Military aerodrome in Ukraine’s Vinnitsa destroyed by Russian high-precision weapons
https://tass.com/defense/1417947
This was a signal to Poland…
Ukraine officials confirm 8 Russian missiles struck city of Vinnytsia far from front line, airport destroyed
https://www.foxnews.com/world/ukraine-8-russian-missiles-struck-vinnytsia-airport-destroyed

Posted by: Richard Steven Hack | Mar 7 2022 2:21 utc | 304

Posted by: james | Mar 7 2022 2:19 utc | 299
I beat myself a lot… 🙂

Posted by: Richard Steven Hack | Mar 7 2022 2:25 utc | 306

Russian foreign ministry is accessible again. From a very long briefing by Zakharova on the 3rd
https://www.mid.ru/en/press_service/spokesman/briefings/1802683/#2

Just recently, we circulated a presentation on the war crimes committed by the Ukrainian leadership in Donbass at the session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva (February 28). You can find it on the website of Russia’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations Office in Geneva. This is a terrifying photo report depicting people who were killed, and the destruction caused in Donbass. Today, when they lament about the casualties, while we offer our condolences to all the families, just remember that you tacitly accepted the atrocities for all these years. Let me repeat what I have been saying all along. An awakening of the conscience cannot happen suddenly.
There is no shortage of evidence from multiple sources. Some documents are publicly available, including on the Foreign Ministry website. It has been facing DDoS attacks, specifically designed to prevent us from releasing all these documents. We understand that not everyone reads these documents, while some of those who do pretend otherwise. We will draw your attention to these materials again and again.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Mar 7 2022 2:28 utc | 308

Posted by: suzan | Mar 7 2022 2:16 utc | 296
Thanks for the link. One more hour and a half video to add to the 21 other videos I still have to watch. Sigh…This is becoming exhausting. I literally can not get anything done here at home due to being locked to the computer for 16 hours reviewing the Ukraine war output. My computer has 5GB worth of articles saved already, 984 of them.
I was thinking of putting all this stuff on my Substack newsletter, but haven’t had time to get to it. Wasn’t planning on covering a war there, either, but it would make sense for me to just dump links there and refer everyone to that. Problem is getting the time to do it due to the avalanche of data.

Posted by: Richard Steven Hack | Mar 7 2022 2:32 utc | 310

Zakharova on the alleged biological weapons and everything else going on. This is a HUGE briefing!
https://www.mid.ru/en/press_service/spokesman/briefings/1802683/#2

Numerous materials on US military biological activities in Ukraine have been made public recently. On March 2, Natural News, rightwing bioethics website, posted a journalistic investigation into the Pentagon’s relevant activities that run counter to Washington’s obligations under the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on their Destruction. According to the website, various facilities created under the aegis of the Department of Defence (Federal Agency for Threat Prevention), including the Science and Technology Centre in Ukraine (CTCU), have recently received hundreds of millions of US dollars in funding for clandestine scientific and applied research. The author, Ethan Huff, does not rule out that the outbreaks of different diseases observed in the region (flue, cholera, Zika virus, and others) could be caused, among other things, by America’s military biological activities in Ukraine. Just read the article for yourself.
For their part, specialists have highlighted another aspect. In late February, the US Embassy in Ukraine unexpectedly removed from public access all documents related to military biological cooperation between Washington and Kiev. The earlier posted documents were deleted.
Just imagine that NATO has supplied a huge amount of offensive weapons of various types, without the slightest justification, to a location in the centre of Europe in direct vicinity of Russian borders, where Russian citizens live in addition to numerous other people who find themselves in these territories by a twist of fate. At the same time, the US and Ukraine have been actively promoting their biological cooperation, including experiments and the like, in the same sector. Apart from everything else, all of this is accompanied by NATO-Ukraine military exercises, held once every six weeks, where Russia is the hypothetical adversary. To top it off, the Ukrainian president makes a statement that they are ready to consider the possibility of Ukraine acquiring nuclear weapons, which comes amid a wild nationalist frenzy in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, who regard all Russians as their main enemy. The time has come, they say to the entire international community (which is now pretending that it is shocked) at the Munich Security Conference. But why wasn’t it shocked at the idea that a country with so many problems and overflowing with Western weapons can have nuclear weapons in addition? (It has the capacity for that and, of course, support from the United States.) Actually, it might already possess dirty nuclear technologies. Shall we wait somewhat longer? But for what? Senior representatives of the United States say they had no intention of talking to Ukraine about deploying nuclear weapons. No plans! But who do we believe? They are the people who have systematically lied for decades, while launching under the cover of lies military operations all over the world, resulting in millions of victims. There is an important nuance that makes this story even more dramatic. The thing is that the United States, which has nuclear weapons as a matter of official record, has them not only on US territory. Few people in Russia, let alone the world, know about this. Who is keen to know? The United States has its nuclear weapons in several countries of Europe. Practically next door to Russia. At the same time, the European countries, their armed forces and their intelligence services have no ability whatsoever to control these weapons. Is that normal?

Posted by: Richard Steven Hack | Mar 7 2022 2:39 utc | 312

The section Richard Steven Hack quoted – this was the last sentence in the section on Bio weapons in Ukraine.

As for the US biological activities in Ukraine, the Americans have clearly tried to pretend like nothing happened and sweep any trace of it under the rug. This topic is also a source of concern for us.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Mar 7 2022 2:58 utc | 314

British independent journalist, Graham Phillips, who has been reporting on the Ukraine situation since 2014, now in Minsk.
Ukraine – Is it War And if so, then Why
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9NWe2kdJBk

Posted by: Richard Steven Hack | Mar 7 2022 3:02 utc | 316

🇮🇱❌🇸🇾❗️— Reports state that the Syrian Arab Army Air defenses are currently actively facing Israeli airstrikes in the Damascus area!
Probably part of the reason for the visit to Moscow this week….

Posted by: WJ | Mar 7 2022 3:37 utc | 318

@ Posted by: james | Mar 7 2022 2:22 utc | 303
Russia had audacity to intercede in Syria. The US was not accustomed to be frustrated. It was about oil.
Russia helped in frustrating US plans for Venezuela. It was about oil.
Kazakhstan – oil and minerals and uranium.
Russia completed the pipeline to Germany – overcoming US efforts to halt completion. It was about oil.
Russia frustrated US plans to weaponize Ukraine, isolating Russia from Europe. Again about oil and this time also about defeat of Russia.
But now it is direct conflict the owners have Russia cornered and they do not want to let up – either Russia is defeated or the owners are defeated. It’s for all the marbles. Perhaps the US does not have control. If the US deescalated, it means defeat, but this time is final.

Posted by: jared | Mar 7 2022 3:42 utc | 320

George Galloway weighs in on the finding of alleged biowarfare documents in Ukraine…
If WMDs have been found on the Ukraine border then the game is over for Nato.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPWVALKAEso
You gotta love Gorgeous George, he’s always up on the situation.

Posted by: Richard Steven Hack | Mar 7 2022 3:49 utc | 322

I don’t get the impression, even reading ‘samizdat’ sites like this one, that most people are aware that the odds of the human race reaching January the 1st 2023 are quite small, perhaps 50-50.
Posted by: Hidari | Mar 6 2022 17:58 utc | 84
I’m now considering the possibility that war as already been decided upon for us.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/01/03/p5-statement-on-preventing-nuclear-war-and-avoiding-arms-races/
This joint statement on January the 3rd, 2022 was odd at the time but now it makes sense if we assume that undeclared war is on, and this announcement was to reassure us interested observers that they pretty promise to try and not use nuclear weapons. The statement is not equivocal. It also says nothing about biological weapons, or cyber warfare, or other nasty stuff.
Right now we are going through step by step escalation to see who blinks or how far it goes. All are lying to the public, but are also taking the time to make moral justification statements on the side.
There is an opportunity that will surely fall on deaf ears in this forum of partisans for people around the world to globally demonstrated for total disarming of WMD from EVERYONE, and then and only then permit having a go at war.
But our Lords and Masters the world over have decided they want this war and yes they have bunkers and you do not.

Posted by: itslikethis | Mar 7 2022 3:56 utc | 324

itslikethis | Mar 7 2022 3:56 utc | 322
There is just one aggressor and that is US/UK and their toadies and vassals. You say both sides are lying. What, do think there are no nazi’s in Ukraine? over ten thousand ethnic Russian civilians in Ukraine haven’t been killed in the last eight years? That US has not moved its military installations right up to Russia’s borders? That the pentagon does not have bio weapons labs all around Russia’s borders? That Zelensky did not say Ukraine would build nuclear weapons? There is just to much shit that is all too easy to find – its in official fucking documents that can be found at US government websites. Its in official US Gov documents that have been released under freedom of information.
And maggots like yourself say both sides are lying.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Mar 7 2022 4:27 utc | 326

26 million Russians died due to nazi Germany. Now its the US backing nazi’s in a shithole country and once again Russians are dying. I don’t have any time for cksuckers who come on and say both sides are lying. Nor clowns that want to endorse propaganda on how bad the Russian military is.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Mar 7 2022 4:59 utc | 328

Peter AU1 #327
Great news, thank you.

Posted by: uncle tungsten | Mar 7 2022 5:21 utc | 330

the more things change, the more things stay the same–
“Last week, Quebec restaurant Le Roy Jucep joined the fray, saying it was removing the word “poutine” from its branding in protest of the invasion, according to Canadian daily the Ottawa Citizen.”
anybody remember “freedom fries” from the Iraq War?

Posted by: pretzelattack | Mar 7 2022 5:39 utc | 332

lol… i thought the quebecois loved poutine? but i suppose poutine and putin sound similar… next thing you know uk will no longer call it pudding, as that sounds like putin as well! no jazz musician can play ‘puttin on the ritz’ ever again… not sure what irving berlin would think about that… what other shoe is going to drop?

Posted by: james | Mar 7 2022 5:48 utc | 334

In Syria, many Russian officers died going into US jihadi controlled areas to separate Syrian militias from the US jihadis. Now many Russians are dying try to separate normal slavs – military and civilian from US controlled nazi’s. On top of that the nazi heroes are holding many thousands of foreign nationals hostage. Russians are dying to try and save them.
Now the nazi’s apparently have a nuclear installation in Kharkov wired up for demolition.
Those that try and push US bullshit here are somewhat akin to dog droppings on a lawn. Nothing worse than walking on a lawn in bare feet on a warm day than treading in a dog turd.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Mar 7 2022 5:52 utc | 336

https://t.me/syriangirlpartisan/107
I’ve held back on reporting on Ukraine because i need to focus on my thesis, but since they asked me on the panel, I must Answer. Ukraine was part of the invasion of iraq, and occupied iraq for 5 years with 5000 soldiers. The feigned indignation and hypocrisy on the concept of invasion and occupation is what i find laughable. Turkey, “israel”, and the US condemning this in ukraine while they occupy Syria again laughable. In Ukraine’s case they were invaded because they wanted to join NATO, an organisation of murderous thieves who have caused catastrophic destruction of nation after nation over the last 20 years. Their march to world domination has to be stopped and so it has been, in Ukraine. Ukraine’s president was installed via a george Soros coup called Maidan 2014. He’s a zionist comedian who filmed himself dancing in a BDSM outfit. He’s a clown in clown world. May the NATO brain slug be removed with minimal Damage and if they interfere, Putin has said in no uncertain terms, there will be nukes involved.

Posted by: james | Mar 7 2022 5:56 utc | 338

Ukraine, having nothing more important to do, has launched a deRussianization campaign to purify the language. The leader’s name will now be spelled ZELENSKYY.

Posted by: Keith McClary | Mar 7 2022 6:00 utc | 340

How Ukraine’s Jewish president Zelensky made peace with neo-Nazi paramilitaries on front lines of war with Russia

Posted by: james | Mar 7 2022 6:21 utc | 342

OT, on electric cars I beg to differ. Gasoline engine is only about 36% efficient and diesel in the 40s, battery is a lot more efficiency.
True in electric cars you need a heavy battery, but then there is no bulky engine nor transmission.

Posted by: AG | Mar 7 2022 6:49 utc | 344

watcher (old friend),
regarding smallpox. all widespread reports of ‘smallpox’ symptomology occurred in the context of acute malnutrition/famine. that is your answer.
you have no reason-based answer as to how you know smallpox virus exists, because no one has ever seen it, handled it, and examined it’s genes. show me a paper that describes having faithfully done that. you can’t. nobody can.

Posted by: reante | Mar 7 2022 6:51 utc | 346

@ Peter AU1 | Mar 7 2022 1:06 utc | 264
Thank you for the Putin quotes, very informative.

Posted by: Norwegian | Mar 7 2022 6:58 utc | 348

reante | Mar 7 2022 6:51 utc | 342
You are anther of those maggots I mentioned earlier. Yanks along with Yank military dug small pox out of the permofrost mass graves in alaska. I posted and linked it some time back. grab your tin foil hat and talking points and fuck off.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Mar 7 2022 7:04 utc | 350

Regarding bioweapons and the labs in Ukraine the actual labs might be explained as performing infectious disease work and the agents isolated from endemic infections. This comes under the “dual-use” clause of the Bioweapons Convention. Working with biothreat agents is not a crime IF it is being done to develop vaccines, therapeutics, diagnostics or to conduct endemicity/epidemiological work. I will say working in that exact field doing that exact work in similar labs that the majority of the work performed will be perfectly legal. But, what caught my eye several years ago was a contract by DTRA to collect and analyze ONLY Russian DNA samples. That can only be for nefarious purposes. The holy grail for a bioweapon is to have a genetically designed organism that only infects/kills a specific group of people and that work was pursued in South Africa and Israel previously without success.
I will add that bioweapons in of themselves are pretty useless. They make a good terror weapon and can if used carelessly get out of control. Only a few are useful for a battlefield scenario. The worst ones are the ones that don’t kill but incapacitate large groups of people for long periods of time such as Brucellosis. This is incredibly easy to distribute, has a very low infectious dose, and treatment requires weeks of IV antibiotics. Worse, if animals are infected all must be tested and all herds culled. That is the real danger of biowarfare usually overlooked by people not used to thinking about these weapons. Killing people is a lot easier using other means but starving people by removing their food sources is much more evil. Very little notice is given regarding agricultural bioweapons which is where the real dangers lie and mostly due to our own regulations for control of animal diseases that require them (and the entire herds) to be killed once diagnosed.
So, my caution is that having these labs might be innocent if only used for dual-use purposes and doesn’t indicate anything at all unless strains and experiments were made/performed that are outside the rules for these labs. This will require years of examining isolates and lab notebooks if they are available and only by people who are experts in this. Unless this data is located and proven then these labs are a nothing burger. Maybe workers inside the labs can help if they are sympathetic but this may prove to be impossible.

Posted by: Old Microbiologist | Mar 7 2022 7:05 utc | 352

@digital dinosaur | Mar 7 2022 1:45 utc | 279

Re. hard evidence for bioweapons research.
It is called hard evidence because it is really really hard to find; deliberately so.
Not sure I can wait till it turns up – before the next outbreak of (**name your poison**)

Exactly. The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

Posted by: Norwegian | Mar 7 2022 7:15 utc | 354

Maybe workers inside the labs can help if they are sympathetic but this may prove to be impossible.
Posted by: Old Microbiologist | Mar 7 2022 7:05 utc | 346
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This points to a great oddity of the fascism in Ukraine. Typically fascism is fueled by exploiting the jealousies of an underclass, yet in Ukraine there is a large educated and professional class.

Posted by: too scents | Mar 7 2022 7:24 utc | 356

@ Posted by: A.L. | Mar 6 2022 20:35 utc | 141
Yes! to your well stated points.

Which is also needed for hydrogen tech, which is what I’m backing.

I consider my automobile to operate using hydrogen power already. The hydrogen is stored in molecular form as a liquid. To release the energy, the hydrogen bonds are broken and it is oxidized into water vapor. The liquid hydrocarbon storage technology is very energy dense and safe.
George Olah won a Nobel Prize with regard to technology relating to a methanol fuel economy. His work created means to efficiently convert natural gas to methanol and to more readily fix CO2 from air. Basically, he set foundations for greater energy US energy independence as well as for carbon-neutral fossil fuels.
https://www.methanol.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Olah-Essay-Beyond-Oil-Gas-Methanol.pdf
@ Posted by: too scents | Mar 6 2022 20:25 utc | 139

The energy density of batteries is insufficient for travel beyond short distances. There is no efficiency in hauling a half ton battery as compared to 50 liters (40kg) of fuel. It is silly on the face of it.

Yes. The Tesla Model S has a stated 1,200# / 544kg battery pack. The new Hummer EV has a battery pack that should weigh around 3,200# / 1451kg based on its capacity.

Posted by: R | Mar 7 2022 7:32 utc | 358

reante | Mar 7 2022 7:09 utc | 347 “Y’all are under a nasty spell. A spell that has hypnotized you into thinking that you can’t think at all on this matter.
I said that if toxic metabolites from anaerobes were weaponized they should legitimately be called biochemical weapons because these metabolites are… biochemicals.
Got it?”
Yeah got it. You are just another maggot that wriggles and squirms to prove yankistan is just a benign force and means good too all.
You are just another dog turd littering b’s lawn.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Mar 7 2022 7:34 utc | 360

Why the Ukraine needs de-Nazification (Vzglyad, Sergey Mirkin, March 3, 2022 — in Russian)

One of the goals of the military operation in the Ukraine is de-Nazification. What is it?
De-Nazification is a process that took place in Germany and Austria after World War II in order to remove elements of Nazi ideology from all spheres of people’s life. Nazi legal norms were removed from law; art, philosophy was freed from Nazi dogmas. The crimes of the Nazis were made public. Members of the NSDAP and the SS who committed crimes against humanity, criminals were tried and punished. But the main goal of de-Nazification is to eradicate the Nazi ideology from the worldview and attitude of people so that they understand the perniciousness of these ideas.
Does today’s Ukraine need these measures? The main argument of those who believe that there is no Nazism in the Ukraine is that President Vladimir Zelenskiy is a Jew. So, talk about Nazism is not worth a damn. However, after the 2014 coup d’etat, the Ukraine turned into a country of metamorphoses. And it was Zelenskiy who became one of the main conductors of a policy that carries elements of the glorification of Nazism and the restriction of people’s rights on ethnic grounds.
Zelenskiy demonstrated his attitude towards Nazism in 2019, when in Mariupol he attended an event held by militants of the Azov Regiment and stood next to their coat of arms, “wolf hook” (wolfsangel). This is one of the symbols much loved by neo-Nazis. If Zelenskiy really hated this ideology, he would never allow himself to stand next to the “wolf hook”. And he would not have been forced to do this by any political and opportunistic benefits.
It was Zelenskiy who signed the law “On the Indigenous Peoples of the Ukraine”, which did not recognize as such the Jews, Hungarians, Bulgarians, whose communities had lived on the territory of modern Ukraine for thousands of years. The Russians also did not receive this status, but were declared a national minority. Only the Crimean Tatars, Karaites and Krymchaks were recognized as indigenous peoples. And so these communities were granted the rights to cultural development (and, therefore, to the preservation of self-identity) much more than Russians or Hungarians. And this despite the fact that most representatives of ethnic groups recognized as indigenous live in Crimea on the territory of Russia.
Of course, the adoption of this law can be perceived as an element of the political show that the Ze team loves so much. But if you think about it, the law divides people into classes. It turns out that there is the first class—Ukrainians, the titular nation. There is the second class—indigenous peoples. And there is the third class—national minorities, including Russians. Doesn’t this classification of ethnic groups remind you of anything? Did the ashes of relatives burned in Buchenwald not beat against Zelenskiy’s heart? [Reference to Charles De Coster’s The Legend of Ulenspiegel. — S]
Add to this the fact that in the Ukraine over the past eight years a total de-Russification was being carried out. The Russian language was forced out of all spheres of life, even consumer services. And what is depriving people of the right to use their native language in all areas except at home, if not Nazism? Of course, the process of de-Russification began in the Ukraine before Zelenskiy, back in the 90s, but it was during his rule that it reached its climax.
Another argument of those who believe that there is no Nazism in the Ukraine is that both Nazism and communism are prohibited in the country, and this is spelled out in the law “On the Condemnation of the Communist and National Socialist Totalitarian Regimes in Ukraine and the Ban on Their Symbols”. But if you analyze the law, it becomes clear that it is aimed at the decommunization of the Ukraine, but the Nazi ideology is mentioned for the sake of appearances. The law prohibits the anthems of the USSR, the RSFSR, the Ukrainian SSR, other union and autonomous Soviet republics or their fragments, but does not prohibit the anthems of Nazi Germany and the Nazi Party (“Horst Wessel Song”).
This document prohibits all Soviet symbols, and they are listed in great detail. But what are the Nazi symbols is not defined. The symbols of the countries of the socialist camp are prohibited, while the symbols of the satellites of the Third Reich are not. Ukrainian historian Yuriy Latish draws the right conclusion: there are all sorts of concessions to Nazism in the law. I’m purposefully referencing a Ukrainian author so that he cannot be suspected of being biased.
And that’s not to mention law enforcement. In fact, in the Ukraine, the rehabilitation and glorification of Nazi criminals was in full swing. Dozens of people involved in the mass killing of the civilian population were honored at the state level. The most famous cases—in 2018 in Lvov there was an exhibition in honor of the SS Division “Galicia”, and among the children of the region a competition was held for the best drawing on this topic. And everything took place under the auspices of the regional state administration. And in Ternopol in 2021, a sports stadium was named after SS Hauptmann Roman Shukhevych. Not to mention Stepan Bandera Avenue in Kiev—which used to be called Moscow Avenue. And such actions have never been stopped by the Ukrainian authorities, which means they have been approved.
But of course, the most obvious demonstration that the Maidan regime is saturated with Nazism is the presence of neo-Nazi units in official Ukrainian structures. The most famous of them is the Azov Battalion, which has a lot of neo-Nazis. This was not denied by some Ukrainian officials either. Even American congressmen recognized Azov as neo-Nazi and demanded that the U.S. authorities consider it a terrorist organization. And in the Ukraine, there are many units with neo-Nazi ideology, for example, various fragments of the Right Sector, or the Donbass Battalion, or the Aidar Battalion, notorious for its cruelty, which was formally disbanded and renamed, but retained its basis. And his commander Maksim Marchenko—actually, by all accounts, a war criminal—has just been appointed by Zelenskiy as the head of the military-civilian administration of the Odessa region.
Finally, let’s ask ourselves the question of who in the 20th century beat people to death, burned them alive in order to intimidate the population. This was done by the Wehrmacht and the SS. And in the 21st century, supporters of the Maidan, the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the National Guard of Ukraine are doing this.
During Maidan, people who were against it were beaten to death. In Odessa, adherents of Maidan burned people alive in the Trade Unions House. For eight years, the Ukrainian army shelled the cities of Donbass in order to prevent people from living a normal life. It was an act of intimidation and terror.
And now the Ukrainian military understands that they will soon be expelled from Donbass. So they are off the chain. They are shelling Donetsk, Gorlovka, Dokuchaevsk from all guns. It does not make any military sense, just revenge on the inhabitants. The behavior of the Ukrainian military is reminiscent of the habits of the German Nazis when they left the Donbass. Field Marshal Erich von Manstein issued a secret directive “On the evacuation, destruction and removal of property”, where he set the troops the task of completely devastating the abandoned areas.
The directive stated that “the entire Donets Basin east of the Turtle position (the area west of Slavyansk, Konstantinovka, where the German troops retreated) should be evacuated economically and completely destroyed…” And now the Ukrainian soldiers probably want to produce the maximum amount of destruction before they go. So the answer is yes, the Ukraine is sick with Nazism and needs de-Nazification.

Posted by: S | Mar 7 2022 7:39 utc | 362

I do question all this talk of a long term insurgency and the thousands of keyboard warriors that have gone to Ukraine.
Insurgencies work when people can blend into the local population and are fully supported by them.
These clowns can’t speak the language and have no means to support themselves – how will they eat etc for 3 months?
A significant number of locals in the East of country support Russia and will inform them of the mercenary presence the moment they are spotted.
These idiots have a very short life expectancy!

Posted by: Merandor | Mar 7 2022 7:54 utc | 364

@ Posted by: R | Mar 7 2022 7:32 utc | 352
Additionally, in the context of EV discussion and regarding oil and gas, just because humans may choose to leave petroleum in the ground doesn’t mean it will stay in the ground. In addition to oil seeps and such, the carbon cycle is geologic / oceanic as well as atmospheric.
The combustion of oil and gas deposits when coinciding with large igneous province formation is associated with global mass extinction events.
http://www.largeigneousprovinces.org/sites/default/files2/Ernst%20and%20Youbi%202017%20PPP.PDF
https://sci-hub.se/10.1130/2014.2505(02)
A contrarian and perhaps superficial perspective might include that the safest action is to reduce mass extinction risk by removing excess petroleum from geologic formations.

Posted by: R | Mar 7 2022 7:59 utc | 366

Why does the Western press support the kidnappers rather than the hostages? They are complicit in a war crime.
Why would the Russians want the Ukrainians to have hostages? What motivation does Russia have for breaking the cease fire?
What the press is reporting doesn’t make any sense.

Posted by: too scents | Mar 7 2022 8:19 utc | 368

Old Microbiologist #351

They believe any fantastic story when it comes to Russians. It is comical to watch.

Thank you for the sage advice. Plus more strange tales from a zany world. Stay well and happy.

Posted by: uncle tungsten | Mar 7 2022 8:29 utc | 370

Got it?
Posted by: reante | Mar 7 2022 7:09 utc | 347
Well you don’t have to be so condescending about it. I do happen to think that bombs are a bio weapon. No, not knives since they can’t be WMD’s.
All I was trying to say is that plenty of very bad things can be concocted in so called bio labs that don’t technically have to be “bio-chemicals”. it’s called misdirection. “Gain of function” what other ways might there be to understand this terminology than we are told?
I do agree with you that healthy cells usually can repel attacks from unfriendly organisms. But very few people are truly healthy these days, and some populations are very unhealthy, hence your argument does not apply to a good portion of the planet.
I have zero knowledge about weaponised pathogens, so I cannot engage in any useful dialogue with you on this topic, I am open minded that it can be done since it seems to have happened already, but that’s all I can say about it.
You said: ” no one, including myself, can explain how an anaerobe can eat healthy tissues no matter how intensively they have been bred or genetically modified in a lab, and no one here can explain either how a ‘virus’ which is just a strand of amino acids can DO anything. you or anybody else can’t prove that anaerobic cells can” doesn’t mean it can’t happen.
Clearly you also can’t prove that they can’t. right? Perhaps the mechanism is not yet understood by us.
But I digress since I there are all manner of things that most of us will never know or understand and it so happens that science is not the only way of understanding or explaining how things work.
I happened to be following a few bloggers in China when the virus first happened in Wuhan. So I saw it all happen online at least in real time. The Chinese government were not mucking about with it, so their highly educated STEM grads definitely thought it could be a bioweapon and they were not going to take chances. The Chinese are still calling it a virus, who knows what they really think or know? I don’t blame them for playing along given the hostile environment of the West. But one thing is for sure there is a lot more to the story.
it seems to me that if old fashioned nasty toxins and chemicals give the same or similar effect to having been “infected”, then why re-invent the wheel? The early Nazis did all the hard work and their descendants at Monsanto and Bayer etc have been producing the most toxic chemicals ever since.
For example since WW1 many studies have been done on the potential of Mustard Gas to effect the genetics of offspring generations later.
if this is true, why not just work on the methods of getting said known toxins spread around while only harming the desired population. Clearly Agent Orange was a bit too much of a blunt instrument so what then?
Vaccines? Drones with spray cans attached?
Also, many toxins are known to reduce natural immunity, and are responsible for a huge variety of disease symptoms. so with reduced immunity you wouldn’t necessarily need to modify a pathogen , you would just need to greatly reduce the general immunity of the population and potentially harm the genes then same pathogen could be a lot more destructive. But you’d have to figure out a way to use it that doesn’t wipe out the entire population. Hence the bio labs testing on specific racial genetic material? I don’t know if we are all genetically different enough for that to be possible but I guess Nazis believe we are.
maybe this is not a reasonable way to look at it. I don’t know.
I often think of that scene in Raiders of the Lost Arc, the quintessential expose of all things Nazi 🙂 when the Moroccan guy is doing fancy twirls with his whip, Indiana Jones just pulls out his pistol and shoots him dead. Cracks me up every time.
I think Russia just took a leaf out of Indiana’s playbook.
Anyway, I’m more right brained so its pointless to tell me I’m lacking in an ability to “think” the way you do LOL I appreciate many of the things you say, you are a bit theatrical and know it all, but you bring up interesting takes on things.

Posted by: K | Mar 7 2022 8:39 utc | 372

@Ben | Mar 7 2022 7:32 utc | 353
People can do whatever they like in their lives as long as they don’t push it on others.
The point regarding the Zelensky video is to present the clown. It is a paid puppet, not a politician.

Posted by: Norwegian | Mar 7 2022 8:48 utc | 374

Some titles:
$125 Oil Could Push The U.S. Into A Recession
25 February 2022
Russian forces launched their long-feared attack on Ukraine, and the crisis keeps getting worse at every turn….
WTI $93, Brent $95
Oil Prices Break $130 As EU And U.S. Allies Consider Ban On Russian Crude
By Michael Kern – Mar 06, 2022, 6:57 PM CST
WTI $124, Brent $127 [the title above refers to a commodity exchange peak,
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Traders are in unknown land. What moderates prices, so far, is an anticipation that Western governments, including USA, will shy away from steps resulting in recession. You can engage in quantitative easing etc., but worldwide cuts in energy supplies reduces supplies of many key goods, and who knows how far these cuts can reach. Injecting USDs and Euros into circulation can stimulate demand, but that is not inflationary if it causes a matching increase of goods, so I do not see how it can help with recession driven by cuts in supplies.
Politicians are in unknown land. A recession can be OK if this is not their fault. Media control/domination can “establish” who is at fault. Provoking the recession will be the “proof” of the necessary strength and resolve. This seems feasible if rationality in the population is eliminated. How far can you go in this direction?
The highest case of supply destruction I can conceive is Russia banding with Iran, as USA still does not want to guarantee real relief from sanctions to Iran. Combined efforts can close Straight of Hormuz to shipments to countries that participate in sanctions. This scenario is not fanciful anymore.

Posted by: Piotr Berman | Mar 7 2022 9:07 utc | 376

Poland Still Isn’t Interested In Transferring Its MiG-29s To Ukraine
The U.S. is actively pushing for the transfer but Poland still says it won’t give its MiG-29s to Ukraine.
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/44608/poland-still-isnt-interested-in-transferring-its-mig-29s-to-ukraine
As I posted over at Martyanov, I’m confused by the Polish Minister of Defense’s answer. He said Poland will not supply jets to Ukraine or host them on its airfields. Then where are the Ukrainian jets doing “fly-bys” in Ukraine coming from? Russia shot down a couple lately. Are there any Ukrainian airfields still in operation? I would have expected not. Perhaps that’s one reason to hit that airport Russia hit yesterday – perhaps the Ukrainians are using civilian airfields not yet destroyed by Russia? It’s very strange – or he was simply lying.

Posted by: Richard Steven Hack | Mar 7 2022 9:08 utc | 378

@Peter AU1 | Mar 7 2022 4:59 utc | 326
26 million Russians died due to nazi Germany. Now its the US backing nazi’s in a shithole country and once again Russians are dying. I don’t have any time for cksuckers who come on and say both sides are lying. Nor clowns that want to endorse propaganda on how bad the Russian military is.
Great comment, thanks!
But please replace the fist mention of Russians by Soviet citizens.

Posted by: Armageddon | Mar 7 2022 9:18 utc | 380

Posted by: Old Microbiologist | Mar 7 2022 7:05 utc | 346
as we have seen over the past couple of years, bioweapons are part of psychological warfare

Posted by: Jonathan W | Mar 7 2022 9:29 utc | 382

Posted by: imo | Mar 7 2022 9:31 utc | 377
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$4.065 ==> https://gasprices.aaa.com/

Posted by: too scents | Mar 7 2022 9:34 utc | 384

Hidari | Mar 6 2022 16:46 utc | 60
“As Mark Ames pointed out elsewhere, there seems to be an almost mystical longing for death amongst the Western intelligentsia. It’s as if they are bored with their nothing lives, their tedious ‘research’, hours spent in front of the laptop writing rubbish for nobody. Just blow it all up, kill a couple of billion people, see what happens. Please be aware that they are all perfectly aware that a so-called ‘no fly zone’ will result in the deaths of billions of people. They want that to happen.
As almost everyone has pointed out, the whole atmosphere is incredibly similar to the Summer of 1914.”
That’s a significant part of it, an extension of the bottom-up aspect of the mass insanity that broke out in 2020 which struck me right away as very similar to the mass enthusiasm that broke out in cities all over Europe in August 1914.
From the start it was clear that a big part of the reason both the masses and such huge majorities of intellectuals, including former dissidents and opponents of empire, willingly believed the TV that there was a “pandemic” and were willing and eager to submit to the most extreme and absurd dictates was the sense of embarking upon a great collective adventure.
When everyone’s lives had reached such rock bottom of futility and boredom combined with mounting fear-itself out of the vague sense of accelerating socioeconomic, cultural, biological and ecological decline, it came as a great release to delude themselves they were living through the second coming of the Black Death but that this time they were going to swallow up death in victory by submitting to quasi-military mobilization under the command of generals like Fauci and general staffs like the cadres of the media, the medical-industrial complex and the “vaccine” manufacturers.
With this great escalation of the Russophobic advent we have this militarized mass insanity-out-of-decadence escalated to the state of a true war hysteria promising total destruction and therefore total liberation from all stress, fear, and futility.
If submitting to lockdowns and face diapers and living in fear of the very physical presence of one’s fellow man was all a pantomime of death, today everyone goes berserk in ecstasy over the imminence of literal mass death.

Posted by: Flying Dutchman | Mar 7 2022 9:36 utc | 386

Fight Russians? No, fight prejudice with diversity.!!!
https://www.karrierekaserne.de/vielfalt-in-der-bundeswehr?mtm_campaign=bmvg_diversity2022_teil1&mtm_kwd=diversity&mtm_source=welt&mtm_medium=online&mtm_content=welt_doubldynsitebar_mobinterscroll_bild&mtm_group=equalpayday&mtm_placement=doubldynsitebar_mobinterscroll

Posted by: Bruno | Mar 7 2022 9:43 utc | 388

Given that this is basically May/June 1914 right now, it occurs to me that it will only take one well time assassination to blow this whole thing right open. If Zelensky makes even the slightest move towards peace with Russia, one of his Nazi entourage will blow his brains out and claim it was ‘the Russians’. From that point onwards, calls for a ‘no’ Fly Zone will become overwhelming. It’s never made entirely clearly what nationality the pilots will be for this invasion of the Ukraine (as will be what actually happens, the phrase ‘no fly zone’ being used, as with Libya, as verbal camouflage for invasion and regime change). But it’s likely that at least some of them may/might be American.
There are a number of templates here. One is South Vietnam when Kennedy decided that the leadership of the South Vietnamese was too keen to make peace with the North, staged a coup d’etat, and overthrew the government to replace it with a ‘hard line’ one. Zelensky’s position is increasingly unstable: he might be assassinated, he might be overthrown. In any case, if either of these events happens, an explicitly Nazi right wing ‘nationalist’ regime will come to power and its key aim will be an American invasion (i.e. ‘no’ fly zone). Poland and other Eastern European countries are already run by the hard right, and they won’t have any problems now getting involved.
Regardless of this, if Putin doesn’t wrap this up within a month, the calls for an American invasion (AKA ‘no’ fly zone) will become louder and louder and louder, and at some point, some causus belli or false flag operation will take place to provide the pretext for this (the assassination of Zelinsky or someone similar, a ‘Srebrenica’ style fake massacre etc.).
The Americans get involved, Russian pilots start to die, the war spills out over the borders (CF Nixon’s ‘secret’ invasion of Cambodia and Laos) and pretty soon to ‘disrupt supply lines’ American planes are bombing Russian territory. Putin threatens war unless this stops, the Americans deny all knowledge, war is declared, fighting breaks out, this soon turns nuclear, the end of the world.
In other words, if this war isn’t over by May I think it’s quite likely the world will be over by Christmas.

Posted by: Hidari | Mar 7 2022 10:00 utc | 390

Better we all die than Ukraine exists as a neutral country, I guess.

Posted by: WJ | Mar 7 2022 10:10 utc | 392

Old Microbiologist @ 346
“The holy grail is a genetically designed organism that only infects/kills a specific group of people.”
Will have to believe you were a military microbiologist. What you are describing is a racist virus. The military always wanted a racist virus. And was unable to hear when told there was and could not be such a thing.

Posted by: oldhippie | Mar 7 2022 10:12 utc | 394

Allegedly say they were shelled by the Ukrainian (presumably Azov battalion) while fleeing Mariupol: https://t.me/intelslava/21576 Warning this is distressing – a man and his wife try and drive out of Mariupol along the escape corridor agreed to by the Russian and Ukrainian negotiators in Belarus for the city of Mariupol. They stop as they see other cars stopped with doors open and bodies about. This is why as the official Russian spokeswoman said – only 17 people so far have escaped Mariupol, the man makes it but his wife didn’t: https://t.me/intelslava/21396 Murdered by the Azov battalion. Captured member of a Nazi battalion, don’t know if it is Azov or one of the others: https://t.me/intelslava/21610

Posted by: PJB | Mar 7 2022 10:29 utc | 396

Posted by: Clueless Joe | Mar 7 2022 10:17 utc | 389

Yeah, the realization that Israelis basically can’t be genetically distinguished from Palestinians

Only if you’re half blind and tone deaf.

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Mar 7 2022 10:40 utc | 398

@302
“Military aerodrome in Ukraine’s Vinnitsa destroyed by Russian high-precision weapons.
This was a signal to Poland…”
i think vinnitsa will be the convergence point of the north and south pincers kettling eastern ukraine. the signal to poland was nothing so oblique: russia said it would bomb any outside powers’ airfields ukraine used.

Posted by: line islands | Mar 7 2022 10:48 utc | 400