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Mike richards's avatar

Watching Dr Stanley Plotkin get exposed in his 9hr deposition (https://youtu.be/Y9gWzTlpiDI?si=KHHuTuXH5_J-Np9g) is light shone on an industry that has fought transparency, engendering the vaccine hesitancy it detests. The whole covid gaslighting operation, including exposing corrupted regulatory oversight absolutely justifies hesitancy - as a physician who practiced travel medicine and gave loads of vaccines, I now am very hesitant to promote any vaccine. I resigned from my job in the US after all staff were threatened with termination if we declined covid boosters. The ongoing lack of interest by authorities in investigating phenomena such as increasingly common and hyperaggressive malignancies, and increased all-cause mortality, is stunning. But the foxes have been running the henhouses, the trusting. I, for one, am no longer so trusting, and now see that I need also to verify, and to ask questions I never realized needed asking.

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Mark Wauck's avatar

Bertrand cites a Bloomberg article in which Sullivan cites US "success" in "curbing China's chip ambition." Ugly.

Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand

US foreign policy in one headline: "success" is "severely hurting" others... And failure is when others thrive... Just purely destructive and nihilistic mindset.

Plus in this instance it's not even true: the only thing the US was successful at is boost China's domestic chip industry and reduce US semiconductor firms' revenues. I'm not the one saying so, this was the conclusion of the US Federal Reserve in a recent report on the matter (see next tweet).

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Mike richards's avatar

Just asking: is ‘antisemitism’ not equally abhorrent to ‘Jewish ethnosupremacy’? e.g. On the one side there was the holocaust (German-Jew). On the other, Jew-Palestinian. And to claim most Jews are not extremist ethnosupremacist is to forget the innocent Germans who were tarred with the same brush.

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TomA's avatar

Big picture items that are deserving of some attention. Russia recently renewed missile attacks on Ukrainian energy facilities including both electrical power generation/transmission and natural gas production/distribution. Both utilities are now significantly degraded and impair both the functioning of Ukraine's economy/productivity and military supply chain/troop movement. In addition, Ukraine has recently cancelled interest payments on it foreign bond debts and is in default. This likely means that Ukraine is running out of financial resources to keep its government and military functioning. When soldiers stop being paid, they also stop fighting. Central banks in the EU and UK are now in peril of a liquidity crisis if Ukraine bails on its bond debt and the US Congress is unlikely to approve more funding during this election season. It could all fall apart rather quickly. No power, no money, no one left to draft and feed into the meat-grinder.

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Ray-SoCa's avatar

Are the US elites aware that Israel’s government and Friends (jdl, apaic , etc) lie? That censorship and accusations of anti semitism are weaponized to support Israel’s narrative?

The West seems to be going down the same path of censorship and using accusations of Islamophobia, racism, anti science, fascism, Russia supporter, hate speech, misinformation, anti Semitic, against any opposition or questioning the official narrative in order to keep power.

Two articles that trouble me, more Covid related, on information / narrative control:

Why Did Zuckerberg Choose Now to Confess? BY Jeffrey A. TuckerJEFFREY A. TUCKER

https://brownstone.org/articles/why-did-zuckerberg-choose-now-to-confess/

Big Pharma power (Google censors it on site search)

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/08/follow_the_science_a_new_clarion_call.html

Plus the Brazil banning Twitter.

And France’s effort against Telegram.

And the recent accusations about fentanyl money laundering against big banks with Chinese involvement.

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Mike richards's avatar

zuckerberg: ‘….I believe the government pressure was wrong, and I regret that we were not more outspoken about it. I also think we made some choices that, with the benefit of hindsight and new information, we wouldn’t make today.’ Au effing contraire mr supremo parasito. You were not ‘mistaken’, as the excellent meme goes, you were lying. BIG DIFFERENCE.

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Mark Wauck's avatar

The Jensen video in the Tucker article makes that pretty clear.

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Mark Wauck's avatar

Good article by Tucker.

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Mark Wauck's avatar

The Jensen video is powerful.

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ML's avatar

“Acting as if war is a viable policy is fantasy, nothing more or less.” A fantasy born of ideology and passed time to mothball it as E Clancy mentions below. Are you listening Cohen (CIA) and Kellogg (Pentagon)? Re China, nothing better illustrates the disaster of preferring fantasy over realiity than Sullivan’s recent run-in with the Wall of China. In French, “prendre le mur” means to f— up big time.

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Eoin Clancy's avatar

The US navy recently announced that 17 support vessels, some just recently built, are being mothballed due to staffing levels.

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AmericanCardigan's avatar

Hence more immigration.

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Mark Wauck's avatar

And one of those articles pointed out that to do a troop and big equipment lift to the Far East we'd need an awful lot of those support ships.

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SMH's avatar

Yeh, but you have to remember that when you live in fantasy land, you can always fall back on your magic wand. Just wave it a couple of times and “POOF” problem solved.

Wonder if these people still put their teeth under their pillow expecting money to show up?

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Francisco d’Anconia's avatar

So the only true threats to the multipolar world are in the information and nuclear spaces. Simplicius pointed out the failure of Los alamos to reconstitute plutonium pit manufacturing after its safety regime rotted away. I bet they can’t even upload those minuteman missiles at all anymore. No one knows those systems. Mercenaries field state of the art western EW systems in Kursk and Russia promptly switches to fiber optics and destroys every piece of equipment in sight. Do we really believe that we can build AI driven drone “gigafactories” and overwhelm the world with our drones? Elon is the only person capable of that and it seems unlikely that he’s going to do that. Shit, maybe Elon could create an AI world where America can be the best again and send these idiots there, otherwise something’s going to break badly when they actually try to use it.

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