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Great quote from Maria Zakharova :
I read a while back that India was buying the Sputnik 5 vaccine from Russia. Then I read they were going to start making the vaccine in India. And now today I read that India is begging the US to sell them vaccine materials.They are vague on what they mean by that.But I guess it is something that must be imported from the US to use in the making of the vaccine.I haven’t heard about that in Russia.So that must mean the Indians are trying to make a vaccine based on US materials.Why would they be that stupid.
https://www.rt.com/news/521985-us-india-vaccine-material-exports/
Juggling variants over there is a bit like pulling teeth over here, frustrating.
Uncle Bob,
I found the original article in English for you (so as not to lose meaning with google translation), some information about vaccination in India:
Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine finally has manufacturing muscle
BY GRADY MCGREGOR
April 13, 2021 2:57 PM GMT+3
On Monday, Indian regulators approved Russia’s Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine. Now, the state-backed Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), which is marketing the Sputnik V vaccine, has plans to make the world’s second most populous country into a major manufacturing hub.
“Approval of the vaccine is a major milestone as Russia and India have been developing an extensive cooperation on clinical trials of Sputnik V in India and its local production,” the RDIF said in a statement on Monday, announcing India’s approval of the vaccine.
India’s Ministry of Health confirmed Sputnik’s statement on Tuesday, saying in a statement that it granted emergency use authorization to distribute the Sputnik V vaccine to individuals 18 years or older.
full article here … mod
https://fortune.com/2021/04/13/sputnik-v-vaccine-russia-manufacturing-india-approval/
Kind of off topic, just some low octane speculation. I wonder if Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca ( Welcome Trust, Blackrock/Vanguard Pharma) wouldn’t have brought their dubious products to market had it not been for the threat of others, namely the Gamaleya Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology beating them to the punch.
I also notice that now, suddenly, the “West” is rushing to “help” India, in all sorts of ways (except for providing the stuff they asked for in order to pruduce Sputnik V). How many believes it is out of compassion, and how many thinks that the West is afraid that India producing Sputnk will succed….
https://sputniknews.com/india/202104261082722660-from-microsoft-ceo-to-greta-thunberg-as-india-gasps-for-breath-global-support-pours-in/
Regarding my other comment to this post, this is the article that I intended to add.
https://sputniknews.com/india/202104261082722539-us-lawmaker-calls-for-export-of-astrazeneca-jab-to-india-as-biden-extends-help-to-covid-hit-country/
Written after The Crimean war 1854, anyone considering this a mere tribute to the British army fails to understand the role of a great poet-thinker and world citizen – think lateral, think the metaphor.
The Charge of the Light Brigade (1855)
Alfred Tennyson
I
Half a league, half a league,
Half a league onward,
All in the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
“Forward, the Light Brigade!
Charge for the guns!” he said.
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
II
“Forward, the Light Brigade!”
Was there a man dismayed?
Not though the soldier knew
Someone had blundered.
Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die.
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
III
Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon in front of them
Volleyed and thundered;
Stormed at with shot and shell,
Boldly they rode and well,
Into the jaws of Death,
Into the mouth of hell
Rode the six hundred.
IV
Flashed all their sabres bare,
Flashed as they turned in air
Sabring the gunners there,
Charging an army, while
All the world wondered.
Plunged in the battery-smoke
Right through the line they broke;
Cossack and Russian
Reeled from the sabre stroke
Shattered and sundered.
Then they rode back, but not
Not the six hundred.
V
Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon behind them
Volleyed and thundered;
Stormed at with shot and shell,
While horse and hero fell.
They that had fought so well
Came through the jaws of Death,
Back from the mouth of hell,
All that was left of them,
Left of six hundred.
VI
When can their glory fade?
O the wild charge they made!
All the world wondered.
Honour the charge they made!
Honour the Light Brigade,
Noble six hundred!
Very romantic – and criminally stupid.
The French General, Pierre Bosquet, {1810, – 1861) } dispatched it with these few words “C’est magnficent, mais ce n’est pas la guerre.” {It’s magnificent, but it’s not war}.
[He was the same incredibly prescient man also said ” Research is subordinated not to a long-term social benefit but to an immediate commercial profit. Currently, disease not health is one of the major sources of profit for the pharmaceutical industry, and the doctors are willing agents of those profits.”
Pierre Bosquet]
Sir, you do insult both the poet and the poem, not to mention the purpose of it being placed here.
Btw, there was nothing Romanic about the battle, or the poem.
Yes, I know there was “nothing Romantic ” about it – it’s the poem which attempts to make Romantic what was a disaster.
I have nothing but a sharing empathy for any poem written for those who died defending their land from the invader, to save those they love, including their nation.
But I am, frankly, sick of these poems and similar out of the Collective West written to glorify the deaths of young men, in order that the rich and powerful could try to invade another sovereign people and steal their rightful wealth. There is no chance that a nation can move forward when it does this – when it teaches little school boys that to be made to ride on poor horses into a certain death for no good cause is a wonderful thing.
It isn’t. It never was nor will ever be.
Read, instead, more of the poetry of the WWI soldier – poets, Wilfred Owens, for example,
“Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs,
And towards our distant rest began to trudge.
Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots,
But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame, all blind;
Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots
Of gas-shells dropping softly behind.
Gas! GAS! Quick, boys! — An ecstasy of fumbling
Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time,
But someone still was yelling out and stumbling
And flound’ring like a man in fire or lime.—
Dim through the misty panes and thick green light,
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.
In all my dreams before my helpless sight
He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.
If in some smothering dreams, you too could pace
Behind the wagon that we flung him in,
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,
His hanging face, like a devil’s sick of sin,
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs
Bitter as the cud
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues, —
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori.
So – poems to the defenders of Stalingrad – yes.
Poems to the invaders of Crimea – never!!
In a warring universe, someone will always be the aggressor and someone the victim. Poets, and their leanings or not toward a particular cause, may make for bread on the table, but their work should transcend time/space particulars. Every artist, poet, creative vessel worth his salt will find a way to transcend mere details and take his work to another level of universal appreciation. A perfect example is Da Vinči’s “Last Supper”, that most universal of Christian artworks, yet Leonardo was not a practising Christian until he finally accepted Christianity on his deathbed.
Here in the USA, the AMA has single handedly created the obesity and diabetes epidemic by demonizing fat through government mandates back in the early to mid 70’s. The AMA goal is to make people progressively sicker as they age so that profits will continue to soar. They are very good at what they do. Simply look around and you will see what i mean.
Patrick
Thank you for sharing Tennyson’s poem, Anonymous. To me it celebrates not only an event in human history, but also an archetypal experience, that of the individual on death ground, to use Sun Tzu’s term. According to The Art of War, if you want your men to fight like demons, put them ‘on death ground’.
Yes! Brilliant poem, and the terrain over which the cavalry charged was flat, but the poem speaks of the valley of death, ” though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.” Psalm 23.4
All of the cavalry dies, but the victory in death is beyond war, aggression, political dissent.
Written by an English poet, from the heart of the conspiring Empire, but life is not simple, as many would prefer to think……… the shadow of death is not exactly localized.
“All the world wondered” the poet says, Russia is not for the vested interests of anyone, groups, sects, individual’s, but universal, as the members of the light brigade. (General interest, “brig” derives from bridge…)
Oh well… we made it to the wkend…
I thought I share a few snapshot of china ‘issues’ here…
(WARNING! Youtube advice – CGTN is funded in whole or in part by the Chinese government. Wikipedia)
Live: Virtual encounter with giant pandas – Ep. 51
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srhenVQxzKQ
p/s I feel so like ‘panda’ right now.. lying around and nothing to do :D
and on the more serious side…
What has the CPC learnt from its trials and tribulations?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Q9PgtliDHA
p/s they just have to embed that ‘patriotic’ music background… and we are in 2021!
and the other side…
U.S.-China decoupling costs more than you think
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsFPAyGJs0Q
p/s last bit is very telling – road to hell + you might get
Reading china this wkend-
Domestic – No one gets left behind (CCP guarantee)
Interntional – we will b*tch-slap you right back
Huh? Thats what Putin did in his speech recently. Exactly the SAME.
Nice ver – We protect out own ppl against the foreign invaders.
Noty ver – We will not let the foreign entities suck the blood of our ppl no more.
Surely Iran also has the same msg to the west this wkend…
Multipolar magic you see my friend… United of Eurasia!
but I still feel like ‘panda’ these days… too much ‘excitment’…
If you still want more of china news…
Livestream of our 24/7 broadcast. Now you can watch CGTN online or mobile.
https://america.cgtn.com/livenews
p/s just for you America! From china with love! CGTN America
I came over to this site looking for live panda show only… Honest ;p
Hv a gd resting wkend :)
be well be safe
Gripping live-stream of hyper adorable weekend panda’s, they don’t seem to be pulling their weight though.
Aww 💗 Funny And Cute Panda Compilation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySRMDsJoIzM
All the Panda clip you ever want!ed!
http://en.ipanda.com/
be well be safe
I expect we’ll have fun in the face of the unspeakable, with new bear jokes. These evolve, like all jokes.
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An enormous 12′ tall black Siberian bear blocks the sun from the door way and stoops low to enter a Georgetown bar. The bouncer runs away. Patrons are trapped in terror.
Bear goes to the bar, making way by slapping away any minor obstacles, overhead fans and the like, and rips out a bar-stool, then bends two over to make room to stand at the bar. There is total silence, “Bartender!” the bear says in a low voice. “Come here.”
In terror, the bartender approaches the bear. “Yes, Sir! What will you have?”
“I’ll have a Red Line, thanks”
“What’s that, Sir?”
“You figure it out.”
(alternative last line> “You’ll know when you pass it.”)
‘I’ll have a Red Line, thanks.”
Silly bear. I’m sure he meant a Red Stripe.
Hmmmm…
calling MAGA supporters and anti-MAGA factions and everyone else…
there’s is currently some quite heated discussion in China talk shows
as to whether your ex-POTUS Trump can come back in the next round of (s)election?
Open Question: What say you? What does the law in your country say about his come back?
I personally am not supports of any POTUS but orange man is pretty cool (I like his hair style)
I have said b4 orange man became da ma he will only have 1 term (from meditation)
Now I am saying hairy legs may not finish his 1 term (and def no 2 term could be envision)
Will Orange Man be the 1st person to be da 1st Come Back Potus?
pls be EXTRA respectful in your discussion
and thank you mod for the extra work here :)
In the east, we are trying to make plans for the next 5 yr future…
in case O.M come back and tear up ALL the agreement made
(ie the absurd climate change target ‘bidens’ promised and sold to the world and ukie stuff and semis etc)
Important -> Again pls be EXTRA respectful :)
O.M def has special ability to split the nation…
be well be safe
p/s I am shock TG is totally out (yes I am not in touch and I am sad now)
Some information from James Corbett from his Solutions Watch series. I don’t advocate any of this (at least not in public – this is a joke, you’re supposed to at least grin a little).
https://www.corbettreport.com/forging-vaccine-passports-solutionswatch/
Bear in mind the ‘Great Reset’ is a western plan .. ZoneA for sure. I did a bit of a search earlier to see how much of it is being discussed. I see a lot of formal-type organizations still mentioning it but in among the alternative crowd, very little.
Not long ago I was chatting with a M.D. about cancer…and I mentioned the sodium reactor fubar that released massive clouds of radio-active matter and spread it over Southern California. I had thought he’d have known…
He did not know about it. This is what I term a “public secret” > something anybody can know, and does not.
Withal, see> https://www.engineering.com/story/americas-worst-nuclear-disaster-was-in-california-who-knew
(many times the 3 mile island fubar)
I know of several suspicious cancers in the people who lived nearby, cancers now.
Zero reports of PU release. Very strange… (obvious bs…of course it leaked/was released)
They lied about it, said all’s well…
Naturally, now is not then, now they do not lie, they say, so I for one have complete trust in the vaccine affair, don’t you?
Check Fairewinds and the result (ongoing) for both 3 Mile Island fubar and Santa Susana fubar (yup, people dying now, and yup, people dying now)
Geewhiz, I am glad they stopped lying.
I think todays bigger problem is that there are quite a few moore dummies being born, or should I say “created”, from bad gvt each and every day that the potential destructive mechanism from this affair may not be able to be over come.
Cancer can be lived with, the future chit storm may not be worth living for if these dummies dont shape up, only making matters worse.
Yes, ‘public secret’, good term, there’s a lot of it about. Its a more subtle form of censorship to limit the circulation of information to more obscure parts of the public domain.
Has anyone read anything about Putin imposing a ten days closure of the country because of covid?
https://www.officeholidays.com/holidays/russia/coronavirus-national-holiday-russia
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree to make May 4th – Friday May 7th 2021 non-working days and extend the public holiday period at the beginning of May due to the coronavirus outbreak.
https://www.officeholidays.com/holidays/russia/coronavirus-national-holiday-russia
Trudeau’s wife holds his hand to reassure the little fellow as six-year-old child Justin Trudeau takes his vaccine shot today. What is really scary is that the people behind Trudea think that this will impress Canadians in some way.
The link to the Trudeau photo.
https://www.iheartradio.ca/610cktb/news/justin-trudeau-and-wife-receive-astrazeneca-vaccine-today-1.15055757
On Russia, bears, jokes, myths and more.
Bears totally love honey, and will climb trees to get to eat it. They are lumbering and huge, like the one in the joke, but they were long associated with being a guardian, especially in Novgorod
” The Novgorod bear had the state and political meaning of the guard, whereas Yaroslavl and Perm bears reflected essential cultural models. The first one stands for the single combat and the victory over the bear of the prince, also interpreted as the victory of Christianity over paganism, and the second one symbolizes Christianization in its religious and educational aspect. If the Yaroslavl emblem has an element of violence, the “quieter” Perm emblem conveys rather peaceful introduction into the new belief.
http://russia-ic.com/culture_art/traditions/1074/
In the fairy tale of the two children called Snow White and Rose Red, a bear enters the little house every evening in the deep snowy winter, and sleeps by the fire on the floor. They are terrified at first, but not for long, as the bear is gentle and good humoured.
In the Spring the goes off to guard a hoard of gold and jewels in the forest, protecting his wealth from the avarice and theft of the wicked dwarf… Finally the bear turns into a prince and marries the beautiful princess.
Strangely fitting story for Mother Russia, in which the two children remain safe and protected.
https://www.grimmstories.com/en/grimm_fairy-tales/snow-white_and_rose-red
In late dry summer sometimes bears pass our little neighborhood, making their way to the river. I agree about their character.
Thanks very kindly for the Novgorod 3 bears. I did not know. When the joke was written it assumed that the NATO attack would take place. Still, the bear did not hurt anybody at the bar, only demonstrated his strength and ability. So I suppose he was an image of the Novgorod bear in Georgetown, by accident!
It needs evolution. Jokes follow the times.
I’ll share your post’s story.
No lies never about the bear comment about to appear, sleep well bear………
Hi, I have a favor to ask. Which countries manufactured novitchok and is the Czech Republic among them? Can somebody provide me with a link/s to veritable source? Thank you
David Collum put it on his first semester exam. All but one figured it out. It’s so easy it’s silly. Everybody makes it, if they’re nuts. But let’s stay on topic, please.
Looks like Russia is clamping down on foreigners who meddle in its affairs and attend unauthorised rallies. Seems 122 of these individuals have been banned from entering Russia for 40 years! Pretty strong clear message – if you come to Russia follow the laws of our country or you are out:
https://www.rt.com/russia/521924-unauthorized-protests-participation-entering-ban/
In China, there is a interesting social development. It started with a introverted young Russian who was hired by Chuang 2021 reality show (where fans in course of 2-3 pick 11 young men out of hundred to become a boy-singing-group) to translate for to contestants. Due to travel restrictions the show didn’t have enough boys, so they persuade Vladimir to join the show. The understanding was that with his no singing or dancing skills he will be voted out in two weeks. Instead of that he become immensely popular and also trapped in the show due to the contract. His stage name is Lelush.
I asked the Chinese why he is so popular and the answer was that besides teenage girls his fans are 996 generation of workers, who work 9 AM – 9 PM 6 days per week, are exhausted , sometimes falling asleep at work and just want to go home. He is becoming a symbol for Chinese who don’t work all the time in order to buy stuff, but instead of that they want time to enjoy their lives.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQ6HEoKEUCI
A Hoax-Hoaxer ‘Soars to New Heights’ in Paradoxical Idiocy
With the permission of the Mods, I post this without any comment of my own other than to say that the quote tells it all…what could I possibly add…other than to ask one question…I wonder if these types of parties are all the rage in Ecuador?
“High-profile Norwegian conspiracy theorist who said COVID-19 was a hoax dies from the virus after hosting illegal house parties.
Hans Kristian Gaarder, 60, is a prominent Norwegian conspiracy theorist.
A Norwegian conspiracy theorist who believed COVID-19 was a hoax and hosted illegal house parties has died after contracting the virus.
Hans Kristian Gaarder, 60, who lived in the Norwegian town of Gran, tested positive for COVID-19 after he died on April 6.
Just days earlier on March 26 and 27, he hosted two illegal gatherings at a barn on his property, reports Norwegian news outlet NRK.
Gaarder was a high profile conspiracy theorist who made TV appearances and edited an online magazine. He is known in Norway for sharing false information about COVID-19, likening it to the common cold.
Several of his party guests have since tested positive for the virus as local officials work to track down the extent of the spread and the exact number of attendees.
Investigating party guests and figuring out their close contacts is proving to be difficult because the cluster is primarily made up of people who don’t believe COVID-19 is real. Few want to admit they attended an illegal gathering. ”
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2021/04/high-profile-norweigian-conspiracy-theorist-who-said-covid-19-was-a-hoax-dies-from-the-virus-after-hosting-illegal-house-parties.html
And some very encouraging news from Ivnmeta, a real-time meta-analysis of 52 different studies…
https://ivmmeta.com/
…quote from the link…
“98% of the 52 studies to date report positive effects (25 statistically significant in isolation). Random effects meta-analysis for early treatment and pooled effects shows an 81% reduction, RR 0.19 [0.09-0.38], and prophylactic use shows 85% improvement, RR 0.15 [0.09-0.25]. Mortality results show 76% lower mortality, RR 0.24 [0.14-0.42] for all treatment delays, and 84% lower, RR 0.16 [0.04-0.63] for early treatment.
96% of the 27 Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) report positive effects, with an estimated 65% improvement, RR 0.35 [0.24-0.52].
The probability that an ineffective treatment generated results as positive as the 52 studies to date is estimated to be 1 in 85 trillion (p = 0.000000000000012).”
Apologies… in the comment above, I neglected to mention that this relates to the treatment and prevention of COVID-19 with Ivermectin [duh!].
Also, there is now some very strong evidence from Peru on the effect of Ivermectin on death tolls reported by regional authorities associated with COVID-19 in the population over 60 years. There were 8 states in the study and one control state Lima which showed an entirely different pattern.
…from the link…
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/344469305_Real-World_Evidence_The_Case_of_Peru_Causality_between_Ivermectin_and_COVID-19_Infection_Fatality_Rate
…quote…
Discussion
The correlation between the ivermectin interventions and the decrease in both excess deaths and case fatality rate are quite strong and consistent in all the regions analyzed. Because the correlation is strong, the probability of this being caused by other factors is low.
The most certain way to rule out a correlation occurring by random chance is to find the same correlation in several cases. This study has seen the correlation between interventions with ivermectin and a decrease in excess deaths and the case fatality rate in eight Peruvian states. Additionally, when analyzing two outcomes instead of one (excess deaths and CFR), a casual result becomes even more implausible. In this manner, we discard accidental cause as an explanation for the correlation.
Regarding external factors, we have already ruled out causality by a higher percentage of the young population by including only people over 60 years of age in the study. We also ruled out the variation in the number of cases when verifying that there was no decrease in these before reducing mortality. We also ruled out a substantial reduction in the susceptible population when confirming that in no case did deaths reduce this population by more than 2.0%.
Regarding susceptible population reduction at the time of the decrease in excess deaths and CFR, these values were unequal in the states analyzed. As an example, the population reduction in Arequipa was four times higher than the decrease in Cusco.
To rule out the possibility of a weaker strain of the virus having mutated throughout the Peruvian region, thereby conveying some degree of cross-immunity to COVID-19, Lima has been included in the study as a control group. The excess deaths and CFT in the Peruvian Capital remained stable for five months, between April and August.
Recently, a new theory emerged that some scientists say could explain the low mortality levels in some regions. It is a cross-immunity with dengue that would explain the low levels of mortality. This theory collapses here, by observing the high mortality rates in Peruvian states such as Arequipa and Moquegua, where there haven’t been dengue cases in the last 20 years. The mortality rose with COVID cases and dropped after the intervention with ivermectin.
Conclusion
In these eight Peruvian State analyses, ivermectin distributions preceded significant reductions in number of deaths and infection fatality rate. The variation in the number of detected cases or a decrease in the vulnerable population can’t explain the mortality and lethality improvement. Likewise, other possible explanations, such as crossed immunity with dengue, or mere causality, have been discarded here due to their lack of consistency.
Treatment with Ivermectin is the most reasonable explanation for the decrease in the death and fatality rate in Peru. Its implementation in public policy is a highly effective measure to reduce the mortality and lethality of COVID-19.”
Regarding this anti-parasitical drug, I am asking myself why it improves outcomes of SARS-CoV-2 infections. Does it free up the immune system from the fight against parasites, such that it can focus on SARS-CoV-2?
This is what I found in a Zimbabwe article which along with numerous clinical studies appear to prove its effectiveness:
“Ivermectin controls and inhibits viral replication in the early stages of the disease and reduces the severity of the disease in the later, infective stages.”
“In the final phase of the disease, the use of Ivermectin can reduce mortality rates by as much as 30%. Being a potent anti-inflammatory, it settles down the inflammatory process that causes prolonged symptoms in long haulers. If made widely available for treatment and prophylaxis, Ivermectin has a significant effect on new infection rates and mortality. This could restore pre-Covid infection rates within a few weeks, thus controlling the feared second and third waves of the pandemic.”
Along with antibiotics such as Azithromycin and Doxycycline to control any bacterial infections and, on a case by case basis, a few other drugs and important vitamins such as the bioavailable form of Vitamin D (Calcitriol?). Over the counter Vitamin D takes about 2 weeks in your body to create the effective form.
https://www.thestandard.co.zw/2021/02/03/wonder-drug-ivermectin-works-through-inhibiting-viral-replication-dr-stone/
As an apparent ‘wonder drug’ like Aspirin, Ivermectin is useful in all stages, even as a prophylaxis and has few to none side effects. Costing 2 cents a tablet in the third world and available over the counter it will never be allowed in any quantity in the controlled corporate west.
To my knowledge the antiviral activity of Ivermectin has been shown in cultured cells but required concentrations that are not achieved by taking the drug. That is why I wonder if Ivermectin improves Covid-19 outcomes by releasing the immune system from other burdens. Its efficacy may correlate with the level of parasitic infestation of people, maybe excellent in developing countries but modest in the developed countries.
Hi Marcel
Did you read the above link in the Peru study? It is very difficult to imagine that the results, achieved in 8 different states and a statistically large sample group, were skewed to any degree of significance by Invermectin’s efficacy for parasite control.
Also, the ivnmeta data in the other link concluded that the probability that an ineffective treatment generated results as positive as their 52 studies to date is estimated to be 1 in 85 trillion (p = 0.000000000000012).”
Please bear in mind too that Big Pharma will be allocating huge resources to burying this treatment simply because it is cheap and off-patent. Conversely, they can make billions from so many other so-called treatments and vaccines that they have control over.
Big Pharma plays this game with Ozone treatment as well. They have unlimited funds to pay for all manner of dodgy ‘design to fail’ trials and to control the media narrative to spin this as evidence that these treatments don’t work.
Small fry like myself knew about the incredible efficacy of these treatments more than 12 months ago. The acceptance and deployment since then have moved at snail pace…little wonder when you consider the monumental reach of Big Pharma.
Dr Ryan Cole in the link below at the 17-minute mark covers this subject well in relation to Ivermectin, although the whole presentation is fascinating information.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/dr-ryan-cole-blows-whole-covid-19-propaganda-away/5742079
…quotes from this link…
“Four billion doses of Ivermectin have safely taken Ivermectin. Death rate decreased 70-90% in hospitals treating COVID-19 patients.
Of the half million COVID-19 deaths in North America, there would be 375,000 less deaths if Ivermectin were used! Public health officials have blood on their hands.”
As I understand it, creation of a new vaccine is only allowed if there are no available alternatives. So Big Pharma and their political lackeys have to suppress alternate drugs like Ivermectin -especially so when they work effectively and are cheap. Deaths are irrelevant, business is all.
Shazadahl, I read the summary report on various studies in the South Americas. The report does not name the two diseases (in animals) Ivermectin was able to eradicate.
The probabilities are multiplicative: many studies showing efficacy (even if modest individually) combined yield a very low probability that the drug has no effect. There is certainly an improvement, but to me its efficacy in treating patients in Europe remains unclear.
Ivermectin was used by veterinarians as an anti-parasitic drug in cats, dogs and other animals i.e to eliminate worms, not to ‘eradicate’ diseases. It however appears to have very beneficial anti-viral properties with high clarity in study after study.
Hi Marcel
You said…
#1…”I read the summary report on various studies in the South Americas. The report does not name the two diseases (in animals) Ivermectin was able to eradicate.”
…The research was not about animals, it was about Ivermectin used in humans as a highly successful prophylactic and treatment for Covid-19.
#2…”There is certainly an improvement, but to me, its efficacy in treating patients in Europe remains unclear.
…Did you check out the Bryan Cole/Global Research link in the string above?
If its efficacy works great in the US, why wouldn’t it work well in Europe too?
And in the link below a great example Viagra of a drug for treating a condition that the entities, who formulated it, never in their wildest dreams expected it to have. In this case, the drug was originally developed to treat cardiovascular problems… and yet it turned out to be something of a miracle drug for men suffering from ED.
This drug turned out to be pretty ordinary for what it was formulated for. However, it was discovered that it had these unexpected properties. Many men [and maybe their partners too] who had been involved in the initial trials were somewhat devastated when it all finished up and they found to their horror that the ‘Old Fella’ no longer performed quite so well anymore…just like maybe it didn’t before the trial began!
https://qz.com/1070732/viagras-famously-surprising-origin-story-is-actually-a-pretty-common-way-to-find-new-drugs/
There is this thing .. any virus is accompanied by a plethora of other kinds of thing-ees. Perhaps invermectin deals with all of the other kinds of thing-ees. Its not just a virus sitting there replicating – it is a soup of viral and bacterial and parasitical activity – some just scavengers, some actually trying to clean up damaged human flesh. There is no difference here in terms of the human body in Europe or in other places.
There is this other thing – invermectin in mostly developed countries is prohibited as a treatment. The reason given is that it has not been through properly set up trials and scientifically proven to work. Bear in mind, science does not accept evidence that is of the anecdotal type. So, if a bunch of Doctors say .. hey, this thing helps, this is not evidence in terms of the scientific method. So trials take time of course.
So what is happening now, is that invermectin (and others of its type – repurposed drugs or medicine) cannot be used for lack of trials, but the mRNA jabs can be used, yet, the shortage of proper trials is of course in your face.
This is a double message being sent out.
And I saw this infographic in terms of what is going on in India (but of course, nothing is happening in India /sarc). https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202104/1222050.shtml
And of course, nothing is happening in Brazil (/sarc): https://sputniknews.com/latam/202104261082727934-evil-rules-in-brazil-says-woman-as-she-loses-eighth-relative-to-covid-19-amid-hospital-chaos/
to master life and death,
man must first master his
imagination
Alledgedly from Buddha himself,
originally written in sanskirt (I think), I read it in chines and now translate it into english for you :)
Oh look at this old and sick body of mine
It hurts to the bones and I can do nothing
Sickness streams from my mind and echo in my laments
Surely this is not the focus of those who reincarnate
Something like ‘Compassion is murder’,
alledgedly also from Buddha himself just before he pass…
Ponder deep ;)
esp w covid19 as the background of our daily life here and now
be well be safe
Blake;
Imagination is the real and eternal world
of which this vegetable universe is but
a faint shadow.
Imagination is the real world and not the day theatre taken for reality, just try the first, difficult step to mastery, groan, it’s for others sakes, not oneself.
People think nonsense, you have to embrace changes in life, not be frightened of death, care deeply for people, harbour love, be creative, The elitist’s loathe all of this, they can’t get it, so they try to make life on earth eternal, and wreck lives through evil, hence the global paedophilia pyramid etc etc. We’re still here, thanks D.
This goes out to teranam 13; hey tera, come back, forget the politics and join us in celebrating poetry, which speaks not to the social consciousness but to the soul….
Ship Of Fools
Come, all ye wayfarers
Across the frontier,
Word has been sent
And the message is clear;
The Devil is bound
And waits in remand –
The Captain is freed
And back in command!
‘Twas a day like no other
Out on the high seas,
Those sailors were restless
And ill at ease.
The wind had died down,
The men were all ears –
That joker was playing
To all of their fears.
They call him the Devil,
That old buccaneer,
Men lose all reason
Whenever he appears.
He’ll pull the wool
Right over your eyes,
He’ll make the fool
Think that he’s wise.
He promised them gold,
He promised them fun,
Those fathers and brothers
And husbands and sons;
The Captain was seized
And hauled down below,
As the fires they lit
Set the evening aglow!
The Devil he smiled,
All filled with glee,
As one by one
They fell to their knees;
“How simple it is
To bring a man down,
A few well placed words,
And a gilded crown”.
A ship of fools
Adrift in the night,
Heading for disaster
And cold daylight;
Some will laugh,
Others will cry,
Some will live
yet others will die…
Come gather round, people,
Wherever you roam,
And pray that your loved ones,
Might find their way home.
The ship that was taken
So cruelly by force,
Has met a fair wind
And is now back on course!
Come, raise up your glasses
And be of good cheer,
May God’s grace be with you
All throughout the year;
To guard against evil
And stand up to fear,
From folly to wisdom
Together we’ll steer!
Thanks Dimitar, but it’s too late, do you understand, the ship ‘s hull has shattered.
you can take the fool out of folly,
but not folly out of the fool
Dimitar, As a poet you will know it is is possible to have many vantage point’s on one subject, and as the hull-down theory once helped people to understand the earth was round, so one can argue any point anyway.
Life goes on, nothing stays the same ! Thank you for all you have given
Peace.
The true anonymous, there are many vantage points on every subject, and the poet’s job is to find one that for him
has logic from poem’s beginning to end. That logic may mean one thing to him and another to someone else. Additionally, over time the viewpoint may change. A poem has no obligation but to itself and is not necessarily beholden to external but more so, to internal logic.
“Thank you for all you have given…” Thank you, friend. I will continue to share here as long as I have something I consider worth sharing and time to do so. Poetry is a fitting format because it deals in ideas that are universal, largely non-scientific, and personal as in personal experience. There’s a piece of him/her in all he/she writes.
Thank you friend, there is much to respond to in your comment, one point being “ideas that are largely non- scientific”!
This is based upon a fundamental error of thinking as regard science, and has resulted in untold misery and materialism worldwide.
It also has done nothing for the poet, as poetry is free to address whatever it wishes, as music, painting, or any other art. Art follows universal laws, and science will one day have to admit to folly, and learn more.
But culture is good as dead in the water from world lockdown, and politics is a free for all matter of in fighting …
Never give up, Higher Love and Spirit on the way !
The true anonymous
Dear Dimitar-my Poetic Prowess has indeed waned since its conception-yours Sir-has only burgeoned-I shall polish up some old Limericks before they see me off.
Bring em on, dave. We’ll dust ’em off, polish ’em up and graft a few newies onto good old stock!
Latest news in todays UK sunday papers >
The new Head of Mi6 has now declared the following objectives >
– The UK will increase its spying activities in the area of environmental compliance, in particular, aimed at China, “to ensure that China keep to the agreements it signed up to”
(no mention of how the UK plans to get info…UK tourists or Chinese proxies, standing in fields with measuring kits?).
– Extreme disappointment with Bidens decision to pull out of Afghanistan, so the UK intends to increase its activities there as the threat from this ‘anarchic country’ continues to exist.
– Joy at the achievement of the UK in warning Russia to pull back from attacking the Ukraine or face dire consequences and that the Russians retreated…for now…but still need to be disciplined to make sure the Russians really get the message.
– Further support will be given to this most respectful and intelligent of true democratic gentlemen, Navalny, who will single-handedly rescue the failing State of Russia, which is showing clear signs of economic and demographic decline.
A former UK ambassador to Russia has also weighed in with the observation that Russia will need to be ‘contained’ as its aggressive policies threaten to destabilise the world…and that Russias support of the most vile dictators like Maduro and Assad continue to need to be challenged. he also stated that he had seen clear evidence that the Kremlin was behind the Skripal Novichok poisoning as well as the poisoning of Litvineko …
Before any contributors respond by saying that the UK should first put its own house in order, there are signs that the infighting within Downing Street is hotting up…currently mainly related to issues about the covid lockdown….
It does not prevent the UK however from spending tens of billions on a new Trident submarine fleet…which might be ready… maybe ….by 2030…(by which time, inevitably, it will be obsolete).
Maria Zakharova has the right nomenclature. Chest-puffers.
While scanning varioius online news sources for updates on Ulraine, I stumbled across something interesting (or maybe not, but when I post these 2 Tweets together, I think it provides something sensational for Sunday morning.)
https://twitter.com/air_intel/status/1384915097575960584
From Intel Air & Sea’s Twitter account, a view of the German Air Force operating over Nevada, USA on April 21. Why would they do that?? I wondered. Does that happen often?
And then today from Intel Air & Sea:
https://twitter.com/DefenceHQ/status/1385981804180656135
Nothing unusual at all about the German air force flying over Nevada. This is simply part of the NATO pilot training agreement whereby NATO members’ air forces familiarise themselves with NATO aircraft + gain valuable flying hours towards their accreditation. I have a German friend who took part in such training over the US…who then could add the flight hours to his application to become a Lufthansa pilot.
Thanks for the insight. I looked up the A400MI on the Airbus website
https://www.airbus.com/defence/a400m.html
and spun the notion that Germany must be supplying vaccines, ventilators and other pandemic response items (physicians?) without attracting any embarassing media coverage. Uncle Sam doesn’t like to be seen as being in need, does he? You know what they say about Nevada: what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.
Speaking of pilots and flight hours, there is some news about COVID’s effect on that. (from the Canadian Press)
https://www.tricitynews.com/national-news/pilot-training-spare-part-shortages-among-challenges-military-facing-from-covid-19-3664098
”Military pilots are required to fly a certain number of hours in the air to remain qualified for their aircraft, and typically participate in a number of international exercises each year to test their mettle and remain sharp for a potential conflict.”
”But Brig.-Gen. Iain Huddleston, who as director-general of air readiness is responsible for ensuring the air force has the equipment and personnel it needs, says that was before travel restrictions and other challenges emerged during the COVID-19 pandemic.”
In Ukraine post coup are many “nazi” affiliated types of people. Some might say the same of the Imperial Junta, as Dulles boys and Prescott Bush and other Imperialists were themselves liable to prosecution in 1945 and were “saved” by the very timely death (never investigated) of FDR.
Some say it’s not correct to say Ukraine is a nazi country. Some say it’s not correct to say their sponsors in WW2 are the same as their sponsors to-day.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1385255678730719238
Know organizations by their actions. “Birds of a feather” and all that stuff> https://twitter.com/i/status/1385255678730719238 (Nazi Ukie)
Good morning Mr P (at least it is where I am.) Nazis!?! Flying over Nevada, maybe?
How does Mexico respond to this? Check it out. Video of a combat training course in Baja —
https://twitter.com/SEDENAmx/status/1385649352081690627
Yes, Thanks. Mex is entering, I think, into a color revolution. The soup is not yet ready, I think. But it’s warming.
The ordinary soldiers and birdmen fellas are just men, it’s the Form that creates the Function. (In political power the forms create the function. Lavrov) Is not the Form fascist and using race and inequalities?
The Empire seems to be the evolved manifestation of the underlying principles of Anglo Saxon fascism. Recall that the German manifestation was curated and financed by both zionist bankers and Wall Street and London bankers…and that nearly every nazi involved in WW2 was rehabilitated, except in DDR and some places in Warsaw Pack and USSR – where many were executed. Not an exact matter, but one might speculate that the German manifestation we call nazi was only one of a set – more like a child of the Home Temple of Fascism…which continued, and escaped, thanks to the happy coincidence of FDR dying on time. Recall “The Bomb is for Russia” (Groves march of ’44, while USSR and USA were allied.) The bomb could be for Russia only if FDR was dead…think about that. The birth of militant zionism and the birth of German nazi issued from the same womb, they say…and this is one of the darkest public secrets guarded by the holocaust story. Of course the holocaust took place, but the majority of the victims were not Jews. Nevertheless the numbers were large.
I suspect that the original idea was to use the German nazis to create Israel. Instead they used nazis of another faction…and the pathetic Truman.
About other “Public Secrets” >
“…The simple answer to this question is that the documents aren’t available. But the reasons they aren’t available vary. When it comes to documents from the period of the Korean War, most Americans are totally unaware that during the 1950s and first half of the 1960s, the U.S. government “engaged in wholesale confiscation of publications mailed into this country” from Communist countries. This meant any materials emanating from North Korea, China, the Soviet Union or other allied countries (such as those in East Europe at that time) were intercepted and destroyed by U.S. postal officials….” Jeffery Kaye Medium
Jeff has posted a thorough exploration with documentation that’s frankly overwhelming that US used germ war and chemical war in Korea and in China during the 1950’s.
https://jeff-kaye.medium.com/censored-north-korea-accused-u-s-of-working-with-unit-731-war-criminals-on-bw-attacks-d7fd819ed8b7
Talk about public secrets! (actually I heard, as a kid in school in the early ’50’s – rumors about it from kids whose fathers must have spoken about it at home)
If one reads Kaye and reads all the support documents he’s going to be reading all day and maybe tomorrow too.
The most interesting thing about the germ/chem crimes is not when they started, but when they ended. I found the Start Date. No End Date seems to exist… Think about that… The Start Date was in the Merck Report, 1941, I think. Read Jeff.
……….
(A note to the goodfellas down at the cop shop> This stuff form Jeffery Kaye is true from your own records. You ought to think about it too. Is “the virus” from a lab? Is the not a vaccine also from a lab? In mRNA “vaccines” the test animals all died upon infection.)
Heated discussion in China talk shows of whether Trump can come back, but not a word at the greatest café of the political analysis site ?
Putin spoke at great length on the Covid19 Pandemic in Russia, barely a murmur !
What about Trump, Covid 19 in Russia, subjects ad infinitum Chinese, where is the once lively café buzzing with news and feeds, with heated discussions, varying points of view on economy, religion, science, you name it? Whatever happened to uninhibited expression of ideas,? Is there a link to an underground Resistance Café anyone can share ?
All things being equal, don’t go, come back…
https://youtu.be/5q3ALvb16EE
underground Resistance Café? Ha :D
dear anon you dont ask such question in open public..
Fightclub rule No1
I see all the topics of discussion you mention here should Kosher enough :)
so I think the mod and da boss the Saker should allow it
but for me, as with my invit above, topics bordering ‘domestic’ issues, I always ask the mod if they are allowed here
then its up to us to discuss the topic openly…
Unfortunately some ‘domestic’ issues are really life threatning… v.sad
and something must be done
that is not to say one should leave (leave and go to where? your friends are all here waiting for you to Come Back)
but one can always craft their choice of words and expression more suited to the international friends here :)
My take –
Trump – will cone back somehow (not sure how the legal side works) and will be 1st potus to have 3 terms but likely to spell the end of USSA as the bankrupt king
Covid 19 in Russia – v.encouraging hopefully sputnikV can be widely distribute to asia too… plz pres putin
subjects ad infinitum Chinese – war is SCS is brewing quietly and war in quantum space just gone to another batshitcrazy never-charted before frontier
Yes friends of multipolar world here – this is an open stage for all of us to share open ideas, POV and credible sourced links (and poems and many other lovely art of works)
Its abit quiet this wkend – everyone is just lying around doing nothing like the pandas :p
but the international issues is dev so fast its breathtaking…
There is a defy-facemask movement going on around the world too! in the face of pos 3rd wave of virus mutation… so whats the point of those already outdated vaxx?
Thinking hard here and not understanding their ‘saving humanity’ plan…
be well be safe
That is all well noted, I am interested to read your thoughts here question mark, do post more.
On moderation, the chances of preaching to the chorus are high. On ‘international readership’, may I suggest the agenda-driven nature of certain commentators here could benefit from the advice “one can always craft their choice of words and expression” in a manner more respectful to the international friends ?
Just a thought.
Take care, be mindful.
dear anon, I am but one, a v.little one, who can be bribed w virtual ice creams :P
this is da boss the Saker’s turf I am but a guest
I will follow my oriental tradition and behave like a guest
Will share anything important I think the western friends might be missing or need to think differently (ie the eastern way)
I only post here. I sincerely respect the Saker and bless his heart and wish to support his work and his dreams here.
Yes friends, the east has suffered centuries of humiliation and torture and whatnot…
I put it gently and humbly to you…
When you go out to the war zone, you leave your ego at home.
When you come over to the Sakers, is this not a ‘war zone’ w all kinds of ppl
and all kinds of personal agendas and all kinds of tricksters and whatnot?
I post here w no ego attached.
I hope to share my voice but I am but one voice, this I must remember.
Do you see your self, western friends, as citizen of USA/EU/NATO? subject of USSA? or what?
That too will affect how and if you want to come (back) and play here (Invit to voice your opinion here)
Do you really care about the ‘domestic’ issues?
or its more of the uncomfortable thought of self-censorship that bugs you?
Perhaps we should leave the ego at home when we come here to play…
Look at all the children in the world – once they get into the playground – they just become some other ‘monster’
Thats why I am but a questionable charecter ‘?’
and you pls show up w your avatar too… leave the ‘domestic’ issues at home…
some of us miss you terribly :)
I think da boss the Saker has been fair here… honestly…
this is the greatest melting pot of the greatest ideas of the greatest platform on earth…
for a start my old device here can get in anytime and dont get DDOS…
Lets not over look that silent effot and yes, Thank you boss :)
In the east, we survive not by holding our ego, taking it out to the war zone, thats for sure…
Perhaps we should all learn from the ultimate model here – VVP
p/s is that a man or is he a god? too perfect :)
Whatever I share here, with all these kind of tones, different pattern of thinking methods …
is ultimately to teach and encourage the reader to practice anti-mind control (from your 3 letter agency)
thats my personal agenda here… and my personal Dharma and Karma here :)
and there are many friends and poets here are doing exactly that same REAL ‘saving humanity’ stuff you wont get it anywhere else… only here at the Sakers (disclaimer this sounds like ad but its really really not, Not)
okie… maybe I will give you one lick on my virtual ice-cream (since you read the whole piece of nonsense till here…)
Ha :D
be well be safe
You’re fine, take it easy, less words is better.
The true anonymous
Ah I see.. I failed to spot the true anon here :p
welcome to the multipolar worlds… we have free press here…
Will take the advice/chance. see you all in May
be well be safe
A surprising find on Sputnik. Written by Dmitry Medvedev, whom some folks accuse of being a liberal fifth columnist:
Unlearned History Lessons
https://sputniknews.com/columnists/202104231082704184-unlearned-history-lessons/
The essay is, I think, a key historical document. I am minded of Jefferson’s apology in the Declaration of Independence. Not that the situations are even vaguely similar, but that common sense and common decency of civilized men requires frank statements at key nodes of History. Similarly, I think, Fidel’s “History Will Absolve Me” (and it did! mirabile dictu! Comrade Ho of course, as well.
It is also, in the practical sense, a bald warning… “permanent instability” he said. Think about that term. There can never be a permanent instability, rather a period of instability ending in catastrophic failure >
Here’s some permanent instability> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-zczJXSxnw (Tacoma Narrows Bridge)
Anyway, better make a copy for the records.
Mmm… a bridge on the West coast that opened on July 1st and then collapsed four months later.
Since you brought up July 1st and the West coast and the desire to harness Nature’s power to destroy/disable (i.e. Jeff Kaye’s research on weaponized insects that delivered deadly bacteria to Korea), I will add this.
https://bc.ctvnews.ca/beavers-chew-through-4-5-inch-thick-tube-disrupting-internet-service-for-900-b-c-customers-1.5401615
Beavers. Weaponize these fellas, and no fibre cable in the Northern hemisphere will be safe.
Seriously, that research about bacteriological weapons was really creepy. I had heard speculation that a virulent strain of Lyme’s disease appeared this way.
This significant missing part of Kaye’s germ research is the day the Policy of Creating Germs and Chem weapons, and using them, stopped. This date does not seem to exist. Considering that many experts claim “lab made” origin of “the virus”, the implications are self-evident. They invite hypothesis and experimental investigation. I assume the gentlemen boffins and intel-types in “Zone B” are going to look into this, and keep the results for memos to their leaders.
Did anybody read the 700 + pages of the International Investigation, with appendix? Kaye refers to and proffers this.
It happens that the New San Francisco Bay Bridge, quite recently built, has a significant number of as-built defects. I will not say how I know the sordid details…but some of the critical steel parts, made in China, failed QA, but were installed anyway. The substandard steel failures triggered refunds of money, but were used and remain to-day in tension aloft as traffic rolls.
All construction contracts in my experience have a significant aspect of corruption, kickbacks, payoffs, and fraud, as otherwise the construction contractors would go broke. This is the US dao, nowadays. According to family stories it was also corrupt in the late 19th century…about the job> https://interactive.wttw.com/chicago-river-tour/how-chicago-reversed-river-animated
In addition, open public defects also exist.
duckduckgo> “new bay bridge corrosion” and you’ll see a bit.
Withal, every building or bridge eventually comes down, but some last long time and have the quality of infinite life cycles, if maintained. Others do not have this quality. And some, after magic airplanes swoop past, fall down in massive demolitions, murdering the occupants. Sometimes the magic airplanes can’t be seen (Pet A Gone) and sometimes they crash but leave no trace. Engineers puzzle about this…
Much the same character might be mirrored in the structures of Empires, eh?
“permanent instability”
C.G.Jung: >>La Revolution mondiale<>La Revolution mondiale<<
only German, sorry:
https://mundanestagebuch.blogspot.com/search?q=massen
Look out Russia! Biden is staffing his Pentagon with the very best!
https://www.advocate.com/politics/2021/4/23/biden-nominate-trans-lesbian-officials-deptartment-defense
Take that, Defense Minister Shoigu!
Is there anyone who could list serious predictions made about Russia and Putin over the last 20 years by British and American media that proved to be complete baloney nonsense?
I just saw comment on a site that made me laugh, about headlines:
Putin dying of cancer, Sputnik vaccine dangerous, Navalny dying in prison, Russian economy about to collapse.
All of them were political fantasies of western media presented to their publics as fact.
They have a bad track record on predictions!
Some interesting tidbits from various military-related Twitter accounts:
https://twitter.com/CanadianArmy/status/1383857865568313345
”Soldiers deployed to Op REASSURANCE with enhanced Forward Presence Battle Group – Latvia are on the range this week training with the Carl Gustaf 84mm recoilless rifle in Camp Adazi, Latvia.”
Why the mention of the name of the rifle? Is it because Wikipedia tells me that this rifle ”is primarily used by United States Special Operations Command such as the Army Rangers, Army Special Forces, Marine Raiders, Navy SEALs, and JSOC operators”? (Could these types be in Latvia at the moment ?!?)
https://twitter.com/DefenceHQ/status/1386617658171330561
”The Carrier Strike Group will set sail next month on its maiden operational deployment. This will be the largest concentration of maritime and air power to ever leave the UK.”
Several Tweets in reply note that this can’t be the largest concentration etc., etc. ever to leave the UK. So… why does the Tweet say that? Typo?
https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical/status/1386624436414124034
”2 Global Hawks and an RAF RC-135. Lot of NATO ISR assets up right now. Definitely watching something.”
That’s over Crimea and the Black Sea, which has deescalated, right, so ‘nothing to see here’?
https://twitter.com/JanesINTEL/status/1385262414120239108
#UK looks to increase contribution to #NATO AGS
(which is Alliance Ground Surveillance for those like me who aren’t in the know. Quick shout out to UK Defence Journal’s George Allison for the retweet!)
recoil less rifle is light weight. Nice for aircraft and parachute. Do not stand behind one when it’s fired. They have some serious operational defects. Fun though.
globalhawks and RC’s? > I suppose they’re looking for those KILO Class subs and gathering elint.
Meantime, in the Med> https://youtu.be/J8iO79I7m-4 Russia is escorting Iranian convoys with warships. One may suppose this is “asymmetric actions”. Is “digital message” (“Phuck You”) to those who would provoke, so to speak.
Mr P
12 March 67′ I took shrapnel from a “friendly fire” 90mm recoiless near the Cambodian border in Nam. Another kid in my company, A 2/27, 25th Inf Div had his finger on the trigger as he brought the tube up and around and fired early and the HE shell hit somewhere close to my front and to this day I still don’t know how close as the concussion flattened me and two bottle cap size chunks of VERY hot metal struck my right forearm about 3″ below my elbow and the other hit high up on my left inner thigh somehow missing the “family jewels”. The bones of my arm eventually fused as one so I have no “supination-pronation”……..no rotation on that side.
We took the 90 with us on many Platoon and company missions more than one would think. It could turn the tide in an ambush as I witnessed firsthand at night. We still took a KIA…..a black kid me and a buddy were carrying, running, to help but too late. I was 19. I also served for a week on a Jeep mounted 106mm recoilless back at Cu Chi Basecamp. We used it to move the woodline back farther. It had a short case .50 cal tracer spotter round that was the same trajectory as the 106, mounted on top of the tube. Whatever that .50 would hit, the big one followed.
I also put a LAW 60mm recoilless round into a structure on the border (we were not completely sure which country we were in but the LT said “hit it!”…. I did. 106, 90, 60,….you do NOT want to be 20-40 yards aft of those pieces when they are “lit”.
Many are offended about the US Nam war. So am I.
Also, Mr P, you and I share some knowledge about certain things that my radar perks up when you say them.
wolfhound
Someone asked about Vit D and safe levels, the following is a fairly good read on studies done on Vit D, countries, etc and amouts used, recommended, and safe levels…………..again, not promoting anything just providing good research that’s worth a look for those trying to figure out how much they can take, or may need.
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2020.00513/full
This second article looks at the ability of RNA vaccine to alter human DNA, or if it can.
https://sciencewithdrdoug.com/2021/02/15/breaking-study-sheds-more-light-on-whether-an-rna-vaccine-can-permanently-alter-dna/
Cheers, M
Hi Sean
Thank you for posting the RNA Vaccine link.
I regard this as extremely important information and have filed it away as hard-copy to safeguard it.
The whole article is fascinating but I have taken the liberty of quoting below the two paragraphs that I think highlight the gigantic ethical questions in the deployment of mRNA vaccines.
…quote…
“Instead of going through all of their results in detail (you can do that if you like by reading their paper linked below), I will answer the big question on everyone’s mind – If the virus is able to accomplish this, then why should I care if the vaccine does the same thing?
Well, first let’s just address the big elephant in the room first. First, you should care because, “THEY TOLD YOU THAT THIS WAS IMPOSSIBLE AND TO JUST SHUT UP AND TAKE THE VACCINE.” These pathways that I hypothesized (and these researchers verified with their experiments) are not unknown to people who understand molecular biology at a deeper level.
This is not hidden knowledge which is only available to the initiated. I can assure you that the people who are developing the vaccines are people who understand molecular biology at a very sophisticated level. So, why didn’t they discover this, or even ask this question, or even do some experiments to rule it out? Instead, they just used superficially simplistic biology 101 as a smoke screen to tell you that RNA doesn’t convert into DNA.
This is utterly disingenuous, and this lack of candor is what motivated me to write my original article. They could have figured this out easily.”
Scary sh#t
Col
many thanks STL
made all the links you offered so far into hardcopy. they are all good solid info :)
couple of things really caught my eye on vit D article –
The COVID-19 pandemic began in Wuhan during a particularly dark January: 42% darker than their average January in 13 years (2007–2020)
A statistical analysis by Davies et al., found that COVID-19 outbreaks with large fatality rates occurred exclusively above 30°N, with a 55:1 ratio between 30 and 55°N and more southern latitudes.
RE:Breaking study
@ STL & col
page 4 – ‘The RNA in the vaccine is artificially engineered. First, it is engineered to stay around in your cells for a much longer time than usual (RNA is naturally unstable and degrades quickly in the cell).’
Question – how long is the ‘much longer time’? Take a stab?
Thank you both
Sis had an interesting client, a Pharmacist, and of couse during the pulling of the blood the convo shifts to cv19, “bunch of BS,” says the pharmacist, “I have lots of things in the pharmacy to treat covid and I’m not allowed to sell them, just bs.”
The courier, same guy who has been picking up the Lab samples for years, finally reappears after being ‘gone’ for over six weeks, sis asks the usual, where ya been questions…………..so, got his first vac shot, seven days later all his lymph nodes swell up. After several trips to docs, the guy has to see an oncologist now, and his doc said, “under no circumstances are you to get any type of second dose vac.” They know it’s untested, unapproved, and bloody well dangerous to give out without ‘informed consent’.
Cheers, M
I feel a bit guilty beause I have posted links to UK Defence Journal’s George Allison a few times, and I’m concerned he may face some consequences from the powers-that-be in the UK. (In my defence, I had no idea that the list of ”things you mayn’t speak about on Twitter in Glasgow” was quite so comprehensive.)
So I’m going to share something that definitely used to be on the ”things you mayn’t speak about – ever – in Canada” list.
I posted a link to the Wikipedia page on the Canada Act of 1982. Some may wonder why Great Britain would have ever agreed to concede those powers to Canada, given the ideal position it left the UK in with respect to the North American continent. We were on the hook for forever, as long as some disagreement between Angloland and Russia could be cited. Why would the UK ever give that up?
Because…
Canada threatened to go Soviet.
Seriously. The CSSR (or was it the CASSR?)
IMHO, this was an absolute masterpiece of Canadian (and quite likely Russian) political creativity. My favorite part was the Canadian Soviet anthem, which I can’t remember now, but I remember loving it at the time.
There were negotiations. Canada moved from the kids’ table to the one for the grown-up countries in the Western world, and all that was completely buried. Under threat of serious reprisal.
A couple links:
https://althistory.fandom.com/wiki/Canadian_Soviet_Socialist_Republic_(Communist_Pacific)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada%E2%80%93Soviet_Union_relationsà
Then NAFTA and the nineties came along, and politics wasn’t that much fun anymore.
I wonder how the idiotic ‘hoax-hoaxer’ club will spin the “its nothing it will go away”…”to many countries this will be a breath of fresh air” memes now, with disasters like India’s COVID-19 situation unfolding and where it appears that much more lethal variants of the virus have taken over.
Or has the club already dispersed and gone quietly into the night…or perhaps the highlands if that is a more fitting description of their retreat? One thing alone is clear…there will be no apology to The Saker for using his house to help promote a message that has already proven to have caused hundreds of thousands of avoidable deaths. What an utterly irresponsible and disgraceful way to behave!
And a quote from this link…
https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/asia/300286742/sos-messages-panic-as-covid19-breaks-indias-health-system
“India was initially seen as a success story in weathering the pandemic, but the virus is now racing through its population of nearly 1.4 billion, and systems are beginning to collapse.
Only three months ago, India’s leaders were boisterous, delivering messages that the worst was over.
In January, Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared victory over the coronavirus, telling a virtual gathering of the World Economic Forum that India’s success couldn’t be compared with that of anywhere else.
A little less than a month later, his Bharatiya Janata Party passed a resolution hailing Modi as a “visionary leader” who had already “defeated” the virus.
By the second week of March, India’s health minister declared that the country was “in the endgame” of the pandemic.
At the same time, the patients arriving at India’s hospitals were far sicker and younger than previously seen, prompting warnings by health experts that India was sitting on a ticking time bomb.”
My heart goes out to India and its population in this tragedy
Col