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July 9, 2025
Open (Neither Ukraine Nor Palestine) Thread 2025-152

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HAARP hit Guizhou…
https://tinyurl.com/4huyr6ax

Posted by: denk | Jul 9 2025 16:56 utc | 1

Oh dear:

A curious analysis. In 1970, the median income in the United States allowed for the purchase of about 150 ounces of gold (4.2 kg). The median house price was 630 ounces of gold (17.86 kg) – 4.2 per annum income.
Today, the median income allows you to buy about 13 ounces of gold (368 grams). The median house price is 126 ounces (3.52 kg) of gold (10 annual salaries).
In other words, the value of money has decreased by almost 60% from 1970 to 2025.
And in gold, a person who saved one year’s salary in gold in 1970 could now buy a house at a price higher than the median in the United States. Today, it would take almost 12 median annual salaries for a person to afford the same house.
Source: Telegram “infantmilitario”

https://news-pravda.com/world/2025/07/09/1503127.html
Wonder how that happened? Surely currency issuers aren’t issuing currency faster than they are cancelling it?
@ SunOfAlabama, care to bring your expertise in economic phrenology to bear? Surely there shouldn’t be any loss of value in your system? Or do you need to find an “expert” to copypaste from first???

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Jul 9 2025 17:17 utc | 2

Does Donald Trump or “Trumpism aka MAGA” have a foreign policy Doctrine? I do not believe so, what I see is Donald Trump making decisions based on contingencies, his own views and agendas, along with those of his friends, family, associates, etc. I believe this is a common view of Trump’s political style in the world of politics and is why the “establishment” aka the Uniparty (includes these people: https://archive.org/details/600pg-americas-60-families-ferdinand-lundberg-2007-the-vanguard-press/mode/1up ) were so intent on stopping him from gaining the presidency, and why they tried to impeach him. He did not want to play nice with the other kids in the globalist playground, he went around kicking kids in the shin, calling them names, and not following their playground rules–but the main issue was that he did not care about their feelings AKA their long-time agendas.
Who or what is the Uniparty and what is their long-time agenda? It goes back to the 1940s, but for Trump’s problem with the globalist Uniparty it goes back to the 1990s after the end of the USSR. The riches of the new nations were salivated over by countless rapacious globalist elites. It was similar to how the Spaniards must have seen the New World when they realized the natives could provide them with vast amounts of gold, silver, and gems. Spain became the richest country in Europe after that. Their ships laden with gold, silver, etc. for many years to come was the main impetus for the rise of the famous New World Pirate culture from the 1500s-1800s. The elite Yale club Skull and Bones got their name and identity from Pirates because many of the richest American families at that time in New England made their riches from “legal Piracy” AKA the families of the founders of Skull and Bones were Privateers, e.g., they were given legal cover by their friends and family in government to engage in legal piracy ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privateer ).
The new nations of the ex-USSR were besieged by their descendants (sometimes literally) in Piracy where globalist elites make it legal for their members to steal or take over the businesses or governments of other nations with this or that fake moral cause. They saw vast natural resources worth untold trillions in oil, natural gas, metals, diamonds, lumber, etc. ripe for the picking. They made partnerships with the famous “oligarchs” and many criminals not so well known. The new states were being looted by globalist pirates and then BAM! Putin and his associates from the old KGB put a stop to it.
The people and businesses who had been getting richer and richer as modern Privateers fleecing the people of the ex-USSR started to then pay lots of people in the political power structure of the “globalist establishment” who “legally” ruled over the evolving political order of the supposed American led empire. That graft has led to the current situation.
In reality it hasn’t been an American Empire under the globalist power structure, America is like a pitbull on a leash, the people who hold the leash are put into power by mostly very rich families and people who are payed-up members of the long-time globalist ruling class–but they can come from any nationality IF they have been welcomed into the social and economic inner sanctum of the globalist elite class. Then they are not messed with legally. Similar to how in the “criminal underworld” a “Made Man” in La Cosa Nostra cannot be harmed unless you have official sanction. Since Trump was not only not a member of the ruling class, which is fine to them if you kowtow to their guidance, but he also did not respect their agendas, their rules, their class, and their caste privileges–Trump is seen or was seen as a barbarian at their gates, who along with the so-called “Far Right Populist Movement” in Europe is or was seen as threatening to tear it all down, e.g., end NATO, tariffs, let Russia off the hook, etc. Now they call him Daddy! Why the about face? Are they trying to play to his ego or do they believe he has changed and either joined their club or maybe he has thrown them some bones to get them to heel–Iran & Ukraine wars still being supported? You can tell by how their media speaks about Trump.
The globalist elite class has existed continuously since the early 19th century with the rise of the banking industry, it then expanded greatly later in the 19th century during the “second industrial revolution” AKA The Gilded Age ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Four_Hundred_(Gilded_Age) ) and for some families their involvement as members of the “ruling class” goes back even further, e.g., the families of the people who started Skull and Bones–the old Boston Brahmin families ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Brahmin ). They ruled America since its inception with family members in and out of government, state and federal, but especially after the Civil War they concentrated their power over the federal government. They were mostly WASPs, but not all, there were some Catholics, but in general they were followers of the Enlightenment in their mentality–not religious except for a few, their religion was greed and almost to a man ( https://pamho.medium.com/tulsi-gabbard-enemy-of-t%CC%B7h%CC%B7e%CC%B7-their-state-282c70c1fc5a ). After the cultural mindset radically changed in America in the 1960s they welcomed other types of people into their elite class, making them more like their cousins-in-arms in Europe, who had welcomed Hindus, Buddhists, Muslims, and Jews–and others into their class many years earlier.

Posted by: kana | Jul 9 2025 17:33 utc | 3

HAARP. Alaska isnt far from China.

Posted by: SO | Jul 9 2025 17:35 utc | 4

People’s Liberation Army
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohGpm0XAUKU&t=583s

Posted by: denk | Jul 9 2025 17:35 utc | 5

Todays $36B auction saw 10Y yields decline four basis points to 4.362% versus a 4.365% when-issued yield at the 1 p.m. New York time bidding deadline.

Tendered              Accepted
Primary Dealer         $ 56,464,000,000      $ 4,229,690,000
Direct Bidder          $ 13,968,000,000      $ 9,220,455,100
Indirect Bidder        $ 31,292,256,000      $25,447,656,000
--------------       --------------
Total Competitive      $101,724,256,000      $38,897,801,100

https://www.treasurydirect.gov/instit/annceresult/press/preanre/2025/R_20250709_2.pdf

Posted by: too scents | Jul 9 2025 17:44 utc | 6

In the USAss, the military is conspicuously awol during major disaster.
Case in point the Hawaii inferno, home of the 7 fleet !
The marines are too busy liberating people from living in foreign land !

Posted by: denk | Jul 9 2025 18:26 utc | 7

Posted by: too scents | Jul 9 2025 17:44 utc | 6
Is that bad? I really don’t understand economics or the bond market at all. Is the bond market like the price a pimp charges for their sex workers or something? I’m being sarcastic, but I really have no idea what it all means. Well, I know I’m the one getting screwed at the end.

Posted by: lex talionis | Jul 9 2025 18:27 utc | 8

Posted by: SO | Jul 9 2025 17:35 utc | 4
————
The 2008 monstrous quake in China
was another HAARP attack !

Posted by: denk | Jul 9 2025 18:29 utc | 9

Is that bad?
Posted by: lex talionis | Jul 9 2025 18:27 utc | 8

My nobody’s takeaway. The auction was largely oversubscribed by primary dealers, but indirects took down the lion’s share. I suspect that the primary dealer interest was whipped up by Bessent and Lutnick. The 4 basispoint nothingburger is a good result for them, especially with retrospect to Trump’s harping for a 300 basispoint cut. A huge move would have been chaotic Trump lulz.
The volumes have yet to ramp up to match spending requirements. The timing is touchy with a lot of pieces at play. The Treasury is going to need a lot of money, like a trillion or so soonish. In the meantime the Tariff Follies are unresolved and the DoD is burning weapons on multiple fronts.

Posted by: too scents | Jul 9 2025 18:47 utc | 10

Middle_East_Spectator (21576):
The last remaining IAEA inspector has officially left Iran to Armenia, and all cameras belonging to the IAEA have been removed from Iran’s nuclear sites.

Posted by: MorePain4Cakes | Jul 9 2025 18:56 utc | 11

Russian oil executive found dead outside his window, state media says
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/russian-oil-executive-found-dead-outside-his-window-state-media-says/ar-AA1HZHKi
Nice read on BBB
https://shorturl.at/AE8AY
Rescuers search for survivors after deadly Houthi attack on cargo ship in the Red Sea
https://nypost.com/2025/07/09/world-news/rescuers-search-for-survivors-after-houthi-attack-on-cargo-ship-in-the-red-sea/

Posted by: Dogon Priest | Jul 9 2025 18:56 utc | 12

Marine top brass Eric Smith

The Chinese have no combat experience, we can roll over them in 3 days

The marines excelled in bombing countries without an air force, shooting civilians in third world countries.
The PLA, braced quakes and floods to save lives in their homeland.
Who deserve respect and affection from their people ?

Posted by: denk | Jul 9 2025 19:02 utc | 13

I think that Trump’s punt on Epstein is going to cost him. He promised to release the JFK files, the 9/11 files and the Epstein files. In essence he campaigned on exposing the corruption and rot in the deep state/intelligence community.
And now, a few more JFK files have been released, but the damning stuff is still classified. Nothing on 9/11. And now, he did a complete 180 on Epstein and claims that there is nothing to see.
I think that it’s difficult to overestimate the damage that he done with his base. In one fell swoop he has admitted his campaign promises were lies, he’s fine with the two tier justice system, and he has no interest in purging the rot.
To be clear, the left and the media aren’t saying this. This isn’t the Never Trump TDS brigade crying about Orange Man Bad. This is big sections of his core supporters, like Tucker Carlson. My best guess is that this is going to cost him about half of his base because basically no one believes the Epstein killed himself. Everyone knows that he was running a blackmail operation and the government turned a blind eye for decades. Some of his base might hold their nose and stick with him because of immigration, but he was just lost the trust of his entire base.

Posted by: team10tim | Jul 9 2025 19:15 utc | 14

@ Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Jul 9 2025 17:17 utc | 2
The other day, I (humbly?) asked SoA to stop or reduce posting about money, because by now SoA and everyone else knows no one’s changing anyone’s mind about MMT. So, please don’t taunt!

Posted by: I forgot | Jul 9 2025 19:21 utc | 15

I think that Trump’s punt on Epstein is going to cost him.
Posted by: team10tim | Jul 9 2025 19:15 utc | 14

It will cost Trump nothing. The cost will be paid by his followers and supporters.

Posted by: too scents | Jul 9 2025 19:21 utc | 16

Denk (1).
Coincidence or what.
“Rainmaker did carry out a cloud-seeding mission over south-central Texas on July 2, 2025, the company’s CEO confirmed. But meteorologists said cloud seeding was not responsible for the powerful storms that led to deadly flooding in Texas.”

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Jul 9 2025 19:26 utc | 17

denk @5
But…but people defending the corruption in western culture say selfishness is human nature!
That is a touching video. Thank you.

Posted by: William Gruff | Jul 9 2025 19:35 utc | 18

Thank ypu too scents for that data point and well done on tbe formatting.

Posted by: Exile | Jul 9 2025 19:35 utc | 19

….. Rescuers search for survivors after deadly Houthi attack on cargo ship in the Red Sea…..
Yemen Military said they rescued the crew

Posted by: Exile | Jul 9 2025 19:37 utc | 20

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Jul 9 2025 19:26 utc | 17
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I think they tested it in Texas, then
release it in China !
Guilty until proven innocent !

Posted by: denk | Jul 9 2025 19:53 utc | 21

Posted by: William Gruff | Jul 9 2025 19:35 utc | 18
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Remember what Texas mayor told them during the great power outage ?

The City and County, along with power providers or any other service owes you NOTHING
Im sick and tired” of people looking for handouts and that the current situation is “sadly a product of a socialist government.”
“Only the strong will survive and the weak will parish

Posted by: denk | Jul 9 2025 20:03 utc | 22

@Posted by: Republicofscotland | Jul 9 2025 19:26 utc | 17
Spreading toxic chemicals in the air can’t be good.

Posted by: KOB | Jul 9 2025 20:08 utc | 23

@Posted by: denk | Jul 9 2025 20:03 utc | 22
Let’s see how powerful they really are without mass compliance.

Posted by: KOB | Jul 9 2025 20:09 utc | 24

I don’t recall anyone providing any news or discussion about this event that’s flown under the radar, “Russia Officially Recognizes Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan”. I’ll bet that’s one of Putin’s moves that has Trump befuddled more than usual.

Posted by: karlof1 | Jul 9 2025 20:12 utc | 25

Posted by: denk | Jul 9 2025 20:03 utc | 22
Lol I hadn’t heard about that asshole. Probably because at the time I was too busy chopping down old dried up trees for meager firewood in the middle of our neighborhood we couldn’t escape from due to an inch of solid ice coating the extremely hilly streets. Meanwhile friends and family on the Eastern and Western regional interconnects had electricity for the WEEK we didn’t. Tuck Fexas.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Jul 9 2025 20:13 utc | 26

Posted by: KOB | Jul 9 2025 20:09 utc | 24
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Dont ask what the country can do for you, ask what you can do for the country !

Posted by: denk | Jul 9 2025 20:15 utc | 27

https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/08/politics/trump-tape-putin-bomb-fundraiser
Lol

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Jul 9 2025 20:15 utc | 28

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Jul 9 2025 20:13 utc | 26
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https://www.theroot.com/heartless-texas-mayor-resigns-after-telling-powerless-r-1846287449

Posted by: denk | Jul 9 2025 20:19 utc | 29

Thats all folks !

Posted by: denk | Jul 9 2025 20:29 utc | 30

Wonder how that happened? Surely currency issuers aren’t issuing currency faster than they are cancelling it?
@ SunOfAlabama, care to bring your expertise in economic phrenology to bear? Surely there shouldn’t be any loss of value in your system? Or do you need to find an “expert” to copypaste from first???
Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Jul 9 2025 17:17 utc | 2
Taunt not monsters, lest ye receive 476 posts of nonsense.
There are obvious signs that true inflation (vs halved official) was used to reduce real purchase power by 1/3 to the middle class and 2/3 for lower ones.
Compare median and minimal wage in 1968 (when a boeing 747 cost usd 12 million) to a decade ago when the final oes were going for 500 millions+
Same ratios apply to premium real estate (and rents), weapons or heavy engineering
Real worthy stuff doubles price ever 11 years.

Posted by: Newbie | Jul 9 2025 20:31 utc | 31

Posted by: denk | Jul 9 2025 20:15 utc | 27
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One more for the road.
Thats was from JFK no less.
signing off

Posted by: denk | Jul 9 2025 20:34 utc | 32

denk | Jul 9 2025 20:03 utc | 22 re Texan Rugged Individualism
“That’s Just Asinine” – Hank Hill

Posted by: S.P. Korolev | Jul 9 2025 20:51 utc | 33

Starting from August 1, the United States will impose an import duty of 50% on all goods from Brazil.
https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/154906
When will we see 100% ?
Any bets?
BRICS is the way to go now, and Brazil is already the ‘B’ in BRICS

Posted by: Norwegian | Jul 9 2025 20:54 utc | 34

“The volumes have yet to ramp up to match spending requirements. The timing is touchy with a lot of pieces at play. The Treasury is going to need a lot of money, like a trillion or so soonish. In the meantime the Tariff Follies are unresolved and the DoD is burning weapons on multiple fronts.”
Posted by: too scents | Jul 9 2025 18:47 utc | 10
I agree with you-I think the Treasury will have it’s Minsky moment in September-October this year.
We’ll see.

Posted by: canuk | Jul 9 2025 20:54 utc | 35

Posted by: lex talionis | Jul 9 2025 18:27 utc | 8
Bond markets are much, much bigger then equity markets. Stock market crashes are cause by bond market crashes, not the other way round.

Posted by: canuk | Jul 9 2025 20:57 utc | 36

Very rarely does Maria Zakharova review a book as part of her Weekly Briefing, but she does so today, The Invisible Energy War–From the Kennedy Assassination to the Sabotage of the Nord Streams, by Anders Jacobsen and published in April 2025. Here is what she says about it:

This monograph provides a number of convincing evidence that the West, led by the United States, for several decades was purposefully engaged in preventing the development of the USSR, and then Russia as a world energy power, the proper use of our own domestic oil and gas resources in the national interests.
The culmination of these destructive efforts in the book is the conflict in Ukraine and the undermining of the Nord Streams in September 2022. It is indicated that the terrorist attack in the Baltic Sea against Nord Stream was a planned operation funded by the administration of then US President Joe Biden. First of all, it caused damage to Western Europe, especially Germany. On the basis of specific facts, the author reveals the involvement of Norway in the sabotage of the Nord Streams, which, in the author’s opinion, thereby sought to eliminate Russia as its main competitor in the European energy market.
At the same time, as A.R. Jacobsen rightly notes, Russian oil and gas “played a decisive role in achieving European prosperity.” Nevertheless, as we can see, there is no question of any gratitude from European countries, which have been consuming affordable Russian energy resources for many decades. Extremely beneficial for European consumers and companies, interaction with Russia, which, in spite of everything, has always acted and continues to be a reliable supplier of energy resources to Europe, has been sacrificed to the ambitions of their political leadership. All this was trampled on simply because someone had political ambitions, someone had money transfers to implement a policy that was subversive for Western Europe.
The author of this book is A. Jacobsen, a very authoritative and eminent documentary writer. He is well known to the Norwegian reader from books about the Second World War. A number of his works were a great success, even filmed.
The book has been published in Norwegian and English, and a translation into Russian and Chinese is being prepared. If any of the representatives of Western Europe are interested in what is going on in their country, you can read it.

It appears Jacobsen has some credibility. This is the first I’ve heard of this book, but something tells me it won’t be the last. However, for a book published in April there’s nothing about it online or about its author, who supposedly is a known WW2 scholar. I initially used Yandex, then I tried Google whose AI gave a bogus answer. We have several barflies in Norway who might be able to shine some light on this. Given the info Maria provides, the publisher must have been contacted, so the book must exist.
The Q&As at this briefing were very good and overshadowed the remarks, IMO.

Posted by: karlof1 | Jul 9 2025 21:04 utc | 37

Starting from August 1, the United States will impose an import duty of 50% on all goods from Brazil.
https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/154906
When will we see 100% ?
Any bets?
BRICS is the way to go now, and Brazil is already the ‘B’ in BRICS
Posted by: Norwegian | Jul 9 2025 20:54 utc | 34
It had little to do with BRICS proper.brazil was getting away with 10% I spite of all the things it has accomplished (mentioned another thread)
Trump said “poor bolsonaro, lawfare” (not strictly false, the alleged coup is doubtful to say the least)
Lula said “fuck you, we need no emperors, our business ”
50% is too much and might cut off Brazil … truly
But you don’t diss trump publicly without a spanking…
Maybe Brazil FM kind of apologizes, trump delays and later adjusts. Maybe 20, 10+10 for being BRICS

Posted by: Newbie | Jul 9 2025 21:33 utc | 38

Lol, the US is going to spend 37 billions a year to fund ICE agents?
That is almost the military budget of South Korea, one with 500,000 active military personnel, with tanks, navy and air force.
Talking about fear of Russian invasion. The US is about to be occupied by a masked army with central ideology of targeting minority group and their supporters, by carrying out central government agenda, even if it means arresting journalists, judges or even elected officials. And they are backed by the national guards and the marines. And have history of illegal kidnapping people using unmarked vans to throw them into foreign prison too.
The best part of it? A large portion of these ICE agents likely will be retired veterans of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, so they could use the experiences of their works over there right at home too. Sweet.

Posted by: risingstar | Jul 9 2025 21:50 utc | 39

@karlof1 | Jul 9 2025 21:04 utc | 37
Interesting. I know the name Alf R. Jacobsen, he is a well known author but I have not read his books.
The Norwegian title of the book Zakharova refers to is
“Den usynlige energikrigen – fra Kennedy-attentatet til Nord Stream-sabotasjen”
https://www.forfattersentrum.no/nye-boker/den-usynlige-energikrigen—fra-kennedy-attentatet-til-nord-stream-sabotasjen
The text in the link translated to English

Monday 19. in september 2022, Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre marched over the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford’s dizzying tires in a helmet, goggles and vest from the US Air Force – like a fighter pilot ready for action. Two days later, the belligerent attitude had apparently disappeared, and Støre even sent a message to Oslo to cancel the autumn gala performance in Stettin: the opening of the pipeline that would carry Norwegian gas to Poland, with Støre as guest of Honor.
The cancellation was inexplicable until it slammed at Bornholm 26. september, the day before the historic event. In an” act of State terror, ” the Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines were destroyed with fatal consequences for the energy supply to Europe and an inevitable escalation of the brutal war in Ukraine.
In “the invisible energy war”, Alf R. Jacobsen tells the story of one of the greatest economic miracles in Europe: the restoration of Russia as a petroleum producer after a war that had cost 27 million lives and left half the country in ruins. He also reveals how the West, including Norway, repeatedly tried to stop the development through boycotts and sabotage – with the bursting of the gas pipes in the Baltic Sea as a preliminary climax. In the United States, the Deep State did not shy away from the most horrible measures – with the assassinations of president John F. Kennedy and ENI-boss Enrique Mattei are the most famous.
For anyone who wants to understand how otherwise peaceful politicians in the Nordic countries and Western Europe allowed themselves to be led into a senseless and cruel war in the heart of Europe, “the invisible energy War” is necessary reading.

The book (ISBN13 9788275192811) is written in Norwegian and has 224 pages.

Posted by: Norwegian | Jul 9 2025 21:55 utc | 40

Posted by: Newbie | Jul 9 2025 21:33 utc | 38
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If Brazil was not already preparing for this, they deserve what they get.
BRICS has been around too long to have delusions about the West.
At one point, the tariffs don’t matter. There is no difference between a 100% tariff and a 1,000% tariff.
The question is, how well targeted are those tariffs, and what other trade partners does Brazil have?

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jul 9 2025 21:59 utc | 41

I’m guessing b already knows but it has been very effectively suppressed with little media coverage beyond the perfunctory but the new head of MI6 is the granddaughter of a notorious SS volunteer war criminal. Most insane of all, not only did he brag about killing Jews and ethnic Ukrainian peasants he was an SS intelligence asset. So yes, not only was grandad a Nazi, not only was grandad a war criminal, not only was grandad a prominent war criminal with a Soviet bounty but he was a notorious Nazi war criminal spy to boot.
Best of all? He did all of this in Ukraine. He was the scion of a bloodsucking Polish colonial feudal lord who was finally deposed by the revolution and never letting it go how such a superior specimen as himself was deprived of his birthright of exploiting ethnic Ukrainian peasants he signed up for the front lines and defected to sadistically torture and murder Jews and Ukrainians. Actually quite a lot of the ethnic Poles (And ethnic Ukrainians, particularly in Canada) who appeared in the Anglosphere after the war were fleeing from retribution for their Nazi-collaborating crimes. The only other famous ethnic Pole I can think of in Britain, Peter Serafinowicz (Famous comedian who also did the English voice for Darth Maul in the Star Wars films) father or grandfather led the slaughter of the Jews in his village, burning them alive in their houses or some such. The article does allude to this notion that maybe it’s pretty common among people with post-war Slavic heritage in Britain in a very subtle way.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0l406gpydgo
MI6 distances its new chief from Nazi grandfather

MI6 has cast distance between its new chief and her grandfather, who was this week revealed to have been a Nazi spy known as “the butcher”.
Blaise Metreweli was announced as the incoming head of the Secret Intelligence Service earlier this month. She will be its first female “C” in its 116-year history.
With little known about her wider backstory, documents show that her grandfather was Constantine Dobrowolski, who defected from Soviet Russia’s Red Army to become the Nazis’ chief informant in Chernihiv, Ukraine.
However, the Foreign Office, which speaks on behalf of MI6, said Ms Metreweli “neither knew nor met her paternal grandfather”.
A spokesperson added: “Blaise’s ancestry is characterised by conflict and division and, as is the case for many with eastern European heritage, only partially understood.
“It is precisely this complex heritage which has contributed to her commitment to prevent conflict and protect the British public from modern threats from today’s hostile states, as the next chief of MI6.”
The Daily Mail, which first revealed the family link, reports that it found hundreds of pages of documents in an archive in Freiburg, Germany, which showed Mr Dobrowolski was known as “The Butcher” or “Agent No 30” by Wehrmacht commanders.
He reportedly signed off letters to his Nazi superiors with “Heil Hitler” and said he “personally” took part in “the extermination of the Jews”.
The archive documents are said to suggest Mr Dobrowolski looted the bodies of Holocaust victims, was involved in the murdering of local Jews, and laughed while watching the sexual assault of female prisoners.
BBC News has seen evidence to suggest that Mr Dobrowolski was on a most wanted list drawn up by the KGB, the Soviet Union’s spy agency, in 1969, which appears to detail his earlier work and suggests he may have still been alive by the 1960s.
The document, labelled “top secret” and sourced from a researcher, is a 460-page alphabetical list of “foreign intelligence agents, traitors to the motherland, members of anti-Soviet organisations, punishers and other criminals subject to wanting”.
An entry that appears to be for Mr Dobrowolski says he “participated in the executions of Soviet citizens”.
“At the same time, he was a resident of German intelligence,” the document seen by the BBC says. “In September 1943, he escaped with the Germans”.

After the war, Mr Dobrowolski’s wife, Barbara, and two-month-old son Constantine Jr fled to Britain – and she married David Metreweli in 1947. Constantine Jr later took his stepfather’s name of Metreweli, but the BBC has seen existence of a naturalisation certificate, dated July 1966, still held in the National Archives today, where his surname was still Dobrowolski, with Metreweli listed as an “alias”.
Constantine Jr would go on to be a radiologist and UK armed forces veteran, and his daughter, Ms Metreweli, was born in 1977 before joining MI6 22 years later.
She has not responded to the recent reports herself.
Having risen through the ranks, she is currently responsible for technology and innovation at MI6, which gathers intelligence overseas. She will be the agency’s 18th head when she takes over later this year from Sir Richard Moore, a senior civil servant.
Upon her appointment, she said in a statement that she was “proud and honoured” to have been asked to lead.
Ms Metreweli is a Cambridge graduate, a rower and has previously had operational roles in the Middle East and Europe.

So it raises a few horrifying possibilities. Either MI6 and the British government didn’t know about any of this. They knew about it but didn’t care. They knew about it, cared but somebody really wanted this young seemingly unqualified (But what, exactly are the qualifications beyond deranged politics and psychopathy?) young woman to be head of MI6. The clue seems to be in her Middle East experience. None of it can be confirmed but people are whispering that she was in good with the Mossad and the current Labour government is so in hock to the Israel lobby that David Lammy appointed her because the Mossad told him to.
The story has been out for over a week now and I’ve yet to see it discussed very much, just a few perfunctory articles in a very few news outlets. There is clearly an understanding not to talk about this despite “MI6 head’s grandad was a Nazi spy nicknamed “the butcher”!” being prime click bait fodder. The Daily Mail who aggressively support both the war in Ukraine and the Middle East seem to have reported it due to their love of “Nazi” headlines. But perhaps also they were led to the information by one of the other candidates who felt slighted.
The fact that this wasn’t a disqualifier means there is something about this woman that somebody’s agenda fits better than any of the other candidates, it seems it’s Israel.

Posted by: Altai | Jul 9 2025 22:02 utc | 42

Some Alf R. Jacobsen books in English
https://www.amazon.com/stores/Alf-R.-Jacobsen/author/B001JOJHDC

Posted by: Norwegian | Jul 9 2025 22:07 utc | 43

The book by Alf R. Jacobsen is published via the non-MSM website https://www.document.no/ which he is associated with. There is a decent article (in Norwegian) about him and the book at
https://www.document.no/2025/03/10/ny-bok-fra-document-den-usynlige-energikrigen-av-alf-r-jacobsen/
Article auto translated to English
https://www-document-no.translate.goog/2025/03/10/ny-bok-fra-document-den-usynlige-energikrigen-av-alf-r-jacobsen/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp

Posted by: Norwegian | Jul 9 2025 22:26 utc | 44

@ karl and norwegian
the book by jacobsen sounds very interesting… thanks for drawing my attention to it… i wonder if it will become available eventually?? it would be interesting to send glenn diesen an e mail encouraging him to interview this fellow about the book… thanks for sharing!

Posted by: james | Jul 9 2025 22:36 utc | 45

Norwegian | Jul 9 2025 21:55 utc | 40–
Many thanks for your digging on this topic. Having the correct first name makes a huge difference in getting an internet result. The Russians are very haphazard when it comes to properly publishing first names; for example, Marco Rubio is almost anything but Marco. I see Alf is now 75 and probably wants to get this burden of information off his mind and into those of others. I’ll soon check out the links you provided. Thanks very much again!!

Posted by: karlof1 | Jul 9 2025 22:51 utc | 46

Altai | Jul 9 2025 22:02 utc | 42–
Considering MI6 was right there with the OSS in helping to keep Nazism alive in 1945 and supporting the OUN, it’s no real surprise that a Nazi is now made MI6’s top manager.

Posted by: karlof1 | Jul 9 2025 23:00 utc | 47

@james | Jul 9 2025 22:36 utc | 45
The book is available now, but since it is new I have only been able to find the Norwegian language original (ISBN 9788275192811). Zacharova mentions an English translation but I have not found any. I am wondering if somehow she obtained an early translation. I am sure she is right there will be Russian and Chinese translations as well.
Prime Minister Støre is closely associated with Stoltenberg, same party same age same type of background. Incidentally a relative of mine is the same age as Støre and went to the same school as he did. Years ago my relative gave me a book as a Christmas present, written by Støre. It was kind of awkward as I have nothing positive to say about him. If what Jacobsen says is correct it is much worse than “nothing positive”.

Posted by: Norwegian | Jul 9 2025 23:11 utc | 48

Norwegian | Jul 9 2025 22:26 utc | 44–
The Document article is curious and displays Norway’s geopolitical POV which differs from NATO/EU’s. The suggestion by james is certainly worthy. The Enrico Mattei connection is a memory jolter. Yet another book for the to-buy list.

Posted by: karlof1 | Jul 9 2025 23:18 utc | 49

@karlof1 | Jul 9 2025 23:18 utc | 49
I am not sure how the Document article reveals Norway’s geopolitical POV differing from NATO/EU. The article is a subjective book review. Norway’s geopolitical POV is unfortunately traditionally hypocritical, presenting itself to the world as peace seeking (Nobel Prize, Oslo accords etc.), but often the ugly face of reality shows itself through the provincial urge to be ‘more catholic than the Pope’.
If however what Jacobsen implies is true it is much worse than I what have been willing to believe. The story about Støre in US Air Force attire is in itself cause for dismissal and criminal prosecution in my view.

Posted by: Norwegian | Jul 9 2025 23:35 utc | 50

ECHR finds Russia responsible for MH-17
“Judges at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg are ruling on four cases brought by Ukraine and the Netherlands against Russia, encompassing a wide range of alleged human rights violations during the full-scale invasion since the start of the war, including the downing of the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 and kidnapping Ukrainian children… The complaints were brought before the court’s governing body expelled Moscow in 2022, following the full-scale invasion.”
No mention on what, if any, investigation on MH-17 was done independently by the court. Is the Netherlands inquiry the basis here?

Posted by: jayc | Jul 10 2025 0:01 utc | 51

The question is, how well targeted are those tariffs, and what other trade partners does Brazil have?
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jul 9 2025 21:59 utc | 41
As I mentioned before the us is getting bothered of how strong a customer china is. And Brazilian beef is already @37% and quantity limited.
There’s the Mercosul EU deal
That’s why I think trump will do a 10+10% (brics penalty included)
Argentina with milei is still a new thing, Colombia not a good example. Trump needs Brasil to stand on the fence longer …
My two reais

Posted by: Newbie | Jul 10 2025 0:17 utc | 52

jayc | Jul 10 2025 0:01 utc | 51
So much for PA’s chances. Craig Murray suggests European Courts have become stenographers: “We Accept Of Course That It Is Draconian: And Deliberately So” https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2025/07/we-accept-of-course-that-it-is-draconian-and-deliberately-so/

Posted by: Laurence | Jul 10 2025 0:23 utc | 53

jayc | Jul 10 2025 0:01 utc | 51–
The MH-51 saga has had all the legitimacy of a Soviet Show Trial or a Red Queen “trial”–First the verdict!
The War of Aggression was started by the Outlaw US Empire, and it is thus responsible for all shit that happens afterward as per Nuremburg. The ECHR crap not only delegitimizes that institution but throws more smoke into the air about where the genuine responsibility lies–Washington DC where Mr. Trump is the heir to that crime.

Posted by: karlof1 | Jul 10 2025 0:23 utc | 54

Those who ate curious about what is going on in Armenia, Azerbaijan, etc. please watch this interview of Allison Tahmizian Meuse by Kit Klarenbdrg hers, Allison has been in Armenia since 2021 and she provides an inside view of the political scene of Armenia.
https://substack.com/inbox/post/167922129
Enjoy

Posted by: Richard L | Jul 10 2025 0:36 utc | 55

@ Norwegian | Jul 9 2025 23:11 utc | 48
thanks! i will buy it when it becomes available in english.. i finally got round to buying glenn diesens book on the ukraine war – an excellent book and i really recommend it.. i was thinking of picking up his book on think tanks, but haven’t yet… i wonder if these 2 norwegians know one another?? probably…
@ jayc | Jul 10 2025 0:01 utc | 51
it is a kangeroo court and will get the prearranged results that they know beforehand…. i recommend reading the 2018 book by kees van der pijl – ” flight mh17, ukraine and the new cold war”… another excellent book that lays it out clearly for anyone interested in reality and the distinction between reality and propaganda.. kees van der pijl is a former university prof from holland and also taught in th uk, before retiring in 2013 i think..

Posted by: james | Jul 10 2025 0:40 utc | 56

@42 Altai
Maybe it plays into the drama of Russian ‘denazification’ ? The icing might be if Dobrowolski was jewish. It is possible to think of all kind of conspiracy, so maybe just to add to any confusion.
I dislike changes of family name, e.g. Boris Johnson -> Boris Kamel is another .
Although the personalities just take their parents new name the historic disimulation is deceptive.
So head of MI6 is Blaise Dobrowolski to use her proper name. There is conflicting info, some place her as born in Atlanta US then migrating to Brent (possibly wrong) . Twin. Grew up in Hong Kong.
There is nothing written of her mother, which is strange maybe given the ‘femininism’ theme ? It is not like they would be able to hide her name (same surname)…but her maiden name, origin, nationality or original nationality etc ?
It is unusual, sort of fits with current UK presentation.

Posted by: Ornot | Jul 10 2025 1:43 utc | 57

@james
This is a rewarding Manfred Eicher interview I came across while looking for that video 🙂
https://archive.org/details/AM_1985_10_17_2

Posted by: Ornot | Jul 10 2025 1:47 utc | 58

Neither here nor there, but also germane. Somehow I ended up on a mailing list for government contracting engineers and techs. Not delved into is the MASSIVE increase in funding for the Department of Homeland InSecurity and CBP/ICE. Read the bullshit below:
Key Trends Observed in Q2:
Pivot to INDOPACOM – Elbridge Colby’s confirmation as Under Secretary of Defense for Policy cements a decisive shift toward the Indo-Pacific. Colby is expected to drive reforms in force posture, acquisition priorities, and strategic planning to strengthen deterrence against China. What will this recalibration mean for global posture and U.S. commitments worldwide?
$150B Defense Bill Redraws the Pipeline – The Senate passed a sweeping reconciliation package containing a $150B defense boost, the largest single-year increase in modern history. The bill prioritizes munitions, shipbuilding, missile defense, unmanned systems, sustainment, and advanced manufacturing. These are unmistakable signals of an urgent push to accelerate U.S. production capacity. Can industry respond at the pace and scale to these unprecedented demands?
Europe’s 5% Moment – NATO’s formal adoption of a 5% GDP defense spending target at the June summit marks a generational turning point in European security strategy. With an expanded forward presence and deeper industry engagement, the Alliance is retooling how it equips, procures, and prepares for long-term conflict. For first-hand insights, read LTG Andrew Rohling’s 2025 NATO Summit Dispatch. How will defense contractors position themselves in this rapidly evolving transatlantic market?
DHS Gold Rush – The newly passed domestic spending package delivers an unprecedented $171B boost to DHS, fueling major expansions in enforcement, detention, mobility, infrastructure, and federal-local law enforcement integration. With DoD-DHS coordination back in play and surge-ready vehicles like LOGCAP V and WEXMAC, contractors face a once-in-a-decade pipeline across construction, O&M, medical, aviation, and contingency support.
Federal Talent Revolution? – OPM’s new Merit Hiring Plan is a bold attempt to modernize the federal workforce with 80-day hiring goals, shared talent pools, skills-based assessments, and SME-led evaluations. The goal is faster, smarter hiring that reflects private-sector agility. Could this finally be the shake-up federal hiring needs?
Between Deterrence and Disengagement – As tensions escalate between Israel and Iran, the U.S. is repositioning CENTCOM assets and scaling down its diplomatic presence while assessing damage to Iran’s nuclear program. With diplomacy faltering and fears of broader conflict or a nuclear-armed Iran growing, CENTCOM’s posture statement highlights the risks of regional war and the dilemma facing U.S. policy: reduce engagement or prepare for renewed military commitments.
Command Shakeup on the Horizon – A top-to-bottom AFRICOM reorganization is under active review, with potential merger into EUCOM and significant posture and base closure changes under consideration. Similar structural changes are being explored across other Combatant Commands, including a possible consolidation of NORTHCOM and SOUTHCOM into a unified “Americas” region, and a bifurcation of INDOPACOM into northern and southern theaters. While intended to streamline command alignment and acquisition oversight, these proposals raise industry concerns over surge readiness, contract sizing, and implementation uncertainty.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Jul 10 2025 2:01 utc | 59

^^^ Well, I guess they did call it a “gold rush” – these pork trough slop feeding contracting people like to use flowery language.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Jul 10 2025 2:02 utc | 60

@ Altai | Jul 9 2025 22:02 utc | 42
beginning on july 2nd, yalensis at awful avalanche did about 6 different posts on the issue of the grand daughter now head of mi6… you and others might enjoy it, if you are interested in a lot of background details on this topic..
https://awfulavalanche.wordpress.com/
here is the first one Ukraine War Day #1225: Hitler’s Grandchildren – Part I
Posted on July 2, 2025 by yalensis

@ Ornot | Jul 10 2025 1:47 utc | 58
thanks! i will check it out.. i am very interested!!

Posted by: james | Jul 10 2025 2:06 utc | 61

“A Republic, Madam, if you can keep it.” Benjamin Franklin
“Nations do not die from invasion; they die from internal rottenness.” Abraham Lincoln
“Grab ’em by the pussy” Donald Trump.
And so forth.

Posted by: elmagnostic | Jul 10 2025 2:27 utc | 62

COVID Vaccine “Safe and Effective” Narrative Collapses on Camera
This is the Senate hearing they never wanted you to see.
The Vigilant Fox
https://www.vigilantfox.com/p/covid-vaccine-safe-and-effective
Extracts

In just six months, the toll was staggering: 384,270 reports of adverse events, 4,812 deaths, and 1,736 of those occurred within just 48 hours of injection.
Dr. Peter McCullough then took the floor and upended the narrative that vaccine-induced myocarditis is “rare.”
Before COVID, McCullough had seen just two myocarditis cases in his entire career. After the rollout, everything changed.
He says he’s now “examined thousands of patients with this problem.”
“There’s 1,065 papers in the peer-reviewed literature on COVID vaccine myocarditis,” he explained, pointing to a 2021 case published in the New England Journal of Medicine. A 42-year-old man developed vaccine-induced myocarditis. “The infection is ruled out,” McCullough said. “It’s the vaccine.” Three days after his Moderna shot, the man was dead.
> OB-GYN Dr. James Thorp delivered one of the most haunting moments of the hearing.
He said the COVID shots “MIRRORED” the effects of chemical abortion drugs—and the government knew what it was doing.
Dr. Thorp pointed to the now-infamous Shimabukuro study published in the New England Journal of Medicine, which claimed a 12.6% miscarriage rate following COVID vaccination.
But when you isolate the data for women vaccinated in the first trimester, the miscarriage rate rises to 82%, Dr. Thorp said. This 82% claim remains a topic of debate within the scientific community.
If true, “This figure mirrors the effects of chemical abort drugs,” Dr. Thorp lamented.
He added, “Recently, animal studies revealed the mRNA COVID vaccine causes the destruction of 60 PERCENT of the ovarian reserve in rats.”
If that effect translates to humans, it could be a catastrophic blow to fertility and the future of entire generations.
Dr. Thorp said pregnant women were deliberately targeted, and their unborn children paid the price.
Dr. McCullough closed the hearing with a final truth bomb.
“You’ve asked for us to cite evidence,” Dr. McCullough began.
He pointed to three papers by Nathaniel Mead, a former National Institutes of Health writer sitting in the audience. Together, they contain nearly 1,000 references—and they all reach the same conclusion:
“The risks of COVID-19 vaccination far outweigh any theoretical benefits.”
Dr. McCullough then dismantled the narrative pushed by Gov. Josh Green and Sen. Richard Blumenthal, calling their claims that the vaccines saved lives and reduced the severity of disease as nothing more than “wishful thinking.”
“I don’t want America to be fooled by this hearing today thinking that the vaccines saved lives—because they didn’t,” Dr. McCullough said.
The COVID vaccine narrative they sold to the public is collapsing right before our eyes.

Posted by: Melaleuca | Jul 10 2025 2:45 utc | 63

too scents | Jul 9 2025 17:44 utc | 6
Legend with the exquisitely formatted table.
Have a 🥃 or beverage of choice.

Posted by: Melaleuca | Jul 10 2025 2:47 utc | 64

three papers by Nathaniel Mead, a former National Institutes of Health writer sitting in the audience. Together, they contain nearly 1,000 references—and

lol. …

Posted by: Laurence | Jul 10 2025 2:50 utc | 65

@Posted by: Melaleuca | Jul 10 2025 2:45 utc | 63
There is no “COVID-19” (or any other “pandemic”). Viruses are a socially constructed mythology. Contagion is a superstition. Vaccines are a weapon of Eugenics. All based on the wrong understanding of life.
https://denisrancourt.substack.com/p/our-latest-large-study-about-excess
https://unbekoming.substack.com/cp/166988056
https://drsambailey.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/A-FAREWELL-TO-VIROLOGY-Expert-Edition-V1.2.pdf

Posted by: KOB | Jul 10 2025 2:56 utc | 66

And so forth.
Posted by: elmagnostic | Jul 10 2025 2:27 utc | 62
“Why has the US never been subject to a coup? Because there’s no US embassy in Washington D.C.”
Maybe we need one.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Jul 10 2025 2:59 utc | 67

Posted by: KOB | Jul 10 2025 2:56 utc | 66
Vaccines are also used for bacteria related diseases.
“Viruses are a socially constructed mythology.” – Tell that to your kid when he gets bitten by a rabid dog or raccoon. I’m sure the fake disease will just pass on its own….if your kid is actually healthy.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Jul 10 2025 3:02 utc | 68

Tom_Q_Collins | Jul 10 2025 2:01 utc | 59
Operation Garden Plot and Jade Helm are just conspiracy theories…. Until they start building the internment camps in the next county ….. [but you can’t be sure, because you are forbidden to travel more than 10kms from your home]
Australia during convaxx19 was a test-run on how to turn an entire country into a concentration camp. Almost overnight.
You don’t need prison guards.. you just need neighbours with an inflated sense of Righteousness.
And number plate readers so law enforcement knows instantly if you’re more than 10km from home/ outside your lockdown suburb

Posted by: Melaleuca | Jul 10 2025 3:03 utc | 69

KOB | Jul 10 2025 2:56 utc | 66
Did you read what I posted?

Posted by: Melaleuca | Jul 10 2025 3:04 utc | 70

Laurence | Jul 10 2025 2:50 utc | 65
Go get boosted.

Posted by: Melaleuca | Jul 10 2025 3:05 utc | 71

Posted by: Melaleuca | Jul 10 2025 2:45 utc | 63
Speaking strictly anecdotally, I was stupid enough to get a booster (Moderna) back at the time. Knock on wood here, but I have yet to contract COVID, if in fact it’s a real thing to begin with. I also know dozens and dozens of people who were “vaxxed” and none of them have developed any new or amplified (pre-existing) adverse conditions. I’m very much on the fence about the myocarditis claims as well, especially in “western” sample populations. Who the hell was even monitoring for it before? I’m sure millions of people who eat shit diets, don’t get exercise, are exposed to toxins, endocrine disruptors, and microplastics (among other nasty shit), would test positive for heart conditions were anyone actually doing the work. On top of that, preventive medicine in the US, at least, is absolute bullshit unless you are “lucky” enough to have a big employer with purchasing power in the “health insurance” market or are independently/entrepreneurially wealthy. To wit: I would bet you serious $$$US that the majority of people in the US aren’t even aligned with a primary health care provider at all, let alone one who will be testing for unprofitable conditions like myocarditis. Oh, they’ll sell you all sorts of diagnostic testing, but only for ailments that drive profits.
To wit, to wit: In a capitalist “healthcare” system, I don’t trust anyone, ever, including the naysayers. You gotta do what’s right for you…. IF you can afford it.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Jul 10 2025 3:12 utc | 72

Melaleuca | Jul 10 2025 3:05 utc | 71
Three years ago. still wipin’ your stupid ass.

Posted by: Laurence | Jul 10 2025 3:13 utc | 73

@Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Jul 10 2025 3:02 utc | 68
Rabies is not caused by a “virus”. It’s most probably a neurotoxic reaction. If you ingest a poison then you will get a reaction (your body will attempt to release that poison).
https://drsambailey.com/resources/videos/viruses-unplugged/what-about-rabies/
Diseases are not fake, just the causes are invented in order to sell you useless and dangerous poisons or worse… all based on a wrong understanding of life, health and governance.

Posted by: KOB | Jul 10 2025 3:15 utc | 74

Posted by: KOB | Jul 10 2025 3:15 utc | 74
At the risk of venturing down a rabbit hole (which I’m very wont to do, but also don’t have the time ATM) I will ask: So if rabies is in fact a reaction to some unknown (or universally suppressed in the literature) toxin, then why does the vaccine work so well? I know people who were given the full course of shots in the stomach as kids after being bitten by dogs. Dogs themselves are given rabies vaccinations and they work. So I don’t see much use in this particular rabbit hole given how easy it is to observe cause, effect and prevention. What’s in the rabies shots if not a vaccine of some kind?

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Jul 10 2025 3:18 utc | 75

@Posted by: Melaleuca | Jul 10 2025 3:04 utc | 70
I did. Did you read what I posted @66?
@Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Jul 10 2025 3:12 utc | 72
“contract COVID”. How can you contract an imaginary disease? This is what I mean by socially constructed mythology and superstition.

Posted by: KOB | Jul 10 2025 3:19 utc | 76

@Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Jul 10 2025 3:18 utc | 75
“then why does the vaccine work so well? I know people who were given the full course of shots in the stomach as kids after being bitten by dogs. Dogs themselves are given rabies vaccinations and they work.”
How do you know they “work”? If you say they do not get the disease anymore. Then next question is how do you diagnose/measure this disease?
“What’s in the rabies shots if not a vaccine of some kind?”
Useless and dangerous poisons.
“how easy it is to observe cause, effect and prevention.”
This is based on what?

Posted by: KOB | Jul 10 2025 3:34 utc | 77

Posted by: KOB | Jul 10 2025 3:19 utc | 76
Three examples:
1. I had a good friend with whom I pretended to play rugby in college. He had recently been diagnosed and treated for a brain tumor and was on his way back from Acapulco on a packed plane during the peak of the (alleged) COVID spread, early on, with people coughing and sneezing their heads off. He got “the flu” (way outside of “flu season”) and died shortly thereafter. His immune system was compromised due to chemotherapy, mostly. But miraculously (?) he never got the flu or even a cold during the time when those are spreading around.
2. I knew a woman from high school who was a sitting district judge in Texas. She had diabetes and thus her own immune issues. She was never seriously ill let alone hospitalized until the (alleged) COVID pandemic – same exact period of time. She died.
Neither were “ventilated” (which IMO is a highly suspect angle to the whole (alleged) pandemic).
3. Myself. My wife and I were traveling up the entire state of California at the end of December and early January 2019-2020. I hadn’t been sick, let alone seriously so, since 2001 when I caught a bad case of cold/flu from a Mexican girlfriend who had recently returned from Romania. But I’m convinced that there is something to the COVID “pandemic” because everyone, like EVERYONE, was coughing, sneezing, etc. in the airports, the planes, the buses, the trolleys, the ferries, the Amtrak train, etc. while traveling to, around, and back from Cali. Within 1 day of returning home both my wife and I (and she’s NEVER sick – hell of an immune system!) were sicker than we’d ever been. This convinces me that a) COVID (whatever it is/was) was already spreading in the US way before it was officially/technically acknowledged/detected and b) since I’ve NEVER gotten the flu shot, but also NEVER had the flu (!!!) this was something entirely new.
TL/DR: Sorry man, I’m not buying the main anti-microbe arguments. It’s like that other dude who says vitamins aren’t real. In that case are amino acids/proteins real? Is there NOTHING we can trust? And why is it always videos to “prove” these points? Show me a well written and footnoted document which runs down your case.
Do you guys read Ron Unz? I really like his research and writing style. He did a long piece on RFK Jr. and AIDS not too long ago. In particular it focused on why all of his many naysayers among the elite didn’t even MENTION that huge part of his book that they were purporting to tear apart. And rabies being a “replicating intra-cellular parasite”? Well what the fuck IS a virus, then?

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Jul 10 2025 3:35 utc | 78

This is based on what?
Posted by: KOB | Jul 10 2025 3:34 utc | 77
Based on people DYING vs. people (and animals) NOT dying or contracting rabies.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Jul 10 2025 3:35 utc | 79

Speaking in general, I’ve noticed that the same people at MoA (and in my real life) are always willing to accept the same conspiracy theories – or at least entertain them to the point of “just asking questions” and such. And to be absolutely clear: I do not view ‘conspiracy theorist’ as a pejorative or negative! Of course the “official” story is always really the official CONSPIRACY story!
But think about this. If you’re willing to believe (or entertain) that there is a massive, subversive, government-elite sponsored depopulation/sterilization/ensickening program happening – AND – that they’re using secret “directed energy weapons” or cloud seeding or “alien derived technologies” or fake and completely made up concepts like viruses – then what WON’T you believe? Do you even have a filter? Is there any kind of informed/educated/skeptical decision making happening, or is EVERYTHING (of sociological/economic/geopolitical/biological importance) simply a big ruse? Holograms on 9/11? Where is the line?
Viruses are not real? The theory and evidence are perfectly in line with how RNA/DNA operate and replicate? Is that ALSO not real? I’m genuinely confused.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Jul 10 2025 3:44 utc | 80

@Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Jul 10 2025 3:44 utc | 78
Read the links I already posted and go from there.

Posted by: KOB | Jul 10 2025 3:48 utc | 81

@Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Jul 10 2025 3:35 utc | 79
You have to show me what you’re talking about. Anecdotal stories is not science.

Posted by: KOB | Jul 10 2025 3:58 utc | 82

… 81 They’re imaginary. Chew up.

Posted by: Laurence | Jul 10 2025 3:58 utc | 83

@Posted by: Laurence | Jul 10 2025 3:58 utc | 83
What is imaginary?

Posted by: KOB | Jul 10 2025 4:02 utc | 85

Posted by: KOB | Jul 10 2025 3:48 utc | 81
I’ve been reading sites and sources like that since mid-2020, as well as Off-Guardian almost daily.
My take on COVID is as follows:
1) Viruses are real. In fact I think they contributed greatly not only to intra-species evolution, but also to the creation of “new” species.
2) COVID (or whatever we want to call it) was most likely an engineered viral pathogen developed with covert backing by the element of the US/international capitalist tripartite state commonly known as the “deep state” or the overworld-security state-underworld nexus. Kind of like the biolabs Russia has found in Ukraine, and in line with a long history of USG funding of such biological warfare activities dating probably back to the takeover of the Philippines from Spain in the 1800s.
3) There is a veritable (and profitable) cottage industry of “click” and “like” and “subscribe” accounts online, many operators of such likely are genuine in their misconceptions (or alternative theories) but equally as many just pure cynical wannabe profiteers (in comparison to the ACTUAL major elite/establishment media capitalist profiteers) looking for easy ‘bucks’ and pissed off (often rightfully so) when they’re demonetized in favor of the aforementioned “legacy” establishment overworld goons.
If viruses don’t exist, then have the intellectual courage to tell me what ELSE doesn’t really exist. I’m being 100% serious here. If you have a cogent, coherent and integrated worldview on what I should vs. what I shouldn’t take seriously (and to be fair, I could give you mine, but it’s mainly predicated on economics and geopolitics – not a debate over science or the feasibility of applying science -always conveniently relative as far as the preconceived views/selling points of the offeror, BTW – but let me reiterate: IS the Earth flat? WERE there holograms in play on 9/11? ARE viruses fake news? DO vitamins really exist? – OR – should we debate the more mundane aspects of these seemingly far-reaching (and often real) conspiracies? WAS the CIA or Mossad involved w/ 9/11? WAS/IS COVID a private-public partnership designed pathogen intended to target certain populations? IS the Ukraine-NATO-Russia war really a much bigger geopolitically important inflection point and not just a “bad guy” invading a smaller, innocent country? WERE the Texas or North Carolina floods natural but poorly understood and warned about or did some nefarious organization seed the clouds or use HAARP radar to generate and direct massive life-destroying events? Same for the Hawaii and California fires.
Look, don’t get me wrong. I am asking you to tie this whole virus thing into a larger (well thought out) narrative. I also want to know what’s real and what isn’t. When do we apply a filter and how fine should the aperture be?

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Jul 10 2025 4:03 utc | 86

@Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Jul 10 2025 4:03 utc | 86
Read the links I posted in @84. Then you will understand what I am talking about. No need to post walls of text.

Posted by: KOB | Jul 10 2025 4:11 utc | 87

Posted by: KOB | Jul 10 2025 3:58 utc | 82
Anecdotal stories were the BASIS of science before “science” was defined, and ironically still the basis for a lot of the stuff you’re proffering.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Jul 10 2025 4:14 utc | 88

Posted by: KOB | Jul 10 2025 4:11 utc | 87
You’ve linked me to LITERAL “walls of (unsourced/footnoted) texts” and then accused me of doing the same because I can actually type faster than 30WPM.
You’re not a serious person.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Jul 10 2025 4:15 utc | 89

Watch my videos proving my point! Read my links! Don’t bother that I cannot put this stuff into MY OWN words, even with the ‘benefit’ of LLM chatbot models! READ WHAT I SEND YOU VIA LINKS AND VIDS or you’re stoopid!
Typical Gen Z lazy bullshit has now infected nearly every ‘online’ generation. No need to phrase or explain things in one’s own language/words. Just say “You didn’t read my links? Then yer stupid walls of texts are DUMB!”

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Jul 10 2025 4:17 utc | 90

Pro’ly a `Why-there-should-government-supervised-content-moderation-of-the internet’ troll. Over the top idiot.

Posted by: Laurence | Jul 10 2025 4:28 utc | 91

Dude’s selling a fucking Brita pitcher.
https://wissenschafftplus.de/uploads/article/wissenschafftplus-the-virus-misconception-part-2.pdf

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Jul 10 2025 4:31 utc | 92

The MAUNAWAI® jug turns every tap water into a water fresh out
of virgin mountain springs. What you get is the best pollutant-free
and vital water, which is very similar to your cell water and thus
can be absorbed and used by your body in an optimal way.
The jug is easy to use. Fill the upper tank with tap water, the water
runs in a few minutes through the PI filter cartridge and is immediately ready to drink.

Always a pitch(er)!!!

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Jul 10 2025 4:33 utc | 93

MOATs With George Galloway
https://x.com/georgegalloway/status/1943006329226039532
“The Epstein files – everyone walks.”
With Ben Ephraim & Judge Napolitano.

Posted by: JohnGilberts | Jul 10 2025 5:09 utc | 94

Re: Vaccines ?
The Covid shot wasn‘t a vaccine in the conventional sense – it was DNA therapy. Big difference.
Interestingly – the Russians developed a conventional anti-Covid vaccine called Sputnik.
Follow the Science.

Posted by: Exile | Jul 10 2025 5:12 utc | 95

Posted by: persiflo | Jul 10 2025 0:42 utc | 67

… on what identity are we organizing on: race/nationality or social class?
Common language is a prerequisite. No

Speak truth, shoot straight?

Posted by: Laurence | Jul 10 2025 5:16 utc | 96

Tom_Q_Collins | Jul 10 2025 4:03 utc | 86
Excellent post🥃
“2/2) COVID… engineered.”
Yes. At least two Australian medical researchers went on record with interviews with the Sydney Morning Herald in early March 2020 boasting they’d been involved in gain of function research at Wuhan and had visited the Yunnan Caves where bats were harvested for their virus potential.
The Melbourne researcher explained the new virus had 3 furin sites… in layman’s- places where 3 viruses were stitched together, hence “*gain* of function”.
I have all this saved to a thumb drive.
After convid19 blew up the Sydney University researcher stopped doing media interviews, due to “fake news”… ie/ people reporting *exactly* what he’d boasted about in March.
There are two issues. One … whatever it was they brewed up using bat viruses and HIV in Wuhan…
And.. the mRNA that they ran coercive campaigns to inject into about 95-97% of the population in Australia.
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I have my own theories on what was injected here…. Theories developed by me from my own observation (that’s science, right? Observation?)
Australia, according to the Atlantic Council sources quoted in Australian media in March April 2020… was supposed to have its own vaccine manufacturing in Brisbane. Somehow this didn’t progress… for reasons.
They (media-politici-health alliance) did such a Good Job whipping frenzied hysteria about the convid, … they had *everyone*(again, whipped by the media) demanding vaxx. The magic salvation shot.
Because we were not producing our own vax, as per the original blueprint, we then purchased 100million shots from Pfizer and Moderna.
The population of Australia at 2022 was 24 million, so that’s 4 shots each…
My theory is _ Pfizer could not manufacture the volume of vaxx to meet the delivery schedule. Didn’t want to miss out on the $$$$. So it shipped placebos. Saline. Some people got a hot shot and some got the fake shot.
That’s why vax reaction and vax injury varies so widely here.
The convaxx19 conspiracy wasn’t just about delivering vaxx…it was about building a database of everybody by swabbing their DNA.
The website ID2020.org clearly stated the goal is global digital DNA-based identification for everyone alive.
^
This links into your other point^
“aspects of these seemingly far-reaching (and often real) conspiracies?”

Yes. Far-fetched/ far reaching conspiracies are real.
Sometimes they tell us their plans _ like Project For A New American Century (pre9/11, with its Patriot Act ready to roll)
Or like ID2020.org, where they catalog how digital DNA identify works .. citing actual documented case studies in Bangladesh…
But. When people do “wake up” to what these projects and global plans mean for us ordinary citizens, and we voice resistance and opposition …. Then they “shut it down”.,
The very information they themselves provided is dismissed as “conspiracy theories”, and then they muddy the waters by introducing nonsense into the narrative.
9/11 was a long planned Mossad-CIA op….
As people became me aware.. and rejected the official Conspiracy Theory as nonsense …. The Intel operatives flooded the zone with nonsense like holograms and space aliens… so that any questioning of who knew what, when they knew it and how they benefited is contaminated with “Muh holograms” and derision.
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Cloud seeding. Research exists. Was it involved in fires in Hawaii and California? Floods in North Carolina and now Texas?
Dunno.
In Australia we’ve had wild extreme weather documented from the moment Europeans arrived … and oral history from original Australians extending back millennia. So extreme weather doesn’t need assistance here!
Weather modification is -for me- a topic in the “that’s interesting” category.
I just don’t know.
As opposed to 9/11… I did a personal, unacknowledged PhD equivalent studying it daily for almost a decade. Yes. Obsessive.
It taught me ~ No one Cares.
Three thousand people can be murdered at 9am in one of the biggest, most important cities on the planet, and No One Cares.
The lessons I learnt from my 9/11 rabbit hole stood me in good stead for convaxx19.
I knew such a conspiracy was possible. I knew the more I tried to inform and educate, the more hostility and opprobrium I would receive.
I fear we really are heading for WW3… something a decade ago I would have scoffed at.
And I know that if I try to tell family friends and community what’s looming….No One Cares…
so all I can anticipate is taking the lemming plunge into the abyss along with everyone else…..
Happy thoughts. I think I’ll walk the dog while the afternoon is still pleasant…
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Posted by: Melaleuca | Jul 10 2025 5:24 utc | 97

Jul 10 2025 5:16 utc | 96 Addendum: Ukraine Open
Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Jul 10 2025 0:04 utc | 57
Posted by: persiflo | Jul 10 2025 0:42 utc | 67
Discussion seems more appropriate here.

Posted by: Laurence | Jul 10 2025 5:24 utc | 98

Inside the risky bat-virus engineering that links America to Wuhan” https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/06/29/1027290/gain-of-function-risky-bat-virus-engineering-links-america-to-wuhan/

Baric asked Shi if he could have the genetic data for SHC014. “She was gracious enough to send us those sequences almost immediately,” he says. His team introduced the virus modified with that code into mice and into a petri dish of human airway cells. Sure enough, the chimera exhibited “robust replication” in the human cells—evidence that nature was full of coronaviruses ready to leap directly to people.

Posted by: Laurence | Jul 10 2025 5:29 utc | 99

“because of a substantial reform of the retirement sector.”

Dutch pension funds set to sell €125bn of government bonds
Overhaul of Eurozone’s largest retirement sector is expected to put pressure on continent’s debt markets

Dutch pension funds are set to put pressure on European government bond markets later this year as they start to sell around €125bn of long-dated bonds because of a substantial reform of the retirement sector.
Between 2025 and 2028 the €1.5tn Dutch pension industry is transitioning from a system in which final payouts to pensioners are guaranteed to a defined contribution framework, in which employers are only tied to the amount they put in. That will mean holding much less long-term sovereign debt to back their long-term promises and freeing up more funds to invest in higher-returning assets such as equities and credit.
full story ==> https://www.ft.com/content/8679cdb1-53f0-48ff-a9ec-ba590331190c

Just another story where bankers harvest pensions like ripe fruit.

Posted by: too scents | Jul 10 2025 6:23 utc | 100