Kunstler: The Democrats War on "We the People"

From James Howard Kunstler at Clusterfuck Blog:

“We now live in a nation where doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the press destroys information, religion destroys morals, and our banks destroy our economy ” – Chris Hedges

  The question you might ask these days: how did we weaponize everything in American life against ourselves? Can you name an institution that is not at war with the people of this land? The exact mechanisms for all that bad faith stand in plain sight these days, and persons responsible can be easily identified. What’s missing are discernable motives. For now, it just looks like the greatest collective act of ass-covering in history.

     It’s pretty clear, for instance, that all the criminal misconduct in the FBI / DOJ — continuing to this moment — emanates from the years-long effort to cover up the seditious campaign to nullify Donald Trump starting well before Nov. 8, 2016. All the players in the agencies, and their news media accomplices, stand to lose at least their reputations, if the public cared about how dishonestly they acted. Many of those still working would lose their jobs and their livelihoods too, and quite a few would lose their freedom in prison. So, their motive to keep up the skullduggery is simple self-preservation.

     The Covid-19 pandemic looks like a pretty large-scale racketeering operation gone awry with plenty to hide. You have the reckless, symbiotic relations between the US public health bureaucracy and the pharmaceutical companies, and tons of money at stake, plus the colossal ego of hapless Dr. Anthony Fauci wishing to pose as an historic world-saver, another Louis Pasteur or Alexander Fleming. And then you have the amazingly foolish act of imposing an untested, dangerous “vaccine” on the world, and years of lying and covering-up the repercussions of injury and death from it. And then the opaque and nefarious roles of other actors in the story ranging from the CCP to the WEF to the Bill Gates and George Soros empires of money in what looks a genocide.

     It’s harder to unpack the enigma of the obviously unfit “Joe Biden” getting installed in the White House. My guess: the Obama claque behind him knew that “JB” was easily manipulable, and that his lame rivals, Klobuchar, Buttigieg, Liz Warren, and especially the proud socialist Bernie Sanders, could not be counted on to do exactly what they were told. The Obama claque especially needed a president to appoint agency heads who would cover-up its creation of an Intel Community Frankenstein, and all that monster has inflicted on the American public.

     Of course, the main device the claque had for pulling “Joe Biden’s” strings was the flagrant record of his many years of bribery and treason. The major effort to cover-up all that was the DOJ and FBI’s suppression since 2019 of the Hunter Biden laptop, and the most stunning upshot was that the incendiary evidence of bribery and treason came out anyway, because so many copies of the laptop’s hard-drive got distributed. And absolutely nothing was ever done about it, nor about the actual persons — Christopher Wray, William Barr, and Merrick Garland — who worked to squash it, making themselves accomplices to ongoing bribery and treason.

      All this criminal misconduct is connected in a foul matrix of lawbreaking. The fact-patterns are well-established. Dozens of excellent books have catalogued the misdeed of RussiaGate and scores of websites daily dissect the shady intrigues around the “vaccine” crusade. The infamies of gross election interference have been systematically laid-out in the Twitter Files of the past two months. Many books, published essays, and videos substantiate the reality of massive ballot fraud in 2020 and 2022, including the felonious role of Mark Zuckerberg’s front org, the Center for Tech and Civic Life, and the election law manipulations or Lawfare goblin Marc Elias.

      There’s an understandable wish that upcoming hearings in Congress will lead to a reckoning for all of this. To banish consequence from public life, as we have done, is a pretty grave insult to nature, but who can tell whether accountability might restore our institutions at this point. We may be too far gone. The US is visibly collapsing now: our economy, our financial arrangements, our culture, our influence in world affairs, and our basic consensus about reality. We’re entering a phase of disorder and hardship that is likely to moot the further depredations of a government at war with its people. For one thing, it’s becoming impossible to pretend that this vicious leviathan has the money to carry on because the money is only pretending to be money.

      It’s no wonder that the collective ability for sense-making has failed. It will be quickly restored by each of us in the scramble to survive these disorders and hardships. The bewildering hypotheticals of recent years begin to dissolve like mist on the mountain and things come back into focus: your health, your daily bread, your shelter, your associations with other people close to you, your values, and most of all the power of your own choices. Nature, much insulted and maligned, will sort out the rest.

Turkey Places $500k Bounty On Enes Freedom

 Captured on my TV screen this morning:

Captured in my living room on Jan 27, 2023

Enes Kanter is US NBA Basketball player from Turkey who changed his name in 2021 to Enes Freedom after becoming a US citizen. The US NBA, now commercially allied with Chinese money, has blackballed Freedom from playing after 10 years in the league. Enes' "crime" is that he has criticized China and Erdogan. He's now completely blackballed and shut out of the league. (Are they Jewish?) 

And worse, suddenly his life might be in danger thanks to the Islamic autocrat in formerly democratic Turkey.  Unbeknownst to Enes, the government of Turkey recently had announced a bounty of $500k for information that leads to his capture. His "crime" is simply speaking-out against human rights and criticizing President Erdogan.  

Such an incentive makes life dangerous for Enes since some idiot has a huge financial incentive to find him or provide his address to the Muslim scumbag government in Turkey.

Enes Freedom is shown on a Turkish Interior Website as "member of a terrorist organization."  Isn't that rich?  Image is from an English Turkish news website called "Turkish Minute."

Enes Freedom is shown on a Turkish Terrorist List

And here's Enes Speaking about the NBA's close links to China and his beef with the NBA (Video from the NY Post)  I've embedded the short 1:47 minute video below.

Enes Freedom is a superstar in my book. I admire everything about him, including his courage. He is literally leading the way toward real freedom in America. This while corporations and our own government, allied with corporations, are blatantly hindering freedom of speech. And Freedom's punishment?  He lost his career at the hands of Americans! Freedom was fired by Americans.

America is becoming uninhabitable thanks to corporatist fascism. Boycott NBA.

Japan's Covid Deaths Are The Highest Ever

What Could It Be? WHAT COULD IT BE?? Hint: Ever Hear of ADE??

Catch this post at my new Substack Home:  Link to:  Japan Health Officials Can't Explain Why Covid Deaths Are The Highest Ever at Substack

Also, this morning I posted The Bank of Japan's Absurd Monetary Manipulations Are Distorting World Markets on Substack

When you go over there, why not subscribe for free. Free is good, right?

Doug

 

How Warren Commission Member Gerald Ford Altered the Official JFK Autopsy Diagram and Report to Conceal the Truth About Kennedy's Murder

From Stone Cold Truth from Roger Stone at Substack

The official inquiry into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the Warren Commission appointed by President Lyndon Johnson, insisted that Kennedy was killed by three shots fired from the window on the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository Building by a single gunman.

This claim of only three shots fired, all of them from behind the President, has been contradicted over time. Parkland Hospital Emergency Room Dr. Charles A. Crenshaw said in his book, JFK - A Conspiracy of Silence, that Kennedy suffered an entry wound in his throat, as well as a blowout wound in the left rear of his head, both of them consistent with being shot at least twice from the front. By the time Kennedy's body reached the Bethesda Medical Center for the official autopsy, a tracheotomy had been performed on the dead President to obscure the frontal origin of the wound in his throat, and the blow-out wound described by multiple doctors at Parkland was no longer reflected in the final autopsy.

FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover conducted his investigation into the Kennedy assassination in less than a week and essentially handed Warren Commission Counsel Arlen Specter the conclusion that “lone nut” Lee Harvey Oswald had acted alone in killing Kennedy, and had fired the fatal three shots from the Texas School Book Depository Building.

Both the claim of the Warren Commission that there were only three bullets fired, and that all three bullets had been fired from behind the President would require a shocking change in both the official autopsy diagram submitted by Kennedy's doctor, as well as denial of the physical evidence collected by the Warren Commission. 

In fact, Warren Commission member Gerald Ford, then a Congressman, purposely altered the Kennedy autopsy records to conceal the fact that JFK had been shot from both the front and the back, which would of course expose the existence of multiple gunmen and thus a conspiracy.  Both the Associated Press and the New York Times accurately reported that Ford had made the material change when Warren Commission records documenting this history were declassified in 1997.

According to the memoirs of one of Hoover's Deputies, at the behest of the FBI Director, Ford changed the description and autopsy diagram depiction of the location of the wound in Kennedy’s upper back to the base of his neck to accommodate the government’s now largely discredited “single-bullet theory,” holding that JFK had been shot solely from the rear and that one of only three bullets fired hit both Kennedy and Governor John Connally. In essence the description of the wound in JFK's upper back was moved to his rear neck to conceal that JFK had been shot in the throat from the front.

FBI documents declassified in 2006 detail even more about the  crucial role Ford played in doctoring the autopsy to accommodate the cover-up. Assistant FBI Director Cartha “Deke” DeLoach regularly met secretly with Ford to inform the FBI on the status of the Warren Commission investigation. “Ford indicated he would keep me thoroughly advised as to the activities of the Commission,” DeLoach wrote in a memo. “He stated this would have to be done on a confidential basis, however, he thought it should be done.” 

The Associated Press reported in 1997 that DeLoach wrote a memo on December 17, 1963, about a meeting with Ford in which the Deputy FBI Director laid out a problem. “Two members of the Commission brought up the fact that they still were not convinced that the president had been shot from the sixth floor window of the Texas Book Depository,” DeLoach wrote. “These members failed to understand the trajectory of the slugs that had killed the president. He [Ford] stated he felt this point would be discussed further but, of course, would represent no problem.” Indeed, we can now see what Ford meant by “no problem.” 

Here, more specifically, is the problem DeLoach described. The declassified initial draft of the Warren Commission report stated, “A bullet had entered his back at a point slightly above the shoulder to the right of the spine.” This description matches that of JFK’s personal physician, Admiral George G. Burkley, who attended the autopsy at Bethesda Naval Medical Center, and noted that the wound was “in the upper posterior about even with the third thoracic vertebra.” 

In fact, autopsy photographs of JFK’s back show the wound in his back, two to three inches below the base of the neck. A diagram by Burkley included in the Warren Commission’s own report confirms this location. The actual physical evidence demonstrates that the first draft of the Warren Commission report was indeed accurate.

Photographs of bullet holes in Kennedy’s shirt and suit jacket, almost six inches below the top of the collar, place the wound in the upper right back. As American history professor Michael L. Kurtz pointed out in his book The JFK Assassination Debates, “If a bullet fired from the sixth-floor window of the Depository building nearly sixty feet higher than the limousine entered the President’s back, with the president sitting in an upright position, it could hardly have exited from his throat at a point just above the Adam’s apple, then abruptly change course and drive downward into Governor Connally’s back.”

Ford did Hoover’s bidding. His handwritten edit on the classified document said, “A bullet had entered the base of the back of his neck slightly to the right of his spine.” This change was later revealed in declassified papers kept by the Warren Commission’s General Counsel and accepted in the final report. “A small change,” Ford told the Associated Press when it surfaced decades later in 1997.

Ford, a public supporter of the single-assassin theory, insisted that his edit had intended to clarify meaning, not change history. However, the effect of his alteration is clear. With this “small change,” he bolstered the commission’s false conclusion that a single bullet had passed through Kennedy and hit Governor Connally — thus solidifying what is now known as “the Magic Bullet theory.” Indeed, the Associated Press stated that Ford’s “small change” became “the crucial element” to determine that Lee Harvey Oswald had been the lone assassin of President John F. Kennedy.

Armstrong: Russia Already Preparing for NATO Invasion

Remember, No One In The West Wants Peace. All Of The Western "Leaders" Have Drunk The Poisoned and Psychedelic Kool-Aid

From Martin Armstrong at Armstrong Economics:

“The West has decided to turn this into an all-out war to completely destroy Russia once and for all.

Moscow has been put on high alert and air defenses are being put up in every sector of the city. The hardliners are being heard and Putin has little choice at this point. It has become absolutely obvious that even Germany now is sending tanks into Ukraine and they will be used to invade Russia. It appears that NATO “advisors” will be most likely driving these tanks.

I had hoped things would not unravel as quickly as they have. I warned that January was a major target in time coming up in our arrays. We also then have major targets in April/May and Panic Cycles in June. Even gold is moving higher which has NOTHING to do with inflation or the Fed. Gold rises during times of uncertainty with governments and war. Our computer has pinpointed the timing pretty well.

Even the prime minister of Finland has drunk the cool aid of war [another silly woman in power]. Our world leaders are willing to throw everything society has accomplished into the rubbish all for this quest to destroy Russia, then China, and create this one-world dream of Soros and Schwab.

Understand that when war unfolds, they will impose capital controls in Europe ASAP. We even see Russian capital moving into Turkey buying real estate there in particular. Meanwhile, South Africa is aligning itself with Russia.”

My Own Internal Inertia and Struggle To Prepare For The Real Risk of Calamity 

 

Western “powers” are eager to send tanks into Ukraine. Once Biden foolishly sends Bradley tanks, Germany will send in it’s Leopard tanks. I’m afraid that this will confirm to Russia that a clash is coming.

The West can’t help themselves. We only have fools and dementia patients in charge. But this really describes America too. Easy times have made our population and leaders incredibly foolish and stupid. Weak Men Create Hard Times. The cycle must include a period of hard times to re-create sane and sound populations and leaders. It’s going to happen.

It seems very likely that Russia will be pushed into a corner and they will likely be forced to nuke the west to try to shake them out of their madness. Maybe one nuke in Kyiv will be enough to shock The West into some sort of sanity. But with Biden/Democrat idiots and European fools at the helm, there is literally no sanity and no intelligence. They are ALL braindead idiots and arrogant fools.

Russia will be forced to destroy the West BECAUSE THE WEST IS TRYING TO DESTROY THEM. And for what??  And sides have already aligned for World War as I've written. The entire Northern Hemisphere could easily erupt in war. This could escalate fast.

Remember, Russia has amazing doomsday hypersonic weapons and monster submarines armed to the teeth with these nukes. The West has NO ANSWER for the hypersonic weapons.

Personally, I need to shake myself out of my laziness and plan for a long trip out of this country starting within weeks. Fortunately, I can just pull down the blinds at my condo and lock it up. Then, all I need to do is purchase an air fare and book an AirBnB.

I have been saying that the US may be uninhabitable and univestible (without really believing it). The same for Europe and the UK. I feel like I should put money outside the US so I can at least use an ATM card in case the US loses power. I have accounts in Singapore (with almost no money there) but I could wire money there. Alternatively I may want to start my trip outside of the US in Panama, I could open a bank account there and wire some money there. It would also be possible to buy gold and deposit it there. At least that gold won’t be made radioactive! It makes me nervous just thinking about all this. Could I possibly trust those banks and depositories in Panama? Singapore may be the better bet.

I’m looking for access to ATM cash in times of WORLD WAR. As I mentioned, I'm not sure that power and the internet will be functioning in America.

War is coming and it could be the biggest disaster in our lifetimes and maybe history.  As I'm writing these words, I am fighting internally, as part of me doesn't believe my own words, but another part of me can see that the worst case scenario is unfolding and is urging me to act soon. Nobody wants to face what I can envision— including myself.

Hopefully I’m wrong, but what if?

Niggas, Please!!

The Black greivance hustlers are working in overdrive these days.  In my 65 years of life, I'm sick and tired of US black's endless excuses, falsehoods, failures and demands. You can throw all the money in the world at US Blacks and nothing changes or works in ANY WAY.  And we have!  

Almost 60 years ago, in 1964, Johnson's war on poverty began showering money at "poor people." It continues today. And it has ultimately become ~$30 TRILLION dollars spent---with blacks being the prime recipients (...although it's forbidden to say this). See my post "We've Already $7 Trillion on Black Reparations--It Failed"  

So, as after 58 years of real black reparations continue to flow, we hear of the latest request for EVEN MORE black reparations. The latest outrage is a ridiculous proposal from an all-black San Francisco reparations committee (all Democrat of course) to give $5 MILLION to anyone who "identifies" as black in San Francisco and to keep giving them $100,000 per annum for 250 years!!  Niggas, Please!!

Remember, San Francisco has zero history with slavery. And NO person who pays for these "reparations" or any black person (or someone who chooses to "identify" as black) receiving the money has ever been enslaved.

Dumbass Dullard Jackson-Lee

Then, another useless and chronic race-baiter from the Al Sharpton school of grift, Shiela Jackson-Lee, introduced an entirely anti-first Amendment proposal to ban and criminalize any speech that she deems as "white supremacist," which these days is anything and everything. Remember, just being White AUTOMATICALLY means that you're a white supremacist.  This is their ridiculous and stupid "logic!  So, she's suggesting that SHE be the arbiter of what free speech is allowed.   No thanks.

Nigga Please!

Why do we put up with primitives with malfunctioning or inadequate brains in these positions?  Instead, the Democrats have become the party of systemic anti-white racism! It really means that the Democrats are entirely against Western (White) Civilization. And it really shows. Democrats are literally tearing down our country.

Like most Blacks, Jackson-Lee fails to understand ANYTHING about our Constitutional Republic including free speech rights. Blacks fail to understand nearly anything about Western Civilization and their tendency is to revert to mob rule and mob justice, chaos-- JUST LIKE IN SOUTH AFRICA TODAY.  It's systemic Anti-White Racism and it's being promoted by Democrats and their black minority.

Blacks have a "problem" with Western civilization because they DO NOT have the cultural or genetic heritage of Western Civilization. It all passed them by. Western civilization is a long and remarkable advancement in human history in every area of life: arts, science, philosophies and high levels of culture: Christianity, Roman civilization, Greek civilization, classical music, rennaissance art and architecture, all the scientific advances, all the political philosophies that became enshrined in our Constitution: greek democracy, the Magna Carta and the beginnings of political rights, the 18th century Enlightenment, European political philosophies are hallmarks of Western Civ. I could go on and on. 

The only things Africans do 'know' are Marxism, Islam and mostly Islamic slavery. That's their heritage. Even today in the US, they want "their own culture" but they don't really have one. Their "culture" is failed education (if any), failed governments, failed families, failed communities, failed states, slavery, tyrannical and irrational leaders,murder, crime, poor economies, poverty, and suffering.  THEY are the problem in Western Civilization.

See my post: "Anglophones (White People) Invented Freedom, But US Blacks Don't Get It."

Right now in America, it is "blackness is un-culture. Black music in the US shows a lack of culture and even music!, In Africa, one can't drink the water (if there IS any water) and people shit on the streets in Senegal.  In Africa, in EVERY majority black US city or in any majority black country, nothing works well. 

There is no black "culture," it's just endless chaos: slums, disorder, gangs, thuggery, drug dealing, violence, stupidity, murder and shaming the responsible blacks as "uncle toms" or too "white." In America these people only ruin everything.

It's not "whiteness" that's the problem: it's "blackness." This will apparently never change because Black folks don't and can't see the truth. It's too difficult. They are 100% in denial. We don't have a race problem in America, we have a black problem. They need to adapt to the prevailing culture, but they can't comport themselves or don't want it. They can't see it. So, the Democrats want to degrade and denigrate our (white) culture to suit uncivilized, mostly ignorant blacks instead. It's truly insane. 

From my post "USA: The Least Racist Nation on Earth" 

As Fred Reed said: "In truth, America has made the greatest effort ever essayed by one race to uplift another. In 1954 an entirely white Supreme Court unanimously ended segregation. Later it found the use of IQ tests by employers illegal because blacks scored poorly, then found “affirmative action,” racial discrimination against whites, legal (hardly oppression of blacks, this). An overwhelmingly white Congress passed the Civil Rights Act in 1964, the Voting Rights Act the next year. A white President sent troops to Little Rock to enforce desegregation. There has been an enormous flow of charity to blacks: Section Eight Housing, AFDC, Head Start, hiring quotas, set-asides, sharply lowered standards in police and fire departments. We now have free breakfasts for black children, then free lunches, in addition to outright welfare. In aggregate they resemble a distributed guaranteed basic income. Which is interesting.

Unfortunately none of these programs has had its desired effect. The crucial academic gap has not closed, crime remains horribly high, illegitimacy verges on universal. This is a great shame. But it hasn’t worked."

Sigh... But the people that need to understand this, can't. Enough with the reverse racism. I'm talking to you Democrats.

Worker to 'Welfare' Beneficiary Ratio is Now About 1.0

I read something recently about Medicaid beneficiaries will soon top 100 million persons.  That really stood out to me as I know Medicare (old folks) beneficiaries are about 62 million persons (and rising at ~10K per day).

When you add Medicare and Medicaid alone, you get 162 million beneficiaries.

But wait, the US Workforce is only 164 million persons, meaning that each worker must theoretically take care of themselves, their dependents AND also take care of medical costs of another person. We know that they can’t and the government has to borrow the money. 

I had been led to believe that the worker to benificiary ratio was 2:1. Now it’s easily 1:1. What am I missing? I’m not claiming to be an expert in these areas, so chime-in if you have a constructive criticism.

First, the following chart shows the workforce in America:

The US Workforce Is About 165 million Persons

Medicaid

The actual current number of Medicaid beneficiaries is up to 91 million in 2023. When you add up Medicaid and Enrollment is up sharply (22 million) due to covid, covid lockdowns and job losses. But now that Covid is over, why are the number of beneficiaries rising? They should be falling. One possible explanation is that the employment situation is not recovering despite what the BLS says. Also, there is nothing more permanent than a government program!

Medicare

Medicare enrollment is a bit over 61.5 million.

Social Security and Disability 

 

Social Security/Disability is about 66 million persons. It’s a similar number to the number of people on Medicare — makes sense.

Section 8 Housing Benefits

From The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

 

Food Stamps (SNAP) 

 

The most recent data indicates that 41 million persons receive SNAP benefits averaging about $231 per month. That works out to be $119 Billion cost to the US government.

 

Obamacare

From Forbes Magazine, “A record 15.9 million Americans have purchased individual coverage under the Affordable Care Act known as Obamacare for this year.”

You can see now that the number of people receiving benefits actually exceeds the number of people officially working (if you can trust the statistics, which is a big if).

Add the unfavorable worker to beneficiary ratio to the many unsustainable trends in America’s decay, decline and collapse.

A Huge, Catastrophic Military Defeat Is Coming for the USSA

Excepts From Mike Whitney at UNZ Review: 

The USSA is probably going to have it's ass handed to it.   

The plan to engage Russia militarily is a tacit admission that the United States can no longer maintain its global dominance through economic or political means alone. After exhaustive analysis and debate, western elites have settled on a course of action aimed at dividing the world into warring blocs in order to prosecute a war on Russia and China. The ultimate strategic objective of the current policy, is to tighten the grip of western elites on the levers of global power and to prevent the dissolution of the “rules-based international order.” But after 11 months of nonstop warfare in Ukraine, the US-backed western coalition finds itself in a worse position than when it began. Aside from the fact that the economic sanctions have severely impacted Washington’s closest European allies, the West’s control of Ukraine has plunged the economy into a protracted slump, destroyed much of the country’s critical infrastructure and annihilated a sizable portion of the Ukrainian Army. More importantly, Ukrainian forces are now suffering unsustainable casualties on the battlefield which is laying the groundwork for the inevitable splintering of the state. Whatever the outcome of the conflict may be, one thing is certain: Ukraine will no longer exist as a viable, independent, contiguous state.

One of the biggest surprises of the current war, is simply the lack of preparedness on part of the US. One would assume that if the foreign policy mandarins decided to “lock horns” with the world’s biggest nuclear superpower, they would have done the necessary planning and preparation to ensure success. Clearly, that hasn’t happened. US policymakers seem surprised by the fact that the economic sanctions backfired and actually strengthened Russia’s economic situation. They also failed to anticipate that the vast majority of countries would not only ignore the sanctions but proactively explore options for “ditching the dollar” in their business transactions and in the sale of critical resources.

We see the same incompetence in the provision of lethal weapons to Ukraine. How do we explain the fact that the NATO nations have been frantically scraping the bottom of the barrel to find weapons for Ukraine? Did our leaders really start a war with Russia not knowing whether they had sufficient supplies of weapons and ammo to fight the enemy? That appears to be the case.

And were our leaders so sure that the conflict would be a low-intensity insurgency that they never planned for a full-blown, combined-arms, ground war? Once again, this appears to be true.

These aren’t trivial mistakes. The level of incompetence in the planning of this war is beyond anything we’ve ever seen before. It appears that all the preparation was focused on provoking a Russian invasion, not on the developments that would happen soon afterwards. What’s clear, is that the Pentagon never “gamed out” the actual war itself or the conflict as it is presently unfolding. Otherwise, how does one explain these glaring errors in judgement:

1. They never thought the sanctions would backfire
2. They never thought they’d run out of weapons and ammo
3. They never thought Russia’s oil receipts would skyrocket
4. They never thought that the majority of countries would maintain normal relations with Russia
5. They never figured they’d actually need a coherent military strategy for fighting a ground war in eastern Europe.

Is there anything they got right?

Not that we can see.

Let’s summarize:

1. The media is “overestimating the (effect of) Ukrainians’ regionally limited offensives”. In short, the Ukrainians are losing the war.
2. The Russians are winning the war. (“The Russians are clearly advancing. They will probably have completely conquered the Donbass before long.”)
3. Weapons alone will not change the outcome of the war. (“the martens and leopards are not enough.”)
4. There is no evidence that the west has clearly defined strategic objectives. (“Do you want to achieve a willingness to negotiate with the deliveries of the tanks? Do you want to reconquer Donbas or Crimea? Or do you want to defeat Russia completely? There is no realistic end state definition. And without an overall political and strategic concept, arms deliveries are pure militarism…Military operations must always be coupled with attempts to bring about political solutions.”)

This is not just an indictment of the way the war is being conducted, but of the strategic objectives which remain murky and poorly-defined. NATO is being led around by the nose by Washington, but Washington has no idea what it wants to achieve. “Weakening Russia” is not a coherent military strategy. It is, in fact, an aspirational phantasm nurtured by hawkish neocons playing armchair generals. But that is why we are in the predicament we are today, because the policy is in the hands of deranged fantasists. Does anyone seriously believe that the Ukrainian army will recover the territories in east Ukraine that have been annexed by Russia?

No, no serious person believes that. And, yet, the illusion that the “plucky Ukrainians are winning” persists, even while the casualties mount, the carnage increases and millions of Ukrainians flee the country. It’s beyond belief.

Remember the Powell Doctrine? “The Powell Doctrine states that a list of questions all have to be answered affirmatively before military action is taken by the United States:

1. Is a vital national security interest threatened?
2. Do we have a clear attainable objective?
3. Have the risks and costs been fully and frankly analyzed?
4. Have all other non-violent policy means been fully exhausted?
5. Is there a plausible exit strategy to avoid endless entanglement?
6. Have the consequences of our action been fully considered?
7. Is the action supported by the American people?
8. Do we have genuine broad international support?

The former Secretary of Defense Colin Powell developed his Doctrine to avoid any future Vietnams. And while the Biden administration has not yet committed US combat troops to Ukraine, we think it’s only a matter of time. After all, the media is already beating the war drums while demonizing all-things Russia. That is traditionally how they prepare the public for war. (“Russophobia … is all about dehumanizing one’s opponents to make killing more acceptable (and destroying) all the mental restraints that keep men from barbarism.” Gilbert Doctorow)

Meanwhile, the US continues to pump Ukraine full of weapons while the Pentagon has begun training Ukrainian servicemen in Germany and Oklahoma. It looks like the decision has already been made to embroil the US in another conflict for which there is no vital national security interest and no clear path to victory. In other words, the Powell Doctrine has been shrugged off and replaced with another lunatic neocon plan aimed at dragging Russia into a bloody “Afghanistan-type” quagmire that will drain its resources and prevent it from blocking US expansion into Central Asia.

Bottom line: While Washington and its NATO allies do not have a coherent strategy for winning the war in Ukraine, it’s clear, the Russians do. In the four months since Putin ordered his partial mobilization, 300,000 additional reservists have joined their units on the battlefield or along Ukraine’s northern perimeter. The stage is now set for a conventional ground war the likes of which no one in Washington ever anticipated. We expect that the outcome of this conflict will reshape Europe’s outdated security architecture and force a realignment that will mark the end of the unipolar era.

Emerald Robinson: Coincidence is Leading Cause of Death?

From Emerald Robinson The Right Way:

Vaccinated people around the world are now dying of “sudden cardiac events” according to the latest data we have from the CDC. Just comb through the data published by the Ethical Skeptic on Twitter if you don’t believe me.

But you knew that already — if you watched what happened to NFL player Damar Hamlin. The situation was so bad that our corrupt corporate media actually pulled the arch-villain Dr. Fauci out of exile to defend the experimental COVID vaccines — thus implicating his “Wuhan baby” in Hamlin’s medical case of course.

Fauci has been pulled from retirement to control the narrative on Damar Hamlin.

He’s NOT Damar’s doctor-who earlier this week stated that he did NOT know what caused the cardiac arrest.

Fauci was put back in front of a camera for propaganda purposes only 💉💉#diedsuddenly pic.twitter.com/AfI6IXduhG

— DiedSuddenly (@DiedSuddenly_) January 7, 2023

CBS News’ Major Garrett completely disgraced himself with this abject display — he might as well retire now to the Dan Rather Rest Home for Disgraced Journalists after he takes his next booster and prays to his pocket Dr. Fauci bobble-head doll.

Big Pharma had already deployed its Twitter bots and its paid media shills to defend their products in the Damar Hamlin incident — only to discover that former NFL player Uche Nwaneri had died of a heart attack (aged 38) at home on the same day.

That should be one coincidence too many for most people.

In fact, Damar Hamlin and Uche Nwaneri were just the tip of the iceberg. Two days later, pro surfer Marcio Freire died of a “sudden cardiac event” while surfing. (He was 47.) The next day, a 16 year-old girl died of the same thing while playing flag football at a Las Vegas school and an 18 year-old girl died of a “sudden cardiac event” while playing basketball in the Bahamas. The day after those tragic deaths, pro soccer player Modeste M'Bami died of a heart attack as well. (He was 40.) Two days later, a coach at Devine Middle School died of a heart attack in front of his students while teaching class. (He was 35.) Then a 21 year-old student at the Air Force Academy died of a “sudden cardiac event” while walking to class — and a boy at Western Brown High School in Ohio died of the same thing on the same day at his school.

It was getting hard to keep track of all these “sudden cardiac events” killing young and healthy people.

Our corporate media was not keeping track of the deaths — so much as claiming that literally anything could have caused those deaths other than the experimental vaccines. You might call it Sudden Invented Syndrome Syndrome: our political elites and Big Pharma and MSM were creating new medical syndromes to cover up the biggest failed medical experiment in human history.

You know it’s true.

It could be Sudden Adult Death Syndrome (SADS)!

It could be commodio cordis!

It could be climate change!

It’s all a coincidence, you understand — and you should definitely not doubt the COVID vaccines, or Big Pharma, or your doctors, or your government.

This situation was captured perfectly in the best video of 2023.

Are You Suffering From a Medical Coincidence?

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— Chief Nerd (@TheChiefNerd) January 11, 2023

Brought to you by your favorite pharmaceutical monopoly:

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— Darrin McBreen (@MediaRival) January 9, 2023

The Winds of War Are Blowing Furiously

(View this post at my new Substack)

The entire world is lurching toward totalitarianism and a new World War.

Democracy is collapsing in the US and Latin America, as elections are being routinely rigged now in formerly democratic countries. We saw that all across the USA in the midterms and the 2020 presidential election. Similarly, the recent election in Brasil was rigged in a unique sense when their corrupt Supreme Court released Lula, a convicted felon serving a 12 year sentence for corruption, just in time to run for the Presidential election. He’s basically a Communist and a good portion of Brasil supports Leftism (to their detriment).

In a very shady election, marked by irregularities and public mistrust, this disgraced (to many) candidate “mysteriously” won! It was essentially a replay of the ploy used in the USA to finally oust Trump in 2020, after multiple other coup d’etat attempts during his presidency failed.

What's happening in Brasil is a communist takeover by Lula who is essentially sympathetic or allied with the Chinese and dedicated to building a Marxist State in Brasil (and other countries in S. America). 

The winds of world war are blowing all over the world.

Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolay Patrushev has issued ultra-provocative words claiming that it's not fundamentally Ukraine that Russia is at war with, but that the Russian military is facing all of NATO inside Ukraine.

"The events in Ukraine aren’t a clash between Moscow and Kiev. It’s a military confrontation of NATO, first of all the US and Britain, with Russia. Fearing a direct engagement, NATO instructors push Ukrainian men to certain death," he said in a fresh interview with state-owned newspaper aif.ru.

Challenger 2 battle tank, file image

Meanwhile, there's a growing move among leading NATO countries to begin transferring Western tanks and troop carriers to the Ukrainian battlefield. Starting last week, France began leading the way, resulting in a fierce response from the Kremlin...

But following this warning that a "red line" has been crossed, the Biden administration approved sending Bradley Fighting Vehicles, and now Britain is the next to be mulling tanks for Ukrainian forces, as Sky News reports Monday.

President Zelensky during his December in-person address to US Congress mentioned that his country is in dire need of tanks, and he's specifically multiple times asked Washington for M1 Abrams tanks.

The US has still remained reluctant, however, largely on fears that to much heavy weaponry too fast would lead to direct NATO-Russia confrontation, ostensibly at least.

Russia has finally and clearly seen that the West really does want to defeat Russia and especially Putin. Now Russia is redoubling it’s worldwide war efforts against NATO/US/UK and Ukraine:

• Russia is positioning nuclear-ready hypersonic missles on ships in the Atlantic and Indian ocean (the US has no deterrent capabilities for these missles)

• Belarus is joining Russia militarily to prepare a winter assault into Ukraine.

• North Korea's Kim, who has a 1.2 million man army, and Putin have come to an agreement and will support each other.  

• Russia and Iran are forging a full-fledged alliance. 

• Expect that Syria will join the side of Russia in the Middle East. 

• Turkey may not oppose Russia. 

In other theatres:

• Iran is preparing for war against Saudi Arabia.

• This has prompted even Israel and Saudi Arabia to consider a joint defense agreement. 

• China would very likely attack Taiwan to make it a true world war. 

War Preparations In Asia

Lieutenant General James Bierman, the commanding general of the Third Marine Expeditionary Force and of Marine Forces Japan gave an interview to the Financial Times where he said:

Bierman said that the US and its allies in Asia were recreating the same type of groundwork that had enabled western countries to support Ukraine's resistance to Russia in preparing for scenarios such as Chinese invasion of Taiwan. "Why have we achieved the level of success we've achieved in Ukraine? ... because after Russian aggression in 2014 and 2015, we earnestly got after preparing for future conflict: training for the Ukrainians, pre-positioning of supplies, identification of sites from which we could operate support, sustain operations. 

We call that setting the theatre. And we are setting the theatre in Japan, in the Philippines, in other locations." [Doug here: In preparation for war against China of course.] Of course, this is all more than fully justified because freedom and democracy everywhere depend vitally on Taiwan not being invaded by China. Not to mention, it's the question of principle and we just don't compromise our principles, even at risk of nuclear armageddon.

Russia Continues to Talk About Nuclear Bombs

And don't be surprised if Russia is forced to nuke Kyiv to warn the West that they mean business.  France's Macron has already said that he would not retaliate against a Russian nuke in Ukraine, so he's basically giving Putin the go ahead(!)

Also see PCR: The West is Courting Nuclear War. But No One Listens and PCR: The Entire World is Threatened by Scumbag Morons in Washington

It is extremely concerning that the "Joe Biden" Junta is determined to create war because there is no telling what these illegitimate Bolsheviks will try to do in the name of "emergency" or "wartime" powers. That list could easily include stealing your money and/or other unconstitutional actions against citizens, especially Republicans/Trump supporters.  They'll pull some shit. And what are you going to do about it???

These are THE VERY LAST PEOPLE THAT YOU WANT IN POWER AS THEY ARE ALL THIEVES, TRUE IDIOTS, AND LIARS. The Federal Government is your enemy in case you haven’t noticed.

Frankly, I've come to the conclusion that the US is neither habitable and maybe uninvestible.  I really need to get the hell out of here. Because they offer 3 month tourist visas, I was thinking about hanging out in Malaysia.  It's a really good place. KL is nice like Singapore but MUCH cheaper. Nepal also offers 6 month tourist visas, but I'm slightly concerned about the Chinese making a move on them during a world war situation (but I could always leave by air or by land into India). Thailand is nice too but only has a 1 month visa— but it IS adjacent to Malaysia. Many countries in Latin America offer 3 month tourist visas: a 3 mo. visa covers 4 countries including Guatemala, Nicaragua, El Salvador and Honduras. A US citizen can also get a 90 day tourist visa for Ecuador, Peru, Costa Rica, Chile, Columbia, Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay (see here). You can get a 6 month tourist visa for Mexico, Panama. The nice thing about Latin America is that you’re in the same time zones as the Central or Eastern US. See here for more information. There’s also a trend toward countries giving extended visas for self-employed digital nomads often with reasonable income requirements that are similar to monthly US Social Security benefits. See here.