Pacifica Advocate @78–
Thanks for your contribution regarding Giraldi’s essay–all that needed to be expressed and in essence is a very abridged version of Prouty’s Secret Team.
But IMO Giraldi somewhat redeems himself anonymously via Strategic-Culture editorials, like today’s, “Two Decades After 9/11 the Biggest Casualty is U.S. Empire,” which I hope all barflies will read as it doesn’t kowtow to the Establishment Narrative as will almost all other media.
Paco @96–
Thanks for that info. It’s very appreciated!!

Posted by: karlof1 | Sep 10 2021 16:45 utc | 104

“It turned out to be herring farts. For 15 years Sweden thought enemy submarines were invading its territory” – urblintz @ 23
All these years noone believed me! Could you call the hospital and ask them to let me out now?
Also… might we now have an explanation for Havana Syndrome? Was it herring farts all along? Inquiring minds want to know!

Posted by: David G Horsman | Sep 10 2021 17:25 utc | 106

@86 jinn
If you google San Diego deaths for covid, you will see a steep plummet to modest death figures and plateauing around April. Since then, you can probably surmise that vaccine/unvaccinated deaths might or might not follow the pattern from Don Bacon’s originally linked table, showing the month of August to have 5 deaths of vaccinated, 35 deaths unvaccinated.
I posited that while these numbers are perhaps too slight to surmise any good conclusion about death rates as they pertain to vaccination, I also put forth that there could be other reasons why unvaccinated deaths show a modestly greater value which would water down any further conclusions you can make about the efficacy of vaccines. For instance: fat, diabetic shutins are less likely to venture out to get the jab, but they would skew the unvaccinated deaths to a higher degree, thereby unlevelling the playing field as it were and rendering any parity between the unvaccinated and vaccinated pools inadequate.
Hope that helps.

Posted by: NemesisCalling | Sep 10 2021 17:42 utc | 108

What does this mean in plain language please?
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.02.21259897v1
Posted by: DG | Sep 9 2021 21:48 utc | 25
The paper is not peer-reviewed. In my view it is very bad science. In particular, they take PCR threshold cycles (Ct) up to 32 as positive, but anything above Ct=25 is pure nonsense and some of that below may also be nonsense. They fail to take adequate note of the massive proportion of false positives in PCR tests in the conditions they used – i.e. with very low incidence rates. They claim 24% is “non-responding” i.e. no anti-body – that is 100% crap – guaranteed false positives, with zero covid-specific symptoms and close to zero non-specific symptoms. 100% of the class 3 group should be regarded as false positives. The vast majority of class 2 group should be regarded as false positives. Some of class 1 group are also PCR false positives, but with antibodies from a previous infection. Therefore their assumptions about antibody dynamics are invalid. Crappy study design causes unreliable results.
Don’t assume that scientists always know what they are doing. Some of them do, some of them just muddle along. Because of crappy institutional structures (funding structures, career ambitions, tenure rules etc) and corruption (diverse, but heavily dominated by Big Pharma) bad science thrives, while good science is at a competitive disadvantage.

Posted by: BM | Sep 10 2021 17:46 utc | 110

Here’s the transcript of today’s meeting of the Russian Pobeda (Victory) Organising Committee where I learned of another post WW2 War Crime Trial I’d not know about before, the 1949 Khabarovsk War Crime Trials.
Posted by: karlof1 | Sep 10 2021 2:01 utc | 57
I cannot believe you didn’t know about it before, but no doubt you have forgotten – we had significant discussions of that trial, and there was an English translation of a report on the trial posted here on MoA, a few years ago when we were discussing the US bio warfare waged against North Korea and China. I suspect it was me who posted the link to the report at the time, but I’m not sure. Probably early in King Trump’s reign.

Posted by: BM | Sep 10 2021 18:09 utc | 112

@ 57 The ‘war crime against humanity’ usually promoted by the winners over the losers is only a cruel joke because war is itself a crime, especially against its noncombatants.
Posted by: Don Bacon | Sep 10 2021 2:08 utc | 60
The war crime in question was (among other crimes) the sadistic experimentation of bio-warefare agents by the Japanese in both China and the Russian Far East. Those that were captured by the Russians were put on trial and punished. Those that got away – from the very same specialised bio-warfare regiment – were secretly recruited by the USA and provided the technology to the US for further sadistic experimental* use of bio-warfare agents in North Korea and China, not to mention criminal experiments on civilians in the US and in the UK, and on native Americans in Canada.
* They were experimental, but nevertheless on a really massive scale.

Posted by: BM | Sep 10 2021 18:22 utc | 114

Nord stream 2 is now complete.. That happens when diddling powers try to blackmail bigger ones without having trump cards, they get ignored and both Poland and Ukraine created this situation by trying to punch far above their weight and just making a general nuisance of themselves.
Delusional they believed that the US would rescue them..LOL

Posted by: Nick | Sep 10 2021 18:39 utc | 116

BM @113–
I recall the discussion about biowarfare during the Korean War and the accompanying documentation which I saved and the related inquiry/trial that occurred in 1952. I’m also aware of the Japanese biowarfare research that was done and the refusal of the USA and its Anglo allies not to perform a Nuremberg on clear Japanese War Criminals. Nor have I found time to look for that info today given other events and distractions, although I just now performed a search and found out Lavrov made the following address:
“I am delighted to welcome the organisers, participants and guests of the International Research and Practice Forum, The Khabarovsk War Crime Trials: Historic Significance and Contemporary Challenges.
“World War II, which claimed tens of millions of lives, became the greatest tragedy in the history of humanity. It is our sacred duty to preserve the memory of that period of time. Exploring new documents and sources contributes to the preservation of historical truth.
“Your forum is dedicated to the tribunal, held in Khabarovsk in December 1949, involving a group of Japanese military members guilty of creating chemical and bacteriological weapons, as well as testing them on living people. The archival material presented at the exhibition clearly shows the role of the Foreign Ministry in organising the Khabarovsk trial. Our diplomats convincingly explained to the Allied powers the reasons why the trial was necessary. The main reason was that the crimes of Manshu Detachment 731 and other Japanese units that performed inhuman experiments on prisoners of war were not sufficiently reflected in the cases considered by the 1946-1948 Tokyo Trial.
“In this respect, the Khabarovsk trial was an important extension to the Tokyo trial, as it acknowledged the horrors of the use of biological warfare for the first time and told the world about this ugly side of militarist Japan. The verdict passed by the court provided an objective assessment of the crimes committed. It is important that both current and future generations remember the atrocities committed by the Japanese militarists who left behind a bloody trail in the history of humanity. We have no moral right to forget about it.
“The next, 76th session of the UN General Assembly will open in New York soon. In this regard, it would be right to recall that the generally recognised World War II results enshrined in the UN Charter are unshakable. Russian diplomacy will continue to thwart any attempts to revise them no matter who makes them.
“The research and expert community as well as the public are responsible for contributing to this work, including through such events as your forum.
“I would like to wish you fruitful discussions and all the very best.”
His hint that the attempt to falsify WW2’s actions and outcome will be confronted at the UNGA provides yet another reason to closely watch its proceedings.

Posted by: karlof1 | Sep 10 2021 18:52 utc | 118

“9. A fundamental requirement <= the audience must accept the (premise of the )fiction.." - snake @ 68 I would say they often recognize the fiction and agree to conspire.

Posted by: David G Horsman | Sep 10 2021 18:59 utc | 120

the report of the minister’s courageous action where extreme conditions had caused the photographer’s calamity. Greater love hath no man than this…
juliania | Sep 10 2021 15:08 utc | 89
Oh come on people!!! Courageous? What a next level total f’en boss! What a hero!
My condolences to his family.
What a man.

Posted by: David G Horsman | Sep 10 2021 19:26 utc | 122

Thank you, Paco @ 97. That is very sad, but what a beautiful place! God bless and keep them both.

Posted by: juliania | Sep 10 2021 19:39 utc | 124

Hi Karloff1. Another question relates to how financially strapped their administration is becoming.
My guess is China will step in at the point of economic collapse and save them. I think Russia will hold back.
What do you think?

Posted by: David G Horsman | Sep 10 2021 19:59 utc | 126

I found this comment on Dr Malcom Kendrick’s site:

I live in Norway, here we have no official debate, no media asking questions or seeking to understand. Media has turned around and chosen to be the goverments PR-company.
I’m a journalist, I work freelance. Last year in august I went to Greece to write about how restrictions and lack of tourists effected people working in tourism. When I delivered the articles I was told by my ediotor “Where is panic? Where is fear? I can not print your article as long as there is no fear and no panic.
Wishing you all the best – and once again, thanks for contributing to more understanding and perspective.
Best regards, Irene Jacobsen

Posted by: BM | Sep 10 2021 20:11 utc | 128

BM @128–
Yesterday as I drove through my County Seat, Newport, Oregon, at an intersection was a lone 20ish woman wearing angel wings atop her duds wielding a sign bearing the very message you bolded to which I gave my thumbs-up. 1st time in a long while I’ve seen such a message aimed at BigLie Media.
David G Horsman @126–
Are you referring to the Outlaw US Empire or Afghanistan as both are about bankrupt? I expect no nation to aid the Empire, while China has already provided monetary support to the Afghan government. It should be noted that the puppet government still has representatives scattered around the world; it’s one at the UN got some press for promoting the new Establishment Narrative.

Posted by: karlof1 | Sep 10 2021 21:07 utc | 130

A very big step towards the reality of the Union State was accomplished today. Here’re Putin and Lukashenko’s statements and media’s Q&A. There’s lots of excellent info to glean but I chose the following Q&A because of what is conveys about the entire process and why it’s taken so long to consummate:
“I have a question for you, President Putin.
“Indeed, the list of subjects included in the union programmes brings union integration between our two countries to the highest and broadest level.
“We must give credit to the governments that were able to agree upon a number of highly sensitive and principled matters such as monetary and foreign exchange policy, customs and taxation systems, a number of sector-specific problems, and social guarantee convergence. However, we must also admit the fact that for a number of years now, year in and year out, the development of the Union State was held back by a number of trade and economic hurdles. Frankly speaking, it is not easy for the Belarusian people to understand some of them. For example, the working conditions for Belarusian carriers in Russia are worse than for the Lithuanian or Polish carriers, and this despite the fact that our countries agreed on creating a common economic space more than 20 years ago.
“In this regard, my question is: do you think that once adopted and implemented, these union programmes will make it possible to resolve that pile of long-standing mutual problems and to leave them behind as we push ahead into the future?
“Vladimir Putin: You have taken a bird’s eye view of the matters finding a solution to which was a challenge for us. But if we start to dig deeper, it will become quite clear why it was so difficult for us to agree on things. It is because one side believed that it was enough to make some operational decisions at the governmental level and things would be settled, while the other side believed that certain decisions on certain matters could not be made until more fundamental decisions had been made.
“I just mentioned what we agreed on, and I will say it again, since this is an absolutely critical matter. So, we have agreed on conducting common macroeconomic policy. I will not go into details now, and you are probably aware of what this is about. We have also agreed on harmonising monetary policy, payment system integration, ensuring information security, and deepening cooperation in customs regulations and taxation. That is, we are talking about transparency of the customs value of goods and definition of the transparent structure of the value of goods in the economy in general.
“Our experts believed that without resolving these matters we cannot move on to other matters concerning individual commodity groups, including energy. We agreed to create a single methodology, which is important, for harmonising indirect taxes and a department which would control these processes.
“When the economy becomes transparent, when it becomes clear how much the goods cost when they are imported into any of the two states, Russia or Belarus, and then enter our customs territories, then we can talk about those goods’ real value. And this allowed us to agree on something else – we are now moving towards a unified industrial policy and access to government procurement and government contracts. This amounts to a transition to very specific work in these areas.
“But we disagreed for quite a long time. I have to say that our Belarusian partners are hard negotiators, but still, gradually, breaking the ideas down to elemental parts, we have practically – well, not practically, but fully agreed on all these matters. The President of Belarus and I have reaffirmed this today. We have agreed on all the details, you know, all the problems. When we got down to the details and spelled it all out, this puzzle just came together, and I hope it all really works.”
In his opening remarks, Putin provided the following synopsis of what was accomplished:
“These are 28 so-called ‘union programmes’ that are aimed at the unification of laws in Russia and Belarus in various economic areas, the levelling of conditions for the operation of the two countries’ economic entities, the formation of uniform financial and energy markets, transport infrastructure, the development and implementation of a common industrial and agricultural policy.
“Today, I would like to say with satisfaction, that all 28 programmes have been agreed upon. Tomorrow, they are to be approved at a meeting of the Council of Ministers of the Union State in Minsk, after which they will be submitted for approval by the Supreme State Council of the Union State, which will convene before the end of this year. Mr Lukashenko and I have agreed on that, and we will now check our schedules and determine a more or less exact timeline.”
IMO, this is a very important and long anticipated event that’s a Win-Win for both nations and represents a massive blow to NATO and its overlord the Outlaw US Empire.

Posted by: karlof1 | Sep 10 2021 21:57 utc | 132

Hello karlof1. How ya doin?
Thanks for that link to Lavrov. He’s on top of his game:

All these years, we have conducted dialogue with all Afghan communities without exception, including the Taliban. When someone says that it is impossible to deal with them, he or she is being sly . A UN Security Council resolution does not call the entire Taliban movement a terrorist organisation. Instead, it imposes sanctions on certain Talib leaders for specific “transgressions,” including terrorism, involvement in illegal drug trafficking, etc.
When members of the UN Security Council passed this resolution, most countries, including the Russian Federation, included its provisions in their national legislation. The President of Russia issued the relevant executive order. As far as I know, the United States did not pass such national acts. So, this nuance shows how various countries deal with the subject.

Ooof!
I’m interested in the word chosen – sly. Is that the choice of Lavrov, or of some interpreter?
Do you think he might have meant “crafty”?
Again:

Speaking of Josep Borrell’s statements, they closely match the style of the European Union’s diplomacy. The mentality of EU diplomacy is that they perceive each country, located not only near Russia and Europe, that is, former Soviet republics, Central and Eastern European countries, but also those as remote as Afghanistan, in the either/or context. Either any specific country sides with Europe or it supports the Russian Federation. The EU expects all countries to make their choice. These concepts and discourses hold no promise and lead into a blind alley.

“You’re either with us or you’re against us.”
As a European citizen and one of those that pays for Mr Borrell I’d like to know when it was that I approved a policy of “You’re either with us or against us”.
That’s George W Bush, that is. Who gave this cunt Borrell the right to turn the great institution of the European Union into George Fucking W Bush?
karlof1’s link https://www.mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/-/asset_publisher/cKNonkJE02Bw/content/id/4852931

Posted by: John Cleary | Sep 10 2021 22:22 utc | 134

Update:
Theranos fraud trial opens in Silicon Valley
The Theranos case is truly fascinating. Every historian who research Late Capitalism should study it.
This is the essential question: is it a fraud or a mistake? The substance here is that it is both – that’s one of the features of the period. Frauds have existed since the dawn of Capitalism, but it is only at its late period that fraudsters could get so rich, so dominant, and so widely accepted socially.
–//–
West fails to slow BRI as win-win partnerships shine through

From the coup in Guinea to the revolt in Myanmar and the reconstruction of Afghanistan, their possible impacts upon major Belt and Road projects with the participation of Chinese companies have always been under the spotlight.

The Chinese know. They know.
The West is only fooling itself when it thinks it is fooling China.

Posted by: vk | Sep 10 2021 22:33 utc | 136

John Cleary @134–
It’s murky as the machine translation I get via Edge of that sentence is, “When they say that they ‘can not communicate’ with them, it is ‘from the evil one.'” In Russian, “от лукавого” with лукавый being the word for crafty in my Russian/English dictionary that Yandex machine translates as “the crafty one.” This is from the Russian transcript:
“Когда говорят о том, что с ними «нельзя общаться», – это «от лукавого»”
Yandex translates that into:
“When they say that it is “impossible to communicate with them”, it is “from the evil one.”
IMO, the word choice is clearly Lavrov’s. Going in the other direction, English->Russian, sly is хитрый, which is not even close phonetically to the word for crafty. So, I would infer crafty like a thief’s crafty, or sly as the MFA’s translator provided. Yet another example of how nuanced meaning can be obliterated via machine translation.
Lavrov not too long ago said he had a longstanding friendly–he felt–relationship with Borrell, but I don’t think he feels that way any longer. I know diplomats are supposed to be capable of separating the business from the personal; but after so many lies and outright distortions, IMO a divorce is in order.

Posted by: karlof1 | Sep 10 2021 23:22 utc | 138

@John Cleary | Sep 10 2021 22:22 utc | 134
One has to understand the Brussels was the seat of NATO hq long before it also became the seat of EU hq.
That is the order of things. The EU as a democratic institution representing eurooean citizens is a bad joke.

Posted by: Lurk | Sep 11 2021 0:42 utc | 140

@ David G Horsman | Sep 10 2021 17:43 utc | 109… what do you plan on doing about it?? thanks..
@ nwwoods | Sep 10 2021 22:14 utc | 133… thanks… would be interesting if he could prove it in a court of ”western” law, not that the western msm would listen….

Posted by: james | Sep 11 2021 1:19 utc | 142

karlof1 @ 138, I haven’t yet read your links but to say “от лукавого” is for Russians very strong indeed — those are the final words of the Lord’s Prayer in Russian, translated as “…but deliver us from the evil one.”

Posted by: juliania | Sep 11 2021 1:40 utc | 144

Two infrastructure corridors completed.
More to come with this project.
https://www.silkroadbriefing.com/news/2021/09/08/new-multimodal-china-myanmar-route-connects-sichuan-with-the-indian-ocean/
https://thewest.com.au/business/energy/baltic-sea-gas-pipeline-completed-c-3929253

Posted by: Paul | Sep 11 2021 2:04 utc | 146

Good TED talk on money vs resources by Stephanie Kelton.
Paper fiat vs people, equipment, technology and raw materials.
We should be asking how do we resource it?, instead of how do we pay for it?
https://www.ted.com/talks/stephanie_kelton_the_big_myth_of_government_deficits/up-next
Transcript here
https://stephaniekelton.substack.com/p/something-ive-always-wanted-to-do

Posted by: financial matters | Sep 11 2021 2:34 utc | 148

@ financial matters | Sep 11 2021 2:34 utc | 148 with the TED talk on money vs resources by Stephanie Kelton links
Sorry, but not impressed……if only we had the political will….sigh
And then her resource concept is misleading because a country is limited by its natural and human resources to a large degree.
But, again, here we have an acolyte for private finance not saying a word about what happens behind the fig leaf of Western economic thought about Hand, The Invisible.
MMT is only useful as a concept once you wrest control of finance out of the hands of the private cult…..like China has done.
Look at the privatize the profits application of MMT that is happening today in America where the Treasury is buying up $110 billion per month of ???, but mostly US Treasuries…..showing again how we can have privatize the profits and socialize the losses at the same time….and this is before the casino derivative bets are accounted for as the result of the coming crash……outlawing (no skin in the game) derivatives is where political will needs to be applied, IMO

Posted by: psychohistorian | Sep 11 2021 3:03 utc | 150

Peter AU1 #151
Yep that’s the drift. Evil works with evil wherever convenient.
Then there is this from the same link.

This latest defeat comes on the heels of the collapse of powers its sister branch in Tunisia An-Nahda suffered first by popular uprisings and then when the Tunisian president used his constitutional powers to freeze the parliament which was dominated by An-Nahda; the constitution was written by the same party a decade ago to ensure its control over the political life in Tunisia, leading from behind, and never thought it would be used against it, especially with an election that would bring a popular unknown unaffiliated president on an overwhelming 73% of the total votes in comparison with the 27% votes the Muslim Brotherhood An-Nahda candidate received.
The deadly mistake the Moroccan PJD party committed, in addition to aligning itself with the policies of its supreme leader the Turkish madman Erdogan, was its recognition of Israel and then turning Morocco into a platform for visiting Israeli minister to issue threats against its neighboring country Algeria from Casablanca without any response or intervention by the Moroccan officials, these threats and the shift in policies against the interests of the North African Arab countries led to Algeria severing its ties with Morocco and the Muslim Brotherhood losing power in yet another country.
So far, Erdogan and Israel Muslim Brotherhood proxies have lost in Egypt, Sudan, Tunisia, Morocco, after reaching the ultimate power in these countries while failing to achieve victory in Syria and Yemen despite the terrorism, massacres, and war crimes committed by its proxy ‘freedom fighter’ terrorists who in turn received all of NATO’s support and the Qatari and Saudi funding. Erdogan himself lost 5 of the major cities in Turkey including Istanbul and Ankara in the latest general elections, not even Mr. Putin can save him for a second time. You can thank the Syrian people for their sacrifices and suffering, steadfastness, and determination to defeat the dark plots designed by the evil powers to take over the Arab and Muslim world.

In addition the Nordic Monitor reports Turkish Imams are getting ecstasy release after the Taliban defeat of the USA in Afghanistan. Caution: This is from a site that seems to HATE Erdoghan with intense ferocity – maybe they are democrat Turks or even Gulenists in exile but they sure do hate nerdy.

Nureddin Yıldız, a radical cleric close to President Erdoğan who openly advocates armed jihad, posted a video on his Facebook page, which has close to 700,000 followers, on the day the Taliban took over Afghanistan, praising sharia (the religious law of Islam) and explained that the duty of all Muslims was to implement sharia law. Even though there is no mention of Afghanistan or the Taliban in the video, the comments under the video revealed that its purpose was to support the Taliban. According to Yıldız, Muslims have been waiting for sharia law for almost for a century. Explaining that trying to please the infidels was pointless, Yıldız also stated that Israel is a religious state so there is no need to be ashamed of seeking religious rule for Muslims.

[my emphasis]
So there you have it both Morocco and Tunisia have ousted the Muslim Brotherhood while the izzies and turks believe they have a firm grip on the Taliban.
Perhaps, time will tell.

Posted by: uncle tungsten | Sep 11 2021 3:46 utc | 152

There’s something odd here uncle tungsten. Erdo though I don’t like him much has proved himself a strategic player. He will play Russia against US and so forth but mostly I think has his eye set on the multi-polar world. There is a circle that is Qatar, Turkey (erdo), Iran – the common denominator among them is anti Israel.
Erdo will jump on whatever bus is going his way, but I’m wondering about Erdo himself and his support base when it comes to jumping on the Israel bus.?

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Sep 11 2021 4:07 utc | 154

Peter AU1 @Sep11 4:07 #154:

Erdo … play[s] Russia against US … I think has his eye set on the multi-polar world.

Then why does he anger the Russians who are so steadfast against Islamic terrorism (see my comment @Sep10 3:07 #67)?
Muslim Brotherhood doesn’t strike me as anti-Empire. I think it began as a sort of ‘protestant’ movement that opposed Saudi/Wahabbi control of the Islamic World. But MB (like the Wahabbi’s) are fundamentalist and ultimately controlled by forces that, to me, appear to be leaning toward the Empire, if only because they find the Russian and Chinese stance wrt religion to be so distasteful.
!!

Posted by: Jackrabbit | Sep 11 2021 4:52 utc | 156

I just read on Reuters that Prince Andrew has been served papers in the sex scandal and am not sure how that fits with the John McCleary (sp?) version of what is happening with the ascension to the throne plans of the face of British empire???

Posted by: psychohistorian | Sep 11 2021 4:59 utc | 158

Silent ongoing US withdrawal from Iraq and Syria?
Iraq:
US troops begin Iraq withdrawal in large numbers

Head of Joint Operations Command of the Iraqi army Major General Tahsin al-Khafaji told the Iraq News Agency (INA) that the US troops have started their withdrawal in large numbers.
Al-Khafaji said that the United States has not made any requests to continue the presence of its troops in Iraq.
The commander added the US side has said it will abide by the agreements reached in the strategic dialogue and that December 31 will be the last day of the US military presence in Iraq.

Syria:
Biden Forces Secretly Withdrawing from the Oil Fields Northeast of Syria

A secret withdrawal, apparently, by the American forces present in Syria, where private military sources told Al-Alam TV that the American forces evacuated their positions from three military sites, adding that the evacuated sites are two of them in Al-Hasakah Governorate and the third in the areas of Deir Ezzor countryside.
The areas that were evacuated include the Al-Omar field area near the oil wells in Deir Ezzor and the areas of Tal Baidar and Qasrak in Qamishli, Al-Hasakah Governorate.

Posted by: Norwegian | Sep 11 2021 5:25 utc | 160

Posted by: juliania | Sep 11 2021 2:08 utc | 147
Good morning Juliania, that was a beautiful image you put forth in the previous thread, to bend like grass when under stress, a quality that I cannot boast about, but with time we learn to live with our shortcomings. You pointed out correctly to the last sentence of the christian prayer that contains all wisdom and all books within it*. The translation was correct for the context since it is used even as a verb in day to day language, like don’t you fool me, yandex translator gives these synonyms:
cunning · insidious · unclean · deceitful · clever · cunning · hypocritical · cunning · deceitful · malicious · fake · devil · satan · demon · enemy · demon · devil mischievous · playful · crooked · evil spirit · unclean force · unclean spirit · cursed
* It contains a lesson that even christian governments insist in not implementing, forgiving debts:
And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.

Posted by: Paco | Sep 11 2021 5:31 utc | 162

@57&118 Karlof1
You can find the full protocols of the Khabarovsk trials here (just klick “open”).
If you still have the compilation of articles about the alleged use of biological weapons by the USA during the Korean War that b had posted here a while age then you might also want to look up for information concerning the Japanese attack on Ningpo in 1940. The innitial report of the Chinese doctor in charge is one of that documents.
Tha attack at Ningpo is to my knowledge the only case where it is established beyond doupt that a bioweapon attack had occured and where we have both detailed documentation from the victim side (the doctors report) and farly detailed information from the attacker (the witness reports in the Khabarovsk protocols).

Posted by: m | Sep 11 2021 6:36 utc | 164

Norwegian #160
That is good news. It will be interesting to see if the Kurd scavengers attempt to fill the void. May the Armenian curse pursue them to their end.
I read this in South Front.
I also read elsewhere that Iran is alleged to have shelled the Kurds in NE Iraq.

Posted by: uncle tungsten | Sep 11 2021 7:06 utc | 166

@ BM | Sep 10 2021 17:46 utc | 110
Replying to What does this mean in plain language please?
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.02.21259897v1
Posted by: DG | Sep 9 2021 21:48 utc | 25
BM, Thanks for your reply, I think.!
Unfortunately it doesn’t leave me any the wiser!
Whether it’s right /wrong / incomplete / not peer reviewed is another matter and certainly valid but it’s the conclusion I was needing help with – I’ll address my citing it first as follows:
1. This is flagged on an officially linked site spring boarding from the ONS site here
https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/conditionsanddiseases/articles/coronaviruscovid19latestinsights/vaccines#vaccine-effectiveness
Which sends me to
https://www.ndm.ox.ac.uk/covid-19/covid-19-infection-survey/results/longer-articles
SO I AM CITING AN OFFICIAL SOURCE AND SCIENTISTS.
2. I have a personal interest in this study. I have been working on the ONS CIS/CEM testing, and these are the first results being published that I have found, all be it in a not so easy to find links. I have been waiting for the results for months now and these are certainly the most comprehensive so far.
3. My concern with this particular piece of analysis of actual real world data is that I am not clear as to what the conclusion is saying. Or to be more precise I think I do – but I want it to be confirmed by someone who can be exact.
I am not denying your explanation, about cycles etc – I can’t ! Because it too is not as plain English as it could be and I am not sure how it relates to understanding that particular papers conclusions – which is what I trying to do first!
Would you or someone else please try again? (b if you have any bandwidth for it included?)
We need to understand the data in plain language, to get through the fog of this particular war as the world celebrates the fog of the 20 year one today.

Posted by: DG | Sep 11 2021 7:31 utc | 168

Paco @ 162, good morning to you as well! (2a.m. here) It’s interesting that you say the phrase is common like ‘don’t you fool me’ — I was thinking to say it was very like the English phrase “The devil you say!” often found in novels as well.
And as to ‘forgive us our debts as we forgive…’ there is a lovely turnabout to that at the Last Supper, where Christ says (again to the disciples, as with the prayer) “Love one another as I have loved you.” He says it several times, calling it ‘a new commandment’ – so in both places there is a particular turn of phrase around the word ‘as’, only the direction being reversed. And they, being versed in the language being spoken, as you are, would realize the parity, that the two go together.

Posted by: juliania | Sep 11 2021 8:34 utc | 170

U.S. pulls missile defenses in Saudi Arabia amid Yemen attacks : https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/us-pulls-missile-defenses-in-saudi-arabia-amid-yemen-attacks/article36398497.ece
Next, Taiwan?

Posted by: Antonym | Sep 11 2021 9:28 utc | 172

ooooops, the link again.

Posted by: uncle tungsten | Sep 11 2021 9:52 utc | 174

No 9/11 commemorations in sight. Last thing they want is a replay of their cheesy primitive efforts at CGI video. Kids who weren’t born yet when it happened, who are without the emotional investment, watch the old videos and just can’t believe what suckers we all were.

Posted by: Oldhippie | Sep 11 2021 12:30 utc | 176

Next time an Islamic terrorist attack happens in France, let the French people know why the terrorist flew under the radar of the French intelligence:
French company Lafarge funded ISIS and other terrorist organizations in Syria – and French intelligence knew all about it.
I don’t like the phrase, but this is a literal case of “it’s not a bug, but a feature”.

Posted by: vk | Sep 11 2021 13:37 utc | 178

Two infrastructure corridors completed.
https://www.silkroadbriefing.com/news/2021/09/08/new-multimodal-china-myanmar-route-connects-sichuan-with-the-indian-ocean/
Posted by: Paul | Sep 11 2021 2:04 utc | 146
Take that with a barrel of salt! It is a remarkably misinformed and misguided article – the highlighted rail route doesn’t connect whatsoever with the road route through Myanmar which goes via Mang-Baoshan-Dali!

Posted by: BM | Sep 11 2021 14:21 utc | 180

Ideal woman under Taliban 2.0
https://youtu.be/5nP5_i06Qbs?t=144

Posted by: Afgun | Sep 11 2021 14:37 utc | 182

The Psychology of Totalitarianism: 4 things need to be in place (and they are).
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Mass psychology works same as hypnosis. Professor Mattias Desmet is a lecturer of psychoanalytic psychotherapy at the Department of Psychoanalysis and Clinical Consulting, Ghent University.
The first 16-18 minutes set out the key points. It took him 6 months (in 2020) to work out that things (statistics) did not add up — and widespread blindness to this was evident. I found that to be my experience as well as bunkered down under chemotherapy on another personal health frontline in early 2020. And even now highly intelligent and credentialed people I know cannot ‘see’ this aspect.
According to Desmet, a hard core 30% never will wake up. Another 40% are semi-awake but going with the flow. And 30% are awake enough to see it in action. Mattias Desmet explains why as mass psychosis.
I’ve posted the Bitcute link here, but it may also be YouTube, although their livestream on that media was interrupted. The link was originally posted in a comment on the UNZ report. Nails it, imo. Highly recommended. Some screen images freeze from time to time but the audio is 100% continuous.
If a search is needed the title is: “The Psychology of Totalitarianism. Reiner Fuellmich, Prof Mattias Desmet, Wolfgang Wodarg” and posted August 2nd, 2021.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/RIzxcU8nBYQX/

Posted by: imo | Sep 11 2021 14:54 utc | 184

Posted by: Jackrabbit | Sep 11 2021 14:33 utc | 181
You’ll enjoy this one, watch Toria Cookie Nuland’s lapsus, and take a look at the gathering payed by some ukro oligarch by the name of Pinchuk, “YES Brainstorming” is the name of the event, YES stands for Yalta European Conference, in Ukraine with guests like BHL, Bolton, Zacharia and a troupe of vultures that should be gathered before a court of justice. All of them talking China when they could not do in a bunch of sandalled “students” armed with AK’s, but the real ones, from 1947. By the way, they forgot that Yalta is back to where it belongs, the Russian Federation, I wonder what kind of cookies Vicky has in the oven to bring back that jewel.
https://youtu.be/BMNfUW_G3-w?t=174

Posted by: Paco | Sep 11 2021 15:26 utc | 186

@snake #68 @Don Bacon #70
The state – as in each individual state, not the state as in the federal government.
If individual states can tell the federal government to f-off on marijuana legalization, I don’t see any reason why individual states can’t do the same to the federal government regarding vaccination requirements.

Posted by: c1ue | Sep 11 2021 15:51 utc | 188

@Don Bacon #90
The COVID vaccine neither reduces the chance of infection by COVID nor does it reduce the chance of said vaccinated, infected person spreading it.
All the vaccines do is reduce the likelihood of hospitalization (somewhat) and death (more significantly) if you do get COVID.
Nor am I particularly impressed by your fire story. If it was true, then AIDS and other STD carriers would be criminally prosecuted – but they’re not. What about someone going to work with the cold or regular flu?
Sorry, but your prejudices are coloring your common sense.

Posted by: c1ue | Sep 11 2021 15:56 utc | 190

@Peter AU1 #154
I’ve been saying for years that Erdogan is out for Erdogan.
He has, is and will continue to fan dance in front of everyone under the sun to get whatever he can.
No agreement he makes is worth the paper its printed on.

Posted by: c1ue | Sep 11 2021 16:04 utc | 192

Posted by: imo | Sep 11 2021 14:54 utc | 184
Oh my god! Look what I have found!!! I did a search for the video title and I came to this page:
https://ratical.org/PandemicParallaxView/Lawsuits-C19-False-Claims.html
It has a complete listing of all the Corona Ausschuss sessions and videos (eg Dr Mike Yeadon, Dr Peter McCullough, Dr David Martin, Prof Matthias Desmet, Dr Robert Mallone, and hundreds of others).
This is the most important Covid-19 resource on the planet!
It lists all the sessions (currently from 1 to 69) with a key to content and participants (no other source I have seen has that, even the Corona Ausschuss website!), links to mp3 and ¡¡¡ TRANSCRIPTS !!!
(Not direct links to videos, but they can be found on a search by video title).

Posted by: BM | Sep 11 2021 16:27 utc | 194

Paco @Sep11 15:26 #186
@4:40 Nuland says that

“the primary reason we went in there [Afghanistan] was to address the threats emanating from our homeland”.

Inadvertant truth-telling? A country doesn’t attack another country when the ‘threat’ is from within.
As Nuland is Jewish, the reference to ‘homeland’ is somewhat ambiguous. Is the ‘threat’ she refers to from US MIC or Israel? Or both? We can easily imagine that each of these pressured US political leaders to act.
Maybe someone in the press will ask her to elaborate: what specific threats were made?
!!

Posted by: Jackrabbit | Sep 11 2021 16:53 utc | 196

Posted by: BM | Sep 11 2021 15:25 utc | 185
Lol. Ok thanks for that. Just want to say ONS and these I quote are not a government department. There is no minister in charge. It is as independent as they come. Reporting data to Parliament. I agree that government has been putting out fake data. Not these lot. It may be delayed or hard to find but they have to present data sets.
It’s the conclusion of that particular analysis I want confirming. If you can’t help that’s ok.
Thanks for your reply.

Posted by: DG | Sep 11 2021 16:57 utc | 198

Posted by: Jackrabbit | Sep 11 2021 16:53 utc | 197
I should’ve adjusted a bit better the timing, the lapsus I was referring to was “literally a day after our evacuation from Ukraine” instead of Afghanistan, she realized and corrected but… the matter has been discussed.
It is so hot outside that I decided to waste some time listening to a bunch of losers talking war and hate, curiously the event is organized in Ukraine, paid by a Ukrainian oligarch and all they can do is talk Russia, Putin, Russia, Putin. But with guest speakers like Tony Blair, Masha Gessen, Bernard Henry-Levy, and a full collection of hateful characters and trouble stirrers like Bolton and Vidman,it is hard to expect something else. For historians interested in the most outlandish thesis gird yourself up and wade into that pool of shit with weird beings during their low hour, they’ve lost and they’re planning or better said wishing a big one with China and Russia.
https://youtu.be/QcxsHaNyxtM
List of participants, very illustrious vermin.
https://www.yes-ukraine.org/en/yes-annual-meetings/2021/participants?alpha=a

Posted by: Paco | Sep 11 2021 17:18 utc | 200