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March 30, 2023
According to Artificial Intelligence (ChatGPT), the US Overthrew the Ukrainian Government in 2014
ChatGPT says the US overthrew Ukraine's government in 2014.
"The US government backed the ousting of Ukraine's President Viktor Yanukovych in a coup that brought pro-Western leaders to power."
How many people know Obama, Biden, and Nuland ousted Ukraine's government in 2014? pic.twitter.com/8MemeAQnkO
— kanekoa.substack.com (@KanekoaTheGreat) March 27, 2023
The Rich Hunter Gatherer Societies of the Pacific Coast
Pacific Northwest Totem Pole
Episode 23: Late Period Cultures of the Pacific Coast
Ancient Civilizations of North America
Dr Edwin Barnhart (2018)
Film Review
Resources were so rich along the Pacific Coast (from California to Alaska) that indigenous Americans had no need to develop agriculture. Instead they developed complex sedentary hunter gatherer societies. The Pacific Coast cultures were the most densely populated region of pre-Columbian North America, representing one-fifth of the total population.
The coastal peoples spoke 100 different languages and belonged to 500 distinct tribes.
Despite plentiful resources, they all operated under the philosophy that resources had to be conserved and shared and developed elaborate food procuring and storage technologies, as well as social hierarchies for cooperative and trade.
Southern California
In southern California, pre-Columbian coastal and inland tribes traded with each other for thousands of years. First European contact occurred in 1542, with the arrival of explorer Juan Rodgriguez Cabrillo. In 1769, the Spanish returned and built a military presidium in San Diego.
The region was divided into three distinct zones:
Channel islands – where 30-foot four man boots went spear fishing for tuna, halibut, seal lions, sword fish.Coastal – where early peoples fished and collected shellfish.Inland – where people learned the technology of leaching acorns and hunted dear and small game. The bow and arrow were essential both for hunting and border security.Different zones traded with one other, using carved olivella shells (found on the outer islands) as currency. People lived in villages of hundreds of dome-shaped homes built of willow branches covered with grass with leaving a roof smoke hole. Most homes housed 3-5 families and most villages had large communal storage pits. Worshiping the sun as the primary deity, these societies stratified into commoners (hunters and gatherers), elites (shamans, astronomer priests and a policing force) and chiefs and their families. Male homosexual transvestites had special status.* Regional chiefs managed trade relationships through feasts, lavish gifts and occasional wars.
Pacific Northwest
Extending from the Alaska panhandle through Oregon, this region was more bellicose. Residents depended mainly on ocean fisheries and salmon river runs for food.
Early Pacific Period (4400-1800 BC) – residents lived in pit houses and buried their dead in shell middens. Bone and antler microblades replaced stone harpoon tips, and they used stone axes to cut down trees and smaller tools for carving.Middle Pacific Period (1800 BC – 500 AD) – residents transitioned to clan-based plank houses. The earliest plank house (1200 BC) is at the Paul Mason site in British Columbia. The period was marked by a new composite harpoon as salmon fishing intensified. It also provides the earliest evidence of warfare.Late Pacific Period (500 – 1775 AD) – the Ozette Site on Washington State’s west coast features plank houses large enough for the entire clan. Villages consisted of multiple clans and village groups. These plank houses had sturdy cedar frames and walls and featured the same distinctive art found on totem poles.
Each clan had its own chief and each village had a head chief. Slaves (either captured or born into slavery) had the lowest social ranking.** During the summer salmon run, the whole village move up river, pulling planks off their houses to support the belonging they loaded onto their canoes.
Body ornamentation included facial piercing known as labrettes and cranial deformation.
The potlatch was a gift-giving social event used in place of currency to share and distribute goods.
With the appearance of a wide range of weapons around 500 AD, villages were relocated to hilltops and defended them with wooden palisades. Tribes went to war over resources, the need for slaves, wife swaps and in response to humiliation. Wars were conducted with 60 foot war canoes with dozens of fully armored warriors. Some groups sailed to the California coast to look for slaves.
*This was also seen in some Mississippian societies.
**According to David Graeber and David Wengrow in their their 2021 The Dawn of Everything when and “an ambitious aristocracy found itself unable to reduce its free subjects to a dependable workforce.” (page 207) In other words, resources were so abundant they couldn’t force commoners to work for them. Graeber and Wengrow see this as the primary cause of slavery everywhere.
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March 29, 2023
RFK, Jr. to Buttigieg: FAA Must Investigate Spike in Pilot Health Emergencies
By The Defender Staff Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. today called on U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg to investigate the spike in near-misses and narrowly averted airline accidents resulting from pilots incapacitated by health emergencies since 2021, coinciding with the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccination campaign in the U.S.
In a letter to Buttigieg, Kennedy wrote:
“Secretary Buttigieg, the safety of pilots, cabin crew, airline passengers, and the general public is not and never has been a partisan issue. Everything contained within this letter pertains to fundamental issues of public health and safety, which you, the DOT [U.S. Department of Transportation], the FAA [Federal Aviation Administration], and the Biden Administration profess to uphold and to protect.
“The recent changes to FAA guidelines and the lack of publicly available evidence on which these changes rest, along with the increasing number of incidents involving the incapacitation or vaccine-related injury of pilots, are highly concerning.”
A CHD analysis of raw data obtained from the FAA determined there was a marked increase, on a per-flight basis, in medical emergency-related flight diversions in both 2021 and 2022, compared to 2019 and prior years, Kennedy said.
Similarly, there was a marked increase in medical emergency diversions on a per-passenger basis in 2021 compared to 2019 and prior years, while the 2022 figure is higher than those for 2018 and 2019, indicating an increase in medical emergencies occurring in the air, when adjusted for the reduced number of flights and passengers in the 2021 and 2022 calendar years compared to the pre-2020 period.
Kennedy said the FAA violated its own guidelines by recommending pilots get the unlicensed COVID-19 vaccines, contrary to the agency’s policy of prohibiting pilots from taking any medical product that has been on the market for less than 12 months.
Kennedy’s 13-page letter, citing 61 sources, detailed evidence the FAA loosened medical restrictions for conditions such as myocarditis and Guillain-Barré syndrome, both documented adverse events related to COVID-19 vaccines.
Kennedy ended the letter with these 12 questions:
Will recent incidents involving the incapacitation of pilots in flight be fully and thoroughly investigated, including whether the medical issues the pilots experienced were vaccine-related?On what basis have you and the acting FAA Administrator come to the conclusion that “a kind of rust” and a recent wave of retirements are to blame for an “uptick” in near-collisions and near-misses in our nation’s airports? Have the FAA and DOT examined and investigated the health and fitness of all individuals involved in such incidents, including air traffic controllers (who were previously subject to the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate for federal employees)?Will the FAA thoroughly investigate the growing number of cases of pilots who reported severe adverse events following their COVID-19 vaccinations, and use the findings of this investigation as the basis to update and revise its COVID-19 vaccine-related guidance for pilots, cabin crew, and all aviation industry employees?Will you, the DOT, and the FAA respond to the question of why the FAA, up until now, has not publicly released complete details about the incidents involving incapacitated pilots and/or vaccine-injured pilots?Will the DOT and FAA continue to recommend that pilots and aviation industry workers get the COVID-19 vaccines and boosters despite the FAA’s recognition, in at least one instance involving a pilot, of “possible” vaccine-induced myocarditis?Will the FAA provide all evidence used as the basis for its recent (October 2022 and January 2023) updates to the agency’s Guide for Medical Examiners, in particular pertaining to changes made to the guidelines regarding Guillain-Barré Syndrome (item 46) and first-degree AV block and the acceptable PR interval (items 36 and 58) and retract its statement that this change was made in 2017 when documentation from the FAA all the way up to 2022 indicates otherwise? And will the agency explain why the changes to the guidelines pertaining to AV block and PR interval deviated from those recognized, up until today, by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) and established medical experts? Were these changes (to items 36, 46, and 58) made in response to COVID-19 vaccine-related injuries?Will the FAA provide a satisfactory explanation as to why it contravened its own established guidelines by strongly recommending pilots, aviation industry employees, and their employers receive COVID-19 vaccines issued under EUA and on the market for less than 12 months?Will the FAA explain why it continues to recommend EUA vaccines when there are (supposedly) fully FDA-licensed alternatives now available, such as Pfizer’s Comirnaty, and why the agency still recommends vaccines, such as the Johnson & Johnson (Janssen) COVID-19 vaccine, which were found to be connected to increased incidences of thrombosis and Guillain-Barré Syndrome? On what basis and upon which evidence did the agency make these policy decisions?Will the DOT and FAA pledge to maintain two pilots in the cockpit of passenger, commercial and cargo flights in the United States as part of the FAA’s forthcoming reauthorization? The history of aviation — even beyond the recent incidents of pilot incapacitation — demonstrates the dangers of having only one healthy pilot in the cockpit, and worse yet, cases where a passenger flight was left pilotless following the incapacitation of both pilots — a risk that will increase with only one pilot in the cockpit to begin with. Take, for instance, the deliberate March 2015 crash of Germanwings Flight 4U 9525, where the first officer locked the captain out of the cockpit after the latter presumably took a bathroom break, then proceeded to change the flight controls to intentionally run the flight into the ground, vividly illustrates the dangers of one-pilot cockpits. All passengers and crew were killed.Is the FAA prioritizing “keeping pilots in the air” at the expense of pilot, passenger and public safety? Here, I am referring to remarks made in an August 2021 interview with Courtney Scott, DO, MPH, published in the Federal Air Surgeon’s Medical Bulletin. . . . These statements strongly suggest the FAA’s priority is to “keep pilots flying” if they “can do so safely” — ignoring, however, that many heart conditions, such as myocarditis, often do not display any symptoms until disaster strikes.[…]
Via https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/rfk-jr-pete-buttigieg-pilot-health-airline-safety/
Elon Musk and others urge AI pause, citing ‘risks to society’
By Jyoti Narayan, Krystal Hu, Martin Coulter and Supantha Mukherjee
Reuters
The non-profit is primarily funded by the Musk Foundation, as well as London-based group Founders Pledge, and Silicon Valley Community Foundation, according to the European Union’s transparency register.
“AI stresses me out,” Musk said earlier this month. He is one of the co-founders of industry leader OpenAI and his carmaker Tesla (TSLA.O) uses AI for an autopilot system.
Musk, who has expressed frustration over regulators critical of efforts to regulate the autopilot system, has sought a regulatory authority to ensure that development of AI serves the public interest.
“It is … deeply hypocritical for Elon Musk to sign on given how hard Tesla has fought against accountability for the defective AI in its self-driving cars,” said James Grimmelmann, a professor of digital and information law at Cornell University.
“A pause is a good idea, but the letter is vague and doesn’t take the regulatory problems seriously.”
Tesla last month had to recall more than 362,000 U.S. vehicles to update software after U.S. regulators said the driver assistance system could cause crashes, prompting Musk to tweet that the word “recall” for an over-the-air software update is “anachronistic and just flat wrong!”
‘OUTNUMBER, OUTSMART, OBSOLETE’OpenAI didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment on the open letter, which urged a pause on advanced AI development until shared safety protocols were developed independent experts and called on developers to work with policymakers on governance.
“Should we let machines flood our information channels with propaganda and untruth? … Should we develop nonhuman minds that might eventually outnumber, outsmart, obsolete and replace us?” the letter asked, saying “such decisions must not be delegated to unelected tech leaders.”
The letter was signed by more than 1,000 people including Musk. Sam Altman, chief executive at OpenAI, was not among those who signed the letter. Sundar Pichai and Satya Nadella, CEOs of Alphabet and Microsoft, were not among those who signed either.
Co-signatories included Stability AI CEO Emad Mostaque, researchers at Alphabet-owned DeepMind, and AI heavyweights Yoshua Bengio, often referred to as one of the “godfathers of AI”, and Stuart Russell, a pioneer of research in the field.
The concerns come as ChatGPT attracts U.S. lawmakers’ attention with questions about its impact on national security and education. EU police force Europol warned on Monday about the potential misuse of the system in phishing attempts, disinformation and cybercrime.
Meanwhile, the UK government unveiled proposals for an “adaptable” regulatory framework around AI.
AI RACE“The letter isn’t perfect, but the spirit is right: we need to slow down until we better understand the ramifications,” said Gary Marcus, a professor at New York University who signed the letter.
“The big players are becoming increasingly secretive about what they are doing, which makes it hard for society to defend against whatever harms may materialize.”
Since its release last year, OpenAI’s ChatGPT has prompted rivals to accelerate developing similar large language models and companies including Alphabet Inc (GOOGL.O) are racing to steep their products in AI.
Investors, wary of relying on a single company, are embracing competitors to OpenAI.
Microsoft declined to comment on the letter and Alphabet did not respond to calls and emails for a comment.
“A lot of the power to develop these systems has been constantly in the hands of few companies that have the resources to do it,” said Suresh Venkatasubramanian, a professor at Brown University and former assistant director in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.
“That’s how these models are, they’re hard to build and they’re hard to democratize.”
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FAA Quietly Updates Guidelines to Clear Pilots Previously Diagnosed With Guillain-Barré Syndrome
By Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D. Editor’s Note: This article is Part 2 in a two-part series on the impact of COVID-19 vaccines and vaccine mandates on airline safety in the U.S. Read Part 1 here.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in January quietly updated its Guide for Aviation Medical Examiners (AMEs), allowing aviation doctors for the first time to give medical clearance to some pilots diagnosed with Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS), a rare neurological disorder connected to certain COVID-19 vaccines.
The FAA made the change — along with October 2022 updates for electrocardiogram (EKG) test limits — without citing scientific evidence and while the agency has been operating without a permanent administrator since March 2022.
The FAA’s medical guidance appears to diverge from international standards.
These updates come amid an alarming uptick in incidences of pilots incapacitated by medical emergencies during flights, increasing numbers of near-collisions in the air and at airports and in-flight emergencies transmitted by pilots during flights in the U.S.
The Defender previously interviewed several pilots and an air traffic controller who sustained serious adverse events connected to the COVID-19 vaccines.
Recently, more vaccine-injured pilots have come forward with their stories, including Sierra Lund, an athlete and pilot who was diagnosed with vaccine-induced myocarditis soon after receiving the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine.
Steve Kirsch launched an online petition which has reportedly collected over 25,000 signatures of pilots, flight attendants and other aviation industry employees who are concerned about vaccine injuries in their ranks.
Steve Kirsch's newsletter — FAA Press Office responds: There will be no investigations into pilot death/disability caused by the COVID vaccines https://t.co/WUe32GpkYX
— Steve Kirsch (@stkirsch) January 27, 2023
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., chairman and chief litigation counsel for Children’s Health Defense, today called on U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg to investigate the spike in pilot health emergencies, calling it a public safety issue.
GBS mentioned for first time in FAA medical guidelines
According to a Jan. 25 update to the Guide for AMEs, “In Item 46, Neurologic, Demyelinating Disease,” “expanded guidance” has been provided and a “new disposition table” was added for GBS.
The new guidance, beginning on page 173 of the latest edition of the guide, instructs aviation medical examiners to issue a medical certification to pilots diagnosed with GBS in instances where they experienced a single episode, with no complications, which is “fully resolved,” and from which they have recovered “with a minimum of six (6) months’ stability.”
This appears to be the first time GBS is mentioned in the AMEs guide and clearances are provided, at least in certain instances, to pilots diagnosed with the condition. The 2022 edition of the guide contains no specific mention of GBS.
According to the Mayo Clinic, GBS “is a rare disorder in which your body’s immune system attacks your nerves. Weakness and tingling in your hands and feet are usually the first symptoms.”
GBS has been linked to COVID-19 vaccines — and in particular, the Johnson & Johnson (Janssen) vaccine.
An April 2022 study published in JAMA Network Open found an increased risk of GBS following vaccination with the Ad26.COV2.S Janssen COVID-19 vaccine.
And a February 2023 study published in JAMA Network Open found that vaccination with the Janssen Ad26.COV2.S COVID-19 “was associated with increased risk for GBS.”
On Dec. 23, 2022 — just one month before updating the AMEs guide with new guidance related to GBS — the FAA advised pilots and air traffic controllers that they could receive Johnson & Johnson’s (J&J) Janssen vaccine.
On March 13, the FDA updated its “fact sheet” for the Janssen COVID-19 vaccine to indicate a risk of myocarditis and pericarditis. However, the FAA does not appear to have adjusted its guidance accordingly.
The FDA revised its fact sheet for the Janssen/Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine to include a warning about possible increased risks of myocarditis and pericarditis, particularly within the first week after vaccination. https://t.co/80EzyUphZ3
— Betty C. Jung (@bettycjung) March 15, 2023
According to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), there have been 3,266 reported cases of GBS following administration of a COVID-19 vaccine or booster.
These figures show a disproportionately high number of GBS cases (537, or 16.44%) following administration of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine, even though the J&J vaccine represents just 2.6% of the total number of COVID-19 vaccines and boosters administered in the U.S. as of March 23.
VAERS has been shown to report only 1% of actual vaccine adverse events.
According to FAA data obtained by via a Freedom of Information Act request submitted by US Freedom Flyers (USFF), while diagnosed cases of GBS remain low, the FAA in 2022 denied a pilot a medical certificate due to GBS for the first time since 2013.
It’s unclear whether the updated guidance is related to the heightened risk of GBS posed by the COVID-19 vaccines that the FAA continues to recommend to pilots and aviation professionals.
FAA updates medical recommendations without supporting evidence
These updates come on the heels of revisions the FAA recently made to the Guide for AMEs, in reference to first-degree atrioventricular (AV) block with a PR interval of less than 300 milliseconds (ms).
The FAA on Oct. 26, 2022 updated its AMEs guide, increasing the acceptable “PR interval” for issuing medical clearance to pilots from below 210 ms to below 300 milliseconds ms. While the previous guidelines were applicable to pilots under age 51, the new guidelines have no age limit.
The PR interval — the time it takes for an electrical impulse to be transmitted from one part of the heart to another — is a key indicator of heart health. According to Merck’s MSD Manual, AV block refers to “partial or complete interruption of impulse transmission from the atria to the ventricles.”
The previously accepted threshold of 210 ms was visible in the AMEs guide as recently as May 2022, as evidenced in a Jan. 27 letter by Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) to the FAA, and also in the 2017 edition of the guide (page 218) provided to The Defender by USFF.
The Federal Aviation Admin (FAA) recently loosened restrictions for pilots EKGs and are now lobbying to have only one pilot in the cockpit.
THREAD@Thomas1774Paine@1citizenpundit pic.twitter.com/qUmQnBoV8S
— Mr. E.P. Unum (@EPUnum_) January 29, 2023
Federal Air Surgeon Susan Northrup, M.D., M.P.H., has stated that the FAA’s guidelines pertaining to AV block and the acceptable PR interval were changed not in October 2022 but in 2017.
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The FAA so far has provided no evidence, at least publicly, to indicate this change was made in 2017 instead of in 2022.
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Kirsch said at the time the new range “accommodates people who have cardiac injury,” adding that the FAA’s new cardiovascular standards represented “a tacit admission from the U.S. government that the COVID vaccine has damaged the hearts of our pilots. Not just a few pilots. A lot of pilots and a lot of damage.”
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FAA update on AV block and PR interval raises more question
The FAA’s update pertaining to AV block and the acceptable PR interval also appears to have been made in contravention with accepted medical science.
Merck’s MSD Manual, most recently updated in January, classifies first-degree AV block as any case where the PR interval exceeds 200 ms. The manual also notes that “first-degree AV block is rarely symptomatic.” This indicates that there may be a risk that pilots may be entirely unaware of this condition until their next physical examination.
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And a 2009 study titled “Long-term outcomes in individuals with prolonged PR interval or first-degree atrioventricular block,” published in JAMA and based on the Framingham Heart Study, found that “Prolongation of the PR interval is associated with increased risks of AF, pacemaker implantation, and all-cause mortality.”
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Via https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/faa-guideline-updates-pilots-guillain-barre-syndrome/
The Power of Positive Thinking: An Excuse to Ignore Real Problems
The Tatty Journal
In a world that seems to be getting more and more complicated by the day, the power of positive thinking has become an increasingly popular way for people to deal with their problems. Whether it’s a bad breakup, a job loss, or just the general malaise of modern life, positive thinking has become the go-to solution for anyone looking to find a way out of their problems. But is this really the best way to deal with our problems, or is it just an excuse to ignore the real issues at hand?
According to the positive thinking movement, the key to overcoming any obstacle is to simply change our thoughts. If we can train ourselves to think positively, the theory goes, we can manifest our desires and overcome any challenge. Need a new job? Just think positively about it and it will magically appear! Struggling with depression? Just focus on the good things in your life and you’ll feel better in no time!
But is it really that easy? Can we really just think our way out of our problems? Of course not. While there is certainly some truth to the idea that our thoughts can influence our reality, the power of positive thinking is often used as an excuse to avoid dealing with the real issues at hand.
For example, let’s say you’re in a toxic relationship. Your partner is emotionally abusive and you’re constantly walking on eggshells around them. According to the positive thinking movement, the solution is simple: just focus on the good things in the relationship! Think positively about your partner and the love you share, and the bad stuff will magically disappear!
Of course, anyone with half a brain can see that this is a recipe for disaster. Ignoring the real issues in a relationship will only make them worse over time, and pretending that everything is okay will only lead to more pain and suffering down the line.
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Western financial system suffers $8 trillion implosion, revolution follows
By Benjamin Fulford
The collapse of the Western financial system is a mathematical certainty because recent rate hikes created at least an $8 trillion loss for financial institutions. Governments have been trying to foist this on the people. Revolution will be the result. This is why unprecedented unrest is overtaking France, Germany, Pakistan, Israel and many other places.
There is also a global awakening to the fact the so-called “rules-based world order,” means rule by genocidal, Satan-worshipping criminals. This means mass arrests and war crimes tribunals are inevitable.
The question now is which WEF puppet leader will be first to fall, Emanuelle Macron of France or Benyamin Netanyahu of Israel? Whoever it is, they will be followed in short order by the fake President Joe Biden in the US, Justin Castrudeau in Canada, Olaf Scholz in Germany and Ursula von de Leyen of the EU., Other dominoes to fall will include the fake Pope Francis, and puppet leaders in Pakistan, South Korea, Japan etc.
Since the bankruptcy of the WEF/banking oligarchy is the cause of the political turmoil, let us first look at the latest developments on this front. The basic story is that no matter how hard you try to avoid reality, eventually, it finds a way of catching up. The KM started avoiding reality first by allowing banks to lend $100 for every $8 they have; these are the so-called “BIS rules.” This is dangerous because it means more than ten times leverage. Then, since this was falling apart, Bill Clinton upped the ante by allowing 1000 or more times leverage, This turned most of the Western financial system into a giant hallucination known as derivatives with countless $ gazillion (an imaginary but very large number) being batted around inside bank supercomputers.
The problem is the rest of the world, especially the Asians, insisted on being paid with money backed by real things that actually exist. To keep paying debt to Asia etc, in real stuff the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Corporation and its owners stole oil from Iraq and other countries, extorted Japan’s nest egg, forced the world to buy toxic vaccines etc. The war in Ukraine was their last hurrah as they used it to sell off their weapons stashes and launder stolen crypto-currency via the Ukrainian central bank.
Since even this was not enough, the Rockefellers, Rothschilds etc, began extorting even more money from the European and American people,
For example, they blew up the Nordstream pipeline to force Europeans to buy LNG from the US at four times the price they paid Russia. That is why the EU’s total LNG imports from the US increased 154 percent in 2022 compared to 2021. Needless to say, European living standards dropped accordingly. This is one of the reasons why Europe is now in flames (more on that later).
The biggest extortion now is coming from the privately owned FRB hiking interest rates. As a result of recent rate hikes, the Indian Express Newspaper estimates US banks have lost at least $2 trillion while banks outside the US have lost $6 trillion in investments in interest-sensitive assets since 2022. https://www.newindianexpress.com/web-only/2023/mar/23/a-new-global-banking-crisis-2558810.html
Against this conservative $8 trillion loss estimate US banks insured by the FDIC have nearly $24 trillion in assets while the FDIC only has $125 billion in its war chest. Even this $125 billion is gone because US banks borrowed $153 billion at a punitive 4.75% against collateral at the discount window. This is more than during the Lehman crisis of 2008. This does not even take into consideration the $ quadrillions losses the banks have on derivatives gambles. In a sign this time even central banks are going down, the Dutch central bank lost close to half a billion euros last, year, its first loss since the great depression of 1931. This is just the beginning.
This financial crisis will lead inevitably to the collapse of the World Bank, the IMF, the BIS and most international financial institutions as well as many governments.
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Is the Collapse of NATO Imminent?
By Sam Parker
Behind the News
The Demise of Nato Part 1 (of a 2 Part Series)
It is often said that the systemic Western European superiority complex, a disease which consists of the self-justified domination and exploitation of the surrounding world, began with the First ‘Crusade’ (1096-1099).
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Like the ‘Pre-Crusades’, the genocidal ‘conquests’ of the First Crusade essentially took place inside Europe, or else close by in the Near East. These Viking-type raiding and trading military expeditions, led on horseback and operating from castles, were expanded into Western Europe (the Celtic lands invaded from the Frankish base in England) and into Eastern Europe (the Baltics and Russia). However, the revolution came with the export of this aggressive Eurocentric mentality to distant lands through the ‘Conquistadors’ (same word) in what we now call Latin America 500 years ago.
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They triggered a global revolution because they led to the worldwide genocide and plunder of other peoples and the destruction of their civilizations. Clive of India, Rhodes of Africa, the British nobility in China, Clinton of Serbia, Bush of Iraq and Biden of the Ukraine were only the conquistadors of later times. However, today we are seeing the end of their Conquistador Civilisation.
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2023 starts with collective NATO in “absolutely freak out mode” as Russian Defense Minister Shoigu announces that Russian Navy frigate Admiral Gorshkov is now on tour – complete with a set of Mr. Zircon’s hypersonic business cards.
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Even the IMF is now reluctant to throw extra funds into the black hole. Kiev’s 2023 budget has an – unrealistic – $36 billion deficit.
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Arguably the biggest myths to be destroyed in 2023 are the myth of NATO. Every serious military analyst, few Americans included, knows that the Russian Army and military industrial complex represents a superior system than what existed at the end of the USSR, and far superior to that of the US and the rest of NATO today.
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The Myth of US PowerThe CIA abandoned Afghanistan in a humiliating retreat – even ditching the heroin ratline – just to relocate to Ukraine and continue playing the same old broken records. The CIA is behind the ongoing sabotage of Russian infrastructure – in tandem with MI6 and others. Sooner or later there will be blowback.
Apart from Ukraine and Poland there is no NATO force worth mentioning. Germany has a risible two-day supply of ammunition. Turkey will not send a single soldier to fight Russians in Ukraine. The UK has enough ammunition to last for one day. Out of 80,000 US troops stationed in Europe, only 10% are weaponized.
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In addition, all fuel centers such as Rotterdam for oil and natural gas would be destroyed, as well as all military installations, including top American bases in Europe . . .
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US military power is the supreme myth. Essentially they hide behind proxies – as the Ukraine Armed Forces. US forces are worthless except in turkey shoots as in Iraq in 1991 and 2003, against a disabled opponent in the middle of the desert with no air cover. And never forget how NATO was completely humiliated by the Taliban. Unlike Russia which boasts arguably the best, deeply echeloned, national air defense, which today deploys the best anti-air and anti-missile complexes in the word, American shores are virtually defenseless.
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So, here is the critical question– Can the US block a nuclear missile?
A new study sponsored by the American Physical Society concludes that U.S. systems for intercepting intercontinental ballistic missiles cannot be relied on to counter even a limited nuclear strike and are unlikely to achieve reliability within the next 15 years.
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The Energy CardOn 6 October, when the European Union (EU) agreed to impose a Russian oil price cap as part of a new package of sanctions against Moscow, 23 oil ministers from the OPEC+ group of oil-producing countries spoke out in favor of a sharp cut in their joint production quota. Their collective decision to decrease output by about two million barrels of oil per day elicited strong reactions in the US in particular, and there was even talk of “declarations of war.” The EU feels duped, as the OPEC+ production cuts could drive up fuel prices and dampen their sanctions packages. Despite the narrative of the world edging toward a “post-oil era,” it seems there’s life in the old dog yet, as OPEC remains the talk of the town.
In the war between global finance and energy, one fact remains clear: You can print money but you can’t print oil.
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Financial Market versus the Energy MarketTo really understand the core of the conflict in Ukraine – where a proxy war rages – one must break down the confrontation thus: The US and its European allies, who represent and back the global financial sector, are essentially engaged in a battle against the world’s energy sector.
In the past 22 years, we have seen how easy it is for governments to print paper currency. In just 2022, the US dollar has printed more paper money than in its combined history. Energy, on the other hand, cannot be printed.
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Riyadh is warming up to the idea of trading oil in other currencies, as indicated this year in discussions with the Chinese to trade in yuan.
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The Nuclear Warmongers Set a Financial Collapse in Motion[…]
The Bank of England informed the UK Parliament by letter Oct. 5 that the Truss government blunder had quickly “come within hours,” overnight Sept. 27–28, of major UK pension funds collapsing, which in turn were bailed out by the Bank, and that those City of London banks which had provided leverage loans to the funds were also potentially at risk and the financial system destabilized.
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Due to increasing loss of confidence in the dollar system, many nations are reducing the dollar transactions. These “unwanted “dollars are returning to the US.
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In short: US industrial, economic and social decay, all entirely self inflicted over the past several decades, have led to the decline of the USA as a functional society and hence to the impending loss of its unipolar global hegemony. This is a situation that the megalomaniacal “indispensable nation, shining beacon on a hill” ideologues simply cannot accept.
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Given the advanced state of decay of the US and the unstoppable rise of China and Russia militarily, industrially, economically and socially, there is zero prospect of the USA prevailing. There are only two possible outcomes: either the USA backs down or there will be global nuclear Armageddon. There is nothing in between.
The European industrial sectors are poised to collapse from energy starvation.
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Nuclear War[…]
What is certain is that, militarily, both the United States and Russia are preparing for the eventuality of a nuclear war.
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In order to be in a position to unleash a first strike, the United States have taken the following measures: they have introduced what they call “super-fuze” technology to their warheads. This causes detonation to occur on arrival at an optimal altitude over the target, thus enabling less powerful warheads to guarantee destruction of strongly protected target (such as Russia’s missile launch silos). They have also converted some of their Ohio class, ballistic missile launching submarines (each carried 24 Trident missiles) to cruise missiles (each now carries 154 Tomahawk missiles, which are harder to detect and home in on their targets more accurately). Lastly, they are “miniaturising” the warheads (which can now be less powerful than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima), on the (theoretical) basis that missiles that are more accurate, harder to detect and that detonate closer to their targets can be relied on to annihilate Russia’s retaliatory capability – even using less powerful warheads and thus minimising the resulting “nuclear winter” effects.
The Russians, meanwhile, as deterrents to a US nuclear attack, have developed innovative weapons whose performance is a closely-guarded secret of State (the US will have to find out the hard way). These include the S-400, S-500, S-550 and A-235 Nudol anti-missile systems and the Peresvet space satellite “blinding” weapons.
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Nuclear War EffectsFew people – including CIA operatives – may know that New York City, for instance, may be destroyed with a single move by blowing up the George Washington Bridge. The city can’t be supplied with food and most of its requirements without the bridge. The New York City electrical grid can be destroyed by knocking out the central controls; putting it back together could take a year.
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Via https://behind-the-news.com/the-demise-of-nato-part-1-of-a-2-part-series/
March 28, 2023
IRS visited Twitter Files journalist Matt Taibbi’s home same day as congressional testimony
David Propper
New York Post
An IRS agent stopped by the home of Twitter Files journalist Matt Taibbi the same day of his congressional testimony on the weaponization of the government, according to House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, who’s demanding an explanation over the oddly timed visit.Jordan sent a letter to IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel and the Department of Treasury on Monday in hopes of getting to the bottom of why the federal agent appeared at Taibbi’s New Jersey home on March 9 and left a note, according to an editorial in The Wall Street Journal that cited the letter.
The note reportedly instructed Taibbi to call the IRS four days later.
When he did, an agent told him his 2018 and 2021 tax returns had both been rejected due to identity theft concerns.
Taibbi has been deeply involved in researching and reporting the Twitter Files — based off a trove of internal documents at the social media giant meant to expose unfair bias in the company’s past content moderation and the social media giant’s previous contact with government officials.
The journalist told Jordan’s committee about the IRS agent’s visit that occurred the same day he spoke to House members before the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government to testify on what he learned from the Twitter Files.
Taibbi gave the committee documents that indicate his 2018 return had been electronically accepted and the IRS never told him or his accountants there was an issue with it over the last 4¹/₂ years, according to the Journal.
His 2021 return was at first rejected, and then rejected again after he refiled, despite his accountants refiling with an IRS-provided PIN number, he said.
Taibbi said in neither case was it a money issue, and that the IRS actually owed him a “considerable” sum, the Journal said.
Taibbi made clear in a tweet Monday night he had no interest in commenting on the letter.
“For those asking, I don’t want to comment on the IRS issue pending an answer to chairman @Jim_Jordan’s letter,” Taibbi wrote. “I’m not worried for myself, but I did feel the Committee should be aware of the situation.”
Revelations about the IRS visit come after Taibbi and Democrats on the subcommittee butted heads during his hours-long testimony along with fellow Twitter Files journalist Michael Shellenberger.
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FAA Granted Medical Clearance to Pilot With ‘Possible’ Vaccine-Induced Myocarditis
By Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D. Editor’s Note: This article is Part 1 in a two-part series on the impact of COVID-19 vaccines and vaccine mandates on airline safety in the U.S.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued a first-class medical clearance to a pilot whose medical history includes “possible” vaccine-induced myocarditis, according to a letter leaked anonymously by a pilot.
This letter was leaked amid recent revelations the FAA is prioritizing keeping pilots in the air at the expense of the safety of pilots, passengers and the general public.
FAA data indicate the number of medical flight diversions increased in 2021 and 2022, compared to 2019 and prior.
Other documents reveal that in 2021, the FAA strongly recommended, in writing, pilots receive the COVID-19 vaccines issued under an emergency use authorization (EUA), despite the agency’s own regulations prohibiting pilots from taking medications or therapeutics that have been on the market for 12 months or less.
Pilot cleared to fly despite ‘possible’ vaccine-induced myocarditis
The leaked letter — with names and dates redacted — issuing a first-class medical certificate to a pilot with a history of “possible” vaccine-induced myocarditis — originated from the FAA’s Civil Aerospace Medical Institute in Oklahoma City.
According to the letter:
“You are cautioned to abide by Title 14 of the CFR’s, Section 61.53, relating to operations during medical deficiency.
“Because of your history of possible Vaccine induced Myocarditis, Hyperlipidemia, Ganglion Cyst removal Left Hand, and Knee pain, operation of aircraft is prohibited at any time new symptoms or adverse changes occur in your health status.”
The FAA has admitted to an airline pilot that his myocarditis was “possibly” vaccine induced. Yet, without further investigation, they continue to jeopardize the saftey of air travel and the health of pilots by pushing non FDA approved injections against their own aeromedical… pic.twitter.com/bQMEIluJqe
— Josh Yoder (@JoshYoder) March 15, 2023
According to WebMD, “Myocarditis often has no symptoms.” Johns Hopkins Medicine states that acute myocarditis can develop “suddenly,” while according to Empendium, the onset of myocarditis may be “sudden,” with “factors causing autoimmune reactions to allergens” — such as vaccines — listed as a common cause of this condition.
Yet despite this, and despite the pilot’s other medical issues, the FAA said: “Our review of your medical records has established that you are eligible for a first-class medical certificate.”
A November 2022 University of Basel study that examined individuals who had received a COVID-19 booster shot found “elevated cardiac troponin levels in a higher percentage of vaccinated individuals than expected,” and “evidence of temporary mild damage [myocarditis] to cardiac cells” in 2.8% of the patients — “instead of the anticipated 0.0035%.”
According to cardiologist Dr. Christian Müller, one of the study’s authors, even such mild damage could potentially become more serious with time, especially with the administration of annual COVID-19 boosters:
“So there’s slight damage to heart muscle cells in almost 3% of the cases, which shouldn’t be overestimated, but also not ignored. …
“According to current knowledge, the cardiac muscle can’t regenerate, or only to a very limited degree at best. So it’s possible that repeated booster vaccinations every year could cause moderate damage to the heart muscle cells.”
According to the FAA, a first-class medical certificate generally “is designed for the airline transport pilot,” while “second-class [is] for the commercial pilot, and third-class for the student, recreational and private pilot.”
This clearance may be the first time the FAA openly acknowledged a vaccine injury, such as vaccine-induced myocarditis, in a pilot.
In a Jan. 24 report, Federal Air Surgeon Susan Northrup, M.D., M.P.H., said the FAA has seen “no evidence” of COVID-19 vaccine injuries that led to “aircraft accidents or pilot incapacitations.”
And in February, Northrup told The Epoch Times she was “aware of only four potentially vaccine-related adverse events in active pilots.” Of these, “only one [pilot] has provided medical documentation through the normal process,” according to Northrup. She did not describe what the “normal process” is.
However, in April 2022, the FAA and Northrup were made aware of several incidences of vaccine injury in pilots that occurred as early as December 2021, via a hand-delivered letter to the FAA and other federal agencies, including the U.S. Department of Transportation, from the California-based Advocates for Citizens’ Rights.
The letter included data showing pilots across the aviation industry — including commercial, military and general aviation pilots — face increased health risks from the COVID-19 vaccines due to the unique nature of their profession.
The letter referred to specific incidents, including the case of an agricultural pilot, Cody Flint, who nearly blacked out while flying but managed to land his plane safely — although he has no recollection of how he did it.
In an interview with The Defender in May 2022, Flint said the incident occurred two days after he received his first and only dose of the primary series of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in February 2021.
He was diagnosed with left and right perilymphatic fistulas (a lesion in the inner ear), and highly elevated intracranial pressure due to swelling in his brainstem.
“My intracranial pressure had risen so high that it caused both of my inner ears to ‘blow out,’” Flint said. Doctors told him this is usually caused by major head trauma.
A Jan. 27 letter from Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) to Northrup listed four pilots, including Flint and an air traffic controller who suffered severe adverse events soon after receivin a Covid vaccine.
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‘Keeping pilots in the air’ — at the expense of safety?
An August 2021 interview with Courtney Scott, D.O., M.P.H., published in the Federal Air Surgeon’s Medical Bulletin, may shed light on why the FAA may be brushing off vaccine-related adverse events in pilots and issuing medical certificates despite a pilots’ histories of vaccine injury.
Scott, who worked with the FAA for over a decade and is acting manager in the agency’s Aerospace Medical Certification Division, said at the time, the goal was to keep pilots in the air instead of grounding them when medical risks were identified, as long as the agency could “do so safely.”
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It’s unclear if this is official FAA policy. However, recent actions by the agency, ranging from the loosening of its electrocardiorgram (EKG) limits to the granting of a first-class medical certificate to a pilot with “possible” vaccine-induced myocarditis, suggest a willingness on the part of the FAA to accept loosened medical standards in allowing pilots to fly.
COVID vaccine injuries contributing to more flight diversions, pilot shortage?
In response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request filed Feb. 24 by the US Freedom Flyers, an advocacy organization that opposes vaccine mandates for pilots, the FAA provided data regarding “the number of airplanes that had to divert for medical emergencies from 2017 through the present.”
The raw data provided by the FAA indicate a decrease in 2021 and 2022, compared to the years 2017 through 2019, as flight activity was ramped up following the strong restrictions of 2020. Between 2017 and 2019, annual diversions for medical reasons ranged from 630 to 641. The figure was 510 in 2021, and 589 in 2022.
However, when calculated as a proportion of the number of flights and number of passengers carried in the U.S. annually, the figures tell a different story. The FAA did not provide these data, but the Bureau of Transportation Statistics does.
The data show that pre-pandemic, in 2018 and 2019, domestic and international passenger traffic in the U.S. exceeded 1 billion. In 2021, that number barely exceeded 700 million, and reached 935.4 million in 2022.
Flight movements similarly decreased compared to pre-2020 levels. Total domestic and international flights in the U.S. exceeded 10 million in 2018 and 2019. They totaled 7.6 million in 2021 and 8.7 million in 2022.
As a result, the data show that, on a per-flight basis, the percentage of flights diverted for medical reasons increased in both 2021 and 2022 compared to pre-2020 levels. Similarly, the percentage of diversions as a percentage of total passenger movements sharply increased in 2021, while the 2022 figure exceeded that of 2018 and 2019.
Notably, 2021 and 2022 were the years the COVID-19 vaccine was made available and widely distributed to the public.
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Via https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/faa-pilot-medical-clearance-myocarditis/
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