“Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.”
Pablo Picasso

It has been just over 4 1/2 years ...

On April 25, 2019, former vice president Joe Biden released a video announcing his candidacy in the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries.
Wikipedia 11/2023

Reflecting on the body count of deaths and declined health status in the US and around the world related to US political cycle.

Worldwide pandemic

Detailed presentation of Dr. McCullough's observations and analysis of the world's journey with SARS-CoV-2 and COVID treatments. He is by one of the world's top medical practitioners, researcher and author and has spent the last 3 years focused on the subject. (thanks on the cusp)

Dr. McCullough delivered a speech to the European Union Parliament on September 13, 2023, in a session dedicated to the World Health Organization and Pandemic response. There were four attorneys and five scientists who made presentations. Dr. McCulllough's speech was organized around three main concepts:

The Complex has inflicted global terror through three false narratives:

1) SARS-CoV-2 infection is unassailable. It cannot and will not be treated early. The only public health responses are to social distance, lock-down, and mask-up, and take genetic vaccines every six months with no end in sight.

2) The COVID-19 vaccines are safe and effective, with no questions allowed from academia, mainstream media, or among peers.

3) The massive human toll of Spike protein injuries, disabilities, and death are from the coronavirus infection, not the accumulating synthetic mRNA coding for cellular production and circulation of the same long-lasting Spike protein.

Dr. McCullough's Speech at the European Parliament (17:35 min)

Ukrainian intel plans false flag operations with use of bioweapons — Russia’s top brass

Ukrainian special services may be planning to stage false flag operations with the use of biological weapons, Chief of Russia’s Radiation, Chemical and Biological Protection Troops Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov warned.

According to the general, the Science and Technology Center in Ukraine (STCU), the key distributor of grants issued by the Pentagon, resumed operations in Kiev earlier this year, and a training on response to biological threats was held at the Galitsky National Medical University in Lvov with financial support from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and STCU mediation in August-September.
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The scenario of the training included the use of a virus of high pathogen avian flu which has the potential of causing a transspecies outbreak and is highly lethal for humans. According to the program of the training, Kirillov said, Ukraine’s Nikolayev Region registers cases of this infectious disease, after which samples are collected and analyzed.

"As a result, a conclusion is made that the incident was `highly likely’ caused by Russian bio-sabotage. News of an outbreak gets coverage in mass media, mostly Western media outlets," Kirillov said. A probe may later be initiated involving the mandate of the UN Secretary General with a view to discrediting Russia and imposing additional sanctions on it, he concluded.

If Bird Flu becomes a larger issue we still need to address the medical fallout while the finger pointing is going on. Currently only commercial and backyard/hobbyist poultry flock owners have been affected by Bird Flu. Not the best source for medical information, but until the condition appears in large number of people quality medical sites will not appear.

Prevention and Antiviral Treatment of Bird Flu Viruses in People at Centers for Disease Control.

Ukraine and Russian Special Military Operation

Peace negotiations would have been sucessful in April 2022 without Western Interference and a visit by British prime minister Boris Johnson.

Now the US press has switched from total support to ditch the Zelensky. The media campaign has started with an article at Time.

‘Nobody Believes in Our Victory Like I Do.’ Inside Volodymyr Zelensky’s Struggle to Keep Ukraine in the Fight Time Oct 30, 1023, edited Nov 1, 2023

Public support for aid to Ukraine has been in decline for months in the U.S., and Zelensky’s visit did nothing to revive it. Some 41% of Americans want Congress to provide more weapons to Kyiv, down from 65% in June, when Ukraine began a major counteroffensive, according to a Reuters survey taken shortly after Zelensky’s departure. That offensive has proceeded at an excruciating pace and with enormous losses, making it ever more difficult for Zelensky to convince partners that victory is around the corner. With the outbreak of war in Israel, even keeping the world’s attention on Ukraine has become a major challenge.

After his visit to Washington, TIME followed the President and his team back to Kyiv, hoping to understand how they would react to the signals they had received, especially the insistent calls for Zelensky to fight corruption inside his own government, and the fading enthusiasm for a war with no end in sight.

Middle East, Israel and Hamas

Nakba 2.0 Revives the Neocon Wars Strategic Culture Pepe Escobar October 30, 2023

The Israel vs. Arab Children War, which doubles as the Hegemon vs. Axis of Resistance War, both a sub-branch of the NATO vs. Russia and NATO vs. China War, is veering totally out of control.
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The immediate goal of Straussian neocon psychos and their silos across the Beltway is to go for Syria, Lebanon – and ultimately Iran.

That’s what explains the presence in the Central and Eastern Mediterranean of a fleet of at least 73 U.S./NATO warships – ranging from two American aircraft carrier groups to 30+ ships from 14 NATO members involved in the ongoing Dynamic Mariner war games off the coast of Italy.

That’s the largest concentration of U.S./NATO warships since the 1970s.
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his has metastasized into the greatest world crisis since 1939. The Straussian neocon psychos in D.C. have no clue how to back off. So as it stands there is less than zero hope for a peaceful solution for both intertwined wars.

As I previously stressed, the leaders of major oil producers – Russia, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait – can cut off almost half of oil production in the world in one fell swoop, demolishing the entire economies of the EU and U.S. without firing a shot. Diplomatic sources assure this is being seriously considered.

As an old school Deep State source, now in Europe, told me, serious players are actively involved in sending this message to the Beltway “to make the U.S. think twice about igniting a war that they cannot control. When they go to Wall St. to check out the derivative exposure they will already have had time to think it over as documents were sent to folks like Larry Fink at Blackrock and Michael Bloomberg.”
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The Israeli Ministry of Intelligence’s deportation directive affecting 2.3 million Palestinians is quite clear. It has been officially endorsed by the Ministry on October 13.
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Humanitarian Law and Policy Consultant Itay Epshtain has noted, “I have not been able to detect, as of yet, an agenda item or government decision endorsing the directive of the Ministry. If it was indeed presented and approved it would not likely be in the public domain.”

Scott Ritter: Russia, Israel, and the Law of War Regarding Civilians Sputnik Globe November 3, 2023

nevitably, this discussion leads to an effort to compare Russia’s conduct in the Special Military Operation with Israel’s behavior to date regarding Gaza. The particular example of Mariupol is often raised as a point of comparison with the ongoing Israeli operation in Gaza.
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Russia has cited the inherent right of individual and collective self-defense, as enshrined in Article 51 of the Charter, as justification for the initiation of its military operation.

Article 51 reads as follows:
“Nothing in the present Charter shall impair the inherent right of individual or collective self-defense if an armed attack occurs against a Member of the United Nations, until the Security Council has taken measures necessary to maintain international peace and security. Measures taken by Members in the exercise of this right of self-defense shall be immediately reported to the Security Council and shall not in any way affect the authority and responsibility of the Security Council under the present Charter to take at any time such action as it deems necessary in order to maintain or restore international peace and security.”
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Russia’s President set forth a cognizable claim under the doctrine of anticipatory collective self-defense as it applies to Article 51, citing the ongoing, imminent threat to the Russian-speaking population of the Donbass from a brutal eight-year-long bombardment that had killed thousands of people.
For its part, Israel has repeatedly cited its inherent right to self-defense when justifying its ongoing military operations in Gaza. But Russia’s Ambassador to the United Nations, Vassily Nebenzia, has rejected that claim, declaring that, “as an occupying power, it [Israel] does not have that power.”

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“Military necessity” and “distinction” serve as the core principles around which the international community has codified specific acts that constitute war crimes in the form of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, in particular Article 8 (War Crimes). These include:

• Intentionally directing attacks against the civilian population as such or against individual civilians not taking direct part in hostilities;
• Intentionally directing attacks against civilian objects, that is, objects which are not military objectives;
• Intentionally directing attacks against personnel, installations, material, units, or vehicles involved in a humanitarian assistance or peacekeeping mission in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations, as long as they are entitled to the protection given to civilians or civilian objects under the international law of armed conflict; and
• Intentionally launching an attack in the knowledge that such attack will cause incidental loss of life or injury to civilians or damage to civilian objects.

Regarding their respective battles for Mariupol and Gaza, both Russia and Israel have been accused of engaging in activity that violates all of the acts described above. The main point that distinguishes Russia from Israel in this regard is that Russian doctrine specifically prohibits the behavior described. Israeli doctrine, both written and spoken, embraces it.

Intel Roundtable w/ RayMcGovern & LarryJohnson: Who is winning Hamas/Israeli war? (Nov 3, 2023

The livestream videos this week by Judge Napolitano channel ongoing discussions regarding current events in Israel/Hamas/Gaza, secondary subject China and third subject Ukraine/Russia conflict. The interviews are generally posted on Monday through Friday if would like to view them in a more timely manner. The link opens in the LIVE column, occasionally an interview only appears in VIDEOS section.

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