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Bandits Raid Another Mosque In Niger State, Shoot 15 Worshippers Dead
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-Great Cultural Revolution
Stephen Cleobury Academy of Ancient Music: Messiah
Posted by: badanov || 12/10/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Thank you!
Posted by: Woodrow || 12/10/2021 0:58 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Your dominant DELUSION determines how you experience
BLUF:
[Yournews.com] When people are invested in a delusion, they begin to zealously defend it.

Here’s how human neurology works: Once people are invested in a delusion, they become zealots in their defense of it. For example, a person who is heavily invested in Bitcoin often becomes utterly unable to hear any information critical of cryptocurrency. This is exactly the same way a person who took a covid vaccine can no longer tolerate information showing those vaccines to be dangerous (or even deadly).

Once a person is so fully invested in a delusion that they cut off their consciousness from the real world around them, they become "cultists" who drown in their own dogma. At some point, a "day of reckoning" arrives that shatters their delusions, leading to a traumatic psychological breakdown that’s often described in phrases like, "my whole world just got shattered."
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/10/2021 04:02 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Wow Mr B. Exactly. I saw this after I posted earlier "#1 My area medical system. India is doing quiet well since using this product. Common to use product other than FDA decrees. Main issue is Trump used it. Medical out the window as the result. Shame it took so long, 30 days. Constant barrage in medias to be vaxed. People now dying as a result at an alarming rate but who cares since they are vaxed. I am now seeing a trend that is unsettling.Vaxed exhibit short tempered anger issues.No matter the subject they show hostility to any contrary viewpoint to their own. I call them the new Zombie variants. Watch, listen, observe but be careful.The new normal. They can be well educated but the men especially can act very much like brutes and quite physical."
Posted by Dale 2021-12-10 08:42|| 2021-12-10 08:42|| Front Page ||Comments Top. Now I haven't seen the shattered part but I am certain there will be many social problems till then. I find it almost impossible for them to realize their error. As with a drowning person. They will drag helpers under to save themselves.
Posted by: Dale || 12/10/2021 8:59 Comments || Top||

#2  From the sixth century BC in the Xin Xin Ming: "Do not search for the truth, only cease to cherish opinions". I've found this a much more useful approach that the one encapsulated in the source article.
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 || 12/10/2021 9:15 Comments || Top||


Elon Musk: "Civilization Is Going To Crumble"
[Most Important News] Even billionaires like Elon Musk can see that the current state of affairs is completely and utterly unsustainable. If we stay on the path that we are on, and there are absolutely no indications that we plan to reverse course, societal collapse is inevitable. In fact, as I detail on a regular basis, societal collapse has already begun all around us. Unfortunately, most people still can’t bring themselves to admit that it is actually happening.

I don’t always agree with everything that Elon Musk does or says, but he is certainly a very interesting guy.

He is not afraid to anger the establishment, and he often expresses opinions which run counter to the dominant narratives of our day.

For example, he just told the Wall Street Journal that our declining birth rates are "one of the biggest risks to civilization"...

"There are not enough people," Musk told a Wall Street Journal event Monday. "I can’t emphasize this enough, there are not enough people," he said.

The tech billionaire said low and rapidly declining birth rates are "one of the biggest risks to civilization."

Without a doubt, birth rates are certainly dropping quite precipitously.

In fact, here in the United States the birth rate is at an all-time record low, and every single U.S. state has now dropped below replacement level.

In other words, if birth rates do not start rising we will soon see our population steadily shrink.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/10/2021 00:52 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Is Elon Musk a modern-day Siener van Rensburg ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/10/2021 0:56 Comments || Top||

#2  Day and dollar short there Elon.
Posted by: Woodrow || 12/10/2021 0:57 Comments || Top||

#3  The poor are still having children. Muslims as well. I believe their data is skewed. The industrialized world. The better educated. Both have deleted their kind. The push for no binary plus pandemic equals negative growth. So; no family, no civilization.
Posted by: Dale || 12/10/2021 9:23 Comments || Top||

#4  Elon worries me. I perceive a negativity about him.
Posted by: Dale || 12/10/2021 9:24 Comments || Top||

#5  He made lots of money off of the deindustrialization movement that made it hard for people to have kids. Tens of billions of dollars worth.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 12/10/2021 10:11 Comments || Top||

#6  Declining birthrates could be offset by immigration if we assimilated the immigrants as we did in the old days.
Posted by: ruprecht || 12/10/2021 11:10 Comments || Top||

#7  While the fashionable rich like Chelsea Clinton, the Trump kids, and Prince William and his duchess are having three or more children, half the countries listed by the CIA World Factbook now report below replacement birthrates — though if the Palestinian Territories are any example, Third World countries may be puffing up their numbers a bit.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/10/2021 11:49 Comments || Top||

#8  Steve Sailer’s “World’s Most Important Graph” *

* ...which must Never Be Discussed
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 12/10/2021 12:03 Comments || Top||

#9  Not enough people to manufacture enough of his cars to keep him living in the manner to which he has become accustomed? Too bad, Elon. Move to China or South America or Africa if you're so concerned about it.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 12/10/2021 12:12 Comments || Top||

#10  What we need is Tesla condoms that fail.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 12/10/2021 15:14 Comments || Top||

#11  Broncos Super Bowl Champion Demaryius Thomas Dead at 33...
Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 || 12/10/2021 16:31 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
‘Follow the Science' a Potent Source of Authority for Politicians
[Epoch Times] "The Science" emerged long before 2020 as a potent source of authority for politicians. Yet, while the scientific method is a powerful tool for advancing human potential, the belief that it alone can guide us is an example of "scientism."

Scientism is, in the words of public intellectual Scott Masson, "the belief that moral or evaluative judgments are merely subjective and that only the ’hard’ sciences—think physics, chemistry, or biology—furnish legitimate objective knowledge." While few American politicians would openly endorse this position, the actions many have taken during the COVID-19 pandemic reflect scientism in deed, if not in word.

Scientism lets politicians off the hook for their decisions. They didn’t really make a decision—they merely "Followed The Science."

As a scientistic credo, "Follow The Science" does not just abrogate leaders’ accountability as decisionmakers. It also does violence to the nature of science, which seldom offers the clear-cut, politically useful conclusions that politicians want.

A popular meme contrasts the "Scientific Method" with the "Science Worshiper’s Method." While the former moves in a rigorous, self-correcting way toward results that may or may not align with a specific hypothesis, the latter constructs a model and then only accepts the data that will confirm that model.
Posted by: Bobby || 12/10/2021 12:27 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1  The 'I Fucking Love Science' campaign was launched just for such things.

The libertarians chimed in with the I'm Not a Democrat but I Fucking Love Science ended up with the Flat Earther slur for anyone with anything other than blind compliance with The Science!
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/10/2021 13:34 Comments || Top||

#2  Science is a process, not a conclusion. Anyone who uses works like "consensus" or "settled" is not talking about science. They are talking about politics.
Posted by: Angstrom || 12/10/2021 15:24 Comments || Top||


Arabia
Editorial: South Korea in the Persian Gulf.
[MANARA Magazine] South Korea’s foreign relations with the Persian Gulf have changed over the years from passive to extensive and wide-ranging. Seoul’s economic interests in the region have increased and it has striven to carefully balance its policies between economics and politics as well as regional and global considerations. Yet, the country is increasingly drawn into making tough decisions due to political and security issues in the region.
Posted by: 3dc || 12/10/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
New provocation in the Kerch Strait
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
By Boris Rozhin

[ColonelCassad] The control ship "Donbass", according to the FSB border service, left Mariupol and moved to the Kerch Strait without responding to inquiries. She now hangs out 18 miles north of the strait, avoiding contact with the strait-control authorities and ignoring directions to change course.

She can pass the strait only within the framework of an official request from the Russian coastal services. In this case, she can easily pass the strait and bring down wherever she likes, as in fact it is usually done by Ukrainian ships.

If she ignores the Russian coastal services and tries to simply break through the strait or, for example, drown herself in the channel, then this is an obvious provocation and then the Donbass must either be sunk or detained for violating the order of passage through the strait belonging to Russia.

The arrested team can then be exchanged for Russian citizens captured by Ukraine, starting with Andrey Kosyak.

PS. The control ship "Donbass" turned around and lay on the return course to Mariupol.

The approach to the strait was carried out exactly in time for Biden's call to Zelensky, where the Kiev puppet was informed about the current position of the United States.

Posted by: badanov || 12/10/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:


Ukraine eagerly catches echoes of Putin's negotiations with Biden
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
by Aleksandr Kots

[KP] “No, such plans are not being considered. What is not, that is not," said Biden on Thursday when asked if the US is ready to send troops to Ukraine to defend against Russia.

Kiev, of course, eagerly listens for any signals from Washington. After all, the American president decided to pause and inform Vladimir Zelensky about the results of the negotiations only two days later. And with these signals the devil himself will break his leg.

On the one hand, it is full of joy. European countries, one after another, refuse to fight for independence. On Thursday, the head of the Ministry of Defense of Lithuania Arvydas Anushauskas said bluntly: "Without a doubt, Ukraine understands that the protection of sovereignty is a matter for the country itself. And help from other countries is also needed, but it can be of very different forms."

News trickles into the press from Washington, one sadder than the other. "Senior State Department officials told Ukraine that its NATO membership is unlikely to be approved in the next decade," some sources say.

"Administration officials suggested that the United States would put pressure on Ukraine to officially cede part of its autonomy to the lands in the east," others say. The task of US President Joe Biden is to "induce Kiev to accept to some extent the real state of affairs in eastern Ukraine, while not creating the impression that it is inferior to President Putin."

Former US ambassador to Nezalezhnaya Stephen Pifer specified that it could be about giving Donbass control over healthcare, police and schools.

But on the other hand, there is an unconditional preponderance. Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland, on behalf of the United States, fears that Vladimir Putin intends to make history by recreating the Soviet Union.

Former US Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Jan Brzezinski offers a “warning strike” on Moscow: “We may delay certain payments for gas and oil. Or disconnect Russia from SWIFT for a few days."

Next came Republican Senator Roger Wicker, who urged not to rule out a preemptive nuclear strike against our country so as not to lose "free democratic Ukraine." (which in itself sounds like a joke).

But here it is again zrada. And the Russian chief of the General Staff threatens to suppress military adventures in the Donbass.

And the new head of the German Foreign Ministry, Annalena Berbock, who usually does not strongly favor Russia, echoes Moscow: "The main goal of the European Union is to search for opportunities to contribute to a diplomatic solution to the conflict. The Minsk agreements play a decisive role. The absolute goal is to avoid military escalation." And how can you figure out who won?

But in no way, because no one won. Negotiations at this level are not held for the sake of someone losing. Obviously, there are some shifts in the position of Russia and the United States in relation to Ukraine and the role of NATO in its fate.

Some processes love silence. And it makes no sense to judge the whole picture by individual signals or speeches for the press (which are often just personal fabrications). She can only be seen after a while.

Posted by: badanov || 12/10/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:


What they say in Donbass about Putin's meeting with Biden
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited
[KP] It was the editorial duty on duty: "What do people in Donbass think about the meeting between Putin and Biden?" Eight years of experience here told me that no one in Donetsk coordinated their personal plans with the conversation of world leaders.

It is a thankless task to look for projections of international events onto a poor life on the brink of survival. In Donbass, since 2014, there are two points of view on what is happening. Biblical: "Accept torment humbly” and military-Soviet: "You lie, you won’t take it!."

Continued on Page 49
Posted by: badanov || 12/10/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Thanks for the try Bad.
Reads like Google word salad for me.
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/10/2021 8:14 Comments || Top||

#2  latest rumor is that Biden may force Ukraine to give Donbass (Russia influenced/occupied) autonomy which goes beyond the Minsk agreement.

Russia will gain way more leverage once gas is flowing thru Nord Stream 2.
Posted by: Lord Garth || 12/10/2021 9:21 Comments || Top||

#3  latest rumor is that Biden may force Ukraine to give Donbass (Russia influenced/occupied) autonomy which goes beyond the Minsk agreement.

Autonomy for Donetsk and Lugansk always has been a negotiating point for Minsk. Ukraine doesn't want a place at the table for the leadership of the two breakaway republics.

Only recently has Russia suggested they get that place at the table, itself a negotiating tactic for Volodya.

That is is such an outrage for the US side just shows how little attention has been paid to the region until US security serves began planting stories about it in the media.
Posted by: badanov || 12/10/2021 9:29 Comments || Top||

#4  ....until US security serves began planting stories about it in the media.

Action and intelligent diplomatic solutions were unfortunately delayed due to the Biden Crime Family's activities in the region. No sense in highlighting obvious connections.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/10/2021 9:40 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
Did Twitter Nuke the Ghislaine Maxwell Trial Tracker Account for Exposing the FBI?
BLUF:
[ZERO] During Special Agent Mcguire's testimony, she touched upon other contents of Epstein's townhouse that were recovered by the FBI in 2019. These items included photographs, CDs, and hard drives that were found in the office of Epstein's Manhattan residence. According to the TrialTracker account, Mcguire's testimony verified that the hard drives seized in 2019 already had FBI evidence tags placed on them. This report suggests that the evidence seized from Epstein's townhouse in 2019 had already been in possession of the FBI before being returned to the sexual predator.

The pretense that the FBI may have returned evidence to Jeffrey Epstein which chronicled his abuses adds fuel to the fire that Epstein and Maxwell were/are intelligence agents who were/are operating a sexual blackmail mission. The most significant evidence suggesting this was divulged by former US Department of Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta. While Acosta resigned from the Trump administration following widespread attention to his role at the US Department of Justice in 2007 when he offered Epstein a non-prosecution agreement, the attention paid to that offer wasn't exactly a revelation. The Epstein non-prosecution agreement was the subject of discussion vetting Acosta during the transition from the Obama to Trump administration. According to Acosta, he offered the agreement to Epstein because he had "been told" to back off, that Epstein was above his pay grade, and that "I [Acosta] was told Epstein 'belonged to intelligence' and to leave it alone.

Acosta's remarks leave little to the imagination, making suspicion about whether Epstein's sex crimes were the part of a state-sanctioned intelligence operation a matter of due diligence other than wild speculation. The intersection of Mcguire's testimony advancing that suggestion follows a recent report concerning a FOIA request which confirms the DOJ's track record of allowing pedophilic sexual predators to walk free after crimes committed during their cooperation with the CIA. Given Ghislaine Maxwell's own father's ties to the Mossad, extending that possibility to her role in Epstein's sex and trafficking operation offers cause for examination.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/10/2021 00:24 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Very likely a bilateral (multi-nation) collection effort gone badly. If she survives, a plea to lesser charge, with story quietly deposited in the media memory hole.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/10/2021 0:44 Comments || Top||

#2  Well yes. As well as the CIA, DOJ. Clintons, Bill Gates and other high ranking rich pedophiles.
Posted by: Woodrow || 12/10/2021 0:57 Comments || Top||

#3 

When Media teams with Government, never expect to see Justice or hear the truth.

Updated example given: "Maxwell drowns in the prison shower"

Posted by: NN2N1 || 12/10/2021 6:20 Comments || Top||

#4  "Maxwell drowns in the prison shower"
"amid water outage"
Posted by: Frank G || 12/10/2021 7:26 Comments || Top||

#5 
^ #4 Frank - nice added touch....
Posted by: NN2N1 || 12/10/2021 8:00 Comments || Top||

#6  Ghislaine Maxwell trial suddenly cut short Thursday after lawyer falls ill

When the waiter asked if he/she wanted a little Polonium in the sushi he/she should have said no.
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 || 12/10/2021 9:55 Comments || Top||


Fauci: Now He Tells Us!
[Powerline] Many have pointed out that the same Biden administration officials who want to fire the unvaccinated and who were on board with shutting down industries to stop the spread of covid seem to have no concern about the flood of unvaccinated, untested illegal aliens across our southern border. "That’s a different issue," Dr. Fauci said.

On Friday, Neil Cavuto caught up with Fauci and posed the question:

Fauci appeared Friday on Fox Business’ "Cavuto: Coast to Coast," where he was asked to comment on the rising number of infections among illegal migrants, which host Neil Cavuto estimated to be around 4,000.

"You know, Neil, I don’t have an easy answer for that," Fauci said....

"There is testing that is done — I’m certain it’s not as extensive as we would like to see — but I have to admit, Neil, I don’t have an easy answer. That’s a very difficult problem," Fauci added.

Fauci also touched on the challenges associated with containing the spread of the Omicron strain due to its high contagiousness, noting that it is "the way viruses work."

Yes indeed. Which is why no government has ever stopped a virus.

"I think given what we know about the transmissibility and a likely transmissibility advantage of Omicron ... once it gets in there, it will likely, under the radar screen, be spreading no matter what you do to keep people out or not," Fauci stated.

This is perhaps the truest thing Fauci has ever said about the covid epidemic, but it comes a little late. Governments’ futile efforts to stop the spread of covid have caused, and continue to cause, incalculable damage. But the one thing our government has never been willing to do to stop or slow covid transmission is to stem the tide at the border. Hey, that’s a different issue!

It is long past time to stop the charade.
Posted by: Frank G || 12/10/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Cavuto and Powerline, what a deep state Pravad joke.
Posted by: Woodrow || 12/10/2021 1:00 Comments || Top||

#2  But the Science!

Government Science a term right up there with Jumbo Scrimp. Lysenko must be proud.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/10/2021 7:00 Comments || Top||

#3  /\ Yes, 2,4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic acid and 2,4,5-Trichlorophenoxyacetic acid, components of a harmless jungle defoliant used in SE Asia.

At least that's what our government said for several decades.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/10/2021 7:17 Comments || Top||

#4  An isolated D.C. homicide containing no apparent motive. Wiki leaks releases mysteriously come to an end.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/10/2021 7:44 Comments || Top||

#5  A 'person of interest' to law enforcement who mysteriously departs a European country with NO EXTRADITION Treaty and returns to the US.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/10/2021 7:51 Comments || Top||

#6  FDA asks for 55 years to complete FOIA request on Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine component listing.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/10/2021 7:58 Comments || Top||

#7  New, previously undisclosed horseback riding photo confirms Trump-Putin connection.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/10/2021 8:14 Comments || Top||

#8  ^ Both paying close attention to [pan] a squat pantsuited figure waving tuna sandwich, noose.
Posted by: Unavimp Chusogum4170 || 12/10/2021 8:38 Comments || Top||

#9  All hail mini-Mengele!
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 || 12/10/2021 9:16 Comments || Top||

#10  Courts reclassify the act that no man ever forgets to, non-sexual.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/10/2021 9:57 Comments || Top||

#11  Congress accepts Benghazi 'what difference does it make' theory, takes early lunch and dismisses for the day.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/10/2021 10:03 Comments || Top||

#12  51 day Waco stand-off brought to an end. Feds capture the remains of David Koresh along with dozens of others. Attorney General Janet Reno claims responsibility.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/10/2021 10:10 Comments || Top||

#13  US Intelligence agencies dismiss Russian GRU warnings regarding Tsarnaev bros. travels and potential Chechen terrorist connections. Asks community to help identify Boston Bombing 'persons of interest.'
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/10/2021 10:16 Comments || Top||

#14  Illustration of Federal Reserve
'transitory' inflation.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/10/2021 11:10 Comments || Top||

#15  As far as the goal of controlling an epidemic, the US reaction, the global reaction, has out-stupided The Plague of London.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/10/2021 12:14 Comments || Top||

#16  ^ one for the ages. Future historians will reserve a special chapter for the stupidity, cupidity and outright depravity of our era's elites.

And a 40-page Rogue's Gallery to accompany the text - Jesus, what a cast of corrupt and arrogant fools we live under:

Fauci Magoo Epstein HunterBidenJimboBiden Clintons Kerry Al-Gore Bathhouse Wookie ValJar BrennanComeyClapper Mueller StrzokPageMcCabe SteeleSimpsonIsikoffCornFionaHill Gates Kackala Pelousey SonnyCuomoFredoCuomo DeBlasio&Wifey Newsom Whitless
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 12/10/2021 12:22 Comments || Top||

#17  I'l' be glad when someone snacks the shit out of this twerp.
Posted by: Chris || 12/10/2021 14:29 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
New Delhi’s New Edge in the China-India Competition for Middle East Connectivity
[MANARA Magazine]
Pick up a cup of coffee. Get comfortable and sit down for a big Geo-economic and Geo-political read. Both China and India want alternate access to the Med. China wants a route with no Russian or NATO territory in it. It's desired Med Port is Tripoli Lebanon. India and the Suni Arabs want Haifa for their Med Port.




Posted by: 3dc || 12/10/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [15 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  I consider India to be vital to our countries interests. I also see more compatibility between us and Russia than I do with China. I would prefer a union between us Russia, India, Israel, Japan and South Korea. Vietnam is Pro USA and perhaps others would be considered to be mutually beneficial.
Posted by: Dale || 12/10/2021 9:30 Comments || Top||

#2  The left side of the Indian aisle is very happy their girl Kamala Harris is a heartbeat away from the American presidency.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/10/2021 12:32 Comments || Top||

#3  ^ I have never heard that as yet. Those I talk to from India have not indicated that sentiment here. I will surely ask being the curious George that I am.
Posted by: Dale || 12/10/2021 15:27 Comments || Top||

#4  I distrust political media chatter. India is a vast nation. Their history destroyed by the English occupation is now being reborn. Nationalism and pride is exploding. Traditions will stay strong here for many years to come. Social standings as well.
Posted by: Dale || 12/10/2021 15:46 Comments || Top||

#5  Left side here is actually a little better educated, TW. Our real left are the university academics and writers mostly, trying to demand the socialist constitution perform as prescribed. The anarcho-marxists with the open mouths and waving fists seldom make it through college, ending up as riff raff standing in crowds. Fodder for the batons and boots, their support means nothing.

The hindu brahmins of south India did feel some affinity with the Gopalan sisters, but it goes only so far as to 'oh looky, the lass made it to the WH!' She did receive funding and moral support from some rich fools from that community, but she has no real supporters. I'll venture they are all ashamed of her even.

Indians are rather crafty people you see, keeping open a channel of communal linkage in case she becomes POTUS (!) but otherwise silently wishing orange man comes back. Indians will say one thing just to hedge their bets but invest in entirely another. It's because they have been dealing with the most corrupt menagerie of bastitches since independence, the Indian political class. Kamala Harris is nothing compared to it.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 12/10/2021 16:45 Comments || Top||

#6  Thank you for explaining, Dron. I seem to recall that you were the one who originally told us about VP Harris’s Indian supporters, but clearly I overweighted that information.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/10/2021 22:33 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
Debate Is Over Folks; Facts Came In The Market Ticker - Cancelled ® - What 'They' Don't Want Published
This is such a huge data set that its statistical power is undeniable. It comes from a nation we claim to have first-world status, and where medical records are cohesive and thus very hard to run into accidental or intentional hiding. And while it is not (yet) peer-reviewed unless serious statistical problems are found the data damn well ought to be paid attention to.

It also includes and in fact is almost exclusive to Delta, which if you remember was going to be the death of everyone not-vaccinated, even if previously infected with another strain. And finally, and most-germane here, it includes the cohorts that nobody else has reported on -- those who had both vaccination and infection as immunity-generating events.

It turns out the claims that "you must get jabbed", especially if you were previously infected, were a damned lie.

Due to the nearly-universal vaccination in this nation (Israel) there is no longer a control group of unvaccinated people of sufficient size to provide good data. How convenient!
Posted by: The Walking Unvaxed || 12/10/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The Future for The Jabbed is Bleak
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Conclusion Paragraphs in the article:

Many researchers warn of sterility associated with the jabs
A peer reviewed study has incidentally warned against taking the shot when pregnant while other studies have highlighted the toxicity of the shots in terms of reproductive health.

Dr. Elizabeth Lee Vliet stated during the second Stop the Shot online conference streamed on August 19 by LifeSiteNews that peer-reviewed scientific research from 2012 and 2018 as well as evidence from whistle-blowers showed that the jabs damaged fertility and pregnancy. It was not being reported to the public.

The vaccine nanoparticles “can pass through the blood-testis barrier, placental barrier, and epithelial barrier, which protect reproductive tissues,” she said.

Human immune cells are thus “trained to attack” a protein vital to a successful pregnancy, as in the case of PZP. Vliet warned that this would lead to “miscarriages, birth defects, and infertility” when taking the jab.

Dr. Michael Yeadon, a former vice president at Pfizer, has corroborated the claims, saying that the jabs pose a “severe risk” of infertility. Yeadon cited scientific research specifically on lipid nanoparticles, found in the shots. “Do not take these vaccines,” he warned. “There’s a severe risk to your ability to conceive and carry a baby to term.”

Although the research into nanoparticle toxicity was conducted on animals, Yeadon argued that humans were also mammals and therefore at similar risk. “If someone wants to persuade me that they’re not concentrating in human ovaries, they are going to have to provide me with some data,” he said.

The jab has also been correlated with thousands of reports of menstrual irregularities. Gynecologist Christiane Northrup warned in April this year that the Covid vaccine could cause infertility in women, because the protein Syncytin-1 present in the placenta was very similar to the Covid virus SARS-CoV-2’s spike protein.

Commentary by Clyde Cleanter5535
It turns out the claims that "you must get jabbed", especially if you were previously infected, were a damned lie.

Due to the nearly-universal vaccination in this nation (Israel) there is no longer a control group of unvaccinated people of sufficient size to provide good data.

Frankly,
People being Israeli are likely not to exist by 2032, no or low birth spells extinction - fact that no mammal species having been injected with mNRA survives years, another.
Posted by: Clyde Cleanter5535 || 12/10/2021 1:45 Comments || Top||

#2  I suspect concerns about sterility will turn out to be groundless. Nor have I noticed reports of unusual numbers of miscarriages, despite numerous dire predictions.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/10/2021 2:28 Comments || Top||

#3  You don’t see negative reports of almost anything to do with the jab. It’s called censorship. The negative consequences will be hard to hide forever though. We don’t even really know what they are yet. 10 years from know we will look back and see this was the most disastrous public health response to anything in history.

I do know for sure, there is ample evidence that seems to indicate that for some people they are more susceptible to Covid in the immediate days an weeks right after the jab. There are quite a few deaths shortly after the jab, especially in the elderly. My uncle died a week after the jab. Since it was only a week after he was considered an “unvaccinated death”. Another friend watched as several elderly ladies that lived together died within days of the jab. The nurse was fearful about reporting the event due to backlash.
Posted by: Albemarle Jack6733 || 12/10/2021 4:40 Comments || Top||

#4 


Like I have said since the experimental VAX was released....

We'll wait and see the long range affects and benefits. Having seen too many tried and tested Vax's still producing Adverse reactions years later.

In the case of this still experimental VAX.
What we have seen is a organized and media assisted MASSIVE PUSH to Vax at any cost. All without providing the public with full disclosure and even consealing the complete facts for generations to come.

BTW: I am sure the Mid-Election Variant will be the DEADLIEST ever seen by mankind according the Liberals and their Media
Posted by: NN2N1 || 12/10/2021 7:53 Comments || Top||

#5  There are reports coming out of Canada of unusual increases of stillbirths.

I tend to believe the Israeli reports but would like to see other corroborating research.
Posted by: Vespasian Ebboting9735 || 12/10/2021 8:02 Comments || Top||

#6  Re: 2

TW. been reading about stillbirths among vax'd going way up. Most recent I saw said the number of cases in some areas of Canada had gone up 28 times the previous period; most if not all of the women had been vax'd - not sure which brand. link
Posted by: Mercutio || 12/10/2021 9:02 Comments || Top||

#7  naturally acquired immunity plus vax exceeds either alone in resistance to further infection

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8475821/
Posted by: Lord Garth || 12/10/2021 9:05 Comments || Top||

#8  If done more widely, autopsies on those deceased after COVID &/or after immunizations might shed light on this issue. However, they have fallen out of favor & are rarely done.
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 || 12/10/2021 9:18 Comments || Top||

#9  Causes and origins serve no useful purpose. Prevention is the enemy of crisis. Those in power are already witting of the causes. We (the downstairs people) have no real need to know. Just go with the bi-government 'Wet Market' theory and stand-by for additional boosters and further instructions.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/10/2021 9:31 Comments || Top||

#10  Most recent I saw said the number of cases in some areas of Canada had gone up 28 times the previous period

Thank you, Mercutio. Read with interest, and sadness. Lots of medical things are dangerous for developing fetuses even when safe for the already-born. For that reason alone I’d have avoided vaccination while pregnant, even though I judged it the right choice for my particular current situation.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/10/2021 14:57 Comments || Top||

#11  Re#12

I wouldn’t trust anything from NIH again at least for another generation. Politics has infested science. And science lost.

When I heard that over 1000 doctors claim that BLM riots in my town did not pose a risk of spreading Covid but the handful of people peacefully protesting lockdowns were super spreaders I knew we were doomed. And the FDA tried to sell the “Ivermectin is horse medicine ya’ll” I knew there was not an institution left in the Federal government that has not been exposed to the corruption infection. And the “ya’ll” part was just to connect with us stupid red state Trump voters and smelly Wal Mart people. They do despise us and think we are idiots.

When it became clear natural immunity was better and more durable than the vaxx I wondered how long it would be for them to manufacture something that would negate that evidence and create a permitted narrative. It’s BS.

Fauci and crew are simply the “science” component of the deep state. Just like all the players we know that created the thousands of pieces phony evidence of Russia Collusion, etc.

What I am to believe now is that the vaxx is good for the old, the young, the very young, pregnant “people” :), those with autoimmune disease, those who have had bad reactions to other vaccines, those who have already had 3 jabs and might need a 4th, etc., etc. And it works on every variant really well.

I am not an anti vaxxer and, although I was born on a Monday, i wasn’t born last Monday.

The way I see it, for those over 80 I would probably get it, benefit outweighs risk. 50- 80 is a toss up, only of comorbidities. Under 50 risk outweighs benefit. And it is child abuse in school age kids, IMHO.

Posted by: Albemarle Jack6733 || 12/10/2021 16:19 Comments || Top||

#12 
Posted by: Albemarle Jack6733 || 12/10/2021 19:07 Comments || Top||

#13  Sorry, I think I posted link wrong

Posted by: Albemarle Jack6733 || 12/10/2021 19:08 Comments || Top||

#14  busted, so I spamcopped it - no judgement meant
Posted by: Frank G || 12/10/2021 20:10 Comments || Top||

#15  Albemarle's sentents are shared by hundreds of millions around the world. Focused protection of the elderly and high-risk subgroups should have been the approach. Children and anyone under 65 or 70 should have been / should be given the option of joining this experiment -- that's what it amounts to -- which we know creates MORE risk to young men than the virus does.

The "science" on this is a joke . Upside down: it's far more contagious and far less fatal than the types of diseases you treat with vaccines (smallpox, measles etc).

Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 12/10/2021 22:43 Comments || Top||

#16  An excellent survey and explanation of the science (and anti-science) surrounding this fiasco is here.

Nb Brownstone.org is an excellent source of rational, fearless analysis by intelligent and knowledgeable people (Substack, Quillette, Spectator and city-journal are also superb).

Excerpt:

"By now it is abundantly clear from the epidemiological data that the vaccinated are able to both catch and spread the disease. Clearly vaccination isn’t going to make this virus disappear. Only a mind that has lost its grasp on reality can fail to see how ridiculous all this has become.

"But a tour through pre-COVID science demonstrates that, from day one, long before you and I had even heard of this virus, it was 100% inevitable and 100% predictable that these vaccines would never be capable of eradicating this coronavirus and would never lead to any kind of lasting herd immunity.

"Even worse, lockdowns and mass vaccination have created a dangerous set of circumstances that interferes with our immune system’s ability to protect us against other respiratory viruses. They also risk driving the evolution of this virus towards mutations that are more dangerous to both the vaccinated and the unvaccinated alike.

"Lockdowns, mass vaccinations, and mass booster shots were never capable of delivering on any of the promises that were made to the public...."
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 12/10/2021 22:49 Comments || Top||


Southeast Asia
Japanese Invasion of Malaya
Posted by: badanov || 12/10/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Is this what War Plan Orange failed to deal with?
Posted by: Mercutio || 12/10/2021 8:50 Comments || Top||

#2  Mac tossed War Plan Orange and sent an untrained Philippine army to 'fight them on the landing beaches' losing two weeks of moving men and materials to Bataan, not to mention that even with a clear warning left his air assets sitting in one spot to be bombed out of effectiveness in the subsequent battle. - cite

Even with such incompetence and dealing with literally chaos in situation, the army was able to grind down the Japanese into a stalemate by February. It took the reinforcement with those troops released from the Malaysian campaign to launch another systematic attack in April to overrun the defenders who by that time barely could operate because of disease and malnutrition.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/10/2021 10:23 Comments || Top||

#3  This theater at time line soundly re-buffs the 'FDR Let It Happen' invention; that is FDR also hosed over the British (Singapore) and the Dutch and the American SW Pacific Fleet and all these resources, and a number of Australian assets.

Ship of Ghosts, Hornfischer - good read.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/10/2021 12:04 Comments || Top||



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