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I think the tide may be "turning" depending on where you live, or personal circumstances.

I found out this week that the kidney disease I have lived with for 35 years has progressed to the point I need transplant.

Just got word from the transplant team - operating out of one of the top hospitals in the midwest, and is world class...that to be considered I have to have all 3 mRNA covid shots from either Pfizer or Moderna.

We were shocked by this, but even more so that the letter sent to us said "The MO/KS Departments of Health show NO vaccinations."

So, the Government IS tracking, and IS sharing personal health data without ANY consent when it comes to Covid.

I have no doubt we'll find another route, but wow...it appears we are well down the path to social credit scoring.

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Sorry to hear that, Dave. We were pleasantly surprised that no questions were even asked about that prior to my wife's surgery. And this is a pretty woke area.

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<<It’s all related>>

Ain't it just! Another stellar post and many thanks for all of them Mark, a Happy New Year to you and yours, and to the many erudite and savvy commenters here.

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What’s the impact of the Arizona 2022 “election”, not to mention the 2020 “election”.

Twitter being uncensored will expose more to other views on the “election”, especially other countries elites.

“the rest of the world has a perfectly legitimate interest in US elections. “

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They will claim national security and lock twitter down

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This is a real good post Mark. Cuts across several theatres. Was unaware US anti assets could not pick up the Geran-2 suicide drones. Prob why i read yesterday AF forces resolving to using search lights.

Zhou is gonna be forced soon to leave Syria. Wait till the press spins this. LOL.

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If the Turks actually leave, there would be little impact of the us leaving. Kurds will make a deal with Assad.

More impact will be on the Sunni forces including many jihadists, the Turks have been protecting.

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Simple. We won. The Syrian people are now safe.

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Marxist economics and aggressive environmentalism are anathema to libertarians. If you want to attack an idea or its adherents, attributing to them the opposite of their sentiments isn't the way to go about it.

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Regarding the Covid hoax, it looks to me like the maskites really will regroup and fight another day. I don't know how many people have "caught on" but all panics come with a sell date, and the Covid panic passed its sell date quite some time back. I think the limit case for medical panics was probably AIDS, which went on for the better part of a decade. It took normal straight people a remarkably long time to realize that they weren't getting AIDS. The long incubation period for the disease may have had something to do with how long that one kept rolling.

The real problem here is that Covid meant a flood of money to Big Pharma and a massive array emergency powers to some of the dumbest people in society. It's their Precious, and they'll never give it up.

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<<It took normal straight people a remarkably long time to realize that they weren't getting AIDS. The long incubation period for the disease may have had something to do with how long that one kept rolling.>>

Damn good point. Might the Long Covid trope (and some form of entrenched post-viral syndrome is not wholly incredible) be spun to 'create' a long-dormant variant that hides in your insides somewhere then bursts out with full venom months or years later?

That one time you got on the train without a mask . . . maybe that will dead you six months later... better keep up with the jabs fella.

I'm sure spooks of some kind scan Substack. The above is not a suggestion.

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And then there's this new revelation in a headline: Covid surge in winter exceeds summer! Like, respiratory viruses more common in winter than in summer. But I do think people are catching on.

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It appears that we can pretty much sum the end of the year situation as, they started out with an Ill conceived, poorly thought out plan and kept improving on it until it became completely unworkable. Now, consistent with the fantasy world in which they reside, their fall back plan is to keep pursuing the unworkable until it finally fails in some spectacular and horrible manner and then blame Joe Biden for being a bungling, senile incompetent. Of course, being the lapdogs that they are, the media will completely change their narrative and say that they have been warning everyone about Biden from the get go and this outcome was to be expected. Lindsay Graham will then stand on top of his desk in the Senate and huff and puff until he turns blue while Mitt Romney insists that it is the MAGA members of Congress are to blame for this whole calamity. It’s at this point that Mitch McConnel will come out and explain that if we had just had better quality candidates we could have avoided the problem. But take heart gang because Kevin McCarthy is going to get to the bottom of this mess by convening a

committee to look into convening a committee about how this could have happened. I don’t know about you people, but I’m encouraged.

But then, I believed the Warren Commission.

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The evidence of their perfidy is irrefutable. If this country were a school or a club or a firm or a church I would simply resign. But its a country.

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Wait wait. You forgot that trump trump trump did it. Or maybe Bush.

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Very persuasive narrative!

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High praise indeed! Thx Mark, you inspire as well as inform!!

Happy New Year to you and everyone here on the blog.

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Sandra Twang

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Dec 31, 2022

WHAT'S THIS ALL ABOUT HUH? BlackRock, partly owned by Bill Gates, also owns 17% of total Ukraine arable land, together with Vanguard. Up until June, foreigners could not own land in Ukraine. From that June up until next September those two companies bought all of that land

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I suspect that this land may be under new ownership by the end of 2023.

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Cargill, which is a private company, is also a big beneficiary of the wheat trade out of the Ukraine:

https://www.inforum.com/business/cargill-other-us-grain-traders-monitor-conflict-in-ag-rich-ukraine

They have profited greatly to this point but I would not bet on their future profits in this respect (even if I could). Perhaps someone could figure out which congressional persons own their stock.

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True. However it appears that Gates and Blackrock have cooperated on some projects, which may be why the tweeter thought that.

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