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@Phoenixvoice – it certainly does, very much like the ‘Russia is running out of munitions’ and the ‘Russians are all fascists’ nonsense that gets trotted out every other day, all evidence to the contrary.
Re: the tanks, and in particular the reluctance of Germany to agree to send their Leopard2 tanks to Z until the US also agrees to send Abrams – it seems pretty obvious what’s at play. Leaving aside the pure tokenism of sending a handful of old tanks which will make no military difference at all, Germany’s concern is that it has been quite successful in exporting Leopards to many countries – it’s an important element of their arms exports.
Clearly they can do without global 24 hour rolling news media showing lines of smoking burnt-out Leopards in the Ukrainian mud which the US, having not send any Abrams, would then be able to point at in arms fairs and steal German export orders by claiming that this would not have happened to US tanks because they’re soooo much better.
Now that the US has agreed to send tanks, the Germans are thinking that they’ll have smoking Abrams carcasses to point at during the arms fairs thus negating the US advantage.
Sneakily though, after agreeing to send a handful of Abrams, the US DoD is now suggesting that they will order new tanks to send, rather than taking units from existing stockpiles. So, by the time any US tanks reach Ukraine (if any ever do) the war will be long over and the reputation of the Leopard2 will be as trashed as the examples Germany sent. Schmartz, no?
@Oroboros #126362 – that is precisely how I feel about the whole Ukraine situation. The conjoined political and financial systems of the ‘West’ cannot be fixed from within because the level of corruption and incompetence has reached saturation point. It’s an irredeemable situation and, I feel, the longer it staggers on the more damage it will do and the less likely it is that there will be enough of the world left after the inevitable collapse for the survivors to pick themselves up and build something different.
I welcome the fact that rapid change is being forced upon the post-WWII settlement from the outside and hope that the hard times ahead will clear the deadwood.
“Don’t you think that calling for the genocide of people who have the most powerful military in the world is rather dumb?”
Spittle-flecked Ukro-Nazis are not renowned for the subtlety of their thinking. One might imagine that by now they’d have realised that the promises of unlimited ‘Help’ from the West which was the foundational assumption underlying their aggression against Russia have not, and will never be, delivered upon. But no. On they go flinging their young men to their deaths in a futile attempt to defeat an enemy 10 times their size.
It’s almost like they’d rather die than admit they were wrong.
Oh wow. It’s almost like someone is coordinating this globally. No gas stoves, no gas heating…
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/environment/2023/01/12/new-gas-boilers-could-banned-within-decade/
@John Day “I call “FOUL” on the gas stoves causing childhood asthma”
Yes – but if you were stealthily pushing your population away from using fossil fuels would this not be an obvious thing to do?
I am genuinely not making this up, but I am just off the phone with another work colleague (based in Amsterdam) and she’s all upset because her young child’s schoolteacher has just died suddenly of a heart attack.
Popcorn theory.
@Germ – when the popcorn starts flying in the coming months, they’ll blame it on the Chinese spreading their ‘New’ germs around the world – so get some more boosters to save yourself! Evil.
Anecdote of the day, regarding the Turbo Cancer article above:
Yesterday evening my wife got a call from one or her gardening group friends. The friend’s sister (late 40’s) had just been diagnosed with stage 4 cancer, having had no previous health issues or history of cancer.
That’s 2 ‘Anecdotes’ in the same day. The pace is picking up….
@Oxy #125537
“The Anecdotes are on the up.”
Personally I am seeing an unmistakable pick-up in the frequency of these events in both the media and personal contacts over the past month. Could be the onset of winter here boosting the numbers, or maybe it’s the effect of cumulative damage from the Vax-Spikes reaching a critical level now. If the latter, things could get really real quite quickly.
Anecdotal:
I caught up on teams chat this morning with a work colleague who’s been on leave since before Christmas. His wife is one of those considered ‘Vulnerable’ to Covid, so both of them, and their wider families, are vaxed and boosted to the max and very pro-vax.
The conversation went like this:
Me: “Welcome back, how was your break?”
Colleague: “been sick all christmas, am on antibiotics and my wife is now testing positive for covid. Love my life”
Me: “Oh dear – hope your wife is OK”
Colleague: “She’s getting there – taken a lot out of her esp with her brother dying just before Christmas. Roll on 2023”
Me: “Oh – very sorry to hear that. My condolences. Was it unexpected?”
Colleague: “totally. 52, having tea with his kids, walked over to the sink and just collapsed – massive coronary”
No comment necessary.
“Speaking on the condition of anonymity, the official said that the Abrams tanks’ heavy fuel consumption and propensity to break down make them unsuitable for the Ukrainian military.”
So as well as repeating the British WWII mistakes in developing warships that are outdated before they set sail, the US Military has also repeated the Nazi mistakes of developing wunderwaffen tanks that are too big, too heavy and too complicated to be of much use on the battlefield. The superficially superior German Tiger tanks were no match for the swarms of Russian T34s that made up with numbers what they lacked in sophistication, firepower and armour.
Much like the $20k Shahed drone vs $3m patriot missile situation.
Is there anyone in the US military planning team with any knowledge of history?
@Oroboros #125106 – yes absolutely correct. I’ve thought for some time that US weapons procurement has been busily focussed on fighting the last war, particularly when it comes to Aircraft Carriers. They are nothing but floating (for now) targets in the age of hypersonic missiles. Too risky to put them anywhere near an enemy that does not use Toyota pickups as its primary weapons platform. Just as the British Navy once continued to build Battleships (because that was what had worked before) long after submarines made them redundant from a combat perspective so the US is falling into the same trap.
As for the shiny new ‘Stealth Bomber’ – also a redundant boondoggle. Just an opportunity for a competent enemy to down a $750m asset for the cost of a $1m missile. Who in hell needs a bomber to deliver a payload in this day and age when a missile will do the same thing for 1% of the cost?
Could have been worse – at least it wasn’t the Pilot. I guess it’s only a matter of time before that happens.
“A passenger died on board a flight which diverted to Shannon Airport in the early hours of this morning
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines flight 714 was travelling from Paramaribo in Suriname on the north eastern coast of South America, to Amsterdam in The Netherlands at the time……Two doctors travelling on the flight are believed to have rendered assistance however the man, believed to be in his late 50s, subsequently passed away…..A Garda [Police] spokesman confirmed that members attended the airport this morning after receiving a report of a ‘sudden death’ on board a flight.”“I feel that human beings are gunna just be more of a bag of grunt-meat over the mid term.”
Yep – same as it ever was, until the Industrial Revolution really got going of course. Back to the farms and mines we go, shovel in hand. Our brief fossil-fuelled vacation in comfortable indoors workplaces is at an end.
Heads up people. The well-established principle that an imminent economic collapse is coincident with the construction of a new ‘World’s tallest building’ continues to hold true.
Seriously though – why did they have to make it look like Sauron’s tower in Barad Dur from The Lord of the Rings? Are ‘They’ just messing with our heads now?
Hypertower
An extra luxury tower. It was unveiled in Dubai by Burj Binghatti Jacob & Co Residences and will be a skyscraper poised to set a record as one of the tallest residential buildings in the world.https://img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AA15Rfvb.img?w=800&h=415&q=60&m=2&f=jpg
“All I really know is the author’s name is Janet Daley, and she’s in all likelihood British”
Janet Daley is an American born Brit who writes for the Daily Telegraph.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/12/17/governments-have-learnt-fear-works-truly-terrifying/
Regarding the Diabetes epidemic in the US and possible causes – one thing that seems clear to me, based on extensive international work and travel is that overweight Americans are a very different shape from other nationalities. There is an identifiable ‘Fat American’ silhouette recognisable immediately from a hundred yards away – something about how the weight is unevenly distributed, mostly carried low around the torso
I suspect that there is something common in the US diet, not present elsewhere, that is behind this. The leading contender, to my mind, would be HFCS – a substance widely banned outside the US but which seems to be on the ingredient list of just about any damn thing you can buy in a US supermarket.
Normal old refined sugar is pretty much a toxin in its own right as far as I am concerned but this HFCS stuff is likely doing a whole nother level of damage to the body’s ability to regulate insulin levels and manage energy usage/storage.
@Germ #122847
What a shame that Time didn’t select this image for their notorious ‘Person of the Year’ cover. You should have seen the alternative pictures they considered for their 1938 Hitler edition.
“But Yanushevych said Friday that 75% of the electrical grid in Kherson city had already been restored.”
I’d be fascinated to learn how one ‘Restores’ a 300kv substation that the Russians have just put a missile through. With a Swiss Army knife and a spare pair of ladies hosiery?
“Current atmospheric CO2 is not 400 ppm. it is close to 420 ppm, having gone through the seasonal decrease due to photosynthesis”
I guess the producer of the dot diagram above just couldn’t figure out how to represent 0.2 of a dot – they’re already pretty tiny.
“And no addressing of the point made, of course. Nor any actual science”
I think we all know what ‘The Science’ is worth these days.
Whose ‘Science’? And who’s paying them for it?
@ aspnaz “The answer to this puzzle is that the Irish politicians are getting something, otherwise, what’s the point? The smell of democracy in the pig sty.”
That and hundreds of thousands of well paying jobs in Dublin which are fleeced by Irelands ridiculous income tax system.
$30bn a year to eliminate world hunger? I don’t think so. The National Health Service in the UK has a budget 5 times that for 2022 and you’ll still be waiting a year for a minor operation.
I’d say that $30bn wouldn’t even pay the ‘Administrative costs’ and other grift that any operation to feed the world would inevitably attract.
Tesla: “….and the instruments through which we will shall be able to do all of this, will fit in our vest pockets”.
My vest pocket you say? But…that’s where I keep the brush for shining my top hat.
“Hey wonderful group.
Has anybody heard anything significant about the dates Sept 23/24 ?”
It’s my wife’s birthday, so yes, I’ve been hearing a LOT about its significance recently.
Amazing how so many people have been fooled into obsessing over such an obvious distraction as ‘Climate Change’ when there is a list as long as one’s arm of far more pressing things that will destroy our Earthly habitat looong before a bit of weather change does – overpopulation, plastic and chemical pollution, overfishing, habitat destruction, eroding topsoils and so on but yeah – let’s worry about some hypothetical issue that may (or may not) become a problem in 100 years. ‘Cos we can ‘Fix’ climate change by buying new ‘Green’ stuff right? Whereas the other issues – well there’s no profit in dealing with those – is there?
@Zerosum – pretty sure I’ve been dealing with quite a few people with microbial-level cognitive processes recently. In fact, having a committee of microbes doing their thinking for them might actually be a step up in some cases.
@Dr D
“At the same time, Kiev insists that it is Russian forces who are shelling the site while stationing military hardware there.”
Every day I read this: Russia is in the plant, using as a base, AND ALSO shelling themselves, in their own base. HuhWhut?™ Which I now use so often, I trademark it. The West: taken leave of their senses so long ago it’s but a dim memory.
I actually had this argument with a Normie and his response was that the Russians outside the plant are shelling those inside the plant ‘Because they’re so stupid’.
How can you reason with someone who’s not only drunk that much Kool-aid but is actually doing the backstroke in it?
@Dora – because the FBI has told the rest of the media that it isn’t?
“….The US has promised four more of the holy HIMARS…..”
A good start, but have they sent the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch yet? That should definitely turn the tide…..
” “The neocons above all seem unable to process that the days of US hegemony are over. It boggles the mind that they are not just eyepoking but escalating greatly with China via the still-planned Pelosi visit to Taiwan in August.”
Exactly the same as the elite of the British Empire in the years following WWII. Still attempting to throw their weight around like they used to in the old days, not realising that the rest of the world is looking on at this with increasing contempt and, to be honest, incredulity.
Ukraine could be (if indeed Afghanistan doesn’t turn out to be in hindsight) the US Empire’s ‘Suez Crisis’ moment – the event that finally brings home to the Neocons that they no longer have the power they once had and that the world has noticed that behind the shell of bluster and threat, there’s nothing to back that up.
Will the TPTB in the US pack up their tents, relinquish their empire and find another way to pretend the glory days are still here, as the UK did, or will they go down fighting?
From today’s UK Daily Mail:
“Scientists find likely culprit behind mystery child hepatitis outbreak – and Covid itself is NOT to blame: Combination of two usually-harmless viruses posed bigger threat to kids ‘because lockdowns weakened their immunity”
Riiiiiight. Lockdowns messed up their immunity. Not the vaccines. Got it. That’s probably why these incidents didn’t start happening until after the rollout of the jabs to children.
Also in today’s Mail – right on the front page just another (Yawn!) mysterious stroke/heart attack…
“Archie Battersbee’s father has been rushed to hospital following fears he may have suffered a stroke or heart attack hours before judges delivered the shattering ruling that his little boy’s life support should be switched off.”
Just another of those run of the mill cardiac events that are becoming so popular these days.
No, not just you. Saker blog seems to have unavailable since yesterday. Could be a straightforward technical issue, but in these times of deceit, information wars and censorship I’m inclined to think otherwise.
They say that one should never attribute to malice that which can be explained by simple incompetence, but it’s becoming very hard indeed to avoid the conclusion that we are witnessing the execution of a deliberate and globally coordinated plan to create shortages of energy, fertilizer, food and other population-sustaining essentials.
How can it really be that the politicians in the Netherlands can survey the current world situation and decide that the most important thing to do right now is hamstring their own food producers? Can it really be explained by incompetence?
“Well have you noticed how stable commodity prices are these days? Yesterday?”
Well – i’ve done some research into this and I can reveal that taking any given commodity, let’s say Crude Oil, 1 barrel yesterday is worth exactly one barrel today. This pattern is consistent no matter how far back I go.
On the other hand, the quantity of fiatscos it takes to purchase one of these rock-stable barrels of oil is all over the place.
So yeah – I don’t think it’s the commodities that are lacking in stability.
Australian cricket legend Shane Warne ‘Dies Suddenly’ at age 52 from suspected heart attack.
Just listened to a parade of interviewees mourning his death and not one mention of the elephant in the room.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/cricket/2022/03/04/michael-vaughan-shane-warne-tribute/
“Slash the tires, empty gas tanks, arrest the drivers, and move the trucks”
Um – you haven’t thought this sequence of events through, have you Juliette?
An instructive illustration of the cognitive abilities of minor government apparatchiks these days though, I guess.
Died ‘Peacefully’ following a coma-inducing cardiac arrest. Makes a change from ‘Dies Suddenly’, I guess.
My pet topic….
Video: Third Pro Football Player In A Week Experiences Severe Chest Pain During Game
More damned coincidences….
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