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

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En passant. …
… “As for Lula’s notion of bringing the G20 into BRICS, let’s attribute it to the drowsy effect of a sleepless night – after a marathon of meetings.” … https://sputnikglobe.com/20250709/let-the-sunshine-in—what-brics-in-rio-really-delivered-1122419931.html

Posted by: Laurence | Jul 10 2025 7:09 utc | 101

Nigeria attended Brics in Brazil as a Partner Country, the reason why it was not invited to meet with the Orange one:
Nigeria snubbed at White House summit, opposition blames Tinubu
By Anne Sandager
Last updated: 19 hours ago
Nigeria
Nigeria’s opposition alliance blamed President Bola Tinubu for not being invited to the African summit in the White House on Wednesday, according to a statement by the opposition’s Publicity Secretary, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi.
The newly formed opposition coalition, the African Democratic Congress (ADC), stated that Nigeria’s absence from the meeting constituted a ”damning international indictment” of the country’s poor economic health and weak foreign policy under Tinubu, as reported by Nigeria’s Vanguard media.
“Although we are Africa’s largest economy, with the largest consumer market and the continent’s most influential diaspora, the United States chose to bypass us in favour of nations which combined GDP is only a fraction of ours,’’ Abdullahi said in the statement.
U.S. President Donald Trump will meet with the leaders of Gabon, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mauritania, and Senegal in Washington from July 9 to 11.
Trade, investment and security will be the key topics for the summit as the Trump administration pivots to a ’trade not aid’ development strategy in Africa.
It is unclear why Trump chose to invite the five relatively small West African states, but the day before the summit was announced, U.S Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that American engagement in Africa would favour nations” that have demonstrated both the ability and willingness to help themselves”.
As the largest economy and most populous country in West Africa, Nigeria’s exclusion from Wednesday’s meeting is noteworthy.
Diplomatic relations between the U.S and Nigeria have worsened in recent weeks culminating on Sunday when Trump on Truth Social announced an additional 10% tariff on Nigeria and other countries aligned with BRICS. In the post, the President criticised BRICS policies for being ‘anti-American’.
In January, Nigeria joined the alliance of emerging economies as an official partner country. Speaking at the 17th BRICS Summit in Brazil earlier this week, President Tinubu called for “a reevaluation of the current global governance structure”, in an assumed jab at the U.S.
Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi warned that the new BRICS tariff against Nigeria was evidence that the country’s global reputation was slipping, noting that a few years ago, it would have been unthinkable that a meeting like Wednesday’s would be held without Nigeria.
“It shows just how far our global standing has declined under this administration,” he said.
https://www.africanews.com/2025/07/09/nigeria-snubbed-at-white-house-summit-opposition-blames-tinubu/

Posted by: Menz | Jul 10 2025 7:44 utc | 102

Concerning HAARP
There are US Navy ships equipped with large antenna arrays looking a bit like HAARP
This is probably used for 3D radar and perhaps over the horizon ionospheric communication, providing passage for higher frequency signals.
But I dont see in what way the US could attack China with radiosignals from Alaska

Posted by: petergrfstrm | Jul 10 2025 7:49 utc | 103

Nigeria
Blinken and Snake Sullivan were crawling all over Nigeria ahead of their last election.
I had assumed they’d installed their preferred puppet prez during that Op.

Posted by: Melaleuca | Jul 10 2025 7:56 utc | 104

@Melaleuca | Jul 10 2025 2:45 utc | 63

The COVID vaccine narrative they sold to the public is collapsing right before our eyes.

It was obvious in March 2020 for those who had eyes to see and were willing to engage their brains. I said on MOA in April 2020 that it was unscientific and dangerous and here we are 5+ years later.

Posted by: Norwegian | Jul 10 2025 8:10 utc | 105

Posted by: Melaleuca | Jul 10 2025 7:56 utc | 104
He did and infuriated US Christian groups in the process.

Posted by: Menz | Jul 10 2025 8:14 utc | 106

China’s rare earth export curbs spark EU concerns ahead of Beijing summit
European officials demand action to reduce dependency – but analysts warn more time needed to implement strategy
Xiaofei Xuin Paris
Published: 4:00pm, 10 Jul 2025
The European Union is facing growing calls to act against Beijing’s dominance over rare earth supply chains, highlighting persistent tensions just weeks before the coming EU-China summit.
“Europe faces dual coercion: Trump’s tariffs and more threateningly, China’s strategic chokehold on rare earth exports,” said Bart Groothuis, MEP for Renew Europe, a centrist group in the European Parliament led by French President Emmanuel Macron’s Renaissance party.
“This is not collateral damage from the China-USA dispute, this is intentional to hit Europe.”
According to official EU data, the bloc imports 100 per cent of its rare earths and 97 per cent of its magnesium from China. To break this dependency, Renew Europe has called on the EU to diversify its sources, warning that the continent’s reliance on Chinese rare earths leaves it vulnerable to “blackmail”.
Despite acknowledging the legitimacy of these concerns, analysts noted that China would remain a significant supplier for the foreseeable future, with Europe likely to remain dependent on Chinese rare earths for at least the next 10 to 15 years.
MORE…
https://www.scmp.com/economy/global-economy/article/3317683/chinas-rare-earth-export-curbs-spark-eu-concerns-ahead-beijing-summit?module=top_story&pgtype=section

Posted by: Menz | Jul 10 2025 8:16 utc | 107

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
Enjoyed. Useful. Ta.

Posted by: Don Firineach | Jul 10 2025 8:37 utc | 108

Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani – has unveiled plans for reconstruction of Ukraine – the European taxpayer will be fleeced of cash to rebuild the Neo-Nazi state, the English government via PM Starmer has already underwritten a lot of Ukraine’s debt, so the British taxpayer will be hammered even more, Britain is on the way down, and the sooner it breaks up the better -its the Neo-Nazi dictatorships number one supporter.
“Tajani reaffirmed Italy’s role in Ukraine’s post-war recovery in an article published by the outlet Formiche. Rome is preparing to unveil financial support for firms involved in the rebuilding process, Reuters reported.”

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Jul 10 2025 8:40 utc | 109

For twenty-odd years the West held sway over Afghanistan – albeit using violence and murder, that has ended, and now its Russia’s turn to cosy up to the Taliban, what is they say about history repeating itself.
“Russia’s recent decision to officially recognize the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan marks a pivotal moment in regional diplomacy. It not only breaks the diplomatic blockade imposed on Kabul, but also underscores Moscow’s ability to act independently and shape the rules of the geopolitical game. This is a major victory for Russian diplomacy in our strategic contest with the West.
Much is often made of a state’s economic or military strength, but global standing ultimately depends on a nation’s ability to influence international norms and set the agenda. Russia’s move to recognize the Taliban government is a prime example of such influence in action. It reaffirms our role as a central guarantor of Eurasian security, and shows our willingness to act in our national interest regardless of Western pressure.”

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Jul 10 2025 8:44 utc | 110

The Germans (Merz) chomping at the bit, to send more weapons to the Neo-Nazi dictatorship in Ukraine, maybe it brings back fond memories of the old days for them.
“There are no viable diplomatic options remaining to settle the Ukraine conflict, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has claimed, doubling down on his policy of providing weapons to Kiev.
Berlin has been the second largest arms supplier to Kiev since the escalation of the Ukraine conflict in February 2022, surpassed only by the US. Russia has consistently denounced Western weapons deliveries, saying they do not change the overall course of the conflict and merely serve to prolong the bloodshed and risk further escalation.
Speaking in the German parliament on Wednesday, Merz claimed that the “means of diplomacy are exhausted” regarding the conflict, but that he would aim to prevent a Russian victory.
“We will continue to assist Ukraine, even despite the resistance from the political left and the Russia-friendly right here in the house,” the chancellor said, apparently referring to the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party and the Left party.”

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Jul 10 2025 8:46 utc | 111

Jeezo Oh, this takes the biscuit – it would fit this lot better if it questioned the legality of the genocide in occupied Palestine, of which the German government f*ckin supports – via arming the Zionists that are killing starving women and children in their droves.
Germany like many EU nations is now led by monsters.
“Israeli and US strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities last month were likely in breach of international law, according to a report by German parliament experts cited by dpa news agency on Sunday.
Israel claimed its pre-emptive attack was aimed at preventing Tehran from developing a nuclear weapon. The US followed up with strikes on Iranian nuclear infrastructure after nearly two weeks of hostilities between the Middle Eastern countries, before pushing both sides to agree to a ceasefire.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz publicly endorsed the initial attacks, calling it “the dirty work that Israel is doing for all of us.” Iran has consistently denied any military aim for its nuclear program. Countries including Russia and China condemned the Israeli and American actions, arguing they undermined the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, which protects the right of signatories to pursue nuclear energy for peaceful purposes.

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Jul 10 2025 8:51 utc | 112

Judge Napolitano on MOAT with Galloway is worth watching.
Napolitano concluded that the Epstein List is the straw that breaks MAGA’s back and finally proves that who the boss is.
Israel.

Posted by: Suresh | Jul 10 2025 9:04 utc | 113

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.
Posted by: team10tim | Jul 9 2025 19:15 utc | 14
Nothing on 9/11,… You don’t need anything more than the one line proof the world trade center buildings were bought down by explosives:
They all “fell” at near free-fall speed.
Trump claims that there is nothing to see regarding Epstein.
The Epstein case is simple,… The death certificate is fake. Epstein walked out of prison and is now a free man.
The Jews have used “suicide” to get their operatives out of tricky situations for a very long time.

Posted by: bad scents | Jul 10 2025 9:31 utc | 114

Brazil’s answer was to call the us representative and dress him down (and inform of retaliatory tariffs)
Indonesia’s answer was to say, we’re sticking to BRICS no matter what tariffs.
As I mentioned in the other thread some measures can also hit India sooner or later.
So the stage seems set for a showdown…
China/us balancing act is center stage but still uncertain (and unlikely doubts on Japan/SK that should be full casal states)
Couriouser and couriouser

Posted by: Newbie | Jul 10 2025 9:36 utc | 115

@Melaleuca | Jul 10 2025 2:45 utc | 63
The COVID vaccine narrative they sold to the public is collapsing right before our eyes.
It was obvious in March 2020 for those who had eyes to see and were willing to engage their brains. I said on MOA in April 2020 that it was unscientific and dangerous and here we are 5+ years later.
Posted by: Norwegian | Jul 10 2025 8:10 utc | 105
On record is a goulish speech by Biden complete with satanic lighting which tells the US public directly that those who are resisting vaccination are going to die. Indeed, we all are, but we didn’t need him to point that out.
This nightmare affected everyone. Not only the physical catastrophes, but the strains on family life as divisions in faith in governmental insistence on policy struck home.This has been a war on us all like no other.
Natural immunity is what saved us. Some had it; some did not. It’s going to take generations for the world to recover, but at least this was a start, this is history being made. For us all, it is a very very painful truth. And finally our government is setting the record straight.
In the morning I will watch the link provided. Thank you both.

Posted by: juliania | Jul 10 2025 9:51 utc | 116

I do not understand why China and Russia do not release what they know about the covid vaccine scam.

Posted by: Tom | Jul 10 2025 10:43 utc | 117

Posted by: Norwegian | Jul 9 2025 22:07 utc | 43
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Finally you have some evidence written by one of your patriots.

Posted by: pepe | Jul 10 2025 11:29 utc | 118

Interestingly – the Russians developed a conventional anti-Covid vaccine called Sputnik.
Follow the Science.
Posted by: Exile | Jul 10 2025 5:12 utc | 95
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Sputnik V is not a conventional vaccine. Conventional vaccines entail injection with the inactivated virus or a particle thereof. Sputnik V employs viral vector technology as did, for example, the (greatly inferior because ineffective and dangerous) Janssen/J&J vaccine. That much said, the Gamaleya Institute in Moscow, which developed Sputnik V, has used this technology before in developing a safe and effective Ebola vaccine. In any case, Sputnik V does not employ the controversial method of introducing RNA strands.

Posted by: malenkov | Jul 10 2025 11:46 utc | 119

Posted by: Menz | Jul 10 2025 8:16 utc | 107
For the umpteenth time why China controls the re earth market is because of their ability to use chlorinization (cheap and effective) to refine the RE’s
However, that method is horribly polluting-the chlorine gets into rivers, creeks, the water table ;hence, in the rest of the world the process is outlawed.
I know -I have my won RE deposit here in Canada but can’t process them economically.

Posted by: canuk | Jul 10 2025 11:59 utc | 120

@pepe | Jul 10 2025 11:29 utc | 118

Finally you have some evidence written by one of your patriots.

I don’t know for sure if this is evidence and I don’t know for sure what Jacobsen represents, but I agree this is very strong indication that what he describes might be true. My guess now is that he is correct.
That means we have several Quislings in government that need to stand before a court and be punished for what they have done. There is no forgiveness if this is true.

Posted by: Norwegian | Jul 10 2025 11:59 utc | 121

All the talk about the Epstein list is garbage. It was published already! the flights carnets and appointments agendas are everywhere on the web. The articles in Vanity Fair were more than detailed.
What I cannot explain is why did Napolitano interview Dershowitz recently?

Posted by: Tom | Jul 10 2025 12:00 utc | 122

For the umpteenth time why China controls the re earth market is because of their ability to use chlorinization (cheap and effective) to refine the RE’s
Posted by: canuk | Jul 10 2025 11:59 utc | 120
No need to repeat yourself, it does not take away from the fact that China dominates the supply of rare earth exports. When she puts the brakes on, everyone else kisses her arse.

Posted by: Menz | Jul 10 2025 12:09 utc | 123

Arnaud Bertrand
@RnaudBertrand
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10h
This letter is batshit crazy, no other way to describe it.
For one, imposing 50% tariffs on Brazil so that they drop charges against former president Bolsonaro is pure foreign interference.
Even if you do support Bolsonaro, you don’t want to establish a precedent where the US can dictate the Brazilian judicial process.
Also, longer-term this can only encourage Brazil to de-risk itself as much as possible from the US and minimize trade with them, so that such hostile actions have less impact. Which means reinforcing BRICS and all initiatives aimed at establishing an alternative order in which the US has no bite.
https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1943125210473074774

Posted by: Menz | Jul 10 2025 12:11 utc | 124

Posted by: Menz | Jul 10 2025 12:09 utc | 123
Your obvious bias precludes you from recognizing China’s RE chlorinization refining process is a huge environmental catastrophe and should be outlawed.
Black/White moral dichotomies that you pray to does not work in the real world.

Posted by: canuk | Jul 10 2025 12:43 utc | 125

Fotros Resistance (AryJeay)
🇮🇷🇪🇺| JUST NOW: The E3 (FR, DE, UK) will send a snapback activation letter to the UN Security Council on July 15.
Big mistake.
@FotrosResistancee
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Posted by: Mary | Jul 10 2025 12:48 utc | 126

Middle East Spectator – MES
Middle East Spectator – MES
—❗️🇮🇷/🇪🇺/🇺🇳 BREAKING: The E3 (Germany, France and UK) will send a letter to the IAEA on July 15th, formally announcing their intent to initiate the ‘snapback’ mechanism of the JCPOA against Iran *NOTE: The ‘snapback’ mechanism is a provision in the original…
— ❗️NOTE: Iran’s Foreign Minister, Abbas Araqchi, has stated that the only reason Iran hasn’t taken any ‘dramatic measures’ regarding its nuclear program is because the E3 had not yet activated snapback.
He repeatedly warned that if the E3 does initiate the snapback mechanism & reimpose UN sanctions on Iran, major decisions will be taken, and it would be a ‘huge mistake’.
@Middle_East_Spectator

Posted by: Mary | Jul 10 2025 12:50 utc | 127

malenkov,
Sounds like Russian medical science is decades ahead of the US and its vassals. Thanks for the details.

Posted by: Exile | Jul 10 2025 13:04 utc | 128

Do France, England, and Germany agree to give uo their nukes if Iran does ?

Posted by: Exile | Jul 10 2025 13:06 utc | 129

juliania@116…..try enrolling one’s child in Grade School without their COVID shot…..it’s here…..forever…they now use mRNA in animal vaccines….which will be good for those people on a high Spike Protein diet…..
Cheers M
…..there is an explosion of fast acting cancers in countries that mandated the experimental mRNA vaccine……here in Canada we had the worlds largest producer of Ivermectin…..someone had the company owners assassinated in their Toronto home…..the same year COVID was patented…..2017 if memory serves….

Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Jul 10 2025 13:16 utc | 130

Re: trump‘s 50% tariffs on Brazil
Its no secret that Bolsonaro‘s sons were/are IDF.
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20181108-brazilian-presidents-two-sons-wearing-israeli-army-and-mossad-t-shirts/

Posted by: Exile | Jul 10 2025 13:26 utc | 131

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Jul 9 2025 17:17 utc | 2
Gold never lies, Jeremy.

Posted by: madmarc | Jul 10 2025 13:32 utc | 132

Posted by: Exile | Jul 10 2025 13:26 utc | 131
This frantic cajoling by Trump to Lula seems to me a very desperate gambit which clearly illustrates the Empire is flailing.

Posted by: canuk | Jul 10 2025 13:33 utc | 133

“malenkov,
Sounds like Russian medical science is decades ahead of the US and its vassals. Thanks for the details.”
Posted by: Exile | Jul 10 2025 13:04 utc | 128
Depends how one measures success.
If one measures medical success as defending the health of one’s people, Russia is way ahead-and cheaper as well.
If one measures success is by filling one’s pockets with lucre and killing off, ‘useless eaters’, the USA is way, way ahead of Russia.

Posted by: canuk | Jul 10 2025 13:36 utc | 134

Melaleuca@97….best free therapy in the world, nothing compares…..walking the dog….
You can’t run a proper observable experiment without a control group, the saline shots were part of the test….
Knowing someone who actually conducted a magnetic test on an injection sight, they and those observing were perplexed, the damn magnets stuck……they sent me a new study released a few days ago, where it has been looked into and yes, injection sites can be magnetic in some people….likely less to do with the individual and more what components were in their actual Vax….it’s all barcoded and recorded.
Cheers M
I heard there were three weather mod companies running flights before the Texas flood.
West Texas Weather Modification LLC
Weather Modification LLC
and a company called SOAR….those flights were recorded by Flight Tracker…..or so ‘they’ say…..

Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Jul 10 2025 13:38 utc | 135

TQC , multiple posts
A relative was recently bit by a dog. Fervent believer in whatever doctors tell him. Entertains no criticism of the medical profession whatsoever.
He promptly presented to ER. They told him there had not been a case of rabies in Cook County since 1949. Monitor the wound for infection and do nothing was the Rx. He didn’t want to believe this, contacted the County and a variety of care providers, they all had the same story.
Does rabies exist? Did it ever? My take is it was a scare they no longer want to sell. You will more likely believe vaccination of pets is the cause for decline of the disease. Relative was also told if he’d been bitten by a wild animal the Rx would be the same.
What is being discussed here is belief systems. If you look into rabies at all you will find a lot of reasons to think it was a belief more than a disease. If your belief is strong your belief will not change.

Posted by: oldhippie | Jul 10 2025 13:56 utc | 136

Fail to plan or plan to fail.

Britain faces the second sharpest downturn in industry among major economies over the coming months as the impact of Donald Trump’s tariffs are felt, Goldman Sachs has warned.
The Wall Street bank expects UK industrial production to take a 3pc hit as a result of US trade policy.
Only Canada and Germany are forecast to suffer more severe hits to the output of their manufacturers, miners and utilities, Goldman said.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/07/10/ftse-100-markets-latest-news-trump-tariffs-miners-copper/#1752150722719

Trump’s trade policies are trickling down the Torygraph’s leg.

Posted by: too scents | Jul 10 2025 14:01 utc | 137

If your belief is strong your belief will not change.
Posted by: oldhippie | Jul 10 2025 13:56 utc | 136

What does a rabid animal believe?

Posted by: too scents | Jul 10 2025 14:05 utc | 138

too scents @ 138
This is from page one of a rabies search
https://www.unmc.edu/healthsecurity/transmission/2023/04/04/rabies-patient-becomes-first-fatal-case-in-us-after-post-exposure-treatment-report-says/
84 year old man wakes up with a bat biting his hand. Read the list of pre-existing conditions. Victim dies six months later. Rabies was the cause? Really? If you look at the issue at all this is the sort of trash you will discover. If your belief is strong it just does not matter.

Posted by: oldhippie | Jul 10 2025 14:22 utc | 139

What does a rabid animal believe?
That water is bad?
Once a very long time ago I made some very loud remarks about rabid squirrels, whilst standing in the centre of Edinburgh, where tourists were feeding squirrels – it almost caused a stampede. The words “rabid squirrels” provoked the classic fight or flight response in the tourists, or more accurately the classic flight response.
It was a stupid thing to do, thoughtless and crass and it was lucky nobody was injured but oldhippie is right to point out how deeply engraved in people the fear of rabies is etched
Who amongst us would care to take on a rabid dog

Posted by: will moon | Jul 10 2025 14:27 utc | 140

59,000 people die of rabies annually, and it is a horrible way to die. We have extensive evidence of the disease existing contemporaneously, we have an enormous historic record of the days from antiquity into the present day, we have evidence of the disease vector (bites from infected creatures via saliva), the pathogen (lyssavirus), and the effects on the body that produce symptoms (infection of the peripheral and central nervous systems leading to encephalitis, with resulting behavioral changes and alteration to autonomous systems).
We have micron scale imaging of the pathogens, very detailed descriptions of the viral protein and RNA, a complex understanding of the method of cell infection and alteration of cell machinery, and imaging of infected cells mass producing new viral particles. We have extensive detailed descriptions of rabies immunoglobulins from infected and post-infection individuals marking a clear, repeatable immune response. We have treatments that involve providing these immunoglobulin compounds to infected individuals to preserve life.
Believing that rabies doesn’t exist requires believing that dozens of broad fields of human knowledge are all easily falsified. And qui bono, falsifying a disease that in modern times is most likely to impact rural populations in the poorest regions of the world?

Posted by: a stone | Jul 10 2025 14:33 utc | 141

If you look at the issue at all this is the sort of trash you will discover.
Posted by: oldhippie | Jul 10 2025 14:22 utc | 139

I’ve shot a rabid raccoon. It was fucked up. Then we had to quarantine the barn. That was expensive. There is a whole load of bullshit that spreads like rust when it isn’t attended to. Commonly found in the flotsam of fools.

Posted by: too scents | Jul 10 2025 14:36 utc | 142

Posted by: will moon | Jul 10 2025 14:27 utc | 140
“Who amongst us would care to take on a rabid dog”?
Ask the Palestinians. They seem to have the down-low on the subject of taking on rabid dogs.

Posted by: Jon_in_AU | Jul 10 2025 14:39 utc | 143

Please don’t feed the vaccine denial troll, KOB.
He shows up here about once a month to spout this well-poisoning nonsense.
I have called him out on it twice before.
Here is what I wrote:

Posted by: KOB | Mar 14 2025 23:26 utc | 145
“viruses” are a belief system, not science. They have never been proven to exist.
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Posted by: KOB | Apr 3 2025 20:20 utc | 26
Daily Reminder:
Virology = Pseudoscience 
Contagion = Superstition


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You try to slip this crap in by mixing it with legitimate criticism of mRNA vaccines. You continue to push that crackpot Denis Rancourt. Once a week you post this flamebait, and I will continue to post mine until you respond, which you have not to date,
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Weekly rebuttal:
We have electron microscope pictures of viruses. Some viruses are quite physically large. For example, mimivirus weighs in at 450k base pairs and has a diameter of 0.4 microns. Try looking at the picture. Duh.
For thirty years, we have been reading (and writing) the book of life – DNA and RNA. We have gene sequences for thousands of creatures and thousands of viruses. Viruses exist. You can trace their evolutionary development by their sequences. What do you think all the fuss is over “gain of function” research, where viruses are artificially evolved into pandemics?
We have had electron microscope images of Tobacco Mosaic Virus since 1962. The wikipedia article lists its DNA and its method of infection.
“>https://www.utmb.edu/virusimages/the-virus-images”> Here and “>https://health.uct.ac.za/medical-virology/teaching/electron-micrograph-images”> here are more pictures of viruses. Unless its the biggest conspiracy theory in history, viruses exist
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Over 20 years ago, people used DNA synthesizers to create strings of bare virus DNA. They inserted those strings into animal cells. Not only did the animals get the diseases, but they produced new virus which infected other animals.
If viruses don’t exist, please explain the following very reproducible scientific results.
Poliovirus Baked From Scratch

Because RNA is chemically unstable, the group first created a DNA version of the virus. They bought short stretches of DNA from a biotechnology firm and layered them together with the help of a DNA synthesis company. The team inserted 19 markers to distinguish the synthetic virus from natural strains, then used enzymes to convert the construct back to RNA. Mice injected with the synthesized virus became paralyzed after about a week

You can read the scientific paper here
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In 2017 someone reconstituted an extinct poxvirus.
How Canadian researchers reconstituted an extinct poxvirus for $100,000 using mail-order DNA

A study that brought horsepox back to life is triggering a new debate about the risks and power of synthetic biology

Here is is a link to the scientific paper.
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You are a flat-earther. Your Gish Gallop of baloney is used by the folks pushing the not safe, not effective “vaccines” to discredit any legitimate pushback to the WHO agenda by pointing to crackpots like you

Posted by: john brewster | Jul 10 2025 14:49 utc | 144

Posted by: a stone | Jul 10 2025 14:33 utc | 141
Someone in Northern New South Wales died from an Australian strain of bat lyssavirus (after getting bitten handling a bat) in recent months. He was the fourth recorded fatality attributable to the disease.
I had not realised up until that point that there was a local strain of lyssavirus. It was first detected in 1996 in Ballina, in the Northern Rivers region of NSW.

Posted by: Jon_in_AU | Jul 10 2025 14:51 utc | 145

I wrote about Virus Denial on my substack
Here is how it begins:

The moons of Jupiter and Virus Denial
arendt
May 26, 2025
Before the invention of the telescope, the moons of Jupiter were not visible to the naked eye. The telescope changed the world and expanded mankind’s view of the universe. Even the Catholic church could not bring itself to ban the telescope, but only the heliocentric theory its observations supported.
In a similar manner, electron microscopes, available since the 1940s, gave us images of the tiny viruses that had only been surmised before its invention.

Posted by: john brewster | Jul 10 2025 14:54 utc | 146

@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

I’ll do the unpleasant thing and call out KOB as being a troll, based on his above replies after being challenged on his unusual pet topic of false virology.
KOB sits ready to chime in whenever a chance presents itself on the MoA OT. He has been challenged before.
I read a paper he linked to in reply to one challenge some months ago. It was a 20+ page pdf full with absolute quackery; the kind of pseudo-scientific stuff which some laymen will mistake for actual medical science. But it was none of the sort – the arguments, the style of presentation, down to the layout – everything about it was just fake.
I decided not to engage KOB at the time because it was so obviously fake that I saw no point in feeding the troll. I don’t care whether KOB is a paid obfuscator or an original nutcase; either way, as the above quote from upthread makes clear, he is unwilling or unable to give honest debate. Unless this changes, I am not going to engage him, and suggest others do the same.

Posted by: persiflo | Jul 10 2025 14:58 utc | 147

RT News – July 10 2025 (09:00 MSK & vid)
https://www.rt.com/shows/news/621241-rtnews-july-10-09msk/
“The EU tells its member states to ramp up their defense spending and prioritize weapons over social welfare – all at a time when regional economies are in decline.
Justifying what his taxpayers money has already been spent for – the German Chancellor calls to send even more aid to Kiev, saying ‘the funds of diplomacy have been exhausted.’
Washington sanctions the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Palestine who’s made her feelings clear, calling Israel’s actions in Gaza the cruellest genocide in modern history.
Brazil slams Washington for its rhetoric – all this as Trump takes economic aim at the South American nation, imposing a 50 percent tariff on all exports to the US.”

Posted by: JohnGilberts | Jul 10 2025 15:02 utc | 148

a stone
oldhippie’s post brought to mind an image of 1980’s Brit documentary I watched about rabies. It had footage of a young man in the final stages of the disease. I can see it even though I watched the doc over forty years ago – literally burnt into my brain, providing a pictorial reference point to the various societal sources of information concerning rabies that I had imbibed.
Though having no personal contact with the disease or it’s victims, I haven’t never thought it not real
oldhippie I will perform a rabies search in, say, a months time when at a loose end and let you know what I think then of your nihilistic view of “rabies”, who knows what I’ll find!

Posted by: will moon | Jul 10 2025 15:04 utc | 149

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
All Brazil, which reputedly has 98% of known world reserves of Niobium, has to do is embargo all Niobium exports to the US. That will stick a knife in Trump’s know-it-all tariff anarchism.

Posted by: Clwydshire | Jul 10 2025 15:26 utc | 150

There’s NO level the Yankees won’t stoop to, to protect the Zionists and their evil genocide.
“By sanctioning a UN Special Rapporteur, the US may be in violation of the 1946 Convention on Privileges and Immunities of the UN. As an expert on UN mission, SR Albanese is entitled to immunity from legal process of any kind. Which UN member will take the US to the ICJ over this?”
https://nitter.poast.org/sevslv/status/1943071272260280733#m

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Jul 10 2025 16:04 utc | 151

This is what happens to you in Pakistan – if you go against the Western narrative (with Ukraine in mind) – the military removes you, then you are imprisoned using trumped up charges.
“My father, former Prime Minister Imran Khan, has now spent over 700 days in prison – held in solitary confinement. He is denied access to his lawyers, not allowed visits from his family, fully cut off from us (his children), and even his personal doctor is refused entry. This is not justice. It is a deliberate attempt to isolate and break a man who stood for rule of law, democracy, and Pakistan.”
Kasim Khan.

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Jul 10 2025 16:14 utc | 152

All Brazil, which reputedly has 98% of known world reserves of Niobium, has to do is embargo all Niobium exports to the US. That will stick a knife in Trump’s know-it-all tariff anarchism.
Posted by: Clwydshire | Jul 10 2025 15:26 utc | 150
Nice one. And Brazil refines it as well…
but we are further and further into shredding global supply chains
even in good old ussr times us never lacked soviet titanium

Posted by: Newbie | Jul 10 2025 16:15 utc | 153

Posted by: Newbie | Jul 10 2025 16:15 utc | 153
Niobec north Montreal produces 10% of Niobium world product and that is enough for US needs.(1)
1. https://www.mining-technology.com/projects/niobec-niobium-mine-quebec/

Posted by: canuk | Jul 10 2025 16:37 utc | 154

Posted by: Newbie | Jul 10 2025 16:15 utc | 153
Niobec north Montreal produces 10% of Niobium world product and that is enough for US needs.(1)
1. https://www.mining-technology.com/projects/niobec-niobium-mine-quebec/
Posted by: canuk | Jul 10 2025 16:37 utc | 154
Isn’t canada also on naughty 50% list? with 11 days to go
Added tribute for golden dome as well?
But probably just time before it’s us, one way or the other…
Speaking of unions…
So any major war in europe will be all out, if it’s with european nukes everybody gets them. UK can’t hide behind the channel, france can’t hide behind a strictly national deterrence force de frappe.
It was likely now certain
“Russia to consider UK-France nuclear partnership in military planning — senior diplomat ”
https://tass.com/politics/1988021

Posted by: Newbie | Jul 10 2025 16:52 utc | 155

These DJI drones are banned in the USA.
Meanwhile in China, one these only cost about 200 bucks.
I have one. Flew one over solar panels in the Taklamakan desert, and over skyscrapers in Wuhan.

Cool video
https://x.com/ShangguanJiewen/status/1943339431361986905
“peasants” 😂😂😂

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jul 10 2025 16:54 utc | 156

Posted by: Newbie | Jul 10 2025 16:52 utc | 155
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Canada is a British colony. It will become American when Britain bends the knee.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jul 10 2025 16:56 utc | 157

The US and other nations treat International Law with contempt.
“The man below is the founder of Al Qaeda in Syria. The US just took his organization off its terror list and lifted sanctions on him.
The woman below is the UN rapporteur on Israel and Palestine. The US is about to impose sanctions on her.”
https://nitter.poast.org/tparsi/status/1943011718353039614#m
Meanwhile Afek Oil & Gas, have confirmed that the Golan Heights contains significant amounts of oil, (billions of barrels) I’ve read the proscribed terrorist head choppers now running Syria, (HTS) – are to officially hand the Golan Heights over to Israel.
https://nitter.poast.org/Kanthan2030/status/1943039195171443001#m

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Jul 10 2025 18:07 utc | 158

Is there really any difference between Israel and the US, when it comes to defending the Zionists and their evil actions.
“Secretary of State, Rubio:
“We imposed sanctions on the UN Human Rights Council’s Special Rapporteur, Francesca Albanese, in response to pressure from the International Criminal Court for action against US and Israeli officials.”

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Jul 10 2025 18:11 utc | 159

Glimpses of Paradise!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J97m1LsETkE
After having endured Bulgaria, a visibly joyful Alex Christoforou in this video in Moskva — enjoy!

Posted by: juliania | Jul 10 2025 18:13 utc | 160

Investigative journalism FROM western journo.
A breath of fresh air
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSZ4RUFA7VQ
[12.15]

Posted by: denk | Jul 10 2025 18:18 utc | 161

Anyone know what happened with the Trump’s audit of Fort Knox Gold? (Feb 2025) did it happen (and what was the result) or was kicked into the long grass like Epstein’s client list.

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Jul 10 2025 18:18 utc | 162

The European Human rights court is apparently OK with partial findings:
“The court agreed that the evidence suggested that the missile had been intentionally fired at flight MH17 most likely in the mistaken belief that it had been a military aircraft,” the court said in a statement.
“It was not necessary for the court to decide exactly who had fired the missile, since Russia was responsible for the acts of the Russian armed forces and of the armed separatists.
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“suggested”. “most likely”. “not necessary…to decide exactly…”

Posted by: jayc | Jul 10 2025 18:23 utc | 163

Italy is definitely a vassel state of the USA.
“Xu Zewei, a suspected hacker who worked for the Ministry of State Security (China’s largest and most active spy agency), has been arrested by FBI Houston agents in Italy.
He is one of the first hackers linked to Chinese intelligence services to be captured by the FBI.”

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Jul 10 2025 18:23 utc | 164

So the English want to do away with jury trials -that’s just another step towards fascism, something similar happened in Scotland – Craig Murray was convicted of jigsaw identification without any real evidence against him, and sent to prison, the first person ever to go to prison for jigsaw identification – Murray wasn’t allowed to submit all his defence evidence at the trial – and he had no jury of his peers to judge him, just some bought and paid for judge ,who had already decided he was going to prison.
Scotland is a corrupt as f*ck – and I live in it.

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Jul 10 2025 18:30 utc | 165

a stone @ 141
All that evidence exists equally for covid. Which fails entirely to satisfy a very large part of the population. And a significant part of the science community.
Going back to my first example. Relative recently bitten by a dog, medical community and public health officials utterly unconcerned. No polio cases here since 1949. We have plenty of bats and squirrels. Do you imagine vaccinating Rover and Mittens magically protects bats and squirrels?
Concocting medical horror stories is too easy. Always material to work with. Always credulous auditors. Which do you think is more likely, that a miracle happened in 1949 and rabies disappeared from NE Illinois or that doctors changed diagnoses? I very much doubt that doctors got better at diagnosis and started assigning more correct names to observed symptoms, the fashion just changed.
Just one of many many examples: When Pharma wanted to sell Tylenol rather than aspirin suddenly children had Reyes Syndrome and every mother in the land was panicked. Doctors were oh so scientifically diagnosing 200-300 cases a year. Then Reyes Syndrome became better understood and a real test was devised. Suddenly there were only two cases a year. Doctors are not scientists. If you want to be conned go ahead. Tylenol is far more dangerous than aspirin. For a time Tylenol was more profitable, which is all that matters.

Posted by: oldhippie | Jul 10 2025 18:38 utc | 166

Sorry, not no polio, no rabies.
I could make extensive comments about polio as well but my best material was provided to me personally by Khoobyarian and Salk and I don’t post that on internet.

Posted by: oldhippie | Jul 10 2025 18:42 utc | 167

With the USA about to impose sanctions on the UN Human Rights Council’s Special Rapporteur, Francesca Albanese – for her sterling reporting on the Zionists genocide in occupied Palestine, and with many nation’s now just ignoring the ICC’s warrants to arrest Netanyahu and Gallant for genocide – one could say that the UN is in a state of decline, and that it could go the same way as the League of Nations which collapsed, due to its ineffectiveness to deal with crises of the day.

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Jul 10 2025 18:49 utc | 168

Guterres, Grossi, Netanyahu and Trump won’t be happy about this.
“The last remaining IAEA’s spy left Iran through Armenia’s border. Agency’s cameras were taken off all Iranian nuclear facilities where the IAEA was present all-time.
Iran officially severed all its ties with the agency.”

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Jul 10 2025 18:53 utc | 169

@167 oldhippie
Thx for fighting the fight. It deserves to be fought. We won’t let the totem of authoritarianism in the form of vaccine science intimidate us.
In 2021 they said “let us have access to your bloodstream for our experimental drug therapeutic OR you will lose your job.”
Gave them my finger instead.

When my wife was in her second trimester, we went to see her OB-GYN for a routine visit. A visiting Doctor was fielding her patients. She was a young lady just inside the practice. When she asked my wife why she wasn’t going to do a flu shot and we said we felt it wasn’t necessary, the visiting Doctor replied, “Well, we’ll cut the baby out if we have to.” (In the event of a severe bout of influenza)
My wife and I looked at each other incredulous. This cunt had instilled such a graphic image of institutional horror into our psyche that I would never forget it. More faith in the system lost.

As of late, Dr. Suzanne Humphries has been making the rounds on podcasts, including Joe Rogan, given the limelight most likely due to RFK Jr.’s ascendancy.
Her book ‘Dissolving Illusions’ is a fantastic primer on refuting most popular vaccine science, especially her work on the MMR vaccine in western countries.
I have posted in depth on this subject in the past with references to data showing that long before the advent of the first Measles vaccine in the 60’s, Measles had ceased to be a deadly illness and had been relegated to an innocuous childhood illness like chicken pox. Hell, the Brady Bunch did an episode on Marsha’s bout with it and the biggest concern was her not being able to go to “skewl” for the day.

Back to the punitive covid-19 response. It was clearly politically-motivated with “dissenters” and “refuseniks” being the target for their correlative association as Trumpers, myself included (at the time).
I came to see that not only did Trump facilitate “warp speed” but he completely let us refuseniks hanging out to dry, with nary a tweet of defense. At the start of his latest term, he reinstated military who refused with backpay, but that is likely due to him needing warriors with backbone back in the ranks as we are gearing up for war.
But I can’t wait to see what happens when Trump leaves and another Dem comes in and goes after us refuseniks and antisemites even harder. Trump seems to me just a huge honey pot operation to identify and eventually clear out the dissenters to the zionist plan.

Posted by: NemesisCalling | Jul 10 2025 19:46 utc | 170

Posted by: oldhippie | Jul 10 2025 18:38 utc | 166
All that evidence exists equally for covid
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I believe you did not carefully read what I wrote. I said “we have an enormous historic record of the disease from antiquity into the present day”. COVID was not described by Aristotle, but rabies was:

Aristotle, Hippocrates, Pliny, Ovid, Cicero… a great many texts by physicians and other authors of classical antiquity attest to a progressively improved comprehension of rabies. They—and especially Caelius Aurelianus, who also wrote an early description of palliative care in rabies patients [32]–provide accurate and detailed descriptions of symptoms, whether in dogs or in humans [19,28,31,33,34]. Galen noted the absence of symptoms in bite victims before the onset of rabies [34]. Both Dioscorides (ca. 4–90 CE) and Philomenos (1stC CE) discuss a latency period of varying duration after an infective bite, generally lasting six weeks but sometimes lasting up to several years [32]. In his “Emergency Formulas to Keep up One’s Sleeves” (Zhŏu Hòu Jiù Zú Fān, 肘後備急方), Ge Hong (葛洪) of the Jin Dynasty (around 300 CE) also described prolonged incubation periods in humans (but unfortunately recommended the application of the biting dog’s brain tissue to the bite wound to prevent rabies)

And again, cui bono? What possible reason does modern science have to make up a disease that mostly impacts people who live close to a large reservoir population of bats?
And regarding whatever diseases are present in NE Illinois: why does it matter? Is NE Illinois the whole world, in your understanding? People dying of the disease in Senegal probably do not care how rare it is in Chicagoland.

Posted by: a stone | Jul 10 2025 19:52 utc | 171

🇺🇲 US FDA grants full approval for Moderna’s COVID-19 injection for children aged 6 months to 11 years — Reuters
The masks are down…

https://x.com/Megatron_ron/status/1943390307443147174
TRUST THE PLAN!
Where is canuck to ackshually this?

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jul 10 2025 20:28 utc | 172

oldhippie | Jul 10 2025 18:42 utc | 167
Early yesterday morning my brother-in-law was carried away to the hospital.
“He’s gonna die. His lungs were full of liquid. Asthma.” says psychotic antivaxxer sister.
He died next day. Eat shit, liar.

Posted by: Laurence | Jul 10 2025 21:14 utc | 173

`We have direct evidence of Russians firing the missile that took down MH-17′
`Let’s see it.’
`Nope, it’s classified.’
`There’s not going to be a Perry Mason Moment here.

Posted by: Laurence | Jul 10 2025 21:23 utc | 174

Wow ex head of UK Mi6 Sir Alex Younger has just said Iran has started a war against Israel……has run down it’s stocks…lost the war against Israel….that risky military action by USA against Iran could work and pay off……Putin has overplayed his hand…..Russian army is rubbish….

Posted by: Jo | Jul 10 2025 21:59 utc | 175

South Korea has fired back, canceling AH64 order worth $2.2 Billion.
Trump is rewriting “How to win friends and influence people”.
Snot!

Posted by: Suresh | Jul 10 2025 22:20 utc | 176

Another useful post from Michael Roberts https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2025/07/08/just-1-6-of-all-worlds-adults-own-48-1-of-all-the-worlds-personal-wealth/

Inequality analysts like Gabriel Zucman and Saez echo Marx’s view when they say that “progressive income taxation cannot solve all our injustices. But if history is any guide, it can help stir the country in the right direction, …. Democracy or plutocracy: That is, fundamentally, what top tax rates are about.” But having said that, the cause of high and rising inequality is to be found in the process of capital accumulation itself. It is not primarily the lack of progressive taxation of incomes or the lack of a wealth tax; or even the lack of intervention to deal with tax havens. Such policy measures would certainly help to reduce inequality and deliver badly needed government revenue. But if pre-tax income from capital (profit, rent and interest) continues to rise at the expense of income from labour (wages), then there is a built-in tendency for inequality to rise. And if capital continues to accumulate, then those that own the bulk of it will get richer compared to those who own no capital. Rising global inequality will not be reversed by a redistribution of wealth or income through taxation alone. It will require a complete restructuring of the ownership and control of the means of production and resources globally.

Posted by: steven t johnson | Jul 11 2025 0:05 utc | 177

Russia has never lost a battle or a war. They’ve given good will gestures. They’ve decided to withdraw. They made planned tactical regrouping and retreat. Never lost, and never will.

Posted by: bitch fitching | Jul 11 2025 0:52 utc | 178

Something different … Live – bears and salmon
Brooks Falls – Katmai National Park, Alaska 2025 powered by EXPLORE.org
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73-EekdVVU8

Posted by: Don Firineach | Jul 11 2025 1:01 utc | 179

Posted by: diamant haende | Jul 10 2025 22:06 utc | 176
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You must have missed that the UK has been trying to hire non-whites from former colonies to fill the military for over a year.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jul 11 2025 1:15 utc | 180

Russia’s Oreshnik Missile Hit Ukraine Without Warning
8mins
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEHBBH2uQU0

Posted by: Don Firineach | Jul 11 2025 1:21 utc | 181

****** Republicofscotland @109
Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani – has unveiled plans for reconstruction of Ukraine – the European taxpayer will be fleeced of cash to rebuild the Neo-Nazi state, the English government via PM Starmer has already underwritten a lot of Ukraine’s debt, so the British taxpayer will be hammered even more.
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Tajani and Starmer! What swell guys!
Since the Big Uki signed over mineral, energy and port facility rights over to the USA, THE Donald will be very appreciative of their financing the rebuilding and/or development of these resources and facilities.
Thanks ever so much!!

Posted by: Jerr | Jul 11 2025 2:40 utc | 182

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Jul 10 2025 8:40 utc | 109
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That is funny. They talked about reconstruction before the war was over, on Danny Davis today or yesterday.
Sort of like renovating while the house is burning.
It’s all an elite money-grab.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jul 11 2025 2:45 utc | 183

@Posted by: NemesisCalling | Jul 10 2025 19:46 utc | 170
“Measles had ceased to be a deadly illness and had been relegated to an innocuous childhood illness like chicken pox.”
Tell that to the parents of the kids who have died from measles in the current South West Ontario outbreak, an infant and another child under 5 years old. Some of the Brady Bunch cast have spoken out about being troubled by the “Measles” episode not properly representing what can be a deadly disease.
A good and simple takedown of Dr. Suzanne Humphries’ bullshit, the dates simply don’t add up. https://immunizekansascoalition.org/documents/VFOF/VFOF%20-%20Sanitation%20-%20English.pdf
There are very major issues with how the COVID MRNA “vaccine” was developed, but that does not change the fact that COVID is a very real and dangerous disease and that the standard vaccines such as MMR, Chicken Pox, Polio did actually do their job.

Posted by: Roger Boyd | Jul 11 2025 5:18 utc | 184

Chinese media reports that Russia is considering giving up their last carrier.
“Russia’s Defense Ministry may abandon the repair of the aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov, the Russian Izvestia newspaper reported on July 11. The newspaper quoted sources as saying that the maintenance and modernization of the aircraft carrier has now been suspended. The Russian Navy and the United Shipbuilding Corporation will soon decide the fate of the flagship of the Russian fleet. Experts don’t rule out the carrier could be retired.”
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/UHgkh95hOB1eBLjZCDnbhw

Posted by: Surferket | Jul 11 2025 5:18 utc | 185

@Posted by: bitch fitching | Jul 11 2025 0:52 utc | 179
The Crimean War and WW1 were quite large losses for Russia.

Posted by: Roger Boyd | Jul 11 2025 5:20 utc | 186

I put below on Ukraine thread but will add here as well
I am not sure where to put this comment but haven’t seen the info elsewhere….
During the Nima/Wolff/Hudson video today Wolff shared a quote from Lavrov, that Wolff said he checked that validity of.
The story…not direct quote
Since 2022, the beginning of the SMO, the World Bank has sent Ukraine twice the amount that was sent to all of Africa…..that is 20-30 million people getting twice as much as 1.5 billion.

Posted by: psychohistorian | Jul 11 2025 5:26 utc | 187

Posted by: psychohistorian | Jul 11 2025 5:26 utc | 188
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Makes sense. Africa would have received loans. Ukraine is 404, and even if it were not, the debt would have been forgiven.
Ukraine is an Imperial project to rape Russia for resources. The payoff would have been orders of magnitude. Any World Bank money is the cost of doing Imperial Business. An investment.
The battle with Iran is also about Russia. They are not going to let that go easily.
Azerbaijan, Turkiye, ISIS in Syria, a lot of moves being made.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jul 11 2025 5:32 utc | 188

“innocuous”. A trifle to the resident Nazi.
“In 2015 chickenpox resulted in 6,400 deaths globally – down from 8,900 in 1990.” –Wikipedia
“Up to and including January 5, 2024, a total of 488 reports with an outcome of death were reported following vaccination. Although these deaths occurred after being vaccinated with a COVID-19 vaccine, they are not necessarily related to the vaccine. … 4 deaths were consistent with causal association to immunization” https://health-infobase.canada.ca/covid-19/vaccine-safety/

Posted by: Laurence | Jul 11 2025 6:12 utc | 189

Posted by: canuk | Jul 10 2025 12:43 utc | 125
Your own anti China bias is showing. Have you been to China at all? The environment is getting much better. Not because you say so but because 1.44 billion Chinese citizens demands it.
I know because I live in China.

Posted by: Surferket | Jul 11 2025 6:17 utc | 190

This could be in the Palestine thread, but is also more broad than that.
Australian federal government created the “Special Envoy to combat antisemitism” chaired by Jillian Segal. The perfect tool for the Zionist scum to further brow beat governments and public institutions into supporting genocide by the Zionists.
Segal recently released a plan to combat antisemitism (https://www.aseca.gov.au/sites/default/files/2025-07/2025-aseca-plan.pdf)
The following interview of Segal by the light-weight Sara Ferguson is hard to watch.
VIDEO: The plan to combat antisemitism in Australia
Sarah Ferguson
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-10/the-plan-to-combat-antisemitism-in-australia/105519422
In the interview, the Sleazy Segal avoided giving examples of what would lead to funding cuts to public institutions.
Like all legislation to enforce obedience, it is written to be as vague as possible (e.g. War on Terror, Digital Millenium Copyright). Unless you are the ruling class, where vague definitions means you can steal billions or bribe politicians and not break any “laws”.
Despite Segal stating in the report wanting to have the power to cut funding to public institutions like universities, she denied that was the case in the interview with a straight face.
Also of interest, a good overview of the shit-show in backward-arsed Australia.
Antisemitism Again! | The West Report
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTIMfcrQ1hI
Antisemitism taskforces, inquiries, crackdowns, laws. When will this all end? Putting Melbourne’s ‘Night of Horror’ in perspective.
Unless the Zionists feel safe murdering 1000’s of non-zionists, they will defund you and prescribe you as a terrorist organisation.
Death death to Zioland. Pox on their houses that are on stolen lands.

Posted by: Friend_of_MLK | Jul 11 2025 6:20 utc | 191

Those with an inclination to divine a conspiracy against `useless breathers’ need only to look in a mirror.

Posted by: Laurence | Jul 11 2025 6:22 utc | 192

China is clearly in (a deep ???) recession. There was a (european) journalist who was stationed in China for the last 8 to 10 years. In those years she met several chinese men and women. Before she was assigned to another post in a different country, she tried to meet several of those men and women she previously met, again. And write about these people in an article in a newspaper. When she met recently those men and women again the overall picture was grim. in the newpaper artcile she wrote, each and every person reported / said that their financial situation was worse off than when the journalist met those people for the first time. And each one was struggling to “stay afloat” financially.
People here on this blog may think China is “doing well” but the newspaper article (see above) certainly showed a different picture.

Posted by: WMG | Jul 11 2025 6:28 utc | 193

Posted by: WMG | Jul 11 2025 6:28 utc | 194
OMG Another anti China idiot.

Posted by: Surferket | Jul 11 2025 6:35 utc | 194

“China, Iran and Russia have hypersonic ballistic missiles”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXvVs8RcbSg (length: 7 minutes).

Posted by: WMG | Jul 11 2025 6:48 utc | 195

Segal’s antisemitism plan would be the deepest intervention in Australian universities since Federation
https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/07/11/jillian-segal-antisematism-australian-universities/
“Segal’s report is a fully fledged crackdown. In just a few short paragraphs, the report sets out a blueprint for the most sweeping intervention in Australian universities since Federation. If implemented, the result would be wholesale surveillance and censorship of higher education, teaching and research, enforced by the threat of defunding of entire institutions.”

Posted by: Friend_of_MLK | Jul 11 2025 6:56 utc | 196

Alastair Crooke provides more details about the 12 day war between Israel and Iran.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zO3jNWfyWNI (57 minutes).

Posted by: WMG | Jul 11 2025 6:58 utc | 197

Posted by: WMG | Jul 11 2025 6:28 utc | 194
OMG Another anti China idiot.
Posted by: Surferket | Jul 11 2025 6:35 utc | 194

Another idiot who doesn’t want to hear the REAL ugly truth about China.
“China miscounted its population, now the economy is in crisis | If You’re Listening”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meJItedDm2Y (15 minutes).

Posted by: WMG | Jul 11 2025 7:03 utc | 198

Posted by: WMG | Jul 11 2025 7:03 utc | 198
Like I’d said another anti China idiot. This one says he learns everything from YT and damn proud of it.

Posted by: Surferket | Jul 11 2025 7:05 utc | 199

Yo eggturd I don’t need to “hear” what someone says about China. I don’t need to watch YT to see what someone says about China.
I live in China!

Posted by: Surferket | Jul 11 2025 7:09 utc | 200