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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Everyone Is Laughing at the Ridiculous Pelosi Big Lie
[Townhall] How dare you reject the Official Approved Narrative™ parroted by the regime media about the weird Schiff that went down at Casa de Pelosi the other night. There’s only one possible explanation, according to experts, licensed journalists, and our betters — an underwear-clad MAGA assassin from a hippie commune in Berkeley who is best known for his nudist activism broke into the oddly unguarded mansion of the Speaker of the House, a wealthy woman who has her police force and has not been shy about expounding on the perilous peril she faces from murderous insurrectionists, carrying a hammer and encountered the wide-awake Paul Pelosi, also in his skivvies, who the intruder then let go off and call the cops wherein Mr. Pelosi referred to the guy as his friend.

Look, it’s pretty clear that this was just one more Trump-inspired attack on Our Democracy, and to fail to accept this wholeheartedly is to be a conspiracy theorist who is blaming the victim and doing Putin’s bidding. It’s also racist.

That’s certainly one way to look at it. Perhaps a guy walking through San Francisco in his Fruit of the Looms with a hammer in his hand at 2 a.m. might not draw a lot of attention, but a lot of things don’t quite add up. Hey, I don’t know about you, but I have a few questions, some of which could be quickly answered with a House oversight committee deposing Paul Pelosi once he recovers and, just to be sure, sending a subpoena to Grindr.

An official investigation? Yes, please! This is a serious matter, we’re told. After all, the regime media and Democrats such as Ilhan Omar are out there making charges like "A far-right white nationalist tried to assassinate the Speaker of the House and almost killed her husband a year after violent insurrectionists tried to find her and kill her in the Capitol, and the Republican Party’s response is to either ignore it or belittle it." Heck, Our Democracy is at stake, so the incoming Republican majority must get to the bottom of this alleged act of political violence.

I somehow think the Democrats will be reluctant to help, though Speaker McCarthy should not let any Democrats on the panel in the first place as payback for the 1/6 kangaroo committee. But why not investigate? These are serious charges, albeit from unserious people. Omar, a commie ingrate whose stupidity is exceeded only by her dishonesty, could not resist trying to leverage some cheap advantage from this grody scenario, but she should have passed on strategic if not moral grounds. By trying to place the blame for this on us, she triggered the Streisand Effect just when Democrats least needed to be associated with even more weird nonsense than they are already. Blaming Republicans for what appears to many people to be a sex tryst gone sour guarantees the wrongly accused — us — are going to hammer the Democrats unmercifully about it.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/31/2022 10:06 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under:


#2  ...I wonder what the response would be if the House GOP leadership were to announce today that if they take back the House, their first action will be to start an immediate investigation into this heinous crime against Speaker Pelosi's family, and to leave no stone unturned until they find The Truth(TM).

Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski || 10/31/2022 12:53 Comments || Top||

#3  ^ LMAO
Posted by: Matt || 10/31/2022 13:09 Comments || Top||

#4  That would be awesome.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/31/2022 13:47 Comments || Top||

#5  That's devious, Mike. I like it
Posted by: Frank G || 10/31/2022 13:58 Comments || Top||

#6 
#5 That's devious, Mike. I like it
Posted by: Frank G 2022-10-31 13:58


Frank,

Thank you, sir. I got it from my dad. ;)

Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski || 10/31/2022 14:20 Comments || Top||

#7  Does Dad have a patent on it?
Posted by: AlanC || 10/31/2022 18:14 Comments || Top||


-Great Cultural Revolution
Ketanji Brown Jackson, the village idiot won't shut up
[AmericanThinker] Ketanji Brown Jackson is without a doubt the biggest detriment to the female sex since Eve in the garden of Eden.

She’s remarkably unintelligent, and she won’t stop talking. Now, fortunately for her sake, her pigment and political views lend her plenty of latitude; establishment media even ran cover for her saying, "none of the other justices have begun their careers as impressively as Jackson."

So how did her new career begin, and how is it progressing?

Well, as we all remember, she couldn’t answer the most basic of questions: "What is a woman?" Her dimwitted display was perhaps the most preposterous and remembered moment in recent political history — and she’s still just as much of an intellectual liability for the leftist cause.

Dr. Adam Feldman, an accomplished academician and the creator of the blog Empirical SCOTUS, analyzed certain data points, and created a bar graph to show how often each sitting justice spoke during their first eight arguments on the Court. Feldman found that Jackson’s word count reached a total of 11,003 words. (See the chart here.) To put that into context, Justice Clarence Thomas spoke the least, with less than one hundred words. The Washington Post gratuitously wrote:

Over eight oral arguments, she [Jackson] dominated the questioning and commentary, speaking twice as much as her next most loquacious colleague. It is likely a record for a new justice....

She’s the epitome of the "women never shut up" stereotype, just yammering away like an idiot with nothing of substance to say — another mindless leftist that talks just to talk, loving the sound of their own voice to the pain of those listening.
Posted by: The Walking Unvaxed || 10/31/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [20 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Ahhh, she's just trying to show off, being the new kid on the bench. I imagine The Wise Latina ran her mouth for a year or two.
Posted by: Bobby || 10/31/2022 9:42 Comments || Top||

#2  "I can help. I speak jive"
Posted by: Frank G || 10/31/2022 10:06 Comments || Top||

#3  Going to guess even squish Chief Justice Roberts isn't going to be allowing any ebonics tinged opinions to be published.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/31/2022 11:34 Comments || Top||

#4  Seems she is just as dumb and polarized as I expected she would be.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 10/31/2022 14:15 Comments || Top||

#5  Just another loud, angry black woman.

Ketanji Brown Jackson clashes with anti-affirmative action lawyer during Supreme Court arguments
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/31/2022 15:29 Comments || Top||

#6  Her confirmation included "Yea's" from Sens. Mitt Romney of Utah, Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska.

Murkowski's campaign results could be a bellwether for the other two.

Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 10/31/2022 20:53 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
In Stunning Strategy Reversal, Pentagon Will No Longer Rule Out Use Of Nuclear Weapons Against Non-Nuclear Threat
Not rule out is not the same as determined to do.
[ZeroHedge] The Pentagon no longer rules out using nuclear weapons in retaliation to a non-nuclear strategic threat to the homeland, US forces abroad or allies.

Well, we're finally there: stocks are officially trading off nuclear war headlines.

Moments ago, as part of his closely-watched speech, Vladimir Putin appeared to talk down the likelihood of a nuclear attack in Ukraine:

*PUTIN: NO POLITICAL, MILITARY REASON IN NUKE STRIKE IN UKRAINE
Which, however, is more than can be said about the US.

As Bloomberg just reported, the Pentagon's new National Defense Strategy rejects limits on using nuclear weapons long championed by arms control advocates (and, in the not too distant past, by Joe Biden) citing burgeoning threats from Russia and China.

"By the 2030s the United States will, for the first time in its history face two major nuclear powers as strategic competitors and potential adversaries," the Defense Department said in the long-awaited document issued Thursday. In response, the US will "maintain a very high bar for nuclear employment" without ruling out using the weapons in retaliation to a non-nuclear strategic threat to the homeland, US forces abroad or allies.

In yet another stark reversal for the senile occupant of the White House basement, in his 2020 presidential campaign Biden had pledged to declare that the US nuclear arsenal should be used only to deter or retaliate against a nuclear attack, a position blessed by progressive Democrats and reviled by defense hawks. But, like with every other position held by the pathological liar who even trumps Trump in the untruth department, this one has just been reversed as well as "the threat environment has changed dramatically since then" and the Pentagon strategy was forged in cooperation with the flip-flopping White House.

In a stunning move that should - or rather "should" - spark outrage among the so-called progressives but will at best prompt some very sternly retracted letters, the nuclear report that’s part of the broader strategy said the Biden administration reviewed its nuclear policy and concluded that "No First Use" and "Sole Purpose" policies "would result in an unacceptable level of risk in light of the range of non-nuclear capabilities being developed and fielded by competitors that could inflict strategic-level damage" to the US and allies.

Putin: The only country in the world that has used nuclear weapons against a non-nuclear state is the United States of America [FACT CHECK: TRUE]
Well, yes. But that’s because no one else developed them first. And it should be noted that despite plentiful provocation, the United States of America has used them on neither non-nuclear nor nuclear states since Imperial Japan surrendered.
The nuclear strategy document doesn’t spell out what non-nuclear threats could produce a US nuclear response, but current threats include hypersonic weapons possessed by Russia and China for which the US doesn’t yet have a proven defense.
Only a proven offense?
It does spell out, however, in the strongest terms, what would happen to another nuclear power, North Korea, if it launched a nuclear attack on the US, South Korea or Japan. That action "will result in the end of that regime," it says. US nuclear weapons continue to play a role in deterring North Korean attacks.

So, the brilliant neocon minds behind the report concluded, it is better to instill the fear of a disproportionate nuclear retaliation, thus making an outright nuclear attack far more likely (if the US will nuke you anyway, may as well go all out).
Or less likely, because the surety of punishment concentrates the mind wonderfully.
In the document, which was framed well before the invasion, the Pentagon says Russia continues to "brandish its nuclear weapons in support of its revisionist security policy" while its modern arsenal is expected to grow further. In other words, the Pentagon knew what Putin would do even before he did it and that defined the dramatic revision in US nuclear posture. Almost as if the Pentagon directed the entire sequence of events...
Uh huh. Right.

Posted by: Spike the Hairy6811 || 10/31/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  In other words, the Pentagon knew what Putin would do even before he did it and that defined the dramatic revision in US nuclear posture

Well don't break yer arm pattin' yerself on the back, hoss.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 10/31/2022 5:33 Comments || Top||

#2  ...On the other hand, I think you can look at it this way: We're kinda-sorta-maybe lowering the bar for potential nuclear use, because the conventional forces might not be able to cut it any more.

Any similarities to the awful post-Vietnam years are, of course, entirely coincidental.

Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski || 10/31/2022 6:58 Comments || Top||

#3  I recall during the Reagan rebuild one of the senior Army general officers lecturing. His point was we were to build back as effectively as we could to buy the man as much time as we could before facing the decision to resort to using nuclear weapons in a confrontation. Now it appears they're sliding back.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/31/2022 7:47 Comments || Top||

#4  Spin it however you like, "no longer rule out" or "lowering the bar". Either way, discarding the no first use policy is big. Especially with the Brandon administration running the show. "We had to nuke them to preserve LGBQTWERTY rights!"
Posted by: SteveS || 10/31/2022 9:22 Comments || Top||

#5  "We had to nuke them to preserve LGBQTWERTY rights!"

Well the Russians are pretty homophobic so it makes sense.
Posted by: DarthVader || 10/31/2022 9:50 Comments || Top||

#6  Who are they trying to intimidate right now that doesn't have nukes but might cause a lot of trouble?
Posted by: ruprecht || 10/31/2022 10:41 Comments || Top||

#7  Like the 1964? We were told not to vote for Goldwater because he was a warmonger and would start a nuclear war. We ended up with Lyndon Johnson as POTUS and the Viet Nam went on steroids.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/31/2022 11:28 Comments || Top||

#8  I've been feeling insecure ever since Biden finagled his way into the Oval Office and this doesn't help. I guess peace through strength is off the table when you scare the best people away from the military.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 10/31/2022 12:24 Comments || Top||

#9  The military missed its recruitment goals by about 25%. Not getting the toxic males from flyover country who fight and win wars (sarc)?
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/31/2022 17:09 Comments || Top||

#10  Who are they trying to intimidate right now that doesn't have nukes but might cause a lot of trouble?

You, me, and the rest of the world’s Deplorables
Posted by: Billy B || 10/31/2022 17:15 Comments || Top||

#11  The Great Ukraine Grift comes to an end in eight days. Tick tock.

Behind enemy lines: Republicans pushing into deep blue districts in sign of red landslide
by Jack Birle
October 31, 2022

Posted by: Billy B || 10/31/2022 17:39 Comments || Top||

#12  They are unlikely to nuke us deplorables though as we live in close proximity to the enlightened.
Posted by: ruprecht || 10/31/2022 17:47 Comments || Top||

#13  #11 Billy B., I hope you are right about sweeping the grifters out. I doubt the country would survive much more of this shite.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/31/2022 23:36 Comments || Top||

#14  “We had to nuke them to preserve LGBQTWERTY rights!"

Richard Moore, Head of Mi6, agrees with you.

UK MI6 Spy Chief Says War in Ukraine is About LGBT Rights

The head of MI6, who includes his preferred pronouns in his Twitter bio, faced backlash for suggesting that a large part of the war in Ukraine was about “LGBT+ rights.”

Yes, really.

Richard Moore (he/him), leader of Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service, made the comments in a Twitter thread.

“With the tragedy and destruction unfolding so distressingly in Ukraine, we should remember the values and hard won freedoms that distinguish us from Putin, none more than LGBT+ rights. So let’s resume our series of tweets to mark #LGBTHM2022,” he wrote

Posted by: Big Brother Is Sniffing You || 10/31/2022 23:48 Comments || Top||


Pro-PRC DRAGONBRIDGE Influence Campaign Leverages New TTPs to Aggressively Target U.S. Interests, Including Midterm Elections
Key bits:
[Mandiant] Mandiant has recently observed DRAGONBRIDGE, an influence campaign we assess with high confidence to be operating in support of the political interests of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), aggressively targeting the United States by seeking to sow division both between the U.S. and its allies and within the U.S. political system itself. Recent narratives include:

  • Claims that the China-nexus threat group APT41 is instead a U.S. government-backed actor.

  • Aggressive attempts to discredit the U.S. democratic process, including attempts to discourage Americans from voting in the 2022 U.S. midterm elections.

  • Allegations that the U.S. was responsible for the Nord Stream gas pipeline explosions.

Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/31/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Allegations that the U.S. was responsible for the Nord Stream gas pipeline explosions.

What? You think the Chinese did it?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 10/31/2022 12:26 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Elon Musk Shares an Article With Hillary, Suggesting Paul Pelosi Was Drunk, And With a Male Prostitute
[LibertyLoft] Hillary Clinton has to inject herself into every nasty, divisive stunt that comes down the political pike. And of course, she’s at it again with this bizarre Paul Pelosi "attack" story, that is falling apart at the seams. The media, who no longer "investigating" anything, they just take whatever the Regime says, and runs with it, tells us a "right-wing" January 6th supporter and hemp-nudist-hippy, broke into Paul Pelosi’s home in his underwear with a hammer and yelled "Where’s Nancy" and proceeded to attack Paul, who was also in his undies.

So, of course, all the Dems are running WIL with this theory, because it’s a week before midterms, and they’re trying to pretend like right-wing violence is off the charts and MAGA are "radicals" who are a threat to democracy, bla bla bla.

Here’s what Hillary tweeted, along with an LA Times article, that is in perfect lockstep with the regime’s messaging: "The Republican Party and its mouthpieces now regularly spread hate and deranged conspiracy theories. It is shocking, but not surprising, that violence is the result. As citizens, we must hold them accountable for their words and the actions that follow."
The LA Times article was laughable on its face. A Pelosi aide could've written it. 3 Whores "Journalists" combined on it.
Hillary might have thought she got away with spreading another hoax, but the new Twitter CEO, was right there, ready to push back and offer an alternate possibility to what the mainstream media is reporting, and shared an article that theorizes that Paul Pelosi was drunk again, and had brought a man home with him from the gay bar.

Posted by: The Walking Unvaxed || 10/31/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:

#1  That's just gay.
Posted by: DarthVader || 10/31/2022 0:04 Comments || Top||

#2  There was a third person in the house. He answered the door when the police arrived? Butler, third wheel or pimp?
Posted by: Crereque Clusogum7898 || 10/31/2022 0:15 Comments || Top||

#3  Butler, third wheel or pimp?

Hey... you got the makings of a real sex train there!
Posted by: DarthVader || 10/31/2022 0:19 Comments || Top||

#4  That's just gay.

It's all fun and gay until someone gets a hammer upside the head.

Snark O'The Day

Posted by: SteveS || 10/31/2022 0:31 Comments || Top||

#5  Boy, it is going to be a period of re-adjustment while they realize they can't just lie any more.

And boy, is this going to make them angry. Very, very angry. Soon they're going to start lying about Musk and using lawfare against Twitter and his other companies. It's going to get ugly.
Posted by: Spike the Hairy6811 || 10/31/2022 1:09 Comments || Top||

#6  And the The Santa Monica Observer site is down. What a surprise. It's not some dinky web server, either, it's Cloudflare so they should be immune to a flood of traffic or DDOS attacks. Likely Pelosi called Cloudflare and had them disconnected. Despicable liars.

Isn't it telling that all you have to do to these people to destroy them is tell the truth?
Posted by: Spike the Hairy6811 || 10/31/2022 1:14 Comments || Top||

#7 
Libidinous insider traders!
Cantankerous spouses, booze raiders!
Two hairy chested men, two! ✌️
One intrepid anus devourer!
All brought to you by Hammer Horror.

Forgive me but this scandal is extremely good. We'll never run out of ammo.

Posted by: Dron66046 || 10/31/2022 4:54 Comments || Top||

#8  ...IMHO, of course, but I have a feeling that Madam Speaker and her minions flying monkeys staff are desperately trying to figure out how to spin this. The fact that she's not screaming TRUMPWHARRGRBL at the top of her lungs is a clue to me that all is not well.

I take no pleasure at all in the beating and injury of an 82 year old man. I hope he recovers quickly and fully. It is, however, hard to avoid the thought that there is something - hell, a lot of somethings - not at all right here.

Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski || 10/31/2022 7:33 Comments || Top||

#9  screaming TRUMPWHARRGRBL at the top of her lungs

LOL, yeah, I could see that, with her clutched claw fist
Posted by: Frank G || 10/31/2022 7:37 Comments || Top||

#10  #4 SteveS.. nomination for SOTD
Posted by: BrerRabbit || 10/31/2022 9:06 Comments || Top||

#11  "Maybe we should wait for the facts–maybe?"

On Halloween Eve, 84 Years Ago, Aliens Killed Americans... With a Death Ray
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/31/2022 9:56 Comments || Top||

#12  The Santa Monico Observer link mentioned in Elon's twitter post is back. Check here for SMO.
Posted by: Gromble Dribble4342 || 10/31/2022 11:04 Comments || Top||

#13  The narrative being floated by the left makes no sense at all. Same way with his DUI story.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/31/2022 11:20 Comments || Top||

#14  I'm sure the early reports are wrong, and later ones will be sanitized as needed. Connecting the dots is hard when some of the dots aren't real and some are covered up.
Did Paul say the intruder was a friend, or that he "said" he was a friend? Dunno. Maybe we'll learn.
Some things are easy:
With that kind of background, the intruder wasn't remotely a Republican ally.
Posted by: James || 10/31/2022 11:25 Comments || Top||

#15  Any guesses on why Musk deleted the tweet?
Legal advice maybe?
Posted by: ruprecht || 10/31/2022 11:31 Comments || Top||

#16  likely, but his point was made, and set lefty heads on fire
Posted by: Frank G || 10/31/2022 11:44 Comments || Top||

#17  The original source, The Santa Monica Observer, has previously claimed that Hillary Clinton died on Sept. 11 and was replaced with a body double.
Posted by: European Conservative || 10/31/2022 11:50 Comments || Top||

#18  Nancy is going to have to get a baby sitter for her husband whenever she leaves town to keep him out of trouble.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/31/2022 11:51 Comments || Top||

#19  I think there is already a babysitter based on the third person rumor. Unfortunately, leaving an adult in charge does not help if that person immediately dons a cowboy hat and ass-less chaps.
Posted by: Super Hose || 10/31/2022 12:10 Comments || Top||

#20  The Santa Monica Observer, has previously claimed that Hillary Clinton died on Sept. 11 and was replaced with a body double.

Good find, European Conservative.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/31/2022 13:08 Comments || Top||

#21  if that person immediately dons a cowboy hat and ass-less chaps.

Thank you for that visual. Now I have to go find the brain bleach.
Posted by: DarthVader || 10/31/2022 13:11 Comments || Top||

#22  The glass that was "broken" appears to be security glass. It's bent, not shattered. Anyone have an idea what kind of effort it would take to produce that damage to multiple panes?
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 10/31/2022 14:21 Comments || Top||

#23  Police deny there was a third man. Say they broke a sliding glass door to get in.

As for the dead Hillary story in the SMO, it was a satire piece and labeled as such. Some wanted to take offense and did.
Posted by: Crereque Clusogum7898 || 10/31/2022 15:28 Comments || Top||

#24  Police deny there was a third man.

Oh yeah? How do they explain the zither music?
Posted by: SteveS || 10/31/2022 16:35 Comments || Top||

#25  The Santa Monica Observer, has previously claimed that Hillary Clinton died on Sept. 11 and was replaced with a body double.
- European Conservative.


Troll. Do you work for Hillary? Or are you just another liberal Globalist spreading more bullshit?
Posted by: Herman Thomoger2962 || 10/31/2022 17:17 Comments || Top||

#26  I can't work for Hillary because she's dead:

"Closer to home, another site, the “Santa Monica Observer,” owned by onetime City Council candidate David Ganezer, is notorious for publishing false news. In 2016, for example, it claimed that Hillary Clinton had died and that a body double had been sent to debate Donald Trump. Months later it reported, incorrectly, that Trump had appointed Kanye West to a high-level position in the Interior Department. Last year, it reported falsely that sunlight could be a remedy for COVID-19 sufferers and that Bill Gates, a major funder of vaccine research, had been responsible for a polio epidemic."
Posted by: European Conservative || 10/31/2022 18:05 Comments || Top||

#27  Ok, so you’re just another liberal Globalist spreading more bullshit. Got it.
Posted by: Herman Thomoger2962 || 10/31/2022 19:07 Comments || Top||

#28  Is Herman for real? ("Troll, etc.")

If so, it's a new low in cluelessness.
Posted by: JHH || 10/31/2022 20:52 Comments || Top||

#29  Dear ol’ Uncle Sniff.
Thank God he won instead of that Mean Tweets Guy. After all, 81 million snifees can’t be wrong. Amirite?

He Can’t Help Himself: Joe Biden Sniffs Baby at White House Halloween Celebration (VIDEO)
October 31, 2022
Posted by: Big Brother Is Sniffing You || 10/31/2022 22:42 Comments || Top||

#30  #2 Third person? Manage a trois?
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/31/2022 23:32 Comments || Top||

#31  Ménage a quatre
les deux aux marteaux
l’une au gavel
l’un au strap-on
Posted by: Blinky Bucket2936 || 10/31/2022 23:42 Comments || Top||


Europe
‘ Let's Get Out Of NATO’ Discontent Soars Across Europe As Russian Sanctions Backfire
[ZeroHedge] Western sanctions against Russia have been considered a powerful foreign policy tool by the US and the EU to paralyze Moscow back to the 'stone age.' Though sanctions against Moscow have entirely backfired, sparking the worst cost-of-living crisis for Europeans in a generation.

In early September, we first noticed a wave of discontent sweeping across Europe as tens of thousands of people took to the city streets to protest soaring electricity bills and the worst inflation in decades. Some countries delivered relief packages to citizens to tame the anger, while other countries did not have the financial capacity to hand out checks.

Tens of thousands of people have marched across metro areas in France, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Germany -- many of them are fed up with sanctions on Russia that have sparked economic ruins for many households and businesses -- but also very surprising, support for NATO's involvement in Ukraine is waning.

There has been increasing awareness and dissent among Europeans about their countries' leaders prioritizing NATO's ambitions in Ukraine over their own citizens. The prioritization has been in the form of sanctions against Moscow, sparking energy hyperinflation and supplying weapons to Ukraine, which has made Moscow displeased with any country that does so. Some Europeans are now demanding NATO negotiate with Moscow to end the war so that economic turmoil can abate.

Here are the latest protests across Europe of tens of thousands of people (if not more) frustrated with high inflation and crying out anti-NATO slogans.
Posted by: The Walking Unvaxed || 10/31/2022 06:29 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ...but also very surprising, support for NATO's involvement in Ukraine is waning.

"Surprising" to some possibly.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/31/2022 10:01 Comments || Top||

#2  Europeans won't freeze for Ukraine. Elites think they can play the covid game again.
Posted by: Vespasian Ebboting9735 || 10/31/2022 10:02 Comments || Top||

#3  Congress Passes Funding Stopgap Bill To Avoid Ukrainian Government Shutdown
Sep 29, 2022

WASHINGTON, D.C. — In the nick of time, Congress has passed a bipartisan $12 billion funding bill, narrowly avoiding a Ukrainian government shutdown.

"As elected representatives chosen by the people, it is our solemn duty, as outlined in the Constitution, to fully fund the Ukrainian government at all times," said Senator Chuck Schumer. "We humbly accept this sacred responsibility to send billions to Ukraine, who will send it to Raytheon, who will send it to super PACs, who will help us get elected. It's the right thing to do."

President Zelensky took a few moments in between magazine glamour shoots to thank America for her generosity. "We promise we will put this vast, vast wealth to good use," he said while checking the time on his new Girard-Perregaux Quasar Light Tourbillon wristwatch. "We know that Americans get up and go to work every day hoping that some of their money is used to kill Russians. I'm proud to be making their dreams come true."

Congress estimates the stopgap bill will keep Ukraine funded for at least two weeks, or until their super PACs run out of money.
Posted by: Thumper Smith5701 || 10/31/2022 10:24 Comments || Top||

#4  Was it NATO that killed Quadaffi... and led to a flood of 'migrants' into Europe? or was that just member states acting together outside of NATO?

European schools should teach a class about unintended consequences.
Posted by: ruprecht || 10/31/2022 10:40 Comments || Top||

#5  Just thionk for a minute what would happen if Putin wins.
Of course we all know Hitler was happy with Poland and had no further wishes.

Supporting Ukraine is a lot cheaper than defending the Baltic States and Poland from Russian aggression later on.

I thought most Rantburg members weren't exactly friends of appeasement.
Posted by: European Conservative || 10/31/2022 11:47 Comments || Top||

#6  I honestly think it's worth funding them just to test stuff out and see how the battlefield is changing. Seeing how drones have been used with mortar rounds and the like has been quite educational. Is there corruption in the Ukraine, sure. As long as we're not committing troops to it, I'm okay. Now if Russian hits Poland or other NATO members, then NATO needs to follow up on that, not just the US.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 10/31/2022 12:13 Comments || Top||

#7  EC, it’s more of an issue of the Europeans sucking from the tit of the American taxpayer.
I’ll wager when the Ukraine war is over Germany goes back to its green ways and buys Russian gas.
Posted by: Ebbuger Whuque4103 || 10/31/2022 12:37 Comments || Top||

#8  Is Thumper a Bee writer? He had me going there for a minute.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 10/31/2022 12:43 Comments || Top||

#9  EC, Ukraine is not Poland and Putin is not Hitler. If Putin attacks a NATO country he should get a NATO response. We'd have to see if all NATO members really would respond but I would support that response if they did. I do not support NATO involvement in Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia or Kazakhstan. I do not support CIA meddling in the affairs of those countries. NATO has gone far enough and the CIA has gone way too for way too long.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 10/31/2022 12:59 Comments || Top||

#10  Is Thumper a Bee writer?

Congress Passes Funding Stopgap Bill To Avoid Ukrainian Government Shutdown . The article is from the Bee, anyway.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/31/2022 13:03 Comments || Top||

#11  I do not support endless wars just to keep our military/media/industrial complex busy.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 10/31/2022 13:05 Comments || Top||

#12  Ebbuger Whuque4103
No, Germany will NOT go back to Russian gas.

Abu Uluque
Putin invaded Ukraine because he counted on Western weakness. He didn't think that Europe (and especially Germany) would cut most ties.

He still relies on fearmongering. Churchill once said about Chamberlain: “The government had to choose between shame and war. They chose shame. They will get war too.”
Posted by: European Conservative || 10/31/2022 13:11 Comments || Top||

#13  Appeasement, what an interesting choice of a word!
I spent a huge chunk of my life willingly accepting the idea that I would defend Europe from the Russians at the cost of my life if my country asked it of me. I understood the looming threat that the communist bloc lead by Russia would pose to my nation and family if Europe feel to the Soviet Empire. Today, FIFTY YEARS later, that threat is a pale ghost of its prime, and seems spent in most ways military short of nuclear weapons. And after all those decades of protection and alliance, the word appeasement is used, because getting off your comfortable asses and doing what is needed, conventionally, to protect yourselves is too troublesome?

The days of paternalistic rescue when things get dangerous is past, we are fractured, broke, invaded, angry, and in the midst of a serious tipping point domestically nation.

I signed up to protect the NATO alliance, not to protect an ever expansive NATO composed of natons who signed on for the sweet ride of defense expenditure avoidance by looking for Uncle Sugar to lean in.

I'm being courteous but please avoid being insulting...
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 10/31/2022 14:12 Comments || Top||

#14  IOW, Ukraine is too big to fail, and we once again just have to suck it up for the Dem's "pressssshus democraseeeeeeee".
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 10/31/2022 14:20 Comments || Top||

#15 
The new Ottoman Empire,
should it ever require,
its 'allies' to pursue,
a cooperative quagmire,
what would Christians do?
Would they help the moslem
kill his enemy the Jew?


That's NATO for you in a nutshell. Taking you where you don't wanna go, making you friends you don't wanna make. The only ones who profit are the MIC and of course, clever motherfcukers feeding you cheap beer and sappy camaraderie.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 10/31/2022 14:27 Comments || Top||

#16  "As elected representatives chosen by the people, it is our solemn duty, as outlined in the Constitution, to fully fund the Ukrainian government at all times," said Senator Chuck Schumer. "We humbly accept this sacred responsibility to send billions to Ukraine, who will send it to Raytheon, who will send it to super PACs, who will help us get elected. It's the right thing to do."

Hahaha. That’s it in a nutshell
Posted by: Billy B || 10/31/2022 15:05 Comments || Top||

#17  Gloves off.

Russia Launches Barrage of Strikes Across Ukraine, Targeting Infrastructure
Electricity and water supplies are hit across the country as strikes on civilian resources intensify

Updated Oct. 31, 2022 3:06 pm ET

KYIV, Ukraine—Russian forces launched a wave of missile strikes across Ukraine on Monday that knocked out electricity and water supplies in Kyiv and other cities, just as the country was recovering from the damage inflicted in the Kremlin’s recent attacks on civilian infrastructure.

Ukraine’s Patchwork Air Defense Faces New Threat From Cheap Iranian Drones
After Ukraine was pummeled by drones and missiles earlier this month
, the U.S. and its partners said they would help Kyiv build an integrated air defense to cover priority targets, but no timetable has been set.

Posted by: Jack Sforza7392 || 10/31/2022 16:38 Comments || Top||

#18  Echos of the 80's agiprop in Europe when Reagan deployed Pershings and cruise missiles.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/31/2022 17:02 Comments || Top||

#19  …. except Russia actually did threaten us then, whereas today they don’t threaten us in the slightest. They’re not a peer competitor. Not even close.

#ShutDownNATO
#BringEmHome
Posted by: Billy B || 10/31/2022 17:06 Comments || Top||

#20  Arch-liberal internationalist Jeffrey Sachs speaks out, and calls bullshit on Biden’s Ukraine adventure:

Biden's Foreign Policy Is Sinking the Congressional Dems—and Ukraine
The proxy war between the U.S. and Russia is devastating Ukraine, ironically in the name of saving Ukraine.

JEFFREY D. SACHS
October 30, 2022


President Joe Biden is undermining his party’s Congressional prospects through a deeply flawed foreign policy. Biden believes that America’s global reputation is at stake in the Ukraine War and has consistently rejected a diplomatic off-ramp.

The Ukraine War, combined with the administration’s disruptions of economic relations with China, is aggravating the stagflation that will likely deliver one or both houses of Congress to the Republicans. Far worse, Biden’s dismissal of diplomacy prolongs the destruction of Ukraine and threatens nuclear war.
Posted by: Markus || 10/31/2022 17:23 Comments || Top||

#21  European Conservative, Even if Russia wins in Ukraine they won't get the entire country, and they've taken such a bloody nose.... They are dusting off old tanks and calling up old and young the way Hitler did near the very end.

Now add to that your own statements on Germany not buying Russian oil. I suspect the rest of Europe feels the same way. Add to that Russian equipment was shown to be substandard compared to that of the west and their arms industry might be seriously hurting in the near future. Russian hard currency is gonna dry before long making rebuilding that much harder.

They are unlikely to invade another country for some time. Putin killed Russia and the myth of Russia with this ill advised venture and refusal to end it when he had a chance.

Posted by: ruprecht || 10/31/2022 17:42 Comments || Top||

#22  The whole thing proved Nato membership wasn't such a big deal as all the members stood side-to-side and defended a non-member with billions in training and support.
Posted by: ruprecht || 10/31/2022 17:43 Comments || Top||

#23  Ref #22. Sort of a non-denominational support group approach.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/31/2022 18:04 Comments || Top||

#24  Cut the Germans loose, ditto for the Polacks and the Ukrainians.

Let them sort out their squabbles on their own dime. It’s just not our problem.
Posted by: Woodrow Hatfield6779 || 10/31/2022 18:05 Comments || Top||

#25  Apparently, a good number of people here want to see several dozen nations with their own nukes. That's when the 'fun' begins.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/31/2022 18:13 Comments || Top||

#26  What really dismays me is not the anon Russ Trolls, but the long-time posters, who celebrate Putin's attacks on civilian power/water/transport/civilian centers. You should be ashamed
Posted by: Frank G || 10/31/2022 19:18 Comments || Top||

#27  P2K, you mean like Pakistan and North Korea? That happened on Clinton's watch. Oh, and then there's Iran. Don't see Biden doing much about that. If we were going to meddle in the affairs of other countries, those would have been the candidates because they pose actual threats. Not Iraq, Libya, Egypt, Syria and not Ukraine either.

But, honestly, I grow weary of arguing this subject. I'm not changing anybody's mind and nobody is changing mine. I just think our politicians and our friends in Europe should know there are those of us in America who don't believe Joe Biden's version of events in Ukraine, who will not support any further NATO expansion, and will not support much more funding for the little mad man Zelensky.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 10/31/2022 19:30 Comments || Top||

#28  #1 surprising, support for NATO's involvement in Ukraine is waning.
"Surprising" to some possibly.


Not to official Washington. Most effective as of 2022 is Citizens For Sanity’s “HELL NO!”

HELL NO to this corrupt and freakish administration and their shitty forever war:

Citizens for Sanity Runs Brutal Ads During Games One and Two of the World Series Blasting Biden, Democrats and Ukrainian Grifters

“Record inflation. Groceries up 13%. Gas up 36%. And crime is out of control. But instead of helping us, Joe Biden sent $66 billion to to Ukraine. Billions more on weapons. Instead of helping us.”


Posted by: Billy B || 10/31/2022 19:38 Comments || Top||

#29  * Most effective political ad of 2022
Posted by: Billy B || 10/31/2022 19:40 Comments || Top||

#30  OK, I will add one more thing. The original purpose of NATO was to defend Western Europe from the Soviet Union. Mission accomplished. If you want me to believe that Putin is threatening Europe now, forget it. Europe's biggest threat comes from its own political elites who have allowed the continent to be flooded with millions of so-called immigrants from the Middle East and Africa. Those people hate Europeans, hate Western Civilization and will destroy it if they can. NATO cannot save Europeans from their own stupidity. The will have to wake up and save themselves or perish. They won't be the first civilization to turn to dust.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 10/31/2022 19:41 Comments || Top||

#31  Well said Abu.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/31/2022 19:43 Comments || Top||

#32  Europe's biggest threat comes from its own political elites

Exactly right.

This is precisely why our corrupt and freakishly incompetent political elites need a forever war against their made-up enemy.

Trump is Putin is Emmanuel Goldstein.

Pay no attention to your (devastated) bank account!
Pay no attention to your children’s (nightmarish) schools, their freakshow teachers and the state-sponsored ped0s grooming and preying on them!
Pay no attention to our rapists and murderers wreaking havoc on your streets!
Ignore all this.

No: Rally around the T-shirt man and fight with his Nazis against … TRUMP-PUTLER!!!

For Our Democracy(tm)!

All gather for the Two Minutes Hate!

Posted by: Billy B || 10/31/2022 19:50 Comments || Top||

#33  I, that am curtail'd of this fair proportion,
Cheated of feature by dissembling nature,
Deformed, unfinish'd, sent before my time
Into this breathing world, scarce half made up,
And that so lamely and unfashionable
That dogs bark at me as I halt by them;
Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace,
Have no delight to pass away the time,
Unless to spy my shadow in the sun
And descant on mine own deformity:
Posted by: JHH || 10/31/2022 21:04 Comments || Top||

#34  If you want me to believe that Putin is threatening Europe now, forget it.

Not an effective military threat, clearly, but what would you call Russia summarily cutting off oil and natural gas flows to Europe, after having done the same to Ukraine and, if I recall correctly, Georgia?

There have also been DDOS and hack attacks on Ukraine, Georgia, and others I don’t recall, and spying and subordination that picked up again after the fall of the Soviet Union.

So all sorts of asymmetric efforts.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/31/2022 21:05 Comments || Top||

#35  Also — Richard III! It’s been a while since we’ve had Shakespear quotes. :-)
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/31/2022 21:07 Comments || Top||

#36  Now is the Winter of Europe’s discontent
Made glorious landslide by these sons of Trump
And all the clowns (that lowered the boom on us)
Have schnozzes in the deep bosoms of their nubiles buried
Posted by: Big Brother Is Sniffing You || 10/31/2022 22:57 Comments || Top||

#37  Paul was BORN so high.
Our weirdo buildeth in the PacHeights’ top
And dallies with the pervs
And scorns the hag!
Posted by: Big Brother Is Sniffing You || 10/31/2022 22:59 Comments || Top||

#38  Plots have I laid, inductions dangerous,
By drunken prophecies, libels and dreams,
To set Americans
In deadly hate the one against the other:
And if King Donald be as true and just
As I am subtle, false and treacherous,
This day should I be, uh… the thing… ah.. closely be fuck'd up
Posted by: Big Brother Is Sniffing You || 10/31/2022 23:03 Comments || Top||

#39  been a while since we’ve had Shakespear quotes
twosome it wood sew appeare
Posted by: Large Clong7231 || 10/31/2022 23:09 Comments || Top||

#40  He capers nimbly in a nubile’s chamber
To the lascivious pleasing of a lute
Posted by: Big Brother Is Sniffing You || 10/31/2022 23:16 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
Paul Engel - 'Save Our Children From Medical Experimentation Act'
[News With Views] In the latest example of government bureaucrats attempting to take over our lives, the CDC has added an experimental treatment to their "Vaccine for Kids" program. This program provides eligible children free vaccines. What makes this decision truly awful is the vote by the CDC to add these treatments to their children’s vaccine schedule. Many schools and other children’s programs require children to receive the vaccines on the CDC’s schedule in order to attend. All of this is under the guise of a medical emergency that does not exist.

COVID-19 Tyranny

COVID-19 has been a blessing . . . for the tyrants and thugs that believe they know better than you how you should live your life. Sure, in the first few weeks, when we still didn’t know much about this novel corona-virus, we were willing to follow recommendations from those we thought were experts. Then those recommendations became mandates, suggestions became orders, and bureaucrats, many of whom have never even treated a patient, much less one with COVID-19, started claiming that they were the science, and anyone who disagreed with them wanted to kill grandma. All of this was justified by COVID-19 being a public health emergency. Since then more and more evidence has shown that COVID-19 was never a public health emergency, since only a very small demographic of the population was ever truly at risk of hospitalization and death. Yet the state of emergency still exists.

Doctors who treated patients quickly came up with a treatment regime using medicines that have been safely administered to humans for decades. Yet those doctors and their treatments were shunned by many in the medical community, especially those in the medical bureaucracy. In their place we were promised a panacea, a vaccine that would stop the spread of COVID-19 and release us from the tyranny of this public health emergency.
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#1  WND - 'Was it the jabs?': Republican lawmaker dies suddenly

Hugh McKean, Colorado's House minority leader, died in his home just three days after turning 55.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/31/2022 11:31 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
These media giants all identified as Democrat propagandists
[The Real Wire via WND] The great paradox — and shame — of the New York Times, Washington Post, and many other prestigious news outlets is that they are brimming with top-notch reporters and editors who consistently produce stellar work. Yet, that distinguished journalism stands as a stark indictment of their political coverage, which insistently betrays the best traditions of the profession. It’s not a bug, it’s a feature.

They know that Hillary Clinton’s campaign manufactured the false claim embraced and amplified by the highest levels of the Department of Justice and the FBI that Donald Trump conspired with the Russians to steal the 2016 race. Instead of working to expose this massive effort at election denial, they advanced the conspiracy theory for years before working to cover up the truth as it emerged.

They know that significant questions surround the business dealings of President Biden’s son Hunter and his brother James — including evidence from their former business partner that the president himself lied about and profited from these deals. Instead of using their vast resources and talent to probe this alleged malfeasance, they have largely ignored the mounting evidence of corruption.

Instead of shining a light, they have intentionally kept their audiences in the dark regarding stories of the greatest consequence. (No doubt those readers were surprised to learn this week about record early voting in Georgia since the state’s new voting law had been described to them as "Jim Crow 2.0." Likewise, they were probably shocked to learn that despite the plague of "systemic racism" in the U.S. health care system, whites are now more likely to die from COVID than African Americans.)

One can only wonder how those readers are responding to the polls which increasingly suggest big Republican victories in next month’s elections. Yes, the out-of-power party usually thrives in off-year midterms. But this anticipated red wave is taking place after most mainstream news sources have relentlessly cast the GOP as the second coming of the Third Reich.

For months, Democrats and their powerful media allies have been treating Jan. 6 as if was Pearl Harbor or 9/11, issuing thousands of fearsome reports across their home pages and airwaves. The president created a bogeyman label — MAGA Republicans — which mainstream reporters have echoed to frame the coming midterms as a battle to save democracy.

No rational American who believes what they read and hear in the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Associated Press, NPR, NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, The Atlantic, The New Yorker (and on and on and on) could possibly support the GOP. "If you care about the future of America, democracy and your own rights," USA Today columnist Jill Lawrence declared, "don’t vote for Republicans. Any of them."

Their house-on-fire coverage bludgeons Americans with the message that fascism and white supremacy are the real ballot measures at stake in the midterms and that our nation will become an authoritarian hellhole if Democrats do not prevail. In their telling, no decent person could vote for these monsters.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/31/2022 11:21 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It might be good to take away Jill Lawrence’s belts, shoe laces and bedding before next Tuesday night.
Posted by: Super Hose || 10/31/2022 11:58 Comments || Top||

#2  I see no reason to do that, she's an adult. If she desires to self-darwinate, let her. She can serve as a cautionary tale to the future about believing your own lies.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 10/31/2022 12:41 Comments || Top||

#3  brimming with top-notch reporters and editors


I think you need to re-think your definition of top-notch there.
Posted by: AlanC || 10/31/2022 17:56 Comments || Top||


Man Pretending To Be Woman Visits Man Pretending To Be President
[Babylon Bee] WASHINGTON, D.C. — History was made last week as Dylan Mulvaney, a pretend woman, sat down in a one-hour Now This News special with Joe Biden, a pretend president.

"OMG OMG OMG Mr. President, how aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrree you? EEEEEEEEEE!" said pretend woman Mulvaney in a perfect impression of a totally normal woman. "I'm so, so, so, so, so, so excited to talk to you about important issues concerning very, very young little girls just like me!"

"That's right," replied Biden. "I'm not even being facetious here. Not a joke. For real. Annie Oakley."

Aides then poked the pretend president with their handy cattle prod, as he was pretending to be awake.

The pair then talked at length about the issues most important to everyday American voters, such as letting biological men use girls' bathrooms, offering unrestricted and free abortions for pregnant men, and outlawing guns.

At publishing time, Mulvaney had told reporters he was happy to interview the President but was extremely disappointed Biden never leaned in to sniff his little girl hair.
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Science & Technology
Playing With Fire: A Lab-Made Frankenstein COVID-19 Virus By Boston University
[ZERO] The creation of a new recombinant COVID-19 virus at Boston University, viewed as a "Frankenstein virus" by many, has raised a public uproar. This is not merely a risky gain-of-function experiment on "enhanced potential pandemic pathogens (ePPPs)", it is a creation of an enhanced pandemic pathogen. NO "potential" here.

What is the rationale for this statement? What is the chimeric virus that we talk about here?

A team of researchers at Boston University’s National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories posted a paper on October 14, 2022, on BioRxiv, a preprint server for biology, revealing that they had created a lab-made COVID-19 chimeric virus with reverse genetics technology.

Specifically, they’ve swapped the S gene of the spike protein in the original SARS-CoV-2 Wuhan strain with the corresponding S gene from the Omicron variant. So, the lab-made Chimeric virus (Wuhan-Omi-S chimeric virus) has all the genes from the Wuhan strain, which is much more pathogenic than the Omicron strain, except the S gene, which is from the highly transmissible yet relatively mildly pathogenic Omicron strain.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/31/2022 10:19 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The BU researchers adamantly claim this is not "gain-of-function" research. This story is so old it has already gone down the MSM memory hole.
Posted by: Gromble Dribble4342 || 10/31/2022 10:54 Comments || Top||

#2  I thought AOC was the worst thing BU would ever unleash on our society. It looks like that was a challenge their biology department took up in spades.
Posted by: Super Hose || 10/31/2022 11:00 Comments || Top||

#3  Great (sarc)! All we need is a bunch of left-wing nuts doing gain-of-function research with viruses in one of our academic institutions.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/31/2022 11:15 Comments || Top||

#4  Third tier university looking for Saudi funding
Posted by: Regular joe || 10/31/2022 11:31 Comments || Top||

#5  THIS is our next "monkey pox", they always lets everyone know it exists before it mysteriously "escapes" from the lab, is it even real or just a media figment of the imagination, doesnt matter, all they have to do is let the news cycle pick it up and voila, we have the next greatest imperative to "VACCINATE EVERYONE "THIS TIME"
Posted by: 746 || 10/31/2022 13:15 Comments || Top||

#6  Dr. Fauci should sue for Patent Infringement.
Posted by: Airandee || 10/31/2022 20:03 Comments || Top||


The Mortality Rate Is Up 17% Across The Vaccinated World
[Emerald] Last week, I recommended that my followers pay attention to the Twitter account of Dr. Andrew Huff — because he’s the most important whistleblower in America right now.

This week, I recommend that you follow the Twitter account of the Ethical Skeptic — who might be the most important COVID data analyst right now.

Why?

The Black Ops/SCI Top Secret US Naval intelligence officer and data expert known as the "Ethical Skeptic" on Twitter has been keeping tabs on the CDC’s database releases, and he’s got some very bad news: the mortality rate across the vaccinated world is up 17% and cancer is "at a 9-sigma rise."

Posted by: The Walking Unvaxed || 10/31/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under:

#1  As intended.
Posted by: Tyranysaurus Jones4656 || 10/31/2022 16:17 Comments || Top||

#2  How many excess deaths are due to tests and treatments disrupted and/or delayed by the lockdown? In other words, excess disease not directly due either to Covid infection or to Covid vaccination?
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/31/2022 21:14 Comments || Top||

#3  TW, perhaps you should take a deep dive into the numbers. The answers are within.
Posted by: The Walking Unvaxed || 10/31/2022 22:26 Comments || Top||



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