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[American Thinker] The intellectual elite has devised a seemingly impenetrable web of structures with such elaborate interconnections, including tax-exempt foundations and secret societies, that no one can unravel the whole scheme. The Bank for International Settlements (the "bank of banks"), the World Bank, the World Conservation Bank, the World Wilderness Land Inventory Trust, the International Monetary Fund, the U.N. Man and Biosphere Programme (into which we have placed our most precious national parks and landmarks), the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (think minimum global tax), are operating as quasi-world government whether Americans are prepared to concede the point or not.
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Rife with corruption. Elites hardly intellectual always suffer insatiable appetite for greed coupled with a severe case of constipation. Law of diminishing returns as always.
[American Thinker] Physicians who still practice medicine cannot afford to write or say the following for fear of being canceled. As a retired physician, I cannot be coerced to keep silent with threats to my medical license or hospital privileges.
COVID-19 is probably the greatest and most successful swindle in history. By comparison, Carlo Ponzi and Bernie Madoff were pikers. The COVID scam has affected most of earth’s 7.8 billion inhabitants, consumed trillions of dollars, and achieved a level of government control unprecedented in modern democracies.
The COVID "pandemic of fear" is a con, perpetrated by those in power to extend and expand their power. Their scheme is simple. Take a new flu-like respiratory virus created in China, COVID-19; tout it as a threat to all human life; suspend (temporarily, of course!) personal liberty and freedom; then justify their tyranny by asserting a need to protect all Americans from death by virus. When the threat recedes, redefine the terms, demand vaccine passports, and booster shots to maintain public fear. As new viral variants evolve such as Delta or Omicron, resume draconian measures including masks and lockdowns, more boosters, and loss of employment if unvaccinated.
Make sure any evidence exposing the scam is labeled "misinformation." Censor any reports that call into question the accuracy of official narratives. Punish those who question the government or refuse the mandates.
Is COVID a scam, or is it a real danger? Are masks safe? What are the effects of Washington’s anti-COVID policies: medical, political, financial, and social? Does natural immunity protect us? Do medications work? What does the data show us?
Medical risk. Based on CDC data, the risk of death for children is less than 0.1 percent and for healthy adults less than 0.17 percent. COVID is dangerous only to a small segment of the population: the elderly, diabetics, and the infirm with serious pre-existing medical conditions such as immunocompromise, chronic lung disease, kidney or heart failure, often several of these illnesses in a single patient.
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Good post B, I read it earlier this week but figured the mods wouldn't allow.
There is much more to this "pandemic" than just covid. Crushing the economy, loss of liberties, enslaving our children, polluting our bodies with experimental drugs that may influence generations to come just to mention a few. It's past time the public pulls their heads out of the sand and start standing up to government's bad rule.
Someone who can't tell the difference between Biden's grifting in Ukraine and actual US national interests is a fool who turns on his own and shoots at his friends.
[IsraelTimes] WIth growing concerns over the health of the nearly 86-year-old regent, MBS is the de facto ruler of the kingdom.
From greeting foreign leaders to heading regional summits, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ...Crown Prince and modernizer of Saudi Arabia as of 2016. The Turks hate him, so he must be all right, despite the occasional brutal murder of Qatar-owned journalists. As crown prince, Moe has quietly jettisoned his country's policy of trying to impose its religion on the rest of the world... is taking over the reins from his elderly father and becoming Saudi Arabia
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Salman and Neom -- the Neom coast being likely the best undiscovered scuba diving left in the world.
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[REGNUM] On the night of February 24-25, a Soviet delegation left for Brest, this time headed by G. Ya. Sokolnikov (Brilliant). At the entrance to Pskov, already occupied by the Germans, from the windows of the train carriages, the delegates observed a bleak picture:
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This is fascinating. It is hard to imagine the chaos and powerlessness of the new Soviet government. But deep-dives like this article really do help to bring it home. Thanks for deepening my historical understanding!
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Yes. Russia is so intent on punching above their weight that they are actually sorta good at it. To the detriment of other things they need more...
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Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin
[ColonelCassad] The first shots of damage to the "Provorny" corvette after the fire.
In appearance, everything is very serious - here either for cancellation, or, in fact, re-completion. A significant part of the money spent clearly burned out yesterday, it’s good at least the weapons systems and some of the equipment didn’t have time to install, otherwise the damage could have been even greater.
In any case, yesterday's fire again raised a number of sore questions:
1. Continuous violations of safety procedures and various ones continue, which lead to periodic fires or serious material damage - "Losharik", "Yekaterinburg", "Orel", "Admiral Kuznetsov", PD- 51. And this is so, offhand for the last 10 years. Now here comes "Agile". A bit too much comes out.
2. The potential loss of a corvette, taking into account the small number of corvette in the construction and the duration of this very construction, is certainly a problem for the renewal of the Pacific Fleet's ship composition. He was clearly counted on.
Even if they can restore or finish building, the ship will appear in the fleet clearly later than planned. New corvettes of project 20385 should appear at the Pacific Fleet only in 2026-2027 with an average construction time of 4-5 years from the moment of laying (for understanding, 4-5 years for a ship with a displacement of 2200-2400 tons, while in China for 2-4 years, for example, destroyers of type 052 riveted, displacement of 7,500 tons, or on average in 3 years they build large destroyers of type 055, displacement of 13,000 tons, ordinary corvettes, for example, of the same type 056, China has already riveted more than 60 pieces, building a ship with a water capacity in 1300-1500 tons for about a year). On the "
3. The pace of construction of such ships is completely unsatisfactory. This unfortunate corvette has been built since 2013 and has not yet been commissioned. We can only dream about the Chinese construction pace (see the construction speed of Type-075 aircraft carriers and helicopter carriers) and large-scale production - for the good, for the country's needs, corvettes need to be built in a large series of 12-16 pieces (3-4 for each fleet) and not in such a protracted time frame, which raises the question of the need to modernize factories and shipyards and increase their productivity.
And if we had built at least a dozen of them, then the loss of one of them would not be perceived as painful as when they are already being built a little, and a new one is waiting in the fleet for many years, and he is several months before entering combat the composition of the fleet burns out.
Again, that doesn't mean that the same Chinese or Americans do not have negligence, slovenliness and safety violations - the burned out American helicopter carrier Bonom Richard and the fire on the newest Chinese helicopter carrier during completion, transparently hint that not only we have a mess. But in our country it is perceived more sharply, due to the big problems with compensation for the costs of such accidents to maintain the combat effectiveness of the fleet.
[American Thinker] Twelve thousand divided by 67 equals 179. But 179 of what? What if the 12,000 was money and we were dividing $12,000 by 67 years? If a government were to consider giving every citizen a Christmas gift of $179.10 yearly from birth to retirement age 67, the consensus opinion of that government would be that it is the ultimate Ebenezer Scrooge!
Few would guess that the same sum, $12,000, given in a lump sum at birth would amount to almost $1 million ($922,000 to be exact) at age 67. This would be received by both male and female citizens, mending a long-term gender bias. In addition to money, all citizens, present and future, receive free educational support: pre-school, K-12, adult, parental, vocational, and on-the-job. (This at a time when 70% of citizens have less than $1,200 in ready assets and 48% have no investment assets, and inflation grows.)
People have a hard time thinking beyond the present moment. It’s a short-sightedness that clouds the minds of most of humanity. Too often, we fail to consider the long-term human capital consequences of today’s actions. And we also ignore the ability of financial capitalism to evolve—to compound.
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Our government is well aware of the benefits of long-term economic or monetary compounding. It is the equitable distribution or sharing of the compounding which they appear to be reluctant to undertake.
Proofs abound, but one current example of our politicians understanding can be found in the recent spat between AOC and Pelosi over the stock market investments of congressional members.
FDR understood the concept of compounding as well. Mandatory Social Security accounts, when fenced, and left to earn would create untold levels of national wealth. Problem was, the fund was too tempting and eventually become merged with the federal budget where it quickly become invisible and exploited. In other words, it is stolen from the annuitants and redistributed elsewhere.
Imagine if you will a country of Elon Musks calling these thieving bastards in Washington out at every turn? They simply cannot permit it to happen.
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^ Good comment, B. The leverage Musk has is that he is a leading maker of the Holy Electric Car that will be our salvation from the wages of fossil fuels. Or not.
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In addition to money, all citizens, present and future, receive free educational support: pre-school, K-12, adult, parental, vocational, and on-the-job.
Very democratic and socialist.
Stipends for being a citizen. I suppose the voting non-citizens will go for it.
Free education? Is it a benefit for the unwilling, unable, incapable or just plain angry?
[SLOG] I tried an escape route last week. For various (and nefarious) reasons, it failed. But – as always – one learns far more from failure than success. A lot of the failure was at an intensely personal level, whereas the learning came from observing the behaviour of a broad spectrum of national cultures through the medium of their citizens. Nothing this year has so effectively demonstrated to me the insidious effect of insistent propaganda and planned demonisation in play throughout the risibly defined First World.
This is how the totality spans out:
There are millions of Little Hitlers out there just gagging to tell you off. The alternative to mRNA messenger poison in your arm is still (just about) being made available…but there are no special offers, incentives or clear explanations to guide you. If you want a Covid test and you’re “vaccinated”, it costs €5 and you go to the front of the queue: if you’re a swine too selfish to think about “other citizens”, it costs anything from €15-98 and attracts 3rd class service.
At the Gare Montparnasse TGV departure station in Paris, there is but one pharmacy; it’s at the back of the third level, and there are no signs directing you to it. Yet despite that – and I know this by having befriended the senior medic providing the service – this small centre is knocking out 275 rapid flow tests during an average day. Multiply that by the seven days of the week, imagine how many pharmacies there are in France performing tests, and you will arrive at a very large number.
When given a negative result, you have 24 hours (in France) to get to the Moon and back. Nobody will serve you a meal indoors. At rail stations, they give you a cute little blue bracelet that grudgingly let’s you on the train…but is effectively a Judische Stern marking you out as Unclean. On the TGV from Paris yesterday, a young woman sat next to me, spotted the blue bracelet, and asked the Guard to reseat her elsewhere.
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It boils down to this: salaries, pensions and consumption are no longer under your control, they’re digital; travel is no longer under your control – you need a digital health pass; and the right to privacy is no longer under your control, because the Smart stuff tells Them what you’re doing, where you are and when you consumed. Even the new generation of electricity meters spy on us, telling the boys at EdF when you take a shower, when you wash the dishes, when you’re watching TV and so on ad nauseam. Of course, no pressure to get the new meters…but sadly, you’ll have to forego all the special offers and your KWHrs will be charged at a higher rate.
[ET] "We’ve been having tunnel vision" dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Ben Carson told EpochTV’s "American Thought Leaders" program.
"Let’s throw the politics out. We could solve this problem pretty quickly," he stated in an interview that will premiere on Dec. 18 at 7 p.m. New York time.
"Let’s open this thing up to all the different mechanisms," said Carson, a renowned neurosurgeon who was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom—the highest civilian award in the nation—in 2008 for his work. He retired in 2013 and ran for the presidency in 2016, before serving as the secretary of Housing and Urban Development during the Trump administration.
"Let’s look around the world at things that work. Let’s look at the fact that on the western coast of Africa, there’s almost no COVID. And let’s ask ourselves, why is that? And then you see, it’s because they take antimalarials, particularly hydroxychloroquine. Let’s study that. Let’s see what’s going on there.
"Let’s listen to these physician groups who’ve had incredible success with ivermectin. Let’s look at the results with monoclonal antibodies. Let’s look at all of these things. Let’s put them all in our armamentarium so that we don’t have a one-size-fits-all system."
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Just like there will be no utopia, there will be no "quick" or "final" solutions for this problem. However, a natural resolution seems to be working itself out even as the last days of 2021 go by. Still no reports of deaths from the Moronic Variant out of South Africa, and it's been weeks since it was first identified there.
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Pope Fauxi I has been quiet too. I think his bloody shirt has clotted up...
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To bad he don't get a clot in the brain
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They start off locking the world down for something with .2% death rate and then expect everyone to jump again when it has 0% death rate.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[American Thinker] Physicians who still practice medicine cannot afford to write or say the following for fear of being canceled. As a retired physician, I cannot be coerced to keep silent with threats to my medical license or hospital privileges. 
[IsraelTimes] WIth growing concerns over the health of the nearly 86-year-old regent, MBS is the de facto ruler of the kingdom.
[ET] "We’ve been having tunnel vision" dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Ben Carson told EpochTV’s "American Thought Leaders" program.
