Re: Psychohistorian @3,
Truth is self-evident, while lies require a network of structures to support the lie and conceal the truth. Banning criticism of forced vaccinations, mandates and other government policies does more to de-legitimize the government, its policies, businesses and social institutions than all of the “Russian Meddling” they love to complain about.

Posted by: Kadath | Sep 29 2021 17:38 utc | 4

psychohistorian @3–
Once upon a time Russian was THE language associated with Totalitarianism. I submit that English will soon be associated in that manner, while Russian and Mandarin become known as Freedom Languages. What we see happening with privately owned publication hosting platforms–which are what Twitter, Facebook and You Tube are–is what was done by privately owned universities 100+ years ago when they eliminated the study of political economy and its professors from their institutions in order to ensure the new pseudoscience of mathematical economics that has given us neoliberal babble would prevail and become the new doctrine that said all income is earned, that economic rent didn’t exist, that Free Markets were those freed from regulation, not freed from Rentier parasitism.
And since almost all major parts of the internet are privately owned, we should expect to see further censorship in that domain. We should know by now that sort of behavior occurs whenever an industry/service becomes a monopoly/monopsony and has captured the government and its regulators. That also provides a signal to the public that industry/service must be made into a public utility and never again be allowed to be privately operated.

Posted by: karlof1 | Sep 29 2021 17:51 utc | 6

The CEO of the pharmaceutical giant Pfizer says that normal life will return within a year, but not for those who don’t have regular COVID-19 vaccinations.
During an appearance on ABC This Week with George Stephanapoulos, Albert Bourla was asked about when he foresaw the end of the pandemic.
“Within a year, I think we will be able to come back to normal life,” said Bourla, although he made it very clear that this statement only applies to those who are prepared to take regular coronavirus booster shots.
“I don’t think that this means that variants will not be continuing coming,” Bourla added. “And I don’t think that this means that we should be able to live our lives without having vaccinations, basically.”
Bourla said that the “most likely scenario” was “annual re-vaccinations” due to the emergence of “new variants.”

Pfizer CEO Says “Normal Life” Won’t Return Without Regular COVID Vaccinations

Posted by: Down South | Sep 29 2021 18:01 utc | 8

Women must withhold sex until their partner gets Covid-19 jab – MEC

Posted by: Down South | Sep 29 2021 18:09 utc | 10

A few weeks ago I wrote of how theatre is the only way to publicize the truth in Great Britain, because there is a law against censorship of live performances.
A new play is being produced about the Grenfell Tower tragedy.

Grenfell: Value Engineering is taken entirely from evidence given in the second phase of the Grenfell inquiry, which interrogated the contractors and council representatives responsible for the renovation of the building in 2015-16. It takes its title from the £800,000 of savings – euphemistically dubbed “value engineering” – that the building giant Rydon was asked to find in its £9.2m bid by Kensington and Chelsea tenant management organisation (KCTMO), in order to win the contract to refurbish the tower.
As a result of this cost-cutting, the fire-resistant zinc cladding originally specified for use on Grenfell was replaced by the flammable aluminium composite material cladding with a polyethylene core. We all know what happened next.

https://archive.fo/xvJ6a#selection-1043.0-1049.233
(The Guardian)
That is the only way to bypass Her Majesty and get the truth out.
What about the very opposite. What about if Her Majesty wants to promulgate mass lies and deception?
She goes to the BBC and broadcasts to the world.

Steve Coogan will play Jimmy Savile in a forthcoming BBC drama series about how the high-profile presenter spent decades living a double life as one of the country’s most notorious paedophiles.
The Alan Partridge star said the decision to portray Savile on screen was not one he “took lightly” but the series had “an intelligent script tackling sensitively an horrific story which – however harrowing – needs to be told”.
The creators say the series will explore both Savile’s rise to fame and his final years fighting rumours about his private life, exploring how the presenter “used his celebrity and powerful connections to conceal his wrongdoings and to hide in plain sight”.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/sep/26/steve-coogan-to-play-jimmy-savile-in-sensitive-bbc-drama
There has never been a proper investigation into Savile by the authorities because they don’t want one. That leaves the field clear for the BBC to make up any lies, whether lies of commission or lies of omission, without fear of contradiction. Which is very useful, because the BBC was the greatest enabler of all.
But the BBC was working on behalf of others.
Here is one of his “powerful connections”.
https://archive.fo/CGmMU/1b6ee56527a42344d3f49376da6109a39537bf25.jpg
https://archive.fo/CGmMU/125333c25cf46f00c48ca6036a4d6c85c174fc46.jpg
The chronology is this.
In 1997 Diana, Princess of Wales was removed from the Great Chessboard.
From 1998 Charles spends much of his time with his grandmother at her residence, the Castle of Mey in Glencoe.
In 1998 Savile purchases a home – a very isolated home – in Glencoe.
In 1999 the Prince of Wales, together with his entourage, and all dressed up in their Highland finery, pays a very high profile visit to his friend Sir Jimmy Savile in Glencoe.
If a young girl was abused and raped by Savile in Glencoe, what chance did she have against this man who was a close friend of the future King?
Thirteen years later, and after he is dead, we learn what the local people in Glencoe really feel about the man who lived amongst them for those thirteen years.
https://archive.fo/CGmMU/22aac2c0df2f70d11b0a1bbaf369a5e329fa2257.jpg
https://archive.fo/CGmMU/8f67615e6bacf5459e66960e265ff6c51576e667.jpg
https://archive.fo/CGmMU/22aac2c0df2f70d11b0a1bbaf369a5e329fa2257.jpg
To quote the headline from the Daily Mail:

• The remote white-washed property is thought to be where the disgraced TV presenter may have abused dozens of children over the decades

Will Mr Coogan be recounting his(Savile’s) close relationship with the Prince of Wales?
Will Olivia Coleman make a guest appearance on behalf of The Crown?
I think perhaps not.
https://archive.fo/CUPNq
What we have here is a fascinating triangle.
Savile performs a service for Queen Elizabeth in 1945
Queen Elizabeth performs a service for the Prince of Wales in 1997
The Prince of Wales performs a service for Savile in 1999
https://ibb.co/sw9x19H

Posted by: John Cleary | Sep 29 2021 18:22 utc | 12

re: Ukraine natural gas storage, mentioned on the Orlov article
Interestingly, Ukraine’s natural gas storage is actually close to full. As recently as July, the concern was not high natgas prices, but too low. With nowhere for it to go, traders sent it the opposite direction, from west to east, and filled Ukraine’s storage ahead of time.
It was 62% full in July
https://www.naturalgasintel.com/ukrainian-natural-gas-storage-luring-european-supply-as-markets-come-together/
And is 90% full now, holding 28 bcm, much of which is owned by EU traders, with reverse flows still taking place this month, just now being forced to stop (!).
https://www.argusmedia.com/en/news/2145993-ukraine-gas-storage-constraints-cause-import-blockage

Posted by: ptb | Sep 29 2021 18:33 utc | 14

Ok the actual current 2021 Ukraine storage: 18.7 bcm, so actually it is exactly what is needed for domestic consumption (unless, again, it turns out it is owned by traders who will export it rather than using it domestically)
https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-economy/3323970-ukraine-has-187-bcm-of-gas-in-usfs-ahead-of-heating-season.html

Posted by: ptb | Sep 29 2021 18:43 utc | 16

This arrticle is pretty cool review of covid propaganda roll-out.https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2021-09-29/covid-propaganda-roundup-experts-say-con-game
Only scratches the surface, but is needed – a lets review, shall we.
Those who were pushing that in the absense of any real supporting evidence I now take lightly.

Posted by: jared | Sep 29 2021 19:18 utc | 18

First they came for…..
The USA’s first amendment is only for public spaces folks, certainly not corporate spaces which is what the public space has become. Social media, youtube, etc. control the ‘truth’. Think about what is being codified here for any dissent against the ‘official’ truth/narrative in days/months/years to come.
But I wasn’t a…
There is a war on folks and we’re losing.

Posted by: gottlieb | Sep 29 2021 19:33 utc | 20

@ gottlieb | Sep 29 2021 19:33 utc | 20 who wrote
”
There is a war on folks and we’re losing.
”
I agree that there is a war on and have been calling it a civilization war because of the stakes. I disagree with your assessment that “we” are losing. I would encourage you to consider that if that were that case then why all the hullabaloo?
Yes, it looks like those of us in the US are being discriminated against on the basis of our beliefs but the bigger world has our back and is causing empire to be shitting in its pants as it tries to play global whack a mole.
It may be good for us Americans to understand discrimination out of ignorance up close and personal for positive change to occur

Posted by: psychohistorian | Sep 29 2021 19:58 utc | 22

The Empty Vessels: Joe Biden and the Mainstream Media
https://torrancestephensphd.substack.com/

Posted by: Dogon Priest | Sep 29 2021 20:14 utc | 24

John Cleary | Sep 29 2021 18:29 utc | 13
“What doesn’t she want known? The answer is that she ruled the “Vietnam””
John, having read the comments you link to, I saw one that mentioned a possible MI6 “interest” to stop Craig reporting on the Assange case. (Which is an ongoing scandal by itself, with a similarly compromised “Judge”, who has now been promoted to the “UK Supreme Court”, Laddy Ashton, who acted in a very similar fashion to protect/venge her husband – “fingered” by Wilkileaks).
But as an outsider, not Scots, I do not see what your reference to “Vietnam” is referring to. If possible could you please elucidate. (Only if this can be done safely)

Posted by: Stonebird | Sep 29 2021 20:19 utc | 26

… Tikhanovskaya the cutlet queen who is a sort of Belarussian Juan Guaidó…
Posted by: Down South | Sep 29 2021 17:57 utc | 7
This is unfair. Tikhanovskaya had her cooking show and no one doubts her skills with cutlets and vegetarian dishes too. By the way of contrast, I never read about any type of skill attributed to Juan Guaidó. On edit: Guaidó can jump, proven on some videos. Which is a more useful skill for a leader: jumping or cooking?
For a test case, compare Biden and Trump… neither seems too jumpy. If you had to eat a dish, would you rather have a Trump preparing it, or Biden? Wouldn’t American voters be more informed if at least one pre-election debate was replaced with a cooking competition? Perhaps starting with purchasing ingredients on their own.

Posted by: Piotr Berman | Sep 29 2021 20:29 utc | 28

Heyho, whats up with the Azerbaijan – Iranian border tension ?

Posted by: Bart Schuster | Sep 29 2021 20:53 utc | 30

gepay @27–
You touched on the core of my lamenting the lack of treatment information I wrote about yesterday. It appears that several treatment regimes exist that are very inexpensive because no one owns the monopoly rights to them, thus their low cost. George Oprisk linked to this now week old article detailing low cost treatments along with other new info about the virus. Here’s a key excerpt:
“The report also shows the initial findings of the clinical trial studying whether a combination treatment protocol called HAZDPaC (which includes hydroxychloroquine, azithromycin, zinc and Vitamins C and D) or high dosages of Vitamin C, D and Zinc alone (the placebo in the trial) may prove effective in eradicating the virus from the gut, where it could potentially cause long-lasting problems if left to ‘percolate.'”
The following is from an article George copy/pasted at his VK Space that is no longer available at the original site:
“Uttar Pradesh:
• largest state of 240 million people
• roughly 20 cases a day
• 193 active cases — 33% with one dose of vaccine (and near zero when cases were going down in the spring)
• universal ivermectin use
“Uttar Pradesh shows that prophylaxis and early treatment of COVID-19 with Ivermectin, Zn+, Quercitin, Vit-D, and Vit-C brings the infection rate down, and the epidemic under control more effectively than vaccination.”
Traditional Ayurvedic medicines are also being used in South Asia, Thailand having recently approved Andrographis paniculata to treat covid.
The pandemic’s been ongoing for almost two years now yet there’s very little information about treatment, which is clearly due to an information blackout being imposed at the behest of BigPHarma.

Posted by: karlof1 | Sep 29 2021 21:20 utc | 32

karlof1 @6 Can I correct you. I submit that Americian (Simplified English) will soon be associated in that manner,

Posted by: Helen | Sep 29 2021 21:36 utc | 34

The good ol days when vaccines used to sell themselves seem so far away. They used to work perfectly despite always being a small percentage of vacvine skeptics.
Today not only are the vaccines being forced on populations. The skeptics are being persecuted and banned from society. And on top of it the vaccines are leaky and far from perfect.
Something seems very off these days…

Posted by: Comandante | Sep 29 2021 21:39 utc | 36

IVERMECTIN

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@ Posted by: VeraK | Sep 29 2021 19:12 utc | 17
All of them. There’s no evidence Ivermectin works against COVID-19.
Posted by: vk | Sep 29 2021 19:27 utc | 19

T
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Another piece US anti-Ivermectin puzzle may have emerged. On Monday, Pfizer announced that it’s launching an accelerated Phase 2/3 trial for a COVID prophylactic pill designed to ward off COVID in those may have come in contact with the disease.
Coincidentally (or not), Pfizer’s drug shares at least one mechanism of action as Ivermectin – an anti-parasitic used in humans for decades, which functions as a protease inhibitor against Covid-19, which researchers speculate “could be the biophysical basis behind its antiviral efficiency.”
Lo and behold, Pfizer’s new drug – which some have jokingly dubbed “Pfizermectin,” is described by the pharmaceutical giant as a “potent protease inhibitor.”
https://www.rastaroutes.com/pfizer-covid-drug-similar-to-horse-ivermectin/

Posted by: Sushi | Sep 29 2021 21:46 utc | 38

I wish pffttt was still here so that if I were to miss the claims that the measles vaccine saved us all from measles, he could pick up the slack.
People, there is absolutely no proof the vaccines ever did shit for measles mortality. Mortality rates for an infectious disease is, of course, the best measurement as to how a society could suffer under a disease.
Here is the ever-increasingly hard-to-find graph which shows that the first and, might I say very ineffectual (the mmr was only released almost two decades later), vaccine for measles was unleashed in 1963, WAY AFTER MORTALITY RATES HAD DECLINED FROM THIS DISEASE FOR OTHER, HOLISTIC REASONS (namely sanitation and improvement in diet). The vaccine, at the last minute before these holistic improvements had single-handedly relegated measles to utterly-innocuous childhood disease-status, swooped in to take all the credit. I have made the analogy that this was not unlike the U.S. swooping in at the last minute and taking the credit for handling ISIS in Syria when Russia had done all the legwork.
The fact that someone such as myself has to trot this bitch out every time some poster tries to sneak in some bs claim about measles eradication, such as vk above, is proof that you should probably keep the link or the graph handy, because there is no telling how much misinformation and propaganda they will try to peddle to back up their blanket claims about all vaccines being unequivocally good.

Posted by: NemesisCalling | Sep 29 2021 21:59 utc | 40

Addendum:
vk made his claim re: measles in prior post.

Posted by: NemesisCalling | Sep 29 2021 22:04 utc | 42

> Posted by: kiwiklown | Sep 29 2021 21:50 utc | 39
> the Chinese will one day also fade away.
Chinese history 2070 BC – 2021 AD … at this rate America will probably be forgotten first than China.
https://images.chinahighlights.com/allpicture/2017/07/99a04d09f69f4ac7b474c509.jpg
> If the US insists on war, then this is a war for the Chinese to lose.
> Ditto for the Russians.
remember what Putin said, during a war where Russia is attacked using nuclear weapons, Russians will go to heaven as martyrs. the West wouldn’t even have time to repent for their sins.

Posted by: r | Sep 29 2021 22:17 utc | 44

#39 Kiwiklown
Having said all that, the Chinese will one day also fade away. Nothing unusual. Just a demographics thing.
You are assuming that it is impossible for the Chinese people to take control of their own demographic trends. Do you really think it is inherently impossible for the Chinese government to persuade or compel Chinese women to have more children? Even if it becomes increasingly apparent to the Chinese people that their failure to have enough children is causing China to “fade away”? I am not sure the history of Western or Japanese demographic decline really applies to a more socialist society like China.

Posted by: Fnord13 | Sep 29 2021 22:52 utc | 46

USA is asking Russia to use Russia’s military bases to “keep eye on Afghanistan”. If Putin the Pussy agrees, I will lose ALL my tiny respect I have left for Putin the Pussy.
Also I ALWAYS wondered WHY Putin allowed NATO to use Russia’s space to keep supply lines in Afghanistan.

Posted by: Hoyeru | Sep 29 2021 22:58 utc | 48

karlof1 | Sep 29 2021 21:20 utc | 32
re … clearly due to an information blackout being imposed…
Yes, indeed and therein lies also a suggested explanation. Namely, how can a “blackout ” be imposed so readily?
MOA’ans are not unlike non-MOA’ans in that each of us has a version of “the box” that can somehow interfere with attempts at clear thinking. You know the problem as ability to “think outside the box”. The problem is especially severe when just the attempt to think is fully precluded by “the box”.
How is it so? What is this “box” thing? There in front of us is the path to remedy and escape from it, and potentially its actual undoing.
In short, why aren’t our scientists studying “the box” for the
very humanitarian purpose of resolving its mystery?
WHy do we not demand they be funded and recruited to that purpose? After all, .govs have spent billions at learning how to use “the box” to the twisted purposes and intentions of dominating, enslaving and degrading populations worldwide. E.g., to easily impose “blackouts” of vital data.
If you were looking for the keystone oligarchs of suppressive and degrading oligarchy, study “the box” to learn why they are suppressive and how they are able to get away with it. But a warning…
Study and learning about it is not simply done, as anyone who attempts to “undo the box” will quickly testify…because maybe [?] it was designed to trap and thus contains “penalties” for anyone daring to venture with the purpose of undoing it.
Contrary to undoing it, merely using “the box” for evil is easy…as if by design, it will cooperate.
When our words and the very best and truthful essays do not work to improve conditions and Man’s lot, maybe we are looking in the wrong places for answers. A pretty awesome trap would explain and cover-up/hide that error.

Posted by: chu teh | Sep 29 2021 23:03 utc | 50

Tbh I am a bit disappointed about b’s coverage of the vaccination mess. Get me right, I am not a denier of Covid19, yet certainly critical of erratic and irresponsible actions especially of the German state, and disagree to the vilification of critics as “covid deniers” or “covidiots”. While b rightfully, in my opinion, rejects wild speculations about covid19 being nothing but a NWO conspiracy (which is rubbish ofc, China in bed with NATO and US, gimme a break), he distances from protests which just defend constitutional rights.
In the beginning, he had a clue when pointing out the difference between vector vaccines like Oxford University’s AstraZeneca, and the shady mRNA products by large corporations like Pfizer. He seems to have completely lost that track indiscriminately praising “vaccines”.
In fact, all media (and covid critics as well) pointed to weaknesses in the AstraZeneca studies, more or less rightfully, when it came to tests of the >60y old. But: that Pfizer cautiously avoided to include this group in their studies was diligently ignored. Later, thrombosis problems of AstraZeneca were widely reported, but that Pfizer scored higher in complications, relatively and absolutely, was dropped, except at the “Feindsender” RT.
Strangely, Covid infections peaked in Israel when the vaccination campaign took speed, dropping only much later. Israel is nearly 100% Pfizer territory, and has now one of the highest infection rates per capita worldwide. And Pfizer enjoys not only mega profits, but campaigns for subsequent vaccinations every few months so that the profits never drop.
It seems that the fatal outcomes significantly dropped since begin of the pandemic, even in Israel, though their fatality rate is significantly above that of more AstaZeneca jabbed UK. It is far from clear how much of that is outcome of the vaccination (some certainly is) and not from better knowledge of the disease and appropriate treatment.
The pressure on people to get vaccinated also is undignified and intolerable. It is proven now that jabbed people at least from Pfizer and Moderna not only can get infected, but can and do infect others. Putting unvaccinated under curfew, fire them out of their jobs, deny them access to all kinds of servives to build up pressure for Pfizer’s profits is unacceptable.
Btw. the blocking of the reliable and successful vaccines of e.g. Sinovac and Gamaleya’s Sputnik V is part of that campaign.
I would have expected better from b here, especially some words about repression meeting protests in France, Germany, and other countries, other than denouncing the protesters (among whom there are ofc a few loonies).

Posted by: aquadraht | Sep 29 2021 23:08 utc | 52

Covid 19 is a debilitating and sometimes deadly virus loose in the world. But is our reaction to it making us miss the forest for the trees?
Somehow this virus appeared about two years ago. There are theories as to exactly when it appeared, but slightly less than two years ago we all became aware of it.
There are also theories as to its origin. Is it a natural phenomenon? Is it the result of a gain-of-function experiment in one of the many biolabs scattered around the world? Or was it cut from whole cloth in one of those same labs? Who knows? Each theory has its champions, all with PhDs, and someday we may know more.
But the reality today is the virus is real, it’s loose, and no one wants to become infected. We fear it. What to do?
The answer worldwide seems to be to compound the fear, and to use that to institutionalise an Orwellian social control that the reaction to 9/11 just hinted at. As confirmed new covid cases and recent covid deaths dominate the news, we are admonished to practice “social distancing”, to avoid human contact, to wear a mask, to shun our neighbours. In short, we are asked to become alienated from each other, even from other family members, and legislation has emerged mandating just that.
Next came the lockdowns from national to state to community. Widespread scanning and isolation of the infected followed, with a plethora of vaccines with various and contested efficacy and effectiveness touted by governments everywhere.
Unfortunately, any immediate adverse side effects of the lockdowns and the vaccines were/are minimized, and the potential for long-term side effects are not part of any discussion. Also missing is any wonder as to why the pharmaceutical companies needed to be granted legal immunity before they brought their vaccines forward.
Meanwhile, no one seems to be looking at treatments, of which Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine are the most mentioned. Is there any merit in these two treatments, or are they no good at all? There are reports that Ivermectin has been successfully used as a Covid treatment in countries from India to Mexico to Peru. Are these reports true? Are there other potential treatments we have yet to hear of? With no clinical trials, and no public discussion, we simply don’t know.
Fear rules, and any effective treatment for the Covid virus would undermine that fear. In fact, it would negate it. It’s worth remembering this.
With the vaccines, the only response to the virus currently allowed, comes the vaccine pass. With one, we can continue to work, to escape lockdowns, to travel, to return to a somewhat normal life. Or so it is said. All these promised benefits will be available with the use of the now ubiquitous QR codes.
With a vax pass some semblance of normalcy returns, although with the understanding that those who have given themselves the right to pry will always know where we are and what we are doing. With no vax pass we are threatened with life as a social pariah.
I offer one example of the fear and control shadowing the world today. Remember a scant two years ago when we could go out to our local airport and buy a ticket to anywhere in the world? Of course, there were entry and exit passport controls and in some cases the need for a visa, but we were free to go. That freedom is gone now, and there are few signs of it coming back.
One so far unmentioned but increasingly apparent trouble with this fearsome approach is that fear as a public policy has a limited shelf life. People grow weary of being afraid. Already we see public anger breaking out in cities from Melbourne to Paris as we try to live under intermittent, but always looming, house arrest. The reasons why are wearing thin. But whenever Covid fear shows signs of waning, it’s boosted with a virus variant, and a booster jab is usually in the pipeline.
As a point of interest, there are 24 letters in the Greek alphabet.
Covid fear and social control are the twin pillars of our “new normal”. First comes the fear. That’s the trees. Then the control. That’s the forest. And while we may manage to knock down this or that tree, the forest looks set to last.

Posted by: Hal Duell | Sep 29 2021 23:15 utc | 54

Nook @ 43 said;
“Liberals saw the pandemic as an opportunity to get people less clingy to individual freedom and more accepting of government planning significant parts of everyone’s lives. Normal would mean relinquishing that power, which is anathema to the Left.”
THAT, is the most absurd and laughable statement I’ve read in many, many moons.
Thanks for the humor…

Posted by: vetinLA | Sep 29 2021 23:42 utc | 56

For nooks edification:
https://search.yahoo.com/search?p=liberal+definition&fr=yfp-t-s&ei=UTF-8&fp=1

Posted by: vetinLA | Sep 29 2021 23:53 utc | 58

China recently and again today congratulated itself and announced it had accomplished its first Centennial Goal of becoming a moderately prosperous society and issued a White Paper, “China’s Epic Journey from Poverty to Prosperity”, filled with details about its astonishing achievement. Here is how it begins:
“Xiaokang, meaning moderate prosperity, has been a consistent aspiration of the Chinese nation since ancient times. More than 2,000 years ago the term appeared in the Book of Songs to mean modest comfort:
The people are hard-pressed, they need some modest comfort.
Do well by the Central Plains, and your rule will spread beyond.
“Centuries later the Book of Rites described the ideal state of society that xiaokang would bring about. Both gave expression to the ancient Chinese people’s desire for a better life. But for millennia moderate prosperity remained a dream.”
The #1 goal for the UN’s SDGs for all nations is the elimination of poverty followed by the elimination of hunger, both of which are linked. China earlier this year announced its elimination of poverty, and the White Paper details that struggle too. China’s next Centenary Goal is to “fully build a modern socialist country” by 1949. Dr. Hudson was recently on Renegade Inc and explains what that entails.
Escobar’s latest deals with the new plan and team devised to try and undo all that. But all that shows is that no one is capable of forward thinking within the Outlaw Anglo Empire.

Posted by: karlof1 | Sep 30 2021 0:05 utc | 60

Posted by: vk | Sep 29 2021 19:27 utc | 19
FUCK OFF vk. Ivermectin works.

Posted by: Tom | Sep 30 2021 0:42 utc | 62

I have been thinking about “conspiracy theory” as a term of ridicule and dismissal.
Increasingly, I think, it needs to be seen that what is called conspiracy theory is actually simply an attempt at forensic study of a situation.
This pandemic, for example, is replete with forensic study. The more unclear a situation is, the more that forensic study will be required to see it clearly. None of it ever deserves to be ridiculed.
The ridiculing of the forensic study of an unclear situation was initiated by the CIA, and this today we clearly know as fact. This fact came into broad consensus from repeated statements by people conducting forensic studies of such things as propaganda and the manufacture of public perception and consensus.
I think one could begin to feel proud of being engaged in forensic study, and not abashed at the potential for being slandered as a “conspiracy theorist”. Wherever crime exists conducted by more than one person, at least one conspiracy should be theorized by those conducting forensic study of the situation.
And so on, and so forth….Fuck the CIA anyway – conspirators, all of them, by definition.
It’s our language. We can take it back.

Posted by: Grieved | Sep 30 2021 0:48 utc | 64

Posted by: Comandante | Sep 29 2021 21:39 utc | 36
The good ol days when vaccines used to sell themselves seem so far away. They used to work perfectly despite always being a small percentage of vacine skeptics.
Now booster shots are needed (obliged?) to protect the vaccinated from the un-vaccinated: the good ol days of a cheap quality vaccine are gone, now they have to be expensive to keep up the Armageddon PR and patent incomes = fear & greed.

Posted by: Antonym | Sep 30 2021 1:09 utc | 66

Even though she had been saying the exact same things for a long time, all of a sudden it was an unforgivable sin in the eyes of many of her most vocal past supporters. What were their arguments? Why are they upset? Tulsi Gabbard Has Not Changed — Her Critics Have

Posted by: Kal el | Sep 30 2021 1:11 utc | 68

Below is a link to a posting at The Register describing the results of a study done about digital currency across national borders
Asian central bank digital currency test cut cross-border transfer times ‘from days to seconds’ and Prototype run by China, Hong Kong, Thailand, and UAE also cut costs in half
The pressure will continue to mount around the whole global structure of finance and exposure of the private control/manipulation will come out of the closet….and it won’t be pretty….but in the interim, alternatives are being tested and refined to eliminate the private finance middle-men and their costly “overhead/mafia protection” in our world.

Posted by: psychohistorian | Sep 30 2021 1:59 utc | 70

Hello fellow MoA barflies.
How many barflies feel like I do about commenter vk’s contribution to or pollution of this forum? I don’t want your answer here but encourage you to send me an email at my web site that contains your MoA commenting handle, your email address used here and any words.
If there are more than a few, I will forward them to b with our concerns about the reputability of his comment section affected by vk ongoing voluminous comments.
If there are only a few who feel like me then I will go back to my mostly ignoring the vk BS
Thanks

Posted by: psychohistorian | Sep 30 2021 2:17 utc | 72

Posted by: Grieved | Sep 30 2021 1:09 utc | 67
thanks Grieved
“I wonder, for example, if you are actually a “vaccine skeptic” with regard to all vaccines, or simply to the western ones for COVID?”
I have zero medical background from schools; from the 1970s as a counter culture, back to the lander, vegetarian (then), I developed a distrust of mainstream medicine and food which mostly continues now so, in answer to your question, I tend to be skeptical of pills but I take them if I have something I can’t kick: infections, even the occasional headache. That’s why for me the Cubans, the Iranians, Bolivians, Vietnamese, Chinese, Russians, etc. get my attention when they seem to be forming a consensus around THEIR vaccines. On the other hand, Pfizer is evil so I’m not taking their stuff. period. period. period.
Cuba’s numbers on covid are impressive compared to the U.S. At the other end of the spectrum is Peru, a country fighting to consolidate power and suffering badly from covid. I have a good friend there who is a physician, a native Peruvian and has been on the front lines doing public health work, establishing clinics, food kitchens etc. His emails have been sparse and cryptic but I hope to get in touch with him this winter some time so I might be able to give barflies an update on Peru then from his perspective. He did say in June that ivermectin was being used all over Peru but wouldn’t tell me his opinion. His sister in law told me their whole family was in conflict over the elections there so I didn’t pry.
President Castillo announced a plan to produce Sputnik vaccine in Peru. That was in early September so I’m guessing it’s getting set up now.
“Peru’s President Pedro Castillo has announced a plant to manufacture the Russian-developed Sputnik V COVID-19 locally will be set up in the country, for which the government has allocated US $ 705 million worth of funding.” I think this link came out of Uruguay which is run by imperial lackeys so the article seems to try and spin against Castillo in spite of the good news.
https://en.mercopress.com/2021/09/08/peru-to-produce-sputnik-v-vaccine-locally-starting-in-2023

Posted by: migueljose | Sep 30 2021 2:21 utc | 74

These are the ‘geniuses’ who are conducting endless wars.
. . .news report
US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told Congress on Tuesday that the Afghan army’s sudden collapse caught the Pentagon “by surprise,” as military leaders confronted a contentious Senate hearing about how and why America lost its longest [twenty year] war.

Posted by: Don Bacon | Sep 30 2021 2:34 utc | 76

Posted by: vk | Sep 30 2021 1:55 utc | 69
“Guys, please verify your sources. This Ivermectin theory is ridiculous.”
Vk you’re starting to sound like a know it all. I’m not sure that ivermectin is effective but I think it has some impact on covid prevention and lots of people south of here do too. Here are a couple of articles. Please read them with an open mind.
Mexico
They issued massive amounts of ivermectin and compiled lots of data. Mexico’s president Lopez Portillo gave his whole hearted support to the effort. Press conferences I listened to (Spanish) were thorough, headed by teams of physicians and virologists working with the government at the same time the U.S. “shit show” was being rolled out by bumbling confused idiots. The Mexican physicians answered question after question without hesitation, explaining what they did,referring to charts and hard data, describing the outcome. In summary, it was good.
https://principia-scientific.com/covid-deaths-plunge-after-mexico-city-introduces-ivermectin/
https://iowaclimate.org/2021/07/05/mexico-uses-ivermectin/

Posted by: migueljose | Sep 30 2021 2:53 utc | 78

correction….”Mexico’s president Lopez Portillo”
Mexico’s president is Lopez Obrador. My mistake.
ps Vk I do read your posts and learn from you.

Posted by: migueljose | Sep 30 2021 2:57 utc | 80

@72 psychohistorian
I thought I’d better add a word directly to you, in sympathy. He is hard to take, especially when he seems to be needling on purpose (although I’m not sure that’s what it is, exactly).
Might be best to practice letting it run downhill, and stay up on the heights 🙂

Posted by: Grieved | Sep 30 2021 3:09 utc | 82

@69 vk
Yeah, no one here has blood on their hands. Unlike our current governments, we don’t force people through the threat of livelihood to receive a potentially devastating vaccine. We offer food for thought.
So piss off, dude. That shit is beyond the pale.

Posted by: NemesisCalling | Sep 30 2021 3:10 utc | 84

Anyone else feeling *some* regrets
about getting the vaccine?
We got the J&J.
If I were a bachelor I feel quite sure I would have just “toughed it out”.
But no way did I want to give Covid to my wife.
We are over 65.
Anyone?
——-
Not going to get the booster.

Posted by: librul | Sep 30 2021 3:32 utc | 86

librul@86
I took the J&J, 74 years old, suffered that “EXTREMELY RARE” blood clot in the brain stroke, 5 days in the hospital, month of rehab, the bill to medicare was $57K. I won’t be getting a “booster”

Posted by: SwissArmyMan | Sep 30 2021 4:12 utc | 88

Grieved @ 82. Hi. re vk and cancelling. Being relatively new here a couple of things have caught my eye.
First and foremost, I don’t believe b and the commentariat have a tendency to suffer fools. Or trolls, my interest. Sites are frequently invaded by both the professional and amateur variety. So the reaction to this here makes it clear vk isn’t a troll in the sense I used. This is a community censuring a member. By appearances I mean.
Second, I have noticed that vk makes extensive use of links and makes an effort to support their position. Yet I don’t recall any comments of substance on Covid issues. No links. Short statement invoking occult terms like “the science”. That sort of thing. I don’t recall any substantive response regarding links.
That’s mighty peculiar pardner… mighty peculiar… but then when I examined my own suspicious nature I realized that half the time vk just opines on various topics or subjects. Constructively usually. So maybe this isn’t so odd after all. Would it matter?
Today is a repeat of an earlier thread. Even with prior knowledge upon reading vk’s comment I initially went WTF? What’s going on here? This has a smell… it’s “over the top” or a provocateur perhaps.
However even more likely, and you folks have nearly convinced me, is that this is a personality thing. A really really (assume I used caps) annoying thing. So annoying my initial reaction to @ph was “No shit eh? Is that how you do community standards enforcement here? @ph is an admin?” (IE yeah yeah lynch the troll)
If it was I would go beyond removing the offending comment. That’s me though.

Posted by: David G Horsman | Sep 30 2021 4:57 utc | 90

migueljose | Sep 30 2021 2:21 utc | 74
say hola to Señorita Lecca, she still looks appealing, its same show as usual, the one time communist with a communist pedigree name screwed them up: Vladimiro Lenin Ilich Montesinos, VK is using Peruvian type Spanish left over from when the Spanish Viceroy(Semi Real), was shacked up in Lima! the trash she posts are from the book of sociopath, Sandero’s Kuzman, Peru doesn’t need to rise is already at top of the Andes ! Can you the blood lost of communist is inherent , every one is about peace and disarmament, this one wants China to bombard Russia of all the countries, by nuclear weapons!

Posted by: Grishka | Sep 30 2021 5:15 utc | 92

VeraK @ 17:
Here is a link to a study by S Lehrer and P H Rheinstein on how Ivermectin may work against tbe SARS-COV-2 virus:
Ivermectin Docks to the SARS-CoV-2 Spike Receptor-binding Domain Attached to ACE2
The authors declare no conflicts of interest and you will find links to further articles suggesting that Ivermectin may be an effective treatment for COVID-19.
Ivermectin has potential as a treatment for dengue (a tropical mosquito-borne viral disease) and may also be effective against chikungunya (another tropical viral disease) so it’s best to keep an open mind about its potential beyond its being an anti-inflammatory treatment for parasitical diseases which is its most common use in the West.

Posted by: Jen | Sep 30 2021 6:40 utc | 94

circumspect | Sep 29 2021 23:51 utc | 57
Thanks. Very good source.

Posted by: pogohere | Sep 30 2021 7:02 utc | 96

John Cleary | Sep 29 2021 21:17 utc | 31
Thanks very much. Clears up a lot about the situation. Sorry about my late reply. (Had to sleep in between)
One thought is that “Lawfare” is being used systematically in many countries. The question : “how does one combat this?” will have to be answered sooner or later if a society of individual aspirations is to be made a reality. (Ie. without falling into “politically overloaded” names such as commun…. Democr…. etc.).
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I appreciate your earlier comments on the royal family and their leaders. But I have always thought that you are not giving full scope to the influence of the “Families ” (of the type “Rothschilds” etc) who control much of the worlds’ assets. (It is almost one or two “families” per country.) As power becomes concentrated in fewer and fewer hands, and intermarriage is carefully organised, the whole system remains very Feudal in application.
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Almost a full confession; When I was a kid, I was a “Pro-Royalist” as I thought they were cheaper to run and “show the flag” than a Naval Destroyer. Harder to sink as well.
Times change and “When I was a kid”, was long ago –

Posted by: Stonebird | Sep 30 2021 7:59 utc | 98

Interesting read by Engdahl

Whenever we hear the word “sustainable” we would be well-advised to take a critical look behind the nice sounding words. In the case of the globalist Agenda 2030 with its 17 sustainable goals by 2030, the one for creating a “sustainable agriculture”, when looked at closely, will destroy a huge part of EU agriculture production and drive already rising global prices for food far higher.
The EU Commission calls their Green Deal for food the cute title, “Farm to Fork.” It is being backed by Klaus Schwab’s omnipresent World Economic Forum and their Great Reset.
Keep in mind that sustainable as defined by the UN and Davos World Economic Forum means achieving Zero Carbon emissions by 2050. Yet there is no scientific study independently proving that CO2 is endangering our planet by creating global warming. Only myriads of dubious, well-funded computer models. The harmless gas is essential to all human, animal and all plant life.
Now the European Union Commission is pushing a top-down radical agenda on the agriculture heart of the world’s second most important food producer as part of its ill-conceived EU Green Deal. If implemented as is likely, it will cause drastic reduction in crop outputs, a severe reduction in meat protein and, perhaps most dangerous, an overturning of current EU law regulating new gene-edited crops, or GMO.2. That will have global consequences.

Farm to Fork: How the EU and the Davos Cabal Plan to Control Agriculture

Posted by: Down South | Sep 30 2021 8:59 utc | 100