@psychohistorian, #201:

Truth is the growth is still estimated to be above 5%…worst on record….GRIN!

China’s 2022 GDP growth first estimate is 3%, not 5%.
https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202301/1283938.shtml
This in spite of the dynamic zero-COVID policy for all of 2022, and the outbreaks at metro centers of Shanghai, Beijing, and Quanzhou. China’s target was 5.5%, but the outbreaks at the three economic powerhouse centers made that practically impossible.
3%, however, is considered really good given the circumstances. China’s leadership is actually happy about this outcome.
But you are right, western MSM would spin any news on China with doomsday prognosis. Their antics in this respect are really juvenile.

Posted by: Oriental Voice | Jan 17 2023 7:41 utc | 204

Most interesting times.A lie on the internet travels around the world a near light speed. The truth follows on a year later.
On one side are wall of identical lies and misinformation sourced from a dirty dozen sprayed around randomly like raw pigs manure seeking fertile ground. If we listen to that irrational crappy manure of total cherry picked nonsense of idiocracy. We and far too many children are doomed to die a crappy death. Will the spreaders of the lie manure accept direct responsibility. Or use the opt repeated lie for five thousand years “It is god’s will”!
On the other side we are swamped with basic facts of reality to the real world. If we listen to the rational thoughts we will live!
Hmm, reminds me of the days of the lies,denial crap of those POS that the bodly lied the science of climate change had not been settled. We know who won that debate. The fools paid to lie often were all tossed out like yesterdays trash.
Before that there the argument that cancer sticks from the tobacco companies were good for your health. Health benefits of tobacco equals dying from lung cancer at an early age. We all know who won that debate. It was not the tobacco companies.
When will the irrational ones ask the six basic questions “who,” “what,” “where,” “when,” “why” and “how.”.
For who among the ignorant denialiti knew this “mRNA” technoly was in development two decades prior to 2019. The life saving potential for other uses is only just emerging.
Ah to be ignorant is so blessed . Facts save lies kill.
The vexing question do you choose to live? Or die at the hands of the irrational ones? Who irrationally believe they are the chosen ones to deliver us to the valley of the dead!
In the interim the internet is swamped by 98% lies surrounding each basic fact of life.

Posted by: Bad Deal Motors On | Jan 17 2023 7:50 utc | 206

On the Mintpress Klarenberg article on biowarfare, I notice he accepts the claim that

Morris and Kedar offer a highly granular timeline of events, starting in the initial months of that year, as Britain prepared to evacuate Mandatory Palestine on May 15. In the lead up to that date, Zionist settlers were very much on the defensive, with militias “continuously” attacking their enclaves and convoys, with the support of neighboring armies, due to their joint rejection of UN Resolution 181, passed in November 1947, which proposed partitioning Palestine into separate Arab and Jewish states.

This puts the Zionists in the role of ‘reacting against aggression’ while it should be accepted fact by now that when the war was declared already 250,000 palestinians had been expelled.
See phase1 in https://mondoweiss.net/2020/06/massacres-as-a-weapon-of-ethnic-cleansing-during-the-nakba/
The part the english played in the war is certainly important, and I recommend an old , long but entertaining interview of Max Blumenthal with Akiva Orr, founder of Matzpen
https://jewonthis.wordpress.com/2011/04/14/videos-akiva-orr-arnas-children/

Posted by: Tuyzentfloot | Jan 17 2023 9:28 utc | 208

“..Two-thirds of chief economists surveyed by WEF believe there is likely to be a global recession in 2023, with nearly one in five saying it is extremely likely to occur. Corporate leaders are also anxious, with 73% of CEOs around the world reckoning that global economic growth will decline over the next 12-months. That’s the most pessimistic outlook since the WEF survey was first done 12 years ago.
“.. “Over the past two years, the world’s super-rich 1 per cent have gained nearly twice as much wealth as the remaining 99 per cent combined”, Oxfam said.
“While there are nearly 8 billion people in the world, just over 3,000 are billionaires as of November 2022. This tiny group of people is worth nearly $11.8 trillion – equivalent to about 11.8% of global GDP. Meanwhile, at least 1.7 billion workers live in countries where inflation is outpacing their wage growth, even as billionaire fortunes are rising by $2.7 billion (€2.5 billion) a day.
“..Indeed, in 2020, 1% of all adults (56m) in the world owned 45.8% of all personal wealth in the world; while 2.9m owned just 1.3%. In 2021, that inequality worsened. In 2021, that the top 1% now owned 47.8% of all personal wealth while 2.8bn owned just 1.1%! And the top 13% own 86% of all wealth.”
“The Oxfam report points out that for every $1 raised in tax, only four cents come from taxes on wealth. The failure to tax wealth is most pronounced in low- and middle-income countries, where inequality is highest. Two-thirds of countries do not have any form of inheritance tax on wealth and assets passed to direct descendants. Half of the world’s billionaires now live in countries with no such tax, meaning $5 trillion will be passed on tax-free to the next generation, a sum greater than the GDP of Africa.
“Top rates of tax on income have become lower and less progressive, with the average tax rate on the richest falling from 58% in 1980 to 42% more recently in OECD countries. Across 100 countries, the average rate is even lower, at 31%. Rates of tax on capital gains – in most countries the most important source of income for the top 1% – are only 18% on average across more than 100 countries. Only three countries tax income from capital more than income from work.
“Many of the richest men on the planet today get away with paying hardly any tax. For example, one of the richest men in history, Elon Musk, has been shown to pay a ‘true tax rate’ of 3.2%, while another of the richest billionaires, Jeff Bezos, pays less than 1%.

Posted by: bevin | Jan 17 2023 15:47 utc | 210

@ waynorinorway
take a look at the ukrainian thread for this post –> @ BM | Jan 17 2023 13:03 utc | 251
he says some very interesting things which also touch on northern norway… i wonder if you’d like to comment..

Posted by: james | Jan 17 2023 16:35 utc | 212

“.. “Over the past two years, the world’s super-rich 1 per cent have gained nearly twice as much wealth as the remaining 99 per cent combined”, Oxfam said.
Posted by: bevin | Jan 17 2023 15:47 utc | 209

It would be helpful to stop referring to the 1% as the super-rich. In reality it is only the 0.0001% that meet that descriptor, but that does not have the same socialist marketing cache. Shortly before my retirement, I made it into the 1% (barely), starting from a negative net worth after graduation. The secret, save, pay off debt ASAP, and invest conservatively.

Posted by: Opport Knocks | Jan 17 2023 17:12 utc | 214

Off-guardian chimes in:

The “tangible solutions” line is repeated in the “narratives” article mentioned earlier, by financial consultancy giant Mercer on their page about Davos, a WEF “expert panel”, and by Forbes in their article on young leaders at Davos.
Of course “solutions-based thinking” has been corporate talk for decades, and “now is the time for action” is a cliche which does the rounds at every meeting, summit or conference.
Nobody in history has ever said “now is not the time for action, now is the time for gestures”.
So, of course, it could be empty words designed to make the speakers (and their meeting) feel important.
But it could be something else, perhaps a sign that the propaganda stage of the “great reset” is over, and now we transition to the next stage. Signalling a move away from passive manipulation and psychology-driven control mechanisms and toward more direct enforcement.
I guess we’ll just have to wait and see.
Either way, you can broadly define the Davos agenda as four main themes:
“A new system”: Reforming the global systems of politics and finance
“controlling the narrative”: Telling more believable lies & limiting public debate
“countering misinformation”: Censorship, especially of the internet
“tangible solutions”: Taking more direct action via enforcement and policy.
The Davos talking points, it seems, will be a retrospective focusing on what they can learn from the shortcomings of their “pandemic” narrative.
One final thought, an (unconfirmed) story doing the rounds is both hilarious and telling…if true:
Apparently, DAVOS attendees are deliberately seeking out unvaccinated pilots. Make of that what you will.

https://off-guardian.org/2023/01/15/a-new-system-inside-the-davos-summit-2023/

Posted by: Scorpion | Jan 17 2023 17:40 utc | 216

In reference to the medrXiv article b has kindly provided here at “other issues”, here is a quotation from that article, with my bold inside it:

…having long COVID was linked to higher risks of recent unemployment, financial hardship, and anxiety and depressive symptomatology, with evidence of dose-response relationships. Overall, an estimated 27.3 million US adults with long COVID were at risk of adverse socioeconomic and health outcomes including anxiety and depression. These preliminary estimates highlight the substantial public health and economic implications of long COVID among Americans and should prompt further inquiry and intervention.

Since many of us concerned about this issue are eager to hear positive news about our friends and relatives who may have fallen into any of these symptom ruts, I find it very positive that the alarm is going out on the subject I bolded above.
And for any who wonder about Russia with respect to these issues, I refer back to my links on the first page at least with respect to those who are Orthodox Christians. There is, I think necessarily, a growing difference in attitude between Russia’s Orthodox Christian population and the Orthodox residing in the US.( We are, or ought to be, “Orthodox with US characteristics.”) I’m grateful to Archbishop Golitsin for, perhaps inadvertently, pointing out that difference.
As I think it is a crucial one (from my own experience) I will say more about this as my thoughts on the matter coalesce. For now, what intrigues me is that ’empire’ and all its trappings have started to have a bad taste in my mouth. Unlike those Russian investigators long ago who saw heaven in the glories of Constantinople’s Hagia Sophia, I as an American Orthodox am none too sure the Church evidences itself in an US environment exactly that way. In fact, I know that it didn’t in my own small non-institutional church setting, and in the monastery with which I communicate.
Which I think is in general important with respect to the manner in which the West has such negative feelings about Russia as the champion of Orthodoxy today.

Posted by: juliania | Jan 17 2023 18:24 utc | 218

@ waynorinorway | Jan 17 2023 17:45 utc | 217
thanks! you live quite far north… i went as far as trondheim which on the map is really quite south of you.. they have a musical instrument musician which i remember visiting in 75… i really appreciate your perspective.. those who forget history are doomed to repeat it.. i wonder how we have gotten to this place of ignorance? either way it is discouraging on the surface..
there is a harbour north of where i am – nanoose bay – which was a place that usa nuclear subs were going to… at the time in the 90’s glen clark, then premier of b.c. asked for them to leave based on public outcry.. i imagine that has been overturned, but i am not up on the story.. it is a shame norway is such a useful tool for usa-nato… canada is even worse.. cheers.

Posted by: james | Jan 17 2023 19:28 utc | 220

Posted by: Scorpion | Jan 17 2023 17:22 utc | 215
I did see they mentioned ‘multipolarity’, Scorpion. Are they perhaps being a stopped clock? (Always an optimist, me.)

Posted by: juliania | Jan 17 2023 19:38 utc | 222

On the one side apologists for capitalism, waving the tattered banner of ‘liberty’. On the other the partisans of community who keep the Red Flag discreetly hidden in case it frightens the faint hearted.
Posted by: bevin | Jan 16 2023 19:54 utc | 175
I’m a partisan for community in the US, no red flag needed, bevin!

Posted by: juliania | Jan 17 2023 20:49 utc | 224

Veteran US communist and GDR resident Victor Grossman sends a regular email out to suscribers. There is always news of politics in Berlin. Does Counterpunch still carry it?
“… Behind the Green-CDU coalition in the state where Lützerath is – or was – located, there is a third adversary: the mine-owner. RWE once helped finance Hitler’s rise, raked in millions by using slave labor during Word War Two and since then has become alternately first or second among Germany’s four giant energy providers. It decidedly does not want to lose the many-digit profits it wins from atomic and lignite power; its CEO alone pockets personally over €5 million a year. Who would want to lose any of that? So – damn the environment or anyone trying to save it! And as many have found; ten thousand or so euros donated in the right places can be greatly appreciated and well worth it.
“…Here’s an interesting footnote; the largest single shareholder of RWE stocks in 2021 was the US asset management company BlackRock. Together with its sibling in Pennsylvania, Vanguard, BlackRock will soon control world investments worth 20 trillion dollars. According to a Bloomberg report, that will make it “the fourth branch of government”.
“And another footnote; the referendum in Berlin in September 2021 – “Confiscate Deutsche Wohnen” – got over a million “Ja” votes (56.4%) and affected all companies owning more than 3,000 Berlin apartments. Deutsche Wohnen owns 155,000. It has since been taken over by a far bigger real estate raptor, Vonrovia, which owns 11,000 apartments in Berlin but 550,000 in all Germany. And strange to say, BlackRock has been financially connected with both of them. It’s a small world!
“…Karl Liebknecht, who dared to openly oppose war credits for the army which nearly all Social Democratic leaders had approved – and for which he was first drafted, then jailed and, since he remained rebellious, finally beaten to death, 109 years ago.
His memory, and that of the great Rosa Luxemburg, also murdered on the same day, was again remembered in Berlin on Sunday. But what about his political heritage? And his legendary anti-war words: “The main enemy is in one’s own home country”?
Today the Linke is tragically split, on both political approaches and personalities. Some demand less concentration on parliamentary chambers and more aggressive activity in the streets, factories, shops, colleges and job centers, aimed at building resistance to forces like RWE, Aldi, Vonova, Deutsche Wohnen, or ThyssenKrupp, Daimler-Benz and Rheinmetall, which want to rule the nation and Europe – or more. Some argue about the question of ending their rule entirely, the goal for which Karl and Rosa lived and died. Others stress gender questions or positions on immigration.
“But most worrisome is the split about the present war. Some in the Left downplay the role of NATO, call for total condemnation of Russian imperialism and total military support for the Ukraine, in agreement with most media positions. Such views are strong in the Linke, at least on its upper levels…”

Posted by: bevin | Jan 17 2023 21:37 utc | 226

Below is the title and quote from a ZH posting about Japan
Jim Grant Warns “Japan Is Perhaps The Most Important Risk In The World”

The Japanese are a frisky nation. They have an immense amount of net savings, and some $3 trillion of Japanese assets are invested in non-Japanese markets, of which half are domiciled in the United States. In other words, the Japanese, the proverbial Mrs. Watanabe, search the world for yield opportunities. According to Bloomberg, expressed as a percentage of the GDP of the country in which they are invested, Japanese stock and bond holdings break down to 7.3% of America, 7.5% of France, 8.3% of Australia and 9.5% of the Netherlands. What is going to happen if suddenly Japanese yen denominated rates become rather attractive? Well, a lot of this money may be repatriated and the result of that repatriation will be a rise in volatility in markets we can’t really identify now. So the risk of a volatility upsurge is considerable. I think the time is getting ripe for a big change in Japanese rates structure and therefore in interest rates and in the risk presented to bond holders worldwide.

Posted by: psychohistorian | Jan 18 2023 2:37 utc | 228

ZH has a posting up with the title below….no quote
Elon Musk Mocks WEF As Global Elite Gather In Davos

Posted by: psychohistorian | Jan 18 2023 3:11 utc | 230

@225 john | Jan 17 2023 20:55 utc
It would be in tragically poor taste to call that story “heartbreaking”. Are we going to recognize a new “sudden plane-crash syndrome” eventually?
The article that Kirsch links to, that explains in quite technical medical terms what the FDA change involves, is this one (the author is both a medical doctor and a juris doctor, wow):
Myocarditis: Once Rare, Now Common

There is always a possibility of electrical instability in any inflamed myocardial muscle cells, as it is their normal physiological nature to transmit electrical impulses from one cell to the next. Because of this, stressful events that release surges of adrenalin and catecholamines in the circulation, as is seen with peak physical exertion, can readily provoke such electrically unstable cells into starting, and sustaining, an abnormal heart rhythm. Literally hundreds of European soccer players have died or collapsed on the field of play in the last two years. Of note, they have not been seen to collapse while standing or sitting on the sidelines. Similarly, any pilot with even a minimal but otherwise symptom-free elevation of troponin can potentially sustain such a life-threatening arrhythmia when a significant stress-provoking emergency arises in the cockpit.

The point in that quote is that the heart can seem to be healthy until peak physical exertion or stress kick in. There’s a test (for troponin levels) that can detect this proclivity, and of course he says we should be administering the test widely, and of course that will never happen.
~~
Did you happen to see Neil Oliver’s interview with John Campbell? Really good, an excellent recap of many aspects of recent years, as well as the state of Britain’s once renowned healthcare system. Oliver gets Campbell to talk about his personal story for the first 20 minutes or so, skip if not interested:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vM6TSWzw66U

Posted by: Grieved | Jan 18 2023 4:01 utc | 232

What come out of Russian analysis of captured documents was the pentagon was trying to match pathogens to ethnic groups. Finding who was susceptible to what. Targeted biowarfare. Enter gene therapy…. and a vaccination supposedly for one virus actually makes the chosen resistant to the next one to be released. Pentagon didn’t invest a few hundred billion on this just to help mankind as a whole.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Jan 18 2023 4:24 utc | 234

A bizarre collection of recent portents including comets, red skies, feather-filled skies and characters written in stones millions of years go and so forth, possibly predicting the end of the Communist Party of China. Many Chinese follow things like this just like a majority of Americans believe in angels.
Trigger Warning: the channel is full-on anti-CCP/CPC.
12 mins.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUE2t4fUMVg

Posted by: Scorpion | Jan 18 2023 5:03 utc | 236

Below is a Xinhuanet posting about Iran and Turkey relations

TEHRAN, Jan. 17 (Xinhua) — The Iranian foreign minister said on Tuesday that an agreement on the revival of a 2015 nuclear deal is within reach if the United States stops setting new conditions and acts realistically, official news agency IRNA reported.
Hossein Amir-Abdollahian made the remarks at a joint press conference with his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu following their meeting in Türkiye’s capital Ankara.
The Iranian minister said he discussed the removal of the U.S. sanctions against Iran in the meeting with Cavusoglu and held “important and diverse” discussions with Turkish officials.
Amir-Abdollahian also had a 90-minute meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan over bilateral, regional and global issues, according to the minister.
The speedy implementation of the comprehensive plan for Iran-Türkiye strategic cooperation, which was signed during Erdogan’s trip to Tehran in July 2022, was underlined during the meetings, he noted.
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi will soon visit Türkiye, the top Iranian diplomat noted.
Amir-Abdollahian arrived in Ankara on Tuesday.

Posted by: psychohistorian | Jan 18 2023 6:27 utc | 238

Grieved | Jan 18 2023 4:01 utc | 232
Situated here in the north there is a midday lull in comments when the ‘Down Unders’ turn in and before the
‘New World’ gets going. I use that time to review to see if I missed anything. I almost had a heart attack
realising I had passed over Dr. Levy’s article. The footnotes are a gold mine! Thanks Grieved.
Quote of the day, if not the decade:
“It is never a good idea to overestimate the integrity of the pharmaceutical industry.” [9]
Thomas E. Levy, MD, JD
(Remote echoes of Mencken.:-)

Posted by: waynorinorway | Jan 18 2023 11:57 utc | 240

@ pyschohistorian.. thanks for your posts… others too – thanks!

Posted by: james | Jan 18 2023 16:47 utc | 242

that story above surely couldn’t have anything to do with this –
“The sides are reportedly developing cooperation strategy to replace the US dollar and the euro in settlements
Russia and African nations are moving towards settlements in national currencies, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov revealed on Wednesday, adding that the parties are preparing documents on rearranging the mechanism of cooperation under Western sanctions.
Lavrov’s announcement was made during a press conference on the results of the activities of Russian diplomacy in 2022. The official earlier stated that Russian and African partners are working on reducing, though gradually, trade in the US dollar and the euro in mutual trade payments.
“As you know, we are planning a second summit with Africa this year, at the end of July in St. Petersburg, and we are preparing a whole series of events for it, documents are being prepared to reconfigure the mechanisms of interaction in the face of sanctions and threats, … new tools for trade and investment cooperation, supply chain systems, payments,” the Russian FM explained, adding “There is a transition to settlements in national currencies, this process is not fast, but it is underway and is gaining momentum.”
Moscow has been steadily pursuing a policy of de-dollarization in foreign trade. In recent years, Russia and some of its trade partners, including India and China, have been ramping up the use of domestic currencies in mutual settlements in an effort to move away from the US dollar and euro.”

Posted by: james | Jan 18 2023 16:55 utc | 244

Thanks very much, psychohistorian for your quote from the Xinhuanet article about what Chinese Vice Premier Liu said in Davos:

…The Chinese vice premier said that entrepreneurship is a key factor for wealth creation of a society, and therefore, entrepreneurs, both Chinese and foreign, will play an important role as the engine driving China’s historical pursuit of common prosperity.
If wealth doesn’t grow, common prosperity will become a river without source or a tree without roots, Liu said, adding that common prosperity is aimed at preventing polarization and it can only be attained through common development and the hard work of every Chinese…

Posted by: psychohistorian | Jan 18 2023 6:18 utc | 237
For me that suggests China is keeping the door open a crack for the west to take advantage of by slipping a toe in the door for a multipolar future. We may take note that China and Russia have been adversaries in the past, but have reconciled to the advantage of both. It may be, as both Yves and b have noted, that there will not be a redress of past wrongs on the mainstream page; sometimes in an athletic contest the teams therein do actions in the height of passion which ought to have been penalized by the referees but are only noticed by alert onlookers. A judgement is made in hindsight that balances out these errors, and in the interest of the overall conclusion such errors are not addressed. I am not saying that war is a game, far from it, but such concepts as forgiveness make practical reconciliations possible. We here are the onlookers pointing out this or that to be a crime, but we are not the deciders. This is what makes the partnership between Russia and China so important.
The world we have, the entire world, is worth saving, just as the game is saved by the decisions of referees to keep the overall spirit alive. And we onlookers can say, as Russia has said, what would the world be like without the Americas and Europe and farflung islands in the Pacific?
It would not be much of a world. Thank you, Russia; thank you, China.

Posted by: juliania | Jan 18 2023 18:05 utc | 246

@246 juliania | Jan 18 2023 18:05 utc
And by the way, that’s a lovely comment. Not only win-win but also, save all that can be saved. I like this new, multi-polar world. You channel it perfectly, thank you.

Posted by: Grieved | Jan 18 2023 18:44 utc | 248

“Quote of the day, if not the decade:
“It is never a good idea to overestimate the integrity of the pharmaceutical industry.” [9]
Thomas E. Levy, MD, JD…”waynorinorway@240
Agreed. And that, together with the clinic on amorality put on by the industry refusing to share its patents (most of them based on public sector research) during a pandemic are two reasons for nationalising the entire sector.
The way in which firms like Moderna-now seeking massive price increases to add to the billions it has received from the public purse- have allowed millions to die in poor countries, because the poor cannot afford to buy Big Pharma’s over priced products, ought to have convinced voters everywhere that the time has come to put the entire sector under democratic non profit management and public ownership.
At the moment Pharma has a nice little scam going: the public, through Universities and public health labs does most of the basic research, then Pharma patents it, then the public, either through government or insurance schemes, pays the industry, which makes immense profits, then the industry buys legislatures and media to ensure that the scam keeps on working for them.

Posted by: bevin | Jan 18 2023 19:42 utc | 250

Posted by: dan of steele | Jan 18 2023 20:09 utc | 251
‘I doubt that many will see my post as I am not known for profound thoughts’.
Too self-effacing imo. I have spent time browsing the archives and know that you have
been here since Hitler was a road-guard. I always read what you have to say and appreciate it.
Bed time here but thanks for the link which I’ll check out in the a.m.
The best comment I’ve heard about Cheney is that when he dies we should fly the flag at mast-and-a-half.

Posted by: waynorinorway | Jan 18 2023 20:21 utc | 252

Ah, thank you both, Grieved and Scorpion. Of course, there are such complexities, not just simple playing field analogies will do. I loved this from Pepe:

“…Insufferable bores from that Divide and Rule island in northern Europe have just found out that “geopolitics”, alas, never really entered the tawdry “end of history” tunnel: much to their amazement it’s now centered – again – across the Heartland, as it’s been for most of recorded history…”

Very Dostoievskian! (In that we can indeed idiologize – not sure that is a word but anyway – mankind in general with lovely imagery, but when it comes to the man or woman on the street, sometimes we really can’t stand him or her.) Which is all to the good ‘as it’s been for most of recorded history’ 😉

Posted by: juliania | Jan 18 2023 21:52 utc | 254

Interestingly a small minority refuse to face reality.
The debate on c19 is ended.
Heart disease is but one of the many causes of human mortality. That merely accounts for 24%. So a specialist cardiologist can and will never see the bigger picture in their lifetime. To no one’s surprise, 1.8% are from influenza and pneumonia. Another 2.6% arise from the mind-destroying “Alzheimer’s Disease”. For all USSA males accidents account for 7.6%
Our world in Data is as follows
69.2% of the world population has received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine.
13.21 billion doses have been administered globally, and 2.01 million are now administered each day.
25.9% of people in low-income countries have received at least one dose. Thus all arguments against world vaccination programs hold no water so to speak. That debate also ended too.
Sadly modern internet-based social media such as Wastebook(bully me), Youtube(and clones), Twatter, and Telegram. Allows for a lie to travel around the world at near lightspeed. The inconvenient truth merely follows a year later. A microgram of knowledge provided by all “Net trolls” does not represent the bigger picture.
Facts save, lies kill.

Posted by: Bad Deal Motors On | Jan 19 2023 0:09 utc | 256

Grieved #257
Thank you.
I see Steve Kirsch has the heart to talk about it all.
https://t.me/stkirsch/1095

Posted by: uncle tungsten | Jan 19 2023 1:16 utc | 258

@ auximenes | Jan 19 2023 1:18 utc | 259 with the list of countries currencies which Russia will establish exchange rates with the rouble…and date of implementation…WOW!
Thanks for that.
In response to your question I would say that it reflects the political position of New Zealand in relation to Russia as well as the small size of the volume of the currency being subject to manipulation by the God of Mammon side.
For me, another interesting part of the list is the ME group of UAE, Egypt and Qatar
I suspect each country on the list has its mix of reasons and global political positions that support this de-dollarization effort.

Posted by: psychohistorian | Jan 19 2023 1:41 utc | 260

@ auximenes | Jan 19 2023 1:18 utc | 259
don’t know the answer to your question, but i do recall some of those currencies on the list got hammered in the currency meltdown from 1997 and etc… it was like open season on some of these currencies with folks like soros making off with the loot.. perhaps some of them would like to prevent this from happening in the future..

Posted by: james | Jan 19 2023 1:49 utc | 262

Posted by: auximenes | Jan 19 2023 1:18 utc | 259
About why NZ.
First, that is a really neat question on your part.
Second: fish?

Posted by: Scorpion | Jan 19 2023 3:21 utc | 264

“Giving the right dose…”
There is no way to know what dose of antigen is being delivered to an individual using this mRNA technology because the cellular production of the antigen, the protein, is dependent on factors which will vary from person to person.
One size does not fit all as a person’s unique configuration of age, sex, health, diet, biochemistry, immune history, etc will shape the cellular protein synthesis which then yields the protein antigen/dose.
Further, and critically, one’s wholistic functional configuration changes with time. It is shaped by your immunogenicity history, and possible imprinting, via exposure to evolving viral clads, jabs and perhaps boosters.
To claim these things are “safe and effective” as a mass societal immunological intervention, from this “dose” aspect alone, is confounding and wrong. It would take years of testing to understand the nuances.
What is happening imo is a complete misuse of this cutting-edge technology which, when directed at a single patient with a known problem, like leukemia or cancer for example, has the potential to cure for life with a one-time treatment of mRNA therapy, restoring one’s body to normal functioning.
Brian Berletic posted a video recently on how big pharma is exploiting this new technology. Link below. He reported on a procedure to fix a type of leukemia, the cost of which is about $15,000. But it is priced far far beyond reach of most people, requiring most patients to “choose” to remain with the only alternative: to remain on very expensive pharma drugs for life to keep them alive. $$$
This is just one example of how this technology can restore health from life-long or deadly infirmaries, ending drug dependencies and exorbitant surplus value extraction by big pharma. Since the technology is privately controlled in the collective west, it is mostly only the wealthy who have access.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTELoyugsOc

Posted by: suzan | Jan 19 2023 3:56 utc | 266

Looks like the goblins are hungry and ate my link to bitchute Canadian Patriot 1776
“Why is Robert Malone Pushing Anti-China Misinformation? The Great Game this week.”
Here with added space here and there:
https:// www. bitchute.com/ video/ nOmXUlQU4ivD/

Dr Robert Malone has stated that anyone calling out controlled opposition is only demonstrating that they themselves are the controlled opposition used willfully or not by intelligence agencies to discredit the resistance. Sounds fine. But what if Dr Malone finds himself promoting (willfully or not) misinformation that will undermine the very resistance he seeks to inform, shape and mobilize? Mobilize to what goals and based on what concepts of the enemy?
In this episode of the Great Game on Rogue News, we unpack some serious fallacies and dubious intelligence connections underlying Dr Malone’s recent foray into global geopolitical analysis with his promotion of an MI6-shaped narrative first released by Sir Richard Dearlove in early 2020 which asserts Covid to have been an intentionally crafted and released bioweapon which killed millions in a war to destroy western civilization rendering humanity enslaved to the new Chinese master class.
Is it false or true? What evidence and what sources does Dr Malone rely upon to advance his thesis?
For more information on anti-China Psyops, pick up Matt’s Breaking Free of Anti China Psyops

Posted by: uncle tungsten | Jan 19 2023 4:48 utc | 268

The goblins ate 2 of my posts and one had an inactivated link.
Sooooo
To consider some damning assessment of Robert Malone take a stroll to bitchute channel Canadian Patriot 1776 posted a couple of hours past.

Posted by: uncle tungsten | Jan 19 2023 5:09 utc | 270

“…Anyway AFAIK relations with Russia & China will get much worse if there is a change of government. It is a very thin tightrope very high in the air when yer a small nation trying to exercise the tiny bit of sovereignty you still retain.”
Posted by: Debsisdead | Jan 19 2023 2:06 utc | 263
Thanks, Debsisdead, I hope most NZers, presently in shock at this announcement I gather, can take a realistic look at the positives and negatives of being in the neoliberal slipstream. I’d count Ardern’s visit to the US as a wake up call, not so sure she would want to be part of that going forward, though I am not as close to matters political there as you are. I did wade through comments at the Daily Blog, yours is the best, I think. Best wishes going forward; National is definitely not the answer.

Posted by: juliania | Jan 19 2023 5:41 utc | 272

psychohistorian #271
“What a time to watch the world spin.”
Indeed it is. There will be some interesting peaks and troughs to weather.

Posted by: uncle tungsten | Jan 19 2023 6:08 utc | 274

Interesting Ukraine biolab report from https://t.me/ukr_leaks_eng/1396
I have just come across this telegram channel and barflies might advise of its utility.

Biomaterials of the subjects of the infamous biolab were found in Lisichansk
Do you remember how I showed the biological laboratory “Pharmbiotest” in Rubezhnoye? It carried out tests on local residents, including with fatal outcomes.
And so, the documents and biomaterials of this laboratory were found (https://globaleuronews.com/2023/01/11/media-unpleasant-discovery-for-the-usa-found-at-a-cemetery-in-lysychansk/) at the city cemetery in Lisichansk. Who and why tried to hide the tests and medical records of the subjects – the investigators will find out. But the fact that someone from the Ukrainian side decided to cover their tracks and buried these materials already raises a number of questions.
Let me remind you (https://t.me/ukr_leaks_eng/583), the Pharmbiotest biolaboratory lured people with money to test unknown drugs. The more dangerous the substance was, the more money was paid. The laboratory worked in the interests of the countries of Europe and the USA, so I am not at all surprised at the attempt to conceal evidence.
We will continue observing.

Posted by: uncle tungsten | Jan 19 2023 8:54 utc | 276

re:Outraged | Jan 19 2023 9:12 utc | 275
thanks for that. Check out todays guardian and see that the pol who they damned with faint praise for the last 12 months has now become the best thing since sliced bread. I suspect most kiwis are too naive to believe that now she has resigned and damned Aotearoa’s current non-aligned as much as they can get away with foreign policy to instant death, she has told the arseholes that it wasn’t her it was just those radical maori types and in fact she was a good sort, a decent sheila after all.
re Posted by: juliania | Jan 19 2023 5:41 utc | 270
who said “I did wade through comments at the Daily Blog, yours is the best, I think”
Thanks Julianna, Funny you should say that I made a post today at the Daily Blog & the same at The Standard it was a toned down version of what I posted here under a different nym since both blacklisted me over Occupied Palestine years ago, it made no difference despite different box different IP etc, apparently no one in Aotearoa will entertain the notion that Ardern was typical of all pols and acting in her own interest.
If she doesn’t pick up an NGO or UN gig for the next few years I will retract all, but I reckon that after a few months getting married, taking her kid to school ie still generating headlines, she will be straight back at selling ordinary decent humans down the river.
Colour me cynical.

Posted by: Debsisdead | Jan 19 2023 11:18 utc | 278

We just talk talk talk about problems we see around the world. Not many — actionable — solutions are provided. Well, here is one.
The elite did it, is the mantra. Well, we know whom the elite are, don’t we? I go back to my solution posted here previously: dump the homeless at the elite’s residences, occupy style. The homeless have absolutely nothing to lose, and everything to gain, and before you get on your high horse, no, this is not a call for bodily injury to anyone. Removing the homeless and putting them in jail by police will not solve the elite’s problem — more homeless to replace the homeless. Keep’em coming till the “elite” change their mind.

Posted by: Sakineh Bagoom | Jan 19 2023 16:54 utc | 280

“.. why did canada agree to these contracts with pfizer that are not shared with the canuck public? that ought to tell you right away something is very wrong in this vaccine thing..” james@255
What it tells me is that the pharmaceutical oligopolies are in bed with the oligarchs running the country-the ruling class.
As to the vaccines, they are working, the real scandals are that they are a source of huge profits, profits unjustifiable in any way given that the industry gets its research from the public sector and its profits from sales to government. And that the vaccines patents are not made available to countries which cannot afford-because their neo-colonial dictators will not allow them- to pay the manufacturers the exorbitant prices demanded. It is as if the lifeboats around a sinking ship were demanding passage money in advance from the kids drowning in the sea.
The ‘libertarians’ have done a great job for the capitalists in turning the discussion of the failures of capitalist controlled governments to respond properly to the Covid pandemic into a lot of nonsense designed to prevent us from drawing the lessons:
1/That pandemics are a real danger and become more dangerous as the population becomes increasingly interconnected, the environment more polluted and natural habitat degraded. We need a proper multipolar and communal plan to respond to epidemics. The legacy UN related organisations-all dominated by imperialism are insufficient and lack credibility, they work not for the people but for the oligarchy.
2/ Healthcare systems must be publicly controlled and removed completely from the profit oriented private sector. In Canada, currently, the Healthcare system first developed in Saskatchewan is currently being broken up by neoliberal provincial governments desperately trying to privatise them along the lines of the worst healthcare system in the world under which hundreds of millions of americans suffer and die prematurely. The same thing is happening to the NHS in the UK.
3/ It is a myth that the great advances in pharmaceutical treatments and the conquest of diseases like smallpox owe anything to researchers working for profit. Research into disease and the development of cures and treatments should be a government responsibility. But first government must be taken out of the hands of those who serve profit making rather than people-society.

Posted by: bevin | Jan 19 2023 18:02 utc | 282

How dare they arrest grab Greta.

Posted by: uncle tungsten | Jan 20 2023 2:02 utc | 284

The Chinese Vice-Premiers Speech At Davos 2023: A Comprehensive Investment Analysis

Davos 2023 is taking place amongst an increasingly insecure world with recessions imminent or expected. Regional conflicts and a global struggle for supremacy are unfolding as a scramble for energy resources, and climate warming problems appear at increasingly opposite ends of the political spectrum. China’s geopolitical position, as the world’s largest trading nation, the second largest global economy and with the world’s second largest population will have a huge impact on how the year will be shaped. At Davos 2023, China’s Vice-Premier, Liu He, had this to say as concerns Beijing’s perspective of Chinese and global development during the coming year and will be of great interest to academics, geopoliticians and investors alike. My own comments follow where appropriate.
Liu: Good morning! Let me begin by thanking Dr. Schwab for inviting me to Davos again. The last time I came here was 2018. Over the past five years, we have experienced all kinds of unexpected events, and witnessed profound changes in the world’s political and economic landscape. Therefore, the theme of this year’s Annual Meeting, “Cooperation in a Fragmented World”, cannot be more relevant.
Mutual understanding is an important prerequisite for cooperation. Online communication, no matter how frequent or how technologically advanced, is no substitute for in-person meetings. I had quite a number of very warm meetings with some old friends these two days. Hopefully, at this face-to-face meeting, I can help you understand the Chinese economy better.
In 2022, China completed its major political agenda. We held the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and elected the new central leadership with President Xi Jinping at its core. We drew up an ambitious blueprint for advancing Chinese modernization in the coming five years and beyond.

and much more of interest.
From: Silkroadbriefing.com.

Posted by: uncle tungsten | Jan 20 2023 2:11 utc | 286

Sorry, didn’t complete that link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igBNjOimmFc

Posted by: Grieved | Jan 20 2023 2:27 utc | 288