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We have been told that intermittent electricity from wind and solar, perhaps along with hydroelectric generation (hydro), can be the basis of a green economy. Things are increasingly not working out as planned, however. Natural gas or coal used for balancing the intermittent output of renewables is increasingly high-priced or not available. It is becoming clear that modelers who encouraged the view that a smooth transition to wind, solar, and hydro is possible have missed some important points.
Let’s look at some of the issues:
[1] It is becoming clear that intermittent wind and solar cannot be counted on to provide adequate electricity supply when the electrical distribution system needs them.
Early modelers did not expect that the variability of wind and solar would be a huge problem. They seemed to believe that, with the use of enough intermittent renewables, their variability would cancel out. Alternatively, long transmission lines would allow enough transfer of electricity between locations to largely offset variability.
In practice, variability is still a major problem. For example, in the third quarter of 2021, weak winds were a significant contributor to Europe’s power crunch. Europe’s largest wind producers (Britain, Germany and France) produced only 14% of installed capacity during this period, compared with an average of 20% to 26% in previous years. No one had planned for this kind of three-month shortfall.
In 2021, China experienced dry, windless weather so that both its generation from wind and hydro were low. The country found it needed to use rolling blackouts to deal with the situation. This led to traffic lights failing and many families needing to eat candle-lit dinners.
In Europe, with low electricity supply, Kosovo has needed to use rolling blackouts. There is real concern that the need for rolling blackouts will spread to other parts of Europe, as well, either later this winter, or in a future winter. Winters are of special concern because, then, solar energy is low while heating needs are high.
[2] Adequate storage for electricity is not feasible in any reasonable timeframe. This means that if cold countries are not to “freeze in the dark” during winter, fossil fuel backup is likely to be needed for many years in the future.
One workaround for electricity variability is storage. A recent Reuters article is titled Weak winds worsened Europe’s power crunch; utilities need better storage. The article quotes Matthew Jones, lead analyst for EU Power, as saying that low or zero-emissions backup-capacity is “still more than a decade away from being available at scale.” Thus, having huge batteries or hydrogen storage at the scale needed for months of storage is not something that can reasonably be created now or in the next several years.
Today, the amount of electricity storage that is available can be measured in minutes or hours. It is mostly used to buffer short-term changes, such as the wind temporarily ceasing to blow or the rapid transition created when the sun sets and citizens are in the midst of cooking dinner. What is needed is the capacity for multiple months of electricity storage. Such storage would require an amazingly large quantity of materials to produce. Needless to say, if such storage were included, the cost of the overall electrical system would be substantially higher than we have been led to believe. All major types of cost analyses (including the levelized cost of energy, energy return on energy invested, and energy payback period) leave out the need for storage (both short- and long-term) if balancing with other electricity production is not available.
If no solution to inadequate electricity supply can be found, then demand must be reduced by one means or another. One approach is to close businesses or schools. Another approach is rolling blackouts. A third approach is to permit astronomically high electricity prices, squeezing out some buyers of electricity. A fourth balancing approach is to introduce recession, perhaps by raising interest rates; recessions cut back on demand for all non-essential goods and services. Recessions tend to lead to significant job losses, besides cutting back on electricity demand. None of these things are attractive options.
[3] After many years of subsidies and mandates, today’s green electricity is only a tiny fraction of what is needed to keep our current economy operating.
Early modelers did not consider how difficult it would be to ramp up green electricity.
Compared to today’s total world energy consumption (electricity and non-electricity energy, such as oil, combined), wind and solar are truly insignificant. In 2020, wind accounted for 3% of the world’s total energy consumption and solar amounted to 1% of total energy, using BP’s generous way of counting electricity, relative to other types of energy. Thus, the combination of wind and solar produced 4% of world energy in 2020.
The International Energy Agency (IEA) uses a less generous approach for crediting electricity; it only gives credit for the heat energy supplied by the renewable energy. The IEA does not show wind and solar separately in its recent reports. Instead, it shows an “Other” category that includes more than wind and solar. This broader category amounted to 2% of the world’s energy supply in 2018.
Hydro is another type of green electricity that is sometimes considered alongside wind and solar. It is quite a bit larger than either wind or solar; it amounted to 7% of the world’s energy supply in 2020. Taken together, hydro + wind + solar amounted to 11% of the world’s energy supply in 2020, using BP’s methodology. This still isn’t much of the world’s total energy consumption.
Of course, different parts of the world vary with respect to the share of energy created using wind, hydro and solar. Figure 1 shows the percentage of total energy generated by these three renewables combined.
As expected, the world average is about 11%. The European Union is highest at 14%; Russia+ (that is, Russia and its Affiliates, which is equivalent to the members of the Commonwealth of Independent States) is lowest at 6.5%.
[4] Even as a percentage of electricity, rather than total energy, renewables still comprised a relatively small share in 2020.
Wind and solar don’t replace “dispatchable” generation; they provide some temporary electricity supply, but they tend to make the overall electrical system more difficult to operate because of the variability introduced. Renewables are available only part of the time, so other types of electricity suppliers are still needed when supply temporarily isn’t available. In a sense, all they are replacing is part of the fuel required to make electricity. The fixed costs of backup electricity providers are not adequately compensated, nor are the costs of the added complexity introduced into the system.
If analysts give wind and solar full credit for replacing electricity, as BP does, then, on a world basis, wind electricity replaced 6% of total electricity consumed in 2020. Solar electricity replaced 3% of total electricity provided, and hydro replaced 16% of world electricity. On a combined basis, wind and solar provided 9% of world electricity. With hydro included as well, these renewables amounted to 25% of world electricity supply in 2020.
The share of electricity supply provided by wind, solar and hydro varies across the world, as shown in Figure 2. The European Union is highest at 32%; Japan is lowest at 17%.
The “All Other” grouping of countries shown in Figure 2 includes many of the poorer countries. These countries often use quite a bit of hydro, even though the availability of hydro tends to fluctuate a great deal, depending on weather conditions. If an area is subject to wet seasons and dry seasons, there is likely to be very limited electricity supply during the dry season. In areas with snow melt, very large supplies are often available in spring, and much smaller supplies during the rest of the year.
Thus, while hydro is often thought of as being a reliable source of power, this may or may not be the case. Like wind and solar, hydro often needs fossil fuel back-up if industry is to be able to depend upon having electricity year-around.
[5] Most modelers have not understood that reserve to production ratios greatly overstate the amount of fossil fuels and other minerals that the economy will be able to extract.
Most modelers have not understood how the world economy operates. They have assumed that as long as we have the technical capability to extract fossil fuels or other minerals, we will be able to do so. A popular way of looking at resource availability is as reserve to production ratios. These ratios represent an estimate of how many years of production might continue, if extraction is continued at the same rate as in the most recent year, considering known resources and current technology.
A common belief is that these ratios understate how much of each resource is available, partly because technology keeps improving and partly because exploration for these minerals may not be complete.
In fact, this model of future resource availability greatly overstates the quantity of future resources that can actually be extracted. The problem is that the world economy tends to run short of many types of resources simultaneously. For example, World Bank Commodities Price Data shows that prices were high in January 2022 for many materials, including fossil fuels, fertilizers, aluminum, copper, iron ore, nickel, tin and zinc. Even though prices have run up very high, this is not an indication that producers will be able to use these high prices to extract more of these required materials.
In order to produce more fossil fuels or more minerals of any kind, preparation must be started years in advance. New oil wells must be built in suitable locations; new mines for copper or lithium or rare earth minerals must be built; workers must be trained for all of these areas. High prices for many commodities can be a sign of temporarily high demand, or it can be a sign that something is seriously wrong with the system. There is no way the system can ramp up needed production in a huge number of areas at once. Supply lines will break. Recession is likely to set in.
The problem underlying the recent spike in prices seems to be “diminishing returns.” Such diminishing returns affect nearly all parts of the economy simultaneously. For each type of mineral, miners produced the easiest-t0-extract materials first. They later moved on to deeper oil wells and minerals from lower grade ores. Pollution gradually grew, so it too needed greater investment. At the same time, world population has been growing, so the economy has required more food, fresh water and goods of many kinds; these, too, require the investment of resources of many kinds.
The problem that eventually hits the economy is that it cannot maintain economic growth. Too many areas of the economy require investment, simultaneously, because diminishing returns keeps ramping up investment needs. This investment is not simply a financial investment; it is an investment of physical resources (oil, coal, steel, copper, etc.) and an investment of people’s time.
The way in which the economy would run short of investment materials was simulated in the 1972 book, The Limits to Growth, by Donella Meadows and others. The book gave the results of a number of simulations regarding how the world economy would behave in the future. Virtually all of the simulations indicated that eventually the economy would reach limits to growth. A major problem was that too large a share of the output of the economy was needed for reinvestment, leaving too little for other uses. In the base model, such limits to growth came about now, in the middle of the first half of the 21st century. The economy would stop growing and gradually start to collapse.
[6] The world economy seems already to be reaching limits on the extraction of coal and natural gas to be used for balancing electricity provided by intermittent renewables.
Coal and natural gas are expensive to transport, so if they are exported, they primarily tend to be exported to countries that are nearby. For this reason, my analysis groups together exports and imports into large regions where trade is most likely to take place.
If we analyze natural gas imports by part of the world, two regions stand out as having the most out-of-region natural gas imports: Europe and Asia-Pacific. Figure 4 shows that Europe’s out-of-region natural gas imports reached peaks in 2007 and 2010, after which they dipped. In recent years, Europe’s imports have barely surpassed their prior peaks. Asia-Pacific’s out-of-region imports have shown a far more consistent growth pattern over the long term.
The reason why Asia-Pacific’s imports have been growing is to support its growing manufacturing output. Manufacturing output has increasingly been shifted to the Asia-Pacific Region, partly because this region can perform this manufacturing cheaply, and partly because rich countries have wanted to reduce their carbon footprint. Moving heavy industry abroad reduces a country’s reported CO2 generation, even if the manufactured items are imported as finished products.
Figure 5 shows that Europe’s own natural gas supply has been falling. This is a major reason for its import requirements from outside the region.
Figure 6, below, shows that Asia-Pacific’s total energy consumption per capita has been growing. The new manufacturing jobs transferred to this region have raised standards of living for many workers. Europe, on the other hand, has reduced its local manufacturing. Its people have tended to get poorer, in terms of energy consumption per capita. Service jobs necessitated by reduced energy consumption per capita have tended to pay less well than the manufacturing jobs they have replaced.
Europe has recently been having conflicts with Russia over natural gas. The world seems to be reaching a situation where there are not enough natural gas exports to go around. The Asia-Pacific Region (or at least the more productive parts of the Asia-Pacific Region) seems to be able to outbid Europe, when local natural gas supply is inadequate.
Figure 7, below, gives a rough idea of the quantity of exports available from Russia+ compared to Europe’s import needs. (In this chart, I compare Europe’s total natural gas imports (including pipeline imports from North Africa and LNG from North Africa) with the natural gas exports of Russia+ (to all nations, not just to Europe, including both by pipeline and as LNG).) On this rough basis, we find that Europe’s natural gas imports are greater than the total natural gas exports of Russia+.
Europe is already encountering multiple natural gas problems. Its supply from North Africa is not as reliable as in the past. The countries of Russia+ are not delivering as much natural gas as Europe would like, and spot prices, especially, seem to be way too high. There are also pipeline disagreements. Bloomberg reports that Russia will be increasing its exports to China in future years. Unless Russia finds a way to ramp up its gas supplies, greater exports to China are likely to leave less natural gas for Russia to export to Europe in the years ahead.
If we look around the world to see what other sources of natural gas exports are available for Europe, we discover that the choices are limited.
The United States is presented as a possible choice for increasing natural gas imports to Europe. One of the catches with growing natural gas exports from the United States is the fact that historically, the US has been a natural gas importer; it is not clear how much exports can rise above the 2022 level. Furthermore, part of US natural gas is co-produced with oil from shale. Oil from shale is not likely to be growing much in future years; in fact, it very likely will be declining because of depleted wells. This may limit the US’s growth in natural gas supplies available for export.
The Rest of the World category on Figure 8 doesn’t seem to have many possibilities for growth in imports to Europe, either, because total exports have been drifting downward. (The Rest of the World includes Africa, the Middle East, and the Americas excluding the United States.) There are many reports of countries, including Iraq and Turkey, not being able to buy the natural gas they would like. There doesn’t seem to be enough natural gas on the market now. There are few reports of supplies ramping up to replace depleted supplies.
With respect to coal, the situation in Europe is only a little different. Figure 9 shows that Europe’s coal supply has been depleting, and imports have not been able to offset this depletion.
If a person looks around the world for places to get more imports for Europe, there aren’t many choices.
Figure 10 shows that most coal production is in the Asia-Pacific Region. With China, India and Japan located in the Asia-Pacific Region, and high transit costs, this coal is unlikely to leave the region. The United States has been a big coal producer, but its production has declined in recent years. It still exports a relatively small amount of coal. The most likely possibility for increased coal imports would be from Russia and its affiliates. Here, too, Europe is likely to need to outbid China to purchase this coal. A better relationship with Russia would be helpful, as well.
Figure 10 shows that world coal production has been essentially flat since 2011. A country will only export coal that it doesn’t need itself. Thus, a shortfall in export capability is an early warning sign of inadequate overall supply. With the economies of many Asia-Pacific countries still growing rapidly, demand for coal imports is likely to grow for this region. While modelers may think that there is close to 150 years’ worth of coal supply available, real-world experience suggests that coal limits are being reached already.
[7] Conclusion. Modelers and leaders everywhere have had a basic misunderstanding of how the economy operates and what limits we are up against. This misunderstanding has allowed scientists to put together models that are far from the situation we are actually facing.
The economy operates as an integrated whole, just as the body of a human being operates as an integrated whole, rather than a collection of cells of different types. This is something most modelers don’t understand, and their techniques are not equipped to deal with.
The economy is facing many limits simultaneously: too many people, too much pollution, too few fish in the ocean, more difficult to extract fossil fuels and many others. The way these limits play out seems to be the way the models in the 1972 book, The Limits to Growth, suggest: They play out on a combined basis. The real problem is that diminishing returns leads to huge investment needs in many areas simultaneously. One or two of these investment needs could perhaps be handled, but not all of them, all at once.
The approach of modelers, practically everywhere, is to break down a problem into small parts, and assume that each part of the problem can be solved independently. Thus, those concerned about “Peak Oil” have been concerned about running out of oil. Finding substitutes seemed to be important. Those concerned about climate change were convinced that huge amounts of fossil fuels remain to be extracted, even more than the amounts indicated by reserve to production ratios. Their concern was finding substitutes for the huge amount of fossil fuels that they believed remained to be extracted, which could cause climate change.
Politicians could see that there was some sort of huge problem on the horizon, but they didn’t understand what it was. The idea of substituting renewables for fossil fuels seemed to be a solution that would make both Peak Oilers and those concerned about climate change happy. Models based on the substitution of renewables for fossil fuels seemed to please almost everyone. The renewables approach suggested that we have a very long timeframe to deal with, putting the problem off, as long into the future as possible.
Today, we are starting to see that renewables are not able to live up to the promise modelers hoped they would have. Exactly how the situation will play out is not entirely clear, but it looks like we will all have front row seats in finding out.
Russia was not satisfied with the US response to Russia’s demands on security guarantees. Russia demanded that NATO withdraws all its troops and weapon systems from Eastern Europe.
Putin is now in meetings and will give a speech to the Russian assembly later today.
Keep us updated.
Let the crypto seizures begin…
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Justice Department has tapped a seasoned computer crimes prosecutor to lead its new national cryptocurrency enforcement team and announced on Thursday that the FBI is launching a unit for blockchain analysis and virtual asset seizure.
The creation of the “virtual asset exploitation” unit at the FBI comes on the heels of the Justice Department’s largest-ever financial seizure. Earlier this month, it charged a married New York couple with allegedly laundering bitcoins now valued at over $4.5 billion that were stolen in the 2016 hack of the digital currency exchange Bitfinex.
https://nationalpost.com/pmn/news-pmn/crime-pmn/fbi-to-form-new-digital-currency-unit-as-justice-dept-taps-new-crypto-czar-2
This sounds like a way to get the price of bitcoins down.
This reminds me how the “Gubmint” handled the emergence of the Internet. They looked the other way when it came to paying taxes with online purchases. When the internet grew to the point that the masses were hooked and Amazon and Ebay became the eCommerce Behemoths they are today, that’s when the “Gubmint” showed up to extend both hands out wanting a piece of the pie. So now everything is taxed.
The Gubmint will do the same with Bitcoin and Cryptos. They will let them marinate and grow and then they will want a piece of the action. It’s how all Gubmint’s work.
It’s like the 80’s Bumper Sticker which says: “Don’t Steal The Government Hates Competition”.
Count down to the Mass Hysteria of the Vaccinated
There is a ticking of a doomsday clock akin to the iconic Nuclear War Doomsday Clock that we have watched for decades move closer to Armageddon. But this clock is counting down the minutes and hours to the time when the masses of the vaccinated among us, realize something horrible; that they have been poisoned by an injection that will soon kill them while leaving their unvaccinated relatives, children, and friends alive and well. This awakening process has already started. The red pills have not yet reached their lips, but bowls of pills are appearing everywhere. Joe Rogan exposed a large container of red pills to millions in his recent interview with Dr. Malone. The totalitarians and their minions had to try to erase the red pills’ online existence and then try to force everyone to unsee what they had clearly seen with their own eyes. All of this can only go on for so long before it will become obvious to millions of vaccinated folks that they have been lied to.
How will we get from bowls of red pills to red pills swallowed, to completely awakened individuals, and then finally to mass hysteria? And when I say mass hysteria, I mean individuals or groups completely losing their minds, and acting irrationally or violently when reality smacks them in the face. Just imagine quickly going from being a mask-wearing vaccines-will-save-us true believer to realizing that your entire family is going to die horribly because you believed the government and everyone you trusted had lied to you? These people are going to lose their minds. Many of the events below may happen in the future as this macabre drama unfolds.
https://lawrencebutts.substack.com/p/count-down-to-the-mass-hysteria-of
Except, we con’t really know how this will play out. This is a little too close to, “This is how bad it could be,” for my taste.
Many might well, instead of dying rather dramatically, find themselves unable to work due to chronic illness, on welfare, medicated and very depressed.
Pressure will be immense on families, but hidden from the outside world.
I don’t believe this is the case (at least not intentionally). Think about this: the governments would be killing off those most obedient and aligned with them politically. Why would the gov want to put down their own voters and supporters? Leaving those who vehemently hate them alive?
On the other hand, if you’re imagining a lifeboat scenario, you may want to hang on to the most competent and intelligent. Masses as consumers used to be a center of profit and a source of valuable labor. No longer. Now they are only liabilities.
Both of you are logical, so it is really up to the deciders to decide what the strategy is. But I tend to believe Lidia, as population reduction is paramount now. Besides getting the rebellious fraction of the population, there will be a lot of oral communication toward the next generation. It will be more difficult to cancel whatever they need to cancel.
Yes, even the dumb compliant are, from the perspective of the resources/energy/pollution crisis, a liability and perfectly disposable.
The skilled among the compliant are also many of them soon to be redundant. Let’s not forget their automation plans.
They clearly have a new model in mind, make no secret of it, and this implies massive population redundancy and therefore extermination.
I was watching a podcast on the Corbett report last night. It was a an interview with someone whom I do not know, don’t know his qualifications, etc. and at this point too early for me to make any opinion but this author said the Covid death rate has little correlation to the viral etiology, rather the more due to the consequences of economic and social deprivation imposed by the Covid guidelines and restrictions. Then he concludes that it was actually the lack of antibiotics being used to treat concurrent bacterial pneumonial co-infections, especially in obese and unhealthy people in the southern states that correlate medically with the death rates. This might imply that the virus was even less lethal than the government was trying to claim to instill more fear in the population to increase compliance with these injections.He also states that there is more correlation to the death rate from the consequences of social isolation, and other secondary factors which may be dissected out better Through better controlled statistical analysis in the United States because there are 50 different states each which has a different set of guidelines as opposed to more unified foreign countries under one jurisdiction.
This sounds exactly like a social credit / CBDC experiment.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s emergency orders aimed at cutting off funds to protesters have cast a wide net across the Canadian financial industry, forcing portfolio managers and securities firms to take a harder look at who they are doing business with.
The new rules make demands of a broad list of entities—including banks, investment firms, credit unions, loan companies, securities dealers, fundraising platforms, insurance companies and fraternal benefit societies. They must determine whether they’re in “possession or control of property” of a person who’s attending an illegal protest or providing supplies to demonstrators, according to orders published by the government late Tuesday night.
If they find such a person in their customer list, they must freeze their accounts and report it to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police or Canada’s intelligence service, the regulations say. Any suspicious transactions must also be reported to the country’s anti-money-laundering agency, known as Fintrac.
“I think this caught everyone off guard last night when it was released,” Greg Taylor, chief investment officer of fund manager Purpose Investments Inc., said on BNN Bloomberg Television. “There’s a lot of questions right now in figuring out who we’re targeting, what do we have to look at.”
https://fortune.com/2022/02/16/trudeau-freeze-freedom-convoy-bank-accounts-canada-covid-protest-emergency-powers/
it is actually much worse than that:
https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/the-conspiracy-is-not-a-theory/comments
Blacklists, hacking I mean this is a cyberwar of the government against it’s own people!
I mean, we have tons of videos blog entries and articles on the topic of “the government will switch off resistance from banking” and now the people look up and rub their eyes?
Unfortunately the resistance has not yet fully swallowed the bitter pill that there will never again be any “normal” with the old system.
They/we need to build an entire new civilizatiion. Some sort of a parallel society at least.
We are centuries behind in “planning” such a thing on a global scale!
And we are centuries long running on empty.
The people that want to resist this global war need to understand that it will encompass all sectors of life.
People in Europe have started school initiatives and Farmers markets and so on,
This imho is the only way forward. And that will be very very tough and might last years if ever possible.
Strange world the Canadians now live in.
Around the world, there seem to many different ways of trying to deal with both COVID and, now, vaccine requirements.
The person in the quote above said it: “we do not yet know what to do about it”
Tomorrow is friday. If the Canadian people stand strong, meaning understanding what is going on and acting without conductor this is a recipie for a pretty cool bank run scenario.
No, not on monday guys….
Speed chess so to say…
This is a fascinating development: they are completely blowing their cover and revealing just how the projected CDBC’s will function in social and political terms – as a tool of state/corporate repression and control.
Another ‘CT’ just became fact.
Either inept, a panic move, or they are finally live-testing their model.
Nothing in the conduct of the truckers justifies this level of response.
All in means All in means never out again.
Make it once and for all or never ever again.
Not that difficult to understand and then just act accordingly.
People in telegram have no idea what that means. They think of community but where do you buy shoes for example if you have no monetary system at hands. You could end up walking barefoot to the next state. People are way too far apart for anything meaningful to work…
And as we see here: you may wake up tomorrow and the world you knew yesterday is gone. I mean gone as in gone.
I just made an online payment and while filling out the forms & excuting the servcie I thought to myself: alas, I can still do this.
Wait, wait my dear the subconcious moloch will come to swallow thy all..
“Trudeau’s justice minister says that being “pro-Trump” is a factor that will decide if your bank account is seized under their Emergency Orders.”
https://twitter.com/ezralevant/status/1494116524591886338
One wonders how banks are supposed to verify that, or do Canadian intelligence services perhaps have a list of the supposed Trumpsters all ready for them?
I know GCHQ has stated that they know 6 million here look at ‘mis-information’ websites, so they will no doubt have such a list, too.
Check the Link I posted, Lists from Hacks are being “leaked”…
When will be “a certain” twitter post with account email on these lists ?
Think about that:
You receive an email from your national bradcasting station for “a friendly” interview because you did …….
That is completely nuts. But they do it.
Uhm, have we been talking about nuts lataly ?
The Northern Russians (St. Petersburg) are today in control of Russia. They are not genetically Slavic people. They are genetically related to the people of Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland who are not genetically Slavic people.
The Central Russians (Moscow) and the Southern Russians are genetically Slavic people and they are related to the people of Ukraine, Czechia, Slovakia and Hungry who are genetically Slavic people.
The conflict between Russia and Ukraine is not a conflict between Slavic brothers… it’s a conflict between Finnic tribes and Slavic people…kind of… it’s a bit messy.
What a coincidence as last night I was watching a YouTube video about the Russian -Finnish 1939 Winter War, and the history of conflict with Sweden and Russia going back hundreds of years, the destabilization surrounding the Russian Revolution, the alliances and treaties between Russia vs Germany, England etc. all of which left me totally staggered and lost. Things are always more complex than people try to make them out to be, and on top of history being written by the victors with the rampant censorship we had then and even worse today, ironically more than ever in this so-called “Information Age,” it is very difficult to really know what is going on unless you are actually there and can see with your own eyes.
The Russian Revolution, though, was a Jewish revolution, not a Russian one.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/putin-first-soviet-government-was-mostly-jewish/
The complexion of the actors in the recent Ukraine upheavals should be re-examined. I haven’t been keeping particular track, but it’s common knowledge that the neo-conservatives stirring up trouble there for some time are of a certain ethnicity.
Yesterday:
https://truthout.org/articles/the-ukraine-mess-that-nuland-made/
Today:
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/western-nations-warn-shelling-in-ukraine-could-provide-false-pretext-for-russian-invasion
Please cite your sources.
“According to Y chromosome, mDNA, and autosomal marker CCR5de132, the gene pool of Eastern (Russians, Ukrainians, and Belarusians) and Western Slavs (Poles, Czechs, and Slovaks) is identical, which is consistent with the proximity of their languages, demonstrating significant differences from neighboring Finno-Ugric, Turkic, and North Caucasian peoples.
“Such genetic homogeneity is somewhat unusual, given such a wide dispersal of Slavic populations, especially Russians. Together they form the basis of the “East European” gene cluster, which also includes non-Slavic Hungarians and Aromanians.
“Only Northern Russians among East and West Slavs belong to a different, “Northern European” genetic cluster, along with Balts, Germanic and Baltic Finnic peoples.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavs
^^^This is news to me. Putin is from St Petersburg, so I am assuming qualifies as a northern Russian on that basis, although I don’t know anything about his ethnic origins.
Claims of ‘identical’ and ‘homogenous’ can be dismissed prima facie as complete nonsense. Different ‘Slavic’ populations obviously do not have ‘identical’ haplogroup levels, and there is a lot more to a genome than a single ancestral marker (one persistent gene out of millions). No serious archaeogeneticist would ever put their name anywhere near claims that ‘Slavs’ are ‘identical’ and ‘homogenous’. This entire nonsense looks geopolitically motivated, and it does not stand a chance these days with the development of modern archaeogenetics.
All ‘Slavic’ populations have evolved with drift and admixture with neighbouring populations. That is made evident in this 2017 paper on ‘Slavic’ haplogroups. In very broad terms, ‘Slavs’ fall into three distinct clusters, with Russians and Ukrainians together in the ‘East’ group. ‘South’ Slavs are more separate from ‘East’ and ‘West’. (Finns are sort of East Slavs with minor Uralic admixture, rather than an entirely distinct population.) Even that is very primitive stuff these days, and full autosomal genomic analysis gives a much more detailed picture, although this does give some broad insight.
> The Uniparental Genetic Landscape of Modern Slavic Speaking Populations
Abstract
Slavic speaking populations are the most numerous Indo-European ethnolinguistic group in Europe. They show great variety and fall into three groups: West, East and South Slavic populations. In order to contribute to the understanding of the correlation between linguistic and genetic affiliation of Slavic populations, we have analyzed for the first time their matrilineal and patrilineal relationships and we have also illustrated their position in the European uniparental genetic landscape. For the purpose, we have collected previously published data for the frequencies of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) and Y-chromosome haplogroups in Slavic and other European populations and compared them by Principal Component Analysis (PCA). In the inter-Slavic population comparisons, West and East Slavs are in a closer position, whereas South Slavic populations are rather grouped on their own. In the European context, South Slavic populations are positioned more close to neighboring Balkan non-Slavic and North Italian populations, than to other Slavic populations. When considering the uniparental diversity of Slavic speaking populations, one should also take into account the prevalence of Y-chromosome haplogroup N among East Slavs (comprising almost half of the paternal gene pool in instances), which is almost absent among the other groups (not exceeding 2% – 3%). In conclusion, the data in the present study point that West-East and South Slavic speaking populations, behave as separate groups based on their uniparental genetic structure, which shows that they do not share substantial common genetic ancestry and that there is great genetic variety in the Slavic linguistic unity.
…. Results and discussion
…. The comparison of the Y-chromosome haplogroup frequencies in Slavic speaking and remaining European populations performed by PC analysis is given in Figure 4. Compared to the PCA of mtDNA haplogroup frequencies, it again shows a more clear-cut grouping of most of South Slavs (Serbs, Bulgarians, Croats, Bosnia-Croats, Bosnia-Serbs, Bosnians) with neighboring populations from the Balkans (Romanians, Greeks and Macedonian Greeks). On the other hand, West (Czechs, Poles and Western Slovaks) and East Slavs (Ukrainians, Belarus and European Russians) are located separately. From the non-Slavic populations Swedish Saami and Finns are almost outliers; the two populations from Germany are almost overlapping, whereas Italian populations form a cluster which embraces Catalonia.
In general, the obtained results show that based on the distribution of mtDNA and Y-chromosome haplogroups West and East Slavic speaking populations locate separately from South Slavic populations. Furthermore, in the European uniparental landscape South Slavic speaking populations are positioned more close to neighboring Balkan non-Slavic populations and North Italian populations, than to other Slavic populations. This hints that the linguistic resemblance of South Slavic speaking populations with East and West Slavic groups is not paralleled to a similar extent by a genetic one, which is in line with previous findings demonstrating that the basis of the gene pool of West-East and South Slavic speaking populations is different ( Kushniarevich et al., 2015 ).
https://www.scirp.org/journal/paperinformation.aspx?paperid=80315
I’d be interested to hear if this narrative or the perception of a northern ethnic divide has any actual currency within Russia or indeed Ukraine. I have spent a little time in Russia and the SU and it’s not something I ever came across.
The archaeogenetic subtleties are very interesting – thank you, Mirror – but the man in the street does not tend to think in these rarefied terms.
There is truth to two distinct clusters within Russian ‘Slavs’ depending on their admixture. From the same paper:
> It should be marked that European Russians are separated in two distant groups―regions of the Central (Vladimir, Yaroslavl, Tula and Kaluga) and of the North-Western part (Pskov, Velikii Novgorod and Volot) of the country. Ukrainians and Belarusians are interspersed with West Slavic populations (Poles, Slovaks and Czechs). South Slavic speaking populations (Serbians, Bulgarians, Slovenians, Croatians and the populations of Bosnia and Herzegovina) are quite dispersed despite the comparatively small geographic area of the Balkan Peninsula. Nevertheless, they are positioned in an area of positive values of PC2.
…. West Slavic speaking populations (Slovaks, Czechs and Poles) are in between South and East Slavs, but are closer to East Slavs, being interspersed among them. Certain Russian populations (Vologda, Arkhangel and Orel) are markedly distant.
– The images tend to give an overview of how all ‘Slavic’ groups (including ‘Ukraine, Czechia, Slovakia and Hungary’) are pulled away from each other to different degrees due to admixture with neighbouring populations. Eg., based on Y chromones: https://html.scirp.org/file/7-1590624×5.png
As I said, full autosomal analysis would give more detail and accuracy.
Thank you, Mirror.
“From the non-Slavic populations Swedish Saami and Finns are almost outliers.”
From the PCA plots it’s clear that they’re either:
1. On the fence observing the hoopla with some Koskenkorva for moral support.
2. Genetically fleeing from the hordes fueled by moonshine.
3. Just fucking strange.
https://youtu.be/8yHPvMA1BNE
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Saami seem to have lived throughout Finland until about 1000 AD, after which they gradually retreated to the north, presumably under pressure from incoming agriculturalist Finnish speakers. They are toward the Westernmost fringe of Uralic expansion, and they are less unusual in a Siberian context. Other Scandinavians also have the Uralic component but to a lesser degree, and it is not necessarily as pronounced in phenotype, with some Finns a bit more obvious. Most of Europe is modeled as mainly a mixture of three deeply divergent ancestral populations, while NE Europe has a fourth that is a bit more exotic in a European context.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-07483-5/
“Most of Europe is modeled as mainly a mixture of three deeply divergent ancestral populations, while NE Europe has a fourth that is a bit more exotic in a European context.”
“Exotic…”
*Noooo…*
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-07483-5
“Indeed, for all other populations with evidence of this ancestry, we find much younger admixture dates (Fig. 5a), suggesting that the observed genetic ancestry in north-eastern Europe is inconsistent with a single-pulse admixture event.”
“Perkele” obviously did it for selfish entertainments.
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Yup, those are the rapacious primates with a somewhat uncanny strangeness taking luciferan delight in rattling souls injected with hopium and copium. Little princess much oh noes.
Who am I to disagree?
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I suspect that Saami do a lot of hoping and coping themselves, they have just had a different socio-economic strategy due to the geographical niche that they inhabited. Every niche tends to get filled. They are in no obvious sense ‘better’ than anyone else. But we were discussing Slavs, and I do not know how every discussion ends up being all about your people, and how awful everyone else is. Perhaps you need to get over yourself.
“I suspect that Saami do a lot of hoping and coping themselves”
You’d better check that one with the Saami. The only thing I know about the Saami is that my ancestors used to host and do business with them when they arrived with their reindeer herds during springtime. Check out the shenanigans of Birkarls.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birkarls
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/08003831.2016.1154676
Slavs, right. Well, the Slav broads are particularly spicy if you ask me. Say Macedonian and Albanian.
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You are descended from Birk-arls? Why am I unlikely to forget that word?
I think I might be.
The historical records seem a bit blurry since the Birkarls were active in the region for only god knows how long. I guess it was reasonably hunky dory until Christianity wanted to impose BS through the usual ‘Royal’ egomaniac tools.
I’m sure there was some admixture going on wit the Saami. However; according to 23andMe I’m fuck all Saami and ~70% Finn. The rest mostly Norwegian and some random deadwood bits and pieces floating around in the gene pool of Lapland.
“Proof” of that according to 23andMe:
https://imgur.com/a/7zF7zRf
No; I don’t mind Slavs or any other bunch of generic MOARons (same sh*t, different phenotype…) as long as they won’t spout the default fantasies in my face.
That is the thing about the internet, you can always take your face somewhere else.
Right, there’s always sharp witted existentialist brethren if you know where to look. Say on OFW where copium, hopium and fantasy is fringe.
You seem to be just a corny virtue-signalling ‘berk’ with a big mouth. I am surprised that no one has put you down yet.
Well; I surely deserve being put down if you say so. After all, I’m an existentialist nobody from the middle of freezing fuck all, chucking in the oats and turning the cranks while writing obnoxious comments.
It’s obviously all lasso and no reindeer. And who likes a sanctimonious hypocrite?
“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”
— C.G. Jung
“No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.”
— Plato
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Mirror
Norwegian genes are found around St. Petersburg, apparently my ancestors went on boat ride some years back and mingled;
we are a very friendly, outgoing people who enjoy diversity.
We also enjoyed warmer winters, genes found in Mediterranean area; I am sort of darker complected, an uncle was shall we say swarthy with very coarse, curly hair.
People move around a great deal, something about the grass always being greener on the other side of the fence.
Ancestry DNA is very interesting, we are not always who we think we are.
Dennis L.
Interesting. It is possible that some Vikings came back from the Med with wives, and TV dramas are liable to explore that possibility, but I am not aware of any papers that support that. I will keep an eye open.
This below is a 2021 paper that finds southern Norway to be very homogenous and very much genetically isolated from the continent (Denmark) and from the north of Norway.
On the other hand, a 2020 paper showed variations between 12% and 25% of north British ancestry in Norway, so most of the historical period genetic influx to Norway is probably from here – and that may account for the ‘swarthier’ uncle, as some Brits (I do not know about Orkney) are slightly darker – or it could just be a long-term variation within the local population.
This 2015 paper includes autosomal data, and as I suspected, ‘Slavic’ genetic diversity is largely due to admixture with the neighbouring peoples whom they overlayed in the first place, so it is originally ‘in situ’, with further mixture since added. Their relation and diversity thus tends to reflect their geography and it largely predates the Slavic expansions, although there was some multidirectional churn around that time. Originally Slavic and Baltic were the same language, and those populations can now be modeled on a north-south cline with East and West Slavs in the middle between Balts and Balkans at the poles. East Slavs are distinguishable from the other Slavs, although also distinguishable from each other; West Slavs are more varied, and south Slavs more so yet, while north Russians have more Uralic admixture. No doubt higher resolution autosomal data would tease out yet more definition. Read the paper for more details.
> Genetic Heritage of the Balto-Slavic Speaking Populations: A Synthesis of Autosomal, Mitochondrial and Y-Chromosomal Data
The Slavic branch of the Balto-Slavic sub-family of Indo-European languages underwent rapid divergence as a result of the spatial expansion of its speakers from Central-East Europe, in early medieval times. This expansion–mainly to East Europe and the northern Balkans–resulted in the incorporation of genetic components from numerous autochthonous populations into the Slavic gene pools. Here, we characterize genetic variation in all extant ethnic groups speaking Balto-Slavic languages by analyzing mitochondrial DNA (n = 6,876), Y-chromosomes (n = 6,079) and genome-wide SNP profiles (n = 296), within the context of other European populations. We also reassess the phylogeny of Slavic languages within the Balto-Slavic branch of Indo-European. We find that genetic distances among Balto-Slavic populations, based on autosomal and Y-chromosomal loci, show a high correlation (0.9) both with each other and with geography, but a slightly lower correlation (0.7) with mitochondrial DNA and linguistic affiliation. The data suggest that genetic diversity of the present-day Slavs was predominantly shaped in situ, and we detect two different substrata: ‘central-east European’ for West and East Slavs, and ‘south-east European’ for South Slavs. A pattern of distribution of segments identical by descent between groups of East-West and South Slavs suggests shared ancestry or a modest gene flow between those two groups, which might derive from the historic spread of Slavic people.
…. Uniparental genetic markers, mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) and the non-recombining part of the Y-chromosome (NRY), indicate that the genetic composition of Slavs does not differ significantly from that of their neighboring non-Slavic populations [22–34]. In addition, age estimates for major paternal and maternal lineages of East-Central Europe point to an expansion that pre-dates the historic spread of Slavs. For example, whilst the geographic distribution of NRY haplogroups (hg) I-P37 and R1a-Z282 overlaps with the area occupied by the present-day Slavs, coalescent times suggest that the current diversity within these hgs existed prior to the Slavic expansion [29,35]. Similarly, the phylogeography of mtDNA hgs that are more frequent in West and East Slavs–such as H5a1, U4a2, U5a2a, U5a2b1 –suggests continuity within East-Central Europe for at least two thousand years [28,36–38]. While these genetic components predated the Slavic expansion, a recent study on the distribution of genomic segments identical by descent (IBD) among different European populations revealed a high number of shared segments among East Europeans that can be dated to around 1,000–2,000 YBP [39]
…. In the autosomal-and NRY-based plots, most Balto-Slavic populations are dispersed along the north-south axis of their geographic origin (Fig 2A and 2B). In their Y-chromosomal and autosomal variation, East Slavs–Russians from central-southern regions, Belarusians and Ukrainians– form a cluster on their own, though these populations do not overlap entirely with each other (Fig 2A and 2B). This group is characterized by low mean values of population pairwise genetic distances (DNei = 0.125 for NRY; FST = 0.0008 for autosomal data) (Tables A,B in S1 File). In contrast, Russians from the northern region of the European part of Russia are differentiated from the rest of the East Slavs, and on genetic plots lie in the vicinity of their Finnic-speaking geographic neighbors. Accordingly, the average genetic distances between North Russians and the rest of East Slavic populations are high: DNei = 0.584; FST = 0.0081) (Tables A,B in S1 File). Compared to the East Slavs, the West Slavs are more differentiated. In particular, Czechs (Fig 2A and 2B) and to a lesser extent also Slovaks (Fig 2A), are shifted towards Germans and other West Europeans, whereas Poles either overlap or lie close to East Slavs….
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0135820
There are no genetically ‘pure’ or ‘original’ Slavic peoples. Russians have evolved with admixture and drift, but so have all other peoples including the southern Slavs. NW Russians have some Uralic admixture but it is a minor part of their genomes.
The tensions between Russia and Ukraine (or NATO) are geopolitical, and it is not helpful to frame it in meta-ethnic terms. One might as well frame historical British-Irish tensions by saying that the Irish are ‘Bell Beakers’ and the British are ‘French’, because they have more continental admixture, and say that it is essentially an ethnic ‘battle’ between ‘Bell Beakers’ and the ‘French’, which would be nonsense. Geopolitical tensions are generally based on money, resources and power.
> Ukraine is the largest country located fully in Europe, with a population that was formed as a result of several millennia of migration and admixture…. The rich history shaped genetic diversity in the population living in the country of Ukraine today. As people have moved and settled across this land, they have contributed unique genetic variation that varies across the country. https://academic.oup.com/gigascience/article/10/1/giaa159/6079618
Wherever we search only hard enough, we will find something to divide us!
I thought the Hungarians were Magyars, not Slavs.
Hungarians seem to be typical central Europeans, exactly what one would expect from their geographical location, but with an extremely minor East Asian component. Language shifts in central Europe seem to have been accompanied by a largely superficial genetic impact, including the ‘Slavic migrations’, with older genetic structure still largely dominant on a geographical basis. So Hungarians are still genetically close to their neighbours, and that is because none of them have changed much in the historical period. But yes, Hungarian is a Uralic language.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-98796-x
We might assume that the Magyars took many slaves as wives, which was a common custom, who would have been locals.
Yes, it is an interesting one.
The Hungarian rulers themselves, certainly by the time of Bala III, were genetically locals with extremely minor East Asian (EA) ancestry. It is not clear whether the invading Hungarian rulers were ever much EA, or whether they actually picked up the bit of EA locally in Hungary, from the earlier presence of Huns and Avars.
If the Hungarian rulers were more EA, then there would have to have been gene flow into them, and not just out of them. So, the authors of this paper consider inter-marriage with other European rulers as the most likely factor (people tend to marry their own socio-economic peers, even today). No one really knows? But, as I say, nothing is really clear, and they may never have been much EA in the first place, and they may have just picked up the bit locally.
> The typical autosomal and maternal Central Eastern European ancestry among Bela III autosomes might be best explained by consecutive intermarriage with local European ruling families.
…. The autosomal DNA profile of Bela III falls within the genetic variation of present-day east European populations like Croatians and Hungarians…. It is therefore possible that Great Prince Árpád and later family members had much larger proportions of Eastern Eurasian ancestry than Bela III. However, this could have been lost in Bela III because of repeated marriages with members of noble families of European descent during the 18 generations (~ 300 years) that separated the two Hungarian rulers…. Such eastern Eurasian-related Y-chromosomes could, however, been also acquired locally, since three elite military individuals from the Hun and the Early Avar period have been recently found belonging to the same overarching hg R1a1a1b2-Z9323. Alternatively, this eastern Eurasian legacy could have arrived in Hungary with the conquering Hungarian tribes through additional population movements from the East.
– In other words, it is anyone’s guess at this point. More ancient genetic reference samples are needed to piece the history together.
The end result is that the Hungarian people today genetically remain almost exactly what they would have been, had none of the conquests ever happened. Central Europeans generally are genetically largely unaffected by conquests and language shifts in the historical period, including the ‘Slavic migrations’, unlike eg. Britain or Italy. So, in central Europe there has been, and still is, a very high and stable correlation between geography and genes.
Warning that Australians could need FIVE doses of a Covid-19 vaccine to be considered fully protected – and the people who should ALREADY be getting four jabs
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10520621/Australians-need-five-doses-Covid-vaccine.html
Five doses? What’s next 8, 10, 12 doses? I love the quote: “the definition of sanity is doing the same thing over and over again, expecting different results”.
Have you ever tried programming?
Jacinda Ardern says infections her concern, not protest
https://twitter.com/backtolife_2022/status/1494241052332597249
Gazprom-operated Redhen storage facility in Germany is running empty
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLy521sXMAIK-Eg?format=jpg&name=small
This sounds like a serious problem.
Overall, however, we are still above 30%.
https://agsi.gie.eu/#/historical/DE
So far, we have had a very mild winter, so I expect that we will make it into spring without shutting down any production.
But the next winter should be exciting if we don’t finally buy gas more farsightedly.
Seneca would like that
Looking back again, through the eyes of Dr. Lawrence Broxmeyer, MD of the New York Institute of Medical Research in March-April of 2020.
The FDA cleared the way for hard hit New York to experiment with the malaria and lupus drug hydroxychloroquine and the antibiotic Zithromax (generic name azithromycin) as a treatment for COVID-19. There is no doubt that the disease presently being attributed to “coronavirus” (which not long ago was best known for the common cold), has the potential to be deadly.
Besides New York, witness Italy, where on March 21, 2020 alone 793 people died. And the next day, 651 lives were lost again…… with no sign of let up in sight. But was this from a virus?
Not all illnesses with non-specific flu-like symptoms are from viruses.
And this despite the many virologists at the head of the CDC, NIH, and others that insist that if it’s an epidemic or pandemic, it’s a virus.
Questions persist as to whether these deaths were as a direct result of the virus itself. There is little credible evidence that present coronavirus tests are picking up the RNA of a virus alone. The most accurate of these tests to this point is a measure of RNA. Such RNA could come from other sources such as the cells of the patient, bacteria, and other pathogens.
For example, there are RNA elements in both mycobacteria [1] and their mycobacteriophages or bacterial viruses [2] which live inside of all virulent mycobacteria such as M. avium and M. tuberculosis (a true global killer), both of which were on the upswing in the Italian peninsula and Wuhan considerably prior to the COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) [3,4]
This same RNA could also account for the RNA being detected in COVID testing. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), mycobacterial disease is presently responsible for one death every 21 seconds around the world. In the package inserts of all coronavirus RT-PCR test, it is clearly stated that this test will not rule out bacterial or mycobacterial disease. Furthermore, any mycobacterial cross-reactivity studies done between M. tuberculosis and COVID-19 by manufacturers have to this point been unclear, ambiguous and incomplete.
“any mycobacterial cross-reactivity studies done between M. tuberculosis and COVID-19 by manufacturers have to this point been unclear, ambiguous and incomplete.”
Even now, is it possible to distinguish between tuberculosis and COVID-19?
Tons of studies out there where an association exists between TB and different viral-claimed diseases. Like this one. Hard to say how they sort it out per symptom-overlaps if the PCR tests can’t do it.
Conclusion: In summary, there appear to be some predictors of worse prognosis among COVID-TB cases. A moderate level of evidence suggests that COVID-TB patients are more likely to suffer severe disease or death than COVID-19 patients. Finally, routine screening for TB may be
recommended among suspected or confirmed cases of COVID-19 in countries with high TB burden.
COVID-19 and Tuberculosis Coinfection: An Overview of Case Reports/Case Series and Meta-Analysis
PMID: 34504847
Another example: (note the: “frequent association of past or concomitant tuberculosis”)
J Clin Med
2021
AIDS Related Kaposi’s Sarcoma: A 20-Year Experience in a Clinic from the South-East of Romania
PMID: 34830628
Free PMC article
Abstract
Kaposi’s sarcoma (KS) was peculiarly described in the first notified cases of the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome as an opportunistic condition. However, the medical progress and the development of active antiretroviral therapy allowed the control of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, although the features of KS have changed throughout the past decades.
The purpose of our study is to assess the epidemiological and clinical features of AIDS related KS in Romanian patients. A retrospective follow-up study was achieved in a single infectious diseases’ clinic from Galati-Romania, between 2001 and 2021.
Referring to 290 new HIV diagnosed cases from our clinic retained in care, the prevalence of KS was 3.4%. The main characteristics of patients with KS are a median age of 33, a predominance of males, prevalent severe systemic forms of diseases, frequent association of past or concomitant tuberculosis, and context of immune reconstruction syndrome. The mortality rate was 70%.
KS has occurred in patients with delayed HIV diagnoses and inadequate adherence to therapy. Early recognition of both infections, the close monitoring of latent or symptomatic tuberculosis, improving the antiretroviral adherence and raising the access to oncologic procedures in Romanian HIV patients could improve their prognosis related to KS.
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Project Veritas has released a video allegedly showing an executive-level FDA official admitting the Biden administration has plans to require yearly COVID shots “just like the flu shot.”:
No surprise really, regarding the allegations. It’s all about “follow the money”. This is big business and profits for Big Pharma with zero liability. The problem for Biden is that his vaccine mandates have been shot down by the US Supreme Court so this won’t fly either.
This approach will make the midterm elections come out badly, as well. It is hard to see it being followed.
“No surprise really, regarding the allegations.”
Was it Nicole Foss who said that if you let money into the political process it will buy it? I can’t recall. Objectively this sort of corruption should, as you say, be entirely unsurprising but it still jolts me a little.
I guess I just don’t see anything one might gain materially from such cynicism as worth the price of admission.
WHO is obsessed by Covid-19 vaccination in Africa.
They have imposed on themselves to reach 70% of vaccination in Africa, even if current vaccines are not anymore good with current variants, even if they don’t prevent contagion, even if they cover from disease maybe 3 or 4 months (if they do), even if one can die anyway for Covid-19, even if advers events and death are frequent due to vaccination itself.
They are even available to try to produce vaccines on site inside specific ‘production containers’, in order to avoid the problem of transportation and logistics.
German Biontech is proposing ad hoc solutions for this.
Nobody wonder that maybe Africa is going on well with Covid-19 because of very low rate of vaccination with current mRNA vaccines.
It is difficult to say that this is something different from a killer plan.
You can see here in a video taken from European newspaper ‘Euronews’ in this video of the Italian version. You can easily understand the video also without knowing Italian language.
Perhaps another market for Big Pharma to make money from!
There will be loans available for African nations to ensure vaccine equity. They are way behind western nations in achieving the >70% vaccination rate required.
Required for what? Adequate Big Pharma profits?
According to what I have seen on videos showing the proper way to give an injection, they are not doing it right.
Brings a tear to one’s eye to contemplate their noble exertions to ensure No Africans Left Behind.
Philanthropy is so inspiring.
Review
J Infect Dis – 2007
HIV infection and multidrug-resistant tuberculosis: the perfect storm
Division of Tuberculosis Elimination, National Center for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA.
PMID: 17624830
Abstract
Background: Multidrug-resistant (MDR) tuberculosis (TB) has emerged as a global epidemic, with ~425,000 new cases estimated to occur annually. The global human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection epidemic has caused explosive increases in TB incidence and may be contributing to increases in MDR-TB prevalence.
Methods: We reviewed published studies and available surveillance data evaluating links between HIV infection and MDR-TB to quantify convergence of these 2 epidemics, evaluate the consequences, and determine essential steps to address these epidemics.
Results: Institutional outbreaks of MDR-TB have primarily affected HIV-infected persons. Delayed diagnosis, inadequate initial treatment, and prolonged infectiousness led to extraordinary attack rates and case-fatality rates among HIV-infected persons. Whether this sequence occurs in communities is less clear. MDR-TB appears not to cause infection or disease more readily than drug-susceptible TB in HIV-infected persons. HIV infection may lead to malabsorption of anti-TB drugs and acquired rifamycin resistance. HIV-infected patients with MDR-TB have unacceptably high mortality; both antiretroviral and antimycobacterial treatment are necessary. Simultaneous treatment requires 6-10 different drugs. In HIV-prevalent countries, TB programs struggle with increased caseloads, which increase the risk of acquired MDR-TB. Surveillance data suggest that HIV infection and MDR-TB may converge in several countries.
Conclusions: Institutional outbreaks, overwhelmed public health programs, and complex clinical management issues may contribute to the convergence of the MDR-TB and HIV infection epidemics. To forestall disastrous consequences, infection control, rapid case detection, effective treatment, and expanded program capacity are needed urgently.
In a resource constrained world, it is hard to see much of this going on for very long:
Supply chains break; the cost of all of these drugs becomes unacceptably high. I expect that TB, over time, becomes resistant to more and more antibiotics, making the situation even worse.
About this argument of HIV, I saw in Euronews website that they deny that Covid-19 vaccines can create HIV variants.
It is interesting because when tmainstream media denies something, it is normally true the opposite.
During middles age, when Latin was still the main language among erudites, there was a famous saying: ‘excusatio non petita, accusatio manifesta est’.
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2022/02/10/debunked-covid-19-vaccines-do-not-create-variants-of-hiv-aids
https://www.treccani.it/vocabolario/excusatio-non-petita-accusatio-manifesta/
If we see denials, and the HIV story is really true, we should soon see data about people testing HIV positive.
Data reporting systems are already being either switched off completely or acces restricted to trusted personel only.
“PUBLIC Health Scotland will no longer publish weekly data on Covid cases, hospitalisations and deaths from next week after mounting concerns that it is being misused by antivaxxers.”
https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/19932323.public-health-scotland-pulls-covid-case-rate-data-claims-demonstrates-conclusively-vaccines-not-working/
I demand the MOREONS get the HIV test. I am very curious (in general)
Clinical, Biochemical and Molecular Evaluations of Ivermectin Mucoadhesive Nanosuspension Nasal Spray in Reducing Upper Respiratory Symptoms of Mild COVID-19.
PMID: 34163159 Free PMC article. Clinical Trial.
BACKGROUND: Ivermectin is an FDA-approved broad-spectrum anti-parasitic agent that has been shown to inhibit SARS-CoV-2 replication in vitro. OBJECTIVE: We aimed to assess the therapeutic efficacy of ivermectin mucoadhesive nanosuspension intranasal spray in treatme …
This is a link to the PubMed reference to the article:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34163159/
The authors are from Egypt. The CONCLUSION is
A few more insights from Dr. Lawrence Broxmeyer, MD in a piece he wrote in 2020.
Citation: “Promising Antimicrobial Hope for “Coronavirus”, but is it Working Against A Virus?” Pulmonary Research and Respiratory Care 4.1 (2020): 19-28
Antivirals did not play a significant role in helping curb previous coronavirus outbreaks — SARS and MERS largely went away on their own, through public health measures that helped contain the spread.
Present coronavirus trials using antivirals have to this point on the whole proved either inconclusive or disappointing. Azithromycin, an antibiotic with no antiviral activity whatsoever, is proving quite efficacious in treating the disease behind the “COVID-19” pandemic.
Azithromycin is a first-line drug against Mycobacterium avium, which can simulate obstructive lung disease, and every other sign or symptom of COVID-19 documented to date. In addition, azithromycin is a second or third-line drug against drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
There was and still is a Pandemic going on in the world which dwarfs coronavirus. A Pandemic which kills one person every 21 seconds. A pandemic which in 2018 alone killed at least 1.5 million people annually.
A mycobacterial pandemic, from Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
In the United States, pulmonary Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) disease or “fowl tuberculosis” is more common than tuberculosis. Furthermore, Mycobacterium avium complex is now the leading mycobacterial cause of chronic pneumonia in the United States
Infections due to non-tuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) such as Mycobacteria avium are increasing worldwide, and are particularly important to take into account when considering a zoonosis, which COVID-19 was originally thought to be.
Not only does the drug hydroxychloroquine inhibit intracellular TB, but it acts synergistically against mycobacterial disease when combined with certain antimycobacterials. Azithromycin is also used as an antimycobacterial. The BCG tuberculosis vaccine is currently the focus of an international 4 country study to combat the Coronavirus pandemic.
In the present Coronavirus pandemic, tubercular infection is by far the most common co-morbidity or underlying condition. A Recent preliminary Chinese study shows that tubercular infection likely increases susceptibility to SARS-CoV-2, and also increases COVID-19 severity.
This is one version of TB statistics.
https://tbfacts.org/tb-statistics/
India seems to be highest with 1,629, 301 notifications of newly diagnosed cases in 2020; China is second highest, with 624,715. There was a 18% drop in newly reported TP cases in 2020, compared to 2019. I would guess that the drop occurred because fewer patients were going to doctors, requesting care, rather than an actual drop in new cases.
Total people with TB must be much higher.
A boys high school team would crush them … what a joke
https://www.ctvnews.ca/sports/canada-wins-olympic-hockey-gold-after-defeating-rival-u-s-1.5784847
“The Big Mac’s price is up 40%, and it isn’t a good sign… This famous American burger price is outpacing cost of living, and it’s not a good sign…
“…because the price of a Big Mac embodies multiple economic factors including the cost of labor, transportation, food and overall inflation — it leads some to believe the sandwich is one way to understand current inflation rates and purchasing power of the U.S. dollar.”
https://www.cnbc.com/select/big-mac-index-what-you-need-to-know/
“Helium Prices Are Set To Soar As Supply Shortage Looms.
“As one of the rarest yet most valuable and indispensable elements on our planet, the world is quickly coming to grips with one of the biggest supply squeezes of our times as severe helium shortages continue pushing prices up.”
https://www.prnewswire.co.uk/news-releases/helium-prices-are-set-to-soar-as-supply-shortage-looms-845269137.html
A potential helium shortage is something I have heard about for years, yet I continue to see balloons filled with helium in the grocery store every time I visit. A person would think that some prioritization of uses could be made.
I fear you overestimate our collective ability to think strategically and long-term, Gail. Parties just wouldn’t have been the same without them.
Especially since these balloons are a proven danger to marine wildlife if they end up in the environment—as thousands of them do— and not in the trash. Helium-filled balloons should be prohibited.
The 40% increase in the Big Mac price is over a ten-year period, so it isn’t as bad as it sounds.
I have noticed that restaurant prices are up significantly in 2022. Menus are a lot shorter as well.
Dog Food Price Inflation – East Texas USA
5/30/21 – Walmart – Purina One – 16.5lbs. – $19.60
12/6/21 – Walmart – Purina One – 16.5lbs. – $23.48
2/15/22 – Walmart – Purina One – 16.5lbs. – $26.98
“Nigeria Says It Will Import Vast Amounts of Emergency Gasoline.
“The need for resupply arose after the African country imported a batch of gasoline that contained too much methanol… It’s led to fewer cars on city streets, as motorists wait in long queues at gas stations to fill up their vehicles, and surging transport fares.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-02-15/nigeria-fuel-fiasco-has-caused-shock-to-economy-stats-head-says
“Peru’s main airport could experience a fuel supply shortage within days [after Repsol refinery is closed due to huge oil spill]…
“According to the Peruvian Association of Port Operators, the Peruvian State could bankrupt the internal economy and foreign trade for more than $80,000 million if “La Pampilla” continues to be paralyzed.”
https://www.aviacionline.com/2022/02/peru-would-be-short-of-fuel-in-the-coming-days/
The YT channel ‘Indigo Traveller’ did a particularly good series on Nigeria recently, for those who want to see what it’s like.
This is a link to a methanol Blending Technical Bulletin:
https://www.methanol.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Blending-Handling-Bulletin-Final.pdf
“Ukraine rebels accuse government forces of attacks.
“Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine accused government forces on Thursday of opening fire on their territory four times in the past 24 hours and said they were trying to establish if anyone had been hurt or killed.”
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-rebels-accuse-govt-forces-mortar-shelling-report-2022-02-17/
“The Russia-Ukraine crisis is squeezing Central Asian economies.
“…while the measures Washington is proposing are targeted at Moscow, they could also end up crippling the economies of Tajikistan and the Kyrgyz Republic while also significantly hurting Uzbekistan, because these nations depend on money sent home by citizens working in Russia.”
https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2022/2/16/the-russia-ukraine-crisis-is-squeezing-central-asian-economies
According to the article:
“Europe Risks Another Energy Crisis Without Mandatory Reserves… There’s currently no economic reward for traders to store gas…
“Europe is relying more on intermittent sources of energy such as wind and solar, and with domestic gas production in decline, dependency on imports from Russia is only increasing.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-02-16/europe-risks-another-energy-crisis-without-mandatory-reserves
“European Union car sales in January lowest on record.
“New car registrations in the European Union reached a historic low of 682,596 units in January as semiconductor shortages continued to hurt car sales across the region, data from the region’s carmaker association (ACEA) showed on Thursday.”
https://wtvbam.com/2022/02/17/european-union-car-sales-in-january-lowest-on-record-acea/
Countries need mandatory reserves. They probably also need a way of building storage that does not add huge costs to their natural gas prices.
With natural gas prices set competitively, a country that spends money on storage finds its costs are much higher. It becomes impossible for citizens to afford the high cost of natural gas, including all of the storage costs.
norm . what are we looking at?
https://twitter.com/holmenkollin/status/1493566363054583808?s=20&t=a_B0tH-1vEjO-FkuHkkRlg
Well; that’s a perfect situation of toggling the pump on/off.. *10 seconds* ..off/on when the pretentious little sanctimonious hypocrite starts to spout totalitarian bourgeoisie Führerspeak.
The technique when dealing with Big Fat Bastards… is to grab them and twist them while sticking your hip out and flipping them … it’s an art form … then you use their weight against them and slam that as hard as possible into the concrete… hopefully breaking their ribs… then you kick them in the face and the gut…. you need to keep them on the ground… they are dangerous beasts
I tried that on myself. Blew a front tire and bounced on my chest down a rock garden. Broke a rib or two. It hurt a little. The morning after was a bit rough to get outta bed. But hey; it hurts real good as a combo with sore muscles.
Broken ribs is nothing really. Snapped collarbones, now that is a pain in the rear end. I peed in a PET bottle for about a week (I blame spicy Croatian Rakia for that one…). Yeah, that was “Glamorous” as xyz. Broken tibias are obnoxious, crutches and stuff, don’t go there. My hip isn’t quite 100% after I highsided my fireblade. (I cracked open the throttle a bit prematurely) Four of my left foot toes only flexes in one direction after some dumb escapades in my youth. My point being; that which doesn’t kill you merely cripples.
Just walk away from psychos. A mere thought of having adrenaline/nonadrenaline pumping from MOARonic MOARons makes me fatigued…😓
The trick is to feel mostly nothing apart from delight and curiosity. Fsck the NPC’s.
Walking away is not an option – when you know … you can put the Fat Bastard down.
You taunt the Fat Bastard until he unhinges… and you don’t get an assault charge… the trigger in this case was ‘you fat old prick’…. Fat Old Prick am I??? and then you know he’s coming hard… and you know … victory is at hand…
You’re in good company, david; most people act as though they have the same opinion. However, “becoming drier” doesn’t quite capture “2000–2021 was the driest 22-yr period [in southwestern North America] since at least 800”.
What’s your evidence for your “2000–2021 was the driest 22-yr period [in southwestern North America] since at least 800” claim? If it were true, it would be an impressive fact—the driest actual 22-year period across the entire region of southwestern North America (however that area is defined) throughout the span of over 1,200 years from 800 to 2021!!
And of course, it could be true. But how do you propose to demonstrate that it is true. Do you have accurate and precise meteorological records for the entire region covering the entire period, or are you simply prattling propaganda points picked up from the mass media?
And if you have precise data on 22-year periods, how about precisely data on 20-year periods, 21-year periods, 23-year periods and 24-year periods? Can you tell us when was the driest actual 24-year period since 800 AD? And how about data for Mexico alone and for the Southwestern United States alone and for California alone?
It’s a bold assertion. Cheeky even. But what’s your evidence? And it better be something a lot more convincing than a few dozen desiccated bits of timber, or “it was published in Nature!”
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
—Christopher Hitchens.
The paper purporting to prove this piffle was published in Nature and penned by a team from UCLA.
https://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/megadrought-southwestern-north-america
As I suspected, they did it by analyzing tree ring patterns. They might as well have been reading tea leaves.
One canny commenter at What’s Up With That points out:
“So which weather phenomenon do tree rings show, temperature or rainfall ? Or maybe just warm spring, or were the ones with really wide rings cuz they were near streams just taken by beavers, leaving only thirsty trees ? Or maybe how fast nutrients were able to leach through local soil conditions to the tree roots ? There seems to be a lot of variables that wouldn’t allow accuracy within 3 or 4 degrees C, or 6” to 12” of rainfall. The fact that you have old tree trunk rings in your hands, means it was a good time for trees, at least for that tree, and could mean that the live one you sample today to test against known climate conditions, would likely have a higher incidence of drought or high temperature showing on its rings than that old trunk….. ”
I’m a backwoodsman myself and have been a bit of a lumberjack on the winter weekends for the past thirty years. And I know from personal experience that the width of a tree-ring is influenced by how much sunlight the tree is getting as it grows. If members of the same species are growing on a north rather than a south-facing slope, the rings are likely to be significantly narrower. The amount of sunshine trees get also varies greatly depending on adjacent trees that compete with them for sunlight. If a tree is deprived of light on one side, the tree-rings on that side will be narrower for the same year(s) than they will be on the sunny side. So there is plenty of variation even without accounting for temperature and rainfall conditions.
Mike is a troll. Obviously never taught the golden rule as a child. He demands from others what he never expects of himself. He will essentially nitpick a comma on another’s post in order to deflect from/diminish the main point, yet when posed with a serious challenge, as you so mount here, he either ignores (never replies) or simply disrespectfully reasserts his propoganda without requested references.
While you are totally correct in your calling him out, it is my estimation that he is not worthy of our (and expecially your most valuable) attentioni., and feel it is best to give him the cold shoulder of total shuning.
PS Five Stars for the Hitchens quote – 😉
Question Time:
When J’ASSinda was a crack head DJ (as opposed to a crack head PM)… what do you reckon is the most men she’s entertained at the same time during one of her drug fuelled sex binges?
I’m going with 3.
I wonder if her child is damaged … surely being birthed by a raging drug addict is not ideal
Always enjoy articles like this … pay back
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/sydney-shark-attack-little-bay-victim-identified-as-diving-instructor/4FXHM5LPQYN7F4CZWZCF4LR3VU/
Hope this shark has a taste for human meat and dines again soon
I always cheer when a bull manages to gore one of the idiot bull-runners in our home town of Pamplona during the annual fiesta.
In my book it’s never bloody enough: the Brits and Yanks who try to dress like locals are particularly pathetic specimens of humanity, and deserve whatever they get.
Yes! I went on a tour of a bull fighting stadium in Spain (off season so no killing)… they were to proud of their ‘brave’ fighters explaining how so many had died… I asked the guide — how many bulls have died? She was not pleased… we got up and left
Raise a glass then to ‘Cappucino’ ,the man-killer bull of Pamplona a few years back.
They should be reprieved from the ring if they get someone, have another year at stud, preferably, and back for another crack at nailing a fool.
I would have enjoyed the lions feeding on the Christians… the good ol days
Reverse AIDS – Part IV
https://worldedge.substack.com/p/reverse-aids-part-iv
No idea if this guy is for real… but if he is … tell me you’d not enjoy being given diplomatic immunity and beating him to within an inch of his life
https://t.me/TommyRobinsonNews/32600
This article is way over my head. I notice is its about Ferrotopsis. When I Googled “Ferrotopsis,” this academic paper from 2017 came up very high:
Ferroptosis, a new form of cell death, and its relationships with tumourous diseases
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/labs/pmc/articles/PMC5345622/
The authors are Chinese.
The abstract starts out:
My first thought would be that people with high iron levels in their blood would be especially exposed to ferrotopsis. We know that eating a lot of red meat is not good for health in general. These folks seem to get bad cases of COVID as well.
giving blood is a great way to get the Ferritin number down – 35% improvement last time I did it.
Right! My iron level skates sufficiently low that most times I have tried to give blood, I don’t pass the hemoglobin test. The one time in 2020 that I did give blood, I found that even many months (a year?) later, my hemoglobin level was too low for blood donation.
It turns out that the adequacy level (apart from blood donation) is lower than to be able to give a pint of blood. My hemoglobin level tends to float just above the adequacy level. I have decided there is not much point in my donating blood now.
Yes it’s really complicated… but I enjoyed the title.
BTW – someone gave me a digital mask exemption the other day — I am trying it on in the airport right now … if I am confronted I have a double whammy for them — I don’t look at all unhealthy so I am sure some will wonder WTF….
I’ve got heart damage from Pfizer vax … and I cannot breath. hahahahahahaha…. hahahahahaha… that should work wonders on many levels.
MOREONS MOREONS everywhere… wonder how My Big Fat Bastard is doing hahahaha
After following that substack for a whilde I get the impression the person is just throwing around medical acronyms. Do not let youreself be confused.
If you did not voo, you do not have “them problems”.
Do these people really think they understand a human body if they chop it up into chemical compunds in tubes and simulate some moelcule interactions ? Coincidences at maximum…
Families with their kids in tow shrugged Wednesday at federal emergency legislation that makes it illegal to bring children to the convoy protests that have occupied downtown Ottawa for 20 days.
https://ottawasun.com/news/local-news/convoy-families-with-children-defy-emergency-laws-as-downtown-occupation-continues/wcm/7f6816ff-6522-4d6a-9586-71902da5798b
This just in from the dept. of evolution:
https://evolutionnews.org/2022/02/top-scientific-problems-with-evolution-natural-selection/
“There is no way toward an understanding of the mechanisms of macroevolutionary changes, which require time on a geological scale, other than through a full comprehension of the microevolutionary processes observable within the span of a human lifetime and often controlled by man’s will. For this reason we are compelled at the present level of knowledge reluctantly to put a sign of equality between the mechanisms of macro- and microevolution, and proceeding on this assumption, to push our investigations as far ahead as this working hypothesis will permit.”
Perhaps the earth is a bit older than what is currently understood? No?
There’s no micro or macro evolution. There’s just epigenetic (hot coding sequences), pseudo-mutations that turns into default mutations (cold coding sequences) over geological timescales.
And of course ‘guided’/‘assisted’ evolution by our hypothetical space lizard overlords. Because ‘why not?’ and ‘why?’ at the same time.
Canada’s Pandemic of the Fully Vaccinated | 7 in every 10 Covid-19 Deaths are among the Fully Vaccinated according to official data; & Trudeau’s Government are trying to cover it up
https://palexander.substack.com/p/canadas-pandemic-of-the-fully-vaccinated
A showdown is coming – and the CEP hinges on what happens:
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/freedom-convoy-protesters-are-about-get-arrested-en-masse
How about CEP + chaos?
Always maximize the effects that stems from causes.
There will always be chaos … but CEP minimizes it
So… as I wander about the protests … checking out hotties (there aren’t many being NZ .. but I’ve seen 3 or 4 smokers)…. and chatting to people… I couldn’t help notice the HareryKrishna guys…
They are the original one-hit wonders…and they milk that tune … staying with it for 12 hours a day… almost non-stop …
One of the guys offered me cup of Mango lassi as I watched…and I commended him on doing a great job and how admired I their endurance…
I wanted to ask him if they had any more songs… but thought that might be considered an insult to the creative abilities of the band…
I was also wondering if they had to pay royalties to the guy who wrote the song — and was curious if the guy who wrote it was Harry Krishna or maybe that was just a made up name… kinda like Hey Jude…
Instead I said thanks but I’d just had lunch — then he asked me to join the band and I said I’d love to but I don’t have a very good voice nor do I play drum or castanets… I suppose I could put on my leotards and join as a back up dancer… he said — oh we don’t have those… ohhh… I see
Well my wife used to work as a singer and she’s pretty good on the tambourine so I’ll be sure to bring her next time I come to the protest…
Does anyone know a little more about the Harry Krishnas? Has anyone joined a troupe before?
Are there groopies? Lots of drugs? Any other upsides?
Are you talking about the Hare Krishna movement (ISKCON)? Here is the wiki link:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Society_for_Krishna_Consciousness
No direct interaction with them. But we have hundreds of such movements among Hindus both within India and outside. They may have good and bad aspects. The average Hindu doesn’t care about these cults although he/she may respect them. In fact, Hinduism itself is not a religion. It is a way of life. You can be an atheist, or believe in one god or millions of gods, or be an agnostic, and still call yourself a Hindu.
Ahhh… so it’s not technically .. a band .. or a troupe… it’s a cult… I see…
Let me pass this info to Fast Eddy…
Four Regulative Principles
During initiation (diksha) ISKCON devotees vow to follow four basic rules and regulations,[18] They are as follows:
to follow a lacto-vegetarian Krishna-prasadam diet,
to not consume any intoxicants (alcohol, cigarettes or drugs; tea, coffee and caffeinated drinks are also avoided),
to not gamble, and
to not engage in ‘illicit sex’ (i.e. any sexual activity that is not procreational in nature within the context of marriage)
Fast Eddy says HE will give this a pass… not for him…
Do you know why they only have one song? Or maybe they have others but this is the only popular one?
Not sure which song it is. Does this match?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_tNyr6RKII
If so, it is just a devotional song (bhajan, as it is called in most Indian languages). There are literally thousands of bhajans praising various gods throughout India – youtube has many..ISKCON uses this old chant mainly because it is the most popular one praising Lord Krishna. Have seen the same thing performed in different ways, some to fast beats too..
They should try a techno version ….
Daily Briefing—Cascades abound
https://worldedge.substack.com/p/daily-briefingcascades-abound
if you enjoy bad news… read that hahaha
In this wide ranging interview, which lasted over 2 hours, we cover the following topics:
How did the debate challenging the Canadian health officials go? (A: “They didn’t show up.”)
Does anyone want to debate you? (A: “No.”)
What does the science say about the vaccines? (A: “At best they don’t work.”)
Are these reports about blood impacts after vaccination true? (A: “Likely, but what is more troubling is there are no studies showing they aren’t true.”) What did you own studies find? (A: “I wasn’t allowed to do the studies. My proposal was ignored.”)
What’s really going on in Canada? How many people support the truckers? Is the mainstream media telling people what is really happening? (A: “The truckers are staging a peaceful protest that the media is distorting. They have the support of around 50% of Canadians. It’s tearing the country apart. There are fewer people in the middle now. People are picking sides.”)
Can you get arrested and put in jail? Could I? (A: “Yes. Trudeau has dictatorial powers now due to the emergency. He can do anything he wants. Not sure if you will ever see a judge or jury. Probably you’ll be just put in jail. Better pack your toothbrush. Truckers and their supporters are being threatened with $100K fines, one year in jail, permanent revocation of your license to be a truck driver, and confiscation of your personal assets (like everything in your bank account).”).
How is this going to end? (A: “One side is going to win soon. I don’t know which side.”)
https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/my-interview-with-dr-byram-bridle
And then a sniper fired a shot through the forehead of one of them … and they backed off…
https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1492776347860668416/pu/vid/480×270/jUp2YU4QorWJ85Qn.mp4?tag=12
The thing is …
Why bother hiding the data? You can show a CovIDIOT the data and they will respond by going to get another booster shot.
Because .. they are… STUPID. They are… MOREONS…. They do what they are told.
The MOREONS are getting really hyped up now — real scared here in NZ… I don’t understand it though…
What are they scared of… most of them have their trio of shots coursing through their bodies… I am seeing loads of N95 masks…
They are perfectly safe — or maybe they know that the injections are actually worse than useless?
norm – do you feel safe or do you feel scared?
mike?
Scotland will HIDE Vaccinated and Boosted Deaths
The data looks bad… So hide the data!
https://igorchudov.substack.com/p/scotland-will-hide-vaccinated-and
This happened in England, to.
A judge decided that the ONS and MHRA could reasonably refuse to disclose the number of child deaths after vaxxing (which they admitted to possessing) as those asking for the numbers might either misuse them, or not know what to make of them.
Same line of reasoning, that full disclosure would only fuel ‘mis-information’.
Parents should be tortured for a month then hung:
https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/vsrf-call-this-week-the-vaccine-injured
https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff599c061-a35e-49cc-b46c-08f9670f0953_500x308.jpeg
hahahaha — the Elders have a sense of humour!
https://metro.co.uk/2022/02/13/nhs-recruits-sheep-to-calm-12-year-olds-getting-covid-jabs-16096916/?ito=socialmetrouktwitter
new zealand has lots of sheep. Fifty million sheep who think they are sheep and five million sheep who think they are human.
The thing is…
If enough humans hump sheep … eventually you end up with some sort of cross over and you can actually impregnate a sheep …
And we all know that in southern Italy (Sicily perhaps?) they hump dogs and here they hump sheep … so over the years what happens is you get a few of those cross over events…
As time goes on the half breed strain begins to dominate… and before you know you’ve got a situation like this
https://www.tiktok.com/@youvegot2bekidding/video/7052092917552516398
BTW – speaking of utter f789ing MOREONS… I called one of the student unions at a university because they were quoted saying they do not support the protests and that they were harassed. I spoke to the chief MOREON and asked him for details of the harassment .. he asked me to send the question in an email – cuz I guess he’s too f789ing stooopid to understand what I was asking and needs to sit down with professor mike …
I also asked if the union supported the vax mandates for students.
No response – two days. Called yesterday — he didn’t call back… so I called earlier – he’s not there… so I ripped the MOREON telling her that they are pathetic zombies and that if they are an indication of the quality of the next generation this country is in big trouble. Being a snowflake she found that insulting and said – I’m not going to continue this call. Hahahaha….
Can’t wait for the HIV AIDS to kick in hahahahahahahaha… suffer MOREONS… suffer….
Pastoral care, gold standard, from Professor FE……..
People are so screwed up now: I regularly pass the same people on my bike trip into town – one day it’s mask on, the next, mask off, in the open air!
No rhyme or reason to it. What can be going on in their decayed brains?
I found the elders: theelders.org!
https://theelders.org/
!!
It could have been kitties or doggies: but no, it had to sheep…..
This is the Satanic element, the mockery. Just like the useless, but de-humanising and humiliating masks.
My HK mate with Pfizer heart told me this morning that a friend called and said her 5 yr old is afraid to get injected… can you give me some advice on how to convince her its ok (she knows he is damaged!)…. he said my advice is it’s not needed and it’s not safe.
She hung up.
Just… wow.
Zombie Land is here. See norm mike
HIV shots… get your HIV shots…
https://www.tiktok.com/@youvegot2bekidding/video/7052092917552516398
Come and git it you dummmb f789s hahahaha
From Wikipedia:
Bacillus Calmette–Guérin (BCG) vaccine is a vaccine primarily used against tuberculosis (TB). It is named after its inventors Albert Calmette and Camille Guérin. In countries where tuberculosis or leprosy is common, one dose is recommended in healthy babies as soon after birth as possible. In areas where tuberculosis is not common, only children at high risk are typically immunized, while suspected cases of tuberculosis are individually tested for and treated. Adults who do not have tuberculosis and have not been previously immunized, but are frequently exposed, may be immunized, as well. BCG also has some effectiveness against Buruli ulcer infection and other nontuberculous mycobacterial infections. Additionally it is sometimes used as part of the treatment of bladder cancer.
Rates of protection against tuberculosis infection vary widely and protection lasts up to 20 years. Among children, it prevents about 20% from getting infected and among those who do get infected, it protects half from developing disease. The vaccine is given by injection into the skin. No evidence shows that additional doses are beneficial.
Serious side effects are rare. Often, redness, swelling, and mild pain occur at the site of injection. A small ulcer may also form with some scarring after healing. Side effects are more common and potentially more severe in those with immunosuppression. It is not safe for use during pregnancy. The vaccine was originally developed from Mycobacterium bovis, which is commonly found in cattle. While it has been weakened, it is still live.
The BCG vaccine was first used medically in 1921. It is on the World Health Organization’s List of Essential Medicines. As of 2004, the vaccine is given to about 100 million children per year globally.
That was a lead-in to this Review.
The use of BPC vaccination for Covid is in the works.
See last sentence of abstract
Review
J Microbiol
2022 Feb 14.
Online ahead of print.
COVID-19 vaccine development based on recombinant viral and bacterial vector systems: combinatorial effect of adaptive and trained immunity
PMID: 35157221
Abstract
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 virus (SARS-CoV-2) infection, which causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), has led to many cases and deaths worldwide. Therefore, a number of vaccine candidates have been developed to control the COVID-19 pandemic. Of these, to date, 21 vaccines have received emergency approval for human use in at least one country. However, the recent global emergence of SARS-CoV-2 variants has compromised the efficacy of the currently available vaccines.
To protect against these variants, the use of vaccines that modulate T cell-mediated immune responses or innate immune cell memory function, termed trained immunity, is needed. The major advantage of a vaccine that uses bacteria or viral systems for the delivery of COVID-19 antigens is the ability to induce both T cell-mediated and humoral immune responses. In addition, such vaccine systems can also exert off-target effects via the vector itself, mediated partly through trained immunity; compared to other vaccine platforms, suggesting that this approach can provide better protection against even vaccine escape variants.
This review presents the current status of the development of COVID-19 vaccines based on recombinant viral and bacterial delivery systems. We also discuss the current status of the use of licensed live vaccines for other infections, including BCG, oral polio and MMR vaccines, to prevent COVID-19 infections.
Apparently in the works for awhile according to Lawrence Broxmeyer writing in 2020. He says:
In March of 2020, it was announced that research teams from four different countries will join in clinical trials using the TB vaccine BCG (Bacillus Calmette-Guérin) to see if it fends off the signs and symptoms of COVID-19.
BCG is thinned-out bovine (cattle) tuberculosis derived from the pathogen Mycobacterium bovis. It is also the only approved vaccination for TB in the world. Although trials will start in the Netherlands, Germany and the UK, the Australian arm of the trial will be one of the largest, where 4,000 healthcare workers, doctors and nurses will participate, half of them getting the vaccine and the other half not getting it. Healthcare workers and the elderly are particularly vulnerable to infection and many, many of them have fallen sick or worse from “the virus”.
It is projected that some sign of the effectiveness of giving this vaccination designed to combat tuberculosis will be in evidence by 3 months into this study’s trials, with researchers claiming that the vaccine works by somehow “boosting the body’s immune system”. Australia’s lead investigator Dr. Nigel Curtis said: “If I didn’t think [the TB vaccine] would work, I wouldn’t have been here seven days a week for the last month with a team of 20 people.”
Granted that it might very well work, the larger question is specifically how it is going to work? The thought that the tubercular BCG vaccine “stimulates” the immune system and protects against approximately 30% of a wide range of other diseases, including viruses is an extremely controversial view, first espoused by Danish researchers Peter Aaby and Christine Stabell Benn, in Guinea-Bissau. However, there is a much more scientifically satisfying reason for how the Mycobacterium bovis in BCG (dilute cow tuberculosis) does what it does in the real world.
In nature there is a phenomena which happens probably millions of times a day in which one colony of bacteria or mycobacteria sends out its viral phages (bacteriophages or mycobacteriophages) that live inside it to kill another colony of the same type of organism……a sort of natural lysogeny. The bacterial viruses called phages are the most plentiful viruses on earth. But they are species specific in that they only attack like species. The Mycobacterium bovis in BCG are closely related to and in fact part of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex. Therefore, the phages inside BCG have the potential to destroy TB and other related mycobacteria. The destruction of TB bacilli in the body is in and of itself “bolstering the immune system”, as there is no other microbe known to man that is quite as immunosuppressive.
Figure 7: A TM4 Mycobacteriophage virus from another mycobacteria, injecting its DNA through the cell wall of Mycobacterium tuberculosis ̶ an event which can lead to the eventual destruction of the TB microbe.
I remember the view being raise long ago that perhaps people who have been vaccinated against TB with the BCG vaccine may be much better off in fighting off COVID than others, presumably in the same country, with the same exposure to TB.
Like that paper I posted yesterday that ended with:
“This review presents the current status of the development of COVID-19 vaccines based on recombinant viral and bacterial delivery systems.”
“We also discuss the current status of the use of licensed live vaccines for other infections, including BCG, oral polio and MMR vaccines, to prevent COVID-19 infections.”
PMID: 35157221
I’ll see if I can read the whole paper today and ferret out how they interpret BCG as an advantage. I would suppose since TB infects Macrophage immune-cells, repressing it would enhance immunity for other things.
It is interesting though, as a purely mental-exercise, to entertain what Dr. Broxmeyer has presented; that there might be some confusion regarding causes and effects. The thing about bacterial phages looking very viral-like is interesting in that respect.
Madame Meth …
https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1493028619429756929/pu/vid/480×270/d_GDnN8Byf3c_7AX.mp4?tag=12
When I watch that I am reminded of this scene — except of course Ardern looks like a donkey… and Ardern looks far more frazzled:
Tony Montana, a great man who was also in the pharmaceutical industry but unlike Moderna and Pfizer his wares did not cause permanent harm and death.
The journalist (lol!) asks the succubus a question in that link above. The succubus doesn’t answer, merely deflects. What is the misinformation Oh Demon Woman please?
She and her tadpole brain are merely parroting what they heard from the new zealand ministry of health. She won’t answer. One cannot reason with a succubus, one can only commit them to the fire and in their burning achieve some purity. A catharsis. A cleansing. An exfoliation of mental excrement.
jacinta must burn for her crimes against the people!
Notice the look at the face of the interviewer… it’s as if he’s trying to have a reasonable conversation with a drug addict who is unable to understand or answer his questions… or goes of on a completely different tangent
If he thinks that is frustrating let’s get norm on with him and he can ask norm why:
https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explorer?facet=none&Interval=7-day+rolling+average&Relative+to+Population=true&Color+by+test+positivity=false&country=~ISR&Metric=Confirmed+deaths
norm would just stare… and maybe shift his head from side to side… you know – like a dog does when confused.
and then there’s mike – he would stuff his maw with pie and be unable to speak…
BTW – the protest is growing and getting a life of its own… more tents more people … they are stopping donations because they have nowhere to put the food and gear… and why not – no rent – free food music etc…
Oh and Fast Eddy told me earlier that the foxy room cleaner at the hotel (she is a 23 year old fit Belarussian who just graduated uni and is cleaning rooms while she looks for something better) who invited Fast into the toilet for a bit of this and that… told Fast that there are loads of cops staying in this and many other hotels near parliament … they must be enjoying their extended holiday cuz there’s nothing to do…
BTW – Fast is asking — now that he’s done the toilet thing… does he get to be honorary captain of the All Blacks?
Interesting paper about CHLOROQUINE and TB
from 1990
“Inhibition of tubercle bacilli in cultured human macrophages by chloroquine used alone and
in combination with streptomycin, isoniazid, pyrazinamide, and two metabolites of vitamin D3″
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/labs/pmc/articles/PMC172025/pdf/aac00067-0201.pdf
“Chloroquine may be useful in the treatment of tuberculosis.” Especially in combination with vitamin D, it sounds like.
I take hydroxychloroquine one a week 200mg with 50mg of zinc.
Did a call with these guys the other day https://nzdsos.com/nzdsos-covid-help-clinic/
The doctor said it’s a good idea to take D and the various other OTC treatments but end of the day all you really is is Ivermectin taken for 5 days when you start to feel symptoms. Done and dusted.
She’s prescribing Iver and Doxy and I have Hydroxy… but she says overkill.
Devil Covid is coming … be prepared…
Let er Rip!!!
Yep. Taking Vit D 50,000 IU once a week with 225mg of K2. Also 20mg a week of IVM. Not so tasty. Put it in yoghurt. Have some other back ups as well for when the ‘rona hits.
Get lots of lead… for when the AIDS infected Zombies start tracking the Pure Bloods … the only way they can stay alive is if they feed on the blood of a Pure Blood….
It’s gonna get hairy out there
Plus, when the stress builds to a crescendo, y’all probably don’t have to worry about ulcers!!
In-vitro activity of avermectins against Mycobacterium ulcerans.
PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2015 Mar 5
PMID: 25742173 Free PMC article.
Following on from reports that avermectins have activity against Mycobacterium tuberculosis, we tested the in-vitro efficacy of ivermectin and moxidectin on M. ulcerans. …
Montagnier’s final interview – he says that HIV was spliced into the covid virus hahaha…
Based on what’s happening (see DOD leak) it is looking increasingly like Team MOREONS has stabbed itself in the face hahahahahahaha…
Hey mike .. no harm done right…
https://t.me/c/1588731774/8072
Looks like HIV testing is rolling out faster than even I thought it would.
Started in UK, then US, today SK.
Softening up their next victims (vaxxed), to accept HIV testing as “normal”
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLwTthkUUAI_aYN?format=jpg&name=medium
From 2011 in Clinical Microbiology Review
HIV and Tuberculosis: a Deadly Human Syndemic
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/labs/pmc/articles/PMC3122491/
Summary: A syndemic is defined as the convergence of two or more diseases that act synergistically to magnify the burden of disease. The intersection and syndemic interaction between the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and tuberculosis (TB) epidemics have had deadly consequences around the world. Without adequate control of the TB-HIV syndemic, the long-term TB elimination target set for 2050 will not be reached. There is an urgent need for additional resources and novel approaches for the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of both HIV and TB.
Moreover, multidisciplinary approaches that consider HIV and TB together, rather than as separate problems and diseases, will be necessary to prevent further worsening of the HIV-TB syndemic. This review examines current knowledge of the state and impact of the HIV-TB syndemic and reviews the epidemiological, clinical, cellular, and molecular interactions between HIV and TB.
Unless one has sex with the cashier – possible on a very quiet day I suppose – pretty impossible to portray AIDS as a public health risk requiring testing before shopping at the supermarket.
As we all know, office life is a bit more risque……
Hey norm.. mike… can you guys get an HIV test?
We are very curious to test out this hypothesis on you.
hahahahahaha… If you are sure it will be negative then why not do it – you can then throw the results at us hahahahahaha
How badly would it suck to ring up a positive? hahahahahahaha… maybe we can work out a live stream of you getting your results.. and we watch on OFW
I downloaded Telegram, but I still can’t see this. Is a transcript available?
It’s in French with subtitles
Covid Truth Network
If you find that channel on Telegram.. the interview is from there
I figured out my problem is a problem getting Telegram installed. I have to change some other security settings to get it to work.
I look at a lot of pension funds and they are paying out millions per person; how are they going to be able to do that in the future? And when will run into a brick wall?
I’m very certain that all pension funds will fail within a few weeks after I’m dead.
I just did the math. 😉
but really, the self-organizing energy based economy is readjusting itself to the reality of this pension problem, where there is not enough future net (surplus) energy to support the present value of pension payouts.
thus 15% inflation.
it’s all good.
“US west ‘megadrought’ is worst in at least 1,200 years, new study says”
Ah well, I suppose there was always bound to be a worst drought.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/feb/15/us-west-megadrought-worst-1200-years-study
Well, that study sounds like rubbish. No wonder it’s in the Retardian. There isn’t currently a “megadrought” in the US west.
A megadrought (or mega-drought) is a prolonged drought lasting two decades or longer. Past megadroughts have been associated with persistent multiyear La Niña conditions (cooler than normal water temperatures in the tropical eastern Pacific Ocean).
“The term megadrought is generally used to describe the length of a drought, and not its acute intensity. In scientific literature, the term is used to describe decades-long droughts or multi-decadal droughts. Multiyear droughts of less than a decade, such as the Dust Bowl drought of the 1930s, are generally not described as megadroughts even though they are of a long duration. In popular literature multiyear or even single year droughts are occasionally described as megadroughts based upon their severity, the economic damage they inflict or other criteria, but this is the exception and not the rule.”
http://ocp.ldeo.columbia.edu/res/div/ocp/drought/medieval.shtml
Got it?
Droughts in the SW are cyclical. No one that studies or is aware of the history of droughts is surprised they are in one now. It is right on time.
Maybe not but this study has claimed it is the driest period in 1200 years. I suppose 1200 years could be the period of a cycle.
Hah, I thought someone would simply disregard it as being in the Guardian, rather than, perhaps going to the study: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-022-01290-z.epdf?sharing_token=D6dNWNtgpdbia1My7owoYtRgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0OkweMbawmVFM1UCLmLxuyBpGKtFJa1_BxzJ7UFQSQZ6IMIvVOmlNdweksOJ_Tb7J-sLpaVxBYZk2m5IVcrrvrKYaetU9hkTYt-0W5PDEiIG_94ATdcRPQe4Qw91j-DZdsGdSi7kiTwx9r7pHLKfhlCJCr_s8B1ATddflWvAonMHk6sFldykgLytZ9jObluTyQ%3D&tracking_referrer=www.latimes.com
Thanks for not disappointing, Tim.
I’m okay with that.
the klimate is always changing, sometimes wetter areas becoming drier and vice versa.
in my opinion, a slightly warmer earth is preferable to a slightly cooler earth.
Ice Ages are particularly difficult for humans.
it’s quite cold here tonight, so I think I might turn up the thermostat and burn a little extra FF.
I should do my part.
it’s all good.
Very cyclical?
“ . . . this cool
04:00 stable temperature arose once during the
04:04 last 2 billion years {the last 12,000 years}
04:05 of planetary history it also arose once
04:08 during the 320 000 years or so
04:10 of our existence as a species . . . “
Iraq, near the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, is where the Garden of Eden is set. Perhaps there has been a little climate change there, as well.
Israel is definitely the first place (or one the first places) for vaccines experiments in the world.
Now they are starting to try an Omicron update version…
“Israeli hospital to trial Omicron-specific Pfizer vaccine, 1st test outside the US.
The shots will be given as a fourth vaccination dose to adults who are all age 60 and older.”
https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-hospital-to-trial-omicron-specific-pfizer-vaccine-1st-test-outside-the-us/
I suppose this is a small test. If it is very large, we can see infection rates spike again in Israel. I don’t suppose that the study is looking for the effects on other people, however.
The global elite are very much aware of the energy situation. They have the money and resources to study the situation in depth. They have probably known for a very long time. They would know about population overshoot. The current “pandemic” was invented so they could bring about a less messy, controlled mass reduction in population via new experimental shots. They are not the type to leave things up to nature. It’s all about preserving their station in the world.
The cold truth is at least 90% of the lower classes in the Advanced World and about 99.5% of them in the rest of world ave to be …. eliminated.
You will enjoy this, Kulm. This is fascinating footage from past year’s meetings of the WEF in Davos.
Vac cinate!!!
Vac cinate!!!
You must vac cinate!!!
Quick up these stairs.
Maybe FE could dress up as a Dalek, with syringes instead of blast guns, at the next freedom demo? Should drive the point home…..
That view has been mentioned here before. The Rockefeller Foundation 2010 Report with the Lockstep Scenario seems to point in this direction.
This is a link to an annotated free version: https://archive.org/details/the-annotated-rockefeller-foundation-lockstep-2010/page/n31/mode/2up
many thanks Gail
UK MI5 has been legally forced to hand over to Congress its secret files on British state collusion with terror gangs in NI, with a focus on a particular British state operative Stakeknife, who is linked to kidnappings, torture and 250 murders of ordinary civilians in NI that were attributed to terror gangs. The British state is trying to force through an amnesty on killings, which is intended to obscure the role of its operatives in the bereavement of 1700 families in NI.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/feb/16/mi5-secret-files-northern-ireland-operation-kenova-us-hearing-amnesty
> MI5 forced to hand over secret files on Northern Ireland operations
Revelation from Operation Kenova leader comes at US hearing at which UK’s amnesty plan is called ‘cover-up’
The UK’s Security Service, MI5, has been forced to disclose top secret files to an investigation into historical operations in Northern Ireland for the first time, it has emerged.
The revelations by the British chief of an investigation into an alleged spy at the heart of the IRA come as an influential US congressman denounced British government plans for an amnesty for those involved in crimes during the Troubles as a “cover-up”.
Jon Boutcher, former chief constable of Bedfordshire police, has spent five years examining the involvement of a state agent codenamed Stakeknife in IRA kidnappings, torture and murder. He told Congress his Operation Kenova investigation had now extended to 250 murders.
He also told Congress he had made successful legal challenges to MI5 and was getting fresh information on crimes that had never been seen by previous police heads, including three official government inquiries led by the former Met commissioner John Stevens.
“We’ve recovered records that other investigations, previously commissioned, were not provided access to. We have access into MI5, into the military and into the PSNI, direct access. It’s something I insisted upon, having spoken to a lot of those who previously led legacy investigations,” he said.
Boutcher was speaking for the first time since he completed his interim report into the killings, which is yet to be published.
He was giving evidence to a hearing at Congress’s Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission, which also took evidence from victims’ families, including Geraldine Finucane, whose husband, Pat, a lawyer, was murdered in 1989, and a victims campaigner, Alan McBride, whose wife and father-in-law were killed in a fish shop in the Shankill Road in 1993.
Co-chair of the committee, the veteran Republican congressman Chris Smith, promised to help their campaign to stop the Northern Ireland secretary, Brandon Lewis, going ahead with the legislation dealing with the legacy of the Troubles. Smith said the UK plan was the “final nail in the cover-up they are engaging in”, adding: “This is not a done deal … this can be checkmated before it goes any further”.
Boutcher said he believed the government was at “a tipping point” in relation to the legislation and urged them to think again as families deserved the truth. “If the truth is denied, the next generation will carry on the fight for answers and the past will not heal,” he said.
Smith’s co-chair, the Democrat Jim McGovern, said he hoped the government would “step back” from the legacy legislation. “Now is not the time to give up on accountability for the terrible human rights abuses committed during the Troubles”.
Mark Thompson, chief executive of Relatives for Justice, told the hearing that 1,700 families would be denied the truth if the UK government’s plan for a statute of limitations on investigations went ahead.
Another instalment of the “How to be the best baddy” serries.
IMO the biggest issue surrounding the whole “pandemic” thing is the aggressive denial of treatment for the effects of the virus. And no the gene jabs are not treatment.
Taking into consideration that millions have suffered and died the fact that medical institutions and doctors have aggressively been disallowed to treat sick people. Thousands of Drs have been fined, punished, censored, had their licenses threatened and revoked, and many have been arrested. I personally know of two local physicians with private practices and clinics who have lost everything for treating (successfully I might add) hundreds of people with “banned medications”. These are mostly medications that have a 20 year+ history of being safer than aspirin or tylenol by the way.
With in the first few months of the “pandemic” there were hundreds of physicians who had not gotten the message that Covid-19 was untreatable were coming out stating how they were very successful in treating the disease. They were immediately censored and punished.
Medications with better safety historys than aspirin and tylenol were being labeled illegal to use. The biggest manufacturing facility in the world for IVM goes up in flames in an unsolved arson case. A fake medical study is published in on of the worlds leading medical journals declaring HCQ no good, then later quietly retracted.
I am not just talking about the two high profile drugs HCQ and IVM either. Many Drs were using multiple other repurposed drugs in highly successful protocols. Thousands of physicians successfully treated millions of people.
The last 2+ years would be light years different if this intensive interdiction didn’t happen. So if you believe that this “pandemic” has been the “Greatest Threat The World Has Ever Known” killing countless millions then you have some explaining to do. You should be very angry!
This situation is so bizarre that it is hard to explain to others.
Gail, are you willing/able to explain it to others in terms of the CEP?
Maybe, to a few regular comment readers.
Trying to explain it to groups of people who have been brainwashed by the mass media is just, “Over the top.”
You can dessiminate this article via mass e-mail.
Surely it cannot be more extreme that the CEP… (which is what is going down… but nobody can accept that because it crushes hope)
There is nothing … without cheap oil… nothing….
Ive been somewhat reluctant tot consider CEP / Great Reset and their ability tot pull it off. A world without so much top down control may be more choatic but it alsof offers more opportunities for a wide variety of People. A world in which such a level of top down control necessary for CEP / Reset exists is stiffled and sufocating with little opportunities for most People. Im somewhat optimistic though that they harsher they excercise force, the more control will start tot slip from them like sand running out of a fist. The more People they exclude the more these People Will need to work out their own viable alternatives. Sooner or later they Will start excluding highly competent People who are in fact capabele enough tot build functional alternatives. The key thing is, these People Will have the best chance of developing something useful if they understand the energy situation and focus on local, decentralized medium or low tech, rather than central high-tech. Chan es are though that they will do so anyway out of necessity.
If you want to read something that is truly bizarre, read this story about a father who lost his daughter because of hospital mismanagement. It’s borderline criminal negligence.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/graces-last-day-a-father-questions-hospital-protocols-leading-up-to-his-daughters-death_4266768.html?utm_source=News&utm_campaign=breaking-2022-02-13-3&utm_medium=email&est=QX2kLHLYxPoAe3XHXA3isY9ZcgTpXlooUPb35tyN5b0OnMIEv0VqMg%3D%3D
It doesn’t make sense because they receive financial incentives to stick with the approved protocols, with little accountability for adverse outcomes, good doctoring be damned!
Physicians are now intended to be just the interface of Big Harmer with the public.
She’s a big ol hog… SOOOO EEEEEEEE… she has plough hog written all over her
https://img.theepochtimes.com/assets/uploads/2022/02/11/Grace-Schara-with-Cruz-700×420.jpg
And don’t forget the bizarre and as yet unsolved murders of the elderly couple in I think Toronto who happened to own a drug company that manufactured hydroxychloroquine.
Also, don’t forget that ivermectin and HQ had/have far longer and more reliable records of being safe and effective than the untested jabs that were supposed to be the solution and that have been forced on millions against their will while the former two drugs were vilified.
It is true, in addition to what indicated above, that is incredibly terrible.
“Jeremy Grantham says a super bubble crash may be underway. Here’s where he’s stashing his cash – ABC News” https://amp.abc.net.au/article/100835976
Really? For example, stocks in Syria and Turkey and Argentina?
Greece might be one of the cheaper developed countries.
I purposely did not click that link … why would I?
Why can’t these guys face reality — when this f789er blows… the LAST thing they’ll be worrying about is their money… hahahaha.. how ridiculous
RAT test time … hopefully I do not come up ++++ Maybe I snort some bleach just to be sure
Yes I have to agree, lots of click bait that everything is collapsing and then … “here is how to make money!” Seems to be a big dissociation with the reality.