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December 12, 2022
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For those who expressed interest in my reports on the abrupt ending of Covid restrictions here in China, this is the situation a week or so later.
The installation in the vestibule in our apartment block of card access, health and place code scanning apparatus which was partly complete, that was carted away for scrap this morning.
Access controls with similar equipment at the urban village, all gone.
Barriers around the local park forcing access through one control point, all gone.
Controls on public transport and inter-regional travel. All gone.
With very few exceptions such as access to care homes, the entire system has been removed. It did seem that there was a sudden acceleration in the process to bring us to this point.
This only applies to internal arrangements (with the exception of Macau which was kind of unified with the mainland a while ago for Covid restrictions, good news for devotees of gambling and prostitution), as access from outside which includes Hong Kong is still subject to quarantine, now down to five days hotel plus I think still three at home. It was 14 + 7 a while back. This we are told will be gradually scaled down further during next year. Chinese airlines are looking at arranging more international flights, and will of course have the jump on European airlines now banned from taking the shortest route over Siberia.
Posted by: w | Dec 13 2022 7:20 utc | 101
Horse-Man you’re full of shit as usual. This is me. The bodysnatchers have taken a break it seems.
Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Dec 13 2022 7:23 utc | 102
Posted by: karlof1 | Dec 12 2022 19:21 utc | 6
Serbia Invoke aid from Russia? I wish they could, but:
Difficult to do , as Russia is excluded of overflight over many intervening countries. I believe Romania and Hungary may have just terminated those rights as well recently .So Russia has no “legal “ public way to get aid or troops to Serbia . Only way now is by smuggling on commercial airlines of other nations? or by road/sea.
Posted by: Brother Ma | Dec 13 2022 7:24 utc | 103
Something weird happened there. I was just entering my name and the whole damn thing posted itself. I wanted to check it again and enter paragraph breaks for clarity, but there it is.
Posted by: Walt | Dec 13 2022 7:24 utc | 104
David G Horsman | Dec 13 2022 5:36 utc | 90
>…”Bankman-Fried has been arrested in the Bahamas, and just hours before he was expected to appear before the House Financial Services Committee…
Lolololookdontloollol.
*Someone/(plural)* didn’t want him talking.
Should we ask Hillary if Sam is feeling suicidable?
Posted by: Melaleuca | Dec 13 2022 7:30 utc | 105
Opport Knocks | Dec 13 2022 5:02 utc | 85
Your attempts to prove that the Covid19 drama had nothing to do with the CCP are getting desperate. Globalists loved the PRC as an ideal production site for big profits without labor unions, land or legal issues etc. they wanted this wet dream to go on and on, so they didn’t want C19. Fauci & co also did not want a C19 lab escape as their roles would come out. The CIA works for this Anglo Establishment.
Posted by: Antonym | Dec 13 2022 3:31 utc | 68
Welcome to the Falun Gong Show (also a subsidiary of CIA Global Enterprises).
Here is the more sensible order of events. The virus was accidentally released from Fort Detrick. Rather than admit their screw up, the CIA and DoD decided to cover up the event and took it to Wuhan for the military games where it was released. They pointed everyone to the 2 local smoking guns. The NIH decided to “not let the crisis go to waste” and this was the perfect opportunity to field test the new mRNA virus delivery technology. Big pharma and the advertising dependent media were more than happy to play along and goose their bottom lines.”
I don’t see how those are mutually exclusive. It’s easily possible that the US first screwed up at Fort Detrick and then doubled down with a deliberate release in Wuhan to which the Chinese government then overreacted, having correctly diagnosed it as a US bioattack. Then the Western power elites, already having pre-planned using the occasion of a “pandemic” as the pretext for radical totalitarian escalations and socioeconomic assaults, followed China’s lead while blaming China for the outbreak itself.
Posted by: Flying Dutchman | Dec 13 2022 7:30 utc | 106
Grieved | Dec 13 2022 4:52 utc | 84
“…collaborations between supposed enemies that we’ve seen forever in business, science and all other fields that fall short of actual war (and even then, frankly).”
Even for actual war indeed: The enemies US and China collaborating on gain-of-function research whose primary goal is to develop the most lethal bioweapons possible.
Posted by: Flying Dutchman | Dec 13 2022 7:34 utc | 107
Flying Dutchman | Dec 13 2022 7:30 utc | 106 + thread
The script for convid19 was written and rehearsed at Event 201 in NYC, bankrolled by the Bill+Melinda Gates Foundation.
A lot has since been memory holed. But the clues are in the confession, written prior to the crime…
Posted by: Melaleuca | Dec 13 2022 7:37 utc | 108
Grieved | Dec 13 2022 5:42 utc | 91
“if we do in fact live in the age of biowar, and if the corona is just a soldier in the theater, then what about Omicron? It serves as the perfect active answer to the rampant virus, inducing just the right amount of natural immunity, at just the right amount of minor cost.”
It evolved in the milder direction one would expect it to, in spite of all the attempts of the authorities and institutions to use their lockdowns and related suppression measures to cause it to become more virulent.
Posted by: Flying Dutchman | Dec 13 2022 7:43 utc | 109
The englanders empire of shame is discussed by Ben Norton at multipolarista.
A scholarly study found that British colonialism caused approximately 165 million deaths in India from 1880 to 1920, while stealing trillions of dollars of wealth. The global capitalist system was founded on European imperial genocides, which inspired Adolf Hitler and led to fascism.
Fifty minutes at utoob.
Posted by: uncle tungsten | Dec 13 2022 7:47 utc | 110
Muslims have not really contributed to Europe in any way . Yes, some people talk about a so-called Golden Age in Spain , but that is too little , and insignificant in the grand scheme of things.
The totality of evidence is that Islam has been a blight on Europe and precious few even Muslim countries -in MENA -want the last of the powerful Muslims – the Turks ,back.
Posted by: Brother Ma | Dec 13 2022 7:49 utc | 111
Melaleuca | Dec 13 2022 7:37 utc | 108
“The script for convid19 was written and rehearsed at Event 201 in NYC, bankrolled by the Bill+Melinda Gates Foundation.
A lot has since been memory holed. But the clues are in the confession, written prior to the crime…”
I concluded long ago it was a deliberate release from the start, and the 2019 pandemic war games were part of the final preparations for this deliberate release.
Those war games also could fit an opportunistic scenario. Either way the globalist-technocratic elites and institutions, governments and established churches, immediately and unanimously grabbed the “lockdown” ball and ran with it.
Posted by: Flying Dutchman | Dec 13 2022 7:51 utc | 112
Posted by: Brother Ma | Dec 13 2022 7:49 utc | 111
It struck me that if you look at MENA, the only country that put a satellite in orbit is Iran, a country that sticks out culturally (Persia).
Posted by: Passerby | Dec 13 2022 7:57 utc | 113
@78 uncle
I am not perfectly sure in any of my assertions.
I try to make rational connections and raise the specter of debate.
I have made the connection before that liberalism in the white collar sector in the U.S. has benefitted the most, outside of China itself, with U.S.-China relations. It is not a stretch then to see why the white conservatives in the U.zs. distrust China so much: they view U.S. technocratic elite as being in bed with China.
Extrapolating from this, we can see how the Trump phenomenon had to be derailed by the nuke option of covid-19: Trump was threatening the meal ticket for the liberal establishment by pointing out that very few in the U.zs. had seen any of the boon from U.S.-China relations.
Orange-man-bad had to go.
And if you are like me and think that China might not be, as a country with 1 billion people, as cohesive as we are often led to believe, it stands to reason that China itself may have within it its own struggle of national liberation.
So I don’t think it is a stretch to say that there may be those in power in China who sincerely viewed the DJT-phenomenon as a threat, alongside western liberalism, and opted to launch the covid event as a mutual effort to stall this emerging spiritual moment.
I view technocratic elites as perpetually playing “whack-a-mole” with spirit that is perpetually and relentllessly trying to free itself from centralizing technocrats. To me, this is the ageold path of spirit attempting to liberate itself and as it does, it reveals the arrogance and hubris of those who will go to untold lengths to keep it corked in the bottle.
Posted by: NemesisCalling | Dec 13 2022 8:09 utc | 114
Posted by: Passerby | Dec 13 2022 7:57 utc | 113
Yes, you are right. Persia is an outlier. It is Shia , and for a Theocratic state , very “secular “ and into STEM . Like China, with its “Capitalism with Chinese characteristics”…
Of all the Muslim nations off the top of my head I liked Tunisia ,Morocco and Persia the best ,now …just Iran , for its difference to Sunnism.
Posted by: Brother Ma | Dec 13 2022 8:20 utc | 115
Posted by: Brother Ma | Dec 13 2022 8:20 utc | 115
Sometimes it seems we underestimate historical and cultural differences.
As an example: if you look at the population, Spain is part of Europe (top-heavy population pyramid, aging population). But if you look at unemployment figures, including youth unemployment, Spain is in the same group as Morocco, Tunesia and Algeria.
You could wonder what is the result of policy, and what is caused by history.
Posted by: Passerby | Dec 13 2022 8:54 utc | 116
@ p.359 Missouri, Louisiana Release Full Fauci Deposition Transcript https://ago.mo.gov/home/news/2022/12/05/missouri-louisiana-release-full-fauci-deposition-transcript …
17 THE VIDEOGRAPHER: Okay. If there’s no
18 further statements for record, we’ll be going off.
19 The time is 5:01 p.m. on November 23rd, 2022. We are
20 going off the record completing today’s video
21 recorded session.
22 (Whereupon, at 5:01 p.m., the taking of
23 the deposition ceased.)
Big nothin’burger for the prosecution, imo.
Posted by: Laurence | Dec 13 2022 9:07 utc | 117
Posted by: Sakineh Bagoom | Dec 12 2022 18:49 utc | 4
Bolton? You Goozineh, coming here pretending that it is not the Iranian nation that is coming for you and your gang.
You and your gang are FUCKED. You are worried about a loser like Bolton? (propaganda on B’s tyrants’ huzza pages is not gonna save your project, the “Islamic Republic”. It is over.
Do NOT think for a second you will be left alone after IR is demolished and “mahv shod” from the “pages of history”. Of course, we will keep reminders for school children in books regarding the DECADES of DARKNESS under “Islamic Republic”.
So go ahead an keep hanging Iranian Heroes. By God, when this is over not a single goat will ever again dare to wear a clerical uniform in Iran. And it will not be Bolton or the like that you will all face. You will be meeting THE WRATH OF THE IRANIAN NATION you occupying cockroaches.
(Did you get a seat on the planes to Venezuela? Don’t be LEFT BEHIND Goozineh Khanum).
Posted by: IR-is-fucked-4-good | Dec 13 2022 9:47 utc | 118
Muslims have not really contributed to Europe in any way .
Posted by: Brother Ma | Dec 13 2022 7:49 utc | 111
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What? Islamic scholarship pulled Europe out of the Dark Ages.
Thomas Aquinas re-told Abu Nasr Al-Farabi.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Farabi
Posted by: too scents | Dec 13 2022 9:52 utc | 119
Health care in 3 countries:
https://twitter.com/saifedean/status/1602318034173042688
Posted by: Melaleuca | Dec 13 2022 10:12 utc | 120
What? Islamic scholarship pulled Europe out of the Dark Ages.
Posted by: too scents | Dec 13 2022 9:52 utc | 119
And now they’ve plunged Europe back in the dark ages, so we’re even.
Posted by: Passerby | Dec 13 2022 10:23 utc | 121
Regarding the virus: in the USA there was a wave of pneumonia cases in retirement houses during the late summer of 2019. Look it up.
Posted by: SG | Dec 13 2022 10:30 utc | 122
Something tells me the Albanians are being used to ignite more trouble in the Balkans
https://twitter.com/SerbiaBased/status/1602394588118908980
Serbia under the leadership of WEF leader Vucic will do nothing. Candy A$$ Vucic looks more like a sissy than a serious leader of a sovereign nation. Serbs are in for some hard times wherever they might be living in this region.
Posted by: Tom_12 | Dec 13 2022 10:35 utc | 123
This is good
https://twitter.com/RWApodcast/status/1602593895027806208
Posted by: Tom_12 | Dec 13 2022 10:42 utc | 124
Europe and West Asia have been fighting and trading with each other since the time of the ancient Greeks. Both are closer to each other (and Russians) than anybody further east. Predatory, evangelical monotheists, with alphabets and “arabic numerals”.
The “middle east” has been a cross roads between 3 continents since there has been anybody to use it. And it shows it too. A vast patchwork of peoples and religions.
Posted by: Bemildred | Dec 13 2022 10:54 utc | 125
Regarding muslims, Europe and Dark Ages: Europe got out of the Dark Ages on its own. Barbaric invasions, including the muslim invasion, which was the nail in the coffin, plunged Europe into the Dark Ages. The invasions caused the disruption of statehood, political fragmentation and insecurity, cut off established trade routes and diplomatic relations. In two words: economic collapse. The slow but steady economic reprisal, which started in the IX-X century, was the result of a new political stability; not as stable as in the best years of the Roman Empire, but still better than most societies. Europe is cold and, especially Western Europe, is poor of natural resources: it is not the most likely place for a preindustrial society. Florence, in the warm Mediterranean south of Europe, is 44° North; Beijing, the northern capital of China, is 40° North. Agricolture, the main economic resource of pre-industrial societies, in Europe is nothing like in Egypt, Mesopotamia, India or China.
Posted by: SG | Dec 13 2022 11:14 utc | 126
@SG | Dec 13 2022 11:14 utc | 126
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It is more correct to call the Dark Ages the Stupid Ages. Their material poverty came from broken ways of thinking.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_scientists_in_medieval_Islamic_world
The Stupid Ages can return.
Posted by: too scents | Dec 13 2022 12:15 utc | 127
Contradiction within two paragraphs – the Narrative editor missed the second one.
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“During the media gathering, a major political event in the country, Putin dedicates much of the spectacle to answering softball questions from local journalists and the public, allowing his administration to boast about its respect for freedom of expression and transparency in governance.
Last year, he spoke for more than four hours.
This year would mark the first time in a decade that Putin did not hold the December event, which is a rare opportunity for reporters outside the Kremlin pool, including international journalists, to ask the Russian president questions directly.”
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/12/12/russias-putin-cancels-annual-year-end-news-conference-kremlin
Posted by: daffyDuct | Dec 13 2022 12:33 utc | 128
@too scents
The Arabia of today and its surroundings are materially rich and an intellectual black hole at the same time. You can get rich or poor by chance, while it is sustained growth that requires intellectual capabilities, planning and functional institutions. Europe entered a phase of sustained growth in the IX century, which lasted up to the XX century. That was possible thanks to a series of inventions that boosted the crop yields of Europe during the Dark, but not stupid, Ages: three fields system, horse collars, horseshoes, heavy ploughs etc. A series of financial inventions to adapt to the new situation after the fall of the Roman Empire, i.e. lack of gold for coinage, political fragmentation, set the foundation of Eropean (re)rise.
Posted by: SG | Dec 13 2022 14:23 utc | 129
Something that I find disgusting about the pro-NATO/Empire trolls since March is that they always refer to the number of civilians most recently killed by the Ukrainian Nazis, suggesting that it is Russia’s fault that Nazis do Nazi things like murdering innocents. The SOCOM trolls practically gloat over the pain and suffering that the Ukrainian Nazis are inflicting upon civilians.
This most recent batch of trolls is quite disturbing in their deeply psychotic lack of empathy. They even seem to take great joy in the pain the Russians experience from having to kill their Ukrainian brothers and sisters.
I’ve never believed in metaphysical evil, but these latest trolls represent a challenge to that aspect of my worldview. They literally lack what I consider to be the minimum defining qualities of what is necessary to be categorized as human.
Posted by: William Gruff | Dec 13 2022 14:26 utc | 130
Russia bids for construction of first nuclear plant in Saudi Arabia
Russia planning to increase its nuclear energy imports amid rising global demand in wake of energy crisis, says deputy prime minister
Russia’s Rosatom is bidding for the construction of the first nuclear power plant in Saudi Arabia, Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said Tuesday.
Other projects, including the construction of one more nuclear power plant in Türkiye, are also being discussed, Novak said in an article for Energy Policy magazine.
Russia is also planning to increase by 25% the share of nuclear energy until 2040, he said.
The deputy prime minister added that Russia may also increase the export of its nuclear energy as its demand is growing due to the global energy crisis.
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SBF has been arrested & is in custody in the Bahamas.
Will his friends bail him out? Or epstein him?
Posted by: Mary | Dec 13 2022 14:42 utc | 132
Something tells me the Albanians are being used to ignite more trouble in the Balkans
Posted by: Tom_12 | Dec 13 2022 10:35 utc | 124
Tom, Albania is much more than that. It now also host terrorist groups like MEK/PMOI with their troll farm.
Just take a look at the hate filled screed @119.
I wonder how long b is going to keep that post.
Posted by: Sakineh Bagoom | Dec 13 2022 14:52 utc | 133
Erdogan issues missile warning to Greece – declared that his latest weapons could “hit Athens”
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned on Saturday that his country’s newest ballistic missiles could reach Athens, before reiterating Türkiye’s demand that Greece cease its alleged militarization of the Aegean islands.
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Türkiye test-fired its ‘Tayfun’ ballistic missile in October, reportedly launching the projectile 561 kilometers (348 miles) along its Black Sea coast. The short-range missile was developed in secret by Ankara-based defense contractor Roketsan, and will supposedly be capable of striking land or sea targets at a range of just under 1,000 kilometers (621 miles).
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@ Sakineh Bagoom | Dec 13 2022 14:52 utc | 133
B will ‘very likely’ spot it & delete in a thread sweep. If you’re particularly concerned/offended, suggest copy/paste & email to inform him.
Peace
If you’re particularly concerned/offended, suggest copy/paste & email to inform him.
Peace
Posted by: Outraged | Dec 13 2022 15:01 utc | 134
Thanks Outraged. Nah, trolls be trolling. No need, I’ve already said enough.
Cheers.
Posted by: Sakineh Bagoom | Dec 13 2022 15:20 utc | 135
Posted by: Sakineh Bagoom | Dec 13 2022 14:52 utc | 133
Ignore them so that they evaporate into emptiness 🙂
Posted by: Tom_12 | Dec 13 2022 15:28 utc | 136
On the concept of a BioMAD, Russia’s been pushing very hard against the Outlaw US Empire’s resistance, but Russia is backed by RoW on the issue and it’s just a matter of time until we see further movement on this issue. In his morning VK comment, Escobar says: “While NOBODY has been paying attention, toxic specimen Bill Gates and the Center for Health Security at Johns Hopkins are already simulating an “imaginary” pandemic set in the NEAR future.
“You have all been warned.”
IMO, Gates needs to be treated as a terrorist and be put under constant surveillance.
IMO, Gates needs to be treated as a terrorist and be put under constant surveillance.
Posted by: karlof1 | Dec 13 2022 16:07 utc | 137
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Its weird that the Clinton DoJ prosecuted Gates for antitrust monopolization.
Was it a setup for a surveillance quid-pro-quo? Why would that have been necessary given the Clinton-Epstein-Gates connections?
Posted by: too scents | Dec 13 2022 16:27 utc | 138
“‘Bankman-Fried has been arrested in the Bahamas, and just hours before he was expected to appear before the House Financial Services Committee…’
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*Someone/(plural)* didn’t want him talking.”
Melaleuca | Dec 13 2022 7:30 utc | 106
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Such a cynical view. Paraphrasing Lily Tomlin, “Whenever I think I’m too cynical, I discover I’m not cynical enough.”
Yup, when I first read about SBF’s arrest, I thought, Wow, that was fast — from woke DP darling contributor to manacles. Has the SEC actually grown cojones?”
Then I thought, now that he’s broke, with nothing more to offer his enablers, he can be safely thrown under the bus, a demo that the system works. Nope, the timing, hours before his subpoenaed testimony in the House Committee of Whores he funded, is just one more coincidence theory too massive to swallow. As you imply, he’ll likely be afforded the same failsafe suicide-prevention protection provided to Jeffrey Epstein — 24/7 video surveillance, multiple guards, etc. This will occur shortly after the FBI conducts a thorough search of his properties to “secure” any and all incriminating evidence.
Posted by: Doug Hillman | Dec 13 2022 16:36 utc | 139
@ Flying Dutchman | Dec 13 2022 7:43 utc | 110
It evolved in the milder direction one would expect it to, in spite of all the attempts of the authorities and institutions to use their lockdowns and related suppression measures to cause it to become more virulent.
It is comforting to assume that the evolutionary path of viruses is always tending toward becoming more benign, but this model ignores several realities.
Your hypothesis does not explain the existing evolutionary tree as Omicron derives directly from the originally detected 2019-20 virus as determined by genome analysis, not from more immediate precursors and contemporary variants like Delta which was not “milder” than what came before.
First, the evolutionary process is always one of relationship between host and virus. They adapt to each other if possible, that is if the hosts don’t immediately drop dead. This implies that naive hosts lack these adaptations and so “mild” is a usually relative term designating specific relationship.
Second, the virus can reproduce and spread long before the host’s adaptive immune system kicks into gear, contradicting your hypothesis because the virus has reproduced and moved on long before the host gets sick. This is especially true for gof viruses which are selected for asymptomatic spread and immune escape.
It is the asymptomatic spread through aerosols, known by mid-January 2020 in China, who shared this with the entire world, mostly ignored when it could have made a difference, ending the pandemic in its infancy, which shaped China’s epidemic containment guidelines which some people have declared crazy harsh. Well, when has there been an asymptomatic aerosol spreading gof viral pandemic b4?
I read recently in a western journal that Omicron came out of west Africa. Several questions came to mind. Why am I given access to read this? Am I supposed to draw assumptions based on stereotypes and generalizations to construct some predestined narrative? I then wondered, are there empire biolabs in west Africa?
Omicron — the Goldilocks variant, not too harsh but fast enough to outcompete Delta.
The thingy is still not back in the bottle however, outcompeting preventives? and treatments, harming and killing early the old and unhealthy, the most “burdensome’ people (to their aspirations) in the eyes of the ethically challenged ruthless capital overlords.
Posted by: suzan | Dec 13 2022 17:26 utc | 141
Re: bioweapons of mass destruction
“‘You have all been warned.’ (Escobar)
IMO, Gates needs to be treated as a terrorist and be put under constant surveillance.”
karlof1 | Dec 13 2022 16:07 utc | 137
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Bill Gates is undoubtedly already under constant surveillance, but certainly not for the public’s protection.
Yesterday I watched Jimmy Dore’s interview of Whitney Webb, on her book: One Nation Under Blackmail – Vol. 1: The Sordid Union Between Intelligence and Crime that Gave Rise to Jeffrey Epstein
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=D3rhlXhvf-c
In it, she documents a very deep dark rabbit hole of perversity and depravity, including a discussion of Gates’ relationship with reprobate Epstein (which apparently proved too much for Melinda).
It leads me to think the term “pedo-Satanists” used by some commenters here is not hyperbole at all. Maybe the CIA laced the DC swamp water with a strange new psychedelic; the evil entrenched in the Empire, the world’s largest organized crime syndicate, appears to be driven by some metaphysical force. Lust, extreme avarice (pleonexia), sadism, fear, just don’t seem adequate to explain it. Whether metaphysical (demonic)force or merely extreme psychosis I shudder to imagine experiencing such a state of mind/soul.
Not sure I have the intestinal fortitude to read Webb’s book.
Posted by: Doug Hillman | Dec 13 2022 17:40 utc | 142
Is Serbia being setup as trigger for WW3 – Final Conflict?
Posted by: jared | Dec 13 2022 18:12 utc | 143
Would think Russia might be able to fly in aid in spite of lack of permission.
They might declare a sort of Force Majeure.
Posted by: jared | Dec 13 2022 18:19 utc | 144
is our take on the kosovo crisis?
Posted by: Orgel | Dec 12 2022 18:34 utc | 2
Mine is that Muslims have no place in white Europe.
Posted by: ReinhardVonSiegfried | Dec 13 2022 0:42 utc | 38
Siegfried ? Sieg heil!
Posted by: Gene Poole | Dec 13 2022 18:32 utc | 145
here’s for you Britney Griner. people reveal whose side they are on by what they mock. we’ll never get a glimpse inside another country’s prison system because you are both a dyke, and thru you we Americans get to see another very familiar scene from “COPS!”, the dangerous black criminal now thankfully unable to terrorize the rest of society with her addictions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eW0WQeO6J_k
Isaac Hayes, I stand accused
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOrhjgt-_Qc
Sister Rosetta tharpe, singing “this train,” to the kinds of segregated and filthy pigs riding the segregated trains of the US.
been nice to hear from Cell Block Four, though.
Posted by: rjb1.5 | Dec 13 2022 18:45 utc | 146
@ Brother Ma | Dec 13 2022 7:49 utc | 112
these kinds of opinions aren’t fruitful.. i perceive them as hateful… what’s your intent?
Posted by: james | Dec 13 2022 19:13 utc | 147
suzan | Dec 13 2022 17:26 utc | 142
Excellent comment.
When Flying Dutchman referenced Omnicron, I recalled the image of its “family tree”.
I couldn’t think how to explain it without the image, (which I have saved, but no ink).
Your explanation covers this.
Omicron derives directly from the originally detected 2019-20 virus as determined by genome analysis, not from more immediate precursors and contemporary variants like Delta which was not “milder” than what came before.
The image I’ve saved shows Omnicron is as if your great-great-great grandparent suddenly arrived and was also your sibling …. Which is not a clear explanation of what the image shows….
Omicron — the Goldilocks variant, not too harsh but fast enough to outcompete Delta.
Yep.
And this:
…western journal that Omicron came out of west Africa.
Several questions came to mind.
Why am I given access to read this?
[Yep. With the narrative locked down so tight, with info being deleted in real time (one example, for me…. I was reading an abc.news.au item…. It jammed, I refreshed my page, item was gone… your question is pertinent… why did this scrap of info get placed?]
>…”Am I supposed to draw assumptions based on stereotypes and generalizations to construct some predestined narrative?
[yep]
>… “I then wondered, are there empire biolabs in west Africa?
[Probably. An alternative HIV-AIDS theory I read in early 90s (I realise now) involved biolabs in Kinshasa. I didn’t know enough then to understand why that was significant]
Posted by: Melaleuca | Dec 13 2022 19:40 utc | 148
jared | Dec 13 2022 18:19 utc | 145
Maybe “R2P .. responsibility to protect”
It’d be another use the Rules Based International Order “rules” against them
Posted by: Melaleuca | Dec 13 2022 19:44 utc | 149
@143 doug hilman
It is rational to extrapolate from the idea of a secret global cabal that there are certain initiation rites.
Every fraternity on Greek Row in academia have these.
The difference here is that to show allegiance to Satan, you must become a god here on earth by eliminating all taboo. What Dostoevesky meant when he said, “If God did not exist, then anything would be permitted.”
The funny thing is that they must still conceal this pederasty-initiation from the public because of the power implicit in the people, themselves.
That satan is the father of lies is absolutely correct. Satan is always angling to undo souls. There is still no absolute, God-like power at the top. If it were, they would not be forced to live in the shadows and under the threat of the puppetmasters who at any moment could leak horrific acts to the public of these initiates with children.
Posted by: NemesisCalling | Dec 13 2022 19:53 utc | 150
LOL
Twitter mis-labels Norwegian PM as Nigerian official
Posted by: Norwegian | Dec 13 2022 20:17 utc | 151
Just take a look at the hate filled screed @119.
I wonder how long b is going to keep that post.
Posted by: Sakineh Bagoom | Dec 13 2022 14:52 utc | 134
I looked. An Iranian venting against a violent and bloodthirsty (do not deny it, you will look even more foolish) theocracy and its paramilitary goons. Or was it the Goozineh part? Also you got some good advice there, unless you are already getting “a ride” from “Agha”.
What a shameful spectacle you make of yourself, Goozineh Khanum. You’re not gonna start crying anti-semitism, are you. But for your masters, it has gone beyond shame. The crimes your masters are committing the Iranian Nation will not be forgiven.
Get that “ride”. Learn Spanish. But you plan on hanging around decadent west, fyi we are copying the Jews and the whole Nazi hunting business. And a movie we’re planning, “The Goats of Brazil” — yeah, we’re shamelessly copying — features a plan to clone the evil satanic dna of “Agha” and raise little goats with turbans.
Little goats that think Women are property.
Little goats that think they know God and we don’t.
Little goats that have ruined Iran.
Little goats that we will be hanging with their turbans from every bridge in Iran. (Did you see the student installation in that U in Tehran from the other day? Omens of things to come.)
Now go earn your pay, Mazdoor. “The blood of the innocent cries …”
for?
#reckoning
Posted by: aab-ghoreh-nagir | Dec 13 2022 21:33 utc | 152
As a “conspiracy theorist” I am finding it hard to determine whether Musk has really “gone rogue” (from being a tool of the Military Industrial Complex), or if this is all part of the script. It’s sort of like in professional wrestling where the once beloved wrestler suddenly “goes bad”: people are terribly disappointed, but they are also intrigued and the ratings go up.
Could Elon really be fighting with the other billionaires/trillionaires? It seems like it. If he is, I just don’t think he has a chance. They have so many ways to destroy him. Elon might have already done irreparable harm to his Tesla brand (among the Woke).
But Musk’s attempt to restore so many Twitter accounts I take as a positive sign. He says his goals are to protect freedom of speech (Twitter as public square), or else we are heading for civilizational collapse. I agree with that. Freedom of speech needs some powerful supporters. I never thought I would see so many “educated” people calling for censorship.
Posted by: OldHand | Dec 13 2022 21:36 utc | 153
“US man сonvicted after buying Lamborghini with pandemic funds.”
I was beginning to lose my faith in human nature.
Posted by: Elmagnostic | Dec 13 2022 22:46 utc | 154
Thank you, Outraged, waynorinorway, for the book suggestions.
Agnes Smedley’s life journey is mind-boggling
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#90
Huge DNA databases of the most socially active citizens may have been created with the covid tests, and are being used for…. law enforcement, ethnic-specific research, etc etc.
The temptation must have been huge
Posted by: glupi | Dec 13 2022 23:24 utc | 155