “how Froot Loops landed at the center of U.S. food politics”.
​ Because now President-elect Trump has given Kennedy a platform to tackle chronic disease by targeting harmful chemicals in food. Kennedy often criticizes companies for using artificial dyes, which he says are cheaper but problematic for health.
​ These dyes, found in products like Froot Loops and M&M’s, enhance appearance but are restricted in some countries. While some U.S. brands offer dye-free versions abroad, efforts to replace dyes domestically have met resistance from consumers favoring the original look and taste.
​ The Wall Street Journal reported that critics argue Kennedy’s stance lacks scientific backing, while consumer advocates support his push to ban synthetic dyes, especially in foods marketed to children.​ https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/war-froot-loops

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​ Steve Kirsch reports what was already leaked by early 2021, and I reported then. Pfizer pregnancy trial showed the COVID shots increased AESIs (like major congenital abnormalities) in newborns by over 4X
​ There was no benefit in terms of reduced COVID infections. But vaccinated moms had major adverse events happen to their babies at a rate 4.2X higher than unvaxxed moms. Does anyone care?​ https://kirschsubstack.com/p/pfizer-pregnancy-trial-showed-the

​ Meryl Nass MD elucidates the testimony of Robert Redfield MD: Role of Ralph Baric as source of SARS-CoV-2 resurfaces in remarks by Robert Redfield
Why are Baric and his lab so wealthy?​ https://merylnass.substack.com/p/role-of-ralph-baric-as-source-of

​Jessica Rose Ph.D. (IgG-4 is the “tolerance antibody”, not a defender-antibody.) Increased susceptibility to SARS-2 infection/COVID-19 – signal emanating from VAERS
VAERS domestic data corroborates IgG4 class switch leading to tolerance​ https://jessicar.substack.com/p/increased-susceptibility-to-sars

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Cut it from the budget… F-35 is Modern Rube Goldberg Machine, Musk is Right to Criticize It – Former Pentagon Analyst https://sputnikglobe.com/20241126/f-35-is-modern-rube-goldberg-machine-musk-is-right-to-criticize-it–former-pentagon-analyst-1121011473.html

David Stockman does not talk about debt default/restructuring, David Stockman on How To Cut $2 Trillion of Fat, Muscle and Bone From the Federal Budget
A goal of $2 trillion of budget savings is crucial to the very future of constitutional democracy and capitalist prosperity in America. In fact, the soaring public debt is now so out-of-control that the Federal budget threatens to become a self-fueling financial doomsday machine. So more power to the DOGE of Musk & Ramaswamy. In spades!
​ For want of doubt, just recall this sequence. When Ronald Reagan was elected in 1980 on a call to bring the nation’s inflationary budget under control, the public debt was $1 trillion.
​ By the time Donald Trump was elected the first time it had erupted to $20 trillion, which has now become $36 trillion. And under current built-in spending and tax policies it will hit $60 trillion by the end of the current 10-year budget window.​ https://internationalman.com/articles/david-stockman-on-how-to-cut-2-trillion-of-fat-muscle-and-bone-from-the-federal-budget/

​They can get rid of fluoride quickly and relatively easily, an immediate accomplishment. Florida’s Surgeon General Comes Out Against Fluoride In Water Supply https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/floridas-surgeon-general-comes-out-against-fluoride-water-supply

​ Trump Taps COVID-Contrarian, Staunch Public Health Critic Makary For FDA
​ Declaring that the FDA has “lost the trust of Americans,” Trump said Makary will “course-correct and refocus the agency,” to include “properly evaluat[ing] harmful chemicals poisoning our nation’s food supply and drugs and biologics being given to our nation’s youth, so that we can finally address the childhood chronic disease epidemic.”
​ Makary grew to national notoriety as one of several highly-credentialed physicians who pushed back on many elements of the federal response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Testifying before Congress, Makary said:
​ “The greatest perpetrator of misinformation during the pandemic has been the United States government. Misinformation that Covid was spread through surface transmission, that vaccinated immunity was far greater than natural immunity…that myocarditis was more common after the infection than the vaccine…that young people benefit from a booster…” ​ https://www.zerohedge.com/political/trump-taps-covid-contrarian-and-public-health-critic-makary-fda

​ Bombshell Fauci Documentary Nails The Whole COVID Charade
Now, four years later, the entire charade has been exposed piece by piece.
​ A new must-watch documentary by two-time Peabody Award-winning and four-time Emmy nominated director Jenner Furst, a self-described progressive who has broken with the Democratic party, ties it all together.​ Thank You, Dr. Fauci​ https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/hey-elon-hey-rand-mega-censored-fauci-documentary-nails-whole-charade

[John Day]

​ Yes, but this may collapse the ICC, too. Netanyahu ‘wanted’: A landmark legal moment in the Palestinian struggle
​ The ICC’s arrest warrant for Netanyahu and Gallant has beamed a blinding spotlight on Israel’s war crimes, marking a major legal step in holding Tel Aviv accountable for its atrocities in Gaza, while shaking up the halls of international diplomacy.​ https://thecradle.co/articles/netanyahu-wanted-a-landmark-legal-moment-in-the-palestinian-struggle

​ Charles Hugh Smith has constructive analysis, Anti-Progress, Breakdown, Reset
The indicators of breakdown and collapse are all around us, but we don’t dare name them because then they’d become a problem we can’t bury.​ https://charleshughsmith.substack.com/p/anti-progress-breakdown-reset

​”Us” against “Them”: NYT & Bloomberg Bury Rutgers Study Showing DEI Makes People Hostile https://www.zerohedge.com/political/nyt-bloomberg-bury-rutgers-study-showing-dei-makes-people-hostile

​ US suffered ‘worst telecom hack’ in history – senator​ (Well, now ​your words ​are in 2 sets of wrong-hands. Don’t even think pre-criminal thoughts…)
Hackers allegedly exploited systems set up by the US authorities to wiretap Americans​ https://swentr.site/news/608114-us-hacked-spying-backdoor/

​Can I get that for a sports-car? China Creates Coating Making Warplanes Invisible to Anti-Stealth Radars https://sputnikglobe.com/20241125/china-creates-coating-making-warplanes-invisible-to-anti-stealth-radars-1120996546.html

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Paul Craig Roberts, The Utter and Total Insanity of Western “Leadership”
​ With life on earth dependent on Putin’s patience with the West, what does the West do? The NATO Military Committee openly discusses a preemptive attack on Russia. To be effective, the attack would have to be nuclear.
​ Admiral Rob Bauer, the insane fool who is head of the NATO military committee, said publicly that NATO has changed its attitude and is no longer the defense organization that its charter defines it to be. It has become a first strike force. Here are his words: “It is more competent not to wait, but to hit launchers in Russia in case Russia attacks us. A combination of precision strikes is needed that will disable the systems that are used to attack us, and we must strike first.”
​ If not insanity, it is the triumph of evil that the West tells Putin, whose patience is the only guarantor of avoidance of nuclear war, that NATO is considering preemptive strikes on Russia.
​ My warning yesterday and my denunciation of the stupidly insane Western “leaders” who have us slated for total destruction was not strong enough. We now have NATO, a puppet organization of Washington, telling Putin to expect a first strike attack to prevent him from making good on his warning about starting a war with Russia.​ https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2024/11/25/the-utter-and-total-insanity-of-western-leadership/

​ Gilbert Doctorow, ‘Judging Freedom’ edition of 27 November 2024: Russia’s Deadly New Missile
Our chat with Judge Andrew Napolitano opened with a look into the technical achievements that the recently used Oreshnik medium range hypersonic ballistic missile represents and whether there is any justification for its existence having been overlooked by U.S. intelligence. We then moved on to how the Kremlin perceives the seeming defiance of the United States to this new reality of superior Russian arms as witnessed by their further ATACMS strikes in the Kursk region this past Sunday and Monday. This led us to the question of whether the Russians will show forbearance at such provocations while waiting for Donald Trump’s inauguration on 20 January or will carry out a very tough retaliation now as many fear. https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2024/11/27/judging-freedom-edition-of-27-november-2024-russias-deadly-new-missile/

Thanks Eleni. It Happened Again, Romania Stuns Europe – Nationalist Wins First Place in Presidential Election, First Round
Make Romania Great Again candidate Călin Georgescu came out of nowhere and has won the first round in the presidential election.
​ Georgescu campaigned on an anti-EU, anti-NATO and anti-war with Russia platform; simultaneously supporting domestic farmers, domestic energy production and advocating for a Romania that is free from foreign influence.
​ Oh, and instead of traditional media, his campaign message was strongly directed to the Romanian people, via TikTok.​ https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2024/11/24/it-happened-again-romania-stuns-europe-nationalist-wins-first-place-in-presidential-election-first-round/

​ Israeli Cabinet Has Approved A Ceasefire In Lebanon
​ In announcing the ceasefire, Netanyahu called out both Iran and Syria’s Assad. He stressed that Israel is “Determined to prevent Iran from having nuclear arms” and that Assad is “playing with fire” in his coordination with the Islamic Republic and Hezbollah. The prime minister also stressed that Hezbollah will be attacked if its fighters break the deal. Netanyahu added that the ceasefire deal means Israel will now focus on the Iranian threat. He pledged that all Israeli citizens in the north will be able to return to their homes.
​ “We were able to achieve many of our goals during this war,” he said. The ceasefire is expected to take effect Wednesday. Jerusalem Post writes, “Presidents Biden and Macron will announce the deal during the night, with the alleged agreement set to take effect at 10 a.m. tomorrow.”​…
​..Israel on Tuesday unleashed what eyewitnesses say marked the biggest airstrikes on Beirut yet, hitting 20 sites across the city’s southern suburbs within two minutes. The Israeli military (IDF) said the air force conducted “a widespread attack” on Hezbollah targets there. “After issuing an unusually broad evacuation warning for 20 buildings in the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital, a Hezbollah stronghold, the IDF said that within two minutes, it had struck all 20 sites,” Times of Israel writes.​ https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/netanyahu-soon-announce-hezbollah-truce-israel-hits-20-sites-beirut-within-2-minutes

​ Celebrations Across Lebanon As Ceasefire Holds, Thousands Return To Homes In South
​ Celebrations have broken out across Lebanon as the ceasefire between Hezbollah and Israel has held since early this morning. Heavy traffic returned to Beirut, after months of constant aerial bombings mainly of the southern suburbs.
​ A main north-south highway, the Sidon-Tyre highway, has been jammed with cars as Lebanese civilians from the southern region can finally return to their homes. “Enough wars, tragedies and catastrophes,” Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati said, hailing the ceasefire deal.​..
..Israel is saying that Hezbollah’s capabilities have been set “back many years” and is hoping to return some 80,000 of its citizens to the north, as they’ve been evacuated for over a year of fighting.
​ “In the next 60 days, we will see if the goal of the war in the north, as defined, is being realized,” Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said Wednesday. Hezbollah rocket and drone fire was daily up to this point.
​ President Joe Biden in his initial remarks Wednesday from the Rose Garden asserted “Let’s be clear: Israel did not launch this war. The Lebanese people did not seek that war either, nor did the United States.”​…
​..Iran also praised the ceasefire deal, and that it is holding. “We welcome the ceasefire in Lebanon. After the oppression and criminal bombings by the Zionist regime, tonight the people are experiencing peace,” Iranian parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said.
​ Ghalibaf praised that Hezbollah “never allowed even an inch of their land to fall into enemy hands.” He added: “We hope this peace will also be established in Gaza. However, the claim by the criminal Netanyahu that his focus is on Iran is nonsense.”​ https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/celebrations-across-lebanon-ceasefire-holds-thousands-return-homes-south

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G​ilbert Doctorow, Vladimir Putin’s decree on the new RF nuclear arms doctrine, 19 November 2024
​ The first and most important thing that one can say about Russia’s new doctrine on nuclear deterrence and the circumstances under which Russia foresees use of its nuclear arsenal against adversaries is the following: it has been tailor-made to fit the situation in which Russia finds itself today with respect to the United States and its NATO allies.
​ The doctrine is couched in abstract language without naming names, but behind every clause you can identify a specific threat to Russia that the United States and its allies have been implementing these past few years…
​..Note the mention of Russia’s allies as also being covered with its nuclear umbrella. Until recently this sounded like an empty piece of rhetoric. ‘What allies?’ one might ask. But the conclusion of a mutual defense treaty with North Korea leaves no doubt that Russia’s nuclear umbrella is part of their deal. Separate statements coming from both Minsk and Moscow tell us that the nuclear umbrella now covers Belarus. De facto we may suppose that the same goes for Iran, though properly speaking no mutual defense treaty has yet been signed with Teheran.​..
..It is worth remarking that many of the items in the list reflect directly what the United States and its NATO allies have done already or are talking about. Among them are a blockade of Kaliningrad, the positioning of NATO infrastructures close to the Russian border, holding war games close to Russia’s borders. The remarks in point h above surely refers to attacks on nuclear power stations, which Ukraine has done using drones and Soviet era missiles. Other items, particularly those that one might call a restoration of Reagan’s Star Wars plans are among the stated intentions of Donald Trump…
..Comments by panelist Andrei Klintsevich, RF state counsellor: ​This decree is a timely adaptation of the doctrine to present-day realities, especially as regards dealing with blocs as a whole not as separate states for purposes of retaliation. The intention is for the non-nuclear states among NATO to go to Macron and tell him to just shut up since his words and actions can be used by the Russians against them. Klintsevich also points to the new principle of a Russian nuclear umbrella for its allies. Finally, there is the new concept of extraterritoriality, meaning that Russia will respond with nuclear arms to attacks on its bases outside the RF. He explains ‘nuclear deterrence’ as meaning not a nuclear strike but heightened readiness for such a strike, including decentralization of command to avoid decapitation, putting the nuclear triad on alert such as sending to sea submarines with nuclear strike capability. This document is intended to be kept on the desk of diplomats everywhere…​ https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2024/11/24/vladimir-putins-decree-on-the-new-rf-nuclear-arms-doctrine-19-november-2024/

​ Russia Reveals 2 Dead, Radar Site Damaged, After US-Supplied Missiles Struck Kursk
​ Crucially this is the first time Russian authorities have acknowledged that the US-supplied long range system has killed Russians. It is a rare and unexpected admission, and is likely geared toward showing the Russian population and Moscow’s allies that it faces an existential threat from NATO.​ https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russia-reveals-2-dead-radar-site-damaged-after-us-supplied-missiles-struck-kursk

France Backs Ukraine Firing Its Long-Range Missiles At Russia​ https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/france-backs-ukraine-firing-its-long-range-missiles-russia#google_vignette

​ Britain and France discussing deployment of troops to Ukraine – Le Monde
​ The UK and France have “reactivated” talks on sending troops to Ukraine, French newspaper Le Monde reported on Monday. The idea has already caused a rift among European NATO members.​..
​..British and French officials have both suggested that some sort of deployment could be in the works. French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot told British state broadcaster the BBC this weekend that Paris is “not ruling out any option” when asked directly about the possibility of sending French troops to Ukraine.
​ A British military source told Le Monde that “discussions are underway between the United Kingdom and France regarding defense cooperation, particularly with the aim of creating a core group of allies in Europe, focused on Ukraine and broader European security.”
​ Russia has long claimed that Western special forces personnel are active in Ukraine, and Russian President Valdimir Putin has noted that Ukraine cannot fire long-range missiles into Russian territory without the assistance of Western experts.​ https://swentr.site/news/608188-france-uk-troops-ukraine/

​More US ATACMS missiles have hit Russia since Simplicius wrote this. Warning not heeded. Swell of ‘WWIII’ Red Herrings Aims to Drown Out Mounting Russian Success https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/swell-of-wwiii-red-herrings-aims

[John Day]

Patrick Lawrence, Biden’s “Samson Option”
​ We know now the risks those devoted to prolonging the imperium’s final phase will take in defense of the no-longer-defensible: All risks are acceptable as they cling to power. They will risk another world war; they will risk nuclear annihilation.
​ We hear a lot these days about the Israeli doctrine known as the Samson Option, whereby the Israelis, if they thought themselves under an existential threat, would use their nuclear arsenal to bring the world down with them. Those freak-show terrorists running the Zionist state, you might say: Who or what could be more diabolic?
​ It is a reasonable question. But there is no longer any pretending as to the unique perversity of terrorist Israel and its Samson Option. America in its post–Sept. 11 phase — fearful, viewing itself as threatened by history itself — has just proved equally perverse, equally diabolic, equally given to contempt for the human cause.
​ There is a greater and lesser way to understand the U.S. decision to authorize the use of Western-supplied missiles against Russian targets. It is partly a matter of passing politics, this is to say, and partly a question of the dynamics of late-imperial ideology.​ https://consortiumnews.com/2024/11/25/patrick-lawrence-bidens-samson-option/

​ “After us, silence”: Russia’s “apocalyptic” troops officially engaged in the special military operation
For the first time, the Russian Federation has used its Strategic Missile Forces – and this is just the beginning of the escalation.​ https://strategic-culture.su/news/2024/11/23/after-us-silence-russias-apocalyptic-troops-officially-engaged-in-the-special-military-operation/

​Mike Mihajlovik has a lot of important context and technical information: “Oreshnik” Enters The Chat [i] Hypersonic missile attack on Dnipro — warning shot https://bmanalysis.substack.com/p/oreshnik-enters-the-chat-i

John Helmer explains Russia’s new nuclear doctrine. THE UKRAINE WAR AFTER THE PENNY HAS DROPPED – MAKE THAT THE ORESHNIK
​ No NATO staff group, no Anglo-American target intelligence unit in bunkers in Kiev or Lvov are safe any longer. Nor are Vladimir Zelensky and his advisors. To escape Israeli-precedent decapitation, they must all decamp to the Ukrainian war operations mock-up already prepared on the Polish side of the border.
​ Ukrainian military intelligence head, Kirill Budanov, has claimed that the Oreshnik strike on the Yuzhmash (Pivdenmash) plant in Dniepropetrovsk is “just a cipher…We know for sure that as of October they were supposed to make two research samples, maybe they made a little bit more, but believe me, this is a research sample, but not yet serial production, thank God.”
​ “Wishful thinking,” a NATO military source comments. “He’ll get the chance to find out first- hand.”​…
​..Russian military sources add that, following disclosure of the Kremlin’s back-channel talks with Donald Trump and his advisors on terms for an end-of-war settlement, the Oreshnik is the signal that the “General Staff are talking directly to Trump & Co.” Putin was explicit in his first announcement of the Oreshnik firing: “We believe that the United States [President Trump] made a mistake by unilaterally destroying the INF Treaty in 2019 under a far-fetched pretext.”​…
​..With an estimated 1,500 kgs of combat payload, lifting to a maximum height of 12 km and moving at a speed of Mach 10, the Oreshnik launched from Kaliningrad would strike Warsaw in 1 minute 21 seconds; Berlin, 2 min 35 sec; Paris, 6 min 52 sec; London, 6 min 56 sec.​ https://johnhelmer.net/the-ukraine-war-after-the-penny-has-dropped-make-that-the-oreshnik/#more-90680

​ Pepe Escobar: Oreshnik – The 3 Km Per Second Plot Twist
Martyanov: “NATO has zero capability to stop Russia’s long-range fires.” The “demo” also happens to be paired with a new shot at making war a relatively civil affair: Moscow will warn civilians of any impending Oreshnik strike. Those that won’t leave will do so at their own peril.
As Martyanov remarked, “this is not anymore just SMO”. Indeed: for quite a while we have been way past a special military operation: this is a do-or-die NATO v. Russia hot war​”. Aggravated by the fact that the Hegemon’s ruling elites are congenitally incapable of stop escalating…
..For all the inbuilt dementia of the current – exiting – administration, Americans who only understand the world via movies may have forgotten that it was Trump 1.0 who withdrew the US from the INF treaty, in 2019. If the US had remained, Russia would not have been able to develop and use Oreshnik.​ https://sputnikglobe.com/20241122/pepe-escobar-oreshnik—the-3-km-per-second-plot-twist-1120965738.html

[John Day]

Thankful No World War Yet https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/thankful-no-world-war-yet

I feel like I always write the same essay about the world being at the inflection-point where oil-driven industrial economy has stalled and is awaiting the inevitable decline, while the financial system, predicated upon exponential growth, is cracking everywhere, yet sustained by the widespread faithful belief that rich people everywhere are getting richer as their stock valuations rise year after year.
The actually powerful people who are financially served by BlackRock, for example, know the actual score of this musical chairs game, and have every intention of holding chairs when the music stops, forcing all others to exit the ownership-game empty handed, “accepting all of the losses”. This includes a lot of upper and mid-level managers, whose service maintains the workings of the real economy, and it includes all of the military and police “enforcers” of the system of ownership-of-real-wealth, so how will “ownership” be maintained by these elites who hold some form of “titles”? Others also have valid claims upon real wealth, and this has to be sorted out politically or the goose that lays the golden-eggs, modern-industrial-economy, will promptly die.
The “Owners” need a scary enough emergency to maintain their hierarchical power, and to maintain the obedience of the management and enforcement classes. The International-Bankers and BlackRock asset-holders need something like World War-3, but that will also destroy much of their real-wealth, as it permanently destroys much of modern industrial economy. It’s paradoxical, but they cannot let go. They just cannot let go of “power”. It is beyond them.
This actual desperation makes their insane threats of starting Armageddon more realistic to those who are able to be more rational, due to holding better options, and being ascendent rather than declining in industrial and military power.
Though politicians usually have the job of delivering the people “willingly” to the plans of the owners, they sometimes have other work to do, re-negotiating the social contract so that society does not collapse and fail to feed everybody. China went through that under Mao, rising out of it under Deng Xiao Peng. Russia reached bottom under globo-cap hostage, Boris Yeltsin, who chose a unique successor, who appeared to be an ordinary bureaucrat, but had organizational super-powers and a historic vision to restore the land his parents both almost died for.

We are at a point of agonal uncertainty as ordinary humans, feeling the tension, but misunderstanding it in terms of mundane politics, not comprehending the underlying crisis of real-economy. Even elites, even very old trillionaire-families tend strongly to denial when reality threatens them existentially. Who, in their employ, will serve the owners the bad news harshly enough to induce them to relinquish assets, in order to maintain systemic function, when they presume that others in their position will not relinquish assets, and so will surpass them in the game, whether it crashes or not?

This class of decision-makers has been shielded from the fatal results of their actions by deep bunkers and invisibility of movement in the world, but both are now called into question, and they may be targeted effectively by precision accuracy Oreshnik missiles which can take out any bunker in London or even New York in under 20 minutes, and without prior warning as to the actual target.
Perhaps an example might be made in the “Square Mile” of London, for instance, to help make this point more clearly pertinent to them in a personal way.

We really need to take on this big, huge, messy challenge of declining energy and mineral resources constructively in our world, rather than blowing up things we can’t rebuild going forward, things we still, currently need to survive.

The Honest Sorcerer, A Diesel Powered Civilization​ Part 2: Coping with a difficult reality https://thehonestsorcerer.substack.com/p/a-diesel-powered-civilization-51d

​ US and UK ‘directly involved’ in Nord Stream sabotage – Russia’s spy chief
American and British saboteurs were behind the blasts that crippled the key pipelines, Sergey Naryshkin has said​ https://swentr.site/news/608206-us-and-uk-intelligence-involved-nord-stream/

​ Andrew Korybko examines the potential bankruptcy-sale of Nordstream for pennies on the dollar to a US investor, which could become a joint venture with Russia and Germany, even with aspects of making amends, presumably without confessing guilt. Only bankers/investors would take losses.
​ Why Might The US Let An American Investor Purchase The Bankrupt Nord Stream Project?​ https://korybko.substack.com/p/why-might-the-us-let-an-american

It is not “insane” for a puppet to obey orders from the owners, is it? Joe Rogan launches tirade against Zelensky (VIDEO)
The US president’s decision to authorize long-range missile strikes on Russia is “f**king insane,” the podcast host has said​ https://swentr.site/news/608193-joe-rogan-biden-zelensky/

[John Day]

Gaius Baltar: THE JAGUAR EXPERIMENT FASCISM FOR THE GOOD PEOPLE
https://gaiusbaltar.substack.com/p/the-jaguar-experiment

[John Day]

Vaya con Dios, Ilargi.

[John Day]

She must have felt as bulletproof as Hillary:

One of Kennedy’s footnotes includes a quote from TNI Director Jessica Cecil, who said last year: “We don’t fact check; but once we learn from a partner that something is unreliable, that’s when we alert each other.”

[John Day]

A bargaining position? Trump opposes Israel annexation of West Bank, Republican sources say https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20241120-trump-opposes-israel-annexation-of-west-bank-republican-sources-say/

3,645 killed, 15,355 injured in ‘Israel’s’ aggression on Lebanon​ The director of Baalbek’s Dar Al-Amal Hospital has been killed, along with several others, including doctors, in an Israeli airstrike in Bekaa.​ https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/3-645-killed–15-355-injured-in–israel-s–aggression-on-leb

​ CHD Asks Supreme Court to Pause Disciplinary Actions Against Doctors Who Criticized COVID Policies​ (I’ve been fired and Board de-certified for awhile.)
The request stems from a lawsuit filed in March alleging the Washington Medical Commission violated doctors’ First Amendment right to criticize the “mainstream COVID narrative” and the public’s First Amendment right to hear the opposing viewpoints.​ https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/chd-supreme-court-doctors-free-speech-covid-policies/

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​ Some even got stolen before it got there. Ukrainians have stolen up to half of US aid – ex-Polish deputy minister
Kiev laundered money for the Democrats, taking a cut of what was left over, Piotr Kulpa has claimed​ https://swentr.site/russia/608059-ukraine-graft-democrats-trump/

If Trump made peace. He could sell it to the US to patch up and “gift”​ to Russia and Germany. Miami Investor Secretly Trying To Buy Russia’s Nord Stream 2 Pipeline​ https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/miami-investor-secretly-trying-buy-russias-nord-stream-2-pipeline

​ Mike Whitney, The Antisemitism Awareness Act is a wrecking ball designed to pulverize the First Amendment.
While the alleged intention of the bill is to make Jewish students feel safer on campus, the real purpose is to put an end to the anti-genocide demonstrations that have broken out across the country and to prevent the criticism of Israel. The proposed bill invokes a dodgy legal mechanism to derail the protests and to silence Israel’s critics. By using a broad and ambiguous definition of antisemitism, the bill compels university administrators to crackdown on free speech invoking sketchy claims of discrimination. Political analyst Paul Craig Roberts summed it up like this: “if universities …don’t suppress student protests against Israel’s massacre of civilians in Gaza and Lebanon they will lose their accreditation and federal financial support.”​ https://www.unz.com/mwhitney/the-antisemitism-awareness-act-is-the-death-knell-for-free-speech/

​ House Passes ​(a similar) Bill Targeting Pro-Palestine Non-Profits
The legislation will give the government the power to revoke the tax-exempt status of any non-profit it deems to be a ‘terrorist supporting organization’​ https://news.antiwar.com/2024/11/21/house-passes-bill-targeting-pro-palestine-non-profits-and-charities/

​It is hard living with yourself after you murder children. 6 Israeli soldiers commit suicide; thousands more get mental health treatment https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20241122-6-israeli-soldiers-commit-suicide-thousands-more-get-mental-health-treatment-report/

[John Day]

Moon of Alabama, Why These New Russian Missiles Are Real Game Changers
​ Around 2008 the Russian Federation used the base design of the RS-24 (Yars) intercontinental missile to develop a more flexible version with a lighter payload. The result was the easier to handle RS-26 missile. While this could and did achieve the range needed to be classified as an intercontinental missile its payload was too small to be really effective.
​ In early 2018 the Russian Federation decided to halt all further development of the RS-26 and invested its money into the more promising hypersonic glide vehicle Avanguard.
​ A few month after Russia had taken the decision to mothball the RS-24 development the U.S. withdrew from the INF-treaty. While the U.S. claimed that certain cruise missile developments in Russia were in breach of the treaty the real reason for the withdrawal was elsewhere:
​ [T]he US need to counter a Chinese arms buildup in the Pacific, including within South China Sea, was another reason for their move to withdraw, because China was not a signatory to the treaty. US officials extending back to the presidency of Barack Obama have noted this…
..In July 2024 NATO announced that the U.S. would, starting in 2026, deploy nuclear capable intermediate range missiles in Germany.
​ This would recreated the dangerous situation Europe had seen before the INF treaty was put into place. A nuclear war within Europe, without the involvement of the continental U.S., will again become a possibility.
​ Russia had to finally react to the threat.​..
..Yesterday’s attack on the Yuzhmash complex in Dnepropetrovsk (video) was the first demonstration of the new Russian capability.
​ The new missiles, named Oreshnik (hazel), is a RS-26 variant with a shorter range and a payload of six (instead of the previously four) multiple independently targetable reentry vehicles (MIRV). Each reentry vehicle can carry six sub-munitions. The payload can be inert, destroying the target by the sheer power of its kinetic energy, high-explosive or nuclear.
​ The missile uses solid fuel and is road mobile. It can be fired on short notice from camouflaged positions.
Launched from Russia the missile can reach any target in Europe in less than 20 minutes. On reentry into the atmosphere the warheads of the missile reach hypersonic speeds of 3-4 kilometer per second. There is no air defense system in the world that could stop them.​..
..The results are now in. Europe is defenseless against new Russian weapons which can reach every political and industrial center of Europe with devastating power and with just minutes of notice…
..Should the U.S. and its European lackeys commit further offenses against Russia, more severe Oreshnik ‘tests’, under field conditions and potentially aiming at targets beyond Ukraine, will be pursued:
(President Putin) “We will determine the targets during further tests of our advanced missile systems based on the threats to the security of the Russian Federation. We consider ourselves entitled to use our weapons against military facilities of those countries that allow to use their weapons against our facilities, and in case of an escalation of aggressive actions, we will respond decisively and in mirror-like manner. I recommend that the ruling elites of the countries that are hatching plans to use their military contingents against Russia seriously consider this.​” https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/11/why-these-new-russian-missiles-are-real-game-changers.html#more

​ Y​es, we saw that. Ministry of Defense: All Oreshnik warheads hit their targets​ https://www-kommersant-ru.translate.goog/doc/7325505?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp

Terrifying Infographic Shows Reach Of Russia’s New Hypersonic Missile: ‘London In 20 Minutes’​ https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russia-confirms-it-hit-ukraine-new-hypersonic-oreshnik-missile-capable-reaching-any

​ Russia Has Stockpile of Oreshnik Missiles, New Arms Serve as Guarantor of Sovereignty – Putin
Russia already has a stockpile of Oreshnik missile systems, and a decision on the system’s mass production has been made, Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced.​ https://sputnikglobe.com/20241122/russia-will-continue-testing-oreshnik-missile-complex—putin-1120967235.html

​ Moscow reveals new ‘priority’ strike target in Poland​ The US missile defense base in Redzikowo increases the overall level of nuclear danger, according to Russia’s Foreign Ministry​ https://www.rt.com/russia/607974-russia-poland-base-priority-target/

[John Day]

Protecting Evil https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/protecting-evil

Alex Krainer has this starkly revealing story about the “protector” of a vampire-squid corporation, who protects it from human weakness, humans “under pressure”.
Things they forgot to teach us in school about the way the system really works​. Meet Jack, the “Protector,” and his many minions over centuries and nations…
​ If you went to university you may have learned that corporations are persons, that they have shareholders, boards of directors and an executive suite consisting of the CEO, CFO, COO, etc. It was only yesterday (20 Nov. 2024) that I learned that corporations also had “protectors,” or at least some of them do.
​ Meet Jack, the Protector
​ I learned this from Mr. Mikhail Khodorkovsky (MK), former member of “Sembankirshchina,” the gang of seven bankers who ruled Russia during the 1990s and controlled most of its wealth (estimated at around 60% of Russia’s GDP at the time).
​ Mr. Khodorkovsky recently gave an interview and explained the concept of “protector,” the detail which they forgot to teach to us in school:
​ MK: “We made the decision to have a [company] “Protector” in the Trust, this is a person that watches everything that is happening [with the company]. In the Trust, this is a person that watches everything that is happening. He must be completely independent and absolutely trusted, because he only has one function. In the moment he sees that the person holding a controlling stake in the company acts not, acts err.. under pressure let’s say – acts under pressure, then he should open an envelope and hand over this control package to another person who will be written in that package. Our second person was [Leonid] Nevzlin but we never discussed it because no one should know who is second, who is third, who is fourth, who is fifth.”
​ Q: This is in case you get killed?
​ MK: No, in case they kill it’s simpler. It’s for example, if they take someone from the family hostage and start blackmailing with something related to the company. Since the company cannot be jeopardized, in this case the “Protector” must notice that I act under pressure and take away my powers. And that happened when they put me in prison. So they put me in prison, the protector made the decision that from there I can make decisions [only] under pressure and he passed the package to the next person.
​ Q: Can you name who the Protector was?
MK: Yes, of course.​… https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/things-they-forgot-to-teach-us-in

​ Alastair Crooke, The counter-insurgency is “on” – against Trump’s ‘storm
​ ’“The Deep State whispered to Trump: ‘You cannot withstand the storm’. Trump whispered back: “I am the storm”. The war is on. The Deep State has launched a war of disruption to disable Trump’s ‘storm’. This week’s ATACM strike was but one part to an inter-agency counter-insurgency – a political strike directed at Trump; so too are all the inter-agency false narratives attributed to the Trump camp; and so too, the escalating provocations directed at Iran.​..
​ But Trump understands what’s afoot:
​ “We need peace without delay … The foreign policy establishment keeps trying to pull the world into conflict. The greatest threat to Western civilization today is not Russia. It’s probably more than anything else ourselves… There must be a complete commitment to dismantling the entire Globalist Neo-con establishment that is perpetually dragging us into endless wars, pretending to fight for freedom and democracy abroad while they turn us into a Third World country and a Third World dictatorship right here at home. The State Department, the Defense bureaucracy, the intelligence services and all of the rest need to be completely overhauled and reconstituted. To fire the Deep Staters and put America first – we have to put America First”.​..
​..Instead of policy being aimed directly at a rising foreign adversary threatening U.S. hegemony, it is being transformed into a loaded weapon locked onto America’s domestic war. It is aimed specifically at Trump – to ‘hog tie’ him in, and to divert his attention to wars that he does not want.
​ Logic suggests that Trump would want to keep clear of Netanyahu’s scheming for a war against Iran. But the ‘Israel Firsters’ and the Lobby (as Professor Jeffrey Sachs argues) long have had effective control over Congress and the U.S. military – more than does the President. Explains Sachs:
​ “Because the Zionist Lobby is so powerful, Netanyahu basically has had control over the Pentagon to fight wars on behalf of Israeli extremism. The war in Iraq in 2003 was a Netanyahu War. The attempt to overthrow Bashar al-Assad in Syria, the overthrow of Moamar Gaddafi – All were ‘Netanyahu Wars’”.
​ The important point is that Netanyahu can ‘do what he does’ because it was always planned this way – a plan that has been 50 years in execution. The ‘Israel First’ strategy was fully embraced by Scoop Jackson (a two-times Presidential candidate). And just so the policy could not be rolled back, Scoop insisted on Zionists staffing the State Department, and that neo-cons and Zionists hold the reins at the NSC. That same pattern continues until today.​..
..And so, when Netanyahu speaks, it’s bizarre to me, but it is not Trump who is appointing or naming [those ‘Israel Firsters’ who are part of his Team, but Netanyahu]”, Sachs says…
​..The prospective Republican Senate Leader, John Thune, will play his cards carefully in order to extract maximum damage. He has leverage by trying to connect Trump to Netanyahu’s carnage in the region.
​ Thune, whilst announcing huge quantities of weapons for Israel, said:
​ “To Our Allies in Israel, and to the Jewish People Around the world, my message to you is this: Reinforcements are on the way. In six weeks, Republicans will reclaim the Senate Majority, and we will make clear that the United States Congress stands squarely In Israel’s Corner”.
​ Trump will need to play his cards carefully, too. Since, for his purposes, the absolute priority are his two domestic wars: First, “dismantling the entire Globalist Neocon Establishment”, and secondly, ending the out-of-control government expenditure that has bloated the Deep State boondoggle and turned the U.S. real economy into a shadow of its former self.​..
​..The other putative war – Iran – is the more dangerous to Trump. Jewish political influence and the Lobby has taken the U.S. into multiple disastrous wars before. And now, Netanyahu desperately needs a war and he is not alone. Much of Israel is clamouring for war that would end ‘all the fronts’ facing it. There is a profound conviction in this prospect as the solution and the ‘Great Victory’ that Netanyahu and Israel so desperately need.​..
​..There is an unshakeable certitude that it must be so. ‘We are strong, and Iran is weak’.
Who will roll-back the Israel Firsters? They have the momentum and the fervour. A war against Iran will fare badly for Israel and the U.S.​ https://strategic-culture.su/news/2024/11/22/the-counter-insurgency-is-on-against-trump-storm/

​ Musk, Ramaswamy Reveal DOGE Blueprint To Cut Government Waste
​The pair writes that “Our nation was founded on the basic idea that the people we elect run the government. That isn’t how America functions today. Most legal edicts aren’t laws enacted by Congress but “rules and regulations” promulgated by unelected bureaucrats—tens of thousands of them each year.”
​ They call government bloat “antidemocratic and antithetical to the Founders’ vision,’ as it “imposes massive direct and indirect costs on taxpayers.”
​ President Trump has asked the two of us to lead a newly formed Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, to cut the federal government down to size. The entrenched and ever-growing bureaucracy represents an existential threat to our republic, and politicians have abetted it for too long. That’s why we’re doing things differently. We are entrepreneurs, not politicians. We will serve as outside volunteers, not federal officials or employees. Unlike government commissions or advisory committees, we won’t just write reports or cut ribbons. We’ll cut costs.​ https://www.zerohedge.com/political/musk-ramaswamy-reveal-doge-blueprint-cut-government-waste

​ Simplicius has the video of the hypersonic MIRVed kinetic warhead packages hitting the Ukrainian military factories at night.
Thunderbolt from the Skies: Putin’s Doomsday Weapon Puts NATO on Final Notice​ https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/thunderbolt-from-the-skies-putins

[John Day]

Catherine Austin Fitts, Plunder Capitalism: Is the Bitcoin Strategic Reserve Trial Balloon the Next Step in the Great American Land Grab?

Plunder Capitalism: Is the Bitcoin Strategic Reserve Trial Balloon the Next Step in the Great American Land Grab?

[John Day]

PLA fires up world’s first underwater boron ramjet for unstoppable anti-ship missiles
An engine that can carry weapons at incredible speeds through both air and water has been developed by Chinese scientists
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3287475/pla-fires-worlds-first-underwater-boron-ramjet-unstoppable-anti-ship-missiles

[John Day]

Colorado has agreed to pay $1.5 million in lawyers’ fees to a Christian website designer after she won her case over a state anti-discrimination law at the U.S. Supreme Court.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/colorado-pay-15-million-christian-web-designer-after-losing-supreme-court-case
The payment agreement dated Nov. 19 comes after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in June 2023 in favor of Lorie Smith, who said Colorado’s law requiring her to create websites to celebrate same-sex weddings infringed on her constitutional rights.

Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote for the majority that Colorado tried to compel “an individual to speak in ways that align with its views but defy her conscience about a matter of major significance.”

“The First Amendment’s protections … belong to all, including to speakers whose motives others may find misinformed or offensive,” he wrote.

Smith complained she was being singled out by the Colorado Civil Rights Commission because her religious faith does not support nontraditional marriage.

[John Day]

Meryl Nass MD, There has long been damning evidence of how CDC covered up vaccine-induced autism. Black male toddlers who received the MMR at a young age were at 3-4 times the risk of autism as other children
​ CDC jumped through hoops and even had a garbage can meeting, where scientists had to throw away all the records they had studied, illegally destroying evidence.​ https://merylnass.substack.com/p/there-has-long-been-damning-evidence

​ RFK Jr: Development of Autism Within 30 Days Following Hepatitis B Vaccine​
There was a 10,000 percent increased risk for a later subsequent autism diagnosis in children who got the Hepatitis B vaccine in the first 30 days.​ https://www.globalresearch.ca/rfk-jr-autism-30-days-hepatitis-b-vaccine/5873259

​ 12/7/2020 Groundbreaking Study Shows Unvaccinated Children Are Healthier Than Vaccinated Children
This study adds to a growing list of published peer-reviewed papers that compare the health of vaccinated children to the health of unvaccinated children. These studies suggest we have long underestimated the scope of vaccine harms, and that the epidemic of chronic illness in children is hardly a mystery.​ https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/unvaccinated-children-healthier-than-vaccinated-children/

​ John Helmer tells the stories of his gardens loved and lost in Russia. Comprehension is imparted. GARDENING AGAINST EVIL DAYS
Through the near eighty years of my life, I’ve made gardens in each of the houses I’ve lived in, four of them are in Russia. The first was on the bank of the Osetr (“sturgeon”) River, in the only brick cottage of the dying village of Ivanchikovo (“Little John”).​ https://johnhelmer.net/gardening-against-evil-days/#more-90635

[John Day]

​ Edward Dowd describes for Michael Farris how a major concern he has are the “bioweapons” also—falsely—referred to as COVID “vaccines” that have been “released on us.” Dowd notes that he would like to see see the incoming Trump administration communicate that “something bad happened” and would also like to see the poison injections (**my term**) “pulled.” “[One] concern I have is the bioweapon that was released on us, the vaccines, and the actual virus itself was a bioweapon,” Dowd says. “That needs to be communicated effectively in the new administration—that something bad happened.” He adds, “I would like to see the mRNA vaccines pulled, and I’d like to see a national discussion and people brought to justice over what happened the last four years because it was the greatest crime I’ve ever seen, greatest fraud ever perpetrated on a populace.”​ https://x.com/SenseReceptor/status/1859133443709215161

COVID-19 Vaccination Looms as Larger Contributor to Myopericarditis Than SARS-CoV-2 Infection​ https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/post-covid-19-myocarditis-is-not

​ Whitney Webb, If Trump is still bragging about the military-run Op Warp Speed and the removal of regulations it also entailed so mRNA vax tech could be finally taken to market under the fog of crisis (when it couldn’t even get through animal trials the entire decade preceding Covid due to safety concerns over LNPs and near-zero efficacy, etc.), I think RFK Jr really should address what his policies will be on mRNA and other biotechnology injectables as head of HHS bc since endorsing Trump he has been silent on this issue and VP Vance and many prominent Trump donors, like Musk, are deeply invested in medical genetically engineered products. https://x.com/_whitneywebb/status/1858527987429146885

Susie Wiles, Trump’s pick for chief of staff, ran P.R. campaigns for GAVI, the Vaccine Alliance, Gilead, Pfizer, and long list of globalist companies​ https://www.naturalnews.com/2024-11-20-susie-wiles-trump-chief-staff-career-globalist.html

​ Steve Kirsch, Over 300 pages of evidence from the CDC show that vaccines cause autism
Recently, I received a treasure trove of documents from a source inside the CDC showing they’ve known for over 20 years that Wakefield was right: vaccines cause autism.​ https://kirschsubstack.com/p/over-300-pages-of-evidence-from-the

[John Day]

​ Israel to annex West Bank – Seymour Hersh
The move will be aimed at preventing a two-state solution, according to the US investigative journalist​ https://swentr.site/news/607943-israel-west-band-annex-hersh/

​ Senate Votes Down Bernie Sanders’s Efforts To Block Weapons Deals for Israel​
The resolutions received more support than expected with, 18 senators voting against the White House​ https://news.antiwar.com/2024/11/20/senate-votes-down-bernie-sanderss-efforts-to-block-weapons-deals-for-israel/

US Is Lone Veto Of Gaza Ceasefire Call At UN, Citing It Neglects Hostages​ https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-lone-veto-gaza-ceasefire-call-un-citing-it-neglects-hostages

US Government Is ‘World’s Largest Child Sex Trafficking Organization,’ Former Border Patrol Agent Claims​ https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/11/19/us-government-is-worlds-largest-child-sex-trafficking-organization-former-border-patrol-agent-claims/

Former CDC head says Covid virus origin was biodefense research, maybe in North Carolina​ https://joannenova.com.au/2024/11/former-cdc-head-says-covid-virus-origin-was-biodefense-research-maybe-in-north-carolina/

[John Day]

“Israel” wants a “truce” where the other side stops, but they can still shoot? Israel Reiterates It Wants ‘Freedom to Act’ in Southern Lebanon as Part of Truce Deal
Hezbollah said it won’t let Israel impose ceasefire conditions​ https://news.antiwar.com/2024/11/20/israel-reiterates-it-wants-freedom-to-act-in-southern-lebanon-as-part-of-truce-deal/

Hezbollah to target Tel Aviv in response to Israeli attacks on Beirut: Sheikh Qassem​ https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2024/11/20/737615/Hezbollah-response-to-Israeli-attacks-on-Beirut-will-target-Tel-Aviv-Qassem

Israeli airstrike kills 36 people in Syria’s historic town of Palmyra​ https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2024/11/20/737610/Israel-Syria-Palmyra

​ Palestine Red Crescent says Israeli army uses medical workers as human shields
“The occupation forces used our team as human shields after detaining them inside a house while they were en route to evacuate an injured person in the eastern neighborhood of Jenin, during a raid on the house,” the statement reads.​ https://tass.com/world/1875471

​ At least 66 people were killed in the Gaza Strip after the Israeli army struck the Kamal Adwan hospital complex in the north of the enclave, the Qatari television channel Al Jazeera reported.​ As the channel clarified, most of those killed in the strike on the hospital and surrounding houses were children and women. It was also reported that over 100 people were wounded.​ https://tass.com/world/1875439

[John Day]

Russian Airborne Nuclear War Control Plane Circling Moscow; Mobile Nuclear Missiles Deploying​ https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/news-selections/world-news/russian-airborne-nuclear-war-control-plane-circling-moscow

German Defense Ministry considers the severing of the communication cable between Finland and Germany to be sabotage​ https://en.topcor.ru/53717-minoborony-germanii-schitaet-diversiej-razryv-kabelja-svjazi-mezhdu-finljandiej-i-frg.html

Sabotage: Two Undersea Internet Cables Connecting Four NATO Nations Were Severed​ https://discernreport.com/sabotage-two-undersea-internet-cables-connecting-four-nato-nations-were-severed/

Russian-captained Chinese ship seized by Danish Navy for cable attack​ https://bulgarianmilitary.com/2024/11/20/russian-captained-chinese-ship-danish-navy-cable-attack/

Pentagon Missing $824 Billion​ https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/uncategorized/pentagon-missing-824-billion/

[John Day]

​ UKRAINE LAUNCHES BRITISH “STORM SHADOW” MISSILES INTO KURSK, RUSSIA
​The Armed Forces of Ukraine have launched what is reported to be twelve (12) “Storm Shadow” cruise missiles, into Kursk, Russia. But video below records FOURTEEN (14) explosions…
​..Reports are saying that the target of this particular attack was near the historic Baratynskys’ estate, now a sanatorium under the control of the Russian presidential administration. Sources with the UKRAINE Armed Forces claim the following:
​ The target, located in the eastern part of the estate, is described as a “communications hub.” “With a high degree of certainty, this is not just a regular communications facility, but an underground command post.
​ Given the proximity of the sanatorium, it is highly likely that it was used by the command of the Russian forces in the Kursk region. And considering that North Korean troops are also operating there, it is possible that North Korean generals were present.”
“Such a facility justifies the use of a significant number of Storm Shadow/SCALP missiles. Moreover, their 450 kg warhead is specifically designed to target protected facilities.”​ https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/news-selections/world-news/ukraine-launches-british-storm-shadow-missiles-into-kursk-russia

Def. Sec. Austin Dismisses Russia Warning, Says Putin Bluffing About Nuclear Response​ https://x.com/RealAlexJones/status/1859320092435378623

Sweden & Finland Warn Prepare for War​ https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/war/sweden-finland-warn-prepare-for-war/

REPORTS: Russia Evacuates Political Class to Nuclear Bunkers in Ural Mountains​ https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/news-selections/world-news/reports-russia-evacuates-political-class-to-nuclear-bunkers-in-ural-mountains

Putin Launches Mass-Production of Nuclear Shelters for his People​ https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/war/putin-launches-mass-production-of-nuclear-shelter-for-his-people/

[John Day]

Might Wake Up Dead (and not see this) https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/might-wake-up-dead

I’m at a silent meditation retreat doing what I can to bring harmony to our world through silent meditation. I’m not a very focused or stable meditator.
Headlines and links:

​ Joe Biden (BlackRock) is trying to start WWIII by authorizing Ukraine using US long range missiles into Russia New Attorney General Matt Gaetz says what everyone else is too afraid to say, The Ukraine War is “to launder money through”​ https://x.com/WallStreetApes/status/1858268817874735264?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1858268817874735264%7Ctwgr%5E0cb0f7dda5af3e1cf5fa48fff18688522bf8272f%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theautomaticearth.com%2F2024%2F11%2Fdebt-rattle-november-19-2024%2F

​ West wants to escalate conflict – Moscow
Kiev could not have struck Russia with ATACMS missiles without Washington’s participation, Sergey Lavrov has said​ https://www.rt.com/news/607889-west-ukraine-missiles-crisis/

NATO forces rehearsed the start of the invasion of the Kaliningrad region in Lithuania​ https://en.topcor.ru/53732-sily-nato-otrepetirovali-v-litve-nachalo-vtorzhenija-v-kaliningradskuju-oblast.html

​ UK-supplied Storm Shadow is reported to have hit Putin’s bunker​
Ukraine may have used British-supplied Storm Shadow missiles to target a Russian presidential facility in the Kursk region today, according to emerging reports. The missiles, which have a reputation for precision and long-range capability, are said to have struck a building with an underground command center where key Russian and possibly North Korean military officials were stationed.​ https://bulgarianmilitary.com/2024/11/20/uk-supplied-storm-shadow-is-reported-to-have-hit-putins-bunker/

[John Day]

Russian-captained Chinese ship seized by Danish Navy for cable attack

Russian-captained Chinese ship seized by Danish Navy for cable attack

[John Day]

tboc wrote:
“An event that alters the human immune system on a global level alters human evolution”

It is certainly a “selection-event” in “Natural Selection” theory.
Who is gonna’ be reproducing better, and who is gonna’ be reproducing worse (for all causes, including death)?
All 4 of my young adult “kids” took the shots at work…
Howzat all work?
At least they are alive and my granddaughter didn’t get it.
My 10 month grandson is being treated with more wisdom, since time has revealed much…

[John Day]

German Defense Ministry considers the severing of the communication cable between Finland and Germany to be sabotage
https://en.topcor.ru/53717-minoborony-germanii-schitaet-diversiej-razryv-kabelja-svjazi-mezhdu-finljandiej-i-frg.html

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NATO forces rehearsed the start of the invasion of the Kaliningrad region in Lithuania
https://en.topcor.ru/53732-sily-nato-otrepetirovali-v-litve-nachalo-vtorzhenija-v-kaliningradskuju-oblast.html

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New Attorney General Matt Gaetz says what everyone else is too afraid to say, The Ukraine War is “to launder money through”

Matt Gaetz “I think that the reason we are as involved in Ukraine as we are is because Afghanistan wound down. If we still had Afghanistan to launder money through, there probably wouldn’t be the need for this type of excessive involvement in Ukraine. But I think we can look at Afghanistan and we can look at what’s going on here and say, what a lot of these defense contractors are pushing toward is how to have an extended kind of low yield war.

Like if there’s a way to stretch this thing out, turn it into a 20, 30 year kind of thing where there’s a whole lot of money moving around and unaccountable pots and a lot of weapons getting bought and then all man the stockpiles well we got to spend more money to reload those”

American Wars are looking for Longterm Unaccountable Money Laundering

[John Day]

Buenos Dias, Germ.
;-}

[John Day]

John Helmer’s “Gardening Against Evil Days” is a powerful revelation of his struggle in Russia against ordinary, routine injustice, which he continues to “lose”, though it is also a price paid for this very fine essay, explaining societies going through changes over hundreds of years from this uncensored vantage.

I left a bunch of links and excerpts last night.

I’m going to start a 6 day silent meditation retreat in a rural area near here in a non-nuclear-target zone.
I’d probably know anyway.
Somebody would “break” and blurt it out.

[John Day]

Steve Kirsch, Over 300 pages of evidence from the CDC show very clearly that vaccines cause autism and that Wakefield was right about the MMR shots
Recently, I received a treasure trove of documents from a source inside the CDC showing they knew for over 20 years that Wakefield was right: vaccines cause autism.​ https://kirschsubstack.com/p/over-300-pages-of-evidence-from-the

​ ‘Disaster Waiting to Happen’: FDA Approves Phase 1 Trial of Gates-funded Self-amplifying Bird Flu Vaccine
Clinical trials — funded by the U.S. government and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation — are set to begin for a self-amplifying mRNA vaccine targeting the H5N1 bird flu virus.​ https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/fda-trial-bird-flu-vaccine-gates-foundation/

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Caitlin Johnstone: Suppressing Speech to Aid Israel
Trump literally standing before an Israeli flag and vowing to kill free speech for Israeli interests makes a lie of everything the “MAGA movement” says it stands for, exposing it for the scam it’s always been. https://consortiumnews.com/2024/11/17/caitlin-johnstone-suppressing-speech-to-aid-israel/

​ Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, a professor of health policy at Stanford University, is a top contender to lead the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the next Trump administration, according to a source familiar with the matter.
​ Bhattacharya was a key figure who spoke out against COVID-19 lockdowns and mandates during the pandemic.
​ The consideration, first reported by The Washington Post, comes after President-elect Donald Trump named Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as his nominee for secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees the NIH.
​ If Bhattacharya is ultimately nominated and confirmed to lead the agency, he would be responsible for 27 institutes and centers on issues ranging from cancer and aging to drug abuse. Those include the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, which was formerly chaired by Dr. Anthony Fauci.​ https://www.zerohedge.com/political/jay-bhattacharya-emerges-top-contender-nih-chief

​ Twice-Censored Landmark COVID-19 Vaccine Autopsy Study Fully Peer-Reviewed and Published
After enduring relentless censorship, our systematic review linking COVID-19 vaccines to death is now available for the entire world to read.
​ The largest COVID-19 vaccine autopsy study to-date, providing robust evidence that COVID-19 vaccines can cause death, has been officially republished following successful peer-review in the journal Science, Public Health Policy, and the Law: A Systematic Review Of Autopsy Findings In Deaths After COVID-19 Vaccination. This comes after unethical censorship on two occasions: first, removal from Preprints with the Lancet and later, withdrawal by Elsevier after publication in Forensic Science International.​ https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/breaking-news-twice-censored-landmark

​ Sasha Latypova presents German government meticulously recording its lies to German citizens: Dr. Stefan Homburg: Some Interesting Excerpts from the RKI-Leak
Guest post explaining main findings from the Robert Koch Institute (German CDC) leak documenting global covid pandemic scam​ https://sashalatypova.substack.com/p/dr-stefan-homburg-some-interesting

​ Meryl Nass MD makes a case to stop taking poisons: Does the United States desperately need to improve its life expectancy, healthcare costs, and reduce the poisons in our food and water? Look at the numbers from 3 different sources it looks simply awful, and we don’t have 2023 or 2024 numbers yet, so these graphs miss any effects on longevity from COVID vaccines for the past 2 years. https://merylnass.substack.com/p/does-the-united-states-desperately

[John Day]

​ Senate Moves to Silence Criticism of Israel as Hate Speech With ‘Antisemitism Awareness Act’
​ Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is trying to ram through the “Antisemitism Awareness Act” to silence criticism of Jews and Israel as hate speech and empower the federal government to crack down on anti-Israel protests on college campuses.
​ Schumer is attempting to pass the bill by adding it to the so-called “must pass” 2025 National Defense Authorization Act but is drawing pushback from House Speaker Mike Johnson.
​ Johnson already passed the bill in the House and agrees with the bill in principle but just wants it to be a standalone vote (trashing our First Amendment on behalf of a foreign power now has bipartisan consensus).​ https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=64748

Israeli Settler Leader Says She Scouted a Location for Jewish Settlements in Gaza​, Daniella Weiss says she has 740 families ready to move into Gaza​ https://news.antiwar.com/2024/11/17/israeli-settler-leader-says-she-scouted-a-location-for-jewish-settlements-in-gaza/

​ More Than 100 Palestinians in Gaza Killed By Israeli Forces in One Day
The majority were killed by a strike on a building sheltering displaced Palestinians in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza​ https://news.antiwar.com/2024/11/17/more-than-100-palestinians-in-gaza-killed-by-israeli-forces-in-one-day/

​ Truth as crime: “Incitement” Palestinian WAFA journalist Rasha Herzallah jailed for 6 months by Israeli court
An Israeli military court sentenced Palestinian journalist Rasha Herzallah to six months in jail on Sunday and fined her 13,000 shekels ($3,300).
​ Herzallah, 39, was working for the official Palestine News and Information Agency (WAFA) at the time of her arrest last June, when she was summoned to an investigation at the Israeli Huwwara detention center north of the occupied West Bank.
​ Her detention was extended five times before a charge of “incitement on social media” was brought to court at the Israeli Salem military base near Jenin.​ https://www.arabnews.com/node/2579692/middle-east

​ Israel’s Genocide Day 408: U.S. envoy to visit Lebanon and Israel to discuss ceasefire deal as confrontations heat up
The US and Israel say ceasefire negotiations with Lebanon are progressing, but Lebanon says negotiations still have a long way to go. Meanwhile, Israeli strikes intensify in Gaza, killing 111 Palestinians in a single day in the northern Gaza Strip.​ https://mondoweiss.net/2024/11/israels-genocide-day-408-u-s-envoy-to-visit-lebanon-and-israel-to-discuss-ceasefire-deal-as-confrontations-heat-up/

[John Day]

Cha​rles Hugh Smith, The Cure for What Ails Us, Market Crash and Mass Defaults
The system has reached extremes that can no longer be rebalanced by policy tweaks, borrowing another couple trillion dollars or inflating asset bubbles.​ https://charleshughsmith.substack.com/p/the-cure-for-what-ails-us-market

​ From yesterday’s blog post:
Got cash under the mattress? Setting-Up a “Crash?” Federal Reserve PULLS more than HALF of Credit Available through Bank Term Funding Program (BTFP) https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/news-selections/national-news/setting-up-a-crash-federal-reserve-pulls-more-than-half-of-credit-available-through-bank-term-funding-program-btfp

​Less-bad than WW-3: Trump To Declare National Emergency To Conduct Mass Deportations https://www.zerohedge.com/political/trump-declare-national-emergency-conduct-mass-deportations

​ Newly appointed “Border Czar” Thomas Homan said “thousands” of retired border agents and military servicemen are volunteering to help with the incoming Trump administration’s planned mass deportation of illegals.​ https://www.westernjournal.com/thousands-retired-officers-veterans-volunteering-unprecedented-deportation-effort/

“Bad-Cop” Ramaswamy Says Some Government Agencies Will Be ‘Deleted Outright’ https://www.zerohedge.com/political/ramaswamy-says-some-government-agencies-will-be-deleted-outright

[John Day]

​Simplicius, Operation ‘Dark Winter’ Resumes as Massive Russian Strikes Again Cripple Ukrainian Power Grid
​ “America is not going to save Ukraine. Maybe we need Mr. Trump — brazen and unscrupulous — to finally say so out loud and act accordingly.​”
​ The Politico article strikes the same note, essentially arguing that Trump will be doing the West a huge favor by saving them from their own self-wrought unwinnable catastrophe. According to them, Kiev secretly knows that Trump is a better option than Harris because Trump is more likely to get a deal ‘favorable to Ukraine’ from Putin, whereas Harris and co. would have just prolonged the slaughter indefinitely, keeping to this waffling noncommittal track.
​ According to the author, everyone will get a ready excuse…​ After all, if he’s successful, European leaders and American hawks will have an alibi, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will have cover from likely angry front-line Ukrainian soldiers. They’ll all blame him for the broken promises, for the loss of the Donbas and Crimea’s continued annexation — because that’s what it will take to ink a deal.​..
​..Trump takes office in two months and could presumably instantly roll-back Biden’s ‘deep strikes’ authorization, completely negating any effect by limiting their use to a tiny irrelevant time window.
​ The other thing is that Europe continues to crumble, with Macron having no favor at home, and Germany’s government now lacking a majority, with Scholz on the way out. Ukraine’s future vis-a-vis the mythical ‘European solidarity’ is on quite shaky grounds. Couple this with Russia’s now-resumed ‘Dark Winter’ campaign, and the next few months could be extremely rocky for Ukraine, particularly given the fact that Russia’s advances and territorial captures continue accelerating.
​ The new strikes authorization is presumably meant to tide Ukrainian societal morale over for a few months, with perhaps some kind of flashy ‘hit’ somewhere, that will be oversold as “devastating” to Russia, but it’s questionable how much mileage they can get even out of that anymore.​ https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/operation-dark-winter-resumes-as

​Note: Complex systems collapse down to what is supportable by available energy. The Impending Collapse of the European Union, Professor Ugo Bardi
Tainter’s law of diminishing returns to complexity is one of the causes of the Seneca collapse​ https://senecaeffect.substack.com/p/the-impending-collapse-of-the-european

​ Andrew Korybko, Everyone Missed The Most Important Part Of The First Putin-Scholz Call In Two Years [Is “Biden” escalating for Trump to de-escalate?]
​ Putin made a pass at Schulz by suggesting that the last undamaged part of the Nord Stream pipelines could be swiftly put back to use if Germany helps Russia in Ukraine by rejecting Trump’s reported plans to “escalate to de-escalate”.​ https://korybko.substack.com/p/everyone-missed-the-most-important

​What’s the worst that could happen? The End Of Democracy? Vote To Ban AfD Party Will Occur Before German Snap Elections https://www.zerohedge.com/political/end-democracy-vote-ban-afd-party-will-occur-german-snap-elections

​ Do you have to be so blunt? The US Has Been In Recession For Years…​ Daniel Lacalle
Many commentators cannot understand why Trump won the elections despite a robust economy…
Anyone who has delved into the supposedly solid headline figures can clearly see the real weakness of the U.S. economy. An unsustainable increase in government spending and federal debt bloated the official GDP, making gross domestic income significantly weaker than headline GDP. Additionally, the Conference Board and University of Michigan consumer confidence readings, well below 2019 and 2021 levels, indicated a stagnant economy. Significant negative revisions and concerning elements were evident in the job reports. The entire improvement of the labor force since 2021 came from foreign workers, and the employment-to-population and labor force participation ratios remained significantly below 2019 levels. Real wages were stagnant in the past four years using official figures. Investment was weak, and the Russell 2000 index, which includes the top small-cap companies generating most of their business in the US, reflected an insignificant 1.8% sales growth and no real earnings growth between 2021 and November 2024…
​..As the authors rightly say, “Our results are consistent with the perceptions of the American public, of whom a majority believe we are in recession.”.​ https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/us-has-been-recession-years

[John Day]

Moon of Alabama, To Prolong The War In Ukraine U.S. Allows ATACMS Use On Russia
President Joe Biden, or whoever is thinking for him, is doing his best to make peace in Ukraine less likely:
Putin has warned that Moscow could provide long-range weapons to others to strike Western targets if NATO allies allow Ukraine to use their arms to attack Russian territory.​..
​..The ATACMS missiles Ukraine had so far been allowed to fire, mostly against Crimea, have been carriers of cluster ammunition with a reach of some 160 kilometer.
​ We do not know yet if the new authorized use for ATACMS munition on targets within Russia is only the relevant for cluster ammunition missile type or for high explosive ATACMS missiles with a reach of 300 kilometer.
​ However, the Russian President Vladimir Putin has correctly pointed out that ANY use of ATACMS requires the involvement of NATO (U.S/UK) assets for acquiring the targeting data and for pla​nning and programming the missile’s mission.​ https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/11/us-to-allow-atacms-use-on-russia-to-prolong-war-in-ukraine.html#more

​Is Donald Trump Jr. going to be the “Peace Envoy”? White House Will Get “WW3 Going Before My Father Has Chance To Create Peace”, Don Jr Warns
​ The Kremlin has issued an initial response to widespread reports in US media saying that the Biden administration will now allow Ukraine to target Russia with US-supplied long-range missiles. Kremlin top spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters that this would unleash a “significant new round of escalation” in the war if it proves true, but he also cautioned that Moscow authorities had yet to see official confirmation directly from the White House.
​ “If such a decision has indeed been formulated and communicated to the Kyiv regime, it marks a significant escalation and a fundamentally new stage in terms of U.S. involvement in this conflict,” Peskov said…​
..Some US political figures reacted in similar horror and alarm, also warning of the risks for the outbreak of World War 3 with such a decision. Donald Trump Jr. sees this as an ultra-dangerous ploy by the lame-duck Biden administration to escalate the war just prior to Trump taking office.
​ “The Military Industrial Complex seems to want to make sure they get World War 3 going before my father has a chance to create peace and save lives,” he said on X Sunday, immediately after reports of the serious policy shift emerged.
​ And House Representative Thomas Massie has ripped Biden for once again circumventing Congress on matters of war, calling the decision an “unconstitutional Act of War that endangers the lives of all US citizens.”​ https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/white-house-will-get-ww3-going-my-father-has-chance-create-peace-don-jr-warns

​ Gilbert Doctorow again, North Korean troops in Kursk: pretext for American escalation or cause?
​ In the past couple of weeks, there have been numerous articles in The New York Times and other mainstream disseminators of the CIA and White House propaganda lines regarding an alleged presence of North Korean troops in Russia to fight in Kursk against the Ukrainian forces there…
..Those same articles told us that the United States government considered the introduction of North Korean troops into the battle to represent a big escalation in the war by the Kremlin…
..US news sources tell us this morning that Washington has insisted that Kiev strike with ATACMS only targets within the Kursk oblast, supporting the notion that the objective is strictly a proportional tit-for-tat over the North Korean presence there. Indeed, if the Russians’ version of how such weapons are used, namely that all preparation and targeting is done by U.S. soldiers or U.S. military contractors, whatever strikes on Russia using ATACMS Kiev may claim, real control rests with Americans so they know very well what will be hit and where.
​ Let us put aside for the moment that the limitation on geography for attack is only temporary and will be expanded in the near future whenever Washington is ready to up the ante. Let us be explicit about what attacking the Kursk region means.
​ There are only two possible types of targets in Kursk oblast worthy of discussion. One is troop concentrations of Russians and North Koreans performing the mopping up operation in Kursk. ATACMS strikes there probably will not initially force the Russians to respond. The second is the nuclear power plant in the region which was believed to be the prize initially sought by Kiev when it began its incursion.
​ Let us remember that the Kursk nuclear power plant is an early type plant which has no protective concrete dome over it to contain radioactive leaks and to prevent missile strikes from disabling it. Accordingly, an ATACMS strike on the plant will likely create a big, even devastating leak of radioactive particles across the region, meaning predominantly on Russian territory. Such an eventuality would force the hand of Putin to respond with a nuclear attack, likely on the Continental United States…
​..I am obliged to say what significance I see in the entry of North Korean soldiers on Russian Federation territory and possibly their deployment in Kursk.
​ I agree with Washington that this represents an important escalation by the Russians. But it has nothing to do with the war in and about Ukraine. It is a Russian response to U.S. actions in the Far East, where it is mobilizing South Korea and Japan against China in its containment policy there, against North Korea to apply maximum threats against Pyongyang, and ….against Russia in its containment policy on the RF everywhere.
​ By exercising its rights under the recently ratified mutual defense treaty with North Korea and inviting Pyongyang to move a substantial contingent of fighting men to the Western border of the Russian Federation, Moscow is serving notice on Washington that its own ‘sphere of influence,’ if I may paraphrase Barack Obama in his widely quoted insult to Putin about his country’s place in the world, extends to many, many areas, as should be expected from the world’s largest country accounting for 12 percent of the world’s land mass.​ https://gilbertdoctorow.substack.com/p/north-korean-troops-in-kursk-pretext

​ Biden’s ‘Unnecessary Escalation’ Only Sets Trump Up for Failure – Ex-DoD Analyst
​ Ukraine’s use of ATACMS does not change much militarily, only adds up to escalation and sets Donald Trump up for failure after inauguration, Michael Maloof, a former senior security policy analyst in the Office of the US Secretary of Defense, told Sputnik.​ https://sputnikglobe.com/20241117/bidens-unnecessary-escalation-only-sets-trump-up-for-failure—ex-dod-analyst-1120915178.html

​ Last week, a US missile base aimed at Russia was put into operation in Poland. The fact that US medium-range missiles can now fire thousands of kilometers into Russian territory from Poland was hardly worth reporting in the Western media.​ https://anti–spiegel-ru.translate.goog/2024/in-polen-wurde-eine-gegen-russland-gerichtete-offensive-us-raketenbasis-in-dienst-gestellt/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp

[John Day]

​ John Leake, On Trump Derangement Syndrome, The anthropology and psychology of an obsession.
During the first presidency of Donald J. Trump this syndrome became so virulent that it created a strangely binary posture in public affairs. If Trump expressed even mild enthusiasm for a policy, person, or thing, his opposition automatically rejected it. To be sure, Trump often threw gasoline on the fire with his bombastic personal style and occasional buffoonery. The qualities that had once been viewed as showman’s schtick were widely deemed unacceptable in a US President. The court jester had become king, and it drove the lords and ladies at court mad.
​ As anthropologists and psychologists have long understood, humans are hyper social and tribal. Stanford Professor Rene Girard has pointed out that during times of stress and rivalry, we are inclined to ascribe blame not to a complex state of affairs, but to a particular person or group. Persistent problems and misfortunes build up negative psychic energy, which generates a collective yearning to destroy the person or persons on whom the blame is heaped. This process of scapegoating is amplified by what Professor Girard called mimesis—that is, imitation—the tendency to embrace an opinion or sentiment because everyone in a preferred group is embracing it. In trying to make sense of the world, we often look to those around us for cues to guide us in our perceptions and opinions.​ https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/on-trump-derangement-syndrome

​ Scott Ritter has a long tale of his own​ blackmail & abuse​ from the FBI.​ Why Matt Gaetz Matters
The FBI terrorizes innocent Americans daily for the “crime” of saying things their political masters object to.
Matt Gaetz was investigated by the FBI regarding the allegations that are the subject of the House Ethics Committee report.
The FBI did not press charges.
Matt Gaetz has promised to hold the FBI and Department of Justice to account for the crimes they have committed against him.
For the crimes they have committed against President Trump.
For the crimes that they have committed against the American people.
For the crimes they have committed against me.
You see, it is personal.
Not just for those who have been directly caught up in the abuses committed by the FBI and DOJ.
But for all Americans.
The FBI and DOJ, as they are currently organized and operated, are an insult to us all.
They are an affront to the Constitution.
Matt Gaetz wants to hold them to account.
And we should do everything possible to give him the chance to do just that by supporting his nomination as Attorney General.​ https://scottritter.substack.com/p/why-matt-gaetz-matters

​ Gaetz wants to take away Nancy Pelosi’s stock-picking forever. This Could Be Why Congress Doesn’t Like Matt Gaetz
One reason politicians might not like the brash, unfiltered Matt Gaetz is his stand on ethics, beginning with insider trading.​ https://www.independentsentinel.com/this-could-be-why-congress-doesnt-like-matt-gaetz/

​ Gilbert Doctorow, Joe Biden – one foot in the grave and he wants to take the rest of us with him
​ This evening’s edition of ‘News of the Week’ on Russian state television carried the ‘breaking news’ that President Biden has just given permission to Ukraine to use American ATACMS medium range ground launched missiles to attack deep within the Russian Federation. The same news also appears on the latest online edition of The New York Times….
..Regrettably, we are witnessing a replay of what occurred the first time Donald Trump was elected, back in November 2016. The reaction of the Obama administration was to use the couple of months before handover of power to sabotage the most salient aspect of his intended foreign policy initiative, to normalize relations with Russia…
​..Just over two months ago, this very question of allowing Kiev to fire missiles using US technology on strikes deep inside the Russian Federation had been vetoed by Biden when it was proposed to him by visiting UK Prime Minister Starmer. That refusal followed by a day a direct threat from Vladimir Putin that the use by Kiev of medium range missiles supplied by nuclear powers in the West for such attacks on Russia would make the providers of those missiles co-belligerents. We said then that the Pentagon had prevailed upon the President to take the threat seriously and to decline to give his permission to the British, so that Starmer went home empty-handed.
​ What has happened to change the thinking in the Oval Office? There can be no doubt that Donald Trump’s victory on 5 November and the clear indications that he will cut American aid to Ukraine and push for a negotiated settlement of the war on terms acceptable to Moscow has enraged the Neocons who hold the Collective Biden in their thrall. The flip-flop on use of such missiles is a testament to the utter irresponsibility of this administration. It calls for an urgent move in Congress to stop an action that is tantamount to a declaration of war on Russia.​ https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2024/11/17/joe-biden-one-foot-in-the-grave-and-he-wants-to-take-the-rest-of-us-with-him/​

​ Andrew Korybko, How Will Russia Respond to Ukraine’s Use of Western Long-Range Missiles?
The whole point is to intensify the conflict over the next two months before Trump’s reinauguration so that he inherits a much more difficult situation than at present. This is expected to push him into adopting a more hawkish position on the conflict. https://www.globalresearch.ca/ukraine-western-long-range-missiles/5873023

[John Day]

Creating Emergencies To Manage https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/creating-emergencies-to-manage

I will attend a 6 day silent-meditation retreat starting tomorrow, 11/19/24 at midday, so I will probably not post to the blog for the rest of this week.
The retreat concludes Sunday 11/24/24, but I will certainly be behind on news at that point. If we enter nuclear war I might be oblivious to that development.

It might seem odd to open with another assessment of peak-energy-resources when there is another, potentially nuclear, escalation in the US/NATO proxy-war against Russia, in Ukraine, but it is an important inflexion point in global economy, therefore global finance, and therefore global-war-emergencies to keep established elites in power through a vast financial reset. Many of us believe that it is the time to change the staffing at the imperial court, and to relinquish imperialism altogether…

Our global economy is primarily powered by middle-distillates of Diesel fuel and bunker fuel (for shipping), which are about 35% of what comes out of a barrel of oil when it is fractionated. There is also asphalt for roads, gasoline for cars and kerosine for jet fuel, but Diesel and bunker fuel are critical, especially diesel for all heavy machinery, big trucks and trains. This is what critically supports modern industrial economy. There is no substitute. There can be no real substitutes overall. More energy intensive processes can “crack” Diesel out of heavy tar sands from Canada, and Venezuelan heavy crude, but these are already extremely energy intensive to produce, with EROI of 3:1 or so, when modern industrial economy needs an aggregate EROI of above 12:1 in order to persist at its current level of complexity.
The Honest Sorcerer, A Diesel Powered Civilization Part 1: A gigantic Ponzi scheme https://thehonestsorcerer.substack.com/p/a-diesel-powered-civilization

Oil Man Art Berman, This Is How Oil Ends (Our current oil production plateau won’t likely persist past 2030, if that)
The era of cheap oil ended two decades ago, when the average price jumped from $35 in the 1990s to over $90 since 2000.
​ The peak oil movement understood that part but missed how long debt could delay the inevitable decline in oil use. It’s still uncertain whether this will play out as peak oil, peak plateau, or peak demand.​ One thing, however, is certain: the future that peak oil warned about 20 years ago is here. And no matter how it unfolds, economic growth is heading for a serious reckoning.
It looked like the world might be running out of affordable oil during the first 15 years of this century. Prices hit $190 per barrel in 2008, adjusted for today’s dollars, and averaged nearly $150 from 2011 to late 2014 (Figure 1). Then the shale plays came online, and to many, peak oil seemed like a false alarm.​ https://www.artberman.com/blog/this-is-how-oil-ends/

​ Gail Tverberg point out that we may be in post-peak-affordable-uranium, too, as we have been using up decades of highly-enriched nuclear-warhead uranium in our reactors for 20 years. Nuclear electricity generation has hidden problems; don’t expect advanced modular units to solve them.
What I see is that the relatively “flat” overall nuclear electricity production has been accomplished, to a significant extent, by the “Advanced Economies, ex US” dropping back in their use of nuclear electricity at close to the same time the “Later Entrants” have rapidly been increasing their use of nuclear electricity. The Later Entrants can make goods for sale in international markets much more cheaply than the Advanced Economies, ex US through their efficient use of cheap energy (often from coal) and their lower wages. This more efficient approach gives the Later Entrants an “edge” in buying the uranium that is available.
​ I expect to see more of this pattern of squeezing out in the future. In fact, new and recently re-opened nuclear plants will need to compete existing nuclear generation units for available uranium.
​ Given the way squeezing out takes place, very few people will realize that there is a problem with uranium fuel. It will just be that leaders of some parts of the world, as well as some parts of the US, will start emphasizing stories about how dangerous nuclear energy is. Instead of nuclear, they will emphasize electricity generation from wind and solar and allow these approaches to “go first” when they are available. The result will be wholesale electricity prices that will be far too low for nuclear power plants, much of the time. It will be these low wholesale electricity prices that push nuclear power out.
​ Thus, unless there truly are breakthroughs in recycling spent fuels, or in uranium mining, electricity generation using nuclear energy may gradually slip away from many parts of the world currently using it.​ https://ourfiniteworld.com/2024/11/11/nuclear-electricity-generation-has-hidden-problems-dont-expect-advanced-modular-units-to-solve-them/

Russia imposes ‘temporary’ ban on enriched uranium exports to US​ https://en.topwar.ru/253818-rossija-vvela-vremennyj-zapret-na-jeksport-obogaschennogo-urana-v-soedinennye-shtaty.html

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