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US/NATO Is in the Grip of a Demonic Death-Wish and the Entire World Is Threatened, by Edward Curtin

Posted on February 28, 2022 | Leave a comment

Don’t put it past the U.S. power structure to use nuclear weapons against Russia to defend Ukraine, a country in which the U.S. has no identifiable interest. Yes, they’re that stupid and that evil. From Edward Curtin at antiwar.com:

Not wanting to sound hyperbolic, but I am starting to conclude that the nuclear madmen running the U.S./NATO New Cold War they started decades ago are itching to start a nuclear war with Russia. Their hypocrisy and nihilistic thirst for death and destruction are so extreme that it boggles my mind. They accuse Russia of starting a New Cold War when they did so decades ago and have been pushing the envelope ever since. Now they act shocked that Russia, after many years of patience, has struck back in Ukraine.

In 2017, Oliver Stone released his four part interviews with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The Putin Interviews were conducted between 2015, the year after the US engineered the coup d’état in Ukraine installing Nazis to power in that country bordering Russia, and 2017. Stone was of course bashed for daring to respectfully ask questions and receive answers from the Russian leader who the American media has always cast, like all the mythic bogeymen, as the new Hitler intent on conquering the world, when it is the United States, not Russia, that has over 750 military bases throughout the world and has attacked Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria – the list is endless.

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Bloomberg Reporter: “We Seem To Be Tailspinning Into Chaos”, by Nikos Chrysoloras

Posted on February 28, 2022 | Leave a comment

Chaos, as SLL has repeatedly predicted, will be the order of the day for many years, and reality seems to be conforming nicely to that prediction. From Nikos Chrysoloras at zerohedge.com:

Some scary observations from Bloomberg senior markets reporter Nikos Chrysoloras, as tweeted late on Sunday.

1) BP decided to take a hit of as much as $25 billion, just to leave Russia immediately

2) Russia’s bond market is collapsing

3) Russians lined up at cash machines around the country to withdraw foreign currency

4) Unless there’s a surprise de-escalation, Monday may turn out to be a dramatic day for the ruble, Russian stocks, and European markets

5) The European Union closed its airspace to Russia. The blockade applies to any plane owned, chartered or otherwise controlled by a Russian person. Unprecedented

6) The decision to exclude Russian banks from the SWIFT messaging system could result in missed payments and giant overdrafts within the international banking system

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Calls to Reform the CIA Are Misplaced. It Shouldn’t Exist at All. By John Knefel

Posted on February 24, 2022 | Leave a comment

The CIA has always been an unconstitutional abomination. From John Knefel at truthout.org:

The CIA recently declassified parts of a letter written by two U.S. senators that revealed the existence of a previously unknown bulk spying program that collects and stores Americans’ data. The letter, written by Senators Ron Wyden and Martin Heinrich, calls for the CIA to reveal the details of the program. It was sent to Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines in April 2021. Much of the letter remains classified, and neither the senators nor the CIA have provided any specifics about what the underlying spying program entails.

“Among the many details the public deserves to know are the nature of the CIA’s relationship with its sources and the legal framework for the collection; the kinds of records collected [redacted] the amount of Americans’ records maintained; and the rules governing the use, storage, dissemination, and queries (including US person queries) of the records,” the senators wrote. The mention of the CIA’s “relationship with its sources” is likely a reference to the telecommunication companies providing the data, a reminder of the symbiotic roles private companies play in national security surveillance.

The existence of the CIA’s program was first disclosed to members of the Senate Intelligence Committee in March 2021, according to Wyden and Heinrich. They became aware of the bulk collection from a report issued by the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB), an independent executive branch agency whose members have access to classified information. That review, known as “Deep Dive II,” remains classified, but the CIA partially declassified a set of recommendations issued by the board. That document revealed that when CIA analysts enter a search term, or query, into the program, a “pop-up box will appear to remind the analysts” that they need to provide a foreign intelligence justification for the search. Analysts are not required to document that justification; the oversight board recommended requiring it.

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CIA Funded Experiments On Danish Orphans For Decades, from thedissenter

Posted on February 21, 2022 | Leave a comment

This is your government at work. From thedissenter.org:

Did the CIA conduct experiments on Danish orphans to perfect torture techniques?

Photo: Center for the Study of Intelligence (US government image in public domain)

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An extraordinary Danish Radio report exposed how scores of children in Denmark, many of them orphans, were subject to CIA-funded experiments for at least two decades.

The purpose of these activities remains unknown, as authorities continue to actively suppress the truth of what happened in the 1960s and early 1970s.

The startling exposé is based on the work of documentarian Per Wennick, who was one of 311 participants in the mysterious trials. The children never learned the objective of the tortuous assessments to which they were exposed, even after they ended.

Such trials are in conflict with the Nuremberg Code, which enforces the vital requirement of obtaining consent from human subjects in all medical research.

According to Wennick, when he was 11 years old, he was asked at an authoritarian orphanage in Copenhagen if he wanted to try something “fun” at the local municipal hospital. It was vaguely described as an examination of how children “feel”. Believing it would be a welcome diversion, he acquiesced and even received a small sum for his participation.

Wennick went on to undergo a series of regular tests, which included being forced to listen to recordings on headphones of loud noises, screams, and statements intended to scare him. Staff strapped him to a chair while electrodes were placed on his arms, legs, and chest, measuring his heart rate, temperature, and sweat levels.

These experiments continued until 1973, when Wennick was 24-years-old. However, a decade later, while in a hospital due to a skin complaint, he learned his visit—in fact, his every contact with healthcare services— was reported to the Danish Psychological Institute for reasons never made clear to him.

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The Necessity of Human Action, by Jeff Thomas

Posted on February 8, 2022 | Leave a comment

You are responsible for the course of your own life. From Jeff Thomas at internationalman.com:

In 1987, Levon Helm, a former cotton farmer from Arkansas, sat brooding in his yard, trying to describe why his apparent success had turned to near-bankruptcy:

“Well, it’s hard to put your finger on. You get behind financially and once you get behind financially, you seem to get behind spiritually. And your luck turns against you.”

Levon’s perception of his situation is a common one. He had become quite successful, but had never learned to understand more about economics than, “If you got it, spend it.” As a result, throughout his life, he repeatedly found himself in monetary difficulties. He habitually lived in the moment and didn’t invest much time analysing what his actions would need to be to assure a sound economic future. Unfortunately, his approach to his future is, to a great extent, the approach of the vast majority of people.

Let’s take his comments one sentence at a time:

“Well, it’s hard to put your finger on.”

In this comment, Levon begins by stating that he doesn’t really understand what’s happened to him. As someone who hasn’t given much thought into the subject of economic study, his personal outcome is a mystery to him—impossible to fathom.

“You get behind financially and once you get behind financially, you seem to get behind spiritually.”

He then relates a basic truth—that a by-product of financial decline is a spiritual decline. Morals are often compromised in order to survive the financial debacle and, frequently, a sense of emptiness and failure takes over.

“Your luck turns against you.”

In this last statement, he disavows any personal responsibility for either his monetary problems or any human action that he might have taken that could have corrected the situation, since the elusive and incomprehensible “bad luck” has taken control—a force that he believed he could not have overcome.

And so, Levon led a life of repeated success and loss, never learning that, from the outset, the course of his economic life was of his own making. Had he chosen to understand and anticipate economic events and adjust for them, he could have taken charge of his financial life. Instead, he became a casualty of those events.

Unfortunately, his entire problem could be defined as a lack of human action.

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Speech Therapist: 364% Surge in Baby and Toddler Referrals Thanks to Mask Wearing, by Paul Joseph Watson

Posted on January 31, 2022 | 1 comment

Covering everyone’s faces with masks is bad news for young children. Who could have guessed? From Paul Joseph Watson at summit.news.com:

A speech therapist says that mask wearing during the pandemic has caused a 364% increase in patient referrals of babies and toddlers.

Jaclyn Theek told WPBF News that before the pandemic, only 5 per cent of patients were babies and toddlers, but this has soared to 20 per cent.

Parents are describing their children’s speech problems as “COVID delayed,” with face coverings the primary cause of their speaking skills being seriously impaired.

As young as 8 months old, babies start learning how to speak by reading lips, a thankless task if parents and carers smother themselves with masks to comply with mandates.

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Cowardly Trudeau Flees Home Amidst Convoy Protest, by Blueapples

Posted on January 30, 2022 | 1 comment

At least 95 percent of politicians are through-and-through cowards. From Blueapples at zerohedge.com:

As Prime Minister of Canada, the “popular” Justin Trudeau (seen being pelted by rocks here) has led the charge ushering in some of the most restrictive measures in the world. In the mold of other former crown dependencies like New Zealand and Australia, doing anything in Canada without proof of vaccination is impossible. Everything from getting on domestic flight or entering a department store is verboten for the unvaxxed untermensch in Trudeau’s dystopian phantasmagoria.

Though the Prime Minister’s thirst for power has been insatiable with restriction after restriction being imposed by his heavy hand, leaving many Canadians feeling powerless, one group has risen against the tide. As a world-record convoy of over 2,700 trucks measuring 70 kilometers descended upon the Canadian capital finally arrived on Friday evening, Justin Trudeau exemplified his absolute lack of leadership as he couldn’t muster the courage to face the protest against the medical tyranny he has imposed. In the days preceding the convoy’s arrival in Ottawa, Prime Minister Trudeau announced that he would enter into self-isolation for five days as he had (gasp!) been exposed to COVID-19.

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No Wonder the Market Is Skittish, by Charles Hugh Smith

Posted on January 29, 2022 | Leave a comment

What happens when the central bank music stops. From Charles Hugh Smith at oftwominds.com:

The equity, real estate and bond markets all rode the coattails of the Fed’s ZIRP and easy-money liqudiity tsunami for the past 13 years. As those subside, what’s left to drive assets higher?

No wonder the market is skittish:

1. Every time the Federal Reserve began to taper quantitative easing / open spigot of liquidity over the past decade, reduce its balance sheet or raise rates from near-zero, the market plummeted (“taper tantrum”) and the Fed stopped tightening and returned to easy-money expansion.

2. Now the Fed is boxed in by inflation–it can’t continue the bubblicious easy-money policies, nor does it have any room left to lower rates due to its pinning interest rates to near-zero for years.

3. So market participants (a.k.a. punters) are nervously wondering: can the U.S. economy and the Fed’s asset bubbles survive higher rates and the spigot of liquidity being turned off?

4. The market is also wondering if the economy can survive the pricking of the “everything” asset bubbles in stocks, bonds, real estate, etc. as interest rates rise and liquidity is withdrawn. What’s left of “growth” once the top 10% no longer see their wealth expand every month like clockwork?

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Consider The Possibility That This Is Already The Dystopia You Fear, by Caitlin Johnstone

Posted on January 22, 2022 | Leave a comment

The perfect tyranny would be one in which the subjugated don’t even realize they’re living in a tyranny. From Caitlin Johnstone at caitlinjohnstone.com:

Consider the possibility that the Orwellian dystopia you fear is already here and has been in place for many years, you just haven’t noticed because you’re still allowed to watch Netflix or buy a gun or say whatever you want to say within a small impotent online echo chamber.

Consider the possibility that the powerful are already getting everything they want from you, right now, exactly as things are, and that any suspicious action you see them taking isn’t them constructing a cage for you but them tightening the bolts on a cage that was quietly built around you some time ago.

Consider the possibility that while they’ve been training you to watch out for communism and microchips and overt totalitarianism, they’ve been covertly transforming us all into mindless gears in a machine constructed to serve their interests which challenges them in no way, shape or form.

Consider the possibility that tyrants have evolved an understanding that you can exert a lot more control over a population with mass-scale psychological manipulation than you can with overt force, and that they have been developing the science of that mass-scale psychological manipulation for over a century.

Consider the possibility that we’re like a woman who always feared winding up in a physically abusive relationship like the kind depicted on television, and then wound up in a psychologically abusive relationship where her very mind is bent to the will of her abuser in every way.

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The Ever-Shifting Narrative, by Eric Peters

Posted on January 19, 2022 | 2 comments

It’s often difficult and sometimes impossible to hit a randomly moving target. From Eric Peters at ericpetersautos.com:

One of the tools psychopaths use to keep their victims off-balance, confused and unable to understand they’re being victimized is to constantly shift the narrative. They change the subject serially, so their victim never has a chance to finalize dealing with this before having to deal with that.

Consider the way the narrative about “vaccines” has shifted.

At first, the narrative purred that these “vaccines” miraculously Warp Speeded into existence would end the “crisis” (in the usual air-fingers quotes to emphasize the falsity of usage in the case of a sickness that 99.8-something percent of those who get it recover from) just like that.

Salvation! Deliverance! Our freedoms returned!

We were assured – to a “95 percent” certainty – by the head psychopath-in-supposed-charge, the Biden Thing, that those who got “vaccinated” – just the once, you’ll recall – could not get or give the sickness.

This lie caused millions to willingly get “vaccinated” in the early months of 2021. Many of them probably would have thought twice about it if they had known the truth, beforehand.

Now they know the shot they got – it is not a vaccine – didn’t confer the immunity they thought they were getting. The thing specifically touted by the Biden Thing.

Even if you’ve had three or four “vaccinations.”

People began to ask perky questions. The primary one being – why should I get a “vaccination” that doesn’t immunize me against getting sick? And what is the point of a “vaccine” that doesn’t prevent the further spread of sickness?

Change the subject – quickly.

“Vaccines” reduce the severity of sickness. Those who get “vaccinated” – over and over again – can still get sick, it’s true.

But the psychopaths pushing the new narrative coo that you are less likely to become seriously sick (How much less likely that is – given the established recovery rate of 99.8-something percent for the unvaccinated – is a math problem apparently too ponderous for examination) if you just take the shots.

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