Debt Rattle October 29 2022
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Pablo Picasso Head of a bearded man 1940 • Everybody Wants To Hop On The BRICS Express (Escobar) • Russia’s Move Away From Dollar ‘Irreversible
[See the full post at: Debt Rattle October 29 2022]Featured snippet from the web
The Soviet invasion of Poland was a military operation by the Soviet Union without a formal declaration of war. On 17 September 1939, the Soviet Union invaded Poland from the east, 16 days after Nazi Germany invaded Poland from the west.Why did the Soviet Union invade Poland in ww2?
The “reason” given was that Russia had to come to the aid of its “blood brothers,” the Ukrainians and Byelorussians, who were trapped in territory that had been illegally annexed by Poland. Now Poland was squeezed from West and East—trapped between two behemoths.How did the Soviets treat the Polish?
Soviet soldiers often engaged in plunder, rape and other crimes against the Poles, causing the population to fear and hate the regime. 50,000 members of the Polish Underground State were deported to Siberia and various other Soviet Labour camps.How many Poles were killed by the Soviets?
From 1945 to 1948, the Soviets deported to forced labor or concentration camps in the Soviet Union from 3,000,000 to 6,000,000 Poles, of which 585,000 may have died. Hundreds of thousands and possibly near 1,000,000 Poles were killed in Soviet terror and repression.How long did Russia occupy Poland after ww2?
The struggle for independence continued on Polish territory until the 1950s while the last known partisan was killed by the occupying Soviet forces as late as 1963.1 Oct 2018When did Poland get rid of communism?
The 1989 Round Table Talks led to Solidarity’s participation in the 1989 election. Its candidates’ striking victory gave rise to the first of the succession of transitions from communist rule in Central and Eastern Europe.What did Russia do to Poland?
KAKISSIS: Poland has a traumatic history with Russia. The Soviet Union, an ally of Nazi Germany in 1940, invaded Poland. The Soviets imprisoned and murdered the country’s entire officer corps and then blamed it on the Germans.9 Mar 2022 estimated 20,000.The last. Russian troops left Poland in 1992.
Pelosi brutally beaten. Reprehensible and appalling. One good thing: Republicans will be happy to find the attacker and hang him.
Anyway, um, super weird details around this guy so far? Like 10 seconds would tell you it’s Paul and that Nancy’s in DC? So you really, REALLY don’t like DWI’s? And he’s a furry? And he re-activated his social media for the occasion after a break of 15 years? Aaaaand he’s a Leftist from Berkeley. And it may not even be political. SF is a terrible, violence city, thanks to his wife.
Hard to believe Paul can recover at +80. Good on him. We need him healthy so he can be adjudicated and go to jail.
“Dow Soars Towards Best Month in 84 Years Amid ‘Eye-Wateringly Speculative YOLO-ing’”
Too fast. I wasn’t sure, but this says “Bear market rally” to me. Sorry.
Speaking of, though, Amazon dropped. Not so much. Here’s the rub though: with Amazon’s market cap, what was the drop? $100B lost? Oops.“Biden, Harris to Campaign For Fetterman after Rocky Debate Performance”
But neither of them can speak either!
“Top Dems Urge Biden to Nationalize Oil & Gas Industry”
I smell money around here somewhere! If you thought the industry would refuse to operate before, wait til this sinks in.
Free speech and opinions are now a federal election crime:
“Leaked FBI Pamphlet Lists ‘Misinformation’ and ‘Disinformation’ as ‘Election Crimes’”
In other news, the FBI issuing misinformation and lying to Congress and Judges: not a crime.But it’s the FBI. Problem is, unlike the NY Times, you can’t opt out and not buy them. Government is FIRE. It is FORCE. That is, it is VIOLENCE. Hey! We should use it for everything then! Like health care.
“The WEF is a fantasy factory; all it can really produce is chaos and misery.” – Kunstler
Except he doesn’t understand yet that’s on purpose. That’s its reason and plan. Cars that burn coal and ALSO don’t have a 100 mile range? Perfect. Feudalism here we come. You may not leave the Lord’s manor without permission. A passe-porte of some kind.
“ EU Approves Gasoline Car Ban in 2035 (RT)” There you go. With zero cars available for replacement.
“Europe is embracing the shift to zero-emission” Actually coal and 100,000 year radioactive waste emission. Doesn’t roll off the tongue because it’s real and not bulls—t. They’ll have a lot less emission when 1/3 of their people are dead; just as they hoped and wrote about.
They’re overdoing it with diesel. Yes, it’s 30 days, and yes that’s lower than ever, however, it’s very near the 20-year long term level. There are only 30 days storage and I would stock some, but the refineries just make more. It’s not a milkshake you drink, it’s a water tower.
“Erdogan: Turkiye Will Ensure Distribution of Russian Gas to Europe (Az.)”
Speaking of maybe not assassinating rulers you later have to make major deals with… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Turkish_coup_d’%C3%A9tat_attempt
I’m sure he doesn’t hold a grudge or anything. After Russia saved him. Or against the EU for treating Turkey like coolies since…well, forever. But 100% since the the EU started. Turkey is just “The Jungle” I guess. Hey: who are better soldiers, those from the Jungle or from the Garden?
“Russian gas supplies to the EU dropped by almost 50% since May, while exports to Japan and South Korea remained at about the same”
I see why they thought the economic sanctions would work. The drop of flow + the duration is quite challenging. However, with the Ruble and BTU price, there’s zero chance it will work the way things turned out.
At the same time, the enormous drop of everything in China will be equally challenging. Suppose China even has a revolution; would it change anything? Or would more liberty make them more powerful? Armstrong seems to think yes to both bc capital is predicted to flow and it can’t unless they lighten up.
“Mikhelson suggested that the upcoming winter will be the easiest of the next three, …In his view, global GDP will struggle”
Deflation. Zero purchases, dead people. Sadly, this permits governments to print worthless money into Stagflation. Printing money, if accepted, retains their power.
““They build relationships this way – markets and resources are captured,”
Using printed money, not real. Which is why that’s the lynchpin for all power.
“The North-South corridor could become a safe substitute for the Suez Canal,”
I remember a project where Iran would canal the Caspian, but underground in tunnels. That might also keep off Western bombs, which never stop. Go us! “Killin’ some folks” – Barack Obama
“the 101st is called “airborne” in reference to its World War II days, today its soldiers are not trained to jump out of airplanes; the 82nd Airborne Division does that.”
My error. Also that the 101 is merely replacing the existing ’82 in rotation. However, coincidentally or not, they are double-heavy with helicopters. Pie to the face on that one.
““Yes, we must reduce our vulnerability, reduce one-sided dependencies.” –President Steinmeier
So you’ve joined the Trump plan. Got it.
“the EU is watching carefully lest the self-styled “free speech absolutist” turn the social media site into a platform for
hatespeech.”How dare people have opinions and words. When I want your opinion I’ll beat it out of you.
The buy of Twitter by Musk is another tell of them losing. But slowly: they apparently are going broke and cannot defend their companies from hostile takeover. Slower may be safer and most probably is. Who’s next? Trump set up MASSIVE fund/company to hover, waiting to buy anyone who wavers. Kanye buys Parler. CNN was/may be already taken over in a softer way and is being reformed. Since Bernays is the only thing they have, what happens as they lose share of it?
“Meta Spent”, Yes, that’s what happens when there is free 0% money, but no actual productive purpose to spend it on. Why? No money among the people thus no sales or profits. There is only central bank golfing pals and printing. There are no markets from T-Bonds right down to the car wash. That’s Capitalism!
Cool story bro. Sorry history started in 1930:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_invasion_of_RussiaPolish invasion of Russia or Polish invasion of Rus may refer to
• Boleslaw I’s intervention in the Kievan succession crisis, 1018 (the Kiev Expedition)
• Polish–Muscovite War (1605–18)
• Polish–Soviet War (1919–20)
See in 1939, Russia was only JUST invaded by Poland. Last year. After being invaded by the West constantly, with Sweden, France, Prussia. Like now. In 1920 the Polish took most of Lithuania, W. Ukraine, and Belarus. Whoops! Sorry: never happened. Poland is a wee helpless innocent, never done no wrong.Also Ukrainian history started 24 March, 2022. There was no history between 21 November 2013 and then. There was no NATO coup. Nuland never said “F–k the EU, we’ll put in our boy Yats”. It’s all in your mind.
C’mon, you’re better than this.
As I understand it, the Rus lived in the region currently known as Ukraine, but many could not stand the smell, nor the constant raiding by people living in what we now call Poland, and so a large number of the Rus moved a thousand kilometres or so northeast, to where the air was (is) better, to establish what we now call Russia. Wise move.
Of course, some of the Rus remained in what we currently call Ukraine
Russia’s biggest mistake was selling Alaska to the Americans. But it looks like they are on track to get it back in the not-too-distant future, America carrying out economic-financial-cultural suicide and all that.
I find all this talk about ‘by 2035’ rather ridiculous, since current financial-economic-energetic arrangements will collapse between now and 2025.
12% of the world population taking on 88% of the world population still look miserable odds to me. Especially when half the 12% are already basket cases and the 88% have most of the resources.
“So it goes.”
By the way, ‘The Machine Stops’. E.M. Forster.
Listen to few minutes of this.
Fucking unbelievable.
They (this is the WHO) know that the Spike on the virus causes Amyloidosis in Long Covid.
But, in their minds, they don’t make the connection that the death vaxx causes the body to become a spike factory and causes Amyloidosis too.. https://youtu.be/Vwt93_Lg128?t=2062
Talk about death vaxx blindness.
They are morons.
I called Amyloidosis many months ago.
The Vaxx is causing Amyloidosis!!Ed Snowden about freedom of speech:
You are holding Julian Assange in a dungeon for exercising the freedom of expression you so ardently claim to defend. How about decriminalizing it at home before you take to a podium and point your finger abroad? https://t.co/DAs61R3puw
— Edward Snowden (@Snowden) October 26, 2022
Today’s word shunning – persistently avoid, ignore, or reject
• Everybody Wants To Hop On The BRICS Express (Escobar)
• Russia’s Move Away From Dollar ‘Irreversible’ – Leading Banker (RT)
• Erdogan: Turkiye Will Ensure Distribution Of Russian Gas To Europe (Az.)
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Energy supply distribution/controlEverything we do has to get finer, smaller in scale, and more local. Many, maybe most, of our high-tech systems will be crippled by energy shortages and supply line breakdowns. The business models for everything — from the oil industry to commercial aviation to running mega-cities — no longer pencil out. And as economist Herb Stein observed years ago: things that can’t go on, stop.
Every attempt to maintain the status quo of our withering globalist arrangements will be an act of futility, including the wars that our elites seem to be yearning for. If we squander our remaining resources on kinetic conflict, that will only drag out the journey to new arrangements, destroy more lives, and break more things that still have value.Perfect. Feudalism here we come. You may not leave the Lord’s manor without permission. A passe-porte of some kind.
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What happened – a gov. of, by, and for the people did not make a declaration of war against RussiaThe Washington Post’s Max Boot, for example, declared, “For democracy to survive, we need more content moderation, not less.”
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https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/10/29/drone-attack-repelled-in-sevastopol-moscow-installed-official
Russian navy ‘repels’ drone attack on Crimea’s Sevastopol
Russia blames Ukraine, UK for the drone attack on Sevastopol, home to Moscow’s Black Sea Fleet HQ, as battle rages in southeastern Ukraine.Russian Navy vessel
Russian navy vessels are anchored in a bay of the Black Sea port of Sevastopol in Crimea [File: Reuters]
Published On 29 Oct 2022
29 Oct 2022
The Russian navy has “repelled” a drone attack in the bay of Sevastopol, home to Moscow’s Black Sea Fleet in Moscow-annexed Crimea, according to a statement by a Russian-installed governor, as a battle rages for the control of southeastern Ukrainian cities Kherson and Bakhmut.“Today, starting at 04:30am for several hours, various air defence systems in Sevastopol repelled drone attacks,” Sevastopol Governor Mikhail Razvozhayev said on Telegram early on Saturday. “All UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles) have been shot down,” he added.
Moscow blames UK, Ukraine for drone attack
Moscow accused the UK of helping Ukraine plan a drone attack on its Black Sea Fleet in Sevastopol port, and said that one of its ships suffered “minor” damage.“The preparation of this terrorist act and the training of the military personnel of the Ukrainian 73rd Special Center for Maritime Operations were carried out under the guidance of British specialists located in the city of Ochakiv in Ukraine’s Mykolaiv region,” Moscow’s defence ministry said in a statement on Saturday.
“It should be emphasised that the ships of the Black Sea Fleet that were attacked by terrorists are involved in ensuring the security of the ‘grain corridor’ as part of an international initiative to export agricultural products from Ukrainian ports,” it said.
Al Jazeera’s Harry Fawcett, reporting from Kyiv, said the Russian campaign over the last couple of weeks has been highly systematic, targeting smaller substations that transfer the electricity to the grid rather than large facilities.
“The recent resumption of strikes on the city, and the mounting pressure on civilian infrastructure is bringing the war ever closer to home,” he said, adding that restoring supply is proving difficult as the Soviet-era equipment is hard to replace.
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https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/10/29/oldest-guantanamo-bay-prisoner-released-to-pakistan-ministry
Guantanamo’s oldest inmate Saifullah Paracha freed after 19 years
Businessman Saifullah Paracha, who was arrested in 2003 and accused of financing al-Qaeda, was never charged like most prisoners.
Since it first opened, Guantanamo has become notorious for human rights abuses and the fact that the US administration did not consider its prisoners to be entitled to any protection according to international laws.Distant Realities post is up, with picture of the Christmas presents I have been canning in summer and fall. https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/distant-realities
Most of what we seem to know these days comes to us from distant sources, intermediated through electronic channels of communication, which are owned by humans with certain “interests” in profiting from, and controlling, the flows of information in those channels. This may be direct, through advertising, or it may be covert, through CIA-funding, like Operation-Mockingbird, or influence peddling to the government, covert censorship and control-narrative management, like Facebook/Meta has done, and Google does invisibly with search rankings.
These costs must be paid somewhere in the economy, just as all of the costs of compliance, days and weeks trying to make connections within a system which will not work at all without that much of your life and time spent, just to participate at all. It’s not really possible to comprehend the costs imposed by bureaucracy until one is paying and paying and paying them personally. They are usually hidden better than that, and we just miss the simpler days we remember.
Bureaucracies used to have responsible people at nodes of communication, responsibility and decision-making throughout any organization, bottom to top, making timely, informed local decisions, solving problems daily as they arose. A lot of problem solving might be done on a land-line telephone between humans.
A lot of information is transferred in such an exchange, efficiently to our human modes of constructive cooperation.
There can be “corruption” at these human nodesThere can be a culture of corruption, a Mafia type culture. It can be criminally profitable to infiltrate a flow of wealth and information. Electronic communications now force all communication and problem solving to rise to the top of a bureaucracy for assessment, which means decision-making. The goal is to contain all value within the system by avoiding corruption, but the cost is to destroy quick and appropriate decision making, and to make any action at all very costly to some entity. The bureaucracy will protect itself by externalizing compliance and documentation costs onto participating users.
All other pathways must be blocked. There can be no competing bureaucracy. The ability to control any bureaucracy centrally destroys its ability to perform its designated function over time. It then mainly exists to keep existing, while presenting a parasitic cost to the rest of the economy.
Within the US we all bear these costs. I am aware of them a lot recently, as I deal with vast and nearly impossible compliance hierarchy in seeking medical employment. What is required may be impossible, but it is required, anyway to proceed, and there is no alternative. I have maintained my Texas medical license since 1987, having graduated med school in 1986, served a year-long internship, and passed multiple examinations, which have been ongoing. The city hospital where I served my internship, and later fellowship, no longer exists, but the forms require current contact information, medical director contact information and so on. At each layer of compliance bureaucracy up the hierarchy, there is a fixed requirement. So many people get paid to assure that each requirement is met and pass the form along or kick it back until it complies.
The US government bureaucracies do this to the rest of the world, as well as to Americans and businesses that serve Americans, including import and export of goods and services. The model of maximizing central control and externalizing costs can only be maintained if it is in a monopoly position. The US, with the global reserve currency for trade, extracts wealth and externalizes costs onto tributary countries. Perhaps half of the funding for thee federal government arises through parasitic extraction of value through creation of currency, which the rest of the world trades real goods and services for, to participate economically.
Banking and finance in the $US regime are further routes of parasitic extraction of wealth and resources.
What will happen when the alternative system, new and more efficient, perhaps user-friendly, is available as a real choice? It seems to me that the last to benefit will be those who are most trapped in the $US system, which are those of us in the “west”, especially the USA. The bureaucracies will preserve themselves until “the end”.Big Serge takes the position that there is a lot of ruckus about tactical nuclear weapons, now dirty-bomb false flags in Ukraine, but that such use would not rationally serve the US/NATO or Russia. Ukraine could not coerce the US/NATO into an upgrade by using a dirty bomb, either.
He looks into tactical nuclear weapons, which are roughly the size of what was dropped on Hiroshima, and how they could be used.
Then Serge looks at the Battalion Tactical Group, which is like a Brigade, but with less infantry, and how that has affected Russian battlefield tactics, and why that may soon change.
https://bigserge.substack.com/p/sound-and-furyLess reassuring about the risk of nuclear weapons use is Deputy President of the Russian Academy of Missile and Artillery Sciences, retired Navy Captain, Konstantin Sivkov. This gentleman is of the opinion that the west, US/NATO has gotten into a situation where it has little useful land army, and really needs to control the world through nuclear coercion, but needs Russia as a client-state to do so. The US/NATO really needs to go nuclear, but is puzzled as to how. He explains a lot of military tactical theory around this. The transcript is in English.
It’s not encouraging. Maybe he’s drunk. He doesn’t look drunk. (He says Neoliberal Capitalism is inefficient. He’s Got to be Drunk!))
Vladimir Putin spent a really long time at the Valdai Club, talking and answering extensive questions without notes or a teleprompter.
Several stories about that are worth reading. He said a lot.
The world is entering a decade of tumult as the pursuit of a more just world order clashes with the arbitrary hegemony of the collective West, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday, addressing the annual meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club...
..“We are standing at a historic milestone, ahead of what is probably the most dangerous, unpredictable and at the same time important decade since the end of World War II. The West is not able to single-handedly manage humanity, but is desperately trying to do it, and most of the peoples of the world no longer want to put up with it,” Putin said.
Conflicts arising from this tumult are threatening the entire humanity, and constructively resolving them is the principal challenge ahead, according to the Russian leader.
No one can sit out the coming storm, which has acquired a global character, Putin said. Humanity has two choices, “either to continue to accumulate a burden of problems that will inevitably crush us all, or to try together to find solutions, albeit imperfect, but working, capable of making our world safer and more stable.”
In a truly democratic multipolar world, any society, culture and civilization should have the right to choose its own path and socio-political system. If the US and Europe have that right, so should everyone else. Russia also has it, “and no one will ever be able to dictate to our people what kind of society we should build and on what principles.”
The biggest threat to the political, economic, and ideological monopoly of the West is that alternative social models may arise in the world – and would be more effective and more attractive.
“Above all, we believe that the new world order should be based on law and justice, be free, authentic and fair,” the Russian president said.
“The future world order is being formed before our eyes. And in this world order, we must listen to everyone, take into account every point of view, every nation, society, culture, every system of worldviews, ideas and religious beliefs, without imposing a single truth on anyone, and only on this basis, understanding our responsibility for the fate of our peoples and the planet, to build a symphony of human civilization.”
https://www.azerbaycan24.com/en/no-one-can-sit-out-the-coming-storm/ Putin Says Russia Won’t Use Nuclear Weapons in Ukraine
The Russian president said the world is facing the most dangerous decade since World War II Russian President Vladimir Putin declared on Thursday that Russia is an “independent” civilization that does not consider itself an enemy of the West. Instead, he sees the “aggressive” and “neo-colonial” liberal elite in charge of the West as a foe.
“In the current conditions of a tough conflict, I will say some things directly,” Putin told a meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club. “Russia, being an independent, original civilization, has never considered and does not consider itself an enemy of the West.”
Hatred for American, British, French or German people “are the same form of racism as Russophobia and anti-Semitism,” he added.
Putin went on to describe the West as two entities. On one hand, the traditional, primarily Christian West “is close to us in some ways,” he said, noting that “we have in many respects common and ancient roots.”
“But there is another West – aggressive, cosmopolitan, neo-colonial, acting as an instrument of neo-liberal ideas. It is precisely with the dictates of this West that Russia, of course, will never put up with,” he continued.
While Putin undoubtedly sees the conflict in Ukraine as an existential struggle against the West – describing his forces as fighting the “entire Western military machine” and blaming the derailment of peace talks and sabotage of the Nord Stream gas pipelines on the “Anglo-Saxons,” he has drawn a distinction between Western elites and Western society before...
While the West expands primarily to secure its “mercantile interest,” he stated at Thursday’s meeting, it also pushes its cultural exports on an unreceptive world. “If Western elites believe they can launch new trends like dozens of genders and gay parades, they have the right to do so,” he said. “But they don’t have the right to demand that others follow the same direction.”
https://www.azerbaycan24.com/en/russia-is-not-an-enemy-of-the-west-putin/As soon as any market is opened for certain goods, the West seizes it along with all the resources, pushing away local manufacturers, according to Russian President Vladimir Putin. “They build relationships this way – markets and resources are captured, countries are deprived of their technological, scientific potential. This is not progress, but enslavement, mixing economies to a primitive level” .
https://www.rt.com/business/565468-russia-putin-western-economic-model/ Putin calls for ‘dialogue on equal terms’ with the West
Only a world united by common goals can act on the challenges it faces.
The Russian leader said he believes in common sense and is convinced that sooner or later “new centers of power in the multipolar world and the West will have to start talking as equals about our common future.”
He was speaking at the Valdai Discussion Club meeting outside Moscow, in conversation with Russian foreign policy expert Fyodor Lyukyanov.
https://www.rt.com/russia/565460-west-sit-out-crises-caused-putin/Not Negotiating! OK?
The United States will “retire the B83-1 gravity bomb,” and will “cancel the nuclear-armed Sea-Launched Cruise Missile (SLCM-N) program.”
During a news conference, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin faced questions about retiring the two programs, arguing that “our inventory of nuclear weapons is significant.”
”I do not believe this sends a message to Putin,” Austin told a reporter. “He understands what our capability is.” (Not saying we can be reasonable.)
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/pentagon-us-scrap-sea-launched-nuclear-missile-program Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu announced Friday the the end of the partial military mobilization order from last month, having reached the target goal of 300,000 to boost operational support for military action in Ukraine...
“The task set by you — to mobilize 300,000 people — has been fulfilled. No additional tasks are planned,” Shoigu told Putin during the televised meeting.
He specified that among the mobilized recruits, some 82,000 are already in the conflict zone in Ukraine and 218,000 still undergoing training.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russia-announces-end-mobilization-after-enlisting-300k-new-troopsThe late Dr. Luc Montagnier a 2008 Nobel Laureate for the discovery of another pandemic RNA virus, HIV-1; predicted that the vaccinated would be at higher risk of transmission and mortality (implied) once immune escape variants emerged and became dominant.
The data below from the ONS confirms the vaccinated were at higher risk of COVID-19 mortality and also non-COVID-19 mortality due to spike protein toxicity with the mRNA vaccines.
https://hervk102.substack.com/p/looks-like-the-british-parliamentOn February 21, 2022, Frontiers in Virology published a report titled MSH3 Homology and Potential Recombination Link to SARS-CoV-2 Furin Cleavage Site. The Furin Cleavage Site is the component of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein that enables the virus to dock onto human lung epithelial cells, thereby initiating the viral replication process. It is the key feature of SARS-CoV-2 that made it infectious to humans. Examining the genetic code of this part of the spike protein, the authors noted that part of the sequence was a perfect match to a genetic sequence patented in 2016 by Bancel S. et al. in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/the-french-connection Who could possibly have anticipated that mercury preservative in multi-dose vaccine vials could impair immune response, and be implicated as a cause of Bubonic Plague deaths, so long ago? Who could anticipate that the aluminum used as an adjuvant in modern vaccines, to get the immune system to respond to them would also suppress the actual ability to fight infections? Well, there’s no going back now. We just have to keep injecting mercury and aluminum into ourselves and each other… Thanks Luc.
(It’s kind of interesting, though. I wonder if anything might be done about it in time. Single dose flu vaccines don’t have mercury preservative in them, at least.)
Black Plague Left a Genetic Imprint in Four Genes in Europeans: Specific Genetic Variants Found in Survivors Indicate Plague Deaths Involved Metal-Based “Medical” Treatments
https://popularrationalism.substack.com/p/black-plague-left-a-genetic-imprint Tessa Lena is Super Squeezed, a feeling we all know far too well. The squeeze of harvest or planting or weeding in season, when the sun shines, is urgent, but it has a natural satisfaction which allows us to sleep well at night, after the sun slowly sets
This story is about the syndrome of our times—being super-squeezed—and the civilizational and individual consequences of violating our biological clock. It is also about what happens when we collectively abandon the “claim” to our intimate spiritual space where we stretch and grow our souls at our internal pace.
https://tessa.substack.com/p/supersqueezed“Here is a number of articles that paint the picture of how the world is changing. No coverage in the west whatsoever. I hope those of you who come here regularly do grasp -part of- that picture.”
Note to Ilargi: I come here every day and read every article/post just to face the bleak truth of where we are heading. I do not comment on these articles/posts when there is nothing more that I can add. Thanks to you and the comMENTORS for sharing insight and wide-ranging perspective day after day, you are having an impact.
Today’s art selection is annoying, and I appreciate the opportunity it presents to peel back the layers (memories) and ask myself why. The lacy cloud-cover this AM prevented me from seeing the morning star show however, the clouds caught the sunrise – painting the entire eastern sky in pink, purple, orange, and gold. A beautiful start to the day.
LOVE to All.
Am finally starting to understand the Picasso. It is a really funny piece – if you let it be funny. Bearded man has become like one of those twisted balloon characters. If only people would start morphing into this type of shape as they become annoying. It would put an end to the progression and we could have a good laugh along the way.
I am usually the last person to “get” a joke, my default position is rarely in the FUNNY mode/realm. I admit to missing the point of this piece initially, but have come around! Bravo Picasso for twisting this one around and redirecting the energy.
” …. for sharing insight and wide-ranging perspective …. “
Our sources of information are the same sources that main stream media uses.
We all know the same information.
I realize that journalists/those who write about what they read, insert their opinions/bias, to motivate the readers to believe/accept/change their opinion, without presenting supporting references/facts.
Therefore, facts/truths are considered irrelevant.
I can only deduct that what they opinion, for us to accept, is based on their pay checks.
Emotional attachment to opinion will leave you a wreck when the facts/truths overwhelm you.Russia Accuses British Navy Of Nord Stream “Terrorist Attack”
UK quickly blasts charge as false “on an epic scale”…
(UK is/joined NATO at war against Russia)Quick response
“It should be emphasised that the ships of the Black Sea Fleet that were attacked by terrorists are involved in ensuring the security of the ‘grain corridor’ as part of an international initiative to export agricultural products from Ukrainian ports,” it said.Safe passage of Export of Ukraine product cancelled.
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Reference
https://www.rt.com/russia/565588-russia-suspends-grain-deal/Thanks for all your links. The thing that never made sense to me about this jab is this: it’s supposed to make your body make the very thing the immune system is supposed to be fighting against, so how does it not create the condition that your body fights itself? This never made sense to me. (I’ve taken lots of vaccines, but not this one.)
Dueling grievances, Dr. D versus Redneck, on behalf of Third parties.
Damn! Unpack the psychology of that contest, but all praise because it’s dialogue, discussion and debate. So the read peels back the scales from their eyes.LAWFARE in action, the very definition thereof:
“To detract from their disastrous handling of the illegal invasion of Ukraine, the Russian Ministry of Defense is resorting to peddling false claims of an epic scale,” a spokesperson for Britain’s ministry of defense said.”
Notice the hyperbole, counter-accusation so typical of lawyer species.
WEAPONIZED MEDICINE PSYCHOLOGY PSYCHIATRY: names like Elspeth Ritchie, Don Arthur, Winkerwerder, Tornberg, Mitchell and Jessen set the pace actively circa Iraq War inception 2004 NDAA.
eg. national/industrial-scale transference counter-transference
“This latest invented story, says more about the arguments going on inside the Russian Government than it does about the West.”
UK Defense Ministry
@ Readneck – Featured snippet from the web
______________Where did you get all that absurdity? Get a grip on yourself, … check your sources carefully!
Me? I have a historical record conveyed to me by my very own family on all this. My grandparents and parents, … tonnes of relatives. They are, … er, some were – mortality issue – from that area of Poland.
Best,
F.S.
The weirdest headline I’ve seen in a long time, this from BBC:
Dozens of people in Halloween crowds treated for cardiac arrest in nightlife area of South Korean capital, Seoul
prev. thread, Afewk posted,
The real problem in measuring the degree of warming is that most of the warming is taking place in locations that do not have accurate long-term temperature data, i.e. the deep oceans and the vast tracks of land that make up Siberia and the Candian permafrosts.
Oh I agree with that, my point was that in certain regions (local..) Global Warming is an accepted fact of life, and the attitude on the ground is, we need good data first, and second, we have to adapt.
What exactly the Celsius Plus No. is, what counts is its effects, which need to be mapped out with some reliability, and that may vary extraordinarily from region to region.
Constant Ice melts leading to loss of ‘reliable’ rivers flushing down in summer, as in CH (say.. affects hydro-electricity as well..) is not the same as drought in Syria that drove farmers off the land to the cities… playing a role in the ‘chaos’ there. Or, see, the upcoming desertification of Southern Spain…which for a large part lives off tourism…it mismanaged its water ressources.. You get the picture.
Young lads will do almost anything for sex, including flattery/toadying towards women; lasses will do anything for adulation from others, including engaging in intercourse with no matter who.
Somehow subdue these two irreducible forces and harmony – albeit precarious – will prevail.
(Don’t miss the superb string arrangement on this, courtesy the late and great Paul Buckmaster.)
A short history of laboratory leaks and gain-of-function studies.
By P. Goddard. Feb. 2002.
Maybe useful for sending on, many refs.
How Can Severe Mental Illness be the Deadliest Covid Comorbidity?
By A. Herzberg, Oct 2022.
quote:
— In plain English, they discovered that having a “severe mental illness or learning disability” was a stronger predictor than age and obesity of becoming hospitalized and dying from covid. —
https://bit.ly/3Fuk3CiThis speaks to what I was pointing out before, the looked down, considered trash ppl, being more ‘susceptible’…and dying…what a surprise…
@Dora – you’ve got it!
Some here say Xi is headed out the door in China. I have not seen evidence or hint that that’s going to happen any time soon. The same source claims we’re on the verge of Nookular War. “Samey-same”, as Joker says to his old USMC boot camp buddy in FMJ..
Show me the part that’s Not Theatre (there is one).
Denis Shapovalov d. Borna Coric, 7-6 (7-4), 6-0 in the Vienna semifinals. It’s real good to see Shap playing well
again! Nice, very humble move in re-hiring Mikail Youzhny as co-coach. Shap can lay into a topspin backhand
like no other current player except Stan Wawrinka; both are glorious.Shap has to play a Medvedev tomorrow (OMG!!! a Rooskie! careful about getting Rooskie-cooties, Shap!)
who is presently #4 in the world, fifteen places I think above Shap. Medv is 6-6 in height, and I don’t
care for tall players with huge serves.Go, lefty-Shap! Good kid.
Noirette
If you put a sufficient number of ice cubes in a glass of water and stir, the latent heat of phase change will cause the temperature of the water to drop and cause some of the ice to melt, until the temperature of the water drops to zero, 0oC (not 0oK, which is minus 273oC) and the ice rises in temperature to 0oC but still remains as ice.
You will notice that from that point on, if the glass of ice water is stirred, the temperature remains at 0oC for as long as there is ice to melt.
This phenomenon is due to water molecules losing energy when they come together into the ordered structure of ice, in which the molecules are packed into a regular crystal lattice and unable to move, versus the situation in liquid water, in which the molecules are free to move past one another.
The regular structure of water molecules in ice has the highly unusual effect of causing the water molecules to be less densely packed than in the liquid state, which is why ice floats on water.
Without that peculiar property (most other substances have a higher density in the solid form) ice would form at the bottom of lakes and seas and would not protect the bulk of the water mass from continuing to cool in winter conditions. Lakes would freeze solid from bottom to top. Whereas, in the universe we inhabit, ice does substantially protect the underlying water from heat transfer into space (which is at around minus 273oC, 0oK).
It’s almost as if the laws of chemistry and physics were established to make life possible!
Anyway, back to the ice.
In regions where there are substantial quantities of ice, overheating can proceed at a rapid pace without any change in temperature. The overheating manifests as loss of ice.
That is why the ice cover of the Artic region is so crucial.
We know for certain that the thickness of the ice in the Artic region is a lot less than it was decades ago. And we know for certain that the density of the ice is a lot lower than it was decades ago -crushed and full of air and refrozen.
We also know for certain that the area of sea ice is a lot less than it was decades ago.
Those who wish to distort the debate in order to promote the short-term interests of the fossil fuel sector or just wish to justify their own squandering of fossil fuels, look at the seasonal data and declare “ice formation has never been greater than now!”
Of course it is, because the summer ice cover has never been lower, and in winter the solar input drops to zero, so the water that is there freezes.
The absolutely dire moment comes when all the Artic Sea ice has been melted by the general overheating that is taking place.
When there is no ice cover in the summer, all the solar energy absorbed by the waters of the Arctic region will manifest as temperature rise, rather than conversion of ice to liquid water. Then ‘you’ will see temperature rises like never seen on Earth in hundreds of millions of years.
It is a kind of sword of Damocles hanging over humanity and life on this planet in general.
https://www.thoughtco.com/what-is-the-sword-of-damocles-117738
Over the past two decades there has been much discussion about this ‘Sword of Damocles’ amongst the scientifically informed.
In the political world and amongst the mainstream media the Arctic Sea ice melt ‘Sword of Damocles’ is totally ignored, as if it does not exist at all. The UN IPCC has nothing to say on the matter. Nit that we should take any notice of anything that comes from the UN these days; it is a thoroughly discredited organisaton, used as plaything and propaganda outlet by NATOstan nations.
Even amongst the least psychotic of world rulers, people such as Putin, there is no recognition of this ‘Sword of Damocles’. They all talk about development via the burning of fossil fuels.
In NZ, along with other NATOstan nations, the controllers subsidise the use of fossil fuels and pour billions of dollars annually into promoting the use of fossil fuels, and by implication, pour billions of dollars annually into destruction of the future.
It seems that we are safe for a few more years. Following an unusually low ice cover period, the Artic ice is reforming and we will commence the next melt season with an appreciable amount of ice, though nowhere near as much as there was a couple of decades ago.
At the other end of the planet, there has been much concern about the undercutting of glaciers of Antarctica as they enter the seas around Antartica. Early this year the Antarctic sea ice cover was at a record low.
Unlike in the northern hemisphere, there is no potential for complete loss of ice in a matter of decades. Even under the fastest Abrupt Climate Change scenarios it would take many decades for Antartica to become largely ice-free.
In NATOstan nations the controllers have two top priorities:
1. keeping their financial Ponzi scheme from imploding.
2. keeping the general populace from discovering/recognising how much they have been lied to and screwed.
Methane has a warming potential of around 300 times that of CO2 for time frames that matter.
‘In 2020 and 2021, the global network of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) detected the largest within-year increases (15 and 18 ppb, respectively) of atmospheric methane (CH₄) since systematic measurements began in the early 1980s. ‘
I read Kunstler’s piece last night, and thought it was one of his better ones. It was more than usually perceptive, rather than just a repeat of his common refrain about how the bad guys are going to be brought to justice any day now.
He is one of the first I’ve seen speculate in print on something I have wondered about myself from time to time. This was in his post just ahead of the line Dr. D quoted about the WEF being a fantasy factory:
The bottlenecks of resources — energy, commodities, metals, all material things — plus the growing scarcity of real capital (as in representations of genuine wealth), guarantee that nothing organized at the gigantic scale will be able to continue — certainly not any global political administration.
Noirette
97% of earth’s water is sea water, 2% is ice (sea and rain), 1% is drinking/ground, so in terms of ice in your drink, sea ice is the equivalent of 1/8 inch of ice at the top of your drink in a 6 inch glass (or 3mm in a 150mm glass for the sane). If you are a person who drinks iced drinks, you will know that 1/8 inch of ice in a 6 inch glass makes no difference, which is probably why it is ignored … https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/oceanwater.html.
Banking and finance in the $US regime are further routes of parasitic extraction of wealth and resources.
Au contraire mon médecin tout pansophique, le mal complet en total et incurable 😐
The charade is so universal in “The West”, so endemic, that “We The People” have continually voted, and then granted consent/fiscal support, to the ongoing annihilation of the health, happiness & prosperity of the “99%”…
What will happen when the alternative system, new and more efficient, perhaps user-friendly, is available as a real choice? It seems to me that the last to benefit will be those who are most trapped in the $US system, which are those of us in the “west”, especially the USA. The bureaucracies will preserve themselves until “the end”.
For at least a century now, “We The People” of “The West” have been the constituents to an open-ended “conspiracy” to control, belittle, impoverish & decimate the “grubbers” by various cliques of the super wealthy + their prostitute minions in assorted bureaucracies (TPTB+Deep State).
If that is not blatantly obvious at this point, only low IQ, lethargy and/or insanity only be surmised 😐
I understand the crème de la crème’s fear of “We The People”, who threatened to rise up & foul their kleptocratic games, why they fomented the corruption of electoral systems into a controlled selection of corrupt, autocrat puppets, but I as a true “Son of Liberty” reject the notion that “We The People” could not be trusted & empowered, to run the *BIG* show…
It’s a *BIG* club, and the majority of the “grubbers” not only are not part of it, they believe & worship it for the most part, either by not understanding it’s reality and/or it’s *END* game, or by allegiance for profit & protection 😐
“They” have brought “The West” to the point of collapse (e.g. the USofA is 24 days away from the crumbling of it’s *complex* sicioeconomic systems due to the fracturing of *critical* diesel supply) ~ There is -0- time to create & install any “alternate” systems.
As it stands, with stagflation firmly installed + loss of economic prosperity, the majority of “The West” will sell their souls to the perpetrators for their daily sustenance, falling in-line with whatever *INSANE* policies are required to catch crumbs falling from their *MASTERS* tables…
Nookyular War would make our supra-national rulers’ lives worse, and that’s what matters (to them).
Unlikely in the extreme.. I expect a continued, slow grinding-down- much like the curious events of the last 2.5
years or so, when our “intelligentsia”- especially on the “left”- suddenly found it difficult to think. 😉A false-flag here or there to keep the proles’ “hair mussed”? yes, count on that, dears..
Chuck E. Weiss and Tom Waits- Do You Know What I Mean (What I Mean, What I Idi Amin):
https://cinemaphile.com/watch?v=cu-lTPNo2Q4Well suited to these times, though I’d much rather listen to Mahler 6.
I wonder what Flora thinks..
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