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Germ. I heard this on the radio news this morning here in Canada and it wasn’t the CBC,(covid broadcasting corporation). They’re using models again and we know how well they preform. Models?!
Real war correspondents are few, however 19 April:
Concerning Gonzalo it is possible he just can’t communicate due to the Russian advance on Kharkiv. They seem to be able to crush domestic comms for the duration of their campaigns within certain ranges. It does look as if they’re lining this area up for the removal of the remaining Azovs within this city as well as the area in general. Hopefully this is the case.
Anyone concerned about the WHO Pandemic Treaty, now inviting submissions from the general public. There is a short submission period, so this is urgent.
There is an international outcry that sovereign nations will lose control of their own constitutional public health policy control, which it seems may be controlled by a global WHO/WEF pandemic policy. We have just witnessed the extreme shortcomings in the WHO/FDA/CDC pharma-dominated SARS-2 policies.
It is very easy to fill out the WHO submissions form here.
Public hearings regarding a new international instrument on pandemic preparedness and response: written component
As a professional career librarian, I have just published my own 250-word-limit submission, which I invite anyone to copy and use.
After careful thought, I don’t believe that each submission needs to be original. The main thing is that you will have expressed an educated voice. (My submission was approved by an epidemiologist.)
This can be done in 10 minutes. It’s easy.Summary
The vaccines are bad news. Fifteen bodies were examined (all died from 7 days to 6 months after vaccination; ages 28 to 95). The coroner or the public prosecutor didn’t associate the vaccine as the cause of death in any of the cases. However, further examination revealed that the vaccine was implicated in the deaths of 14 of the 15 cases. The most attacked organ was the heart (in all of the people who died), but other organs were attacked as well. The implications are potentially enormous resulting in millions of deaths. The vaccines should be immediately halted.No need to worry. It is doubtful that anything will happen because the work wasn’t published in a peer-reviewed journal so will be ignored by the scientific community. That’s just the way it works.
” expected to be a full-scale Russian assault in the east”
Just a few small battles so far I guess as the Russians have yet to make any headway.
The MSM lackey’s and their audience will be surprised at how quickly the east has fallen after all the aid that was sent to help the nazi’s in there holy war against the evil bear.About those pesky fuel price rises,
In 2020 Russia was the world’s second largest exporter of diesel fuel behind USA, shipping more than 1 million barrels daily. Most of it, some 70%, went to the EU and Turkey. France was the largest importer, followed by Germany and UK. In France some 76% of all road vehicles—cars, trucks—use diesel.The EU diesel demand is far higher than in the US as most cars also use the more economical and efficient diesel fuel. In the first week of April the EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen proudly announced new sanctions against Russian energy that would begin with a ban on coal. The EU is the largest importer of Russian coal. Oil and gas she said would follow at a later date. That foolish move will merely boost costs of energy, already at record high, for most of the EU, as it will force oil and gas prices far higher.https://www.globalresearch.ca/nato-sanctions-coming-global-diesel-fuel-disaster/5777305
Dr.D “Stand up for and support the brave and glorious Azov Nazis in their fight against civilians. Bad bad stuff. I’m done. He’s no longer an actor, a cut-out, an innocent.”
Most of the whole paragraph sounds like the dynamic duo of Trudeau and Freelander doesn’t it? Except they’re a drama teacher and a nazi.“ The WHO Is Building a Global Vaccine Passport (Bexte)
plans to link every person on the planet to a QR code digital ID.”Highly unlikely to work for a number of reasons the first, and probably the strongest, reason against it working is the people most likely to follow along are lining up for their booster as I type this. If the some of the worst things happen, as pointed out on this site, the most likely will no longer be with us. It may by accident reduce the coming famine as well. Thought they would kill off the un-compliant with a famine and feed all the digital QR’s with CBDC. Opps it isn’t following the model again! Now what? Must be missing some inputs. Try again might be enough time to get it right before they come a huntin’.
Rule of my thumb: no new drugs for at least five years after they went to market.
Integrity is the choice between doing what is convenient and what is right.The following may help to understand the global situation in the west is what is really under siege. Degrowth is upon us! It’s the resources stupid. We don’t have what is required to keep growth for growth’s sake going. Real growth died earlier this century and it has been smoke and mirrors ever since. Financial adventurism, MMT, and the like. Fantasies that work only in computer games, i.e. models.
In conclusion, a fair-shares assessment of resource use
shows that high-income nations bear the overwhelming
responsibility for global ecological breakdown, and
therefore owe an ecological debt to the rest of the world.
These nations need to take the lead in making radical
reductions in their resource use to avoid further
degradation, which will likely require transformative
post-growth and degrowth approaches.https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5196(22)00044-4/fulltext
Dr.D you’ve nailed again quite nicely about the “experts”. It all went sideways with education, or as I now call it indoctrination. The further along one progresses through todays education system the less one thinks on their own. It’s systemic. Here in Canada you take your personal physician, they are merely interrupters. You go in for a check up and after a weigh in and blood pressure check, which you can do at home, they ask about any concerns, if you have any it’s off to the “specialist”. If none you’re still sent for blood work. This will be interrupted by the doc and if any anomalies show up… you guessed it, off to the specialist. I have a good friend with degrees in philosophy who is always interesting to have conversations with until you get to the MSM and their world view in the west. His is a parrot version with no critical thought what so ever. Amazes me every time. His world view is very Anglo Saxon, India bad, Russia bad, Germans, French, China, etc. all bad. Then will go on to tell me how he assesses people individually based on only the conversations with them. Needles to say when the conversation drifts in this direction I have to bite my tongue and steer it in another direction.
VP ‘The Wi-Fi restrictions were a valuable compliance measure to help promote participation,” St. Clair said. “Our hope is that it will continue to have an impact.”
Our hope is that it will continue to have an impact! Oh it will just look at Germs link in comment above. #105889 Brace for impact!
This should be interesting, live feed starts at 8 a.m. EDT
https://rumble.com/vzn4yg-the-first-casualty-of-war-is-truth-live-wscott-ritter.htmlhe Entire Data Base of “Covid-19 Confirmed Cases” is Invalid.
Media disinformation has prevailed for more than two years despite the fact that both the WHO and the CDC (with the usual innuendos) have confirmed what was known from the very outset in January 2020, namely that the RT-PCR test used to justify every single policy mandate including lockdowns, social distancing, the mask, confinement of the labor force, closure of economic activity, etc. was flawed and invalid.The WHO issued its Mea Culpa more than a year ago on January 20, 2021. A few months later, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (July 21, 2021) called for the withdrawal of the PCR test as a valid method for detecting and identifying SARS-CoV-2.
As of December, 31 2021, the PCR test is no longer considered valid by the CDC in the U.S. For more details see: CDC No Longer Recognizes the PCR Test As a Valid Method for Detecting “Confirmed Covid-19 Cases”?
The CDC has now firmly acknowledged that the PCR test does not effectively differentiate between Covid-19 and Seasonal Influenza. A PCR positive does not imply a “Covid-19 Confirmed Case”. It could be influenza or a corona common cold. The CDC called for its withdrawal effective December 31, 2021.
Dr.D read the rest of the article only half is posted and that was a mistake on my part. I didn’t mean to post nearly that much. I felt the more important bit follows on after what’s seen in the post. Maybe you have read it, if so apologies.
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Among humanity’s greatest failings is our inability to process time. No doubt in our evolutionary past, the need to focus on the here and now – both to avoid danger and to secure the means of staying alive – will have left little time to think about the future. The transition from hunting and gathering to agrarian settlement, of course, required the development of the calendar – which is why, for example, neolithic Britain was dotted with stone circles – but even then, the aim was to remove the need to think about the future. Instead, generation after generation learned that when the sun comes up over this stone, it is time to plant seeds. And when the sun comes up over that stone, it is time to bring in the harvest. And later, these neolithic time markers were incorporated into the Church calendar in the form of “holy days.”In 1972, psychologist Walter Mischel devised an experiment to test children’s ability to defer gratification. This “marshmallow test” confirmed that, in fact, very few of us are able to make rational decisions about even the short-term future. Only ten percent of children managed to “pass” the test and earn the promised reward. And this has more than humorous consequences. The ten percent of children who could process time rationally, went on to get higher educational grades, better jobs and more stable relationships. As I explained in my 2015 book, The Consciousness of Sheep:
“The overwhelming majority of us are completely disconnected from our future selves. We understand at a cognitive level that we will become a different person in the future to the person that we are today. But we struggle to understand that these people that we are to become are really ourselves. If they become unwell, we are going to have to experience their pain. If they are poor, we are going to have to experience their poverty. If they are obese, we are going to have to struggle for breath as we lug their excess weight around.
“Nor is it only our negative future life events and situations that we cannot connect with. Another famous experiment, in which adults are asked to choose between a small box of chocolates today and a large box next week, has exactly the same outcome as the marshmallow test. Ninety percent of us take the immediate gratification of the small box today rather than the deferred gratification of a large box later on. We simply cannot connect with the fact that it is the same me who will get to enjoy a large box of chocolate next week if only I can resist the temptation of a small box immediately.
“This experiment has important consequences for all of humanity. It highlights a key reason why so many people stay stuck in unpleasant situations simply because they will not put effort into making change. Again, we all ‘understand’ this at a cognitive level. For example, we know that someone who is in a poorly paid and/or stressful job would be better off taking up a night school or distance learning course than, say, going to the pub in an attempt to unwind. Nevertheless, adult education is struggling to recruit students while pubs are full of people complaining about their jobs!
“To most of us, our future selves are complete strangers. Indeed, we are often more caring about our present friends and relatives than we are about our future selves. And if our future selves are strangers, is it any surprise that we offer them no greater support than we would to a stranger today? It is not that we wish them harm. But – let’s be honest – how many of us would give up a small box of chocolate today so that someone else can have a large box next week?
“Of course, many of the issues facing us are so much greater than who gets chocolates. An adult will not educate themselves so that a stranger can get a better job. A drunk will not turn down a drink so that a stranger will be spared a hangover. A smoker will not turn down a cigarette so that someone else does not get cancer. And none of us will leave our cars at home or turn down holidays abroad so that strangers do not have to cope with economic collapse and climate change.”
This is why we should avoid making radical changes to our way of life – such as locking down national economies in the face of a not particularly dangerous pandemic – without having sought to understand and mitigate the likely consequences. Even economists and central bankers understand that economic policy is often like pulling on a brick with an elastic band – minor changes seem to make no difference but then all of a sudden, the brick comes flying up to hit you in the face. This is why, for example, central bankers tend to raise interest rates gradually in case they trigger a massive debt default crisis. Nevertheless, a financial economy which, today, is largely divorced from reality, responds rapidly in comparison to the real economy of energy and materials which economists hubristically refer to as “externalities.” Acting in ways that impact the real economy is more like attempting to steer a supertanker – the ship may travel tens of miles before the change of course takes effect. And in the event of over-steering at the beginning, the ship may well end up grounded on the rocks (which is why, incidentally, modern oil tankers have double hulls).
It was not until the summer of 2021 that the economic effects of the lockdown in March 2020 began to be felt. First in the form of the fake fuel shortage, but later in the very real surge in oil and natural gas prices. We might look back fondly at an oil price of $80 per barrel. But this time last year, there was concern that a rise above $80 would be enough trigger a global recession. In truth, recessionary indicators could be seen all over the place if anyone cared to look. Town and city centres were devastated by lockdowns. The entire travel and tourism industry is little more than a corpse waiting for a priest to arrive to administer the last rights. Hospitality businesses have closed in droves. Even Cardiff’s iconic Brains brewery had to be quietly sold off to the English – something akin to sacrilege in these parts – during the pandemic. All around the world, supply chains have been collapsing as shipping and transport costs rise far above anything the economy can afford in the long-term.
In the UK, as the winter of 2021-22 approached, people faced the biggest cost-of-living crisis since records began. What began as a series of eye-watering fuel and energy price increases, morphed into a generalised inflation as everything which depended upon energy and fuel in its manufacture and delivery became more expensive. The situation was not helped by central and local government tax hikes, nor by the central bank’s decision to raise interest rates.
@Oxy “If I had my way (and I would think D Benton and many others feel this way too) they would all go to jail but it’s not going to happen.” It is happening now, they are doing to themselves. They have a name for it, gated communities. These will become prisons at some point. They will have to leave for supplies as things deteriorate further. It seems to be slowing turning into the bastard child of The Hunger Games and Orwells 1984. As far as yesterdays floating LNG terminal the whole thing is pie in the sky. Russian gas flows to Europe at approx 500 billion cubic meters per year and the usa is offering up 15 billion. They have a bit of a short fall there.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/nato-russia-proxy-war-revealing-signs-of-a-fading-america/5775462
From the transcript with Micheal Hudson:GR: I know that Russia is very rich in mineral deposits, its rich in oil and gas as well. Russia and Ukraine form part of the breadbasket of the world. And as they control the important minerals like lithium and palladium and so forth, so they’re dealing with Ukraine, part of that plan, as a result you’re going to see, as I mentioned, a lot of impacts worldwide including food, and we’re probably going to start to see even food shortages pretty soon.
MH: That is the intention, You have to realize that this was anticipated. Without gas, already German fertilizer companies are going out of business because fertilizer is made out of gas, and if they can’t get their Russian gas, they can’t make the fertilizer, and if you don’t have the fertilizer, the crops are not going to be as prevalent and abundant as they were before. So all of this, you have to assume that, it’s so obvious, they knew this would happen, and they expect the United States to benefit from the cost squeeze that it’s imposing on food importers to the US benefit.
@dbentonsmith Rules!? We don’t need no stinking rules!
From the above link: “The ruble has lost a third of its value against the dollar.JPMorgan data shows the worst recession in the country since its 1998 financial crisis.”
This is taken from a report dated March 7th when it reached approx. 132 per dollar. Checking the Baltic this morning it stands at 98 per dollar. The bs is amazing really. I don’t know why I keep reading this S&!t.
Slow motion train wreck I guess. It goes on to say:“The crux of the new economic risk starts with common goods like oil and wheat. These keyRussian and Ukrainian commodities, along with others like nickel and natural gas, have seen their prices surge through 2022 as the conflict has raised fears of supply strains.”
Further along:
“The advanced economies can reshuffle their trade relationships and import necessary goods from elsewhere. But that will take time, and until then, Americans are likely to shoulder the costs of even pricier gas and groceries.”
Like where? Please show me another 11 time zones with anywhere near the natural commodity supplies both developed and waiting to be developed?“In the US, the Federal Reserve began raising interest rates this month, and while the central bank is widely expected to continue rate hikes at each of its six remaining meetings this year, the exact scope and timing of the Fed’s monetary tightening remain up in the air.”
But wasn’t that supposed to cripple Russia?” There’s simply no precedent for the economic dislocation Russia is experiencing, Brian Coulton, chief economist at Fitch Ratings, told Insider. Similarly severe sanctions have been levied on smaller economies like North Korea and Cuba, but never against such a global superpower. That leaves economists without much foresight as to how the sanctions will play out in the coming years.”
Your getting a pretty damn fine look in just a few weeks!” Where the West is going to come in and cut off supplying stuff to Russia” You mean the grift?
It fails to mention the supply strains are self inflicted. Lots of Russian commodities available if you want to buy in Rubles or not follow the sanctions. The March 7th Business Insider is worth a read just on the rear view mirror concept to see how well the prognosis played out.
…and then there’s this little nugget:
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Rationing-Looms-As-Diesel-Crisis-Goes-Global.html
Russian refiners cut processing rates of diesel fuel.
Already tight diesel supply is getting even tighter.
Vitol’s chief executive Hardy: diesel supply shortage could trigger rationing in EuropeReading the article it doesn’t state anywhere that Russia actually cut anything, maybe they are just selling it elsewhere.
Really, Russia put this in motion?
“In bracing for the near-term food emergencies that Russia has put in motion”
Do you suppose they will have this ready by fall?
France wants to build floating LNG terminal at Le Havre – Les Echos
Legends in their own minds.
“As for the war’s impact on Russia’s grain exports, wheat shipments in March have held at a near-normal pace, but analysts recently toldBloomberg that few new deals are being signed as severe economic sanctions levied against Russia by the United States and its NATO allies are starting to have an impact.”
https://www.world-grain.com/articles/16679-importing-countries-seek-alternate-grain-suppliers
@oxymoron This sanctions thing seems to be against the less well off in the west more so than anything. Russia has a lot of natural resources that are scarce in the industrial west , if we’re even “still industrial”. The financial elites of this world seem to think money or financialization of everything is the dominant strategy and will prevail over the reality of actually owning three dimensional things like food and minerals not to mention fertilizers.
Take your pick here:
https://www.hellenicshippingnews.com/category/commodities/commodity-news/
Food for thought?
Canada’s farmers may face another drought this year, just as the world counts on the breadbasket nation to grow bigger wheat and canola crops to ease food inflation fuelled by the Russia-Ukraine war.
Dry conditions shrank last year’s Canadian harvest, and wheat crops in the United States and China are now struggling. In 2020, prior to the drought, Canada’s wheat exports accounted for 13% of globally traded wheat, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Canadian farmers face drought threat as global wheat, canola prices soar
All the best Raul. I have an overly active sciatic nerve on the right side. I affectionately call my psychotic nerve. Perhaps some of the regulars will put up a bit of stuff! This is kinda fun:
“We must recommit ourselves to the work of strengthening our democracies, and demonstrate the principled leadership people are looking for,” said Trudeau at the European Parliament.
See what happened after Trudeau’s historic failed address to the European Parliament. (Scroll down)
No analysis by Canada’s mainstream media.
Here’s two hours if you can stand still that long. Quite interesting on a number of topics with Robert Barns as quest.
https://rumble.com/vychaf-nato-biden-ukraine-russia-and-china-live.htmlRecovery? Where’s this recovery? Nothing is moving globally yet there is a recovery? I still say the pandemic was used to cull fuel consumption, however we were already well past peak. So it’s Russia’s fault I’m sure even though they are honouring the contracts in place.
“Similar distillate shortages have emerged in Europe and Asia as the rapid recovery in consumption after the pandemic has outrun increased output of crude oil and refinery production of diesel.”
…and then there’s this little nugget: “Hardy said the shift to more diesel consumption over gasoline in Europe had helped to create shortages of the fuel. He added that refineries could boost their diesel output in response to higher prices at the expense of other oil-derived products to shore up supply, but warned that rationing was a possibility.
Meanwhile, Torbjorn Tornqvist, co-founder and chair of Geneva-headquartered Gunvor Group said that “Europe is short of diesel” but added that “Diesel is not just a European problem; this is a global problem. It really is.”34 people on six continents really! Overwhelming numbers. I wonder how many were actual farmers?
Farmers elsewhere are making similar moves. Reuters spoke with 34 people on six continents, including grain producers, agriculture analysts, traders and farm groups. All expressed concern about the cost and availability of fertilizer.
“As gasoline prices rise to record levels, the International Energy Agency is calling for energy lockdowns, such as banning the use of private cars in cities on Sundays. Other measures proposed in the agency’s “A 10-Point Plan to Cut Oil Use” include reducing speed limits, working from home, cutting business air travel and imposing an SUV “tax,” reports Climate Depot, the website run by former Capitol Hill staffer Marc Morano. “Governments have all the necessary tools at their disposal to put oil demand into decline in the coming years, which would support efforts to both strengthen energy security and achieve vital climate goals,” the report states.”
How about cutting off the global MIC?
“Ukraine’s Propaganda War: Int’l PR Firms, DC Lobbyists and CIA Cutouts (MPN)”
I wonder how they will spin this as more leaks through the censorship sieve?
https://www.instagram.com/tv/CbaJa-ZF3NO/?utm_medium=copy_link
Autocracies cannot allow evolutionary churn to operate freely enough to enable their regime to adapt to changes. By throttling evolutionary churn–dissent, variety, experiments across the board in all fields–autocrats doom their regime to failure and collapse. The irony is their tight grip on power is their undoing.
Autocrats have a second fatal flaw: they want agreement and confirmation, not dissent. Once the autocrat decides that this set of policies will support the regime’s control, then dissent is unwelcome.
This desire for compliance and consensus dooms the autocracy to failure and collapse because dissent is the essence of evolutionary churn and adaptation. Surround yourself with sycophants and toadies, crush dissenting views, and you’ve sealed the fate of your autocracy:
https://www.oftwominds.com/blogmar22/autocracy-weakness3-22.html
Anyone know what’s going on with MOEX. I find it hard to believe that it isn’t trading period. The east is still trading with Russia and yet I can’t find any info on the markets in Russia. I personally have no investments in any markets. I do like to follow them as the reality is what happens on the global market front will eventually show up on the ground around me.
“It depends on a cheap, universal, globalized commerce. What was it, they move 22,000 tonnes of ore to make one electric car? Yeah, that sounds sustainable.” And all done primarily with diesel.
Because of the degradation of the immune system (AIDS) after taking these shots, the mortality rate has jumped for those who are told they have COIVD. It’s even worse for the triple vaccinated population in terms of their risk of death. The official figures show that they are on average 3.7 times more likely to be infected with Covid-19 but 5.1 times more likely to die of Covid-19 than the unvaccinated population.
The following chart shows the total number of Covid-19 cases per week by vaccination status across Canada between 31st Jan 22 and 27th Feb 22 –
Official Government of Canada Data: Triple-Vaxxed FIVE TIMES More Likely to Die of Covid
This week the long-awaited Online Safety Bill was published, which aims to make the UK the ‘safest place to be online in the world’ – in other words, the country with the most strictly regulated and censored internet of any liberal democracy. This mammoth piece of legislation was five years in the making, and those five years show. The bill is vast in scope, and terrifying in its implications for free speech.
Most significant is the ‘duty of care’ the bill imposes on social-media firms. Tech platforms will be legally required to prevent users from seeing both illegal content and ‘legal but harmful content’.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/end-free-speech-online/5774673
