Concerned Citizens,
Jenny is a School Librarian and her book Fair started today. We were both up and coffeed and out well before dawn this morning, as she went to engage kids and parents all week, and I rode a couple of miles to the early voting site, wearing my "Palestine" bike jersey, and sporting front and rear flashing lights.
There was a pretty long line at 6:50, when I arrived, and it got longer. They had to redirect the tail of the snake all over to the other side of the door, due to blocking entrances to businesses. It was fairly quiet and reserved outside, with light conversation, nothing partisan, but I felt the tension when I stepped through the door. I wasn't expecting that, and it didn't feel like "me" to me... Maybe it was. I doubt it.
Everything proceeded normally, with wait lines at each step, and I forgot to read the fine print on my ballot-printout, even though I brought reading glasses, because everybody was waiting for everybody else to move-along. Maybe my Jill Stein vote got flipped to Harris or Trump...
..Oh, well.
As I exited the door a lade smiled in my face and gave the "power fist" or "solidarity sign", with a meaningful look. I guess she noticed my Palestine jersey.
I smiled back automatically. That's me...
The eastern sky had brightened up and the sun rose over the horizon as I rode home. None of that was unexpected, though.
Who knows what's going to go down by Valentine's Day?
UNIFIL statement reiterates intention to remain in area despite Israeli demands
The growing chorus of international voices calling for Israel to stop hassling the UNIFIL peacekeepers in southern Lebanon appears to be falling on deaf ears, and a new statement from UNIFIL reports that an IDF bulldozer demolished their perimeter fence and a watchtower in Marwahin.
Israel has not commented on this specific incident yet, and it is unclear why they destroyed that particular watchtower, and in so deliberate a manner. It is worth noting that just a few days ago Israeli tanks attacked a damaged a similar UNIFIL watchtower and cameras in Kfar Kela, which is only 5 km from the site of today’s demolition. https://news.antiwar.com/
Israel has not commented on this specific incident yet, and it is unclear why they destroyed that particular watchtower, and in so deliberate a manner. It is worth noting that just a few days ago Israeli tanks attacked a damaged a similar UNIFIL watchtower and cameras in Kfar Kela, which is only 5 km from the site of today’s demolition. https://news.antiwar.com/
Three partially functioning hospitals in the Northern Gaza Strip, which treats severely wounded Palestinians, have now been surrounded and shelled by Israel’s military tanks, according to health authorities. https://www.presstv.ir/
Hossam Abu Safiya, the hospital’s director, confirmed in a statement that Israeli strikes have damaged the hospital’s water tanks and electricity grid, severely disrupting medical services.
The area surrounding the hospital has been subjected to intense bombing and gunfire for several hours, placing patients and medical staff in grave danger, he added.
This assault on the hospital is part of a broader campaign of relentless air and artillery strikes that have pummeled northern Gaza for 16 days.
The Jabalia refugee camp and surrounding areas have also been hit particularly hard, with witnesses reporting plumes of thick smoke rising from the devastated neighborhoods. https://www.
The area surrounding the hospital has been subjected to intense bombing and gunfire for several hours, placing patients and medical staff in grave danger, he added.
This assault on the hospital is part of a broader campaign of relentless air and artillery strikes that have pummeled northern Gaza for 16 days.
The Jabalia refugee camp and surrounding areas have also been hit particularly hard, with witnesses reporting plumes of thick smoke rising from the devastated neighborhoods. https://www.
Last Saturday, an Israeli air strike targeted Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, killing at least 87 people and injuring dozens, including children. The Israeli strike also destroyed an entire residential block in Beit Lahia in northern Gaza, according to witnesses. https://www.
“An independent sovereign nation called ‘Palestine’ with security guarantees for Israel to make sure there’s no future October 7ths,” Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said in a recent interview. “It will be more like an emirate than it will be a democracy. MBS and MBZ at the UAE will come in and rebuild Gaza … create an enclave in the Palestine” — referring to Mohammed bin Salman, the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, and United Arab Emirates President Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan.
Graham, one of the biggest hawks in Congress, also praised Blumenthal for being “a Democrat trying to get the votes” for a deal requiring the U.S. to “go to war for Saudi Arabia.”
Despite claims of wanting justice for Palestinians or supporting a two-state solution, American officials make little mention of Palestinian self-determination. None of the post-war plans offered have involved an election or process that would allow Palestinians to have a say in their future after enduring the humanitarian emergency of the Israeli war against them. https://theintercept.com/
Graham, one of the biggest hawks in Congress, also praised Blumenthal for being “a Democrat trying to get the votes” for a deal requiring the U.S. to “go to war for Saudi Arabia.”
Despite claims of wanting justice for Palestinians or supporting a two-state solution, American officials make little mention of Palestinian self-determination. None of the post-war plans offered have involved an election or process that would allow Palestinians to have a say in their future after enduring the humanitarian emergency of the Israeli war against them. https://theintercept.com/
Scott Ritter seems to be one step behind events, but maybe he just can't acknowledge the seismographic data. SCOTT RITTER: Iran’s Bomb Is Real — And It’s Here
This is the situation confronting Israel and the United States as they decide on an Israeli retaliation against Iran for the Oct. 1 missile attack.
Iran has indicated that any attack against its nuclear or oil and gas production capabilities would be viewed as existential in nature. That could trigger the reversal of the fatwa and the deployment of nuclear weapons within days of such a decision being made.President Joe Biden told reporters on Friday that he knows when and where Israel will strike but refused to say. Leaked U.S. intelligence documents in recent days showed the limits of U.S. knowledge of exactly what Israel plans to do.
The United States and nuclear-power Israel have long said that a nuclear-armed Iran was a red line which could not be crossed without severe consequences, namely massive military intervention designed to destroy Iran’s nuclear infrastructure.
That line has been crossed — Iran is a de facto nuclear power, even if it hasn’t taken the final steps to complete the construction of a nuclear bomb.
The consequences of attacking Iran could prove fatal to the attackers and possibly the whole region. https://consortiumnews.com/
The October 5 Seismic event in Iran had no pre-tremors, just a huge shock with decaying echoes, like an underground explosion, not like an earthquake.
Iran earthquake sparks speculation of covert nuclear weapons testThe possibility that Iran carried out a nuclear test is being discussed at high levels in Tehran amid Israeli threats to bomb the Islamic Republic's nuclear infrastructure https://thecradle.co/
I'd like an order of "Make America Healthy Again", please, not French fries from a vat of overcooked seed-oil! Left McTriggered After Trump Does Fun Publicity Stunt https://www.zerohedge.com/
Damn! It was like move-along, move-along, people are waiting... I didn't check the printout, even though I brought reading glasses.
Voters in Georgia, Texas & Tennessee Report Voting Machines Flipping Their Selections https://defconnews.com/2024/ The Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi was murdered on October 20, 2011, and to mark the thirteenth anniversary of his death, the Russian Foreign Ministry received Qaddafi’s daughter, Aisha Qaddafi, in Moscow on Friday. This is the first open meeting in Russia between high-ranking Russian officials and the Qaddafi family...
..The official reason for Aisha Qaddafi’s visit to Moscow to open the exhibition of her paintings omitted that the paintings are in memory of her father, brother and other members of her family assassinated by the US and its proxies in Libya. “I show these works for the first time to honour my father and my brother on the anniversary of their deaths,” Qaddafi said in Moscow. “I can tell you that these pictures are painted not with my hand but with my heart.”
Assassination of Qaddafi had been a secret US Government policy during the Carter Administration and then an open policy of the Reagan Administration. Assassination of the Arabs of Palestine, including the leaders of Hamas and Hezbollah, is the open policy of the current US and Israeli governments.
In this context, the unofficial reason for Aisha Qaddafi’s visit to Moscow is that the Russian Foreign Ministry is signaling its opposition to this decades-old US and Israeli policy. The signal also hints through several years of rumour and disinformation at fresh Russian support – that means armed protection – for Saif Qaddafi’s campaign to become the end-of-civil war president of Libya. https://johnhelmer.
..The official reason for Aisha Qaddafi’s visit to Moscow to open the exhibition of her paintings omitted that the paintings are in memory of her father, brother and other members of her family assassinated by the US and its proxies in Libya. “I show these works for the first time to honour my father and my brother on the anniversary of their deaths,” Qaddafi said in Moscow. “I can tell you that these pictures are painted not with my hand but with my heart.”
Assassination of Qaddafi had been a secret US Government policy during the Carter Administration and then an open policy of the Reagan Administration. Assassination of the Arabs of Palestine, including the leaders of Hamas and Hezbollah, is the open policy of the current US and Israeli governments.
In this context, the unofficial reason for Aisha Qaddafi’s visit to Moscow is that the Russian Foreign Ministry is signaling its opposition to this decades-old US and Israeli policy. The signal also hints through several years of rumour and disinformation at fresh Russian support – that means armed protection – for Saif Qaddafi’s campaign to become the end-of-civil war president of Libya. https://johnhelmer.
This had seemed really odd to me. The IDF supposedly tracked these drones from launch to target, but did not activate any warnings for Israelis near Netanyahu's empty house. FALSE FLAG? Drone Strike on Netanyahu Home Came From Area in Lebanon Controlled by IDF https://halturnerradioshow.
How long would you live without a power grid and internet in the US? Would it just be determined by how long your stored water lasted? It probably would for me.
Paul Craig Roberts, “Nuclear High-Altitude Electromagnetic Pulse”: The United States Has Zero National Security https://www.globalresearch. Will Zoll looks at the arising of the totalitarian-flavors of Bolshevism, National Socialism, and their variants in Southern Europe. When societal problems are complex, and all power is given to a central power, things can happen more quickly, but they tend to happen in the interests of the centralized power, and it's financiers, always the financiers.
When Decades Happen – Part VI , Romancing the Reds When Stalin seized power in 1924, he wanted to better understand why the Soviet Union was not economically performing as predicted. He assigned a brilliant economist and statistician to the task of analyzing the Soviet economy. Nikolai Kondratieff developed a compelling hypothesis to describe the long economic cycle of modernized economies; today this is known as the Kondratieff Cycle:
What this meant for Stalin was disastrous. Nikolai postulated that modern industrial economies go through long, natural cycles. The supply and demand of commodities are affected by these cycles, and therefore their prices will be determined by the resulting market forces. Centralized command economies can do nothing meaningful to control prices or alter the economic cycle without causing massive disruptions to supply chains in the future.
Stalin was not impressed. The dire economic situation of the Soviet Union needed to be able to control commodity prices to stabilize the economy and engineer the Russian people toward a socialist utopia. Nikolai Kondratieff outlined why this was not possible and provided numerous data points to support his case. Stalin was pissed, and Nikolai was sent to the gulags for his research. After several years in a slave labor camp, Nikolai was retried and sentenced to death in 1938. He was executed by firing squad on the same day he received his guilty verdict.
However, Stalin was no idiot. While he did not appreciate Nikolai’s truth bomb, he knew that the Soviet Union was on the brink of collapse. The gold they were exporting to the West was not enough to keep the communist economy from falling apart. At the same time, Western journalists were continually praising the Soviet Union as the future model for all of humanity. Stalin realized he needed to export more than just gold to continue his industrialization program.
He decided to export as much grain as possible from the Ukraine in order to continue purchasing equipment for factories. This not only provided the desperately needed hard currency to pay for imports, but it also fed the Western propaganda machine. The grain exports were lauded as a fantastic example of the excess productivity coming out of the Soviet Union.11
The grain sales caused prices to fall precipitously throughout the world. This further exacerbated the deflating prices created by the Great Depression and forced many farmers in the West into bankruptcy:
Stalin was not impressed. The dire economic situation of the Soviet Union needed to be able to control commodity prices to stabilize the economy and engineer the Russian people toward a socialist utopia. Nikolai Kondratieff outlined why this was not possible and provided numerous data points to support his case. Stalin was pissed, and Nikolai was sent to the gulags for his research. After several years in a slave labor camp, Nikolai was retried and sentenced to death in 1938. He was executed by firing squad on the same day he received his guilty verdict.
However, Stalin was no idiot. While he did not appreciate Nikolai’s truth bomb, he knew that the Soviet Union was on the brink of collapse. The gold they were exporting to the West was not enough to keep the communist economy from falling apart. At the same time, Western journalists were continually praising the Soviet Union as the future model for all of humanity. Stalin realized he needed to export more than just gold to continue his industrialization program.
He decided to export as much grain as possible from the Ukraine in order to continue purchasing equipment for factories. This not only provided the desperately needed hard currency to pay for imports, but it also fed the Western propaganda machine. The grain exports were lauded as a fantastic example of the excess productivity coming out of the Soviet Union.11
The grain sales caused prices to fall precipitously throughout the world. This further exacerbated the deflating prices created by the Great Depression and forced many farmers in the West into bankruptcy:
Secondly, Stalin did not actually have any excess grain; far from it. He squeezed the grain from the Ukrainian people, which caused one of the worst genocidal famines in world history. https://
The tremendous front-loaded ecological damage already baked-in at time of initial EV purchase is not calculated here, just the overall burn rate through the electric utility. “Environmentally conscious” electric cars found to produce a BIGGER carbon footprint than gas guzzlers https://www.naturalnews.com/
..Here are some highlights: 75% of respondents that received the COVID-19 vaccine reported that the reason for taking the injectable product was employer vaccine mandates. Only 22% of vaccinated respondents reported no adverse events. Moderate adverse events were reported by 35.6% of respondents and severe adverse reactions were reported by 29.8% of respondents. Out of the 87 respondents that received the COVID-19 vaccine, 1 reported a life-threatening adverse reaction. Interestingly, only 4.3% of respondents were trained on how to report post-vaccination adverse events and only 4.5% of respondents reported that they were encouraged to report adverse events after vaccination.
From the entire sample of both vaccinated and unvaccinated healthcare workers, 74.6% reported anxiety and/or depression and 18.3% the reported experiencing suicidal thoughts due to employer vaccination requirements (agree and strongly agree responses). Although 40% reported willingness to return to their previous role if vaccine mandates were dropped, another 42.5% reported an intention to leave their occupation or the healthcare industry as a result of their experience with vaccine mandates (agree and strongly agree responses). 85% reported that employers did not offer alternatives to vaccination to satisfy their vaccine mandate, with only 1 out of 468 respondents reporting that their employer was willing to accept proof of natural immunity, even though 75% of respondents reported that they worked with COVID-19 patients prior to the availability of the COVID-19 vaccines. Only 9.5% reported being offered regular testing as an alternative to vaccination.
59% of respondents reported that they were not provided by anyone with any written information about the vaccines, necessary for informed consent, and only 2.4% of respondents were provided with the package insert from the vaccine manufacturer.
Finally, only 16.1% of vaccinated respondents reported being happy with their choice to get vaccinated, whereas 92.6% of unvaccinated respondents reported being happy with their decision to not get vaccinated (agree and strongly agree). https://drlf.substack.com/p/
A Critical Analysis of All-Cause Deaths during COVID-19 Vaccination in an Italian Province
Abstract Immortal time bias (ITB) is common in cohort studies and distorts the association estimates between the treated and untreated. We used data from an Italian study on COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness, with a large cohort, long follow-up, and adjustment for confounding factors, affected by ITB, with the aim to verify the real impact of the vaccination campaign by comparing the risk of all-cause death between the vaccinated population and the unvaccinated population. We aligned all subjects on a single index date and considered the “all-cause deaths” outcome to compare the survival distributions of the unvaccinated group versus various vaccination statuses. The all-cause-death hazard ratios in univariate analysis for vaccinated people with 1, 2, and 3/4 doses versus unvaccinated people were 0.88, 1.23, and 1.21, respectively...
..Conclusions
The correction of ITB has allowed us to eliminate remarkable distortions due to this bias from the original study about the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines, carried out in the province of Pescara, Italy. Moreover, the original study showed that the group who received at least a booster dose had an unlikely significantly lower risk of all-cause death versus the unvaccinated, unlike those vaccinated with one or two doses who had significantly higher risks than the unvaccinated.
We found all-cause death risks to be even higher for those vaccinated with one and two doses compared to the unvaccinated and that the booster doses were ineffective. We also found a slight but statistically significant loss of life expectancy for those vaccinated with 2 or 3/4 doses. https://www.mdpi.com/2076-2607/12/7/1343
The correction of ITB has allowed us to eliminate remarkable distortions due to this bias from the original study about the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines, carried out in the province of Pescara, Italy. Moreover, the original study showed that the group who received at least a booster dose had an unlikely significantly lower risk of all-cause death versus the unvaccinated, unlike those vaccinated with one or two doses who had significantly higher risks than the unvaccinated.
We found all-cause death risks to be even higher for those vaccinated with one and two doses compared to the unvaccinated and that the booster doses were ineffective. We also found a slight but statistically significant loss of life expectancy for those vaccinated with 2 or 3/4 doses. https://www.mdpi.com/2076-2607/12/7/1343
There is no mechanism of action that would enable the COVID vaccine to reduce your risk of getting infected. But it will prolong the time you can spread it to others! https://kirschsubstack.com/p/covid-vaccine-doesnt-reduce-risk
Unvaccinated Citizen (pictured going out with bike this morning to vote against murdering children)
