The Weekly Watch
War Upon War...
TPTB have China in their sights, and the propaganda is cranking up...spy balloons, the "CHINA" flu, they're sending weapons to Ukraine (as if we are not?), they are going to invade Taiwan (their own province)...you get the idea. The proxy war against Russia in Ukraine isn't going well for the west, and several leaders called out the NATO nations in India this week. American arrogance isn't selling well across they world. Then we have another ongoing war... against us, we the people, by the global elite who are certain they know how we should live and behave. They have an agenda planned.
This graphic illustrates the propaganda message...
Talk about projection
Let's start with US/NATO aggression against China...
TENSIONS RISING US CHINA | Let's Talk China | Cyrus Janssen The Duran & Reporterfy (1.5 hours)
"The Future of the World Hangs in the Balance"
The USA and China are currently in a tense standoff, as tensions between the two countries have been escalating over a range of issues including trade, and military activity in the South China Sea. Many are concerned that the situation could lead to a full-blown war between the two countries.
The two countries have been engaged in an escalating trade war. The US has accused China of unfair trade practices, while China has retaliated with tariffs of its own. Both sides have threatened more action, and the possibility of a conflict between these two powerful nations is growing.
China's paper U.S. Hegemony and Its Perils is worth a scan.
The essay discussed the Arab Spring, US interference in Latin America including the CIA coup in Chile and attempts to undermine the government of Cuba and Venezuela, and the number of “color revolutions” in former Soviet states such as Ukraine, Georgia, and Kyrgyzstan. It went on to condemn how Washington weaponizes the subject of democracy and forces countries to take sides, branded the US a country “characterized by violence and expansion” that crushes its opponents with sanctions and “economic coercion” and claimed the (US) dollar of being “the main source of instability and uncertainty in the world economy.”
Brian at the New Atlas uses UN documents to prove Taiwan is part of China.
US Claims Chinese "Incursion" Near Taiwan, US Sells Taiwan Millions in Arms as Next Proxy War Brews
- Despite the US inferring that Taiwan is an autonomous, independent entity from China, Taiwan depends entirely on the US for political and military support without which Taiwan will fully reintegrate with the rest of China;
- The US State Department officially recognizes Taiwan as part of China and explicitly does not recognize its independence, yet unofficially deliberately undermines China’s sovereignty over Taiwan;
- US announced a recent arms sale to Taiwan forces including weapons for its fleet of US-made F-16 fighters;
- US policy think tanks admit that Taiwan forces both in the air and at sea will be eliminated almost immediately in any conflict with the rest of China and will not play a role in subsequent fighting;
- The US sends weapons to Taiwan to override both its official stance on Taiwan as well as the UN’s stance in enduring contravention of international law;
- The US is rushing to provoke a conflict with China over Taiwan before the 2025-2030 window closes after which the US will be unable to win any armed confrontation with China;
- The US desire to use Taiwan as a proxy against the rest of China follows the same foreign policy template as its proxy war with Russia in Ukraine.
The spy balloon story was comical. China responds that the US are the primary spies. (2 min)
Though the U.S. always frames itself as a victim of spying, it's no secret that the country is actually the world's biggest spy power with the world's widest intelligence network.
Ukraine...and global views
Raisina Dialogue (30 min): Russian FM Lavrov Hits Out At West And NATO
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov participated in Raisina Dialogue 2023 on Friday in New Delhi. In conversation with Sunjoy Joshi, chairman of the Observer Research Foundation, Lavrov accused NATO of violating its commitments and supplying more weapons to Ukraine in the ongoing Russia- Ukraine war. Further, Lavrov also shared Russia's energy policy plans in which he said that it would be "oriented towards reliable and credible partners, and India and China are certainly one of them".
"More weapons only lead to more shelling, and ultimately, devastation," said Sergey Lavrov.
Lavrov has strongly accused Ukraine of starting the war against Donbas. While lashing out at the West over their support for Ukraine, Lavrov said that the West's tactic of imposing sanctions is merely a "policy of blackmail". He further asked why no questions were asked to the United States about what is happening in Iraq and Afghanistan and whether they are certain of what the US is doing. In Russia's defence, Lavrov also said: "They don’t remember when Serbia was bombed. Joe Biden (US President) being a senator at that time was bragging that I promoted this approach. He also recalled: "When Iraq was ruined as a state, Tony Blair said, 'It was a mistake'".
"The global sufferings are related to the sanctions, the policy of blackmail, and the diktat that the West is promoting. They are not related to what Russia is doing," he said. Further, he added, "Everyone asks when will Russia negotiate, but the West wants Russia’s strategic defeat."
Lavrov asserted that everyone has been asking Russia to negotiate in the Russia-Ukraine war, however, no country has asked Zelenskyy "when he's going to negotiate". While using the Raisina Dialogue platform, the Russian FM shared that the Ukrainian president had signed a document making it a criminal offence to negotiate with Russia as long as Putin is president. "Can you ask him (Zelenskyy), what he's doing?" asked Lavrov. Did the G20 ever reflect on the other issues, asked Lavrov while talking about the Russia-Ukraine war. He said: "There is nothing other than Ukraine that is of importance in this G20, (hosted by India this year)... if that's the case then it is a shame for G20. "
The Duran covers the G20 meeting in India (22 min)
Modi insists Blinken meet Lavrov at G20. QUAD begins to unravel
Scott Ritter has been on many shows this week outlining his views of the Ukrainian war. Here's a couple
Media Lies give birth to WARS | Scott Ritter (55 min)
Russia-Ukraine War Year 1: Who is Winning? Who is Lying? (2 hrs)
Scott Ritter is back after a year as we build a chronology of the events of the Russia-Ukraine War so far. What were Russia's goals? Did they succeed or fail? What were NATO's goals? Why did Russia's initial offensive not bring a negotiation? Why did sanctions on Russia fail? How can we determine who is winning or losing when war propaganda is this thick? We even have a little debate about the issues around which an antiwar movement could try to reconstitute itself. Negotiations to end this war? Scott thinks no. Arms control? Scott thinks maybe.
There was an antiwar rally in London last week...
The anti-Nato event they tried to stop (33 min)
Footage and interviews from the event that they tried to cancel.
Eventually held at Bolivar Hall (part of the Venezuelan cultural centre) and only made public on the day of the event, 'No 2 Nato, No 2 War' was chaired by George Galloway and was standing room only.
The Sy Hersh Nord Stream article is beginning to have effects. Sy had a couple of nice interviews...
Hersh: US bombed Nord Stream to prolong the Ukraine proxy war (45 min)
Seymour Hersh joins Aaron Maté to discuss his report on how the Biden administration bombed the Nord Stream gas pipelines, which blew up not only a vital Russian-German infrastructure project but a key off-ramp to peace in Ukraine.
NORD STREAM: Seymour Hersh Discusses Explosive Report With Gerald Celente...And Much More! (55 min)
Pulitzer Prize winning reporter gives an in-depth interview about his reportage into the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines that connect Russia to Germany and why he believes President Joe Biden approved the bombing.
German MP deems Nord Stream blast 'terrorist attack,' calls for probe (2 min)
Amidst all the hot conflicts is a slow insidious war on individuals. This interview is an hour and a half. I recommend watching or listening to it in two or three sessions. It is worth your time especially if you are not familiar with Whitney.
Time links by topic can be found here
Whitney Webb is a professional writer, researcher, journalist, and host of an independent podcast called Unlimited Hangout. We discuss deep state power, Jeffrey Epstein's case, and corruption at the highest levels.
Her point that TPTB use convenience to control us is spot on.
Snoopy had a piece at C99 about the 15 minute cities. Clayton and Natali covered them this week too.
Klaus Schwab's '15-minute cities' plan moves forward around the world
Protests are popping up around the world against something called 15 minute cities. We've covered 15 minute cities here on the show and we warned you about them and now that warning is starting to catch on. So what are 15 minute cities? It is a globalist dream for urban planning. Think The Hunger Games where you stay in your district or else.. They will sell this to us in the name of climate change. Will you buy into it?
It is my view that TPTB were very encouraged by the pandemic experience. However, several narratives about COVID are finally being debunked.
HANG ON! They're FINALLY admitting this after 3 years? (15 min)
A new study finds that having had Covid provides at least as much immunity as two doses of the Covid vaccine. This comes from the Lancet medical journal. The journal reviewed 65 prior studies that concluded that prior infection can be considered inoculation. Not only did natural exposure provide immunity as well as the vaccines, it also provided “protection against severe disease… for all variants.” This is something that the medical community has long-since known and yet experts still advised people who had Covid to get vaccinated without exception in the U.S.
Masks, the jury returns (15 min from Dr John)
RCTs did not show a clear reduction in respiratory viral infection with the use of medical/surgical masks. There were no clear differences between the use of medical/surgical masks compared with N95/P2 respirators in healthcare workers, when used in routine care to reduce respiratory viral infection.
30% More Young People Now DYING Of Heart Attacks – New Study
Adults in the United States under age 44 have experienced a shocking 30 percent increase in heart attack deaths since the beginning of the pandemic. What’s the cause? Many reasons have been cited, including less active lifestyles, vaping and drug use. But what’s definitely NOT the cause? COVID vaccines, even if you might think there’s a connection. (11 min)
There was a leak of the UK's Health Secretary's What's App messages revealing lockdowns were based on politics not science. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/lockdown-files/
George covers the tip of the iceburg of the leaks (1 min)
"Children were forced to wear masks, were deprived of sports and other extra-curricular activities for a year in Covid when our leaders knew that the masks were no good
Covid and the global war on the poor: a critique from the left (1.5 hrs)
Historian Toby Green and journalist Thomas Fazi join The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal to discuss their new book, "Covid and the global war on the poor: a critique from the left," which surveys the devastating impact of lockdowns and school closures on the planet's most vulnerable populations, from sub-Saharan Africa to major US and European metropolitan areas. Green and Fazi offer a searing analysis of the organized Western left's uncritical support for policies that enriched Big Tech and the pharmaceutical industry at the expense of the global poor.
As a result... Celebrities DEMAND Hollywood End Vaxx & Mask Mandates! (11 min)
On the heels of his SNL monologue calling Big Pharma a drug cartel, Woody Harrelson is following up by demanding that Hollywood TV and movie sets abandon onerous mask and vaccine mandates. And he’s being supported in those sentiments by other big name stars including Tim Robbins and Fran Drescher.
Perhaps people are waking up to the manipulation? I know I drank the plandemic Koolaid and over reacted. I like to think I won't be so gullible next time, because I think there might be a next time. Certainly looks like war is brewing against other countries and our own people....imperialism has come home.
Well to end on a more positive note, here at home spring has sprung. Daffodils, forsythia, spirea, redbuds, and more...
It is still two weeks till spring officially begins, but the plants say it is now. Hope your weather is nice, and you have some flowers to enjoy.
Comments
Good Morning
It is important to keep an eye on the cheerleads for war and oppression.
The anti-war voices are strangled into silence by the cheerleaders.
The US war machine wants to maintain our largest export product --
more wars = more profit.
Glad to see spring signs. Have some crocus and snowdrops here.
Cheers
question everything
Good morning...
I forgot to include this clip...(8 min)
which supports my claim of a war on us.
Used to do a project with the kids on the speed of spring using the daffodil bloom as the indicator. Took several schools roughly along the same longitude. Kinda fun.
So, spring is coming your way. Take care and be well!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Ok, that's it, you did it to me again
(at the risk of bumping into Poe's Law)
I found that this video described so well what and why we had such a kerfluffle over the cootie response. Why it had so much of an impact on my life and indirectly toward my lifestyle and my dealing with the changing circumstances as I age. BTW, aging is inevitable, getting old is not and in fact isn't measured in years. (personal opinion)
Anyway, I won't get into the content of the video because I agree with it too much. Instead I think I might use it to present my anecdotal exeprience with it. First, thread that grabbed me (paraphrased) I pulled at: "It appears that there are a number of different entities which have been involved in our current circumstances and no one understands how their independent actions all fit." Ie, no one in charge.
Anyway, when I looked at the youtube comments, one popped out at me (the thread above):
I hadn't seen Pournelle's Iron Law before so I started pulling at the thread. Ah! Looks like the Mandarin idea. Big mistake... don't bother trying to google that. No, I don't care about oranges or languages or diets right now. Nor do I want to spend the next hour trying to find what I'm looking for. Ah, a pedant is mentioned... maybe that will get me closer. Nope... that's a characteristic of a mandarin. (sorry I asked).
Bureaucracies are everywhere, from families to the local HOA to the highest political entity.
And that is how I lost my last 3 jobs, a family, and ended up in the tri-cities area in an apartment. I refuse to get old and sit where someone tells me to.
Fun times... I started looking at the catalog for the community college and auditing a Python class.
Enjoy the spring, please.
Glad you liked it!
I had it tagged to go in the body, but forgot. I try to cross them off as I post pieces in the watch, but some always get omitted. Too much news, too little time.
Sorry you're being herded, but good to hear you're making the best of the situation. Take care and stay young!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
here's more Joe and Russell telling us how evil Bill Gates is
I never knew that the term "Never Again" only pertained to
those born Jewish
"Antisemite used to be someone who didn't like Jews
now it's someone who Jews don't like"
Heard from Margaret Kimberley
Gates is evil...
...and the great irony is that he is sold as such a philanthropist when in reality he is an opportunistic, profiteer. If anyone has an interest there is a deep dive here:
https://www.thelastamericanvagabond.com/bill-gates-web-dark-money-influe...
Nice to "see" you today!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Great round up of news
going to keep me busy for a couple of days.
Still yourself, deep water can absorb many disturbances with minimal reaction.
--When the opening appears release yourself.
kept me busy for a couple of days too
I enjoyed your OT yesterday. It was good to see smiley's comments. Always nice to "see" old friends.
I'm already behind in the garden, but it will be fine. Looks like y'all had a cold winter hearing the story of still frozen soil.
Hope all is well on the homestead!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Tipping Point on COVID response FAILURE /FRAUD?
Good morning LO. Thanks for the OT!
With Matt Hancock’s comment “When do we deploy he new variant.” splashed on the front page of the British Telegram, above a story of a tragic teen ‘lockdown inspired suicide’, the public’s distrust in public health and government can only grow.
Ed Dowd’s long form interview with Tucker Carlson concerning alarming increases in excess mortality in the younger working age population takes a long view from recent actuarial data can not be ignored, (except for the willfully ignorant among the ‘safe and effective’ crowd). When those who trusted the official mRNA ‘safe and effective’ narrative understand the level of betrayal and manipulation that they have been subjected to, the tinder will have been lit.
“ …and when we destroy nature, we diminish our capacity to sense the divine,and understand who God is, and what our own potential is and duties are as human beings.- RFK jr. 8/26/2024
It is revealing...
Thanks for the link to Tucker's interview. I'll watch it later.
The Hancock story isn't being well covered in the states, but maybe it will become more common.
Thanks for the visit and links!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
A lot of cardiac problems are being blamed on long Covid
but here’s one study that shows that it’s not true.
Remember that people were told that if they had long Covid that they should get jabbed and it would help them with it. There have been many studies on long Covid, but unless they separate the jabbed from the unjabbed in the study I find them useless. Before the jabs came out we weren’t hearing much about cardiac issues, but after they did is when cases exploded. Pfizer was ordered to do a study on myocarditis that was due at the end of December, but their friends in the FDA just extended the deadline for another 6 months with no explanation.
Now we are getting a media blitz on all the things that are causing heart attacks that never seemed to cause them before. Yesterday it was on how early in life women gave birth or started their periods. Gardening is suddenly a life risking activity too don’t you know because there might be something in the soil.
Link
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.
~Hannah Arendt
Snoops...
You totally forgot that young people do not shower correctly. They get under the shower heads before the water temperature is neither too heart-shockingly cold or too hot. Stupid young people brought their heart attacks onto themselves.
This was explained on MSNBC.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
That sounds right...
How stupid do they think we are? Makes a good comedy story anyway.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Also too
Hancock is responsible for the massive deaths in nursing homes and not just for not testing everyone going into them, but because of the sedatives he gave people that slowed their breathing to put it mildly and had people sign DNRs. Let me know anyone is interested in this scandal.
So much for protecting grandma. Families were forbidden to see family in nursing homes because they might infect them, but Matt didn’t care how many employees were infected or not that probably did spread infection. I don’t think ‘botched' response is accurate. I think a lot of the botched responses were intentional. Almost every country allowed people recovering from the Rona to go into nursing homes. Almost 40% of the early deaths were from nursing homes across the world.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.
~Hannah Arendt
this is still not well known...
The risk of the pandemic was mismanaged, perhaps on purpose...like stifling the great barrington declaration, which has proven to be the approach we should have adopted.
There are many lessons in the pandemic. Thanks for chiming in on this bit.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Good morning, Lookout,
a packed full Watch, as usual, old friend. Love the farm Spring photos.
How's your music, still performing, i hope.
Keep-on -trucking
Not as much music as I would like....
since the pandemic hit. Got the Florida Folk fest end of May, and sadly playing for a friend's funeral in a couple of weeks.
Great to "see" you around the site. Hope you heal well and quickly from your surgery. As to your upcoming procedure, I've had several friends who have been delighted with their eye lens replacement....so good luck with that as well!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
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Thanks for the well wishes, had the cataracts for years, had to get glasses this summer at Eyeworld and when the nice young lady technicain came out from back and joined the sales person and i to have me try them on, i did and looked up at them and said "ladies, i came in here for prescription glasses, not binoculars." Big laughs around. Doc had warned me that 'you will know when' and sure enough, around xmas, the left eye covered up as looking through a spider's web.
Mostly, it's the time consumption, three appointments for each eye in my case.
How's the apple tree your were training on the trellis wall, you recall my love of apples...
Sorry about your loss; perhaps the hardest part of aging is the loss of good friends.
Good to talk, and thanks for the good work here.
Apple trees are doing well...
...as are all my pandemic fruit plantings. Native chestnuts still thriving too.
I've got another buddy who got his first eye done and about to do the second one. Good luck!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Now as far as the rest of this power packed WW
Here's Ms Evil reincarnate
And here is a member of Namibia telling the German colonialist what
the new reality is in todays new world order
I never knew that the term "Never Again" only pertained to
those born Jewish
"Antisemite used to be someone who didn't like Jews
now it's someone who Jews don't like"
Heard from Margaret Kimberley
Samantha is pretty evil too...
...blatantly admitting were sacrificing Ukrainian lives to weaken Russia.
Africa is standing up to the west. Nice to see.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Alex x3 and Cyrus
Watched that a few days ago, very good. I've been watching Cyrus for a couple of years now. It's interesting to see him evolve from a TED talk type, to take up a more progressive stance on foreign policy especially as it concerns China.
Snoopydawg pointed out on the Saturday Potluck thread Austin's letter to the force about an aggressive China being a "generational threat," using the now typical Orwellian speak about a so called "rules based order." Meanwhile the US systematically salami slices prior agreements with China (the three communiques) and the Chinese redline over Taiwan. The generational threat image is interesting because it brings to mind not only the WWII phrase "the greatest generation" but also the generation skipping nature of US policy toward China. The US had to turn around its hostile policy to China to help extricate itself from its strategic defeat in Vietnam. Now somehow US elites imagine that something has changed in East Asia, that permits it to conduct itself in a colonial manner again, as it did during the early twentieth century, in concert with Japan and England. I see earlier "gunboat diplomacy" by the US and the same partners as one of the key roots of the Great Pacific War (WWII).
The NY Times had an article on a growing South Korean arms industry thus far not exporting to Ukraine.
They’re Exporting Billions in Arms. Just Not to Ukraine.
As traditional weapons suppliers like the U.S. face wartime production shortages, South Korea has stepped in to fill the gap, while trying not to provoke Moscow.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/05/world/asia/ukraine-south-korea-arms.html
What is interesting about NY Times moving its Far East HQ to Seoul is that is has paired up with Joongang Daily, a major conservative South Korean media giant. Lately, multiple South Korean independent investigative media have been reporting on how Joongang, Chosun Ilbo, and Donga Media, the MSM in South Korea, (the mainstay of prior dictatorships) dominate the news cycle in South Korea, with a view toward keeping labor suppressed, social welfare policies checked, and promoting (unpopular) "conservative" pro-Japanese elite perspectives. They cooperate with the legal-judicial officials and corporate elites to repress opposition. The Times had opposed Trump's diplomatic overtures to North Korea after the "fire and fury" crisis. Unfortunately, Trump lost his nerve, backed down from MIC pressure and allowed John Bolton to sabotage the negotiations.
This morning South Korea's state subsidized MBC network ran a seven plus hour long live broadcast feed on youtube covering the escalating military crisis on the Korean peninsula. No commercials all military coverage, with undiplomatic threats exchanged back and forth between North Korea, and South Korea and the US. I think one thing that goes generally unrecognized is that crises of this nature on the Korean peninsula and between mainland China and Taiwan are historically related. It's really hard to predict where a potential war will break out first, across the Taiwan straits or on the Korean Peninsula. Superior US naval power had prevented both fronts from breaking out at the same time during the Korean conflict.
It's ironic that US official denials that the US military strategy in Korea calls for "de-capitation of North Korean command leadership" are repeatedly contradicted in the MBC broadcast which openly refer to the Special Forces operations in South Korea, as taking out North Korea's command headquarters.
(Source- MBC live news, youtube, 3.5) The caption reads... Attack on North Korean command center exercise...unprecedented publication.
The broadcast referred to the various US-ROK joint military exercises to take place this month as "the largest in five years," including "strategic assets" to signal US resolve to respond with nuclear weapons. It also showed South Korean military representatives on board a US SLBM in the US in an unprecedented visit.
All this has been an effort to distract from and compensate for, Yoon's political weaknesses, including his proven lies during his presidential campaign, his quisling status vis a vis Japan, the first lady's family corruption, the pervasive corruption of South Korean MSM, and Yoon's consistent use of judicial administration and prosecutors to persecute political opposition. In fact, it's becoming difficult to distinguish the Yoon administration from prior dictatorships in South Korea.
Kim Yo-jong, dictator Kim Jong-un's sister was quoted as saying that further continuation of provocative US ROK joint military exercises in Korea, will be viewed as a "declaration of war." I guess this is bluster, until Kim Jong-un says it himself. The latest North Korean missile launches were a two shot salvo of 600mm rocket artillery. Interestingly, the graphic MBC used showed how the respective flight tracks of two launches coincidentally showed profiles consistent with attacks on US Air Force bases in South Korea, Kunsan and Cheongju.
(Source- MBC live news, youtube, 3.5)
It's difficult to tell if this is actual video from Friday's combined air exercise over South Korean airspace, with B-1b's, South Korean F-35s and US F-16s or file footage from last year.
(Source- MBC live news, youtube, 3.5)
I scanned videos from a few South Korean independent media sources to try to determine the size of Saturday's Candlelight Movement demonstration in Seoul. I understand the demo included passing by the Japanese embassy. It was difficult to determine the size of the demo, it appeared to be smaller than earlier demonstrations, but it probably was in the tens of thousands. I suspect that threats of national security investigations against organizers has had an impact. I never see any reports of these demonstrations in South Korean or US mainstream media.
(edit- one place name correction and grammar)
語必忠信 行必正直
Thanks for the links and info...
Media is key to creating and maintaining a narrative. How long before the US start outright banning alternate media like 'elensky? Oh yeah we already have, take RT, for example, and now tictok and so on.
War games are war practice aren't they?
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Great Open thread
Lookout. Great OT. Thank you!
語必忠信 行必正直
my pleasure...
putting it together helps me clarify my thoughts on the weeks happenings. As is the way of things, some weeks I'm more perceptive than others.
Thanks.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
While US relations
w China are an increasing concern and not to be lightly dismissed, my sense is that the greatest danger still lies in Europe and Ukraine. 75% chance at this time that things could devolve into a direct US conflict w Russia, which means WW3. This could result directly from military actions expanding beyond Ukr and into Russia, or it could involve the US, realizing Ukr is a lost cause, moving the goal posts and making Finland, Poland or Germany the center of the action.
That said, it is remarkable that with tensions greatly increased w Russia and China, there are virtually no voices in power speaking out against this madness. The so-called progressive left -- Bernie, the Squad, even Marianne Williamson, the advocate of Peace and Love except wrt Ukr -- are silent or complicit in encouraging the warmongering. With the exception of a scant few skeptics re Ukr on the far right, the GOP is doing its usual thing of accusing the Dem prez of taking a Soft on Russia attitude.
We are deep into an era of no courageous, intelligent, moral leadership to be found on either side of the aisle. Just pols bought and paid for, out to protect their own political position, afraid of crossing the national security establishment.
I would personally give Marianne Williamson a piece of my mind on all this, but I understand she no longer lives in my area.
Hey it's the best government money can buy!
....and it is most certainly bought. I found it humorous last week when the shitlibs were coming unglued because Woody called big pharma drug cartels that bought all the media and politicians. The warmongers own a piece of them too. And so here we are.
The end of Whitney's clip above she is asked what can we do? I liked her answer, grow a garden or link up with those who do. Consider your water supply, and so on. Sounded like me. As I mentioned in today's watch, they get most people to be compliant by offering convenience. Smart phones for example or getting the jab so you can go out to eat or be with friends.
The larger psy-op is broad and deep, and most folks are captured. As important and dangerous as the proxy war with Russia continues to be, don't sell short the risk of including China in the mix.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
No question it's
important right now for us freethinkers who want to have a chance at survival to "cultiver notre jardin" as Voltaire advised. I just wish I had started my 3-person/no pets backyard fallout shelter earlier than I did. Still might be one opening, once I get around to completing the project, for one adult who can pass a simple multiple choice test on US history and civics. I want to at least have decently interesting conversations and minimal negativity if I'm going to be stuck for a few weeks underground with 2 others.
Re China, I figure a world war will happen over Europe again as militarily the US would calculate it stands a better chance of success in that theater compared to Asia, because there has been far more public hate against Russia whipped up and for longer as compared to China, and bc there are far more hardcore Russophobes in positions of power and influence on US foreign policy than there are Sinophobes and so the bulk of the war fever will continue to be focused against Russia.
ETA: In the increasingly probable US v Russia war, China will almost certainly enter militarily on the side of Russia, because if the US is not dealt a harsh lesson, China knows it will be next.
Good morning Lookout, et. y'all. Thanks for the OT
and all of the information, LO.
Thought I'd just poke one piece of the pile
; but bear with me, it's roundabout. Some quasi-fundamentals:
FIRST: Bad question, almost nothing in reality is strictly mono-causal and hence the simplistic "find a cause and cure it" kneejerk reaction at all levels is doomed to be somewhat suboptimally productive.
SECOND: Randomness exists. Corollary - there is no such thing as some randomness, ergo the universe is probabilistic
THIRD: Sardonic Law - Finagle's Law might be correct. Finagle's Law: "The universe (acts as if it) tends toward maximum perversity at all points in space-time" Corollary - inanimate objects (act as if they) are perverse.
OK -ages ago I read that no previous generation had been so massively experimented on, cradle to grave, as the boomers. Quite true, as far as it goes. Massive exposure throughout life to a vast array of toxins and disrupters delivered by contact, ingestion in food, water, air, and more, and that includes radiation, often gratuitously used as a "possible treatment" back in the early days. "Psychological trauma" of all kinds, visual/aesthetic pollution, noise pollution, alienation from nature, destruction of nature, overcrowding, constant wars, propaganda, division, certain marketing techniques, and more.
Minor detail - we were the first generation constantly bathed in all that, but not the last; younger generations have arguable been subject to more, more pervasively and more at each age bracket/life stage.
When you take people living under quasi-marginal concitions as to sanitation, health practices, available medical care and treatment, nutritional and dietary and the like and move them to a society of relative plenty the first few succeeding generations are generally larger, healthier, stronger and the like and stillbirths and ionfant mortality drop. But, this is not a hyperbolic, parabolic or exponential curve, nor even a positively sloped straight line. The benefits of better sanitation, nutrition, education, medical and dental care and all that level off unless there are equivalent improvements and enhancements at each step or stage. Hence some one of the "improved" stages becomes baseline. Against this "improved" baseline, the cumulative effects of a continual ever increasing toxic load, both physiological and psychological will lead to a regression and falling off of not only health and mental enhancement but of health and mental condition overall relative to the enhanced baseline. We have poisoned and still are poisoning all of the younger generations in innumerable ways and this will be manifested in things like inexplicable increases in physical and psychological malfunctions. In a sense, "modern life" is causing the increase in heart failures, other types of ailments and syndromes and the like if only because it includes all the stressors on the population and its members and facilitates or mandates their interraction.
DRIVERS: Constant growth as an unstated goal undeerpinning everything. It is not a sustainable model for anything except cancer, and the pressures to attain and maintain it are in and of themselves stressors and lead to the endless creation of manifold new stressors. A profit driven society, lifestyle, business model and the like, in short Capitalism can only derange things ever further as it calls forth behaviors and decisions that are simply a perverse implementatiion of the constant growth model.
Be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Jimmy is a comedian...
...and he often says he isn't a math surgeon. He posted the quoted question. The purpose was to make a joke of this study which didn't mention the jab.
You made some interesting points especially the idea that capitalism/growth leads to our poor health.
Thanks for coming by and sharing.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
I'd honestly like to know --
what Douglas Macgregor is leaving out here:
Yes, we know that Zelensky is a "criminal" because he's in the game with a lot of other criminals who were there before he was even in politics. What is he leaving out other than that, I mean.
“The loyal Left cannot act decisively. Their devotion to the system is a built-in kill switch limiting dissent.” - Richard Moser
& as for covid:
the diary says:
I'm sure that, at this point in the game (as opposed to, say, one and a half years ago), having had covid provides a lot more immunity than any vaccine currently on offer. The catch is, of course, that to have had covid you have to have covid, which was something a lot of people did not want to risk back when covid was "original Wuhan virus," "Alpha," or "Delta." Omicron is a different ball-game.
“The loyal Left cannot act decisively. Their devotion to the system is a built-in kill switch limiting dissent.” - Richard Moser
Additionally the test were unreliable...
but no doubt having the virus proves better immunity than vaccination. Used to be common knowledge but the ministry of truth corrected that.
MacGregor is pretty accurate in his analysis. Not sure what he left out. Thanks for the clip.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
A lot of the truth about COVID-19 changed over time
The viruses mutated, and the mutations achieved successive dominance according to increasing levels of contagion -- so for instance with Omicron there was an original virus, and then BA1 and BA2, and BA2 replaced BA1 and was replaced in turn by BA2.12.1, which was replaced by BA4 and BA5, and then later BA5 replaced BA4. We should consider ourselves lucky that BA5 is not like the original virus, Alpha, or Delta.
Meanwhile, as the viruses were mutating, the vaccines were subject to a law of diminishing results, such that the immunity offered by the shots lasted for smaller and smaller intervals of time the more often one was vaccinated.
“The loyal Left cannot act decisively. Their devotion to the system is a built-in kill switch limiting dissent.” - Richard Moser
They knew and lied about lots and lots of it...
Check out the lockdown files.
Here's what they are calling the ten best revelations
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/03/04/matt-hancock-lockdown-files-...
And I agree omicron was a saving grace essentially providing global immunity.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
First off,
thanks for the ww. between this and joes weeknight recap anybody(with eyes to see. . .) can see the West is Not the ‘Good Guys’ in the world today.
Were we ever?
It appears at this time that the Silos of preferred news might be cracking apart, hopefully.
Folks are starting to understand that Everything being reported is based on lies of narrative. Sure, there’s Some truth in amongst the lies that can be cherry picked to glamour people into believing said narrative.
I’m surprised at the culture war ops on the site being pushed as distractions to actual Truth. Scratchin’ me head on that. But, it does helps clarify who and what to pay attention to. Or not, as the case may be.
For those wishing to purge the toxins of the jab from the body there are studies going on that potentially show some success. I won’t link(pita) but the ‘regulars’ will know where to look.
Germ in the comments of another site posted the musings of an ordained(?) friar on his interpretation of where this shite will lead in the next couple of years. Reality, fantasy, or a conspiracy theory?
I hope it’s not the last of those three ‘cause the ct folks have proved to be Spoiler Alerts nine to twelve months out.
I can run heavy equipment as well as pound nails and cut boards.
Job security? Fuck, I hope not.
Glad smiley’s making a comeback, ‘ware the weather headed your way.
Is it me or did we lose a post overnight???
eta- I gotta go shovel snow(again? still?)
amazing how three feet of the white stuff can wear one out moving it to Someplace Else.
Be well, All
and I do mean All!
Ya got to be a Spirit, cain't be no Ghost. . .
Explain Bldg #7. . . still waiting. . .
If you’ve ever wondered whether you would have complied in 1930’s Germany,
Now you know. . .
sign at protest march
I agree
The greeks are very upset over their train wreck. Officially the elites are trying to slough it off onto the rail company (have I seen that before?) but the people seem to be blaming the lack of infrastructure investment.
Better reporting from the non-west media.
Alex is in Greece...
where he visits the protest site after the fact, but he speaks about the anger people feel.
It is his first topic...
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Alex is one of my first visits in my morning regimen
and I was quite surprised when I saw the coverage of the train protests. BTW, I noticed just over his shoulder the small group holding the Ukr flag, not very enthusiastically. Anyway, that's what got me chasing after the snooze coverage. A pretty tepid one from yahoo, hardly any from our other outlets. India had more but again, fairly tepid. Wait... I saw a cnn. False alarm, it was their India affiliate.
I also check the Eurasianist twitter regularly. It has quite a bit about the anti-Ukr protests in the Eu capitols, like the one in Moldova calling for the immediate resignation of Sandu. France and Germany are heating up also.
Anyway, I wonder about the merger of the anti-establishment movement and the anti-Ukr movements, like France merger of the yellow vest and the anti-NATO.
I believe it's going to be a very interesting summer.
I think you're right...
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
I hope so too!
Thanks for the visit and comment!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
I ordered a galvanized steel
outdoor storage shed to be delivered March 9. Or 10th, or ...It is Lowe's, after all. It's the little things that that organize tools. I will miss the exercise afforded by tripping over shovels and rakes, then using all those muscles to stay upright.
LO, this is a great Weekly Watch! Thanks!
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
The shed sounds like a good idea...
You can work on your agility in other safer ways.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Not much coverage of this in the MSM
Nor this.
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2023/03/05/699345/Netanyahu-raps-IAEA-chie...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has denounced as “unworthy” the recent comments by International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Rafael Grossi, who said any military attack on Iranian nuclear facilities would be illegal.
The chief of the UN nuclear watchdog said on Saturday that any military attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities would be “illegal” and “outlawed,” as he was responding to US and Israeli threats to target them.
“I think any attack, any military attack on a nuclear facility is outlaw [sic], is out of the normative structures that we all abide by,” Grossi said at a joint news conference with the head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, Mohammad Eslami, in Tehran.
The remarks came amid reports that the Biden administration has drawn closer to Israel in recent weeks, conducting large-scale joint military exercises with the regime as talks on the Islamic Republic’s peaceful nuclear program have hit a deadlock.
Evidently they are basically eliminating the...
judicial system. What democracy?
Thanks for the tweets!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
The Nazification in Ukraine starts at a young age.
Starting them out young....
...is the effective way. Take it from a retired teacher.
Someone was taking about possible new NATO head and Finance minister of Canada, Chrystia Freeland's childhood attendance at Ukraine camps in Canada...can't find the link but here's heaps on her Nazi background...
https://www.civilianintelligencenetwork.ca/2022/02/23/chrystia-freelands...
https://strategic-culture.org/news/2017/01/27/chrystia-freeland-family-r...
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Chris nails it as usual
Lynching the Deplorables
Shitlibs once stood for human rights, but 4 years of Orange Man Bad destroyed almost every principle they once had. I think this is one of the many things they have shed is the one that appalls me the most. Next is their support for censorship and they’re still being anti war as they scream for Russian blood while ignoring the many countries that their own military is in. I think shitlibs is a well deserved name for those who fit this description.
Milley made the case for Russia’s military operation during his visit to Syria. He told the troops that they have every right to be in Syria without UN permission because they are keeping ISIS from rising again and threatening America’s safety thousands of miles away from its shores. Russia has every right to defend its country from Nazism rising again right on its own border. Plus the attacks on Russian civilians and attacks on Russia itself. Iran missed its chance of getting revenge for the Iranian general that Trump murdered.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.
~Hannah Arendt
Chris is almost always on target...
Jan 6 raises more questions than answers from me....like where were the cops when twitter was afire with their plans? A couple of weeks before the BLM rally bought out hundreds of militarized police, but almost no presence on Jan. 6? And then known FBI plants egging on the invasion of the capitol? I mean I was born during the day, but not yesterday. It stinks to high heaven.
It is not that I'm a Trump supporter, but I am a truth supporter. Thanks for the article!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Exactly
All intelligence agencies, and police forces and even madam Pelosi knew that there was going to be a huge protest in DC and plans for thousands of Trump supporters to descend there and Trump even offered DC mayor and Pelosi the national guard, but both turned him down. Then when all hell broke out the guard was offered again and again turned down because of how it would look. Well it sure looked good when the guard was finally deployed and built a fence around the capital building for weeks if not months.
Next we had the one sided kabuki dem show that selectively showed what they wanted shown and then show trials in the prejudiced kabuki courts where people got longer sentences for minor offenses. And now we have McCarthy releasing tapes to only Carlson instead of giving them to all media companies and so shitlibs are already saying that any releases are going to be deep fakes.
Meanwhile thousands of lives have been ruined and families broken up and the rule of law stands for nothing anymore. I wonder how many families lost their homes while a spouse was locked in solitary confinement for years? As Chris says this shitshow by Democrats is going to have repercussions long into the future. And the country is even more divided into us and them. The right is still questioning why the more violent blm supporters got away with so much destruction and violence.
I still think Trump was a patsy and he set his supporters up. Many had been locked in solitary confinement while he was still president and could have given every person involved a pardon.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.
~Hannah Arendt
Trump was indeed a puppet..
The simple fact of the appointees in his cabinet and beyond is proof enough....from Bolton to Rexonn Tillerson, to "they told us to lie" Pompous, etc. There are no pols we can trust...sadly.
Used to have Dennis Kucinich. I once thought we had Bernie, but he sold out.
The fraud squad is just that....a fraud. We the people have no one in DC.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Iverson asked some pointed questions
Kucinich sorta skirted the basic issue. The system has to be changed to allow a third
party to participate in the primaries without having to jump thru impossible hoops. If this
coalition can do anything to further their ambitions, there needs to be a third choice on
all the ballots -- call it independent. How to do that, I do not know. But it would be a
powerful tool to shake up the establishment.
wishes are fishes swimming against the tide
question everything
Politics won't solve our problems, it is the problem
bought and sold as previously discussed, but there are those with some good intentions. Dennis was/is a consistent antiwar voice, and for that alone I appreciate him.
Here's something fun that fits today's theme...
Have a good evening!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Timely article
Link
Let’s see republicans investigate this. And bring in Pelosi to see what she knew about it and ask her why she had her daughter bring in a professional film crew to follow her around that day.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.
~Hannah Arendt
The whole thing reeks of a set up...
I also have suspicions about the BLM protests/riots...lots fishy about them too.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/pallets-of-bricks-protest-sites/
Taking Jan 6 and BLM protests together it seems aimed to silo them into their respective groups increasing national division....did a pretty good job of it too.
Thanks for the article.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Where to start….
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.
~Hannah Arendt
Not very many 30 yr olds.
They couldn't afford it.
That Jill. So ready to defend her man.
I'd like to ask her about Hunter.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
I know right?
What a silly thing to say. Maybe she should have a contest and see how many 30 year olds could actually accomplish that amazing feat. I’m sure lots of 30 year olds would love to see if they could do it in some amazing country that they would like to visit.
I’d love to ask her about Hunter too. Was it trying to live up to dad’s expectations or his older brother’s? I don’t remember Joe talking about him like he does Beau except for when he’s defending him. The daughter has some issues too. I guess showering with dad might do that.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.
~Hannah Arendt
He is so brave...
He went to Ukraine with only the Russian military to defend him.
Plus the PR staff sounded the siren during the optic visit.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
signing out ..have a good night!
See you tomorrow...
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”